The Whig

George W Bushisms.

One of the most interesting, and may I say frightening things I’ve read this Christmas was a diary pad with a series of  George W Bushisms on it. Ie different quotes from speeches given George W Bush, the President of the United States of America. While I know from experience things you say in public can be distorted, it certainly gave me a new view on this man. All I can say is thank God the USA is a thriving democracy and that people in power can and do get replaced on a regular basis.

 For example here are but a few.

“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” Washington DC; August 5, 2004.

“I aim to be a competitive nation.” San Jose, California, April 21 2006.

“The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate death tax, so that people who build up assets are able to transfer them from one generation to the next, regardless of a persons race.” Washington DC; April 2001.

The big problem is there are several hundred of them, all pretty much similar slips of the tongue.

Disgusting Billboard Compares Activist for a Democratic Constitution with Would-be Despot

How could they?

The Free Speech Coalition has gone a bridge too far I am afraid.  They have set upon a person who has taken charge of their country and attempted to institute democratic reform and a fairer electoral system, and compared them with a petty usurper of people's rights hellbent on retaining power at all cost and by all means.  Not good enough, boys.

I demand an apology to Frank Bainimarama immediately.

LOL  :oD

I Heart Julie Burchill

It's a shame that the delightful Julie Burchill has all but retired to the English seaside town of Hove with her loot and her toyboy, but it's nice to have her back for just one column to piss off the Guardianistas.  Here she is defending large chain supermarkets to the chattering classes, and listen to them howl!  OMG, large multinational corporation makes money from giving people what they want!  Those bastards!

My Beliefs

I've been meaning to do this for a long time, but haven't, mainly because I could be arsed, and because of the fundamental, inerrant truth illustrated here.  But insomnia is making me do it.  So nya.

The vast majority of the world, including objectivists, believe that there is a fundamental law of conduct called "morality" by which people should abide.  There is deep certainty about this on their part.  Which I find weird.

To me, the philosophically natural and original position is to assume that there is no such thing as morality, and that from there, it has to be constructed by reason.  Well good luck with that shit.  A very smart fellow called Nietzsche had a wee think about that.  He came to the conclusion that there was no such thing.  Good and evil were bullshit concepts.  Life, society, whatever, is merely a conflagration of interacting, interlocking, and sometimes conflicting, competing human will.  And I agree with him.  It seems pretty obvious to me.

That means we are makers and architects of our own destiny.  We have the power and control, as individuals.  We can do what we want and say what we want.  We can make 2+2=5 if our will can order our world around such a concept.  Objective truth?  What horseshit!  The truth is whatever we will it to be.  Reality is whatever we can make work for us, and whatever we can alter and change.

This, of course, scares people.  Hell, it scared Nietzsche!  I suspect Objectivists are Objectivists precisely because they cannot bring themselves to face a world without absolutes.  What I wonder, however, is how an objectivist can believe in absolutes and then claim to be an individualist.  To me an individual is someone who is beholden to nobody but their own will.  If you are truly living this way, there are no absolutes at all.  You are living "beyond good and evil".  You are yourself, not something that false "reason" would confine you to be.  What "laws", "truths", "precepts", would hold you?  None!   None at all!

If you state this to an Objectivist, they would reason with you:  "well that would mean x, y, z...!"  No shit!  Usually x y and z are about other people, or the "common good".  Well that's not very consistent!  What do you think individualism means?

The objectivist wishes to be governed (by "reason"), the individualist seeks no government but his own will.  I am, I will, these are commands higher than any "truth".  We choose, we order, we plan, we act, we do, this is our "morality".

I don't seek a libertarian society because it's "right", or "reasonable" or "moral", as Objectivists do.  I seek it as a natural consequence of my WILL as an individual:  I WILL it.  As an individual, I seek power and autonomy for myself.  Of course, I could be Hitler and do this - no individual has more power and autonomy than a dictator.  But my will seeks a better legacy.  If I can give that power to not just myself, but everyone, my greatness as a being is magnified, even after death.  That is the essence of libertarianism.

That will do for now.  Coming soon:  How do I integrate this philosophy with my neo-orthodox Christianity?  All will be revealed...  ;o)

PWNED!

This has echoes of the infamous Lange/Muldoon debate of '84, with hopefully the same consequences.  Hillary laughs perhaps a leeeeetle too loudly and awkwardly at the question, and Obama just moves right in there and lays her flat.

Obama's politics are not mine, but I sure hope he kicks that corrupt bitch's arse.

Donks' Hypocrisy on Waterboarding

Now here's an interesting one for you.  Apparently the Democrats were briefed on waterboarding in 2002.  And their main question?  "Is it going to be tough enough?"

Of course this just confirms what we already know:  Lefties are filthy fuckin' liars.  Nancy and Helen have clearly been comparing notes.

But don't get me wrong here - waterboarding is bollocks.  It's an incredibly poor tool for getting information out of people that no previous war administration has seen fit to use.  Is it torture?  Well I don't give a shit.  I have no time for the sob-stories of crazy jihadis hellbent on the destruction of human freedoms.  What does bother me is the fact that a) its use has dubious intelligence value, and b) it's just a bad look when one is trying to take the moral high ground, as America is.

The reality is that the CIA is infested with registered Democrats, and they are trying to do the job required, but if they can make Bush look bad, they will.  Hence the lack of restraint and the two-faced feigned outrage.

Thoughts on the Parliamentary Debate on the EFB

1.  Ye gods, Doug Woolerton is a smarmy, ignorant, rednecked little prick.

Hopefully he gets the boot next year.

2.  Tim Groser is funny.  It's like he's channeling Jim Bolger, but with twice the IQ.  He sounds like him, and even looks like him.

POR QUE NO TE CALLAS!!!!!!!!!!!

The people of Venezuela hand Chavez his arse on a plate!!!!!!!!

I am so happy for them, and for the cause of freedom in South America.  This is the best political news I have heard in a long long time.  A really long time!

I am going to have a drink to celebrate this prick getting his comeuppance!  We'll have to do the same to Hugo Clark next year.