NRO's The Corner 2: Ghost Protocol

The athletic cup?

“Don’t just read the stuff you agree with, read the stuff you disagree with, too. Don’t just interest yourself in what is going on at the moment. It is crucially important, especially for conservatives. Conservatives believe that the past matters, and we are standing on the shoulders of giants.

“Be happy warriors. This is a good fight to be in. We are on the side of freedom and prosperity and of all the things that have made western civilization successful and America in particular great, and defending those things shouldn’t feel like a chore. It should feel like a duty but also like a vocation.”

Twirling his mustache!

Liberal Dream to Liberal Nightmare?
By Deroy Murdock
February 15, 2012 2:19 P.M. Comments0

Jonah Goldberg is right. He makes an excellent point in his piece this morning on President Obama’s abortion-pill mandate. Conservatives, libertarians, and others who believe in medical freedom should make this argument much more often when engaging liberals: What happens if “the bad guys,” namely we right-wingers, win the next election, and now we get to run Obamacare? (Be sure to twirl your handlebar mustache as you pose this question.)

Imagine, as Jonah does, that Rick Santorum is elected president and becomes the reincarnation of Cotton Mather, just as Nancy Pelosi probably fears as she lays her coiffed head on her high-thread-count pillows every night. Imagine further that, instead of repealing ObamaCare, the former GOP senator from Pennsylvania decided to keep this law in place and modify it along much more traditionalist, even puritanical, lines.

Santorumcare could involve, say, a federally mandated, five-day waiting period before women could have abortions. This parallels the original five-day interlude that potential firearms buyers faced under the Brady Law. How could the Left object to that?

How about a requirement that every American who receives free condoms from any federally subsidized health center first must receive 30 minutes of mandatory abstinence counseling?

And why not a rule that those who visit Gay Men’s Health Crisis cannot accept any services until after completing a two-day course on gay conversion, so that they can be “cured” of their homosexuality? (“Look out, ladies at T.G.I. Friday’s happy hour, here we come!”)

I seriously doubt that President Santorum (or President Brownback or President Palin) would do such things, but then I never envisioned President Obama ordering free birth control for any and every adult female who wanted it — regardless of income — and paid for under federal orders by health insurers, over the objections of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

"as she lays her coiffed head on her high-thread-count pillows"

I love these feints at populism, as if any one of these assholes pays less than $50 for a haircut. (Maybe Derbyshire.)

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I seriously don't understand any of these people

I never envisioned President Obama ordering free birth control for any and every adult female who [/b]wanted[/b] it

dude's word choice is straining JUSSSST a bit too hard. Look out! Tyrannical government to shove this optional choice down your throat should you, like, want it or something.

also, "adult female?" Really?

adult female is what dudes who live in their mother's baement call the ladies

http://thepilver.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/sixteencandles.jpg

Santorumcare could involve, say, a federally mandated, five-day waiting period before women could have abortions. This parallels the original five-day interlude that potential firearms buyers faced under the Brady Law. How could the Left object to that?

how, indeed?

Santorumcare

I like the casual use of "Santorumcare," as if demonizing legislation that got ripped up and re-pieced together by congress as "Obamacare" is a thing and you can just tack some other dude's name on to "care" and it's fine

Also, hilarious because now it's assumed the government has a role worth addressing in healthcare, even among republicans. It's not "repeal the entire Obamacare bill," it is "we need Santorumcare"

eh, not really; the argument is "this tool shouldn't exist and we are going to use it to punish you to underscore what a terrible idea it was"

Man, these guys are thinking of nothing else but this.

This is indeed something new, although it resembles something very old. The radical Left, in every country in which it has gained power or influence, ever since the French Revolution, has wanted to dismantle, destroy, marginalize, or make impotent the Roman Catholic Church, which, at its best, has always stood athwart Progress (not “progress”) shouting “Stop!” Unlike many of my friends, I have never believed Obama is a Socialist or a radical or even a left-winger. He is, instead, a classic political adventurer, a true believer only in the Imperial Self, unhindered by doctrine or dogma, willing to channel the myths of whatever ideological fantasy allows him to gain power and then hold it. He chose the statist myths that appeal to the Left because they are now, as they have always been, no matter what rhetoric is chosen to disguise the fact, about the will to political power through control of or influence over the coercive power of the state. All in a good cause, all for progress and, er, progress, y’know, but still, one can’t do good unless one has, er, state power.

But Obama has been until now careful to disguise his contempt for those who disagree with him. His frequent calls for “civility” have always smacked of the disdain the Left feels for the great unwashed: One is polite, one tries to be civil, but, really, who are these people?

But now, in a moment of breathtaking, brazen over-reach, he finds himself in a fight he never believed would take place. Who, after all, would have believed the Catholic bishops, old, celibate men, their authority weakened by the manner in which they dealt with the homosexual sex scandal, scorned by the major media, not listened to by the vast majority of Catholics concerning the church teaching on contraception — who could imagine that these . . . these . . . people . . . would say “No!,” not once, but twice, to the Imperial Self? The White House, the New York Times, the entertainment industry, the mainstream media, radical feminists, and esteemed Catholic lay theologians like Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Mikulski all said “Yes!,” as did the liberal Wall Street fat cats whose big bucks made New York state safe for same-sex marriage. This was a slam dunk for Obama. Obama shoots . . . he scores. Game over. As it is written, so it shall be done.

One is polite, one tries to be civil, but, really, who are these people?

Ha ha, to be honest this is my attitude towards all Corner writers.

And then the mask comes off: it's LIBERAL WALL STREET FAT CATS, see, responsible for gays getting married.

the homosexual sex scandal

fucking die

does that mean gay marriage or raping children?

I'm realizing their gay marriage stance is probably the less vague of the two.

these guys really love quoting auden

Unlike many of my friends, I have never believed Obama is a Socialist or a radical or even a left-winger. He is, instead, a classic political adventurer, a true believer only in the Imperial Self, unhindered by doctrine or dogma, willing to channel the myths of whatever ideological fantasy allows him to gain power and then hold it.

Man, Morbs's writing is a lot better at NRO than it is here.

these guys really love quoting auden

British, Catholic, rumpled, gay, c'mon

Dude's deliberate and defiant ignorance of history is soaking into his aesthetic tastes like bar-top vomit thru a thin rag. Apparently, this guy's fave character in the Three Musketeers wasn't Basil Exposition or Oliver Reed, it was fucking Richelieu.

The radical Left, in every country in which it has gained power or influence, ever since the French Revolution, has wanted to dismantle, destroy, marginalize, or make impotent the Roman Catholic Church,

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Apparently, this guy's fave character in the Three Musketeers wasn't Basil Exposition or Oliver Reed, it was fucking Richelieu.

he was mine too!

The guy was the first Suave Supervillain I came across as a child.

a-ha! CAUGHT!

and he didn't die like the Conte de Rochefort.

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I lol'd

http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/16/what-are-women-for/

^^the way this man uses the english language is breathtaking

do you suppose he's deep deep deep inside the thomistic game and totally blind to how his words sound or did he decide to adopt the phrase 'what women are for' specifically for its crepey connotations?

wow that thing's insane from the first sentence

If the conservative movement’s nominal unity is actually belied by a stunning range of right-wing views on the status and purpose of women (and believe me, it is), the left’s alleged philosophical uniformity on the woman question is a complete fabrication — despite the fanatical discipline and norm-enforcement of much of the liberal cultural establishment.

you should have just stopped at the comma broseph

Tags: Contraception, James Poulos, Women

pretty sure all three of these things are found together, or none of them are

"the woman question"

ik,r

Yeah, Roy Edroso had that for breakfast this morning.

Seriously. I'm not very well educated, and half drunk most of the time, but I do know how to read, and I swear to God I have no idea what he's saying. I don't know how "a civilization of men, for men, and by men" relates to anything else he said. I don't know what he means by women's "privileged relationship with the natural world," unless my browser has failed to show me the picture of a lady sniffing a purty flower that was supposed to explain it. And as to "imitation by quasi-feminized males of quasi-masculinized females," it sounds like Archie Bunker had one of those Flowers for Algernon operations.

real-life lol at this:

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Oh shit.

The purpose of lifting the left’s Potemkin skirts is not to score tits for tats.

I mean

"ok, we might hate women, but they can't even agree on what a woman is!"

i think that's what he's on about anyway

'they treat women like MEN! at least we treat women like OBJECTS'

the status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of women

for some reason makes me think of the mom of the dude esther greenwood is dating in the bell jar, who tells esther, "what a man is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is a place to shoot that arrow off from" or something to that effect.

http://takimag.com/article/facing_down_the_thugs

thug life

Pi day is coming up again. Perhaps I should say hello to him once more.

http://takimag.com/article/facing_down_the_thugs

― max, Saturday, February 18, 2012 1:05 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark

At this point in the USA’s evolution toward complete ethnic disaggregation, arguing about who is or is not “white nationalist” is less to the point than wondering why anyone thinks there’s anything wrong with such a position.

took me by surprise

poor derb, can't even pull off concern trolling without letting his gay-bashing show.

Mr. Pareene starts right off with an error: I didn’t host the panel, I was a guest. Proceeding from sloppy journalism to personal vituperation, he then calls me a pervert, on what grounds I do not know. (I don’t, come to think of it, even know what a pervert is anymore in the age of NAMBLA, gay marriage, and Madonna in bondage gear on prime-time network TV. My dad, along with well-nigh every other person of his generation, would have said that Barney Frank is a pervert, but I’m guessing this is not Mr. Pareene’s point of view.)