Soft Cell with Tears Run Rings. Early eighties synthpop band around Marc Almond and Dave Ball. IIRC Soft Cell comes from a furry cocoon-like two-person sofa they used to perform in. Were pretty ghey you know. Not that I care.
Catchy tune, but forgive ole Outlaw the terribly wrong video. Eighties ya know.
TAFKAP with Dinner with Delores. Only hit drawn from the 1996 album Chaos and Disorder.
If you missed the extinction of the Dinosaurs, 65 million years ago today, then you prolly don't know TAFKAP stands for The Artist Formerly Known As Prince.
As much as I loathe so many bigwig GOP figureheads who pledge adherence to real conservatism just before elections, then snub their constituencies after, it's clear that even so, a GOP-controlled Congress is a step in the right direction.
One of the things that you believe when you call yourself a Conservative - that you should believe - is that Man is Unique. And that it is his God-given right to make use, to the fullest extent, of the riches of the Earth.
Of course, we should do so wisely. Not only because ruining our habitat would endanger our species, but also out of respect for the wonder that our planet is.
It follows naturally that, as Humanity advances through the ages, our ever enhancing technology compels us to not limit ourselves to this World (no matter how Unique it is itself) and reach for the stars.
Naturally, we should forever cherish Earth as "the place where it all began". But our Destiny is Out There and just like discovering the New World 500 years ago led to Humanity making great strides forward, discovering New Worlds in Outer Space will lead to our species' Next Grandiose Phase. Unrivalled development of technology, unimaginable riches in natural resources, colossal trade volumes, the understanding of hitherto mysterious physical phenomena, and possibly the evolution of the Human Mind towards as yet unfathomable capabilities (mastery of mind over matter, telepathy) may literally lay just over the horizon.
The Left does not see it that way. These wretched creatures want us to stay on this planet and resort to pitiful navel-staring. They have abandoned God and Christianity's vision of Humans as utterly unique beings. The Christian Scripture cites God who, while blessing the first humans, tells them to "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
By contrast, leftists have created their own God, the State, and replaced Christian and other religions with their own one, essentially a pagan belief that worships "Gaia" and which makes Man subordinate to Earth. Where Christians are told to "increase in number" - a quintessentially optimistic, hopeful vision - leftists want the exact opposite: they want us to decrease in number. Mainstream leftism has thus far refrained from openly calling for a deliberate reduction of the Earth's population, but the idea certainly lives in their circles. It pops up now and then, sometimes rather explicitly, and has historically had strong advocates among the feminist (Margaret Sanger) and environmentalist (Rachel Carson, Paul Ehrlich) branches of the Leftist Tree. A hint of what these people have in store for humanity was given when rich leftist lunatics erected the so-called Georgia Guidestones and inscribed in them the chilling message "Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature". Given the fact that the most horrible mass murders in history originated from leftist ideologies (70 million dead in Communist China, at least 30 million dead in the USSR, 6 million dead Jews under National Socialism, between 1.5 and 3 million dead by the Khmer Rouge), sensible humans should have every reason to dread the means by which the fine specimen of our Moral Betters who are responsible for that ugly "monument" in Elbert County, Georgia, want to "maintain humanity under 500,000,000".Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a Greenpeace offshoot, once famously said that earthworms are more important than people. Thank God that this lunatic does not hold his finger on the trigger of some doomsday device that would finish nine tenths of the world's population - but by no means do not make the mistake that he's an isolated leftist loony.
We rightwingers think differently. We do see that the Earth's population increases and as such becomes a heavy burden for the planet's resources. We contend however that if more countries had embraced capitalism, general prosperity levels would be much higher than they are today, and as such the population growth would definitely have been much slower. How ironic is it that the main reason for people staying poor in developing countries, and thus having so many children, is because their leadership embraced socialist policies! Post WWII Thailand and Tanzania had comparable levels of prosperity and population growth rates. Tanzania most definitely adopted some form of afrosocialism, best exemplified by their disastrous 'ujamaa' project. Thailand by and large chose for a more capitalist approach. Today, Thailand's population grows at about a quarter of the speed of Tanzania's!
At the same time we know that God was only joking when He said that we should fill merely "the earth". Or if he did not joke, that the unimaginative bloke who translated His Words omitted the 's' at the back end of 'earth'. Indeed, why shouldn't we fill countless other Earths???
At some point a surplus population must and will leave Earth. 150 years ago a substantial portion of Irish left Eire because it could no longer sustain them, and settled in the United States to ultimately flourish to such an extent, that they now outnumber several times those who stayed on the emerald island. In the same manner, at some point in the future a substantial portion of humans will leave Earth bound for other planets, and as time goes by they will one day outnumber those left on the Mother Planet. Irish in the States celebrate Saint Patrick's Day. In times to come, those humans on faraway colonized planets who can trace their ancestry back to a country called the United States of America will perhaps still celebrate the 4th of July.
This is why it's a crying shame that a man like Charles Bolden is still NASA Administrator. A couple of years back, Bolden made an immortal fool of himself when he stated that henceforth NASA's core mission should be an "outreach to the muslim world":
It's been five years since Bolden's NASA Muslim Outreach Program got kickstarted, and imho the results obtained thus far do not exactly warrant continuing the program:
Probably even Bolden realizes this, which is why, being his Master in the White House's sock puppet, these days he argues for a 2 billion dollar NASA budget for "earth science" instead. We all know what that means: Global Warming studies. You see, Obama having identified the Rise of the Oceans as THE challenge facing America, what better use of NASA satellites than to map the enemy's advance from orbit?
Well, here I come back to my intro with there being some use for republican lawmakers in control of the House, since even despite being jelly-spined, their marginally higher common sense at least thwarted Obama's and Bolden's budget plans. American Thinker's Christopher Carson reports:
This is where we should be headed first: Mars. We should be there by 2030.
And no lame, abject failure of a NASA Administrator and Obama acolyte, who revealed more of his inner convictions than he probably wanted to by naming his firstborn son "Che", should stand in the way.
And beyond that?
Who will tell? Let us boldly go where no man has gone before!
Leave it to the likes of Charles Bolden to boldenly stay where we all have been since time immemorial.
From the Stop The World, I want to get off it Department. VDare reports:
News from the world’s most advanced multicultural dictatorship.
When the Islamic State terrorists are ready to retire from beheading, crucifying and burning innocent human beings, they will now enjoy a nice benefits package in Stockholm, Sweden, that includes free housing, health care and financial support.
In fact, Sweden’s own soldiers don’t even get the same benefits.
And some officials are suggesting the law-abiding population pay for the services so ISIS fighters can reintegrate into society.
A program to help ISIS fighters rejoin society is already in place in Sweden’s Örebro Municipality, where jihadists can obtain “psychological help to overcome traumatic experiences they may have suffered while fighting in Iraq and Syria,” according to Business Insider Australia.
Thank goodness: a Swedish government programme is now in place to offer the poor black-clad ISIS grunt to the right psychological counseling, health care, free housing etc. And a job, don't forget the job!!! Marie Harf would be proud!!!
The Swedish newspaper Expressen reported that councilor Rasmus Persson advocates offering terrorists jobs so they don’t feel alienated. Stockholm has released a document outlining its “strategy against violent extremism.”
Persson told the news program Tvärsnytt, “We have discussed how we should work for these guys who have come back, and to prevent them from returning to the fighting, and that they should be helped to process the traumatic experiences they have been through.”
Now the idea is spreading to other parts of the country. Sweden’s official coordinator against violent extremism, Mona Sahlin – a former leader of the Social Democrat Party – advocated using taxpayer funds to pay for the services.
Still, you can’t argue with results. Surely such generosity has at least reconciled “Swedish” Muslims to Western society.
In February, Sweden’s resident expert on “Islamophobia,” a Swedish convert to Islam, joined the jihadist ranks and is now fighting with ISIS.
In November 2014, the Swedish government estimated between 250 and 300 of its citizens have traveled to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS.
Just two months ago, Sweden’s national job agency fired all of its own contracted “immigrant resettlement assistants” because they were recruiting fighters for ISIS.
Oh.
Keep in mind, these kinds of exercises in pathological self-hatred are still not keeping people from calling Sweden a “racist” country.
Mona Sahlin, Mona Sahlin?
Oh yes, I remember! Had a story featuring her once, in 2010 that was.
A couple of other priceless money quotes from Mona Sahlin:
* On October 22, 2000, she explained to Göteborgs-Posten newspaper, that if two people are equally qualified for a job in an enterprise with few immigrants, "the one who is called Muhammad should get the job. It should be counted as a merit to have another background than Swedish."
* She has never hidden the fact that she wants Sweden to become less Swedish and more multicultural. In 2001, she said in a radio interview that, "the Swedes must be integrated into the new Sweden; the old Sweden is never coming back."
Now that we are at it, it doesn't surprise me in the least that Sweden's gonna pamper them poor returning PTSD-ridden ISIS bravehearts. What else can you expect from a two meter long blonde blue eyed Minister of the Interior Ardalan Shekarabi?
