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Dispersing Discretionary Thoughts or How Now the Republic

Oh to be sure the Obama election was historical but then all such elections are historical: check out the text books a hundred years from now. Oh good lord with great ennui I know he’s half white and half black. So what. I have never wondered at the skin color or sex of the foot planted on my neck, nor of the hand picking me up from a fall, perhaps I’m just a little blind that way. Well if you must, then chalk it up to just another failing of mine.

By the way he does sound like Rod Serling, doesn’t he.

Anyway, no I didn’t say that it is wrong to celebrate one’s self identified inclusion in this or that population, celebrating an ethnic origin, culture, or whatever sub-group within the American Nation you wish to celebrate. When doing so we celebrate an indelible part of our identity as delimited by this or that group, but never ever our whole identity. Fine. Still, I would not vote for someone merely because he or she belonged to some sub-group that I too belonged. My sub-groups are not a valid basis as far as I’m concerned for justifying my vote, except for that sub-group that shares my political point-of-view. Oh, I’m sure there is elaboration available here, perhaps another time.

But really did we become a “cool” nation but for no other reason than we elected a black president? Really? Isn’t it a little unseemly and condescending to pat ourselves on the back because we elected a “black” president? Surely no attribute could be less important than the color of a man’s skin, which is to say none, as a qualification for public office, unless of course we are a terribly shallow and frivolous people. But apparently many in MSM believe so, and many in Academia too, and sadly sundry sophisticates sing the same chorus.

I know such thoughts are so yesterday, but as I mentioned previously just because President Obama is quick, quick, quick to scud over the peace that sleep and dreams may bring does not mean that either you or I must greet every morning with the dreariest red eye.

And so then the paramount inauguration was painfully modest, the inauguration of John Adams, the singular most important inauguration in American history. Painfully unnoticed, or at least modestly celebrated (how could anyone not play second fiddle to the father of the nation), as he stood between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, was the consummation of American Republicanism by medium of Democracy. All other inaugurations stand no better than second to the first lawful, institution-setting, peaceful transfer of power.

Certainly President Obama’s inauguration deserved celebration, as inherent in all this nation’s inaugurations is a celebration of our Nation as a Nation founded upon the rule of law, and for that reason, foremost that reason, his inauguration deserved celebration. So too is it warranted that his supporters should have avenue to celebrate their joy, but the spectacle of parading celebrities joined by MSM in what I can best liken to uxorious love seemed more the coronation given bacchanal like license, but diademed with 140 million of tax payer dollars. I was surprised he didn’t seize the crown and crown his own pate. Surely he would have been immodestly cheered by all in attendance, yea, even by the rocks and trees themselves.

And the spectacle, parade, brought to mind something I had read in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera, where one of the characters, Sabrina, felt driven to take part in a protest march in Paris protesting the Soviet Union’s invasion of Czechoslovakia. She couldn’t bear more than a couple of participatory minutes, and after being chided by her friends for bowing away, she considered what she could say if she would:

“…To tell them that behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists shouting identical syllables in unison.”

No, we did not suffer an invasion or occupation by outside forces: although Obama supporters would have us believe otherwise; that his appearance had restored order; that he had conquered. So his entrance to the city elicited imperator or its modern equivalent. Nor missing were vulgarities shouted by the base toward his predecessor and wife--as if they were Obama‘s prize presented to the people. Yes I found it as you think. His call to unity in Government, his spectacle, compelled me to leave the parade; leave it to others to participate. I stand athwart.

But all this is well known.

True his ascendancy to the Presidency as sounded by the MSM neared the vulgarity of obeisance to a demi-god. Yet lacking justification for such quasi apotheosis the MSM fell to lauding his ascension as a redemption to our nation resting on the mere pigment of his skin; shallow inept thought provides shallow inept justification. So I am taking Attorney General Holder at his word for wanting a dialog on race.

So I state neither now nor never will I ever admire or denigrate a Man’s ethnicity for the sake of his ethnicity. Now I am not so fallen as to not understand that there are many who are relieved and even joyed to acclaim as proof and fact that Obama is symbolic of our transcending our racist past. But I must seek pardon, for I never doubted that our society had long since abjured racism as a vehicle for public expression or approbation, so that any among us who captured our fancy would not be denied office on that account. And to dispense with the tedious, of course there are racists and there ever will be--such a thing can no more be eradicated than murder, or for that matter the poor.

But alas such stories have their complications and ironies. Not least is the official racialism at the core of post-modern liberalism, and consequently, the Democrat party, which to its shame has merely re-invented the Plantation structure: still averred for its order and more its dispersing of resources.

Regrettably, the Obama campaign, and even he himself with his allusive jokes, “oh by the way did I mention he’s black,” or the, “I look different than those other guys on the dollar bill,” put the spur to the Ministry of Propaganda, as if it really needed an invitation, and taking due heed, the moronic talking heads, left wing pundits, liberal celebrities, the likes of folks akin to Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Bill Maher piped for his voting. We should give the guy who looks different a chance we heard; that this election was all about race was said; that if he wasn’t elected it was because this country is racist was slurred; that his color would redeem this nation. So a racialist chorus pealed across the land. A retrograde and sordid appeal.

Though I concede our president was suave enough to merely intone his ethnicity with hardly disguised winks, while explicitly promising redemption, the aforementioned other sundry had no such caution. And so premised his election has redeemed the presidency, the nation, America. Yet I must ask how this earthly occurrence, this election, how has it redeemed the horror of slavery or the fallen dead in the Civil War? How indeed has his election redeemed America? The proper answer: Not one whit, not at all. His color is our hue, as indeed every hue of our nation is embedded in our very fiber, our very nation. No John Adams, no Barack Obama.

No such earthly power can redeem such earthly sins. Neither slavery, the war, nor the dead are justified by his election; who would diminish such suffering; only an ego maniac would suggest such; only the most cynical would allow anyone to believe such perfidy. Neither their lives nor their suffering is in anyway derivative to our own inflated egos, and it is just such thinking that has allowed, nay justified, Stalin, Hitler, Mao and other kindred spirits. Is it wrong to mark the exceptional occurrence? No. He is our first black President and as such confirms yet again our own Declaration Of Independence and Constitution, but he does not justify either text--they were justified at their writing or not at all.

Perforce I must believe that President Obama believes no such thing: that the racialism that appeared in his campaign, that he allowed to theme through MSM and other outlets was merely a necessary avenue leading to the Whitehouse. Sadly it was not necessary, and more lamentable, I must believe the President is unscrupulous and deceitful in his lust for power, I say must, because the alternative is so much worse.

Oh wait, you’re right, I forgot, he was merely saving the cornerstone of the Democrat Party, of the left you say. What would they do without racialist demagoguery? If he hadn’t and the left in general hadn’t tooted the horn of racialist politics it would have put to rot the cornerstone of Democrat structures, strategy, tactics.

Sadly I suppose you’re right. Lamentably, even redemption was never in the cards, there was no misguided but at least well intentioned motive. So even though he and they didn’t have to do it, they did.

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We interrupt this transmission to report the horror that the President, Speaker of the House, and House of Representatives, led by Democrats, have tragically Declared War On American Society. June 26th 2009 shall live on in perpetual perfidy. Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed through the House of Representatives the biggest tax hike in American history, Waxman Markey H.R. 2454, a 1200 page bomb aimed right at the heart of America’s economy, energy, was dropped on us without any Congressman having read the 1200, give or take, hundred pages because it was a vapor bomb made of blow hard words not yet written. Well how the hell could anyone read pure vapid vapor, but worse, how the hell can anyone vote for pure vapid vapor (for an excellent digest that points to all the gory details might I suggest Planet Gore)? Speaker Pelosi is about as petty a tyrant as they come. Congressman Waxman is as scurrilous a hack as do come.

Oh I know that was so last week, or 10-days ago, but I protest, in geologic time it is damn immediate.

Anyway because only subsistence property is legitimate property, it is at the sufferance of our government that any and all of us citizens have any discretionary property, of which President Obama and Speaker Pelosi have decided Government suffers too much.

True, President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Reed have been fighting an undeclared war on American Society for some time, but with the pure hack Waxman’s (Congressman from California) CAP and PLUNDER bill (euphemistically called Cap and Trade) they are now poised for a full frontal attack with all the attendant rack, ruin, and pillage on our American Society.

3,000.00 dollars
will be pulled from every American family of four. 3,000.00 discretionary dollars stripped from our bank accounts initiates the first plague. And the misery intensifies! the plague grows with every discretionary dollar spent beyond the average, all of which, of course, diminishes the economic activity that upholds our way of life. More than 1.1-million, that’s right, 1.1-million jobs will disappear, or as the Heritage Foundation says 1,145,000 jobs will be disappeared on average from the year 2012 (when the bill goes into effect) on up through 2035, and that’s after and including the so called jobs the bill creates.

Travel costs will sky rocket. Business operating costs will go through the roof. And what do you suppose will happen to hospitals, clinics, and all manner of places that administer to the sick and infirm. How much energy do they use? How will they fare with the rolling brown/black outs that will be sure to come. And what of food production?

Office buildings, hotels, theme parks will they stay sustainable? Some? Most? Surely not all. What will that do to the economy.

Do you recreate: fish, hunt, hike, camp, water-ski, snow-ski, surf, hang glide, parachute, fly private planes; recreate with boats, snowmobiles, motor-cycles, quads, motor homes--forget about it. All of that is illegitimate. Do you barbecue? You’re the enemy. Do you go to museums, concerts, plays, sporting events? Forget about it. How about the movies? You are the enemy; we are the enemy; our society is the enemy. And don’t tell me this is about cooling the world’s temperature (astronomical hubris riding on hallucinatory air) by two tenths of one degree. That is pure deceit buttressed by delusion and ignorance.

No, this is about monopolizing and controlling our energy use, ditto for nationalized health care, which has nothing to do with our well being, but everything to do with corralling US society into a socialist/fascist state, or as Mr. Levin says into a statist soft tyranny (and a soft tyranny is only a word away from a hard tyranny, if not today, then perhaps tomorrow, or tomorrow, or tomorrow).

Our government has met the enemy and that imbecile President Obama (I don’t care how intelligent he is, he is still an imbecile.) aided by the devil’s own idiot, the Speaker of the House Pelosi, declared the enemy is US.

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