Reflections From a Murky Pond

Ridicule is not only an effective weapon, it is often the only weapon that can be used against dangerous, inane foolishness.

Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

— Saul Alinsky
Rule 5 – Rules For Radicals, 1971

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Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them.

— Thomas Jefferson
July 30, 1816

Some surprising citizens of America understand this and are not afraid to make use ridicule in the attempt effect change and restore hope for the rebirth of America and the cessation of certain forms of destructive stupidity.

During the opening segment of the 2013 Country Music Awards (CMA), hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley did a hilarious skit and song about the abysmal but expected failure that has been the ObamaCare quasi-launch.

As you might guess, American viewers were laughing out loud at this lampooning of Obama’s signature and singular “achievement.” Contriwise, Liberals and their minority tenants – the few of the latter that actually watch the CMA show – were outraged.

The outrage is unsurprising. After all, this was a pair of country music performers – a quintessentially White and American musical genre – performing for an audience that is overwhelmingly equally White and American, is going to be declared as racists, knuckle-draggers, and with other epithets for lampooning any of Obama’s many failures.

Of course, the Liberals’ and minorities’ outraged response is just more evidence that ridicule is both effective and the best and only non-lethal weapon against Obama, his destructive foolishness, and his followers. 😉

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BONUS: If you’re like Brad Paisley and myself until quite recently and don’t know what twerking is, this is twerking:

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I’ve got to say that, while I don’t care for music in the least, I do like the moves these women are doing. Much like traditional – not Cabaret! – belly dancing, it’s a very pleasant mixture of eroticism and extreme precision and muscle control.

Tags: America | Brad Paisley | Carrie Underwood | CMA | Country Music | Failure | Healthcare | Humor | Insurance | Insurance Exchanges | Liberals | Music | Obama | Ridicule | Saul Alinsky | Society | Twerking

This entry was posted on Friday, November 8th, 2013 at 11:26 am and is filed under Humor, Music, Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

For the past several decades the Liberals and their minority tenants have been repeating the same old, tired mantra that states:

When a minority succeeds it’s despite America’s endemic and systemic racism, and when a minority fails it is because of it.

And they’ve had more than their proper share of success with this tactic since, if you repeat a lie often enough – especially if you repeat to children during their formative years – it will eventually be believed.

So, of course, they followed near to the the tenets of their spiritual godfather, the neo-Marxist Saul Alinsky and applied this same mantra to their other agenda items, hoping to have similar or even greater levels of success.

With a very limited repertoire at their disposal, it makes perfect sense for the Liberals to stick with this singular tactic.

This is a classic example of faithful – orthodox even – adherence to Alinsky’s 2nd Rule for radicals seeking to destroy a society:

Never go outside the expertise of your people – When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear and retreat….

Naturally, when the Heirophant of Global Warming, Al Gore started his doomsday cult these Liberals realized it was a good vehicle for promulgating their neo-Socialist, ethno-guiltist agenda and applied the same mantra to it:

Any cooling trend, no matter how long or general, is despite Anthropogenic Global Warming, and any warming trend, no matter how brief or localized, is because of it.

And they failed! The loyal citizens of the Civilized World, Americans especially, rejected them and the Warmists’ cult of AGW largely because these Liberals used this same tired mantra to argue the point.

We had in the intervening years realized the falsehood of their earlier claims about race and racism and weren’t going to believe those same false arguments again just because the nouns had been shifted around to fit a new methodology of achieving the Liberal agenda.

These Liberals, obviously not quite as literate and educated as they want us to believe, forgot Alinsky’s 7th Rule for Radicals:

A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag – Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time….

It was an Alinskyian Failure of global proportions and one that each and every citizen of the Civilized World should be thankful for. Which is not to say that we shouldn’t stay alert for a resurgence of this cult and be ready to crush it again by and and all means at our disposal.

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Keep your eyes open. Travel light but load heavy, and always put another round in the enemy after they’re down. 😉

Tags: AGW | Climate Change | Environmental Justice | Global Warming | Leftists | Liberals | Politics | Progressives | Radicals | Saul Alinsky | Social Engineering | Social Justice | Socialism | Society

This entry was posted on Friday, March 18th, 2011 at 5:39 am and is filed under Politics, Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Whenever President Obama loses control over a domestic issue or feels that he has it is a good thing for America and for we, the People of America. It is always good for any free people when a would-be tyrant, especially one who sees himself as beneficent, is discomfited.

We are living in such a time. President Obama has lost some parts of the control he has had previously enjoyed over the MSM and news of the widespread dissent against him and his followers is now being published.

What Obama is most worried about, however, is that he and his followers no longer firmly the control the airwaves going into the upcoming 2010 Congressional Midterm Elections. Campaign ads are being run and the Obama Regime doesn’t know by exactly who.

As the political season heats up, Americans are already being inundated with the usual phone calls, mailings, and TV ads from campaigns all across the country. But this summer, they’re also seeing a flood of attack ads run by shadowy groups with harmless-sounding names. We don’t know who’s behind these ads and we don’t know who’s paying for them.

— President Obama
Weekly Address, August 21, 2010

That’s an ironic and cosmically hypocritical position for some who has made sure to shroud their entire past – birth, education, religion, and even election funding – from scrutiny by the American people he has sought to rule over.

But of course Obama can’t stand not knowing exactly who is behind each and every bit of dissent. He cannot follow the rules of his political strategy as laid out by his longtime friend and mentor, without such knowledge.

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.

— Saul Alinski
Rules for Radicals, Rule 11

I can easily see where many groups of Americans might prefer to shield themselves however they can from reprisals by the Obama Regime.

Admittedly though, America has been damaged and insulted in the past by “shadowy groups with harmless-sounding names,” such as Organizing for America, ACORN, SEIU, Move On, Code Pink, and the Cordoba Initiative. Somehow though I doubt that Obama would really want their sources of funding looked at too closely – or what and/or who they’re buying or have bought with that money.

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Keep your eyes open. Travel light but load heavy, and always put another round in the enemy after they’re down. 😉

Tags: 2010 Elections | America | Freedom | Leftists | Liberals | Media | Obama | Politics | Saul Alinsky | Tyranny

This entry was posted on Monday, August 23rd, 2010 at 5:47 am and is filed under 2010 Election, Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

America is about to pass through a crossroads. With Barack Obama about to take office as President of The United States of America a great deal will be subjected to change in our nation. Most of us aren’t truly cognizant of what those changes are expected to be or encompass.

In an attempt to give people the opportunity to educate themselves on what to expect and/or fear from the upcoming Liberal administration I’ve compiled three resources that I believe can provide a basis for understanding what Obama and his administration plan on doing.

Whether you’re a Conservative, Moderate, or Liberal these three books are important reading. The Plan, Change We Can Believe In, and Rules for Radicals outline the threats posed and/or promises offered by the incoming administration and some of the tactics they will probably use to implement them.

Read, learn, be studiously aware! Whether you loath and fear Obama or see him as the hope for a brighter American future, learn as much of the truth as you can and manage your own expectations.

Tags: 2008 Elections | America | Books & Reading | Bruce Reed | Conservatives | Education | Liberals | Politics | Radicals | Rahm Emanuel | Saul Alinsky | Socialism

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 at 9:30 am and is filed under Books & Reading, Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.