Traveling.

The Colonel is on maneuvers these days.

Liberalism – groveling to extinction.

To my opinion, liberalism is not only about avoiding pain but about avoiding life in general. For example, the First Law of Liberalism (after L. Auster) can be explained on this basis. Because the worse some alien group behaves, the more it makes our life intolerable, hence the more reasons are to avoid life. Any real attempt to improve the situation, to bring life and reason to the world, is therefore undermining liberalism. Actually, we are living in the environment which is in many details hostile to life, though physically comfortable.^[1]

Absolutely right.

I think that liberal males embrace pacificism, multiculturalism, and non-discrimination with a vengeance so that they can hide behind doctrines that never require them to fight, to resist, to criticize, or to cause "offense" (positively the worst thing that can ever inflicted upon a human being).

If military service is inherently wrong then one is insulated forever from the risk and frightful inconvenience of service. One can hide behind the service of others or within gated communities, safe from the realities of ethnic and religious strife – but always be free to weigh in with whatever inanities may flit across the brain stem. Similarly, one can hide behind drugs that obscure so many unpleasant realities.

When the aggressive enemy is too close to get away from, the liberal can roll over like a dog and sing the praises of multiculturalism; fanatical, unexamined equality; and the other ideas that guarantee national suicide. Liberals today are like the unresisting European Jews who left their homes at the orders of German troops. They cannot imagine that there are kinds of evil that cannot be negotiated with, that cannot be placated, that cannot be cajoled, that cannot be bribed, that can only be made war upon.

Liberalism is a fatal failure of intellect and of imagination. As drugs are to the physical body so Liberalism is to the body politic: subversive, parasitic, and destructive.

Not liberal male.

If there is rage in the liberal, male or female, it is directed at the persons who challenge their safe world view. Witness Bush Derangement Syndrome.

The essence of liberalism courtesy Dimitri K. and the Colonel.



Notes
^[1] Dimitri K. comment on "What Christianity requires in order not to be destructive of society." By Lawrence Auster, View from the Right, 8/31/07.

Something to ponder.

Cross cultural experience.

When you listen to the hysterics of the deranged portion of the Democrats remember what being "anti-war" meant to some of our famous leftists back in the sixties. Jane thought it through and then flew to Hanoi to provide aid and comfort to our enemies.

What has changed in the ranks of the left since then? Then or now, nothing the U.S. does outside its borders has any merit at all to these people. It is nobility itself to oppose whatever objective is being pursued by the U.S.

U.S. culture is flawed and U.S. actions are criminal or for some base economic advantage, like ensuring the flow of heating oil and cheap gas to U.S. citizens.

Lion attack.

There's sort of a lesson in here somewhere vis-a-vis the Clash Against Civilization. Something along the lines of "One friendly lion doesn't mean his cousins don't want to devour you." Like that.

I'll get back to you when I math it out some.

Pakistani graduate physics student sees hand of Allah.

Pervez Hoodbhoy lives every day with the consequences of the lack of public education in Pakistan. An MIT-trained professor of nuclear physics at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, he was speaking to a graduate-level class in physics a few days after the huge earthquake that devastated Kashmir in 2005, describing the geophysical forces that produced the disaster. "When I finished, hands shot up all over the room," he recalls. "'Professor, you are wrong,' my students said. 'That earthquake was the wrath of God.'"

This, he says, is the legacy of General Zia-ul-Haq, whose education ministry issued guidelines on bringing an Islamic perspective to science and other subjects in the public schools. "The Zia Generation has come of age," he says. "It isn't Islamic to teach that earthquakes are caused by the movement of tectonic plates. Instead, you are supposed to say, by the will of Allah, an earthquake happens."

In short, the analytical tools that allowed humans to harness steam, electricity, and Beanie Baby manufacturing count for nothing in the mind of this student in this Islamic university.

And these people want to rule the world.

"Pakistan | The nation's efforts to straddle the fault line between moderate and militant Islam offer a cautionary tale for the post-9/11 world." Intelligence, 8/29/07 (emphasis added) quoting "Struggle for the Soul of Pakistan." By Don Belt, National Geographic, September 2007.

Wreckers of civilization.

To summarize the main point, the ancient Levant, then called the Orient, was a center of civilization(s). The Arab conquests wrecked the Ancient East and its civilizations. The Levant has never recovered from the Arab/Muslim invasions. The Oriental Antiquities Dept at the Louvre seems to agree with Pirenne that the Arab invasions marked the end of ancient times. See [link].

This is one of the things that make edward said's writings so outrageous. Rather than elevate the Arabs/Muslims by identifying them with the East, the Orient, he should have understood and asserted that they were the wreckers of the ancient Orient. Hence, it was unjust for him to identify them with it.

Now it's different. The Arab/Muslim contribution is huge.

Comment by Eliyahu on "Islam, the Greeks and the Scientific Revolution, part 2." By Fjordman, Dhimmi Watch, 9/27/07.

The Thailand Jihad.

Photos of extremely graphic Muslim violence: Zombietime.com.