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It’s such a self-evident fact that all races are interchangeable that there’s no need to rebut Richwine’s methodology or logic.

Any idea or person that goes against leftist ideology is automatically “racist,” and therefore universally regarded as bad. And stupid. Here are a few examples:

Here’s Charles Johnson’s Little Green Footballs on Richwine’s refusal to apologize for his heresy:

Of course he doesn’t apologize; that’s the standard posture when right wing racists are exposed. They always double down and insist they were just “telling un-PC truths.”

And check out columnist Mary Sanchez, who condemns Richwine for “toxic views” and “pathetic scholarship” that are clearly “offensive and wrong.” Then she tosses this “fact” into the bonfire:

Immigrants have lower rates of criminal conduct than native-born people. And a new study shows that Hispanic high school graduates have now overtaken white students in rates of enrollment into college.

So, it’s “offensive and wrong” to state that Whites have a higher IQ than Hispanics, but there’s nothing wrong with asserting that immigrants make better citizens and scholars than native-born Americans. Viva la Raza superior!

But this statement signed by minority and leftist student groups at Harvard is so full of righteous outrage, it sounds like a satire of political correctness:

“We condemn in unequivocal terms these racist claims as unfit for Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard University as a whole. Granting permission for such a dissertation to be published debases all of our degrees and hurts the University’s reputation.”

See? Just lob that “racist” label at something or someone, and they’re automatically beyond discussion. No counter-argument needed. The Harvard fatwa, by the way, was signed by 24 groups, including all the usual suspects, such as the Latino Caucus and the Progressive Caucus. But it also brought together the LGBTQ Caucus and Arab Caucus, as well as both the Israel and Palestine Caucuses. And people accused Richwine of being devisive!

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There has been some discussion on the idea of conservative support for homosexual marriage. The reason I believe such sentiment, although certainly not widespread, exists is the notion being “conservative”  means living an Ozzie and Harriet lifestyle.  (And its not just Huntsman who thinks this way, so does leftist Ted Rall and libertarian Justin Raimondo do too.)

Certainly “mainstreaming” homosexuality away from the gay pride parade image  in has been a goal of said activists for many years whether through institutions like marriage (or the military for that matter). While that might be fine for them, it doesn’t do institution much good. Yes, many heterosexuals haven’t done the institution much good either  but that’s besides the point.The question isn’t about lifestyles it’s about meaning. And if marriage is not about one thing, it becomes about everything and then it means nothing. A man marries his horse, marries his favorite ball team or marries his dead mother? Yes, very extreme examples but with western civilization coming to the conclusion than persons can marry regardless of biology because marriage is all about love, then the possibilities are out there for the crazy or the attention seeker to indulge in.

But what’s  not crazy and what’s very real is marriage of men to multiple wives, men married to child brides or marriages prearraigned or the very old marrying the very young. These are common practices all throughout the world, primarily in non-Western cultures. When marriages can’t be a fixed thing and anything goes, then there’s nothing legally the state can do to prevent it, especially when latter cultures immigrate to the former. That should be the conservative view of marriage, not shoehorning couples into a televised fantasy of wedded bliss and family life.

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Take a look at this provacatively titled article from TakiMag: “This Week in Epic Beta Male Faggotry”

First a disclaimer. This is not an endorsement of the amoral “game” concept from which we get the terminology Beta Male, but I’ll leave my Christian objections to ”game” for another post so as not to detract from the main point of this post. Nor is it an endorsement of the author’s use of the other F word, which is unhelpfully provocative. That said…

When did deliberately attempting to look … shall we say … less than masculine become cool? And why is that look cool?

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Easter 1916, WB Yeats.

…A drunken, vainglorious lout.
He had done most bitter wrong
To some who are near my heart,
Yet I number him in the song;
He, too, has resigned his part
In the casual comedy;
He, too, has been changed in his turn,
Transformed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born…

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This one is for Weaver. No politics here. I just like this guy’s voice. This song appeared at the end of last week’s episode of the Walking Dead. The singer is Jamie N. Commons. The song is “Lead Me Home.”

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After the somewhat notorious Rambo III propaganda film, perhaps a calculated addition to the success of the Tom Cruise recruitment video, Top Gun, the Special Forces got into the Hollywood act.  Chuck Norris, fresh off another PATCON meme, Vietnam MIAs, starred with Dirty Dozen‘s Lee Marvin in Delta Force–students of Waco and all that–and our favorite, Charlie Sheen, off Platoon, landed the staring role in Navy Seals.  Blackhawk Down, did follow up on those Delta Force chaps, I suppose.

The death of Chris Kyle, American Sniper, had a short news run.  Jesse Ventura’s lawsuit against him, and his estate, might produce a few more stories.

Enter a new sniper, Navy SEAL of course, in the pages of Esquire magazine.  While anonymous (are they learning?) this SEAL has a family life, and might like to consult on video games like his friends–certainly better then the job driving beer delivery in Wisconsin (is that where all the mob guys are?) offered by the government.

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Lon Horiuchi, conservative Catholic, was the most hated man of the 90s in ‘patriot’ circles in a storyline gone wrong, or worse, a designed storyline with ugly implications.  Horiuchi had shot and killed a woman at Ruby Ridge and was on post at Waco to kill targets by order of the American government.

The killer of Protestants in Idaho and Waco, he escaped punishment for simply following orders and being competent at his chosen occupation.

In the context of the same storyline, Catholic conservative, Eric Rudolph, began a lone wolf campaign against the modern world.  Of course, Eric Rudolph was painted in the Big Media as a crazy Prot, but that was not the case.

Like “Passion of the Christ” that would follow a few years later—if a bit of a reach here–the mildly aware, if few, Prot and Catholic, were sympathetic to the general authenticity of the position.

Our handlers observed as much and adjusted.

The appointment of Waco criminal Boykin–the very chap who suggested use of CS gas– to the ‘conservative’ Family Research Council and the apparent publicity around America’s “greatest” sniper, suggest a calculated marketing strategy.

Until very recently, when America’s greatest sniper, was gunned down at a rifle range, by an Iraq War vet.  The mental illness angle will be floated as it always is, but for readers of ‘90s patriot classic, “Unintended Consequences”, something else is to be observed.

It all falls apart, on so many level, and yet, all we have tried to do was prevent this unwinding.

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“I think people have come to the sensible conclusion that you can’t say a woman’s life is more valuable than a man’s life,” retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Wilma Vaught.

Perfectly sensible – except to a reactionary such as myself, who’s still bitterly clinging to many un-hip notions, as well as to his guns and religion.

In quoting General Wilma, columnist Gail Collins THINKS she’s exposing the irrationality of those who oppose sending women into combat. After all, as EVERYONE KNOWS, equality is what this nation was founded on. By implication, those obstructionists who say women should not be exposed to front-line combat are anti-American.

Here’s the bottom line: Some things do not change. Human nature is one of them. The rigors of war are another. The DC Empire may proclaim equality all it wants. But in fact, human equality is a biological impossibility. It’s also a social and political catastrophe when government tries to impose it – just take a look at the real-world results of trying to implement it.

In fact, General Wilma is not just wrong, but disastrously so. There’s a reason that men have historically gone to war, and that is to protect their future. A nation can lose many of its young men but still recover. However, if it loses its women, it will fade away.

DC thinks it’s replaced the old-fashioned “Band of Brothers” with the new and improved “Swarm of Siblings,” but has instead landed yet another self-inflicted wound. When the history of the DC Empire is written, its epitaph will be “Death by Ideology.” It’ll be covered in the same chapter as the Soviet Union, which was a victim of the self-destructive idiocy of communism.

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This doesn’t bode well for those of us hoping for more 80′s style action flicks starring the old guys. I wonder how Stallone’s new flick is going to fare.

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The way the list is organized here is a bit confusing, but it seems to include organizations, celebrities and then other influential people who aren’t celebrities. I haven’t had time to go through the whole thing since it is long, but it’s interesting (and discouraging) how many of the organizations are medically related. A while back there was an effort to make guns a “public health” issue. I wonder if this list reflects some of that activity. Also, I’m disappointed to see Sylvester Stallone’s name on the list. Not only does it demonstrate hypocrisy (Did anyone see Rambo IV [not actually called that] which Stallone co-wrote, directed and starred in?), but Stallone is often cited as one of the few Republicans in Hollywood.

Update: Here is the list straight from the NRA that makes the divisions in the list more clear. The list is also not new. It is from Aug 10. The attached article is new, and it popped up on my Facebook today.

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You can’t make this stuff up. At some point I registered at Daily Kos so I could make a comment, probably on some Ron Paul post, so I periodically get e-mails from them. I haven’t unsubscribed because I like seeing what the other side is up to. Today I got an e-mail blaring this in the subject line: “Pope gives special holiday hate speech against gays because it’s Christmas.”

I have a news flash for the author, Kaili Joy Gray: the Pope is a Christian, and Christians have always condemned homosexual behavior because the Bible condemns homosexual behavior and Christians believe the Bible is a Holy Book, God’s Word. Is that really so hard to understand? The liberal “tolerance” Gestapo won’t be happy until ever Christian denounces their belief. Notice the disrespectful and “hateful” tone of her rant. (It would be paying it more respect than it deserves to call it an article.) And note that Daily Kos chose this nugget to highlight with their e-mail. How small-minded is the new PC left?

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Yesterday my daughter and I watched that whole gun control video frame by frame to identify all the participants. I think I did a good job identifying them based on my substantial fund of pop cultural knowledge, if I do say so myself. There were only a few that I didn’t know. My plan was to post the list here, but it turns out I wasted my time, because someone had already done it for me.

The heartfelt clip features Jon Hamm, Steve Carell, Jamie Foxx, Paul Rudd, Jason Bateman, Sarah Silverman, Amy Poehler, Aubrey Plaza, Amanda Peet, Busy Philipps, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Adam Scott, Cameron Diaz, Courteney Cox, Christina Applegate, Zooey Deschanel, John Slattery, Debra Messing, Elizabeth Banks, Max Greenfield, Kristen Bell, Peter Dinklage, Brooke Shields, Joel McHale, Conan O’Brien, Rashida Jones, Will Ferrell, Aziz Ansari, Olivia Munn, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Garner, Jessica Alba, Chris Rock, Ellen DeGeneres, Selena Gomez, Kate Hudson and Gwyneth Paltrow.

As I said below, the two Mad Men actors sting a little. Who knew Roger Sterling was a gun control supporting wuss?

Addendum: This list appears to not be exhaustive. It doesn’t include Reese Witherspoon or Beyonce. Any other omissions anyone has identified?

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And in other news, the Sun rose in the East this morning. What is it about actors that makes the vast majority of them braindead liberals? Some of these really disappoint me, especially the Mad Men guys. Also, I find it a bit hypocritical that the new Bourne guy wants gun control. Has he watched his own movie? Also Jamie “kill all the white people” Foxx. Has he watched his movie? I also find it interesting that they disabled the comments. They knew good and well that they would get slammed if they didn’t.

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We could easily fill the pages of this blog with gun control related items in the wake of the Newtown shooting, but I’m personally going to resist that urge, partially because the shooting hasn’t changed the fundamentals of the debate, it has only changed the political climate, and partially because I hate the way both sides politicized such events, especially in the immediate aftermath.

What I will do is post individual outrages as I run across them, rather than rehash the whole gun control debate. That is why I posted about NRA A rated Senator Manchin waffling.

Here is another post worthy outrage.

A professor of history at the University of Rhode Island tweeted that he wanted the NRA president’s “head on a stick.” After people accused Professor Erik Loomis of wanting to assassinate LePierre, the head of the NRA, he clarified, saying that it was only a metaphor. He tweeted:  “Dear right-wing morons, saying you ‘want someone’s head on a stick’ is a metaphor. I know metaphor is hard for you to understand.— ?Erik Loomis.” In another tweet, he added, “Dear rightwingers, to be clear, I don’t want to see Wayne LaPierre dead. I want to see him in prison for the rest of his life.” He called upon the Obama administration to repeal the Second Amendment and labeled the NRA a terrorist organization

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First of all, those who said this was a call to assassinate Wayne Lapierre were grandstanding and such feigned outrage is unhelpful because it makes us look like a bunch of idiots and/or fearful little children. The hysteria of the Professor Loomises of the world should be met with calm resolve, not counter-hysteria. Let Loomis reveal himself as a fearful little child. Our side needs to be better than that. What is outrageous is that this clown makes clear that he wants LaPierre in prison for life in what was supposed to be a Tweet aimed at getting himself out of the hole he had dug himself into. Exactly what crime does History Professor Loomis think Lapierre should be tried for?

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I generally root for other SEC teams when they are not playing Georgia, and I have relished the fact that SEC teams have dominated the national championship in recent years although I wish one of them was Georgia, but I have to admit there was a part of me that was thinking I wouldn’t really mind it if Notre Dame won the upcoming BCS Championship because I think a Notre Dame victory would be good for college football. It would signal the return of a once proud program that a lot of people have said would never play at the top level again.

Well that ever so slight inkling is now history, wiped from my mind by the smart alec shenanigans of one Jimmy Clausen. The former Notre Dame QB, who is riding the bench behind a SEC Heisman Trophy and National Championship winner I might add, Tweeted a picture of this shirt, Catholics vs. Cousins. Well that does it! I hope the Crimson Tide rolls over them fifty to nuthin’ now.

Cousins? Really? I can assure Mr. Clausen that moonshine sippin’ inbred Hillbillies and Rednecks are not the segment that his team needs to be concerned about. Perhaps Mr. Clausen should spend more time trying to win back his starting QB job and spend less time propagating hurtful stereotypes.

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It wasn’t until the social welfare state was established that we started encouraging people not to work and we started to erect all these barriers with things like the minimum wage law, occupational licensing and everything that we do to make it more and more difficult for people to grab the bottom rung of the employment ladder, so now we have people that are permanently unemployed, we have people that wouldn’t even consider getting a job.

I mean, this is their lifestyle…

We’ve created this subculture, which is getting bigger and bigger and bigger of people that don’t work, that don’t produce and now they have to be supported by everybody else.

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In my line of work, I run across this every day. I often wonder how people got along 100 years ago before any of these programs existed. While I’m no fan of the minimum wage, that is not the main problem here, because there are many who wouldn’t seek employment even if it were more readily available. The main problem is that there exists a system (food stamps, subsidized housing, medicaid, disability, etc.) that makes not working a viable option.

I don’t think national level welfare programs are constitutional, but if you were starting from scratch and determined that you must have a welfare safety net, I think it should be work based. You show up to do some public work job and you get paid. If you’re disabled you show up for a job tailored to your disability. Such a program might end up being more expensive to administer than just cutting someone a check, but I think it would cut down on the moral hazard of welfare, and some public service work would get done as a result. Of course this might encourage some people to default take the government welfare job rather than job hunt, but it would have to be better than what we have.

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A few things to look forward to as we await the inevitable approaching financial apocalypse. Don’t let anyone tell you that CHT is all doom and gloom. We support healthy diversions to temporarily take our minds off the economic, political and moral basket case that this nation has become.

He’s Baach…

Silvester Stallone continues to demonstrates that there really can be, at least physique wise, better living through chemistry.

And it looks like Bruce has one more in him as well. The last Die Hard was surprisingly good, BTW.)

It looks like we’re in for an entertaining January and February at the cinema.

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Motivational speaker and author Zig Ziglar has passed away. In addition to being a motivational speaker, Ziglar was also an outspoken Christian, or it is probably more accurate to say that he weaved his Christianity into his motivational work. This is important in a field that has more than it’s share of New Age heretical nonsense.

Ziglar could really spin a yarn. He was from Mississippi and always reminded me of Jerry Clower in this way. I think this is one thing that set his speaking apart from others. He was like listening to your grandfather spinning tales and imparting wisdom.

Ziglar was also an open Republican and Christian conservative. He endorsed Huckabee in 2008. (He’ll have to be forgiven for the Republican and Huckabee part. He was a motivational speaker and not a political theorist. What this says to me is that he wasn’t afraid to be a part of the culture he came from, Southern evangelical, even though it might have been easier and more lucrative for him to distance himself from it.)

I first became aware of Ziglar because my main pastor when I was growing up was a big fan of his and even co-authored a book with Ziglar. Ziglar once came and spoke at our church, an event which I was very excited about.  At that point in my life, Ziglar was a celebrity on par with a sports star as far as I was concerned.

I have read two of Ziglar’s books (see here and here) and would recommend them to anyone who is looking for self-help literature that isn’t just New Age pablum. (Interestingly, his first book was published by Pelican which has been very friendly to conservative and pro-South books).

We have lost a good ‘un. The world was richer for him and will be poorer without him. I bet he’s up in Heaven telling a tale right now. May God bless his family in their time of mourning.

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… to compete against Monday Night Football? Are the debate planners really that out of touch?

This is an attempt at humor, but I’m at least half serious. This was a clueless move. Not only will it cut down on the audience, but it will tick off half the audience that does tune in. (Although a smaller audience for the foreign policy debate might be a good thing for Romney since he can’t seem to come off as anything but a war mongering buffoon every time he opens his mouth about foreign policy.)

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At the risk of sounding insensitive or as if I don’t appreciate female anatomy, I can’t be the only one who thinks that this whole breast cancer thing is getting a little out of hand. You know, breasts aren’t the only organ system that gets cancer.

This rant is occasioned by watching all the pink NFL teams, announcers, etc. are wearing today. This has prompted a few questions.

If the NFL was raising money for prostate cancer, what color would they be wearing?

Since I presume pink was chosen because breast cancer primarily effects  women, what color do uterine, cervical and ovarian cancer get?

If the NFL is going to wear pink for breast cancer awareness, shouldn’t they do it before Labor Day so they don’t look like a bunch of out of season clowns?

Addendum: It seems I’m not the only one who thinks the breast cancer campaign is overexposed, Andy Nowicki at AltRight does too..

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