The Way We Are Now Goes On
"Forward, gentlemen, and show them the bayonet." —Stonewall Jackson, born January 21, 1824
It may be that automobile workers are not very good workers, as some assert. But they are a whole lot better at being workers than the automobile industry executives are at being executives.
Parts of the Posse Comitatus Act have been repealed, and Obama wants a domestic military force. This time you Yankees are going to see what "Reconstruction" is like.
It is true that Obama is an empty suit, but a majority of the electorate seems to like the colour and cut of the suit.
The California government is in bad trouble. As usual, the prodigal son wants to be bailed out by the responsible brothers. Except this prodigal son wants to continue his lavish lifestyle. It is suggested that California solve its problems by dividing into five states. As usual, the suggestion is selfish and very short-sighted. I am perfectly willing to see California independent or joining Mexico. It would be a great boon to the United States to get rid of it. But we don't need eight more Pelosis and Boxers in the Senate to outvote the dwindling decent states.
I have figured out how to save the economy! Instead of just a stingy policy of voting money to bankers, stockjobbers, automobile moguls, bureaucrats, and favoured contractors, Congress should vote money for everybody! I don't know about you, but I could use a little "economic stimulus" myself.
Are you waiting for American leftists to apologise for the shambles they made in destroying Rhodesia? Don't hold your breath.
Given the hard times, the great Change Agent Obama might have opted for a simple and inexpensive inauguration and given the money to the poor. The inauguration circus is a relatively new phenomenon and a travesty of democracy.
But after all, all's right with the world. Jorge Bush assures us that everything he has done was for the good of the country. He did not mention which country.
Theodore Dalrymple, on the British education system today. It applies just as well to the U.S.: "A perverse ideology reigns, in which truth and probity play no part."
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"I have figured out how to save the economy! Instead of just a stingy policy of voting money to bankers, stockjobbers, automobile moguls, bureaucrats, and favoured contractors, Congress should vote money for everybody! I don’t know about you, but I could use a little “economic stimulus” myself."
If the agents of the general government would merely allow me to keep the money which they are going to take from me in the form of income tax for the year 2008, I would be happy; and, I would not be stealing from other taxpayers by accepting their "economic stimulus."
Of course, I am aware that the general government has so framed the argument such that for me to keep what I have earned and saved is called and labeled "stealing from the people," an abstract mass which apparently holds all things in collective ownership with another abstraction, the state, embodied in faceless bureacratics, collecting the tithe on behalf of the abstract mass, otherwise, known as "the peoople."
Dr. Wilson,
I very much enjoy your insightful barbs. You always mangage to crystallize in a very few words the myriad aggravations in our present world I find difficulty expressing coherently, let alone concisely. Would that you were far off base, but you know you are not. Sigh. At least I can console myself that a man of your learning and eloquence is a kindred spirit.
Three cheers and no apologies for Rhodesia! When the monster Mugabe goes home to Satan,and some reasonable government hopefully emerges from the rubble,it is a bet that they will beg the white farmers to come back.Or they can continue to starve,rot and die.
I think Leo is right, but I doubt that the farmers will return. Even if they wanted to, they are getting older now, and I doubt if their children, many having grown up or been born in exile, would know how to farm. The lost tribe of the Anglo-Saxon race is beginning to fade away.
Three cheers for Ian Smith, one of the greatest men of the 20th century!
Obama's billion dollar election financeers have a vested interest in keeping the UST bills rate about 0% for now, so America will go on a diet.
Begging your pardon, but Pelosi is speaker of the House; the other California senator is Feinstein.
It's 70 degrees F as I write at noon in Huntington Beach, down from the 80s of recent days, so those of you in the Global Cooling States ought to subsidize us to pay for our extravagantly wasteful government. Otherwise we'll cut off your movies and TV.
John Seiler @ 8
"Otherwise we’ll cut off your movies and TV."
So, that's a threat?
"Are you waiting for American leftists to apologise for the shambles they made in destroying Rhodesia?"
They won't apologize, because they are quite pleased with their handiwork. The cultural left is never happier than when a cohesive white, Western community is destroyed and replaced with non-Western disorder and barbarism.
In 1939, north Africa was on its way to becoming a re-Latinized littoral for the first time since the seventh century. The Italians were vigorously settling into Libya, and the French and the Spanish were slowly growing as a presence in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. Another fifty years, and there would have been new European nations there.
If you don't like what's happening in Rhodesia (the betrayal of a fledgling white community by a British government controlled by left-liberal thinking), then you should also mourn those aborted Western nations that a suicidal World War II killed in the womb. Who's to blame for that atrocity?
Excellent point Joe.All too many dunderheads hereabouts fail ,or simply refuse,to see the parallel.
To Mr. Seiler @ 8,
First, I have cut off movies and tv at my end. Second, we do subsidize you Californians, and massively. Where do you suppose the water for your orange groves and golf courses comes from? And a quick glance at your state map will reveal all sorts of DOD installations, paid for in the main by non-Californians. I encourage you to re-hoist the Bear Flag.
There is no way I can bother the entire (2 or 3) intelligent members of the overall audience with the definition of the verb “to irk” – but it basically stands for “to annoy”.
If there is anything that annoys me it starts with our sellout media. Even the Southern based CNN (sell out Ted Turner) devotes a majority of their programming to many freshly baked intellectuals from the Afro-American ethnic background.
Could it be that all of a sudden the black thinkers grew popular, grew a brain or just became fashionable because our new president is non-white.
It would lead to a very tragic parallel if I were to compare the acts of Abraham Lincoln (one of the very worst presidents we ever had) to the Obama Linconlalization of the luncheon held in honor of the newly elected president to many other miscarriages of the Linconian ilk. Let’s stop there.
The key question is this: How and why is it that every black (half-baked) thinker is now getting a ton of airtime on all of our media. Is the entire media mesmerized, or gone to sleep, or is it only servile? Either answer would be a disaster for the life as we know it in these United States. I surely hope it’s just a fad that will fritter into oblivion within a few days or few weeks.
All of the above irks me quite a bit.
Sorry, I forgot one of my favorite passages from Hamlet:
"Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven
Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!
My father!--methinks I see my father."
Mr Salemi, what you have said about North Africa is very interesting, but my knowledge of that region is mainly Roman era in scope. Where could one find more information on this?
Are you waiting for American leftists to apologise for the shambles they made in destroying Rhodesia? Don’t hold your breath.
In 1985 talk radio host Marlon Maddoux said Rhodesia would be "one man one vote one time." I heard it on AM radio, but television was too busy denouncing apartheid in Africa while ignoring the 40 white families that control Mexico, or the 12 Euro families that control Bolivia.
Around the same time a black fellow named Eddie Baker wrote an article in a free Washington tabloid about his overland trip from Dakar Senegal to Cape Town in 1986. His conclusion was that Rhodesia and South Africa were the only two decent countries on the entire continent. He was continually asked to which tribe he belonged. Explaining that he was an American was to invite a prod in the ribs from the muzzle of a rifle. I doubt Mr. Baker would care to repeat that trip in 2009.
"I am perfectly willing to see California independent or joining Mexico. It would be a great boon to the United States to get rid of it."
Stay strong my brother!
Allen Wilson @ 15
For Libya, see Helen Chapin Metz's book "Libya; A Country Study." In it she writes "...by 1940 there were approximately 110,000 Italians in Libya, constituting approximately twelve percent of the total population. Plans envisioned an Italian colony of 500,00 by the 1960s."
In addition, the Italians had built roads and other infrastructure, planted olive groves and vines, and established Italian peasant farmers in villages.
In 1970 all these Italians were expelled summarily by that stinking little scumbag Qaddafi. And Libya has sunk back into the squalid Third World cesspool from which Italy had attempted to rescue it.
I once read that had there been no Arab conquest, North Africa would have been culturally and historically allied with Western Europe since it was Catholic and highly Romanised. I would agree with this. It wouldn't have been so much European since these were Berber lands, but it would certainly have been part of the West.
Even after the Muslim conquest, Berbers resisted the Muslim invaders on and off for around 700 years, longer than anyone else but the Byzantines and Spaniards. It's too bad they weren't successful, and worse that they eventually converted to that cult instead of holding true to the faith and eventually expelling the invaders like the Spaniards did (even worse that they invaded Spain themselves).
I would rather have seen historic Christian Berber countries develop in North Africa after Roman times, but Europeanisation would have been far better than what exists now.
I once read part of a series of articles on the bush war Rhodesia published in 1982 or 1983 in Gung Ho magazine, written by an American who had served in the Rhodesian army. It was an eye opener. I wish I could find that series of articles now.
Rhodesia could be used as a case study in leftist sabotage, backstabbing, treason to the West, and propaganda war.
"I once read that had there been no Arab conquest, North Africa would have been culturally and historically allied with Western Europe since it was Catholic and highly Romanised."
I agree with this statement of yours. Peoples like the Egyptians and Lebanese and Syrians were not Arabs lost their culture to Arabs and speak Arabic and have lost their language to Arabic and now consider themselves Arabic. The only exception are the Iranians in the Middle East who because of Fardusi still speak Farsi and not Arabic--hence, also the fact that these people have a cultural memory.
My Iranian friends laugh at the so called "Islamic science." Most of the Muslim scientists and philosopers were people who were converted by the sword and forced to write in Arabic like Persians.
"I once read that had there been no Arab conquest, North Africa would have been culturally and historically allied with Western Europe since it was Catholic and highly Romanised."
I agree with this statement of yours. Peoples like the Egyptians and Lebanese and Syrians were not Arabs lost their culture to Arabs and speak Arabic and have lost their language to Arabic and now consider themselves Arabic. The only exception are the Iranians in the Middle East who because of Fardusi still speak Farsi and not Arabic--hence, also the fact that these people have a cultural memory.
My Iranian friends laugh at the so called "Islamic science." Most of the Muslim scientists and philosopers were people who were converted by the sword and forced to write in Arabic like Persians--that's what they tell me.
Allen Wilson @ 20
You may be thinking of John Alan Coey, a young American volunteer in the Rhodesian Army. He was killed in action against terrorists in 1975. The series that you read in Gung Ho may have been selections from his journals. They were published posthumously.
Mr Salemi: The writer I am referring to wrote the articles after returning home to America. It may have been Michael Peirce, but I internet searches dont reveal anything, and I cant find back issues anywhere. I dont even know if Gung Ho is still published. Regardless, every one should read those articles if they can find them.
I've never heard of Alan Coey. I'll see what I can find out online.
The website of the Rhodesian Light Infantry has a memorial to him on it. His first name is John.
I have found the book on Amazon and at a couple of other places. Thank you, Mr Salemi, for bringing both Mr Coey and his book to my attention.
Gargi, I agree with you concerning the Middle East and Persia. What happened to these countries was a tragedy.
Persia was a great civilisation in it's own right, and now look at modern Iran.
I think Persia could be a great civilisation once again if they could shake the disease of Islam.
North Africa was highly "Catholic" and "Romanised" thanks in part to your Vatican having a hand in fabricating and funding Muhhamad's 'religion', thus wiping out all true Christians of North Africa in the centuries after 650AD, according to former Jesuit Alberto Rivera.
Tarkin, @28: Your remarks lead me to assume that you have been deceived, maybe, because you have been formed during your childhood by anti-Catholic propaganda. Then, again, you may be a malicious calumniator. One thing is for sure, you don't know history, nor do you know Alberto Rivera.
The Muslim conquest of North Africa began in Egypt when Alexandria fell in 642 A.D. The conquest of North Africa to the west of Egypt was finally resolved by 698 A.D. by Hassan. The Catholic Church had no hand in this. They were unable to have a hand in this. That is, if you know Church history.
What kind of mind is Alberto Rivera's. Well, according to Rivera, Jesuits are responsible for the creation of Islam. Ironically, Mohammad died in the seventh century A.D. The Jesuits were founded by St. Ignatius Loyola in the sixteenth.
In a Cornerstone article, "Riveral had a 'history of legal entanglements' including fraud, credit card theft, and writing bad checks. Warrants had been issued for his arrest in New jersey and Florida, and he was wanted by the Spanish police for 'swindles and cheats'; while in the USA in 1967, he claimed to be collecting money for a Spanish college, who never received this money...In 1964 he said he had left the Catholic Church in July 1952 (he would have been 17 years old since he was born in 1935), but he later put the date at March 20, 1967....The document exhibited by Rivera to prove his status as a Catholic priest was fraudulently obtained and the Catholic Church denies his claims of having been a Jesuit priest or bishop."
The magazine Cornerstone also showed that Rivera's three doctorates couldn't have been accomplished within the time frame he gave. Finally, "he admitted to receiving them from a Colorado diploma mill."
Tarkin, is that the guy you want us to believe is an authority on history and on the Catholic Church? If so, shame on you.
Rivera never was a Jesuit, never was a bishop, and never received a doctorate. He was simply a lunatic from the Canary Islands.
Mr Meng, Speaking of Lunatics, after that exchange we had a couple weeks ago concerning one writer named 'Douglas', I found a video of him on Youtube. There's something about his demeanor that just says 'fraud'.
Well, I never fully bought what he wrote anyway since something always seemed not to be quite right about it, but I really dont like the fact that I spent quite a few dollars on those books which could have been spent on something else, like a good, detailed history of North Africa.
If we were to compile a list of authors who, like 'Douglas' and Rivera, are of flaky background and dishonest in their writing, it would be quite long, and some of them would be part of the modern leftist canon of literature. My, what a world!
"a list of authors... of flaky background and dishonest in their writing..."
Try Rigoberta Menchu -- a liar pure and simple. It's amazing that the Liberal Establishment still refuses to rescind the literary awards that were given to her for her fictitious "memoir."