NRO's The Corner 2: Ghost Protocol

[Approved commenter] MikeB
07/25/12 09:07

The reactions to K-Lo posting this are gonna be a helluva lot more interesting.

K-Lo, where are you in our hour of need?

Rocket_J_Squirrel 07/25/12 10:25
Ko-Lo,

Excellent link.

As for other posters that can't quite figure this out, please follow a quick crumb trail here. If this is outlandish then all of Christianity is outlandish. So too was it then outlandish when Congress corrected Thomas Jefferson and insisted that he add the words "...endowed by our Creator..." to the Declaration of Independence thus making it clear that our rights are unalienable because they come from God Himself and are not bestowed on us by any men.
For you debonair agnostics out there who say "well I believe in God, but I don't believe in Satan and Moses and Jesus and the Saints or basically anything in the Bible...." well okay, but just look at what you are doing. You are believing not in any revealed truth extending through the experience of billions of men and women for thousands of years but rather in some God you put together in your basement. And you're calling Christians nuts?

debonair believers like "Rocket J. Squirrel."

i can hear pareene's gleeful laughter from here

as he adjusts his debonair ascot

"Father Dwight Longenecker"

so, are we living in a pynchon or a vonnegut novel now?

srsly can't wait for the asthmatic K-Lo posts to come in October and November.

Some say the demonic Joker drove Heath Ledger to kill himself.

Now it's getting spooky. There was a weird phone message with bizarre guttural voices and moans. Was he demon possessed? Maybe. It happens.

All we can do when faced with mindless evil is recognize that it is mindless. The only answer is that there is no answer. The murders in Aurora and the crazed face of James Holmes remind us that real evil is random and meaningless. It is deadly and ruthless and cruel simply to be deadly, ruthless and cruel. All we can do is gaze on in fascinated horror at the senseless suffering.

not exactly jesuitical logic from fr dwight

lol @ someone called "slipkid" quoting Patterson Hood lyrics!

hey guess what we're all a bunch of liars

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/312203/romney-didnt-build-lie-john-osullivan

"By now almost everyone else on the Corner has had his say on President Obama’s statement that if a business owner has built a business, then he hasn’t really built it himself."

I happened to be reading the chapter on “Community” in Jonah Goldberg’s new book, The Tyranny of Clichés, when this controversy broke. He demolished the “roads and bridges” argument, but also the underlying wider statist argument, in this crisp comparison:

It is the sort of things Romans said about the aqueducts and Egyptians about the pyramids . . . What separates our great projects from those of other civilizations are the values — moral, legal, constitutional — of those who produced them. It is the difference between inheriting a mansion from your father or grandfather and inheriting the values that enabled your father to afford one.

this crisp comparison

whut

so... Egyptian society was great because of slave labor?

redoing the curbs on snelling and selby isn't the fucking pyramids bozo

this guy is an intellectual, people

what was the last big American engineering project? (plz don't say The Big Dig)

http://www.worldslargestthings.com/minnesota/mntwineSubheader2.jpg

apollo program?

New Orleans levies lol

democracy in the middle east

it's like if you buy a book, novel, record, or painting from an independent artist you are buying thousands of hours of failure; but when you buy a book from jonah goldberg you are supporting the values that led to thousands of hours of failure. maybe he'll also buy a new belt because i swear in some pictures he seems to be holding his pants up with a fucking extension cord.

what was the last big American engineering project? (plz don't say The Big Dig)

Jonah Goldberg squatting in the bathroom of a Taco Bell in Milwaukee.

Chicken Out
By John J. Miller

July 26, 2012 11:04 A.M. Comments0

Several years ago, I ventured into the evil heart of the Chick-fil-A empire and wrote a profile of its founder, the sinister S. Truett Cathy. He had just won a major award for his philanthropic agenda, which involves helping children in foster care, providing college scholarships, and other nefarious goals. No wonder the good liberals of Boston and Chicago want nothing to do him or his company.

But by golly, those peach shakes Chick-fil-A is selling this summer sure are tasty.

andy mccarthy's attacks on huma abedin have summoned the ugliest (tho unsurprising) nro comments since gay marriage passed in nys

confirming my opinion that nobody reads the corner except a handful of bigoted jerks, a few liberal trolls and (coughs) us

that's why I no longer link to them

I'm sure Johnny feels the same way about George Soros' philanthropy.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/312387/chicken-sista-souljah-totalitarianism-oh-my-jonah-goldberg

nope

hell no

ha we're reaching a point where this thread is going to be links we're never going to read and comments that we're never going to read them

i skimmed it, it's really insane

"oh my jonah goldberg"

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sW65ilskOC8/SnDSeirAm7I/AAAAAAAAY9k/FEqUPL1gHjs/s400/JonahGoldberginCar.jpg

"whatddup ladiez. Hit me up if you want a big waffle fry."

Raaaaaaacists!
By Jonah Goldberg
July 27, 2012 1:57 P.M. Comments0

Dan’s post on Jonathan Chait’s entry into the “if it’s bad for Obama, it’s racist” games is a keeper. What I love about this stuff is that liberals tend to insist how racism is not only repugnant to them, but alien to them. And yet, they continually demonstrate a sensitivity and acuity for spotting it that even real racists seem to lack. They’re like people who claim to be nose deaf (if you prefer, anosmic) who nonetheless insist they can pick up an exotic scent from miles away (“A lactose intolerant armadillo has grown flatulent over by the old Miller farm . . .”).

I don’t think liberals appreciate how much conservatives laugh at this stuff. We’re constantly being told we’re racists and that conservatism is full of racist codes and dog whistles aimed at conservatives. And yet the only people who consistently decipher these codes or hear these dog whistles are liberals themselves. Most of the time it’s a form of projection of course. Liberals see themselves as sinless and heroic on matters racial, so their opposite numbers in politics must be sinful and villainous on matters of race. It’s a form of lazy categorical thinking that completely fails to take account of reality in order to sustain a self-serving narrative.

It’s a form of lazy categorical thinking that completely fails to take account of reality in order to sustain a self-serving narrative.

wow. this is like the "this is not a pipe" of clueless political commentating.

But enough philosophy, let’s talk politics. Our buddy Mark Hemingway makes the case that Obama should defend Chick-fil-A in what he describes as an opportunity for a “Sista Souljah moment.” He makes a very strong case, listing numerous ways Obama would reassure voters concerned about Obama’s stance on religious freedom (under Obamacare), his ties to Chicago sleaze, etc.

loooooooool at these guys bizarre racist fantasy lives

"as racists, we are in fact the ones most qualified to identify racism"

or

"our racist signaling is identified by liberals, and thus you see they are the true racists"

whoever smelt it, dealt it

Save these pearls

oh god

It's always fun when these guys tip their hand and go on about how they don't think actual racism exists, or that they're incapable of it. Since so much of their existence is denigration of the out-group and every principle must be applied to that, they figure progressive folks only use racism as a cudgel to attack the other, and don't actually care at all.

I don’t think liberals appreciate how much conservatives laugh at this stuff.

well, that's definitely true

there are like seven threads i could put this on

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/312618/suburbs-hidden-key-obama-stanley-kurtz

My new book, Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities, will be published on August 2. There I show how the suburbs are the target of Obama’s redistributive plans. Obama blames the suburbs for the plight of the cities. And while he took this view from his radical mentors, we are talking about a live issue. Although the public knows little about it, Obama actively coordinates his administration’s urban/suburban policy with his old community organizing mentors and colleagues.

Their plans for America are breathtakingly ambitious, and Obama has already laid the groundwork for a far-reaching social transformation in his second term. Should the president be reelected, the heretofore quiet alliance between Obama and his community organizing buddies is set to usher in a new phase of divisive class warfare between America’s suburbs and cities.

omg

ilx: the book

iatee did the illustrations

a culture war we can all get behind

http://www.amazon.com/Spreading-Wealth-Robbing-Suburbs-Cities/dp/1595230920/

"Their goal: to increase the influence of America’s cities over their suburban neighbors so that even­tually suburban independence will vanish...

Over time, cities would effectively swallow up their surround­ing municipalities, with merged school dis­tricts and forced redistribution of public spending killing the appeal of the suburbs."

can't wait!