Conservatives Never Understood MLK's Message - And Always Left Blacks With No Options But It's Destruction

"You are animals. If you are able to destroy the home or business of your neighbor, you’ve lost your humanity. If you are able to harm your fellow man, to scare their children, to do so with a clean conscience, merely because of something that some cop may or may not have done, which has nothing to do with you . . . you are a horrible human being. You disgust me, as you should anyone who wishes to be a part of civilized society."

- Steven Crowder, quoted in the National Review

"For years now, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and his associates have been deliberately undermining the foundations of internal order in this country. With their rabble-rousing demagoguery, they have been cracking the “cake of custom” that holds us together. With their doctrine of “civil disobedience,” they have been teaching hundreds of thousands of Negroes – particularly the adolescents and the children – that it is perfectly all right to break the law and defy constituted authority if you are a Negro-with-a-grievance; in protest against injustice. And they have done more than talk. They have on occasion after occasion, in almost every part of the country, called out their mobs on the streets, promoted “school strikes,” sit-ins, lie-ins, in explicit violation of the law and in explicit defiance of the public authority. They have taught anarchy and chaos by word and deed – and, no doubt, with the best intentions – and they have found apt pupils everywhere, with intentions not of the best. Sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind. But it is not they alone who reap it, but we as well; the entire nation."

- a quote from the National Review, 50 years ago

America: Where Selective Memory Comes In Real Handy

The National Review has a message to get out, brought to us by the black's friends at Lem's Comment Home:

"You know what the best predictor of future behavior is? Past behavior."

 Blacks know this already - whites?

The message just doesn't seem to stick,...

The Republican Party: The Wrong Place To Be Rational

OMG - I've found a National Review article in support of homeopathy AND cold fusion.

But I'm confused:

They didn't call it Mitt Romney: Explained,...

 

And The Text Extolls The Virtues Of MInd/Body/Spirit,...

What a nightmare. 

Is there no editor in America who looks at something like this and thinks, "Probably not a good idea?" Have we simply lost the ability to recognize the iconography and symbolism of that which we not only want to avoid, but need to? Here, let's let reader PW sum it up since she brought it to my attention - and notice the shock and pleading:

Speaking of Nazis and other assorted totalitarian bastards that like to brainwash people into their sick occult riddled reindeer games, did you happen to check out the cover for the new National Review?

There's a picture worth a thousand words in a shrink ward. It's like the product of a Norman Rockwell and Leni Riefenstahl deranged love tryst on the planet Xenu or something. wtf Nat'l. Review, wtf?!?

Between it and the '08 Obama as Che poster (which should have tipped anybody who isn't a retarded hipster off that something just wasn't quite right, oh wait, forgot his primary voting base)...wow, a person could write a paper about the course of American socio-politico-cultural downfall right there.

And the question, as I see it, is "Why?" Why would they go there? Did it strike them as "fresh"? Is this really the best they can do? What they aspire to? What they think I should aspire to? Where's Jonah "Liberal Fascism" Goldberg's keen eye for this kind of thing? He can see Naziism in NewAge but not in this?

Did the National Review forget the Mormons admired Hitler? Did they think I'd forget it, considering he and Ann Romney's interests and proclivities? Or was the assumption that - since everybody's whitewashing who and what Romney's cult's been about - no one would make the connection? Were they trying to remind us? Get the Democrats fired up? What?

You know, I spent a lot of time on Facebook yesterday, defending Romney (yes, you read it right) against the Democrats' bogus charges he was covertly playing the race card. And if there was one feeling it left me with it was this:

Everybody's fucking crazy. 

Because the Democrats would rather run with bullshit claims, than hit Romney for his very-real weaknesses, and the Republicans would rather attack anyone who tells the truth about their cult candidate than assume their flag-waving role as citizens with an obligation to protect the nation from such a candidate. No one - but no one - wants to tell the truth:

That both parties will say and do absolutely anything in their lust for power and, by today's values, that renders them both unworthy to hold it.

I don't know about you but, to me, this cover illustration says all that, and then some,...

A Sitting Duck (And The Spy For Quackistan)

I know: I've been away. So sue me - what have I missed?

Is it just me, or has our politicin' taken a spiritual turn lately?

What with the Ground Zero mosque and whether Barack Obama is a Muslim or whatnot.

I shoulda been here with a catcher's mitt.

"President Obama is assuredly not a Muslim. For many of his countrymen, though, he remains a question mark."

--Rich Lowry, giving us what we pay him for, in The National Review

It tickles me, how others can't seem to piece NewAge together, like it's difficult or something, when they appear capable of seeing right through everything else.

"Justice Sotomayor did not really mean that wise Latinas make better judges than white males. Van Jones did not really mean that George W. Bush was in on 9/11, or that white youths are more likely to be mass murderers, or that whites are chronic polluters of the ghetto. Eric Holder no more meant that Americans are cowards than one of Anita Dunn’s heroes really is the mass-murdering Mao. We should not believe that the top priority of the head of NASA is to advance Islamic outreach, or that the president himself thinks that police routinely act stupidly, stereotype, or arrest innocent people on their way to get their kids some ice cream. Imam Rauf did not really say that we created bin Laden, or that we kill more innocent Muslims than al-Qaeda kills innocent non-Muslims."

-- Victor Davis Hanson, noticing the truth is pretty malleable around the White House, in National Review Online

While Barack Obama assures us (through a spokesperson) he's a Christian.

"'They cling to . . . religion' is a very odd thing for a Christian to say about fellow Christians. To our ear, it sounds more like the statement of a nonbeliever, and one who is not only detached from but somewhat disdainful of the faith in question. So our honest answer to the question 'What religion is Obama?' is 'We don't know.'"

-- James Taranto, of The Wall Street Journal

Yea, that's a toughie - especially since Obama hasn't been to church in a while, and he's still spending time with Oprah. Have you noticed, over the years, he's always got time for Oprah?

Maybe they do Bible study. All good Christians know what Oprah stands for, right?



Swear to God.

Shut Up

"Yesterday, at a rally for R. Creigh Deeds in Virginia, President Obama said: 'I don't want the folks who created the mess do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don't mind cleaning up after them, but don't do a lot of talking.'



For Barack Obama, democracy appears to be a distraction. He really does seem to view himself as a Caesar.



Shortly after taking office, Obama held a meeting with governors. At the time, one person in the room relayed Obama's request that critics and skeptics of the stimulus plan keep their concerns to themselves. Just let me do it, was his attitude. He got pushback and he wasn't happy. He wanted democratically elected state governors to shut up so he could do as he pleased. He knows better and we should respect that, seems to be the attitude.
."

-- Kathryn Jean Lopez, relaying the liberal message far and wide - SHUT UP - for The National Review.

And Glenn Reynolds adds:

"What would the reaction be if a Republican President said this?"

To which I reply, "You don't want to know,...but let's find out."

Bend That Knee (Get A Good Stretch) Bow All The Way Down - To Somebody - Or Something: And Never, Ever, Try To Stand Up On Your Own

"The rich, churchless, blue-state elites,...are hungry for the kind of secular nirvana Obama is serving up. Obama-mania is a political expression of the same impulse that underlies a broader movement, among the educated rich, towards a post-Christian spirituality, evident in such fetishes as yoga, feng-shui, investment-banker Buddhism, and tennis-set Sufism — the small-is-beautiful and green-is-good crazes.

A potent myth-maker, Obama is also a limited one. His New Age shamanism tells us less about where the country needs to go than about the spiritual emptiness of those among our elites who have been so quick to anoint him a new, secular messiah. The irony is that these same elites have used a draconian reading of the First Amendment to relegate the oldest and richest traditions of our spiritual culture to an obscure corner of the public square, a kind of refuse bin for slightly disreputable hand-me-downs from our benighted ancestors. They now look to the new swami to effect the miraculous regeneration of a spiritual waste land their own policies have helped to create."

— Michael Knox Beran, writing in the (conservative*) National Review Online

"The ultimate postmodern irony is today’s strange exchange between the West and the East. At the very moment when, at the level of “economic infrastructure,” Western technology and capitalism are triumphing worldwide, at the level of “ideological superstructure,” the Judeo-Christian legacy is threatened in the West itself by the onslaught of New Age “Asiatic” thought. Such Eastern wisdom, from “Western Buddhism” to Taoism, is establishing itself as the hegemonic ideology of global capitalism. But while Western Buddhism presents itself as the remedy against the stress of capitalism’s dynamics—by allowing us to uncouple and retain some inner peace—it actually functions as the perfect ideological supplement."

- Slavoj Žižek, writing for (the liberal*) In These Times

* Right or Left, the view of Western NewAge belief as a waste of time and resources will not be denied. It's a dead-end for America. It's a dead-end for YOU. And it's a dead-end for our children. Stop it. Now. Demand real answers. From everyone. Beginning with Barack and Hillary. Here's a good question to start with:

"Who do you think you're fucking with?"

That's the American way.

This is an election year - now let's get serious,

CMC

P.S.

This was posted while listening to Dorothy Ashby's "Soul Vibrations":

The Pride Of The Party

"Bill Clinton likes to tell anyone who’ll listen that he governed as an 'Eisenhower Republican,' which is kind of true — NAFTA, welfare reform, etc. If you have to have a Democrat in the Oval Office, he was as good as it gets for Republicans — if you don’t mind the fact that he’s a draft-dodging non-inhaling sex fiend. Republicans did mind, of course, which is why Dems rallied round out of boomer culture-war solidarity. But, if he hadn’t been dropping his pants and appealing to so many of their social pathologies, his party wouldn’t have been half so enthusiastic for another chorus of 'I Like Ike.'”

- Mark Steyn, of the National Review Online, showing how the Democrat's childish knee-jerk sense of rebellion drove them to validate ideas they didn't agree with.

And, I'll add, this failing is reflected in (almost) everything the Democrats do,...

That's Not A Donkey (It's An Ass)

"The Democratic Party has been hurt as a result of its feminization at the clenched fists of the feminists in its base.”

- Kate O’Beirne, author of Women Who Make the World Worse: and How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports

"Hillary’s man problem is not just Hillary’s. It is a Democratic problem, one that has been previously obscured or ignored. Political observers have long been more interested in a supposed Republican gender gap with women. The reality of a woman running for president, though, has put a spotlight on the real gender divide: The Democrats have slowly and consistently been losing men.”

- Kathryn Jean Lopez, writing for the National Review Online.