William F. Buckley, Jr.

The great father of modern conservatism, William F. Buckley Jr., died yesterday. Pam at Atlas Shrugs has such a nice article about the man that it would be wastefully stupid to rewrite it here. Do read it at this link.

In 1955, when Buckley published the first issue of his magazine National Review, he wrote the following:

If National Review is superfluous, it is so for very different reasons: It stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

We conservatives know how he felt. We have all felt discouraged from time to time. Liberalism is hard to defeat because it sounds good to the uninformed. In spite of that, Buckley gave so much impetus to conservatism that we elected our greatest president, Ronald Reagan, as a result of Buckley's legacy.

I remember the 1960's and how futile it felt to be a conservative at that time. I remember reading National Review and, though I appreciated its views, I felt that it was a small, unique voice clamoring for attention, and that building a conservative majority would be a nearly impossible task.

I remember standing in a drug store and looking at the magazine rack. There, among the plethora of liberal magazines, was the sole conservative voice, National Review. It was one small voice. Today we have the internet and many conservative voices, blogs, magazines, television programs and books. We have the company of comrades and friends of similar political persuasion. Buckley did not have that when he started out. He had tremendous courage to begin this small voice that has now grown into a mighty chorus.

Today conservatism is equal to liberalism in number of adherents and has a chance to once again lead the nation, perhaps not within the next four years, but certainly within the next decade.

So thanks to you, William F. Buckley Jr. You were indeed a great man.

Update: See Ann Coulter's column today on W.F. Buckley. She shows that he wasn't always the model of civility; he could dish it out as well as take it. Great for some laughs!

Obama in Muslim Garb, Part II

The Associated Press has come up with another photo of Barack HUSSEIN Obama in Muslim dress. It is below. Barack Obama is the man on the left in the photo wearing the purple dress. All he needs now is a scimitar and his ensemble would be complete.

Hee hee! Isn't this fun?

Avoid Global Cooling - Smoke a Cigar Today

According to the latest scientific reports, global cooling now threatens the planet.

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.

No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

Read the whole thing here.

It is obvious that common dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gases must increase, and fast. All concerned citizens are urged to buy large SUVs, burn logs in their fireplaces, and encourage flatulence in cows. Be sure to smoke a lot of cigars. This latter step is most important (but for your own safety, however, keep lighted cigars away from flatulating cows to avoid the danger of explosion).

Al Gore could not be immediately reached for comment. At this very moment, no doubt, a repro team is seeking the return of his Oscar.

Barack's Strange Garb - Muslim or Aunt Jemima?

The photo at right was released to the public by someone in the Clinton campaign staff. It shows Barack Obama dressed in Muslim garb while on a visit to Kenya, birthplace of his radical-Muslim father. Either that or he was going to a Halloween party as Aunt Jemima.

For the culturally deprived, Aunt Jemima was the brand name of pancake flour back in the 40's and 50's. It was good stuff. In those days before political correctness, Aunt Jemima was depicted as a lovable, old-fashioned cook. You have to admit, Barack's garb in the photo above is somewhat reminiscent of Aunt Jemima's style of clothing. (Aunt Jemima is the one on the left.)

The Democrats and the Obama campaign are trying to spin the photo as one in which Obama is wearing "African garb." If it were only African garb, no one would care. If it were Aunt Jemima garb, we'd all go down to IHop and order a short stack. However, it is not only African but Muslim as well.

Obama was not happy with the release of this photo and seems unusually defensive about it. Why, if it is only African garb, worn out of politeness to his guests?

We understand that Obama did not take part in the stoning of the adulteress or the beheading of the apostate following the taking of the picture. He thought those festivities might be used "out of context" by the Clinton campaign for purposes of fear-mongering. We agree.

UPDATE: This morning (Feb 26) Obama claimed the nefarious purpose of the picture was to make Obama "look like a foreigner." Nice spin! No, the purpose of the picture was to make Obama look like a Muslim - and that's why the Obama campaign is so upset.

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The Academy Awards

I'm live blogging the Oscars! How exciting! I..... (Sorry I must have dozed off).

The Leftard Jon Stewart is the unfunny Master of Cermonies. There are scores of beautiful young women, all apparently stamped out of a giant cookie-cutter and as original and unique as one of the shrimp in the salad I ate last night. The men resemble some grotesque zoo of bearded penguins. Well at least the men's dress is traditional -- but taffeta? I thought that was out this year.

Even more sickening in its conformity is the liberal/leftist/anti-american politics of the whole lot of the Hollywoodenheads. As I watch this congregation of self-satisfied snobs go about their ceremonial ministrations, I feel that I am spying on the Enemy. This is the group who do not support and celebrate American culture, history or civilization. This is the bunch who have shed their once-existing purpose of entertainment and inspiration to one of psychologically undermining the masses. Their new purpose is one of propaganda for America's enemies, for the false science of global warming, for the crockumentaries of Michael Moore, for constantly denigrating conservative, traditional values in favor of socialism, pacifism, ethnic victimhood and alienation.

As the stars accept their awards we are treated to the suspense of knowing what unamerican comments they may utter. The "best" movie hasn't been announced yet and we can only wonder which celluloid perversion of sadism and mayhem will win the award. Perhaps it will be "No Country for Old Men," a savage tale of a Mafia-hired killer who dead pans his role through the totally pointless stinker. Why is it the best film? Because it has no plot, no moral message, no tale of good triumphing over evil, no redeeming qualities at all. It could be used as a training film for lobotomized homocidal maniacs.

One of the announcers claimed that "the Golden Age of film isn't over." Wrong. It's dead and buried. Perhaps they could change the name of this annual monstrosity from "the Academy Awards" to something more Hollywoodish and appropriate. My vote is for "Night of the Living Dead."

UPDATE: Nielsen says the 2008 Academy Awards ratings were the worst ever! There is justice after all!

Barack Obama Explains "Change"

Barack Obama is running for president on a platform of "change." He is on the Change Express. When he gets through with us, change is the only thing we will have left to spend.

An Obamabot supplied me with Obama's website so I could see for myself this visionary's stand on the issues.

I looked. It is the same old Democrat crapola: create jobs by taxing the nibs off the rich and giving tax breaks to those who don't even pay taxes. Yeah, that'll revive the economy. And while you're at it, raise the minimum wage and index it to inflation. Higher taxes on businesses and investors and higher costs for labor do not grow jobs, they destroy them. Obama flunked Econ 101. That's why he's a Democrat. "Change" my ass.

I'd like to see some "change" too. All socialists out of office. Lower taxes. The end of Social Security taxes, the biggest rip-off in American history. Create an ardent program of energy self-sufficiency by drilling the hell out of ANWR, the American coastlines and anywhere else we can find oil. Let's build hundreds of new nuclear power plants. End Islamic immigration into the United States and encourage those here to leave.

Unfortunately, that won't be the kind of change we get from Al-Obama. We will get socialism, much higher taxes, greater and more pervasive governmental regulation of the private sector, a full surrender to Islam's war on the West, a gutted military, and debilitated and impotent espionage agencies. It will be difficult to make a living and to make ends meet, because a greater portion of what you earn will be stolen by the government to give as a reward to minimum wagers and dropouts for voting Democratic. These idiots never learn: socialism destroys prosperity, it does not increase it. People's lives get worse, not better. You cannot punish productivity and reward sloth and grow anything but poverty and despair.

John McCain is not the perfect conservative, not by a longshot. But I will work tirelessly to get him elected because, as many others have pointed out, the alternative is unthinkable.

Pro-American French Blogs

I like to read the French blog "No Pasaran," which is linked to the right if you want to check it out. No Pasaran is in English and French, though lately it is using more English than French. Maybe it has good reason, as conservatives from all over the world log in and comment on articles. But for a guy like me who wants to learn French, I prefer more French and less English.

I found another French Right blog, though it has an English title: Five Years Later. Their posts are all in French. As you can see, they have some lovely pictures too! :) The writing is scholarly and intellectual, far above the French I am used to reading in my student texts. I have to refer to the French-English dictionary a lot, but I am learning a lot of new French words, verbs and phrases. I am also making friends with the writers, Major Tom and a guy who calls himself "Oceans 11."

Reading visitors' posts is also a learning experience -- it's great to see how French people actually speak or write. Check them out when you have a chance and leave a howdy message to Major Tom. He also speaks English quite well.

American Alienation

Thanks to the Jawa Report, I saw this YouTube video that seems to speak for me. We live among, not other humans in America, but among clams who only look human. They don't allow anything into the small world inside their shells while they bury their heads in the sand and shut out unpleasant realities.

Muslim Stones His 14 Year Old Daughter To Death

Most of us who blog about Islam are convinced that it is a vile, dehumanizing ideology that turns human beings into monsters. That fact was once again proved when an Iranian father stoned his 14 year old daughter to death. The reason: the father, Sharif, suspected that his daughter had a relationship with a man.

The news reports:

Sharif showed no sign of remorse, telling police who interrogated him: "I
suspected that my daughter had a relationship with a man and I had to stone her
to death as she had besmirched my honour.""I had no other choice," he said,
telling police how he had carried out the stoning.

I am forced to draw these obvious conclusions: Iran is a disgusting, horrible place to live and die; and Islam is the ideology of homicidal lunatics. But you knew that.

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On Independence for Kosovo: George Bush is Dangerously Naive

The longer I know President George Bush, the less I like him. He is incredibly naive and a slave to political correctness. Lately he has been pushing for independence for Kosovo, a region of Serbia that was taken over by Muslim immigrants. This would effectively create a Palestinian-style state in the heart of Europe. No doubt taking their cue from Bush's support, Kosovo declared its independence yesterday.

Pam Geller of Atlas Shrugs points out that Kosovo was never an Albanian state that was absorbed by conquest or other means - it was a Serbian state that was overrun by Muslim immigrants. After many years of Muslim murder and mayhem against the Serbs, the Serbs decided to push the Muslims out. This resulted in the United States jumping in to support the Muslims and to oppose the Serbs - a major mistake and historical blunder.

If you have the stomach for it, see what the Muslims have wrought through the years in the way of murdered and mutilated Serbs at this link. WARNING: the photos are very graphic and are of mutilated corpses.

President Bush is dangerously naive and it is time we admitted it. I can't wait to get this asshat out of office.