It’s Easy To Pile On The Ice

by Smitty

There was massive enthusiasm, about “The Green Zamboni – a Canadian icon fights climate change” just a couple of months ago. Zambonis at the men’s speedskating event at the Vancouver Winter Olympics were to be a vast improvement.

Past all of the granola-head posturing, they were trying something new, as this blog did on 01Jan10. And like most new projects, they’re finding out that being shiny, in and of itself, doesn’t always git ‘er done: “Speed skating ice woes threaten green sheen”.

Possibly the “change for its own sake” crowd has tampered with what works, broken it, and merits the hoisting on their own petard. Or, completely unrelated factors have triggered this. Hopefully not something nefarious.

After this call for calm, if it proves that green, “faith based technology” is at fault, then, flog the weenies about the head and shoulders, say I.

Alan Colmes Asks After The Sugar

by Smitty

Alan Colmes points out that the POTUS has a 53% approval rating in the latest polls. Colmes has a non-cranial point here: the Right-o-sphere should demonstrate more grace than the Left ever did for BHO’s predecessor.
“Where is the sugar?” asks Alan. Def Leppard has it:

Actually, this post is merely an excuse to test the Twitter tools I just installed for the blog.

One Factual, The Other Fictional, Both Arrive At Buffoon

by Smitty

It’s not often that you read Victor Davis Hanson and find yourself thinking of a Paco Enterprises foray in farce.

Yet, VDH’s essay on the bumblings of Bidenism does exactly that: put one in mind of Paco’s delightfully silly sendup of the Norwegians tryin’ ta reclay-em they-er medal.

If only Biden’s single-heartbeat proximity to the Presidency were as innocuous as Paco’s whimsy.

AL2: Rick Barber Update

Press release from the Barber congressional campaign:

MONTGOMERY – On Tuesday evening, February 16th at 6:30 PM in Pinckard, Alabama, 2nd Congressional District candidate Rick Barber will speak to his largest group of supporters to date. Hundreds are expected to gather at Brown Products headquarters in Pinckard.
Brown Products is a small business owned and operated by the Brown Brothers – Billy, Ron and Ricky – who have thrown their full support behind Marine Corps veteran Rick Barber’s candidacy.
“This nation can no longer afford politicians,” says Brown Products chief Billy Brown. “The only ones who can save us from the destructive force of big government are statesman. And Rick Barber is a statesman.”
The Brown’s have pledged to do whatever they can to get Rick Barber elected. Naturally, Rick Barber is thrilled and humbled by their support.
“I’ve been blown away by the early support of Billy Brown and his brothers,” says Rick Barber. “They believe in limited government principles, and they’ve already proven that they’re willing to fight for them.”
“Their efforts are further proof that small business owners everywhere are deeply concerned about Washington’s attack on the economy,” continues Barber. “Taxing and spending is not the way to promote entrepreneurship and free market competition.”
“The only way Washington can improve the economy is by getting out of the way of entrepreneurs like Billy Brown.”

I met Mr. Brown at the GOP state conference in Montgomery Feb. 7. He was a childhood friend of the Democratic incumbent, Rep. Bobby Bright, but lost patience with him over Bright’s support for the Obama-Pelosi agenda.

The Protocols of the Elders of CTHULHU IV. Spiritual Demolition

by Smitty (INTRODUCTION)

He could infer that the figure, also an elderly man, though apparently of African extraction, was in Switzerland for the World Economic Forum.

Humans would not worship the Great Squid directly, if ever, he related. No, the tool of science, itself, would first be elevated to a belief system.
“Do you believe in global warming,” future media tools will ask candidates, as if intellectual acquiescense to any hypothesis is a form of belief.
For amusement, we will feign ambiguity about whether or not living cells are life. Once this cute little wedge is driven, state-sanctioned murder would prove a fascinating tool for breaking societies.
Emasculating manhood in support of this agenda would have been sadly trivial, if we had not hit on the idea of having men celebrate their debasement.

“There is too much commitment to beliefs in things other than our rule.

This is the reason why it is indispensible for us to undermine all faith, to tear the minds out of the [proles] the very principle of Godhead and the spirit, and to put in its place arithmetical calculations and material needs.

The systemic ontological assault, combined with the economic one mentioned in Protocol III

have already created disenchanted, cold and heartless communities.

When something as obvious as life itself, i.e., dividing cells, is rendered ambiguous, our eugenics program can move forward in its sub-goal of filtering out undesirables.
The demolition moves up from individuals to families, as books, advertising, songs and film portray a narrative of paternal failure and childish, narcissitic hedonism.
The denigration of the male is coupled with the acesnsion of Feminism, which is purely mysoginistic at heart, attempting to create some other vision of woman than the triumph of Proverbs 31.
Next up from the nuclear is the extended family, as welfare-state entitlements have a corrosive affect on traditional clans.
Those entitlements are a two-fer in the US case, as stem largely from the Federal Government.
Infants, man, woman, States: is there anything we cannot destroy?”

With ‘destroy’ he lifted his arm in a salute, wrist cocked, as if holding an invisible torch. This visible movement, the first in a couple of hours, startled the crowd into a silent blinking. The part that made the audience eyes bulge, however, was the forarm. The kimono had slid back below the elbow to reveal scaly, inhuman skin. The arm lowered, the face gradually assumed a grin. My mind, strained by the effort of writing all of this down, may have played a trick on me concerning his tongue.
I do not want to believe I saw a forked tongue flick out between those teeth, ever so briefly.

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Sarah Palin Mobbed in Daytona

She’s more popular than Danica Patrick!

When NASCAR president Mike Helton acknowledged her as a special guest, she got the largest ovation from the room, packed from the front to the back with drivers, team members, support personnel and onlookers.
After sitting through the meeting, Palin could not get out the door. Fans mobbed her, asking for pictures and autographs. Her 12-person entourage, comprised of track security, a policeman, friends and spokespeople, tried to get her to the door and to her next appearance. But Palin could not help herself, and kept signing and posing for pictures.

Remember this, next time someone tells you Palin is a political liability for Republicans.

Speaking of hot chicks in Daytona, you should make plans to attend Bike Week Freedom Rally, organized by my friend Rhonda Welsch. It’s Feb. 27-28 at the Volusia County Fairgrounds. Lt. Col. Allen West will speak and “Take Our Country Back” singer Chris Cassone will perform.

A Tea Party rally in Daytona during Bike Week? Don’t you think I should be there for that?

The Protocols of the Elders of CTHULHU III. The Symbolic Squid

by Smitty (INTRODUCTION)

There were figures far ahead, a couple behind, and one he was catching up to, breath coming out in vast white puffs in the morning calm as they walked up the path to the castle.

Of course, the iconography and symbology of the movement was a lengthy topic, as it started with single-character nets to catch even the semi-literate, and moved up through various code words to ensare those who thought a couple of Master’s degrees were meaningful.
Then, above the academic mumbo jumbo, stripped of all the useless idealism, was the true symbol of what CTHULHU was about.
If people were water, the whole arrangement was a giant intellectual reverse-osmosis machine, meant to purify, over time, a very select quantity of brains.
For example, those at the table. There seemed to be an easing in the unspoken mood of the audience, as his careful tones describing a future, any future, seemed to imply they had a place in it.

“Our symbol is of course the Great Squid, who thrives under great pressure, has tentacles everywhere, sinks the largest dreadnought, and is immortal.

In order to incite seekers after power to a misuse of power we have to set all forces in opposition one to another, breaking up their [reasonable] tendencies to [cohesion].

We incubate false arguments, such as irrelevant squabbles concerning birth records, and launch them at the foe. We fund nominally independent or moderate voices, and use them to lure in the best minds that could oppose us.
Once we addict them to our funding, we can then use them as weapons against real foes committed to principles that would slow our advance.

When the hour strikes for our Sovereign Lord of all the World to be crowned it is these same hands which will sweep away everything that might be a hinderance thereto.

This apocalyptic moment will be precipitated by

a universal economic crisis whereby we shall throw upon the streets whole mobs of workers simultaneously in all the countries of Europe,

and elsewhere.”

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