Over on my other blog, I have a warning from William Shatner not to set yourself on fire frying a turkey.
Now, thanks to Dwight, we have a more local warning from The Round Rock Fire Department. Take it away, boys!
The turkey frying warning video is indeed a rich genre…
Expect slow blogging the rest of the week while I’m giving thanks by stuffing my face, so here’s Ronald Reagan’s 1986 Thanksgiving address.
“It’s people, not government, who create wealth and provide growth.”
Quite a contrast with current occupant of the White House…
California rejects Obama’s ObamaCare “fix” of extending non-compliant policies:
Also includes Charles Krauthammer (yet again) bringng the smackdown. “It was a fraud and a sham from the very beginning.”
We interrupt our continuing series on the failures of ObamaCare to bring you a dollop of gun- and crime-related news:
James O’Keefe is exposing the “ObamaCare Navigators” the same way he exposed ACORN. Indeed, I strongly suspect they;’re the same people.
And both those videos were filmed in Texas.
Once again, both the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party seem remarkably comfortable aiding and abetting the willful defrauding of the American taxpayer. Just as they were for the Pigford scandal:
It’s obvious that more than just ObamaCare needs to be repealed…
I keep trying to cover other things, and ObamaCare keeps being such a wondrous disaster for Democrats (and the nation) that I keep getting more than enough links of interest to keep throwingthem up here.
"I wonder if he has the legal authority to do this." — Howard Dean, in response to POTUS just now on MSNBC
— Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) November 14, 2013
When you’ve lost Howard Dean…
Obama’s promise that if you liked your health care, you could keep it “was willfully, knowingly false.”
Because our great nation is constantly producing new crops of naive undergraduates, it occurs to me that it might be time to explicate what is painfully obvious to even the most casual observers outside the self-delusional circles of college bull sessions, academic Marxists and Occupy Wall Street. Namely:
The theory of communism goes something like this:
Communism + Imagination of True Believer = Magical Working Utopia
You know what tiny piece of evidence refutes this theory? It’s called “The 20th Century.”
The actual practice of communism works more like this:
Theory of Communism + Human Beings = Totalitarianism
Don’t place trust in human beings. Human beings are not reliable things.
When capitalism falls short of the platonic libertarian ideal, the result is Switzerland.
When communism falls short of the wondrous utopia existing in true believers’ heads, the result is Pol Pot’s Cambodia.
These two failure modes are not identical.
The persistent belief that communism can work is sort of like the “No True Scotsman” fallacy, only worse. At least you can find Scotsmen that actually fit the definition. The “No True Communism” fallacy substitutes an idealized successful communist state that only exists in people’s heads for dozens of catastrophic real-world examples.
No dictatorship of the proletariat is possible, because the heady violence of revolution always brings the strongest and most ruthless revolutionaries to the top of the new social order. And these are the precise individuals who entrench and extend their power by means of purging their potential rivals (see also: purge of the Mensheviks), suppression of dissenting opinions (see: Kronstadt rebellion) and establishment of a ruling elite nomenklatura with personal loyalty to the dictatorial leader.
(Hint: If you didn’t know the words Menshevik, Kronstadt rebellion and nomenklatura before you stumbled on this page, you shouldn’t be arguing about communism over the Internet. Actually, the last nine words of that preceding sentence probably apply universally as well…)
Thinking communism might work in the 21st century is like thinking that this time, spraying gasoline over it will finally put out that fire. If a surgical procedure is inevitably 100% fatal to the person being operated on, doctors stop performing it. And no, the magical cash free utopia some time in the distant past you have vague anecdotal evidence of doesn’t count.
You can no more separate communism from totalitarianism that you can separate your own shadow from your body. The two always go together.
Give it up.
You can check out Ted Cruz’s performance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno yourself:
Time for another LinkSwarm, still top-heavy with ObamaCare failure news:
*Real Fascist, not just in the liberal name-calling sense.
I hadn’t been planning on doing another ObamaCare roundup one day after the previous one, but the tsunami of ObamaCare bad news just keeps flowing in, carrying the flotsam and jetsam of Obama’s many lies atop it.