Your Flaming Dumbass Headline of the Week

The Chicago Tribune presents us with yet another example of why the Obama-snorkeling so-called “Mainstream Media” is dying the death it so richly deserves:

Gingrich points to ‘radical’ Alinsky in criticizing Obama

Observers defend Chicago native known as father of community organizing

Obviously Gingrich is the radical here, for unfairly referring to Alinsky as a radical. Am I getting this right?

You can almost see the “air quotes” in the headline. Like, duh! Repubics are stoopid LOL!

This is also yet another reason why I have neglected this blog of late.

Oh sure, I could use up what time and energy I have left at the end of a work day by pulling this apart, linking to source material that would demonstrate, not just assert, how radical Saul Alinsky was.

But I won’t.

I’m sure many “observers” can be found by hack bird cage liner rags gone digital that would dispute that Trotsky was a radical. “Some say” that Che was their fantasy friend-with-benefits. And, of course, we can always produce a hitherto unseen photo of Mitt’s dad and Saul “We Are Legion” Alinsky yucking it up in the 60s, which conveniently provides that counter-narrative to the Paranoid Right’s characterization of Saul of Chicago, “radical” in the eyes of the Paranoid Right.

I don’t have the mental, philosophical, or narrative energy anymore to try to explain to people how I concluded, a long time ago, based on abundant material and empirical evidence, that Alinsky, author of Rules For Radicals, was in fact what the title of the book seemed to imply: “radical.”

When the Chicago Tribune (and they’re not the only ones jumping on this Meme Wagon of the Week by any stretch) sounds like Pravda, it’s no longer funny.

We are in for a long campaign wherein the “radical” Mr. President Obama sir please and thank you (don’t want to piss Debbie Wasserman Schultz off, gotta be careful) tells us over and over how radical and hate-filled we are, and how reasonable and dulcet-toned and goodhearted they are. But I didn’t think they’d lead off with putting “radical” in quotes when talking about the author of Rules for Radicals.

Ye who enter here, abandon all hope. It’s no longer a matter of refuting their lies one by one, it’s a matter of convincing the low-info middle indies, steeped in knee-jerk Leftism as their public education and cultural birthright, that…

Every single word the Left utters from here on out will be an utter lie.

Every.

Single.

Word.

Ponder This Ron Paul Quote

“So if we have an American citizen [Bradley Manning], and he’s willing to take it, uh, take the consequences and practice civil disobedience, say ‘This is what our government’s doing!’ Should he be locked up and in prison? Or should we, you know, see him as a political hero? Maybe he is a true patriot who reveals what’s going on in government.”

Stop calling Ron Paul a conservative. It is a lie.

Why I Love Twitter

I tweet: “Property rights are a prerequisite to human rights. The latter cannot exist without the former.”

Guy with 24 followers responds: “What a load of crap.”

Awesome.

(graphic by @mlwebb)

Anarchy is to Free Speech what a Bicycle is to a Fish

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

If you’ve gotten this far into this post, you probably possess rudimentary reading skills.

So please indulge me:

Please point out, in the preceding paragraph, any possible inference as to the efficacy of the destruction of private property–let alone executed by a movement that advocates the destruction of said property as its explicit goal.

Tie that in for me, how that works into Petitioning.

It’s a rhetorical question.

SooperDooperCommittee

Grab the bull by the tail and face the situation.

This is the Super Committee:

Newt: The One-Eyed King In the Land of the Blind

I’ve had my share of (well-deserved) harsh words for Newt Gingrich in the past. You know the litany: The Global Warming Couch with Pelosi, DeDe What’s-Her-Face, bagging on the Ryan plan, the arrogant technocratic RINO wonkishness, and on and on and on. And his personal life–holy moly what a mess.

Nevertheless, Newt is the Best In Show.

I wish Pence would have run. I wish Pawlenty would have stayed in the race. I wish Marco Rubio had executive experience on his resume and would run. And I want a pony.

Can Newt beat Obama? Well, in a series of debates, Obama wouldn’t stand a chance. Polls a year out don’t mean much.

Is Newt sufficiently conservative? Probably not. But since Perry is busy stepping on his own dick and seems to think he’s running for Governor of Texas again, and since Cain is probably the most laughably lightweight GOP Presidential candidate in decades, and since Mittens is Mittens…what are we left with?

We are left with Newt.

His debate performances have been excellent, but none so excellent as last night’s foreign policy debate.

So there ya go. Warts and all, I’m with Newt. I am frankly amazed that the field is so weak that this is what I am reduced to.

I’ll make a modest contribution and focus on the Senate.

Slow Ride (no, not that one)

In progress. G descending to Em to D to C. Repeat with a D on the end. B7 C A C D (hold). Throw in a riff on “Black Star,” Gillian Welch version, for shits and giggles. Will hopefully record this weekend if I can flesh out the lyrics.

It’s a slow, slow, slow ride…
And I know, I know, yes I know, but I try
Little compromises with what we know is true

I have nothing [drawn out] to show but a memory
Has the world gone mad, or is it just me
Little compromises, forgetting what is true

Bumpersticker

What do we want? A pony!

I need a tissue. (Alright, alright, you class clown in the back, go see the Principal.)

Strange Jew-Hating Bedfellows

See if you can identify the source of each of these quotes. (Mouse-over “source” to find out who said it.)

“It is not agreeable to see civilization so under the ugly thumbs of its impure Jews who have all the money and the power and brains.” source

“[The] Jews who are running these big banks…need to be run out of this country.” source

“He set Himself against Jewish capitalism, and that’s why the Jews liquidated Him.” source

“The smallest group in America controls the money, media and all other things. The fingerprints belong to the Jewish bankers.” source

“This cult represents Masonic and Jewish bankers who finagled a monopoly over government credit which allows them to charge interest on funds they create out of nothing…They have orchestrated TWO WORLD WARS and are planning a THIRD.” source

“The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” source

“[Who] are the WALL STREET BANKERS? The vast majority are JEWS…who would sell their own mother’s gold teeth for a PROFIT.” source

“The Federal Reserve is owned by…the Jews. You go back to the Rothschilds, and you go back to a lot of the early Jews that are in that financial system.” source

“Israel has got to go!” source