Ok, tell me if this weird, but I've had 'thing' for witches, the conical hats, the black cats, all of it, since I was a little kid. I think I have Samantha Stevens to thank for that. She was beautiful.
Smoking pot does not make you a Libertarian!
I don’t get that. Who said all tax cuts are good. Why shouldn’t people be able to keep more of their money, anyway? What policy wrecked the economy? Tax cuts? What wrecked the economy was the trillions of dollars in toxic assets accumulated by Fannie Mae under the tenure of Franklin Raines. What wrecked the economy was government interference in the mortgage market through the Community Reinvestment Act. What wrecked the economy was the global financial system being underpinned by derivative financial instruments that were, in reality, impossible to valuate, loose money policy, and an obstructionist Congress which rebuffed any attempt to reign in Fannie Mae. Are you really buying all that class envy, “fat cats on Wall Street”, Obama rally, SEIU crap?
Intellectuals. Speaking of double standards, the Left trumpets intellectualism when it suits it, but quickly fall back on anti-intellectualism and anti-realism—it’s all a dream of God, man (toke on joint here)—subjectivist crap (unfailingly) when confronted with facts. That’s part of their program: they should always be called out on it. I love the anti-intellectual charge! How freaking cliché! A great read on the subject is Thomas Sowell’s ‘The Intellectual and Society’—not an anti-intellectual screed—Sowell, himself, being an intellectual, but a very necessary refutation of the presumed superiority of intellectualism as opposed to real world, objective experience. He makes the point that intellectuals live in insular, self-congratulatory bubbles where their ideas are rarely tested. When they are, the results are often disastrous. If a civil engineer designs a bridge and the bridge falls down, he won’t be building another bridge. An intellectual, like Chomsky, who supports the Khmer Rouge can, thirty five years later, still be fawned over by the pseudo-intelligentsia of Hollywood as the smartest man in America.
God, she's awful. Both these women are just awful.
Ad hominem, ad hominem, back-handed ad hominem, reductio ad absurdum, blah, blah, blah—not once did this freak show challenge conservative ideas. Not once was there any kind of cogent refutation of the principles of American Conservatism or Modernism. Instead it's, “lying…they know they’re lying…he’s a junkie”, blah, blah, blah. She asks how Limbaugh can possibly have so many listeners despite his personal issues. It never occurs to these people that his listeners listen because Limbaugh makes cogent arguments for smaller government and for individual liberty on a daily basis which stand in stark contrast to the relativistic Post Modern bilge we’re all stewing in. Sure he ate pills for a few years; he’s still right most of the time. Jeanine can put the weed down long enough to spew some hate—good for her—but, she’s still wrong: and no umpteenth reading of the Chomsky Reader is going to change that.
Socialism can't exist in benign forms. It never has. That's the point. In order to establish forced equality, you have to use the coercive police power of the state. Socialism in the end has to be totalitarian. In the end, totalitarianism must become authoritarian. I think Roger Waters (a big, rich commie, by the way) wrote 'Money', not the Beatles. Ummm...
The smartest man in America! When he’s not running interference in the press for the Khmer Rouge while decrying America’s shameful and wanton destruction of socialism’s ‘good examples’, he’s praising Holocaust deniers like Robert Faurisson. I love his notion of ‘Libertarian Socialism’, obviously the political orientation of jumbo shrimp suffering freezer burn.
Socialism can work! Of the several major varieties of socialist theory I can immediately think of, one comes to mind as having worked quite swimmingly at least in the short term. National Socialism was a smashing success; of course, they learned early they had to efficiently and effectively murder those class enemies and enemies of the Volk whose wealth they…er…appropriated. As a system, Socialism does seem to have had, generally speaking, more than a few dark days: the Khmer Rouge, the People’s Temple, the Cultural Revolution, the Holodomor, and the Holocaust…
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