Saturday, 13 November 2010

The Great Generation 2...


...never mind that the phrase was made popular by Noam Chomsky, these images (photographed in and around Palmerston North in 1943, click on to enlarge) stir me in a way that I don't really understand. The beautiful young woman has been referred to in an earlier post, and it would make me very happy indeed if anyone seeing these young faces could identify with them in the way that I do.
We will remember them...

Saturday, 6 November 2010

Time for Tea...

...the recent mid-term US elections will be remembered for the birth of the vocal majority. The silent majority is silent no more; it has gained its exsibilating voice via blogging and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and its voice has humbled the liberal media. Their shock is evident as they desperately label Tea Party adherents as hate fuelled ultra-conservatives (forgetting their hate fuelled campaigns against Sarah Palin and ex-President Bush.) In reality though liberal hate of the Tea Party movement comes from fear...traditional media are well aware their influence is waning and their irrelevancy has dawned.

The death of climate change alarmism and the internment of its jumentous corpse has been guaranteed by the success of the Tea Party movement. Green zealots will be now praying to Gaia for tragedies and disasters to bolster their futile and moribund cause, but must now realise that their vision of wealth transfer via fear and guilt is over.

It is time that the Tea Party movement took root internationally. Its voice carries through cyberspace, and its conservative message of small government, freedom of expression and respect for the nuclear family has international appeal.