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Happily Never After

Posted on | June 10, 2013 | 18 Comments

The one guaranteed result of legalizing gay marriage: Gay divorce, which is not exactly evidence of anything in particular, except as disproving the homo-supremacist message that we’d all be happier if not for the awful oppression of heteronormativity.

In 2010, actress Jane Lynch became the “wife” (or perhaps, husband) of psychologist Lara Embry:

“It’s just the greatest thrill in the world to find somebody that you want to be with every day.”

Well, at least “every day” until you get sick and tired of putting up with their crap, which in this case was about three years:

“Lara and I have decided to end our marriage. This has been a difficult decision for us as we care very deeply about one another. We ask for privacy as we deal with this family matter,” Lynch says in a statement.

“We ask for privacy” = “The ugly details of our relationship, from our disastrously misguided decision to get together, to the acrimonious circumstances of our bitter divorce, are so embarrassingly lurid that, should it all become public, many young women would probably abandon all hope for future happiness as lesbians and instead decide to sell themselves as mail-order brides to Arabs. Therefore, in the interests of The Movement, we ask that our friends please help us by ignoring the vicious accusations that will dribble out as affidavits and discovery documents in forthcoming lawsuits. Also, please join me in hoping my ex-wife dies of cancer, and soon, that bitch.”

What’s the over/under on how many days before the “Jane Lynch sex video” shows up on YouTube?

UPDATE: Speaking of YouTube — how’s that for a smooth transition? — perhaps those unacquainted with contemporary youth culture will find this shocking, whereas people who have been paying attention will find it all too familiar in its vacuous sadness:

Ah, the shallow, selfish competition of the “notch-in-the-bedpost” mentality, now celebrated as a triumph of Equality and Progress!

 

Category: Celebrities, Gays, Marriage

Recusing Myself On Recent Events, Let Me Bring Up A Point About Tiananmen Square

Posted on | June 10, 2013 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

Actual courage in the face of evil.

Actual courage in the face of evil.

In the first place, the United States government is not a line of Type 59 tanks. In the second place, recent headline twerps are not Tank Man, staring down the barrel of tyranny.

The question to ask is: what constitutes heroism? It strikes me that, if in a situation where the government is doing something way out of line, e.g. interning citizens of Japanese extraction, one should have the courage both to

  • Raise the issue, and
  • Stand and deliver on the raising

That is, if you are certain enough that whistle blower mode is called for, you underscore your point by triumphantly treading titanium testicle territory, like Tank Man.

When you go all Brave Sir Robin, you seriously undercut your argument, and raise questions about motives.

Keep this in mind, patriots: irrespective of your contempt for the results of any election, try to hold true to the ideals the country was founded upon, and faith in the system to Do The Proper Thing.

That is, look past the IRS, DOJ, Pigford, and the rest of the laundry list of scandals. If there is any good to come of this wretched 100 year anniversary of Woodrow Wilson’s inaugural, it will be

  • a gut check,
  • a rejection of statism, and
  • a return to the individual and not the regime as the main point of emphasis.

Keep your powder dry, and let’s stick it to the incumbents at the election next year, Americans.

Category: China, Constitution, Corruption

Let’s Debate Fourth Amendment Rights, and Also Send Snowden to Leavenworth

Posted on | June 10, 2013 | 67 Comments

Glenn Greenwald’s new man-crush, Edward Snowden

Following the Edward Snowden revelations, I find myself accused of statism, warmongering and worse. It seems some of my libertarian friends — whom I will remind that I voted for Harry Browne in 1996 and for Bob Barr in 2008 — are trying to turn this into a policy debate. And yesterday I had a spirited telephone conversation with my friend Ali Akbar (a guy whose name alone ensures extra scrutiny at airports) about the Fourth Amendment considerations involved. Necessarily, I found myself in the position of arguing that the alleged violations of privacy in the NSA program — about which Glenn Greenwald and others are raising such hell — are purely theoretical, with “privacy” understood as an intellectual abstraction rather than as any practical reality. My attitude is, “No harm, no foul,” and I haven’t seen one scintilla of evidence that any innocent person has been harmed by this program.

Well, let’s all debate that as a matter of policy, but what enrages me about the Edward Snowden case — as with the Bradley Manning case — is that junior personnel cannot be permitted to exercise a heckler’s veto over U.S. national security policy. It doesn’t work that way.

Look, I was at Fort Meade when my son took an oath to obey orders from the President of the United States. Certainly readers by now know that I am no admirer of the current occupant of the White House, nor can I think of any policy of the current president that I support. For that matter, the previous President of the United States had some policies with which I strongly disagreed, including the harebrained notion that we could impose democracy on the people of Mesopotamia at the point of a bayonet. Nevertheless . . .

An Army private doesn’t get to decide which orders he will obey, and he has a sworn duty to maintain operational security necessary to the completion of his appointed mission. For the love of God, people — when my son left Fort Benning on a bus, I was careful not to disclose the time of his departure because who knows if some jihadi wacko might want to attack a busload of Army privates.

OUR ENEMIES WANT TO KILL US ALL!

What part of that is so hard to understand? So while I’m perfectly fine with having a debate about the permissible extent of NSA intelligence-gathering, and might even be persuaded to agree with Senator Paul that they’ve gone too far, I think that a 29-year-contractor illegally disclosing classified documents that he was obligated not to disclose is what it is: A felony, which makes Snowden an international fugitive from justice.

Certainly, I share the amusement of my conservative friends who delight in this NSA scandal as an embarrassment to The Most Transparent Administration in American History — “How’s that Hope and Change workin’ out for ya?” — but this does not mean that we cannot also smile at a future spectacle: Our President using every lawful power of the United States government to pursue, apprehend and prosecute Glenn Greenwald’s newest man-crush.

Damn, I hate it when I have to agree with Dianne Feinstein:

The NSA program is “lawful,” Feinstein told reporters last week, saying that the program only accessed “metadata” about U.S. residents’ telephone and online communications. “There is no content involved,” said Feinstein, who is the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. “In other words, no content of a communication. … The information goes into a database, the metadata, but cannot be accessed without what’s called, and I quote, ‘reasonable, articulable suspicion’ that the records are relevant and related to terrorist activity. … [T]errorists will come after us if they can and the only thing we have to deter this is good intelligence, to understand that a plot is being hatched and to get there before they get to us.”

Trust me on this: The political advantage for conservatives here is to highlight first, the hypocrisy of Democrats in defending Obama’s use of policies for which Democrats condemned the Bush administration, and second, the negligence that has resulted in someone like Edward Snowden obtaining security clearance. And if Rand Paul wins the GOP nomination in 2016, maybe he can fix all this mess.

But at least I won’t have to vote the LP ticket again, eh?

 

Category: Military

Rule 5 Monday

Posted on | June 10, 2013 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Apologies for the aggravating lateness of so many posts this past week; the NSAVerizon has screwed up the internet at my current residence, so I’ve been having to spend time and money getting wifi at the local 24-hour McDonald’s. Or, during the week, the public libary. Anyway, on with the linkagery; as usual, be discreet about opening the links, as no few of them are NSFW.

Speaking of which, Mark Krikorian leads off with Female IDF Members Posing In Lingerie, followed by Valley of the Shadow’s monthly tip-jar rattle featuring Vampira. Animal Magnetism checks in with Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, and Blackmailers Don’t Shoot has Pretty Girls On A Thursday: Pin-Up Edition. Fishersville Mike notes Tropical Storm Andrea with another Andrea altogether, and Randy’s Roundtable offers Chloe Pridham for your consideration. Ninety Miles From Tyranny offers Morning Mistress and Late Night Ladies, while Laughing Conservative has the exotic Aishwara Rai, And First Street Journal checks in with Glamour Girls.

This week, EBL has the Unspeakable Armenian, Nigella Lawson, Alina Kabayeva, Bocce Ball Bellas, and Shannon Rogers Guess.

A View From The Beach leads off with Amanda Seyfried, followed by a Femen triple-header: In The Dock, Haunting Heidi, and Beards The Lion. Also, Lindsey Vonn Drug Tested, Snatch This Purse! and Confessing or Bragging?

Soylent Green started the week early with Afternooner Ashley and Hey LC, Where’s Machete? before getting back into the regular routine with Monday Motivationer Ela, Evening Awesome Katia, Tuesday Titillation Katelyn, Humpday Hawtness Arianny, Vintage Fursday Fur Laurie, Fursday Evening Awesome, Corsetage, Trailer Trash: Open Windows, Evening Awesome Jessica, AM Awesome Ashley, and Overnighty Lori.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Lauren Holly, his vintage babe is Constance Towers, and Sex in Advertising is all about the typos.  Dustbury offers Fahriye Evcen and Angie Harmon, while at The Camp of the Saints, it’s Lindsey Anne Strutt and the Rule 5 News.

The Daley Gator’s Daleybabes this week included Candace Smith, Jessica Jane Clement, Lana Tailor, Ming Na, Fox Sports Girl Asha, Christine Hallauer, Justene Jaro, Shay Mitchell, Stephanie Tejada, Alexia Viruez, Camilla Luddington Tanya Memme, and Ginger Zee ; also, rule 5 linkage, Bikinis vs. Sharia, and a celebration of 3 million hits.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox is Saturday, June 15.


Category: Rule 5

Holy Freaking Crap! How Did NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Get Security Clearance?

Posted on | June 10, 2013 | 86 Comments

The phrase “whistleblower” would imply the disclosure of wrongdoing and — sorry, Senator Paul — I don’t see any crime at NSA, beyond the negligence that put a high-school dropout in a position to decide what secrets the U.S. government is permitted to keep:

A spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a statement saying that authorities are “reviewing the damage” to U.S. security by Snowden’s illegal disclosures: “Any person who has a security clearance knows that he or she has an obligation to protect classified information and abide by the law.”
Several former intelligence officials said details about Snowden’s career raised questions about how he obtained security clearance.
Snowden told the Guardian he is a North Carolina native who did not graduate from high school, but earned a General Equivalency Diploma (GED) after his family moved to Maryland.  Snowden said he studied computers at a community college and enlisted in the Army in 2003 under the 18X program for recruits seeking to join the elite Special Forces, but was discharged after breaking both his legs in a training accident. He said his Army experience disillusioned him about the Iraq war because “most of the people training us seemed pumped up about killing Arabs, not helping anyone.” After leaving the Army, he was hired as a security guard at an NSA facility in Maryland, Snowden said, then worked as an information technology specialist for the CIA, which in 2007 stationed him in Switzerland under diplomatic cover. ”Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world,”Snowden told the Guardian. “I realized that I was part of something that was doing far more harm than good.”
One former U.S. intelligence official told the Washington Post that Snowden’s clearance may have been fast-tracked because of the government’s effort to ramp up its computer counter-terrorism programs after the devastating attacks of Sept. 11, 2001:  “Like a lot of things after 9/11, they just went on a hiring binge, and in the technical arena young, smart nerds were in high demand.” Another official, formerly with the CIA, told the Post it was extremely unusual for the agency to employ people with Snowden’s background: “I just have never heard of anyone being hired with so little academic credentials.”

Read the rest at ViralRead. Perhaps my colleague, the erstwhile Admiral of the Afghan Seas, will have something to say this evening, when he gets home from The Job He Can’t Talk About.

 


Category: Military

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.10.13

Posted on | June 10, 2013 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Edward Snowden Identifies Self As Source of NSA Documents

Former CIA/NSA contractor Edward Snowden

Former CIA/NSA contractor Edward Snowden

Flees to Hong Kong

Santa Monica Shooter’s First Victims Were Father, Brother
John Samir Zawahiri killed both men, set home on fire

BJP Star Narendra Modi To Lead Party’s Campaign
Chief Minister of Gujarat criticized for doing little to stop anti-Muslim riots in 2012



POLITICS
Former Massachusetts Governor Paul Cellucci Dies, 65

Paul Cellucci

Paul Cellucci

Died from Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS); also served as Ambassador to Canada under W

Alleged Republican IRS Manager Claims TEA Party Probes Started In Cincinnati

Rep. Labrador’s Exit Worries Immigration Advocates

Rep. Pallone To Take On Cory Booker For Democrat Senate Nomination

Ft. Hood Murderer’s Court-Martial Might Be Delayed Again



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Middling Job Numbers Signal Long Path To Healthy Payrolls
Japan’s Economy Continues Turnaround
PRC Inflation Slows To 2.1% In May
PRC Economy Slowing; Government May Not Care
What Android Has That iOS Hasn’t
Google Reportedly Close To Buying Waze
Sony/Microsoft Battle Goes To E3 As Tablets Dent Consoles
Snapchat Reportedly Raising $100 Million



SPORTS
Heat Dominates Spurs 103-84 In Game 2

LeBron may be the center of attention, but it was the less-famous players who carried the Heat in Game 2

LeBron may be the center of attention, but it was the less-famous players who carried the Heat in Game 2

Miami ties the series at one game apiece

Jimmie Johnson Unchallenged At Pocono

Blackhawks Will Face Bruins For The Stanley Cup

Mets Send Davis, Baxter And Carson To The Minors After Losing To The Fish Again

Magill Walks Six As Dodgers Lose To Braves

Zimmerman, Resurgent Offense Lead To 7-0 Drubbing Of Twins; Clippard Gets The Win In Nightcap



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Beyonce Bares Her Midriff

Doesn't look pregnant to me either.

Doesn’t look pregnant to me either.

Pic taken as she attended Kanye West’s birthday party

Viola Player Apologizes For Egging Simon Cowell On Live TV

John Malkovich Helps Save Man’s Life On Toronto Street

Lindsay Price And Curtis Stone Get Married In Spain

Erin Brockovich Busted For Drunk Driving Her Boat

Bieber’s Bodyguards Accused Of Battery Again

Christoph Waltz To Star In “True Crimes”

Katy Perry And John Mayer Step Out With Friends



FOREIGNERS
Disasters Inject Fear Into Bangladesh Factory Life
Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court Likely To Say “Yes, But” To ECB Policy
Family Visits Nelson Mandela In Hospital
Turkey’s Erdogan Warns His Patience With Protests Is Running Out
Iran May Disqualify Centrist Candidate Rowhani
Iain Banks Dies Of Cancer, 59
Norks, ROK Meet, Set Stage For Seoul Talks Later In Week
Kerry’s Embarrassing “Peace Process” Obsession



BLOGS & STUFF
Wall Street Journal: The Hidden Jobless Disaster
Power Line: A Snowden Job
Weasel Zippers: Intelligence Officials Reportedly Joke About Making Edward Snowden Disappear
Gateway Pundit: Snowden – I Mistakenly Believed In Obama’s Promises
American Thinker: Sources Drying Up For Washington Reporters On National Security Beat
Peggy Noonan: The Era Of Metadata
Kelly Ayotte: Why I’m Backing Legislation To Fix Our Broken Immigration System
NRO Corner: McCain Says Surveillance Program Appropriate
Jim Sensenbrenner: This Abuse Of The Patriot Act Must End
Clayton Cramer: “I Was Born This Way”


Category: Live at Five

You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Movement

Posted on | June 9, 2013 | 18 Comments

Why did the “Free Kate” movement flourish so rapidly after May 17? Some people have attributed this to the gay-rights angle in the case — Kaitlyn Ashley Hunt, 18, has admitted having sex with a 14-year-old female — and the claim of “homophobia” stirred sympathy for someone who admits committing a felony under Florida law.

This angered people because it looked like an attempt to create a “Get Out of Jail Free” card for gay sex offenders, but there was also another factor to which I called attention: Kate Hunt is a young, attractive female and no one wants to think a pretty girl could be dangerous — certainly not a sexual predator. Well . . .

You’re wrong. In fact, you might be shocked how wrong you are, when you see how often sex offenders hide behind a pretty face.

  • Loni Folks, 24, was arrested in 2008 and charged with sexual battery of a 16-year-old male student in Mississippi.
  • Carrie McCandless was 29 in 2006 when she was arrested for a sexual incident involving a 17-year-0ld male student at the Colorado charter school where she was English teacher and her husband was the principal. In 2011, McCandless was sentenced to 60 days in jail after a judge revoked her probation when she tested positive for morphine.
  • Heather Chiasson, 29, was charged in 2012 with having sex with a 17-year-old male student at the Louisiana high school where she taught math.

  • Angela Comer, 26, was arrested in Mexico with the 14-year-old boy with whom she ran away from Tompkinsville, Ky. The former middle school teacher pleaded guilty in 2007.
  • Marla Meek, 34, was arrested in 2006 and charged with having sex with a 15-year-old student. The former junior high school teacher  was sentenced to prison in 2008.
  • Alison Peck, 23, was convicted of statutory rape for her 2008 affair with a 16-year-old boy at Greenfield High School, where she taught music. In 2011, her probation was revoked and she was sentenced to five years in prison.

Could I extend this list? Well, there are more than 195 cases compiled at “Women Arrested for Indecent Behavior With Kids,” and I’ve just pulled the first six examples I found of reasonably young and attractive women accused of sex offenses. It’s much more common than you’d expect, and good luck building a movement — “Free Alison,” “Free Carrie,” etc. — big enough to free them all.

All of these women were teachers, and the youngest was 23, whereas Kate Hunt was an 18-year-old high school senior. Also, their victims (consenting victims, but victims by law) were in all cases male, whereas Hunt had sex with an underage girl.

Beyond these differences, however, my point is that the law is the law, and the “Free Kate” poster-girl act — she’s too cute to be dangerous — doesn’t carry any weight with the law.

Also: “Beat her f**king ass, Emily! Beat her ass! Get that bitch!”

Dangerous? Let’s leave that to the judge to decide.

UPDATE: If you want to try randomly browsing through “Women Arrested for Indecent Behavior With Kids” without filtering for the young and attractive perpetrators, be prepared to encounter serious weirdness:

Melissa Balkcom, a 27-year-old mother, threw a sexually oriented slumber party for her daughter’s birthday and invited six of her daughter’s dance class friends, ages nine to 13, to the party.
Party games included Balkcom engaging in a game of “truth or dare” where the girls were dared to do such things as 10 jumping jacks while nude, demonstrating oral sex on a soda bottle, French kissing objects and lap-dancing on a chair or on each other.
Balkcom participating in some of the dares, including jumping nude in front of the young girls. She also explained what oral sex was to those who did not understand.

Guess she took the “Cool Mom” thing a bit too far, eh? But was Balkcom the weirdest case in the file? Not even close, my friends:

A former Michigan middle school teacher, Elizabeth Miklosovic, 37 . . . was fired after being arrested for molesting a 14-year-old student. The victimized student told friends the relationship with the language arts teacher began when she was in the seventh grade. . . . Investigation into the relationship determined the former teacher assaulted her victim from June to August 2004.
In June 2004, the victim’s parents granted permission for their daughter to go camping with Miklosovic believing Miklosovic was a trusted mentor to their daughter. However, while camping the two lit candles, chanted and exchange vows in a pagan wedding ceremony. To solidify their union, they traded a piece of braided cloth. It was after the “wedding” that Miklosovic sexually assaulted her young victim. . . .
The student testified, “She (Miklosovic) is a wonderful woman. She does not deserve this, any of this. I was not manipulated or taken advantage of. It was completely consensual.”

A pagan lesbian wedding. With a seventh-grader. “It was completely consensual.” Why are you bigoted haters so judgmental?

Anyway, why is this kind of bizarre stuff relevant to the “Free Kate” phenomenon? Because, in that case, Kaitlyn Hunt’s defenders are arguing that the letter of the law — which makes it a felony for anyone 18 or older to have sex with anyone 15 or younger — should be disregarded due to what they see as extenuating circumstances: Both girls were high school students who played together on the same basketball team — which meant they were “peers,” the defenders say — and because of what they claim are homophobic motives of the 14-year-old’s parents who reported the case to the cops.

OK, maybe you could grant leniency in one case, but if leniency becomes routine, so that the law is never rigorously enforced, you’re effectively voiding the law and 14-year-olds are fair game.

Well, what next? Shall we disregard the testimony of Elizabeth Miklosovic’s 14-year-old pagan lesbian “bride” (!) when she says that she was not “taken advantage of” by this “wonderful woman”? Is this “consenting” girl more of a victim than the 14-year-old who “consented” with 18-year-old Kaitlyn Hunt? Why? Because Kaitlyn is young and cute, and Milosovic is . . . well, not young and cute?

Start bending the law, and prepare for sexual anarchy.

Happy 14th Birthday! (Batteries not included.)

UPDATE II: Talk about taking the “Cool Mom” thing too far:

Donna Lou Sanders, 46, was a special education teacher and wife of the assistant principal of Magnolia High School in Magnolia, Arkansas, when she was arrested and charged with two counts of accomplice to rape, four counts of third-degree sexual assault, and six counts of permitting abuse of a minor. She was charged after an investigation determined she allegedly took a 12-year-old girl and 13-year-old girl to a motel so they could [have] sex with underaged boys and a 22-year-old man they met through Facebook.
According to the reports, Sanders also took her own daughter to the motels, provided alcohol to the minors, and sometimes drove the minors around in her car while they engaged in sex in the back seat of her car.

But . . . it was consenual!

UPDATE III: Good grief — a love triangle!

Linda Nef, 46, was one of two teachers from Bountiful Junior High School in Utah, accused of sexually assaulting the same 13-year-old boy. . . .
According to the Bountiful police, the two teachers were unaware of each other’s involvement with the same boy until recently when the boy told the other teacher involved, Valynne Bowers, about Nef.

Apparently, these 13-year-old boys nowadays are so irresistible to women, the teachers have to take turns.

UPDATE IV: Here’s practically an entire category of similar cases: Coach Reanna Jewell, 25, has sex with 16-year-old female basketball player; P.E. teacher Rita Brum, 24, has sex with 17-year-old female student; P.E. teacher Abigail Holloway, 33, arrested for affair with female student that began eight years earlier when the girl was 13.

But women can’t really be sexual predators, can’t they?

 

Category: Crime, Kaitlyn Hunt, Sex

What I’d Like To Hear From @DMataconis

Posted on | June 9, 2013 | 66 Comments

by Smitty

Over at The Liberty Papers, we have what amounts to an intriguing anti-SoCon rant:

Perhaps my biggest problem with fusionism in its current incarnation, however, is the extent to which it demands that libertarians silence their criticism of their so-called conservative allies in the name of “unity.” Even if one accepts the argument that libertarians and conservatives are on the same side when it comes to economics, there is no denying that there are significant differences between the two sides on many issues. The most obvious, of course, are social issues such as gay marriage, the drug war, pornography, and, for some but not all libertarians, abortion rights. In addition to that, it’s generally the case that libertarians have a far more restrained view of what proper American foreign policy should be than conservatives do, even in today’s era where conservatives suddenly seem to have become anti-war when the war is being led by Barack Obama. Based on those differences alone, the idea that libertarians and conservatives are just two sides of the same coin is clearly false.

It is true that there are some Evangelical absolutists who have their hobby horses.

It’s also true that a more Federalist read of the Constitution doesn’t concern itself with activity below the state level. Absolutely, Amendments 13-15 ended slavery, but what’s occurred due to Progress, and the unratified Second Bill of Rights, is that we’re now One. Big. Honkin’. State. We can all be unhappy that personal sexual and relational matters have to play out in contentious, Procrustean struggles in DC.

And this is precisely the way the Ruling Class prefers things. Keep the proletariat all thumb wrestling over whether the government is in your (lady|man)parts, or in your wallet, while the Federal Reserve-fueled vote-buying schemes continue apace, and liberty dwindles.

I should think Mataconis has enough low animal cunning to sense the game afoot. While I’m a SoCon’s SoCon on a personal level, even the most “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Evangelicals have got to be honest about the Constitution: it was States delegating powers to a Federal government, not a tool whereby I can enforce my personal taste for post-infant baptism by full immersion on everybody, Christian or otherwise*.

What I’d propose in lieu of the poo flinging is:

  • A focus on areas of agreement on the enumerated powers that we need to drive back toward.
  • A de-emphasis on the personal hobbyhorse issues. Marriage management isn’t a federal task. I don’t need a federal law to know the score on abortion. I’d prefer libertarian indifference prevail toward those states that I could not live in for cultural reasons.
  • A sober realization that our government has become as odious as the British Parliament of the 1700s. We can hang together and prevail in time, or hold the divisive course and hang separately. The Josephus types who’ve already cut their deals will continue to be no help.

And to all of the new Tea Party folks, let me pass on a warning: the two ears, one mouth rule applies. There is much to learn about the sordid realities of our government, as it’s deviated well off course. Relax. Focus the passion on sober, positive deeds that advance the Constitutional ball. Screaming about Barack Obama’s Martian birth certificate and obvious status as a High Priest of Cthulhu is ONLY ABETTING HIM.

I know it seems counter-intuitive, but spend some time studying. The history of How Things Got So Jacked Up is important if you want to help in ways that are actually constructive.

It’s easy to get pissed off, disgusted, drop some F-bombs, and leave. But half the recovery battle is showing up; the other half is staying engaged. Your foe has massive endurance. Our task is to execute Gramsci’s Long March through the Institutions in reverse. Stand by for a multi-decade struggle. Homeschool your children. Teach them right from wrong. Teach them history. Teach them to reject the corrosive Postmodern piffle passing for thought these days.

But don’t expect instant gratification.

*Smoochies to everyone who recoils at my conservative read there. 🙂

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