The Blood-Dimmed Tide

Referring to a prophetically ominous poem written by William Butler Yeats (The Second Coming) and to modern liberalism’s effect on America legal scholar Robert Bork wrote in 1996,

 (Yeats) can hardly have forseen that passionate intensity, uncoupled from morality, would shred the fabric of Western culture.  The rough beast of decadence, a long time in gestation, having reached its maturity in the last three decades, now sends us slouching towards our new home, not Bethlehem but Gomorrah.

From the opening of Slouching Towards Gomorrah:  Modern Liberalism and American Decline by Robert H. Bork, copyright 1996

The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

 

TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

The Mal-lady of Progressivism: Elizabeth Warren

Here’s Progressive Elizabeth Warren on the debt crisis and fair taxation. To support her Massachusetts Senate Campaign,

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We the people (47% % of us who don’t pay any taxes) made you wealthy. We the people (47% of us who don’t pay any taxes) made you safe and secure. We the people (47% of us who don’t pay any taxes) are the roads to your success.”

Feel good now? How about a social contract that makes everyone an investor in America?

Progressives like Elizabeth like to shame people into a response to her ‘humane’ cause. Don’t be shamed. Give to others out of a heart of love. Leave others to do the same.

If Elizabeth and her progressives buddies want to help others there are many ways to do so other than conscripting another’s personal property for their own ends.

It should be noted:  Many people left socialist and communist eastern European countries (and Cuba) and came to America to be free from the tyranny of economic despotism created under the banner of “the common good”. Modern day examples of “common good” socialist systems beginning to fold:   Greece, Spain & Portugal.  “Don’t do these things!”

It also should be noted:  Any country which increasingly embraces secularism will become progressive in its politic. A social-economic-moral vacuum is created thereby.

All in the Family Under Attack

The  Obama dream of a different America under his progressive mandates (picking winners and losers) comes with a heavy price tag and I am not just referring to economic burdens being placed on the shoulders of Americans. Obama’s demand for tax increases for corporations will further necessitate corporations passing the cost onto consumers. And, no one will be immune from Obama’s ‘class warfare’ tax plan. It is a shell game (hide the tax increases under the ‘rich/corporation/inheritance tax’ shell). Every tax affects every American.  Trickle down taxation is guaranteed.

It is the American family which will suffer the most under Obama’s progressive ideologies. Consider the American family right now.  The family is under attack.  Beyond the absurdity of homosexual marriage being legalized as on par with male-female marriage (Reason, of course, tells you otherwise) and the horrendous rate of divorce encouraged by state laws which allow No-Fault divorce coupled with the almost guaranteed child support (a ‘dead-beat’ parent penal system for fathers is created in the process) parental absenteeism is at an all time high.  This is due to the increased need to work more to pay for the increased cost of living (which includes inflation) created by corporations being taxed more. It should be noted that our country has the second highest corporate tax rate (39.3% (average combined federal and state).in the world, second only to Japan. (It is no wonder that Obama’s jobs czar Jeffrey Imelt, CEO of GE, has GE paying no corporate taxes here in the US.)

 I dare say increased taxation (via increased consumer costs) goes hand in hand with decreased family values. And, it is happening now. Time spent with your family, with your children, will be devoured trying to play catch up with your finances.  Parents want to provide for their children.  Parents want the best for their children and parents will sacrifice for their children.  Obama’s short-sighted plans will rob parents of the net pay that would allow parents to spend time with their children.

 You know this already:  when parents are not around children get in trouble. Children may cruise the cable TV channels and watch totally inappropriate programs, programs that are now on at all hours of the day.  Children  will cruise the internet seeing things that no child should ever see.  They may hang with friends who are no good or worse, they may hang around with gangs.  You will lose your children to the arbitrariness of a world not sharing your values. (Many parents have despaired of even trying to be a parent, believing that more money might make things better for the child.)

 Increased taxation and increased government dependence means a decreased share of net income for the family.  It means less ownership of your family values and  the American dream, as well. What good is the American Dream if is not shared tangibly with your children?

(Perhaps you are a progressive who disparages the American Dream. You may then pass along the inherent poverty of radicalism as a way of life.  So be it. Just don’t make me pay for it.)

 Fathers are the most likely to take a hit in Obama’s tax schemes.  They will have to spend more time working.  Many mothers will also have to work. 

 Single mothers will have to work harder.  They will also seek government assistance to provide for their family. Continually receiving this type of hand-out is demoralizing.  This demoralizing effect quickly becomes a poor self-image.  A parent’s poor self-image is easily passed on to their kids who ultimately learn that they must depend on government for their daily bread and that mom is the enabler and that dad is a loser.

A vote for Obama was a vote to build an Illinois Hope & Change casino in Washington D.C.  Like it or not you and your family are mandated to play through taxation.  You may break even, you may “Win the Future” but most likely, you will lose.  The odds (and the lobbyists) are stacked against you.  Over time you will lose everything.

Before Obama there were many Chicago hoods shaking down businesses for money.  Remember Al Capone.  The American family deserves better than the “fat-cat” Obama from Chicago – the guy who wants to “drill-baby-drill” down into your pocketbook.

Help! I Need a President!

The self-induced lame duck presidency of BO is certainly going nowhere except down the campaign trial. Last Monday night Obama used a nationally televised speech to campaign for himself.

In his prime time campaign pitch professor Obama lectured the public about debt – as if we are stupid. He also pontificated about a having balanced approach (duh, consider that the national debt has tripled under his watch and he has brought us to this brink). He then went on to spread the manure of blame around to make it seem like he’s just a regular guy who’s above all this.

 During Monday night’s performance Obama went on to pit the rich against the poor, Democrat against Republican and his liberal agenda (he’s beholden to MoveOn.org and George Soros) against everyday common sense.  He continued his class warfare rhetoric and offered nothing of substance, nothing of value to the conversation.  He proposed no debt ceiling plan and he did nothing to encourage confidence in America. Instead, Obama just blathered on blaming others and posturing himself as the great arbiter of American values.

Obama is the most divisive and immature President that I can remember (I have been voting since ’69).  His presidency is worse than the malaise days of Jimmy Carter.  This presidency is a malignant cancerous growth on the hopes of all Americans. He incapacitates hope.

Sadly, O-bots in the mainstream media (MSNBC, Chris Matthews, Rachel Madcow, Media Matters, Think Progress, etc) will continue to promote The All-Wise One and his Trojan horse called Social Justice.  There will also be people who will continue to vote a Democratic ticket because that’s what they always do – they push the “Hopey Changey” button. 

The last time they did, dumb and dumber came out.

“Just when I think you couldn’t possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this…and totally redeem yourself!”  Harry in Dumb and Dumber

“You drove almost a 6th of the way across the country in the wrong… DIRECTION!!! Now we don’t have enough money to get to Aspen! We don’t have enough money to get home! We don’t have enough money to eat! We don’t have enough money… TO SLEEP!!”  Harry to Obama, from Dumb and Dumber: Harry (Reid) Meets Barry (Obama)

For Harry (Reid) and Obama every day is a no-brainer. (movie tagline)

“…and yet…”

Click this link for a 2008 essay written by David Mamet for the Village Voice>> Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal’

Helter Skelter Democracy

Our country is rapidly becoming a place where each person’s life will be dictated by “Democracy” and not by moral objective Truth and righteousness. A majority of voters (many informed only by a salacious media and junk journalism) will tell you how to live, what’s right and wrong and what’s politically correct.  In other words, a democracy built on sand.

On any given day we are quickly told that fairness should rule the day and that fairness trumps everything. Fairness is the anointing oil used by the social justice market-eers. Yet, fairness is not justice and a majority vote is not fairness. And most important of all, fairness is often a compromise of the Truth.  You should know that Jesus, Truth Incarnate, never talked about fairness or wealth redistribution.  But, his disciple Judas did while pocketing some of the donated money for himself. For Judas, it was only fair. Right?

Fairness as a determiner for social justice quickly leads to a demand for equal outcomes. Who decides what is fair? Who pays for equal outcomes? Remember the wise King Solomon ready to slice a baby in two so that each claimant would receive equal outcomes? A fair decision? Yes. A wise decision? No.

As I see it, the more our “Democratic” system of government supplants individual liberties and moral convictions with fairness forcing its will upon us, the more we stand to lose as individuals. Take a hard look at the seemingly benign entitlement like Obamacare. Soon, we will all become a DMV number on a waiting list waiting for the health care that is prescribed (and voted on) by a majority of amoral people.  Having a health insurance card and having access to health care are two very different things.  Wait and see. Obamacare is a hospital of cards.

Or, see how our government is redefining life as we know it. The sanctity of a man-woman marriage is being mocked by the State’s allowance for gay marriage. We are being told that this is only fair. Is it fair to those in a natural marriage ? I refer you to the second paragraph.

And, the State is the using (and defining) ‘quality of a life’ criteria so that abortions can take place. Is abortion fair to the aborted child? We are lost and we’ve lost a sense of right and wrong, a sense of our true selves. A sense of entitlement (our rights) blurs our vision. We seek to create a sense of self based on what is deemed fair and expedient at the moment and not on Rock solid principles of Truth.

As an outcome, in order to survive our character and our moral foundations will be exchanged for a black market ethos. We will sell, buy and trade ourselves to maintain our selves. We are becoming the animals/machines (the Eloi and Morlocks of H. G. Well’s Time Machine) that proponents of naturalism want us to believe that we are. And, if you are a Naturalist and believe that unabated atheism makes you intellectually fulfilled, then take a look at where you are heading. It’s not up the ladder.

If the whims of fairness are the only deciding principles in any situation, what choices do you really have? Only those who are in power will decide what is fair. Soon, you won’t have the liberty to decide. You will have traded it for a bucket of sand labeled fairness.

You will then have to abdicate your beliefs and convictions to be accepted in the ‘fair’ society as politically correct.  Truth, no longer objective, will become what our ‘friends’ let us get away with saying (the philosophy of Richard Rorty).

Finally, a Democracy with moral turpitude won’t get my vote. There’s already a drainage sewer called Europe.

There can be no true enduring Democracy in our land without Objective Truth as the Head Cornerstone and a foundation which is built on the Solid Rock.

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On another but similar note:

The courageous “Don’t Tread On Me” is becoming the whiny “It’s Not Fair”; Illinois, the Land of Lincoln, is quickly becoming the Land of Lottery.

Rants and No Raves

*George Soros dumped $48 million worth of influence into the vending machine called the Liberal media (Think Progress, Media Matters, MSNBC, etc.) in hopes of pulling out a Western European style liberal utopia in America or at least world domination.  Isn’t that special!

People do know that we left Europe for a better way life, don’t they?  More importantly, we came to America in order to separate church and state. Why would we want to become spiritually and financially bankrupt like Western Europe, anyway?

*Why do America haters insist on living in America? Venezuela, Cuba, Iran all take in dissidents. They could also join the jihad in Yemen.

*Why would someone burn the Koran? Because hate is easy and Love requires God.

*What kinds of people have time on their hands and watch Oprah?

*Does Obama know that America is in a deep financial crisis while deciding which iron to use on the green? Stay away from a foolish man, for you will not find knowledge on his lips. Proverbs 14:7

*Does Michelle Obama still think the White House is hell?

*Sheep & Goats DEPT.:  The PC message of Evangelical Rob Bell’s (pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church) new book Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived attempts to assuage fears by inculcating nonjudgmental mainline liberalism/progressivism into cozy non-fiction.  It turns out that the book is fiction.  There is a hell. Hell, among other things, is the absence of the living God while generating book sales, making friends and influencing people.

The Apostle Paul, when speaking at the real Mars Hill in Athens, let his listeners know immediately that they were worshipping false gods and idols. He also said this to the Ephesian church:  “Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.” – Eph 5:5-6.  Here’s a Journal List of those who do not enter the Kingdom of Heaven:  Ephesians 5: 3-7, I Corinthians 6: 9-10, Galatians 5:19-21.  “There is a way which seems right to a man…”

More to follow…

Ithaca, Ithaca, Ithaca

http://vimeo.com/17916422

w/thanks to the Legal Insurrection Blog for exposing those “dangerous” Tea Party people.

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“I would never vote for a Democrat.” Sally Paradise”

Cash Flow and a Curmudgeon In a Coffin?

Problem:  1.) We are all victims and 2.) Rich people have money we do not have.

Solution:  If we could just induce the rich to stand on their heads without getting directly involved we could have a redistribution of wealth without picking their pockets.  We do want to appear progressive and respectable at the same time.

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Paradise’s Believe It or Not:

Original:  σορός
Transliteration: soros
Phonetic (sor-os’)
Short Definition: coffin

Word Origin:  a prim. word
Definition:  a cinerary urn, by anal. a coffin

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 We can all profit from Hayek:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNbYdbf3EEc&NR=1

Obama’s First Christmas Album

If you are looking to recreate the slobbering sentiments of 2008 here’s a Christmas album just for you!

 You’ll enjoy this timeless hit:  Obama, All ye fateful

Plus…

I’ll be Oprah for Christmas

I Saw Barney Frank Kissing Santa Claus

The Twelve Days of Van Jones

Frosty, the Telepromper

Oh, Little Town of Barack-ahem

The First “Oh, Well”

Grandma Got Run Over by Obamacare

…and many many more…

Here’s a sample track:

 

Obama, All ye Fateful

 

Obama, All ye Fateful

Progressive and most Special

Obama, Obama, ye from Kenya to DC.

Come and behold him,

Born the King of Presidents;

Obama, let us adore you,

Obama, let us adore you,

Obama, let us adore you,

Obama the More.

 

Highest, most Mostly,

Light of light infernal,

Born of a woman,

A mortal he comes?

Son of a Soros

Now in the press appearing!

Obama, let us adore you,

Obama, let us adore you,

Obama, let us adore you,

Obama the More.

 

O Sing, choirs of mainstream media

Sing in exultation,

Sing all ye illegal citizens crossing our border!

Glory to Obama

Especially if you remove ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell;

Obama, let us adore you,

Obama, let us adore you,

Obama, let us adore you,

Obama the More.

 

Yea, Obama we voted for thee,

One born to organize communities:

Obama, to thee all our money be given!

Word of his lips

Now gives our leg a chill;

Obama, let us adore you,

Obama, let us adore you,

Obama, let us adore you,

Obama the More