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Honest, No weasel

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This is from a man who has chosen to live his life by a righteous code. He used to be what he called “An average married chump” and I would call “A nice guy”.

I was a liar. A dishonest weasel. I lied all the time. Most all of it was so-called “white lies.” And it wasn’t just in relation to my wife, but with my peer group, my work-place colleagues and school classmates…everyone.This was because I lived my life afraid to upset other people. I tried to always find what I mistakenly thought of as the path of least resistance. To use dishonesty to avoid conflict. For instance, if I were invited to participate in something I did not care to, I would scramble for a convenient excuse — A LIE — instead of being honest and straightforward and saying, “no thanks, I’m not interested in doing that.

Fear is never seen as attractive, confident or in control. Honestly is seen as a form of mastery. But you have to have a sense of self integrity to allow this to work. He continues…

The real problem with that is when you spin webs of deceit, you eventually get tangled up and caught. It is inevitable if your whole social life is based on trying to avoid upsetting people by lying to them. And from the perspective of the woman you are having a relationship with, it is the ultimate respect-killer.

He then continues to talk about being a leader — or being a loser. IF you want to be a leader, be honest, unapologetically honest. IF you want to be a leader, be discreet,.

As I wrote earlier though, being honest doesn’t mean you have to tell everyone everything. Circumspect discretion is the easiest means of maintaining a code of living honestly.

Not a gossip, not a weasel. Be responsible. Be a man (or woman) of integrity.

via Hawaiian libertarian: The Primary Trait of the AMC: Fearful Dishonesty.

Let us speak truth to power.

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When laws become long and cumbersone, we are colluding with specail interests.

This is interesting, because we either have free political speech or we do not. If we have blasphemy rules, (which is what stating one can call a group into disrepute is) we have unfree speech.

Wilders entered the dock amid heavy security and promptly affirmed his commitment to free speech, dismissing the charges against him while not entering a plea.

He faces a hefty fine or a year in jail if found guilty on five charges of inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims and insulting their religion for likening, as he routinely does, the Qur’an to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf and describing Islam as fascist.

“I am on trial, but on trial with me is the freedom of expression of many Dutch citizens,” he told the Amsterdam district court. “I can assure you, I will continue proclaiming it.”

Wilders then asserted his right to remain silent for the rest of the trial, prompting a comment from the presiding judge, Jan Moors, which was challenged by Wilders’s lawyer.

Moors said Wilders was known for making bold statements but avoiding discussions, adding: “It appears you’re doing so again.”

Bram Moszkowicz, representing Wilders, said the comment gave the appearance that Moors was biased and moved to have him substituted.

The hearing was suspended while other judges consider the complaint. They are to rule tomorrow on Wilders’s challenge, meaning that a new panel of three judges could be appointed, delaying the trial by several months.

“I thought I had a right to a fair trial, including the right to remain silent,” said Wilders. “It is scandalous that the judge passes comment on that. A fair trial is not possible with judges like that.”

via Geert Wilders trial halted as lawyer accuses judge of bias | World news | The Guardian.

We now have judges running a form of the inquisition. Wilders is a heretic. As this is a crime of exceptional nature, he cannot even keep silent.

For the elite are most intolerant if they are challenged. Paul Henry yesterday asked about the ethnicity of the next governer-general: our current one is a kiwi Indian. This offended a Yarpie communist who was appointed by the previous socailists to be our person of perpetual offence:

Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres said Henry showed appalling ignorance.

“The implication of his comments seems to be that anyone of Indian or Asian descent cannot be a New Zealander and should not hold public office unless they `look or speak like one’,” he said.

“I am intrigued to know what Paul Henry’s definition is of looking and speaking like a New Zealander, given that New Zealand’s population includes 650,000 people of Asian descent and many people of different ethnicities who speak English with a wide variety of accents.”

A spokeswoman for TVNZ said there had been two complaints this morning.

However; “The audience tell us over and over again that one of the things they love about Paul Henry is that he’s prepared to say the things we quietly think but are scared to say out loud,” she said.

“The question of John Key is the same, we want the answer but are to scared to ask.”

Mr de Bres found TVNZ’s response concerning.

Mr de Bres, you are a member of the inquisition. We have a right to think. We have a right to speak. And you dare not limit this: If you defend the “dath to Kufir” shouting of the Islamic Rageboy and condemn those who question your defecation on the rights and traditions of your adopted home, you are a hypocrite as well as a traitor.

Link back to Psycho Milt.

Concentrate in the important.

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The Times has an interesting set of comments. In New Zealand, we have, until recently, kept private things private. For we are fully aware that our politicians are not saints. But things changed… slowly. Having the PM and Leader of the Opposition have to play happy families — Paul Holmes visiting — has not helped. It affects the children. There have been suicides.

But… there are standards. I support the Whale in exposing rorts of credit cards for private meals, flowers, underpants and other things.

Like McCrystal, I have been at times scathing about my employers. I have had confrontations with the suits. I have advocated for staff. That is part of my job. However, if a reporter was present… I would turn into a jargon spouting eunuch. It’s called survival.

Then, after Vietnam, an ethos of exposure swept the culture. The assumption among many journalists was that the establishment may seem upstanding, but there is a secret corruption deep down. It became the task of journalism to expose the underbelly of public life, to hunt for impurity, assuming that the dark hidden lives of public officials were more important than the official performances…

In other words, over the course of 50 years, what had once been considered the least important part of government became the most important. These days, the inner soap opera is the most discussed and the most fraught arena of political life.

And into this world walks Gen. Stanley McChrystal.

General McChrystal was excellent at his job. He had outstanding relations with the White House and entirely proper relationships with his various civilian partners in the State Department and beyond. He set up a superb decision-making apparatus that deftly used military and civilian expertise.

But McChrystal, like everyone else, kvetched. And having apparently missed the last 50 years of cultural history, he did so on the record, in front of a reporter. And this reporter, being a product of the culture of exposure, made the kvetching the center of his magazine profile.

By putting the kvetching in the magazine, the reporter essentially took run-of-the-mill complaining and turned it into a direct challenge to presidential authority. He took a successful general and made it impossible for President Obama to retain him.The reticent ethos had its flaws. But the exposure ethos, with its relentless emphasis on destroying privacy and exposing impurities, has chased good people from public life, undermined public faith in institutions and elevated the trivial over the important.

via Op-Ed Columnist – General McChrystal and the Culture of Exposure – NYTimes.com.

It may be that McCrystal has more honour that I, or any other Kiwi, has.

Shame, anger, Galifornia.

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It appears that some radicals have invaded churches, because california passed proposition 8, which amends the California state constitution so that a marriage is defined as between a man and a woman.

WorldNet reports:

Decisions by voters in Florida, Arizona and California to join residents of 27 other states with constitutional protections for traditional marriage
have prompted threats of violence against Christians and their churches.

“Burn their f—ing churches to the ground, and then tax the charred timbers,” wrote “World O Jeff” on the JoeMyGod blogspot today within hours of California officials declaring Proposition 8 had been approved by a margin of 52 percent to 48 percent. Confirmation on voter approval of amendments in Florida and Arizona came earlier.

The amendments in all three states essentially limit marriage to one man and one woman. In California, the measure states the only marriages “valid and recognized” in the state are those between one man and one woman.

Thirty states now have adopted marriage amendments. However, in California, the vitriol appeared especially high since the state Supreme Court in May created same-sex marriage for homosexuals. Proposition 8 overruled the court decision, readopting the marriage definition California votersadopted in 2000.

Now the logic is that this is lobbying, which cannot be done by charities, which is bullshyt. Reformed churhc es attempt to influence the secular government: this is the reason for a” public questions committee”. From Huffington

Some pro-Proposition 8 folks may come to regret their not so private support of hate. And were you thinking about skiing in Utah this year? Hmmm, Colorado’s looking pretty appealing these days.

Yet somehow an economic boycott doesn’t feel direct enough; those who team up against gay people must learn that there are consequences.

That’s why we are seeking to strip the Mormon church of its status as a religious organization. According to IRS law, “no organization, including a church, may qualify for IRC section 501(c)(3) status if a substantial part of its activities is attempting to influence legislation (commonly known as lobbying).” [Emphasis added.]

Please join our efforts and show the world that gay people — and their friends and families — know how to hit back

I’m no Mormon. But they first came for the Mormons…
Now when the Church stands up as it should and says to our Muslim friends ““Brother, do not kill your son because he loves a boy. Pray for him, love him”

From today's lectionary:

For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ; I have often told you of them, and now I tell you even with tears. 19Their end is destruction; their god is the belly; and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.

I find I struggle with the attraction of the Belly — and there is a whole industry that sets my mind on earthly things. What the radicals do is glory in their shame. Maywe be ashamed ot that which is shameful, as this is the first step to repentence.

Hat tip Michell Malkin