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Tiresome Rhetoric = Eventual Capitulation

Posted by RedDot on Friday, May 30, 2008 11:28:18 AM
It is an old and tenured practice of the left.  It is an ancient practice of politics devoid of representation.  It has been very effectively used by cults, communists, socialists, fascists and pet rock salesmen.
 
If you lie long enough - if you boldly proclaim the inane as irrefuteable - eventually your critics will give up and it will be "accepted" as true.
 
Peace through weakness.  Oil for food.  U.N. protection.  Global warming is man made.  You name it.  Billions of dollars go away to support these ideas and we wind up with.... oops, nothing.  Well, I guess not quite nothing - rich nation states and attorneys that are now well positioned to fund their hate of our success and goodwill.
 
Keep telling us it is a bargain.  Despite every evidence that the issue with gasoline price is simply supply and demand - we have been made subject to the whims of foreign, aggressively anti-democratic powers left in control of our supply.  We have not been allowed to develop our own resources (by the left).  We have not been allowed to build refineries (by the left).  The industry has been sued into submission (generally by the left).  Those capable of taking on the huge capital cost of resource development have been villified and convinced (by left and "right") that government will make sure the risk is not rewarded.  We really need to be more like France and Germany and the Netherlands.

Of course, if we all conserve enough, dump our suv's (and put up with the increase in traffic fatalities - nbd), the kindly despotic monarchy (which currently supports killing women for showing their ankles) and the benevolent dictator to the south (who ponders the disappearance of all the political, social and religious leaders who at any time may have been opposed to his "leadership") will certainly reward us with lowering prices to accomodate our efforts.
 
Just like Washington and Nebraska.  Maybe that's a bad example.
 
No, the ideas our leaders have adopted (and are touting - McCain, Clinton or Obama) have NEVER worked in the past.  Yes, these same ideas have led unswervingly to national disaster.  Yes, radical expansion of governement always leads to a reduction of adherence to the constitution and rule of law - always.
 
But, it will be different this time.  Trust them - they know better.

 

 

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Gotta Love Ben Stein

Posted by RedDot on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:04:45 PM
I like the guy more and more.
 
This is not new but efficacious in any case.
 
 
Thanks to DC for bringing it to my attention.
 
 
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A Tough Question

Posted by RedDot on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 12:43:28 PM
There are times that the decisions which face us are confusingly sparse of details.  There are times that we face decisions which will have tremendous impact on our future(s) - but we have no view of the better path.
 
Thankfully, we are not in that morass today on one issue.
 
The evidence is mounting to the same level as that of the efficiency of gravity.  This guy is not only in left field, he is beyond the field lights. 
 
When we look at the corruption of the U.N., the murderous policies of many governments, the absolute denial of basic rights in the majority of "Islamic" countries (I believe most of these goverments are simply despotic and evil, not Islamic - but Islam is their claim, not mine - I would not so designate them otherwise), the inane tenets of communism and the thin thread of rationality and dramatic bravery of that and those which have graciously preserved us from the same path - there is no rationale that I can discover which would give reason to the statements of Mr. Obama.
 
 
Base our actions on how other countries "feel" about us?
 
The success of our policies, beliefs, form of government and sacrifices to establish liberty and rule of law should be subordinated to the nuances of how Mr. Obama interprets how other countries "feel" about American "excesses"?  "...That's not leadership... That's not going to happen..." ?!
 
At the point of who's gun is it "Not going to happen" Mr. Obama?
 
No decision here - give this guy a desk job in an embassy in Saudi until he can figure out the it is the SUCCESS of our form of government, the SUCESS of personal liberty, the SUCCESS of property rights, the SUCCESS of the Judeo-Christian worldview and the SUCCESS of the AMERICAN experiment with the rule of law and separation of powers and limited federal government and INALIENABLE RIGHTS granted from GOD not government which has put self serving, despotic, communist, socialist and tin pot dictators in the "we hate the U.S." camp at the U.N.
 
It is not our SUV's or thermostats Mr. Obama.
 
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What I Think I Should Know to Think to Need...

Posted by RedDot on Friday, May 16, 2008 12:15:59 AM
There are days I think that thinking is... well, difficult.  My family would say this is both indemic to and epidemic in my life's cocoon.
 
I find it difficult to connect the dots in some areas.  Being the ever so slightly stubborn soul that I am, I tread unlightly into those arenas with no small lack of foresight.  I have thought that scuba lessons might help... in hindsight of course.
 
I have decided I need assistance with assessing the world's loftier issues... let alone in coming up with positive, cogent, pithy (my favorite word because it is so often used in a context that ain't) and executable (read practicable) ideas toward resolution or sound change.
 
So here goes...  I need help deciphering what we need in Afghanistan and Iraq.  Mary K. Ham exposes the long quested for answers from an unlikely source... All we need to know to fix Iraq and Afgahnistan.
 
I need help understanding, in concrete, direct terms, my role in the world and WHY my goverment is suppose to be viewed as evil, Craig Newmark clears that up at his Berkeley commencement speech.
 
I find myself mystified in determining the role of the sexes in society, history and what grounds for a marital relationship are.   The greater minds of California's Supreme Court have straightened this out for me.
 
I have a hard time with economics.  I think it started with my desperate fear of my college junior statistics professor - who was an economist and reveled in making minds like mine melt.  It all becomes simple if I would just listen to the Clintons - it starts with the farm bill that the mean dim conservatives have quashed out of pure spite.
 
 I also thought I knew who to support in this election - it was "anybody but those two..." - NOW, given that a certain "blue collar" attorney has left his humble abode and pontificated to the masses his manly man, ahead of the curve exemplification of leadership choice , my poor, average American cogitator is in quite the untidy state.
 
Unfortunately, taking to heart the meandering drivel which constitutes the thinking, mores and musings of those above would most likely make me miss the real heroes of thought and action who we are graced with yet today.  Those who don't or didn't manipulate the masses to simply acrete power for sacrifice upon altars of base desire.  Those who truly led. Those who invested their lives in the reality of freedom, liberty, peace through strength, vanquishing evil as and in the reality it manifests itself.  Those who we should invest ourselves in learning from.
 
Hillsdale just dedicated a great effort to Maggie Thatcher - the "Iron Lady"
 
"The new world of freedom into which the dazzled Socialists have stumbled is not new to us. What to them is uncharted territory is to us familiar and well loved ground. For Britain has returned to those basic truths and principles which made her great—personal liberty, private property and the rule of law, on which democratic freedoms everywhere are based. Ours is a creed which travels and endures. Its truths are written in the human heart."
 
                                                                                                                    Margaret Thatcher
 
Here here.
 
 
 
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