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The Dupes

Via Dan Collins[*1] , a series of articles underway at the Big Peace[*2] web site on the book Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century[*3] by Dr. Paul Kangor.

Part one is linked above. Here is part two, on Teddy Kennedy.[*4]

If you want to continue to stick your fingers in your ears and say la-la-la-la-la and ignore the plain facts before you, then there’s little I can do for you. But if you’re interested in actually knowing the truth of what’s gone on in this world, and what is still going on, you’ll read these articles.

It is appalling how completely these people were used, and how naive and blind they were. And still are, judging from the policies of the Obama Administration and the Democratic majority in Congress.

You don’t have to be a dupe. Read, listen, study, be open to the truth, even when it makes you uncomfortable (like the recent revelation that the U.S. government under Truman intentionally infected Guatamalans with syphilis[*5] ). As Dr. Kangor notes, even some people on the right were dupes. Some learned. Others didn’t.

Obama wants “a break”

Obama: ‘I’d appreciate a little break’[*1]

According to the pool report, Obama thanked Phillips for the work he and his wife have done for Team Obama. Then the president mentioned that Phillips and Douglass have an opulent place in Italy and wondered why there had been no invitation to visit. “I’d appreciate a little break and some Tuscan sun,” the president said, according to the pool report. “Some pasta. I can use it.”

No problem, Barry. Hand in your resignation and take all the free time you want. A President Biden would be a disaster and a buffoon, but that would be preferable to what you have done to this country in less than two years.

Go. Your services are no longer required.

Rutgers, Religion, Washington, Wasilla

Kevin DuJan, of Hillbuzz[*1] and Conservatives4Palin[*2] , writes an intensely personal meditation[*3] on the recent tragic suicide of the Rutgers college student, life as a gay conservative, and what has happened and is still happening in this country:

You can get the facts of what happened anywhere, and all sorts of other sites are covering the legal issues involved, both for the students who betrayed their “friend” like this and for Rutgers, if any liability exists for the school at all. I’m not going to wade into all of this because none of that’s in my area of expertise, if I even have one of those. But, I can tell you what it’s like to be young and gay and attacked and betrayed and on the edge of cashing it all in because I just didn’t want to live another day.

Dotting that last period right there, I had a flash of “oh, not again” because whenever I write personally to you about anything — but most particularly about being gay and conservative — I get absolutely assaulted from all imaginable sides…like a skinny little kid in gym class playing dodgeball with sadists.

There’s a particularly malicious gay blog in New York run by a guy named Joe who likes linking here and making fun of anything we say supporting conservatism (because he’s of the mindset that all gays must be Leftists, and he’s taken on the personal mission to pound what he calls “quislings” into pulp…where I firmly believe he only knows that word because someone slipped a word-of-the-day calendar into a swag bag at some charity event he went to for the free buffet). I pray for him to find wisdom, peace, and purpose some day and will leave it at that.

The same Republicans who don’t like that I’m gay will leave their snarky bits in the spam filter, and then they’ll succumb to Clinton Derangement Syndrome and lash out with that for awhile too (because apparently we can take down Iran’s nuclear program with an ingenious computer virus but we can’t cure CDS in our lifetime).

. . .

It’s long, but read the whole thing.

Yet Another Obama Lie

“We Need More Teachers.”

Really? Really?

From Cato-At-Liberty[*1]

How many is enough? One teacher per family? Hey, that’s a good idea. But we already have that.

It’s called homeschooling.

A lot of what Obama says sounds good at first because he’s mastered the technique of a forceful and authoritative tone. Unfortunately, so much of what he says is simply utter bullshit. And, increasingly, people are catching on to this sad fact.

He keeps saying that he hasn’t communicated enough. That is of course something else that isn’t true. He’s communicated plenty. What he hasn’t tried so far is TELLING THE TRUTH. I’m afraid that’s because he wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him in the ass.

The “Waste” part of “Waste, Fraud, and Abuse”

New Yorkers outraged as bureaucrats order city to change lettering on every single street sign[*1]

Of course, knowing how Democrats work, Fraud could be at work here too. Somebody’s nephew probably has a sign-making company and needs some business.

The additional cost to the city, if any, will be “marginal” because it receives a steady stream of state funding for routine sign repairs and replacement, DOT spokesman Seth Solomonow said.

Oh, that’s OK then. It won’t be the New York City taxpayers who pay for the signs. It will be everybody else in New York State paying for them. And, of course, through the generosity of the Federal Government, every taxpayer in the United States gets to contribute to this, too.

Hey, that’s more than fair, isn’t it?

Wellstone Memorial 2010

I fully expect the “One Nation” show (it would dignify it excessively to call it a “rally”) in Washington, D.C. this Saturday to be a repeat of the disastrous and dreadful Wellstone Memorial in 2002.

You remember that one–the memorial for Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone, who died in a plane crash before the 2002 election–where a wake and a “celebration” of Wellstone’s life turned into a combination leftist freak show and hatefest aimed at anyone on the political right.

They’re going to do it again this Saturday. They won’t be able to help themselves.

Because everything the left accuses the right of being–racist, sexist, homophobe, Islamophobe, all the rest–well, that’s what they, the left are. They are all those things, and lack the imagination, or perhaps the awareness, to understand that not everyone sees the world the same way that they do.

And all of that intolerance, bigotry, and hatred towards anyone and everyone who has the temerity to think differently than they do will be on display this Saturday in Washington, D.C. They won’t be able to help themselves.

Watch. Then go back and watch — actually see for yourself, not what the major media told you happened but what actually happened — at Beck’s 8/28 “Restoring Honor” event[*1] .

Then decide who is dividing this country, and who is trying to pull it together.

I’m doing Twitter wrong

More accurately, I’m not really doing Twitter at all. Oh, I’m there, I guess. But I’m kinda old fashioned. Give me a good ol’ RSS reader and a handful of insightful blogs. Heck, I don’t even have texting on my cell phone (you can tell I’m an old-timer, ’cause I still call it a “cell phone.”)

Anyway, Stacy McCain[*1] is apparently doing it right.

Dan Collins[*2] has photographic evidence, of a sort (scroll to the end of the post, after absorbing all the appalling stuff he links about at the front end of the post).

(Yeah, I’m on The Facebook, too. No, I don’t wanna post my Facebook page. Find it yourself. Yeah, call me anti-social-networking, assuming that’s a real word. I’m on the Internet too much as it is.)

You know you’re getting obsessed with politics when:

Time to take a short break, I think, from today’s posting frenzy . . .