Category: PJTV

Bill Whittle Meets Black Sabbath

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Bill Whittle retains his restrained pose here during The End of the Beginning:
. . .which title is the same as the opening cut for the latest Black Sabbath record:

Is this the end of the beginning?
Or the beginning of the end?
Losing control or are you winning?
Is your life real or just pretend?

Reanimation of the sequence
Rewind the future to the past.
To find the source of the solution;
The system has to be recast.

The demolition of the entire American economy seems to be the goal of this Administration. What makes Black Sabbath an especially useful choice for a soundtrack is the sort of slow, plodding, methodical swath of acoustic destruction they bring.

“Methodical swath” is precisely how I’d characterize what Obama has achieved: he has blown money in the multi-trillion dollar range, and there has been seemingly nothing that could stop him. No amount of protest, parliamentary effort, elections, history, math, or common sense can do more than delay President Shiv-a Country.

It’s so bad, we have the spectacle of Paul Ryan serving up a total steamer of a budget with a toss of his head and a “Well, best we could do” attitude. Has there ever, ONCE, been a historical case of a spending cut occurring as planned in a future year? Because it’s as though Ryan is on board with “If you like your spending cut, you can keep your spending cut,” where ‘keep’ means ‘just keep pushing that noise into the future’.

What’s desperately needed is the leadership and the will to say “Enough” and articulate reform platform that says “The collapse has gone on for long enough; here is a new course.”

Great @PJTV Bill Whittle Essay For Those Needing A Little Perk-Up

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Whittle touches on the real point at 2:42 in the clip: faith.

The broad-spectrum media onslaught continues, attempting to diminish the soul and the mind, leaving a more readily biddable body. Here is a bit of doggerel on the point:

Seed

Seed in a seed in a seed.
A mystical view of man,
Having body, mind and soul.

The flesh, by natural plan,
After gestation is freed,
As the mine emits the coal.

The mind bursts forth as it can,
Striving for worldly control,
The soul an internal need.

Should God it onward cajole,
The soul by Spirit is drawn,
Knowing the Christ in its stead.

Dodging sin’s ultimate toll,
A Crown of Life’s on the head,
As seen from Heavenly scan.

The arch of marriage, indeed,
Halts solitary patrol,
Sowing seeds new as the dawn.

Thus can life in time succeed,
As God that life once began,
Forming the eternal scroll.

If you’ll forgive my Godbag Christofascist tendencies here, the real point is that the basic character of the United States has been attacked on every level, by the Progressives to the Commies. After figuring out how to leverage the Fatal Sequence:

The historical cycle seems to be: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to apathy; from apathy to dependency; and from dependency back to bondage once more.

for political power has been brilliant, in its diabolical way.

Folks, we now have the technology to catch up to the Founder’s mostly libertarian vision of a federal government that handles multi-state and international issues, and lets the States follow their own cultural bent, from the Judeo-Christian to wherever. We merely need to band together, restore our culture, and then restore the 9th and 10th Amendments to relevance.

Whittle And Rachel On The Long And Short View

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This blog is a huge fan of these two. The ‘Zo is arguing that the Dems are lining up Hillary for 2016, and that that conservatives should be prepping now to stop throwing female conservative leaders under the bus. Even to the extent of letting Allen West go, which is mildly surprising.

He’s also touting an audio book, “Weapon of A.S.S. Destruction“, where the acronym means “American Socialist States” probably should have given it some sort of prefix to avoid confusion with other genres.

Whittle offers an important essay on the bigger picture, in sort of a “let not your heart be troubled” mode.

One major historical facet that I’d like to explore someday is to what degree the Closing of the Frontier fed into the need for Progress as a new goal to set in front of the people, along with the Industrial Revolution that Whittle cites. People who distrust liberty seem to feel the need to have some slogan to dangle in front of people.

Whittle’s point is borne out in the economics of the Information Age. Vast amounts of brick-and-mortar business have changed drastically or vanished. The government, occupying the unique position of determining the rules, has insulated itself substantially from the alterations in the landscape.

Will the GOP position itself to be more than a whipping boy in the discussion? Not clear, coming back to the Zo essay. It seems as though the GOP elite  likes Progress more than liberty, and acts more as a shock absorber for Tea Party energy than any sort of reform-minded party. If it turns out that the GOP elite is more loyal to Progress, then, ironically, the Progressive Left has some justification in being angry with the GOP, if not accuracy in calling the Tea Parties ‘astroturf’.

Hair Of The Dog, With Ken Burns Surprise

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I’m a little shocked at Ken Burns in this clip, claiming that the secessionist rumblings on WhiteHouse.gov are DNA-related. How in the world has he not glommed onto the idea that those petitions could be set up by Lefties wanting to drive the accusation that the people who’d petition for secession are raaaaaacist? It’s almost as though there was a coordinated 1-2. . .oh, wait. . .

What’s more interesting though, is how Ken Burns, known for his manipulation of old still photos, inserts himself into some black-and-white movie footage at the end of VodkaPundit’s clip.