This post is probably going to piss some people off. Tough. Get your own blog. It’s probably also going to have some people saying I’m predjudiced. Nope, not hardly. I’m just tired of hearing (some) black people whine about how whitey is keeping them down.
Michelle Malkin does a great job deconstructing (or destroying if you prefer) the whole concept of slave reparations.
First of all, I don’t feel a damn bit of responsibility for something that ended in 1865 (yes, I know the Emancipation Proclamation was made in 1863, but it applied only to territories then in rebellion against the Union — which didn’t include an awful lot of territory then in Union hands that was nominally slave territory) and in which my family wasn’t involved. Hell, my mother’s family didn’t even come here until after 1900. My father’s family were Pennsylvania Germans who wouldn’t have held a slave if one had been given to them. Why then do I owe anything to the descendants of slaves who live in a free country and — although they talk big about it — don’t know the first thing about what it’s like to live under the lash? (And don’t start talking to me about Jim Crow and the KKK. The young generation of black people who are growing up today and being fed this line of bullshit can’t even imagine what it must have been like. Hell, I can’t imagine what it must have been like, and a quarter of my family went to Auschwitz.)
Second of all — didn’t we already pay these reparations? How many (wasted) billions went into the Great Society?
The whole concept is laughable and anyone who thinks differently needs to fuck off and/or get a fucking clue. There is no person in this country who doesn’t have a chance handed to them on a golden platter; I don’t care what color your skin is, or how poor you are, or how oppressed you feel. There are plenty of rich and middle-class black families in this country who prove that all you have to do is work like everyone else and not get caught up in the “woe is me, the man is keeping me down” syndrome. The man isn’t keeping you down. You’re keeping yourself down. Wake up and smell the coffee, folks. The revolution isn’t going to be televised, if for no other reason than the liberal TV networks don’t want to have to admit that blacks can be just as successful as whites. The revolution has already happened — Colin Powell and Clarence Thomas are its primary exponents — and you need to catch up.
And I would like to conclude by stating that Michelle Malkin, in addition to being highly intelligent and a great writer, is a serious babe, and if I wasn’t married and she wasn’t married I would probably write to her every day asking if we could get together. But I hasten to add that, unlike some bloggers, I’m not a stalker 🙂 Been stalked before. Don’t like it.
As goes Microsoft, so goes the world
I’ve been trying to say this since day one. I don’t like to blog about technology but I just have to nod my head here.
I don’t give a good God damn if Microsoft does end up ruling the world. BillG couldn’t do worse than BillC. And it’s BillC’s anti-business “Justice” department that started all of this.
Say what you will about Microsoft’s buggy products, but Apple and all of the *nixes are right up there in the bug department with them. Microsoft gets more bad press than anyone else because it’s fashionable to hate them.
The doctor who shot straight.
Article in NRO discussing our new surgeon general and those who opposed him because once he shot a criminal dead, dead, dead.
Would that more doctors were so civic-minded. (And it’s hilarious to note that most of the complaining is coming from Emory University. I wonder…would their board of trustees or regents be called an Emory [sic] Board? They’re certainly raspy and abrasive enough. And their exposed fraud Michael Bellesiles is pretty rough around the edges for an academic.)
Fisk, fisk.
PejmanPundit has an in-depth, quite righteous Fisking of Brian Whitaker’s article in the Guardian that disses MEMRI. Damn. Go get him, Pej…
Blogging will recommence shortly…
…if anyone cares.
Busy, busy day.
What goes around comes around.
OK, one MORE. I can’t resist.
The Professor just put up a link to a Georgia General Assembly resolution renaming Cynthia McKinney Parkway in DeKalb County to its original name, “Memorial Drive”,
in honor and memory of all of those United States Citizens who died on or after September 11, 2001, as a result of attacks on this nation by foreign enemies and in defense of this nation against further such attacks as part of Operation Enduring Freedom; and the Department of Transportation is authorized and directed to erect and maintain appropriate signs identifying the same.
What a wonderful slap in the face to someone who richly deserves one.
Saudi paradox?
OK, one more.
In an article in today’s American Prowler, Lawrence Henry makes some thoughtful points. I’ve also read Clancy’s Every Man a Tiger and I was intrigued at the time by the huge gulf between the attitudes of the professional Saudi military officers Chuck Horner dealt with during GWI and the apparent attitudes of the Saudi ruling family.
Maybe we really don’t have the problem with the Saudis that many (including me) think we do. Maybe the princes are about to overextend themselves and wear out their welcome. Would a military government in Saudi that was friendly to the U.S. really be such a bad thing?
It’s something to ponder.
Spare the rod, suicide the child
Via Best of the Web, this story actually makes me laugh a little.
For some reason I saw my Dad shaking his finger at me and saying “you go out and kill yourself, and I’ll never speak to you again!” Which is something my Dad probably would have done, but just as probably with a big grin on his face.
Somehow, though, I don’t think this young idiot’s father was laughing very much. Which is a good thing.
First strike looking better every day
An old new name for militant Islam
It occurred to me this morning as I read the news (and I can’t remember which article triggered the thought process that has been fermenting all day and just taste-tested nicely; if I do I’ll link it) that, given the past and continuing support of the House of Saud for militant Islam as a means of exporting revolution and saving their sorry asses from the gibbet, we need a new term for “militant Islam”.
I humbly suggest “Wahhabism”.
So from now on when I talk about “militant Islam” in some context or another, I will simply substitute the word “Wahhabism”.
And while we’re redefining words, one of these days maybe we’ll take back that good word “liberal” from the ass-kissing socialist dickweeds who hijacked it back in the ’50s. As I blogged about the other day.