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Road to hell is paved

Posted by drik on Tuesday, February 09, 2010 11:12:41 PM
In the schools, children are being treated as adult criminals and felons, handcuffed, jailed, terriified in the zero tolerance idiocy.
Serves us right for letting the dhimmicrat/liberals run our schools.  Not anything different than they are doing to our government.  Not any different than they are doing to the families of the most vulnerable, the impoverished.

They are so busy striking back at their own absent, or drug-addled, or indifferent parents that they have no care about the rest of us or the results.

The good intentions that drive them are to rescue the children that they themselves used to be, 20-30 years ago, and the anger that drives them is the anger against formerly emotionally distant or physically absent parents, who may not even still be alive.

They cannot back down because they are rescuing themselves, projected on the new "victims" of today.  And their good intentions is desparation to replace what cannot be replaced, because it no longer exists.  A bottomless hole.

That is why they get so angry when we challenge them about their absent results.  Why the results don't matter. 

That is why they are so easily manipulated in the progressive quest for control and power.

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Real time

Posted by drik on Tuesday, February 09, 2010 12:44:21 PM
Marx said that in order for socialism to work, it is necessary that the revolution occur everywhere at once, so that the bourgeois do not have any place to escape to. Lenin and Stalin thought that this was nice in theory, but practically not a dependable strategy. They came up with modern alternatives, a curtain of iron and a wall of stone. Much more reliable than assuming that everyone will be able to be forced to be enlightened at once.

We are about to see if there will be an equivalent in America. It appears that the dhimmocrat spending in Congress has pushed the Cloward-Piven collapse to now instead of the theoretical future. Social Security is on a negative cash flow NOW, not in some theoretical 2016 or 2030.

Texas and Florida may only be only a stopgap place of refuge, since the federal government will be chasing after those with any property to redistribute, else it will collapse the dollar just that much sooner. More taxes, VAT's dat, retirement "security", global exhaling, consumption, national sales tax, pretty much anything to prolong the status spending quo.

Things will get messy. Look for a provacateur to instigate something to justify a reprisal by the politicians. They will do it to us for us. "For the children".

We are the "children".
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upside down

Posted by drik on Monday, February 08, 2010 2:31:45 PM

Usually RG=spot on/Akagi=left field.  Today RG is with the dhimmocrats to justify lack of progress and spending more $ on status quo.  Kudos-Akagi.

Studies show that no matter the money poured into schools/teacher's salaries, it has only a minor impact on the education and attainment of the child. The major impact comes from the family structure/social background.  Those studies don't get the press.

The dhimicrat libs own the school systems and maintain status quo and cover for the merely incompetent as well as for the really scary teachers. The reality is that this is a minor (necessary/not sufficient) factor.

The major factor that makes for a poor education is the collapse of the family.

The government is in the business of corrupting morals and undermining the sanctity of the traditional family with its anything goes, any means (or orifice) necessary approach to the world. (I did not have sex.  How do you define "sex"?)  The government is in the business of financing fatherless families.  No deluge of "good intentions" or political correctness is going to make up for that subsidy. 
 
Simple economic principle(works even if you don't agree with it).
Tax stuff that you want less of. Subsidize things that you want more of.
The end of the family is being subsidized by the government, and the children are suffering for it.

Getting away from that is not going to be easy. "For the children" is the battle cry. Cutting off the gravy train is good for the children but bad for the child. Presbo seems to have no problem with throwing "the children" under the bus, cutting off the DC charter vouchers. Only the public outcry kept "the child" from being sub-bus also.

Franklin said: to end poverty, it is necessary to make poverty uncomfortable.  The progressives pursue equal results independant of effort and a money subsidy if there is no effort.  Next they'll lawyer up the children so that they can vote.  Too bad that the fetuses won't get the vote too.

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Speaking off the cuff

Posted by drik on Sunday, February 07, 2010 12:48:03 PM
Speaking extemporaneaously is when you find out who people are. When the unconscious mind runs unfettered and unfiltered. That is when you see the inner decency or lack thereof. That is when you find out who people really are. That is why it is so easy to mistrust the lack of any unplanned moments, the perpetual spin and choreography of so much that comes out of DC. And the disturbing insight that comes out when the dhimmocrats speak without having to pre-plan.
The teleprompter at the staff meeting.
"Are you serious?"
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Relatively speaking

Posted by drik on Sunday, February 07, 2010 12:45:36 PM
SEIU are not Presbo's thugs, but if the card check bill gets Rahmed thru, it may be because Presbo may be one of Andy Stern's thugs.

The Black Panther's did not influence the overall election. Just the voters at that one polling place. And the death of those 3 civil rights workers by the KKK in 1964 also did not influence the election, directly. But that time, the government was on the side of PROTECTING civil rights (of Americans, not Nigerians).

Relative to the average Chicago thug politician, who may not be able to compete in the real world, Presbo is certianly quite bright. He is probably rocking along with an above average IQ somewhere between 120 and 135. Bright, but not noticeably so among other bright people. Certainly as bright as Hillary (the "smartest woman in the world"), who flunked her first take on the bar exam. Up or down a few percentage points, depending on the test that is being taken. On the other hand, there keep being these glaring pop-ups, of things that a brilliant mind would have, by now, registered on and ticked over so as to not make that mistake on. Like "corpse-man". Bright guy, not brilliant. Fits in ok with a roomful of other bright folks. Not going to be mistaken for being on the same level as someone like Bobby Jindal.

The scary part is the things that he seems to find amusing (isn't that Special), what he says when he is nervous, and the "birds of a feather" that he hangs with.
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Salinger captured Presbo

Posted by drik on Friday, February 05, 2010 7:27:05 PM
He was putting all these dumb, show-offy ripples in the high notes, and
a lot of other very tricky stuff that gives me a pain in the (ess). You should've heard the
crowd, though, when he was finished. You would've puked. They went mad. They
were exactly the same morons that laugh like hyenas in the movies at stuff that isn't
funny. I swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those
dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me.
People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the
goddam closet. Anyway, when he was finished, and everybody was clapping their
heads off, old Ernie turned around on his stool and gave this very phony, humble bow.
Like as if he was a helluva humble guy, besides being a terrific piano player. It was
very phony—I mean him being such a big snob and all. In a funny way, though, I felt
sort of sorry for him when he was finished. I don't even think he knows any more
when he's playing right or not. It isn't all his fault. I partly blame all those dopes that
clap their heads off—they'd foul up anybody, if you gave them a chance.
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That's the ticket

Posted by drik on Friday, February 05, 2010 8:18:05 AM
"..not an idealogue."
".. a liberal", no.
"..a progreesssive",
".. a pragmatist".

Definition of an idealogue, per Merriman's:
an unrealistic, impractical zealous advocate of a particular ideology.

So which part is he not? The zealous advocate of a particular ideology, or the unrealistic, impractical part? My guess is the latter. That the zealous advocacy still goes, just not the impractical part, that the practical part falls back to the 'whatever works", "any means necessary", "end justifies", "moral relativism" part. The impediments to the goal are only impediments. The will of the people be dammed, the goal remains.  Socialism, crammed down America's throat.  (see Hilary's term paper: "There is only the fight,..."
 
Guess those liberals that founded this country were small minded too.

See also leopards, spot changing, etc.
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One hand doesn't know

Posted by drik on Thursday, February 04, 2010 1:33:13 PM
Planned economics.  A euphamism if there ever was one.  Or oxymoron.
Its just possible that there are so many factors and so many variables, that even with the best muti-variate and regression analysis, that the best that the economists can do is to analyze what has already happened and figure out why. That the models that work on a small scale do not provide enough information on such a huge macro-scale, and with so many new unknowns, to actually be able to make anything close to an actual prediction about what is really going on.

Maybe why Keynes was such a fan of Mussolini and Adolf. At least with a central planning authority, in a small country, some things could really be planned and predicted. Unlike in a large country, or the world. Just not scalable.

Sort of like with the climatologists.
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Right policy, wrong rationale

Posted by drik on Thursday, February 04, 2010 1:03:57 PM
The end justifies the means.
Or it doesn't, if ethics and morals are truths instead of relativistic concepts as Saul Alinsky postualted.

We may really need taxes on energy, that is not domestically produced, carefully instigated and gradually applied so that people can accomodate to it and not have to sacrifice paying bills to stay warm. But not because the climate is changing as it has forever. And not because of some politics-as-usual try-to-get funding enviro-weenie looking to furthur some grand scheme. Certainly not because of the latest more-populist-than-thou politician. Nor due to the jump-on-the-bandwagon swaying of less informed masses. Nor as an excuse to continue the spending gravy train to justify some beaurocrat's re-election.
We need it because it will cut down on our interdependence on those who do not have our best interests at heart, the zealots whose oil resouces allow them a podium to expound and a vehicle to strike out. We need it, not as the "moral equivalent of war", but as the real moral, not equivalent, choice, to be able to take a stance against oppressors, and zealots.

If you don't like the weather, it'll change, but doing something about our voluntary slavery to the energy owners, that will take some real change.

And it won't happen as a way to just continue to finance taxing and spending.
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To not decide is to decide

Posted by drik on Thursday, February 04, 2010 12:42:36 PM
We are on a one way path to an unsustainable debacle. Now scheduled to occur sometime south of 2016. Bankrupt Social Security and Medicare.

Not doing anything doesn't make the problem stop. The costs will be there. We will either print (a LOT) more money, borrow (a LOT) more money( if China hasn't already cut up our credit card) or else not cover the SSI check and Medicare costs. People will not get enough of their regular Social Security checks to pay their bills. People will not have their healthcare covered. Some (a lot) will not get treated. This is slated even with a lot of shuffling. Retirement at 65 will go away. Maybe they'll be able to have it 72. Some will never be able to stop working, until they die in the traces. Some will die from not getting treated or their medicine. Real dying, not like the parroted talking points.
Right now the plan is "and then something magical happens". No plan.

Taxing everything will shut down the economy.
Hauser's Law-government income settles to an average of around 19.5% of GDP regardles of how high or low the tax rates. Like it or not, that's how it's worked for the past 60 yrs.

Green jobs kill real jobs. Already tried and failed in Spain. Created jobs kill real jobs. Government jobs kill real jobs. Net loss of jobs for every one of those. Bad for GDP.

Only possible solution is something that changes the game. Can't spend our way out of the recession and debt anymore than we can tax our way out of it. No sequiters both. Or pablum for the stupid.

Fair Tax might be a viable solution. Changes the game. Maybe enough. Certainly more pleasant then martial law and central controlling politboro.
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kissing your sister

Posted by drik on Thursday, February 04, 2010 12:15:27 PM
Goodbye,
and the rest of your family.
And friends, too.
After 8 years of Bush keeping us safe, the heir apparent, (without a parent?), has said that it is virtually guaranteed that we will have a terrorist attack in the US in the next 3 to 6 months.
Israel first? And then us? Why not a twofer? As uncoordinated as our response has been with the panty-bomber, letting 5 weeks slide by for AL Queda to tie up and trim loose ends so that there will be nothing left useable from what Metalleb knows, it is pretty clear that the US response by the armchair henerals will be much akin to that of a chicken recently separated from parts north of its neck.
Miranda! Jihadist rights! Oh the humanity! No profiling that might actually DO something. 'Nother blue ribbon panel!

Maybe Israel will take pity and save us.
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P.T. Barnumesque

Posted by drik on Wednesday, February 03, 2010 2:39:39 PM
 
old Phineas T. said:

If God had not wanted them shorn, he would not have made them sheep.

You go, Al!
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Its a jobs program

Posted by drik on Wednesday, February 03, 2010 12:35:06 PM
Cap and trade is.
And so is the Obamacare Takeover Bill.
And so is the military budget and the war du jour.
And so is the Department of Education,(failing to graduate a third of the students).
And the Department of Energy, (goal of making us energy independent).
And the Rural Electrification Administration, now the Rural Utilities Service branch of the Department of Agriculture. Any place you know of here in the US that is absent power? Me neither.

All jobs programs. Jobs for the federal beaurocrats that take the tax dollars, pocket their cut to pay for their own job and the "distribute" the money back into the economy into jobs that really don't need to be done, or wouldn't be if they weren't propped up by the federal government. All jobs programs. And keeping the dollars from migrating to jobs that the unregulated market would pay for.

Anyone remember when Slick Willie was getting jacked around by Congress and they couldn't get the budget approved and had to "shut down" the "non-essential" parts of government for a while?  Does ANYONE know of ANYTHING that was significantly disrupted by having that shut down? Me neither.
Every government subsidized job costs 2.2 real jobs in the private sector. Jobs that would generate real wealth for the country. Growing the government soaks up both jobs and personnel that would be able to generate real wealth if the government were not involved. Lost opportunity.

When the government says its "here to help" it is helping itself.
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even if the means doesn't work

Posted by drik on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 9:52:33 PM
The end always justifies.

The feelings are paramount, whether they yield the desired results or not.
Drug wars don't work, but no one will stop renewing the drug war programs(like DARE)
Cell phones(apparently) don't distract significantly. Bad drivers are still bad drivers, they just find other ways to drive badly.
A study shows that the distraction from hands free is nearly identical to the handed phone, but governments don't change the law.
Speed limits don't significantly prevent accidents, or control speeds, as drivers tend to drive at a safe speed naturally, and the ones that don't drive at a safe speed tend to wipe themselves out, and tickets don't affect that. Although tickets certainly bring in local income.
Bad social programs always get renewed.
Financing fatherless families generates multiple problems, many of the major ones in our society. Try to get THAT stopped for the last 50 years.

And now, the ultimate touchy-feely group hug, the good for everybody, spread the wealth around even if it kills the goose, collectivism of progressives. Even if it had never worked in human society. Even if it increases poverty, corruption, and ultimately despair. Even if it has always resulted in increasely violent retaliation against those who say nay, even to their death.

The END. Look at the END. So pretty. So worthwhile. So almost acheiveable, if only we could get a better species, a slightly better, less human, human. Even if we have to tear down a system that could work, if we didn't continue corrupting it. Always easier to start by blowing a few things up, even if we don't understand how complicated it is to get a system to work at all, let alone well.

Road to hell...
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Simple minded ideas

Posted by drik on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 1:32:12 PM
re: John Hawkins 2/2/10 column on 7 flaws with liberal thinking
characterized by one commenter as being simple-minded
 
Thank you, Mr. Hawkins, for your simple minded ideas. Refreshing. Certainly simple minded like "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Of course the writer of those could have chosen other simple minded ideas like "liberté, égalité, fraternité.", but didn't. Or "from all according to their ability..." So many simple ideas, based on simple understanding of peoples nature and behavior. Or misunderstanding. Simple concepts like the simple eventual usurpation of power by central authority and the structures that might allow a free people to keep that from happening.

Simple.
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