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"Capitalism harnesses human self-interest.  Socialism exhausts itself

trying to kill it. 

Leftist politicians, who seize and dole-out other  people's

assets, initially see themselves as humanitarians.  

Eventually,  they

conclude they are a superior class, and treat themselves accordingly. 

They  make

laws to which they are not subject.  They vote themselves, and their

stooges, exclusive privileges and benefits.  

They no longer 'serve.'   They rule!"

-- Bowles

A Rant...

I wrote this in a huff...to someone who continues to play the "party" game, where membership in a political party is more important than the survival of the nation:

It really isn’t about Republicans and Democrats, gentlemen. Both can be, are, and have been anti-American, big-government, greedy, fat-cat idiots.

It’s about Conservative/Libertarian, i.e., small, constitutionally limited government, versus big-government & their crony fat-cat corporate blood-suckers (of whatever persuasion)...using government to benefit themselves at the expense of others.

It is unfettered POWER of government gone amok that is the problem. And THAT is what is wrong with Obama and all his “progressive” minions...and other liberal idiots. They, BY DEFINITION, see government as a tool they can control and use to their own benefit, and punish those they disagree with.

Conservatives/Libertarians understand that as George Washington said, “Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”

There are, no doubt, Republicans who would like to use big government to advance their personal/social/religious/monetary agendas. That is antithetical to Conservatism. Conservatives—whether Democrat or Republican—are, BY DEFINITION, against any government grown beyond the limits delineated by the Constitution.

That is the ground we have to fight on...between those that believe government is the solution....and those that know government is the PROBLEM.

The government needs to get out of the pockets of ALL Americans. It needs to stop taking the rightful property of those that earn it...whether rich, poor, middle-class, Republican or Democrat.

It isn’t about what letter is after your name. It’s about whether you want to be a free citizen or a serf.

And ALL Americans used to know that.

Not bad for an angry rant, if I do say so myself.

The Gunslinger

The Media's Favorite Dictator

We live in a madhouse. I just don't understand the determined refusal to accept reality.

The horror is grossly obvious, for everyone to see...if only they will.

Shame, shame, shame on the United States Media....all the world's media. Shame as they help deliver mankind into the jaws of tyranny.

The Gunslinger

Personal Enemy

I realize it's obvious to most of us....but this is said so well, it should be in distribution...

American Thinker...Obama and Oil; Greasing America's Decline

And then there's the legal problem with Obama's view. By what right does Obama presume to tell Americans how to live and drive? Where in the Constitution is the authority for this breathtaking assumption of power?

We should expect that the same radical agenda lurks behind Obama's self-righteous and sanctimonious platitudes regarding bans on future drilling. The BP disaster is likely just what Obama was looking for, the crisis on which to hang America's economic decline. To listen to Obama rant, the uninformed would think that large oil spills are a common occurrence, and that no technology exists to prevent them. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Spills involving sea-based rigs account for only 2 percent of all oil spills, making the BP disaster indeed rare. And oil spills have dramatically reduced over the last two decades.

Surely President Obama is aware of this information. Therefore, his actions must be seen as those of an opportunist. But what opportunity is he pursuing, if the result is the destruction of American wealth and badly needed jobs? The answer: dependency. Just as the lack of refinery capacity was felt at the pump and all over the economy, a cessation in drilling will shift supply almost completely to foreign sources in order to meet demand, increasing gas prices to punitive levels and again affecting all areas of the economy. Obama knows this, and yet he proceeds at breakneck speed. Oil and gas well-drilling companies employ over 60,000 Americans, jobs that would surely be threatened if Obama's moratorium on drilling goes forward. High prices combined with the ripple of unemployment that will be the consequence of any ban on drilling will make yet more Americans utterly dependent on President Obama for their very sustenance.

If past behavior is any indicator, what is good for Obama is not good for America. Energy is wealth, and oil is America's primary source of energy. Eliminating drilling eliminates potential American wealth. Speak out in support of business and freedom. Reject Obama's thinly disguised attack on American prosperity.

Those who wish to, may say that King Øbie loves America, but you will never convince me of that. He's been her enemy since he was born...wherever...

ØBAMA IS TRYING TO RUIN MY PROSPERITY, AND MAKE ME DEPENDENT ON GOVERNMENT FOR MY SURVIVAL.

ØBAMA IS TRYING TO MAKE ME A SLAVE, A SERF, AND TAKE AWAY MY FREEDOM AND MY HERITAGE.

AND I TAKE IT FUCKING PERSONALLY, JUST LIKE YOSSARIAN (ref: Catch 22).

The Gunslinger

The Consistent Argument against the Perpetual Enemy

This was made the year I was born. And nothing needs to be changed to apply it to what's happening today. The same scumbags have been trying to steal our freedom and our human dignity for at least 100 years. And "John Q. Public"....today known best as a Tea Party Patriot is once again the one that sees the danger and is shouting "STOP!"

Mind your own business!

The Era of Unlimited Government....by Deroy Murdock at NRO.

It might be time to remember:  "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, but an instrument for the people to restrain the government." - Patrick Henry

Yeah...the same guy who said: "Give me Liberty of Give me Death!"

'Bout time we started listening to him.

The Gunslinger
(Enemy of the enemies of America, foreign AND domestic)

Earth Day My Ass

Well.  "Earth" Day.

Let's be clear: It's just a cover. It's Lenin's Birthday.

The guy who established "Earth Day" is a big fat communist, in love with Vladimir Lenin...the Russian Dictator. And on the 100th anniversary of his birth created the tissue thin excuse for us all to celebrate Lenin's Birthday, called "Earth Day".

Love that we celebrate that in America...and American Schools.  Yeah?

David Ziemer writes about it.

April 22 is Earth Day. Very appropriately, and not by any means coincidentally, Earth Day is celebrated on the birthday of the socialist tyrant Vladimir Lenin.

It's appropriate that the two are celebrated on the same day, because there is no relevant difference between the socialist and environmentalist agendas in this country. Saving the environment is simply a euphemism for eviscerating the rights of property owners and creating a dictatorship.

Alexander Marriott at Capitalism Magazine also comments.

Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Premier after Joseph Stalin, decided in 1955 that the country should celebrate their national political philosophy, communism. He chose as the day, April 22, Vladimir Lenin's birthday, a tribute to the founder of the Soviet Union. When environmentalists decided that the Earth deserved a day of celebration in 1970, they could have picked any day of the year, as no one knows the exact day date of the Earth's birthday. They chose Lenin's birthday, just as Khrushchev had done. Was this just a coincidence? I think not.

Don Surber of the Charleston Daily Mail has some interesting old quotes from the hysterics of the 70's. Turns out they weren't all that prescient. (D'oh!)

"It is already too late to avoid mass starvation," Hayes said.

"Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa.

"By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions . . . By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine."

He needs to stop going to that gypsy fortune telling machine at the carnival for his forecasts.

The Gunslinger
(I don't celebrate Lenin's birthday—no matter what they call it!)

This is what you call...."Speaking Truth to Power"!

A LETTER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

April 10, 2010

by Jon Voight

In one year the American people are witnessing the greatest lie that is cleverly orchestrated by Pres Obama and his whole administration. The lie is a potent aggression that feeds the needs of people who either have not educated themselves enough to understand the assault upon us all, or the very poor and needy who live to be taken care of. President Obama feeds these people poison, giving them the idea that they are entitled to take from the wealthier, who have lived and worked in a democracy that understands that capitalism is the only truth that keeps a nation healthy and fed.

Now, the lie goes very deep, and president Obama has been cleverly trained in the Alinski method, and it would be very important that every American knows what that method is. It is a socialistic, Marxist teaching, and with it, little by little, he rapes this nation, taking down our defenses, making new language for the Islamic extremists.

The world who looked up to us, as a symbol of hope and prosperity, now wonders…“What will become of the entire world if America is losing its power?”

The American people who understand exactly what is taking place have come together in the thousands, vowing to try to stay together as a unit of love and freedom, for all men and women, from all walks of life, shivering to think that this once great nation will be a third world country.

This will be the first president to ever weaken the United States of America. President Obama uses his aggression and arrogance for his own agenda against the will of the American people, when he should be using his will and aggression against our enemies. Every loving American for peace, and truth, and the security of our nation, must come out and join the Tea Parties in their states. The opposition will continue their tactics: they will lie and plant their own bullies amongst us. Everyone must pay close attention to who stands next to them. We can weed out the liars and agitators.

Let us all stay in God’s light.
Let no man put us under.
We can and we will prevail.
God bless us all!

Why Stuff doesn't make us "Materialistic"

America is an IDEA. It's not about an accumulation of cool "stuff".

Communists, aka Democrats/Progressives/Socialists are all about the "stuff". They see ours and want it. And they believe that when they get it, they'll have what we have. That they'll be "equal".

What they don't get is that our stuff is just the byproduct of our IDEA. And without it there just isn't that much stuff to go around.

What's even funnier is that they call us "materialistic" because we've got stuff. But from our point of view, it's just what accumulates when you implement our IDEA.

And of course it's the Commies that are completely materialistic—they are completely obsessed about our stuff, how much we have, where we got it, how they can get it and how to prevent us ever having more of it than they.

It's all they think about. It's all they talk about. Just listen to them. Whether it's clothing, housing, education, broadband, televisions, shoes or health care...they want our stuff.

And they never, ever, get the IDEA! And they always end up losing all their stuff, and then want more of ours.

Losers by definition. Losers by historical fact. Losers till the end.

What's even funnier is that when they've used up, broken or lost all the stuff they've stolen or wheedled from us...they've got nothing again, and no prospects or any more. But as long as we keep our Idea first and foremost, and don't worry about stuff....we'll have more of it than we'll ever need.

You can't miss that point when you compare the quality of life in America to everyone else on the planet...including Europeans.  Our IDEA created, innovated, manufactured, imagined, invented more stuff than the world knew what to do with.

And they all still think it's about the stuff.

I guess it's hard when you're just looking in the window at our success. You don't understand the inner workings, the inner life...all you see is the grand, glorious, sparkling, shining stuff.

But their ignorance does not excuse their attempts to murder our American IDEA. And I for one won't tolerate it, or ever forgive it.

I will die to defend the American IDEA, if necessary, kill to preserve it. And so will millions of others.

Our domestic enemies should really try and understand this...

The Gunslinger
(fair warning)

Who you gonna call?

Break the Matrix's Tom Mullen has a suggestion.

Make Obama Watch Ghostbusters

And after reading his essay...it makes perfect sense.

The Gunslinger, EOTIS
Para Bellum

Growing Up Communist

James Lewis at American Thinker says that it isn't Øbama's blackness that is the problem, it's his redness.

The French called Hitler a "revanchiste" --- a Kaiser soldier of World War I who was aching to avenge that defeat. Hitler made no secret of his desire for revenge. He made it a Nazi slogan. Well, you can have ideological revanchisme as well -- for instance, a Marxist determination to take revenge for America's victory against world Communism in the Cold War.

Read the article: Øbama the Red Avenger 

So the answer to the constant charges of racism is:

"I don't mind that he's black; I mind that he's RED!"

Nice.

The Gunslinger, EOTIS
Para Bellum

What Dunn REALLY Meant to Say...

Roger Kimball at Pajamas Media on what Mao-loving Anita Dunn really demonstrates about the Øbama Adminstration...what America voted for....versus what America got.

It's all I can do not to scream....."DUH!"

He ends with:

The question is how much worse will things have to get before the penny drops, before the scales fall from the collective eyes of the electorate? When will voters begin that long countermarch through the institutions in order to take back the country? If not now, when?

Amen, brother....we're working on it.

The Gunslinger
Enemy of the Imperial State

Honduras Fail?

Zalaya is back. And that can't be good , especially when you've got NGO assholes saying things like this:

"...coordinator for DanChurchAid (DCA) Katja Levin, who is actually visiting Central America. ... also tells that there is an increasing conscience within the democratic movement in Honduras about the need for constitutional changes that can further a more democratic and just society.

'The positive aspects of the actual crisis are that a lot of Hondurans no longer passively are sitting and looking at corrupt politicians and an elite that is getting still richer. Now the Hondurans have grasped the opportunity and the courage to react and to think that a change is possible' says Katja Levin from Central America.

That is Communist code-speak. Got all the right words: "increasing conscience", "democratic movement", "constitutional changes" (the pesky constitution that legally prevents Zalaya from proclaiming himself "Dictator for Life"), "more democratic and JUST society"

Oh, and don't for get the "the opportunity...to think that a CHANGE is possible..."

Yes we can.

And an entire world of incipient dictators - now including Europe and the United States, apparently, persist in calling the removal of the Chavez imitator, Zalaya, a "coup". Doesn't that mean they're calling the Honduran Supreme Court, national Legislature, Army, and the Constitution....illegal? Am I missing something?

And they call the Zalaya supporters "rights activists". Whose "rights" exactly?

Those of Communists who feel they have the "right" to enslave another population? Who feel they have the "right" to violate their national constitution? Who feel they have a "right" to declare their boy President for life"....no matter what every branch of a duly constituted constitutional government has decided?

The People of Honduras are in for a shit-storm. And if they prevail, they'll be our hemisphere's Israel...where every surrounding country is hostile and major players in their world are out to destroy them. Of course, it won't be Iran as the biggest threat and bully in their neighborhood threatening their soverignty and freedom...it'll be the United States.

When the fuck did THIS happen?

The Gunslinger

Celebrating the Murder of Millions

Empire State Building turns Red & Yellow for the 60th Anniversary of Red China.

Do the Chinese decorate their tallest buildings with Red, White and Blue on the Fourth of July?

This is totally beyond understanding.

What is the MATTER with these people?

The Gunslinger
Enemy of the Imperial State

Why so "Liberal"?

This is lovely:

We keep letting the totalitarian define the words.

Stop calling the totalitarians “liberals”.

Today’s totalitarians in America are a complex mix of ideological leftovers of history (anti-Western racism, populism, marxism in its poor soviet interpretation which is even more miserable than “true” marxism, Third-World-ism of the post-WW II times, jacobinism, dirigisme of the Lenin- Stalin -Mao style, thuggery of the Pol-Pot style, unionism of the Twenties, trendy leftism of the “caviar-left” of Western Europe, elitism, intellectualism with nihilistic roots)…and probably more…

ALL, but not “liberals”.

From commenter Sherab Zangpo at Pajamas Media

"Leftovers of History". Elegant phrase. Must remember.

He forgot the "Progressivism" of Woodrow Wilson & the Eugenicists (sounds like a band)...otherwise, quite a nice list.

The Gunslinger
Enemy of the Imperial State

More on Jones and Beck

Politico on the Van Jones story.

They don't discuss whether anything Glenn Beck or other Conservatives said about Jones was actually true. They instead talk about how powerful Beck has become; that he can get one of the King's men ousted. Of course, there is also the required implication that Beck only took on Jones because one of Jones' organs, Color of Change, attacked Beck through his sponsors—making it more or less personal, rather than grounded in principles of the American republic as against Jones' self-avowed goals to "change the whole system", to end capitalism, to redistribute ALL the wealth, etc.

The story gives a lot of attention to the "game" or who won and who lost, whose side everyone is on, but pays scant attention to the facts that Beck has spent weeks exposing.

They imply that it's partisan and opinion wrangling, rather than an honest response to facts that have, in spite of the White House and the Left, finally been reported.

But even to Politico those apparently don't matter. It's the horse-race, the power-plays, the winners and losers that matter.

These guys should stop taking lessons from the Legacy media and get with the program.

The Gunslinger
Enemy of the Imperial State (EOTIS)

Fidel's Endorsement

Call me crazy. But is there any better endorsement of one's position than being castigated by Fidel Castro?

Is there any better indicator of the justice and truth and goodness of your cause, than being denounced by Fidel Castro?

I didn't think so.

Fidel Castro Says Racist Right-Wingers Fight Obama

Seriously, communists are so lame and behind the trends—silly Fidel still thinks calling us "Racists" is going to bother us!

The Gunslinger
Enemy of the Imperial State (EOTIS)
Wolf pack

Another Wise Man

Saul Alinsky-ites, ACORN, SEIU, Barack Øbama, Marxists, Progressives, Leftists, Apollo Alliance, Socialists, Communists, Congress, Liberals, Bleeding Hearts, Democrats (and Republicans), listen the hell up:

"It is often said that power corrupts. But, it is equally important to realize that weakness corrupts too!  Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are faults of the weak.  Resentment on the part of the weak springs not from injustice done to them, but from their own sense of inadequacy and  impotence." 

--Eric Hoffer, 1980

Ring a bell? Strike a cord? Sound familiar?

The Gunslinger

Enemy of the Imperial State (EOTIS)

Wolfpack

Pretty Much Says it All