Right Wing Nut House

We’ve had some fun here at the HOUSE since the election teasing our lefty friends about their genuine perplexity regarding the election and how that confusion has manifested itself in conspiracy theories of hacked voting machines and sinister vote counts.

So…enough already.

All the talk of secession and moving to Canada was silly enough. But now, talk has moved into the realm of the surreal…a Kafkaesque nightmare of blood, and murder, and mayhem against their political opponents. This from Bill Maher’s website (courtesy of WSJ Best of the Web):

“GW Bush and the American right wing Taliban are endangering the entire planet. If the rest of the world had a say, Bush and Cheney would be in jail.

Is it now morally excusable to organize midnight raids on republican groups in the red states and “terminate” them with extreme prejudice?

Watching Bush’s acceptance speech on Wednesday, with the Cheney’s on stage as well….who would not have liked to see a bomb go off under the stage and wipe out the whole despicable slimy lot of them? And hopefully the shrapnel would have gone to the second deck and blown Mary Matalin’s head off as well.

Be honest. Who would not like to see Karen Hughes run over by an 18 wheel truck? Who wouldn’t like to see her carcass scattered all over highway 99?”

This kind of talk is a logical extension of previous threads having to do with apocalyptic warnings by the left regarding the establishment of some kind of quasi-religious corporate kleptocracy where children and old people routinely starve to death and liberals are rounded up and put in Haliburton built Christian re-education camps.

But is it real?

Hindrocket over at Powerline thinks so:

“This kind of insanity is everywhere in today’s Democratic Party. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: someone is going to get killed before this madness is over.”

If we take what the moonbats are saying at face value, you’d have to agree with the Rocket. But I think that, like the talk about secession and moving to Canada (as if our friends to the north don’t have enough problems with their own moonbats in Quebec) is just that; talk. And what’s revealing to me is something I’ve suspected for years and been unable to put my finger on until now…

Moonbats love the dramatic.

Whether this is a product of arrested development or something that goes to the very core of what passes for modern liberalism, take your pick. Being dramatic is the best way of getting attention. Outrageous exaggerations regarding everything from the reasons for the war (to curtail civil liberties) to the economy (to enrich the President’s corporate friends) logically leads further and further afield until you get the kind of wild-eyed flights of fancy that end up in the stratosphere of looniness the moonbats now find themselves.

Like teenagers who aren’t getting enough attention from their parents, moonbats are finding that in order to achieve the consideration they feel they deserve, they have to wreck the car or get arrested in order to feel loved and wanted.

Think about it for a minute…the moonbat’s aren’t happy unless they see themselves in the role of the underdog. Put upon by an uncaring, unfeeling world; their moral and spiritual superiority unrecognized or suppressed by a cabal of greedy, corporate media elites or sinister Christian yahoos, moonbats stand on top of the battlements waving the bloody shirt as the rest of the world looks on with doe-eyed admiration.

BULLSHIT!

This is the longest running TV show in history. And like “NYPD Blue” and “Law and Order” the scripts are getting tired and repetitive. This meme may have worked in the 1960’s but THAT WAS 40 YEARS AGO!. The graying of that generation of new left radicals has meant that THE RADICALS THEMSELVES HAVE BECOME THE ESTABLISHMENT! In education, the law, the media, the culture, religion, and to some extent the corporate elites, the anti-establishment left has failed to recognize one simple fact:

They won!

And yet…it just isn’t dramatic enough to be in control. Myths must continue. The old campfire stories of protests past are now being passed to a new generation who must invent their own storyline, their own icons. Angela Davis and Philip Berrigan just doesn’t do it for today’s moonbats. So they look to the Boss, or Eminem, or Michael Moore as examples of courageous crusaders for truth and justice.

They just don’t get it. Life IS NOT dramatic. In fact, most sane people prefer their lives to be as undramatic as possible.

Watching your child take their first step is dramatic.

Having your child look at you with that special look of love and trust is dramatic.

Seeing your daughter walk down the aisle at her wedding is dramatic.

And yes…watching your parents die is also dramatic.

These are real dramas going on in real people’s lives…not the kind of faux dramas being played out in the discussion forums of DU and Kos. And because the moonbats don’t understand that, they’ll continue to be irrelevant in a political climate where real people’s dramas trump the fantastical musings of maniacal moonbats every time.

FALLUJAH UPDATE:

Via The Belmont Club:

“Insurgents have set police stations ablaze, stole weapons and brazenly roamed the streets of Mosul as Iraq’s third largest city appeared to be sliding out of control, residents said. Explosions and fire from assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades echoed across the city and columns of smoke rose from at least two police stations set alight. At least seven police stations have been attacked in the past 48 hours.”

Wretchard points out that this was fully expected before the operation started. This from the Seattle Times of November 7:

“Reports are circulating among Iraqi and U.S. officials that large numbers of insurgents have already left the Fallujah area in anticipation of the coming invasion. The militants are reportedly fanning to other cities in the Sunni Triangle, where they will stage diversionary attacks — and underscore that despite an expected defeat for insurgent forces in Fallujah, the rebel movement remains strong.”

Are the thugs playing into our hands? Wretchard says that the Fallujah campaign can’t be understood unless you put it in the broader context of a total crackdown on insurgencies in the entire Sunnia triangle:

“But it is likely that while the battle for Fallujah is ending, the campaign for the Sunni Triangle is just beginning.”

Some pretty draconian measures are being taken not to let terrorists escape the Fallujah pocket. And Wretchard makes clear that the thugs are apparently killing non-combatants who aren’t cooperating with them:

“The grim job of sifting through the hostile neighbourhoods, also uncovered numerous corpses — not all killed by US military fire, said an AFP reporter embedded with the Marines. In one street, Marines found a body with its feet hacked off and a young man in a house with a bullet in his chest.” The Associated Press reports that military age men in Fallujah aren’t being allowed out. “Hundreds of men trying to flee the assault on Fallujah have been turned back by U.S. troops following orders to allow only women, children and the elderly to leave. … Once the battle ends, military officials say all surviving military-age men can expect to be tested for explosive residue, catalogued, checked against insurgent databases and interrogated about ties with the guerrillas. U.S. and Iraqi troops are in the midst of searching homes, and plan to check every house in the city for weapons.”

One word about casualties. It’s not surprising that the US is underreporting its casualties by a factor of three in that it’s sound military strategy not to give the enemy any hope that they’re inflicting extensive damage on American forces. Apparently, the Army hospital at Ramstein, Germany has received more than 200 wounded since the operation began. And while many of those may indeed be from other attacks, it’s clear that the figure of 69 wounded given by the army is false. Whether the KIA figure of 18 is also wrong is unknown. I know that we have had 4 KIA in the Chicago area alone since the Fallujah operation began. It seems likely that the number of Americans killed is indeed growing.

It’s time to grit our teeth and wade through the blood, America. And, if you’re the praying sort, say a few for those kids all over Iraq who’re now on the offensive.

BEAM ME UP, SCOTTY

The United States Air Force is looking into the idea of teleportation. To that end, they recently paid for a study that laid out some rather interesting possibilities:

“This study was tasked with the purpose of collecting information describing the teleportation of material objects, providing a description of teleportation as it occurs in physics, its theoretical and experimental status, and a projection of potential applications. The study also consisted of a search for teleportation phenomena occurring naturally or under laboratory conditions that can be assembled into a model describing the conditions required to accomplish the transfer of objects.”

The author of the study, Eric Davis of Warp Drive Metrics, broke down the various possibilities into 5 categories, including using worm holes, parallel universes, quantum “entanglement:”

“…quantum entanglement: the disembodied transport of the quantum state of a system and its correlations across space to another system…”

And, the system the study deems most likely for success, teleportation – psychic; which is the conveyance of persons or inanimate objects by psychic means. Mr. Davis calls this “p-Teleportation.”

Sorry Star-Trek fans but apparently the way Kirk and Spock scattered their atoms around the galaxy just won’t fly…at least according to Dr. Davis’ study. But he did speculate about a “Stargate SG I” type wormhole:

“The first solution can be found from the class of traversable wormholes giving rise to what I call a true “stargate.” A stargate is essentially a wormhole with a flat-face shape for the throat as opposed to the spherical-shaped throat of the Morris and Thorne traversable wormhole, which was derived from a spherically symmetric Lorentzian spacetime metric that prescribes the wormhole geometry.”

OOOKAAAAY…I’m not really up on wormhole geometry and I sorta forgot about the Morris and Thorne transversable wormhole…and I guess I was asleep when the prof was talking about a “spherically symmetric Lorentzian spacetime metric”… but I’m sure you get the picture…