I must share this with you. This was a most angry letter from a warmer, a global warming and/or climate change nutcase. And as letters go, it’s one of the best. Snarky, rebarbative and nasty. I’m his bête noire and his poison prose brilliantly addresses such. It’s great. Great, indeed. And please contact me at lionel@lionelmedia.com if you think you can top this. Please, I love hearing from you.
Now, the letter. He (I presume it was a he) was most upset over my suggestions that the anthropogenic causation models pushed by Al Gore and his Maurice Strong minions in order to establish carbon taxing and the like were bogus. He never listened to what I said. He just responded via a Pavlovian obeisance to his religion. The religion of the warmer/changer. Now it’s my term to be a prick: this feller’s clueless. Missing the entire point. If I thought that Rick Perry was shilling for Gardasil and Merck (as he was) that’s not the same as saying that Gardasil was a dangerous product (as it is) or that vaccines don’t work. Goober here missed the point.
But this well-intended but clueless Gomer yet again shows how people confuse a distrust of the notion of using carbon trading as a means to address perceived anthropogenic warming causation with a basis to initiate carbon trading.
You have gone off the deep end Lionel, and proven yourself to be an ignorant jackass. The science supports anthropogenic causes for climate change. The influence of the sun is a factor, but not as significant as human activity in recent decades. This isn’t just Al Gore talking, it’s science.
I used to love your show Lionel, but in your isolation you have become the audio equivalent of Howard Hughes, increasingly paranoid and out of touch with reality.
Please enjoy today’s podcast. It covers myriad issues as you can imagine. Please note also my indictment against the arrest of kids today for the most mindlessly of trivial reasons. What ever happened to common sense?
Sincerely yours,
Howard Hughes (increasingly paranoid and out of touch with reality)
The attempts to make the GOP primary process interesting has been lost on me altogether. When you understand that it’s rigged, perhaps you’ll understand why. And this mindless, vapid analysts! My Gawd, how tough is that? Post hoc rationalization based on the systematic and systemic internal bias of the media machine. Wanna hear Obama boot licking and fawning, pathetically obsequious Pavlovian obeisance? Look no further than MSDNC. Want the official platform of the RNC? Faux News awaits.
If, on the other hand, you want something so devoid of substance, so wanting for the slightest indicium of relevance, then it’s CNN for you. There motto should be “News for those allergic to position, who eschew conviction and the few who even find vanilla piquant.”
In this podcast I try to establish my political position without giving way to unnecessary taxonomy. And in a most unexpected route, I assume the position of Jesus and take the startling position that JC and I would probably be on board. I take what’s loosely referred to as a libertarian position and follow a most simple approach: leave me alone.
Today was one of the most amazing news days that provided a seemingly endless supply of mind-boggling nonsense. The citizen me screams in disgust; the news decoder me can’t believe the panoply of material. And as I discuss herein, throughout the entire disquisition, I speak in absolute amazement over what’s happening. What’s happening unfettered. No one’s stopping it. No one’s saying anything about it.
A hate and bias arsonist blames it on the bossa nova and violent videos. Where’ve we heard this before? Would someone please once and for all learn the distinction between correlation and cause? For the love of Pete! And I can’t believe I just wrote that.
Sunday’s Super Bowl will highlight the DHS’s full frontal NSSE (National Special Security Event) status. What does that mean? Simple: every needle-phallused Barnie Fife will get to load up with riot gear, Kevlar and that look of Señor Badass and walk the walk showing the American sheeple what they’ve got to look forward to should they deign to question the absolute authority of your new and improved jackbooted Robocop.
A 6 year-old kid jacked up by the school fuzz for playing tag and errantly touching a classmate’s leg. You’d swear that school officials would know that this idiocy is a sure ticket to having your name emblazoned on every blog in the country as the biggest idiot on the planet. How many examples of hypersensitive sexual priggishness can the public take?
The will to resist is all but destroyed. Your will, the collective will. It’s not that folks are happy with what’s happening, they simply don’t care. Less they could not care. (A variation of “couldn’t care less.” Get it?)
I was thinking about Phil Ochs. His legacy, his message. Mention a protest song today and what would a kid think? What’s a protest song? Who’s the revolutionary, where’s the counterculture? They’ve no idea why anyone would be even protesting. Protesting what? Why wold someone complain? Aren’t things OK?
And it’s not just kids. It’s everyone. It’s not contentment but insouciance, ennui, nonchalance. The will to resist is gone. Destroyed. It’s an amalgam of learned helplessness and habituation conditioning. And while other news delivery systems and commentary vehicles speak of dissension, it’s tepid and targeted at the mythical left-right illusion. The bottom line is that any perceived dissent is contrived, orchestrated and carefully monitored.
We’ve no will to resist. And don’t even miss it.
The only chance for any change in this country is Ron Paul and a Paulian platform. It’s that simple. And yet, the mainstream feckless Ted Baxter media continue to marginalize him under strict orders from those on high.
Che Guevara said that cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel. Brutality is inherent in global power. And the savagery knows no limits. You can’t conquer without destroying those whose liberty interferes with rapacious consumption. These are nasty, evil people who think nothing . . . literally. They think not, feel not and care not.
The only way we can change things is through revolution. A top to bottom rejection and removal of all that’s status quo. That requires you know considerably more than you do. You’re stuck in a world of stupid. You know no better. You’re stuck. Stuck in an information quicksand. You mean well, you want to trust but you’re too trusting.
It’s inconceivable that your country is being run by some of the most perfidious and mind-bogglingly evil people. And I use that term evil often. Because it’s most apt.
This is from an email that was sent to me from a viewer. It’s listed as is. The import of its message is unmistakable and unnerving.
Since my move back to Jersey over a year ago I always make sure to catch your segment on PIX11 at night. It seems you’re hitting the nail right on the head night after night. In 1969 my family took a summer vacation in Eastern Europe to visit family in Czechoslovakia and Poland. Since we had to cross three different borders we were treated to shakedowns and searches by machine-gun wielding storm troopers. At one checkpoint they took prayer books from my mom, which were gifts for her relatives. While staying with family and friends we were warned not to say anything anti-government in mixed company. My father was dragged to the police station for questioning one morning because of a conversation we had at a gathering the night before. I thought to myself, how wonderful it is to be an American. Forty something odd years later, and my own government is now treating me similarly. When Reagan was elected I had a queasy feeling in the pit of my stomach that this was the beginning of the end. Then came Bush a few years later and then another one. I did not vote in the last presidential election because I didn’t like the idea of wasting my time to elect a paid for (put a corporate, interest group, or lobby name here) presidential candidate. My vote doesn’t matter anymore. As a musician I wrote some nasty anti-political tunes over the years but no ones got the balls to play them. One of them was even removed from a popular music site because of its message and language. When the GOP was in St. Paul I saw our government at its best. Harassing and beating innocent Americans who were there for peaceful demonstrations. All your comments are true, but the trillion-dollar question is; what can Americans do about the current state of affairs? It’s like living behind the iron curtain again. Unless the whole country rallies to remove the present so-called leaders nothing will change and things will only get worse. Do you have an answer? Anyway, keep up the great work. Too bad you’re not running for prez, cause you’d definitely get my vote.
Evil. There, I said it again.
And now, wanna blow your mind? Watch this. This is just an ort, a brief sampling of the evil that man can exert. When you mention mind control, the clueless sheeple laugh. Oh, it’s just another crazy conspiracy theory. really? Are you sure about that?
How can you tell that a story’s important? If our Ted Baxter MSM isn’t covering it. Think of the sockpuppet media as the inverse bloodhound. You go the opposite direction of where it indicates interest. But that’s tough because of what it ignores.
ACTA is huge. Beyond huge. Europe’s agog over the notion of this Draconian encroachment. They’re marching in Poland and this is only the beginning. It’s also a treaty versus legislation. The world governments know that an unfettered Internet poses a direct and palpable threat to their limitless, unfettered power and control.
Herein is the latest installment of my most pressing issues, that which is critical to me. And, I trust, you.
Repeating versus reporting. Big difference. The former is stenographic, an echo chamber, an apparatchik. The latter is, well, reporting.
Remember when they were great? What happened to the mighty CNN? It was the source. It’s where you went to hear the adults. Before silliness contaminated the cable news world. Before Ted Baxter soured the mix. And now . . . I feel abandoned.
Dana Bash, John King and Fareed Zakaria. Folks, meet Mr. & Mrs. Obama Shill and the globalist lap dog.
The bias is horrid. And the backdrop, the behind the scenes story is even mo frightening. PsyOps N-N.
I remember a time when I looked at the notion of the anarchist as silly. (And how much the word looks like “Antichrist.”) Moreover, those who spoke of revolution. I thought it oddly faddish and jejune tripe. Trendy blather. Faux revolution bollocks.
Well, cut to today. Enter stage left. Scared, amazed and disillusioned I am. While I’m certainly not suggesting or abdicating anything violent, I am endorsing something drastic and significant and earth-shattering. The system as is is rigged, fixed, corrupt and contaminated. There’s no fine tuning this mess. No surgical alterations. No, it needs to be overhauled and returned to the way it was designed. The default government — as the Constitution mandates.
Each and every day, I’m awash and immersed in a controlled Ted Baxter MSM that grovel and wallow not so much in mis- or dis- information but as they are in distraction. Distraction that’s inspired by slovenly and torpid snooze gathering. Jiggling keys in front of the crying baby.
And be not mistaken, my friends. I’m not prone to reactionary excess as some are. It’s not in my nature or DNA. What I am prone to is being able to identify and target lies and distortion. And I submit that the country is thirsty for truth and reality.
Funny, you’d never know that if you just watched what America just watched.
See anything wrong with this picture? Go ahead. Take a look. As Ashleigh Brilliant said, “To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.”
You’re not even aware of the issue of surveillance because you’re so used to it. But this, this picture supra speaks volumes. And what’s even more troubling than the pervasive monitoring of citizens itself is the fact that so many young people especially have not a clue or care as to the implications. Why? Because they’ve never known a time when they weren’t bathed in surveillance. Alas.
And what I find thoroughly fascinating and amazing is how the Ted Baxter sockpuppet echo chamber media completely missed the point about Mittens Romney. It wasn’t the fact that he parked millions offshore, it was the entire system of what was offshore that should have been investigated. That was the story; that’s what needed exposing. But no, that would make sense.
So enjoy this video morsel and the podcast. And thank you for subscribing.
“The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed–would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper–the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.” – George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 1
It’s our mentality. Our psyche. We’re actually a pathetic lot. We’re scared, cowed and corralled. Victims of a collective, national learned helplessness. Led like sheeple. We look to courts and governments to control us. To protect us from ourselves. When we bully each other we demand laws to protect us from us. When we’re hateful and/or racist we demand hate and bias crimes legislation. Why? Again, to protect us from us.
You can blame government all you want. But if the government feared us like we fear it this would be another story. I don’t know when we lost our guts. Our temerity and intrepidity. Our backbone. When did we become so impuissant, so pathetic. So unbelievably scared.
I love this picture supra. It would make no sense before the Hopey administration really. He turned up the heat and unleashed his TSA/DHS goons on us full-throated and full-throttle. Our bodies are compromised; our Internet is under attack. Remember, this is all Obama. Even Dubya and President Cheney never came close to this tyranny. The Patriot Act is nothing compared to the NDAA. Hope? Change? Ha!
By whom? And why? Again, pardon the incessant refrain, but what happened to us? Not to be crude, but what happened to our balls? We’re orchidectomized geldings. Castrati. Pathetic.
In an Orwellian constancy and verity — our government is our enemy. Aren’t you getting tired of this theme?
