On the one hand a pessimist is constantly beset by the feeling that apologies are in order as if he had pulled everyone into the ditch during a serene walk in the countryside. On the other hand I cant pretend that a train hasnt jumped the track and that I dont see it barreling straight toward our scenic lane. A couple of weeks ago an Iowa judge sentenced a Hispanic youth to 16 years of jail for burning an LGBTQ flag... and this atrocity from the bench was reported almost nowhere. I heard of it through Michael Savage: the one print source Ive tracked down suppresses the offenders age and ethnicity. Im not entirely sure which is worse according my pessimists handbook: the insane verdict and penalty (for even the verdict was insane) or our news medias conspiratorial silence on all such stories and especially on perpetrator details" that conflict with other narratives. If a gun-loving white male Southerner had drawn the sentence....
And yes the outrageous serial-suffocation of the truth practiced by our mainstream news media is a conspiracyand yes that word still has both a meaning distinct from lunatic fantasy" and a presence in everyday events. Yet the operatives of George Soros can dictate vocabulary to the Fourth Estate with such effect that in the EU the non-compliant are deprived of their livelihood (cf. Michelle Malkins comments about the Rome Charter Association and Hope Not Hate both Soros-hatchlings in Open Borders Inc). Over here merely dropping the name Soros" draws charges of anti-Semitism" after a psychedelic demolition-derby of unconnected dots.
Meanwhile one-time conservative superstar Mike Lee is joining the congressional chorus of baboons who smell leopard because the president used his powers as commander-in-chief after a fashion just approved by both houses; and the real danger faced by us allattack from terrorists or cartel-hirelings that nestle abundantly in all our major cities is ignored by virtually every member of Congress while we debate whether Iranian rockets might start a war if they actually hit a target. As if we didnt have a war on low-but-rising simmer right here on our front door....
Ironically I registered my first burst of optimism since well before Christmas when I heard Dr. Peter Pry reveal (on Frank Gaffneys Secure Freedom Radio broadcast of 1/8) that our congressmen had accidentally done something useful while rubber-stamping the 3000 page National Defense Authorization Act read by none of them (and authorizing by the way the Presidents power to wage war). Secreted in the NDAA were three provisions that greatly advance the hardening of our frightfully vulnerable power grid. Indeed if theres one reason to dread the aftermath of Qassem Soleimanis elimination that has more nightmare-potential than a Hezbollah/MS-13 alliance its our susceptibility to blackouts lasting for months. Of course said alliance could exploit our insecure grid rather easily... but its already a ticking time-bomb without the ingredient of human evil. Just add a major solar flare pointed in Earths direction. A potentially catastrophic flood of ionized particles narrowly missed us in March of 2014.
I call the Congresss final green-lighting of energy protectionafter about two decades of criminal negligenceironic (in addition to moronic) because its probably a result of... well of nobodys having bothered to read the damn bill. Any damn bill. Are you getting that? The single greatest cause for rejoicing weve had so far this year has been Congresss runaway incompetence. Sometimes you can get to the watering hole unmolested while the baboons are slinging excrement at a rug with spots that fell out of a garbage truck.
Now exactly why Congress has shown such contempt for if not hostility to the concern over EMP raised by figures like Dr. Pry is a mystery that must draw more speculation than clear fact. Republicans at least seem to have been sufficiently bribed by power companies to keep the shadow of a virtual extinction-event stubbornly to their blind-eye side. (Every Republican has at least one blind eye: Dan Crenshaw just happens to wear a patch.) But Democrats? Can you imagine an issue better tailored to their conventional narrative? Evil private-sector monopolies bet the deaths of nine in ten Americans against the opportunity to make a marginal profit in a game of existential blackjack!" Whats up with Democrats? Theyre alarmed that plants enjoy carbon dioxide apparentlywhich composes less than a half of a hundredth of one percent of the atmosphere (and of that less than two percent is manmade). Their hair is on fire because California and Australia are burning... but the cause is always too much CO2 never idiotic environmental regulations prohibiting the culling of deadwood never careless human populations wandering hither and yon nomadically.
Well what about a genuine threat to human survival supported by hard science (as opposed to Michael Manns hockey-stick graph compiled from medieval measurements that he retrieved via Ouija board)? If our civilization is to be hanged for a lamb how about hanging it for a sheep? You can hang us for both you know guysthe mother of all necktie parties.
But no: Democrats and their shills in propaganda-outposts like The Weather Channel are as insistent that the EMP threat is pure hoax (thats right: conspiracy theory) as they are dead-red certain that fish will swim down the streets of Nashville and Kansas City by 2030. Why is the former anathema while the latter is rigid orthodoxy? Why?
I would observe that both positions have a critical element in common: the promotion of a Soros-like one-world government (euphemistically called the open society" in a phrase hijacked from libertarian Karl Popper). Whats the solution to climate change/global warming/global climate irregularity? Massive doses of atmospheric Ex-Lax? How about we just drive less by disposing of over-aggressive zoning laws and combining residential and commercial functions within neighborhoods as was done for 99.9 of human history (or so say 99.9 of scientists")? No nonone of that. The only possible answer is to create massive national-tending-toward-global bureaucracies that minutely decree what you eat where you vacation how you travel how many cows you can raise where your thermostat must sit... and this while banishing your source of employment from the face of the earth and confiscating any loot you may have saved to bequeath to your children. Period.
And how does hostility to securing the power grid dovetail into this maniacally statist program? President Obama told Dr. Pry explicitly upon shelving the report of the latters EMP Commissionwell almost explicitly. Read between the lines. The explanation offered for inaction was that in paying attention to our exposed grid we would make the Russians and the Chinese suppose that we considered them enemies. This would turn down the thermostat of international diplomacy and send a chill through the room. Ergo... no defenses.
Now such numbskull sensitivity makes sense if your ultimate objective is in fact to fuse the United States government with those of other nations that might wish to destroy us. As Diana West has lately chronicled (with painfully irrefutable accuracy) our elite has been kissing up to communist totalitarians since FDR used Lend-Lease to shuffle Stalin the tools needed to murder about forty million Russians and East Europeans (oh yeah... and defeat Hitler). The difference then was that we actually had the nuclear materials that we were passing under the table to Uncle Joe. Now we do not have a secure grid unlike Russia and the PRC. Were not sharing our trump cards with them because we have none; were discarding everything in our hand higher than a five.
That at least is the game we were playing until CongressDemocrats and Republicansentertained visions of dancing sugar plums in their heads as the NDAA was ramrodded through. Now were in the survival game again... just barely. Securing the grid may take years even without the Soros/utopian Deep State seeking to ambush the initiative at every turn. Our government let us never forget continues to be composed approximately half of ideological traitors: fools that is who arent necessarily on the take but who really believe that the world will be a much better place when just a chosen few such as they are allowed to micro-manage everyone elses life. And of the remaining half at least half are on the take.
Our judiciary is utterly out of control; our cities and towns are deeply infused with terrorist cells allowed through our porous border that merely await a signal; our news media tell lies with pride and conviction in the virtue of their project; our science" establishment is largely and increasingly funded by advocates of the socialist agenda; our universities promote handling opposition to science" with prison time; our representatives" hawk their race and sexual preference when they should be explaining how they plan to protect us; our young children are taught that all was sweet on earth until white Europeans appeared... the little Dutch boy hasnt enough fingers on his two hands to stanch the leaks in this dike. When something good happens the happy event is owed to the rampant incompetence laziness and cocksure stupidity of those who wield power. Mr. Hannity has rapid-fire exchanges with Mr. Jarrett and Mr. Gowdy about what the Constitution permits and what history" will say; but alas we have no Constitution. The Constitution is dead murdered by five hundred knives in the back and several hundred feet trampling from comfy benches. History? There is no history! History is the product of thoughtful informed fair-minded people casting a careful eye back over the past. We have no such people in a position to have their labors published.
After about two months of traveling a dark tunnel during the so-called holidays I begin to see a small prick of light... or else the neurons are firing randomly as carbon dioxide suffocates them! But since tis the season to wax prophetic I will dare to share a few grimly optimistic" thoughts next time. Dont say you havent been warned.
On the one hand a pessimist is constantly beset by the feeling that apologies are in order as if he had pulled everyone into the ditch during a serene walk in the countryside. On the other hand I cant pretend that a train hasnt jumped the track and that I dont see it barreling straight toward our scenic lane. A couple of weeks ago an Iowa judge sentenced a Hispanic youth to 16 years of jail for burning an LGBTQ flag... and this atrocity from the bench was reported almost nowhere. I heard of it through Michael Savage: the one print source Ive tracked down suppresses the offenders age and ethnicity. Im not entirely sure which is worse according my pessimists handbook: the insane verdict and penalty (for even the verdict was insane) or our news medias conspiratorial silence on all such stories and especially on perpetrator details" that conflict with other narratives. If a gun-loving white male Southerner had drawn the sentence....
And yes the outrageous serial-suffocation of the truth practiced by our mainstream news media is a conspiracyand yes that word still has both a meaning distinct from lunatic fantasy" and a presence in everyday events. Yet the operatives of George Soros can dictate vocabulary to the Fourth Estate with such effect that in the EU the non-compliant are deprived of their livelihood (cf. Michelle Malkins comments about the Rome Charter Association and Hope Not Hate both Soros-hatchlings in Open Borders Inc). Over here merely dropping the name Soros" draws charges of anti-Semitism" after a psychedelic demolition-derby of unconnected dots.
Meanwhile one-time conservative superstar Mike Lee is joining the congressional chorus of baboons who smell leopard because the president used his powers as commander-in-chief after a fashion just approved by both houses; and the real danger faced by us allattack from terrorists or cartel-hirelings that nestle abundantly in all our major cities is ignored by virtually every member of Congress while we debate whether Iranian rockets might start a war if they actually hit a target. As if we didnt have a war on low-but-rising simmer right here on our front door....
Ironically I registered my first burst of optimism since well before Christmas when I heard Dr. Peter Pry reveal (on Frank Gaffneys Secure Freedom Radio broadcast of 1/8) that our congressmen had accidentally done something useful while rubber-stamping the 3000 page National Defense Authorization Act read by none of them (and authorizing by the way the Presidents power to wage war). Secreted in the NDAA were three provisions that greatly advance the hardening of our frightfully vulnerable power grid. Indeed if theres one reason to dread the aftermath of Qassem Soleimanis elimination that has more nightmare-potential than a Hezbollah/MS-13 alliance its our susceptibility to blackouts lasting for months. Of course said alliance could exploit our insecure grid rather easily... but its already a ticking time-bomb without the ingredient of human evil. Just add a major solar flare pointed in Earths direction. A potentially catastrophic flood of ionized particles narrowly missed us in March of 2014.
I call the Congresss final green-lighting of energy protectionafter about two decades of criminal negligenceironic (in addition to moronic) because its probably a result of... well of nobodys having bothered to read the damn bill. Any damn bill. Are you getting that? The single greatest cause for rejoicing weve had so far this year has been Congresss runaway incompetence. Sometimes you can get to the watering hole unmolested while the baboons are slinging excrement at a rug with spots that fell out of a garbage truck.
Now exactly why Congress has shown such contempt for if not hostility to the concern over EMP raised by figures like Dr. Pry is a mystery that must draw more speculation than clear fact. Republicans at least seem to have been sufficiently bribed by power companies to keep the shadow of a virtual extinction-event stubbornly to their blind-eye side. (Every Republican has at least one blind eye: Dan Crenshaw just happens to wear a patch.) But Democrats? Can you imagine an issue better tailored to their conventional narrative? Evil private-sector monopolies bet the deaths of nine in ten Americans against the opportunity to make a marginal profit in a game of existential blackjack!" Whats up with Democrats? Theyre alarmed that plants enjoy carbon dioxide apparentlywhich composes less than a half of a hundredth of one percent of the atmosphere (and of that less than two percent is manmade). Their hair is on fire because California and Australia are burning... but the cause is always too much CO2 never idiotic environmental regulations prohibiting the culling of deadwood never careless human populations wandering hither and yon nomadically.
Well what about a genuine threat to human survival supported by hard science (as opposed to Michael Manns hockey-stick graph compiled from medieval measurements that he retrieved via Ouija board)? If our civilization is to be hanged for a lamb how about hanging it for a sheep? You can hang us for both you know guysthe mother of all necktie parties.
But no: Democrats and their shills in propaganda-outposts like The Weather Channel are as insistent that the EMP threat is pure hoax (thats right: conspiracy theory) as they are dead-red certain that fish will swim down the streets of Nashville and Kansas City by 2030. Why is the former anathema while the latter is rigid orthodoxy? Why?
I would observe that both positions have a critical element in common: the promotion of a Soros-like one-world government (euphemistically called the open society" in a phrase hijacked from libertarian Karl Popper). Whats the solution to climate change/global warming/global climate irregularity? Massive doses of atmospheric Ex-Lax? How about we just drive less by disposing of over-aggressive zoning laws and combining residential and commercial functions within neighborhoods as was done for 99.9 of human history (or so say 99.9 of scientists")? No nonone of that. The only possible answer is to create massive national-tending-toward-global bureaucracies that minutely decree what you eat where you vacation how you travel how many cows you can raise where your thermostat must sit... and this while banishing your source of employment from the face of the earth and confiscating any loot you may have saved to bequeath to your children. Period.
And how does hostility to securing the power grid dovetail into this maniacally statist program? President Obama told Dr. Pry explicitly upon shelving the report of the latters EMP Commissionwell almost explicitly. Read between the lines. The explanation offered for inaction was that in paying attention to our exposed grid we would make the Russians and the Chinese suppose that we considered them enemies. This would turn down the thermostat of international diplomacy and send a chill through the room. Ergo... no defenses.
Now such numbskull sensitivity makes sense if your ultimate objective is in fact to fuse the United States government with those of other nations that might wish to destroy us. As Diana West has lately chronicled (with painfully irrefutable accuracy) our elite has been kissing up to communist totalitarians since FDR used Lend-Lease to shuffle Stalin the tools needed to murder about forty million Russians and East Europeans (oh yeah... and defeat Hitler). The difference then was that we actually had the nuclear materials that we were passing under the table to Uncle Joe. Now we do not have a secure grid unlike Russia and the PRC. Were not sharing our trump cards with them because we have none; were discarding everything in our hand higher than a five.
That at least is the game we were playing until CongressDemocrats and Republicansentertained visions of dancing sugar plums in their heads as the NDAA was ramrodded through. Now were in the survival game again... just barely. Securing the grid may take years even without the Soros/utopian Deep State seeking to ambush the initiative at every turn. Our government let us never forget continues to be composed approximately half of ideological traitors: fools that is who arent necessarily on the take but who really believe that the world will be a much better place when just a chosen few such as they are allowed to micro-manage everyone elses life. And of the remaining half at least half are on the take.
Our judiciary is utterly out of control; our cities and towns are deeply infused with terrorist cells allowed through our porous border that merely await a signal; our news media tell lies with pride and conviction in the virtue of their project; our science" establishment is largely and increasingly funded by advocates of the socialist agenda; our universities promote handling opposition to science" with prison time; our representatives" hawk their race and sexual preference when they should be explaining how they plan to protect us; our young children are taught that all was sweet on earth until white Europeans appeared... the little Dutch boy hasnt enough fingers on his two hands to stanch the leaks in this dike. When something good happens the happy event is owed to the rampant incompetence laziness and cocksure stupidity of those who wield power. Mr. Hannity has rapid-fire exchanges with Mr. Jarrett and Mr. Gowdy about what the Constitution permits and what history" will say; but alas we have no Constitution. The Constitution is dead murdered by five hundred knives in the back and several hundred feet trampling from comfy benches. History? There is no history! History is the product of thoughtful informed fair-minded people casting a careful eye back over the past. We have no such people in a position to have their labors published.
After about two months of traveling a dark tunnel during the so-called holidays I begin to see a small prick of light... or else the neurons are firing randomly as carbon dioxide suffocates them! But since tis the season to wax prophetic I will dare to share a few grimly optimistic" thoughts next time. Dont say you havent been warned.