Monday Potpouri

Emperor Palpatine wonders what diplomacy has ever accomplished:

I could care less about the diplomats.

Diplomacy has never resolved any crisis, at any time in the last few centuries, and/or anywhere in the world. All diplomacy has done is prolong crises.

History is replete with examples of the failure of diplomacy, going back way before Neville getting off that plane waving his piece of paper.

The longer I live, the more I agree with Nietzsche’s oft-expressed belief that might makes right.

Erik Latrany explains how Obama wants to kill the suburbs to save the uncivilized cities:

Radical liberals, like Obama, believe the problems of our inner cities derives from those who left for suburbia, taking their wealth with them.

If that wealth had stayed within our cities, they would not be in such a state of decay, disrepair and debauchery.

The theory is that liberals like Obama want to punish the suburbs and rural areas and transfer that back to the inner cities, restoring their greatness.

Of course, the problem is that our inner cities are populated by people who have discarded civilized behavior, shunned law and order and are totally dependent on gov't services for their basic needs.

Newton knows Paul Ryan is one of us, one of us, one of us...

Listening to Paul Ryan’s speech tonight I was struck by how American he is in contrast to the occupier. He is so much one of us that to me it makes it really stand out how much the assclown is NOT one of us. Not only that but he has family members, friends, neighbors old class mates - all people who can say they know him and knew him when. He is not some weird anomaly that just appeared. I am finally excited... Just like when mclame brough in Palin.

Jack Black explains there can be no riots because blacks are not winter people:

Let's face it, the only threat of real riots in America comes fromt the Black Underclass.

There are a lot of things you can say about the Black Underclass, some of them might be speculation, some fact.

The one thing I am prepared to say is that they will NOT riot in November. Black people are not winter people. Every race riot in the last 50 years has taken place in the summer, usually during a heat wave. If the election were on the 4th of July I would agree: an Obama loss means riots.

It's not. It's in November. No riots!

yefragetuwrabrumuy thinks the problem with Democrats is that they don't respect the status quo. I guess he doesn't read Free Republic.

This shows the great philosophical divide between Democrats and Republicans, and why Democrats so consistently fail.

A simple question: When you are elected to a political office, is your purpose to manage that office efficiently, or to change every element of it?

Leftists and idealists cannot get it through their head that the purpose of a job is to do that job, not to change it, create a new job, or destroy the old one.

A good analogy would be if a someone was hired to be a french fry cook at a hamburger joint. A Republican would cook the french fries, and they would always be fresh, salted and ready to serve to customers. But a Democrat would try to do everything *but* cook french fries.

He would interfere with the guy cooking hamburgers. He would harass the cashiers. He would try to unionize the workers. He would complain to the Health Department that the floors were greasy. And when chastised for doing these things, he would feel bitter burning hate and resentment at the manager who wanted him to fry french fries.

And most of all, he would never, ever, fry french fries, because that was “boring”. He would try to break the machine, foul the cooking oil, pull the plug on the refrigerator to spoil the food, and blame everyone else for doing these things. And he would constantly nag his boss to give him a raise and a promotion.

NativeSon tells the most marvelous stories:

the last time I voted in Philly, Fairmount section, Bush vs Gore. 100 % turnout in my ward, 100 % for Gore. Not only is that so friggin unlikely under any condition, my neighbor had just died and myself, girlfriend and a few others did not vote for the Sore-Loserman ticket.

All Dems at the poll btw, and when I learned of the "great turnout" I called city hall, reps, etc., no one wanted to touch, I mean no one.

Wow, Gore must have sucked at voter fraud!

ZX12R fantasizes about war:

I think sometime real soon, Ahmadinejad's worst nightmares are going to come true and hellfire in the form of Israeli missiles will begin raining down on his pig mouth. In the blink of an eye, his thoughts will turn to "Why has Allah forsaken us?".

haircutter wonders if some of Ryan's black audience members may be Obama plants, since they don't seem enthusiastic:

anyone noticing that there are several black Americans behind Paul...no emotion, no clapping.. she is chewing gum, rocking back and forth and he is patting on the back of an infant he is holding...hummmm are they obama plants? strange................. at least they didn't start any problems and just maybe they wanted to get on TV,,,ya think??? didn't last very long...short and sweet....

4rcane thinks we're in stagflation again, and prescribes 20% interest rates:

the economy NEEDS to deflate from the current inflation. The economy have too much money mis allocated. Too many industries are in a bubble. Some industries simply needs to go bankrupt so that viable ones can begin. Without this cleaning process, the economy will never recover. Its like a person on drug, needs to go thru withdrawal to cure itself. Ryan is saying, we need the drug to keep us from going into withdrawal as its painful. Deflation is not something we need to fight. Its capitalism cure for the system.

During Reagan, interest rate was set to 20% to deflate the money supply. We need something similar for this economy to recover