Time for conservatives to learn from Saul Alinsky and Obama/ 12 ways to do just that

Thomas Lifson  "David Gregory and Piers Morgan have both met the Alinskyite Right, and progressives in positions of power should take note. Both men are the targets of digital petition drives aimed at holding them to their own standards, and ridiculing them, invoking Rules 4 and 5 from Rules for Radicals:

4. "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
5. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.

But since the 1960s, the left has grabbed control of education, the nonprofit sector, the arts and culture, and the Democratic Party. The Right feels, and actually is, powerless in most of these areas. Thus, conservatives are beginning to [understand] that we must emulate the (successful) tactics of the left, in leveraging our ability to influence the major institutions shaping our lives.

Legal Insurrection has it's own take on this column by Lifson   "Is there any more vile network than MSNBC, which has turned into a stinking cauldron of race and class warfare? Yet there is no group targeting MSNBC akin to Media Matters which targets Fox News and other conservative media. I wish the Media Matters of the world and their tactics didn’t exist, but they do … and they are effective. Fox News is on the defensive all the time, while MSNBC gets a pass."

Video explaining Liberal Universities

:12 Ways To Use Saul Alinsky's Rules For Radicals Against Liberals Going into the next primary election, Republicans would do well to remember number 7 in this list:

7) A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. This one seems self-explanatory, but in practice, it can be tough to keep things on a timeline. This is what happened to the Occupy Movement, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Republican race for the presidency, too. If it goes on too long, people sour on it whether it’s a war, an election, or a tactic.

But, is there a lot conservatives can learn from his tactics? Absolutely. Some of it we can apply and some of it we can see how the Left has applied it against us

Compare the Rules for Radicals with Obama’s behavior. Rubbing resentments, fanning hostilities and searching out controversy:

What is meant by "Consent of the governed" and who can revoke it?

John Locke

Consent of the governed definition:  "A condition urged by many as a requirement for legitimate government: that the authority of a government should depend on the consent of the people, as expressed by votes in elections."

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed...
             Declaration of Independence, United States of America, 1776

Just 21% of voters nationwide believe that the federal government enjoys the consent of the governed.

From The Blaze

I like this post, even knowing it ain't gonna happen. In attempting to edit improper grammar and punctuation, the site required that one must log in. As usual the capcha code wouldn't work, so no errors in the text could be corrected by me. Read the post as it is:

The Declaration of Consent Revocation
...."The history of this federal government, and its tyrannical despotic president, Barack Hussein Obama, is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over We The Free People of these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world."
....
42.The government has engaged in the most tyrannical of endeavors, that of which has the object of complete disarmament of We The People, effectively enslaving us to their tyranny, that of which we cannot allow, causing us to publish this Declaration.
43.In every stage of these abuses, we have petitioned for redress in the most humble of terms. Our repeated petitions have landed on deaf and unwilling ears and have been answered by repeated injury. A government of which character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyranny, is unfit to retain the consent of a Free People.
....
"45.Therefore, We the People, by authority of our ultimate supremacy in government, solemnly publish and declare, that the consent to govern given to the current federal government of the United States by We The People of the States united, is hereby immediately revoked, that their bureaucracy is to be immediately dissolved, and the President, his entire administration, and those individuals appointed by him to hold unelected office, immediately resign their posts; erected in its place a government holding true to the Constitution as outlined by our Founding Fathers barring the provisions of slavery and lack of adequate suffrage for all; and that this new government adheres to new rules, including:"....
Hat tip to Tom Williams, posting at Oregon Military Veterans, Family and Supporters

Beyond Defeat or Defiance; Redefining state-based health reform under Obamacare.

American Enterprise Institute   "But one way or another, taxpayer subsidies for new ACA coverage for at least several million Americans will start flowing out of Washington in 2014. The results of the 2012 election, as well as last June’s Supreme Court decision upholding the health law as constitutional, mean that Obamacare’s plans for even more doses of health care subsidies, regulations, and mandates cannot be fully stopped. However, changing the terms of how this happens and reshaping the future nature of our health system remain possible."
Related posts at this site:

• As debate about whether ObamaCare is a good idea continues, rejecting four major misconceptions about healthcare is crucial to any chance of our eventually emerging with a better system.
• More than Just Broccoli: The Real Slippery Slope of ObamaCare’s ‘Must-Buy’ Provision
• If You Don’t Buy Insurance, Will You Really Pay the Tax?
• Why Is the ObamaCare Tax/Penalty Needed at All?
• The law is unpopular among small business owners because it is not making employee health insurance more affordable.

The Brits are experts at government-run healthcare:

Elections have consequences and these are some that voters have coming

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Obama Claus Gives You 90 More Days To Collect Your $50,000 Reparations Check  "Circle March 25, 2013 on your calendar. That's the last day you can submit your claim form from this official U.S. government website to collect fifty thousand tax-free American dollars, courtesy of the Obama administration in its current multi-billion giveaway scheme. "

Senators Pushing for Online Sales Tax Next Year "Congress may not want to dump an online sales tax on Americans in the wake of Christmas, but they’re preparing to do so next year."

Lets see now, who is it that is in charge of the Senate?

Victor Davis Hanson;   Let the Real Fat Cats Pay Their Fair Share ...."For much of 2012, Obama waged a veritable class war against conservatives, as if they were all right-wing clones of Donald Trump and the Koch brothers. But modern Democrats — Nancy Pelosi, George Soros, Steven Spielberg, Brian Williams or Oprah Winfrey — are as likely to be very wealthy as are Republicans, who increasingly better represent small-business owners desperately struggling to become affluent.
"Next time around, Republicans might remind us of that paradox by nominating a small-business scrapper, who -- unlike millionaires such as Al Gore, John Kerry or Barack Obama — did not go to prep school and the Ivy League. And they might find better ways for those in academia, entertainment, sports, big law and the media to pay their fair share."

Thomas Sowell; Taxing the Poor  "Someone who is trying to climb out of poverty by working their way up can easily reach a point where a $10,000 increase in pay can cost them $15,000 in lost benefits that they no longer qualify for. That amounts to a marginal tax rate of 150 percent-- far more than millionaires pay. Some government policies help some people at the expense of other people. But some policies can hurt welfare recipients, the taxpayers and others, all at the same time, even though in different ways.

"Why? Because we are too easily impressed by lofty political rhetoric and too little interested in the reality behind the words. "

CNBC Anchor Challenges Dem Senator On Cliff Negotiations; Floor Traders Erupt In Cheers

Big Journalism  " “That’s all you want to do. That’s it. It’s your way or the highway. Raise the rates on the rich. No other way. Your way or the highway. That’s it. That’s where we are. Thank you, Senator.”

"That's how CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo (right) finished her interview with Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) last week as the two went back and forth over the fiscal cliff negotiations in Washington DC. It was the first time a Democrat has really been challenged over their lack of leadership in the negotiations.

"Conventional wisdom (and therefore the dominant narrative in the media) focuses on Speaker John Boehner and House Republicans being intransigent and not meeting President Obama and the Democrats for a "balanced approach." Bartiromo exploded that narrative by challenging Cardin on ANY alternative type of revenue stream that doesn't include raising tax rates. Cardin would not agree to any of them, thus destroying the idea that Democrats are embracing the "balanced approach." "

Video at the link.

"A Christmas Story" cast; where are they now?

A Christmas Story House
A great site for aficionados of the movie because of all the links and interesting trivia from then and now.



A Christmas Story cast reunion around the leg lamp at A Christmas Story Convention.
From left to right Ian Petrella (Randy), Zack Ward (Scut Farkus), Tedde Moore (Miss Shields),
Yano Anaya (Grover Dill), Dwayne McClean (Black Bart), Scott Schwartz (Flick), Patty Lafontaine (Elf),
Drew Hocevear (Elf) and Jom Moralevitz (Freight Man).
At bottom: Randy hiding under the sink.

The evil Scut Farkus, aka Zack Ward

Santa and the elves. Ho,ho,ho Patty Johnson (head elf), Drew Hocevar (male elf), and
Jeff Gillen(Santa)

"Like many others, Johnson, Hocevar and Gillen reached their thespian zenith with ‘A Christmas Story.’ Gillen created Great Southern Studios, a production company in North Miami Beach, Florida, and was its president until 1995, when he suffered a fatal heart attack. Patty Johnson and Drew Hocevar continue to live in Ohio, where both are employed as teachers."

Filming locations  , Actors pictures



Ann Coulter; Kwanzaa: Holiday Brought to You By The FBI

Karenga/Everett

Ann Coulter  " But it seems to be creeping back. A few weeks ago, House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., complained about having to stick around Washington for fiscal cliff negotiations by accusing Republicans of not caring about "families" coming together to bond during Kwanzaa. The private schools have picked up this PC nonsense from the public schools. (Soon, no one will know anything.)
"It is a fact that Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by a black radical FBI stooge, Ron Karenga -- aka Dr. Maulana Karenga --- founder of United Slaves, a violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers. He was also a dupe of the FBI."

wtfpoliticalcartoons

.... "Kwanzaa emerged not from Africa, but from the FBI's COINTELPRO. It is a holiday celebrated exclusively by idiot white liberals. Black people celebrate Christmas. (Merry Christmas, fellow Christians!)
"Sing to "Jingle Bells":

Kwanzaa bells, dashikis sell
Whitey has to pay;
Burning, shooting, oh what fun
On this made-up holiday!

Quit Frontin on Kwanzaa  "For most Black folks, the holiday of Kwanzaa is one tied to Pan-Africanism and thus gets mentioned more in their living rooms on TV commercials than at family gatherings. I’ve decided we’ve been frontin’ on Kwanzaa for no real good reason. So here are some pre-emptive responses to questions and concerns."

Obama’s Cap-and-Trade Scheme for Cars

Heritage  "Ever since the Senate rejected President Obama’s cap-and-trade scheme in 2009, his administration has been hard at work to find other ways to implement a radical, environmentalist agenda.

"Obama made these intentions clear at a press conference in 2010 when he explained, “Cap and trade was just one way of skinning the cat. … It was a means, not an end, and I am going to be looking for other means to address this problem.” And this is a promise he’s doing his best to keep.

http://jtcontracelsum.blogspot.com/2009/03/hot-air.html

"With the help of the Environmental Protection Agency and other departments, this administration has relied on backdoor, behind-the-scenes tactics to impose stringent mandates in order to regulate what it has been unable to legislate. This tactic empowers unelected bureaucrats in Washington to implement rules that have far-reaching, negative impacts on our nation’s economy and the way we live our lives."....

Do we see a cartoon theme here?

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/

http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/obamas-freedom-manifesto-and-where-it-leads/

nbcnews.com Wait! What? NBC?

http://www.cagle.com/

And to finish this up: The winner of our Obama/Santa cartoon caption contest!

Homosexuals in the military demand special privileges

Washington Times  "The American armed forces exist to defend our nation, not to conduct social science lab experiments in which our troops serve as human subjects. Try telling that to this administration.

"The first anniversary of the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Sept. 20, has come and gone. Now, there is mounting evidence that proves our warnings were not idle chatter. The threat to freedom posed by this radical sexual experiment on our military is real: It is grave and it is growing.
"Activists inside and outside our government who pushed the repeal have deployed a smoke screen around the fact that once the military was forced to exalt homosexuality in the ranks, the all-too-foreseen consequence reared its ugly head."
Via Mike Warner at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

Christmas wishes from Tunnel Dweller's eldest son

These are Christmas cards done over the past few years by our eldest son Jeff, who is also the author of these past Tunnel Wall Thanksgiving articles, "Why this guy is thankful at this time of year" and "Things I Am Thankful For."

I feel they capture the relationship of Christmas with Easter very well, don't you? TD

Having posted these uplifting messages, tomorrow I will return to the usual thrust of the Tunnel Wall: alerting us to the liberal transformation of America (which God is in control of anyway). Somehow these two missions in my life brings up this conundrum posed by the apostle James:

Does a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? (James 3:11)

I'm sure that, along with the Prophets, blog writers in the time of Solomon posted concerns such as mine, but in the end they would all wind up in Babylonian captivity no matter what they wrote. The God of Creation had declared it to be so. The Tunnel Dweller

A Dave Barry Two-fer: Where to Christmas Shop and What to Shop For

Dave Barry on where to shop; Christmas Shopping; a Survivor's Guide  "These days, people say "Season's Greetings," which, when you think about it, means nothing. It's like walking up to somebody and saying "Appropriate Remark" in a loud, cheerful voice. But "Season's Greetings" is safer, because it does not refer to any actual religion. Some day, I imagine, even "Season's Greetings" will be considered too religious, and we'll celebrate the Holiday Season by saying "Have a nice day." "

And when you get into the mall, this will tell you what to buy. Or maybe not: Dave Barry’s Gift Guide   "But my point is, if you’re just getting started now on your holiday shopping, you have already missed the mall bargains. That’s the bad news. The good news is, you’re still in time for our annual Holiday Gift Guide, which features a collection of unique gift items that you are not going to find at the mall, because not even holiday mall shoppers are desperate enough to buy these items."

Let's begin, shall we?

‘ON THE GO’ CHARACTER INFLATABLE POTTY SEAT  "...you can simply inflate this potty seat, using your mouth, then put it on the toilet seat for your child to sit on. Then you simply deflate the potty seat and burn it, because you’re not going to want to keep it around, let alone reinflate it."

‘THE WOOFER’ WEARABLE SOUND SYSTEM FOR DOGS  "If there’s one thing that everybody agrees on, it’s that dogs do not make enough noise."...
NFL PRO TOASTER "But if you want to be a REAL fan, you need to show your support in the most meaningful way of all: with toast."
MEGA PLUMBER ACTION HERO "...we’re sure he’ll provide hours of quality entertainment for any child who enjoys fantasizing — and what child does not? — about unclogging drains."
POTATO-CHIP-GRABBING HAND "Is there anything worse than getting your hands greasy from using them to manually pick up potato chips?"....
ARTIFICIAL GRASS FLIP-FLOPS  "These are the official flip-flops of the United States Supreme Court."

TRAILER-HITCH-MOUNTED STRIPPER POLE "The big problem with conventional stripper poles is that they are attached to strip clubs, which are large heavy buildings and therefore difficult to transport."

 

SQUIRREL AND CHICKEN MASKS  "So you appear to be an attentive, interested, meeting-attending squirrel or chicken, no matter what you are actually doing with your face in there."

TOILET TATTOOS  "If you’re like most people, it has been a long time since you remarked: “That is certainly a visually interesting toilet seat!”"

INFLATABLE UNICORN HORNS FOR CATS  "Do you have cat lovers on your holiday list? If so, here’s a gift that is sure to make them say: “What?” "

EMERGENCY UNDERPANTS DISPENSER "This year, give the precious gift of peace of mind. Give emergency underpants"