The entire world has stumbled and fallen down a rabbit hole

Years ago I read a book called Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, which details the lives of three Chinese women: author, her mother and her grandmother. It has always stayed on my mind because, to start with, I was so amazed how people could turn against each other as they did during the Cultural Revolution. Peasant worship was in full force and while people were supposed to bow to the “wisdom” of peasants, they also destroyed the lives of educated and other citizens. You know, not unlike what Obama refers to as “robust debate.”

In one part of the book–and pardon me here as I am retrieving this as best I can from memory–Mao had declared some animal or insect a pest that must be destroyed, so the people, bowing to his cult of personality, follow through en masse on his request, until the country’s population of this creature is nearly obliterated. Unfortunately, whatever this animal was, it also happened to prey on a lesser creature who acted as pest to farmers, leaving the intellectually superior peasants in a jam because now their crops were being destroyed by vermin who no longer were kept in check by a larger predator. I don’t recall if this in turn was blamed on the intellectuals, but knowing Mao it probably was. China had fallen down a rabbit hole and all the world for them was turned upside down as chaos became the norm.

So it seems a similar effect is going on in all manner of events today. Global warming–oh sorry, climate change, is not debated today. The proponents of this religious ideology simply shout down the rest of the population. (Never mind they demand you radically alter your lifestyle while they charter planes and use up more fuel in a week than you could in a year.) A growing number of scientists are speaking against its validity, but still people are forced by laws to pay for a service to haul away their separated trash, at least some of which ends up in the local dump anyway. And then the U.S. Congress passes an asinine bill–without reading it– that Laura Ingraham refers to as Kneecap our Trade.

Before that we saw someone who mouths the words about how his primary job is to protect the country but then does his level best day in and day out to destroy it.

A soldier is shot at a recruiting station and gets mention when Obama is pretty much forced to, and even then I think the strongest word was…”dissapointed”? But Obama was outraged, I tell you, outraged when an abortion doctor died under similar circumstances. Oh wait–the barbarian in that case was a “Christian fanatic” (I know I saw those words in print) but the soldier killer was a mere jihadist.

If someone’s feelings get hurt because a special and exclusive prayer room is not set aside for members of his religion (just like one is not set aside for anyone else’s); if the smell of pork can be detected from the local factory; if Constitutionally protected words are uttered in criticism of, oh, say, a woman being slaughtered for wearing make-up; if this and many more things occur there is collective and manufactured outrage across the country (or world in some cases) and there is talk about the widespread need for “tolerance education.”

Christians are murdered and harassed in Egypt and elsewhere but nobody on any kind of platform seems to find this disturbing. Saudi Arabia certainly doesn’t provide prayer space–even shared–for any religion not Islam. Pork is routinely removed from Western menus because a lot of Muslims find it “offensive.”

A Dutch politician is harassed and prosecuted, has to maintain a schedule to see his wife, is denied entry to Britain and lives under protection from death threats because he has called on people to recognise the need for foreigners to respect his culture as much as they demand for their own–their own that they import and attempt to impose on native Dutch. Jordan has filed charges against him for a violating a regulation that as neither Jordanian nor Muslim is he subject to–and they are praised for doing it.

A firefighter who studied months for a promotion exam and passes with very good marks is denied his upgrade because he is white, a decision that comes from people who have made a career of screaming bloody murder over hiring, firing and promoting based on skin color.

If you are perturbed at my lack of linearity here, suck it up. That’s postmodernism and besides, the world is upside down. Why should anything be in order anymore? Nevertheless, I’ll bring you back to the present. Or at least to yesterday. We’ve heard much about people in Iran who simply want the right to choose their own leaders being slaughtered in the most horrific of ways. They are now being hunted down and just this morning I saw that the body of one had been located. Neda, perhaps the most famous because her death was the first to be caught on video and widely circulated (read: went viral), left behind parents who were kicked from their house, invoiced for the bullet that killed her and now her father is being made to go on state television to condemn protesters for her death, as opposed to the Basiji bastards who actually did it.

This is all “robust debate.” Didn’t you know this? *Smack* Get with the program! Don’t you know that in ObamaWorld “what is isn’t, and what isn’t, is”? And why are you reading this anyway? Not looking for news on Iran, are you? You have a dead pop star to worship and a place in line to wait for Obama’s next Maoist, asinine order. Don’t talk, please, there’s a moment of silence to observe.

PDS going strong–is it fatal?

Wow. I knew there are a few rather liberal people here in Alaska, but I really had no idea until now the true extent of the vile nature of some.

Via Gateway Pundit I got to know more than I really wanted to about Linda Biegel, one of the real haters whose presence tarnishes my beautiful state. She seems to think posting shopped pictures of Trig Palin–conveniently “excused” by claiming they actually represent local talk-show host Eddie Burke–is somehow something more than sniggering jabs at people her little clique doesn’t approve of. Take a look at her pathetic comment section to the post linked above.

If she has any shame at all she may change the pictures, and for now I haven’t decided whether or not to post the screenshots I made. Or I should say that now I am reluctant, because I’m not really interested in spreading around her juvenile ass hattery. On the other hand, people may need to see what a non-intellectual she really is, although she and others claim to be so much above it all as they trade insults about Sarah Palin and her supporters. Does she actually believe resorting to snide comments does anything for her position? Or that even her ridiculous picture is meant to be Eddie, that this is any better? What exactly is there to admire in anyone whose “debate” has to rest on insults, whether of a helpless infant or any adult?

What drives someone to be so bitter? Doesn’t Linda Biegel have a life? Look, I’m no fan of Barack Obama–in fact I downright dislike the creature, but I don’t waste any time attacking his children by creating (or having someone else create) distorted pictures of them. They have nothing to do with their father’s choices and it would be a mark of disrespect to all children in the world to act that way to any youngster. Does Linda Biegel have that much disrespect for children, or does she save such bile only for certain people with different opinions?

And, wow, the DNC actually used her blog as the official DNC Alaska blog? How sad is that? They must have been hurting for an Alaska liberal. Sorry, I thought their standards demanded some thought process and logic to govern their positions, but I guess they had to set the bar really low. Or maybe it was their idea for Biegel and others to file frivolous complaints against Palin in an attempt to make the governor’s legal debts soar beyond control. Whose idea was it to file one under the name of a soap star?

At the end of the day I feel really sorry for Linda Biegel, because she obviously is missing something in her life. I don’t have a dazzling social life, either, since I’m a student, but at least I periodically go to the cinema, spend family time, read books…you know, like a person with better things to do.

By the way, although it seems off topic, it’s actually related to mention that while Obama eats ice cream and talks about how outraged he is, Governor Palin spoke out months ago on the monster instrumental in the current acts of barbarism against innocent Iranians who want to have the same freedom to speak out as Biegel enjoys. What a tragedy she squanders her liberty so shamelessly whilst Iranians last night were thrown over a bridge and beaten to death for having an opinion.

It makes me wonder how far Biegel and others like her would take their anger and hatred for Palin and supporters if there were no limits imposed. We saw last winter a sampling of obscenity from that party, such as tolerance for “mock” abuse against women, heckling from a so-called comedian for Palin to be gang-raped, a pop star bragging on stage how she would kick Palin up–it goes on. I’m sorry to say this but when people give them permission to do this sort of thing and tolerate it from others, then it is questionable whether they actually have limits at all.

Update: The shopped picture has been removed–whether it’s because Biegel has any shame is unknown. Meanwhile, she stays classy along with her sycophants and a GB full of complaints about an echo chamber and personal insults, posted by an echo chamber full of people who seem to be in competition over who can come up with the most “witty” jib at Palin and Burke.

We get that you don’t like them, Biegel, and no one is trying to deny your right to talk about that. We’re just wondering why you have to resort to cheap shots that involve her child (special needs or not) and then slam people who question you with comments such as, “YOU FAIL AT LIFE!” Is that really all you have? What was that you wrote about other sites that slammed you? “Not very nice”? I did happen to see one with some shopped pictures that in my opinion were unnecessary to make a point about your classless “joke,” but for you to condemn that kind of thing is really rich, coming from someone who is what she condemns.

By the way, are you ever going to offer a response with some substance, or are you just going to continually yammer about how stupid and pathetic we are?

One of many whom I owe

Oh dear, dear Neda, I am so sorry. I’m am sorry for your terrible suffering and that you had to lose your life, be separated from your family, friends, your piano, your travel. I am sorry that my words lack the dignity you deserve when being remembered, because they come from a soul filled with resentment, a person perhaps too small to rise above the anger at silence that nourished evil, and continues to do. I pray that soon I can find a better way to think about your life, and I can only hope my contemplations will be half as beautiful as you.

In the end it may turn out that you died for us as well as your own country, and one day perhaps I will shed tears of joy at the mention of your name. You did so much with what you were given; indeed, you reached out for more, with a fullness of life many people only dream of or imagine. Would that the inspiration to utilise the gifts we all are given be as strong in each of us. You are a martyr, a flower, an angel, a giant, a lifting of burdens that each one of us seeks out in the darkness of this long night. The sky is blue for you now, but one day may its sun shine down on gardens splendid with the brilliance you bring to our hearts.

When morning comes, I'll look for you, one of many whom I owe.