I remember telling a co-worker in 1980, “This generation belongs economically to Japan, and militarily to the Soviet Union. The next generation belongs economically and militarily to Communist China.” Obviously I was mistaken about Japan and the USSR. I may still be right about Communist China. The average IQ of the Chinese seems to be higher than the average IQ of Americans. There certainly are a lot more Chinese. In order to counter the possible threat of Communist China the United States should cultivate friendlier relations with countries that have more to fear than we do from an aggressive, expansionistic Communist China. These countries include India, Russia, Mongolia, Vietnam, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan. Unfortunately, the Bush Administration has reduced respect and affection for the United States throughout the world. President Bush’s incompetent command of the War in Iraq makes it clear that the United States can lose a war. After the Gulf War and the War in Bosnia the U.S. military seemed undefeatable.
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If you own your home, mortgage free, and if you derive your income from rent, interest payments, and dividends, you benefit from a high rate of immigration. If you rent a place to live and work for a living you pay the price.
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Immigration is an issue that divides the economic elite of both parties from the rank and file. When limousine liberals think of immigrants they think of the Statue of Liberty, “huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” and so on. Rich Republicans think of becoming richer Republicans, because that is what a high rate of immigration enables them to do. By the law of supply and demand a high rate of immigration lowers wages and increases prices, especially the price of a place to live. As a result, it raises profits.
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Prove it.
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every point you made, except with respect to the depreciating dollar, is factually incorrect.
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July 5, 2008
China's Interest in Driving Japan and U.S. Apart
Edmund Burke (May 29 at 10:49 PM)
10 years ago, I predicted that China would constitute the greatest threat to the United States of the 21st century. Today, the world is slowly awakening from its naieve slumber, although it is unclear whether we will have stood up and cleaned the goop out of our eyes before the PRC delivers the knock-out blow.
Today, I make another prediction. Notwithstanding 100 years of hatred, the Chinese have taken the first step in what will ultimately prove to be a concerted and well-organized attempt to drive a wedge between the United States and Japan (the United States' greatest ally in the Pacific, and arguably in the World).
Read this article, and ask yourself if China really needs the Japanese Military's assistance to deliver blankets to cold Chinese citizens. Of course it doesn't. The Chinese government is one of the wealthiest in the world. It has the largest standing army in the world. It does not need to solicit the Japanese to fly thousands of miles and spend millions of dollars to deliver blankets to remote portions of China.
The above article was situated on page A9 of the WSJ. It was there because few people "see" its significance, and, more importantly, the WSJ's editors did not see its significance (more on this in another post re: Rupert Murdoch the destroyer of editorial brilliance). It should have been on the front page.
Have you been watching the NOVA series entitled "Carrier"?
Watch it. As I have been saying for three years, we are winning this war in Iraq. We are winning it and I question if there was ever a moment when we were not winning it. It is the one bright spot in this world, the one event that symbolizes the confluence between right and divine-like effort. It's a powerful statement by many Americans who have declared "this is right, we will fight even when all about us are losing their heads and blaming it on us."
In the distant future, when our time has come and gone, and the human condition is of another sort, people who descend from us will remember and study this war. They will understand that it was different. They won't talk about oil, money or economics; they won't talk about religion (except to the extent that violent Islam may be defeated); they will note, however, that only the United States had a history of fighting and dying (at enormous cost) for the wellbeing of others and for the protection of the ideas of civilization . . . when few others dared, or had the strength to make a difference.
I must tell you about my office mate. This person is new, different. He is the culmination of the political movements of the 20th century. He is NOT a liberal but he was created by the liberals. They cannot control him, but their hubris leads them to believe he is controllable. Soon his kind will predominate. He is a creature driven almost purely by appetite and not at all by reason, yet he wears the mask of reason and pretends it is his ally. If the United States is finished, his kind will stand atop the tombstone of civilization chanting and hopping and foaming at the mouth.
Tonight, Charlie Rose has devoted his entire hour to an interview with that scumbag/sleaze ball/slime head, Bill Clintoon. (PBS is always consistently dedicated to its primary anti-American purpose.)
Does anybody with integrity really care what Bill Clintoon has to say? Does anybody with a brain have any interest in Slick Willie's views?
Only those who want to re-elect him, contrary to the Constitution, so that as "First Husband" he can have another go round at destroying America.
So, now we have 3 blacks and a Latino arrested for the burglary/murder of Washington Redskin, Sean Taylor. What conclusions can we draw about race and violent crime?
White people, too, commit horrendous crimes. Hitler was white; Charley Manson is white. But the sad fact is that in the United States in 2007 most violent felonies and most murders are commited by members of an inferior subculture that is Black and Latino. That is not a biological inevitability; rather it is a sociological consequence of the Left's countenancing and rationalizing such criminal behavior for decades as "racism" and the natural consequence of "economic and legal injustice."
Bunk, I say. Kill the murderous felons, Black, White, and Latino; stop romanticizing and protecting the criminal underclass. Build more prisons and mandate the death penalty for murder which, science now proves, saves lives.
Buchanan as Monday-Morning Quarterback; an Unlikely Role
TH (Nov 30 at 03:59 PM)
Buchan's simplistic analysis of President Bush's tenure - at least with respect to the War - surprises me. He could be correct that "democratism" was Bush's undoing. Blindly following an ideology has "undone" a lot of people. But the war in Iraq is much more than that. Only a simpleton or a disingenuous political analyst would argue that Iraq was about "Democracy" - As if purple thumbs and dimpled chads equals success. That argument is about as hackneyed as the argument that the war was about Oil (approximately $95 / barrel).
President Bush understands better than most that the peace and prosperity of the future is determined by the actions of and ideas held today. The war in Iraq might ultimately turn out to be a panacea for the Middle East, and a blessing for the U.S., precisely because it is creating new Ideas both there and across the world.
We should have gone to war in Iraq, irrespective of nuclear weapons, today's terrorists or oil. We need to win the battle of ideas and we are doing that. Counter-intuitively, the enormous confusion that defines the way we think about Iraq, the United States, and President Bush in particular, reflects this point. So profound is the confusion, that some vehemently argue that the world hates the United States more than ever before. Really? How can one know this? It is utter confabulated nonsense, driven primarily by two things: (1) those who hate the United States are "louder" now; (2) those who purport to understand popular sentiment improperly weigh the "loudness" of the America haters.
In reality, there are fewer America haters than there have ever been. I know this because it doesn't make sense and it isn't easy to hate America - thus precluding much of even the irrational America hatred. Arguing that the world hates the U.S. is the figurative equivalent of arguing that people hate air-conditioning, food, walls, and roofs. Do the Mexicans swarming across the border hate the U.S.? Do the Indonesians who received tremendous financial and logistal aid from the U.S. hate the stars and stripes? Do the Japanese, South Koreans, Canadians, Taiwanese, British, South Africans, Australians and innumerable others, who send trillions of dollars in investments to our shores, despise America? A little common sense quickly debunks the argument.
Ultimately the America haters are shrieking loudly, as President Bush smashes the remaining life out of them. Some view the extra noise as an indication of greater numbers; ironically, the opposite is true.
Buchanan touches on one interesting point; but, I add, he touches on it only by confusing it with the Bush's motive for war. Is the world ready for Democracy? No. Much of it may never be. President Bush errs to the extent that he thinks we can "democratize" Iraq and the world - if he thinks that at all. Bush is, however, remarkably prescient and insightful in his grasp of the importance of ideas. Unlike that fool Jared Diamond, who thinks that history is determined by the location of iron ingot, bacterium and saltpeter, intelligent men "see" that ideas have defined the course of human events. The Middle East was and is a breeding ground for confused human beings, many of whom have been indoctrinated with the wrong ideas and who are now irredeemably dedicated to the destruction of civilization. The United States is a proxy for civilization. It is the proxy for civilization. Hence, the America-haters direct their nefarious and explosive (pun intended) efforts towards us because they have been bred with the wrong ideas. President Bush went over to that pot of shit with a huge spoon, started stirring, and threw in some new ingredients. Ever since, the Monday morning quarterbacks, Buchanan included, have conflated "change" with "bad," forgetting that "bad" already predominated.
These are tumultuous times, and only the most lucid tactical visionaries understand where we might be headed. The rest is noise espoused by charlatans. And, there is a lot of noise.
* I note that Buchanan threw in a one-liner, unrelated to the rest of his article, in which - only partially tongue-in-cheek- he laments the approaching parity of the U.S. dollar and the Mexican peso in support of his argument that free trade is bad for the United States. This is incorrect, but must be the subject of another post.
I am watching the GreenBay Packers vs. Dallas Cowboys game tonight. It is on NFL TV.
This is my first exposure to that cable network. Bryant Gumbell does play-by-play for them and for this game.
He is awful. His voice is far too weak for sports announcing (it sounds like one of those shallow voice-overs that are done for already played games.) Gumbel is also highly opinionated but patently ignorant of football, and, finally, he is obviously reading, robot-like, from a newscasters canned script in his commentary about players and teams and analysis of events.
In short, Gumbel is every bit as bad a sports announcer as he was a newscaster/TV Today Show host.
He was and remains a perfect example of the evil of affirmative action which elevates race over talent.
America's pre-eminent living conservative politician is right about everything
pukka luftmensch, esq. (Nov 27 at 10:07 PM)
Whether one is concerned about national security/national defense, immigration, education, social security/medicare, the falling dollar, the Black underclass, the Republican fraud of "free trade," the unholy alliance between the Bush Administration and the Anti-American DemocRat Party on many of these issues, or the survivability of America, Pat Buchanan is spot on.
Montezuma will get his revenge through the DemocRats open border
pukka luftmensch, esq. (Nov 26 at 09:17 PM)
All the Republican candidates are for a closed Mexican border and strict enforcement of immigration laws. They base their stands on matters of national security and cultural preservation.
All of the DemocRat candidates stand for lax immigration enforcement and open borders. They welcome Illegalatinos because an explosion in the welfare state means more votes.
How to staunch the cultural wound and stop the intellectual and moral bleeding
pukka luftmensch, esq. (Nov 21 at 08:24 PM)
Americans are becoming more illiterate as the rates and levels of educational achievement rise. It would appear that, in post-modern America, cultural illiteracy and education are inversely related.
What to do?
First, kill all the schools of education and journalism. Then, outlaw the National Education Association and all public teachers' unions. Third, provide vouchers for all public school students who wish to attend a private school.
The public education system in America is the biggest, most destructive monopoly in U.S. history.
Break it apart, open the doors of education to the powerful cleansing, healing forces of competition, and never again allow the social cancer of the public teachers' unions to form, grow, and metastisize.
Language skills, intelligence, and a meaningful education: what journalism schools ignore
pukka luftmensch, esq. (Nov 19 at 10:27 PM)
So I'm watching CSPAN tonight, and I witness this reporter ask a General of the U.S. Army in Iraq, "Do you know where the status of this plan is right now?"
Next to the recent and on-going treason-like behavior of the DemocRat Party, the pervasive, infectious influence of the criminal Black underclass is America's gravest long-term problem.
Frankenstein's Offspring
TH (Sep 20 at 11:34 AM)
The Nation of Islam, and its treacherous ideological foot-soldiers with their smug sunglasses and their gangster pinstripe suits, have descended upon the small town of Jena, Louisiana, to spread their message of hate, intolerance, racism and, ultimately barbarianism.
These people are the byproduct of the rational engineer's new society; having swept away the institutions and traditions, as well as the venerable common law that served to guide the behavior of civilized people everywhere, the liberal should take full credit for this breed of quarter-wit barbarian.
And credit he will take, for the liberal has yet to concede that his century-long experiment on the hearts and minds of men has failed miserably. He sees, undoubtedly, the Nation of Islam, Al Sharpton et al. as the purveyors of justice, the apostles of the great leveling, the liberators of the anachronistic mind that is currently jailed by the abovementioned customs, traditions and common law; but, he is woefully mistaken. These descenders-on-Jena are a Frankenstein of endemic proportions, created by the self-righteous and "enlightened" masters of the rational society, imbued with the ideological tools of claim and right, they claim to destroy the rights of us all.
Let us not forget: attempted murder charges are rightfully leveled when a defendant attempts to murder. The victim's eyeballs have blood clots, so says his mother. But he is white, and they are African 'Americans,' counter the re-engineers and, accordingly, he represents the alleged criminal racism of generations past for which someone must account; why not him
Law and order and responding to rationally perceived indicia of threat
pukka luftmensch, esq (Nov 16 at 08:10 PM)
The LAPD - the only police force in the U.S. that understands how to deal with the criminal underclass (when you find a big spider or cockroach in your kitchen, you don't try to capture it, you beat the hell out of it with a shoe) - is thwarted in what would be a great idea to launch nationwide.
When Al Gore departed the Vice President's mansion in January, 2001 many considered him a broken man, financially strapped and clueless as to how to survive financially in the real world of econmic competition. What was missed in the early post-politics assessment of his prospects was that Gore would never really leave the world of politics, but, rather, would simply enter into political arenas where he could deploy his political skill to the self-serving goal of raking in dollars as surrogates for votes. What was missed was the incredible capacity of the "Gorely Man" for self-promotion and deception and the limitless desire of the Left to be deceived and to pay handsomely for the pleasure of being misled.
Today, Gore is an incredibly wealthy man who stands to become a great deal richer as a result of his environmental demagoguery.
But Gore, most assuredly, is not a true environmentalist. Gore is, rather, a crypto Monty Byrnes. He is but a devious Once-ler peddling useless Sneeds in order to enhance his fortune. And, most sadly, Gore is a man whose personal greed has done incalculable long-term harm to the causes of environmntal protection and nature conservancy.
Yet, Gore, the Nobel Laureate, is also a cowardly intellectual fraud who is afraid to debate experts who might expose his felonious hawking of needless Sneeds.
Doing so will help enhance and expand a beautiful wilderness area in the Teddy Roosevelt National Park, named after America's only authentic conservationist politician.
Why would any American business or any American concerned about the long-term prospects of America in the face of a dire threat of Democ-Rat anti-capitalist, anti-growth, anti-employment, anti-human/Green House Gases legislation hire this law firm?
Who are their clients? Greenhouse gas/alternative energy investors and corporate beneficiaries?
Do NIxon Peabody partners get 2 toilet tissues per trip to the law firm john and the associates only one?
The innate, biological, evolutionary importance of prejudging threats
pukka luftmensch, esq. (Nov 7 at 08:34 PM)
Why should an investigation be launched about a goverrnment employee who, in his Halloween party costume, creatively portrayed the actual fact that most prisoners and most dangerous felons are from the culturally inferior Black underclass?
WOW! If only the DemocRats who hypocritically applauded that statement of fact had the political, economic, and moral insight to actually believe it and the strength of character to actually say it.
Tonight, on Hannity and Colmes a guest professor from Fresno State U in California said that the ongoing brush fires in southern Cal have already contributed to Greenhouse Gases the equivalent of 1/3 of all the automobiles that traverse California's highways annually.
The Left, as it has always done, continues to destroy the very environmental and life values that it has always so hypocritically, falsely promoted.
You see, the California out-of-control fires are the sole result of eco-terrorists (motivated, possibly, by Al Gore-type rhetoric about saving the planet from capitalism) and Al Gore-type environmental wackos who, in California (as with the tree-huggers in Montana's horrendous forest fires last year) have steadfastly opposed any serious attempt to clear cut the underbrush chapparal. Indeed, these wackos have forced legislative restrictions on the capacity of California homeowners even to control the chapparal on their own property.
Tonight on CNN Glen Beck has two guests who are debating whether the arson that ignited the California brush fires are aL Qaeda or the Environmental Liberation Front.
I say that they are the same forces and that Al "Qaeda" Gore is among their principal faciitators.
That is to say: Al "Qaeda" Gore spreads very harmful, indeed, incendiary, globally-destructive environmental and political lies and half-truths masquerading as eco-facts and that his goal in doing so is to set a torch to the economic well-being and destroy the foundation of Western Civilization.
Was that not the tactic and goal of aL Qaeda in destroying the World Trade Center? Is that not the goal of the arsonist conspirators, ELF?
There is but one difference between Al "Qaeda" Gore and ELF and al Qaeda: Gore and what he stands for is far more dangerous than either of those armed enemies of civilization.
I have written many times about the mentally and morally challenged Alan Colmes of Fox Cable's "Hannity and Colmes."
Whatever he says, Colmes always confirms my conclusion: Colmes, while not a bad man, nevertheless, is the most intellectually stunted and morally deformed of human beings. (Can we blame his environment?)
Tonight, on Hannity and Colmes, "Sad Alan" was interviewing two survivors of the Malibu forest fire that is destroying the homes of the rich and famous. "Sad Alan" interviewed a husband, who fled his burning home in one car, and his wife, who fled the deadly fire in a separate car. Each spouse related to "Sad Alan" how their cars caught fire and exploded in the middle of their harrowing flights of escape.
At that very point, as each of the spouses told of their near-death experiences, of their harrowing escapes in cars that were engulfed in flames and blocked by explosons, "Sad Alan" asked (I KID YOU NOT),
"How did you decide what personal belongings to take with you when you fled your home?"
Indeed, they are the essential cause, the truly guilty perpetrators of the very hate and violence that they hypocritically purport to oppose but gleefully support and incite.
Judges, Journalists, and the Decline of Civilization.
pukka luftmensch, esq. (Oct 18 at 09:14 PM)
I submit that the deplorable state of the judiciary and the loathsome state of the "profession" (sic) of journalism are social forces directly linked to the decline of American civilzation, theretofore, the greatest civilization the world had known. I could write a book exploring my thesis, but, alas, in deference to the brevity of life, will but cite an example from today's news.
My case study involves yet another lamentable, legally ridiculous example of lilly-livered Leftists on the Bench overturning our constitution, this time by staying the execution of a "Monster" who bashed in the brains of a father of two small children so the Monster could rob the victim and buy crack cocaine. The Monster was, until the Supreme Court itervened, scheduled to die by lethal injection, a death penalty procedure invented and refined solely in response to Leftist demands that the death penalty be made "humane" for monsters (Ha Ha!!!)
To paraphrase what the brother of the victim said upon learning of the Supreme Court's "Do-Gooder" stay of the Monster's execution, "He should die like my brother died (his brain smashed in). How can he (the Monster) complain that lethal injection is cruel and unusual."
Who could posiibly disagree, except those cruel and unusual minions who are rooting for and pushing for the death of the greatest civilization the world has known?
In reporting this story about a cruel and unusual reprieve for a Monster, a "professional journalist" wrote:
"The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday halted Virginia's execution of a man who murdered a co-worker just hours before he was to be put to death."
I used to think that journalists were merely mis-educated people who studied too much the mundane process of reporting and the elementary technique of pedestrian writing while learning nothing of substance during their mis-spent college careers. Yet, more and more, I see the destruction of language at the hands of these educational miscreants.
Logic, language, and the perception of reality are inextricably linked. The demise of language at the hands of journalists is, like the destruction of law at the hands of judges, a woeful predicament.
The convergence of such destructive forces is a national disaster.
Just before Hillary Clinton's new "advisor," the scofflaw, Sandy "Big Underpants" Berger, became the National Security Advisor to Bill and Hillary Clintoon in the early 1990's, he actually applied to me for a law job. I had a client at the time that had need of unelected "Congressional representation," Washington style. On my client's behalf, I was searching for just the right influence peddler. At the time, Bill Clintoon had been elected President but had not yet taken "orifice."
Sandy Berger's and his law firm came up on my talent search screen, so I invited him to my office for an interview. In effect, I had, unbeknownst to me, the opportunity at that time to meet the future National Security Advisor of the Clintoon Administration and to evaluate his qualifications even before the Clintoons decided that Berger was qualified to protect the national security of America.
During his job interview, I listened to Sandy's canned pitch as to all the Congressmen he knew (Democrats) and all the special lobbying maneuvers he could take to solve my client's legislative problem. After 20 minutes, I ended his job interview, and Berger left my office. He was not hired by my client for its lobbying job, but he went on, immediately thereafter, to far far greater career heights than the mere pedestrian lobbying challenge presented by my client's Congressional problem. Berger went on to prove the "Peter Principle," that an aggressive careerist will rise to his level of incompetence
I'll never forget my amazement shortly after Berger's job interview with me in hearing the news that the Clintoons had named him as their National Security Advisor. The rest of the story, that of Sandy Berger's consistent ineptitude in matters of national security and his disgraceful criminal behavior, is but sad history, now.
Except this: that day, in the very early 90's, years before the world would discover what an incompetent, criminal scum bag Berger is, after Berger left his interview in my law firm offices I turned to my office manager and said, "Who would hire that guy to do anything important?"
While Bill says she is the funniest candidate out there, others with a unique perspective on her leadership potential see special qualities in Lady Clinton.
I'm beginning to understand why Hillary is the front-runner for the party of ant-Americanism.
The Religious Right is a large group of stupid fools
pukka luftmensch, esq. (Oct 8 at 09:35 PM)
James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family and the principal public spokesman of the conservative Christian community in America is a highly literate, spiritually inspiring, morally courageous person. I have admired him greatly for 20 years.
He is also, I have just discovered, a narrow-minded, politically naive, self-righteous fool!
Tonight, on \\\"Hannity and Colmes\\\" Dobson vowed to oppose all of the major contenders for the Republican presidential nomination on \\\"moral\\\" grounds, and he threatened to support a third party movement in the general election should Giuliani, Thompson, Romney or McCain receive the Republican nomination.
Dobson also denied, incredibly, the factual reality that if the religious right abandons the Republican Party Hillary Clinton, who is pro-abortion and pro-gay marriage, will be the next President. That, in turn, will mean that the Democrats will be able to nominate Justices to the Supreme Court and to support legislation that will assuredly harm for decades, if not irreparably, Dobson\\\'s overriding causes of family values and the right to life.
Excuse me! I am old fashioned. I continue to belleve that words have rational meaning, that language and the tireless dedication to reason shape intellect, and that the accelerating atrophy of the English language and the force of reason will guarantee the demise of history's grandest intellectual, spiritual, and moral culture, Western Civilization as embodied and advanced by 18th-20th century America.
Thus, you might imagine my chagrin, tonight, on hearing a TV commercial during the American League baseball playoff game between the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Angles telecast on TBS. The commercial was by the international insurance conglomerate, AIG. It was about economic security of the elderly and financial well-being during old age.
The AIG commercial declared, "Remember! Never outlive your money. AIG."
Is that not a perfect convergenge of the irrational, counter-cultural force of intellectual ignorance and the destructive, anti-social power of hedonistic solipsism?
Sorry, kids; sorry America! We only go 'round once. I cannot afford to leave a legacy.
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