Posted on 05/13/2013 8:13:56 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk
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But before I do, here is a quote from my profile page, and then a poem by Rudyard Kipling.
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations."
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Mesopotamia ~ by Rudyard Kipling
They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young,
The eager and whole-hearted whom we gave:
But the men who left them thriftily to die in their own dung,
Shall they come with years and honour to the grave?
They shall not return to us; the strong men coldly slain
In sight of help denied from day to day:
But the men who edged their agonies and chid them in their pain,
Are they too strong and wise to put away?
Our dead shall not return to us while Day and Night divide—
Never while the bars of sunset hold.
But the idle-minded overlings who quibbled while they died,
Shall they thrust for high employments as of old?
Shall we only threaten and be angry for an hour:
When the storm is ended shall we find
How softly but how swiftly they have sidled back to power
By the favour and contrivance of their kind?
Even while they soothe us, while they promise large amends,
Even while they make a show of fear,
Do they call upon their debtors, and take counsel with their friends,
To conform and re-establish each career?
Their lives cannot repay us—their death could not undo—
The shame that they have laid upon our race.
But the slothfulness that wasted and the arrogance that slew,
Shell we leave it unabated in its place?
Many of us are trying to stem the tide of "Progressivism" without a feeling for its underlying "Deconstructionist" principle.
Call it 'Philosophical Judo,' but what the enemy is doing is using our ideological strengths against us.
"Always change a losing game." Don Budge
You think the current scandals are going to end up as a positive for democrats? I think the opposite. And Obama is going to end up making Nixon look like an amateur.
If you follow the deconstructionist paradigm, they may not end up as anything.
As far as the election of '14 goes, those in the cult show every sign of treating the guilty as the victims. (IOW, Barry really is St. Trayvon's dear olde dad?) But I guess it depends upon how many are in the cult, voter fraud, the other team's game plan ... or lack of one...etc.
BTW, who exactly is the 'other team?'
Those of us imbued with the cultural norms of "The Christian West," can tend to be rather perplexed by the operative paradigms of "The New Normal."
Just let's make sure we aren't playing into their hands. So let's get over it and get ready to rumble!
Many of us are trying to stem the tide of "Progressivism" without a feeling for its underlying "Deconstructionist" principle.
Take a look at this:
Those who are at work with them, namely The CCP, should keep up the good work and we should support them financially. And, your postmaster friend should be on their witness list.
However, we really have bigger fish to fry in 2014. If Team Obama carries the House and keeps the Senate it won't really matter if we have proven Barack Obama to be The Lost Dauphin dela Belle France or Judge Crater. The Republic will be well and truly lost.
Let me know what you think of this post.
“Nice writeup on the Limbaugh Theorem.”
Ha. Limbaugh may have the national microphone but he wasn’t the first to accurately describe Obama’s behavior. Your comment just demonstrates that you haven’t been reading Kenny Bunk.
“Ha. Limbaugh may have the national microphone but he wasn’t the first to accurately describe Obama’s behavior. Your comment just demonstrates that you haven’t been reading Kenny Bunk.”
Does Kenny Bunk have an audience of 6 million?
“Does Kenny Bunk have an audience of 6 million?”
Nope. But since you implied that Kenny Bunk was plagiarizing Limbaugh he deserves to be given credit instead of having his name tarred.
“But since you implied that Kenny Bunk was plagiarizing Limbaugh he deserves to be given credit instead of having his name tarred.”
I did not mean to say that Kenny Bunk was plagiarizing anyone. I don’t have time to read all the posts on FR, so I’m sure to miss a lot. I do get to listen to Limbugh most days though.
It was brought to my attention that what I thought to be a startlingly brilliant original aperçu, had been aired at sometime in the past by one Rush Limbaugh, to whom I have not listened for some years.
"Why?" one might reasonably ask. Well, I'll tell you some of the reasons:
Limbaugh is a brilliant broadcaster. I have experience in the business and he is among the greats. No, make that The Immortals.
However, as a member of the choir, there is only so much preaching that I can handle; so many blinding glimpses of the obvious.
I know just how bad the Democrat Party is. Knew that in the '50s.
I know that Obama is a Marxist ... even if not a very bright one.
I know the massive harm he has already wreaked upon the nation and fear what is to come.
But what I now expect from "Right Wing Radio" is not a further discussion of personalities and symptoms, but some hint of solution. I also blame "right wing radio" for disseminating a miasma of despair among certain blocs who, although they listen to right wing radio all gd day, have been discouraged from even voting! Perhaps the right wing hosts, IMNVHO, are now the "nattering nabobs of negativity," whom Spiro Agnew decried.
Specifics:
During that long period when Rush claimed that "illegal immigration was merely the sign of a strong economy," and California among other states in which I operated began their tragic descent into the Third World, I became suspicious. This was only one of the areas in which Rush seemed to be an establishment wannabe ... and as it turns out, that was during his addiction to prescription drugs and resultant deafness ... both since openly and sincerely rectified, much to his credit. But for me, the damage was done.
In 2007 and 8, Rush Limbaugh NEVER managed to cover the constitutional objections to Obama's first candidacy ... not that I sought his advocacy. He is not alone in this, of course, but I found it bizarre that not one talk show host, especially he, would not even mention it as an item of interest. Ditto the work of the Cold Case Posse.
I can accept Rush as a necessarily cautious, and fabulously successful businessman. But slap my butt and call me Snobby, former rock'n'roll disc jockeys ain't never gonna be my first choice for go-to political philosophers.
Now I am given to understand that Rush Limbaugh is brilliantly re-branded as a staunch anti-establishment conservative sympathizer.
Cool. But we don't need sympathy, boys. We need a Program, a Plan, and a Leader.
BTW, speaking of the Constitution, Mark Levin has somewhat atoned for his past sins (which are similar to those enumerated above) by actually recommending a positive step: A Constitutional Convention of the States. Program? Plan? Leader?
Let's all take a grain of salt here and realize that these entertainers have done some good. But, let's own up to the fact that as capitalists ourselves we can realize that they are in the business of selling radio time, not saving our Republic. That's our job. Entertainment may well be a distraction.
Well said! I agree with your comments except for the following:
“I also blame “right wing radio” for disseminating a miasma of despair among certain blocs who, although they listen to right wing radio all gd day, have been discouraged from even voting.”
If I followed your logic, then I shouldn’t even be reading Free Republic. We had two pitiful candiadates in 2008 and 2012, yet the choir here at FR said they were staying home. I agree neither were worth voting for, but look what we got by default.
Whenever mentioning this, I should say,
BTW, the number of FReepers who stayed on the couch on election day is a disgrace. The KB VFW Bar Poll noted that the loudest "conservative" mouths in the group were often the MOST likely to have forgotten to vote.
“During that long period when Rush claimed that “illegal immigration was merely the sign of a strong economy,” and California among other states in which I operated began their tragic descent into the Third World, I became suspicious. “
I was more furious than suspicious, living at Ground Zero of the Third World tidal wave. Limbaugh has always been quite open about success, financial success, being his first interest. It never surprised me to find him brown nosing the Chamber of Commerce and other treasonous elites, the GOP establishment especially.
Limbaugh has never once spoken of doing grunt work on a political campaign in the days before he became rich, and I’m sure that that’s because he never did. Politics wasn’t his passion. He was interested, but not enough to even bother to vote until well into his 30s.
So while he’s a great broadcaster he’s not a political thinker. He may accidentally help some of us on occasion by using his bully pulpit. I’d rather have him speaking out against Amnesty 20 years late than helping the other side, which he used to do and the foolish Hannity still does.
So if any significant change is going to come it won’t be from ‘our’ media celebrities, who will be too busy trying to make money- funny how the Right managed to get Reagan elected with the only media celebrity being Reagan himself.
O, you mean the guy who loves Dick Morris and Karl Rove? The guy whose brain is obviously just a life support system for his hair?
“The guy whose brain is obviously just a life support system for his hair?”
The very same.
He likes to make noises about being a registered Conservative up in New York, but the boy couldn’t be a bigger toadie for the GOP.
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