Having gone to school in Charlottesville, Va in the mid-late 60's (while it was all men, btw), and early on having an interest in what causes men to go to war,  I formed a special interest in that war where no cultural or civilizational errors were made by one side of the other thus precipitating what might otherwise had been avoided.

 

So, in my bookish historical travels I've read most if not all of what Douglas Southall Freeman, Macpherson, Foote, Grant, Longstreet, Pfanz, DK Goodwin, on and on, had to say on the subject.

I have spent much time in the south, finding among the cottages in Pt. Clear, AL for instance, a panoply of pictures of the commanders of the regiments, brigades and division of the armies the south fielded under Johnston, Braxton Bragg, Sam Hood, and Beauregard in the 'west', still maintained above the mantle, as they had been in that family since the 1870's.

Atop this pyramid of perceived honor, of course, rested the laurel wreath wearer of courtly, gentlemanly devotion to duty, courage and above all, HONOR, one R E Lee.

Offered the generalship of all the union armies at the outset of the war, Lee refused citing his duty to his home, Virigina. Wa-hoo-wa.

Just one detail. Just one tiny detail. Just one speck to flick a bit of dirt on the eternal legacy of Robert Edward Lee.

You had to fight for the existence of slavery to uphold your vision of honor and duty you complete schmuck. This tiny detail besmirches every display of that flag, every statue in southern cities, every parade giving homage to the undeniable bravery of so many men who at best were so horribly misguided that they allied their souls beneath a sin so great it had to be washed away in a sea of blood.

The blood of more men than sacrificed themselves in all the rest of our wars added together.

And so Robert E Lee offered the mantle to end slavery (as all knew the war was REALLY about), chose instead to defend, and prolong it, despite the effort to clothe slavery's defense in defending the hearth and home. They are eternally inseparable. And inexcusable. More for a man like Lee than any other. I am so sorry to say so, but it is so.

And so today we turn to the pretzel logic of otherwise good people who are willing to make 'tough choices' to defeat that Islam which beheads at a teddy bear's name.

I am not one who finds at this point that it is likely that neo nazis are among us in europe in this movement, though there is NO argument that they and collaborators with the nazis were there at the birth of some of these national movements. No argument at all.

"White Europe" is no more a metaphor today than to Ross Barnett, George Wallace, or Strom Thurmond, all their lives.

I am one who does believe that in the refusal of Phillip Dewinter to find a way (or even TRY to find a reasonable way) to excoriate his own words on a WHITE EUROPE  we see someone who was, like Hillary and the war in Iraq, afraid to alienate his base of supporters, who would have seen any retreat on this core of all issues, as cowardice to multiculturalism.

Thus within the forces of those who have an opinion about mobs shouting for the beheading of the 54 year old teacher in the Sudan, and within the European LEADERSHIP of these forces, are unquestioned white supremacists, whose prime motive is white cultural defense, and who shelter in the clothes of opposition to an imperial, intolerant, racist salafist and khomeinist Islam.

Like Robert E Lee, and Longstreet, these good people among us, have decided that duty requires them not only to support and defend such people as purport to have a white europe, not only to push them forward as icons of defense against Sayd Qutb's Islam, but to attack those who accurately identify what is among us, masquerading as cultural defense, as being 'smearing multiculturalists', who are transfixed after all by 'political correctness' thus proving I suppose that we are dilettantes, unwilling to dirty our skirts.

An orgy of verbose delusion, in short, to avoid the horrific reality underlying Robert E Lee's analogous self damnation. He chose to defend slavery.

They have chosen to defend white europe.

Sick of morons who worry more about what might happen since to them earth is a zero sum game, than what IS happening.

UNITED NATIONS: A U.N. expert on Friday called the growing practice of turning crops into biofuel "a crime against humanity" because it has created food shortages and sent food prices soaring, leaving millions of poor people hungry.

Jean Ziegler, who has been the U.N.'s independent expert on the right to food since the position was established in 2000, called for a five-year moratorium on biofuel production to halt the growing "catastrophe" for poor people.

Scientific research is progressing very quickly, he said, "and in five years it will be possible to make biofuel and biodiesel from agricultural waste" — not from wheat, maize, sugar cane and other food crops.

Using biofuels instead of gasoline in cars is generally considered to cut carbon dioxide emissions, which cause global warming, although some scientists say greenhouse gases released during the production of biofuel crops can offset those gains.

The use of crops for biofuel has become especially predominant in Brazil and the United States.

Have a tofu sandwich on hydroponically grown whole wheat and STFU

Last time I checked oil had gone from the $70's to $96+/barrel in a week and gold was over $800/oz. Hello? This means something. In the 1970's (while papers were also warning of a new ice age), we also had warnings of mass starvations in the third world, depopulated India and China yadda yadda...GUESS WHAT?
Today, while eco freaks (whose REAL objection is to humanity itself, ie, there are too many people around here) and world 'trufers' bitch endlessy about bioengineering crops (which I suppose they imagine are produced by Halliburton to turn minorities into morlocks by altering their genes) our need to transport EVERYTHING, and heat our homes is pouring dollars directly and by derivative to the 'charities' which buy Zelzals, Katyushas, Qassams, and Semtex, and pay for the madrassahs where racisms and west hate for any unbeliever is taught as piety, so that one day body parts of the kufr can be displayed because this is the will of god?

Oh yeah....that's fearmongering, I forgot.

Call it the anti-Guantánamo. Young Saudis are captured in Iraq waging jihad against the American infidels. But instead of being shipped off to a bleak detention camp in Cuba, they are dispatched to a cozy chalet an hour outside the Saudi capital of Riyadh. Technically it's a detention center, but no one is forced to wear an orange jumpsuit or a blindfold. And far from being condemned to solitary confinement, its occupants are free to roam the landscaped courtyard and play Ping-Pong, volleyball and video games.

Next time I slit someone's throat, remind to shout Allahu Akbar and wear my dishdasha ...

Welcome to the Care Rehabilitation Center, part of a three-year-old experiment to reform malleable minds who have fallen under the sway of Osama bin Laden's radical brand of Islam. To get here, jihadis have to demonstrate during a prison interview a readiness to rethink their extremist views. (About 20% of the 1,875 holy warriors invited to participate have refused.) The program, developed by a team of Islamic scholars, psychiatrists and sociologists, tries to convince these men of their mistakes and make them productive members of Saudi society, which has been rocked by terrorism: al-Qaeda attacks have killed 144 people there over the past four years. By not treating the detainees as criminals, the center seeks to avoid reinforcing their radicalism and turning them into role models for more jihadis.

Hey, maybe it's a 12 step program ..and they have to ask forgiveness from Deborah Burlingame

Although the perimeter is guarded by police, the facility feels like a country club or college campus. Detainees have lots of downtime and soda pop. They spend their days in vocational training, psychological counseling and classroom lectures, most of which are given by religious scholars from the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, including the center's director, Sheik Ahmed Hamid Jelan. He walks the detainees through religious texts on jihad--a theological minefield, considering that while the Saudi government forbids fighting in Iraq, it once recruited young Saudis like bin Laden to fight the Russians in Afghanistan. The basic difference, Jelan explains to his charges, is that fighting the Soviets served the interests of Saudi Arabia and the Muslim world, while struggling against the U.S. in Iraq does not. "We answer all the questions about al-Qaeda concepts by referring to the Koran and the message of Islam," says Jelan. "We have dialogue. They become convinced."

Poll: Nearly half think U.S. in recession

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Nearly half of Americans think the U.S. economy is in a recession — close to 46 percent of those surveyed in a new CNN-Opinion Research Corporation Poll out Thursday morning say the country’s economy is in a recession while 51 percent of those questioned say no.

The poll finds a major difference of opinion between black and white Americans — 69 percent of black Americans questioned in the survey say the country’s in a recession while only 42 percent of white Americans feel the same way.
According to CNN’s Ali Velshi, the National Bureau of Economic Research defines a recession as “a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales. A recession begins just after the economy reaches a peak of activity and ends as the economy reaches its trough. Between trough and peak, the economy is in an expansion. Expansion is the normal state of the economy; most recessions are brief and they have been rare in recent decades.”

The recession numbers may be having an impact on President Bush’s approval rating.

This is RANK PESSIMISM and can be attributed to leadership, or lack thereof.

I'm not interested in excuses either. I don't want to hear it. If the media is negative, it's up to the leadership to speak DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE, and get it figured out.

Hat tip to BARKING MOONBAT

Demonstration HERE 

Global Warming: now it hits brothels

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Brothel owners in Bulgaria are blaming global warming for staff shortages.

They claim their best girls are working in ski resorts because a lack of snow has forced tourists to seek other pleasures.

Petra Nestorova, who runs an escort agency in Sofia, said: 'We have hired students, but they are temps and nothing like our elite girls.'