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Excerpt from a post at One Cosmos:

It is an enduring theme on the left that the mere fact of conservatism requires some sort of pseudo-scientific explanation, since the ideas and principles it promulgates needn't be taken seriously. Thus, the two cultures are often operating on different levels. Conservatives argue fact and logic, but liberals ignore this in favor of a hermeneutical/deconstructive approach that "interprets" what conservatives are "really saying."

For example, when we say that we cherish the liberal principle of racial color-blindness, they interpret this as a cover for racial bigotry. Or, when we suggest that it is a dangerously radical thing to redefine the essential unit of civilization, they interpret this as "homophobia." When we say that we don't believe women are an oppressed minority, they interpret this as misogyny. Fighting for our natural rights under the first amendment is just the nefarious business of a shadowy right wing cabal.

Here again, the left wages a culture war without even knowing it. They do not engage on the plane of ideas, but only pretend to do so. There is no need to actually do the math to determine if a punitive tax on the successful will do anything to mitigate our fiscal calamity. Rather, this is just another liberal dog-whistle that only the envious can hear…

The whole thing, "Peacocks and the Propheteers of the Left", here.

h/t.

Somewhat related to the One Cosmos post, and highly recommended: Daniel Greenfield's The Last Days of the Media.

Two short (and almost arbitrarily selected) excerpts:

If you want to understand why Newsweek put a badly photoshopped picture of Obama with a gay halo on its cover or features Romney doing a number from The Book of Mormon, you need only look at those numbers. Fifteen years ago desperate tactics like that were for alt weeklies like The Village Voice, but Time and Newsweek are the new Village Voice. Or the new Salon.

Later,

The story is no longer the story. Now the cover is the story with magazines reporting on their own covers, which become the story. And the story? Who cares about the story really. You can know everything about the story by glancing at the cover. And then you don't have to buy it anymore, which explains why newsstand sales aren't doing too well.

Do read the whole thing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18183099

Today is the 70th anniversary of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, may he burn in Hell.

The Cosmos article "Peacocks and the Propheteers of the Left" is interesting.

Has not this view of conservatives by the left appeared more frequently and openly in the last while.

dmorris, agreed, and may his boss also. Darn it, might as well include Lenin and Stalin also while I think of it.

In David Priestland's book "The Red Flag", on page 185 in the Grove Press edition, 2009, he mentions the following. "The period between 1934 and 1947, therefore, was one of considerable Communist success in the west - especially in France and Italy - and in parts of Latin America. This was the era when communism, and with it the USSR, became fashionable amongst the West European and American intelligentsias."

I would add that we are now seeing the fruits of this success in some of our politicians and in our universities and their graduates. Note the student, anarchist, union, and communist riots in Quebec.

Obama’s Land of the LOST
The Law of the Treaty is a huge attack on American sovereignty.

By Michelle Malkin

The panel is chaired by radical-green science czar John Holdren (notorious for his cheerful musings about eugenics, mass sterilization, and forced abortions to protect Mother Earth, and for hyping weather catastrophes and demographic disasters in the 1970s with his population-control pals Paul and Anne Ehrlich) and White House Council on Environmental Quality head Nancy Sutley (best known as the immediate boss of disgraced green-jobs czar and avowed Communist Van Jones).

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/301007/obama-s-land-lost-michelle-malkin

Yes, please do read the whole thing at EBD's 10:06 link. Says it all, explains it all.

Most media has gone tabloid.

I read both of EDB's links at 10:04 and 10:06.

These links explain a lot, as the view of the left toward conservatives has been percolating since the mid 1930s. David Priestland, in his book "The Red Flag", says on page 185, "The period between 1934 and 1947, there fore, was one of considerable Communist success in the West - especially in France and Italy - and in parts of Latin America. This was the era when Communism, and with it the USSR, became fashionable amongst the West European and American intelligentsias."

"A shift in the government's thinking about the Eurocrisis":

(British Home Secretary) Theresa May's suggestion that Britain could suspend the free movement of people in the event of a Eurozone break up is a reminder of just how transformative an event the falling apart of the single currency would be. The Home Secretary is a cautious politician who picks her words carefully, so when she says that the government ‘will be doing contingency planning’ about the immigration implications of a Eurozone break-up you know it is serious.

One of the things that makes this such an intriguing development is that it suggests a shift in government thinking on the severity of the crisis that could be coming. A few months ago, a minister told me that they had looked at how many EU nationals could come to the UK in the event of countries falling out of the Euro and concluded that the numbers would be small enough to be manageable. May’s words suggest that analysis has now changed.

Did the Obama admin. Betray it's own informant?

http://tinyurl.com/bn3aux9

Tata motors will be bringing air powered cars to North America by sept/12. Cheap and no fossil fuel required to run them. The pressure to keep them out will be enormous from other auto makers. Let me predict that you will never own one as they will fail on safety tests.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/news/preview-concept/4251491

As "punishment" Obama's administration is withholding $30 million or so from so called foreign aid for Pakistan.Out of the two billion they normally receive, that is a drop.

They should withhold ALL $2 billion. To make a point.

Agenda 21 For Dummies
Same crap is in Canada

Forgot to add this other link for Tata motors.

http://www.caradvice.com.au/141944/tata-motors-mini-cat-air-car-to-debut-in-2012/

∞ ≠ ø...and now the U.N. wants to regulate the internet! The U.N. is on the wrong side of every issue; why would we want them to regulate freedom of speech?

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/229653-house-to-examine-plan-to-let-un-regulate-internet

@ chutzpahticular at May 27, 2012 3:05 AM
The whole concept of the UN regulating anything should ring alarm bells for anyone that has not had a lobotomy. If even Obama doesn't like this , I don't think it has much of a chance but these UN bastards never seem to quit trying. Agenda 21 is definately being pushed and is a bigger threat to freedom than anything faced in the past. Harper has already given the middle finger to the UN on global warming and more lights are being trained on these rats as we saw with the recent visit by the food activist from Brussels. Their days are numbered and as Europe falls apart they will go down with it. Can't be soon enough. They will be a luxury Europe and the west can no longer afford and be seen for the star chamber they have actually become. A unelected body that wants to rule the world. I put their chance of success at the same level as Elizabeth May forming a ruling party for Canada.

Dutch Disease Mulcair should perhaps heed some of his own advice.

Northernont: Wow, what kind of person refinances their house so many times? This is very odd behaviour.

This needs more investigatin'...

Kinsella flipped out the other day over a Jewish Group in Toronto bringing Glenn Beck to Canada for a speech. He leveled all sorts of unfounded accusations against Beck, calling him anti-semitic. That charge is laughable, considering even the likes of Benjamin Netanyahu have thanked Beck for his support, in the face of death threats even.

Who should be the arbiter of anti-semitism? Progressives from the left? (and we all know how pro-Israel the left is?? NOT) or an actual Jewish group?? Members of which went on Sun News with Michael Coren last week defending Beck also.

I always say to detractors of Beck (and Hannity and Rush)...if you haven't listened to them, you cannot give an honest opinion. Basing your opinion on heresay and progressive slander is not honest.

Glennbeck.ca for info and tickets.

Not that any of you care, but I will be in the great country of Canada in a month visiting my long-distance girlfriend.

I can't wait.

Cheers, eh?

Of course we care, Texas! Enjoy your visit, eh!

peterj @2:35AM:

Let Tata bring as many of their silly air cars as they wish. They will fail in the marketplace because they don't work.

"Consume no fossil fuels"? What, pray tell, fuels the power plants that generate the electricity that runs the compressors that fill the air tanks on the little cars? Only if those compressors were powered exclusively by wind or solar generated electricity could a Tata owner truthfully claim to be driving on "green" energy. After all, it's in the canon that coal, nuclear and hydro are not "green."

For good, sound thermodynamic reasons, compressed air is one of the worst possible ways to store energy. Wishful thinking won't change that.

For those “conformocracy”, one-dimensional thinkers—whose imaginations are stunted too!—here’s a fine primer on just how/why the acceptance of homosexual “marriage” is harmful to children and society. Just open your minds, turn on your brains, and put on your “tolerance- and diversity-loving” hats. Happy trails!

May 27, 2012

Gay Marriage: The Hidden Agenda by Victor Volsky

“. . . Don't believe revolutionaries when they hold forth about their intention of building paradise on earth. Actually, they would be unable to build anything even if they wanted to. Their talk about the bright future is mere lip service, because in reality, any revolution is exclusively about destruction, with very little thought given to what will happen afterward (‘we'll cross that bridge when we come to it’). But how do you go about destroying society? Where do you direct the blow so it will do the most damage? In his Theses on Feuerbach, Karl Marx provided the answer: destroy the traditional family. . . .

“Aside from the tremendous damage same-sex marriage does to the well-being and normal development of children, by offering an alternative to a bedrock institution, gay marriage calls into question all traditional values. There is a strong correlation between the rise of homosexual marriage and the weakening of traditional matrimony. David Blankenhorn observes, ‘The deep logic of same-sex marriage is clearly consistent with what scholars call deinstitutionalization—the overturning or weakening of all of the customary forms of marriage, and the dramatic shrinking of marriage’s public meaning and institutional authority. Does deinstitutionalization necessarily require gay marriage? Apparently not. For decades heterosexuals have been doing a fine job on that front all by themselves. But gay marriage clearly presupposes and reinforces deinstitutionalization.’ . . .”

Read the rest at:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/gay_marriage_the_hidden_agenda.html

(And if anyone really believes that the de[con]struction of the “one man-one woman” marriage won’t lead to the acceptance of both polygamy and any other non-conformist “marriage”, you’re delusional—and that’s my moderate opinion.)

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/got-the-degree-now-what-154680055.html

Manitoban university graduates learn their basketweaving degrees are not worth anything.

My short quote and comment on this link has just been held.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/gay_marriage_the_hidden_agenda.html

(I guess I should have used more asterisks to masquerade certain, common words in my remarks.)

Agreed - gordinkneehill is more knowledgeable than Popular Mechanics.

Is McAfee after Conservative sites? On all sites I get a warning today that they are dangers. Any one else?

Neo-AGW Progress Report: featuring "unusually robust sea ice".

>>> "The heaviest polar ice in more than a decade."

"the unusually robust sea ice would further narrow what already is a tight window for operations."

...-

"Heavy ice could delay start of Shell Alaska's Arctic drilling"

"The heaviest polar ice in more than a decade could postpone the start of offshore oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean until the beginning of August, a delay of up to two weeks, Shell Alaska officials said.

Unveiling a newly refurbished ice-class rig that is poised to begin drilling two exploratory wells this summer in the Beaufort Sea, Shell executives said Friday that the unusually robust sea ice would further narrow what already is a tight window for operations. The company's $4-billion program is designed to measure the extent of what could be the United States' most important new inventory of oil and gas."

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/26/v-print/2819327/heavy-ice-could-delay-start-of.html

a@c, it took me awhile to get the McAfee Security Scan label to drop today. It kept saying that I wasn't hooked to the 'net, which was untrue.

How Google Used Tech to Pry into People's Lives:

"After months of negotiation , Johannes Caspar, a German data protection official, forced Google to show him exactly what its Street View cars had been collecting from potentially millions of his fellow citizens. Snippets of e-mails , photographs , passwords, chat messages, postings on Web sites and social networks - all sorts of private internet communications - were casually scooped up as the specially equipped cars photographed the world's streets."

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/internet/How-Google-used-tech-to-pry-into-peoples-lives/articleshow/13428727.cms

sometimes the law has good intentions, but.....

funny, I could join the Army at 17, but now it seems I wouldn't have been able to sit in the car by myself ? a car that I could have driven all by myself ? maybe the kid was the designated driver ?

Man arrested for leaving 17-year-old son alone in car

http://www.wdrb.com/story/18373111/man-arrested-for-allegedly-leaving-17-year-old-alone-in-car

Police say a Shepherdsville, Kentucky, man is facing a misdemeanor charge after he left his 17-year-old son alone in a vehicle while he went inside a bar to drink.

According to an arrest report, 59-year-old James L. Osborne was seen walking into The Electric Cowboy, a bar on Dixie Highway, near Oak Park Drive, early on Saturday morning, shortly before 2:30 a.m. Witnesses say he left a young boy inside his vehicle.

When police arrived, they approached the boy and asked him his age. It was determined that the boy was 17. Police say they met with Osborne and he told them he had consumed two alcoholic beverages.

"The subject stated he didn't see anything wrong with leaving his son in the car while he drank in the night club," police say. "In his words, 'they were bonding.'" The boy was released into the custody of his grandmother. Police say they arrested Osborne and charged him with endangering the welfare of a minor, a misdemeanor.