July 30, 2010
Deep thought
Alpha: Caroline Glick on the collaboration of Israel's ruling class with the bien pensant Leftists who form the permanent ruling clique of the United States.
And then: A Grad missile launched from the Gaza Strip landed in a central, residential area in the southern city of Ashkelon Friday morning.
Beta: Niall Ferguson offers a Gouldian view of the historical process (I make joke): "What if collapse does not arrive over a number of centuries but comes suddenly, like a thief in the night?" Hamfisted New Testament references aside, I have a similar view of the problem.
Gamma: Newt Gingrich on America and Islam. Video at the link.
Delta: Jerry Pournelle argues the Wikileaks documents "told the public nothing it needed to know; but they have made the Afghan War unwinnable under the previous definition of win. It is time and past time to reconsider what our objectives are."
He is correct.
Epsilon: Spengler and a truth so difficult to express because it is so blindingly obvious.
This raises the question: Who covered up a scandalous arrangement known to everyone with a casual acquaintance of the situation? The answer is the same as in Agatha Christie's 1934 mystery about murder on the Orient Express, that is, everybody: former United States president George W Bush and vice president Dick Cheney, current US President Barack Obama and Vice
We still don't know his GPA
Barack: "President" Obama calls "African-Americans" a mongrel people (hat tip to Arthur).
Remember: It isn't racism when the Left says it.
Hussein: Pam Geller claims Barack Obama was behind David Cameron's anti-Israel/pro-Muslim rhetoric.
Behind the scenes I hear from good sources that it was Obama's people who put the slamming of Israel into Cameron's speech.
Remember: It isn't anti-Semitism when the Left says it.
And my personal favourite...
Obama: When Garry Wills figured there wouldn't be another dinner invitation he decided it gave him license to break his word.
To the President of the United States. On a matter of national security.
Such is the loyalty of the Left. Once again, we can judge Barack Obama's character by the company he keeps.
Virtually existing socialism
Ace sums up a form of brain damage incurred by the ruling class of the entire Western world; a profoundly maladaptive memeplex, if you will: "I think there is a type of person -- well-represented in the "Political Class" and in progressive politics -- that has learned, from college, that the Abstract is everything, that Real Smart People are always focused on the Abstract, on metaphors, on symbols."
And I thought, "Gee, no, actually it's not a symbol of a division; it really is, in fact, a physical division." Because, see, you're rioting. (And not symbolically in riot, either.) You can tell it's a real-world division because now you can't get to the G-20 conference center and throw rock-metaphors through the window-symbols.
Language, vocabulary, ideas, imagery -- everything succumbed to my one intense purpose of thinking & dreaming myself back into that world of periwigs & long s's which for some odd reason seemed to me the normal world.
Agent Bedhead sent this widget along. Depending on the snippet, it is this or Cory Doctorow for me.
Ghost of a flea: Mentat Emperor
Full scale version here; best with headphones unless you have decent reference monitors. The video is an edit of Umberto Scarpelli's sword and sandal epic, The Giant of Metropolis (1961). I needed something that said "vacation on Kaitain".
Mentat Emperor from Nicholas Packwood on Vimeo.
July 29, 2010
Julian Assange: Apostate from Islam
DrewM. asks, "Since the CIA isn't going to 'take care' of Assange, Iowahawk is trying to bring Assange to the attention of people who will by releasing a number of interesting items including this... "
The Jawas almost certainly know how to make certain interested parties are in the loop. Just a thought.
They hate everything
Victoria Beckham, who is scary in this pic but quite lovely actually, graces the cover of Turkish Vogue.
The usual representatives of the stone age object.
“I would not be comfortable if my wife or daughters dressed like it.”
Sources claim the country is moving towards a more fundamentalist outlook and the influence of Islam is growing. A Brit expat in Istanbul said: “Turkey is a very tolerant country but a Western woman boozing and flashing her thighs will not go down well.”
Because their "tolerance" means we have to do as they say.
Asked for comment, David Cameron said the cover shamed the honour of Muslimas everywhere, calling Beckham's love of booze, sex and two-fingers for fascists "unBritish".
Parvenus and communists
Dorothy Thompson's August 1941 Harper's piece "Who goes Nazi?" is a gem; a classic for its style and entirely current in its observations and class, character and consequences (thanks to Kathy Shaidle for the link).
I won't spoil it by excerpting anything except its opening lines. One observation among many stands out for me: There was a time when, amongst many other things, it was obvious the Nazi Party was just another Communist Party.
Who needs enemies
With "conservative" friends like Conor Friedersdorf, just another self-serving, cocktail party personality, a soul sucking dick who probably voted for Obama thinking it made him smarter than you, me and the Governor of Alaska.
And who would go Nazi.
No surprises he supports the genocide mosque at Ground Zero. I am excerpting a small part of an excellent piece by Raymond Ibrahim linked in Hot Air's take down. Something to remember the next time some ignorant traitor waxes eloquent about Andalusia. It's that or taking the debate outside.
In fact, the true history of Cordoba, not to mention the whole of Andalusia, is far less inspiring than what Western academics portray: the Christian city was conquered by Muslims around 711, its inhabitants slaughtered or enslaved. The original mosque of Cordoba — the namesake of the Ground Zero mosque — was built atop, and partly from the materials of, a Christian church. Modern day Muslims are well aware of all this. Such is the true — and ominous — legacy of Cordoba.
God help us
The National Health Service performs virginity repair operations for theological and ideological reaons "physical and psychological reasons".
Your taxes, and centuries of Western scientific advancement, are now in the service of a new Dark Age.
In the last five years, 116 hymen repair operations have been undertaken at the tax payer's expense. Thousands more women are believed to be paying up to £4,000 to have the surgery done privately each year. NHS surgeons carried out 30 of the procedures in 2009 - up 20 per cent from 2005.
Asked for comment, David Cameron said if a woman lost her virginity as a result of premarital sexual relations and if her actions were not known by people then it is permissible for her to repair her hymen. Moreover, the doctor has permission to do this surgery.
Loyalty test
Michael Rubin asks if Turkey can give American defense secrets to Iran.
No, the truth is we are dependent on the goodwill of the "President" of the United States to defend the defense secrets of the United States.
It is the sort of thing Americans used to be able to take for granted two long years ago.
Barack Obama Voters...
Did he say... leprechaun?
July 28, 2010
Calculated murder in addition to treason
Those Wikileaks documents have exposed hundreds of Afghan informants.
People should hang for this. Tragically, the wrong people are certain to.
Another surprise that should not be a surprise. We are at war with Sweden.
Present tense
I confess I was astonished to learn Radio 4 was going to air a documentary on Hitler's Muslim Legions (available for five more days), it is the sort of thing the Beeb would generally wish kept swept under the carpet. I figured this could only be part of the Left's new mission to rehabilitate Adolph Hitler, enemy of the Jews and friend of Islam (give him tenure!) and therefore worthy of a retroactive Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
My reaction was complicated by the fact I am still surprised anyone else is surprised to learn Nazis and Muslims were allies. After all, Franco used Muslim mercenaries to prevail in the Spanish Civil War, a fact overlooked in the Coughlinite comments I get when I post about fascist Spain, and Hitler wrote glowingly of the Arab warrior ideal in Mein Kampf (i.e. His Jihad).
The BBC's rationale is as follows.
It was brutality and starvation or signing up, runs the BBC line; cheerfully, willfully oblivious the same excuse applies to every collaborator of the age.
But then this isn't really the BBC's excuse for the past, this is their excuse for England's near future. More important yet, for the BBC this is the present tense. This is how they stop worrying and learn to love the Koran.
One of countless examples: Egyptian Cleric Hussam Fawzi Jar Jar Binks* says Hitler was right to do what he did to the Jews.
He is right about one thing: There is no third alternative.
* That looks right to me.
Prostration
I have had a small pile of mail since the Daily Mail posted news of the armed arrest and quick release of seven EDL members over a suspected plot to bomb a mosque.
Gates of Vienna parses the problem neatly: "The government of the United Kingdom has now chosen sides — and declared for Islam."
...
Is all becoming clear?
The EDL were set up, terrorized, and thoroughly intimidated.
Then they were let off with a warning: “Better be careful, mate. You were lucky this time. You never know — next time we might find some kiddie porn on your computer, or a bit of semtex in your kitchen cupboard. So watch it.”
Coming soon to a Canada near you (except Saskatchewan, for some reason).
Coming sooner: Up to 50,000 extra special constables and who knows how many wearing curly-toed slippers.
Related: Ali Ibrahim praises Britain's inbred and effeminate energetic and self-confident elites for knowing better than the proles that Islam must be defended.
Ban the burqa
More than half of Canadians polled want to ape the French and ban the burqa. Impressive considering far more than half of Canadians are sleep walking off the cliff and are consequently too busy to know what a burqa might be when it is at home.
"This is Canada -- we don't ban anything," he said."
The punch line is at Blazing Cat Fur.
Mama Grizzlies unite!
In a photo-op staged by God, Sarah Palin and her family meet a mama bear with her two cubs.
Perhaps Proverbs got this one backward: Rather those fools in Washington in their folly, than let a man meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs.
A change is gonna come.
July 27, 2010
Gratuitous image of Katy Perry in PVC
We need traffic to fight the collaborators at Canadian Living and they tell me "sex sells". Fight the power!
Dear Canadian Living
Dear Canadian Living,*
Why are you promoting business with a 9/11 Truther who claims Israel is responsible for the massacres of September 11, 2001 (details at this link)?
Twenty-four Canadians were murdered by Islamic clerical-fascists that morning. Your publication is in business with men who pervert their memory.
Shame on you.
Why should I do business with you are any of your advertisers ever again?
Yours,
The Flea
* I used the Canadian Living contact form to direct my concerns to "Advertising".
Let's have a lookie loo: I am tooling through the Canadian Living website looking for advertisers. American readers should feel free to contact US parent companies where appropriate. In no particular order: Koodo Mobile, weblocal.ca, Sico, Reitmans, Dairy Farmers of Canada, IBC BAC, Dole, Newman's Own, Olay.
And then: More at Blazing Cat Fur and JDL Canada.
The nadir
After making an "impassioned pitch" for Turkey to become part of the European Union, British Prime Minister David Cameron curries favour with the horde, calling Gaza a "prison camp".
If Cameron genuinely cared for the well-being of Arabs in Gaza, he might have spared some portion of criticism for Egypt's fortified border with their brothers.
But then he doesn't.
In related news: The Peoples Republic of North London has its own reasons to support Turkish entry into the EU. Also, I hope David Cameron dies in a fire.
It straddles Asia and Europe – and is the holiday choice of the chattering classes.
Britain has surrendered to the Umma. Expect large sections of the Establishment, starting with aristocrats and academics, to convert to some "moderate" version of Islam in the coming decade. Islington would have already perverted en masse if wine could be made halal.
A thought: It's never too late to make Jeremy Clarkson Prime Minister.
The outspoken presenter provoked a flurry of complaints after telling viewers of Top Gear on Sunday night that he had seen a Muslim woman wearing saucy underwear beneath her gown.
Top Gear is broadcast in 100 countries to 350 million viewers. Scratch that, 500 million viewers. Think of it as the Religion of Codpiece.
Shameful
There's shameful: William Baikie gets two years for Islamo-pantsing.
Glasgow Sheriff Court heard how Baikie, who has previous convictions for racist behaviour, ran off but was later identified through CCTV footage.
Passing sentence, Sheriff Lindsay Wood branded the assault "shameful".
And then there is stomach turning: It remains to be seen what Faisal Ghani and Mohammed Moosa get for child abduction and rape, they are to be sentenced on September 1.
That isn't the punchline.
...
The 35-year-old spoke after Faisal Ghani and Mohammed Moosa, admitted taking the children without consent. Moosa also admitted sexual activity with a girl under 16 in a hearing at Preston Crown Court.
Ghani, 24, of Albert Terrace, Deepdale and Moosa, 24, Holmrook Road, Deepdale, groomed the girls, aged 15 and 13, over several months in 2009 before abducting them and taking them to a hotel.
The mum of three said: “My daughter has had to make a fresh start, she has reverted to Islam and changed her name since this happened. You are seen as pure, it has been a good thing.”
They misspelled perverted.
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one
Burma is working on nuclear weapons program.
Fears that Burma had joined a clandestine nuclear network linking North Korea, Iran, Pakistan and Syria have been growing for some time, but there has not been hard evidence until now.
Not to worry, intelligence agencies are seeking to provide the IAEA with proof of a clandestine programme in the hope of a formal inquiry.
Or we could drop a couple small A-bombs on the appropriate bits of Burma and let the junta draw its own conclusions from the rubble. But I am old fashioned that way.
JournoLism
David Warren: "The dogs in Pavlov's experiment did not "conspire" to salivate."
Subway to Sally: Grabrede
I have no idea what this is about.
July 26, 2010
Oliver Stone unmasks
Oliver Stone: "Jewish domination" of the media prevents Hitler from being portrayed "in context".
Do not imagine Oliver Stone is the exception. Give the Saudis ten more years to throw your money at Western universities and the rehabilitation of Adolph Hitler will be the received wisdom of progressives everywhere.
He was a vegetarian, you know.
Ed West closes with an excellent point.
Update: WWTDD? has more.
“We can’t judge people as only ‘bad’ or ‘good.’ ”
Sure we can. For example, Oliver Stone is a bad man. See how easy that was?
The personal is the political prisoner
In which David Mitchell misses the point about banning the burqa.
Following his own logic, who the hell is David Mitchell to tell people they can't wear crotchless jeans outside primary schools? It would be a good deal less dangerous to children than the world his misplaced liberality is hell bent on defending. Imagine the horror of knowing your mother's face, your father's property, is hidden in shame somewhere behind the bin bag walking up to the school gates.
Mitchell says banning the burqa is the only thing that would make him want to wear one. It is a catastrophically stupid thing to say, showing contempt for the rights of British women (for now, his brown sisters especially). Worse yet, thanks to Mitchell's brand of too clever by half, wilful simplisme, more and more of his countrymen are thinking along the same lines about Klan robes.
Elsewhere in women's rights: Saudi appropriation of Western technology guards against women escaping.
She wasn’t so lucky.
As she left, her husband received an automated SMS text message from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informing him that his wife, legally considered his ‘dependant’ under Saudi Arabia’s strict gendered guardianship system, had left the country.
In the land of Mordor, where the shadows text each other.
Elsewhere in public safety: An Islamic "extremist" is to head the Muslim Safety Forum.
Elsewhere in occupied England: A council-run graveyard is selling Muslim burial plots £500 cheaper than those for non-Muslims.
Dhimmis: Know your place!
The medium is the mass age
Nicholas always has good material at Quotulatiousness, please visit and thereby assuage my guilt (if only somewhat) for lifting this P.J. O'Rourke quote in its entirety.
The balance of error
Kyle Wingfield notices the Right has at long last deployed its own rhetorical A-bomb.
He has a point. But more to the point, in a world where the President is named Barack Hussein Obama, the Right has decided it no longer cares about the name calling.
All we have to do now is turn off the money tap and victory will be at hand.
What would Kipling Say?
Mark E. Horning posts a timely pastiche to the comments at Jerry Pournelle's Current Chaos Manor.
The lesson still stands before us, and Kipling he saw it plain.
The rest at the link.
July 25, 2010
Restoring the time line
If I could go back in time it would be a toss up between killing Adolph Hitler and killing Lawrence of Arabia for all the incalculable damage both men did to civilization and humanity.
Sources close to Dominick Browne, also known as Lord Mereworth, say he has even received a marriage proposal from beautiful 28-year-old Sara Al Amoudi.
That said, I am forced to keep my snark in reserve. Even veiled, she is a hottie. Therein lies a big part of the problem.
There is no compulsion in religion
Something to point out to peace-rioters if we ever get round to bombing Yemen.
The judge in the town of Hajja, which is home to some 300 slaves, according to residents, said he had certified the transfer only because the new owner planned to free the slave.
Protesting against hate is not hate speech: While I am not his biggest fan, I applaud Newt Gingrich as the highest profile politico to engage in plain speaking on the subject of America, Islam and a triumphalist 9/11 mosque.
“No mosque. No self deception. No surrender. The time to take a stand is now – at this site on this issue.”
Protesting against hate is not a hate crime: Religious persecution in Britain today.
Next stop: The 1930s
The Russian Orthodox Church is set to train youth to "guard faith and country".
This sounds all too familiar.
What makes the new youth groups stand out is their planned promotion of a blend of religion, anti-Western philosophy, politics and patriotism — values that will be passed on by youth leaders like Batrakov, who is among 100 people who signed up for a two-month crash course on Orthodox youth leadership in Moscow that started in May. Church representatives said the number of such leaders might reach into the thousands.
Submission Earth: Now that NASA's primary mission is submission, Russia considers Chinese spaceships as a back up for Soyuz and Progress.
After U.S. space shuttles cease their missions in 2011, Russia will remain the only country capable of delivering crews to the ISS.
Defenestration
Or maybe it is still 1929.
Resolution 1553
I sense a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of sphincters are tightening in Iran.
A traitor President cannot shelter them forever. We can only pray he cannot shelter them long enough to complete their Satanic works.
Resolution 1553 provides explicit support for military strikes against Iran, stating that Congress backs Israel's use of 'all means necessary' against Iran, "including the use of military force," BBC Persian reported.
