05.11.09
Molto Bene, Papa
I am proud of this Pope for his brave actions today, and I wish him long years and mazel tov.
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04.08.09
Breaking the Hudna
The White House is denying this afternoon that Barack Obama bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia last week. Jesus! How stupid can they be? They are now inviting the public to question their sanity. They will not like the verdict.
As I explained to certain of you degenerate post-American losers last year, Obama has less of a claim on Christianity than Islam. By far. (His time in Jeremiah Wright’s church was a political act of no spiritual quality whatsoever.) He was, in fact, born to a Muslim father and raised as a Muslim by another Muslim man for most of his formative years. And that was okay with everybody on the way to his installment because it was a package deal that self-loathing post-Americans were ordering: voting for the Immaculate Step-Brother would absolve us of all our racist and imperial and Blonde Jesus-loving sins. No one could ever quite say how the mechanics of that would work, but they meant it. By the millions. And I do get that. But I still hate it. And I won’t be satisfied until certain of you who voted for Barack Hussein Obama are made to squeal in regret. Because there are so many lies he’s told and so many lies he’s told that you’ve ignored that it becomes a deathwatch on your integrity to reckon up all the excuses and rationalizations you’ve made to protect your pathetic little emotional investments in this man. It’s wall-to-wall partisan whoredom. It’s post-American treachery.
Well, what finally can be believed of this ultimate confidence man? Will you allow him now to tell you even what you have seen with your own eyes? Go to the video. That wasn’t him stooping to conquer, see. That was him in abject obeisance to the Great Custodian of the Shrines. It was done as a signal to the rest of the Mohammedans that the change they had hoped for was here at last. It made me sick to see it and it makes me sicker still to see him deny it. Let him pay a heavy political price for this latest and most outrageous lie.
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04.07.09
Barack Hussein Obama Is Not a Muslim
He’s a Muslim apostate.
Which somehow makes his bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia even weirder.
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04.03.09
The Treasury of Carbon
The surest evidence that what we are witnessing in this country is a Socialist power grab is the Democrats’ pursuit of the carbon tax. It is a measure that, by any measure, is unnecessary and highly ideological. The Leftists have convinced themselves, however, that their ideology in this regard is entirely justified by Science. Therefore, they seek to impose a tax on fossil fuels that will immediately burden the Little Man in the name of [higher reason]. And to what other end and into whose pockets? Well, uh, we’ll get to that later. But Science is God and God says let there be penance paid and sins remitted. The United Nations, I guess, will become the Arbiter of Nations and administer the programs funded by this disgusting tithe that is to be extracted from the pocketbooks and wallets of the American People.
To the Marxist, every truth may be divined by a deconstruction of the economics of a particular society, but there are equally essential cultural considerations that are never fully weighed by these people. There are morals and mores and folkways that do not submit to the quantifications and the soulless calculations of the America-hating Leftist because he pursues only [economic and scientific truth].
But do not doubt the turbulence of the thought now coursing through the ranks of what Nixon called the Great Silent Majority. I predict there will be moments of full volume to come when real Americans will speak out against this crime and demand proportion from their Government again and at last.
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03.11.09
The Natural Antidote
to Obama’s Neo-Socialism (need it be “Neo-”? I think it may just be “Retro-”) is Libertarianism. You know: “This land is my land”? “I’ll do what I cotton-pickin’ please”? “An honest day’s wages for an honest day’s work?” Well, it is only through embracing this old friend and natural partner that the GOP will succeed in the near electoral future.
This means getting well beyond just passing muster with the so-called Evangelical base. That shit needs to stop mattering now, brothers and sisters. Every good Christian knows that it is his or her duty to render unto Caesar, as well as to God. That’s because we are political animals and because we must live with the consequences of not only our own actions but even those of people we dislike and disrespect. That is the reality of politics in human society. You will not get above it. You will not get your way on every issue and you will never convince enough women that they have no choice over their bodies and you will not change enough souls, schools, or bus stops with your proselytizing and you will never be happy until you recognize that the genius of Protestant Christianity is in its fractiousness and in its frustrations with modernity and with what they used to call “the permissive society.” Y’all need the friction! You wouldn’t know what to do with your whitebread mega-churches if it came to running the real show, so just shut up and be grateful to God for easy Sunday mornings and the ladies who always wear their finest and the good lunch to be had after the ordeal is endured.
So now that you know that your theocracy will have to wait and that Darwin’s made it through to the next round and that Baby Jesus still loves him some tax cuts even in the depths of the Second Great Depression, start thinking of ways that you can work within the new identity of the Republican Party. No one is saying to abandon your principles or to abandon God and all the good things he’s made possible for you and yours, but when them carbon taxes start eating your ass out every workweek of driving the truck and hauling the kids around and y’alls pension plans are staying thin and Junior can’t get started on the schooling he’s gonna need after high school because you’ve got nothing extra put away, then you’ll remember how you let the Socialism of others replace the Opportunity that you’ve always worked for —and have just about always had.
There’s no doubt that Barack Obama lied his way into the Presidency and that a lot of people who thought they were doing the right thing have found themselves deceived into a lifetime of new taxes and burdens. Maybe even some moderate or “progressive” Republicans felt like the paradigm needed some shifting and, so, shifted. But with this bunch of shit the Democrats have dreamed up to impose on your business and your employment and your home? Are you kidding me? This Administration is intent on breaking the back of small business because the owning class represents the final frontier against which Obama’s Socialism is threatening.
The only way to move a majority of Americans back into the Republican column is to appeal to social moderates who choose small government, limited taxation, and strong national defense (that means securing our borders, too). No more legislating morality. Find out what states’ rights are really all about and start recognizing that only in a fair free market will we get our energy policies right, keep inflation low, and have real choices in education.
Pure Libertarianism is practically unattainable and logically incoherent in human society, but certain of its principles are quintessentially American. That force can be married to a fiscally sound Republican Party if only the Evangelical community will reconceive the importance of its beliefs in pluralistic terms.
Perhaps that, above all else, is a lesson we can take away from Barack Obama’s election: demography may be destiny, but a country’s character is also its fate. Let us embrace change for the right reasons and let us deliver ourselves from the Socialist catastrophe now staring us in the face.
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02.20.09
Barack Obama: More Popular Than the Beatles
When I was in high school, I used to poll my classmates by questionnaire. I think some of it even got into our school paper, but it was usually just for my own curiosity, as I have long been a quantifier and list-maker. It was also an excuse to use the mimeograph machine, the smells of which are among any well-bred schoolboy’s fondest honest highs.
The topics were usually about “Favorite Songs” or “Favorite Albums” (I don’t recall having to explain to anyone what an album was, but maybe). Lots of Journey and Michael Jackson and Duran Duran, let’s say? Good times.
But as I saw this survey of heroes a while ago, I remembered that I had once asked many dozens of my schoolmates who they thought were the “greatest villains of all time” or somesuch. They were mostly thoughtful, as I recall, and returned to me their best assessments. In retrospect, I don’t know how useful such a survey was, but when I read that the President is now bigger than Jesus, the teenaged quality of the sentiment reminded me of those old polls.
And I guffawed in my mouth a little.
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02.14.09
19 July 1969: Johnny Cash and Joni Mitchell Sing “The Long Black Veil”
I can’t bear to erase it yet, but I DVR’d a program a few months ago about Johnny Cash’s show he had on ABC back around 1969-71. It includes a beautiful duet Johnny sang with Joni Mitchell (aired the night before we first walked on the Moon, sayest the Intertubes) called “The Long Black Veil.” It is just haunting and devastating and has been in my head since last night.
I regard it as a sign of good health to be followed around by a song all day and wherever you go. Even the ones that annoy the tar out of you. It means you have love in your heart.
It really does.
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02.11.09
The PEZident
I don’t think it’s a good idea for the President and his poll-swallowers in Big Media to make him into some sort of indispensable dispensery of largesse. The hoi polloi who put him in the White House have stratospheric expectations that cannot be sustained. If the so-called press in this country weren’t so lousy with incompetence and partisan horseshit, I would expect them to dial it down some, but they are themselves practically moist at the prospect of witnessing Obamachrist’s first certifiable miracle, so no chance of that.
What a creepy age we are growing into. A tedious and mundane nightmare of unlikelihoods that I cannot awaken from.
I don’t want a hand-out from Barack Obama. I just want him to leave our economy alone enough to allow it to heal itself.
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01.21.09
Gesundheit
I’ve never gotten why people feel the need to say “Bless you!” after someone sneezes. Yes, I understand the historical-cultural —even the “religious” thing— behind it, but it is an annoying habit. Perhaps more annoying than the sneeze itself. But if blessing people in this way is annoying, then the one thing that trumps even that is the obligation it puts on the sneezer to say “thanks” in acknowledgement. Why do I, for instance, find myself thanking someone for saying something so unnecessary about so necessary a function?
People who sneeze are not, in fact, expelling their spirits through their noses and/or stopping their hearts; they are, instead, reflexively protecting their own bodies by violently ejecting whatever it was that was posing a threat to their respiratory and immune systems. Thus, as one is already blessed to have that well-functioning physical reaction to such a danger, one would do better to use the German “Gesundheit!” which is somehow less superstititous than it is recognitive. (”Healthiness! Yes! You are exhibiting healthiness!”)
Oh, and Obama’s Israel policy is already sucking.
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12.29.08
Slideshown
I just watched about as much as I’m ever going to watch of Al Gore’s world-changing masterpiece An Incovenient Truth. It was something I had DVR’d off the Science Channel, so I can only hope that none of his sage insights were lost to the commercial breaks. And I stuck it out, too, for probably 90 percent of the whole sermon, so give me my propers.
The verdict? It is easily the most self-serving product I have ever seen a politician deliver. It was like a cross between Nixon’s Checkers Speech and a highly speculative episode of NOVA, like that one they did about the species of hobbit-people who once lived on the island of Flores. The Gorebot is a doctrinaire man and only superficially recognizant of systems that exist off the program. But this was the apologia he had burned to issue, so peace be upon him. What is it to me? Gore was an example to me in my early 20s, but now he is an object lesson. He doesn’t practice as he preaches, so he’s easy to ignore.
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