Archive for 2018
July 7, 2018
OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: Marxism didn’t die. It’s alive and well and living among us. New Labour was a triumph of the reborn left, made to seem like a takeover by the right:
I know of at least six members of the Blair cabinet who to this day would prefer not to talk much, if at all, about their days in the ranks of hardline Marxist organisations. People who now go into frenzies about the leftist past of Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have always ignored this aspect of New Labour and refuse to see any importance in it.
They should know better. It is not just me saying it, but the Blairites themselves. One New Labour apparatchik, Andrew Neather, has blurted out that his party had ‘a driving political purpose: that mass immigration was the way that the government was going to make the UK truly multicultural… to rub the right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date’. And another, Peter Hyman, quite recently averred that the Blairite project was ‘infinitely more revolutionary than anything proposed by Jeremy Corbyn’.
But that’s nothing. Tony Blair himself recently revealed on BBC Radio 4 that he had been a Trotskyist at Oxford. What would once have been a six-cylinder front-page revelation passed almost unremarked. Like the dim MI6 operatives in Tinker Tailor, we’ve been elaborately fooled into believing the opposite of the truth, that Marxism has disappeared and offers no threat to our happiness and liberty, even as we moan about the strange and humourless restrictions on free speech and thought that grow in our midst like knotweed. How did that happen? Think of me as George Smiley, trying to tell you what’s really going on.
In America, our celebrity community organizers like to call it “fundamental transformation.”
CIVIL WAR TWO WILL BE LIT: I stopped going to the gym because of Trump. Now I can’t open jars.
JUST THINK OF THEM AS DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES DOING BATTLEFIELD PREP FOR NOVEMBER, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Associated Press Provably on a Mission to Slander Trump Administration.
HOW SOCIALISM CAN RUIN YOUR LIFE.
OH, TEH GRAUNIAD NEVER CHANGE: The Guardian fan-girls over yet another Clinton – by Amanda S. Green.
AND BY THE WAY, AMANDA HAS A NEW BOOK OUT: Fire from Ashes.
At war with an old enemy, betrayed by a supposed ally, Fuercon is a system on the brink of disaster. All that stands between it and defeat are its Space Navy and Marines – and the fact the betrayer does not yet know its secret plans have been discovered. But will that be enough to turn the tide of war?
Honor and duty.
Honor and duty have guided Colonel Ashlyn Shaw’s life for as long as she can remember. Honor kept her sane when she was betrayed by those she had fought beside. Duty gave her reason to trust again once the betrayal came to light and her name, as well as the names of her fellow Devil Dogs, was cleared. Now she and the Marines under her command are once again asked to risk their lives to protect Fuercon from its enemies.
Family and the Corps.
They are why she fights. She knows what will happen to them should Fuercon fall to the Callusians. Their lives are worth any sacrifice she must make to help keep their homeworld safe.
Betrayal.
The not-so-secret driving force of Ashlyn’s life. Four years ago, someone betrayed her and her command. That person now works to betray Fuercon. Ashlyn is determined to discover who – and why – and bring them to justice.
The storm clouds of war gather and time is running out. Will Ashlyn and the Devil Dogs be able to turn back the enemy and unmask the betrayer before all is lost?
PULL THE OTHER ONE. IT PLAYS JINGLE BELLS: Study: U.S. Makes List of Top Ten Most Dangerous Countries for Women.
ANOTHER EFFECTIVE USE OF FIREARMS: ‘I had to do what I had to do,’ says Dallas mom who shot man trying to steal SUV with kids inside.
EFFECTIVE USE OF FIREARMS: Florida Girl Saved From Gator By Shot From AR-15.
WORTH CONSIDERING: We Hold These Truths…
HONESTLY? CREATIVITY IS DEAD ON THAT SIDE TOO: Liberals and the Death of Comedy.
IT’S NOT A MISFIRE WHEN YOU LIE ON PURPOSE: AP Misfires in Bombshell Report On the Army Discharging Immigrants.
NO ONE NEEDS AN AMENDMENT TO PROTECT THEIR RIGHT TO PRAISE WHAT NO ONE OBJECTS TO: First Amendment Guarantees Your Right To Be A Flaming Jerk.
ORRIN HATCH ON KENNEDY’S REPLACEMENT: “I will lift heaven and earth to see the president’s nominee across the finish line.”
OPEN THREAD: Don’t be shy.
I WAS EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Hundreds of never-before-seen nuclear blast videos show terrifying explosions in the ocean and Nevada desert.
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: “Now Monty Python Is Racist or Something.”
I remember a post on political correctness by the late Steven Den Beste around 2003 and 2004; Den Beste mentioned that fortunately, Monty Python were safe — they were grandfathered in. Until they weren’t.
Earlier: Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam on the BBC’s Diversity Push: ‘I’m a Black Lesbian.’
SHAVING YOUR HEAD HAS FEWER SIDE EFFECTS: Hair Loss Drugs Linked To Depression And Erectile Dysfunction. A friend of mine who’s kind of buff and recently gave up and shaved his head says he’s never gotten so much attention from women, and to be honest my first thought on seeing him was that he looked more than a little like Jason Statham. “I wish I’d done this years ago,” he said.
AT AMAZON, save in Arts, Crafts, and Sewing.
CALLS FOR MORE RESEARCH: Could HPV Vaccine Treat Skin Cancer? Case report shows complete disease regression following injections.
A novel treatment for squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) using HPV vaccine could some day prove useful in patients who are poor surgical candidates, have multiple lesions, or who defer surgery, researchers reported.
A single case report of an elderly woman with multiple, inoperable cutaneous basaloid SCC, showed that systemic and direct intratumoral injection of 9-valent HPV vaccine resulted in complete regression of all cutaneous malignant tumors, according to Anna J. Nichols, MD, PhD, of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, and colleagues.
All tumors resolved 11 months after the first injection of vaccine, they reported in JAMA Dermatology.
No systemic adverse effects were reported, they added, and at the patient’s last follow-up visit 24 months after the first intratumoral dose of the HPV vaccine, there was no clinical evidence of SCC recurrence.
I hope it turns out to be as good as this sounds.
AUSTRALIAN JOURNALIST STOPS GOING TO THE GYM. GETS WEAK. BLAMES TRUMP.
All the best people have assured me that Trump was “literally Hitler,” and everyone on the left fancied themselves the equivalent of the French resistance. Shouldn’t she be pumping iron like mad, Sarah Connor-style?
UNEXPECTEDLY: Dems blast booming jobs report, Trump worker agenda, ‘reckless.’
Related: The U.S.’ Colorblind Jobs Boom Under Trump Continues: “It may be a surprise, but President Trump is nowhere near as unpopular among minority voters as the biased mainstream media suggest. Why is that? In a word, jobs.”
Hence the “reckless” freakout.
FLASHBACK: The Spirit of ’76: Lincoln Continental Mark IV, When Blass Was Class. I remember how luxurious these seemed when I was a kid. In retrospect, I think this was the last Lincoln to really feel like a luxury car.