Read More......You are the Someone | Belmont Club: "The West is filled with millions of people like Alex, all of them waiting for Someone. They are the product of a multi-decade campaign to deliberately empty people of their culture; to actually make them ashamed of it. They were purposely drained of God, country, family like chickens so they could be stuffed with the latest narrative of the progressive meme machine. The Gramscian idea was to produce a blank slate upon which the Marxist narrative could be written.The first thing that must strike any outside observer is that Socialism, in its developed form is a theory confined entirely to the middle classes. The typical Socialist is not, as tremulous old ladies imagine, a ferocious-looking working man with greasy overalls and a raucous voice. He is either a youthful snob-Bolshevik who in five years’ time will quite probably have made a wealthy marriage and been converted to Roman Catholicism; or, still more typically, a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaller and often with vegetarian leanings, with a history of Nonconformity behind him, and, above all, with a social position which he has no intention of forfeiting."
Too bad for the Gramscians that the Islamists are beating them to the empty sheets of paper. And they are better at it too. Maybe the old Bolsheviks could have given ISIS a run for its money, but today’s liberals have declined from their sires. George Orwell observed the takeover of hardcore Bolshevism by the periphery in the 1930s.
Sunday, June 28, 2015
The Prim Little Man
Friday, June 26, 2015
Look At My Pretty Poopies
Ace of Spades HQ: "But check out the Sociopath below.Read More......
No human conscience present.
President Look At My Pretty Poopies is just so damn proud of his lies."
Drawbridges
Instapundit » Blog Archive » THE HIGH PRICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS: Consider Tesla. The purchaser of each Tesla Model S th…: "AKA, “The Drawbridge Effect,” as James Delingpole dubbed it: “You’ve made your money. Now the very last thing you want is for all those trashy middle class people below you to have a fair shot at getting as rich as you are. That’s why you want to make energy more expensive by opposing Keystone XL; why you’re all for environmental land sequestration (because you already own your exclusive country property); and Agenda 21 – which will make all Americans poorer, but you not so much, because you’ve enough cash to cushion you from the higher taxes and regulation with which the greenies want to hamstring the economy.”"Read More......
ToTs
Supreme Court Upholds Tax Subsidies Under Obamacare « CBS DC: "“The Court holds that when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act says ‘Exchange established by the State’ it means ‘Exchange established by the State or the Federal Government.’ That is of course quite absurd, and the Court’s 21 pages of explanation make it no less so,” Scalia wrote. Scalia added, “Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is ‘established by the State.’ It is hard to come up with a clearer way to limit tax credits to state Exchanges than to use the words ‘established by the State.’ And it is hard to come up with a reason to include the words ‘by the State’ other than the purpose of limiting credits to state Exchanges.”"
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Sorry Progressives -- Flag Burners And Jew Haters Ain't Us
Charleston shooter Dylann Roof’s ‘manifesto’ revealed on ‘Last Rhodesian’ website | Daily Mail Online: "Roof says that East Asians could be 'allies' and some South Americans are 'worth saving'
Said Jews count as whites but wants to 'destroy Jewish identity'
Wished he could 'turn every Jew blue' to emphasize that they are different
Also contained stash of photographs showing Roof pointing a gun, posing with a Confederate flag and burning the Stars and Stripes"
And apparently he couldn't find Robert Byrd to help him.
Oh, and Sheriff Joe is going to protect his local black churches. That should make the progs heads spin. Read More......
Friday, June 19, 2015
Two Tweets
Liberal Hypocrisy in Two Tweets | Power Line: "Not sure who caught this, but it does convey why no one should ever take Salon.com seriously:"
mFI
Ace of Spades HQ: "Well we are in the Crazy Times. But the good news is that they won't last. Because they can't. The bad news is something will eventually bring the Crazy Times to an end and if we're lucky it'll just be very unpleasant."
Greedy Grasping Grifter Granny
Ace of Spades HQ: "Oh, and did I mention she's a greedy, grasping grifter, thieving dollars from the charities she supposedly "supports"?"
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Of Course Not
Why The Left Needs Climate Change: "Try this out as a thought experiment: what would happen if, tomorrow morning, we had definitive proof that catastrophic climate change was impossible, wasn’t happening, and would never happen. Would Al Gore breathe a big sigh of relief and say—“Well good; now we can go back to worrying about smoking, or bad inner city schools, or other persistent, immediate problems.”Read More......
Of course not. The general reaction from environmentalists and the left would be a combination of outrage and despair. The need to believe in oneself as part of the agency of human salvation runs deep for leftists and environmentalists who have made their obsessions a secular religion. And humanity doesn’t need salvation if there is no sin in the first place. Hence human must be sinners—somehow—in need of redemption from the left."
Friday, June 12, 2015
Monday, June 1, 2015
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Two Tommys
Tomi Lahren & Tommy Sotomayor Get Real about Race: Lose the White Guilt - YouTube: "Tomi Lahren & Tommy Sotomayor Get Real about Race: Lose the White Guilt"
Our Political Class -- No Longer Nearly A Good Enough Start
As I pondered this nascent "Our Political Class" series, my mind wandered back just a short interval to this post including Adams' classic quote: "I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, that two become a law firm, and that three or more become a congress."
And then I realized that the old joke about lawyers needs to be revised to "What do you call a thousand lawyers on the bottom of the ocean? No longer nearly a good enough start."
Our Political Class -- Dishonorable Mention
Instapundit » Blog Archive » AMERICA’S POLITICAL CLASS: “If I understand the history correctly, in the late 1990s, the President…: "AMERICA’S POLITICAL CLASS: “If I understand the history correctly, in the late 1990s, the President was impeached for lying about a sexual affair by a House of Representatives led by a man who was also then hiding a sexual affair, who was supposed to be replaced by another Congressman who stepped down when forced to reveal that he too was having a sexual affair, which led to the election of a new Speaker of the House who now has been indicted for lying about payments covering up his sexual contact with a boy.”"Read More......
Our Political Class -- A Summation
Attention FIFA: Here’s how to take a bribe without getting caught - MarketWatch: "As late Boston political boss Martin Lomasney once said, “never write if you can speak, never speak if you can nod, and never nod if you can wink.”"Read More......
Much More Than The Robots Per Se
Will A Robot Steal Your Job? | Zero Hedge: "Will a robot steal your job?
It turns out that the answer depends on the prevailing macroeconomic conditions much more than people think.
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In other words, in a technologically-advanced economy, cheapening capital by central bank decree can actually destroy jobs rather than create them. Try wrapping your head around that one Thomas Piketty.
It seems that many of our jobs are under threat as a result of policies that create severe economic distortions, much more than the robots per se."
Where No Man Goeth
Are All Central Bankers Idiots? | Zero Hedge: "Here's what he told us:Read More......
It is doomed, of course. But not necessarily soon. As long as the major tendency of the economy is toward deflation, central banks can print money without causing consumer price inflation. They can buy bonds and keep buying them. When they buy bonds, they tend to lower interest rates. They also finance government deficits. And, from Japan’s example, it looks as though they can do it almost indefinitely.That’s right: They can keep this gig going… until they can’t. When it ends is anybody’s guess. It is in the future, where no man goeth with GPS or map in hand…"
Like since the time of the ancient Egyptians
This typical sign of a stock market bubble is misleading - MarketWatch: "Martin Kenney is a professor at the University of California, Davis, and an expert on the IPO market. Kenney is also the senior project director at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy at the University of California, Berkeley. In a recent interview he told me that, because of the ease with which private financing is available, the average startup is waiting a lot longer before going public.And from the comments:
How easy is it to get private financing? Take a recent comment from Stewart Butterfield, chief executive of Slack, the corporate-messaging app that last month raised $160 million from a handful of investors and is now valued at $2.8 billion. Butterfield told the New York Times: “It might be the best time for any kind of business, in any industry, to raise money for all of history, like since the time of the ancient Egyptians.”"
Hulbert has a good point. There certainly isn't the exuberance of past stock market bubbles, but there is a bubble nevertheless. It is a bubble in credit. Many have cited the PE ratios as the reason that this is not a bubble. They fail to realize that the current PE ratios would not even be possible if companies had not leveraged up with debt. In 1980, there were 60 major companies worldwide that possessed the coveted AAA rating. By 2000 that list had dwindled to 15, and today there are only five. When growth slows, revenues decline. If a company is leveraged with debt, even a slight decrease in revenue can result in default on that debt. Governments have also leveraged up with debt. In 2008, the global debt was $147 trillion, and today is $200 trillion. Debt is growing exponentially, like the shape of a hockey stick. We are at the "hockey stick" moment. Tick, tock!Nothing to see here, move along now... Read More......
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