Month: May 2014

Can you teach birds to be pathological liars?

A an excellent essay of the evils of the liberal progressive agenda.

YEAH! IT’S CALLED HARD WORK AND RESPONSIBILITY!

HEY LIBERALS! WHITE MEN ARE NOT THE CAUSE OF YOUR PROBLEMS! YOU ARE!

It’s very popular in liberal circles (universities, mainstream media, unemployment lines) to blame every little bad thing in the world on white men. In the past few years, liberal minds (oxymoron alert) have moved from blaming white males for being racist because…well, because…to exposing our ‘white privilege’ that accounts for any success we enjoy and keeps the leftists down.

White males are also to blame any time an effeminate, drugged out leftist like Elliot Rodger goes on a shooting rampage after being raised on a steady diet of liberal, PC claptrap ideology. White males are blamed for the deaths in any shooting by a leftist because we support the 2nd Amendment. Note: When I say ‘white males,’ I refer to conservative white men. Liberal males identify more closely with liberal women and do not qualify for nor deserve the odious nomenclature of ‘white men.’

In regard to guns, white males realize the some people are evil and will kill for stupid reasons like the effeminate Rodger kid in Santa Barbara who murdered because he couldn’t reel in the biscuit with any young lovelies. Evil white men call for training and arming good people to bring down the bad guy once the lead starts flying. Conversely, the liberal answer is to create “Gun Free Zones” which, as we have sadly seen time and time again, are not gun free zones.

Since Columbine, every mass shooter has been of the liberal ilk. Not a conservative NRA member among them. The parents of these murderous monsters were liberals, too. But in every instance, white males and guns have been blamed on the murders committed by liberals. The father of one of the Elliot Rodger victims in California immediately blamed the NRA for his daughter’s death! If the liberal idiots who run California would allow more honest, law-abiding people to carry guns, that man’s daughter may be alive today. But it’s much easier to blame the white male-run NRA as the reason his daughter was murdered. It’s not true but it’s easier for liberals for some reason. But when have liberals ever been interested in truth? They have an agenda.

Think about it. The NRA calls for more honest people to be armed to respond to armed bad guys. Liberals call for Gun Free Zones. A liberal whacked out kid goes nuts and murders innocents who have no way to protect themselves and the tragedy is the responsibility of the NRA. And/or white males. Right.

A liberal, feminist Washington Post critic blamed white male Hollywood for the recent California murders. Of course. She said:

“For generations, mass entertainment has been overwhelmingly controlled by white men, whose escapist fantasies so often revolve around vigilantism and sexual wish-fulfillment (often, if not always, featuring a steady through-line of casual misogyny).”

Would this be the same liberal-dominated Hollywood that casts every white male as either a wimp, homosexual, or idiot? It’s common in liberal-run pop culture to make the white male the butt of the jokes. Television shows and commercials are filled with stupid, bumbling white men who can provide a nice home but can’t light a gas grill without blowing it up. Smart wives and stupid, effeminate men, and liberals blame conservative white males when a politically correct, stupid, effeminate kid raised on stupid, liberal ideology goes on a murderous rampage.

Race baiters like Toure, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the entire cast of MSNBC have been running hard with the white privilege charge for a while now. This week, Toure (which sounds like a Buick model) even accused Jewish Holocaust victims as benefiting from white privilege. I’m sure all of the 6 million Jews murdered by the socialist Hitler would have gladly foregone their white privilege in the gas chambers.

The avoidance of personal responsibility knows no bounds among liberals. It is even more prevalent with the ‘professional black’ class. ‘Professional black people’ are those who make their living by being black either in academia and/or television propaganda news. These people gain their livelihoods by placing no responsibility on the poor decisions and violent actions of black people for whom they purport to speak. Every violent crime, every unwed teen mother, every flash mob, every instance of Knockout Game, etc is directly attributable to evil white males according to ‘professional black people. Again, right.

While sentient beings who utilize reason and logic find such politically correct pretzel logic laughable, nearly every liberal in America believes this line of thought or pretends to. Those that blame their failures on white privilege or white men are nothing more than dishonest moral and intellectual cowards.

Here’s the deal. White males aren’t responsible for the bad actions or negative plight of anyone except themselves. We’re quite tired of being blamed for the poor decisions of others. White males didn’t invent the Bloods or Crips, Knockout Game, or any other bad or violent aspect we often see in the black community. We don’t raise our sons to believe they deserve a trophy when they finish dead last. We don’t teach our boys to be metrosexual wimps who kill people because they can’t get a date. Conservative white males raise our sons to be strong, responsible men who respect women and we raise our girls to be honorable and responsible women. We invented the computer, television, space travel, and fought world wars to conquer evil. Sure, some liberal white males invented destructive political programs such as welfare, Affirmative Action, food stamps, etc but they had political personal gain as their agenda. White men also ended slavery at great cost and bloodshed in America. Yet, we still see blacks in Africa who have no problem enslaving people of their own color. We should note that black slaveholders receive no consternation from white liberals or professional black people.

White men don’t have nor seek white privilege. But we don’t believe in black privilege either. We believe everyone should have an equal chance to succeed in America to the best of their ability. And that is a privilege in America enjoyed by all if they are willing to pay the price. We have spent trillions of dollars over the past 50 years to help others achieve, without much success. White males are not holding a collective gun to the heads of other racial groups or women. We would prefer to see others succeed by what we have found to be tried and true principles. Any so-called ‘privilege’ exists for the vast majority of us because of education, hard work, sacrifice, planning, self-responsibility, generosity, and decency. In short, our success in life is directly attributable to making good life decisions. We recommend it for everyone.

Think about how different the life of a young, unwed teen mother would be if she graduated high school, took advantage of the numerous college options available to her, received a college diploma in a marketable skill, and got a good job instead of having to raise a child by herself with an absentee father. With an unskilled and uneducated mother dependent on welfare and food stamps, what future will her child most likely have? We sadly see it every week in violent black teen attacks on innocents. Here’s only one example over Memorial Day in Florida. You needn’t read the story to know who was creating the havoc.

We also see terrible results in liberal households where parents either ignore their children or allow them to run wild with no discipline. Big government caused by liberal politics now requires that both parents work (if they choose to work anymore). One parent works to pay the bills, the other to pay the taxes. Who is home to oversee their children in the formative years? No one. Child care, video games and/or stupid television shows raise children in America these days with the poison of liberal ideology. And the results are disgusting! Sadly, every few months, another confused kid who had little structure or standards in their life gets a gun or knife and starts killing. Not to worry, white males who never advocated or supported any of this failed liberal ideology, get the blame.

We will never hear the end of this white male blame as long as there is money to be made or political gain from blaming white men for the world’s problems. But the truth is white men are not responsible for the failures of anyone except themselves. The law of consequences does not recognize race nor gender. It only recognizes stupid decisions and actions. I taught my children that stupid decisions generally result in bad results. I taught my boys to never find themselves saying to their friends “hey, watch this” before jumping off a roof into a swimming pool or riding a wheelie on a motorcycle at 90 mph down the highway. These lessons are common sense. But when did liberals ever utilize common sense? They have an agenda.

This is our message to you politically correct liberals. Conservative white men have no white privilege other than the privilege we create based on our actions. We also have no white guilt. We will lend a hand to anyone of any color who seeks to better themselves. We are sick of government handouts given at our expense. We are tired of being blamed for the consequences of your massively failed liberal ideology. It is an ideology of failure, greed, envy, and laziness. And it fails every time.

Want some of my white privilege? Then get your lazy ass out of bed and do your job the best you can, raise your kids to be responsible, law-abiding adults, and seek to leave this country better than you found it. Don’t blame your failures on others. Seek to better yourself and become a responsible, self-reliant adult. You’ll find success and happiness versus the slothful, bitter life of dependency. Cast off the shackles of political correct victim-hood, close your ears to race baiters and lying white liberals who seek to keep you under their control. You can do it if you only have the guts and make the effort! And we white men will welcome you as our friends.

Read more at http://angrywhitedude.com/2014/05/hey-liberals-white-men-cause-problems/#x8CjL60uvPCyFsua.99

Doom porn honestly depresses the living shit out of me. Some days — and they are becoming more frequent — I wonder to myself why the fuck I should even get out of bed.

The religious discussion in the “Scientific Method” thread stirred memories of Bible verses that meant much to me in days gone by … and still do to some extent.

One of those passages comes from 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 5.

“Live in peace with each other. And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone. Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else. Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”

Words to live by. And with that, I give you this inspirational video from my pal, Stumpy.

Guest Post by John W. Whitehead

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”—John F. Kennedy

Just in time for Memorial Day, we’re once again being treated to a generous serving of praise and grandstanding by politicians and corporations eager to go on record as being supportive of our veterans. Patriotic platitudes aside, however, America has done a deplorable job of caring for her veterans. We erect monuments for those who die while serving in the military, yet for those who return home, there’s little honor to be found.

Despite the fact that the U.S. boasts more than 23 million veterans who have served in World War II through Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan, the plight of veterans today is deplorable, with large numbers of them impoverished, unemployed, traumatized mentally and physically, struggling with depression, thoughts of suicide, and marital stress, homeless (a third of all homeless Americans are veterans), subjected to sub-par treatment at clinics and hospitals, and left to molder while their paperwork piles up within Veterans Administration (VA) offices.

According to the National Veterans Foundation, the VA has had a backlog of as many as 1.2 million unprocessed claims in recent years, in addition to the fraud and mismanagement within the VA and its network of offices across the country, and secret lists containing thousands of names of veterans who were forced to wait months just to see a doctor.

While President Obama has now declared that he “will not stand” for the mistreatment of veterans under his watch, the time for words is long past. As Slate political correspondent John Dickerson observed, these inexcusable delays represent “a failure of one of the most basic transactions government is supposed to perform: keeping a promise to those who were asked to protect our very form of government.”

Then again, as I detail in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, the government has been breaking its promises to the American people for a long time now, starting with its most sacred covenant to uphold and defend the Constitution. Yet if the government won’t abide by its commitment to respect our constitutional rights to be free from government surveillance and censorship, if it completely tramples on our right to due process and fair hearings, and routinely denies us protection from roadside strip searches and militarized police, why should anyone expect the government to treat our nation’s veterans with respect and dignity?

Indeed, in recent years, military servicemen and women—many of whom are decorated—have found themselves increasingly targeted for surveillance, censorship, threatened with incarceration or involuntary commitment, labeled as extremists and/or mentally ill, and stripped of their Second Amendment rights, all for daring to voice their concerns about the alarming state of our union and the erosion of our freedoms.

For example, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program dubbed Operation Vigilant Eagle tracks military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and characterizes them as extremists and potential domestic terrorist threats because they may be “disgruntled, disillusioned or suffering from the psychological effects of war.” Since launching Operation Vigilant Eagle, the government has steadily ramped up its campaign to “silence” dissidents, especially those with military backgrounds. Coupled with the DHS’ dual reports on Rightwing and Leftwing “Extremism,” which broadly define extremists as individuals, military veterans and groups “that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely,” these tactics have boded ill for anyone seen as opposing the government.

An important point to consider, however, is that the government is not merely targeting individuals who are voicing their discontent so much as it is locking up individuals trained in military warfare who are voicing feelings of discontent. Under the guise of mental health treatment and with the complicity of government psychiatrists and law enforcement officials, these veterans are increasingly being portrayed as ticking time bombs in need of intervention. In 2012, for instance, the Justice Department launched a pilot program aimed at training SWAT teams to deal with confrontations involving highly trained and often heavily armed combat veterans.

Unfortunately, as we’ve seen in recent years, the problem with depicting veterans as potential enemy combatants is that any encounter with a military veteran can escalate very quickly into an explosive and deadly situation—at least, on the part of law enforcement.

For example, Jose Guerena, a Marine who served in two tours in Iraq, was killed in 2011 after an Arizona SWAT team kicked open the door of his home during a mistaken drug raid and opened fire. Thinking his home was being invaded by criminals, Guerena told his wife and child to hide in a closet, grabbed a gun and waited in the hallway to confront the intruders. He never fired his weapon. In fact, the safety was still on his gun when he was killed. The SWAT officers, however, not as restrained, fired 70 rounds of ammunition at Guerena—23 of those bullets made contact. Apart from his military background, Guerena had had no prior criminal record, and the police found nothing illegal in his home.

John Edward Chesney, a 62-year-old Vietnam veteran, was killed earlier this year by a SWAT team allegedly responding to a call that the Army veteran was standing in his San Diego apartment window waving what looked like a semi-automatic rifle. SWAT officers locked down Chesney’s street, took up positions around his home, and fired 12 rounds into Chesney’s apartment window. It turned out that the gun Chesney reportedly pointed at police from three stories up was a “realistic-looking mock assault rifle.”

Thankfully, Ramon Hooks’ encounter with a Houston SWAT team did not end as tragically, but it very easily could have. Hooks, a 25-year-old Iraq war veteran, was using an air rifle gun for target practice outside when a Homeland Security Agent, allegedly house shopping in the area, reported him as an active shooter. It wasn’t long before the quiet neighborhood was transformed into a war zone, with dozens of cop cars, an armored vehicle and heavily armed police. Hooks was arrested, his air rifle pellets and toy gun confiscated, and charges filed against him for “criminal mischief.”

Although no toy guns were involved in Brandon Raub’s case, his fact scenario is even more chilling, given that he was targeted for exercising his First Amendment rights on Facebook. The 26-year-old decorated Marine actually found himself interrogated by government agents about his views on government corruption, arrested with no warning, labeled mentally ill for subscribing to so-called “conspiratorial” views about the government, detained against his will in a psych ward for standing by his views, and isolated from his family, friends and attorneys.

On August 16, 2012, a swarm of local police, Secret Service and FBI agents arrived at Raub’s Virginia home, asking to speak with him about posts he had made on his Facebook page made up of song lyrics, political opinions and dialogue used in a political thriller virtual card game. Among the posts cited as troublesome were lyrics to a song by a rap group and Raub’s views, shared increasingly by a number of Americans, that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were an inside job.

After a brief conversation and without providing any explanation, levying any charges against Raub or reading him his rights, Raub was then handcuffed and transported to police headquarters, then to a medical center, where he was held against his will due to alleged concerns that his Facebook posts were “terrorist in nature.” Outraged onlookers filmed the arrest and posted the footage to YouTube, where it quickly went viral. Meanwhile, in a kangaroo court hearing that turned a deaf ear to Raub’s explanations about the fact that his Facebook posts were being read out of context, Raub was sentenced to up to 30 days’ further confinement in a psychiatric ward.

Thankfully, The Rutherford Institute came to Raub’s assistance, which combined with heightened media attention, brought about his release and may have helped prevent Raub from being successfully “disappeared” by the government. Even so, within days of Raub being seized and forcibly held in a VA psych ward, news reports started surfacing of other veterans having similar experiences.

That the government is using the charge of mental illness as the means by which to immobilize (and disarm) these veterans is diabolically brilliant. With one stroke of a magistrate’s pen, these service men are being declared mentally ill, locked away against their will, and stripped of their constitutional rights. Make no mistake, these returning veterans are being positioned as enemy number one.

Indeed, Raub’s case, a prime example of the government’s war on veterans, exposes the seedy underbelly of a governmental system that is targeting Americans—especially military veterans—for expressing their discontent over America’s rapid transition to a police state.

A federal judge actually dismissed Raub’s lawsuit challenging the government’s “Operation Vigilant Eagle” campaign and its increasing view of veterans as potential domestic terrorists as “far-fetched.” Yet what may sound far-fetched to the courts is a grim reality to Americans who are daily being targeted for daring to exercise their constitutional rights to speak their minds, criticize the government, and defend themselves and their families against over-reaching government surveillance and heavy-handed police tactics.

It’s ironic, isn’t it, that we raise our young people to believe that it is their patriotic duty to defend freedom abroad by serving in the military, then when they return home, bruised and battle-scarred and suddenly serious about defending their freedoms at home, we treat them like terrorists. Then again, perhaps it’s not so much ironic as it is tragic and pathetic—a sad tribute, indeed, to those willing to put their lives on the line.