Bosch Fawstin

Saturday, April 03, 2010

17 min. whopper

From this story, where a teleprompterless B.O. answered a question with a 17 min. whopper about Obamacare to a bored audience.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

War is ugly and brutal, and the uglier and more brutal the counterattack against those who start wars is, the quicker they're ended. Here's a passage on General William Tecumseh Sherman and his famous March, from the new book, Nothing Less Than Victory by John David Lewis:

"To rip out the source of the rebellion, Sherman set out on what was, in effect, an educational mission. His actions served to connect the abstraction "war" to its concrete referent in reality: immediate, personal destruction. No longer would "war" float in the minds of the southerners as an elixir, calling up notions of social superiority, bereft of its real meaning. The smell of smoke would haunt southern civilians as it had haunted the people of Carthage and Sparta--the smell of failure caused by their own willingness to wage war on others. War now meant loss, poverty, shame, and death. Now, knowing its nature, they could reject it."

Monday, March 29, 2010

FORCE

One of the scum behind the government takeover of healthcare said that they're:

"....asking every American to be involved in the system."

Asking? This is government force, period.

From a great article by Amit Ghate,

Force and Violence: How the Left Blurs Terms:

"The left’s modus operandi.....is to denounce the open use of “violence,” while promoting and condoning every other form of force."

Monday, March 22, 2010

AMERICANS: GET UP & FIGHT

REPEAL!

Ayn Rand says it better than anyone:

“I quit when medicine was placed under State control some years ago,” said Dr. Hendricks. “Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill? That was what I could not place at the disposal of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward. I observed that in all the discussions that preceded the enslavement of medicine, men discussed everything—except the desires of the doctors. Men considered only the ‘welfare’ of the patients, with no thought for those who were to provide it. That a doctor should have any right, desire or choice in the matter, was regarded as irrelevant selfishness; his is not to choose, they said, but ‘to serve.’ That a man who's willing to work under compulsion is too dangerous a brute to entrust with a job in the stockyards—never occurred to those who proposed to help the sick by making life impossible for the healthy. I have often wondered at the smugness at which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind—yet what is it they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands? Their moral code has taught them to believe that it is safe to rely on the virtue of their victims. Well, that is the virtue I have withdrawn. Let them discover the kind of doctors that their system will now produce. Let them discover, in the operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man they have throttled. It is not safe, if he is the sort of man who resents it—and still less safe, if he is the sort who doesn’t.”

-- Ayn Rand, from Atlas Shrugged, published in 1957