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Saturday, July 11, 2009
RULE 5 SATURDAYIn compliance with Rule 5 and my Maker's Mark barrel, the TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee presents....
AVA GARDNER...
The Capo Di Tutti Capi of American Broads...
You can try and tell her what to do,
but she'll only do it if she wants to, Jack...
She makes the yacht classy...
Like a 100 proof bottle of bourbon...
I'm rendered speechless...
Figures she was the only woman Francis Albert pined for all his life...
Make mine a double, straight-up, no chaser...
There's only one song that fits and its a fine little number by Rogers and Hart...
She gets too hungry for dinner at eight
She likes the theatre and never comes late
She never bothers with
people she'd hate
That's why the lady is a tramp
Doesn't
like crap games with barons or earls
Won't go to Harlem in ermine and pearls
Won't dish the dirt with the rest of
the girls
That's why the lady is a tramp
She likes the free,
fresh wind in her hair
Life without care
She's broke, and it's ok
Hates
California, it's cold and it's damp
That's why the lady is a tramp
She
gets too hungry to wait for dinner at eight
She loves the theatre but never arrives late
She'd never bother with
people she'd hate
That's why the lady is a champ
She'll
have no crap games with sharpies and frauds
And she won't go to Harlem in Lincolns or Fords
And she won't dish the
dirt with the rest of the broads
That's why the lady is a tramp
She'd
love the free, fresh wind in her hair
Life without care
She's broke, but it's ok
Hates California, it's so cold and so damp
That's why the lady
That is why the lady
That's why the lady is a tramp
Hey pally, check out Paco's jazzed-up RULE 5 by clicking
here—it's a gas.
11 jul 09 @ 6:37 pm edt
Friday, July 10, 2009
CLOSED SHOP & CLOSED FISTIn his farewell remarks, outgoing NEA General Counsel Bob Chanin said the following:
Despite what some among us would like to believe it is not because of our creative
ideas; it is not because of the merit of our positions; it is not because we care about children; and it is not because we
have a vision of a great public school for every child.
The NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because
we have power. And we have power because there are more than 3.2 million people who are willing to pay us hundreds of million
of dollars in dues each year because they believe that we are the unions that can most effectively represent them; the union
that can protect their rights and advance their interests as education employees.
This is not to say that the concern
of NEA and its affiliates with closing achievement gaps, reducing drop rate rates, improving teacher quality, and the like
are unimportant or inappropriate. To the contrary these are the goals that guide the work we do. But they need not and must
not be achieved at the expense of due process, employee rights, or collective bargaining.
That is simply too high
a price to pay.
In other words: screw the kids.
As Jimmie Bise, over at The Sundries
Shack, points out:
...A big chunk of the millions the NEA collects in dues it
no willingly paid at all. In states like California and New York, if you want to be a public school teacher, you have to belong
to the NEA. You have no choice. In fact, the NEA has steadfastly and loudly fought any attempt to give all of its members
the freedom to choose whether they wanted to be a member or not.
This situation prevails in a good chunk
of the country. Not only does the NEA run a closed shop, but they wield a big fist in order to intimidate politicians
on the state and locals levels. In this they are very, very successful.
Could this be one explanation?
Please take the time to click here and read Jimmie's full posting.
10 jul 09 @ 7:59 pm edt
NOT SURPRISED AT ALL IIOver at American Power, Donald Douglas has an update to the story I posted about here this morning. It seems Valley Swim Club President [and big-time Obama supporter] John Duesler has apologized:
The president of a suburban swim club at the center of a racial discrimination controversy said today safety factors
- not racism - prompted the pool to rescind a contract with a Northeast Philadelphia day camp.
John Duesler also said he chose his words poorly in an earlier statement explaining why the
the Valley Club was ending its arrangement with the predominantly black and Hispanic camp.
In that statement to NBC10, he said, "There is a lot of concern that a lot of kids would change
the complexion ... the atmosphere of the club."
"This is a terrible misinterpretation of what I stand for. This is just wrong," Duesler said while standing
with his wife Bernice at the pool's gate. "That was a terrible choice of words, I admit."
Let's
see...(1) you said: 'change the complexion', (2) your members are white, (3) the 'kids' denied use of the pool were black...hmmmm...nope,
no misinterpretation here. Therefore...
Mr. Duesler is hereby award today's DOPE SLAP OF THE DAY.
Congratulations Mr. Duesler: you join the ranks of others such as Steny Hoyer, Nancy Pelosi, Timmy 'Ellsworth Toohey'
Geithner, and multiple-winner Joe Hill Biden.
Please be advised that if you suffer any injury
that requires medical treatment as a result of receiving said 'dope slap' via a 2x4, you may be obliged to await the coming
of Obamacare! before your costs for treatment will be reimbursed. Good luck sucker.
Please take the time to click here and read Mr. Douglas's full posting which contains some very good links.
10 jul 09 @ 7:23 pm edt
SAID THE LITTLE LAMB......Do you see what I see?
NO.
NOT SURPRISED AT ALLYou may have heard of, or seen, this story by now. From NBC Philadelphia, Karen Araiza reporting:
More than 60 campers from Northeast Philadelphia were turned away from a private swim club and left to wonder if their race was the
reason.
Kids at Creative Steps Day Camp were thrilled to go
swimming once a week at the Valley Swim Club. But after only one trip to the private club, they were...
"I heard this lady, she was like, 'Uh, what are all these black kids doing here?' She's
like, 'I'm scared they might do something to my child,'" said camper Dymire Baylor.
The Creative Steps Day Camp paid more than $1900 to The Valley Swim Club. The Valley Swim Club is a private club
that advertises open membership. But the campers' first visit to the pool suggested otherwise.
...
The
explanation they got was either dishearteningly honest or poorly worded.
"There was concern that a lot of
kids would change the complexion … and the atmosphere of the club," John Duesler, President of The Valley Swim Club said in a
statement.
When I saw the report on this yesterday on Fox News Channel, my warning radar
went off: not in doubt of what the campers were saying, like some commentators, but because I had the feeling that the Club
was not owned and run by conservatives. I had no direct evidence at the time and the report made no mention of this. The
alarm went off purely from my study of the Left for several decades. Turns out it did for Moe Lane as well, but,
unlike lazy ol' me, he went and did the legwork. This Duesler fellow is a big Obama supporter. Lest you think
it was easy for Mr. Lane to confirm this, please click here to read his report which involves some, shall we say, very 'liberal' scrubbing.
Bravo,
Mr. Lane.
Also: please take the time to check out Donald Douglas's excellent take on this over at American Power which contains
some very good links. A highlight of my favorite part:
...This is pure idiocy. This should NOT
be taken for a larger statement on the contemporary (phantom) endurance of some long-ago repudiated pattern of entrenched
racial hierarchy.
Conservatives are right to condemn both the swim
club's stupidity, as well as the racial grievance lobby's opportunistic reaction to it.
10 jul 09 @ 9:40 am edt
PICTURE OF THE DAY IIHe did it twice in one day!...
Oh man, I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when he went back to his suite and Lady Michellebeth was waitin' on
his ass. 'Even that hound dog Berlusconi was lookin' away fool!'
One good thing to come out of all this:
after their terms in office have both ended, Obama and Sarkozy could have a new career waiting for them:
Even the tagline from the original movie fits:
They held the fate of the world in their hands -- and dropped it!
10 jul 09 @ 9:11 am edt
Thursday, July 9, 2009
PICTURE OF THE DAY
I would not want to be in the room after Michelle sees this one.
ARE YOU FOLLOWING ME MARXIST GUY?Are you ambitious?
Do you want to achieve
greatness?
Do you want to be remembered?
Are you without
any morals?
More Importantly: Do you want to be loved by the elites of The West?
Well then, being
strong-man leader of a third-world country may be just the job for you! All you need to do is read Victor
Davis Hanson'sA THUG'S PRIMER!
Here are some highlights from this insightful work: -Remember: Wear
anything but a suit and tie. (Look at the drab Western wannabes Maliki and Netanyahu, and see what their suits got them.)
The Iranian no-tie look impresses a lot of Americans, as it “makes a statement” that you are not part of a global
conformist class, but instead deliberately challenge the norms of bourgeois dress.
-Try the perpetual three-day
beard, Arafat-style, as if you’re always shaving in the field with your comrades.
-Don’t use the hobgoblin
word Communism: It’s always socialism when you nationalize, steal property, take over businesses, shoot protestors,
and shut down newspapers. Stay on message: The enemy is “globalization,” capitalism, imperialism, racism, sexism,
and always the United States.
-Get on as many U.N. committees as possible. The more slots you have on the Human
Rights Commission and its appendages, the more you can imprison.
-Islam is a win-win situation: You can play a
victim of Islamophobia, or seem unhinged at perceived slights and whip up a Danish cartoon–like reaction.
-Arm
to the teeth, talk up war — and then take cash to “stand down.” One AK-47 with a big RPG attached shown
on CNN is worth ten M-16s on Fox.
Visits from Hollywood Celebrities, Fawning Network
Anchors,
& The Congressional Black Caucus are
JUST A PHONE CALL AWAY!
A C T N O W
and you might even get
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9 jul 09 @ 8:05 pm edt
SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY......from Dan Collins over at Piece Of Work In Progress:
I can't recall where I saw it this morning, but there's a picture of Malia Obama in a peace
symbol t-shirt. Honestly, I don't care; she's a kid, and there's certainly nothing wrong with peace, per se. But as Honduras
and Iran demonstrate, peace that comes at the expense of justice cannot last, and we defenders of democracy, not only American,
but everywhere in the world, purchase an anodyne peace at the price of our principles. It is no longer a matter of bearing
any burden, meeting any challenge. It is a matter of condoning viciousness under the aegis of cultural difference, and as
always, it simply forestalls the day of reckoning and makes the price of the reckoning higher.
The ingratitude of the Obamas is breathtaking. They won't
promise to utilize a public health care option in an emergency, they won't place their children in a public school even as
they conspire to destroy the voucher options that other parents have. They seem to believe that in their peculiar case and
that of their ideological compatriots, the having is a matter of deserving, but everyone else is suspect.
Please take the time to click here and read the full posting.
SIDENOTE: The picture in question as published by The London Daily Mail:
9 jul 09 @ 7:41 pm edt
THE KING OF POP CULTURE, R.I.P.First there was the spectacle of Michael Jackson's funeral and now this [tip of
the fedora to Iowahawk]:
Fans Flock to Mourn California,
1849-2009
LOS ANGELES- Millions of fans from around the globe gathered
along Sunset Boulevard to pay final respects to California today, as a slow moving funeral procession transported the eccentric
superstar state's remains to its final resting place in a Winchell's Donuts dumpster in Van Nuys. The self-proclaimed 'King
of Pop Culture' died last week at 160, in what coroners ruled an accidental case of financial autoerotic asphyxiation. The
death sent shock waves across the world and sparked an outpouring of grief by rabid fans.
"I don't care what
the tabloids and the Wall Street Journal say," said a weeping Illinois. "I still love you, Cali!"
The 640-mile long funeral parade route was lined with flowers, candles, teddy bears, and IOUs from millions of mourners
and debtors who made the somber journey to watch the passing of the state that had once ruled the box office and industrial
charts. Among them were current chart-toppers who cited California as a key influence.
"If it wasn't for California,
I wouldn't be where I am today," said Arizona of Westside 3, the popular sunbelt trio who recently benefited from the
late state's generous gift of fleeing taxpayers and businesses. As a tribute to their mentor, Arizona vowed the group would
start spending money "like crack-addled hip hop stars."
"California's financial and musical legacy
will never die," said band mates Nevada and Oregon.
At the official funeral service at the LA Coliseum, a
grief stricken Washington, who teamed with California on several hit software and wine projects, had to be physically restrained
from climbing into the deceased's gold plated casket.
Wow.
Please take the time to click here and read the full report.
9 jul 09 @ 2:36 pm edt
DON'T WRITE IF YOU CAN SPEAK; DON'T SPEAK IF YOU CAN NOD...Caporegime Carol ' Climate Czar' Browner, who runs the 'Climate Crew', has been
doin' things right by Don Obamleone, as Mark Tapscott reports over at Beltway Confidential:
Carol Browner, former Clinton administration EPA head and current Obama White House climate czar, instructed
auto industry execs "to put nothing in writing, ever" regarding secret negotiations she orchestrated regarding
a deal to increase federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.
Now, you may be sayin'
to ya'selves: wow, the Don sure trained her well. Naw, ya see he picked her 'cause she was experienced in these matters
as this Tapscott fellow reports in a follow-up posting:
Obama White House climate
czar Carol Browner's instruction to auto executives to"write nothing down" on those secret negotiations to jump the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards
up significantly higher was not the former EPA head's first time for trying to suppress official documents.
Soon
after leaving EPA at the end of the Clinton administration, Browner was implicated in a federal court decision against EPA for destroying official computer files.
...
It has been suggested that one reason President Barack Obama appointed Browner to a White House "czar"
position is precisely that such appointees advise the chief executive directly and thus are not subject to the normal disclosure
rules, thanks to executive privilege.
Ya see, she was perfect for da job.
Please click here to read the first posting and here to read the second.
'I'm just sayin'. It would be in your best interests not to put nothin' in writin' evah. Ya know what I mean—EV-AH. Writin'
could cause ya some serious health problems, if you undastand my drift.'
[last photo courtesy of LIFE Magazine / © Time Inc]
9 jul 09 @ 2:26 pm edt
IG-GATE: Emasculation EditionI just added two additional new links to IG-GATE
part of the UNWELCOME DISTRACTIONS Section of the WWU-AM Page [thanks again RSM—missed that one].
Please click here to read Robert Stacy McCain's comments.
UPDATE @1437hrs:
Over
at AmSpecBlog, RSM has up a posting that contains new information. A tease:
Democratic congressional staffers investigating the firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin asked
tough questions of an agency lawyer who refused to discuss White House involvement in the case, a source familiar
with the investigation tells the Spectator.
I've just linked to this posting over at the IG-GATE part of the UNWELCOME DISTRACTIONS Section of the WWU-AM Page.
Keep checking back at WWU-AM for the
latest on this growing headache for Tiberius Obamacus and his royal court.
WWU-AM — We Warned yoU, AMerica
...I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU AT THE HOTELS...Speaking of Robert Stacy McCain...
Our intrepid reporter
ventured into hostile territory last night over at David Fredo Frum's house for a book party for Richard Coddington Fatheringay
Von Whoopsie Cabot-Lowell Finknottle Brookheiser's latest on his relationship with William F. Buckley. He emerged with all body parts intact and whole:
Frum’s home on Foxhall Road is at least a mile north of Georgetown, so technically
I am not guilty of partaking of the notorious “Georgetown Cocktail Party Circuit,” but . . . OK, I’m
a total phony sell-out, I admit, but I am not alone.
Regarding his reputation, he does wonder, however:
...the peasants-with-pitchforks act might not play in Peoria anymore....
Certainly, Smitty is not happy.
As for your truly...Let's see...what have we here...
Sleeping With The Enemy? or Donnie
Brasco?
I tend to believe you're the latter RSM so I'll fugettaboutdit [I die with you, Stacy]. I know you resisted their fiendish charms [Here I am, you pod bastards! Hey, pods! Come and get me you scum!]
But then again I believed at one time that David Wormtongue Brooks was not a slimy worm who pontificates from the putrid dungheap of pablum puking punditry [Wow...sometimes I amaze myself].
9 jul 09 @ 10:45 am edt
IG-GATE: 'White House Prerogative' EditionI just added two new links to IG-GATE
part of the UNWELCOME DISTRACTIONS Section of the WWU-AM Page.
From Byron York over at Beltway Confidential:
A top official of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the government
agency that oversees AmeriCorps, has refused to answer questions from congressional investigators about the White House's
role in events surrounding the abrupt firing of inspector general Gerald Walpin.
Frank Trinity, general counsel
for the Corporation, met with a bipartisan group of congressional investigators on Monday. When the investigators asked
Trinity for details of the role the White House played in the firing, Trinity refused to answer, according to two aides with
knowledge of the situation.
"He said that's a prerogative of the White House, so he didn't feel at liberty
to disclose anything regarding White House communications," says one aide.
Investigators asked Trinity whether
he was claiming executive privilege, something that could only be authorized by the president. Trinity answered again
that it was a White House "prerogative." When the investigators pointed out that, in the words of one aide,
"there is no legal basis whatsoever" for such a claim, Trinity still declined to answer.
Tip of
the fedora to Robert Stacy McCain.
9 jul 09 @ 10:09 am edt
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
AN EXPRESSION OF THE AMERICAN MINDFrom all-American gal Monique Stuart:
I'm
not a child and politicians are not my parents. The last thing this country needs is more faceless, nameless bureaucrats in
Washington, DC making our decisions for us. Just give me my freedom back! Admittedly, I'll make mistakes. I might fall on
my butt, but I'll get back up. I'll learn from my mistakes and move forward. The government cannot save me; it can only stifle
me.
That should be put on a sign and displayed at every TEA Party.
It reminds me of something else I heard once:
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My
life is my own.
Please take the time to click here and read Miss Stuart's full posting and see what inspired her statement above.
8 jul 09 @ 8:07 pm edt
FOR 'WOLF' READ 'BEAR'I know for many of you out there in the ether your eyes start to glaze over when a posting is about foreign policy. This field seems to attract
some of the greatest bores ever born of womankind, and I have long thought that a tactical nuclear device dropped directly
on the Department Of State would be a good thing [Ye damn'ed weenies].
But, over at American Power,
Donald Douglas has provided us with a superb and succinct analysis of Barack The Unready's trip to Russia. He provides
a good number of links, but you don't even have to click-on a single one to come away with a good understanding of the damage
our naive President has done on such a short trip. As Professor Douglas comments:
The president himself remains inside a narcissistic bubble and the rest of the world can only watch dumbfounded as
this administration sleepwalks through history.
Please take the time to click here and read his full posting.
If you're like me and are a bit of a foreign policy geek, I would urge you to follow the links he provides.
I would also urge you to read Gerald Warner's spot-on blog entry on this subject over at The London Daily Telegraph. Here's a taste:
For America voluntarily to reduce its nuclear superiority
is madness. Bien-pensant talk of a nuclear-free world displays total stupidity in a global situation where nuclear
weaponry is proliferating, not receding. There is even a nuclear bomb in Pakistan, which is teetering on the brink of failed
statehood at the hands of Islamist insurgents. Is this a time for America to disarm, to “sell the store”
as one trenchant right-wing commentator has already described Obama’s posturing in Moscow?
For Obama, success
is not the delivery of watertight nuclear security for America; it is a feel-good news conference and photo opportunity that
will create huge approval ratings on liberal campuses where the delusions of 1968 and the anti-Vietnam war movement still
linger on in these isolated Jurassic Parks.
'It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.' —Thomas Fuller
8 jul 09 @ 7:56 pm edt
IG-GATE: Chafed EditionI just added two new links to IG-GATE
part of the UNWELCOME DISTRACTIONS Section of the WWU-AM Page.
One is by Robert Stacy McCain, winner of the Sammy.
8 jul 09 @ 2:27 pm edt
IMMANENTIZING THE DULLARDOver at The Corner, Tevi Troy posts this quote by Senator
Majority Leader Harry Reid at a press conference yesterday on the changes to the health care system being proposed:
So that's the difference in this debate. Republican leaders think the present
health care system is the best in the world, and those of us who believe that we should change it: doctors, hospitals,
pharmaceuticals, governors, and on and on.
Mr. Troy commented:
I
hope some enterprising reporter asks him which country he thinks has a better health-care system than the U.S., because the
answer to that question will reveal a great deal about where he wants to take our system.
Quite. I
suspect the answer would be either Canada or Britain, maybe even Germany or one of the other failing nations of Europe.
The interesting thing here is the argument he has chosen to make. One would think the politically savvy thing to do
would be to say something like this:
The Republicans believe we have the best health
care system in the world and we Democrats believe it is good but can be much, much better.
The argument
he has chosen—that there is a system that is better than ours already existing in the world, despite overwhelming evidence
to the contrary—tells us that he is either (1) incredibly naive and/or not very bright or (2) is so caught-up in the
beauty of the Leftist plan for health care that how it effects actual people in the real world doesn't matter [THE PLAN is
beauty itself; he has THE ANSWER and with that comes THE VISION and reality plays no part at all.]. Perhaps it is both,
but, if I had to choose one, I would choose the former. Reid has proven time and time again that he is an arrogant
dullard. The latter fits the Dali Bama much better.
Please click here to read Mr. Troy's full posting.
8 jul 09 @ 2:08 pm edt
CREDIT TO THE DESERVEDMichelle Malkin has published a magnificent column that tells the story of some
the heroes who have given their lives to protect this country and also the hysteria surrounding the death of Michael Jackson.
The column is based on this quote by Represenative Peter King:
...[Jackson] died, he had some talent, but fine, there are people dying every
day. There are men and women dying everyday in Afghanistan, let’s give them the credit they deserve.
Here's one of the stories she relates:
Flags flew at half-staff this week in California’s
state capitol. No, not for Michael Jackson. For Private First Class Justin Casillas.
Pfc. Casillas died in a jihadi suicide bombing attack on his Army base in eastern
Afghanistan on the Fourth of July. While Americans enjoyed fireworks and Hollyweird mourned the “King of Pop”
with wretched excess, the family of Pfc. Casillas learned that the 19-year-old paratrooper with the U.S. Army’s Alaska-based
509th Airborne had given his life for his country. His father told the Woodland (Calif.) Daily Democrat that Justin just “wanted to do his part.”
The family has a legacy
of service: Casillas’s grandfather served in the Pacific theater during World War II; his father served in Vietnam.
But the death of Pfc. Casillas didn’t make front-page headlines. His funeral won’t receive wall-to-wall coverage
on cable TV.
Please take the time to click here and read the full column.
8 jul 09 @ 1:41 pm edt
WHAT? HIM WORRY?In his speech in Moscow, at one point Comrade Obamnin said the following:
Even as we meet here today, America supports now the restoration of the democratically-elected
President of Honduras, even though he has strongly opposed American policies. We do so not because we agree with him. We do
so because we respect the universal principle that people should choose their own leaders, whether they are leaders we agree
with or not.
Is our Fearless Leader worried about something
that might happen here in the land of The Declaration Of Independence?
The text of the speech is available here.
Tip of the fedora to Charles Crawford, who commented on this passage: 'Not exactly the point at issue in Honduras?'
8 jul 09 @ 11:33 am edt
THE PURPLE PRINCE STRIKES AGAINPrince Barnabas Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Frank of Tarpinshire and Fife has
reared his ugly head again:
From Byron York we learn:
When President Obama announced on June 9 that some financial institutions would be
allowed to repay Troubled Asset Relief Program dollars, he said the massively expensive TARP bailout had made money for the
federal government. "It is worth noting that in the first round of repayments from these [TARP recipients], the government
has actually turned a profit," the president said. Indeed, TARP supporters have long held out the hope that the program
might be profitable.
But
now Rep. Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has come up with a proposal to spend any TARP
profits before they can be returned to the taxpayers. Last Friday, Frank introduced the "TARP for Main Street Act of
2009," a bill that would take profits from the program and immediately redirect them toward housing proposals favored
by Frank and some fellow Democrats.
Let's have the details Mr. York:
First,
the "TARP for Main Street" proposal would take $1 billion "from dividends paid by financial institutions that
have received financial assistance provided under...the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act" and apply it to a trust
fund that Frank has long wanted to create for low-income rental housing. (The measure, unfunded, was part of last year's bailout
of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.) Next, Frank would take $1.5 billion from TARP dividends for a so-called "neighborhood
stabilization" fund. Republican critics have charged that both measures might allow federal dollars to be distributed
to activist groups like the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, or ACORN.
The "TARP for Main Street" bill would also spend
$2 billion, apparently from remaining TARP funds, to subsidize people who are delinquent on their mortgages, and another $2
billion to "stabilize multifamily properties that are in default or foreclosure."
Will no one rid us of this troublesome Prince? It is my understanding that when his
Lordship enters a room they play Send In The Clowns...
Don't
you love farce?
Defaults - so queer.
I thought that you'd want what I want - suckers, my dears.
And where is
the clown?
Quick, send in the clown.
Don't bother, he's here.
Paco [tip of the fedora to
him for the Byron York article] is super-duper spot-on:
This is shameless, in-your-face, liberal Democratic partisanship, and I am at
the point of believing that every Republican congressman who gives a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives should
- rather in the manner of Cato the Elder, who closed his speeches to the Roman senate with the words, “And Carthage
must be destroyed!” – conclude his or her remarks with the cry of, “And Barney Frank must be defeated!”
Yes! Barnacus Frankus Delanda Est!
A PICTURE IS, IN FACT, WORTH A THOUSAND WORDSThe cover of the latest issue of National Review ODT is dead-solid-perfect...
Bend over and cough America—it won't hurt a bit.
8 jul 09 @ 10:37 am edt
ARE PIGS FLYING YET?Well...will wonders never cease: our savvy and cool Fearless Leader has actually
snubbed a tyrant for once, and not one of our allies!
From The New York Times, Peter Baker reporting, we learn [tip of the fedora to Pundit and Pundette]:
After passing on dinner with the French president to go on a date in the City
of Light with his wife last month, President Obama took leave of his Russian hosts on Tuesday
night to seclude himself in his Moscow hotel with his wife, Michelle, and their daughters.
The first family enjoyed a relaxed evening at the O2 Lounge, the super-chic, super-pricey rooftop club at the new
Ritz-Carlton, although no doubt the Secret Service first cleared the place of most if not all of the swaggering tycoons and
leggy models who flock to such Moscow venues.
They could not ask for a more scenic vista. The glass-enclosed O2
offers a panoramic view of Moscow, including Red Square and the Kremlin, all the more striking as the lingering summer sun
sets after 10 p.m. The club is “a place to see and be seen,” as its Web site says — that is, unless you
are a visiting president who after a day and a half of blinis, beluga and bilats (the diplo term for “bilateral meetings”)
just wants to hang out with the clan.
The decision to brush off the Russians on one of his two nights here miffed
some in the Moscow government who did not understand why he would not devote the scarce time to his hosts. Mr. Obama had dinner
with President Dmitri A. Medvedev on Monday and lunch with him on Tuesday. But with the second
dinner slot unavailable, he ended up having breakfast Tuesday with Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin,
a known night owl not given to American-style early morning business meals.
Wow. There must be a reason
for this odd behaviour. There is:
The Obamas, though, wanted some downtime before
getting back on Air Force One
to head to Italy for three days of meetings at the Group of 8 summit meeting and, from there, to Ghana for a one-day visit.
Mr. Obama has seemed tired
here, several times fumbling the pronunciation of Mr. Medvedev’s name and Mr. Putin’s title. Beginning a speech
here, he mistakenly said he first met his wife in school instead of at the law firm where they actually met. And he misstated
his younger daughter’s age.
No surprise here. Many of us wondered about the fact that he seemed
to get easily tired during the campaign. [As Mrs. B. would say: 'Suck it up, dude; you're the friggin' President.']
Regarding the aberrant behavior that was this snub [I like Pundette's comment : 'He doesn't honor just anyone with
his presence']: don't fret Obamaniacs — as you can see from the above report, The Tall Cool Detached One was
acting normal in satisfying His champagne tastes ['O2'?...Obama squared?...frightening thought that]. Excuse me,
I have to go now and see if I can afford to take my wife to Wendy's tonight.
8 jul 09 @ 10:25 am edt
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
HIGHWAY TO THE DANGER ZONEOver in the PREPOSTEROUS ALBION section of the BRITAIN page, the last five articles I've linked to today should erase any doubt in your
minds that the takeover of our health care system by the national government would put all of our lives in danger.
Here are just the headlines from the five:
Hospital patient so shocked at dirty
ward she climbed out of bed to clean it herself
Maggot infestation hunt continues
Patient lived with
cancer for 50 years before dying of bedsore
Diary of despair of pensioner who died in 'zoo' hospital after 'catalogue
of blunders by staff'
Man pulls out 13 of his own teeth with pliers 'because he couldn't find an NHS dentist'
Please click here to visit that section.
Living easy, living free, season ticket on a one-way ride
7 jul 09 @ 8:52 pm edt
THE QUOTE OF THE MONTH AWARDThe winner is: New York Representative Peter King for his spot-on comments and
having the stones to say them publicly while his fellow Representatives go along with the lies and distortions being
promulgated by those who would deify Michael Jackson:
This lowlife Michael Jackson
-- his name, his face, his picture -- is all over the newspapers, television, radio. It's all we hear about is Michael Jackson.
Let's knock out the psychobabble. This guy was a pervert. He was a child molester. He was a
pedophile. And to be giving this much coverage to him, day in and day out, what does that say about us as a country?
So I really think the media has disgraced itself. I think too many people in public life have made fools of themselves by
talking about Michael Jackson as if he's some kind of hero. There's nothing good about this guy. He may have been a good singer,
did some dancing. But the bottom line is: would you let your child or grandchild be in the room with Michael Jackson? What
are we glorifying him for?
No one wants to stand up and say 'We don't need Michael Jackson'. He died, he had some
talent, fine. But people are dying every day. There's men and women, dying, say, in Afghanistan. Let's give them the credit
they deserve.
Let's take some time out to really focus on the people that do make us a great country: the men and
women of the armed forces, police, firefighters, teachers who work in really rough neighborhoods,
people who volunteer with dying cancer patients, people who work in AIDS clinics -- they are the ones we should be glorifying
-- not some pervert like Michael Jackson.
Bravo, Mr. King.
Tip of the fedora to Emily Miller.
7 jul 09 @ 2:07 pm edt
A TALE OF TWO GOVERNORSBoth are facing the following...
-Intense scrutiny
by the media
-Subjects of relentless joking, often mean in temper
-Distracted simultaneously by a number of issues not related to their jobs
-Subjects of ethics
investigations
What do they do? What do they do? [that was for you Mr. Malden]
-Sarah Palin resigns, makes way for a political ally who can carry-on her policies without distraction, attempts
to take the searing spotlight off her spouse and children.
-Mark Sanford refuses to resign, alienates political
allies and all but assures he will not be able to pass any legislation, assures the spotlight will stay on his family.
Who is the better leader?
7 jul 09 @ 10:59 am edt
IG-GATE: Vasectomy EditionI just added two new links to IG-GATE
part of the UNWELCOME DISTRACTIONS Section of the WWU-AM Page.
From The Washington Post, Ed O'Keefe reporting,
we learn:
Inspectors general at five financial regulatory agencies are objecting
to legislation that would elevate their positions to the presidential-appointment level, arguing that the move would compromise
their ability to conduct independent investigations.
The bill would elevate the five officials at the Federal Reserve
Board of Governors, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the National Credit Union Administration, the Securities and
Exchange Commission, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
Supporters of the measure say the five IGs need greater
flexibility and more distance between their work and possible interference from agency leadership, especially amid the economic
meltdown. But opponents fear that the politics and length of time associated with the appointment process would delay investigations.
The bill, passed last month by the House and awaiting Senate consideration, comes amid a period of increased tension
for the government watchdog community, which has seen the departure or dismissal of three inspectors general in recent weeks.
...
"We remain unconvinced that a presidentially appointed IG is more independent than one that reports
to a bipartisan board," said Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project on Government Oversight, which tracks
government watchdogs.
"I think you can be more independent reporting to a bipartisan board than being at the
mercy of the president's good graces," she said.
Well...what did we expect? The fact that
the bill has been before the Congress for over a month may explain why the Administration felt comfortable firing the three
IG's.
As Ed Morrissey, over at Hot Air, comments:
This comes as a piece with the explosion of “czars” in the Obama administration.
Obama has appointed more than a dozen people with plenary powers over the federal bureaucracy, outside of Congressional oversight.
Obama claims that several “emergency” situations demands dictatorial strength in White House aides, which is why
we now have an auto-industry czar and a “pay czar,” among others, imposing federal control over private-sector
decisions outside the purview of the legislative branch.
The bill to surrender the IGs to the White House is a
dereliction of duty by Congress. It threatens to remove accountability in the system just as the executive branch attempts
to take unprecedented control over the federal bureaucracy. We need a strong Congress to counter a runaway executive,
not a supine body that allows an executive to trample over its prerogatives.
There's a reason the powers
of the Congress were defined in Section I of The Constitution.
Please click here to read the full report in The Post.
7 jul 09 @ 10:38 am edt
TALK ABOUT CLINGINGCaroline Glick's latest column is another home run effort—we've come to
expect nothing less from this great lady. In it she looks at Barack The Unready's thinking on world affairs, how Prime
Minister Netanyahu is reacting to them, and the implications for Israel of both.
As you may have heard or read,
The New York Times has unearthed an article the Dali Bama wrote for a student magazine at Columbia University in which he chides that campus nuclear freeze movements for not going far enough.
The following two paragraphs
by her are dead-solid-perfect:
THERE IS NOTHING shocking about Obama's embrace
of radical politics as a college student. Particularly at Columbia, adopting such positions was the most conformist move a
student could make. What is disturbing is that these views have endured over time, although they were overtaken by events
20 years ago.
And...
The basic reality that the US is being led by
a radical ideologue who clings to his views in the face of overwhelming proof of their falsity is the most fundamental fact
that world leaders must reckon with today as they formulate policies to contend with the Obama administration. This is first
and foremost the case for Israel.
So very true. I don't envy those leaders. For the next several
years, with the world situation growing more dangerous by the hour, they cannot count on the United States Of America.
In my most recent QUO VADIS posting, I layout my opinion as to why he's like this:
...Mr. Obama is not that bright in a creative way, just skillfully, and he accepted without question the multi-cultural
and Marxist propaganda he was taught in school. We have all seen the straight A, advanced-placement student who is a straight
A, advanced-placement student because he or she is very good at memorizing all the bromides taught in class and able to regurgitate
them exactly as those teachers with second-rate minds want to hear them spoken and written.
...
He
is profoundly bright, skilled, sly, and able to absorb facts like a superior sponge, but it appears that he has never really
questioned the premises of the ideas that have been fed to him. Such men are convinced that they are above average in a unique
[key word] and outstanding way. This feeling gets repeatedly re-enforced by the teachers, mentors, friends, relatives, and
allies around them. This type of person has not been challenged nor has had his intelligence questioned in any serious way.
Therefore, faced with no challenges to justify and defend what he believes in, he comes to believe of himself as near-omniscient.
That makes this type of person very dangerous to those over whom he has power and unreliable to his friendly neighbors.
As Miss Glick puts it:
What Obama's radicalism tells us is that he is
not a man who is moved by rational discourse. He is not a man who is willing to be convinced that he is mistaken....
The American Presidency is no place for someone who believes he knows it all. The model for the occupants is
George Washington—a very humble man. I would have hoped that we had learned from the examples of the two Roosevelts,
Wilson, and Carter that such men bring about nothing but misery. We're stuck with this egotist for another three-and-a-half
years. We have to restrain him.
Please take the time to click here and read her full column.
SIDENOTE: On the subject of 'clinging'...During last year's campaign, The Anointed One said:
You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in
the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton
Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are
gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy
to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Recall the words of that great sage and raconteur, Robert Oswald Belvedere:
If
you want to know what the those on the Left are doing in a particular situation, just look and see what they're accusing the
Right of doing. You've heard of 'The Big Lie', this is 'The Big Deception'.
7 jul 09 @ 10:10 am edt
Monday, July 6, 2009
WWU-AM UPDATES
6 jul 09 @ 8:26 pm edt
IRAN XIIIMy previous twelve postings of links to reports on and analyses of the situation
may be found by clicking IRAN I, IRAN II, IRAN III, IRAN IV, IRAN V, IRAN VI, IRAN VIIa / IRAN VIIb, IRAN VIII, IRAN IX, IRAN X, IRAN XI, and IRAN XII. [And please check out this special posting here.]
1) The best continuing coverage still remains at these two sites...
-Atlas Shrugs
=Day 20 coverage here
=Day 21 coverage here
=Day 22 coverage here
=Day 23 coverage here
=Day 24 coverage here
-Gateway Pundit
2) Over at Atlas Shrugs, Pam Geller commented on the under-reported
fact that Neda was a Christian:
In the media's ongoing campaign
to institute the agenda of the Organization of the Islamic Conference and advance Islam, it has been previously withheld from
the public that Neda Soltani was a Christian.
In the oft-reproduced
picture run across world media, her cross is cropped out. What deceit.
That Neda was a Christian is ample proof that everyone in Iran who took to the streets was
marching for different reasons but certainly under the umbrella of liberty and one man one vote. How vile to imply that
millions marched for the inside politicking of Islamic cleric rule.
Her religion flies in the face of every cold
blooded pundit who has attempted to dismiss this historic movement as simply more sharia in shades of green.
On the left is the version of the picture widely reproduced in the media; on the right is the uncropped version.
[tip of the fedora to Donald Douglas]
3) Over at Pajamas Media, Michael Ledeen has the best report of the major and important events of the last number
of days [This is worth quoting from extensively.]:
The Iranian tyrant, Ali Khamenei, told
his cluster of top advisers two days ago that it was time to totally shut down the protests, and he ordered that any and all
demonstrators, regardless of their status, be arrested (although there is no longer room for new prisoners in Tehran's jails;
they are now using sports arenas as holding areas). He further ordered that all satellite dishes be taken down (good luck
with that one; there are probably millions of them in Tehran alone). He ordered that the crackdown be done at night, to avoid
all those annoying videos. By Sunday night, hundreds of new arrests had been made, including the regime's favorite targets:
students, intellectuals, and journalists.
His deadline: July
11th. He told his minions that if that were accomplished, the rest of the world would come crawling to him.
He may be right about most of the rest of the world, which has distinguished
itself by its fecklessness, but he is certainly not right about his own people, who have sabotaged a major petroleum pipeline
in Lurestan, and who are planning to go on strike in the next few days. I don't know the provenance of the people who hit
the pipeline (perhaps the fact that the political desk of the Tehran Times reported it is significant), but calls for
strikes, building towards a big demonstration on July 9th, come from Mousavi, Karroubi and Khatami.
Mousavi got a big boost over the weekend from an important group of senior clerics in the
holy city of Qom. They branded the "elections" and the new government that will shortly be sworn in, as illegitimate.
This is a serious matter, leading Stanford's Professor Abbas Milani to say "This crack in the clerical establishment,
and the fact they are siding with the people and Moussavi, in my view is the most historic crack in the 30 years of the Islamic
republic." They are also explicitly siding with Mousavi, who released a detailed critique/expose of the fraud that confirmed
Ahmadinezhad in office.
So Khamenei is under pressure, and
he is not well equipped to deal with it. He has a serious cancer, and takes opiates to mitigate the pain. People around him
are whispering that his decisions are poorly reasoned and often impulsive, and some of those close to him, including his son,
are apparently issuing orders in his name. This sort of rumor is devastating for the sort of personal rule upon which the
Islamic Republic rests. We'll see in the coming days if the Mousavi forces are able to maintain and increase the pressure,
and how Khamenei and his henchmen respond.
At the moment, there is evidence of some
panic, as Iranian leaders are exporting their wealth.
6 jul 09 @ 7:11 pm edt
STEYN OF THE WEEKENDFrom the beginning of his latest syndicated column:
President Obama was supposed to be “cool.”
But he isn’t. He’s square. Not just mildly so, but embarrassingly square. He’s squaresville squared. It’s
like you’re having a party with your friends and he’s the cringe-making middle-aged parent who wants to show he
digs where the young people are at by grooving around in the middle of the dance floor all night long.
How do I
know? I’ve been there and I’ve been square. By “there,” I mean I’ve been in places that have
tried all the cool Obama dance moves and eventually wised up to what utter clunkers they are.
A week ago, the House
of Representatives passed some gargantuan “cap-and-trade” bill designed to “save” “the environment.”
Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize–winning economist, accused those Neanderthals who voted against the bill of committing
“treason against the planet.” By that standard, most of the planet is guilty of treason against the planet. I
don’t mean just in the sense that China, already the world’s Number One CO2 emitter, and India and other rising
economic powers have absolutely no intention of doing what the Democrats have done, no way, no how — because they don’t
see why they should stay poor just because New York Times columnists think it’s good for them.
No,
I mean that most of the developed world has already gone down the paved road of good intentions and is now frantically trying
to pedal up out of it. New Zealand was one of the few western nations to sign on to Kyoto and then attempt to abide by it
— until they realized they could only do so by destroying their economy. They introduced a Dem-style cap-and-trade regime
— and last year they suspended it. In Australia, the Labor government postponed implementation of its emissions-reduction
program until 2011, and the Aussie Senate may scuttle it entirely. The Obama administration has gotten to the climate-change
hop just as the glitterball’s stopped whirling and the band’s packing up its instruments.
The Congressional
cap-and-trade shtick would be tired even if it weren’t the familiar boondoggle of tax hikes, big-government micro-regulation,
and pork-a-palooza pay-offs to preferred clients of the Democratic party. Granted that carbon credits were already a dubious
racket equivalent to the sale of “indulgences” in medieval Europe, the decision by Congressional power-brokers
to give away credits to well-connected Democratic party interests surely represents the environmental movement’s formal
Jumping of the Endangered Great White Shark.
Yea, sure, Comrade Obamnin is peddling tired, old, failed ideas.
Sure 'He is profoundly bright, skilled, sly, and able to absorb facts like a superior sponge, but it appears that he has never
really questioned the premises of the ideas that have been fed to him.' But He's still cool to the elites who are much like adults at banquet hall functions in 1973 who thought Proud
Mary as played by four balding Italian guys [one of whom played the accordion] was really rockin'.
Please take the time to click here and read his full column.
6 jul 09 @ 2:36 pm edt
THE JOHN GALT VARIATIONSOver at Red State, Skanderbeg comments on this quip from Mark
Steyn's latest column [link to be found in my next posting]:
Last week, the donut
chain Tim Horton's, which operates on both sides of the border but is incorporated in the state of Delaware, announced that
it was reorganizing itself as a Canadian corporation to take advantage of Canadian tax rates.
From his commentary:
If disconnected mandarins in Washington DC and the various state capitols think that
they can ignore these inter-jurisdictional tax competition issues because the numbers simply can’t possibly matter….
then they are basically insisting that commerce exists to support lifestyles (especially theirs). And Tim Horton’s sensible
and responsible fiduciary decision will be just the beginning….
He's absolutely right. Canada has a corporate tax rate that is fourteen percent lower than our's. Mr. Horton
would be crazy not to take advantage of the better rate and business-friendly atmosphere that Prime Minister Stephen Harper
is creating up North.
But...I wonder: is this a variation of Going Galt? Is this Going
Galt-Lite? Think about it. A businessman loves what he does and wants to keep his business going.
If he closes it down and withdraws his mind from the world, he loses one of his main enjoyments in life and he feels like
a quitter. He can't stay, but he can leave and try somewhere else where he may be more appreciated, and, therefore,
he can continue doing what he loves. Its quite understandable. I call this The Dagny Dilemma*.
We readers of Atlas Shrugged know how that turned out.
Please take the time to click here and read Skanderbeg's full posting.*From Wikipedia [emphasis mine]:
Dagny Taggart is the protagonist of the novel, and, in general, it is Dagny's perception
of the battle between John Galt and the Looters that is the readers'. She holds the title of 'Operating Vice-President in
Charge of Operations' of Taggart Transcontinental, under her brother, James Taggart. However, due to James' incompetence,
it is Dagny that is actually responsible for all the workings of the railroad.
...
Dagny personifies the typical
struggle within many entrepreneurs: when to stop trying to change the social policies that impinge on entrepreneurship. Hers
is the most unusual perspective in the book, as she has one foot in each camp. She tries to fix the social policies of the
government while still maintaining her belief in free enterprise. The ultimate lesson taught through Dagny
is that reason cannot triumph over unreason until the unreasonable give up.
6 jul 09 @ 2:22 pm edt
OBAMA: RED STATE MANThe Red Chinese apparently think so. From an editorial in Red China's
Huanqiu News [translated by Nicholas van Heyst over at Watching America]:
There is a joke that has quietly circulated its way around--In 1949
it was only socialism that could save China, in 1989 only China could save socialism and in 2009 only China can save capitalism.
Across the great ocean on the American shore, there is a view
that has an astonishing resemblance to this one. On the front cover of the mid-February edition of America's Newsweek magazine
there was a very direct heading that asserted "we are all socialists now." Is the United States a socialist country?
Without question, it is not. Are there socialist attributes to President Obama's reform? Without a question, there are.
During the campaign Obama was accused by his opponent of being
a "socialist," Castro, the Cuban leader, called him "comrade" and, more recently, the Venezuelan president
Chavez jokingly said, "Come on, Obama, align yourself with us on the way to socialism!"
With regards to GM bankruptcy protection and the restructuring of financial institutions,
Obama's reform measures, invariably, reflect socialistic characteristics. The largest shareholders of General Motors Automotive
are now the government and the workers union. This means that this company, which is a symbol of the American capitalist spirit,
has become a "state and collectively owned enterprise."
The
financial reform is very much of the same vein, as the U.S. wants to transform the Federal Reserve into what would be a "super
regulator," comprehensively strengthening regulation towards the financial institutions. It is also planning to establish
a new financial consumer safeguard endowed with authority that far supersedes that of the current regulatory system. This
way of doing things is in conformity with the Marxist doctrine of the Communist Manifesto in which Marx foretold a capitalist
financial crisis. The American Foreign Policy magazine offered a very Marxist "prescription" suggesting that the
"whole financial sector be turned into a public utility" -- perhaps one could say, "centralization of credit
in the hands of the State by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly." (Communist Manifesto).
Something that has an even more socialist flavor than nationalization
of enterprise and strengthened regulation is Obama's medical insurance reform. The intent is to give every American affordable
medical insurance by means of establishing a government supported public medical insurance program that would compete with
private insurance companies.
Obama's view on the matter was that "if the private insurance companies have
to compete with public option, it will keep them honest and help keep prices down." In other words, the United States
wants to use the strength of the government to establish an "everyone has medical insurance" society, very much
in tune with the socialist concept of "everyone has rice to eat and everyone has clothes to wear."
Of
course, the hurdles that must be overcome for Obama's medical reform are not the same. Within the union or medical insurance
private sector there is a deep-seated structure that has pushed up the basic cost. One needs to remember that it can be almost
impossible for a majority in congress to unite in order to push forward legislation that will topple this deep-seated structure.
This so called deep-seated structure is made up of the medical field, the insurance field and several government organizations
and interest groups. Thus the hurdles that must be overcome for reform to take place come from those who have a vested interest
at stake.
Since June 10th, Obama's countermeasure has been to start up a campaign style "canvassing"
movement, giving many speeches, town hall meetings, and massive interactive forums nation-wide, mobilizing 2 million grass-roots
supporters from all 50 states in order to hold propaganda activities encouraging the rise of national debate.
Getting close to the masses and having the intelligence
to make good use of the masses, is a patent move used by socialist countries, yet it is quite evident that President Obama
is also highly proficient with this tactic. It seems that it doesn't matter if a country is socialist or capitalist, only
those who think like the people, believe in the people and put the people first will be able to prosper and succeed.
Some of us are not surprised: WE WARNED YOU, AMERICA.
Tip of the fedora to Gateway Pundit.
6 jul 09 @ 11:46 am edt
HOC EST IN VOTISPundette has up the wonderful story of 1st Lt. Brian Bradshaw, 24, of Steilacoom,
Washington, who died on 25 June [the same day as Michael Jackson] in Kheyl, Afghanistan 'of wounds suffered when an improvised
explosive device detonated near his vehicle' [from the DoD press release here].
She quotes from a letter his aunt wrote to, and was published by, The Editors of The Washington
Post, and also from a story in his local newspaper.
As Pundette writes:
Our
perverse celebrity-sick culture honors with its attention the twisted and bizarre over the "thoroughly decent,"
self-sacrificing, and heroic.
Spot-on.
Please take the time to click here and read her full posting.
6 jul 09 @ 11:20 am edt
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T E R M S
Let us make precise and clear-cut the terms we should be using.
Aristotle wrote that A is A; you may also call it B, but
it always remains A. A thing is what it is and, to say it is something else, is to deny reality. There is a lot of denial
of reality going around these days.
As John Adams wrote: 'Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes,
our inclinations, the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence'.
POINT 1: There is no "War in Iraq"
or "War in Afghanistan". Like the Pacific and Europe in World War II, Iraq and Afghanistan are
just parts of a larger war. Unlike them, they are not separate from each other. Therefore,
they are part of the Middle East Theatre of Operations [METO] as the Pacific was the PTO and Europe the ETO.
POINT 2: Many on the Left and some on the Right want to "end
the War". There are only two ways to end a war: (1) by achieving Victory or (2) by being Defeated.
A pullout, before Victory is achieved, is Defeat. They want Defeat. Pullout may
be the best policy―I am not arguing that here―but, leaving without achieving our objective is Defeat.
POINT 3: We are engaged in a War Against Islam.
The term is more correct than "War against Islamo-Fascism" or "War On Terror".
Islam has been at war with all non-Muslims since the
time of its founder, Muhammad [his name be cursed]. Like the Hundred Years' War, there have been periods
of peace in this long conflict, but the Muslim has never stopped believing that he is at war with all non-Muslims.
He can't: Allah commands that all of the world be conquered in his name and he must submit, in all things, to the
will of Allah [the word Islam means "submission", sometimes rendered as "surrender"]. Any
periods of peace we in the West have enjoyed have only occurred after we have dealt them such a devastating blow that they
have not been able to wage their jihad and then have pursued polices that have kept them subjugated. This
began to fade in the latter half of the 20th Century as we forgot the dangers posed by this militant religion and
as they regrouped under new and committed leaders.
If you
doubt that Islam is at war with all non-Muslims, keep in mind this:
Islamic apologists
often point out that Islam is not a monolith and that there are differences of opinion among the different Islamic schools
of thought. That is true, but, while there are differences, there are also common elements. Just as Orthodox, Roman Catholic,
and Protestant Christians differ on many aspects of Christianity, still they accept important common elements. So it is with
Islam. One of the common elements to all Islamic schools of thought is jihad, understood as the obligation of the Ummah to
conquer and subdue the world in the name of Allah and rule it under Sharia law. The four Sunni Madhhabs (schools of fiqh [Islamic
religious jurisprudence]) -- Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Hanbali -- all agree that there is a collective obligation on
Muslims to make war on the rest of the world. Furthermore, even the schools of thought outside Sunni orthodoxy, including
Sufism and the Jafari (Shia) school, agree on the necessity of jihad. When it comes to matters of jihad, the different schools
disagree on such questions as whether infidels must first be asked to convert to Islam before hostilities may begin (Osama
bin Laden asked America to convert before Al-Qaeda’s attacks); how plunder should be distributed among victorious jihadists;
whether a long-term Fabian strategy against dar al-harb is preferable to an all-out frontal attack; etc. [Source: Gregory M. Davis, Islam 101, section
4g, found at http://www.jihadwatch.org/islam101/]
They have been at war with us for
centuries and we, therefore, have been at war with them. We are engaged in a War Against Islam whether
we want to say so or not. In an interview with a Pakistani TV network on 23 July 2008, Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid,
Al-Qaeda's No. 3 man and top commander in Afghanistan, has this to say: “Islam does not distinguish between the
American people and the American government, since both are in a state of war with Islam”. [Source: http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD200008]
POINT 4: The term "Islamo-Fascism" seems
to have been created by Leftists. Since (1) they wrongly place fascism on the Right, (2) they believe [rightly]
Muslims want to establish a theocratic regime on Earth, and (3) anything political that has any connection with religion is
bad and emanates out of rightwing thinking, the term makes sense to them. Therefore, the term is nothing
but a way to associate Islam with the right-wing. Muslims believe in a totalitarian way of governing; in
submission [that word] to an all-powerful Islamic leader or leaders.
POINT 5: As to the term "War On Terror",
it is just plain silly: how can you wage war on a thing?
POINT 6: What is fascism? It is when a government
allows private property to exist, but controls and manages the use and disposal of property in all its forms. Citizens
retain all of the burdens and responsibilities associated with property ownership, but are not allowed to control and shape
its use.
As an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. The word derives from fasces, the Roman symbol of collectivism and power: a tied
bundle of rods with a protruding ax. In its day (the 1920s and 1930s), fascism was seen as the happy medium between boom-and-bust-prone
liberal capitalism, with its alleged class conflict, wasteful competition, and profit-oriented egoism, and revolutionary Marxism, with its violent and socially divisive persecution of the bourgeoisie. Fascism substituted the particularity of nationalism
and racialism—“blood and soil”—for the internationalism of both classical liberalism and Marxism.
Where socialism sought totalitarian control of a society’s economic processes through
direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally
private owners. Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their
property in the “national interest”—that is, as the autocratic authority conceived it. (Nevertheless, a
few industries were operated by the state.) Where socialism abolished all market relations outright, fascism left the appearance
of market relations while planning all economic activities. Where socialism abolished money and prices, fascism controlled
the monetary system and set all prices and wages politically. In doing all this, fascism denatured the marketplace. Entrepreneurship was abolished. State ministries, rather than consumers, determined what was produced and under what conditions.
[Source: Sheldon Richman, The Concise Encylcopedia Of Economics,
Liberty Fund, found at http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Fascism.html]
On the political spectrum, therefore, it is located between modern liberalism
and socialism.
POINT 7: What is socialism? It is when a government
allows no private property to exist, and controls and manages the use and disposal of property in all its forms.
Citizens are not allowed to control their lives and are subject to the whims of bureaucrats and officials. If they
retain freedoms and liberties, they do so at the discretion of them. On the political spectrum, therefore, it
is the next logical stage after fascism; some would argue that it lies between fascism and communism.
POINT 8: What is pragmatism? It is a tool used by Leftists,
or those operating under the influence of Leftist logic, to achieve Utopian ends—heaven on earth through social, political,
cultural, and spiritual engineering. It is merely a tool of ideology, part of the means to an end.
POINT 9:The Big Lie - When confronted with truths that reflect
unpleasantly on them, the Leftists deflect it buy claiming over-an-over ad nauseum that these truths apply to and are products
of the Right. This practice is known as The Big Lie. It has been successfully practiced by the
Left since, at the very least, the French Revolution. Thus, we have the now-widespread belief that the Nazis and the
Black Shirts of Italy were right-wingers when the reality-the truth-is they were both people of the Left. I suspect
the violent objections from the Left to conservatives use of the term 'fascist' arise from the fact that they have spent well
over seventy years trying to convince the world of The Big Lie that it is not and never has been a Leftist
ideology.
How does one practice this distortion truth and why is it effective? In a report issued during
World War II by the OSS, the author provided an explanation for all practitioners by describing how Hitler practiced it:
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault
or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame;
concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than
a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.
By repeating
their lies over and over, the Left creates a false reality that supplements the real world. In this false reality, the
lie is the truth, the truth is the lie. A is not A. [But we know that A must always be A.]
The Left
also practices a variation of The Big Lie that I like to call The Big Deception which involves
a Big Deflection away from the reality of the situation. None of their policies or actions can survive
direct questioning, so the Leftists must turn the tables on the questioners and make it seem as though the inquisitors have
bad or evil intentions. Overtime and after constant and unrelenting hectoring, the Left's way of thinking triumphs.
They successfully infect enough people so that this diseased mode of thinking becomes chronic, deep-rooted, instinctual. If
the Devil's greatest triumph was that he convinced people he did not exist, the Left's greatest triumph has been to convince
people that the Leftist way of thinking is normal. It is not. It is a perversion of reason and a horribly mutant
form of logic. It is antithetical to human life. Nothing but decay and destruction are left [pun intended] in it's wake.
What They're Saying
About
BOB BELVEDERE &
The Camp Of The Saints... 'Sir Bob of Belvedere'
—Smitty—
'So many good things at Camp of the Saints that you need to just click and keep scrolling.'
—Paco—
'Go, read it, fine stuff over there!'
—GatorDoug—
''Belvederus Maximus'
—Smitty—
'You are contributing to a noble yet futile cause -- the butchification of metrosexuals.
TCOTS
roolz!'
—Red—
'[H]e takes retro dame blogging to a new, narrative noir level.'
—Smitty—
'Staunch Rule 5 aficionado Bob Belvedere, is shameless indeed (I have so much respect for this man)!'
—The Classic Liberal—
'Who knew he was such a fan of the undead?'
—Smitty—
'We need fighters, and I suspect Beck will fight 'til ev'ry foe is vanquished.
Bob Belvedere gets it. Phyllis Chesler gets it.
We defend truth and
liberty against lies and tyranny. Every eye is upon us and we are surrounded by enemies as numerous as the grains of sand
on the shore. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.
WOLVERINES!'
—Stacy McCain—
'Bob Belvedere, you're a nasty piece of work.'
—Anonymous—
'you charming rogue'
—Robert—
'The sad decay of Bob Belvedere into a Rule 5 junkie saddens us all.'
—Smitty—
'Belvedere went slightly crazy on us.'
—Smitty—
'And thank you, Dr. Belvedere, for setting me straight on Rule 5! I tell ya, that Belvedere Dude
is Funny!'
—Irish Cicero—
'Kevin Binversie is not nearly so shameless a blogwhore as Troglopundit . . .
but then again, nobody really is. OK, maybe Bob Belvedere, as if anyone could compete with Bob.'
—Stacy McCain—
'Lord Fatheringay von Whoopsie of the Dung Heap Hooter'
—Anon. —
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