Crisis? What crisis.
I didn’t know that.
Apparently the so-reported loss of Summer sea ice hasn’t bothered them at all.
As their population has increased by 27% since 2005.
Obviously know one has told them of the danger their in.
Silly bears.
Of course that’s not what they think.
From the blog Bombthrowers.
By Oleg Atabashian.
Science in service of the state or in this case in service to the opposition and a bankrupt ideology.
One of these unparalleled Soviet achievements is the use of psychiatry to silence dissent and delegitimize political opposition, allowing the KGB to lock up dissidents in mental hospitals nicknamed psikhushkas.
In the United States today hundreds of zealous progressive psychiatrists are similarly diagnosing Donald Trump “in absentia” with a variety of incapacitating diseases, from narcissism to neurosyphilis, demanding that he be deposed (and hopefully locked up in a psikhushka along with his supporters).
Please read the entire article
We had a narcissist in the White House for the past eight years. But apparently that was all OK.
Via the American Thinker
The Biblical Story of Esther and the Immoral Society
By Avrohom Gordimer
A quote in the article by Rabbi Soloveitchik
The hedonic society is, more or less, a democratic Western society, in pursuit of pleasure and happiness. That society’s world philosophy and outlook can be broken into a number of component parts. This democratic society is in pursuit of pleasure, insists on minimum government interference in private life, resents controls, demands unrestricted freedom in matters which do not affect the community, particularly, matters of sexual morality, hates discipline imposed from above, not even by teachers, is opposed to any constriction…
There is also another society. There is another path which human beings take in order to escape from the finiteness awareness and in order to engage in self-defeat, not only in an allusion but simply in a delusion. The second path, along which frightened man runs in his wild flight from finiteness and death, leads in the opposite direction… Man, traveling along the second path, tries to calm the fear of finiteness through a big lie, through convincing himself that he is more than man. This is done by intentionally magnifying, a hundred-fold, and exaggerating and lying about human ability and power to solve both scientific and metaphysical problems of humanity, and by painting, in iridescent colors, the eschatological age which should be brought about by man alone, through his wisdom and creative efforts
A society that lacks a divine moral code cannot endure. The empty, meaningless void that is created by pliable and disposable communal norms gives entry to totalitarianism, be it Marxism, communism or fascism.
The whole article is worth a read. Have a wonderful Sunday morning.
I remember a time not that long ago. I was a young man in the Coast Guard. Having the time of my life. It was the early seventies. We had already landed on the Moon, and by the end of the century we would have a permanent base and be headed for Mars. The Vietnam debacle was winding down. Nixon had gone to China. The majority of Democrats still loved their country but their leftward movements were becoming more apparent. I wasn’t sure what the future would hold for me but I was optimistic. I was going to fly like an eagle.
The twenties teens seemed so far away. But time keeps on slipping into the future.
Now they’re here. And I’m getting close to applying for Social Security.
Social Security was the brainchild of the Roosevelt administration. The same one that made the depression of the thirties “great”. It was supposed to be only a “supplement” to your retirement. The Government would take money from your paycheck all your working life and when you “retired” at age 65 you would be able to get a portion of it back to “supplement” the retirement income you wisely prepared through stocks, bonds, and annuities. Of course some people don’t save for retirement, some situations in life can be beyond ones control and it can be tough if you are unable to hold a paying job. Others can and do save for retirement through company 401K’s
Of course when you mix “government” and “economy” in the same sentence bad things can and do happen. Like 2008 when many retirement portfolios were wiped out.
Then Social Security becomes VERY important.
Of course we’ve known for a long time that Social Security was and is a Ponzi scheme. Way back then the life expectancy of an American male in 1935 was 60, It was a good bet that he would never live to see his first S.S. check. Now you have people living into their nineties who have been collecting for nearly three decades. But this is not a bad thing. The bad thing is how the government squanders the money it has, such as handing out money to people who have never put in to the system. People with no S.S. number, ILLEGAL ALIENS!
From the Washington Free Beacon
One billion dollars!
…Government benefits are also going to illegal aliens through the representative payee system. 17 percent of representative payees in the sample did not have an SSN recorded because they were undocumented noncitizens, the inspector general said.
Illegal aliens without SSNs are allowed to receive benefits from the government when acting as representatives for their minor children…
Read it all.
In the morning of your life you didn’t think about such things. It’s late afternoon, I think about it a lot. What once seemed far away…
When they hate you, they really, really hate you.
From Townhall
The Democrat Party, its Media serfs, and Social Justice Incorporated are all outraged because we uppity normals are again presuming to rule ourselves, and their agony is delightful. Less delightful is how, in the process of trying to claw their way back into power, they are incinerating the norms and rules that preserve our political order. That stuff Hillary babbled about honoring the legitimacy of elections? Yeah, no. There’s an invisible asterisk only liberals can see that explains that the norms and rules are void when liberals lose
Read the entire article.
And it’s the left and Hollywood who practice it.
Also known as “doublespeak”.
An article from the American Spectator.
But the issue with Irving is the same as it always is with far leftists. They engage in what Orwell called “doublespeak” — and in this case the goal is to disguise the fact that the “Fascists”— here the likes of Irving — have the whip hand. In this case, in Hollywood. Irving clearly gives no fig about dissent — if it is left-wing orthodoxy that is being dissented from. Like the gay Chadwick Moore or the black Clarence Thomas or the female Sarah Palin or the Hispanic Mexican/American Bush 43 Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the moment one dissents from liberal orthodoxy then one is toast. You can be gay, black, a woman, Hispanic — if you have left the liberal plantation you will be trashed. And plantation managers like John Irving are there to make sure you obey the ole massa.
Read the whole thing.
From the American Thinker
Their use of inflammatory adjectives (racist, bigot, sexist, homophobe, Islamophobe, Nazi, fascist, etc.) to describe their opponents is nothing but an attempt to shut down debate (reason).
The left have made holding a viewpoint not consistent with their own progressive dogma tantamount to murder.
Under this environment, finding common ground will be difficult, if not impossible. How can common ground be found, when one party (conservatives) are unable to use reason to make their case?
Make no mistake: what the left fears most is not that conservative ideas will fail, but that they’ll succeed. They can’t abide the thought that liberty and self-determination might supplant the nanny state and centralized control.
Read it all.
This little snippet takes place in a Gulag labor camp called Ekibastuz located in Kazakstan. It’s the year 1953 and hunger strikes have started in protest of the conditions men were forced to endure. If men refuse to eat then he’s not obligated to work. This would led to violent reprisals. Finally a commission of enquiry if formed as to the “legitimacy” of the strikers demands.
“The lofty-browed villain of a lieutenant colonel was especially quick to interrupt the speakers: he had a nimble tongue, and the advantage of impunity. With his caustic interjections he thwarted each of our attempts to present our case. From the tone which the proceedings were beginning to take you would thought that only we faced any charges and needed to defend ourselves.”
“…But as they sat there all in a row at the long table, exhibiting their sleek, white complacent, uniformly blank physiognomies, it was plain that they had long ago degenerated into a distinct biological type, that verbal communication between us had broken beyond repair, and that we could exchange only. . .bullets.”
From The Gulag Archipelago, Vol. 3 chapter 11 “Tearing at the Chains”.
By Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Does this all sound vaguely familiar.
This is what eventually happens when progressives, socialist, communist acquired total political power and the force to weld it.
Also see Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, China.
This is what we’re up against.
This is what’s happening at American colleges today.
Some parents spent tens of thousands of dollars, to have the values they tried to instill wiped out in two semesters.
Teach your children well.
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFrZsGbO6N0
A forward from an old boss.
Conundrum “you gotta read this a couple of times, it really makes sense”
“A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don’t have one, you’ll probably never need one again.”
The definition of the word Conundrum is: something that is puzzling or confusing.
Here are six Conundrums of socialism in the United States of America :
1. America is capitalist and greedy – yet half of the population is subsidized.
2. Half of the population is subsidized – yet they think they are victims.
3. They think they are victims – yet their representatives run the government.
4. Their representatives run the government – yet the poor keep getting poorer.
5. The poor keep getting poorer – yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.
6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about – yet they want America to be more like those other countries.
Think about it! And that, my friends, pretty much sums up the USA in the 21st Century. Makes you wonder who is doing the math.
These three, short sentences tell you a lot about the direction of our current government and cultural environment:
1. We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics.
Funny how that works. And here’s another one worth considering…
2. Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money. But we never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money? What’s interesting is the first group “worked for” their money, but the second didn’t.
Think about it…..and Last but not least :
3. Why are we cutting benefits for our veterans, no pay raises for our military and cutting our army but we are not stopping the payments or benefits to illegal aliens.
Am I the only one missing something?
I feel sorry for Gov. Phil Scott. He was such a patient fellow. Six years as Lt. Gov., the people of Vermont rewarded his patience with election to the top post.
Getting elected despite having the scarlet “R” by your name in the deeeeep blue state of Vermont is an accomplishment in itself. Too bad for the Governor the good people of Vermont chose not to give him any support in the legislature for his policies. Heck they couldn’t even give him a republican African American Lt. Governor, instead he got a “progressive democrat” David Zuckerman, who is patiently waiting his turn.
The only time he gets a pat on the back is when he opposes the imigration policies of the POTUS. A member of his own political party.
Yes it’s still early but in my opinion Gov. Scott main task will be to slow the progressive freight train that for the time being appears to be unstoppable. At least until the state runs out of other peoples money.