Determination

2008-07-24T00:04:00.001-07:00

You Boomers who wouldn't abort your babies as I suggested will be forced to watch as I seduce your grown babies into aborting themselves.-- Ms Ann Thrope in private boast.

When more offense is taken over what is said than what is done.

2008-07-23T11:46:00.000-07:00

When more offense is taken over what is said than what is done, we are witnessing Political Correctness. We have been forced to endure this despite the First Amendment prohibition on silencing free speech. Why? Why must we endure PC? Why must we "tolerate" it? Someone please convince me. Otherwise, I recommend a mantra along these lines to be shouted in unison the next time you hear some PC:

Resolved: Conservatives Are Useless As Defenders of Liberty

2008-05-26T15:41:00.000-07:00

The title of this post strikes me as a good premise for a debate. Spinelessness is not a good trait for those claiming to defend what is Right. Let me lay out some arguments that might be useful in this debate that I feel is long overdue. First of all. the very word conservative implies someone who is not apt to budge much. The run-of-the-mill liberal, on his more docile days, might limit his

MSM Easily Forgives You For Not Loving It

2008-05-23T14:06:00.000-07:00

Borrowing from Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, book iii, chapter iv The mass media easily forgives you for not loving it provided that you don't love each other.This is a very short warning for the Right: Should you think that all members of mainstream media are stupid, you will never appreciate how well they dissemble facts and mislead the public by disingenuously composing stories

So, I'm Human

2008-03-26T04:26:00.000-07:00

"Dear Mr. Fervor, Some months ago you wrote an editorial about me entitled She Thinks Her **** Doesn't Stink. Could you not have disparaged my, er, priggishness with words that are readable on radio? Well anyway, I'm writing today to inform you that you were wrong Mr. Fervor. I must admit that my story about the tensions I endured while in Bosnia was a real stinker. Peee-Hew! Seeeee!

They Who Refused To Pay the Piper...

2008-03-25T10:29:00.000-07:00

...Today Have No Children. Most of the most bitter women I have ever met (Cal State Sen. Jackie Goldberg, call your office) were my sisters of the baby boom generation who are now long past their time to bear children. My brothers are merely sad, though some of them are still too adolescent to realize it. Go read the Brothers Grimm (Hah! Irony!) tale again, and this time with the perspective of

Metamorphosis

2008-03-20T12:46:00.000-07:00

In Weapons Turned Inward, Wretchard observed how some left-leaning partisans see insanity in the internecine warfare that has erupted in the Democratic Party because of rock star Obama's "new" front moving in from the Left and threatening the Clintonista leadership as nobody has before. Wretchard opined that it was not truly insanity "but the rational application of the demented rules of

Something Eternally Undeniable

2008-03-19T22:21:00.000-07:00

There are many believers in God: the theist. There are many believers that God does not exist: the atheist. But one thing this agnostic does know for a certainty: The Concept of God exists. And that irritates all the rulers and demigods and their nefarious aides that ever existed. Whether or not God exists, the Concept of God stands between the individual and those who would treat him as less

Ades to Corruption

2008-03-06T20:19:00.000-08:00

aide –noun 1. nurse's aide. 2. an aide-de-camp. 3. an assistant or helper, esp. a confidential one. -- from Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) I've long wanted to have a short word that I and others could use that would be an apt label for one who helps forestall or prevent reforms to decadent institutions. The closest historical word, antidisestablishmentarian, is way too unwieldy to use for

The Useful Idiots Who Blindly Assist Achieving Hell On Earth

2008-03-02T19:43:00.000-08:00

"For we can make the dead live whether they wish it or not....They cannot refuse the little present." -- C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength. Lewis gave us a glimpse of hell on earth with that one line. I'd forgotten that that was how it struck me when I first read it. I don't recall if I'd ever told you.Thus began a comment I left for Fran Porretto in particular response to his using that line

Beware The Wrath of 'Cain

2008-02-09T14:56:00.000-08:00

McCain, that is. John McCain. Whether or not we like it – I most certainly do not – John McCain will be the Republican candidate for President. The best reason for not backing his campaign, and not voting for him, are secondary. That is, a government growing, illegal immigrant welcoming Democratic president is more readily thwarted by GOP opposition than is a government growing, illegal

Outside the Box: Reviving A Lost Autumnal Ritual

2007-11-07T21:44:00.000-08:00

Lost Ritual: Burning autumn leaves. Reason: Leftist enviro policies, usually at city council level, but also brought by EPA air quality boards. Difficulty in fighting: these policies have been either bought into or not fought by a whole lot of overregulated common folks. Avenue of attack: Exploiting gaping Leftist inconsistencies. So, the following are ingredients for burning autumn leaves

Help Me Defeat Leftist Social Engineers

2007-10-02T10:18:00.000-07:00

People generally do not like being manipulated. I believe that the more people understand how they and their neighbors are manipulated the better are the chances that the majority can mount a defense against the divisive, dissembling demagogues. A long time ago I explained the mechanics of how social engineering works to various technical engineers I work with. Each and every one understood.

Made My Day!

2007-10-01T18:37:00.001-07:00

I received a telephone call out of the blue today from a young professional of my acquaintance. "I thought I should let you know that my wife and I had a daughter about a month ago. I don't know if you recall our conversation, but it was your comments about the influence of death cults that encouraged us to try even harder. Thank you."I had only just returned from an enjoyable visit to France,

Subtlety and Threat

2007-09-06T09:36:00.000-07:00

Time and again I see where Wretchard and I are looking at the same larger panoramic. He does a marvelous job of piecing together the fabric -- the pixels if you will -- of that larger picture. In that sense, I am merely a customer of his. But beyond that, he and I appear to be equally alarmed (though I could be wrong) by the same developments. The big difference in our responses, however, is

A Progressive Rant

2007-09-05T14:24:00.000-07:00

I started to write a screed in July in response to a Belmont Club post, Definitions, entitled Those Hellbent On Leading Us Into A New Dark Ages. But I cooled off after I answered a misunderstanding posted by BC commenter 3Case. In June I wrote "Progressives" Are Demonstrably Dangerous to Human Life, but I still wasn't satisfied. This was to be followed by a part II that had been provoked by

On Balance, Jay Leno Owes Us One

2007-09-05T11:06:00.000-07:00

I have to admit I've had trepidations about Fred Thompson announcing on Jay Leno tonight. The primary reason is that last actor to do so was Arnold Schwarzenkaiser, the radically green, anti-conservative governor of California. Since most conservatives know how to pray, I think this might be a good time to pray that it is the progressive statists who will be sold out this time.

She Thinks Her Shit Doesn't Stink

2007-09-01T07:30:00.000-07:00

I grew up where the vernacular expression for someone who believes themselves more important than anyone else was "He thinks his shit doesn't stink." It was invariably heard about a man whose attitude fit the expression. I don't know if there were women then who rated such an observation, but given experience which shows that human foibles cross the sex line, I suspect there must have been a few

Some Problems On Our Right

2007-08-14T03:12:00.000-07:00

I have since as far back as I can remember been associated with the Right by those who know me. That was primarily because of my archly conservative nature compared within my family and circle of friends. Still, because of familial influences, I considered myself a liberal politically up to 1972. I knew of one vocal conservative in high school, and that was from a distance. My exposure to Right

What Makes This Video Extraordinary?

2007-08-09T14:32:00.000-07:00

I was directed to this video posted at Observanda by 2164th who was quite astounded and pleased. He was hardly alone. An Englishman explains Islam: However, aside from the danger that has been directed at people such as this brave man by Jihadis, there is also the intolerance of those in positions of authority and censorship watchdogs of political correctness. Here's my observation: The

Dilemmas Facing Advanced Civilization -Pt2

2007-08-06T15:26:00.000-07:00

Part one of this series can be found at Open List: Dilemmas of Advanced Civilization Wanton wastefulness solely to temporarily slake the appetite of a bored audience for exciting entertainment. A sense of defeat -- "oh, what's the use?" -- that may sideline a cultural defender. This effect may be temporary but can be permanent. Exhaustion of the virtuous. An otherwise strong defender recognizes

Litmus Test

2007-08-06T00:39:00.000-07:00

Does your favorite champion unflinchingly defend innocent human life?

Fear and Hatred for Real Leaders

2007-07-30T13:04:00.000-07:00

Pursuing themes I raised earlier this month, (causes of civilizational decline, and more specifically, who and what blocks reforms) I spoke with Og the Neanderpundit about how much we providers and guardians of real progress need a true leader. Og, widely known for his love of the simpler life (not to be confused with Luddites), hates red tape more than the average guy, and complicated arguments

Watermelons

2007-07-29T10:01:00.002-07:00

I just had a conversation with a friend who is a considerably more avid reader than I. Politically speaking, he seemed only now to have learned what is meant by "watermelon." I was quite surprised. Once again, I suspect MSM at core of this. Since Establishment media suppresses the use of the apt metaphorical phrase "watermelon" in any of its reporting, it may very well be more obscure a term

Those Who Are Beyond Embarrassment

2007-07-27T09:40:00.000-07:00

With Roasted Chickens Roosting, Wretchard calls our attention to the continuing self-serving trail of destructiveness that Ward Churchill wallows in. Be careful not to misread the last word in that title as roasting. For it is one thing for us to see dead people who don't know they're dead, and entirely another to continue to let their specter ruin us. For you see, this is one heluva "cooked

Pascal Fervor