Sneakin’ A Peek at ALIENS!!!

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African American, conspiracy theories, Elena Kagan, GOP, immigration, Left, Nazism, Politics, poverty issues, SCOTUS, socialism, South Carolina, voters

At great peril to moi, I have put my sanity on the line for you.

I mean, day in and day out, I link you up to bewitching sites that offer up all manner of intellectual tidbits and naughty amusements to keep you in the know.

But, there are days, when little strikes my professional palate and I, horror of horrors, have nary a thoughtful philosophical insight to prod you with.

What to do? Well, I determined that it was time to return you, kicking and screaming if I must, to the real world. This ladies and gents is why we continue the good fight. For the enemy is all around. It nips at our heels and smacks its lips in anticipation of destroying our right to freedom.

Yikes, that sounded a bit teabaggerish did it not?

But frankly, although they claim freedom as their aim, in reality they would have us adhere to a set of principles defined by them as “Judeo-Christian” in origin. I say origin, since they have interpreted it in their own selfish fashion to support what makes them comfortable in their homophobic, work ethicy, racist, bigoted symbolistic way. And just in case you weren’t aware, the use of Judeo is only offered as lip service since we all know the only good Jew is one who is trying hard to bring about that Armageddony thingie by which the Christian Kingdom of God will descend.

So, with no little trepidation and packing on of extra undies (Depends, I need Depends!), I have with military precision entered into the realm of the nuttier than a fruitcake and retrieved a few symbols of their insanity. All so, you will be renewed in your vigilance, and ever ready to defend our way of life.

Victor David Hansen lambastes the Obama administration for its failures to uphold the law on immigration and swears we are on the verge of civil insurrection.

Other states and even cities are now marching in lockstep to boycott Arizona. Meanwhile, the president of Mexico recently blasted Arizonans from the White House Rose Garden, no less, apparently counting on the president of the United States to go along with this demonization of one of his own states. All this is eerie; it has a whiff of the climate of the late 1850s, when the federal government was in perpetual conflict with the states, which in turn were in conflict with one another, and which often appealed to foreign nations for support.

Jonah Goldberg informs us that it’s just our imagination that the poor are suffering more today than before. Why HDTV’s and IPods and all that junk are coming down fast! The only real areas where costs are going up?

So, what has gotten more expensive? According to St. Lawrence University economist Steven Horwitz, there are only four areas that have become more expensive over the last century as measured in their “labor price”: housing, cars, higher education, and medical care. With the arguable exception of a college degree, all are marked with wildly improved quality. And the main reason for rising medical and college costs (and to a lesser degree housing costs) is that the government has distorted the market by “helping.”

Abigail Thernstrom is all agog over the fact that South Carolina recutelicans nominated a BLACK man to run in the November elections for Congress. See, she says, we are so reformed her, not a bit of racism in us! But then she said this:

The site [the candidates] also contains a video of Scott talking to voters. Not a trace of a southern accent — in sharp contrast to the state’s GOP gubernatorial candidate, Nikki Haley. Indeed, just listening to him, not knowing his color, one might think he was a northern white. His race- and region-neutral voice will likely be an asset should he seek higher office in the future.

Thomas Sowell tells us that democracy is being destroyed apparently because Obama is reaching out to Americans who have often not participated in the political process. They are dangerous says Sowell:

When Adolf Hitler was building up the Nazi movement in the 1920s, leading up to his taking power in the 1930s, he deliberately sought to activate people who did not normally pay much attention to politics. Such people were a valuable addition to his political base, since they were particularly susceptible to Hitler’s rhetoric and had far less basis for questioning his assumptions or his conclusions.

Pete Winn reports that over 800 Orthodox Rabbis say Elena Kagan is “Not kosher” and thus not fit to sit on any court.

. . . that she will function as a flame-throwing radical, hastening society’s already steep decline into Sodom and Gomorrah,” the rabbis said in the statement. [. . .]We’re waiting for the more courageous, decent senators – whether it’s a (Sen.) Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) or a (Sen.) Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) or a (Sen.) Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) – we’re looking for them to stand up and filibuster this embarrassing endangerment of a nomination,” Levin said.

And WND tells us what the sneaky left has really been up to!

Indeed, today in the age of Obama, millions of Americans are “waking up” to the stealth infiltration and subversion of their beloved country and are appalled at what they see: Not only is their government in the hands of the left, but virtually all of our nation’s major institutions – from the public education system to our colleges and universities, from the news media to the entertainment industry, from the unions to our major philanthropic foundations, even many of our churches – have also been captivated by this same destructive ideology.

Phew, I but scratched the surface and I think I’m contaminated, so I got hose off now with plenty of vinegar and baking soda. My eyes burn and I’m feeling queasy. I am hoping that a strong dose of Rachel Maddow or Keith will revive me. But if you see a VOTE REPUBLICAN sign at my drive, well, you know I’ve paid the ultimate price. Be kind. Kill me quick!

All are Not Equal

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adultery, empathy, Mark Sanford, Newt Gingrich, Politics, psychology, South Carolina

What a shockingly busy day it was yesterday for news. Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett both die. I’m not good at talking about the “breaking news” first because I am not that quick on the button. Face it, you’re not here to get the latest news. I need time to synthesize things a bit, and then perhaps some angle pops up that I think is worthy of comment. So I’m not talking about either of those people today.

Rather, I’ve had some time to think about the fortunes of S. Carolina’s Governor, Mark Sanford and I have some thoughts. This was in some ways prompted by a post by Eileen over at Episcopalifem who voiced sympathy for Gov. Sanford’s situation, basically on a theory of “who hasn’t pontificated on some subject only to fall victim to it themselves.” I can relate, but in the end I come down differently on the issue.

Let me state categorically, that I don’t have a bad thing to say about Sanford vis-a-vis his “affair.” Far be it from me to judge him in any way. It takes no genius to know the divorce statistics in this country, and any of us not lucky enough to marry our high school sweetheart, can testify to numerous relationships that failed for one reason or another. We as humans are plainly not good at picking the “right persons” or maintaining our relationships well at all.

I find it best usually, to not comment on the inner workings of anyone else’s private life when I feel pretty busy addressing my own. So, I repeat, I make no judgment about Mr. Sanford at all on the subject of his personal life per se. But you of course notice that caveat.

I am also forgiving of the fact that Governor Sanford, apparently during his faithful period, was excoriating in his disdain of then President Clinton and his troubles regarding his own marital indiscretions. As Eileen said, we have all been hypocrites at one time or another, usually more than once. I’m willing to cut the guy slack, even assuming that when he said the things he did, (namely that Clinton should resign because he had violated the public trust), he truly meant them.

I’m willing to assume he was speaking honestly out of his God-induced rectitude of the the “family values” genre. Unlike the likes of Newt Gingrich, who in the style only Newt can affect, puffed himself up with righteous indignation and spewed at what an awful God-less vile person Clinton was, all the time engaging in the exact same behaviors himself, at the very time he was so spewing. His rant was for political reasons, and he only used morality as a tool.

But I do claim that Mark Sanford should resign. He is unfit in my mind to be in the business of public care. Why you say? Well, for starters if you claim another should resign because of marital oopses, then I guess you should too, when you oops. Tit for tat, an eye for an eye,  all that rot. But really, I am prepared to concede that the dude has seen the light, and perhaps that shouldn’t be the main reason.

The main reason is that the guy has shown me that he has no ability to empathize with others. And that is a characteristic that makes him unfit in my book to represent the people. Whether you favor the Hamiltonian type representation where one elects a person whose character you respect and trust them to make the right decisions, or whether you follow Jefferson’s approach and elect people who are expected to discern the public position, and vote accordingly, I think Sanford fails the test.

Sanford seems to be the sort who cannot stand in my shoes and even approach trying to see the world through my eyes. Apparently he can see it only through his own, and if I don’t share his vision in every respect, then my causes are lost to him, no matter how reasonable or important they might be.  I’m told, though I haven’t verified this, that Sanford has been overruled by his legislature some four times recently, suggesting it seems, that he may be a tad out of touch with the rest of his state. I’m told he’s not well liked by the electorate these days.

I think we have to ask for his resignation simply because we have to send a message, that the wealthy and well placed cannot live in their world and ignore the rest of us, because they are unable to even begin to understand our lives. If they cannot do this, having never been there themselves, like say a John Edwards, nor had it ingrained since childhood like the Kennedys, then well, they have no business in the public arena making decisions about my life.

This whole thing is merely exacerbated by the fact that Governor Sanford apparently went to great lengths to mislead the public on all this. Leaving one’s car at an airport, filled with hiking gear, traveling to another airport and flying off, and returning, hoping I guess to show up, no one knowing the better, suggests he’s just a tad too sneaky for my taste. Issues of public monies also seem to be swirling around, and promises to reimburse the state fall rather on unhearing ears at this point.

What this continues to say about the GOP, one can only speculate. One seems to be witnessing a debacle the full nature of which will take decades to understand. The sheer scope of the self-inflicted damage is nearly incomprehensible. This is not implosion, but suicide by ten thousand cuts.  

I say throw the guy out. What say you?