mulegino's Comments (522)

“Yeah-avoiding WWIII is "elementary school justice" according to your Tom Clancy worldview of endless triumphalist interventionism. More and more people are waking up to the fact that this is ALL ABOUT Israeli hegemony in the greater Middle East and American dominance of Central Asia.”

“Everybody should know by now that a potential, probably fictitious nuclear weapons program is more dangerous to world peace than a real nuclear arsenal complete with ballistic missiles and boomers located at the very center of the Mideast cockpit.
It should be crystal clear that 2 and 2 sometimes make 5, that truth is a lie, that war is peace and that freedom is slavery for thus have I ever been told by MInitrue-and we are at war with Iraniraqistan. We have always been at war with Iraniraqistan. Posters of Saddam Osama bin Achmadinejad will be available for national hate week.”

“New rules for anti-proliferation:

1.If you have nuclear weapons and actually use them on defenseless civilians, that is alright, if you are the first.

2.If you develop a nuclear arsenal and refuse to acknowledge it, that's fine too, as long as it is a "secret" and you have enough "friends" in the U.S. Congress

3.If you develop your own nuclear weapon in open defiance of the "international community" that's okay too-if you are strong enough militarily, possess no valuable material resources and your dear leader is psychotic.

4. If you sign the NPT, cooperate to a certain degree, have no nuclear weapons, yet possess the potential to become a number 2 or 3, but declare you have no such intentions and are threatened by a number 2 with nuclear annihilation, then you are guilty in the eyes of the "international community" and must pay the price-lose your sovereignty, face crippling sanctions, regime change, or maybe even nuclear incineration.”

“So the Nynex building was damaged. Did it collapse on its own? Was its concrete turned into dust by a gravity collapse? Perhaps you can explain how building 7 collapsed, since the 9/11 Commission did not even attempt to do so.”

“Even the official narrative no longer contends that the planes impacts or the exploding jet fuel caused the collapse of both twin towers-the official legend is now that hydro-carbon based office fires weakened the structural steel enough to create a failure in the trusses which began to sag and caused the floors to collapse. The likelihood of this scenario unfolding in the real world approaches zero in a probabilistic sense.

A simple gravity collapse does not explain:

Why the towers exploded outwards, turning virtually all the non-steel materials into a fine (and toxic) powder, and with sufficient force to eject steel beams horizontally for hundreds of feet.

Why the towers both experienced instantaneous and universal support failure and collapsed in a symmetric fashion at a speed approaching free fall.

Why WTC-7, a 40 story steel and concrete skyscraper which was not hit by a plane and was only damaged by debris from the twin towers and had only a few isolated fires, collapsed at free fall speed into its own footprint later that afternoon in a manner virtually identical to buildings that undergo controlled demolition.

Why trace particles of unexploded nano-thermite have been found in the dust-debris from the WTC gathered from three different locations in lower Manhattan.”

“The Bush family and their lackeys have never failed to turn failure, wreckage, mediocrity and underachievement into big bucks and political hay.”

“A characteristic 180 degree distortion of reality "Israel defending itself..." Yeah, right. Iran represents no existential threat whatsoever to U.S. welfare recipient #1. Iran is a hindrance to U.S. dominance in Central Asia and the Persian Gulf and to Israeli hegemony in the greater Middle East, so that is why it must be villified, demonized, bullied and threatened with nuclear-ye­s-NUCLEAR-­annihilati­on at the hands of "the only democracy in the Middle East" by none other than that great humanitarian Benny Morris (no doubt speaking on behalf of the regime).
As the years go by, fewer and fewer people are being suckered into the myth of " brave little Israel under attack by Arab (now insert 'Persian') hordes who want to drive her into the sea."
The fact is that Israel has, even since 1948 always possessed military superiority over her adversaries thanks to military aid from the European nations-first Czechslovakia and France, now her (once) rich Uncle Sam.”

“As opposed to the nearly 1 trillion which went to Iraqi destruction, which was presumably well spent.”

“True-the Pilgrims were a rather radical offshoot of the Reformation and as such hated anything remotely "Papist".
However, they sublimated their rejection of art and song with book learning and industry, something quite typical of Middle Class Europe at the time.”

“You mean there were diseases before the White European Christians? Say not so! How can that be? Everyone knows that it was in white Christian Europe that everything from murder to sickness to theft to perfidy was invented! So says the ethnic studies department, and well, you just can't doubt the official narrative of unbiased, totally objective professors with virtually no axe to grind.”

“Modern art is the only genre of art whose creators are offended when a pile of crap is called a pile of crap.

Google: Sculpture made entirely of human excrement wins Latvian art prize”

“Please, you give Christian Europe too much intellectual credit! Those Nazified Europeans actually planned the "final solution" to the Indigenous American population by applying the principles of epidemeology, an as yet terra incognita of medical science-those crafty, blue eyed devils!”

“Precisely-the (Dutch Reformed Church?)Pilgrims were an offshoot of a fractured Christendom, but an offshoot none the less, and as such, were imbued with the intellectual curiosity which characterized the Western culture from the time of the pre-Socratic philosophers, through Plato, Aristotle, Philo Judaeus, Plotinus, St. Augustine, Origen, St. Cyril of Alexandria, St. Thomas Aquinas, Matteo Ricci, Nicholas Cusanus, Kepler, etc.-but in this regard, they were certainly preceeded in the new world by the Spanish, who founded the first 2 universities (in Mexico City and Lima) in the western hemisphere nearly a century earlier in the 1530's.
Nevertheless, to claim that the European colonists came to exterminate the indigenous population (via an application of the principles of the as yet unknown science of epidemiology) is simply absurd, since, in the case of the Spanish, the Portuguese and the French, such a thing was totally contrary to the missionary effort led by people like Zumarraga, De Las Casas, Marquette, Kino, Salvatierra, Junipero Serra, etc. who have been the subject of much vile calumny lately, inspired by the ludicrous fantasy that the indigenous peoples of the Americas lived in some pristine paradise in unity and gentle harmony, ruptured only by the advent of the predatory (and Christian) "white man". (Think of Cortez's alliance with the Tlaxaltecans against the bloodthirsty Aztecs)
Europe has her sins, no doubt, but it is likely that the victims of the 30 years war suffered far more than the native Americans.”

“Hopefully this is just a joke to show the abysmal depths to which the American public school system has descended. One embellished narrative myth (Pilgrims, Plymouth Rock, courage, piety, religious liberty) has given way to a farce that is a culturally suicidal, anti-Western wallowing in a masochistic self-incul­pation-the European, Christian "white man" destroying the "magnificent and gentle" indigenous culture (in this case the evil deed was accomplished via the as yet unknown science of epidemiology, no less)
Rousseau's absurdities about the "noble savage", as well as the viral upchuck of the Frankfurt School and its counter culture have created what can only be described as an anti-culture of stupidity, historical cluelessness, aesthetic and spiritual nihilism, which twists the facts, glorifies the ugly and the perverse, and disdains the beautiful, the good and the true.
Western Civilization, despite all its sins of commission and omission, despite all its wars of religion and colonialism is still the cultural high point of human civilization, and its best elements-such as classical music, art and architecture, legal concepts of inalienable rights, universal and abstract morality, social progress and economic and educational development-are more and more appreciated by those peoples up till now outside its sphere-yet discarded by the nihilists who are its chief beneficiaries.”

“How many people would rehire a mechanic who "initially" failed to repair their car, leaving it in worse shape than when they took it into the shop? How many patients would continue to see a physician who mis-diagnosed an acute appendicitis? The examples could go on ad infinitum, and this only goes to show how (possibly until now) slavish and sycophantic most of the members of congress have been vis a vis the pirates, privateers and economic hit men (to borrow a phrase from- who is it-Joseph Perkins?) who regularly condescend to them and baffle them with b.s. that is as pure as if it came directly in buckets from the Chicago stockyards. Prayerfully, hopefully, the majority of members of our august legislative branch who, up till now, have put Washington insiderism, the conventional wisdom, and the no doubt copious collection of re-election funds ahead of the interests of the U.S. and her citizens, will open their eyes, close their slack jaws and demand that the Fed either change its ways and act with the aforementioned interests in mind, or be abolished, expropriated, and consigned to the dung heap of history.”

“This shouldn't surprise anyone with a passing familiarity with the history of Israel-think of the Stern gang, the Irgun, the King David Hotel, Deir Yassin, the Lavon affair, etc. The problem with the settlers is they are pretty much open about their extremism. The Israeli regime is remarkably restrained with regards to these "extremists"-Baruch Goldstein may have had to spend his life in prison, but that hasn't kept his tomb from becoming a place of veneration for the "extremists" who, by the way, have their outspoken champion in Avigdor Lieberman.”

“The whole idea of limited government is about guaranteeing inalienable rights. The right to self-defense is acknowledged to be the first inalienable right. A government that mistrusts its citizens and deprives them of this means to self-defense is a fearful master and can itself not be trusted to guarantee any rights, as it has begun to think of those it governs as subjects, not as citizens. This is the one giant leap wherein a republic that is governed by the rule of law becomes a tyrrany governed by executive fiat.
The bottom line is this-there is no statistic that can compare with being confronted in one's own home by a criminal intruder and lacking any effective means of defense. What does the gun control lobby expect citizens to do-tell the intruder-"wait a minute while I call the cops. When you hear the siren outside, then you can start attacking me"?”

“First of all, because people on the Jacobin left have been brainwashed to attribute virtually all of the world's ills to something vague called "religion" in general, and Christianity in particular-and having an extremely limited historical perspicacity, think of Christianity chiefly in the context of the Inquisition, the Crusades, and the "extermination of native peoples" as if the intervening centuries between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Renaissance saw no civilizing of Western Europe, no birth of the universities, no flowering of philosophy, no magnificent art and architecture or music-no Augustines, no Dantes, no Thomas Aquinas, no Leonardo, no Palestrina, no Charpentier, no Nicholas Cusanus, no Abelard, no Dante, no Boccacio, no Rafaele, no El Greco, no Beato Angelico, no universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, Bologna, etc. Nope-it was just a bunch of "Jesus Freaks" sitting in caves, sharpening their spears and figuring out how to kill, maim and spread epidemics to "native peoples". Not to mention that a united Christendom under the suzerainty of the Bishop of Rome is the chief reason that most of those of European heritage do not heed the muzzein's call and bow toward Mecca thrice daily. Oh, and by the way, most of the Muslims I have known respect the symbols of Christianity much more than these sophomoric children of the Frankfurt School.”

“Just think-all the litany of complaints about "entitlement spending" such as medicare, social security, and health care in general leading to "unsustainable deficits" and yet congress, the administration and the networks will sit back and listen with slack jawed awe to any guy with stars on his shoulders talk glibly about dropping another 500 billion or so down a drain like the Afghanistan war.”

“Since everybody loves analogies drawn from 1938, Hillary is Neville Chamberlain on steroids.
Instead of his reserved and low key behavior, Chamberlain blows smoke from his pipe in Count Ciano's face for suggesting that both the Reich and Czechslovakia show restraint, hits Daladier over the head with his umbrella for bringing up the matter of the League of Nations, and cusses out the Czech delegation for making unreasonable demands with regards to silly things like international treaties and national sovereignty. At the end, he clinks champaigne (non-alcoholic, by the way) with the Austrian house painter, praising the former corporal's "unprecedented cooperation and good will in securing peace in our time."”

“It's time for the U.S. to either change its long standing policy-Israel first, without conditions, without regard for international law, without regard for regional stability and peace-or get out of the peace-making business altogether.
Honestly, how can any Palestinian leadership be so blind as to believe the U.S. is going to be an objective and "even-handed" broker of peace? Buying off some corrupt PA officials now and then with a relative bauble-when billions in direct aid, weaponry, not to mention complete and unconditional diplomatic and military support are given to the other side-would strain the patience of Job, much more so the patience of an expropriated, oppressed and besieged people.”

“Talk about needle in a haystack. Or maybe a palm frond in a dust storm. These miraculous 9/11 passports not only survived airline crashes, fires, building collapses and remain intact, but now they pop-up in remote regions of the far flung world in the fortuitous path of some Pakistani soldier. Maybe they can make another sequel to "The Gods Must be Crazy"-this time the bushman will find a 9/11 passport instead of a coke bottle.”

“As long as this nation spends more than all the nations of the world combined on "defense" and there are trillions of dollars in government largesse waiting to be dealt out by no more than a handful of congress members, then corruption is going to continue to be rampant with scores of dollars going round and round to lobbyists, "defense" contractors, RNC, DNC, back to the congressional "appropriator's" campaign coffers in that revolving door of Washingtonian insiderism, corruption, arrogance, impunity, waste and criminality.
The incipient menace that Eisenhower warned the nation about back in 1960 has grown into an insatiable LEVIATHAN, and unless the American people demand a paradigmatic change in American defense and foreign policy to where "defense" means "defense" and the national interest means "the interest of Americans" as opposed to the enriching of Grumman, Lockheed, Blackwater, KBR, Halliburton, Dyncorps, etc. to the detriment of the nation's decaying infrastructure and disappearing economy, then this is going to continue full steam ahead.”

“Good point, maybe even back to "Pony" League, with some shovels to clean up the mess.”

“This is obviously a ploy on the part of those crafty Iranians to deflect criticism from themselves onto the only peace loving democracy and U.S. best friend in the Middle East. How dare those Iranians cooperate with the IAEA? We must strike them immediately, before any further cooperation leads to, God forbid, an agreement!”