Wonderful stuff from all over the blogosphere
Bookworm on Nov 01 2009 at 6:15 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
Every blog listed on my blog roll is there because I genuinely like the contents of that blog. Time constraints and habit mean that I don’t visit those blogs as often as I should. Sometimes, though, I have a Sunday afternoon when I do get the chance. The following is a list of just some of the good things you can find if you visit the links on my blog roll. Not everything will interest you, but I urge you to scan through and take a peek at what does pique your interest:
Wuzzadem has an excellent post about the slippery slope that is today’s permissive parenting — and the political implications that go along with it.
Urgent Agenda has a nice reminder that Bush Derangement Syndrome is hardly universal. Indeed, I keep stumbling across news stories from abroad telling about foreign leaders who are getting remarkably nostalgic for the Cowboy Bush.
The Wide Awake Cafe has a post that is almost elegiac in its despair about Obama’s passive aggressive approach to Afghanistan, one that sees his refusal to make a decision as tantamount to a death degree for our troops.
From My Position . . . On The Way has no doubt but that Obama’s Dover visit was a cover for his Afghanistan stance or, more accurately, lack of stance. Confederate Yankee was equally disgusted.
If you’re thinking about the latest gadget, White Pebble has a useful decision-making flowchart.
Considering the Futurist’s solid track record, I have to admit to being very nervous when I read that there are two more major recessions headed our way.
The Hashmonean examines the gaping chasm that is opening between Israel and the Obama administration. We saw it coming. I wonder how many American Jewish voters will care.
Tigerhawk takes a long, eye-opening look at the Obama administration’s Nixonian secretiveness.
August, with the Tea Party fervor, was an exciting month. It’s hard, though, to keep up the same level of excitement, especially when (unlike the Left’s professional protesters) you have a real life. November, however, may prove to be a month every bit as important as August when it comes to calling Congress to account on the health care issue. Thought You’d Newer Ask has a good list of things you can do.
The BlackSphere pulls no punches: Democrats hate blacks. I’m not sure if the condescension liberals visit on blacks amounts to hatred, but there is no doubt that the demeaning way in which American blacks are treated leaves them open to every sort of victimization possible at government hands.
Freedom’s Cost notes, not only that the Republicans do have a health care plan, but that some in the media are waking up to its existence.
Soccer Dad caught the fact that Muslims boast that they provided the genesis for the misbegotten Goldstone report. That can’t be a good thing, can it? (And yes, I’m being naively sarcastic there.)
I’m not sure whether UN standards get lower, or just get weirder. Check this out and you decide.
OceanGuy looks at what’s at stake in the health care debate, and laments the passing of the liberal democrat.
Kim Jong-Il is, without doubt, one of the most evil human beings alive. Or is he alive?
Two posts at Seraphic Secret deserve your attention. The first has an important point about hate crimes in the context of the Los Angeles synagogue shooting. The second is just a great series of pictures of shoes I would never wear.
A rather frustrated Ymarsakar tries to get people to accept that facts are facts, regardless of the conclusions we ultimately draw from those facts.
PalmTree Pundit points out one of the major problems with American journalists today — unlike journalists of the past (or maybe just of 1940s Hollywood movies), today’s journalists lack any curiosity. They regurgitate press releases, with the biggest headlines given to those press releases that most accurately reflect the journalists’ own liberal world view.
And as a nice follow-up to PalmTree Pundit’s point, Overlawyered provides a perfect example of the media’s gross complacency.
“Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect.” Neptunus Lex, sadly, reminds us of the truth behind that quotation from Captain A. G. Lamplugh. It’s not always the battle that’s the danger.
Road to the Middle Class examines the necessary war being fought out in the public square over health care and America’s self-definition.
It didn’t make the front pages, but Marooned in Marin still caught it: a Corzine staffer got caught with drugs in a school zone. Whoops! The question is whether New Jersians care.
On November 2, the USS New York is scheduled to give a 21 gun salute to the 9/11 victims. And One Marine’s View gives a nice historical overview of that tradition.
In my polite facebook battles with liberals who see salvation in ObamaCare, I often ask that they explain why the Democrats don’t fix the breaks in our current system, rather than breaking it entirely. None answer. Neo-Neocon explains why.
Much as the Left wants to paint ScuzzyFuzzy’s ouster as a sign that the rightest lunatics have taken over the asylum, Gay Patriot makes it clear that the facts on the ground contradict that simplistic, ugly argument.
Voters are often very frustrated that their candidate of choice, once in power, proves ineffective at carrying out his promises. Obama is a classic example, since he managed to lie to everyone. He told ordinary Americans he was middle of the road, and offends them by his Leftism; but his fan base knew he was hard left, and he now offends them by being something less than a Marxist. Pro Commerce may have a handle on part of the problem.
I take dogs very seriously. My children know I’m not kidding when I say that I like our dog best, because she never fights with me and always listens. (Well, sort of not kidding.) Anyway, Flopping Aces has another dog story and you can help.
My American Thinker article today was about America’s essence, which is freedom. I believe, strongly, that Barack Obama, by instinct and upbringing, is hostile to freedom. David Horowitz talks about the coming totalitarianism and the newspeak that casts this oppressive world view as “freedom.”
I’ve long railed against the arts and crafts approach to education, which sees the school turning everything into a demand that the children make a drawing. They don’t teach art. They don’t teach analytical thinking. They don’t care if drawing has a logical relationship to the subject matter being taught. They just want you to draw. As CDR Salamander pointed out, One Massachusetts school took this trend to its obvious conclusion.
A post that I can only classify as a black conservative manifesto, over at Black and Right.
Check out this photo and the accompanying essay at American Digest. I won’t tell you anything about it, because that would spoil it. Just check it out.
And th-th-th-that’s all, folks!
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[...] always-delightful conservative blogger Bookworm linked to David Horowitz’s recent post about leftist totalitarians and commented on its relation to her [...]
I would note that the topic of the meat of my post is directed towards Richard Johnston, who some may remember here as being a lawyer representing clients that have had their medical insurance not covered due to ERISA federal regulation loopholes and semi-monopoly economics.
He wants more government regulation as a solution. He gives Obama the benefit of the doubt, still. And he believes that we are wrong in saying the Left is full of narcissists, either because the liberals he knows aren’t narcissists, because he doesn’t feel comfortable psychoanalyzing people he hasn’t met, or because he continues to give them the benefit of the doubt that they think and act just like he thinks and acts.
Now this would categorically place him in Neo’s subject matter as a liberal that cares, but at the same time still feels they owe loyalty to the party or at least certain ideas from the party. This provides context for the internal debate at Neo’s site concerning whether liberals have ‘good intentions’, or whether they, like fake liberals, have evil intentions, or whether the consequences of our actions are exactly the same as the intent of our actions.
I’m not the best judge of character, but I do tend to notice what others miss. It didn’t take me long to read the background on Johnston’s links, provided here, to differentiate what his views were from what his views looked like. For his views looked like a cookie cutter big government fake liberal’s, in point of fact. Fake liberals don’t care about others; they only care about themselves. If Johnston was such a person, he would have sacrificed his client’s best interests for his own personal political view of what is or is isn’t valid. He would not have admitted any truth concerning unions, republicans being blocked by dems in congress on ERISA, or any such thing.
Those at Neo-Neocon go through the same process, although with more distortion given that it isn’t isolated between two people. And presumably they also don’t look up Johnston’s comments and links to analyze his personality and actions.
This relates directly to Obama and the Left. I say it is valid for conservatives to accurately catalog the Left as narcissists both because of general trends we see, specific individuals in public, but more importantly, specific individuals we have known personally and seen their narcissistic track record. Johnston and many of the Democrat party or moderate center, believe differently. They believe their friends and social group can’t be like that. That it is an extreme attempt at polarization, exactly the same as Bush hatred.
As I said at my blog, what matters isn’t what it ‘looks’ like to you. What matters is whether it is true; what matters is whether the hatred is justified, consistent, or integral.
People seem to think civility is a goal in itself. It is only ever a means to an end. It is a tool people use to allow others to live their lives in a public and private space. Civility allows society to progress without the dog eat dog or crab pulling high achieving crabs back in the bucket, class warfare that we have seen so far.
As a tool, it does not invalidate truth or virtues.
Either all those narcissists we saw in real life are narcissists or they are ‘misunderstood’ Democrats that ‘really really’ care. As evidenced by Bookworm and Neo’s personal experiences, valued and wise judgment utilizing reason over emotion, we all know what the answer to that is.
The evidence does not favor the Democrat’s attempt to claim innocence on this matter. No advocate, including Johnston, can make a claim that all liberals are reasonable and honest like him, without the evidence to back it up. Or without proof that our claims are erroneous. The evidence is on our side. This is not a court of law or psychological session, thankfully, so all that matters is whether we can change reality, not change people’s perception of reality.
So far, Democrats, of whatever stripe or ideological devotion, have proven incapable of controlling their own. Conservatives have been much better at controlling the behavior of fringe groups, advocates for violence, or any other such similar phenomenon.
The evidence is not in their favor. And they can either circle the wagons with the tribal instinct of ‘defend the territory and the victim-slaves’ or they can open up and start reforms. They either do it or we’ll try to do it for them. Theoretically, I hypothesis that they would rather do it to themselves rather than have us do it for them. In terms of brainwashing and behavioral control, of course. I mention nothing about taxes or ‘health care’.
For me to question as invalid my ability to judge people that I know, the actions that I know they have taken, as either good or evil, would mean that I could no longer judge Bookworm’s character. That I also could not determine or claim that Johnston is an honest advocate of his client’s interests, who doesn’t obey PC or political loyalty over the welfare of individuals. That, after all, is what multicultural ‘judgment’ was supposed to create: the doubt that we can know reality for what it is, not just simply what we would like it to be. And I do not accept the validity of that philosophy.
It is not the ability that is invalid. We all have ability. What can be wrong is our individual character assessments. But that is easily proven or disproven. Take Obama, for example. Take Ayers. I don’t know those two personally, but do I need to given their public record of actions? They can’t cover up their actions or the consequences of it in a nation devoted to freedom of information and distributed network of data sources.
The Left may claim that the majority of psychologists are Democrat, not conservative, as a defense. For these psychologists tend to produce ‘studies’ concerning how conservatives are naturally bigoted, intellectually stunted, xenophobic, and so forth. They propose that they used ‘scientific principles’. Of course, that’s not true. Their experiments are hopelessly biased. But the Left will try to claim that what we do, when we call them narcissists, is the same as what the Leftist psychologists do when they talk about conservative delusions. Tu quoque quid pro quo or some such.
But it isn’t true. We should pay no concern to it. They can’t prove that their accusations are even consistent, let alone true, while we can with our own arguments. Of course, proof by itself requires a mutually shared objectivity reality, so while we may prove it in the realm of logic, we cannot prove it to the rather delusional and in denial Leftists. Take any subject of American history, including Iraq, and the Left will take a 180 degree position in terms of ‘facts’ and especially philosophy. And that will change depending on where you are at policy wise, thus creating a tidally locked system where they are always 180 degrees away. Now that may seem reasonable to people, but it doesn’t to me.
As Book once wrote, have the Left ever heard themselves talk? We certainly have. If they think their mishmash of incomplete and inconsistent arguments are ‘logical’, then they should go audition for a Vulcan role in Star Trek.
On a greater strategic front, many people voted for Obama precisely because they thought as Richard Johnston stated before. They don’t realize the problems of the Democrat party. They think they should fix ‘America’s problem first. But America’s problems started inside the Democrat party, so… It is just a fundamentally different world view with all Leftists and most Democrats, even the self-proclaimed moderates, such as “Ozzie” that was once here.
Until Americans realize what the Democrat party has been doing, the truth of all the lies, how can they make an informed decision on politics? They can’t. Thus, Obama. That’s the point of the entire decades long March Through Institutions. People, now, no longer have the tools to judge what is or is not real, what is or is not true, what is or is not a ‘fact’.
And in case my position on this is not yet clear, I think that propaganda victory is far more potent a weapon than the entire US nuclear ballistic submarine fleet.
The BlackSphere pulls no punches: Democrats hate blacks. I’m not sure if the condescension liberals visit on blacks amounts to hatred
Dems hate freedom. The Demoncrats hate freedom because freedom is a threat to their bank accounts and personal lives and families. Their families wouldn’t be as comfortable or successful in a world that let everybody get a ‘leg’ up. Instead, they act as the Kennedy clan does: suppressing the lives and opportunities of others in the hopes that only the ‘elite’ will maintain absolute power over the have nots, for their own good as course.
Blacks are not a danger to Dems, existential or not. So how can Dems hate blacks? Dems don’t hate blacks. Dems feel contempt for blacks. Dems need somebody to look down upon, because this nation of ours doesn’t allow slavery. So because that is illegal, the Dems have to maintain their cultural heritage of bondage utilizing other means. And those means naturally enforce the concept that there are superior and inferior races. Some animals are more equal than others, as the case may be.
No true liberal could accept that reality and still call themselves a Democrat. That line, cannot be crossed by a classical liberal. But it can be by a fake liberal.
Nothing the Blacksphere wrote there is untrue. But it is not because of hatred that the Dems do so. It is just because the Dems don’t think you black people are good for anything but grease for their election wheels.
We stomp on a bug, not because we hate the bug, but because the bug isn’t good for anything except killing, and then we can benefit from the bug being dead.
See how that works.
Violence was not eliminated in Iraq, but it was all but eliminated from neighborhoods that had domestic and local enforcement of laws and security.
If even 50% of that could be applied to black neighborhoods, you could start drawing away blacks from their Taliban/AQ masters. You can start de-brainwashing them of their Stockholm Syndrome.
With the addition of Target Focus Training, you wouldn’t even need ‘government security’ or ‘firearms’ (blacks hate and love firearms, due to Democrat and gangster propaganda).
Btw, when a Republican gets on Fox news and starts talking like those black conservative bloggers you linked to, then I’ll admit that Republicans have a spine. Then, not before.