Chef Mojo

As For Playing Nice?

Bill Quick, my editor over at Daily Pundit, whips up a nice response to those who are content to make nice with the new administration:

Just how fucking stupid are we?

Some of us sit on our ivory impalement stakes, preening about our “rationality,” our “civilization,” our pride that we don’t suffer from “Obama Derangement Syndrome.”

Meanwhile, the liberties of the Republic - “if we can keep it” - given us by our Founders and Framers, via their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor are heading straight down the toilet while we pretend that politics is a game of beanbag played by “honorable rules.”

We are fools. 

Do you value liberty? Do you value the republic the framers gave us? Do you hate socialism? Do you despise those who would destroy the American dream of self-reliance, individual liberty, and personal advancement by trading it for a nightmare mess of socialist, statist pottage?

You do? And yet you would soothe your own idiotic sense of personal value by refusing to dirty your hands with the vicious matters of victory over an opponent who has no such qualms, no such restraints?

How disgusting I find you, who will console yourself with idiotic notions of personal nobility while the opporessors put their chains around your necks and their boots into your faces.

Fuck you, and fuck your loser’s mentality.

Commenter martinra, recently added to the blog's masthead treats us to a quote as relevant now as it was back then:

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!”

Samuel Adams

In other words, if your attitude is "blessed are the peacemakers," then I suggest you get the hell out of our way. We've got work to do.

May your chains sit lightly upon you, indeed.

Memo To John McCain and The Republican Party:

Ok, guys. You lost the election.

Now, I expected some gnashing of teeth and rendering of garments. That's only natural after a political debacle like this. I expected some introspection and navel gazing and a rather vigorous debate about where you went wrong.

I did not expect, in my wildest dreams, that you would pull out the long knives and go after your Vice Presidential pick.

The actions of certain unnamed staffers and the inaction of Senator McCain and the Party in refuting those actions is the final nail in the coffin of my self identification as a Republican. The simple fact of the matter is that the reason - the only reason - I pushed the button for McCain was his selection of Sarah Palin. Call it an investment in the future; my little way of showing where I'd like to see the Party go. Sarah Palin showed more class and political skill than the entire lot of you bumbling incompetents.

And now he and his staff show us the reality; all of them back stabbing, vindictive, ass-covering, cowardly sonsofbitches. The Republican Party’s reaction isn’t much better. I expected better, great fool that I am. You all must be very afraid of her and her hold on a substantial part of the electorate. You should be.

So, here's where it stands. I'm no longer a Republican. I'm severing myself from your merry band of cutthroats. I'm removing myself from your lists and you'll not see one thin dime in contributions from me.

Basically, I telling you to go screw yourselves if the above concepts are not penetrating your thick skulls.

Maybe Truer Than He Knows...

Amidst the gloom, this gave me a serious chuckle. Count on the Onion to put things in perspective:

Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job

WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America.

(...)

Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, "It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can't catch a break."

That's All She Wrote...

Well, it's over.

Barack Obama will be our next president. Truth be told, I'm not very happy about that.

I am, however, intensely proud to be an American today. It is an historic moment, indeed.

But, I feel somewhat empty. I know nothing abut this man; he is a cypher, an unknown. He has not gained my trust, let alone my devotion and love. I cannot see that happening under any circumstances. He has earned my respect as a victor, but not much else.

At this moment, my tenuous grasp of the concept of "hope," is that I hope he doesn't fuck things up completely. That when I stand up in disagreement and in opposition, I will not be branded a racist, but judged on the merits of my arguments.

The reality of hopes and dreams is that they float away into the gathering fog, to fade into grey obscurity. To be in oppostion to a man like Barack Obama will be ugly and dangerous.

Yet, despite this, I will stand in oppostion to this man and his beliefs, as honorably as I can. I will take whatever his followers and sycophants throw at me; hate, slander and violence. I will struggle and I will prevail. If not me, personally, then the ideals I believe to be true and right, somewhere down the road.

I understand that it will be a long road, rough road ahead. I do not have faith that Barack Obama is the right person for this job. But I congratulate him on his victory, and my thoughts will be with him and his family as he prepares for this mighty responsiblility.

Whackjob

So, now I'm going to piss my brother off.

I can't stand Ron Paul.

I think the man is a certified whackjob. So does Roger L. Simon.

Of course, psychological sophistication isn't a hallmark of Paul supporters. Ideological purity is. More than most groups, they live deep in the world of theory, typing away on their computers with very little connection to the real world. In that way they are somewhat like their candidate - a man who, I confess, was not on my radar screen until recently - who seems to suffer from a kind of cognitive dissonance. When you listen to him answer questions at the debates, he never appears to answer directly. And I don't mean that he spins in the way nearly all politicians do. He seems so lost in ideology he doesn't quite comprehend. Can you imagine this man actually being elected and telling the G8 he wants to go back on the gold standard? I guess his supporters would applaud.

And in the comments to this post the Paulbots emerge to prove Simon's point. Predictably and right on schedule.

Every time I hear Ron Paul speak, I cringe and grind my teeth. The man is so thoroughly out of touch with reality. That is, the real world around him and how it operates.  He's many things, but he's not a Republican. Hell, I can't really see how he's a libertarian, for that matter. He's as much a Republican as Lyndon LaRouche was a Democrat. Or as much of a Republican as David Duke. Ron Paul strikes me as being in that league: A fringe loser of a charlatan surrounded by sycophantic fanatics who have nothing better to do than run up internet polls to satisfy their maniacal egos. As one Paulbot commenter states:

Remember the Ron Paul momentum is only a month or so old. MSM lags several weeks behind. He is not listed in polls and the phone polls do not include cell phone users. I am a former liberal who is supporting him. The fight will continue and increase and God willing the American people will come out on top when the dust settles. When the naysayers see the supporters in the streets (we are willing to fight) many will join him. It comes down to a battle of the republic versus the nwo. where will you be counted? You must decide where you stand idealogcally and choose sides. The time is now. You might think we are crazy, but thats what the English thought of our forefathers.

(emphasis mine)

How's that for letting your Brownshirt/Jackboot freak flag fly? You don't like what we're trying to do, we're gonna take to the streets! The pusch will not be televised... Setting aside the fact that the English didn't consider our forefathers crazy, just English, the amount of disconnect to reality illustrated in this comment is mind boggling.

Let's get it out there: Ron Paul is a Truther (a 9/11 denialist), and I find those types despicable in their idiocy. He's completely out of touch on the war in Iraq in particular and the war on terror in general. Areas that I might agree with him (taxes, border security, privacy) are negated by the fact that he's completely out there on aforementioned issues. I don't like his style and I certainly don't like that vast majority of his lame supporters. Paul does not belong on the dais with the other Republican candidates. If he wants to run for President, let him run as an independent. He's going to do that anyway, sooner rather than later.

Oh, And By The Way...

I'm with Fred.

That little widget doohickey to the right will set you up over at Fred's new site, if you are of like mind.

Fred Thompson srikes me as smart, tough and articulate on the issues I care about. There's something genuine about the guy that appeals to me. These are trying and delicate times, and I think Fred's the one to steer us past the rocks and shoals.

Dems? Nary a one that doesn't make my skin crawl. No. Really. These people creep me out. They start out saying something I understand, and then the next thing I know, they're doing the political equivalent of speaking in tongues and handling snakes. They start getting googly eyed and start doing the Panderer Cake Walk to please their core. Not that the Republicans don't do that, mind you.  It's just that when the Dems do it, it's just far more schizophrenic. Example. I expect Republicans to pander to the religious right; that's a given. But watching Democrats triangulate on religion is just sad.

Anyway, this will probably be the beginning of me blogging politics again. Sorry to those I love who may find this distressing, but I gotta have my say, whether anyone's reading it ore not. And from the look of things, not many people are reading Chef Mojo. [well, Chef, if you bothered to post every once in a blue moon, things might be different, y'know? Yeah, yeah. I know...]

Maybe I should start Google chumming...