America the Right Way-Staying Vigilant!30 months left July 19-23,2010

All of Us | 7/18/10 | Various News Sources and Free Republic Members

[Molly Pitcher]

Good evening.

Really out of touch here with the news, but in talking with some relatives last week about the current mess we find ourselves in, and wondering how we could advance and accelerate O's fall in popularity, it occurred to us to get folks to think about their standard of living, past, present, and likely future if O & the Dems continue to run the country.

Most people get used to their habits, the things big and small they count on or would like to count on if they had more success and a little extra money in their pockets.

But...O and the Left are fond of a little, but important phrase: We Americans consume too much of the world's resources.

Now what exactly do they mean by that??? Hmmm.....Could it, could it just mean we should have less money to spend, do without the "extras" we like to have??? Depend on the government to make the choices for us???

Is that what the Left means?? Is that what the American public really wants???

Is that the Hope and Change O promised???

[tillacum]

I’ll be able to have THAT not the truffles.

[tillacum]

I never heard of collective salvation, until Glenn Beck began talking about it. If they need a collective salvation, what/who do they think will do it for them?

[Jemian]

It is Molly’s fault. She said that we should be tasteful with decorum. Those are very tasty decorations.

[Molly Pitcher]

Oh yes...!!

D. A. Carson is a prof at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois...for the book I've got he draws on Paul's letters and prayers to promote a "deeper devotional experience." He believes a more complete knowledge of God is of paramount importance these days especially.

Well, the cookies are done, and by golly, I think the a.c. guy has arrived!

[tillacum]

Oh.

[Jemian]

FWIW, I’m still here. I hope the AC guy isn’t. I hope he’s already come, done his good job, and left.

[Bitwhacker]

Hi Molly, thanks for the links, hope your a.c. is working better (btw, wasn't that the new, expensive unit you just had installed?).

Excuse me while I vent for a bit:

I really, really hate it when Rush Limbaugh puts words in the mouth of an author he is quoting or otherwise changes the meaning of his words. He just got done burning 2 hours of radio time reading from Angelo Codevilla's AmSpec article America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution, which came out on Friday. (I was going to post it over the weekend but it is God-awful long and I didn't think anyone would want to slog though it -- it took me all weekend to read it).

Rush went through the entire article, relating the details about the 'Ruling Class' vs. the 'Country Class' and all the history behind it. And then he gets to the business end of the srticle, in which Codevilla speculates about what the result will be going forward.

And then Rush says, '...And this means that the Country Class will have to get behind the Republican party -- NOT A THIRD PARTY.' And then he moved on to some story about a woman who got hit on the head with a propeller and there it ended.

THIS IS NOT WHAT CODEVILLA SAID.

Codevilla said that the Ruling Class (which has at most 27% support, probably less) will necessarily come into conflict with the Country Class (which is 66%, probably more, made up of principled Republicans, plus the Tea Partiers, plus like-minded Independants, minus Ruling Class-wannabes of the Republican party) at some point. In order to success, the COuntry Class will need a party, and because they are unorganized now, they will for the short term be stuck with the Republicans.

HOWEVER, here is what Codevilla said about the prospects of moving forward beyond that:

Few Republican voters, never mind the larger country class, have confidence that the party is on their side. Because, in the long run, the country class will not support a party as conflicted as today's Republicans, those Republican politicians who really want to represent it will either reform the party in an unmistakable manner, or start a new one as Whigs like Abraham Lincoln started the Republican Party in the 1850s.

[Bitwhacker]

So now Rush just had a caller point to the paragraph I posted and Rush now admits that he didn't agree with Codevilla on this point. Sheesh.

No less than (no greater than?) a nitwit like Ross Perot showed that, given the right approach, a third party is possible.

I hate the idea of starting a third party, but what if that is the only alternative (especially when I hear talk of yet another Bush -- Jeb -- weighing the potential of running for office; gee, wonder where he'll turn for policy advice)?

[Bitwhacker]

Hi Molly, thanks for the links, hope your a.c. is working better (btw, wasn't that the new, expensive unit you just had installed?).

Excuse me while I vent for a bit:

I really, really hate it when Rush Limbaugh puts words in the mouth of an author he is quoting or otherwise changes the meaning of his words. He just got done burning 2 hours of radio time reading from Angelo Codevilla's AmSpec article America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution, which came out on Friday. (I was going to post it over the weekend but it is God-awful long and I didn't think anyone would want to slog though it -- it took me all weekend to read it).

Rush went through the entire article, relating the details about the 'Ruling Class' vs. the 'Country Class' and all the history behind it. And then he gets to the business end of the srticle, in which Codevilla speculates about what the result will be going forward.

And then Rush says, '...And this means that the Country Class will have to get behind the Republican party -- NOT A THIRD PARTY.' And then he moved on to some story about a woman who got hit on the head with a propeller and there it ended.

THIS IS NOT WHAT CODEVILLA SAID.

Codevilla said that the Ruling Class (which has at most 27% support, probably less) will necessarily come into conflict with the Country Class (which is 66%, probably more, made up of principled Republicans, plus the Tea Partiers, plus like-minded Independants, minus Ruling Class-wannabes of the Republican party) at some point. In order to success, the COuntry Class will need a party, and because they are unorganized now, they will for the short term be stuck with the Republicans.

HOWEVER, here is what Codevilla said about the prospects of moving forward beyond that:

Few Republican voters, never mind the larger country class, have confidence that the party is on their side. Because, in the long run, the country class will not support a party as conflicted as today's Republicans, those Republican politicians who really want to represent it will either reform the party in an unmistakable manner, or start a new one as Whigs like Abraham Lincoln started the Republican Party in the 1850s.

[Jemian]

I, too, hate the idea of a third party. BUT, I WILL NOT VOTE FOR ANOTHER RINO. RINOS INCLUDE THE LIKES OF NEWT GINGRICH, HUCKABEE, AND MITT ROMNEY. I WILL NOT VOTE FOR JEB BUSH. I really hope the republicans are listening. It will be their fault for thinking they run a democrat lite and get the conservative vote. This frog won't jump.

[gulfcoast6]

ALRIGHT!! give it to them right between the eyes!!!!!

[Jemian]

Don’t tempt me.

[Molly Pitcher]

A. C. is fine, now....F.R. is another matter...

Thanks for the link...I printed it out after skimming it...wow...long...but I would have missed it except your link as I didn't hear Limbaugh today.

He should have been clearer from the get-go over his differences with the author, who, btw , is an academic who's at least sympathetic with the country class! Did Limbaugh comment on that??

Did you see the Journal's Weekend ed??? Some good book titles, particularly the usual "Five Best" column on appeasement. The last caught my eye: The Tyranny of Guilt, by Pascal Bruckner, published this year.

AND Bit, did you see the whodunit: The Dark Vineyard???:-))

I wonder when that term "whodunit" was coined....hmmm.....

[Molly Pitcher]

In the Journal's weekend ed. there's also a wonderful appreciation of the late Italian basso, Cesare Siepi, who recently passed away.

Just watch and listen to the voice, the expressiveness of this great singer.

Some Enchanted Evening

Oh my....

[lysie]

Thanks, Molly. That gave me goosebumps.

[Molly Pitcher]

Well it certainly takes your mind off 0!

[Bitwhacker]

Nope, never heard of The Dark Vineyard -- it doesn't even show up in IMDB, are you sure that's the name of the movie? Or is it a book? ;-))

Missed the WSJ weekend edition, I will look for the list.

However, I did read Glenn Beck's The Overton Window this weekend. *Heavy Sigh* where to start...

I guess you could say that if you are a rabid GB fan, he could do sock puppets and hand shadows in front of a projector for an hour and you would think he was a genius. If you're one of those, then this book will be a literary magnum opus, thinking the NYT Best Seller List #1 is well-deserved.

If you judge the book by normal standards, then what Glenn Beck has put out on the racks is about 1/3 the book it should have been. It's Red Dawn but without any resolution to anything, more like Pink Night Before Everything Happens, something like that.

What this book really is is GB's unhinged conspiracy stuff set to words and music in a fictional setting. It definitely dovetail's with Codevilla's article: there are ruling elite in the form of government at all levels; there are the Country Class in the form of Tea-Partiers-Gone-Wild people who are part Wolverines (from Red Dawn) and part book-memorizers from Farenheit 451 -- they're known as Founders Keepers and memorize entire tracts written by famous patriots. And there are Independents like the hero in the story, Noah Gardner, whose father is a kind of PR business George Soros and who gets caught up with the Keepers, first out of curiosity, then out of a sense of duty and destiny.

The writing and storytelling is not too bad, but I really felt ripped off at the end of this book, almost as if it were a cliffhanger ending of 24, with a whole bunch of sequels to come.

Beck tries to make his case for the conspiracy stuff at the end of the book with an appendix pointing out events in the news by chapter of the book. But his portrayal of the Keepers is disjointed and confusing: you don't know why you should like these people, and they act like they are an urban militia (making their own guns and ammo). They're secretive, use questionable tactics, even on people like their new friend Noah, and you are left wondering why the government shouldn't be taking a close look at them.

I just felt ripped off at the end of this book, as if he decided to end it just as the story got into high gear.

Like I said, Red Dawn Lite, except that Red Dawn at least had an ending. If you want to read a good book this summer, try Rich Lowry's Banquo's Ghost..;-))

[Jemian]

Breathtaking. Thank you for sharing that with us.

[Dog]

I was disappointed with the ending of Red Dawn.

[Molly Pitcher]

I was on the subject of books...."The Dark Vineyard" is a book title...by Martin Walker...death by fermentation???