February 11, 2020

Another Failed Coup by Pelosi

This from Warner Todd Houston:

She just can't catch a break!

Pelosi Fails to Force Facebook to Remove Trump Ad of Her Ripping State of the Union Speech

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February 10, 2020

To Frack or Not to Frack -- Aye, There's the Rub

Dana Mathewson

Power Line's Steven Hayward has an excellent article today on the subject, and includes the subject of the Electoral College, because that plays into the matter.

Liberals openly hate the electoral college (and the Senate, but one thing at a time) because it is counter-majoritarian. To which the answer is: Yes, precisely. That’s one of its strongest points. It means a winning presidential candidate has to take in a broader range of local interests if he is to win a constitutional majority, which is superior to a mere numerical majority that may be lopsided in just a few regions (like the two coasts today).

This comes to mind given the promise of leading Democrats to ban fracking for oil and gas if they are elected president. I assume this plays very well in San Francisco and Manhattan, but it does mean giving the middle finger to the middle of Pennsylvania, among other locations.

What do the locals think about fracking? We’re told endless by environmental propagandists that it is poisoning the local water and air, though a thorough EPA study done during the Obama Administration found little evidence to support this.

A new study of voting results on an anti-fracking ballot initiative in Colorado in 2018 (which was defeated) in Energy Research & Social Science gives us a more fine-grained look at the matter. The key author of the study, Daniel Raimi of Resources for the Future, offers a plain English summary of the study on Twitter. His first finding is the most useful:

Key findings: (1) Strong opposition to #fracking is mostly found in places where there is little to no drilling activity. Strong support for drilling is mostly found in the places that have the largest density of wells. . . most people who live in the "patch” do want #fracking in their back yard. [emphasis in the original]

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But you can see that if we left the matter up to the larger number of voters in San Francisco (or just the Denver metro area), fracking would be killed in opposition to the local opinion of people who live with it. Ironic, since those rural rubes provide the fuel for all those fancy Wolf and Viking gas ranges in those fancy professional-grade, two-sink kitchens in the Bay Area.

And this, boys and girls, is why we have the electoral college. (Also property rights, but that’s also a topic for another day.)

Yes. Excellent article about both points. Please go here https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/fracking-and-the-electoral-college.php for the whole thing!

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Thirdworldifornia

Timothy Birdnow

California is America's first Third World state.

From the KfIAM article:

Let's review, almost a quarter of the population lives below the poverty lines. Another fifth are near the poverty line.

California has the highest population in the nation (135,000) and a shocking 22% of all of the nation's homeless population live in California.

But wait, that doesn't make sense because California is also home to the highest number of billionaires and high-income zip codes.

How can a state have so much of the extreme?

It may be due to the fact that the middle class in California is shrinking. Can you blame it though? There's nothing but massive regulation, higher taxes, green zoning, and housing prices are almost unattainable.

(And poop trails - TBirdnow)

Millions of people have left California in the past 30 years, allowing the state to get taken over by illegal immigrants.

Let's not ignore the fact that a Los Angeles police station and even their City Hall were in danger of the infectious disease typhus and is subject to a possible outbreak of a deadly plague.

The hospitals are crap, the infrastructure plans are close to none, there's nothing but DMV scandal after scandal and crime continuously goes up. The state's prisons can't fit all the inmates leading to more in-jail deaths.

Honestly, when you write it all down and read the different reasons. It makes complete sense. California is a third-world state.

And, like all Third World states, it is rife with political corruption. Just look at how many Republicans lost their seats after "lost ballots" were found subsequent to the election in 2018.

Filth, disease, political corruption, poverty are all the hallmarks of the Third World. Sadly, this Third World state controls of the United States in no small measure.

I'm starting to think Lex Luther's plan to break California off from the mainland and float it into the Pacific in the first Superman movie was a stroke of brilliance!

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The Mossy Green Exterior

Timothy Birdnow

Here is something we've known a long time here at The Aviary; Climate Change alarmism is not actually about the planet's climate at all.

It was and has always been about population control and reducing the standard of living for the masses. In other words, it's about eugenics.

The swastika now has a mossy green exterior.

Canada Free Press has a fine article on the subject this morning as well.

From the article:

It’s really about taking the fruits of labor of the masses and using the stolen wealth to finance a global communist government. It’s about tricking the masses into paying for their own incarceration in overpopulated cities that will quickly morph into massive concentration and death camps. Anyone who doubts this should read the commandments onGeorgia Guidestones, the map to the globalist utopia, that calls for reducing earth’s population to a half billion people. The current world population is about 8 billion.

Finally, by making climate change a mandatory subject in public schools, socialists in Italy brought the hoax full circle, back to its origin. That’s because socialist academics, through the United Nations, started the climate change hoax. Climate change is a hoax because it has been misrepresented and used to advance global communism. It’s a hoax because there’s nothing anyone can do to stop it. Real climate change, Milankovitch cycles, will still be occurring long after all the climate change hucksters have gone on to their everlasting reward.

So true.

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The Grim Future of Business in California

This from Anthony Watts:

This is frightening. Add the costs of recovering PG&E's lawsuit damages (which will get passed onto the ratepayer) and the potential takeover by the state (adding layers and layers of $ sucking bureaucracy) the future of business in California is looking grim.

Assemblyman Jim Patterson

I’m not one for charts and graphs. I have to squint to read them, and figure out what’s on the vertical and horizontal axis. Then figure out what it means. This one is simple.

Your electricity rates have exploded, and they will get worse. Why? The ruling party at the Capitol, and their idiotic laws, regulations, and bureaucracies have gone crazy, commanding utilities what electrons they can use, and which ones they cannot.

They have dictated some electrons are "moral” (wind & solar), and some are "immoral” electrons (natural gas, large scale hydroelectricit y & nuclear). They have legislated contrary to the physics of electricity (supply must match or exceed demand).

The result? The California electricity grid is becoming unreliable, and the cost of electricity is becoming unaffordable. Elections - and electrons - have consequences.

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Chinese Tech Theft

This from Roger Bell:

Flying with. Chinese Pilot recently they showed me a picture of themselves sitting in the cockpit of what looked like F35 (fighter jet from USA). I was told, "That’s not F35, It’s better, it’s Chinese. We copy and improve. It’s what we do.” Trump was dead right to ban HuaWei!

We'll Never Make Huwei Safe; it Must be Stripped from U.K. Networks as Quickly as Possible

From Tim:

In the end stealing isn't innovating. I've neverr really feared the Chinese because in the end they can't create.

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Poseur Pete

This from Joseph Bast:

Quoting the Wall Street Journal;

"Mr. Buttigieg’s stint in the Navy isn’t as impressive as he makes it out to be. His 2019 memoir is called "Shortest Way Home,” an apt description of his military service. He entered the military through a little-used shortcut: direct commission in the reserves.

The usual route to an officer’s commission includes four years at Annapolis or another military academy or months of intense training at Officer Candidate School. ROTC programs send prospective officers to far-flung summer training programs and require military drills during the academic year.

Mr. Buttigieg skipped all that—no obstacle courses, no weapons training, no evaluation of his ability or willingness to lead. Paperwork, a health exam and a background check were all it took to make him a naval officer. . . .”

Mayor Pete Buttigieg's False Claims about his Knowlege of Guns

 A WORD FROM TIM: No surprise; Democrats like Gigabutt rarely take the hard road in life. They wouldn't be Democrats if they did.

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Never Again What?

Timothy Birdnow

Never forget? Looks like we all forgot.

Half Of American Adults Aren't Aware That Six Million Jews Died In The Holocaust, Poll Finds

Pew Research Center released the findingson Wednesday, a little less than a week ahead of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the infamous Nazi death camp Auschwitz, which took place on January 27, 1945. The survey asked nearly 13,000 American respondents to answer multiple-choice questions about the Holocaust, finding that only 45 percent correctly said that 6 million Jews were killed during the World War II genocide.

Of the respondents, 29 percent answered that they were not sure or had no answer to how many Jews were killed, while 14 percent underestimated the number. An additional 12 percent overestimated the amount, believing that more than 12 million Jews had been killed.

Most Americans also didn't know how Hitler came to power, with only 43 percent correctly answering that it was through a democratic political process. Twenty-five percent believed the Nazi leader had violently overthrown the German government, while 28 percent said they were not sure or had no answer.

I once had an argument with an older co-worker about that last; he was convinced Hitler seized power in a coup. This man was old enough to know better.

But he was a labor Democrat type, and he was woefully miseducated.

If those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it, we are in for a terrible time in the near future.

Sadly this article quotes a rabbi who attacks "white nationalism" and compares our treatment of illegal aliens with the Holocaust. He shows himself to be as ignorant as the people he chastises for ignorance.

"It is hardly a surprise to have confirmed the gap in Americans' understanding of how Nazism came to power and the vastness of their murderous violence," Rabbi Alissa Wise, acting co-executive director of the progressive group Jewish Voice for Peace, told Newsweek in a statement about the Pew Research data."

"I imagine that a similar number of Americans are likewise unaware of other historical horrors wrought by white nationalism in this country towards Native Americans and enslaved Africans, or against imprisoned asylum-seekers right now," Wise said. "As racist ethnonationalism and white supremacy grows across the world, this study is an urgent and unsettling reminder of how little history is informing our understanding of today – and of what happens when we forget our histories."

Let's get our facts straight - about ALL things.

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"Impeach, Impeach, Impeach"

Timothy Birdnow

That was the goal all along; a coup. Imagine Nancy Pelosi becoming President!

Maxine Waters Vows to 'Get' Pence Once Trump Impeached

Rep. Maxine Waters promised a crowd of young Democrats over the weekend that she would go after Vice President Mike Pence once President Trump is removed from office.

The California congresswoman accepted a lifetime achievement award from the Stonewall Young Democrats on Saturday in Los Angeles, telling the enthusiastic crowd that Mr. Trump threatened Americans’ way of life and deserved to be impeached.

"I’m gonna get him,” Ms. Waters said, according to avideo published by progressive activist and attendee Edward Garren. "I’m in this fight and I’m not gonna move.

"And, as you know, there’s a difference in how some of our leadership talk about how we should handle all of this,” she continued. "They say, ‘Maxine, please don’t say impeachment anymore. ‘And when they say that, I say, ‘Impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment.’”

This woman has water on her brain.

When Trump was first elected they actually floated a plan calling for Trump's impeachment, then they would pressure Pence to resign after nominating Hillary as his V.P.  This was before Pelosi became Speaker. Now they can skip the "Hillary as V.P." part and Pelosi would become President.

Some Democrats actually saw that as a viable alternative.

Waters needs to have her head drained...

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February 09, 2020

Milton Keynes Moron AOC

This from Warner Todd Houston:

'Famed economist Milton Keynes': Moron AOC mixes up economists Milton Friedman and John Maynard Keynes--Remember, she claims to have gone to college for economics. No one with any economics knowledge could mix these two economists up because they are polar opposites in theory.

AOC Mixes up Two Economists in Instagram Post about Four Day Work Week

There is a town called Milton Keynes in England, by the way. So she is thrice wrong.

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U.S. Buying Africans Condoms

Timothy Birdnow

The United States government is buying $700,000 worth of condoms for Swaziland.

Why is Trump allowing taxpayer dollars to go to assist Africans to copulate? And why aren't our wonderful government officials tired of condomizing US?

I get it; they want to stop the spread of AIDS. But why is that OUR problem? Shouldn't the African League or the European Union be responsible for this?  We can't and shouldn't be Santa Claus to the world.

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The Nonesuch Palestinians

Timothy Birdnow

Warner Todd Houston forwards this:

End the Hoax; there are no Palestinians

I made that case https://canadafreepress.com/article/palestinians-what-palestinians] years ago myself.

In fact, the late, great Alan Caruba wrote something almost identical at the same time and he and I started chatting, the beginning of a beautiful friendship that lasted until Alan's death (far too soon.) I learned a lot from Uncle Alan (as he liked to call himself.)

As far as the Palestinians go mostly they were a bunch of illegal aliens who came to take jobs when the British took over the region. Sound familiar?

From the Robert Spencer article:

"The Palestinian people” was born in 1963, when the foes of Israel hit upon a new strategy that would turn the tide of international public opinion against Israel and give new impetus to the jihad against it. Before that, as The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Processshows, amid all the drama surrounding Jewish settlement in Palestine, the rise of Zionism, and the establishment of the Jewish state, the Palestinians are nowhere to be seen. Palestine was the name of a region, like Staten Island or Dubuque, not the name of a people.

It is no accident that neither Mark Twain, nor any of the series of English travelers who visited the area, nor anyone else who traveled through desolate Palestine over the centuries ever mentioned the "Palestinian” people. They spoke of encountering Arabs, as well as Jews and Christians and others, but no one, among multitudes of people who wrote about Palestine, ever refers to any Palestinians. Nor do the many British White Papers and other documents the British government produced during the Mandate period ever mention the Palestinians. The opposing factions in those documents are the Jews and the Arabs.

There is a very simple reason for this: there were no Palestinians.

An uncomfortable fact for those who advance the claim that the Palestinians are the indigenous people of the area is that they have no history: there was never a state of Palestine, never a King or President of Palestine, never (until quite recently) a Palestinian flag, and nothing that distinguishes the Palestinians culturally, linguistically, or otherwise from the other Arabs of the region.

During the Mandate period, the Arabs of Palestine generally considered themselves to be Syrians, and Palestine to be Southern Syria. Early in 1919, Arab Muslims in fourteen Palestinian municipalities, calling themselves the Muslim-Christian Association, presented a petition to the Paris Peace Conference, which was deliberating about the postwar fate of Syria, Palestine, and other former Ottoman possessions.

Read the whole article.

The "Palestinian People" is a fiction designed to bestow legitimacy on Arab claims to possess the entirety of the land. They had no claim on it otherwise."Palestinians" had as much claim as do Mexican migrant workers to the potato fields of Idaho.



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The Era of Limbaugh

Dana Mathewson

Rush Limbaugh has been with us so long, it can be hard to define him and why he's so important. But it has been done, in this Washington Free Beacon article, which I commend to your attention.

Florida governor Ron DeSantis spoke to Rush Limbaugh last fall at a gala dinner for the National Review Institute. The radio host was there to receive the William F. Buckley Jr. award. "He actually gave me one of the greatest compliments I've ever had," Limbaugh told his audience the next day. "He listed five great conservatives and put me in the list." DeSantis's pantheon: William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Limbaugh.

Good list. No media figure since Buckley has had a more lasting influence on American conservatism than Limbaugh, whose cumulative weekly audience is more than 20 million people. Since national syndication in 1988, Limbaugh has been the voice of conservatism, his three-hour program blending news, politics, and entertainment in a powerful and polarizing cocktail. His shocking announcement this week that he has advanced lung cancer, and his appearance at the State of the Union, where President Trump awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, are occasions to reflect on his impact.

It's one thing to excel in your field. It's another to create the field in which you excel. [Emphasis added] Conservative talk radio was local and niche before Limbaugh. He was the first to capitalize on regulatory and technological changes that allowed for national scale. The repeal of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987 freed affiliates to air controversial political opinions without inviting government scrutiny. As music programming migrated to the FM spectrum, AM bandwidth welcomed talk. Listener participation was also critical. "It was not until 1982," writes Nicole Hemmer in Messengers of the Right, "that AT&T introduced the modern direct-dial toll-free calling system that national call-in shows use."

This is a fairly long article, and every word is important, so rather than excerpt any more I'm going to send you to the original, found here. https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-era-of-limbaugh/ Please read the whole thing; and say another prayer for Rush!

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Nadler Wants to Refight Kavanaugh

Timothy Birdnow

Having wasted taxpayer dollars and annoyed just about everyone, Jerry Nadler now to revisit the Brett Kavanaugh smear.

From Western Journalism:

So now that impeachment has gone down in flames, Nadler is going to focus on questioning the legitimacy of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation.

During a Wednesday oversight hearing with FBI Director Christopher Wray, Nadler confirmed that, yes, we are indeed going there again.

This time, the Democrats are going to question the FBI’s background check into Kavanaugh, with Nadler telling Wray that there’s "a great deal of mistrust and uncertainty around the FBI’s supplemental background check of Justice Kavanaugh during the last few days of that confirmation.”

"The country needs a better understanding of that process,” he added.

I warned at the time that the Democrats were likely to try to impeach Justice Kavanaugh when they got into a position to do so. Even more than Trump Kavanaugh stands to have a profound impact on the long-term future of this country. He is the vote that is apt to swing any abortion cases, for instance. So he cannot be allowed to remain.

And the Democrats want to make themselves appear relevant again. They failed with Trump, but if they can get something going with Kavanaugh they may revive their flagging fortunes.

At the expense of the nation. Nadler and Schiff and the rest want to refight these battles and they either do not see or (more likely) do not care about the consequences. If they have their way every political battle will be never ending, with impeachments and counter-impeachments.  in an endless war of stupidity. It is what we have seen in Latin American countries, the failed states that run on that treadmill of revolution and counter-revolution. In America we always accepted our losses and prepared to fight another day. This current crop of Democrats refuses to accept their losses, and they are imperiling the Republic. How long before we become another Argentina?

Nadler will have to answer to God for this. Dante would have placed him in Antenora, the frozen waste at the pit of Hell.

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The Violent "Liberals"

Timothy Birdnow

Violence is the refuge of those who cannot win an argument.

JSO: Van Deliberately Crashed into Republican Registration Tent

The Left keeps losing and they grow increasingly violent. I fear for what will happen if Trump is re-elected. They will probably try to assassinate him.

Hat tip: Judson Phillips.

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They Are the Ones They Have Been Waiting For

Timothy Birdnow

Our friends Down Under are starting to get it.

The Fury of the Left Explained

From the Australian Spectator article:

In a recent Spectator Australiaarticle and subsequent interviews with Alan Jones and Graham Richardson, I summarised that ‘eucalypts are incinerators from hell dressed up as trees’ and said we have to consider replacing some of our eucalypt forests with non-fire-adapted species—which is already happening overseas, as Rebecca Weisser reported, ‘In Portugal and Spain they are starting to cut down the eucalypt forests, saying "These are too dangerous, we don’t want them”’

But not everyone is interested in a rational analysis. As Jones said, ‘After the Canberra fires, Jon Stanhope, the Chief Minister for the ACT, said we’ve got to stop planting native plants because they’re fire traps. Well, that was the end of Jon Stanhope—"don’t express such anti-religious views around here”!’

So the management of our forests comes down to how to combat the irrational ‘religious’ fanaticism of tree-hugging Lefties. Indeed, everywhere we look in the world we are faced with this problem of ‘how to combat the irrationality of the increasingly rabid Marxist, politically correctculture?’

Well, if honest biological thinking was able to get to the bottom of the problem of eucalypts—‘tell the story that’s never, ever been told’, as Jones said—might such thinking also be able to finally solve the problem of the madness of the Left? I believe it can.

When Jones, like many others, use the term ‘religion’ to describe the culture of the PC Left,they are intimating an underlying truth, which is that when we humans take up a cause that makes us feel good it can bring such astronomical relief to the extreme insecurity caused by our species’ tortured, ‘good and evil’–stricken so-called human condition that our attachment to that cause becomes more precious to us than any rational argument Plato, Darwin and Einstein combined could put to us!

The psychologist Jordan Peterson was recognising this in his response on Q&A last year to being asked about people’s attachment to climatism when he said, ‘People have things within their personal purview [scope of experience] that are difficult to deal with and that they’re avoiding and generally the way they avoid them is by adopting pseudo-moralistic stances on large-scale social issues, so they look good to their friends and neighbours’.

So it’s relief from the human condition at all costs that is really going on.

He's right, to a degree. It is an attempt to avoid the human condition. Rather, it is an attempt to ALTER the human condition to make reality more pleasing. In short, it is the sin of witchcraft, which is an attempt to artificially alter reality. Not all witches use eye of newt and warty toads.

In fact, it is a fundamental violation of the First Commandment "Thou Shalt not have Strange Gods Before Me."  Who are the strange gods?  Well, the Liberals are. THEY are placing themselves on the godhead in competition with the Almighty.

In 2005 Michael Savage famously called Liberalism a mental disorder. He was only half right; it IS a mental disorder, but it stems from a spiritual one. Pseudo gods usually are mad.

At any rate, the article continues:

The scientist Blaise Pascal spelt out the true horror of our species’ contradictory nature or condition when he wrote, ‘What a chimaera [multi-faceted being] then is man! What a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, imbecile worm of the earth, repository of truth, a sewer of uncertainty and error, the glory and the scum of the universe!’ Shakespeare was equally revealing of the paradoxical nature of the human condition when he wrote, ‘What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!… In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me.’

This extraordinary dichotomy that Pascal and Shakespeare have written about is what the human condition is. We humans embody this extreme ‘contradiction’ of being the most brilliantly clever of creatures, the ones who are ‘god’-‘like’ in our ‘infinite’ ‘faculty’ of ‘reason’ and ‘apprehension’, and yet we also behave in the seemingly completely unclever ‘monster[ous]’, ‘imbecile worm of the earth’, ‘sewer of uncertainty and error’, ‘scum of the universe’ ‘quintessence of dust’ way. Not only are we competitive, aggressive and selfish when the ideals of life are so obviously to be cooperative, loving and selfless, we are actually the meanest, most vicious of species, one that is only too capable of inflicting pain, cruelty, suffering and degradation.

And trying to face the truth of the extent of our contradictory nature while we couldn’t explain it has been absolutely unbearable. As the psychoanalyst Carl Jung said about trying to confront our seemingly ‘monster[ous]’, ‘scum of the universe’ condition: ‘When it [our shadow] appears… it is quite within the bounds of possibility for a man to recognize the relative evil of his nature, but it is a rare and shattering experience for him to gaze into the face of absolute evil’!

Or as Christianity asserts, Man was made in the image and likeness of God but through Original Sin threw it all away. So we have a dual nature. But the corruption has largely overcome the Divine within us.

That is why Christians say we must have the redemption of Christ. Without His savlation and grace we cannot overcome the evil within.

So that is the first left-wing-culture-destroying clarification that understanding the human condition enables—that while the right-wing has continued humanity’s heroic quest for understanding, the Left has given in to the temptation of relief-hunting and abandoned that all-important search.

The second clarification is even more serious, if that were possible—which is that the Left have not only given up the search for understanding, they are actively working against the finding of it. This is because their favoured feel-good cause of dogmatically insisting that everyone comply with PC, Marxist cooperative and selfless principles oppressesthe freedom of expression needed to find knowledge, ultimately the understanding of ourselves that alone can end our insecure condition and actually bring about a cooperative and loving world.

See, they think that the reason efforts in the past have failed is because they were never able to get everyone on board.

That is the Rousseauian belief in the Collective Will. All things are subject to the will of the majority, Rousseau believed, and nothing should exist outside of it. As long as there are people who break ranks and follow their individual beliefs and ideas the society cannot move toward the ideal they seek. So everyone must be FORCED to not just obey but embrace and celebrate.

It's why it's not enough to tolerate gay couples, for example; we are pushed to celebrate them, even at the expense of our fundamental beliefs. A Christian baker must bake a wedding cake for a gay wedding, like it or not. In fact, more so since the baker does NOT like it; he must be made to be complicit in the celebration of the relationship.

It is this endless effort to straightjacket humanity that is at the root of the Progressive philosophy. They seek not wisdom or enlightenment but obedience to dogma and surrender to their will.

As the author notes:

Nietzsche summarised all this when he wrote, ‘There have always been many sickly people among those who invent fables and long for God [ideality]: they have a raging hate for the enlightened man and for that youngest of virtues which is called honesty… Purer and more honest of speech is the healthy body, perfect and square-built: and it speaks of the meaning of the earth [which is to search for knowledge, ultimately self-knowledge, understanding of ourselves]… You are not yet free, you still search for freedom. Your search has fatigued you… But, by my love and hope I entreat you: do not reject the hero in your soul! Keep holy your highest hope!… War [against the oppression of dogma] and courage have done more great things than charity’;and, ‘There comes a time in a culture’s history when it becomes so pathologically soft that it takes the side of its worst enemy [dogma]… and calls it "progress”.’

Nietzche is wrong. It is not "within our soul" because Man is inherently evil. THAT was and is the whole point of the Death and Resurrection of Christ; He is the only thing that can give us the strength to break this terrible chain that binds us. We cannot do it of our own strength.

I think author Jeremy Griffith, a biologist, has hit pretty close to the mark with this analysis. He falls short in that he never quite gets to the end of the trail, which is that neither passion nor reason can take us out of the carnal prison. Faith is the bridge between God and Man, not these other things. And that is THE thing we are all seeking, even the atheist, the pagan, and the Satanist. It is just that too often we try to get there by our own strength. We can't.

Liberals keep doubling down on that. And they ultimately refuse to believe in a transcendent God. Some believe in a kind of comic-book deity who is like a kindly grandpa who gives out candy and the like, but they don't understand their own spiritual emptiness and refuse to see the Almighty as their ultimate goal. That's why they work so hard on things of this Earth, the carnal works of mercy. They worship the creature rather than the Creator.

Mostly they worship themselves. They are the ones they have been waiting for.

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More LGBTQ "Rights"?

Timothy Birdnow

You don't push for a "right". A right is something you intrinsically possess. You don't have to manufacture it. It does not impose an obligation on another. That they are talking about "pushing for LGBTQEIEIO "rights" tells you right away this isn't about rights but about special privileges.

Oklahoma Leaders Hope to Push for More LGBTQ Rights in 2020



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Conrad, Bean, RIP

Timothy Birdnow

Robert Conrad, star of Wild, Wild, West and Black Sheep Squadron, has passed away at age 84.

Conrad was becoming a big star until some blatantly anti-Semitic remarks (rightly) sunk his career.

I used to love Wild, Wild, West and own the box set. I suppose I'll have to dig it out and rewatch it.

In other celebrity deaths, actor Orson Bean was hit by a car and killed in Venice Ca. He was 91.

Bean,  a staunch conservative, was the father-in-law of conservative icon Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart had liberal tendencies but his association with Bean led to his political awakening. So we have Bean to thank for all the good things Breitbart accomplished.

Were I of a conspiratorial bent I would be suspicious; Breitbart died of heart failure out of the blue, and Bean got creamed by a car. Watch  for the conspiracy theories to fly.

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February 08, 2020

The other Biden Scandal

Jack Kemp

Joe Biden used to exploit the death of his son Joseph "Beau" Biden, due to cancer, for political reasons. But the story goes deeper because Beau was a U.S. Army attorney who volunteered to go to Iraq - where he probably got the cancer.

In 2016, former U.S. Army Intelligence officer Joseph Hickman - with the help of the Seton Hall U. Law School., wrote a detailed book called "The Burn Pits." In it, he explained how both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations chose cheap, open burn pits for garbage disposal on U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. The soldiers , Marines and other service people living on those bases breathed in these poisons and a number of them got cancer. One of those soldiers, as the book states, was Army Attorney Beau Biden who developed cancer after returning from Iraq where he served in 2008-2009.  These two Presidents spent fortunes - billions - on government contractors supplying luxurious living conditions in Iraq's "Green Zone" but couldn't come up with the money for enclosed high heat garbage burning furnaces to safeguard the health of our service men and women.   Years later, the Obama administration signed some law helping burn pit cancer victims, something that was too little, too late.

Now I saw Joseph Hickman speak in 2016 at an Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America public event in New York - but a question now arises in my mind that I should have thought up when I wrote about "The Burn Pits" years ago. Beau Biden was breathing in all these toxins on his base, having full knowledge of the burn pits and having a father who was Vice President of the United States. Beau Biden was in a unique position to become a whistle blower and "pull rank" on the Army base commander because his dad had the ear of the President and was a heartbeat away from becoming President. Beau could have easily used his political power to urge a reform of this ecological disaster visited upon American troops. Or was Beau Biden afraid that conservatives would jump on his making this a high profile news story and thus blaming Obama and his dad Joe Biden for the scandal YEARS BEFORE their 2012 reelection campaign?

I wish I had the resources to research this (and also get people in the military to talk to me instead of slamming the door on my face or hanging up the phone).


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How DARE You!

This from Joseph Bast:

A terrific response by Naomi Seibert to spying and misreporting by German media aimed at her and The Heartland Institute. Please forward and comment on this.

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