tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post4064526115445771396..comments2024-02-28T20:56:23.768-06:00Comments on Sipsey Street Irregulars: Losing the "Mandate of Heaven": The Gunwalker Scandal as a fatal delegitimization of federal power -- either way it comes out.Dutchman6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09935420042995679958noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-52773490353392925012011-05-10T23:16:47.305-05:002011-05-10T23:16:47.305-05:00Though your prior posts speak well in prose, they ...Though your prior posts speak well in prose, they explain little of how the currect state of events can be corrected,dejected or damn well re-elected. Instead, of blaming the one who tries to make change, why dont though look to a way that all of us can make a stand in a unified manner to express our dissatisfaction of the media garble, and come to a true realization of an amicable existence where perservance can be achieved with peace and morally fortitude.Melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06748579413445239841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-31051642608230637012011-04-20T07:47:57.154-05:002011-04-20T07:47:57.154-05:00"Again I ask, where is the Congress? What is ..."Again I ask, where is the Congress? What is the Congress doing in light of these issues? What is the REPUBLICAN, Congress doing?"<br /><br />This could have been copied word for word from the pamphlets published 236 years ago. What exactly is Congress doing? Pretty much what they did from April 19, 1775 to July 4, 1776. Hoping a problem will go away so they don't have to actually do something about it. Talk is cheap while action, even the wrong action, bears a cost.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-38636594602869709182011-04-19T16:53:21.667-05:002011-04-19T16:53:21.667-05:00The Federals lost political legitimacy a long time...The Federals lost political legitimacy a long time ago, actually.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy_(political)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-41300753230547186512011-04-19T16:36:46.372-05:002011-04-19T16:36:46.372-05:00The problem is, the public is as complicit in bein...The problem is, the public is as complicit in being naive as the MSM is complicit in LYING and AVOIDING the issue. There are going to be many more last chances - steps well past the line...<br /><br />I hold little hope that when this is mostly swept under the rug, there will be any serious fallout. A few scapegoats made of middle managers and perhaps ONE or TWO bigger fish, but neither Holder or Obama will even be able to smell the tar bubbling, much less get the coating they deserve.Precisionnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-60904694644262343572011-04-19T14:47:38.633-05:002011-04-19T14:47:38.633-05:00"I can recall a time when being a bastard was..."I can recall a time when being a bastard was shameful."<br /><br />Well I can speak with authority on this because I am a Bastard by birth and not in the least, ashamed of it, although some have tried to correct this, and failed. For it is un-American to judge a person and ascribe value to that person, based upon the circumstances of their birth or the value of their family name.<br /><br />I did not choose the circumstances of my birth, nor did my wife, who is also a Bastard and her Most Supreme Bitch Goddess of the universe, when she gets tuned up, with a 150+ IQ. <br /><br />The difference between my wife and I and those in DC, is that we are not traitors to our Constitution, Bill of Rights, country and people, while too many of them, very clearly are. They choose to be this, while bearing distinguished family names and substantial fortunes, yet they revere Mao and Stalin and have nothing good to say about that other Revere or his able compatriots.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-22606622076522529612011-04-19T14:00:08.383-05:002011-04-19T14:00:08.383-05:00Nice piece Mike. My sentiments, better stated.
I ...Nice piece Mike. My sentiments, better stated.<br /><br />I think the reason that this is taking so much time, is that they are now scared. They know that they must answer and they know that the answer, must be accepted. If they are even a little off, they won't be believed and they know it. It's about concocting a story, that will be swallowed whole, and it must be told by the media with sincerity and credibility, which they don't have and can't manufacture without time, so they are stalling.<br /><br />Again I ask, where is the Congress? What is the Congress doing in light of these issues? What is the REPUBLICAN, Congress doing?<br /><br />The only thing I can hear are the chirping of Marxist crickets and the ripping of newly acquired Republican Depends diapers, explosively filled to over capacity. I wonder. Could their fingers be dirty as well fecally coated?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-43419634476278037802011-04-19T13:32:20.413-05:002011-04-19T13:32:20.413-05:00"Let me be plain. This is not only a suicidal..."Let me be plain. This is not only a suicidal self-made existential threat to the Obama administration and their Dear Leader's pipe dreams of re-election, but to the legitimacy of the federal government as a whole."<br /><br />If the goal is (as I have long held) to destroy or delegitimize western-style self-government and all the exceptional outcomes that spring from it, then it is win-win for Obama the hut. Either they get their increased restrictions on Second Amendment rights, which delegitimizes the federal mandate, or they directly delegitimize the federal government by supporting and facilitating criminal behavior including murder of its citizens and citizens of a neighboring country. <br /><br />Merely losing an opportunity to continue this for four more years is a minor setback. The damage is done - can't unscramble that egg.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-61635997695599193782011-04-19T11:50:33.284-05:002011-04-19T11:50:33.284-05:00This only goes to underscore my longheld contentio...This only goes to underscore my longheld contention that those in power are illegitimate. For decades now I have referred to them as the crooked bastards on the Potomac. I can recall a time when being a bastard was shameful. Today it is the normAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-17026622359489101672011-04-19T11:00:35.901-05:002011-04-19T11:00:35.901-05:00Excellent piece Mike. They have damn little legit...Excellent piece Mike. They have damn little legitimacy left anyway and gunwalker will probably finish that off. I have zero confidence in my governments ability to do anything other than cover up and lie. It is the SOP for these critters no matter whether the left or right wing of the same "bird of prey". Very few have any interest or desire to get involved with it.Dakotahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02261415021692766579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-10573739199906463062011-04-19T07:19:52.768-05:002011-04-19T07:19:52.768-05:00The Chinese, with around 100 centuries of continuo...The Chinese, with around 100 centuries of continuous civilization, and the best part of the past five centuries in complete stagnation, have had plenty time to discern the patterns in history.<br /><br />Lao Tzu ("Tao"), understood it well, but was ever the cynic, and rather than espousing the positive, tyranicidal solutions which Locke developed (at least in parallel with earlier works by Radical Calvinist, George Buchanan, and Catholic Salamancan Scholastic, Juan de Mariana, check them out, their work is good!), he developed a system of bloody minded obstinacy and passive aggression, around 2,500 years ahead of Heller's "Catch 22".<br /><br />I guess both approaches can be used in succession, if Lao Tzu's doesn't bring timely success.<br /><br />Mike,<br />A blue sky thought; Are we thinking too small with US policy towards Mexico?<br /><br />What if the intention was to facilitate a full scale civil war south of the border?<br /><br />Just think of the fun that the US adminosphere could have with such a crisis as pretext for emergency powers?<br /><br /><br />I'm not suggesting running with such an idea, but just to see whether the emerging pattern supports it, or falsifies it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com