Another day, another dog show. Today’s tips here, catch you later.
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over at Instapundit a really good Swiss idea on immigration.
That’s why we call them “al-Reuters.”
Reuters Palestinian Propaganda Watch
Here’s some pure propaganda from al-Reuters in the Gaza Strip, starting with the headline, which avoids telling you how this “youth” was killed; if Israeli soldiers were to blame, even if the youth were armed to the teeth and bent on murder the headline would scream, “Israel Kills Teenage Palestinian!”
Instead we get: Palestinian youth killed in protest at Gaza border.
GAZA (Reuters) – A teenage Palestinian protester was killed as tens of thousands of Gazans demonstrated in the southern part of the strip on Saturday against the closure of a border crossing with Egypt.
The demonstration lasted several hours and broke up after dark, local security officials said.
Hospital staff named the dead as 17-year-old Mohammed Qdaih who was accidentally hit by a bullet fired by Hamas Executive Force officers trying to keep the crowd under control.
That last sentence is a real whopper. They were firing live ammunition to “keep the crowd under control,” but it’s somehow an “accident” that a bullet hit someone? When was the last time you saw Reuters give Israel the presumption of innocence like this?
That’s why we call them “al-Reuters.” …- http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=26883_Reuters_Palestinian_Propaganda_Watch&only
QP today should be a real laugh fest..I see over at the egomaniac’s site (garth),that he,McGuinty,and Coderre will be on,and Garth bleats about Coderre ‘sure can talk a lot’..what’s the matter Garth,did Denis eat up some of your face time?Can’t wait to see if Giggles and the old owl even mention the puffin fiasco.
Goreacle, Hillary-Willary, and Hsu.
It’s a hit on Hillary? Who/whom is shooting the poisoned arrows at Hillary? Certainly not Cupid. The Goreacle?
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whiskey_199 said…
I do think you’re onto something, but for a bit more fun, who do you think actually broke the story?
I seriously DOUBT the WSJ reporters diligently pored over the lists of FEC reports looking for “spot the bagman” in the Hillary campaign.
THAT’s WORK. Reporters avoid that like the plague. They might actually have to do something that’s different from rewriting press releases and work up a sweat. THAT would never do.
I also seriously doubt that their Psychic Friend rang them up with the news. Dionne Warwick gave that up long ago.
My guess is that a campaign, a seriously run, well organized, disciplined to the point of having people pore over FEC lists to find embarrassing donors, and well-funded enough to assign what would appear to be several staffers to this task, is responsible. […]
The Seven Faces of Dr. Fu Man Hsu
If I had to put a finger on someone, I’d put it on the Goreacle. He’s got money coming out of his ears, has half the WSJ on speed-dial, and has nothing to do with his life but live down his defeat. Unless … a “crusader in shining armor comes … to rescue the party from the evil sleaze of Hillary, and save the planet!” Of course the danger of that play is that he was enmeshed in the Clinton era sleaze but he might be gambling that the tide of sewage won’t touch HIM.
Certainly the Goreacle won’t do anything of note if Hillary wins the nomination. And saving the planet is looking like last year’s fad. Nothing sadder than to be the pet rock. When Chia Pets are in vogue. …- http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/09/seven-faces-of-dr-fu-man-hsu.html
So if someone wishes to keep their religous beliefs to themselves why is necessary to dig around about them http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=59167&sc=89
I am not an evangelical Christian but this is not necessary, only a matter of time before this kind of story goes to the mainstream. Nothing wrong with it, just doesnt add anything and is vaguely prejudicial, the snide comments about fewer than 10% of Canadians are this way…imagine if that comment was made about Dosanjh or any muslim politician.
It is a subtle way of seperating someone from the majority….I am sure Harper is in unlike 99.9% of the population based on IQ as well.
I look forward to the atory on Jack Laytons non belief, what do Jack Layton and Olivia CHow do on Sunday’s…..if that is out of bounds so is this one.
Harper hasnt made his religon public nor an issue.
Silly
I read once that dion is an atheist, is that true.
No idea….perhaps the Halifax news can do a major story on his non beliefs….once again I dont care, they arent relevant unless the politician makes them relevant by invoking his beliefs as a way to get votes.
Just like your family life isnt really important unless it gets used to in some political way….to that extent if Harper was caught in an affair it would matter because he has put out an image of mr suburban (I think it is an authentic and true version)
But Harper keeps his spiritual beliefs to himself, as he should. Uncalled for story in my mind.
Once again I look forward to the news stories on Layton’s Sunday activities as well as Dion’s.
Of course those would be considered “inappropriate prying into their beliefs”
stephen – it’s more than silly; I suspect it’s part of a Liberal campaign to denigrate Harper.
The silly part is insisting that because X-person is so and so (Trask, a pastor of a particular mode of evangelical Christianity – which is sneered at in the article)..then..because X-person says he’s a ‘friend’ of Harper, then, Harper is equivalent to X-person.
That’s like saying that because I am friends with a particular novelist, then, I write novels too. Or, because I am friends with a physics Nobel laureate, then, I am a physics Nobel laureate as well. Silly – isn’t it.
But – the strategy is to denigrate Harper. I think the Liberals realize that their ‘hidden agenda’ is rather worn out in its ineptitude.
So- they are going for other attacks. Indirect attacks by other people. Religion may be one. I think it’s a weak attempt. Let’ see – what are the others? I can’t think of any..but I’m sure the Liberals will..
They are constantly trying to define him as a ‘control-freak’ – when he is doing what any responsible CEO ought to do. Is the leader supposed to be only the first person into the room, or, does he set the agenda? Are there no rules? So- that’s weak as well.
The Liberal problem is a deep structural problem. They don’t stand for anything; they have no policies. All they have is a sense of entitlement and a desire for Power. That’s all.
They operate as an elite clique, a tightly knit cabal of long term acquaintances and ‘friends’. Using the Canadian system of governing primarily by patronage appointments (senate, judiciary, deputy ministers, civil service, ceo’s of public corporations) – they’ve set this unappointed level up within their cabal of loyal dependents.
To keep this power, their tactic is ‘Feed the Peasants’. They do this with taxpayer money to fund huge blocs of dependents. The make-work projects in the maritimes. Bombardier and tremendous financial input into Quebec. Setting up the population as balkanized ethnic blocks and then, funding each block to maintain that isolation – and electoral loyalty. Funding other blocks – such as women’s groups – which don’t help women in need but act as jobs-for-middle class women bureaucrats..etc.
That’s the Liberal strategy. Govern by a huge set of unelected, appointed members-of-the-clique. And break the population into closed categories – and fund them. Oh- and control the MSM – via the CBC. And control the universities by rejecting private universities and research funding – and making the intellectual well-being of the country completely dependent on the Liberal mentality – ie, on the appointed bureaucrats in the research and university centres.
Any policies for Canadians and the good of Canada?
None. None. None.
Just puffery and a single goal. Power.
Texas just had a straw poll which Republican Duncan Hunter won.
Fred Thompson came in second.
Congressman Duncan Hunter is a Vietnam vet and hard-core conservative who wants to get over 800 miles of the US-Mexico wall built as quickly as possible.
This once again proves that conservatives do very well in Texas.
It also suggests that the sex scandals surrounding Senator Craig might have benevolent fallout on some very attractive second-tier Republican candidates.
The scandals will cause everyone’s sex life to be put under a microscope, and guys like Giuliani could have some trouble passing muster. This would be ok with me as, really, some of the second-tier candidates are better than the first tier.
Incidentally, a friend who occasionally casts an eye up toward Canada was suggesting we should try to get a bunch of Dion’s speeches together to play them at Texas parties.
You can imagine how a bunch of Texans drinking Lone Star beer and laughing and slapping their thighs would react to that crazy little guy babbling on in his broken English.
*
talk about a radical proposal… this man wants children to be able
to read and write, instead of simply rubber-stamping their report
cards and foisting them on an unsuspecting society.
sheesh.
*
“That’s the Liberal strategy. Govern by a huge set of unelected, appointed members-of-the-clique. And break the population into closed categories – and fund them. Oh- and control the MSM – via the CBC. And control the universities by rejecting private universities and research funding – and making the intellectual well-being of the country completely dependent on the Liberal mentality – ie, on the appointed bureaucrats in the research and university centres.”
ET, well said, though I’m not sure they have a formal plan to do this. They spent years gaining the necessary momentum to turn 25% of the population (all they need to ensure perpetual majorities) into their permanent constituency.
This had been done incrementally since 1993, and they job was nearly complete. They came ever so close, but Paul Martin’s swing to the left and Adscam, along with the sheer weight of their incompetency, killed the golden goose just as it was set to cross the finish line. Boy, that was close.
Now they are enraged at their near miss. They are engaged in projection – they’re pissed off, but Stephen Harper is angry; they’re arrogant p****s, but Harper is aloof. They literally oversaw (if not directly involved in) theft of taxpayers’ dollars, but the Tories are just as corrupt.
Kinda pathetic to see this once great party (though I’m not one of their fans, I can marvel at their ability to shape the message), reduced to a fringe party with an inexperienced leader with no ability to appeal to voters.
That’s why they huff, puff, and bluff about forcing an election. IMO they’re just putting off inevitable defeat next time.
Remember the Duke kerfuffle where three lacrosse players got railroaded? Well, according to a story on Drudge’s front page, there is someone going to jail as a result…that ‘someone’ is the prosecutor. He got a (largely symbolic) day in jail.
“Judge Sends Duke Prosecutor to Jail”
From the Globe and Mail: “Washington primed to halt credit crunch.” There are 41 comments, most of them thoughful.
It looks like the Fed is going to keep the revolving credit show open for another season or two. They’ve been too quick to react while there’s been trouble, and the investment industry has salivated as usual (though not quite on cue as of the beginning of this crisis.)
Another one from the Globe – a reprint of an Associated Press story: “Iran has met nuclear target: President.” It’s well on its way to reaching the top-4-in-comments list.
I believe that the rest of the story (that the claimed 3000 centrifuges is more like 2000) is accurate. Dysfunctional tyrannies, and/or dysfunctional governments, have a regular record of screwups of this sort, which are covered over by bluster and under-the-table threats to those in the know.
If you’re interested, I read one of those “insider” reports from a market letter, which was published about a year after “Gorbymania.” It contained an item which said that some of a new slew of impressive-looking tanks built by the then-U.S.S.R. had no engines in them. So, they looked formidable, but…
Abortion is the “eugenics” of today.
Charles Lindbergh was mugged by reality when he saw the end result of eugenics: National Socialism’s death camps.
…-
‘The Immortalists’ by David Friedman
Charles Lindbergh and a noted surgeon try to build a better kind of human. […]
More unsettling are their political beliefs. Carrel saw democracy as “an error of the brain”; “There is no escaping the fact that man was definitely not created equal,” he told the New York Times in 1935. That year, he published the bestselling “Man, the Unknown,” which Friedman calls a “blend of science and spiritualism, self-denial and sexism, nostalgia and authoritarianism, hubris and eugenics.” Arguing that “the feeble-minded and the man of intelligence should not be equal before the law,” Carrel proposed a “high council of experts” to help perfect humankind by eliminating the criminally insane and other undesirables.
Abeliever in eugenics, Lindbergh followed a similar path. Ironically, he would split with Carrel on a crucial issue of the day. In Nazi Germany and Hitler, Lindbergh saw a crucial bulwark against the Eastern hordes he thought would overtake the West. Putting aside his lab pursuits, he embarked on a still notorious political campaign, calling for a rapprochement with Germany. (Though both men were anti-Semites, Friedman cautiously argues that they were not committed to the annihilation of the Jews.) But Carrel, a veteran of World War I, couldn’t support a resurgent Germany as “the West’s great protector.” The outbreak of war and internal politics at the Rockefeller Institute ended Carrel’s research. Forced into retirement by his disapproving boss in 1938, Carrel returned to France, where he would die in 1944, his legacy mired in accusations of collaboration.
Friedman’s account of Lindbergh’s postwar trajectory is unexpectedly poignant. If he was an intolerant, even sinister figure in the 1930s — see Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America” for its chilling vision of a Lindbergh presidency — the war changed him. A 1945 tour of a Nazi death camp led him to realize that there was a direct line from his elitist scientific vision to the horrors of Nazism. “How can one work for the idol of science when it demands the sacrifice of cities full of children, makes robots of men, and blinds their eyes to God?” he asked in a 1948 book. Friedman gives the last word to a leading tissue culture specialist, who says of Lindbergh and Carrel’s research, “All of us are following in their footsteps.” *
Matthew Price is a journalist and critic in New York. …- http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-bk-price2sep02,0,2482401.story?coll=la-books-center
Facing the Past: New generations learn about shameful forced sterilizations
The looks on their faces were somber as they listened to recordings of the stories of those who were forcibly sterilized under North Carolina’s eugenics program.
About 300 people came to Winston-Salem State University yesterday for an opening reception and to see the state’s new exhibit explaining the program.
“Look at the ages, 13, 14,” said Johnetta Huntley, a counselor at Parkland High School. “They’re all young.
“Our children need to be exposed to this so they won’t let something of this nature happen again.”
The interactive exhibit opened in Raleigh in June and made its first stop on the road at WSSU earlier this month.
The state’s eugenics program lasted from 1929 until 1974….- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890235/posts
Neo, I agree. If our kids are coming out of grade 12 with all the necessary skills, why are colleges and universities offering upgradig skills. I hate to admit, but when my grandson was in grade 9, he come home very excited. He had learned what a sentence was. He said, grandma do you know that a sentence is the words between a word starting with a capital and a period at the end. It took a lot of arguing, but he finally decided to repeat grade nine. Only when the Board was presented with a letter, signed by the student requesting being held back, was it done. We were given excuses re funding, self-esteem, and a lot of other crap. Didn’t hurt him a bit.
NYT slimes again. NYT wages war against Western civilization. NYT is a treasonous nest of vipers.
Down with the NewYorkSlimes.
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ALLIES WIPE OUT 70 TALIBAN
Afghan troops backed by foreign soldiers and air power killed about 70 Taliban fighters in raids close to the Pakistan border and throughout the country, authorities said yesterday. …- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890290/posts
Afghan Police Suffer Setbacks as Taliban Adapt
NY Times
[…]
The Taliban also wage…- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890302/posts
over at Instapundit a really good Swiss idea on immigration.
That’s why we call them “al-Reuters.”
Reuters Palestinian Propaganda Watch
Here’s some pure propaganda from al-Reuters in the Gaza Strip, starting with the headline, which avoids telling you how this “youth” was killed; if Israeli soldiers were to blame, even if the youth were armed to the teeth and bent on murder the headline would scream, “Israel Kills Teenage Palestinian!”
Instead we get: Palestinian youth killed in protest at Gaza border.
GAZA (Reuters) – A teenage Palestinian protester was killed as tens of thousands of Gazans demonstrated in the southern part of the strip on Saturday against the closure of a border crossing with Egypt.
The demonstration lasted several hours and broke up after dark, local security officials said.
Hospital staff named the dead as 17-year-old Mohammed Qdaih who was accidentally hit by a bullet fired by Hamas Executive Force officers trying to keep the crowd under control.
That last sentence is a real whopper. They were firing live ammunition to “keep the crowd under control,” but it’s somehow an “accident” that a bullet hit someone? When was the last time you saw Reuters give Israel the presumption of innocence like this?
That’s why we call them “al-Reuters.” …-
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=26883_Reuters_Palestinian_Propaganda_Watch&only
QP today should be a real laugh fest..I see over at the egomaniac’s site (garth),that he,McGuinty,and Coderre will be on,and Garth bleats about Coderre ‘sure can talk a lot’..what’s the matter Garth,did Denis eat up some of your face time?Can’t wait to see if Giggles and the old owl even mention the puffin fiasco.
Goreacle, Hillary-Willary, and Hsu.
It’s a hit on Hillary? Who/whom is shooting the poisoned arrows at Hillary? Certainly not Cupid. The Goreacle?
…-
whiskey_199 said…
I do think you’re onto something, but for a bit more fun, who do you think actually broke the story?
I seriously DOUBT the WSJ reporters diligently pored over the lists of FEC reports looking for “spot the bagman” in the Hillary campaign.
THAT’s WORK. Reporters avoid that like the plague. They might actually have to do something that’s different from rewriting press releases and work up a sweat. THAT would never do.
I also seriously doubt that their Psychic Friend rang them up with the news. Dionne Warwick gave that up long ago.
My guess is that a campaign, a seriously run, well organized, disciplined to the point of having people pore over FEC lists to find embarrassing donors, and well-funded enough to assign what would appear to be several staffers to this task, is responsible. […]
The Seven Faces of Dr. Fu Man Hsu
If I had to put a finger on someone, I’d put it on the Goreacle. He’s got money coming out of his ears, has half the WSJ on speed-dial, and has nothing to do with his life but live down his defeat. Unless … a “crusader in shining armor comes … to rescue the party from the evil sleaze of Hillary, and save the planet!” Of course the danger of that play is that he was enmeshed in the Clinton era sleaze but he might be gambling that the tide of sewage won’t touch HIM.
Certainly the Goreacle won’t do anything of note if Hillary wins the nomination. And saving the planet is looking like last year’s fad. Nothing sadder than to be the pet rock. When Chia Pets are in vogue. …-
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/09/seven-faces-of-dr-fu-man-hsu.html
So if someone wishes to keep their religous beliefs to themselves why is necessary to dig around about them
http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=59167&sc=89
I am not an evangelical Christian but this is not necessary, only a matter of time before this kind of story goes to the mainstream. Nothing wrong with it, just doesnt add anything and is vaguely prejudicial, the snide comments about fewer than 10% of Canadians are this way…imagine if that comment was made about Dosanjh or any muslim politician.
It is a subtle way of seperating someone from the majority….I am sure Harper is in unlike 99.9% of the population based on IQ as well.
I look forward to the atory on Jack Laytons non belief, what do Jack Layton and Olivia CHow do on Sunday’s…..if that is out of bounds so is this one.
Harper hasnt made his religon public nor an issue.
Silly
I read once that dion is an atheist, is that true.
No idea….perhaps the Halifax news can do a major story on his non beliefs….once again I dont care, they arent relevant unless the politician makes them relevant by invoking his beliefs as a way to get votes.
Just like your family life isnt really important unless it gets used to in some political way….to that extent if Harper was caught in an affair it would matter because he has put out an image of mr suburban (I think it is an authentic and true version)
But Harper keeps his spiritual beliefs to himself, as he should. Uncalled for story in my mind.
Once again I look forward to the news stories on Layton’s Sunday activities as well as Dion’s.
Of course those would be considered “inappropriate prying into their beliefs”
stephen – it’s more than silly; I suspect it’s part of a Liberal campaign to denigrate Harper.
The silly part is insisting that because X-person is so and so (Trask, a pastor of a particular mode of evangelical Christianity – which is sneered at in the article)..then..because X-person says he’s a ‘friend’ of Harper, then, Harper is equivalent to X-person.
That’s like saying that because I am friends with a particular novelist, then, I write novels too. Or, because I am friends with a physics Nobel laureate, then, I am a physics Nobel laureate as well. Silly – isn’t it.
But – the strategy is to denigrate Harper. I think the Liberals realize that their ‘hidden agenda’ is rather worn out in its ineptitude.
So- they are going for other attacks. Indirect attacks by other people. Religion may be one. I think it’s a weak attempt. Let’ see – what are the others? I can’t think of any..but I’m sure the Liberals will..
They are constantly trying to define him as a ‘control-freak’ – when he is doing what any responsible CEO ought to do. Is the leader supposed to be only the first person into the room, or, does he set the agenda? Are there no rules? So- that’s weak as well.
The Liberal problem is a deep structural problem. They don’t stand for anything; they have no policies. All they have is a sense of entitlement and a desire for Power. That’s all.
They operate as an elite clique, a tightly knit cabal of long term acquaintances and ‘friends’. Using the Canadian system of governing primarily by patronage appointments (senate, judiciary, deputy ministers, civil service, ceo’s of public corporations) – they’ve set this unappointed level up within their cabal of loyal dependents.
To keep this power, their tactic is ‘Feed the Peasants’. They do this with taxpayer money to fund huge blocs of dependents. The make-work projects in the maritimes. Bombardier and tremendous financial input into Quebec. Setting up the population as balkanized ethnic blocks and then, funding each block to maintain that isolation – and electoral loyalty. Funding other blocks – such as women’s groups – which don’t help women in need but act as jobs-for-middle class women bureaucrats..etc.
That’s the Liberal strategy. Govern by a huge set of unelected, appointed members-of-the-clique. And break the population into closed categories – and fund them. Oh- and control the MSM – via the CBC. And control the universities by rejecting private universities and research funding – and making the intellectual well-being of the country completely dependent on the Liberal mentality – ie, on the appointed bureaucrats in the research and university centres.
Any policies for Canadians and the good of Canada?
None. None. None.
Just puffery and a single goal. Power.
Advertising at Newspapers Falls 8.6 Percent
http://newsmax.com/insidecover/Newspaper_ads_fall/2007/09/01/29202.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2369001.ece
The pentagon has planned to take out the entire Iranian military capability, in a three day blitz.Some will decry Yankee “War-mongering”, I’d call it good planning , for the inevitable.
Texas just had a straw poll which Republican Duncan Hunter won.
Fred Thompson came in second.
Congressman Duncan Hunter is a Vietnam vet and hard-core conservative who wants to get over 800 miles of the US-Mexico wall built as quickly as possible.
This once again proves that conservatives do very well in Texas.
It also suggests that the sex scandals surrounding Senator Craig might have benevolent fallout on some very attractive second-tier Republican candidates.
The scandals will cause everyone’s sex life to be put under a microscope, and guys like Giuliani could have some trouble passing muster. This would be ok with me as, really, some of the second-tier candidates are better than the first tier.
Incidentally, a friend who occasionally casts an eye up toward Canada was suggesting we should try to get a bunch of Dion’s speeches together to play them at Texas parties.
You can imagine how a bunch of Texans drinking Lone Star beer and laughing and slapping their thighs would react to that crazy little guy babbling on in his broken English.
*
talk about a radical proposal… this man wants children to be able
to read and write, instead of simply rubber-stamping their report
cards and foisting them on an unsuspecting society.
sheesh.
*
“That’s the Liberal strategy. Govern by a huge set of unelected, appointed members-of-the-clique. And break the population into closed categories – and fund them. Oh- and control the MSM – via the CBC. And control the universities by rejecting private universities and research funding – and making the intellectual well-being of the country completely dependent on the Liberal mentality – ie, on the appointed bureaucrats in the research and university centres.”
ET, well said, though I’m not sure they have a formal plan to do this. They spent years gaining the necessary momentum to turn 25% of the population (all they need to ensure perpetual majorities) into their permanent constituency.
This had been done incrementally since 1993, and they job was nearly complete. They came ever so close, but Paul Martin’s swing to the left and Adscam, along with the sheer weight of their incompetency, killed the golden goose just as it was set to cross the finish line. Boy, that was close.
Now they are enraged at their near miss. They are engaged in projection – they’re pissed off, but Stephen Harper is angry; they’re arrogant p****s, but Harper is aloof. They literally oversaw (if not directly involved in) theft of taxpayers’ dollars, but the Tories are just as corrupt.
Kinda pathetic to see this once great party (though I’m not one of their fans, I can marvel at their ability to shape the message), reduced to a fringe party with an inexperienced leader with no ability to appeal to voters.
That’s why they huff, puff, and bluff about forcing an election. IMO they’re just putting off inevitable defeat next time.
Good commentary on the different goals of liberal and conservative bloggers:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/049lytsl.asp
Remember the Duke kerfuffle where three lacrosse players got railroaded? Well, according to a story on Drudge’s front page, there is someone going to jail as a result…that ‘someone’ is the prosecutor. He got a (largely symbolic) day in jail.
“Judge Sends Duke Prosecutor to Jail”
From the Globe and Mail: “Washington primed to halt credit crunch.” There are 41 comments, most of them thoughful.
It looks like the Fed is going to keep the revolving credit show open for another season or two. They’ve been too quick to react while there’s been trouble, and the investment industry has salivated as usual (though not quite on cue as of the beginning of this crisis.)
Another one from the Globe – a reprint of an Associated Press story: “Iran has met nuclear target: President.” It’s well on its way to reaching the top-4-in-comments list.
I believe that the rest of the story (that the claimed 3000 centrifuges is more like 2000) is accurate. Dysfunctional tyrannies, and/or dysfunctional governments, have a regular record of screwups of this sort, which are covered over by bluster and under-the-table threats to those in the know.
If you’re interested, I read one of those “insider” reports from a market letter, which was published about a year after “Gorbymania.” It contained an item which said that some of a new slew of impressive-looking tanks built by the then-U.S.S.R. had no engines in them. So, they looked formidable, but…
Abortion is the “eugenics” of today.
Charles Lindbergh was mugged by reality when he saw the end result of eugenics: National Socialism’s death camps.
…-
‘The Immortalists’ by David Friedman
Charles Lindbergh and a noted surgeon try to build a better kind of human. […]
More unsettling are their political beliefs. Carrel saw democracy as “an error of the brain”; “There is no escaping the fact that man was definitely not created equal,” he told the New York Times in 1935. That year, he published the bestselling “Man, the Unknown,” which Friedman calls a “blend of science and spiritualism, self-denial and sexism, nostalgia and authoritarianism, hubris and eugenics.” Arguing that “the feeble-minded and the man of intelligence should not be equal before the law,” Carrel proposed a “high council of experts” to help perfect humankind by eliminating the criminally insane and other undesirables.
Abeliever in eugenics, Lindbergh followed a similar path. Ironically, he would split with Carrel on a crucial issue of the day. In Nazi Germany and Hitler, Lindbergh saw a crucial bulwark against the Eastern hordes he thought would overtake the West. Putting aside his lab pursuits, he embarked on a still notorious political campaign, calling for a rapprochement with Germany. (Though both men were anti-Semites, Friedman cautiously argues that they were not committed to the annihilation of the Jews.) But Carrel, a veteran of World War I, couldn’t support a resurgent Germany as “the West’s great protector.” The outbreak of war and internal politics at the Rockefeller Institute ended Carrel’s research. Forced into retirement by his disapproving boss in 1938, Carrel returned to France, where he would die in 1944, his legacy mired in accusations of collaboration.
Friedman’s account of Lindbergh’s postwar trajectory is unexpectedly poignant. If he was an intolerant, even sinister figure in the 1930s — see Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America” for its chilling vision of a Lindbergh presidency — the war changed him. A 1945 tour of a Nazi death camp led him to realize that there was a direct line from his elitist scientific vision to the horrors of Nazism. “How can one work for the idol of science when it demands the sacrifice of cities full of children, makes robots of men, and blinds their eyes to God?” he asked in a 1948 book. Friedman gives the last word to a leading tissue culture specialist, who says of Lindbergh and Carrel’s research, “All of us are following in their footsteps.” *
Matthew Price is a journalist and critic in New York. …-
http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-bk-price2sep02,0,2482401.story?coll=la-books-center
Facing the Past: New generations learn about shameful forced sterilizations
The looks on their faces were somber as they listened to recordings of the stories of those who were forcibly sterilized under North Carolina’s eugenics program.
About 300 people came to Winston-Salem State University yesterday for an opening reception and to see the state’s new exhibit explaining the program.
“Look at the ages, 13, 14,” said Johnetta Huntley, a counselor at Parkland High School. “They’re all young.
“Our children need to be exposed to this so they won’t let something of this nature happen again.”
The interactive exhibit opened in Raleigh in June and made its first stop on the road at WSSU earlier this month.
The state’s eugenics program lasted from 1929 until 1974….-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890235/posts
http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/507/30/
Mark Steyn’s article of Sept.8TH, 2001 is back up at his website.
“Techno-Racists Bearing Cheques”
Neo, I agree. If our kids are coming out of grade 12 with all the necessary skills, why are colleges and universities offering upgradig skills. I hate to admit, but when my grandson was in grade 9, he come home very excited. He had learned what a sentence was. He said, grandma do you know that a sentence is the words between a word starting with a capital and a period at the end. It took a lot of arguing, but he finally decided to repeat grade nine. Only when the Board was presented with a letter, signed by the student requesting being held back, was it done. We were given excuses re funding, self-esteem, and a lot of other crap. Didn’t hurt him a bit.
Is cloud formation via cosmic rays “voodoo science”? (Please see comments: The Sound of Settled Science, August 31st.2007.)
For those who missed my first posting of this link, these folks may find the answer:
http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Content/Chapters/Spotlight/SpotlightCloud-en.html
NYT slimes again. NYT wages war against Western civilization. NYT is a treasonous nest of vipers.
Down with the NewYorkSlimes.
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ALLIES WIPE OUT 70 TALIBAN
Afghan troops backed by foreign soldiers and air power killed about 70 Taliban fighters in raids close to the Pakistan border and throughout the country, authorities said yesterday. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890290/posts
Afghan Police Suffer Setbacks as Taliban Adapt
NY Times
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The Taliban also wage…-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890302/posts