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Saturday, October 17, 2009
RULE 5 SATURDAYThe TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee, having not
focused the spotlight on a lovely lady of 1970's for a while, has decided to honor a lady who is most definitely not as well
known as she should be. Her combined charm and toughness are two traits much admired my the real men of this world and
her grace is well known. So, it is with great pleasure that The Committee presents....
CAROLINE MUNRO...
Normally, it is my practice to present a song that fits the lady being featured as the Rule
5 Gal of the week, but this week, I must make an exception.
Ten years ago yesterday, your humble Dispatcher
had the honor of marrying the still charming and wonderful Mrs. Belvedere. On that great day, we danced to the two songs
that we consider our songs. Here is one. The version we like best is by the great Delbert McClinton...
When the road gets dark and you can no longer see
Just let my love throw a spark,
baby
And have a little faith in me
And when the tears you cry are all you can believe
Just give these
loving arms a try, baby
And have a little faith in me
Have
a little faith in me
Have a little faith in me
Have a little faith in me
Have a little faith in me
When your secret heart cannot speak so easily
Come here darlin',
and from a whisper start
Have a little faith in me
And when your back's against the wall
Just turn around,
and you will see
I will catch you, I will catch your fall
So have a little faith in me
Have a little faith in me
Have a little faith in me
Have a little faith in me
Have a little faith in me
I've been loving you
For
such a long, long time, baby
Expect nothing in return,
Just for you to have a little faith in me
You
know time, time is our friend
For you and me, yeah, there is no end
All you gotta do is have a little faith in me
Say, I'll hold you up, I'll hold you up
Strength is enough, so
have a little faith in me
All you gotta do is have a little faith in me
I said all you gotta do is have a
little faith in me
Have a little faith in me
17 oct 09 @ 7:17 pm edt
STEYN OF THE WEEKENDFrom his most recent appearance on the Hugh Hewitt Show:
STEYN: ... I went in, the first time
I went in to guest host for Rush Limbaugh, there’s a black man on the other side of the glass telling me do this, do
that, whatever. That’s Mr. Snerdley, who talks in Rush’s ear three hours a day. And as he said during the election
campaign, is “certified black enough” to criticize Barack Obama. So the second, you know, the number two guy when
Rush is sitting in his studio in Palm Beach is a black guy. His most popular guest host, putting aside these obscure foreigners
like me that he lets on the air, his most popular guest host is Walter E. Williams, a black conservative. He has Thomas Sowell
on, a black conservative. What this woman from Hunter College means, this supposedly successful journalist, is that these
black guys are not on the Democratic Party plantation. If we’re going to bandy around all the plantation rhetoric, that’s
what they’ve got. It means it doesn’t count if you have Walter Williams as your guest host. It doesn’t count
if you have Mr. Snerdley in your ear directing the show, because they’re not Democratic Party plantation blacks.
17 oct 09 @ 3:57 pm edt
HOW COULD I HAVE MISSED...1) ...The Michelle Obama Action Figure?...
The new Michelle Obama doll is available in three outfits:
the purple dress worn when the Obamas shared their famous fist bump during the campaign, the red and black dress she wore
on Election Night and the black-and-white floral dress she wore during an appearance on "The View." All three dolls
show Michelle Obama in a sheath dress and with bare arms, attributes that have become personal trademarks during her tenure
as first lady.
Over at WyBlog, Chris has the full ad.
Click on the link above within the next 10 minutes and you'll receive
The Bill Ayers Action Figure!
[explosives sold separately]
Just pay shipping
and manhandling.
2) ...BACON THURSDAY over at The Pirate's Cove.
17 oct 09 @ 3:52 pm edt
MAO-MAOING THE ZIT CATCHERS As the video has gone viral, you probably have heard about or seen the remarks made by Anita Dunn, member of the President's
inner circle, to high schoolers from back in June wherein she praised Chairman Mao [Stacy McCain has the video here]. Glenn Beck was the first to broadcast the video. Many thanks to you, Mr. Beck; you are truly are doing The
Lord's work [I like the way Stacy puts it: 'Wow! Mao! Let a thousand YouTubes bloom, because Glenn Beck flows from the barrel
of a gun'].
I happened to be watching the show the day he unveiled the video and—sad commentary
this—I was neither shocked nor surprised. I think it would not be too out of line to say that most of you felt
the same way. This kind of thing, so unthinakble a mere year ago, is now the standard for this White House: choose as
your advisors the most radical Leftists. This President is the most Anti-American President we have ever had.
An old Cold Warrior like myself [we've got the metaphysical scars to prove it], Roger Kimball is dead solid perfect in his
commentary [and, therefore, I hope he doesn't mind my quoting from his posting on this at length]:
Mao Tse-Tung. That would be the deviant monster who, quite apart from his disgusting
personal life, engineered the mass murder of anywhere from 50 to over 100 million people. Estimates vary so widely because
murder on that wholesale scale is difficult to tabulate, especially in a country as backwards as China was under Mao’s
long reign. But there is little doubt that Mao has the grisly distinction of being the greatest mass murderer in history.
Yet this is the man that one of Obama’s closest advisors commends to an audience with warmth and enthusiasm.
In 1947, she tells her audience, Chiang Kai-Shek seemed to hold all the cards: he had the army, the airforce, and yet Mao
went on to victory, telling people, as Anita Dunn told her listeners, “You fight your war and I’ll fight mine.”
Don’t believe me? Listen [to the video].
N.B.: Anita Dunn is not just an Obama hanger-on. She is part of
his inner circle, one of his top aides, along with David Axelrod, Rahm Emmanuel, and Robert Gibbs. What does it mean that
someone in that position proffers one of the greatest monsters the world has ever seen for emulation?
Anita Dunn
calls Mao a “political philosopher.” In fact, as a real philosopher, the late, great Leszek Kolakowski, understood,
Mao’s real achievement was as “one of the greatest, if not the very greatest, manipulator of large masses of human
beings in the twentieth century.” His violent peasant revolution mouthed Marxist slogans, but at its core was less Marxist
than a particularly rebarbative form of anarchic and anti-intellectual tyranny. “The obfuscation of Western admirers
of Chinese Communism,” Kolakowski observes toward the end of his magnum opus, Main Currents of Marxism, “is
scarcely believable.” I wish he were still here for Anita Dunn.
In the 1960s and 1970s, many American universities,
along with some other Western redoubts of privilege and irresponsibility, harbored a few deluded characters who declared themselves
Maoists and were fond of toting around his pathetic compendium of absurdity, “The Little Red Book.” These creatures
were the sorriest detritus of our own cultural revolution. Some destroyed themselves. Others grew up, in whole or part, and
were absorbed by a rich and forgiving society into the tissues of American life. Only now is it clear that some of the most
radical and benighted have subsisted long enough in the outer corridors of power to find themselves suddenly translated into
its inner sanctum, the White House and other top agencies of the United States government. It is an eventuality that would
be risible were it not repulsive and, indeed, frightening.
So, we have a self-professed admirer of Mao Tse-Tung
in a top job at the White House.
Where does it end? Where?
It doesn't so long as Barack Hussein
Obama sits in the President's chair.
Over at The Corner, Victor Davis Hanson wonders:
So where do all these people, so intimate with our president (Dunn is the wife
of his personal lawyer), come from? A right-wing attack machine could not make up such statements as those tossed off by a
Dunn or a Van Jones. There seems to be neither a moral compass nor even a casual knowledge of history in this administration.
And now we have the avatars of the "new politics" claiming it's okay to praise Mao's political and philosophical
insight and his supposed determination ("You fight your war, and I'll fight mine") because Lee Atwater supposedly
once evoked Mao too.
I respect Mr. Hanson a great deal. As regular readers of these Dispatches know,
I approvingly quote from him a great deal. His books are some of the best I've read on warfare—he ranks up there
with John Keegan. But when he writes 'There seems to be neither a moral compass nor even a casual knowledge of history
in this administration', it makes me so frustrated because it's been obvious for a long time that Obama and his friends have
no moral compass and that their view of history is a Marxist one. How many times must they prove this before Mr. Hanson
opens his eyes? And he is not alone. There are so many so-called 'wise' conservatives out there who I can't bear
to listen to anymore because they still refuse to acknowledge that this man in The White House and his minions are committed
Left wing radicals who want to overthrow our constitutional Republic, albeit non-violently. Anita Dunn admires Mao:
big friggin' surprise. I'm sure she also admires Castro and Lenin, and Stalin and Robespierre. And I have absolutely
no doubt that she is not alone in her admiration amongst the staff of The White House. Wake up wise men; its getting
very late.
Mark Steyn, as you might guess with a great deal of certainty, is under no illusions:
...If you say, “Chairman Mao? Wasn’t he the wacko who offed 70 million
Chinks?”, you’ll be hounded from public life for saying the word “Chinks.” But, if you commend the
murderer of those 70 million as a role model in almost any school room in the country from kindergarten to the Ivy League,
it’s so entirely routine that only a crazy like Glenn Beck would be boorish enough to point it out.
Which
is odd, don’t you think? Because it suggests that our present age of politically correct hypersensitivity is not just
morally unserious but profoundly decadent.
Twenty years ago this fall, the Iron Curtain was coming down in Europe.
Across the Warsaw Pact, the jailers of the Communist prison states lost their nerve, and the cell walls crumbled. Matt Welch,
the editor of Reason, wonders why the anniversary is going all but unobserved: Why aren’t we making more of
the biggest mass liberation in history?
Well, because to celebrate it would involve recognizing it as a victory
over Communism. And, after the Left’s long march through the institutions of the West, most are not willing to do that.
There’s the bad totalitarianism (Nazism) and the good totalitarianism (Communism), whose apologists and, indeed, fetishists
can still be found everywhere, even unto the White House.
Also, check out Carol's very good posting over at No Sheeples Here.
I DON'T WANT TO GO ON A RANT HERE...In these depressing times, its very easy to give in to the gloominess that has
settled all across America and despair. I say: let it out, rant now and again, and you'll feel better. We've got
quite the fight against us; the odds are against us, but fight we must because it is the right thing to do. So, as a
Doctor [OB/GYN, OB/GAssEnd] I prescribe venting every so often. Yesterday, Pat, over And So It Goes In Shreveport,
showed us how to do it right. A highlight:
Meanwhile, Glenn Beck is getting all teary and emotional on tv again as he talks
about the crap weasels in the current administration, specifically today, Anita Dunn, who Beck has on video claiming Chairman Mao as one of her go-to influential people in
times of trouble. WTF? Of course, now, she says she was just kidding. Right.
Now, if you know Pat, you know
she's usually very lady-like, so this kind of language is an exception. However, what she did was good for her soul.
I mean, look at her today:
Off now to enjoy a gorgeous day. Hope the same for you!
See...it
works. Try it...you'll like it.
Dr. Robert Oswald Belvedere, OB-GYN / OB/GAE
17 oct 09 @ 2:05 pm edt
CSI: CHEESEHEADRecently, Keith Olbergruppenfuhrer called Michelle Malkin a 'big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick'. Noted forensic scientist, Dr. Lance Burri of
the Troglopundit Wisconsin Institute of Technology [TWIT] conducted an experiment to check
out this hypothesis. As a fellow doctor [I am Chief of Vaginology at the Lord Fatheringay von Whoopsie Memorial Hospital], I will not post his findings here and, instead,
direct you to Dr. Burri's interweb page site. However, this as good an excuse as any to post a little Rule 5 of Mrs. Malkin...
17 oct 09 @ 1:01 pm edt
'HEY...I WANNA PLAY THE PRESIDENT!'In his usual and thorough manner, William Jacobson takes Little Barry to the woodshed
for this remark:
Another way of putting it is when, you know, I'm busy and Nancy busy with our
mop cleaning up somebody else’s mess –- we don’t want somebody sitting back saying, you're not holding the
mop the right way. (Applause.) Why don’t you grab a mop, why don’t you help clean up. (Applause.) You're not mopping
fast enough. (Laughter.) That's a socialist mop. (Laughter and applause.) Grab a mop –- let’s get to work.
Woodshed, meet the Whiner-In-Chief:
(Now I go into quasi-Keith Olbermann
mode). Mr. President, you are right that things are a mess, but it is about time that you recognized that you have contributed
to, worsened, and in some cases wholly created the mess...
The Professor then provides an extensive list
proving his point. Two highlights:
Dignity - Your apology tours are an embarrassment to our country and to us. At some point you will realize
that people are laughing at us, and at you. "Loved by many, feared by none" may warm your heart, but it does not
signify a President who is respected. The award of the Nobel Peace Prize was not your fault, but the reaction in the international
community was one of mockery reflecting that no one believes you have achieved anything.
Race Relations - You campaigned on a theme of being post-racial,
but your campaign team and supporters shamelessly used the race card. After your election, these same supporters have elevated
the race card to the primary weapon to silence criticism of your policies. Yet you have remained largely silent on this despicable
tactic, allowing baseless accusations of racism to poison the political dialogue.
Please do take the time to click here and read the full thrashing.
17 oct 09 @ 12:43 pm edt
THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY......is awarded to Clifton, over at Another Black Conservative,
for speaking truth to clown power. A little bit of context is necessary...
On Thursday, our Fearless Leader said:
Another way of putting it is when,
you know, I'm busy and Nancy busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else’s mess –- we don’t want somebody
sitting back saying, you're not holding the mop the right way. (Applause.) Why don’t you grab a mop, why don’t
you help clean up. (Applause.) You're not mopping fast enough. (Laughter.) That's a socialist mop. (Laughter and applause.)
Grab a mop –- let’s get to work.
Clifton responded:
Perhaps
if Obama and Nancy weren't so damn busy pissing on the floor with their useless stimulus packages, their indecision on Afghanistan,
their pushing job killing Cap and Trade legislation and their forcing an unaffordable and undesirable health care package
down our throats, they would not need so many hands on deck. Obama is nothing more than a completely useless crybaby when
it comes to taking responsibility for the serious issues facing the nation.
More and more it is becoming abundantly clear Obama simply isn't up to the
job of POTUS. He is stilling wasting jet fuel running around in campaign mode while all kinds of foreign and domestic fires
burn. Americans were duped into believing that this man, with his resume as thin as onion skin, could possible tackle the
pressing issues of today. It will be only through strong opposition and the grace of God, that America makes it through the
next 3 years in tact.
Amen.
Also, he offers a prediction that I would put money on: where Barry's
Presidential Library will be located.
17 oct 09 @ 12:34 pm edt
Friday, October 16, 2009
FLY ME TO THE BOOBS [Meghan McCain's Boobs, that is]I've just added a rather large update to my main MEGAN MCCAIN'S BOOBS posting of yesterday. Please do take the time and check out all the links and thanks again to all of those
who linked to the posting.
Now its time to play: What The Future Holds....
Meghan
McCain at 25:
Meghan McCain at 40?
16 oct 09 @ 6:15 pm edt
RED CHINESE RULE 5?
16 oct 09 @ 5:57 pm edt
ANOTHER MASTERPIECE!!!Smitty, the brains behind The Other McCain [don't worry Stacy: you're the soul behind TOM], has completed and begun publishing, in serial
form, his latest meisterwerk: CZAR D'OZ. I highly recommend you follow
the links located at the top of the right-hand column of this page and begin enjoying the wit and insight of this tour de
force by one America's leading diabolical geniuses. As new 'episodes' are published, I will link them there.
The reviews are already coming in:
Bill Clinton: Even
for me this has gone too far.
Roman Polanski: I know the perfect girl...ah...lady to cast as Dorothy.
Charles 'Little' Johnson:Sounds raaaaacist!
Keith Olberwoman: Smitty
is our Best Person In The World.
Jharles 'Tiny' Chonson: Looks raaaaacist!
David
Brooks: Oh, dear...how gauche. Its enough to make your pant crease flatten.
Rich Lowry:
I can fly! I can fly! Just like Peter Pan!
Chris Matthews: Nope...ah...nope...er maybe...naw...ok....Nope,
sorry, no tingle.
George S. Patton: Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. So
get the hell out of here, Smitty! Get him out of here! Take him back to the front! You hear me? You God-damned coward! Why,
I ought to shoot you right now, you....
Frank Rich: A triumph of superficiality over substance!
Surprising, therefore, that it came from a noted consort of a white supremacist.
[The late] Gene Siskel:
Doesn't pass the butt test. Hey, ya know, it's pretty hot down here.
Jesus d'Nazareth: I can forgive
a lot of things, my son, but not this. Oy vey!
Lord God: If I tell you to forgive someone, boy,
you I-damn well better forgive them.
Meaghan McCain: I always liked the Scarecrow's song; where
is it? Like, 'if I only had a brain', you know. Hold on....yea, I'll have another..or two [snicker, snicker]...anywho...where
was I...oh, well, gotta go...guy named Richard wants to buy me another margarita and I gotta 'pay' for it [snicker, snicker, giggle, giggle].
16 oct 09 @ 4:01 pm edt
WELL...BOB?Yup....I am feeling better today.
Slowly, but surely, gettin' my mojo
workin' again.
16 oct 09 @ 2:56 pm edt
STOPS ALONG THE ROAD TO SERFDOMSpeaking of the Left interjecting politics into every aspect of our lives...
The Classic Liberal has up a top-notch posting on how they are using—surprise!—every
means necessary to infect Americans with the idea that it is their supreme obligation to serve the Leftist Leviathan.
A highlight:
These are just more steps towards the creation of their Grand Plan –
a “civilian national security force.” You gotta give it to them though … Taking a mandatory
program that pays people (at the cost of almost $1 billion a year), then promoting it as a “voluntary
service” program, would make George Orwell proud!
The reality here is that “service,” in this context, is just
a euphemism for slavery! Didn’t we wipe-out slavery for good reasons? Do Americans even enjoy freedom anymore?
If so, then why do so many people fall prey to this (or any other) government Grand Plan?
But this is
the Progressive Vision – obedience to the State and uniformity in all things. In other words, collectivism.
Progressives consider service to the State to be a higher value than personal liberty. And notice too, the focus on kids.
Do parents have a right to raise their kids, or does the State?
To the Left, the state, as constituted by
them, is the ONLY thing that should be served. Not God. Not Judeo-Christian morality. Not one's family.
Not one's self as a human being granted free will by a loving God. The Leftist have raised up new gods. They don't
sit on Mount Olympus, but, rather, on Mount Leviathan and, like the Ancient Greek pagans, they are many and corrupted.
Unlike their Grecian ancestors however, they don't represent aspects of nature, but are creatures created in clean labs, isolated
from the real world.
16 oct 09 @ 2:53 pm edt
BY ANY MEANS NECESSARYUsing the Rush Limbaugh situation as a springboard, William Jacobson, over at
the must-visit site Legal Insurrection, discusses a new trend in political hardball:
Driving political rivals from office or appointed positions has a long tradition.
Indeed, that is what politics is all about.
Taking that fight into the private realm, whether someone's private employment or private associations, however, is a tactic we are
seeing with increasing frequency from the Obama administration and its supporters. Politics now doesn't stop at the government
doorstep, but extends into the personal lives of opponents, their businesses, and their associations.
This
is something respectable conservatives do not do. In the future, some may feel compelled to adopt this dishonorable
tactic of the Left, much like the clamor that has been rising on the Right to adopt the tactics of Saul Alinsky.
I have not made up my mind as yet on these matters, but I do lean towards the side that says 'no'. Some very important
questions have to be asked, the most important being: if we adopt one or both of these tactics, do we lose our souls in the
process.
As to why the Left has no compunctions about the extension of politics into every aspect of their opponent's
lives: you have to remember that, for the Leftist, everything is political—every aspect of life is subject to a
political calculation because they view life through the lens of ideology. Also, they do not believe in the soul.
One can't argue with the Professor's conclusion:
We are witnessing on a
national level a blurring of political and personal boundaries, driven by the executive branch and its well-financed media
operatives. For conservatives, and for anyone else who speaks out against the Obama administration, there are no sanctuary
cities.
Indeed. As they have no fixed morality and reject all traditions and act on the whim of the
moment, the Left has no compunction about using whatever means necessary to achieve their ends.
We are in a war
against a foe that laughs at honor and scoffs at truth.
16 oct 09 @ 2:11 pm edt
Thursday, October 15, 2009
THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY......is awarded to Melissa Clouthier for presenting us with this new reality:
If Rush Limbaugh can be black balled because his political views are not in line
with politically correct orthodoxy no one is safe. If Rush Limbaugh can be thwarted economically because he’s maligned by racist words
he doesn’t believe and he never uttered, no one’s economic dreams are safe–anyone can say that a person
said anything and if that person believes something unpopular to the ruling class, they’re done.
Here is
the hierarchy of economic safety in a politically correct charged world:
Least safe: White, middle aged, alpha-male,
person of color who votes Republican, female who votes Republican
Less safe: Anybody who is white
Moderately
safe: Anybody who is white and voted for Barack Obama
More safe: Anyone who is of color and voted for Barack Obama
Safer still: Anyone who is female and of color
Safest of all: Black, lesbian Obama voter (If she voted
for Hillary in the primaries, she’s suspect.)
We are no longer a merit-based economy, we are a skin color
and political ideology-based economy. We are exactly what Dr. Martin Luther King didn’t want: a place where people are judged not by their accomplishments, not by the content of their
character, but by their color and political perspective.
I guess I picked a bad week to quit drinking [just kidding].
15 oct 09 @ 7:01 pm edt
SMELLS LIKE PREENING SPIRITSo...The White House, home of the latest [and, most definitely, greatest] recipient
of the Nobel Peace Prize has declared war on the Fox News Channel. My, my,
my. I grew up in the 1970's and well remember one action of a certain Administration that was deplored and denounced
by all of the Pundits, Politicians, And Journalists Who Matter: the Nixon Enemies List. It seems a new
List of the same genus has been created. Sure as Hell smells the same. It also seems I'm not the only one to catch
the same whiff...
Over at No Sheeples Here, Carol has*.
Sister Toldjah has too:
...It all sounds very Nixonian, what with both the vicious attempts at smearing
a news outlet that refuses to roll over and crown Obama as King of America as well as a growing enemies list. And here I thought this administration was going to “change” things in Washington,
DC, get away from the “same ol’ tricks” allegedly played by prior administrations? Turns out they have indeed
“changed” Washington, DC – for the worse.
Nixon was the tragedy. If Karl
'Good Times' Marx is to be believed, then this is the farce.
*Please don't forget to keep checking over at Carol's
You Tube channel: Definite Opinion for her latest videos.
15 oct 09 @ 6:52 pm edt
I'VE GOT A LITTLE LIST...Ever since Barack Hussein Obama took the Oath Of Office, we have been caught in
a whirlwind that has made it very hard for us to keep an eye on the bigger picture. As with any storm that contains
tornado-like winds, one's vision is severely restricted. Fortunately, those of us who are fighting the revolutionary
forces that have taken control in Washington have been able to concentrate on a few targets and bring them down. However,
there are so many more that are still showing up for work each day in this, the most radical Administration in the nation's
history, that many of these committed Leftists have been able to sail on under the radar. Luckily for us, the Editors
at The Washington Times have made our job a little easier by publishing an editorial on Tuesday that lists
some of their names along with succinct descriptions of their radicalism. A highlight of just one of the beasts:
Harold Koh: Barely approved to be the chief legal counsel for the State Department,
Mr. Koh is an advocate of the dangerous notion of "transnationalism," which would elevate foreign law above the
U.S. Constitution. Mr. Koh has endorsed a "global regulatory" regime to outlaw firearms.
And this
is merely the tip of a very red iceberg. Judging by what the Editors have done in the past, I'm sure they'll provide
us with more soon. Bravo Editors; you're doing the Lord's work.
Please do take the time to click here and read the full editorial. [tip of the fedora to Quin Hillyer]
15 oct 09 @ 5:46 pm edt
MEGHAN MCCAIN BREASTS / RACK / BOOBS / CLEAVAGE [Updated at 1921hrs][Update 16OCT09 at 1627hrs]The evil and dastardly MSM is trying to deny Stacy McCain a Google-bomb on The Meghan McCain's boobs story [details about the latest Meghan McCain's breast story can be found here]. They are cousins, after all. Here is the Twitter Picture of Meghan McCain's boobs [or, if you prefer: Meghan McCain's cleavage] or [Note: the picture has been enhanced, unlike, apparently, Meghan McCain's rack]:
Please do what you can to prevent the evil MSM from getting control of this Google-bomb.
I think most
of us can agree regarding this comment by Stacy McCain on the Meghan McCain is fat meme:
I think Meg's bubbly chubbiness is quite fetching and only wish
that everyone shared my downhome admiration for a gal who, by all appearances, isn't ashamed to ask for second helpings of
barbecue and biscuits.
However, I think most of you will agree with me that Stacy may have gone a little
too far with this comment:
In fact, during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, I was the
only conservative journalist in Washington who never made a fat joke at the expense of President Clinton's delightfully weighty
mistress.
Like the concupiscent Arkansan, I found Miss Lewinsky's zaftig figure extraordinarily alluring
and was quite grateful that it was Bubba, and not I, who was led into that particular temptation.
Every time CNN showed Monica bouncing and jiggling out of the federal courthouse after her grand
jury appearances, I'd let out a low whistle and mutter: "There, but for the grace of God, go I!"
To my friend Stacy McCain, I say:
It ain't a woman's size that matters. Its how they wear it--physically
and mentally.
Your cousin wears it well physically, but when she opens her mouth, any attractiveness
is wiped away by the insipidness of her thoughts [I call this Wellesley Girl Syndrome]. The two sides go
hand-in-hand in determining if a gal is appealing over the long haul.
Also, the make up of your soul affects how
you look physically. The most extreme example of this is the schizophrenic person, who, if you look at their pictures before
the onset, look pretty much like anyone else, but after the illness has ravaged them for a bit, have distorted features. A
less extreme example is Kirsten Powers who is quite attractive physically, but whose dour form of feminism infuses her face
with a perpetual sad sack look.
S.E. Cupp is rather plain, but her personality takes what little is there and makes
her attractive. The same goes for Dagan McDowell over at Fox Business.
The same standard applies
to men: George Clooney’s quite handsome physically, but I know many conservative women who find he loses his appeal
when he opens his mouth and talks about politics or the culture. Same for Jon Hamm. Glenn Beck is not the best example of
male good looks, but many women find him attractive because of his personality. [The only exception to what one may call,
therefore, the Glenn Beck Rule, is, of course, TrogloPundit.].
Rich heiresses, like you cousin, in the age before the required pre-nup, were good for marrying because you
could get away with having a mistress you really cared for because the wife was easy to fool. In this age of the required
pre-nup however, such daughters of money usually have to settle for David Gest-types. In other words, your cousin can look
forward to a glorious future as a top-notch fag-hag.
UPDATE at 1921hrs: Stacy's got a great new posting up on Meghan McCain's boobs.
Donald Douglas weighs-in [pun intended] on Meghan McCain's boobs over at American Power.
Little Miss Attila offers her wisdom on boobs [Meghan McCain's boobs should heed her advice].
Over at Moonbattery, Gregory Of Yardale tweaks the twit [ie: Meghan McCain and her boobs].
UPDATE on 16OCT09 at 1627hrs: Stacy
McCain has up a follow-up posting on Meghan McCain's boobs. He also has some sage advice for his wandering cuz:
Meghan McCain would be well advised to stop exercising
her First Amendment rights and instead invoke her Fifth Amendment right to remain silent, as determined under Miranda
v. Arizona. Everything she says can and will be used against her in the court of public opinion.
-Over at Carol's Closet, Carol was kind enough to quote me from this posting and offer her spot-on
thoughts on Meghan McCain's boobs:
Honestly, I don’t get the Meghan McCain phenomenon. Dumb blondes are a
dime a dozen after inflation, and fat dumb blondes are as common as flies in a stable. McCain reminds me of a low rent Mae
West without West’s looks, brains or talent. She’s not even interesting enough to be a train wreck. Yet, there
she is.
-Over at The Daley Gator, GatorDoug was also kind and quoted me in a posting with
the great title: Update! Meghan McCain's boobs are still HUGE!
-Over at HotMES, Monique Stuart has got Meghan's number and comments, of course, on
Meghan McCain's boobs [thanks for the link, Monique]. A highlight:
If you really weren't concerned
about your weight you wouldn't be posting questionable pictures of yourself on Twitter in a misguided attempt to look sexy
and you wouldn't be obsessing about it to the point of writing this lengthy blog post about it. It's like I have said before,
you're like the former dorky chick on an episode of Maury ten years from now bringing back the boy who wouldn't kiss you in
high school to tell him how over it you are. Except, you're obviously not over it because if you were you wouldn't be concerned
with bringing the guy on Maury and telling him about it.
She's good.
-The Classic Liberal
is an honest man: about the world, in general, and on Meghan McCain's boobs, in particular:
Yes, Meghan McCain is an embarrassment to herself, in the same way her father
John McCain is an embarrassment to the conservative movement. That said, this is the first picture I’ve seen of her,
that made me take a second look!
Hey. I’m a mere mortal.
A mere mortal he may be, but TheCL was saint-like in giving me a link. Thanks.
-Over at Eye Of Polyphemus, Jamie has some solid advice for the Attention Whore and for
Meghan McCain's boobs:
...she should stop tweeting. Or at least ignore comments and just fantasize about
having an adoring public.
-Ferdinand Bardamu, over at In Mala Fide, is very happy with Meghan McCain's boobs and quite happy to filch my enhanced photo at the top of this post.
-Over at Piece Of Work In Progress,
Dahlhalla does a Meghan and the results are fine. Oh, and she also offers her insightful thoughts on Meghan McCain's boobs.
-Clifton, over at Another Black Conservative, is spot-on in his thinking on Grumpy's daughter
and on Meghan McCain's boobs:
Quite frankly, I say Meghan knew exactly what she was doing. She is a first class
attention whore who has not been in the news for a long time. So it was lights, camera, action and cheesecake! Personally
I hope she continues tweeting cheesecake photos, she is far better suited for that then giving advice on how to remake the
Republican party.
We all have our talents. Meghan darling: go with your cheesecake passions, go.
-Over at Saberpoint. Stogie shows how well he can multi-task by playing drums and commenting on Meghan McCain's boobs.
-Casey Fiano ain't going to join the pity party over Meghan McCain's boobs.
-Little Miss Attila shouts 'bombs away!' and carries on some more about Meghan McCain's boobs.
-The Left Coast Rebel finds Memeorandum funny and offers his opinion on Meghan McCain's boobs.
-Here come the judge—Judge Jenn Q. Public, that is, handing down her decision on Meghan McCain's boobs.
-Over at Villainous Company, Cassandra is dead solid perfect in her comments and on Meghan McCain's boobs:
...This isn't complicated: if you don't want people to treat you like a pop tart,
don't act like one. If you don't wish people to look at (or comment upon) your breasts, don't show them off to thousands of
folks to whom you've yet to be formally introduced.
I can't stand when adults demand the "right" to act
a certain way and then want to be shielded from the normal consequences of their actions. The term 'pearls before swine' comes
to mind. Women are notorious for this, and it's silly behavior.
So, dear readers, I ask you,
is Meghan McCain fat?
Meghan McCain boobs:
Meghan McCain rack:
Meghan McCain breasts:
We report, You inspect.
15 oct 09 @ 4:28 pm edt
WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT, BOBI'm still feeling under the weather, but I've got enough energy to get a few posts
published today. Once again, thank you all for your patience.
15 oct 09 @ 3:36 pm edt
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
A LITTTLE HUMP DAY RULE 5
14 oct 09 @ 8:00 pm edt
THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY......is awarded to Paco for taking Little Barry O to the woodshed and doing like The Godfather did to Johnny Fontaine:
And there
is a petulance to this president and his advisers that is highly irritating. Because Obama looks upon the presidency as being,
primarily, performance art, and he is, after all, the star of this particular program, why should everyone be constantly nagging
him about participating in writing the script? In directing the show? “John McCain was voted off the island,
and I was the only one who remained. Isn’t that the end?”
Well, no, not for a president. That is the
beginning. Winning may be the initial object, but it is not the job. It is a painful truth for one so besotted
with the ephemeral adulation that greeted his electoral victory, but Obama cannot expect that the public will permit him to
abjure the responsibilities of leadership in order to wallow in self-congratulation for the next three years. That,
Mr. President, is the reality.
To sum-up: You can act like a man!
14 oct 09 @ 5:10 pm edt
THAT'S A WRAPWe're only nine years into the current century and I think John Derbyshire has
already provided us with a grand summing-up of it:
This century belongs to trimmers, dwarfs, and preening ineffectual windbags.
We are doomed, doomed.
That's the spirit!
By the way, don't forget to buy his book:
14 oct 09 @ 5:03 pm edt
I'M RINO THE SAILOR GIRLSo...Senator Olive Oyl...er Olympia Snowe was the only Republican on the
Senate Finance Committee to vote in favor of the Mr. Magoo...er...Jim Baucus version of Obamacare.
Why this droning dullard of no discernible degree of dexterity in the thinking department stays a Republican is as big a mystery
as why anyone would want to see Rosie O'Donnell naked.
As I'm a bit under the weather, I'll let Stacy McCain handle this one:
I'd call her ugly names, but what name could possibly be
uglier than "Olympia Snowe," a synonym for everything unprincipled, selfish, dishonest and loathsome in American
politics today? A name that ranks with that of the despicable John Cornyn in defining the utter worthlessness of Republican "leadership" in Washington.
For years, the national GOP has funneled money into the campaign coffers of two-faced RINO weasels like Snowe, Arlen
Specter, Lincoln Chafee, et al., claiming that the existence of such fake Republicans provides some benefit to the
party in general.
Exactly what this benefit is, no one has ever explained, since all these gutless wonders ever
do is suck up money and whine, whine, whine -- and then stab the party in the back whenever a key vote comes up.
So now we see Cornyn and the NRSC backing Charlie Crist-- a less masculine clone of Olympia Snowe -- against Marco Rubio in Florida, and we know the answer to that:
NOT ONE RED CENT! Let these self-serving RINOs swindle their money from some other
bunch of suckers.
14 oct 09 @ 4:55 pm edt
ANOTHER MESSAGE FROM BOB First it was my ISP playing around.
Then your humble Dispatcher was struck down with some kind of bug that has rendered me sluggish for about twenty-four
hours now.
So, posting will be a little lite today and I apologize if I'm not on top of my game [such as it
is].
The Battle Rages on...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
I'M SHOCKEDOn Sunday from the Catholic News Agency, we learned [tip of the fedora to Kathryn Jean Lopez]:
Today, Pope Benedict XVI canonized
five new saints in St. Peter’s Basilica, including Fr. Damian of Molokai. During his homily, the Holy Father noted that
all of the saints followed the invitation of Christ: "Come, follow me!"
Speaking to the faithful packed
in St. Peter’s Basilica this morning, the Pope described the invitation of Christ, saying that he "invites his
disciples to the total gift of their lives, without calculation and human self-interest, with a wholehearted faith in God."
This call, the Holy Father continued, is welcomed by the saints who "place themselves in humble obedience"
to follow the Lord.
They no longer focus on themselves, the Pope explained, but by their "logic of faith."
They choose "to go against the trends of the time living according to the Gospel."
Benedict XVI then
gave a brief description of each of the five newly-canonized saints: a bishop, a Trappist brother, two priests and a nun.
What! No Obama!
Doesn't the Pope understand?
 Jeez!!!
13 oct 09 @ 2:51 pm edt
I WAS REMISS......in not wishing all of the members of The Camp Of The Saints
and The Beloved City yesterday a
Happy
Columbus Day!
Over at The Corner, John J. Miller summed up my feelings very well and succinctly:
Let's celebrate more than
half a millennium of death and destruction!
I say 'Yea' John J. Miller.
13 oct 09 @ 2:45 pm edt
THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY......is hereby awarded to Stacy McCain for his tough talk to conservatives in the course of a grand Fisking of E.J. Dionne [more on that later]:
The answer to [the Democrats] Pixie Dust nonsense is not for the Republicans to try to steal the Pixie Dust formula,
offering their own magical policy panaceas. Rather, the GOP needs to speak the brutal truth: There are no pixies and no magic.
There are no panaceas. We can neither return to some mythical
edenic Golden Age nor are we marching toward some future Utopia of perfection. Decades of trying to vote ourselves into Heaven-on-Earth
have created the very problems -- e.g., the actuarial nightmares of Social Security and Medicare -- which today's
promise-'em-anything Democrats claim they'll fix.
"Grow Up, America" would be an accurate slogan for
what the nation really needs. It wouldn't be a popular message, but it would be a true assessment of what ails us: A childishness,
a politics of wishing....
That's the Spirit! There is no Santa Claus and anyone who is
a real world manifestation of Robin Hood is nothing but a lousy two-bit punk thief. We cannot allow the ongoing
Immanentizing of the Eschaton to continue.
13 oct 09 @ 2:36 pm edt
MESSAGE FROM BOB This is the first posting I've been able to do today because, up until now, I have been unable to sign into my ISP host's
Site Editor. They're either experiencing problems or they have been migrating my site to their upgraded version without
telling me—I have no idea. I've been in touch with them via customer support and have not, as yet, received a
useful answer. In other words, I am not sure how long what is working now will continue to work. I apologize
for the inconvenience and would request that you keep checking back here throughout the rest of the day and evening.
Thanks from your humble Dispatcher.
Monday, October 12, 2009
SPECIAL RULE 5 REACH AROUNDSCircumstances did not allow me to do my traditional Rule 5 Reach Around
last week, so I figured I'd combine that one with the latest one due in their own posting...
Last weekend TCOTS
featured Sophia Loren:
 -Per usual Smitty, over at The Other McCain, was his usual generous self [I think his kindness has something
to do with that outdated concept of a soul or something] and classified six of our postings as Rule 5 worthy. The TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee has voted unanimously to award him a hearty 'Huzzah!'.
-The Classic Liberal graced us with five links in a stupendous posting wherein he somehow worked his indubitable magic and connected ending the Fed with Kristen Bell.
How does he do it? Only the spirit of Grover Cleveland knows for sure. Many thanks to TheCL.
-Professor Donald Douglas delivered two very worthwhile lessons on the superiority of long cool women in black dresses:
Jessica Simpson looking wonderfully voluptuous and Penelope Cruz proving that the nighttime is the right time. In the former, he also links TCOTS for which we are
very gradeful [ah...school humor].
-The suave Lance Burri pictorially shows us why it was inevitable that Brazil would beat out Chicago as the site for the 2016 Olympics.
-This may not technically
count as a Rule 5 posting as it is not modeled, but Chris, over at WyBlog, investigated the Gas Mask Bra.
-The mysterious Paco featured the lovely and talented Ina Ray Hutton and Her All-Girl Band in a number that swings and manages to provide a physics lesson.
-Three Bears Later gave us a Pamela Anderson before she gave up meat [sadly, it did nothing for me as I find that pneumatic peachs don't shake my tree]. In another posting, Richard managed
to provide a lesson of what makes a picture Rule 5 worthy and what is most definitely not worthy. As I wrote of the Anti-Rule 5 picture in his comments section:
Man, that second pic brings back bad memories of being desperate enough to try and pick up Wellesley chicks in the
'80's. Brain Bleach.
TBL has provided a very valuable lesson for all of us Rule
5ers. Thank you sir.
-I am not a big fan of the color pink, but Admiral William Teach shows that
there is always an exception to every rule. While TCOTS features a good number of pin-ups, no one is more discerning in his taste than Ol' Teach.
-Over at Eye Of Polyphemus, Jamie Jeffords scored on a triple with great shots of Angelina Jolie, the newly single Jessica Biel, and a homage to one of the most sensual areas of a lady's frame, one that is hardly ever mentioned: the back.
-Political Castaway proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that hockey is the superior viewing sport.
-Dave, over at At The Point Of
A Gun, understands that Carla Bruni has a certain something that has made many a man tremble.
-Robert Pearson's Chess
Blog featured the lovely Tricia, proprietress of the Everything Bikiniblog.
This past weekend TCOTS featured Claudia Cardinale:
 -Smitty deemed four TCOTS postings as Rule 5-worthy and offered your humble Dispatcher a thank you for running campaign ads in his quest to
capture the Iowahawk arts grant. I urged him to demand a recount, but he humbly declined and mumbled something about
tactical nuclear weapons and cornfields which I did not quite understand.
-The Classic Liberal
proves that discussions of the supervirtuous always go better with a supervixen, most especially Beyonce. He also proves that he is a kind man because he too linked four of our postings.
-Jamie Jeffords treats us to the adorable Jennifer Love Hewitt who, based, on this picture shows that adorable can also be sensual.
-In
her posting of pictures of Rachel Bilson, Monique Stuart comments 'I’m starting to think I have a thing for brunettes…'. Welcome to the club Monique.
-Commander of The Pirate's Cove, William Teach, displays the virtues of nylons.
-Over at Paco Enterprises, the vivacious Betty Hutton educates the Doctor, Lawyer, and Indian Chief about true love.
-We can only comment on Nation Of
Cowards's Rule 5 by channelling Joe Hill Biden: 'Two words: Women and guns'.
-The Indentured Servant Girl has
got racy shots of Brigitte Bardot [don't worry, its strictly PG-13] and inadvertently reminds many of us of a certain age why we came to believe that
blonds have more fun.
-Morgan Freeberg, your host at the House Of Eratosthenes, must be of that
certain age because he has provided us with some pictures of, and links to, gals on vinyl album covers in miniskirts and shorts. There's also a good, succinct rant against feminist hypocrisy.
-Many have Rule 5'd Miley
Cyrus, but I have never linked them because the shots posted have been too risque and tempting for the Polanskiites out there.
For once however, some one has posted appropriate/tasteful pictures on the under-age phenom. Chris, over at WyBlog,
shows why many of us think the guy is a class-act. Bravo, my friend.
-Keyboard Jockey makes me almost like football.
-Smitty has told the whole blogosphere that he thinks I'm a Rule 5 junkie, but what about Richard at Three Beers Later, eh? Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I present into
evidence the following four postings from this past week alone over at TBL: (1) some lovely senorita carrying-on about who knows what and who cares; (2) an Angel jogging for men's health; (3) caution when listening to your girlfriend's dad; and (4) watching out for those chick tsunamis. The defense rests and will leave now to take a cold shower.
-Jimmie, over at The
Sundries Shack, re-enters the Rule 5 world with an ode to the charming Jennifer Aniston and comments 'How can you not find this smile entirely adorable?'
Indeed, Jimmie, there is something about her that reminds me of that one girl in high school who, though part of the clique
of jocks and pretty girls that hated us dorks, always was kind to us.
-Now's a good time for a Bedtime Totty.
12 oct 09 @ 4:41 pm edt
STEYN OF THE WEEKENDA doubleshot of Steynian wisdom...
-From his most recent syndicated column:
...Why, only the other day, very conversationally, the administration floated
the trial balloon that it could live with the Taliban returning to government in Afghanistan. A lot of Afghans won’t
be living with it, but that’s their lookout.
This is — how to put this delicately? — something
of a recalibration of Obama’s previous position. From about a year after the fall of Baghdad, Democrats adopted the
line that Bush’s war in Iraq was an unnecessary distraction from the real war, the good war, the one in Afghanistan
that everyone — Dems, Europeans, all the nice people — were right behind, 100 percent. No one butched up for the
Khyber Pass more enthusiastically than Barack Obama: “As president, I will make the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban
the top priority.” (July 15, 2008)
But that was then and this is now. As the historian Robert Dallek told
Obama recently, “War kills off great reform movements.” As the Washington Post’s E. J. Dionne reminded
the president, his supporters voted for him not to win a war but to win a victory on health care and other domestic issues.
Obama’s priorities lie not in the Hindu Kush but in America: Why squander your presidency on trying to turn an economically
moribund feudal backwater into a functioning nation state when you can turn a functioning nation state into an economically
moribund feudal backwater?
I've been writing that the Holy Obamian Emperor would balkinize America, but
I think Mr. Steyn is onto something using the word 'feudal'—a bunch of little fiefdoms all vying to maintain their territorial
integrity and forming breaking alliances at will.
-From his most recent appearance on Hugh Hewitt's great radio show:
HEWITT: There’s so many of the Democrats, Jim Webb comes to mind, who has
campaigned as a populist on behalf of the little guy. This [Obamacare] bill does not touch the seven figure plaintiff lawyer
bar. It devastates Medicare. How do they get the conscience to vote for this?
STEYN: Well, I think in naked political
terms, I said this a few weeks ago, Hugh, that I think this, if you’re on the political left, this is the fastest way
to a permanent left of center political culture. You so profoundly shift the balance of power between the citizen and the
state, that you make it impossible to have genuinely small government, and a genuine conservative government ever again. And
I think that is the advantage to it. And that advantage trumps all the problems. And they know that once they ram it through,
it will prove so difficult to unstitch, that no Republican, any Republican who wants to run on undoing this whole thing, will
be told oh, no, you can’t do it. It’ll become one of those things you can never do, like immigration. The Southern
Border, everyone knows, you know, everyone says oh, the Southern Border is unenforceable. Who decided that? Nobody decided
that. It just somehow, a consensus emerged that it’s unrealistic to try to enforce the Southern Border. Similarly, a
consensus will emerge that it’s simply implausible to try and roll back government health care.
HEWITT: Let’s
focus on that unrepealability for a second, because the fellow, the doctor who writes for the New Yorker from Harvard Medical
School, Gawande I believe his name is, has always said that Canada and Britain are products of path-dependent evolution, that
they just grew up that way, that we have not grown up that way. And I’ve been thinking about that. If they pass this,
Mark, I think there is going to be a political revolution in this country. I think they will throw everybody out.
STEYN: Well, you would like to think so. And I don’t believe, by the way, that we’re talking about anything…I’ve
experienced both Canadian and British health care and some European systems as well. I don’t think we’re talking
about something that bad, by the way. I think we’re talking about something far worse, because nobody has tried to devise
a centralized health care system for a first world country of three hundred million people before.
HEWITT: Right,
right.
STEYN: So I think we’ll be talking, I mean, if you talk, if you look at the British National Health
Service, which is the third biggest employer on the planet after the Chinese Army and Indian National Railways, which gives
you a clue to the bureaucratization of the institution, because those, that huge, vast workforce is not doctors and nurses.
It’s bureaucrats and all the rest of it. And I think then, if you try to do it on the scale, that’s if you’re
doing it in one crummy, rain-sodden little island in the North Sea off the coast of Europe. You try to do it continent-wide
for three hundred million people, you are going to have an epic disaster on your hands.
HEWITT: Well, the complexity
level…can you imagine the federal government attempting to control a highway system? Just a highway system?
STEYN: Right.
HEWITT: And the number of crashes and breakdowns we would have? But this is, I think you’re
hinting at this, the complexity of the American medical system is an order or five on top of any other medical system in the
world.
STEYN: Yes, and I don’t think anyone really understands what it’s going to mean. I mean, for
a start, all other socialized medical systems depend on the American system as a source, for example, of new drugs. It is
the private sector health system in the United States that is the reason why America develops the drugs that the rest of the
world uses. So I think we’re going to see a decline in the rate of medical advance. So if you’re someone who spends
a lot of money donating to charities that are trying to find a cure for breast cancer or whatever, all those cures are going
to be put off simply because state health systems, one of the key features that disappears in a state health system, is innovation
and initiative.
12 oct 09 @ 4:02 pm edt
TO ALL THE GENTLEMEN WITH A DISCERNING EYE:It is my sad task to report that Christina Hendricks is no longer available for a possible whirlwind courtship and romance:
Mad Men star Christina Hendricks
married her fiancé in a New York restaurant yesterday.
Opting for traditional white, the redhead actress,
34, exchanged vows with fellow actor Geoffrey Arend, 31, at low-key ceremony at the Italian/ Spanish Il Buco eatery.
The pair were engaged earlier this year after
being introduced through her Mad Men co-star Vincent Kartheiser.
He plays a slimeball on the show and is apparently one is real life.
There is a cubicle in Hell reserved for Mr. Kartheiser.
Let us not dwell on what has come to be, but, rather, remember
the hope that was lodged in the heart of every red-blooded American male...
12 oct 09 @ 3:43 pm edt
THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY......is awarded to Erick Erickson of Red State for stating exactly how the momentum and energy generated by the TEA Party Movement should be most efficiently harnessed:
Erick Erickson, founder and editor of the influential conservative blog RedState, has urged Tea
Party activists to “put down the protest signs” and stage takeovers of local Republican parties.
“Grassroots
activists need to start infiltrating the party,” said Erickson. “The only way to start getting [the establishment]
back is to start pounding them with every fist we have.”
It is Dog Track Time for the leadership of
the Republican Party at all levels. Too many have stayed too long, and it is time for them to do the honorable thing:take
the figurative Luger and retire to their dens. The Boehner's, Ginriches, O'Connell's, Steele's, McCain's [not of
The Other variety], Frist's, Dole's, Cantor's, Lowry's, Romney's, Frum's, Brooks's, Noonan's, Parker's, et. al., must all
go, if not willingly than through pushing and ignoring. The Right has rediscovered its purpose in life: to guard against
ideology, to protect and defend the Founding, and to fight the forces of tyranny in all of its forms. Now is the time
for the grassroots to seize the roots of the Stupid Party and bring it back to it's roots in conservative principles.
To quote MacArthur after he landed on the Philippines:
As the lines of battle roll
forward to bring you within the zone of operations, rise and strike. Strike at every favorable opportunity. For your homes
and hearths, strike! For future generations of your sons and daughters, strike! In the name of your sacred dead, strike! Let
no heart be faint. Let every arm be steeled. The guidance of divine God points the way. Follow in His Name to the Holy Grail
of righteous victory!
Nil Desperandum. Or in the vulgar: Never let the bastards get you down.
12 oct 09 @ 1:42 pm edt
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T E R M S
Let us make precise and clear-cut the terms we should be using.
Aristotle wrote that A is A; you may also call it B, but
it always remains A. A thing is what it is and, to say it is something else, is to deny reality. There is a lot of denial
of reality going around these days.
As John Adams wrote: 'Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes,
our inclinations, the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence'.
POINT 1: There is no "War in Iraq"
or "War in Afghanistan". Like the Pacific and Europe in World War II, Iraq and Afghanistan are
just parts of a larger war. Unlike them, they are not separate from each other. Therefore,
they are part of the Middle East Theatre of Operations [METO] as the Pacific was the PTO and Europe the ETO.
POINT 2: Many on the Left and some on the Right want to "end
the War". There are only two ways to end a war: (1) by achieving Victory or (2) by being Defeated.
A pullout, before Victory is achieved, is Defeat. They want Defeat. Pullout may
be the best policy―I am not arguing that here―but, leaving without achieving our objective is Defeat.
POINT 3: We are engaged in a War Against Islam.
The term is more correct than "War against Islamo-Fascism" or "War On Terror".
Islam has been at war with all non-Muslims since the
time of its founder, Muhammad [his name be cursed]. Like the Hundred Years' War, there have been periods
of peace in this long conflict, but the Muslim has never stopped believing that he is at war with all non-Muslims.
He can't: Allah commands that all of the world be conquered in his name and he must submit, in all things, to the
will of Allah [the word Islam means "submission", sometimes rendered as "surrender"]. Any
periods of peace we in the West have enjoyed have only occurred after we have dealt them such a devastating blow that they
have not been able to wage their jihad and then have pursued polices that have kept them subjugated. This
began to fade in the latter half of the 20th Century as we forgot the dangers posed by this militant religion and
as they regrouped under new and committed leaders.
If you
doubt that Islam is at war with all non-Muslims, keep in mind this:
Islamic apologists
often point out that Islam is not a monolith and that there are differences of opinion among the different Islamic schools
of thought. That is true, but, while there are differences, there are also common elements. Just as Orthodox, Roman Catholic,
and Protestant Christians differ on many aspects of Christianity, still they accept important common elements. So it is with
Islam. One of the common elements to all Islamic schools of thought is jihad, understood as the obligation of the Ummah to
conquer and subdue the world in the name of Allah and rule it under Sharia law. The four Sunni Madhhabs (schools of fiqh [Islamic
religious jurisprudence]) -- Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Hanbali -- all agree that there is a collective obligation on
Muslims to make war on the rest of the world. Furthermore, even the schools of thought outside Sunni orthodoxy, including
Sufism and the Jafari (Shia) school, agree on the necessity of jihad. When it comes to matters of jihad, the different schools
disagree on such questions as whether infidels must first be asked to convert to Islam before hostilities may begin (Osama
bin Laden asked America to convert before Al-Qaeda’s attacks); how plunder should be distributed among victorious jihadists;
whether a long-term Fabian strategy against dar al-harb is preferable to an all-out frontal attack; etc. [Source: Gregory M. Davis, Islam 101, section
4g, found at http://www.jihadwatch.org/islam101/]
They have been at war with us for
centuries and we, therefore, have been at war with them. We are engaged in a War Against Islam whether
we want to say so or not. In an interview with a Pakistani TV network on 23 July 2008, Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid,
Al-Qaeda's No. 3 man and top commander in Afghanistan, has this to say: “Islam does not distinguish between the
American people and the American government, since both are in a state of war with Islam”. [Source: http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD200008]
POINT 4: The term "Islamo-Fascism" seems
to have been created by Leftists. Since (1) they wrongly place fascism on the Right, (2) they believe [rightly]
Muslims want to establish a theocratic regime on Earth, and (3) anything political that has any connection with religion is
bad and emanates out of rightwing thinking, the term makes sense to them. Therefore, the term is nothing
but a way to associate Islam with the right-wing. Muslims believe in a totalitarian way of governing; in
submission [that word] to an all-powerful Islamic leader or leaders.
POINT 5: As to the term "War On Terror",
it is just plain silly: how can you wage war on a thing?
POINT 6: What is fascism? It is when a government
allows private property to exist, but controls and manages the use and disposal of property in all its forms. Citizens
retain all of the burdens and responsibilities associated with property ownership, but are not allowed to control and shape
its use.
As an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. The word derives from fasces, the Roman symbol of collectivism and power: a tied
bundle of rods with a protruding ax. In its day (the 1920s and 1930s), fascism was seen as the happy medium between boom-and-bust-prone
liberal capitalism, with its alleged class conflict, wasteful competition, and profit-oriented egoism, and revolutionary Marxism, with its violent and socially divisive persecution of the bourgeoisie. Fascism substituted the particularity of nationalism
and racialism—“blood and soil”—for the internationalism of both classical liberalism and Marxism.
Where socialism sought totalitarian control of a society’s economic processes through
direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally
private owners. Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their
property in the “national interest”—that is, as the autocratic authority conceived it. (Nevertheless, a
few industries were operated by the state.) Where socialism abolished all market relations outright, fascism left the appearance
of market relations while planning all economic activities. Where socialism abolished money and prices, fascism controlled
the monetary system and set all prices and wages politically. In doing all this, fascism denatured the marketplace. Entrepreneurship was abolished. State ministries, rather than consumers, determined what was produced and under what conditions.
[Source: Sheldon Richman, The Concise Encylcopedia Of Economics,
Liberty Fund, found at http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Fascism.html]
On the political spectrum, therefore, it is located between modern liberalism
and socialism.
POINT 7: What is socialism? It is when a government
allows no private property to exist, and controls and manages the use and disposal of property in all its forms.
Citizens are not allowed to control their lives and are subject to the whims of bureaucrats and officials. If they
retain freedoms and liberties, they do so at the discretion of them. On the political spectrum, therefore, it
is the next logical stage after fascism; some would argue that it lies between fascism and communism.
POINT 8: What is pragmatism? It is a tool used by Leftists,
or those operating under the influence of Leftist logic, to achieve Utopian ends—heaven on earth through social, political,
cultural, and spiritual engineering. It is merely a tool of ideology, part of the means to an end.
POINT 9:The Big Lie - When confronted with truths that reflect
unpleasantly on them, the Leftists deflect it buy claiming over-an-over ad nauseum that these truths apply to and are products
of the Right. This practice is known as The Big Lie. It has been successfully practiced by the
Left since, at the very least, the French Revolution. Thus, we have the now-widespread belief that the Nazis and the
Black Shirts of Italy were right-wingers when the reality-the truth-is they were both people of the Left. I suspect
the violent objections from the Left to conservatives use of the term 'fascist' arise from the fact that they have spent well
over seventy years trying to convince the world of The Big Lie that it is not and never has been a Leftist
ideology.
How does one practice this distortion truth and why is it effective? In a report issued during
World War II by the OSS, the author provided an explanation for all practitioners by describing how Hitler practiced it:
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault
or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame;
concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than
a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.
By repeating
their lies over and over, the Left creates a false reality that supplements the real world. In this false reality, the
lie is the truth, the truth is the lie. A is not A. [But we know that A must always be A.]
The Left
also practices a variation of The Big Lie that I like to call The Big Deception which involves
a Big Deflection away from the reality of the situation. None of their policies or actions can survive
direct questioning, so the Leftists must turn the tables on the questioners and make it seem as though the inquisitors have
bad or evil intentions. Overtime and after constant and unrelenting hectoring, the Left's way of thinking triumphs.
They successfully infect enough people so that this diseased mode of thinking becomes chronic, deep-rooted, instinctual. If
the Devil's greatest triumph was that he convinced people he did not exist, the Left's greatest triumph has been to convince
people that the Leftist way of thinking is normal. It is not. It is a perversion of reason and a horribly mutant
form of logic. It is antithetical to human life. Nothing but decay and destruction are left [pun intended] in it's wake.
What They're Saying
About
BOB BELVEDERE &
The Camp Of The Saints... 'Sir Bob of Belvedere'
—Smitty—
'So many good things at Camp of the Saints that you need to just click and keep scrolling.'
—Paco—
'Go, read it, fine stuff over there!'
—GatorDoug—
''Belvederus Maximus'
—Smitty—
'You are contributing to a noble yet futile cause -- the butchification of metrosexuals.
TCOTS
roolz!'
—Red—
'[H]e takes retro dame blogging to a new, narrative noir level.'
—Smitty—
'Staunch Rule 5 aficionado Bob Belvedere, is shameless indeed (I have so much respect for this man)!'
—The Classic Liberal—
'Who knew he was such a fan of the undead?'
—Smitty—
'We need fighters, and I suspect Beck will fight 'til ev'ry foe is vanquished.
Bob Belvedere gets it. Phyllis Chesler gets it.
We defend truth and
liberty against lies and tyranny. Every eye is upon us and we are surrounded by enemies as numerous as the grains of sand
on the shore. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.
WOLVERINES!'
—Stacy McCain—
'Bob Belvedere, you're a nasty piece of work.'
—Anonymous—
'you charming rogue'
—Robert—
'The sad decay of Bob Belvedere into a Rule 5 junkie saddens us all.'
—Smitty—
'Belvedere went slightly crazy on us.'
—Smitty—
'And thank you, Dr. Belvedere, for setting me straight on Rule 5! I tell ya, that Belvedere Dude
is Funny!'
—Irish Cicero—
'Kevin Binversie is not nearly so shameless a blogwhore as Troglopundit . . .
but then again, nobody really is. OK, maybe Bob Belvedere, as if anyone could compete with Bob.'
—Stacy McCain—
'Lord Fatheringay von Whoopsie of the Dung Heap Hooter'
—Anon. —
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