Would you like some Marxist history with your Olympics?

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The Olympics is a great celebration of individual achievement, cloaked in nationalism.  Friday’s long opening ceremony was intended to be a dramatic portrayal of British history.  Great Britain does have a great history, with many magnificent contributions to civilization.   But the job of portraying the history was given to a leftist movie maker (sorry for the redundancy) so what we saw portrayed was a decidedly Marxist view of history.  We apparently can’t get away from that propaganda, even in sports.

Briefly, Peter Boyle’s history went something like this:   In ancient times, everything was green and beautiful.  The background  music was beautiful.  The people were so very happy.

Then the Industrial Revolution was portrayed as the end of everything green.  The scene turned ugly and dark, the music was harsh and dissonant.  And the people were poor and sad, except for the wealthy captains of industry who stood tall in their fine clothes, smoking cigars and smugly observing the scene of destruction before them.  Evil had triumphed.

Later in the saga, there was a long adulatory scene portraying the wonders of Britain’s National Health Service.  Goodness had prevailed after all.  The children were happy and danced with the nurses around the hospital beds.

In the real world, life in the pre-industrial ages was nasty, brutish and short.  At that time you would expect half your kids to die young and the lucky ones who lived could hope to scrape out a very meager existence for 30 years or so.

The Industrial Revolution changed all that.  Division of labor allowed people to be immensely more productive than ever before in history.  For millennia before that, life had changed little for the common man.  Now there was real progress.  Entrepreneurs created a world of choices.  There was increasing prosperity for everyone.  The benefits spread around the world.  Life expectancy improved dramatically.

The advances in medicine from the free enterprise system were spectacular; new drugs and new treatment methods improved the quality of life.   Eventually there was enough prosperity that politicians could buy votes by telling people they would give them “free” medical care.  Of course, nothing is free, and nothing done by government is managed efficiently or economically.  Nothing.  England’s National Health Service proves it.

Yet the Marxist delusions persist.  And Friday night, nearly a billion people watched a dramatic portrayal of false history.

The Narrative is Always Ready

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This time it’s about the violence in Colorado….

The narrative is this: Those Tea Party people and talk radio people are dangerous,violent extremists.  The media sell this narrative as fast as they can in any situation where they think it might work.  The technique was most visibly displayed in the Giffords’ shooting in Arizona.  But if you watch the first news report on many violent incidents, you see the media rush to the desired narrative… only to have the narrative undercut when the facts come out.

Sometimes, when the false narrative has been sold well enough, it sticks even when the facts come out.  Many people know, for example, that Sarah Palin was partially responsible for the Giffords shooting.  Rush Limbaugh, too.

Here is how Brian Ross reported on the Colorado shootings on Good Morning America:

“There is a Jim Holmes of Aurora, CO, uh Paige, on the Colorado Tea Party site as well, talking about him joining the Tea Party last summer. We don’t know if this is the same Jim Holmes, but it is Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado.”

Here is what goes through the minds of propagandists like Ross:

We have some violence by a white guy. Great opportunity! Is there any way at all that we can tie this violence to Tea Party people or talk radio people?  Let’s rush to that story first and hope it’s true.  It’s going to be so exciting if it’s finally true this time.  Let’s call the President and see if he wants to get ready for a solemn speech about loving one another.  We’ll put him on prime time.  And then we’ll have some solemn commentary afterward to condemn those Tea Party bastards.

Breitbart was right. The media are the enemy.

 

 

Are Race Riots News?

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There has been an alarming increase in race mobs in our country and the media is doing it’s very best to cover up this trend.  If a “racist white Hispanic” goes out in his neighborhood for the sole purpose of shooting cute little black boys, that story is worth publishing, even if it is completely false.  But true stories of race-based crimes are not.

Thomas Sowell noticed this and his observations are worth reading in full.

The Enemy Within

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In the late 70′s, the US was in such a bad recession that President Carter announced that we would no longer lead the developed world.  The US was demoralized and economists couldn’t figure out how to pull us out of a perplexing “stagflation” situation that didn’t fit into their economic models.  Unions ruled the land and high taxes and regulation were choking our nation’s economy.  It was at this nadir of the late 20th century that a man came along who would change everything:

Ronald Reagan reminded us that we are a nation of free men and women.  For 30 years the Reagan revolution has freed capital and minds to engage in a second industrial revolution: the information revolution.  The quality of people’s lives worldwide have improved in ways and at rates that haven’t been seen since the 1800′s.

Consider the following quote from the video:

“This idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power than the sovereign people…”

Reagan’s words describe a nation that is there to serve, but not rule a people.  It is the only true foundation upon which people can freely pursue their rights to life, liberty, and happiness in their own way and not beholden to any institution or fellow man.  Their lives are their own and their destinies are of their own making.  That is the true and only definition of freedom. The opposite of a free nation would be well described by switching the words “people” and “government”.  No politician has dared to describe the people of the US as beholden to any higher power than themselves for thirty years.  No serious political speaker outside an academic socialist utopia has publicly discredited the success of an individual American entrepreneur as a ”gift” of government benefaction. The idea of a benevolent master party or bureaucracy from which springs all things great and wonderful only happens in a few museumesque communist banana republics around the world. Until last Friday one couldn’t imagine a president of the United States doing such a thing…

And then Obama went off teleprompter:

Once a people submit to a philosophy that a government is responsible for all they accomplish, they are no longer free.  It is that simple.  Governments have used this philosophy for thousands of years.  If the US Government is responsible for all of my monetary success and even the house that I own, then by that logic they have the right to take all of it back.  How can it be I that pursues life, liberty, and happiness if they are all given to me by The Master?  How can I feel pride in my accomplishments and be willing to defend them if they are not my own?

It is not a trivial statement that was made by Obama.  It is the core of a tyrant’s philosophy. As the person in charge of the organization responsible for all of our accomplishments, he views himself as our master.  For almost 240 years our flag has stood against Obama’s core philosophy.  Now it is sitting in our highest office.  There has never been such an important election in our lifetimes.

English Lesson #1

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Lower (verb): 1.  to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag

Here is the full link, in case the Obama team claims I took the above definition out of context:  http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lower

So, which tax rate did you “lower” President Obama????  Extending the Bush tax rate? Not raising something isn’t lowering it.  I don’t say that I “saved” someone because I chose not to hit them.  I can understand why you hate charter schools, and it isn’t just because of union money.  If people actually start to learn English in school your campaign would have to severely limit its talking points.

Ok, maybe I’ll try to give you some credit and assume you are talking about the tax credits. The ones you and Bush handed out that really turned everything around for us.  I suppose you could contort your way into that box, but the only tax change seen by the middle class today is the health care TAX that is coming their way if they don’t buy a policy that is now more expensive thanks to Obamacare…

SAID IT!!!! (Thank you Sununu!)

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Imagine if you lived in a free nation… A place where you could live, work, and play without being subject to the whims of a regulator.  Where you could follow your dreams without answering to anyone or anything, as long as your dreams didn’t infringe on the right of others to do the same.   Our forefathers imagined such a place.  After thousands of years of oppressive regimes and states where the lives of the population were governed in detail by the whims of tyrants, they decided to try freedom.  The experiment worked.  For over 200 years, this nation has improved the quality of living in the world on an exponential level unimagined by any ancient philosopher.   Now imagine how you would feel to watch that dream crushed by the same sorts of bureaucratic populist tyrants whose experiments in control and social engineering have crushed the spirits of their people and driven them to your shores for hundreds of years.  You would be angry right? Maybe just a little?

Luckily, you have your 200 year experiment of success all around you and easily googlable.  You wouldn’t have to struggle hard to debunk their sad little twisted talking points taken from the outright lies of the Obama campaign team or the “king’s clothes” intellectuals like Krugman.   You would simply state the facts and maybe sometimes laugh at them a little when the intellectual twister gets over the top.  Instead, what we seem to get are pundits on the right that have a frozen petit mal seizure in the face of an argument and then regurgitate some pre-rehearsed talking point.  And we wonder why the right isn’t as jazzed up as they should be…

Here is how it is done:

Imagine living in a Russian submarine on a dive for three months surrounded by unwashed sailors who only eat raw fish and chain smoke in your 6’ X 6’ bunk bed quarters.  When the submarine surfaces, you get to be the first sailor to open the hatch and take in a deep breath of ocean arctic air in Siberia 300 miles from the nearest town.  Watching the above clip kind of felt like that.

Here is another fresh breath for you:

The master at work.  Krauthammer, Ryan, and West can also get it done, but the list gets short after that….

S E Cupp runs with it like Forrest Gump

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SAY IT!!!!!

I really hate to pick on amateurs (especially when they look like Ms. Cupp). However, she is the conservative ambassador to a network that would otherwise meet the old Soviet Politburo standards of journalistic content, so she needs to step it way up. Beating these guys in an argument is like playing t-ball with 6-year-olds, but you really have to have spent more than five minutes researching the subject.  Instead, we see Ms. Cupp seize a totally BS statistic about .00004% of the US electorate committing voter fraud and running into a brick wall with it.  Eighty-six cases on a national scale isn’t voter fraud - it is an immaculate election proctored by angels. It is obviously a total crap statistic. The ensueing viewer experience of her argument is like watching someone put down his Desert Eagle .50 caliber handgun and attack knife-wielding street thugs with a wooden spoon, only slightly more frustrating.

The talking points are simple:
1.  Holder’s Completely Misleading Statement:   “In the clip of Eric Holder, there is mention of being able to use a concealed weapon permit in Texas to vote, but not a student ID.  Why does he assume that everyone at the NAACP are idiots? What are two things you need to show to get a concealed weapon permit in Texas: CITIZENSHIP and LACK OF A FELONY RECORD!  El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel Kingpin at the top of FBI’s most wanted list, could enroll at Texas Tech and vote in the next election using his student ID in Holderworld…”

2. It Is Illegal Not To Have An ID in Texas Over 16: “It is already a law in Texas that you have to have an ID over the age of 16.  How can someone who doesn’t have an ID pay taxes, go to Jury Duty, drive, and hold a job without an ID?  Unless they are illegal…”

3.  The Law Already Exists In Other States:  “How are those other states doing? Why haven’t we been talking about them and running stories about all of the people dying to vote, but can’t get a hold of an ID?”

4.  Their Stats Are Completely Full of Crap:  “Sargent at Arms positions at large middle schools have more voter fraud than 86 people.  Hell, even Al Franken’s Senate seat was won with alleged voter fraud counting well over 300 people – and that is just in the state of Minnesota.  In that case, it was supposedly felons casting votes, something not possible if they had been using concealed weapons permits to vote.

5.  Their Stats Are Totally and Completely Full of Crap:  “The number of 1.5 million voters not being able to vote was debunked many times over.  Even donning ruby red slippers, no matter how many times you say it on MSNBC, it will never be true…”