Tag Archives: Richard Fernandez

Cue the candles and flowers

Posted on May 24, 2017 | 1 comment

We could make an industry out of these silent vigils as the Manchester massacres increase. Or we could get our shit together, if only among ourselves and our tribes.

“If we are to prevent a new medievalism finding the right balance between an open society and maintaining loyalty and allegiance is necessary.  It is a difficult task under any circumstances.  But rarely has anyone failed more dismally at it than the leaders of our multi-culti world.  By stigmatizing calls for reasonable loyalty as bigotry they have climbed out on a limb and sawed themselves off; by their dogmatic insistence on mindless inclusion they’ve foreclosed all attempts to bring things back to even keel.  They have reduced themselves to the level of hapless bystanders, unable to either prevent or explain an onslaught they themselves — were they honest enough to admit it — should have foreseen.”

So while they cower behind their paid security, we need to get concealed carry licenses, factor in range time to our busy schedules and budgets and be ready to act.

Via Richard Fernandez

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Menendez is all about Iran

Posted on March 8, 2015 | 1 comment

Considering the broadly understood (one recent book) corruption of our political class, when you see one of them taken down by the “justice” department and its lapdog Fart, Barf & Itch, you know there’s some other motive.

“Menendez has been one of the top Democratic critics in Congress of the Obama administration’s negotiations and forthcoming deal with Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions. Earlier this year, the New Jersey Democrat said the White House’s talking points on the Iran deal were ‘straight out of Tehran.’”

As much as they’d have liked to, they couldn’t arrest Bibi for opposing the Worm’s Iran sellout. So they did the next best thing. Attacked a Democrat who did.

Via Althouse.

UPDATE: Meanwhile, 47 Republican senators send a warning letter to Tehran… And Joey Hairplugs shakes his fist at them.

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Three hour speeches and pie in the sky

Posted on January 27, 2015 | 2 comments

Hey, it could be worse, sports fans. Barry could be reading from the teleprompter all evening long on all the alphabet stations. Followed by the usual nodding of the talking heads. He does seem to think money grows on trees, but at least he’s not as verbose as Nicolas Maduro.

So what if Barry chews gum on camera, like some low-rent community organizer? He’s relatively pithy. And he’s still got the rich to fleece, at least rhetorically, while he’s really sticking it to what’s left of the middle class. He knows the poor don’t care either way.

Long as he makes sure their checks ain’t late. And, so far, the feds can still do that right.

Via Wretchard.

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Through white-privilege sunglasses

Posted on December 30, 2014 | 3 comments

Hey, it’s what college students and their professors do these days: scoping out white privilege. Especially the ones who got poor grades in science and math.

“It’s important to remember that ‘white’ doesn’t mean ‘white’ any more than The Patriarchy refers to biological males, of which there is no such thing. Whiteness, like Maleness is modified by ideology, party affiliation and above all their place in the Narrative.  Spotting  social oppressors requires knowledge acquired in courses like Gender or Racial studies the same way people needed special sunglasses to see the aliens among us in the movie They Live….

“…one of the dangers to reality being all in the mind is you can think you’ve been a good guy all your life and suddenly realize you’re Darth Vader. Like Franz Kafka’s narrator in Metamorphosis, you may wake up one day to find yourself transformed into a gigantic cockroach. It’s a shocking realization but one you should be open to.”

Because if you’re not willing to play the culprit, they don’t get to play the victim and all those gender, race and class professors would be out of work and that would be one more example of white privilege. See how it works?

Via Richard Fernandez.

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Stop Ebola in Texas: Wash your hands

Posted on October 2, 2014 | 3 comments

“Washing your hands and avoiding occasions of exposure will help you more than all the public assurances in the world. If you suspect infection, do your duty and turn yourself in. Odd word that: duty. But duty is what saved the herd in history; saved the herd in World War 2. The very same duty the Left laughs at and lumps in the same dustbin of history as that 100 year old document that nobody reads any more. And science. Not affirmative action or quota or “committed” science. But science, period. Duty and science, not amulets, voodoo, talk shows, assurances,security theater or muted alarms can stop Ebola.” —Richard Fernandez, PJMedia.

And stay the hell out of Dallas.

UPDATE:  Patient Zero died Oct. 8. Now to wait and see if he infected others. Meanwhile, at the Texas State Fair, even Big Tex has ebola on his “mind.”

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Change pols frequently, like your underwear

Posted on April 17, 2014 | 5 comments

Richard Fernandez of PJMedia on why we need to worry when our presidents and their appointees all come from Harvard and other “elite” institutions. They are poster children for term limits. Too smart for our good.

“America was founded on the notion that most politicians can only be expected to be ornery, low-down, crooks. Nobody in those days was fool enough to believe they could be Light-workers, Messiahs and create a world without guns. Thus in the Founder’s view the only way to guard against rogues was to ensure that government remained as small as possible relative to its essential jobs; to change those in office frequently and often, like we change underwear.

“The Founders saw roguery as the byproduct of high office. And so they wrote a constitution — you know, the document more than a hundred years old that nobody smart reads any more — to keep the weeds down. For they knew better than our modern enlighteneds that any politician sufficiently powerful to disarm the people is sufficiently powerful to sell missiles bought from Russia to Muslim rebels in Mindanao.

“Unless one remembers this there is no defense against crooks in high places.”

Which is why we need term limits and, to my mind, no more two-term presidents.

Via Instapundit.

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Obumbles: all tricks, no treat

Posted on October 31, 2013 | 2 comments

PJMedia’s Richard Fernandez does nice summaries sometimes and this one on our suspected-but-highly-unlikely Muslim president is a gem:

“The man has single handedly trashed the entire Arab world. Consider. The Muslim Brotherhood is hunted in Egypt, which is about to starve.. Libya is a Mad Max state. People are killing each other for all they are worth in Syria. Jordan and Lebanon are overrun by refugees. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states are on the brink. Iraq has slid back into chaos. Afghanistan is due to be handed back to the Taliban. With any luck there will be nuclear war between Iran and Israel.”

Except for that last sentence, of course. Tel Aviv for Tehran is a trade no one needs. But it would be in keeping with this Halloween Horror Story.

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