Tag: public affairs

NASA: ‘Your Money or Your Life!’

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So, modern industrial civilization’s gonna collapse and we’re all gonna die… unless, of course, we give up all our freedom. So says NASA, the bunch who used to put men on the moon, but who now moon mankind ( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2582286/NASA-study-industrial-civilization-headed-collapse.html ).

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which used to have a space program but is now charged with issuing ideological proclamations on behalf of the Hugo Chavez wannabes in Washington, has issued a “study”–whatever that means–warning that, “to avoid collapse, inequality must be reduced and population growth must be strictly controlled.” And guess who’s gonna do the reducin’ and controllin’.

If this were a 1959 TV commercial, you would have a guy in a lab coat exclaiming, “Here’s scientific proof that communism really works!”

Do these people have any idea what they’re talking about? NASA used to be a prestige institution. Now they sound like a lot of political hacks who’d have trouble setting off a bottle rocket.

Do they even know what “inequality” means? Of course not. They’ve become mere left-wing chatterboxes. Have they even noticed that the poorest countries are the ones where the government does the most managing and controlling–North Korea, Zimbabwe, Cuba, and so on?

As for “strict control of population growth,” countries like Japan and a few others are already so far below the break-even birth rate, that they’re well on the way to extinction.

Let this explosion of twaddle from NASA be a lesson to those who cling to the belief that “scientists” are smarter and more honest than the rest of us. They’re just as depraved as the rest of us sinners, and just as unworthy of our trust.

Feds Sought to Vandalize “Millions” of Computers

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Fox News has reported that the NSA pretended to be Facebook in order to infect “millions” of computers with malware ( http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/03/12/nsa-pretended-to-be-facebook-in-its-effort-to-infect-millions-computers/ ).

With my own exceedingly feeble understanding of computer stuff, don’t ask me to interpret this story for you. Read it yourselves. Nevertheless, I am moved to comment:

What kind of “government” is this–that pretends to be something else so that it can vandalize private property? I gather that the purpose of the malware was to enable the NSA to spy on the computers’ owners. Where were the millions of court orders they should have needed for that?

Out, out, out with our entire ruling class!

Libs ‘n’ progs, of course, as they always do, will insist the story isn’t true because Fox News reported it and everybody knows Fox News is just a bunch of racist Climate Change deniers who trick poor, gullible people into believing things that libs ‘n’ progs don’t want them to believe.

Are you as tired of these people as I am?

The Phony Consensus

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There are still poor, benighted people out there who actually believe that scientists are much less dishonest than other groups of sinners, and that there really and truly is a vast scientific “consensus” that says human activity has caused Global Warming, blah-blah.

The “consensus” is not real, but rather the creation of nooze media that seem to be quite a bit more dishonest than other groups of sinners.

How did they create it? Simple–they just gave plenty of air time to Global Warming alarmists, and systematically excluded any scientists who disagreed ( http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/sean-long/cold-shoulder-abc-cbs-exclude-scientists-critical-global-warming-more-1300-days ). In particular, the nooze operations at ABC and CBS went 1,300 days without allowing a single skeptical scientist to be heard, while ringing in a parade of Climate Change fanatics and snake-oil merchants. (The link above has all the facts and figures.)

I am a fantasy writer. I write stories that are not true, and get paid for it.

The difference between me on one hand, and the noozies and “Climate Change scientists” on the other, is that they get paid a lot more than I do, and I admit my stories aren’t true. Also, I don’t get a thrill out of imposing higher taxes on my fellow citizens and abridging their liberties.

Canada Avoids Gays vs. Muslims Showdown

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Two years ago in Toronto, a lesbian went into a Muslim barber shop and tried to force them–by filing a complaint with the “Human Rights” Tribunal–to give her a haircut (see my Nov. 20, 2012 post, “A Canadian Tragedy (Or Is It a Farce?)”).

Wow! What was going to happen? No Muslim has ever lost a case before a “human rights” tribunal. No homosexual or lesbian has, either. Which “protected class” of citizens would reign supreme in Canada?

Well, now we hear the case has been settled behind the scenes, with both sides bound by a confidentiality agreement to keep us from ever finding out what happened (see http://godfatherpolitics.com/14623/muslim-barber-shop-case-settled-secret-woman-failed-complaint/ ). We also learn there was a unisex barbershop just down the street, but the lesbian wanted the thrill of forcing someone to act against his religion. Where did she think she was–the United States?

Under Canadian law, both homosexuals and Muslims have rights far superior to those enjoyed by, say, Christians. So what was going to happen here? I was looking forward to a great steel cage match.

Now we can only speculate.

Did the tribunal shake down some Christians and buy off the lesbian, the Muslim barber, or both?

Did someone explain to the lesbian that it’s really, really dangerous to mess with Muslims? That there are more Muslims in Toronto than there are “gays,” and you really shouldn’t get them riled? Not if you want to keep your head attached to the rest of you.

Every day in the news, we see sodomites bullying Christians, using the coercive apparatus of the state to try to force Christians to take part in “gay” pseudo-weddings, etc. We have not yet, in America, seen them try to pull this trick on Muslims or Orthodox Jews.

But in Canada the steel cage match has been postponed–for how long, who can say?

Scotland Scheme Rivals Obamacare for Wickedness

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The Scottish Parliament last week passed a law assigning each and every child in Scotland to a government-appointed “overseer” (see http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/17748-citing-un-treaty-scotland-assigns-overseer-to-every-child ). This folly is already being challenged in court: who will turn out to be the John Roberts of Scotland?

Everywhere in this fallen world, freedom is being hunted down and killed–most commonly, in alleged defense of someone or other’s “rights”. In Scotland, the government proposes to devour the family in obedience to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Children’s rights–get it? Let us set aside a minute for hysterical laughter.

One wonders if the peoples of the Western world have lost all self-respect, that they consent to be herded and prodded like cattle by a collection of fools, criminals, perverts, and wackos whose like we see today. Doubtless the people of Scotland elected these creatures to Parliament.

This legislation includes a presumption of guilt: it sees parents in Scotland, all of them, as incompetent and inadequate at best, and liable to be criminally abusive at worst. They just can’t raise their kids, so the government has to ride herd over them.

A word of warning, folks.

These people are not herding you to paradise.

The Hatchery of Stalinism

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One gets the impression that libs ‘n’ progs aren’t comfortable with free speech and would, if they could, get rid of it.

Last week it was the FCC trying to insert government “monitors” into the newsrooms. We also had some bint from Swarthmore demanding that the college allow no more debates: because, she explained, there really is only one side to every question and why should anyone on campus ever have to hear from some conservative who is just plain wrong about everything?

This week it’s the Harvard Crimson publishing an article by a student calling for the end of academic freedom–no more “oppressive,” non-leftist ideas should be allowed (see http://www.thecrimson.com/column/the-red-line/article/2014/2/18/academic-freedom-justice/?page=single ). She looks back fondly on the good old days of the SDS, the Students for a Democratic (LOL!) Society, when they’d just show up with bullhorns to drown out anyone who tried to say anything the SDS didn’t like. If the speaker was a college professor, they could “occupy” his office and destroy all his papers, and maybe vandalize his car. If the speaker was a student, they could beat him up.

This, she says, would all be in the cause of “justice.” Trust lefties to give the word “justice” a bad name! It’s only “justice” to silence Global Warming “denial,” opposition to homosexual pseudomarriage, criticism of abortion, blah-blah-blah.

Has the American university become a hatchery for Stalinists? What are those jerks with the grey ponytails teaching our young people? What’s going to happen to this country when these ignorant freedom-haters take over? Looks to me like we’re clutching a whole brood of vipers to our breast.

Something has to be done to break the Far Left’s stranglehold on education in America, and it needs to be done quickly.

PS–the link to the article in The Crimson doesn’t work, for some reason. If you want to read the original, search for Feb. 18, The Harvard Crimson, Academic Freedom, by Sandra Korn. Sorry.

PSS–I have corrected a typo, and now the link works.

America’s Nooze Media: The Dog That Didn’t Bark

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Maybe you remember Sherlock Holmes, in Silver Blaze, explaining to Watson a significant clue: the fact that a watchdog didn’t bark.

Well, here we have our big-time nooze media, which loves to call itself a watchdog, learning of a scheme to insert the federal government into TV and radio newsrooms–and the dog didn’t bark. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, and all the rest–and not so much as a yip out of any one of them. “First Amendment? We don’t need no stinkin’ First Amendment!”

The FCC shelved the project after one of its own commissioners blew the whistle on it. Otherwise, we would’ve awakened one morning to a fait accompli–government “monitors” and “researchers”–that is, goons–in the newsrooms to see that the editors and reporters covered the stories that the White House felt should be covered, and burked the stories the White House wanted burked. That’s how you protect the Regime from unwanted stories of Climate Change denial, Benghazi, the cornucopia of scandal pouring out of the government, Obamacare glitches, etc., etc. That’s how you get non-stop coverage of whatever Dear Leader wants you to see.

Not a peep out of the free press. Happily, we now have enough “alternative media” to make a stink about this scheme and embarrass Congress into demanding explanations. And so it went back onto George Soros’ wish list… probably to be revived another day.

Just as a thought experiment, try to imagine what the nooze media reaction would have been, had President George W. Bush made just a little joke about doing something like this.

The howl of protest would be heard beyond the Solar System.

It is distressing to learn that the free press has so little interest in keeping the press free.

But that’s leftists for you–the sworn enemies of freedom, every day, in every way.

Dictatorship 101

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To any tyrant, a free press is intolerable. That’s why it’s enshrined in the First Amendment to our Constitution.

Of course, our nooze media mostly serves as an arm of the Democrat Party and cheerleaders for whatever lib politician happens to be in power. Toward the current administration, and the current occupant of the White House, the press has been subservient to the point of idolatry.

And what has it gotten them?

Government “monitors” in TV newsrooms! ( http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/02/20/shockwaves-over-obama-administrations-plan-to-put-goverbnment-monitors-in-newsrooms-101932 )

Egged on, no doubt, by the Hugo Chavez wannabes in the White House, the FCC plans to send goons–er, “researchers”–“to oversee TV and radio newsrooms” and examine “the process by which stories are selected,” and so on. They’re going to take care of “perceived station bias–”

All right, get up from the floor. You don’t really need a barf bag, do you?

Now, what do you suppose would have happened, had George W. Bush even cracked a joke about wanting to do this?

For five years, the noozies have crept and crawled and groveled to the commie cabal on Pennsylvania Avenue, as they creep and crawl and grovel to every leftist who slithers into the seat of power.

And this is what they get!

It serves them right, of course. But it doesn’t serve the American people right.

UPDATE: This just in, from Fox News via Free Republic… The Federal Communications Commission has “shelved” its plan to take over TV and radio newsrooms.

Translation: The story broke before they were ready, embarrassed them, and they had to back off.

But they’ll try again.

 

 

Oh, Look! Jesse James is in Charge of the Banks!

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First they confiscated the life savings of the people of Cyprus, to pay back a German bail-out.

Then the British banks tell their customers they can’t withdraw their money unless they have “a good reason.”

Now we learn that European Union bureaucrats plan to plunder the savings accounts of 500 million (!) customers ( http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2014/02/eurocrats-prepare-to-confiscate-savings-accounts-2806336.html ). The news was originally reported by Reuters, and no agency of the EU has denied it. (The link above provides a link to the original Reuters story).

So, while they scare you with Global Warming (while you’re freezing your kiester off), and distract you by demanding that you “celebrate” homosexuality, they’re getting ready to grab the savings of 500 million people. You won’t need to ask “What is that horrible great sucking sound?” when you hear it. It’s the socialist vacuum cleaner sucking up everybody’s money that they worked for.

They don’t use the word “confiscate.” Oh, no–they’re just going to “mobilize” everybody’s money and “invest” it. (Two-minute break for hysterical laughter.)

But, hey, it’s an ill wind that blows nobody good. If you twaddled away your money on beer and lottery tickets and junk you saw advertised on TV that fell to the pieces within minutes of taking it out of the box, and you have no savings at all–well, just think of how smart you’ll feel, compared to those poor devils who worked hard and put money aside for future needs.

And best of all, if you’re a drone and a parasite, you can be sure your angels in the government will see that you get a little bit of those other people’s hard-earned money. They’ll keep most of it for themselves, of course, and they’ll have a good laugh over their cocktails and caviar at Davos–but they’ll never let the dole dry up.

But I would like to see what happens when there’s no more money left to steal.

Another Wacko Court, Another Wacko Ruling

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Who knew, when they signed the Declaration of Independence, that one day our new country would be ruled autocratically by judges who make it all up as they go along and view their courts as the irresistible instruments of radical social change?

On Jan. 30, the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine ruled, 5-1, that a teenage boy can use the girl’s bathroom at school because he really thinks he’s a girl, how could anyone be so narrow-minded as not to agree, blah-blah-blah. Wrote the culture vandal for the majority, “Decisions about how to address students’ legitimate gender identity issues are not to be taken lightly”. ( http://bangordailynews.com/2014/01/30/news-bangor-orono-supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-transgender-girl-in-orono-school-bathroom-case/ )

Just by way of translation, “transgender girl” means “intensely disturbed boy who wants to be a girl.”

Let’s see… “legitimate gender identity issues”–Uh, what is a legitimate gender identity issue? Who says there’s any such thing?

But liberal judges and politicians and bureaucrats et al, having denied God, pretend now to sit where God sits and function as gods themselves. If the judge says the boy’s a girl, then that’s that, the boy’s a girl.

Reality just ain’t very real anymore.