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Progressively Unstable

Our nutroot counterparts at The Daily Kos like to fancy themselves as being progressive. The only thing I can see a progression towards over there is abject lunacy. I offer no stronger proof than this: Teddy Kennedy (D-"Belch") is an esteemed contributor at TDK. 

The Kosmonauts comment on the Tedster's posts as if he were the prophet Jeremiah. This is what is considered "progressive" by the Church of Josef Stalin of Latter Day Commies: fawning over a guy who was elected to the Senate when face masks were still a novelty in the NFL. What forward thinking ideas will they give us next-the moon's not made of green cheese?

Here is an essential difference between the blogosphere behemoth that is The Daily Fascist Prick Kos and all of us alleged knuckle draggers on the right: we welcome the challenge of dissenting voices.

True, some right wing blogs will block a liberal troll or two. Many, however, will let the trolls comment away and stand up or, most often, get destroyed on their merits. The Kosmonauts just like to nuke you right away if you aren't in agreement with their regressively progressive thinking.

Why is an online community of about eleven kajillion people so afraid of one dissenting voice? Perhaps the interjection of reality into any debate makes them uncomfortable. The well documented allergy to logic on the left certainly factors into the equation. Wait, I forgot the obvious: the political lunatic fringe occupied by the nutroots abhors any free speech that is remotely pro-American. 

Blaming the United States first is more pathological than ideological on the nutroot left. Herein lies the path to madness for these neo-commies: they detest the very system that enables them to exist. 

From there it's nothing more than an exercise in painfully contorted logic that makes posts like this seem reasonable:

"The soul of the Democratic Party is at stake" 

This little piece manages to find John "Fluffy" Edwards' (D-Larceny) life's work as an ambulance chaser noble. 

The most telling thing about this piece is that it has to describe which of the Big Three Democrats is the least offensive lawyer. 

A progressive nutroot talking about "the soul" of anything is akin to a second-grader lecturing on quantum mechanics. It's simply a subject of which the speaker can't have any real knowledge, the difference being that the second-grader harbors no illusions of superiority. 

I would love it if these nimrods would invite me over for a free-for-all. Something tells me that they'd only agree to such an encounter if I promised not to bring the male anatomy that makes me confrontational in the first place. Big deal. I'll take 'em all on with one you-know-what tied behind my back. 

Cross posted at Real Clear Politics (Vote for it!)

Politburo Weekend

Seeking to enjoy a stress-free and peaceful holiday, I minimized the time I usually spend reading the lefty blogs this past week. I did, however, promise myself that I would monitor and mouth-off about said blogs with some frequency so...here's a quickie weekend glance at what the communists progressives were getting their knickers in a twist about.

Honestly, I was a little curious to see what such a large collection of inveterate bashers of the United States would have to be thankful for so I did peek at what Kos had to say on Thanksgiving. His imagination and wit have an inversely proportionate relationship to his growing acclaim. He used to be good for a few zingers that were, at the very least, fun to dissect and respond to. In his Thanksgiving post he merely proceeds from boring to bitchy.

A guy named Duke1676 attempts to air quote his way out of the left position on illegal immigration in this post. The immigrants are no longer undocumented in this "There are no illegal people..." story, they've become unauthorized. Perhaps the right should develop a fetish for the "un" prefix as well and begin referring to illegals as unstoppable. It's full of pedestrian left wing, um, logic that claims that there is no crisis and that real concerns are nothing more than talking points. He babbles on for what seems like days to come to his point that we simply don't approve enough visas for unskilled laborers.

Just one of the elephants in the room that Duke dances around is the question of whether we need to approve many at all since, by most counts, there are 12 million of the unwhateveryouwantocallthems already living here and handling a lot of the unskilled labor. The problem isn't our immigration policy. It is, and always has been, the fact that Mexico doesn't have anything resembling a middle class. The rest of the world does absolutely nothing to pressure it while the leftnuts here want an insane redistribution of wealth to accommodate the steady flow of impoverished Mexicans into the U.S. We're not supposed to be the world's cop but the left wants us to be the world's sugar daddy.

Duke1676 does provide some humor if you check out the other blog he posts to. The posts rail against the right wing and it's got a blog roll that would make Hugo Chavez look right of center yet its "About" section claims that the site is "nonpartisan". They probably meant "non-Parisian" since very little French appears on the site. Easy mistake.

There's a big philosophical post at TDK today titled "Why Are We Here?" It proceeds from the "evolution as fact" point of view so the first thing you have to do is get a huge grain of salt to take with the rest of it. Claiming that Darwinian theory, as yet not backed by the fossil record, reasonable computer models or even four out of five dentists, has "wrung the Genesis out of human origins..."

I'm not exactly an either/or guy on this so I would ask that any lefties who happen to be reading spare me the religious zealot epithets.

As usual, whenever a discussion about how precise everything had to be seconds after the Big Bang for us to get to this point one is left with a few ways to consider how it all fell into place. Ironically, proponents of evolution like to take a leap of faith. They do worship a god over there, it's called "Coincidence". Or you can believe that something may have been directing the whole thing. They're asking you to believe that, if you take a bunch of actors with no script or director and sit them in a room, "The Godfather" will eventually happen.

I believe in coincidence like I believe in the lottery as a retirement plan.

Despite its condescension ("...if you failed to make it to the back cover of A Brief History of Time, think twice about diving in here..."), the post is worth plowing through. It is one of those rare TDK postings that at least tries to discuss something rather than simply type out a temper tantrum.

Naturally, they're happy about the Labor win in Australia but unhappy about the French rail workers having to do their jobs. Pro labor as long as nobody has to work too hard.

That's how the nutroots roll.

Politburo Friday

(A quick once-over of the left of the left bloggers today)

Once again, the Democrats had their retro Viet Nam retreat party ruined by the lame duck. The score for your Democratic majority is now: Lame-Duck President-41 Majority Mandate Mavens: 0. Congress really should have a mercy rule.

Then the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, after years of pretending to be makers, rather than interpreters of the law, finally got one right.

Looks like it might have had the makings of a rough day for the lefty bloggers, don't you think?

Nah, tomorrow's Howard Dean's birthday, which is what TDKers celebrate instead of Christmas. So they're not too upset because they are busy firing up the bongs and giving shouts out to their emotional and ideological leader.

Hey, send a Xanax and Bourbon to the governor for me.

OK, they are actually going off on their pet court over there, which illustrates the ever-widening divide between right and left. True, the fact that the most dangerously rogue court in America would side with George W. Bush on a matter of national security is no less stunning on this side of the fence. I have a phenomenal imagination and I don't think I would have ever seen that coming. Still waiting for someone to wake me up...

However, we think it's a good sign that even some of the fringe can get the important things through their heads once in a while. The Extraterrestrial Left is up in arms about affronts to liberty and privacy rights, neither of which they would enjoy if the people we're going after were allowed to have their way. No doubt I'm a Kool-Aid drinking cretin for saying that enemies might act all enemy-ish if allowed to run roughshod. My favorite flavor is lime. Throw in some potato vodka for me, would you?

Calm down kiddies, I'm sure that the Ninth Circuit Court will get back to issuing keys to the U.S. Treasury to every illegal worker soon. Let them have their afternoon on the sane side of the street.

One post says that Wolf Blitzer is "hurting America" because he insisted on a yes or no answer. Frustration about the stupid questions and lame formats of the debates is all over the lefty blogs today. I won't pile on by letting them know they're agreeing with something Newt Gingrich has been saying for a long time. That, coupled with the Ninth Circuit Court acting all American for a day might make the poor dears faint.

My Through the Looking Glass moment came while reading blog after lefty blog complaining about the press and how awful the questioning at the debates has been. Ranting and raving about the fact that the MSM sucks...that's progressive. All I have to ask the Kosmonauts is, "Are there any other things we've been talking about on the right for thirty years that you'd like to borrow?"

One post fantasized about a panel of progressives staging a four hour debate between the eventual nominees. Why not have a panel of conservatives join in to truly test the candidates? Come on, ye lovers of all things ACLU, try sharing some of that First Amendment.

There is a lot of hatin' on James Carville going on with the Kosmonauts today and I'll admit that made it easier to hang around there longer.

Then I saw Al Gore referred to as a "visionary" and an "intellectual" in a post.

"Orderlies!"

Politburo Thursday: What the Kosmonauts are blogging in between bong hits.

(This is going to be a semi-regular-maybe daily-feature on this blog for now. Here is the first one of these I posted. It gives a little intro to the idea. SDK)

Proving once again that the Extraterrestrial Left (the "ELs") believes that freedom of speech applies only to the hysterically seditious, the Daily Che Guevara is whining about Don Imus being back on the air. Not only that, they also have their metrosexual man-panties in a wad over the fact that James Carville made an appearance on his show. Sure, they hate Republicans over there but they act like scorned lovers whenever a Democrat doesn't pee where they tell him to. Here's their little snippet about Jimmy C:

"Loyalty to friends is good. But Carville sure keeps finding his loyalty to his friends and his loyalty to what should be basic principles in conflict."

Principles. Carville. Somebody forgot to take her Compazine today!

The gals are also chirping about Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein not heeling when ordered to. Neither made a mess on the rug but they did vote to confirm Michael Mukasey as Attorney General. Expect an outcry over there soon to bring Cesar Milan in and train these bitches right.

There's even a cute little poll about the California Dems attempt to censure Feinstein. No need, kiddies. She's from San Francisco, I believe they have laws allowing for the execution of any resident who supports the President of the United States in any way.

A piece yesterday (bad A.D.H.D. here-sometimes I miss things) questioned why conservatives "deny global warming." I'm sure there may be some who do, but most only question the causes behind it. This isn't even a subtle distinction yet it's still impossible for the average Kosmonaut to grasp. Why? Because that would require admitting that conservatives can think, which is a no-no for the lefty brain trust and free speech lovers over there. The very essence of Kos-hood can best be described as a bunch of people sitting in a room and taking turns saying, "No, you're the smartest," with a round of giggles following each affirmation. It's the biggest virtual group hug on the planet.

Here's one (sadly) typical comment on the issue:

"Since their knowledge of science and technology is barely at the ox-cart level..."

On the far left, "science" means "an unquestioning devotion to Al Gore." What you have over there are people who abhor religion but are indistinguishable from any religious fundamentalist ("fundies" to the clever Mensa kids at TDK) once Al Gore begins droning on and on. As I (and other ox-carters) have written before, the lefties have even taken a page from the 16th century Roman Catholic Church (and they call themselves progressives!). Their "carbon credit" scheme is a repackaging of the sale of plenary indulgences. Do something wrong, purchase an imaginary do-over and-hey!-it's all better now. What kind of progressive "science" are they going to give us next-greater fuel efficiency by burning witches?

Oh-oh, my ox-cart wheels seem to have become mired in some b.s. Can I buy a "dung credit" and pretend it's not here?

Politburo Bulletin (What the Kosmonauts are blogging in between bong hits)

Who needs caffeine to wake up and get the heart going every day? I do, actually, but it's the least worrisome of my habits. There's only so much of it I can drink without being too dehydrated to run later in the day so I have to seek alternative ways to get my heart going. Lately, I head over to The Daily Kos to see what our friends on the Extraterrestrial Left are saying. It's always interesting to see just how wide the chasm is between the Kosmonauts and...liberals. That's right, the average blogger over at TDK is positioned somewhere just to the left of the left of the far left. Where else can you go to find Chris Matthews getting crucified for being-swear I'm not drunk-too conservative?

A favorite new game of mine involves randomly perusing the blogrolls over there and seeing how many sentences I can get into each one before happening upon an expletive. I think the record is 1/2 so far. Anyone who has seen me live knows that I am very comfortable with the use of colorful language. However, I like to take it down a notch when writing about serious things. There thousands upon thousands of people over there who can't stop saying that Republicans are "ignorant" or "knuckle-dragging cretins" but they can't finish a thought on the page without dropping an f-bomb. I believe a round of thesauri is in order for the shrieking lefties.

Here are a few items from today's TDK (and its blogroll). I've added a few knuckle-dragging, joyfully biased comments of my own. The KOS items are italicized.


Regarding the energy bill:

On Monday we asked, Can the Democrats be THAT stupid? about whether the Democrats would remove wind and solar subsidies from the energy bill. We'll know soon.. they're trying to make up their minds.

Let me repeat: The Democrats are trying to decide whether or not to remove all subsidies and support for renewable energy from the 2007 Energy Bill. By contrast, subsidies for nuclear energy, below-market rate leases for oil and natural gas, and subsidies for coal all look safe.

This is stunning. Solar and wind are very popular (unlike oil companies). They are infant industries crucial to decarbonizing and reducing risk to over a billion lives. They are also crucial to American competitiveness.

This might shock you but "Can the Democrats be THAT stupid?" is a question that flies out of my mouth a lot. No, really. Only when they're doing something truly stupid at the time, however. Removing wind and solar subsidies from a spending bill would be sheer genius. Truthfully, removing ALL of the subsidies from the bill would make more sense. We have no obligation to prop up private industries through a socialist extortion scheme. How about a Constitutional amendment requiring a separation of business and state?

That last sentence is priceless. Saying solar and wind power are "crucial to American competitiveness" is like saying that quadrupling your daily intake of fried chicken and ice cream is "crucial to sensible weight loss."

Here is a chilling post about what what they're frothing about should they win the White House and pick up seats in Congress next year. They're hoping what they call the "Democratic Trifecta" will give them new government (read: "our") money to fund stem-cell research, resurrect their insane version of S-CHIP and assist them in "Naming pro-regulation people to the Regulatory bodies like the SEC. the FERC, the FCC, the FTC." The scariest part of the post was a sentence in one comment that began, "Restore funding to the IRS..." I was too frightened to read on. The only thing missing from this blog was a picture of Lenin hanging in the background.

Here's a sentence from the end of the post that I do agree with though: "But, now that you can see what you should expect, hopefully it at least is easier to make up your mind on how hard you want to work on elections for the next year or so."

Yeah.

Naturally, they're all as breathless belles at a ball over the Judith Regan story. The first one I found cites The New York Times and MSNBC as sources. Wow, if those reasonable voices say something bad about Rupert Murdoch it must be true, right? Can I get an "Amen!"? Didn't think so. That's like hanging out with a bunch of drunk guys in a Boston sports bar and reporting that the "Yankees suck" because you heard it so many times that day.

I'll finish this one up by mentioning that they are still taking Chris Dodd (D-You've Gotta Be Kidding) seriously over at TDK. I'm not sure even Chris Dodd does that any more.

Anyone have some band-aids for my knuckles?