Insanity Defined...





It should be defined as doing something that has proven ineffective again and again, each time expecting different results. Do we, as a people, like the headlines and the drama so much that we allow ourselves to hide from teaching our population to fight back? What other possible explanation would there be???

Gretchen Carlson on Fox and Friends this morning recounted the shooting aftermath, emphasizing that the one "big remaining question" still was unanswered...

"Why?"

That's not a question that matters at all, yet we all repeatedly focus upon it and try to conjure up some rational explanation. There is none. There never will be. And it doesn't matter.

What matters is that we are doing absolutely NOTHING concrete to empower citizens and students alike in these ridiculous "gun free zones". We do nothing to encourage them to defend themselves, prepare to defend themselves or consider/anticipate the same sequence of events that will unfurl the next time that some derelict decides to go out in a big blaze of headlines and take a few random, innocent sheep with him.

But we do always make sure to publish the shooter's photograph, guaranteeing him the fame he seeks. In doing so, we also make sure to send the message to the other waiting-in-the-wings crazies that they, too, will get their picture in the paper when they emulate the same tried and proven practice. This really is public insanity... nothing short of it!

I sat and watched a campus "news" conference this morning wherein the speaker spent a great deal of effort and time "introducing" all the official police personnel who showed up for the cameras and the "we're all so sorry" singsong. I'm sure the victims families were quite impressed and comforted by all the attention after their loved ones were summarily executed.

And of course included were a few key interviews of student witnesses who promptly expressed their incredulity that they were not "safe" and somehow "protected" by mere words, wishes, 'demands' and expectations...

"Last semester, with the threats going on, we thought that they would enforce something beyond what they did and they completely didn't. I'm kinda angry," said NIU sophomore Brianna Tyler.

"I kind of want to transfer but it's not like you can get away from it no matter where you go, you know?"Carr said.

The campus "defense system" consists of sending e-mails and text messages, imposing such catchy phrases as "campus lockdown" and similar useless, rhetorical excrement.

An e-mail from the university went out more than an hour after the shootings, even though the NIU website reported a possible gunman on campus 20 minutes after the shooting began.

Yeppir... and the actual murders took only seconds, although there was a time in there when the shooter calmly reloaded, before killing some more wide eyed targets. Nobody rushed him. Nobody shot him. Nobody did anything except, cower, run or wait to be killed. What a shameful level we have descended to.

One of the articles about this attack stressed the reassuring role that "technology" is playing in the aftermath...

Thursday night, technology was playing an important role in the recovery process, as students were logging onto social networking websites like Facebook to share their thoughts about the tragedy.

There you go... that'll fix it.

And look at all the very impressively important folks that showed up in their respective official capacities (after the victims were all dead):

"The FBI is processing the crime scene and the investigation is being aided by the Illinois State Police, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms, the State Crisis Management Team, the City of DeKalb Police, City of Sycamore Police, DeKalb County Sheriff's Department, the Ben Gordon Center and the DeKalb, Sycamore and Cortland Fire Departments, as well as FEMA."

Which one of these elite agencies will now bring the dead back to life?

As usual, those who did not cower and wait to be killed... ran and abandoned the soon to be next victims. What a pathetic, ignoble population we have groomed into submission.

"She said she went to the ground immediately and just started staring at the floor."

"He says that the gunman was a white male dressed in all black. He kicked the door in and opened fire. My brother dove under the desk, and popped his head up to see the gunman was reloading. He grabbed his girlfriend's hand and ran to the library where they been in lockdown since."

Of course, Mr. Obama interjects that he is ready to do "whatever it takes" to end "gun violence". It is not gun violence, it is violence precipitated by a ruthless assailant. The gun is only the selected tool. It can be used for evil or good, pending the hands which clench it. And he is blatantly lying. All it takes is a well armed and trained citizenry... and he is fundamentally opposed to that. It might endanger a criminal's well being, I guess.

What do you think the effect would have been if, when this armed lunatic stepped into the classroom of 200 people and started killing folks, someone in all the ensuing chaos carefully withdrew a pistol from his pocket, waited for a clean opportunity and dropped this guy with one well placed, practiced shot?

The news headlines would surely have been instantly trained on prosecuting the person carrying concealed, with great emphasis that he was violating the "rules" of a "gun free zone". The Pelosis and Schumers and Kerrys and Clintons would have been screaming from the rooftops that this situation "could have gone wrong" and "the situation should have been handled by the authorities"!

Fortunately, once again, this morning after the victims have died, the authorities are right on top of it.

How many more times will we allow the same repeat insanity of forcing our innocent students to sit and wait for their next killer, ...unarmed?

Fool's Gold...

So along comes Tuesday, January 29th, 2008. In Florida, a majority of dim witted, apparent crackheads step up to the voting booth and marginally give the Primary to a devout, verifiable liberal double-talker that Conservatives had shunned and apologized for only hours earlier.

POOF! He wins one marginally important state, not by any 'landslide', but by a small concentrated percentage.

Do Conservatives get together and rally to overcome an unexpected curve that heads us all over a cliff? Do we coagulate to stop the hemmorhage? Do we carefully, thoughtfully and strategically reiterate all that is wrong with John McCain's faux, cellophane and hypocritical "Conservative" history and voting record? Do we remind ourselves of the victories over other feeding tube frenzies like Harriet Miers and Jorge's Shamnesty... victories we were told were impossible?

Nope, we fragment and submit to that which we said, only hours earlier, was unthinkable.

The next day these same alleged Conservatives not only jumped on the McCain Train for the ride to a so-called "Republican" victory, they are spinning around and attacking their own base as "radical", "fringe" and "extreme right" members of the party. These hitmen even suddenly attempt to execute the very pillars of Conservatism, such leading voices as Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin and Laura Ingraham.

Instead of the once expected reaction to such a blatant hijacking, a large majority of the Republican wing simply rolls over and cheerleads the continued slip over the edge into the liberal abyss. Instead of balking, these people I trusted as meaning their formerly spoken pledges of inflexible staunchness, become overnight chameleons with stripes and flags that alter hue with the blowing political winds. When your vehicle begins to slip off an icy road, you folks jump out, gather up a collected effort and push the damn car over the edge!

Who would have imagined that the liberal takeover of everything we once stood for would have been precipitated by suicide, rather than murder?

Anyone that doesn't quietly swallow this force fed mouthful of excrement and regurgitate starry eyed wonderment is actually labeled with "McCain Derangement Syndrome', a take-off on the formerly coined phrase to describe people from the whacked out left who despised anything and everything that was George Bush... with no sound reasoning or logic. And not so branded by the 'opposition', but by those supposedly within our own ranks! We are now accused of being foaming at the mouth, rabid 'extremists'. Our passion and adherence to our core is "unhinged".

Simply incredible.

Our crime?

We rigidly continue to stand beside the same things that we were supposed to ALL be standing beside on January 28th! We haven't bent and swayed with the media described "popular majority". We haven't caved, but stood proud and loud for the very same things that so many claimed as their principles only a day earlier.

Hard times truly have a way of exposing the weak, the frail and the fakers, huh? As dark, depressing, disappointing and stark as this realization is for those of us remaining with strong backs and shoulders... it is better we know rather than continue to be fooled. Villainize us as you wish, with your best adopted liberal styles. We truly recognize you for what you are. Your accusatory words cannot begin to cause us the pain that your actions have.

You are weak. You are bereft of the conviction you once professed and promised. You are unwilling to endure the battle that must now be fought. It is the easier and less personally abusive path you have selected, at least for the short term. You have sacrificed your principles for your unfettered, freshly swept sidewalk. And I am so shamed to have believed and been fooled by so many and your claimed convictions.

Take what I continue to believe in and use it to relegate me to your newly described "fringe".

I believe in God. I believe in the sanctity of traditional family and marriage. I believe in The Constitution, with special reverence particularly for the 1st and 2nd Amendments. I believe in personal responsibility and accountability. I believe in my country, freedom and liberty. I believe in the concrete foundation that was once truly Conservative. I will continue to speak out against socialized anything and everything. I will continue to stand firm against enablement and its' invasive mentality. I will not change to conform to your Nanny State in waiting.

John McCain is a well documented excursion in transparent fantasy. He is a fake and patently naked Emporer with a lifelong, incurable case of Small Man Syndrome. He is drunk with power and he will corrupt in the same fashion as any other liberal, by any other name or appearance.

I refuse to consume the hallucinogenics that allow so many now to see him in decorative, Conservative clothes. Enjoy your "trip", Hippies. It is going to be a hard crash when you come down. You will surely find yourself addicted, selling more of your soul for a continued supply of the drugs you now consume to ease the pain of your self-inflicted reality. The day will come, too, when you will have to answer for your abandonment. Unfortunately, we all will.



*UPDATE*

We no more than just about have our 'transmission' into McCain Gear and the Left begins its' abandonment of all the McCain Praise™ .

Now who'd a thunk it? I could swear they were all just lauding how he was a 'broad view', a war hero, the most respectable, the most honorable, the most electable gentleman of the "extremist" Repubs with his Maverick™ reach-across-the-aisle mentality, yada, yada, yada...

You're villainizing him now, Harry? Nice guy, everybody's buddy John Boy??? But, but Harry! He was endorsed by the New York Times!!! Doesn't that mean anything??

(Yes. Yes, it did... How many of you missed it?)

Blue Dogs Still Live and Speak!

Tammy Bruce ( A DEMOCRAT!!!) tells it... and trims Bob Beckel's fat ass!






Many thanks to Dee at the Chatterbox Chronicles for bringing this excellent exchange to greater exposure!!

Heidianne's Exceptional Review of Our Crossroads

This is one of the best compressed looks at where we stand this moment I have read... period. You'll require about 8 minutes of time, pending your individual reading speed. Take the time, for yourself, your family, your country.

When you're done, share it. We have until Tuesday to salvage this McVain mess. Voters in the Super Tuesday states can arrest this runaway train. We have done it before with Jorge's Shamnesty... and we did it again with the astoundingly stupid nomination of Harriet Miers.

And damn near everyone said BOTH could not be salvaged... we were told to simply "just deal with it!"

But we stood up and we collectively ROARED! We roared so loudly that even the Left Stream Media could not ignore us.

Come on, America...

Conservatives UNITE and SPEAK LOUDLY AGAIN!!! We cannot allow this to pass with quiet submission.

Conservative America... our very future and livelihood call upon every one of us...

ROAR!

*UPDATE*

Michael Reagan defies John Boy McVain's elitist, superior contempt for the rest of us! The backlash and revolt continues to build!

DO NOT COWER... BE A PART OF IT!!!

*UPDATE #2*

The G-Man chimes in with his patent rejection of The Plastic 'Maverick' Man's attempt to hijack the party and drive us all over a cliff. Let the McCain train crash with the boneheaded deceptionist aboard! Shame on those Republicans who would so easily be swept up in the Turncoat Wave and turn to hastily villainize those they supposedly stood beside, sharing Conservative views with only days ago.

Hard times and shopping mall trends sure do unmask the true stalwarts from the chameleons, don't they? Who is unswayed... and who are the unveiled "yes" men? Do you stand on your previously espoused principles, or do you crumble and become part of the soft, mushy sand?