Whatsthatsmell?

A Fantastic Rant by

Roger Gardner of Radarsite:

...For at least two generations now we Americans have been taking it on the chin from ignorant, self-righteous student activists and disillusioned psuedo-intellectuals brought up on that pervasive academic witches brew of those Marxist-driven, Moscow coordinated sanctimonious and cynically manipulated student protest movements of the 60s. We -- and you -- are now living with the bitter fruits of their destructive labors. Cynicism and disillusionment have become a refined art form throughout Old Europe and the UK, the motley uniform of the latest anti-capitalist, anti-American, antiwar avant-garde...

Read the whole thing...(H/T A Western Heart)

I've had a few debates where I wish I could have displayed anywhere near the amount of erudition and coherence Roger expressed in his rant.

At Long Last, It's Finally Here:

Geert Wilders' notorious Fitna film (H/T to Laban Tall):

My How Times Change

Did you see Newsnight last night?  Wow...

About 14 minutes in, Jeremy Paxman begins a debate between Douglas Murray (noted British Neoconservative and all-round good egg in the intellectual debate over the Islamisation of European society) one one side, and, on the other side, the extremely PC Bishop of Hulme (who likes using the word Islamophobia a lot) and the world's most dangerous Islamist, Tariq Ramadan. 

Ramadan is so bad that even the French and the Canadians won't give him a visa.  Of course, why get a French or Canadian visa when you can get a professorship at Oxford, eh?

Ramadan talks a good, peaceful game as an urbane modern intellectual, and constantly speaks of modernising Islam.  A few people have stated, however, that Ramadan does not fall into the camp that wants to modernise Islam, but that he wants to Islamise modernity.

I had made some observations about the welcome Ramadan was given by Paxman almost exactly two years ago on Newsnight.  It appears from the debate last night that Paxman has been doing a little bit of research.

This is one of those times where one can honestly see Paxman taking sides.  And he helps Murray to pwn both Hulme and Ramadan.

One of the things you can say about Paxman, despite his working for a problematic organisation like the BBC and perhaps some of his supposed positions, he is intensely patriotic.  For proof, I highly recommend his extremely readable The English.  That patriotism came to the fore last night.  (I would be interested to read his memoirs when he finally does retire to see what he really thinks of the bias of the organisation he works for.)

Anyway, we were happy to watch it.  I think the link I put up is good through Monday.

As one leader (Romney) shows his heart...

another leader shows his ass...

I have an e-mail out to my church's treasurer asking him if anything I donate makes its way to supporting the Archbishop of Canterbury.  If it does, I think I'm going to have to find another home for that money.

UPDATE: Money given at the parish level does not filter up to the bishops and archbishops, they are paid from Church investment income.  A bit relieved...I am beginning to think that the Archbishop is an atheist or Muslim convert.  (At the very least, he's so open-minded, his brain's fallen out.)