This is atrocious: SINGAPORE — Baseball and softball were tossed out of the Olympics for the 2012 London Games on Friday. The action by the International Olympic Committee marked the first time it had dropped any sports from the Summer Games in 69 years. The committee then rejected the five sports wanting to get in. … Continue reading “Olympic Scandal”
SINGAPORE — Baseball and softball were tossed out of the Olympics for the 2012 London Games on Friday.
The action by the International Olympic Committee marked the first time it had dropped any sports from the Summer Games in 69 years. The committee then rejected the five sports wanting to get in.
Ribbon and ball stay in, of course.
The right is nutty about the new-fangled creationism called “Intelligent Design.” This is because religious people, some of them nuts, are an important part of the coalition, and nobody wants to offend them. So The New Republic did a survey, with some glee, exposing he creationism “wedge issue” for the entertainment of the left. This … Continue reading “A lovely ass-whipping”
The right is nutty about the new-fangled creationism called “Intelligent Design.” This is because religious people, some of them nuts, are an important part of the coalition, and nobody wants to offend them. So The New Republic did a survey, with some glee, exposing he creationism “wedge issue” for the entertainment of the left. This is fair game, because the whole creationist side is nutty. But turnabout is also fair play, so Todd Zywicki played a similar game with Evolutionary Psychology that made the knee-jerk left cry “foul,” mainly in the person P. Z. Myers, the idiot savant biologist who’s trapped firmly in the intellectual straight-jacket of radical feminism that will admit that no difference between men and women can be anything but the product of patriarchal oppression.
Here’s a bit from Zywicki:
As a policy question, there is one difference between religiously-motivated science on the left and the right may or may not be relevant. This is that the right’s program is to add new (dubious) ideas to the educational system (i.e., add intelligent design to the teaching of evolutionary theory) whereas the left’s goal is to censor and exclude investigation of certain (potentially explanatory) scientific hypotheses from the educational system. As a policy question, my sense is that most people ascribe to something like a “free marketplace of ideas” conceptualization of education, meaning that they would prefer to err on the side of including erroneous ideas if they are also countered by better ideas, rather than the exclusion of potentially true ideas. I personally would have no problem with excluding ID and including EP, but then I think that these investigations should be questions of science, not religion.
And a lame attempt at rejoinder from the Rainman, Myers:
And what a silly question! “Are there biological differences between the sexes?” I do agree that if any liberal pundit says no, he or she is as much an idiot as those conservatives who claim evolution didn’t occur. As for evolutionary psychology, I’m a biologist, and I’m in the camp that says it’s a load of poorly done hokum, so I’ll forgive Paul Krugman if he should think EP is junk; I’ll be less pleased if he says he agrees with it, but since EP does have many proponents in academe and is taught at places like Harvard, I’ll just have to roll my eyes and be understanding.
I love this sort of thing.
In The Mirror, Mr. Hitchens explains the bombings so clearly even a Maoist can understand: I remember living in London through the Provisional IRA bombing in the 70s. I saw the very first car-bomb explode against the Old Bailey in 1972. There was no warning that time, but after a while a certain etiquette developed. … Continue reading “Excellent analysis”
In The Mirror, Mr. Hitchens explains the bombings so clearly even a Maoist can understand:
I remember living in London through the Provisional IRA bombing in the 70s. I saw the very first car-bomb explode against the Old Bailey in 1972. There was no warning that time, but after a while a certain etiquette developed.
And, even as I detested the people who might have just as soon have blown me up as anyone else, I was aware there were ancient disputes involved, and that there was a potential political solution.
Nothing of the sort applies in this case. We know very well what the “grievances” of the jihadists are.
The grievance of seeing unveiled women. The grievance of the existence, not of the State of Israel, but of the Jewish people. The grievance of the heresy of democracy, which impedes the imposition of sharia law. The grievance of a work of fiction written by an Indian living in London. The grievance of the existence of black African Muslim farmers, who won’t abandon lands in Darfur. The grievance of the existence of homosexuals. The grievance of music, and of most representational art. The grievance of the existence of Hinduism. The grievance of East Timor’s liberation from Indonesian rule. All of these have been proclaimed as a licence to kill infidels or apostates, or anyone who just gets in the way.
FOR a few moments yesterday, Londoners received a taste of what life is like for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, whose Muslim faith does not protect them from slaughter at the hands of those who think they are not Muslim enough, or are the wrong Muslim.
It is a big mistake to believe this is an assault on “our” values or “our” way of life. It is, rather, an assault on all civilisation. I know perfectly well there are people thinking, and even saying, that Tony Blair brought this upon us by his alliance with George Bush.
A word of advice to them: try and keep it down, will you? Or wait at least until the funerals are over. And beware of the non-sequitur: you can be as opposed to the Iraq operation as much as you like, but you can’t get from that “grievance” to the detonating of explosives at rush hour on London buses and tubes.
Don’t even try to connect the two. By George Galloway’s logic, British squaddies in Iraq are the root cause of dead bodies at home. How can anyone bear to be so wicked and stupid? How can anyone bear to act as a megaphone for psychotic killers?
There’s nothing much to add to this.
It seems that the lovable peacenik moonbat Justin Raimondo has trotted-out the old Jew-hater’s canard in relation to London. Jeff Goldstein and John Cole put him in his place.
It seems that the lovable peacenik moonbat Justin Raimondo has trotted-out the old Jew-hater’s canard in relation to London. Jeff Goldstein and John Cole put him in his place.
Speaking of the evil Mao and his clueless minions, Marc Cooper reminds us of the stakes: The savage bombings in the London underground are a stark and bloody reminder that, alas, we live in a complicated world in which civilization is threatened on many fronts. How nice it would be to inhabit a more simplistic … Continue reading “Of Maoists and murderers”
Speaking of the evil Mao and his clueless minions, Marc Cooper reminds us of the stakes:
The savage bombings in the London underground are a stark and bloody reminder that, alas, we live in a complicated world in which civilization is threatened on many fronts. How nice it would be to inhabit a more simplistic bi-polar fantasy, say, of the Maoist bent. It was the Great Helmsman himself who harrumphed that “The primary contradiction is between U.S. imperialism and and all the worlds’ peoples.”
Chairman Mao conveniently forgot all those other “secondary” contradictions. You know, like the one between his totalitarian state and the 17 million people it killed. Or the one between the Russians and the Chinese. The Vietnamese and the Chinese. The Vietnamese and the Cambodians. Rich versus poor. White versus black. Hutus against Tutsis. The sacred against the profane. The religious fanatics versus secular democracy.
Which brings us back full circle to the savagery in London. It was bad enough listening to the reports of the bombings themselves. That pain was aggravated by the politicization of the events. From the Idiot Right were the numbskulls arguing over Shock Radio that the bombings somehow justified the war in Iraq. From the Idiot Left came Janeane Garfolo’s shriekings over Air America that somehow these bombings could be traced back to the Bush administration’s supposed countenance of terrorism.
Pathetic, really. Whatever one thinks of Bush (and I hold him in very low esteem) the London bombers are monsters who are fully responsible for their butchery. Period.
And Marc suggests a look at the Norm Geras inventory of terrorist attacks as well.
And speaking of Maoism, its essence is the creation of a “new man” by means of coercion from the level of politics down to genetics:
When Mao Zedong set forth his designs for China’s Great Leap Forward into communist modernity, he described the Chinese people as “poor and blank.” “On blank sheets of paper,” he declared, “free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful characters can be written, the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted.” Possessed by the totalitarian dream of human nature as his open canvas, Mao thought a new sort of man could be written into being, that Marxist progress was an inevitable fact of China’s destiny, and that brutal means of creating the new society would be justified.
In the quest for the New Man, the end justifies any means, including mass murder. What a sick bastard Mao was.
The one thing that needs to be said about the 7/7 attackers is that they’re simply savage barbarians, operating completely outside any reasonable concept of human civilization. Those of us who live under the umbrella of civilization and the rational approach to life have to stand together in opposition to them, regardless of our politics.
The one thing that needs to be said about the 7/7 attackers is that they’re simply savage barbarians, operating completely outside any reasonable concept of human civilization. Those of us who live under the umbrella of civilization and the rational approach to life have to stand together in opposition to them, regardless of our politics.
Northeast Intelligence Network reports: 7 July 2005; 12:54 ET: Preliminary reports from a source inside the Pentagon indicate that one of the operatives involved in this morning’s bombings in London was recently released from the prison at Guantanamo. DEVELOPING… I hope he wasn’t mistreated.
Northeast Intelligence Network reports:
7 July 2005; 12:54 ET: Preliminary reports from a source inside the Pentagon indicate that one of the operatives involved in this morning’s bombings in London was recently released from the prison at Guantanamo. DEVELOPING…
I hope he wasn’t mistreated.
Glib & Superficial and Orin Kerr note rumors of a Rehnquist resignation tomorrow.
Glib & Superficial and Orin Kerr note rumors of a Rehnquist resignation tomorrow.
This is worth reading and taking to heart: It’s through terrorism that the people that have committed this terrible act express their values and it’s right at this moment that we demonstrate ours. I think we all know what they are trying to do, they are trying to use the slaughter of innocent people to … Continue reading “PM’s statement”
This is worth reading and taking to heart:
It’s through terrorism that the people that have committed this terrible act express their values and it’s right at this moment that we demonstrate ours.
I think we all know what they are trying to do, they are trying to use the slaughter of innocent people to cow us, to frighten us out of doing the things we want to do, of trying to stop us going about our business as normal as we are entitled to do and they should not and must not succeed.
When they try to intimidate us, we will not be intimidated, when they seek to change our country, our way of life by these methods, we will not be changed. When they try to divide our people or weaken our resolve, we will not be divided and our resolve will hold firm.
We will show by our spirit and dignity and by a quiet and true strength that there is in the British people, that our values will long outlast theirs. The purpose of terrorism is just that, it is to terrorise people and we will not be terrorised.
I would like once again to express my sympathy and sorrow for those families that will be grieving so unexpectedly and tragically tonight. This is a very sad day for the British people but we will hold true to the British way of life.
We’re all Britons today.
Every time a terrorist group explodes a bomb, we see the same range of reactions: rational, sane people commiserate with the victims of the attack and their families, cutting through the confusion and getting to the essentials. When the smoke clears, they connect the dots with similar attacks and resolve to fight even harder against … Continue reading “The 24-hour Moonbat Rule”
Every time a terrorist group explodes a bomb, we see the same range of reactions: rational, sane people commiserate with the victims of the attack and their families, cutting through the confusion and getting to the essentials. When the smoke clears, they connect the dots with similar attacks and resolve to fight even harder against the terrorists.
And then you have your moonbats who go “see – this proves the hobby horse I’m riding is going in the right direction!” somewhere toward Appeasementville, Chimpy McBushitlerburton-bashing-ville, or off on some bizarre tangent that intersects with Internet triumphalism or Sinn Fein triumphalism or politically correct triumphalism or whatever.
Moonbats, the next time you have a chance to embarrass yourself, why not wait 24 hours or so for your head to clear before showing the world what a nutter you are? You’ll be glad you did.
UPDATE: For a good case study in what happens to those who violate the 24 hour moonbat rule, see the total destruction of “DarkSyde” by rational people. (Q: Why do these lunatics always go by pseudonyms?)
