Why American & French History Won't Tell Everything

The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804)

Here's a "fun fact," rarely told (in a way that makes sense) in American history:

The deal known as "The Louisiana Purchase" (which famously doubled the size of the United States on the cheap) was only offered to Thomas Jefferson because France's plantations had been overthrown by blacks - France needed to get some money, quick, because they knew there wouldn't be more coming from slavery in Haiti.

So, considering the black Haitian's role in fucking up France's plans for world domination, is it any wonder why America and France insure Haiti stays one of the poorest places on Earth today?

"You Have To Expect There's Going To Be Explosions!"

"That doesn't make any sense at all."

This Is Just Wrong (But, Yes, Still A Little Funny)

The Daily Show - Pyramid Scheme - World Reaction
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Just like all of The Daily Show episodes, we guess:

America had nothing to do with what's happening in the Middle East? Ohhhhh-kaaaay.

Al Qaeda has a terrorist phone service? That was done a lot better, a long time ago, by Joe Rogan.

And the first time Jason Jones screams from Glenn Beck's brain is hilarious, but that's about it.

All in all, once again, watching The Daily Show just makes us really sad kids get their news from Jon Stewart.

Proof: The Democrats Are The Party Of The KKK

Yes, they were Dixiecrats, and now - like Global Warming became Climate Change - they've taken off the hoods and claim to be "progressive" (which, as we were reminded, is another word for Communist) but the old habits never die and, when faced with anyone they don't like, the words "Send him back to the fields" and "String him up!" ring loudly, and proudly, just like in the old days - and weren't those the days? To their credit, it seems Democrats will defend any race - whether it's whites or blacks - but they've got to have one so, by sight, they can know who else they'll be eliminating.

And the cry of "Revolution now - just like in Egypt!" makes a very nice bookend for Francis Fox Piven's supposedly-non-violent claim we should have “strikes and riots” in our streets - just like in Greece. Of course, between those bookends is a weird mixture of Communism, Naziism, and our old friend NewAge because, let's face it, all these folks are just being "nice".

At least that's their story, and they're stickin' to it.

The Dirty Truth

"Thirty years ago in the turmoil of the revolutionary zeal an indefensible act of hostage taking was committed that the new generation of Iran are not proud of at all. We know very well how that deplorable action hurt the noble American people and how it led to three decades of unnecessary and painful bad relations between our two nations.

Only a small and repressive minority who rule Iran today still insist on keeping Iran on a confrontation course with the US, Britain and the West and indeed they have now taken the Iranian people as hostage to their destructive policies."

-- The Green Movement of Iran, in a letter to President Barack Obama - probably hoping he doesn't abandon them again - denouncing the wrecking crew holding power, in The Telegraph.

Shhh: We Got A Little Jihad Going On Here

"This is the point: last November, the American people thought they were electing a 'post-partisan,' 'post-racial' President who would work to restore unity and self-confidence to the country. They woke up on November 5, however, to find that they had elected someone who was deeply ambivalent about America, who distrusted its founding principles of limited government, individual liberty, and local responsibility. Like his radical friends — Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones, Anita Dunn — Barack Obama wishes to transform the United States according to a model whose basic shape was supplied by the utopian schemes of the 1960s. That’s why Anita Dunn said that Mao was one of the thinkers she most often turned to for wisdom about big-think political problems. It’s not that she admires his penchant for industrial strength homicide: rather, she admires his success at fomenting an egalitarian revolution. It’s not what we bargained for when we elected Barack Obama. But that’s what we’ve got. The question is how much worse will things have to get before the penny drops, before the scales fall from the collective eyes of the electorate? When will voters begin that long countermarch through the institutions in order to take back the country? If not now, when?"

-- Roger Kimball, kinda calling for conservatives to *start something* - what that *something* might be, exactly, escapes most - but then, they're probably too busy posing as hardcore revolutionaries, to be reading anything from Pajamas Media.

It's All In There (And, Yea, That Includes You)

"Always with the self, these baby-boomers, who include Mr. Edel, the director. 'This is the story of our generation,' he has said of his movie. What else would it be? But those of another generation might have a hard time understanding how the killing or kidnapping of a banker or a policeman could amount to a blow struck against imperialism even if they thought it appropriate to strike such blows.

In other words, audiences today are quite likely to notice what was not so much noticed at the time, namely that the 'revolution' doesn't make any sense. So far as we can tell, these naughty children don't even know what 'imperialism' means, apart from identifying it with anything America or Israel do -- and not with anything that the Soviet Union or China did. It is whatever they say it is. Their narcissism even extends to the deaths of the leadership -- Meinhoff first, then Baader and Ensslin -- by suicide in prison. These are the solipsist revolutionaries -- though, like Bill Ayers, they still command respect at the New York Times."

-- James Bowman, twisting the knife in a review of Uli Edel's film "The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex)" - though the creature still lives - because a little pain is better than nothing, to The American Spectator.

Lovely

I Think You May Have Gone And Done It Now

And I think I've got an important link in here somewhere,...Found it!!!

Hat Tip: Instapundit

Nobody's Monkeying Around Anymore

A multitude of Iranians took their fight through a holy breach on Saturday from which there appears to be scant turning back."

-- Roger Cohen - in a must-read piece - as he's, maybe, watching one of the world's largest religious cults fall*, for The New York Times.

*As well as watching, first-hand, George W. Bush's "stupid" political vision emerge.

Frogs: Useful, But Still Idiots

"To borrow an expression of Lenin’s, we were useful idiots."

-- Jean-Claude Guillebaud, author of “Re-Founding the World” - and a columnist for Le Nouvel Observateur and La Vie - on the lunacy of France's so-called "May '68" uprising, in The New York Times.

Wow: I'm A Revolutionary!!!

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”

- George Orwell