Making College Count

WHen Hillary Clinton claimed to be working for "hard-working Americans", Oh Blah Blah's camp claimed this was a racist code-word. (Which betrays a certain pessimism about African Americans and their work ethicc from Oh Blah Blah.) Tonight Michelle used the phrase herself to describe the people that Oh Blah Blah works for. Michelle never broached the issue of higher education, and why Oh Blah Blah thinks everyone deserves a Bachelor's Degree. What will it mean to have a college education in a world in which it has been dumbed down to the point where it means no more than a Hiigh School education does now. A better goal would be promoting young people studying math and science, leaving non-entities like gender studies and African American studies behind as a relic of the politically correct 90s.

Stupid Conservatives

Apparently, some conservatives are actually planning to vote for Oh-Blah-Blah. Obviously, these people missed watching him in action during a hearing about the Iraq War. On the panel were General Petraus and an official from the State Department. The man from the State Department mentioned that Iran is helping the insurgency with men and weapons. Oh-Blah-Blah said with alacrity "Don't you think you should tell the Iraqi government?" The idea of someone so stupid or so out of touch becoming president should scare any conservative, or intelligent liberal for that matter.

National Interests

"If we do not permit our members to act on a very enlarged view of things; we shall at length infallibly degrade our national representation into a confused and scuffling bustle of local agency."
Edmund Burke
1780 Guildhall Speech

Economic Recovery

"Those who have much, need much; and, on the contrary, those who limit their possessions to their natural needs, rather than to their excessive ambitions, need very little. "

Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy

(Green trans.)
Book Two, Prose Five

Ahmadinejad?

"Behold, thou art with child, and then shall bring forth a son, and shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has heard the cry of thy humiliation. He shall be a rude man, his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him."
Genesis 16:8
Quoted in De Fuga et Inventione
Philo of Alexandria

Monkey Business

A n Utah firm planned to introduce a sock monkey made to resemble Oh-Blah-Blah, raising a firestorm of anger over the racism of comparing Oh-Blah-Blah to a monkey. Ten years ago, I would have been angered by this, but I am not now. Over the past eight years, criticism of George W. Bush has been so ugly, so unfair, and so exaggerated that this seems almost what a Democratic candidate deserves. First Bush was called stupid. Then he became subhuman- - another blogger refers to him as The Smirking Chimp. After that, he became Bush The Retard. What's more, Bush has been called Hitler. WHy is it that liberals can call Bush whatever they like, but Oh-Blah-Blah is untouchable? If the Republican candidate were black, would it be OK to call him a monkey? Apparently.

No Birth, No Birthright

Barack Obama has stated that a college education is the birthright of every American. But how can you on one hand support unrestricted abortion on one hand, and then say that every baby has the right to higher education? Can you really say that before birth one has no rights, but upon birth you are owed your higher education?

Grandstanding "Conservative"

Madame Disraeli has announced that she will campaign for Hillary Clinton if McCain is the Republican candidate. Well, that makes perfect sense. If the present occupant of the White House hasn't been enough of a liberal for Mde. Disraeli, now she wants the next President to be even worse. Whatever else you can say about John McCain, at least he opposes abortion. If Disraeli thinks Hillary is better, she either needs to out herself as a liberal, or seek psycho-analysis. Hilary conservative? Come on!

Rinky Dink Reading Lists

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was recently given $1 million by banker John Allison on the condition that the University make Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged required reading.

Religious studies Professor Richard Cohen responded "It's going to make us look like a rinky-dink university. It's like teaching the Bible as a requirement." First of all, professors continue to make garbage like I Rigoberta Menchu and the musings of Michel Foucault required reading (not to mention the writings of Karl Marx). If atheistic left wingers are a legitimate subject, then why is the atheistic right-winger Rand off-limits? Second, why does Richard Cohen teach religious studies if the Bible offends him? What text does Cohen use in teaching about religion? It is high time that colleges have some balance in what students are expected to read. Allison is on the right track.

Worse Than Terrorists?

What does the judicial system's make up have to do with slavery (See my previous blog "Making slaves of free men")? The fact that liberals force their pro-abortion preferences on the Judiciary is much like what the slavery advocates did before the CIvil War. Even Chief Justice Roberts was asked at his confirmation about whether or not he believed in "the right to privacy," liberal-speak for abortion-on-demand. It is much like the way that slavery advocates jealously guarded every seat in Congress, and insisted on new slave states (including their dream- - five slave states to come out of Texas. ) The ultimate misuse was that of Justice Taney and Dred Scott. In much the same way, the pro-life movement is harassed, marginalized, and treated as terrorists. Indeed, with the current Democratic proclivities, being pro-life is worse than being a terrorist. Lincoln said that the Democrats of his time were making slaves out of free men, and by that Lincoln meant that slavery supporters were taking away what power the opponents of slavery had. Witness tha near-death of Senator Charles Sumner at the hands of a slavery supporter, a crime committed on the very floor of the Senate chamber. With the pro-abortion headlock on the judiciary, it is only likely to get worse for abortion opponents.

Your Name In Print

All three presidential hopefuls have written a book. Does this mean that the three are great thinkers, or that they're grandiose self-promoters? I don't recall Lincoln being a published writer, but that racist rascal Woodrow Wilson wrote several books.

Making Slaves of Free Men

For in order to prove that Americans have no right to their liberties, we are every day endeavoring to subvert the maxims which preserve the whole spirit of our own.
Edmund Burke
Conciliation With America, 1775

The Basketball Intellectuals

Percy Shelley once said that poets were the unacknowledged rulers of the world. Today it seems that sports figures are the unacknowledged legislators. Two cases in point: Rick Majerus, a basketball coach, declared himself to be in favor of both abortion and Hillary Clinton. Majerus works for a Catholic university, and Estase read an account of his stump speech where the journalist claimed that Majerus should be given "intellectual freedom" to say things his employer is sworn to oppose. First of all, there is nothing "intellectual" about being an athletic coach. Second, doesn't a Catholic organization have a right to ask its employees to avoid contradicting its own teachings? Would it be "intellectual freedom" for a Yeshiva to allow David Duke to join its staff?

Today, Charles Barkley, a professional basketball player, announced that he supported Barack Obama, also stating that Christians cannot "judge" others, and thus Christians are hypocrites. So let Estase get this straight- - you have a right to practice morality, but have no right to question the behavior of others. Would this mean that Dr. King had no right to speak out against racism? After all, that requires one to judge racists guilty of something, and Mr. Barkley says we cannot judge others. Ad infinitum, ad absurdum, ad nauseum.

Lost Causes and Opportunites Lost

Pro-lifers and opponents of oppression?

"If you succeed, you save those who cannot so much as give you thanks." Edmund Burke

Every Trifling Thing

Should the government interfere with commerce, as is depicted in this quote about the expansive government of pre-revolution France?

In other countries trade supports the state; in this the state must support trade: every trifling thing here requires the hand of government.

Lt. Colonel Alexander Jardine, quoted in John Lough's France on the Eve of Revolution

Natural Right

"Indeed, this formal recognition, by the sovereign power, of an original right in the subject, can never be subverted, but by rooting up the holding radical principles of government, and even of society itself."
Edmund Burke
Speech on Fox's East India Bill

New Perversion

A person calling himself Hunter at Daily Kos has brought forward a novel theory about perversion. Republicans are all (we are told) sexual perverts. I'll let the reader diagnose this person.

No shoving pictures of fetuses in people's faces, or taking their own daughters into "chastity vows", or pontificating about the dangers of man-on-dog relationships? Seriously, is this why Republicans are always so obsessed with governing everybody else's sex life- -because it's simply inconcievable to them that any two people would have a healthy non-messed-up relationship?

So anyone who opposes abortion is a pervert. And people who don't want their daughters to get pregnant or diseased in order to help give some creep twenty minutes of sexual pleasute are perverts too. The ones who really want to govern people's sex lives are the liberals who hand out free condoms. Incidently, these are the same people who want kids to lose their virginity before they know how to divide fractions. If thinking abortion is wrong is perversion, then Estase is a pervert. I suppose Hunter thinks Bill Clinton is healthy. Go figure.

The Reason Bugaboo

"I had rather be thought insane in my charity than rational in my malice."

Edmund Burke
Letter to Richard Burke, 1791

World Trade Center

Mamoud Akmenijad (hope I spelled it right) wanted to visit ground zero in New York. Estase found a copy of the speech he wanted to deliver there.

"We stand here upon the ground where many good men laid doen their lives in one battle of this great war. The sacrifices made here will never be forgotten. Nineteen brave soldiers of Allah defended the only true religion by bringing death to the infidel. By their sacrifice, 3000 pigs and monkeys died while engaged in their greedy commercial theft. But the war is not over, my friends. Not until the Zionist infidel are gone from the levant will Islam be vindicated. Some of you feel my country should not have nuclear weapons. You people have nuclear weapons, so you are hypocrites for keeping Iran from its peaceful nuclear program. You Americans must either do as we say, or many more of you pigs and monkeys will die. Allah Akbar! "

Apologies to Lawrence Sterne

So John Kerry and George W.Bush were both Skull and Bones. . .

Well Trim decided he wanted to be President. In 2004, he decided to run against Uncle Toby. So Trim thought the time he had spent in the army would help him. His friend Dan spread the word that Uncle Toby was not really in the army. But that wasn't true. So Trim tried to make himself a war hero, when in reality he was on the hobby horse with Daniel Ortega. So Trim lost the election, but retains a solid military bearing he never had when he actually was a soldier. But nitwits are the only ones to believe that Trim wasn't really trying.