The Way We Are, No. 9
Have we no shame? (No.) —Fred Reed
Stimulus: $250 each for Social Security recipients; $250,000,000(?) each for bankers and stock speculators. Sounds like business as usual.
With affirmative action and bailouts, the U.S. government has almost succeeded in severing the link between performance and reward.
Honest Abe. Fair and Balanced. Compassionate Conservatism. Notice a pattern here?
It becomes more evident every day that the cancer of California must be cut out if the American body is to survive.
Those who think the Republican Party can be reformed into a real opposition party should be watching the sky for winged pork.
America has been blessed with great conservative leaders like Allan Bloom, Dan Quayle, Bill Bennett, and the Rev. Moon.
It surely must be a sad thing to be a World War II or Korean War veteran and realise that the country you sacrificed for no longer exists but has been replaced by something much inferior. Even worse to spend your final days in a Veterans Administration hospital with a Hindu doctor.
Last year 1,046,539 aliens were granted citizenship. And you think your one vote is important.
I am so old I can remember when boys actually looked for work to do to earn pocket money.
Liberals. We are supposed to think that people arrive at being Liberals because of intellectual examination of what is best for the commonwealth and out of a passion for justice. Believe me, having spent the better part of a long life around academic leftists: There is not a word of truth in this. Liberalism is energised by greed and sustained by the same stupid and timid social conformity that looks down on you if you wear white socks at a formal dinner.
Liberal: Someone who believes that working class women have just as much right to be killed in imperial wars as working class men.
Liberal: Someone who believes that the life of a killer is more valuable than that of a victim, who is, after all, already dead.
Liberal: Someone who believes that working class children should enjoy the benefits of multicultural schools, while their own general have special needs that require private schools.
The American ruling class has less competence and courage than any ruling class that ever aspired to imperial rule.
But capitalist society, which naturally does not know the meaning of honour, cannot know the meaning of disgrace. . . . —G.K. Chesterton
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Liberal someone doing the Lords work with other peoples money
"It surely must be a sad thing to be a World War II or Korean War veteran and realise that the country you sacrificed for no longer exists but has been replaced by something much inferior."
Dr. Wilson,
I myself am too young to know this feeling firsthand, but I know it exists. My aged stepfather, who died on May 4, served his country valiantly in WWII as a fighter pilot in China. I cannot do his military record justice in this short space (I've often read Roger McGrath's stories in "Chronicles" and thought my stepfather would have made a very good subject for one), but suffice it to say he flew two tours (volunteering for the second) over three years fighting the Japanese. He was even shot down and wounded and, in what is frankly one of the most miraculous stories I've ever heard, spent 40-plus days walking hundreds of miles and evading capture to return to his squadron. He then made the Air Force his career, giving thirty years of service to the good ol' U. S. of A. He really loved his country and always told me as I was growing up that the United States certainly had its problems, but it was a far better place with far greater material comforts than most of the other places he'd seen during his service. Oh, and he adamantly refused to buy Japanese cars.
But he was emormously saddened in recent years by the decline he saw and spoke of it often -- especially after November 4 of last year. He simply could not fathom how the people whose call he answered so long ago would side with a man and a vision openly hostile to the predominant culture. Then again, he seemed to appreciate full well that the culture he knew and had fought to protect was not only no longer dominant, but had been frittered away. That certainly seemed evident in his demeanor. Instead of ranting in railing about all he saw that was wrong -- and he saw much he believed to be wrong --he spoke quietly and with the air of someone burdened by profound sorrow. "I just don't know where all this is headed," he would say. "It didn't seem to be this bad in The Depression." That kind of pessimism was a far cry from the optimism "the Greatest Generation" had enjoyed for so long. And it was indeed sad to see him reduced to that view.
Thank you for appreciating that in your own right and putting it into words.
TPA III
Liberal: Someone who believes that working class children should enjoy the benefits of multicultural schools, while their own general have special needs that require private schools.
Since special needs now means "mentally defective," does that mean liberals should never be allowed to breed?
Dr. Wilson,
As a former working boy, and one who built his own shoeshine box at the Off The Street Club and buffed my way up and down Madison Street for whatever I could get, I appreciated your mention of the little lads who could once be seen all over the landscape, doggedly learning to be men the way their fathers had before them.
As a vet with 40 years experience of the Veterans Administration, let me relate the following: one day, in to consult a specialist, I noticed the doctor's Jewish looking name on his nametag. Says I to the doc, "Dr. -----stein, eh? 40 years of coming to the V.A. and I finally get a Jewish doctor." The young man broke into a broad smile and answered, "40 years without a Jewish doctor? That's inexcusable! Everyone deserves a Jewish doctor!" And we shared a hearty laugh, to the surprise of everyone in the sombre waiting room.
You are being too kind and forgiving with "It becomes more evident every day that the cancer of California must be cut out if the American body is to survive."
I would word it differently - it becomes self-evident that the cancer of the United States must be constantly cut and cut if any part of American body is to survive. If we salvage Texas alone - it would be a miracle. If somebody asks me, let's save GA, AL, SC, NC and Louisiana. On that day I'd learn French and pronounce "Apres moi le'deluge".
"With affirmative action and bailouts, the U.S. government has almost succeeded in severing the link between performance and reward."
On the contrary, it seems bent on reversing the natural order between the two and has found excellent means, as cited, of doing so.
Damn another deliciously scathing article by the good Dr Wilson.
Honestly - what worth is there in "conservatism" when there is nothing left worth conserving? The things most true conservatives want to "conserve" - tradition, American culture, self-reliance, Rule of Law, truly Constitutional gov't, subsidiarity, the right to keep and bear arms etc - no longer exist to conserve. Wouldn't transforming the American system (as it stands) to what we think of as a "conservative" one, at this point, not be an act of conservatism at all but an act of radical transformation? Or would it be both? *Can* it be both?
Robert at #7 HEAR! HEAR!
I just got back from "town" for some must-do errands. One of the non-essential stops was at a Best-Buy in the area to check out laptops for future purchase. I felt that I had been transformed to either Africa or Central-South American or Mexico. There were about 4 white employees for 40 non-whites. Sped home. Will stay here until I MUST leave again. This is not my country anymore.
"It becomes more evident every day that the cancer of California must be cut out if the American body is to survive."
It's too late. Soon the ban on foreign-born presidents will be repealed. Republican California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger-Shriver-Kennedy will be elected president after Obama, in 2016. After that, in 2024, the president elected will be Arnold's wife, Democrat Maria Shriver-Kennedy-Schwarzenegger.
It's the two-party system.
John Seiler @ 10
Yes, we should remember the price that Germany paid for letting an Austrian get his hands on power.
I saw the most beautiful thing my eyes have seen in a long time when I was on vacation in Arkansas visiting my grandparents back during Easter break. On Easter Sunday, we went to church. The pastor introduced a family of first-time guests. This family consisted totally of whites - a mother and father and their four children, two girls and two boys. The father was dressed in a suit, the boys in khakis with dress shirts and belts around their waists, and the mother and girls in dresses which covered their entire bodies from neck to ankles, except their arms. The ladies had their hair down with bows in one or two places, the gentlemen's was neatly and closely cut.
I was racking my brains, trying to think why I admired what I saw so much. I realized: Because that's what a typical American family is supposed to look like.
Just thought I'd leave everyone with the knowledge that the American family is not extinct . . . yet.
re-#10 Mr. Seiler wrote:"It’s too late. Soon the ban on foreign-born presidents will be repealed. "
The election of Obama shows that it isn't necessary to repeal anything in the current Constitution. All it takes is the establishment of precedence and that was set with the inauguration of a Kenya-born Indonesian citizen who doesn't even have a currently valid visa.
We now have a foreign born president. The Constitutional requirement of natural birth status for an American president is no longer of any consequence.
Ed Roberts,
Just to clarify one point, Barry O was actually born in Hawaii - four and a half years after it gained statehood - so he does barely qualify on the American-born requirement. Not to argue semantics, though. He is a foreigner in all other senses of the term. Notice how people or organizations who seriously raise questions of his citizenship are immediately dismissed as being on the political fringe.
Dr Wilson,
I served two tours in Vietnam with the 82nd Airborne, fought and bled on the Perfume River, Dak To and other places(I still don't know why) and I can tell you that the country that existed in 1968 no longer exists today, never mind the nation of 1940 or 1917. My father piloted a B-24 in China during WWII and he and the men with him felt they were fighting for something noble, something worthwhile, for the people at home and for a way of life. We, on the other hand, fought only for one another, like mercenaries or Foreign Legionaires, for the men in our unit, and for pride in our prowess as an elite fighting force. There was no "nation" worth defending, and indeed when I came home to San Francisco in 1969, wounded in the leg,I was greeted by howling protesters at the airport who had not the slightest inkling of American history or anciebt American values. The stupid, criminal policies of the LBJ and Nixon regimes were readily apparent to all of us in Vietnam, and we were cynical and disbelieved everything we were told by our dear government that abandoned us on the battlefield when the critical moment arrived, in the same way the French government betrayed its men in Algeria in the same decade. I wonder, really wonder, what the soldiers are thinking about their country today. I've been told by some that they view service as a career opportunity, simply as a job that will bring them material benefits in later life. This is the attitude of Hessians, but who can blame them? Long live multiculturalism is not a battle cry that resonates.
"Notice how people or organizations who seriously raise questions of his citizenship are immediately dismissed as being on the political fringe"
Because they are. The man is an American citizen, period. He is also a social-justice liberal and a multiculturalist - that is enough to hold against him without inventing fantastical conspiracy theories.
S.L.T.,
Your suspicions are not raised by his childhood years in Kenya and Indonesia? His proud claim to personal identification with his Kenyan ancestry? I hope you are not taken in by the post-modern, post-Christian, and post-American definition of citizenship such as being born to an alien wetback border-hopper, or possessing a piece of paper with a government stamp on it saying that you are a citizen. Otherwise the Marxist Left has you right where it wants you.
S.L. Toddard and Brock H. may have some knowledge of the citizenship issue of which I am not aware. All I can say about it, after what little evidence I could find, is that I could not reach a conclusion. The birth certificate issue is the most important part of it, and from what I could tell, there really is something fishy about that document, and I suspect it was forged. Of course suspicion is not proof, but the issue is not lunatic fringe, it's just suppressed and presented as an issue that only nuts would consider.
There is one other aspect to this which anyone should keep in mind, and I am not directing it at either Toddard or Brock. It's just an observation. People's minds are closed on the issue, and they have done absolutely no research of it on their own. They formed their opinion emotionally, based on whatever hearsay they heard on TV or heard another ignorant person say in conversation, or read somewhere, if they even read anything at all. They dismiss it without so much as one bit of rational thought. The dismissal is emotionally based, therefore unthinking. It is precisely that kind of unthinking, emotional, hateful reaction that makes people respond to someone who raises the issue by calling him a 'nut'. So who's more nuts?
"Your suspicions are not raised by his childhood years in Kenya and Indonesia? His proud claim to personal identification with his Kenyan ancestry?"
Suspicions of what?
"I hope you are not taken in by the post-modern, post-Christian, and post-American definition of citizenship such as being born to an alien wetback border-hopper, or possessing a piece of paper with a government stamp on it saying that you are a citizen."
I have no idea what you're talking about. I was speaking to the *legal* definition.
S.L.T.,
Suspicions that he may not be legally a U.S. citizen.
And yes, today if the feds give you a piece of paper and a stamp of approval, you are legally a citizen. I was raising the question of whether or not you SUPPORT that policy. There were nobler days during the time of the Republic, before the illegitimate 14th Amendment, when citizenship was decided by communities in which newcomers wished to reside.
"Suspicions that he may not be legally a U.S. citizen."
I do not see a connection between a childhood spent abroad and an appreciation of one's ancestry and whether or not he is legally a US Citizen, so no.
"And yes, today if the feds give you a piece of paper and a stamp of approval, you are legally a citizen. I was raising the question of whether or not you SUPPORT that policy"
With a federal definition of U.S. citizenship in general or with the definition we are using currently?
Maybe the answer lays somewhere between the ancient Greek understanding of citizenship and the present "proposition" nation. The elites are now abandoning even the proposition nation in favor of such abominations as "corporate citizenship" (It was only a matter of time after corporations were granted personhood, that they would be given the same rights and obligations as citizens) and "global citizenship". "Milky-Way Galaxy citizenship" cannot be farther then a decade off.
I am so old I can remember when boys actually looked for work to do to earn pocket money.
So you know we live in weird times when the most popular shows on television are, Dangerous Catch, Ax Men, Ice Road Truckers, Hell's Kitchen and Dirty Jobs. Real men working is more than office denizens staring thru a hole in the plywood at a construction site.
Etienne,
But I thought those were "jobs Americans don't want to do"?
Liberal: Someone who believes that the life of a killer is more valuable than that of a victim, who is, after all, already dead....
and also more valuable than that of the unborn child, who is, after all, ALIVE!
#8Honestly - what worth is there in “conservatism” when there is nothing left worth conserving?
Just what I was thinking a few nights ago from a slightly different angle: the kind of liberty based society conceived of by the Founders, as they rightly understood, requires a moral and religious people. Ergo, I reason, as shallow as religion is in America, as dumbed down and hostile to morality as the vast number of mis and maleducated Americans are, I wonder if the people are still capable of living in such a liberty based society without tragic and chaotic results? Considering that, maybe a totalitarian like Obama is right to further actualized the concept of increased centralized control unconstitutionally foisted on us by obsessive, avaricious, power mongering fanatics like Hamilton––before the ink on the Constitution was even dry. Lord!
Our government has made us ripe for happy enslavement.
Our government has made us ripe for happy enslavement.
@25 Tom
The Soviet Union beat us to it, and Putin recently warned us about the danger of heading down the same path. Our elites pooh-poohed his advice. After all, our gutter press has already accused him of being a "boy lover."
#5
You might as well kiss Charolette NC good-by. If you didn't salvage Texas your Confederation would be doomed to failure. Although I admit the counties bordering Mexico would have to be left behind.
26
After all, our gutter press has already accused him of being a “boy lover.”
That should make him their darling! They love everything else related to sodomy and the destruction of the family.
Mr. H, you wrote"Just to clarify one point, Barry O was actually born in Hawaii - four and a half years after it gained statehood ".
His paternal grandmother claims that he was born in Kenya. His certificate from the state of Hawaii is not a birth certificate, but merely a state document given to any US citizen parent who asks for one in that state regardless of the actual place of birth of the child. That certificate was issued when he was 6 years old, BTW. Also, his records have been permanently sealed by the governor of Hawaii.
Further, Barry's mother had him registered as a citizen of Indonesia when she married his stepfather there. SL Toddard can call me a fringe dweller, or a "birther", but Obama has never presented any proof of natural birth in a US state. There is no record of his being naturalized, either, so it's safe to conclude that he is an illegal alien, absent any proof to the contrary.
Yes, you're right about how any mention of Obama's birthplace triggers a violent reaction from TV addicts. The final words any of them have to say on the subject is usually an accusation of mental instability.
Obama has it to prove that he is a natural born citizen, since he is the one who wants the office. None of us have to prove otherwise.
re #20;
"I do not see a connection between a childhood spent abroad and an appreciation of one’s ancestry and whether or not he is legally a US Citizen, so no."
The Constitutional requirement for president is natural born status, not simple citizenship. John McCain was also disqualified, having been born in Panama, though he was born to two US citizen parents, he was not born in the US.
Barry could have spent his entire life abroad, and have been so steeped in his Kenyan family identity that he spoke British English like a native Kenyan and he would still have been qualified for the presidency had he submitted proof of being born in the US.
Even if he is a naturalized citizen, he isn't a native born citizen. If he had the proof he could simply have submitted it instead of using expensive legal maneuvers to block inquiry into his birth records.
29 & Mr.H
I can provide a original birth certificate if requested. I did just that in 1977 when I applied for a U.S. Passport. So B.O. can't do the same???? It clearly states in the Article II. Section 1. of the Constitution states the President must be a natural born citizen. Now we all know B.O. and his ilk do not believe in the Constitution,but none the less what a fire storm if the truth be told. Sealed records always entail bad intentions, personal history at the very least could be embarassing if not destructive to ambitions.
Hitler had his family records sealed to hide his Jewish ancestory.
This isn't even the country it was when I was growing up in the 80s and early 90s. I didn't have to deal with the virtual reality prison or ultra managerial parents and schools that kids face nowadays. My boyhood was outdoors and unscripted. (God made boys to swim in farm ponds and pretend they are cowboys. He didn't create them to play video games, listen to Brittney Spears or to take state "assesment" tests on a weekly basis.)
In the 80's, too, there were very popular primetime television shows such as Hee Haw and The Dukes of Hazzard. Were they corny? Yes, thank God. They also represented traditional agrarian values, folk culture (in the case of Hee Haw), and were not bullied by political correctness (remember the General Lee and the Confederate Battle flag?). What happened? It was only 20-30 years ago that many American people identified with such things. Now we are represented by Dancing With the Stars and American Idol. It's creepy for sure but if the final transformation occured only within the past 20 years, then might it still be possible to reset the clock?