Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

the website for conservative Furries.

By now I shouldn't be surprised at anything that appears after the words "the website for" yet here we are again.

hahahaha

Is Obama Naïve? [Michael Ledeen]

I don't think so. I think that he rather likes tyrants and dislikes America. I think he'd like to be more powerful, I think he is trying to get control over as much of our lives as he can, so that he can put an end to the annoying tumult of our public life. As when he said (about health care) to the Congress, "Okay, you've talked enough, now it's time to do the right thing (my thing)." And he's trying to end American power in the outside world. He's saying "I'm going to stop us, before we kill again."

There is nothing unusual about elitist hatred of freedom. Back in the 18th century, when book publishing really got going, British authors were infuriated that they had to submit to the judgment of a marketplace. They didn't want to be judged by people who were obviously inferior to them, and there was a great rage among the intelligentsia, including some very famous men. And in modern times, we can all name famous intellectuals who fawned all over Mussolini, Stalin, Fidel, and even Hitler.

American politics are very fractious, and always have been. Leaders are constantly frustrated, and some of them come to yearn for an end to our freedom. They think they know best, they just want to tell us what to do and have us shut up and do it. I think Obama is one of them. He's not naïve. It's different. He doesn't like the way things work here, he thinks he can do much better, and he's possessed of the belief that America has done a lot of terrible things in the world, and should be prevented from doing such things ever again. The two convictions mesh perfectly. It's The Best and the Brightest run amok.

Democratic leaders' envy of tyrants' power can be understood. But it can't be forgiven.

Yup he's a crazy person.

Rich Lowry again comes off as the least crazy person in the room:

Liking Tyrants and Disliking America [Rich Lowry]

That's way over-board. It's a horrible speech, accompanied by dreadful policies from Honduras to Eastern Europe. But it's not that Obama positively likes tyrants and thugs. It's just that he thinks the policies we'd want to see him adopt vis-a-vis those countries are flatly mistaken, short-sighted, not worth the cost, or all three. E.g., I'd like to see him prevent a Taliban takeover of a chunk of Afghanistan. But if he pulls out and (based on a political judgment or flawed cost-benefit analysis) adopts a stand-off strategy that allows the Taliban to regain lots of territory in Afghanistan and perhaps even topple the government, I'd never conclude that he therefore likes the Taliban. There's no doubt that Obama has an allergy to American power and a hostility to American exceptionalism, but, alas, these tendencies themselves are firmly within the American tradition. Is he left-wing and very wrong? Of course. But he's not rooting for the Basij militia.

someone send an e-mail to steyn with the subject line "lifestyle options" and include this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Markoff

Friends, neighbors and former teachers expressed shock and disbelief at the charges.[10][11] A classmate of Markoff's who had travelled with him to attend speeches given by Ann Coulter and Karl Rove stated, "We were surrounded by such a left-wing student body, and he was more like me: he didn’t really share those sentiments. He was a traditionalist as far as things like men and women’s roles in society. He was a throwback from a more conservative era." [12]

And of course Andy McCarthy is the craziest:

Obama Likes Tyrants and Dislikes America . . . and Here's More Proof [Andy McCarthy]

Michael hits the nail on the head . . . and then comes this: The Obama administration has notified Congress of the State Department's intention to contribute $400,000 to foundations run by Muammar Qaddafi's two children — $200,000 each for daughter Aisha and son Saif. Saif, you may recall, is the son who escorted the Lockerbie terrorist Abdel Baset al-Megrahi home to a hero's welcome in Libya after President Obama sternly "warned" Qaddafi that there was to be no hero's welcome.

Illinois Republican congressman Mark Steven Kirk (House Appropriations Subcommittee on State/Foreign Operations) has sent Obama a letter asking him to rescind the funding.

Could somebody please tell this president that this is not just Annenberg Foundation cash he's passing out to his personal terrorist pals like Bill Ayers but American taxpayer dollars he's doling out to the terrorist tyrant behind the murder — in just that one incident — of 270 people, including 189 Americans.

Just 40 months to go. God help us.

Hell, even Rich Lowry disowned that post.

Re: O Captain [Jonah Goldberg]

Just for the record, I find virtually any play on that Claude Raines line to be an insufferable political cliche. What really rankles is when politicians find it necessary to first explain the context before they make the joke as if no one has ever heard it before. It happens at least every few months on Sunday talk shows. "This is like the scene in Casablanca when Claude Raines . . . etc" I usually shout at the TV: Really? You just think of that? And then expletives fly. I've heard Al Gore describe that scene several times, each time as if he was the first to make the joke.

wwwooowww

Social-Engineering Watch [Mark Krikorian]

The Left will occasionally deny that they favor immigration because it makes America less white. But they see such an outcome as so self-evidently desirable, that they often will admit it; a case in point was a professor from UC Santa Cruz who presented a paper at a conference I organized years ago, answering in the affirmative the question "Is America Too White?"

Bill Clinton did the same yesterday on Meet the Press: The "vast right-wing conspiracy" is still there, but "It's not as strong as it was because America has changed demographically." In other words, the less white America is, the better, a theme he addressed as president, as well.

As John O'Sullivan wrote years ago in NR, if different groups of Americans had children at different rates, resulting in changes in the ethnic (or religious or whatever) composition of the nation, that's nobody's business one way or the other. But mass immigration, especially in the context of the low fertility levels that are inherent to modernity, represents social engineering in its purest form, the elite's decision to dissolve the people and elect a new one. Instead, how about we leave social engineering to the ChiComs and just let today's American moms and dads decide what tomorrow's America will be like.

09/28 11:28 AMShare

lonely guy thinkig baout eugenics

a case in point was a professor from UC Santa Cruz who presented a paper at a conference I organized years ago, answering in the affirmative the question "Is America Too White?"

lolz really REALLY hope the prof in question was Angela Davis

Instead, how about we leave social engineering to the ChiComs and just let today's white moms and dads decide what tomorrow's America will be like.

what is ChiComs?

oh, chinese communists. why didnt u say so

Chicago Communists. . . Obama is from Chicago. . .he's a Communist

haha i thought that was some disparaging reference to chicago democrats

i thought it might mean chicago at first too!

god, another one...

Spanish and Italian Lessons [Jay Nordlinger]

Thought you might enjoy a couple of e-mails, in response to my column today. One reader said,

You write about how so many liberals and progressives idolize the crude and odious Hugo Chávez, and then ask, “Is this the way many good people thought about Mussolini, before his colors were unmistakable?” Well, in Chicago, we still have Balbo Drive as well as a lakefront monument to Italo Balbo, the Minister of the Italian Air Force under Mussolini.

Yes, and Il Duce’s heir apparent, until Balbo bit it in North Africa. All right, the second e-mail, from an Italian-American reader — and this relates to a different subject:

Twenty or so years ago, I had a group of guys working for me who could speak English but spoke mostly in Spanish. I asked them to speak English on the job and they ignored me. The following week when payday came, I gave them their pay envelopes filled with pesos. When they complained, I responded to their objections in Italian. To their credit they got the joke and from then on tried English.

09/28 02:06 PMShare

to their credit indeed

what a funny joke!

from then on they dreamed of knifing me in my sleep

lol – Nordlinger's prose is so batty.

K-Lo's been fascinated by portraits of manhood today. Here's a letter. Guys, please help her.

re: Solid as a Rock [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

An e-mail from Boise, Idaho:

OF COURSE that's how it works to be a man, thought I don't
remember ever seeing spelled out so clearly. Part of our problem as a
culture is our inability to abide by male "rock-yness". But if you want a
good marriage and healthy family the guy needs to be the rock. Being the
rock sucks sometimes, so it's nice if your wife appreciates and makes live a
little softer where she can.

Analyzing "manliness" is like analyzing femininity or sex or love or God or
Rock n' Roll...you either get it or you don't and more analysis doesn't
necessarily lead to more understanding.

A little about me, mid-40s, parents divorced when I was 6, college dropout,
autodidact, IT professional, paleo-conservative, Lutheran (Missouri
Synod)married 20 yrs, two kids.

um i'd love to help k-lo out but where's the question

missouri synod, lol

k-lo playing with dolls again, kind of lol, mostly sad

Guess who's back.

Santorum Heads to Iowa, Looks Forward to Palin Memoir [Robert Costa]

Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R., Pa.) tells NRO that he looks forward to reading former Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s upcoming memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life, once it is published on November 17. “Sarah has jumped onto the scene and has been hammered by the mainstream media,” says Santorum. “This is an opportunity for her to show a more thoughtful side. She has a gift for prose. Hopefully that comes across.”

Santorum says he knows how it feels to be a conservative author dealing with unfriendly critics. In 2005, he published It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good. That book, wrote Congressional Quarterly, “whatever its virtues as a policy document and declaration of principles,” was also a “treasure trove of material for Democratic opposition researchers . . . working overtime to portray Santorum as an extremist moralizer.”

With It Takes a Family, “we went through the book to see if it had any ‘gotcha’ lines,” recalls Santorum. “The media loves to take a small part of a book only to twist and turn it around. Out of a 400-page book, they pulled out three lines and said ‘this is what the book is about.’ That was our fault, and we should have fixed those three lines. If Sarah’s book touches any of the issues in the Holy Grail of liberalism, she too will be attacked by critics on the left.”

She has a gift for prose.

Compare homosexuality to bestiality JUST ONCE and they never let you forget it.

It would be different if this dude wasn't a fount of lines that can be taken out of context with hilarious/horrifying results, such as "Sarah has jumped onto the scene and has been hammered by the mainstream media."

Santorum waved his gotcha-meter over the book, sending little starbursts of joy into the hearts of conservatives.

conservative complains about out-of-context quotes, man, that brightened my day

the holy grail of liberalism would be filled with issues.

With It Takes a Family, “we went through the book to see if it had any ‘gotcha’ lines,” recalls Santorum. “The media loves to take a small part of a book only to twist and turn it around."

"Justifying the killing of newborn babies is deeply troubling, but just as striking is his rigid adherence to doctrinaire liberalism. Apparently, the "audacity of hope" is limited only to those babies born at full term and beyond."

Posted on Thu, Feb. 28, 2008
The Elephant in the Room: Obama: A harsh ideologue hidden by a feel-good image
By Rick Santorum

'sleeping with' [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

I've always hated that euphemism for sex (though it probably appropriately reflects the lack of seriousness with which we treat the whole endeavor). Especially so when we're talking about rape.

sleeping with rape.

"barf" [Mr. Que]

I always want to barf, after reading that woman's posts.

does anyone use 'sleeping with' to mean 'raping'? ever?

man whenever she writes about sex or marriage or (iiick) manliness, or (mitt romney) all three, the air of virginal desperation is so so powerful

xp only rape defendants ime

and i am on record here in finding the occasional round of "lol k.lo fat" jokes really lame! the poor dear

well i take that back bc she did say women think sex is better when they don't have to think about it. if you think of sex as a painful chore it's not such a great leap anymore

i think they're totally lame but i still lol at them

the great leap onto K.Lo [Mr. Que}

Talk about a painful chore!

i know, right?

well i take that back bc she did say women think sex is better when they don't have to think about it.

^^ only because they are participating in floozy culture with degenerate campus-trained liberal wastrels and not marrying mitt romney don't you see!??!

que stop it!

que stop it! [Mr. Que]

That's what she said!

man whenever she writes about sex or marriage or (iiick) manliness, or (mitt romney) all three, the air of virginal desperation is so so powerful

Yeah, I'm always torn between laughing and feeling sorry for her.

Laughing usually wins though.

i just imagine the serious heavy-hitter asshole dudes (non-goldberg) who post there rolling their damn eyes. can you imagine what an ancient fucking legbreaker like michael ledeen thinks about this woman? christ

i feel like it's gotten worse lately. all of her posts have been like this. maybe she lost the password to her livejournal.