The Third Box

America's greatest strength sometimes lies in its deepest secrets.

For instance, an organization of black ministers and centrist conservatives in Washington DC is one of the strongest and most influential activist think-tanks AGAINST  gun "control".

CURE  was organized by the eloquent and brainy Ms. Star Parker, who loves to quote the great ex-slave writer-orator Frederick Douglass:

"There are three boxes that guarantee ALL Americans their liberty...the ballot box, the jury box, and ammunition box !"

Parker and others in the video clip you find H E R E describe how the National Rifle Association (NRA) was established as a proof against the abuse and exploitation of freed blacks and for their protection.

My suspicion is that this is just one more TRUTH that the White House and its slavering toadies in the media would much rather not know. 

But sooner or later, a huge majority of Americans of all races and colors and former allegiances will have the scales lifted from their vision. If you hope for this epiphany and wish to hasten it, you might send the information herein to someone you respect. 

Some messages are more equal than others !

Age of Solipsis

Wednesday, June 24, 2015 was what you might call "a bristling day".

My favorite website ( because it always appears to be evenhanded and impartial) featured a thoughtful summation of  outright falsification of fact by the White House as regards the involvement of MIT professor Gruber as architect of Obamacare. CLICK HERE

In another quarter, one of our nation's more fearless truth tellers, Col. Ralph Peters, offered his opinion that our "leaders"whom we here prefer to call  "our servants" until they prove some maturity and accountability, all have one characteristic so far in the 21st century.

When asked to support, in some way, one of their pompous, clueless pronouncements, they uniformly reply with that nastiest of fledgling parenthood's syllogisms:

"BECAUSE I SAID SO !"

As we have pointed out here in this small corner of comment, we are at the mercy of a "coterie-of-absurdity" who absolutely believe that if they SAY something, it replaces all Holy Writ and constitutional tradition. 

This is called Institutional Solipsism, and it will become the death knell of  what we used to call, with no embarrassment at all, The American Dream.

We're drowning in a philosophy of  "political correctness" that has no historical precedent or legitimacy. PeeCee  is the source of the bastardized dictum that "before me, nothing existed !"

Very  few  people seem to be attending very closely, but the fact is that the Iranian  Parliament uniformly cries "Death to America"  and Vladmir Putin  is flying and floating his war machinery closer and closer to U.S. weakness, and the ChiComs follow his lead.

But the White House and the doofus State Department are hell-bent on accommodating Iran and its nuke bomb building and so far, nobody admits seeing  ungloved bare knuckles of the collectivist aggression.

Apparently, traditional, sensible Americans are now without influence. The blind liars and solipsists  are "in charge".

And a murmur swells into a havoc cry:  

"Apres moi,Le CHAOS..."

Whose Grasp ?

If you have NOT heard about her, lets talk about the Sacramento California teacher who is standing firm in her intent to remove works by William Shakespeare from her English literature curriculum... There are some very subversive tendencies in this particular teacher.

Her job is not to be sure that everybody passes with a ladylike or gentlemanly "C". Her  job is to use her common sense to make the material exciting and inviting to young minds.

Just a few miles awayfrom this Dullard, another woman engages her students in the Bard's  pre-drama preparation for Romeo and Juliet and points out that what they first see as unlikely behavior and words, by the Motagues and Capulets is actually a part of  their family lives and their hallway romances.  Then, HER students tried to outdo one another in presenting the drama of the teenage lovers.

The worst thing about this .Liddite Shakespeare-Denier is that she uses the color of her students' skin as an excuse for her mental laziness and invocation of the soft bigotry of low expectations that is so lethally common in our schools today. She would be shocked to learn that Shakespeare is required in South Africa and Liberia as well as Germany in preparatory schools.

Then of course, we cannot excuse her ignorance of  that magisterial proclamation by another towering English language artist:

By now, you have heard anout the criminally idiotic teacher in Sacramento's Burbank high school who refuses to teach William Shakespeare to her English class students because they are mostly "nonwhite" and because they "do not relate" and because she fears that they will fail, and it will bend  or twist or dampened their little psyches.

If you haven't met this lady, let me introduce you to her HERE !

There are many things faulty about the thinking of the 21st century's anemic "educationists" who have no knowledge outside of their improvised teaching college's  bogus cur

"A man's reach shoul exceed his grasp...Or what';s a Heaven for  ?"  (Robert Browning)

 

Bill AllenIN THE ERA OF CORRUPT TYRANNY, THE TRUTH IS REVOLUTIONARY INSURRECTION !
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"As in a Storm, Darkly..."

Is it all right, today, to wonder what would happen if a "celebrity" clasped-to-bosom the ancient verity of the Mosaic Ten Commandments ?  What if a nonsectarian servant of the people of America called upon us all to return to the Platonic / Aristotelian Four Virtues: Courage, Prudence, Moderation and Justice ?

There is a distinct possibility that both the celebrity and the philosopher would be drummed out of relevancy in today's Zeitgeist.

The phalanx of 2015  "culture" that shouts for diversity and political correctness would find these two rabble-rousers to be (1) racist, (2) sexiest, (3) guilty of hate-speech and hate-crimes,and(4) clear and present danger to the precious sibteen "children of America".

And, going a bit farther, what bulk percentage of American citizens have even heard of--- or been schooled in--- the concept of "irtue" ?

Here the suggestion is offered that any effort by anyone to refocus society's attention on the failing moral exemplars is generally ---nay, DAILY---met with threats, scorn and blanket incendiarism by lockstepping zombies of the Ganja-Soaked  NEWTHINK>

A feisty, principled interrogator, one John Nance, has just asked "Where is the Shining City on a HILL" ???    GO HERE !

Indeed, this appellation for America made famous by Ronald Reagan is rarely sung by the choirs of truth and justice these days.

There are high schoolers who do not even know ( or care???) whom Ronald Reagan was.  Well, actually, it's fair to say that their malignant tutors have made sure that they probably have not heard of the Soviet Union OR the Cold War, for that matter.

"Wait a minute!!!" you say. "You can't be sure of that !!!"

Oh yes. anyone can be "sure of that".  Check it out with some 18-year-old voters and others less than that age.

You will be SHIOCKED .  Or, maybe not.....

At any rate, if you stir up the dull, stagnant, unquestioning minds, you, too  can become a hate-criminal, a hate-speaker... A Pariah !!!

Baltimore Burns...YOU Pay !!!

Either in the very small print, or not at all, your daily fish wrapper might have reported that the first installment of the Baltimore riiot20 things that damage cost is coming due.

It's $20 million.

That's a hefty beginning, announced by the mayor who tweeted about visiting the businesses she "set aside" for the rioters to destroy.

The fact that the first installment of the arson and pillage tab is 20 HUGE ones is not the "dog-bites-man" news.

The news  is, she is going to send  "the bill" to FEMA !

That's right. Your tax money in the Federal  Emergency  Management Administration will pay for the damage the thugs did to the area chosen for "impact" by the witless Mayor.

DETAILS HERE

Of course, this is just the beginning. In the People's State of Baltimore,, the land of Michalski and O'Malley, accountability is like PeeCee excrement.  Everybody is looking for the clean extension whereby to take hold. Ergo, no one does.

This is the way the vessel Maryland "works" and Baltimore is its over-weighted-keel that will soon take it under.


As Ozymandias said in the poem, "look around you and BEWARE".

You already paying for chaos. More will follow !

Either Way

I see where the supreme leader of the Left-Liberal  Zeitgeist is again complaining that Fox News is biased.


AND... both the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Elections Commission are slavering in anticipation of rubbing out Matt Drudge's web site, the Drudge Report.


Let me suggest the truth, though it IS incendiary in these creepy, shady, obfuscative  times.




When Roger Ailes first started Fox News, an outcry went out that  the new cable network was "slanted". And when Matt Drudge was the ONLY journalist to delineate the origin of that stain on Monica Lewinsky's blue dress, Drudge was slammed and ranted-at by ALL the old  non-Internet media.


What they were yowling about, REALLY, was that Drudge and Fox News were reporting the TRUTH about things that the
paleolithic  media were HIDING and censoring at the editors desk.


Drudge is just an "aggregator".  He links to every news source and shade of  opinion column in the whole world. THAT is why he gets millions of hits in an hour and billions in a year. You can get Xinhua or the Guardian, or socialist apologist E.I. Dionne or center-right Peggy Noonan by clicking on  the Drudge Report.




Similarly, Fox News has THREE TIMES as many viewers  all day, as CNN and CNN is fading fast. MSNBC limps along, also losing 10% audience annually.


So, once and for all...the success of Fox News  and Matt Drudge is because they both cover ALL the news  possible while the left wing mainstream media still tries to censor and twist both content and emphasis.


It;'s no "secret" any longer. Bad reporters just hate it when someone pulls down their knickers.

History Assasins--Tradition Haters

Arithmetic in the first grade used to be taught with “examples” like 1+1=2. This was not long ago, but it is considered Olden Times now.

In 2015, using Common Core, first graders learn first thing “How to Make ‘TENS’. 

 It was just a few years ago that youngsters in my old hometown were physically chastised by their elders for putting out streetlights with stones.

Today, in 2015, in a large American city, an elected mayor designated a portion of her domain for looters and arsonists to work their magic while the mayor ordered her police department to “stand down” rather than arrest the criminals.

Heavy thinkers have traditionally concerned themselves with the safety of the powerless minorities among us and rightly so.

But, when more than 300 Christian Yadziks were slaughtered May 1, 2005 by international gangsters naming themselves “The Islamic State” we didn’t hear a peep from the professional hand-wingers and problem solvers.

Are you getting the picture? All the old verities are crippled and irrelevant to the purveyors of information and weighers of its import.

You don’t get to decide anymore what’s best for your offspring, what’s best for your community.

A coterie of conspirators are tacitly deciding as I write this, what they must do to keep bloody lawless inhuman and amoral entities from becoming “offended” — and summarily slitting the throats of all the politically correct.

That’s right. In the camouflage  of niceness, they opt for craven, gutless fear. Of  what ?

The more our political servants palaver about a gentler, kinder life for all mankind, the more we see them divorce their minds from reality.  Some of them even adopt a religion that holds humanity responsible for too much CO2, which has , in fact, boosted plant growth on earth to outpace loss of rainforest.

The worst sins of the utopian morons is the social engineering that has corrupted the neediest among us and convinced many that turning their backs on individual accountability and responsibility can result in a “one-size-fits-all” Halcyon Heaven.

But it’s just as bad an as proven dreamsust as old anarchist Joe Hill’s “PIE IN THE SKY”.

It’s a LIE.

No matter how hard you squeeze, or stretch, some people are going to be Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet, Jeff Bezos; and some people are going to be Joe-the-Plumber and some are going to be "CandyMan" Freddie Gray, the dope peddler. Some will become Michael Jacksons and some will become the raging "Gentle Giant" Michael Brown.

Some will become famous like the one-eyed Jewish African American Sammy Davis Jr, because of many shining talents and struggling, and some from the same 'Hood will die incarcerated.

No one knows History any longer nowadays, and I get the feeling it is suppressed by these powerful arbiters of correctness because History  nullifies even the least of their fantasies; and will distill their puny poisonous  whirlwinds into common flatulence.

An individual’s span of time alive is brief. But it seems that men and women with a compass given them by parents, family, learned communities and principled sources of  information have struggled and survived to enrich the lives of untold numbers of humankind with indomitable and irresistible TRADITION. So far these believers in the tried-and-true spiritual survival techniques have stoutly held eternal evil at bay.

They have even been able to salvage their children’s lives by plucking them from the society of lawless naysayers and occasionally, slapping them upside the head !

And this is why we are still marginally civilized . But for how long ?

Falsehood Fatigue

(Here is an email I sent to my son, KP and another cpnfidante on .my long- deceased Mother's birthday. Keith said I should "blog" it. So, here it is !)

What bothers me is not that a candidate for president flat-out LIED to a group of kidnapped Iowans, telling them that all four of her grandparents were foreign immigrants.

 

What bothers me is that only one young reporter had the time and/or the guts to worry his way through seven decades of census information to establish that she was lying and that three of her grandparents originated in the Savage Wilderne of Pennsylvania.

 

And the further outpouring of "bit-Dog"  screaming that it was (1)  "no big deal, (2) sexist, (3) "cherry-picking" and (3) partisan hyperbole.

 

This is proof that I have outlived my niche and that there is no right or wrong, no standard to separate miscreants from well-meaning idiots and that every cogitation, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, algebraic equation and every calculus "DEPENDS"  on some irrational or nebulous (usually secret) dynamic.

 

I just can't stand it anymore.  Anyone and everyone who thinks this sort of excremental mind-warp  is acceptable

just doesn't fit into a logical and contemplative live community.

 

Yet almost all of our information is processed by these vacuous mischievous evil demons.

 

It is hellish to be "old-fashioned" and irrelevant in this age of relativism and decay.

Dumbing, Numbing Denial

The most dastardly and cunning enemy of the children and the next generation  of American citizens is the adult population-- or at leastthat portion who cannot learn from experience.

There are a lot of them and many are in powerful positions: TV anchors, "journalists", columnists, police and security authorities and elected representatives and executives.

Maybe even some preachers  and teachers are guilty. Good parents struggle against the PeeCee tide, which baptizes whole hunks of miscreants as never-to-be-maligned fellows.

When the two cross-dressers rammed the NSA gate Monday, the first dispatch quoted "federal officers" saying that  "this is definitely not a terrorist attack". 

They always say that the first thing, but if I were reporting it in the way I was taught a half century ago, the first thing I would make clear in my "lede" is that they weren't wearing burkas... or that they WERE v wearing burkas.

Political correctness has no place in law enforcement. No one cares about "hurting feelings" when slaughter is afoot or threatened.  So why pretend ?   Why Lie ?

Besides, a person's "feelings" can't be hurt without the person's participation in the process.

You can check this out, probably on YouTube video:

When the second plane was visible heading to the second World Trade Center tower, the ABC television anchor announced that he could allay all fears and announce that "this is NOT a terrorist attack".

That's been a decade and a half ago, and all the reporters, columnists, producers and headline writers have hardened it into a lockstep drill.  It's always "workplace enmity"  when an urban Muslim convert guns down a pizzeria full of innocents.

And the "tenor" of American harmony is very close to lady Astor's amiability in suffering the lower castes "to behave anyway they wish as long as they doo not frighten the horses..."

What is wrong with saying: "No one KNOWS if this is terrorism or not, but the attackers were  identified as______."

It's as if we were so AFRAID of fanatic Muslim assassins that we  kiss their backsides and pretend that they just came from a Pink Shirley Temple Birthday party and we must  TALK and REASON with them....

OH !  Wait !  Hold it right there....

What in the WORLD ???!!!

This will be brief.

Early this Sunday morning (about 6 a.m. EDT)  my sleep-fogged brain was jolted into activity by an international wire report that Iran's Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Kameini spent a lot of time ranting "Death to America" in his most recent pronouncement aimed at the worldwide audience.

Now, there is nothing new about that...Except....

In a flash- exclusive- red-hot article nearby on the same aggregate site page was this story:

John Kerry, US Secretary of State says lifting of sanctions so as to allow Iran nuclear capability is near accomplishment with "just a few snags" remaining.

As arrogant and self-absorbed as this writer confesses to having been at times, this double jolt of newly minted 2015 Through-the-Looking-Glass   acting-out melted all available circuits, dissiolved some neurons and closed many synapses.

Is this a "function" of sending a Doofus Loser to do heavy lifting ?

Is this the result of Bibi Natanyahu's dazzling victory over Obama at home and abroad ?

Is this the way this opaque, Byzantine truthless White House planned its verbal assault on the citizenry?

In nearly 90 years, this reporter has never seen or heard of such wild and crazy disconnect.

One thing is certain. The United States of America will be a long time recovering from these adolescent shuck and jive gotcha games.

A quick look at history will illuminate what the harvest of institutional anti-Semitism is. I never thought my country would have to learn the lesson that humbled Rome in the dawn and all of Europe in our lifetime.

What do you think?

What ? Me Worry ?

We are subject to all manner of Age-ist criticism just for hanging around too long  and remembering stuff.  It makes some people uncomfortable when they cannot safely invent a new "reality" you know.

But they cannot heap "ADD"  criticism on someone who checks out all the main line media outlets  and about a Baker's dozen blogs at least twice a day and sometimes at midnight.

For instance, late Monday night Breitbart News broke the story that the White House  "admitted" the president exchanged emails with his secretary of state Hillary Clinton while she served.

But it was over the weekend that the president, harassed about Hillary Clinton's private email shenanigans,  he was quoted as saying that he first learned Ms. Clinton used a non-government email account in a recent New York Times report.

Now, tell me... Is it unfair to say that there is a falsehood lurking in there somewhere ?

And then there is the conception exception.

While in Selma, Alabama, the president regaled a slavering coterie of green as well as seasonrd reporters and columnists with the revelation that the Selma March was "the Inspiration for"  his conception and birth.

But his arithmetic leaves a great dealto be desired.

The famous Selma March was in 1965.  The president, according to the only records extant, was born four years earlier  in 1961 !

Surely, we Ancients are not the only ones who pay attention and consequently get repeatedly Zotted and outraged by these Blivets.

We hereby declare we are paying attention. But we also declare that we cannot decipher the code.  Is this a matter of over excited neediness for understanding?.... Or is it pathological Bullspitting ?

And how much more of this  will you suffer before you start worrying a little bit?

Deadliest Enemy of the Free

"They fight by shuffling papers.

 "Have bright, dead, alien eyes.

 "They look at our labor and laughter

 "As a Tired Man looks at flies..."

THAT is how Gilbert Keith Chesterton sculpted Bureaucrats and their  barren souls.

We reiterate the great man's good words to illumine the actions of the Federal Communicatuons Commission's recent actions, allegedly in quest of "net neutrality" on the Internet.

Of course, any "critic" of the FCC power grab is on thin ice indeed, because the commision has refused, so far, to RELEASE THE NEW RULES !

Doubtless, they fear the PEOPLE.

They know they have overreached and they know a court challenge will be swiftly mounted . The Commission members who favored the grab for the Internet (they "won" 3-2) may even realize they cannot be successful, in the end-game.

Why then would they propose and follow such a reach ?  Because they CAN . That is the nature of the dedicated Bureaucrat .

That they do so with the conspiratorial subversive aid of the president and his administration and party is just natural.  Stacking the deck hand in hand with con men and satisfyig hustlers' lust  and hucksters' designs  is how Bureaucrats stay in power.and increase their maligninty.

Do you remember when we reported here on the frightening visit of two nSecret Service agents to a Texas lady to shake her up after she had rebuked a cell phone robocaller  for a Democrat political campaign ? They called her to recruit her.  The SS agents accused her of  making a "Death Threat",  when actually she had spoken of opposing abortion to her unwelcome caller.

When the victim asked for identification, I remember the female SS agent smirked: "You ain't gettin none of MY card !"

My point here is they MAY be partisan, they MAY be unAmerican, they MAY be intent onb overthrowing order in any way thay can.

But the most fearsome and dangerous description that "sticks"  is  Government Bureaucrat.

Check out Chesterton's descrition in our first paragraph. It is chilling.

And  true !

Will PC Destroy ISIS ?

Marie Harf,  a spokeswoman for Secretary of  State John Kerry seems to have created some entertainment among even the Lie-stained wretches of the downstream media by suggesting that the only way to defeat the ISIS Caliphate-bound terrorists is to provide a comfortable entitlement environment like the one her boss loves and sustains.

She told Chris Matthews on MSNBC that we cannot kill our way past the terrorists. She said poverty, inequality, deprivation and  ignorance force these people into I S I S, Al Qaeda and Boko Harum !

(Well,  one out of four gives her a score of  25/100. That is "F" for fail, is it not ?

If this were not such a tragic and expensive lie ( to herself as well as to us), it would be grist for standup comedy.

But she was serious and when she was challenged she doubled down and suggested again it's a waste of time to fight terrorism with anything other than jobs, comfort and alms.

I'm glad that I know George Washington hanged a traitorr-terrorist-spy,  Major Andre , instead of feeding him or bedding him down !

I suggest that La Harf is just another poster girl for the corrupt, untruthful  wussification of Ameruica. She makes Madeline Albright look like  Chancellor Merkel !

We are in a cauldron of lies  and all the history and legacy of  American gallantry is being  reduced to ash and blown away by the convulsive hiccups of  traitors who lie in plain sight.

One's mind reels, watching the truckling and bowing to Iran's Ayotolla Kahmeini.

Would Spruance, Halsey and Nimintz have asked Hirohito's permissio to visit Iwo Jima and Okinawa ?

Would Ike and Patton have asked Rommel if June 6, '44 fit in his schedule ?  

And how about killing Jews?  Is it now allowable as long as  the beheaders just "do a few" and not six million ?

Just watch.  We have stark evidence that in the past,  these kinds of people pretend, in the face of incinerating  cinematic evidence, that they never lied, or ate the excrement of tyrants.

But when none of us  is "bothered" by the Marie Harfs--vipers at our bosom--we are  dozing out of the Cauldron of  Lies and into another Holocaust.

Or Armageddon.

Barry Soetoro Speaks

Certainly that was not our community disorganizer -in-chief  at the national prayer breakfast , equating thousand year old Crusader myths with the burning alive of a Jordanian pilot by Stone Age barbarians this week .

As a matter of fact, the performance and the attitude were so obviously juvenile and sophomoric that one knew that  this was the personna of little Barry Soetoro from that Muslim elementary school in Jakarta Indonesia, circa 1970 .

No distinguished graduate of Columbia and Harvard could possibly come up with such a far-fetched “equivalency”in  behavior of Stone Age throwbacks in 2015 with acts of raucous “true believers” on the cusp of the first millennium.

The issue is:  the words of a brainwashed follower of dictums laid down by a relentlessly haunted illiterate in the seventh century who recruited his fellow desert Arabs away from their belief in the magic of whirlwinds, toward a blueprint of savage slaughter of everyone and anyone who denied the religion of Subnmission (Isl;am).

The man at the prayer breakfast is probably the only man in the United States who really believes that there is no connection between Islam / Muslim Qu’ranic authority and the plague of terrorism by Al Qaeda, the Islamic State and Bojo Haram that threatens the future of what we had heretofore called “civilization” on the planet Earth .

It is not remarkable ,and not a fit subject for applause when a man tries to appease a consolidation of feral evil which  has promised to cut his head off..

But although this adolescent mind can confuse itself with tales of crusaders and witches, it cannot comprehend the stark  silliness of Neville Chamberlain and his followers among the America-Firsters in this country who believed Hitler could be “loved” into goodness and mercy.

And speaking of mercy, do you  foresee this generation needing it in abundance if nothing changes in the next two years ? 

              

Bill Allen

Big Obama Boo-Boo

I will step out from behind the editorial plural, usual in  this blog and use the perpendicular pronoun for a brief composition.

 I am older than dirt. I have not lost any appreciable memory of any history that I have seen--- although Herodotus and Gibbon still clasp some secrets from me, I am sure.

When the presidentof the United States on Tuesday night,  taunted and challenged the Congress  to pass legislation requiring that women be paid the same amount that men are paid for doing the same job,  I was jolted by a big Brain Zot ! 

"Dern!!! " I said to myself. "I wudda  SWORN  Jack Kennedy proposed that legislation when he was president... And I cain't be wrong when I remember it passed !"

Well, he did and it did  And the present occupant of the White House and /  or his staff are just ignorant, or maybe imbecilic.

This morning, the great people at American Thinker came up with the whole cloth of facts. You can see them HERE !

Let me know at Bba76@aol.con  if you hear this reported on CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, or in your daily fish wrapper.

The law was passed and signed by JFK in June 1963. That was prior to the sowing of the seeds which are now well rooted in academia and in the communication behemoths, said rooted evil choking and stunting a nation founded on individual liberty and now devoted to the corruption of every lonely illiterate soul into lockstep slavery by people who do not know what others have dared to accomplish.

I believe we are seeing in the United States, a complete triumph of the two big "Esses" !

Arrogant Solipsism and a snowstorm of battling more of the in Solecisms.

A good start toward repair would be more incisive vetting of the candidates in the presidential election next year.

The alphabet television networks and your local Adsheets will not do this. It's up to people like those at the American Thinker and other news commentary websites to dig mercilessly into every resume'. and of course, more of us need to pay attention and not vote the straight PeeCee diversity ticket. 

Scandal of Vacant Brains

At the Depot, our view of the educational system in the United States has usually been restricted to elementary and high school aridity and a worthless application of every piece of PeeCee  poppycock to the defenseless pupils' anesthesis.

As we all well know, academia does not entertain as one of its strong points  the rigor of self- criticism.

But now, a disinterested Vanguard has done some testing on more than 30,000 college graduates from coast-to-coast in the United States, to find out just how prepared for "White Collar" employment in today's job market a "graduate" really is.

The answer is horrific. More than four out of 10 receiving bachelor degrees cannot cope with the simplest requirements of modern day creativity and business leadership.

You can read and evaluate the exhaustive study HERE !

This should be  painfully embarrassing to academia, but peopled as it is with failed hippy culture and massive marijuana burnout of the brains responsible for these young college people, we should not be too surprised. 

After all, just this week at Duke University, a schedule of calls to prayer by an Imam of Islam from the storied tower there was announced by the University administration in
 Durham....Only to be reversed, retracted and ( they hope)  forgotten in the wake of cease-and-dsist shouts from  University trustees and perpetual donors.

One could view this as the beginning of a cleanup campaign in American education. 

But a close lookat those who are doing the "educating" would not encourage that hope.

The saddest deduction, which is to say, the strongest evidence at hand, would lead any fair-minded person with common sense to say we should attack the superfluity of idiots "instructing" in the colleges while the professors publish papers and make speeches, rather than increase the number of  high schoolers to be victimized by these poseurs.

This is more important than almost anything facing our servants in the legislative and executive branches of government. 

Well, that is the opinion here today, for what it's worth.

The Little Man

I saw him standing on the stair:
The Little Man Who Wasn't There !
He wasn't there again today !
I wish to Hell he'd go away !!

Obama's absence from the march of two million world citizens against slaughter-bent Islamic Jihadists was....What ?

Embarrassing ? Revolting ? Cowardly ?  Craven ? Unforgivable ? Despicable ? Maybe.

But his refusal to join the  Jew Bibi Netanyahu and "Palestinian" Mahmoud Abbas, who locked arms in pease and promise with 38 world eminences such as Merkel, Cameron and Hollande was something else.

It was revealing.  

Even Obama's most jubilant supporter cannot deny, now that  everything has changed for him. 

And he can never go back to claim he is a "protector"  (as his Oath reqires him to be)  of the American Constitution and the American people. 

We no longer need a Birth Certificate. The Emperor is no longer just without clothes.

He is without Honor and his very Soul is soiled.

Let those who dismiss this iniquity be en garde so to speak. 

Blindness in the presence of such incandescent venality could be fatal to the strongest Spirit.

A COOL Six-and-a-half million !

Most visitors to this blog know that we are somewhat obsessed with good polling data.  Good polling data, however depends on a good sample properly unsanitized and sprawling. That is the opinion here.

What about a poll around the globe that contacted and recorded the opinion of 6,580,271 people from all continents, all races, somewhat proportioned by economic standing and literacy.  That is, the poorest in this sample far outnumber people with regular jobs or professions.

The respondents were given 16 "issues" and asked to identify the one problem that concerned them most, then the second, and so on down to 16th in importance.

HERE  it is the story that caught our eye.

Global warming, or climate change, or what ever you wish to call the bogus algorean /UN farce, was 16th across the board. The Nadir.

This would lead us to believethat Gruber is the stupid one and the regular citizen of the world, just sweating to gather enough to eat has no time for the folks who said in 1999 that there would be between 50,000 and 100,000 dead global warming refugee and living skeletons by 2010 

Another  Revelation was the problem that almost every single respondent picked as the number one crisis for humanity:

A proper and honest education for every child.

Learnung came  before everything else for the six and one half million!!! This further raises the bar for those highfalutin "leaders"  who do not  realize they are servants, and believe us all stupid--- their best evidence being that we elect and tolerate morons on occasion. 

But, thank God, not always. And sometimes, the least of us amazes  the Pooh-Bahs of the United Nations organization, who scorn us and our opinions. May it EVER be so.

What are the odds that the international thieves who line their pockets with "carbon footprint"  tax money and income from wind and solar energy hoaxes will call for a recount ? 

Caucus Carcass Profiile

The Congressional Black Caucuswas caucusing.

“Doing that “hands up don’t shoot” thang on the floor of the House went over like a lead elephant.” Complained one member.

“These Crackuhs jus’ don’t GIT it !” whined another.

 “Yeah ! Buncha ole white Kluxers don’ WANT to hear or see nuthinn !”

“But,” the senior member interposed, “that New Orleans Saints tight end ain’t no white Kluxer. He a kinda preacher !”

“And Charles Barkley, HE damn sho aint no white racist . He called us “scumbags”.

“Naw he didn’t ! He call them rioters “scumbags !”

“Same thang !”

“Well, see  what I’m saying is, we’ve got some repairs to make.”

“This ain’t the time to talk reparations....”

“Will you shut up, iggernunt ?”

“I GOT IT !” Another senior member said. “Mikey's  DADDY ! Here  is what we do............”

And that is how it happened that when Speaker John Boehner gaveled  the house to order for the next session , the Congressional Black Caucus Marched en masse into the chamber chanting:

“We gonna burn this bitch down..Down..Down !.... Gonna burn her black and flat...Oh yeah....!” 

Spark-ing Conversation

“Well they didn’t bite did they?!”

“Naw, and I thought sure some moron right-winger would lead the parade to impeach me!”

“Yeah... The martyrdom gig would have set the stage for your base to flanme out the whole US of A !”

“That Witch from Minnesota says they “choose not to engage”. What the hell does that mean?”

“I think it means you can wipe that mierde-munching grin off your face and DO something. You just dropped another three approval points!”

“Say whut ?...Do whut ?”

“Well how about firing somebody ? That will shake things up and give your fanny-smoochers  in the media a chance to swoon over your incisive “style”... It’s been a long time.”

“Well it’s got to be somebody responsible for following my plan precisely.... Some plan that has not worked out the way I dreamed it up.”

“I GOT it !”

“You got whut ?”

“HAGEL !  He’s followed your directions straight into collapse mode...AND, he’s a REPUBLICAN !!”

“Hmmmmm...You m,y HAVE something there, Val......”

All Con Men Lie (See Video !)

First, he said he never heard of Jon Gruber. "I just now heard about this..." is how he was quoted.

Then, someone dug up a 2006 video and story in which he mentioned consulting Professor Gruber.

Well, everyone has lost count now. This White House feeds on and regurgitates confusion and obfuscation. Rush Limbaugh, on Monday called the president "a common pathological  LIAR..."

This Blog has often referred to the "Flim-Flam Man", the "Con Artist", the "Three-Card Monte" dealer and the sleight-of-hand faker.

By this weekend, there will not be the blindest liberal who has not heard the evidence that the three ALPHABET   TV nets tried to suppress---to keep from U.S. citizens.

Now, Dr. Gruber tells abot his joining Obama to plan how to hide or lie "out of"  the  "Cadillac Tax" in Obamacare. SEE VIDEO HERE!

We KNOW it is bad "form" to say "Tolja So !" But Cato's Depot branded this whole national administration as poseurs and con liars before it  began its deepredations. It shrivels the soul to remember them athwart the white Greek colmns. But it's worse than we ever thought.

 And now there's no place to hide any more.

Firm Eyes = HUGE Prize

It is to laugh that we look at what will soon be the election of the ninth Republican Senator to erase a Democrat incumbent in 2014.

Sen. Mary Landrieu defeated herself last week in her runoff to be decided the first week in December. She vigorously attacked her opponent, Bill Cassidy for "being AWOL  during and in the wake of hurricanes Katrina andRita.

We cannot believe she did not know Cassidy is a medical doctor and that he used his own resources to organize and fund an emergency medical center for refugees of the hurricanes.

Maybe Miss Mary doesn't know that the national Democrat  Party has withdrawn all funds supporting her candidacy as of the night of November 4, 2014.

There's a lot of that going on. The dems  cut their losses in a lot of places. Those left high and dry would make a long, LAWNG list of losers.

For the liberal party did not just lose the Senate and the House and the hold on governorships,  it lost nationwide almost every state legislature and all the way down two justices of the peace ! Read THIS !

I am not sure that even every Republican officeholder in the United States realizes what has happened.  It just goes to show you that names rarely count.

For instance, would you have picked Reince Priebus over Debbie Wasserman Scgultz ?  (Party Chairpersons.)

Brutally Obvious

A threat from Democrat biased  members of the Federal Communications Commission to make new regulations that would  restrict and censor the Drudge Report and other Internet sites was reported this past week to be "in the words".  See Story HERE

There is nothing new about the left wing radicals attempting to stifle those who disagree with their Marxist agenda.

There's nothing new so is hewith their being very afraid of any source of information other than their pet lapdog cronies at the New York Times and the alphabet networks.  Especially in the last six years the doctrinaire national Socialists have tried every way in their power to silence those critical of the Democrat agenda. 

It is with great relief that we can declare they have failed, because we are now on the threshold of conservative control of both houses of the legislature and most of the governorships in the USA.

But what is remarkable is that one of their minions would  announce a plan to control Matt Drudge and his website, the Drudge Report.

Matt Drudge is not in the composing or propaganda business.  He has been from the beginning an "Aggregatpr". That is, he is a portal to other websites, other writers, news sources, opinion columns throughout the world.

Those who visit him HERE .will see that he offers linkage to every wire service, every news source,every coluimnist in the political spectrum from communist to fascist stripe and to every telervision outlet. ALL OPINIONS are represented in the columns of Matt Drudge's website.

So what is behind this determined effort to control a website that directs its readers to the Chicoms' Xinhua,  the Muslims' Al Jazeera as well as the Huffington Post ??

These frothy-mouthed airheads, it turns out, are just opposed to any freedom of choice or liberty for individuals. They are spoiled rotten with their squishy bailiwick of  "liberal" lies and half-truths that they have enjoyed building and repairing since the 1970s.

They seek to draw the black curtain of misinformation, disinformation and cradle-to-grave obfuscation closer and more firmly around the body politic.

And when they see a conservative revolution gathering steam enough to replace their Senate, they lose a sense of proportion and ability to cerebrate rationally.  That is...IF they have possessed same.

The tip-off  is that a left-winger would actually announce such a plan. He obviously never attended any school where they discussed the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution. Ignorance is the heaviest endowment of all.

The vacuous fellow who came up with this plan can be classified in the same IQ group with Hillary Clinton, who pronounced sternly this past Friday that businesses can not create jobs.

Who chooses or votes for these people?  

NOT "Mayflower-esque"

Some of you may brush this off as trivial but then you may take pause and think: "Wait a minute...!"

It's a little story I ran across in a regional newspaper published in the area of the Natick, Massachusetts Township.

The newspaper story, in itself, said that "somebody" told "somebody" that somebody else had told the first somebody that they saw a man "in Town Hall"  with "a big bulge in his pocket like, maybe, a gun... Like !"

The third or fourth somebody went to a constable and then the constable and the last somebody went to the "Chair" of the selectmen, one Martha White.

Now it is important to recognize that Natick is in the area where all of the "Mayflower"  families still remain. They have simple monosyllabic or di-syllabic names like White, Smith, Rogers, Rolfe, Bradford and Allen.

These people do not have to call for a vote on anything. They are endowed by their redolent 17th century  airs with higher credentials than any referendum can bestow.

At any rate,  Ms. White canvassed her Selectmen and announced a rule, or ordinance, or law prohibiting any attendee at a Natick  town meeting from being armed with a weapon, with heavier sanctions in the case of the weapon being concealed from plain view.

Citizens of the Township did not need to wait for print publication of the new legal prohibition.  The checkout line grapevine and tavern talemongers sufficed to spread the word.

In two days, Ms. White was suffocated by protesting mail and her computer inbox was frozen with even more and angrier rants and threats.

"I was dumbfounded !" she was quoted as saying. "Shocked I tell you ! "  (She didn't know there were that many people in the Township, let alone that many people who even knew that guns existed anywhere near Natick.

One selectman reportedly said he "didn't understand the question".  At the last update, it lookked like Ms. White's gambit was doomed.

One of the complaining Natick townsmen reportedly said:
 "I own an ancient shotgun with Damascus barrels that will split if it's shot... But I'm familiar with the second amendment in the Bill of Rights and I know what this present Supreme Court said about that. The selectmen are ripe for the silly farm!

Now this blog is not about guns.  That is settled law. We present these Massachusetts happenings simply as an insight into how people can get a hold of a lot of authority without getting a hold of a smidgen of wisdom or information. And people who have been elevated to positions loftier than their IQ or ability to reason may be as dangerous as media liars...Or traitors !

DOOFUS MAGNUS

The working condition of the present administration's foreign policy was unclothed again Monday by John (He WAS  in Vietnam!) Kerry, who is supposed to be Secretary of State and majordomo of all things diplomatic.

The dilettante mainstream media's inability to agree on whether the latest incarnation of seventh century (AD / DE) butchery  should be called  ISIS or ISIL, the initial "I" in both appellations certainly stands for "ISLAM" for the international press.

(ISIS is "Islamic State in Iraq and Syria" and ISIL stands for "Islamic State in the Lecant".)

But Kerry, in his exalted role and with great hauteur, looked down his nose at former Congressman and nowadays TV host Joe Scarborough and smugly confided that "ISIS has nothing to do with Islam".  Clicj HJERE for Story

All the way up to the Oval Office,  the flimflammers  believe they can make anything come true by saying it !

We are all innured to the Jabberwocky of Joe Biden,  and Kerry HAS  been downright silly sometimes when faced by the reality of Bibi Netanyahu, but this kind of Abbott and Costello  doubletalk is beyond outlandish.

Don't send in the clowns... He are already here.

Can the United States get a reshuffle of these wildcards or a reset of doofus domination in the executive branch of our government in time to survive ? 

If a big shot government Poo-Bah  thinks he can laugh away his spoken absurdities, do we just go our ignorant, sappy way and pretend these confused con men are "harmless" ???

At our Peril !!!

Can We Borrow the Oval Office ?

A really fine writer and thinker, Robert Tracinski reminded me of a wonderful story about President  Abraham Lincoln and General George "In Situ" McClellan.

In  his best, affable passive-aggressive acerbity, Pres. Lincoln called McClellan to task for dilatory non-activity.

"If you are not using the Army," Jonest Abe said, "I would like to borrow it for a little while..."

Thank you Bob, in a vain attempt to rattle Pres. Obama's self-inflicted cage, you have jogged many of our full craws to the point of up-chucking.

For instance, leaked  reports  from frustrated Pentagon sources allow that despite his wimpy statement that "we have no strategy" vis a vis the Islamic State of Iraqi and Syria, the president has been continually advised and updated for more than a year on the coalescing, strengthening and bloodthirsty activity of the new, improved giant-sized terrorist army in search of a new Caliphate.


CLICK HERE for DETAILS

Oh, where are we going to find someone with a spine that will ask the commander-in-chief  if we can borrow  his army to protect ourselves on the upcoming anniversary of  9/11, 2001 ?

A survey reported on Tuesday, September 2 2014 showed that the great majority of Americans do not want Casper Milquetoast  as a protector in lavender lace drawers. Neither do they want a 
shoot-'em-up cowboy.

But we've never had a Neville Chamberlain in the Oval Office before.  And it isn't the fact that he never went to summer camp or  trained on a firing range.

What it is, as Andy Griffith would  say the POINT (and he was a stomp down left-wing liberal)  is "totin'  that punkin to the goal through a mass of fighting, kicking, gashing, bloody, muddy adversaries who want to stomp your eyeballs out..."

Where have the guys with the guts ( and the strategies) gone ?  

The joint Chiefs don't look sharp in the drapery of doormats, either.

If I had my way, we would borrow the whole military, and put Camille Paglia in charge.

Or dig up Golda Meir.

Pollster Literacy

Literacy is the parent of credibility.

I don’t know if that’s  original here or  not; but ever since I passed a college course on Public Opinion at Emory University when Elmo Roper and Harris were starting out to compete with Gallup, I’ve been an addicted poll rat .

And I’ve had some bizarre wake-up calls along the way. Even today when everything is supposed to be so sophisticated and complex , there are ways to test the credibility if  not the accuracy of a public opinion survey 

For instance, within a month of the retreat of Scott Rasmussen from the poll to which he gave his name, the company began to deteriorate in credibility from the most accurate of all the American survey specialists to a clear left-leaning posture, revealing that they had returned to a sampling methodology based on the 2008 party split , rather than the 2010 / 2012 numbers . 

In these days when Reuters and Gallup show Obama’s approval at 40% or less while Rasmussen clings to a 47% approval on the same days of testing , it is bizarre .

But here is the strange thing . The syntax in the Rasmussenj website reporting is also bad. It has  frequent misspellings and slipshod editing like today’s use of “now “ for the very important verb “KNOW” !!!

I’ve noted the same thing in polls on local and state races. In Georgia today for instance, while five other surveys show David Perdue from 7 to 9 points ahead of Michelle Nunn, a WSB TV website headline gushes that Nunn “has expanded“  a lead that she has never even had , in any of the polls averaged on the Real Clear Politics unbiased and most credible site of all. The emotional one-sided awkward screed at WSB TV contributes to the embarrassment.

I’m reminded of Li’l Abner”s comic strip assertion long ago that “As any fool can plainly see ...I see !!!”

If they can’t report their findings clearly and with literate language and if they do not edit for clarity and accuracy , they probably do not do a circumspect job with the numbers.

Or  so it seems here . 

DUMB

This has been rather a lengthy hiatus-- seven months since the last post in Cato's Depot. The future succession of posts will be sporadic rather than regular.

However, a small but powerful reminder of what's wrong passed across the monitor screen Wednesday that prompts a reminder that one should consider all future possibilities before one calls someone who is irritating, "dumb" because of a disagreement.

That would be true especially if the person one branded as "dumb" has ( or had)  more information and/or experience than the "Dumb-Brander".

And, THEN:

There, staring at me from my monitor  was an officer of the new Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, brandishing a Scimitar over the head of  a Western journalist, having just beheaded an American journalist and now gloating and threatening... Albeit incognito in a ski mask.

And there, also on my monitor was a story that harked back eight years ago about a response that George W. Bush, then president of the United States, made to Democrat demagogues raising hell for the United States to leave Iraq immediately.

Bush said then that leaving Iraq "prematurely" before "the job was done" would lead to something unimaginably worse than al Qaeda.  He was quoted as saying in that 2006 statement that a "bug out" by Americans from Iraq would definitely fertilize and prompt the establishment of an organized politically and militarily more rovust  that will be  capable of challenging the West on a higher-level of organization and financial strength due to the Iraq oil reserves. Bush said at that time, if we left a vacuum behind us, mere t and go  terrorism would be replaced by sophisticated political, financial and military development that would outpace anything yet seen in the Middle East and pose a real   constant threat to the West.

Pretty dumb, Huh ?

A Little Too Late

No one is going to mark the date, but on Tuesday, January 21, 2014, Ernest Istook quoted  a group of  honest, concerned scientists and clinicians headed by the nation's "DRUG Czar", Obama's appointee, contradicting  the Chief Magistrate's latest clueless ignorant babbling. CICK, SEE STORY 

President Obama had announed that recreational cannabis use is not as dangerous as  use of alcohol, and nothingt to be alarmed about.

The Drug Czar's website, (part of  White House.gov)   warns  that pot not only killls  teens' brain cells,but that it's inhaled smoke has more cancer causing chemicals than tobacco. It also   kills volition. Alcohol does none of this.

Any of his old "Choom" buddies could have set him straight.  The marijuana they used in the late 70's was about  10% as strong as today's Colorado and Wasgington State LEGAL product; even less powerful than hash, oil and some "medical"  distillations.

This is something about which we actualy  have  empirical as well as clinical knowledge, having been given: first abstinence and then opportunity to work with thousands of addicts and their famlies for more than 20 years, professionally and socially.

But my opinions are not my point here. The Department of Drug Enforsement has viewed the softening of attitudes toward cannabis in the U.S. with fear-not-just-alarm.

What thoughtful people ask again and again is:

"Why the great rush to legalize a drug that civilizations older than ours still view with documented  negativity ?...Even horror.

The adoption of the appellation "Assassin" from the root of "Hashish" in  early Asia Minor was not without reason and evidence.

Look at the nations that still enforce  harsh penalties for importation, sale and possession of cannabis in any form. CLICK HERE

There is no longer any hope of stemming the tide of irresponsibility that has clouded and debased America  for decades  It is now "hitting its stride" with widespread  clamor for legalizing illegal mind altering drugs.

Those, like the "Czar" and his colleagues who COURAGEOUSLY speak their TRUTH to Brute selfish power should never be forgotten.

Can You Believe it ??!!

"Dear Mr. Editor of  The Sun:

"Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. 

"Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.' 

"Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?

"VIRGINIA O'HANLON.

"115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET."

VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. 

In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. 

We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. 

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.