“Social Issues in Local Races” by Patty Sward, Commissioner Candidate

With smug indifference, Candidate Sward dismisses all questions in her bid for higher office about “social issues” as “irrelevant.”  Before even hearing the question, her answer is “irrelevant.” Talk about dictatorial hubris.

The left turned our county commission into a battleground where every issue, no matter how trivial, devolves into Gaia’s last stand in Elbert County — a huge “social issue.”

But don’t ask don’t tell Ms. Sward, as if there’s any doubt about which way she’ll jump on the question, and as if we should not know.

Oppressors: White male heterosexuals

Bias: Basing scholarship on reason and evidence

Patriarchal models: Objectivity, logic, rational discourse, mathematics, science, the Bible, the U.S. Constitution, family values, motherhood and apple pie

Politically aware: Politically far-left

Being divisive: Deviating from the beliefs of the politically aware (see politically aware); synonymous with being hostile

Liberal arts education: Political indoctrination

Guilt: Feeling bad about your genes, but not about your actions

Women and men: The forces of good and evil in the dualism of gender (see gender)

Diversity: The gathering together of as large a group as possible of discontents, deviants and social misfits while excluding, suppressing and bashing conservatives, Republicans, evangelicals, adherents of historical religions, serious students and anyone resistant to indoctrination

Sensitivity: Being deferential toward and extraordinarily circumspect around those included in diversity while gratuitously attacking those excluded from diversity (see diversity)

Greater diversity: Doing a better job of weeding out those excluded from diversity (see diversity)

Being exclusive: Providing equal opportunity and equal protection under the law, regardless of race or sex

Hermeneutics/Deconstructionism: Interpreting texts from the perspective of gender (see gender) with a rationalization by anyone with a French name

Victims: All those not fitting the definition of oppressor (see oppressors) and officially recognized far-left groups; does not include refugees from leftist totalitarian countries, such as Vietnamese boat people, Cuban immigrants, etc.

Sexism: The discrimination against and stereotyping of women or the failure to discriminate against and stereotype men

Racism: The belief held by white oppressors (see oppressors) that their race is superior to that of non-white victims (see Victims) or the failure to apologize for one’s own race if that race should be white; term is not applicable to non-whites

Moderates: The Sandinistas, Castro, Lenin, Mao, Hillary Clinton and all those who are politically aware (see politically aware)

Ultra-conservatives/the far right: All those to the right of moderates (see moderates)

Leftists: The empty set; exist only in the rhetoric of ultra-conservatives (see ultra-conservatives)

Inclusive language: An ostentatious form of new speak which seeks to remove the generic use of ‘man’ and ‘he’ (along with common sense and eloquence) from the language, e.g. “What are persons, that thou art mindful of her/him? and the child of persons, that thou doest care for him/her?”

Censorship: A good thing when done by politically aware (see poltically unaware), e.g. punishing owners of baseball teams for alleged comments made during private conversations; a bad thing when done by ultra-conservatives (see ultra-conservatives).

Iconoclasm: 1. An activity self-righteously pursued by the politically aware; 2. an activity considered criminal when the icons of the politically aware are involved (see politically aware)

Iconoclast: One who can dish it out but can’t take it

“Welcome Democrats!”

“Forget carpooling, bicycling, walking, or your scooter.  We encourage you to drive.”

“Spend your carbon credit money on something worthwhile.”

“Where the only thing GREEN is the paint.”

Caution: Leftists who have had their sense of humor surgically removed are hereby excused.

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Overview of the anti-alcohol industry

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Democrats have campaigned against Bush ever since the Wednesday following the 2004 general election, but when Bush makes a comment about appeasement, which arguably may or may not apply to a Democratic position, the left has a hissy. I want to take them seriously, I really do, but they won’t be satisfied until all conservative views are rubbed out.

By JAMES TARANTO

You Probably Think This Speech Is About You

President Bush spoke before Israel’s Knesset yesterday. According to Barack Obama, Bush’s speech was a “political attack” on Barack Obama, as the Jerusalem Post reports: (more…)

Mr. Boisseau of Golden needs to raise his awareness of the “Lights On” all over Asia. In building after building, block after block, mile after mile, and city after city of crowded Asia, the lights are all on at night. Buildings are covered in massive colorful light displays that outline the geometries of buildings, create interesting abstract shapes, and light the night for the sake of art and visual stimulation. Every night of the year the buildings of Asia light up. Are they wasting energy on a colossal scale that dwarfs conservation efforts in the U.S.? Absolutely! Are these societies “precarious,” to use Mr. Boisseau’s adjective? Well, their economies are growing like gangbusters with currencies making mince meat out of the dollar as they produce goods for the world and accumulate wealth. Years ago, a philosophy professor of mine characterized the West’s solution to economic scarcity as a “get more” approach, as opposed to the mentality of those with a zero-sum view of the world which he characterized as a “want less” approach. His point was that the first approach led to better societies and happier people. Today Asia follows what used to be the Western approach, while back home in the West the Boisseaus want us to feel guilty, wasteful, to accept inconvenience, to see our technology as having led us to precarious times, in sum, to “want less” instead of “get more.” This neo-Luddite claptrap never solved a real problem. Moreover, guilt tripping the West into saving a few pennies of energy while the rest of the world lives on an energy bender is absurd. It’s a perpetual guilt trip that can never resolve. How convenient for the Boisseaus of the world. Without doing or creating a thing, they get perpetual moral superiority.

How about we leave the lights on, study longer and harder, and create some real solutions.

“[I]t is mistaken to treat these people as bullies, willfully precluding debate by hurling epithets like “racist” and “sexist.” This analysis implies an insecurity of these people which they do not feel. They thrill as much to the idea of open dialogue as anyone — but they think that a radical leftist perspective is truth, not opinion. To them, dialogue about a conservative perspective’s correctness is no more legitimate than dialogue about heliocentrism.”

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FITNA part 1
FITNA part 2

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Pat Condell’s excellent commentary The Religion of Fear

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Evan Coyne Maloney’s critically important movie is finally available on-line. The mp4 file is under $10, and at 735 Megs takes a while to download.

It is a tour-de-force essential critique of American colleges.

https://store.indoctrinate-u.com/

Mark Steyn Is Not Alone

By Brooke M. Goldstein

Published 1/15/2008 1:08:45 AM

Award-winning author Mark Steyn has been summoned to appear before two Canadian Human Rights Commissions on vague allegations of “subject[ing] Canadian Muslims to hatred and contempt” and being “flagrantly Islamophobic” after Maclean’s magazine published an excerpt from his book, America Alone.The public inquisition of Steyn has triggered outrage among Canadians and Americans who value free speech, but it should not come as a surprise. Steyn’s predicament is just the latest salvo in a campaign of legal actions designed to punish and silence the voices of anyone who speaks out against Islamism, Islamic terrorism, or its sources of financing. (more…)

Monuments to Wimpdom

By Duncan Maxwell Anderson

What do these modern memorials to heroism and sacrifice have in common?

* The Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial. Designed by college student Maya Lin, it was unveiled in Washington, D.C. on Veterans’ Day 25 years ago. It’s a black granite thingy-a long, plain wall that lines a big hole dug 10 feet into the ground. It lists the names of the war’s 58,000 fallen Americans and . . . nothing else.

In her first proposal to build the memorial, Miss Lin explained its purpose: “We, the living, are brought to a concrete realization of these deaths.” That’s it. Not to honor what they did. Just a reminder that they’re dead. Thanks.

* The Flight 93 National Memorial. The National Park Service has decided to erect the “Bowl of Embrace,” in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where United Flight 93 crashed to earth on September 11, 2001. Here’s the plan: For their heroism in overpowering four Islamic hijackers and foiling their attempt to destroy the White House or the Capitol, the passengers are to be honored with . . . an empty field. It’s little comfort that the field is surrounded by a stand of red maple trees planted in an arc that eerily resembles the crescent of Islam. The design’s original name: “The Crescent of Embrace.”

Like the Vietnam memorial, the monument itself has no inscription honoring anyone’s actions-just 1970s-style wind chimes and the names of dead people inscribed on glass cubes.

* The National September 11 Memorial. On the spot where New York’s mighty World Trade Center stood, the Lower Manhattan Development Corp.’s anointed designer, Michael Arad, decrees that there be . . . an American eagle? How about a statue of the three firemen raising the American flag over the rubble? Heck no. Just two huge, square, “reflecting” pools. Maybe you can gaze at your navel through them. In a complex slated to cost $1 billion, this urban swamp is called “Reflecting Absence.”

Absence, indeed. What these modern war memorials have in common with each other is nothing. They portray nothingness. They have no people in them, never mind men carrying guns or swords, statues of Winged Victory, or even doves of peace. Just death and names — grief without glory. (more…)

Peace Prize Committee Disbands By William S. Smith : 19 Oct 2007 http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=101907A

“I always thought the peace prize was a bunch of crap given to whiney, self-aggrandizing, busybodies by a bunch of self-important, narcissistic gullible, retired, left-wing, Norwegian, gasbag politicos.” Senator Inouye

The Trouble is the West

“The Western mind-set—that if we respect them, they’re going to respect us, that if we indulge and appease and condone and so on, the problem will go away—is delusional. The problem is not going to go away. Confront it [Islam], or it’s only going to get bigger.”  

Ayaan Hirsi Ali