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S.L. Toddard| 12.10.09 @ 7:15AM

mon⋅o⋅ma⋅ni⋅a
–noun
1. (no longer in technical use) a psychosis characterized by thoughts confined to one idea or group of ideas.
2. an inordinate or obsessive zeal for or interest in a single thing, idea, subject, or the like.

Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 12.10.09 @ 7:27AM

All I want for Christmas is, a new definition of a belittling word from Toddard about the ACORN scandal. Come on now dude, once you tell a joke, a hundred times, it ceases to be funny anymore. Take five bucks out of your wallet, go down to the local joke store, and buy yourself a new joke.
Merry Christmas!!

David Williams| 12.10.09 @ 8:44AM

S.L. does not need to spend the money. He is the joke.

hjhk| 12.11.09 @ 1:29AM

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As you know, MP4 formats are popularly used in many portable players, such as iPod, itouch, and even the mobile phone. Most people make every attempt to find MP4 files on Mac, such as wonderful movie, MTV, or Flash and hope to put it onto the portable player. However, things always turn out the way you want.
now, things turn on the way you want because we have SWF to MOV Mac,

1FreeMan| 12.10.09 @ 8:17AM

Come out of your basement little Toddard. Your Mommie made cookies for you.

McGehee| 12.10.09 @ 9:17AM

ONE! DAY! STORY!

On one of my favorite blogs the ACORN apologist made that claim back when the first sordid revelations came to light. A week later he was insisting that each of the new revelations each day had simply been another ONE! DAY! STORY!

Matthew Vadum| 12.10.09 @ 9:28AM

"Monomania" could also describe the obsessive focus on another's alleged monomania. Just sayin'.

Sir| 12.10.09 @ 10:28AM

I think O'Reilly would call that comment "pithy."

Well said, and well-written article, Sir.

S.L. Toddard| 12.10.09 @ 12:20PM

"Monomania" could also describe the obsessive focus on another's alleged monomania. Just sayin'."

Indeed. I actually mentioned that in another one of your many ACORN pieces:

"At this point, Mr. Vadum, you could just re-post the "monomania" definition under my monomania-definition posts. Your (or rather what I perceive to be your) monomania is now the focus of my monomania. We can be monomaniac brothers in arms; two one-eyed men in a kingdom of the blind, having a staring contest!

Don't blink!"

http://spectator.org/archives/.....moonbeam/1

Grzmlyk| 12.10.09 @ 1:44PM

Soph-o-ma-ni-a
-noun
A delusion of superior intelligence.

De-ni-al
-noun
Psychology - an unconscious defense mechanism used to reduce anxiety by denying thoughts, feelings, or facts that are consciously intolerable.

John II| 12.10.09 @ 5:43PM

Well, I've never been very good at board games, but let me try to untangle the rules in this one.

1. I'm expected to marshal data and provide detailed arguments in resp0nse to the simple assertions of Toddard. If Toddard declares, for example, that US military action in the Middle East is a fool's errand because there's no end in sight because a surge victory here simply means another terrorist upsurge there and on and on endlessly so that the real reason for involvement is to grease the egos of a handful of neocons eager to plant Old Glory everywhere--I say, if Toddard simply asserts such charges, my move in the game is to refute him in minute detail with empirical evidence proving a negative. Otherwise, I get a penalty card accusing me of dodging what Toddard, as first-turn player in the game, is privileged to define as the issue. It is against the rules to suggest that the issue is misdefined.

2. On the other hand, when a third player produces abundant evidence in several carefully crafted arguments regarding a complex issue that Toddard isn't interested in, the rules require that the third player be dismissed as a monomaniac; the first player, Toddard, is not required to give any argument against the significance of the complex issue, much less refute the third player's argument point by point.

The second player, meanwhile, is expected to stare, open-mouthed. I think I'm doing that part pretty well, but only because I can't exactly get a handle on the rules. It's all very confusing.

S.L. Toddard| 12.10.09 @ 9:42PM

Like everyone else, I'm intellectually superior in some capacities to some people. I'm intellectually inferior in other capacities to other people. Ask John II here for more on that.

John II| 12.10.09 @ 11:08PM

My dear Toddard,

No one else is listening. So we can keep this exchange between ourselves. If I understand your comment correctly, I am obliged to remind you that (a) I am approximately 25 years your senior, (b) I have kept an active mind since I was about three (quite a few years before the advent of television and in a home in which my daddy kept a huge library), and (c) none of us may reasonably claim credit for anything we have--it all comes from God, in proportions that strike me as bizarre.

But here's a story, illustrating the mystery of (c). A friend of mine in my place of work (and I don't have very many of those--i.e., friends where I work) once (about 18 years ago) told me something in very frank confidence over a couple of beers. Well--okay: three or four beers, and a few shots of rye. I was babbling in distraction about something or other having to do with the imbecilities of our place of work. He observed me critically for a moment or two as I was muttering into my cups, this professor of Church history with dozens of articles and several books to his name and a certain ironic take on the universe (as historians are wont to have).

He then said, "You know what your problem is? Most people think they are just as smart as everyone else. You think that everyone else is just as smart as you."

I'm still puzzling over that one, but when I told my wife about it, she just rolled her eyes knowingly and told me to pass the salt.

In any event, it all comes from God, Toddard, in Whom only morons disbelieve. And now back to my Don Winslow serials.

S.L. Toddard| 12.11.09 @ 7:13AM

John - I didn't post that at 9:42 last night. Someone copied a post of mine from an older Vadum piece from last month (link below) and pasted it there, under my name. It doesn't really belong there under your post. It was originally a response to Dai Alayne who accused me of "belief in (my) own intellectual superiority." I don't know what it's doing under your post or who posted it, or why. How odd.

http://spectator.org/archives/.....es-america

S.L. Toddard| 12.11.09 @ 7:17AM

OH - and when I posted that ("I'm intellectually inferior in other capacities to other people. Ask John II here for more on that") on the other thread, it was meant to be self deprecating. It was a nod to your knowledge of the classics, and my lack thereof.

John II| 12.11.09 @ 10:07AM

Okay--thanks. It doesn't seem to take much these days for me to sail into that kind of giddy self-reflection; must be the advancing years--and here I am doing it again.

The correct term, by the way, is "self-depreciating." To deprecate means to plead against, not to belittle. The confusion is doubtless owing to the close similarity of form between "deprecate" and "depreciate." The stylists generally frown on the confusion, but this may be one of those instances of a harmless natural development of the language.

I'd hold the line against it, though, just to keep in shape for doing battle against more egregious confusions, such as the recent absorption of "disinterested" into the sense of "uninterested."

As Joe Bob Briggs once said about the gradual disappearance of drive-in theaters, the catastrophe will overwhelm us without eternal vigilance.

S.L. Toddard| 12.11.09 @ 10:31AM

"The correct term, by the way, is "self-depreciating"

You're kidding. I don't think I've ever read "self-depreciating" used. And really to use that in place of "self deprecating" at this point, I think, will just confuse people. They will say "I think you mean self deprecating" and I will say "I think YOU mean self depreciating" and they will say "I've never heard that phrase" and I will say "Well, I have it on good authority-" and they will interrupt me and ask "What authority?" and I will say "John II" and they will say "Oh from AmSpec? I have heard of him. Well versed in the classics, no?" and I will say "Yes yes yes. Big deal. That doesn't mean he's smarter than people who aren't versed in the classics. There are a lot of smart people not versed in the classics" and they will say "Stop being defensive" and I will say "Shut up, jerk!"

John II| 12.11.09 @ 10:53AM

Sounds to me like a more interesting and productive dispute than anything you could expect to be urged by one of those pantywaist conflict-resolution types.

JAWilson| 12.10.09 @ 7:35AM

"The Villager reported last month that the liberal Nadler, an opponent
of the congressional sanction, contacted ACORN general counsel Arthur
Schwartz about how the government was implementing the act. ACORN has
called the removal of funding a “bill of attainder. '

Stephanie| 12.10.09 @ 8:19AM

Anybody watching "The One" 's speech in Oslo?
I think I will puke. He makes me sick.
Hypocracy at it's upmost clarity.

Northern Rebel| 12.10.09 @ 9:16AM

C'mon conservative friends, you're just enabling Toddy, by responding. I made the same mistake with David Matthews, who just might be the same person, with a name change.

I temporarily disappointed Margie (I've got a crush on her brilliant mind) when I said I preferred the mafia to modern government.

But think about it. ACORN, and "President" Anti-Christ want to destroy capitalism. Hitler founded a national socialist party, gave Germany "health care" (Dr. Mengels experiments), and I see little difference Obama and Hitler, except Adolph didn't need a teleprompter.

All the mob wanted to do, was turn a profit!

I prefer the constitutional government created with God's hand, by Washington, Jefferson ,Et All.

(don't get mad at me Margie)

Al Adab| 12.10.09 @ 10:53AM

Rebel:
Couldn't agree with you more about Margie. What a great addition to the conversation seh, and Deborah D. are. Get tired of us old guys, I include myself, but the debate is often clarifying.

Don't let the Leftists or the rousers take over though. A good deal of common sense is here if we don't get distracted by ad hom arguments.

Bob Miller below has an interesting anecdote. Never know what old high school friends might end up doing.

Restoration of Constitutional government should be our goal.

Margie| 12.10.09 @ 7:16PM

Mr. Al Adab,
Thank you, too. But as far as I'm concerned you "old" guys are the BEST guys.
End of story!

1FreeMan| 12.10.09 @ 11:07AM

Ah, but DM has been banned form the board.

Grzmlyk| 12.10.09 @ 2:53PM

Actually, there is another difference between Hitler and Obama. Hitler only wanted to kill all the Jews in Europe. Obama wants to kill them all, starting with Israel.

The rich irony, of course, is that Jews in America will be singing Obama's praises even as he gives the nod to Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran et al to kill their brethren.

Modern liberalism is, if nothing else, ultimately suicidal.

Margie certainly cuts through the bunk and the rhetoric to get to the nugget of any matter, like a knife through hot butter - and she does it in about three sentences.

We've had narcissists and sociopaths in the White House before, but now we have a narcissist, a sociopath, a psychopath and a delusional megalomaniac occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

What's happening in this country is a combination of the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers (what with Obama's sycophants and minions happily contributing to the destruction of our humanity), and Shelley's Frankenstein (what with the Obamonster having been fashioned crudely together in Dr. Ayers' lab with pieces of dead ideology, mythic historic resentments, a mind stuffed with misinformation and then brought to life with the electricity of self regard).

The Hollywood-ized ending of Invasion of the Body snatchers hinted that those whose identities hadn't been usurped would fight back against the insidious invasion. And we all know what the townsfolk did when they got wind that the Frankenstein was on the loose.

Folks, grab your pitchforks and torches. Time to fight back against the "shiny happy people" who are already corrupted, and to end the monster's reign.

Any means necessary.

Margie| 12.10.09 @ 7:32PM

~"Modern liberalism is, if nothing else, ultimately suicidal."
Grz,
That's it in a nutshell. Like a hot knife through butter.
To this very day I cannot get through to my poor family member. I will not give up though. The last conversation we had, she admitted that she or "we" as she put it, knew about ACORN before she voted! The disconnect seems to be in the relating that "Well, you know, elections have consequences." Somehow she still believes that it is her duty to vote Democrat no matter what. She is resigned to the fact that right now, nothing Obama is doing is yet affecting her, so she will deal with it when it does.
Of course, it will be too late then.
I had to hang up on her because she couldn't stop the "you're an idiot!(s)" from coming.

Grzmlyk| 12.10.09 @ 10:35PM

Hi Margie:

I rarely revisit AMSPEC this late in the evening, but I've fallen behind in my reading & checked out the thread.

Anyway, I agree, conservatism is common sense. As Margaret Thatcher said, the facts of life are conservative.

And while I'm not a fan of Rush's style, I agree with what he has to say about 98% of the time - which is more than any other commentator or pundit on the right.

I apprecicate that he's not a snob, and he's the best analyst of liberal motives out there. Period. He thinks 3 steps ahead of everyone else; he sees the entire gameboard, and, despite the braggadocio, he really is a true conservative - a regular person.

I think Krauthammer is brilliant, but he's got that self-satisfied, Georgetown egghead syndrome. No matter how egregious the Obama policy or the grimness of its implications, it's all so amusing to Krauthammer as one of the officials solons of the DC cocktail circuit; I wonder if the Obama goons decided that paraplegics were to be euthanized - you know, to bring down health care costs for the rest of us - that might wipe the smug smile off of Krauthammer's face (who is a paraplegic).

Anyway, Margie, I must say that, virtually every day I hear about something Obama said or did or one of his minions implemented and I think, "surely my colleagues and acquaintances who voted for him so enthusiastically must by NOW be disabused of any notions of any greatness - or even goodness - in the cheap thug."

But they never waver in their blind devotion. The more the health care debacle proves to be an utter boondoggle that won't even minimally do what it was ostensibly designed to do, the more they love it. '

Lemmings happily marching in lockstep toward the cliff.

I believe the Obamatons will never take the stars from their eyes; after all, there are still people who think Jimmy Carter is a good man.

S.L. Toddard| 12.11.09 @ 7:23AM

"And while I'm not a fan of Rush's style, I agree with what he has to say about 98% of the time"

Leaving aside our little squabbles, a great man once wrote about the subject of talk radio (and let me know if you and I have not found common ground agreeing with him):

“Half of what they say comes from GOP talking points memos or the vacuous political rhetoric of the Wall Street Journal, National Review 20 years ago. In listening to all of them, I have never been confronted with a notion I had not read hundreds of times in the past. It is an endless feedback loop. Foolish women pick up some opinion fourth hand and call into Limbaugh or Levin or Beck, and they call each other brilliant and patriotic. There is no “public opinion” in America except what is manufactured in the factories of the phony left and phony right. The dimwits can be trapped into caring about Russia or Iran because that agenda was shaped over several generations. Naturally, to gain an audience, each new radio on air celebrity has to be a little less responsible than the his predecessors. That is why it will always be a race to the bottom. On the left, it is very easy to see the progression from radical intellectuals to college professors to the New Republic to the New York Times to CNN and SNL. Al Franken is not any more independent-minded than Sean Hannity. Who really matters, then? The people who create, or modify, or destroy the paradigm. Rousseau and Marx, for example. On the right, perhaps no one in the 20th century, at least not anyone who developed a mass following, though there are eccentrics who at least changed the minds of some people. Chesterton and Belloc, Eliot and Pound, Davidson and Lytle. But in these shouting matches between children, the only winners are the powerful special interest groups that benefit and fund them, on both sides. The late Paul Weyrich, in desire to lead the masses, used to create new programs and movements every year, but all he and the conservative movement were doing was to get out in front of the goose-stepping parade and pretend to lead it, and it is a long way down from Weyrich to Beck and Levin. There is no “better,” only different stinks of excrement."

John II| 12.11.09 @ 2:56PM

"Who really matters, then? The people who create, or modify, or destroy the paradigm. Rousseau and Marx, for example."

Toddard, I don't understand how such a transparently sophomoric comment can be regarded as "great" or its foolish expositor a "great man." Rousseau and Marx were both relative lightweights, who would have been consigned to the footnotes of intellectual history if they hadn't, for a complex variety of historical reasons, been adopted by political opportunists interested in power. Conservative thinkers aren't interested in smashing paradigms; they're interested in understanding them. They don't arrogate to themselves the effort to impose a bright idea on the world; they want to know how the world works. And they don't generally blather about "the masses."

Your "great man" sounds like a shallow gasbag. What is "great" about betraying an ignorance of such immeasurably influential thinkers as Burke, Smith, Newman, Kierkegaard, Brownson, Burckhardt, Acton, Leo XIII, Nock, Morley, Hayek, Maritain, Arendt, Oakshott, Polanyi, Wojtyla (whom "the masses" know as John Paul II), Ratzinger (the dude who now goes by the nom de histoire Benedict XVI)? If Chesterton and Belloc are "eccentric," what centeredness is there to be found in someone who references Davidson rather than, say, G.E.M. Anscombe and the later Wittgenstein--both of whom were key influences on Davidson himself, not to mention un-great conservatives like myself who actually read? There's no disputing Andrew Lytle's influence--but what about those he influenced: Flannery O'Connor, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren? And if we're going to do the southern thing, what about Walker Percy or Richard Weaver, come to think of it?

Great man indeed. Confucius say, "Misdirected respect in word finally disrespectful in deed."

Thank you so much.

S.L. Toddard| 12.11.09 @ 9:10PM

I don't know how you read what you read into that.

Anyway, here's Dr. Fleming's latest in his Herodotus series - you might actually find them interesting, and would have far more to contribute in the discussions about them than I do:

http://www.chroniclesmagazine......us-book-v/

S.L. Toddard| 12.12.09 @ 9:53AM

Here's another piece that might interest you, actually, from his 'Athens and Jerusalem' series of articles. And I'm recommending these in the same spirit a friends recommends a book to another friend - there is nothing in my recommendation having to do with our little fights or any of that.

http://www.chroniclesmagazine......r-sissies/

PS

This is not the latest in that series. My aim is merely to show you that there is writing over there, and that there are discussions, that seem almost tailor-made for you particularly to enjoy. That's not to imply that you will agree with all - or even much - of it (though you might), but only that the subject matter may interest you, and that you may find the discussions attendant thereto rewarding. And if you believe the author and everyone else involved to be woefully wrongheaded etc, you have the chance to straighten them out with illustrative asides and snarky snipes. Haha.

Sincerely though, give them a look-see if you find yourself with some free time.

John II| 12.12.09 @ 2:02PM

Thanks. I didn't know it was Fleming. I DO think of him as a bit of a crank. but an interesting one. After all, I'm a bit of a crank myself--but I prefer to take my erudition straight up rather than through the lens of another crank. Thoreau (who was also a crank) makes some comment somewhere to the effect that, given life's appalling brevity, one should confine most of one's reading to what is indisputably great and lasting. But as C.S. Lewis remarks in his "Experiment in Criticism," such reading demands frequent re-reading, and there goes more of the little time we have on this planet.

But thanks, Tod. I'll give it a peek. And now back to Don Winslow, as well as my umpteenth reading of the Tao Te Ching, which I have to teach among other Greats next semester.

Margie| 12.11.09 @ 4:14PM

Hey Grz!
I left early, you came in late. Woke up to 23 sunny degrees today. I've thought about what it might be like to live in Alaska, along with the great Sarah Palin.. but nope. No Can Do.

Margaret Thatcher is great. During Reagan's Presidency I was rather apolitical. Well, I was completely apolitical, really. When in '92 I stumbled upon Rush's show~~ I got interested. I came to find out that conservatives stood for what I already knew and believed in. Rush explained all things political in common sense terms, and his sense of humor matched mine to the hilt. I've been a fan ever since. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan believe(d) what I did, too. So~~ it's never too late, is it, for one to wake up "politically?" It matters because our votes matter.

As for Krauthammer, I no longer have television, so I don't get to hear him. It's been several years. Of course, yes he is a brilliant thinker, but from what I've heard he's a little amorous of Obama?.. I can't say since I haven't read much of him.. I'll make a point to catch up.

As for people who "still think Carter's a good guy." Well, what can I say but that I can understand. My Dad for example is a life long Dem. He is a very good man. He's a police Captain and he is a loyal husband to my Mom for almost 55 years. If only the Democrats in our government and their despicable minions in the Lame Stream Media told the truth, this good man and millions like him would never cast their votes for them.

It's the odd thing of people living as conservatives, but voting for those who are against everything they actually live for. It's all in the head.

All in all, there HAS to be an awful lot of people who have woken up, and will cast their votes for Republicans to help take back the country.

Margie| 12.10.09 @ 7:10PM

Mr. Northern Rebel,
If I have a brilliant mind, so must you, as we think alike. Then again, so do most conservatives. For example, Rush Limbaugh. I always like to say, and it's true most of the time~ Rush says what I'm already thinking, he just explains it so much better. :^)
The truth: It's common sense, and the reason we, or at least I, still have it is because of God's mercy, as I am the lowest on the totem pole.
~You're way too kind. Thanks though.

Bob Miller| 12.10.09 @ 9:48AM

Holder, Nadler, and Axelrod are all grads of Stuyvesant HS in NYC (entrance by competitive exam only), so they are supposed to be smart. Their sorry records demonstrate that something beyond native intelligence is needed in public officials.

An aside---when I was at Stuyvesant, Nadler was a student politician and his student campaign manager was Dick Morris.

Al Adab| 12.10.09 @ 10:57AM

ACORN is only one of a plethora of NGOs serving the intetrests of the statist Left. Sadly they are funded with dollars coerced from law abiding citizens. There is the problem and it was one the Founders knew well. When people can vote themselves money from the public fisc, Liberty is endangered. We have become so dependant on handouts that we risk becoming slaves of the master who provides. Certainly we cannot criticize the master and risk losing our benefits.

David Williams| 12.10.09 @ 1:32PM

Exactly, and that is why the zeal of Mr. Vadum and the rest of us could in no way be described accurately as phychotic or excessive. Acorn's criminal activities are an affront to taxpayers who are forced to subsidize them, and we have barely begun to vocalize our objections. So, Toddard, don't flatter yourself; you are hardly a one-eyed man on this subject.

Ken (Old Texican) Retraction| 12.10.09 @ 11:16AM

I need To make a Retraction.

I wrote a post yesterday, that was not accurate, and in fact was rather mean.
A fellow with the handle, John L. dropped in to post, and I jumped on him.
As most of you know, I am a member of T.E.A.M.
America. Many of you have no reason to know what T.E.A.M. stands for. It is an acronym:
T.OGETHER E.VERYONE A.CHIEVES M.ORE

Anyway, a while back, I dropped in on their AI Jane forum to invite them into our networking efforts acros the country. Boy, they told me in no uncertain terms to butt out...page after page of vituperation that I had the gall to wander in and invite them, or express my hope that they would help us in our efforts.

Truth is, I don't know how many of them pay taxes.

Yesterday, I let my hurt feelings show, and I apologize to John L.

Repeat: "Obama is a creature, and creation, of ACORN" nuff said.

S.L. Toddard| 12.10.09 @ 1:56PM

And let's not forget T.E.A.M. America's excellent (and extremely appropriate) theme song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZdJRDpLHbw

Ken (Old Texican)| 12.10.09 @ 2:32PM

SL,
Once again you demonstrate your feces throwing lying. That is not our theme song as well you know.

Our theme song is:
"Im Proud to Be An American"
or perhaps:
"An American Soldier"
or perhaps:
"The Eyes of Texas...are upon you."
Or perhaps:
"That Good Ole Baylor Line"...as long as stars may shine.
Or perhaps:
"Our Father, We Dream..." (jonathan Seagull)
Or just perhaps:
"Ohoh say can you See?"

S.L. Toddard| 12.10.09 @ 3:04PM

What are you talking about? It says right on the top of the page: "TEAM America" theme song, and it seems to represent everything you stand for. Why haven't you put it on your website yet?

Grzmlyk| 12.10.09 @ 3:19PM

Again, what a sense of humor!!! 2 days in a row!!! ZZZZZZING!!!

Hey turd: Might wanna tone down the attempts at humor. One's sense of humor is a far better barometer of their intelligence than their ability to cut and paste.

Just sayin'.

S.L. Toddard| 12.10.09 @ 3:23PM

Don't be shy, Grz - just ask.

Grzmlyk| 12.10.09 @ 3:33PM

Non sequiter - nice parry! The wit continues to impress.

Ok, I will ask:

Will you please jump in front of a moving train?

True, it wouldn't mean much in the grand scheme, but ya have to clean up the environment one vermin at at time, ya know? Might as well start with the cockroaches.

Thanks. You're swell.

S.L. Toddard| 12.10.09 @ 3:50PM

I don't mind, really. Just ask.

Grzmlyk| 12.10.09 @ 3:52PM

So why're you still here?

Time's awastin' me boyo, and if you hurry, you can catch the 5:15.

1FreeMan| 12.10.09 @ 7:25PM

American Spectator:

Please ban Toddard (AKA: DM) from this board.

Rhonda Lee| 12.14.09 @ 9:51AM

I like The Star Spangled Banner! It was written by Francis Scott Key as he watched our Flag being waved by the men below it who were being bombarded by an onslaught of cannon fire unleashed by the British Naval ship he was on. Surely these men could see they were no match for the King's mighty military yet they stood underneath the flag humanly holding it up as they were attacked. As one man would fall in harms way , another took his place and that is what true Americans will do today! We will stand and fight for righteousness and hold the banner high! The liberal progressives have no patriotism and are only lovers of self - there is nothing to be gained from their current path leading to America's destruction and it is truly past time for true Americans to stand against this agenda of lies and deception whose purpose is our absolute dissolution. We must not wait till we need a gun to buy one as it will then be far too late! It is black and white and we are CingRED! Everyone who sees must do something, NOW!

Northern Rebel| 12.10.09 @ 12:39PM

Bob Miller, Al Adab, and Old Tex:

When I was 17, my mother died of cancer, and I left high school to go to work. I am a high school dropout.

Don't cry for me, no pity party is nessesary.

What I have found, is that "formal education", as our dear friend Liberal Reader refers to it, seems to be useless when common sense is involved.

I dare say, that Algore would run screaming into the hills before he would debate this high school dropout, on global warming.

I doubt that Mr. Keynes would last 5 minutes in a debate with me on economics, if he was above ground.

Folks, this stuff is not complicated!
Our public education system deliberately prevents kids from learning certain things, because there are socialist liberals running schools, and they have an agenda.

That agenda is government control.

They find it unseemly that a low life high school dropout like me, would have the nerve to want to control my own destiny.

It is their duty to guide the great unwashed, because we just don't know any better.

Mr. Liberal Reader lets that attitude slip, everytime he posts. Sometimes it works, because he causes me to lose it, and use profanity, which I in my unwashed self, happen to enjoy doing.

(I love to fuckin' swear, OK?!)

I also enjoy when they misunderestimate me, too!

Bruce| 12.11.09 @ 2:59PM

QUOTE:"What I have found, is that "formal education", as our dear friend Liberal Reader refers to it, seems to be useless when common sense is involved."

YES YES YES!!!

QUOTE:"Our public education system deliberately prevents kids from learning certain things, because there are socialist liberals running schools, and they have an agenda."

At the risk of repeating myself ... YES YES YES!!!
This is so basic it's difficult to understand why some find it ... difficult to understand. I would much rather hitch my wagon to a self-educated person with good old "common sense" (a trait seriously lacking these days) than any "Hah-vahd" pseudo intellectual any day, Reb.

Well done.

Northern Rebel | 12.10.09 @ 12:44PM

See, I'm so fuckin' ignorant , I continue to make typos!

The government should take all of my earnings, and give them to someone else, until I learn to type better, and learn to stop using those damned profanities!

Al Adab| 12.10.09 @ 1:35PM

Rebel:
Very happy you are on our side.

Ken (Old Texican)| 12.10.09 @ 2:45PM

Northern Rebel,
I never did have a "class" on ..."over open sights".

Since I could throw a left-handed knuckle-ball for strikes, I got an education at Baylor University...(Jerusalem on The Brazos), heh.
One of the top ten Universities in the country...in counseling...law...and medicine. (look it up).
... a Christian University with a Baptist flavor.

39 years later.....I can say that no one at Baylor "gave" me a passing grade.

Now...I can afford to hire most of the proffs at Baylor...out of petty cash.
I can never repay MY proffs there. God bless 'em.

Oldefarte| 12.10.09 @ 2:57PM

Matthew Vadum:
Please provide to me [and other interested bloggers here] an email address,etc for Citigroup, so that I/we may protest their political contributions to Acorn, if possible.
Oldefarte

Matthew Vadum| 12.10.09 @ 3:09PM

Here is the contact form for the Citigroup Foundation: https://www.citibank.com/citi/contact/form.htm?foundation

Oldefarte| 12.11.09 @ 2:25PM

Matthew, many many thanks for providing Citi's email address. I have just submitted the following email to same: ".......I'm deeply saddened of recently being informed that....[Citi] has possibly been making charitable contributions to the organization, Acorn. In my opinion, Acorn has been involved in possible fraudent activities involving using [received] taxpayer/government funds in order to promote partisaned [Democratic Party] political activities; and which is now under investigation by various governmental agencies/entities.......Please accept this email as my request that Citigroup stop any/all future charitable contributions to this organization, Acorn. Thank you." I strongly urge all other bloggers that are as upset by your informative editorial concerning same to send their own emial to Citi [and any other organization likewise providing charitable contributions to the CORRUPT organization, Acorn!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gill O’Teen ✝✡| 12.10.09 @ 3:11PM

I think I heard earlier this week that after an incredibly exhaustive and beyond-reproach self-examination, the oak-nut investigator found no evidence that his employer had done anything wrong in the hooker-gate scandal. I always wondered if it were possible to conduct a self-rectal exam. I guess the answer is yes. Anyone in OUR gum’mint who supports this corrupt gang, which will be in charge of next year’s census despite whatever the current lie is, should be fired. If firing is not an option since the person was elected, then impeachment and removal is called for. Clearly Holder has done a Tiger to the vow he made when he took his current position (and I don’t mean the one he takes when conducting his own daily butt-check), and he is not alone. I read a lot of words, but mine is the only real call to action I’ve seen offered. It is a simple invite to celebrate John Galt day on January 20, 2007. Starve the beast which just ordered everything off the menu on our dime.
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Northern Rebel| 12.10.09 @ 4:14PM

Old Tex:

I hope you didn't take offense at my swipe at college grads. you are the last person I'm talking about, because you possess...Common sense!

It's the " the world is theory, and we can do this on paper crowd", I meant to offend.

I can't buy anybody, I can barely take care of myself. I am the poster boy for "president" Anti-Christ's mission to take care of all of us.

It's just that I would rather die a horrible death, than let a piece of shit like that control my life.

I've got nothing to lose, except the freedom America affords me, to make my own decisions, as bad a they've turned out.

I will bravely die in the line of fire, to keep our ideals alive, so my grandchildren have the chance to screw up their lives, the way they see fit!

Margie| 12.10.09 @ 4:59PM

One more reason to cease wondering why guys like Jesse Jackson never seem to get scared when all their corruption/corrupt behaviors get exposed.

They're well "taken care of."

Ken (Old Texican)| 12.10.09 @ 6:58PM

Rebel
I assure you...no offense taken. Somewhere here, some smartypants was bragging about an "Ivy League" degree.
I was simply reminding folks that there are many fine proffs, and many fine Universities across this country.
It also tickles me that all of my "business major" fellow students were all mad at me for waking up CEO of a fortune 500 sized international company at age 27 one morning.
The work I was priviledged to do at Baylor was in "Counseling". I had planned to be a family counselor while in school...not a successful business man.
Turned out...that my very best men were Highschool graduates. Their title was "superintendent of project". After the engineers did all their "engineering" that would not work, my superintendents got the steel in the air anyway...with common sense.
Bottom line I would have stolen...(uh recruited) your hiney in a new york minute. You guys made me look great.
One of those guys approached me after "retiring" with a great idea: every widget known to man under one roof...with craftsmen in the aisles to sell the right widgets. I invested big time...
"Home Depot". That one investment has allowed me many oopsies...heh.

the no nayme| 12.10.09 @ 8:49PM

This is worse than what the colonies went through. Reid, Pelosi, Snowe, Collins, Lieberman - tar and feather time.

the no nayme| 12.10.09 @ 8:58PM

Texican - you do a lot of pontificating - you know words don't mean much - easy to pick on that commie pinko fag Stoddard - what else you got?

Yosemeti Sam| 12.10.09 @ 11:03PM

" ... Citigroup's charitable foundation has given ACORN affiliates more than $1 million since 2003 ....".

Charitable?

From loan sharking OPM?

LOL. LOL. LOL. LOL.

LOL.

Marc Jeric| 12.11.09 @ 2:21AM

Of course that ACORN will get the funds; Abu Hussein from Kenya reserved $8.7 billion for them in his stimulus bill, plus more to come for their census work next year - you know, registering aliens, skipping whites, etc.
Since he is their top boss Obama (sorry, I meant our Community Organizer-in-Chief), he cannot operate without his local ACORN soviets.

JAQUEBAUER| 12.11.09 @ 4:39AM

When we have African criminals running Justice and the Executive branch, of course the bunnies in ACORN will be dancing, whoaring, and lying their way to prosperity. Where is David Duke when you really need him?

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