THE ONLY THINGS NECESSARY….

Edmund Burke once famously said “That the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good [people] men do nothing”

I would add two corollaries to this. The first is that the only things necessary are also “ that good people not believe that evil exists” and the second is “that good people not hear the truth.”

We have seen evil at work once again in Boston on April 15th at the Boston Marathon as yet more Americans died or were maimed and wounded at the hands of terrorists bent on carnage for the sake of God knows what. While reasonable people recognized this evil for what it was, far too many politicians saw only crass political opportunity. It did not take long for the leadership of the Democratic party to blame the attack on the sequester or the fact it was “Tax Day“. Nor did it deter “progressive” leftists such as David Sirota to openly hope on Salon.com that the bomber is a white American, because otherwise the Obama agenda re immigration, defense reductions and leaving Afghanistan would be jeopardized and Muslims might be victimized whereas white people, who have priveledge… never are. At MSNBC Chris Matthews yearned that the terror was done by right wing extremists. Barney Frank yelped that this proves that tax cuts should be discarded. The blood was not even cleansed from Boylston Street when these disgusting and inappropriate things were said or written.

For the falsely named “progressive” left ( their progress is our subjugation by the state ) there is no such thing as evil unless it can be used in a negative context with white or black conservatives, religion, traditional marriage, the right to life, the constitution, the flag, the military, gun ownership, limited government, low taxes or the belief that parents and not the state have hegemony over their children. Their sense of evil is divorced from everything decent and linked only to their toxic ideology.

The Iron Lady is Gone

MARGARET THATCHER

Margaret Thatcher died this week. She was 87 and was the first and only female Prime Minister of the UK. She also served her country as PM longer than any other in history. In the course of her three terms she brought Great Britain back from the precipice of a socialist hell and made it the fourth largest economy in the world by returning to free market economics. In the course of her tenure in office, she helped President Ronald Reagan to bring down communism in Russia and eastern Europe. She “denationalized” ( her preferred term) British Telecom, British Gas, British Airways, and Rolls Royce among others. She fought a war with Argentina and was a major partner with President Bush in liberating Kuwait from Saddam Hussein reminding him along the way ‘not to go all wobbly“. The Soviets called her the “Iron Lady” and she wore that appellation with pride. The unions hated her guts but she never let their vile vitriol deter her from what she believed was right. She did all of this with elegance and grace while skewering her opponents in the House of Commons like a master fencer who could use either the foil or the saber. She became Lady Thatcher after she left No. 10 Downing Street but then she was always a lady in the best sense of the word. We shall not see her likes again. Good show Maggie!

ERLANDSSON.

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LORD JAMES IS DEAD

G.K.Chesterton once wrote about journalism …”Journalism consists largely in saying “Lord James is dead” to people who never knew Lord James was alive”

This is just another way of saying that the real proof of bad journalism is when you personally know the topic or the subject better than the journalists do causing their not so hidden bias to actually become the bigger story.

We had another classic example of this on Tuesday when two reporters from the Daily News wrote a hit piece about the new Chair of the Bronx Republican Party who in the name of full disclosure has been a friend for 20 years and is someone who once worked for me. They never had any fundamental questions of him such as what were his goals and mission for the party but instead concentrated on personal events in his life which in some instances were 30 years old in origin and over and done with… and they even got some of that information wrong.

The bottom line is that much of the press has become a vassal of either the Democratic Party or the in the case of the Bronx the sleaze that passes for elected or party officials from all parties who owe no loyalty to anyone but themselves. They are the me, my, mine party and preside unencumbered by any values, loyalty, or sense of public trust.

NOW IS THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT MADE WORSE…

Shakespeare would have described the political scandals in NY as follows:
Now is the winter of our discontent
made worse by the wicked deeds of the tribunes of the people!

New York politics and in particular NYC politics is once again on display as the epicenter of corruption and the ground zero for greed. Bill Hammond of the Daily News reported on Thursday that “The city has 43% of the state’s population but 73% of it’s crooked state officeholders”. He further stated that ” 24 of the 33 state politicians caught in the corruption eruption over the past decade live in the five boroughs” On Friday the numbers increased to 26 and 35.

While all of the seven arrested officials are entitled to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty… these current debacles are yet the latest examples that our politics are sick and getting sicker.

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS:PART ONE

Political correctness, the “isms” it has given birth to, and its ugly by product, multiculturalism is basically political and cultural insanity disguised as civic virtue. This creation of the secular progressive left is designed to shut down free debate by making critical issues impossible to resolve because it forbids facts and truth to be part of any discussion. It is also designed to undermine traditional values, constitutional protections, religious freedom and free enterprise. Political correctness and it growing assortment of topics too sensitive for candor is designed to warp and distort free speech in the public square by attempting to make certain speech falsely offensive, insensitive, untrue or bigoted.

It is a humorless, neo-Stalinist process which at its conclusion has people self censor themselves for fear of losing their jobs, friends or reputations. It is killing our culture AND IT IS DELIBERATE!

The list of things now considered controversial or even taboo include the following:

The Inversion of Political Correctness

These are examples of the psychopathy of liberal "political correctness":

'Negro' has become a racist term which can only be used by insensitive liberals with impunity.

Liberals treat minorities as faceless victims instead of individuals.

Secretary Napolitano thinks that our homeland security system works since the ball-bomber was stopped from blowing up the Detroit plane.

The Secretary of Homeland Security warns that the principal threat we face now is an outbreak of Islamophobia.

The president says we cannot "fully know" why Major Hasan did what he did at Fort Hood, so why trouble ourselves any further.

The Abortion Battle

Survivors

Is anyone disturbed by the Planned Parenthood abortion statistics that show only 3% of pregnant women receive abortions from PP while 'Right to Life' claims that 32 out of 33 pregnant patients get abortions?

Realisticly, these manipulations of statitiscs are what influences people just as Nazi propaganda created an environment that resulted in 6 million Jewish murders. Both of these stats are true, and both are false. When PP states that "only" 3% of their clients receive abortions, they equate services, not patients. For example, they say a pregnancy test equals an abortion in their statistics, and since they provide 1.4 million of these tests, it's apparent how they come to their conclusions. The other side chooses to ignore these simple procedures since an abortion test can be easily purchased for $15 at any pharmacy. 'Right to Life' abortion statistics are based on the fact that of the actual number of pregnant women that go to PP, 97% receive abortions, which is true also. PP argues against this view because they say they actually don't know how many of their clients are pregnant. If they did, of course, this might show that of the actual tests that turn out as pregnant, almost all get an abortion. We'll never know, and that is why pregnancies discovered by these tests are not recorded.

HABEMUS PAPAM

We have a Pope! With these simple Latin words the Proto Deacon, French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran last week, emerged on the balcony outside the Papal apartments and announced to a crowd of over 100,000 in St. Peter’s Square and billions more watching on television, that the Roman Catholic Church of 1.2 billion souls had a new leader and his name was Francis.

Pope Francis was Cardinal Arch Bishop of Buenos Aries Argentina Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a humble Jesuit who is the first Pontiff from the “new world”, the first Jesuit to be Pope, the first to take the name of St. Francis of Assisi, and the first Pope in over a thousand years not to come from Europe. 

By all accounts he is a man devoted to the poor who actually works with them and does not just talk about them, he is a traditionalist, a believer in the sanctity of life and traditional marriage. He appears to be an ascetic man who eschews the pomp and the bling that has become unfortunately associated with the magisterium. This makes him dangerous. It did not take long for the secular progressives to begin their attack.

The attack in reality however had begun prior to the conclave with the leftwing press bellowing about how the church had to change to become in effect more like the Democratic Party. Many of these commentators were self proclaimed Catholics.

The Sequester

Sequester Was Obama’s Idea; Make Him Own It!

President Obama is good at spending money and very adroit at blaming Republicans for the many failures of his presidency. Four years under his belt and another four to go and Obama continues the blame game with gusto. Now Obama is topping his own standard of hypocrisy and blaming the $1.2 trillion sequester on Republicans when the idea was Obama’s in 2011.

“And that’s why it’s so troubling that just 10 days from now, Congress might allow a series of automatic, severe budget cuts to take place that will do the exact opposite,” declared his Royal Highness Obama.
Let’s get this straight, it’s Congress’ fault sequestration, also known as the automatic spending cuts, is about to happen even though it was Obama’s idea? Apparently, Obama also never said in November 2011: “I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts, domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.”

The US has been lying to all of us for decades

We’re not talking about some kooky conspiracy theory… we’re talking about INFLATION.
 
By understating inflation, the Federal Government and Federal Reserve have done two things:
 
1.Exaggerated our economic growth.
2.Lied about the true cost of living in the US.
 
Regarding #1, every time the US prints GDP growth numbers, it adjusts this data for inflation. The reason for this is that if the economy grows at 10%, but prices also rise at 10%, then there really hasn’t been any actual growth.
 
To deal with this, the US adjusts its GDP measures for inflation to make it appear as f they’re objective. The only problem is that the US adjusts GDP using a phony inflation number that is much lower than reality.
 
A great example is last quarter when we were told that the GDP grew at an annual rate of 0.1%. The reality is that if you used realistic inflationary measures, the US economy SHRANK at a rate of over -1% last quarter. Yes, negative 1%. The worst GDP print since 2009.

REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS

"All people are born alike except Republicans and Democrats" GROUCHO MARX

 

The Republicans are in full cannibal mode. They are eating their young. Reagan’s 11th commandment is ignored. It is easier to fight those closest to you than to fight your real enemy. It is simpler to demand perfection than to accept a principled compromise. When you have a habit of only talking to those who agree with you, you delude yourself into believing it is because nobody else is important enough.

Some think this is better than their usual state of existence which is the “old guard vs. the tea party” or “neo-cons vs. the religious right” or simply “Republican vs. Conservatives”. I live in a state and city which is and has been for far too long a one party environment. People in New York have not been wooed by a Republican or a Conservative running for President for so long that “Nixon’s the One!” signs are still current. The GOP has written off the state for so long that candidates only come here to raise big money from rich people and then leave quickly in the dead of night before a desperate conservative can beg them for a poster or a lawn sign. In fact the last time they had lawns signs they were reserved for Manhattan which tells you every thing you need to know about how serious they are about winning.