A cheery post

A dystopian post from Bellingham blogger Karl Uppiano over at Rage Against the Kakistocracy :

"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste" ~ Rahm Emanuel
And if you don't have a serious crisis, by all means, create one. If you want to assume total political power, you create anarchy and chaos. Before long, the populace will beg for order, any order. A New World Order, if you've got one.

Barack Obama has been President for a little over two years, and now the entire world is on fire. If you think the Obama administration hasn't caused this, think again. Obama has brazenly and systematically alienated US allies, emboldened US enemies, and essentially taken the lid off all of the world's hot spots. The middle east is nearing total political melt-down. If that happens, the price of oil will skyrocket (worse than it already has, that is). That will make the prices of everything else skyrocket, including food and medical care.

People will start demanding that the government provide food and medical care, and thereby lock in the recently passed big government programs -- and with it, the 'progressive' big government elites. It will be the end of the middle class, of capitalism and the system of government envisioned by our founders, that provided the highest standard of living that mankind has ever known. Goodbye Enlightenment. Welcome to the New Dark Ages. I hope we can learn to like serfdom.

Very glad to not be living in the city these days -- urban civilization is but a thin veneer. A hiccup or two and the civility disintegrates. We have seen that in the various urban riots -- Rodney King happening ten years ago (when he, being out on parole, was drinking and driving and did not pull over for a traffic stop as his driving was erratic). And hey, here is another little parcel of joy -- this from House of Eratosthenes:

Let�s not pretend that liberals want to stop with just preventing their neighbors from dying bleeding in the street. They also insist on legislation to prevent their neighbors from being hungry, fat, underpaid, overpaid, jobless, overworked, pensionless, discontent, demoralized, bored, underutilized, untrained, unskilled, feckless, useless, or otherwise pitiable for whatever reason. When the haplessness of man has become the universal incitement to political action, there can be no end to the work of an energetic and meddlesome state.

And with this, I will retire to the DaveCave(tm) and then to bed. Got a load of lumber being delivered tomorrow -- a friend of ours is replacing two of our decks that have gotten a bit punky.