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It's a CNN World

I'm currently vacationing in Athens, Greece and, therefore, am stuck with CNN for news and information, since I do not understand the Greek newscasts.

On Monday CNN's big news was, of course, Hurricane Gustav. In the hours before the hurricane made landfall CNN had a couple of local New Orleans reporters talk about the preparation for the storm. The locals guys were asked how the evacuation had been progressing. They reported that things were going quite well, as compared to the run up to Katrina.

Not satisfied with this bit of relative good news, the CNN anchor kept hammering away at how bad things might be if the city is not prepared. This was despite the fact that locals were reporting that the area was much better prepared now then it was three years earlier.

It is one thing to do nothing but present bad news, it is something else entirely to actively search for bad news in the middle of a newscast that relayed how well things were going.

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Commie Mints


I wonder if they will create a Nazi Mints version?

I saw a display of these in Seattle's Third Place Books, prominently displayed at the register, while I was buying a copy of Lud in the Mist by Hope Mirlee.

I was not shocked at this, but I was disappointed. What more proof does one need that your favorite independent bookstores is run by Left wing radicals?

Why would I want to give my money to folks who sell a product symbolically promoting an ideology that slaughtered over 100 million people (making Adolf Hitler & his Nazi regime look like rank amateurs)? Third Place Books is the only bookstore I've found that sells Russell Kirk's Ancestral Shadows and Old House of Fear. It was also the only bookstore in Seattle that had copies of Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism.
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Republican Presidential Ticket 2012?

I thought I'd give a glimpse to the future. Some may think I'm counting chickens before they hatch, but I think McCain's choice is truly inspired. So what might be a 2012 Republican Presidential Ticket?

Sarah Palin & Piyush 'Bobby' Jindal?

        

I'd vote for it in a nanosecond. America would be in very good hands with these two at the helm.
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The Left lives in a dystopian future

The UN dissolves all national boundaries is declared the world government. It goes on to declare all religious expression anti-social behavior and makes it illegal.

Psychics probe the minds of thieves, murderers, rapists, child molesters et al in order to determine the level of hate felt toward a particular victim. Punishment of those declared as not hating the victim is much less than those declared harboring hateful feelings. Caucasian males are the prison population majority. Psychics find minorities and female criminals are primarily motivated by social and cultural factors, rarely hate.

Private property ownership is illegal - cars, homes, even clothing are public commodities. If a jacket is not on your back, your neighbor can enter the place where you happen to be existing and take it, if that person is cold. Use of the word; among the wrong people is a misdemeanor.

Advanced schooling is restricted to minorities and women. The furthest Caucasian males can get in school is the Sixth grade, at which point they are directed to trade schools or manual labor. Caucasian male suicide rates are astronomical. The UN declares corporations illegal.
The UN Security and Exchanges Commission nationalizes all business and shuts down the DOW Jones, NASDAQ and other stock exchange markets. Private investment and wealth accumulation are criminal offenses.

If a conservative were trying to create a dystopian future it would follow along these lines. It would be very safe to assume that someone on the political right wrote a story with these backgrounds. 

If Radical Publishing will produce a comic with the following description:
"Records show the Earth once known, was consumed by religious wars spurred by the suppression of free thought and where creative expression is now viewed as the rot and infestation of the mind. This chilling vision of the future unveils a world where the police now patrol for crimes of the imagination, or Mind Crimes as they're called. Those beliefs along with any other tales of false heroes, idols or gods, are illegal. The world is anew and so the enemy adapts. (emphasis added)
... then would they publish a comic based on the future I described above? I doubt it, because when they see this:



they do not see its overwhelming tendency toward evil. To the Left this represents the future for which they hope.
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The Obamessiah's National Security Force?

Is this a hint at what we might get should The One get elected and create the Civilian National Security Force he talked about?

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."




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Sgt. Rock goes Smokeless



A classic American hero is being shoved through the politically correct meat grinder.

I noticed this gem in an interview with Sgt. Rock cover artist Billy Tucci at Newsarama.com:
"Since this will be the first time in years that the leader of Easy Company has graced a mainstream comic cover, editor Mike Marts and myself felt we needed to go “classic” for the first issue. Unable to have our favorite top kick dragging on a cigarette, we figured to go with Rock’s traditional sharp-eyed scowl." emphasis added
Say what?!? Someone is restricting the artists? Telling them what they can and cannot create and publish? Quick, call the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund!

But don't think that Tucci is going all soft and new-age-y on the venerable WWII hero.
"[Sgt. Rock is] ... solidly built and tough as nails, Superman he’s not, but a real man, an American bad**s you know will whip the p_iss out of any other around him. A hero whom men will follow into hell and know he’ll bring them out the other side with the devil’s pitchfork as a trophy."
He's just not able to do any of that with a cigarette in his mouth.
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When Seattle makes National Review Online



I am coming to really like Seattle. Love? Well ... come on now. And it is nice to see it mentioned in one of my favorite conservative websites National Review Online. I just wish it wasn't for some dumb a** comment by one of Seattle's socialist residences.

In a story about the idiotic "Car Free Day" instituted by the moronic Mayor Greg Nickels one of Seattle's highly educated residences responded thusly:
"I think it promotes awareness of whatever we're promoting awareness of,"
Wow. I wonder what university sticker is plastered on the back of this genius's car.

Here's something I'm sure those who live in one of the "Car Free Day" zones must have really appreciated: Getting your car towed.

Apparently "Car Free Day" meant "No Parking in front of your own home day".


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The Last Centurion



John Ringo, one of my favorite science fiction / fantasy authors who also happens to express conservative ideas, has a new book out titled The Last Centurion. It combines environmental catastrophe with political revolution, at least that's what I gather from browsing it at Barnes & Noble and wandering the website devoted to the book.

I hope the few hundred folks who happen to stop by little corner of the blogosphere go out and pick this up. Let's put a conservative leaning sci-fi writer on the best-selling lists.
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Got an Election Horror story in you?



Besides the obvious Obama winning the 2008 Presidential election, if you can think of and write a good election related horror story you might want to jump in on this. Apex Book Company, "where science fiction and horror collide", is having a Halloween short fiction contest.

If you happen to be a conservative who enjoys good horror and science fiction and fancy yourself a creator of either, then I would definitely encourage you to send them something. Here are the guidelines:
Your story must incorporate the theme of ELECTION HORROR.
Word count maximum is 1,000.
Your story must have first rights available.
Submit your story to halloween@apexdigest.com.
Submissions are open NOW.
Deadline is 11:59 PM, October 15th, EST.
A word of caution: Your story is going to be judged by this fella, Mr. Jay Lake:


I sure would like to be a fly on his wall were he to read an openly conservative election related horror story. I would most definitely like to read a good election related horror story by a conservative, I'm pretty certain that Mr. Lake would barely make it through the first paragraph before his head exploded and he sent the story through a shredder.

But don't think I'm judging a book by its cover (which would be very easy in this case). Take a gander at the political posts Lake put up on his blog and tell me that this guy would be receptive to a story by a conservative.
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Obama: I won't give unless the Taxman says so.


Is that $20 in your wallet or are you just glad to see me?

Is Sen. Obama one of the dirty rotten greedy rich scoundrels Democrats love to pillory? According a comment made at the Saddleback Church conference, the Left-wing hate heaped on "rich" Republicans should also be directed at the "rich" Obama. Sen. B.O. needs the government to put a gun to his head to get him to open his wallet and give to those less fortunate than he.

It struck me that Obama is must not be as charitable as his sycophants have led us to believe. In Roger Kimball's write up on the conference I was struck by Sen. Barry's response to this question, “I mean give me a number. Is it $50,000, $100,000, $200,000? Everybody keeps talking about who we’re going to tax. How can you define that?”

Obama stated that he wanted “a sense of balance, and fairness in our tax code. It is time for folks like me who make more than $250,000 to pay our fair share.” (emphasis added)

This shouldn't really surprise anyone given that Obama didn't really find that charitable spirit until he was elected to the US Senate.
Tags: obama   taxman  
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RED DAWN



WOLVERINES!!!

HT: Jonah Goldberg & his faithful assistant Debby @ NRO.
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An Obama state of mind


Or Obama supporters, we're not sure which.

Belief: a state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing.

Believe: to have a firm religious faith; to accept as true, genuine, or real (ideals we believe in) (believes in ghosts).

Just believe. That is what Obama is asking voters to do. Just believe.

I can understand asking someone to believe in the context of religious experience or supernatural phenomenon. But in politics?!?
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College are learning there students


Knowing how to spell is overrated, therefore college students should not be required to exhibit this basic skill. That, at least, seems to be the opinion of a criminology senior lecturer at Bucks New University in England. Let these future world leaders "spell it like it is".

The "Lecturer" giving is this enlightened position seems to neglect the fact Microsoft Word, which is what every college student prepares his or her papers on, has spell check automatically turned on. These "new spelling" (to go along with "new math") students would have to go into Word, find the Options sections and deliberately turn off the Spell Check, or ignore all the prompts to fix the spelling of words like "judgement" and "truely" in order to spell these words as shown here.

So college students know more about software then spelling and the Keepers of Academia's Ivory Towers should accept this. Incredible.
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PBS skips Broadway's LF & Socialism



A leisurely Sunday afternoon, I'm sitting in the living room watching the third episode, titled "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin (1930 - 1942)", of the PBS documentary, titled "Broadway: The American Musical".

When they get to Cole Porter, they start playing his song "You're The Top" with th lyrics:

You're the top!
You're Mahatma Gandhi.
You're the top!
You're Napoleon Brandy.
You're the purple light
Of a summer night in Spain,
You're the National Gallery
You're Garbo's salary,
You're cellophane.

It is a catchy tune. Almost everyone who knows anything about American popular music knows it. ... But ... as that radio guy says ... do they know the rest of the story?

In 1934 a portion of the song's lyrics were:
You're the top!
You're the  Great Houdini!
You're the Top!
You are Mussolini!

These lyrics were later changed to one line:
You're Whistler's Mama!

Reading Slate won't tell you the real story about this change. That website states, "Presumably someone pointed out to Porter that it was morally repugnant to suggest that any comparison of one's beloved to a fascist dictator might constitute praise, however lighthearted. Also, the meter doesn't quite work." This completely ignores, and keeps readers ignorant of, the fact that many so-called Progressives in the 20s and 30s were ardent fascists and supporters of Mussolini, as Jonah Goldberg's great corrective Liberal Fascism makes clear. Goldberg, it should be noted, writes in an endnote that the Mussolini lyric is probably not Porter's but was added by P.G. Wodehouse for the British adaptation of "You're the Top".

It was also a tune many used to sell liberal fascism. The PBS series about Broadway uses this segment to sell idea that this tune was the "civilized embodiment of the Roosevelt recovery". It goes ont to spend many minutes on the show "The Cradle will Rock", which noted film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has noted in a "socialist opera". The episode goes on to extol the virtues of the WPA and effort to sell Americans National Socialism.

Nothing like PBS to keep the truth from its viewers.
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McCain vs Obama in the Comics


Does this look like a flattering picture to you?

That is the cover of the John McCain issue of IDW's Presidential Material comics. According to IDW "[t]hese biographies are painstakingly researched ...". That remains to be seen.

John McCain is given a Joker visage while Barak Obama ...



The McCain book is by Andy Helfer and Stephen Thompson. Andy Helfer wrote a comic biographies of Malcolm X and Ronald Reagan, and for 20 years wrote superheroes for DC. Given that the notoriously Left leaning Publisher's Weekly didn't like the Reagan bio because it wasn't sufficiently critical has to be a mark in Mr. Helfer's favor.

Jeff Webber, IDW VP of product development stated, "We'll be looking at how many people download to phones versus read them in print, which IDW should find interesting, as well as which (book) gets downloaded the most."

Conservatives want to send IDW a message? Buy the McCain book. Buy lots of copies of the McCain book. Send IDW a message.
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