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DXRacer OH/KS06/NB
- Free lumbar cushion and headrest pillow included
- Adjustable backseat and armrests
- Carbon Look Vinyl, PU (Faux-leather) cover
- Perfect for users up to 275 lbs (124 kg)
- Fits users up to 188 cm (6'2")
- High density mould shaping foam
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|Black, Blue
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|Chair height
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|4D Armrests (?)
|Multi-functional (?)
|Black Aluminium
|Seat size
|16"W (Front) x 14.5"W (Back) x 19"D
|Seat height (from ground to seat)
|20" to 24"
|Armrests height (from ground to armrests)
|26" to 33"
|Backseat height
|Backseat shoulder width
|Backseat type
|Adjustable back
|Yes (135°)
|Suggested user's weight limit
|275 lbs / 124.74 kg
|Suggested user's height
|Up to 188 cm / 6 ft 2 in
|Chair weight
|67 lbs / 30 kg
|Accessories included
|Free lumbar cushion and headrest pillow
|Frame warranty
|Parts warranty
|2 years
|Accessories warranty
|1 year
Actual sizing may slightly vary from the chart.
Question: Does it come with a lumbar and/or headrest cushion?
Answer: Yes. The K Series comes with a lumbar cushion and a headrest pillow.
Question: How much weight can this chair support?
Answer: This chair is suggested for users up to 6'2" and up to 275 lbs.
Question: What is the difference between this chair and the other chairs of the K series?
Answer: Beside the colors and design, there is no difference in size or parts between the K series chairs.
Question: Is it possible to upgrade a part (such as the armrest) of this product?
Answer: Unfortunately, at the moment, it is not possible to upgrade or change the original parts of the chair.
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- It's safe to say the Knicks stunned more than a few people with their selection of relatively unknown South Carolina small forward Renaldo Balkman with the 20th pick in Wednesday's NBA draft. Balkman might have been the most surprised of all.
As Balkman said yesterday during the news conference to introduce him as a Knick, "I never thought in a million years I would be here. My childhood dreams have come true."
Balkman was watching the draft from his mother's apartment in Tampa, and the Knicks never called before making their selection. Recalling the moment his name was announced, Balkman said, "I was shocked. I was shocked. Butterflies, relief and happiness. I was with family members in Tampa. The whole apartment complex went crazy.


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Willy_kamar brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 241 Designs von 70 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
William K is an electronic music producer, DJ and engineer. Mostly produces electro music, progressive house, house, etc.
Here are some of his work for reference
My audience will be my fans, all the people that attends to big electronic music events. Also I will be attracting people of the music industry. Mostly will be for clubs, big events like WMC in Miami and so on.
The logo has to describe the personality of my music, I want to be represented by that design , something to stand out of the crowd. There is no requirements for the logo, you guys are free to add any creativity, the only thing is that is has to be a solid image. Attached you will find a sketch, you can work around it and at the same time ad any new ideas, I'm pretty open, but is has to be something that will attract the public right away. here are some reference of DJ logos that I really like
Carl Cox logo
Dirty South logo
Skrillex logo
Tiesto logo
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Esta maletín aerodinámico acuna la tableta en el compartimento principal y almacena los accesorios esenciales en un bolsillo frontal con cremallera. Lleva con confianza el adaptador de corriente, el cable USB, los audífonos o el teléfono en el bolsillo exterior, mientras que un panel de protección interior mantiene la pantalla a salvo. Transporta fácilmente este diseño de líneas puras en posición horizontal por las manijas acolchadas o dentro de otro bolso.
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It's roomy enough for my iPad Air including the Bluetooth keyboard I attached to it. The handles are sewn securely to the case. I can easily slide the handles over my wrist when I need to use both hands temporarily for something else. I'm glad it doesn't have a shoulder strap like so many other cases. The zipper teeth are large enough to mesh easily and reliably every time.
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so far, so good !!
Everything was just what I needed including shipping. j Thank you.
Dave the Rave
Fairfax, California
I have an older Kindle I use for reading only, and a Kindle Fire I use as a tablet. I can carry both in this case with ease.
Rochester, MN
Bought this for my Mother who had a very specific case in mind- iPad case with handles and storage for her charger. The material is soft but sturdy, it fits her iPad perfectly and she is thrilled.
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It's tight with Type or Touch keyboard/cover attached but not a real problem.
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600 gm sugar
600 ml water
600 gm glutinous rice flour (sifted)
3 tbsp cooking oil
in steamer
1: Dissolve 300 gm sugar in a dry pot over low heat till it caramelizes.( Do not stir).Add 300 ml of water and mix well.
2: Add the remaining sugar into the mixture,stir constantly till the sugar dissolves.Set aside to cool completely. Prepare large pot or steamer with water for steaming at high heat.Steam banana leave to get softer body, cut or trim banana leaves before place banana leave as liner over aluminum pan .
3:Combine glutinous rice flour and the remaining water.Add caramel on glutinous rice flour mixture together in a large bowl to incorporate until smooth.Whisk the mixture if possible.If it's too dry add in extra 50 ml water.Sieve the mixture ,to remove lump and bubble build up.
4: Pour batter into aluminum pan to 3/4 full.( Do not fill to the rim as the batter might overflow when steaming)
5:Place aluminium pan in the steamer when water has boiled.Steam over high heat for 30 minutes .Then reduce heat to medium and steam for another 30 minutes. Increase time for steaming if making bigger cake.
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Pebble Maths
This is the website of Vera Stevens, based in Australia, whose remarkable methods for teaching the very young or those with difficulties forms the perfect introduction to Vedic Mathematics.
http://e-gurukul.net/ and http://pasyanthi.com
Online courses in various categories – Art, science, Holistic Living, Courses for children and much more
Live Web sessions by various experts.
Live Virtual web events and much more.
Dr S. K. Kapoor
This website aims to revisit Ancient Wisdom, with Vedas at its core.
EffiMath is an improvised adoption of Vedic Math. With deep roots of Vedic math methods and concepts, the learning is structured based on the grade level. Our focus is mainly on understanding concepts of Vedic Math (Learning books) and practicing the new procedures (Activity books). We also have modern certification and examination methods for the students to get certified. Our mission and vision is to empower children with the power of math in their life.
Vedic Maths For All
A collection of Youtube lessons by James Glover.
Vedic Math School
This is a resource, based in the USA, where you can learn Vedic Maths at any level.
Vedic Maths Canada
Vedic Mathematics is a complete system of maths recreated from Vedas (ancient scriptures) by late Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji. He came up with 16 sutras ('thread of knowledge' or principles) and about 13 sub-sutras that makes math fun, easy and creative!
Vedic Maths France
This is a website in French by Didier Auroy, a french maths teacher in a public school. This site is for everyone who wants to learn and practise Vedic Maths online. A free registration is needed to access the content of all pages and training programs.
Vedic Math Ghana
Vedic Math Ghana was founded on October 1, 2010 in Accra, Ghana. The purpose of the organization is to help diminish the mathematical challenges in our schools and society. The organization seeks to improve the basic challenges in our schools and society today and develop programs for children and teachers who need help on how to effectively lead a mathematics classroom through building confidence and competence. These programs include youth involved in vocational training, continuous professional development for teachers, curriculum development, technology in mathematics instruction, classroom projects, training of trainers and increasing the pass rate in mathematics and by extension other related subjects, identify career choice and offer advice, counseling and guidance to children and their families about opportunities in mathematics and math skills development.
Vedic Maths India - School of Vedic Mathematics
Mathematics involves Thinking. Students try to learn whatever is taught to them in school but are find it difficult to solve a problem that is not taught to them. It's because, they are taught to Learn but not to Think. Every other subject dealt in the academics has some story or images that students can look, understand and learn. But Mathematics does not have anything of that sort. It requires a lot of imagination and visualization. More than anything else, it demands one to be a Thinker to excel in Mathematics. Hence, it calls for a different approach to teach Mathematics. This is exactly where Vedic Mathematics comes into the picture.
Vedic Maths Italy
This is a website by Anna Foglino, an Italian mathematician and homeschool teacher, based in Italy. Here you can learn and practise Vedic Maths. Children and young people, adults and teachers can find and feed their inner genius with this simple, flexible and creative Maths.
Vedic Maths Philippines
This is a website which aims to enhance the academic performance of Filipino students, using Vedic Math as a tool and help reveal to the Filipino people the importance and significance of Vedic Math as a supplement in the Math educational system of the Philippines.
Vedic Maths South Africa
MagicalMaths was founded to introduce Vedic Maths to South African schools and help educate and build a stronger society. We will run Vedic Maths workshops and extra-mural activities that promote learning through play, music and, where possible, through nature.
Vedic Maths Spain
This is a website which aims to bring VM to the Spanish-speaking peoples of the world.
MATH-Inic - Philippines
MATH-Inic is a series of special Math courses that transforms children: from Math haters to Math lovers, and Math lovers to Math masters. It introduces fun, fast and easy ways of computing Math problems and enriches traditional Math classroom lessons through new solving techniques. MATH-Inic also enhances brainpower through Mental Math exercises.
Math2shine is an initiative to simplify and make the mind work naturally when practicing and learning mathematics. We have developed a strong technology enabled learning platform to ensure that children enjoy our program and its teaching methodology and the results are consistent. The achievements and progress of the children are visible to the students, parents and teachers in real time.
Our program aims to build a solid foundation in math using the powerful methodologies of Vedic mathematics. These strategies are natural, fast and need much shorter time to learn.
Our program is suitable for all age groups and this learning will contribute to the lifelong success of our students.
VJ's Mathemagic
Exploring secret behind speed math
Math Monkey
"This is a supplemental math program, designed for all children between the ages of 4-14! It meets their needs using our unique approach based on Vedic Math, and surrounds them in a group environment to help them soar! With our game-based curriculum everyone has fun while learning new skills! "
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Leawood, Kansas
Cleveland, Ohio
Miami, Florida
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South-East Asia (31 centers). See:
Hong Kong
Chinmaya International Foundation
School of Vedic Maths
Vedic Mathematics Blog
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Have you been searching for the perfect accessories to circulate air while matching your coastal-style room? Tropical ceiling fans, like overhead palm leaf fans, rotate bamboo or paddle fan blades to circulate air to create a gentle and cooling beach breeze at your house. These creative fixtures can provide comfort, light, and are suitable for indoor or outdoor rooms, including hot tub and sauna areas. Tropical ceiling fans bring the island feel into your home for the most relaxing ambience for your friends, family, and other guests.
Overhead Natural & Palm Leaf Fans
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ProfitBuilder necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 80 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
Commanding Content
My client is a noted author of books and movies.
He has developed a training system for web centric entrepreneurs that teaches them how to write content for web and blog sites, articles, etc.
The brand name was selected for its dual meaning.
Buyers will be able to:
1. "Take command of the writing process."
2. Write content that "takes command of the reader."
This training will be purchased by individuals who are working part-time or full-time; building an online business. They recognize the importance of creating quality content for both their prospects and the search engines... but, lack the skills to be effective and/or efficient in the process.
They are both men and women, between the ages of 25 and 55.
The idea of training in the area of writing may remind people of the days they sat in classrooms... being bored by teachers.
So... we want them to see us as providing a...
* fun spirited,
* leading edge,
* creative... yet,
* reliable training solution for this "mission critical" marketing activity
We'd like to the logo to reflect...
* enlightened,
* connected
* playful energy
* passionate... and, perhaps,
* relationship... in that, a customer who buys this training product will buy another from our client's because they have been successful in assimilating and implementing it. These are not ALL required ;-)
* Include full brand name
* Typeface should be clear, simple and bold... but, standout
* Perhaps, incorporating
* transparency... and/or
* organic 3D... See http://www.logoorange.com/logo-design-08.php
* I'm not sure about Pictograms or Typographic logos But will
consider. See http://www.logoorange.com/logo-design-09.php
* Colors - contemporary blues ie. colbalt -single or double colors OK
- But, don't be afraid to experiment
* The files we will require are:
- Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
- Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
No Thanks...
* Not too elegant - Don't want to be seen as stuffy or fancy.
* Not too heavy
* No cursive
* No stock images
* No Clip art
* No Cartoons
We look forward to working with you... HAVE FUN!
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Even the simplest tiller system requires maintenance from time to time. You should check for free rudder movement. Is there any play in the fittings between the rudder, rudder stock, and the tiller itself? If the tiller is made of wood, you should remove it from the tiller head and look for any signs of rot. Is the wood at all soft? Has the hole enlarged around the bolt? While you're at it, this might be a good time to take a moment to come up with an emergency steering plan should the tiller ever break.
All boats that are wheel-steered should have an emergency steering tiller on board. If you have never used your emergency tiller, I highly recommend that you pull it out, fit it to the rudder head, and make sure that it can actually steer the boat. That way, if you ever encounter a real steering emergency, you'll know how it all goes together.
Direct Linkage Systems Two systems couple the wheel shaft directly to the rudder head: rack and pinion and worm gear. These designs are simple, robust, and powerful. They are easy to identify because the mechanism is right under the helmsperson's seat, with the wheel shaft facing forward. The general rule of care for these systems is to keep the mechanism clean and well greased. These systems are usually fitted with grease zerks at the wheel shaft and other bearings. After long use, the bearing surfaces may wear and eventually need to be replaced. In some rare cases, the bearings may bind, creating very stiff steering. Loosening all the adjustment bolts and allowing the mechanism to realign itself generally solves this problem.
Other direct-linkage systems use a set of bevel gears for the horizontal wheel shaft to turn a vertical shaft inside a pedestal. The vertical shaft and the rudder shaft each have a bell crank, or tiller arm, which are tied together with a solid rod or bar. The tie rod has a turnbuckle for length adjustment, along with a ball and socket, or swivels, at each end. Older Whitlock Cobra systems are good examples, and the brand-new Edson CD-I is a unique combination of a rack-and-pinion gear housed in a modern pedestal.
Chain-and-Cable Systems Most wheel-steered boats use a chain-and-cable steering system. Whether the wheel mechanism is attached to a bulkhead, enclosed in a console, or mounted to a pedestal, these systems have a gear fastened to a horizontal wheel shaft. A short length of roller chain rides on the gear and attaches to two cables that then run through pulleys until they reach the rudder. The cables pull the rudder to port or starboard through a quadrant, or radial-drive wheel, fastened directly to the rudder shaft.
Because they have so many moving parts, chain-and-cable systems require more maintenance. The most critical wear point is the cable itself. Examine the flexible wires inch by inch. Look for broken strands, crushed spots, or badly rusted areas. The terminals that attach the wires to the chain are usually swaged and subject to bending and cracks. Examine the gear, chain, and the clevis and cotter pins that attach the chain to the wire cables inside the pedestal. If the wires are suspect, replace them, or at least carry spares for quick installation if the originals should fail.
The ends of the wires are usually attached to the quadrant with cable clamps that can loosen and then damage the cables. The wires do not need to be bar tight but must be firm to avoid jumping off the sheaves. They are usually tightened at the simple eyebolt at the back of the quadrant. Inspect the bolts holding the quadrant and ensure that it is firmly attached to the rudder stock.
Complex systems have up to 10 turning sheaves and each one must lead fair. Have a crew member turn the wheel while you watch the wire pass over each sheave. It should enter and exit each turning block without touching the edges of the sheave itself. Check each block for loose mounting bolts and worn pins. Cleaning and greasing them helps reduce friction and steering effort. If the system is very old, it may be wise to remove the cable and disassemble each sheave assembly for closer inspection.
Enclosed-Cable Systems Cables traveling through sheaths or conduits are often used to steer boats with outboard rudders, or when the interior layout interferes with direct-cable runs. These can be a single-cable system called a push-pull, or two cables dubbed as a pull-pull system. A few are hybrid chain-and-cable systems from the pedestal down to an obstruction that requires a sheathed cable. These systems require the same maintenance as for a chain-and-cable system with the added requirement that the sheathed cable requires periodic renewal. If the steering system of an enclosed cable system becomes stiff, the cable should be the first suspect.
Hydraulic steering is generally simple and reliable with the only requirement being to keep the fluid and pressure inside the system. As seals wear, hydraulic oil leaks at the steering shaft or the output cylinder do occur. Occasionally, an unsecured hydraulic line will chafe causing a leak. Monitor the pressure and fluid levels and repair leaks as they occur.
Remember, an annual steering-system check up will keep those wheels turning freely.
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Monday, December 10, 2012
Winning the Demographic War and the Culture War
Taking back America demographically is a matter of having enough children within a cultural structure that passes down the values of adults to the children, while focusing on limiting immigration as much as possible. This isn't an impossible task.
The Amish population doubles every 20 years and they retain the majority of their children within their communities despite the obvious appeals of the outside world. There are 250,000 Amish in the United States and Canada now. By 2040 there will be over a million of them.
Utah has the highest fertility rate in the country and 9 out of 10 children are born to married couples. The Mormon Church is slowing down its expansion, and is having some retention and birth rate issues, perhaps due to its liberalization and growing investment in overseas missionary work, but its numbers are still a reminder of what is possible.
Demographics can be deceptive, because what we are really talking about are the economic and cultural factors that dissuade large family sizes and that alienate children from the values of their ancestors. What we are really talking about is a clash between progressives and traditionalists.
As an Orthodox Jew, I represent a group that is at the front lines of the clash. In the last century and a half, Jewish progressives have done everything possible to destroy Jewish religion, values and even nationhood. For half that time they were enormously successful, wreaking havoc across entire communities, using state power to force parents into their own schools, and building a literary and cultural infrastructure aimed at ridiculing and destroying traditional values.
They are still at it today, and their tactics and propaganda are as bad as they ever were, but they also losing. While the progressives embrace the culture of abortion and gay rights, the traditionalists have children. Within a decade, a majority of New York Jews will be traditionalist and the impact of that is already being felt in elections. The progressives have ramped up their usual hate campaigns against Orthodox Jews, which is why you see so many negative stories in the media, but the demographics of their progressive culture doom them to extinction.
This same outcome would have taken place nationally in the clash between American traditionalists and progressives, if not for the ace in the hole of immigration. And yet immigration is only half the picture. The bigger half of the picture is culture.
Would the Amish be who they are if in between plow breaks they were watching Reality TV and getting lessons on liberal values? Instead the Amish segregated themselves from the culture and have thrived because of it. And that can be done without completely abandoning technology as a whole.
Orthodox Jews built a cultural infrastructure to convey their values to our children while cutting them off, as much as possible, from the cultural programming of progressives. The largest expense of Orthodox Jewish parents and the community as a whole is on the infrastructure of private schools that teach traditional values to their children. An Orthodox Jewish community is defined by its schools and its best and brightest go into Chinuch or Education.
But schools aren't enough. Orthodox Jews raise their children on their own books and their own music. Everything that children are exposed to from the youngest ages is supposed to come from within their own culture to such an extent that when Oprah visited a Chassidic family they had no idea who she was, or who Mickey Mouse and Beyonce were. Obviously this isn't universal and the degree of exposure varies, but retention rates and birth rates are highest among those with the lowest levels of progressive cultural exposure.
Modern Orthodox Jews, a group of which I am, obviously, a member, have the highest levels of cultural exposure, the lowest birth rates and the highest susceptibility to progressive views. The Modern Orthodox approach was viable in 1950s America where the outside culture was healthy, but I have come to question its survival value in an era where the culture is decaying and hostile to any form of traditional family values. Chassidic Jews, with the lowest rates of cultural exposure also have the highest birth rates and, unlike Modern Orthodox Jews, I have yet to meet a single liberal Chassid.
Above all else, education is the future. Traditionalists who fail to understand this will allow the educational system and the entertainment industry to transform their children into progressives. Progressives know that control of the educational system means control of the future. Without the educational system and immigration, progressives are doomed to be cafe radicals. With them, they can count the generations until they control everything.
The progressives have few children of their own. Your children are their children. If they can corrupt your children, then they have a future. If they cannot, then they will go off and die in a corner. The progressives have three strengths, class warfare, cultural programming and immigration. America had prosperity that negated class warfare, but it neglected to safeguard its culture from the left and did not consider the consequences of Third World immigration. With their political and culture power, the left destroyed prosperity and now with all three cards in their hand, the progressives are rising high.
But too many conservatives have despaired because they have fallen prey to the myth of a perfect America that once was and can never be again. But America was never perfect, like every person, it was a work in progress. It was a struggle between ideas and ideologies and that struggle did not end because the progressives have worked and plotted to get this far. Defeating them is a matter of exploiting their weaknesses and firming up our strengths.
Most of the Republican Party remains unwilling to acknowledge that this is a cultural war. And it is. Culture is one of the things that the left is good at. It's an easy and profitable way for the left to pursue its ends. And it's fun. But it only works with captive audiences.
The left's cultural infrastructure is wired to feed its programming to an audience that sits there waiting to receive it and is willing to even pay top dollar for the privilege. Like every Iago, it has no idea what to do if Othello not only doesn't pay for the privilege of going to its schools and movies, but actively tunes it out and forms a community that makes its own entertainment and education.
Forget physical secession for the moment and think cultural secession. Physical secession, even if it were achieved, would do little good without putting cultural secession first. And if you cannot manage cultural secession, then how will you ever achieve physical secession?
Cultural secession means cutting away the educational and entertainment culture of the left out of your home. It means creating your own alternative education and entertainment and grouping in communities that act as a support structure for traditional values. Is it easy? No. It involves sacrifice. But groups such as the Amish and Orthodox Jews have done it and have thrived doing it.
Some wars are settled by guns, but cultural wars are settled by the schoolbook and the movie. They are settled by the family.
The progressive agenda is to destroy the family, to undermine it, ridicule it, economically disadvantage it and burden it until it falls apart and is replaced by the Big Brother of the State. The traditional agenda is to maintain the family and pass along traditional values across the generations. That is what this cultural war is really about; whether the family or the state will the defining unit of human experience.
The progressives are out to break the family, to slice it up in a thousand ways from the ghetto to the Castro. Everything they do is aimed at eliminating any rival to the state. The traditionalist goal has to be to form communities that are capable of preserving the family despite the power of the state. This is not easy and will become harder as time goes on. But it is what has to be done to reclaim the country.
Progressives want every child to grow up to be a slave of the state, thinking the same empty thoughts, laughing at the same things and trotting tamely along to the slaughterhouse. What they fear most is a future where the majority of children do not worship the state, do not accept their premises or parrot their propaganda. What they fear most is a demographic revolution.
Can American traditionalists quadruple their numbers in 40 years the way that the Amish will? Doing that will require taking lessons from the Amish, from Orthodox Jews and from other traditionalist groups that have found ways to build tight knit communities that protect their values and preserve their children. Building those structures is the hardest part. But once the structures are there, then the future is yours.
54 comments:
- Chana @ Lemon Lime Moon said...
Americans no longer want children really. They marry late and limit kids.
- 11/12/12
- AngryBell said...
The problem with the Orthodox model is that it puts us in a cultural ghetto. If we are not engaged and part of the society, we allow ourselves to be deemed as outsiders. That has never been a good place for us to be.
We need more kids. That's true. But we need to assume mantel of educational insurgents and take back academia. Without it, we cede to the progressives the a unity to dictate what is taught. Before the cultural shift in the 1960s and 1970s, the progressives were marginalized in academia. They eventually slid their way past the old guard. The same can happen again. It will take time.
- 11/12/12
- Daniel Greenfield said...
it's a cultural ghetto only if you're a minority
taking back academia would be good, but it's a longshot at this rate
- 11/12/12
- RonL said...
Sorry, Daniel, but the left is totalitarian. They will impose there will on religious schools. In fact, they started to do so in the 1970s. Businesses run by the religious will either have to do or financially support perverse things.
The left does not propagate in America by having children. It does by stealing yours, and importing people with grievances or on welfare.
- 11/12/12
- George J. said...
Again. Hit the nail on the hea. Having children is a pain in the ass. So the left has outsourced it to immigrants, and has focused its efforts on indoctrinating their people's kids to rebel against everything that made America the place that everybody wanted to immigrate to in the first place.
Same thing is happening up here in Canada. It's very fashionable to blame the West for all the world's ills, while daring to criticize backwards hellholes is an act of ethnocentrism,cultural imperialism and racism.
I fully plan on removing as much of the Left's influence on my child's development, to spare him the lost years I had to go through believing in the insane parallel universe that the Left convinced me of.
By the way, as an immigrant myself, I am sickened by people's knee jerk reaction to any criticism of immigration policy. Anything other than "Hey, immigrants are great. Let's bring in unlimited numbers of them", is again, you guessed it... racism. Suggesting any reasonable limits or measures to safeguard the country are dismissed as bigotry.
Absolutely sickening.
- 11/12/12
- mindRider said...
I do agree with AngryBell here: Even in Israel where the rest of the Jewish population has at least a smattering of understanding of the Orthodox culture but mostly very little sympathy for it, the truly orthodox do not partake in much of society except their women that earning the small and often insufficient family income. In a religiously mixed society like i.e. the USA the way the others would look upon orthodoxy if it grew would vary from contempt till outright hostility because of a complete lack of understanding the why and how of such a group. Also without interaction there is no contribution to society in it's entirety, nor could real orthodox groups sustain themselves once they have reached a critical number/percentage, look at Israel where the Haredim live in poverty and are sustained for a too large part by public funds.
- 11/12/12
- NormanF said...
Israel is a country where traditional Jews are winning the demographic war. Religious Zionists and haredi Jews are having large families.
Secular Israeli Jews don't have as many kids. This shift is beginning to make itself felt at the polls. The Left is not winning too many Knesset seats and it looks to get only worse with time.
The Israeli Left in the 1950s and 60s thought traditional Judaism was a relic that would soon disappear. Instead, the opposite happened.
From today's perspective, the Left has the demographic clout. A few generations down the road, they are the minority. The very culture that has given them such influence is the same culture that also dooms them them to oblivion.
Is this not Marxist dialectics and is all this not contradictory? Yes of course it is - but it fully reflects life itself.
- 11/12/12
- Brett_McS said...
At the very least tune out their 'news' and don't buy their newspapers ... it's working; watch them go bankrupt one by one.
And the left warn us who do that about echo-chambers - the echo-chamber on the right - and even some conservatives seem to think it is important to engage the left.
But Daniel has pointed out something here: there are echo-chambers and there are echo-chambers. There are those that a life affirming, and those that are destructive. There are Amish and Chassidic Jews in the former camp and there are, as a prime example, modern day Episcopalians in the later - who even today can probably identify the last member ... who will turn off the light.
- 11/12/12
- Anonymous said...
Consider the Jim Duggar family of Arkansas with 20-plus kids. If each of his kids follow in his footsteps, in two generations the offspring could number the amount of the election difference. This is how one man can change the world.
- 11/12/12
- Empress Trudy said...
That depends on who you're talking about. The MSNBC brigade would like nothing better than every 'undocumented worker' to have 9 kids.
- 11/12/12
- Sarah Rolph said...
A helpful and ultimately uplifting post. We can keep our values alive if we work at it.
I weep to realize how much of my character was formed by the prevailing culture of my youth--I was a teenager in the swinging 70s, part of the just-say-yes generation that thought it had invented the "counterculture." We called it that. We had no idea we were in the thrall of the same stupid self-worship that has befallen every idiotic teenager without sufficient role models who has ever walked the earth.
I weep to realize how much I didn't learn from my parents, especially my father, who held the views I do now but was himself influenced enough by our rotting culture to think it was right to be a permissive parent and not try to shape our views.
Several years ago I saw Patricia Hearst being interviewed on TV. She sounded extremely sensible, and I realized that although I remembered her kidnapping very well, I had no idea what had really happened. I read her book and was astonished to learn how different the story was from the way it had been portrayed in the news. She was brainwashed, and so were we.
- 11/12/12
- Daniel Greenfield said...
RonL, they can try to impose their will. That's the subversive part of the equation.
MindRider, Haredim aren't the only possible group to imitate. That said, progressives already look at traditionalists with outright hostility.
Anonymous, indeed
Brett, definitely. Don't feed your enemies.
Trudy, that's why limiting or cutting off immigration has to be on the table.
Sarah, that is the dynamic that the left counts on, more so on the parental side, than on the teenager side. Getting the providers of values to doubt themselves and question their values.
- 11/12/12
- Passer by said...
"Europeans moved to a place that had formerly been populated by the descendants of Siberian refugees crossing over the Bering Strait."
There is also some evidence suggesting that the first americans were from Europe and came 10000 years before the people from Siberia.
- 11/12/12
- Elisandra said...
Yes, on the plus side, "progressives" should theoretically cease to exist demographically because they discourage sexual activity that leads to procreation, and encourage any "sexual" activity that leads to extinction.
But a big part of the problem is the war of words. For example, "progressive" sounds like a good thing, "liberal" sounds like a good freedom-loving thing. "Conservative" and "traditional" sound very limiting. Young people are attracted to the more positive-sounding words. So even if there is not an increase of "progressives" through procreation, there is an increase as a result of verbal propaganda.
I'm over 50 years old and only in my 40's realized that "Liberal" actually means wanting the GOVERNMENT to have more freedom, NOT the individual. A lot of "Liberals" think they're rooting for the freedom-loving side of the issues, when they're actually rooting for the opposite. The only freedoms that "Liberalism" is actually in favor of is abortion and alternative sexuality, both which lead to no natural procreation, which is right out of Brave New World.
I'm convinced the Liberal powers that be are actually just using the sexual issues to lure people in, and then BAM! those will eventually be controlled by the government too.
- 11/12/12
- fizziks said...
It is so very ironic to read this because these huge families that you tout as the way to defeat liberalism are usually extremely dependent on the benefits and subsidies that come with liberal governments. The Amish are a bit of an exception, but in both American and Israel the Hassidim are huge welfare leeches whose enormous broods are only possible because of such state subsidy, and Christian baby factories like the Duggars would be starving if it weren't for child tax credits and food stamps.
- 11/12/12
- Anonymous said...
Some wars are settled by guns, but cultural wars are settled by the schoolbook and the movie. They are settled by the family.
I think both are necessary in order to recover the Republic.
- 11/12/12
- Daniel Greenfield said...
large families take welfare benefits if they exist, but historically those same large families existed without the benefits
Chassidim had large families in Russia and Eastern Europe when there was no such thing as food stamps.
Large families without an equivalent income source do mean poverty. For some it will even mean grinding poverty. But then again most people have lived that way throughout history.
That said there's a certain fitting irony to piggybacking a traditionalist revival on the left's social spending.
- 11/12/12
- Anonymous said...
I agree Daniel, overpopulation only creates other problems.
- 11/12/12
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- 11/12/12
- Stogie said...
An excellent call to action! I do believe that you, Daniel, have described a workable way to recapture our culture and nation. We need more discussion, planning and debate on this subject, but I do agree that waging an effective culture war is essential. That culture war will involve forming tight knit communities that filter out the progressive programming in both education and entertainment, and substituting our own in their place. Now, how do we do this? We can and will find a way!
- 11/12/12
- Anonymous said...
Thank you so much for this article. I've been having conversations about this topic with my 10-year-old daughter and now I have a better way to frame our discussions.
She recently received a CD called "Songs we sang at Camp" or something, and it's full of 1960s radical progressive songs with Jewish themes like "Lo Yisa Goi" and "Blowin in the Wind." I mentioned to her that these songs are being used to try to undermine our traditional Jewish values but all she really hears is fun music. She said, "Mom, why do you always have to find negative things to say?"
Well kid, it's because the liberals insert their agenda into our lives in many tiny ways until we come to see their point of view as normal (she attends a Jewish Day school but it's really a lot more liberal than I wish it were). I'm trying to keep her mindful and aware of what's going on here. Why are we singing "Salaam?" Exactlt who is banning the cannon balls? I'm trying to save you!
- 11/12/12
- Christopher R Taylor said...
Taking back the academic culture isn't a long shot, its an impossibility... for now. It took the left almost 100 years to get control of education. It will take a long time for us to get it back, but only if we try.
- 11/12/12
- Gloria Franklin said...
In reading this, and then the comments, no one mentioned homeschooling. More people are homeschooling today than in prior years and would fit into the revolutionary sector.
- 11/12/12
- Daniel Greenfield said...
homeschooling is indeed important and revolutionary
I took it for granted that it was one of the cultural secession approaches that people would utilize
- 11/12/12
- Anonymous said...
This article is right on point. As someone with two children in the public high schools I can say that the "progressive" agenda is insidious. It worms its way into every book, every paragraph, the choice of literature, the way history is presented. On the surface, for example, their US History book looks like your old history book, the chapter headings are the same. Then you look inside and you will see the history of WWII is presented as a history of women, hispanics, blacks and native Americans during WWII. Whites only exist in opposition to the true "Allies": women, hispanics, blacks and native Americans. The war itself is barely touched. The real war a student will learn, was against the prejudice of US society at the time. This is not an exaggeration at all and it is only one example. It takes a tremendous effort to counter it because nothing you say is reinforced by the surrounding culture. Your version of history is not in their books, not in their movies, not on the TV screens. Your WWII may as well be the version written by unrepentant Nazis in terms of how it may be heard and received.
- 11/12/12
- Anonymous said...
@Passer by -- Fascinating citations! Thank you!
- 11/12/12
- Thomas said...
How cam White Americans have more ( or even one child) when we are being taxed to death to pay for illegal invading mexicans and their multiple anchor babies. Demographics is destiny and we are giving ours away to third world invaders....
- 11/12/12
- Anonymous said...
Today my week-old second grandchild followed his elder brother and entered into the covenant of mila (circumcision). Three of their grandparents are baale teshuvah (Jews who chose Orthodoxy though raised otherwise) and one is a lapsed Southern Baptist gentleman. All four of us were there and as proud as could be of our children, a Mir and Lakewood father (two prestigious men's religious colleges) and a Bais Yaakov and Maalot mother (excellent women's schools known for their piety and intellectual rigor as well). These little boys will grow up with very, very subversive values, bless them!
- 11/12/12
- moshe said...
Well, Daniel, you certainly are better at making friends and influencing people than I am. A few posts ago, when I wrote the same thing, folks here called me an "idiot" and a "provocateur".
You are wrong about both grinding poverty and control of education. Grinding poverty need not happen if an effort is made to build self-sufficient, closed communities. Take a State with a Homestead Law, like Louisiana. A community there pays no tax on its members' land. Assume this community grows most of its own food and exchanges goods and services internally, via a Local Currency (e.g. Ithaca Hour). A small town can exist in this manner without any of its inhabitants actually having ANY large reportable income. Believe it or not, this need not mean living in the 19-th century, either. The Open Society Project is tailor-made for the needs of those who do not wish to join "mainstream" society, but do not want to live like the Amish, either.
Now, extend this to education. All you need to educate people are books, blackboards, chalk and pencils. Everything else, even roofs and walls and desks, is optional. Why should American Christian conservatives send their children to Harvard? They can establish their own Harvard. The Mormons already have BGU, and we Jews have Bar-Illan and Ariel, and YU in America. A Jew need not join Chabad and refrain from teaching his children math and physics to shut out the chiloni poison. You can take the science and toss the culture. We ourselves learned the Pythagorean Theorem, but who here learned Pythagorean philosophy? It's been done before, you know. All the way back to the Rambam, and before.
- 11/12/12
- Josh Kruschke said...
Tired... So tired...
I'm tired of getting excommunicated from groups, that say they respect individuals and individuality, as soon as I say something threatening to the groups Identity.
Group think.....I'm at the point were I don't think we can form groups with out group identity taking over.
I'm Anarcho-Capitalist (But this is a label & now ever body going to expext me to be & act a certain way. More later.), because I think that system that will produce the strongest Individual able to live together. Not with out conflict, but with a means to settle disputes. Will everone get their way all the time, no!
Life not fair, and we will not and CAN NOT agree with each other one hundred percent of the time; unless, we want to get some form of hive-mind going.
Am I doomed to wander, from group to group, never quite fitting in; al á Road Warrior?
Do I build my Sea Steading, going Galt, until some outside group says I can't do that, because what if their members do the same?
So, with this in mind were does your plan leave me?
Culture(?) We are in a war of Ideals!
Culture is just the medium we fight in & maybe for. Must cultures agree on a lot main points & are just fighting over the details. It becomes a matter of us vs. them.
It has been said that we are on a sliding scale between Statism & Anarchy, but that is framing it politicly.
But in actuality it is a sliding scale between Slavery & Freedom/Liberty. The sweetspot is what Thomas Jefferson called Rightful Lyberty.
This is the Catch 22 that I'm living.
Groups don't create individuals (especially self-sufficient individuals they might leave the group) they create members & orthodoxy.
So, if you say I want to create the strongest individuals possible, groups and the people in them see it as a threat to their *identity* both individually and group.
So, I guess I'm screwed always to be an outsider? :-)
- 11/12/12
- Anonymous said...
this is the kind of article I've been waiting for from a master of social commentary...but I'm still somewhat disappointed...come out and say it Daniel! The progressives are led by the sodomites...they have invaded and basically taken over our media, our libraries, have invaded our school system so much so that we have to teach gay history in California schools...they have grabbed power in the Supreme Court (Kagan and Sotomeyer)..they are in control of the fashion industry where our women are have been butched up...they are the natural enemies of the Jews who represent the Biblical as the chosen ones...it was them who booed Israel and the inclusion of G-d in the democratic party platform...the abortion movement is a zealously guarded gay institution...Roe was lesbian...the feminism movement is a gay movement designed to create gender conflict...the gay movement is aty wart with the family and seeks in all its forms to stop the birth process...the sin of Sodom was that there was no children and the gays are the great corrupter s as ten righteous men could not be found in Sodom.. and like Sodom they have gotten the women to rebel from the traditional values... it is they who are denigrating jews everyday in the media and are out to destroy the Jewish homeland and Jewish reputations wherever and whenever they can...and it was they who were the secret enemies of the holocaust...they were the ones who relentlessly attacked the Jews in the German press...the same culture existed in Weimar as in today's society...abortion movement, women's lib, and a large gay society which as the great corrupter s caused a cultural breakdown which the Jews were blamed for and brought about the rise of a strongman (Hitler) to clean it up with an Aryan pride background...and the gays are constantly trying to paint the Jews as enemies of the state..this is what is meant by the word progressives
- 11/12/12
- Anonymous said...
g-d gave the gays a certain kind of power to test our wills...and test our loyalty to Him...as the great corrupters they encroach on all the values taught by Judaism...followers of false principals, called the arch deceivers and arch villains by the rabbi's the are a choking veed...and the weed extends itself in all directions until everyone is perceived as dirty until a great upheaval occurs...(war) and the fractured society is in no moral shape to fight one...expecting the worse for their sins the downfall begins.. great empires lose their force and it begins from within...we, despite our weapons, are no different as we are up against a force beyond our comprehension... that force being G-d...unless the sodomites are brought to justice we are guilty of a lack of faith and a lack of loyalty...who, then, is on G-d's side? Start marching on the gay rights parades, the abortion centers, their inclusion in the military, the newspapers, their filthy movies and trashing of our libraries (witchcraft sections!) our disgraceful fashion industry...and other corruptions...do it before its too late..G-d warned Sodom for over fifty years before he destroyed that totally corrupted society...and our time is almost up...we all know the axe is going to fall...
- 11/12/12
- Daniel Greenfield said...
Thomas, it's a challenge. Living a life that most Americans expect to live will be a lot harder with a large family. It means doing without a lot of things.
Anon, Baruch Hashem
Moshe, there are indeed ways to reduce expenses and form viable communities. That said poverty will still often be a reality, even if relative poverty.
Josh, I'm not exactly a big grouper myself and I'm not thrilled to be proposing this, but I do see events approaching a last resort stage. I have little confidence that trying to win the fight within the culture is still viable. If you believe that it is, I'm happy to cheer you on. And this is not about cutting everyone else off, it's about fighting to preserve and revive what's left.
Anon, homosexuality is a symptom of cultural problems. Reducing it to the central focus is unhealthy.
- 11/12/12
- Daniel Greenfield said...
Christopher, taking back the academic culture will require organization and hard work. I agree that it is doable, but it will not be easy.
The left was ambushing America in the dark. We will have to go up against a ruthless and manipulative foe.
- 11/12/12
- Josh Kruschke said...
Why do I get a sense of historic déjà vu; like progressives were setting around in bars having this same discussion.
Why do I see similarities between the reasoning behind people like the young Bill Ayers & a lot of the IIIer's, both fill that only violent oposition to the government is the only path foward. This just pissed of most of the IIIer's, but both felt change was happning to slowly or not at all. Questin, and wat is older Bill Ayers doing right now?
Will libertarianism or Traditionalism be the new counter culture?
There is a reason I don't call myself a Libertarian and that is because it is so infested with Social-Anarchist that has lost it's rootes in clasic liberalism. I argue this with libertarian all the time.
I have a plan, and I'm irorning out the details.
Just some of the things/ideas flotting around in my head.
Take care,
Josh K.
- 11/12/12
- mapper said...
Sultan: "Jewish progressives have done everything possible to destroy Jewish religion..."
I think you're on to something. Caught a story this weekend somewhere (CBS Sunday Morning show?) that was a blanket slam on the Satmar Hasids of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Apparently a prominent rabbi is accused of sexual assaulting of a 12 year-old girl over some time.
Now, I have no idea whether he's guilty or innocent. I do know that the MSM was just salivating to report the story and use it as an opportunity to try and destroy the Hasids.
Funny how in the MSM you never, ever hear about a prominent union goon or a gay teacher molesting any kids. Nope, it's just the Catholic priests and rabbis that are doing all the diddling.
- 11/12/12
- Anonymous said...
Cheers from India Daniel,I love your clarity and coherence. This is hands down my favourite blog on the internet. Ever since I discovered your blog by accident 4 years ago, I have read almost every article of yours. Your blog was the most prominent factor in my change from liberal to conservative.
However now a question occurs to me that somehow evaded me for the last 4 years....What does Sultanknish mean? I tried googling it but to no avail.
Keep up the great job!
- 11/12/12
- Daniel Greenfield said...
Josh, it already is the counter culture
Mapper, forget union bosses, try Governor Jerry Brown, Harvey Milk and the Dem link to Jim Jones' child abuse.
Ever since Orthodox Jews came out against gay marriage, these stories have kept coming in, for the same reason they came in targeting Catholic priests.
Anon, welcome. Glad to have you as a reader. Sultan Knish has no meaning. It's an offhand joke.
- 11/12/12
- Josh Kruschke said...
Is it?
FYI: I like to think in questions as away to identified assumptions. Some/a lot of that last comment was half formed thoughts ping off what others have said/commented.
As Elisandra pointed out there is this war on words.
"Classic" Liberalism vs "Traditional" Liberalism.
For a lot of youth Libertarianism means freedom to do what you want with out responsibility, al a OWS vs Tea Party.
OWS is what the youth think liberty/freedom means.
Sarah Rolph's talking counter culture reminded me of Alex P. Keaton from the early 80 show Family Ties.
The danger, I see, with an isolationist aproach is a childs natural tendense to rebel as a way to form their own identity seperate from their parents. This is the *secrete* that the progressives have used to great effect.
I falls into what I think the focus of education should be, and that is on chritical thinking skils like logic, ethics, problem solving with a basics understanding of everything else. Any advocacy over the finer points should be left up to parents. Not exposing kids to defering points of view just might make them seem even more exotic when kids are exposed to them for the first time or out in the world on their own.
Josh K.
- 12/12/12
- Anonymous said...
I don't believe a group such as the Amish is necessary to reclaim the children. All that is needed is the dedication of the parents. I give as an example my neighbors.
Father: German immigrant
Mother: Raised on an Alaskan homestead
Children: Two boys 14 & 16
I don't know the education background of the parents but I don't think either has much past high school. Ordinary intelligence.
I've known the two young men since the youngest was born. I call them young men because I can have a conversation with either at least on par as with a typical 20 yr old.
Both are home schooled and have always been at least two years ahead of their age group. Both are also bilingual.
The older one is the intellectual type and the younger one is the worker bee but both are excellent workers. The younger one is extremely interested in the work I do and if it wasn't for child labor laws, I'd hire him in a heartbeat for next summer.
I don't know whether these young men will end up liberal or conservative,but whichever I expect it will be a reasoned position.
- 12/12/12
- Daniel Greenfield said...
If your neighbors only have two children, that's replacement rate.
- 12/12/12
- VA_Rancher said...
Thanks for the encouragement. My 3 daughters are homeschooled, and have been since birth. My son is older and we tried Private schools... Not good enough.
I'd like to have MORE kids... Now I know why...
Be well & God Bless.
- 12/12/12
- Daniel Greenfield said...
- 12/12/12
- Anonymous said...
The Muslim population is growing in India while Hindus are buying into the one child or two kids tops socialist government policy. If it were not for the demographics jihad of Muslims, zero population growth for a country smaller than the US with over a billion peopl would be ok. But the only reason why Hindus of India are not in the pitiful state as their counter parts in Pakistan and Bangladesh is because of their current demographic dominance. Even with that Hindus of India are attacked on several fronts. The two usual suspects being the left and Muslims with the MSM also biased against Hindus. Sound familiar?
That is the dilemma for Hindus of India. To have lots of kids when your country is over populated may be necessary to survive Muslims and the left but it will tax the resources of the country which is already reaching its limit.
- 12/12/12
- Anonymous said...
Some thoughts (from a political independent):
1. Not sure that this victory for Obama was all about demographics. Part of it was turnout - I think Republicans did not organize as effectively to get the vote out. Another was the skillful manipulation of power - the executive order on immigration as well-crafted and successful in getting Latinos to vote for Obama.
2. Republicans neglected what should be a natural vote for them: Asian Americans. The Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Indian immigrants should vote 3:1 Republican, at least, based on their values and interests. Instead they voted 3:1 Democrat, from what I read.
3. Attempting to win this war through long-term demographic change seems to me an impossible task if the system is rigged to inculcate Democratic Party values among the elite (which I agree, it is.) Fight the battle of ideas with websites, books - as you are. People with Harvard and Yale degrees can generally think on their own (or a reasonable number can.) I would guess a significant portion that spend enough time thinking about this will realize that their interests do not clearly lie with the Democrats. I know that I have made that transition despite many years of being steeped in an academic and social environment rigged towards Liberal Democrat ideology. I made the transition after reading blogs and articles such as yours and after some reflection. I bet there are others capable of discarding their blind allegiance.
- 12/12/12
- Charlie Hall said...
Nobody who identifies as a Jewish traditionalist could possibly want to limit immigration "as much as possible". It was precisely arguments such as these that led to the draconian restrictions of immigration to the US during the mid-20th century, and as a result the Six Million had nowhere to which to flee. And
most immigration to the US is by quite traditional people: Christians from Latin America and the Philippines, and people from the mainland of Asia with strong traditional family values. Why should this not be considered racist?
- 12/12/12
- Daniel Greenfield said...
Latin Americans actually rate high on Anti-Semitism according to ADL surveys. So I don't exactly see the Jewish immigrant for promoting the immigration of people who hate Jews.
Not to mention that Asian immigration includes Pakistan and Bangladesh. The sort of people who like to blow up synagogues.
That said, I believe in limiting immigration based on population outcomes, which is entirely reasonable and fair.
- 12/12/12
- Vernon said...
Would you be interested in a group where instead of loyalty to the group, a pledge to support, defend and live Rightful Liberty was the primary requirement to be in the group? Where the members agree that peaceful arbitration is the best way to resolve disputes? Where free markets are considered the best way to provide goods and services? Where it is explicitly stated "no liberals allowed"?
If you are ok with it Daniel, I'd like to share some links to our group.
iiiCitadel.blogspot.com and iiiCitadel.com
We are pessimistic about the prospects for social, economic and political stability in the U.S., but don't want to just hide in a hole and despair. This article is incredibly timely. It perfectly describes the dilemma we face. We intend to do something about it.
As our response to this dilemma, we want to create something that can preserve and promote Rightful Liberty and free enterprise. Something that will preserve a core of civil society if worse comes to worse. We refuse to give up the ideals this country was founded on. We refuse to stay isolated and be picked off one by one, either literally or culturally. We will band together and support each other both physically and culturally.
This effort is less than five months old, so it is barely getting started. We intend to separate physically and culturally from liberal society but without secession and without cutting ourselves off from interaction with the rest of society. Ours is only one possible approach to the current situation you have described. We don't claim it is the best or that it is even suitable for more than a small minority of the population. It is simply the one that we choose.
Everyone involved is a volunteer and we truely believe we can make a difference. Please check it out and if the idea appeals to you, consider joining us.
- 13/12/12
- Anonymous said...
The progressive/totalitarian state relies on tax revenue to fund its propaganda, as well as to put sticking plaster on the ills that ensue.
One can cut tax revenue.
Have more children, educate them with traditional values, then each election, more traditional politicians will win. They will be forced to reduce taxes. Long term strategy.
Go on a tax strike. All it requires is 30% of the tax paying people to go on a tax strike, and the progressive/totalitarian state will collapse.
- 13/12/12
- Always On Watch said...
This is, indeed, the long-term solution.
We do need to think in terms of the longer view instead of rolling in self-pity and grief.
Great post, Sultan!
- 13/12/12
- Anonymous said...
The Amish and Chassidic are strange. People do not relate to them. They are too set apart to the point of being sensed as alien, weird outsiders, no matter how many generations have lived in the US. As an insular minority that does not interfere with the majority they can be tolerated. Their insular world then poses no threat to the politics of the majority. But if they grow bigger and they impact the larger politics, they will gain the attention of the rest of the people and become a focus of that attention. Strange alien insular people have few allies. When politics gets hot they may find themselves alone.
Neither the Amish nor Chassidic are the models to follow. Having more kids and being active in teaching them values is one thing but do that while not making yourselves too alien, without isolating yourselves too much from the larger society.
- 14/12/12
- Anonymous said...
Fizziks is wrong. The Duggars do not use welfare. They are self-supporting.
- 15/12/12
- Anonymous said...
Anyone have any further suggestions for concrete steps, other than having plenty of kids, home-schooling, not partaking of the liberal media, possibly aiming to reduce dependence on taxable income, and creating communities of like-minded people? Even little ideas would be very welcome...
- 22/2/13
- VA_Rancher said...
That's a pretty good looking list of concrete action steps.
Here is a baby step idea. How about finding people who are already doing those things and hang out with them and give them moral support.
I led my Family in those steps starting 15 years ago, and it can be a lonely journey. Not many people really understand what we are trying to do, and frankly, I often don't have all or any of the answers and it is uncharted territory.
United we stand.
Go join up with other people already doing those things.
Be well,
- 22/2/13


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When I saw her sitting in the garage drenched from the cold Oregon rain my heart felt heavy and I began to cry. Our 17 month relationship had been initiated through tragedy and was now ending for my self preservation. For awhile it was comforting being with her everyday and knowing how loved she had been and how loved she would be with me. She carried her beauty and sensuality like no other I had seen. She was sleek, sexy and mysterious. She had an air of aristocracy, well bred and cultivated through the generations for sophistication and class. She became my world and my attachment to a previous life that we had shared. We comforted each other in our time of loss. We would become one.
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As hard as it was, it was the time to let go. The time had come for her to move on to another family that could love her untainted. She ran so well on to where we took her. It was as if she was trying one last time to get me to relent and allow her to stay. But it could not be. The burden had grown too large for me to handle. She must go and it must be now.
I sat there watching through the glass as the man gently dried her with a towel and removed every trace of moisture from her beautiful body. I had to tell her good bye one more time. I slowly opened the door that had separated us and once again soaked in her beauty. With each step my breath became more labored. I kept slowly moving forward until I touched the cold, hard aluminum of her deep pacific blue rear fender and gently leaned down and kissed her. I rubbed her top and kissed her once again on her head. She is on a new journey now, as am I. I turned to leave before I lost the courage to do so. With tears streaming down my face and my nose beginning to drip I reached into my pocket to get a tissue to muffle my sobs and I walked out the door without looking back..