Barry Hussein O: Beyond intolerable

Obama pairs Putin with conservatism | The Daily Caller:

Universalism vs Reality.

If there is such a thing as Obama Derangement Syndrome, I plead guilty. He makes me crazy.


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Les Responsables

Reflecting on The Decline and Fall, one WhiteMale commentor elsewhere opines:

I’m very much a person who doesn’t seek blame. All things happen by my hand. That may be delusional but, what happens is of my action. With this, I believe I’m in the minority when I say, white men did this. This is the fault of the white man for allowing it to happen. You can point fingers whichever way you choose if that suits you better but, the finger should be given to us. Women, immigrants, homos, whatever. They wouldn’t have had a voice had the majority in power (white men) allowed it to happen in the first place. Was it a blatant rollover? Was the wool pulled over our eyes?

It's true.

Every loss of power, status and wealth of the once globally dominant White Male has come about merely by his being talked out of it.

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Schedenfreude of the day

Staffer knocked unconscious at Bartram High - Philly.com:

A "conflict resolutions specialist" in a 92% Black school gets his head bashed in.

Is it wrong of me to be laughing?

Prolly. But I am.

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Everything not forbidden is compulsory

The Right Not to Be Implicated | National Review Online:

"Until just over a decade ago, homosexual intercourse was a crime in many jurisdictions. Then in 2003, the Supreme Court overturned the sodomy laws in Lawrence v. Texas, which was in my view a bad decision with a good outcome. That same year, California considered a civil-union law, which was the source of some controversy. Opponents argued that it was a step toward the much more serious issue of gay marriage, and Democrats rejected that as a red herring: “Nobody is talking about gay marriage,” said John Longville, a Democratic assemblyman, “except the people who are trying to wave it around as a straw-man issue.” Within five years, that straw man was flesh and blood. 

Along the way the conversation changed from whether states could legalize gay marriage to whether states could prohibit it, and from whether the federal government should recognize same-sex marriage to whether it could refuse to do so. The Democratic governor of Kentucky says that he desires the Supreme Court to “bring finality and certainty to this matter,” which, given his party affiliation, is a way of saying without saying that he wants a national legal mandate for gay marriage. 

And the matter already has progressed to the point at which we as a nation, having only recently legalized gay marriage, are debating the question of whether bakers and photographers should be locked in cages if they decline, for their own moral or religious reasons, to participate in gay weddings.

Everything not forbidden is compulsory.”

Once a group or phenomenon gains Sacred Victim status with the Progressives and achieves social or legal status, it may not be questioned but must be celebrated. Failure to do so makes you a bigot, a H8er, a Nazi, etc. and Outside The Pale.

Inter-racial marriage, for instance, how has Sacrosanct status of the highest order...unless an Official Victim demurs. Whatever traditional culture has judged wrong, undesirable or inferior must eventually be held up as the highest of virtues. Gay marriage is on its way. And inter-racial gay marriage! Wow, a transcendant ethical achievement.



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Jewish-Christian Dialogue

Must Jews Dislike the Christians who Like Them? | The Jewish Press:

An uncommonly honest outburst.

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Post-America

Except at moments of conversions --of which I have had more than my share in my life-- we tend to select our perceptions according what will re-enforce our narrative and world-view.

Our national behaviors make the most sense to me if I see them as the incipient dynamics either of a) a tyranny that will transform The Most Foolish People On The Planet(c)  into strangers in their own land, the new Indians, or b) a catastrophic implosion that will lead to secession(s) and the birth of new nations where America once stood.

ExCathedra would, of course, prefer the second of these two grim possibilities.

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Cities and states

In a recent post, I suggested that the difference between urban and non-urban be incorporated into the structure of governance. Specifically, that cities of a certain size be separated as city-states rather than dominating the rest of the population outside them. The differences are outlined here.

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Differentiation

Differentiation is a Jungian term for valuating a phenomenon in separate parts rather than as a simple whole. Rather than saying, "My mother is a complete evil witch", you differentiate between her motherly parts and her witcherly parts. It's a task we need to perform in order to move beyond the infantile into the adult world of ambiguity. Theory basis courtesy of Melanie Klein.

A comment from January 2014 that I missed, exemplifies differentiation. He, I imagine him as a he, reponded to my brilliant sidebar essay on Liberalism as follows:

For a blog with a tacky layout, this may be the wisest thing I've ever read.

My response is also, well, differentiated.

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Simple pleasures

The SloCarb diet I am following makes this a typical evening meal:

Two slices of bacon sauteed in olive oil, then adding chopped sweet onion, then chunks of chicken thigh til cooked through, finally a handful of white beans and fire-roasted tomatoes. Add generous shakes of garlic powder, cumin --my favorite spice--, then a sprinkling of salt and a few shots of hot sauce. Mix up.

And you have dinner in a bowl. Mmmmmmm.

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Wise words of wide application

Evil misogynist straightwhitemale patriarch Heartiste, relentless enemy of "pretty lies", referring to his younger self:

He had learned, and not a moment too soon, to watch what women do and ignore what they say about their romantic needs. For all the men who knew nothing about what women wanted, even fewer women knew themselves.

An update about wider application:

There is a term of art in economics that I like: “revealed preference.” The root idea is: Never mind what people say they prefer, or what some pure-reason formula proves they should prefer, but what their behavior shows they actually prefer.

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