Cynthia Yockey, A Conservative Lesbian – Page 45

Hitler finds out Phil Jones has admitted 'climate change' science isn't settled

This video actually is an amazingly good summary of the melting of the anthropogenic global warming hoax now re-branded as “climate change,” which seems like a safe enough position to hold since change is what the climate does all the time.

I have pretty much recovered from shoveling the record snowfalls we received here in northern Maryland. About all I’ve done this month is prepare for, deal with and recover from the snowfalls. I have a lot of things to catch up on. I haven’t finished working my way through all the comments that accumulated while I was too tired/sore to deal with them. In addition, I wanted to write a post explaining my objections to Gay Patriot and various positions taken by Daniel Blatt, but CPAC starts on Thursday and goes until Saturday evening, Feb. 18-20. I have to prepare for that so it looks like I won’t be able to get that done until after CPAC. I see from the comments to my post on Gay Patriot West that Gay Patriot, Bruce, the founder of the blog, is irritated with me, too. I know Bruce and I are scheduled to be in at least one meeting together, pre-CPAC on Wednesday. This is a discussion that SHOULD be taking place in the open between our blogs. I intend to continue it.

And really — how is it possible there are gay men who have NOT had an outraged lesbian grab them by the shoulders, rant at them, and shake them until they rattle in order to raise their consciousness on some issue? It’s. What. We. DO!

However, I do want to note how much the reactions of Gay Patriot (Bruce) and Gay Patriot West (Daniel Blatt) contrast sharply with those of Stacy McCain, my dear friend and frequent antagonist on the issues of homosexual equality, gay marriage and feminism. Really, click my categories “Stacy McCain of The Other McCain,” and “Robert Stacy McCain” and see what a true professional and good sport he is. It won’t be hard to figure out why I stick up for Stacy, regardless of our opposition on issues we each hold so close to our hearts.

By the way, I plan never to have a public fight with Hill Buzz because our communication is excellent so I would never have to, I adore the Hill Buzz boys, we’ve been supportive of one another from the get-go, and when they criticize the gay community, they do it pretty much from the same place I do — it’s regarding specific people from their past or present. Also, when Kevin, et al., write, they unite reason, love, passion, duty and a fine sense of right and wrong. Their posts always are worth reading because I always learn something I didn’t know and wanted to learn, or my heart is warmed or I get a laugh — like their post today on the meltdown of the religion of anthropogenic global warming with a funny illustration featuring Al Gore.

For my dear gentle readers who are concerned about my father, my awesome nephew will be looking after him when I am in Washington, D.C., at CPAC, assisted by our kitties.

Mother Nature testifies to Congress on the myth of anthropogenic global warming with two blizzards in one week

Here in northeastern Maryland, over the last week, we’ve had two snowfalls, two blizzards, thunder snow and freezing rain. Yesterday we shot past the record for largest amount of snow in Maryland since records began to be kept in 1883 — we’re now at 72 + inches for the season. This is the first winter Maryland has had two snowstorms with snow accumulation totalling over 12 inches — and both of those storms — Dec. 19, 2009, and Feb. 6, 2010 — had over 20 inches. So we’ve also made the record for two snow storms over 20 inches. And that was before the current blizzard. For Maryland, the top three snowstorms since 1883 have occurred since 1996. And the winter of 1995-96 was the coldest in 98 years.

It’s been snowing this afternoon at the rate of two inches per hour and the blizzard is expected to last about three more hours, until 7 pm.

We’ve been very lucky so far. We’ve had electricity continuously, we have food for people and cats, and the medicines my father needs. The tree that was uprooted by the weight of the snow fell away from the house. It is a tough slog through the snow to the backyard because the snow is several inches over my knees and today’s blizzard totally filled in the path I made a couple of days ago, but I’ve been able to keep the bird feeders full.

I’ve hit my limit for shoveling snow — I’m in pain — but thrifty and industrious teens live nearby and I hope to hire some to dig us out tomorrow.

I haven’t looked at comments here or my e-mail for days because I’ve just been too tired and in too much pain. I’ll dig out from those, too, as soon as I can.

Prayers are still welcome. Thank you, gentle readers.

Looks like this blizzard is going to take the record in the Baltimore area

I am sorry I haven’t posted or approved — or read — comments for a few days. I had to dig out of about six inches of snow on Wednesday and take my father for a routine medical appointment and do errands. Then I stayed up most of the night watching over him because there was a chance he would need my assistance. And then I spent Thursday and Friday preparing for the blizzard that is blanketing the mid-Atlantic region in snow.

Also, I wanted to be less enraged with Gay Patriot West, aka Daniel Blatt, and have several hours clear in order to write the sequence of posts I need to write in order to explain my position and then approve and answer comments. I may not have that block of time for a few more days due to the blizzard. The snow looks like it is going to break the record at Thurgood Marshall-BWI airport of 28.2 inches that was set in 2003.

I’m going to be spending the rest of the daylight hours clearing the snow on our walkway and driveway. It looks like it’s at least 30 inches in spots and it’s wet at the bottom. The night temperatures for the next several days will be in the teens, so that slush will turn to ice if I don’t get it cleared. And I just got a robo-call from the county saying we could get up to eight inches more snow before the storm ends. If you want to pray for us, I welcome that. Please God let the electricity stay on — we both sleep with respirators for obstructive sleep apnea — and let the roof hold.

I did see a comment in my comment queue from Daniel calling me passive-aggressive for declaring war on him publicly without trying to persuade him behind-the-scenes to change his ways. No, no, no! I am 100 percent aggressive! I’ve already punksmacked him a few times over the course of the last year and seen no sign of improvement. Daniel has made Gay Patriot the safest place on the Internet to get your gay-hate on, and he regularly pronounces his benedictions over hatred toward gays. No one in the conservative blogosphere has to denounce homosexuals — all they have to do is wait a few minutes for Daniel’s post or column and then link it. The way I see it, Daniel is doing more than practically anyone else to destroy any chance homosexuals have of equality in America — and I consider that a form of genocide, even if it is a very slow-motion one and if it’s not affecting you then you will find that word much too extreme. I saw no reason to believe that back-channel communications with Daniel would alter his attitude or behavior. So I decided to make an example of him.

Gay Patriot West, with friends like you, same-sex marriage equality doesn't need enemies

As I recall, the last time I punksmacked Daniel Blatt, aka Gay Patriot West, over his ambivalence about gay marriage, — “You no playa da game, you no maka da rules,”I found out he has never been in a longterm committed relationship. (I will publish any correction of this statement he sends me.) I was, for over 20 years, caring for my late life partner until her death on Dec. 7, 2004.

That is why I am OUTRAGED that Daniel never misses an opportunity in the conservative blogosphere to damage the cause of same-sex marriage equality. His latest assault on gays and lesbians who are seeking equality in every aspect of their lives, especially marriage equality, is founded on siding with Joy Behar, of “The View,” who recently opined that homosexuals do not deserve marriage equality because she says we are not monogamous. Or somehow, straight people who marry are monogamous, but gay people, who cannot marry, are not monogamous and therefore never deserve to have marriage equality.

Actually, considering the divorce rate, it looks to me like the straight community should be VERY humble and filled with compassion on the issue of monogamy in marriage.

Also, I want to point out to my fellow gays and lesbians on the Left that THIS is an example of the Left’s betrayal of its promise of support for homosexual equality. They don’t deliver because they do not want to deliver. Who on the Left condemned Behar for extrapolating her attack on the capacity of gays to be faithful into an attack on our quest for equality?

But more importantly, it is time for me to put Daniel on notice that I am going to start matching any further denunciations of the quest of gays and lesbians for equality, especially with regard to marriage, by ridiculing him as a man who has never been able to maintain a long-term, committed relationship. Therefore, I suspect Daniel’s rejection of marriage for ALL homosexuals really has to do with his personal inadequacy. But, if I am wrong, and Daniel has found someone, then I think truth and justice will still be better served if Daniel STOPS writing about gay marriage altogether until he has had one for at least five years.

This is all-out war, Daniel. You do NOT deserve to kill the hopes and dreams and aspirations of worthier people who NEED equality to have the same advantages and supports straight people do to build their lives together and support one another through prosperity and adversity until death parts them.Until YOU’VE been married to the man who is the love of your life for at least FIVE years, you do NOT know enough to write about same-sex marriage equality.

P.S.

And while I’ve got the strop out, I think you are crazy to let American Elephant dominate your blog. He poisons every comment thread he’s in and is acting like he’s your co-blogger, when he’s really the worst kind of concern troll.

Obama is a sociopath and ridicule is his Kryptonite

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Most of the action here over the last few days, in terms of traffic, has been for a post I wrote last February about ridicule being Obama’s Kryptonite (see below for the link). It was relevant to a post Jonah Goldberg wrote at National Review Online’s “The Corner” about Obama having a glass jaw when it comes to ridicule, which I found via Instapundit. So I sent my post to Instapundit, aka Prof. Glenn Reynolds, and he graciously included it in the conversation by linking it. It seems to have touched a nerve — it’s gotten some 14,000 hits in just a few days.

I’ve been working for over a year to get my gentle readers to understand how Obama meets the clinical definition of a sociopath, so you all can defend yourselves better and not fall for Obama’s lies. Obama will keep a campaign promise if doing so supports his narcissism, makes people jump or grovel (which feeds his sociopathy), or destroys capitalism and/or democracy (which affirms his Leftist ideology). If an Obama promise won’t do any of those things, then he made the promise, or told people what they wanted to hear, in order to get people to hand over their power and money willingly. In that case, if he made a promise, he has no intention of keeping it. In addition, he has a well-rehearsed repertoire of behaviors for manipulating, shaming, fending off, befogging, gaslighting, denouncing and invalidating people who confront him about his failure to keep his side of the bargain. Alternatively, he promises to do his part in an ever-receding future.

In June 2009 I wrote an answer to a column by Victor Davis Hanson: “Dr. Hanson, I can tell you why Obama just makes stuff up.” In it, I pulled together my three fundamental posts on Obama as a sociopath whose Kryptonite is ridicule, which I wrote in February 2009:

“Understanding Obama“
“The chilling explanation of why Obama is cool“
“Why ridicule is Obama’s Kryptonite.

This post also is helpful:

“Understanding Obama: learn the four types of enablers of narcissists.”

In later posts I did ridicule Obama, as you can see from the LOLCats photos above and below, or if you read my April Fool’s Day post, “Obama confesses to treason and resigns, co-conspirators are in custody, Hillary Clinton sworn in as president.”

Here are some samples of the way I ridicule Obama via LOLCats photos:

How Obama’s presidency will really end:

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See HillBuzz: “The angrier gays get over DOMA and DADT the more likely you are to hear stories about Man’s Country” and “All we could think of when we saw this cartoon of Rahm Emanuel was ….”

And:

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Advice on sex tapes for Rielle Hunter

The Bloggess has advice on making sex tapes — “Don’t!” — but since the sex DVD of Rielle Hunter and John Edwards has just come to public awareness and I hear tell you only can recognize John Edwards, I think it’s only common decency to bring items seven through 10 on re-dubbing the sound track to Rielle’s attention.

Actually, Jonah, in taking on 'don't ask, don't tell,' Obama is saying to gays, 'bite me'

Over at National Review Online, Jonah Goldberg is counseling the Right not to take the bait on Obama’s promise finally to start the process of repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell,” with a piece entitled, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Bite“:

I’m basically with Amy Holmes and Jim Geraghty on this one. Conservatives shouldn’t take Obama’s bait on repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. The Left seems entirely underwhelmed and unpersuaded by Obama’s rhetorical pandering. I’m not saying he doesn’t believe it should be repealed. But no one seems to think Obama will do anything to achieve this supposed goal. Democrats certainly aren’t going to push it in an election year when they’re supposed to be concentrating on jobs and tacking back to the center.

So why did Obama even throw it out there? Beyond the obvious desire to shore-up his left flank, I can’t help but wonder if — as Amy suggests — this is a deliberate wedge issue. It’s not aimed at voters, but at conservative talk radio and similar sectors of the Right. Obama wants to win back independents.

Jonah, I think Obama is telling gays, “Bite me!”

The prominent people who support the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” are on the Right — Dick Cheney, Gen. Colin Powell (ret.), Gen. John Shalikashvili (ret.) — so I really don’t see the Right getting very stirred up against people volunteering to serve their country in the armed forces, especially in a time of war. Also, if the armed forces are able to figure out how to allow Muslims to serve — people whose religion commands them to kill unbelievers and to fight enemies of Islam, which would be their fellow soldiers — then I’m pretty sure they are able to allow gays and lesbians to serve openly, as long as they behave according to the same rules of propriety that apply to straight soldiers.

Obama does not play games he hasn’t rigged. The base he will never betray — the anti-gay black religious Left*, Muslims and illegal aliens — is comprised of groups that are nation-building: morality is just their cover story for destroying people who are not on board with making babies for them. However, homosexuals have gotten unpleasantly uppity lately. Very nearly a critical mass of them have realized that the Left NEVER intends to keep its promises to them of equality. After all, if it did, then Obama would have gotten busy on the task even before giving the first interview of his presidency to Muslims and declaring that he would empty Gitmo and give foreign Muslim terrorists the same rights as American citizens — and MORE rights than homosexual American citizens have.

So I think Obama has rigged a crushing defeat for any attempt to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell,” and his homosexual patsies on the Left — I’m talking to YOU, Human Rights Campaign! — don’t see this betrayal coming. I don’t think even the uppity gay and lesbian bloggers — Pam, Joe, John and Towleroad — who have been generating real pain to Obama and the Democrats with their calls for gays to stop working for and donating to Democrats until they have enacted laws for homosexual equality see this betrayal looming. But this is classic Obama — make big promises and get homosexuals hopeful and gushing cash, then a few days or weeks later, crush them with actions that are the opposite of what was promised. Demonize the Right and repeat. A devastating defeat of an effort to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell” will cow homosexuals about calling for the Democratic majority of Congress to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and generally shut them up all round.

I also think Obama is counting on an outcry from the Right in favor of “don’t ask, don’t tell” to give cover to the bigotry of the Left. In that respect, Jonah is correct to tell the Right, “don’t bite.”

Update, February 1, 2010, Mon.: Thank you, Instapundit, for the link to this post on Obama’s SOTU promise to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell,” and welcome, Instapundit readers! I share Instapundit’s post with Jennifer Rubin, who suggests that Obama intends to disappear the issue of repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” into the fog of the indefinite future in her post at Commentary, “Don’t Ask When, Don’t Tell the Left They’ve Been Conned.”

Also, here’s a bonus explanation from Hill Buzz about why I am scolding the Human Rights Campaign, from Oct. 13, 2009:

BUT, if these Human Rights Campaign volunteers approach US, and engage US, and ask US to support them, then we let them know, politely, just what we think of these idiots. Which sounds something like this:

“We will never again support the Human Rights Campaign, and on a regular basis tell everyone we know not to support you either, because from June to November 2008 you gave every cent donated to you to the Obama campaign. Clearly, you do not need money if you can so freely give it away. Clearly, you can’t be trusted with money if you lavish it on someone who has no intention of doing anything for the LGBTQ community. Do you know what Obama did on June 29th, 2008 instead of marching in the Chicago Gay Pride Parade? He got his hair cut and played basketball at the East Bank Club. He has done absolutely nothing for the LGBTQ community and pays only vague lip service to DADT and DOMA issues. He is not supporting marriage equality in Maine and Vermont…and he did not instruct his followers to defeat Prop-8 in California, which passed because of the enthusiastic support of black Obama voters. Joe Solomonese and the Human Rights Campaign will never again have our support because they put all their hopes into the world’s largest do-nothing narcissist. You should be ashamed to be out supporting an organization that is clearly so stupid and shortsighted.”

*Over at Hot Air late on Jan. 31, Slublog ponders, “Obama religious supporters jumping ship?,” and concludes:

It seems to me that religious leaders aren’t moving away from Obama because they’re disappointed with his actions as president, but because they are tired of being used by a man who is no longer interested in their input.

Update, Feb. 1, 2010, Mon.: Thank you, Prof. William Jacobson, of Legal Insurrection, for linking this post in your post explaining to the Left how it’s always donate-today-for-jam-tomorrow when it comes to Obama’s promises to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell”:

Obama did not say DADT would be repealed this year. He said that “this year” he would “work with Congress and our military ….” The professor-in-chief sure knows how to pen a sentence.

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[Gay Lefties:] Please check your in-boxes, there are e-mails from the DNC and Organizing for America seeking donations “this year.”

And for donations, the DNC and OFA really mean this year, as in 2010, as in give them your credit card number right now to make sure they get your money this year. What do you not understand about this year?

Just like me, T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII plays the bassoon

That’s how Iowahawk’s guest blogger this week knows Obama’s State of the Union address was a symphony:

In those astonishing 75 minutes that held an entire nation rapt, Mr. Obama transcended the earthly bounds of mere oratory; it was the music of Heaven itself, and only the language of music can sufficiently describe his sheer virtuosity. Luckily, music is a second language for me, having once played second bassoon ….

Front and back images of a Puchner bassoon. Puchner is a highly regarded bassoon manufacturer; their instruments are a joy to play.

Chris Matthews: 'For an hour I forgot he was black'

This post is a two-fer.

Chris Matthews’ remark on MSNBC after Obama’s State of the Union speech, “For an hour I forgot he was black,” rightly has been ridiculed as revealing an all-consuming racism and, apparently, the fact that for the very first time Matthews, did what conservatives have been doing, which is consider Obama on the content of his character and the consequences of his policies.

Instapundit linked the send-up of Matthews’ revelation by Wyatt Cenac at Comedy Central, which helped me find the piece Cenac did for Martin Luther King Day on Harry Reid’s remarks on Obama being electable because he is a light-skinned Negro who does not speak in “Negro dialect” unless he wants to. If you are as angry with Donna Brazile for her role in stealing the nomination from Hillary in 2008 and handing it to Obama as I am, then the expression on her face in the second clip below at 3:36 will make you spew and/or pee in your pants. You’ve been warned.

Here is Wyatt Cenac on Chris Matthews’ SOTU commentary, “For an hour I forgot Obama was black”:

And here is Wyatt Cenac in Las Vegas, Nevada — Harry Reid’s state — to collect his apology from Reid for Reid’s “light-skinned Negro/Negro dialect” remarks — the best moment is Donna Brazile at 3:36:

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See Afrocity’s Tweety alert, “Who knew Obama was black?“

Hayek 2010 — how personal fabrication is our newest engine of job creation and economic recovery

The caption from the February issue of Wired reads as follows:

In an age of open source, custom-fabricated, DIY product design, all you need to conquer the world is a brilliant idea.

From the video:

The way you would shop on Amazon is not so different from the way you are now shopping for custom manufacturing in China. Now I have access to the exact same factories, tools, manufacturing technologies that the biggest companies of the world have access to and I can order at a scale that makes sense for me.

What happens when you democratize the tools of production is that more people produce. And when more people produce they make different things. They make things the big companies might not have made, which gives you the long tail of stuff.

This Wired story is one of the most exciting things I’ve read in a long time because it explains the expansion of opportunity for success in manufacturing, especially for niche products, to the level of individuals. It also demonstrates the success of individuals to duplicate the resources available to large companies through crowdsourcing and open source designs — while being far more nimble in seizing opportunities and reacting to market conditions than large companies with ponderous bureaucracies. THIS is what Hayek was talking about in unleashing the power of individual creativity and ambition as the true drivers of thriving economies and scientific and technological innovation:

The door of a dry-cleaner-size storefront in an industrial park in Wareham, Massachusetts, an hour south of Boston, might not look like a portal to the future of American manufacturing, but it is. This is the headquarters of Local Motors, the first open source car company to reach production. Step inside and the office reveals itself as a mind-blowing example of the power of micro-factories.

In June, Local Motors will officially release the Rally Fighter, a $50,000 off-road (but street-legal) racer. The design was crowdsourced, as was the selection of mostly off-the-shelf components, and the final assembly will be done by the customers themselves in local assembly centers as part of a “build experience.” Several more designs are in the pipeline, and the company says it can take a new vehicle from sketch to market in 18 months, about the time it takes Detroit to change the specs on some door trim. Each design is released under a share-friendly Creative Commons license, and customers are encouraged to enhance the designs and produce their own components that they can sell to their peers.

From the February Wired story, “In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits,” by Chris Anderson.

Via Prof. Glenn Reynolds, aka Instapundit, who wrote a column on the subject in 2005, “Do It Make It Yourself“:

I’m currently reading Neil Gershenfeld’s new book, Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop: From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication, and I’m finding it very interesting. It seems that the future may be arriving sooner than I had expected.

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Gershenfeld writes that it’s possible to do a surprising amount of general-purpose personal design and manufacturing work by combining existing off-the-shelf components in new ways, and he spends a lot of time talking about the results of his experiments in that direction. His discussions are very interesting, but to me the most interesting thing was his discovery that lots of people want this kind of capability — not because they hope to make money out of it, necessarily, but because they want to be able to make things for themselves that they can’t buy elsewhere.

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This is likely to have several interesting consequences. On the one hand, it’s likely to address some of the problems with product design that I’ve mentioned. On another, it’s likely to give a big push to the trend toward cottage industry that I’ve noted before. And, in a larger sense, it’s likely to produce a substantial economic shift in general.

Instapundit also noted in an update from reader Ry Jones that in Seattle “you can rent makerbots and lasers by the minute.”

Yo, Obama! THIS is what creates jobs!