THE PEACE RACKET
Also from City Journal, a sobering piece on the peace movement. It’s much more than hippies singing kumbaya in their PJs.
How Hillary Won PA
This is how: by giving out “progressive laptop sweaters” to all those concerned by the cooling caused global warming. Damn, she really is good…
nick @ April 23, 2008
IRAN: NO HOMOSEXUALS, BUT THEY HAVE CHICKS WITH BALLS
I meant rugby balls, you sick freaks…
nick @ October 26, 2007
JENA 6: BECAUSE THE DUKE LACROSSE MESS WAS NOT ENOUGH
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The Jena 6 scandal did seem to be too good to be true: black kids and white kids in the deep South, nooses, Al Sharpton and his ilk marching in righteous indignation, a congressional hearing that sounded like a politically correct lynching, the media
pouring salt in the wound like only they can do dutifully reporting on this American race drama…
According to the Christian Science Monitor, it’s very possibly all bovine excreta. Because when you line up 11 myths on the Jena 6 narrative, you pretty much debunk the story.
nick @ October 25, 2007
UNEXPECTED FROM “DAILY KOS”: THE COLD, HARD TRUTH
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Finally, someone posting for the Daily Kos is openly admitting what every other Daily Kos minion has always thought, yet has lacked the gumption to say (or type) out loud: he doesn’t support the troops.
I Don’t Support the Troops..oops, there, I said it
by lurxst
Wed Sep 19, 2007 at 04:27:34 PM PDTThis has been digging at me for, oh, about 4 years now. I have been hesitant to express this thought, in comments sections and in discussion with other people about the Iraq quagmire for fear of, I don’t know, being called mean. Or, un-American. Or something.
Supporting the troops essentially means supporting the illegal war. It seems that us anti-war types have been doing all sorts of mental and philisophical gymnastics to try and work around this. What has emerged is a sort of low impact, mealy-mouthed common wisdom that is palatable to everyone but is ultimately going to allow us to stay in Iraq for years to come.
Even Jim Webb’s shelved equal time legislation carries the scent of this erroneous wisdom.
* lurxst’s diary :: ::
*Now, I don’t intend to demean Jim Webb. He is determined and impressive in his stance against the war and the crippling of our military. But this kind of legislation allows us to comfortably continue to support acts of aggression, as long as we give the troops a long enough break in between.
Until we have another draft, this is a volunteer armed services. I am not even beginning to count the numerous mercenaries that are involved in the occupation. You signed up, you get to go to the desert and risk being shot at by brown skinned people who don’t believe the lies you’ve been told. A war of aggression is immoral, period. If you believe in God, you can damned well be sure you are going to hell for your participation in it. The only troop I support is the man or woman who refuses to be deployed so that they can make the middle east accessible to profiteers who don’t give a flying F about morality or democracy. Or a soldier’s life.
When Sunni tribes got paid off enough to stop shooting at GIs and instead shoot at Al-Qaeda (in reality themselves) it is funny how they suddenly became Freedom Fighters. During WWII, French resistance fighters were also called terrorists and insurgents by their German occupiers. Can an anti-war proponent look at these Iraqi resistance fighters with the same admiration, even though they worship differently than us and when they eventually win are likely to install a distasteful (to Americans) theocratic tinged state. Can a person who doesn’t believe in violence support that people’s right to govern themselves, perhaps violently.
I am sorry but supporting the troops means supporting this illegal war.
Let me be clear on this: it doesn’t take a whole lot of courage to say what you really think when you are against the war, and why you are against it. It takes, however, a whole lot of cowardice not to admit, like blogger “Lurxst” has done above, what your real feelings are on the matter.
And God knows the cowards are scurrying about trying to repair the damage done to this nauseating “we are the mainstream fighting for real human values” veneer of wannabe centrist posturing. For proof, here are some of the comments to the above post:
It’s a damn plant from LGF (11+ / 0-)
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First diary and no comments but a tip jar.
Don’t make me use my “special nerd powers” on you.
by SeattleLiberal on Wed Sep 19, 2007 at 09:39:31 PM PDT
Notice the substitution of the “conservative blogger conspiracy theory” for any reasoned thought (for those who don’t know, LGF stands for Little Green Footballs, Charles Johnson’s popular blog). Furthermore, if you were a liberal (praise Allah, you’re probably not), you’d know that the use of the word “stereotype” is a no-no of particular shame. That’s something us fascist reactionaries do. After all, stereotyping is antithetical to the worship of diversity and identity politics as practiced by the comrades.
I hope you go to sleep tonight thanking your lucky stars that you had enough choices in life to not need to rely on the military for an education, an opportunity to get out of your town.
This occupation is being conducted predominantly by poor, disadvantaged Americans who turned to the military for a better chance at life. Kids who couldn’t afford school, or weren’t book-smart. These kids are dying because they didn’t have other choices in life.
A very close friend of mine enlisted in the Marines after 9/11. Over a dozen residents of my very small home town were killed on 9/11. After training, he found himself shipped out to Anbar province. On his second tour, he was killed.
How shameful that such a sacrifice, to have your life taken away by a government that leads you into an illegal war, should merit so little respect from you.
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by kath25 on Wed Sep 19, 2007 at 07:58:22 PM PDT
Here is a comment that brilliantly reflects the complete and utter confusion of the left when it comes to addressing the military as an institution and as a culture. Basically, it boils down to this: these poor, uneducated souls are nothing less than pressed into service because of the lack of civilian opportunities. They are occupiers dying in a foreign land because they are to stupid (not “book-smart” is the term chosen) to do anything else with their lives. Am I the only one to find it bizarre that this commenter’s friend’s reason for enlisting is only described as a post-9/11 choice?
One word: bullshit (pardon my swahili). I have served for 10 years as a paratrooper. I enlisted after obtaining my MA in international security studies because I wanted to. Serving my country was the right thing to do. When I became an NCO, very few were the soldiers who served with me who were there because they had to.
Joining the Army today is a choice. Contrary to what those progressive cream puffs believe, you should join the Army, or the Marines, or any other branch of service, knowing full well that you might have to pull the trigger, and that some bastard may one day pull his trigger to try to kill you. It’s not that hard to comprehend. Hell, the military has been at war for 4 years now, while most of the country is busy shopping or watching American Idol. Any kid walking into a recruiting office should know it’s not a boy scout uniform he’s about to wear. And if said kid cannot grasp that very simple concept, then maybe is he so brain dead that he really coudn’t hack it in the civilian world. Just don’t blame the military for it.
There are tons of other more or less blatantly anti-military comments to that post. I’ll let you judge for yourself, and then get pissed of on your own. All I ask is that the lefties in this country finally have the testicular fortitude of agreeing with this guy mentioned above. How can we have a debate when half the country is not even capable of voicing their real opinion, without sounding like slithering snakes in the grass?
Just come out and say it. We all know you think it.
nick @ September 20, 2007
AGAIN, JESSE JACKSON MUTTERS SOMETHING INCOMPRENSIBLE AND STUPID
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Jesse Jackson’s best option would be to shut up.
He has proven it again by accusing Barack Obama of acting white because he didn’t say enough about the Jena 6 issue:
Jackson sharply criticized presidential hopeful and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for “acting like he’s white†in what Jackson said has been a tepid response to six black juveniles’ arrest on attempted-murder charges in Jena, La. Jackson, who also lives in Illinois, endorsed Obama in March, according to The Associated Press.
“If I were a candidate, I’d be all over Jena,†Jackson said after an hour-long speech at Columbia’s historically black Benedict College.
“Jena is a defining moment, just like Selma was a defining moment,†said the iconic civil rights figure, who worked with Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1965 Selma civil rights movement and was with King at his 1968 assassination.
First of all, Jackson is NOT a candidate for anything. That would be one good reason for him to keep his pie hole shut. He is not running for any type of office because the last time he did, his overly inflated, messianic saver of the black people of the world ego got his backside handed to him by none other than… the voters of this country. so here it is, Jesse: if you want to criticize a presidential candidate, be a candidate yourself. If not, keep your race pimping, second guessing opinion where it belongs, i.e. to yourself.
Second, Jena has nothing to do with Selma. The people at Selma were fighting for the very dignity of their lives. They were beaten, jailed and persecuted for standing up for a truth that was to set them free. The Jena situation, while a scandal in its own right, was fixed and taken care of. how many Selma protesters had charges brought against them dismissed?
Finally, if Jesse Jackson were anything above the race baiting sycophant that he is, in betrayal of the very people he purports to fight for, anyone writing about his regular bouts of verbal diarrhea would not need to end the article with an artificial emphasis on his supposed civil rights credentials. I know who Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks are just at the mention of the name. Sadly, I have the same reaction when I hear Jackson’s name. The only difference is that he is neither MLK or Mrs. Parks.
Ants never get to become elephants.
nick @ September 19, 2007
OBVIOUS SCIENCE OF THE DAY
I wonder how much this study cost:
Whether we’re looking for someone to date or sizing up a potential rival, our eyes irresistibly lock on to good-looking people, a new study finds.
Participants, all heterosexual men and women, fixated on highly attractive people within the first half-second of seeing them. Single folks ogled the opposite sex, of course. But those in committed relationships more often eyed beautiful people of the same sex.
“If we’re interested in finding a mate, our attention gets quickly and automatically stuck on attractive members of the opposite sex,†explained study leader Jon Maner of the University of Florida. “If we’re jealous and worried about our partner cheating on us, attention gets quickly and automatically stuck on attractive people of our own sex because they are our competitors.â€
Indeed. That’s why us guys have what is referred to as a wingman in our nocturnal mating forays.
nick @ September 18, 2007
FIRST GUNS, NOW CARS… NEXT: TOASTERS AND CURLING IRONS
No comment bovine feces of the day:
A U.S. federal judge tossed out a lawsuit by California’s attorney general on Monday seeking hundreds of millions of dollars from six automakers for damaging the state with climate-changing greenhouse gases.Martin Jenkins, a federal judge in the Northern District of California, said the issue of global warming should be decided in the political rather than legal arena.
The Court finds that injecting itself into the global warming thicket at this juncture would require an initial policy determination of the type reserved for the political branches of government,” Jenkins wrote in approving the automakers’ motion to dismiss the case.
The suit, filed in September, targeted General Motors Corp, Ford Motor Co, Toyota Motor Corp, the U.S. arm of Germany’s DaimlerChrysler AG and the North American units of Japan’s Honda Motor Co and Nissan Motor Co Ltd.
“The Court is left to make an initial decision as to what is unreasonable in the context of carbon dioxide emissions,” Jenkins wrote. “Such an exercise would require the Court to create a quotient or standard in order to quantify any potential damages that flow from Defendants’ alleged act of contributing 30 percent of California’s carbon dioxide emissions.
“The balancing of those competing interests is the type of initial policy determination to be made by the political branches, and not this Court.”
The suit was the first seeking to hold manufacturers liable for global warming damages caused by greenhouse emissions. It said cars made by the six automakers account for more than 30 percent of human-generated carbon dioxide emissions in California, the most populous U.S. state.
nick @ September 18, 2007
HILLARY: GET UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE OR GET A PAUPER’S GRAVE
Obviously, choice extends to abortion, but NOT to healthcare. So says Hillary:
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that a mandate requiring every American to purchase health insurance was the only way to achieve universal health care but she rejected the notion of punitive measures to force individuals into the health care system. (…) She said she could envision a day when “you have to show proof to your employer that you’re insured as a part of the job interview — like when your kid goes to school and has to show proof of vaccination,” but said such details would be worked out through negotiations with Congress.
Translation: the most poor, destitute demographic segment of the American population, i.e. the unemployed, will have no choice but to slowly die in their own feces because they have no health care, being unable to purchase it for lack of a job.
How magnanimous of Hillary not to envision punitive measures. Sending federal officials to the door step of a single mother of three who can’t work because she has epileptic seizures to force her to buy something that she can’t afford after the power and water company disconnected her would indeed be very different to explain. Maybe not to the left, all things considered…
And, from the most excellent guys at Cox and Forkum (see blogroll for link):
nick @ September 18, 2007
UK MOSQUES: HALF THE APPLES ARE ROTTEN
600 out of 1,350 mosques in the UK are under the control of the Muslim Deobandi sect.
Riyadh ul Haq, who supports armed jihad and preaches contempt for Jews, Christians and Hindus, is in line to become the spiritual leader of the Deobandi sect in Britain. The ultra-conservative movement, which gave birth to the Taleban in Afghanistan, now runs more than 600 of Britain’s 1,350 mosques, according to a police report seen by The Times.
Hope the whiny bitches at CAIR move there; it should be like home to them.
More on the Deobandi here.
nick @ September 18, 2007