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Saturday, November 7, 2009
RULE 5 SATURDAYThe TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee has decided to honor
a lady who, though she led a tough life and died under very horrific circumstances, never lost her sunny disposition nor let
her sadness, at the hand that life had delt her, diminish her grace. So, without further adieu, it is with
great pleasure that The Committee presents....
LINDA DARNELL...
7 nov 09 @ 10:39 pm est
THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE WEEK......is awarded to Fishersville Mike for his excellent summation of the results of the NY-23 Election:
Doug Hoffman lost. Everybody's trying to
prove their points from that.
I'd like to think of his campaign as Jimmy Doolittle's raid early in World War II.
It was a heroic undertaking to show Japan we were coming and we were going to kick their butts.
Democrats take
note.
'This
one was worth the fight.
And it's only one fight in the battle, and we have to keep fighting.'
—Doug Hoffman
7 nov 09 @ 12:44 pm est
SATURDAY IN THE FISKAt yesterday's press briefing at The White House, Robert 'White House Bob' Gibbs
said the following:
I will continue to say what I’ve said before. You hear
in this debate, you hear analogies, you hear references to, you see pictures about and depictions of individuals that are
truly stunning, and you hear it all the time. People — imagine five years ago somebody comparing health care reform
to 9/11. Imagine just a few years ago had somebody walked around with images of Hitler.
Hopefully we can get back
to a discussion about the issues that are important in this country that we can do so without being personally disagreeable
and set up comparisons to things that were so insidious in our history that anybody in any profession or walk of life would
be well advised to compare nothing to those atrocities.
 Big tip of the fedora to Rocketman, over at Piece of Work In Progress, who noticed this and then offered
this spot-on comment ala Fisk [emphasis in the original]:
Dude! Just where have you
been for the last 8 years? Where were you during the the jeering references to Chimperor BusHitlerBurton, the marches in Berkley
where the posters were festooned with swastikas and posters of a "Hitlerized" President Bush? How can you even speak
those words with a straight face and call for Civility Now!
Over at The
Blog, Mary Katharine Ham deals Clown Gibbs a righteous Fisking on the 'Hitler image' charge doing her best Joe Friday [just the facts]:
They
were ubiquitous; far more prevalent that Nazi imagery in the Tea Party movement. Saying what Gibbs said, or repeating
it credulously, requires an incredible amount of dishonesty.
Yea, MKH, about the size of his butt.
Over at The Other McCain, Smitty nails the portly prevaricator of pusillanimous pablum in a fusillade of spot-on adjectives:
It must be noted, however, that Gibbs is no idiot. He stands
there and defecates from his mouth to distract attention from even dumber stuff that his boss has done. So, in a modern existentialist
lefty collectivist liberal deconstructionist amoral crypto-Marxist dhimmi anti-American plutocratic tool sort of way, he's
kind of doing a good job.
Please forgive me for this, but I am compelled to say that Robert 'White House
Bob' Gibbs is a major league douche....there, now I feel better.
7 nov 09 @ 12:37 pm est
FORT HOOD: THE RIGHT WORDSMy friend Chris Smith, aka Smitty of The Other McCain, has written
a short, simple, and poignant prayer for those murdered, wounded, and directly effected by the atrocity committed at Fort Hood by the Jihadist Hasan:
God rest the victims at Fort Hood. May He strengthen their families in this time of horror,
and may the Holy Spirit infuse the world with peace. May we meet evil with a firm, calm resolve not to succumb.
Thank you, Chris.
7 nov 09 @ 12:08 pm est
Friday, November 6, 2009
SOME STILL DON'T GET ITIn a great posting last night over at The Other McCain, Stacy McCain commented on the massacre at Fort Hood, specifically, and Jihad In America, in general. A highlight from
his wake-up call:
The people who want to kill you are not Tea Party protesters or accountants from Saranac Lake, N.Y. They're not Kentucky populists or Belgian radicals.
Anyone who wants to distract you from real dangers by telling you to fear this week's pet bogeyman -- global warming!
creationists! Ron Paul! -- is not your friend. They are fools and liars who cannot be trusted. They are objectively evil.
This prompted some interesting comments in his Comments Section. I intend to reproduce one of the threads here
because I think it insightful [and I am, as you will judge, immodest about my contribution to the discussion]. All comments
are reproduced in full in chronological order...
-The Indentured Servant Girl:
"...there are still people who want to kill us all, just because we're Americans."
No, the jihadis didn't stumble across a copy of the bill of rights and decide to kill us...they want to kill us because
our soldiers are in their countries blowing up their women and children and they want us to leave.
6 nov 09 @ 9:10 pm est
LEARN THE LESSONQuin Hillyer's analysis of this past Tuesday's election results and ideas for
the future of the Republican Party and conservatives, over at The American Spectator, is spot-on.
A highlight:
The single biggest myth in American politics is that advocacy of limited
government is a fringe position. The way to attract "moderates" and "independents," we are told, is for
conservatives to adopt some sort of stratagem that involves using government actively but wisely and efficiently, for the
right ends, in order to attract the target audience du jour: suburbanites,
exurbanites, Bobos, soccer moms, Hispanics, metrosexuals, or any number of other strata of supposedly poll-tested exotica.
Balderdash.
As Tuesday's elections showed, support for limited government remains a mainstream position.
Deficit-spending makes majorities angry. Leviathan's tentacles, its rules and regulations, infuriate most Americans. Big bureaucracies
are as popular as swine flu. And far more people than not still just want to be left alone.
Nearly a year ago I
traced the electoral success of Republicans when they do restrain spending versus those times when
they don't. Hint: When they save, they win; when they spend, they lose.
Please do take the time to click here and read the full essay.
There will be plenty of commentary come from here on the issues he raises in the coming days and weeks.
SIDENOTE: Quin is such a gentleman that he used the word 'balderdash' whereas I would have written something much more
stronger and vulgar [although, it should be noted for the record that 'balderdash' does contain the letters 'b' and 's'].
6 nov 09 @ 8:51 pm est
A LITTLE HUMP DAY RULE 5 [Delayed Edition]I originally told you that I would be postponing ALHDR5 from
its normal Wednesday Night posting until Thursday because I had to go spend some quality time with Mrs. Belvedere. When
Thursday Night rolled around, it didn't seem quite appropriate to post it then, so without further adieu, The TCOTS
Rule 5 Compliance Committee presents...
ADRIENNE BARBEAU...
6 nov 09 @ 8:43 pm est
THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION* AT FORT HOODI'm sure by now you have searched through the ether to obtain the latest news
on the murders of innocent soldiers [at least one of whom was pregnant] at Fort Hood by Major Nidal Malik Hasan, Jihadist
['the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" — an Arabic phrase for "God is great!" — before opening fire Thursday'],
so I will not be doing a typical aggregation here. Instead, I'll just point out what I think are some of the most important
ones just in case you have not read them...
-Over at Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft has posted a lot
of background information and situation updates in postings here and here and here. Fine work from one of the best bloggers around—thanks Jim.
-Over at Power And Control,
M. Simon has up information on Hasan's Jihadist Imam and an article by former Jihadist Walid Shoebat on Muslim infiltration of the military and
law enforcement organizations in the United States.
-Bruce Bawer had the best comment I've read today:
Could there be a more bitter contrast? At Fort Hood, so many courageous
GIs, all of them prepared to risk their lives fighting the Islamic jihadist enemy in defense of our freedom, several of them
now dead. And, on our TV screens, so many apparently craven journalists, public officials, psychiatrists, and (alas) even
military brass — all but a few of whom seemed unwilling to do anything more than hint obliquely at the truth that obviously
lies at the root of this monstrous act.
I'll have more to say on many of the issues connected with this in the
coming days.
*The phrase THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION is taken from the title of a Joy
Division song that I think quite appropriate. The song may be heard here.
6 nov 09 @ 8:34 pm est
I SURVIVEDTo My Friends In The Ether:
I have
returned. By the grace of Almighty God I post again in the Blogosphere -- a Blogosphere consecrated in the mouse
clicks of our desktops. I have come, dedicated and committed, to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control
over your daily lives, and of restoring, upon a foundation of indestructible, strength, the liberties of the American people.
I came through and I have returned.
Gen. Bob MacArthur-Belvedere.
I have renewed my driver's
license. I survived without committing acts of violence against the bumbling bureaucrats of the state Leviathan.
A few observations:
-Very few of us waiting there spoke English.
-The attitude of the clerks was surprisingly
cheerful, if you coaxed them [you do get more with honey than....]
-The fellow in front of me could, or pretended
to, barely speak English. I offer the second possibility as possible because it may have been a ruse because,
as it turned out, he had different first names on two different states's driver licenses [he was seeking to get a license
in my state and it is much easier to do so if you have valid ones from others]. On the other two his names were Jose
and Manuel; today he was attempting to get a license under the first name Max[!].
-The Moter Vehicle Network
that is displayed silently on screens in the waiting area [in English and Spanish] is deadly dull. I suppose this
is due to the fact that only the stuff that is dull can pass muster with the PC overlords.
-The office I went
to is located in a very hard-to-find area. Time was, it was required that the offices had to be convenient to get to
from either/or major highway or public transportation. As this is a state located in the Nor'east, I suspect that some
contributer to whoever was the Governor at the time the site was chosen owned the land.
Well...onward and upward.
There goes two hours of my life I will never get back.
6 nov 09 @ 8:09 pm est
QUO VADIS BOB?Well, I'm off to go get my driving license renewed. If you're Catholic,
please have a few novenas said for me and light a candle [All you Protestants can do whatever it is you heretics do—speak
in tongues, convulse on the floor, thump your Bibles, try to find The Ark...whatever].
I don't know when I'll be
back and I don't text message, so who knows when you'll hear from your humble Dispatcher again.
Leave a light on
in your windows for me and say a prayer to beg the Great God Bureaucraticus that I don't rip out the heart of one of his minions so
quickly so that he'll be able to watch it beat before he dies in agony.
Farewell, my friends...
Think of me...and
take care of the women I leave behind...
6 nov 09 @ 10:56 am est
DON'T YOU BE DISSIN' CAESAR, BROIn recent remarks, Rocco Landesman, Chairman of the NEA, said the following:
This is the first president that actually writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt
and arguably the first to write them really well since Lincoln. If you accept the premise, and I do, that the United States
is the most powerful country in the world, then Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar. That has to
be good for American artists.
From the great Iowahawk we learn that ol' Julius ain't taking this lying down.
I don't know how he did it, but Iowahawk has obtained a reply from the Roman Dictator himself. A highlight [vulgarity warning—he is really tickkkked off]:
...I've been spending
a lot more time online checkin' out the dillyo back in the mortal 'hood. That when I read about this choad praetor Rocco Landesman,
saying that your new imperator Obamacus is "the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar." At first I was LMFAO because, let's face it, the Juice didn't waste his prime warrior
time word processing a bunch of papyrus scrolls. Word cuz, where I come from that kind of bullshit is for light-in-the-sandals
scribefags like Livy and Plutarch. So I guess it was like hearing "Obama is the greatest chariot mechanic since Julius
Erving." But then I think about it, and I'm like, WTF? Obama's palace asslick is comparing him to me? Srsly?
Agrippa, please-- act like you know. Skinny fool stages his own tribute in front of some brokeass styrofoam
Roman columns, lines up some chump posse of media hagiographers and art school twats, and now y'all are like he's some OG
mac daddy Julio-Claudian baller. Well, the Juice is here to say there ain't no half steppin' in the SPQR....
The concluding advice is one all leaders should heed:
...Y'all give the Juice
a shout on my Facebook sometime and maybe I'll give you a few lessons on kickin' it old Roman emperor school. Lesson one:
rule first, deification later.
Is Woltz listening?
6 nov 09 @ 10:41 am est
MASSACRE AT FORT HOOD
And he asked him, What [is] thy name? And he answered, saying, My name [is] Legion: for we
are many.
—Mark, 5:9
This is the face of one of the Legionairres→
Nidal
Malik Hasan
Michelle Malkin has an excellent posting up that she has been continuously updating on the information that has become known. She also asks some very important
questions.
Ed Driscoll's chronological blogging of the event gives you a great picture of how the story unfolded last night. He began blogging yesterday afternoon
and continued updating until after 2300 hours.
Stacy McCain was spot-on when he commentated last night:
The people who want to kill you are not Tea Party protesters or accountants from Saranac Lake, N.Y. They're not Kentucky populists or Belgian radicals.
Anyone who wants to distract you from real dangers by telling you to fear this week's pet bogeyman -- global warming!
creationists! Ron Paul! -- is not your friend. They are fools and liars who cannot be trusted. They are objectively evil.
In another posting over at The Other McCain, Stacy has published a press release from Republican Congressional candidate Lt. Col. Allen West [ret.]. A highlight:
Lt. Col. Allen West (Ret) is a former Fort Hood commander, most recently leading troops
there in 2007. West has served in both Iraq and Afghanistan and says the horrible tragedy at Fort Hood is proof the enemy
is infiltrating our military.
I just checked Mr. West's site [here] and the press release has not been posted yet, so please head over to Stacy's site to read the full thing.
More to come as the situation warrants.
If you followed any of the links above and read how the MSM
is already spinning this thing, it is important to remember that they will do any thing in their power to downplay the fact
that this murderer was a committed Muslim—just like they did with the D.C. Sniper.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
FORT HOOD MURDERS [Updated]The name of the dead gunman:
Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan
If you haven't heard: two, possibly three, gunman went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood at 1330 CT. In the
last report I saw just ten minutes ago on Fox News, they reported that at least seven (7) people were dead,
at least thirty (30) twenty (20) thirty-one (31) wounded, and one of the gunmen
was one gunman is dead with two others in custody.
Follow the Wire Service Reports at Breitbart here.
The Memeorandum thread is here.
Here is the Fox News link.
The Dallas/FortWorth Fox Station is here.
Preliminary speculation at 1620 ET: in the past several years were have read many a story about plots uncovered
by Federal and state officials of Jihadists who were stopped before they could carry out shootings expressly against
private businesses, government buildings, and, most especially, against military installations.
It will be very interesting to see if this was the work of Jihadists. I wouldn't be surprised at all if it was.
The cliche is true: they only have to get it right once; we have to get it right each and every time.
ANOTHER 'HONOR KILLING'* IN AMERICAOn 20 October Faleh Hassan Almaleki, driving his Jeep Grand Cherokee, mowed down his
daughter, Noor Faleh Almaleki, and the mother of her boyfriend. Upon apprehension, after he fled the country, the father
said he did it because she had become 'too westernized'.
Miss Almaleki died of her injuries this past Monday, the victim of yet another 'honor killing'*, the numbers
of which are growing at an alarming rate in the United States.
Mark Steyn is dead, solid, perfect, and is worth quoting almost in full:
...If there were a Matthew Shepard murder
every few months, Frank Rich et al would be going bananas about the "climate of hate" in our society, but you can
run over your daughter, decapitate your wife, drown three teenage girls and a polygamous spouse, and progressive opinion and the press couldn't give a hoot. Indeed, as The Atlantic
notes, it's merely an obsession of us right-wing kooks.
During the IRA's long campaign against Her Majesty's Government, British officials
had a cynical phrase about containing Northern Ireland to "an acceptable level of violence." I wonder
what the silent U.S. media will settle on as the "acceptable level of violence" against Muslim women. Ten honor
killings a year? A couple dozen? A hundred?
As the Left in this country is quite favorably disposed
to Islam, do not be surprised if the media they control ignore this as long as possible [like their non-covering of the ACORN
scandals] and, when forced to cover it [if ever], look for them to claim that it is so very very few Muslims that believe
in and practice this and any implications made that 'honor killings' are a feature and not a bug of Islam are raaaaacist and,
therefore, 'hate think'.
Also, please check out this other posting by Mr. Steyn.
Maybe there is reason for some hope, as the tireless and relentless Phyllis Chesler points out:
What’s missing from the coverage (at least so far) is the usual Islamist spin. No hard-line
representative of the Islamic community is insisting that this was not an “honor killing” or that if it was, it
has nothing to do with Islam or with Muslims. That’s it’s a typical ‘teenage” thing or a typical case
of domestic violence.
I choose to remain a cynical SOB on this one.
Please do take the time to click here and read her whole article, which also contains the story of an unusual type of 'honor killing'* attempt.
There is no reasoning with
Islam.
Multiple tips of the fedora to Eric Dondero and Michelle Malkin.
*I put the term 'honor killing' in quotations because (1) there is no honor of any kind or type in this
type of practice and (2) because the term 'killing' is insufficient to convey what actually was done: murder with malice aforethought
and extreme cruelty.
5 nov 09 @ 2:40 pm est
SSSH! KEEP IT DOWNThe Editors, over at Investor's Business Daily, think the Democrats are making a mistake if, in anticipation of the 2010 Elections and in reaction to the 2009 results, they look to the 1994 off-year elections
for guidance:
After their rout Tuesday in key state elections, Democrats would
be wise to take a lesson from history. No, we're not talking 1994, when the GOP took back Congress after two years of Clinton.
We're talking 1938.
That little-remembered year during the depths of the Great Depression was one of the most edifying
in electoral history. With FDR in the White House, and still very popular, a rogue Congress with radical ideas embarked on
a series of legislative initiatives that helped push a recovering economy back into depression.
The result: Democrats
lost 80 seats in the 1938 election, after gaining seats in 1930, 1932, 1934 and 1936.
Come on, IBD
guys, don't give the bastards any help! This should have been advice given to the GOP Establishment [and on the sly].
5 nov 09 @ 2:01 pm est
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT POP...ER...NEWT?Ah...Newt...what are we going to do with you? You made a grand fool out
of yourself when you endorsed DIABLO Dede 'The RINO' Scozzafava, and an even bigger fool out of yourself when you vehemently
defended your bad choice. Now, you're refusing to eat the dish of crow that's been served to you—from Jim Hoft,
over at Gateway Pundit, we learn what you said on Sean Hannity's show:
I deeply regret the party getting in that kind of mess… She clearly
proved in the last few days that she was in no way a loyal Republican.
'The party' got in a mess?
Jesus Christ and General Jackson, man! You think it was only 'the party' and not your fat-ass self that screwed-up big-time?
Wait a minute...Newt's ego's as big as his ample behind, so, maybe, could be, that you think YOU are 'the party'....ah...that
would explain it: what you're really doing is apologizing for your pigheaded mistake after all.......nah! don't buy it 'cause
it would mean you're an honorable man, and your actions over the years have clearly shown that you're not. Oh well,
I guess I was just letting some optimism creep into my normally blackened cynical SOB soul....won't happen again folks.
Poor Jim Hoft could only utter four words, 'In the last few days?', then he was rendered speechless [probably
ended up mailing his own head to the floor—I know I felt like doing that.
Michael Patrick Leahy caught Newt
in, at worst, another deliberate lie, or, at best, in another self-deception:
The
day after Democrat Bill Owens beat Conservative Doug Hoffman in the NY 23 Special Congressional Election, thanks largely to
the treachery of Dede Scozzafava, the very liberal RINO Newt Gingrich endorsed, the former Speaker once again falsely characterizes
the nomination process that gave Scozzafava the nod:
"I certainly
heard from enough friends to know that my decision to support the unanimous vote of the 11 New York county chairs was very
unpopular with conservative activists."
As I've documented in
several articles, both here and here, this is a factually untrue statement.
Please take the time to click here and read the details.
Over at Riehl World View, Dan Riehl's reaction to this is spot-on:
I have no idea what's behind Newt's new found love for this monkey, but he's bound and determined to keep flogging it for all it's worth until he
becomes the laughing stock of the grassroots. We know the truth, Newt, even if you fly too high above us these days to
take time to look down and notice. We're simply turning our heads as if driving by a slow motion car wreck
at this point. But keep spanking that monkey if it floats your boat....
Dan, I think he's been spanking
the monkey for quite some time now. After all, it would not be a stretch to say Newt has gone, figuratively, blind,
would it? I call it Newtonanism.
5 nov 09 @ 11:14 am est
WHAT'S THE CAUSE? YOU DECIDE...This picture, taken in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan, by the great
war reporter Michael Yon captures an interesting phenomenon:
The photo was published over at Air & Space Magazine. A highlight from the accompanying article [tip of the fedora to Lisa Schiffren]:
Helicopter pilots don't have a name
for the effect, but one explained to Yon, "Basically it is a result of static electricity created by friction as...dissimilar material strike against each
other. In this case, titanium/nickel blades moving through the air and dust." Scientists call it a "triboelectric"
or "piezoelectric" effect.
While that explains the science behind the phenomenon, I tend
to think the cause and message of it is: God is watching over our troops in their struggle against evil.
Mr. Yon
has come up with a great name for it:
He was moved to create a name, the Kopp-Etchells
Effect, for the rotor phenomenon to honor a pair of fallen soldiers, U.S. Army Corporal Benjamin Kopp and British Army Corporal Joseph Etchells, who died one day apart in July after fierce fighting in Helmand (Kopp had been evacuated
to the U.S. before he died).
NOTE: This photograph is © Michael Yon; if you decide to use it, please
give him credit and link to his excellent site.
5 nov 09 @ 10:11 am est
SPEAKING OF THE CLASSIC LIBERAL...He has up a very good linky love posting whose title [Man, Liberty,
and State] and tags [Blogosphere, Government, Politicians] tell you all you need to know about what's
contained within. Here's one example:
Southern Avenger: I don't know much about economics. What I do know is that so many so-called "experts,"
including politicians and economists, are wrong far more often than they are right. They're wrong about virtually everything,
and yet shamelessly keep selling the same old fairy tales. They are liars. They are cheats. They are whores.
Please do take the time to click here and check them all out [full disclosure: he links me (Thanks, Mike)]
5 nov 09 @ 8:43 am est
WHO IS ANDY STERN?Andy Stern is the head of the mob family thug-filled
organization union SEIU. In an interview in 2007, Don Sterno has this to say:
Because workers of the world unite,
it's not just a slogan anymore.
As Wikipedia notes correctly:
The political slogan Workers of the world, unite!, is one of the most famous rallying cries of communism, found in
The Communist Manifesto (1848), by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A variant form, Proletarians of all lands, unite! is inscribed
to Marx's tombstone in German: Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!
This slogan was the USSR State motto (Пролетарии
всех стран, соединяйтесь!),
appeared in the coat of arms of the Soviet Union, and on 1919 Russian SFSR banknotes (in German, French, Japanese, English,
and Arabic). Contemporarily, some socialist and communist parties continue using it. Moreover, it is a common usage in popular
culture, often chanted during labour strikes and protests.
So, the head of the union most closely tied to Barack Hussein Obama believes that a slogan developed by Karl Marx and adopted
as the official motto of the murderous Soviet State should be SEIU's and their allie's rallying cry. Tell
me really....are your surprised? If you are in any way, I hope you get your jaded on soon.
Who is this slimy
creature named Andy Stern? The Classic Liberal has put together a great aggregation
of links [with quotes] here. Please do take the time to head on over and check them all out.
Kudos to TheCL.
FISKIN' SAFARISenator Lindsey Graham is one of the most irritating elected officials I know of. Even back when he was still espousing
conservative views, there was something about him the irritated the living f--k out of me. Of course, now that he has
become a full-fledged Washington D.C. Pod Person and fully exposed himself as a weenie RINO, my irritation has multiplied
by a factor of four. So, it was with great pleasure this morning that I read William Teach's Fisking of this insipid
ignoramus imago of incurious illumination. A highlight:
Perhaps Lindsay could bring Queen Nancy tea and biscuits each afternoon. As Michelle Malkin wrote: Here is one of the loudest messages of the 2009 off-off-year elections: Conservatives
in America will no longer let their opponents define them as outside of the mainstream. Lindsay should start acting like
a Conservative, rather than a liberal sycophant.
Ah....I love the smell of Fisking in the morning...
5 nov 09 @ 8:04 am est
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
A LITTLE HUMP DAY RULE 5 IS POSTPONED......until tomorrow [I do have to spend some time with Mrs. B.]
4 nov 09 @ 8:43 pm est
THE CONSERVATIVE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLEAs I was driving home from work today, I heard Laura Ingram basically say about Doug
Hoffman 'Thanks, pal, for running. Great effort. Now go away. You ain't got what it takes to win.' and then
a little later I read this by Ramesh Ponnuru over at The Corner:
[Stephen] Spruiell concludes, "In
the next few months, conservatives will be urging Hoffman to fight on." Should they? Conservatives should, I think, be
grateful that he ran, providing someone for conservatives to support and rebuking the local party establishment. But that
doesn't mean he's the best candidate going forward.
With all due respect to Miss Ingram and Mr. Ponnuru,
you two have spent too much time hob-nobbing with the conservative and Republican elites in Washington.
Doug Hoffman
is unpolished as a public figure, unsophisticated in his speaking, not at all slick or over-scripted in his presentations,
and he does not speak in Establishment-Speak. He is awkward. A man of few words, what little he does
say is meaningful and heartfelt. He is not a polished actor like so many in Washington are. He holds dear certain
beliefs that he has thought long and hard about. Stacy McCain has commented that you will never see him involved in
a D.C. sex scandal should he be elected to the Congress, and he is quite right. I'm sorry if the two of you have become
so enamored of the thin-layered sheen of the politicians you break bread with that you disdain the average Joe or Joan and
their normal and [to you] bland and unexciting demeanors. I'm sorry if Doug Hoffman is not one of The Republicans
Who Matter!, not one of the Conservative Beautiful People and never will be.
Actually,
what I'm sorry about is the way you two and your fellow CBP's have allowed yourselves to become Washington
D.C. Pod People in what, in this day and age, passes for High Society.
Doug Hoffman and the others
like him who, in the wake of the Leftists attempt to overthrow the Founding, will stand up and put themselves in the firing
line, are EXACTLY the kind of people we need to run for office. I don't want slickness or polish and I most especially
don't want to hear more of the same conservative and Republican bromides—the same Luntz-vetted phrases over and over
and over. I want average folks who don't give a damn if a hair is out of place, a suit rumpled because they can only
afford a couple of them, or who are awkward in public. None of that matters as long as they have, as John Adams said
was essential, commitment to traditional American values and never utter anything that is not simple, plain,
and honest. Newt, Frum, Brooks, Noonan, et. al. are a part of the problem, but so are you high falutin' Beautiful People.
4 nov 09 @ 7:35 pm est
IN THE EVENINGWith time out for a bit of living in the Real World, I've been continuing to sail
through The Ether on a skiff made of hopeychange, gathering more commentary and analysis on this now-past Election Season
2009 [my first posting from this morning is located here]...
1) From Clifton over at Another Black Conservative:
For GOP Leadership, the days of slapping
R's at the end of everyone's name are over. The base is actively seeking credentials and is fully capable of rejecting anyone
who does not measure up. Choose your candidates wisely!
For Conservatives, timing is crucial. If you are hunting RINOs, get them early. You cannot
have them crumble at the 11th hour and expect a victory. If you want to sink a RINO like say, Charlie Crist, then you have
to start sinking him TODAY.
You've heard the saying 'vote early and often', well, let's modify it to 'attack
early and often'.
2) Here's part of the exchange Rush Limbaugh had with a caller named Charlie today:
CALLER: ...Let me get to my point. I think the real lesson of New York 23
is the sentiment, the same sentiment that hates Sarah Palin, and that is the self-anointed, whether Republicans or Democrats,
they will not tolerate an average person standing up and running for office. The Republicans would rather have a Democrat
win than have that happen and have the people that are supposed to be the ruled standing up and taking our country back.
RUSH: Well, you know, I hate to agree with you about that with
the Republican Party, but I think you're right about a lot of people in that party, average people not welcome, gotta have
the pedigree. Now, I never like to make this program about me. It's becoming harder and harder not to but, folks, I got audio
sound bites of the media, "Oh, big loss for Limbaugh! Big loss for Sarah Palin!" The New York Daily News, every
sentence is a prediction of mine come true yesterday about this. It's the snarkiest thing. They're all over the place and
I, of course am just an average guy. I don't come from any pedigree. I come from the Midwest, a little town of 30,000, well,
25,000, some people have moved in since I moved out. But you're right. I think certainly the Democrat Party. And they are
the real hypocrites about it, Charlie, because they're the ones who claim to be for the little guy.
CALLER: That's right. And I think this bolsters your point, Rush, which is the message to
the leaders in the Republican Party is, don't put up these establishment folks because we will defeat your candidate even
if it means the Democrat is going to win and they need to learn that lesson.
RUSH: You know what, I was reading Erick Erickson today at RedState.com, and he was the real first behind Hoffman
guy. I mean, he was really pushing it on his blog, and he wrote today -- I'll paraphrase it -- he wrote, "Look, the message
out of this is we took out a horrible Republican. We kept a horrible Republican from possibly winning and totally redefining
the party in a way that would make it a permanent minority party." So in Erick's view, yeah, it would have been great
if Hoffman won, but the real victory was making sure that a Republican-in-name-only did not win, and that dovetails here with
what Charlie said.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: By the way, folks, one more thing about New York 23, when this all started look at where Doug Hoffman was.
He was down there in last place, nobody had ever heard of him. He was at 20%. And despite all the incompetence and despite
the party being against it, remember the Republican Party ran ads against Hoffman. Remember this now. And he still climbed,
with 45% of the vote, he still ended up there. Now, I'm telling you, the percentage of the vote that Hoffman got has put the
fear of 2010 in the mind of every Blue Dog and in a lot of RINOs. This guy almost pulled it out with his own party running
ads against him and endorsing a liberal Republican, and then praising her when she leads and then she endorses the Democrat.
And all this is done in 30 days? You need to keep all this stuff in perspective about New York 23 and again not buy into the
media template on this at all.
Erick Erickson did a tremdous job regarding NY-23, but then we shouldn't
be surprised because he does it every damn day.
3) Speaking of Mr. Erickson: he and Ryan Ellis, Tax Policy Director
for Americans for Tax Reform, are in disagreement over what Mr. Ellis meant by some of his Tweets from last
night. Both sides lay out their cases here and here, respectively, over at Red State. I read both posts and
haven't decided yet who's side to take. What's more important to me is that anyone, anyone, on the Right is still providing
legitimacy to the organization, Americans For Tax Reform, which is run by Grover Norquist, a useful idiot
of the Jihadists. Discover The Networks has compiled a quite impressive and extensive indictment
against Norquist which may be found by clicking here. A highlight:
According to Islam scholar Robert Spencer:
“Grover Norquist has been responsible, more
than any other individual, for the infiltration of Islamic supremacists into the highest levels of the U.S. government. See
here the seminal expose by Frank Gaffney of the immense damage Norquist has done.
“The continuing general
ignorance among conservatives of the political aspects of Islam, and of the efforts by Islamic jihadists to impose political
Islam, piece by piece, over the West, can largely be attributed to the baneful influence of Norquist. He has energetically
aided and abetted the branding by CAIR and others of critics of Islamic supremacism and of those who tell the truth about
this Islamic political and societal agenda as “bigots” — such that frank discussion of the full nature and
magnitude of this issue has been generally unwelcome even in conservative gatherings and on conservative media outlets.”
Social commentator and author David Horowitz writes: “On the basis of the evidence assembled
here, it seems beyond dispute that Grover Norquist has formed alliances with prominent Islamic radicals who have ties to the
Saudis and to Libya and to Palestine Islamic Jihad, and who are now under indictment by U.S. authorities. Equally troubling
is that the arrests of these individuals and their exposure as agents of terrorism have not resulted in noticeable second
thoughts on Grover’s part or any meaningful effort to dissociate himself from his unsavory friends.”
Grover Norquist and any organization he is a part of must be held under suspicion and he must be shunned by all conservatives.
He is at best a useful idiot and tool of the Jihadists, at worst he is a fellow-traveller. Any conservative that gives
him any legitimacy should hang his head in shame.
4) The NRCC is today, as you might expect, trying to cover its
bloated behind. Over at The Washington Examiner, J.P. Freire has the story with updates. Dan Riehl is rightly cynical:
For now my take is this: releases and consultants only amount to words, just
words, as they say. Actions, on the other hand, are your responsibility, sirs. And only you can undertake them. Let's see
some of those that show us that you get it, then get back to us. I don't mean to sound disrespectful, simply appropriately
cynical.
Don't tell us
that you love us, show us that you aren't going to simply screw us and leave and we might consider giving you a call back.
::::smoochies:::
Zing! Spot-on Dan.
This is the end of the beginning. Time to regroup
and then prepare for the next of many battles in this long war to:
Restore Our Constitution & Restore Our Lost Liberties [ROC 'N' ROLL].
4 nov 09 @ 7:32 pm est
WILL WONDERS NEVER CEASE?Suave Lance Burri is back from his vacation and has been looking into how the
near-trillion dollar [$787,000,000,000 to be exact (ain't it scarier when you see it written in dollars?)] 'Stimulus
Bill' money has been spent and the effects it is having on the economy. Two highlights to give you a taste:
A few of my favorites from the list: - $219,000
for Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen women.
You have
to pay somebody to do that? - $2.3 million for the U.S. Forest Service
to rear large numbers of arthropods, including the Asian longhorned beetle, the nun moth and the woolly adelgid.
Those are all invasive species. We’re trying to eradicate them. Thus, this is a double
stimulus: job security for the Forest Service employees doing the “rearing,” and job security for the DNR
folks trying to get rid of them.
And...
It’s not like the stimulus
money was taken directly out of somebody’s pocket. It wouldn’t have been in the economy without the “stimulus”
bill – not yet, anyway. It was all borrowed, and will thus be sucked out of the economy in coming years.
I wonder what the effect would have been, had the “stimulus” been funded directly
with tax money rather than with borrowed money. I wonder more what the effect would have been if the “stimulus”
hadn’t happened at all.
Answering the question the title of this posting put, I would reply: not until
these clowns in Washington are forced to retire for medical reasons: we got sick of 'em.
4 nov 09 @ 5:04 pm est
THERE'S GOT TO BE A MORNING AFTERI've been sailing through The Ether on a skiff made of DIABLO Dede's leftover
campaign literature searching for the best analysis and commentary on yesterday's elections...
1) From Stacy McCain, over at The American Spectator:
Like Hoffman, conservatives are in a fighting mood and in the 23rd District campaign, they demonstrated
a willingness to fight -- and win -- against a GOP establishment that showed its political tone-deafness by picking Scozzafava
for the nomination and then spending a reported $900,000 on her doomed campaign.
"There were two fights here," Hoffman press aide Sandy Caligiore said after the
candidate's wee-hours concession speech. "We won one and we lost one."
Republicans who supported Scozzafava, including Newt Gingrich,
had warned that the Hoffman campaign risked electing a Democrat in a district that had sent Republicans to Congress since
before the Civil War. They will likely rush to claim vindication, but the fight that conservatives waged for Hoffman has not
ended with this one battle.
2) He continues over at The Other McCain:
If the Republican bosses think they're going to pick another candidate in NY23
for 2010, they'd better think again. The grassroots conservatives -- the Tea Party people, the pro-lifers, the Club for Growth,
Fred and Jeri Thompson, Sarah Palin -- who backed Doug Hoffman aren't going to forget his courageous example.
By
the way, some campaign sources tell me that Mr. Hoffman was very emotionally bruised by Tuesday night's result. In recent
days, he had come to believe -- like a lot of us believed -- that he was about to win an upset victory. If you'd like to send
Mr. Hoffman a note of encouragement, please go to the contact" page at his Web site.
This isn't over.
This is the end of the beginning. Time to regroup and then prepare for the next of many battles in this long war to:
Restore Our Constitution & Restore Our Lost Liberties [ROC 'N' ROLL].
If you can spare the time, please do follow the link in the quote from Stacy above and send along an encouraging note to
Mr. Hoffman. I did:
MESSAGE TO DOUG HOFFMAN 20091104
Mr. Hoffman:
You ran a great campaign against even greater odds given that the establishment
GOP was against you. My impression is that you are a private man. You went and put yourself in the firing line for a cause
greater than yourself. This morning, you are bloodied and beaten, but your head should be unbowed. I hope you will consider
running in 2010. You're just the kind of person we need in the Congress. Be not discouraged. As Churchill said many times:
'Never despair'. The Battle Rages On...
Godspeed.
Bob Belvedere
3) Some solid analysis by Pat, over at And So It Goes In Shreveport:
I will say that I'm thrilled with the Christie win, not shocked by the McDonnell
win, and encouraged by the NY-23 race. I really thought Hoffman could pull that one out, but so it goes. As Britt Hume said
last night, "That's why you have primaries." Part of the issue in that election was a time issue; it was a late-breaking
campaign from the very beginning. Hoffman fought a great fight and there's a lot to be encouraged about there.
4) From the DaTechguy, we get wisdom:
As I’ve already said,
it was MUCH more important to have this fight and prevent what would become the media’s “bi-partisan” vote
for all that is Pelosi and Obama that to have the seat for the year. I would of course have preferred to have em both but
when you’ve had almost the entire loaf, you can’t quibble over the last piece.
Rank and file
Republicans should be happy that a few intrepid souls prevented the GOP Esablishment form further staining the Republican
Brand—as it is, its going to need quite a bit of bleach to get her cleaned-up.
5) Speaking of the Brand...Mark Steyn:
…But I don't think it was a great night for the Republican party as a
national brand: NY-23 was a screw-up by the GOP leadership from the original nomination of Scozzafava down to her last-minute
endorsement of Owens; New Jersey was a referendum on an especially repellent and inept incumbent; and Virginia is back in
the fold, which is nice but hardly portends a national resurgence.
As for conservatism, populism, tea parties,
grassroots rebellions, and the rest, Doug Hoffman's defeat is a disappointment because his would have been the romantic victory.
It's true he didn't live in the district, etc, which would certainly have caused problems in my neck of the woods, but the
fact is the ending isn't the one the script called for. Still, if that's the way NY-23ers incline, I think it's healthier
for the body politic to have Owens in Congress rather than Scozzafava simply because the latter stretches beyond credibility
the two-party system.
6) From Dana Loesch, over at Dump Dede:
We won in NY23. This blog served it’s purpose. Dede Scozzafava was dumped.
She was dumped by the demographic to which she fronted, and when no one [bought] her Victorian freakshow, she removed the
mask and revealed herself, lest any doubters remained. We won when we forced the GOP to concede support. We won when we showed
them that good political sense and sharp strategy is an instinct, not exclusive to the beltway elite. We won because we wrenched
the reigns from their hands.
Right on, sister, right on. We can't slack-off; we must be relentless
in our pursuits. The Left is going to throw everything they have at us. There's nothing more vicious than a desperate
Leftist.
Major kudos to Dana and Bill Hennessey.
7) On the repeal of 'gay marriage' in the
State Of Maine, Chris, over at WyBlog, is spot-on:
Thirty-one times radical homosexual "rights" agitators have gone before
the voters in states across our nation. And 31 times the voters have said "no" to the idea of same-sex
marriage.
Naturally they vow that their "fight" will continue. Albert Einstein said that insanity is
"doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
8) From Stogie, over at Saberpoint:
The unusual GOP win was the election of a Republican governor in Blue State New
Jersey. It was a good night for Republicans but not a great night. We won 2 out of 3 and we will try harder in
the races to come next year.
As a certain Arctic Fox would say: 'You Betcha'.
9) Speaking of that Arctic Fox: from her Facebook page:
The race for New York’s 23rd District is not over, just postponed until
2010. The issues of this election have always centered on the economy – on the need for fiscal restraint, smaller government,
and policies that encourage jobs. In 2010, these issues will be even more crucial to the electorate. I commend Doug Hoffman
and all the other under-dog candidates who have the courage to put themselves out there and run against the odds.
To the tireless grassroots patriots who worked so hard in that race and to future citizen-candidates like Doug, please remember
Reagan’s words of encouragement after his defeat in 1976:
“The cause goes on. Don't get cynical because
look at yourselves and what you were willing to do, and recognize that there are millions and millions of Americans out there
that want what you want, that want it to be that way, that want it to be a shining city on a hill.”
The cause
goes on.
The Battle Rages On....
10) And, finally, from Michelle Malkin we get some of the best commentary and analysis [worth quoting from at length]:
Conservatives owe NY-23 candidate Doug Hoffman
immeasurable gratitude. He overcame impossible odds (single digits just a month ago) to come within two points of defeating
Democrat Bill Owens. Hoffman had zero name recognition. National Republican Party officials dumped nearly $1 million into the race on behalf of radical leftist GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava,
who then turned around, endorsed Owens and siphoned off 5 percent of the vote with her name still on the ballot after she
dropped out.
Conservatives’ money went to pay for specious attack ads against Hoffman run by the NRCC
like this.
Conservatives’ money went to support a GOP candidate who shares the same
socialist alliances with fellow SEIU/ACORN/New Party/Working Families Party activist Patrick Gaspard, the Obama White House political director who intervened in the race to secure Scozzafava’s
endorsement of Owens.
Hoffman’s candidacy illuminated the stark difference between GOP political opportunists
willing to pimp out their endorsements to any old ACORN-embracing, Working Families Party-consorting, Big Labor crony who puts an “R” by her name — and movement conservatives who refuse
to “mooooderate” for the politically expedient sake of mooooderation as dictated by out-of-touch Beltway party
leaders. The NRCC/RNC’s $1 million debacle will cost much more than that.
As I’ve repeated many times over the last several weeks:
One
thing is guaranteed at the conclusion of the NY-23 special congressional election: The Beltway Republicans who endorsed radical
leftist Dede Scozzafava are going to have indelible egg stains on their faces. And GOP establishment fund-raising organizations
will be the poorer for it.
...
Hoffman may have lost
narrowly, but NY-23 is a much broader victory for conservatives who believe the Republican Party should stand for core limited
government principles. Scozzafava, who was endorsed by far Left blogger Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and backed by Planned Parenthood, the National Education Association, and card-check-promoting trade unions, was denied the congressional seat because movement conservatives refused to support Arlen
Specter in a skirt. This is a victory of principle.
Better a donkey in office that acts like a donkey than a donkey
in elephant’s clothing making a complete ass of the GOP.
Moreover, NY-23 is a victory for conservatives who
refuse to be marginalized in the public square by either the unhinged left or the establishment right. A humble accountant
from upstate New York exposed the hypocrisy of GOP leaders trying to solicit funds from conservatives by lambasting Pelosi
and the Dems’ support for high taxes, Big Labor, and bigger government — while using conservatives’ money
to subsidize a high-taxing, Big Labor-pandering, bigger government radical. The repercussions will be felt well beyond NY-23’s
borders. Conservatives’ disgust with the status quo has been heard and felt. They have been silent too long. They will
be silent no more.
The GOP leadership knows it cannot afford to rest on its laurels, continue business as usual,
and bask in yesterday’s electoral victories without confronting its abysmal abdication of principled conservative leadership in NY-23.
As Hoffman said in his concession speech, “This is only one fight in the battle.”
Onward. Upward.
Rightward.
ROC 'N' ROLL!
4 nov 09 @ 9:30 am est
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
LIVE BLOGGING
3 nov 09 @ 9:30 pm est
DISPATCH FROM NY 23 @ 2011Stacy's latest in full:
By Robert Stacy McCain on 11.3.09 @ 7:52PM
SARANAC LAKE, N.Y.
Doug Hoffman campaign spokesman Rob Ryan just said the off-year congressional election
in this sprawling upstate district represents a political "revolution."
"People have just stepped up to the plate," Ryan said, describing the surge
of grassroots volunteer support for Hoffamn. "They're sick and tired of politics as usual. They're sick and tired of
the culture of corruption in Washington. They're sick and tired of sending all their money to the IRS."
Tonight, the Hoffman campaign is preparing to celebrate at the historic
Hotel Saranac, where there are seven TV satellite trucks in the parking lot. Reporters
from the New York Times, Fox News, CNN and other national media are on hand. The polls close at 9 p.m.
Most observers expect a Hoffman win tonight. During an afternoon press
conference, Hoffman campaign manager Dan Tripp said his own sample of key precincts in the 23rd District show a "positive"
trend.
"Things are looking
pretty good right now," Tripp said, but added that the Hoffman campaign's get-out-the-vote operation would "be
pushing like we're 10 points behind until 9 o'clock."
3 nov 09 @ 8:11 pm est
ELECTION DAY 2009 [Updated below @1943]I've just updated the 23 SKIDOO posting from this morning below.
 Here are some more good links to follow...
-The DataTechguy has a good posting up on Gov. Tim Pawlenty's appearance this morning on Morning Joe. He's spot-on when he comments:
They seem to ask him why he bucked the party to support Hoffman, but nobody will mention that is
was because…Sarah Palin did it first and he didn’t want to be left behind.
After following the link to the video provided, I have a question: am
I seeing things or does the Governor have big 'L' on his forehead?
-Michelle Malkin has up a very useful Election Day Primer.
-Former ACORN member, Anita Montcrief, has up a report on ACORN and NY-23. A highlight:
Multiple sources on the ground in New York’s 23rd Congressional
district confirm that ACORN is expected to be actively protesting the election results in Clinton County, New York tomorrow.
This move comes on the heels of a legal win for the Hoffman camp today as it was ruled that all poll watchers would have to
be registered voters of NY 23.
-Michelle Malkin has up a piece on the suicidal relationship between the GOP and ACORN.
-Good stuff by Dan Riehl on the blogging and this election. A highlight:
The Netroots achieved nothing like NY - 23 in their first years out.
And their ability to challenge the establishment has left them with an even more defiant Lieberman, perhaps as much as it
has accomplished anything else. That is not to say they are without significant accomplishment. They are. And certainly Obama
in the WH, as opposed to Hillary, is proof of that.
Still, the grassroots fire now taking place on the Right,
much of it, even the ground game, is fueled by on line activism, including on the blogs. And that has occurred within
just one year's time from when the Right on line was seen as mostly ineffective, the weak sister of its counterpart
on the Left. With that bit of now history having been written in less than a year, one can only imagine where
it will be in four.
-It was Eric Dondero, over at Libertarian Republican, who broke the
story in the Blogosphere on the arrest of Jason Shih, staff member to NJ Governor Corzine. Please do take the time to click here for details. Great work, Eric.
I'll be updating this post later with more informative and interesting links and quotes.
It's later...
UPDATE at 1943:
-I just updated the 23 SKIDOO Posting below again.
-On the New Jersey front, Chris, over at Wyblog, has the story on Governor Corzine's hiring of gangbangers to do Get Out The Vote [GOTV] duties.
-Who is responsible for
the situation in NY-23? The DataTechguy has some pretty good answers.
-Could DIABLO Dede be lying to journalists? Dan Riehl does his usual thourough investigation.
-Is all this talk of needing more 'moderates' to run as Republican candidates by the NRCC and NRSC merely disastrous
history repeating itself? Over at Red State, Vladimir makes a good case for the answer 'YES'.
-If you need a bit of break from the election madness, but don't want to stray too far, may I recommend Drowned
in Blood: Frightening Tales of an Adirondack Halloween by Stacy 'The Impaler' McCain. A highlight:
Here in this Sleepy Hollow land on Halloween, the resurrected Reaganite dream
has disturbed the slumbers of Frank Rich many miles away in Manhattan. Is this the Second Coming? the Third? the Fourth? Goldwater
to Reagan to Gingrich to . . . Doug Hoffman?
Haunted by Hoffmanwill never become a classic DVD in the collections
of horror-movie buffs. Jason or Freddie Krueger, he ain't. And if the Nightmare On Main Streetin Saranac Lake is
any indication, the Left will have a hard time turning the town's native son into a Scary Right-Wing Monster.
One quibble: he should have cast Newt as the Headless Horseman—the man certainly hasn't been using his brains lately
[some would argue since 1995].
-A good source for breaking news tonight is the TCOT REPORT [not, of course to be confused with TCOTS, which be me]
3 nov 09 @ 2:51 pm est
NO QUARTER, NOT EVEN A DIMEI know I'm going to get in trouble with some of the ladies out there for writing
this, but the truth will out...
When women take someone down, they go all the way. When its one of their
own sex, they show absolutely no mercy. All that's left after its over is figurative body pulp. I like a feisty
woman [I married one], but, man, sometimes you all scare the Hell out of me.
Case in point: Monique Stuart's
take down of Meghan McCain. After quoting the hefty hubritic heiress doing Joe Lieberman no favors by trying to
defend him, Monique comments:
And, this right here epitomizes what I hate so much about Meghan McCain. She
always claims to be speaking for her generation or her party, or blonds, or fat chicks, or even McCains, for that matter.
STFU, already! Stop thinking that you’re so all knowing that you can speak for everyone. You can barely speak for yourself,
moron.
It gets better/worse as it goes on—perhaps both:
Does
Meghan not realize that, other than being her father’s fatdaughter,
the only thing that she is famous for is a) criticizing the political party she claims to belong to; b) criticizing Ann Coulter;
c) being called fat by Laura Ingraham; and, d) posting a slutty picture of herself on Twitter and then acting as if it wasn’t
supposed to be a sexy picture, but a picture she just took for fun?
Meghan McCain is a worthless, empty, woman
with not much to offer the world. And, from what I hear, what she does have to offer to the world she offers to every and
any man she meets in this world. But, that’s neither here nor there. These rumors have not been confirmed but, more
importantly, they have also not been denied.
Stop firing that howitzer for a moment Miss Stuart; the
barrel's overheating.
Now, everything she says is 100% dead, solid, perfect. But, oh man....I'd hate
to get on her badside. A man would have attacked, but, after grounding his enemy into the ground, would have, at least,
offered the defeated foe some form of succour. Not a woman. God no. She would stand there and wait for the
last gasp of air and then kick the corpse.
Tip of the fedora to Stacy McCain for posting about this. He comments:
We can at least enjoy a good girl-fight until the polls close
tonight.
Its no fight, Stacy, its a slaughter. Meghan ain't got a chance against a nuclear Monique.
Although, I do admit it was enjoyable to watch her Hiroshima Mzz. McCain.
'Scuse me while I go buy the wife some
flowers....
3 nov 09 @ 11:18 am est
THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY......is awarded this election day to Moe Lane, who is worth quoting in full [emphasis mine]:
What
men may do, we have done.
The polls are opening; it’s up to the voters now.
It’s been a hell of a year, but in many ways it was nothing more than the prologue to the all-out political
war that we can expect in 2010. Nonetheless: today is the day
that we start to take back that which was ours.
Moe Lane
PS: If you liked the coverage that
your favorite bloggers provided, hit their tip jars. Heck, hit mine.
Amen.
3 nov 09 @ 9:18 am est
23 SKIDOO XI: VOTE EARLY AND OFTEN Edition [Updated below @0945 & @1349 & @2007]Well...here we are...D-Day...
 Since I last posted at 1827 yesterday evening, Stacy McCain has filed several reports.
1) At 1853 last evening, he reported on two more local Republican endorsements Doug Hoffman received.
2) At 2126, Stacy posted the video of Doug Hoffman responding to a 'gotcha' question from Jude Seymour, of the Watertown Daily Times,
asking his thoughts on the following comments by Rush Limbaugh:
How about Dede Scozzafava? You know what? Dede Scozzafava has just screwed every
RINO in the country by showing everybody who they are. . . . She has just put an exclamation point on the problem with RINOs.
They eventually end up exactly where most liberals do. They're just a little slower in getting there. But they end up where
liberals are. Scozzafava has screwed every RINO in the country. We could say she's guilty of widespread bestiality. She has
screwed every RINO in the country. Everyone can see just how phony and dangerous they are.
Rush, you magnificent
bastard.
I think Mr. Hoffman handled himself well and Stacy's readers agree.
Mr. Seymour was then hauled
before a hastily convened meeting of the Conservative Journalism Criticism Squad. All I will say is that it ended painlessly.
What happened later on was not painless, however. In a rare moment, Stacy lost it with his fellow journalists
and he details the story and his mea culpas.
3) Early this morning at 0157, he filed an excellent report on the role bloggers have played in the Campaign. A highlight:
I'm sure I'll have more to say about this at some future point. The "blogger-activist" label is a little
uncomfortable for me. I'm just a writer working via the medium of the Internet after 20-odd years in print.
Opinions?
Yeah. But everybody's got an opinion. What we have done up here is to break news by working the phones, developing sources,
and being on the scene where the story has happened. As I like to say, Old School in the New Media.
The phrase 'blogger-activist' has the smell of Progressivism surrounding it.
Stacy
then provided an update in which he provided deserved praise for Erick Erickson, Michelle Malkin, John Hawkins,
Michael Patrick Leahy, and Dan Riehl for their great work in getting the word out. Bravo, y'all. He ends the posting
wonderfully:
OK, I've named five people whose contributions ought to be recognized
and apologize to the many others who played a role but haven't been named here. Let's remember a famous quote: "You can accomplish much, if you don't care who gets credit."
-- Ronald
Reagan We've all got to remember that in the months and years ahead. That Ronald
Reagan quote should be etched on the tablets of the Conservative Commandments.
4) At 0612, Stacy filed a report, over at AmSpecBlog, covering, among other things, the possibility that ACORN and
the unions may be doing illegal things. Would you really be surprised if it was discovered that they did? A highlight:
Ah, Election Day at last! In 24 hours, you'll be reading
my Wednesday article about what happened in the crucial upstate New York special congressional election. And tomorrow
morning, God willing, I'll be taking a shower, packing my bags, checking out of a hotel in Saranac Lake, N.Y., and heading
back home to try to recover from the insanity of it all. Meanwhile, people way above my pay-grade will be on TV
telling you What It Really Means.
Nice work, if you can get it.
I'll be providing updates
as soon as I'm able and the situation warrants, but you can keep abreast of the latest over at Stacy's site by clicking here.
It will be nice to get back to a sense of normalcy around here after today [well, relatively speaking, considering
what times we now live in]. I've devoted a lot of space and time here to the NY-23 race and surrounding issues and I
would would very much like to get back to covering the earth-shaking events going on in the country and across the world.
This was one battle in a long war and no matter how it turns out, we did our best. The Battle Rages On...
FYI: You can read my ten previous postings on Stacy McCain's coverage of the three-way race in the New
York's 23rd Congressional District, here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here.
UPDATE at 0945:
1)
Added a link in (2) above.
2) Related to (3) above: A message to Stacy McCain...
Your work in all of
this deserves very high praise. You've been out there wearing down the shoe leather, being your usual relentless self,
doing the grunt work. I think I speak for many when I tell you: we really appreciate everything you do for us and for
the cause of what is good.
I say 'Yea, Robert Stacy McCain'.
UPDATE at 1349:
1) At 1023, Stacy filed a report after his visit to a precinct and posted an interesting picture of what the ballot looks like.
2) At 1109, Smitty reminded us of another important race today in CA-10.
3) At 1125, Stacy linked to a report by Hooah Mac of Red State. HM's report can be found by clicking here and here's a highlight:
Interesting tidbit: It was Jeri Thompson who brought the
Doug Hoffman - Dede Scozzafava race to Fred’s attention. This is the one to watch. Jeri is every bit the ideological
and intellectual match for her husband. She was gracious and gave me a quote to share with the readers of Redstate. “I
heard Vice President Biden was here earlier today, I also understand that he revealed he was a lifeguard at one time. That
surprised me. I didn’t know you could swim with your mouth open.”
Let's give a 'Urah' to Hooah.
Nice work, soldier.
4) A little after Noon at 1234, Stacy filed this report has his and Ali Akbar [his name be praised], took off to (1) get to the hometown headquarters of
the Hoffman Campaign and (2) avoid the State Police. Godspeed gentlemen. A highlight:
Since Sunday night, the National Desk has been located at the luxurious -- but surprisingly affordable -- Best Western Carriage House Inn on Washington Street near downtown Watertown, N.Y. We've kept our exact location a secret
because, frankly, we were too busy to cope with the hordes of adoring blog groupies who would have descended on our room had
they discovered our whereabouts.
UPDATE at 2007:
1) At 1648 this afternoon, Stacy filed a report from Doug Hoffman's hometown and headquarters in Saranac Lake.
2) At 1925, he filed another report [with pictures] on the activities at the Hotel Saranac, where the Hoffman Party will be held.
You can keep abreast of the latest over at Stacy's site by clicking here.
3 nov 09 @ 8:13 am est
Monday, November 2, 2009
NIGHT OF THE LIVING BLOGGER
2 nov 09 @ 8:43 pm est
HOW ABOUT SOME GOOD NEWS...1) Over at Eye of Polyphemus, Jamie reports on a victory in the fight over using human embryonic stem cells:
In a tacit acknowledgment
that the promise of human embryonic stem cells is still far in the future, California’s stem cell research program on
Wednesday awarded grants intended to develop therapies using mainly other, less controversial cells….
Maybe, just maybe, we can hope that this callous use of human parts will end someday. maybe.
2) This story's
out of Texas, KBTX-3 reporting:
Planned Parenthood has been a part of Abby Johnson's life for the past eight
years; that is until last month, when Abby resigned. Johnson said she realized she wanted to leave, after watching an ultrasound
of an abortion procedure.
"I just thought I can't do this anymore,
and it was just like a flash that hit me and I thought that's it," said Jonhson.
She handed in her resignation October 6. Johnson worked as the Bryan Planned
Parenthood Director for two years.
I consider this good news because one more person has seen the light
and because advances in techonolgy are turning out to be critical tools in the battle against the murdering of innocent
babies.
Over at Carol's Closet, Carol had this comment:
I can't imagine what that moment must have been like when the full realization
of what she had been a party to struck Abby Johnson.
No, no you couldn't Carol, because you see life as
sacred. You've not a cruel soul.
Over at American Power, Donald Douglas has the video of Miss Johnson.
Over at Moonbattery, Gregory Of Yardale posted on this story, as well. One of his commentators Jay B made a great suggestion:
Every liberal should
watch a late term abortion video. I wonder how they'll react to seeing a doctor kill a still moving baby in cold blood and
still think how glorious their choices are.
Looking at the whole abortion question legally, I agree in full with the Left Coast Rebel:
...To me it is a disgusting, barbaric, uncivilized act that in most cases can
be argued as being the taking of an innocent life. I'm not sure, however; that the Federal Government should be the arbiter
of all on the issue too.
I would love to see Roe V. Wade overturned and sent to the states.
Amen.
2 nov 09 @ 8:24 pm est
VAST & GROWING MARKETS Paco has scored another exclusive with THE interview with J. Packington Paco III, Captain of Industry, Sage of Capitalism, conducted
by Brad Smilo. A highlight:
Brad: Oh. Yes…yes, I see it, now. So,
what does a purchaser of your carbon-offset certificates get for his money?
J.P: A lifetime sense of smug moral
superiority and preening self-satisfaction.
Brad: But I see that the certificates are issued at ten thousand dollars
apiece. That seems kind of high.
J.P: A liberal’s desire to look down his nose at his fellows is always at
a premium. And it is a vast and growing market.
Please do take the time to click here and read the rest of this enlightening, shall we say, interview.
NY-23 LINK RALLYHere are some good postings to check-out from others on the race in NY-23 and
the other issues surrounding it:
 -Dana Loesch's Dump Dede sight is still going strong and has up a lot of good stuff. This latest one is quite good and informative. And this one.
-Left Coast Rebel has been providing some great coverage too. Here's a rather interesting one.
-I haven't given the DataTechguy enough credit for his outstanding coverage. Here's a good example.
-Gateway Pundit covers the Scozzafava - Patrick Gaspard connection.
-I liked the way Chris, over at WyBlog, put it:
See what millions of NRCC campaign cash buys? Is it any wonder that thinking
conservatives have taken the Not One Red Cent pledge?
Really, why would anyone give them a dime when they're willing to blow
it supporting RINOs like Dede Scazzofava and Charlie Crist?
The darling of Newt Gingrich, John Cornyn, Pete Sessions
and the rest of the national GOP clown show endorsed a Democrat over a rock-solid conservative. If I was a donor
I'd demand a refund.
Take the pledge conservatives.
-Over at The Corner, Jonah Goldberg understands:
...Not only was the conventional wisdom wrong, the idea that there's a "civil
war" within the GOP revolving around this argument is nonsense. The GOP is an unapologetically conservative party, providing
a choice not an echo, and — horror of horrors — it's working.
-Monique Stuart is short,
sweet [she really is], and to the point about the Missing Mitt.
-Carol, over at Carol's Closet, has a secret to tell and it'll warm the cockles of yer heart.
-I like Track-A-'Crat's style:
...we should never let the RNC, Newt Gingrich and everyone else who supported
the outright Left-winger Scozzafava (she didn’t even attempt to hide her lunatic leanings – she was endorsed by
pro-abortion groups, big labor and the daily Kos, for Chrissakes!) forget their complicity in this collective, weeks/months-long
brainfart.
-Good ol' dependable Smitty does a righteous Fisking of one of the GOP's best clowns, Rick Moran. I almost felt sorry for the guy after reading it, but then I thought about it for a few seconds and said 'Nahhhhhh!'.
-Chris Stirewalt, over at The Washington Examiner, gets The NY-23 Quote Of The Day Award for this truth:
Republicans such as Ellis and Gingrich think the Obama
team is right that Hoffman’s success spells trouble for next year. They think conservatives will take over the party
and drive out moderates.
But the lesson of the Obama ascendancy is that an enthusiastic base coupled with a reasonable-sounding
candidate can win elections.
The GOP remains unpopular, and the movement against career politicians is real. If
the party wants to maximize its gains in 2010, it will need to look more like Doug Hoffman than Dede Scozzafava.
Spot-on.
And remember:
NOT ONE RED CENT!
2 nov 09 @ 7:27 pm est
23 SKIDOO X: DON'T GET OVERCONFIDENT Edition [Updated Below at 1827 hours]You can read my nine previous postings on Stacy McCain's coverage of
the three-way race in the New York's 23rd Congressional District, here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here.
Since I last posted late Saturday afternoon, a lot has been happening, the most important thing being Dede Scozzafava's
surprise [my lips are dripping with sarcasm] endorsement of Democrat Bill Owens.
1) Early Saturday evening at 1715, Stacy posted a video interview with Hoffman worker Yates Walker, managing to try and play matchmaker again [question for
after the election: is Robert Stacy McCain part old Jewish woman?].
2) At 1939, Stacy checked-in again with another bit of background story.
3) Later in the evening at 2125, Stacy posted an interview he conducted with an Owens Campaign volunteer.
4) At 2220, he posted a video of him and Ali Akbar [his name be praised], the 73Wire guy, doing the shoe leather thing.
5) Sunday morning at 1156, Stacy filed a report on Dede's working behind the scene for the Democrat. Then, through frequent updates by him and
Smitty, eventually confirmed that she was going to endorse the Democrat as her husband has already done. Check it out
to experience good reporting in action. In her endorsement statement, she said at one point:
Since beginning my campaign, I have told you that this election is not about me; it's about the people of this District.
Smitty, who can have a great way with succinct statements, commented:
I,
for one, hope that the people of NY-23 form the bolded words into a polite suppository on Tuesday.
Let us
hope and pray.
6) Later in the late afternoon 1644, Stacy filed a report on the reaction to Dede's endorsement. A highlight:
Ed Morrisey of Hot Air comments: Doesn't this prove the point conservatives
had been making about Dede Scozzafava all along? Indeed, in the span of
36 hours, Scozzafava has gone from being a RINO to being an ex-Republican. Having planted this knife deep into the
back of the GOP, Dede cannot now expect to win re-election to the state assembly as a Republican next year (or any year, ever,
for that matter). Maybe that Working Families Party line will prove a winner for Scozzafava. Or maybe not.
7) At 1748, he filed a report on Fred Thompson coming to town [you know, the man who should have been President].
8) At 2045, Jimmie Bise published his analysis of a conference call he sat in on that included, Stacy, Eric Odom and Ali Akbar of 73Wire,
Pat Austin of And So It Goes In Shreveport, Ed Morrissey, Matt Burns, former spokesman for Dede Scozzafava,
and Rob Ryan Hoffman Campaign spokesman. A highlight:
Next up was
Rob Ryan, who had a couple interesting things to say. First, given the number of times the Working Families Party and ACORN
came up, it's clear that the Hoffman campaign is concerned about the possibility of serious shenanigans from one or the other
group, or both. Ryan pretty much said outright tht campaign can't do much about it except to bring attention to the possibility
and work hard enough so that anything they do won't matter in the end. I think that's a pretty healthy attitude. Ryan also
says his most urgent need is bodies to help with the campaign. They're in crunch time right now and Hoffman needs as many
people as possible to knock on doors and work the phones.
From Pat Austin's report on the call:
I asked Stacy what the expected turnout for this election is likely to be. As
a special election in an off year, you would normally expect turnout to be low. In a sense, this may work to Hoffman's advantage
because those that do get out to vote will be those hard-core people that follow the issues. Those moderate, indifferent voters
may not turn out. The Democrats have been advertising very heavily in the district, however, and their on-the-ground canvassing
is very strong.
From Ed Morrissey's report:
Burns said he didn’t relish being on the defensive from conservative bloggers,
but that he came back to NY-23 to elect a Republican. He worked hard for Scozzafava, and at the end, she withdrew in
order to keep the district Republican. Burns apparently got surprised by Scozzafava’s decision today, and he wanted
to stress that only one person in the race would now be a vote against Nancy Pelosi, and that is Doug Hoffman.
9) At 0608 this morning, Stacy filed a report, over at The American Spectator, on the events of this past weekend. I like
his ending a lot:
The first poll published in the wake of Scozzafava's withdrawal showed Hoffman with a commanding lead
over the Democrat, Owens. Even if Hoffman wins big in tomorrow's election, however, the consequences of the Republican Party's
blunders in this campaign are likely to be felt far away from upstate New York. A yawning chasm of alienation between the
GOP establishment and the party's grassroots has been exposed.
If
Scozzafava has done nothing else, she has shown Republican leaders to be what Michelle Malkin called them yesterday: "Suckers."
10) At 0913, Stacy took on the fears of Karl, over at the Greenroom, and Instapundit [this is worth quoting at length]:
Karl displays a proprietary concern about the Republican Party being perceived as
too "far right." This is what happens when Republicans internalize liberal critiques of conservatism and begin to
believe -- as all liberals relentlessly proclaim -- that there is something wrong, inferior or shameful about being conservative.
Professor Reynold's concern is similarly unfounded. Talk of a third-party conservative movement is just that: Talk.
Republicans who fret over such things are just worry-warts who still blame Ross Perot for the Clinton presidency. (In fact,
the blame should be placed squarely on Bush 41 and the idiots responsible for the '96 Dole campaign.)
My advice:
Don't let liberal spin to drive you into fear-based defensive thinking. The real danger to the Republican Party is not "extremists"
or third parties, but rather the cluelessness of the Beltway GOP establishment.
Spot-on, Stace. Remember
Patton's motto: 'Do not take counsel of your fears'.
Things are looking very good right now, but we must not get
overconfident. The polls open in less than forty-eight hours; there's much work still to be done.
UPDATE at 1827: As you might expect on D-minus-1,
things are really hopping up in NY-23...
11) Late morning at 1127 / early afternoon at 1213, Stacy filed two reports on the Owens Rally that included Vice President Joe Hill Biden as a speaker.
From the latter:
As Dave Weigel of the Washington Independent notes, Biden also took shots at Sarah Palin, whose Oct. 22 endorsement of Hoffman seems to have turned the tide, eventually driving liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava to quit the race. About 200 Democrats and 30 media personnel turned out for this morning's Biden/Owens
rally.
The tone of the rally was set by New York Democratic Party State Chairwoman June O'Neill, who warned of "right-wing extremists who have brought their hate-mongering tactics
to this district. . . . We cannot afford to let the right-wing extremists make a point in this district. . . . The right wing
is not right."
12) At 1350, he posted a bunch of pictures from the Rally and some that give you a feel for what its like to be a reporter in such a
situation.
13) Later at 1551, Stacy profiled two of the volunteers involved in the Hoffman Campaign, 'Hooah Mac' and 'Pizza-And-Yoohoo Guy'. A highlight:
He's known as "Hooah Mac" at Red State, but the guys in his Army Reserve unit call him "Sarge." He's just back from an
Iraq deployment and expects to redeploy in January. He hopped a flight from Minneapolis at 7 a.m. today, landed in Syracuse
at 1 p.m., and by 3 p.m. was in the Watertown office of the Doug Hoffman campaign. He answered the campaign's call for "boots on the ground" against ACORN, Big Labor and the Democrats.
"This is what it's all about,"
Mac said, explaining why he decided to show up as a Hoffman volunteer.
God love that soldier and keep him
safe.
I probably won;t do another aggregation until tomorrow, but you can keep abreast of the latest over at Stacy's
site by clicking here.
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T E R M S
Let us make precise and clear-cut the terms we should be using.
Aristotle wrote that A is A; you may also call it B, but
it always remains A. A thing is what it is and, to say it is something else, is to deny reality. There is a lot of denial
of reality going around these days.
As John Adams wrote: 'Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes,
our inclinations, the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence'.
POINT 1: There is no "War in Iraq"
or "War in Afghanistan". Like the Pacific and Europe in World War II, Iraq and Afghanistan are
just parts of a larger war. Unlike them, they are not separate from each other. Therefore,
they are part of the Middle East Theatre of Operations [METO] as the Pacific was the PTO and Europe the ETO.
POINT 2: Many on the Left and some on the Right want to "end
the War". There are only two ways to end a war: (1) by achieving Victory or (2) by being Defeated.
A pullout, before Victory is achieved, is Defeat. They want Defeat. Pullout may
be the best policy―I am not arguing that here―but, leaving without achieving our objective is Defeat.
POINT 3: We are engaged in a War Against Islam.
The term is more correct than "War against Islamo-Fascism" or "War On Terror".
Islam has been at war with all non-Muslims since the
time of its founder, Muhammad [his name be cursed]. Like the Hundred Years' War, there have been periods
of peace in this long conflict, but the Muslim has never stopped believing that he is at war with all non-Muslims.
He can't: Allah commands that all of the world be conquered in his name and he must submit, in all things, to the
will of Allah [the word Islam means "submission", sometimes rendered as "surrender"]. Any
periods of peace we in the West have enjoyed have only occurred after we have dealt them such a devastating blow that they
have not been able to wage their jihad and then have pursued polices that have kept them subjugated. This
began to fade in the latter half of the 20th Century as we forgot the dangers posed by this militant religion and
as they regrouped under new and committed leaders.
If you
doubt that Islam is at war with all non-Muslims, keep in mind this:
Islamic apologists
often point out that Islam is not a monolith and that there are differences of opinion among the different Islamic schools
of thought. That is true, but, while there are differences, there are also common elements. Just as Orthodox, Roman Catholic,
and Protestant Christians differ on many aspects of Christianity, still they accept important common elements. So it is with
Islam. One of the common elements to all Islamic schools of thought is jihad, understood as the obligation of the Ummah to
conquer and subdue the world in the name of Allah and rule it under Sharia law. The four Sunni Madhhabs (schools of fiqh [Islamic
religious jurisprudence]) -- Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Hanbali -- all agree that there is a collective obligation on
Muslims to make war on the rest of the world. Furthermore, even the schools of thought outside Sunni orthodoxy, including
Sufism and the Jafari (Shia) school, agree on the necessity of jihad. When it comes to matters of jihad, the different schools
disagree on such questions as whether infidels must first be asked to convert to Islam before hostilities may begin (Osama
bin Laden asked America to convert before Al-Qaeda’s attacks); how plunder should be distributed among victorious jihadists;
whether a long-term Fabian strategy against dar al-harb is preferable to an all-out frontal attack; etc. [Source: Gregory M. Davis, Islam 101, section
4g, found at http://www.jihadwatch.org/islam101/]
They have been at war with us for
centuries and we, therefore, have been at war with them. We are engaged in a War Against Islam whether
we want to say so or not. In an interview with a Pakistani TV network on 23 July 2008, Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid,
Al-Qaeda's No. 3 man and top commander in Afghanistan, has this to say: “Islam does not distinguish between the
American people and the American government, since both are in a state of war with Islam”. [Source: http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD200008]
POINT 4: The term "Islamo-Fascism" seems
to have been created by Leftists. Since (1) they wrongly place fascism on the Right, (2) they believe [rightly]
Muslims want to establish a theocratic regime on Earth, and (3) anything political that has any connection with religion is
bad and emanates out of rightwing thinking, the term makes sense to them. Therefore, the term is nothing
but a way to associate Islam with the right-wing. Muslims believe in a totalitarian way of governing; in
submission [that word] to an all-powerful Islamic leader or leaders.
POINT 5: As to the term "War On Terror",
it is just plain silly: how can you wage war on a thing?
POINT 6: What is fascism? It is when a government
allows private property to exist, but controls and manages the use and disposal of property in all its forms. Citizens
retain all of the burdens and responsibilities associated with property ownership, but are not allowed to control and shape
its use.
As an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. The word derives from fasces, the Roman symbol of collectivism and power: a tied
bundle of rods with a protruding ax. In its day (the 1920s and 1930s), fascism was seen as the happy medium between boom-and-bust-prone
liberal capitalism, with its alleged class conflict, wasteful competition, and profit-oriented egoism, and revolutionary Marxism, with its violent and socially divisive persecution of the bourgeoisie. Fascism substituted the particularity of nationalism
and racialism—“blood and soil”—for the internationalism of both classical liberalism and Marxism.
Where socialism sought totalitarian control of a society’s economic processes through
direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally
private owners. Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their
property in the “national interest”—that is, as the autocratic authority conceived it. (Nevertheless, a
few industries were operated by the state.) Where socialism abolished all market relations outright, fascism left the appearance
of market relations while planning all economic activities. Where socialism abolished money and prices, fascism controlled
the monetary system and set all prices and wages politically. In doing all this, fascism denatured the marketplace. Entrepreneurship was abolished. State ministries, rather than consumers, determined what was produced and under what conditions.
[Source: Sheldon Richman, The Concise Encylcopedia Of Economics,
Liberty Fund, found at http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Fascism.html]
On the political spectrum, therefore, it is located between modern liberalism
and socialism.
POINT 7: What is socialism? It is when a government
allows no private property to exist, and controls and manages the use and disposal of property in all its forms.
Citizens are not allowed to control their lives and are subject to the whims of bureaucrats and officials. If they
retain freedoms and liberties, they do so at the discretion of them. On the political spectrum, therefore, it
is the next logical stage after fascism; some would argue that it lies between fascism and communism.
POINT 8: What is pragmatism? It is a tool used by Leftists,
or those operating under the influence of Leftist logic, to achieve Utopian ends—heaven on earth through social, political,
cultural, and spiritual engineering. It is merely a tool of ideology, part of the means to an end.
POINT 9:The Big Lie - When confronted with truths that reflect
unpleasantly on them, the Leftists deflect it buy claiming over-an-over ad nauseum that these truths apply to and are products
of the Right. This practice is known as The Big Lie. It has been successfully practiced by the
Left since, at the very least, the French Revolution. Thus, we have the now-widespread belief that the Nazis and the
Black Shirts of Italy were right-wingers when the reality-the truth-is they were both people of the Left. I suspect
the violent objections from the Left to conservatives use of the term 'fascist' arise from the fact that they have spent well
over seventy years trying to convince the world of The Big Lie that it is not and never has been a Leftist
ideology.
How does one practice this distortion truth and why is it effective? In a report issued during
World War II by the OSS, the author provided an explanation for all practitioners by describing how Hitler practiced it:
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault
or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame;
concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than
a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.
By repeating
their lies over and over, the Left creates a false reality that supplements the real world. In this false reality, the
lie is the truth, the truth is the lie. A is not A. [But we know that A must always be A.]
The Left
also practices a variation of The Big Lie that I like to call The Big Deception which involves
a Big Deflection away from the reality of the situation. None of their policies or actions can survive
direct questioning, so the Leftists must turn the tables on the questioners and make it seem as though the inquisitors have
bad or evil intentions. Overtime and after constant and unrelenting hectoring, the Left's way of thinking triumphs.
They successfully infect enough people so that this diseased mode of thinking becomes chronic, deep-rooted, instinctual. If
the Devil's greatest triumph was that he convinced people he did not exist, the Left's greatest triumph has been to convince
people that the Leftist way of thinking is normal. It is not. It is a perversion of reason and a horribly mutant
form of logic. It is antithetical to human life. Nothing but decay and destruction are left [pun intended] in it's wake.
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