March 27, 2012
— Ace Good piece from John Fund, quoting from a 1972 Playboy interview of Obama's political mentor.
But just before his death in 1972, he synthesized the lessons he had learned into a book called “Rules for Radicals,” in which he urged radicals to make common cause with anyone to further their ends. The book was even dedicated, presumably tongue in cheek, to Lucifer, “the very first radical,” who “rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom.”Alinsky argued for moral relativism in fighting the establishment: “In war the end justifies almost any means. . . . The practical revolutionary will understand [that] in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one’s individual conscience and the good of mankind.”
Where did Alinsky get this amorality? Clues can be found in a Playboy magazine interview he gave in 1972, just before his death. In the closest thing to a memoir Alinsky left, he told how he decided to do his (never-completed) doctoral dissertation in the 1930s on the Al Capone mob, and to do it as “an inside job.” He caught the eye of Big Ed Stash, the mob’s top executioner, and convinced him he could be trusted as a sort of mob mascot who would interpret its methods to the outside world. “He introduced me to Frank Nitti, known as the Enforcer, Capone’s number-two man,” Alinsky told Playboy. “Nitti took me under his wing. I called him the Professor and I became his student. Nitti’s boys took me everywhere.”
Alinsky recalled that he “learned a hell of a lot about the uses and abuses of power from the mob,” and that he applied that knowledge “later on, when I was organizing.” The Playboy interviewer asked, “Didn’t you have any compunction about consorting with — if not actually assisting — murderers?” Alinsky replied: “None at all, since there was nothing I could do to stop them from murdering. . . . I was a nonparticipating observer in their professional activities, although I joined their social life of food, drink, and women. Boy, I sure participated in that side of things — it was heaven.”
This actually encapsulates the difference between a classic liberal and a left-wing radical pretty succinctly.
The classic liberal believes that there should not be a war in society, nor a state of unrest approaching a war. There are rules of good behavior, within a society. There are lesser rules of good behavior owed to foreign actors (as in a war against an alien state). But within the actual "family," a higher standard of conduct is required towards one's fellow citizens.
The leftwing radical of course holds the opposite -- nearly every leftwinger believes that war against foreign states is somehow illegal, and that we owe greater standards of good conduct to those outside the family.
And within the state? They believe in the rules of war.
They fundamentally see their fellow citizens -- at least those not part of The Cause -- as hostile enemies to be defeated By Any Means Necessary. And that includes violence, where needed.
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Mob = democrat party. Democrat paryt = mob.
Posted by: rectal exam at March 27, 2012 01:08 PM (O7ksG)
Posted by: OregonMuse at March 27, 2012 01:09 PM (xm1A1)
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Posted by: Heralder at March 27, 2012 01:12 PM (/Mxso)
Posted by: joeindc44 also punches above his weight (which is bad for you cause I am jacked) at March 27, 2012 01:13 PM (QxSug)
Posted by: model_1066 at March 27, 2012 01:13 PM (YbQJm)
Posted by: Insomniac at March 27, 2012 01:13 PM (v+QvA)
Posted by: Vic at March 27, 2012 01:13 PM (YdQQY)
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Posted by: kbdabear at March 27, 2012 01:14 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: somebody else, not me at March 27, 2012 01:14 PM (nZvGM)
Lord Barky uses rules of war....against his own country....instead of against his country's enemies.
That thing he does, about hitting us from all sides at once....that's a military tactic. ....He also likes to create diversions....another military tactic.
Posted by: wheatie at March 27, 2012 01:14 PM (dEMjC)
Posted by: nickless at March 27, 2012 05:13 PM (MMC8r)
We used to call it evil.
Posted by: Insomniac at March 27, 2012 01:14 PM (v+QvA)
Posted by: Rev Wright at March 27, 2012 01:15 PM (jucos)
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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 27, 2012 01:16 PM (Af3Wg)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 27, 2012 01:18 PM (Af3Wg)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 27, 2012 01:18 PM (8y9MW)
Yep. And The Cause is nothing but bringing pain and suffering to their enemies, those who make them feel bad about themselves. None of these mental midgets is actually looking to build anything. They know that destruction is the best they can hope for, and that makes them triply pissed.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 27, 2012 01:19 PM (X3lox)
http://tinyurl.com/cn4t5mb
Posted by: kbdabear at March 27, 2012 05:14 PM (Y+DPZ)
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All yer Skittles are belong to us, cracker!
Posted by: Platevon Miller at March 27, 2012 01:19 PM (ggRof)
Sound slike the writer in the Unforgiven, who loved to look at and examine the bad guys.
Wonder if Clint based him on Alinsky...
But then, we would need to know something about Alinsky to get it, which we aren't allowed to know.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Romney at March 27, 2012 01:19 PM (6oJbh)
...and he tied up bank lines with people who exchanged loads of pennies for $100 bills and vice versa.
Heh. You have to admire this. It's a meat-space DDOS attack.
Posted by: OregonMuse at March 27, 2012 01:19 PM (xm1A1)
Posted by: nevergiveup at March 27, 2012 01:20 PM (i6RpT)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 27, 2012 01:20 PM (Af3Wg)
Posted by: pep at March 27, 2012 01:21 PM (6TB1Z)
Heh. You have to admire this. It's a meat-space DDOS attack.
Posted by: OregonMuse at March 27, 2012 05:19 PM (xm1A1)
Meh. That was the main Persian battle strategy for centuries.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 27, 2012 01:21 PM (X3lox)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 27, 2012 01:22 PM (1Jaio)
I pay so little attention to these radicals because I don't really think they are primarily to blame for the disaster that is the current American "left." It is the abject ignorance of so many people who vote for these radicals, support on the surface, their causes, and yet if they were asked to follow all the way through to the end, would run screaming from the radicals.
Whole groups of them exist: the young and naive, the unions, the elderly, blacks, Jews, etc... they vote with their hearts, and that's why the radicals have their way in that party. Because the radicals have followed their philosphy all the way through, and they choose hell on Earth.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 27, 2012 01:22 PM (TOk1P)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 27, 2012 01:24 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: nickless at March 27, 2012 01:24 PM (MMC8r)
Actually, it sounds like a certain stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable traitor, who hung with an assortment of felons, rabid racist "reverends," druggies, America-haters, bomb-makers and wacked-out Muzzies, yet poirtrays himself as pure and good, with an unlimited stash for the poor and downtrodden.
Posted by: MrScribbler at March 27, 2012 01:24 PM (MQc8e)
Posturing.
Liberals like to fancy themselves as hard-hearted tough guys and pragmatists, but they always end up having to recruit for and/or subcontract out the dirty work.
Very few of them would be able to overcome their squeamishness necessary to enforce their vision for us.
On the other hand, I know I can divorce action from emotion. On the Great Day of The Rope, the only thing I'll feel is the thud of my boot as I kick the stools out from under the feet of these insane fucks and watch them dance on air.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at March 27, 2012 01:24 PM (Omomh)
Whole groups of them exist: the young and naive, the unions, the elderly, blacks, Jews, etc... they vote with their hearts, and that's why the radicals have their way in that party. Because the radicals have followed their philosphy all the way through, and they choose hell on Earth.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 27, 2012 05:22 PM (TOk1P)
This. Stupid assholes who think that words>actions are the reason that the left has any power. To hell with them all.
Posted by: model_1066 at March 27, 2012 01:25 PM (YbQJm)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 27, 2012 05:21 PM (X3lox)
That's why the Greeks beat them at Plataea, they didn't even have pennies in their currency.
Posted by: Heralder at March 27, 2012 01:25 PM (/Mxso)
Posted by: veekapoos on don draper at March 27, 2012 01:25 PM (sqVOl)
As a former bank teller, I hope he burns in hell.
The $100.00 bills for pennies would have been annoying enough, but not crippling. Pennies for c-notes? Tellers had to count all of those pennies (10,000) to verify they had the right amount before giving out that $100 bill. And not all banks had coin sorter/counters to do that for you- which means they were counting 10,000 pennies by hand.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 27, 2012 01:25 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Barrio Bomber at March 27, 2012 01:25 PM (rzTDZ)
Posted by: Trayvon's Parents at March 27, 2012 01:26 PM (ETgqz)
Posted by: nevergiveup at March 27, 2012 01:26 PM (i6RpT)
32 With sharpton, jackson, and the family trade marking martin's name, it's hard not to say stereotypical things that might sound prejudice.
I saw just a snipet of Trayvon's parents, testifying before congress today. ....I am stifling the urge to snark about it.
Posted by: wheatie at March 27, 2012 01:26 PM (dEMjC)
Any one remember the 'No Pressure' video blowing up people who questioned global warming?
There's some evidence supporting the point.
Posted by: jack at March 27, 2012 01:26 PM (zKFOT)
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Posted by: nevergiveup at March 27, 2012 01:27 PM (i6RpT)
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Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 27, 2012 01:28 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: nevergiveup at March 27, 2012 01:28 PM (i6RpT)
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Posted by: awkward davies at March 27, 2012 01:30 PM (Jp1VY)
Posted by: nevergiveup at March 27, 2012 01:30 PM (i6RpT)
you shore got a pretty mouth
Posted by: Random redneck #6 at March 27, 2012 01:30 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: Lady in Black.....{sigh} at March 27, 2012 01:31 PM (F+Xfj)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at March 27, 2012 01:31 PM (Omomh)
Posted by: Jaws at March 27, 2012 01:31 PM (4I3Uo)
Whole groups of them exist: the young and naive, the unions, the elderly, blacks, Jews, etc... they vote with their hearts, and that's why the radicals have their way in that party. Because the radicals have followed their philosphy all the way through, and they choose hell on Earth.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 27, 2012 05:22 PM (TOk1P)
I usually agree with many of your opinions but this?
and yet if they were asked to follow all the way through to the end, would run screaming from the radicals.
I might have disagreed before the crowds chanting for walkers death.
and crowds and not Just crowds, sports players etc..now putting up funds for a group, indicating murder for hire. 'dead or alive'
Posted by: willow at March 27, 2012 01:32 PM (TomZ9)
Posted by: Eric Holder at March 27, 2012 01:32 PM (i6RpT)
Posted by: Avi at March 27, 2012 01:32 PM (8x3Vb)
It's a nasty war where the innocent are swept into it by corrupting influences, to the point where they will sell their own children. And that is literally what is happening (if they don't kill them first!).
Posted by: Jay Bee at March 27, 2012 01:32 PM (Xwgt3)
Okay, I think they are legitimately distraught, but still, they seem to have an eye on the bottom line.
Posted by: pep at March 27, 2012 01:33 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: willow at March 27, 2012 01:33 PM (TomZ9)
Posted by: nevergiveup at March 27, 2012 01:33 PM (i6RpT)
Posted by: jukin at March 27, 2012 01:34 PM (5oKRH)
...and he tied up bank lines with people who exchanged loads of pennies for $100 bills and vice versa.
Heh. You have to admire this. It's a meat-space DDOS attack.
Posted by: OregonMuse at March 27, 2012 05:19 PM (xm1A1)
No, I really don't.
Posted by: Insomniac at March 27, 2012 01:34 PM (v+QvA)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] at March 27, 2012 01:34 PM (qOfw/)
DING DING DING DING- WINNA WINNA WINNA!!!
Posted by: kdny at March 27, 2012 01:35 PM (vrYVY)
Posted by: Justamom at March 27, 2012 01:35 PM (Sptt8)
I think many of us wouldn't mind if the left kept going on with the "ends justifies ANY means" attitude.
They won't like where that leads. Trust on this one.
Posted by: trump at March 27, 2012 01:35 PM (M7Awp)
Anyone know what the third infraction was?
Posted by: Avi at March 27, 2012 05:32 PM (8x3Vb)
The most recent suspension he was serving when he got shot, from what I've read, was described by someone from the school as "being in a restricted area where he wasn't supposed to be."
I'd have to find a link, though, so I'm not positive.
Posted by: © Sponge at March 27, 2012 01:36 PM (UK9cE)
Posted by: nevergiveup at March 27, 2012 05:33 PM (i6RpT)
Speakin' of which....I heard a new story this morning about the new photo ID requirements for taking the SAT. One needs to be submitted when you apply to take it. When you arrive to take it you are asked for ID again. And the photo ID is sent to your school to be confirmed by the administration when your scores are sent.
None needed to vote.....
Posted by: Tami at March 27, 2012 01:36 PM (X6akg)
Posted by: OregonMuse at March 27, 2012 05:19 PM (xm1A1)
Ironically, such tactics may have helped spur the development of those job-snatching ATM machines.
Posted by: BS Inc. at March 27, 2012 01:36 PM (P2Ufm)
Anyone know what the third infraction was? Mopery.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at March 27, 2012 01:36 PM (Omomh)
Well yes, I did lie about them using me as a semen receptacle, but really, is that such a big deal?
Posted by: Saul Alinsky on his rotisserie at March 27, 2012 01:36 PM (6TB1Z)
They won't like where that leads. Trust on this one.
Posted by: trump at March 27, 2012 05:35 PM (M7Awp)
Hey, it worked for me!
Posted by: Pol Pot at March 27, 2012 01:36 PM (v+QvA)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 27, 2012 05:25 PM (8y9MW)
You were a bank teller too? It was '96 when I worked as a teller and we still didn't have a coin counter. All of Alinsky's tactics hurt normal working people the most/exclusively. I'm sure he'd be proud of OWS terrorizing pushcart owners and McDonald's employees.
Posted by: Polliwog, Hobbit Teahada at March 27, 2012 01:37 PM (tD5no)
Posted by: willow at March 27, 2012 01:38 PM (TomZ9)
What? No glass and steel gallows lit with stage lighting with the New York, Phily, LA, and SF Philharmonics blaring away in the background?<<<
I'm a traditionalist.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at March 27, 2012 01:39 PM (Omomh)
"They fundamentally see their fellow citizens -- at least those not part of The Cause -- as hostile enemies to be defeated By Any Means Necessary. And that includes violence, where needed."
Not to mention guiltlessly feasting on the spoils of said activities.
Hayek's ghost is pointing a finger and saying "I told you so!"
Posted by: West at March 27, 2012 01:39 PM (1Rgee)
The SAT is racist.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at March 27, 2012 01:40 PM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: nickless at March 27, 2012 01:42 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: drawandstrike at March 27, 2012 01:43 PM (iGKkt)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 27, 2012 01:43 PM (Af3Wg)
Posted by: Jaws at March 27, 2012 05:31 PM (4I3Uo)
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This. And once they have critical mass, they will not be gentle with us. 1984 and Brave New World illustrate what lies ahead. Every leftists is a Stalin in his heart. I just hope they jump the gun and try to get us before they have enough might to finish the job. Then we'll be free to do what needs to be done.
Posted by: Reactionary at March 27, 2012 01:43 PM (jfeoD)
They won't like where that leads. Trust on this one. Posted by: trump at March 27, 2012 05:35 PM
I love some good snark, but none of "us" (us morons, that is) will find it particularly amusing if the lefties continue their Alinsky/Osama Obama ways.
Ever heard of "collateral damage?" That's the millions of Americans who will suffer as a result of what the Traitor-in-Chief and his radical co-conspirators are trying/planning to do.
Those who shit in their own messkit should be forced to eat therefrom, and let decent Americans live their lives under the guidance and protection of the Constitution.
Posted by: MrScribbler at March 27, 2012 01:43 PM (MQc8e)
Posted by: Justamom at March 27, 2012 01:44 PM (Sptt8)
Posted by: davidt at March 27, 2012 01:44 PM (axc/z)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 27, 2012 01:44 PM (Af3Wg)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at March 27, 2012 01:45 PM (nEUpB)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 27, 2012 01:45 PM (X3lox)
Yeah, I was a teller from '98 - 2000 for a State Bank (which sold, while I was there, to Wells Fargo). While under the original ownership, we had the coin counters. Once Wells Fargo took over, they were deemed too expensive, so once they broke, we had to do it by hand.
Which wouldn't have been so bad, but we catered to several small businesses- including one of those nickle-slot places. Roughly $1000.00 in nickels every Tuesday. *shudder*
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 27, 2012 01:45 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: jukin at March 27, 2012 05:34 PM (5oKRH)
Liberals depend on oppressive totalitarian government.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 27, 2012 01:46 PM (X3lox)
Posted by: Prof. Lightwork at March 27, 2012 01:46 PM (KWdVT)
Mama Trayvone©....was all *boohoo* *sniff* about getting "Justice for my son®".....sitting there, in her $2000 braided hairdo. .....While Daddy Trayvone, was comforting her with his faux "I'm so agrieved®" look on his face.
It was beyond pukeworthy.
I wonder how many hours of professional coaching went on for their performance?
Posted by: wheatie at March 27, 2012 01:47 PM (dEMjC)
Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at March 27, 2012 01:47 PM (3wYCm)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at March 27, 2012 01:50 PM (ZKzrr)
Is there any chance Alinsky lied to make himself look tougher?
I'm thinking his experience is as believable as the "women" cited in Sandra Fluke's "testimony".
As believable as, say, Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair, etc.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at March 27, 2012 01:50 PM (0xqzf)
Posted by: S Daniel at March 27, 2012 01:50 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: steevy at March 27, 2012 01:51 PM (7W3wI)
Posted by: Justamom at March 27, 2012 01:52 PM (Sptt8)
Posted by: S. Alinsky at March 27, 2012 01:52 PM (axc/z)
Posted by: nickless at March 27, 2012 01:52 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Zombie Vasili Blokhin, Servant of the People at March 27, 2012 01:52 PM (FsqHK)
One thing this story illustrates is that when people incriminate themselves, you should take them at their word. The man said he admired Satan - the enemy of all mankind, the father of lies, the inspiration for the worst vileness ever perpetrated. People should believe him, and respond accordingly.
It's like the radical feminists who go off on how admirable Eve was for taking the forbidden fruit. They love the evil and depravity in man kind, and are glad it exists. They see ruinous rebellion as good, and they see good (as in conformance to a higher standard of moral authority) as evil.
All Leftists are detestable.
Posted by: Reactionary at March 27, 2012 01:52 PM (jfeoD)
Come on. We're supposed to believe Ace would ever read Playboy for the articles? Particularly issues from the 70s, when women still sported ewok friendly "under fros"?
Posted by: wooga at March 27, 2012 01:54 PM (vjyZP)
@4: "Unfortunately the radical left has captured the heart and soul of them democratic party and we are at War with radical progressives. We better wake up."
Technically speaking, in order to be "at war," don't *both* sides have to be fighting? The Right simply flees/pre-emptively surrenders.
Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at March 27, 2012 01:54 PM (FsqHK)
I am not entirely sure that Alinsky was lying. Remember, he was into organizing Chicago unions for a while, so it's possible that their paths might have crossed then.
Posted by: Meiczyslaw at March 27, 2012 01:54 PM (bjRNS)
107 Mama and Daddy Trayvone© are still together?
I don't think so. ....That was the thing. They were certainly 'together' for their performance today.
I wonder if Daddy Trayvone's girlfriend was there too? ....That's who lives in the community where Trayvone© was shot. ....So, they can't get rid of her, can they?
Posted by: wheatie at March 27, 2012 01:54 PM (dEMjC)
Posted by: Whitey at March 27, 2012 01:54 PM (ETgqz)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 27, 2012 05:45 PM (8y9MW)
Oh yeah. You never look at cash the same way again. We had the local strip club as an account. Those were some one dollar bills you didn't want to think about too hard.
Posted by: Polliwog, Hobbit Teahada at March 27, 2012 01:55 PM (tD5no)
Another thing it illustrates is that Liberals have no conception of the Bible. Lucifer/Satan/The Devil (whatever you want to call him) didn't "gain a kingdom," he was imprisoned. He's not the warden, he's Hannibal Lecter- complete with mask and strapped to a gurney.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 27, 2012 01:55 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: steevy at March 27, 2012 01:56 PM (7W3wI)
Posted by: logprof at March 27, 2012 01:56 PM (ykSKg)
are the progressive media still in approval of vigilantism , and bounty's put out by groups on the head of citizens before they are charged of any crime?
how can they stand themselves will they still keep vigils on the death penalty of someone that murders a slew of children after raping them?
If innocent people of any color are killed during the coming riots , will they be ok if the other aggrieved citizens from those acts of rioting and vigilantism turn and do the same to them without trial of their peers?
Posted by: willow at March 27, 2012 01:57 PM (TomZ9)
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One thing this story illustrates is that when people incriminate themselves, you should take them at their word. The man said he admired Satan - the enemy of all mankind, the father of lies, the inspiration for the worst vileness ever perpetrated. People should believe him, and respond accordingly.
It's like the radical feminists who go off on how admirable Eve was for taking the forbidden fruit. They love the evil and depravity in man kind, and are glad it exists. They see ruinous rebellion as good, and they see good (as in conformance to a higher standard of moral authority) as evil.
All Leftists are detestable.
Never heard radical phlegminists mention Eve. But I believe you.
Posted by: model_1066 at March 27, 2012 01:57 PM (YbQJm)
That was another one of ours, too.
The best thing, though, was the smell of the drive-thru. We had so many new bills, it almost always smelled like lemon.
Also the day after thanksgiving. I would sit on my teller stool and yo-yo all day. Well, after the initial rush from 6:30 A to about 8.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 27, 2012 01:58 PM (8y9MW)
The ones I knew latched onto the myth of Lilith, thinking that Eve was a waste for being subservient.
Posted by: Meiczyslaw at March 27, 2012 01:58 PM (bjRNS)
pfft, Blokhin was a capitalist tool. I was the real.... wait, I hear a knock at the door. brb
Posted by: pep at March 27, 2012 01:59 PM (6TB1Z)
Holy crap - California admitted Stephen Glass to the Bar in January, 2012:
Nice to know that their moral standards are so high in that state - no doubt he will be a future SC Judge.....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at March 27, 2012 01:59 PM (0xqzf)
Posted by: Lavrenti Beria at March 27, 2012 02:00 PM (6TB1Z)
You'll know them by the quality of their enemies, after all.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 27, 2012 02:01 PM (8y9MW)
@51: "When we defeat obama in November he is gonna go bat shit crazy with executive orders. Thankfully most of them can just as easily be reversed by the next Administration."
Of course, they *can* be reversed. They *won't* be, however.
Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at March 27, 2012 02:01 PM (FsqHK)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 27, 2012 05:55 PM (8y9MW)
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I agree in principle, though in a sense he's not 100% wrong as Satan is called the prince and power of the air and is able to work his evil on the earth. But in the end he's going to be suffering along with all those doomed with him. He'll not going to be ruling over them like some kind of vile king.
Posted by: Reactionary at March 27, 2012 02:01 PM (jfeoD)
At this point, what are conservatives conserving?
Time to think of yourselves as the new radicals.
It is liberating finally being able to hate The Man, now that the Dems are The Man.
Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at March 27, 2012 02:01 PM (NVu2l)
129Never heard radical phlegminists mention Eve.
The ones I knew latched onto the myth of Lilith, thinking that Eve was a waste for being subservient.
Did you ask them to make you a sammich?
Posted by: model_1066 at March 27, 2012 02:02 PM (YbQJm)
Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at March 27, 2012 05:54 PM (FsqHK)
The right dont think it's a war. But it still is.
Posted by: Temper Tantrum at March 27, 2012 02:03 PM (AWmfW)
Posted by: OregonMuse at March 27, 2012 05:19 PM (xm1A10)
Oh yes, so admirable. Screwing up the day for ordinary bank-tellers and customers. Was the President of the bank bothered? Nope.
You see this all the time from leftwads. Clogging traffic with their mass bike rallies and banging on people's cars. Occupying a public park for months on end. Raiding a local drug store to show support for Trayvon. Selfish spoiled brat behaviour is the calling card of these nihilists. OregonMuse, leave Portland it's turned your brain into mush.
Posted by: fozzy at March 27, 2012 02:03 PM (FEzSe)
This crap gets tiresome. If things are so bleak, go get yourself a bunker and quit wasting time here.
Posted by: pep at March 27, 2012 02:03 PM (6TB1Z)
Maxim #29:
"The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less."
Posted by: Meiczyslaw at March 27, 2012 02:03 PM (bjRNS)
Greatest of the Seraphim. Leader of the Celestial Choir. In stature, below only The Most Holy. And his "kingdom," until God takes it away, is Earth.
Yeah. Great trade up, there.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 27, 2012 02:03 PM (8y9MW)
I didn't use those exact words. But they got me the sammich.
Posted by: Meiczyslaw at March 27, 2012 02:05 PM (bjRNS)
135 Over on Twitter, Jake Tapper is going off about the tiff between Medvedev and Romney (Really? Why is the Russian President commenting at all? And why is the US Media covering it?). I'm not sure if he thinks it's a reason to vote against Romney, but it actually makes me happier about doing so.
You'll know them by the quality of their enemies, after all.
Well, I remember when Putin sounded off about Perry....right after Perry got in the race. ...."America doesn't need another Cowboy" is what Putin said, iirc.
Medvedev and Putin have got Barky right where they want him....eager to please them. .....Romney, they don't know. And he is way to clean for them to have any good dirt on him to blackmail him with.
Posted by: wheatie at March 27, 2012 02:06 PM (dEMjC)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 27, 2012 05:58 PM (8y9MW)
You got new bills !? I suppose we got some, but we didn't do much drive-through business and it's not like I got to hang out in the vault.
John said that between crazy customers and staff conflict there should have been enough material for a decent sit-com. Too bad I'm not a good enough writer to cash in on the idea.
Posted by: Polliwog, Hobbit Teahada at March 27, 2012 02:06 PM (tD5no)
Posted by: BurtTC at March 27, 2012 02:06 PM (Gc/Qi)
Alinsky replied: “None at all, since there was nothing I could do to stop them from murdering. . . . I was a nonparticipating observer in their professional activities,
"...although I joined their social life of food, drink, and women. Boy, I sure participated in that side of things — it was heaven.”
Actually, that would be Hell.
Posted by: newguy40 at March 27, 2012 02:06 PM (kduZC)
And typical of the liberal, ostensibly on the side of the oppressed, underprivileged, your average working Joe, Alinsky is more than ready to forget them for his share of the gravy.
"although I joined their social life of food, drink, and women. Boy, I sure participated in that side of things — it was heaven.”
Posted by: Uncle Jefe at March 27, 2012 02:06 PM (+3fAP)
Posted by: Vic at March 27, 2012 02:07 PM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at March 27, 2012 02:08 PM (JDIKC)
Posted by: logprof at March 27, 2012 02:08 PM (ykSKg)
Posted by: nevergiveup at March 27, 2012 02:09 PM (i6RpT)
Posted by: steevy at March 27, 2012 02:11 PM (7W3wI)
The decision on Ocare will not end well either way it goes. The election in Nov. will not end well either way it goes. I am very afraid for my country.
Posted by: Soona at March 27, 2012 02:11 PM (Nl2C4)
Posted by: steevy at March 27, 2012 05:56 PM (7W3wI)
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Oh, I'm sure you're right. But consider the principle he was expressing. It was the idea that rebellion, even against what was good, right, and moral, is always good. It's the mentality of a person who is a wrecker. As Alfred said, some men just want to watch the world burn. Alinsky was one.
Posted by: Reactionary at March 27, 2012 02:11 PM (jfeoD)
Posted by: Whitey at March 27, 2012 02:12 PM (ETgqz)
Posted by: model_1066 at March 27, 2012 02:13 PM (YbQJm)
Posted by: nevergiveup at March 27, 2012 02:13 PM (i6RpT)
AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 27, 2012 05:55 PM (8y9MW) ----------
.,.,
"Have you ever read Milton, Captain?"
-Khan
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(Star Trek episode unknown)
Posted by: Meremortal at March 27, 2012 02:13 PM (Usk3+)
Posted by: wheatie at March 27, 2012 02:15 PM (dEMjC)
Posted by: Vic at March 27, 2012 06:07 PM (YdQQY)
At my teen job at a convenience store in a crappy neighbourhood I learned the weights of coins. Then when bums came in to buy smokes and AquaVelva with a pile of pennies I didn't have to waste time. Just put them on the deli-scales.
Posted by: fozzy at March 27, 2012 02:16 PM (FEzSe)
Posted by: nickless at March 27, 2012 02:16 PM (MMC8r)
The video of the demonstration that turned into a looting session was justcharming. Some idiots dropped their student ids while ransacking.
Coming to a WalGreens by you soon.
Posted by: Who Knows at March 27, 2012 02:17 PM (W+Itt)
Um, let's see here, he was a trusted assistant of the top men in Capone's mob, maybe, just maybe, he could have gone to the police with lots of information that only a trusted assistant would have like who murdered who and when they did it and where they would be so they could be arrested? I know, crazy talk, just spitballin' here.
Posted by: booger at March 27, 2012 02:17 PM (HI6wa)
NICE.
>>the police are always actively searching for the perps, sometimes give a partial description, but NEVER give the race.
Sometimes the police put race in the description but the media embargoes that part of it. Kind of a running joke around Milwaukee, all these young men running around with no skin.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at March 27, 2012 02:17 PM (ZKzrr)
" Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday that the killing of U.S. and NATO troops by Afghans are sporadic incidents..."
...
If we had a decent media, we would have the following information reported:
The number of normal combat deaths compared to the number of "traitorous friendly fire" deaths since the Koran burning.
Posted by: Meremortal at March 27, 2012 02:18 PM (Usk3+)
(You'll also learn where we got the sobriquet "Baraka")
Posted by: logprof at March 27, 2012 02:19 PM (ykSKg)
Posted by: maddogg at March 27, 2012 05:28 PM (OlN4e)
THIS!! I'm with you maddog. Shoulder to shoulder.
Posted by: LGoPs at March 27, 2012 02:19 PM (+Uv5V)
Posted by: Meremortal at March 27, 2012 06:18 PM (Usk3+)
It's the apologizing that really gets the muslims ramped up.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 27, 2012 02:20 PM (X3lox)
That wouldn't have stopped the murderin', but it would have spurred one additional murder.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at March 27, 2012 02:20 PM (ZKzrr)
The other side starts reacting like an alcoholic's spouse, defensive, angry, and overreacting to the slightest thing, because they know what's behind it and why. You cannot sustain a civilization like that.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 27, 2012 02:21 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at March 27, 2012 06:17 PM (ZKzrr)
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LOL. If race isn't mentioned, it's still clearly communicated. The police, or wheover, does this to avoid seeming racist. All they really accomplish is to make "black" the default race for all incidents, where the only time it is needful to mention race is if it is something OTHER than black. Seems counterproductive to me.
Posted by: Reactionary at March 27, 2012 02:22 PM (jfeoD)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at March 27, 2012 06:20 PM (ZKzrr)
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Posted by: fozzy at March 27, 2012 02:22 PM (FEzSe)
Posted by: SATAN at March 27, 2012 02:22 PM (KNvk+)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 27, 2012 06:21 PM (r4wIV)
You say that like that's not the whole point.
Posted by: fozzy at March 27, 2012 02:23 PM (FEzSe)
Posted by: Meremortal at March 27, 2012 06:21 PM (Usk3+)
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LOL, I should have seen that in the next post but I didn't read down any until after I posted mine after looking up which season it was in.
Posted by: Vic at March 27, 2012 02:23 PM (YdQQY)
It's the apologizing that really gets the muslims ramped up.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 27, 2012 06:20 PM (X3lox)
I don't think that's it, though it's certainly a deplorable thing for Obama to do. I think their news just travels a little slower and it takes them a little longer to really get going.
Posted by: Meremortal at March 27, 2012 02:24 PM (Usk3+)
170 >>radical phlegminists
NICE.
I know. Me likey too. ....Should be used again, and often.
>>the police are always actively searching for the perps, sometimes give a partial description, but NEVER give the race.
Sometimes the police put race in the description but the media embargoes that part of it. Kind of a running joke around Milwaukee, all these young men running around with no skin.
Unless it's 'white' skin.....then they mention it. .....Personally I'm 'pink'. Most of us who are labeled 'white', are in fact, some shade of 'pink' or 'tan'. .....Where is that official Color Chart....do pink or tan people get to be Professionally Aggrieved?
Posted by: wheatie at March 27, 2012 02:27 PM (dEMjC)
Alinsky would have found it a bad thing, which is why he did nothing.
He and his students will sacrifice anyone and everyone else, but they're not going to put their own asses in serious danger for anything. Even all those OWSturds patting themselves on the back for being so "brave" in the face of "police brutality" dragging them out for a hose-down know they're not actually going to be tortured or killed by law enforcement.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at March 27, 2012 02:27 PM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Meremortal at March 27, 2012 02:28 PM (Usk3+)
Posted by: sherlock at March 27, 2012 02:29 PM (JYBAr)
Posted by: Saul "Moe" Alinsky at March 27, 2012 02:30 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: Meremortal at March 27, 2012 06:24 PM (Usk3+)
They attack weakness. Weakness offends them, to begin with - worse than the anything about the koran, which most of them can't read and know little about, anyway.
Part of the West's major problem in dealing with muslims is that we don't understand this. If we don't fight them in a serious manner, but instead make it a joke by holding both hands behind our back, that absolutely enrages them. THey don't mind being beat senseless by a vicious enemy - they do it to themselves all the time - but they can't stand being beaten by someone as a mere afterthought. When we apologize to them, they see our weakness AND they lose all military respect for us. It eggs them on from both sides. And muslims have the sorts of cultures that go off on hair-triggers (part of the desert arab nature of arab culture that islam formalizes and spreads).
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 27, 2012 02:30 PM (X3lox)
Posted by: nevergiveup at March 27, 2012 06:13 PM (i6RpT)
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I know. I should be optomistic. I mean, the majority of Americans would never let a 25% minority of leftist radicals run this country. Am I right?
Posted by: Soona at March 27, 2012 02:31 PM (Nl2C4)
Posted by: kbdabear at March 27, 2012 02:33 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: Soona at March 27, 2012 06:31 PM (Nl2C4)
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Well, it's not that you should be optimistic per se, but leaving the anger/despair cranked up to 10 too long can be bad for ya. Hate/anger are about the only two emotions I have left these days, and even I need to take a drink and let it go sometimes.
Sometimes the only right thing to say is "Fuck it."
And with that, I think I'll go drink.
Posted by: Reactionary at March 27, 2012 02:36 PM (jfeoD)
A lot of those guys were still around in 1972, and they didn't like folks talking about it. Especially an outsider Jew
First rule of La Cosa Nostra; You don't talk about La Cosa Nostra
Posted by: kbdabear at March 27, 2012 02:40 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: Entropy at March 27, 2012 02:47 PM (Ci0JG)
Posted by: Reactionary at March 27, 2012 06:36 PM (jfeoD)
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I live my life well and it's full of good things and good friends and I'm very much enjoying myself. All I was doing is pointing out is that no matter what our victories will seem to be, there will be strife no matter which way the worm turns.
And, yes, I'm very much afraid for my country. And, no, I'm not going to drink to forget about it, no matter how temporary that relief is. It will all be there where I left it when I sober up. So that's kind of a losing proposition from the beginning.
Posted by: Soona at March 27, 2012 02:48 PM (Nl2C4)
193Alinsky relied on the basic decency of the American people to get away with his bullshit.
Yep. Ask Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht about how that shit worked out for them.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 27, 2012 02:55 PM (kBe37)
Strangely enough I read somewhere some guidelines for OSS agents working in Nazi Germany that sounded a lot like Rules. He wasn't as original as he's usually given credit for being.
Posted by: Heorot at March 27, 2012 02:57 PM (m2aLJ)
Posted by: The Chap, etc. at March 27, 2012 03:18 PM (fscec)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 27, 2012 03:26 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 27, 2012 03:53 PM (i0App)
Harlan Ellison always insisted that he went undercover and joined a street gang to research his book on the subject, and Freakonomics featured an economist who talked a minor-league drug-dealing operation into letting him observe, study, and write about their activities, so I guess it's not entirely beyond the pale that Alinsky might have ingratiated himself enough with the Chicago Outfit to become a tag-along.
But still it strains credulity to think that they would be willing to let this guy witness shakedowns, rub-outs, and the nexus of connections the Outfit had with other, more "respectable" people with never a thought of how this might come back to haunt them later. Unless, of course, they had something on Alinsky that guaranteed he'd never reveal anything, or else Alinsky had someone major-league in his corner that they didn't care to offend.
It's puzzling - this definitely bears some further investigation.
Posted by: A. Pendragon at March 27, 2012 04:00 PM (pYA5L)
It's too bad old Saul didn't get hit by Eliot Ness
I'd prefer his getting hit by Al Capone. He swung a mean Louisville slugger.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 27, 2012 04:01 PM (kBe37)
@94: "We've got all the guns"
Except for the military, law enforcement (state and Fed), and all of the armed Fed agencies. Those guns are all firmly in control of the Left at present.
Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at March 27, 2012 04:22 PM (FsqHK)
There are rules of good behavior, within a society. There are lesser rules of good behavior owed to foreign actors (as in a war against an alien state). But within the actual "family," a higher standard of conduct is required towards one's fellow citizens.
The leftwing radical of course holds the opposite -- nearly every leftwinger believes that war against foreign states is somehow illegal, and that we owe greater standards of good conduct to those outside the family.
Sauly Walnuts and his little demons are really going against the mafia rules with that one. The mob requires a higher standard of conduct to those within the family than those without.
Posted by: Pervy Grin at March 27, 2012 04:33 PM (OxKj2)
Posted by: Entropy at March 27, 2012 05:58 PM (Ci0JG)
Entropy - good points all. I hadn't heard that about Ellison, but I do confess I was always a bit skeptical about some of the details he put out there about his early life, and the welter of different stories about how he got dismissed from his job at Disney indicates that he might not be above a bit of embellishment.
But the idea of someone sweet-talking his way into the Chicago Mob and becoming their special ride-along buddy and trusted witness to all their hijinks - if true, it's fascinating. How did he pull it off? Why did they let him do it? How did he manage to survive the experience? Was he such a reckless personality, with no disregard for his own life and well-being, that Capone and company recognized a kindred spirit? Did he have an inside angle that made him untouchable (so to speak)?
Like I say, it's something that's got to be dug into further, either to debunk it or uncover a really bizarre sidelight of America's underworld history.
Posted by: A. Pendragon at March 27, 2012 06:29 PM (pYA5L)
And most of them are with us. At least, the guys with the guns in those groups are. The union reps, the bureaucrats, the brass... not so often them.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 27, 2012 07:27 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: JohnJ at March 27, 2012 09:04 PM (Tt6ky)
>>the police are always actively searching for the perps, sometimes give a partial description, but NEVER give the race.
Unless it's 'white' skin.....then they mention it. .....Personally I'm 'pink'. Most of us who are labeled 'white', are in fact, some shade of 'pink' or 'tan'. .....Where is that official Color Chart....do pink or tan people get to be Professionally Aggrieved?
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Personally I consider myself to be "ecru."
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