Victor Davis Hanson takes a look at – as Kate puts it – the opposite of diversity.
Brief excerpt:
Do colleges routinely invite graduation speakers who are skeptical of man-made global warming, and have reservations about present abortion laws, gay marriage, or illegal immigration — if only for the sake of ensuring diverse views?
That’s what you call yer’ basic rhetorical question.
Reagan campaigning for Senator Goldwater: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHuGvhelcGU
“Ronald Reagan A Time for Choosing, also known as The Speech, was a speech presented during the 1964 U.S. presidential election campaign by future president Ronald Reagan on behalf of Republican candidate Barry Goldwater.”
If this sounds like it could still apply today…
note: I can still hear my parents speaking in fear about what could have happened if the evil Goldwater “got in”.
And of course, in response to Goldwater’s slogan of, “In your heart, you know he’s right”, the left, and their media pals responded, “Far right”. And Goldwater was toast.
“I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” —Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One –
“These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.”—LBJ http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/articles-cars/40889
Goldwater couldn’t hold a candle to Reagan. He was a true patriot, but no where near the qualities of Reagan. Unfortunately went left, or maybe just nuts in some important ways, such as opposing Christians in the Republican Party who opposed abortion, and opposed a ban on openly gay members of the armed services. He also pushed for marijuana legalization. I imagine he’d be a big Gary Johnson nut, today.
So the news is reporting that Captain Stupid (Obama) is considering sanctions against the Ukraine. For the leaders of Ukraine, this is absolutely genius, as it only drives Ukraine deeper into the arms of Russia.
I don’t know a whole lot about Goldwater; it just struck me as I was watching the ad how incredibly unlikely it is that we’ll ever see another Republican nominee uttering the same anti-government sentiments in a presidential campaign ad — he’d be drummed out of the nomination process early on by the RINO’s.
These days it’s all about whose votes you can buy — “for (X) we’ll do this, for (Y) we promise to…”
It’s too bad.
This is a really interesting essay, if you have the time – maybe set it aside for Sunday: “What Made Alexander Great?”
h/t Isegoria
In 1968, Goldwater was my second choice for president after George Wallace. That must have been the start of my choosing a path that few other people do. One has to wonder how different the US would be now if Goldwater had been elected back then instead of the socialist LBJ.
Today’s university diversity is the modern Komsomnol.
Seems that situation in Ukraine is going steadily towards a potential civil war. 70 people shot dead today and one wonders when the nationalists will start using the guns they seized from the armories they took over in Lviv and other western Ukrainian cities. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/world/europe/protesters-join-fight-in-kiev-100-at-a-time.html?action=click&contentCollection=Europe&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=article
What I find striking is how Ukrainian nationalists are portrayed as somehow being “fascist”. My father was a militant Ukrainian nationalist when the part of western Ukraine he lived in was occupied by Poland until 1939. Somehow it seems that “self-determination” is just for those groups which are the darlings of statists whereas Ukrainians wanting self-determination doesn’t fit the blueprint of statists.
Agree.
“My father was a militant Ukrainian nationalist when the part of western Ukraine he lived in was occupied by Poland until 1939.” Must be a story there as to how he got to Canada.
We stayed in a hotel at the bottom of European Square in 2008. This is a nice part of the central area of Kiev, and there is a nice wide park like boulevard street that ends there.
Presidential elections before civil war.
However, there will be heated arguments between Yatsenyuk, Klitschko, Petro Poroshenko and Tyhanybok on who will face Viktor the Butcher.
Steyn has a very good post up: http://www.steynonline.com/6106/the-mann-i-love
and even more interesting he has filed his amended complaint and is counter-suing Mann for $10 million: http://www.steynonline.com/documents/6109.pdf
This could get very interesting. I wasn’t sure at first how seriously Steyn was taking it, but now I think he is in it for real. If he beats Mann it will be epic.
Please consider posting Kate. Thanks.
Green-Red Fraud.
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“Large Andasol 3 Parabolic Solar Plant Losing Tens Of Millions After Broke Spain Eliminates Green Energy Subsidies”
“Germany’s leading financial daily Handelsblatt here writes that the Spanish Andasol 3 parabolic solar power generation plant in Spain “is producing foremost one thing: losses“.” http://notrickszone.com/2014/02/21/large-andasol-3-parabolic-solar-plant-losing-millions-after-broke-spain-eliminates-green-energy-subsidies/
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“Giant Goderich wind farm gets go-ahead”
Construction of a massive wind farm — equal to the largest ever planned in Ontario — is set to start after a victory for the company at the Environmental Review Tribunal.” http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/
AGW Clutches, Freezes, and Kills.
…–
“Toronto roads could become skating rinks Friday as cold front, wind slams rain-drenched city”
“‘By evening we’ll be below freezing, so we’re expecting all this water that’s ponding everywhere to freeze,’ said Environment Canada’s Marie-Eve Giguere ” (NP)
…-
“Polar Vortex to Clutch Midwest, Northeast Again Next Week” http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/frigid-air-to-clutch-midwest-east/23498242
AGW-Neo Progress Report.
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“Michael Mann Faces Bankruptcy as his Courtroom Climate Capers Collapse”
“Massive counterclaims, in excess of $10 million, have just been filed against climate scientist Michael Mann after lawyers affirmed that the former golden boy of global warming alarmism had sensationally failed in his exasperating three-year bid to sue skeptic Canadian climatologist, Tim Ball. Door now wide open for criminal investigation into Climategate conspiracy.
Buoyed by Dr Ball’s successes, journalist and free-speech defender, Mark Steyn has promptly decided to likewise countersue Michael Mann for $10 million in response to a similar SLAPP suit filed by the litigious professor from Penn. State University against not just Steyn, but also the National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Rand Simberg. Ball’s countersuit against Mann seeks “exemplary and punitive damages”.” http://www.principia-scientific.org/michael-mann-faces-bankruptcy-as-his-courtroom-climate-capers-collapse.html
COMMIE RATS
We need to bring that term back into common use. People like Goldwater were maligned for making generalized statements about the left. He saw the left as a monolith. The left responded by lumping him with the John Birch Society. They called him a far-right war-monger. Few called him a Nazi, but the implication was there.
In fact the Nazis were totalitarian socialists who rejected communism because Hitler did not want to kow-tow to Stalin. Nazi means national socialist. Labeling the Nazis as right-wing was an enormous propaganda victory for the left.
The American extreme right are not big-government Nazis, they are tiny-government libertarians. They want to eliminate all US federal activities that are not explicitly in the Constitution. Thus, the ‘extreme right’ espouses the same values as Washington, Jefferson, Hancock, and the other framers of the Constitution.
Goldwater was right-of center. His goal in Washington was to dismantle and simplify laws, not make more of them.
By the way the John Birch Society has 2 pretty good websites. They are quite moderate.
The goal of the left is to undermine, complicate, and stymie Canadian and American freedom and prosperity any way they can. They call it ‘social justice’ but the same values are expressed in the Communist Manifesto. They have been at for my whole lifetime, and they won’t stop unless we stop them.
Calling the left COMMIE RATS seems OK to me.
Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
*Liberal Justine’s favourite dictator.
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“China: Hazardous pollution alert in Beijing”
“Pollution reached hazardous levels in the city of Beijing on Thursday, prompting officials to issue a “yellow” alert.
It’s the first time a severe warning has been issued since the introduction of pollution-fighting measures roughly four months ago.” http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/china-hazardous-pollution-alert-in-beijing/21924/
” It isn’t illegal when the president of the CBC does it.”
Hubert Lacroix repays $30K in expenses http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Politics/ID/2439009397/
He talks in circles about transparency, and on and on, nothing to see here folks.
The CBC also has a written article about Hubie’s expense ‘oversight.
The comments are not favourable towards Mr. LaCroix, though a good chunk of them are blaming PM Harper. The story was released on a Friday afternoon at 5 p.m. on an Olympic weekend. I don’t expect it to be ever mentioned again by our beloved state broadcaster. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-president-hubert-lacroix-repays-30k-in-expenses-1.2546300
Highly recommended: “It’s Anti-Left, Stupid!”
Read it. Learn it. Live it. Frame it.
h/t
Victor Davis Hanson takes a look at – as Kate puts it – the opposite of diversity.
Brief excerpt:
That’s what you call yer’ basic rhetorical question.
Reagan campaigning for Senator Goldwater:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHuGvhelcGU
“Ronald Reagan A Time for Choosing, also known as The Speech, was a speech presented during the 1964 U.S. presidential election campaign by future president Ronald Reagan on behalf of Republican candidate Barry Goldwater.”
If this sounds like it could still apply today…
note: I can still hear my parents speaking in fear about what could have happened if the evil Goldwater “got in”.
And of course, in response to Goldwater’s slogan of, “In your heart, you know he’s right”, the left, and their media pals responded, “Far right”. And Goldwater was toast.
Muslims blow up so fast don’t they ? Justin would look for the root cause that’s so elusive in Britain.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4181/blow-people-up-what-a-surprise
LBJ & the Democrat’s response included this gem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTBnsqxZ3k
Why do we need the IPCC when old tried and true is far more accurate ?
http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/20/report-farmers-almanac-more-accurate-than-govt-climate-scientists/
“I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” —Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One –
“These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.”—LBJ
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/articles-cars/40889
Goldwater couldn’t hold a candle to Reagan. He was a true patriot, but no where near the qualities of Reagan. Unfortunately went left, or maybe just nuts in some important ways, such as opposing Christians in the Republican Party who opposed abortion, and opposed a ban on openly gay members of the armed services. He also pushed for marijuana legalization. I imagine he’d be a big Gary Johnson nut, today.
“Take the test: Feminist shenanigans or satire?”
Don’t peek at the answers until you take your best guess.
h/t Instapundit
So the news is reporting that Captain Stupid (Obama) is considering sanctions against the Ukraine. For the leaders of Ukraine, this is absolutely genius, as it only drives Ukraine deeper into the arms of Russia.
I don’t know a whole lot about Goldwater; it just struck me as I was watching the ad how incredibly unlikely it is that we’ll ever see another Republican nominee uttering the same anti-government sentiments in a presidential campaign ad — he’d be drummed out of the nomination process early on by the RINO’s.
These days it’s all about whose votes you can buy — “for (X) we’ll do this, for (Y) we promise to…”
It’s too bad.
This is a really interesting essay, if you have the time – maybe set it aside for Sunday: “What Made Alexander Great?”
h/t Isegoria
In 1968, Goldwater was my second choice for president after George Wallace. That must have been the start of my choosing a path that few other people do. One has to wonder how different the US would be now if Goldwater had been elected back then instead of the socialist LBJ.
Today’s university diversity is the modern Komsomnol.
You and I thought the same.
Extensive testing should have brought out any deficiencies. In the field is not where you want to find out your M4 is just a pretty club.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/20/cover-up-army-historian-says-report-on-deadly-afgh/
Seems that situation in Ukraine is going steadily towards a potential civil war. 70 people shot dead today and one wonders when the nationalists will start using the guns they seized from the armories they took over in Lviv and other western Ukrainian cities.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/world/europe/protesters-join-fight-in-kiev-100-at-a-time.html?action=click&contentCollection=Europe&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=article
What I find striking is how Ukrainian nationalists are portrayed as somehow being “fascist”. My father was a militant Ukrainian nationalist when the part of western Ukraine he lived in was occupied by Poland until 1939. Somehow it seems that “self-determination” is just for those groups which are the darlings of statists whereas Ukrainians wanting self-determination doesn’t fit the blueprint of statists.
Agree.
“My father was a militant Ukrainian nationalist when the part of western Ukraine he lived in was occupied by Poland until 1939.” Must be a story there as to how he got to Canada.
We stayed in a hotel at the bottom of European Square in 2008. This is a nice part of the central area of Kiev, and there is a nice wide park like boulevard street that ends there.
Presidential elections before civil war.
However, there will be heated arguments between Yatsenyuk, Klitschko, Petro Poroshenko and Tyhanybok on who will face Viktor the Butcher.
Steyn has a very good post up:
http://www.steynonline.com/6106/the-mann-i-love
and even more interesting he has filed his amended complaint and is counter-suing Mann for $10 million:
http://www.steynonline.com/documents/6109.pdf
This could get very interesting. I wasn’t sure at first how seriously Steyn was taking it, but now I think he is in it for real. If he beats Mann it will be epic.
Please consider posting Kate. Thanks.
Green-Red Fraud.
…-
“Large Andasol 3 Parabolic Solar Plant Losing Tens Of Millions After Broke Spain Eliminates Green Energy Subsidies”
“Germany’s leading financial daily Handelsblatt here writes that the Spanish Andasol 3 parabolic solar power generation plant in Spain “is producing foremost one thing: losses“.”
http://notrickszone.com/2014/02/21/large-andasol-3-parabolic-solar-plant-losing-millions-after-broke-spain-eliminates-green-energy-subsidies/
…-
“Giant Goderich wind farm gets go-ahead”
Construction of a massive wind farm — equal to the largest ever planned in Ontario — is set to start after a victory for the company at the Environmental Review Tribunal.”
http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/
AGW Clutches, Freezes, and Kills.
…–
“Toronto roads could become skating rinks Friday as cold front, wind slams rain-drenched city”
“‘By evening we’ll be below freezing, so we’re expecting all this water that’s ponding everywhere to freeze,’ said Environment Canada’s Marie-Eve Giguere ” (NP)
…-
“Polar Vortex to Clutch Midwest, Northeast Again Next Week”
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/frigid-air-to-clutch-midwest-east/23498242
AGW-Neo Progress Report.
…-
“Michael Mann Faces Bankruptcy as his Courtroom Climate Capers Collapse”
“Massive counterclaims, in excess of $10 million, have just been filed against climate scientist Michael Mann after lawyers affirmed that the former golden boy of global warming alarmism had sensationally failed in his exasperating three-year bid to sue skeptic Canadian climatologist, Tim Ball. Door now wide open for criminal investigation into Climategate conspiracy.
Buoyed by Dr Ball’s successes, journalist and free-speech defender, Mark Steyn has promptly decided to likewise countersue Michael Mann for $10 million in response to a similar SLAPP suit filed by the litigious professor from Penn. State University against not just Steyn, but also the National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Rand Simberg. Ball’s countersuit against Mann seeks “exemplary and punitive damages”.”
http://www.principia-scientific.org/michael-mann-faces-bankruptcy-as-his-courtroom-climate-capers-collapse.html
I sense a pattern here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPQmLV5rZtw
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/02/21/john-ivison-why-justin-trudeaus-new-guiding-light-could-have-a-dramatic-impact-on-canadian-public-policy/
Future Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has hired the best possible economic advisor he could, from the USA via the World Bank.
Are we EVER in trouble if this guy has the PM’s ear!
COMMIE RATS
We need to bring that term back into common use. People like Goldwater were maligned for making generalized statements about the left. He saw the left as a monolith. The left responded by lumping him with the John Birch Society. They called him a far-right war-monger. Few called him a Nazi, but the implication was there.
In fact the Nazis were totalitarian socialists who rejected communism because Hitler did not want to kow-tow to Stalin. Nazi means national socialist. Labeling the Nazis as right-wing was an enormous propaganda victory for the left.
The American extreme right are not big-government Nazis, they are tiny-government libertarians. They want to eliminate all US federal activities that are not explicitly in the Constitution. Thus, the ‘extreme right’ espouses the same values as Washington, Jefferson, Hancock, and the other framers of the Constitution.
Goldwater was right-of center. His goal in Washington was to dismantle and simplify laws, not make more of them.
By the way the John Birch Society has 2 pretty good websites. They are quite moderate.
The goal of the left is to undermine, complicate, and stymie Canadian and American freedom and prosperity any way they can. They call it ‘social justice’ but the same values are expressed in the Communist Manifesto. They have been at for my whole lifetime, and they won’t stop unless we stop them.
Calling the left COMMIE RATS seems OK to me.
Cookie Monster Leaves His Heart in San Fransisco.
Girl Scout Cookies Sold Out within 2 hours,
in front of Pot Store..
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/02/21/girl-scouts-sell-cookies-at-pot-dispensaries/20835018/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058&
According to her mother, after 45 minutes, Danielle had to call for backup cookies, and within two hours she sold about 117 boxes.
“Coldest US Autumn/Winter Afternoons For 115 Years”
“With the rest of the month forecast to be very cold in the US, October to February afternoon temperatures have been the coldest in 115 years.”
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/coldest-us-autumnwinter-afternoons-for-115-years/
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“Great Lakes Open Water In A Death Spiral! Ice Cover Reaches 88% – Levels Not Observed Since 1994!”
“A Great Freeze Over the Great Lakes”
http://notrickszone.com/2014/02/21/great-lakes-open-water-in-a-death-spiral-ice-cover-reaches-88-levels-not-observed-since-1994/
Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
*Liberal Justine’s favourite dictator.
…-
“China: Hazardous pollution alert in Beijing”
“Pollution reached hazardous levels in the city of Beijing on Thursday, prompting officials to issue a “yellow” alert.
It’s the first time a severe warning has been issued since the introduction of pollution-fighting measures roughly four months ago.”
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/china-hazardous-pollution-alert-in-beijing/21924/
” It isn’t illegal when the president of the CBC does it.”
Hubert Lacroix repays $30K in expenses
http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Politics/ID/2439009397/
He talks in circles about transparency, and on and on, nothing to see here folks.
The CBC also has a written article about Hubie’s expense ‘oversight.
The comments are not favourable towards Mr. LaCroix, though a good chunk of them are blaming PM Harper. The story was released on a Friday afternoon at 5 p.m. on an Olympic weekend. I don’t expect it to be ever mentioned again by our beloved state broadcaster.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-president-hubert-lacroix-repays-30k-in-expenses-1.2546300