Monthly Archives: March 2011
If Republicans think Mitt Romney is the answer….
they’d better think again. In his own words:
“I spoke about three major threats America faces on a long term basis. Jihadism is one of them, and that is not Islam.”
The man is either stupefyingly uninformed or dishonest. Take yer pick.
The hypocrisy of champagne socialists:
Weird flies
We have a species of fly here which can hold a perfect hover, even in gusty conditions.
But the truly strange thing about this fly is that it moves only by 90 degree turns..a series of angular manouevres which always terminate in that same perfect hover. They behave like chopper pilots suffering from OCD.
What the hell programmed them that way, and why?
‘Christianity the reason for West’s success, say the Chinese’
‘…In the West we are doing our best to destroy our Christian heritage but in China, Chinese intellectuals are coming around to the view that it is precisely this heritage that has made the West so successful.
Former editor of the Sunday Telegraph, Dominic Lawson, in a review in the Sunday Times of Niall Ferguson’s new book, ‘Civilisation: The West and the Rest’, carries a quote from a member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in which he tries to account for the success of the West, to date.
He said: “One of the things we were asked to look into was what accounted for the success, in fact, the pre-eminence of the West all over the world.
“We studied everything we could from the historical, political, economic, and cultural perspective. At first, we thought it was because you had more powerful guns than we had.
“Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we focused on your economic system.
“But in the past twenty years, we have realised that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity. That is why the West is so powerful…’
Gates of Vienna. The Heart of Our Culture
Nazis–you meet them every day.
‘Pensioner faces £20,000 fine after losing 18-month battle with council after installing ‘wrong type’ of white front door
A retired pensioner has lost an 18-month legal battle after his local council threatened him with a £20,000 fine for installing the ‘wrong type’ of door on his home…’
There’s a kind of morbid fascination, looking at Brit newspapers and observing the decline of a once-great people, brought down (in part) by inadequate little people scrambling for a degree of security and authority among the ruins.
But what’s more interesting is an aspect which is shared by the populations of all Western countries–a supine, cowardly silence in the face of petty tyrants. Why is that?
Perhaps the frog has finally been brought to the boil….more likely, though, the tyranny of little men and wimmin is endured because the costs of resisting them are utterly disproportionate–at least for those who have worked to accumulate a little property. So the choice is resist- and risk losing everything, or join that vast army of kapos and apparatchiks. Scumbags who have not only traded self-respect (but not self esteem, nossir) and independence for security and power but scum who in their smug assumption of some kind of moral “right” are but millimetres away from those who herded Jews and other “undesirables” into the cattle cars.
And if that seems like an assumption too far, ask yourself–what order from their political masters would these smug self-righteous bastards be prepared to defy as a “step too far”?
I very much doubt there is one.
But the source of this sickness lies within us. We, the people. Become soft and compliant, made malleable by generations of easy living which has given us the ability to dodge and weave and avoid the hard choices which moulded the characters of our forefathers. We deserve what we’ve become and until things fall apart completely -and we’re forced to become once again men, not sheep- nothing will change.
‘Zero degrees of separation.’
Col. B. Bunny:
‘If you doubt the socialist bona fides of these unions, get a load of the union boss, Richard Trumka, who uses Marxist class struggle rhetoric on a daily basis and who apparently speaks on a daily basis to Obama or his higher up minions.
Obama to Marxist troll in one step.
So how far fetched is it to declare that Obama embraces class warfare and Marxist revolution? If I had daily, voluntary contact with someone really into class struggle it would only be because I love Marxism and its bedrock idea of class struggle….’
New Ruger pistol!
Rumor has it that Ruger Firearms is coming out with a new pistol in honor of Barack Hussein Obama.
It will be named the ‘Union Member’.
It doesn’t work and you can’t fire it.
(thanks Southern)
Oi! Immigrants!
Those poor teachers!
‘1,500 Teachers Paid to Do Union Business While Missing Class
In New York City’s funny math, you get only one teacher for the price of two.
The Department of Education pays about 1,500 teachers for time they spend on union activities — and pays other teachers to replace them in the classroom.
It’s a sweetheart deal that costs taxpayers an extra $9 million a year to pay fill-ins for instructors who are sprung — at full pay — to carry out responsibilities for the United Federation of Teachers.
……..English teacher Tom Dromgoole, for instance, collects top teacher pay, $100,049 a year, from the DOE for his slot at Leadership and Public Service HS in downtown Manhattan. But he is relieved for most of the day to serve as a UFT high school rep. The UFT supplements his salary by $50,461, records show…’ source
No worries…just slug the taxpayer more!