One of the Paulbots on Facebook didn't get the memo.
He posted this image today, to the adulation of other Paulbots who didn't get the memo.
Here is a Republican candidate who couldn't attract more than 3% of the vote during the primary. In primary terms, this is called "failure." So we infer from the message in the image above that Ron Paul will return in 2016 and get over 3% of the vote.
Let us make a prediction: Ron Paul will still be blown out of the primary for his flaccid foreign policy views and value-less drug-legalization views. Or maybe the electorate will just look at him and conclude he's better suited for a retirement home.
"End the Fed" is a great idea. Let's find an activist conservative to run with it. Someone who can win.
Seventy degrees in December! That calls for a Rocky Patel Edge (Blue Label) and another chapter in Bloodlands.
Today's chapter was about the Germans being pushed out of Warsaw. Knowing they were going to lose the war, all order was thrown to the wind. Rape and murder shifted into hyper-drive, and all Poles became the targets rather than just the Jews. Thousands, who thought the end of the war meant an end to their suffering, were shot. So many the Germans had to pause in their killing to wait for a re-supply of bullets.
Europeans had two choices in the first half of the last century: Fascism or Communism. Anybody who thought liberty and capitalism were worthy options either cowered or were pushed out of the debate. It is a great lesson on how evil people who want to control YOUR life frame the discussion to benefit their ascent, and how weak people who could influence the direction of their country shrink at the first sign of conflict.
Remember this comrades when you hear now that we have two options: mild socialism or full socialism. That is the debate we having today.
An excellent collection of Occupy civil unrest video combined with real investigative reporting by the late Andrew Breitbart and others. They confirm the significant behind-the-scenes planning and organization that made this movement possible. They show the hard-core communists (aka community organizers) who lead and organize from the shadows, and the various groups of agitators and useful idiots who give the movement its numbers.
Some of the video is of the anarchists in their black outfits and covered faces. It shows them doing violent things to windows of banks and other evil businesses. This is some good, menacing video, but we'd make the following suggestions from our experience with these sub-creatures.
The anarchists are society's losers who come out of their moms' basements when summoned by their communist chiefs. What is sometimes visible in the video is how much protection these worthless individuals had during their Occupy temper-tantrum. Police and bank security were told to let these losers do their damage, and in effect escorted and protected the organized vandalism. Had the Oakland Occupy march ventured onto a Korean grocer's property, assuming there are any Koreans who would still do business in that filthy city, the anarchists would have a different reputation today.
They only protest where they will be protected.
Communists are masters of propaganda because they never have much of a following. Only 1200 dedicated Bolsheviks were necessary to seize control of Russia in 1917. It isn't about numbers, it is about chaos as a means.
A Sickle Story, P173-174 Bloodlands, by Timothy Snyder, 2010, 417 pages.
Background:
If the Germans were unable to take a Soviet city in their WWII offensive against the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, they laid siege to the cities instead.
The Germans were never able to execute their "Hunger Plan" whereby they'd starve the conquered Soviet citizens by the millions.
Yet starvation was a major reason for death among the innocents caught in their Eastern front.
Many innocents caught in-between the Germans and Soviets starved to death in these sieges, and the author explains that cannibalism was common.
He [Hitler] wanted to remove it [Leningrad] from the face of the earth.
Hitler wanted the population of Leningrad exterminated, the city razed to the ground, and then its territory handed over to the Finns.
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Within the great city [Leningrad] Russians (and others) faced the same dilemmas that Ukrainians and Kazakhs (and others) had faced ten years before, during the collectivization famines.
Wanda Zvierieva, a girl in Leningrad during the siege, later remembered her mother with great love and admiration.
She "was a beautiful woman. I would compare her face to the Mona Lisa."
Her father was a physicist with artistic inclinations who would carve wooden sculptures of Greek goddesses with his pocketknife.
Late in 1941, as the family was starving, her father went to his office, in the hope of finding a ration card that would allow the family to procure food. He stayed away for several days.
One night Wanda awakened to see her mother standing over her with a sickle. She struggled with and overcame her mother, or "the shadow that was left of her."
She gave her mother's actions the charitable interpretation: that her mother wished to spare her the suffering of starvation by killing her quickly.
Her father returned with food the following day, but is was too late for her mother, who died a few hours later.
The family sewed her in blankets and left her in the kitchen until the ground was soft enough to bury her. It was so cold in the apartment that her body did not decompose.
The battle around food does not just cover Obama's desire to control distribution as his forefathers Lenin, Stalin and Mao did.
The Institute for Justice has produced this excellent video explaining the protectionist efforts of food vendors to eliminate the innovators in their area.
In Obama's America, it is who you know. Not the value you add, nor the services you can deliver faster or better.
Related:
A similar battle is being fought against Uber, the mobile app company who have made it easy to get a town car or limo in large cities. Just enter your location and where you want to go, and the limo companies can give you an offer on the spot. Innovative, or an assault on those poor cab companies?
Name the political party that likes to get into the ring, tell everyone they are in the ring, draw attention to themselves while in the ring, claims credit for participating in the fight, but has yet to get into the fight.
Twinkies may well survive the nuclear apocalypse, but there was one weakest link: the company making them was unable to survive empowered labor unions who thought they had all the negotiating leverage... until they led their bankrupt employer right off the liquidation cliff.
Second image comes from BCTGM's site.
UPDATED 11:30am:
We are back from our trip to Walmart with good news Comrades!
Walmart sells their own Twinkie brand!
So the result of the union's decision to strike themselves out of a job means we will now be forced to pay over a dollar less for the Walmart Twinkies made by non-union labor and sold at a non-union store where most of these 18,000 out-of-work union members likely shop.
Full Disclosure: We bought that box of Hostess Twinkies. You have permission to yell "Hypocrite."
UPDATED and BUMPED 11.17.12:
Wonka's Chocolate Factory was a non-union shop. When did you ever see an ompaloopa go on break?
