The Incredibly Wonderful World of our Sensitive Elites
Life in Our Alternate Universe
I listened to two hours of news tonight, then read a sampling of columnists, and learned the following.
Turkey
We should blame ourselves for the estrangement with Turkey because (1) George Bush put it in a tight spot in 2003 (but Turkey simply took our foreign aid and said no to the transit of the 4th Infantry Division, which, had it came down from the north into the Sunni Triangle, might have accelerated the collapse of Saddam’s forces); (2) the EU did not admit Turkey (given what we know between the relative attitudes toward thrift, finance, and legal compliance among Germans and Greeks, we could imagine what the divide might have been, say, between Anatolia and Amsterdam); (3) the Bush neocons’ tilt toward Israel forced our natural Turkish ally into the Islamist camps (we are to ignore the unhinged rants of former Turkish Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan, who started in on his hate the Jews/trash America outbursts in the 1990s, apparently to wide applause, that predated Bush).
What I did not hear from our pundits: (1) Turkey monitors the spiraling debt of the U.S., the new bowing/apologizing/outreach to Iran, Syria, etc., and senses weakness and hence opportunity rather than magnanimity and hence appreciation; (2) Turkey’s new efforts to be on the cutting edge of radical Islam while trying to be a window on the West are in perfect accord with some 400 years of Ottoman history, when contact with Western powers was largely parasitical and aimed at enhancing Muslim interests; it was never, before the shared fear of the U.S.S.R., an ally of liberal Western democracies, siding with imperial Germany in World War I, and signing a friendship pact of neutrality with Hitler in 1941, so there were always historical faultlines; (3) Turkey sees a growing distance between Israel and the United States and hence opportunity for it to slip in between to galvanize Islamic opposition in one-eyed-Jack fashion, while in the Southern Mediterranean to reestablish a larger presence toward a bankrupt Greece, estranged from both its northern Europe creditors and the United States (tired of cheap Athenian anti-Americanism).
Helen Thomas
I did not hear that she urged not just that Israel get out of the West Bank, not just that 1947 Israel cease to exist, and not just that Israelis leave the Mideast — but that Jews go to Poland and Germany (but, why, Ms. Thomas, not, say, to France or Lithuania?)
And here was the media reaction: (1) Ms. Thomas is almost 90, give her a break (but if that suggests she is senile, why the cherished seat as the doyen of the White House press corps?); (2) Ms. Thomas was a trailblazer and the greater good must outweigh the smaller bad (but she has a long history of especially inflammatory comments, and it is an American practice to punish public figures, whether a George Allen or Trent Lott, for a single outburst of racial or ethnic insensitivity); (3) She is sort of right, in that Israel will have to withdraw to its 1947 borders (but she did not imply that; instead she meant out of all the West Bank and Israel and back to the site of the Holocaust).
Therapeutic Foreign Policy
I also heard that the reset button foreign policy is working, especially in the case of the Mideast and Russia.
To the contrary: our historic first Islamic apostate president has long ago learned all that he ever will.
He resents our way of life, joins with thugs against us, drains our wealth, and celebrates our demise.
Stage four is our responsibility in defending against the tribe he leads.
DEFEND? Long time past to say beat, rout, overcome, whip, you name it, but playing defense just won’t do it.
May I suggest crush, as in” crush the bastards”! A rallying cry heard at both both military and athletic events should serve us well as we deal with this insurrection..
I agree with you that Obama has learned all that he ever will learn. A Messiah, as he clearly sees himself to be, doesn’t acquire knowledge; a Messiah imparts knowledge. Other than that Dr. Hanson is right on.
I sent the following email to my congressman:
My wife and I have lived in your district and voted for you for the past 20+ years.
I have a suggestion and request:
With the announcement of more money being given to the Palestinians, I believe that you should place riders in ALL legislation that forbids funding any foreign states and organizations that refuse to recognize Israel as the legitimate homeland for Jews and furthermore cut off all aid and aid-in-kind to these same organizations [see any and all middle eastern/Islamic propaganda].
Respectfully Yours,
++++++++++++++++
with your permission, VDH,
will everyone who agrees with me, please do the same.
I sent so many polite but firm letters and emails to my senator and congressman about the health care bill I’m afraid they know me, know that I won’t vote for them, and will ignore my opinion.
Thanks again to VDH for the snapshot of the world situation. It’s so sane.
I emailed my Senator (Nelson Florida) and my Congressman asking if they participated in the standing ovation for Calderon. They did not bother to respond. They ignored their consituents on health care. One is a good little Pelosi Democrat and Nelson is a good little Reid Democrat.
Interesting idea . . . How about we do the same for Oath Keepers and White Supremacist groups? Restrict all unemployment, welfare, food stamps, etc. to anyone involved in a hate group right here in our own country?
What’s with the inclusion of “Oath Keepers”? Never heard of them being a supremacist organization.
But not a bad idea. Should work to cut most of the left off from their primary source of funds.
Did the ever errant one mean Promise Keepers? I’ve never heard of the Oath Keepers.
Please consult Amendment 1 to the United States Constitution and the case law springing from that provision. I believe it has something to say about your proposal.
How about we do the same for Oath Keepers and White Supremacist groups?
OK Skeeziks. You count them all up and supply the addresses to DHS and I will support you with White Supremacist groups. I don’t know about Oath Keepers, though. What do you know that I don’t ?
Oh, and how many are getting foreign aid, again ?
I will agree with you only if I can define what comprises a “hate group.”
Sure. That will head off World War III and restore the US to prosperity and international respect.
And what better person that you, skeeziks, to tell us what groups are hate groups! Oath Keepers a hate group?
Who knew?!
Oathkeepers…They’re probably on a list at the Southern Poverty Law Center.
In current First Amendment doctrine, that would not be constitutional.
The first “Hate Group” this administration would place restrictions on would be the Tea Party. The have already branded them Nazi, Homophobic, Racists.
Oath Keepers? As a former military person reading that statement tells me exactly where you are coming from.
When I was in the Marine Corps I made a promise to myself that I would arrest any officer who gave an order to fire on civilians. The fact that you want that to be a possibility speaks volumes!
If you’re going to define white supremecists as defacto hate groups then you also have to define black supremecists that way. Start with the NAACP and go from there.
Only the hate groups that pass legislation or negotiate treaties need be feared or even deserve a reaction. Could you possibly be classified as a member of any or just another indoctrinated victim of main stream media bias? Get your head out of the sand see what msm has already done with their left handed logic. If you still want more, just notice the line being drawn in the sand and be aware that averyone here that has refuted the bias will stand together on the same side with Patric Henry.
How about if we just cut to the chase and impeach obama and then arrest and try him for treason?
OK, but Cheney first.
I’m guessing you aren’t aware of this. Cheney isn’t VP anymore. Not that he ever did anything deserving of impeachment.
I find it interesting that you name organizations such as the Oathkeepers as a hate group but fail to mention all of the hate groups of the radical left such as the Weathermen, New Black Panthers, La Raza, Code Pink, etc.
Why is that? Is it because we would have to “Restrict all unemployment, welfare, food stamps, etc.” to what makes up the rank and file of the Corruptocrat party and arrest most of Obama and Pelosi’s friends along with most of Hollywood.
Better idea: Block all foreign aid anytime the federal budget is in deficit.
No paperwork or decision making to decide who is a “hater”, just simple basic math.
Now this is an idea I can support. Good call.
Today Obama announced that he is asking the Congress to authorize a national energy tax to push the nation into renewable energy sources. Frankly I was amazed that while unemployment is crushing the life out of one in ten Americans, that Obama would propose a new tax which will unemploy even more citizens while leaving the present unemployed without jobs.
Plainly there is nothing that can be done with Obama, he is destroying the economy in America, his appeasement diplomacy is empowering rogue regimes and scaring America’s remaining allies, and making South Korea and Eastern Europe targets for North Korean and Russian domination.
And Obama thinks he is doing a brilliant job.
Whether Obama is doing a brilliant job depends on what his job is. We think it’s to lead the nation in a responsible way. It may really be to destroy the nation in furtherance of the goals of his backers and handlers. Agreed, that’s not in the job description of U.S. Presidents; but he may feel that the ones who have paid his way get to call the tune.
If it’s the latter, he really is doing a brilliant job.
Bob Young is right.
Obama has refunded the welfare state as ACORN wants. Obama has funded state and local governments as Government Unions want. Obama has killed school choice as teachers Unions want. Obama is dismantling our energy sector as the greens want. Obama is giving special protection to corporations that got in early.
You can go on and on. Export loans for Soros, inhibiting federal investigations of Governor Richards, Union pensions funds. Paying money or endorsing Obama has been a great investment for a rainbow coalition of thefts.
You’ve got it!
The aim of the “20th hijacker” is to take America down–and he is doing a bang-up job of it, too.
Meanwhile, the press thinks he is “a kind of God” and the people who are unhappy only accuse him of being incompetent–as he presses ahead, setting the table for lots more harm to America than the September 11 jihadis were able to accomplish.
Bob Notsoyoung writes, “. . . the people who are unhappy only accuse him of being incompetent . . .”
Really? Bob, have you not been reading the articles right here and at other sites, like Power Line? I’d say a lot of us, who are unhappy with Obama, see him as an extremely dangerous Marxist (possibly Muslim) ideologue and Chicago thug, to boot. Even Jon Stewart “kicked his ass” the other night. Maybe the worm is turning. Let’s hope so.
block aid to haters – Not to sound like a defeatist, but what you did sounds like a really excellent way to waste paper, ink, and time – not only did it not get read by him, but the page opening it probably used it as a coaster for his morning coffee. It is loooong past time when any suggestion from a constituant makes any difference in how they vote – just look at them run and hide. Your best bet – round up all your friends, put your pocketmoney on the table, and run for office – look at what’s his name, Alvin Greene
I don’t think we will barely survive the debt of this congress.Many economists are predicting a severe downturn in the economy in 2011.
We gave the keys to the Kingdom to a man child and his classmates in congress.
How long before the angels: the Washington Post, NY Times, major TV “news” channels,including the always trustworthy BBC, and the learned clerisy in “elite” education, trumpet the GOOD NEWS? That the US Congress: House and Senate,the US Supreme Court, all faithful to their duty in the Separation of Powers of the US LAW/CONSTITUTION (with nods from the UN) announce the OFICIAL DECLARATION of the promotion of the Messiah Obama to full fledged one and only God. HALLELUJAH !
“Obama reminds me of my own twenties when I was both ignorant and arrogant in my self-absorption:”
A cigar chewing, former prisoner of war military survival training instructor cured me of this same kind of ailment in less than two seconds..
Flat on my back seeing stars in the middle of the day I learned that the best thing to do when you’ve been run over by a train is say, “Thanks!” Had things not gone this way the odds are that I would have shipped out of Vietnam early – feet first horizontally.
Dr. Hanson, other than demonstrating your inimitable command and mastery of our language what do the articles you write accomplish?
Not one of the Alternate Universe problem makers will ever care a whit what you think, have to say or the same applies to those who agree with you.
Survival means preparation and action. To that end “barely” is worthless.
The establishment truth is that there are no cigar chewing training instructors left to teach these lessons and God was dismissed from our midst decades ago.
In their absence we have Change and Hope.
Sometimes the choir needs the preaching also.
Re: #7 “what do your articles accomplish ?” You are right on point. I have asked this question of VDH for many months. He is a master of outlining the dilema but vacuous in pointing out short and long term solutions. He obviously has none ! Give the man a break can’t you see that he likes the sound of his own voice and the resulting income. Descriptions and complaints are meaningless without concrete plans and solutions. We are on our own. Good luck to us all.
The PJ media gets some of realities and misses others completely, so please go easy on your fellow msm.
The biggest story of the century lies just below the surface of the gulf oil spill and not one media outlet has figured it out.
The story is so big that it could change the course of history, yet not one person to my knowledge, other than me, has figured it out.
I offered it to PJ on the tip line but they were not interested.
Someone else will figure it out. Can you?
It is there, right under your nose and you can not see it… not hurricanes, not fish.
You clearly have no idea what this “biggest story” is, either, or you’d state it.
Rob Crawfish: It is clear you are not a very good analyst, do not quit your day job!
I take it you still don’t know.
I know what it is. Crocodiles are getting bigger and more difficult to manage. And able to ride ocean currents to far away land masses. So Lewis Carroll’s first puzzle no longer makes sense.
Wow. That is earth-shaking. Good catch.
I don’t think that Obama will learn the realities of the world. You are suggesting that Obama has the desire and ability to live in the real world. I disagree. Obama long ago moved into a virtual world of his own authorship and he has no intention of, and probably no ability to, leave that world.
My supposition is that as the real world attempts to intrude on Obama’s virtual world, Obama will retreat more and more from its incessant push. You can see him do it daily.
If the real world intrudes by questioning him, criticizing him – he reacts with anger. He reminds you that He is The President, and your criticism is due to your…pick one…political bias, racism, ignorance…
Or, he’ll remind you that His Purity remains unsullied because the cause of the problem was: Bush. Or BP. Or the Era Before Obama. Or Greed. Or Wealth. Or..
If reality gets too prickly for him, Obama will simply totally and completely ignore it. He’ll act as if it doesn’t exist. That’s his basic action towards Islamic fascism. It doesn’t exist and to prove it, he’s insisted on expurging all reference to it in govt jargon. Terrorism doesn’t exist; it’s ‘man-caused disasters’. Islamism doesn’t exist; it’s ‘one-man extremism’.
The Oil Spill? He’s defining it as a criminal action, ignoring both the govt insistence on deep sea drilling and rejection of fail-safe methods…and..he’s abandoning any leadership actions to CLEAN UP the mess.
We’re going to see Obama with more golf, more parties, and more programmed audience speeches…as he retreats from the real world into his virtual one..where He is Boss.
Louis XVI and the Dowager Empress of China lived in an alternate universe also.
“M’lord Chamberlain, what is that odor I smell?”
“Fish monger’s wives, your Majesty.”
“Ques que se?”
You see, eventually the door to the alternate universe opens and the reality beyond is revealed. At which point the fantasy universe collapses like a black hole. And then?
“Apres moi, le deluge.“
I suspect that Obama’s popularity with journalists is about to come to an end. American journalists, like their counterparts in the State Department, are internationalists for whom Europe sets the fashion. And English journalists are turning on Obama over his treatmemt of BP.
There is also the daily mounting evidence of the chief executive’s lack of executive ability. Even the most loyal Obami are beginning to recognize that this is an image-trumps-substance administration. There is only so long you can pass off clueless dithering as sage deliberation.
Shame! Victor! Israel does NOT have to “return to its 1947 borders”.
Nor do the Brits have to give up the Falklands: they won the Malvinas fair and square 160 years ago.
Nor does Texas have to give back land between the Rio Grande and the seceded Texas Republic 166 years ago.
21 million Arabs rained down on 1.5 million jews in 1967, and the Jews WON land to the Jordan River and their capital Jerusalem.
Tell Jordan and the Arab League to take back their Arabs instead!
you obviously didn’t read/understand the article.
I would replace the word “barely” with “hopefully” because that may be all we will have left to use!
Another good article, Dr. Hanson, even if you’ve misquoted Mark Knopfler. It’s “money for nothing”. It still remains to be seem of it’s been “all for nothing”.
“Obama reminds me of my own twenties when I was both ignorant and arrogant in my self-absorption”
You remind me of my dad in his seventies when he was both out of touch and intransigent in his resentment. Curious why young people didn’t appreciate “real music” like Al Hirt and Pete Fountain. Confused about “why everything costs so much.” Concerned that “they” were creeping into our side of town. Convinced that if everybody just drove Buicks the economy would be fine.
We all own a unique past. But we share a common present, and are respponsible for the near future. From where I stand, conservatives aren’t interested in making the hard choices and changes that promote progress. They’d rather watch Arthur Duncan tap dance up and down steps.
#15 Why Mr. Scuzneck, you seem to have your own confusions judging by your, hahaha, body of work here. Confusions about:
(1) Why the peace Corps, initiated in the early 60s, hasn’t brought peace after 50 years of work. (2) Why the war on poverty, initiated in the 60s, is still being fought on all fronts without even one battle having been won after spending hundreds of billions. (3) Why Americans dislike Congress more than ever before…don’t they understand how good the Reid Pelosi bills are? (4) Why Obama is still fighting violence in Iraq, and why Obama is using drones in Afghanistan more than ever against targets far below and hard to accurately identify. And you say WE don’t promote progress. But it’s because progressivism has never shown much progress, but much more regress. Progressives are failures (see oil spill and deficit for details).
“We all own a unique past. But we share a common present, and are respponsible for the near future. From where I stand, conservatives aren’t interested in making the hard choices and changes that promote progress.”
/eyeroll
“From where I stand, conservatives aren’t interested in making the hard choices and changes that promote progress. ”
Really? I guess you’re correct in part — conservatives have a hard time accepting the false choices presented to them by the left, such as “raise taxes or the country goes bankrupt” and “support race-based preferences or get called a racist”.
As for “progress” — call me when what gets dressed up under the label “progress” isn’t the road to serfdom. I’d rather be on the road to liberty, thank you.
Hard choices and changes that promote progress…towards economic ruin.
Skeezix:
Why do you think we care about your impressions of life?
Interesting term: “promote progress”. So you’re saying progress is not a natural function, but must be nurtured and ‘promoted’? Who decides what is ‘promoted’? Who sets the terms and limits? Therein lie the hidden reefs in the Sea of Freedom.
As set in his ways as your Dad may seem, at this stage in your life I would trust his judgment over yours. In another generation I suspect you will discover how much wiser your father is [or was]. And it will occur right before your eyes. He is wrong about Buicks, though. Oldsmobiles were better.
Who gets to decide what constitutes progress?
I have no doubt that my conception differs greatly from the ever errant conception.
Interesting. The Principal Liar sleazits Persons Galore can now add ageism to its growing list of bigotry. The implication here is that all 70 year olds are “out of touch” and intransigent in their resentment. Not only that, they are branded “conservatives”, which is a sin beyond compare. From this you could deduce that all conservatives are a monolithic group, and all think like an intransigent, resentful 70 year old sleazits dad. And of course include that so out of touch Dr. Hanson, who has never to my knowledge, described himself as conservative.
What could be simple disagreement, is elevated to consume the entire personality of someone it supposedly knows well – its father.
This bigotry is on the level of “all negroes are afraid of snakes and spiders, and they conceal razors in their hair.” Some how sleazits never stopped living Lost in Space.
A more interesting subject would be an explanation as to why sleazits chooses to post on PJM with so many identities. Why is the need to lie and misdirect about such a fundamental thing as one’s identity needed?
It appears that being oneself is not adequate, and that the dishonest enhancement is justified simply because of the fact that sleazits is a weak sleazits, and presenting who oneself is consistently, is not required, (in fact lying is desirable) – except if you are not sleazits. Then you must absolutely adhere whatever whim representing morality crosses its mind. If not, you are the dreaded conservative, or fill in the pejorative ______________.
Dr. Hanson has always been Dr. Hanson. Who have you been sleazits? Tell us about your accomplishments. Please do. Dr. Hanson’s are there for all to see, as yours are too, in the PJM archives.
Need a reminder Persons Galore?
Whatever.
OK, but you first. Real name (and papers) please. Followed by accomplishments.
And you remind us of loathsome things that supposedly live under bridges. Yet here you regardless.
This skeezits thing is merely another of the rodentia that inhabit the sewers or progressivism. It is unable or unwilling to state exactly what it is towards which it thinks it’s ‘progressing’. Unable to compete in the arena of ideas and debate, it resorts to vicious back-biting and babbling.
Its responses are little more than a trail of ad-hominems and non-sequiturs, reminiscent of the small turds left behind by his rat bretheren.
Yeah…let’s take a look at that “common present”:
Social Security…brought to us by “progressives”. At present? Broke.
Medicare…brought to us by “progressives”. At present? Broke.
Medicaid…brought to us by “progressives”. At present? Broke.
Welfare…brought to us by “progressives”. At present? Mother of rampant dependency and degeneracy.
Trillions spent on “progressive” education models. At present? School scores that have remained flat for 50 years and steady decline in American students competitiveness.
I could go on and on and on…
Yeah…$13,000,000,000,000 in debt and roughly 1/2 the population leeching off of the other half.
What progress! Hooray!!!
And isn’t it funny that whenever a progressive talks about “making the hard choices”, the only solutions they ever espouse are these:
1) capitulate to our enemies
2) confiscate ever-increasing amounts of money from the ever-shrinking productive class in order to redistribute it to the ever-growing leech class.
In the last 30 years we’ve had 8 years of Reagan, 12 years of Bush, and 12 years of Republican control in Congress. All governing what you say is a conservative country populated by 80% Christians. All promoting deregulation, union busting, nation building, corporate personhood, unchecked military spending . . .most starkly illustrated by Dick Cheney’s quote, “Deficits don’t matter.”
So . . .
So … That would be EIGHTEEN years of Democrat controlled Congress… So … sew buttons on your underwear, that’s what’s so…
tomw
Skeezix, your Dad sounds kind of neat. In his 70s? Does that mean he had you at an age that his sperm count was running low and crippled?
Do you still live with your Mom?
Noel Coward’s’ got nothin’ on you.
Ah, but think for a moment of Gaza and the Palestinians. What images the MSM braintrusts have conjured in our minds: grinding poverty; empty shelves a la 1950s USSR; rags to wear; dusty, empty streets where the unemployed idle away the hours………nah.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/202829.php
Every Day Obama has been in power, his policies have made the World a much more dangerous place.
Helen Thomas gets the Roman Polanski defense. So do most people liberals like. It’s all about their accomplishments (against the right.) But conservatives, no. They get the “you’re dead to me” treatment.
***”as Obama learns each day that China, Iran, Russia, Syria, and Turkey do not behave like professors at Columbia, the law school dean at Harvard, or the community activist board in Chicago.”***
Actually, they behave JUST like those groups: Thuggish, dictatorial, oppressive, devious, double-talking and self-interested. They just don’t behave as those “cognitive elites” WANT them to! Apparently they missed the memo from the cognitive elites that says they’re supposed to play suckers and marionettes for same.
You listened to two hours of newscasts and lived to tell of it? I refuse to do that. I find it either raises my blood pressure or causes an inordinate loss of brain cells.
You mean the hard choices like cutting spending ? Kids like you expect to be supported. Your dad knows better.
skeeziks conservatives understand all to clearly what ‘progress’ means to the ‘progressives’ and they want none of it. The hard choices are coming alright and that includes dismantling a large part of the ‘progressive’ state.
So, Skeeziks, what have you done? Served in the military? Taught with Literacy Volunteers? Worked with Habitat? Delivered Meals on Wheels? Donated Blood?
You remind me of every know-it-all I ever met. Never around when there’s work to be done, but full of opinions about how it should have been done.
I’ve done three out of those five.
“I’ve done three out of those five.”
Yeah, 3 out of 5. Right. What about this song and dance routine?
You did do this –
35. skeeziks
“You people are such chickenshits.”
Jan 30, 2010 – 12:55 pm
And this -
43. oscar le grouche
“You people are hilarious
“You’re just two dumb to know it.”
May 5, 2010 – 12:31 pm
And this -
42. dahbouv
“You people don’t get hypocrisy and why that is bad …”
April 24, 2010 – 8:23 am
And this –
108. avoidswork.
“You people realize that ACORN…”
Jan 27, 2010 – 1:19 pm
And this -
38. moho
“…you people… “.
Jan 8, 2010 – 5:38 pm
And do support the military as well with this –
84. skeeziks.
“Actually, it’s a Deployed Retard bracelet.
Feb 11, 2010 – 6:09 pm
So who is speaking here? Got an answer? Of course not. The Pope just set an example for you. Get it?
The Kick Me sign nailed to your ass fits. Wear it proudly.
Need more reminders of your duplicity?
Yeah, you who questions the integrity of others…
Whatever.
35 and 84 are me, and I stand by them. The others are others.
skeeziks
“35 and 84 are me, and I stand by them. The others are others.”
June 11, 2010 – 3:42 pm
skeeziks
“I used to know people like you when I was a deacon . . .”
“Hail Rush. Go Sarah.”
June 4, 2010 – 8:03 am
A deacon…??? Like Grand Wizard?
Then the Principal Liar sleazits as the Handsome Mixed European – American Mystical Turkey With a Touch of Black.
111. Now and Then:
“Hail Rush, Go Sarah.”
Dec 4, 2009 – 1:23 pm
233. Now and Then:
“Hail Rush. Go Sarah!”
Dec 5, 2009 – 7:03 am
Are you 111 and 233 too?
Oh sure, really now. The “Others”? Is that the alien race you have alluded to on occasion? Maybe you don’t know about the “Others” any longer. Once they are banished, they no longer exist? Convenient! They do live on in the PJM archives. Check it out sometime. I did see Alice Wigglebotton roaming around. Is she pretty?
Can the funhouse mirror distort in a positive way? Try it, you might like it!
I’ll use one of your lines so that you may understand fully.
“I’m laughing right now.”
And, have you finally arrived, again? Again?
34. Now and Then.
“I think I’ve outgrown all of you. I’m operating on an different, higher plane.”
That higher plain being –
“If it’s me, well I see a couple bales of Northern Sensimilla, a stack of Mad Magazines, and a stripper named Rose I picked up from the local jiggle bar. Hi, Rose. Yeah, in a minute. First I gotta debug this data base.”
Dec 15, 2009 – 5:46 pm
Yes indeed. Rosie O’Donnell’s data base. Debugging…it. That would drive anyone to change his or her name. Mmm, mmm, mmm.
The Kick Me sign nailed to your ass is so useful. Every President needs a whipping boy. Too bad Rahm E. didn’t choose you.
You’ll just have to settle for being PJM’s self admitted whipping boy. Enjoy!
You made your cesspool. Love it or leave it.
Whatever.
Skeeziks: what you suggest in your comment 3 would be a clear violation of the first amendment to the constitution which we hold dear. Our government is not supposed to punish citizens for views it dislikes.
It is quite a different thing to punish foreign governments or almost-governments for actions we dislike. Do you see the difference?
With regard to your comment 15, you are still fairly young, and do not seem to realize that those who wish to make hard choices and to force changes often do not anticipate all the consequences of those changes, and only discover afterward that the hard choice made leads to disaster.
They pass bills without reading their details (or reading them at all) they govern for the benefit of their supporters instead of all citizens. They have no concern for traditional moral principles. Also they seem to think that raising tax rates will always raise tax revenues, when in fact they usually do the opposite. They ignore history and its lessons and rush like lemmings toward a cliff. Beware of arrogantly assuming that your ideas are obviously better than those of conservatives. They are not.
If you want to have the better of an argument you should examine all sides of the issue, study what your adversaries are saying, and make sure that you have answers to all their concerns before you shoot off your mouth. Democrats these days prefer to shut down speech from their adversaries and pay the consequence in their silliness.
Skeezy, like our present SC nominee believes that only those things that the govt judges to be “socially responsible” are eligible for 1st ammend protections.
You mean Nikki Haley?
Like the careful construct of thr Chamberlin Gov’t and the British elites in the 30′s this one will collapse.
Skeeziks says: “From where I stand, conservatives aren’t interested in making the hard choices and changes that promote progress. ”
It’s a wonderful thing that liberals know both what constitutes “progress” and which way we ought to choose. Must be that some of us are too old to see such self-evident choices and directions. And perhaps now that VDH is no longer grappling with Greek postpositives, he will explain to some of our younger and more liberal readers something about hubris.
Skeezits and others like it are going to get a mighty lesson in the memaning of hubris, and fairly soon. It’s doubtful that most of them will survive it in order to profit from it, however.
In addition to reading VDH’s works, things like sleezits would also profit from the works of Leee Harris, whose “Civilization and Its Enemies,” I highly recommend. I can find a number of points of disagreement with Mr. Harris, such as his reluctance to clearly delineate the role of the Will to Power in the catastrophes of the last 120 years or so, but he generally knocks it out of the park.
the community activist board in Chicago.
Such boards are misnamed, if one considers the ‘community’ to be ALL US citizens. They should properly be called ‘tribes’, and their dedicated functions is much like tribal raiding: to extract as many resources from their neighboring tribes by political methods (including street activism and creative extortion), to benefit themselves exclusively.
That is Obama’s biggest problem. His entire upbringing and (judicially sealed) education prepared him for the tribal ghazu, exploiting liberal guilt through well-funded progressive organizations operating partly below the legal radar. So well did he exploit that orientation that he is now chief executive of ALL US citizens. Unfortunately, he has never prepared himself to represent that constituency, and has (as we do) a damn long learning curve – which will result in a lot of suffering, as Dr. Hanson suggests above.
Obama is our Manchurian Candidate. I wonder if the journalists will notice this after they spend a year or two being unemployed.
They won’t have to worry long. Barry is floating various plans to tax blogs to support the legacy media. (But only those members that the govt judges to be “socially responsible”.)
You a hard man Dr. Davis,,, hard, but fair. I suspect liberals fear you more than any GOP Congressman. Keep up the good work.
I think we will survive, barely, as Obama learns each day that China, Iran, Russia, Syria, and Turkey do not behave like professors at Columbia, the law school dean at Harvard, or the community activist board in Chicago.
The operative word is “learns”, and Mr. Hanson has far more faith in Mr. Obama’s capacity than I.
I’m not so sure Obama is learning what he needs to be, Dr. Hanson. He apparently is poised to support a UN investigation into Israel’s conduct on the Mavi Marmara – in other words, if the Weekly Standard’s sources are right, Obama is about to try to become lead wolf in the pack braying at Israe. Israel needs to be more than “very worried”.
I can hardly watch the news…. because lists, like this, of their errors and bias start up in my head.
“Beware of arrogantly assuming that your ideas are obviously better than those of conservatives. They are not.”
Quite an assumption you’ve made there.
It’s not an assumption, once it’s been proven.
For all intent and purposes we have an Alinsky marxist in the White House who believes in Czars and other totalitarian ways. He’s got 2.5 years to go and now that he’s shown his colors [red] the House and Senate has to be taken back to obstruct his planned destruction of the United States; cut off the money while noting where he’s hiding the moles. The bigger problem is we’ve had 55 million of our fellow citizens vote for an incompetent, the Elmer Gantry of politics, how that problem will be handled over the next 30 years is a real concern.
Real World Stuff Dr. Hanson:
…“all for nothing.”
Such a brutal world!
I think we will survive, barely,…
Note the adverb “barely.”
I’m overwhelmed with your positive outlook for the future in view of the adverse circumstances you continue to describe in such great detail so frequently.
I’m not so positive because I’m looking at the presidential election coming up in 2012 and see nothing but more of the same corrupt politicians who will take us down the same road to self-destruction and national suicide.
John McCain, Newt Gingrich, Sara Palain, Fred Thompson, Rudy Gulianni and on and on. There is no end to this madness apparently.
Dr. Hanson, in my humble opinion, the United States of America has never been more in need of a citizen patriot who is willing to step out of the fringe of the fire and help put it out before it destroys all that remains of this once great nation.
Dr. Hanson, I implore you, please become that person. Announce that you would be willing to consider a run for the big White House. Your presence, presentation of ideas and intellect would shock the electorate. Money follows good ideas and good men. Give the people a choice and a chance to support you.
Please Dr. Hanson sacrifice your good life for the United States of America. If there is even a glimmer of hope of saving her, there is no price to high. You
or someone with your attributes are what is desperately needed at this time in our history.
SKWEEZITS: Leave your zits alone, and try squeezing your head instead;it might activate your brain.As for cutting off government benefits, to those you disagree with,beware of what you want;come November,welfare will once again be restricted to those with genuine needs,and you could find yourself,once again, living under a bridge with the other drug-addled trolls.
Rush lives under a bridge?
I’ve asked this in the past, VDH is apparently very content in the cats bird seat, commenting from aside. However, if I were ever foolish enough to run for high public office,,, and win; VDH would be named as THE top adviser. His is a mind and wisdom we cannot afford to ignore.
Back in the day when he used to actually respond to e-mails he was very modest, I suspect that has not changed. VDH is one of the truly good guys.
Obama reminds me of my own twenties when I was both ignorant and arrogant in my self-absorption: Wondering why a particular ag supply company would not put all the bags on the pallet that I paid for,… Unfortunately, appeals to reason were, to quote Mark Knopfler, “all for nothing.”
Obama would have done well to have heeded the observations of Schiller (in The Song of the Bell):
Der Mann muß hinaus
Ins feindliche Leben,
Muß wirken und streben
Und pflanzen und schaffen,
Erlisten, erraffen,
Muß wetten und wagen,
Das Glück zu erjagen.
The man must go out
In hostile life living,
Be working and striving
And planting and making,
Be scheming and taking,
Through hazard and daring,
His fortune ensnaring.
What exactly are Skuzziks ideas? All he does is disrupt the flow of conversation with puerile non-sequiturs.
The US will not be saved because Obama, or TPTB
learn from experience, barring a miracle such as
being knocked off their ass like Saul of Tarsus.
The US people, and the US military, are winners in
peace and war because of their individual initiative,
innovation, and unpredictability.
The point of no return was passed long ago;
There will be hard times at home and war abroad,
the only question is how soon they come and how
well we respond.
P.S. I think the word is ‘delenda’ because regimes
willing to use weapons of world destruction cannot
be allowed to continue in power.
Scary friends you’re keeping these days Doc.
18. Matt
Helen Thomas gets the Roman Polanski defense. So do most people liberals like. It’s all about their accomplishments (against the right.) But conservatives, no. They get the “you’re dead to me” treatment.
The problem is: their “accomplishments” are rather shoddy and inconsequential.
Don’t count on Obama learning anything. He is too ideologically stewed to the gills in his worldview to change course. For him to step back and re-think his so far disastrous presidency would be like Fidel Castro confessing to having been wrong about socialism.
“(but, why, Ms. Thomas, not, say, to France or Lithuania?)”
because, apart the elders that retired in Tel aviv, the others weren’t immigrants from France
WWIII sounds good to me,shake out the garbage from our country & planet before it’s too late.”The West is the Best”.
…[Turkey} was never, before the shared fear of the U.S.S.R., an ally of liberal Western democracies…
Not true. In 1853 France and England, each for her own reasons, allied themselves with the Turks against Russia. An alliance of convenience yes, but nevertheless both rightfully saw Russia as more dangerous than the Ottomans.
Obviously, there is a history here in the comment section which I have not participated, and am excluded…
What I would like to point out, is what I believe is a bigger problem with or society and its leaders:
What if Hegel was right, and there is a dominant spirit of the age? Our age is characterized by a liberal-Marxist-socialist group of leaders who believe they know the problems, know the answers and can control the lines of argument.
But “the great Zogby” of Zogby International (a liberal icon perhaps) acknowledges that liberals and conservatives have different criteria for evaluating ethical dilemma’s, with the typical liberal evaluating three criteria and the typical conservative evaluating five criteria.
So liberals and conservative think differently and therefore come to different conclusions.
Humanity is built in such a way that there are almost twice as many liberals as there are conservatives, and incidentally, there is an extreme minority of people who think like libertarians. So, in a popular democracy, the liberal thought process will tend to win more elections than either the conservatives or libertarians.
As a consequence, “lightweight liberals” outnumber the rest of us, and they refuse to acknowledge that others may actually have a more inclusive world view than they. They do not understand the conservative or libertarian because they do not share the same concerns. When their incomplete world view bumps into problems, the LAST thing they will attribute this problem to, is their own inadequacies.
But how does a conservative or a libertarian prompt the liberal into recognizing this deficiency??
This is where we go back to Hegel: If the spirit of an age is not up to the tasks of the age, than another spirit must wrestle control of the age. If control cannot be won at the ballet box, it must be won in another manner. If the institutions of government have all been modified and compromised by a century of liberal governance, than they must be overthrown by non-political means.
This necessary fix is frightening, and anathema to conservatives. Is the devil that you know actually worse than the devil that you don’t? Usually the answer is NO. But when we talk about opponents who have and will use nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction, the answer may be YES.
The problem is that in order to fix one set of problems, there must first be a messy, destructive and time-consuming process to correct another set of problems.
Perhaps this is why empires fall: Perhaps the skills necessary to govern opulence are not those necessary to maintain hegemony.
that WAS very humorous…except they were originally designed in the 1970′s for tanks and bunkers
-i would thank the Russians.