Henry David Thoreau and the mosquito infested, rancid, backed-up septic tank he called Walden Pond has become the pre-teen wet dream of every spoiled rich kid and faux Liberal who ever rebelled against Daddy’s trust fund.Every self appointed Progressive cultural elitist has laid claim to the mantle of Thoreau. To this cadre of over educated under achievers Thoreau is the embodiment of their eco-friendly, anti corporate, greed is bad lifestyle that is the opposite of their silver spoon child hood.Childhood guilt is a terrible thing to waste.
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
-Henry David Thoreau
Well, this is a Thoreau quote a Conservative can get behind. This simple and eloquent thesis, which bemoans the power of the state over the power of the individual, is a political statement that never loses its topicality. Though, I suspect this is one of Henry’s philosophical concepts that his Progressive idol worshipers like to skip over.
The delusional image of Henry sitting on his fat ass, in a mold infested cabin, pondering the inequities of American society, is such a prurient image that any East Coast elitist intellectual, who managed a C-minus in prep school , can repeatedly enjoy in a fit of masturbatory mania, while locked up in the privacy of their pool house. The pathetic attempt to justify their unearned birthright is such these Freedom Rider wannabees will literally roll around in the dirt at Thoreau’s graveside, while clutching ‘Dreams of My Father’ to their chest, and screaming out whole passages from Mao’s Red Book.
Red Book, indeed…
I guess this is the end result of rich kids with too much time on their hands and too few callous on their hands. It’s pretty hard to find people who actually work for a living giving a damn about Thoreau or Walden Pond. People who work for a living actually have productive things to do besides feel guilty about inheriting large amounts of cash and bonds. Personally, I wouldn’t mind inheriting large amounts of cash and bonds, but that’s just me.
The last time I drove by Walden Pond all I could see was a group of pseudo hippies wandering around in designer hemp ponchos and listening to “Life in the Woods“on their i-Phones. So much for living off the land…
Living off Daddy, well that’s a different story…
Somehow, I have the feeling that Henry David Thoreau would do the classic ‘rolling over in his grave’ at the way his writings and philosophy has been hijacked by the lazy, spoiled Leftist elitists and other assorted nefarious Progressive pollywogs.
Ah, the irony of it all, eh?
The concept of Thoreau’s essay Civil Disobedience has been abused and twisted by generation upon generation of spoiled and intellectually lazy punks with tallow complexions, but as Henry would say of his legion of dope addled, half shaven and morally indifferent followers, they are living A Life Without Principle and living the lie of Thoreau.
Smart Car PoliticsbyStephen Guy Hardin5/22/09
I live and work in the Atlanta metro area and in the course of my travels I visit many different parts of this vast and divergent city.Atlanta like many cities across the nation has a variety of political opinion and party affiliation based upon the politics of which area of town you live in.And like virtually every large city I am familiar with the downtown areas of Atlanta are overwhelming liberal Democrat. This includes the very rich and very white areas known as Buckhead, Mid-Town and Vinnings.Big mansions, big money and usually big cars.Usually.
While winding through the nefarious downtown traffic we consider normal I found myself following a bright new yellow Smart car. As we inched along West Paces Ferry in one of the wealthiest, old money areas Atlanta has to offer, I was astonished and then bemused to see the bright new yellow Smart car pull through the electronically controlled gates of one of the biggest and most over the top U2 lead singer style mansions along this avenue bursting with over the top nouveau rich fake Southern mansions. Of course the conclusions and observations are obvious to anyone with barely a middle school education, which includes the majority of liberals (ouch), but what better and deliciously appropriate example of the herd mentality and flagrant hypocrisy of the elitist Left could possibly be presented and on a silver platter no less. Yummy!
Oh, I forgot to mention the customized vanity plate.... "B Smart" .Seriously, folks I couldn�t make this stuff up.
It's just another example of Spielberg/Soras style politics. The politics of Pelosi and Clinton and Kerry� millionaires all.Play to your false self-aggrandizing ideology when traveling among the unwashed masses, but at night make sure you are able to put your slippers under a king-sized bed in a king-sized mansion.Smart car politics at its most obvious. Reprinted from The Washington Times May 22, 2009.
Next Year In Jerusalem ? by Stephen Guy Hardin 6/7/2009
I can't help but think of the overwhelming financial and voter support for Barack Obama which poured forth from the American Jewish community during the 2008 Presidential election. Mr. Obama benefited from overwhelming Jewish support even though his pro-Arab/anti-Israel policy positions were well known among the electorate. It appears from post-election polling data that the days of the American Jewish community standing firmly in support of Israel has been supplanted by an overwhelming loyalty to the Democrat Party or more precisely the extreme Left wing of the Democrat Party and its agenda of social change.
Publicly led by the camera friendly celebrity images of Barbra Streisand and Steven Spielberg and privately financed and manipulated by George Soros and his Democracy Alliance, the Jewish voter base in the United States has realigned itself from ensuring the safety and security of Israel to the rise and cultural dominance of the far-left agenda. Perhaps this subtle but dramatic shift in loyalty and commitment can be traced to the society wide shift from religious to secular that has surged over the U.S. since the sixties. Perhaps it is the generation of sixties radicals now occupying major positions of power and influence in the Democrat Party such as Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry etc. Or, as in most historical movements, perhaps it is a combination of these factors and more that have led the American Jewish community to abandon their traditional support of Israel for Barack Obama and his obvious disregard for the safety and survival of Israel.
Having said all this, I do wonder if there will come a tipping point when the American Jewish community will recognize the dangers their choices have created for the State of Israel or will the generations old commitment and struggle to support Israel continue to deteriorate under the weight of Liberalism's questioning of Israel's right to exist.
Where is the point going to be when the American Jewish community abandons the Democrat Party to once again support the right of Israel to exist? Or has the religion of Liberalism replaced the dream of next year in Jerusalem?
Reprinted from The Washington Times June 7,2009.
"I've Got You, Mary Bono Mack"
ByStephen Guy Hardin June 27, 2009.
Washington, Jun 18- Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack (CA-45) today issued the following statement on climate change legislation, urging the Majority to allow more time for bipartisan negotiations on the bill before it heads to the House floor for a vote:
"Any bill of this magnitude deserves bipartisan consideration and input," said Bono Mack. "It is clear that Members on both sides of the aisle have deep concerns about multiple issues within this legislation, and I appreciate the Speaker�s willingness to meet with Republicans today to identify these issues as we move forward.
"As I noted in Committee, this climate change bill is far from perfect but sets us on an important path toward a greener, more sustainable energy future. By allowing this legislation to be fully evaluated and incorporating bipartisan input, we can improve this bill for the benefit of Americans across the country.
"I am concerned that bringing the bill to the floor next week is too premature to properly evaluate Members� concerns and implement needed improvements."
The preceding blog is from Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack's official Congressional website for her 45th District.
I must admit that I find it a little ironic that Congresswoman Bono Mack posted this blog on June 18th and on June 26th she and seven like-minded Liberal Republicans voted with the Democrat majority in the House to pass the Cap In Trade bill under the guise of protecting the environment. The only environment Mary Bono Mack is apparently interested in protecting is the political environment of the House that Nancy has built.
This bill, Mrs. Bono Mack has crossed party lines to support, is so egregious that forty Democrats voted against it. Yet,she is swollen with pride of accomplishment for her bi-partisanship in providing Mrs. Pelosi with yet another turncoat...uh, I mean crossover vote.
Considering that we are over six months into what is considered the most radical leftist regime in United States history, since the first hundred days of FDR, why would any Republican vote for anything the Obama/Pelosi regime puts forward? One must be led to assume that, like Republican turncoat Arlen Specter in the Senate, Mrs. Bono Mack is more interested in currying the favor of Speaker Pelosi, Henry Waxman and the other assorted ruffians and scoundrels that make up the Democrat House leadership than she is in representing the voters of her district and the best interests of her country.
As long as the GOP has members in the House and the Senate who would rather dance to the tune that Speaker Pelosi and her fellow socialists...uh, I mean Democrats, play the Republican Party will forever be a party out of power. I am rather confident that when Speaker Pelosi looks out upon the House from her throne, she sees Congresswoman Bono Mack and her fellow RINO�s and hums the Sonny and Cher classic, "I've Got You, Babe" and you and you and...
"...the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost of Marx."
By Stephen Guy HardinJuly, 17, 2009.
From my observations over the past few decades of Liberal watching, which I must say is a very frustrating pastime, I have come to the realization, or should I say epiphany, that for all the Liberal ranting and raving about God and religion, Liberals do indeed worship a god (small g) of their own choosing.They worship upon the alter of Anger and Rage and Fairness.Pelosi, Reid, Frank and the newest cherub to descend upon the Beltway from the clouds, Al Franken, include into every phrase or title or bill some variation of the word Fair, Fairness, Equal, Level Playing Field, Global or just plain Comrade. The list can go on for days, as can they, and like all true religious zealots anyone who disagrees with them is the worst kind of bigot, racist, sexist, homophobe, blah, blah, blah. Much like the godfather (small g) of all these Lefties, Karl Marx and his "special" male patron Fredrick Engels, who co-pioneered the philosophy of class envy and hatred, Liberals are arrogantly and blissfully content with the hypocrisy and double standard of their lifestyle.
Not unlike Hitler turning against the Jews who had befriended him in Austria when he was a starving young sociopath, Marx turned against the class of people who had aided and befriended him when he was starving and unable to provide for his family.While going through his limited family money and then squandering the funds from his poor deluded wife, Marx wrote and theorized, a typical Leftist pursuit, about the denigration of the poor working classes by the oppressive elites and so on and so on.I've always found Marx speaking on behalf of the working classes a little humorous considering he never did an honest day's work in his life, other than giving his �patron� Frederick Engels daily foot massages.But, of course, this is what Liberals do, as they try and achieve a balanced emotional state without the benefit of mood altering medication. Only by yelling, berating and denigrating Conservatives, America and anyone who has the misfortune to be within screaming distance of them, are Liberals able to achieve a Zen-like state of calm and inner peace that only the true sociopath knows.
Nancy Pelosi, Ted "Wrong Way" Kennedy, Al Franken, Harry Reid, John " I Only Marry For Money" Kerry and the list of Liberal 'Champions of the Oppressed Working Class' goes on and on and what is the one thing these self-anointed saviors have in common...uh, wait a minute. Almost got it... Yes, you're right! They are all millionaires several times over and they have all earned their money the old fashioned way. By stealing it or in Ted Kennedy's case his dad stole it.Hypocrisy your name is Liberal.
The next time you see a flock of familiar Liberal/Democrat politicians gather around a microphone, any microphone, and their faces are contorted in anger and disgust at the evil that is America, just remember that they are all richer than you and I could ever hope to become in two lifetimes.They have their own limos, private jets, personal armed security guards, multiple homes, wives and girlfriends, as well as being on a first name basis with the cr�me de la cr�me of the top leftist morons of Hollywood.Rumor even has it that Nancy Pelosi has a private chapel build into her Senate office for private prayer sessions before convening the House of Representatives.
So anytime Liberals begin to make you feel guilty about not being poor or angst about how evil America really is or even about the injustice of you just being alive remember who these people really are and how they really live when the cameras aren't rolling.Visualize, if you will, the image of Nancy Pelosi in her private Senate office chapel. There she is kneeling on her alter of bleeding hearts and making her peace before God as she heads into battle with the evil legions of Conservatives. Genuflecting to the holy sacrament of DasKapital , crossing herself and saying, "...the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost of Marx."
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