Hypocrites.

Demand a Plan.

A class act.

Stoking the fires of optimism.

It is a tough situation to be in. We are approaching a fiscal cliff. We want to give money to everybody, we want to save everybody. But in the end we’re not going to save ourselves. There seems to be no opening, no passage, through which we can escape the consequences of our decadence. As Gustave Le Bon explained over a hundred years ago: “[A person of superior intelligence knows] that those nations which are on the slope of decadence will continue to descend. He knows that institutions cannot be changed at the will of legislators, and seeing that the Socialists desire entirely to overthrow the institutions on which our civilizations repose, he can readily predict the catastrophe which will follow such events.”

"Falling Down." By J.R. Nyquist, Financial Sense Online, 12/10/12.

More optimism here: Charles Hugh Smith.

Joke countries.

Today, violent racial paramilitaries occupy every major city in America and much of Europe. Their pastimes include: doing drugs, selling drugs, cashing welfare checks, voting Democrat, beating up random white people and stealing their shoes, stealing their cars, stealing their phones, stealing everything else that isn’t nailed down, rape, obesity, having lots of babies and outsourcing their education, care and feeding to well-intentioned white people, being loud, crying "racist,” hating white people, and throwing trash all over the place.

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A real country would send in the army to wipe [these urban "no go" zones] out and clean it up. But America is a joke country. So are Britain, France, Germany, and Sweden, of course. A funny joke, I admit, but a practical joke. Played on the white majority.

Yes, I said “the army.” This is not a job for police. Police are supposed to deal with the occasional citizen who commits a crime, not put down insurgencies and stop foreign invasions. The army is supposed to do those things, not “bring democracy” to shithole sandpiles in the Middle East.

But, we do have a thing about reforming the pre-Cambrian mind and spending blood and treasure like tomorrow is Mayan double Green Stamps day on the task of squaring the Middle East circle. Violent, misogynistic, anti-Christian, irrational, backward, corrupt countries with not one Piggly Wiggly grocery store stimulate the Obamaniacal yearning to invade them to unbearable levels. The Pope moving the Vatican to Salt Lake City would make more sense to me than that, but that's just me.

Billions will be sent to patrol the vital sandways of Yemen and Afghanistan but not a simoleon for having our boys patrol the Mexican border or the battlefields of s. Chicago.

Like the man says. A joke country.

"Unamusement Park’s Official Position on the 'Inner City.'" By Unamused, 11/13/12.

Been there, done that.

The experts have had their chance. Their "maximum security, zero tolerance, gun-free zone" notion stands revealed as no security at all.

~ Remus.

Pearls of expression – XXXII.

It is worth pointing out that nine years ago, on the basis of racist white supremacist Nazi trickery, also known as statistics, a law professor, Lloyd Cohen, “filed a federal civil rights complaint alleging racial discrimination in admissions” . . . .

Whiny Minorities Offer Stupid Theories About Smart Kids." By Dec 14th, 2012 by Unamused, 12/14/12.

True colors.

Reginald Denny (on ground)

The most overrated hero of liberals, Mahatma Gandhi, believed the Jews should have not resisted the nazis as a way to show the world hitler’s true colors. Ha! The world saw the true colors [of] those that beat Reginald Denny and liberals still made excuses for them.

~ Johnny commenting on Jew Without a Gun." By Robert J. Avrech, Seraphic Secret, 12/18/12.

Wherein political power and citizen responsibility are considered.

Just as Obamacare has nothing to do with health, and cap and trade has nothing to do with so-called global warming, anti-gun laws have nothing to do with saving children’s lives.

It’s just another opportunity for the left to centralize power.^[1]

There is no empirical evidence that totalitarian systems do anything but cause misery and actual slaughter of human beings. There is no evidence that the left can cite that proves that small amounts of power ceded to government are ever returned to the people. Power is being centralized. There is no institutional check on this centralization. A majority of the American electorate is corrupt.

Power never comes back to the people once it is lost. Leftists know this and knowingly and willingly desire the control over others of which Mr. Avrech warns. Our pleasant, caring, generous, highly-educated, decent neighbors hide behind the belief that caring about others justifies anything done under that banner and they deny their catastrophic actions. But it's willful blindness, a concept well established in U.S. criminal law that doesn't permit criminal defendants to avoid criminal responsibility by pretending – in the face of dead-cow-in-the-living-room evidence – that they know nothing.

A related doctrine of the law is that people intend the natural consequences of their acts. It can cut a little harshly at times but it allows prosecutors to prosecute speeding tickets without having to prove specific intent to speed. It's hard to do when, for example, there's no passenger in the car willing to testify that their wife, the driver, announced that she was now going to exceed the speed limit. Millions of people have gotten traffic tickets and I'm guessing 98% of the drivers intended to speed.

Millions of moronic Americans voted for Obama and the radical leftist Democrat Party despite clear, photographic evidence even, of Obama's contempt for the United States, his willing association with communists and terrorists, and desire to create an unconstitutional domestic police force with more funding than that provided to the Defense Department.

Americans have freely and willingly voted for unlimited government, replete with an explicit affirmation of an unconstitutional police state, and spat on the graves of all those who perished in the last century in the Soviet, Chinese communist, North Korean, Khmer Rouge, Cuban, and German National Socialist holocausts.

Outraged denial or "I had no idea" just don't cut it.

Notes
^[1] "Jew Without a Gun." By Robert J. Avrech, Seraphic Secret, 12/18/12.

The "u" words . . .

. . . must not be spoken.

The European Project is not in Britain’s interests – nor is it in America’s. It is time the Obama administration woke up to this reality, and stood on the side of freedom and sovereignty in Europe, instead of backing a fundamentally undemocratic and unaccountable European Project.^[1]

Centralization regardless of the cost! Once in, never out. Hmmm . . . . Did anyone think to provide for secession just in case things went wrong with the nickel and dime E.U. experiment based on, um, certain historical events? Or does "logic" support movement to world government that's one-way traffic only?

WWII was fought for freedom from fascism (though not communism) and German control of Europe. Now, Europe has the latter, whether anyone wants to admit it, and rushes to embrace the former. Not the same Germany by a long shot, it goes without saying, and congrats to Germans who are reaping the rewards of being a generally serious people apart from their decision to import millions of Muslims.

And the fascist part wasn't their idea. It's just the natural result of larger and larger government and the concomitant dilution of popular sovereignty. U.S. variant alive, well, and on steroids.

Cue sound effect of ratchet on gear wheel. Tink. Tink.

You just have to appreciate the not-so-delicious irony of Europe ending up where it is. Over 100 millions dead at the hands of totalitarians in the last century (not even counting war dead) and good luck finding all but a tiny majority of Europeans or Brits with any kind of antibodies to assaults on their liberty or on their centuries-old cultures.

Or to foreign domination. Europe, the abattoir of the 20th century, consumed the flower of its youth in slaughter that beggars the imagination. And the result has been that the loved ones and descendants of the dead have been condemned to live out their lives in crime-ridden, dysfunctional, disintegrating, third-world slums where citizens who speak the truth about what happened are hounded by the government and terrorist scum are set for life on the dole.

Is this what they envisioned in those desperate years when they and all the world heard that voice of hope on the radio, "Ici Londres!" or "This is London calling"? Craven surrender of the home country?

Cue BBC Beethoven theme, fade to crappy Arab music, and cut to video of gigantic London mosque and in-your-face, gypsy squatter invasions.

Most of our European cousins lurched forward into the arms of a smug authoritarianism that became practiced in fleecing and betraying its subjects. Whatever was on the telly after VE day must have been pretty God damn amazing stuff for people not to notice the hijacking under way.

Good luck to Britain and, hopefully, its abandonment of the E.U. foolishness. Subsidiarity is a concept that needs to be looked into more. 65 years of global government bullshit is enough. That's a fine Anglo-Saxon term, or close enough, that sometimes just gets the job done right. I don't know how to say it in Swahili or Arabic.

Yet.

Notes
^[1] "Barack Obama lectures Britain on EU membership: the US president looks arrogant as well as clueless." By Nile Gardiner, The Telegraph, 12/19/12.

Are we there yet?

When the majority cannot protect themselves from their own depravities, democracy is no longer viable.

. . . And when national factions abound, and every citizen's eyes are turned upon his neighbor's wealth, and the anonymity of a large state obscures the confiscatory hand, then there exists no justice even amongst citizen-pirates. And it may truly be said that in those days, when any may be made a victim by the mob, the fear of neighbors surpasses that of the despot, and a nominal liberty takes the official form of tyranny.

"The Failures of Democracy (an Ode to Aristides)." By Jeremy Egerer, American Thinker, 12/15/12.

Perfect. High-tech sniper scopes to Pakistanis.

That would be to the Pakistanis, those "allies" of ours who hid Osama Bin Laden and who help out the Taliban. The ones who are ambushing our troops in Afghanistan:

[Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer's] lawsuit claims that [his then-employer,] defense contractor BAE Systems retaliated against him for objecting to the company's sale of high-tech sniper scopes to the Pakistani military. Meyer claims a manager at the British company said he was "mentally unstable" and had a "problem related to drinking in a social setting," according to the lawsuit.

"Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer recovering after teen allegedly attacked him." FOXNews.com, 12/13/12 (link omitted).

H/t: Daily Kenn.

49 black-on-white murders the national media ignored.

Listed here.

In the rare instances that it's ever white-on-black crime, then the corrupt media go ballistic with ten tons of hand wringing, candlelight vigiling, and earnest soul searching about the "true" nature of our society.

Well, here's a news flash. This link and the fact that the media ignore this carnage provide a crystal clear glimpse of everything about the nature of our society that is "true."

Frontal assault on whites.

The same thing happens every day in South Africa. There are 45 million blacks in South Africa and only 4 million whites. The president of the country , Jacob Zuma, sings openly 'Kill the Boer' (boer meaning white Afrikaans people in general) and nobody, not even the South African people report on that. It's a black on white genocide in our country and the world isn't interested.

I find American policies extremely strange. The [government] [sic] let in terrorist and then gives them flight training in Florida and then they kill hundreds of people in the 911 attacks. People from the China, Mexico, Africa etc is flooding your country but yet is impossible for me and my family to emigrate there. Isn't it ridiculous. I'm a qualified Maths teacher and my husband is a Chartered Accountant. We are white, [Christians] with a western culture and yet it's impossible for us to get into America but thousands of other race, and strange culture people are very welcome. If somebody can explain it to me?

"Why do blacks attack old white people?" By DailyKenn.com, 7/3/12.

Kindness.

Farewell and good riddance, but mostly good riddance.

As the Eurozone flails about to keep its chin above the debt crisis that is drowning periphery countries, and as the European Union struggles to duct-tape itself together with more governance by unelected transnational eurocrats, Sweden is having second thoughts: never before has there been such hostility toward the euro.

This is what the suffering and world-wide devastation of two world wars, and innumerable skirmishes and collisions with totalitarianism since, has led to. The love affair with "Europe," that bloodless curiosity with the soul and spirit of a cow, has amounted to nothing more than a bankrupt, multicultural pit designed and engineered by a bizarre, anti-democratic gaggle of nemocrats, gelded lawyers, treasonous politicians, and clueless savants.

Europe, which had been laid waste by the West's little experiment with totalitarianism, chose the path to totalitarianism. Only Stalin did a better job with ethnic replacement and Europe is in the world's vanguard in its assault on free speech, the bedrock virtue of Western society. I know that's why Jimmy Stewart flew all those missions in WWII – to make sure that inconvenient speech could be shut down by politicians, lawyers, and prickly, lying Muslims with such delicate sensibilities.

When "Europe" sinks under the waves, who will mourn it except the odd banker, Brussels parasite, or academic nutcase?

"Germany’s Favorite Rabble-Rouser Economist Lashes Out." By Wolf Richter, ZeroHedge.com, 12/14/12.

Deuced savages, Cholmondeley.

The Salafi crusades were never any match for 19th Century policies and weapons, except in the occasional brief conflict. But they are a match for 21st Century policies and the accompanying unwillingness to use the full force of modern weaponry on people that a century ago would have been considered bloody savages, but today are considered potential peace partners.

And worthy fellow citizens.

"The Salafi Crusades." By Daniel Greenfield, Sultan Knish, 12/9/12.

Embracing toads.

Europeans, of course, shudder at the idea [of a society that would celebrate Anders Behring Breivik], but they have brought those tens of thousands of Breiviks into their own societies through Muslim immigration and Saudi and Iranian mosques. And they have turned over the Middle East to the sort of men who make Breivik look like a schoolboy.

One of the men pardoned by Morsi, the new Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt, was Mostafa Hamza, the head of The Islamic Group, an organization that was responsible for the Luxor Massacre of foreign tourists.

We are no better than the Europeans on this point.

"The Salafi Crusades." By Daniel Greenfield, Sultan Knish, 12/9/12.

Judicial persecution in Europe.

Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff fights the Islamification of Europe and is having to defend herself in the nightmare courts of Europe.

Please consider giving her your financial support.

Continuing the Bush tradition.

It really doesn’t matter if Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim, or an “Islamist”, or has “Islamist sympathies”, or is merely placating his Arab allies. Like so many others on the Left, Mr. Obama willingly implements policies that are exactly in accord with what the Muslim Brotherhood would prefer. His actions are indistinguishable from those of a devout Muslim committed to the implementation of sharia in the non-Muslim world.

"Andrew McCarthy Responds to Mother Jones." By Baron Bodissey, Gates of Vienna, 12/12/12.

Responsible gun ownership.

We spent weekends at the excellent gun ranges in Guatemala which had what every range should have: a bar. One should always mix large amounts of alcohol with firearms; the day at the range proves much more interesting. (Note from Management: The Editors and publishers of The Diplomad 2.0 in no way condone drinking alcohol while shooting a weapon. To avoid the possibility of spilling and wasting expensive alcohol, always put down your drink before firing your weapon.)

"My Own Darwin Award Nomination: Captured." By DiploMad, The DiploMad 2.0, 12/8/12.

H/t: Cold Fury.

And here I thought it was because she's a liar.

Could it be, as members of the Congressional Black Caucus are charging, that the [100 Republican House] signatories of the letter are targeting [Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the U.N.] because she is an African-American woman? The signatories deny that, and we can't know their hearts.

"What we do know is that more than 80 of the signatories are white males, and nearly half are from states of the former Confederacy.

~ Washington Post editorial.

"Left-Wing Ideology Now Rules Supreme In America." By Douglas Mackinnon, Investor's Business Daily, 12/11/12.

Beyond clever.

Lydia Callis gave an animated and expressive sign language interpretation of a speech by Mayor Bloomberg on Hurricane Sandy which earned her internet fame.

And replacement by an interpreter more to the mayor's liking. Apparently.

Saturday Night Live opened with a marvelous skit taking off on Lydia's performance and also providing an "interpretation" of a speech by N.J. Gov. Chris Christie that he never gave. The actresses are just superb:

Our blood, presumably.

One can’t make a revolution in white gloves. . . it will be necessary to pass through rivers of blood and mud to get to the destination.

~ U/I German Communist.

"The Tragedy of Inaction. Robert Service chronicles the West’s early failure to take action against Bolshevism." By Guy F. Burnett, City Journal, 11/30/12.

Gracing us with their presence.

We know why: Afros bring down property values. And for good reason. From a Euro perspective, they don't make good neighbors. Their children tend to commit more crime, as do their adults, they make transport unpleasant, degrade swimming pools, chase out merchants, shut down nightclubs, disrupt cinemas, mistreat animals, volunteer less, litter more, weaken schools, cripple school boards, waste police resources, and generally make life less pleasant for their white neighbors than it was before their arrival.

"Diversity and the North, Yesterday and Today." By M.G. Miles, Those Who Can See, 8/26/12.

Say whuhhh?

Germany's Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, is trying to save the Euro, which task includes trying to get troubled European economies to make necessary reforms to regain economic health. Not without good reason, Mr. Schäuble likens his task to that of Sysiphus, the figure of Greek mythology who made wings of wax and flew too close . . . no, wait, was doomed to rolling a boulder up a hill and having it roll back down for all eternity.

Something along the lines of being a blogger in the age of Obama and Islam.

But, BTAIM, a pretty smart German guy, it appears, is tasked with the doing what is humanly impossible, with Germany potentially exposed to paying out about one year's budget worth of Euros as a result of its support for all its various buyout schemes. Schäuble is dealing with that German budget reality and whatever is being done with respect to Greece is either a part of that or a supplement to it.

Apparently Greece and the others are to "reform."

I am not making this up.

Reform roughly along the lines of persuading street prostitutes to take up holy orders, if I grasp the full import of recent Greek riots. I detect a whisper of resistance to the idea.

Good luck with that, as the saying goes, given what the WSJ's Matthew Kaminski notes below about "rosy assumptions about future Greek growth":

Last week's Greek deal depends on the successful buyback of bonds from private creditors later this month, and it makes rosy assumptions about future Greek growth. Within hours of its approval, Mr. Schäuble had to admit that the deal might not be enough to stave off Greek insolvency. He says that alternatives are available down the road but won't "explicitly" spell them out. Germany first needs to see the promised Greek reforms "fully implemented."

"If there is no crisis, Europe doesn't move," Mr. Schäuble says. "If you have success you start to destroy the basis of the success. That is what Sisyphus is about."

That last paragraph ought to cause a few more gray hairs on wise heads. Europe's course of action in the near term will be crisis driven and apparently little will be done before a crisis. On top of which the finance minister of the strongest economy in Europe, now seriously exposed financially, is on board with printing Euros (i.e., blatant theft) and mouths incomprehensible flapdoodle.

Keep an eye out for those other available "alternatives." Four-alarm confusion's my best guess. Steady as she goes for now, say our captains, and if you're into Greek mythology, meditate on the difficulty of sailing between Scylla and Charybdis. Now there's some serious mythological Hamburger Helper (part of our American cuisine, right up there with Jamaican chimichangas and Thanksgiving tacos).

All well and good but people without serious substance abuse problems know that we're all on that particular boat, worse luck, and Europe is instructive for its lessons on the application of the iron laws of arithmetic to welfare state finance. Over with us in the U.S., madness and delusion rule the roost and the same lessons are there to be learned. As Thomas Sowell points out:

No previous administration in the entire history of the nation ever finished the year with a trillion-dollar deficit. The Obama administration has done so every single year. Yet political and media discussions of the financial crisis have been focused overwhelmingly on how to get more tax revenue to pay for past and future spending.

At least Mr. Schäuble seems to sense that there's a crisis in Europe and that it's a bad thing. With President Barack Hussein Obama any crisis that he is aware of appears to be something he embraces as an interim step to chaos and some kind of new, post-chaos entity.

Mr. Sowell lays out the extent of Mr. Obama’s intellectual dishonesty.

It's not looking good for us Wolverines.

"Trying to Save Europe 'Step by Step.' Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble on Germany's balancing act between euro scold and bailout enabler." By Matthew Kaminski, Wall Street Journal, 12/4/12.