Gloom and doom
- Posted by Beth on July 29th, 2006 filed in General, Iran, Iraq, Islamofascism, Israel, Moonbats, Politics, The War
The pretext: It’s kind of funny; I just read this thing last night about “the underground blogosphere” from a link at Crabapple.cc, where “Crabapple” (another incarnation of John) said,
I’ve often said the best Cotillion posts are emailed back and forth, and the world never sees them.
Well, he actually doesn’t see them either, but he knows us all well enough to know that’s true. Just speaking for myself, I know my email tends to be more detailed than the crap I post here and usually it’s stuff I either don’t think about posting or don’t want to post. I guess I need to post this–cleaned up a little–since RightGirl said she wanted to post it. And really, this isn’t even close to being “good” like what others have written in our own little “underground blogosphere.” This is just me venting.
I seriously need to snap the fark out of this funk. I don’t wanna blog, I hate the blogosphere because of stupid moonbats and Hezbollah supporters (I know, same thing) and because of idiotic vlogging. I’d much rather be reading the good blogs and not bothering with my own right now. I’m incredibly frustrated with what seems like a pointless exercise, because there’s never any effect. You still have lying moonbats, America-haters, Israel/Jew haters, BDS loons, and all that shi’ite. I’m bored and frustrated with all of it, and I’m starting to stress out about there being no real end in sight re: Israel OR the overall war on Islamofascism. I know it’s not supposed to be quick, but everyone else’s impatience, ignorance, and ideology is making me lose the last bit of optimism I have, and that’s tough to do. I usually think “this is America, we’ll survive and prevail anyway,” but dammit, I’m not so sure that’s even true. Not with Iranians going nuclear, at least. I can’t bear to think about Iran nuking Israel, but I almost see it as inevitable. That and them possibly nuking Iraq, or at least getting directly and openly involved there. And the news just keeps piling on, like with this shi’ite in Somalia.
I really think liberalism has doomed us all. We aren’t supposed to be for our own interests, we aren’t supposed to make value/moral judgments, we aren’t supposed to have a strong military or fight for/defend our interests abroad. We’re supposed to let the “brown people” (farking stupid moonbat phrase) do whatever they want because we’re “better” and benevolent, and when they fark up because they’re evil or brutal or incompetent, we’re supposed to bail them out (see “palestinians,” Africa, etc.) and lead by example, whatever the hell that means on the world stage. Because they’re all human and therefore can’t be “evil,” just “different.”
Meanwhile, evil will continue to roll and we’ll send aid to the starving and/or dead.
If things had been like they are today during WWII, we’d have been doomed then. Instead, I’m afraid that we are now. It may not happen in MY lifetime, but I really do worry about what the world’s going to be like for my daughter. No place seems safe anymore. I think, we could live in Australia, but they’re no safer than we are–if anything, less so. I never thought I’d EVER think this, but maybe 50 years from now–wait for it–Russia? (!) You never know what the world’s going to be like in 50 years. Maybe at least they’ll have a strong country, even if it’s a dictatorship, even if it’s Communist again (!), it’s better than Islamist. I’m just sick about the future for my daughter.
I want to believe that America is stronger than Islamism, but if 9/11 didn’t wake these stupid farking people up, I don’t know what will. How anyone can seriously look at the world today and NOT see the worldwide evil that is Islam, I don’t know. And the “liberals” (not) will hand the world to them on a silver platter. They think the Patriot Act and NSA surveillance is a police state? Shi’ite, it’s going to take a lot more than THAT to eradicate the problem if they don’t wake the fark up, and I’d welcome it. I never read In Defense of Internment, but damn, we can’t even “intern” un-uniformed combatants at Gitmo. I’d like to see a hell of a lot more Muslims interned than just those, but the blind moonbats think “fascism” is a reality, and anyone who wants to defeat Islamism is a “fascist.” (Nevermind the fact that we survived the same “fascism” of the WWII years in America.)
Gloom and doom.
I seriously think I need to get away from the news and just live a normal oblivious life in my nice, polite Alabama city, and concentrate on having a better social life.
TC@LeatherPenguin says:
“I seriously think I need to get away from the news and just live a normal oblivious life in my nice, polite Alabama city, and concentrate on having a better social life.”
Ditto. I pulled all my amps, 3 guitars, 2 basses, a keyboard and a drum kit out of the basement, made the requisite phone calls, and am now heading out to buy a couple af bags of charcoal and half a cow.
At eleventhirty PM, I fully expect my backyard to be stormed by the NYPD… who will be met by a not small number of FDNY guys….
Good Times!
Martin says:
I’m finding it hard to watch the news right now, too. I see Chavez hugging Ahmadinejad, and all the while I have this creeping feeling that if something REALLY bad kicked off now, we’d be in deep trouble.
We’d have to abandon Iraq to take out Iran, who even knows if we could?
The UN is a farking sick joke, being played on all of us. I’m not violent, but I would like to see Kofi dead. He’s an atrocious, deviant, dangerous piece of shi’ite.
72 hour ceasefire? So Hez/Hiz/Hizb/Ullah/Ollah/Allah can retrench? The man’s ill.
The anti-America left, including John Kerry, need to be taken down. It can only be done incrementally, and with words. Which means this blog has a part to play in their demise.
Don’t EVER quit Beth, you’re a great writer, truly first class.
Raven says:
I think we let current events get us down more than we should. Since we write about it, not just read it and watch it on TV, it’s takes on a new importance. I wouldn’t let it get to you too much Beth…doom and gloom is true. You offer a lot here with what you do- never forget that. I don’t think we thank each other enough for the hard work put into blogging and maintaining email groups.
SO. THANK YOU BETH. I mean it.
Mark Krauss says:
Don’t forget Beth, You’re part of a little revolution in the making, after the hippie movement, and Jimmy Carter’s depressing and stupid term, Reagan came along and made us proud to be Americans again, Then Rush helped people understand politics and the underlying philosophy, and make people more aware of the gift our system of government is, Blogs are partly responsible for the spreading conservative sentiment, and it really is spreading, more conservatives voted in to Government each election, and despite the hopes of Dean and co., I think the trend will continue thru this next one.
why? because the sentiment you express in this post is held by the majority of your fellow citizens, sadly though, I think another big war may be on the horizon, because I can’t see any common ground between western culture and Islam, and even if westerners are willing to live and let live, there’s really not much room for that view in Islamic philosophy.
Douglas V. Gibbs says:
All the voices are needed, or else this world is destined to become the politically correct, mamsy pamsy, leftist, touchy feely, new age, enlightened, sacred feminist bastardized version of itself that the liberal press and new agers foresee.
Wild Thing says:
Thank you Beth and I am so glad you put it here. I also posted your words too.
Thank you for saying it better then I ever could.
And Rightly So! says:
Underground Blogosphere
Beth found a write about the Underground Blogosphere.
THE WHAT?? The writer at this site defines this as:
The Underground Blogosphere is an intricate web of hundreds of thousands of emails that bloggers send to each other every day. In essence, they ar…
Jack says:
Thank you Beth,I feel the same way, so sick of the overwhelming anti-America left, the press and the surrender monkeys, it’s like pissing in the ocean and looking to see if the level is rising. Yet I can’t drop it, I feel like quitting everyday but it’s my duty to stay informed, try to inform others of the dangers of Islam and Communism. I can’t give up yet, though tempted, I sure hope you don’t either, we need you to keep the leftists from pandering their lies and selling out this country.
LindaSoG says:
Bravo Beth. You said that so well. I think we all feel that way, at least some of the time. With everything we have to deal with, its sometimes so hard to read the news. Sometimes, I just have to take a break.
I won’t put my head in the sand though and I know you won’t either. Thank goodness, because we need you!
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TomR says:
You are normal Beth. We all feel the frustration with events as you do. Take a break for a day or two at a time. Post jokes or philosophy or receipes or nasty pics or something different for a day or two as a break from the rigors of reality.
Then, with a body and mind full of renewed energy, come back to the war of politics. Kinda like stopping to reload your ammo supply so you can waste more bad guys.
She Who Will Be Obeyed! says:
MVRWC
Go read Beth’s post at My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. Are you done yet? I feel about the same way she does. It’s depressing. The world is just going to shi’ite, and the crazy assed political correctness, can’t make anyone…
Jo says:
Between the stresses at work lately, all that is going on in the world, and some stuff I wish the SGM hadn’t told me while on leave from Afghanistan, I find myself crying myself to sleep at night. Everything you said in this post has been going through my own mind and heart. This country is doomed and we have the liberals in this country to thank for that. They hate so much what this country was created for they would allow its destruction from the outside while working from the inside to help.
Jo's Cafe says:
Ditto
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Carol says:
I agree - you wrote much better than I ever could. I’m going to link to this.
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Mind of Mog says:
Bombs Away
Fascinating post, gloom and doom is right, and almost spot on. See, there’s about 1.3 billion Muslims, a fair amount of them of the radical persuasion, still more Christians but we tend toward apathy when it comes to actually practicing it.
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[...] :sigh: I know the feeling. I get the sense lately that everyone does, but few are willing to face what it’ll take to end the war–and those who scream for “peace” are the least willing to do what it takes to END it. Now go back and read the post at Hurricane Harry’s again. I’ll go out on a limb and say “let’s roll.” No, wait. No need for euphemisms. Nuke ‘em, if that’s what it takes. And yes, I am serious. Unlike so many other friggin’ bloggers and pundits, I’m not going to pretend I’m a military strategist, so don’t ask me “who/where” do you nuke? I don’t know, hit Fallujah again. Baghdad. Kabul. Teheran. Riyadh, for all I care. Get our men and women out of the way and let ‘em have it. Note that I said “if that’s what it takes.” It may not take that, but it’s going to take a whole lot bigger can of Raid than the one we’ve been using to eliminate the c*ckroaches. I really couldn’t care less if moonbats want to come around with their tired old ad hominems because they think war is “wrong.” Fuck ‘em. Their opinions are honestly irrelevant; they’re in league with the enemy, whether they admit it or not. I don’t care what a terrorist’s opinion is of our military strategy, and I don’t care about what their allies’ opinions are either. The “antiwar” voices have absolutely zero credibility. I wish our leaders would stop caring what the reflexively “antiwar” crowd and the stupid UN says, and just go ahead and execute the plans, finish the war. I want the war to end, I want our troops to come home, I want a secure America and a secure future. But I’m not stupid enough to think that can be done with no blood being shed. Let it be the other side’s blood. Every day we put off finishing the job is another day that American lives are lost. [...]