Your brilliant thought for the day
Bookworm on Jun 18 2011 at 7:00 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
My post title is a lie. Last night, just before falling asleep, I had a brilliant thought. You know the kind — it was one of those insights that completely sums up our political scene in a single sentence. This morning, I don’t have a thought in my head, plus I have a sneaking suspicion that last night’s epiphany was an insubstantial, illusory waking dream.
There are no deep insights to be had. Our political scene is as we see it: a president who appears committed to America’s dismantling; a feckless Congress; a solid, but unexciting Republican field; a disastrous economy; and a rising tide of sharia that our “betters” refuse to acknowledge. If there are any insights to be had from this, they elude me.
I’m off for the morning for the suburban ritual of a swim meet. Everything will be very normal (albeit cold, very cold). People will be focused on their kids and their friends. I wonder, though, how many will have a little niggling feeling of unease in the back of their minds, a sense that God might be dismayed in his Heaven and all might not be right with the world. I know that I carry that sense with me all the time.
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a survey in civics literacy given in 2008 about the survey http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/2008/additional_finding.html the quiz http://www.isi.org/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3B47-9675-41E0-9CF3-072BB31E2692
the results, the election of 2008 and bookworm’s words
I wonder, though, how many will have a little niggling feeling of unease in the back of their minds, a sense that God might be dismayed in his Heaven and all might not be right with the world. I know that I carry that sense with me all the time.
I think many of us have that “niggling feeling of unease.” I see it as a foretaste of the gloom and depression which afflicted those unfortunate enough to live in the Soviet Union under Communism. A pervasive sense of hopelessness and powerlessness is the universal hallmark of life under Socialism/Communism.
I believe the election of 2012 will be a watershed moment for America. Will we continue our slide into the gloom and depression of Socialism, or will we turn it around and be proud to e Americans once again?
Yes that “niggling feeling” is usually in the back of my mind. The only time it’s not is when it is first and foremost on my mind which is all too frequent lately. For the life of me I can’t understand why a large segment of the US population thinks Sarah Palin is evil and Barack Obama is wonderful. Yes, I understand media spin and such. Yes, I also understand for generations now the progressives have been plying the “Overton Window”. Yes, I also understand that Obama and his ilk are disingenuous but I don’t understand why this is so obvious to me and not to everyone. I know very smart people who think the Constitution should be “tweaked” because it doesn’t apply to modern day times. What about limited government and obeying God’s laws needs to be updated?
Damn now I have to go swing at some golf balls to put that niggling feeling back to the back of my mind.
What concerns me is that I, too, have a feeling that there will be a reckoning for the rot of decadence that has been allowed to develop within.
What comforts me is that, as a country, we have been in far worse shape and survived. We have been challenged and it made us stronger.
bizcor,
I just got back from the driving range and felt much better. Now that niggling feeling is back though it has not been in the back of my head but foremost. If you read Mish’s blog (Mike Shedlock) daily you can see that there is a huge crisis in Euroland coming to a head and it will surely impact us. If you read his blogs on the true condition of China and the Chinese economy you can see where the second shoe will fall. I have seen none to little mention of this in the media for the masses. My golf swing is improving however.
I work in agriculture and pay a lot of attention to weather and climate. It is shaping up to be a disastrous year for many crops and may be for sometime to come. We are ill prepared to deal with the problems of food production, and if this is the case then the rest of the world is in much worse shape. Americans are totally disconnected from the land, and therefore from their true heritage.
It’ll be like Mad Max all over again.
The shooting range is every bit as therapeutic, and much more useful. A yeoman is a yew man, and bows were made of yew. Armed people are citizens. Disarmed people are subjects.
Many of us still know how to work our tails off. We need to be dangerous, as well.
People get inspiration at certain times of the day, including just before night. This was often the creative, artistic, time of our ancestors. So if you forget, it’s because the inspiration is in your subconsciousness and fades away just like dreams.
Bizcor, the primary reason why deception works is because the people being fooled wants to be fooled. They are active participants in the deception. They maintain the system. Thus it isn’t unusual to see a high percentage of coverage. Humans are very good at not seeing things they don’t want to see.
If you get any more epiphanies at night, Book, make sure you write them down first before going to bed.
http://dandjurdjevic.blogspot.com/search/label/appeasement
Here are my recommended reading for today.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/dncrime/Cops-Victim-sends-attempted-rapist-to-hospital.html
Stanley I will check out Mish’s blog. thanks for the tip. With the fires and flooding we have had this year I have no doubt the food supply is going to be affected. Ethanol production is also a factor. I live in rural New Hampshire and know how to grow food if I have to. I can also hunt, fish, and forage. People in the cities will suffer and it will probably cause riots. I pray the alarms will sound in people’s heads but it is difficult to be optimistic as so many people just don’t want to be bothered with it. They are in denial.
Ymarsakar I have had the Mad Max thought too. While driving a few gold balls this afternoon it came to me the quote I believe from Lenin. “Never overestimate the intelligence of the great unwashed.” That is the way I heard it years ago. It may be a quote from Marx and it maybe I have misquoted but yes I agree that they must want to be fooled. That is little solace for me who will be dragged down with them.
Oh good a commercial for a G.E. Mercury light bulb. When I was a kid we were trying to get away from mercury. Now we are promoting it because it is better than gasoline.
What comforts me is that, as a country, we have been in far worse shape and survived. We have been challenged and it made us stronger.
even after reading the results of the civics literacy quiz?
wish i could be as optimistic as you.
*in 1929, bankers jumped from buildings, today they get jobs with the federal government.
*if they screw up (literally) like elliot spitzer, they get their own show.
*want to buy a used car at a decent price – good luck. the feds paid to have them ‘clunked for cash’ – the reward … a volt no one wants and can afford.
* the arab spring feels more like a nor’easter to me in mid-winter.
There is an artist that I have followed for at least 30 years – Tonio K
He said it very well:
darlin’, it’s a hard life if you’re lucky
ah, but it’s a short life if you’re not
the sheriff and the terrorist are both hungry
you spend all your time tryin’ not to get caught (in the crossfire)
it ain’t no joke
and it ain’t no lie
gangsters tell you what to think
what are you, the missing link?
wise up, welcome to the new dark ages
gangsters hangin’ round of every description
gangsters write your books and sing your songs
gangsters grin out of the television
gangsters on the couch and on the lawn
gangsters of love
gangsters in the government
they have told us what to think
what am i, the missing link?
wise up, welcome to the new dark ages
you can face it now, or face it later
you will have to face it either way
you should hate them with a perfect hatred
take that long night’s journey into day
it isn’t up to me
it isn’t up to you (we don’t make the rules)
false is false and true is true
only one thing we can do
shine the light into the new dark ages
Back in the day, it didn’t matter what people knew or didn’t know, since the landowners, citizens that had a stake in the system, were the ones with the power to right. Nobody else.
Now that everyone has a vote, yet only a few people have a stake in the system, you see an imbalance where lack of knowledge or over abundance vulnerability to propaganda, has changed the political landscape.
Democracy plants the seed of its own destruction. As it grows more and more inclusive, it begins to manifest the danger signs of suicide from within. Because the more inclusive you become, eventually you’re not just going to “include” the normal productive person, but also the abnormal, sociopathic, power mad mongers of the world. And if they should happen to gain power, you won’t be able to get rid of them easily.
I used to live in the Bay Area back in the 70s. It takes serious cajones to be a swim mom there
Bizcor…”When I was a kid we were trying to get away from mercury. Now we are promoting it because it is better than gasoline”
These bulbs don’t really save gasoline, or oil in any other form, at least not directly. Very little oil is used for electricity production in the U.S.
It’s a way for Al Gore approved Green companies to make more cash. And for those who invested in Gore’s green investment mutual funds to make even more cash. All because they had the political pull to generate laws forcing their competitors out of the market.
That is A through Z’s idea of a “mixed” economy.
“These bulbs don’t really save…”
But that’s not the purpose. It’s obvious to everyone but the greenies that we can’t replace current electrical production with the narrow range of choices given us by these anti-progressives. So we’re all going to have to learn to just use less electricity.
the smart grid will be the culmination of their plan. By interfacing our homes with the electric supplier, they’ll be able to cut our demand to meet their available production. At one level this actually makes sense. The electrical supplier will turn off automatically turn off appliances such as refrigerators, freezers and such. You won’t even notice that.
From there they will dictate when certain appliances can be used to even out the demand, possibly turning down your thermostat (that’s why your better have a super insulated home). This has created a new problem– stagnant air. Current code requires air exchangers to add fresh air to your home– which of course defeats the purpose of super insulation. Air to air heat exchangers help, since it passes cold fresh air through warm air radiators to capture some of the heat being exhausted.
Bottom line. Everyone better get used to the idea of using less electricity. The fact that it doesn’t use less oil is irrelevant. It uses less coal.
To a certain extent remembering to turn out lights, turn down thermostats, be aware of the benefits of conservation is a good thing regardless of the motivation.
I think I read the energy secretary indicating that we’ll use this new expanded and interconnected grid to store excess production. Has anyone calculated the cost of such an infrastructure? The idea that the wind is always blowing somewhere makes a dandy slogan, but is that sufficient to keep us with demand? Sure if they have the ability to just reduce demand.
Bottom line. Everyone better get used to the idea of using less electricity. The fact that it doesn’t use less oil is irrelevant. It uses less coal.
To a certain extent remembering to turn out lights, turn down thermostats, be aware of the benefits of conservation is a good thing regardless of the motivation.
Obama, Gore, and the Senate class of American aristocracy, doesn’t do any of that.
The idea that the wind is always blowing somewhere makes a dandy slogan, but is that sufficient to keep us with demand?
It will when the only people allowed to use the excess production are Marin Democrats and allies of the Left.
Texas has just passed a law that permits lightbulbs to be manufactured in Texas to sold in Texas only.
Suppose each state does that (I think it was Montana that has legislated that guns manufactured in Montana and sold in Montana do not need to pass the federal requirements). It goes around the interstate commerce act, but at the same time, it’s explicitly the reason _for_ the interstate commerce. So the intent of making ease of commerce a federal issue has now been negated by the need to curb the federal desire to regulate all things.
The Tenth Amendment may – in the end – rule!
We can always hope anyway!
We dodged a bullet!
We avoided a pole shift as the Comet Elenin aligned with the sun on its approach. Maybe any amateur astronomers can fill us in. It appears it will be 22 million miles at it closest point.
Does it have sufficient mass to affect earth– such as claims of increased weather incidents?
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2011/03/12/comet-elenin-update/
Very long article. Definitely a “food for thought” article…so many pros and cons, but definitely a lot to consider. Both on a micro and macro scale…
http://www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/last-statement-sent-to-sentinel-from-self-immolation-victim/sentinelsource.com/news/local/last-statement-sent-to-sentinel-from-self-immolation-victim/article_cd181c8e-983b-11e0-a559-001cc4c03286.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQQ2vjYL-vM&feature=player_embedded
This is a fun test to see what you are seeing and hearing vs reality.
Try it out and then remember how easy it was to fool people with “Change we can believe in”. A through Z here is still fooled.
Suek, the Left has had their hand in several policies that are destroying America. It didn’t start this century or even the end of the last century. And what we know right now is only a thin fraction of all of the Left’s crimes against humanity.
Btw, DQ mentioned mother’s day in a previous post. There’s a reason why he didn’t say Father’s day. It’s harder to envision the Left turning Mother’s day into a social crusade like GLBT pride movement. Easier to see with Father’s day, given the man hate of feminists (which curiously includes hatred of Sarah Palin along the way).
And it is solely because of social consciousness and perception, what I would call false consciousness. People have a false conception of cultural values and believe it would be unimaginable for the Left to turn something like Mother’s Day into a counter-cultural Gay Lesbian pride movement and worship service. So when NASA devotes resources to promoting Mother’s Day, we’re not supposed to feel particularly out of it. And for most people, they wouldn’t feel out of it. Because they never ask the question, “why is NASA putting so many resources into Mother’s Day”. And because they don’t ask the question, they never figure out the con.
Re:Ymarsakar #27:
Of course the man-haters hate Sarah. She’s manlier than most “men” in either big party.
Michael, thanks for putting your finger on something that has always eluded me. I know that “feminists” despise Palin because she is a far better and more powerful woman than they could ever be—imagine having checked off almost every item on the list of things that technically make you a feminist (exccept for abortion, Ivy certification, sexual libertinism, and hatred for one’s country) without subscribing to single Official Feminist Tenet!
But your comment now makes me realize that another big reason why they resent that Palin is that she is a better man than the demasculinized creeps they wind up marrying or shacking up with. And the men who are married/attached to feminist harpies know it, too, so they despise Sarah for so easily being the man they can never hope to be.
Stinks to be a leftist, no?
I wouldn’t call this a brilliant thought of mine but it seems a bit poetic even for me.
In reply to Suek’s sentinel link: The world doesn’t end so easily, contrary to public perception. If people keep pushing that cart, though, it’s just going to fall off the cliff sooner. Sooner or later… it will fall off.
For those that wish to prevent civil strife, they must solve the problems achieving critical mass. Simply empty words and assurances, can no longer sway the American people. Unless you have Obama’s propaganda arms and SEIU/Justice Dep./Black Panthers to enforce it, at least. America is large and diverse, thus it’s hard to reach critical mass everywhere at once. Places like Detroit and Chicago and New Orleans may be ready for a revolt or race riot a couple of times to let off their accumulated steam, but it petters off like WACO sooner or later. Whatever injustice or human horror was done, people eventually forget and pay it no mind. It’s not enough to start a chain reaction. Because most people still have too much to lose, to risk it all in high risk behavior.
But keep letting the Left push that cart of theirs and the results are predictable, not a matter of if but a matter of when. The US is no more invulnerable than any other country in the world and in the history of the world. Whatever special dispensation, grace, or providence God has provided to early America, people have sought to erase and replace it with cheap grace. A fall from grace replaced by cheap grace, is that an insurance deal or what. If you corner Americans and leave them with no fantasy or life to escape to, how can they not think of the horrors being done in this nation? Most people are perfectly good at self-deception, denial, and paying no mind to troubles others suffer (WACO or Sarah Palin or the victims of ObamaCare). But that’s only because they are allowed to flee into their fantasies and sub-urban utopias. Only because.
http://noisyroom.net/blog/2011/06/12/an-american-descent-into-hell/
Above Silence. The Illuminating storms. Dying. Storm’s Illumination. The Silence Above.
Above silence, the illuminating storms. Dying, storms illuminate the silence above.
In reverse, the same. 5 element theory repeated in a cycle from front to back, back to front. Earth, wind, water, fire, and the heavens.
Endless cycles repeating, that is the true graph of human behavior. Not even the Left has to power to change that. Apathy, the soul of brevity. That was never the sin of the Left or of the author’s long words to the Sentinel.
I remember a quote on life and death.
To be honest I do not think whether they live or die is the matter at hand. Life is not always better than death. It is not that simple. Living and being made to live are very different things. What matters is what the person chooses of their own free will. Whether or not it can be achieved or how difficult it is.
I want you to think about this: imagine if what matters most to you was taken away against your will. If that is indeed worth less than your life
The Chinese 5 element theory cycle would be fire, water, earth, metal, wood.
Generating
Wood feeds fire;
Fire creates earth (ash);
Earth bears metal;
Metal collects water;
Water nourishes wood.
Overcoming
Wood parts earth;
Earth absorbs water;
Water quenches fire;
Fire melts metal;
Metal chops wood.
Judging by their absence from this thread, it would appear that our resident trolls would not admit to have any brilliant thoughts. When one throws up one hands in frustration from “dialogue” with them, the description of “troll” is accurate. Dealing with trolls is good for honing one’s rhetorical skills, but that is all.
Charles “Hammering since 732″ Martel gave a good operational definition of troll.
I recent discovered that Charles Martel is not the only one with the Hammer surname. Judas Maccabeus means “Judah the Hammer.” Also acclaimed as a great warrior.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_Maccabeus
Too many people are using brute force hammers and not enough are using H2H precision and sword slicing, in my view. My in admittedly all too old fashioned view.
ymarsakar
critical mass … there’s a phrase that fuels thought. i wonder what it would take to gather the diverse population to boiling point.
high fuel prices – people drive less.
high food prices – change in eating habits.
high electricity bills – lower or raise the thermostat.
baby boomer generation – gone in another 30 years and less for those born before 1950.
two generations plus already indoctrinated and clueless (i refer to the quiz, again, on civics).
maybe, the progressives realize all of this and don’t fear a boiling point – they’ll just ride it out, time is on their side. take a good look at our own children – do they have the same passion as their parents. a good many (majority) are two income families, not by choice but by necessity.
After posting that link, I fully expected one of them to show up with the usual tripe. The situation is one that cries out for legislation, but the questions arise whether the cure is worse than the disease, whether utopia is possible and whether unintended consequences are indeed unintended.
I am an original supporter and believer in Andrew Breitbart and Sarah Palin. They said who they were and I believed them when they said it. That was before and after Palin’s two ambush interviews with two bloated bakas. My experience and ability to recognize propaganda allowed me to set aside a leap to judgment just long enough to detect the propaganda con job they did on her and on us. It wasn’t that hard to see, after you saw what kind of edits they did and the context of a couple of Palin’s comments.
It wasn’t hard FOR ME TO SEE, but obviously most Americans are less competent than me here. That’s probably cause most Americans believe whatever they are told to believe. They’re like peasants or superstitious villagers almost. And they said the Iraqis were bad.
I never wavered in my belief for a second. That’s because those beliefs were my own decision, and not somebody’s AUTHORITY that decided it for me. I don’t allow “authorities” to tell me what to think or believe. But many Americans LOVE doing that. They just love it. They eat it up. They swallow it up faster than Gore’s private jet swallows up fuel.
A through Z are on golf break. Take this as a leisure vacation away from the hellish fires of Utopia land and Leftist criminal syndicates advertising for their Man here.
Don’t worry, when they get back from doing whatever it is they do, you’ll be glad they weren’t around for as long as they were.
Obama being on vacation applies the same. If you think it’s bad for him to entertain himself all the time, wait until you see what he does to you and your family when he gets a rod up his arse and does something in office.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/11/090511fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all
It’s good stuff
What did people think about the issue being decided between which would win, perseverance in the face of adversity or natural genius?
add this to my short list in post 12
there are simply no consequences for behaving badly anymore.
“note that a man high fives the woman after she’s stolen the foul ball right out of the little girl’s hands”
http://wizbangblog.com/content/2011/06/19/my-guess-is-shes-an-obama-supporter.php
Isn’t this the same Houston that some other bad behavior was reported at for handicapped individuals?