September 30, 2007
Iowahawk!
He's running another tribute to the Academy, right over
here.
Questioner
Hi, I'm Josh Markin of the ESU Progressive Student Alliance, and I'd just like to say that as a campus activist for peace and justice, that I am totally down with how you have stood up against the fascist neo-Jew GPA thugs at A E Pi, and their plans for busting every grade curve on this campus.
Gromulak
Moje vznášadlo je plné úhorov Gromulak! Pun jegulja loma-là n!
Interpreter
These words please Gromulak! Continue your tribute, Hu-Man!
And so much for those who go to a maximum security prison and attempt to reason with the other inmates. Nice thought; sloppy execution. Um—so to speak.
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September 12, 2007
And You Thought the Rightosphere Was Provincial!
Ace-the-Lush
linked my entry of the other day, expounding on the "Osama La la la la la" theme, and added:
They [the whackjob lefties and the Islamofascists] are not united in ultimate goals, but do share a belief that the current regime must be destroyed or at least greatly diminished by one way or another before the New Utopia can come. They don't quite agree on that New Utopia, of course, and whether or not gays should be praised for their specialness and courage or stoned to death for their perverse blasphemy, but they do know who stands in the way of either of those glorious outcomes, and to that extent, they have a shared enemy.
Which brings to mind, of course, the Beautiful Atrocities line, directed at other friends-of-Dorothy's, about how if the Islamofascists win, "you will be giving head—and not in the good way."
UPDATE: Fine. "Provincial" may not quite be the right word for it. But I really dig linking to someone's link to me. Remember Martin Gardner's commentary on the Red King's dream in The Annotated Alice? It was, he said (IIRC) like "a hall of mirrors," what with the Red King dreaming about Alice, who was in turn dreaming about him.
So we're either provincial, or mathematically interesting.
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"They don't quite agree on that New Utopia, of course, and whether or not gays should be praised for their specialness and courage or stoned to death for their perverse blasphemy, but they do know who stands in the way of either of those glorious outcomes..."
So in other words, the American Right is moderate on gay rights.
Posted by: John at September 13, 2007 12:03 PM (fhClB)
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Moderation in all things.
Posted by: Darrell at September 13, 2007 08:00 PM (Ai1Rx)
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If there's one thing the "American Right" isn't unified on, it's gay rights.
It's no secret that I don't generally see eye-to-eye with those who throw the phrase "gay agenda" around--much as I love that phrase, because there isn't one gay agenda, but rather a nearly infinte number: the pink calendar book adorned with rhinestones, and the plain lavendar one with sensible black trim, and the executive-style brown one carried by hale-and-hearty athletic guys whom you might never think were gay until you met their partners, and the cool one made from recycle tires.
This is one of those things Ann Coulter got right: "gays want the same thing the rest of us do: lower taxes."
But Ace's point--and you know this, John--is that, as Mark Steyn once put it, combatting Islamofascism "
should be the left's issue."
There's some irony that a lot of the true liberals in society today are right-of-center on a handful of key issues.
Posted by: Attila Girl at September 14, 2007 08:53 AM (bIZMS)
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Yeah, combatting something as openly fascistic as militant Islam should be a high-priority item for the left, but the left has been preoccupied with gaining power for about as long as you and I have been alive (I'm 42). If not longer.
The Republicans have been unified by moral issues--it's how the GOP got started--but they get fragmented too easily, and too easily spooked by the MSM.
Posted by: John at September 14, 2007 06:23 PM (HhdY3)
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The Left formed an alliance with militant Islam. LGF used to have the pre- and post-9/11 links--mutual letters of cooperation on their respective foreign websites. Islam got the power of a sympathetic press and "grassroots" protesting. The Left got, what else, money. It was funny because there was mutual sniping in those very first letters.
The Left sees militant Islam as the cannon fodder for their world domination schemes. They point out that the old Soviet plan with secular State schools did a good job of keeping them at bay when the Soviets had a free hand. The Left believes it will make any problems go away in the darkness of uncovered news stories. It's nice to control the Press.
The militants, by the way, remember what happened. They see the Left as their useful idiots.
Posted by: Darrell at September 15, 2007 11:24 AM (M/vOT)
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The Left formed an alliance with militant Islam. LGF used to have the pre- and post-9/11 links--mutual letters of cooperation on their respective foreign websites. Islam got the power of a sympathetic press and "grassroots" protesting. The Left got, what else, Arab money. It was funny because there was mutual sniping in those very first letters.
The Left sees militant Islam as the cannon fodder for their world domination schemes. They point out that the old Soviet plan with secular State schools did a good job of keeping them at bay when the Soviets had a free hand. The Left believes it will make any problems go away in the darkness of uncovered news stories. It's nice to control the Press.
The militants, by the way, remember what happened. They see the Left as their useful idiots.
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There was a temporary comment suspension and when it ended, both appeared. Sorry. You can delete one, if you please.
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September 11, 2007
James Taranto on "Osama bin La la la la la"
In
Best of the Web:
It seems both fair and accurate to note that there is a confluence of interests between bin Laden and those Americans who seek defeat in Iraq. It is little wonder that this is an embarrassment to the latter. But it would be unfair and inaccurate to suggest that this is anything more than a de facto tactical alliance. The Angry Left wants America to lose in Iraq for its own ideological and partisan purposes, which have little to do with the establishment of a global caliphate.
So what are we to make of bin Laden's striking a pose as a global warmist who hates capitalism? Here's a theory: Slate reports that by one estimate 10% of al Qaeda's "soldiers in the global jihad" are converts to radical Islamism, a religion/ideology that, as Slate puts it, "has become a magnet for some of the world's angriest people."
Blogger Roger L. Simon speculates that "the true author (or scriptwriter) of the tape" is Adam Gadahn, né Pearlman, an American-born "spokesman" for al Qaeda who, as The New Yorker reported earlier this year, had a decidedly countercultural upbringingmdash;raised by hippie parents who converted to Christianity and lived on an isolated farm raising goats. A "shy, bookish" boy who rebelled against his parents' faith, Gadahn immersed himself in the world of satanic "death metal" before converting to Islam.
The bin Laden tape evinces a familiarity with, but a lack of sophistication about, America's political cultur—just what you'd expect from the sort of alienated and immature weirdo Gadahn seems to have been. In particular, it seems not to have occurred to the makers of the tape that hardly any Americans, including bitter foes of the president, would actually want to be associated with al Qaeda. Bin Laden has succeeded here only in embarrassing his putative allies, and perhaps in somewhat diminishing their effectiveness at a crucial political moment for the future of Iraq.
But wait!—Taranto also has some interesting comments on the sticky wicket some of the anti-war crowd is in. If their major commentary on bin Laden's video appears to be that we shouldn't pay any attention to what it says, the question becomes, "why?" Well, it's like reading Mein Kampf in the original, Taranto implies. Or (it occurs to me) actually getting impartial translators to divulge the contents of Palestinian schoolkids' textbooks.
You know: because it's there.
So read the whole thing.
Via Insty, but all he has is a dumb link. I provided "added value." So there.
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It is a sticky widget. We shouldn't worry about OBL, but then they have their meme "why didn't we get him?"
Just proof that they will say anything at any time, no matter how silly, to defame America and try and get political power for powers sake.
Posted by: William Teach at September 11, 2007 05:42 AM (NaHh8)
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The Left never were sticklers about consistency.
On another subject---
"On the evening of the 24th I spoke with a local Iraqi official, Colonel Faik, who said the Muftis would order the severance of the two fingers used to hold a cigarette for any Iraqis caught smoking. Other reports, from here in Diyala and also in Anbar, allege that smokers are murdered by AQI. Most Iraqis smoke and this particular prohibition appeared to have earned the ire of many locals. After an American unit cleared an apartment complex on the 23rd, LTC Smiley, the battalion commander, reported that residents didn't ask for food and water, but cigarettes. In other parts of Baqubah, people have been celebrating the routing of AQI by lighting up and smoking cigarettes."
Michael Yon. http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/drilling-for-justice.htm
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