Tag: public affairs

A Great, Thumping Lie

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Let’s see… We’ve got riots all over the place, protesters chanting “Waddawe want? Dead cops,” and waddaya know, two cops get murdered… “flash mobs” looting stores, gangs of “teens”–that means they’re all black–battering and sometimes even killing elderly, defenseless white victims in games of “knockout”…

And our glorious Community Organizer-in-chief, in the sixth year of the first job he’s ever held, says race relations in America have gotten a lot better since he took office.

I know I have to be careful, writing about this: but, gee whiz, what planet is he on? He’s spent six years jumping feet-first into every racial controversy in the news, and always on the side of the black party. Always. And so has his attorney general, who used to be Bill Clinton’s bagman back when that departing president was selling pardons.

Race relations are getting better? Where ought we to look, if we want to see that? Or is it just another one of those broad, sweeping lies that this worst-president-ever excels in? He says the economy’s looking good, too. And Obamacare’s a great success.

The combination of deep-rooted evil and rampant foolishness is a potent one, and that’s what we’ve got in the White House.

We just had an election in which the voters demanded, in no uncertain terms, “Stop him!” And he’s acting like it never happened.

I don’t enjoy writing about politics on this blog. But “race relations have gotten better since I took office”?

I wonder that the very stones don’t cry out against this lie.

UK Doctors Ordered to Rat Out Patients Who Gain Weight

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The National Health Service is going to go all out to fight obesity in Britain; and the campaign will begin with doctors snitching on their patients if they put on weight ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/11295265/Doctors-told-to-report-patients-who-put-on-weight.html ).

So much for the confidentiality of the doctor-patient relationship. Makes it kind of hard to trust your doctor, if you know he’s going to tattle on you.

The story in The Telegraph does not tell us what the government intends to do after they hear that Joe Blow has gained five pounds.

It’s all for their own good, of course. Socialism has so thoroughly infantalized the Brits that the government must literally guide the spoon into their mouths. Supposedly, Britain is “now the second fattest nation in Europe, with almost 25% of Britons classified as obese–compared with a European average of 16.7%,” according to the news article. The head honcho of the NHS says schools, parents, the NHS and the food industry must all “work in unison” to change “attitudes” and whip up a new “national programme” to make people healthier. Get their employers, the honcho suggested, to give out prizes to employees who lose weight.

And if that doesn’t work… well, again, they aren’t saying.

No one seems to be asking why so many Britons are overeating. Is it just because food of all kinds, including sweets and snack foods, is so easily and abundantly available, and it’s a pleasure to consume it?

Is it not so easy to come by other ways of experiencing pleasure?

Are people in this socialist paradise spiritually starving, and trying to assuage this hunger by gulping down food?

Ah, what the heck–whatever it is, government will fix it.

Just like it fixes everything else.

P.S. Thirty-eight years ago today, Patty and I had our first date. In early February I proposed marriage and she accepted. In August we were married. Our employer said, “Can’t you do that on your vacation?”

Fish or Cut Bait

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In the immediate wake of America’s thunderous rejection of his policies and his party, and his whole rotten stinking program, President Barack Hussein Ebola has intimated that he’s gonna just go right ahead and declare “executive amnesty” for millions of illegal aliens all at once. Just as if he were king.

This, of course, is unprecedented. To impose a change of such magnitude on America, a constitutional amendment is in order–not a fiat from some community organizer in the White House.

But I’m almost glad he’s going to do this, because it will immediately show us whether the Republicans in Congress intend to do the job for which the voters gave them a clear mandate, or whether they’re going to just wussy out like a lot of girlie-men and spend the next two years fattening off us like parasites. Let’s face it, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are not the kind of leaders you write The Song of Roland about.

Nevertheless, the lawbreaker-in-chief is going to walk right up to them and slap their faces. His “executive amnesty” says, in no uncertain terms, “F___ you, America.” If Congress doesn’t cut him down to size now, it never will: and that will be all she wrote for our republic.

Two things brought out that vote last week: stop amnesty, and get rid of Obamacare. That’s what the people have demanded. That is what the governed have consented to.

So we might as well find out now: are the people still sovereign in America, or are we only waiting for the branding iron to be applied to our backsides?

Britain Moves to Abolish Adulthood

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Hey, what if your brain was aging faster than the rest of you? Uh-oh–dementia’s just around the corner, right?

Well, they’re gonna do something about it–in England, at least. As the Telegraph put it yesterday, “The new system of screening, devised by Public Health England (PHE) means patients will be told how their brain is aging, compared to those with healthier lifestyles, in a bid to shock them into changing their ways” ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/11203786/Middle-aged-to-be-told-brain-age-in-war-on-dementia.html ).

Well, gee, what’s wrong with that?

“Officials behind the idea say they hope the warning will encourage people to make major changes in their lifestyle, which will reduce their chance of dementia. But critics said the plans were ‘heavy-handed and intrusive’ and would frighten millions of people–without giving them an accurate forecast of their true risk of dementia [emphasis added].”

This new scientific technique–lying to people to get them to do what you want them to do, because, after all, it’s really good for them and they’re just too stupid to appreciate your wisdom–was first given respectability in the Great Global Warming Hoax, and is now spreading throughout science. It has been borrowed from politics.

Remember how I asked, a few days ago, at what point will these people feel they have enough power over us, and won’t want any more? And the answer was, of course, that they will never, never reach that point. They will never have enough.

I guess the British government could say to its people, “Well, you leeches and deadbeats, you’ve made us responsible for your healthcare, so you’d jolly well better do as we say! If you think we’ll sit idly by while you all develop dementia because you didn’t run laps and do push-ups when we told you to, you’d better think again!”

And so the English people, once one of the great nations of the earth, are reduced to perpetual childhood by their own government and its hired Experts. Eat this, don’t eat that. You can’t smoke anymore. Hands off that cupcake! Get up from the couch, you lazy sod, and run 15 laps around the block.

That’s where they’re heading.

And we, poor fools, are right behind them.

They Don’t Know Shinola About Ebola

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The headline says it all, right? First they tell us you can’t catch it, Then they tell us you can catch it from a sneeze. They tell us there’s nothing to worry about, no need to ban incoming flights from Ebola-land, and anyhow quarantines don’t work–and then they won’t let a U.S. Army unit come home from Ebola-land, but ship it to Italy and quarantine it there.

If you can’t make head nor tail of it, well, neither can the CDC. Not even with President Barack Ebola’s new Ebola Czar, the guy from Solyndra, who was last seen making half a billion of our taxpayer dollars disappear.

If nothing else, this crisis does reveal the vast incompetence of Big Government and Big Science. These leaders, these experts, who insist they are qualified to interfere in our lives and micro-manage our affairs, these anointed idiots, have imported Ebola into our country and don’t know how to contain it. They do not know what they are doing.

Look at Obamacare. Does that look to you like they know what they’re doing? Or even care?

These people aren’t competent. They are also without morality.

Tuesday, Election Day, we have a chance to punish a lot of them by voting them out of office.

But you can’t do that by staying home or voting third party. And please, spare me the bromide about what a bad guy I am by voting for the lesser of two evils. Does it make me a better person if I vote for the lesser of three evils instead of two?

It may already be too late to prevent Ebola from establishing a permanent foothold in our country.

But if it does, please remember that it was the Democrats who insisted on importing it, and refused to do the absolute basic Job No. 1 of any government–to protect its citizens from harm.

Meanwhile, it must now be abundantly clear to even the most limited intellect that neither Big Government nor Big Science can live up to its advance billing. They must both be cut down to size. They have too much of our money and only know how to make mischief with it.

So You Think the Fight is Over?

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As of today we learn that the lesbian mayor of Houston has withdrawn her subpoenas of Houston pastors’ sermons, assorted writings and communications, and anything else resembling the exercise of free speech and religious liberty in opposition to her now-infamous “bathroom law” that allows mentally disturbed men who claim to be women to use women’s rest rooms.

Has she had a change of heart? I doubt it. But she did have a national uproar on her hands, plus pastors mailing her copies of their sermons, and people mailing her Bibles, from all over the country. She may be a villain, but she isn’t stupid. She realized that she had gone a step too far, too soon, and had to retreat.

For the time being.

America is not quite ready yet for “gays” to dictate what may or may not be preached from the pulpit in a church.

But if you think they’ve given up on it, you’re wrong.

Two contradictory moral codes may not reign supreme over one society. Either American Christianity must re-assert itself, awake, and reconquer lost ground; or else Gaydeology will conquer it and reign supreme. “Sexual liberation” will become America’s highest moral value, and faithfulness to the Word of God her most severely punished crime.

And if you think any of Organized Sodomy’s triumphal progress so far has been achieved without the fervent, unwavering support of the Democrat Party…

Please think again.

How Much Do They Want from Us?

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Here’s a question to ask any “progressive” (translation: soft-core communist): “At what point do you decide you have enough power over us and don’t want any more?”

They want to control our health care. They’re designing little buttons we can wear that’ll rat us out to the massa if we eat something he thinks we shouldn’t eat.

They want to review our pastors’ sermons. They want all of us to participate in and “celebrate” same-sex pseudo-weddings, or else. People have been thrown in jail for having a garden in the front yard instead of the back, or not mowing their lawn to the satisfaction of the authorities. If they don’t like the color you’ve painted your house, they’ll make you re-paint it: and you’d better get it right, this time.

The National Science Foundation has a government grant to monitor the Internet and the social media to study “errors”–that is, remarks and questions that the government deems extremist or hateful. Like, “Marriage is between a man and a woman,” but not like “You $#%$%! How dare you say that? You should have your lungs torn out with a trowel!” It’s only hateful if some progressive says it is.

They want to dictate what the kids should have for lunch. They want to create “equality” by confiscating the money that you worked for and giving it to someone who sat at home playing video games. They demand the right to tell you want kind of car you can drive and when and how far you can drive it, what kind of house or apartment you can live in, and how much electricity you should be allowed to use.

At what point will the progressives/liberals/Democrats/citizens of the world be contented? How much of our lives must be under their boots for them to leave the rest alone?

I think you know the answer.

Who’s Shooting Up Ottawa?

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Today’s top breaking news story–we really don’t yet have a handle on it–concerns an eruption of violence in Canada’s capitol, including a gunman who was killed as he single-handedly stormed Parliament. There has also been shooting at the war memorial and at a major shopping mall.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper had to be whisked out of the Parliament building. He canceled a trip to Toronto he had scheduled for today, going there to award Canadian citizenship to a Pakistani woman, Malala Yousafzai, who has labored (at no small risk to herself) for women’s rights in her country.

Two says ago in Quebec, a man “with jihadist sympathies”–don’t you love the way the nooze media tries to soft-pedal this stuff?–ran over two Canadian soldiers, killing one.

We do not yet know who’s shooting up Ottawa, but most of the speculation seems to involve Muslims or “jihadists” attacking Canada on behalf of ISIS. Which is funny, because politically correct, legally multicultural Canada can’t do enough to pamper, cosset, and appease Muslims, whom the government has established as a “protected class” who must never be offended. Canada venerates Muslims almost as much as it adores homosexuals.

Is this the thanks they get?

Really, I would have liked to write something upbeat and witty today, maybe even push my own books a little. It’s a drag, folks, watching Western civilization go round and round the drain, on its way down. Sometimes this job kind of gets to me.

Well, as bloodthirsty and as savage as they are, ISIS and Al-Qaeda and their kind, in the end, will do far less damage to our Western countries than our own mad leaders and our so-called intellectuals. If the Western countries had the stomach for it, they could smack down the jihad as easily as swatting a fly.

It’s our ruling class that has us in a stranglehold.

P.S.–Canada has very strict gun control laws. For some reason, the bad guys totally ignored them. Who would’ve thought it?

The Ebola Party

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No, I’m not going to tell you how to throw an Ebola party at your home. I’m talking about the political party, the Democrats, that has imported this hideous disease into our country.

Ask any political scientist: the Number One job of any government is to protect its people. This is the basis for the government’s existence. If it is not going to do that, it might as well not exist.

Preventing Ebola from getting loose in America would seem to be a very high priority for any US government. The most basic thing they could do would be to not allow anyone to come here from those areas of West Africa where there is currently an Ebola outbreak. Until the crisis is over, no more flights from Liberia should be allowed to land at JFK or any other US airport. It’s a form of quarantine, and it’s only common sense.

Dying from Ebola is not nice. You bleed out through every orifice of your body.

But the Ebola Party in Washington DC has refused to close our airports to flights from Ebola-stricken countries. They have refused to do the most basic thing they can do to protect us.

Why?

Because the leaders of the Ebola Party–President Barack Ebola, Senate Majority Leader Harry Ebola, House Minority Leader Nancy Ebola, and Secretary of State John Ebola–are too committed to playing “Citizen of the World” to let a little thing like American lives get in the way of their fantasy. That’s right, folks–they would rather let you bleed out, than let up on their Open Borders policy.

Next month we will have national elections.

Please do not let the Ebola Party stay in power.

The All-Devouring Federal Government

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At what point will Our Glorious Leaders be satisfied that they have enough power over us and don’t need any more?

Never!

Case in point: The federal government has spent over $2 million–so far–to develop devices to track your weight and eating habits ( http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9d3_1413406942&comments=1 ).

First they hired SmartMove Inc,–be very, very afraid whenever liberals/statists use the word “smart”–to develop an insole that will track your weight and activity level so somebody (guess who) can “quantify and modify physical activity and lifestyle behavior in overweight and obese individuals and others with sedentary lifestyles.”

The National Institute of Health–don’t you just love the names they give these predatory government agencies?–is also funding research to develop a little “button” you can wear that’ll spy on you 24/7, so the EPA can catch you smoking, overeating, or having a large soda.

Dig this comment from one of the scientists-for-hire at the University of Pittsburgh:

“Unlike the cell phone which spends most times sleeping, eButton never sleeps–it helps the user all the time.”

Helps? Did this moral imbecile really say his little device is going to help us?

You might think this is all kind of a good idea, if you’re the sort of person who is attracted to perpetual childhood. Maybe they can give you wee electric shocks if you don’t eat your broccoli. “Uh-uh-uh! We’ve blocked your air conditioner from working, and we won’t let your car start, until you run off the calories from that piece of crumb cake!”

You watch–it’ll all be justified under Obamacare. If the government is going to be paying for your healthcare–like you were six years old again and it was your mommy and daddy–then it must have the authority to restrain you from doing unhealthy things and to compel you to do things that it decides are good for you.

It’s bad enough that they are Godless, evil, and insane.

But they’re also flaming stupid: and it beats me why we allow ourselves to be governed by such people. It just totally beats me.