A REARGUARD ACTION

I mentioned on Friday that the Brexit vote was going to challenged and challenged and challenged, because the anarchists of the left and their parasitical fellow travellers do not want freedom from the trough that is keeping them in both wealth and power.

One does not have to look far to see how the truth of this observation is playing out.....
http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2016/06/brexit-battle-far-won/

SHARP PALETTE

Who can turn a phrase as eloquently as Theodore D I ask with tears in my eyes? And in doing so simultaneously capturing and puncturing the pretensions of our new (mostly young) 'elites'.

The food is very good in Sydney in a way in which I am sure it would not have been in, say, 1950. I am also almost certain that when people speak of the glories of multiculturalism they are mostly thinking of a lot of different restaurants, rather than Pali epigraphy or Somali tribal structure. As in all major cities nowadays, waiters prance around in Sydney telling the diners that the kale or quinoa was picked by vestal virgins on the first full moon after the equinox. I like good food as much as the next man, and am all in favour of not taking the pleasures of life for granted; but this new food paganism, the reverence for ingredients and the way in which they are produced (or ‘sourced’… always responsibly of course), irritates me slightly. It seems to imply that one is supposed to do more with the food on one’s plate than merely to eat it. When the explanations are too elaborate, one begins to feel unworthy of what one is about to eat, because one is not absolutely sure that one can tell the difference between sea salt, say, and rock salt.

VICTORY!

BREXIT has triumphed and the elites are freaking out!

But 'they' are not going to let the little people overturn their 'kingdom' I promise you, watch this space. Already the pound has slumped, no doubt encouraged by those who want to punish such a brash decision by the ignorant against their political 'betters.'

The left media is not going to take this lying down, Brace yourselves for a flood of negativity and a legal stoush the like of which we have not yet witnessed.

Every legal (and illegal) precedent is going to be thrown at those from the Exit camp in the hope of a change of ruling from the supreme courts which, if successful, will illustrate just how much control has passed to the faceless bureaucracies.

Congratulations to the ordinary folk of Britain.

My prayer now is that the unelected 'masters of the universe' do not unleash economic tyranny on Britain so as to render this a Phyrric victory.

YUCK ART

Ah....the wisdom of Theodore:

hthttp://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/64477/cat_id/13/Ah-The-Sophisticated-Open-Mindedness-of-Modern-

CRICK CRACKS

Francis Crick the discoverer of DNA was a committed atheist who spent his life denying a God exists...then embraces one without even realising it...or maybe he did?:

"We do not know... uncertain... not too far out... we do not know for certain... we suspect... chances are..." And thus the Nobel prize winner embraces the theory that space aliens sent rocketships to seed the earth. The man of science who confidently dismissed God at Mill Hill School half a century earlier appears not to have noticed that he'd merely substituted for his culturally inherited monotheism a weary variant on Greco-Roman-Norse pantheism – the gods in the skies who fertilize the earth and then retreat to the heavens beyond our reach. To be sure, he leaves them as anonymous aliens showering seed rather than Zeus adopting the form of a swan, but nevertheless Dr Crick's hyper-rationalism took 50 years to lead him round to embracing a belief in a celestial creator of human life, indeed a deus ex machina.

DIVIDE AND FOOL

If it were not so scary this would be a joke:

In a petition to the English Department, Yale undergraduates declare that a required two-semester seminar on Major English Poets is a danger to their well-being. Never mind that the offending poets — Shakespeare, Chaucer, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, et al. — are the foundational writers in the English language. It is as if chemistry students objected to learning the periodic table of elements or math students rose up against the teaching of differential calculus… The petition’s implicit contention is that the major poets are too circumscribed by their race and gender to speak to today’s socially aware students, when, in fact, it is the students who are too blinkered by race and gender to marvel at great works of art. It takes a deeply impoverished imagination to read Shakespeare and regard him simply as an agent of the patriarchy.

MARXIST MIASMA

 I like the way this guy (Mark Imisides) thinks and I believe he has nailed our current culture on the head....'green fog' indeed; a mindless mist of Marxist miasma:

With a Ph.D. in chemistry, and many years experience in both the academic and private sectors, the major thrust of my campaign will be countering the green fog that has descended upon our nation and is stifling the productivity of both our primary producers and the resources sector. My impramatur for doing this is twofold: firstly, I will not stand idly by and watch what ought to be the unadulterated pursuit of objective truth – science – be perverted for political ends. Secondly, as a scientist I am in a position to call to account those for whom the pursuit of science is simply a veneer. In short I have the scientific clout to expose them.
The most well-known example of this, of course is the unproven theory of so-called anthropogenic global warming (AGW) – “climate change” to the punter in the street. Stated plainly there are three things that need to be proven before we should spend a cent upon reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Firstly, it needs to be proven that carbon dioxide has a significant effect upon global warming. Secondly, it needs to be proven that this warming is a bad thing, and thirdly, it must be proven that we can actually do anything about it.
I have studied the heart of the polemic for years, and if given the opportunity, I would argue this case strongly in both Federal Parliament and anywhere else the opportunity arose. Moreover, I would be unconstrained by any requirement to adopt a certain narrative for party political purposes, as might be the case if I were part of a major party. So in this case I’d be in a position to criticize the equally idiotic “direct action” and carbon tax policies (in whatever form the ALP want to give it to us).
But there are many more cases of green tentacles worming their way into our life. Although it is easy to blame the Greens political party. I do not think they have that much power. I see the Greens as more a symptom than the cause of the green mindset that has taken hold. This mindset means that the prefixes eat go and Enviro and green friendly are now everywhere, being used in business names and slogans that have nothing to do with the environment. But simply because they believe that it will generate business. And it has reached ridiculous proportions. There is a workboot recycling business here in Perth that tells us that we are “looking after the planet"by recycling our boots with them.
I think that this mindset is part of a post-modern interpretation of life that ostensibly rejects absolute moral codes, but simply substitutes its own. And what could be more morally pure than saving the planet