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First, sit down and pour yourself a good stiff drink. Then, down it in one smooth motion. Good! Now, you’re ready to read the latest drivel from Rod Dreher. This disgusting toddler knows nothing of real Orthodoxy, the culture of the Orthosphere, or the folkways of real Orthodox people. However, like all zapadniki poseurs, he thinks that he has the right to speak for us! After all, we’re stupid, sullen, and wilful… we can’t do so ourselves… we need him, Freddie M-G, Patrick Henry Reardon, Whiteford, Honeycutt, and Mattingly to speak for our ignorant selves. Excuse me!
What utter bunkum and horseshit! Someone should stuff a rag into this ignoranus’ mouth. He’s nothing but a Know Nothing Neocon Yahoo… he stands against what HH teaches… and HH agrees with Pope Francisco. HH attacks the Free Market Hell that Dreher et al espouse. HH condemns the Consumerist Babel that Dreher et al laud (don’t attend to their bleats against it… they’re all supporters of the Republican Me First ideology). As a friend at the Centre said to me:
His Holiness was a Soviet patriot. Of course, he aided the special services {KGB: editor}… he did so in opposition to capitalist aggression, which we’ve seen all too often in the last twenty years. He’s a friend of Gennady Andreyevich {Zyuganov, the head of the KPRF: editor} and of Fidel Castro. He deeply believes in socialism and in communalism. He honours the full legacy of our country.
Rod Dreher had best shut up and LEARN. However, he won’t. None of them will. The only question is how long they’ll stay with us. The konvertsy are ploughing their own furrow, and they’ve done so from the outset. They’ve never joined us in all fullness of soul; they’ve never “eaten from the same dish as we have”. When they leave (not all of the converts will leave, only the pig-headed neocons and swinish Ayn Rand fans will), it’ll be a time for the rest of us to take stock and assess the lessons that these poseurs taught us. If nothing else, we should be leery of ordaining former heterodox clergy. Then, we’ll have to get down to our real business… we have a Russian Orthodox Church to unify and rebuild here in Alaska, and in the American and Canadian diaspora.
When will Dreher stop his witless dribbling? Never, I fear…
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Voices from Russia 
20 November 2012. THIS is Why We Don’t Have to Rip Up the Social Safety Net
Tags: American Enterprise Institute, Ascension Island, Dreher, GIUK Gap, Paffhausen, political commentary, politics, Republican, Rod Dreher, United States, USA
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Look at the above charts. If the American war budget were cut in half, it’d still be three times that of the #2 on the list, the People’s Republic of China. There’s no need to cut the social safety net at all. In fact, if corporate taxes and taxes on the wealthy were returned to their 1960 levels, the deficit would be shrunk considerably in a decade. The present economic mess is the direct result of massive increases in the war budget coupled with massive giveaways to the Affluent Effluent. I’m not proposing a return to an isolationist “Fortress America”… the USA‘s legit FEBA runs from the Aleutians to Guam to Australia in the Pacific theatre, and from the GIUK Gap to the Azores to Ascension Island in the Atlantic theatre. The actual national interest of the USA involves the defence of the Anglosphere and its maritime communications lines. Everything else is someone else’s affair. Remember the old military maxim, “He who defends everything, defends nothing”. In short, reject the Republican lies… they want a massive increase in an already-bloated war budget, with further giveaways to the layabout Affluent Effluent. A good deal of the war budget is corruption (don’t you just laugh at American congressmen, the world champions of bribery and boodle, calling the Russian government “corrupt”… I’ll retire to Bedlam with Mr Scrooge).
Remember what President Eisenhower (a REAL Republican) said:
Note to Orthodox People:
Lately, Rod Dreher has been bleating about Paffhausen on several internet fora. I’d say that JP was allied to the worst and most feral segments of the Republican Party… he spoke at extremist “libertarian” (rightwing anarchist) venues like the American Enterprise Institute (and Dreher drooled his approval). That is, JP allied himself with the enemies of the Orthosphere and wanted to ally the Church with such demonic elements. Paffhausen (and Dreher) wanted to see the Republican war programme, with its concomitant cuts to the safety net, in full force. They wanted to see the Affluent Effluent get MORE at the expense of ordinary people. They supported the Hegemonist delusions of the Inside the Beltway lot.
God saved us from such an evil. May we never come so close to objective godlessness again. It takes all kinds in this world, even the Rod Drehers… do pass me the jug…
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