Political Correctness

Progressives are engaged in a deliberate war upon our culture strategized by Marxists of the Frankfurt school. Political correctness is a weapon they use against us and to show any weakness here is to lose the game they have intentionally set up for us.

It would blow their minds if we were to lose the guilt they have laid upon us and march forward with our heads held high. Any nod to Political Correctness should be done with full irony, not with a sheepish guilt. A rhetoric of anti-political correctness is the tactic I want to embrace, not anything that gives them any traction toward making us feel guilty for the sins of people long dead.

American Tribes, Race and the US Constitution

There is a piece in the American Thinker this morning titled Look Who's Clubbing Tiger Woods Now. In it the author Claude Sandroff comments that Juan Williams, Jesse Washington and Eugene Robinson are not really upset with Tiger because he cheated on his wife, or because he took a drugged snooze on a lawn after crashing his car, but because his wife and all his mistresses are white. Sandroff goes on to describe Tiger Woods' racial heritage and his attitudes about race as well as comparing him to Barack Obama and Obama's claim to authenticity by having married into the African-American Tribe. You should read that article, he goes into important things that I'm not going to address here.

Here I am simply going off on the tangent about "tribes" because I think it is the most important subject that Sandroff touched upon. These overlap of course and can be divided into loyalties and interests of varying degrees. But when push comes to shove and we must pick one we know which tribe is our own. This subject is much too rich for me to address in a single blog post and I'm only going to be able to define a few characteristics of some tribes here. But identifying loyalties is more important when people of differing loyalties are at odds in a serious way.

My own original heritage is that of a liberal hippie tribe, but I gradually realized that my greatest loyalty should be to the US Constitution and not to the tribe that hates it the way the hippies do. The constitution is not a perfect document and I'm not going to go into its flaws now but I am going to assert that its greatest strength is that it created a wealthy America that could feed the world, literally leave the earth and could populate the universe if only it is allowed to survive. My argument here is that it must survive and that those of us who believe in it must fight for it with every fiber of our beings.

The most vicious lie told about the constitution is that it reflects the slaveholder's sensibility. It does not. It contains a clause that acknowledges that slavery existed at the time it was written but the inclusion of the ⅔ clause was in fact an anti-slavery move and not one that demeaned the personhood of the slaves.

I think that the most racially oriented tribe is the one that is most responsible for promoting the lie about slaveholders and the constitution. But even if there were some concession to slaveholders in the body of the document it was corrected in the amendments adopted after the Civil War.

I am going to explore and expand on this subject in the coming weeks, but it is something that has been bothering me for some time. The Global Warming religion defines a tribe I once belonged to and it now is trying to take over the world with an environmental dictatorship. Environmental concerns are real but this movement is criminal. Other tribes are more or less benign and there is much overlap.

Defining tribes and loyalties is a subject I am going to remain most devoted to for the foreseeable future. I'm not sure if "tribes" is necessarily the best term to describe all the divisions but for now and for this post it was most useful.

Searchable now

Today my Twitter account became searchable again after following instructions here: It was easy, first submit a help request here. Then:

Send a polite tweet to @delbius by tweeting this text (with YOUR ticket number where indicated): @delbius I'm being filtered out of search. @andilinks says you can help? My ticket number is #____. Thanks! Info @ http://bit.ly/3TIWEE

Best of luck

Twitter Irregularities, Unsearchable, Censored

For quite some time, months, my tweets have not appeared in Twitter Search. Additionally it has seemed that at some time my tweets began to get far too few responses for the number of followers that are recorded for my account. I would occasionally meet other users with similar experiences. Since most of my tweets are of a conservative nature I began to worry that the Twitter management being mostly liberal had begun censoring users that were more effective. Certainly there have been many stories that Google scrubs its archive and cache of items damaging to the Obama Administration and so it is entirely plausible that Twitter may also do the same.

So I have begun collecting emails from people who seem to have similar experiences by occasionally soliciting them with a tweet. It has been slower going than I had hoped but at some point I will have collected enough to have a statistically significant sample. In the mean time I will begin analyzing the emails that I do get to determine how widespread the problem is and to sort out the few mails that describe other problems not related to the one I'm having.

I am compiling and saving all these emails. I back up the list regularly and will be sharing a tabulation as we approach Twitter management with our complaints and develop a media strategy should Twitter be unresponsive.

I will add to or edit this post as I make progress but will not begin a new post on this subject until I have reached some conclusion, though not necessarily a final conclusion.

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They’re ALL Communists

I've been saying it for a long time but not as well as Laura Hollis. Read her entire post.

Connect the dots, people. It’s not that Jones, Dunn, Sunstein et al were not properly vetted; it’s that they were. It’s not that Obama wasn’t familiar enough with their viewpoints; it’s that he was. These people were not chosen despite their views; they were chosen precisely because their views coincide with Obama’s own. If it walks like a communist, talks like a communist, and espouses state control in the name of “the people” like a communist, it’s a communist.

OK, I was wrong on the Polanski extradition

But forgiveness is still divine. As Jonah Goldberg points out in his column, even if Polanski were totally innocent of the charges against him there would still be the necessity of bringing him back to the US because he fled a charge of which he was convicted and bringing him back preserves the integrity of the rule of law.

I am still disturbed though about the ferocity with which I was attacked when I suggested that his 30+ year-old crime(s) be forgiven. I was particularly disturbed that so many assaulted me with the horrendous details of sexual perversion that attended the crimes. If this behavior were recent or shown to be a pattern with him I would feel differently but I contend that the concept of forgiveness, especially when the danger to the community has passed, is absolute. Christ did not say forgive unless you can't. He said forgive.

And I will be attacked again for this. I don't want to hear the sordid details again, those of you that have committed these to memory have a profound sickness of your own.

Twitter Emergent Behavior

I am beginning work on twitter & self-organizing systems/emergent behavior. My first document is a list of relevant definitions compiled from Wikipedia and other sources. A work in progress it is the kernal of my working glossary.

I think that in the end emergent behavior and consciousness will be a function of brute force computing power. Once there is enough working RAM and there are enough nodes with content a gradual awakening will occur.