tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post6986363544698669050..comments2023-09-15T08:07:28.542-06:00Comments on Western Hero: ... If we would all just sit down and shut up...Silverfiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-74463081555906218872011-08-23T00:31:41.126-06:002011-08-23T00:31:41.126-06:00"No. The Tea parties and, horror of horrors, ..."No. The Tea parties and, horror of horrors, that Texas gunslinger Rick Perry. They are the problem."<br /><br />And don't forget, the sky will fall down if the Tea Party Terrorists get their way.MathewKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14385674205383405783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-83431801587869677782011-08-22T16:37:43.059-06:002011-08-22T16:37:43.059-06:00"Today, America would be outraged if U.N. tro..."Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order [referring to the 1991 LA Riot].<br /> <br />"Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond [i.e False Flag or 911], whether real or 'promulgated,' that threatened our very existence.<br /> <br />"It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown.<br /> <br />"When presented with this *scenario*, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government." <br /><br />- Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991<br /><br />~ Submitted by FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-91570033085976707572011-08-22T16:32:41.459-06:002011-08-22T16:32:41.459-06:00Give me your tired poor huddled masses
yearning to...Give me your tired poor huddled masses<br />yearning to breathe free, and I will put them in handcuffs and send them straight back to the poverty and desperation they risked so much to escape.<br /><br />Send them the tempest tossed to me, and I will send 'em right back into the teeth of the gale.<br /><br />We don't want no wretched refuse from your teeming shores around here. We already got enough human garbage of our own we can't get rid of. <br /><br />The SS United States has turned herself into a GARBAGE SKOW. <br /><br />~ FTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-58813071118495881232011-08-22T16:25:02.630-06:002011-08-22T16:25:02.630-06:00Well, Ducky the bird observes a particular phenome...Well, Ducky the bird observes a particular phenomenon and sees one thing, the worm quite another.<br /><br />What is Truth?<br /><br />Only God knows.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-69570624663465731022011-08-22T16:20:59.964-06:002011-08-22T16:20:59.964-06:00"Those miscreants need to be held accountable...<i>"Those miscreants need to be held accountable and severely punished."</i><br /><br />Do you think it's time the police took machine guns to the riots and just sprayed the screaming mobs into submission with a hailstorm of bullets?<br /><br />The Only Good looter is a Dead Looter!<br /><br />Or perhaps we should establish Penal Colony at the South Pole? Let the penguins sort it all out for us.<br /><br />Or maybe we should just let God handle it? He'll send 'em all to Hell.<br /><br />Rat a tat TAT! Rat a tat TAT! Rat a tat TAT!<br /><br />Enlightenment? Here we come!<br /><br />Rat a tat TAT! Rat a tat TAT! Rat a tat TAT!<br />Rat a tat TAT! Rat a tat TAT! Rat a tat TAT!<br />Rat a tat TAT! Rat a tat TAT! Rat a tat TAT!<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-49034578692271888802011-08-22T15:58:19.990-06:002011-08-22T15:58:19.990-06:00As for Obama being on vacation, what else is new? ...As for Obama being on vacation, what else is new? He and his family believe themselves to be monarchs, but even the monarchs know when to reign in their spending and think about the people who are struggling. Not our president, not a chance.<br /><br />As for these flash mobs I say it's time the citizens start packing and begin to defend their property. Those miscreants need to be held accountable and severely punished.Trekkie4Everhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03226981394122557804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-70134814973001210872011-08-22T15:55:00.326-06:002011-08-22T15:55:00.326-06:00Hey Freethinker, have you seen King Vidor's fi...Hey Freethinker, have you seen King Vidor's film of The Fountainhead?<br /><br />It's hilarious. Vidor was a pretty good director and he skewered Rand right under her nose.<br /><br />Highlights:<br /><br />1. The rape scene - don't miss it.<br /><br />2. The suicide -- you'll be laughing.<br /><br />3. The trial - sure, go blow up a building you don't own because someone went all art deco on you.<br /><br /><br /> I've never figured out Rand's architecture fetish. And it all seems like whining by little Alice who never achieved greatness and lived off government benefits in her final days.<br /><br /> But the film is freaking hilarious. Patricia Neal has a lot of fun with it.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-9371743298215290652011-08-22T06:33:20.198-06:002011-08-22T06:33:20.198-06:00...but if you actually believe that you DO possess......but if you actually believe that you DO possess something "greater" than "faith" and more akin to "knowledge"... by all means, change the title of your Sunday posts to "Religious Certainties". Because you're misleading your public if you continue to label it a "Faith" post.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-42895101438701343782011-08-22T05:46:01.493-06:002011-08-22T05:46:01.493-06:00@Z
WOW, that's not quite right.
You think yo...@Z<br /><br /><i>WOW, that's not quite right.</i><br /><br />You think you have more than "Faith," and that something more than "faith" in G_d is possible?<br /><br />I hate to tell you this, but "faith" is as good as it gets until the "2nd coming." And that goes for disbelievers as well as believers.Speedy Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01640242783952822072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-29373216287346221212011-08-22T05:18:52.729-06:002011-08-22T05:18:52.729-06:00Jersey: Since you are a liberal, It's natural...Jersey: Since you are a liberal, It's natural you would take offense about the man with the sign.<br /><br />Getting aced out of a job by Mexicans, Eastern Europeans, other citizens who are smarter or harder working than you? Then work harder, go to school, whatever, but don't burn it all down, go looting or beg from others.<br /><br />You speak the liberal language of powerlessness, and that is what is driving much of our failure.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-75898580104671782142011-08-21T22:50:32.271-06:002011-08-21T22:50:32.271-06:00“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that artic...<i>“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”</i><br /><br />~ James Madison<br /><br />Submitted by FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-7615328502976892932011-08-21T22:49:45.061-06:002011-08-21T22:49:45.061-06:00>morality can not exist without freedom
Exactl...>morality can not exist without freedom<br /><br />Exactly right. Without agency (freedom), there is no ability to choose between right, wrong, or anything else. Regardless of the specific system, morality implies that there is also immorality, and vice versa. One requires the opposing other. Otherwise, it would merely be one big clump that is neither morality nor immorality.<br /><br />For example, if I'm forced to give my property to poor people, I haven't done a good, moral thing. I have merely been acted upon, like a part of a machine that is driven by other parts of the machine. On the other hand, if I have the choice to give or refrain from giving, and I determine that it is wise to give to a certain individual, and I choose to give, then I have made a moral choice.<br /><br />If I have no choice, my actions are neither good nor evil, neither moral nor immoral. They may be beneficial or damaging for somebody, but those actions do not make me moral or immoral.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-54262576786187845662011-08-21T22:34:17.121-06:002011-08-21T22:34:17.121-06:00O yes, dear friends, it is coming, coming.
But wh...<b><i>O yes, dear friends, it is coming, coming. <br />But whatever will be the source?<br /><br />Will it be the Muslims, Muslims?<br />Or day traders at the Bourse? <br /><br />We know it might be the Marxists, <br />The Marxists on a Pale Horse.<br /><br />Perhaps it will be the false Christians<br />Who'd nail sinners they hate to a Cross?<br /><br />Perhaps it will be the Perverts, Perverts?<br />The Gays who've been gathering force?<br /><br />Perhaps it will be our elders, elders<br />Whose minds have been gathering moss?<br /><br />Perhaps it will be the young lovers, lovers<br />Who cavort in the bracken and gorse?<br /><br />O we know it is coming, coming,<br />But we cannot acknowledge the source.<br /><br />Perhaps it might be you and me?<br />Yes! Who else could it be, of course?</i></b><br /><br />~ FreeThinke (5/2/08)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-11704037616693605402011-08-21T22:33:14.231-06:002011-08-21T22:33:14.231-06:00>It's when we disagree that life gets inter...>It's when we disagree that life gets interesting. <br /><br />"Interesting" and "good" are not necessarily the same thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-89503275363803933182011-08-21T22:30:03.027-06:002011-08-21T22:30:03.027-06:00O What Is That Sound
O what is that sound which ...<i>O What Is That Sound<br /> <br />O what is that sound which so thrills the ear<br />Down in the valley drumming, drumming?<br />Only the scarlet soldiers, dear,<br />The soldiers coming.<br /><br />O what is that light I see flashing so clear<br />Over the distance brightly, brightly?<br />Only the sun on their weapons, dear,<br />As they step lightly.<br /><br />O what are they doing with all that gear,<br />What are they doing this morning, morning?<br />Only their usual manoeuvres, dear,<br />Or perhaps a warning.<br /><br />O why have they left the road down there,<br />Why are they suddenly wheeling, wheeling?<br />Perhaps a change in their orders, dear,<br />Why are you kneeling?<br /><br />O haven't they stopped for the doctor's care,<br />Haven't they reined their horses, horses?<br />Why, they are none of them wounded, dear,<br />None of these forces.<br /><br />O is it the parson they want, with white hair,<br />Is it the parson, is it, is it?<br />No, they are passing his gateway, dear,<br />Without a visit.<br /><br />O it must be the farmer that lives so near.<br />It must be the farmer so cunning, so cunning?<br />They have passed the farmyard already, dear,<br />And now they are running.<br /><br />O where are you going? Stay with me here!<br />Were the vows you swore deceiving, deceiving?<br />No, I promised to love you, dear,<br />But I must be leaving.<br /><br />O it's broken the lock and splintered the door,<br />O it's the gate where they're turning, turning;<br />Their boots are heavy on the floor<br />And their eyes are burning.</i><br /><br />~ WH Auden (1907-1973)<br /><br />Submitted by FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-77946281945222850002011-08-21T22:21:54.788-06:002011-08-21T22:21:54.788-06:00FYI: Here's an opposing view on electronic adv...FYI: Here's an opposing view on electronic advances in communication. Apparently, the IT phenomenon facilitates Orwellian-style Despotism even better than it does personal rebellion against The System:<br /><br /><i>"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. <b>Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen</b>. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."</i><br /><br /> ~ Zbigniew Brezinski, Former Director of National Security Council, Member of Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign Relations. <br /><br />Now doesn't that just warm your heart and lift your spirits? And you say the advent of The New World Order is nothing but a feeble-minded, fear-based fantasy? HAH!<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-90922736187061868072011-08-21T22:06:42.694-06:002011-08-21T22:06:42.694-06:00" she was closer to Marx than you imagine ......<i>" she was closer to Marx than you imagine ..."</i><br /><br />You mean because her real name was Rosenbaum, Ducky?<br /><br />The Fountainhead was hardly inspired by Marxism. It's a paean to The Individual. The Individual as Hero, because he remains true to his artistic vision and professional integrity, despite the pressures of GroupThink and the promise of riches, fame and glory in exchange for conformity. Architect Howard Roark pays a heavy price for staying true to himself -- but he gets the girl in the end.<br /><br />So Rand was anti-Bourgeois taste and middle-class morality, she despised Philistinism, and like most Jews she hated Jesus Christ because He stood for humility and meekness as the ultimate source of strength. Rand of course, made a fetish of displaying her arrogance and contempt for the masses. <br /><br />So, yes she was something like the Marxists, because of her hostility, hyper-critical attitude and boundless selfishness, but how you could claim she was a "Communist," I cannot imagine.<br /><br />Rand's Objectivism, I think, is Capitalism unfettered by Christian morality. Bad shit, as the kids would say today.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-34660428864782236732011-08-21T21:10:27.318-06:002011-08-21T21:10:27.318-06:00I'm no fan of of Ayn Rand. She was a bitch on ...I'm no fan of of Ayn Rand. She was a bitch on wheels, but she showed the naivété, impracticality, unsustainability and inimical nature of Marxian Dialectics brilliantly in Atlas Shrugged.<br /><br />---------<br /><br />You mean the motor of the world that runs on static?<br /><br />Dumb bitch didn't understand entropy any better than she understood economics.<br /><br />By the way, she was a pure materialist, labor theory of value, her aesthetics were Soviet realism -- in other words she was closer to Marx than you imagine. <br /><br />She was a commie but she just had a different politburo.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-80492851722216326542011-08-21T20:45:00.326-06:002011-08-21T20:45:00.326-06:00Silver, the point of your post is fuzzy. You seem...Silver, the point of your post is fuzzy. You seem to be saying that we're going to have social unrest because of austerity - because masses of entitled will violently hit the streets should those entitlements wain?<br /><br />We don't have that many young entitled people. We don't. Even Europe doesn't. Your whole argument is based on a false assumption. <br /><br />The vast majority of our entitled are old. They're not hitting the streets. They're just bitching and moaning at Tea Party joints, and voting selfishly against the interest of the young.<br /><br />Look man, when I agree with you, what do you want? Applause? It's when we disagree that life gets interesting. <br /><br />JMJJersey McJoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15426560061830038806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-88537084784114045372011-08-21T19:55:39.697-06:002011-08-21T19:55:39.697-06:00"I can't think of anything more despicabl..."I can't think of anything more despicable than lucky people who deride unlucky people..."<br /><br />Luck? How does one deride faith and esteem luck?<br /><br />So, our lives, achievements, and successes are nothing more than a roll of the dice?<br /><br />Education, morals, skill have nothing to do with success then I suppose.<br /><br />Me, I was just lucky enough to be born into a working class family, lucky enough not to rob, cheat, or steal, lucky enough not to do drugs, lucky enough to join the military, lucky enough to pay for my own education... Damn, I'm just one lucky SOB! Thanks for clarifying the fact that I had nothing to do with.<br /><br />Damn, I think I'll just go drain my bank accounts and hit the casinos... I'll be a billionaire in no time.<br /><br />To quote Thersites:<br /><br />Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha!<br /><br />You know Jersey, you constantly affirm my decision to move off the east coast, thanks.Finntannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09234170229108668040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-11546107763003006162011-08-21T19:02:56.022-06:002011-08-21T19:02:56.022-06:00Thersites: "They know that theirs is only a &...Thersites: "They know that theirs is only a "faith"" WOW, that's not quite right.<br /><br />Silverfiddle, I had to link this for you because it shows so much about Obama; http://news.yahoo.com/obama-low-rating-shows-unhappiness-congress-132843998.html<br /><br />I'm thinking there IS no ego bigger than Obama's.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-78378424218423922592011-08-21T18:21:57.254-06:002011-08-21T18:21:57.254-06:00Trestin said:
" ...morality can not exist wi...Trestin said:<br /><br /><i>" ...morality can not exist without freedom."</i><br /><br />Absolutely right. Coercion makes rebels and criminals of us all -- just as conscience makes cowards.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-2612045331613768432011-08-21T18:18:20.313-06:002011-08-21T18:18:20.313-06:00PART THREE
Klotkin:
”The growing chasm between ...PART THREE<br /><br /><b>Klotkin:</b><br /><br /><br /><i>”The growing chasm between the classes has its roots in globalization, which has taken jobs from blue-collar and now even white-collar employees; technology, which has allowed the fleetest and richest companies and individuals to shift operations at rapid speed to any locale; and the secularization of society, which has undermined the traditional values about work and family that have underpinned grassroots capitalism from its very origins.”</i><br /><br /><b>FT:</b> Again it isn’t the fact of globalization and increasing automation that’s at fault, but rather the conditions imposed by Socialism that caused these new and distressing phenomena to become vital to the survival of Industry, itself. Also, the well-documented phenomenon of FUTURE SHOCK has had everyone in a tizzy since the Sick-sties. Science and technology have been progressing at such rapid rates people can’t begin to keep up. Some of this “progress” has occurred as a defense against the strictures of Socialism, but also the list to conquer new fields takes on a life of its own. Scientists rarely stop to consider the moral and social ramifications of their discoveries. The Frankenstein Model is not so far from the truth after all.<br /><br /><br /><i>”The great British notion of idea of working hard and succeeding through sheer pluck — an idea also embedded in the U.K.’s former colonies, such as the U.S. — has been largely devalued.”</i><br /><br /><br /><b>FT:</b> REALLY? Gee! I might never have noticed that if you hadn’t told us, Mr. Klotkin. <br /><br /><br /><i>”... the left’s favorite panacea, a revival of the welfare state, fails to address the central problem of shrinking opportunities for social advancement. ...”</i><br /><br /><br /><b>FT:</b> And isn’t that exactly what I -- and the entire Conservative-Libertarian Movement have been nattering on about for the past two decades, sir? Please tell us something we haven’t already know for ages.<br /><br /><br /><i>” ... modern society cannot run according to the individualist credo of Ayn Rand; economic systems, to be credible and socially sustainable, must deliver results to the vast majority of citizens. If capitalism cannot do that expect more outbreaks of violence and greater levels of political alienation ... </i><br /><br /><br /><b>FT:</b> Wanna bet Klotkin is a leftist? That sounds remarkably like a <i>threat</i> to me. Sounds like he thinks we ought to keep ponying up from the empty till in order to stave of Insurrection. Well, there won’t be any winners in that struggle. The “little folk” will have won their ultimate victory. The entire planet will become one gigantic gulag -- or worse -- a nuclear desert. How can you hold us up at gunpoint and expect to get anything out of pockets that were emptied long ago by “Progressive” policies? We’re fast approaching the pace where there just AIN’T anything more to give. <br /><br />I'm no fan of of Ayn Rand. She was a bitch on wheels, but she showed the naivété, impracticality, unsustainability and inimical nature of Marxian Dialectics brilliantly in Atlas Shrugged.<br /><br />Klotkin it seems has a talent onlyt for bering down on the obvious.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-25160984525645254752011-08-21T17:53:24.871-06:002011-08-21T17:53:24.871-06:00The compromise is one of the dynamics frustrating ...<i>The compromise is one of the dynamics frustrating civilization since the beginning of time.</i><br /><br />Exactly. As soon as you lose "the faith", the whole thing crumbles like some old moldy bleu cheese. Civilization yields to her "oh so logical and rational" discontents, and Rome falls again to her degenerate former slaves.<br /><br />How's faith in the old secular Constitution holding up there, Constitutional Insurgent? You're only one Obama SCOTUS appointment away from total Constitutional rejection and Obamacare.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-32761418592341463492011-08-21T17:49:40.426-06:002011-08-21T17:49:40.426-06:00PART TWO
Walter Russell Mead:
”A story that inv...PART TWO<br /><br /><b>Walter Russell Mead</b>:<br /><br /><br /><i>”A story that involved Scott Walker getting his just deserts, even if it didn’t quite work out that way, was infinitely more interesting to our national press than a deeply disturbing gaze into the fragile nature of our social peace.”</i><br /><br /><b>FT:</b> Hardly news there. It’s been painfully obvious for nearly half a century that the media has been cooperating with some sort of hidden agenda designed to bring us down, so that we may be refashioned in a new mold that will best serve the interests of the Movers and Shakers.<br /><br /><br /><i>”... the poor urban Black community is in a deepening crisis of social dislocation and economic marginalization and that while the national conversation has moved past the issues of the inner city, those problems are becoming more dangerous.”</i><br /><br /><b>FT:</b> This is the natural inheritance that comes from the Tragic Error of ever having brought African Negroes and other people generally regarded as markedly inferior and, therefore, worthy of exploitation to the West. As the not-so-funny Southern Redneck bumper sticker says: <i><b>“If I’d a know how it was all gonna turn out, I would picked my OWN cotton.”</b></i> Now, that Negroes and other formerly-exploited groups are no longer useful to us whites, they have become a millstone around our necks. And it’s no one’s fault but our ancestors.’ <i>The sins of the fathers will be visited upon the sons for countless generations to come.</i><br /><br /><br /><i>”Former State Department head of policy planning Anne-Marie Slaughter links to a blog citing an academic paper arguing that fiscal austerity promotes riots.”</i><br /><br /><b>FT:</b> But of course! When government deliberately creates a large and ever-expanding population of helpless, hopeless dependents and when Government cripples Industry so severely that Industry is literally forced to go to automation and outsourcing in order to survive, you get the moral equivalent of TNT. Society is primed to explode by a series of bad decisions all along the line. It’s just cause and Effect. There’s no mystery about it.<br /><br /><br /><i>”Youths with serious economic and social grievances ... are dismissed and insulted by officials on both sides of the Atlantic. The result is unjustifiable but all too predictable violence.”</i><br /><br /><b>FT:</b> It’s the SOCIALISM, stupid. It’s the God-damned SOCIALISM.<br /><br /><br /><i>”The Civil War transformed the slavery question into the modern race question: What would be the relationship of the two races once slavery disappeared?”</i><br /><br /><b>FT:</b> I guess we know the answer to that one, don’t we? What a stupid question! The truth is that population groups completely anomalous and incompatible with Western Culture should NEVER have been introduced into our Civilization. That thy were brought here to be ILL-TREATED makes it a sin as well as generally bad idea. Sooner or later sin brings about its own punishment. The suffering it causes is universal and exponential.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com