Viva Aztlan

When the homosexual special privileges movement began to gain momentum in the mid-80’s the cry was for “tolerance,” despite what sages said at the time. That word, spoken with true wisdom, was that the quest of a so-called “tolerant” society was merely a front for soon-to-follow assaults on marriage, the church, the family at large and, oddly enough, tolerance itself.

And now, today, we have a very aggressive and open movement toward a nation run by liberal homophobes bending over frontwards to give homosexuals special privileges and protections at every simpering turn. Just as predicted by the scorned truth-sayers of twenty years ago.

Hand-in-hand with that is the invasion of the United States via our southern borders. And before the race card is played against me, a card that I will handily burn, I am most happily married to an American of Mexican descent whose mother entered this country legally about 55 years ago.

What we see now is a movement among illegals called the “reconquista” which, essentially, calls for the reconquest of Aztlan, legendary home to the Aztec forebears that encompasses California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and parts of Nevada, Utah and Colorado.

And what do we see as just one of many evidences of this?

Let’s take a little trip to Montebello High School in California:

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How about sending a busload of gringo punks to Mexico, doing the same flag-and-banner stunt at a school in Mexico City, and see what happens then? Interesting?

ara

Published in: on March 30, 2007 at 11:17 pm Comments (0)

Time Knows No Mercy

We have build a world that is moving at barely imaginable speed.

Fabulous music from “The Last of the Mohicans,” a fabulous film in itself, yet representing the end of a civilization.

As our own civilization hovers as though on the edge of a knife, will we surrender to the very real demon of domestic treason?

Will we be lulled, comfortable in our complacency?

Or, like our ancestors, will we fight?

It’s come to that. We don’t have to go anywhere to fight a just war.

It’s here.

Right now.

ara

Published in: on March 29, 2007 at 11:41 pm Comments (5)

Hypnotic, Extraordinary, and Lethal Grace

Through the Eye of the Needle

Oh. My. Gosh.

If only I could. Thanks to WatchCat.

ara

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“…And The Courage to Use It.”

A Rational Aversion, a non-commercial Weblog, operates under and respects the philosophy of Fair Use. When copyrighted material is published on this blog it is done so with full sourcing and available links to those sources. All due credit is given to authors or those otherwise involved in the original writing as that information may be reasonably available. This is one such instance.

This article was lifted from Human Events Online on March 27, 2007. Remember what you read here and access Human Events for top-notch reading.

      The Debate Is Over
      by Doug Patton (more by this author)
      Posted 03/27/2007 ET

      Former Vice President Al Gore, testifying on his pet issue last week, told Congress: “there is no longer any serious debate over the basic points that make up the consensus on global warming.” As Rush Limbaugh observed a few hours after Gore’s testimony, when liberals declare the debate over, you can bet the debate is not over; they just want it stifled.

      Perhaps conservatives should adopt this tactic of declaring the debate over on some of our issues. What do we have to lose? It would be a fun exercise, and it might usher in a whole new era of conventional wisdom.

      So, I hereby declare that there is no longer any serious debate over the basic points that make up the consensus on abortion. Everyone knows it’s a baby. It moves. It kicks. It has a heartbeat and brain waves. When allowed to grow, it becomes an adult. Yes, the debate is over. Abortion kills human beings and should be prohibited.

      Also, there is no longer any serious debate over the basic points that make up the consensus on marriage. Anyone with half a brain knows that for 5,000 years of recorded human history, it has been an institution involving a man and a woman. Case closed.

      And, of course, there is no longer any serious debate over the basic points that make up the consensus on gun control. Guns make people and societies safer, not more dangerous. Besides, the Second Amendment says you can have one, or many, so that issue is now put to rest.

      There is no longer any serious debate over the basic points that make up the consensus on government spending. State and federal governments now spend many times what they should in order to fulfill their constitutionally mandated responsibilities. Therefore, it is settled. Government spending should be slashed.

      Likewise, there is no longer any serious debate over the basic points that make up the consensus on taxes. Americans should be allowed to keep much more of what they earn. In fact, while we’re dictating policy, the 16th Amendment should be repealed, the Internal Revenue Service abolished and a national consumption tax, known as the Fair Tax, should be implemented immediately.

      Because government schools are such a miserable failure, there is no longer any serious debate over the basic points that make up the consensus on whether the private sector, be it secular or religious, should be assigned the task of educating our children. They could do a much better job for a fraction of the price.

      There is no longer any serious debate over the basic points that make up the consensus on child molesters. They should be castrated and/or imprisoned for the rest of their natural lives, along with their advocates in the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), and anyone caught producing child pornography.

      There is no longer any serious debate over the basic points that make up the consensus on illegal immigration. People from other countries steal across our borders, bringing with them diseases and social problems. We pay for them. They should go home, and we should build a real, physical fence to keep them from coming back. End of story.

      There is no longer any serious debate over the basic points that make up the consensus on Islamic terrorism. As Ronald Reagan said of the Soviets during the Cold War: “We win and they lose. That’s my strategy.”

      There is no longer any serious debate over the basic points that make up the consensus on capital punishment. Commit homicide and America has a right to demand your life in return.

      Oh yes, and outside Hollywood and the ranks of adoring Democrats in the United States Congress, who look at him as a rock star, there is no longer any serious debate over the basic points that make up the consensus on Al Gore. He is an enviro-hypocrite who lives in a Tennessee mansion that uses 30 times the energy of the average American home, yet he has taken it upon himself to lead a worldwide wacko movement that wants to force us to radically alter our way of life in the pursuit of zealous extremism to achieve dubious results in addressing a problem that may not even exist.

      The debate is over.

      Mr. Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and public policy adviser. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including The Conservative Voice and GOPUSA.com, where he is a senior writer and state editor. Readers may e-mail him at dougpatton@cox.net.

Never forget that we are in a constant war for our freedoms. Your weapons are knowledge and the courage to use it.

ara

Published in: on March 27, 2007 at 8:32 am Comments (1)

On the Passing of Stewart Laidlaw

Not long ago the pubs of Scotland went smoke-free. Second-hand smoke and all that.

Once the air cleared, the second-hand flatulence of Stewart Laidlaw became an issue, so to speak, at Thirsty Kirsty’s in Dunfermline, Fife. Once the combined aromatics of pipe, cigar and cigarette left the pub Stewart’s contributions stood rear and center.

Stewart, who looks quite a bit like Rodney Dangerfield, was agast. He said he walked into the pub and landlord John Thow turned to him from across the pub and said, “Stewart, that’s the last fart you do in this pub. Get out.’ I didn’t even have a chance to draw breath.” Perhaps it was to his own better health, that.

His Loudship [Lord] Steward Laidlaw

Photo and sourcing for this post courtesy of WorldNetDaily at http://www.wnd.com

ara

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Only The Spineless Can Do This . . . do not try this at home

Cranial-Rectal Inversion

Suppose they’re screening “An Inconvenient Truth” in there?

A hearty “Thank you!” to the ArchBishop at The Church of the Painful Truth. This site is worthy of a spot in your “Favorites” lineup and, if you are a blogger, you won’t go wrong to have him on your blogroll.

Good work, AB.

ara

Published in: on March 26, 2007 at 7:48 pm Comments (0)

Hey! Quick! Drop The Falaffel and Gimme a Pen!

You Can Always Trust an Environmentalist

Sheesh, this is amazing. And these people want to restructure the world. . .

(Hat tip to AB at The Church of the Painful Truth)

ara

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Oh, What Sweet, Sweet Lies Thou Speak’st

Links.

They can be such an adventure, sometimes for hours, and often quickly making you forget why in the world you managed to end up in this most peculiar of places. It’s a lot like good conversation with the exception that you can back up and go somewhere else entirely.

It was through such Wonderland wandering that I stumbled on this following quote, and that not easily. I believe I was emerging from some investigative work of Jack Cashill’s, one of my very, very favorite investigative reporters in that he actually has keen insight and a grand sense of humor. . .and the huevos of a champion bull.

The quote’s written by a guy named Michael Rivero and it is one of the most dead-on of all statements I’ve read in recent memory. It says this:

      “Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which they live is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it.

      To take action in the face of a corrupt government entails risks of harm to life, [security] and loved ones.

      To choose to do nothing is to surrender one’s self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice.

      Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all.”—Michael Rivero

Can you stand it?? Choosing words like these is a fine art. I mean, something like that is like driving nails at a hundred yards with a nicely dialled-in .30-.30—which is doable. Bang! Done deal. No discussion.

Wikipedia has a good section on propaganda. “The aim of propaganda is to influence people’s opinions or behaviors actively, rather than merely to communicate the facts about something” is what they say of it.

In some countries the word isn’t nearly as loathsome as it is here. “Propaganda,” on examination, is quite synonymous with advertising. But, for the most part, it is understood to mean underhanded communication intended to mislead by any means necessary, which again can be synonymous with advertising. That’s the meaning I intend to convey whenever I use the word.

It intrigues me how Mr. Rivero’s thinking intertwines with an earlier post I made. While they are linguistically dissimilar, the two merge quite well, I think. In “About ‘A Rational Aversion’” I wrote the following:

      “In every exercise of propaganda there is truth involved to one degree or another. Those tidbits are what make the rest of the trash mentally palatable, you see.

      By necessity it is the propagandist himself who is frequently most aware of the real truth, for typically only the aware can twist the truth with such a grand finesse as that of Joseph Goebbels. As Hitler’s propagandist, Goebbels proved the veracity of this thought when he gave us the following (and more often than not misquoted) piece of historical leakage.

      Quoting Mr. Goebbels now:

          “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it [this is as far as the quote usually goes]. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic, [moral] and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State[emphasis mine].”

      And getting the truth out is often the greater of all challenges in dealing with the morally disturbed, who can go to great and distracting lengths to avoid hearing it.

      ara

Published in: on March 25, 2007 at 9:37 pm Comments (0)

Rope-a-Dope

On March 21, 2007, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works hosted AlGore in dialog re: Al’s Myth of Human-Caused “Global Warming” and  Gore’s request for special taxes to fight same.

The ranking member of the committee is Senator James Inhofe, R-OK, made the following statement, on which the following press release was made. It is copied directly from the committee website.

Senator Inhofe, to his credit, pulls no punches.

INHOFE OPENING STATEMENT
Hearing on Vice President Al Gore’s Perspective on Global Warming
March 21, 2007

For Immediate Release:                                Contact: Marc Morano 202-224-5762
March 21, 2007                                                              marc_morano@epw.senate.gov
                                                                                           Matt Dempsey 202-224-9797
                                                                                           matthew_dempsey@epw.senate.gov
 
SENATOR INHOFE OPENING STATEMENT
Ranking Member of the EPW Committee
 
Hearing on Vice President Al Gore’s Perspective on Global Warming
March 21, 2007
 

Thank you for holding this hearing, Madame Chairman, and to you also, Mr. Vice President, for agreeing to come before our Committee to testify about your perspectives. Your views are already known to many Americans, but today will allow us to engage in a dialogue which should be interesting.

 It is my perspective that your global warming alarmist pronouncements are now and have always been filled with inaccuracies and misleading statements. Many of the peer-reviewed studies published in such journals as Nature, Geophysical Research Letters, and Science are radically at odds with your claims. I do not have time to delve into each flaw with your movie, but I do want to touch on just 2.

First, you have claimed that there is a “strong, new emerging consensus” linking global warming to an increase in hurricane intensity and duration. Yet last year, the World Meteorological Organization very clearly rejected this assertion, and other scientists agree.

Secondly, you said that East Antarctica might melt and this could raise sea levels by 20 feet, so we’re all going to die. However, according to many scientists, Antarctica is gaining ice mass, not losing it. In a 2005 study published in Science a team of researchers led by Dr. Curt Davis found an overall gain in ice mass in Antarctica over a ten year period.

And the public is catching on. Even the New York Times last week published an article about scientists, many of them your supporters, who say you have overstated your case on global warming — in fact, they warn that you may be hurting the so-called cause with your “alarmism.”

Given that, it is no wonder you have turned down the chance to debate the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus. And now I understand a debate challenge has been issued by Lord Monckton of Benchley.

Now there is a reason for this.

When the debate is balanced, skeptics win, alarmists lose. In New York last week, for instance, a major debate took place to examine whether global warming is a crisis. Prior to the debate, the hand-wringers, the alarmists, in the audience outnumbered those who didn’t think it was a crisis 2 to 1. After the debate, the alarmists were outnumbered – a major turnaround in beliefs in a single night.

That shift mirrors a larger one taking place in the scientific community. Claude Allegre, a French geophysicist – Nir Shaviv, an Israeli astrophysicist – and meteorologist Reid Bryson have converted from alarmists to believing that climate variability is largely natural. In short, the ranks of converted scientists are skyrocketing.

Lastly, the cost: Global warming is now big business. Thousands of individuals and even some Fortune 100 companies stand to make tens of billions of dollars. 

I was on the floor opposing the ’93 Clinton-Gore tax increase of $32 billion, but the cost of Kyoto and other CO2 reduction schemes are estimated to be over $300 billion, ten times the cost of your ’93 tax increase. And who’s paying for it? Those on fixed incomes and the poor, who as a percent of their monthly budget spend five times more on energy than the average household.

Largest tax increase in history – 10 times Clinton-Gore of ’93 and the poor pay for it… and the science isn’t there.  We just can’t do that to America, Mr. Vice President… and we’re not gonna.

One of those things I would’ve loved to have seen.

ara

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Published in: on March 23, 2007 at 7:11 am Comments (0)

John and Nell Coulter’s Pride and Joy

I’ve always enjoyed Ann Coulter’s humor though, at times, I’ve had to back away from it because my head was full.

Human Events Online (HE) had good opinion on her flirtation with John Edwards in which she used “faggot” as an inference to his habits. Oh, the uproar.

Her latest column deals with the Democrats’ justifiable yet sanctimonious outrage over conditions at Walter Reed and other military hospitals.

It’s a good article.

In it she points to a source that is at least equally culpable in the collective blame for the situation.

Coulter says, “…the problems at Walter Reed are further proof of the Democrats’ failed domestic policies – to wit, the civil service rules that prevent government employees from ever being fired….

Thanks to the Democrats, government employees have the world’s most complicated set of job protection rules outside of the old East Germany. Oddly enough, this has not led to a dynamic workforce in the nation’s capital.”

How true. Even at the state level, try spending some time in the DMV. Ever feel a slow rumble building in your gut as the orgins of the word “smug” gain clarity in your mind?

“…the problems at Walter Reed are not with the doctors or medical care,” Coulter continues, “The problems are with basic maintenance at the facility.

“Unless U.S. Army generals are supposed to be spraying fungicide on the walls and crawling under beds to set rattraps, the slovenly conditions at Walter Reed are not their fault. The military is nominally in charge of Walter Reed, but—because of civil service rules put into place by Democrats—the maintenance crew can’t be fired.

“If the general ‘in charge’ can’t fire the people not doing their jobs,” she writes, “I don’t know why he is being held responsible for them not doing their jobs.

“You will find the exact same problems anyplace market forces have been artificially removed by the government and there is a total absence of incentives, competition, effective oversight, cost controls and so on.

“It’s almost like a cause-and-effect thing.” Get it?

ara

Published in: on March 15, 2007 at 8:48 am Comments (0)

The Frenzy

Late last evening I posted on the Gonzales/US Attorney uproar.

This morning I read Joseph Farah’s column and, behold, it was a masterpiece in summation. Read it here.

One of his consistently solid points is that the party in charge for the time being is in a frenzied courtship with Presidency 2008. Among their first actions was the concerted and somewhat covert effort to censor anyone not associated with the lamestream media. Bloggers in particular.

For the time being that specific effort is in the tank, but you can rest uneasily with the truth that it is kept well oxygenated and alive in the guise of being dead and gone. This will. be. resurrected. It was, after all, blogs that outed and demolished Kerry and Rather.

Might you have thought that the lamestream and it’s political wing would forget this? Ever?

No, not ever.

Efforts to censor outright, to reinstate the UnFairness Doctrine in broadcasting—Air America was an abject failure in leftist verbal flatulence, so the next best avenue is intrusion on markets that 1) tell the truth and 2) are successful. Theft of a product built by wise people, in a sense. Funding for “public” broadcasting is on the rise again, with the Propaganda Broadcasting Systen and National Propaganda Radio dancing for joy.

As with “Scooter” Libby, another non-sequitur, the Democrats are so slavering insane for power that they invent stuff because they are so close to tanking this entire nation they can taste their goal.

At this point fabrication is their tactic. They use it well.

ara

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Heads Roll at Justice

In a front page story by Dan Eggen and John Solomon, two writers for the Washington Post, Eggen & Solomon (sounds like a Wall Street bagel joint) wrote:

      The White House suggested two years ago that the Justice Department fire all 93 U.S. attorneys, a proposal that eventually resulted in the dismissals of eight prosecutors last year, according to e-mails and internal documents that the administration will provide to Congress today.

      The dismissals took place after President Bush told Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales in October that he had received complaints that some prosecutors had not energetically pursued voter-fraud investigations, according to a White House spokeswoman.

Sounds pretty sinister. Who in his right mind should bother investigating voter fraud?

But try this bit of actual history, seared—seared!—into my memory and commented on here by Drudge:

      … February 1993…Clinton FIRED all 93 U.S. Attorneys who had been appointed by George [H.W.] Bush. One of them was [Jay] Stephens, who was then U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and developing a case against House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski — a pivotal Clinton ally in the battle for health-care reform — for diverting [over $650,000 in] taxpayers’ money to personal and campaign funds.

      Stephens charged that the mass firing was a way of derailing the Rostenkowski investigation. The RTC, however, chose Stephens precisely because he could be trusted to carry out an investigation that would not back away from information potentially embarrassing to Clinton.

“Comments” in Drudge relating to the above go on to cite a telling truth about Presidents and their predilections for housecleaning:

      GW Bush also “fired” all Clinton appointed attorneys and appointed his own upon being inaugurated as President. It’s a common practice. Bush is firing his own appointments.

So, let’s see: Bush fires 8 of his own appointees due to their ineffective and unenergetic pursuit of voter fraud. Clinton, on the other hand, fires all 93 of the US Attorneys apparently, in part, to cover an equally crooked (Chicago Democrat) Dan Rostenkowski. ["Rosty," as he was affectionately known by Chicago finger sniffers, spent several years in minimum security after a later trial.] OK, so who are the government school educated Worker’s Party members going to side with?

Will it be Dubya and voter fraud? Or will it be Willie, graft, and corruption?

*drumroll*

BAM!

Right out of the gate, it’s WWWillieeee! To heck with career gangster crooks! If we don’t support graft and corruption how will we ever maintain our credibility when we support voter fraud??

ara

Published in: on March 14, 2007 at 10:03 pm Comments (1)

Is it warm in here?

In this remarkably encouraging video documentary the lie is put to environmentalism’s sham. AlGore needs to get a job.

Get something to drink, turn up your speakers, and get the kids to watch this with you–they’re sure as heck not getting this in the government school indoctrination system. It’s called “The Great Global Warming Swindle,” and you can check it out here.

Thanks to Hank at icanplainlysee and, again, to Lord Crimson.

By the way: drop by Hank’s blog for a great jazz bed and look up his post on “Socialist Left seeking American Defeat.”

Enjoy the flick,

ara

Published in: on March 12, 2007 at 8:27 pm Comments (0)

Where’s the “Urgency” in “The Urgent Debut?”

Thought you’d never ask.

I quote heavily, cited or not, from various contributors to WorldNetDaily (WND) throughout this post. There is information herein that is critical to anyone interested in arresting the decay that has its death grip on the throat of academia. It is in that spirit that I gently but forcefully say the following:

READ THIS (click here!)

If you’re too busy, click it later and satisfy yourself with the following summation.

      “News that a university librarian is suing professors who accused him of “sexual harassment” after he recommended the best-selling book “The Marketing of Evil” comes just as the Midwest school’s accreditation is being reviewed – with Tuesday the last day for the public to comment on the school’s track record.”

Thus starts a WorldNetDaily article on the homosexual atrocity attack on the name, reputation, and professional standing of Scott Savage, a librarian at Ohio State University at Mansfield. David Limbaugh, in writing the column, said that Mr. Savage “got a quick lesson in ‘tolerance’ while serving on a committee responsible for selecting books for incoming OSU students to read as part of their ‘First Year Reading Experience.’”

My bet is that no one—not one solitary person other than those attuned to reliable online journalism—has heard the real story on this, and certainly not from the lamestream media. Conventional media is too heavily invested in homosexuals-as-the-downtrodden to deal with the truth of this case. Even the weather on lamestream is questionable.

Well, the timing for the rest of us is excellent, if not a little close.

Here’s the Deal:

On this past Tuesday, March 6th, as reported by WND, Savage’s attorney filed a defamation lawsuit in the Court of Common Pleas in Richland County, Ohio. The suit names faculty members who accused him of sexual harassment.

On this coming Tuesday, March 13th, a public comment period will end, so your personal opportunity to take advantage of this is nearing an end—I just found out about it today.

What’s happening is this: The comment period for OSU’s ten-year review by the Commission on Higher Education expires on the 13th. That is the deadline for public comment. The Commission takes public input into account during its deliberations, so this opportunity should not be taken lightly. This is a chance to participate in something that is of great current significance, and it is not going to be available again for the next ten years.

If we don’t do something to correct our path now, ten years from now won’t be worth waiting for!

David Kupalian, author of The Marketing of Evil , one of four best-selling books recommended by Mr. Savage, writes this:

      “Scott Savage recommended four best-selling conservative books, and as a result the faculty voted to persecute him, to endanger his career, his livelihood, his family, and his reputation with the stigma of ’sexual harassament’”

Kupalian, one of several WND heavy-hitters, also wrote an article titled “How Ohio State University is marketing evil,” and you’ll want to read it. If you’re a university—even a high school—student, you are likely very much attuned to this whole sorry story with different names, different details, same intellectual dishonesty and venomous depravity. The story is “sorry” because, if you are in those groups, you have likely been indoctrinated past the point of realizing you are the victims you are.

I hope I’m wrong.

Action List:

1.) Read these links quickly.

2.) Pass it on for general knowledge to everyone you trust without feeling like Tuesday restrains the validity of these events—just pass it on. The war against homosexual bigotry will continue until we defeat our intellectually and ethically debased opposition.

3.) Use the link to the Third-Party Comment Form for the Commission of Higher Education

Kupalian concludes his linked article (above) with this telling statement:

      “Probably the best chance to bring about meaningful change at OSU,” he added, “is if the Commission of Higher Education gives them a warning, but that will only happen if they’re informed about this outrageous case of campus intolerance.”

ara

Published in: on March 10, 2007 at 7:41 pm Comments (2)

Wisdom from the Realm

I frequently visit a WordPress blog hosted by Lord Crimson.

He draws a good crowd and I like to think we complement one another, he and I. He responded to a comment I made on a post he wrote, and that response was so succinct that I just had to share it here. The topic really needn’t be mentioned—his response speaks for itself.

It is this:

      “I find it ironic that for half a century we as a nation have sacrificed blood and treasure to rid the planet of the very thing we have become.”

I have heard similar statements yet, to my recollection, never this concisely nor profoundly stated.

Thanks, LC!

ara

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