FALSE PREDICTIONS: THE CREDIBILITY OF THE LEFT IS SHOT

Sierra Times ^ | 4/26/2006 | John Longenecker

[FerdieMurphy]

Would you trust someone who constantly told you that the sky was falling? How many times will you come when someone cries wolf?

And, given enough time in all fairness, years and years since those predictions proved to be hysteria and nothing ever but political hyperbole, would you be so inclined to listen to them next time? And the next?

It’s not a matter that someday the sky will fall - it wasn’t going to. As reasonable people, we know the sky won’t fall, and press releases and speeches hysterical in tone and content won’t help the everyday issues at hand, to put it nicely and calmly.

I like to read Professor Dr. John Lott, and his recent comments point to the so-called assault weapons ban, which was so highly touted by the likes of Dianne Feinstein, Bill Clinton, Hillary and other hysterics, we can now say. Gun crime didn’t change from before the ten-year ban -- nor after, for that matter. In short, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report disproves the hysterical claims about crime surge following the sunset of the ban. Yet rapes and assaults increased. . .you guessed it: where they don’t even use guns. Funny how those officials didn’t think of the crimes of violence which do not use guns. Criminals don’t always use guns in violent crime. And criminals don’t obey laws, anyway. As Celine Dion said recently on Larry King (and somewhat hysterically) , she’s not thinking with her head.But, it’s not all guns.

The jewel in the crown of Democrat achievement is the long-standing breeding of dependency on government, forever postponing people's reaching for the stars, a now unavoidable truth unearthed, you might say, in Hurricane Katrina. This dependency on government is a disease with officials, not with the people, unless intentionally transmitted by kissing (Keeping It Socialist, Sam) or some other unwelcome contagion. Confiscation of weapons is a move toward breeding more of that dependency on officials. Resisting confiscation is to resist dependency. Liberals hate that. Liberals hate self-reliance. As such, New Orleans is not an embarrassment to the Administration – it’s an indictment of dependency policies of forty years – the pride of the Democrats and their so-called compassion, exposed for what it is really all about: votes. Anger and votes. Keep them angry and dependent. It has worked for years. It is about time it was recognized as such worldwide. But will it be received worldwide? (Yeah, right!)

Dependency policies are the "S" word of modern times, in a time when the world continues to trade in humanity with little respect for the U.S. and how we have abolished trading in humanity.It proves that you cannot win on the world stage merely by setting the example: you have to actively resist. Democrats in America trade in human tragedy. For generations, hysteria had coerced and extorted from us all our goodness, our cooperation in pity, funding and social engineering –- all for nothing. No improvement for generations, only more generations of poor, destruction of families, discouragement of even forming intact families, and then when they have so little, even a confiscation now of private poverty.

Who is for this dependency and who is against it? Conservatives (not always officials) are slandered and harassed whenever we point to how freedom can be for all -- yes, all -- only to be told that it’s selling out. For generations by now, Democrats have told their constituents hateful lies to keep them poor and angry – while keeping them eligible to vote.

It is amazing how wealthy those speakers are. There are more billionaires and millionaires in the Democrats than in the Republicans, and who’s talking constituents out of their liberty more and more all the time? How would they know what it’s like to go to bed hungry, or to fear someone climbing in your window at night? They fear liberty because reward for self-reliance and effort is what makes all equal, and that spells no need for Liberals.

The salvation of the nation is not more dependency, but more liberty and self-reliance, encouraged as a value. It's about dignity. Safety. Things that prove there's no need for dependency, no need for liberal extremists.

This column is not always about guns. I am for Household as the stronghold of resistance to adversity, and where some of our fellow Americans are handed powerfully effective formulas on how they can disrupt their own households so that aggregate national resistance and resolve are pared down even further, still others are snuffed out before they even form them, through social policies of dependency, media pressure and lies which keep their households unborn in larger numbers.

Dependency. Unformed households means fewer strongholds of personal values, independence and power to resist adversity.

This destruction of organized, stabilizing faithful values which have served our nation for so very long makes Liberals predatory.

New Orleans is an exquisite example of this, not only in who needs a gun (read non-dependence on agencies), but why. And not only who needs to be free to form a household, but why.

Many liberty enthusiasts ask when America will come to judge and punish the exaggerations and terribly wrong predictions of the hysterical.

I point out that the disgrace of liberal policies is here now: the Left was wrong about bans. They are wrong about crime. They are wrong about public policy. And they are utterly wrong in their predictions. The disgrace is that they cannot see the future because they cannot see and own their past and how they have contributed so much to the problem.

The poor in New Orleans are a direct result of decades of failed liberal policy of dependency on agencies, sold over the years on hysteria and hyperbole. Liberals are either terribly mistaken or dangerously predatory. Either way, they are un-American.

How can anyone now trust Democrat hysteria anytime from now on to tell the future? How can anyone trust such extremist Democrats now to predict anything?

Listen carefully with any friendly and sincere critical thinking and one can see that the Democrats really have nothing to say. Maybe for Feinstein, Boxer, Polosi, Schumer, Clinton and all the rest, that judgment is coming and their piece of sky is caving in.

That would be good for the country.

[FerdieMurphy]

The jewel in the crown of Democrat achievement is the long-standing breeding of dependency on government, forever postponing people's reaching for the stars,...

Who can forget the debate between Bush I and Klinton where when asked if there were any questions from the audience a pony-tailed imbecile stood up to speak his piece.

"What will either of you do to meet my needs?," the fool inquired.

Bush I was stumped. You could just see the gears turning in his mind trying to figure what this nincompoop was asking for.

He no doubt was thinking "Groceries?, Free housing and medical care? A government furnished broad?"

[Onelifetogive]

It’s not a matter that someday the sky will fall - it wasn’t going to. As reasonable people, we know the sky won’t fall, and press releases and speeches hysterical in tone and content won’t help the everyday issues at hand, to put it nicely and calmly.

The somewhat slow-witted believed the Chicken Littles the first time. Those who still believe are evil.....

[roses of sharon]

It matters not whether liberal policies are good or bad, whether they are patriots or un-american, nor does it matter what their actual records show or what statements are made in the past.

What matters is their scriptwriters, their PR firms, their bought and paid for writers of history, their keepers of information and facts, their mood and opinion makers.

The liberals own this country, they run the entire apparatus of communication and information. They run our culture of music, movies, and TV, they run our education, they write history, they set the mood.

Propaganda works.

[manwiththehands]

The jewel in the crown of Democrat achievement is the long-standing breeding of dependency on government, forever postponing people's reaching for the stars, a now unavoidable truth unearthed, you might say, in Hurricane Katrina.... As such, New Orleans is not an embarrassment to the Administration...

What a boatload. You can't have it both ways. Republicans can't say "YOU DIRTY RATS!" and then have a Republican president give NOLA billions to depend on the federal government.

What part of conservatism is so hard to understand??????

[FerdieMurphy]

They're not prevaricators; they're bald-faced marxist liars and there are many who call themselves Republicans in their ranks.

[oblomov]

The ponytail guy's question was even more embarrasing and disgusting than you remember:

"How can we, as symbolically the children of the future president, expect the two of you--the three of you--to meet our needs?"

Uck.

[nosofar]

Republicans have a great (quickly fading) chance to offer a better alternative and are are blowing it. When all is said and done, you have to choose between alternatives. Showing Democratic policies as failed isn't enough. You have to show that Republican policies are good. Republicans aren't doing this. If Republicans can't do this, people will forget the bad policies of Democrats and figure 'Republicans aren't doing so hot, so let's give Democrats a try' and Dems will get control of government again for the same reason Republicans did.

[Nathan Zachary]

"The liberals own this country, they run the entire apparatus of communication and information. They run our culture of music, movies, and TV, they run our education, they write history, they set the mood.

Propaganda works.

Turn off the T.V. and you shut them all up. If everyone (on the right at least) did that, nobody would react to their propaganda. They will become confused and lost, not knowing which of your buttons to push for a reaction.

[roses of sharon]

LOL, MY buttons are not even in play.

The general public is obviously having their buttons pushed, to the left.

Which is not surprising, most Americans are now weak, and staying tough is hard work.

It's easier to not think about it, turn to "populists" to take care of all our ills, sigh, and rent Blockbuster movie.

Because with "populists" in charge, the MSM relaxes and refused to report bad news, or bureaucracy's failings.

That way, all SEEMS well, because that's whats on TV!

[AnnaZ]

My fave pile of leftist baloney? "The draft is coming!"

(from conservativepunk.com):

461days 11hrs 20mins

It has been this long since Bush was re-elected ... Where is the draft?

PUT THIS ON YOUR SITE

During the 2004 presidential election season, the youth of America were told of an impending draft, should George W. Bush be re-elected, in order to scare you into voting Democrat. Included in this group of draft alarmists and fear mongers were members of Punkvoter, MTV’s Rock the Vote, and columnists including Paul Krugman. With the defeat of John Kerry we have to ask ourselves…where’s the draft we were told to fear?


Some memorable draft quotes:

Bush recently threw a bunch of Pentagon money into the Selective Services to try and fire up the draft board. Of course, they’re not going to announce the draft unless Bush gets re-elected-that’s when they’ll spring it on people.
– Jello Biafra, Ex-Dead Kennedys (Alternative Press, Issue #192, July 2004)

I think it’s especially important for young people to be involved, because I have no doubt that if Bush is re-elected, the draft will come back.
- Justin Sane, Anti-Flag (Alternative Press, Issue #192, July 2004)

The U.S. Army is stretched about as far as it can go. The Defense Department is using every measure at its disposal to maintain the military's ranks.
- MTV’s Rock the Vote

[Bush] insists that he won't revive the draft. But the facts suggest that he will.
– Columnist Paul Krugman

Put the Bunk Voter Draft Counter on your site by copying the code below:

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[25 years Navy]

Ferdie -

Just look at history, man. 40+ years of 'Great Society' dole outs have not reduced poverty, governmental dependency, single moms, or employment rates.
No question, this president can be rightfully criticized for gross budgetary indiscretion but isn't that the key to Democratic criticism? Caring for people is a direct correlation for how much is spent on them? Dems are only frustrated in that this president has outspent the worst of the Dem's bleeding hearts.
Michael Creighton tells us evironmental doom-sayers predictions are off by 300% yet we are chastised for booting Kyoto which would not affect the world's worst polluters - China and India.
The single-issue antogonism groups should also be ashamed of their reckless propaganda.

[25 years Navy]

John Kennedy challenged us in his innauguration speech -

"Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.'
Funny how today's Dem leaders, and all to many Reps as well, have lost track of that visionary challenge. Oh how things could be so different...

[MosesKnows]

The liberals own this country,

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw

[Paddlefish]

ping for later read.