tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post7718399764279752379..comments2024-03-28T12:10:26.197-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: A Family is Any Two or More People Who Love the GovernmentGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-78987361480717432752009-05-08T11:01:00.000-07:002009-05-08T11:01:00.000-07:00Mike O'Malley,
While I agree with you on all you ...Mike O'Malley,<br /><br />While I agree with you on all you said, the source goes back much further than a few, or even five or six decades... check out the transcendentalist crowd which surrounded Emerson, they were already advocating much of the modern proregressive platform.<br /><br />In every fundamental, the ills of modernity were first gathered and dark crystallized with Rousseau. If he didn't define it explicitly, he did implicitly.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85811792834413849482009-05-08T10:30:00.000-07:002009-05-08T10:30:00.000-07:00julie said...Utterly unsurprising. People who argu...julie said...<I>Utterly unsurprising. People who argued against gay marriage in part because they were concerned that polygamy would follow were decried for using straw man slippery slope arguments, and yet, of course, here we are... </I>.<br /><br /><br />We've been heading down this road for decades. The New Left (Bill Ayers et al), the elite population control advocates (Rockefeller, Scaiffe and Ford foundations et al), pro-promiscuity advocates (Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood) and certain wealthy elite white racists were among a number of groups advocating the abandonment of traditional Western marriage in one fashion or another since the 50s and 60s. <br /><br />You will find that few homosexuals for instance will avail themselves of “gay marriage”. Those who do will most often remain highly promiscuous. The real motivation behind the “gay marriage” is to obtain social and legal ratification and validation for pathological behavior; and to mute and to delegitimize criticism and social restraint against the various pathological behaviors related to homosexual promiscuity. There seems to be an unquenchable need for validation! Moreover expect these political efforts to obtain legal validation and protection to extend to homosexual sexual “preference” for young boys who have entered puberty, highly desirable sexual objects for a many homosexuals.<br /><br />There are other motivations too. There is a Gramscian drive to undermine Western democracy by undermining Western democracy's foundational institutions. There is also a vindictive spiteful aspect ; consider the monstrous Dr. Alfred Kinsey for example.<br /><br /><br />I have a suggestion for all. Next time you have a chance, run through mock Federal tax returns. Assume two adults with middle class incomes and two dependent children. Use the same assumed income amounts etc. Prepare mock Form 1040s using filing status: married filing a joint return with two dependents, married filing separately each with a dependent child, and two unmarried adults living together splitting household expenses and each filing as "head of household" with one dependent child. Then ponder the comparative results and consider American social policy as expressed through the Federal tax code for the last three or four decades.Mike O'Malleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03786963522098086259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54968577773585654652009-05-08T08:06:00.000-07:002009-05-08T08:06:00.000-07:00Maineman & Nomo,
Yes, it requires simply spea...Maineman & Nomo,<br /><br />Yes, it requires simply speaking out, standing up for, and doing, what you know to be right and true, to make a difference.<br /><br />Taking your kid who swiped a couple signs for fastfood joints because he & his friends thought it would be a fun prank and look good on their band practice room wall... walking him back into those joints to ask for the manager, return them, say you’re sorry, ask if there's any charge he should reimburse him for(and particularly fine way to spend the evening of a very long long day)... <I>that</I> makes a difference. To your kid, the manager, the people sitting around... a difference <I>is</I> made.<br /><br />Note, a 'difference' doesn't mean fixing the current issue. Speaking out against an unfair tax, will not make your taxes immediately lower.<br /><br />Letting your child’s teacher know that their math textbook is crap... eh... less than optimal... and why, will not put a better one into immediate use.<br /><br />But it will make a difference. It will make a difference in the only place it really counts, in people’s minds, their understanding of what is acceptable, ok, good, bad.<br /><br />It's a slow process, and it takes innumerable small differences to effect visible changes, but that is the ONLY way things will ever truly change. To bother objecting that it takes too long is as sensible as not beginning the long journey because it can't be completed in a single step.<br /><br />Make a difference. If you want <I>real change</I>, change that is believable, make a difference.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59333826660589619332009-05-08T07:20:00.000-07:002009-05-08T07:20:00.000-07:00That's encouraging, Maineman. Thanks. Exactly - t...That's encouraging, Maineman. Thanks. Exactly - the Light burns, but it has to come out from hiding.<br /><br />"You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven."<br />Matt 5 (and so many more)<br /><br /><br />Not you too, wv!?!? (in green):ecolabNoMohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01100042056270224683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52059838589721124622009-05-08T06:22:00.000-07:002009-05-08T06:22:00.000-07:00As a commenter over at BC wrote yesterday, "Mordor...As a commenter over at BC wrote yesterday, "Mordor advances."<br /><br />The question is, what is/are the right thing(s) that are to be done under the current circumstances. <br /><br />These people of the Left are a wildly destructive minority but a minority nonetheless. This is not like the '40s when we were up against the most formidable industrial killing beast ever. The adversaries (It's really just one adversary, I know.)are/is harder to identify clearly, but they are seriously outgunned. And they don't even know that. We are still very much a Christian nation, and they don't even seem to know that either.<br /><br />I was told the other day about the success of the "40 days for life" project. Prayer groups outside of Planned Parenthood offices every Lent for the past few years, a tactic that originated in a kitchen somewhere with two women. Apparently, some PP centers have had to close as a result, and it definitely must drive them crazy.<br /><br />We need a counter-terrorism strategy and movement and we need it soon. Maybe that's it. Pit the real adversaries against each other, right out in the open.mainemannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-78759277365626686562009-05-07T22:38:00.000-07:002009-05-07T22:38:00.000-07:00Hey Lisa!
(ok... wayyy too many in a row for m...Hey Lisa!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />(ok... <I>wayyy</I> too many in a row for me... off to bed)Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90341443738270117532009-05-07T22:37:00.000-07:002009-05-07T22:37:00.000-07:00Mushroom said "It takes a village to raise an idio...Mushroom said "It takes a village to raise an idiot."<br /><br /><I><B>LOL</B></I>Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19365650401202232232009-05-07T22:36:00.000-07:002009-05-07T22:36:00.000-07:00Cory said “Another thing I notice is that there ar...Cory said “Another thing I notice is that there are those who laugh at and ridicule the very notion of the chain of cause and effect.”<br /><br />That is the entry wound of skepticism and the legitimization of believing, via professed disbelief, whatever you want to assert as being so. Thank you so much Mr. Hume. And it is the real source of, or if not source, the method, which ensures the slide such as which followed the lifting of restrictions on divorce laws, etc. The elimination of facts, commitments and standards, is more than anything else, a way to pull down and discredit and discard higher truths, and the ‘shackles’ of principles, values and standards – for whatever floats your boat. And of course, onto <I>that</I> boat, no need to go two by two, three’s, four’s, Octets… the more the merrier!Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87994611482895594462009-05-07T22:29:00.000-07:002009-05-07T22:29:00.000-07:00bob f. said...
Was "Watership Down" a p...bob f. said... <br />Was "Watership Down" a prequel to "Blackhawk Down"?<br /><br />Yes! Seriously, if nothing else, it imaginatively told the tale of what goodness and great deeds required, and what would eliminate them.<br /><br />There's a passage in there, where the rabbits that are on the quest for a new land, stop at a warren of what can best be described as sophisticated, metro-sexual, pomo, type rabbits. The questing rabbits, thinking they are being good guests, present their Virgil like bard rabbit to regale their hosts with a tale, a very hero-tale, crafty Odysseus type tale, which they are stunned is not received well by their hosts – ‘how skilled these citified rabbits must be, to think nothing of that, what a tale we must be in store for!’ they think. Then the pomo rabbit's begin a very modernish, meaningless hash of feelings and shades of despairing lyrics with no clear point. The visiting rabbit's bard is appalled, even has if I remember right (was about 25 yrs ago that I read it), a panic attack & vision, seizure and urgently tells his leader to 'Get us away from here! The Horror!'Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82362414885475572022009-05-07T22:22:00.000-07:002009-05-07T22:22:00.000-07:00"There can be no leftism in the absence of some ki..."There can be no leftism in the absence of some kind of totalitarian thought control, so it must be constantly challenged, or else it becomes "normative.""<br /><br />Yep. Leftism <I>requires</I> the discrediting of and disdain for, Free Will, in order to be free to 'force them to be free'. <br /><br /><br />wv:strant<br />Straight rant... I like it.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15498772726105459232009-05-07T22:18:00.000-07:002009-05-07T22:18:00.000-07:00"All wise men know that women exert a civilizing i..."All wise men know that women exert a civilizing influence on men, so that when women give up their “gate keeper” role in converting boys to responsible men (i.e., sharing their bodies with boys), the culture in question will produce uncivilized boys in the bodies of men. Why grow up? Thus, ovary tower feminist doctrine -- which taught that there is no difference between men and women, and that “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle” -- simply produced pathetically de-feminized women and de-masculinized men. It also promoted the crazy idea that single mothers could raise boys just as effectively as married couples, ignoring the basic truth that only a man (either real or symbolic) can raise a man."<br /><br />It is most definitely the case, that a women is what takes a boy and makes, or at least clarifies the course which must be travelled in order to become, a Man. It is how (and why) a boy learns to merge his urges with his ideals, giving them the rocket fuel to lift off, to lift himself up by his own bootstraps, upwards into manhood - the desire to be seen as worthy in her eyes, to become the heroic image she has of you, is intoxicating, purifying and maturing. <br /><br />If... <I>If</I> she has moral standards which she expects and requires of you, in order to be worthy of her attention. If not... if she doesn't, if she expects not moral strength but physical displays, then moral strength is of no use, heck, you just need to glitter and flatter, tell her she's hotter than bimbo b, don't need no ideals, no standards, "heck babe... it's just physical pleasure after all and <I>man-o-man</I> can I give you a dose o' dat!"<br /><br />Sigh… slip by slip….Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-40472868346640840982009-05-07T22:12:00.000-07:002009-05-07T22:12:00.000-07:00Hi Lisa! Great to hear from you
Julie, you said...Hi Lisa! Great to hear from you<br /><br /><br /><br />Julie, you said <A HREF="http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w11/bredae/Chicks%20with%20guns/chicks_with_guns1_phixr2.jpg" REL="nofollow">big fuzzy with gun?</A>ximezenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91099395344793235762009-05-07T21:36:00.000-07:002009-05-07T21:36:00.000-07:00A cosmos without God ain't no cosmos at all.
Than...A cosmos without God ain't no cosmos at all.<br /><br />Thanks once again for helpin' keep us sane, GB. Hey, you got a ministry!<br /><br />wv: conysi (cony defintely agrees)NoMohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01100042056270224683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-35062352735260289992009-05-07T21:32:00.000-07:002009-05-07T21:32:00.000-07:00:D
Lisa!! Other than the first 100 days, how've y...:D<br /><br />Lisa!! Other than the first 100 days, how've you been?<br /><br />I know what you mean about the Museum. I went to the one in San Diego this summer. It doled out the Kool Aid in mega doses. I can just imagine what the lecture must have been like.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-25972433222847711942009-05-07T20:57:00.000-07:002009-05-07T20:57:00.000-07:00Hi All,
Just popped over to see what's going on i...Hi All,<br /><br />Just popped over to see what's going on in this part of the cosmos and boy am I glad I did. Great post! Hope everyone is doing well and has more than change! Ugh, it's been so depressing these last 100 days or so, at least reading the news, but life is still good around here. <br /><br />I happened to attend a lecture on Evolution by Dr. Johansen at the Natural Museum of History. I really went to see Wolfmother play after but I thought why not?. They were amazing and worth having to sit through one of the most unintellectual lectures by a professional intellectual, I could have ever imagine. The Dr. was a classical elite libtard! Instead of discussing in detail how he found Lucy, he babbled on about evolution with jokes from The New Yorker and the obligatory Reagan and Bonzo picture. (I thought he looked very handsome by the way at that age and throughout his life...) No pictures of Obama were shown, but that would then make the Dr. racist, I suppose. ha ha! It was so disappointing and underwhelming. But he did mention that contrary to popular opinion the cradle of humanity is not the white man in Europe but located in Africa, the dark continent. He talked of evolution as not being a belief but it just is, ya know like gravity. But of course he never proved it, only gravity by dropping a cup. It was very dramatic and the audience gaped in amazement and chuckled. Students from USC were either required or got extra credit of some sort to attend the lecture. No wonder people are so stupid after attending college these days! I probably should have walked out but it was another 3 hours until Wolfmother played. The Museum of Natural History is a really nice museum. They have a great gem room and room full of stuffed birds. How people can't see the beautiful, intricately diverse yet patterned and organized creation baffles me. It's something fun to do when in downtown LA. (besides trapeze! ;) )Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04969685296436358865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10968633879229835462009-05-07T20:31:00.000-07:002009-05-07T20:31:00.000-07:00Okay, it's been awfully serious today, and almost ...Okay, it's been awfully serious today, and almost all the news I've seen has been depressing at best. It's time to bring out the big fuzzy guns. Sometimes, you just need to see a <A HREF="http://cuteoverload.com/2009/05/06/hamsters-are-huge-online-right-now/" REL="nofollow">hamster</A>.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87297212302612614042009-05-07T20:11:00.000-07:002009-05-07T20:11:00.000-07:00It takes a village to raise an idiot.
Polygamy ...It takes a village to raise an idiot. <br /><br />Polygamy is one thing, but I can just imagine what it will be like when the hillbillies start wanting to marry their sisters -- or their brothers for that matter. <br /><br />Lawlessness has been on my mind today as well. Sure enough, this is nothing new for the world system as it is always a question of: Who decides who decides?<br /><br /><I>I'm a barrel of laughs with my carbine on.<br />I keep 'em hoppin' 'til my ammunition's gone.<br />But I'm still not happy,<br />I feel like there's something wrong.<br /><br />I got the Revolution Blues ...<br /><br /></I>One of my favorite Neil Young songs, next to "Heart of Gold".mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67711904234709826172009-05-07T19:52:00.000-07:002009-05-07T19:52:00.000-07:00Speaking of the loss of cultural restraints, I jus...Speaking of the loss of cultural restraints, I just saw this plug for <A HREF="http://dating.personals.yahoo.com/singles/gettingstarted/9761/dating-tips-9-essentials-for-single-women;_ylc=X3oDMTNqaDlpdHA4BF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEX3MDMjE0MjE5MTA0MQRrAzkgZXNzZW50aWFscyBmb3Igd29tZW4Ec2VjA2ZwX3RvZGF5BHNsawNkYXRpbmctdGlwcy05LWVzc2VudGlhbHMtZm9yLXNpbmdsZS13b21lbgR6egNhYmM-" REL="nofollow">an article</A> linked at the top of the Yahoo home page:<br /><br />"Navigating the dating world requires a few must-haves — like the perfect third-date outfit."<br /><br />The third date, of course, being the one where "ladies" are expected to put out already. There is an underlying implication in the article, too, that women only really need men to scratch an itch and give stereo advice.<br /><br />Again, there are so many things wrong here. Half of which I probably wouldn't have recognized myself, even a few years ago.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-22742587855728822082009-05-07T19:27:00.000-07:002009-05-07T19:27:00.000-07:00Julie,
Can't you just imagine said-Arabs wide-eyed...Julie,<br />Can't you just imagine said-Arabs wide-eyed, getting the clue re Obama=WTF, and saying Oh Sh*t, we gotta do something drastic with that madman in da WH.ximezenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41931866002457720822009-05-07T18:56:00.000-07:002009-05-07T18:56:00.000-07:00Another thing I notice is that there are those who...Another thing I notice is that there are those who laugh at and ridicule the very notion of the chain of cause and effect. In the homemade world in which they live apparently things "just happen" and there is no discernable chain of causation. <br /><br />My father had a half-sister who, in the mid 1920's, scratched her hand on a rusty nail. Within two weeks she was dead from "blood poisoning". In the world of the pagan there would be no link between the scratch and the infection that killed her. The death would have been imputed to evil spirits or a curse or mysterious vapors. Or it "just happened" and who knows why? Must be the will of the gods.<br /><br />Just so I can look back over my 61 years and see a rather clear chain leading through the repeal of adultery statutes and blue laws and the adoption of no fault divorce to the situation we have today. This would be only one thread in the gradual loss of cultural restraints and the abandonment of these was but one symptom of a much broader malady. But the chain is there - one of many and probably not the least of them.Corynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5657432631234380582009-05-07T18:36:00.000-07:002009-05-07T18:36:00.000-07:00Cory said:
The thing that struck me about the stor...Cory said:<br /><I>The thing that struck me about the story was how insanity can be made to appear rational. <br /></I> <br /><br />It's The Inversion again. You are right. I saw yet another article today on the Miss California slagging. The MSM always accuses <I>her</I> of being the one to stir up controversy, not the creeps who attack her. Dennis Prager played a cut of some commentators on a television news program the other day- it might have been Kieth Olbermann but I'm not sure- anyway, they were just savaging the girl. It was so fag-bitchy vicious, that it just made me sick to hear. <br /><br />JWMJWMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05564732483476859555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-62725472454161898872009-05-07T18:04:00.000-07:002009-05-07T18:04:00.000-07:00Heh: "But sometimes bad policies have unintended g...<A HREF="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124170213807095837.html" REL="nofollow">Heh</A>: "But sometimes bad policies have unintended good consequences."juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-17440682841302732009-05-07T15:12:00.000-07:002009-05-07T15:12:00.000-07:00Was "Watership Down" a prequel to "Blackhawk Down"...Was "Watership Down" a prequel to "Blackhawk Down"?bob f.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5638243399940983962009-05-07T14:47:00.000-07:002009-05-07T14:47:00.000-07:00I read the story at the link you left for polygamy...I read the story at the link you left for polygamy. What was described is something more than one man marrying two or more women. I believe what was laid out there is called "polyamory" as it can involve any combination of men and women. <br /><br />The thing that struck me about the story was how insanity can be made to appear rational. <br /><br />The other thing that struck me was a sudden raft of memories going back many years of people warning that relaxation of laws regarding divorce would lead ultimately to societal chaos. Those people were derided and ridiculed as prudes and puritanical fuddy-duddies. <br /><br />Until rather recently I did not take seriously enough the constant warnings and condemnations of sexual immorality spread through the scriptures. It always seemed to me that other forms of sin (like the lust for power or money) were more serious. I now see I was quite wrong about this and that sexual immorality has a way of poisoning everything else. I am now think that, after pride, lust is the most corrosive of the deadly sins.Corynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12748950439965571282009-05-07T13:09:00.000-07:002009-05-07T13:09:00.000-07:00Polygamy will definitely be next.
Unlike same sex ...Polygamy will definitely be next.<br />Unlike same sex "marriage," an utterly laughable novelty, polygamy has been widely practiced for millenia. Besides, what kind of BIGOT would dare prefer the Vatican to Mecca.......or, for that matter, classical Rome to Carthage?!<br /><br />Come to think of it, incestuous marriage has been practiced in some civilizations. Who are we to inflict our Eurocentric views on others and make them feel like "second class citizens?"<br /><br />Yeah, it's pretty hopeless.<br /><br />"All the more reason to do the right thing for its own sake, not for some illusory outcome." That hits the nail on the head, Petey.Cassandranoreply@blogger.com