Beware the Ides of October
4. Race. Racial acrimony sadly is already rising. The more the growing irrelevance of race in society at large, the more the desperation of those careers that cannot continue without it. Rev. Wright, Obama pastor emeritus, last week was, in Alfred Rosenberg-fashion, bemoaning evil “white DNA.” I’ll pass on the NAACP convention other than to note that the media sought to accuse Romney of racism because he had the fortitude to give his plain message to an audience without pandering. Somehow skipping a sympathetic national NAACP meeting is expected, but venturing into a hostile crowd and trying to win it over with racially blind arguments to economic reason is racist. Suddenly, in the last month or so, everyone from Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock, and James Earl Jones—fading careers all—to the Congressional Black Caucus have weighed in with charges of racism, and sometimes incoherently and in racialist fashion themselves. In the cases of Freeman and Rock, obsession with “white” has become a serial habit.
This is only the beginning. Expect a lot more brief suspensions at MSNBC or CNN as commentators indulge in racially polarizing smears. Eric Holder has already trumped “cowards,” “my people,” and the release of the Black Panthers with accusations that congressional inquirers were racist, as was the Arizona immigration law, as was asking for an ID to vote… as is about everything. And before October passes, “clingers,” “typical white person,” “punish our enemies,” and the quips about Skip Gates and Trayvon Martin will seem passé and mild. It is not going to be an easy thing to watch, because the no-win logic demands that voting for Obama in 2008 won racial redemption and voting against him in 2012 is proof of racism. End of story. Anything less than 45% of the white vote for Obama is proof of racism; more than 95% of the black vote for Obama is proof of sobriety and open-mindedness. Without evil white men behind the curtain with gears and pulleys, there is only disinterested judgment of the economic record that the Congressional Black Caucus and Barack Obama helped craft—one that has set back the inner city and race relations in general two decades.
We have an ugly summer ahead of us.
5. October surprise. This is an old charge against every incumbent, but we all know presidents facing reelection or impeachment can time foreign adventures at opportune times. Nixon went to high-defense alert during Watergate. Bill Clinton wagged the dog against terrorist targets during Monicagate. We never quite knew what both Carter was trying to do with Iran as his polls in the last two weeks slumped or what he accused the Reagan campaign of trying to do. The first siege of Fallujah was called off in 2004—only to be renewed after the election. Obama has already tipped his hand on Russia, with assurances that after the election he will do things he will not do now. And so on. I would expect a real chance for a preemptive strike against Iran, or perhaps even a few UN-approved lead-from-behind bombings in Syria—but only if Obama were 5 points or more behind in the polls and Putin gave him permission. The Right would rally to American soldiers under fire and the national interest, and, as we saw with renditions, preventative detentions, Guantanamo, the Patriot Act, predators, and military tribunals, the Left worries only about supposedly anti-constitutional protocols and the use of military force as clubs to bash conservative presidents. The Left would complain about a strike on Iran about as much as they did an open Guantanamo or a 2,000+ Predator assassination tally—as former Bush (“torturer in chief”) critic Harold Koh would write yet another State Department legal brief reminding us that bombing the hell out of an opponent was not really a military operation. Bottom line: watch U.S. naval and air deployments in late September.
You are right about having to remember the country we all grew up in because it is only a memory now. Thanks to the “Multicultural” society that we now live in and restrictions placed on us by our government, we as Americans are now the endangered species. The American culture and way of life is now being trashed to allow the third world barbarism to replace it. The gentle and family oriented way of life has been replaced with hard, crass non-religious rules that strip all of us of our heritage. We are told to allow others who have come here to attain liberty and a new way of life to bring their old ways with them that drove them here in the first place. Then we are told that we should not force our customs on these wonderful people because that would disrespect them and their culture. All one has to do is look at there culture and it is easy to see why they wanted to come here!
Scenes from Olduvai Gorge. The pace at which we race back to that state is astounding. Its as if we are being led by an invisible guide who knows every shortcut. Funny how humanism (man on the throne) plays out with human nature and human morals. A deadly combination, really. It can change. Look at the reformation. But, where is our Luther or Locke? I don’t want to believe they were our last chance but I suppose it possible.
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Dear InspectorRudy,
You have written a great post. I especially like your “The gentle and family oriented way of life has been replaced with hard, crass non-religious rules that strip all of us of our heritage. ”
One might ask, is there a religious solution to this present mess? Has modern Christian religion, as seen on broadcast, or as seen in the local church, any remedy?
And I believe the answer is no, because religion’s leaders have been penetrated, for 100 years or so, by the Therapeutic View that VDH warns us about. Our modern Christian leaders therapeutically point out errors, disbelieving themselves capable of error. Hence, their sheep receive the same message: each knowing what’s wrong somewhere else, but not thinking it possible, really, that one’s own self need check own’s own self-dealings!
So what a conundrum this is! Modern Christianity being of no discernible help, because it is as infected with hubris as any other Progressive Institution! In essence, all are therapists, none the patient!
What might be the answer?
Someone dumb enough to try to correct the present Christian Establishment. That is a Fool’s Game if ever there was!
So, forgive me for the following ameliorative aimed at The Modern Christian Problem, and leaders who won’t fix selves.
The Unending Problems with Therapeutic View-Holders
By Robert Winkler Burke
Book #9 of In That Day Teachings
7/20/12 http://www.inthatdayteachings.com
The problem with the Therapeutic View is everyone’s a therapist,
And precisely none the anorexic, geriatric-wrath patient,
Whereas no one escapes the Tragic View, none can be escapist,
Great the energetic uplift, this Jeremiah path ancient.
In That Day Teachings’ much loathed,
Unpopular truth that no correcting leader is a to-be-worshipped saint,
Shows how leaders are ill-clothed,
Always pointing out other’s sins, implying sin: they somehow can’t!
Such disputes are always, in the end, settled,
By odd time, (Cincinnatus of Rome showed us twice: right!)
Therapeutic Views refuse to be un-pedestal’d,
By God rhyme. (G. Washington dethroned pride’s blight!)
Though the answers are plain enough to see,
The rarity of clarity of thought shows who is and who is not free,
While the world goes rough-lifeless-zombie,
First contact with sentient mind-life, Christ-in-You, too few be!
Our Founding Fathers made clever schemes,
To eternally check our, humankind’s, preternatural blight-depravity,
By dissing their lives, precepts and memes,
We’ve proved nothing, but how wrong we are, and right they be.
And just where is Christian religion,
In all this evil-rot mess?
In fear, greed and laziness: legion,
Who would’a guessed?
Good God! In That Day Teachings are hard!
Woe on its author and this author’s humble readers!
Like a tough Western, truth’s hard, dear pard’,
Without High Truth, we are just zombie breeders.
So when will In That Day Teachings be received?
And when will multitudes of consciences become Andromeda Ascendant?
When pride and hubris Leviathans are relieved,
And so many Job leaders become humble, and get Christ-in-You’s pendant.
It’s the racial part that freaks me the most, during the campaign and beyond. I shudder to think of the revolt from Obama’s 95% constituency when Romney drags them kicking and screaming to the brink of prosperity and productivity.
Speaking of revolts, wait until the race riots when the wOn is defeated in November. They’ll make Watts look nursery school.
You won’t have to wait.
To distract Americans from Romney’s acceptance speech at the GOP National Convention, I fully expect Obama and Emanuel to send their OWS and union protesters there to provoke riots. (“We are the 99% who torch cars and smash windows!”)
All the news cameras will be showing the riots, not Romney’s speech.
That’s exactly what happened at the Dem National Convention in 1968. The riots outside the convention hall dominated the news, not the proceedings inside the convention.
Yes, but those are precisely the kinds of shennanigans that put Nixon in the White House.
Fine – let them riot. Since we know they have a tendacy to destroy their own neighborhoods and businesses let them be destroyed and then they can wallow in their own defecated bath water.
But they won’t…they’ll be relocated into (formerly) safe neighborhoods; kept there by assorted taxpayer provided entitlements, watching teevee while the other residents haul themselves out of bed to go to work.
Don’t complain however, that’ll only bring on the diversity storm troopers.
……that has the ring of Truth.
Eventually, those living on “entitlements” and watching TV will outnumber those providing the tax money for these “entitlements”…..ever contracting and spiraling downward to the lowest common denominator…..then….where are those who will be able to pay?
Karl Marx (or was it Engels?) who made the famous generalization:
“From each according to his abilities …[think about that for a moment]…to each according to his needs”, which was patently idealistic, completely overlooked Human Nature.
So, Communism collapsed from within……that’ll be the fate of active Obama-nomics, which will take the rest of us with it.
He and his ilk simply must be defeated in November…..and, it’s no sure thing.
I find it amazing that folks who know the game of politics are totally ignoring what is mounting behind the scenes in relation to Barack Hussein Obama’s eligibility problems. Sheriff Joe Arpaio has discovered sufficient evidence that proves the April 27th, 2011 computer generated birth record that Obama has been flaunting is indeed a forgery. They also discovered that there is a good chance that Obama fraudulently registered with the Selective Service and they gave detailed presentations showing their discoveries and the conservative media failed to follow up on the evidence but instead got angry at the messenger.
There is a SECOND Press Conference scheduled tomorrow July 17th where more evidence will be presented. Lord Charles Monckton, no slouch to how government works, is convinced that there is fraudulent documents at work here so much so that he has put the Brits on alert as to the ramifications when this is finally followed up on by the media. Frank Gaffney and Diana West are also convinced that a Congressional investigation should take place.
If this present day evidence was associated with a Rich White Mormon Republican it would have been the end of his career. So why does the Rich White Arab African-Negro get a pass. I would love to here why the folks here at Pajamasmedia and Fox News feel about this scandal.
You mean a Hawaiian Birth Certificate duly signed by U.K.L.Lee is a fake!?!?!
Let us make the laughable assumption that any or all of the birth certificate(s) presented by the regime for Buraq Hussein Obama are true. Work with me here.
MINOR v. HAPPERSETT, 88 U.S. 162 (1874) 88 U.S. 162 (Wall.)
The Supreme Court of the United States specifically defined what a “Natural Born Citizen” is for Constitutional purposes. In the course of this 9-0 decision, they defined all sorts of things about citizenship; and it is the first case that specifically acknowledged that women were full citizens of the United States with all the rights thereof.
Link to decision:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=88&invol=162
Text on point:
At no point in his life was the father a citizen of the United States, or an immigrant attempting to become a citizen of the United States. He was here on a temporary student visa, and was always a foreign national.
I will leave to the reader the concept of legitimacy in government.
Subotai Bahadur
Remind family members that in the event of a “civil disturbance,” their car is a refuge and a weapon.
Tell them not to stop for anyone or anything. As seen at Florence/Normandy, a mob in the street has no mercy for those who stop or even slow down…
Roll up the windows, hit the gas. A modern car is heavy and will easily crush anyone who puts themselves in it’s path. The car is also powerful enough to send rioters into the air, up and over the vehicle. If automobiles are rolled into the street to create a blockade, ram those cars at the rear, “the trunk,” where there is no engine weight.
A damaged vehicle can travel a long way, engines still function while losing oil or coolant. Stay calm, stay mobile. Remind your family that, if attacked, their only responsibility is to return home safely.
Roger that. It’s one reason why we have not downsized from our trusty old expedition. OTOH, I don’t dare put a Romney sticker on my MC. Don’t think I’d last two days before getting into an ‘accident’ with a kind, inclusive ‘progressive’.
I think the same way. I expect Watts and Newark in the 1960′s will burn again, as will Chicago and Philadelphia and New York City and elsewhere. At the outbreak of riots, Obama is perfectly place to declare Marital Law and sign into action is March, 2012, EX to empower “his” officers to take over all parts of American. The Communist Revolution will be enacted speedily.
I make no claim to being a soothsayer….far from it, but I offer this food for thought via my blog, regarding the run up to the election, sort of like connecting all the dots – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/07/15/red-alert-issued-via-lee-kaplans-northeast-intelligence-network-little-commentary-required-speaks-for-itself-16/
It is important to follow all the links to get to the heart of the matter!
And, another thing – in relation to the ‘October surprise’, even though I do not term it as such, I offer the following link to my blog (out of several others)-
http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/07/07/the-mother-of-all-wars-is-knocking-at-our-door-wishful-thinking-is-not-an-option-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki-2/.
Many in Israel are getting ready for the mother of all wars!
How about a July surprise allowing the media to dig their pranha teeth into the evidence that will be coming fourth at the SECOND Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Press Conference tomorrow July 17th. It will be stream lined at Worldnetdaily, one of the only webpages that has the guts to cover this scandal of the century. Conservative outlets have been disgustingly silent about these crimes.
Let’s all pray for the health and safety of Sheriff Joe and Mike Zullo. We don’t need any more sudden “heart attacks.” I’m very much looking forward to the press conference. Heads up: You have to register (with WND) in order to watch it live (2:30 MST.) If you miss it, I’m sure, as with the last one, that there will be many opportunities to see it later.
Sadly, I think all we will hear are crickets. I don’t even mention the BC most of the time, focusing mostly on his status as an Indonesian citizen who has illegally presented himself as an American citizen, and as a perpetrator of identity theft, and really, people just don’t care. I don’t know if they are stupid or think we operate like France where anybody from anywhere can run for president; I know only that the question of eligibility should not have gone, and must not continue to be, unchallenged and unresolved.
This is also why I am outspoken regarding the possibility of Romney choosing someone like Jindal or Rubio: like Obama, they do not meet the natural-born definition as required.
Nothing less than our sovereignty is ultimately at stake if we ignore any portion of the Constitution, yet all we hear is — crickets.
Watching all that is going on, it occurs to me that the best course of action is to behave in a civilized manner and expect others to do likewise. That’s going to be harder than it sounds, but then, the worthwhile things always are.
Since we are expected to react violently, the solution is to calmly go about our business and solve the problems as they arise in a manner that demonstrates American exceptionalism in a way that nothing else can. Remember, WE are the granters of government authority. When it becomes abusive, WE have, not only the right, but the duty to rescind that authority.
As to the eligibility question, Mr. obama is not eligible because his father was never a U.S. citizen. The SCOTUS knows this and yet swore him in (twice), the Congress knows it and yet they have done nothing for three years and another election cycle.
That is far more troubling than any fanning of the flames of racism. If we no longer have the rule of law, then we are in for far more trouble than a few race riots, horrible though they may be. Again, the solution is to “keep calm and carry on” as the British would say. It’s a dicey path to try and walk, but we may be the only nation that could succeed at it. Replace them all and re-establish the rule of law as peacefully as possible. May God help us and allow it to be possible.
Amazingly depressing. Looks as if there are systematic attacks on right-wing outlets and personalities. The US debt levels are – according to Fox – worse than those in most European countries. It’s all pretty terrifying..
Liberal political correctness and immigration have proven to be a problem we cannot and will not beat. Liberals have already proven they can turn an America city like Detroit into East Berlin and not be fazed by it because they simply blame it on someone other than themselves. Liberals are a blame and excuse factory.
PC is so widespread in our society it is almost unbelievable. I was just now reading an article taking down Romney at a black anti-white “culture” site and the woman used the term “off the reservation.” Well, she got angry comments from her readers about how First Nationers felt like this and how could a black woman da-da-da and she apologized profusely and it was really disheartening to read how far we have fallen and how far racism aimed at white folks is perfectly fine among Dems but giving a speech at the NAACP a sign that Stormfront is alive and well in America. Getting an ID is like Sisyphus, rolling a boulder Jim Crow and a KKK poll tax up a hill all at once.
We are undone and the Dem Party has done it. Liberals are so steeped in some weird hybrid of insane political correctness and Marxist Critical Pedagogy that they are just too far gone.
Our values have been turned on their head. Criminals of the correct color are innocent, politicians occupy a default racist position merely by being in the GOP, depravity is cool, and success has quite literally come to be seen as failure and vice versa.
Immigrants from a Third World who couldn’t reverse engineer a safety pin without constant close contact with the West and care nothing for law are expected to bring America into a bright new future based on faith and despite a million examples of proof to the contrary. Liberals simply don’t live in the real world because they simply wave away anything that shows their narrative to be false.
After 3 1/2 years with a racist, socialist President who has shown himself to be a failure, and an even more prominently racist DOJ put in place by him, half the country wants him back for a second term because liberals see what they want to see and what they see in Obama is success.
Any sense that Obama has not measured up is sloughed off to obstructionism and racism. Any positive thing is jealously guarded as the sole province of the Dem Party. You can’t fight that kind of delusion. The Left is as politicized and radicalized as a Palestinian Arab against Israel. We have always had partisanship but this is just madness.
“We have always had partisanship but this is just madness.”
This is why it’s imperative that we figure out a way to wrest control from them, even if it means the employment of precious metals. Either that or throw in the towel & go down with them.
Bobbcat:
” wrest control from them, even if it means the employment of precious metals.”
Precious Metals…Classic!
Lets finally “E.P.M.” them all, and just get it over with.
We really have nothing to worry about once the ice is broken…
I mean, their beautiful “foot soldiers” are good for twittering their fingertips on little touch screens, and dont have much, shall we say “mechanical aptitude”, right?
And The Goons they’ll cry for to carry their water once the nasties start are, deep in their souls, nothing but Make-Work Union Bums anyway, correct?
The delicate, the pretty and the popular, with an “army” of doughnut/pension seekers to do their heavy lifting?
Sound like FUN…. if we can just get it going somehow.
Sound like FUN…. if we can just get it going somehow.
That is what they said about the French Revolution…
after several changes of leadership, each more radical than the last,
each of which took power by executing the previous leadership
they found themselves trapped in ‘The Terror’.
Think of something else.
Well, unless you know a way to stop immigration completely which is what, a million, a million and a half a year, 90% from the failed Third World, we will go down. They have ethnic advocates who at the same time accuse whites of the same. It’s frickin’ Alice in Wonderland. Minorities ignore the Bill of Rights and we’ll clutch it while we sink into the water just to prove we’re not racist. Our survival instincts are completely gone, undermined by political correctness that posits whites as sinners. These racialists magically transform from “others” to regular folks to “others” and back again at the drop of a political hat. They vote skin and if you don’t pander to them you don’t get in office. A tipping point has been reached. We’ll never end the immigration act and stabilize our population.
Finally we are starting to talk about what we need to do. But I still sense a hesitation to actually articulate what it is we need to do. Notice none of the writers at PJM will touch the topic-even the great VDH is loathe to speak the unspeakable.
Everybody is afraid of a civil war. Why? We went through it once. Is it not worth saving our nation to engage in another?
We know the left has insinuated themselves into every level of government, academia, MSM, Wall Street, and the legal system. The only thing we have going for us is our strength, willingness to use force at some point and our belief in our nation, culture, traditions and race. If by my using “race” as a belief bothers you then you do not understand the full extent of what the left seeks to do (and it has nothing to do with those arryan idiots).
The biggest problem with “talking” about it is the potential to be among the first thousand or so to be locked up about two weeks before action was planned. Tends to reduce ones usefulness to a cause. Best to be silent, alert, primed and ready.
OTOH delving into potential survival strategies in the event of civil unrest, as some here have just done, carries much less penal liability. It is usually not a serious crime to plan on avoiding pain.
– walking precincts, grads today need to look for work.
“It is very important for Romney to run within 1-2 points in the polls for the next few months. That closeness forces out the real Obama—of the Chicago sort who used to sue to get opponents off the ballot or had his supporters leak rivals’ divorce records.”
In other words Mister Hyde.
“In contrast, if Obama surges by 5 points or so, he will revert back to hope-and-change-II banalities”
In other words Doctor Jeckle.
had was “friends” in the government to leak damaging information about his opponents. Now he can generate his own damaging information by, for example, having Holder at the DOJ indict Romney or people very close to him for bogus types of SEC violations or other types of very doubtful crimes of the “mopery with intent to creep” variety. The Obama media will run with all this and make sure that that this is all Romney is asked about. After the election, if we still have some sort of Republic under the rule of law, these charges will be dropped. If we don’t, those indicted will go to trial and possibly serve time in jail…
Since the statute of limitations is 5 years, that would make Romney simply guilty of being white.
I expect Holder to indict Romney on bogus tax evasion charges a week before the election. There is no statute of limitations on tax evasion, and he can be jailed without bond.
Obama and Bernanke will do the ultimate October Surprise when they announce the ultimate bailout of underwater mortgage debtors. Bernanke can also make the stock market soar right before the election. Since Romney promised to fire Bernanke, Bernanke has to do whatever it takes to reelect Obama.
A NATO war in Syria is already in the cards. It is just a question of when the Turks pull the trigger.
Don’t you mean ‘Dr. Jeckle’ and Mr. ‘Heckle’?
I’m surprised there was no mention of the bankruptcies in CA. They may serve as a wake-up call to municipalities around the nation as kind of sacrificial lambs.
“I would expect a real chance for a preemptive strike against Iran, or perhaps even a few UN-approved lead-from-behind bombings in Syria—but only if Obama were 5 points or more behind in the polls and Putin gave him permission. The Right would rally to American soldiers under fire and the national interest”
National interest? Bombing Syrians for Muslims who want sharia law would not be in America’s national interest.
In the real world, no. But keep in mind that The One lives in His own mental parallel universe, in which we are the Evil, Materialistic West, the Islamists are Sages of the Mystical, Enlightened East, and therefore anything He does to help them is both preordained and also enhances His personal karma.
He’s about one notch from being totally delusional. And like most people with that problem, He thinks He’s the only sane person on Earth.
And unfortunately, we (or at least a bit more than half of us) were foolish enough to give Him the keys to the kingdom.
clear ether
eon
Eon,
I don’t see Karma as playing much of a role with folks who believe in predestination, as Muslims do. You are, perhaps, not looking far enough to the east. Karma is cause and effect and comes from free will and choice. Predestination is one scripted word following the next. Nations have Karma, too, and having abandoned rational thought to choose a collectivist messiah our nation is now harvesting a bumper crop of the bad kind.
Roy,
You’re correct. But keep in mind that Obama and his clique’ believe in a very inaccurate version of “Eastern mysticism”, having more to do with the Beatles and the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi than with any actual belief system. Their version is based more on “Strawberry Fields” and multiple bong hits than the actual teachings of the Buddha, or anybody else for that matter.
When you have beliefs that would only make sense in the plot of an animated movie or a comic book, your behaviors are very likely to resemble that of characters in one or the other. Regardless of how demented those behaviors may be in the real world.
This is what government by frat house really looks like. Especially where foreign policy is concerned.
Also, always remember that The One’s definition of His friends, is not necessarily our definition of our country’s friends.
I strongly suspect that The One’s two guiding principles are “Your friends are not the same as my friends”, plus “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”.
And neither we, nor anyone on our side, is on His “friends” list.
clear ether
eon
Re DUI:
Et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Also, prosecute all sanctuary cities.
Also, pass the ammunition.
…beats hand-wringing all day, every day.
Tragic is far short the word to describe Mexifornia! Yes it’s amazing how many Liberal Demoncarts have fled the Demoncrat Heaven they created, I know of two Demoncrat’s that didn’t have the Nerve or Guts to stay in the “Fair, Equal and Caring” paradise they voted for over several decades to achieve, now there here and they intend to do the same as they did the Horrid place that they left! No mention if ether of the Murders where Terrorist Rebels here to reclaim their homeland. Murdering one Gringo at a time if necessary, why not? There’s more of them then there is of us!
Only one party in Mexifornia that is Responsible for all of this!
Dr. Hanson,
I wish that I could share your enthusiasm; that which you were able to muster.
However, I am a realist; wishes are nice, but facts are facts – always.
I wouldn’t bet a plugged nickel on whether or not Obama will be reelected.
Never, never, never, ever under estimate the stupidity of American voters.
Or the ability of the Democrats to manufacture a few hundred/thousand votes where and when needed. I saw this happen first hand in the 2004 governor’s race in Washington State. King County (Seattle) just ‘happened’ to ‘discover’ a few hundred votes that somehow got misplaced and later ‘found’ – yeah right!
The Democrats have enlisted thousands of lawyers in all 50 states to watch the voting – and protest if necessary the handling of votes. Or more likely to actively get in the face of the vote counters if it looks to be close enough to steal. What they do to steal an election is described in this link:
http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0045qf
time to leave California, before the “California Spring” arises. One day, California may end up being a larger version of Syria
Dr. Hanson,
Really sorry to hear about the dog bite incident and not being able to just ride your bike. Hope you don’t suffer the health problems. Had occasion to drive through that area a while back and I see why you love it so much. Thanks for your thinking about the state of the times out loud.
Great article. As it’s shaping up, we’ll see
1. more fudging of econ numbers from BLS, etc., to boost the sense of recovery
2. Bernanke unleashing QE3 as late as possible in order to have a stock feel-good surge
3. Obama desperately trying to hold Israel back from attacking so he retains that option, as Hansen pointed out
4. Holder will charge Zimmerman in October with a Fed civil rights crime
5. A really, really, really BIG lie about 4 days before the election. Not sure but it will be about Romney doing something dastardly. Bill Clinton once said the impact of an event/announcement is always three days later.
And Obama and his folks will lead up to all this with even more smears and lies.
The issue is whether Romney takes time and effort to instill in the public that Obama is a really, really nice liar.
Forget Zimmerman. Who cares about him anymore. Holder will indict Romney for tax evasion on the Thursday or Friday before the election. Romney will be ordered to be held without bond by a Democratic hack Federal Judge.
QE3 will boost the market, but Bernanke will want to do a massive bailout of underwater mortgages, just to make sure.
This is going to be a “championship fight” down to the final bell in round 15! Then it will be over to the judges’ scorecards…unless there is declared a “knockout” by the majority of people in America…
Which means my dear readers…Obama’s thousands of lawyers waiting in the wings will come out to “challenge” every state election that they feel they might be able to “overturn” due to “voting irregularities” that go way beyond “hanging chads” over smudges.
He will “whip up” all who wish to be considered “mob/horde” in character to join him in his over throw!
Romney can’t wait till the last third of this fight to seriously “go after” Obama-Mao: He needs to take hard and serious shots whenever he gets the opportunity.
I’m also betting on the “tail wagging the dog” in October by our muslim lovin, Jew hating Neo-Marxist commander in chief.
Anybody realize our sons and daughters are still in “harm’s way” fighting two wars? Or do you want every returning combat vet to suffer from PTSD?
Evil is here and he stands right in front of us saying he is an “angel” as he smiles at us…
Don’t forget Obama has said that Climate Change will be the focus of his 2nd term. That means he will be pushing to transform the American economy away from economic growth to “qualitative” measures of citizen wellbeing. We will be hooked into every bad UN program out there. None of which make any sense unless you belong to the parasitical class proposing them.
Also last week the National Research Council announced it was rejecting the transmission of knowledge, cognitive view of the human mind because it “was too narrowly focused on individual thinking.” I wrote about it here http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/so-now-common-core-rejects-individual-thinking-to-embrace-soviet-psychology-ecology/
In a 2nd term, this education as a K-12 and higher ed weapon to try to create new ways of thinking and changing values and attitudes to make sustainability the transcendental core value would go fully operational. With the regional accreditors with their lucrative government monopolies ready to be the enforcers of the poison. There was a January soiree to announce the change in higher ed with the release of the AACU Crucible Moment report.
They not only want our money. They want to redefine who we are from the inside out.
Enough.
Oh…the “advantage” of hitting Iran prior to the election is that it will confuse the Jews into thinking Obama is on their side, it will distract American voters from the economy to support our newest war effort, and most importantly for Obama…besides getting re-elected on the blood and tears of Americans, it will further his master game plan of “bleeding by a thousand cuts” the American economy into despair and destruction!
My money is on such a move by this Dictator!
This is my fear as well. Obama will use the military to bolster his own image by striking Iran. Iran then retaliates, probably including strikes by its agents on US soil. Suddenly Obama is our bulwark against Iranian aggresion.
I put nothing past this man. He is Alinsky trained and cares only for his own preservation. He is a first amoung equals in his own mind. The ends justify the means with people like Obama. Always and all the time.
Obama is NOT going to strike Iran, nor will he allow Israel to do it. Striking Iran is way way too risky. Iran has long range ICBMs, a missile base in Venezuela, and may already have nuclear weapons. There is no evidence that Obama is willing to take those kind of risks. He knows that no war plan survives contact with the enemy. It is much safer to have a proxy war with Iran on Syrian territory, and the patriotic distraction it provides is almost as large as war with Iran would be. The preparations for a NATO Syria war are already underway.
I have a tendency to agree with what you presented via Syria…along with Obama-Mao’s love for muslims…which sect does he prefer? However, do you really thing the leaders left in our American military enjoy a present commander in chief (my lower case for obvious reasons)who jumped out in front as the “big guy” who pulled the trigger on Bin Laden?
Recall the movie “The man who shot Liberty Valance” for perspective, or “Saving private Ryan” where the typist learns his lessons the hard way, at the expense of his leaders. And then there is “Godfather part III” where Michael laments being pulled back into his Father’s world…which a shrink just might say is exactly where Hussein Obama is headed, a tragic end even Hamlet would understand.
Meanwhile, we Americans who love to work and work to love, may not clearly see the cliffs our leaders are driving us toward in time to change direction without great losses.
Welcome to what may be our second “civil war” within these formerly United States! Keep your eye on the 2nd Amendment games too…”fast and furious” being just one iceberg out there.
I’m on some kind of roll…
How would America’s first “Hitler” come to power? How would he look, talk, act, and what would he believe? How would he go about selling the voters as he seeks his dictatorial power?
I thought this the very first time I saw the face of David Axlerod, his primary advisor (for what?…maybe propaganda, etc.)! Ever since, I’ve wondered when the mask Obama-Mao has been wearing since day one would come down and all of us would then be able to see the “real” person.
Hussein Obama is a fraud and a power hungry wanna be Dictator! Also a malignant narcissist!
I dare you to ask Dr. Hanson if such may be the truth! (Then again, if he were to provide any answer that lingers on my side of beliefs he just might have a visit from Mr. Government Man…
Yea; Romney is such a vile culprit, hiding his tax returns.
Meanwhile, the Obama aides just plain ignore paying their taxes. Story here:
http://news.investors.com/article/599002/201201260818/obama-white-house-staff-back-taxes.htm
Well, when you have the Obama team accusing Romney of being a “felon,” I don’t know how much meaner a campaign can get. But I do think it’s time for Romney to start calling Obama the “S” word. What’s the “S” word? “S” stands for SOCIALIST, and nothing strikes fear into the hearts of most TAX PAYING Americans as the word socialist. Given Obama’s already extensive use of terms like “social justice,” “redistribution of wealth,” “fat-cat bankers,” “tax the rich,” and the mother of all socialist programs, ObamaCare, you could really make a good case that Obama is trying to transform America into a European-style social welfare state. And we all see how well that’s working out for Greece and the other countries in Europe, like Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Ireland.
Add to that Obama’s recent gutting of Bill Clinton’s welfare law plus Obama’s Executive Order preventing the deportation of a whole group of illegal aliens, and you have a president who supports open borders plus unlimited welfare, just like all socialists do. If this guy isn’t a socialist, I don’t know what is. So Romney should make the most of it.
“S” also signifies SOVIET. Pretty much what the Obama Regime is imitating.
LS, I note two statements in you comment (with which I totally agree) that point directly to the possibility of our demise. You write and I agree, “But I do think it’s time for Romney to start calling Obama the “S” word” (while knowing beyond doubt that he never will). And then later you follow that statement with the phrase “…you could really make a good case….” which seems to soften your first valid and direct declaration. This seems to me to be akin to saying that “you could make a good case” that Hitler was a Nazi or the Pope Benedict is a Roman Catholic.
Believe me when I state that I am not trying to pick at your commentary which I believe to be spot-on. But I believe that our timidity regarding our willingness to directly and without hesitation identify the enemy (all of us almost by habit as even your phrasing seems to demonstrate) will be the major factor that historians will record that led to America’s demise. Imagine a world in which Ronald Reagan said that “a good case might be made” that the Soviets are possibly trying to spread the poison of communism. He stated their intentions directly as a matter of unqualified fact and didn’t flinch. He then went on to marshall his forces behind him. We may well pay dearly for the fact that we, the Obama opposition, lacked the guts to do likewise.
The “S word” is Stalinist, the ultimate fruit of Fabian Socialism.
Add to that Obama’s recent gutting of Bill Clinton’s welfare law plus Obama’s Executive Order preventing the deportation of a whole group of illegal aliens, and you have a president who supports open borders plus unlimited welfare, just like all socialists do.
While I agree with the rest of your post, the cited portion doesn’t correspond with history. The fact is that the socialist countries – and I’m talking about the Marxist-socialist countries, not the democratic socialists in Europe – have historically been very much AGAINST Open Borders. The Soviet Union, Maoist China and Cuba, to name just a few, had very strict controls limiting foreigner’s attempts to enter their country or their own citizens’ abilities to leave it. The Soviets alone had 50,000 special KGB troops to ensure that no one left their “worker’s paradise” without the proper permission – which was rarely granted.
I’m not aware of any Marxist country that ever had Open Borders.
In this respect, Obama seems to be deviating from the Marxist game plan.
Oops, the preceding comment should only have had the first paragraph italicized. I failed to check it with the Preview button. Sorry!
Oh dear! Now EVERYTHING except Dr. Hanson’s original article is italicized! I REALLY messed up! My apologies!
It’s too bad there is no way to edit/repair a post once it has been submitted….
I just added a couple of “close italics” tags. Maybe this will help….
More interesting, I think, Dr. Hanson, is what November will look like after the 6th if Obama loses. That prospect should fill us with grave concern.
So true. I would imagine that with an Obama loss, the National Guard will be quite busy in November.
Justifiable concern, but the alternative would be doom.
I couldn’t agree with you more, but the situation will be dangerous. There’s an undeclared war against “white” people raging in Chicago even now. I can’t imagine what it will look like if Obama loses. And the media will be insufferable. They’ll pour gas on the flames.
It would be prudent to start thinking about protecting your family in early Novemebr. Plan to be out of town.
The Country needs a serious mucking out; invest in precious metals like brass and lead.
Those examples you cite Dr. Hanson happen every day all over the country. Here in Mass it seems every month there is another story about an illegal alien killing or seriously injuring a citizen with his vehicle. Just in 1 town(Milford) of 30,000 people 3 residents have been killed by illegal aliens over the past 2 years. The sad part is most of these law breakers have an arrest record, but because of sanctuary policies they are not deported.
Obama in for four more and Greece will look like up to the American economy.
I expect to see in the next few months *all* the socialist plans Obama had in mind initially to be implemented. Or if not implemented, then new rules to be issued so the implementation can being to happen. I think Obama has faced the fact that he may very well be a one-term President, and as determined he simply doesn’t have the time any more to work within the American system, so he’ll simply start issuing orders by fiat, ignoring both Congress and the Supreme Court.
He promised a fundamental change in American society, and by God, that’s what we’re going to get. In addition to amnesty for illegal terrorists, free abortions for welfare mothers, and higher taxes for “the rich”, he will implement new rules that somehow manage to “spread the wealth around”. Unemployment will, of course, be lengthened to infinity, disability will become the new welfare check, and food stamps will be expanded to include cigarettes and Jim Beam.
Any communist / marxist / socialist pipe dream you can imagine will be put into place by Presidential order, with the idea that when he loses his place in the Oval Office some part of those schemes must certainly remain as the rest of us step forward to start cleaning up his mess. After all, he still owes that 2008 voter “free mortgage payments and gas”.
Get the rabies shots immediately! Only early treatment prevents fatality. That austerity is going to hurt like hell but it is better than the alternative.
Likewise in the Romney campaign, all of the Obama challenges must be answered immediately, and not let the poisonous virus set in. Until Romney hires up the surrogate ax-men he is doomed to play defense in a losing battle against the propagation of lies in the popular press.
You will not see Obama take any sort of military action. He needs to hold onto his peacenik and environmentalist base for GOTV drives. Why do you suppose he announced his intention for more deep unilateral cuts in the U.S. nuclear deterrent?
Military action would at least be a sign that Obama wants to win by touting positive achievements around which the voters can rally. That’s not how he wants to win. He wants to win the way he always won–by destroying his opponent.
So what we are more likely to see is VIOLENCE: Hecklers shouting down Romney at campaign rallies and keeping him from speaking directly to the public. (After which Obama’s defenders will say “See? Romney is out of touch with the public.”) OWS type protests at the GOP National Convention, with the usual leavening of masked anarchists to start fires and smash windows and scare delegates from attending the proceedings. Etc.
I wouldn’t put anything past them. I sure hope the GOP National Convention will be well guarded.
I’m not so sure. Drones, pirates, Gitmo, etc.
Nothing he does riles up his sychophants in the least. They are so committed to destoying capitalism that they have no limits.
And the whole peacenik think is a charade in the first place. Other than perhaps a few adolescent female groupies, leftists are the most violent people in the world.
I’ve thought for a long time that Obama could get us involved in a war before the election. It’s almost guaranteed to give him a bump in popularity, since it’s a natural tendency of people to rally behind their leaders in a crisis.
As for the leftist moonbats, they will fall in line. Remember how the Communists turned on a dime from being anti-war to pro-war when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union?
It will be a “good war” with Obama at the helm. And any conservatives who express skepticism will have their patriotism questioned.
The groundwork for a NATO Syria war is already far advanced. The only step left is for Turkey to pull the trigger and obligate all of NATO to go all-in. A war with Iran is too risky, and Obama does not take big unnecessary risks. He will want a low-cost, high (political) profit adventure, and a proxy war with Iran on Syrian territory fits the bill nicely.
The Catholic Church will save America. The TRUTH will keep us free!
God Bless America. (Let’s pray and stay positive.)
Actually, I had another saying in mind: “Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!”
in other words, the Government, has bought up most of the ammunition already.
Granted politicians have made and continue to make all the wrong choices but really they are just the captive pawns of a debauched populace. We’ve gone from the Robber Barons to the tyranny of the masses in 100 years. The possible corrective measures will not be tolerated. We are undeniably on the threshold of dictatorship and military rule.
This nation held together for two hundred years solely due to the cohesion produced by Christianity and what everyone truly believed in as American Exceptionalism. It survived stresses much greater than those we experience today. That cohesion is gone forever. We are inexorably headed toward the Chinese model which is actually just a return to the days of the Robber Barons. Lords and serfs. Warlords and vassals.
The Green movement will be washed away. The greens hold no sway in China after all. Europe and Russia will unite as the third world power and great wars will be fought between the three powers over the planet’s natural recourses. All this will keep everybody busy and employed and the over population problem will be dealt with through starvation and war. This is the future I see for mankind.
This scenario assumes the militaries of the three regions could be controlled and somehow held together. It might take a decade of complete chaos and anarchy before some semblance of cohesion could be established. Or even a hundred years Dark Ages period might transpire. Then there is the wild card of China being so far ahead of the rest of the world as a true unfettered capitalist Empire such as Britain was for 250 years.
The Shining City on the Hill is no more. Weep for humanity.
Meanwhile the country slips quietly into a resignation of months or years of 8%+ unemployment – people losing homes – cars – personal wealth, and families splitting up – prices continuing to rise while the numbers wizards do their magic with those price increases to make it appear as though inflation is a figment of your imagination. $10 per pound for a decent – not good cut of steak tells me all I need to know – corn should be fed to animals and not to vehicles!
All the while Obama quietly deliberates on the damage he can do with a second term – nuggets such as how to foist cap and trade on us – and a UN small arms treaty that likely will be used to confiscate our arms – and lets not forget the ‘Laws of the Seas’ UN treaty. Should he get another term all the above and more will be served up to us. We don’t yet know what the ‘recipe’ is that he’ll be serving but expect it to be bitter. Its all he knows and wishes for us to experience the same.
Dr. Hanson, I am an admirer and a Facebook friend; I have attended one of your lectures on the East Coast. You are undergoing the gradual awakening that happened to the characters in Atlas Shrugged. In addition, Heaven sent some canine agents to send you a message: California is finished. For the life of me, I don’t know why people like you and Dr. Michael Savage continue to live there. You are both bemused by the comfort of the familiar, and may share a fantasy that you can hold off the collapse of civilization. My response: you can’t. Save yourselves and go somewhere where you will be appreciated. I am serious – I expect to see secession in my lifetime. This is the only way to save what is good and noble in the face of the imminent end of Western Civilization.
Mr Hanson seriously underestimates what The Criminal is willing to do to maintain power.
Yes. The marxists have finally seized the reins of power. I don’t lnow what it will take to get rid of them. Certainly not a mere civilized election.
Obama has illegally grabbed an incredible amount of power via the 143 Executive Orders he’s signed. I’d be very much surprised if they didn’t factor into the election. If he wins it’s going to be as bad as if he loses. This is a no-win situation.
Americans, your lives will never be the same. The damage has already been done.
even makes a peep, much less a squawk about all those orders, either. They sit around sucking their thumbs.
Just took a very careful, scientific poll of every living thing around my
house, horses and dogs included.
Results: Romney, 100% Obama, 0%
Now, let’s see the pathetic MSM spin THAT!
Jim Whittaker
Hemet, CA
Very good article, Dr. Hanson. I had a similar experience of being attacked in my own vineyard by a neighbors dog that was a true neighborhood terror. I was fortunate enough to have the Sheriff’s department give me some great suggestions and I was able to force the guy to get rid of his dog. All this happened on Christmas Eve many years ago and it ruined Christmas for us that year. I hope the results are in your favor…. I know what it’s like to wait for the news.
Kudos for many excellent points made with number five being the most worrisome. O will probably need something big to offset Romney’s convention bounce. Romney’s speech will likely be a shake-the-rafters type that will define him in a way that will be hard for O’s Chicago thugs to overcome. O’s narcissism will be on fire by then as his own approval numbers stay put. But will he be desperate enough to attack Iran? If he does he probably believes that his Hope and Changers will not recall his sit-on-his-hands approach to dealing with that regime back in 2009 when supporting the Iranian uprising might have made all the difference.
“one, it takes time away from his natural showmanship in the public arena (and to a lesser extent from being president);”
To a lesser extent? Well, I guess if he ever was really a working president it would take him away, but as it is, he loves the perks, sits with his feet up on the desk whenever he deigns to show up and leaves everything to old hag nanci, dingy harry and his (hmmm) jarrett (not sure what she is)to hold up the bills so he can blame republicans and write the health care bill with his buddies in the soros organ.
This guy is a joke, has he really spent a full day in the office working? How often has he been in the office in the last several months? He loves fund raising. He loves smoozing with the wealthy sycophants in hollyweird and their fawning of him.
I refuse to go to any of their movies and I will boycott all of them.
It is time to treat the liberal “flee seasoners” as they deserve, or they will continue to spread like locusts and destroy everything in their path. They have already destroyed California.
When they move to your town, treat them as they deserve. Make their lives miserable. Drive them back to California with their tails between their legs. Make them live in the cesspool they have created.
I live in a California county that is still a nice place, but only have to look just down the road to the “occupied territories” of Santa Maria to see our future.
Something that never gets mentioned here is the huge part the farmers of Central and Coastal California have played in the destruction of the state. They wanted, and still want, cheap labor from Mexico. Well, they got it, and the rest of us are living with the results.
VDH mourns the passing of a world that his fellow farmers helped to destroy.
“Something that never gets mentioned here is the huge part the farmers of Central and Coastal California have played in the destruction of the state. They wanted, and still want, cheap labor from Mexico. Well, they got it, and the rest of us are living with the results.”
The desire for cheap labor goes far to explain the US’ troubled black-white race relations. A primary purpose of the New Deal’s Fair Labor Standards Act was to stop the death spiral of wages in The South caused by employers playing black workers against white workers; all an employer had to do if white labor sought better wages and conditions was threaten to replace them with black labor and the white labor came to heel.
Until The Great Society almost all agricutural labor in The South was black and almost all agricultural work was strictly manual. Well into the 1960s cotton cultivation after planting was manual with gangs of black labor “chopping cotton,” i.e., removing the weeds from the rows with a hoe, hence the phrase “a long row to hoe,” the only vestige of the practice that remains with us today. Until the ’60 cotton was “picked” by hand, again with gangs of black labor with burlap bags slung over their shoulders pulling each cotton boll off the plant by hand. Only the largest and most properous farms had mechanical cottonpickers. The most extreme example was tobacco farming which until the 1960s was entirely by hand from planting to harvest and almost all the labor was black – or the unfortunate kinfolk of the farm’s owner, don’t ask me how I know! And it was accepted as Gospel truth that no tobacco labor could be mechanized and the only real attempt until well into the ’60s was a frame with seats that would fit over several rows of tobacco mounted on a tractor that would move slowly over the tobacco patch. That changed it from stoop labor to seated labor but it was still all by hand.
Funny thing, come the ’64 Civil Rights Act and The Great Society’s welfare programs that labor disappeared and the farmers miraculously found ways to entirely mechanize both cotton and tobacco farming. I think we can be sure that if CA’s farmers were somehow deprived of their cheap labor, they too would find a way to mechanize the work. I think the reality in CA is that the labor must be illegal because citizens with access to welfare won’t do the work. That was certainly the case in The South as blacks either left the agricultural areas altogether or moved to “the project” and took their welfare checks rather than the hot, backbreaking agricultural work. Since the Southern farmers didn’t then have access to illegal Mexican labor, they either mechanized or left farming.
I well remember the passionate and often heated discussions in my house in the early ’60s and will forever bless the day in ’63 when my family gave up farming, subdivided the old cotton fields, and joined the modern consumer economy.
The only time I went to traffic court in CA (because I had naively given my old car to a drug dealer, who promptly got arrested before he got it registered in his name)…. nearly everyone in that court room was Hispanic, many needed a translator, and almost all of them were there for driving without a license. They all said they had just forgotten it that particular day, and the judge dismissed it. I couldn’t believe my eyes.
I moved to TX 9 years ago, Thank God, and many things are better here but unfortunately not that particular problem. Illegals kill people here just about weekly it seems.
About those polls…. Sample size under 20,000 or so normally gives an error margin of 4 to 5 %.
20,000 costs a lot more and doesn’t improve the margin of error much. That is why most sample size is around 1,000.
My point is that MOST of the polls are within the margin of error. Statistically, that is a tie. Polls won’t matter until the last week of October and first week of November. What matters now are the trend lines. Who is gaining or losing?
Right now those trend lines are flat and the polls within the margin of error. That is why Axelthing is in a state of panic. The Donks are spending money like water to just keep that trend line flat.
They know that if Romney gets momentum, he can plow the (D)’s under. That is because the (R)’s plan a saturation bombing those last two weeks. With a little bit of clever data mining every American on the net can get a Personal message from Mitt. OH Boy!
Haji can’t shoot.
Sorry, but your numbers are wrong. Poll size above 10,000, let alone 20,000, gives margin of error under 1%. Poll size 1000 gives margin of error about 3%. Signed, Surak, Ph.D., mathematics, with certificate in statistics.
Don’t forget, Moochelle said, “All this for a damn flag” at the 911 Memorial Service last year, as the fraud defiling the Oval Office nodded in agreement.
If you were talking about a complete economic collapse, you’ll be right! That’s how it’s down in Marxism, don’t you know!
The complete economic collapse will be sometime after the election. Bernanke will keep everything afloat until then.
Good post from VDH (although I am not sure of the purpose of those news articles at the end, unless it was to illustrate point #4). The key to avoiding the October Surprise (a little research will show the roots of the concept – not pretty!) is for Romney to come clean on his taxes and tenure at Bain. When asked who was in charge at Bain after 1999, Romney’s spokesman says “Ask Bain”. A rubbish answer that just begs more questions. Romney needs to get it all out there, give people an opportunity to forget about it, or at least get used to it. What else does he have to run on? He won’t run on his tenure as governor of MA (and his signal accomplishment, healthcare), he disavows Bain post-1999, what does that leave? The Olympics? Romney needs to release his taxes and brag about what Bain accomplished, not run away from it. People love success, they hate people who seem to be hiding something.
Dr. Hanson;
I have some motocross boots, size 13, and a .357 bang stick, that I’ll donate for your bike ride.
As Rush Limbaugh has been saying; “The political landscape has changed”. That includes our neighborhoods.
We The People are being overrun by thugs.
the just plain stupid among the electorate that was the problem, we’d be okay. there’s a certain limited lump sum of stupids about equally divided on both sides of anything at all, and that seems to have been the story most of the time during the very short and shaky history of representative government.
But there are also times like now, as allegorized in the play Rhinoceros, or the novel Invasion of the Body Snatchers, or in zombie movies. The violent products of mass delusion are popping up and running rampant everywhere.
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Since Obama turned up, a goodly number of my old friends turned into pod people, and most rabidly, too.
One in particular talks about “vicious right-wingers, vicious right-wingers” all day, he’s gone frickin’ nuts.
And he wasn’t stupid.
True. It’s the product of decades of cultural Marxism. A coordinated effort to disconnect the population from any sense of belonging to any meaningful traditions. The main targets are usually religion and the family. So the propagandists carefully filter events to sculpt a certain message, then weave- in disdain for established moral authority, while glorifying unbridled libido.
It’s pretty insidious. These people are sick and really need to be defeated. They view humans as animals to be herded and tethered by any means possible. Their techniques work, but only up to a point because the illusions they weave are always fragile, and once the curtain falls away, they are the ones in the hot seat. No one likes to discover they’ve been had.
Still, it seems that humans will always be susceptible to utopian siren songs. That is why we must teach our children how to recognize them. In many ways America is a unique flowering and culmination of a long European tradition, stretching from the Reformation, all the way back to the Romans and the Greeks. (VDH and B. Thornton get into some of this in Who Killed Homer?)There is much that is glorious there, and much to be proud of. The Founders knew this and embraced this tradition, adopting what worked and safeguarding against known pitfalls with their own unique genius, forged by hard experience. In many ways America is at the cutting edge of the human experience, that is both a huge advantage as well as a danger. In a sense the Revolution is still going on so its especially important to give a strong sense of continuity and belonging to new generations, while still encouraging them to range far and dare great things. That’s why educational reform must be one of the very highest priorities after we vote these bums out. I nominate VDH as Secretary of Education (as well as Defense!)
And BTW this tradition, while originating with, is not limited to Caucasians or Christianity. Indeed it seems to me that one the greatest champions of freedom alive today is Allen West. Imagine the slings and arrows he must bear! Yet he does it with great calm, and great honor. A true hero to help show us the way…
Dogs? I used to carry a stick on my walks. Now I have a can of hornet/wasp spray in a pouch on my waist. Sucker shoots 12-15 feet. (Better than a little squirt of pepper spray.) Hit anything in the face/eyes with that stream and the critter will immediately lose interest in you.
“…the no-win logic demands that voting for Obama in 2008 won racial redemption and voting against him in 2012 is proof of racism.” Dr. Hanson is correct that this shall be “ugly to watch.” But do I deter a silver lining behind this ominous cloud? The scourge of the “White Liberal Guilt Syndrome” seems to be finally dying out as Obama’s racialist minions overplay their race cards.
Well, Dr Hansen knows wherof he speaks, both from personal experience in California and through his extensive study of Classical history (especially the period where the Ekklesia was taken over by demagogues).
We still have a few cards of our own to play, mostly ones the Administration, bureaucrats and the Legacy media are not equipped to fight. If more Americans “go Galt” and simply stop all but the minimum economic activity for survival between August 1 and the election then there will be no way for anyone to spin the economic news in favour of the Administration. If more Americans deploy Samizdat to highlight the Obama economic record (just a “Thanks Barrack” sticker on a gas pump whenever prices rise will do) then millions of non political Americans will start thinking about their choices. Cancelling subscriptions and telling advertizers to left wing or Legacy media you are no longer buying will cut their economic blood flow. You can think of other things to do.
The longer term play will have to be to strangle the money supply to any and all institutions that continue to support, promote or teach Progressivism in any form. Economic boycots will directly attack some of the enablers, and the steep reduction in tax dollars due to a prolonged John Galt strike in Blue States will put a lot of pressure on legislators. We need to stop thinking there is nothing we can do; the individual actions of thousands or millions of Americans can undo the Progressive Project, just chipping away at the foundations a little at a time.
Well said, Thucydides.
I myself enjoy something of a Galt life in Reno, Nevada, and have encouraged my three college-age sons, my two brothers, their children, extended family and friends… to stop supporting or attending Progressive California universities, California high-tax living, and most particularly, California Progressive thinking and general making of hell on earth.
The result has been very, very clear.
I live alone, and my family is convinced I am the most wrong-headed man to ever live, that lives now, or will ever live.
Dr. Hanson,
With all due respect, I think you are not realizing the seriousness of what is about to transpire. I am a fairly serious observer of the political scene, a fairly vocal one. I do not dream of comparing myself to you, but I am aware of what is happening around me.
I am a cynic and a pessimist by nature. Always have been, and human history bears out that viewpoint as being more closely aligned with the truth than optimism.
In the last few months, events have driven me to believe that there is a less than 50% chance of real elections happening at all. This regime does not intend to be removed. And they will face no real opposition from what is supposedly the opposition party. The Institutional Republicans will be about as effective as the Roman Senate post-Augustus.
If I may, a list of events:
1. We have not had a constitutional budget for 3 1/2 years, and will not have one for 4. The administration is missing budget deadlines right and left, and the Republicans cannot be roused to defend the constitution or Congress’ powers.
2. The rule of law was broken early in the regime. The blatant theft from the stockholders and bondholders of GM and Chrysler, in addition to the physical threats of mob violence by the president against the wealthy set a precedent.
3. We have close to 40 “Czars” exercising executive power, without statutory or constitutional authorization or funding. They have neither loyalty to nor accountability to the Constitution, but rather are Obama’s creatures alone.
4. Presidential appointments subject to the confirmation process are finessed by “recess appointments”. Except the “recess appointments” are made while Congress is in session. For purposes of appointments and the Constitutional limits on the Executive, NOW the President can declare Congress to be in recess for appointment purposes, even when they are physically sitting.
5. The President has arrogated to himself the power to rule by decree. The recent Executive Order on Immigration had far more import than just illegal aliens.
a. The “Dream Act” which he claimed to be implementing is not a law. It is not even a bill that has been introduced into either house of Congress. It was a talking point, that he has declared by his own will to be the law of the land without Congress, Courts, or the Constitution.
b. There is already in existence a whole body of immigration law. By decree; without Congress, Courts, or the Constitution, he is voiding existing laws by a stroke of the pen.
c. He is doing this without opposition from the Institutional Republican Party.
6. Congress has the constitutional duty of oversight over the actions of the Executive Branch. That is in conjunction with the power of the purse. The power of the purse is gone, as noted above. In the “Fast and Furious” case where the administration was caught smuggling firearms illegally to Mexican Drug Cartels, the Attorney General perjured himself. He “withdrew” his sworn testimony after it was proven a lie. Congress has subpoenaed specific documents between the Attorney General and some of his subordinates. The President has declared that the documents are now covered by “Executive Privilege”.
Executive Privilege was pretty thoroughly defined in the Nixon impeachment; by both Congress and the Courts. It does exist. A President can protect communications between himself and his immediate subordinates, for a number of valid reasons. Communications between lesser officials and their subordinates are NOT protected from Congress, and Obama is successfully asserting that the Executive Branch cannot be investigated by Congress. There are no more Constitutional checks on the actions of the Executive.
7. He has issued a host of Executive Orders and States of Emergency that mark out his political opposition as enemies. In addition to #3 Adina Kutnicki, Israel‘s timely post above, there is this list of what has been already done:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/do_obamas_executive_orders_reveal_a_pattern.html
8. The Supreme Court has just undermined the protections of the Bill of Rights by ruling in the Obamacare case that the government can impose mandates on people that would otherwise be forbidden under the Constitution so long as they define the punishment for not complying with the unconstitutional mandate as being a “tax” [which failure to pay at any level can be punished by imprisonment].
9. Members of his party and administration have called for the cancellation of elections. Governor Beverly Perdue of North Carolina on September 28, 2011 called for the cancellation of elections until the economic crisis was over. Peter Orzag, of the White House Office of Management and Budget wrote an article in the September 14, 2011 issue of The New Republic stating that there is “too much democracy” in our system and called for a more centralized system of government control.
The key point with these was that there was no outcry from either the administration or the opposition Institutional Republicans at this sedition. That trial balloon is still flying. Imagine the bipartisan screaming if an elected or appointed Republican would have suggested something similar during a Republican administration.
10. The penultimate check in the system of Constitutional checks and balances is the fact that our sons and daughters in the Armed Forces swear their Oath to the Constitution and not any regime. Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, they have a positive duty to refuse orders in violation of the Constitution. Our combat troops are either isolated in Afghanistan, or are being shipped to the Middle East as fast as possible, with a peak troop strength at or just before the scheduled elections.
11. We have a new domestic army, loyal only to the regime, of paramilitary forces in every executive branch; but especially Homeland Security. Can you conceive of any rational reason why the Department of Education needs nationwide SWAT Teams?
IF there are to be elections, your warnings are apt. But they are perhaps not serious enough.
If I may suggest to you and to the Gentle Readers here; that now is the time to have a serious talk with our sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, who wear the uniform … About the primacy of the Oath, and that they are expected to side with the Constitution and the American people in any conflict over who rules our country. We depend on their honor and loyalty.
Subotai Bahadur
The “power of the purse” was usurped in 2008 when Bernanke was allowed to do illegal bailouts through the “Maiden Lane” special purpose vehicles. Bush allowed this to happen. The Federal Reserve can now spend unlimited dollars on anything it wants without appropriation from Congress. It just proves that all legal obstacles go out the window in an emergency. The amount of credit in the economy (as a % of GDP) is more than twice the Great Depression level. We are in a Second Great Depression right now, albeit a depression that has been contained by Bush, Bernanke, and Obama. It remains “contained”, until it doesn’t. Anything is possible in an emergency – including the scenarios you describe.
I fear you’re right. This takedown was planned decades ago. Hidden allies have made it possible despite all the obvious tells from this administration. We’ve basked in the illusion of our freedom, but the hammer could come down at any moment. And all the recent EO’s seem to be in preparation.
H.G. Wells: “The World Set Free” “Human history becomes more and more each day a race between education and catastrophe” — There Will Be WAR. In the end, the progressives and their allies will lose. It will be long an bloody, but they will lose. The first battle is NOV. 6TH 2012. Perhaps thats the first and last battle for the soul of the country, if not we will move to more familiar ground. “6″
One other thought. I wonder what the upper echelons of the U.S. Military, the office corps, and the Zebras are thinking and watching these days besides their daily reviews of strategery, tactics, logistics, force multipliers etc. I’m relatively sure they are checking their collective “6″ -I wonder who else their checking? I wonder? “6″
I think we all need to just calm down a little bit….we have come so far since 2010 – that was just the beginning, guys. We are primary-ing out RINO’s left and right, democrats cannot win anything outside their inner-city fraud wards, and the super PAC’s have not got cranked up yet. There will be no doubt in any voter’s mind what the Commie Kenyan is and what he and his America hating ilk have done to our country.
The polls are not to be any more believed right now than they were in 2010. Believe it or not, there are millions of Americans who have not paid very close attention to the democrats crimes and treason; they are misinformed, ill-informed and outright lied to….but they will soon see the light. Call me naively optimistic but I have to believe that there is still a strong majority of Americans that love their country and will come to despise this filth (barry and the dems) and everything they stand for.
Mao on the Potomac has only been vetted for a month, and already the wheels are coming off as people flee his tired bromides and platitudes daily. As more light is shined on his crusade for America’s destruction I am certain that he is looking at the most lopsided landslide in American history, even if he starts a shooting war with Iran….nothing can save him and the more desperate he gets, the more pathetically ideological and petty he will become. Barak Hussein Obama will leave office as the most humiliated, despised and utterly insignificant president in American history. 12 months out of office, Holder and Co. will be facing prison terms (among many others) and the newly divorced most ineligible bachelor in Chicago will not be able to pardon him.
Mitt Romney is the major benefactor in all this, but he needs to understand that he is the last Republican establishment man to be forced upon us. 2012 will usher in the reinforcements for the Fabulous Freshmen of 2010 and the McCains and Grahams and all the other RINO’s in the house and senate will be facing their last terms. Shape up – or ship out. We the People are taking back our country; if you do not walk the walk – you’re fired.
We’ve been finished for quite a while already…I suppose this election is yet another quickening of sorts. When half of the country and the media see nothing problematic with the absence of a border, the institutionalizing of foreign languages, and the fact that fifty percent (or more) of the populaion is dependent on the other half that works and pays for the above indignities –we’re finished.
Like Dr. Hanson, I live in California. Two years ago I was in a serious accident caused by an illegal alien who fled the scene. I was hurt. The local police arrived and took a report.
She returned to the scene an hour later during the mop up. He spoke with her (in Spanish) and discovered she lacked a license, registration, insurance, and California plates. She confessed (for sympathy, no doubt) that she was illegal.
He let her go, informing me that, “She and her kids would get deported if you pursued this; besides, you have insurance…” Yup, and after this first accident in my lifetime (I was 48) my insurance rates tripled, even though his skimpy report noted that I was blameless.
Go figure. Someone has to pay. Besides, what should I have expected? Cops are union workers with pensions after all, and like the illegals themselves survive at the Democrat trough. Yup, we’re finished.
Re: “Many in Israel are getting ready for the mother of all wars!” Adina, I am a Christian and an American, but offered my services to the IDF anyway some years ago – but was rejected as they apparently didn’t need the services of a forty-year old who didn’t (and still does not) speak Hebrew. Some relatives on my mother’s side hide Jews from the Gestapo during WWII, and I felt it was my duty to step forward to offer myself in Israel’s defense, from those who wish upon her a second holocaust. I will pray for your nation and people.
There are times that try men’s souls, and theses are one of those time. Our nation is at risk because it’s being ruled by a bunch of mad men.
You have noticed. Have you not that that Obama, the lowest job creator in the history of America and the highest job loser and debt producer,is making charges at Romney without selectivity. He’s throwing every focus group tested piece of mud against Mitt hoping that Mitt’s media team of morons will respond like the hand picked rank amateurs (friends of the family) they are. I love Mitt’s teams typical response: “that’s troubling…or the statement that scares Obama’s teams to the bottom of their hobnail boots, “I demand an apology.” If Mitt’s team has the anecdote for Chicago style lying, cheat, thuggery politics, they’re keeping it a better secret than Obama keeps our national secrets.
Obama. in my view, is doing horrible things to the country. He cares only about reelection and not of the survival of this nation. In fact, he’s working to destroy us.
Gosh, Rachel, what a bold, ballsy statement, especially in a political climate
where 50% agree and 50% disagree. It’s not exactly the equivalent of siding with the Catholics in Egypt.
The words you’re probably by now familiar with are to the effect that Romney better start attacking Obama and not counter punching as much. The Romney rope-a-dope plan, unlike the Ali/Foreman, is hurting Romney. Romney’s becoming the dope.
If Romney doesn’t start attacking with killer commercials within a week, he’s done for. The Obama lies will have hardened into little cement places in independents’ minds, reinforced constantly by the traitorous main stream media.
Sometimes I don’t think Romney knows what he’s up against.
All the time I think Romney’s people lack the creativity to think up great Obama attack points. Like.
Gee, what a bad example Obama sets for young people who know he snorted cocaine and now laughs about it as if it’s just a phase of growing up. Think if Romney smoked cocaine, the Obama people could make a commercial out of that? I do. And a darn good one.
Think if Romney was being investigated for leaking secrets Obama could make a commercial out of that? I do. And a darn good one.
Think if Romney squandered 5 trillion dollars, the Obama people could make hay with that?
Think if Romney got a sweatheart dealing selling his house, Obama could do something with it?
Think if Romney outsourced our space program and our Olympic uniforms and hired GE’s Jerrfey Immelt, the biggest outsourcer in private industry, Obama could scream bloody murder, you’re killing our country. I do.
Think if Romney’s attorney general refused to protect the borders, lied and stonewalled about Operation Fast and Furious that Obama would fast be running furious TV commercials how our attorney general thinks he’s above the law? And that Romney must agree. Which makes Romney a felon, a traitor and obviously a unfit for the Presidency?
Think if Romney sat in Wright’s church for 20 years and hung out for the last 20 with domestic terrorists like Bill Ayrers that Obama wouldn’t notice the easy pickings for great anti Romney commercials?
Folks, so it’s not a mortal shock to you. Romney doesn’t see these opportunities. Romney’s people are totally unqualified to think up great commercials.
Folks, I’m not just some jerk off the streets of Chicago.
I spent 30 years making Corona, Coke, Virginia Slims, University of Chicago heath care spots. Kellogg’s, Brunswick bowling, Northwestern Bell, Winston, McDonalds, Weber Grill, and on and on and on. I worked with the SwiftBoaters to dump Kerry.
I managed small government campaigns. Got a crooked mayor out of Barlett, Il and put an honest one in.
Point, not to brag. But to suggest I may know a little of what I say.
If Romney doesn’t start attacking, fresh, new attacks capable of driving Obama bonkers, the election is lost. The bigortry for Obama is worth 3 % points at least. Obama vote stealing is another 2% lost.
I talk about likening being a Romney supporter to spending March 6 in the Alamo. If Romney is afraid of Obama, he’d better get over it fast.
Obama’s a bully, a lying cheating corrupt miscreant of a bully. With small c communist thugs all around him.
When the Battle of the Bulge was being fought, Ike didn’t take a vacation or brush up on his counter punching. Ike allowed Patton to take most of the 80th infantry division, which gained more ground and took more prisoners than any other infantry division in WWII, to relieve the boys of the 101st who told the Germans, “nuts” to surrendering. It’s time for the green troops under Romney’s command to open fire on the Obamas with the vengeance of the Russians taking Berlin.
It’s time Romney realizes this isn’t a political game for gentlemen. It’s political war where hands get dirty; where taking prisoners isn’t even considered.
It’s H hour, Mitt.
ATTACK.
Of course you are 100% correct here in your analysis. But it doesn’t matter. God has removed his protection from this nation. Millions of aborted babies and our embrace of wholesale perversion has forced God to allow us to suffer the consequences of our actions. This will turn many to salvation for their souls but everyone is going to go through the fire that is coming. Even if the perverts and layabouts stay home on election day ( the ONLY way Romney can win ) a Romney election will do nothing to even slow the fall of a perverse and godless nation.
Excellent R. Peepers – very well said. Romney will win the White House simply because he is NOT barak hussein obama….and because people such as yourself, me and others will do the fighting for him. Romney is not fighting to win, he is playing not to lose; I know you understand the difference. But, I could not agree more – his pusillanimous, sissy, weak expressions are both maddening and concerning. He is the short term answer to a long term problem and is probably looking at one term himself to be replaced by a real American president in 2016. But, for now we need him in order to defeat tyranny, marxism and the democratic destroyers of democracy.
Potential DUI victims should benefit from the laws of physics.
A DUI conviction should require that the licence plates on all vehicles owned by the losing defendant be turned in, and that they not be allowed to have a license plate on any vehicle in their name or put in their name which weighs more than 2200#, for the duration of the sentence. A judge may decide on licensing a vehicle weighing more than 2200#.
Dr. Hanson:
Do “tit-for-tit commercials” advertise girly bars?
Concern at this end about the dog bite incident and risk from rabies. Said to have happened two weeks ago. I hope the dogs are tied up in the custody of animal control! Sometimes the opposition characterizes we conservatives as “rabid right wingers.” Well, ok, whatever. We just don’t want it to be literally true in this case.
Any chance of getting an update prior to the next scheduled posting? Best wishes to Dr. VDH.
It is probably relevant that, in the area of mediscare, that each poster child for the dems’ campaigns over the years has been a fraud. Every single one.
Obama’s criminality aside, I dont see how any society can survive when 50% of the population is on disability/food stamps, does not work or pay tax, and many who do work do so for cash under the table. The working population at some point will die off and or refuse to pay for others and the tax base dies off. Look at the birth rate of white european types in Europe and the USA. In Europe they do not reproduce enough to maintain their society and the USA in basically on fringe and will likely follow the same path. Add out of control and unchecked legal and illegal immigration which adds to the people getting benefits and a working productive society will be overrun. Its like a cancer. Its Europe soon to be us. As with VDH’s recent experiences, these problems show up in our day to day lives and we cant do anything because our leaders either support the criminal freeloader types because they want to stay in office or they do not want to rock the boat and lose their career in politics because they cant make money privately because they are simply lazy but connected conservatives.
The fact that for four years we continue to provide evidence that shows not only is our President not eligible, but has committed multiple criminal acts all while lying about his background, with nothing being done to remove him shows that our government has usurped on both sides of the aisle and we are slowly turning into a dictatorship. See Hitler in Germany and Chavez in Venezuela and even Pol Pot in Cambodia if you need to learn the playbook. It can happen here and is right before our eyes. While criminals do what they will do, the fact we have elected conservative leaders and commentators who wont even touch the eligibility issue and the criminal acts and millions to hide records is even more disgusting. If I hear Sean Hannity or Mark Levin say Constitution or Ronald Reagan one more time, I am going to puke. If you want you can email me at my Rush Limbaugh @reagan.com email address.
If you think we are getting this Obama Shabazz Soetoro out of office in an election, I have beach front property in Kansas to sell you people. The fact we have a country filled with intelligent conservative christian hard working successful Republicans and Mitt Romney is the best we can put up shows we are finished. Romney is Obama light and is who Democrats would nominate 50 years ago. True Conservatism cannot get elected in this country anymore because of certain lazy types and their rich enablers simply make up too much of the population. Add the hatred of successful people by failed liberals who use their failure to prop up a political system they will never adhere to or which wont change their current position under capitalism and you have an electorate that can dictate who runs our country. Obama knows that he can tell any lie because it does not matter, his voters will stay and their might be enough undecided to sway the election just in case.
When things get this bad, it is beyond repair and will only be fixed with a violent revolution if at all. It is going to be interesting because while revolution is an easy word to use, you wonder how far we have to drop off an economic cliff before the average american with an average job and 1-2 kids and a big screen tv and SUV will get involved. By the time they will do something, Obama will have fully looted our treasury and we will be in a fully socialist economy.
I feel for our country and wish we had leaders who would stand up now rather then 10 years from now. Our current crop of leaders needs to be arrested and tried for treason if they have taken an oath to defend our Constitution. Show me one conservative leader worthy of his oath? Its not Allen West or Boehner. If we find the right leader who tells it like it is and takes action, the people will follow. Our children need this person to emerge.
YOUR READ IT HERE SECOND (OR THIRD, I’VE WRITTEN IT SEVERAL TIMES):
THE CEO OF A MAJOR BANKING OR FINANCIAL ORGANIZATION WILL BE ARRESTED, HANDCUFFED AND LED OUT TO THE ADMIRING MEDIA’S FRONT PAGE, PRIME TIME PUBLICITY.
THEN EARLY NOVEMBER THE CHARGES WILL BE DROPPED.
For 70 years, the Left has been down and dirty to win. And win it has. Our country is vastly different from FDR’s first time at bat. Everyone knows it, but Republicans have been afraid to articulate it. It is coming out now, the damnage of the dependency government. The unfairness of 10% of the population paying 70% of the federal income taxes. (And almost half paying none, with almost half of them getting money back…indirectly from those 10%.)
Most of us know this, but need a leader to say it. Tell us business is beneficial. Tell us union monopolies are as bad as corporate monopolies. Tell us prosperity helps us all, that ALL of us in poverty isn’t good. TELL US, MITT. GET MAD, MITT, ONLY YOU CAN SAVE OUR COUNTRY. GET MAD AND SAVE US.
For the first time the Left — the true conservatives holding all the reins of power — can taste losing power. They see it in the vote for Gov. Walker. In the rise of the Tea Party. They fear it and will pull out all stops to keep on to their power, their raw power over us. Union bosses, trial lawyers, university professors, Hollywood pretties, Puntitary Elites, racial plantanionists and Left-wing politicians all HAVE ENERYTHING TO LOSE.
THIS IS THE SECOND CIVIL WAR IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
IT WILL BE OVER ONE WAY OR ANOTHER IN NOVEMBER 5 (BARRING THE PRO-FORMA LEFT WING LAWSUITS.)
Would someone be kind enough to check why I am caught in the spam filter for so long?
I am responding to my own post #37 that has sat for hours.
Thanks.