De-weaponizing Language, Death To Labels

I’m sure I’ll ponder this  some more, but on my IA journeys I believe I see the insidiousness of “Political Correctness” more clearly. 

In my youthful Baptist world, all one needed to do in order to dismiss people was to label them — “a drinker, a smoker, an evolutionist, worldly, etc”, and they were devalued. They were “not of the body”. I read Orwell and even a lot of deeper stuff (“Ideas Have Consequences”, “Road to Serfdom”) that make the power of words and labels eminently clear.  Then came Trump — racist, homophobe, misogynist (now THERE is a word that recently got A LOT of life!), imitator of people with disabilities, the next Hitler, etc.. 

A “new word” needed to be invented ....  “deploreables” — it was a complete orgy of labeling by the great dragon of PC, now possibly seriously wounded? Even mortally? 

Are we on the path of breaking free of simply labeling people and being done with them? I’m not sure the youth can imagine a world so strange that every human is a complex mix of good / bad / indifferent / paradox / hope / despair / love / hate / prejudice / fear / courage / compassion … etc, and it would be wrong to apply a label to someone and discount them as a human. 

It would be so HARD to deal with each other as flawed humans, but each worthy of diverse, complicated and imperfect thought! Much harder than applying a label and being done with them! (perhaps even, or especially? if they are a family member?)  

What if we found others worthy of respect even (and maybe ESPECIALLY?) when they disagree with our views?  What if a Muslim and a Christian that both believe through their religion that homosexuality is a sin, would be valued the same by a "liberal" ... as two humans with different, but in some ways similar religious beliefs?  

What if the associational freedom for a designer to be able to decide if they wanted to design a dress for Michelle Obama but not for Melania Trump, or for a musician to play for Hillary Clinton but not Donald Trump would be thought of the same as for a baker to bake a cake for a Christian wedding, but not for a gay "wedding"? 

At one time, it was allowed to simply label a person an "N-word", Jew, etc and dismiss them. We supposedly passed from that into what I think all hoped was a better world where labels were not acceptable. Sadly, the labels returned, proliferated and begin to be hurled at larger and larger groups of individuals -- each unique, and NOT defined by the labels increasingly applied to them. 

Was "basket of deploreables" the point and which the magical power of labels "jumped the shark"? Might we have hit "peak labeling"? One can only hope. 

It would be wonderful if the great dragon of Political Correctness has been mortally wounded and we start dealing with people as people as opposed to labels. 

Such a subversive thought for our times!

"Once you label me, you negate me". (Kierkegaard) 

Obama Lincoln, Trump Bitter

Donald Trump's team of bitter rivals - CNNPolitics.com:

CNN is reporting how Trump has created a team of "Bitter Rivals" around him.

In 2008, Obama created a "Team of Rivals", but it prompted the press to begin comparisons that Obama was another Lincoln.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/18/AR2008111803854.html

After reading "Team of Rivals," Obama called Goodwin. The senator wanted to talk about Lincoln, so the author met him in Washington. "You really could see even then a kind of confidence and a thoughtfulness," she said of Obama. (Goodwin's book is back on the paperback bestseller list, although she wonders whether it would have caught on in 2005 had she chosen one of the other titles she was considering: "The Great Unifier," "The American Colossus" and "Master Among Men." She said she always wanted a title more poetic than "Team of Rivals," and was fond of "Master Among Men," but quickly realized "we couldn't use 'Master' because of slavery.")

The big issue in MSM in '08 after the election was if Obama would be more like Lincoln or FDR, but most thought probably greater than both.

Currently the issue is if Trump is more like Hitler or Mussolini. It takes a special kind of short memory to carry on the thought that the press is in any way "unbiased".

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Rape Melania, Trump Worse Than 9-11 (SNL)

Democrats: Vicious, Violent, Anti-Democratic | Power Line:

We saw endless "concern" about the "misogyny and hatred" of Trump and his Deplorables -- the threat of violence if he lost was covered widely in the MSM.

What we see today are ongoing riots from the left, death threats against the president elect, and this little gem.

One is reminded that "Love Trumps Hate".

Is the fact that some of the left have signs like the above an indictment of the entire left? No ... as the fact that I'm certain that some are using Trump as a vehicle of hatred for other groups. Hatred is part of the human condition -- ALWAYS, on ALL "sides".

SNL followed the election with a dirge of a show that was more morose than their show following 9-11.

But in the aftermath of the Clinton loss, SNL couldn’t find a way to discover even one comedic moment in their cold opening? It’s fair to say that the creative staff at SNL, the writers, the actors and the producers, as well as the executives at NBC Universal who oversee the program, found more sorrow and despair and less humor in Hillary Clinton’s loss than in the loss of 3,000 lives at the hands of radical Islamic terrorists.

As this blog as often pointed out, this is NOT surprising. The loss of power for the left is THE WORST. 9-11 did not affect their power holdings, so it was just "an event". Election 2016 did cut into their power, so it was a DISASTER!

For the left, politics is often life / religion / philosophy / morals. For the right, life is life, religion is religion, philosophy is philosophy and politics is only politics ... a sphere, a tool, intended in especially what was America to be LIMITED. To that end, the right actually doesn't even take itself all that seriously.

To that end, a little self deprecating humor ...

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Hillary Chose Trump As Opponent

WikiLeaks Reveals DNC Elevated Trump to Help Clinton | Observer:

I'm not going to go back and find the proof that the Carter team was GLAD that Reagan was the choice for them to run against rather than George W Bush in 1980, but it is out there ... you can likely find it as easy as I.  I don't believe the system was quite as rigged then, so I don't think Carter and the media really purposely helped Reagan win the primaries.

I think many  people are aware that Clinton (and the DNC, and the media) WANTED to run against Trump -- they saw it as "certain disaster" for the Republicans -- as did the RNC and big swaths of "Never Trump" Republicans (many of them still do ... they preferred Hillary).

According to an email from Marissa Astor, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook’s assistant, to Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, the campaign knew Trump was going to run, and pushed his legitimacy as a candidate. WikiLeaks’ release shows that it was seen as in Clinton’s best interest to run against Trump in the general election. The memo, sent to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) also reveals the DNC and Clinton campaign were strategizing on behalf of their candidate at the very beginning of the primaries. “We think our goals mirror those of the DNC,” stated the memo, attached to the email under the title “muddying the waters.”

None of them learned their lesson from Reagan -- because frankly, they never DID like him. Most RNC people are "big government lite", the Democrats, media and academia would have been happy without the Reagan economic growth, the end of the USSR, lower gas prices, etc -- it is POWER they care about, not what happens to the electorate as a result of their machinations.

All the Clinton campaign had to do was push the mainstream media in the general direction of covering and attacking Trump as though he was the star of the Republican presidential primaries. As the presumed Democratic nominee, whomever she decided to dignify by responding to—whether the comments were directed at her or not—would be presumed to be the spokesperson, or nominee, of the Republican Party.

This time, the "deplorable" pawns beat the queen.



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How Trump Flipped The Map

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/obama-trump-counties/?tid=ss_fb

Some articles with maps on how Trump proved ALL the pundits (in both parties) wrong. I must have heard a couple of hours on NPR in little snippets about his lack of ground game, weakness among women, etc.

NPR had the Senate in the D column, the presidency owned by Hildebeast, and major inroads in the House. They spent a show one morning talking about how her only opposition would be "misogynists" in the same way as BO's had been "racists".

If Trump could finally cut off ALL money for "National Liberal Radio", that would be one excellent move. How happy would Democrats be to have to FUND Rush Limbaugh and Fox News?

Cohen, Coming To Reward Them

My Friend Leonard Cohen: Darkness and Praise - The New York Times:

Leonard Cohen is dead as of last Tuesday. The song many know him by is "Hallelujah", but generally not with his original words. I've included them below, but you will likely not have any trouble hearing them on Willie's version.

Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew her
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah ........
Songwriters: Leonard Cohen 

We won't go into how many evenings I sat in my favorite listening chair in Chatfield in front of my stereo that worked fabulously in that room, producing a wonderful sound stage.  Often with a Scotch or Bourbon, listening to my favorite Cohen song ... but that has been a few years. We moved to Rochester in '95. Here it is ... even better, Stevie Ray Vaughn is playing on this track -- dead at 35, Aug 1990, East Troy WI -- thank God Clapton didn't take that helicopter with him.

My favorite line then with more than a decade at IBM at that time, was "they sentenced me to 20 years of boredom, for trying to change the system from within. We're coming now, we're coming to reward them ...." Still thought IBM was "fixable" up to somewhere between 25 and 30 years of my career.

Has Trump come to "reward us"? Politically, H W Bush through BO was nearly 30 years of "boredom" for me -- a sense of America as a lost and dying idea. All growth involves risk, and fear is ALWAYS a sign of potential growth. Of disaster and death as well, but as we slide toward winter, we all know that death is part of the promise of life.

I loved this tribute to Leonard in the article.

“Man was born for toil, since his perfection is always being actualized but is never actual,” he observed in an essay on frivolity. “And insofar as he attains perfection, something is missing in him.

After 3 weeks of classes (over a week ago last Friday), where I told my story and listened to many others, this one last Cohen song has to be included .... It is also a long time favorite in which the speakers in my room dissolved and Jennifer was standing right in front of me.

So many hearts I find, broke like yours and mine

Torn by what we've done and can't undo ... 

I love his complexity, his Judaism, his darkness.

Leonard wrote and sung often about God, but I am not sure what he meant by it. Whatever it was, it inspired “If It Be Your Will,” his most exquisite song. He sought recognition for his fallenness, not rescue from it. “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” He once told an interviewer that those words were the closest he came to a credo. The teaching could not be more plain: fix the crack, lose the light.

I'd say that there is a Christ shaped hole in every soul. We have lots of "cracks" -- and we do need to admit that -- frequently. On our knees at communion ... some of us have more cracks than others.

But acceptance that we are broken is the big step -- I pray that it was enough for Leonard to come to reward the hosts in Heaven.


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We Had it Coming, We Respectables

America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny -- NYMag:

When I saw the line, "We had it coming, we Respectables", my jaw dropped. This was published on May 2, long before Hillary's "basket of deplorables" remark.

The article is excruciatingly long (for most). The key points are that Plato (among many including our Founders) recognized the stark danger of the tyranny of the masses millennia ago -- it is the antithesis of "new news". When we had a culture, EVERYONE that was educated understood this, but as I've covered MANY times before ( "Closing of the American Mind", "Trapped on Ancient Starship"), we threw away any semblance of knowledge of culture and history as a requirement to be "educated". We replaced Western Civilization with "The holy politically correct word of The Party (D)".

The very rich come under attack, as inequality becomes increasingly intolerable. Patriarchy is also dismantled: “We almost forgot to mention the extent of the law of equality and of freedom in the relations of women with men and men with women.” Family hierarchies are inverted: “A father habituates himself to be like his child and fear his sons, and a son habituates himself to be like his father and to have no shame before or fear of his parents.” In classrooms, “as the teacher ... is frightened of the pupils and fawns on them, so the students make light of their teachers.” Animals are regarded as equal to humans; the rich mingle freely with the poor in the streets and try to blend in. The foreigner is equal to the citizen. 

And it is when a democracy has ripened as fully as this, Plato argues, that a would-be tyrant will often seize his moment.

In some cases, (Sullivan doesn't seem to realize it), even a leader of such a rabble will declare himself "a citizen of the world" as opposed to the country he is ostensibly "leading" (maybe from behind).

And this year, the delegate system established by our political parties is also under assault. Trump has argued that the candidate with the most votes should get the Republican nomination, regardless of the rules in place. It now looks as if he won’t even need to win that argument — that he’ll bank enough delegates to secure the nomination uncontested — but he’s won it anyway. Fully half of Americans now believe the traditional nominating system is rigged.

This was written before WikiLeaks exposed the fact that the Democrat nominating process WAS rigged, as were almost certainly the Republican and the general election -- sometimes, in a storm, even the rigging fails!

Politically, we lucked out at first. Obama would never have been nominated for the presidency, let alone elected, if he hadn’t harnessed the power of the web and the charisma of his media celebrity. But he was also, paradoxically, a very elite figure, a former state and U.S. senator, a product of Harvard Law School, and, as it turned out, blessed with a preternaturally rational and calm disposition. So he has masked, temporarily, the real risks in the system that his pioneering campaign revealed. Hence many Democrats’ frustration with him. Those who saw in his campaign the seeds of revolutionary change, who were drawn to him by their own messianic delusions, came to be bitterly disappointed by his governing moderation and pragmatism.

Well, "the respectables" lucked out -- the "bitter clingers" and the "basket of deplorables", not so much. Ferguson, a member of the elite doesn't realize that Obama's constant rhetoric imploring the nation to "not generalize" on each act of Islamic violence, but to sternly wag his finger at Americans with guns and say things like "the NRA and and Americans that own firearms and are not in favor of "common sense gun controls" need to accept their responsibility for this tragedy". Indeed -- and the difference is the elites like Islamists a whole lot better than "deplorable bitter clingers". And it is a surprise that the deplorables  didn't like their new name -- nor their lot in life?

The deeper, long-term reasons for today’s rage are not hard to find, although many of us elites have shamefully found ourselves able to ignore them. The jobs available to the working class no longer contain the kind of craftsmanship or satisfaction or meaning that can take the sting out of their low and stagnant wages. The once-familiar avenues for socialization — the church, the union hall, the VFW — have become less vibrant and social isolation more common. Global economic forces have pummeled blue-collar workers more relentlessly than almost any other segment of society, forcing them to compete against hundreds of millions of equally skilled workers throughout the planet. No one asked them in the 1990s if this was the future they wanted. And the impact has been more brutal than many economists predicted. No wonder suicide and mortality rates among the white working poor are spiking dramatically. 

“It is usually those whose poverty is relatively recent, the ‘new poor,’ who throb with the ferment of frustration,” Hoffer argues. Fundamentalist religion long provided some emotional support for those left behind (for one thing, it invites practitioners to defy the elites as unholy), but its influence has waned as modernity has penetrated almost everything and the great culture wars of the 1990s and 2000s have ended in a rout. The result has been a more diverse mainstream culture — but also, simultaneously, a subculture that is even more alienated and despised, and ever more infuriated and bloody-minded.

Take their church, their community, their jobs, largely their families (by divorce on demand, welfare, and telling their kids their parents are idiots to be maligned rather than respected) ... then call them all manner of names, and ... well, they maybe don't like the elites very much.

Is Trump dangerous? Sure, we just had the "Flight 93 election", and put a non-pilot in control of the plane rather than a terrorist bent on flying it into some monument or sporting event. So now, there is a chance -- with the Hildebeast, there was no chance. Do we fly on, or crash? Unlike under Hildebeast, there is a decent chance here that a major part of that question might be up to us -- now get busy trying to be as much help as you can keeping this heavily damaged bird of BOistan flying, and let's see if we can go find America somewhere!


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Hillary Lost Due To Comey Letter

Hillary Clinton Blames F.B.I. Director for Election Loss - The New York Times:



I was pretty sure that there was no way such an honest and accomplished woman could be responsible for herself losing the election. I mean, she has accomplished SO MUCH! I mean there was .... uh, well ... never mind.



Hey, but at least she has never been responsible for any failures, and that holds right up to this past election. If there was ever anything the Clinton's were good at besides "I can't recall", it was "I wasn't responsible!"

"Hillary Clinton on Saturday cast blame for her surprise election loss on the announcement by the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, days before the election that he had revived the inquiry into her use of a private email server."

When you go through life not recalling and not being responsible, it is good that you have a foundation that hauls in $200 million a year, "Funds, for Clintons".



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Applauding Mother Jones On Whitelash

http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/11/there-was-no-apparent-whitelash-year

Mother Jones is a far left magazine, and the selections of what they print typically fit their slant People don't buy Mother Jones because they want "balanced reporting'.

So it takes exceptional courage, bordering on not caring about their own existence to publish the truth that there wasn't any "Whitelash".

To deny a popular meme of the left that allows their people to feel superior as they denigrate the country in order to denigrate "Trump voters" is simply amazing!

It seems that as the left picks themselves up off the floor, they have been forced for a moment to look around and ask "what hit us"? I'm pretty sure this self teaching moment won't last very long, but it is one of the serious advantages of being blind-sided!

NYT: A Confession of Liberal Intolerance

A Confession of Liberal Intolerance - The New York Times:

if you have read my blog over the years, you have pretty much seen all of this, but NOT from the "Gray Lady" herself! Sometimes getting your ass kicked can cause you to look away from your navel for just a bit as it seems to have in this case.

Academia has a heavy bias against conservatives and Christians! Talk about "news at 11"!

Universities are the bedrock of progressive values, but the one kind of diversity that universities disregard is ideological and religious. We’re fine with people who don’t look like us, as long as they think like us. 

O.K., that’s a little harsh. But consider George Yancey, a sociologist who is black and evangelical. 

“Outside of academia I faced more problems as a black,” he told me. “But inside academia I face more problems as a Christian, and it is not even close.”

"As long as they think like us"? Well yes, that is harsh -- the university will TOTALLY embrace any whacked out idea of post-modernism, intersectional feminism,  Afro-space alien studies, Zombie culture, etc, but it IS absolutely correct that it will reject "conservative Christian" like a turd in the punchbowl!

It’s also liberal poppycock that there aren’t smart conservatives or evangelicals. Richard Posner is a more-or-less conservative who is the most cited legal scholar of all time. With her experience and intellect, Condoleezza Rice would enhance any political science department. Francis Collins is an evangelical Christian and famed geneticist who has led the Human Genome Project and the National Institutes of Health. And if you’re saying that conservatives may be tolerable, but evangelical Christians aren’t — well, are you really saying you would have discriminated against the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.?

It's worth the read, and interesting to see the the left look away from their navels a bit while their  head is spinning -- they will likely be right back to "lock the idiots all up" mode in a couple weeks!


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CTRL-L Loses To ALT-R

Articles: CTRL-L: The Left Loses Its Unremitting Fight for Control:

Slightly long, but well worth it for all the information packed into this one.



Some snippets ...

To quote the great Iowahawk: "Trump is what happens when you spent the last 7 Thanksgiving dinners lecturing your angry uncle from your Vox index cards."

From Howie Carr:

“Have you noticed how many of the riff-raff can’t wait to go in front of the TV cameras to announce in broken English that the reason they hate President-elect Trump is because they’re illegal aliens. 

Then they hold up their signs saying “NOT MY PRESIDENT!” 

Well then, of course he’s not your president. You’re from Guatemala, or maybe Honduras. 

Last night, as a public service to the viewing public, Fox News Channel started running English-language subtitles under the anti-Trump sound bites. I’m serious.”

Chosen at "random":

The Trans Pacific Pact seems to have died unborn. Mexico and Canada have expressed their willingness to renegotiate NAFTA, 1.4 million people who admitted they were here illegally and gave the government their names and addresses to apply for Obama’s Executive Order amnesty, have caught on that it’s not worth a dime and will be cancelled as soon as Trump takes office. Many are reported to be self-deporting themselves.

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A Gay, A Woman, and a Black Walk Into Trump Tower

Trump’s First 3 Transition Dream Team Members Are Female, Gay & Black. Liberals Are Screaming. | Prntly | America's Top News Site:



The punchline? Trump puts them on his team! Isn't that a hoot?



Naturally, the coverage on this will be minimal. Have you not heard? Trump is a homophobe, misogynist,  and a racist.



How do we know that? Because TP takes words and makes their determination -- Thou shalt bow before the PC priesthood of TP, or thou shalt be labeled forever. Only the penance of joining with the beast of TP and begging forgiveness for your PC sins repeatedly might possibly return to being a "conditional pariah", but at least in Trump's case, I'm sure, not even that.



He is vermin -- his actions are meaningless. The great and all powerful TP has spoken.



But wait -- what if it actually ISN'T all powerful????



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Dilbert Dissonance

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/153080448451/the-cognitive-dissonance-cluster-bomb

Adams predicted a Trump victory over a year ago when I predicted Trump to flame out quickly. When I see people who make correct predictions when I and pretty much everyone else is making totally inaccurate predictions, I listen to the guy that is correct -- HARD.

Earlier this week CNN.com listed 24 different theories that pundits have provided for why Trump won. And the list isn’t even complete. I’ve heard other explanations as well. What does it tell you when there are 24 different explanations for a thing.

It tells you that someone just dropped a cognitive dissonance cluster bomb on the public. Heads exploded. Cognitive dissonance set in. Weird theories came out. This is the cleanest and clearest example of cognitive dissonance you will ever see. Remember it.

Just read the whole article, it is short and ALL worth it. Here is how he ends.

As I often tell you, we all live in our own movies inside our heads. Humans did not evolve with the capability to understand their reality because it was not important to survival. Any illusion that keeps us alive long enough to procreate is good enough. 

That’s why the protestors live in a movie in which they are fighting against a monster called Trump and you live in a movie where you got the president you wanted for the changes you prefer. Same planet, different realities.

I'll quibble with his evolution faith to say that I believe that we are spiritual beings living in what appears to be a physical world that is actually quantum. Our faith and our intent as a whole does much more to manifest our reality than physicalists (it's all matter) -- which we are all heavily trained to believe. Our "movie" (spirit) has more effect on what Adams sees to be "reality" than physicalists are willing to accept from my POV.

Agree Or Your''re Fired!

Boss says employees who agree with Trump's rhetoric should resign | Fox News:

Nope ... not Trump on a made for TV entertainment venue -- actual liberal with real employees.

Reagan said of "liberals" that "They will defend your right to agree with them to their dying breath".

They are a bit less tolerant than that these days -- they don't want you around if you don't agree with them. You agree with them OR ELSE!

If they don't get their way, they believe that rioting, firing employees and cutting off friends and family that are not in lock-step with their views are all justified. Thou shalt have no other god before politics.

"Hating the haters is not hate" -- and they will define who the "haters are". Violence may well be justified, certainly firing an employee who disagrees, obviously refusing to talk to parents, siblings, friends, etc because of political disagreement is completely justified. Totalitarianism is unsurprisingly a TOTAL world view.

Politics "trumps all" -- God, family blood, years of friendship, neighbor proximity, EVERYTHING!

You simply MUST agree, or they will tack a long list of horrible labels on you -- and fire you at least, if not worse.

For non-totalitarians, this is very painful. Our list of priorities usually goes something like "God, family, self responsibility/care, friends, service to others, community (actual people in neighborhoods and churches),  country, vocation/career, -- and THEN, somewhere around here, like near the bottom of the top 10, politics. Pets would rank higher for me.

I don't really understand the standard lefty priority, but it seems something like **ME**, followed by "you damned well better agree with me on MY politics!".

I suppose eventually the idea that those priorities are not "well rounded" will land me in the gulag or an unmarked ditch somewhere, but I just don't see putting either me or politics first -- under whatever penalty. My eternal soul "trumps" those earthly concerns.


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The WayBack To Day After BO Elected

One nice thing about having a blog is that you can go back and see yourself 8 years ago. Here I am from 2008.

Of course the media was GIDDY ... the opposite of now, no surprise there.

The markets dropped 400 points the day after the election -- ho hum, the media didn't care and did not attribute it to BO, but rather W.

Myself --- and pretty much everyone of conservative ilk wanted him to be successful. If I recall correctly, Limbaugh wanted him to fail to be able to GET HIS POLICIES, like BOcare through, because they would be damaging -- they were, and the rising prices under BOcare were part of what elected Trump.

I don't go into in the post below, the only thing we really knew that BO was going to do FOR SURE was close Gitmo on day one and end the useless wars. Gitmo is still open, the troops are still in Afghanistan, and of course he both did and did not end the Iraq war.  Beyond that, all we really knew was "hope and change" -- but the press knew it would be grand!

We know that deficits will become huge issues again, any troops killed will be headline news once more, homelessness will likely return, and any problem anywhere in the world will instantly be Trumps fault. Oh, any thought of blaming anything on BO will or course be a non-starter -- my guess is that W is FINALLY off the hook for being responsible for all badness!

Oh, and I bet "Fillibuster" isn't "obstructionist" anymore!

Trump is the new daemon!

Happy Days, Hail BO!

It is fun to watch the media enjoy the Obama victory. I couldn't help but wonder if Colin Powell had ever run as a Republican and won, what kind of attitude would the MSM have had? I suspect it would have been a long way from the unadultrated joy they were able to feel today. They would have found it "ironic" that the first black elected was a Republican, although Lincoln and the Republican party risked it all to fight the Civil War and the Democrats presided over Jim Crow and all the lynching for 100 years. A KKK recruiter (Robert Byrd) still sits in the Senate today, however, to the MSM, it would be "ironic" if a black Republican had been the first elected!

The reality of a 400+ point Dow sell-off the day after the election was little reported. Perhaps investors didn't get the memo of how good BO is going to be for the economy?

I was glad to not hear of any conservatives thinking they would leave the country because he was elected, nor really very little in the way of ill will at all. A far cry from the attitude of a Paul Wellstone that refused to shake VP Dan Quayle's hand at a Washington function. I hope all conservatives are civil, and I expect them to generally be.

In the unlikely event that my little blog ever got famous, I'd give up the BO schtick over the President. The main reason I do it is a lot like Rush Limbaugh poking fun at how the MSM treats Republicans every day. "Dubya", "Ronnie Raygun", "Shrub", "F*** Bush", etc. BO would not want to be "BHO" since it is considered an "affront" to use his middle name. I wonder if Chief Justice Roberts will be able to say "Hussein" when he swears him in? Potentially he will have to change back to his real name "Barry Sottero" which he had for most of his childhood. Then he would be "BS", which may end up being more appropriate.

Why do conservatives tend to wish the new president well even though we suspect he will declare war on all that makes America exceptional? Simply because we are usually Christians first, Family people 2nd and Americans 3rd ... with a close 4th being some sort of profession or career that serves both our country and provides the finances so we can be responsible for ourselves and contributing members of society. Our fervent hope is that Obama and the Democrats will be successful in getting the economy growing again, even though every piece of evidence we see says that they will not be.

It is fun to watch the media. They are positively giddy. I remember so well '92 when they were beside themselves with the pure joy of a Clinton election and a Democrat majority in both houses of congress, but this is even better. I suspect it harkens back to '64 when LBJ whacked Goldwater.

How different from when I turned on NPR the morning after the '94 election and they were playing Johnny Cash ... I didn't really need to hear the results to know what happened! They were on the verge of tears -- and there was positive fear that the evil Newt Gingrich was to be Speaker of the House!

Gee, I wonder if the "sanctity of the fillibuster" might kind of change now? Remember how HORRIBLE it was that Republicans were talking about "the nuclear option" for appointments? I 'm sure the "unbiased" MSM will be 100% supportive of a Republican fillibuster now! Kind of like how big an issue campaign finance was this year. NOT!

Oh well, being in the opposition is kind of fun. Now Saint BO will need to actually deliver on some of his brilliance--that is often a bit harder than reading a teleprompter smoothly!