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SHARI, DON'T WAIT FOR GABRIEL'S TRUMPET | 2007-01-30

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Well, I'm not pessimistic. But after feeling dull as dishwater for so many years I just want to feel absolutely YIPPIE! before I die. To laugh out loud! I would like to see some things happen very very quickly, not filter down.

Comment by shari

ME:

Shari, the joyful feeling you describe is restricted to people like Old Bob. That YIPPIE! is not for you. You would have to learn how to celebrate from me, and no one seems to have that willingness or that ability.

No one here understood when I said what one of the high points of my life was standing on the bridge over the Moscow Canal, looking straight at the Kremlin, fully lighted on a December night. Standing there in minus twenty, I gave the Kremlin the finger, and said, "I GOT you bastards!"

That was a moment I have described here often. But no one here understands what it meant. I ENJOYED that moment. I will never forget that moment. But nobody here could see how that was a moment of YIPPIE! a moment of victory.

Yes, Pain and all the rest who TREAT me said it was nice. But they were handling me, not learning from what I said.

I had spent thirty years being instrumental in forming the coalition, down in the Deep South and in the ethnic areas of Northern cities, none of which the Kremlin had any inkling of, that destroyed the Kremlin power.

Pain says he thinks that's nice. He's handling me, not learning from me.

Meanwhile, on Planet Earth, you don't get many chances to finger an Empire that owns half the world. If you can't YIPEE over that, what will you YIPEE over?

When the world is perfect? I am surrounded by victories that were unimaginable in the 1950s, as I keep saying.

ABSOLUTELY no one else understood WHY I enjoyed that moment so much.

I, alone, know where I am going. I know and celebrate each victory on the way there.

Shari, it hurts me to say so, but you will NEVER know that feeling. I know when I have scored a victory in the REAL fight. I keep winning, and you keep feeling the final victory has not been won.

I keep winning, and you keep waiting for Gabriel's Trumpet.

You have a courage I admire. You have a courage I am very happy that that I do not NEED.

You will never have a Final Victory. I can teach you why you don't NEED a Final Victory.

HATING RAW NATURE IS THE AMERICAN WAY | 2002-07-20

No European lives with real nature. There isn't any nature in Europe. Americans live with real nature and no people ever took to machines and anything else that helped them battle that Sweet Mama more than Americans did.

Life in nature, as people before Hobbes pointed out, is "nasty, brutish, and short."

In real terms, the political left is anti-technology. This is because they want problems solved by bureaucratic rationing and professors controlling and planning every aspect of our society. Now that socialism has been laughed out of existence as an efficient and fair system, "saving the environment" is the ticket to turning everything over to the planners.

Nothing leftists propose ever WORKS and the last thing the left wants is solutions that DO work. Today it is liberal "ethicists" who scream when anything is "agin' nachur."

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS CONTROVERSY | 2003-12-27

Conservatives who are not babbling about Saddam are babbling about the Alabama controversy over the Ten Commandments.

Once again, like talking about Our Boys in Iraq, this is a good way to ignore what really needs to be done.

I often laugh to myself about how outraged a group of these frantic e-mailers on the Ten Commandments would be if some young man walked up and said, "You don't need the Ten Commandments. All you need is the Golden Rule."

They would say he was just awful. They would say he was unChristian.

Well, a young man did say that. He said it two thousand years ago. His name was Jesus.

The Ten Commandments, they tell us, form the basis on which all law and decency was established. Hogwash. They also tell us that God is worried to death about the State of Israel.

Like the capture of Saddam, none of this has anything to do with anything important.

BASICS: WHAT IS BEAUTIFUL IS BEAUTIFUL AND WHAT IS UGLY IS UGLY | nationalsalvation.net

It is natural for children to be highly aware of genetic endowments (they notice differences immediately), only to be tossed into a public school culture that is on a relentless full court attempt to pacify the issue.

The system is as obsessed with the issue of genetic endowments as the child naturally is. It is just that Political Correctness expresses this obsession inversely. Were it not so, there would be no need for so much Political Correctness on the issue.

There is a fraud in esthetics that goes like this: "Nothing hath beauty that does not have some strangeness of proportion".

Of course, the opposite is true: The very essence of beauty is precisely in the lack of strangeness of proportion.

Beauty cannot be defrauded.

That is also why there is more to Orwell's maxim, "Freedom is being able to say two plus two equals four" than its literal meaning.

What is beautiful is beautiful and what is ugly is ugly.

No amount of deceit and lying can change that fact.

Comment by Dave