Comments on: Why blogging seems a little stale, flat, and unprofitable of late

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:36:00 +0000

People understand one thing and one thing only: power.

Force them to kneel and they will. Otherwise, talking does nothing.

Only pure hatred or great love will motivate a people to resurrect the old virtues of courage and discipline.

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:29:28 +0000

Hurrah, CharlesM! You have raised my spirits, true patriot!

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:17:48 +0000

When it became obvious that the battle of Dunkirk was lost, British commanders sent a pre-arranged signal to London to indicate the looming disaster without spelling it out before prying eyes: “But if not.” Those three words were taken from the Bible story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who tell the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar that rather than bow to an idol, they will risk being thrown into a fiery furnace:

“If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it, and He will rescue us from your hand, O king. But even if He does not, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.”

We conservatives have arrived at our “but if not” moment. Right now we are disheartened, disorganized, and with our backs to the sea. But we would do well to remember England’s response to the disaster at Dunkirk: Thousands of humble fisherman and skippers launched themselves across the Channel to ferry their beaten soldier brothers home to safety.

In the same way, we have to begin organizing at the smaller local level to preserve our communities from the coming disaster. The federal leviathan is doomed—no matter how much power it ruthlessly gathers to itself, it is a government built on mendacity, coercion, and delusion. As JKB so wonderfully puts, the smallest thing, perhaps the mere beat of a butterfly’s wing, eventually will be enough to unravel it.

When that happens, we may be surprised to find that there has been an incipient federalism all along in the American DNA. Armed communities, including states, that know how to defend themselves against the chaos that will ensue as Obama attempts to impose martial law or goad his constituents into race riots and looting, will stand a good chance of surviving a collapse.

We are not Europeans, or Mexicans, or Arabs, people who are easily beaten into submission or cannot imagine how to live as free men. The old United States may have reached its Dunkirk, but I see thousands of small boats ready to come to the rescue and bear us away to fight another day on another turf.

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 09:05:05 +0000

Who-a, JKB…you want to talk about things snowballing: I live in Chicagoland, where we are on the verge of being shut down by another massive winter storm.
*$^Q*!*# that GW Bush and those Republicans! Will it never end?

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:58:17 +0000

Book, I think your blogging’s been just fine. If you’re disheartened, it’s because there’s much to be disheartened about. I always say, Obama is just the symptom; the real problems lie with the American people themselves. We’re not the people, nor the nation, that we used to be.

Maybe these are ‘The Mad Years’, and there are good times again just down the road. Or maybe we are in fact on the downward slide, with little to hope for for our later years and for the kids and grandkids. Is America going gently and quietly into that dark night, and what was once great about us is already consigned to the dustbin?

Hang in there and keep on blogging!

By: JKB

JKB — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 04:24:34 +0000

I was just thinking today how history will be unkind to Obama. Assuming there isn’t a war that pushes memories into the background like happened with FDR. Yes, that means we have to live through the Obamanation. But I just don’t think here and now people are wiling to assign blame to the first black president. We see it in the lack of Republicans in Congress willing to engage him Obama with a rational oppositional program.

However, some who supported him are finding it no longer palatable to keep quiet about the betrayal. Obama’s legacy might have faired better had he been a one-termer. Sure, we have to hunker down for the next 4 years and run a covert campaign to provide alternative views.

There is a lot of dejection flying about these days. Mike McDaniels over at PJMedia has a post about the crazy reaction to kids who think about guns. Sadly, he’s unwilling to name the problem. It isn’t a back room conspiracy but the Progs who run education know the drill. These kids have invoked the Devil and must be cast out for having less than revulsion to guns. Some see this as conditioning. It is in a way but I see within it dangers for the Progs. All kids don’t remain morons. They grow up, see the hypocrisy in their teachers. Or just rebel since guns will be the taboo to shock their Prog parents. Not to mention, the 24/7 inundation with guns as power and heroic by Hollywood.

The reason they attack anyone who dares reveal the truth is they know it can all collapse very quickly and over the smallest thing. I saw this yesterday over at Althouse. Tom Brokaw speaking about the Woodward threat kerfuffle:

The country doesn’t care about this. This is about an intramural fight in a high school cafeteria; it should be over now.

See, it should be over now. Not, of course, because they know these smallest things can snowball. I have a friend, who as a state investigator, had an investigation intersect with an FBI investigation that in the end perp walked a couple dozen state legislators. His part start with an investigation into the misuse of a county vehicle. A small, “intramural” thing that snowballed.