Tuesday, March 19, 2013

The Left's Ideological Village Idiot


    He just cannot stop blaming Bush. No, I am not talking about Obama. The March 18th Ope-Ed in the NYT from writer and Liberal torch bearer Paul Krugman reminds me of a badly written song skipping over and over on a broken record. In the Op-Ed he equates the invasion of Iraq to our current fiscal demise. I couldn't resist. I cut out the article (stole it) stuffed it into my pocket and here I am. I could think of only one person up to the task.

    ".. It was obvious... the Bush Administration misled the nation into war.." Simply amazing, this guy never stops does he? He is adroit at the paradigm; keep repeating the same lie and it becomes truth. This isn't the first rodeo for old Paul either. A few months back I watched him on Bill Moyers talk about why the Obama economic plan wasn't going as swimmingly as it should. After he performed his dog and pony show of blaming Bush and Republicans his summation amounted to the fact that Obama hadn't spent enough money and more was needed (insert definition of insanity here). His master full misrepresentation of Ari Fliesher's comment following the firing of Bill Mayer at ABC, "..be careful what you say." was completely taken out of context and became another banner of the leftist anti-war movement.. It was nothing short of where the line between journalistic integrity ends and pure pandering begins.

    How? Some one help me here, please. How did President Bush purposely orchestrate a lie that led us into war in Iraq? Intelligence agencies here and around the world were all convinced of the evidence.
    From FOX News' John Gibson's book How The Left Swiftboated America:
    " Saddam Hussein had convinced every one. even his own generals, that he had WMD. His actions toward the UN weapons inspectors strongly suggested he was hiding something.... his capabilities of restarting a bio-weapons program... had not been diminished."
    Then there was the Senate Select Committe on Intelligence report:
    " Regarding the Iraq/Al-Qaeda relationship reporting from sources... points to a number of contacts, incidents of training and discussions of Iraqi safe haven for UBL... dating from the early 1990's.."
    Foreign nations told us they sold him equipment for weaponizing chemical and biological agents. The use of chemical weapons during the Iran/Iraq war is well documented. There was also the mass murder of over 5000 Kurds with WMD. Try telling a surviving Kurdish family member that there were no WMD and he will punch you in the face.

    Krugman continues: " ... during the run up to the war, was the illusion of consensus."
    That's not how I remember it. The left was constantly reminding us that there was no consensus at all either from Congress or the UN. However, as the debates moved along and a coalition began to form the Left turned the argument around and denigrated those nations who came on board. They tagged it, "the coalition of the willing".
    It was Krugman and another journalist with a thimble full of integrity, Frank Rich who beat the drum of defeat in Iraq despite the surge, despite the elections that ushered in the Maliki government. As far as I know, Iraq still has a democratically elected government and has no tolerance for Al-Qaeda.
    Krugman further explains how this "consensus" and "the argument (for it) was circular". Circular? Again, some one help me here. If there is a "consensus" to go to war (which the left kept telling us there wasn't) after seventeen UN resolutions, the on again off again inspections and it is an "illusion": Isn't that drawing together of international partners something the Left would be pleased with?
    Yes, as long as it falls inside the narrow purview of Leftist political theory. In other words the "consensus" to go to war was the wrong "consensus". They should have consented not to go to war. That would have been the right "consensus". Well, I am sure glad we have Krugman to decide that for us.

    Here is where Krugman takes this nutty idea all the way to Crazytown.
    He is convinced that the correct "consensus" over our economic problems are "... closely associated with the taking of sides... exaggerated and inappropriate."
    Inappropriate? Having a different opinion is inappropriate?
    Yes, because it falls outside the narrow purview of Leftist political theory.
    I guess all the GAO reports, hundreds of economists, think tanks, business leaders, even history itself are totally wrong.
    ".... now, as then we have the illusion of consensus, an illusion based on a process in which anyone questioning the preferred narrative is immediately marginalized".
    That is simply not true. And what is this "preferred narrative" anyways? That the current economic policy is the correct "consensus"? Does the collapse of the Euro, high unemployment, constant fiscal cliffs, our own entitlement mess and the reckless policies of the Fed mean nothing? Does that mean we are to be marginalized because we are of the wrong "consensus"?
    I guess that all depends on what side of  "consensus" you consent to "consensus" upon.

    " Bad economic policy isn't the moral equivalent of a war fought on false pretenses."
    Yes it is Mr. Krugman! It is exactly the moral equivalent.  You speak of a "consensus" based on a false premise only because you disagreed with it. Does not mean you are correct in your assertions. Then, you use the same argument to justify a policy that is bankrupting this country. You cannot have your cake and eat it too Mr. Krugman. Maybe that works in Liberal BizarroWorld but not in the real one and I see your ruse. You do not get to pick and choose "moral equivalents" to supprt your idea. What is right is right and what is wrong is wrong and you, Sir, are wrong.
    For the past decade all we have heard from the Left is how the Iraq war and the War on Terror has exploded the national debt and made the country less safe yet miraculously  when we debate our debt vis-a-vis bad economic policy; the argument no longer applies? The moral equivalent is exactly the same!
    Like war, bad economic policy adversely affects people. Like war, bad economic policy gets people killed. Innocent people. Like war, bad economic policy threatens our national security, destroys the fabric of society, infrastructure, separates families and diminishes the educational and health of children. Like war, Mr. Krugman, bad economic policy tends to displace millions of people as is evident from all the foreclosed homes and people out of work. They become economic refugees.

    Don't you dare denigrate the good name of all those who served from all over the world to free a nation from a dictator then hide behind your lofty ideals and a President who is hell bent on destroying The United States of America through a fucking "consensus" of like minded Socialists!
    " What we should have learned from the Iraq debacle was.... you should never rely on supposed authority..."
    Really, Mr. Krugman? Well thank you very much for your "circular argument" You have just come completely 360 degrees to utterly defeat your own thesis. Does that "supposed authority" include you and the NYT just because you are all in "consensus"?
    Yes, it does!
    And if that is so, then it is the "consensus" of this writer that you Mr. Paul Krugman are the Left's ideological village idiot..


....And That Is The Diatribe....

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Lonesome Joe And His Uncle Huey

    What the hell is Joe Kennedy going to do now? Well, no need to fret Joe the world is full of plenty of third world despots just lining up with their zippers down. Time to break out the knee pads again.
    Joe Kennedy touted Fat-Ass as a "soldier of the little man" (really, he supported dwarfs?) all the while declaring himself President for life. Joe and his wife both raked in over one million dollars a year giving away Uncle Huey's free oil to old ladies and welfare moms. Happy, smiley faced Fascism.
    Before the make up was even dry at the funeral home Amherst and The People's Republic of Cambridge lowered their flags to half staff. This was, initially problematic for the  Communist enclave of Amherst. They voted a few years ago not to fly American flags anywhere within city limits so some one had to drive to a Wal-mart to purchase a Chinese made one. You see, this was a special occasion.
    In Caracas a business was closed for the day in solidarity of all the thousands more that were shut down by Uncle Huey's Socialism. The NY Times wrote: ".. Mr. Chavez, 58, changed Venezuela in fundamental ways (sounds familiar), empowering and energizing millions of poor people." There was no mention of jobs or Liberty.
    His VP immediately convened his Cabinet into "crisis" mode because he didn't want it to go to waste. So, they expelled two American diplomats who were accused of recruiting Venezuelan military in "destabilizing projects." VP Maduro even tossed out the idea that it was the US of A that may have caused Uncle Huey's cancer.
    ... I love the smell of a black bag operation in the morning. It smells like... Victory.

    Venezuela's superior Socialized Healthcare system apparently wasn't superior enough so the Presidente Por Vida Todamente was flown to another Socialist country, whose equally superior Socialized Healthcare system gave him VIP treatment while the pleebs were kept outside waiting for basic checkups.
    Professor Javier Corrales of Amherst College (all the important opinions) lent this tid-bit of political expertise: " In regimes that are so person based, the moment the person on which everything hangs is removed, the entire foundation becomes very weak because there was nothing else supporting this other than this figure." Really?
    After I recovered from laughter and changed my pants I wanted to write something but I do not need the Secret Service up my ass. Suffice to say: Insert Barack Hussein Obama.
    Doctor of Psychiatry Edmundo Chiranas who (according to the NYT) "got to know" Chavez as a patient (yep, he had a shrink) said this in a 2001 New Yorker article: ".... a hyper kinetic and imprudent man, unpunctual,.... overreacts to criticism, harbors grudges, is politically astute and manipulative.."
    Insert Barack Hussein Obama.

    His democratic election (wink-wink) in 1998 was cast as a "patriotic uprising" while his political opposition (cause this is a freedom loving country) who tried to overthrow him in 2002 were (his words); "golpistas" and "putschists". I guess it all depends on what side of fascism you lean towards.
    His brand of Socialism was a model for the despotic world to envy. Every single one of Uncle Huey's goals were met. Thousands of investors, scientists, doctors and teachers fled the country in a mass exodus only to be replaced with Iranians, Chinese, Lebanese and North Koreans. The homicide rate soared after he took away every one's guns.
    Liberal scientists are still trying to figure that one out.
    Simply transferring a title to property became a Olympian odyssey as officials grew wealthy from bribes. His manipulation of the media and the bully pulpit became the playbook of the DNC. His Airbus-319 was opulent. Sean Penn spent many hours aboard. Knee pads were supplied courtesy of the proletariat.
     But Chavez worked hard at expanding his diplomatic relations around the world. He and Achmed-Wacka-Job had a travelling show that made a few appearances here at the UN from time to time. He was bosom buddies with Qadaffi and called his murder an "outrage" (overused Lib terminology). He had nothing but good things to say about the technological and humanitarian advancements in Cuba and North Korea. He trully loved his country. He and his mistress, Herma Marksman, would drive around the country with the top down for hours together.
    Man!.. Third world despots always score the babes! Can you imagine the satellite shots from above with her head in his lap?

    What is Joe Kennedy thinking? If JFK was still alive he would bitch slap Joe and tell him to smarten up and Bobby would be holding him down in the process. The usual LSM covered his death all across their front pages.
    But I was not worried.
    Hugo Chavez joins a long list of despots relegated to the dustbin of history and he will be forgotten. At most he will be a T-shirt much like his hero.. Che.

....And That Is The Diatribe....

Sunday, March 3, 2013

The Communist Circus Comes To Town

      I had arrived late to the meeting. The Banx Room at the Worcester Public Library held roughly two dozen twenty-something "comrades" (their words). They were all starry eyed and hopped up on talk of revolution. The topic was about victims of Capitalism. I always find the 'victim' moniker very misleading. I know we live in the age of victimization and the broadcasting to the world there-of but I have never felt victimized by my employer. I always negotiated good pay, was able to dictate my own schedule, invested in my benefactors and thoroughly enjoyed my vacation pay. The only time I ever felt victimized is when I was laid off due to the shitty economy that seems to be the norm in 21'st century America. And that had nothing to do with the company. It was always due to government dictated economic policy, er..Socialism.
    Evil capitalist Dunkin Donuts was being served. A twenty something sipped merrily, hanging on every word from the speaker as she text-ed on her I-phone. Sorry, her evil capitalist I-phone.

    The organization is called Socialist Alternative to Worcester. Here is the link:

    http://www.socialistalternative.org/

    It is important to know that these guys are affiliated with the Committee for a Workers International... Yeah, these guys are pure Communists. Supposedly the CWI operates in several countries that are models of human endeavor.... I refilled my coffee. This was going to be interesting.
    They weren't a bad bunch of kids, actually. All of them were totally unshaven yet very polite. They truly believed in what they were lied to about. They reminded me of a deer caught in the headlights of a Ford Truck somewhere in Maine..We all know how that ends. Much like how Socialism ends.
    The conversation with one of it's Commandants was very amicable. However I was soon surrounded as my questions reeled off. It wasn't until I was finished and left that I realized I had my Worcester Tea Party button firmly affixed to my backpack.. And they noticed!

    It seems that this "new" Socialist Movement rejects the the failed policies of 1917 Bolshevism. I was relieved cause I had a bus to catch and God forbid it was late, the driver may have been executed. There was one "comrade" who spent time on the 38th Parallel  in the US Army and he claimed to know and see the failures of the past..Phew!!..Dodged a bullet there. Just not quite not sure from whom.
    Their consensus is squarely fixed on Unions, Feminism, Immigration, Environment, Rights,... ahhh, pensions (wait, let me check my notes..).. Republicans, Global Warming. ...You get my drift.
    This had me confused for a moment. I have been doing this whole Meat And Potatoes thing for the past five years and I have yet to find any evidence of how women, blacks and immigrants are some how discriminated against in the workplace. I could have sworn we solved all this shit back in the 60's and 70's.. Was that not the job of the "Counter Culture" (ie Socialists)..??
    Soooo...Why is this still a problem?... Ooooh... cause it was a failure? ON THEIR PART?
    And what the hell is so wrong with  a Constitutional Republic? Seems it allows the Socailists to gather and debate.. As is evident from where I was last Saturday.

    It was solved not only (despite of) Government regulation....It just, plain and simply happened.
    Quick question!.. Any one reading this (black, female, gay, alien from another planet).. Are you discriminated against?.. I thought so... And so didn't you! NO ONE CARES ANYMORE!!! Equality is here. Just look around at your work place tomorrow. If you have one (thanks Socialism).

    We have reached parity. So why the Socialist Movement? Well, if you still have an axe to grind, these guys are your new BFF. Cause it is all about you.. Well, not really 'you', rather, "the collective".

    One of the first tenets of social and political change is to create a crisis. Hitler burned down the Chancellery ( blamed on Communist). Mussolini blamed it on the former government and rampant unemployment (take note America). Castro had an American imposed Fiat, then Bay of Pigs. Che was just a crazy motherfucker. Today we have massive unemployment and orbital deficits (all manufactured) and a soap opera of Congressional/ Administration arguments over crisis after crisis. And NO I am not entertaining the whole 9/11 conspiracy thing.. Smoke another one on me.
    Allow me to shed some light on this Phenom...

    From Prf. John Feeny, "Congress Shall Make No Law Abridging Freedom Of Speech" 2009.

   "Cloward /Piven Crisis Strategy-- Strategy for forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologist Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.. (Obama went to this school and studied this political idea). "... seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.."

    Well...Isn't that special? Is it any wonder we have crisis after crisis after crisis? Thus we usher in... Socialism. I wrote in an earlier blog what Cong. Ron Paul said about how government creates the crisis then delites in how they solve it.
    Is it any wonder (also) why Dr. Carson, who gave the impromptu speech at the broadcast with the Anointed One held captive (you could see him squirming) said what he said to put a drop of sanity into a political regime that knows only insanity?

    Socialism demands more from the government. Unfortunately Margarette Thacher was correct in her statement, "..eventually you run out of other people's money". I asked this question to the Socialists I met with. It turned into a  litany of how Bill Gates did not create  something but rather it was his workers who created the wealth of Bill Gates..Yeah, it went no where.. Bill Gates did create something and he allowed his hired help to expand and he let loose the innovation of American ingenuity to expand upon his idea.
    Hell, I created an idea, but I would be nothing without the help of all who have assisted me. Does not mean I did not create The Meat And Potatoes Show. I was just intelligent enough to allow others who could help me expand upon my idea... It is called  Business, It is called ideas and the ability to let those ideas grow and create an industry. Does that mean I am a cruel Capitalist?

    The conversation at the meeting steered towards statistics of peole who have been left behind due to the lack of National Healthcare. This was a bald faced lie. There are dozens of State and Federal programs that could help the most indigent of Americans. All they have to do is sign up. These programs exist at churches, advocacy groups (Obama's favorite) and social services offices. All of these are Socialist programs. I wonder if their chief complaint is that: the very programs they profess fall short of the expectations of the core belief's these Socialist groups aspire to.

    Well, even the Soviet Union had death panels. Look how well that system worked out. In fact, how's that "hope and change you can believe in" working out for you?

....And That Is The Diatribe....