The Big House? W.T. and (ale) all hear ye, yow wee...

I believe the DOj and my P&P minter/monitor, mint-julep "crank" (he was likable there for awhile) has sat on the veranda with beverages, much more macho-intoxicant than a mint julep.

I hate fist fights and war. The RWA is confoundedly drunk on water? What happened to them? You educators-taters help us Americans do a slow-gin-ginger walk with a cute wobble and pop bubble gum too.

Why, my unofficial [Disclaimer] suspicion, on any auspicious day at the Salon Wobble Site, is if 'um "conservatives" walk like a drunk duck, quack like a dead skunk, and smells like a rotten halibut's head, then you greet this maladministration.

W.T. and all, how you (ale) learn to think so well? I bet your computer table is loaded with dark porter, soda water, cocktails, rum, punch, gin slings, whiskey rye, ginger beer, pop, ale, hard cider, and all other meade compounds that make each read here sheer luxuriance...Its/It's...a Wobble Site.

How you stay outter' trouble and not fly to somewhere out yonder into the wild blue astronomical?

L.W.M. eloquently confronts a fifth-columnist ersatz anti-Republican:

"Piss off, Bucky
Either you are a goose-stepping tosspot, or you too stupid to know one when you see one. Either way, who needs ya?"

Wow. Don't you wish you could just cut off that little pissant tosspot's microphone like BillO does when he encounters anything that gives his brittle little mind the least ego dissonance?

Or crush Bucky under your foot like the little Nazi cockroach you've so brilliantly described him as?

How anti-authoritarian, again, do you consider yourself? More or less so than O'Reilly? It's difficult to tell.

Now, please don't succumb to your usual reticence like O'Reilly also does when someone has the temerity to question His Gigantic Knowingness & Righteousness.

Let. that. pus. out.

Ken Rogers

"Outward grace is dust" according to James Russell Lowell, but Mr. Lowell lied and said that the American people were therefore ready to discount outward grace:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/186509/lowell

The Atlantic Monthly | September 1865

Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865

by James Russell Lowell

VI.

Such was he, our Martyr-Chief,
     Whom late the Nation he had led,
     With ashes on her head,
Wept with the passion of an angry grief:
Forgive me, if from present things I turn
To speak what in my heart will beat and burn,
And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn.
     Nature, they say, doth dote,
     And cannot make a man
     Save on some worn-out plan,
     Repeating us by rote:
For him her Old-World mould aside she threw,
   And, choosing sweet clay from the breast
      Of the unexhausted West,
With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,
Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true.
      How beautiful to see
Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,
Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;
One whose meek flock the people joyed to be,
     Not lured by any cheat of birth,
     But by his clear-grained human worth,
And brave old wisdom of sincerity!
     They knew that outward grace is dust;
     They could not choose but trust
In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill . . .

This is bad poetry in several ways, and probably the worst way is the lie that people weren't "lured by any cheat of birth" (a pretty face).

Here are two photographs of Lincoln.

http://www.yale.edu/terc/democracy/may1text/images/Lincolnheads.jpg

On the left is a detail from a heavily retouched photograph that was distributed by Lincoln's campaign in 1860. On the right is a more honest image of Honest Abe. For decades after Lincoln's death, people were passing around the retouched photos and saying, "see, he wasn't as homely as his enemies said."

Maybe Lincoln would have been elected, anyway, if his campaign had been honest about his looks. Then again, maybe not.

The most famously handsome and empty headed president was Warren Harding. Harding was mostly lazy and unprincipled, and happily signed whatever the Republican congress wanted him to -- lowering taxes, raising tariffs, and restricting immigration. The only good thing about Harding was that, as a Republican, he was against the Dixiecrats and was therefore in a position to be against some of Woodrow Wilson's racist policies.

Romney could run as the "new and improved Harding, now with marital fidelity!"

Outward grace is dust, but it can still win elections.

Apologies to William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863).

He was a English gentleman, novelist, poet, and if reassembled into another human form today...[?]...he is probably a Salon reader? He gave scornful lectures on the imperial "Four Georges."

There was an inspired member in the audience one day who composed a 'diatribe'...apologies to Walter Savage Landor.

*I sing of George too (Two),

For Providence could stand no more.

Some say that for the worst

Of all the George's the worst was First.

And yet by some 'tis reckoned,

The worser was still George the Second.

And what mortal ever heard

Any good of George the Third?

Where in the world do these Georges on earth have descended,

Thank God the line of Georges ended.*

L.W.M. eloquently confronts a fifth-columnist ersatz anti-Republican: "Piss off, Bucky Either you are a goose-stepping tosspot, or you too stupid to know one when you see one. Either way, who needs ya?"

LaL: How anti-authoritarian, again, do you consider yourself? More or less so than O'Reilly? It's difficult to tell.Ken Rogers -- Libertarian at Large

Pomposity skewered! Mr. Rogers, welcome to the neighborhood.

Shooter... Hell, even liberal folks like Bucky get blasted for not following the party line sufficiently.

Bucky1 isn't a liberal, Shooter. He's about as welcome here as Dr. Mengele is at a pediatric hospital ward. We may tolerate you, I'm willing to tolerate the pompous and pretentious pedantry of Bucky's little friend, Ken. He doesn't know any better. But don't call Bucky1 a liberal. It won't fly. "Classical Liberal" or "Classical Liberalism" may be a term you'll find at Wikipedia but you won't find at The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Don't hold your breath, it won't be added anytime soon. This is nothing more than an analog of the libertarian habit of "spiritually baptizing the deceased" ( Locke, Smith, Paine, Jefferson, Spooner, etc) as libertarians because they "cannot protest the anachronism". Now that "conservative" is becoming a dirty word, everyone wants to be a liberal, but not just any old liberal, a "classical liberal" sounds better. Victor David Hanson wrote a column in 2005 August 26, 2005:

The Paranoid Style

Iraq: Where socialists and anarchists join in with racialists and paleocons.

"Such a strange, strange world we live in now of David Duke praising Cindy Sheehan's scapegoating Israel."

VDH is as prowar as any fascvist in Germany in 1939.

Some other Americans are as anti-war as any fascist sympathizer in America in 1939. That would be David Duke, not Cindy Sheehan. I'm not pro-war or anti-war. I'm anti-fascist.

Herman Hoppe and Lew Rockwell and many of their fellow travellers do not think the U.S. should have gotten involved in WWII. Some of them don't think we should have fought the Civil War. More than a few of them are a little too friendly with fascists for my taste. Hoppe is a fascist. This is all true:

http://rightwatch.tblog.com/archive/2007/02/

Hoppe has been embroiled in numerous controversies revolving around his racialist agenda. Each time he whines he is the victim of a smear campaign and that he is being distorted. Or he's misquoted. Or he's misunderstood.

Now Herr Hoppe has started his own intellectual group to meet every year as part of his campaign to turn libertarianism into some sort of mirror image of himself. He started a group to compete with the Mont Pelerin Society because that group, founded by Hayek and Mises, doesn't reflect the revisionist view of what pretends to be libertarianism in the Rockwellian camp. Hoppe founded the group and runs it. He is responsible.

So what kind of agenda does he have. He kicks off his 2007 conference with a slew of speakers promoting the intellectual inferiority of the darker races.

Hoppe has invited Volkmar Weiss to speak on "History as Cycles of Population Quality." Population quality? Weiss is part of the movement that is determined to prove the racial inferiority of certain races. On his web site he lists his areas of speciality as genetics, history of Saxony, anti-Semitism, national socialism, and twin research. He also says he's been a member of the editorial board of Mankind Quarterly since 1980. So for a quarter of a century he's been involved with this one publication with this interesting name.

The man who founded and controls this journal is Roger Pearson. Born in 1927 Pearson became politically active with white racialist and neo-nazi groups almost fifty years ago. In 1958 he founded the Northern League "to foster the interests, friendship and solidarity of all Teutonic nations". He brought in ex-Nazis and people like Ernest Sevier Cox, formerly of the Ku Klux Klan and author of White America. According to one source a past associate editor of the publication was Corrado Gini, a former advisor to Mussolini and the author of an article "The Scientific Basis of Fascism". Otmar von Verschuer was an editorial board member of Mankind Quarterly. He was also a mentor to Josef Mengele and more importantly he worked with Mengele at Auschwitz itself.

It can be verified by reading Hoppe's conference program here at his website:

http://www.propertyandfreedom.org/

From Wikipedia:

In 1958 Pearson founded the Northern League "to foster the interests, friendship and solidarity of all Teutonic nations." He recruited Hans Günther, who received awards under the National Socialist regime for his work on race, Ernest Cox of the Ku Klux Klan, and Dr. Wilhelm Kesserow, a former SS officer.

Pearson was brought to the United States in 1965 by Willis Carto of the Liberty Lobby, and contributed to some of Carto's publications, such as Western Destiny and at Noontide Press. At the end of the 1960s, he parted with Carto, and successively taught at Queens University, the University of Southern Mississippi and Montana Tech. During his tenure as dean at Montana Tech, Pearson received $60,000 from the Pioneer Fund.

In 1975, he left academics and moved to Washington, D.C., where he founded the Council on American Affairs. He also joined the editorial board of Policy Review, the monthly Heritage Foundation publication in 1977, but was forced to resign in 1978, after the Washington Post exposed Pearson's background following the 11th Conference of the World Anti-Communist League — which he chaired... Pearson acquired the peer-reviewed journal Mankind Quarterly in 1978. Pearson simultaneously took over as editor and has remained editor through to the present day, though his name has never appeared on the masthead. Pearson has used diverse pseudonyms to contribute to the journal including, J.W. Jamieson. Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele's advisor, Otmar von Verschuer, was on the editorial advisory board of this journal before his death in 1970...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Pearson