tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post6168779139159490798..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: Off The Mishnory Road: Fun And GamesFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-74050037069270894122015-03-16T21:47:27.050-04:002015-03-16T21:47:27.050-04:00This seems to be in a similar vein: http://www.bre...This seems to be in a similar vein: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/02/05/the-hugo-wars-how-sci-fis-most-prestigious-awards-became-a-political-battleground/Grouch, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10223794580842414136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-71678951157370866372015-03-16T14:45:20.005-04:002015-03-16T14:45:20.005-04:00Emphasizing the importance of my stating above som...Emphasizing the importance of my stating above something we patriots have long agreed, that "all their [the Left's] roads lead to totalitarianism," I just discovered this at PJMedia from last Friday "Let Us Count the Gulags --<br />Why utopian dreams inevitably become totalitarian nightmares."<br /><br />http://pjmedia.com/blog/let-us-count-the-gulags/#ixzz3UZiH7eDf<br /><br />It's a bit late, but it's nice to see bigger blog-sites publicly acknowledging the patterns of the Left long recognized by us lesser well-knowns.Pascalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00303025432356543062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-81208859807709247702015-03-16T12:06:35.059-04:002015-03-16T12:06:35.059-04:00I'd like to laugh at the SJW Fran, but they kn...I'd like to laugh at the SJW Fran, but they know us better than we, as a group of individuals, know ourselves.<br /><br />As you stressed from the beginning, the Left wants to control EVERYTHING. As we have seen, given complete power, all their roads lead to totalitarianism. <br /><br />I've come to the conclusion that at our core is the sense of live and let live; the one thing a true member of the Right wants most of all is "Leave me be." <br /><br />I was tempted to leave here an excerpt at length from one of my blog posts. I'll leave a link to a search for "Left alone" on my blog instead. http://pascalfervor.blogspot.com/search?q=left+alone<br /><br />In one of those posts, "Back to Fundamentals," I ended a lengthier analysis with the following troubling paradox. A paradox of which the Left is so fully aware that they regularly make hay of it. <br /><br />"So we are left having to defend our liberties ourselves. But <i><b>you</b></i> will have the odds against you doing that yourself. You must dare to ally with others. You need blocs.<br /><br />But forming blocs, as should be so obvious by now, is contrary to our nature." <br /><br />Fran, you of all people know how well I know that to be true. And I think I know it of you as well.<br /><br />Personally, I think it drives home the meaning of the 2nd great commandment and it's not a long road to realize why honoring it with action is essential to honoring the first.Pascalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00303025432356543062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-25614391308280007262015-03-16T11:13:07.111-04:002015-03-16T11:13:07.111-04:00One of your better ruminations, Fran. It hit me, o...One of your better ruminations, Fran. It hit me, one day, that the biggest immediately-detectable characteristic of leftists of all stripes (I was contemplating Pasha Antipov/"Strelnikov" in <i>Dr. Zhivago</i>) is that they have no sense of humor. It doesn't take long to discover this when encountering a fresh one.<br /><br />Is this a genetic difference? I have always thought that humanity can be divided into two major streams (yes, yes, I know – anything can be bifurcated) from which all differences flow: the "right" vs. the "left", the free man vs. the statist control freak, the mature adult vs. the perpetual child...the ones who laugh vs. the ones who never get either the joke or the reason for it?<br /><br />Perhaps we should be wary of the children who never seem to smile.Malatropenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-51897435268282128402015-03-16T10:58:45.551-04:002015-03-16T10:58:45.551-04:00Francis,
I believe we can extrapolate this to the ...Francis,<br />I believe we can extrapolate this to the Left's hate of guns and and the whole firearms industry.<br /><br />Shooting is largely about having fun. Hunting is fun. Target shooting is fun. Plinking is fun. Tinkering on firearms is fun (more money spent on tinkering than initial purchase sometimes). Shooting short range is fun. Lots of shooting games out there. Shooting long range targets with rifles and making that steel gong ring is fun.<br /><br />That 200 million firearms number thrown about in statistics is largely owned by a fraction of the 330 million people in the US. Why? Because it's fun! <br /><br />That sometimes is the way someone leaning left on guns is won over. A shooter takes them out to plink and they get hooked on the fun of busting rocks, shooting golf balls, clay pigeons etc. It's fun.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com