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Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Legion Of Shame From Der Stürmer, no longer available 8:59:47 PM    comment []

Squatters Available from Chick Publications 7:47:30 PM    comment []

Left Behind   What a strange blend of aromas now waft above this vintage phrase! There is that primal earthy image of an army advancing and leaving their wounded writhing on the ground. There is the soft perfume of The Girl I Left Behind Me, made sweet by 19th century words of William Makepeace Thackeray and especially poignant song by Samuel Lover. You can almost hear the snare drums and see the troops marching:   I'll seek no more the fine and gay, For each but does remind me, How swift the hours did pass away, With the Girl I left behind me.   There is the double taste of bitterness of the political left, left behind, as those who form reality create the new truths. There is the seductive sweetness of “No Child Left Behind,” but beware, the sugar gives you only a quick rush that is quickly fleeting. Then there is the series of novels about The Rapture that sells millions of copies, with an aroma whose essence somehow eludes me, even though I grew up on a farm.     7:27:15 PM    comment []

In the gloom that can only come from seeing your country willingly surrendered, it would be too easy to envision the disastrous consequences that inevitably result from bad policy. The time for a rational discussion of these has passed, the election season has ended. We now have a government that will label any view opposing its own as “liberal” or “unpatriotic” and use it as an excuse to charge ahead like a picador-wounded bull; first to flatten any remaining opposition and then to execute poorly-formed plans. I suppose opposition is more important now than ever, but they will not listen to it and will more likely punish it.   So rational people who have studied history and economics well enough to see the logical endpoint of the path we’ve taken are best served by fending for themselves. The social issues are important, but the economic and geopolitical ones are crucial. To see where our dollar and economy are headed, read this. It’s also fairly obvious that we’ll soon be in a unilateral war against Islam. The coalition of the willing is dissolving and Islamic states are uniting against the US over the battle for Fallujah. Only Pakistan has nukes, but there is popular support there to exchange them with the rest of the world. Russia has plenty of oil and economically resurgent China needs it, so it is likely the old commie bedfellows will be putting on some clean sheets. These are logical possibilities that a rational government should consider, but they won’t. You are on your own.   (BREAKING NEWS: Ashcroft resigns, probably to head Supreme Court. That will make it easier to keep the detainees imprisoned.)     6:32:56 PM    comment []

Here's that panini.   12:13:59 AM    comment []