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Why Does the King of Curtsy Hate Us?

Skeptical in China: Barack Flies Into New Center of Gravity

John Steele Gordon: The President Who Grovels

Why Does He Hate Us?  The America-Effacing President

When's he gonna bow to us?

Bowzy-Scraper Promises to Rangle the U.S. Deficit

That's leadership.

The President?

The dispassion, the self-reverence, the blindness of the man, are marvelous to behold, and so perfectly reflect the president he so perfectly serves. “Neutral and detached” people shall “understand the reasons why” he made those decisions, shall see he has left “the politics out of it,” and shall recognize what’s right--something the rest of us, benighted and bellicose souls that we are, have never managed to do with respect to the disposition of those committing mass murders of Americans in their ongoing war against our civilization.

Nah.  Eric Holder.  Neutral and Detached.

Jake Tapper: What Happens if a 9/11 Terrorist is Acquitted?  We take up Boofocracy with the rest of the "idealists", that's what.

"Bad is good. Quagmire is progress. And jobs destroyed are jobs 'created or saved.'”  When Will the King of Curtsy Quit Lying About the Stimulus?

First Things First: Don't Let the Curtsy King Steal Your Freedoms and Betray You with a Kiss

Acorn: Once on the Federal Dole, Always on the Federal Dole

Stumble Bum-in-Chief

Tater Time

Mashed Potatos - Dee Dee Sharp

Chubby Checker & Dee Dee Sharp "Slow Twist" 1962

The Contours - Do You Love Me (Now That I can Dance)

Beach Boys -- I Can Hear the Music 1969

Black Sabbath -- Fairies Wear Boots

Ballad of the Warm Fuzzy Fascisti

No Popups for Kenny

K's Comment stirred up long-neglected historical memories of those "progressive" years Woodrow Wilson was president.  No, I'm not an expert on the Wilson presidency, but he did have some firsts in the civil liberties department.  First, some background:

First, during the post-Lincoln years, it was unusual to have a Democrat for president.   (The Democratic Party was for "crackers", racists, and southerners.  Think of it: the Northeastern U.S. was Lincoln country!)  Wilson was the first consecutive two-termer Democrat after Lincoln's assassination.  The first Democrat was the beleaguered, impeached Andrew Johnson, the poster boy for failed Democratic states' rights politics; the second was "Uncle Jumbo", Grover Cleveland, the only president to have two of the 44 presidential slots, as in, two non-consecutive slots.  Ideologically, "Big Steve" was closer to Calvin Coolidge than he was to Lyndon Baines Johnson.  He was not "progressive" by anyone's standard, I don't think.

Sons of X

We are All Liberals; We are All Progressives.  Woodrow Wilson was America's first "progressive" president.  The social climate of those years gave birth to the bumper stickers of our time: unprecedented prosperity juxtaposed with shocking inner city poverty, industrial slaughter of human beings, pollution you and I can't even conceive of, and so on.  Woodrow Wilson was elected president at the beginning of our era.  When you think of Woodrow Wilson, you think of Democrats like Barack Obama, not Democrats like Harry Truman or "Uncle Jumbo."  This is what Jonah Goldberg said about President Wilson:

Seen at the Cannabis Cafe in Portland

Frank O'Mundo: Opening Act at Stoner Cafe

What Would Obamastein Do?   This waitress has just one thing in mind: getting YOU wasted!

She's also an Outer Limits Babe.  You can see her here, on a fascinating episode called "The Borderland." 

It's amazing how much Fourth Dimensional Clarity you could generate in a dimly lit warehouse full of people with costumes.

Bring it On!

Paris 1919

Paul Cowan's Paris 1919

Had a chance to grab this piece of depression on the Military  channel this morning.  First, a personal comment: my father was born in February, 1919, which seems portentous in light of the fact that he would step off a landing craft at Normandy 25 years later.  His father -- who served in the Army during the Great War -- said throughout the 20s and 30s, 'The Treaty of Versalee will cause the next war."  If my grandfather had been in Paris, 1919, he would have advised against reparations, I'm thinking.  When you hear someone say 'reparations', that usually means they're trying to start a fight.  One has to wonder how things would have turned out if the French weren't staring at blood-drenched trenches and seas of crosses while they negotiated.  Suppose the peace talks had taken place in Wichita, Kansas?  The British were pricks, and short-sighted.  The whole thing was a nasty mess.  The seeds were planted for the Chinese-Japanese conflict, Saddam Hussein, and Mr. Tap-and-Dance, Adolph Hitler

37,000,000 People Left Earth Prematurely Between 1914 and 1918.  The French lost 1.3 million; the Germans lost 2 million.

Second, the show is a study in how sick and dangerous international players can be.  Poor, idealistic Wilson was no match for cynical European assholes.  As Cowan's documentary points out, even though no League of Nations was in place, in fact there was a World Government. 

I don't know about you, but I doubt a world government today could be any more enlightened then what happened then.  The leaders of those times were assholes.

Just like now.

Grimmest scene in All Quiet on the Western Front: the Graveyard Scene!

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

It's Official

I've been experimenting with Firefox since yesterday.  Seems to work better on this end.  I wonder how the posts are looking out there?

I mean, subtracting for the retardation of the poster, and all.

The Human Factor: The Babes of Outer Limits

The Boing Cap Jumpstarts Dr. Hamilton's Otoscope.  Dr. Saldini?  Played by Shirley O'Hara.

 

Shag the Cap.  We don't need it!

A Brilliant Dummy

Rush Limbaugh: Going Rogue The Best Substantive Policy Book He's Seen

Associated Press: Sarah Goes Rogue on Facts

Nowhere to Go But Down

Did You Remember to Bring Vanilla Wafers?

He Was No Mick Jagger.  The night Obama was a elected was a night of heady firsts.  But it also revealed there was nowhere to go, but down.

That night began to reveal an unfortunate truth: having reached a pinnacle on the day he was elected, Obama's popularity and relationship with the American people had nowhere to go but down. That's a difficult adjustment to make, and is reminiscent of the apocryphal story about the obsessed fan and her friends who worshipped and followed the Rolling Stones. One night, the fan finally got to spend the evening with Mick Jagger. After she emerged from the hotel the next morning, her friends asked her how it went. "Well," she said, "he was alright. But he's no Mick Jagger."  Steven Stark, Yes, Obama Has Peaked

"New Found Black Ego."  Andy McCarthy paints a dark picture of Holder's motives in moving the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial to a civil setting in NY:

We are now going to have a trial that never had to happen for defendants who have no defense. And when defendants have no defense for their own actions, there is only one thing for their lawyers to do: put the government on trial in hopes of getting the jury (and the media) spun up over government errors, abuses and incompetence. That is what is going to happen in the trial of KSM et al. It will be a soapbox for al-Qaeda's case against America. Since that will be their "defense," the defendants will demand every bit of information they can get about interrogations, renditions, secret prisons, undercover operations targeting Muslims and mosques, etc., and — depending on what judge catches the case — they are likely to be given a lot of it. The administration will be able to claim that the judge, not the administration, is responsible for the exposure of our defense secrets. And the circus will be played out for all to see — in the middle of the war. It will provide endless fodder for the transnational Left to press its case that actions taken in America's defense are violations of international law that must be addressed by foreign courts. And the intelligence bounty will make our enemies more efficient at killing us.

David Horowitz: The Worst Decision Any U.S. President Ever Made?

Obama is Losing Independent Voters.  Looks to me like about 50% of the voters still think he's okay?  Who are these folks?

The Bow:  Scott Johnson Wants to Know What it is About Obama and the Bow?  He likes to bow.  He's a Beta Male.  Jacob Weisberg asks: Does Obama Have a Muslim Problem?

Outer Limits Babe

Joanne Gilbert

Okay, Uncle Kenny?

The Outer Limits - Original _ O.B.I.T.

Apocalypse Maybe

The Outer Limits - Original _ The Man Who Was Never Born (1963)

At lunch today we discussed possible outcomes of what is going on right now.  I'm the most apocalyptic of the bunch.  It runs something like this: our politicians are the same kind of critter that ran things in the 20s and 30s.  In addition to ordinary human blindness -- which we all suffer without abatement -- the dynamics that operate without hindrance are greed, lust for power, egotism, weakness, stupidity, and so on.  Those dynamics are the body and the antibody, the proton and the neutron, of political structures.  In other words, if constructive action could be taken to, say, rescue the dollar from collapse, our politicians would be explaining those things to us and laying out options for us to choose from.  Instead, our politicians make promises that can't be kept and assume, I guess, that as long as we voters like to play Bitch to their Bubba, all is well.  Apply this calculus to a darker vision, as Vanderleun did in this Afghanistan post, and you get the Ritalin version of history.  That is why I'm apocalyptic.  Systems have to be destroyed.  We're going into a death phase with a chorus of fools singing a sociopath's praises.  I'd call that the equivalent of a bird going to a cat fight.

Nuclear weapons?  Stephen King visions?  Why not?  What I had in mind, though, was more along the lines of what was posted here: Getting Ready.

I'll be more candid with you.  You can make fun of me if you wish.  I feel in my bones that our own government will be putting people in jail in my lifetime -- for political reaons.  Paranoid?  Rationally, I have to say yes, it's paranoid.  Still, I feel what I feel: there's a plan in place to literally, at an instinctive level, break the American spine.  I believe the people dominating this country from behind the scenes are slave masters.  To the extent a strong America impedes that play, some of us will be broken.  I believe this.  You can make fun of me 10 years from now, if I'm alive, and wrong.

Our friend Fuchs sent along this link: The Doomer Case.  I guess Fuchs and I wouldn't make such good company for Tea.  We're Doomers.

Design Restratication

Look Ma, No Popups!

Gerard Vanderleun designed the banner.  I made some changes in light of his . . . .  (ahem) "suggestions."

This post is relayed via Firefox as opposed to IE.

Let me know what you think.  The main objective was to correct formatting challenges (that I was DimSun about till today), but also, we're trying to upgrade the appearance of Washington Rebel.

Oh, please speak freely!

Irish Cicero

Update: Uncle Kenny condemned Popup Totty.  I'm no longer popping up, but laying here, flaccid like, for our readers.  I hope this is an improvement for all concerned.

Fontification

I was told by a Blogolista today that my type was honkin' big.  I'm trying a different size.

Looking for feedback from you Firefox users.

Thank you.

That There Be Some Damn Fine Bloggin'

 

Welcome to Washington Rebel.  Hope you stay to read some, too.

American Digest: Zombie Survival Guide

Thanks, Democrats

Vanderleun Posted The Obama Time-To-Do List Tonight:

• Let your elected leaders at every level know you will not be a passive observer of the dismantling of the Constitution. They need to hear from every single person or they will believe what Obama and CNN tell them - that we all WANT big government nannies to run our lives! Learn who is a friend of freedom and who an enemy, party lines or economic status regardless.
  
• Define for yourself which other countries treasure liberty and justice, and let congress and anyone who will listen to you know that we should support and defend them, and only them.
  
• Make a personal/family/community survival plan.
• Acquire guns, ammo and the skills to use them.
• Acquire an understanding of basic nutrition and first aid.
• Acquire the food, water and supplies to meet those needs.
• Acquire warmth and shelter that isn't dependent on the power company or on uninterrupted paychecks.
  
• Determine the friends, neighbors, family who will hang together no matter what.
• Develop a tough and resilient attitude. Have copies of the Bible and the Consitution.
  
• Become more self-sufficient and more focused on the eternal truths of life.
• Downsize and decentralize.

 

• Stay away from people who depend on government for jobs or handouts.
  
• Stay far away from places where most people are government serfs.
  
• Move away from where the trouble will be and towards where the food is grown and the Patriots are.
  
• Stop using credit, pay down debts.
  
• Learn to cook, sew, mend, do leatherwork, raise food, keep chickens, make simple shoes, knit, can, do carpentry, fix your own vehicles.
  
• Learn self-defense and go to the local shooting range often. You will meet a few crazy people and dozens, hundreds of Patriots.
  
• Trade the sports car for a truck, the vacation home in a fancy place for a working farm in a plainspoken unfashionable spot or a cabin and acreage out back of the beyond.
  
• Cash out your big-city lifestyle and become a craftsman in a small burg.
  
• Learn to track and hunt and fish.
  
• Run for local office. When you lose, run again, and again.
  
• Give interviews freely and always talk about the Constitution, freedom, personal responsibility and small government.
  
• Become part of the water board, school board, neighborhood watch, volunteer firefighters or lodge brothers.
  
• Work with the police, firefighters, and other public security groups to be sure your area has a plan for crisis management.
  
• Get bikes, dogs and cats.
  
• Join or start a local barter group.
  
• Join up with Tea Partiers, Independents, Libertarians, Republicans, ANYONE in your area that works and votes for freedom, responsibility, small government.
  
• Document and publicize the power-grabbing, tax-wasting activities of everyone else.
  
• Do everything possible to support local military bases, personnel, activities.
  
• Make friends and look for common ground with everyone who loves freedom.
• Figure out at least one conversational "hook" that can help a misguided Obama believer at least start to see a tiny bit of light.
  
• And don't spend too much time online. Hit a few decent blogs for the news and the latest Patriot chat, then back to work.

There is plenty to do.

China and Obamao, aka Maobama

Maobama, Paying Himself Respect

Warsaw, Poland 13 November 2009 A Polish news service reports that Obama has created a furor in China. The reason? The Chinese people are applauding the similarity between Mao Tse-Tung and US President Obama.  Obamacommie

Frank Gaffney: Obama Doctrine Coup 

Matthew Vadum: ACORN Claims Constitutional Right to Public Funds

Actually, the lawsuit, filed with the assistance of the allegedly terrorist-funded Center for Constitutional Rights, doesn't use the word fraud, but that's what it amounts to because ACORN argues in the document that it has a right to taxpayer dollars. I kid you not.

Robert Stacy McCain: Tea Party Nation

Waylon Jennings, Delia's Gone

Nobody could hit those plaintive notes like my boy Waylon.  When I went back to my country boy ways, Waylon led the thunderous roar of glory.

God Bless, boyo.

Americans Titter. Soon to Guffaw. And Then to Horror for What We've Done.

Blitzkrieg of Chaos

Let's pretend it's all theater, and when Obama uses the word "audacity" he means a political Blitzkrieg, a surprise attack with maximum force at the weakest point on the enemy's front. George Patton used that kind of audacity with the Third Army in Europe, but Eisenhower made sure that Patton was kept in check. Eisenhower only let him off the leash after Normandy, and even then Omar Bradley was put in place to ride herd on Patton. Ike knew exactly what he was doing.

I don't think Obama has a General Eisenhower to keep him from doing stupid things. He makes too many flaming mistakes; look at the Fort Hood fiasco. The Brits are now beginning to laugh at Obama's weird, compulsive egomania. Even the New Republic is catching on.

Obama eliminated his Chicago competition by dumping dirt on his election opponents through the media, forcing them to drop out before the election. He beat Hillary by stacking the caucus states and smearing Bill Clinton as a racist. Blitzkrieg is how Obama conquered the banks and the car companies -- and if the Senate GOP crumbles on Mob-O-Care, that's how he will conquer another one-sixth of the American economy.  James Lewis, The Audacity of Extremism

Neal Braithwaite, Obama's Chickens Come Home to Roost:

President Obama is willfully surrendering America's safety for the sake of political correctness and tolerance. This comes on the back of his selfish ambition to become the savior of the world, the consequences of which are leaving America more vulnerable to attack at home and abroad on every front, be it financial or military.

Terrorist organizations are taking advantage of President Obama's perceived weakness and ignorance. But the truly ignorant are our political leaders -- and they should know better -- not to mention the left-wing media and the millions of duped Americans who have turned a blind eye and deaf ear to reality as they play in concert with President Obama's insidious plan to weaken and socialize America.

Brigitte Gabriel Takes Off the Gloves

Brigitte Gabriel

CAIR has been fighting back desperately, and there has been a virtual major media blackout of Muslim Mafia thus far. The grassroots voice of America needs to speak out and demand that the government launch an investigation of CAIR.  At the very least it appears that CAIR is violating its non-profit tax status. This is why, in the first step of our campaign to demand an investigation of CAIR’s actions, ACT! for America has launched this new petition. We can read articles, we can get educated but unless we take action nothing is going to change. This is why I am urging people to speak with a loud collective voice to our elected officials through signing our petition at ActforAmerica.org to investigate an organization with shady founders and associates whom have been convicted on terror related charges.  Jamie Glazov Interviews Brigitte Gabriel

When Brigitte's Mother Goes to an Israeli Hospital -- Crossing the Line From Hatred (Islam) to Compassion (Israel)

Yeah, That's Right

This Be the Rebel Blog.

Turn Around Now, While You Can Still Pay Your Bills.  Don't Gamble Your Cliches!

 

Hang it Around Their Necks

What's So Wrong About Socialism?

Joe Herring encounters the same sort of dope I see a lot of: the hip young voter who has no idea how dangerous socialism is.  He thought the kid was joking when he said, "What's so wrong about socialism?"

Herring seems to think we can talk these guys out of it.  I'm not so sure.  Two paragraphs worth pondering:

Von Hayek accurately foretold the fate that would befall dissenters from the plan. They simply could not be allowed to get in the way. Opposition would soon be treated as subversion, with debate shriveling to non-existence under the glare of the state. Those who refused compliance would first be marginalized, then dehumanized, and finally (failing re-education) eliminated. Collectivism and individualism cannot long share the same bed. They are political oil and water, and neither can compromise its position without eventually succumbing to the other. The history of the twentieth century is littered with the remains of those who became "enemies of the state" for merely drawing attention to this flaw. As Von Hayek predicted, the socialist vision would not be achieved without bloodshed.

So this is the challenge we face. My young coworker had no frame of reference by which to judge the events unfolding around him. He had been presented with only the intentions of socialism, not the inevitable results. He had been given the whitewashed fantasy of the Left, who never saw a failure that couldn't be rationalized -- or better yet, blamed on others. Our job, then, is to teach the lessons of history to those who fail to see the danger. We have to provide that all-important perspective to a generation that has been denied it. We have to do this one at a time, conversation by conversation. Tell your friends the truth; don't assume they know it. Become the person your friends and family consult when the subject turns to politics.

I have a different take on what will happen before folks get their senses back.  More on that later this week.

Supersecret Blogolastic Retreat

Irish Cicero and Hoh River Boy Taking Cover at a Chinese Restaurant in the Seattle Area.  (Note the KIA Conservative federal employee in the foreground)

Will be meeting up with Blogger Loggers tomorrow in Seattle.  We have nothing to lose but our waists.

I'll report sometime tomorrow.  Expect a temporary slowdown in production while we move toward our destinations under supersecret protocols!

Obama Operative Offers Refreshment

Man-Made Climate Change is Bullshit, Says Leading Expert on Climate Change Bullshit

Climate Change 'Sceptic' Ian Plimer Argues CO2 is Not Causing Global Warming

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a natural phenomenon caused by volcanoes and is not responsible for climate change, a scientist has claimed.

That's too bad.  What can we do if we can't scare the kids?  Work?!

Thursday Rebelry

Washington Rebel Readers Discuss Warm Fuzzies Over Cold Bubblies

Noemie Emery: Washington Post Talking Non-Points on Election 09

George Will: Debt is Shit-Canning the Buck

Mark Steyn on Emasculated Bureaucratese: Spare Me the Platitudes, Jack

"Hatred of the Jew is the perpetual vestige of Western resentment and vexation against its own civilizing imperative. This too was Winston Churchill's understanding of Jew-hatred, which he described as Western civilization's revolt against its own central values as manifested in art, science, and political and religious organizations ... David Warren, Remembering the Future

Boofery in Paradise: Debt Makes China and the U.S. a Reluctant Couple, Wherein China Plays the "Husband"

Daniel Henninger: Why Fort Hood Really Happened

Lookin' Good!

Building a Better America Together!

But the first round of the upbeat, nonpartisan, avoid-specific-issues, dream-big ad campaign had barely hit the airwaves when the White House declared war. Not a shooting war, obviously. Political warfare. A full-bore, scorched-earth attempt to stifle dissent and punish all those who dare challenge the man who once talked of Solving Problems Together.  Kevin Ferris

Mike Rosen: The Liberal Elites Aren't So Elite

One liberal pontificated that he wants only the "best and the brightest" in government to "run our country." I suspect he and I would disagree about who the best and brightest are and what qualities earn them that distinction. My list certainly wouldn't include Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama, to whom I don't defer as my intellectual superiors. His list probably wouldn't include Ronald Reagan. Moreover, I don't want government or politicians to "run our country." That's a statist view. The state is not society; it's a subset of society. It's the height of pretentious elitism to believe that any panel of bureaucrats is smart enough to "run" our intricate market economy. The Soviets tried that.

All right!  Alaska GOP Gov. Sean Parnell did not greet Barack Obama on Thursday when the president traveled to Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage to speak to service members.

We could stand some more o'that! 

 
Texas Governor Calls Obama a Socialist

Wistfully Prufrockian

Same as the Old Boss: The Who, Won't Get Fooled Again

Vanderleun has posted The Failure to Plan is "The Plan."  He makes some points well worth making.  More importantly, we need to stop this maniac in the White House.  Vanderleun:

From where I sit I see many people underestimating President Obama because they cannot get their heads around who and what this man actually is and what he portends. Instead, historical or metaphoric analysis prevails making Obama like “Lincoln” or “Stalin,” like an "angel" or a "devil." Regardless of the comparisons evoked they all fail because Obama is none of these. He is "None of the above." He is not "That what came before." He is all of "What shall come after."

Politically and personally, Obama is a genetic sport, a Chimera; a now not-so-mythical being composed of multiple parts but functioning a a whole. Neither America nor the world has seen his like before. Attempts to analyze him that appeal to history fail because there is no historical precedent. That was, you will recall, part of his mystic allure. As a result many ascribe motives to the president that cannot be accurate; motives that run counter to the blunt evidence of the senses, to the maxim: “Watch what he does, not what he says.”

Interpretations of Obama, either in worship or in condemnation, will always be wistfully Prufrockian and up for "decisions and revisions which a minute can reverse" to the extent they fail to look at man's actions. Everything else is "blue smoke and mirrors."

*  *  *  *

Many of Obama’s supporters continue to believe, in spite of constantly mounting evidence to the contrary, that his motives and desires are to better the lot of America, humanity, and Mother Earth. Many of Obama’s detractors continue to believe, in spite of mounting evidence to the contrary, that Obama is, although malign, a “rational actor;” that his decisions, even though they disagree with them, are arrived at through known and understood political and diplomatic processes.

I submit that neither of these are the case with this particular Chimera and that we have not begun to understand a President for whom there is no precedent. I submit that Obama is proceeding according to a plan, but that is is his plan and his alone; a plan so personal that even his wife may not be a party to it. I submit that the plan is the one that the poet Yeats understood as “Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.”

Whose Plan?  We at Washington Rebel have believed from the outset that Obama is executing a destabilization plan, but for whom?  To what end?

Vanderleun seems to think it's an adolescent's Wanker fantasy going on inside this Narcissist.

I don't know.  All I know is, it's not good.  As Vanderleun says:

If your inner goal is the destruction of established systems of governance you will seek in increase chaos and uncertainty at every turn. This is exactly what we see in Obama’s personal style of what passes for “governance.” We do not have to intuit this. We need only observe and not deny the evidence of our senses.