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http://thecampofthesaints.wordpress.com/

This site will remain as an Archive Site, for the foreseeable future, of all postings made before 23 December 2009.  Because of this fact, my domain [thecampofthesaints.com] will still direct you here for the time being.  I have issues to work out with the transference of my archives to the new site that will take some time.

Thank you for your indulgence and I apologize for any inconvenience or confusion.
Bob Belvedere

It's Time To ROC 'N' ROLL: Restore Our Constitution & Restore Our Lost Liberties


Dispatches from
The Camp Of The Saints...
by Robert Belvedere [DHS-Certified Rightwing Extremist / White House Certified 'Fishy' / Carter-Certified Raaaaacist!]

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Saturday, December 19, 2009

RULE 5 SATURDAY
The TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee, in full compliance with Stacy McCain's Rules & Regulations, has decided to spotlight a gal who a bit of an enigma.  You never quite knew what thoughts were occurring behind those captivating eyes.  She could be as cold as a glacier one moment and then smiling seductively at you the next.  Most of the time she seemed world weary, like she had seen it all before.  She smoldered with lust, yet somehow seemed to radiate a lingering sadness.  Without further adieu, it is with great pleasure that The Committee presents....

GENE TIERNEY...
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19 dec 09 @ 8:33 pm est          Comments

HOW ABOUT A LITTLE [CHRISTMAS] BREATHER...
First of all, if you're one of those folks who will be going offline for Christmas, let me wish you a
Very Merry Christmas

-I don't know about you, but I think one of the greatest Christmas movies ever made is A Christmas Story.  The Left Coast Rebel has some great links related to the movie and the 411 on what happened to the house they shot the film in.

-As I mentioned in a previous posting, over at Right, Wing-Nut!, The JerseyNut has been celebrating the eight days of Hanukkah by featuring a different Hanukkah Honey each day.  His final one may be the best [and contains links to the other seven].

-This past Thursday was the 60th anniversary of the birth of Paul Rodgers, one of the great rock and roll singers of all time.  He was also the lead singer of one of the greatest bands of all time, Bad Company [Feel Like Makin' Love is a classic].  Over at American Power, Donald Douglas has up a video of the band singing one of their best: Shooting Star.

-Over at Wizbang, Michael Laprarie comments on the joys of looking back on Christmas's past.  He has great photos and links.  I especially liked this pic:
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Ah, innocence!

-Red has a great story up from her fatheron how he got banned from COSTCO.  Man, old folks do have a lot of time on their hands and some are just plain evil.

-Over at WyBlog, Chris has been wandering around for a little too long in the blizzard that's raging today in Jersey, so long in fact, that he's having visions of Christmas babes on beaches.  I'm hauling my butt outside.

-There's nothing like a good Christmas Carol well sung and we are very fortunate today because Stacy McCain has graced us with renditions of two—count 'em two—holiday tunes: Winter Wonderland and Let It Snow.  Some of you may not know but Stacy sang with rock and roll bands in his youth, so the singing here is spot-on on-key.  As additional treat, we get to see his two youngest children doing what they do best in a snowstorm: play.  After all watching all of the awful things going on in our nation's capital, these videos have really lifted my spirits.  Thanks my friend.

-Paco has done it again and provided us with two great music videos.  First off, he gives us The King Of Western Swing Spade Cooley & His Band doing Miss Molly.  Then he treats us to the lovely intonations of WWII pin-up gal Nan Wynn who claims she Ain't Misbehavin' [like Paco says 'too bad'].  Here's a couple pics of Miss Wynn:
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-I'm off to put together this week's Rule 5 Saturday....
19 dec 09 @ 6:00 pm est          Comments

END-OF-YEAR 'BEST OF...' LISTS

I'm one of the chaps who rarely likes year-end 'Best Of...' lists, but occasionally one comes along that moves me...

The New York Post, which John Derbyshire decribes accurately as 'America's true paper of record', has compiled a forty-five image photo gallery of the 2009 Best Lingerie Images.  Its quite stirring IYKWIMAITYD.  Here's a sample:

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I guess that one on the right would be considered 'sustainable'.

19 dec 09 @ 5:13 pm est          Comments

ARE YOU SERIOUS?

I was fully intending to publish a bunch of serious postings today on various issues, but I think I'll let the immediately previous posting stand as the only one for today because (1) it is the most important issue immediately confronting us and (2) that issue is enough for one day, especially on the Saturday before Christmas.  I'll try to make up for this decision either tomorrow or at the start of Christmas week.

19 dec 09 @ 4:09 pm est          Comments

BEN NELSON IS A CHEAP WHORE
The illustrious and principled Senator from Nebraska, Ben 'Hooker' Nelson, has decided to vote with Harry 'School Marm' Reid after being paid rather handsomely considering his low-rent classification amongst his fellow pros ['Ben Nelson is a cheap whore'].

From The Washington PostShailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery reporting:

Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), the final Democratic holdout on health care, announced to his colleagues Saturday morning that he would support the Senate reform bill, clearing the way for final passage by Christmas of President Obama's top domestic policy priority.

Asked if he had secured the 60 votes needed to overcome a Republican filibuster, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) told reporters, "It seems that way."

To seal the deal on this transaction the John, Harry Reid, had to pay the going street rate for skanky chippys.  From Politico, Chris Frates reporting, we learn the details of the transaction [tip of the fedora to Stacy]:

Sen. Mary Landrieu got the "Louisiana Purchase." Sen. Ben Nelson got the federal government to pick up most his state's future Medicaid tab -- forever.

As part of the deal to win Nelson's support, the federal government will pay for Nebraska's new Medicaid recipients. It's a provision worth about $45 million over the first decade.

Medicaid is usually paid for with a mix of federal and state funding, but Nelson's carve out means that any Medicaid beneficiaries who join the program after the bill passes will be paid for in full by the federal government.


As Stacy McCain put it:

... Ben Nelson is a cheap whore. I think other bloggers will agree that there is no cheap whore cheaper than Ben Nelson.

[Google-bombs Away!  Take to the Ether Sky and join us!]

The purchasing of Ben Nelson's services, er, vote sets in motion this process:

The Senate is expected to work its way through a series of procedural motions over the next few days, with a vote on the legislation scheduled the evening of Dec. 24th. A conference with the House to produce a final bill would likely extend into January, Senate aides said.

A Christmas Eve vote!  Well Senator Nelson: Ho Ho Ho!

Stacy, by the way, has published another posting that contains some very good quotes and links of reaction to this bribe, er, deal.  In that post, he makes this comment:

Ben Nelson could realize how badly he has dishonored himself and commit seppuku. Unlikely, of course, but theoretically possible.

...Readers who think I'm actually advocating that Nelson engage in ritual disembowelment are mistaken. Seppuku is an expression of the shogun's honorable acknowledgement of his own dishonor. Nelson obviously has no sense of honor. He's a Democrat.


QUIBBLE: Wikipedia defines seppuku as:

Seppuku
("stomach-cutting") is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment.

If Sen. Ben Nelson doesn't have enough honor to 'take his Luger and go into his den and do the right thing', it seems to me this may be the right time to revive the old Patriot custom of Tar & Feathering. Such times seem to, sadly, cry out for such measures.

Over at The Sundries Shack, Jimmie Bise comments on the implications of Ben Nelson being the cheap whore and scoring his deal:

...Remember, next year when your state is cutting essential services and jacking up taxes to cover the new costs of Obamacare, that Nebraska won’t be feeling any of that pain.

In other words, Ben Nelson gets a big, fat, McCain-Feingold exempt bribe for his re-election campaign and more control of your life. You get a bigger federal and state tax bill, more expensive health care, longer waiting lines for medical treatments, and rationing.

Of course, the great Michelle Malkin is all over the story of Ben Nelson being a cheap whore.

The Gateway Pundit, the ever-intrepid Jim Hoft, has two great postings up so far [here and here] on cheap whore Ben Nelson.

As you've come to expect, The Classic Liberal knows that Ben Nelson is a Cheap Whore.

The Left Coast Rebel is short, sweet, and to the point about Ben Nelson being a cheap whore:

Disgusting, enraging, maddening. Ben Nelson is a whore, a caricature, a buffoon and a disgrace.

Stogie, proprietor of Saberpoint, is fed-up and thinks the time may have come for some serious actions:

At this point conservatives should worry less about kicking the Democrats out in 2010 than in how to either nullify the Democrats' new socialist laws or secede from the union.

It's time.


I don't know if its gotten to that point yet, but I do know there are QUESTIONS WE CAN NO LONGER AVOID.

One final word from me:
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19 dec 09 @ 3:28 pm est          Comments

Friday, December 18, 2009

ALBUM COVER RULE 5
A semi-regular feature...enjoy...

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18 dec 09 @ 8:40 pm est          Comments

MEN OF HONOR

Earlier this week, in celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the premiere of Gone With The Wind, Stacy McCain wrote a great little essay celebrating the character of Rhett Butler.  A highlight:

While those around him scrupulously obey the superficial social conventions of the age, Rhett scoffs at his own disrepute and brashly invites scandal, as when he shocks Atlanta society by bidding $150 for the honor of dancing with the recently widowed Scarlett. And while Ashley is torn by doubt, Rhett is the embodiment of decisive certainty.

He has a way with the ladies, but Rhett is indisputably a man's man. When his blunt skepticism toward the South's prospects in the impending war enrages the touchy pride of his hosts in the drawing room at Twelve Oaks, Rhett is insulted by young Charles Hamilton, but declines the challenge. "I apologize again for all my shortcomings," Rhett says as he excuses himself. The hot-tempered Hamilton imputes this to cowardice -- "He refused to fight!" -- only to be informed by Ashley that Butler is a notoriously deadly duelist, "one of the best shots in the country."

That's true honor.  A true man of honor protects those who are foolish, with a false sense of honor, from their disastrous impulses.

That essay may be found here over at The American Spectator.

In a posting over at The Other McCainthat starts off promoting the above essay, Stacy also defends the movie against those who charge that it is raaaaacist.  He then talks about his conversation with Baldilocks about why white people so fear being labeled a raaaaacist.  A highlight:

Vicious race hustlers who plague America's universities are a major reason an absurd flinch-reaction to the "racist" label is so commonplace among our educated elite. Just ask Sergio Gor what it was like when left-wingers at George Washington University perpetrated an anti-Muslim hate hoax against the campus chapter of Young America's Foundation. Or ask YAF's Jason Mattera about the reaction to his "whites-only scholarship" protest at Roger Williams University.

The cringing fearfulness
Shelby Steele describes in his book White Guilt has to be "carefully taught" -- to borrow with obvious irony the famous lyrics from South Pacific -- and our educational system now teaches white guilt as fanatically as Nazi schools taught Aryan superiority in the 1930s.

Acknowledgement of racial guilt is now de rigueur among white bien-pensants who, if we may continue this impromptu French lesson, are required to prove themselves amis des noirs if they wish to preserve their amour propre.

Terrorized by the very real risk of denunciation and ostracism if they dispute the regnant racial orthodoxy, whites internalize this politically correct fear. As is often the case when fear is hidden in the heart, however, they seek to resolve the inevitable cognitive dissonance by projecting their inner angst onto scapegoats.


Spot-on, Stacy, but, please, cut out the using Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkey words [use Latin].

Oh, and by the way, those of you stunted souls out there who still think Stacy McCain is a 'raaaacist' and 'white supremesist', let me direct you to his posting from today announcing the engagement of his lovely daughter Kennedy to an Argentine.  As one of his commentators, Steve Poling, put so well:

Your kid is marrying a Christian and it's clear that's a bigger deal to you than him being a gen-you-wine MINORITY.

Some raaaaacist you turn out to be.


Go check out the full posting and the Comments Section, wherein I, your humble Dispatcher, shamelessly offer my 'special services' to the Father of the Bride.

18 dec 09 @ 8:11 pm est          Comments

OH, THE WEATHER IN THE SENATE IS FRIGHTFUL
Over at WyBlog, Chris asks five great questions of those who still want to see Obamacare passed.  Here's one:

2. One of the favorite tools in the progressive arsenal is the Interstate Commerce Clause. You guys use it to foist all sorts of regulations on us as well as to extend the reach of numerous laws. So, why can't we buy health insurance from another state?

And for that matter, why isn't such a common sense reform like cross-state insurance purchasing and/or association health plans a part of this monstrosity you're peddling?


Bravo, Chris.  Those of us that are against this evil measure often forget this point [I'm guilty].

Please do take the time to click here and read the rest of the questions.

SIDENOTE: Big thank you to Chris for linking TCOTS in his latest FMJRA [check it out here for some interesting links and wonderful pictures of his daughter Sophie's birthday party].
18 dec 09 @ 7:39 pm est          Comments

THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT WEARING YOUR 'SAFETY' BELT
While reading this sad story in today's New York Post, one aspect of it hit me....

From the report, Larry Celona, John Doyle, Laurie Kamens, all reporting[emphasis mine]:

The bloodshed began when the killer barged into the family's third floor apartment and opened fire at around 1:45 p.m., near a string of upscale shops on Amsterdam Avenue near West 83rd Street.

Gunman Hector Quinones blew away 24-year-old Carlos Rodriguez Jr., and his father Carlos Rodriguez Sr., 52, and then repeatedly stabbed grandfather Fernando Gonzalez, 87, to death before the elder Rodriguez's wife and adult daughter walked unwittingly into the carnage in the apartment they all shared.

As soon as Gisela Rodriguez, 49, and her daughter, Leyanis, 28, walked inside, Quinones, 44, opened fire again at the mother, grazing the back of her head, cops said.

He then went after Gisela's daughter, who scrambled for safety and ran to a nearby bedroom. The killer was inches away from grabbing her but tripped over his low-slung pants, sources said.


There was more action and then:

Fleeing empty-handed, Quinones ditched his gun, a .380-caliber semiautomatic pistol loaded with hollow-point bullets, and made a dash down a rear fire escape.

But again, his low-slung pants fell to his ankles, tripping him and sending him falling three stories to his death, authorities said.


I'm sorry, but that's funny right there.  I don't care who you are, that's funny.

And the taxpayer's have been saved the expense of supporting this murderer's sorry ass for the rest of his useless life.
18 dec 09 @ 5:34 pm est          Comments

YOU CAN MAKE ME SCREAM
One of Julius Obamacus Caesar's favorite and most used phrases is 'the time for talk is over'.

He's used it one too many times as far as Pundette is concerned:

How very tiring is Obama's habit of telling everyone to shut up and do as he says....

One quibble Pundette: how very tiring are all of Obama's habits.  He hasn't even been in office one year yet and already I'm hearing so many people say 'When he comes on the TV, I change the channel, because I'm sick of listening to him all the time'.  You didn't hear that comment made about Presidents Bush II and Clinton by a large number of people until well-into their presidencies.

William Jacobson, headmaster of Legal Insurrection, is fed-up with the phrase too:

Yep, the speech Obama just gave in Copenhagen is basically the speech he gave last February to push through the Stimulus Plan, that foul piece of legislation which has turned into a paradigm of big government gone bad.

Let's bring that Stimulus mojo to the whole planet, because the time for talk is over. For everyone except Obama, that is.


Our Narcissist-In-Chief was born in 1961.  This song was released in 1960.  Perhaps Joe Jones was a prophet?...
18 dec 09 @ 5:03 pm est          Comments

SHAFT UNDERSTANDS

Dan Riehl, Lord and Master of the Riehl World View, has the best summation of the Dali Bama's trip to Hopenhagen:

Look out, our speak harshly but carry a small, or no stick prez was angry and on display in Copenhagen as Obama chalked up another allegedly rousing, world-changing speech that wasn't. Note, that is precisely how the WH allowed his appearance to be billed. I posted that he was only inviting failure back on Dec 4. Sure enough, China played Lucy to his Charlie Brown and moved the ball, causing Obama to land on his backside, empty-handed after a tactic that could become the defining theme of his term.

What's Obambi going to do? Hold his breath, or just talk until he turns blue if he doesn't get his way? Maybe he'll threaten to give even more dramatic speeches that add up to the same old thing if they don't listen to him?

COPENHAGEN - A visibly angry Barack Obama threw down the gauntlet at China and other developing nations Friday, declaring that the time has come "not to talk but to act" on climate change.

Stomping his feet is out. Michelle won't tolerate it around the kids, from him, anyway. You dropped your gauntlet, Obambi. Best pick it up and put it back in your pocket before boarding the plane home from your latest failed game changer that wasn't of a speech....

Our Divine Obamacus sits there with his chin elevated, looking like an unapproachable King Of Persia, as the rest of the world laughs and mocks him behind his back.  What a Maroon.

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THEY'RE
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SUCKA!

18 dec 09 @ 4:22 pm est          Comments

JAKE SPEAKS WELL
So...I'm perusing The Other McCain yesterday and checking out Stacy's HEADLINE section, like I always do.  This is the section where he links to interesting blog postings and [most of the time] postings about himself.  Stacy writes the headlines himself and, being a veteran newspaper man [something he'll remind you of constantly], he knows how to write one that will grab your attention.  So, like I said, I'm reading them yesterday and I come across this one:

JAKE SPEAKS: Conservative blogger sends terrifying message to ACLU


Wow, I'm thinking, I love it when someone verbally bangs around those nimrods over at the ACLU, this could be interesting....wait...'terrifying'?...oh, man, I hope this Jake fellow didn't threaten them too overtly....I mean, that would just give those dingbats ammunition in their quest to label us right wingers 'nut balls'.  So I clicked on the link and must say I was very satisfied: not only did Jake do it right, he channelled Lester Bangs.

Please do take the time to click here and read the whole thing.

18 dec 09 @ 10:52 am est          Comments

THE TOTALITARIAN COLLECTIVIST IMPULSE
One of the beliefs that Leftists devoutly hold to is the conviction that power has to be centralized, preferably under one man or under a small group of elites.  I label this their Totalitarian Collectivist Impulse.  In as many days, The Classic Liberal has provided us with two examples of moves by the Obama Administration to further accumulate power in both ways.

-It has become pretty obvious to many of us through his words and deeds that Comrade Obamnin favors one-world government [most radical Leftists do].  In April of this year, un-noticed by many of us, in the whirlwind of activity going on in Washington, we missed this news:


Moving as quickly as he can to gut the USA and then divide its body parts amongst like-minded globalists, the USA’s Supreme Leader Barack Hussein Obama used the G-20 conference to begin his turnover of USA sovereignty to said internationalists and start the move toward a one-world government.  Obama has signed off on international legislation—the Financial Stability Board—that would regulate ALL firms, including those within the USA and places them under the responsibility of an international governmental agency.

On FNC’s Greta Van Susteren’s program, author and columnist Dick Morris noted “literally from April 2nd of this year, that is, today, it’s a whole new world of financial regulation in which, essentially, ALL of the U.S. regulatory bodies and ALL U.S. companies are put under international regulation, international supervision. It really amounts to a global economic government.”

Called the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the pending international body’s legislation—which will of course override the US Constitution—states:  “We agree to a framework of internationally agreed upon high standards. We will set up a financial stability board with a strengthened mandate to extend regulation and oversight to all systemically important financial institutions, instruments and markets”—including hedge funds, all—anything that they decide is important to the system—to endorse and implement tough new principles on paying (ph) compensation and to support sustainable compensation schemes and the corporate social responsibility of ALL firms.”  The international community will now be able to determine the salaries and compensation of us all.


Thank God, TheCL unearthed this story.  Its so important that we're made aware of these power grabs.

-As to the accumulation of power by one man [Julius Obamacus Caesar] The Classic Liberal quotes from and links to a fascinating posting by Bradley Blakeman over at the Fox ForumA highlight:

The Obama administration seeks to empower a very powerful government agency you have probably never heard of with new and expanded powers that will have a direct consequence on every American if they are successful in their efforts to implement national health care reforms.

The Obama White House is also drunk with power and is seeking to expand the powers of government agencies to oversee and act out to affect Americans in ways that this country has never seen before.

What is the Office of Personnel and Management and why should you care?

The Office of Personnel Management, (OPM), is suppose to be an independent government agency that is charged with managing the civil service system of the federal government. If you are a federal employee then civil service laws, rules and regulations that are managed by OPM govern you. One of the main charges of OPM is to administer and oversee federal health care provided to all federal employees.

...

Under the Democrats' national health care scheme not only would OPM be charged with overseeing and administering federal employees health care but they will have the added charge of administering civilian federal health care as well. What does that mean? Basically, that Americans will be treated as “civil servants.” Are you starting to see the danger?

The more government seeks to control our lives the more Orwellian it gets. This “big brother” mentality that "government knows best" and that it is their mission to provide cradle to grave “care” of its citizens will doom America as we know it. Under such a system the individual becomes meaningless and the state becomes the entity upon which we are all forced to rely.


And that's not all as you will see if you click here and read the full posting by Mr. Blakeman.

Thanks again to TheCL for bringing this to our attention. [his site is your one-stop-shop for the latest on all the threats to our freedoms and liberties that are happening in America]

It is the core belief of any Leftist that he or she has THE ANSWER to bringing about 'Heaven on Earth'.  The Left believes they are THE Enlightened Ones who possess the wisdom and knowledge to re-engineer the filthy and chaotic world into a sterile and very well-ordered machine [note the absence of anything that can reasonably be called 'human' in those adjectives].  In their twisted way of reasoning, they think a life free of worry or care or dirt is the ideal life.  'Ideal' is the key world here.  The New Little Oxford English Dictionary defines this word as 'perfect; existing only in idea'.  In other words, an ideal is something that cannot physically exist in the real world.  It can only exist in the mind and/or soul [the latter does not exist for the Leftist]—places where perfection can be envisioned, but are not concrete.  An ideal is a fancy, a wish, and, like all such musings, rarely applicable or possible in the real world.  Christians and Jews know this.  They strive to be perfect like God, but they know that they will never achieve His perfection.  The Leftist, on the other hand, has shedded any trace of humility and modesty, and believes that the ideas conceived in the laboratory of the brain can be implemented in the real world without alteration.  This attitude, combined with their certitude that they have conceived of THE ANSWER, leads them to believe that any means necessary to employ to establish their 'paradises' are justified.

To bring this back to the original point: the Leftists believe they have THE ANSWER and it is the ONLY way to make the world as it should be.  They also believe that the vast majority of people are not as 'enlightened' as their elite group are.  Therefore, to provide the world with 'Heaven on Earth', they must force it upon the ignorant majority.  Okay...'how best to accomplish this?' they ask themselves.  The answer that rings in their skulls is 'through the accumulation of power by the illuminated elites who "get it", are with the program, can be trusted with power'.  Hence, the pathological need by all Leftists to gather power unto their elitest-selves.

Now, a few of these people take it even further.  I'm speaking of the Extreme Narcissists.  They believe their fellow Leftists are enlightened, but that they don't have what it takes to implement the immanentizing of the eschaton effectively—they lack the intelligence.  Not surprisingly, these Extreme Narcissists think they are the ONLY ONES who have the smarts and the will-to-power to do the job and do it right.  They have THE ANSWER to implementing THE ANSWER.  They also have a tendency to be psychopaths, lacking in any feelings towards or empathy with their fellow human beings.

18 dec 09 @ 9:27 am est          Comments

Thursday, December 17, 2009

ONE TOUGH GAL
I don't know how Ran did it, but he got a hold of a painting of Mrs. Belvedere before she knew me.  Its of the scene after she had problems with two of her boyfriends cheating on her:
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Actually, this is part of Ran's latest Retro Rule 5 posting over at his great site SI VIS PACEMHead on over there to read more about the artist who painted it, Boris Vallejo, and check-out the links to some of the painter's other works [full disclosure: Ran was kind enough in his posting to also link my Denise Milani posting].
17 dec 09 @ 5:28 pm est          Comments

THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE
I must apologize for having forgotten to mark the anniversary of one of the most important battles in the history of The West and of America yesterday: The Battle Of Bulge.  This was the Nazi's desperate effort to go on the offensive against the Allies on The Western Front, a last ditch attempt to stave off defeat by a delusional Adolf Hitler.  The start of the offensive caught the Allies with their pants down, but they recovered in no small way due to the efforts of General George S. Patton and his Third Army.  This was their shining moment.  They pulled out of an eastward thrust, turned ninety degrees, and raced to and succeeded in releiving the Battling Bastards Of Bastonge.  This Battle was also the scene of the most vicious and brutal act committed in the European Theater Of Operations: The Massacre At Malmedy:
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Unlike me, Irish Cicero, proprietor of the Washington Rebel,remembered the anniversary—he couldn't help but remembering as his father was one of those brave men cutoff in Bastonge waiting for Third Army.  In a very moving posting, IC recounts the effect it had on his father and some his dad's remembrances.  A highlight:

Charlie! Charlie!
  There was desperation in his mother's voice as she roused him from a deep sleep.  He woke in a Belgian barn where he and his wire crew were sleeping after a tough night stringin' line.  They heard a commotion in the woods outside and looked out the window.

"Kraut tanks everywhere."

The Bulge was on.  The Battle of the Ardennes, it's called.


Please do take the time to click here and read it all [he's also got some great pictures and links (especially on Malmedy)].
17 dec 09 @ 4:52 pm est          Comments

USEFUL IDIOT OR SPY?
On 09 December, Comrade Obamnin sent the following nomination to the Senate:

Mari Carmen Aponte, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of El Salvador.

The name of this gal may sound familiar.  I'll let Andrew McCarthy explain:

This is the second time she's been proposed for an ambassadorship. The first didn't go so well. President Clinton nominated her to be ambassador to the Dominican Republic but, as detailed on Andrew Breitbart's Big Government, it turned out that she had "co-habited" with an agent of the Cuban intelligence service. In fact, a confidential U.S. intelligence memo alleged that she had been recruited to become a Cuban spy in her own right. The revelations caused her nomination to be quietly withdrawn ... whereupon she reportedly refused to answer questions from the FBI (saying that since she was no longer seeking an executive branch slot, she no longer needed to cooperate in a background security check). Now, despite that debacle, and heedless of the controversies stoked by Van Jones, Kevin Jennings, et al., Obama wants to press ahead with Aponte.

Thank you for reveling this Mr. McCarthy [The Big Government report is here].

If you don't recall that incident at all [the MSM certainly downplayed it at the time] then you might remember her being at one time the Director of La Raza [The Race], that notorious 'Hispanic' organization that wants to reincorporate a huge chunk of the Southwest United States back into Mexico because it was 'stolen' from our little friends in Tequila Land by the Imperialist White Yanquees [Discover The Networks has more information here]. 

While its no surprise that our Fearless Leader would appoint such a radical Leftist to such a post [Hell, the Administration's full of 'em], it is a bit surprising that he would appoint a woman who we definitely know was, at the very least, a dupe of the Communist Cubans or, at the very worst, in the pay of Castro.  One would hope the Republicans in the Senate will fight this one with everything they've got.  How can she take her oath-of-office when she clearly is not loyal to the United States Of America and The Constitution?  Oops...wait a minute...I forgot: a precedent has already been set when Barack Hussein Obama took his oath way back on 20 January and clearly didn't mean it.  You go, mamasita.
17 dec 09 @ 2:44 pm est          Comments

RICH LOWRY MUST GO, PART 333
Stacy McCain has published another episode in his long-running series Why Rich Lowry Should Have Been Fired No Later Than 2001 [here's the latest episode from my related series: Why Its Dogtrack Time For Rich 'Twinkle Toes' Lowry].  In his latest effort, Stacy once again makes the case that Jonah Goldberg should be running National Review.  He quotes this from Mr. Goldberg's latest syndicated column:

British historian Arnold Toynbee argued that civilizations thrive when the lower classes aspire to be like the upper classes, and they decay when the upper classes try to be like the lower classes. Looked at through this prism, it’s hard not to see America in a prolonged period of decay.

It’s not all bad news, to be sure. The elite minority’s general acceptance of racial and sexual equality as important values has been a moral triumph. But not without costs. As part of this transformation, society has embraced what social scientist Charles Murray calls “ecumenical niceness.” A core tenet of ecumenical niceness is that harsh judgments of the underclass — or people with underclass values — are forbidden. A corollary: People with old-fashioned notions of decency are fair game.


Stacy then comments:

Which is why Lowry has to go. His "old-fashioned notions of decency" make him utterly worthless in any engagement with the progressive Left. What conservatism needs now is brutal, fearless savagery, and Jonah Goldberg's got that red-in-tooth-and-claw thing down cold.

Quite.  JG is one of the best soldiers the Right has, always armed, always ready to duel.  In his article, Mr. Goldberg goes on to impress even more in his next few sentences with this bit of wisdom:

Long before the rise of reality shows, ecumenical niceness created a moral vacuum. Out-of-wedlock birth was once a great shame; now it’s something of a happy lifestyle choice. The cavalier use of profanity was once crude; now it’s increasingly conversational. Self-discipline was once a virtue; now self-expression is king.

Reality-show culture has thrived in that moral vacuum, accelerating the decay and helping to create a society in which celebrity is the new nobility. One senses that Richard Heene thought — maybe still thinks — that the way to make his kids proud of him was to land a reality show. Paris Hilton, famous for being famous thanks in part to a “reality” sex tape released days before her 2003 reality show The Simple Life, is now a cultural icon of no redeeming value whatsoever.


Stacy is right [pun intended]: Lowry is not up to the job.  He's a Willard...

Kurtz: I expected someone like you. What did you expect? Are you an assassin?

Willard: I'm a soldier.

Kurtz: You're neither. You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill.

Jonah Goldberg is both assassin and soldier—a true WOLVERINE.  He would be perfect to lead NR because, to quote Lincoln justifying why he chose U.S. Grant: 'He fights'.

I mean, jeez, look at this ad Lowry put out:
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NOT ONE RED CENT FOR NR UNTIL LOWRY IS SENT PACKING!
17 dec 09 @ 11:50 am est          Comments

CHRISTMAS IN AMERICA: JINGLE MY BELLS EDITION
As promised, I'm reporting on interesting Christmas-related postings and things in my travels through The Ether...

-First off, a bit of self-indulgence: herewith my rewriting of the seasonal favorite Holly Jolly Christmas to fit these modern times [this is for Kevin Jennings and Barry O]:

Have a holly, jolly Fistmas
It's the best time for your rear
I don't know if there'll be blow
But who care's - just come here

Have a holly, jolly Fistmas
And when you go buy your Fleet
Say 'Hello', tell friends you know
'Make sure you clean your seat'

Oh, ho, don't use your toe
Your hand is all you need
Pucker up your big ol' butt
The K-Y is on me

Have a holly jolly Fistmas
And in case your rear is queer
Oh by golly
Have a holly jolly Fistmas this year

-Some of my Friends In The Ether have created and 'hung up' some great stuff on their sites...

   =As you might expect, Carol, over at No Sheeples Here, has drawn-up a dandy set of mastheads that she keeps altering.

   =Over at Carol's Closet, the other Carol has gone all frosty with her's [in a good way].

   =Red, over at Caught Him With A Corndog, has gone with the 'Corndog Family Christmas' theme on her header.  I give it four out of five WOOTS! [got to keep that gal humble].

   =Over at Saberpoint, Stogie has a lovely animated Christmas Tree [and, thank God, no Rod Stewart Destroys Our Beloved Christmas Standards music].

   =GatorDoug goes with old growth trees, over at The Daley Gator.  Makes me pine to see them up-close.

   =The folks at Cold Fury, as ever subtle, go with a pic of Ebenezer Scrooge about to strike some children with his cane.  My only complaint: they use a pic from the Patrick Stewart one and not from the best version Patton's Christmas Carol.

-Obi's Sister has posted another chapter in The Christmas Memories series that she started three years ago.  A teaser:

Round these parts, we’re “famous” for a certain type of decoration. Friends bring their little ones over and every year we’re stopped in the grocery store and asked if we did it again.

-Robert Avrech, proprietor of Seraphic Secret, has a great posting up on the true and un-PC meaning of Hanukah.

-Over at Pundit & Pundette, Pundette has been featuring some wonderful recommendations for Christmas gifts for that special person.  And, if you click on one of the ads in the left column, you help to support the site, where you get the best analysis and commentary on Obamacare, bar none [amongst other great info].

-The ornaments were hung with great care...
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
17 dec 09 @ 10:24 am est          Comments

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

A LITTLE HUMP DAY RULE 5
LINDA RONSTADT...
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16 dec 09 @ 8:48 pm est          Comments

CODE RED
Over at The Other McCain, Smitty's provided us with a report on yesterday's Code Red Rally at The Capital.  He's also published pictures and a video, so please do take the time to click here and check it out [my favorite sign: 233 Years To Build A Great Nation—11 Months To Destroy It]  This is the best and most informative report I've read.

Smitty really is a Superman:
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[Cue The Kinks]
16 dec 09 @ 2:43 pm est          Comments

THERE WENT OUT A DUMB DECREE
Those snoopy folks over at the U.S. Census Bureau have partnered with 136,000 groups and organizations to help spread the good news about the benefits and importance of responding to the Census in 2010*.  One of those groups is the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials [NALEO].  This organization has put out a poster in English and Spanish to help in the effort:
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There's
one small problem, as Mark Krikorian points out over at The Corner:

Of course, whoever dreamed up this poster missed a basic point. To be counted, every person not living in his ancestral town had to return there, as Joseph left Nazareth and headed south for Bethlehem. By the same token, one could suggest that illegal aliens should head south and return every one of them to his own city. Mexico, the home of most illegal aliens, is conducting its own census next year, after all.

Herewith, from Luke, Chapter 2:1-5...

1. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2. Andthis taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.
3. And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
4. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; because he was of the house and lineage of David:
5. To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.

You see: Joseph went back to his native land to be counted.  So, I guess, NALEO is advocating that all Mexicans should go back to Mexico.  Right?

What propheth it a man if he spendeth thousands of dollars on an informational poster and he getteth it wrong?

*Tip of the fedora to Ed O'Keefe and Carol Morello over at The Washington Post.

SIDENOTE: If Luke were writing now, would he phrase it this way:

1. And it came to pass in these days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Obamacus, that all the world should be taxed.
16 dec 09 @ 2:17 pm est          Comments

THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY...
...is awarded to Track-A-'Crat for his comments on this billboard you will find off Interstate 70 in the great state of Missouri:
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I love America more and more each day.

Nowhere else in the world would such fiercely independent people be able to erect a billboard kinda sorta exhorting citizens to prepare for the worst against their own despotic government.

Also, nowhere else (in the advanced world) do rodeo, stunt-biking and other crazy dangerous sports exist.  The stranglehold of socialism is so strong in Europe that risks are not permitted in any venture (be it business, politics or regarding your own personal safety), but if someone wants to bust themselves up but good in the US of A while doing something obviously dangerous and awesomely entertaining, then you can just go right ahead.  People will love you for it!

And, more importantly, you’ll be the one paying for fixing yourself.


Spot-on and Amen, brother.

Ain't that America
You and me
Ain't that America
Something to see
Ain't that America
The home of the free...
16 dec 09 @ 2:03 pm est          Comments

NEVERENDING 'WAR'
WARNING: Beware a bit of vulgarity on my part...

In his recent interview on 60 Minutes, the Dali Bama said:

One of the mistakes that was made over the last eight years is for us to have a triumphant sense about war. There is was a tendency to say, we can go in, we can kick some tail, this is some glorious exercise. When, in fact, this is a tough business.

Over at Castle Gormogon, The Mandarin thinks this statement is a good look into the mindset of our Community Organizer-In-Chief:

This has to be one of the most revealing insights into this President’s mind-set as well as the mind-set of most liberal-progressive anti-military people out there. Is the President suggesting that we should not want to win a war? Should we be fighting to lose? Are we looking to just break-even?

Imagine if we had leadership in office like this during World War II.

Another telling part of his statement is that he views the war as a tough business. There is a great difference between the business world and the military. But then again we have been beaten over the head for the last 40 years with the War on Poverty, the War on Drugs, and the War on Cancer. This has weakened the actual meaning of what war really is. To the liberal-progressive, war is just another social program. Well, it is not.


-If we had this kind of leadership in World War II, we'd be sieging each other's heil today or calling each other 'comrade citizen'.

-The Dali Bama said 'When, in fact, [waging war] is a tough business'.  No shit Sherlock, but it is also a glorious exercise when its waged to defend freedom and when men rise to the occasion and perform acts of courage and bravery.  What a pink pussy Barry is.

-The Mandarin is dead-solid-perfect in his comments on the diluting of the meaning of the word 'war'.  But we should not be surprised.  The Left loves the idea of war, as Jonah Goldberg reminded us back in April 2005:

Meanwhile, the progressive mindset sees war from a very different perspective. The progressives who latched on to William James' "moral equivalents of war" idea saw nothing regrettable about those infringements. Rather, they saw them as the chief benefit of war. Hence John Dewey's famous "social benefits of war." Long before WWI, the progressives yearned to do what WWI made possible.

For example, Jane Addams in 1902: "[W]e must demand that the individual shall be willing to lose the sense of personal achievement, and shall be content to realize his activity only in connection to the activity of the many." Walter Rauschenbusch in 1896: "New forms of association must be created...Our disorganized competitive life must pass into an organic cooperative life." And: "Individualism means tyranny."

Hence WWI served as wish-fulfillment for those who wanted wartime unity but lacked a cause to get it. Hence Randolph Bourne's observation about the "peculiar congeniality between the war and these men" - i.e. progressive intellectuals. "It is," he sadly concluded, "as if the war and they had been waiting for each other."

The conditions that prevail when a nation mobilizes for war in the modern era since The French Revolution [massive and deep-reaching regulation of individuals and the economy, rationing overseen by the government, shaming or silencing orjailing those who oppose and/or protest the war or who oppose the measures instituted in the name of the 'war effort', etc.] are preciously the ones that the Left desires to be standard in everyday life.  In the late 19th Century, some Progressive thinkers realized that the masses of peoples in countries of The West [especially in the Anglosphere] would not willingly accept the socialization of their lives and the attendant loss in their freedoms.  They believed that their peoples would only allow for such totalitarian measures to be imposed on them if they thought it was in an important cause—such as you get when your nation is under attack.  So the Left co-opted the terminology, the philosophy, and the tactics of war and began applying them to areas that had nothing to do with defense and national security.  Perhaps the most successful practitioner of this was FDR.  Still, to this day, people who lived through The Depression will tell you: 'Well, he may not have gotten us out of The Depression.  He may have made it worse.  But this nation would have fallen apart if it weren't for the measures he took.'  All of these years later FDR's con still works it magic.  Barack Hussein Obama is cut from the same cloth as FDR and is trying to do the same things.  Unlike his mentor however, BHO's ends are much more ambitious.  And, therefore, much more dangerous.
16 dec 09 @ 9:59 am est          Comments

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY...
...is awarded to Dan Riehl for his speaking of the unvarnished truth:

Multi-culturalism, combined with immigration and birth demographics are on track to end the America we've know for over two-hundred years. That's not a political opinion, it's driven by numbers far more solid than the ones holding up the climate conspiracy.

It also likely has a great deal to do with why blacks never enjoyed much benefit from the civil rights movement of the sixties. It came couched in this same misguided progressivism that is destroying traditional America today. Blacks as a whole, particularly inside the cities where they are captive to the liberal/progressive political machine, weren't told to celebrate equality and become part of America. They were encouraged to stand apart from it.

America will survive. It's just not clear what it's going to look like politically, economically, and so forth. I'm just glad I knew her when and won't be around to fully see what it becomes. I doubt most people on the ground will even understand the changes that are coming. They'll simply see it as the America they know, but may never truly love.
15 dec 09 @ 9:39 pm est          Comments

ACTA SANCTORUM
A big thank you to Ran, proprietor of Si Vis Pacem, for linking and commenting favorably on two of my recent postings that dealt with conservatives and the TEA Party folks and conservative and libertarians working together [QUO VADIS? and ALLIES, respectively].

He realizes the seriousness of our situation and is a fighter for freedom and liberty—a standout resident of The Camp Of The Saints & The Beloved City.

Please do take the time to go visit his site.  I guarantee you'll become a regular visitor like me.
15 dec 09 @ 9:35 pm est          Comments

I DON'T GET IT
What's the Big Deal about this person named Denise Milani?...
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Oh...okay...I get it now...
15 dec 09 @ 9:19 pm est          Comments

DATECHGUY ON 'THE GREEN MAN'S BURDEN'
So...Al Gore is a poet and, until recently, we didn't know it.  Not only does he possess the genetically engineered superior intelligence that enabled him to invent the Interwebs and devise the solutions to the Scourge Of Global Warming!!!! [a mandate of four '!'s each and everytime you write it, please], but this Khan Of Climate is a talent with the pen whose ink is made of drivel.  Herewith, the totality of his genius:

One thin September soon
A floating continent disappears
In midnight sun
Vapors rise as
Fever settles on an acid sea
Neptune’s bones dissolve
Snow glides from the mountain
Ice fathers floods for a season
A hard rain comes quickly
Then dirt is parched
Kindling is placed in the forest
For the lightning’s celebration
Unknown creatures
Take their leave, unmourned
Horsemen ready their stirrups
Passion seeks heroes and friends
The bell of the city
On the hill is rung
The shepherd cries
The hour of choosing has arrived
Here are your tools

Thank you to the Biggest Tool On The Planet.

The Kipling Of The Blogosphere, DaTechguy, deciding to pick up the Right Man's Burden, has responded with a poem of his own.  A highlight:

Take up the Green Man’s burden–
Send forth the best ye breed–
Go bind your children to exile
To serve your planet’s need;
To wait in conference meetings,
And airports expanses–
To change the western masses,
From carbon them to wean.

Take up the Green Man’s burden–
In patience to abide,
To ease the fear of Polar Bears
And all the creatures mild;
By dire speech and warnings,
A hundred times made plain
To stop that corporate profit,
For mother Gaia’s gain.


Please take the time to click here and read the rest.

Three carbon-free cheers for DaTechguy.
15 dec 09 @ 2:28 pm est          Comments

MEGALOMANIA
There's many a speculation out there in The Ether as to why, despite quite vehement opposition, the Democrats in the Congress and in The White House remain vehemently committed to passing some kind of Obamacare bill.  Even the some staunchest Leftists on Capiral Hill are willing to water-down the legislation to get 'something' passed.

Over at The Washington Examiner, Byron York put the question to a 'Democratic strategist who asked to remain anonymous'.  This person thinks:

You have to look at the issue from three different Democratic perspectives: the House of Representatives, the White House and the Senate.

"In the House, the view of [California Rep. Henry] Waxman and [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi is that we've waited two generations to get health care passed, and the 20 or 40 members of Congress who are going to lose their seats as a result are transitional players at best," he said. "This is something the party has wanted since Franklin Roosevelt." In this view, losses are just the price of doing something great and historic. (The strategist also noted that it's easy for Waxman and Pelosi to say that, since they come from safely liberal districts.)

"At the White House, the picture is slightly different," he continued. "Their view is, 'We're all in on this, totally committed, and we don't have to run for re-election next year. There will never be a better time to do it than now.'"

"And in the Senate, they look at the most vulnerable Democrats -- like [Christopher] Dodd and [Majority Leader Harry] Reid -- and say those vulnerabilities will probably not change whether health care reform passes or fails. So in that view, if they pass reform, Democrats will lose the same number of seats they were going to lose before."


As Mr. York points out: each of these perspectives means the Party will suffer at the ballot box, so he asks the strategist why they would still go full-steam ahead with the effort:

"Because they think they know what's best for the public," the strategist said. "They think the facts are being distorted and the public's being told a story that is not entirely true, and that they are in Congress to be leaders. And they are going to make the decision because Goddammit, it's good for the public."

I think this last point is one of the reasons the Leftists are charging ahead [they have THE ANSWER, you see; they're The Enlightened Ones], but I think Mr. York misses the main reason why the Left just wants to pass 'something, anything' [and the Democratic strategist has his own selfish reasons not to mention why]: even a signed-into-law watered-down version of Socialized Health Care will be a big foot in the door of the Left achieving its goal of enslaving us—literally, our bodies—to the state.

Over at Legal Insurrection, William Jacobson puts it very well:

... something still will amount to a further massive governmental intrusion into our lives, the economy and the health care system; the details can be fixed -- from the Democratic perspective -- later on by attaching amendments to legislation against which Republicans cannot vote, or through other legislative maneuvers.

AmericanFlag-Distress-180.jpgGet the all-important foot in the door and then you can slowly push it open.  Establish government control of the health care system, even if its a weak control, and just wait to increase that control through stealth.  Attach power grabbing amendments to Defense Department bills, to Appropriation Bills, etc.

Wa-lah!  Welcome to Creeping Socialism.
Welcome to the jungle.
Welcome to TYRANNY.
15 dec 09 @ 2:07 pm est          Comments

THE WAY OF THE LEFTIST
If you've followed this site for any length of time, you have seen a good number of postings regarding the slanders and calumnies being hurled at my friend, Stacy McCain ['He's a raaaaacist and white supremacist!'].  If you've followed the news at all in the last year or so, you have seen the same being done to Sarah Palin [false charges too numerous to list, but how about that her Downs Syndrome son, Trig, is not hers].  Within a short while of taking the reigns of the Executive Branch, Julius Obamacus Caesar and his toady minions were seeking to intimidate the Right in America using the federal powers at their disposal.  And they are not the only ones by any means.  This is STOP for the Left.

Is there a grand conspiracy to slander and delegitimize conservatives and libertarians?  One is tempted to think so, but this is foolish.  Individual and variously sized groups of Leftists are acting this way on their own.  Sure, some collaborate on this or that issue or in attacking a right wing group or individuals, but to think that there is some Illuminati-like plot is just ridiculously insane.  However, what these Lefty attack dogs have in common is they all are playing from the same figurative handbook: Leftist ideology.  And Leftism demands that you crush your enemies utterly.  They believe that they have THE ANSWER, and that anyone who does not have faith that they do, is not worthy to survive.  They are the truly Enlightened Ones, the Illuminated.  Look at any Leftist regime that has ever existed.  In the mildest ones, they crush the dignity of the individual; in the harsher ones, they murder them.  This is The Way Of The Leftist [I was going to originally phrase it 'The Way Of The Leftist Warrior', but that would be insulting all true warriors; the Leftists are cowards, through and through, and have no honor].

The latest example of an attack on an individual of the Right is very well chronicled by Donald Douglas over at American Power.  He is the focus of an nasty attack by one E.D. Kain, former proprietor of the vanished-into-this-air NeoConstant, current co-proprietor of The League Of Ordinary Gentlemen, and contributer to True/Slant.  If you know Professor Douglas [and I have been privileged to communicate with him and am a faithful reader of his great blog], you know he's not going to take the slanders and calumnies being heaped upon him lying down.  In a posting yesterday, the Prof lays out a winning indictment against the Leftist Kain.  A highlight:

That's a rather interesting quotation in relation to E.D. Kain, a moral coward trying to outrace a secret life of reptilian dishonor and shame, also seeking political resurrection. A man who has broken trust, mine certainly, but also the trust of many other bloggers to whom I've spoken. Who knows whose trust he'll destroy going forward? Indeed, who knows E.D. Kain, really? This is a man (if I can use that noun without discrediting it) who will descend to the most slimy dirtbag techniques to preserve the filthy stealth that is his own life. It's unbelievable, really, but that's what's fascinating about being online. You meet the most despicable cobags who'll take what they can get, then move on as quick as a thief who steals a candy from children, without a second thought.

In any case, the "Sleaze-Blogger" entry must have must have really hit a nerve because it turns out that E.D. KAIN E-MAILED MY DEPARTMENT CHAIRMAN TO ALLEGE DEFAMATION AT THIS BLOG. So, with this clear attempt at intimidation, there's not much doubt as to what's at stake for E.D. Kain. Through intimidation and threats, he's seeking to shut down this blog and quash the truth surrounding his political duplicity and moral bankruptcy.


Please do take the time to click here and read the whole thing.

My main point of this posting: expect the attacks on we libertarians and conservatives to increase in number and severity as we become more influential.  Expect our private lives to be investigated and our views distorted by the many and scattered Leftist apparatchiks out there who already love Big Brother Lefty.  Expect them to go for our jugulars, our families, our jobs.  The Left believes that to achieve their ends they must employ ANY MEANS NECESSARY.  This is STOP out of the Leftist Playbook.
15 dec 09 @ 9:07 am est          Comments

Monday, December 14, 2009

HER VOICE WINGING BARRY'S CHAIN
Namaste, proprietor of the wonderfully titled My Voice On The Wings Of Change, has up a great posting on Julius Obamacus Caesar's lack of character.  A highlight:

Maybe someone can help me out here. Isn't Barack Obama 48 years old? That would make him five years my senior.

In reviewing his thin resume, one might think that he'd have learned a teensy bit about business practices and professionalism by now.

...

So then, what's with all the crying and whining? Pissing contests with FoxNews, asking Americans to snitch on each other, and his latest juvenile display, threatening republicans to stop telling the truth to their constituents.

Please do take the time to click here and read the whole posting [the comments are good too].
14 dec 09 @ 2:25 pm est          Comments

A HAPPY & JOYOUS FAKE HOLIDAY
Our favorite Five Feet Of Fury, Kathy Shaidle, has done her annual Debunking Of Kwanzaa posting.  This year she links to several of her past articles on this subject.  From one of them:

But there is one not-so-insignificant problem with Kwanzaa. While many teachers believe it is an ancient African harvest festival, it was not born in pre-colonial West Africa, but in 1960s southern California. It is the brainchild of African-American radical activist, academic and convicted felon Ron Karenga.

...

Convicted of felonious assault and false imprisonment [torture or two women], Mr. Karenga was sentenced in 1971 to up to 10 years in prison
. “A brief account of the sentencing ran in several newspapers the following day,” Mr. Mulshine writes. “That was apparently the last newspaper article to mention Karenga’s unfortunate habit of doing unspeakable things to black people. After that, the only coverage came from the hundreds of news accounts that depict him as the wonderful man who invented Kwanzaa.”

Shortly after his release from prison in 1975, Mr. Karenga (now armed, not with a pistol, but a doctorate) took over the black studies department at California State University, Long Beach, which he runs to this day.

...

People think it’s African, but it’s not
,” admitted Karenga in a 1978 Washington Post interview. “I put it around Christmas because I knew that’s when a lot of ‘bloods’ [Blacks] would be partying.”

Please do take the time to click here and read it all.  Thanks for all that work, Kathy.

As she points out, Discover The Networks has more on the thug Karenga and the 'holiday' here.
14 dec 09 @ 2:13 pm est          Comments

CHRISTMAS IN AMERICA: SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW
If I happen to see any interesting Christmas-related postings in my travels through The Ether, I'll be issuing Dispatches.  Let's start off with these...

-Something old: over at Saberpoint, Stogie has the story of Yes Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus:

In 1897, Virginia O'Hanlon of New York, age 8, wrote a letter to the New York Sun asking if there was a Santa Claus. Francis Pharcellus Church, an editor for the paper, wrote a response that has been famous and cherished for many decades.

-Something new: Theo Spark has provided a version of The Night Before Christmas translated into legalese.  A highlight:

Whereas, on or about the night prior to Christmas, there did occur at a certain improved piece of real property (hereinafter "the House") a general lack of stirring by all creatures therein, including, but not limited to a mouse.

A variety of foot apparel, e.g., stocking, socks, etc., had been affixed by and around the chimney in said House in the hope and/or belief that St. Nick aka St. Nicholas aka Santa Claus (hereinafter "Claus") would arrive at sometime thereafter. The minor residents, i.e. the children, of the aforementioned House were located in their individual beds and were engaged in nocturnal hallucinations, i.e. dreams, wherein vision of confectionery treats, including, but not limited to, candies, nuts and/or sugar plums, did dance, cavort and otherwise appear in said dreams.


I know it's been said many times, many ways, but...
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Merry Christmas
14 dec 09 @ 1:51 pm est          Comments

ALLIES
Related to my posting entitled QUO VADIS? below...

Another important and necessary thing that has to occur, if those of us who want to take this country back from the hands of the Leftists who are trying to destroy it, is for libertarians and conservatives to work together and put aside their differences.

Over at Si Vis Pacem, Ran reports on some good news on that front.  He quotes from two cross postings by Tim Knight [of the conservative Jumping In Pools] and Eric Dondero [of Libertarian Republican] on how this could work.  From Mr. Dondero:

The election of Barack Obama has fundamentally altered the political spectrum, most especially on the right side. Libertarians and Conservatives are now finding themselves much more in agreement than ever before. Longheld disputes between the two have dissipated in importance, as the looming threat of Obama-fascism seeks to take away all of our liberties away. But a few differences still persist, and it's important that we acknowledge the areas where we Libertarians and Conservatives part company, so as to allow for greater cooperation in the 80% of issues we agree on.

Precisely.  This is a must.  In modern America as it exits, the conservatives need the libertarians and the libertarians need the conservatives if either hopes to achieve any restoration of our lost freedoms and liberties.  The biggest threat to all that is now coming from the national government, a place where, I think, the two sides have more they can agree about than not.  The issue of abortion is a prime example: the vast majority of the adherents of both agree that this is an issue that should be returned to state jurisdiction and that the national government should not be involved.  Once it is returned, then our alliance will cease on this issue, but we will have stuck a significant blow for freedom and have restored some of the life to the federalist system.
14 dec 09 @ 11:28 am est          Comments

AN EVIL SYMBOL
Over at Eye Of Polyphemus, Jamie Jeffords cuts through the BS and provides us with the true origins of the dreaded Peace Symbol, man.  A highlight:

The peace symbol has its origins with Roman Emperor Nero. Nero was an incredibly evil man who massacred both Christians and Jews. He had the Apostle Peter crucified upside down on a cross which-- ta da--became the modern peace symbol. the broken cross represented the broken Christian or Jew.

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QUO VADIS?
There's been a lot of commentary and analysis lately about the future of the TEA Party and conservative movements and the GOP.  Some folks are wondering if a leader will emerge out of any one of them who can unite all of them.  Some think a the first two should join in a third party effort, that the Republican Party is beyond any reforming.  Some think the last option will only split the vote and allow the Leftists to remain in power in the Congress and in the Executive.  Stacy McCain recently offered some of his thoughts over at AmSpecBlog:

A few weeks ago, I had a long conversation with a liberal journalist who asked me, "Who do you see as the leader of the conservative movement?" I didn't have an answer, but Richard Viguerie is onto something when he emphasizes the "leaderless" quality of the Tea Party grassroots, quoting a historical study of the Apaches: "You wanted to follow Geronimo? You followed Geronimo. You didn't want to follow him? Then you didn't. The power lay with each individual." Viguerie comments:

From the tea parties, the grassroots, and the alternative media, we are seeing new leaders emerge. Like our Founders, they understand that their strength of leadership does not come from a political party, but from consent of the governed. That is why they don't hitch their wagons to one person or one party.
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Mark "The Great One" Levin discussed recently how Reagan spoke not of "his" administration, but of "this" administration. Levin noted how Reagan understood his power came from the people, not from the office he held.

Elitists who disparage the Tea Party movement have argued that such chaotic populism is un-Reaganesque, portraying the Gipper's triumph as primarily the work of intellectuals and policy specialists. Perhaps you should ask Viguerie and Levin about that. Better yet, ask Craig Shirley, whose new book Rendezvous With Destiny chronicles in fascinating detail the 1980 campaign that elected Reagan.

You don't hear Craig Shirley dissing the Tea Party people, do you? No, nor will you. Elitists who think that only pundits, policy "experts" and think-tank wonks should have a say in the political process are, in fact, the antithesis of what the Reagan Revolution was about.


Quite.  Like those Sons Of Liberty who rose up against the tyrannies of the British Crown and Parliament, I would hope the TEA Party organizations stay leaderless and work to show their [pardon the word] collective power.  To put it another way: let a thousand leaders bloom.  Stay away from the jockeying for leadership roles and position that is a feature of every political party.  Remain the people that are flexible to apply pressure where needed, when needed.  Jimmie Bise makes a very good point in this regard:

...The only thing I’ll add is that we should be careful of thinking of the Tea Party Movement as an actual political movement. It’s not and I don’t think it ever will be. It’s far too regional and resists a single leader far too vehemently to coalesce into a movement. More importantly, there are very few people people inside the Tea Party movement who actually want to be in charge (and those folks aren’t in a good position to get what they want). Tea party folks generally don’t aspire to high political office, though they are starting to look at being more politically active in their own communities. What they really want is for their elected representatives to listen to them. They have realized that speaking as individuals or in small groups hasn’t worked and so they’ve found a way to speak in thousands and tens of thousands.

That’s not necessarily a recipe for a cohesive national movement. It is, however, a great source of political energy that a national movement, say the conservative movement, could tap to great benefit.


The conservatives can tap, but they should realize they cannot [nor should they want to] control it.  The conservatives must retain their freedom of action and be able to veer from the TEA Party folks when necessary on matters of principle.

As for the GOP, well, the members who put the 'stupid' in the apt label 'The Stupid Party' have to be either 'retired' or neutralized.  And it is the conservatives and TEA Party people who must effect this.

One way is to join the NOT ONE RED CENT! Campaign.

Another is to run with an idea I've been touting for awhile now: conservatives must set up Committees Of Correspondence to exchange ideas, discusss tactics, and plot moves.

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Let us make precise and clear-cut the terms we should be using.

Aristotle wrote that A is A; you may also call it B, but it always remains A. A thing is what it is and, to say it is something else, is to deny reality. There is a lot of denial of reality going around these days.

As John Adams wrote: 'Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence'.

POINT 1:  There is no "War in Iraq" or "War in Afghanistan".  Like the Pacific and Europe in World War II, Iraq and Afghanistan are just parts of a larger war.  Unlike them, they are not separate from each other.  Therefore, they are part of the Middle East Theatre of Operations [METO] as the Pacific was the PTO and Europe the ETO.

POINT 2: Many on the Left and some on the Right want to "end the War".  There are only two ways to end a war: (1) by achieving Victory or (2) by being Defeated.  A pullout, before Victory is achieved, is Defeat.  They want Defeat.  Pullout may be the best policy―I am not arguing that here―but, leaving without achieving our objective is Defeat.

POINT 3: We are engaged in a War Against Islam.  The term is more correct than "War against Islamo-Fascism" or "War On Terror". 

Islam has been at war with all non-Muslims since the time of its founder, Muhammad [his name be cursed].  Like the Hundred Years' War, there have been periods of peace in this long conflict, but the Muslim has never stopped believing that he is at war with all non-Muslims.  He can't: Allah commands that all of the world be conquered in his name and he must submit, in all things, to the will of Allah [the word Islam means "submission", sometimes rendered as "surrender"].  Any periods of peace we in the West have enjoyed have only occurred after we have dealt them such a devastating blow that they have not been able to wage their jihad and then have pursued polices that have kept them subjugated.  This began to fade in the latter half of the 20th Century as we forgot the dangers posed by this militant religion and as they regrouped under new and committed leaders.

If you doubt that Islam is at war with all non-Muslims, keep in mind this:
Islamic apologists often point out that Islam is not a monolith and that there are differences of opinion among the different Islamic schools of thought. That is true, but, while there are differences, there are also common elements. Just as Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant Christians differ on many aspects of Christianity, still they accept important common elements. So it is with Islam. One of the common elements to all Islamic schools of thought is jihad, understood as the obligation of the Ummah to conquer and subdue the world in the name of Allah and rule it under Sharia law. The four Sunni Madhhabs (schools of fiqh [Islamic religious jurisprudence]) -- Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Hanbali -- all agree that there is a collective obligation on Muslims to make war on the rest of the world. Furthermore, even the schools of thought outside Sunni orthodoxy, including Sufism and the Jafari (Shia) school, agree on the necessity of jihad. When it comes to matters of jihad, the different schools disagree on such questions as whether infidels must first be asked to convert to Islam before hostilities may begin (Osama bin Laden asked America to convert before Al-Qaeda’s attacks); how plunder should be distributed among victorious jihadists; whether a long-term Fabian strategy against dar al-harb is preferable to an all-out frontal attack; etc.

[Source: Gregory M. Davis, Islam 101, section 4g, found at http://www.jihadwatch.org/islam101/]

They have been at war with us for centuries and we, therefore, have been at war with them.  We are engaged in a War Against Islam whether we want to say so or not.  In an interview with a Pakistani TV network on 23 July 2008, Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid, Al-Qaeda's No. 3 man and top commander in Afghanistan, has this to say: “Islam does not distinguish between the American people and the American government, since both are in a state of war with Islam”.

[Source: http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD200008]

POINT 4: The term "Islamo-Fascism" seems to have been created by Leftists.  Since (1) they wrongly place fascism on the Right, (2) they believe [rightly] Muslims want to establish a theocratic regime on Earth, and (3) anything political that has any connection with religion is bad and emanates out of rightwing thinking, the term makes sense to them.  Therefore, the term is nothing but a way to associate Islam with the right-wing.  Muslims believe in a totalitarian way of governing; in submission [that word] to an all-powerful Islamic leader or leaders.

POINT 5: As to the term "War On Terror", it is just plain silly: how can you wage war on a thing?

POINT 6: What is fascism?  It is when a government allows private property to exist, but controls and manages the use and disposal of property in all its forms.  Citizens retain all of the burdens and responsibilities associated with property ownership, but are not allowed to control and shape its use.

As an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. The word derives from fasces, the Roman symbol of collectivism and power: a tied bundle of rods with a protruding ax. In its day (the 1920s and 1930s), fascism was seen as the happy medium between boom-and-bust-prone liberal capitalism, with its alleged class conflict, wasteful competition, and profit-oriented egoism, and revolutionary Marxism, with its violent and socially divisive persecution of the bourgeoisie. Fascism substituted the particularity of nationalism and racialism—“blood and soil”—for the internationalism of both classical liberalism and Marxism.

Where socialism sought totalitarian control of a society’s economic processes through direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally private owners. Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their property in the “national interest”—that is, as the autocratic authority conceived it. (Nevertheless, a few industries were operated by the state.) Where socialism abolished all market relations outright, fascism left the appearance of market relations while planning all economic activities. Where socialism abolished money and prices, fascism controlled the monetary system and set all prices and wages politically. In doing all this, fascism denatured the marketplace. Entrepreneurship was abolished. State ministries, rather than consumers, determined what was produced and under what conditions.
[Source: Sheldon Richman, The Concise Encylcopedia Of Economics, Liberty Fund, found at http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Fascism.html]

On the political spectrum, therefore, it is located between modern liberalism and socialism.

POINT 7: What is socialism?  It is when a government allows no private property to exist, and controls and manages the use and disposal of property in all its forms.  Citizens are not allowed to control their lives and are subject to the whims of bureaucrats and officials.  If they retain freedoms and liberties, they do so at the discretion of them.   On the political spectrum, therefore, it is the next logical stage after fascism; some would argue that it lies between fascism and communism.

POINT 8: What is pragmatism?  It is a tool used by Leftists, or those operating under the influence of Leftist logic, to achieve Utopian ends—heaven on earth through social, political, cultural, and spiritual engineering.  It is merely a tool of ideology, part of the means to an end.

POINT 9:The Big Lie - When confronted with truths that reflect unpleasantly on them, the Leftists deflect it buy claiming over-an-over ad nauseum that these truths apply to and are products of the Right.  This practice is known as The Big Lie.  It has been successfully practiced by the Left since, at the very least, the French Revolution.  Thus, we have the now-widespread belief that the Nazis and the Black Shirts of Italy were right-wingers when the reality-the truth-is they were both people of the Left.  I suspect the violent objections from the Left to conservatives use of the term 'fascist' arise from the fact that they have spent well over seventy years trying to convince the world of The Big Lie that it is not and never has been a Leftist ideology.

How does one practice this distortion truth and why is it effective?  In a report issued during World War II by the OSS, the author provided an explanation for all practitioners by describing how Hitler practiced it:

His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

By repeating their lies over and over, the Left creates a false reality that supplements the real world.  In this false reality, the lie is the truth, the truth is the lie.  A is not A.  [But we know that A must always be A.]

The Left also practices a variation of The Big Lie that I like to call The Big Deception which involves a Big Deflection away from the reality of the situation.  None of their policies or actions can survive direct questioning, so the Leftists must turn the tables on the questioners and make it seem as though the inquisitors have bad or evil intentions. Overtime and after constant and unrelenting hectoring, the Left's way of thinking triumphs.  They successfully infect enough people so that this diseased mode of thinking becomes chronic, deep-rooted, instinctual.  If the Devil's greatest triumph was that he convinced people he did not exist, the Left's greatest triumph has been to convince people that the Leftist way of thinking is normal.  It is not.  It is a perversion of reason and a horribly mutant form of logic. It is antithetical to human life.  Nothing but decay and destruction are left [pun intended] in it's wake.


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