Open house

Posted on June 26, 2014 by KG

‘on the edge of a cold, deep abyss’

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56 Responses to Open house

  1. Odakyu-sen says:
    June 26, 2014 at 07:07

    Climate change is real, and natural!

    • KG says:
      June 26, 2014 at 07:13

      Absolutely.
      But there are no dollars in research which demonstrates that fact, Odakyu-sen.

      • Odakyu-sen says:
        June 26, 2014 at 07:29

        “It’s for your own good.”

        Get people to go with that line, and you can use them for all sorts of ends. After all, who could argue against it?

        • KG says:
          June 26, 2014 at 07:43

          :lol: Well, I, for one. I vehemently assert my right to decide what’s good for me. (or bad, for that matter)

          • Odakyu-sen says:
            June 26, 2014 at 10:35

            I prefer a society where decisions about how we lead our lives are made at the grassroots level, rather than dictated from on high.

  2. Wombat says:
    June 26, 2014 at 09:45

    A recent observation.

    ABC Radio (unless you’re smart enough not to listen to things that infuriate you). Anyone else notice that the ABC has nominated Greens leader Christine Milne as leader of the opposition in replacement of Bill Shorten?

    For over a week I’ve heard nothing on the ABC out of Shorten but barely a half an hour passes without an interview with the leader of the Greens. :roll:

    • KG says:
      June 26, 2014 at 11:37

      Shorten does appear to be missing in action, Wombat. A leadership challenge brewing, ya reckon?

      • Wombat says:
        June 26, 2014 at 12:31

        ‘Twould be nice if Labor and the Greens cut out the interminably grotesque foreplay and merged without further ado.

        The Libs and the Nats have less in common than our resident collectivist-plus parliamentary voting bloc and they get along relatively well as a single entity.

        Still, it’s a smart way for a funcionally single entity to curry collectivists-lite and collectivist-heavy votes without those collectivist idiots realising what they’re actually going to get.

        p.s. I might be on to something with this foreplay bit. Maybe we’re hearing nothing from Shorten because his mouth is full…

  3. Darin says:
    June 26, 2014 at 09:53

    Victor Davis Hanson-“Obama’s world disorder”

    http://www.hoover.org/research/coming-world-disorder

    VDH once again takes a complex,multifaceted subject and wraps it up in one,neat,concise package.

    • KG says:
      June 26, 2014 at 11:38

      Damn fine writer and analyst. He wrote a lovely elegy to the California he once knew, a while ago. I’ll see if I can find it.

  4. Darin says:
    June 26, 2014 at 10:04

    EPA employees told to stop “pooping in the hallway”

    http://www.govexec.com/federal-news/fedblog/2014/06/epa-employees-told-stop-pooping-hallway/87223/

    Ask not what your federal government can do for you,but instead,what have those idiots done now? :roll:

  5. KG says:
    June 26, 2014 at 11:41

    The President personally issued Presidential Study Directive 11 (PSD-11) in 2010, ordering an assessment of the Muslim Brotherhood and other “political Islamist” movements, including the ruling AKP in Turkey, ultimately concluding that the United States should shift from its longstanding policy of supporting “stability” in the Middle East and North Africa (that is, support for “stable regimes” even if they were authoritarian), to a policy of backing “moderate” Islamic political movements.

    A State Department Cable classified “Confidential” report says the following: “Benghazi Meeting With Libyan Muslim Brotherhood: On April 2 [2012] Mission Benghazi met with a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood steering committee, who will speak at the April 5 Carnegie Endowment `Islamist in Power’ conference in Washington, D.C.

    Muslim Brotherhood Reveals Obama Ordered Shift of Support from US Allies to Islamist Groups

    http://sultanknish.blogspot.com.au/

  6. KG says:
    June 26, 2014 at 12:12

    ‘This Is Treachery’

    In light of last night’s election results in Mississippi, there is one question every conservative should be asking: how much longer can a party survive when its leadership is inexorably against the ethos of its base?

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/25/Horowitz-This-Is-Treachery

    • Ronbo says:
      June 26, 2014 at 12:41

      Mark my words, the ruling elite will RUE the day they pulled crap like this :!: :twisted:

      We patriots have long memories.

      …and long knives.

    • Darin says:
      June 26, 2014 at 13:20

      Everybody is missing the obvious point as to why the election went down as it did.It comes down to a single issue-Amnesty.

      Haley Barbour,Republican,former Ms governor and the highest paid lobbyist shill in the US is pro Amnesty.

      Senator John McCain,Republican senator,is pro Amnesty.

      I could go on,but it’s safe to say every establishment Republican that backed Cochran is pro-amnesty.They are all backed by the Chamber of Commerce,big industry and NGO’s.

      The Teaparty came to power in Mississippi,handed the Republican establishment the first Republican majority in both state houses and the governorship in decades.

      One of the fist things the TP did was pass tough laws against hiring illegal alien labor.The state and the fed fines employers caught hiring illegals up to $11,000 per employee.One of the first employers to be fined was Howard Industries an electrical equipment mfg.It was the largest bust of it’s kind in US history.600 illegals found working there and after the smoke settled(DOJ sued Mississippi and several other states to block the law)Howard industries paid out $2.5million in fines and was forced to hire local American labor.

      There are in the central part of the state several large corporations operating that require a lot of manual labor.The new law and the enforcement of it,put a squeeze on those corporations which suddenly had to start hiring native citizens or at very least legal immigrant visa labor.

      In the past year or so in addition to Obama letting the southern border collapse,he has also ordered the DOJ to slack up on the fines paid by employers in violation when they are caught.

      http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/02/26/Report-Obama-Admin-Slashing-Fines-for-Businesses-Caught-Hiring-Illegals

      Now,I am just a simple minded redneck bitter clinger,but to me it looks like corporations,lobbyists,the DNC and RNC have all conspired to not only pay back,but stamp out the Teaparty in Mississippi.Or it all could be just a simple mis-understanding.http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_sad.gif

  8. Darin says:
    June 26, 2014 at 14:31

    Michelle Malkin-How the VA “red flagged” “disruptive” Vets.

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/06/25/exposed_how_the_va_red-flags_disruptive_vets_123099.html

    Complain your not getting care,or your appointments you traveled miles to attend have been cancelled?Well they have another special “list” for you :evil: :evil:

  9. Michael in Nelson says:
    June 26, 2014 at 14:39

    This was the winter of discontent

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/06/25/economy-in-freefall-1q-revision-shows-shrinkage-2/?intcmp=latestnews

    Tell me again how that HBSC is enacting policies that help the middle class. :evil:

  11. Michael in Nelson says:
    June 26, 2014 at 15:39

    The difference between men and women

    http://seanlinnane.blogspot.co.nz/2014/06/perspectives.html

    :mrgreen:

  13. KG says:
    June 26, 2014 at 18:13

    ‘The nation’s largest Presbyterian denomination has been busy these days. It has voted to approve same-sex marriages, to endorse divestment as a protest against Israeli policies toward Palestinians, and now has approved allowing babies to die who are born alive during botched abortions…’

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/24/Presbyterian-Church-Votes-No-On-Protecting-Babies-Born-Alive-During-Botched-Abortions

    • mawm says:
      June 26, 2014 at 19:08

      Thank the Lord I’m not religious otherwise I’d be making lots of comments about loving one’s neighbour (Leviticus, Matthew, Mark, Luke, etc.), lying with mankind as with womankind (Leviticus 18:22) and the 6th commandment. But I’m not so I’ll just call them a bunch of hypocrites.

      • KG says:
        June 26, 2014 at 19:40

        No wonder the Christian churches in the West are dying. They no longer stand for anything worthwhile.

        • mawm says:
          June 26, 2014 at 19:49

          They have become the religious wing of socialism and just when I thought the CoE couldn’t be outdone the new Pope has done so. I can see why the fundamentalist churches are so popular.

          • KG says:
            June 26, 2014 at 19:54

            Oddly, I think they’re popular – at least in part – for the same reason islam is.
            An unambiguous, enduring stance on issues.
            Faith isn’t about a nuanced view on social issues, it’s at least partly about choosing a way to live based on some fundamental principles and sticking to it, not changing according to current fashions and fads.
            Any accommodation with evil is in itself evil.

            • mawm says:
              June 26, 2014 at 19:56

              Yes, but I’d rather have the Judeo-Christian principles espoused in the Bible to live by than those in the Koran.

  14. KG says:
    June 26, 2014 at 19:58

    Yes indeed. That’s almost beyond argument here.
    The point is, no weak, vaccillating stance is going to attract and keep adherents.

  15. KG says:
    June 26, 2014 at 19:59

    Yes indeed. That’s almost beyond argument here.
    The point is, no weak, vacillating stance is going to attract and keep adherents.

  16. Darin says:
    June 26, 2014 at 21:33

    Ann Coulter on Soccer-

    http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-06-25.html#read_more

    It’s true,every word of it! :twisted: http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_yahoo.gif

    • Ronbo says:
      June 26, 2014 at 23:21

      I have to agree with Ann – Soccer is a boring ass game with scoring so rare that often the games often end 0 to 0 :!:

      When I was in Germany back in 1970s, some no doubt Leftists in training, decided the U.S. Army needed a soccer club, so we could play against the German, French and English – you know, Allied friendship and all that rot – so the big general at Berlin Brigade said okay and decked out the suck ups with the proper togs and they went into training for several months.

      At last they thought themselves ready to take on the French Army and on the big game day they lost something like 10 to 0. The American soldiers – who were ordered to attend by the Great White Father at Hq, would have very likely let that slide, but the French played DIRTY and kept kicking our guys in the balls, so after the game was over and the victorious Frenchmen went across the street to the “Home Bar” to celebrate their only victory ever over the United States, and some of us naturally went over to kick them in balls and knock them over the head with beer steins. :mrgreen:

      This game end French – 0, America 24, 25, 26 something like that… :mrgreen:

      The French general PROTESTED the beating up of his champion soccer team at the “Home Bar” by the Yanks citing “poor American sportsmanship.”

      The American general is reported to have responded, “My people are trained to fight, unlike the French Army.” :mrgreen:

      Such was the first and last Allied Goodwill Soccer game in Berlin. :mrgreen:

      • KG says:
        June 27, 2014 at 08:32

        I remember as a kid, my father was stationed in Germany. A bunch of Germans beat up a soldier from one of the local Regiments in town (Celle, near Hanover I think).
        The next evening the old man woke me up and took me to the window. To the sound of drums only, a whole battalion of a Scottish Regiment was leaving barracks and marching into town to visit the locals.
        I’m sure you don’t need telling what the result was…. :lol:
        I can still remember how the sound of the drums raised the hairs on my neck.

  17. Michael in Nelson says:
    June 27, 2014 at 05:43

    Last week Cantor said of course he was going to vote for Brat. Then his minions do this:

    http://pjmedia.com/davidsteinberg/scorched-earth-eric-cantors-staff-supporters-drain-cash-from-virginia-gop-dave-brat/

    Is this seat so safe the Republicans don’t need to finance a campaign?

  18. KG says:
    June 27, 2014 at 06:23

    WE MAKE LAW! Trey Gowdy at his best. :mrgreen:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzZT9gW5gp8

    • Darin says:
      June 27, 2014 at 11:12

      I would love to see Trey Gowdy as Attorney General someday.Could not think of a better man for the job especially if he were to hand pick his own staff at justice.

      On Leaner’s taking the Fifth-

      http://youtu.be/qKtu2lKyCYE

  19. KG says:
    June 27, 2014 at 07:26

    Hmmmmm….neat trick. From NZ’s Stuff news:
    ‘Serial killer sentenced to die again’
    What are they going to do, dig him up and kill him again, just to make sure? One wonders about the quality of sub-editors at this website….

  20. pascal says:
    June 27, 2014 at 09:27

    KG, you’ve got mail.

    • KG says:
      June 27, 2014 at 10:41

      Thanks Pascal. I’ll go look, if this connection holds out long enough.
      Update: Got the mail. answered it. :grin:
      (only took nearly fifteen minutes. :sad: )

      • pascal says:
        June 28, 2014 at 05:07

        Gads KG. I can’t imagine what it takes for you to download anything of size!
        And thanks.

        • KG says:
          June 28, 2014 at 06:44

          It’s not always this bad Pascal, although never good.
          Telstra finally admitted the local tower is overloaded but they have no plans to upgrade.
          Which makes selling wireless broadband at $100/6gb close to fraud. Especially since they’re a monopoly provider out this way.

  22. Michael in Nelson says:
    June 27, 2014 at 15:32

    This sounds a lot like a book I read in High School 50 years ago “The Man Who Never Was” and now BuzzFeed says this is still a mystery and The Blaze says it was never taught? *sigh*

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/06/26/the-unbelievable-wwii-story-they-dont-teach-you-in-school/

  24. Michael in Nelson says:
    June 27, 2014 at 17:48

    KG,

    I know you do not view yourself as special in any way but….

    On behalf of all of us reprobates that frequent you site, I want to say a huge “Thank you!” for making us feel at home. The lack of leftists is only because they cannot form a logical argument to support their point of view not because you would censor them for having a differing opinion. We can come here half tanked, rant and be accepted with understanding and (more often than not) agreement :mrgreen: to our frustrations, anger and even rage at the powers that be.

    God must have a special place reserved for you and Gecko…and that is only justice.

  25. KG says:
    June 27, 2014 at 18:53

    That’s very kind of you Michael, and I’m delighted at the compliment.
    But any blog is only as good as the commenters, and we’re blessed with a wonderful bunch of people here. :grin:
    You just made our day.

  26. KG says:
    June 27, 2014 at 19:11

    :shock: NZ Finance Minister Bill English:
    ‘He said net Crown debt had increased from $10 billion since National took office in 2008 to $65b today’

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/10208143/Kiwi-exodus-could-resume-soon

  27. pascal says:
    June 28, 2014 at 15:51

    Thanks to a reader, I have simplified the streaming problem.
    How to Sue an Imperial President