As others do it better and faster than I.
Obama’s “23 Commandments”? Phelps dissects them perfectly.
And here I was thinking that Obama was going to, you know, DO SOMETHING!
Oh, and this.
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Quote of the Day – Astute Observation Edition
In a sane nation, “Contempt of Congress” would not be a crime. It would be a Pulitzer Prize category. – Jim @ The Travis McGee Reader
Or a Nobel Prize category….
Just sayin’.
Quote of the Day – Rachel Lucas Edition
Rachel starts the year off right with the title to her post, which I made QotD:
Thank God our heroic president spent more than three million dollars of our money to heroically help our heroic Congress heroically do exactly shit-all.
After the title, she really gets going.
Read it all, and all the links. Quoting Rachel again:
When I encounter people in conversation who acknowledge the set of facts about what’s happening in the Western world right now and then say, “Meh, bah, blah blah, there’s nothing I can do about it, I’m just going to enjoy my life,” I literally – I do mean literally – almost burst into tears because it feels so hopeless and frustrating if even the most reasonable of us flat-out do not give a shit. I actually have burst into tears when certain people very close to me have offered those rhetorical shoulder-shrugs.
Sorry to be so pessimistic. Last thing I want is for this blog to become depressing for anyone who likes it. It’s just that I read all that insanity about the fiscal cliff “deal” today, and then a trainload of terrifying anti-2nd Amendment rhetoric by fascists dressed in sheep’s clothing, and then two pieces by the excellent historian and writer Victor Hanson Davis, and I’m ready to offer a cash reward for anyone who can convince me that America as we’ve known it is not irretrievably gone.
I’ve got nothin’ else for you today.
Quote of the Day – Nuke it from Orbit Edition
It’s obvious that the way to end school shootings is to forget about the “shootings” part and focus on the first word instead.
We need to abolish schools.
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Decades hence, our offspring will listen in disbelief when we tell them we used to pay billions of dollars to warehouse children in “gun-free zones” overseen by morons; that 21st-century kids were groomed for 19th-century jobs and came out functionally illiterate but experts nonetheless on the subjects of Kwanzaa, “safe” sex, and something called global warming.
Kathy Shaidle, Ban Schools, not Guns. Taki’s Magazine
RTWT. And the comments.
h/t: Vanderleun
Quote of the Day – Sultan Knish Edition
This is a long one:
The gun control debate, like all debates with the left, is reducible to the question of whether we are individuals who make our own decisions or a great squishy social mass that helplessly responds to stimuli. Do people kill with guns or does the availability of guns kill people? Do bad eating habits kill people or does the availability of junk food kill people?
To the left these are distinctions without a difference. If a thing is available then it is the cause of the problem. The individual cannot be held accountable for shooting someone if there are guns for sale. Individuals have no role to play because they are not moral actors, only members of a mob responding to stimuli.
You wouldn’t blame a dog for overeating; you blame the owners for overfeeding him. Nor do you blame a dog for biting a neighbor. You might punish him, but the punishment is training, not a recognition of authentic responsibility on the part of the canine. And the way that you think of a dog, is the way that the left thinks of you. When you misbehave, the left looks around for your owner.
The cult of the left believes that it is engaged in a great apocalyptic battle with corporations and industrialists for the ownership of the unthinking masses. Its acolytes see themselves as the individuals who have been “liberated” to think for themselves. They make choices. You however are just a member of the unthinking masses. You are not really a person, but only respond to the agendas of your corporate overlords. If you eat too much, it’s because corporations make you eat. If you kill, it’s because corporations encourage you to buy guns. You are not an individual. You are a social problem.
(My emphasis.) Read the rest, Gun Control, Thought Control and People Control.
Then read (if you haven’t) That Sumbitch Ain’t Been BORN!
Better than I Could Say It…
I’m working on an überpost on the topic myself, but Larry Corriea has beaten me to it: An Opinion on Gun Control. Go. Read. Spread it around.
Thomas Sowell – Voice of Reason
His latest piece is up at National Review Online, Gun-Control Ignorance. An excerpt:
There is innocent ignorance and there is invincible, dogmatic, and self-righteous ignorance. Every tragic mass shooting seems to bring out examples of both among gun-control advocates.
Can I get an “AMEN!”?
They Don’t Control Their Monster
One thing that constantly bemuses the gun-rights supporter is why gun-control supporters fear good people possessing the means to defend themselves.
I submit, it’s largely because they don’t trust themselves. They do not know and definitely do not control their inner monsters. And they don’t think other people can do it, either.
Unless those people have been sprinkled with the magic fairy dust of government authority.
Quote of the Day – “Forget at Your Own Risk” Edition
From Glenn Reynolds:
Governments exist, historically, for only one reason: Because they’re really, really good at killing people.
See Those Without Swords Can Still Die Upon Them for my take on the subject.
Quote of the Day – The Destruction Principle
From Captain Capitalism:
It is easier to destroy something that already exists than build something of genuine value up from scratch.
This is key to understand the psychology Crusaders and Crusaderism because when given the choice of:
“Work hard, study something rigorous, and put in the effort into a long and demanding career”
or
“Find something in society that already exists, villianize it and declare it evil, then wage a campaign against it”
the lazy, mathophoic, work-fearing leftist crusader will ALWAYS go for destroying institutions and pillars over doing something that requires effort.
And you must understand how arrogant and truly evil this is. The crusader doesn’t target these pillars or institutions of society because those institutions and pillars are evil. They target those things because the crusaders are evil.