Not-a-Lemming - All Comments

re: The Way Out

FutbolGuru — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:05:30 GMT

The real question isn't "What is the way out?" but "How do we implement the way out?" And that, despite my vaunted mental prowess (one hopes the tongue-in-cheek can be detected here) still eludes me. Maybe I should spend less time writing novels that get no attention and try to organize a political movement. Then my friends and family would REALLY think I've lost it! They might even be right. ;-|

re: The Way Out

Marty Yost — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:58:17 GMT

Yep, again I comend you. Funny you should say that, FutbolGuru. it's been a feeling in my gut since last November. As you pointed out the solution is simple, but will new blod be stifled by pathological self promoters? It's time we, as conservatives, brought ab0out "change". I say let's get started Nov. 2010 is closer than we think it is.

The Way Out

Not-a-Lemming — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:02:41 GMT

Yesterday's post was titled, Mr. Obama, Don't Build That Wall! A reader, Marty Yost, was kind

re: Mr. Obama, Don't Build That Wall!

Marty Yost — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:31:08 GMT

A wonderful analysis (and analogy) of where this nation is headed. The Fabians have slowly, steadily, since FDR’s New Deal, been creeping into our schools, the mainstream media, and our federal government. So, here we stand on the brink of that cliff, being steadily forced to the drop off point. Now what do we do? You have pointedly identified the problem. What can we do at this late stage to stop this madness?

Obama is a Marxist socialist/communist. His plans for America are clear now. He campaigned as a moderate, and the majority of the voters bought that lie. Within days of being in office he began rolling out his radical agenda, the most malignant being his proposed health care program. It has now been forced through the House of Representatives despite its lack of public support and all efforts to suppress it. Obamacare represents the most hideous encroachment of government to ever infect this nation. I feel it is the beginning of the end of our liberty, as we know it.

So I put the question to you Futbol Guru, with your 150+ IQ. What can we do to save a nation from a Marxist who plans to sink us into the depths of ghastly socialism? Again I commend you for your analysis of where we are headed. Now, please show us a way out.

re: Mr. Obama, Don't Build That Wall!

FutbolGuru — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:56:06 GMT

DD5,

That is why I, the FutbolGuru - IQ 150+, had to say it. Party apparatchiks, regardless of affiliation, either start stupid or end up that way. Just because Republicans are running the opposite direction of Democrats doesn't mean they aren't headed towards a cliff too.

You and I, we are not lemmings.

re: Mr. Obama, Don't Build That Wall!

DD5 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:25:38 GMT

Republican could have capitalized the moment and link obamacare as a clear step back into the socialist economic policies of Eastern Europe and Soviet Russia.

I heard nothing! Nothing that would link the irony of the 20 year celebration of the wall with the Universal health care this nation is embarking on.

re: The Economy: What Do We Really Want?

FutbolGuru — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:06:46 GMT

Brad,

Brilliant. And on the other side of the same coin, otherwise decent people can be made to accept monstrous things when those things are codified in law. As a minor example, naked short selling is clearly unethical but because it is legal, it is exploited. A bit farther down the alphabet we find that since exterminating people of a certain class was made 'legal' in Nazi Germany, people who would have otherwise rejected such a notion accepted it, or at the very least, went along with it.

Joy!

re: The Economy: What Do We Really Want?

Brad Smith — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:36:30 GMT

I understand the comment regarding the economy and Christianity and I agree. However, I would like to add that as people become more relient on laws they often become less relient on morals. There is a direct relationship. If your always looking to the government to tell you how to behave you are much less likely to think for yourself and rely on morals or good judgment.

The scam artists of the world will always find a way around the laws. However, the decent people who once relied on Morals will now rely on the law itself. So if the law doesn't say "persuint to code 13 section 22 all people must save at least 20% of their income" they wont do it. Just because the speed limit is 55 doesn't mean you always need to do 55. etc etc etc.

For each and every law passed there is a new group of people who will figure out a way around it as well as another group of people who will come to rely on it instead of thinking for themselves.

For example some people will buy radar detectors (or judges) so they can speed without paying fines. Others will drive 55 at times when it's only safe to do 40.

Peace!

Killing Conservatism

Not-a-Lemming — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:02:59 GMT

So Rush Limbaugh wants to own an NFL football team, huh? He does seem to know alot about, and have a

re: Killing People and Breaking Things

MariusAureus — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:27:50 GMT

Who can oppose the force so efficacious in "killing people and breaking things"?

:-(

Hopefully it won't appear as efficacious as we may think and fear.

It never has...

:-)

re: Barney the Purple Dinosaur

hannah — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:47:15 GMT

i want a freakn picture of barney to hang it on my wall so he can watch me sleep. Barney is my best friend i spend all my spare time with him and i love him. Btw my name is Hannah and i am 14.

re: Futbol, Fate, and 42

C.bronco — Mon, 25 May 2009 02:05:06 GMT

Lemmings are so very cute and furry!

I think there's a Deux ex machina for every one of us, but only in retrospect do we see it. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to notice it as it is happening.

Hang in there!

In the meantime, there are always Lolcats. They have gotten me through hard times, as have the goofy and wonderful folks at AW.

re: The Religious Right and the Republican Revolution

Huh — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:07:20 GMT

I just reread what I wrote and I think I might have overstated the racism issue. First it was THE reason many of the elected democrats in Congress and the Senate left the party and became Republicans. Also their is no denying the voting public in southern areas voted Republican if they felt integration was wrong even after the Civil Rights Act was signed. I am not suggesting that all Republicans are racist or all Democrats aren't but to ignore the party that was injected with support because of outright racism is disingenuous.

Roe v Wade was decided in Jan of 1973. Nixon, Ford, Regan, Bush and Bush Jr. did nothing to limit of overturn it. Carter and Clinton were the only Democrat POTUS in the last 36 years (not counting Obama). The Republicans controlled the Senate and Congress outright from 1996-2006 but nothing was accomplished. Bush appointed more federal judges than any president in History and two supreme court justices effectively extending the Republican control to all three branches of government. Result on Roe v Wade? Nothing. Republican politicians talk a good game but do nothing.

Discrimination against homosexuals is the civil rights issue of today. Many of the same things we hear about gay rights was said during the fight for African American equality. I am more libertarian in my political views and feel that all individuals deserve the same right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." They do not have the right to get married in my church! but the states offer civil ceremonies that are effectively two adults entering into a contract. It has no religious meaning but there are legal ramifications. The exact opposite is true if you get married in a church but don't get a license. Unless there is a specific law stating marriage is between a man and a women there is no right of the state to prevent two consenting adults from entering into this contract. I also doubt the constitutional validity any law that prevents homosexual civil unions.

re: The Religious Right and the Republican Revolution

FutbolGuru — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:17:07 GMT

The racial effect has been massively overstated throughout the years. Initially there were some white Democrats who defected for race concerns, but the majority of these Democrats remained Democrats and became what was known as a Blue Dog Democrat - conservative Democrats like Bud Cramer claimed to be. There has long been a schism between these white Democrats and Black Democrats in the south. It is largely gone now but it isn't through defection, it is much more through death.

Having been immersed in these politics for the last thirty years I have watched as the Democrats leaned farther and farther to the left, embracing gays, abortion, and other issues that have had a FAR greater effect on driving Democrats away than race ever had. Ultimately they left for religious issues even though, as my article states, they aren't spiritual people, though they have driven the party so far to the right it has become much more a party of social than government and economic ideology.

There were in fact many, if not the majority of elderly democrats who simply refused to vote in the last election. I know this as an absolute certainty from my connection with transporting older people to the polls to vote. They simply didn't go this year because they could not bring themselves to vote for a black man, while many Republicans in my southen district voted for Obama. Which ones are the racists?

re: The Religious Right and the Republican Revolution

huh — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:37:30 GMT

You are completely failing to take into full account the Civil Rights movement and the shift in American politics. In 1948 because the Democrats had taken the lead in integrating the military and repealing Jim Crow laws in the south the southern democrats left and formed a third party called the Dixiecrats and nominated Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate. They ran under the guise of states rights but it was strictly race based. President Truman won barley because the south went with the Dixicrats. After the election all these southern bible belt former Democrats joined the Republican party. As time progressed Democrats being purged of the southern racist progressed toward civil rights while the Republican party tried to pretend their racism was a patriotic "States Rights" issue. This culminated in Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act and stating "We have lost the South for a generation." Ever since then the South has been solidly Republican and blacks have been prominently Democrat. Religious or not the Bible belt has a tradition of political affiliation based on maintaining the white supremacy in the their communities.