Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

a steaming load of fun

still, nothing like good old american patriotism to create good will abroad. i'm getting started on that spec right now.

i'm becoming ("becoming") the bimble of political blog posting, lol sorry, but this is amazing

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTMzMmNlMzM0NGYwNTZjZTUzMTlhNjBjYWFjYzU0ODc=

"President Obama’s background as a community organizer has received far too little attention"

yes this was published today

If they shout loud enough people will notice that they already shouted.

YET today's editorial, taking a page from the late WFB Jr's dismissal of anti-Semites, raps "birthers" on the knuckles. It ends with this lolworthy graf:

Barack Obama may prefer European-style socialized health care. He may consider himself a citizen of the Earth and sometimes address his audiences as “people of the world,” as though he were born not in another country but on another planet. Like Bruce Springsteen, he has a lot of bad political ideas; but he was born in the U.S.A.

He may consider himself a citizen of the Earth

As opposed to the NRO, citizens of Tharg?

The USA isn't on Earth, Ned!

He's like John Kerry, Ned: he wants the world's permission slip.

As I sit here in the USA above the clouds, looking down on the puny world, I wonder at their feeble brains on that 'planet.'

these two posts seem to answer each other, somehow

Bourne (and Bond) [Maggie Gallagher]

The best evidence for the bias of Hollywood is the absence of films that encourage and reward patriotism. I don't mind the presence of lefty anti-war films. They just make me mad because they remind me of the huge, gaping absence of films celebrating the heroism of men at war.

Where are my generation's World War II films?

People are hungry for heroism. Why is this market niche so persistently never filled, or diverted into comic-book characters?

It's very hard to explain.

The Borg Blinks [Maggie Gallagher]

In "The Carrie Effect," I point out that gay-marriage advocates are like the Borg. Resistance is futile. But today the Borg blinked.

Major financial backers of same-sex marriage are cautioning gay rights groups to delay a campaign to overturn California’s ban on such unions until at least 2012.

Marc Solomon, marriage director for Equality California, said he has been surprised by the almost unanimous opinion among political experts that a 2010 race was a bad idea.

“I expected having watched the protests and the real pain that the L.G.B.T. community had experienced that there would be some real measurable remorse in the electorate,” Mr. Solomon said, referring to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. “But if you look at the poll numbers since November, they really haven’t moved at all."

The Borg is dense sometimes.

oh brother is mark krikorian weird

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OGRmMzJmYzg3Y2M3MDBjOGM2OGJhNTI4ZGQ1YWZjM2Q=

Just so you know, I think we do eat too much meat, and salt, sugar, and fat, because our species evolved to crave these once rare elements of our diet which are now abundant. But vegetarianism and veganism are not only not virtuous, they're immoral, based as they are on the principle that animals are morally equivalent to humans. Likewise, meat probably should cost more than it does, but not because we need a global-warming tax on it but because animals, while lacking "rights," are not inanimate objects we can use with impunity as industrial inputs — and their humane treatment will almost certainly raise the price of hamburgers.

But it seems that Orwell is still right — socialism draws with magnetic force the nudists, pacifists, sandal-wearers, and vegetarians.

he doesn't even disagree with ezra klein!

what if animals were morally equivalent to mexicans?

socialism draws with magnetic force the nudists, pacifists, sandal-wearers, and vegetarians.

Is this supposed to be an indictment of socialism?

this is going around, too:

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MmQ3NDZmZWFhM2M0YTQzY2YyY2I3NmNkZjBlMTRlMjQ

can't even comment

sandals, dan, are you fucking kidding me

i swear, nothing would have made these people happier than to have lived in post-kristallnacht/pre-bunker germany

Orwell DID say that, but Orwell was funnier than mark Krikorian.

Ezra Klein would be very amused to find out that he was, by implication, a socialist.

that krikorian post is exactly the kind of thing that drives me up the wall about contemporary rightwing/corner stylee. just look at it. exstensive-but-selective quoting of opponent's words, hysterical fantasy extrapolation about "what's next" based on those quotes, batshit assertions about underlying beliefs that come from nowhere, resentful culture caricatures, and, in the end, no real disagreement about the problem or even a possible solution. there's no content there other than the ritualized contempt.

i bet if i loaded this thread fully there's a post by me saying the same thing somewhere...

Or you could just complain about Krikorian being a convention nerd.

Mark Krikorian is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies and an NRO contributor. For a sufficiently large contribution to his Center, he’ll be happy to put on Spock ears or a Klingon uniform.

ta-nehisi posted that dunphy bit pointing out the way it attempts to place the responsibility of using lethal force somehow on the victim instead of, you know, the guy with the gun

yeah i don't even want to think about that "jack dunphy" dude too much. an anonymous LAPD cop saying that complaining about your rights is liable to get you shot, you say? must publish, post haste!

does this dude know that spock is a vegetarian?

actually, in tng nobody in the federation even eats actual meat anymore. it all gets generated by those things that picard says, "tea. earl grey. HOT." to.

so immoral.

I like it when they don't even try to distinguish between "militarism" and "patriotism." Yes, it's all a piece of their view of morality is obedience, but it still amuses me sometimes.

stylin' at tha corner

http://www2.nationalreview.com/dest/2009/08/07/a836c8c5b449db7369fbe352059dd7c6.jpg

Retro 60s Buckley, cool and suave and hip, impish and darn good-looking, voila the mug from those glory days when he was launching Firing Line and running for NYC mayor, castigating eschaton immanentizers and just plain setting the world on fire. And now here he is, WFB, looking out at you with twinkling eyes from a 100% pre-shrunk heavy-duty cotton Champion ® tee shirt, in cool black. Get yours for only $17.99, which includes shipping and handling. Sizes are M, L, XL, and XXL.

Wouldn't Buckley just think T-shirts were always tacky?

"WFB, looking out at you with twinkling eyes"
worst personal ad ever

in the back of the T-shirt is Sarah Palin, sending starbursts of joy.

gross

"Comes in special Lowry pre-worn edition"

yeah and wouldn't NRO's general tone these days make him sick to the back teeth?

(real question btw. i got the impression he was more than a little put out with the championing ignorance thing the Right's really into these days)

x-post to Ned's question re: WFB & t-shirts

wouldn't NRO's general tone these days make him sick to the back teeth?

Oh it did. It was increasingly clear that they were stuck with him until the end because if he hadn't founded the darn thing they would have retired him a LONG time back.

"It appears my face is emblazoned on an undergarment."

special edition k-lo size with spaghetti sauce stains

An NR writer snuck on board NRO's cruise a couple of years ago, on WFB's last voyage. Apparently he caught a bunch of younger conservative shaking their heads sadly, making crazy gestures, and yawning loudly when it was WFB's turn to speak.

pat must be spinning in her velvet-padded grave

special edition k-lo size with spaghetti sauce stains

lol

A Woman of Substance [Benjamin Zycher]

...Now, let me be blunt: Michelle Obama, the product of lifelong affirmative-action coddling, is an intellectual lightweight who fancies herself a serious thinker. Just read her Princeton senior thesis, an intermittently coherent stream-of-consciousness pile of leftist jargon, campus pseudo-seriousness, and racial-identity babble. Can there be any doubt that the Princeton administrators accepted it only because of her skin color?...

what a delightful post

charming!

Obama majored in sociology and minored in African American studies and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in 1985. She obtained her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Harvard Law School in 1988.

cum laude means "as a black person" in latin

The Corner's been awesome today. On Dick Cheney's book:

Matalin, though miffed about the Post piece, admits it did get one thing right: Cheney’s book will uncloak many new things — just not a vendetta against George W. Bush. Cheney’s sense of humor, for starters, will be on full display. “He has some slap-your-mama funny tales from the around the world,” she says.

On the magazine's editorial:

I don't see any wisdom in taking a shot at Governor Palin at this moment when, finding themselves unable to defend the plan against her indictment, Democrats have backed down and withdrawn their "end-of-life counseling" boards. Palin did a tremendous service here. Opinion elites didn't like what the editors imply is the "hysteria" of her "death panels" charge. Many of those same elites didn't like Ronald Reagan's jarring "evil empire" rhetoric. But "death panels" caught on with the public just like "evil empire" did because, for all their "heat rather than light" tut-tutting, critics could never quite discredit it. ("BusHitler," by contrast, did not catch on with the public because it was so easily refuted.)

The editors implicitly concede that Palin is on to something. Indeed, from an Obamaesque perch, they find themselves admonishing both "Sarah Palin’s fans and her critics." With due respect, there's a right side and a wrong side on this one. Above the fray is not gonna cut it.

Sure, the editors acknowledge, there's lots of reason to be worried that we're speeding down the road toward euthanasia and that Obamacare could make things worse. But it's somehow "to leap across a logical canyon" to suggest that death panels are imminent or that they are what Obama wants.

On the latter, who cares what Obama personally wants? I don't see why we should play into the personality cult that the Left is hoping will overcome the deep substantive flaws in the president's policies. I happen to think that something like death panels is exactly what is desired by Obama — who is an abortion extremist, who supported a form of infanticide when he was an Illinois state legislator, and who has wondered aloud about the value of end-of-life care provided for his own grandmother. But Obama's personal feelings are beside the point. What matters is what's in the bill.

honestly, $100 from my own pocket to whomever sinks the NRO cruise boat

^^^^ terrorist

I wonder if they felt even a tiny bit of cognitive dissonance in writing "who cares" in regard to what our elected president thinks after jacking off to a resigned governor's facebook updates.

On the latter, who cares what Obama personally wants? I don't see why we should play into the personality cult that the Left is hoping will overcome the deep substantive flaws in the president's policies. I happen to think that something like death panels is exactly what is desired by Obama — who is an abortion extremist, who supported a form of infanticide when he was an Illinois state legislator, and who has wondered aloud about the value of end-of-life care provided for his own grandmother. But Obama's personal feelings are beside the point. What matters is what's in the bill.

ok look i have read paradise lost and seriously there are speeches by satan that are constructed exactly like this

I think they got so addicted to hillary bashing that they'll go after Democratic First Ladies from now on.

“He has some slap-your-mama funny tales from the around the world,” she says.

^^ im not a copy editor but i think there should be another dash between "mama" and "funny," unless the tales from cheney's book are all about hitting mothers in different countries