Elitist Snobbery

...and what it means for America.

How People Chose Their Leaders

It's NOT based on logic.

Where Are the Feminists on the E-Mail Scandal?

Once again, with the Clintons, MIA.

Pushing Back Against Progressive Take-over

I've suggested one way we can fight back against the Elitist, Progressive Overlords.

If Looks Could Kill Department.

Angela's disdain.

Merkel's reaction to being handed the flag is instantaneous. Her nation's flag must leave her hands no matter what. Her expression right at the end of the video is unambiguous. A rebuke. "You shouldn't have done that to me."

We have proof of the same disdain in Obama for national symbols. What can one conclude from the fact that the leaders of two major Western nations show no attachment to their respective peoples? This is astonishing.

A Round-up of Thoughts, News

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New post

Here.http://rau.3littlefoxes.com/2016/02/21/on-my-last-nerve/

Linking to My Post

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Sympathies

     I agree with Linda Fox’s statement below. We both expected there would be more participation here from other League members. The interest was certainly high enough at first. It appears we were mistaken.

     I ceased to post here because I didn’t want to be the League’s “big fish.” I have that status at Liberty’s Torch, and I feared that to be equally active here might inhibit the other League members. It may have been a mistake on my part, but what’s done is done.

     The site will remain up for the present. I intend to contact the other League members to see if their non-participation might be reversed. Stay tuned.

Is Anyone Here?

I joined this site, due to the fact that there would be others posting.  Sadly, that has trickled away, until, when I looked at the site stats today, I'm IT.

For now, I'm going to spend my time posting on Right As Usual, where I've been posting since 2003 or so (first on Blogger, then on my own site).

Y'all wanna join me there - I post about 2-3 times a week, varying.  If you hit the subscription button, you can get automatic updates.

If you are a member of the League, let me know if you'd like posting space on my blog - I'm open to having some guest bloggers.

An Oldie, But a Goodie

Mark Steyn on Multiculturalism, and the Death of the West.

Radical Islam is an opportunistic infection, like AIDS: It's not the HIV that kills you, it's the pneumonia you get when your body's too weak to fight it off. When the jihadists engage with the U.S. military, they lose--as they did in Afghanistan and Iraq. If this were like World War I with those fellows in one trench and us in ours facing them over some boggy piece of terrain, it would be over very quickly. Which the smarter Islamists have figured out. They know they can never win on the battlefield, but they figure there's an excellent chance they can drag things out until Western civilization collapses in on itself and Islam inherits by default.

That's what the war's about: our lack of civilizational confidence. As a famous Arnold Toynbee quote puts it: "Civilizations die from suicide, not murder"--as can be seen throughout much of "the Western world" right now. The progressive agenda--lavish social welfare, abortion, secularism, multiculturalism--is collectively the real suicide bomb.

Our CULTURE - the prevalent, progressive culture that "everyone" agrees on - is dying.  Either we shift to a more robust culture, or we die with it.

It's the Culture, Stupid!

Frankly, I intensely dislike that phrase (It's the --------, Stupid!).  But, in this case, it does seem appropriate.

One Thing at a Time

There is legislation that is stuck in committee, that Congress needs to act upon.  It is HR 4335, sponsored by Mia Love, that would keep those omnibus bills from hitting the floor.

Here is the link for more details.

An Alternative Explanation of the Trump Phenomenem

Let me be careful to state that I don't favor Trump.  His history shows that he may be quite willing to skewer his investors/voters, if it furthers what HE wants.

However, I don't believe that Trump supporters are necessarily any less intelligent (or more stupid) than the average American voter.  Most of them are prone to emotional, unthinking decisions.

The Z Blog makes a reasonable case for Trump's popularity.  The comments are quite good, too.

The Role of Health Care Organizations in Determining Your Future

I'm 64, soon to be 65, and have been flooded with provider brochures wanting me to choose THEIR company for my Medicare sign-up.  As I only need Part A, which comes at no cost to me (I refuse to say FREE, as it is not), I trashed a bunch yesterday.

This got me thinking about how Health Care Organizations affect everyone's life, by the forced choices people make when the alternative is to pay for care themselves.

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A Potpourri of Random Links

I started to post on Facebook about one of these links, then realized that I had a LOT of other links that I wanted to spotlight.  So, in no particular order:

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Where Does Your Personal Space Begin?

That is, from the outside, where does your sense of personal boundaries begin?  For many people, it is at least in the immediate perimeter around their person – their body.  As long as you can keep your personal space from being violated, you are secure.  With family, that is generally at the level of the body exterior.  With less close relatives/friends, that may include an invisible, but real zone around your body.  Inside that zone, only invited people may enter.

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Without a Free and Fair Media, The People Will Not Remember

I was reading this NY Post article about Chinese Population Control, and, near the end, found reference to the Tiananmen atrocities.  While writing a book about it, Louisa Lim went to 4 different Chinese universities, and showed them the picture of the "Tank Man".  Only 15 out of 100 students recognized it.

Without a Free and Fair Press, the people will not remember.

Conventional Wisdom

One major aspect that is wrong with American Life is that minority viewpoints use our basic desire to compromise as a way of “pushing the camel’s nose into the tent”.  What is that?  Here is one example of the story:

One day an Arab and his camel were crossing the desert. Night came and the temperature became colder. The Arab put up his tent and tied the camel to it. The Arab went to sleep.

The temperature became slightly colder and the camel asked the Arab if he (camel) could just put his nose in the tent to warm up. The Arab agreed

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