House of Eratosthenes

Nobody reads this blog…and perhaps that is because when we have recurring blog titles, we increment them using roman numerals. Now, I don’t know how this particular one is going to work out over the long term, but over the short term I think it’s going to “recur” leaps-and-bounds over all the other recurring headlines we have around here.

“Rance” means rants. About our current government. Our current government headed by Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. The rance, they are just popping up like daisies.

Most aren’t worth linking or quoting. They just say the same crapola over and over again.

Some are worthy of linkage and quotage because of their currency.

Some are worthy because of their quality.

This one…falls into the third of those three. And it isn’t even a homegrown product. It is imported from Canada, which is America’s Hat. Yup, it’s not all nanny-state nonsense, hockey and crappy beer. Someone up there gets it. In fact, it pains me to say this, but I wish…oh…thirty percent of the yankees had the common sense the Good Lord gave this eloquent canuck.

Prime material. Prime. I wish I could write like this. Every single word seems to have been plucked from the thesaurus after a long, perhaps-tortured, but still-rational and productive discourse, perhaps involving a vast audience of great minds debating all night, Athenian-style. This is less an anti-Obama “Rance!” entry than a study in just-plain-remarkable writing.

A young student friend e-mailed me on Tuesday night.

“Have locked myself in my room because the place is full of little idiots — who cannot spell Barack Obama’s name and could not name one of his foreign or domestic policies — running around screaming obscenities about George Bush, conservatives and how Sarah Palin is a bitch. I love democracy!”

Even so, the people spoke. A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey, the mad racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, the mainstream media who abandoned any sense of objectivity long ago, Europeans who despise America largely because they depend on her, comics who claim to be dangerous and fearless but would not dare attack genuinely powerful special interest groups. A victory for Obama-worshipers everywhere.

A victory for the cult of the cult. A man who has done little with his life but has written about his achievements as if he had found the cure for cancer in between winning a marathon and building a nuclear reactor with his teeth. Victory for style over substance, hyperbole over history, rabble-raising over reality.

A victory for Hollywood, the most dysfunctional community in the world. Victory for Streisand, Spielberg, Soros and Sarandon.

Victory for those who prefer welfare to will and interference to independence. For those who settle for group think and herd mentality rather than those who fight for individual initiative and the right to be out of step with meagre political fashion.

Victory for a man who is no friend of freedom. He and his people have already stated that media has to be controlled so as to be balanced, without realizing the extraordinary irony within that statement. Like most liberal zealots, the Obama worshippers constantly speak of Fox and Limbaugh, when the vast bulk of television stations and newspapers are drastically liberal and anti-conservative.

Senior Democrat Chuck Schumer said that just as pornography should be censored, so should talk radio. In other words, one of the few free and open means of popular expression may well be cornered and beaten by bullies who even in triumph cannot tolerate any criticism and opposition.

WEAK TOWARD ENEMIES

A victory for those who believe the state is better qualified to raise children than the family, for those who prefer teachers’ unions to teaching and for those who are naively convinced that if the West is sufficiently weak towards its enemies, war and terror will dissolve as quickly as the tears on the face of a leftist celebrity.

A victory for social democracy even after most of Europe has come to the painful conclusion that social democracy leads to mediocrity, failure, unemployment, inflation, higher taxes and economic stagnation. A victory for intrusive lawyers, banal sentimentalists, social extremists and urban snobs.

Also a defeat for one of the weakest presidential candidates in living memory.

Why would anyone vote for a man who seemed incapable of outlining his policies and instead repeatedly emphasized a noble but, if we are candid, largely irrelevant war record?

He was joined by a woman who was defended so vehemently by her supporters when it was cuttingly evident that she is years away from being, and perhaps never will be, a serious candidate for senior national office.

Most of all it was a terrible defeat for democracy and the United States. A politician of nothing defeated a nothing politician and a credulous electorate screamed in adoration. I fear we will all suffer very much indeed.

Speaking of ancient-Greek discourses about the use of individual words…fifty-fifty odds on someone commenting on the “racist” characteristics of the word canuck. Don’t bother, folks. I looked it up. It’s only 2009, and we aren’t yet so politically correct that I can’t pay a stinking compliment to a canuck on the pages of a private freakin’ blog. Get a life.

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- smitty1e | 03/05/2009 @ 23:02
He was joined by a woman who was defended so vehemently by her supporters when it was cuttingly evident that she is years away from being, and perhaps never will be, a serious candidate for senior national office.

Yer man is a truth-teller, indeed. But we digress. There’s a LOT aboot Canuckistan to like… Labatt Blue, the Calgary Flames, and MARK STEYN. Just to name three… I could go on. And Toronto is a helluva party town.

I agree with Smitty, too. We both know the registration thing can be painful at times. 😉
- bpenni | 03/06/2009 @ 15:02
Yer man is a truth-teller, indeed.

Dude…I would hire Sarah Palin to babysit a bunch of kids or to watch my house over a vacation so much sooner than Katie Couric, John Kerry or Alec Baldwin. I would let her drive off with them all weekend to do who-knows-what, before I’d let Charles Gibson even talk to them for thirty seconds.

How come the people who survive this “fitness for senior national office” litmus test are invariably hardcore leftwing liberal…and people you’d never in a million years personally trust with anything? Perhaps because, although so few are willing to admit it, “fitness” is a euphemism for looking good on the teevee…which, in turn, means Couric and Gibson are there to prop you up rather than tear you down.

Palin is the nation’s-most-popular-Governor, of its largest state. The guy who is so much more “fit” for senior national office than she is, is rapidly turning the union into an enormous projection of the seediest slums of Chicago — faster than anyone, his foes or his friends, anticipated. Case closed.
- mkfreeberg | 03/06/2009 @ 16:28
Dude…I would hire Sarah Palin to babysit a bunch of kids or to watch my house over a vacation so much sooner than Katie Couric, John Kerry or Alec Baldwin. I would let her drive off with them all weekend to do who-knows-what, before I’d let Charles Gibson even talk to them for thirty seconds.

Me, too… without a single solitary reservation. But I’d have to think loooong and hard before trusting her with the launch codes. There’s just a slight bit of difference between being a competent babysitter and the CinC. And being guv’nor of Alaska and president of these United States, for that matter.

I’ll concede one point, though. She couldn’t POSSIBLY be worse than the current principal resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Hell, even I might could do better… and THAT’s a scary thought, innit? 😉
- bpenni | 03/06/2009 @ 17:44
He was joined by a woman who was defended so vehemently by her supporters when it was cuttingly evident that she is years away from being, and perhaps never will be, a serious candidate for senior national office.

Why would she potentially never be “a serious candidate” for federal office? She’s a freakin’ governor, for crying out loud. You don’t get any closer to the presidency than that, really, at least not as far as job description goes.

Granted, I would be nice if she had already been halfway through a 2nd term as the AK governor, but I would make the case that governors are better candidates than senators, regardless of length of service.

Senior military commanders also get my vote. Why don’t we see four-star generals running for president anymore?
- cylarz | 03/06/2009 @ 23:25

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