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Is the sky falling? Sometimes it seems that way
So many things going on right now and so many things about to happen. First, let's go back to a 1943 Disney cartoon called Chicken Little.
That was a little parable about the threat of Communism, a threat we still face today. Sure, there's no more Soviet Union and no more Mao. China has adopted a sort of state-sponsored capitalism. The threat isn't from without, it's from within. The DNC was taken over by leftists* in 2007 and the first thing they did was change the rules that governed them. They changed them again at the RBC meeting on May 31, 2008, thus ensuring that Obama would win the Democratic primary. The sky fell and we ended up with president Obama.
As a result of Obama's election and his radical efforts to transform this great nation into something unrecognizable, a great grass roots tea party movement has sprung up. Today, they're holding a National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, TN, at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel, that goes through Saturday. Sarah Palin will be the keynote speaker at the banquet on Saturday night. This is a huge and growing movement, the likes of which we haven't seen in decades. We've already seen the political ramifications with a lot more to come in less than 9 months. Scott Brown is about to be sworn in as the newest Senator as I write this. So much for Obama's radical agenda. The sky is no longer falling, at least in part.
Well, the sky is about to fall in my neck of the woods. A major, heavy, blizzard-like storm is coming tomorrow afternoon and I'm expecting about 2 feet where I am. We just had a 6-inch storm 2 days ago and another 6 inches the week before. Tomorrow's storm is the first of another 6 in the pipeline. Another, smaller storm is expected Tuesday night. My mom is scheduled to have her gallbladder removed Wednesday morning after canceling her Friday appointment due to the expected storm.
The stock market sold off today with the Dow closing just above the psychologically significant 10,000 level. The bull market rally that started back in March might be sputtering to an end. A friend who owns Apple stock called me Tuesday night for advice. Should he hold or sell? I suggested he sell but felt bad about saying that when the stock soared yesterday, closing after hours at 200. The close Tuesday was just below 196. Today's close was 192.05. Whew, that makes me feel better.
I've been expecting a correction but I thought it'd come anytime between now and the end of April. There could be another market rally during the spring and summer months. After that, another, maybe more significant correction.
Something else is looming on the horizon. A major war may be brewing in the Middle East involving the US, Israel and some Gulf states vs. Iran. There's also Gaza, Syria and Lebanon vs. Israel. Last week, some 54 House members came out against Israel in support of Gaza. Today, that number is 50. They're all Democrats and many of them are members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. There are 80 House members in that caucus and they control 11 of the 20 House committees.
*A note about terminology: I used the term Leftists, above, the most accurate term I could find that describes the far left of the Democratic party. They might call themselves progressives but that more closely describes a methodology rather than a political type. Progressivism is like Marxist revolution in slow motion, a way to make a country evolve into a socialist state. Today's progressives are what used to be called liberals before that term became unpopular and liberals used to be called progressives before that term became unpopular at the end of WWI. The name changes to protect the guilty but they're the same people who don't like our system of government. Why? Because our representative democracy is a republic that's based on a particular view of the nature of Man. Our founders knew that Man was imperfect so they came up with a system that acknowledged that fact. Progressives ignore the nature of Man and think Man is perfectible through the use of oppression, tyranny, abortion, eugenics, birth control, and genetic manipulation. They're idealists with a utopian vision of the future. Sounds great, doesn't it? The only problem is, those ideas lead to failure. They led to Nazi Germany, Castro's Cuba, Maoist China, and Stalin's Soviet Union. The Leftists are the enemy of freedom, democracy, capitalism, Israel, and the United States of America.
It's important to note that the Left, leftists and progressives aren't limited to the Democratic party. There are far fewer progressives in the GOP and they aren't quite the same but they're nonetheless harmful to the country. John McCain is a progressive and it's debatable if he would have been any better for the country. The biggest problem has been the Democratic majority in Congress that was voted in with the 2006 midterm election. Let's hope most of them get voted out in this year's midterm election. Some Republicans will be voted out, too, who are perceived as RINOs. It doesn't matter what party a politician belongs to. It's all about the voting record. Those who voted for something unpopular will have a hard time this year getting reelected.
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The sky isn't falling as long as we stay true to the idea that is the United States of America.
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Those Bonds sure have been good...Crazy day for the Markets..gee..I wonder what Freaky friday is going to look like..?? and those scary Foreign Soveringty issues..Now everyone wants the DOLLAR again..
Lion
and gold is down. That's the recipe for a lower stock market. As for Friday, the jobs numbers come out.
I guess that's why Communist Obama loaned $700 billion to save our largest capitalist institutions from utter collapse. Thanks for clearing that up.
Which parts of his actual agenda are "radical", Ron? The other day you said one really couldn't judge his radicalism by his actions, because he was too "sneaky" for that. Have things changed since then? Or are you still relying on your intuition alone?
And yet you have described yourself on this blog many, many times as a "liberal". By your own definition, "progressive" is the new word for liberal. Does that make you a progressive, Ron?
That is by far the worst sentence I've ever seen you write. I'm having a hard time believing you actually wrote that, Ron. For a self-described "liberal" who in the past has advocated abortion rights and, I assume, birth control rights along with that, to then cough up this garbage...shame on you. Seriously. Shame on you.
I really want to recommend you stop watching Glenn Beck, Ron. At least for a week. He is really screwing with your head, man. This hateful nonsense is straight off of his TV show. Beck is scaring the living $hit out of you on a nightly basis, and is just not healthy for you, or anyone else. This is not the same Ron I was reading 6 months ago. The warped statements you've made tonight about abortion, birth control, eugenics, good lord...the old Ron would never have written that kind of paranoid crap. That is really detestable stuff. Seriously, I'm extraordinarily offended that you dragged that into Partizane, and I hope you retract it shortly.
A great New England tradition that I recommend.
Now, when you've had your fill of 8 years of President Cheney and his Gestapo I'll ask you which was better. Fucked up liberal democracy with all sorts of missteps or iron fisted, smack down neocon fascism that boosts your portfolio through the roof.
They are getting exactly what they wanted and I can't believe how many people can't see what is happening. Look for a post this weekend about how I really feel.
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LOL..Looking Forward to that Hampy...stock up on those carrots..maybr start a garden...
LION
Sorry but I don't have any idea what you're talking about, Hamp. Blizzard party, sure, but the rest? I don't even know how you can put the words neocon and fascism next to each other since most neocons are Jewish. I find that rather offensive and I don't fancy myself a neocon. Neo-conservatives are often liberal Jews who became more conservative over time and who are proponents of democratic capitalism. They certainly aren't right-wing extremists, especially since a fair number among the far right are anti-Semites. The same is true for the far left.
Liberal democracy? After seeing what happened since 2007 when the DNC changed its rules, the terms seem to be in conflict.
People didn't get what they wanted. They voted for a tonic that turned out to be snake oil. Bait and switch. Since they didn't get what they wanted, some changes will be made later this year.
First off, TARP was proposed by Paulson, approved by a Democratically controlled Congress, and signed into law by Bush.
Second, I never said Obama was a communist. Of course, his mentors were, his father was, his mother probably was, Van Jones is, as well as some of his inner circle cohorts but I never said Obama was, even though he did study Marxism in school.
His radical agenda? If all of his proposals had been passed, the result would have been the destruction of this country as a sovereign republic.
As I've awakened and educated myself, I can no longer refer to myself as a liberal. For want of a better term for now, I'll just call myself a centrist. It's a shame because the term used to have a positive meaning before it was corrupted. The founding fathers were liberals but not in the modern sense.
The sentence you object to was straight out of early 20th century progressivism. It's something I unwittingly touched upon in a paper I wrote in 1962 about mental retardation. President Kennedy's physician saw my paper and commented on it, pointing out that I had grappled with the controversial topic of eugenics. The early progressives thought nothing of using scientific ways to perfect the genome using all the techniques I mentioned. George Bernard Shaw thought it would be a good idea to use a humane gas to rid ourselves of undesirables. That was early 20th century liberal thought at work. The progressives were into forced sterilization and abortion to control the species. Decades later, these things are a personal choice but that's somewhat different from being forced against one's will.
I'm into learning the truth about things. Surely that notion is acceptable here. If I'm wrong about something, I want to hear about it. If I'm right, let me speak.
LOL..Looking Forward to that Hampy...stock up on those carrots..maybr start a garden...
LION
They Have a New Name..They are now called THE OBAMANISTS..
You know what I meant. Obama fully supported TARP 1, voted for it, then pushed through TARP 2 as President.
The insinuation was direct, crude, and obvious.
Now you're not even insinuating.
You're neither a liberal nor a centrist, Ron. You are a dyed-in-the-wool neoconservative.
If you are only referring to "early progressives", why do you insist on using the present tense when you write sentences like this:
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There is no literal, relevant or factually-based "truth" in stating that progressives want to become tyrants through the use of abortion and eugenics. There's nothing there but the most paranoid, sick fantasies of the far right. Come back down, before it's too late, Ron.
There are the early 20th century progressives and then there are today's neo-progressives. There's no difference in attitude which was the point I was trying to make. Tactics may have changed but that's about it.
It seems you need to bone up on early 20th century progressivism. There was a reason it fell out of favor at the end of WWI. It's back in a slightly different form.
I didn't realize forced abortion and eugenics were equivalent to an modern-day "attitude". That's an interesting notion.
Oh, do tell: who are these terrifying early-20th century progressives? Teddy Roosevelt? Upton Sinclair? Robert LaFollette? What have you learned about this era that didn't come off of the Glenn Beck program? I am not picking up any objective history, here, Ron, only the most far-out "take" on our history imaginable, more suited to the Free Republic website than Partizane.
I've been reading Jamie Glasov for a while and like his take on things. His last name suggested a Russian Jewish heritage, something we have in common, but I didn't know his story until now. Fortunately, my family left the Ukraine before the Russian Revolution but still suffered from the pogroms at the hands of the Cossacks, even though my great grand-uncle was a physician to the Tsar.
Pajamas Media » Thank You, Glenn Beck, for Exposing Communism’s Evils » Print
I read Gulag Archipelago in the mid-1970s. You'll know why I mentioned that if you read the article.
That letter is a good primer on the evils of Stalinism, and the naivete and ignorance of history some people have on that and other subjects today.
However, it has nothing at all to do with the original American Progressive movement, or the modern Progressive movement. Nothing at all. The word progressive isn't even used once in the entire article. I am not really sure why you posted it.
If you're going to lecture people about how they need to "bone up" on their history of the Progressive movement's origins, you could at least post sources related to that subject yourself. I'll read them. I have a pretty good handle on the movement's history already, but I am willing to hear new voices, if they are actually relevant to the topic at hand.
I know that Beck loves to do this kind of bait-and-switch arguing. Talk at length about the Gulag archipelago, the Holocaust, then seamlessly transition into the Obama Administration's health care plans. Because there's such an obvious connection! (snark)
It is no cheaper a rhetorical tactic than to offer a lecture on the most vile practices of the Klan, then suddenly condemn the GOP's tax proposals! I mean, really!
That's what I'm talking about in this thread. It's an attitude thing. With the Left, people don't matter. The ends justify the means. This country was founded on the Talmudic principle of a nation of laws, not of men. The Left sneers at patriots who defend the Constitution. As Jamie pointed out in his bikini and Pepsi anecdotes, the Left has a strange idea about what oppression is, huffing and puffing about the supposed evils of capitalism while ignoring the true evils of Communism and radical Islam.
And just who are these leftists? Do they not enjoy all the benefits of freedom, democracy, and capitalism? Are they not well off? Didn't their parents send them to school? Don't they have higher than average IQs and better than average education? And yet they look down their noses at those who participate in the tea party movement. The name calling is awful.
Why is it that the Left, those who support human rights, are the ones who support those who have the worst human rights records? The depths of hypocrisy are unfathomable but they don't care. The ends justify the means and they have no real regard for people.
and kicked liberal to the curb for a reason. (Remember you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.)
Have you visited Atlas Shrugs? You need to go there and read about the Mufti of Jeruselum. Please read it, Ron. I thought about you when I read it:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/
Did you read about the Hebron massacre of 1929? That's a doozie. The Hebron Massacre of 1929
During WWII, some Arab countries and Persia were allied with Hitler against the Jews. Persia changed its name to Iran, Farsi for Aryan, at the suggestion of a Nazi Germany diplomat. Yep, that was on Beck yesterday.
Today, we often see leftists supporting Palestinians against Israel, even in Congress as I outlined above.
I wouldn't tell you to read old news. Please go read it.
The link you posted was to the general site. Here's the specific link: The Smoking Gun: The Auschwitz Blueprints and The Mufti - Atlas Shrugs
I hadn't seen that blueprint before but knew the Mufti had helped urge Hitler to implement the "final solution." I'll study this in detail. Thanks for mentioning it. Right now, I have to shovel snow and make dinner. Have a great weekend!
Wait a second. Isn't this the very problem the modern American Right should be dealing with: "huffing and puffing about the supposed evils" of health care reform by way of recounting the experiences of Nazi Germany and Stalin? Isn't it the Right that "has a strange idea about what oppression is", comparing the effort to insure 30 million Americans with the gas chambers? With "death panels"? Isn't it the GOP, Glenn Beck, etc., that owes Holocaust survivors, Gulag survivors, an apology for using their suffering as a punchline in a small political debate about basic domestic priorities?
First off, Glenn Beck has nothing to do with the GOP. He's a Libertarian and a registered Independent. He was as critical of Bush as he is of Obama.
Secondly, the discussion about progressivism and the Left has to do with Obama's agenda in general and that of the Dem Congress, mostly, but there's a lot more to it than that. There's also the issue of education and the way progressives have taken over. Some schools don't even teach history anymore and teach environmentalism instead. It was bad enough when they stopped teaching civics. Now we have to consider Obama's educational reform efforts: Pajamas Media » Indoctrination Disguised as Education Reform » Print
It isn't just a Dem thing. There are lots of problems within the GOP. It's about conservatives vs. progressives but even that doesn't tell the whole story. There are different factions within each party but combined, they only make up less than 70% of the electorate. Over 30% of voters are Independents. There's also the growing tea party movement that consists of moderates, centrists, conservatives, Democrats, Independents and Republicans who want to get back to the sort of government the founders intended. It'll be interesting to see their influence grow and the impact it'll have on the midterm elections.
People are angry about how things are going. They're tired of all the broken promises and all the dashed hopes for change that never comes. They were appalled at the monster HC bills that came out of the House and Senate. It wasn't the type of reform they wanted. They're angry about the so-called stimulus bill that didn't stimulate anything but taxpayer anger. They don't want anything else on Obama's plate but he and Congress will continue to ignore the will of the people and try to pass more legislation that the majority wants no part of.
The more general you become.