Fringe bytes
Nutty select morsels from the lunatic right
August 31, 2005
They really do say this stuff
Appeasing the terrorists, ignoring them and their instigators, pretending that the good guys are the bad guys -- all of these are now standard practice in the capitals of the world, and in the academies of America and in the Democratic Party at high levels.
There is one great man standing between us and this capitulation to evil: that man is George Bush-- Ben Stein, “Bulletin From Ben”, The American Spectator, 08/18/2005
[I]t’s far from “case-closed” on global warming skepticism. Moreover, aside from the controversy over the satellite and weather balloon data, many key climate questions remain unanswered including: whether humans are causing significant warming; whether warming is undesirable; and whether anything be done to avert any undesirable warming.
Because of its prohibitive costs, alarm over global warming has been rejected numerous times by President Bush and the U.S. Senate. European nations are already discovering that their economies can’t live with the Kyoto Protocol that was just implemented in February.
Despite alarmist media reports, global warming-mania is melting. It’s no wonder the alarmists are in such a hurry to close the book on the science.
-- Steven Milloy, “Global Warming Doubt Dispelled? Not Really”, Fox News, 08/19/05
Yeah...Iraq is just like Vietnam...not. It's interesting how the pro-appeaser defeatists want to throw in the towel just because some Islamic terrorists don't like democracy and the rule of law.
-- Neal Boortz, “IRAQ NOTHING LIKE VIETNAM”, boortz.com, 08/19/05
America, for the first time in its history, has become an ideological state. The ideology commonly known as "political correctness" or "multiculturalism" now shapes the actions of government in thousands of ways. Under the rubric of "hate crimes," it sentences American citizens to additional time in jail for political thoughts. As "affirmative action," it "privileges" women, blacks and homosexuals over heterosexual white males. In some cases, it requires private businesses to give their employees "sensitivity training," psychological conditioning in obedience to the state ideology, including its demand that everyone express approval of homosexuality. Employees who demur lose their jobs….
It is ironic that after the catastrophic failure of ideologies in the 20th century in Russia, Germany, Italy and many other countries, America should now head down the same road.
What should the next conservatism do about it? First, it needs to reveal this ideology for what it is. In terms of its historical origins and basic nature, it is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms….
America now has a Marxist ideology, not the Marxism of the Soviet Union but cultural Marxism, imbedded in and supported by the power of the state.
The next conservatism needs to shout from the housetops, "People, here's what this stuff really is. It's not about 'being nice' or 'toleration.' It's about destroying our culture and our religion, and it is succeeding."
-- Paul M. Weyrich, “The Danger of the Ideological State”, Accuracy In Media, 08/15/05
Lies, and more lies
AIM has also revealed that CNN has a conflict of interest in running the ad because NARAL has been funded by CNN founder Ted Turner, a current board member of CNN parent company Time Warner.
So does AIM think that FOX News can’t accept an ad from any rightwing non-profit that Rupert Murdoch has given to?
The American people have to wise up to the media's tricks. We are involved in a propaganda war that may be more important than what happens on the battlefield. Newsweek's false "Koran in the toilet" story was only one example of how we are losing the media war. It caused violent protests across the Middle East and 17 deaths. The new prisoner abuse images, obtained by an Army soldier who helped uncover the scandal, is not "false" in the Newsweek sense. But it will be exploited to give a false or warped perception of what U.S. military personnel are doing in Iraq.
-- Cliff Kincaid, “Al Qaeda Loves Our Unpatriotic Media”, Accuracy In Media, 08/18/05
How can accurate images give a “false” perception? Also Newsweek’s story wasn’t false—it lacked adequate substantiation, but it seems to have been roughly adequate. It also didn’t cause violent protests, it was used as propaganda by Muslim extremists to foment violent protests. Why is Kincaid blaming their violence on Newsweek?
This writer does not buy the internationalist approach of looking to Europe for guidance as to cultural, social or other norms. However, once in awhile it is well to look across the Atlantic. So looking, one sees that almost never does a jury adjudicate a medical malpractice case and almost always punishment arises from criminal, not civil, cases (or, if the litigation is combined, from the criminal, not the civil, side).
If Mr. Harrison “does not buy the internationalist approach of looking to Europe for guidance as to cultural, social or other norms” then why does he proceed to do so? Clearly, in saying that he doesn’t he is lying.
I've always found it interesting that the love song, by far the most popular subject in popular music, is both the most reviled by rock's intelligentsia and yet the most enduring and powerful genre of popular song -- who listens to protest songs from the 1960s, or even 1980s, anymore? It is so, I believe, because it is often this type of song that most capture the essence of Christian love. The popular love song is most often about a love so powerful it can conquer time, distance, and death -- a love, like the love of Christ, that has dominion over the natural world.
-- Mark Gauvreau Judge, “Redemption Song”, The American Spectator, 08/19/05
Tune in, turn on, and buck the dominant paradigm. Stick it to the man. Keep on Rockin' in the free world. Remember, all you need is love, and stay tuned for Martin Scorsese's No Direction home.
The way to reduce our dependence on foreign oil is not with hybrid cars the size of a Budweiser can...it's with our own drilling and exploration.
-- Neal Boortz, “WHY WE NEED OUR OWN OIL”, boortz.com, 08/17/05
As previously explained on polianna.com, producing more oil domestically will not cut off funding for the Saudi royal family one iota. Oil is a fungible product—so our consumers will compete for oil with foreign consumers. If global demand to continues to exceed global supply then the House of Saud and Hugo Chavez will keep raking it in. We can only hope to reduce the funding for these foreign governments by reducing our demand. Smaller cars and hybrids are more fuel efficient, and listen carefully now Neal, a more fuel efficient auto fleet would use less fuel.
In June, after wilting public scrutiny that included calls for his resignation, Mr. Durbin was forced to his knees and a near-tearful apology on the floor of the Senate after he compared American servicemen to Nazis, Soviets and the Khmer Rouge.
-- MANUEL MIRANDA, “Whirling Durbin”, Wall Street Journal, 08/22/05
As previously pointed out on polianna and elsewhere, Durbin did not compare American servicemen to Nazis or anyone else. He compared certain actions, e.g. torture, to the actions of Nazis, Soviets, et al.
Startling Admission
[T]he second real reason why the highway bill is such a disaster: the complete abandon of fiscal discipline by the Republican majority in Congress. The reform plans to devolve this power back to the states was an idea promoted originally by Reagan, and discussed during the early days of the Republican takeover of Congress in the mid-1990s. Yet this month it was the senior GOP members and the leadership who were fighting changes to the political patronage system fueled by the highway slush fund. Just as it has been senior Republicans during the past five years fighting all other attempts to cut spending or put a cap on the federal budget.
The Republicans are no longer the party of Reagan when it comes to the fight for limited government.-- Stephen Slivinski, “Don Young's World”, The American Spectator, 08/16/05
Another shameless smear
To expiate the pain of losing her firstborn son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging in Stalinist agitprop outside President Bush's Crawford ranch.
http://www.anncoulter.org/cgi-local/welcome.cgi
It reminds me of a flashback to the radical anti-war protests of the 1960s and '70s. These modern radical Leftists might not be wearing their old-fashioned Birkenstocks and tie-dyed t-shirts, but their cowardly, anti-American mentality is the same as it has always been...
Finally, when Clinton decided to bomb Iraq and obliterate its infrastructure with cruise missiles, merely to deflect attention from his own proven perjury and pending impeachment trial, there was no outcry from most Conservatives.
Why? Conservatives love freedom!...Here's the hard truth. Liberals are pro-abortion, pro-death, pro-gay, and anti-American. They don't love our freedoms, let alone the Constitution that guarantees them. And they don't really mind the State's using war to advance their utopian goals of universal peace.”
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/tabor/050817
QUESTION: What do liberals and hard core Marxists have in common?
ANSWER: They both wake up each morning wondering how they are going to punish success and make whipping boys of entrepreneurs.
