July 04, 2005
Happy 4th of July, Y'All!
Prescript: I am posting this as a comment over Kim du Toit's site. Kim is having some doubts. I will sprinkle in the hyperlinks as the day wears on. Happy 4th.
End prescript.
Sure is dark ... yup ... dawn ain't comin'.
Kim,
Let me be blunt: don't be a stupid fuck. Really. If ever we lived in revolutionary times, it is now. Before 2002 (or whenever), whoever heard of Kim du Toit? 7? 10? OK, maybe 35. How about in 2005? Well, Sitemeter says 5,291,497 (brainiacs can shut up now about multiple visits; I'm making a point).
I am going to yell now: IT IS NOT THAT WE ARE ENTERING THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE UNITED STATES AS WE KNOW IT; RATHER, IT IS THAT WE ARE ENTERING THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE NANNY/VICTIM/SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST/COLLECTIVIST STATE.
All because of the New Media.
We are regaining consciousness after 70-odd years of New Deal/Great Society/Identity Politics/Victimhood/Legacy Media crap. Having been beaten up so badly, it sucks to regain consicousness. Oh, the body (politic) hurts - badly. But get up we must. And the rehab must begin.
Without the New Media, the Ted Kennedys would have already had their day of victory in Iraq as the last American transport flew out the last American troops out of newly rerenamed Saddam International Airport.
Without the New Media, Tom Daschle would still be a Senator.
Without the New Media, we would never have heard of the Swiftvets.
Without the New Media, we would never have heard of the Arizona Minuteman project.
Without the New Media, the Arizona Minuteman project would have never existed.
Without the New Media, most Americans would still respect the UN.
Without the New Media, John Kerry would be president.
Without the New Media, the vast majority of us would never know the Tet Offensive for the decisive US victory that it really was (yes, thirty+ years later).
Without the New Media, we would never have heard about Demo voter fraud in East St. Louis, Milwaukee, and Seattle (and who knows where else).
Without the New Media, I would never have heard of James Lileks, Glenn Reynolds, Bill Whittle, Scott Johnson, John Hinderaker, Paul Mirengoff, Ed Morrissey, Stephen Green, Hugh Hewitt, Roger Simon, Charles Johnson, John Lott, Michael Yon, Eric Scheie, yadda yadda yadda, and of course Kim and Connie du Toit.
And, if ever there was a newly sharpened Number 2 pencil to your heart, without the New Media, Did Today would not exist.
So Kim, in these most interesting times, a glass I see as unmistakably, exuberantly half full, go ahead and take your half empty glass and leave. You will be forgotten in short order. Really.
Allah Is In The House. Who?
Or stay. And continue to be the leader you are and were born to be.
Let me state in complete, hand over the heart, Pledge of Allegience honesty: I have never been more sanguine and optimistic about the direction our beloved country is heading. I say this with the full awareness of your above-mentioned laundry list. The reason is so simple: the good Americans are talking amongst themselves, all because of the New Media. The 2/3 to 4/5 of citizens who may disagree about a lot of little things agree on the big things, which have as their umbrella, individual liberty.
The ship of state is not sinking. It is righting itself. God Bless America.
Kenneth Greenlee
PS: I bought a S&W Model 60 on (OK, a little after) BAGDay and never told you guys (Homer voice: Mmmmmmm .... my first gun). Thanks to Kim and the forum for helping me make the decision.
Posted by nopundit at July 4, 2005 10:52 AMHey Ken,
I liked your guy Kim's site a lot, some excellent advice about guns. I disagree with his verdict on the Glock 9mm (I just bought one!), but a self-described curmudgeon has to be allowed his curious opinions.
Also, as usual, I disagree with your fixation on stereotyped 'liberals' (any worry about a burgeoning theocracy?), but blah blah blah you know that already.
Hope you're staying above the flood water,
Charles
Which Glock? The NYPD police issue or the baby Glock? I forget the model #'s. My second gun will almost certainly be the baby Glock 9mm. Great conceal weapon, plus with an extra belt clip (gun on right, clip on left), one has 24 rounds for defense.
You know, it's interesting about theocracy. I am not at all worried about it, mainly because I believe there is a broad class of American who might be called a "secular christian". I am working up a bit of an essay on it. A secular christian, or small-c christian, is a Christian in deed, but not in faith. Or perhaps better put, perhaps a Christian of faith but not one espousing extreme fundamentalism or evangelicalism. Many, many Bush supporters are just this type of person. www.rogerlsimon.com is an agnostic Jew and Bush supporter. Kim and Connie du Toit are agnostics. At least one of the guys at www.powerlineblog.com is a Jew. www.vodkapundit.com is an agnostic I believe.
If you know me (and you do pretty well), I hunger for grand displays of freaks and homos. I want legalization (and strong resulting education peppered with appropriate, ie, very limited, regulation and taxation) of drugs, gambling, and prostitution. Consensual and/or victimless crimes as it were. But I also want a strong national defense, strong (yet selectively penetrable) borders, free trade, and free markets. Hardly a classical conservative.
I do not agree with Bush on many things: his border policy, his rampant expansion of government programs and spending, his stance on reproductive rights (yes, I am pro-choice, but as I grow older, I struggle for a workable definition of "indefensible" abortion. I am not happy about healthy babies, er, fetuses, being aborted three weeks from term. Thomas Sowell (you can find him at townhall.com), a staunch conservative, proposed an interesting solution: how about a brainwave test? Detect brainwaves, no abortion allowed. This is the direct and logical analog to the "death test"). But on national security, there was no choice, period. In today's world, no other issue trumps national security.
I gotta run. I've got an essay in the works on Africa as well.
Ken
Posted by: Kenneth Greenlee at July 7, 2005 06:35 PMCool about the essays! Keep writing!
The risk isn't so much that vast swaths of Americans _want_ a theocracy, or even that all Bush supporters want one, just that the Republican party, and especially Bush, is beholden to them. Hence the theatrics over Terri Schiavo, faith-based schooling/social programs/war justifications, the jury being 'out' on evolution (according to W), etc. They don't need your cooperation, just your complicity.
To me it also feels like '1776' sort of patriotism has largely been supplanted with this "with us or against us" sort of patriotism, that is: jingoism. Especially when anyone who questions the president is slandered as a traitor-liberal-blame-america-firster or some such. Believe me, I don't like that I equate red, white and blue ribbons with this sort of BS either. So many happy memories of July 4th and the Bicentennial ruined...
There's actually a Glock between those two, that's the one. Model 19 (http://www.glock.com/te_g19.htm). I was a little nervous about getting a Glock because they're such fucking bullet spewing machines (light trigger pull, internal hammer always cocked), but the price was right and they've got a good rep (even Kim had to give them some props between dishing them for being "pig-ugly" and "foreign made"). Plus mine came with two high-capacity clips :-D. Now I just have to wait six months for my fricking permit to go through...
nicfit212
(almost armed, almost dangerous)