Down is Up, Unfair is Fair and Ignorance is Bliss
by Victoria JacksonI woke up in the middle of the night and realized the trick.
You see, evil doesn’t just show up. It disguises itself as something nice; so you’ll let it in. It tricks you.
Murdering babies is called Pro-Choice. Unfair Censorship is called The Fairness Doctrine. Outlandish Taxes and the Death of Freedom is called Cap & Trade. Sounds like Fish & Chips. You gotta figure out the trick.
I’d been wondering why the liberals are so passionate about this Health Care thing. It couldn’t be because they actually care about sick, poor people. If they did, they would visit hospitals, and give ten percent of their gross salaries to Compassion International and World Vision, like us stupid church go-ers do. Biden gave $ 62 to charity last year.
No, there’s gotta be a catch. I guess this question was sitting in my brain and during my sleep, my brain was working on it, because when I suddenly awoke at 3 a.m. I had the answer.
Euthanasia!
Social Security and Medicare are broke. Baby boomers, like me, are getting old and will soon be asking for it. Socialized medicine makes people die. You stand in a long, long line with a breast lump, clogged artery, or sharp pencil stuck in your eye, and someone like the DMV person, who can’t speak English, has chewing gum, an attitiude, really long fake nails that curl up at the end, and is talking on a cell phone, enjoying their power trip moment, is finally face to face with you. They mumble something incoherent about paperwork. You die. One less person in line for Social Security and Medicare!
Obama legally kills babies and now he can legally kill Grandmas!
Hitler did this. He killed the weak, the sick, the old, and babies and races/religions he didn’t like. Hitler also controlled the media. (Where’s the public debate between scientists on “Climate Change/Global Warming?”) Hitler had the VW bug invented as the state car. What will O’s nationalized car be? So… kill off the weak. That’s the plan. Tax the workers to death. Erase the middle class. Sounds like the evil governments we studied in high school long ago. The evil governments were : kings, oligarchies, facist, socialist, and communist. Now it’s called the Obama Administration. Sounds like candy or a rock band.
I was browsing in a Burbank gift shop yesterday and I asked the store owner how business was doing. She smiled, “Well, you know, hit and miss. I’m sure it will be better soon.” The store was empty.
I apologized for not buying anything. “I’m sorry, but my husband now cringes when I order a Hazelnut Iced Coffee at McDonald’s, so I can’t really buy anything.”
Her smile hardened.
“You know, I’ve been speaking at Tea Parties lately. No one seems to know or care that our country just turned Socialist.”
She stared at me like a deer caught in head lights.
I continued, “I don’t like politics, but we have to do something. I’m writing to my Congressmen and Senators now.”
Her teenage assistants with no customers had frozen smiles and frozen bodies.
“Did you know Obama uses our tax payer dollars to pay for abortions?”
She shook her head no.
“He even supports killing 9 month old babies, in the womb.”
She became a ceramic knick knack.
I continued, “It’s called ‘late-term abortion’. Now he’s going to kill sick people and old people. Did you know that Cap & Trade will allow the government to regulate how long we take a shower? And that the “New Health Plan”, happy, happy, will allow the government to decide who lives and who dies?”
Crickets. Dead crickets.
As I opened the door to leave, she shook herself into reality and said, “Thank you and come again.”
The bell jingled as the door shut.
I got into my fuel efficient economy car, with the leopard seat covers, and the bumper that used to have the “I RESIST SOCIALISM” bumper sticker, until it got smashed, and I drove away thinking, “Ignorance is Bliss.”
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Thank you, Victoria! The world really has gone insane. It's up to us to speak out and keep the madness at bay.
And you are absolutely right about the language thing. Somehow people think that if you just change the name of something, the reality of it is changed as well.
Wish that would work on my bank account.
Hey Victoria! Happy post-fourth!
Yes Arlen "Spectator" made a speech from the Senate floor that suggested "we" forgo any life-extending procedures for the good of the economy. Within a month or so he made his life journey to the Democrat party complete.
We say, "Alright, Arlen, that's a plan, YOU FIRST, pal ole pal!"
Thanks for the good post Victoria. The tongue in cheek style helped highlight what really might be the result of health care reform. There's also a real danger that Obama will use health care reform to push mandates for abortion, "mainstreaming" it so to speak by requiring insurance (or at least the public option plan) to cover abortions.
Not fun.
Anyone who wants to know more or who wants to help stop it, go here: http://stoptheabortionagenda.com/action
Yes…I found it highly ironic that Arlen Specter suggested the curtailing of "life-extending procedures", seeing as he is a cancer survivor, and rather long in the tooth.
Your article reminds me of that line from the Lord of the Rings novels:
"I think evil would appear fairer, and feel fouler"
George Orwell is spinning at Mach 5 in his grave….
Lately I've noticed that there are fewer and fewer ceramic knick knacks, and an increasing number of bobble heads.
OH – you are sooooo on their watchlists now!!! you're not supposed to figure out the secret! and then admit it – out loud – and SHARE it!!!!!
I am enjoying your political awakening! Thanks for sharing.
Hi, Victoria, didn't know you were a thinking person, glad to see you writing here.
No doubt about it. Up to now, economics and pricing were the means to ration a scarce resource, i.e., medical care. Once the Obamacrats get done, the government will decide who gets health care and how much. Guess who will be taken care of the best? The worse?
Joe Haldeman in "The Forever War" warns about this scenario. Government and corporate "executives" get all the health care they care to get. Most of the people, at the bottom, get none at all.
Don't bother with Nostradamus, read your Orwell!
Welcome to the brave new world – where fantasy reigns supreme and reality is on permanent vacation.
Aggie_Sith: My wife is an Aggie – Ch.E. class of 1977. Is there such a thing as a liberal Aggie? "Oh, yes, it's one that believes in offering the condemned a blindfold."
You are on a roll, Victoria! I think we already have the official "state" car, it's called the Smart car… : )
My new favorite columnist!
Way to tell it like it is Victoria! There are too many people like the ones you encountered in the store that just can't handle the truth… or don't want to. Keep up the good work!
One of my favorites:
"Evil is unspectacular and always human and shares our bed and eats at our own table." –W.H. Auden
A liberal Aggie?? We call those "2%ers".
Heh!!
Someone said in another discussion of health care here recently (I'm paraphrasing):
Yeah, if we put a pulley on the top of his head and ran a belt to a generator we could solve the energy "crisis".
"your journey to the daaark side is now complete" Specter… ~ Emperor Palpatine
at least the inside of his coffin is well buffed.
Cute and true. Thanks for the laugh!
Awesome quote there. Indeed, evil wears many masks of convenience.
that's ok. All of us here will be sure to watch and enjoy anything She is a part of. We look out for each other.
Excellent and spot-on!
How right you are Victoria. I'm having flashbacks to the old movie Logan's Run. The preamble to the movie states;
In the year 2274…the survivors of war, overpopulation and pollution are living in a great domed city, sealed away from the forgotten world outside. Here, in an ecologically balanced world, mankind lives only for pleasure, freed by the servo-mechanisms which provide everything. There's just one catch: Life must end at thirty unless reborn in the fiery ritual of Carrousel.
Wonder if Obama is a fan of that movie…
How right you are Victoria. I'm having flashbacks to the old movie Logan's Run. The preamble to the movie states;
In the year 2274…the survivors of war, overpopulation and pollution are living in a great domed city, sealed away from the forgotten world outside. Here, in an ecologically balanced world, mankind lives only for pleasure, freed by the servo-mechanisms which provide everything. There's just one catch: Life must end at thirty unless reborn in the fiery ritual of Carrousel.
Wonder if Obama is a fan of that movie…
How right you are Victoria. I'm having flashbacks to the old movie Logan's Run. The preamble to the movie states;
In the year 2274…the survivors of war, overpopulation and pollution are living in a great domed city, sealed away from the forgotten world outside. Here, in an ecologically balanced world, mankind lives only for pleasure, freed by the servo-mechanisms which provide everything. There's just one catch: Life must end at thirty unless reborn in the fiery ritual of Carrousel.
Wonder if Obama is a fan of that movie…
I'm hoping it was a lined casket. I can only imagine the splinters otherwise….
Thanks for the good post Victoria. The tongue in cheek style helped highlight what really might be the result of health care reform. There's also a real danger that Obama will use health care reform to push mandates for abortion, "mainstreaming" it so to speak by requiring insurance (or at least the public option plan) to cover abortions.
"Now he’s going to kill sick people and old people" "Cap & Trade will allow the government to regulate how long we take a shower"
And you wonder why shopkeepers look at you like you are crazy? Get out of the fevered swamps Victoria this stuff is just silly.
I’ve tried this also. Talk to Joe Blow about the issues that are effecting us and all these idiots are worried about is Michael Jackson or who is sleeping with who.
I had a lady tell me that she thought that the rockets that go into space cause global warming. God help us, we are in big trouble.
if so, he can then be known as Spikey
Hey Victoria, you are definitely on Barry’s watch list, be afraid, be very afraid. The Tea Parties were great, went to two over the 4th.
A truly apt reference. A case of life imitating art or art being precognitive of life?
"Sounds like the evil governments we studied in high school long ago. The evil governments were : kings, oligarchies, fascist, socialist, and communist. Now it’s called the Obama Administration. Sounds like candy or a rock band."
I only wish this admin was a rock band. And thanks to today's leftist teachers, students now believe the evil government is our own and not those mentioned by Victoria.
Hopefully next Tea Party I'll be able to make it to the Santa Monica pier and get a picture with her.
Mine Too!!!
HA!
I was at a Parent /Teacher meeting one morning, and a woman there was pushing for the school to show "An Inconvenient Truth", mandatorily, mind you. We got into a heated "discussion" about globull wormening. Finally I asked her, "If it isn't the Sun warming the Earth, then why is Mars showing higher temperatures?"
Her response: "Because emissions from our cars and SUVs are floating over there."
She became the village idiot.
oh, yeah!
If America doesn't wake up, our apathy will be our demise.
Every word Victoria said is TRUE – and you are just another in the chorus of bobble heads believing Obama's slick double speak. He's taking a sledge hammer to this country – when you gonna wake up?
Hey somecat, pull yer head outa yer @ss and smell the coffee. Oblaba is a marxist from the gitgo, you and all the other fellow travelers (AKA sheeple) just provide him cover to attempt to destroy us. Do us all a favor and stick to yer guns, and don't buy any. Guns that is.
There's no shortage of idiots Aggie!! They're EVERYWHERE.
brilliant.
Victoria, being a lifelong conservative in liberal L.A., I figured out in back in junior high, that most people are apathetic towards government issues, policies, and the societal car wreck that is liberalism. Or they're just rude, my McCain stickers were time and again covered up with Obimbo's face last year. We've got to press on trying to inform, but mostly people don't care. Disheartening to be sure, but there's still hope out there. That's why conservatives flock to sites like this one.
Better than Buffy, I guess
Let's not forget how "Logan's Run" ended, either
depends on what the casket is made from.. He could get stuck with Willow
Last year I was with my mother-in-law at a hospital in Traverse City, Michigan. The family was gathered in a waiting room while she had open heart surgery. As time passed, the conversation turned to National Health Care. Half of the family believed that it was a right and that we should get the care we need when we need it without having to pay for the service when you receive it. The other half believed that citizens should have to pay for either their insurance or the actual cost of care received. While discussing it, sometimes louder than we should have, a person came over and joined the discussion. They had come across the border from Canada and had decided that they had better come to the United States to get the care they needed because if they had to wait for the surgery date they were given in Canada, they did not feel they would make it. Then they left us with this… Be careful of what you wish for, you just might get it. Then another person in the waiting room said that they feared that the US would to to Socialized Medicine because if we did, they would have to find another place to go to get their health care. It was a sobering thought.
Only in America. The guy outside death row protesting the dealth penalty is pro choice.
Huh? Can I have that one again????
Well, as they get to issue "smart thermostats" here in CA ………
George Soros!
That dude is quite scary indeed.
I sent my son with the movie "The global warming swindle" on the day that they made them watch "An Inconvenient Truth". I then called and asked if both sides of the issue were going to be discussed or if we were now advocating the indoctrination of our children through the words of a former "POLITICIAN" who is now looking to cash in.
somecat-
There's a difference between the employment of hyperbole to make a point, and just being "silly".
Victoria's post was hyperbolic. Yours is just silly.
See the difference?
I thought the plan was nuclear war a hemisphere away. Start by taking out the Middle East and Asia, then declare the African nations have a right to develop nuclear energy. We are separated from them by oceans, worth a shot.
I think Billy Graham said it well :
'Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery . We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare .. We have killed our unborn and called it choice . We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable . We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics .. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition . We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment . Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Amen!'
As we pay more attention to the planks in our own eyes I think the best thing we can do for "the world" is pray for those who are deceived, those who will not endure sound doctrine, those who call evil good and good evil.
Right. Why do you assume I don't own any guns? Better yet why bring it up? It seems like I get this vague threat often when I post here. It doesn't scare me and it doesn't seem like much of a debating point either.
I am over here reading posts and comments on this blog. How many of you read the other point of view? I won't claim to have a completely open mind because lets face none of us do but at least I am aware of your views as they are and not as I am told they are.
Great stuff Victoria. Let's hope we babyboomers don't wind up in something like SOYLANT GREEN.
I shudder to think he could have gotten stuck with Myrtle, although Ash is manly enough.
By all that's holy, I sure hope the casket isn't made of Beech
Victoria, great article…
Things over the past 6 months have gone infinatley wrong…We have had bills RUSHED through because we have to face facts that the economy is in DIRE straits….. and it looks like we may have another STIMULUS PACKAGE!!! The cap and trade was PELOSI's SWAN song…. she made it her destiny with her San Fransico values, it must be so nice to live in her IVORY tower and being able to use the UNITED STATES military as her OWN chaffeur. Not to say that any of the people in Obama's cabinet have paid there taxs, they said no big deal we will just raise everyone else's taxs…. damn democrates….. I just want to through my arms up in the air and walk away….. but, there is one thing that we can do and it is simple.. votes these bums out of office as soon as we can…… or petition everyone across the US and say the CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN IS LOWERING OUR TAXS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obama IS a Marxist. He's just packaging it in a more friendly box. Obama is the result of a very well put together marketing campaign. He had next to no experience. Didn't have to give any specifics on his plans because the press were/are in the tank for him. He's pushed through the stimulus (what a joke of a name). His cohorts pushed through a cap and tax bill that will have 0 (zero) effect on the environment but will steal more money from us. He's trying to push through a health care debacle sold to people as fixing a non-existent crisis. It's all marketing and the Dems are definitely better at it. How else can you continue to steal money from the people of this country and tell them it's for their own good?
By the way, one of my favorite movies is UHF.
Excellent points Victoria – you have captured what many of us are thinking as we watch this thinly-veiled power grab. The real question is this: How bad will it have to get before people decide to take action? And will it be too late?
I would never read the other point of view… the reason why, you ask… I just have to watch ANY MEDIA OUTLET (becasue they are all in the tank for the dems) and they will GLEEFULLY tell me the NEW AGENDA they have for us…..
Tom – I take your point. I was reluctant to post a comment because Victoria's post was obviously not dead on serious. As I read it – I felt bad for the shopkeepers though. I recently had a conversation in a bakery with an older lady who told me in great detail about FEMA concentration camps being built in our home state. She totally believed this and I think I stood there with the same look on my face as the shopkeepers. It can be very uncomfortable to watch an otherwise good person go on and on with conspiracy theories.
It's too bad that our elected representatives weren't forced to live under the health care they're forcing us to use. If some of them did, they'd probably be dead by now. Maybe that's the only term limits we could hope for.
You are wonderful. I too have had my breakout moment…after my rant I told this yuppie woman, that I had never met, "I am Sarah Palin". Keep up your wonderful writing, and get on the radio and television, we need your sweet heart.
Are those not the ones that let them turn off the air conditioning on old people if they have to cut demand for electricity? Reducing consumption is always good according to the eco-mentalists. Permanent reductions are especially good.
Comparing Obama to Hitler…wow how original. If you want folks to take you seriously, then that sort of talk has to stop. But it works for Rush, so why not you has been.
[...] Read the original: Down is Up, Unfair is Fair and Ignorance is Bliss [...]
Now the worms are scared.
Well, it only goes with all of the guttersnips that bashed BUSH….. I am not condoning it, however it is the truth. I think that there needs to be a change in his policies or else this AMERICA is not going to be the AMERICA we grew up with…… and again I am not condoning calling Obama/Hitler….
Sheesh Bob…bitter much because Obama is showing everyone that Bushitler really wasn't? You stupid hypocrit. No one takes YOU seriously now…youre just a braindead kool-aid drinking leftist.
The Obama administration is starting to sound like the "Obsolete Man" episode of the Twilight Zone with Burgess Meredith. The "state" decides who lives and who is obsolete and invaluable. It's scary that science fiction is turning into reality.
She is comparing his BEHAVIOR (or future behavior, according to the natural outworking of his policies) to Hitler's BEHAVIOR. Big difference.
Your last sentence makes no sense. But that's okay, the rest of it doesn't either.
Victoria, can't express enough how pleased I am that you've found your voice and are using it. I look forward to more of your contributions.
You see, evil doesn’t just show up. It disguises itself as something nice; so you’ll let it in. It tricks you.
Absolutely.
"You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. — Genesis 3:4
"I will cut taxes for 95% of Americans" — Barack Obama
Well, when fueled with liquid oxygen and hydrogen they create water vapor which is the most important substance keeping Earth warm…
You can't go wrong with wisdom from Frodo.
I keep thinking of Soylent Green everytime I hear about this health care power grab. It seems like Britain is already heading that direction (putting people down because they're not economically viable). The left want complete power. They screamed that Bush was a control freak (which he wasn't) but are aokay with the stuff that is heading our way to take away freedoms we now enjoy – For our own good (monitoring homes for electrical use, smoking, gun ownership, the type of car we drive, the food we eat, what we say that may offend someone, etc. The list goes on) They scream when a fly gets swatted by the Great and Powerful Obama, but don't have a problem ending the life of a child. Unless it benefits them politically.
Great point! Like the trash out here in Olympia, protesting to bring the troops home while sitting in their way to get home from Iraq. Liberals are walking contradictions. And they smell bad too.
Oh you have no idea. They just installed these in my neighborhood– no choice on opting out either. We were told they were simply updated meters that would be more accurate in measuring our usage. Funny how my air conditioner doesn't seem to want to come on anymore– and it was 110 last week.
If only. Benedict Arnold may not realize that save for his super-duper health plan, he would have been one of the first!
Oh, Victoria. (*Sigh*)
She is the woman with the name I like the most (what a ring to "Victoria")…
Her voice is the stuff of fantasies (she sounds like a ditzy little girl, until you realize she's SMART AS A WHIP)…
She holds faith and ideology in common with me…
Her taste runs to leopard print seats in a V W (*BIG Sigh*)…
She goes to tea parties and writes to Congress-critters…
Her stunning good looks conquered me in an instant, so many years ago watching her on late night TV…
Someone please tell me why our ships never met in the night?
(*HUGE Sigh*)
If only it would apply to these elites. They won't be joining us serfs in the healthcare plan these morons come up with. It would be so nice for these elected officials "walk the walk". The hypocrisy is unbelievable.
S.N.L Bimbo
Dullard conservative ditz
Whiney voice screeches
Victoria, as another poster already said, "You're my new favorite columnist." Very thoughtful and refreshingly frank.
The other point of view is so predictable. You can read it in the trolls here. It's the same talking/bullet points that are told to them. It's like a broken record. I think we all appreciate an honest debate and will accept opposing points of view if presented without childish insults which is about the only time you'll see insults from the people here. I would venture to say you'll get more thoughtful opinions here than most liberal sites.
Familiar with the term "useless eaters"?
It's not just Obama doing all this — our nation's been on this general trajectory for a long time. All that distinguishes our current nightmare is that they're not using much pretense any longer.
The Road to Serfdom, indeed.
The talk of euphemisms reminds me of Upton Sinclair's old quip after his two unsuccessful runs for California governor — the first on the Socialist Party ticket, the second on the very same platform but as a Democrat.
Suffice it to say, he fared a great deal better as a Democrat than as a Socialist. But his platform was precisely the same. Recognizing this, Sinclair said that "Americans will take socialism. But they won't take the label."
I'd say he was basically right.
one suspects several plans and various contingencies are in place… what you mention is certtainly viable. Vigilance is needed…
Dear Victoria,
You see, evil doesn’t just show up. It disguises itself as something nice; so you’ll let it in. It tricks you.
Yes, it does. Read "The Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis (it's a fairly short book) for more insight on this idea.
it is amazing what the mention of those two words can mean. Soros IS the prototypical Bond villain, though nowhere near as erudite (or cool, for that matter) and his quest at world domination is actually a subtext of 'Quantum of Solace' and Dominick Greene… funny how the truth and fiction can interweave.
Progressives have been into Eugenics for over 100 years. Obama is Utopian Marxist. I don't think it's unreasonable to think these “progressives” will want to pull the plug on you the instant you become a burden to their Utopian Society. Have you ever seen Logan's Run? That's probably the future these commies have in mind for us. A hedonistic society that everyone is euthanized on their 21st birthday.
“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.” Winston Churchill.
Perfect society for a liberal right? How's that for a conspiracy theory?
Exactly! She is comparing Obama to Hitler, which is precisely what 'Bob' said. Comparing two individuals based on their behavior is still comparing the two individuals. Big difference? Not really. In fact, your post raises the question, how else could you compare a politician other than on his behavior and policies? Appearance? Taste in movies? These are irrelevant issues. Behavior is the only appropiate and relevant issue to compare a politician on.
You're right. Obama isn't Hitler. He's Jimmy Carter. Weak foreign policy and all.
*MissQuinn*
Aggie joke FTW!
She's more funny now
An uninformed right wing cow
Since the days of yore
Lame attempt at haiku
Scared to address the issue
Resorts to insults.
*MissQuinn*
This article is silly and despite the glowing praises of other posters, Victoria is turning out to be my least favorite columnist. Implying that Obama is attempting to euthanize the elderly through his health care implements is more abursd than the 9/11-inside job theories that are lambasted around here. Say what you will about public health care, but is it not an attempt to murder the elderly any more than privatized health care is an attempt to euthanize the poor. This is completely ridiculous logic and one cannot blame the gift shop employees for their shellshocked behavior admist hearing such insane theories.
I LOVE Logan's Run! I also really love how cute Michael York is in Logan's Run.
Anyway, more proof for my hypothesis that sci-fi/fantasy creators are some of the most important people in society.
McCarthyism
A fear mongering trickster
Dimwit blond sister
Uh, except for the fact that President Bush never did anything (or proposed any policy ideas) that could be remotely considered equal to what Hitler did. Obama's policies and future policy ideas, by their very nature, could easily end up with results like Hitler's.
Funny how you left out that little detail.
Uh, except for the fact that President Bush never did anything (or proposed any policy ideas) that could be remotely considered equal to what Hitler did. Obama's policies and future policy ideas, by their very nature, could easily end up with results like Hitler's. That is where the very valid comparison comes in.
Funny how you left out that little detail.
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