Applied Indifference

Read this, then come back to me.

Mr. Williams expends a great number of pixels on theorizing about the impact of race on the coming presidential election.  He seems to believe that there’s some grand undercurrent of racial animus in the white electorate.

Then he slips this little sentence in, completely whiffing his intended point:

In 2004, John Kerry had a 46% favorable rating among white voters, barely better than Barack Obama’s. But Mr. Kerry lost. Mr. Obama needs to do better with whites. But the white voters’ view of him is still clearly unsettled.

This means one of two things to me.  Either John Kerry was black, or the majority of whites aren’t keen on Obama for the same reason they weren’t keen on Kerry - his liberalism.

Occam’s razor being what it is, I’m siding with the latter.

Because just like me, most white Americans have no problem with a black man in the oval office.  Just not this black man.

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Ok, so a comment here during a conversation about a stupid leftist art exhibit that everyone ignored got me to wondering the origin of the phrase “… that the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.”  So I went to my friendly neightborhood google, and typed “fascism is about to fall on america” and hit search.  One link to a comment on a blog where the quote is not attributed, and all the rest of the links on the first page to either truthers, Bush-bashers, or America-haters.  So I go to Ask, and type the same thing.  The fucking first link (which is a link to google, so it’s a sponsored link, that ISN’T MARKED AS SUCH) IS TO A FUCKING MOONBAT TRUTHER SITE.  But I DID (after adding “lands on europe”) a link to Volokh where he excerpts a Tom Wolfe book.

Turns out it was a French socialist writer named Jean-François Revel who said it.

But you’d have a hard time finding that out if you asked Google.

As an aside - I don’t know that the search results themselves reflect a bias on Google’s part, or a bias on the internet towards the interlinking of the moonbat, truther, and broader anti-American communities.  But the sponsored result?  Come on.

(hat time: Instapundit.  Who started this whole thing by linking Althouse.)

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I’m supposed to be cleaning now, but a commercial on the radio just set me off, and I gotta get this out of my brain before it dies of lonliness.

Commercial starts: “I was a good mother.  Then I tried meth and…”

Whoa.  Stop right there.

If the thought of using a highly-addictive recreational pharamceutical occurs to you, you are by definition not a “good mother”.  If you are so dim that you expected an illegal drug to not have serious ramifications on your ability to care for your child, you are by definition not a “good mother”.

So, let us dispense with the bull.  Forty-plus years of narcotic and drug regulation have done nothing to stop the terminally self-destructive from breaking.  Airing ads on the radio to pull at the heartstrings of addicts simply isn’t going to work.  And it’s not likely to stop anyone from taking meth, crack, heroin, or anything else.  Someone that will abuse meth would simply find something else to abuse themselves with anyhow.  At least with meth, they get it over with quick and die.

If these people don’t want to take control over their lives and their brains, and instead want to let some body-rotting chemical take their mind away, why are we bothering to stop them?  For my entire life (and far beyond it) unregulated intoxicants have been illegal.  We have jails overflowing with drug makers, drug traffickers, drug pushers, and drug users.  What makes anyone think that pissing me off with another ad that makes me stupider just for having heard it is going to help?

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Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be stupid.

The story, of course, is from Gloucseter, MA.  17 girls (many of them sophomores - which makes them under 16) pregnant.  ON FUCKING PURPOSE.  What do the assholes in charge of the school system have to say?  “We need to prescribe birth control over the objections of parents“.

So, I don’t know what’s worse.  The idiocy of a dozen and a half teenage girls getting pregnant on purpose (high-fives all around when they got the news from the school nurse), that they were doing so with men old enough to know better (many over 20, and one a 24 year old homeless man), or that the school officials are so stupid.

Sure, let’s make birth control mandatory.  What are you going to do, shove the pills down the little bitches’ throats every morning?  What part of “I want to get pregnant” leads you to believe that the whore is going to take the little red pill?  No amount of birth control or “safe sex” education would have derailed their plans.

We always hear from liberals about addressing “root causes” - typically with massive amounts of government money.  What we never see, however, is results.  Well, here’s your results.  30 years of sex education, and dammit if those kids don’t know exactly how to fuck.  They still don’t have any clue of the true costs of the consequences of it, but they know all the good positions to try.

How does something like this happen?  Simple.  First, the parents.   The parents don’t say to their little spawn “don’t make me a grandmother, I’m not old enough”.  Many parents don’t seem to set ANY expectations for the behavior or performance of their children.  And then they have the audacity to act surprised when Bad Things happen.

The media certainly share in this a little.  When Jamie-Lynn Spears gets knocked up, the media fawn all over her instead of condemning her for setting such a bad example for all the 12 year old girls who watch her on television every afternoon.  And then the parents (yes, them again), either miss the teaching moment, or find that they can’t compete with the apparent glamor of Spears-the-younger. That they can’t be bothered to put in the effort is alarming.

The entire liberal establishment gets the lion’s share of the fault, however.  The original “I don’t wanna grow up” kids from the 60s are now running everything.  And they’re doing a lousy job.  Since we have to do everything “to protect the children”, we now have a bunch of teenagers who have no critical thinking skills, no ability to consider consequences, no ability to be responsible.  And then these same liberals, who’ve extended adolescence all the way through college graduation, turn around and tell these monsters that they’ve created “go ahead, do anything that feels good.  We’ll bail you out when you fuck your life up.”

We won’t get in to the apparent glamor associated with fatherless parenting methodologies, but you know that’s certainly going to leave an impression as well.

Time to invest in a nice high-quality chaise lounge, put in a store of adult beverages, and get ready to watch the show.  We had a good run of it.  Maybe the next attempt at civilization will actually work.

Hat tips: Pajamas, Wachel.

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Scott Adams (Dilbert author and self-described lousy politician) asks if a strong economy is not a sufficient deterrent against aggressive states.

As with many things he posts, it is impossible to tell if he’s merely playing Devil’s Advocate here or being serious.  But I took the time to say something about it:

I think we (The U.S. and China) have nukes pointed at each other simply to say “we’ve got nukes pointed at you, so don’t start anything funny”.  Other than that, there’s no conceivable situation that ends up with the US and China shooting each other.  Like Y2K, there’s too much money to lose if the worst case comes to pass.

As far as an ROI on Iraq, it’s a very long term play, which is something that Americans are not very good at conceptualizing.  Most Americans don’t plan past dinner tonight, so looking out 20, 50, 100 years is pretty much not a consideration.

In all seriousness, the ROI argument when applied to WWII doesn’t look good until 20-30 years after the war ended.  But I think you’ll agree that things are much better in Europe and Asia as a result of our investment of blood and money to take down two vicious empires.

The long-term goal of the Iraq war is a good one.  Whether it is attainable is something that only time will tell.  But to write it off as an impossibility is to write off the future of a third of humanity.  I’m not entirely sure that’s what we want to do.

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They pass laws to phase out the use of Edison-style incandescent lighting.  For the Earth.   They tell us to use compact fluorescent bulb.  For the Earth.

And then these idiot enviroweenies find out that there’s mercury in each and every one of those bulbs.

And now they’re worried about them too.

It’s enough to make a guy think that maybe the greens really just want us to sit around in the dark.

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If I vote for Hillary, I’m a racist. If I vote for Obama, I’m a sexist.

or

I can vote for John McCain and be both.

If I vote for the Republican, I’m a bad Democrat. If I vote for the Democrat, I’m a bad Republican.

or

I can vote for John McCain and be both.

John McCain. Because you shouldn’t have to choose.

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Apparently using a semi-black man’s middle name is racist if it is an Arab name.

Who knew?

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Michelle Obama is our second contender for “Arrogant Cunt of the Year”.  In a public appearance this week, she took a thinly veiled swipe at Hillary! (whose daughter works in a hedge fund) while also railing against corporations.

To wit: She told the assembled masses that they ought not go into “corporate America” and instead work in the community.

There’s only two possible reasons I see for this.  One is the standard leftist anti-business cant.  Everyone ought to be simple serfs, happy to toil in the fields of others with no potential for self-reliance.  The other (and more likely) is “I’ve got mine, and I don’t wanna see your ugly face across the table from me”

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The food police MUST BE STOPPED.  Arrogant cunt Meme Roth of Action Against Obesity (munge it all together and throw a .com on the end of it if you want to see their self-righteous web site) has declared a boycott against Girl Scout Cookies on the basis that the Girl Scouts, being a “civic organization” (whatever that is) ought not be selling Americans food that might potentially make them fat.

She keeps blathering about how some “we” has to get a handle on obesity and diabetes.  And so her response is to use the might of the government to dictate what we ought to eat.

She also uses her typical liberal lack of knowledge of economics to suggest that a  10-15% margin (the girls get somewhere between 40 and 60 cents for every $3.50 box of cookies) is somehow a bad thing.  And tries to use that as part of her argument against the cookies.

Oh, and it should go without saying that this arrogant cunt is so scrawny she’d probably snap in half if anyone ever tried to have sex with her.  So I guess  I won’t say “Fuck her”, because I wouldn’t want the poor dear to get hurt.

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