I cannot believe it's been almost two weeks...
I guess I've been so weirded out by the Obamite non-response to Iran, and previously by the Obamite vigorous response to non-events perpetrated by "them Jews," that I've been struck dumb.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
EL SUPREMO VERSUS COKE ZERO
The Czech online daily iDNES reports that Official Obama Pal and Soulmate (OOPS) Hugo Chavez decided to ban Coke Zero in Venezuela, claiming that it damages the health of his people.Just how Coke Zero damages Venezuelans' health was not specified, but in a socialist regime, that is not necessary. All you need is El Supremo's ukase to that effect, and becomes Truth.
Kinda like Stalin's declaration that the sonata is the most perfect form of music (per my long-time friend, Prof. Dr. Herbert Thomas Mandl).
Given the chaotic economic developments in this country under the Obamites, one wonders how many OOPSes (of the same ilk as Chavez) beyond the current brace of White House czars and other shadowy apparatchiki are in charge of decisions about our economy. Let me see, a telephone type in charge of a car company...
It makes my head spin just to think about it.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
THE INESTIMABLE VALUE OF DISSENT
For years, the politico-scientific party line for global warming has been that the science is in, human-made global warming is the culprit, we will soon reach (or have now reached, or have long ago reached) the tipping point, and we are now sliding toward catastrophe. Those who remained skeptical were mercilessly skewered, persecuted, denied tenure and research funding, and called every name under the sun (joke!) by the true believers.
But the agnostics persisted, stubbornly digging out data that cast doubt on the standard anthropomorphic global warming (AGW) model, the computer models that presumably supported it, the research methodologies and even the data sets. In other words, instead of being true believers, they were true scientists. And, by degrees, as the facts became available, some of the faithful ones began to waver and, most important, lose their FEAR OF PERSECUTION.
Now AGW orthodoxy gets yet another black eye. NASA, for so long a temple of the AGW faith, has allowed itself to publish a study (see a report in Daily Tech) which states that solar activity, horribile dictu, has an impact on climate change. This is a conclusion that the AGW faithful had resisted ever since their new faith had been birthed.
This is yet another major victory for science and democracy. I hope it has come in time to influence Congress in its struggle with the Waxman-Markey "great big tax" whose only real purpose is to ensure that the self-appointed elect can have more money for their super-expensive toys and chimeric fantasies.
But the agnostics persisted, stubbornly digging out data that cast doubt on the standard anthropomorphic global warming (AGW) model, the computer models that presumably supported it, the research methodologies and even the data sets. In other words, instead of being true believers, they were true scientists. And, by degrees, as the facts became available, some of the faithful ones began to waver and, most important, lose their FEAR OF PERSECUTION.
Now AGW orthodoxy gets yet another black eye. NASA, for so long a temple of the AGW faith, has allowed itself to publish a study (see a report in Daily Tech) which states that solar activity, horribile dictu, has an impact on climate change. This is a conclusion that the AGW faithful had resisted ever since their new faith had been birthed.
This is yet another major victory for science and democracy. I hope it has come in time to influence Congress in its struggle with the Waxman-Markey "great big tax" whose only real purpose is to ensure that the self-appointed elect can have more money for their super-expensive toys and chimeric fantasies.
Monday, June 8, 2009
RUSSIAN THOUGHTS ON STRATEGY
Here’s an interesting insight about Russia and the recent antiballistic "missile crisis” by Karel Schwarzenberg, the Czech ex-Foreign Minister, from a May 22, 2009 article called Russia still thinks that it can tell us what we can and can’t do.
Schwarzenberg thinks that, from the military perspective, the Russians really don’t care about the radar that was to have been installed in the Czech Republic (until Obama put it on ice, thinking that the concession would help “reset” U.S.-Russian relations). According to Schwarzenberg, the Russians know perfectly well that the radar in the Czech Republic and the antiballistic missiles in Poland are not aimed at them. Russia is primarily interested in staking out its territory. The former Warsaw pact countries are, in Moscow’s eyes, still imperial territories where the Russians can exert their veto. “A dachshund never changes its opinion about a sausage,” Schwarzenberg quipped.
Schwarzenberg thinks that, from the military perspective, the Russians really don’t care about the radar that was to have been installed in the Czech Republic (until Obama put it on ice, thinking that the concession would help “reset” U.S.-Russian relations). According to Schwarzenberg, the Russians know perfectly well that the radar in the Czech Republic and the antiballistic missiles in Poland are not aimed at them. Russia is primarily interested in staking out its territory. The former Warsaw pact countries are, in Moscow’s eyes, still imperial territories where the Russians can exert their veto. “A dachshund never changes its opinion about a sausage,” Schwarzenberg quipped.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
THE FATE OF EGOMANIACS
We have by now been treated to many different manifestations of Barack Obama's egomania. 
There were the faux Greek columns and similar displays, there are claims such as "we are the ones we've been waiting for," there are grandiose world tours on which meaningless high-flying phrases are spouted and blood-stained hands eagerly shook. There is the apparently unshakeable conviction that certain extremely special individuals (namely He Himself) can talk reason to dictators and dominate them, there is the unquenchable hunger to take over, take over, and take over some more. And foolish people are already naming buildings and geographic landmarks for Obama, with nary a peep from the "House of Noncolor" that, perhaps, this is somewhat inappropriate with the honoree still alive and kicking. Soon, someone will start building a large statue, I am sure.
Speaking of statues of egomaniacs, here is a couple of images of a particularly cool one. I remember walking in the adjoining park in the late 1950s, staring upward at those huger-than-life Soviets, my prepubescent mind filled with wonderment.
This monstrosity, 30 meters high with its 15-meter pedestal and 22 meters long, was unveiled in Prague, Czechoslovakia at a point overlooking the Vltava River on May Day, 1955. It consumed millions of skilled man-hours and 17 million tons of the best-quality stone. It could be seen from just about anywhere, which was the idea. The gratitude the Czechoslovak citizens were to show to Stalin for his genius and his beneficent leadership must be unbounded.
Until 1961, when the Czechoslovak Party was ordered to take the damn thing down due to de-Stalinization. Given that bureaucrats tend to follow excess with still more excess, the statue was surrounded by the secret police (no pictures, please!) and rapidly demolished. Rumor has it that the Party had ordered for the rubble reduced to such small size that no one could tell it had come from the statue, but that I cannot substantiate.
In any case, this is just a reminder that power and glory are fleeting and, despite relentless intrusion into the lives and minds of citizens and a hunger to control their thoughts, the truth can never be expunged and monuments (and those they represent) get pulled down.
I submit that there is no memory hole large enough to accommodate what Obama has already wrought, and anyone thinking of building monuments to him should bear that in mind.
There were the faux Greek columns and similar displays, there are claims such as "we are the ones we've been waiting for," there are grandiose world tours on which meaningless high-flying phrases are spouted and blood-stained hands eagerly shook. There is the apparently unshakeable conviction that certain extremely special individuals (namely He Himself) can talk reason to dictators and dominate them, there is the unquenchable hunger to take over, take over, and take over some more. And foolish people are already naming buildings and geographic landmarks for Obama, with nary a peep from the "House of Noncolor" that, perhaps, this is somewhat inappropriate with the honoree still alive and kicking. Soon, someone will start building a large statue, I am sure.Speaking of statues of egomaniacs, here is a couple of images of a particularly cool one. I remember walking in the adjoining park in the late 1950s, staring upward at those huger-than-life Soviets, my prepubescent mind filled with wonderment.
This monstrosity, 30 meters high with its 15-meter pedestal and 22 meters long, was unveiled in Prague, Czechoslovakia at a point overlooking the Vltava River on May Day, 1955. It consumed millions of skilled man-hours and 17 million tons of the best-quality stone. It could be seen from just about anywhere, which was the idea. The gratitude the Czechoslovak citizens were to show to Stalin for his genius and his beneficent leadership must be unbounded.
Until 1961, when the Czechoslovak Party was ordered to take the damn thing down due to de-Stalinization. Given that bureaucrats tend to follow excess with still more excess, the statue was surrounded by the secret police (no pictures, please!) and rapidly demolished. Rumor has it that the Party had ordered for the rubble reduced to such small size that no one could tell it had come from the statue, but that I cannot substantiate.
In any case, this is just a reminder that power and glory are fleeting and, despite relentless intrusion into the lives and minds of citizens and a hunger to control their thoughts, the truth can never be expunged and monuments (and those they represent) get pulled down.
I submit that there is no memory hole large enough to accommodate what Obama has already wrought, and anyone thinking of building monuments to him should bear that in mind.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
THE HOLOCAUST IS SOMETHING THAT OBAMA MUST KEEP IN MIND DURING HIS MIDEASTERN TRAVELS
Herewith something that showed up in my mailbox the other day, from the Czech Republic. I added translations below. It's nice to think that some people are still thinking clearly on this issue, even if the Obamites are hell-bent on facilitating another Holocaust by dialoguing with tyrants and looking the other way while their favorite tyrants plan the destruction of Israel.
translation: IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE! General Dwight D. Eisenhower was right to order as much film and photographic documentation as possible.
translation: Over sixty years ago, he found a Nazi location that exactly illustrated their plans.
translation: It is a historic fact that, when the Supreme Allied Commander, Dwight D. Eisenhower, found victims of the concentration camps, he ordered that as much be photographed as possible. He brought German inhabitants of local occupied cities to the camps so they could see the atrocities with their own eyes. In some cases, he also compelled them to bury the dead.
translation: He explained it as follows - "It is necessary to collect as much proof, film and testimony, as possible, because the day will come when some idiot will claim that it never happened." (paraphrase of actual quote)
translation: "The only thing the devil needs to succeed is that moral people do nothing." (paraphrase of Edmund Burke)
translation: Recently, Great Britain removed the Holocaust from British school curricula because it "offended the belief of Moslem residents that the Holocaust never happened." Yes, Great Britain.
translation: This is a fair warning that fear rules the world and that each and every country should push for its simple elimination. More than sixty years have passed since the end of World War Two.
translation: You have received this e-mail as a reminder, for all of humanity, to honor the memory of six million Jews, twenty million Russians (translator's note: 'Russians' really means Soviet peoples, by far not all of them Russian - the actual figure is closer to 27 million), ten million Christians, priests and ministers, all murdered, massacred, incinerated, humiliated; all at a time when the Allies and Russia had other priorities...
translation: Now, more than ever, countries like Iran - among others - claim that the Holocaust was a myth. It is therefore imperative to remind the world never, never to forget. The purpose of this e-mail is to reach at least forty million people in the world so they can say that they saw and read it.
translation: Please be a member of this worldwide e-mail chain. Help spread the message throughout the world.
translation: Please do not delete this. It will only take you a minute to pass it on. Let us do it for those who did not survive the Holocaust.
translation: IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE! General Dwight D. Eisenhower was right to order as much film and photographic documentation as possible.
translation: Over sixty years ago, he found a Nazi location that exactly illustrated their plans.
translation: It is a historic fact that, when the Supreme Allied Commander, Dwight D. Eisenhower, found victims of the concentration camps, he ordered that as much be photographed as possible. He brought German inhabitants of local occupied cities to the camps so they could see the atrocities with their own eyes. In some cases, he also compelled them to bury the dead.
translation: He explained it as follows - "It is necessary to collect as much proof, film and testimony, as possible, because the day will come when some idiot will claim that it never happened." (paraphrase of actual quote)
translation: Recently, Great Britain removed the Holocaust from British school curricula because it "offended the belief of Moslem residents that the Holocaust never happened." Yes, Great Britain.
translation: This is a fair warning that fear rules the world and that each and every country should push for its simple elimination. More than sixty years have passed since the end of World War Two.
translation: You have received this e-mail as a reminder, for all of humanity, to honor the memory of six million Jews, twenty million Russians (translator's note: 'Russians' really means Soviet peoples, by far not all of them Russian - the actual figure is closer to 27 million), ten million Christians, priests and ministers, all murdered, massacred, incinerated, humiliated; all at a time when the Allies and Russia had other priorities...
translation: Now, more than ever, countries like Iran - among others - claim that the Holocaust was a myth. It is therefore imperative to remind the world never, never to forget. The purpose of this e-mail is to reach at least forty million people in the world so they can say that they saw and read it.
translation: Please be a member of this worldwide e-mail chain. Help spread the message throughout the world.
translation: Please do not delete this. It will only take you a minute to pass it on. Let us do it for those who did not survive the Holocaust.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
MEMORY OR HEROISM, 67 YEARS LATER
Today, a memorial to honor a group of World War Two heroes was unveiled in Prague to honor SOE-trained Czechoslovak parachutists who assassinated Reinhard Heydrich, the feared Reichsprotektor of occupied Bohemia and Moravia, one of the most powerful men in the Third Reich and one of the principal architects of the Holocaust.
Operation Anthropoid bore fruit exactly 67 years ago, on May 27, 1942, when one of the teams, consisting of Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík, caught Heydrich in the open and wounded him with a bomb. They managed to escape, and Heydrich succumbed to his wounds on June 04, 1942.
The reign of terror that the Nazis unleashed in Bohemia in revenge is the stuff of legend by now. Thousands were arrested, tortured and killed for either having protected the parachutists or simply for revenge. The town of Lidice was razed, its menfolk were shot, the women sent to concentration camps and the children to the Reich to be "Aryanized." Two weeks later, the same fate met the village of Ležáky. The parachutists, betrayed by Karel Čurda, one of their own, were ultimately run to ground in their hideout in the Church of St. Cyril and St. Methodius in Prague, where, after a long battle, they committed suicide to keep from being taken captive.
It is somehow appropriate that the unveiling would take place so close to our Memorial Day, as a reminder that heroism in the face of terror knows no boundaries.
Operation Anthropoid bore fruit exactly 67 years ago, on May 27, 1942, when one of the teams, consisting of Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík, caught Heydrich in the open and wounded him with a bomb. They managed to escape, and Heydrich succumbed to his wounds on June 04, 1942.
The reign of terror that the Nazis unleashed in Bohemia in revenge is the stuff of legend by now. Thousands were arrested, tortured and killed for either having protected the parachutists or simply for revenge. The town of Lidice was razed, its menfolk were shot, the women sent to concentration camps and the children to the Reich to be "Aryanized." Two weeks later, the same fate met the village of Ležáky. The parachutists, betrayed by Karel Čurda, one of their own, were ultimately run to ground in their hideout in the Church of St. Cyril and St. Methodius in Prague, where, after a long battle, they committed suicide to keep from being taken captive.
It is somehow appropriate that the unveiling would take place so close to our Memorial Day, as a reminder that heroism in the face of terror knows no boundaries.
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