tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post9169677948297163656..comments2024-03-29T04:06:37.402-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Recruiting ToolsStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-76200877488101447742017-02-14T16:26:10.496-08:002017-02-14T16:26:10.496-08:00trigger warning @February 14, 2017 at 6:46 AM:
I ...trigger warning @February 14, 2017 at 6:46 AM:<br /><br />I saw that same story. It's insane. And that's from "the paper of record." And in the same breath the editorial page will say Republicans have a "War on Women." The Afghan story sounds like the "Princess Bride" went sideways on that one. Sorry to sound so crass, but it is an apt comparison from fantasy fiction. It would be wise if we kept everything in context, yet we don't.<br /><br />The willful suspension of disbelief is the reason humans enjoy drama. But I suspect the reason Lefties enjoy politics goes much deeper. It is a willful, ignorant, subjective concept of human goodness. And they apply it to everyone. And compel everyone to follow it. Some freedom... some choice.<br /><br />I have no illusions about human goodness. Human goodness shows up all the time, and it is altruistic and amazing and beautiful. It is also not forced or enforced. It is a spiritual movement the results in a choice -- and that choice is a powerful example to others and reflects the upward road of the human journey. Without it, we would be lost. And it would not be so remarkable were it not that it is so rarely seen. And when it is seen........ wow!<br /><br />We are not the self-reliant men in Emerson's (or especially Thoreau's) fantasy. We are more of the "crude matter" of Yoda's admonishment. We are sinful, lowly creatures absorbed by our own thoughts, needs and desires. It's awful. We all know it. But the problem with the liberal mind is the exemption they all feel from this human condition, and the blithe folly of believing they can transcend it. That is the simultaneous ignorance and arrogance that I find disgusting. That the rules of nature and nature's law do not apply to them. They are no different than the churchgoing hypocrite they make fun of. Actually, they're worse... at least the churchgoing hypocrite is putting himself in the position where he might be challenged.<br /><br />Like so many things, we are not intrinsically good, nor intrinsically evil. We are just... human.<br /><br />I am watching these White House press briefings in awe of the condescension, conceit, and self-righteousness that would make Veruca Salt blush. Scream, howl, wail. It's all an injustice. My God, Obama's DOJ lackeys are holding Michael Flynn to a suspicion of "blackmail risk"??? Hillary Clinton, their chosen successor, was the walking embodiment of a blackmail risk. <br /><br />I think mainstream women's advocacy groups show their cards all too readily. They don't care about women. They care about power. It has nothing to do with femininity or the elevation of femininity, or that femininity is superior. All they care about is abortion -- the right to kill by choice. Men may be looked at as aggressive, murderous brutes, but no man can murder at will over his convenience about having another human person in his life. That right -- in our enlightened, modern Western age -- is the sole prerogative of woman.<br /><br />It strikes me that today's chief censors are Leftists. They're not at the receiving end, they're at the initiatory, aggressive end... censoring what they wish. Because they can. Because it offends their uninformed, emotive sensibilities. Yet hey can be equally cruel as any human opponents they can imagine. And again -- miraculously -- they find themselves exempt. How wonderful.<br /><br />Maybe in the grand scheme of things we're all worth a few goats and a head of cattle, but I don't think so. Yet I do not believe any human is worthy of full congratulation, nor morally magnificent. That belongs to God. If you acknowledge Him. And if you don't, well, then you're a power unto yourself, and you should not be surprised when people among you claim moral superiority and agency... just because. After all, that's the way you're living your life, too.<br /><br />My, we've come a long way.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-77415850832819427102017-02-14T06:46:46.681-08:002017-02-14T06:46:46.681-08:00The NYT reports that a young Afghan woman was sold...The NYT reports that a young Afghan woman was sold (by her father) for some goats and a few head of cattle, and then shot to death because she was unhappy with her slavemaster and attempted to elope with her boyfriend.<br /><br />Sounds like the Islamoklan on 'Roids.<br /><br />It takes more than a "willful suspension of belief" to even contemplate importing such people into America, at any time, under any circumstances.trigger warninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06310637474428322994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-70369953457350899112017-02-14T06:27:35.210-08:002017-02-14T06:27:35.210-08:00Continued from above...
Thankfully, we've not...Continued from above...<br /><br />Thankfully, we've not seen widespread American Muslim suffering at the hands of nativist fanatics seeking revenge against Islamist fanaticism. But Leftist imaginings of KKK-like reprisals are becoming hallucinatory and delusional. A Muslim kid in Texas brings a suitcase "clock" to school and ends up getting a tweet from the President of the United States and the top of the U.S. government and corporate elite for his academic achievement! The family demanded a mere $15 million for emotional anguish and then split to live in Qatar. Who's kidding who? <br /><br />No, no, no... what we've seen is Islamist carnage, shooting up gay bars, killing people who throw baby showers for their Muslim co-workers, and shooting unarmed soldiers at military installations. But by all means, let's concentrate efforts on the shadowy, dangerous, racist, bigoted, Islamophobic "American public." Scary folk, they. If we welcome more Islamists, maybe these ugly Americans will come around...<br /><br />The Islamists look to the West, they look to the U.S., and they see weakness. They see us doing the Obama thing with an executive order prohibiting travel from certain countries. Then they see the new President Trump do it, and there is rabid, lugubrious Leftist apoplexy in the streets and airports of America, with Welcome Wagon standing by for the next soul to debark from an airliner that's just returned from the Middle East. After all, we know all people from Yemen are universally nifty. Our enemies see this, and they laugh. They see us as weak. We are. These airport protesters would be the first to run from Islamists, and scream into any waiting camera "Where are the police?" The same police the protesters told "Go #%$& yourself" 14 minutes earlier. <br /><br />Our refugee policy is insane. Our courts are out of scope. Our federal legal law enforcement officials are cowed by political correctness, imagining slights somewhere being a clear and present danger to all Muslims in America. By all means, let's ignore the beheadings and caged drownings and acid baths and crucifixions and instead pay attention to what the courageous writers of "Saturday Night Live" serve up for our eyes this weekend. Did you hear Alec Baldwin guest hosted? Go figure. <br /><br />Indeed, if we welcome all Islamists to America and get into therapy circles with them, all will be right as rain. They'll magically stop killing us. The DSM-V says fanaticism is curable, if we try hard enough. As our Therapist-in-Chief once said, "The future must not belong to phone who slander the Prophet of Islam." Of course not. Let's force-feed Sharia as a cultural immersion practicum for all of America. Perhaps then we'll "get it."<br /><br />And who are the "bitter clingers" adhering to unyielding dogma, superstition and vacant community rituals? Sounds like the orthodox postmodern secular Leftists to me. That's what my government has been asking me to believe the last 8 years, right up to the epitaph that was the Yates replacement. I may be a Deplorable Catholic, but I'm not dumb enough to believe that I can just pray for Islamist souls, say my rosary and light a candle at church and somehow all will be right with the world. <br /><br />Being liberal requires a willful suspension of belief that is frightening to fathom. Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-51328699637097393702017-02-14T06:24:41.130-08:002017-02-14T06:24:41.130-08:00It's humorous to me... the Southern Poverty La...It's humorous to me... the Southern Poverty Law Center lists Greenfield's Sultan Knish blog as a hate website. It's funny because Greenfield is the type of person who needs to be socially sequestered -- he writes too plainly and incisively to be ignored. He must be stopped. <br /><br />In terms of Trump's executive order, Greenfield wrote an extremely incisive post that makes so much sense that our government would never consider implementing it:<br />http://sultanknish.blogspot.ca/2017/01/3-questions-to-keep-future-muslim.html?m=1<br /><br />The paragraph about Justice Breyer's Constitutuonal interpretations and the U.S. Assistant Attorney General's rediscovery of blasphemy laws in defense of Islam shows the blatant self-congratulation and hypocrisy of the Left. Is actually scary. This is what Sam L. calls the Ctrl-Left. Apt. <br /><br />It's like all the sensitive intelligentsia imagining all the terrible reprisals and hate crimes that will be directed against Muslims and Muslim neighborhoods, stimulating civic officials to trample each other to see who can get to the podium fastest to demand public calm in the wake of a terrorist incident. They do these PR stunts before the crime scene is even secured. Why? Because we've seen so many Muslim neighborhoods burn and Muslims get lynched in the United States. It's an epidemic, like fake news. <br /><br />Hell, it is fake news!<br /><br />Continued below...Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.com