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Saturday, October 3, 2009
RULE 5 SATURDAYThe TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee, after consultation
with honorary member ex officio 'The Bishop', has decided to shine the TCOTS Spotlight this week on one of
the grandest, yet down-to-earth, ladies that has ever graced mankind with her voluptuous beauty. She has portrayed peasants,
housewives, princesses, and Emperor's daughters, always with a twinkle in her eye and a rueful smile on her face. At
home in the kitchen and comfortable at the swankiest ball, she exemplifies all of the qualities sane man seek. Without
further adieu, The TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee is proud to present....
SOPHIA LOREN...
I can think of no better song for this occasion then this little tune that took the boat over from Italy, O
Marenariello, or as we know it from Dino, I Have But One Heart...
I have but one heart
This heart I bring you
I have but one heart
To share with you
I have but one dream
That I can cling to
You are the one dream
I pray
comes true
My darling until I saw you
I never felt
this way
And nobody else before you
Ever has heard me say...
You are my one love
My life I live for you
I have but one heart
To give to you
You are my one love
My life I live for you
I have but one heart
To
give to you
My darling until I saw you
I never felt this
way
And nobody else before you
Ever has heard me say...
You
are my one love
My life I live for you
I have but one heart
To give to you
You are my one love
My life I live for you
I have but one heart
To give to you
3 oct 09 @ 7:46 pm edt
THE DEATH OF BILL SPARKMAN V [vulgarity warning][Updated below]For my four previous postings on this subject, please click here and here and here and here.
Since he returned from his trip to Kentucky, Stacy McCain has been working on a lengthy and detailed report
on what he learned and uncovered. He's broken from this twice...
 1) Yesterday he posted a video interview with Judge James Garrison who in a little under six minutes gives and economic history of Clay Country. Its great background
stuff and, I'm sure, it will prove useful in developing a fuller picture of the situation as it unfolds. It also helps
that the Judge is the kind of guy you'd like to knock back a few with. A highlight from Stacy's comments:
...Judge Garrison is extremely knowledgeable of regional history and, in his down-home vernacular,
expresses a very well-informed -- and essentially libertarian -- understanding of how federal regulation has hindered the
economic development of the community he loves.
If there is an "anti-government" sentiment in Clay County,
it's not as if they've got no legitimate grievance. Thomas Sowell or Friedrich Hayek would understand...
After watching the interview, I must say I would have
to agree.
2) Stacy had to break away again because...well...let's let Paco explain it:
Stacy McCain went out to Kentucky recently to investigate the Sparkman murder, but it looks like he got scooped by Eve Conant of Newsweek. McCain says not enough facts are known to draw any conclusions; however, Eve Conant solved
the whole case from the comfort of her den (possibly sitting by the fire in her deer-stalker cap, smoking a pipe laced with
cocaine). Now, Conant doesn't come right out and say "J'accuse", but it's pretty clear that she holds anti-government
conservative crackpots responsible.
[One question friend Paco: I haven't even been near Kentucky lately,
I don't think Detective Paco has been either (only you can confirm that), and neither have any other of our VRWC friends:
how could she conclude we did it?]
Has Stacy failed? Was all of the money added to his damn tip jar
wasted? If you know Stacy you know he didn't take any of this lying down [he only does that when interviewing nineteen year old Kentucky gals, from what I hear]:
Because law enforcement officials are being extremely circumspect in discussing the death of Bill Sparkman -- whose
nude body was found Sept. 12 in the Hoskins family cemetery near Arnetts Fork Road in Clay County, Ky. -- the absence of information has led to
extremely irresponsible speculation.
I'm working on a very long, detailed account of the case based on my trip to Kentucky, but I had to lay that aside for a while today when I saw a grossly misleading story in Newsweek. This prompted me to whip out a quick 861 words for The American Spectator:...
Here's a highlight from his AmSpecBlog posting:
...The haste of some journalists and bloggers to attribute Sparkman's
mysterious death to a particular motive -- to give it a political meaning -- based on speculation and assumptions,
is irresponsible in the extreme.
Indeed. As he writes over at his own blog:
It's a free country, which means everyone is free to speculate how and why Bill
Sparkman died. But ill-informed speculation and assumptions are no substitute for facts, and there are still too
many unknown facts for anyone to pretend to know the motives of whoever put Sparkman's body in that cemetery.
If the editors of Newsweekdon't want to pay for solid, sensible, accurate reporting, they need to grab themselves
a fresh, hot cup of delicious STFU.
UPDATED: Here's the Memeorandum link. And a link to Jimmie Bise's comments.
3 oct 09 @ 5:18 pm edt
STEYN OF THE WEEKENDI know, I know, I missed last week's SOTW. Life intruded
as did that damnable Stacy McCain and his 'serious reporting' from the Commonwealth of Bourbon Kentucky [you
can tell what's on my mind, eh?]. It seems to me, therefore, you deserve a doubleshot of The Nostradamus Of
New Hampshire...
1) In his latest syndicated column, Mr. Steyn responds to those who say 'But Roman Polanski has had such a tragic life!':
One sympathizes. Except that there are millions of children of the Holocaust struggling under the burdens of the
past — and only one who deals with them as Roman Polanski does. Working on the film Chinatown, the writer Robert
Towne found it hard to concentrate at the director’s pad, what with “the teenyboppers that Roman would run out
and take Polaroid pictures of diving off the f***ing diving board without tops on. Which was distracting. With braces.”
Braces. Cute. Harvey Weinstein, the man behind the pro-Polanski petition, rejects the idea that Hollywood is “amoral”:
“Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion,” he told an interviewer.
Let us agree
that Hollywood bigshots have “compassion” for people in general, for people far away in a big crowd scene on the
distant horizon, for people in a we-are-the-world-we-are-the-children sense. But Hollywood bigshots treat people in particular,
little people, individuals, like garbage. To Polanski, he was the world, you are the children; now take your kit off and let’s
have a “photo shoot.”
The Left, by the nature of its beliefs and the fact that all of its ideas
have been developed in a sterile laboratory sealed in against the real world, always favors groups over individuals.
I seem to recall something about breaking a few eggs to create an omelet.
2) From his most recent appearance on the Hugh Hewitt Show:
HEWITT: I’m joined now by Mark Steyn, Columnist To the World, and I’ve been waiting to talk to him since Friday’s news that Iran’s got
a super-duper secret site in a mountain, and then Monday’s news that we’re not going to do anything about it.
Mark Steyn, appeasement?
STEYN: I don’t think that’s too strong a word. I agree with the general thrust
of what you and Max Boot were talking about the other day. I think basically, what happened is that the three European powers
decided a couple of years ago that in effect, they could live with the Iranian, a nuclear Iran. And I’m afraid the United
States has pretty much concluded the same thing, too.
HEWITT: Do you think Israel will go along with that, Mark
Steyn?
STEYN: Well, I think the clock is ticking on Israel. And the question now is whether it can do the rest
of the world a favor and take these things out. I think we’d see the usual posturing if that did happen. I can already
write the speeches of the parade of European foreign ministers who’d be lining up on TV to denounce Israel’s lack
of proportion. But I think actually we’re approaching the stage where it may be even too late for Israel. Oddly enough,
the Saudi Arabian government has given Israel the go ahead to go and take out these things. And when the House of Saud are
more realists than the so-called realists back in charge in Washington, it does make you wonder about the state of affairs
of the last superpower.
HEWITT: There was reporting this week, Mark Steyn, in Le Monde and in the Wall Street Journal,
that French president Sarkozy has reached a boiling point with President Obama and his unreal virtual world, and the policy
pursuit at the U.N. Do you imagine there might be a situation developing, sort of a replay of ’56, where the French
and the Israelis, and maybe even the Brits get together and do what America will not do?
STEYN: I find that hard
to imagine. But I think here’s what’s really underlying Sarkozy’s remarks. I think the Europeans finally
got the American president they claim always to have wanted, you know, not the swaggering Texan cowboy, but in fact Mr. Multilateral,
a guy who superficially at least downplays American power in the world today. And they’re beginning to realize that
it’s one thing to talk that stuff, but if he really means it, the Europeans in particular are going to be living in
a much more dangerous world. And although the American left, the Democratic Party and the media love to mock Bush as a unilateralist,
in fact Bush had terrific relations with allies who counted, including Australia and the United Kingdom, and latterly, Angela
Merkel’s Germany. So I think there is going to be a severe deterioration of transatlantic relations, and other relations
with India and Israel, and the new Eastern European democracies under this presidency. It’s already underway.
3 oct 09 @ 3:51 pm edt
COME ON BABY, LET'S DO THE FISK... Time for all good men
to pour a drink,
relax in an easy chair,
and enjoy a little
righteous
Fisking.
Today we have for your enjoyment a multi-task Fisking of David 'The Pant
Crease' Brooks's Tuesday column. First come, first served, as it were, so we shall go in chronological order...
-Since we love the smell of Fisking in the morning, we deem it appropriate that Ira Stoll started things off Tuesday morning
with this:
In today's New York Times, David Brooks has a column in which he quotes John Adams, praises the "Calvinist restraint" of early settlers
in America, and claims that "Over the past few years, however, there clearly has been an erosion in the country's financial
values." He writes, "Evidence of this shift in values is all around. Some of the signs are seemingly innocuous.
States around the country began sponsoring lotteries: government-approved gambling that extracts its largest toll from the
poor." Mr. Brooks must have an expansive definition of the word "few years." Mr. Brooks may be right or wrong
about the country's economic values and whether they have undergone a shift, and one may agree or disagree with him about
whether government-run lotteries are a good idea. He's off base, though, in the claim that the lottery is a departure from
the practices of America's colonial past or its founding generation....
Please do take the time to click here and to read the proof.
-Tuesday evening, the ever-watchful Smitty, over at The Other McCain, took on the task in lieu of Stacy McCain, the capo di tutti capi of Brooks Fiskers, pounding down the bourbons and flirting
with the lovely Kentucky gals on a 'serious reporting roadtrip'. It's so good, I didn't even miss the fact that Stacy
wasn't doing it [sorry RSM, but you've obviously trained your manque well]:
Reading
this pitiful excuse for a column, I think any real conservative is brought
to the brink of projectile vomiting by the vapid analysis which follows:
Over the past few months, those debt levels have begun to come down. But that doesn’t mean we’ve re-established
standards of personal restraint. We’ve simply shifted from private debt to public debt. By 2019, federal debt will amount
to an amazing 83 percent of G.D.P. (before counting the costs of health reform and everything else). By that year, interest
payments alone on the federal debt will cost $803 billion.
These may seem like dry numbers, mostly of concern to
budget wonks. But these numbers are the outward sign of a values shift. If there is to be a correction, it will require a
moral and cultural movement. "We've simply shifted",
Mr. Brooks? No, our Progressive overlords have blown sunshine up the fundament, while the media fiddled, since the Federal Reserve Act. Seemingly useful, yet eventually sucktacular entitlements have been on parade for ~70 years
of shiny, rose-tinted glasses decline.
Among things bringing belated consciousness of the peril have been the likes
of Ross Perot and the internet, no thanks to the propaganda media. Our
current cultural politics are organized by the obsolete culture war, which has put secular liberals on one side and religious
conservatives on the other. But the slide in economic morality afflicted Red and Blue America equally. Mr. Brooks: please repeat "obsolete culture war" a million times. While this will have
no effect on the struggle to avoid assimilation by the Progressive Borg, it will help you achieve
a beneficial self-denial-of-service attack for the sake of the rest of us.
Great job Smitty, but, please,
slowly move away from the server; its time for a looong break. Or, to put it in a more understandable way:
create table TEMP_TIME_OFF as
select BP1000_POSTINGS
from
RSM_BLOGSPOT_COM
where J1000_SMITTY1E = J1000_OVERLOAD_FLAG
and J1050_PC_REFERENCES > 65;
commit;
-On Friday morning, having returned to his Hayekian castle, Stacy picked up the sword and thrust:
This endless anti-"populist" crusade for Big Government Republicanism
has been a constant of Brooksianism since the neurasthenic geek first started pushing his disastrously influential "National Greatness" idiocy in 1997. That blunderheaded misconception of misinformed thumbsucking earned Brooks membership in
The Republicans Who Really Matter, and he's been toiling diligently to destroy the Party of Reagan ever since.
Read
my lips: David Brooks is not a conservative! He never has been and never will be. His entire career has been devoted
to using his influence over the Republican Party elite to prevent conservatives from exercising influence over the party's
direction.
-Not being able to resist the fun, I, like Harvey Keitel in The Duellists, joined in the with a parry in the comments section of the above posting:
David Brooks is not a conservative in the American sense. Have pity for the poor
lad: he's a British Etonian conservative--the kind that is in control of Tory Party right now--and here he is stranded amongst
those tacky, loud, and noisy barbarians in America. Poor boy must have felt he had nowhere to run in the 80's when The Raygun
and The Iron Lady were striding across the scene.
-Commentator Dark Horse rode in with this slashing jab:
It's the dinner-party conservative worldview, backwashed in a highball glass.
Whether hypocrisy or self-delusion remains to be seen.
I wonder if he ever looks in a mirror?
I
doubt it. Methinks he's link the pimple-faced high school kid who dares not look in one least he destroy his mojo.
-Early Friday afternoon, the lovely Jeri Thompson, like Diana Quick in the aforementioned The Duellists, jumped into the frey [warning: excuse to post Rule 5-ish Jeri Thompson pictures]:
 While putting fresh newspaper in the birdcage this morning, I couldn't help but notice the New York Times column from David Brooks, who takes a potshot at conservative radio hosts who boosted presidential candidates,
including Fred Thompson. When not taste-tasting the latest latte flavors at exurban malls, Brooks can be found on PBS doing
his best imitation of David Gergen.
Brooks belittles "lazy pundits," of which he may be counted.
How else to explain his attempt to portray conservatives as the entire Republican Party, or his seeming lack of understanding
of the role individuals like Rush, Sean and Mark Levin play within the conservative movement?
It may be that Rush
or Mark Levin, or now Fred, for that matter, endorse or encourage support for a particular cause, but conservatives, particularly
grassroots conservatives, are independent thinkers. They do not simply walk in lock step with their radio overlords, unlike
pundits in Washington who enjoy getting a call from the Obama White House and touting The One at every turn.
Zing!........went the strings of my heart.
-Later that afternoon, Quin Hillyer, as he always
does, came to the defense of the truth, something that David Chauncey Gardiner Brooks seems to view as an elective:
David
Brooks' snobbery knows no bounds. Not only that, but he treats facts as malleable assets to be re-massaged by his own eminence
without regard to their, well, actual factual-ness. For instance, Brooks writes:" "Before long, South Carolina looms
as the crucial point of the race. The contest is effectively between Romney and McCain."
Uh, well, no. Not
even close. The South Carolina primary was effectively a contest between McCain and HUCKABEE, not Romney. Here are the results of that primary: McCain 33%, Huckabee 30%, Fred Thompson 16%, Romney 15%. Uh.... that sort of throws Brooks'
whole convenient narrative out the window. Fred Thompson, who had stumbled, still was able to relegate Romney to 4th place.
Romney did not become a favorite of the talk radio until AFTER McCain became the clear front-runner, and then only in reaction
to McCain -- who already by then was close to a lock. But in South Carolina, the race was seen as one where McCain was the
anti-conservative and the other three were splitting various portions of the conservative electorate (even though Huckabee
really isn't a conservative, and Romney is only partially one, but that's another story). The real story was that McCain,
coming off of his big win in New Hampshire, was held to 33 percent while the "conservatives" combined, with the
backing of talk radio, garnered 61 percent.
Ah...The smell of Fisking.......Smells like...victory.
Friday, October 2, 2009
HOW ABOUT A LITTLE MUSIC...
2 oct 09 @ 7:41 pm edt
VOTE EARLY AND OFTEN FOR SMITTY A
Vote For SMITTY Is A Vote For AMERICA!
THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY......is awarded to Dan Riehl, over at Riehl World View, for this stemwinder:
Most Americans more likely believe that the liberal and
elitist establishment that trumpets them owes America an apology for their behavior over too many long years. How much of
their feigned outrage and hand wringing does America have to endure before they finally get the message. America isn't buying
what they're selling. And that now includes Barack Obama, too.
They've
lectured us, run us down, spit on the flag, apologized for an America most of us don't believe is bad and, most particularly,
tried to diminish the office of the presidency over the last eight years - to say nothing of how it was diminished by Bill
Clinton during his scandalous eight years. But now they've captured it. Suddenly they think all because of one man, one election,
that's suddenly all magically reversed?
They believe they actually
have the power, as if broad public opinion doesn't count for much anymore. But it always has and always will in America. And
now that they are totally exposed, both in Congress and in the WH due to their presumed control, they are also exposed to
the message from middle America their previous marginal status allowed them to ignore.
You don't speak for us. Your defeats and sorrows are not necessarily ours. You taught us that, if you've taught us
anything over the years. We are separate and we are not equal. And so long as you remain outnumbered in America, your ultimate
influence will remain marginal at best.
Deal with it. Boo hoo hoo! We're not apologizing for anything, least of all for being Americans and proud. And we
don't need a slogan to rely upon, or try and prove it to you. You have our word and words. And we've come to understand that
we could never trust yours. It isn't the center-Right that is endangered and in full retreat. It's liberalism in America that
might not survive Obama's one term.
Damn....the man is good. That uplifted my spirits.
2 oct 09 @ 7:07 pm edt
BARRY & MICHELLE GET OWNED*Oh what a beautiful morning
Oh what a beautiful day...
You know my feelings if you read my immediately previous posting, so lets take a hop around the ether and see what
some of the good folks are saying:
1) Michelle Malkin:
Goodbye, “Yes We Can.” Hello, “No, You Can’t.”
Like Icarus, President Obama’s giddy ego flight has ended with melted wax and fallen wings.
This is a big
win and a massive relief for taxpayers. But Chicago cronies are not going to take this well. Gird your loins.
Who
will be first to cry RAAAAAACIST? Well, it will be a little awkward to play the race card after liberal critics of the Games
filed a civil rights complaint against the Chicago 2016 committee for racial discrimination yesterday. But count on the Team
Obama grievance-mongers to play it anyway.
Mrs. Malkin, there are only five A's in raaaaacism.
2) The TrogloPundit:
...many of us – myself included – thought Obama’s trip meant Chicago already had won the Games. No way an American
president would risk prestige like that if he didn’t already have it in the bag!
So, really, the lesson here is: we overestimated the Obama administration’s political savvy. Which, really, we shouldn’t have. They didn’t have much of it to begin with.
3) Moe Lane:
...when the President went to the IOC to get this valuable thing for his home city and country, I’m sure that he thought that he would be able to remedy
the situation. But all that he did was make it clear to people who don’t like us very much...that he and the USA
could be quite gratifyingly (to them) snubbed. So they did. And they enjoyed doing it, because they know that
there’s damned little that the USA can do to them about it.
4) Erick Erickson:
I thought the world would love us more now that Bush was gone.
I thought
if we whored ourselves out to our enemies, great things would happen.
Apparently not.
...
BTW,
Dear Barack Obama, you are no Billy Mays.
But wait: there's more!
5) The Anchoress [tip of the fedora to Dan Collins]:
Did the IOC look at Obama -who treats his nations’ traditional allies rather dismissively, and her enemies with too
much deference- and see “weakness”?
6) Speaking of Dan Collins:
And what’s really sad about that is that after
all of their sacrifice in going to Copenhagen, the President and Mrs. Obama won’t be able to walk from their home in
Hyde Park to the Olympic venues in 2016 with their two girls. Honestly, it’s heartbreaking.
I’d write more,
but I’m overwhelmed.
6) Instapundit:
...That’s too bad. I was kinda looking forward to seeing President Palin
speak at the opening ceremonies. . . .
7) William Jacobson:
We didn't get the Olympics, or even get to the final round, because there was
no logic to Chicago other than as a hat tip to Barack Obama. That is why President and Mrs. Obama put their personal prestige
on the line to practically beg for the games. I did not think that Obama would risk his international reputation unless he knew we had the games in
the bag, but I underestimated Obama's ability to persuade himself of his own persuasive powers.
8) Me: They
thought they were so friggin' smart, that they could work their magic on anyone, anywhere, that they were the bright
young things who could do no wrong, that they were so damned sophisticated in the ways of the world, and would return home
in triumph and be able to say 'Made it guys--top of the world!'. Instead they'll walk off their planes em-bare-assed
with big L's on their foreheads and their gas tank blown up. Thanks Barry and Michelle for making my day.
*
2 oct 09 @ 3:45 pm edt
CHICAGO ELIMINATED FROM OLYMPIC CONTENTION IN THE 1ST ROUNDBwah-ha-ha-ha-ha! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2 oct 09 @ 3:23 pm edt
SHE WORKS HARD FOR HER HONEY...AND THE MONEYMichelle Malkin takes on Michelle Obama, the Sacrificial One, in her column today:
It’s hard out there for a First Lady of the United States. Take it from
travel-weary Michelle Obama. On Tuesday night, she boarded a luxury 757 for Copenhagen. Think of the stairs she had to climb.
Oh, the agony of the feet!
Upon arrival, Mrs. O, her “chit-chat buddy,” Chicago-based talk show queen
Oprah Winfrey, and Chicago power-broker/interest-conflicted real estate mogul/senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett immediately
embarked on a grueling, grip-and-grin campaign to secure the Olympics for their hometown. Our smile muscles ache in sympathy.
You will be comforted to know that gracious FLOTUS feels your pain for her pain. “As much of a sacrifice as
people say this is for me or Oprah or the president to come for these few days,” the First Lady told a group of fellow
Chicago 2016 boosters, “so many of you in this room have been working for years to bring this bid home.” Translation:
Thank me, thank you, for all we do.
Never has self-congratulatory gratitude been raised to such an art form, but
there was no time for loyal subjects to dwell. The selflessly indefatigable Michelle Obama had to rush off for an 800-meter
wine-and-cheese dash with International Olympic Committee members, followed by a rigorous aerobic Heads of State luncheon
hosted by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and another high-heeled trek to the IOC Opening Ceremony at the Copenhagen Opera House.
Of course, it’s not entirely clear which “people” out there are saying that the Obamas’ jaunt
to Denmark is a “sacrifice.”
Oh...anybody I know is...yup.
Regarding
Lady Michbeth's statement: Jesus Christ and General Jackson! You've got to be sh--ting me, mam. Wow, talk about
being full of yourself. Oh wait...I forgot...she's one of the 'Beautiful People'. Man...
I think Mike
at Cold Fury's got it just right:
My heart aches for you.... Cross your feet, I only got three nails here.
2 oct 09 @ 11:02 am edt
PERVERTED SCHOOLS CZARWe're learning more about President Obama's appointee as Director of the Office
of Safe and Drug Free Schools, ie: the Safe Schools Czar [Please see my previous two postings about Kevin 'Rough Trade' Jennings
by clicking here and here.] and it seems to be sort of bearing out a statement I made in my first posting
about him:
It seems to me that Kevin Jennings has missed out on his true calling
by taking this job: he is much better suited to be the President of NAMBLA.
Lori Roman, of Regular
Folks United, did the research on this Czar and, out of all the facts she unearthed, this is the most disturbing:
Recently it has been reported that Jennings failed to report to authorities the statutory
rape of one his students when he was a teacher. This is old news for those who have followed the actions of Jennings and GLSEN.
For anyone who spends even an hour on the internet looking into
Jennings' speeches and writings, his nonchalant attitude about an older homosexual man having sex with a boy should not be
a surprise. What is surprising is that no one is mentioning reports that Jennings publicly stated that he was inspired by
one of the biggest promoters of pedophilia in the country-Harry Hay. Hay actively promoted sex between men and boys and supported
the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). Transcripts of a GLSEN conference in NYC on October 25, 1997 indicate
that Jennings said, "one of the people that always inspired me is Harry Hay." Jennings also edited a book called
Becoming Visible: A Reader in Gay and Lesbian History for High School and College Students which included a biographical sketch
on Harry Hay. One of GLSEN's Education Department resources also lists a work on Harry Hay.
And yes, Jennings did write the forward to a book called Queering Elementary Education. And another
fellow you may have heard of wrote one of the endorsements on the book jacket-Bill Ayers.
Please do take the time to click here and read the full posting whcih contains many links to prove her assertions. This is one of those times when you say: Thank God for the Internet.
To those of you out there who
think those of us who describe Barack Hussein Obama as a dangerous radical are going too far, what say you now?
Big tip of the fedora to GatorDoug, over at The Daley Gator, for this one.
2 oct 09 @ 10:42 am edt
ORRIN HATCH ON SKIS*Singer and Senator Orrin Hatch is receiving congratulations for have casted his
12,000th vote in 'The World's Greatest Deliberative Body'. As Dan Riehl comments:
Speaking generally, I'm not sure that many Americans find it a cause for celebration
when politicians hang around long enough to make that many votes....
I'd say that when you've been
around long enough to cast that many votes, its way past dog track time. No matter how much the citizens of Utah love
this songsmith solon, rotation in office is essential if the interests of the sovereign people are going to be respected and
understood. Time for the crooning crone to go.
DONNY
OSMOND in 2012!
*
2 oct 09 @ 10:20 am edt
WHO IS JOHN GALL?*Over at Paco Enterprises World Headquarters, Paco agrees with
the following statements by Pat Austin and Erick Erickson regarding The Anointed One's appointments to his Administration:
Erick Erickson suggests that "At some point we must stop saying that there was a failure to vet
these people and conclude that Barack Obama has no more of a problem with men like Kevin Jennings who encourage statutory
rape than men like Bill Ayers who encourages cop killing."
I'd agree that there's a real pattern here. Add
Van Jones to the mix, drag Jeremiah Wright back out and every other radical that Obama has had dealings with and the pattern is clear; Erickson is correct. Obama has
no problem with radicals and extremists. This isn't a vetting problem, it's an attitude problem.
He comments
in a posting aptly named Not A Bug, But A Feature:
...I tend to agree; that the appointment of so many alienated radicals
could be some kind of "mistake" is not tenable. It is, of course, quite possible that Obama sees them as mainstream,
especially given his own obvious alienation from America's history and traditions, and it is certainly within the realm of
possibility (indeed, probability) that his arrogant insularity has led to a situation in which he thinks that he,
himself, represents a centrist ideology....
Paco is onto something.... Our Fearless Leader has spent
his whole life in a radical cocoon. He has never not been surrounded by Marxists, Leninists, Trotskyites, Maoists, Stalinists,
Crypto-Anarchists and the like. His father and chief mentor were Marxists. His mother a socialist.
In a brilliant posting over at Cold Fury, Noel is dead solid perfect:
We’ve got a president whose parents were a college socialist and a Marxist
bureaucrat. His mentor a Party apostle. His Columbia professors radicals and his Harvard colleagues thoughtful enough to hide
his Soviet apologia thesis. Years of Alinsy-ite agitation, decades at an Afro-Marxist church, his cubicle-mate for years and
years an unreconstructed Communist cop-killer, who probably ghostwrote his memoirses–”if true, these revelations
over authorship strongly suggest that Ayers is, in a very real sense, “Obama’s” creator.”
But biography aside, auto-or otherwise, he pushed the Socialized Mortgage
program with ACORN. When it predictably melted the economy down, he nationalized the banking and financial industries. And
the auto industry. And now the health care and insurance industries if he can. Ditto the Energy Sector. And now the creepy
schoolkid chants and subborning of the arts, coupled with the steady gutting of our defenses.
He’s not a
Stalin, but he’s not a democrat, either. If he’s not a Communist politician, he’s the closet thing to it
we’ve ever produced. Including vice-president Henry Wallace, who Roosevelt wisely dumped in favor of Truman.
[Ayn] Rand, [Ronald] Reagan and [Elia] Kazan did not believe in outlawing communism or even in censoring communists. But
they did believe in telling the truth about it. And so do I: The reason we so have
much turmoil in America these days is not because of racism; it’s because of communism.
Barack Hussein
Obama, like th good apparatchik he is, gained his offices through a careful concealment of his true beliefs. He was
certainly not perfect. How else to explain how many of us saw through it during the campaign? But, with great
skill, he played on America's desire to make a statement and elect a 'black President' and was able to get away with it and
make those of us who were waving warning flags seem like we wore tin hats. He is a menace to everything we hold
dear and we must fight him on everything—EVE-RY-THING—he wants to do because what he wants to do is quietly overthrow
The Constitution.
*The Little Oxford Dictionary defines 'gall' thusly:
gall1: impudence, asperity, rancor
gall2: 1 n. painful swelling,
blister, etc; sore; place rubbed bare. 2 v.t. rub sore; vex; humiliate.
All those fit, don't ya think?
2 oct 09 @ 8:44 am edt
Thursday, October 1, 2009
THE DEATH OF BILL SPARKMAN IVFor my three previous postings on this subject, please click here and here and here.
Since I last posted yesterday evening, Stacy McCain has published two additional posts over at his site
The Other McCain. While these are not full-fledged reports on Mr. Sparkman's death and the investigation
surrounding it, they are, as Stacy puts explains it:
What I've tried to do is to
give readers some insight into how I do my job and the wonderful people I've met along the way.
They're
part travelogue, part colored footnotes.
-Last night he provided more background on Kelsee Brown who he had written
about and interviewed briefly previously. A tantalizing highlight from the latest:
Remember the 19-year-old Democrat who got misrepresented in the MSM as typical of gummint-hatin'
Clay Countians here in the region of Kentucky now notorious as Lower Glennbeckistan?
Well, it
seems Kelsee is even less typical than anyone, myself included, had any cause to suspect....
To find out why, you'll have to take the time to click here and read the rest.
-In his latest posting, filed from on the road home today, Stacy covers several different aspects of his investigation and responds to a troll.
A most intriguing highlight:
•Third, readers interested in this case should
be aware that many people in east Kentucky are angry at the Associated Press -- and whoever the AP's source was -- for an
article last week which the Kentucky State Police spokesman, Don Trosper, has characterized as "misinformation" that is "damaging to our investigation."
It is strongly suspected that
this misinformation came from a U.S. Justice Department source, either in Washington or Louisville. Considering that it is
because of the FBI's involvement that other officials are under "marching orders" not to discuss the case, if the
AP's bad source was federal . . .
Well, perhaps I don't need to point out the irony: The feds are, on
the one hand, big-dogging the investigation and forbidding anyone else from talking about it while, on the other hand, some
federal source is feeding wrong information to the AP. At least, that's the very strong suspicion of people familiar with
the situation.
Hmmm...curiouser and curiouser.
SIDENOTE: A big thank you to Dan Riehl, over at
Riehl World View, for linking to my last installment.
UPDATE: Spelling mistake in second paragraph corrected: 'dull-fledged' to 'full-fledged'
[tip of the fedora to commentator Larry Sheldon].
1 oct 09 @ 7:36 pm edt
MORE DUMBING DOWNFirst it was the Bar Association that went pink about twenty
years ago; then about ten years ago AARP was taken over by the socialists. Now it's Consumer
Reports. From William Jacobson, over at Legal Insurrection, we learn:
Consumer Reports, published by Consumers Union, is a valuable tool when trying to figure out which is the best washing
machine, most reliable automobile, or most powerful drill. By staying out of politics, and not seeming to have a dog in any
fight other than providing accurate information, Consumer Reports and its parent company have earned an almost unprecedented
reputation.
No more. As reported by Politico, Consumers Union is putting its brand behind current health care reform proposals (it's not
clear which ones), including a government run plan. An advertisement being run by Consumers Union is completely vague, only calling for "health care reform."
That concept is agreed to by almost everyone, it's just that most Americans have a very different concept of health
care reform than the monstrous proposals -- laden with taxes, penalties, punishments, government bureaucracy and out-of-control
spending -- which actually are on the table in Washington.
On its health care website, however, it appears (although the language still is somewhat vague), that Consumers Union
is backing many of the concepts in the Democratic proposals to have government run our health care system.
Professor Jacobson then goes us to lay out the result of his investigation of the site and is amazed at how 'profoundly
ignorant' they are about the Democrat's proposals. He's also found that the Consumer Reports's Health Reform
Page 'contains out-of-date and highly speculative information regarding health care reform'.
Please do take the time to click here and read the details.
1 oct 09 @ 7:14 pm edt
WHAT IS SHE THINKING? NOT SURE I WANNA KNOW.
1 oct 09 @ 6:58 pm edt
DON'T BE SURPRISED...A little over ten years ago, my late Aunt Millie blurted out a statement that
turned out to be quite prescient. She said:
It's a gay world.
She turned out to have been quite wise. They've certainly been mainstreamed and the gay rights agenda is progressing
along quickly, with a few minor setbacks here and there, but nevertheless it is poised to achieve greater victories in the
coming years.
Today, I think however, her bit of wisdom has been superseded by this one Three Beers Later:
Pedophilia... It's the New Gay!
You may think I'm overly pessimistic [it is my nature after all], but let's recall that ten years ago who would have predicted that gay marriage would have advanced so quickly?
All I ask is that you remember you read it here [and at Three Beers].
SIDENOTE: I still
think my prediction of a year ago will come true at some point: Converting to Islam will become the chic thing to do amongst
the Beautiful people.
1 oct 09 @ 6:43 pm edt
THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY......is hereby awarded to Paco of Paco Enterprises for this bit of wisdom [emphasis mine]:
President Obama, who fancies himself to be something of a geopolitical
thinker...is pushing his own new doctrine, which I suppose can be called self-containment: the withdrawal of American influence
and power from around the world based on the assumption that the United States is in no way an exceptional nation, and that
its historical self-identification as such is, on balance, a cause of international instability. Combine this extraordinary
foreign-policy view with his attempts to turn the U.S. into a European-style socialist country, and to create a polity which
rests on lax immigration restrictions and permanent interest group rivalry, and what you wind up with is a sort of Austro-Hungarian Empire - without the imperial trappings, but with all of the late regime’s
abysmal weaknesses in the international sphere, including a fatal lack of military strength (plus, of course, the suffocating
bureaucratic apparatus of a government intent on constantly meddling with the economy).
That's
it! He's nailed the exact analogy. Dead. Solid. Perfect. Bravo Paco!
Hail Franz Barack!
1 oct 09 @ 2:48 pm edt
THE STUPID PARTY RIDES AGAINFrom Erick Erickson, over at Red State, we learn:
In a disappointing sign that the House Republican Leadership has not earned and
does not deserve to retake the majority in the House of Representatives, a bunch of people are confirming for me today that
the House GOP has decided to sign on with ACORN and endorse Dede Scozzafava in NY-23.
As he pointed out in a previous posting, she is in favor of abortion rights, is an enthusiastic supporter of the gay rights agenda, and is not a fiscal conservative.
Now, you may say: 'Hey, its New York. This is probably the best the Party can muster-up. The Leadership really
has no choice.' Au contraire, my little stupid partier There is a Conservative Party candidate, Doug Hoffman. As Mr. Erickson writes:
...He is endorsed by Fred Thompson, the Club For
Growth, and conservatives across the nation. Scozzafava was encouraged by the Democrats to run as a Democrat.
That
the GOP would support a candidate who is more aligned with the Democrats on core issues than the GOP signals the GOP is in
this to win at any cost, damn the principles. It is exactly that attitude that caused voters to send the GOP packing.
Quite. All I can say is...
NOT ONE RED CENT!
1 oct 09 @ 2:43 pm edt
BEST BLOG POST TITLE OF THE MONTH......is hereby awarded to the previously mentioned Jimmie Bise for this soon-to-be
classic that pulls no punches, makes its point very succinctly, and puts a smile on your face:
Palin's Book Makes Number One on Amazon;
Left-Wingers Make Number Two in Their Jeans
By George, I think he's right.
Please do take the timne to click here and read the full posting.
1 oct 09 @ 2:07 pm edt
OF INFESTATION AND ANCESTRYSpeaking of the infection of Leftist thinking in conservative minds....
Jimmie Bise, proprietor of The Sundries Shack, seems gets it:
The essential difference between modern liberalism and conservatism (which is
the old liberalism) is that conservatives very much respect (and in some cases, fear) the law unintended consequences while
liberals act as if it does not exist. However, that liberal tendency to want to monkey around with pillars of society without
thinking very much about what they’re holding up has lately infested conservative thinking as well. Many conservatives
who want to expand the definition of marriage, for example, either downplay or completely ignore the potential unintended
consequences. This “hovering roof” belief is pretty much the heart of “compassionate conservatism”
and was at the very heart of the Bush domestic agenda.
In the end, though, the roof doesn’t hover; it crashes
down disastrously, but never on the people who did all the pillar-kicking. No, those people moved on years before the bill
for their foolish meddling arrived. They left that check for their kids and grandkids to pay. We’re doing the same thing
right now, not just economically but socially as well. At some point, the roof will fall and our kids will be standing under
it.
You want to talk about fairness? How about we not ask our kids to pay the freight for our experiments. Let’s
leave the important things well enough alone until we have a darned good idea what our well-intentioned bumbling is going
to do.
Spot-on, with one quibble: Jimmie believes modern conservatives are the direct descendants of those
who were called 'liberals' in the 19th Century. They are also often called these days, by folks like
Jonah Goldberg, 'Classic Liberals. This is certainly true of a good number of modern members of the Right. However,
both Jimmie and Jonah paint with too broad of a brush. Many of us are direct descendants of a mixed marriage between old
English country conservatives / Whigs of Edmund Burke's day on the paternal side, and the Classic
Liberals of the 19th Century on the maternal side. And we always liked Father best. It is one of the grand features
of the modern conservative camp that it embraces such noble and diverse ancestry. It is what makes us the ones with
the soundest and least dangerous ideas.
1 oct 09 @ 2:01 pm edt
SEND IN THE CLOWNS; DON'T BOTHER, THEY'RE HEREOver at NRO, John Derbyshire asks a very pertinent question [this is worth quoting in full]:
I
guess I'm a bit out of touch here.
From an AP story headed "Michelle Obama arrives in Copenhagen for IOC vote" And there are few people better to sell Chicago's bid than Michelle Obama.
Funny,
gracious and incredibly accomplished, she’s one of the few people who can rival her husband’s popularity. Could someone please direct me to a list of Mrs. Obama's "incredible" accomplishments?
Patient dumping perhaps? I don't know [Pundette has some ideas here]. However, this is a perfect opportunity to remind my Dispatch readers that Mr. Derbyshire's latest
book was published on Tuesday: We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism.
I just started reading it yesterday and it is insightful, humorous, and, most importantly, a call to arms for the
Right to re-embrace 'a proper conservative pessimism'. Why a re-embrace? I'll let the author explain:
This book is addressed to American conservatives. Its argument is that things
are bad and getting worse for our movement, for our nation, and for our civilization. A large part of the reason they
have gotten so bad is that too many of us have fallen into foolishly utopian ways of thinking.
Those ways of thinking
are false because they are too optimistic about human nature and human affairs. The proper outlook of conservatives...is
a pessimistic one, at least so far as things of the world are concerned. We have been misled, and the conservative movement
has been derailed, by legions of fools and poseurs wearing smiley-face masks....
This is a point I
have been trying to make here since I started this site, and to people I know for almost twnety years. Sadly, I have
only written of it here in a few passing mentions--never as the main subject. Thankfully, John Derbyshire has written
this book. Our major problem these days is that we've all been infected with a Leftist way of thinking. We think
like Leftists and, therefore, we often act like Leftists despite the fact that we're naturally conservative. Mr. Derbyshire
has inspired me with his book and I think I'll be writing on this topic directly in the coming months. I also hope to
quote to you passages from We Are Doomed as I sail through it.
Please do take the time to click here to purchase the book from Amazon.
1 oct 09 @ 8:41 am edt
SIXTY YEARS OF BLOOD AND DEATHToday is the sixtieth anniversary of the Red Chinese regime. In the course
of its three score years, well over 100 million of its own people have died through execution and starvation directly
as a result of actions by said regime. Today, those who dissent from the Glorious Revolution are either executed, made
to commit suicide, or are forced into brutal labor gulags. Pregenent women are forced to have abortions.
While there is more freedom than during the time of the murderousMao, the threat of the knock on the door in the middle of
the night, which is a standard feature of all Communist regimes, is still very much feared. All that has happened in
the last quarter century is that a happy face has been put on what is a regime of murderous thugs with no respect for freedom
or human life.
In normal times, no one not of the radical Left would think to celebrate this anniversary, but these
are most definitely not normal times. Our world has turned upside down. So it is not surprising to learn that,
in honor of the anniversary, tonight the Empire State Building will be lit up with the colors of Red China, red and yellow
[I'm sure in many Leftist enclaves in The United States, there will also be celebrations as well]. This is disgusting.
However, there's still time for whoever's in charge of the Building to redeem themselves, as Andrew Stuttaford points out:
...Perhaps they could just remove the yellow — and leave the red as a symbol
for the blood shed by a regime with the deaths of tens of millions on its hands.
If they choose not to do
this, I agree with one of Jay Nordlinger's readers who thinks we should start referring to the building as The Evil
Empire State Building. In that same posting, Mr. Nordlinger [a tireless advocate for the oppressed Chinese people] publishes a quote from a junior high school principal
that was sent in by a parent:
“October 1st this year is the 60th anniversary
of China, and great changes have taken place and people are enjoying their life. In order to celebrate this great holiday,
a party will be held . . .”
"People are enjoying their life,” huh? Well, I know
of many people in cells and labor camps who aren’t enjoying life at all....
And we also know that
many people there are having their 'enjoyment of life' ended each and every day.
Over at The Gormogons, The Czar Of Muscovy provides a little history, then and now, of the regime for all of you out there who are younger
than, say, forty-five and/or who were educated in public schools and in the modern universities:
People were starved to the point of cannibalism, forcibly relocated and effectively enslaved to do agricultural work
in numbers that exceeded the total number of slaves ever held in the United States across centuries combined. Dissent and
disobedience have been aggressively suppressed—not just anti-government demonstrations, but even people who practice
quasi-religious beliefs that fail to acknowledge the supreme power of the Communist Party. Today, children are treated as
cattle, with limitations on gender and breeding. Women are officially considered equals, but in reality are little more than
servants who need to keep their mouths shut. Its lands and its waters are toxic, and result in millions being sickened or
deformed.
This isn’t ancient history. Lots of Chinese would be able to explain in great detail the horrors
they have personally seen, if only they were allowed.
...
Today, China celebrates her 60th anniversary,
and she retains blood on her hands from the first day right up until today. 60 years of terror and violence, paranoia and
poverty. Layers of fresh blood cake over ancient blood.
Today is a day to pray for the souls of the ordinary
Chinese who live each day with the heel of the Red Chinese jackboot on their faces and to resolve, once again, to never forget
them.
Also over at The Gormogons, The Mandarin makes an interesting related point:
...I remember a time when calling
someone a communist was an insult [I remember it well -Bob]. Now people from the ranks of the lowly community organizer to
a Czar ensconced at the highest levels of the current administration wear the label of communist as a badge of honor.
The left worships the communist Chinese regime for its central planning and the control it exerts over the lives of the
Chinese citizens. Many see it as a model to aspire to here in the United States and are in the process of expanding the government
to achieve this goal of total control. These are scary times when we celebrate those that stand at the polar opposite of the
principles of our founding and shun and reject those that want to preserve the constitution and the “American Way.”
As I said: the world has turned upside down.
Lest We Forget:
1 oct 09 @ 7:47 am edt
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
A LITTLE HUMP DAY RULE 5The TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee hereby presents...
JOEY HEATHERTON...
30 sep 09 @ 9:01 pm edt
MATTHEW LESKO IS JEALOUSIowahawk is doing his bit to fight against the 'cabal of art-hating
reactionary philistines' who caused Yosi Sergant to resign from the National Endowment for the Arts:
... the stakes are too high. We in the Arts community must confront these vulgarian bullies and let them know that
ART WILL NOT BE SILENCED. To show my personal commitment to this important cause, last night I dug deep into my kid's sock
drawer and found $33.18, which I am now fully dedicating to an endowment to fund creative art aimed at promoting me and my
agenda.
As a member of the trend-setting art community, you are probably asking yourself: how do I get me that
sweet-ass grant money? The answer is simple -- submit your original creative work in the Iowahawk Endowment for the
Art's $33.18 Steel Cage Art Death Match.
Please click here to read the submission rules. The deadline for entries is 04 October.
As of the publishing of this posting, Iowahawk's
received forty-eight entries. They may be seen by clicking here.
I was going to enter this contest out my devotion to the arts, but my friend Smitty has already submitted an
entry, so I must be loyal [his is #9, Subliminal Presidential Logic] support the fulfillment of his
artistic vision. As Rasputin once said: 'Matushka, I have visions'. Honorable mentions must go to Pissed
Obama [#26] and Racist Pixel [#1]. Get your entry in ASAP. Voting goes from 05-09 October.
30 sep 09 @ 8:29 pm edt
THE DEATH OF BILL SPARKMAN IIIFor my two previous postings on this subject, please click here and here.
Since I last updated you on Stacy McCain's adventures in Kentucky this morning, he has filed three additional
reports of his color travelogue over at The Other McCain...
-The first one introduces us to Morgan Bowling, News Director of the Manchester
Enterprise. At the tender age of twenty, she holds down quite a responsibility at the paper and, judging from
what Stacy has written and the short video interview with her he conducted, she's got a level of maturity you don't find too
often these days in people her age. How about a little bit of color:
After
we had talked for several minutes about the Sparkman case and the situation in Clay County, I asked her, "What's up with
the tattoo on your neck?"
She laughed and told me that actually she has four tattoos. The one on
her neck says, "Born to Suffer" -- the same motto as her grandfather's tattoo, the one he got while serving his
country in Vietnam, more than 20 years before Morgan was born.
-In the second, Stacy describes how difficult it has been to investigate the death:
It's kind of hard to cover a homicide investigation when the police aren't saying anything. On the one hand, I perfectly
understand the concerns of law enforcement, who are conducting an important criminal investigation, and don't want to compromise
the case.
Let's face
it: Criminals can read newspapers, too. Although police haven't officially ruled out an accidental cause of death, this would
be the most bizarre case of self-asphyxiation in history. So if somebody killed Sparkman, the killer is still out there somewhere.
If anyone can dig up useful information, its Stacy McCain.
-In the latest one, Stacy describes some more of what his day was like and the people he has met. The key line is this one:
...But I've done what I came here to do. I've got enough notes and pictures to lash together 10,000
words if I had to, and plenty of sources I can contact if this story heats up again, as it may at any moment....
Sounds like we'll be reading some good reporting very soon.
Godspeed on your trip home Stacy.
Sam Gatlin always gets his story.
30 sep 09 @ 7:41 pm edt
THE TOWN THAT BILLY SUNDAY COULD NOT SHUT DOWNSo...Instead of speaking to the commander of the Middle East Theater of
Operations, our beloved Fearless Leader is jetting off to Copenhagen to 'urge' the International Olympic Committee
to stage the 2016 Games in Chicago. Why is it so important to him that he will risk his prestige and do what no President
has ever done before? I think the intrepid Michelle Malkin may have the answer [if fact, I'd bet on it]:
When government officials play the Olympic lottery, taxpayers lose. That has been the disastrous experience of host cities around the world (Forbes magazine even dubbed the post-Olympic
financial burden the “Host City Curse”). So, why are President Obama and his White House entourage headed to Copenhagen, Denmark
this week to push a fiscally doomed Chicago 2016 bid? Political payback.
Bringing the games to the Windy City is
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s “vision.” The entrenched Democratic power-broker – in office since
1989 – would like to cap off his graft-tainted career with a glorious, $4 billion bread and circuses production. The
influential Daley machine backedBarack Obama for the presidential primary. Obama lavished praise on Daley’s stewardship of the city. Longtime Daley cronies helped pave Obama’s
path to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Now, they’re returning the favor for their hometown boss.
But, its not
only the Mayor who would get a kickback payback. Someone very close to the First Family would enjoy
the fruits of one too:
Senior White House adviser and Obama consigliere Valerie Jarrett is a Daley loyalist who
worked as his deputy chief of staff, deputy corporation counsel, and planning commissioner. She hired the future First Lady
of the United States, then-Michelle Robinson, as a mayoral assistant. Jarrett went on to serve as president and CEO of The Habitat Company, a real estate firm with a massive stake in federally-funded Chicago public housing projects.
One of those public-private partnerships, the Grove Parc Plaza Apartments, was run into the groundunder Jarrett’s watch. Federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex a bottom-of-the-barrel
11 on a 100-point scale. “They are rapidly displacing poor people, and these companies are profiting from this displacement,”
Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle of Southside Together Organizing for Power, a community group that seeks to help tenants stay in the
same neighborhoods, told the Boston Globe last year. “The same exact people who ran these places into the ground,” the
private companies paid to build and manage the city’s affordable housing, “now are profiting by redeveloping them.”
Coincidentally enough, Grove Parc — now targeted for demolition as a result of years of neglect by Obama’s
developer friends—sits in the shadows of the proposed site of the city’s 2016 Olympics Stadium.
There's more who would benefit, if you can stomach it, so please do click here and read the rest of her report. Thank God for Michelle Malkin.
SIDENOTE: Notice how Mzz. Jarrett ends up being connected with every radical
appointed and having her hands in every corruption? She's a Goddamned Hydra.
30 sep 09 @ 2:47 pm edt
TWISTED SISTERWe've all heard about this part of this recently aired interview:
"I’ve talked to the president, since I’ve been here, once on a VTC [video
teleconference]," Gen. Stanley McChrystal told CBS reporter David Martin in a television interview that aired Sunday.
"You’ve talked to him once in 70 days?" Mr. Martin followed up.
"That is correct,"
the general replied.
To be Commander-In-Chief and to not have spoken with the commander of your main
theater of operations [TO] in that long is astonishing—that is, until you remember who is our current C-in-C: The
Dali Bama.
Pundette never forgot:
It was all there before the election: the padded but still painfully thin resumé, the absolute lack of executive and foreign policy experience, the poor judgment, the narcissism, the radical background. But with the mainstream media providing some critical support, Americans
chose to fill the role of POTUS with a person unfit to play it. Turns out Joe Biden was half right: yes, Obama is being tested early on by international crises, but no, his spine does not seem to be made of steel.
No surprise also that the prophet John
Bolton hasn't either [tip of the fedora to Amanda Carpenter]:
If you think there are no threats, then
it’s not illogical to pay no attention to the rest of the world. The problem is in his [Obama’s] basic reading
of the international environment where we do continue to face massive threats from international terrorists and the proliferation
of weapons of mass destruction, among others.
Per usual, Mark Steyn relates this revelation to the broader Obamanic picture:
Although he affects a president-of-the-world manner, I don’t think Barack
Obama cares much about foreign affairs one way or the other. He has a huge transformative domestic agenda designed to leave
this country looking much closer to the average Continental social democracy. His principal interest in the rest of the planet
is that he doesn’t need some nutjob nuking Cleveland before he’s finished reducing it to a moribund socialist
swamp. And so, like many European nations, when it comes to the global scene, President Obama has attitudes rather than policies.
If you’re on the receiving end — like Israel, Poland, Honduras — it’s not pleasant, and it’s
going to get worse.
And, it would appear, it's going to get worse for our troops on the ground in the METO.
I have no doubt that our Islamic enemies look upon this revelation as a further sign that the infidel in The White House is
a weak sister and that they will act accordingly. God bless our troops.
POLANSKI, THE 'BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE', & BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMASome interesting questions and issues are being raised by the whole Roman Polanski
situation. [Please click here for my posting yesterday that bears directly on it]
-Ann Althouse picks up on a vibe that many of us have felt:
Is it just art, or is there a particular love in Hollywood film art of the forbidden love between the adult and
child?
I thought I saw a pedophilia trend in the most honored films of 2008. I talked about that in this blog post...
I'm seeing all the well-reviewed year-end movies, and there's an awful
lot of wrong-age sex. "Doubt" is about a priest accused of molesting children. "Benjamin Button," with
its backwards aging character, had scenes of an old man in love with a young girl and an old woman in love with a toddler.
"The Reader" had a 36-year-old woman seducing a 15-year-old boy. "Milk" had a man in his 40s pursuing
relationships with much younger (and more fragile) men. "Slumdog Millionaire" shows a young teenage girl being sold
for sex. I say that Hollywood is delivering pedophiliac titillation with the deniability of artistic pretension.
Spot-on. This has always been a problem that has plagued all forms of art. The innocence of the young has always
drawn interest from artists, but, it seems to me, it has always been reigned in by the society up until the modern age.
Many have crossed the lines in the past, but they've either been shunned or prosecuted. Those periods in history when
they haven't, have been times of debauchery and decline. Could this be one explanation?
-Jim Hoft has the lowdown on the artiste's petition being circled for Polanski and some good links.
As a composer, writer, and musician, I must tell you that I am ashamed of my fellow artists—ashamed, but,
sadly, not surprised. Up until the 19th Century, artists were very rarely allowed to sit at the same table with people
of good reputation. There was a reason for that.
-Erick Erickson shows the similarities in attitude between the Artiste Elites and a certain elected official:
...[Whoopi]
Goldberg’s blasé attitude about rapinghaving sex with drug filled children and the implications of statutory
rape has spilled over into the Obama administration, which is taking the position that statutory rape is of no great consequence
and should, if the child consents, be encouraged.
There is no other way to look at Barack Obama’s appointment
of Kevin Jennings, the President’s “safe schools czar” who, the Washington Times reports unapologetically encouraged a homosexual relationship between a fifteen year old boy and
much older man who, the boy reported to Jennings, picked the boy up in a bus station bathroom and promptly took the boy home.
Considering Jennings wrote about this in his one and only published book and spoke about this prior
to his appointment, we can only assume the Obama administration knew about it and has no problem with it.
...
At some point we must stop saying that there was a failure to vet these people and conclude that Barack Obama
has no more of a problem with men like Kevin Jennings who encourage statutory rape than men like Bill Ayers who encourages
cop killing.
I'm afraid that Mr. Erickson is quite correct. Not only have we elected a President
who is a Marxist, but, it would appear, he is also a man who lacks any sense of decency or morality. What else can you
conclude?
[Please see my previous two postings about Kevin 'Rough Trade' Jennings by clicking here and here.]
30 sep 09 @ 11:26 am edt
THE DEATH OF BILL SPARKMAN IIStacy McCain is still in Clay County, Kentucky investigating the unnatural death of Bill Sparkman [please see my posting from yesterday for background information]. While he has not filed another report with The American Spectator as yet, he has published a new posting over at The Other McCain that corrects some bad information published in an AP story.
From the opening:
MANCHESTER, Ky. -- Having a late dinner Tuesday with Manchester Enterprise news director Morgan Bowling at the Huddle House here, our interview was interrupted by the cook.
"Are
you a reporter?" she asked, and when I replied that I was, she said: "Hi, I'm Kelsee, the Huddle House Killer."
You'll have to click here to read the rest and watch an interview with Miss Brown.
Sam Gatlin never sleeps.
As Jimmie Bise, over at The Sundries Shack, commented:
The Associated Press blew it, big time. She did say that some folks needed to keep their noses out of other peoples’
business, but she wasn’t talking about the government. You’ll have to see the whole video to find out who she
was really talking about.
Oh, and she’s not a waitress. She’s
a cook. What’s more, she’s not a Republican. She’s actually a registered Democrat who led a group of students
at her local high school who wanted Barack Obama elected President. And she’s really cute, too.
Kind of amazing the solid journalism you can get for $500,
isn’t it?
Ah, Jimmie, always appreciating the ladies.
Dan Riehl's laughing in a rather sinister way:
Well, gee, if that detail was wrong, what else could be wrong that has been circulating
around? Hmm.
It seems
to me this puts the State Police at odds with the Leftists. I hope they're prepared for the onslaught. lol And imagine this,
it won't bother those nut jobs a bit that they're going to be upset that a man wasn't found hanging. They'll get over it,
though. They can at least take comfort in knowing there was a rope around his neck. Sick basturds.
I like
it when he gets like that.
Stacy also links to a very informative report in the London [Kentucky] Sentinel-Echo by Managing Editor Joseph
Dill. A highlight:
Neither [Kentucky State Police Troopers] Trosper nor Rudzinski
would specifically address the claim that Sparkman had “Fed” written or carved into his chest. They also wouldn’t
discuss what he was — or wasn’t — wearing when he was found. That information surfaced Wednesday in the
AP story that quoted a law enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss the case and requested anonymity.
“We have no idea who released the initial information,” Trosper said. “AP listed it as an unidentified
source. No one from KSP Post 11 released that information, and I don’t have any specific knowledge about where it came
from.”
Trosper said it is official KSP policy “not to discuss ongoing investigations, especially specific
evidentiary information. We will not talk about an investigation just to give information out there that could jeopardize
the investigation. Our primary function is to investigate cases and bring positive results. A secondary function is things
such as media contacts.”
Memeorandum has thread on the story here.
30 sep 09 @ 10:12 am edt
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
THINGS ARE GETTING A LITTLE SERIOUS AROUND HERE......So you know
what that means....
...CHRISTINA HENDRICKS...
PRESENT TENSE PREZCommenting specifically on one of our Fearless Leader's trips to The Lincoln
Memorial, Track-A-'Crat ruminates on The Anointed One's relationship with history:
Barry likes to make a show of his commitment to history (normally
by letting a photographer snap him holding a book about Lincoln), but not his knowledge of it. He realizes the power
of this small gesture to ingratiate him among those Americans (also known as Republicans) who are proud of their country’s
past, viewing it as something to be celebrated rather than cursed.
And
he also does it to try to dispel the well-deserved image of a man interested only in the present. The concept of history
to Barry up until now has only been significant in its relation to Marxist doctrine and his pursuit of “oppression studies.”
As a former professor of history, I would genuinely and honestly
love to know what they spoke about as they walked through the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials. I would love to hear
what they knew and what they thought they knew, and I would be intrigued to see how often they reduced historical themes to
race/racism. I hope, but don’t expect, that they didn’t fall victim to this anti-intellectualism too often
during their tour.
One definition of intelligence (probably
my favorite one) is the ability to recognize patterns. Without a knowledge of history, this is impossible.
In Barry’s mind, his policies are new and fresh - to anyone with a sense of
the past, however, they are old and staid.
So while he may be surprised by the failure of his intricate machinations over the coming years, we will not be.
Spot-on. [Let's just hope his failures don't get some of us killed]
I think our Fearless
Leader is like this because, as I wrote back in July:
...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.
29 sep 09 @ 8:18 pm edt
LOWLIFES AND THE LOWLIFES WHO DEFEND THEMI've been gathering my thoughts on the situation with Roman Polanski, but, having
just checked out what some of my Friends In The Ether have already said, I've discovered that they pretty much covered
it all, so herewith [sorry Stacy] some quotes from them and links. Please do take the time to click on all of them and
check out their full commentaries...
-Over at The Daley Gator, DarcPrynce reminds us of the details of the crime and asks the right questions:
Let’s
keep in mind that Roman Polanski gave a 13-year-old girl a Quaalude and champagne, then raped her,
before we start discussing whether the victim looked older than her 13 years, or that she now says she’d rather not
see him prosecuted because she can’t stand the media attention. Before we discuss how awesome his movies are or what
the now-deceased judge did wrong at his trial, let’s take a moment to recall that according to the victim’s grand
jury testimony, Roman Polanski instructed her to get into a jacuzzi naked, refused to take her home when she begged to go,
began kissing her even though she said no and asked him to stop; performed cunnilingus on her as she
said no and asked him to stop; put his penis in her vagina as she said no and asked him to stop; asked if he could penetrate
her anally, to which she replied, “No,” then went ahead and did it anyway, until he had an orgasm.
Can we do that? Can we take a moment to think about all that, and about the fact that Polanski pled
guilty to unlawful sex with a minor, before we start talking about what a victim he is?
-Like Clifton, over at Another Black Conservative, I too had a Whiskey Tango Foxtrot moment:
However, I have been taken aback by some people's ridiculous defense of this monster! The most notable of the Polanski
apologist is that crazy piece that appeared in the Washington Post by Anne Applebaum (who by the way has a conflict of interest
regarding Polanski). Basically what Applebaum's argument boils down to is; why is anyone still concerned about Polanski's
case? WTF? THE MAN RAPED A LITTLE GIRL!!!!!
Polanski pleaded guilty at his trial and fled before sentencing. For some 30 years he did not live like Saddam Hussein
in some dirty spider hole. No, this MoFo lived the life of Reilly, with fancy homes, a jet set European lifestyle and even
won awards. For that, I think Polanski deserves double his original sentence should he be extradited to the US.
That's what the average Joe would get.
-Snark And Boobs addresses his defenders directly:
You know, I thought y’all had reached the lowest nadir with your odious
and utter disregard of Mary Jo Kopechne’s life because her death scored you some sweet, sweet Liberal policy making. But this? The rape of a CHILD is hunky-dory because you dig the guys “art” and
his liberal thought.
Wow, how enlightened and cultured you all are. No wonder you see yourselves as Better Than
Us/Smarter Than Us. You see, we dumb redneck-y Ugly Americans don’t think it is cool to rape kids. It is becoming
quite apparent that YOU do. To you, rape jokes about 14-year-old girls are super awesome as long as you hate the kid’s
icky Conservative Mommy. Woody Allen statutorily raping his own adopted child is totes cool too because he
thinks the right way politically and he’s “arty”....
I suppose you figure “Well, at least
he tried not to get her pregnant. What’s a little sodomy? At least that way she wouldn’t be “punished with
a baby”. Sheesh! Relax, you uncultured wingnuts! Plus, it’s not like he disagrees with Obama!”
-Speaking of Moonbattery, Gregory Of Yardale addresses the progressive enlightened elites in The West:
Too bad we Americans have this
quaint idea that it's not okay for a forty-four year old man to drug and sodomize a thirteen year old girl, even if you are
an "artist and celebrity."
To the left, elites are exempt from the rules of lesser mortals provided their
politics are sufficiently "progressive." Ted Kennedy got drunk and killed a woman. Che Guevara was a mass murderer.
Mumia Abu-Jamal is an unrepentant cop-killer. Bill Ayers is an unrepentant domestic terrorist. All of these people are heroes
to the left because they have been absolved by virtue of their politics.
But Gregory, they have THE
ANSWER.
I, however, have a question: Could this be one explanation?
-The TrogloPundit
asks another pertinent question:
What, exactly, does it take for Hollywood
to shun you?
He has the answer in picture form here.
29 sep 09 @ 8:03 pm edt
STEALTH JIHADIn today's The Washington Times, Frank Gaffney covers a
very important subject that rarely gets talked about in the media or in the blogosphere: Stealth Jihad [defined as 'the
seditious, supremacist theo-political-legal program authoritative of Islam']. After discussing several recent cases
of overt Jihad in America, Mr. Gaffney writes:
Even more insidious, though, is
what Robert Spencer calls "stealth jihad." This practice involves using myriad nonviolent measures to insinuate
Shariah into non-Muslim societies. Adherents demand such concessions as special treatment for them and their faith in public
spaces, private corporations, schools, communities and government at every level.
He then provides some
examples of how it has advanced fairly far along in Europe. Then, he writes about America:
To be sure, accommodations to date to Shariah have not metastasized in the United States to nearly this extent. There
are, however, numerous worrisome examples of concessions that have been made here, too.
To cite a few: Taxpayer-financed
foot baths for Muslims installed at state universities; corporations providing Muslim-only prayer rooms and time off for prayers;
government-sanctioned discrimination by taxi drivers against passengers deemed "impure" (haram) because they have
alcohol or dogs; unhygienic practices in food plants to accommodate the preferences of Muslim workers; government-offered
Shariah-compliant mortgages; Islamic proselytizing in public school curricula, etc.
The failure by U.S. and other
governments' officials to recognize the connection between Shariah and jihad (of either the violent or stealthy kind) is like
a refusal to acknowledge that there is a common virus causing an outbreak of swine flu.
Exactly. This
is a more dangerous form of Jihad than the other strain because it will creep up on us slowly, almost imperceptibly in
most cases, and because it can easily take advantage of our tolerance of other cultures and respect for their customs.
If you think Stealth Jihad cannot succeed, I would point out that Leftismhas been extremely successful in doing the
same thing for over one hundred years, to the point where we have all be infected with the virus of Leftist thinking.
This past century has seen a once rugged and individualistic people become more and more demanding of government-given largess
and dependent on public services. It has seen a culture steeped in traditions and wisdom, stripped bare and become vulgar
and relativistic. Thank God for men like Frank Gaffney who never cease to blow the warning horn about this insidious
disease.
Please do take the time to click here and read the full article.
One quibble: Mr. Gaffney ends his essay with the following...
Our natural
allies in taking such a stance against Shariah are the many millions of Muslims around the world whose practice of their faith
does not involve adherence to this medieval, barbaric and totalitarian program.
Indeed, most Muslim immigrants
in America came here to get away from Shariah in their native lands. Only by differentiating such Muslims from the carriers
of this lethal virus can we hope to inoculate them against the spread of the disease - and enlist their help in protecting
the rest of us by keeping American Shariah-free.
While such people can become, eventually, our natural allies,
they first have a very serious obstacle to overcome: Islam itself. The core of Islam, its very heart, is seeped in the
blackest of biles. While there are a good number of wise passages in The Koran, they are far outnumbered
by the ones that reek of hate and death and war. Islam is a religion based in a Culture Of Death—it
revels in violence and in submission of the Will.
These decent Muslims, yearning to be free from Shariah, have
to free themselves from Islam if they hope to fully enjoy the freedoms The West has to offer.
29 sep 09 @ 2:27 pm edt
WHOM THE LEFTIST GODS WOULD DESTROY...I written the following, or some variant of it, a good number of times in these
Dispatches:
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'.*
Now Mark Steyn offers a related warning that is dead solid perfect:
...Don't take your opponents at face value; listen
to what they're really saying. What does the frenzy unleashed on Sarah Palin last fall tell us? What does Newsweek's
"Mad Man" cover on Glenn Beck mean? Why have "civility" drones like Joe Klein so eagerly adopted
Anderson Cooper's scrotal "teabagging" slur and characterized as "racists" and "terrorists" what
are (certainly by comparison with the anti-G20 crowd) the best behaved and tidiest street agitators in modern history?
They're telling you who they really fear. Whom the media gods would destroy they first make into "mad men."
Liz Cheney should be due for the treatment any day now.
Sad to say, many who should know better go along with it.
Our old comrade David Frum wrote a piece called "Whose Side Is Glenn Beck On?" Well, in the space of a week Beck claimed
the scalps of Van Jones, ACORN and that Yosi Sergant guy at the NEA, none of whom should ever have been anywhere near
the corridors of power but who'd still be there if it weren't for Beck. So whoever's side he is on, it seems pretty clear
he's not on the Obama administration's. Hence, Media Matters's sudden obsession with such pressing concerns as Glenn's mom's three decade-old suicide.
The
media would like the American Right to be represented by the likes of Bob Dole and John McCain, decent old sticks who know
how to give dignified concession speeches. Last time round, we went along with their recommendation. If you want to get rave
reviews for losing gracefully, that's the way to go. If you want to win, look at whom the Democrats and their media chums
are so frantic to destroy: That's the better guide to what they're really worried about.
There are
many reasons why this type of behavior is so hard to fight, but, perhaps, the most heartbreaking one is, as Mr. Steyn describes,
when your own use the same tactics as the Left to attack fellow conservatives and/or libertarians. The Frums and Parkers
and Brookses and Buckleys should know better, but it seems they want to be loved by the elites in New York and Washington
so much, to be invited to the right soirees, they are willing to hurl calumnies against their own on the Right.
They are point scorers. As I've said many times before: I don't think they should be purged, rather, they should be
shunned by all of us on the Right who refuse to play games when the fate of everything we hold dear is at stake. Shun
them and, perhaps, they'll get the message and cease their behavior, or leave the Right altogether.
*See also this in the TERMS Section below.
29 sep 09 @ 2:12 pm edt
THE IN-SUR-REC-TION IS A SUCCESS!......The Le-gal one, that is. William Jacobson's site crossed
the magic one million hits mark sometime yesterday. Congratulations Professor. The site is one of the best to
turn to for insightful analysis on the issue of health care reform and he is one of the best debunkers of the bromides
of the Left. In his posting celebrating the passing of the mark, Mr. Jacobson passes along the three most important
lessons he's learned since he began the sit back in October of last year. He then thanks the many people who have helped
him along the way and ends with this stirring bit of prose:
To this great country,
you are worth fighting for. The people who think creeping socialism is cool don't have a clue as to the deep damage they are
doing. I will not shut up about it, will continue to post the truth about where we are heading, and will fight with every
last electron to stop the decline of this nation at the hands of those lazy, handout-seeking, selfish fools who think everything
we have earned came for free, that history began a decade ago, and that they are owed something.
What troubles
me more than anything is that this government is stealing the future from my children, and my not-yet-conceived grandchildren.
Such generational theft is unforgivable and will not be forgotten.
This is the fight of our lives for the benefit
not of ourselves, but of future generations. Will our children and our children's children have the freedom to make their
own way in life, or will we relegate them to being beggars at the alter of government handouts?
This time, it really
is all about the children, and our own legacy.
Will we be honored as the generation which finally said no to the
welfare state and thereby saved the best economic and political system on earth, or will we be cursed by our descendants as
the generation which gave it all away?
So the blog and the fight goes on. Thanks for reading.
Recently,
Stacy McCain wrote:
We need fighters, and I suspect [Glenn] Beck will fight 'til ev'ry foe
is vanquished. [Some get 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.
William Jacobson gets it.
Please do take the time to click here and the Professor's full posting.
I will say to you, Proffather, what I've said to others who've crossed the same mark: may your second million,
be a masculine million. Te' Salute!
29 sep 09 @ 1:45 pm edt
THE DEATH OF BILL SPARKMAN IBill Sparkman is the part-time Federal Census worker from Kentucky who was found
'gagged, blindfolded, and bound hand and foot with duct tape, then hanged from a tree limb, so that he died by asphyxiation'.
It has been confirmed that the word 'fed' was written on his chest, apparently with a felt tip marker. Last Friday,
I posted here about the revelations in the case so far and also on the typically irresponsible speculation being created out of whole
cloth on the motive for his murder. Keep in mind that, at that point, the police had not confirmed that it was, indeed,
a murder. That did not stop the Leftist blogosphere from engaging in the kind of wild rumor mongering it is known for
[see: Sarah Palin and her family]. Andrew Sullivan, trying to appear like he was not being shrill, but being shrill
nevertheless [the boy can't help himself], wrote:
...But the most worrying
possibility – that this is Southern populist terrorism, whipped up by the GOP and its Fox and talk radio cohorts –
remains real.
And this was one of the more measured sentences penned and published. As far as the
Left was concerned Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Rep. Michelle Bachmann, et. al., were responsible for the death of Mr. Sparkman
and the people of Clay County, Kentucky were ignorant rednecks who could easily be cast in a Deliverance
remake. As I wrote last Friday:
With the Left, you have to remember,
the personal is political. In their own view of the world, everything has a political angle to it, therefore, they apply
it to all of life, to all people. There is nothing that is not permeated by politics as far as they are concerned.
That this belief is not well-reasoned and patently false never occurs to them. They have concocted a theory of how the
world works and nothing—not a blessed thing—not even the truth, is going to be allowed to disturb the concoction
they have mixed together and tested in their lab, away from the conditions of the real world—even if that mixture goes
toxic once released into the real world.
Aside from this, one always has to remember one of the cardinal
rules of reporting, as Stacy McCain puts it: 'If your mother says she loves you, check it out.'
Well, Stacy McCain decided he wanted to check it out, actually go there, wear down some shoe leather, and REPORT on the story.
He asked for funding from his readers in his usual diplomatic way ['Just keep hitting that tip jar, you ungrateful bastards'] and they came through [Mrs. B. even yelled at me: 'Give him something!!']. Off he went yesterday,
driving nearly six hundred miles. Stacy filed his first report with The American Spectator last night
near midnight. The key line of that report [the whole of which may be found by clicking here] is the last:
When police finally make an arrest in Sparkman's death, the suspect will be considered innocent until proven guilty.
Shouldn't the same be true for the rest of Clay County?
Andrew Sullivan may like sitting in his perfumed apartment pontificating on possible motives in far-away fly-over
country, but people like Stacy—real reporters—know you have to pound the pavement and knock on doors to understand
the situation. A perfect example is this paragraph from the TAS article:
Rodney Miller [of the Manchester Enterprise] dismisses such speculation with blunt language -- bovine excrement, so to speak -- and explains that
"fed" as an epithet has
a specific localized meaning in Clay County. "Half our public officials are in jail and the other
half have been indicted," he says, somewhat exaggerating the result of the federal corruption
probe. "So, yeah, there are a lot of a people here who don't like
'feds.'"
That puts a bit of a different color on the story. Please do take the time to click here and read the whole report. Also, Stacy published a posting over at his site, The Other McCain, that you might describe as an
accompanying travelogue and a set of footnotes that help us see the whole picture. A highlight:
So I spent nearly an hour talking to Mr. Miller, a 56-year-old native of Manchester
who was quite helpful in understanding the community, the people and what little can be learned about the Sparkman murder
investigation.
After we'd done talking, Mr. Miller introduced me to one of his young advertising reps, who lives
in the vicinity of the cemetery where Sparkman's body was found. Would she lead me up there? No way. Uh-uh. Too scary up there.
If you want to speculate about anything, ponder this: Sparkman lived in London, Ky., in neighboring Laurel County,
more than 30 miles east of where his body was found, with his truck parked near the end of the the dead-end road
leading up to that cemetery.
Did Sparkman arrange a meeting up there with the person who killed him? If so, why?
And if not . . .?
I'll be updating here as reports warrant, but keeping checking over at TAS and at The Other McCain.
Sam Gatlin is on the story.
29 sep 09 @ 8:20 am edt
Monday, September 28, 2009
FIGURESTyrants, or wannabe tyrants, love to accumulate titles, and our beloved Barack
Hussein Obama seems to be no exception. So far he is: President of The United States Of America, Fearless Leader
and Duce, Lowerer Of The Seas, Defender Of Islam, Apologist Of All That Is American, Sovereign Of The Stimulus, Healer Of
The Earth, Duke Of No Nukes, Sovereign Restorer Of Images, Messiah Of The Mob, Leader Of The Lay-Abouts, Sovereign Organizers
Of Communities, Duke Of Alinsky, Sovereign and Most Honourable Provider Of Health Care, Sovereign of the Most Venerable Order
of Narcissists, Financial Adviser-In-Chief, Physician-In-Chief. And now, as Dan Collins reports, Linguist-In-Chief:
Esperanto, the manufactured "global language," derives its name from
the Spanish word for hope, with the same Latin root as esperance. Naturally, then, in the Land of Hopenchange, it's being
touted as a second language at Change.Org's website. Shit you is a thing that I do not do.
Of course, multi-culty
Obama had to admit on the campaign trail that he didn't have a second language, though goodness knows young Americans ought
to be required to learn one (an assertion that I happen to believe is true). How Obama managed to pass the language requirement
at Columbia University is one of those topics shrouded in the mist of missing records. But why Esperanto?
Esperanto
was the brainchild of one-worlders. When I lived in Coyoacan in Mexico City, among the lunatics who spent their days passing
out information in the Plaza in front of Cortez's palace, on the gazebo, were passionate advocates of Esperanto. I asked them
kindly, in Spanish, why this was so important to them. They replied, in Spanish, that English, which has become, at least
for the time being, the lingua franca of the world, was a racist, imperialist language....
Obama's agenda of undercutting
American exceptionalism seems to extend even to language. Esperanto has no great literature. It's based in no nurturing culture.
It is as artificial as Klingon, and perhaps less well developed. Its only true function is typically progressive, in that
it lets its advocates feel superior to the benighted around them....
It makes sense: a failed language being
advocated by a man who subscribes to a failed ideology.
Please do take the time to click here and read the whole bloody thing.
28 sep 09 @ 7:12 pm edt
DR. BELVEDERE: HELP FOR BLOGGERS IS HEREAs many of you know, I am a doctor. Specifically, during the work week,
I operate as Dr. Clyde 'Fingers' Proctor OB/SCT [Scatologist]; on my lunch hours and weekends, I practice as Dr. Robert Oswald
Belvedere, OB-GYN. As the Chief of Vaginology at The Lord Fatheringay von Whoopsie Memorial
Hospital, I come across a variety of different cases each and every day. These cases cover the whole gambit
of conditions. You may not be aware of this, but the field of Vaginology is like a valley, wide and deep, with a lot
of dark places. No matter how expert one is in the field, no doctor, no matter how intelligent and well-read he is on
the latest research, can penetrate every mystery associated with this area of medicine. Often we have to call on our
colleagues in the field for advice. Such was the case that was recently before me...
A friend of mine,
a male [they do, believe it or not, make up a sizable percentage of my patients], came in with a condition I could not
solve. I therefore, had to consult my esteemed collegue, Dr. Robert Stacy McCain, Director of Research
at The McCain Institute For Advanced Vaginology, and author of Know Your Vajayjay: An Expert Guide
to What's Up Down There. He is the CREEM of the crop is these matters, having spent many years in intense research
on the subject. So, it was with much aanticipation that I wrote to my much-praised and admired fellow Vaginologist the
following missive:
Dr. Stacy:
A friend of mine has a
question...
My wife and I were not having sex before I began to blog; since I've been blogging, we're not having sex
more. Is this a bad thing? Should I be concerned? Should I worry that she's started saying our 85 year old neighbor is 'kinda
cute'?
-- Dr. Bob Belvedere, M.D., TCOTS Despite his heavy workload, Dr. Stacy [as they call him on the Fox News Channel] replied to
my query in less than four hours. He posted the answer on his website, The Other McCain, so that all bloggers suffering in silence and shame could benefit from his wise advice. I would encourage all bloggers
and their spouses to read the full report by clicking here. As you will see: understanding the signs and the causes of this malady, Analeptic Nookie Neglect,
can only help couples in this terrifying situation. Understanding is the first step towards successful treatment.
The more you know, the better armed you are. Don't play golf in the rain. Anyways....a highlight from his
report:
Analeptic Nookie Neglect is largely psychosomatic, one of the various maladies
categorized as Blogger Mood Disorder by our eminent colleague Professor William Jacobson, the Blogospheric Neologian.
The addictive qualities of blogging provide such powerful neurostimulatory effects
that, by compulsively seeking the orgasmic thrill of an Instalanche, the patient's limbic system response becomes so oriented toward online stimuli that not
even the most overt signal of the availability of the world's finest nookie -- e.g., the blogger's wife bringing him, at 9 p.m. on a rainy Friday evening, a
chocolate milk shake from Dairy Queen -- can lure him away from his keyboard duties.
If you think you may
be suffering from this affliction, or your significant other may be, please do take the time to read it all. Your long-term
health may depend on it [no one wants to suffer from chronic Blue Ballicus Hurtzalotocus, or as it is popularly known:
Harry Reid's Syndrome].
I relayed the advice of my colleague to my patient and, I am happy to
report, he was relieved to know that he could take charge of the situation, get a grip as it were, and work towards a cure
so that he could, one day soon, lead a life, once again, filled with self esteem and of personal fulfillment.
 SIDENOTE: While Dr. McCain responded very quickly to my inquiry, I was, sadly, not able to pass along the useful diagnosis
to my patient until late yesterday afternoon, as I explained in my reply to the good Doctor:
I am sorry I did not comment sooner, but I have been working on a particularly troubling case [more on that in a
minute].
As you know, during the week I operate under the name of Dr. Proctor, Scatologist [except for lunch hours
and weekends when I practice as OB-GYN Dr. R.O.Belvedere]. However, I received a frantic call yesterday in the early afternoon
from a man I shall simply call 'Sully'. It seems he had a...how shall I put it so as not offend the ladies...a 'Johnson' lodged
up his bum, as it were. I am not referring to the typical slang name for a 'Johnson'. In this case it was the whole head of
a man. Tragically, this is not the first time this has happened to 'Sully' [I do wish these light-in-the-loafer types would
exercise more caution]. Anyway, the extraction was rather difficult and took several hours because, you see, 'Johnson' did
not want to come out. We had to finally lure him out my making him believe that you were coming over to kick his butt. This
treatment worked and he high-tailed it out of 'Sully's'...ahem...dark place to disappear into parts unknown. Anyway...
I told my friend of your advice and he seemed very satisfied. Thank you and I will update you frequently
with his progress.
Your esteemed colleague,
Dr. Robert Oswald Belvedere, M.D.
Chief of Vaginolgy,
Lord Fatheringay von Whoopsie Memorial Hospital
28 sep 09 @ 10:43 am edt
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We thank you, sir.'
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—Paco
Captain Ohab:
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heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned Fox News.'
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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'
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