tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post5278871582856519039..comments2024-03-28T13:47:08.047-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : Making the World a Better PlaceDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-20702490428651323652013-03-13T10:04:27.487-04:002013-03-13T10:04:27.487-04:00Insightful, the world is already a wonderful place...Insightful, the world is already a wonderful place, any blemishes are due to too many parasitic human beings. <br /><br />Who was it said you don't need to save the planet? It's a huge rock, nothing short of a cosmic accident is going to destroy the planet - but you could certainly do something about saving the life forms living on it. gswhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00464061976742965239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-19286842753067021212013-03-12T08:35:55.997-04:002013-03-12T08:35:55.997-04:00The gnostic dream cult has nearly exhausted the vi...The gnostic dream cult has nearly exhausted the vitality of our civilization. No amount of rhetoric or reasoning can break them out of their trance like state of immanentizing an ill conceived final climax of heaven on earth. Cause and effect have no meaning since once the final realization has been achieved history will end. Therefore no analysis of means and ends will be necessary.<br /><br />These causes are like mushrooms, minor yet conspicuous representations of much more expansive but concealed truths the gnostics perceive as public symbols of their identity.<br /><br />Make no mistake, they will never repudiate those symbols no matter the damage to civilization. Petty corruption is merely a distraction to the greater cause, only total collapse will stop them. <br /><br />So here we have it, a whole generation of mini-gods, in concert they act out a cruelly misconceived personal salvation impulse played out by proxy in wretched humanity. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-90338736073141565462013-03-10T17:43:48.599-04:002013-03-10T17:43:48.599-04:00In every culture that has lost it's moral foun...In every culture that has lost it's moral foundations ,common sense and wisdom you have this excess and unaccountability.<br />The masses in America have been dumbed down under the government media ,the boob tube and the re-uneducation process.<br />The Roman Caesars saw themselves as God much like Obama and North Korea's Kim Un see themselves today.<br />The corruption and perversity we see around us on a global scale always precedes God's divine judgment. Hold on to your popcorn because it's going to get hot and messy ,especially here in Obamaland the latest Empire to take a permanent dump into the rubble heap of history. Marcelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14390860623982451091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4488188411072889952013-03-10T13:03:07.476-04:002013-03-10T13:03:07.476-04:00Great essay. Altruists are lauded as 'generous...Great essay. Altruists are lauded as 'generous' but they always and uniformly generous with someone else's hard earned money, usally grabbed at gun point by the government. Real generosity means earning first what you then choose to give away.<br /><br />Bob Hope and others merit the label 'generous'.<br />They earned it. What the Socialists/Altruists, including Obama and crew, are, is far too colorful to post here.Doug Mayfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14620167852028046807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4784494816017184302013-03-10T12:01:19.129-04:002013-03-10T12:01:19.129-04:00Among other things, liberalism is fundamentally ab...Among other things, liberalism is fundamentally about power. You can't have power over people if you let the market decide what is productive and what isn't. In order to justify their thirst for power, liberals demonize profits and prices, which are the informational basis for how the free market makes decisions. They also elevate the basis for how they make decisions by wrapping it in concerns for humanity. In the end it all comes down to "my ideology is good, because I care, and the opposing one is bad because they don't, and they are bad people too."IgorRhttp://www.gmail.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-66831621999950413132013-03-10T10:55:45.792-04:002013-03-10T10:55:45.792-04:00Fiscal sanity is also the arch-nemesis of the soci...Fiscal sanity is also the arch-nemesis of the social worker movement. This ha created the boom of the non-profit political pac expanding this quagmire further. This is why Citizens United has become enemy #1 of the Left. They need to silence all their competition which comes from for profit corporations. They also need to silence the for profit moguls that start non profit pacs like the Kochs. Because common sense is the rival of emotional motivations.AGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-66990549261411630292013-03-10T10:54:13.437-04:002013-03-10T10:54:13.437-04:00Tina, yes this sort of outrage goes on all the tim...Tina, yes this sort of outrage goes on all the time. Huge amounts of grants are doled out for the useless trendy gimmick of the moment<br /><br />get kids off drugs, promote healthy eating, promote green housing, etc<br /><br />we've wasted trillions on all this stuff by now and some people have gotten rich doing itDaniel Greenfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-38707905306086612762013-03-10T10:46:58.762-04:002013-03-10T10:46:58.762-04:00I am going to print that out, frame it and read it...I am going to print that out, frame it and read it every morning after The Lord's Prayer.<br />Thank you Mr. Greenfield.<br />roger in floridaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3807229341929478922013-03-10T10:43:30.573-04:002013-03-10T10:43:30.573-04:00Daniel,What a great essay.For me the real environm...Daniel,What a great essay.For me the real environmentalist/humanitarian are the people that bring us natural gas, clean water, good roads and bridges, sanitation, medical innovations ect. These people actually improve the quality of life for other people and make the U.S a better place. Kirknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-25257505981006925542013-03-10T10:07:26.082-04:002013-03-10T10:07:26.082-04:00This is one of the finest essays penned by Daniel....This is one of the finest essays penned by Daniel. Every tyrant and dictator in history has said he was a "humanitarian," and has made the world a "better place" by created kraals of misery and death, and consciously or by happenstance removed millions from existence from that "better place." Every economic policy that resorts to initiating force and fraud against a nation's economy and its citizens results in either immediate or incremental impoverishment of those citizens. Productive men who produce values are enslaved by non-productive, parasitical men who make careers of making the world a "better place." <br /><br />The moral culprit in this tragedy is the code of altruism, as Daniel points out here. Altruism, whether it's called Progressivism, or Marxism, or Islam, or Environmentalism, requires that one surrender or sacrifice a value in exchange for the humanitarian's "good intentions." The size or scale of the value, whether it's a $50 million house or a pack of cigarettes or a 16 ounce soft drink, is irrelevant. As Ellsworth Toohey, the career "humanitarian," said in Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" – "It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where's there's service, there's someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master." <br /><br />Barack Obama intends to be a master, and has a Cabinet full of ambitious masters, and they all say they want to make the nation and the world a "better place." As Daniel points out, their motives are not to be examined or scrutinized, only the motives of those whom they intend to enslave, loot, and drive to penury. If men are to save themselves from the Obamas, Chavez's, Hitlers, Stalins, and Pol Pots of the world, they must first scrutinize the motives of their masters, and then examine the moral code that unleashes those monsters: altruism.<br />Edward Clinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160209827969614964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-37966528783350692872013-03-10T09:08:06.502-04:002013-03-10T09:08:06.502-04:00True story: my first VISTA job, my boss was a prol...True story: my first VISTA job, my boss was a prolific crook. Really hard working. Stole $105K brazenly from the DHHS. He'd been given the money to do AIDS outreach to 1,050 refugee and immigrant youth. Yeah, do the math. He didn't even do the work. Gave one speech to an auditorium of non-immigrant minority kids, called it a day, cashed the check. Got 40K from the City of Atlanta to -- no kidding -- teach rap music recording to youth with at least three convictions -- this was to be job training. Sent me out into the hood to knock on doors and ask "anyone with three convictions home?" That didn't work so he did nothing, kept the money. Then when the (entirely black) city gov't refused to renew his grant, because he did nothing, he screamed racism. Instead of laughing at him, they let him have an extra 10K with no requirements for reporting attached and dropped the subject. <br /><br />I tried to report him. The head of VISTA SE Region, a bearded hippie sitting in a nice office in a federal building, laughed his ass off when I told him about it. <br /><br />You can't report him, hippy said, he's a black man and you're a white woman: how would that look? Exact words. He told me he'd transfer me if I kept my mouth shut. I said: transfer me but I'll report it anyway. <br /><br />He did; I did -- the DHHS and City of Atlanta never got back to me about my complaints.<br /><br />My old boss is still scarfing up grants. Last I heard he was doing 'green weatherproofing for low income homes.' <br /><br />I bet it's green. Tina Trenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18042740028141957317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7523464797216653942013-03-10T07:20:06.619-04:002013-03-10T07:20:06.619-04:00There is a great deal of noise over the compensati...<i><br />There is a great deal of noise over the compensation packages for CEOs. Much of that noise is justified. The modern American corporation is a disaster suffering from the same short term thinking as every other institution. <br /></i><br /><br />I always think that the people who complain about CEOs making, say $10M/yr. should offer their services for $5M and see if they get the job.fsynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-25979133650692351022013-03-10T06:18:48.551-04:002013-03-10T06:18:48.551-04:00There is no good and worthy endeavor that cannot b...There is no good and worthy endeavor that cannot be hijacked, redirected and ramrodded to its destruction, once opportunists who are charged up with the passion of self interest pretend to champion the cause. It a perfect cover. Who wants to be accused of not wanting to make the world a better place? <br /><br />It's a strategy that was planted as seeds sown decades ago. Now its harvest time.meemahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09104303592278897991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-63696995101955231342013-03-10T05:00:11.585-04:002013-03-10T05:00:11.585-04:00On your first passage about the Bob Hope estate.
W...On your first passage about the Bob Hope estate.<br />When my first employer, a very greedy and very wealthy businessman, bought his first RollsRoyce I made, in youthful ignorance a somewhat scornful remark about this excessive show of affluence to an extremely gifted but politically very left leaning handyman who worked on an independent base for this man. This wise handyman answered me: "Who do you think worked constructing and thus benefitted this RollsRoyce, a wealthy or a common man?" mindRiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160934421830568737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6918700153018626802013-03-10T04:56:32.439-04:002013-03-10T04:56:32.439-04:00Bob Hope died in 2003. I believe he built that hou...Bob Hope died in 2003. I believe he built that house in the 50's or early 60's. While I'm sure it cost a lot back then, he didn't pay anywhere near $50 Mil for it. That is the current estimated market price. <br /><br />Where has al the critical thinking gone? Bob Hope gave millions to charity thru various means including his pro/am golf tournament and to Georgetown University's Medical school. Meira Lettieri Kingberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00442805884040904639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-63644045108129204972013-03-10T04:33:44.657-04:002013-03-10T04:33:44.657-04:00Great piece of writing.
CS Lewis once wrote:
&qu...Great piece of writing.<br /><br />CS Lewis once wrote:<br /><br />"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09434953258949767350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-76420800518035321242013-03-10T04:33:21.072-04:002013-03-10T04:33:21.072-04:00just brilliant
-- spankyjust brilliant<br /><br /> -- spankyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com