The Sentiment Defense Shield

One can only hope that Iran agrees.

While during the Cold War there may have been a case for maintaining a nuclear deterrent, today the Trident missile system is a hugely expensive anachronism. In the words of the Labour MP, Joan Ruddock: "The question is, how we best achieve our own security? It has to be through global co-operation over climate change---which is a greater threat than any conflict." Much the same argument applies to France's deterrent.

- the eternally hopeful George Irvin, who is not a natural scientist.

See Them Get Comfy with Evil

Were they to discuss Communism in these terms, there would be no anger at all.

An Austrian Legislator points out the “good side of Nazism”.

An far-right deputy recently elected to the Austrian Parliament underlined the “good side” of Nazism on national television. His remarks caused a wave of indignation in the political community.

“Of course the Nazis had a good side, we just don’t want to notice it these days”, declared elected official Wolfgang Zanger, during a broadcast on Tuesday evening. He said that Adolf Hitler “had given hope to people” and in particular built Autobahns.

The remarks were considered “scandalous” by the secretary general of the ÖVP party, and “unacceptable” by President of the Parliament Barbara Prammer (SPÖ). The Greens demanded Zanger’s resignation.

[ ... ]

Mr. Zanger’s remarks emerge after previous controversies involving several pro-Nazi members of Parliament in Austria. FPÖ senator, John Gudenus, had been forced to resign in April 2005 after having questioned the existence of gas chambers.

That any of this is even an issue after more than half a century is laughable. The goal is clearly for people to psyche their way out of facing the notion of good and bad itself. 20 years ago it was relativism, and while it did manage to leave its’ stain on the public mind, now it seems that more and more often the evidence of evil is being denied.

It takes a certain state of stupidity for anyone to believe that humans aren’t fallible, and it always seems to start with people not thinking that there is anything larger in the world that themselves – not their society, nor a higher power, nor even their neighbors, but themselves.

Remembrance

England expects every man will do his duty

- Admiral Lord Nelson

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

- Major John McCrae, May 1915.

The internal degeneration of western society, where so many confuse squeamishness with morality

Two generations of being insulated from the reality of the international jungle, of not having to defend their own survival because they have been living under the protection of the American nuclear umbrella, have allowed too many Europeans to grow soft and indulge themselves in illusions about brutal realities and dangers

writes Thomas Sowell.

The very means of their salvation have been demonized for decades in anti-nuclear movements and protesters calling themselves "anti-war." But there is a huge difference between being anti-war in words and being anti-war in deeds.

… The famous Roman peace of ancient times did not come from negotiations, cease-fires, or pretty talk. It came from the Roman Empire's crushing defeat and annihilation of Carthage, which served as a warning to anyone else who might have had any bright ideas about messing with Rome.

Only after the Roman Empire began to lose its own internal cohesion, patriotism and fighting spirit over the centuries did it begin to succumb to its external enemies and finally collapse.

That seems to be where western civilization is heading today.

”Yet Europe wants to spare Saddam’s life.”

Behind the predictable displays of false compassions lies an even more persistent predilection to support evil:

The dirty little secret is that every mass-murdering ideology in the last two centuries had its origins and supporters in Europe. Pol Pot was Cambodian by birth but learned his revolutionary ideology in Paris. He was trained by the French Communist Party and the Russian KGB, went home, and massacred two or three million of his countrymen. Even Saddam’s Baathist Party was modeled on the European fascist parties of the 1930s.

If anyone can find evidence of anything demonstratively andsubstantively true in the cartoon above, I’d really like to see it.
The Fuse is Lit! (No Pasaran)

L'un Est Pire Que L'autre

Comparing the lie of a “Holocaust that never was” to false claims of a holocaust on the Palestinians.

Tied for second place in Iran’s recent “Holocaust, What Holocaust?” cartoon contest is Frenchwoman Françoise Pichard, who goes by the pen-name of Chard. Except there’s one problem - she didn’t place the entry. Her ideological base-point is the branch of fascism that Europeans associate with the extreme-right, in spite of its’ authoritarian bent, and lack of belief in economic and individual freedom that Marxism is based on. For what some observers have concluded is racism, she has it in for Muslims as well as Jews.

(Inscription: Myth of the gas chambers)

“...Who knocked it over?..."
"...Faurisson...”

Robert Faurisson, a man trying to make the intellectual environment safe for Nazism, tried to form a conclusion that the Shoah was a myth based on “evidence” gathered decades later of not seeing any gaskets on the hatches of the gas chambers, but apparently for his writings, only insofar, I suppose, as those doors were not sealing in Jews, since such a denial wouldn’t just be able to explain 6 million missing European Jews, but millions of others including the Roma. He has been publicly defended by none other than Pol Pot defender Noam Chomsky.

Of the contest, Françoise Pichard told AFP:

If I did receive the prize money someday, it would go completely to the Committee for Mutual aid to European Prisoners (BOLETUS) relating to the case of Michel Lajoye, except for a gift to the Cat Refuge.

Michel Lajoye is a fascist considered to be a political prisoner by other fascists for setting off a firecracker in a coffee shop frequented by North Africans. In a bid to be as intolerant of abhorable speech as an intolerant fascist, French authorities jailed him for 18 years.

As rotten as his thinking is, the idea of having these sorts of ‘thought crime’ sentences is what is perceived to be a free society isn’t just ironic, but speaks to a very European nonchalance about free speech.

That impulse, like the Iranian effort to infect people’s minds into denying Hitler’s genocides makes me think that they all deserve one another.

(N.B.: Links to neo-Nazi and fascist sympathizing websites

have been omitted. Just as evil as Marxists and the radical

left, they don’t deserve any traffic.)

The Fuse is Lit! (No Pasaran)

Whipped in more ways than one

Ikea has an interesting take on things using French society’s culture of complaint to float an advertising theme.

”France is tired. France is worn out. France is at the end of its rope.
The solution? - new beds of course!

Do something about it! 'React'.

The same way they haven’t reacted to things like civil unrest and a women getting burned alive. Why not throw a few umlauts and first-names in there for good measure while you’re at it?

Trouble In Camelot

Libération PropagandaStaffel is asking the French government to bail them out. Never mind the ethical and business implications of this, nor the idiocy of thinking that a government should subsidize one part of a society’s political ideology and not another, nor the inevitability that the product will be one huge journalist thrill ride.

You’ve got to love the causes:

- People don’t buy the paper: it’s expensive, and the only hard news they run are wire stories.

- They don’t run it like a business. Le Monde is part of a larger publishing operation including magazines. Libé has a magazine, but it’s about as popular as the paper. The insuffrable staff would neither thin out or become more productive, and were unaware of just how it is one runs the means of production to begin with.

- Classifieds and advertising: they don’t have enough because their circulation sucks, and unlike a “real” Marxist society, they can’t use compulsion to keep eking out business.

- Distribution: their greatest single cost which they can't create do much about. Basically, they have a Union problem. It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.

What? No more « Diebolding » ?

Sudden change of climate not declared catastrophic. Not only do the “Cosmic ray” fantasies spontaneously evaporate like issue of the hole in the ozone layer, but so does the never-ending voting machine fetish of the left:

History was made this week! For the first time in four election cycles, Democrats are not attacking the Diebold Corp. the day after the election, accusing it of rigging its voting machines. I guess Diebold has finally been vindicated.

So the left won the House and also Nicaragua. They've had a good week. At least they don't have their finger on the atom bomb yet.

The left’s approach to this whole thing has been similar to trying to “own the means of production”, except that the means is overraught anger and the product is election outcomes.

Have we hit bottom yet?

"No way", say the French. "And when we do, we'll start digging." Get this ... Instead of striking back at the brutal bastards that are running free in this country, French police are demonstrating (yeah, just like common union members or filthy French youth) to protest against violence directed against them. Pathetic.

Culture franchouille

It's not what it used to be. Un banlieusard qui chante, entouré de livres, dans une bibliothèque. Pour un peu, on nous fait encore le coup des Bac+5 qui pullulent en banlieue.

An American (Humanist) in Paris

A gentle soul heads for Europe to find solace among like-minded members of the human race, the type of which try to show love, peace, and understanding for one and all...

Update: See the Hollywood remake

Such Complete Morons

They’ll never get it.

"...Who was Adam Smith, and does he deserve to be on our banknotes?..."

from Pravda The Independent

Positive Images of the United States Temporarily Okay in EUtopia

Maybe for a few days, but not for long.



As if they’d actually be any less hateful to the US anyway.

Guess what: they never are, no matter what happens. Imagine the silliness of the American left to think that they can get a positive (a completely useless) stroke from “the Continent” - it's completely misguided.

City of Romance

Have you lost that "Lovin' Feeling" yet?


Third rate bling, and moochers bumming smokes left and right after a rise in the cigarette tax. Here's some advice: do like those German pikers you used to laugh at all the time, and roll your own.

Typical Leftist Vandalism

This is what people who are basically uncivilized do during elections.when they have no ideas, at least none compelling enough to believe in. the fuse is lit!

Where the Elite Meet to Bleat

On Arte, yet another “expert” that no-one has ever heard of plausits aloud during a program discussing whether or not deposed dictator Saddam Hussein will be executed. The audience is entertained with the usual flair or talking in circles, but one wonders if it has sunk in to John and Jane Public that the Moustachioed Mass Murder was actually found guilty. I guess so, they immediately wanted to deny the Iraqis the catharsis of getting on with their lives when the general consensus of the all knowing was to demand that he not be executed. Now Pinochet [!!!], that would be another story...

Cosmic ray diversionary chaff being deployed now, Captain!

M6 wonders: What? He risks being a lame duck, like every other president at the end of his term?

To quote a reader:

You'd think he was going to be kicked out of the White House or burnt alive on the White house lawn.

At least they didn’t commit the usual media error of calling him “Georges”

I swear, their media is ”the gift that keeps on giving” in oh, so many ways.



'La valeur Europe n'existe plus...” said Pascal Bruckner on the program, who used the US as a counter-example saying that one scandal in Abu Ghreib doesn't mean everything about what is happening in the Near East is bad or that all Americans are bad. The remainder of the program was consumed by the toxic and childish theme which might just might bring readers closer to the realization that behaviour is neither genetic nor racial so that they might grow comfortable into the 1970s. The theme tonight: Are whites responsible for all the world's ills?

Amusing, really, since the entire culture likes to blame a multi-racial America for all everything it sees wrong with the world, yet imagines the United States to be even more white-bread and rhythmically challenged than they are, and always more brutal.

The program rounded out with some “indigenous” looking South American who surely found a new venue in France now that Marxist fantasies are back on the Vaudeville circuit. Much as is usual Es ist zum kotzen.

Europe: Patronizing and Sexist to the Core

Brought to you by Eurostar, a corporate
entity which appears to be out prowling for MILFs.

Tiens, Tiens, Voilà du Boudin

The online strategy is a dramatic shift from the legion's more passive traditional approach of posting posters in railroad stations while waiting for social, economic and political turmoil to push recruits its way. After the Spanish Civil War ended in 1939, for instance, Spanish enlistment soared, only to dwindle in contemporary times as Spain prospered with European Union membership.

By far the lowest contingent remains English-speaking recruits - just 2 percent are from the United States and Britain. According to legion officials, this is due not to cultural antagonisms, but rather because American and British applicants have trouble passing endurance tests that emphasize lower body strength and running.

Doreen Carvajal writes about the French Foreign Legion.

The [stiff white] caps are exhibited at the force's Aubagne museum, but the historic displays and battle paintings also underscore the harsh side of life - and death - for a legionnaire. In the long, bloody history of the Foreign Legion, 35,000 men have died in combat, the last in Haiti in 2004.

Given that history, the most frequent question that recruiting officers pose to candidates is blunt: "Are you sure you want to become a legionnaire?"

The sickening pussification of the American Left

Sweet Jesus, they're more and more like the French.

"To be sure, the progressives deserve credit for having refined their view of the military: not murderers and rapists, just impoverished suckers too stupid for anything other than soldiering. The left still doesn't understand that it's the soldier who guarantees every other profession -- the defeatist New York Times journalist, the anti-American college professor, the insurgent-video-of-the-day host at CNN, the hollow preening blowhard senator. Kerry's gaffe isn't about one maladroit Marie Antoinette of the Senate but a glimpse into the mind-set of too many Americans."