Schizoid World

Saudi human genome project launched.

Within the last few weeks a Saudi cleric visiting England issued a fatwa condemning a Muslim to death for denying creationism.

The Muslims are as crazy on this as the Christians, but more violent about it than the Christians have been for several centuries.

The Leader of the Free World?

Obama-Castro handshake 'unplanned.'

The gopsters are still calling the US president by that title.

Ubiquitous?

India court reinstates gay sex ban.

A court in Delhi had thrown out a law from colonial times banning homosexuality and punishing it with 10 years in prison.

The Indian Supreme Court has reinstated it.

Apparently the law is quite popular with Indians regardless of religion.

Interesting how the gods so often seem to want to herd people, however unsuitable their proclivities, into what gays disparage as "breeding pairs."

Friend or foe?

I write dissenting comments at sites of the left and sites of the right.

The lefties' responses berate me as a conservative.

The wingers lambaste me as a liberal.

All abuse me for missing the diversity of views on their side of the street.

Mandeville. The Fable of the Bees

Crude, but candid and full of insight, in particular the essay, An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue.

Essentially correct, though not great on the relationship between morality and religion.

Much undervalued.

And a good joke on J. S. Mill, in more ways than one.

The death of Mandela and the nostalgic radicalism of the American left

Fight the Right-Washing of Nelson Mandela’s Legacy

Like many other liberals, Joan Walsh has seized the opportunity of Mandela's death to smear today's right with the racism and white supremacy of their ancestral heroes with a mix of charges fair and foul.

Great play in the media for these attacks, these past days.

But only the even more absurd and annoying Ann Coulter reminds us the Democrats opposed the Civil War and supported racist terrorism and American Apartheid for a century after, including such liberal heroes as Woodrow Wilson.

All because everyone believes that whites who have a problem with non-whites today are mostly Republicans, while the Democracy harbors in its bosom a veritable rainbow coalition of people - people holding megaphones, like Joan - who hate American whites or white people, globally, including many white liberals and feminists who make no bones about it and scream their venom at every opportunity.

Including this one.

A question for Ms Walsh.

At the time he was imprisoned, Nelson Mandela was in fact a terrorist and no one had more reason to believe in the democratic aims of the ANC than in those of Uncle Ho, though things turned out otherwise not least because though Ho won his war Mandela sat in prison for thirty years.

The same Ho, that is, whose project was so recently and absurdly, er, whitewashed as democratic by a certain non-white Democrat in the White House, come to think of it.

[And the left never tires of accusing the right of a propaganda of whoppers.]

Joan implies but does not quite say she supported Mandela, back in the day.

And did she support Uncle Ho?

She may have done both.

As for Mandela, she celebrates his commitment to violent revolution as a radical leftist, though she will not call him the outright communist he was.

And, while carefully praising his refusal to renounce violence as a condition of his release, she excuses his post-prison acceptance of peaceful transition and democracy as best she can - clearly, in her view, it is this that requires an apology - "as the best strategy to achieve freedom and justice."

Her exact words.

He was a revolutionary who believed in a radical redistribution of wealth, and a global warrior against poverty, to the end. . . . But it’s equally important to remember the commitment to equality that let him endure prison, and adopt reconciliation as the best strategy to achieve freedom and justice.

Does it not seem that, like Dr. King and others of the left, when she says "freedom" and "justice" she means "equality" and "social justice" - and so again "equality"?

It seems inescapable she thinks "freedom" is something that might be won by a red revolutionary dictatorship.

Does she think Ho was a "freedom fighter," along with Mandela?

And what of Obama's recent whitewash of Ho Chi Minh that fit so well his friendship with Bill Ayers and his long relationship with Rev. Wright?

Scratch a liberal, find a fellow-traveler of the radical left, or worse, sometimes.

Isn't it almost comic, looking back, how Obama and his supporters were going to put behind us the political conflicts and allegiances of the boomer generation?

If you don't feel powerless already

State conservative groups plan US-wide assault on education, health and tax http://gu.com/p/3yxgf

When next you hear Islam is better for science think of this

How a creationist fatwa proved a shocking example of Wahhabi Islam's influence | Andrew Brown.

Oddly, the American left thinks worse of our Christian fundamentalists than of the Muslim variety.

Locally, of course, the Christians are the greater threat.

But not globally and not even in Western lands where their numbers reach critical mass, though far less than those of Christians.

No more Muslims in the US, please.

The International Brigades

BBC NEWS today has a story about thousands of soi-disant al-Qaeda fighters from all over the world, including many from Britain and France, using safe houses in southern Turkey for passage into and out of Syria, fighting Asad's dictatorship under a false flag of democracy - or a true flag of Islamist, faux democracy.

Hmm.

No, it's not Munich this reminds me of.

Ah.

Got it.

That the Western powers don't want to unseat the dictator but cannot espouse his cause, instead cheering for democracy with no enthusiasm, makes those echoes of Spain all the more clear.

Yes, I have cast the Muslim volunteers from all over Europe and the world as the communists of the faux-republican International Brigades, type-casting as those of decades ago today's deluded fanatics depicted so widely in Western media as heroes - and how else can one say it? - of anti-Fascism.

In the past, Turkey - or anyway the Turkish generals of Ataturk's army - would've put a stop to this.

But recent, successful moves to end that tradition of secularist intervention by that country's ruling democratic Islamists have made Turkey hospitable to Jihaders, including al-Qaeda.

Is there not current congressional authorization for the president to make war against not only al-Qaeda but also allied forces and sheltering nations, anywhere in the world?

And what loon would expect or want war with Israel's once and perhaps future ally, Turkey, in defense of the anti-Zionist dictator, Asad?

Certainly not those Jewish-American agents of Israeli influence, the neoconservatives - or their goyische cohorts - who have done their best for decades to get America to crush both Syria and Iran on behalf of the only country they love more than the USA, their ethnic, religious, and ancestral homeland, Israel.

Whatever their blather, they fear and hate first and foremost Israel's nation-state enemies.

Not Islamists, not Muslims, and not al-Qaeda or other Muslim fighters, per se, but enemy states and their tools.

Which is why they first insisted America's retaliatory attack on al-Queda and the Taliban must include outright invasion, occupation, and regime change in Afghanistan and then diverted that effort as soon as possible, in the first flush of apparent, easy success, into a struggle against Israel's three most hated enemies, dubbed for the purpose "The Axis of Evil," though succeeding only in forcing America into wasting a trillion dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives in war against only one of them, Iraq. 

But America is tired of Israel and it's endlessly warmongering Jewish-American agents of influence, though it would take bunker-busting nukes to blast them out of their dominant positions in America's classe-politique and American culture.

And given that last, we know America's days as Israel's super-power cat's paw are very far from over.

Only fools believe for every problem there is a solution.

One sure way to find out

Republicans want to know how many retirees have guns.

Take away their Social Security.

You'll find out soon enough.