Showing posts with label The Western Canon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Western Canon. Show all posts

Friday, 8 May 2009

Saudi Intellectual States That Western Civilization Has Liberated Mankind.















Sane, healthy, free, balanced and typical young free women courtesy of the Western Canon ie: Judeo Christianity, the Greeks and Romans, capitalist free-market democracy being the two essential things that mean a place doesn't suck,  trust, respect for life, civil limited government, low tax, personal responsibility, even the er, Enlightenment, The Industrial Revolution, The Renaissance, The Constitution, fun, the free flow of ideas, private property laws, the rule of law, the Anglosphere, science, free markets, music, art, humor, movies, radio, technology, the scientific method, innovation...

...the right to bear arms, dentistry, plumbing, the skyscraper, sanitation, medicine, paediatrics, refrigeration, household appliances, cars, planes, the space program, literature, the Jews, industrial food production, dogs, great men and women, the Internet, respect for life, paradox, failure and success, nuclear energy, oil, nuclear weapons, books, the rights of the individual over the group, sacrifice, generosity, courage, love, freedom of speech and expression, hate, philosophy, Jesus, confidence, exceptionalism, logical empiricism and the men and women of the military etc, etc, etc... 

"Humbug! Fun is a lie and freedom is a Zionist plot!" Sheik Pervypoop Bin Kharzy Urynal.


"This just proves in my diseased mind that the West is inferior to Hamass run Gaza, Iran, North Korea and Cuba! Now where's that check from Hezbollah? I have a flying carpet in my attic, you know." George Galloway.











Gee, is Islam monstrously retarded, irrational, oppressive and naturally murderous? Who can tell? It's wrong to base our judgement on reason and millions of objective facts.

"It's a madhouse! A MADHOUSE!" Chuck in Planet Of The Apes.

Well, the following Saudi rowdy is "reformist thinker Ibrahim Al-Buleihi," and he's almost our man in Riyadh, as he very splendidly appreciates and see's the great human triumph of the Western Canon more clearly and passionately than the average Marxist University lecturer. Go figure. And everything he says about the great and free West and how fortunate we are, is entirely and empirically true. In fact, it's a simply brilliant, joyous and empirical effort.

The capitalist free-market, [despite massive government regulatory burdens] and civil, democratic West, [despite crony rent seeking socialist leftists] is a small and recent bright light in the long dark tunnel of history. Still, he says Islam is er, cool, [no, it's not in the least bit hip or fun or even useful] and has just been er, 'hijacked', ironically by actual Muslim hijackers. Hahahahahaha! I love that line. It's one of mine. So he's not entirely on the money but then few people from anywhere ever are. As in ex-leftists who must at some point completely repudiate, reject and fight Marxism, one usually needs to completely reject, leave and face Islam to really get how awful it is.

But ya gotta admire the courage of a guy who will state the bleeding obvious facts from within the totalitarian maw of Saudi Arabia. It's a miracle that anyone at all in any Islamic shit pile can even think outside the Ka'bah and maintain their reason and humanity, but many do.  Three cheers and we hope that he lives long enough.

Here an Indian Muslim reflects on no scientific minds and advancement in Muslim World.  [Open weekdays. Try the wild Hijack Ride!] A lot like the Westworld movie, minus all the fun and after it all goes horribly haywire and still Koran Land and Mohammad Acres is oddly even murderously robotic and inhuman. It's a laugh. No.

Memri TV April 29 2009.

"In an interview published April 23, 2009 in the Saudi Daily 'Okaz, reformist thinker Ibrahim Al-Buleihi expressed his admiration for Western civilization. The interview was posted on the same day on the Elaph website. [1] Al-Buleihi calls on the Arabs to acknowledge the greatness of Western civilization, and to admit the deficiencies of their own culture. He states that such self-criticism is a precondition to any change for the better. Ibrahim Al-Buleihi is a member of the Saudi Shura Council. [2] Following are excerpts from the interview:

"If It Were Not for the Accomplishments of the West, Our Lives Would Have Been Barren"

'Okaz: "I begin with the crucial issue which distinguishes your thought and which your opponents always raise against you - namely, your being completely dazzled by the West, while you completely belittle Arabic thought. Truly, this is the most outstanding feature of your writings. There is also extreme self-flagellation which many see [in your writings]. What is the cause of this?"

Buleihi: "My attitude towards Western civilization is an attitude based on obvious facts and great accomplishments; here is a reality full of wonderful and amazing things. [Recognizing] this doesn't mean that I am blindly fascinated. This is the very opposite of the attitude of those who deny and ignore the bright lights of Western civilization. Just look around...and you will notice that everything beautiful in our life has been produced by Western civilization:

...even the pen that you are holding in your hand, the recording instrument in front of you, the light in this room, and the journal in which you work, and many innumerable amenities, which are like miracles for the ancient civilizations. If it were not for the accomplishments of the West, our lives would have been barren. I only look objectively and value justly what I see and express it honestly. Whoever does not admire great beauty is a person who lacks sensitivity, taste, and observation. Western civilization has reached the summit of science and technology.
It has achieved knowledge, skills, and new discoveries, as no previous civilization before it. The accomplishments of Western civilization cover all areas of life: methods of organization, politics, ethics, economics, and human rights. It is our obligation to acknowledge its amazing excellence. Indeed, this is a civilization that deserves admiration.

The horrible backwardness in which some nations live is the inevitable result of their refusal to accept this [abundance of Western ideas and visions] while taking refuge in denial and arrogance."
'Okaz: "Sir, you can admire this civilization as much as you want, but not at the expense of others, especially our own civilization."

Buleihi: "My admiration for the West is not at the expense of others; rather, it is an invitation to those others to acknowledge their illusions and go beyond their inferiority and liberate themselves from backwardness. [Those others] should admit their shortcomings, and make an effort to overcome them; they should stop denying the truth and closing their eyes to the multitude of wonderful achievements. They should be fair towards those nations that achieved prosperity for themselves but did not monopolize it for themselves and instead allowed the whole world to share the results of this progress, so that other nations of the whole world now enjoy these achievements.
Furthermore, Western civilization has given to the world knowledge and skills which made it possible for them, the non-Western nations, to compete with it in production and share markets with it. Criticizing one's own deficiencies is a precondition to inducing oneself to change for the better.
Conversely, to glorify one's backward apathetic self is to establish and fortify backwardness, to strengthen the shackles of apathy, and to eradicate the capabilities of excellence. Backwardness is a shameful reality, which we should resent and from which we must liberate ourselves."
"Western Civilization is the Only Civilization that Liberated Man From His Illusions and Shackles; It Recognized His Individuality and Provided Him With Capabilities and Opportunities to Cultivate Himself and Realize His Aspirations."
'Okaz: "This may be so, and I'm with you in this demand but, sir, would you summarize for us the reason for your admiration of Western culture, so that we can have a basis for discussion?"

Buleihi: "There is no one reason, there are a thousand reasons, which all induce me to admire the West and emphasize its absolute excellence in all matters of life. Western civilization is the only civilization that liberated man from his illusions and shackles; it recognized his individuality and provided him with capabilities and opportunities to cultivate himself and realize his aspirations.
[Western civilization] humanized political authority and established mechanisms to guarantee relative equality and relative justice and to prevent injustice and to alleviate aggression.

This does not mean that this is a flawless civilization; indeed, it is full of deficiencies. Yet it is the greatest which man has achieved throughout history. [Before the advent of Western civilization,] humanity was in the shackles of tyranny, impotence, poverty, injustice, disease, and wretchedness.
"It is an extraordinary civilization, and it is not an extension of any ancient civilization, with the exception of Greek civilization, which is the source of contemporary civilization. I have completed a book on this great extraordinary civilizational leap, titled The Qualitative Changes in Human Civilization. Western civilization is its own product and it is not indebted to any previous civilization except for the Greek one...
It has revived the Greek achievements in the fields of philosophy, science, literature, politics, society, human dignity, and veneration of reason, while recognizing its shortcomings and illusions and stressing its continuous need for criticism, review and correction."

'Okaz: "In your words here, you completely wipe out all the endeavors and creativity of previous civilizations such as the Islamic one, by stating that the West not indebted to it."

Buleihi: "Indeed, it is not, nor is it indebted to any other previous civilization. Western civilization has its foundation in Greece in the sixth and fifth centuries BC; then it stopped in the Middle Ages, but resumed its progress in modern times, when its benefits have come to include all nations.
It is really extraordinary in every meaning of the word - excellence, uniqueness, and novelty...It has components and qualities which distinguish it from all previous and subsequent civilizations.
It is the product of philosophical thinking invented by the Greeks. The Europeans have based themselves on this kind of thinking, especially on its critical aspect, which developed the capability of producing objective knowledge that is always open to review, correction and progress..."

'Okaz: "Some Western thinkers wrote that Western civilization is an extension of previous civilizations. How can you, a Muslim Arab, deny this?"

Buleihi: "When we review the names of Muslim philosophers and scholars whose contribution to the West is pointed out by Western writers, such as Ibn Rushd, Ibn Al-Haitham, Ibn Sina, Al-Farbi, Al-Razi, Al-Khwarizmi, and their likes, we find that all of them were disciples of the Greek culture and they were individuals who were outside the [Islamic] mainstream. They were and continue to be unrecognized in our culture. We even burned their books, harassed them, [and] warned against them, and we continue to look at them with suspicion and aversion. How can we then take pride in people from whom we kept our distance and whose thought we rejected? "As for the question of cultural development, there are two approaches. According to one approach, civilization is the product of a cumulative process. However, this approach is contradicted by the facts of history. According to the other approach, a quantitative change does not become a qualitative one, except through an extraordinary leap. This is the correct compelling approach, which I adopt. Quantity cannot possibly turn into quality spontaneously.
"The only civilization which possesses the ingredients of perpetual progress is Western civilization, with its Greek foundation and its amazing contemporary formation.
Western civilization believes that it is impossible to possess absolute truth and that human perfection is impossible, so man must strive to achieve it while recognizing that it is impossible to reach. Thus it is the only civilization which is constantly growing and constantly reviewing and correcting itself and achieving continuous discoveries..."

"Humanity Lived Thousands of Years Ruminating on the Same Ideas and Living in the Same Conditions, Using the Same Tools... It Could Have Continued Forever In This Way If It Were Not For the Emergence of Philosophical Thinking in Greece."

          'Okaz: "Let me ask you about your complete fascination with Western civilization."
Buleihi: "The light of this civilization is very bright and only a blind person can be oblivious to its brightness. Anyone who is capable of sight and insight is inevitably fascinated by it...We should give credit where credit is due. Has any previous civilization dreamt of the astounding revelations and exact silences and complex technologies [achieved by Western civilization]?

Have previous generations imagined the possibility of opening the human chest or head and conducting intricate surgeries on the heart and brain? Could they imagine the deep understanding of the living cell and the way it is formed... Did they imagine airplanes, cars, telephones, and innumerable accomplishments of this civilization? Would you want us to go back to writing on parchment and papyrus and using wooden sticks for pens, and riding donkeys?
'Okaz: "Sorry, no one has asked you to return to the era of donkeys, but it is necessary to pass historical judgment in a fair and balanced way. You are saying that you want 'to give credit where credit is due,' but, in fact, you deny any credit to whatever existed before Western civilization, and while everybody recognizes that human achievements are cumulative in nature, you negate that axiomatic rule when you speak about Western accomplishments."
Buleihi: "Humanity lived thousands of years ruminating on the same ideas and living in the same conditions, using the same tools and instruments. It could have continued forever in this way if it were not for the emergence of philosophical thinking in Greece in the sixth and fifth centuries BC. Civilizational progress at its current level cannot be achieved by accumulation; rather, it is the outcome of great revolutions in the fields of thought, science, politics, society, and labor...

"What pushes man out of his routine is the struggle of ideas, the freedom of choice, and equal opportunity. The best proof of this is that many peoples today live in the depth of backwardness, despite the availability of science, technology, and ideas. They witness the examples of prosperity, and despite this, these backwards peoples are unable to abandon their trenches and free themselves from their shackles. In other words, they are unable to emulate those who are prosperous and they are completely unable to invent and initiate."
'Okaz: "There is a crucial question in our debate: do you understand by civilization only its material aspect?"

Buleihi: "The most important achievement of Western civilization is the humanization of political authority, dividing it into separate powers, and establishing and keeping a balance between the separate powers. Western civilization has given priority to the individual and subordinated its institutions, laws, and procedures to this principle, whereas in the old civilizations the individual was a cog in a machine."
"Ever Since the End of the Period of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs, Man's Individuality Was Eradicated in Arab History, And His Value Has Been Linked to His Political, Religious, Regional, or Tribal Affiliation."
'Okaz: "A cog in a machine? Do you believe that this is true also of Islamic civilization?"

Buleihi: "We sharply distinguish between Islam in itself and what people do in its name. The great principles of Islam and its sublime doctrines that emphasize and uphold human value and dignity have not had a chance throughout history to establish themselves.

Colonel Neville: Sadly, that little bit is pure balls and bullshit, but I understand that you are still a practicing Muslim and speaking from within the centre of God's Monkey House. So do carry on...

"Ever since the end of the period of the rightly-guided Caliphs, man's individuality was eradicated in Arab history and his value has been linked to his political, religious, regional, or tribal affiliation… The only civilization which acknowledges and respects man as an individual is Western civilization… Behavior in any field is not the outcome of teachings, as such, but rather of practice and actual experience...."

'Okaz: "Has this been the case throughout all of Arab history, in your opinion?"

Buleihi: "Yes, all of Arab history can be characterized in this gloomy way, except for the period of the rightly-guided Caliphs and discrete periods such as the reign of Omar ibn 'Abd Al-'Aziz. One should not confuse the sublime principles and doctrines of Islam with its history, which is full of mistakes, transgression, and tragedies. When the Abbasids overcame the Umayyads, they covered the bodies of the dead with rugs and held a feast over the bodies in a display of vengeance.

When [Caliph] Al-Ma'mun defeated his brother Al-Amin, he flayed him like a lamb. This scene recurs throughout our history. Political power is the pivotal value in Arab culture. In our age, there have been recurrent military coups in the Arab world, in a struggle for power, but not in an attempt to bring about a change for the better. Each successive regime is worse than its predecessor."

'Okaz: "Mr. Buleihi, haven't you read in the history of your people about hundreds of scholars who had significance and impact and whose lives are studied to this day, even though they possessed no power, tribe, or religious affiliation, and who are valued for their scholarship?"

Buleihi: "This is a general statement which is not backed by fact.

Arab history, with the exception of the period of the rightly-guided Caliphs, was dominated by politics. When the Fatimids took over Egypt and North Africa, these areas became Shiite, and when Salah Al-Din Al-Ayyubi [i.e. Saladin] put an end to the Fatimids, he drove out everything that had any relation to Shiism. The same happened when the Safavids converted Iran to Shiism, which then led the Ottomans to act the same way [in imposing Sunnism]. Thus Arab history, or Islamic history, in the wider sense, is the outcome of political ups and downs..."

"Those Exceptional [Arab] Individuals Were Not the Product of Arab Culture, But Rather Greek Culture... We Don't Deserve to Take Pride In Them, Since We Rejected Them and Fought Their Ideas"

'Okaz: "Let me pause here for a moment. You are reducing Islamic history just to political history. Even Islamic political history for all its tragedies, is not as bad as you described it. You also overlook the scientific and cultural aspects of Islamic history, which created a great civilization even while Europe suffered under the rule of feudalism, the Church, ignorance, and backwardness."

Buleihi: "We have inherited certain clichés about our history and the history of other nations without reading our history critically and without reading the history of others fairly and objectively. The luminous Greek civilization emerged in the sixth century BC and reached the peak of its flourishing in the fifth century BC. In other words, Greek civilization emerged many generations before the Islamic one, and Greek philosophy was the source from which Muslim philosophers derived their philosophy.

Those individuals in whom we sometimes take pride, such as Ibn Rushd, Ibn Al-Haytham, Al-Razi, Al-Qindi, Al-Khawarizmi, and Al-Farabi were all pupils of Greek thought. As for our civilization, it is a religious one, concerned with religious law, totally absorbed in the details of what Muslims should do and shouldn't do in his relations with Allah and in his relations with others. This is a huge task worthy of admiration, because religion is the pivot of life. We must however recognize that our achievements are all confined to this great area. Let us not claim then that the West has borrowed from us its secular lights. Our culture has been and continues to be absorbed with questions of the forbidden and the permitted and belief and disbelief, because it is a religious civilization...

'Okaz: "They [the Muslims] learned from the Greek civilization and this is not a fault, this is the way young civilizations are, they learn from previous civilizations and build upon them. Is it expected that they should have abolished the achievements of the Greeks and started from zero?"

Buleihi: "I am not against learning [from others]. What I wanted to clarify is that these [achievements] are not of our own making, and those exceptional individuals were not the product of Arab culture, but rather Greek culture. They are outside our cultural mainstream and we treated them as though they were foreign elements.

Therefore we don't deserve to take pride in them, since we rejected them and fought their ideas. Conversely, when Europe learned from them it benefited from a body of knowledge which was originally its own because they were an extension of Greek culture, which is the source of the whole of Western civilization."

Thursday, 25 December 2008

Frank, Jimi and James improvise on everything while reaching for God.

Black Napkins, Frank Zappa.



Machine Gun, Jimi Hendrix. [Note: Sadly cuts out last minute of "water drops" bit, due to YouTube limits..]




"I'll always touch you". Jimi Hendrix.

Dear sports, like the bower bird of feeble understanding I try to be, I collect a Himalaya of thangs off the Net. Yes I do. I'm a Net nut! So in the spirit of the Blessed Birth of Jesus, and the dreamy, often empty local streets of quietude one finds at Christmas time around the inner-city, I present some very interesting and substantial twigs and coloured paper I've picked up over the er, last few days only!

Can't help it you see. I MUST know. Man, how frauds get by with the Net, I do not know. Oh yes I do...many folks are largely incurious "..many here among us feel that life is but a joke. But you and I know this is not our fate, and the hour, it is getting late..." Hey hey.

I hope ya dig some of this. I am. I'll put up plenty more cos' folks, I'm developing a shabby show and need a little breathing space. No, really. Oh yes, I must...before I explode. Note to energy swirling self and in the words of Jesus: "Bring forth what is within you and it will save you. Do not bring forth what is within you and it will destroy you". Fair enough, eh Watson?

Hey, what did Jesus know about show business?! Everything.

Jesus also said: "Get offa my damn lawn!" Or maybe that was Clint in Gran Torino?

If you remember only this, "Are you somebody? Damn right you're somebody!" James Brown and the stratospheric JB's. Here's Jaaaaaaaaymes Brooooooooooooooooooown!, doing a great song called The Boss, from 1973. Used in the classic "Blaxploitation" flick, Little Caesar.





Ain't it the ironic truth that Judeo Christianity created the freedom and prosperity of the ever innovating Greatness of the Western Canon in an often dark and daft world? Yep, it did. Listen for heads of Godless Liberal Leftards exploding.

Excerpt: "When Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal,” he called the proposition “self-evident.” But he did not mean that it is immediately evident. It requires a certain kind of learning. And indeed most cultures throughout history, and even today, reject the proposition.

At first glance, there is admittedly something absurd about the claim of human equality, when all around us we see dramatic evidence of inequality. People are unequal in height, in weight, in strength, in stamina, in intelligence, in perseverance, in truthfulness, and in about every other quality. But of course Jefferson knew this. He was asserting human equality of a special kind.

Human beings, he was saying, are moral equals, each of whom possesses certain equal rights. They differ in many respects, but each of their lives has a moral worth no greater and no less than that of any other. According to this doctrine, the rights of a Philadelphia street sweeper are the same as those of Jefferson himself.

This idea of the preciousness and equal worth of every human being is largely rooted in Christianity. Christians believe that God places infinite value on every human life. Christian salvation does not attach itself to a person’s family or tribe or city. It is an individual matter. And not only are Christians judged at the end of their lives as individuals, but throughout their lives they relate to God on that basis. This aspect of Christianity had momentous consequences".

The fabulous Peoples Cube on "Did you know if Bush really were Hitler etc?"

Excerpt by Opiate Of the People: "Did you know...that if Pres. George W. Bush really WERE Hitler, most of his political opponents would be dead by now?

...that after almost 50 yrs on this planet, the US Presidency will be Barack Obama's first REAL job?

...that if politicians could run things like the auto industry successfully, the Soviet Union WOULDN'T have collapsed?"


One may be a Leftard if...

Excerpt: "...you can't understand how Kennedy and Johnson wiretapping Martin Luther King and Nixon wiretapping his political enemies are any different from Bush wiretapping terrorists.

...you find nothing wrong with lily-white Bill Clinton being dubbed The First Black President.

...you call Senators Sheets Byrd's stint as a high ranking KKK guy a youthful indiscretion, but will demand the ouster of a minor politician who correctly uses the word "niggardly" in a sentence.

..you believe Harry Belafonte has any discernable purpose on this planet aside from singing a fairly entertaining tune a generation or two ago.

..you don't experience a shrivelling sensation in your trousers when you see or hear Cindy Sheehan.

... you consider John McCain a great maverick moderate when he smacks down President Bush but a racist bomb thrower when he smacks down Kanye West, er.. Barak Obama.
...you consider any criticism of statements by, e.g., Cindy Sheehan, John Kerry, Barbara Boxer, to be an infringement of freedom of speech.

... you think making vile political statements at a funeral as completely appropriate.

...you see no problem with putting writing a letter campaign to an editor for something you classify as "insensitive" on the same level as firebombing the editors house, family, consulate, and or anything else that is readily flammable including the editor themself... so long as those doing the firebombing/letter writing are not Christian or JOOOOS.

...you honestly think that calls for a "lowering of the partisanships" don't actually come from your political side's hugs-and-kisses-let's-get-along department, and that they don't just mean that Rethuglicans should stop whomping your delusions with facts, but only because there's no partisanship in being a reactionary liberal.

...think Brokeback Mountain lacked substance but are afraid to say so out loud because it might be taken as an assault on someone's right not to have their personal life decisions held open for public discourse which might lead to a moment of self-doubt and other negativity.

You feel that expressing your political views is mainstream, but anything contrary to them is a Right-Wing Conspiracy.

... you still claim they are going to 'round us liberals up into camps' even though we are one year into Bush's second term.

...you think dealing with Iraq without France or Germany but with the UK, Australia, Poland, etc. is evil "unilateralism", but dealing with Iran with France, Germany, and the UK is "outsourcing the negotiations".

... you fail to see the irony of publicly and repeatedly exclaiming 'we have no civil liberties any more'.

...you stopped having original ideas circa 1962.

... you exhale/expel greenhouse gases all day long yet would cry foul if someone tried to make you stop.

...you marvel at the brilliance of a fellow Leftard whose complex calculus equation proves 2+2 does not equal 4 and conveniently dismiss the fact no real solution was given as you sneer at the "stupid right" for adhering to conventional mathematical dogma.

...you are rich but have no problem taking other people's money to give to the poor.

...if you believe you are exempt from all liberal dogma you espouse".


How the US Postal Service has, and I kid you not, issued an Islamic stamp celebrating the Festival Eid. No, really. Are they insane or just plain fucking stupid?

And just like "The Id" on Forbidden Planet...Islam and our own elites will kill us all.

The following is quoting US Postal Regulations on how our military must conform to ISLAM. No, really. You know, the great men and women who protect EVERYTHING we have?

"E2. Any matter containing religious materials contrary to Islamic faith or depicting nude or semi-nude persons, pornographic or sexual items, or non-authorized political materials is prohibited.

R. All alcoholic beverages, including those mailable under DMM C021, are prohibited.

R1. Materials used in the production of alcoholic beverages (i.e., distilling material, hops, malts, yeast, etc.) are prohibited".


Great as per usual Mark Steyn piece April 2008 on neutered Euro weenies and their near total lack of Guns, God, Balls and freedom:

“In the other G7 developed nations, nobody clings to God 'n' guns. The guns got taken away, and the Europeans gave up on churchgoing once they embraced Big Government as the new religion.

How's that working out? Compared with America, France and Germany have been more or less economically stagnant for the past quarter-century, living permanently with unemployment rates significantly higher than in the United States”.

Commenter kydasylvester wrote:

"I'm afraid when complacent liberal Democrats look across the ocean, they do see Eutopia, one they envy and would import here (and then put on steroids).

Not only does the Second Amendment (praise God) help us remain "assertive, self-reliant citizens", it has from time to time in our history helped prevent foreign invasion. To paraphrase Gorbachev when asked if the former USSR ever had a plan to invade the US: 'No, to invade the United States would be folly. Why? Because your moronic muppets and parochial simpletons are armed".

Geek names junior after Adolf Hitler and is then allegedly puzzled at the ensuing fuhrer.

End the culture wars by restoring classical values. Sounds good to me. "Oh Plato! Here boy!" Mickey Mouse.

Quote from Classical Values:

"The “Boys are yucky!” creeps. “The growing neuter movement. As I observed, liking the government and hating masculinity seem to go hand in hand for such types: I think what's important about Sidney is that he is, literally and metaphorically speaking, a neutered boy -- the equivalent of a eunuch.

Not gay, not a sissy, or anything like that, but a pliant, obedient, well-behaved lover of authority who does as he's told, runs to the authorities for protection, undermines the accomplishments of others, and thwarts those with free will and stubborn independence. (And who in all probability would think sex is icky.)

And if you're for freedom and independence, and into not needing authority, you're now likely to be accused of hypermasculinism!”

Via Men and Style, Right wing men have balls, Left Liberal men have only apologies. Naturally. Liberalism castrates male individuals by default and makes women as sexy as er, the US Postal Regulations.

Some sooooo disappointing, beyond belief ignorant and deluded George Bush quotes on how great er, ISLAM is! Man, it sure spoils some of the truly great speeches he has made. Well, George has killed a lot of terrorists. Ah, dead Islamist freaks. A real crowd pleaser.

Dig how former George Bush Under-Secretary of State Karen Hughes was and is a massively incompetent and lazy dhimmi boob. Plus Esposito the treasonous bullshit artist for Islam.

Stay home Karen Hughes.

Slate Magazine on Karen give a Hughes hug for Muslim killers.

Jihad Watch on "Karen Hughes, [former Bush Presidency Republican Under-secretary of State!] gives millions to Muslim terrorists orgs.

The North Virginia-based IIHT “is suspected of being a pivotal cog in the Muslim Brotherhood’s high command in America," according to federal law enforcement records newly released to Emerson’s Investigative Project on Terrorism under the Freedom of Information Act...

The IIIT was named as an allied group in the infamous Muslim Brotherhood memorandum of 1991 that emphasized that the Brothers “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”

Mark Steyn on CHRC says Infidels not a protected category.

Details and quotes of Montreal Saudi trained Muslim loon Imam. Is there another kind? Nope. Ah, the rich tapestry of multicultism.

Newdefender on never underestimate how stupid a Jihadist Muslim is.

Newdefender on never underestimate how stupid a Western dhimmi is.

Via a fantastically parody-like er, "womyns" blog called er, breast not bombs!, [this is a choice, right?] one can get a handle on the rice pudding-like mind of the average affluent and thus Socialist Code Pink Leftard hag. My satirical letter goes unnoticed.

Quote from boobs for boobs blog: "They are enormous, yes. It feels like I am carrying the sorrow of the world right under my nose. I wonder if so much of the breast cancer we are seeing is the unexpressed grief of this world. I dream of weeping, bare breasted with a million other women on the White House Lawn. I long for a world wide weep".

Good grief.

Colonel Neville's pointless letter: "Dear Sports, one of the best parodies of the 'Uni Grad Womens Studies Group' etc, mind set ever. You've really got the crazy, complicated, junk rhetoric down! There's a lot of laughs here even if a little turgid to read, but I understand you're doing it 'in the style'.

I was thinking what Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, or Monty Python might do with this theme. Do you have any other satire you have done? Keep up the middle class WASP women take offs too. Excellent.

All the best."



The Amboy Times on how the Arab "News" reports a murdering Muslim as merely another Muslim “victim”. Plus on the right hand side columm at Amboy, there's a list of things that offend Muslims. For example, everything and nothing. Muslims being the most offended people on the planet an' all, as total losers often are by anyone natually superior to them, like the Jews, the free West and Pago Pago.

Hey, hey! It’s me on the great Brigitte Gabriel’s site over at American Congress for Truth!

Article at McGill Tribune on Mark Steyn and how multiculti PC'ism largely sucks shit. With my swingin’ comment and a reaction or two etc.

Largely incoherent and bog-standard PC Leftard gay response to another of the Pope's oddly consistently half-correct and half-addled pronouncements. How does his Holiness end up so simultaneously precise and so totally off the mark? It's the semi-PC dope Pope!

Mark Steyn on the endless and relentless downhill tragedy of British cultural and security surrender monkeyism sans cheese good eating via Timesonline.

Excerpts: "Times Of London by Tory Minister Portillo. Britain has lost the stomach to fight. We should reflect on what sort of country we have become. We may enjoy patronising Americans but they demonstrate a fibre that we now lack.

If a fair-minded account of the Iraq war is written, credit should go to President Bush for rejecting two years ago the report by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group that called for force reductions. He defied conventional wisdom and ordered a troop surge instead. It has been an extraordinary success and, unlike Britain, the Americans will not withdraw in defeat.

During debates in Washington, British forces’ ignominious withdrawal to barracks was cited to argue that the United States could not contemplate being humbled in a similar way. In the end Bush was not a quitter. Blair “cut and ran”. The fundamental cause of the British failure was political.

Tony Blair wanted to join the United States in its toppling of Saddam Hussein because if Britain does not back America it is hard to know what our role in the world is: certainly not a seat at the top table. But, for all his persuasiveness, Blair could not hold public opinion over the medium term and so he cut troop numbers fast and sought to avoid casualties. As a result, British forces lost control of Basra and left the population at the mercy of fundamentalist thugs and warring militias, in particular Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army.

The secondary cause of failure was a misplaced British disdain for America, shared by our politicians and senior military. In the early days in Iraq we bragged that our forces could deploy in berets and soft-sided vehicles while US forces roared through Baghdad in heavily armoured convoys. British leaders sneered at the Americans’ failure to win hearts and minds because of their lack of experience in counterinsurgency.

Pride has certainly come before a fall. British commanders underestimated both the enemy’s effectiveness and the Americans’ ability to adapt. Some apparently failed even to observe how much had changed. At a meeting in August 2007 an American described Major-General Jonathan Shaw, then British commander, as “insufferable”, lecturing everyone in the room about lessons learnt in Northern Ireland, which apparently set eyeballs rolling: “It would be okay if he was best in class, but now he’s worst in class.”

Colonel Neville: Do the British Government actually have a date finalised for their total Socialist and Islamist collapse? Early next year or now?

Anne Coulter with a super piece on the startlingly honest, non-phony and down to earth working class success story of feminism in action, of Sarah Palin. The ex-Mayor, the Alaskan Governor, the serious corruption fighter, the oil project negotiator, fishing industry facilitator, the very successful Christian Mother of five and great wife, with a strong supportive husband and other real world experience with actual RESULTS and ACHIEVEMENTS, and thus to the Left Liberal and MSM, a perfect target for their insane control freak elitist fraud, bigotry and stratospheric misogyny. Yep, Palin could be sooo much better, and she is. Than Obama.

Anne excerpt: “Pre-Palin it had been one race -- boring old “You kids get off my lawn!” John McCain versus the exciting, new politician Barack Obama, who threw caution to the wind and bravely ran as the Pro-Hope candidate. And then our heroic Sarah bounded out of the Alaska tundra and it became a completely different race. This left the press completely discombobulated and upset. They didn't know whether to attack Sarah for not having an abortion or go after her husband for not being a sissy.

Having indignantly rejected experience as a presidential qualification in the case of Obama, liberals had to raise questions about Palin’s experience gingerly. But, in short order, they threw caution to the wind and began energetically criticizing Palin for her lack of experience. I call that two … two … two standards in one!

Like most Democrats, both Obama and Biden boasted of their humble beginnings, while having fully adopted the attitudes, pomposity and style of the elites.
Palin had a husband in the Steelworkers Union, a sister and brother-in-law who owned a gas station, and five attractive children -- one headed for Iraq, one a Down’s syndrome baby and one the cutest little girl anyone had ever seen.

In a nutshell, Palin was everything Democrats are always pretending to be, but never are. Palin was a kick in the pants, she energized conservatives, and she made liberal heads explode. Palin’s refusal to meet with the press for one week after being chosen as McCain’s running mate was evidently more maddening than Obama's refusal to appear on Fox News for almost the entirety of his campaign.

Everyone acted as if Obama’s feat of running for President for two years constituted a complete and thorough vetting.

It might have been, except that the entire media had apparently agreed: “OK, none of us will ask Obama about Tony Rezko, William Ayers, and Jeremiah Wright.”

Hillary was hissed by the audience for mentioning Rezko at a Democratic debate and George Stephanopoulos nearly lost his career for asking Obama one William Ayers question at another.

Osama bin Laden was more upset about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright than liberals were -- especially after "Jeremiah Wright videos" passed "al Qaeda videos" for most total viewings on Youtube. (He was kicking himself for not coming up with that “God Damn America” line first!)”


Idiot quote on his personal God Obama by Liberal idiot Jesse Ferreras:

"Barack Obama. How rare it is when a good news story takes the number one spot. A euphoria reminiscent of Victory in Europe day gripped the world when Obama was elected the first black president of the United States. It was a symbolic move that showed, among other things, that race is no longer a barrier to leading the world’s most powerful country. He’s got a heck of a task ahead of him, what with a faltering economy and lofty expectations for what he can do to fix it. Vague promises of change need to see some action right about now.” Jesse Ferreras, asshat.

Mark Steyn on how Obama has appointed a highly qualified Liberal envirofreak Science Chief.

The peculiarly down to earth Madsophist on how sadly, most self-defence for women is usually a tragic fraud. The best self defence for women after physical, mental and moral fitness, is available from Smith & Wesson. You go girls! To the firing range. The best way to stop entirely the aim of violent criminals is to improve the aim of women.

"I am the great equaliser". Old West Colt[?] Firearms slogan.