Whose Fault Was It?

If you listen to Diane Feinstein and the rest of the insane left, Newtown happened because of guns. Adam Lanza brushed against one of his mother's [legal] weapons and was immediately possessed by the eeeevil Spirit of Gun-ness. Or, more on this side of sanity, if Mom didn't have all those eeevil guns, he'd only have killed 10 or 15 with an Evil Butcher Knife. So, it's the guns' fault.

No, it isn't. It's Barack Obama's fault. And Democrats. And all the rest of the Marxists.

What? What??? How is this Barry's fault?? He HATES guns! At least, in your hands.

Simple. Ideas have consequences.

Barry was  Chairman of the Chicago Annanberg Challenge, a "school reform" entity created by Bill Ayers with money from the Annanberg Foundation. The Annanberg Challenge was one more in a series of devastating body blows to the US public education system, like the self-esteem movement, the War on Boys, and the whole "learning disorders" craze. By the time the Marxist-in-Chief and his bomb-throwing pal Ayers had hijacked the Chicago schools, education was already reeling against the ropes. They kneed it in the groin, finishing it off.

And the result is a whole generation of boys, especially white middle-class boys, repeatedly hammered, each and every day, about how much of a threat and insult their manly instincts are to the real power in the world—girls. Playing cowboys and Indians at recess is proof of their innate racist and violent tendencies, making fart noises during Reading is evidence of severe educational deficiencies requiring large doses of cocaine in the form of Adderol, gayness is all the rage, manliness all the wrong, and girls really just don't need them. All the men on TV are befuddled arrested adolescents who only survive by the patient and condescending brilliance of their too-smart wives; football is brutish (oh my, you might get hurt!); weeping is good; a boy's very presence on the college campus prevents women from graduating and getting better jobs. His very presence in the workplace means the woman working next to him is automatically underpaid. His very existence is the source of all oppression.

Sullen, repressed, unhappy, guilty boys, frustrated, blamed for everything.

And you wonder why they massacre.

Buy more ammo

There is so much going on that I, truly, don't know where to focus. Not wanting to use a much-overused metaphor these days, but it's extremely difficult to pause and reflect when the car is on two tires, the brakes are on fire, and you are tumbling over the cliff side.

 

It should be very apparent to everyone by now that Barack Obama is an enemy of this country, and is absolutely intent on breaking the American economic system. That's why he came to Washington, as the front man, the vanguard of the proletariat, the culmination of a 25 year plan to bring America to its knees. It's a movie script. It's a thriller by Vince Flynn. And it's true.

 

Now, before you go off and scream "Conspiracy theorist!", let me tell you I'm not much of a believer in conspiracies. If there's one thing the Mafia has proven, two guys know a secret, then the whole world does. So, an active, plotted, conspiracy conducted over decades? No. But, an idea, people dedicated to an idea. And the damage an idea can do.

 

That idea is, of course, Marxism, which holds as its basic premise that all everyone really, really wants to do is get up before sunrise, stretch and go, "Oh boy! I get to work 18 hours today sickling wheat, and then give every bit of it to the guy in the next town! And expect absolutely nothing in return!" Uh huh. On what planet, Marxists?

 

So, you have a ridiculous idea backed by a flawed premise, that economics is the driving force of humanity, and what happens? Mass graves. We all stand here in amazement, wondering how anybody in their right mind would even entertain Marxism, yet there are whole countries (I'm looking at you, Russia) dedicated to it. And we have an administration imbued with it, a stupid, stupid idea that has proven its bankruptcy in decade after decade, country after country, slaughter after slaughter. Yet, 51% our of population voted for it. Why?

 

Simple. Because the real premise of Marxism is not economics. It's power.

 

Power over everyone, the power to tell everyone what they can do, what they can say, what they can eat, what they can watch, drive, own, think. That's what everyone really wants. It's downright sexual, and Barack Obama sits in his office, rictus grin on his face, self-righteous rage careening through his heart, gloating that an idea, a mere idea, can so corrupt an education system, a monetary system, a system of governance, that 51% of the population will, willingly, vote for their own enslavement.

 

Go to the range. Practice.

 

Mud Wrestling and Shakespeare

So Schlub and Mrs. went off to Mordor (you know it as DC) and took in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Shakespeare Theater. Out freakin' standing. The play, I mean. Not Mordor.

And that's pretty much due to two actors: Adam Green, a national treasure, and Bruce Dow, a NYC treasure. Yes, yes, the other actors/actresses (God, how sexist) were equally outstanding, but there are two roles in Dream that make or break the show: Puck and Bottom...Puck and Bottom, hmm, sounds like an odd sexual practice, but I digress.

Adam Green was Puck, and he brought his usual combination of timing and physicality, both of which makes him one of the best comedic actors on stage. I've seen him in The Liar and All's Well that Ends Well and he pretty much stole both shows; well, at least, kept up with Tony Roach in Liar. And he stole this one, too, especially in the mud wrestling scene.

Yes. Mud wrestling, something you usually don't associate with Shakespeare, but there it was. And it involved girls, Christiana Clark as Helena and Amelia Pedlow as Hermia. Wowsers. But, before you get your raincoat and empty-bottom barrel of popcorn ready, it was quite tasteful, more funny than...anything. Tasteful mud wrestling, you query? Hey, c'mon, it's Shakespeare.

Bruce Dow is, also, one of the funniest human beings on the earth, and he played Bottom's over-the-top role so over-the-top that I was on the floor. I want to see a two-man Green and Dow show.

Must give a shout-out to Tim Campbell and Sarah Topham, who played Theseus/Oberon and Hippolyta/Titiana, respectively and brilliantly. A chest bump between Oberon and Puck was a highlight. Mention of Robert Dorfman as Snug is required because he was hilarious in a very minor role. The play within the play was even funnier than the play. The ensemble was outstanding, the set was outstanding, everything was outstanding.

 

Including the mud wrestling.

The Only, Important Question

I do not care about Petraeus' talking points, or about Susan Rice's day long lie-fest. I don't care about Susan Rice at all. Her career's over, anyway, because she has proven herself more loyal to Barack Obama than to the country.

There is only one question I've got: Where was Barack Obama while the Embassy was under attack, and was he the person who refused to send help?

I guess that's two questions.

Commander-in-Thief

These reports of voter fraud in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida are making me wonder:

Is Barack Obama the President of the United States? Or did he just engineer a coup?

Profound implications, this. And I'm wondering if anyone is doing anything to resolve the question, because...

If you won the Presidency by fraud, Barack, then you ain't the President. And your administration has no legitimacy. At all. And anything you order is unlawful, and we can, with no qualms, ignore it.

 

That's not good. Not good at all.

Cloward-Piven, in reverse

It's now apparent that Mitt Romney underestimated the number of takers in the United States. It was at least 51%, not 47, of the electorate who "voted for Santa Claus," as Rush Limbaugh so eloquently put it. And if that electorate can reject a decent man like Mitt Romney in favor of an arrogant, vicious, Marxist ideologue like Obama, then there is no hope of conservatives ever winning elections. Ever.

Trying to save the country through the political process will not work. That's because all political parties, including the Republicans, cling to the fatal premise that government is the solution. Sure, the Republicans posit those solutions from the right, but it's a middle right, tinged with red. Neither of the parties believe what you believe, that the individual has primacy, that rights are inherent, and that government is, at best, a necessary evil. But they both fervently believe you will continue to send them money, attend their rallies, and go to the voting booths every Election Day in an (increasingly) futile effort to restore the Constitution.

The Republicans cannot save you. Voting will not save you.

You can only save yourself.

But how? The government is now in control of everything, from your health care to your wages. If you want to live even a shadow of the mythical American Dream, then you must go to work, pay your taxes, save some money, send your kids to college, and hope to God the government leaves you enough of a paycheck that you can do a small percentage of the things you want to do. An increasingly smaller percentage, as Comrade Obama's lumpenproletariat grows in strength and number.

And this is where you've got them.

Most of you are familiar with the Cloward-Piven strategy, that Marxist tactic of overwhelming a system in order to bring it down and force the Marxist revolution. It was actually tried in New York City against the welfare system, and had partial success. There is no reason why we can't use the same tactic.

But not to overwhelm the system. Underwhelm it.

The Marxists now in charge of the government depend on you going to work and buying gas and houses and movie tickets and video games to generate the income, property, sales, and fuel taxes they need to keep playing Santa Claus. They laugh at you as you go to work, raising glasses of champagne to each other as they take your income, lend it to their friends at Solyndra, help that company go bankrupt, and then redistribute the tax money back to themselves through union and political contributions. They keep assuring you the American Dream is alive and, please, Joe the Plumber, keep going out there and killing yourself in the belief that you will one day, become prosperous.  They need your productivity to fund their lifestyles.

So, stop being productive.

Now, not all at once, and not with the idea of putting yourself in straits. You don't have to go that far. You only have to reduce the government's revenue by a percentage of what you are giving them now. Perhaps you can do without that second job, reduce the amount of gas you're using, watch Netflix instead of going to the movies. Yes, a lot of you are doing that now because the government has reduced your prosperity, but you did so out of necessity, not as a strategy. If you look at your economic activity as a blow against the empire instead of a sacrifice, there is no doubt you can see additional ways to choke off government revenue.

For instance, all of you business owners—consider shutting down. Take your savings and live quietly. Don't worry about your employees; Obama has promised them unemployment insurance and health care, so make him deliver. You parents about to send kids to college—don't. The colleges are bastions of Marxist thought, so you will end up paying half your net worth to a scornful institution that will indoctrinate your kids into a system that hates you. Instead, offer to pay for community college, for a certificate that will give them a job skill they can use anywhere, such as welding, Certified Nursing Assistant, carpenter, etc., skills that are always needed. And if they still insist on getting that degree in Political Science from Columbia, then have them apply for government student loans. After all, Obama has promised it to them.

Make Obama keep his promises.

Because Obama's promises, his role as Santa Claus, depends on you doing the right thing, being a stand-up person, a hard worker...in other words, an American. Obama hates Americans. He sneers at you, considers you stupid and a sucker, laughs that you are participating in your own destruction.

It's time to give him a taste of his own medicine.

And, yes, you can say it: Who is John Galt?

America Died Last Night

It may not look it. The corpse seems viable, breathing, still full of life. But, trust me. It's dead.

There are now more people who expect things than there are people who earn things. There are now more covetous people than honorable ones. The Obama voter smirks at the Romney voter and sneers, "Payback! Now you're gonna get yours!"

Actually, they're going to get theirs, when the gas and electricity and food go through the roof, and the jobs and prosperity through the floor. But, then, Obama will blame the oil companies and the electric utilities and George Bush, and Hilary Clinton will win the next eight years, and Governor Cuomo another eight beyond that, with one or two Congressional Republicans from some district in Texas kept around for sport.

The grand experiment is over. We are Lee's Army at Appomattox. We lost. We will not rise again. Conservatism is relegated to the ash heap of history, along with the primacy of the individual, inherent rights, and government as servant. The individual will diminish, rights will be determined on a case-by-case basis, and a political and corporate elite will rule you.  

But that's all right. You'll have American Idol, marijuana, sex with anything you want, and an assigned job and apartment. You'll be happy.

Just not free.