Memorial Day 2016

Ace of Spades HQ: "American Military Cemetery at Luxembourg. July 4th, 2010 Photo courtesy of Anna Puma"

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Suddenly

Instapundit » Blog Archive » USA TODAY EDITORIALIZES ON THE VIOLENCE THAT HAS MARRED THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY: Sen. Sanders, rein …: "USA TODAY EDITORIALIZES ON THE VIOLENCE THAT HAS MARRED THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY: Sen. Sanders, rein in your supporters.

I notice that when Bernie supporters shut down a Trump rally in Chicago, the press made it sound like the violence was Trump’s fault. But now that they’re going after Hillary, suddenly Bernie’s responsible."

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COTD: The Eroding Evolutionary Gauntlet

TPP and the Law of Unintended Consequences | Armed and Dangerous: "TomA on 2016-04-12 at 11:39:33 said:

The answer to as to why this abomination (TPP) has occurred is that it is a reflection of the current mean caliber of our population. For nearly half a century now, unprecedented affluence and abundance have inexorably eroded the evolutionary gauntlet that imbued us with the rationality skill set and work ethic that made us a great people. We have become a nation of coddled malcontents that have been conditioned to believe that the gravy train will run on forever, no matter how stupidly we behave. I believe that history will eventually show that we passed the de Tocqueville tipping point sometime during the past decade or so.

You can abrogate a bad trade deal, but you can’t fix stupid with a speech."

Speaking of evolution, Matt Ridley's recent "The Evolution of Everything" is a somewhat uneven but at times smashing read. How smashing?

This truth continues to elude most intellectuals on the left as well as on the right, who remain in effect ‘creationists.’ The obsession with which those on the right resist Charles Darwin’s insight — that the complexity of nature does not imply a designer — matches the obsession with which those on the left resist Adam Smith’s insight — that the complexity of society does not imply a planner. In the pages that follow, I shall take on this creationism in all its forms.

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For Your Consideration: A Glimpse Of The Future O Duce Is Striving To Bring You

"It's Pure Chaos Now; There Is No Way Back" - Venezuela Morgues Are Overflowing | Zero Hedge: "For many Venezuelans it no longer matters who is to blame. "It is a state policy of letting anarchy sink in," says a former policeman outside the gates of a compound in Caracas.

The FT adds that the former police station now houses the Frente 5 de Marzo, one of the political groups that consider themselves the keepers of socialism’s sacred flame. The gates bear the colours of the Venezuelan flag and are marked with bullet holes. The man believes there is something akin to a civil war going on.

“Venezuela is pure chaos now. It seems to me there is no way back,” the former policeman says.  He is right.

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And since words can not fully do a failed state justice, here is a video clip from Jeff Berwick showing the reality on the ground in the country where "socialism's sacred flame" is about to go out for good."

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The Suicide O The Stockholm Syndrome (< 2 min WTWT)

The Suicide of Europe | European Migrant Crisis - YouTube: "The Suicide of Europe | European Migrant Crisis"

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The American Trinity

CPAC 2016 - Dennis Prager - YouTube: "Dennis Prager"

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The Anti-Human Mindset Of Environmentalists

The Anti-Human Mindset Of Environmentalists | Robert Zubrin and Stefan Molyneux - YouTube: "The Anti-Human Mindset Of Environmentalists"

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Who's The Real Fascist?

Wait A Minute - Who's The Real Fascist? | Zero Hedge: "In other words, the all-powerful central state worshipped by Reich and all the other Establishment insiders, Democrat and Republican alike, is the true culmination of fascism. So if we strip away the Orwellian Doublespeak, we find that it's actually Reich and his fellow believers in the goodness and rightness of the all-powerful central state and central bank who are the real fascists.

The core belief of the Establishment is the central state should run everything: the state should run the mortgage industry (hey, it does--95% of all mortgages are government-backed or guaranteed); it should run the financial system via setting interest rates, buying bonds and other assets and bailing out/protecting private banks (hey, it does--thank you, Federal Reserve); it should control higher education (the central state not only funds the higher education cartel, it also owns most of the $1.4 trillion in student loan debt); it should control the economy via protecting and enforcing favored monopolies and cartels, and of course the state needs to track any domestic "threats" via surveillance and suppress any resistance to its power by force, media attacks, lawsuits, IRS investigations, social-media smear campaigns, etc.--which is precisely what the U.S. central state's toadies, lackeys, apparatchiks, thugs, bought-off media hacks, et al. do."

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Surprise, Surprise! (With a Maggie Thatcher Cameo!)

One of the very first global warming films: ‘The Greenhouse Conspiracy’ | Watts Up With That?: "Channel 4 Television which made this was visited by Whitehall minions shortly after it went to air to discuss it’s funding after which this channel which prides itself on making cutting edge programs dropped all it’s ideas of debunking CAGW and towed the party line.

Surprise Surprise!"

This is absolutely devastating for the warmist cultists. Even more amusing, it catches Thatcher supporting the warmist nutjobs as part of her support for nuclear power to defang the coal uniions! I know about that but had forgotten to bring it up as an ironic "Thatcherite Lysenkoist" twist.

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Trifecta

Weimar America | PJ Media: "To relearn the mentality of a Chamberlain or Daladier, listen to the contextualizations of a college president. And to talk to an uneducated person, approach a recent college graduate.

If all that is confusing, factor in the Trimalchio banquet of campus rock-climbing walls, students glued to their iPhone 6s, $200 sneakers, latte bars, late-model foreign cars in the parking lot, and yoga classes. Affluence, arrogance, and ignorance are quite a trifecta.

Bernie Sanders—a proud Eugene Debs-like socialist whose campaign in normal times would have been the stuff of caricature—is now running neck and neck with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party nomination. He rails like an Old Testament prophet at Wall Street, often oblivious that Wall Street’s totem stands a mere three feet away on the debating stage.

Obama may have wrecked his party by losing the Congress and most of the state legislatures, but he certainly has moved it to the hard community-organizing left. Sanders has little appreciation that he is an artifact of free-market capitalism, which alone has created enough bounty for such a demagogue to call for massive redistribution—in a way impossible for socialists any longer in exhausted Cuba, Greece, Venezuela, or any other command-economy paradise. Where does Sanders think his statism has worked—China, North Korea, Bolivia, Cuba, or the ossified European Union?"

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The Latter

Instapundit » Blog Archive » IT’S COME TO THIS: Ivy League crybullies vs. survivor of a Soviet labor camp; guess who needs ’em…: "FEBRUARY 21, 2016

IT’S COME TO THIS: Ivy League crybullies vs. survivor of a Soviet labor camp; guess who needs ’emotional support’? “So there you have it; a group of Ivy League crybullies worn out from the emotional toll of protesting Natan Sharansky, a former dissident and survivor of years of confinement, including solitary confinement, in harsh Soviet prison camps. Is there a better indication of the decline of American higher-ed culture than a bunch of Ivy Leaguers at risk of emotional breakdown due to the presence of one of the great, stoic heroes of the Cold War on their campus?”

I wonder — does social-justice activism lead to mental and emotional problems, or is it a symptom? I’m thinking the latter."

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Jeppe Juhl on the disaster of Sweden

Jeppe Juhl on the disaster of Sweden - YouTube: "Once again, Danish commentator, Jeppe Juhl, a sort of Scandinavian Pat Condell, nails it. This is a powerful and valuable document for the vestiges of reason in Denmark."

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Berned

Moonbattery » Sanders Gets Berned by His Own Type of “Justice”: "Sanders might have won his blowout victory because he campaigned harder, and was more effective in crafting a message the voters wanted to hear. He might just be a better politician than Shrillary. But thanks to this political application of his own notion of economic justice, they get the same benefit anyway. It’s called “equality.”"

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Grave Spinning Watch

The Bookworm Beat 2/6/16 — the illustrated edition and open thread: "For the following picture, take a close look at the little blue plaque on the wall (click on the image to enlarge, if need be), and you’ll appreciate why this picture is both funny and horrifying:"

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Z Man On The Revolt

The Revolt | The Z Blog: "I think what were seeing is the long overdue reckoning for the mistakes of the 60’s and 70’s. The disastrous welfare programs, the massive expansion of the federal state, the rise of Cultural Marxism as the official religion of the ruling elite. The squalor of the 70’s should have forced a roll back of all these things. What should have happened in the 80’s  and 90’s was a return to normalcy. Instead, the credit boom put all that on hold.

Worse still, it fueled the growth of the managerial class that is decidedly hostile to normal people. Turn on the TV and you see an endless stream of degeneracy that mocks the foundations of western civilization and the traditions that have preserved and nurtured it. Traditional America is treated as a hate crime. The people in entertainment live like royalty, while accusing middle American of an endless list of crimes.

Pat Caddell, the veteran pollster and social observer, is calling this a revolution. He may not be way off base. It is a revolt, but a revolt against thirty years of a ruling class papering over the mistakes of the past. Egalitarianism, anti-racism and multiculturalism are fine in the faculty lounge, but they are a cultural dead end as a ruling class religion. The people in charge have run out of ways to hide this truth and now the long overdue hell is going to be paid."

Except I think the ruling class will find a way to put it back in the bottle this election. Not sure how they do it -- Michelle O or Slow Joe replace Hillary? -- but I still think we're done for...

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The Real Racists

Muslim migrants not as stupid and simple as politically-correct Europeans seem to believe: "Here’s what I think is going on: The refugees are acting as they are, not because they see themselves as charity cases, but because they see themselves as conquerors. They know perfectly well that one doesn’t defecate in a pool in which people (especially children) are swimming. They’re doing it because they are performing the literal equivalent of the expression “I don’t give a shit about you.” They know you’re not supposed to rape women . . . that is, unless those women are the products of conquest, in which case raping them is one of Mohamed’s commandments.

It’s almost funny seeing Europeans trying politely to teach their conquerors how not to treat those whom they have conquered. I wonder how long it will take before the Europeans figure out that they’re no longer in the driver’s seat. And then I wonder whether they’ll be able or willing to mount a counter-strike, or whether the twelve-hundred year-long Islamic jihad against Europe will finally have succeeded.

The European attitude reminds me of Ingrid Bergman’s brilliant comedic take on the typical European do-gooder, in Murder on the Orient Express.  I can’t find a clip, and I haven’t seen the movie in decades, but I distinctly remember her riff about the responsibility Europeans have for “the brown people.”  Europe’s condescending racist attitudes are alive and well — and they’re about to get a lot of Europeans killed, raped, or enslaved."

Europe is done.

UPDATE: A commenter re-invents r/K Selection Theory from sand:

Europe’s condescending racist attitudes are alive and well — and they’re about to get a lot of Europeans killed, raped, or enslaved.

It's how many Europeans survived the slave raids of Islam for 1400 years. They collaborated with the slave raiders, sold them EUropeans, the same way Africans captured blacks and sold them to Islam.

Given that kind of genetic predisposition and cultural behavior, it got passed down after WWI and WWII wiped out the warrior genes. It's kind of obvious, if you look at it from that particular point of view. Islam has been here before. Why did Europe survive before but not now? Spain even pushed them back to North Africa. Is it because WWI and WWII happened?

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Democrat Voters

Moonbattery » Open Thread: "Via Thomas Del Beccaro.

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Abandoned

Bookworm Room – Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.: "In the meantime, though, I’ve got some incredible posters and cartoons to share with you."

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To Infinite Stupidity And Beyond

Let It Snow, Let It Snow… | Power Line: "But we are living in the era of Global Warming, so weather news has taken on a whole new dimension. Watts Up With That? notes Craig Kelly’s Facebook post on wind power in Sweden. It turns out that wind power doesn’t work well under wintry conditions:"

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Round Up: Moles and Enablers

Islam and Islamism in America in 2015: Part I: "Representative André Carson (D-Indiana), a convert to Islam, was appointed to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Carson has extensive ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Officials at the Rocky Heights Middle School in Littleton, Colorado, ignited controversy when they told female students to dress according to Sharia law while visiting a mosque during a field trip.

Islamic politics "advocates the world's greatest double standard: if you come to our country, we won't let you worship the way you want, we won't let you say what you want to say... However, we have come to your country, therefore we have the right to do whatever we want to do, including kill you if you make us mad." — Former US President Bill Clinton."

And re the last: BJ did what exactly to stop it? Signed off on Jamie Gorelick's intelligence wall?

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