Wealth Bondage

Emergence is Volkish Nonsense

Posted by The Happy Tutor

What if we had emergent democracy and what emerged was tyranny as in the Weimar Republic? Is Cluetrain, etc, "volkish rubbish"? What can possibly emerge from this?

I think some folks on line are making an Hegelian case, without being Hegelians. They seem to think that the Zeitgeist is smarter than we are, freeing us from personal responsibility. We should all do what we please and emergence or the market, or God, Nature, or evolution will bring order out of choas, netting our errors to a wonderful whole. That is an hypothesis. It could be flagrantly wrong. Unless it is a kind of tautology, a theorem we believe in with all our might, and hold true come what may. I don't believe in emergence as a metaphysical principle. In my 55 years what I have seen emerge is increasingly malignant. What emerges most often in evolution are dead ends, of individuals, communities, species, and soon our planet. If left to itself, the mob will not get any smarter. And what will emerge will be a black ball floating in space.

People in the News - Billionaires for Bush

Posted by Dick Minim

Well done! Pip pip! Billionaires for Bush. Tutor could put on a spanking demo with these folks, like old times.

Heritage Foundation

Posted by The Happy Tutor

"Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute - a think tank - whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense." OK, I guess that explains their recent defense of racial profiling and internment camps for US citizens. Heritage has the Liberty Bell for a symbol, but I notice they like the word "freedom" better. Political Liberty is kind of a touchy topic.

Excellence versus Acclaim

Posted by The Happy Tutor

A sentence I wish I had written, or was capable of writing:

The unpopular being lost to history, a worthy concern only becomes widely recognized once it's widely held, when it can be attacked for shallow trendiness. - Ray Davis.

The wiseman is the first voted off the island of morons, and so lost to the great history the morons tell of their Island Paradise and their great wisdom.

The Patriot Act is Good for Freedom

Posted by Smoky Joe, JD in Defense of Freedom

The Patriot Act is good for Freedom because.... Fucking-A this is hard. No wonder everyone who voted for it claims never to have read it. Just need to come up with catchy tag line. The Patriot Act, Because Freedom Requires Eternal Vigilance, then maybe a picture of this big mother of an Eagle? I mean with our funders it is easy. Candidia needs a way to sanction those who dissent, she has to hunt them down and put them in internment camps, before they interefere with her Freedom to rape and pillage the planet with impunity. Makes sense, but how do we pitch it to the rubes? Wonder if anyone at Heritage has anything I can use?

In Defense of the Patriot Act

Posted by Smoky Joe, for The Rooster Foundation: Crowing in the New American Century

OK. See if this will fly. The Terrorists hate us because we are free. Now, that we have the Patriot Act they feel much more at ease. More like home under the Mullahs. Therefore, All Americans Are Safer.

Bob Barr on the Chilling of Free Speech

Posted by Smoky Joe, JD in Defense of Freedom

Bob Barr in FindLaw:

The FBI, no longer content with working to maintain order at political events, is now preemptively identifying and interrogating ("interviewing") possible demonstrators. It has summarized this strategy in a memo.

To make matters worse, the Department of Justice blessed the FBI strategy in its own memo - suggesting that no First Amendment concerns are raised by the interrogations.

As I will explain in this column, however, the truth is quite to the contrary: The strategy, as outlined in the memo, is a serious threat to free speech.

Look, Bob, freedom of speech and assembly was then. This is now. 9/11 Changed Everything. And, by the way, you are on the list. Have a nice day.

Deserters for Bush, My Ass

Posted by Captain Blowtorch

You can't fool me. This is not authentic.

Commies Protest Colin Powell

Posted by Captain Blowtorch

Nice picture, but these Commies had better watch out, or we'll do to the Acropolis what we did that fucking A-rab museum.

Karl Rove and King George

Posted by Smoky Joe, In the Public Interest

Political Satire?. Or treasonable slander? You decide. Better yet I'll decide.