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The Dark Side

Pessimistic, or Just Plain Tantalizing?

One of the tricks of being a Big Time Writer is that anxiety and depression and sexual arousal are masks for having something to say.  Old rounders like me hide behind cat shadows, when there are no Librarians around to irritate.  These considerations have led to a continuing debate: are we pessimistic, or optimistic?

I think I'm pessimistic because, in the words of a logger friend of mine, "our roots run deep."  That is to say, I was raised in the country.  My Old Dad had me digging when I was eight and wasn't afraid to snap my head with a whistlin' fist when I wasn't diggin' fast enough, see?  I was lucky enough to see animals in the wild, and had animals and birds whose welfare I was responsible for.  To this day I still dream about our two old pack horses.  They were as much friends to me as any human friend I've ever had. 

By the time I started getting exposed to city specimens of mankind on a regular basis, I was repulsed.  For the most part, I still am.  There's something missing from them.  Their souls are absorbed in manic narcissism.  What else can I say?  They talk more than they listen; their "sexuality" is mercenary and exhibitionistic; they put great stock in their own vanity, which to me is empty, nihilistic.  I think that's why corporate folks seem girly to me.  The men, I mean.  They were never really boys, so they can't really be men.  Likely their mothers were more receptacles of consumer vitality than actual mothers.  They produced children as one would exhibit jams and pies.

Dark?

Oh yeah.

I summarize my pessimism this way: All systems, of whatever kind and origin, evolve to a level of complexity wherein they are doomed to die.  An old Goodyear training manual put it this way:

To evolve you must eliminate; to develop you must discard.  This is unfailing law.  Nature is constantly eradicating remnants in order that she may weave new fabrics unhindered.  She purges to progress.  And man is ever abandoning the useless old and adopting the useful new.  He rejects in order to revise and reform.

In my world, Barack Obama is not a bright, articulate leader.  He is a boy, as in, not yet a man.  He is symptomatic of a society that no longer knows the difference between the two, a society that seeks security from a lonely little boy who needs attention.

For our folly, we must and will pay.  Him I do not resent.  In fact, I don't resent any of it (though I am grateful to be old enough to know my eyes won't have to watch the complete cycle!).  I see what has to happen, that's all.  I feel sorry for Barack and people like him.  There's a big chunk of them missing.  He's acting out his absence on the absence of those who need to believe.  You see that?

Our thanks this morning to The Barrister for these links:

The Frightening 'New' Side of Barack Obama.   No offense to Charles Hurt and you other fools for failing to recognize adolescent resentment and self-righteous narcissism in a man barely qualified to run for city ward.

When Clinton won in1992 with a Democratic House and Senate there was no partisanship. There was a mandate. An agenda. Progress. When America reacted to the big government Democrats tried to enact in 1993 and 1994 by electing a Republican House and Senate the dreaded "partisanship" arose.  Grover Norquist

Yes, Gazans Suffer.  But Israel is not the Reason.

Naughty Bits

I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and the Sons of Liberty did in Boston was spread the word about the abuses of the British. They had Committees of Correspondence that got the word out to the colonies. We need Committees of Correspondence now, and we are getting them. That is what is happening with the Tea Parties. I wrote a column called "The Second American Revolution" about the fact that people are acting for themselves as it happened with the Sons of Liberty which spread throughout the colonies. That was a very important awakening in this country. A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.  Nat Hentoff, America Under Obama

 

These elites are not simply milling about waiting for “the next chapter of trouble.” I think in too many cases they -like troubled eldest siblings, the “first children” who have never quite gotten over the subsequent additions to the family- have been actively fomenting chapter after chapter of trouble, for some 40 years. They are complacently building little fortresses, but they are doing so for a reason. Having written all of these chapters of trouble, they are feeling quite confident that their story is solidly structured, and they are ready for the dénouement they have planned. The anticipation of their surprise ending is making them almost giddy.

The ending, of course, is the coup d’état. Believing that the rest of us, now disillusioned, are no longer clinging to romantic ideals of honor, or truth or nobility, these always-restless First Children, devoted to deconstruction, believe they are about to take down the presidency, the churches, the “old” government and even the “old” media. They expect to put into place something “brand new.” But believe me when I tell you what they are building is older than dirt. And up from it. Which is why they will need their fortresses. Castro lives in one, too.

They’ve been practicing all of this, by the way, perfecting the Art of the Painless Coup so thoroughly that most ordinary folks do not even realize what has occured. Anchoress, Art of the Painless Coup

 
2009: A Year of Spectacularly Squandered Opportunity.

Merry Christmas from Washington Rebel

Logger Babes for Peace

Via the Barrister:

The 10th Amendment Foundation.  What is the Federal Government's genuine strategic role?  A strong dollar, strong defense, and firm foreign policy in a wicked, deceitful world.  In America, it's at the state and local level where society is built.   The "progressive" mania to build the ideological state at the expense of community is partly a hangover from Mother Jones' 19th Century, and mostly a masturbatory refusal to take one's own inventory.  Show me a "liberal", and I'll show you a meddling school girl.  I have yet to meet a bumper sticker liberal with a fully formed character.

Believe me, when I do there'll be an entire post dedicated to that discovery.

David Freddoso: Rude Awakening for a Naive Left

Good Morning, Obamacare

Scientists on Mirror Lake: Trying to document actual climate change, without the hysteria.  They say.

Merry Christmas!  A radical Muslim preacher linked by U.S. intelligence to a gunman who killed 13 people at a U.S. Army base is believed to have died in a Yemen airstrike on al Qaeda militants, a security official said on Thursday.

We'll be praying for a bountiful harvest at the Reb.  We entertain no illusions about Islam.

Peter Wehner: "When it comes to the public outrage that will emerge based on the deals that took place to secure passage of the Senate health-care bill, the degree of tone-deafness among Democrats is nothing short of startling."

Via our good friend, the News Junkie:

The Socialist Revolution Has Come to America  It's not Obama.  It's three generations of simpletons who prefer watching football to having a brain.

Jonah Goldberg: From Poverty to Prosperity

Robert Samuelson: A Parody of Leadership

Via Liberalguy: Ask a liberal what he most dislikes about the "right"? "I resent the attempt to tell me how to live my life," he'll say.

 

Merry Christmas to our Loyal Readers.  You're Appreciated.

Stuff You Won't Read in the Times Today

 
Thanks to My Friend Sarge for These Links:

Dr. Tim Ball: Obama Led The Total Failure of World Leadership in Copenhagen

Great Resource for you Earth Killers: International Climate Science Coalition

Via Liberalguy, How Obamacare Will Alienate Americans

Larwyin's Lynx: The Reid Bill is Coercive and Unconstitutional

The Other McCain: Nuke the Federal Reserve

 

This is How We Treat Our Friends

Born Again American

Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

How to explain Cuba Care to your Brain Dead friends:

The Senate Majority Leader has decided that the last few days before Christmas are the opportune moment for a narrow majority of Democrats to stuff ObamaCare through the Senate to meet an arbitrary White House deadline.  Change Nobody Believes In

Climate Deal?

 

AWWWW Shucks!

"It is not what everyone has hoped for," Ban Ki-moon told reporters in Copenhagen. "We will try hard to have this legally binding treaty in 2010."  UN Climate Summit "Takes Note'' of Copenhagen Accord

We Are Doomed

Apocalypse

I consider myself an American first, a pragmatist second and, third, a conservative. I am also a pessimist. Not because I hate sugar and spice, but because of my pragmatism and my conservatism. This is how I see things: All organizational structures reach a point where they can no longer sustain themselves. Great men go mad, beautiful actresses mutter to themselves about George Bush and Hitler, old courtroom titans become a source of pity and frustration.

I am an American. I believe in what my country was. I don't mean the constitution. I mean its people. I no longer believe in my people. Any human group that digs Barack Obama and thinks Michael Moore "has something to say" is doomed. I don't know how to make it any plainer. Why do our children kill?  Because we have gone insane, that's why.

Do I hate Obama? Nope. I just know he's a phony, self-centered boy who has imposed his masturbatory Dreams on the rest of us.

With our full consent.

As Reiben says in Saving Private Ryan, I got a bad feeling about this one.

When I really want to feel reality I read John Derbyshire's A Day That Will Live in Infamy. This is history folks. Saluting the flag and praising Wal-Mart won't stave off the inevitable, will it? (Derbyshire's little piece was written 4 months before 911, prophetically enough. It's always good to follow up with his Crusading They Went. Talk about 'Bush is Hitler!")

Matt Patterson reviews a new Derbyshire Book: We Are Doomed.

Yes, I'm going to read it!

In the news:

A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste, by Paul Barrett.

Our 'Human Rights' Culture is Now an Anti-Semitic Tyranny, by Charles Moore.

Love is Like Jesus

 

Extreme Kamasutra

Obama Loves Me!

Climate Change for Iconoclasts, Skeptics, and Humorous Cranks:

Climate Depot

Canada's National Post was there early! The Denier Series

Belmont: Escape From Copenhagen.  The Last Best Word on the Worldwide Global Warming Religion.

Weekend Tea & Rain Reader:

The Proceedings of the Friesian School, Fourth Series

Act Now!  Gormogon Lynx

 

My Corrections Officer Told Me to Avoid These Situations

Babes for Biden. Not Really. Made You Look, Though!

 

Somebody (Besides Me) Thinks I'm Funny

Because.  Well.  I Am!

Have you ever noticed that the Establishment always promotes and honors fools?

Yes.  Since the Seventies I've noticed this.  The blogosphere is the only antidote we have for that crap.

Oh Shit:  Bloomberg is reporting this troubling information: As vanishing credit spurred the government-led rescue of dozens of financial institutions, Harvard was so strapped for cash that it asked Massachusetts for fast-track approval to borrow $2.5 billion.

Gator's Not Overly Impressed with the Wheels of Justice.  If could happen to you, you know.

"Hang 'em!"

Four out of five doctors agree: Health care debate causes mental illness.

So does arguing with Democrats.  Who Don't Like America.

Our President.  Plotting Despotism.

Because that's what he does.

O, Shut the Fuck Up, Bozo.

The Totalitarian, Collectivist Impulse.  They're Everywhere.  Same with these:

Bitchgate

Global Domination.  It's called the Belgrade Process. Ya can't make this stuff up.

Ed Driscoll Has the Top 10 Under-Reported News Stories of the Year.  Parts I and II.

Larwyn's Lynx.  What are your Brother and Sister Bloggers Bloggifying?

 

Humping Heavy

Friday Freedom Reflections

Free to Choose: A Conversation with Milton Friedman at Hillsdale College

This presentation is all the sweeter with introducer Lozano Smith's humor.  Smart man!  "The people trying to save the country aren't that worried about the weather."

!!

He also says something dear to myself: "A great teacher can show you what's required to learn.  To become eduated."  The greatest virtue is learning, or education.  You can't get that from 99% of our schools today, and if the general public doesn't see that virtue as a virtue, we're in trouble.

Tony Blankley on Three Undemocratic Temptations:

Though the Democrats have a majority of 20 seats in the Senate and 79 seats in the House, now, just a week before Christmas, the speaker of the House, the Senate majority leader and the White House have failed — so far — to pass into law their desired legislation in the matters of 1) health care provision and financing, 2) public debt and deficit reduction, and 3) carbon regulation and taxation.

There are various anti-liberty forces at work today.  Take basic engineering.  If you attempted to build a water treatment system for Los Angeles County from scratch, it would require a Trillion-Something; it couldn't be done by manual labor; it couldn't be done (presumably) from a notepad.  It would require computers and major mobilization of capital, not a band of hungry Irish and Mexican laborers.  In such a world, individual genius can get buried.

But the most disturbing development for me as an American has been to witness the erosion of the human spirit.  The sort of rugged "show me" individualism of 1930s and 40s journalists; the vital independence of educators of generations past, when cabins in the far-flung reaches of Montana were filled with books, as opposed to compouter games; the will to educate oneself and challenge life -- all these attributes seem to be at their weakest at this moment in history.  Who are these people that drank Al Gore's Kool-Aid on global warming?  Why are they in charge of information and education?  Is this a conspiracy, or mass insanity?

Mass Insanity.

The Revolt of the Warm Fuzzies

Byron York: Readers Question Dems' Motives on Health Care

"The Democrats are playing for the long term," wrote one reader. "They know that, once they've planted a new entitlement, it will grow as fast as they can water it with taxpayer dollars."

"The only way to fully understand the motivation for pursuing this legislation is that it creates dependency," wrote another. "The unstated, but ever-present, goal of health care reform is to make as many Americans as possible as dependent on the federal government as possible for as much of their lives as possible." The reader theorized that the bill's mandates -- requirements for everyone to have health coverage -- are designed to create what Democrats "have dreamed of for generations: total dependency and a universal entitlement that can never be voted out of existence."

Angry Liberals Edge Toward a Mutiny Wall Street Journal, by Naftali Bendavid and Peter Naftali

Liberals face somewhat of a paradox. Some want the Senate to pass a bill, and then seek changes during the process of merging the House and Senate versions. And they don't want to kill the overhaul outright and ruin their best chance in a generation to pass such a bill. At the same time, they are angry at the shape it is taking.

Then again, some of us wish we weren't having this discussion it all.  "Liberals" talk about greed all the time.  What, people in government don't have greed?  There's no greed for power?  No greed for ego?  "Liberals" have no greed where polar bears are concerned?  Who you guys kidd'n?

NYT: Liberal Revolt on Healthcare Stings White House   Float like a ballerina, sting like a Moonbat. 

Americans Growing Suspicious of Democrats?  Obama & Reid and Pelosi are Viagra for revolt.  Don't worry.  Super Bowl's on its way.  "Native American Intelligence" will make a come back.

Michelle Malkin: Welcome to the Democratic Party's Civil War

Now this is priceless:

President Obama’s Allies Try to Shield Him from a Potential Climate Catastrophe

  I live for news broadcasts of Democrats on ice chunks, floating down the Potomac.  Is that too much to ask? 
 

Andrew Bolt: This Time Al Gore Lied 

Is it too much to hope that a "leader" like Al Gore can change his mind when new data is evident?  Listen to this goofball.  For someone who worships Gaia, he doesn't seem to understand that Climate Change is Nature's Way. (via)  "International Global Green Infrastructure" is code for Al needs a job that involves sweat.  He's out of his mind.  Interesting questions from John in this interview.

One Cosmos: Scientistic Simpletons and the Church of the Immaculate Deduction

Jamie Glazov Interviews Victor Davis Hanson on the Palin Wonder.

She taps into a current of populist unhappiness in the country with Washington insiders, Big Money, and condescending elites in the media and popular culture. The Wasilla mom of five, married to the snow-mobile champ, is simply the antithesis of all that.

What's a human life worth?  Check out the Seventies haircut in this Milton Friedman video.  Kids sounded more intelligent then than they do now.  Marijuana hadn't quite damaged the gene structure as much:

Milton Friedman -- Morality & Capitalism

Via News Junkie

Privileged Radicals

Using the Climate to Enslave Us Egyptians

What can justify the nihilism of the revolutionary agenda? Only a vision of the coming apocalypse. Only a vision of the existing order as totally unjustified, unnatural, destructive. “Better Red Than Dead.” To those of us who were radicals in the Sixties, this famous slogan had a different meaning than it had for liberals to whom it signified choosing the lesser of two evils. For radicals, it meant that if we did not achieve world socialism we would all soon be dead. Our radical idea was that capitalism engendered conflict and war; unless capitalism were destroyed, the end of civilization was inevitable.

The apocalyptic claim is the cornerstone of radical politics. For if the cause is absolute, everything is permitted, and the real work of revolution—radical nihilism, the destruction of what is—can be carried out with no look back. Thus, in the name of everlasting peace, radicals wage permanent revolutionary war; in the name of a final human liberation, they enslave nations; in the name of ultimate justice, they commit unparalleled crimes.  David Horowitz

Can't tell if it's just us, or is there a general awakening going on?  A lot of writers are focusing on how our spoiled elite is not just corrupt morally -- they're also stuck on a sense of entitlement where you and I are concerned.  A group called ThirtyThousand.org is calling for a fundamental restructuring of congressional representation.  I believe our ruling elite is more despised than they know.  For example, Lord Monckton is now calling the Global Warming hysterics "criminals."  That's only a step or two away from 'off with their heads.'

There's an interesting crisis brewing in Holder's Department of Justice.  Clarice Feldman suspects they're having a meltdown over there.

The Justice Department has told the federal attorneys who filed a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party for disrupting a Philadelphia polling place last year not to cooperate with an investigation of the incident by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.   Justice Restrains Lawyers

You can see from the earnest expressions on those young men's faces how much they believe in Democracy!  Why, concern for social justice just oozes from their pores!  These young scholars are doing their best to promote freedom.  Can you dig it?

Via Liberalguy, Vince Hayley wants to know, "Are We Citizens, or Subjects?", a question asked Washington Rebel: From Citizens to 'Stakeholders'  You can probably guess where we stand on that one!  Liberalguy's on an Arnold Ahlert kick. 

The contemptible mindset of intellectual elitists can be reduced to just two words: "privileged exemption."

Videodrome's Best Scenes - Watch more funny videos here

The Internet Will Take Over the World

Reality TV Sets In.  It's Not Pretty.  Jonah Goldberg has seen our future, and it looks a lot like Videodrome.

From House of Eratosthenes: “Entitled to Rule, Demanding Deference”

From American History: The Hard Death of George Washington.  Who was a lady's man, by the way.  Washington.  Rebel.  Get it?  You're not as slow as you look.

There is No Liberal Media

Keith Olbermann: There is No Liberal Media, Only the Voices in My Head That Tell Me I Love Me.  Olbermann defends NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" executive producer and noted left-winger Dick Wolf.

Good Grief.  As they say.

 
Fairies Wear Boots

Copenhagen climate summit: Al Gore Condemned Over Fraudulent Ice Melting Prediction   Al Gore, the former US Vice-President, has become embroiled in a climate change spin row after claiming that the Arctic could be completely ice-free within five years.

Our Chinese Friends: China accused developed countries Tuesday of backsliding on what it said were their obligations to fight climate change and warned that the U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen had entered a critical stage.

We dodged an anal insertion in 2000.  Thank you, Judge Wells!

I have a deep and abiding concern that the prolonging of judicial process in this counting contest propels this country and this state into an unprecedented and unnecessary constitutional crisis.  Gore v. Harris, Florida Supreme Court (2000)

Paul Mirengoff: Joe Lieberman's MSM Hate Mail Just Keeps Getting Worse.  That's why we call them Warm Fuzzy Liberals!

Peter Wehner: Can the Obama Administration Afford Any More Missteps?

As problems continue to mount and the president’s approval ratings continue to sink — the latest Rasmussen poll has Obama’s approval rating down to 44 percent, a new low — there are a lot of different, and damaging, story lines developing around the Obama administration. You can add a lack of basic competence to the list.

Obama's War of Words: Whatever else he may be, Barack Obama is a gifted orator whose words will be remembered by generations. Or will they?

Colleen O'Connor: Is Obama a Political Genius or a Half-Term President?

Actually, he's the Revanchiste:

Obama's early life indicates that young Barry may have been brought up as a Red Avenger against America. We know that he talks like an anti-capitalist and an anti-Constitutionalist, and that he compulsively apologizes for American actions during the Cold War. The Cold War was not something we started; it was started by Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and other totalitarian mass murderers long before the Korean War and the Vietnam War, our two hot proxy wars in the Cold War.  James Lewis, Obama the Red Avenger

Judge Nina Gershon's ACORN Ruling  [T]he “public will not suffer harm by allowing the plaintiffs to continue work on contracts duly awarded by federal agencies.”

The Wall Street Lenders' Protection Act

Fat City Pat Buchanan on how "liberals" analyze debt.

I repeat: There is No Liberal Media

Vanity of Vanities; All is Vanity.

Obama Gives Himself a B-Plus Grade

The difference between wisdom and vanity is thus illustrated:

On the plus side, Obama said, "We are on our way out of Iraq." And, he added, "I think we've got the best possible plan for Afghanistan."

These are the words of a boy, not a man; an egotist, not a leader; a narcissist, not a servant.  Only time will tell how my country must pay the freight for its vain foolishness.  I wish I knew who to apologize to.  I can only say, I'm glad I didn't have kids.  Someday I'll tell you the story of when that first hit me.

For now, suffice it to say my country cannot distinguish between what is true, and what is false.  We are spoiled children where, literally, the pedophiles rule the roost.  The hand of the Shadow is heavy over my country.

Something interesting is going on. Jennifer this morning reported that Obama had reached a new low in the Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll yesterday, at -16. The latest results, released a couple of hours ago, show the president at -19 a mere 24 hours later.  John Steele Gordon, Like A Stone

The Ned Lamont Party: updates on Democratic controversies

Byron York: Did AmeriCorps Official Lie About Possible First Lady Link to IG Firing?

Democratic Civil Wars Likely as Left Weighs Primary Challenges Over Health

Don Surber: Copenhagen Stalemated

The New Apostles Creed: "I believe in the Holy Goric Church"

Please Mr. Catepillar, Let Me Hit the Hookah

Please, Mr. Caterpillar, Let Me Hit that Hookah. After Four or Five Puffs, Maybe the Madness Will Seem Sane.

By many measures the Mongol Empire utterly dwarfed Rome. It is the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world.

Brutally Honest Gives Obama Some Credit.  For a change.

What Has Obama Accomplished?  Nancy Morgan answers.

Sarah Palin Morning Posts.  A collage.

Wake Up Black America has gone beyond skeptical.  I think at this point, he's outraged.  Will Smith thinks that Barack Obama represents a "flash point in the evolution of humanity"?

John Woo’s Epic Film…Red Cliff. Civil War in Ancient China

If only the U.S. could be just like China.... without, actually, being anything like China.

Suppression of Heresy at Copenhagen

 

Noonie Toons

Hoaxer Dude, with a Funny Accent

Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told the conference, "The recent incident of stealing the emails of scientists at the University of East Anglia shows that some would go to the extent of carrying out illegal acts, perhaps in an attempt to discredit the IPCC." Predictably for a Leftist, he focused on the whistleblowers, rather than the subject matter of the e-mails.

Meanwhile, Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen stressed the importance of the conference, saying, "For the next two weeks, Copenhagen will be Hopenhagen. By the end, we must be able to deliver back to the world what was granted us here today: hope for a better future." Hopenhagen? More like Hoaxenhagen.  Mark Alexander

Democrat Utopia: Free Unicorns for Everyone!

Einstein and Climategate 

Who is Paolo Soleri?  Byron York tells us in A Green, Sustainable Environment That Wasn't

Boortz Asks: Just Who is Scaring the American People?

Not us!

Andrew Breitbart Announces Launch of New “Big” Sites

Exclusive Interview: Andrew Breitbart Announces Launch of New “Big” Sites

When Andrew Breitbart launched Big Government in September, we asked if he was gearing up to be the next Arianna Huffington: An opinion blog rainmaker with a one-stop digital powerhouse, but presented from the opposite end of the political spectrum.

Three months later, hyperbole has become reality as Breitbart is adding to his network of vertical blogs. The newest site to join the Breitbart network is “Big Journalism,” which will launch in January of next year. His target is much bigger than HuffPo — or any other website for that matter. Breitbart is gunning for the institution of mainstream media, or what he calls “the Democratic-media complex.”

In an exclusive interview with Mediaite, Breitbart shares his vision for his expanding network of “Big” right-of-center sites.

Hat Tip, Maggie's Farm.

Breitbart.  The Ultimate Rebel.

Copenhagen's Political Science

Don't Question the "Science"

"Climate-gate," as the e-mails and other documents from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia have become known, exposes a highly politicized scientific circle -- the same circle whose work underlies efforts at the Copenhagen climate change conference. The agenda-driven policies being pushed in Copenhagen won't change the weather, but they would change our economy for the worse.  Sarah Palin

Watts Up With That?

Climate Audit

Dr. Tim Ball Archives at Canada Free Press

The Missing Ball: I posted this video before, I swear!  Now I can't find it.  (Found It!)  So here it is:

Corbett Report Interview of Dr. Tim Ball on the Hacked CRU Emails

Carbon Commissar Thursday: A Newswhip for Hockey Stick Scoffers

 

Have You Been Scoffed by Global-Centric Whitewash Artists?

Climategate Denial: There have been numerous ostentatiously pathetic efforts to distract from what ClimateGate has not “revealed”, but affirmed, in the principals’ own words, and this mewling is getting more pathetic by the attempt.

Warm Fuzzy Aggression on the Playground of Ass Suck:

A political scuffle has broken out about which lawmakers will be allowed to go to Copenhagen, Demark, on a congressional delegation led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

Obama's Carbon Commissars: Giving away American constitutional authority to Global Bureaucrats.  Brave New World, kids.  Welcome to the land of "compassion."

Compassionate Billionaire George Soros feels very strongly that the "$10 billion a year proposed by rich nations to help the poor adapt to climate change is "not sufficient" and the gap between what's offered and what's needed could wreck the Copenhagen climate conference."  Yeah?  Get out your checkbook, George.  And start helping America.  In case you hadn't noticed, the world needs a revitalized American economy.  It can't get there with you conspiring to destroy the dollar so you can what?  Make more money?

Meanwhile, as Byron York reports, the White House is in Search of a Billionaire Scapegoat.  We got one for ya, Little Barry.  And his name is George!

Little Barry & Friends Are Enabling ACORN's Comeback.  Matthew Vadum.

That unpopular bank bailout? Geithner wants to extend it.  Besides Tiger Woods and Climategate, the other big news story has been the continued taxpayer ripoff known as the "bailout" and the economy's stubborn refusal to revive under Little Barry's guiding hand.  Reuters was forced to report:

The U.S. government's $700 billion bailout program helped stabilize the financial system, but has done little to boost lending or stave off millions of home foreclosures, a government watchdog group said on Wednesday.

Barbara Kiviat of Time writes an article for people who think Dr. Phil is brilliant called Can the Federal Government Really Create Jobs?  Kiviat was positively Philesque:

[T]he truth is, drumming up new jobs on short notice isn't exactly in the government's wheelhouse. In the long term, what the government does and doesn't do is incredibly important to the health of the labor market. Trade policy, corporate tax rates, the structure of health care — these things all have a real impact on economic growth.

Really, Barbara?  Gosh, I'm glad you told me that!  But, I preferred Betsy's Economics of Hiring for Warm Fuzzy Liberals to Time's gloss piece.

You Gotta Love This: "According to Politico, President Obama's support has declined to the point that only 50 percent of voters now say they prefer having him as President to George W. Bush. Forty-four percent say they'd rather have Bush."  That's the emerging theme: the President's Political Fortune's are Waning.  For you subtle ones, Little Barry is slackin'!

Peter Wehner: Obama's Humbling Year.

Well, now!  I'm not the only one.  Wayne Simmons thinks Obama Sux as a Leader.

A Surge in Conservative PAC Funds.  I sent a hundred bucks to Sarah.  Waiting for my signed book!  Going to read it outloud at coffee shops.

Little Barry is Proud to Accept the Nobel Peace Prize, though he acknowledges Mother Teresa was the better man.  Wow.  I feel a tear searin'.

Shocker… Obama Bashes America During Nobel Acceptance Speech

Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark.  And, well, Norway.  Norwegians are incensed over what they view as his shabby response to the prize by cutting short his visit.

 

Breitbart Tears Big Media a New One

Have Newspapers "Barry'd" Themselves in Banality?  The Big Stream Media continues to languish under the assault of human curiosity and the need for information.  Barbara Walters Chooses Michelle Obama Over Sarah Palin as "the Most Fascinating Person."  Of course, those of us who know a little something about Warm Fuzzy Liberals and women aren't necessarily shocked by this.

George Stephanopoulos Over to GMA, for those of you who find that newsy.

Friends of Bloggerdom

Just Another Demented Genius Who Refuses to Conform

DAS tours Kiddie Kon:

Little Rhajbir, who is now 16 with a Goth tattoo on his shoulder, a pierced lower lip and a half a haircut was caught riding in a stolen car with three no-good friends on a recent Saturday night.

While Imperium Smolders:

Last week an explosion at Grays Harbor Imperium Renewables biodiesel plant shook surrounding businesses and sent chunks of large metal flying. There were no injuries. Investigations into the cause of the explosion are ongoing. Something about a tank of glycerine and a tank of sulfuric acid. Last July a similar explosion at a Chicago biodiesel refinery sent 21 people to the hospital in serious condition.

 

Copenhagen in Disarray

Watts Up With That?  More Leaks – Copenhagen in Disarray

We've Been Had

Strata-Sphere: More Studies Disproving Man-Made Global Warming

America's Media Ducks the Story of the Decade: Revenge of the Computer Nerds

It's a Climategate Christmas!

Bruce Walker: Climategate and Government-Driven Science

Andrew Bolt: Gore Falsfies the Record on Climategate

Ice Cores Show No Significant Warming

Watermelon Marxists:

[A]s a tool for watermelon Marxists -- green on the outside and red on the inside -- climate change orthodoxy represents an opportunity to achieve age-old dreams of communist wealth redistribution. Don't take my word for it. Listen to Cass Sunstein, Obama's new regulatory czar and perhaps the most powerful bureaucrat in America:

It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through climate policy than through direct foreign aid.

Taking Liberties: Sarah Palin On ClimateGate, Copenhagen: Beware Politicized Science

American Power: Global Warming Fraud an Attack on Humanity

Christopher Chantrill: Climatgate's Bullyboy Scientists

U.S. Vow to Rain on Copenhagen Parade.  Rain what?  Their RINO Panties?

 

Illegally Exhaling C02

Slouching Toward Liberty

Charles Krauthammer: The Administration is Going to Have a Revolution on its Hands

Dick Cheney on Sean Hannity, December 8 2009, Part I

Part II: President Obama More Radical Than Recognized

Commentary on these videos at The Swamp.

Clean, But Radical

 

Clean White Guys?  Sure, But They Were Wrong on Race.

While We're on the Subject of Slavery:

The Democratic Party vehemently opposed the abolition of slavery, Reconstruction, and black suffrage. Today, the Democratic Party aggressively pursues an enslavement platform through socialist ideology. One cause of the Civil War was the contrasting economic philosophies between the North and the South. Northern Republicans embraced free-market economic principles while Southern Democrats embraced a labor-based economy reliant upon slavery for its existence. 

Formed in the mid-1850s, the Republican Party plank called for the immediate abolition of slavery in the southern states, while the Democratic Party plank explicitly called for a continuation of slavery. This was not only an issue of "all men are created equal and no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, and property without due process of the law," but also of states' rights versus the federal government and a free-market society versus a slave-labor society.  Scott Strzelczyk, Harry Reid Likens Health Care Opponents to Slavery Opponents

Poor, Poor Harry Reid . . . . All that animal (enemal?) magnetism may not be enough!

Paul Mirengoff: the WaPo Hates Joe Lieberman

Inside Gallup: Obama's Approval Rating at 47%

Nooners

Copenhagen Climate Summit in Disarray after 'Danish text' Leak

Developing countries react furiously to leaked draft agreement that would hand more power to rich nations, sideline the UN's negotiating role and abandon the Kyoto protocol

Via Liberalguy, who supplied the following:

Lord Monckton: Global Warming Big Scientific Fad (Fraud?)

Via Buddy:

Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change “Global warming” is not a global crisis

Joel Kotkin: The West's Goals in Copenhagen are Tantamount to Suicide.

Wesley Pruden: Saving World From Copenhagen Crackup

I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson

Our Present Anxieties

The Totalitarians

Our two most sober writers, George Will and Victor Davis Hanson, are tuning into what much of the country feels under the Hope'n Change regime:

ANXIETY

For the first time in my life, I'm facing up to the need for disaster preparation.  Disaster of the political variety:

Either Obama will stop the  astronomic spending and spiraling debt, or he will not only destroy his presidency, but take his party—and many of us— down with him. He apparently did not understand that the fury against Bush was not just due to Iraq, but the unprecedented $300-400 billion annual deficits. But rather than address that, Obama has scheduled a number of trillion-dollar-plus annual deficits for the rest of his term.

Obama’s legacy is to reduce the word “trillion”—which used to be a mind-boggling concept—to the equivalent of “billion”, as in a “trillion here, a trillion there.”

There are solutions, of course.  Don’t laugh: the ridiculous can become the real when the money runs out. We can furlough federal employees 1 -5 days a month. We can inflate our way out by expanding the money supply. (I started farming with 12% inflation, and 19% interest rates and 10% unemployment, and watched the price of raisins go from $1,350 a ton to $480 in a single year: ergo, anything, I learned, is possible. [There is really no "they" who will step in and save us.])  Victor Davis Hanson, Our Present Anxieties

Are We Watching a Democratic Crackup?  I think we might be.  George Will captures the saner mood:

America's nerves are frayed and tempers are short. The country is uneasy, even queasy, because Obama and Congress seem to be dashing through an ambitious agenda in a slapdash manner. Their haste reflects a hubris that prevents them from acknowledging that they do not know how to do all that they are attempting. Consider the exasperation of Lamar Alexander.  Frayed Nerves, Short Tempers

Some of us have been saying this entire affair is intentional:  Obama is a revolutionary -- but not like Che Guevera.  More like a kid who discovered his parents are spineless pukes who won't stand up to him.

Thanks, Democrats.

From Citizens to Stakeholders

Mark Perry: About those "Tax Cuts for the Rich"