Horrors! Nothing to say.
Bookworm on Mar 16 2009 at 10:23 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
Well, I read the papers this morning, and visited my favorite blogs — and left them all uninspired. I can’t blame the papers or the blogs. It’s just that nothing I read triggered anything in my brain.
One of the things I like to do when I blog is see patterns. Here, the pattern is a numbing gray monotone that one could easily predict even a year ago: Obama is a rigid Leftist ideologue, but lacks the experience to carry out his plans efficiently. (To which I guess we should say, Thank God!)
As to the inefficiency, it’s almost impressive that, with a Democratic run Senate, House and White House, the Obama administration still needs to scapegoat Jews and Rush to explain its own myriad inefficiencies. Except it’s not impressive at all. As a citizen of this great Republic, it’s merely depressing to see this rush to the bottom.
I’ll continue to scan the news and blogs today and promise to post if anything catches my eye, but I’m really not seeing an interesting, overarching pattern here — just a single straight line heading downwards.
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That’s how they win, Book.
Smothering us with endless layers of gray on gray on gray on gray.
There is no such thing as joy in Collectivism.
Well, here are a couple of random articles I found interesting. Completely unrelated…
http://westernrifleshooters.blogspot.com/2009/03/next-steps-last-call-wakey-wakey.html
http://benbittrolff.blogspot.com/2009/03/2008-financial-crisis.html
The second is a neat graphic. I keep reading the blog, hoping that eventually some of the fog that surrounds my brain concerning the economic situation will lift. They use the same words we all do, but somehow they don’t mean the same thing. Little words used in different context – and the context makes all the difference. This particular graphic illustrates another thing I don’t understand – it appears that GB is deeply affected by the crunch. At least, in the terms of “confidence in the banking system”… and there’s no US line…I wonder why not. And what does “confidence” mean in this context? Man on the street? professional economists? financial planners? Do Brits buy stocks at the same percentage of private ownership as the US does? In other words, are private savings in GB as affected as 401Ks are in the US?? Why aren’t the Chinese and Russians affected? Very little private ownership??? Why did someone graph this particular facet, and where did the “confidence” info come from? Oy veh!
Still, the graphic _does_ illustrate the problem with the subprime loans…
I’m with Mike, the grayness is overwhelming at times.
One of the finest allegories I’ve ever read is C.S. Lewis’s “The Great Divorce,” which tells about a man living in Hell who decides to take the weekly excusion bus to Heaven to see what it’s all about. Lewis’s description of Hell is much like the descriptions of the ramshackle, decaying neighborhoods in dreary Detroit and the “thank-God-for-Katrina-we’ll-get-pity-welfare-for-life” attitude of the citizens of New Orleans.
Both towns are run by vile, self-serving socialists, who live at the apex of a pyramid of misery. Yet they manage year after year to con the inhabitants of their towns into thinking that that permanent resentment and permanent childhood are the creators of wealth–or at least monthly assistance checks.
The goal, of course, is to turn the entire country into Detroit or New Orleans.
What is it about the left that despises beauty so? I’ll never figure it out.
Recently there were a few comments about how the economic downturn affects the quality of military recruits. I’d like to pass along this anecdote.
I was surprised to learn Sunday that one of my fellow worshipers has decided to join the Army. The fact that he has been unable to find a job to support his wife and daughter is a common story. The uncommon part is that this individual is 46 years old!
The Army has an age limit of 41, but it can be extended for prior service individuals. My friend had 7 years of Navy service a long time ago, but the Army will give him credit for that. He will be allowed to retain his prior rank (E-4), but the best part will be job security, medical coverage, and 7 years credit towards retirement.
What does the Army get out of this? They get a MATURE man who is responsible, trustworthy, and highly motivated to make the most of this opportunity. He is prepared to endure family separations and sacrifice. He has struggled to make it on the outside and owned his own business. He is not going to whine about the small stuff, get a DUI, or get arrested at a club on Friday night. He knows up front that he will be sent to Afghanistan or Iraq, and is prepared to endure it.
I can barely imagine enlisting at that age, and I am impressed by his courage. The Army is getting a BRAVE guy with a can-do attitude.
Wow! I agree with you about the virtue of time-tempered employees. When I was at law school, the strongest students, bar none, were the ones who had worked in other jobs, matured, and then returned to student life. (I was not one of those students.)
Should the opportunity arise, please pass my regards and thanks along to this man. He’s taking a brave, principled, and wise step to deal with challenging times.
Charles Martel, your depictions of Detroit and New Orleans ring true enough. Of course, a person looking for a vignette of the great socialist experiment would do well to research life in Moscow.
A fine and entertaining description of life in Moscow under the socialist model, as well as the post-socialist chaos, can be found in the mystery novels of Stuart Kaminsky; specifically those featuring Inspector Porfiry Rostniknov. After reading a couple of those I corresponded with Mr Kaminsky and asked if he had lived in Moscow or had relatives who had. He replied that (sic) “no, but he researched carefully and had been told by those who had first hand experience that he captured the essence of life in Moscow perfectly”.
There are more learned sources perhaps, but none more enjoyable.
One of the first things you do to enemy is to attempt to demoralize them. Demoralize them and make them unable to fight as effectively, because they will lack enthusiasm and be easily discouraged by your minor victories. This has the direct effect of nullifying future threats, since discouraged foes aren’t really motivated into thinking up ways to get in your way.
When Bush said “bring it on” and tried to lift the spirits of America in the oppression of war fatigue, what was the Left’s response? By now you should already know the Left’s response, even had you been comatose for the last 7 years.
Ymar #7
>> One of the first things you do to enemy is to attempt to demoralize them. Demoralize them and make them unable to fight as effectively, because they will lack enthusiasm and be easily discouraged by your minor victories.
I agree completely. That’s why I commented a few weeks back that I was glad to see that we commenters here were actually becoming genuinely ANGRY.
You’ve got to have passion to continue to fight the fight. Collectivism overwhelms you not with brutality and force (not usually at least), but first they trip you then they cover you with thin wet gray paper sheets. It doesn’t take long to wear you out under the layers of gray on gray on gray. Individually, any one such is meaningless. Layer after layer destroys you.
You have to have passion, you have to FIGHT them. I think we’re beginning to wake up and fight. We must be uncompromisingly cold-hearted against the collectivists when we get back the power, for as we’ve seen over the last six months, they’ve been uncompromising and swift in effecting their agenda against us.