Issaildur: Piling on

Just in case you missed it, I maintain that as Isildur is to The One Ring, the GOP is to Gunwalker. 

How I missed this obvious opportunity to tee off on this both verbally and visually, I don't know.  But here he is, make room for . . .


Issaildur

Dear John Boehner; Get moving or you'll find out what visual I have in mind for you.

Imagine

JFK, Monster.  The New Republic

To the tune of John Lennon's Imagine; Imagine if JFK hadn't been assassinated.

I would like to think that the Kennedy name would have been irreparably damaged and the mystique utterly destroyed.  Imagine what America would have done with Monica Lewinsky (a type, not literally her) in 1964. 

Instead of LBJ's Great Society, there could have been a great rollback of the New Deal.  Which incidentally might have allowed men to still be going to the moon. 

I would also like to think that Vietnam could have either been won decisively or avoided entirely.

I wasn't even born then, but it seems that America went through a great convulsion from 1963 onward.  I'd be willing to bet that in many ways it was similar to what we lived through after 9/11/01. 

But then, Kennedy made sure he was surrounded with Avox . . . didn't he? 

Whitney Houston is America

Whitney Houston: 1963-2012

I would say that I'll really miss Whitney, but I've missed her since about 1991.  



Has any rendering of the national anthem been more powerful in our generation? Has Houston done anything half as powerful since then?

Disclaimer: Though the autopsy hasn't been released yet, it seems a pretty safe bet that the use/abuse of drugs at most caused or at least contributed to her death.  We've seen this Hollywood story many times and it just doesn't change, does it.  I will go out on the limb and submit to you that Whitney Houston is America. When it's all told, her tale will be our tale as a nation.

This morning, I heard some of the chattering entertainment journolists musing about the 4 bodyguards who were outside of Houston's bathroom when she died.  How the people who surround these celebrities like Houston, Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger and others are somehow falling down on the job of protecting these celebrities.  This evening, another story hinting that her doctors will be probed regarding Houston's pills. Sigh. When a celebrity gets arrested for drugs, do they get cleaned up, or just fire the incompetent handler who allowed them to get arrested and get new, better handlers who do more to shield them from prying eyes and accountability?  Is it not also clear that for many celebrities, doctor = pusher?

The job for most handlers is not to protect the celebrity from himself/herself.  The job is to protect the celebrity from reality around them.  Shield them from consequences of their own reckless and stupid actions as well as from any unwashed masses who might touch the hem of their garments.  Anyone remember how Patti Labelle's bodyguards roughed up a West Point cadet? 
 

Don't stop watching when the beating is complete, watch all the way to the end when bodyguards and LaBelle pose with Houston police more interested in LaBelle than the bleeding young man who was attacked. I understand there's some dispute over whether the young man said anything that provoked the attack.

Really?

He merely said something and that somehow justified a 3 on 1 gang beatdown? Would anyone be talking about "provocation" if the guards were white and the cadet black? 

I'm reading through a book my son recommended to me called The Hunger Games.  He really liked it and thought I would too. It's for tweens and young adults, but it's not too bad. Perhaps I'll write a review later. 

In the book, there are people who are called Avox.  An Avox is someone who has committed some act of treason against the nation of Panem and had their voice box removed as punishment.  As further punishment, the now totally mute Avox is placed into a lifetime of slavery to the anointed where the only time they are spoken to is when they are given a command.  

The handlers for these mega celebrities are Avox of a sort.  Their only role is to give the celebrity exactly what they want, keep their mouth shut, keep the riff raff away, and shield them from reality and/or consequences of their behavior.  

And yet, the chattering entertainment whores tell us that we must hold these celebrity handlers fully responsible for the consequences of bad celebrity behavior even though in many cases, they are little more than accomplices who did whatever the anointed ones wanted them to do.

But this isn't strictly an entertainment phenomenon.
Check out this story about judge Richard Baumgartner.  

Give yourself plenty of time to read it all.  

Just like these "tragic" celebrities, Baumgartner surrounded himself with people who would give him what he wants, not tell him the truth, and not tell anybody else.  And since others around the judge refused to hold him accountable, he wound up presiding over the case of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom. 

Not familiar with Chris Newsom and Channon Christian? Here, read this grand jury indictment. It stretches into 24 pages and 46 counts. The people who did this were brought to trial, found guilty, and sentenced. 

At each new trial, the family had to relive this horror.
 
Thanks to Baumgartner, each of these animals will get a new trial and the family will relive these horrors again and again.

Hell is too good for Baumgartner. 

Yet it seems those who enabled Baumgartner and the Christian and Newsom families are suffering more than he is. This is one judge in one city and one tragic case of justice miscarried and denied to the Christian and Newsom families.  How many others are there?  Oh…bunches.  Let's cast the net wider.  Beyond entertainment and the legal system.  How about into the executive branch of our government?

How about Gunwalker?  Where are the oathkeepers within our own government?  Who stood up to Holder and said, "No, I will not do this."  Yeah, it's a trick question-there are almost no oathkeepers.  Isn't it interesting that where Gunwalker is concerned, it's okay to be an Avox underling just doing your job, but when you're an Avox for Michael Jackson you have to be held accountable?

Downstream of the scandal, the committee grapples with Eric Holder matching their strength against his own, they pass up obvious opportunities to leverage and flip the subordinates under him.  In order to set the capstone on the pyramid, don't you have to build the base first?  I've seen ponzi schemes better designed than Darrell Issa's committee as they wrestle with Gunwalker. 

 

They have a golden opportunity here to go on the offense.  Instead they seem content to play defense.  Why?  I submit that they are using the great corruption of their foe as shielding that will protect them from accountability for their own smaller corruption.  An honest man in this position with no corruption in his life would not settle for being painted with the same wicked brush as his enemies.  Yet that's exactly what the GOP does with their half-stepping on Gunwalker.  The victims?  Not just the Terry family, but all of us.  Does anyone doubt that this goes all the way to the top, to Obama himself?  It's worse than anything Nixon ever ordered done at Watergate, yet the most that can be generated is mild interest from Official Washington and their dutiful mouthpieces the Journolists.  

How about Quantitative Easing 1 through 24?  Banksters represent the wreck of a celebrity and the government, their Avox handlers. Four years ago, the logical outcome of all of this would have been a collapse of the house of cards and the hanging of the banksters.  But these people work together with their counterparts from the government and the press to shield them from consequences. (See Denninger's piece here. Also note that NY and CA will settle on the robosignings and megafraud cases rather than imprisoning the guilty.) They work to transfer those consequences to others. And they hide all of those proceedings from those they intend to screw over (Journolists).  

How about "hiding the decline"?  Climate Change is gospel and anything that challenges that-no matter how factual is heresy.  You'll recall that the outrage was over the messenger (who released these e-mails) not the message (climate change is a hoax). And yet the EPA continues full speed ahead towards disastrous environmental regulation in an effort to kill what little is still working in our country. 

At every level of society, in entertainment, in the media, in academia, in business, in banking, in the police, in all branches of government, there are the anointed few who think that they can do whatever they want and be forever protected from the consequences of their action and accountability.  And I'm shocked-SHOCKED to find that they are all in league together.  

Whitney Houston is America. When it's all told, I think her tale will be our tale as a nation. I've dodged all around this, but the truth is that for the most part, America has been the Avox, silently granting assent to every reckless desire and behavior of the powerful, obeying every command, and whim. 

God forgive us.

Truth Team

Saw this at Michelle Malkin today

That’s the Truth, Truth. Or 4T as I like to call it.

Attack Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatch 7.2.  What a waste.  Or as some might say, “That is sooo 27 seconds ago.”

Chevy Silverado Mashup

I've beem meaning to skewer this one since I saw it.  There are just so many possibilities. 

I've started with a little help from Mad Max.  Enjoy!

Paul Kersey meets Occupy

So what happens when Paul Kersey meets Occupy? 

Watch and learn!

Action Needed: Georgia Constitutional Carry Hearing – 9 Feb 12 – 0800 – Coverdell Bldg, Room 506

More from WRSA here.

Remove the permission slips?  Make the Brady bunch have a conniption?  Worthy goals. 


Be there or be ...

Super Bowl Ads

I went to the youtubes and saw the Clint Eastwood halftime ad for Chrysler.  Sheesh.  More preaching about Detroit. 

Except that the ad used footage from places other than Detroit. 

Thinking parody, I found this sendup already posted.



In other news, Chevy hits a new low with their halftime ad for the Silverado truck.



Chevy trucks once used Bob Seeger's, Like A Rock as their theme music.  An actual man who's actually from Michigan. 

Now, it's Barry Manilow. 

Chevrolet's Man Card is hereby revoked and declared void. 

What is it with these Government owned car companies?  One tells us it's halftime.  The other, the end of the world.  So which is it?  Perhaps it's halftime for destroying America. 

The Opposition's Response To Gunwalker: Updated

Two additional thoughts occurred to me after I walked away from the previous post:

1. I wondered what would happen if the Opposition was were handed this proposal: Reveal Gunwalker or be revealed.  Why wait to reveal them though?  What if friends of the Opposition instead made this offer that they couldn't refuse: "We're going to reveal you.  Period.  Your only hope of preserving your own skin therefore lies in revealing the full breadth and depth of Gunwalker and hoping that the resulting outrage gets pointed in their direction instead of your own."
2. In the way of happy endings, I submitted Isildur's death as a good thing.  There's more good news; The ring fell out of his hand, did not fall into the enemy's hand, but was later recovered by others who were able to capitalize on the opportunity to destroy it.  I can only hope that if Gunwalker is squandered, that it will fall out of the hands of the idle, away from the enemy, so that it might be destroyed at a later date. 

The Opposition's Response To Gunwalker

Mike expounds on the failure of Obama's opposition to recognize what Gunwalker really is.  (story here)

Sticking with The Lord Of The Rings theme, I propose an analogy: Isildur = Obama's Opposition. 

Let's use Isildur's response to the ring to represent the Opposition's response to Gunwalker that we're witnessing right now.



"Gunwalker, you say.  Hmmmm, I wonder how this can benefit me?"




"I think I'll hold this and use it as a bargaining chip later." 

And what kind of impact did the continued possession of the ring have on Isildur's destiny?

He was ambushed by a band of orcs.  Though he was the king, and should have led the battle, he put on the ring, became invisible, and slipped away from the battle leaving his comrades to fight it out on their own.  (Say that doesn't sound familiar to the behavior of the GOP and others, does it?)



 

"Oh shiiiiiiiiiiit!!"



"So much for that invisibility.  I should have cast it into the fire."

Though Obama's opponents seem to have the opportunity to take the offensive, destroy the Gunwalker ring and by extension, the ringmaker, they just can't bring themselves to do it.  Instead, they seem perfectly content to use the breadth and depth of the enemy's corruption as cover for their own. 

Looking ahead, does anyone think that the same "opposition" that will not destroy the ring will not eventually use it as a license to close the "corruption gap" in Washington so that both parties more equally matched on corruption? 

Elrond should have pushed Isildur into the fire. 

I think the GOP sits on this in fear that their enemy whispers: "If you reveal Gunwalker , we will reveal you."  Shades of Clinton in 1998. 

I perceive that they fear action.  Perhaps then what is needed is to instill a greater fear of inaction.  For example, what if the closest friends of the opposition-those who know where the bodies are buried told them, "If you don't reveal Gunwalker, we will reveal you." 

We are so screwed.  But I'm trying to turn over a new leaf and keep an upbeat, positive attitude.  Here goes:

The happy ending to this part of the story is that in his cowardice, using the tool of the enemy to escape, Isildur was shot in the back by enemies that he could have defeated, and before he died he watched the ring escape from him and descend to bottom of the river. 

May fate be equally kind to Obama's opposition if they squander the opportunity that they have in Gunwalker.

Open letter to Injustice Everywhere

Read this post and the linked article from IE: It’s nice to know…

I don’t always stop by Injustice Everywhere, but when I do, it’s always worthwhile. Here is a guy who has poured his effort into doing something that is imminently worthwhile and valuable. The effort is worthy of your support.

Apparently some others have seen fit to reinvent the wheel-with government money of course. 

 

A few thoughts in the form of an open letter to Injustice Everywhere:

1. “…is going to be stolen by these guys with support from the US government.” I disagree. What BGSU will seek to do is tell a different story. Namely, that there’s not that much police misconduct, what’s out there isn’t that bad, and those who experienced it deserved it. If I apply some Alinsky here, they’ll probably seek to polarize you, isolate you, marginalize you, and eliminate you from the playing field. The collective cannot tolerate the successful individual. They don’t want to steal your work, they want your work to go away so that what's left is not your facts, but their facts.
2. Your discouragement is precisely the outcome they seek. The more discouraged and distant you become, the more it serves their goal of being the loudest and only voice on the subject. Much like the SPLC claims to be THE authority on anything related to militia, racists, or people who own BDUs, “these guys” seek to grab a bigger megaphone, which clearly will make them the sole authority on this subject, and thereby grant them the eternal right to set the narrative.
3. O the positive side, the “new study” by BGSU and the grant could be viewed as the natural result of the success of efforts like Injustice Everywhere. If there wasn’t police misconduct, would there be anything to track/report? If IE was unsuccessful or ineffective, why would anyone need to develop a new narrative around this subject? You have struck a nerve here and this is what success looks like for one laboring for freedom. Don’t let up, put on more steam.
4. Josh McDowell was an agnostic who set out to definitively prove that the Bible was a fraud. Instead, he became convinced that it was exactly what it said it was and that it was all true. McDowell then became a powerful tool for Christ. Should any of these researchers begin to experience a similar change of heart, look for them to be ostracized and pushed out.
5. And let us not forget “hide the decline.” The group of “climate researchers” who chose to hide inconvenient data that did not support their pre-ordained narrative that the earth was heating up and that it was all due to man’s industrial activity. Nor should we forget that Fast and Furious aka (Project Gunwalker) was created to funnel guns from the US into Mexican drug cartels for the purpose of building a case that guns were being funneled across the border to Mexican drug cartels, ergo more gun control laws are needed to stop guns from being purchased by Americans. I’d be shocked-shocked if anything similar were to happen on this subject.
6. Finally, elimination/marginalization of NPMSRP allows for the Police Collective to prepare the battlespace. “What police misconduct? Our records don’t show that.”
7. Think about the guy who supposedly invented MS-DOS only to have it co-opted by the Microsoft collective. He knew how to write the program, but not how to leverage it and market it. I’m at a loss to think of people who have both the intellect to invent something that is groundbreaking and the business acumen to exploit it like Mr. Blofelt or Dr. Evil.  However if you have it, you could beat these guys to the punch.
8. One idea for a way forward: I like the phrase, “Big Police.”  Perhaps get the domain name, copyright it, and run with it on your own.  An ugly thought, but if enough of us get brutalized by the police then perhaps Breitbart will adopt it into his "Big" family. 

Friend, take heart.  If you hadn't made a dent, then this "autobody shop" wouldn't be opening up at BGSU. 

I believe in your work and I’m posting a donation to your PayPal site.

Cliff Dwellers, if you agree, then let him hear from you.