Mike Stanfill's Rant

[skysidhe]

Super-duper-natural.

George Orwell, he of "1984" fame, once wrote, "Who controls the past, controls the future; who controls the present, controls the past."

We're currently burdened by a government that has taken Mr. Orwell more to heart more than any fundamentalist Baptist who ever mambo-ed with a mamba. But worse than simply employing his writings to make peace = war this cabal of quislings is presently hell-bent, so to speak, on delivering the government into the hands of the religious Right by the simple expediency of rewriting history.

The most popular Conservative meme of the day is that the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation, and recent polls reveal this to be majority belief, though only by a small margin.

America, in truth, was populated almost entirely by those desiring to either own this land or rape this land. Usually both and hopefully with a slave at the end of the tether. God seldom entered into the equation except when some luckless pioneer was down to his last canteen on his way to the next Paradise.

Yes, there were the famous bands of pilgrims who came to this country but they were a mere drop in the immigrant tide. It's much more important to remember that they came here to escape the yoke of government-prescribed religion, one which interfered with their own beliefs. They referred to this as "religious persecution".

But it's only persecution if you're the little guy, and four-hundred years later these religious Davids have become the Goliaths. Organized religion has always fed on the fear of death, but lately it preys on ignorance as science has simply become too complicated for the common man to comprehend, a fact the church knows all too well. It currently panders to an audience unwilling to do its homework, offering them the honeyed teat of the supernatural in lieu of the hard slog of solid fact, but what it wants to do is to write the laws. Because when all judgements come from "on high" then that's when you'll know you're in hell.

I fervently hope for a new generation of leaders who will work to lead us of out of this dark and unpromising era because there's no other "promised land" from which to escape the persecutions inevitably to come.

=mike=

( archived article )
Good news mike. I think people are finally getting it.

http://farleftside.com/2008/3-26-08.html

[spudcon]

I think your keyboard malfunctioned. Allow me to correct the errors.
Super-duper-natural.

George Orwell, he of "1984" fame, once wrote, "Who controls the past, controls the future; who controls the present, controls the past."

We're currently burdened by a government that has taken Mr. Orwell more to heart more than any fundamentalist Baptist who ever mambo-ed with a mamba. But worse than simply employing his writings to make peace = war this cabal of quislings is presently hell-bent, so to speak, on delivering the government into the hands of the religious Left by the simple expediency of rewriting science.

The most popular Liberal meme of the day is that the U.S. was not founded by Christians, and recent polls reveal this to be majority belief, though only by a small margin.

America, in truth, was populated almost entirely by those desiring to either have their own land or just be free from tyranny. Usually both and with a work ethic and morals founded on the Bible. God entered into the equation daily.

Yes, there were the famous bands of athiests who came to this country but they were a mere drop in the immigrant tide. It's much more important to remember that they came here to escape the yoke of government-prescribed religion, one which interfered with their own beliefs. They referred to this as "religious persecution".

But it's only persecution if you're the little guy, and four-hundred years later these religious Davids have become the Goliaths. Organized atheism has always fed on the fear of death, but lately it preys on ignorance as they think life has simply become too complicated for the common man to comprehend, a fact the Left knows all too well. It currently panders to an audience unwilling to do its homework, offering them the honeyed teat of the big government in lieu of the hard slog of solid fact, but what it wants to do is to write the laws. Because when all judgements come from the “elite,” then that's when you'll know you're in hell.

I fervently hope for a new generation of leaders who will work to lead us of out of this dark and unpromising era because there's no other "Utopia" from which to escape the persecutions inevitably to come.

=mike=

[Urbane Guerrilla]

The Left pins its hope on life "become too complicated for the common man to comprehend," and this is precisely what will bring the Left as currently constituted crashing to its ruin, and good riddance. The Left doesn't want you thinking, or if you think, thinking unclearly, with poor or dubious data -- and I see that here often and often. The thoughtful people in my experience abandon the Left. Overlarge government is a yoke and a curse, and it must be lifted in either metaphor.

Do not passively yearn for "a new generation of leaders," but instead do the leading yourself. If you're good, fate will smile on your endeavors. If you only can steer the nation to wrong, the nation will abandon you. I expect the Democratic Party to suffer this fate. Probably not all at once, but election by election over a fistful of years.

[TheMercenary]

Sounds about right Sky, so what's the problem?

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by spudcon

Organized atheism has always fed on the fear of death, but lately it preys on ignorance as they think life has simply become too complicated for the common man to comprehend, a fact the Left knows all too well.

WTF?
I have no idea how atheism can possibly feed on the fear of death when an atheist believes it is the end of known existance.

Atheists generally believe that human beings are evolutionally evolved animals. Like, say, spiders. You squash a spider, the spider doesn't "go up somewhere" and "look down and look after" its spider cronies. Its spirit isn't still felt by its spider family as a warm presence and it doesn't tell other spiders when not to enter the bathroom ("I just got a feeling it would be a bad time - it must be great-grandma spider looking out for me again"). That's pseudo Christianity, not atheism.

Neither atheists nor (in my experience) the Left have any "too complicated" life agenda to push.

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

The Left pins its hope on life "become too complicated for the common man to comprehend," and this is precisely what will bring the Left as currently constituted crashing to its ruin, and good riddance. The Left doesn't want you thinking, or if you think, thinking unclearly, with poor or dubious data -- and I see that here often and often. The thoughtful people in my experience abandon the Left. Overlarge government is a yoke and a curse, and it must be lifted in either metaphor.
.

And the right 'base' that get it's opinions from talk radio or the 700 Club is comprised of original thinkers?

Don't pretend that intellectual apathy is only a symptom of the left. The truth is that our current system is so complex that Congress literally doesn't know what's in the laws it passes. I know of two bills that had to be recalled because provisions were inserted that were overlooked.

You might consider it beneficial to convert to Amish, but the world will not convert with you. You will still be breathing, drinking, and eating contaminated air, water, and food. Pollution doesn't respect borders.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by richlevy

And the right 'base' that get it's opinions from talk radio or the 700 Club is comprised of original thinkers?

Don't pretend that intellectual apathy is only a symptom of the left. The truth is that our current system is so complex that Congress literally doesn't know what's in the laws it passes. I know of two bills that had to be recalled because provisions were inserted that were overlooked.

Right on...

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by richlevy

And the right 'base' that get it's opinions from talk radio or the 700 Club is comprised of original thinkers?

Quite aside from a (supposed) subtlety of pronunciation that I get, and you don't, Rich -- you're mishandling an apostrophe and likely have done so all your life -- how about we consider the right "base" that gets its views with the aid of National Review, Commentary, American Spectator, and for example Dinesh D'Souza? How about those who read Thomas P.M. Barnett? How about those who read Thomas Friedman?

People of this kind are thinkers who pose an intellectual challenge you simply can't meet, rich, not until you educate yourself in these. The Left continuously mentally masturbates to the theme of the Right being the realm of dullards.

The Left, it is clear on the evidence, knows nothing. While enjoying itself. It's hardly unfair to call them wankers.

I am not a know-nothing, which is why I reject the Left. They are committed to having the coruscating intellect of a sheep. I have greater ambitions, and higher. My opposition here is unable to believe that, but, in the immortal word of Dick Cheney, "So?" I have long rejected the leftist shibboleths as unworthy of me. They are unworthy, I think and hope, of you also.

Don't pretend that intellectual apathy is only a symptom of the left.

I don't, and I'm not going to start. Thanks for the sensible advice.

Intellectual apathy is a necessity for the prosperity of mountebanks and charlatans.

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

...mountebanks...

/hijack/

I wonder in what century people actually used the word "mountebanks"-? Sounds like something Monty Burns would say.

/endhijack/

[Urbane Guerrilla]

This one, if I have anything to say about it.

Then too, I'm the kind of man who uses words like "fey," "eftsoons," and "hauberk" -- accurately. Yes, the Oxford English Dictionary is my buddy.

Alas, for pronunciation in my post above, read punctuation. Zounds, already.

[HungLikeJesus]

That's what I call irony.

[xoxoxoBruce]

maximum irony, maybe steely.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Ferrous!