The Eagle has Landed

After many days, weeks, months of political morass, yesterday, June 28, 2007, was a good day for the Republic. The Bush/Kennedy immigration bill - which would have solved nothing and was a de facto surrender to illegal immigration - was killed in the Senate. The Supreme Court ruled that children couldn't be bused across town to fulfill a school district's race quota in the name of diversity. News reports read yesterday were that 'Fast Track' trade authority at the executive level is set to die on Saturday(and for god's sake make certain it has an eternal death this time!)...the state of Kansas has made English the official language, and America's national symbol, the Bald Eagle, has been removed from the endangered species list. For those of us inclined to believe in meaningful coincidences(synchronicity) perhaps this last phenomena was the most important of all.

True, all of these above are quite minor in the grand scheme of things, the fight for the Republic. The work ahead remains gargantuan and there is no call for popping champagne corks yet. But, let's take it. Yesterday was a good day, and hopefully the date signifies the beginning of the end of globalism, multicultural Identity politics, free-trade, and the USA is no longer on endangered nation's list as the Bald Eagle is no longer an endangered species.

We need to craft an authentic immigration bill that addresses the Why of undocumented workers, and more needs to be done - much more - to promote a color-blind society based on citizenism within the Republic. Having the individual states of the Union pass laws making English the official language will just be mere symbolism if energy is not enforced.Work is ahead and it is a towering stack.

Why the social-liberals took so much offense at the High Court's ruling is rather silly. If they look at it, all Justice Roberts was doing was echoing the spirit of Brown vs. the Board: one cannot discriminate against school admission based on race or national origin. That include Americans via all races. Just as laissez-faire is the dogma of some, multiculturalism is the Nicene Creed with others. Few besides social liberals are more obsessed with race, bean-counting based on skin color and hyphenated names than they are. Being good citizens is not on their draftboard apparently. They need to check themselves and recall that recently departed liberal icon, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., was one of the first to be an opponent of the multicultural agenda of the 68ers who despised 'National Liberals' such as himself and derided them as "social-fascists"(which was the old Moscow line against Western social-democratic reformers). Liberals need to promote color-blindness and chuck all of this diversity, multicultural crap, which only makes the citizenry of the United States more divisive, if anything.

Nevertheless, the Bald Eagle is back!

Oh well...

The GOP Senate leadership spared their lameduck embarrassing President a veto by doing what they said by killing off the Union Card Bill - voting to forbid it from coming up for a vote(and some of these guys like to wear democracy on their sleeves). Talk about throwing red-meat to the Dems. Feature that this is the exact time that the Corporate-Feudalist Party needs to distance themselves from those imbeciles in the White House and they are standing by the Shrub (and also the US Chamber of Commerce) and have revved up their Class Warfare another notch at the time when they will need any vote that they can get come '08. Oh well.

Anyone with a degree of common sense knows that the Bush/Kennedy immigration bill is nothing less than amnesty for undocumented workers in the United States and it is made to fail, and it doesn't address remotely the reason WHY we have this catastrophe. Conservative supporters of said amnesty do not want to offend their rich friends who make money from illegal immigration , and/or step away from the Wall Street Journal's open borders dogma, "faith-based economics"; liberal partisans do so in the name of 'political correctness',their Third World spirituality, or are afraid of sounding like "right-wing racists" for opposing this sell-out. Keep in mind that most of these cloaked amnesty people are both Free Traitors and TINA pimps. 'Nuff said. Oh well.. if this amnesty bill passes, the implementation of the *North American Union* is no longer a matter of 'if 'but 'when' and what is left of the US Constitution will go ass-up end into the dustbin. This is what Alexander Hamilton - who did more to ratify the Constitution than anyone else - generally warned about over 200 years ago: if energy is not put into said Constitution it will remain a token parchment of paper. If we do not build our own national economic infrastructure and maintain it, we will lose it. Ben Franklin was so succinct - "A republic, if we can keep it."
Most annoying is that the herd of US citizenry do not really care or even give this dire crises much thought. Just as long as they have their consumer-credit power to buy their toys, knick-knacks and have their Bread n' Circuses - the fall of the Republic, you say?? Oh well...

And every politician in DC knows this collective 'oh well' , oh so well.

The dictatorship of the High IQers

Browsing about YouTube on one of the days when I had much, too much time on my hands, I came across a three-part video series regarding the billed 'Most Intelligent Man in America', Chris Langan. Mr. Langan's story is that he was working as a bar-bouncer when he took an IQ test offered in Omni magazine and his resulting score was off the scale. Said personal IQ was accessed at 190-210. Hence, he had his fifteen minutes of fame and was featured in magazines and on the newsprogram, 20/20.

I was very keen to learn more about what this IQ Titan had to say about this thing called life and his theories, so I watched the entire video series. The third-part segment is where Mr. Langan goes into his 'Unified Theory of Knowledge' spiel, also his pitch for eugenics - something that he believes that if conducted on a national scale will solve all the nation's problems. Simply have high IQ people(to be a member of Langan's internet group one has to have a verifiable IQ of 150+) breed with one another which is straight out of Brave New World; every female born would have birth-control devices implanted and later as an adult, said female would have to have permission to be impregnated with a human fetus. Only a high-IQ mate will be approved by this Baby Control Board. Mr. Langan goes on to narrate that he is distressed at the low IQ people that are running things and thinks that we lesser mortals should put him directly in charge of his eugenics operation....

Where do I begin deconstructing all of this noise?

One, though I am reticent to use the label of 'fascist!' to any political and socioeconomic view that I dislike, this is what immediately popped into my own organically average IQ brain when watching Mr.Langan's big head spew this tripe. Well, we have heard this all before, the axiom of high IQ humans running the the Show. It is not necessarily a dreamy utopianism either, but actually it has been tried before in a primitive and varying degree: the feudalist rule of titled-nobility, the 'Divine Right of Kings'. This aristocracy, the alleged best and brightest, produced a whole slew of petty tyrants, ignoramuses, incompetents, hedonistic self-serving autocrats as a whole for generations. There were few enlightened and wise ones out of the lot. Proof that having the alleged intelligent elite breeding with one another will not produce spawn that are likewise, a chip off the old block of Mom &Dad Big Head.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's IQ has been accessed by some as high as Chris Langan's, and Chris is obviously no Goethe. Goethe's own son was said to be a worthless wastrel. And have we ever heard about the musical genius of Mozart's children? What classical music aficionado ever claimed that JS Bach's composing kids were better than dad? Einstein's son turned out to be a schizophrenic. One Nobel Laureate(I forget his name) when asked to be a Sperm Bank donor replied that they needed to instead solicite his functional illiterate street-peddler grandfather:his own son was a dope-smoking amature guitar player.

It's obvious that incredibly intelligent people can believe in cranky,stupid, and lethal things, and average and low IQ human brains have their 'eureka!' moments. For instance, I don't know of anyone who ever stated that Vladimir Illich Lenin was an idiot savant(his big brain was never in question) but his world-view was something else in statecraft; the kulak with perhaps a low IQ had a more cerebral approach to agriculture in Soviet Russia than the philosopher-kings sitting in the Moscow politburo conducting their genocidal collectivization program. Few have ever dismissed Hitler as "stupid" either;he was just a sharp-knife who believed in stupid and insane things. Einstein could dazzle us with his Relativity but the man couldn't understand the rules and dynamics of a simple game of Baseball....and so on, yadda-yadda...

Chris Langan could be the Poster Child refuting Bell Curve conservatism,Nature determinism. High IQ is no guarantee for socioeconomic success and Chris is a living walking example for most of his existence. He's a Blue Collar guy from a typical dysfunctional American family and if he would had never taken the Omni IQ test, we would had never heard of him. If Chris would had had a bourgeois Ward & June Cleaver parentage, perhaps his star would had flickered before it did unto the world? Nurture does matter. For prime example, does anyone think for a moment that George W. Bush's posterior would be sitting in the White House if he wasn't spawned from a Brahmin elite New England family?? Would Ted Kennedy be Massachusetts' 'Senator for Life' if born in South Boston to Irish millworker drunks instead of in ritzy Hyannisport? Even one of my personal icons, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, I doubt that he would had got to Home Plate if he wasn't born on Third Base. How many of those on the Fortune 500 list would be there if they all began with an idea, a pick-up truck and no money to commence their road to riches? Very few.

It is also obvious that possessing copious brain-folds is not an indicator of originality. Chris Langan's world-view is nothing new. We heard from Plato, Nietzsche with a dose of Ayn Rand and slipped in 19th Century Social Darwinism(though he is hooked into Dembski's *Intelligent Design* racket); perhaps he has read Frank Herbert's Dune SciFi novels religiously. Langan takes a semi-pantheistic view that we are all plugged into the Mind of God( Chris appointed himself as chief interpreter of the Mind of God,btw) and he can logically prove his thesis via mathematical formulas(shades of Bertrand Russell & others). The Lesser IQ folks such as myself can easily figure out his eclectic pathways. To sum up Chris Langan,I'll utilize Nietzsche , contra Langan's elitist high IQ hubris -

"Menschen - alles auch Menschen"

But Nietzsche didn't have as high IQ than Chris Langan, so why should he pay attention.....;-)

People need to ascertain that IQ testing were initially the passion of progressives in the 19th Century. British Fabians endorsed IQ testing in tangent with their class consciousness: they wanted proof - and got it - that the Ladies &Gentlemen, the Dukes and Barons, the Sirs and Dames that ran the British Empire were as a whole dumber than dirt despite their 'Public School' and Cambridge/Oxford educations. Look at the Windsors today. Why the British citizenry loves these worthless cretins of Buckingham and do not demand a Republic is quite beyond me...

Besides, what these arrogant IQ Ones have never questioned is themselves: maybe they are freaks, accidents, or the spawn of Lucifer. Eh? Why hasn't this *Mind of God* made every human with a high IQ? Let's face it: Jesus, Buddha,Krishna, Mohamed and other 'avatars' didn't hang-out with the elitist organic geniuses. They took their message to the 'People' - the losers, the 'scum' of their society. When geniuses talk about knowing 'God', it makes me laugh and vomit at the same time. My druthers are to listen to some illiterate Hillbilly snake-handler rather than some neoPlatonist , self-proclaimed Uebermensch, arrogant twit ,when the subject of 'God' comes into play.

Now, it is not that I am a blank-slater and think that society/ environment determines everything. Environmental determinists annoy me as much as the genetic ones do. My own Weltanschauung is heavily influenced by sociobiology and I'm fascinated by the Human Genome. 'Tis common sense that nature and nurture together makes us what we are - human beings - and it is not an exact measured science and is variable from people to people. In politics, I fear having folks with IQs above 150 running the country as much as the prospect of having a society ran by social engineers does. It wouldn't bode well for the rest of us, us lesser neocortex bipeds. That one has a high IQ is hardly indicitive that he or she is of benign substance and wishes the rest of humanity good will.

The Prize of Illegal Immigration

The largest segment of the American population who wants to thwart any real illegal immigration reform, is naturally the predator overclass that benefits from it the most. Some conservatives obsessed with undocumented workers in the United States overlook the fact that without NAFTA, without thousands of jobs offered at poverty level and below wages and without the Corporate union -busting lobby that buys our public officials - there perhaps wouldn't be an illegal immigration problem.

La Raza, Hispanic interest groups, the ACLU and other cultural Marxists are not the ones who are 'softest' on illegal immigration, it is the upper income 20 percent within the United States. And it is particularly this class who should be footing the bill for whatever public services that illegal immigrants accumulate and not burden the middle and working class. Illegal immigration is a major tool in the Overclass's economic warfare and it will only abate when the wealthy are directly charged for it via specialized 'Undocumented Worker Tax' on the upper brackets of affluence, the tiny elite who owns most of the wealth of the United States. Fences and mass deportation will not solve the situation:you have to follow the money and hit it at its source. These 'Minutemen' are conducting vigils in the wrong places.

It is academic that the notion that illegals "do work that American Blacks wouldn't do"(Vincente Fox) is a big myth. Americans will work at meatpacking plants, construction, the agricultural realm etc. for a decent wage and rights - not the poverty Permanent Peasant Wage that is paid to undocumented workers. And the wealthy do not have an interest in amnesty or even the Wall Street Journal's "open borders" dogma: take the illegal out of immigrants and they would be of no use to this upper class. Mandating that all immigrants learn English will rob the wealthy of a cowed and ignorant feudal peasantry. Hell, they might even form(gasp) Unions.

If you're against illegal immigration and want true reform, you should therefore champion a Tax - a big one - on the Predator Class in the USA. Fences, a army of Border Patrol and targeting the illegals themselves is not the answer. If Corporate America pays the burden of illegal immigration as they should, watch them beat down the doors of their politicians wanting to do genuinely something about the situation. It is time, high time, to end this conservative Nanny State and attack socialism - Affluensa Socialism - that is.

On Unions and Jesus

The Corporate Feudalist Party, a.k.a the 'GOP', are continuing their Class Warfare with their usual hubris and energy. Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has vowed not to let the current Union Bill out of the Senate, and the Corporate Feudalist leadership is mobilized not to even let even come up for a vote via the filibuster. Said proposed Bill will grant US workers further leverage to form labor unions based on card signature instead of having the usual vote at the plant which allows a company to identify who is who, fire the ringleaders and use intimidation and threats to keep an employee from voting for a union. Same old trick straight out of the 1890s...next thing we will see is return of Pinkerton goons and National Guardsmen(oh, they are all in Iraq) firing on strikers.

The Corporate Feudalists do not want to appear to be directing a war on the working class that they are doing, so their public reasoning for using the filibuster (the most anti-democratic tactic of legislative bodies) to block the Bill is that card pledge votes are "anti-democratic" and they "want to protect workers from Union intimidation". Don't the Blue Collar guys and gals feel so lucky to have these stooges for the Overclass looking out for them?? This is the same party that wants to also do away with overtime laws and bring back the 12 hour workday if need be.

August Senators like McConnell want to spare their President a veto of the Bill that he has vowed to do if it reaches his desk;instead they filibuster it, which is a dumb tactic: Bush is a lameduck and is no longer answerable to the electorate - the Senate still is. Why not let the Bill come up for a vote and certain passage and let Bush take the heat for the veto? Goes to show that not only are the Corporate Feudalists' ideas bankrupt, so is their political savvy. If they keep up their War, they will discover that pandering to social conservative issues will no longer get them any votes from the working class.

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The problem with the Corporate Feudalist Party is not that they have abandoned the principles of conservatism, is that their current leader has embodied everything about it and notably the worst aspects(NeoCon thuggery&theocracy&predator-economics). Many candidates feel that they have to out-Right Bush, which is appalling since he makes their patron saint, Ron Reagan ,appear 'liberal 'on many things to compare. But let them do it and I am not complaining:if they get a Party Platform that makes Dennis Kucinich look moderate, that is the more the better and hopefully they will suffer a '32 and '36 type of burial come November 2008(if Dick Cheney doesn't start WW3 in Iran first).

The GOP's sole hope at the moment is that the Democrats will trip themselves up by pulling out 'progressive' social issues to head their train, and there is a danger of this. Instead they can neutralize social issues by hammering economics/trade: demonstrate clearly that the the GOP, this proclaimed party of *Family Values* and Jesus Christ, is anti-family with their Free Trade/Union busting/tax-cuts for the rich/imperialist foreign policy. And I always thought that this fellow Jesus Christ didn't like rich folks very well and liked to hang-out with 'losers'?? The Dems can afford to inject a bit of old William Jennings Bryan's 'Social Gospel' into their panache; revive FDR's Inaugural Address phrase of vowing to drive the moneychangers from the temple, without getting nutzy religious like the GOPers are. I personally am a staunch secularist&agnostic and think that *Family Values* is just a Machiavellian power-phrase political con. But they, the Dems, can beat the Christocrats at their own game if the play their cards correctly on the Jesus thing. Reiterate that Jesus wouldn't had beat the workers down by preventing them from organizing a labor union since he was the dude who said - "Blessed are the poor."

No sainthood for Milton and Ayn

The benevolence about National System economics is that those who still advocate it do not promise a Rose Garden(along with the sunshine) if re-enacted. There will be problems as there are problems with any economic or political program, and utopianism is not the agenda of the American School of economics and it never was. The other competing economic theories and formats such as the Vienna School are steeped in gnostic utopian thinking as much as Marxists are/were; as stated countless times before, these promotors of it are actually right-wing Marxists, and the tragedy, I guess, is that few of its ideologues realize it.

Foraging about at the Uni library I found an oldie but goody book , Not So Free to Choose (Elton Rayek) picking apart the laissez-faire economics of its recently departed guru, Milton Friedman. Rayek demonstrates that in true Stalinist fashion Friedman engaged in revisionist and cavalier history to promote the Vienna School/Chicago Outfit economics such as inventing a "golden age" that never existed of Free Market/Free Trade. 'Classical economics', according to Friedman, had its hay-day from 1815-1914 and gushes in his magnum opus, Free to Choose, that this 99 year period was blessed with "peace, freedom and free market and trade internationally". Such assertions are on par with Rousseau's notion of the 'noble savage'. Anyone who has read an elementary school textbook regarding the history of the 19th Century knows it was anything but one on Pax. European colonialism was quite busy denying freedom and choices to a large part of the globe during the 1800s and fought countless wars to do so. Friedman applauds Great Britain's repeal of the Corn Laws as the epicenter of great liberty and omits that this produced an induced in famine in Ireland to coincide with the repeal. The Chicago Guru also spins a tall one regarding Japan's Meiji Restoration and claims that Japan became a modern power overnight by embracing laissez-faire. Everyone, except for Friedman, knows that Japan has always had heavy statist influence in their economy from day one and Japan built themselves in the late 19th Century up via protectionism and also engaging in colonialism in Manchuria, Korea and Taiwan - denying these people freedom. I could go on about Friedman's cavalier and selected approach to history - its like reading a capitalist version of Pravda. The real bonanza period of classical 'liberalism' is what we are experiencing today which is the corporate feudalist globalizing of much of the planet and the rape of public infrastructure of national economies and their attendant political autonomy.

Friedman's Big Sister and ally was the the emigre novelist, Ayn Rand, with her so-called philosophy of 'Objectivism'. There was nothing objective about it. Rand, despite her atheism, had a Manichean and gnostic view of the world. According to her, at one time the 'Individual' was born free and selfish with a natural inclination to free-market economics but was corrupted by "collectivists" and "mind-blown mystics". Besides Ayn Rand herself, the only thinkers in the Western world who were benign were Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas ; just about everyone else - especially Plato and Kant - were evil. This political cult's influence on the libertarian movement is profound and hardly will one meet a libertarian today who doesn't have a gold-bound edition of Atlas Shrugged on the bookshelf. She is also popular in the NeoCon ranks. There is a Vienna -Chicago connection with about all of these players in the Predator Economics globalizing game: Friedman, Leo Strauss both taught at Chicago Uni in the same period, for instance. Rand just merged the economics of Hayek and von Mises(who brought Vienna to Chicago) with her infantile philosophy, though she had little understanding of them herself. It's analogous to self-proclaimed Biblical fundamentalists who never bother to read their sacred text extensively or with an open-mind.

'Classical' promoters. whilst they be of the economic,educational, religious, political or musical types, all have their Edens - a golden age that never existed except in their own minds. This is odd since none of their historical classical heroes thought that they were being 'classical' in their own day - they all believed themselves to be moderns apparently. These reactionaries in the 21st century need to get with the program, and the program is that we are all post- moderns now. The classical Western canon needs to be respected, and traditions can be quite good, reference points that even self-heralded 'progressives' utilize. But a utopia it is not - never was, never can be - and they need to halt their revisionist historical nonsense.

I hate PJ O'Rourke(I really hate him)

I've been picking on 68ers turned conservative a great deal lately, and thus far the need to do so has not abated. Next character who meets this above criteria is PJ O'Rourke - former hippie turned stooge for the Cato Institute. 'Libertarians' love him as much as I hate his friggin guts and it is beyond me how anyone would think this idiot is a master satirist in the same league as HL Mencken and an authority on 'classical economics'. Like a lot of New Leftists from the Sixties, O'Rourke could see where his money could come from by making a right-turn later on.

Never did I pay much attention to this man at all until I seen an interview of him on PBS shuckstering his latest book, a revisionist take on Adam Smith. The meat of said interview is O'Rourke pandering his Trade-Deficit Denial gnosticism and claimed that Adam Smith would agree with him if he were alive today. O'Rourke failed to mention Smith's famous exceptions to Free Trade dogma, and everyone of them would be applicable to the current United States's de-industrialist, outsourcing trade policies. Actually,Smith would be smeared by PJ as a "protectionist/collectivist" if the man had ever bothered to read his exceptions to laissez-faire in the Wealth of Nations. Verily, I felt the urge to jump through the television screen and gangster-slap this burned-out druggie, 'Hip-Capitalist'(he has a stupid looking face anyway).

PJ O'Rourke, and those 'libertarians' like him, need to actually work in a factory somewhere. And then subsequently outsourced from that job. Rather, they need a occupation in the McJob service sector which is quickly becoming "the only job in town". This is the same thing that they say about armchair socialists and it is applicable to these Rand-roiders like O'Rourke as well: 'libertarians', few of them, have ever had to do any real work for a living. Despite their spiritual dedication to capitalism, many have never operated a legitimate business of their own and doubt half of this many couldn't balance their own checking accounts.

Free Market economics has been good for PJ O'Rourke - especially since he has never had to work and slug out in the marketplace. Like a lot of suburban chic leftists need a Holiday in Cambodia, the image of PJ sentenced to life as a Walmart Greeter beats counting sheep on insomniac nights...