Occupy movement? Nothing new.

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Coming toward me a guy who looked like a girl and a girl who looked like a guy altered their course to join one group.  The girl got right into things and the guy squealed with pleasure whenever she said something clever.

Maybe there were ten groups, maybe fifteen.  If it hadn’t been raining there might have been more.  Nobody talked about the same thing.  Occasionally someone would drop out of one crowd and driver over to another.

But they all had something in common. The same thing you find in a slaughterhouse. The lump of vomit in the center of each crowd was a Judas sheep trying to lead the rest to the ax. Then they’d go back and get more. The sheep were asking for it too. They were a seedy bunch in shapeless clothes, heavy with the smell of the rot they had asked for and gotten. They had a jackal look of discontent and cowardice, a hungry look that said you kill while we loot, then all will be well with the world.

Mickey Spillane, One Lonely Night

That was written in 1951, and he’s describing communists meeting in a park.  Sure sounds like modern day occupiers.  There really is nothing new under the sun.  They’re just more mainstream now, which means Mike Hammer didn’t finish off enough of them.

One Lonely Night harkens back to a time when men were men and dames were dames.  Spillanes Mike Hammer carried a “rod” and says what he’d like to do with a commie general.

There was only one catch I could think of. Someplace was another MVD laddie, a real one. I’d have to be careful of him. At least careful that he didn’t see me first, because when I met up with that stinkpot I was going to split him right down the middle with a .45!

I find that refreshing.  Hammer is the good guy, and commies are the bad guys.  Which is how it ought to be.  And of course, there’s Hammer’s secretary, Velda.

Velda. Lovely, lovely Velda. She waited for me by the door and when I walked up to her I watched her lips purse into a ripe, momentary kiss. The rows and rows of eyes that had been following me jumped ahead to this vision in a low-cut dress who threw a challenge with every motion of her body. The eyes swept from her black pumps to legs and body and shoulders that were almost too good to be real and staggered when they met a face that was beauty capable of the extremes of every emotion. Her head moved just enough to swirl her black page-boy hair and the look she sent back to all those good people and their white-haired guardian of the law was something to be remembered. For one long second she had the judge’s eye and outraged justice flinched before outraged love.

This stuff’s like an escape, from the madness the left has foisted upon the nation.  What the heck has happened to this country, when the commies are the good guys and Hammer would be a bad guy.  But wait, maybe I’m slipping into good old days mode.  There is also this, from the commies in the park scene.  A soldier wanted to kick some commie ass.

“Uh-huh.” The cop steered him out of the crowd. I heard him say, “That’s just what they want. It makes heroes of ‘em when the papers get it. We still got ways of taking care of ‘em, don’t worry. Every night this happens and I get in a few licks.”

Sounds like the papers were sympathizers back then.  Maybe things have been a certain way for a long long time now.

A Contemporary Fantasy

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It’s early evening, and the president gets a phone call.  A consulate is under attack.  The president takes command and calls together generals, intelligence officials, secretary of state, and various other advisers.  He convenes an emergency meeting in the Situation Room, somewhere underneath the White House.  The president cancels the next day’s fundraisers, even though it’s an election year.  That’s not an important consideration at this time, there is an emergency and the president knows it’s his responsibility to deal with it and saves lives if at all possible.

There are monitors on the walls and maps with little lights on them.  The president is like Captain Kirk when the Enterprise is being attacked by Klingons.  He’s clearly in charge, right there on the bridge giving commands.  He knows what to do.  The president asks questions, listens to the answers.  Some of the answers disagree with each other, which is all right.  The president can sort it all out and come to the right decision.  The buck stops with him, and he knows it.  He understands the heavy responsibility of the office, and that any decisions made there that night cannot be political, they have to be what’s right for the country.  He’s not so conceited to believe that what’s right for the country is defined by what’s best for him politically.

After receiving briefings and finding out what military options are available, he makes a decision he feels is best, best being based on saving as many lives as possible.  He gives the orders, and prays his decisions are the correct ones.

Hey, you can’t blame a guy for fantasizing a bit, now can you?

We have another consensus

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“There is a wide and strong expert consensus on the pressing need to act now to begin debris removal activities,” he said in an ESA press release at the end of a four-day conference in Darmstadt, Germany.

“Our understanding of the growing space debris problem can be compared with our understanding of the need to address Earth’s changing climate some 20 years ago,” he said.

Not just a consensus, but an expert consensus.  Those carry more weight.  Nearly as much weight as Michael Moore and Rosie O’Donnell having a tryst.  Sorry for the visuals.

Okay, they say there are 23,000 pieces larger than 10 cm, and many more that are smaller.  Even if they’re small, they can be devastating if they hit something, just because of the speeds they travel.  This makes sense.  But think about this next paragraph for a second.

They heard proposals aimed at removing the largest chunks of debris out of orbit at the rate of five to 10 items per year.

The article mentions we’ve been putting stuff in space for 55 years.  Sounds about right.  My handy calculator says that 23,000 / 55 is 418.18.  Now, if I take 418.18 and subtract 10 from it, I get 417.18.  That means if we spend a fortune trying to remove all the crap up there, we’ll have a net gain of 417.18 pieces of crap added per year instead of 418.18.  Hardly seems worth it.  Yeah, I know.  If it saves just one satellite, it will be worth it.

Now, if I were cynical, which I’m not, I’d think these experts are setting themselves up for some major grant money, which means the Democrat party will come up with a space junk tax.  If I were a Democrat, I’d just tack a “fee” onto phone and cable bills because they have satellites and stuff.  It’s safe to predict this because no members of the Democrat party are going to read this.  It’s not a Democrat party echo chamber.  They’ll think it up on their own, of course.

Confirmed by the AP, gun laws are inneffective

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts police official say the brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon before having shootouts with authorities didn’t have gun permits.

Okay, I’m on the cusp of disillusionment.  All these gun laws, and they don’t seem to work when we need them most.  Which is really never.  Undoubtedly, Massachusetts legislators thought they were accomplishing something by passing a law against carrying guns.  And just so some people could carry guns in Massachusetts–most likely connected Democrat party types who don’t want anybody else carrying them–they set up a permit process.  It’s complicated.  And difficult unless you’re connected.  Undoubtedly complicated and difficult enough that the Tsarnaev bros. bypassed the process entirely and carried guns anyway.  And the people who are the good guys obey the laws and are defenseless.  Hmmm, sounds like Mass. is run by the Democrat party, doesn’t it?  Strange how we get results like this when the Democrat party runs things.  Seems to be a pattern, but maybe that’s just Apophenia.

I don’t want government to leave me alone

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“You say you want to provide a government that leaves us alone; quite frankly, I don’t want that,” the student said. “I want a government that is going to help me.”

This is what a kid told Senator Rand Paul at a speech he gave at Howard University.  He then said this:

“Do you, Sen. Rand Paul, have a formulated solution to come up with new American values so that the citizens of this nation have a worth more than dead presidents and Ben Franklin?”

I’m not sure what this means, but I’ll attempt to address it.  This kid doesn’t want government to leave him alone.  Well, it’s not going to.  Here’s what will happen.  Someday the kid will have a job (well, that might be stretch).  If he does, he’ll have a bank account and he’ll have been voting all this time.  Voting for the Democrat party, undoubtedly.  And during that time, the Democrat party will have raised taxes on the rich because of five trillion dollar deficits, and they will have figured out there is a crisis the likes of which they’ve never seen.  So what will they do?

They’ll see that this kid has a bank account with money in it and they won’t even ask the kid if he needs it.  They’ll reach in and take it.  The first time they’ll say it’s a one time deal.  But it won’t be.  They’ll take, say, ten percent.  Then they’ll take another ten percent.  You can take ten percent nearly indefinitely because the ten percent gets smaller every time.  But they’ll see it gets smaller and go for fifteen percent.  The kid will say, hey, this isn’t fair.

Well, tough shit, kid.  You can’t do anything about it, because they’ll place limits on withdrawals just so the money will still be there for their taking.  But wait!  The 4th Amendment says they can’t do this.  Well, guess what.  Who will have been appointing Supreme Court Justices?  Right, Democrats.  They’ll say it’s fine to do everything they’re doing to you.  Just what is the Constitution, anyway?  Just some obsolete living document written by dead white men, and we know that discredits it.  And you’ll blame it all on the last Republican president, Bush, or Paul, or whoever it might be.

Kid, you’re screwed.

School bans triangular flapjacks

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This is from Breitbart.

It happened in Britain, but it could happen in Massachusetts or Maryland easily enough.  And I’m afraid I’m going to let my vast readership, all three of them, down.  Why?  Because I’m at a complete loss for words here.  First I was laughing too hard to write about it, then I was shaking my head in amazement so hard my monitor was disappearing in the periphery of my vision.

But I think I’ve pulled myself together enough to at least produce something, although it’s depressing.  I’ve been fortunate to live in a miniscule window of history when there was freedom in the world, at least part of it.  And I’ve been fortunate to live in the free part of it.  The kids today won’t know what it’s like.  Maybe because they’re too busy throwing flapjacks around like boomerangs that don’t return.  But more likely because people have surrendered their freedom for the illusion of safety.  In this case, it’s the freedom to bear triangular flapjacks.

So the only kids who will have triangular flapjacks now will be the bad kids, the ones destined for juvenile hall, or wherever they send the little shits in England.  And the schools will be triangular free flapjacks zones, so the other kids will be sitting ducks.  Returning fire with round flapjacks when being attacked by triangular assault flapjacks will be like attacking a gun wielding maniac with a pair of scissors, which the Department of Homeland Security has recommended.

So for the kids of today, I didn’t vote for anybody who would deprive you of triangular flapjacks.  But your older brothers and sisters who are old enough to vote have.  They’re just as screwed as you are, but they’re not smart enough to realize it yet and even when they are, they’ll blame it on Bush.  In the meantime, I’ll grow old in sanity’s waning years.

What is the driving force behind the left?

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Looking at everything the left does, it’s about taking things away from people.  It’s what they do.  The last few days, it seems they’re in a crusade against cats.  Feral cats, they say.  They kill a lot of birds and mice.  Well, the devil you say.  It takes leftists to tell us that, who would have ever imagined such a thing.  But give in to them, and they’ll be after pets in people’s back yards, and then they’ll be after indoor cats.  Cede any territory to the left, they occupy it, form a beachhead, and go for more.  Ironic, since they seem to hate war.

If it isn’t cats, it’s guns, Nativity scenes, flags, Christmas trees, prayer, bake sales, walking while texting (or was it texting while walking?).  And they always want more tax revenue so they can continue to spend a trillion more than what they take in.  But there is a common theme.  Even when they’re not taking something, they’re preventing something from taking place.

Their goal is to suck the enjoyment out of people’s lives.  I really believe that’s their main purpose.  They want everybody to be as miserable as they are.  They think they’re miserable because of the right preventing them from not being miserable, while it’s they’re natural state and they seem to want it to spread to everybody else.  They get more and more of what they say they want, but they’re still just as angry as ever, snarling their slogans, acting morally outraged, chronically offended.  People said electing BHO would improve race relations, we get flash mobs instead.  Give them what they want, their behavior gets worse, they’re more miserable, and we’re miserable, too.

Compromise is impossible because they offer nothing in return.  If a person has four acres of land and a leftist wants to take two so everybody else can have their fair share of acres, does it make sense to negotiate to only give up one?  That’s essentially what negotiating with them produces.

We need to stop them from taking stuff from us, which is hard when they’ve corrupted the courts.  I’m starting to think states that want to be free of the left will have to secede.  There doesn’t seem to be any other solution.

“I’ve done what was possible to do”

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Says Hillary as she leaves the State Department.  This is standard for the Democrat party.  When a Republican holds a position, he or she is a miserable failure due to stupidity, incompetence, or indifference.  If a Democrat had been in the position, he or she could have achieved whatever needed to be done due to intelligence, ability, drive, and strength of personality.  Then when they get the job and leave without accomplishing shit or making things far worse than they were, they did every thing they could and the job is too big for one person.  Then next time a Republican is in charge, it’s stupidity, incompetence, or indifference again and the job is eminently doable if a Democrat is there instead.

Seems like people would grow wise to this, but not enough do.  If there is global warming, it’s from what the Democrat party spews every day of every year.  Hot air and don the hip boots.  Hillary sucked at the job and the best she could do was say so eloquently, “What difference does it make?”

New York is now the safest state out of all 57

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Yes, indeed.  If a criminal wants to commit a crime involving a firearm, he’ll only be able to use a ten round magazine now, and even then he’ll only be able to load seven.  If he’s caught with more, he’s in big trouble.  Seriously, where does one even begin with something like this?

With the Democrat party, that’s where.  If you’re a member of the Democrat party, who is the worst of the worst?  I mean, the absolute embodiment of pure evil manifesting itself in subhuman form.  Evil so malignant, just the thought of it makes you sputter and spew and emit steam from your orifices, completely devoid of coherent through.  (Oh, wait.  Scratch that last one, it’s a normal state.)  People so despicable, Democrats tweet calls for their murder.

Is it Adam Lanza?  No, he’s never mentioned.  Half the members of the Democrat party don’t even know his name.  If you clicked on the link in the previous paragraph, you’ll know it’s the National Rifle Association.  To a lib, the NRA is the cause of all murders.  That might seem strange, but it’s a standard liberal tactic designed to further a predefined agenda just waiting for an event to allow them to put it into law.

Leftism 101:  Leftists have agendas, one of which is gun control.  When an event takes place, such as a school shooting, they see an opportunity and try to enact gun control.  Currently, it’s “assault weapons,” which are scary-looking guns with a military appearance, such as pistol grips.  Their solutions won’t stop the problem, but it impacts millions of law abiding Americans.  (This is really the intent, of course.  Their agenda.)  So naturally, the left encounters opposition, the most notable of which is the NRA.  This is the point where the criminals are no longer mentioned.  The real problem is the political opposition, not the true source of the problem.

When the objective is to enact an agenda, as opposed to solving a problem, the enemy is the political opposition.  This is why the left is calling for the murder of NRA members.  These are the same people who would be picketing outside the prison if Adam Lanza had lived to stand trial and received a capital sentence.  The only capital crime, to the left, is to oppose them.

We have 57 states

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Which means 57 states that can run things the way they want, more or less.  Lately it’s becoming less.  A lot less.  Things work pretty smoothly when the federal government leaves things alone.  With so many states, there will be some that are socialist paradises with electric cars and rainbow flags and some that are conservative, with pickups full of cigarette butts and rifle racks parked in church parking lots.  People can move to the state that suits them best.  It’s a good system.

But what happens when the federal government attempts to turn the entire government into a socialist paradise, where the ashtrays hold Starbucks gift cards, the rifle racks are empty, and there are no churches to park at?  Exaggerating?  Not in the long run, this is what we’re headed for.  And what happens when dozens of red states have no representation and the federal government isn’t content to let a good system work the way it has?

I don’t know what happens, but eventually the right, which has remained civil throughout it all, will have had enough.  My suggestion?  Passive resistance.  Shrug.  Just stop delivering goods to the big cities.  The libs in their electric cars will get very hungry very fast.  They need the people they look down their noses at and ridicule.  If they keep pushing things, maybe it’s time they learned it.