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The Obama Youth Vote

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The Obama Youth Vote

Rachel Lucas discusses her Freshman Chemistry classmates in a long and heartfelt rant.

These are the people who will vote for Obama because they believe in entitlement.

As Rachel says:

In case I wasn’t clear enough, my “issue” with these kids is that they expect the help and that they don’t believe they could do anything without it. That is not a good thing. If your parents put you through college, and you did well and you appreciated it, GOOD. I am 100% happy for you and think it’s fabulous, and I’d do the same thing for my kids if I had them, as long as they held up their end of the bargain.

The point is that these kids I’m talking about DON’T hold up their end of any sort of reasonable bargain. They get 49’s on their tests because they only studied for 4 hours. They bitch about driving a Civic instead of an Accord. They complain about their parents’ rules while they suckle the teat all the way up to age 25.

And once of the parent’s teat, it’s not a long jump to Uncle Sugar’s.

Firehand Has a Question

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Firehand Has a Question

Why do so many damn near crawl before politicians?

Excerpt:

From what I’ve read, it really started in the 1930’s, the habit of deference to our employees. I mean the politicians, of course. The ‘Most Exclusive Club’ members of the Senate, and the Representatives in the House. Have you ever listened to the way these clowns address each other? “The Honorable Gentleman/Gentlewoman from”, “My Esteemed Colleague” and so on. Which, if that garbage stayed in the chambers, I wouldn’t mind so much; if you want to vocally kiss the ass of people who despise you, in some cases hate and want to destroy you, go ahead. It’s the ass-kissing they get in public that ticks me off.

That’s how it starts. It only gets better from there. Go read.

A Comment Left Elsewhere. . .

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A Comment Left Elsewhere. . .

Over at Margaret Soltan’s University Diaries, Margaret links to and quotes from a Heather Mac Donald City Journal piece critical of Sarah Palin because of her speech patterns. Her commenters contribute further, but I left this:

I’ll chime in here. The two-party primary process this year has given us a choice between two excrement sandwiches. I have watched the process, and I am convinced that Dr. Bob of The Doctor is In is right when he says:

For years we have tolerated incompetence, corruption, dishonesty — and yes, greed — in government while looking the other way. On those rare occasions when politicians have made principled stands, we have rewarded them with a firestorm of political assault, full-throated media ridicule and criticism, and enormous financial pressure from lobbyists pouring money into the pockets of those who purport to represent the people. We have elected a government of the people, in the most literal and disgraceful sense: we have elected, and kept in office, those who share our desire for self-gratification and materialistic acquisition at the expense of character, moral integrity, honesty, and prudence. The cesspool which is our current Congress is what we have reaped by our own actions — or perhaps more accurately, by our inaction. We have elected those politicians who are like us in every way — and we hate them for it. They are, after all, created in our own image.

That goes approximately double for our choices of President and Vice-President this year.

And yet. . .

One of the choices we have for President has been surrounded since childhood by avowed Marxists/Socialists. I realize that Antonio Gramsci has won, and that our educational system has been suborned into cranking out large quantities of people who think socialism is a marvelous idea, but now we appear to be at a point where we are about to elect to the highest office in the land a man who would not otherwise pass an FBI background check for a job at the CIA or the Pentagon due to his known associates.

Last Thursday I heard a small Asian lady ask of Wayne LaPierre, “I have only been a citizen of the United States for fourteen years, and I just joined the NRA because I believe in the Constitution and the right to arms. When I see Barack Obama, I see a Communist, and I am afraid. I think he is going to win the election. Does the NRA have a plan if this occurs?” I spoke with her shortly after. She was born of Chinese parents in Cambodia, and was raised and schooled in Taiwan. She studied our Constitution, and made a conscious effort to come to the US and become a citizen. If there’s anyone who knows what a Communist looks like, she should be one.

And yet apparently half the electorate either doesn’t care, or is fine with Obama’s long-time associates.

As I said, Gramsci has won, and the United States is heading into World Socialism just as the Left worldwide has desired.

As Henry Louis Mencken said many decades ago: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

For what we are about to receive, may we be truly thankful.

Quote of the Decade

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In honor of the now $800,000,000,000 bailout and other government takeover of the economy, a prophetic repeat from December 13, 2003:

I predict that the Bush administration will be seen by freedom-wishing Americans a generation or two hence as the hinge on the cell door locking up our freedom. When my children are my age, they will not be free in any recognizably traditional American meaning of the word. I’d tell them to emigrate, but there’s nowhere left to go. I am left with nauseating near-conviction that I am a member of the last generation in the history of the world that is minimally truly free.

Rev. Donald Sensing at Sense of Events: Bush Republicanism = Roosevelt Democratism?

Read Rev. Sensing’s whole piece. Consider the last nearly five years since that piece was written.

I wrote the Reverend yesterday morning asking him if, five years later on, his opinion had changed any.

Read his reply.

Sometimes a Picture Suggests a Story. . .

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Sometimes a Picture Suggests a Story. . .

Checking my referral logs today, I came across this (click for full size):


The referring URL was a post at Something… and Half of Something from July of last year. Entitled Gay Rights, it linked to a piece I wrote about where a self-described gay liberal had his own epiphany and decided to purchase a gun for self-defense. The reader of that piece then clicked through to my post, Ignorance = Fear. Education is the Key. Interestingly, though, his next click was to my earlier post, “(I)t’s most important that all potential victims be as dangerous as they can,” and when he left the site, it was to visit Publicola’s list of people who offer an introduction to shooting.

Unfortunately the reader was in Amsterdam.

Now, putting together the scant evidence, I am led to the conclusion that this reader is probably gay, and probably worried. As reported by GayPatriot, assaults on gays in Amsterdam have been increasing, and increasingly brazen, but they’re being downplayed in the media. A 2005 post at Modern Tribalist details a first-hand account of such a beating, with (broken) links to more. The blog Narcissistic Views on News/Politics reports: Amsterdam Now World Leader in anti-Gay Violence.

I wonder if my reader was a recent victim, or nearly one, and has had his own Awakening?

I have no idea what the laws are in the Netherlands with respect to firearms for self-defense, but somehow I doubt they’re very “liberal” (in the original meaning of the term.)

Thank You, Glenn

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Thank You, Glenn

Glenn Reynolds should be recognized as a national treasure. How he manages to sift through the overwhelming amount of material available on the Web and find the valuable nuggets simply astounds me.

Tonight he brings us False but Justified. It’s succinct and to the point, but here’s the money quote:

False, dangerous, misguided . . . and justified. Liberalism in a nutshell.

Speaking of Groups Obama is Comfortable In

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Speaking of Groups Obama is Comfortable In

Barak I Believe in the Second Amendment Obama has had a rather long association with The Joyce Foundation, as detailed with great care by David T. Hardy, Esq., one of the 1% of lawyers that doesn’t suck. I know others have beaten me to the punch, but David’s piece is superlative, and I didn’t want to be the one gunblogger not to mention it.

Today’s Quote of the Day comes from the comments to David’s piece, written by “fred”:

The problem with the “paradigm shift” is that Senator Obama, soon to become POTUS, has been opaque about the contours of his ideology and intellectual templates. A lot of thoughtful citizens like myself have gone in quest of what these might be.

Generally, people are, in part, the sum total of their influences and education. So, you go in search of who advised, educated, influenced, and advanced this man. You also look at his voting record and his stable of advisers. Also, you look at statements he has made to groups out of the public spotlight to find out how he really thinks on a range of subjects. All of this takes time and effort. It does not come easily or cheaply. Especially when the Big Media is actively promoting Sen. Obama.

When you put it all together, it’s troubling, to say the least.

Signed,

A “bitter clinger to guns and religion.”