Aug
30
2006
Sit back and think about good things
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Sit back and think about good things
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Like Democrats tearing one another apart in an orgasm of fratricide.
That’s what’s wonderful about libs – it’s all about the love, man.
Aug
27
2006
Lawsuit Pending
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Lawsuit Pending
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Aug
24
2006
A commenter to our previous post, Falcon, had this to say about Thomas Sowell and the state of things in general:
I just listened to Thomas Sowell talk about his article on the Laura Ingraham Show. You’re right, he’s simply brilliant.I followed your link, and you’re absolutely right Falcon, Oliver Stone did miss an important detail. (and I am just as incensed that he dissed a fellow hometown Buckeye!) But sadly I have come to expect things like this from the liberal party (and people) of this country. They claim to be the most tolerant party, and yet kick the likes of Joe Lieberman to the curb and castigate Michael Steele and Ken Blackwell for not toeing the party line. They claim to be diverse and yet it takes a Republican president before we have a Black Secretary of State or an Hispanic Attorney General – not to mention the dearth of minority candidates the liberals see fit to promote nationwide. They claim to be the generous and compassionate ones and yet constantly promote ways for the Government to take money out of the hands of a large number working people only to give it to the few they think should have it (and – shock – who then vote for them!). And yet all the while claiming that we conservatives and Republicans are the racists when Hollywood – the great gleaming jewel of their liberal universe – overlooks things such as the one you point out. And when a segment of that Hollywood elite does find enough courage and good sense to break from the liberal orthodoxy and dare to speak out against an obvious evil, what happens? They are assailed by the true power of the left – the curs and vipers who make comments like these.Off topic – Here’s another article that may interest you. Let me know what you think.
I dare anyone, of any political persuasion, to peruse the liberal and conservative blogs (or, to use Ace’s terms, the sinistrosphere and dextrosphere) and see which of those sites have more snarling hatred, more venom, more intolerance, segregation, divisiveness, and racism. See which site has commenters and supporters (and even posters) that actually use terms like Hymie, compare people to Hitler, Nazis and Ava Braun, pillory their own candidates who dare to think for themselves or stray from the script, photoshop people to be in Minstrel blackface, or call a Black political candidate an Oreo or Uncle Tom.
They scream that we on the right are intolerant, divisive, and racist. But, to paraphrase William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, “The liberal protests too much, methinks.”
* Projection: Projection is one of the defense mechanisms identified by Freud and still acknowledged today. According to Freud, projection is when someone is threatened by or afraid of their own impulses so they attribute these impulses to someone else. For example, a person in psychoanalysis may insist to the therapist that he knows the therapist wants to rape some women, when in fact the client has these awful feelings to rape the woman.
Aug
22
2006
As usual, Thomas Sowell is brilliant and unabashedly blunt.
It is hard to think of a time when a nation — and a whole civilization — has drifted more futilely toward a bigger catastrophe than that looming over the United States and western civilization today.I have no doubt that this man is always the smartest person in the room – no matter who else is in there with him!
Aug
19
2006
New York Times sees Republican victory
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New York Times sees Republican victory
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This evening, I happened to stumble on a 2006 Election Guide Calculator at The New York Times. Expecting to see an example of the Doomsday scenario we’ve been hearing about all year from the likes of prospective House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, it was a bit of a surprise when I set the calculator to display the likely results as divined by The Times’ prognosticators.
Even assuming a sweep in their favor of all the closest races (marked in yellow as toss-ups by The Times), the Democrats get no closer than 216 seats in the House – two seats short of the 218 needed to assume the majority.
Things don’t look much better for Majority Leader wannabe Harry Reid in the Senate.
The Times assumes Republicans already hold or have the edge in enough 2006 races to account for all 51 Senate seats they need to keep conrol in the next Congress. Three Republican incumbents (Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, Jim Talent of Missouri, and Conrad Burns of Montana) are in toss-ups, and Rick Santorum is expected to lose his seat in Pennsylvania. But losing these four seats just reduces Republicans to the bare majority of 51, since we now hold 55 seats.
If even The New York Times expects the best the Democrats can do is come tantalizingly close, and only if they sweep ALL the available toss-ups, why have we been subjected to such intense rhetoric from the MSM to the contrary?
Aug
17
2006
Dean is watching movies and invites us along for the ride.
I used the opportunity to comment on a masterpiece of satire. While I was there, I thought I’d post this, just to set the mood before you follow the links:
Speaking of the fair sex… I received this in the mail yesterday, obviously in reference to our About Us page:
Subject: poor thing!!!I get these kinds of emails and comments about our pictures every so often, this one I find especially curious. What is “telling” about my picture, Lady Macbeth, and why do you persist on attacking me if it assaults your own conscience?While the photo is in itself quite telling, your views are probably the primary reason you seek cyber-love. I am a life long Republican. You neo-cons are a pathetic toy soldier imitation. OUT OUT DAMN SPOT!!!!!!!!
Later, though, the burden of Lady Macbeth’s conscience becomes too great for her and her mental and physical condition deteriorates. A gentlewoman observes her sleepwalking and consults a doctor. The doctor and the lady observe Lady Macbeth sleepwalking, madly trying to cleanse her hands of the blood of Duncan and Macduff’s family. Still in her sleep, Lady Macbeth asks, “what, will these hands ne’re be clean?” foreseeing that she will never have peace of mind.
Aug
14
2006
There’s a word with much baggage in American history and culture: lynching. The act of publicly murdering someone “(as by hanging) by mob action without legal sanction”. A despicable atrocity, casually practiced by despicable and atrocious people. Unfortunately – though you may not hear it said very often – lynching is not a concept confined by skin color as much as it is defined by it.
Or is it?
Today, we learn that it need not be defined by skin color at all. It can be practiced by some people upon others within their own ethnicity. For what? For daring to stand up to despicable and atrocious people, of course.
Where have I read this before?
In the early 1900’s Mary Turner was upset about the lynching of her husband. Mary was eight months pregnant and made a comment that she would get even with those who hung her husband and would sign arrest warrants against the killers. The white residents of Valdosta, Georgia decided to teach her a lesson for being uppity enough to be vocal about her pain. A mob found her tied her upside down to a tree, doused her with gasoline and burned her alive. One of the crowd members took a knife and split her belly open letting the baby fall out. Another member of the crowd smashed the baby’s head with his foot. Then the crowd took out their guns and filled the burning body of Mary Turner with bullets. The Associated Press wrote that Mary Turner had made unwise remarks about the execution of her husband.I can’t help but wonder how many of these people are the same ones who will defend these people. And is it progress that – after all these years – the AP doesn’t comment on the victim’s “unwise remarks”?
Aug
13
2006
The bad news: it’s possible that Castro still lives, after all.
The good news: Joe Lieberman can at least be grateful that Uncle Fidel filled out his Connecticut absentee ballot correctly.
UPDATE: Sean Gleeson makes a convincing argument that the photo was staged some time ago for release now. IMHO, a badly failed attempt to dissuade us from believing in Fidel’s present or near-future demise may backfire on the dictatorship-in-hellfireabsentia, and prove even more perilous for Raul.
Aug
12
2006
The fascinating life of Felix von Luckner
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The fascinating life of Felix von Luckner
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As I’ve written about before, one of my guilty pleasures – okay, it’s really a bad habit – is skipping from page to page across the Internet. The worst single site to undulge myself this way, without a doubt, is Wikipedia, where I can refresh my memory of things I know, and learn new things about what I don’t. I used to do this for hours when I was a kid using a standard encyclopedia, following the “see also” references at the end of the articles to related articles in other books. Wikipedia’s constant hyperlinking throughout an article make this a perpetual pastime if you allow it to burn through your day. Unfortunately, it’s quite easy for me to lose track of hours this way, especially in the biographical and history-related articles. Since anyone (with any agenda) can edit articles, it’s information is always suspect (such as this manufactured twisting of a simple misstatement by Bill O’Reilly), but damn it’s way too interesting, and in my own perverted mind quite fun.
Today’s argument at Ace of Spades over the revelation by Nobel prize-winning German author Guenter Grass that he once served in the Waffen-SS, led me to look up the organization’s entry. I then clicked the link to compare it to the entry for Wehrmacht. I perused a few of the listings for prominent members of the German military, and found out that while Erich von Manstein eventually reached the rank of Generalfeldmarschall, he was fired by Hitler for insubordination, and sat out the end of the war. I contrasted his refusal to join in the assassination attempt on his boss with the suicide of Erwin Rommel. Rommel (I hadn’t known) was a recipient of the Pour le Mérite, an old Prussian military award I’ve always had a fascination with. Established by Frederick the Great, during WWI it was famously awarded to Max Immelmann, where it got the nickname “The Blue Max”. Other recipients included Manfred von Richthofen (the infamous “Red Baron”), and Hermann Göring.
One man also attributed by Wikipedia to be a recipient was Felix von Luckner, but it is doubtful he was, since he was not repatriated to Germany until after the downfall of the Empire.
That should not detract from von Luckner’s accomplishments, however. If even half of what Wikipedia says about him is true, he was a remarkable man. Most notably, he captured and sunk a dozen ships during the war, while only losing a single life – on either side – and that death was apparently from a secondary explosion, not from direct fire. At one point, his ship was wrecked on a reef, and he sailed thousands of miles in an open boat in an attempt to capture a new vessel. He was taken prisoner, but tried to escape. After the war, he was awarded honorary citizenship by several American cities. A dedicated Freemason, he would not cooperate with Hitler’s Nazi party, and in 1943 he saved the life of a Jewish woman. He negotiated the surrender of the city of Halle, and in 1959 was featured in an episode of This Is Your Life.
Read von Luckner’s whole entry and you’re left wondering how much of it must be embellished, it reads so much like a tacky novel. But quite often, truth is stranger than fiction, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t.
Aug
12
2006
IMRA reports that a group of young Israeli citizens have written a letter to Minister of Defense Amir Peretz asking to be drafted to fight in the war against Hizballah.
“We are proud of Israel, and its just struggle,” the letter reads, “and are prepared to carry out any mission that the IDF gives us.”What makes this news? As James Taranto reports, Fuad Nasser and his friends are Arabs, and their homes are being threatened by Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Nasrallah apparently doesn’t know what it means to be a citizen of a free country, but Mr. Nasser does. We pray that God continues to bless Israel with courageous young patriots like him.
Aug
11
2006
Civil Disobedience
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Civil Disobedience
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Kim du Toit had a lovely idea to oppose McCain-Feingold with some good old-fashioned civil disobedience this year.
Here’s my promise: If a conservative organization wants to run a political ad criticizing any Congressman up for re-election during that 60-day window, I’ll let them run one on this website, for free, right up until Election Day.I would go even a little further. There would be sweet justice in using practices espoused by Martin Luther King and updated for the 21st century to oppose this despicable measure, which threatens to prevent good men like Michael Steele, Lynn Swann, and Ken Blackwell from gaining office.
Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was evidenced sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar, on the ground that a higher moral law was at stake. It was practiced superbly by the early Christians, who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks rather than submit to certain unjust laws of the Roman Empire. To a degree, academic freedom is a reality today because Socrates practiced civil disobedience. In our own nation, the Boston Tea Party represented a massive act of civil disobedience.One has to wonder If the good Dr. King had lived long enough to see one of the “Jewish brothers” who marched with him subjected to treatment like this, if he would have wasted any time denouncing the vile imagery. I wonder if he would have rejoiced to see a black Congresswoman challenged and turned out of office by another black man. And I would hope that he would have led us all in defending our First Amendment rights in opposition to the unconstitutional muzzling attempted by McCain-Feingold.We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.” It was “illegal” to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If today I lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country’s antireligious laws.
I heartily encourage Project 21, the NBRA, and all black conservative candidates to use the services of The Black Republican as they see fit during the coming election season. We will not sit out this election, but we very much intend to sit in for it.
Aug
11
2006
I hate rap
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I hate rap
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But sometimes you just gotta respect the art.
Robert at Dean’s World
Aug
10
2006
If you’re familiar with the hilarious work of Despair, Inc., and you’ve long been a fan of Trekdom, have I got a website for you: Star Trek Inspirational Posters.
You’ll need a few minutes in the neural neutralizer before you’re done.
Ace (again, again… bastard)
Aug
10
2006
From the vein of Allahpundit
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From the vein of Allahpundit
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Expectedly, he has a girlfriend.
Ace (again)
Aug
9
2006
It seems that the Dean, the Kosacks, and soon the remainder of the Democratic party have begun eating their own!
I swear it’s true! See, I even have a picture to prove it!
(Photo Courtesy of Adnan Hajj/al-Reuters) al-Reuters – Aug 09 1:32 PM
Hat tip to Ace