Just a little old WHOOPS. Especially that last bullet...

A New Year's Toast

to my betters at the U.N.

Why I'm a Lutheran.

UPDATE on New Year's Eve: Maybe miracles DO happen after all. Unfortunately, it only lifts my opinion of the general behavior of the Vatican only a few inches out of the gutter. I'll watch for a trend though. But I'll be very careful not to turn blue...

More Projection: Today's Oppressed Spoiled Lib Bourgeois

Did I forget to mention that Orwell said "The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle, while living on food which British sailors have to risk their lives to bring you, is a bourgeois illusion bred of money and security."? Oh yeah, I did.

Did I forget to mention that the libs nowadays constitute the "oppressed" bourgeois? It must be true -- Hitler was a Christian you know so therefore W and me are the Nazis that are doing the oppressing ... ummmmmm ... did I mention that Hitler was a pagan atheist who killed probably more Christians than Jews? Did I mention that that's really saying something?

Well, OK then, let's not forget that I'm the only known Norwegian descendent of Ferdinand so that's all the libs need to know. That's the ticket! All those Nazi Gomer Christians all uniformly voting against the enlightened libs who with superior humanity agree with enlightened barbaric Muslims chanting that wiping the Jews from the earth will solve all the world's problems.

Did I mention that Ferdinand likely incinerated more Jews than Moors?

Did I mention that it's really the libs and Ferdinand -- and Hitler -- that are the real soulmates in this picture?

The Current Jaw Dropper
"In a series of e-mails I patiently explained that Bush couldn't be Hitler since Hitler was dead. He also couldn't be a "new Hitler" since the two men have policies almost diametrically opposed. Most significantly, Bush is attempting to replace genocidal dictatorships with secular democracies. Hitler did everything he could do to destroy democracies and replace them with genocidal dictators. I thought my sister might understand the difference. I also pointed out that Hitler was a starving artist who joined the National Socialist Party, supported gun control, abortion, government control of corporations, was an athiest with an affinity for paganism, hated Jews and allied himself with radical Muslims. I then noted that the Democratic Party, not the Republicans, had a platform which came closest to Hitler's. In other words, using objective reality, not delustional rantings, Hitler is closer politically to the Democrats than to Bush."

And that being on the other side like they are is "a bourgeois illusion bred of money and security."

And that their claim to being oppressed is pure horsepucky hip deep?

The libs don't understand what Emmet Fox calls the the greatest and most fundamental "Laws of Mind": What You Think Upon Grows.

What you think upon grows. This is an Eastern maxim, and it sums up neatly the greatest and most fundamental of all the Laws of Mind. What you think upon grows.

What you think upon grows. Whatever you allow to occupy your mind you magnify in your life. Whether the subject of your thoughts be good or bad, the law works and the condition grows. Any subject that you keep out of your mind tends to diminish in your life, because what you do not use atrophies.

The more you think about your indigestion or your rheumatism, the worse it will become. The more you think of yourself as healthy and well, the better will your body be.

The more you think about lack, bad times, etc., the worse will your business be; and the more you think of prosperity, abundance, and success, the more of these things will you bring into your life.

The more you think about your grievances or the injustices that you have suffered, the more such trials will you continue to receive; and the more you think of the good fortune you have had, the more good fortune will come to you.

This is the basic, fundamental, all-inclusive Law of Mind, and actually all psychological and metaphysical teaching is little more than a commentary upon this.

What you think upon grows (Phillippians 4:8)

The Roe Effect will nicely accelerate the libs extinction. But Emmet Fox knew the real reason why they are toast -- it's the libs that are nihilism's soulmates.

Not us dim and happy Gomer Christians.

Did I mention that all the self-centered and ill-behaved lib whining and invective reminds me of my children on a bad day? Well, if I did I'm taking it back since it would be unfair to them...

And now you know why they're called the "Victocrats".

Did I mention that would be spelled with a "victim" and not a "victory"?

I Love My Two Little Entities

I love my two young sons dearly -- certainly right from when I saw them in mid-gestation courtesy of ultrasound technology. If you haven't had the experience of seeing ultrasounds of your child then I respectfully suggest you're rather less than qualified to flap your gums about when life starts.

James puts the libs problems with "entities" and the realities of life in a pretty stunning light with this entry:

Where Do Babies Come From?
You probably heard about this horrific story that broke just as we were leaving on vacation: A woman was charged with murdering another woman in Missouri. The victim was eight months pregnant, and the suspect, who wanted a baby, allegedly cut the victim's womb open and took the . . . well, what did she take exactly?

A Dec. 17 Associated Press headline read, "Search On for Fetus Cut From Mother's Womb." But the first sentence of the story reads: "Police were trying to find an infant they believe could still be alive after being cut from the womb of its mother." So was this a fetus or an infant? The young entity eventually was found alive, and a Dec. 19 CNN.com headline seems to answer the question definitively: "Dad United With Kidnapped Girl."

Read the rest...

Emmet Fox On Liars

"The punishment of the LIAR is that he cannot believe anyone else." -- Make Your Life Worthwhile, Harper Collins, p. 42

Who said the left is never punished?

Moi?

NORM MINETTA -- nuttier than a Cuckoo Clock. Sorry folks, but this one is signed, sealed and delivered...

Redux Deluxe

In "The Year Of Blogging Dangerously", I realized that I missed Beautiful Atrocities take on the liberal film critics -- don't you make the same mistake!

There is a war going on in Iraq, it's just not the one you read about in the mass media. How illegitimate of them!

Michelle knows why I call it the NYeT...

Roger on "The Khan Game" -- And Orwell On The AP

Roger has a great title for this post, don't you think? And one of his commenters nicely ties together Monsieur Khan with Saddam and the AP Fifth Column:

I keep waiting for the Saddam connection to surface in this. According to a story by William Safire about a year ago, Saddam was buying rocket propellant from China and having it transshipped through France into Syria. Saddam was also working with other terrorist states in the area, why not also with Col. Kadahfy. Saddam was certainly stealing enough money from the "Oil for Food" fiasco to front the money and he couldn't build it in Iraq with the American flyovers and Satellite coverage. Plans for a 10 kiloton bomb, that would certainly give the AP a story wouldn't it if they had their camera's all set up for a "demonstration" say in New York. Wonder if they would tip off the police or would that also be against their ethics of being neutral?

That would be correct -- absolutely against their ethics... And you won't find them quoting Orwell on the topic of themselves either:

Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, ‘he that is not with me is against me’. The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle, while living on food which British sailors have to risk their lives to bring you, is a bourgeois illusion bred of money and security. Mr Savage remarks that ‘according to this type of reasoning, a German or Japanese pacifist would be “objectively pro-British”.’ But of course he would be! That is why pacifist activities are not permitted in those countries (in both of them the penalty is, or can be, beheading) while both the Germans and the Japanese do all they can to encourage the spread of pacifism in British and American territories. The Germans even run a spurious ‘freedom’ station which serves out pacifist propaganda indistinguishable from that of the P.P.U. They would stimulate pacifism in Russia as well if they could, but in that case they have tougher babies to deal with. In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism.

"[A] bourgeois illusion bred of money and security" pretty much nails the problem the West faces, doesn't it?

The AP's excuse for avoiding this sort of proper historical context provided by the true greats is that that would be too intellectual for you. No, I don't think that's it somehow. Orwell had a general ripost to that as well:

‘Mr Orwell is intellectual-hunting again’ (Mr Comfort). I have never attacked ‘the intellectuals’ or ‘the intelligentsia’ en bloc. I have used a lot of ink and done myself a lot of harm by attacking the successive literary cliques which have infested this country, not because they were intellectuals but precisely because they were not what I mean by true intellectuals. The life of a clique is about five years and I have been writing long enough to see three of them come and two go — the Catholic gang, the Stalinist gang, and the present pacifist or, as they are sometimes nicknamed, Fascifist gang. My case against all of them is that they write mentally dishonest propaganda and degrade literary criticism to mutual arse-licking. But even with these various schools I would differentiate between individuals. I would never think of coupling Christopher Dawson with Arnold Lunn, or Malraux with Palme Dutt, or Max Plowman with the Duke of Bedford. And even the work of one individual can exist at very different levels. For instance Mr Comfort himself wrote one poem I value greatly (‘The Atoll in the Mind’), and I wish he would write more of them instead of lifeless propaganda tracts dressed up as novels. But his letter he has chosen to send you is a different matter. Instead of answering what I have said he tries to prejudice an audience to whom I am little known by a misrepresentation of my general line and sneers about my ‘status’ in England. (A writer isn’t judged by his ‘status’, he is judged by his work.) That is on a par with ‘peace’ propaganda which has to avoid mention of Hitler’s invasion of Russia, and it is not what I mean by intellectual honesty. It is just because I do take the function of the intelligentsia seriously that I don’t like the sneers, libels, parrot phrased and financially profitable back-scratching which flourish in our English literary world, and perhaps in yours also.

Ra^ther I suspect the AP are quite glad to keep the word Fascifist from coming back into style at all costs lest it inevitably find its proper mark. Perhaps today Orwell would have noticed that "sneers, libels, parrot phrased and financially profitable back-scratching" has some application to AP's brand of "journalism", no?

Did I forget to mention that Orwell's "Pacifism and the War" is over right in my "Classics" section? I've cajoled you to read it before -- it's short. And timely for being written over sixty years ago...

The Coloradoan does still screw up once in a while and print something resembling a decent Conservative Soapbox. I think I can hear their teeth grinding all the way over here in the opposite corner of Fort Collins when they do!

And I neglected to make you aware of this Christmas laugh on time with all the hustle and bustle with the boys. But it's still worth reading! Nice job George!

Memory Hole Off The Port Bow...

I missed this one. It pretty much seals the existence of the MSMemory Hole:

John Hawkins: Do you think the left has largely gotten a pass for being so completely, utterly, and entirely wrong about the effects of Reagan's decision to abandon detente and challenge the Soviet Union?

Ann Coulter: The fact that there still is a Democratic Party proves that.

LOL

My New "Sunny" Attitude?

Wretchard has absolutely MUST READ thoughts on sunshine. As in, the AP where the sun don't shine...

A key item in the dictator's toolbox.

Quote Of The Year

"The great sweep of history is for freedom." Surely you know who said it?

In an effort to hang on to the CHRISTMAS SPIRIT, I'm going to refrain from the harsh words I was just about to use on the MSM and let Glenn sum things up somewhat more diplomatically ...