Grrl power

The Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, apparently had a run-in with aboriginal protestors today. The video is here.

Aesthetically, Ms. Gillard is unattractive and awkward, never married and infertile at this point. I presume she got the position based on sheer competence, and it would be considered terribly sexist of me to judge her by any other standard.

The job of Australian prime minister strikes me as pretty posh, but then a mob of Aboriginals starts banging on the windows of the exclusive restaurant where you're speaking. So then Prime Minister Gillard must flee...

...in the arms of a man, of course.

In this picture, you see the dumb bitch has lost her shoe:

I use the term "dumb bitch" advisedly, because that's exactly what would pop into a man's head when the shit is hitting the fan and we have to move NOW only to find that some implement designed for form rather than function is flopping off, slowing the woman down and making her more prone to injury.

This underscores an earlier point of mine: that weaker members of Western society have to rely on predominantly white men with unfashionable attitudes to protect them, or even to help them down some steps.

Obviously we do women a great disservice by forcing them into roles for which they are so manifestly unsuited, like being a riot cop. This is pure gnosticism: that the biological gender differences can be transcended through the force of correct, feminist ideology.

Again, the feminized social democratic elite relies on men with the capacity to do ugly things, and the corresponding reactionary attitudes, to protect them from barbarism. Then they exploit their cocooned existence by demeaning the very men who keep barbarism at bay, mocking their values and blaming them for every social ill.

When such men decide that the current elite are no longer worth the pay to protect them, female government officials will become pretty scarce.

Christopher Roach's response to the State of the Union

Real Industry Is Sometimes Dirty

From MansizedTarget.com

Liberals such as President Obama seem to live in a kind of fantasyland where we can have an economy built exclusively on the “knowledge jobs” like advertising, marketing, law, media, communications, programming iPad apps, consulting, etc. These jobs favor high IQ and not-so-high-IQ but highly credentialed people like the Obamas. They disfavor the working class. For example, Obama has shut down the Keystone pipeline. He has apparently by executive fiat banned all uranium mining on federal lands in northern Arizona. He has sent government money to money-losing enterprises like Solyndra while doing a great deal to hurt the old school, dirty industries of yesteryear like the oil business.

Hidden away from the urban knowledge economy is another world. It hasn’t gone away, but the knowledge class is increasingly ignorant of it. It’s a dirty, dangerous world of combines, mines, factories, sweat, industrial accidents, and tough men. Look around. The fruits of these jobs are everywhere. The plastic in your computer is from the petrochemical industry. The electricity, a result of the confluence of factories and coal mining for the most part. The gasoline that lets you get to work and take weekend roadtrips is the tail end of a long chain that may start at a wellhead in North Dakota or Texas or Nigeria for that matter.

Making these important foundational economic activities more expensive or completely prohibited will not help the country. It will not help the knowledge economy. These things will still get done, but they’ll done by others, overseas...

Like I say, the Left is for "the working man," but only so long as he's working in China or India, not that everybody's clamoring for living- wage, fair-trade iPads. The Left is pro-environment, or more accurately, pro-US national parks and pro-eco tourism in Costa Rica. The fact that now somebody else has to do something with industrial effluent from making stuff for knowledge-working Americans doesn't get a lot of mention. Incidentally, are any young, idealistic Americans aspiring to the STEM degrees that might give them expertise in these areas? Have any of the thousands of NGO's and their clueless volunteers in Haiti ever got to work on a sewage system for the place?

Leftists like Obama seem more about saying the right slogans and feeling the right feelings. They don't have much to offer for the dirty work of actually getting to advanced living standards. Obama makes speeches about everybody being healthy and having a not-too-hard job making disposable income doing...something. And he just assumes with this cargo-cult mentality that regulations and tax dollars will make it so. He doesn't grasp the whole historical process of capital accumulation, risk-taking and competing property rights that get us there, and require markets to sort out, and a net tax-paying sector to fund all his grand schemes.

What the Left left behind

Some causes the Left has quietly tiptoed away from:

1. The working class. The split appears to have come to a head with the 1970 Hard Hat Riot in New York. Since then, tax and monetary policy has been manipulated to offshore most blue-collar work, and to "inshore" Third World labor to raise the supply of domestic blue-collar workers.

2. Ethnic nationalism. You really don't see Black Power salutes any more. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gets his own millenium, but Malcolm X is sure as hell not going to get a thirty-foot statue on the Washington Mall. And Orthodox Serbians? Hungarian Catholics? NATO can't wait for an excuse to bomb them into the Stone Age.

3. Environmental advocacy. Here is a fairly typical jeremiad. Note the passive voice, as if deforestation and fauna extinction are just happening in Africa, like an earthquake or tidal wave. I don't hear anybody lecturing China or India on their appalling industrial practices. David Gelbaum's purchase of the Sierra Club is well-documented. National parks in the American Southwest are becoming no-go zones. Mother Jones, Audubon and other environmental groups don't seem to be covering these crucial topics.

4. Anti-war. Low-grade warfare to spread democratic values has been constant since the Clinton administration, and the military is devolving into a gay-friendly, pro-female, affirmative action pageant. (Let me know if you need to see photographic evidence). Fortunately for the Trotskyites (in both the Democratic and Republican parties), straight white males are still there to fly air support and staff the Special Forces and merc outfits.

5. Economic populism. Anybody see ANY Democrats of prominence out there on the pickets with the Occupy movement? Does anybody remember any prominent advocates for the Left arguing against TARP and the other bailouts of 2008--the greatest propping up of asset values and wealth transfer in US history? Apparently, the only objection from liberals like Paul Krugman was that the bankers just didn't become outright government employees. Speaking of which, protecting the collective bargaining privileges of government employees appears to be as far as the Left's economic populism extends.

So if it's not the working class, ethnic nationalism, the environment, war or economic opportunity, what's it going to be? Well obviously, the pivotal and fundamental Issue Of Our Time is the right of the people to engage in sexual deviancy.

Memento Mori

Harrison Ford--what the hell?

I rarely watch TV, but for various reasons I was present when the Golden Globe awards were broadcast last night. Harrison Ford was the presenter for best drama. Mr. Ford is 70 years old. I am 48, and watched the great Mr. Ford in Star Wars, Blade Runner and the Indiana Jones movies.

In 2010, he was in production for 'Cowboys and Aliens.' Here is a scene from the final cut and wrap for that film:

The picture at the top of this entry, and the following observations from the linked entry, are of Mr. Ford on January 15, 2012:

Both Indiana Jones and Willie Scott were at the Golden Globes last night. From the look on Harrison Ford's face, I'm assuming there's only a 30 percent chance that he would remember Kate Capshaw. Actually, by the look on Harrison's face, I would bet money that Ewan McGregor could have convinced Ford that they were in "Star Wars" together.

Harrison Ford presented Best Picture Drama and, literally, he could have Tweeted his presentation. Ford said 17 words, which translated into 97 characters. He could have even added a #goldenglobes and a #its420somewhere hashtag.

I have a number of family members at or around Harrison Ford's age, and his speech and manner were what I would expect of a comparatively much older person. In fact, this very weekend my parish hosted the redoubtable Bishop Antoun, and he presided over lengthy services and gave a fiery sermon after the Liturgy, telling us why we needed more attendance at Matins, Vespers and the minor Feasts. Then his Grace attended the banquet in his honor, singing hymns as he walked into the social hall and standing to greet and converse with the numerous people who came to his table during the meal. To all appearances, he will be lecturing us on Orthodox practice for at least the next ten years.

Geriatric symptoms can appear quite suddenly and mercilessly, even in people with a great deal of wealth and resources at their disposal.

Memento mori.

Today is born of a Virgin, He who holds the whole Creation in His hand.

Today Is Born Of A Virgin





Coventry Carol (remembering the Slaughter Of The Innocents, 16th cent.)

Lully, lullay, Thou little tiny Child,
By, by, lully, lullay.
Lullay, thou little tiny Child,
By, by, lully, lullay.

O sisters too, how may we do,
For to preserve this day
This poor youngling for whom we do sing
By, by, lully, lullay.

Herod, the king, in his raging,
Charged he hath this day
His men of might, in his own sight,
All children young to slay.

Then, woe is me, poor Child for Thee!
And ever mourn and sigh
For thy parting neither say nor sing,
By, by, lully, lullay.

Great Britain

Transsexual pushes cross-dressing lawyer under a train

A transgender man who pushed his cross-dressing lawyer friend to her death under a Tube train has been jailed for seven years.

Senthooran Kanagasingham was undergoing sex-change treatment when he killed solicitor David Burgess, known as Sonia, at King's Cross station in London.

The 35-year-old, who was known as Nina at the time of the attack, was a close friend of the solicitor who had befriended him at a bar and often visited her Soho flat.

Just an hour before Sonia was pushed infront of the train the leading human rights and immigration lawyer had taken Kanagasingham to a doctor because she was so worried about his mental state.

Brian Altman QC, prosecuting, said shocked rush-hour commuters had seen Kanagasingham push Sonia from the back.

A note found in Kanagasingham's rucksack said he was 'broke, depressed and suffering from gender dysphoria'.

He told the court Sonia was 'gender-variant' and had not wished to have surgery to become a woman, but to all intents and purposes outside her professional life, lived as a female.

This was 'accepted and embraced' by everyone, including her three children...

In case you're confused (understandable), the cross-dressing lawyer is referred to as "she" and the man undergoing sex-change "treatment" (as it is euphemistically called) is referred to as "he." Click the link for pictures of the couple, if you wish.

The Guardian refers to David Burgess as the country's "renowned" and "most celebrated" immigration lawyer.

Jews, hedge fund managers and homosexuals agree...

Ron Paul cannot be allowed to win the Republican nomination

First, Sailer's post, to put things in context. In summary, the New York Times decided to dust off an old hatchet job on Ron Paul from The New Republic, now that he presents a clear and present danger of winning the Iowa primary.

The comments thread is pretty solid paleocon/libertarian, but it's always interesting to see what brings out the rabble on iSteve.

Aaron in Israel says,

Come on, Mr. Sailer. We all know that the word "racist" is wildly overused. Still, there is such a thing as racism (or bigotry), and the newsletters are racist (or bigoted). "The blacks," come on.

Even in the early 1990s it was known that AIDS wasn't transmitted by saliva. The author probably knew that, but lied anyway.

There's a huge difference between pandering to "rednecks" (Murray Rothbard's word) who are bigots, and using bigotry to pander to rednecks. Especially for someone who wants to be president, i.e., president of all citizens - blacks, white rednecks, etc.

Thank you, citizen of a Jewish supremacist nation-state for telling us how to run our country. How does one deal with "the blacks," do tell?

This one's my personal favorite:

The opposition to Ron Paul is not all about his views on the Middle East. He wants to abolish the Federal Reserve system and go back on the gold standard. There is no significant body of economists who think that is a good idea; it was from conservative economist Milton Friedman's research that the world learned monetary theory, and how a properly functioning central bank can avoid both depressions and periods of runaway inflation. We have avoided both for the past 30 years, since Paul Volcker killed double digit inflation during 1979-81. As a fixed income hedge fund research director, I cannot imagine the global bond markets functioning properly without a central banking system in the USA. From my perspective, Paul wants us to unlearn everything we have learned over the past 75 years about making capitalist economies function effectively.

It's unanimous: the geniuses who engineered the greatest episode of capital destruction and rent-seeking in history believe that Ron Paul would be a disaster.

Finally, the sodomites weigh in.

"When everybody knows (or at least has been told, over and over) that AIDS can be transmitted by heterosexual sex as easily as by homosexual practices."

Because it does, ignoramus. Actually, the mucous linning of the inner vulva is MORE susceptible to being penetrated by the HIV virus then the linning of the anus. The reason why there is less contamination in heterosexual intercourse is because straight couples usually wear prophylactics whilst gay men usually don't.

And this is none of your damn business! Gay men can have as much sex as they want with as many partners as they want, and you don't get to give your opinion on it.

Sailer is one cynical, callous liar. He wants to restrict the freedom of homosexual men because he deems them inferior to heterosexuals, but he pretends to want to restrict it because he "cares" about them and don't want them to die to AIDS. Yeah, right...the guy is a conservative, pro-traditional family, anti-gay marriage and we are supposed to believe he wants to restricts the freedom of gays because he doesen't want them to catch AIDS. Yeah, right...Sailer would probably love if all gays would disappear from off the face of the Earth, so don't pretend like you care about them.

Clearly, if Ron Paul is elected President, a deviant, childless, unhygienic sector constituting a full two to five percent of the population would disappear from off the face of the Earth. My only question is, can we clone the guy?