Friday Night.

We had serious problems with Dihydrogen Monoxide last night.

We had two thunderstorms rip through the Twin Cities area last night. The first one had high winds and a heavy downpour. Central Avenue and Monroe Street in NE Minneapolis were blocked by flooding under the railroad overpasses. The second thunderstorm included a tornado that crossed North Minneapolis and hit the city water intake plant. Water service was out for several hours.

Oh, and I cut my left thumb while slicing potatoes and had to go to the ER at HCMC for two stitches and a tetanus shot. Because Central Avenue had been blocked I had to walk over to Jefferson Street and cross under the railroad bridge at 19th Avenue, which was not flooded, in order to return home.

Time for a pizza.

Response

At Pamela Geller's blog (Atlas Shrugs 2000) she posted the following letter from a Muslim:

Dear Pamela Geller

As a British muslim, I am shocked at how America have suddenly surrendered to the Taliban. The Taliban whom you demonised so vigorously in the media, who you claimed to have defeated in 2001, now, 12 years later you want to talk peace with them? Its laughable. The Taliban have simply given the Americans more then a bloody nose, but a humiliating ass whupping, which is what this is. The mighty Americans have been brought to their knees by the Afghan Taliban, so much so that the americans are now running from the battlefield with their tails between their legs, and begging the Taliban to talk. Its hilarious to see America in this desperate position. This is a surrender in every sense and the muslim world and the rest of the world sees this as a surrender. The Taliban now have offices in other countries, who would have thought this possible in 2002? or 03, or 04, or 05 etc?

America just accept defeat graciously. The rag tag army of the Taliban have defeated the technically superior US army and its allies. This is a major humiliation for you guys. but fantastic entertainment for all those who oppose Americas war mongering.

America has been defeated by Islam.

I just posted this response:

"America has been defeated by Islam."

Nonsense.

The fact of the matter is that the worst enemy of a nation and the armed forces of a nation is the government itself. The fact of the matter is that governing class in general decided to treat what should have been a total war as if it were a fight between street gangs.

We are losing what is in fact the Third World War because the rulers refuse to identify it as such. And that the cause of liberty is in fact a holy cause. We are in fact in a holy war.

One does not prevail in a holy war by pretending that the opposing faith is in fact valid. We can only prevail if we correctly expose the falsehoods for which the enemy is fighting. By treating their doctrine as false. And by systematically destroying their ideological infrastructure of indoctrination and enforcement. Destroy their texts and temples. And eliminate their enforcers and and indoctrinators.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Today

I was just awakened from my afternoon nap by a marching band.

Why?

Thought For The Day

Smugness is no substitute for understanding the truth.

Request

The lives of good Americans will be sacrificed in the fictional nation of Syria so that President Barack Obama can pretend to be a savior.

President Obama is intervening the local equivalent of a street fight between the Sturmabteilung and the Schutzstaffel. This is full altruism. This does not serve any rational national interest. And this is an absolutely useless act.

May we have a Coup D'Etat in the United States please?

Thought For The Day

If you believe that can do no wrong, then you will do wrong.

Suggestion

Could we please stop the pretense that we have a federal government and just hang the mother fornicators already?

Thought For the Day

Life is a learning experience.

Anniversary

On this day in 1944 the Austrian Corporal and his followers had a really bad day.

Dihydrogen Monoxide was involved.

What Difference Does It Make?

In her testimony on the Benghazi Incident, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton showed her contempt for the four men who were murdered by terrorists by saying: “What difference does it make?”

From the collectivist view a person is simply a thing to be used. A tool. The fact that a person has a complete life outside of the alleged goals of the collective is completely blanked out. To the collectivist the full human life is completely meaningless.

And because a person is seen as simply a tool it does not matter if it breaks as a result of being misused. The tool can simply be disposed of and replaced, as were the men in Benghazi.

Secretary Clinton’s open contempt for the people serving under her is perfectly normal for a collectivist. In The Mask Of Command, John Keegan recounts an incident where Adolf Hitler was having dinner served to him in the dining car of his private train when it stopped at a station. When another train, loaded with wounded soldiers returning from the Eastern Front, stops beside Hitler's private train. Hitler had the stewards in the dining car pull down the shades so he wouldn't have to see the other train and the wounded passengers.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

A Spot Of Tea

I attended a Tea Party rally in downtown Minneapolis at noon today at the IRS Headquarters at 250 Marquette Avenue South. There about a hundred people in attendance and there was a bit of drizzle. Several people, especially those driving commercial vehicles honked and the drove by. Not everyone was happy to see the Tea Party. Some people were visibly hostile. One woman who walked by the rally had a look on her face that was like one would expect from a member of a royal family that had just stepped in a freshly laid pile of dung. She may have worked for the IRS.

Seriously, if the Democrats want to survive as a political party they must drop the partisan nonsense and take the lead on cleaning up the abuses of the Obama administration. If not, they will go down with him.

Oh, here's a previous piece I wrote on the Tea Party.

Thought For The Day

Doublethink is the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct.

For example:

Barack Obama is the President of the United States.

And:

Barack Obama has no control over the actions of Federal agencies.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Notice

I've posted something over on My Own Private Universe.

Suggestion

An answer to the IRS question about the content of prayers:

From the wrath of the taxman, oh Lord deliver us.

Friday

Pat Condell takes a baseball bat to the head of organized religion, again.

Monday

Who does the Big Zero think he is? President Richard Nixon?

I expected bad behavior from the Zero but I didn't expect him to go Tricky Dick on us. Actually I expected the Idiot In Chief to go a full Hitler on us. I'm not sorry to be wrong on this.

On another topic, the Objectivist position on abortion is based on the concept that a person has right to be in full control of their own life. The result of a live birth is a person with the full rights thereof. Killing that person, even by throwing him or her out in the trash with the other biohazard material, is murder. In my opinion Doctor Gosnell clearly deserves the death penalty.

A Reminder

Humanity is not merely a physical condition, it is a state of mind. To be human is to be essentially rational and productive. The human mentality (or soul) looks upon the world, the land, the animals and plants, the natural forces, as things to be mastered for the benefit of himself and his posterity. On the other hand, the predator, or savage mentality does not seek to to master the world, but to be the master of men. The savage prefers not to sustain himself by his own effort, but to seize and consume the lives and property of others for material and spiritual sustenance. To the predator, justice consists of "getting away with it" -- those who rightfully resist the predator are to be punished or destroyed.

-- Leslie Bates, The Resister, Vol VI, N. 1, Page 42

Anniversary

Today is the anniversary of what is commonly called The Kent State Massacre. Or the day a mob of nihilist punks came into contact with reality.

Here's a number of things I've said on the subject of peace activism:

If there is one thing I have certainly noticed, it is that pacifists in general have no objection to enjoying the benefits of civilization but are unwilling to take the measures necessary to defend it from foreign and domestic barbarians. Such as the National Socialists, the Soviet Socialists, and the home grown socialists of the Democratic Party. Contrary to their general delusion of virtue, pacifists are in effect, moral and political parasites upon civilized society.

Peace in the real world is simply the absence of those -- such as the socialists -- who seek to deprive you, I, and our fellow citizens of our own Life, Liberty, and Property. Real peace can only be achieved by the physical isolation or outright elimination of those who seek to subjugate, plunder and murder us. This can only be done through the use of physical force. In short, true peace can only be achieved only through the possession of superior firepower and the moral will to use it.

The narcissistic trash that makes up the membership of the so-called peace movement simply do not care whether you and your children live, or die, or suffer under the yoke of an unwashed barbarian. They plaster their cars with bumper sticker, carry signs, bang on drums, throw Frisbees, and perform other useless rituals so that they can feel good about themselves and show the world how morally superior they are. Never mind that they openly deny the fundamental fact which is the foundation of all valid moral law, that Human Life -- life as a rational being in control of one's own life -- is the standard of all moral values, and that those who would damage or destroy Human Life must be removed from human society and if necessary be destroyed. The adherents of pacifism have so inverted their own mental processes that they look upon the perpetrators of mass slavery and mass murder as good and those who take up arms to defend the society of consent as the most depraved evil.

Now there are some folks, who regard themselves as morally superior beings, who question why the other bastard has to die. The answer of course is that the other bastard is attempting to impose his will, or the will of his leader, upon you by force. It is the act of coercion by force that makes what General Patton called the other bastard an enemy. Peace is simply the absence of enemies. But there are some folks, who pretend to be morally superior beings, who would have us believe that "peace" could be achieved by submission to the will of the other bastard. In reality this is not peace, it is slavery. There are some well meaning people, some of whom that I respect, who believe that there are times that one cannot have both peace and freedom at the same time. I have to disagree. Liberty is simply the condition of existence in which the person is free to live his own life in accordance with his own rational judgment. This does of course require the absence of some other bastard who is attempting to impose his will upon the person by force. In practical terms real peace and real freedom are inseparable. I will go further is saying that to a civilized person, peace, freedom, and security, are simply three words that can be used to describe the identical condition, the absence of another bastard imposing his will upon the civilized person. Contrary to what those who describe themselves as peace activists would have us believe, and as General Patton has ably demonstrated, the path to real peace invariably takes us over the real dead bodies of those other bastards who insist on violently imposing their will upon us. Unfortunately this process is by no means a safe one. Let us take this day to remember those who died on the path to real peace.

A rational study of the real world would show that a real state of Peace is effectively indistinguishable from a state of Liberty and a state of Security. Peace, Liberty, and Security are simply three words that a rational person uses to describe the same condition, the rightful ability to live one's own life without coercive interference by others. A rational study of actual history would show that the state of peace for the citizens of a free nation is the result of the violent elimination of the would be conquerors and their pet quislings. If we rationally examine those who constitute the membership of the so-called Peace Movement we find that virtually every one of them is an open advocate of the coercive subjugation of the productive members of the Human Race. The occasional exception being a self-blinded fool who isn't paying attention to what they're ideologically in bed with. In short, a "peace activist" and the "peace movement" are in fact enemies of Peace.

Peace is only an affirmative value to those who live in the condition of liberty, that is being rightfully in charge of one's self and able to set the goals for one's own life. Peace cannot be a value to the subjects of a totalitarian socialist state. To the victim of such a state -- the ordinary worker who is bullied by a commissar, the inmate of a slave labor camp, or the occupant of a darkened cell awaiting murder at the hands of the local chekists -- war, either an internal uprising against the socialist masters, or an invasion by an army of liberation, is in fact the positive value.

I stand by what I said.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Thought For Yesterday

“Local NBC Reporter Hilariously Denies Soviet Flags Present At May Day Rally: ‘What Do They Represent?’”

I’m not surprised to read this. In my view the basic function of liberal (and specifically Marxist) doctrine is to deny reality.

The specific fact of reality that absolutely must be denied under all circumstances is that each of us as human beings has right to say no.

No to the demand for obedience. No to the demand for material support. And no to the demand for absolute power over our lives.

Liberals, and the left in general, are parasites on human society. Without the power to compel others to materially support them the members of the left would be compelled either to become rational and productive people or to literally die off.

And it is not enough for the Left, especially their leaders, to be materially supported. They must also feel secure in their status as the masters of the productive. They must stage spectacular rituals of mass obedience to create and reinforce their feelings of security.

The parades on May Day and anniversary of the local ruling party's ascent to power. The hours-long speeches that must be listened to with total attention and applauded with the greatest of enthusiasm. And don't be the first to stop applauding when the leader speaks, that's disloyal!

To the left, every word of dissent or refusal is in practical effect a sentence of death for each of them. It is no surprise that they are hostile to actual thought based on actual facts.

May Day

Today is the Victims Of Communism Day.

Thought For The Day

I read a few online articles on the Fundamentalist Christian claim that Objectivism was connected to the Church Of Satan.

I had not been so thoroughly disgusted since I read The Turner Diaries.

Thought For The Day

Our rights are a fact of nature. The Constitution are the terms under which WE THE PEOPLE grant authority to the federal government to act on our behalf. Obama, and the Democratic-Republican Party, are willfully violating those terms in the pursuit of power.

Thought For The Day

Without the sword they will take away your pen.
Without guns they will take away your butter.

This is not an either/or choice.

Living In The Real World

Some people apparently have a problem with it.

Bombing Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Last year (May 12, 2012), retweeted this:

I don't know of anything in this Dunya that could uplift & increase the good manners & behavior of a person the way Islam does.

Dunya apparently means material world.

So how does rape, robbery, and murder -- the behavior demanded by the Koran -- raise the manners of someone?

It doesn't.

What is the maximum effective range of an excuse?

Zero.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Waco And Oklahoma City

Every year I post an article on this blog about the Massacre of the Branch Davidians in their home outside of Waco, Texas. I have never mentioned the bombing of the Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, even though it was a related event.

And I never raised the question of why those events happened.

Why? Why did those events occur?

I have a theory, But I need time to think it through.

Quote Of The Day

From Frontpage:

“We must teach our children to hate. Hatred is the basis of communism.”

V.I. Lenin, 1923

On the subject of Marxism, Mark Hendrickson wrote:

The hateful spirit of Marx and Lenin has suffused all leftist ideologies, movements, and regimes, whether Soviet communism, Hitler’s national socialism, or today’s illiberal progressivism and pagan environmentalism. Only hatred could explain the willingness to kill, enslave, and rob vast numbers of innocent human beings. Hatred corrodes one’s conscience. Under its toxic influence, a person will regard man’s God-given right to be secure in his life, liberty, and property as nuisances to be overcome, not commandments to be obeyed. The flip side of hatred is an inflated self-love, self-importance and self-righteousness so extreme that respect for other human beings diminishes and, in extreme cases (Stalin, Mao, Castro, Kim, et al.), disappears.

Quote Of The Day

Another comment on yesterday's bombing:

The one thing that the willfully depraved are loathe to do is to acknowledge the fact that there are people who are in fact better in some respect than they are. To make such an acknowledgement is to issue an indictment of themselves and their own actions. The willfully depraved will murder individuals or even exterminate entire nations before they will recognize the truth about themselves.

-- Leslie Bates, December 24, 2003

Boston Marathon

The running of the marathon commemorates the defeat of an attempt by the Persian Empire to conquer Greece. The battle took place on the Plain of Marathon in 490 BC. It was a victory of Western Civilization over Asiatic Despotism. As such it may have the most important battle fought in history.

Moron Of The Day

Pardon me for using all capitals, BUT THIS IS DISGUSTING!

An brainless urban boy-bitch that I won't name, a product of the entertainment business (I won't call it an industry), somehow managed to write a disgusting message in guestbook at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.

The brainless urban boy-bitch, who wouldn't last ten seconds at the Benning School For Boys, suggested the the late Miss Frank would be a fan of his.

Oh, really?

The disgusting boy-bitch, who is a product of the irrational urban culture and apparently never had an original thought in his entire life, apparently believes that he is the most important thing in existence.

Well so did Hitler.

The fact of the matter is that nice Jewish girls have standards. When they get married it's to real men with real fully functional minds. For example, Ayn Rand and Frank O'Connor.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Question Of the Day

What is happening in North Korea?

A fundamental part of the problem is that North Korea has been under communist rule for over three generations. As a result everyone who was able to think and reach an independent conclusion has been killed or driven out. As rank in the system is based on blind obedience there is absolutely no prospect of an internal coup to overthrow the idiots in control of the North Korean state.

As with all totalitarian systems there is nothing to gain, or no chance to survive, for someone in speaking the truth to the leader. As a result the leaders will be completely lacking in anything resembling a clue.

Whereas authority is based on knowledge, power is based solely on force. Those in a position of authority are limited by their knowledge. Those who value value power over all simply do not care about the facts of reality.

The leadership will continue to act in ignorance without regard to the consequences.

Notice

One of the last real leaders of Western Civilization has just died.

Rest In Peace, Ma'am.

Update April 9, 0215 CST:

The savages are celebrating as usual.

Today

Today is Yom HaShoah. The day to remember the Holocaust.

I should say more on this subject, but I will say this: Those who dehumanize others will only dehumanize themselves.

Update 0435 CST:

Fooldroolcup at Legal Insurrection commented:

If I were a zit-faced Anonymous hacker, I would be cowering under Mom’s bed with a well-founded fear that some muscly Israelis armed with Uzis would burst into my basement “lair” to spread my neurons and glions all over the wall.

Pour encourager les autres.

Seriously.

Given their nihilist ideology I would be okay with that.

Update 0810 CST:

The only way these cyber-idiots would ever come to understand what actually happened would be for them to go up the smokestack themselves.

And that would be too good for them.

Update Monday April 8, 0245 CST:

Harry Binswanger on his mailing list said:

Today on 40th Street near the NY State office building, I saw about a dozen black-coated (apparent) rabbis protesting against “Zionism” and in favor of the Palestinians! Now I know at least why this happened today. The sign I remember was: “Jewish suffering doesn't justify victimizing Palestinians.” Disgusting.

Yes. It is.

"Honorary Aryans," or "Honorary Amalekites." Your call.

Thought For The Day

No. I don't want to be the Messiah.

Being crucified sucks.

Islam In Action

From Powerline.com:

On September 23, 2011, Asher Palmer, 25, was driving with his infant son, Yonatan, on Route 60 near Kiryat Arba. He was headed towards Jerusalem to visit his pregnant wife. Driving in the opposite direction was former Palestinian Authority security officer Waal al-Arjeh and his accomplice Ali Saadeh. As they crossed paths, al-Arjeh hurled a large rock that pierced the windshield of Asher’s car, hitting him in the head and causing the car to crash on the side of the road. Asher and his son died upon impact.

Islam is the destruction of Human Life.

As such it cannot be tolerated.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Comment Of The Day

A leftist twit with pretensions of intelligence just died.

So what?

Blame Gun Owners

A district attorney and his wife have been murdered in Texas.

Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia were found shot dead inside their Forney home on Saturday night, a chilling crime that put law enforcement agencies across Texas on high alert and shook prosecutors, defense attorneys and others in legal circles around North Texas.

Late Saturday night, sources said a .223-caliber assault rifle, similar to an AR-15, was used in the murders, with approximately 14 rounds being fired.

The criminal responsible will not be blamed by the gun-grabbers.

There will be more calls for more violence against innocent people by the gun-grabbers.

Count on it.

Disarm The Citizens

Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit wrote:

It’s still not clear if the new gun control laws in Colorado will save any lives. That’s still up for debate.

The answer is no.

Legally disarming the citizens will have no impact on the actions of criminals and the insane. Such legislation has historically placed citizens at greater risk of death or injury as a result of criminal action.

In light of this fact there can be no valid reason to disarm the citizens.

Thought For The Day

North Korea would be a joke if it weren't for all the dead bodies.

Fact Of The Day

Islamic Law is a complete contradiction in terms.

For example:

Lama al-Ghamdi, 5, died this past October from injuries relating to a crushed skull, broken ribs, a broken arm, a broken back and severe burns. On top of being brutally beaten, medical reports say that Lama had also been raped repeatedly.

Lama was killed by her father, prominent Islamic preacher Fayhan al-Ghamdi, who served only three months in prison and was released after paying $50,000 as ‘blood money.’

Islam is the creation of a depraved creature. (I won't call it a man.) This creature made a career of rape, robbery, and murder. It claimed to speak for God and murdered those who correctly refused to believe that claim. It created a false code of law in order to facilitate further crimes by itself and it's followers.

Islam denies the validity of all real laws. Including the Bill Of rights. Under no circumstances can Islam EVER claim protection as a religion under the First Amendment. EVER.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Fact Of The Day

Contrary to what many conservatives believe absolute economic equality is actually possible to accomplish.

All that has to done is to completely annihilate the Human Race.

Thought Of The Day

Back in December after the Sandy Hook Massacre I was involved in a discussion on firearms ownership on an Objectivist Mailing list.

One list member, who I will not identify to save him from further embarrassment, wrote:

Again drawing from fiction, in The Weapon Shops of Isher and its sequel The Weapon Makers the author A.E. Van Vogt uses the phrase: “The right to buy weapons is the right to be free,” which I think most astute. In this classic science fiction story the Weapon Shop weapons are only capable of being used in self defense.

The list owner correctly declared that this was metaphysically impossible.

Let’s examine the premise.

Consciousness Is Identification.

Consciousness is the process of seeing things as they actually are.

In order for an artifact, such as a firearm, to be able to identify the difference between a valid target it must be a conscious being. In practical effect the weapon is a person. As a piece of property this person is a slave.

Furthermore, if the weapon owner, or the operator it is issued to, cannot identify the difference between a valid target –- statists and criminals -- and innocent persons, then the owner or operator in this respect is unconscious. To require that the attribute of consciousness be constructed into a weapon demonstrates that the potential owner or operator is not fit to hold it.

As Consciousness Is Identification, what can we say about those in government who cannot or willfully refuse to identify the difference between citizens and criminals? Or unable to simply identify any fact of reality at all?

We would have to identify them as being unconscious.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Thought For The Day

I went home with a waitress, the way I always do,
How was I to know, she was with the Cylons too?

Update

Initial submission to a semi-pro magazine rejected.

I submitted a revised version to Analog.

Let's see how that works.

Addition

Even though I submitted a short story for publication I rewrote it a bit.

It includes this new line.

Well. That was nice. An equal opportunity Armageddon.

Oddly enough I'm actually looking forward to a rejection slip.

Text I Decided To Not Use

Francis shouted.

“Don’t you want the ultimate software package?”

“No.” I replied. “Perhaps you should call Bill Gates at Microsoft or whoever is in charge at Apple now that Steve Jobs is deceased. Or you could send a letter.”

Francis stared at me with a blank expression on his face.

Mystifying. Isn't it?

Here's more text:

“Have you given thought to masturbation?” I replied. “It’s a much safer form of sexual gratification.”

Miss Buckley was visibly shocked.

Sex, computers, what else?

Paragraph Of The Day

From a parody I'm working on at the moment:

“Have you considered masturbation?”  I replied.  “It’s a much safer form of sex.”

Notice

New pope elected.

He has taken the official name of Francis.

So what?

Quote Of The Day

Classical economic Marxism is not light, and most of the radicals of the Sixties were not deep.

Bill Lind, August 10, 1998

You Tube video here.

Announcement

Hugo Chavez, who once attempted to seize power by force and was elected to be the chief looter of Venezuela, has expired.

The Marxist piece of trash should have been taken out and shot.

Some things should not ever be left to the hands of God.

And here is the Pythonic version of the announcement:

He’s not pining! He’s passed on! This looter is no more! He has ceased to be! He’s expired and gone to meet his maker! He’s a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If he hadn’t been nailed to the hospital bed he’d be pushing up the daisies! His metabolic processes are now history! He’s off the twig! He’s kicked the bucket, He’s shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bloody choir infernal!! THIS IS AN EX-Looter!!

Thought For The Day

Barack Obama: We dumped the British Monarchy for him?

Post of the day

I've finished the second chapter of the novel.

http://otherles.livejournal.com/11890.html

A Reminder

If your spine glows while you are having sexual intercourse you may be a Cylon.

First Chapter

I just posted the first chapter of my novel on my Live Journal page.

This is not set in the Official Traveller Universe.

http://otherles.livejournal.com/11664.html

Event Of The Day

Today is Yoko Ono's 80th birthday.

I'd say, "Dear God, why?" But I'm an atheist.

A Literary Demolition Of DORSAI!

Or how not to write a science fiction novel.

As part of my project to write a science fiction novel I am re-reading DORSAI! Yes, the exclamation point is part of the title. This is the first novel in a series of ubermensch fantasies by Gordon R. Dickson. I am reading it with the intent of deconstructing it as an example of military science fiction with mercenaries. My goal as a novelist is to create a depiction of a similar band of mercenaries and show how a rational nation would be deal with them.

Here’s the first paragraph from the chapter titled MERCENARY III:

Returning again up the corridor toward the bow of the ship, Donal allowed himself to wonder, a little wistfully, about this incubus of his own strange difference from other people. He had thought to leave it behind with his cadet uniform. Instead, it seemed, it continued to ride with him, still perched on his shoulders. Always it had been this way. What seemed so plain, and simple and straightforward to himself, had always struck others as veiled, tortuous, and involved. Always he had been like a stranger passing trough a town, the ways of whose people were different, and who looked on him with a lack of understanding amounting to suspicion. Their language failed on the doorstep of his motives and could not enter the lonely mansion of his mind. They said “enemy” and “friend”; they said “strong” and “weak”–“them” and “us”. They set up a thousand arbitrary classifications and distinctions which he could not comprehend, convinced as he was that all people were only people–and there was very little to choose between them. Only, you dealt with them as individuals, one by one; and always remembering to be patient. And if you did this successfully, then the larger, group things came out right.

Can you understand that? Was Dickson an English Literature major at the U of M?

ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION, the periodical that published this serially in 1959 did pay a penny a word. But this amount of barely incomprehensible verbiage is simply absurd.

Dickson attempts to recreate the European political environment prior to the Treaty Of Westphalia (1648), a time when the use of specifically raised and organized mercenary units was commonplace. Civil wars within what should be sovereign nation states are commonplace. Dickson also creates a moral nightmare. A universe where the Right Of Life is legally negated. An individual may be conscripted by the state and forced to work on another world in trade for another worker with knowledge in another field. Or die as cannon fodder in a foreign war. And the penalty for an individual who broke this so-called contract is death.

Dickson may not have understood the concept of government. But then he was a graduate of the University Of Minnesota.

What is very apparent when reading this and the other works in the series is that Dickson adopted a Platonist metaphysics. What passes for philosophy is a gibberish of Eastern Mysticism and Racial Collectivism along with the open practice of magic. In fact the overall plot of the series, such it was, is completely dependent on the occurrence of magical events. It would more accurate to describe this series as a work of fantasy instead of science fiction. In THE FINAL ENCYCLOPEDIA, Dickson actually wrote a scene set on the Platonic World Of Forms. And at the end of the initial novel Dickson has his protagonist literally commanding the antagonist to suffer. And the antagonist magically does so.

If reality is unreal in a fictional universe, why bother to write about it?

Incident Of The day

According to the Winnipeg Free Press:

Meteorite falls in Russia's Chelyabinsk region; 100 injured

Of course, the environmentalist wackos will blame this on global warming.

UPDATE 0155:

Dashcam video of meteor. Russian disco sucks.

So Anyway

The plot line I'm thinking of using in the novel combines elements of the films BLADERUNNER and MY FAIR LADY.

Um...

Thought For The Day

As part of my project to write a military science fiction novel I'm rereading Dorsai(!) by Gordon R. Dickson. Quite frankly I'm astounded as to how this piece of literary excrement was ever published. But I will finish reading it because I'm basing some of the bad guys on the Dorsai mercenaries.

Nuclear Test Of The Day

Apparently there is such a place as the Nuclear Test Road in North Korea.

Nice piece of 1945 technology you got there Mr. Kim.

Not A Replicant

Pope Benedict XVI to resign

Although at the age of 85 he's a bit too old to go out and party.

Question Of The Day

Read this:

Muslim abuser who 'didn't know' that sex with a girl of 13 was illegal is spared jail

Where is a lynch mob when you really need one?

There is a serious philosophical question that I really need to think about. I'll get back to you folks later.


UPDATE -- 0948 CDT:


What is the purpose of religious tolerance?

The individual is the sovereign authority in a civil society. Because of this the government cannot impose a belief, including a religious belief, upon him. Thus any religion that accepts the individual as sovereign authority in a civil society can and must be tolerated.

Under Islam man is the property of the deity. A person has no rights, cannot enact legislation, and cannot establish and uphold a moral standard. Compliance with Islam must be imposed by force. Furthermore a Muslim is permitted to deceive or otherwise use non-believers for their own gain and even commit murder. An underage girl who is protected under a rational code of law is seen, literally, as a usable object under the doctrine of Islam.

Such behavior, which denies the rights and sovereignty of the individual, cannot be tolerated in a civil society.

Two Novels

This is not a review. This is simply a comment.

Before I entered high school I read STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert A. Heinlein. In this work, which was written in response to pacifist agitation, Heinlein explains how a military organization should function and more importantly, why it should act this way. Heinlein also explains what he believes the obligations of citizenship are.

I was mentally blown away.

When I was in high school I read THE FOREVER WAR by Joe Haldeman. It was an anti-war novel written by a veteran of ground combat in the Vietnam War. It was written in part as a response to STARSHIP TROOPERS. This work was a virtual step by step manual on how not to run a society and fight a war.

First, shoot first and don't ask any questions of anyone. The war began with the assumption that the loss of a colony ship was due to a recently encountered alien race. No attempt to communicate with the aliens is made. The first group of aliens encountered is simply killed as if the troopers were back in Vietnam. Later on we are told that the aliens are a group mind that is a priori incapable of communicating with an individual mind. It is only when a Terran group mind is created that communication became possible. I suppose that someone could drive a Nimitz class aircraft carrier through this plot hole.

Second, don't ask for volunteers. Conscript the best and the brightest, no one can refuse the draft. And because the troopers lives belong to the collective they cannot withhold consent to sexual contact. Gang rape of women in the mixed gender units is shown to be the norm.

Third, collectivism is the future. Social engineering in practiced to the point that a collective mind is created. Communication, and thus peace, with the aliens becomes possible.

I was not positively impressed by this novel.

Delayed Response

On Wednesday a waitress at a St. Louis area Applebee's restaurant was stiffed by the pastor of a church on the Illinois side of Mississippi River. The waitress posted an image of what the stiffer wrote on the bill:

Now as an atheist I would be tempted to say, "I exist, God doesn't." Or I could say, "I worked, God didn't."

On Wednesday I started to write a rant on the subject for my blog but I was not happy with the text and decided that more thought on the subject was necessary. Here's what I wrote:

When I was a delivery driver for Pizza Hut I used to dread orders from hardcore Democrats and union members, a status usually indicated by a sign on the front lawn of a sticker on the front door. These people would never tip. The worst case of abuse I experienced was from an African-American man wearing a t-shirt with the image of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the place of Che Guevara, I waited standing in a cold thundershower while this person counted out the exact amount of the transaction down to the penny with no tip added. And I had to stand there like a good delivery driver and smile. Why does this clearly abusive behavior occur? The theory I held at the time was that the person believed that their ideological status exempted them from treating working people decently.

To put it another way it appeared that the illusion of moral supremacy allowed these people to behave in an apparently despicable manner.

As of Friday the waitress was fired for violating corporate policy.

Question Of The Day

Why should the piper lead us to reason?

Post For the Day

I was going to whine about people who don't tip. But I still need to work on it.

And yes, it did involve Dihydrogen Monoxide.

Safety Tip Of The Day

There is a mist of Dihydrogen Monoxide in the early morning (pre-sunrise) air here in Minneapolis. Upon touching the ground it freezes into a slippery surface. Because of this I've decided to stay indoors until the air warms up.

Thought For the Day

Those who believe they can do no wrong, with absolute certainty, will do wrong.

Act Of The Day

Dihydrogen Monoxide is falling from the sky in solid form in Minneapolis.

I shall remain indoors today.

Dream State

I just woke up from a dream where I was with a member of the Edison High School cheer leading squad that I never met before and stuck in a weird cross between an episode of STAR TREK: VOYAGER and THE LAWRENCE WELK SHOW set in the State of Wisconsin.

Nothing sexual happened, as in the real world.

Dihydrogen Monoxide was not a factor in this dream.

Thought For The Day

I'll die first before I vote for a Democrat.

Idiot of The day

Andy Driscoll, a host for the the non-profit leftist radio station KFAI believes as real a photo-shopped image of three drones flying in formation over the Obama inaugural ceremony.

The image was originally published in THE ONION.

And Driscoll is still taking the image seriously.

Story in the CITY PAGES.

Thought For The day

We live in a dynamic universe. Changes in physical objects, such as galaxies, stars, planets, as well as geological features and the climate occur as a result of entirely natural processes. This occurs completely without any conscious direction by anyone at all.

Some people cannot accept this. They apparently believe that without conscious action the universe that we perceive would exist in a steady state. Without any change.

In order to account for the changes they see they conceived of a series of higher beings, ending with God, to hold responsible. Because God is seen as the agent of change and control, some men sought to influence him for their own benefit. Thus religion was invented. But because there is no God, the practice of religion has no effect. As a result some men, in the form of the progressive state have stepped into the perceived vacuum.

The progressive state, as the stand in for God, has to show that they are in control and a benefit to men. But because they cannot effect natural processes they must exercise control oven men. Thus they created the Prohibition Acts, economic controls, gun control, environmental legislation, and the welfare state in general. As the substitute for God they need to control every aspect of human life.

And as a result of this process the state, and in particular the leader, is mentally deified. The leader is treated as the living embodiment of God, to be worshiped and obeyed It does not matter to them that their premise is false and their actions are ineffective or negative.

Cartoon Of The Day

From BALOO"S Cartoon Blog:

That could explain some things.

Dehumanization

In reporting on the massacre carried out by Muslim terrorists in Algeria the Daily Mail said this:

He said more than 20 British workers – whom the terrorists called ‘kuffar’, meaning non-Muslims – were rounded up.

This is incorrect. The correct translation of the word “kuffar” is bug. That is a non-human being with no right to live.

When I was writing for THE RESISTER, the editor -- under the apparent influence of Saul Alinsky -- told me that we have to dehumanize our opponents on the Left.

I disagreed. I said that the Left, by what they chose to believe and how they chose to act have already dehumanized themselves. All we as writers have to do is accurately observe and report on their beliefs and actions.

In this case the jihadists who chose to believe that non-believers are not human -- and act on that belief -- have chosen to dehumanize themselves.

State of the Union

A friend sent me the following message:

In 2013 both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address will occur on the same day. This is an ironic juxtaposition of events. One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to an insignificant creature of little intelligence for prognostication. The other involves a groundhog.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Oh, Did I mention that some Dihydrogen Monoxide was released in Minneapolis today?

A Blast from The Past

Oh... Here's something I just dug up from some old files:

The effectiveness of totalitarian gun control as described by the commander of the 106th Guards Airborne Division of the Soviet Army. One of the units sent to suppress an anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan. As told to Carey Schofield, author of "The Russian Elite: Inside SPETSNAZ And The Airborne Forces."

"We landed by night, and some of our aircraft came under attack as we did so. One carrying personnel from Tula landed with twenty-two holes in the fuselage. The people thronging around the airfield were armed with sub-machine guns, knives and clubs. I went over to the crowd and said, 'Look! The Army is not a cat to be swung around in the air. Clear the road!' The KPP (Control and Command Post) of the airfield was blocked with KRAZ and KAMAZ trucks loaded with boulders. People started shouting that we wouldn't get through. While I was talking to the crowds my sappers were cutting the wire fence about 200 meters to the left and right of the KPP. I gave the crowds five minutes to think things over. They began jeering and laughing. Within five minutes two companies from my Ryazan regiment had crossed through the holes in the wire. The whole crowd was ordered to lie face down. We kept them there all night, to let them think things over. When we told them to clear off, the next morning, nobody wanted to admit that he had come armed. They all just left their weapons behind. So I said, 'okay, let's just say we found them'."

If gun control doesn't keep firearms out of the hands of criminals (genocidal criminals at that) in Soviet Russia, it is not going to do so in Soviet America.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Horror Of The Day

A government that does not protect the citizens of the nation is a contradiction in terms.

For example: FRANCE

Just read the whole thing.

The current Socialist Regime is apparently making the Vichy Regime appear to be studly.

The Rule Of The Outlaws

During the course of writing a novel I had a bad guy character state:

“Don’t be silly Madame Keller,” he said in a manner that was clearly speaking down to her, “we all know that laws are only made for the purpose of controlling the little people for the benefit of their betters.”

Under the Primacy of the State the function of law is to control the productive population for the benefit of the ruling parasites. The rulers, and their immediate servants, are not subject to those laws themselves.

David Gregory of NBC News, a statist propaganda organ, is a servant of the rulers. What in the former Soviet Union was called the Nomenklatura.

WASHINGTON (AP) — NBC journalist David Gregory won't face charges for displaying a high-capacity ammunition magazine on his "Meet the Press" news program last month, District of Columbia prosecutors announced Friday.

The city's Office of the Attorney General, which handles low-level crimes, said criminal charges wouldn't serve the public's best interests even though possession of the magazine — capable of holding up to 30 rounds of ammunition — was clearly against local gun laws.

The actual interest of the actual citizens is irrelevant. What matters is the whims of the rulers and those who willfully serve them.

Under the Rule of Law all real laws must be applied to all citizens equally. Such as the laws prohibiting homicide.

As our Socialist rulers and their willing servants regard themselves as exempt from compliance with the laws, on what grounds can they claim to be protected under them?

Now, what are your questions on this block of instruction?

Fact Of The Day

As a nearly lifelong resident of the state of Minnesota I can say that walking on a patch of frozen Dihydrogen Monoxide can be hazardous to your health.

Quote Of The Day

From Capitalism Magazine:

And it’s the supposedly intellectually superior among us who are hell-bent on protecting the nonviolent by making life more comfortable for the violent.

-- Dr. Michael J. Hurd

Those who see themselves as infallible are already in the failure mode.

Thought For The Day

I had thought that the villains in my science fiction novel project were a bit absurd. And then I read pages 38-39 of THE DIM HYPOTHESIS by Dr. Leonard Peikoff:

A philosophy professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology makes eloquently real the connection between nihilism and anti-integration. I quote from a letter from one of his students:

An anecdote from his own life... He said that he sat his 5 year old daughter down on his lap one day and asked "Where's Daddy?" She responded by pointing to him. He said. "No, that's Daddy's body. Where's Daddy?" She looked perplexed and then pointed to his head. He responded, "No, that's Daddy's head. Where's Daddy?" This conversation continued for some time until he had reduced his daughter to tears while she screamed, "Where's my Daddy? Where's my Daddy?" I dropped the course very soon after that...."

Over the course of writing this blog I've been accused of being Satanic. Of having my humanity surgically removed. And of being the embodiment of all evil on Earth. But this is simply sick. This so-called man effectively admitted to being a soulless being. And his daughter should have been removed from his custody as a result of this action.

I will have to finish reading THE DIM HYPOTHESIS before I resume writing.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Free Literature

I was wring a science fiction novel. At a bit past 42,000 words I decided that two aspects, the extinction event on Earth and the villains where a bit too absurd, So I'm starting over again.

If anyone wants to read the existing MS send me an e-mail.

lesbates_traveller at yahoo dot com

Thought For The Day

Harry Binswanger, PHD wrote:

Laws prohibiting or regulating guns across the board represent the evil of preventive law and should be abolished.

Read his online column in Forbes here.

Gun Control also reduces the citizen to the status of livestock and therefore constitutes an act of treason.

Islam Is Death

Pamela Geller passes on a report in the Daily Mail about the latest Islamic atrocity in Pakistan:

Five female teachers in Pakistan have been slaughtered by Islamic militants bent on keeping women and girls away from education.

They were murdered in a New Year's Day ambush on the van carrying them home from their jobs at a community centre and primary school in the north-west of the country.

The teachers and two health workers - one man and one woman - were killed this afternoon in the conservative Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

What is it to be human?

To be human is to see things as they are to be the master of existence. Therefore true humans cannot be the livestock or playthings of the gods.

As such a true human will not blindly submit to a prophet and blindly obey such anti-human trash.

A true human has absolutely no use for predators such as the obviously false prophet Mohammad and his false god Allah.

And those who chose to behave as predatory animals must be identified and treated as such.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

So On And So Forth

At World Net Daily, a notoriously Christian news site, they are asking the question:

Are today's baby names abandoning Bible?

Let's ask the real question: Are more Americans accepting the fact that reality is real?

The fact of the matter is that all religions are false. No amount of whining or coercion will change this. In order to ascend to the height of civilization that we have reached we had to culturally compartmentalize our religion to Sunday Morning. Some people, myself included, are now taking the next logical step and dropping religion altogether. In all aspects of their lives.

But, as some Christians are whining, without obeying God everything will descend into chaos and destruction.

Nonsense.

Because God is an invalid concept we have no alternative but to accept responsibility for our own lives and actions. We will have to see things as they are and live according to the actual requirement of human life.

And the clergy will have to find real jobs.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Propaganda As Usual

Notorious hoplophobe Sarah Brady is lying as usual.

She has tweeted a billboard that has been obviously processed in Photoshop.

Any questions?

Quote Of the Day

From The Strategy Page:

Assault rifles are always loyal to whoever is holding them.

Any questions?

A Letter To The Mayor Of Minneapolis

Your Honor,

Since I moved into the Parker Skyview building in early November I have been subjected to overwhelming noise emitted from the adjacent apartment. I have repeatedly called the police to intervene to no practical effect. As of Christmas Eve I was notified by the watch commander at the Second Precinct that they will no longer respond to my complaints about the noise issue.

Are we now living in a state of anarchy?

Yours respectfully,

Leslie Bates

Philosophical questions. More fun than a baseball bat to the head. (EVIL GRIN)

And some people still wonder why I still vote straight Republican.

Thought For The day

If you want to predict what will be said by the democratic Party and their media prostitutes, all you have to do is take any statement by an old school Nation Socialist, cross out the word "Jew" and write in the words "Gun Owner."

That's how depraved and predictable they have become.

An Answer

During a discussion on gun control Harry Binswanger raised the following question:

If the majority wants a certain government, how is the minority going to defeat them with guns? The majority will have more guns.

That's a good and necessary question.

If all it took to construct a building was to stack stones upon each other there would be no science of architecture and no point in writing The Fountainhead.

If all it took to fight a war was to use brute force without rational input there would be no science of warfare or any such thing as a military organization.

If all factors were equal in warfare then a simple majority of combatants would win every time. But in reality all factors are never equal. Thus the purpose of military science is to identify the factors that favor one side or the other and use or negate those factors to one’s advantage.

A book that covers this process is The Myth Of The Great War by John Mosier. In this work the author explains how the Central Powers managed to avoid defeat until the American entry into the WW1 even though they were outnumbered by the Allies.

Mosier also covers the role of the active mind in warfare:

Over at Pershing's headquarters, young ex-cotton dealer turned intelligence officer, Samuel Hubbard, looked at all the available information and concluded that the Germans were going to turn south, and launch an offensive across the Chemin des Dames at the end of May. Despite the fact that the Allied intelligence estimates had been continuously wrong for the last forty-five months of the war, Hubbard's analysis was disregarded. How could the Americans, who had just arrived on the scene, be better then the French and the British, who had been doing for it for years?

Mosier, who up to this point had been cataloging the effects of the unconscious approach to war as practiced by the Allied powers, says this:

On 27 May 1918, The Germans, to the consternation and surprise of everyone except Captain Hubbard, smashed across the ridge.

In order to succeed in business one has to possess valid knowledge and use an active mind. The same in true in the practice of warfare as demonstrated by Captain Hubbard. In warfare the active mind with valid knowledge as a general rule will prevail over those who practice blind obedience.

Now I must also point out that as long as one free to communicate then one is free to persuade members of a political majority that they have made an error.

And of course not everyone who votes for a state of tyranny, particularly if they've been bribed into it, is going to put their lives on the line for it. Right?

Another Nihilist Touches A Keyboard

If there was such a work as Introduction To Kantian Epistemology the complete text could be boiled down to three words: Reality is unreal.

For example, William A. Jacobson, a professor at the Cornell University Law School, reported the following on one of his blogs:

Erik Loomis is an assistant professor of American history at the University of Rhode Island. He also blogs at “Lawyers Guns and Money” blog.

In reaction to the murders in Connecticut, Loomis tweeted that he had never been so angry except maybe for the invasion of Iraq (I guess 9/11 was chopped liver to him), and that he wanted the NRA chief’s “head on a stick”:

Now to the non-Kantian mind this constitutes a literal call for an act of murder. Having been outed as a would be murderer Loomis then attempts to rhetorically cover his backside:

Dear right-wing morons, saying you "want someone's head on a stick" is a metaphor. I know metaphor is hard for you to understand.

Dear rightwingers, to be clear, I don't want to see Wayne LaPierre dead. I want to see him in prison for the rest of his life.

Well why didn't he just say so? Would it be too clear?

Those of us who treat reality as being real learned a hard lesson back in the Twentieth Century. It was believed by many the when Hitler spoke of clearing the Jews from Europe that he was speaking metaphorically. It was when the Allied armies liberated the death camps that we discovered that Hitler was speaking literally.

To us who are not under the influence of Kant and in fact value our lives, a call for an act of murder has to be taken literally. There is simply no other morally valid option.

Having been outed as a would be murderer Loomis then backtracks and says he would settle for an act of tyranny. That he would settle for Wayne LaPierre to be imprisoned for life.

Punishing a man for an act he did not commit is unjust. Imprisoning a man for speaking the truth is tyrannical. Disarming the citizens -- who are the sovereign authority of the nation -- is treason.

To say anything more would require the extensive use of barracks language.


UPDATE 1335 CST:


A nihilist calling himself the Rude Pundit posted the following on Twitter:

First [expletive] to say the solution is for elementary school teachers to carry guns needs to get beaten to death.

In other words someone, such as myself, who suggests the obviously rational solution to irrational behavior is to be crudely murdered.

My name is Leslie Bates, I live at 1815 Central Avenue, Apartment 2313, in North East Minneapolis. I was trained by the United Sates Army to kill Marxist trash with my bare hands at the Benning School For Boys.

I routinely patronize the Diamonds Coffee Shop just down the street. Try to murder me and see what happens. If you insist on behaving like a Brownshirt, I will identify and treat you as one.

Have a nice day.


UPDATE 1530 CST:

Erik Loomis has just deleted his own Twitter account.

Poor baby. WAAAH!

Oy Vay!

After I posted an article on my blog explaining why a citizen needs to armed someone named Stephen Paul sent a very long and complete waste of text into my e-mail box via Google Plus.

In his waste of text -- I won't dignify it by calling it a rant or a keyboard dropping, nor will I quote any part of it even with the obscenities along with the racial and sexual preference slurs deleted -- he declared that I was a non-sentient animal who had no political authority as a citizen and no right to be armed.

I managed to boil down his message to the essential point in about one percent of the verbiage.

So what of it? If I am a mindless animal who is under the control of a master, why send me a message? If I'm not thinking for myself I certainly won't examine my own beliefs based on the mass of unnecessary verbiage and expletives that was transmitted.
Nor will I be impressed by his command of obscenities.

Instead of being positively impressed by this display of mental posturing I would have to come to the conclusion that Stephen Paul is an idiot.

I in turn reported his message to Google Plus as an example for hate speech.

What else could I do?

A Photo And A Question

Pamela Geller shows us how school children are protected in Israel.

Yes, that's a teacher protecting her students with a firearm.

What we have here is a solution to the problem that is simple and obvious. Except of course to those who are mentally stuck in the Kantian reality-is-unreal paradigm. But the Founders of the American Republic were not anticipating the presence of lunatics and Muslims running around and slaughtering children.

Why did they write in a right to bear arms in the Constitution?

My answer to the question is simply this: WE THE PEOPLE are the sovereign authority of the United States of America.

There are several natural consequences of the political primacy of the citizen. I'll just cover the first two here:

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment II

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

First, the citizen as the sovereign authority must be free to examine the facts for himself and communicate his conclusions to his fellow citizens. He cannot be compelled to believe a falsehood and therefore act on it.

Second, the citizen as the sovereign authority must possess the physical instrument of political authority and be prepared to use it. The ballot that is cast by the citizen, like the paper currency in common use, must be backed by a physical value.

The government must be subordinate to the sovereign authority, the citizens of the nation. And citizens must have the knowledge and the means to enforce their authority.

Contrary to what the practicing Kantians want us to believe, the first four words of the Second Amendment does not constitute a license to disarm the citizens and render them helpless in the face of a supreme state. It means that the citizens must be armed, trained, and organized to enforce their authority upon the government.

Now no rational person wants a civil war in our nation, but if the government would simply comply with the Constitution it wouldn't be necessary.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

A Larger Problem

On Friday I posted a response on my blog to the religious ravings of former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. The link to the initial response is here.

At the time I was focused on Huckabee's commitment to theism. I missed the larger problem. This problem is simply contempt for the rights of the individual.

Life is the fundamental moral value. But to live in human mode of life does not mean mere physical existence. The human way of life requires conscious rational control of it. Freedom is the next step in the hierarchy of moral values. Because violence against men can only be stopped by force it becomes necessary to establish the institution of government to place the use of force under rational control.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

"We the People," not God, or Der Volk, et cetera, are the sovereign authority on whose behalf the government is established. With those three words the primacy of the citizen over the government is established.

The primacy of the citizen over the government required the right to speak and publish the facts and the right of the citizen to bear arms. As a result we also gained freedom from a religion being imposed on us, and a rational system of justice.

So far, so good. But from the very first day others, out of a desire for material or spiritual benefit, sought to overturn the primacy of the citizen in favor of the dominance of the state.

The desire for material benefit led to the Dred Scott decision, in which the citizens of the free states of the union were stripped of their authority to ban the practice of slavery in their own home states. This set the stage for the Civil War.

The desire for spiritual benefit (or the warm fuzzy feeling of the same) led to Prohibition. In this case the citizens were stripped of their right to decide to consume or not consume alcohol and were effectively reduced to the status of cattle under state control. Defiance and contempt for the rule of law became the order of the day and another result was the vast growth of organized crime.

But the worst was yet to come.

Combining both a desire for both material gain and spiritual dominance came the self-styled Progressives. Although there was some lining of the pockets on the part of the Progressives their primary goal was political control. Political looting was simply a means of buying the votes of the corrupted voters.¹

Even before the onset of Prohibition the Progressives had gained control of the public schools and had replaced education for citizenship as the sovereign authority with John Dewey's plan for programming children to morally devalue themselves and to be drones in the Progressive collective.²

Huckabee, in calling for the return of religious indoctrination to the public schools is not advocating an valid alternative to the inherent nihilism of Progressive programming. But simply wishes to replace blind obedience to the collective with blind obedience to God.³ In doing so he has accepted the fundamental Progressive premise and is facilitating their program. He is not upholding life as a moral value but is instead taking part in the destruction of the rational way of life.

And if Huckabee is going to claim that we as humans must obey God regardless of the consequences he may as well go all the way and convert to Islam.

But then Huckabee isn't the religious conservative idiot to facilitate the goals of the Left.⁴

What are your questions on this block of instruction?



1. What can I say? It apparently works for them.

2. When I was a contributor to THE RESISTER we referred to the public schools as Dewey Camps.

3. Here's my rant of the year on the subject of God.

4. There was William F. Buckley, Jr.

Furthermore I was kicked off the Baen's Bar forum for rudely responding to something said by one of their published authors. A religious conservative.

Quote Of The Day

Post Of The Day

For the record, Tom Kratman wrote a piece of Neo-Nazi war porn.

Here's a review.

Brain Death Case Of The Day.

A conservative is being disgusting as usual:

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee attributed the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in part to restrictions on school prayer and religious materials in the classroom.

"We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools," Huckabee said on Fox News, discussing the murder spree that took the lives of 20 children and 6 adults in Newtown, CT that morning. "Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage?"

Law enforcement has released few details on the alleged gunman, but Huckabee suggested that the separation of church and state may have spurred his rampage.

"[W]e've made it a place where we don't want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability -- that we're not just going to have be accountable to the police if they catch us, but one day we stand before, you know, a holy God in judgment," Huckabee said. "If we don't believe that, then we don't fear that."

He said those suffering from a crisis from faith should look to God in the community's response to the violence. But he added that "Maybe we ought to let [God] in on the front end and we wouldn't have to call him to show up when it's all said and done at the back end."

Where do I start?

Better yet, I'll let an ancient Greek philosopher start for me:

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

– Epicurus

In short, if there was a God, then why did this act of mass murder happen?

Why did ANY act of mass murder happen?

WHY DID THE NIGHTMARE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, WITH NEARLY TWO HUNDRED MILLION DEAD, HAPPEN?

"Why God, did you allow all this to happen?"

In reply to these questions there is only silence.

There is no reply because there is no God.

Earlier this year I went on a long rant on the subject of God:

At no time in the fifty one years of my life have I ever come into physical or visual contact with God. I have never EVER received a message from God. No phone calls. No letters or other junk mail through the U.S. Postal Service. Not even an e-mail from god@god.god, even though he should be able to get something through the spam filter.

Nothing. At. All.

I simply have no reason to believe in the existence of God.

In the Collectivist dogma presently taught in the public schools a person had no rights because that person belonged to the collective. One could actually see a mob of looters and be seduced by the promise of real loot.

According to religious dogma you are the property of God and must obey him. You are not allowed to make moral decisions on your own. Regardless of the actual facts of reality.

But what do religious conservatives offer as a reward for obedience?

NOTHING.

Nothing. At. All.

In fact religion does not teach us anything about reality and how to live in it. Religion is pure nonsense.

That's all that I will say today.

Today

On this day fifty two years ago someone was born.

Thought For The day

If today's editorial staff of the New York Times were in charge seventy one years ago the headline would read:

IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY VISITS HAWAII

And the U.S. Navy and Army would be editorially denounced for racist violence against them.

Note For The Day

Seventeen years ago on this day Lisa McPherson died after being held captive by the Church of Scientology.

Think of it as religion in action.

An Icon For Altruism

While going through some old stuff after I moved into another apartment I found a hard copy of a draft of my obituary for Diana Spencer, The Princess of Wales. This was intended for publication in THE RESISTER, but the editor Sergeant First Class Steven Barry of the Third Special Forces Group, rewrote it and in doing so completely dropped the basic premise and even got her maiden name wrong.

Needless to say after this I stopped writing for THE RESISTER.

DIANA: A Wasted Life [The revision so far]

By Leslie Bates


One of the things I do for my own selfish pleasure is to take a sketchbook and a drafting pencil and draw. For the last fifteen years the second favorite subject of my work was the late Princess of Wales. So when Andrew Morton’s biography of Diana was originally published I purchased a copy. It took me four months to work up the nerve to finish the first chapter. I did not (and no rational egoist would) enjoy the spectacle of seeing a soul being crushed by a band of witch doctors. (When I first read this my thought was. “If this is how the ruling class educates their children then it’s no wonder that England is rapidly becoming a third world country.”)

To properly become an adult, a child must gain moral knowledge, to know what human life is and how to live it. What Diana received as a child was close to pure poison. Her parents sent her to a boarding school. The Church of England’s version of a Dewey Camp. Here she was pounded with the doctrines that selflessness was the moral ideal. That sacrifice and obedience were virtues. That independent judgement was evil. And that her mind was impotent to deal with material existence. Her mind thus mangled , it should have been no surprise that her life was mangled as well.

Diana became a Second Hander, someone who avoids moral judgement and is dependent on others for guidance. To avoid judgement is to suspend consciousness. It is to effectively shut down the mind and enter the mental equivalent of a state of death. It should not be a surprise that Diana would shortly become physically dead.

Diana was told that the royal family was the pinnacle of civilized existence. A rational person would have seen the royals as a useless remnant of a barbaric tradition, and that the monarch had become nothing more than ta hand puppet for the ruling party. No sane woman would condemn her children to such a fate.

During her engagement Diana discovered that her fiancee was a pragmatist who had an active sexual affair with an already married woman and who had no intention of breaking off the affair. A rational woman would have dumped the sniveling piece of hominid garbage on the spot. Diana asked her sisters for advice and was told to go through with the marriage out of duty.

[Insert paragraph on being an icon for altruism]
[Insert paragraph on third world savages]

All a rational woman had to avoid the aforementioned horrors was simply to say: “No. This is wrong. I won’t do it.” To do so requires a valid knowledge of moral standards, and for her to know that she was right to exercise moral judgement. It is not enough to know that there is an alternative to a particular course of action. One must know that the alternative is correct.

SFC Barry radically cut down the text to basically call her a drunken slut. As I said, I stopped writing for his publication.

Question Of The Day

Why does the Left openly support Islam?

Both Islam and Marxism were concocted by the uberparasites of their times, Karl the First Trustifarian and the Big Moh'. Both doctrines must deny the Right to Life -- and thus the subsidiary Rights of Liberty, Property, Free Speech, Et Cetera -- of all persons. Both ideologies must do so in order to establish and maintain the reign of terror and death, in order to control and exploit the productive population, that their parasitic adherents need to sustain their otherwise useless lives. To accept the concept of the Right to Life that underlies the society of consent is for the Marxist and the Mullah the first step in an act of suicide.

So it should be no surprise that the Left is coming out in favor of silencing the critics of Islam. They feel that the enemy of their enemy is something they can use.