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― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 19:41 (eight years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_Israel_Defense_Forces
― T.L.O.P.son (Phil D.), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 19:50 (eight years ago) link
precisely
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 19:55 (eight years ago) link
What does Norway, Israel and Eritrea have in common?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 19:59 (eight years ago) link
kind of odd that women are mothers and daughters, not sisters
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 20:00 (eight years ago) link
Or widows
― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 20:50 (eight years ago) link
The army needs battalions composed entirely of widows. What have they got to lose, right?
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 20:53 (eight years ago) link
NRO has been less offensive than usual lately
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
Do you think these guys would be fer or agin' a film about the Nachthexen?
On the one hand, a WWII movie where Nazis get blown the fuck up but good. On the other, a flick about Red Army women fighting and dying on the front lines as True Believer Communists, put into the pilot seat as a direct result of ideological gender equality.
― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
by Andrew C. McCarthy February 10, 2016 7:23 PM
I was just in the car flipping radio channels. Landed on the classic rock station and was treated to Mick Jagger, er, crooning his way through “Wild Horses.” Painful … so I switched over to the political station only to find Hillary screeching her way through the end of last night’s speech. Mick is starting to sound like Bing Crosby to me.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:26 (eight years ago) link
xp kind of amazing to me that the scale of shared brutality of the eastern front has spawned so few movies tbh
probably bc Americans are generally uninterested in war narratives outside their direct experience but still
― art, Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:35 (eight years ago) link
by Jay Nordlinger February 13, 2016 6:48 PM @jaynordlinger
A student wrote me, many years ago. I’m going from memory, but I think I have it. S
calia was visiting the law school at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. A student mentioned to him, “My roommates and I bought some fish. We named one after you.” Scalia said ,”Oh, so you called him Nino, did you?” “No,” said the student. “We call him Justice Scalia.” “Well, what about the other fish?” said Scalia. Replied the student, “Justice Scalia ate them.”
What a great guy, Antonin Scalia. Connoisseur of the opera. Lover, and singer, of the American Songbook. Master jurist.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 February 2016 01:14 (eight years ago) link
Jay Nordlinger does not realize that, the fish being a symbol of Christ, Our Savior, that 'Justice Scalia' devouring them all is emblematic of Satan's dominion over the earth.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 14 February 2016 03:26 (eight years ago) link
It’s Time for an Anti-Trump Manhattan Project
― mookieproof, Thursday, 25 February 2016 02:23 (eight years ago) link
weird that they would call for an enormous, expensive and secretive government project to stop their own party's front-runner
― mookieproof, Thursday, 25 February 2016 02:33 (eight years ago) link
I'm disappointed this thread isn't revived daily. Are K-Lo and her rosary beads sitting this one out?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2016 02:39 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/jpodhoretz/status/702534912205836289
― Mordy, Thursday, 25 February 2016 02:44 (eight years ago) link
from that stop-Trump piece:
On its face, this theory is irrational to the point of absurdity — if I am told one more time that it makes sense to nominate a single-payer-supporting defender of Planned Parenthood because Congress’s repeal-and-defund bill was vetoed by the incumbent, I shall begin to order bourbon in bulk.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2016 02:56 (eight years ago) link
Lev Bronshtein • 5 minutes ago
National Review has spearheaded a GOP Establishment that is, in a nutshell, a traitorous cabal against the American people.
Offshoring our jobs, bringing in hordes of foreigners to undercut Americans on the jobs that are left--the GOPe is the only class to benefit.
Harry Holder Lev Bronshtein • 3 minutes ago
You act like jobs and your neighborhood turning into Guadalajara are more important than conservative talking points on free trade and open borders. id du Lev Bronshtein • 3 minutes ago
I once had a malignant tumor that did nothing but lecture and belittle me. I had it forcibly removed.
•... Lev Bronshtein • 3 minutes ago
Unions and welfare state did that....nice rant though
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2016 02:59 (eight years ago) link
enjoyed his use of 'redounded', 'pace' and the seven years war in a piece despairing of his party's base
― mookieproof, Thursday, 25 February 2016 03:01 (eight years ago) link
"Melt down the fences if you have to" was also great in that regards.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 25 February 2016 08:17 (eight years ago) link
trumpist revolt against neoconservatism/nro has been fascinating.
lotta trump fans are antisemites, if twitter is any measure
― goole, Thursday, 25 February 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
Trump, standing athwart NRO and telling it to stop
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2016 16:33 (eight years ago) link
maybe the democrats will notice the nixon pact is unraveling and actually offer something to the underclass before they learn how to goosestep
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 25 February 2016 16:42 (eight years ago) link
"Mr. Gorbachev, melt down this fence."
Hmm. Doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does it?
― rock me, I'm a deist (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 25 February 2016 16:48 (eight years ago) link
Earring wearer and civil rights history illiterate Kevin Williamson:
But, beyond that, the presidential blog post (what an odd thing to write!) and his previous statements remind us of something more fundamental: Barack Obama rejects the notion of the rule of law as such, and he nominates to the bench justices who also reject it, which is dangerous and corrosive. Contrary to the president’s insistence, yes, the law is — or is intended to be — a set of abstractions, a neutral body of rules that applies equally to everybody, be they gay, straight, black, white, old, single mother, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, or Methodists. That is the beauty of the rule of law — and it is, incidentally, the only thing that makes the rule of law useful to the poor and the marginalized.
President Obama and like-minded thinkers (“thinkers”) believe that the law should be a respecter of persons for purposes of restitution, putting a thumb on the scale in favor of the poor, the powerless, minorities, etc. There is good reason to object to that on principle — you either believe in equality under the law or you don’t — but there’s a practical reason to reject that, too: If the law is a respecter of persons, you can bet that it will have outsized respect for persons of wealth and power. Consider all of the economic policy over the last 60 years that has been, in theory, aimed at “leveling” some imaginary “playing field” (one of the great examples of mistaking the metaphor for the thing itself) or raising blue-collar wages, or promoting manufacturing, or stimulating the economy, etc. Who actually benefited from all that? In almost every case, it was the powerful and the politically connected, and generally the wealthy. (The owners of Solyndra thank you very much for your investment in their well-being.) The powerless, above all, should want a rule of law that is truly neutral — it is their best chance at achieving real justice.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2016 20:21 (eight years ago) link
thinkers (“thinkers”)
this just isn't how you do snarky scare quotes
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 25 February 2016 20:24 (eight years ago) link
http://twitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/KevinNR_fb1.png
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2016 20:24 (eight years ago) link
Here's another beaut: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431807/guantanamo-bay-detainees-why-not-shoot-them
Why Not Shoot Them?A not-entirely-facetious consideration of the Gitmo conundrum
This takes us to a broader moral question about the use of execution per se. While U.S. military policy is not governed by Catholic teaching, it is worth considering Rome’s thinking on the question. If you listened only to U.S. bishops, who have an unfortunate weakness for peddling social-justice nostrums, you’d be tempted to conclude that the Catholic Church is categorically opposed to the practice of capital punishment. In fact, canon law is much more sophisticated than the Nerf-headed progressivism that dominates the American episcopal corpus, and it takes account of such relevant considerations as whether the sparing of an offender’s life might put innocents in mortal danger. We already have adjudicated that question: That the prisoners at Gitmo present a mortal danger both to U.S. forces abroad as well as civilians in the United States and around the world is precisely why they remain prisoners at Gitmo. Those who have been judged (often wrongly!) to present no future threat are discharged. Catholic or otherwise, the fact that these men are likely to commit unspeakable outrages of the sort that we have come to expect from the worldwide Islamic-supremacist movement is unavoidably relevant.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2016 20:29 (eight years ago) link
If the law is a respecter of persons, you can bet that it will have outsized respect for persons of wealth and power.
I love that Kevin Williamson takes as his default position the idea that in the USA the law is applied impartially, without respect to persons, and that wealth and power have no sway in our courts, but Obama threatens this ideal state of perfect justice.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 26 February 2016 02:51 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CcMOlMEW8AAwf1x.jpg
close enough
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 February 2016 04:30 (eight years ago) link
@MediaBuzzFNCOn #Mediabuzz, @RichLowry says he & National Review haven't decided whether they could back Trump if he is nominee bit.ly/1oJkf5n
lol
― mookieproof, Monday, 29 February 2016 15:39 (eight years ago) link
Kevin Williamson:
Donald Trump, all the best people insist, represents something radical and new on the American political scene. There’s something to that, though it’s not entirely true: Woodrow Wilson had similar strong-man fantasies, and Franklin Roosevelt had admiring words for Benito Mussolini. But Donald Trump also represents something that should by now be utterly familiar. He is, of course, the second coming of Barack Obama.
As David French points out today, every election is a test of character, and Americans are just now giving every indication that they intend to flunk this test in spectacular fashion. Why shouldn’t they? They flunked the last two, too, for similar reasons.
Barack Obama had, and has, a remarkable ability to inspire irrational devotion among his minions, whom he holds in more or less open contempt. The Hollywood types were literally singing hymns to his name, you’ll recall. Trump inspires a similar abject devotion. Observe that his actual history in business suggests very strongly that he was lucky to inherit a great deal of money – 2006 was “a great time to start a mortgage company,” he insisted – or that the man himself has confessed to exaggerating his wealth, and you’ll get a stammering: “B-b-b-b-b-b-but, you’re not a billionaire!” Suggest that his fundamental rejection of basic things like property rights and free speech means that he isn’t a conservative, much less a constitutionalist, and they’ll scoff that you’re a purist. (The same people scoffing that you’re a purist also insist that such deviations from conservative orthodoxy as Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio have entertained are per se disqualifying.) Obama’s daft minions insisted that he was a “lightworker,” while Trump’s only boast that he is an “alpha male.” George H. W. Bush, who completed his flying mission in World War II with his airplane on fire after being shot in the head before bailing out over the Pacific and dodging angry Japanese intent on eating him? Meh. What’s that compared to playing a tough guy on television or throwing a temper tantrum about Macy’s?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
The NRO types who were literally insisting that the second GOP debate take place in Ronald Reagan's Air Force One.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:04 (eight years ago) link
George H. W. Bush, who completed his flying mission in World War II with his airplane on fire after being shot in the head before bailing out over the Pacific and dodging angry Japanese intent on eating him?
so Bush puking on the prime minister nearly 50 years later was revenge
― Mr. Magic's Rap Attack (m coleman), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:19 (eight years ago) link
surprising that Kev didn't also cite his idol Reagan liberating the concentration camps. oh wait
― Mr. Magic's Rap Attack (m coleman), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:20 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cce5cihW0AUpG2I.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link
haha, so their anti-Trump issue failed so spectacularly that they are falling back on the argument that Trump = Obama? Good luck with that one!
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:47 (eight years ago) link
this is pretty good
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11135756/donald-trump-nationalism
― goole, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:52 (eight years ago) link
ymmv with yglesias explainer mode but the first two paras are like duuuuh of course
the anti-trump right trying to pin this all on obama or liberalism generally has been hilarious. so acrobatic, these guys
― goole, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:53 (eight years ago) link
oh i put that on the wrong thread, whoops.
― goole, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:55 (eight years ago) link
a more appropriate post: of all of the NRO stable i'm the most surprised that williamson isn't a trumpist -- the most cynical, the most pointlessly aggressive, etc.
― goole, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:56 (eight years ago) link
They posted the John Oliver thing with no added commentary.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:57 (eight years ago) link
@kathrynlopez 1h1 hour agoThe blessing in all this? A real nudge to consider what gifts we have and a renewed challenge to be good stewards & nurturers.Kathryn Jean Lopez RetweetedRichard Brookhiser @RBrookhiser 17m17 minutes ago"Be of good cheer. My religion steps in where my understanding falters and I feel faith as I lose confidence." Gouverneur Morris 6/13/1788@kathrynlopez 12m12 minutes agoProtect us, Lord, as we stay awake; watch over us as we sleep, that awake, we may keep watch with Christ, and asleep, rest in his peace.
Kathryn Jean Lopez RetweetedRichard Brookhiser @RBrookhiser 17m17 minutes ago"Be of good cheer. My religion steps in where my understanding falters and I feel faith as I lose confidence." Gouverneur Morris 6/13/1788
@kathrynlopez 12m12 minutes agoProtect us, Lord, as we stay awake; watch over us as we sleep, that awake, we may keep watch with Christ, and asleep, rest in his peace.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 05:23 (eight years ago) link
Drink the blood of the unbelievers
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 05:29 (eight years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/Inuxx/gratuitoushatred_zpsqvkaqw1n.png
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 05:53 (eight years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/Inuxx/welcometoeurope_zpssq9neyaz.png
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 05:54 (eight years ago) link
Jay Nordlinger March 1, 2016 6:53 PM @jaynordlinger
The GOP is suddenly smitten with hands. In his closing statement at the last debate, Ben Carson got all handsy: “Several years ago, a movie was made about these hands [i.e., his]. These hands, by the grace of God, have saved many lives and healed many families. And I’m asking you tonight, America, to join hands with me to heal, inspire, and revive America.”
Marco Rubio, most prominently, has been picking on Donald Trump’s hands. And here’s Trump, today: “I’ve always heard people say, ‘Donald, you have the most beautiful hands.’” Yeah, no doubt.
Anyway, if an anthropologist of the future peers at Republican politics in the ancient year of 2016, he might ask, “What was up with the hands?”
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 11:41 (eight years ago) link
probly not the first thing they would ask
― Agents, show the general out. (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 12:59 (eight years ago) link
Tracer Hand / Chelsea Handler '20!
They can handle things!
― word to your mother-in-law (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 13:45 (eight years ago) link