Archive for April, 2009

Janeane Garofalo Pokes the Sleeping Giant

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Read here:

Liberal actress and political activist Janeane Garofalo, in all seriousness, said activists who attended tea parties are racists with dysfunctional brains in a recent prime-time television appearance.

“Let’s be very honest about what this is about. This is not about bashing Democrats. It’s not about taxes. They have no idea what the Boston Tea party was about. They don’t know their history at all. It’s about hating a black man in the White House,” she said on MSNBC’s “The Countdown” with Keith Olbermann Thursday evening. “This is racism straight up and is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. There is no way around that.”

Olbermann did not once try to challenge her on those assertions.

The actress went on to describe the brain size of typical “right-winger, Republican or conservative or your average white power activist.”

“Their synapses are misfiring. … It is a neurological problem we are dealing with,” she said. This isn’t the first time she’s offered this analysis, either. Ms. Garofalo said similar things about Alaskan GOP Governor Sarah Palin’s brain last February in an interview with an environmental blog.

The actress went on to bash the GOP on MSNBC Thursday because it had “crystallized into the white power movement” as well as Fox News, which she said has captured the “Klan demo[graphic].”

“Who else is Fox talking to? Urban older white guys and their girlfriends who suffer from Stockholm Syndrome,” she said.

I did attend a Tea Party and its attendees were, to my estimation, about 99% white.  That doesn’t bother me, and I don’t feel guilty about it.

Liberals push this angle because some conservatives do feel guilty.  That’s why the Republicans elected incompetent pro-abortion pro-gun-control idiot Michael Steele to the chairmanship and also why little old white ladies I met at the 2006 Texas Republican convention were head over heels over “Condi Rice” despite her support for abortion and affirmative action.  Their rationale: “she’s the only one who can beat Hillary” (oh, for the days when Hillary was our biggest fear).  And maybe those mean old liberals will stop calling us names.

We do this to ourselves.  We’re like trust fund babies who spend all of their time proving how unimportant money is to them instead of growing the family fortune.  The freedom-loving people of this country tend to be members of the historical American population, which is undeniably European, and more specifically Anglo-Germanic-Celtic, in origin.

As this demographic shrinks due to immigration, so will the freedoms we enjoy.  No other group has shown as great a willingness in history to die for freedom.  Every other civilization is a sad history of oppression and exploitation by dominant elites.  There is nothing special about our geography or environment or even our laws that will change this.  If we want to be free, the price of freedom is preserving the people who love it and ensuring their continued political dominance in this country.  We already have 45% of white liberal idiots like Garofalo against us, so there’s not a huge margin to play with.

The clock is running and realistically there is no hope in a universal suffrage regime.  Even if all immigration were stopped today, differential birthrates and the aging of the immigrant child population into voters will mean that, by 2016 at the very latest, the old Reagan coalition landslides will be unable to elect a President.  That’s a candidate getting 60% of the white vote, virtually none of the black vote, and the usual “shadow” functionality of the Hispanic vote (which tends to flex up or down with the white vote, but always throws its weight behind the Democrats).

Consider that Reagan was the most conservative President elected of the last fifty years and he wasn’t able to do very much beyond cutting taxes, whereas fixing the fundamental problems of this country will require more extreme action.

We should certainly seek to expand our coalition and welcome converts, but to count on others to love freedom as much as we do is folly.  It’s time to stop feeling guilty or defensive and accept who and what we are.  Throwing hail mary’s hoping recent immigrants from Mexico will suddenly leave their traditional ways and embrace Jeffersonian Republicanism is not a strategy.

The body politic of this country is quickly slipping away; we haven’t any time for another generation of universalist delusions.

But the system is generating its own crises that will destabilize many of the assumptions I have made; politics, like the stock market, is a dynamically unstable system not subject to the normal laws of statistics.  If such a force put 85% of the white vote behind a certain candidate (block voting behavior already witnessed among whites in Mississippi and Alabama), all bets are off.  And it will be a long time before all hope is truly lost.  It didn’t take many British to colonize half the world, and it wouldn’t take many Americans either once committed to the task.

Our people are slow to anger and high-minded, not bitterly racist coveters like the Obamas and Sharptons of the other side.  But if pushed into a corner, once all options are gone, we will fight:

The Beginnings

Rudyard Kipling

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late
With long arrears to make  good,
When the English began to hate.

They were not easily moved,
They were  icy-willing  to  wait
Till  every  count  should  be  proved,
Ere  the  English  began  to  hate.

Their voices  were  even  and  low,
Their  eyes  were  level  and  straight.
There was neither sign nor show,
When  the  English  began  to  hate.

It was not preached to  the  crowd,
It was not taught by the State.
No man spoke it aloud,
When  the English began to hate.

It  was  not  suddenly  bred,
It  will  not  swiftly abate,
Through  the  chill  years  ahead,
When Time  shall  count from  the date
That the English  began  to  hate.

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Nothing to See Here

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Murdered Ukrainian Christians: 20,000,000

Hollywood Movies Depicting Their Struggle: 0

Number of States Requiring Mandatory Ukrainian Christian Holocaust Curriculum: 0

http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/Articl … 99,00.html

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Rick Perry Redeeming Himself?

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

A political mentor of mine has tried, over the years, to sear into my mind the primacy of social mood.  When the social mood is with you, politics is like rolling downhill in a heavy truck.  When it’s against you, it’s like pushing on a string.  Better to make money, learn practical skills of taking power during the good times, and then wait for the bad times to make our political moves to fix the country.

So many of us true conservatives have labored for years in the wilderness trying to get people to wake up.  And I knew the solution, at least a necessary but not sufficient piece of it: secession.  But in the Bubble years, I was hesistant to talk about it, lest I sound crazy.  My wife would cringe when the subject would come up in conversation with other people, unless I would say too much and possibly have people think me some sort of extremist.

Now, when the social mood has finally cracked after years of optimistic delusion, even the Governor of Texas is talking secession.  It has happened so fast I don’t even feel like I can believe it.  My friend was right: all of the intellectual arguments in the world are nothing compared to the tidal wave of social mood.  Our only hope is to channel and shape the wave, but it cannot be created.

Here are the relevant videos from yesterday as featured on Drudge for those who missed them:

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And now today he makes it more explicit:

Speaking with reporters after a tea party rally in Austin today, Gov. Rick Perry said Texas can leave the union if it wants to.

“Texas is a unique place. When we came into the union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would be able to leave if we decided to do that,” Perry said. “My hope is that America and Washington in particular pays attention. We’ve got a great union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, who knows what may come of that.”

If you’ve ever wanted to get involved in politics, the time is now.  True conservatives have never enjoyed a better time in recent history when they can say what they mean instead of censoring themselves.  Trust me, Rick Perry mostly wants to get re-elected, and if he’s saying this stuff, it at least means it is working for him politically.

But is he sincere?  Honestly, who cares?  I hope he is, and I have removed my anti-Perry posts from this blog in case he is a true repentant, a man like many Texas patriots before him who were mediocre politicians until a time of crisis struck.  Here is an email I sent a friend yesterday:

A necessary but not sufficient step towards secession.  Perry is a slippery fox, but his rhetoric surprised me, implying one or both of the following statements are true:

A. A major state governor actually feels this way.
B. A major state governor believes this kind of rhetoric will get him re-elected in 2010.

Both are positive developments.

Part of me thinks this is his revenge against the Bush-Rove crowd who is running Hutchinson against him.  As an Aggie of humble origins, there really is no limit to how far to the right he can go.  He can say and do things she can never do, because her Dallas liberal friends would be embarrassed.  But Perry’s West Texas hometown is probably already on-board a secession platform anyway.

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Taxes

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Among some of my friends I have apparently earned a reputation of a tax protester of sorts, so I thought I should clarify my position.  My theological position on this, like so many things, is flexible in the specifics but clings to a absolute kernel of truth, ableit filtered through human error.  I am a weak theonomist I suppose, in that I see the tithe, at 10%, to be a reasonably realistic appraisal of a just rate of tax.  After all, it can’t be unjust, since God imposes it, and it is probably very nearly close to ideal since God is perfect.  This is the weak case, that taxes should be no more than around 10%.  The strong case is that God demands 10%, and so the state should demand much, much less, being much less than God.

It becomes clear at some point, I believe, that tax rates are fundamentally unjust when they get out of the neighborhood of 10%, that any takings beyond that are in violation of the higher law of self-preservation and providing for one’s family, and that men may band together and righteously resist such takings.  For the American colonists, who were of the strong anti-tax variety, this level was somewhere around 3%.

Now maybe one can argue that our economic excess production is so much higher due to the higher productivity of our economy that the government can take more without substantial harm to ourselves or our families.  But such a position also implies that the government owns us and our labor, that we are literally slaves whose production can be taken at will at our master’s pleasure.  But I will grant this as well: perhaps our mode of life is necessarily more complicated and more money is needed.  And I will reduce my claim of my right to resist to a doubling of God’s rate: the state may take 20% and no more, and perhaps I have no cause to complain, for blessed are the peacemakers who do not quarrel over small wrongs.

But whether you are as flexible as I am in allowing 20%, or share the fire-eating spirit of our ancestors who fought and bled over 3%, nearly all should agree that our current system is extremely unjust.  My effective tax rate on marginal earnings is 35%, which Obama seeks to raise to 39.6%.  In addition, though my marginal dollars are not subject to the self-employment tax, they are subject to the Medicare tax of 2.9%, for benefits that are mathematically impossible for the government to ever deliver to me as someone (for a precious few weeks) still in my 20’s.

So every dollar I earn is subject to a marginal rate of 42.5%.

Now if I am really doing what I am supposed to do as a Christian father and head of household, I do not really work for myself, but for my family, as a mere trustee of wealth for future generations.  In preparing a will recently, it dawned on me that my family business is an asset the government will value for estate tax purposes, and that it will likely be subject to the estate tax, due to the valuations presently at play in my industry.  This means every dollar I earn is first subject to a 42.5% income tax and, after I pay those taxes, on top of that is also effectively subject to a 45% estate tax, if I intend to use the dollar, as I should, for the benefit of my progeny and not my own selfish pleasure.  Oh, and if I try to leave the money to my grandchildren instead, they double-estate-tax that (not technically the estate tax, but a little thing the IRS calls the “generation skipping transfer tax”), ensuring they eat 45% of my family’s savings every 30 or so years when a generation dies off.

So the effective rate my family pays on an earned dollar is equal to 1 – (1-0.425)(1-0.45) or 68.375%.  Every dollar I earn is subject to a government levy of 69 cents.  And we call ourselves a free country?  And this is not even counting state taxes, sales tax, property tax, or even the net cost of unnecessary government regulation, or the fact that each subsequent generation who inherits will also lose 45% of the principal.  And even then, as I prepare my tax return, I am informed that I owe AMT, the Alternative Minimum Tax, you see, because I’m getting too much of a deduction for property tax and they take away the first 3% or so of my charitable deductions.  Then TaxCut tells me that they’re taking away my child tax credits, which makes me question why I ever got social security numbers for my kids (hey, if they’re not giving me a tax credit, why not just have my kids “off the grid” where they never get sucked into this system? Under Obama’s plan, they could not pay taxes for 20 years and then apply for amnesty as an illegal alien, paying a $500 fine with no back taxes.).  The red number at the top of the screen gets bigger and bigger and I suddenly start to entertain Arlington Road-style revenge fantasies.

But it gets even worse.  Unless I am a successful speculator and know when to exit the dollar (and I pray for the divine revelation to do so!), I will eventually also pay an inflation tax equal to the current federal deficit as a percentage of GDP.  Right now that’s approaching 90%, so my wealth will be diluted again by almost 50% by inflation unless I time correctly my exit from the sinking ship of the US dollar.  Exit too soon and I’m in illiquid investments like gold with substandard returns and also subject to theft; exit too late and I’m left with Dead Presidents Wallpaper.

So those of you who tell us it is our moral duty to pay taxes, I show you the reality of the Beast that is the federal government.  Unless we admit that all men are forever slaves to their governments, without any rights whatsoever, there is no moral imperative to pay taxes to this government.  For now they nearly take all there is to get.

Wisdom, however, dictates that I do pay my taxes.  Just as it would be wise to pay protection money to Tony Soprano if he ran your neighborhood and owned the police, it is sometimes necessary to pay tribute to thieves and robbers for a season to protect one’s family.   But it is not one’s moral imperative to do so, and if good men can band together to reestablish justice and run the Mafia out of town, then they should.  And if individuals of more tender conscience, who cannot abide compromising with evil, refuse to pay the tribute, they must suffer the consequences but their resistance is not sinful.

This federal government that protects the murderers of unborn children is every bit and more the moral equivalent of a criminal gang.  May God give us the courage to stand up to them one day.  Until that time, I advise you to pay your taxes and keep your nose clean.

Maybe now it is easier to understand why my best strategy this time of year is to write the check to the US Treasury, take a vacation and try not to be angry.  But please don’t tell me it’s my Christian duty to pay off these criminals.

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Degenerate “Art”

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Here’s a humorous promotion for the 20th century musical equivalent of modern art and modern architecture.  These charlatans really pulled one over on the Western world, as we have 50+ years of ugly art, ugly buildings and ugly music…

http://www.vimeo.com/1184876

Maybe one day this junk can be put into a museum when our institutions once again praise beauty instead of degeneracy and ugliness.

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Rick Warren: Liar

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Defau … ?id=481280

More from Rick’s Politically-Driven Life…

Rick Warren 2009:

Monday night on CNN’s Larry King Live, Pastor Rick Warren apologized for his support of Prop. 8, California’s voter-approved marriage protection amendment, saying he has “never been and never will be” an “anti-gay or anti-gay marriage activist.”

“During the whole Proposition 8 thing, I never once went to a meeting, never once issued a statement, never — never once even gave an endorsement in the two years Prop. 8 was going,” Warren told the CNN audience on Monday. ”The week before the — the vote, somebody in my church said, ‘Pastor Rick, what — what do you think about this?’ And I sent a note to my own members that said, I actually believe that marriage is — really should be defined, that that definition should be — say between a man and a woman.”

During his CNN interview on Monday, Warren expressed regret for backing Prop. 8. ”There were a number of things that were put out. I wrote to all my gay friends — the leaders that I knew — and actually apologized to them. That never got out,” he admitted.

Additionally, Pastor Warren said he did not want to comment on or criticize the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision last week to legalize same-sex “marriage” because it was “not his agenda.”

Rick Warren 2008:

However, just two weeks before the November 4 Prop. 8 vote, Pastor Warren issued a clear endorsement of the marriage amendment while speaking to church members. ”We support Proposition 8 — and if you believe what the Bible says about marriage, you need to support Proposition 8,” he said.

The following is a complete transcript of Warren’s comments just weeks before the Prop. 8 election:

“The election’s coming just in a couple of weeks, and I hope you’re praying about your vote. One of the propositions, of course, that I want to mention is Proposition 8, which is the proposition that had to be instituted because the courts threw out the will of the people. And a court of four guys actually voted to change a definition of marriage that has been going for 5,000 years.

“Now let me say this really clearly: we support Proposition 8 — and if you believe what the Bible says about marriage, you need to support Proposition 8. I never support a candidate, but on moral issues I come out very clear.

“This is one thing, friends, that all politicians tend to agree on. Both Barack Obama and John McCain, I flat-out asked both of them: what is your definition of marriage? And they both said the same thing — it is the traditional, historic, universal definition of marriage: one man and one woman, for life. And every culture for 5,000 years, and every religion for 5,000 years, has said the definition of marriage is between one man and a woman.

“Now here’s an interesting thing. There are about two percent of Americans [who] are homosexual or gay/lesbian people. We should not let two percent of the population determine to change a definition of marriage that has been supported by every single culture and every single religion for 5,000 years.

“This is not even just a Christian issue — it’s a humanitarian and human issue that God created marriage for the purpose of family, love, and procreation.

“So I urge you to support Proposition 8, and pass that word on. I’m going to be sending out a note to pastors on what I believe about this. But everybody knows what I believe about it. They heard me at the Civil Forum when I asked both Obama and McCain on their views.”

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