Ever watch a leaf

drift slowly to earth? zigzagging and wafting back and forth until it finally comes to rest on the ground (or, more inevitably, in your gutter?)

Pascal and I, in conversation last night, discuss that pattern of movement, and a way it is used by politicians to make themselves part of the ruling elite.

He points to Stelvio. This is a picture of Stelvio pass, in the Italian Alps.

stelvio.jpg

See the way the road drifts lazily from left to right, never really gaining altitude very much in any single triangulation, but climbing the whole hill before it’s over? Think of this as Obama’s Ramp of Equivocation. He appears to drift gently from left to right, never going far enough to be blocked or lose headway, but gaining ground with each zigzag back and forth. before you know it, all the tiny gains he makes at each equivocation put him at the top of the pass, and while this is a dangerous place to be, where you can’t get food or water or anything without a HUGE support group, as Pascal points out,

“The defining characteristic of contemporary state employees is a willingness to obey orders, however horrific the consequences to human beings”

Another of the millions of examples where the natural world forces humans to make a pattern that is echoed in other patterns of human behavior.

P.S. Stelvio is also the name of a way cool Moto Guzzi. Imagine how it must rock to take a guzzi, roaring and howling, up that pass?

On the New Yorker cover:

In case anyone on earth still doesn’t understand

Those of us who are capable of thought dislike Obama’s policies, but it is not because he’s black, because those of us who think have already gone way beyond race.

It is not because he spent part of his youth in Muslim schools, the same can be said for plenty of people, and that doesn’t make them bad people.

It is not because we love Jesus, or like guns for hunting or defending our homes.

We dislike Obama’s policies and what he stands for because without exception, everything he stands for is bad for America, bad for America’s people, and bad for the future of this great nation. Unequivocally, Obama wants to infect this country with the incurable cancers of Socialism and Statism. he claims to be doing it for the good of the people, but the only people this will benefit are the ruling elites (him, and his brethren). The “little people” will be paid lip service, industry will be crushed, jobs will dissapear, and the mass of the populus will be reduced to the dole, supported by an ever decreasing number of able providers.

We don’t care if he stands for these things in te guise of a Klansman, of an orange midget, or a puerto-rican hip-hop artist. Wrong is wrong, whatever the package, and we object to the Wrongness of Obama, not what color is his skin. Frankly, we don’t care about the color of anyone’s skin, and we wish that whole line of bullshit was behind us. Move along.

Food Fight!!!

Steve has opened up a forum where people can voice their opinions.

May God have mercy on his soul. Assuming he can find it.

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