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"When in trouble, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout."

Or, pompously announce you're looking for "someone's ass to kick."

Same thing, pretty much.

Charles Krauthammer talks more about the Democrats’ Civil War -- And the Hillbuzz guys expound upon the thesis:

The problem, at its core, is that the DNC made a conscious decision to enter into a pact with the Devil, in the form of the thuggery, fraud, and ACORN-backed tactics Democrats now gleefully employ as a Leftist party. Seeing the party embrace this behavior, propagate it, and RELISH in it is revolting to those of us who thought the party was better than this. Those of us who can of age politically when the Clintons were president in the 1990s are ashamed of the Obama Democrat Party. This is not what we signed up for when we registered as Democrats in high school. This is not what we agreed to when we campaigned for Democrats in every election since we turned 18. This is not the party we supported with whatever spare cash we had to donate all these years.

These thugs will never get another cent out of any of us, and we can’t honestly see a day in the future when we will ever vote Democrat again.

They have permanently alienated us.

This isn't little old libertarian-leaning Republican me saying it. This is a bunch of lifelong Democrats, staunch Hillary supporters, gay guys from Boystown in Chicago, who were expelled from their party by the leftist goons who are backing Barack Obama. They figured it out. When will you--or will you, before it really is too late?

In Praise of Capitalism: How the ‘Social Justice’ Left Uses Economic Incentives to Create Academic Propaganda -- This is a wooden stake, driven into the heart of the public's trust in the veracity of university professors and researchers. If not stopped in its tracks by honest college and university faculty who still hold the truth to be the paramount goal of education, the public will in response, in order to know what is really true, eventually have to simply discount anything said by any "professor" from any "university" as being hopelessly biased. The way the subjects of the Soviet Union had to engage in reading between the lines of Pravda-actually, much like what we now have to do, parsing of what the hopelessly left-biased Old Media outlets produce.

ObamaCare could wipe out health insurance for 1 million low-income workers -- Oopsie. Sorry about that. But remember, we Democrats care more about you than those evil, vicious Republicans . . . always have, always will, even if we take your health insurance away from you to show you how very, very much we care about you. Don't you feel good about us? We sure do . . .

The Talking Cure for the Tragedy of the Commons: Bad things happen when governments keep people from cutting their own deals on resource management -- The "tragedy of the commons" lies precisely in the fact that it is a commons. Owners act, for the most part, in ways that preserve, if not enhance the value of what they own. Things that are held "in common" do not generally receive that level of attention to value preservation or enhancement, unless specific and sustained common actions are made. Those actions are extremely difficult to sustain, especially when they become subject to political deal-making. And so, you have garbage piling up on vacant lots.

Whew. That was . . . much linkage. But I'm caught up. Oh, except for the stuff that happened in the past . . . twenty-two hours or so since I scheduled the posting of this bad boy. A blogger's work is never done . . .

Oh, OK, I'll explain why a Catchup Whip was necessary--again. First, I've had a chest cold. Yeah, I know, whine, whine. Or, in this case, wheeze-wheeze-cough-cough-cough. Mainly, I've been working on the background for my forthcoming blockbuster science fiction series, tentatively going under the title The Guider Universe.

What's a "Guider?" Good question. You'll have to read the stories--assuming I ever actually get them written. When will I get them written and/or published? Yet another good question, Grasshopper. One of my big problems is that . . . God help me . . . I like doing the research and world-building more than I like doing the plotting and characterization and all that fiction-writing-stuff like stringing-all-those-recalcitrant-words-together-to-make-a-coherent-and-interesting-story. Sigh.

OK, just a bit more about the story: it starts . . . well, the story starts maybe twenty or thirty thousand years ago, in this galaxy but on a star far, far away, then works its way to Earth where it spends the next five to seven thousand years, and then runs (at least) three hundred years into the future, so far.

Put that way, it actually sounds impressive. Let's take care of that! There will be star ships and ray guns and mysterious aliens, evil empires and unexpected friends and unanticipated enemies, terrible dangers and narrow escapes--all the good stuff. If I do it right, there will be lots of good clean fun for all. Oh, all right, some of the fun may not be so good and clean--if you insist.

What are we here for? Oh, yeah. Whippage.

Duh, McCartney: Bush’s Wife Was a ‘Librarian’ -- Just proving once again that Lennon was the more intelligent one of the duo . . . not that he was fookin' brilliant or anything . . . but come on, McCartney' original lyrics had him singing "Scrambled Eggs" instead of "Yesterday" fer cryin' out loud . . .

New tactic in jihadi war on US: duds -- Another attack is coming . . . you can be sure of that . . . it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of where, and when . . . until we stop them--or more accurately, until whatever relatively sane segment still remains of the Muslim world stops them - - - or, until we have the Mother of All Crusades. Don't think it can't happen. You can push people only so far. Then they will start pushing back. In my more depressive moments, it's that very pushback that I think the Islamicist extremists are trying to provoke.

Be careful what you wish for.

Overtreated: More medical care isn't always better -- In military terms, this is "battlefield preparation." In political terms, this is "spin." It is the first shot of the coming campaign to convince you that the cuts in medical care that are inevitable with Obamacare are good for you. There's an easier way to fix the "overtreated" problem: limit the lawsuit liability of doctors--"defensive medicine" means defending the doctor from lawyers, not defending the patient. But the Democrats didn't want to hear that simple truth. They still don't.

Just Like Henry: Congressional Democrats Avoid Constituents -- "Running for office" has not, in the United States of America, traditionally entailed fleeing from those whose votes you (allegedly) require.

The ‘Costs’ of Free Speech: Consequentialism and the First Amendment don’t mix. -- Did you know that Obama's Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan's view on your First Amendment speech rights boils down to "well, it depends on the 'societal costs.'" That not only disqualifies her for serving as a judge at any level, it should forever bar her from pulling any kind of paycheck from any government entity in this nation. What part of "Congress Shall Make No Law" escapes her comprehension? Good Lord . . .

'Phoenix Rising' for SB 1070 at Arizona State Capitol -- If I wasn't already married to the most wonderful woman in the world, the first picture alone would have me looking for a job in AZ . . .

And you know, something that's been eating at me since Obama said it . . . you know, any law has the potential for abuse. That's something that the left tends to forget, until it's convenient for them to remember it. Of course, many on the right exhibit the same blind spot, at times . . .

OK, I also like the sign "Seriously! Adopt Mexico's Immigration Laws!" Heh.

Scientists debate: Are recessions good for health? -- Idiot "scientists" . . . and idiot journalists . . . aren't good for my blood pressure, that's for sure . . .

The Ideologue

Opening question: Is it a Whip if it's three or four days old? Hey, here it is!

I'm going to split up this bunch of Whippage into several posts, just 'cuz there's so much stuff.

Intellectuals: Smarter Than God? -- Or dumber than Rocks, Boxes Of? On the other hand, what is your answer to the question "What is important? And why do you answer that way?

And how do you know that it is the correct answer--correct not simply for your own precious conscience and emotional stability (or, if you will, your rock-solid Faith), but also correct for those who do not share your particular view of life? That is, is what you judge to be "important" a subjective value, dependent on your whims (or Faith, or whatever), or is it an objective value, not subject to your own personal intellectual approval?

Use both sides of the paper, if necessary. This will be graded.

Oh, and congratulations . . . you're now an intellectual.

In the classical sense, anyway. And see, that's the problem: Modern intellectuals don't worry about things like objective values--that's the one single dominant trait of modern "intellectual" thought. Which is why modern "intellectuals" are so confused, and so confusing to us normal people who have to get to work on time or the boss will get mad. Because, the clock is objective--it doesn't care what you think about it. The boss, while he or she may not care what you think of him/her either, does care very much what the clock tells him/her about you. Thus endeth the lesson in the objective nature of reality. (And don't be a pointy-head and bring up Einstein, OK? Just don't. Most of us don't get that close to the speed of light, even on a good day. OK?)

Bureaucrats vs. Taxpayers

There are three things in the video that deserve special emphasis. First, bureaucrats are vastly overpaid. The government data cited in the video show that total compensation for the federal civil service is twice as high, on average, as it is for workers in the productive sector of the economy.

The bureaucratic meritocracy was the single identifying trait of Imperial China. And that eventually resulted in Mao Tse Tung, who killed more people than perhaps anyone else in history. From Wikipedia: "Mao played a personal role in organizing the mass repressions and established a system of execution quotas, which were often exceeded. Nevertheless he defended these killings as necessary for the securing of power."

Bureaucracies are dangerous. Is this a reach? Well, consider that the same Wikipedia article refers to Mao as a "radical activist." How large a leap is it to that from "community organizer?"

Oh. I've done it now.

Anita Dunn would be proud, I'm sure.

Or perhaps New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. The Worker's Paradise is closer to you than you may think.

Hey, a Whip! In the Morning!

OK, let's get this out of the way right away:

Where the Old Flotilla Lay --This was a setup from "Day One." These "humanitarian activists" are not after any noble goal. They are after the genocide of the Jews. Period. If you support them, you are supporting the completion of the Final Solution. Period. For once, this is not some rhetorical exaggeration. This is precisely what the "flotilla" is intended to advance. Surely you understand that, right? You're not that stupid (or, to be charitable, that naive), are you? Are you?

Useful idiots on parade -- And idiots need to be called idiots. If you support the "flotilla" in any way, shape, or form, you are one of two things: an idiot, or a genocidal monster. Which are you?

When paintballs weren't enough -- Lesson: Do not bring paintball guns to a jihad. The "flotilla" was a war crime. NOT the Israeli interception of the "flotilla," but the "flotilla" itself. It was a military probing attack, hiding behind a false flag of "humanitarian aid." That makes it a war crime.

The Panama Canal-Ft. Lauderdale to San Francisco-20-night Voyage, May 6-26, Regent Seven Seas Navigator

Text by Snookums, Pictures by Filbert

Part Seventeen

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May 24 (Monday, Day 20, San Diego, continued) -

Le Cirque Navigator

The Le Cirque show was odd and didn’t make any sense at all. It turns out there was a reason it didn't make sense (and not just, as Filbert thought, it was a Cirque-style show, which aren't supposed to make sense according to him . . .)

More after the jump . . .