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Saturday, September 5, 2009
RULE 5 SATURDAY [Updated below]The TCOTS RULE 5 COMPLIANCE COMMITTEE, in the spirit of
Stacy McCain's International Rule 5 BikiniFest Week, has been presenting Rule 5 ladies who 'embrace the spirit
of summer'. All good things must come to an end, however, and, with the arrival of the Labor Day Weekend, it is time
to end our Summer Of 5's. So this will be the last of the summer-themed Rule 5
postings. Therefore, The Committee has decided to honor those artistes who have helped sustain
the spirit of summer through their wonderful and inspiring works, and hereby presents...
THE PIN-UP GIRLS OF SUMMER...
Too hot to handle...
Ageless...
We're gonna lay around the shanty momma...
Hot dog! Buddy, buddy...
God shed his grace on thee...
We had a swingin' time...
See you next Summer...
As is our wont here at TCOTS, we like to choose a song to accompany the Rule 5
feature that is fitting for the subject at hand. As The Committee has chosen to end the Bikini
Fest season with gals who exude the summer theme and this is the last of the summer-themed postings, we thought it
only fitting to leave you with this classic...
The summer wind, came blowin' in
from across the sea
It lingered there to touch your hair and walk with me
All summer long we sang a song and then
we strolled that golden sand
Two sweethearts and the summer wind
Like
painted kites, those days and nights, they went flyin' by
The world was new beneath a blue umbrella sky
Then softer
than a piper man one day it called to you
I lost you, I lost you to the summer wind
The autumn wind and the winter winds, they have come and gone
And still the days, those lonely days,
they go on and on
And guess who sighs his lullabies through nights that never end
My fickle friend, the summer wind
The summer wind
Warm summer wind
Mmm, the summer wind
UPDATED 07 September
2009: Per usual, Smitty was generous with his RULE 5love over at The Other McCain, and linked to this posting, the A Little Hump Day Rule 5 one from last Wednesday, and my posting of indulgence regarding dreams I have of Pam Geller. A hearty salute to you Capt'n....Yours...Bog.
Lord Michael of Free Market, over at The Classic
Liberal, is making a habit of being kind as well. Thank ye, m'lord. This week he has the lovely Alyssa Milano assisting Robert Montgomery in presenting The Essence Of Freedom. A beautiful gal and freedom make a potent brew.
In her first Full Metal Jacket Reach Around, Red, over at Caught Him With A Corndog, links to our Summer Pin-Up babes. The TCOTS Rule
5 Compliance Committeehas voted Red a special 'Thank You' and all I can say is: Woot!
Also with a first Rule 5 is A Conservative Shemale who provides us with Spencer Grammer, Kelsey's daughter.
Chris, over
at WyBlog, gets into the spirit of Labor Day in the only way a conservative can properly celebrate it and
not compromised his values: Hard Hat Hotties. Ladies in hard hats: it's the ooonly way to fly, buster. Thanks to the Baron Of The Pines.
In the past, I've described Lance Burri as suave. I should have also used the word 'wise' as I was reminded
by this typical bit of wisdom he passed on to us recently.
Over at Eye Of Polyphemus, Jamie Jeffords offers up the intriguing Lena Headey.
Paco has THE Lena: Miss Horne singing the definitive version of Stormy Weather.
Admiral William Teach takes to walking around the deck for this week's Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup.
Snaggletoothie has the Andrews Sisters singing with Glenn Miller and his lads.
5 sep 09 @ 2:02 pm edt
Friday, September 4, 2009
CLEANING OUT THE CACHE - 04 SEP 2009 Wherein I provide
links to postings
by my fellow bloggers that are well-worth
your time.
A semi-regular feature of TCOTS.
Here's the latest and some stuff I've missed along our way to perdition...
-Over at The Pirates Cove, Admiral William Teach has been keeping track of the latest stem-cell advances.
Surprise, surprise: the use of adult stem cells are proving to be much, much more promising. Clicking here will take you to all his postings on the subject.
-The Admiral also has up a good posting on Rep. Peter King's reaction to Eric Holder's decision to prosecute the CIA interrogators.
-A couple of weeks ago, Dr. Melissa Clouthier published a rebuttal to Charles Krauthammer's chastisement of Sarah Palin for using the
term 'death panels' that could be applied to any of those on the right who've come down on Mrs. Palin for the things she's
written lately.
-The Left Coast Rebel recently published the full text of a latter from Russian immigrant Svletlana Kunin to Investor's Business Daily. She warns all of us by speaking from experience. A highlight:
When I came to America in
1980 and experienced life in this country, I thought it was fortunate that those living in the USSR did not know how unfortunate
they were.
Now in 2009, I realize
how unfortunate it is that many Americans do not understand how fortunate they are. They vote to give government more and
more power without understanding the consequences.
-Van Helsing, over at Moonbatty, has a disturbing report up on the City Of San Francisco's strategy to encourage homosexuals to adopt children by placing ads on website which also
advertises 'leather events' and the like.
-Over at Red State, Moe Lane gives us a report of what the Left thinks of those who are taking part in the 9/12 events.
-Pat Austin is already celebrating Octoberfest. Wow, Shreveport must be a real party town.
-The ever-watchful Michael Todd has uncovered two more instances
of government tyranny over at The Classic Liberal.
-Gardening expert Paco offers some expert advice on how the Administration can restore The White House garden to health:
The Obama
administration is still a young sapling, but it’s already full of bagworms, aphids and powdery mildew, so if it expects
to regain health, it’s going to need some serious maintenance – which the voters themselves will ultimately take
charge of if the president doesn’t.
-He also takes on Obama's Organizing For America shock troops.
-Insult your friends with a little class: The Shakespearean Insult Generator! [tip of the fedora to Paco]
-Stacy McCain waxes wise on Trig Palin Truthers.
-The folks at Flopping Aces posted a letter from one of their readers that thanks Fox New Channel for what it does [tip of the fedora to Doug Ross].
Amen, sister.
-iOwnTheWorld has a product that I, and I think many of you, would gladly enjoy using every day.
-Red, over at Caught Him
With A Corndog, has an interesting report on the defective Obama stamp issued by the USPS.
-You may know the old saying: 'The General's wife is the General's General', well, Daphne, over at Jaded
Haven, has a theory as to where the real power of women rests and why. I must say, I wouldn't dare disagree with her.
-Over at The Sundries Shack, Jimmie is spot-onon the wretched and disgraceful behavior of the U.S. regarding Honduras.
-And finally, we turn to Smitty: Here
he is exposing another assault on our Federalist system. And here he is on an interesting companion to the health care death panels. And here on the 'Glenn Beck is a murderer/rapist' meme.
-Finally: I consider Smitty a friend. Over these past six months, I've gotten to know Smitty and I can
tell you he has given me some damn good advice. In my posting yesterday about the Left's latest outrage [taking the American Flag off the UN Ambassador's page], in the title of the posting
I quoted from two lines from the great Black Sabbath song Children Of The Grave. In
the comments section, Smitty wrote:
You have that kind of title, and don't embed
the Sabbath video? One hopes you're not losing your mettle, sir. ;)
While I most certainly have not lost
my metal, I must admit that he is correct: I should have embedded the video. To (1) make up for my failure, (2)
to prevent this page from having potential loading problems [thanks ISP], and (3) because I am the Modern Master Of
Reality, I have created a special page to contain the video of a great live performance of the song by Sabbath.
I've also embedded the video for the Joy Division song These Days. Why? In these
dark times, we should all be listening to a lot of Black Sabbath and Joy Division—they
fit. Please click here to watch the videos.
THE GANG THAT COULDN'T GOVERN STRAIGHT, SCENE IV[Click here for Scene I, here for Scene II, and here for Scene III]
The Scene: the Oval Office, Friday afternoon September
4th...
Rahm 'The Enforcer' Emanuel enters the room...
R TE E: Hey Boss, we gotta talk.
Fearless Leader: Can't now. I'm working on my speech to the school kids. Got to get them on board with the Five
Year Plan.
R TE E: [clears throat] Ah Boss, dis can't wait, if ya know whatd I mean.
FL: That important,
huh?
R TE E: Its about Van 'The Red'.
FL: You don't mean something else has come out about him?
I mean the 'a--hole' thing was bad enough, then it turns out he didn't have his name purged from that 9/11 letter. If I
told him once, I told him a thousand times, you either have the record sealed or you wipe it away like it never existed.
R TE E: I know Boss, I know. He's not very good at dis kinda ting. Graduatin' from Yale and alla dat.
FL: Sometimes, I swear, they put something in the drinking and bong water there. I mean, look at Bill and Hil.
R TE E: Do I havta look at Hil'ry Boss?
They both laugh
FL: I hear ya my man.
All right: what is it you want to discuss about 'Serious" Jones.
They both laugh
R TE
E: Great one Boss, great one...'Serious Jones'...Hah. No, what I wanna like discuss wit you is da fact dat the media
boys is turnin' against him. Word in da secret chat room they talk in is dat dis 9/11 Truther ting is too much and dey
gotta cova it. Looks like dere gonna all do a minute or two on it tonight. Dey keep sayin' dey got to to, you
know 'preserve their integrity' and so on and so forth.
FL: Integrity! Those little weasals. Are they
forgetting that I won and that I'm the One now and they take orders from me?
R TE E: I know, I know Boss.
Seems like der startin to get ideas above their pay-grade, if ya know what I mean. Dey still tink they're still independent.
He chortles
FL: I hear you, Rahm my man. Can't we get the word out to them through
the usual channels to kill the coverage? Ignore the whole thing? What about having Luca Sharpton pay them a visit?
R TE E: Too late fer dat Boss. The Nightly News Broadcasts start within da hour. Besides, Luca Sharpton
sleeps with da knishes, remember, he's goin' aftar dat conservative Jew commentator in anothah district.
FL:
Oh yea. Well....we've gotta do something to save Van's butt. I need him. He's the best of the reds I've
got and a brotha. We're simpatico, you know.
R TE E: Boss...I know you an him are like soul brothas and alla
dat, but...well...dis ting of ours is more important den any one man—ceptin you, of course—if ya know what I'm
hintin at here.
FL: Oh no, Rahmbo. Vansy and I are soul brothas; we're like twins, two peas in a pod, you
know.
R TE E: Boss, I hate ta say it, but yer losin' sight, as it were, and so forth, of tings here: dis is da
business we chose, and sommatimes, for da good of da cause, people—even those close to us—havta be, you know,
sacrificed for da greatta good. Van 'The Red' made mistakes. Happens. Its human and all that.
But we can't let his mistake jeopardize all dat we have worked for.
FL: But, its Van The Man, Rahmbo...
R TE E: But he's becoma liability, an albatross, as it were, round our necks and we've got enough problems goin on now;
we don't need dis unwelcome distraction, as it were. Van would be a good wartime Don, but we're tryin to keep da peace.
Don Ali Barzini ain't been denouncin us lately. Don Zelaeya is countin on us. Ya see what I mean here?
FL: I see...I see. God, by that I mean me...this job sure requires a lot of unpleasant decisions.
R TE
E: Goes wit da territory, Boss. I know its hard to do dese kinda tings. Look...you'll have no part in any of it.
I'll handle it: have a quiet talkin wit him tonite...take him to a little family restaurant where everybody minds der own
business, if you know what I mean. At one point I'll go to da bathroom—better yet, I'll ask him if its okay if,
you know, I can taka pee—and den when I come out, I'll come out blastin...two in the hat. Den I'll type up a letta
from him sayin somethin like 'I let down my President and this is the only way to atone. I may have done wrong, but
the cause is right. The dream cannot die.' and so forth and so on. Den I'll get Axy to forge Vanny's signature
on it and release it to da press, who, afta da stories they'e run will start feelin kinda bad. Christ, they'll probably
have a zillion seminars on da subject after.
FL: I guess [looks down sadly for a bit, then lifts his head slowly]
All for the cause, eh Rahmbo?
R TE E: All fer da cause, Boss.
End Scene
Please take the time to click here and check out Stacy McCain's posting Van Jones thrown under Obama's
bus?
4 sep 09 @ 6:55 pm edt
DON'T PURGE AND DRIVEYou hear many calls from intellectuals of the Right to purge the 'movement' of
its fringe members [such as Birthers, both full-blown and agnostic] so that it can restore its 'legitimacy'. These folks
always cite the example of William F. Buckley and his purging of John Bircher's and Objectivists from the 'movement'*.
They also think said prestige can be restored by the Right distancing itself from the grassroots activists who go to the TEA
Parties and rise up in the town halls. To me, this latter is pure snobbery. As for the former, I think it best
to shun and ignore the fools. Stacy McCain has offered some thoughts on these matters today in two separate postings
over at AmSpecBlog and at The Other McCain. A few highlights:
Therefore, [Patrick] Ruffini's wish for a latter-day Buckley, who might purge the Birthers, is to a large degree
impractical. The most influential people and institutions in the conservative movement have nothing to do with the Birthers,
and if some others wish to consign themselves to an irrelevant conspiracy-theory cul-de-sac-- which is what Birtherism
is -- the rest of us cannot stop them. There is no need to purge anyone; they've effectively purged themselves.
Exactly. More...
Straddling the worlds of politics, commerce and intellect in
such a manner must surely be a challenging task, and Ruffini manages it admirably. Yet this biographical information
about Ruffini -- he is young, savvy, and engaged with GOP political online operations at a high level -- illustrates the distance
between him and grassroots activists like Barbara Espinosa.
Grassroots conservative activists are, by their very nature, not engaged in the
political process as a career. They tend to be older, well-established in non-political occupations and
less concerned about the Big Picture questions than in finding immediate, practical ways to oppose the menace of
liberalism. The question one hears from the grassroots is not, "Whither conservatism?" but rather, "What can
I do?" [Belvedere: Typically American reaction]
The Tea Party movement -- which will host a major rally in Washington next weekend -- has given the grassroots something to do, so that joining en masse to voice their
opposition to the Obama agenda, they are actively engaged in the political process.
However, grassroots activism
has consequences. One of the consequences of a ressurgent conservative grassroots is that their concerns, beliefs and
attitudes are sometimes not in sync with the concerns, believes and attitudes of smart young Republican activists like Patrick
Ruffini.
We cannot deny evidence that some grassroots conservatives are sympathetic to the "Birther"
meme. (To cite one bumper sticker slogan: "Kenya Called. They Want Their Marxist Back."**) And those who are pushing that meme are diverting attention from more valid critiques
of the Obama administration and its liberal policies. So they should be discouraged or ignored.
So many
of conservatives like Mr. Ruffiani 'cringe' and 'flinch' at the fringers. Stacy's advice to him and his like-minded
friends is more wordy [in a good sense], but is basically Don Corleone's advice to Johnny Fontane using more words:
By God, stand up on your hind legs and fight! Grab some liberal pet idea by the scruff of
the neck and pound the crap out of it. Destroy the prestige of liberal ideas, and attack the prestige of
liberal spokesmen, so that it is they who are compelled to cringe and flinch.
Pussyfooting around, concerning yourself
with civility and respectability -- the Marquis of Queensbury rules that liberals insist conservatives respect, while they're
rabbit-punching us and kneeing us in the groin -- is a tactical error that will inevitably lead to defeat.
This
doesn't mean that conservatives must be rude and uncouth. Rather, it means we ought not be defeatist and cowardly, displaying
the characteristic attitude of the man whose pride in good sportsmanship is closely related to his habit of losing.
A conservative who doesn't defend himself can never be a real man.
Please do take the time to click here and here, and read both postings by one of America's Top Hayekian Public Intellectuals.
*At the time WFB did it, the Objectivists, I think, need to be detached because of their cultishness and overbearing
stridency. Now with Ayn Rand gone and their mellowing, I think they would be have to be an important part
of any alliance of the Right in its battle against the Leftist assault on America.
**I think some of those who
display this particular bumpersticker see humor in it. I do.
4 sep 09 @ 4:41 pm edt
WACHT AM AMERICASpeaking of the controversy surrounding Tiberius Obamacus's plan to address the
school children of America, Dan Riehl uses it to make a larger point that is spot-on:
For decades, we've been cruising along relatively content in an economic sense,
even taking into account some real bumps in the road along the way. Now, I believe many people are genuinely worried and perhaps
hyper-sensitive to just about everything political....
Don't look for me to tell you where it's going. I'm not
sure. However, I think that both 2010 and 2012 may prove pivotal to America in a very significant way. What, if anything,
changes or transpires in American politics over the next few years will likely have serious ramifications for generations
of Americans to come.
And while I won't predict how it turns out,
I will say it's a fascinating time to be both a close observer of politics and politically involved. But then, they may be
true for far more Americans than usual right now, if my instincts are correct.
And that, more than any one thing, may be why the address is controversial
in the first place. People are watching in ways they might not have been for years. I doubt very much if they are going to
like what they see, no matter what the short-term results happen to be.
I think the hyper-sensitivity of
the American people is a good thing. Actually, it should be the permanent condition of every true American. I
think the Founders envisioned being in that state at all times as the only way to prevent the corruption of the foundation
they erected. Recall the words of Ben Franklin when asked by someone after the Constitutional Convention what kind of
government they had created: 'A republic, if you can keep it'. The only way to keep our constitutional republic is by
being eternally vigilant—by keeping our eyes and ears open to what our elected officials and government workers
are up to and never turning off our BS radars. However, the only way this can be done is through self-education.
No school system, no matter how well and proper it is run, can provide all the learning that is necessary in our type of republic,
where all of the sovereignty resides with its citizens. It is our duty to understand the ideas behind the Founding,
why the free market is the greatest system for protecting and preserving freedom, and why man can so easily fall into corruption.
I have been quite heartened by the folks who have spoken up at the townhalls and at the TEA Parties who clearly have
read the legislation of which they speak and researched the issues at hand. Using good old American common sense and
speaking plainly, they are the direct heirs of Washington, Adams, and the other Founders. We all have to maintain The
Watch and pull sentry duty on the borders of The Constitution. We've let the ship of state
drift for many years and have allowed it to be piloted by captains and officers drunk and doped-up on the dogma
of the anti-life cult of Leftism. We cannot rest; we cannot shirk our moral obligation. Nil desperandum.
4 sep 09 @ 3:18 pm edt
IT"S LIKE S**T: IT'S EVERYWHEREIn all the talk about the Executive and the Congress being out of control, we
often forget that it was the judiciary that first tacked hard to the Left [Remember the Ninth Circuit!]. Up until recently,
those of us on the Right used to spend a great deal of time getting worked up over clearly unconstitutional and/or extra-judicial
decisions being handed down by judges who seem to think they are legislators and presidents. With the whirlwind that
Comrade Obamnin and his apparatchiks have sent spiraling off since 20 January, I know how hard it has been to keep track of
all the deleterious debris flying through the air—I feel dizzy all the time these days. Therefore, its a
good thing when someone reminds us that of how widespread the tyranny of the unAmerican Left is. Over at Big
Lizards, Dafydd ab Hugh reports on a judge gone wild up in New Hampshire at the state level:
If this story in the Washington Times is at all accurate, a judge has just ruled that a little girl must
be removed from homeschooling and sent to a government school -- because the judge hoped that would cause her to lose her religious faith: A New Hampshire court ordered a home-schooled Christian
girl to attend a public school this week after a judge criticized the "rigidity" of her mother's religious views
and said the 10-year-old needed to consider other worldviews as she matures....
On Tuesday, the girl, Amanda Kurowski, started fifth grade at an elementary school in Meredith, N.H., under court
order. Amanda's "vigorous defense of her religious beliefs ... suggests strongly that she has not had the opportunity
to seriously consider any other point of view," District Court Judge Lucinda V. Sadler said.
Perhaps the Timesgot some elements wrong;
but unless reporter Julia Duin fabricated the tale out of thin cloth, which is possible but very improbable, there's no way
to spin this decision as other than appalling. None of the normal confounding factors appear to apply here; Judge Sadler herself
ruled that the child was well-adjusted, academically ahead of her grade level, and not isolated from other children...
Please do take the time to click here and read the rest of the story. And a big 'Thank You' to Big Lizards.
Eternal vigilance against all levels of government is
required of every American who loves his freedom and cherishes his liberties.
4 sep 09 @ 2:52 pm edt
Thursday, September 3, 2009
DID I HEAR THAT RIGHT?I've been following politics since at least my early teen years and I've seen
every type of politician: drunken sods, idiot masters, clueless Clydes, daffy Daves, gadflys, always-open-flys, proficient
liars, drop-of-a-hat criers, birdbrains, no-brains, boneheads, dickheads, but I have never seen such a fathead as Rep.
Baron Hill.
Please click here to check out this video that Moe Lane has posted of The Barren responding to a very good question from one
of his constituents at a town hall. Then please read Moe's point-by-point Fisking of the Representative's remarks. And then please come back here.
Moe did a great job: Bravo [so did the gal].
'In a compromising position'? Huh? Whiskey Tango
Foxtrot, we're doomed.
3 sep 09 @ 9:19 pm edt
ANOTHER SIGN?Stacy McCain is dead right when he says this 'So wrong is so many ways'. From WMAR-TV:
It's a urinal for females and it's called "Go Girl." "Go
Girl" was initially designed by a doctor a few years ago but was perfected recently by a mom in Minnesota.
She says the device allows females to go to the bathroom standing up and significantly reduces "accidents" on
your clothes.
One woman who tried "Go Girl" said, "I'm excited, I live in the woods, I like
to pee and I'm going to New York for 2 weeks. Now, I can pee in the alley with the best of 'em."
"Go
Girl's" maker says by next month, sales are expected to climb to more than 40,000. By the way, the urinals come in colors
like pink and purple.
Stacy also links to a video of it being demonstrated [don't worry, in a non-clinical
way].
After I watched the video, I knew it reminded me of something, and now I've finally figured it out: REVELATION
6:5...
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast
say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a pink horse with little frilly lace around the edges; and she that sat on him had
a device in her hand that alloweth the women to peeth standing up.
First Horse [white]: Michelle Obama
Second Horse [red]: Van Jones
Third Horse [pink]: The Go Girl Inventor
Fourth Horse [black]: ???
IT'S
THE END OF DAYS!
SIDENOTE: We're told 'the urinals come in colors like pink and purple'. Just wondering
about the color choice: pink for the heterosexual and communist women, purple for the lesbians?
3 sep 09 @ 7:25 pm edt
I AM SISTER MARY ELEPHANT
3 sep 09 @ 6:53 pm edt
THE O-POD PEOPLE AT POLITICS DAILYThe violence perpetrated by Leftist thugs at townhalls continues. It seems
a MoveOn.Org pro-government health-care protester bit off the pinky finger of an opponent of the socialization
of the American health care system. The Confederate Yankee has a report on it that links to the KTLA
report. Here's his summary [tip of the fedora to Stacy McCain]:
...a man trying to get to the MoveOn.Org rally got into an altercation with
a free market supporter, and during the confrontation, the MoveOn.Org bit the man's pinky finger off.
Lefty blogger
Karoli at Drums and Whistleswas there as part of the MoveOn.Org crowd and claimsthat the 65-year-old free market supporter/biting victim was the aggressor and instigated
the violence by intimidating one MoveOn.Org attendee before punching the guy who bit his finger off.
Law enforcement
is investigating, but it seems possible that charges may be warranted on both sides.
I has read about
the incident earlier this morning over at Politics Daily, but it the sides of the biter and bitee listed
were reversed. Confederate Yankee looked into that in another posting and found Politics Daily lied, and did it rather stupidly:
It is particularly dishonest (or grossly incompetent)
to completely reverse the actual sequence of events and identities of those involved in a story that has garnered considerable attention, but to do so after linking to those news sources and blogs that reported what actually occurred
is particularly brazen.
What gives over at Politics Daily? Did they awake this morning
as O-Pod People?
3 sep 09 @ 5:00 pm edt
I'VE GOT TO REMEMBER THAT LINE......so I can use it:
...the pussified
wee-wee-uppings of a limp-wristed man-girl..
OF DRUNKEN CHEERLEADERS AND WEE-WEEHarvey, over at IMAO, has gotten a hold of an AP report
that claims President Obama is willing to negotiate with the wildfires in California. Apparently, our Fearless Leader
doesn't believe that there is a War On Fire and that he can negotiate with 'Al Qindle' [aka Al Kindle].
As you might expect, fearless Dick Cheney is not happy:
During an recent interview
on Fox News, former Vice President Dick Cheney dismissed Obama’s call for peace as “the pussified wee-wee-uppings
of a limp-wristed man-girl” and defended the Bush administration’s use of “enhanced extinguishing techniques”,
saying that “if you pour a little water on these burning bastards, they’ll give it up faster than a drunken cheerleader
on prom night.”
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dismissed Cheney’s criticism as “the
senile ramblings of a skin-scalped goblin whose hobbies include shooting his friends in the face for fun”, and insisted
that any criticism of the President’s position indicated racial bias.
“These radical right-wing ‘fire-haters’
are disparaging areas of our country where a lot of things are now black. You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure
out why they REALLY hate that part of the country.”
I'll tell ya: that Gibbs clown really burns my
butt [frankly, I think he's a real flamer IYKWIM].
Please take the time to click here and read the full report.
A GREAT MYSTERYSpeaking of good and evil in the world, Paco directs us to a very insightful posting by Robert Avrech, over at Seraphic Secret, that looks at both then, in
WWII, and now. During the course of his ruminations, he tells a wonderful story:
As we drove through the streets—I take the scenic route, bypassing the freeway—our friend told us a compelling
story.
A story about goodness.
During the war, her father-in-law was imprisoned in a labor camp. Food
was scarce. Giving food and shelter to a Jew was a crime whose penalty was torture and execution. Informers were everywhere
for the typical Polish peasant imbibed Jew-hatred in his mother's milk.
“There was a Polish woman,”
said our friend, ”who used to sneak up to the wall and press food through a small crack in the bricks. In this way,
feeding my father-in-law. She did this for years. Kept him alive. After the war, my father and mother-in-law returned to Poland.
They only knew her first name, but sure enough they found her.”
“I guess they thanked her, helped her
out financially?”
“They brought her back to America to live with them.”
“For
how long?”
“Forty years.”
I almost lost control of the car.
Karen said:
”She lived with your in-laws her entire life?”
“Yes, until she died.”
Karen
said: “Did you ever ask her why she did what she did?”
“I couldn't. She only spoke Polish.”
“She never acculturated?” Karen asks.
“No, not at all. Thank G-d she was recognized by
Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations.”
“Was she a religious Catholic?” The screenwriter in me looking
for, you know, motivation.
“No, not really. I don't think she went to Church very often.”
Later, as Karen and I discussed the righteous Polish woman, I offered this:
“I'll
bet if you asked her why she brought food into the forest she would probably shrug and mumble something about it being the
right thing to do. No big deal.”
But it is a big deal.
In a world where murder, rape,
torture, corruption and genocide are the norm, goodness remains the greatest mystery of all.
Quite.
Please do take the time to click here and read the full posting.
I maintain that it is much harder to do good than it is to do evil. The world is full of potentials that
are neutral by nature. And they can be put in the service of either good or evil. The
Free Will we have been granted by God is the test of our souls and we must be ever guarding against the easiness of laziness.
3 sep 09 @ 10:21 am edt
A SMALL FLICKER OF FLAMEMost people in America forget that 01 September is the anniversary of the
start of World War II. This past Tuesday marked the seventieth anniversary of the day the Nazis and
the Soviets plunged the world into nearly five years of massive death and destruction and burnt offerings. While
thinking of all of the horror brought on by this, it is good to do as Ghettoputer has done over at The Gormogons:
Against this backdrop, 'Puter thought it important to note that even in the evil darkness
of Nazi occupied Poland, the bright light of truth and goodness could not be fully extinguished. 'Puter offers up the example
of Father Maximilian Kolbe, a Roman Catholic priest and saint....
Please do take the time to click here to read about this extraordinary man who has been rightiously been judged a Saint.
3 sep 09 @ 10:06 am edt
REVOLUTION IN THEIR MINDS, THE CHILDREN START TO MARCHKathryn Jean Lopez noticed something very interesting when she went and visited
the website for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations: the American Flag and the color red were missing, replaced by several
hues of blue [including, perhaps UN blue]. She has posted screenshots that tell an interesting story. From her text:
Fine, the U.N. logo is there. But where is the United States flag? And where
did the red, white, and blue that used to introduce the site go?
If you compare the new U.S. Mission site to the
Mission sites of other permanent member nations, you’ll see that America takes a backseat to not just the United Nations,
but nationalism as compared to:
She then displays the site for France, Russia, Britain, and Red China, all
of which incorporate their nation colors and/or symbols in their formatting.
She continues:
...that overbearing U.N. logo is new. A waving U.S. flag used to be in its place.
You also won’t find archived statements from past U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations. It’s all Susan
Rice, all the time. That means the U.S. Mission site is currently no longer hosting historic documents concerning our ongoing
operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In Barack Obama’s America, we don’t just apologize for the past,
we erase it?
Ah, Miss Lopez, your betrays the fact that you do not understand yet a few key
things:
1) While many have claimed that Saul Alinsky's 13 Rules are the 'bible' of the Leftists, they are, in fact, merely one of the gospels in the Leftist Bible.
2) Another
gospel is George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Fourwhich sayeth:
He
who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
And Comrade Obamnin
and his Bolshevik minions are in control.
There are parts of this gospel, however, that the Leftists don't
want you to know about, such as the following:
If the Party could thrust
its hand into the past and say this or that even, it never happened-that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and
death.
We are experiencing a REVOLUTION, an overthrow of The Constitution and of the government it
made. It is about time we opened our eyes fully and realize what these people are doing.
They seek nothing less than the destruction of the United States Of America.
More from Memeorandum here.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
A LITTLE HUMP DAY RULE 5The TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee having voted unanimously to make
all Rule 5 postings for the rest of the summer be in the spirit of the just-concluded International Rule 5 BikiniFest Week hereby presents...
HONOR BLACKMAN...
2 sep 09 @ 9:16 pm edt
FULL OF GRACEThe arrogance of the Left knows no bounds. For a group of people who profess
to have such love for the 'common man person', they rarely seem to care how their actions effect real people.
The recent funeral procession of Ted Kennedy's body through the streets of Boston was a good example, as I wrote in a Dispatch from last Friday:
From the reports I read, the procession entered the City during rush hour yesterday
and caused widespread traffic jams and a bit of chaos. Many drivers were stuck in traffic for an hour or so longer than
normal. A last and fitting gift from the man who so cared for the working people.
Just a few days
later we have another example in Oprah. As the Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Oprah plans to tape her season premiere next Tuesday — featuring a special guest performance by the Black Eyed
Peas — at the intersection of Michigan and Ohio.
It will require the city to close Michigan Avenue between
Wacker and Ohio at 12:01 a.m. Sept. 7 and keep it closed until 5 a.m. Sept. 9th. CTA buses, taxicabs and other traffic will
be re-routed.
Although Oprah’s Harpo Studios will reimburse taxpayers for the cost of police, traffic, sanitation
and related city services, the inconvenience to motorists cannot be calculated.
Understatement Alert:
It would seem that Goddess Oprah doesn't give a damn about the people she claims to not have forgotten and to speak for.
It would also seem that Lefty Mayor Richard Daley doesn't care as well—either that or he's delusional and should
be committed:
“This is a great thing we’re doing. I wish we could do
this every day in Chicago. How many people it will employ. How much publicity we’ll receive throughout the world. It
is unbelievable. You can’t even give us that exposure globally,” Daley said.
Pundette nails
it when she comments:
I don't know how many people this three-day disruption will employ
but it can't result in long-term employment for anyone. And it will be a major headache for anyone with business in the city
on those days. But . . . it's Oprah!
If Obama is The Messiah, I guess Oprah is Mary.
Please do take the time to click here and read the full posting over at Pundit & Pundette.
2 sep 09 @ 9:08 pm edt
WHAT GIVES BOB? I know you're saying: 'Bob why so few postings in the past two days?'
I'm working on a special project that I hope
to have ready to go for tomorrow evening. I think you'll like it. So please forgive the lack of Dispatches.
THE RIGHT ANGLEOver at The Sundries Shack, Jimmie Bise does some top-line
objective reporting from last night's townhall meeting hosted by Rep. Steny Hoyer. He was unable to get it and so, instead,
writes about what was going on outside of the hall. After seeing video of and reading reports from so many of these
type of gatherings, it was a relief see a report that gives you a flavor of what's going on around the core event. He's
posted some good pictures too. A highlight:
I didn’t see any signs
of AstroTurfing, though there were perhaps a score of people wearing union shirts (though none of the SEIU “purple shirts”
that I could see). Given that the meeting was called on fairly short notice, the school system and local unions would have
a decided advantage in organizing support over any local grassroots opposition. I would say that the reason there were so
many pro-Obamacare people at the front of the line is because they both knew to get there very early and that they got out
of work earlier than most of us (also a reason to believe that many of them worked for the educational system). Rest assured,
though, I did look for any signs of AstroTurf but found only nicely-trimmed green grass.
Good stuff.
Please do take the time to click here and read and look at the full report.
SIDENOTE: Stacy McCain praises Jimmie for following the old, proven advice: 'When you go to cover something,
cover the story that's in front of you' and then waxes nostalgic for Hunter S. Thompson. He ends by saying:
Next week, Jimmie and I will be attending a swanky reception for the author of the
Best. Book. Evah! I've told Jimmie to rent a red convertible. The Wild Turkey and blotter acid are strictly
optional, Jimmie.
I'd be willing to rent the Caddy, supply the Turkey and the...er...stuff, just to
be granted the filming rights to that adventure.
CZAR, CZAR, EVERYWHERE A CZARThe Ol' Broad has up a great listing [here] of all of the Czars our Czar Di Tutti Czar has appointed so far. Her count is at forty-four—subject
to increase at any moment.
I have nothing to say except to quote from some dead white guys:
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and
sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
2 sep 09 @ 11:44 am edt
DREAMS OF MY LIBIDOOh...if only...
Psst: Don't tell Mrs. B.
2 sep 09 @ 11:27 am edt
WICKED [Updated below]Last night, the President Of The United States, Barack Hussein Obama, celebrated
the breaking of the Ramadan fast at The White House. Both The Los Angeles Times and Pam Geller, over at Atlas Shrugs, have published the guest list.
One of the attendees was Dr. Ingrid Mattson,
President, Islamic Society of North America. As Robert Spencer reminds us [tip of the fedora to Pam]:
Federal prosecutors last summer rejected claims that ISNA was unfairly named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation
Hamas terror funding case.
ISNA has admitted ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. The Muslim Brotherhood is waging, in its own
words, "a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’
its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made
victorious over all other religions.”
It will be interesting to see what gets uncovered about some
of the other guests [including Maen Areikat, Chief of Mission, Palestine Liberation Organization].
UPDATE
@1326: The Powler, over at TAS, has the info on dinner guest Jameel Jaffer.
In his remarks, the Dali Bama said:
Indeed, the contribution of Muslims to the United States are too
long to catalog because Muslims are so interwoven into the fabric of our communities and our country. American Muslims
are successful in business and entertainment; in the arts and athletics; in science and in medicine. Above all, they are successful
parents, good neighbors and active citizens.
So on this occasion, we celebrate the Holy Month of Ramadan, and we
also celebrate how much Muslims have enriched America and its culture -- in ways both large and small....
I am reminded of the scene in Airplane when a passenger asks for some light reading and is offered a pamphlet
of one page entitled Famous Jewish Sports Legends.
Further on He said:
I love this quote. A few years ago, [Muhammad Ali] explained this view -- and this is part of why he's
The Greatest -- saying, "Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams -- they all have different names, but they all contain water.
Just as religions do -- they all contain truths."
They all contain truths. Among those truths are the pursuit
of peace and the dignity of all human beings. That must always form the basis upon which we find common ground. And
that is why I am so pleased that we are joined tonight not only by so many outstanding Muslim Americans and representatives
of the diplomatic corps, but people of many faiths -- Christians, Jews and Hindus -- along with so many prominent Muslims.
Together, we have a responsibility to foster engagement grounded in mutual interest and mutual respect. And
that's one of my fundamental commitments as president, both at home and abroad. That is central to the new beginning that
I've sought between the United States and Muslims around the world. And that is a commitment that we can renew once again
during this holy season.
So tonight, we celebrate a great religion and its commitment to justice and progress.
We honor the contributions of America's Muslims, and the positive example that so many of them set through their own lives.
And we rededicate ourselves to the work of building a better and more hopeful world.
So thanks to all of you for
taking the time to be here this evening. I wish you all a very blessed Ramadan....
Over at Jihad Watch, Robert Spencer provides this quote from a report by INN's Nissan Ratzlav-Katz [emphasis Mr. Spencer's]:
(IsraelNN.com) A highly influential Shi'a religious leader, with whom Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regularly consults, apparently told followers last month that coercion by means of rape, torture and drugs
is acceptable against all opponents of the Islamic regime. [...]
"Can an interrogator rape the prisoner in
order to obtain a confession?" was the follow-up question posed to the Islamic cleric.
Mesbah-Yazdi answered:
"The necessary precaution is for the interrogator to perform a ritual washing first and say prayers while raping the
prisoner. If the prisoner is female, it is permissible to rape through the vagina or anus. It is better not to have a witness
present. If it is a male prisoner, then it's acceptable for someone else to watch while the rape is committed."...
A related issue, in the eyes of the questioners, was the rape of virgin female prisoners. In this instance, Mesbah-Yazdi
went beyond the permissibility issue and described the Allah-sanctioned rewards accorded the rapist-in-the-name-of-Islam:
"If the judgment for the [female] prisoner is execution, then rape before execution brings the interrogator
a spiritual reward equivalent to making the mandated Haj pilgrimage [to Mecca], but if there is no execution decreed, then
the reward would be equivalent to making a pilgrimage to [the Shi'ite holy city of] Karbala."
About the only thing I can say is: either (1) the President is an ignorant fool when it comes to understanding Islam
or (2) he feels the need to blatantly lie about the true nature of Islam for whatever wicked motive he has.
Communists
and Jihadists working and/or dining in The White House.
Many thanks to the fifty-two percent of you who elected
this openly subversive miscreant despite our warnings.
Further information is available on both subjects at
Memeorandum: the dinner here and Mesbah-Yazdi here.
2 sep 09 @ 11:23 am edt
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY......is awarded to Instapundit for this wise attitude we should all adopt:
IS “TEABAGGER” THE NEW “N-WORD?”
No, but when I hear someone use it, I know that nothing they say on the subject is worth taking seriously. Either they’re
deliberately using it as a sexual slur, or they’re too ignorant to be worth listening to.
Hear, hear.
The Left uses the word in lieu of having the ability to provide coherent counter arguments to the ones being quite articulately
put forward by the TEA Party Protesters. It is an old tactic in the Leftist playbook, meant to shut down an intelligent conversation.
Lenin had his small group of minions use it very effectively in the Duma under Kerensky's rule.
SIDENOTE: In case you are unsure of what the slang term means, please click here for the definition; it's too vulgar to post here.
1 sep 09 @ 4:56 pm edt
IT'S SO OBVIOUSIt seems to be an eternal truth that every political and cultural ideology
at some point becomes a parody of itself and descends into silliness. The feminist movement began to do this, oh, about
two decades or so ago when the first graduates of womyn's studies began entering the real world. It has gotten to the
point where many young women, while relishing the rights and freedoms obtained by the early women's rights advocates, refuse
to be labeled 'feminist' anymore. One of their main reasons is because of absurdities like Cassy Fiano relates:
Because feminists don’t have much to legitimately complain about, they have
to resort to making up sexism. They can go so far as to even find it in different styles of jeans. (No, I’m not kidding.) Okay,
forget the creepy “modelquins” commercials for a second. Old Navy has managed to once again be condescending to
its customers. They have added a new style to their ridiculously named women’s jeans that neatly packages their women
customers into brightly colored, cotton, female stereotypes. Previously, you
could be slutty (the Flirt ), a doormat (the Sweetheart ), or a bitch (the Diva ). Now you can be The Dreamer.
In
other words, you’re fat and you better push those curves into the appropriate shape.
Cause if you don’t,
you’ll only get to daydream about a boyfriend to steal jeans from when you would rather not be a slutty, doormat, bitch.
These are cuts of jeans that this feminist is complaining about. Here is how Old Navy actually
describes them.
The Dreamer: classic-rise jeans that sit at your waist, are straight through the hip and thigh.
Have a front panel that slims the tummy and a no-gap band for full coverage in the back.
The Flirt: mid-rise jeans
that sit right below the waist, are straight through the hip and thigh.
The Sweetheart: classic-rise jeans that
sit at your waist, are relaxed through the hip and thigh.
The Diva: low-rise jeans that sit on your hips, are slim
through the hip and thigh.
The Weekend: low-rise jeans that sit low on your waist, and have a relaxed boyfriend
fit.
Yes, I can clearly see how these five styles translate to fat, slut, doormat, and bitch. It’s SO obvious.
That girl isn’t reading too much into it at all!
Please take the time to click here and read her full posting and do take the time to check out her site—there be some good stuff there.
1 sep 09 @ 2:38 pm edt
FISKING THE NIGHT AWAYIf you're like me and you love a good Fisking, have I got a treat for you....
Two, Count 'Em Two Fiskings!
1) Smitty on John Batchelor, another SquishyCon with a turned-up nose and smooth hands:
Mr. Batchelor: "GOP is Confederacy-lite"
Get bent, John. I was just
out on the Oregon coast at a family reunion. The people, while insufficiently loquacious and, no doubt, lacking the educational
credentials from the 'proper' schools to show up on your radar, are pissed. And I don't mean that in a jolly, drunken British
English sense. No, I mean a traditional, smelling a scam when confronted thereby, tired of having their good nature impinged
pissed.
2) Doug Ross administers a sound Fisking to Conor 'The Runt' Friedersdorf after Dorf
took on The Great One, Mark Levin:
Well, Dorf, had Obama told the truth,
we'd be hearing weekly radio addresses from President John McCain and watching his Secretary of State, Lindsay 'Goober' Graham,
deplane in Geneva.
Amazing: Dorf can't see the Statists while Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Waters, Feinstein, Rangel
and the like -- the most corrupt federal government since the Clinton era -- nationalize industry after industry.
As a veteran Dorf-Fisker, Stacy McCain offers Mr. Ross some advice:
...When smacking a punk, it is important
to be as high-handed as possible, to expose him to ridicule, for unless he can be made to realize what a laughingstock
he's making of himself, there will be no hope for his redemption.
Therefore, do not engage his argument,
dismiss it.
This is efficient, since you neither waste your time, nor that of the casual reader -- who
needs merely know that the punk is not to be taken seriously. Skim the punk's article, locate your target and attack....
Jimmie Bise gives it a go:
Conor Freidersdorf is one
of the innumerable and pestilential self-important twenty-somethings with degrees from impressive universities who have found
gainful employment as pundits at places like the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Atlantic.
Unlike writers like Matthew Yglesias, Ezra Klein, and Ross Douthat, Freidersdorf is not what I would call a big-leaguer, lacking
even the occasional flash of A-game that you get on more or less a regular basis from others. God bless him, though, he keeps
taking his hacks whenever he gets a turn at the plate.
Now, a wise
young man in such a position would sharpen his skills against lesser competition, slowly honing his debating skills and his
intellect until he was ready to bandy words with some of the true intellectual heavyweights. But Freidersdorf is not a wise
young man and his notable lack of wisdom is what keeps bringing him into my area of interest. See, Our Young Conor fancies
himself an intellectual and he has chosen to try to make his Rebellious Republican bones against one of the smartest, most
professionally-accomplished men in the right-wing firmament, Mark Levin. Each time he has tried to give Levin a rhetorical
drubbing — and it really is cute to watch him hitch up his big boy pants and toddle over to Levin with his crayon-scrawled
argument in hand — Levin has flicked him aside with nary a care. It’s obvious that he’s well out of his
league, that his big boy pants just aren’t big enough to make him a grown-up in the realm of conservative writers, but
that hasn’t stopped him from acting as if he is. In fact, Our Young Conor seems to suffer from some deep masochistic
tendencies that compel him to write blog post after blog post that fairly scream, “Thank you, Sir. May I have another?”
Man, I love the smell of Fisking in the morning....smells like...well
Fisking.
Was it good for you?
ACT NOW! Click on the links above and we'll throw
in Stacy McCain's latest rants on David Pant Crease Brooks and George F'ing Will!
You'll thrill to
the Master Of Fisking!...
Watch as he thrashes the Lady Brooks:
Brooks speaks for the testosterone-deficient,
the effete, those who are by habit critics because they lack the capacity to actually do anything. To borrow
Patton's description of such creatures, they know even less about fighting than they know about fornication, which is nothing
at all.
Watch as he puts a line drive straight between Georgie's eyes:
... Airdrop him on Jalalabad. But did the geniuses who run the conservative movement
listen to me? No.
So
now we have Will joining the cut-and-run brigade, urging us to abandon the one war that even Nancy Pelosi agrees was worth
fighting. And everybody's suddenly shocked -- shocked! -- to discover Will's intellectual uselessness.
Act
Now! Our server operators are waiting. [not valid in New Jersey]
1 sep 09 @ 2:25 pm edt
YOU...LIGHT UP MY LIFE...From The Tall Cool Anointed One's remarks at Ted Kennedy's funeral [tip of the fedora to Pundette]:
We do not weep for him today because of the prestige attached to his name or
his office. We weep because we loved this kind and tender hero who persevered through pain and tragedy -- not for the
sake of ambition or vanity; not for wealth or power; but only for the people and the country that he loved.
...
We carry on.
O...kay............Bwhahahahahahahahaha! Ah-hahahaha!!
Everybody
sing!...
You light up my life
You give me hope
To carry on
You light up my days
And fill my nights with song
It can't be wrong
When it feels so right
'Cause You
You light up my life
'It can't be wrong / When it feels so right'....you think that was one of Teddy's lines with the ladies [ah, the ones
that lived]?
R.I.A. Requiescat in abyssum.
1 sep 09 @ 1:43 pm edt
Monday, August 31, 2009
LEFT-AIDThe Obamification of America continues—no area of life is safe: now Ecstasy
pills shaped like our Fearless Leader's head are being manufactured and sold, as are heroin packets with his name on them.
As Van Helsing writes over at Moonbatty:
Comrade Obama bragged about his college drug use in Dreams From My Father, and very possibly dealt heroin during his mysterious Columbia days. Here we see how Dear Leader has inspired our youth.
It's a Brave New O-World!
Please take the time to click here and get the details and see the pictures.
31 aug 09 @ 8:02 pm edt
THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY......is awarded to Clifton B., over at Another Black Conservative,
for this comment on the plan of the Congress to give Tiberius Obamacus the power to seize control of the Internet
[s. 773]:
Are you kidding me? This administration is the worst opportunistic infection
this nation has ever known. Every little "crisis" perceived or real is just another opportunity to give government
more control and steal away our freedoms. What I find unbelievable is that this administration has yet to prove itself competent
enough or trustworthy enough with the control it has seized thus far.
Please do take the time to click here and read the full posting which also contains a link to the Senate bill.
31 aug 09 @ 7:52 pm edt
I'VE GOT A LITTLE LISTThree cheers to Red, over at Caught Him With A Corndog, who has
done the grunt work and started to compile a list of all of the awful things Barack The Unready has done since taking Office.
Please do take the time to click here and read the full list. She's soliciting [not in a David Brooks kind of way] input from her readers on anything she's missed.
31 aug 09 @ 7:44 pm edt
AND ANOTHER THING.......about that TNR piece on David Jann Brooks...
Many
is the time in these Dispatches that I have called Mr. Brooks a SquishyCon. What I have not written
is that I've had the sneaking suspicion that he is no longer a conservative. It was just a gut feeling, an intuition
if you will, so without some concrete proof, I decided to keep the feeling to myself. Now, however, in the TNR article cited, we are given our first bit of evidence:
Brooksconcedes that his place
on the political spectrum has shifted somewhat over the years. “I used to think conservatives were right about the big
things--the Soviet Union, economic growth,” he explains. “Now, on a lot of issues, I think liberals have been
right about some big things, like rising inequality. Both sides of the education divide are within the Democratic Party. . . .
The Republicans are sitting this one out. And, then, the war in Iraq has caused me to rethink things in a much more modest
[way], and that is Burkean, too.”
Slowly he turns
Step-by-step
Inch-by-inch....
And now for the final paragraph of the article:
As much as any columnist, Brooks
speaks to these left-of-center suburbanites. After all, he is known for attracting liberal readers who normally can't stand
conservative pundits. "I get a lot of people who say, ‘I'm a liberal and you're the only one I read,' "
Brooks says. "Sometimes, it can be a little condescending. . . . But you take the readers where you can get
them. I do wish more people walked up to me and said, ‘I'm a conservative and I love you.' But, mostly, they don't read
the Times."
I'm speechless...
[Fade in music]
This
morning, I woke up with this feeling
I didn't know how to deal with
And so I just decided to myself
I'd hide
it to myself
And never talk about it
And didn't I go and shout it
When you walked into my room.
"I
think I love you!" (I think I love you)
I think I love you
So what am I so afraid of?
I'm afraid that I'm not sure of
A love there is no cure for
I think I love you
Isn't that what life is made of?
Though it worries me to say
I've never felt this way
31 aug 09 @ 7:36 pm edt
BRAIN BLEACH STAT!Stacy McCain treated his readers this morning to a near-perfect icky moment when
he published this quote by David Chauncey Gardiner Brooks, as reported by Gabriel Sherman over at TNR:
That first encounter is still vivid in Brooks's mind. "I remember distinctly
an image of--we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant," Brooks
says, "and I'm thinking, a) he's going to be president and b) he'll be a very good president." In the fall of 2006,
two days after Obama's The Audacity of Hope hit bookstores, Brooks published a glowing Times column. The headline was "Run,
Barack, Run."
As Stacy wrote:
...Commenters should feel free to describe in their own words exactly what's wrong
with the Perfect Pants-Crease Theory of statesmanship. I'll try to come back and take a stab at it myself later. Right now,
though, I feel the need to take a shower . . . Ick. Shudder.
You know that shiver you get that runs through your body when something so disturbs your nervous system that you jerk involuntarily
as if your brain was trying to electrocute an invading evil that had invaded your frame? Well, that's what I felt reading
that quote. Pass the bleach!
Does Mrs. Brooks know about his man crushes? Is this a mid-life crisis
that is not going to manifest itself in the buying of a Corvette and the romancing of a girl the same age as his daughter,
but, rather, is going to manifest itself in pulling a Jann Wenner? Well they say the newspaper business is a rough trade.
31 aug 09 @ 7:15 pm edt
STEYN OF THE WEEKEND: EMK EditionAs promised in my immediately previous posting, here's two Steynian takes on the
death of Teddy Kennedy...
1) From his most recent appearence on the Hugh Hewitt Show:
HEWITT: ...What is Ted Kennedy’s place in history?
STEYN: Well,
you know, I generally subscribe to the idea that one should not speak ill of the dead. But I think when you witness an entire
culture, media culture, certainly, recoiling from speaking the truth about the dead, then I think a corrective is needed.
I think he is certainly, in terms of policy, the most consequential Kennedy, because he was well to the left of both of his
brothers, Bobby and President Kennedy, and he managed to inflict a lot of what he believed onto the nation at large. But leaving
aside for the moment Chappaquiddick, which I think is, would be a stain on any man’s record, and the way he dealt with
it, in a way, is an even greater stain, putting that to one side, I think I would credit him, by and large, with the politics
of the modern era. And when I listen to Orrin Hatch talking about his terrific geniality and bipartisan spirit and all the
rest of it, I think back to what he said about Judge Bork at those confirmation hearings twenty years ago, and I think actually
a lot of the poison in our politics dates from that. I mean, it was an absurd caricature of Judge Bork’s views, it was
utterly false in many respects, the idea that Robert Bork is in favor of segregated lunch counters and all the rest of it,
I think it was a disgusting act from a disgusting man. But it helps you understand that a man who could behave as he did at
Chappaquiddick would think nothing of doing what he did to Judge Bork in 1987.
2) From his most recent syndicated column:
You can’t make an omelette without breaking chicks, right? I don’t
know how many lives the senator changed — he certainly changed Mary Jo’s — but you’re struck less
by the precise arithmetic than by the basic equation: How many changed lives justify leaving a human being struggling for
breath for up to five hours pressed up against the window in a small, shrinking air pocket in Teddy’s Oldsmobile? If
the senator had managed to change the lives of even more Americans, would it have been okay to leave a couple more broads
down there? Hey, why not? At the Huffington Post, Melissa Lafsky mused on what Mary Jo “would have thought
about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history . . . Who knows —
maybe she’d feel it was worth it.” What true-believing liberal lass wouldn’t be honored to be dispatched
by that death panel?
We are all flawed, and most of us are weak, and in hellish moments, at a split-second’s
notice, confronting the choice that will define us ever after, many of us will fail the test. Perhaps Mary Jo could have been
saved; perhaps she would have died anyway. What is true is that Edward Kennedy made her death a certainty. When a man (if
you’ll forgive the expression) confronts the truth of what he has done, what does honor require? Six years before Chappaquiddick,
in the wake of Britain’s comparatively very minor “Profumo scandal,” the eponymous John Profumo, Her Majesty’s
Secretary of State for War, resigned from the House of Commons and the Queen’s Privy Council, and disappeared amid the
tenements of the East End to do good works washing dishes and helping with children’s playgroups, in anonymity, for
the last 40 years of his life. With the exception of one newspaper article to mark the centenary of his charitable mission,
he never uttered another word in public again.
Ted Kennedy went a different route. He got kitted out with a neck
brace and went on TV and announced the invention of the “Kennedy curse,” a concept that yoked him to his murdered
brothers as a fellow victim — and not, as Mary Jo perhaps realized in those final hours, the perpetrator. He dared us
to call his bluff, and, when we didn’t, he made all of us complicit in what he’d done. We are all prey to human
frailty, but few of us get to inflict ours on an entire nation.
31 aug 09 @ 6:50 pm edt
EDWARD MOORE KENNEDY, Part V [UPDATED @ 1623]Since my last EMK posting on Friday, I've been soaring through the ether
reading reactions to the death of Ted Kennedy and to the hagiographic hysteria that has been said and written about The Man
From Dike Bridge, and I thought I'd pass along more of some of the best that I've read. If the good Lord is kind,
this will be the last time I compile a post about the man who today is dining with the Devil he served so well.
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read my four previous postings, please click here, here, here, and here.
1) As always, we start with Stacy McCain, who has put together the
mother of all Teddy postings, the posting di tutti posting, over at the Greenroom. Among the delights within it, he lays waste to the hagiographers
and lets his alter-blogo Shecky McCain perform. A highlight:
At some point, a decent respect for truth requires that we stop pretending chicken manure
is chicken salad. If honest and intelligent people cannot summon the courage to call a lie a lie, who is really to blame when
lesser minds are deceived by the dishonest?
What power on earth can
prevent a courageous people from repudiating a scoundrel? How can those who know the truth be respectfully silent while craven idiots like Chris Matthews and equally craven politicians like Nancy Pelosi sing the praises of this vile creature, as if
there were anything about Edward M. Kennedy that respectable parents should want their own children to emulate?
He's also compiled a quoted-filled memorial that spans the great scoundrel's career here.
2) Smitty does a bit of spot-on thrashing about over at The Other McCain.
3) For Mark Steyn's thoughts: see my next posting STEYN OF
THE WEEKEND.
4) Over at Politics Daily, Carl Cannon wrote what I think is a very non-vitriolic
essay that is, perhaps, a little over-fair to the Left, but nevertheless is well done. A highlight [tip of the fedora to Mark Hemingway]:
[after
quoting from EMK's attack against Robert Bork] It is an article of faith among conservatives that if a Republican senator
had launched an attack this personal and vitriolic – not to mention wildly exaggerated – against a nominee named
by a Democratic president that liberals would have gone ape and that the ladies and gentlemen of the Fourth Estate would have
made the intemperate conduct of the Republican senator the main issue. The point is that Ted Kennedy surely earned the accolades
he is receiving today. He also earned the disapproval he is receiving among Americans who saw him only from a distance, who
judged him by his words and deeds, and found him wanting.
Thou are weighed in the balance and found very,
very wanting.
5) So many of the obsequious have been going on and on about how Kennedy redeemed himself with 'good'
works and how thoughtful he was to individuals. Over at Cold Fury, I like Mike's fury on this matter:
...And they say Hitler loved dogs,
too. Not that they’re at all equivalent, of course; Hitler murdered millions, while Kennedy was content to limit himself
to just one.
Fury is a dish best served cold—thank you for that one Admiral Perry.
6) Over
at The London Daily Telegraph, Annie Applebaum touches on something that has not been mentioned to often in the past week [tip of the fedora to Theo
Sparks]:
I met Senator Edward
Kennedy only once, admittedly towards the end of his long career, when he came to speak to a group of journalists about some
piece of legislation he wanted to pass. I don't remember what he said, or even which law was at stake – something to
do with health care, maybe, or immigration. I do remember that he was utterly incoherent. Afterwards, I pointed this out to
one of my colleagues, a more seasoned Washington reporter. He patiently explained to me that Ted Kennedy was always utterly
incoherent. If you wanted to know what he was doing, you had to ask his aides, who were invariably the most articulate people
to be found in the Senate.
This
was true: if you wanted to know anything about anything in Congress, Kennedy's aides were always excellent. They knew about
welfare reform, they knew about health insurance, they knew about education. He attracted talented and idealistic people –
just as his brothers had done, once upon a time, except that his brothers were talented and idealistic, too. Kennedy might
have been the latter, but he wasn't necessarily the former. That was the tragedy of his life – and also helps explain
the hedging tone of even the most hagiographic of the past few days' obituaries.
Living up here in New England, I cannot tell you how many people from Massachusetts have told
me stories of how 'Ted Kennedy helped' them. They had some problem, usually obtaining something from some level of government,
and were getting nowhere fast when they would be told to call the Senator's Office with the assurance that the problem would
be solved. And it always was. The constituent services operation his people ran was a smooth running and highly
efficient one. They always got back to you and they always came through. Old man Joe and his crew put this system
into motion back when JFK first got elected, and RFK and EMK were smart enough to maintain it. The payback on taking
the time to do all of these little favors was five-fold and one of the main reasons he kept getting re-elected.
7)
Over at Forbes, Peter Robinson writes about the offer Senator Kennedy made to Soviet President
Yuri Andropov to work with him to undermine President Of The United States Ronald Reagan:
Why bring all this up now? No evidence exists that Andropov ever
acted on the memorandum--within eight months, the Soviet leader would be dead--and now that Kennedy himself has died even
many of the former senator's opponents find themselves grieving. Yet precisely because Kennedy represented such a commanding
figure--perhaps the most compelling liberal of our day--we need to consider his record in full.
Doing so, it turns out, requires pondering a document in the archives of the politburo.
When President Reagan chose to confront the Soviet
Union, calling it the evil empire that it was, Sen. Edward Kennedy chose to offer aid and comfort to General Secretary Andropov.
On the Cold War, the greatest issue of his lifetime, Kennedy got it wrong.
Some might dare call it treason.
8) Over at Saberpoint, Stogie relates this great Rush quote he heard on Friday:
He certainly was a man of the people,
especially if they had big boobs.
9) Over at American Power, Donald Douglas speaks truth to Leftist power:
And the horrible truth of Mary
Jo Kopechne's death is that Ted Kennedy's legacy wasn't worth it. Another member of Congress could have easily sponsored wheelchair
ramps for the disabled or authorized home heating subsidies for the poor. Another Democratic would have sponsored expanded
healthcare for indigent children. President Bush didn't need Ted Kennedy to pass No Child Left Behind. There's nothing that
Kennedy attached his name to that wouldn't have come about by another Democrat pushing more of the same statist left-wing
agenda. The hagiography of Senator Kennedy's life only shows us once again the Democratic liberalism as an ideology is not
about caring or compassion, it's not about help the disadvantaged or the downtrodden. Leftist are all about power and monuments
to the state. Elevating the false successes of Ted Kennedy is no different from elevating statues to dictators in authoritarian
regimes: It's the deification of idolatry at the expense of the universal dignity of the individual. As Rick Moran has argued,
"To left wing fanatics ... human life does not belong to the individual, but to the higher cause of the collective good.
When Mary Jo Kopechne died at Chappaquiddick, the left put one more
brick in the wall of totalitarianism. The "footnoting" of Kopechne this week is a witness to how high and mighty
that wall has been erected today.
10) The TrogloPundit has discovered an interesting newspaper's front page that I don't think the editors noticed before the presses rolled.
I've
got to go off and do some other work for a bit, so I'll have to come back and finish this posting a little later this afternoon.
Please come back and turn it up to 11.
UPDATE @ 1623...
11) If the fact that Teddy never publicly apologized for his negligent homicide of Mary Jo Kopechne
was unforgivable, the fact that he liked to hear and tell jokes about it is eternally damning. Pundette is spot-on writing:
So not only might Mary Jo have felt that her death was "worth it" because
it fueled an awesome career in the Senate, but also, perhaps, because it supplied the world, and especially the Lion of the
Senate, with a decades-long stream of knee slappers about how he drunkenly drove his car off a bridge and left her to asphyxiate
in his car.
Yes Chappaquiddick is funny
It makes a drunken
day sunny....
12) Andrew Breitbart is dead solid perfect [tip of the fedora to Pundette]:
Forty years have passed since Chappaquiddick.
Immediately after the accident, Mr. Kennedy scrambled to organize the best and brightest to save his career, rather than to
save the life of 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne.
Before the facts were gathered, as her family was being prepped
for a cash payoff, the Massachusetts voter - in "shock" and "denial," the beginning phases of Elizabeth
Kubler-Ross's grief cycle - was asked by the senator in a carefully constructed televised speech to look away from his misdeed
in the name of his family's recent tragedies.
In a time of grief, the young senator framed his future as a referendum
on Camelot. And the media didn't call him on it. The fix was in.
The result was Mr. Kennedy needn't do more than
show up for work to atone for his calculated selfishness. Without apology or contrition, Mr. Kennedy crafted a public career
in which he spent taxpayers' money - certainly not his own - to make up for his unspeakable behavior.
As long as
he toed the liberal line, this trust-fund Robin Hood was protected by the liberal masses and the mainstream media. Hollywood
did its job by not putting his story on the big screen.
If they had it would have been widescreen and difficult
to see for all the whitewashing going on.
13) Jonah Goldberg has convinced me that the socialist health care law should be named after EMK:
Hence one of the
great ironies of Ted Kennedy’s career. He was the chief beneficiary of an inheritance from a brother whose views he
didn’t share.
Such contradictions never bothered Ted Kennedy, nor his fellow Democrats, when he was alive,
so why should there be compunction now? After all, the Kennedys and the Democrats have mythologized and exploited the deaths
of three brothers (and minimized the deaths of Mary Jo Kopechne and Martha Moxley) in order to protect the Kennedy brand.
Naming a massive expansion of the federal government after Ted Kennedy, particularly when it was indeed his life’s cause,
seems entirely fitting and fair.
14) Over at the Greenroom, Doctor Zero is feeling a bit ill and, after reading this posting, I'm a little green around the gills:
I do not believe a political career is worth a young woman’s life. Period.I don’t think
Mary Jo Kopechne was proud to die for Ted Kennedy. I don’t think her horrifying death was a necessary human sacrifice
to enable his “fortunate fall.” Ted Kennedy was not the victim of Chappaquiddick. Anyone who believes those things
is a degenerate who should be shunned by civilized people.
I disagree with the notion that any aspect of Kennedy’s
life “redeemed” him for the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. Redemption requires contrition, an admission of guilt.
Kennedy never admitted responsibility or guilt for what happened at Chappaquiddick. I wish he had, because the idea of so
many people rushing to grant him undeserved absolution is nauseating.
15) Over at The American Spectator,
Daniel Flynn's take on Trustfund Ted is a wealth of very good analysis and information. Three highlights:
The caricature that Ann Richards and others painted of George H.W. Bush -- "born
on third base and thought that he hit a triple" -- more resembled Ted Kennedy, a gregarious rogue enabled by wealth,
power, and a famous last name. The privilege that shielded the playboy senator from the consequences of his actions acted
as a double-edge sword by ensuring that he also never learned from the mistakes he didn't suffer from.
Quite:
he never grew up and never stopped being the spoiled youngest child. More...
When
the immature Kennedy impulsively enlisted in the Army to save face, he discovered that his contract obliged him to a longer
period of service, and exposed him to the dangers of combat. An outraged Joe Kennedy responded, "Don't you even look
at what you're signing?" His father, one of the richest men in America, "fixed" the matter with a few phone
calls. Ted's four-year contract became a two-year stint, and the possibility of a soldier's life on the front lines in Korea
was rectified with a posh assignment in Paris guarding NATO's headquarters.
There was always some family
member or besotted handler there to cover his ever-enlarging ass. One more...
Insulated
by the consequences of his behavior, Kennedy was also shielded from the consequences of his policies. He was the champion
of busing who kept his own children far from the public schools; an advocate of publicly funded campaigns who bankrolled his
political career with his family's shadowy financing; an icon of feminists who used women like Kleenex, serially harassed
members of the opposite sex, and spent ten hours attempting to rescue his political career as he denied the young women suffocating
in an air pocket in his Oldsmobile professional rescue attempts; and the primary booster of socialized medicine who assembled
a dream team of neurosurgeons to consult on his treatment for brain cancer. The proverbial limousine liberal was made real
in Trustfund Ted.
16) The Gateway Pundit wonders how the hell you explain Teddy Kennedy
to a young child here.
17) Admiral William Teach administers a severe tongue-lashing to one idiotic Lefty, but it applies to most of the hagiographic nimrods who have puking pablum constantly over the
past week:
Ted Kennedy left a woman to die after he drove off a bridge while drunk, you
blanking idiot. He ran off to create an alibi while Mary Jo was suffocating, using up all the oxygen in the car, all the while
thinking, for about 2 hours, that she was going to drown as the car slowly sank. You lefties complain about some of the methods
used on Islamic jihadis, yet, you want to look for torture? Mary Jo underwent torture. Picture yourself in that car, cold,
drunk, scared to death, the water sloooooooowly creeping up.
Who knows, maybe the nation would have been better
off without this drunken demagogue. A lifetime of “good” doesn’t excuse what would have been ruled involuntary
manslaughter....
18) Finally, I offer the 2009 version of The Dead Kennedys [tip of the
fedora to Theo Sparks]:
Have I done my penance yet?
31 aug 09 @ 2:26 pm edt
Sunday, August 30, 2009
TCOTS FMJRA: 30 AUGUST 2009 A.D. Its time to thank all of those who linked to TCOTS recently...
-Smitty is always good to this old blogging SOB in his Saturday FMJRA, and so it is true with yesterday's. Don't forget to watch the excellent Archie Bunker clip provided.
-Stacy McCain linked to TCOTS
in the BEST BLOG POSTING EVAH! And he linked to my Teddy Kennedy postings here and here.
-Moonbatty and The Gormogons added TCOTS to their blogrolls.
-Chris, over at WyBlog, also linked to one of my Teddy postings. And he gave me an FMJRA Shoutout here.
-Obi's Sister quoted and linked us as she tried to conjure up some sympathy for the devil.
-Stogie, channeling Billy Joel over at Saberpoint, gave us a nod here.
-Paco threw me in to his Assortment mix over at the offices of Paco Enterprises.
-Suave Lance Burri gave TCOTS a Kennedy Rule 2 over at The TrogloPundit.
-The Daley Gator threw me on the back of the Linzilla and placed me on the spinning Link-O-Rama.
-Jamie Jeffords, proprietor of Eye Of Polyphemus, has given us two intergalactic FMJRA's
the past two weekends, here and here. If you're a fan of Star Trek, you've got to check out his insightful ongoing series of chronological
reviews of every episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation here.
-Newly discovered and recommended websites: Caught Him With A Corndog, An Ol' Broad's Ramblings, and Liberty Belle. I've just added them to my version of the Blogroll: FELLOW DHS-CERTIFIED RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS.
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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.
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