the Kommisariat's Kontinuing Kronicles: more right-wingery in the USA, 2k11-12

Translation: we think that calling our opinions and prejudices about society "healthy and successful" makes them sound much more appealing than calling them "what we hope to impose on you".

http://leestranahan.com/donation-drive-for-documentary-the-caliphate/

Consider:

The Benghazi attacks appear to be connected to the Obama administration secretly running weapons to Syrian rebels.

In Egypt after the Arab Spring, the Obama administration backed the Muslim Brotherhood who killed Coptic Christians and destroyed their churches.

Syrian rebels, backed by your tax dollars, have led attacks on Christians throughout Syria.

We need to tell this story…

In Lebanon, I interviewed survivors of an attack by Muslim rebels on the ancient Christian village of Maaloula. They confirmed people were killed for not renouncing their faith.

Al-Qaeda terrorists are now flooding into Syria from all over the world. Their stated goal is to create a Caliphate; an Islamic state ruled by Sharia law that rules first the Middle East, and then as much of the world as possible.

The northern Syrian city of Aleppo has been turned into ‘hell’, according to a Syrian I interviewed. Almost all the Christians have fled and kidnappings are common.

I interviewed the head of the Iraqi Catholic church, Patriarch Louis Sako and learned that in Iraq, fierce fighting between Muslim sects has driven over 1,000,000 Christians out of that country.

Here at home, we’re already seeing open hostility to Christianity and theism. Their nihilism is on full display: from the Democrats removing God from their political platform to the Obama administration punishing Christians in the military to liberal protestors shouting ‘Hail, Satan’ at the Texas Statehouse.

i mean, it's true that arab christians are under intense pressure and violence, and were often the beneficiaries of the old colonial and then autocratic orders. but that last one, hmmmmmm

guys the liberal protesters were just aerosmith fans, chill

wasn't it like instantly debunked that they were saying something else? i have vague memories of that. during the wendy davis filibuster, right?

yeah, didn't happen

http://video.foxnews.com/v/2961770083001/huckabee-remember-when-america-was-a-free-country/

prediction for 2014: the weirdos i've had a pet fascination for for a long time now are going to be everywhere:

http://theweek.com/article/index/254690/why-are-us-conservatives-so-obsessed-with-monarchies?utm
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/among-the-neoreactionaries/
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/millman/monarchists-neo-reactionaries-and-neo-fascism/

dreher links to this blog post, which is the amazing, i want to poll these

http://www.aleteia.org/en/politics/article/illiberal-catholicism-6333360653729792

- The historian at a large Catholic university gathered his friends and family on the day that the rest of us call “Thanksgiving.” But his clan called the holiday “Anathema Thursday,” and every year used it to mock the Protestant origins of America by hanging a Puritan in effigy. This same historian teaches those he mentors to call the Statue of Liberty “that Masonic bitch-goddess.”

Thing is, there's _always_ been a non-tiny fraction of Americans who are authoritarian enough to happily march us into fascist despotism and feel better for it. Dr Bob Altemeyer has been researching this stuff for years, and had the number at about 1-in-5 when interviewed in one of John Dean's books. It's one of the reasons why a President's approval rate will never, ever drop much below 20%.

Much like with all other sections of horseshit-based fringe society, the internet amplifies them and transitionary periods of culture bring them out.

In other words, they're the most zealous proponents of "America" or the flag or something, but as tribal symbols and battle standards of overwhelming power, not for the values of those particular symbols or how they came to be. It works like assholes trumpeting their religion as an appeal to authority, not because of the actual content of the Sermon on the Mount, say.

Tl, dr; version

Humans in groups act in strange ways when they're scared.

goole, you can definitely find ppl like that in France. Luckily they spend as much time fighting amongst themselves (Orleanists vs Legitimists vs Petainists vs Front National vs GUD, etc...)

“that Masonic bitch-goddess”

tempting usernames I have decided against

otm

masonic boom-goddess

http://anarcho-monarchism.com/

nice

nouveau old-right going a little bit more mainstream: "dark enlightenment" makes the daily caller:

http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/08/its-not-racist-to-seek-an-exit/

― goole, Monday, November 11, 2013 4:58 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i just figured out that the opinion editor of the DC is one of these old-timey anti-democracy guys, or a hanger-on anyway

https://twitter.com/j_arthur_bloom

ergo, they guest for him with some regularity:

http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/11/nelson-mandela-brought-democracy-to-south-africa-but-did-democracy-deliver/
http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/14/why-the-right-shouldnt-fear-cannabis/

this this url doesn't thrill you on some level you and me may never really understand each other

http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2014/01/29/pete-seeger/

"Seeger, the son of an academic musicologist and a classical violinist, was no mountain primitive, but a slick commercializer of “folk”"

"We are a people summoned to these shores by an idea"

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2014/01/30/3134851/conservatives-food4patriots/

you'd think the daily churn of breitbart hangers-on running copy from 2nd string goofs would be beneath me but nope

http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/medved-white-house-protection-black-out-drunks

manages to be both pointless and disgusting

iirc, when he was a film "critic," he accepted money from one or more studios in exchange for favorable reviews on "Sneak Previews." This was in the 80s, and I can't find anything about it online, though.

As far as the executives at Coca Cola are concerned, however, the United States of America is no longer a nation ruled by the Constitution and American traditions in which English is the language of government. It is not a nation governed in the Anglo-American tradition of liberty. It is instead a nation governed by some all inclusive multi-cultural synthesis of the various forms of government in the world, as expressed by the multiple languages used in the Super Bowl ad to sing a uniquely American hymn that celebrates our heritage.

a slick commercializer

I would gladly buy a used car from Seeger, but not from the asshole who wrote that.

Goldman's fundamental points aren't actually wrong - Seeger wasn't an Appalachian folkie or delta bluesman, he did tend towards the sentimental, his vision of folk was absolutely informed by his politics - but to see him therefore as a fraud is idiotic. Seeger was always a proud participant, arranger and populariser, not an ethnomusicological purist. He didn't merely mirror folk, he helped to define it - that's why he was important.

Self-proclaimed "red-diaper babies" who have converted to red-blooded 100% Americanism and free market conservatism are the worst, in the same way that catholic converts are known for being more catholic than the pope.

Yeah, there's a quote somewhere about how there's no one more zealous than a recent convert

"if you want rock and roll, you go down and rock and roll. you go down and see KISS and you can rock and roll all the way down to the pit!" iirc

That's it

Repeats the need to "go down" to emphasize the point.

monk* endorses foucault. gets a little weird

http://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/03/against-heterosexuality

* would-be monk i guess

http://azstarnet.com/news/local/education/arizona-senate-panel-votes-to-dump-common-core/article_512d157d-054f-5bc0-8a29-2076f69cc35a.html

Ignoring pleas from business leaders, the Senate Education Committee voted 6-3 along party lines Thursday to bar Arizona from implementing the Common Core standards the state adopted four years ago.

Sen. Al Melvin, R-Tucson, who championed SB 1310, said he believes the concept of some nationally recognized standards started out as a “pretty admirable pursuit by the private sector and governors.”

“It got hijacked by Washington, by the federal government,” said Melvin, a candidate for governor, and “as a conservative Reagan Republican I’m suspect about the U.S. Department of Education in general, but also any standards that are coming out of that department.”

Melvin’s comments led Sen. David Bradley, D-Tucson, to ask him whether he’s actually read the Common Core standards, which have been adopted by 45 states.

“I’ve been exposed to them,” Melvin responded.

Pressed by Bradley for specifics, Melvin said he understands “some of the reading material is borderline pornographic.” And he said the program uses “fuzzy math,” substituting letters for numbers in some examples.

"I'm suspect"

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2014/03/11678/

There is one domain, however, in which women are increasingly discriminated against and excluded: families.
Ironically, same-sex marriage laws do this in the name of equality. We open our hearts and minds and definition of marriage to include two men, and in doing so we close the door to a wife in the living room, a mom in the nursery, and a feminine lover in the bedroom. We create a crass ceiling.

includes the phrase "same-sexism marriage"

Someone needs to read

http://img2.imagesbn.com/p/9781555835439_p0_v1_s260x420.jpg

God: "Just a bit of fun, let's be cool."

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/cbn_700club_power_outage_140313a1-615x345.jpg

we've been found out!

http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2014/03/10/progressive-racism-the-hidden-motive-driving-modern-politics/

lol nice job there of finding the racism behind a bunch of positions hardly any progressives actually hold

Progressive position:

Maximize benefits and ease qualifications for all entitlement and social welfare programs; ultimately institute a “guaranteed income” for all U.S. residents.

False public rationale offered by progressives to justify their position:

No one should starve or go homeless in a wealthy nation such as ours.

The actual racist origins of the progressive stance:

The true goal of progressive-style cradle-to-grave welfare is to enslave blacks in a culture of dependency and thereby keep them mollified and also a dependable Democratic voting bloc.

I like how Democrats wanting blacks to vote Democratic is, of itself, a racist act, and how giving people a guaranteed income is defined as being a return to what blacks endured under slavery.

when you consider their fucked up warped revisionist understanding of what blacks endured under slavery it makes sense. heard most of these before, plastic bags one was new however and genuinely made me lol.

Giving a guaranteed income promotes a 'culture of dependency' and yet working 50+ years of your life away day-in-day-out with only the fear of your family starving keeping you in line is just perfectly fine. No culture of dependency there.

Would it be cool if the welfare recipients had to spend at least 5 hours a day checking email and writing .xls spreadsheets? Would that suddenly be ok?

Why not put ppl who can work to work doing like road repair or whatever? It's not like we lack things that need done in U.S. infrastructure.

that's socialism

Or Keynesianism at least.