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I miss the days when we posted actually for real batshit crazy shit from NRO, and not like banal observations that the NY Times writes for a specific audience.

you miss the days from earlier this week?

on the internet I think the rule is that "I miss the days" can refer to anything that happened over 45 seconds ago

that's true, the man with the mustache post was pretty awesome

McCarthy was educated at Columbia University and New York Law School, and has served as a professor at the latter and at Fordham University Law School.

REAL MURICAN

McCarthy has long been a die-hard fan of the New York Mets.

LOL

we got a date for morbs

i think there may be ulterior motives for this proposal

Leaving the gorgeous Orthodox church service, I went home through another of New York’s rich displays of beauty — this one created by the hand of God, and not the art of man. Yes, it was the Puerto Rican Day parade, an exuberant tribute to Puerto Rican culture, but famous especially for its lovely women in skimpy outfits roughly a size and a half too small for their wearers. What say we arrange, every Friday, a mini-Puerto Rican Day parade in front of the mosque? It could be quiet and respectful — we Americans are not, after all, boorish thugs — but nonetheless pointed: displaying the female body as nothing to be ashamed of or to be hidden behind burkas, and the entire female human being as a prized bearer of rights in our society, a person with a voice in the public square. This would turn the mosque into our teaching moment. If it turns out that the mosque is run by decent sorts, the demonstrations could peter out. If evidence mounts that the mosque is just another cover for Saudi Wahhabi terror supporters and other jihadists . . . the demonstrations could get a little louder.

In a hearts-and-minds struggle between jihadists on one hand, and our Puerto Rican brothers and sisters on the other, I’ll put my money on the Puerto Ricans any day.

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Iron Ladies [Robert Costa]
Sarah Palin is in talks to meet with Lady Thatcher:

Her representatives approached Margaret Thatcher to ask for a meeting as part of a bid to enhance her claim to be the ‘heir to Ronald Reagan’ and prepare to challenge Mr Obama.

And Lady Thatcher has agreed to see Mrs Palin, who stood as the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 2008. A spokesman said: ‘We had an informal approach asking if Lady Thatcher would meet Mrs Palin if she comes to Britain and we said yes.’

A date for the meeting has not been set.

personally I fully endorse the idea of Margaret Thatcher satiating her neverending lust for the taste of human flesh on Sarah Palin

Margaret Thatcher, by all accounts, suffers so badly from dementia at 88 that arranging such a meeting is a form of elder abuse.

Sarah Palin has a passport?

Plus, who is paying her for this, BP?

You Need to Know [John J. Miller]

There are a handful of musicians (or groups of them) whose albums I buy sight unseen and sound unheard. They could put out a collection of melodic armpit farts and I'd still line up for my copy on the release date.

One of them is Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Here's the really good news: Mojo, out today, is the best album TP has recorded since the 1980s. It won't be a classic-rock hit parade like Damn the Torpedoes, but it has a few first-rate songs and is strong from start to end. It reminds me of Southern Accents—not because it shares that album's self-conscious ambition, but for its easy embrace of a bluesy regional heritage plus a willingness to experiment with new forms. There's a reggae song on it, for crying out loud. For the most part, though, Mojo sounds like a 21st-century band recording a 1970s southern rock album. My first impression is a good one and I have a feeling that it's going to grow on me.

It Was Fun for a Second . . . [Jay Nordlinger]

Below, I did one musical note, or one note touching on music — it was really a political one. Care for a musical note now? Okay, a little background — real quick-like: “Darmstadt” is a codeword in music for music of the most politically correct kind — the “serial” music epitomized by Boulez, Stockhausen, Nono, and their comrades. These people have lorded it over music, in dictatorial fashion, for decades. We say “Darmstadt” because those composers used to gather in that German city for summer courses. Darmstadt is sort of the Kremlin of music.

Okay, enough background. I receive a press release from a music group, as I do several hundred times a day. It says “Darmstadt Send-off Concert” — and my heart leaps, because I have misread it: I mistakenly read, “Darmstadt Send-up Concert.” I thought, “Oh, great! Someone is actually putting on a concert poking fun at the Darmstadt school? How revolutionary, how brave!”

But no: “The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) will join fellow new music pioneers JACK Quartet . . . for a preview of programs they will perform at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany in late July.”

Oh, yeah: Same old, same old. Too bad. Will someone please do a Darmstadt send-up concert? That would be too cool.

06/18 03:22 PMShare

Would it really?

They wouldn't name their show in foreign, would they?

Though Nordlinger as failed music critic makes sense, in a way.

i don't think the new thread has been cookin' like the old one. has the crazy & the mean & the dishonest gone down at the Corner?

it'll gear up for the election, I'm sure.

Last year:

Friday, June 19, 2009
Happy . . . [Mark Krikorian]

Juneteenth!

06/19 11:30 AMShare

This year:

Happy Juneteenth [John J. Miller]
America doesn't need another official federal holiday, but if we were to get one, June 19 would work for me.

06/19 07:54 PM

Maybe they are becoming less batshit crazy...

i don't think the new thread has been cookin' like the old one. has the crazy & the mean & the dishonest gone down at the Corner?

Honoring Our Fathers [Marco Rubio]

Fatherhood is a gift. And caring, selfless fathers are needed more today than ever before. From helping children with homework to showing them unconditional love, fathers everywhere are leaving lasting impressions on the lives of their children.

Each Father’s Day, America’s children honor and give thanks to the men who have shaped us into who we are today. In raising us, they sacrificed to ensure that — when our own time came to start families, build businesses, and defend America — we would answer the call to preserve and strengthen the exceptional nation we inherited from them.

When I think about all it has taken for my generation to inherit this great country, I think about our Founding Fathers, the veterans who have served our nation and the entrepreneurs who have created unmatched prosperity. But I especially think of the fathers I've met throughout my life — ordinary men, with ordinary jobs, but who possess extraordinary ambitions for their children, along with the unshakeable belief that America is the one place on earth where anyone can accomplish anything.

father's day...when our own time came to start families, build businesses, and defend America...our Founding Fathers, the veterans who have served our nation and the entrepreneurs who have created unmatched prosperity...

it's so hard to find a card!

lol, if that's the current level of batshit they're operating at then they really have mellowed.

equating father's day to the founding fathers is on some fascist hyperpatriot shit imo...& businessmen (only men) fathering prosperity? who thinks like this that is not batshit>?

and veterans...

Walter Sobchak: Those rich fucks! This whole fucking thing... I did not watch my buddies die face down in the muck so that this fucking strumpet...
The Dude: I don't see any connection to Vietnam, Walter.
Walter Sobchak: Well, there isn't a literal connection, Dude.
The Dude: Walter, face it, there isn't any connection.

Idk, hijacking a Hallmark holiday to discuss the Founding Fathers (people I certainly don't have any problem acknowledging), or veterans seems like no big deal to me. Re: business, you know they feel capitalism is a great positive force in history so it's not surprising to see that expressed here. Batshit != views I disagree with. Batshit = things no thinking human being could agree with

Also kinda batshit to believe that a fathers day ode to fathers is batshit because it only mentions men. Superlulz

it only mentions entrepreneurs u dufus. the assumption is that they are men, likewise vets.

these are not the connections of a sane person fyi, these are the connections of a fundamentalist

"batshit" is in my book a compliment -- crazy in a compelling way. Rubio's statements aren't batshit, crazy, or compelling, just boring and sad (Father's Day is great cuz it reminds me of the avaricious zeal of our own dads).

let us give thanks to that long ago generation of literate men who agreed on next to nothing, who we outrageously call our fathers, surely they are just exactly like the pissant sports dad upper manager i have always aspired to be...

sorry if i'm letting my resentment of this great land show a little there

Tradition has its benefits.

"Ha ha at least my Dad didn't leave us, Secret Kenyan!"

The reactions to the McChrystal comments have been...educational.

little praetorianism, i'm guessing? i haven't really looked

Buy the Book, Cruise with the Author

ew

Should He Go? [Jonah Goldberg]
Now that I've read the whole thing, I still think McChrystal showed a terrible lapse in judgment letting Rolling Stone into the tent and for saying anything that could be construed as disrespect for the Commander-in-Chief. I can't agree with Cliff that this is all much ado about nothing. That said, I also think a lot of the quotes aren't as bad as it first sounded. The mocking of Biden isn't actually mocking of Biden so much as a game of trying to come up with crazy hypothetical responses that might get McChrystal in hot water. Even the stuff about Obama being unprepared and whatnot are offered from McChrystal aides, not McChrystal himself. As for the bad-mouthing of the civilian and diplomatic crowd, it's unseemly but I don't know if it rises to the level of scandalous. Still, Obama has every right to be angry, even if he shares some of the blame.

I should also say that I also came away liking McChrystal a lot more. He really is an impressive guy. Clearly arrogant and all that, but you need a healthy ego to do what he does

Bernie Goldberg has written a number of best-selling (and thoroughly entertaining) books that cover the gamut from media bias – such as his 2009 hit, A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media (which you can purchase here from Amazon) – to public nuisances. Bernie is sharp, wise, funny, and most importantly, a guest speaker on the National Review 2010 Post-Election Cruise. If you’re one of those scaredy-pants who has always wanted to come on an NR voyage but has been afraid to take the plunge (admittedly not the best cliché to use for a cruise promotion), we dare you … no, we double dare … make that triple dare you, to visit www.nrcruise.com and get one of the remaining cabins in our ever-dwindling allotment (close to 275 cabins have already been reserved!) for what will prove to be the trip of 2010. And it will be precisely that: with Bernie, the other Goldberg, Karl Rove, Victor Davis Hanson, Phyllis Schlafly, Greg Gutfeld, Andrew Breitbart, Scott Rasmussen, and oodles of other great conservative speakers there to discuss the election results and their consequences for the conservative movement and the US of A, how can it not be?

jonah goldberg repping the free-jazz school of historiography

A lot of people don’t know this, but it’s hardly like the Nazis invented the term. It dates back to the 19th century, but was popularized in Germany by the Weimar Republic, which took to inscribing the phrase on many large public-works projects, not just at Auschwitz — which of course was built by the Nazis, who continued the practice. The Orwellian undertones to the phrase are real, and the associations with the Holocaust are horrific, but Arbeit Macht Frei was a popular “progressive” slogan on the road to serfdom.

"(which you can purchase here from Amazon)"

guessing there was a link on here? b/c o/w lol. well, in any case, lol @ that bit, so dorky sounding...

though I bet you could run a good hustle (in all sorts of ways) on that cruise

have there been any complaints about swarthy foreign soccer players and their diving?

i suppose it's unamerican to even be watching, so maybe not

Re ‘Here We Go Again’ [Jay Nordlinger]
Jonah, this is an old song, but, I agree, it’s important to sing it: The world gives you so many occasions. I remember when Nightline would have as its two pundits — Left and Right — George Stephanopoulos and David Gergen. I used to comment that they had both served in the Clinton communications shop. I also trotted out the old line, “All points of view from A to B” — or maybe A to L? N?

And I’m reminded why conservatives had to build their own media outlets. It’s sort of like Jews and country clubs. Jews built their own, not because they wanted to, necessarily, but because the other clubs wouldn’t let them in. They weren’t being “clannish.” They wanted to play golf, on first-class courses.

(Groucho on his daughter: “She’s only half Jewish. Can she play nine holes?” Alternatively, “She’s only half Jewish. Can she go into the pool up to her knees?”)

Well, we conservatives built our own media outlets — because the other clubs wouldn’t let us in. I guess it’s working out okay. But there are interesting arguments to be made, and listened to.

Just by the way: Isn’t it sort of insane that, in the years when Bill Buckley was the most brilliant and entertaining columnist in the land, the New York Times didn’t want him on its op-ed page? Wouldn’t he have been an adornment? Isn’t it sort of insane that he never won the Pulitzer prize for commentary? When they were giving it to people who weren’t fit to change the ribbon on his Smith-Corona?

But enough insanity . . .

P.S. Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prize.

oh the injustice of it all

also: is it just me or have k-lo's worshipful posts on the catholic priesthood taken on a creepy obsessive tinge

And I’m reminded why conservatives had to build their own media outlets. It’s sort of like Jews and country clubs.

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/conservative-victimization

RT @kathrynlopez: im not listening to huey lewis and the news but i wouldnt mind if i were

and we were wondering where the crazy went

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDg0NTNiYjFlNzJhOTNiMTdhYzhmZGJiNWQxZTA2Mjk=

'You sit and ask yourself: What are we doing here?' [Andy McCarthy]

Why would General Stanley McChrystal give that kind of access to a lefty rock-n-roll magazine? Maybe because he's a kindred spirit who felt the need to assure Rolling Stone's Michael Hastings that he voted for Obama — even against McCain, a military legend who shares McChrystal's transnational progressive outlook...

goes off from there. white hot!

chait is really a loathsome political writer