Well, at least there are no gay people in Iran-right?
I think a lot of problems in the Muslim world are due to incredibly stifled issues of sexuality and sexual control.
If their sexually repressive ways are so amazing, why did Mohammad Atta feel the need to go to topless bars before meeting his even more awesome 72 raisins after 9/11?
Disgusting.
"Beheading fuels backlash in Indonesia.".
Are you feeling the crazy on this one?
Now, somehow Steyn has got China on board with his PR roll-out.
Seriously-how did he get China to play along and confirm our darkest fears-that they will basically own America, and that the once mighty greenback will be discarded?
I'm literally shuddering. But it's kind of enjoyable.
By Mark Steyn
A Review:
I spent the weekend completely engaged with Mark Steyn’s After America: Get Ready for Armageddon, and while it’s not like spending an entire weekend with Mark Steyn himself (I could totally clear my calendar of course-if that became an option...), it’s pretty damned close. It certainly does feel like a frank conversation between friends, not unlike one you would have in person-nodding, laughing hysterically and occasionally heaving a good old sigh in recognition of the difficult tasks at hand.
In many ways, the book reconfirmed my feeling that Steyn is a kind of messenger, with a unique gift for pulling cultural and societal strands together, and crystallizing them both with humour and passion . In the old days of Jerusalem, prophets were scoffed at and mocked. Their heartfelt words and messages went unheeded until it was too late. In recent times, other messengers were doubted as well. There have been visionary politicians such as Churchill, Ben Gurion or Herzl, writers like Fallaci and Hayek, and more modest but fiercely determined messengers like those who escaped concentration camps and tried to warn others of the impending doom and were laughed out of their villages.
Steyn begins with an insightful analysis of the writing on the wall-the literal, biblical real deal and poignantly, painfully points out that the ultimate sign of the writing on the wall is a society not even knowing where “the writing on the wall” ultimately came from (see Daniel-Old Testament for a brush-up course). He seamlessly describes how our truly “multicultural” society (read: Rome, Athens, Jerusalem) is under siege and backs up each example of the current assault with facts, articles from the current press, historical classics, the Bible and incomparable wit.
“Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the kind, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone…”
Plus ca change. Steyn notes that in America “the statists took the vessels of the American republic and filled them up with Big Government happy juice”. The statists continue to throw their “god” at things (money) to try to fix them. A dark assessment, but true to the core.
It is unfortunately impossible to shy away from the fact that President Obama is, in fact, the ultimate President for the task of disintegrating America.
But-despair not! It is a Steyn book, which means that you can, and must go from despair to hysterical giggles in the space of a few short pages. Biblical depression a la Book of Daniel p. 15, and total and utter, epic evisceration of Thomas Friedman on p. 17-to wit:
As to worshipping false gods, even avowed secularists have their moments of evangelical fervor…to its worshippers; globalization is some kind of mysterious metaphysical force that’s out there remaking our assumptions about the planet. The high priest of this cult is the New York Times’ in-house thinking and beloved comic figure Thomas L. Friedman. Hardly a week goes by without the Time’s most frequent flyer filing from a state-of the art departure lounge on the other side of the planet and marveling at its complimentary wi-fi, light-rail link and the way his luggage was brought in by cheery native bearers in traditional dress playing some raucous Abkhazi-Naurruan hybrid of Gemelan gangsta rap on an affordable new xPod iBox you can wear under your sarong back by a Herzogovine hedge fund. All of which makes a forlorn contrast with the scene that greets him when he lands back at Newark.”
He takes no prisoners in discussing the pathetic and impotent new NASA “goal” of developing fuzzy relations with the Muslim world, and the environmental cultists who are “determined to disinvent” every aspect of human progress that has been created over the past several hundreds of years.
Steyn saves his most merciless, deserved criticism for the “Condescendi” class-the supine elites that would have us build the Ground Zero Mosque ("or the terrorists have won") and their supreme leader, President Obama-someone he describes as having done absolutely nothing in his life but was nonetheless has “wafted” (OMG-could you not just die-wafted??) upwards. The narcissism of politics (“fairness”) and the real life incarnation, in Obama, of the Narcissus of America.
The zingers abound. From the bombastic observation that ‘code language’ is code language for 'total bullocks', to defining contemporary American ‘jizyah’, there are more fantastic phrases in this book than you could possibly shake a stick at. With devastating accuracy, he takes aim at the over-educated, over-credentialed stupid legions of America, the politically correct terror enablers, the infantile masses of impotent childish “men”-or “man-boys” and the moral decline of the west, and the Condescendi’s entirely theoretical commitment to diversity.
It’s Hatemongering Happy Juice for the seething NASCAR masses in fly-over country!!
My second most favourite, utterly superb Steynicus destructo ad absurdum part is on p. 317.
I won’t give it away here, but let’s just say I’ve never laughed so hard about cannibalism in my entire life. It kind of made me hungry. And, I’m not sure how happy I am about that…
For full disclosure’s sake, I should note that I utterly adore Mark Steyn (something that I’m sure has been relatively obvious to all but the total clueless…).
He is a personal hero. I love all of the books and columns and essays, and this tome was no disappointment. In fact, almost every line could be (and maybe should be) cut up and made into a fortune cookie of doom and prophetic warning.
There are also some very concrete suggestions as how to take America, and liberty back-it’s not all gloom!
One other interesting part of the book is the vast collection of citations. In a sign of the times, most all (or perhaps every single one) of Steyn’s citations are web-based. That means, that it’s information that is out there, and clearly and easily accessible to anyone with access to the internet (thank you Al Gore!!). So, that’s depressing and enlightening at the same time because it means there are a whole lot of people who read it, and know it, but-as Holocaust scholar Michael Marrus once said about the Holocaust-it’s the difference between “knowing it” and “getting it”.
Steyn gets it.
I'm getting the Steyn groove.
Now you go get the book!
Fighting like five men!
Telling the Australian government the government it ''could stick their medals where the monkey stuck his nuts''.
Girl crush x ELEVENTY BAZILLION.
Where is such courage today? May her memory be a blessing and an example to us all.
Rest in peace, Nancy Wake.
"Maybe (students) could go get a part-time job — that's what I did,"
OMG. Say it isn't so?!?!
Get a job?
WTF is a job?
Here's a little glimpse at Detroit, where 30,000 college students are being kicked off a food-stamp program.
Oh dear-however many things are just WRONG about that statement.
"Corrigan, appointed by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder in January to head the $6.9 billion Department of Human Services, has also ordered administrators to start looking at applicants' assets, not just their income. That move follows an uproar after it was revealed Leroy Fick of Auburn remained eligible for food stamps and continued using them after he won $2 million in the state lottery TV show "Make Me Rich!" in June 2010."
DUH!
Moral Authority Alert: "Many see using food stamps while attending school as a scam, and former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick described it in much that way in his new autobiography
"Kilpatrick, who was recently released from state prison after serving time for violating probation and awaits trial on federal corruption charges, revealed he used food stamps when he attended Florida A&M University in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the time, his mother was a state representative and his father was a top Wayne County official."
"The food stamp game is an old hook-up in neighborhoods from Detroit to Tallahassee," Kilpatrick said in the book. "If you could get them, especially as a struggling college student, then you did."
Example: "I'm 28 years old but I feel like a 50-year-old woman, I can't even pick up my own baby ... I don't know when I will feel young again."
Their solution to the Obama economic disaster is....wait for it....RAISE TAXES.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Yes, the government needs MORE MONEY of yours to spend into eternity.
Evil stupid New York Times moron statists. Enemies of freedom. Disgusting.
And the TSA is smarter even than Israeli security for figuring this all out!
My translation: You cannot blow and suck at the same time.
I know, not very lady-like, but that's what it is.
Democracies that wish to survive will have to make their choice.
And it's not just that they cannot, they should not. It's against everything that Judeo-Christian society stands for-the power of the individual, individual liberty, and responsibility.
Oh...OK whatever!!! It's a total whopper!!!
I meant that I spent the weekend pouring over the awesomeness of "After America".
I'm almost done. Let's just say that I am freaking out and laughing my head off at the same time. There are turns of phrases that are too delicious not to list and examples of post-American moral relativism that are truly nauseating and nauseatingly true.
It's going to be a busy week, but I hope to post a review later in the week. What I can tell you so far is that you won't be disappointed. It's smoothly written and packs a devastating punch.
I was also JUST reading the page where Mark predicts a downgrade from America's S&P AAA rating and boom-as if on cue-America's credit rating goes down the Obamomatic Toilet.
There can only be a couple of explanations for this suspicious "coincidence", which will inevitably propel book sales:
1) BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!
2) Sarah Palin's uterus.
3) The Mossad
4) Some type of right wing, homopohobic, Islamophobic, philosemitic, show-tune loving honey trap involving the upper echelons of S&P.
Time will tell.
Muzzammil Hassan (moo-ZAHM'-mel HAH'-sahn) and his wife, Aasiya (AH'-see-ya), launched Bridges in 2004 with the hope of countering negative stereotypes of Muslims.
The "countering negative stereotypes of Muslims" unfortunately did not work out because Mr. Muzzammil Hassan (moo-ZAHM'-mel HAH'-sahn) was convicted in February of stabbing and decapitating his wife at their Orchard Park office.
The wife is decapitated and dead and Mr. Hassan is getting acquainted with prison life in America. Presumably he will have many other opportunities in the big house to counter negative opinions and stereotypes of Muslims.
The wife is dead, but the show goes on.
Anyway, here is some really, really great news.
"This is where we’ve got ourselves to. Secular authorities policing Ramadan for Muslim parents.”
Seriously-what could possibly be wrong with that?
It reminds me also of social workers who are some of the nuttiest people I have ever met.
And all kinds of other "helpy" people that I am forced to deal with on a daily basis.
This excludes actual medical doctors, physiotherapists and occupational therapists and music therapists. It excludes pet therapy, too and hippotherapy.
Those are REAL things.
I would guess that 98% of the "helpy" people that I have dealt with and 100% of the psychologists are, themselves, completely sociologically disturbed.
I really hate psychologists. At least psychiatrists are medical doctors, which means that they have some clinical understanding of how the brain may work, and an understanding of physiology.
But really, psychologists can just kiss my butt.
I am very sympathetic to clinical depression-particularly postpartum depression. I believe these are real, chemical problems in the brain that require real, chemical interventions-even if they can only alleviate, and not "cure" the problem.
I am not sympathetic to western morons' endless preoccupation with themselves, whether by therapy or via Facebook or Twitter.
Obsessive navel gazers can also kiss my butt.
And, I'm even less sympathetic to the neurotic westerners in my life, who have on occasion, threatened suicide in order to try and manipulate people into their never-ending self-pity party. Someone very dear to me once did that. I explained very calmly where I kept the knives, and where the nearest bridge over a train track was located. I said that I would be very sad for a time, and then move on with my life.
I don't like to be threatened. So, I finished off with: don't threaten-just do it.
Guess what? I never heard the threats again. Does it make me cold? I don't think so. I was telling the truth. Am I judgmental-yes. So few people are willing to judge so I guess I'm destined to take up some slack.
Again, I'm referring to people whose brains are ostensibly "normal"-ravaged not by disease but by self-pity, misdirected existential angst and a morose outlook.
Celebrate diversity!
What on earth could these have in common?
Domestic violence perhaps?
Yes-perhaps.
Universal and generic domestic violence!
Just a "broad strata" of familial violence?
Or, as the funny fatwa makers once put it-cucumber or tomatoes (never the twain must meet-haram, etc...but that's a whole other story..)?
Anyway, here is a story that at one time, I would have said "could only come out of California", but it will probably be replicated in other parts of the country.
Anyway, you will probably feel MUCH SAFTER now and have supremo ultimate confidence in the TSA because of this brand new, shiny awesome program that will "build security" and inspire unicorn farts and a Broadway musical, or perhaps a new sitcom? Rom-com?
Behold: BE SENSITIVE OR ELSE, YOU HOMOPHOBIC HATEY TRANS-MISUNDERSTANDING FLYOVER COUNTRY POOPY HEADS!!!
It has brought honour killings and all kinds of horrible things to the city, including Dreaded Antisemitic Markers and Spraypaint of Dooooooooom!
HAHAHHAHAHAAHA. Right.
My fellow haters Kathy and CatFur have discussed this story as well.
Here's my two shekels worth. First of all, if it's not a fake "hate crime" then I really, really, really am puzzled at who could possibly have combined a swastika with "Islam Will Rule".
Let's see-it could be a political commentary? A suggestion? A fortune cookie message? A new Harlequin novel concept?
Let's see what The Toronto Star says about it.
"Underneath the bright-red symbol, somebody had scrawled the racial epithet "Islam will rule" in big, black letters."
Exsqueeze me? Racial epithet? What the heck? Since when is Islam a race? Suggesting that "Islam will rule" is a confident boast-not a slur. It sure will if gutless dhimmi wankers don't pull up their socks.
Anyway, once again I do not care about graffiti. And, I don't care for the Rabbi's grovelling, puzzled questioning of "what did we do wrong-why do they hate us". He seems to honestly believe that being nice to the local community, not having any fights with the local community would preclude expressions of anti-Jew feelings.
Sucker!
At the very least, this will prove to be an excellent fundraising tool for the likes of Frank Diamant of B'nai B'rith and Bernie Farber. They can shriek hysterically about increasing numbers of hate crimes in horrible Canada! The sky is falling-please write us a cheque!!!
Anyway-boring story with a VERY PUZZLING questions as to "who would do such a thing"?
I'm sure crack Toronto police investigating this "crime" are puzzled as well.
The satirical Death Mints of Doom!There is NOTHING FUNNY about The President and the economic shitter formerly known as America.
STOP LAUGHING. SHUT UP.
I'm offended! The science is settled! There will be no arguments-no dissent, and certainly no good breath in this world!!!
The Great Leader is No Breath Mint!!!
BEHEAD THOSE WHO HAVE DISAPPOINT-MINTS!!
Hat Tip: The Outraged Spleen of Zion.
