Mohammed unmasked

Bosch Fawstin has a great image of Mohammed for us all.

There's some commentary at the link to explain this approach to those who want some understanding of the historical Mohammed.

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/04/03/what-does-mohammad-look-like-unmasked/

Picture(s) of the day.

http://durotrigan.blogspot.com/2011/04/amusing-uaf-picture-from-edl-blackburn.html

When you finish that, you must look at the next link, this one from our friend Tim.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zfMGSUbsTYQ/SV8Z4VF-UbI/AAAAAAAAAOI/r3ZGIenUvSs/s320/dva0077.jpg

Endless pussy, he calls it.

Scroll up at the link:

http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/04/01/infinite-cats/#comment-19833

I am easily amused, and this does it for me. Hope you like it, too.

Here's a link to Durotrigan:

http://durotrigan.blogspot.com/2011/04/amusing-uaf-picture-from-edl-blackburn.html

Some deep thoughts on Eugenics

I love this kind of deep thinking. I'm sure you'll come to appreciate ecology in a whole new way after pondering this blurb and the comment following.

Four decades after his controversial book, The Population Bomb, scientist Paul Ehrlich still believes that overpopulation — now along with overconsumption — is the central environmental crisis facing the world. And, he insists, technological fixes will not save the day.

Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, "Too Many People, Too Much Consumption," Yale Environment 360, Yale School of Forestry
& Environmental Studies. 04 Aug 2008.

I want to thank the Ehrlichs for their latest book and their work over the past forty years. As an open Jewish lesbian feminist historian of queer cultures and the Holocaust, I have come to see that over-population is a cultural ideology, based on privatization, consumer capitalism, and misogynistic homophobia. All the so-called traditional societies that self-controlled their populations had roles for their gay people, and a spiritual practice based on balance, self-limit, social harmony, and preserving the culture for the future.

Posted by Corinne E. Blackmer on 04 Aug 2008

http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2041
Accessed 26 March 2011.

Art Class

The artist who made the banner graphic here is the entirely talented and sure-to-be-famous Ben Jackson. I contacted him recently to ask for permission to use his graphic as a cover shot for volume ii of my up-coming book, A Genealogy of Left Dhimmi Fascism, "Fascism and Dhimmitude." Mr. Jackson responded in the affirmative, asking only that I not associate him with the text, he likely not being the ardent Sarah Palin fan I am.

I look at Jackson, and I see a man who is willing to allow me to use his work in spite of a likely antipathy toward some of my personal political leanings. I call that class. I think it shows us that America can overcome its divisions in this stressful time of political anger, and that we can still be in harmony at a personal and professional level when it comes to common things like being a decent person in the flesh.

So, my personal and public thanks to Mr Jackson.

Dag Walker,
Vancouver, Canada.

Button, Button, who's got the Button?

There is some company or other making lapel buttons of the graphic at this blog. I hope the creator of the original will contact me. I'd like to get his permission to use it. Meanwhile, have at it, I guess.

No one laughed at Stalin's mother behind her back

There are close to 600 comments at Anne Althouse's blog, many of them dealing with an anarcho-loser in Wisconsin blogger who wrote a moronic threat against Althouse and her husband because of Althouse and husband detailing unionist activities in Madison, Wisconsin over the course of the past long nine weeks while as public service unionists and fellow arseholes try to intimidate the elected government and the general voter/state resident/tax-payer. The threatener linked below decided to make his feelings known about his hatred toward those who stand up against the unionists, and he wrote a silly, if threatening, letter, which Althouse published. Now the guy is known. He's a goofy loser.

This is the threatening letter link:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/50869881/Op-countertroll-Vs-Althouse-and-Meade

And here is a link to comments at Althouse:

http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6329595&postID=7552181848478388306

The man in question is, it seems, Jim Shankman. Photos, links, and info here;

http://theundergroundconservative.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/what-a-cheap-two-bit-thug-looks-like/

At the Althouse link, commenter Jane, 3/17/11 8:01 PM, writes: "The letter writer's mother is the Dean of the College at Benedictine College."

Her son, the letter writer, is now crying about being picked on. You can follow as you like. The point I hope to make is that this fellow, Jim Shankman, is a goofy loser who has suddenly become known in certain circles as a -- goofy looser. What about his mother? How must she feel? She's obviously successful at her career, which must be some compensation for having a goofy loser of a kid.

Benedictine College is a Roman Catholic liberal arts school that provides instruction to nearly 1,200 students. It offers bachelor's degrees in nearly 40 major fields, as well as three graduate degree programs. The school's Atchison, Kansas campus overlooks the Missouri River. The college, which opened its doors in 1859, is sponsored by brothers and sisters of the Benedictine monastic order.

Officers:

[....]

VP and Dean of the College: Kimberly C. Shankman

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/benedictine-college-1#ixzz1Gw8stq7D

But I feel sorry for this lady. If I had a mother, I'd want her to feel something other than humiliation at my antics. I'd feel better if she could hold up her head when she went to work at the salt mine, everyone knowing she's the mother of the worst "mother" in the world, someone no one laughs at. I'd feel better if my mother were the Mother of Stalin. I'd be kind of sick of myself if I were just a goofy loser. But, as I note, I don't have a mother, so it could well be that I won't make the extra effort to redeem myself in anyone's eyes. Even so, I would hope never to be such a goof as this guy above.

I like to think that in some small way this is helpful.

More on the goofy Wisconsin loser who threatened blogger Althouse.

Exclusive Interview With Jim Shankman, the Man Behind the Ann Althouse Threat

by Dan Riehl

Shankman is currently unemployed, claims to not be a member of a union and says he most often works as a dishwasher when employed. He insists that he does not advocate for violence and in some ways sought to distance himself from his “manifesto,” while also acknowledging authorship. He says he’s done with the issue and was simply giving voice to thoughts and rhetoric he “regularly hears in the street.”

http://biggovernment.com/driehl/2011/03/18/exclusive-interview-with-jim-shankman-the-man-behind-the-ann-althouse-threat/

Up-date with some comments from Althouse:

William said... As slackers go, he [Shankman] sets new depths for underachievement. Pressing thirty and a dilettante dishwasher....

3/18/11 11:11 AM

Seven Machos said...

So this poor dude self-reportedly sits around watching FOX News, arousing himself to a constant state of agitation over its reporting.

Sad.

I recommend more porn sites for this man immediately.

3/18/11 11:14 AM

Book writing

The gentle reader here must by now wonder just wtf I do all the time if I can't seem to post anything here more than once or twice a week, or less! I am not sitting at Tim Horton's having my fix of vitamins C and D, believe me. I am writing, in long-hand, more notes for volume three of my magnum opus, A Genealogy of Left Dhimmi Fascism: Oikos I, "Earth and Man." Yes, it is obviously about ecology. I'm down to the final 12 books to read for material, and then I think I don't really have 12 more to come. Like the past three or four times I thought I only had a dozen more books to read, I could be wrong about this. Or I could be just about sick of it and ready to move on to do some typing at last.

Three Canadians come to mind straight off the top, Kathy Shaidle, Howard Rotberg, and Jonathon Narvey, and I am hopeful of taking a page out of their book, as it were, by publishing my own books. I hope to do this in relatively short order. The two volumes I hope to have out are culled from this blog and Covenant Zone. It will make me rich and famous while I slave away in the tropics typing the rest of the oeuvre. Till then, thanks for your patience.

The Harmonious Interests of Mad Max

Adhering to bourgeois values is what has created and is what sustains Modern culture. Boiled down, I call it all "Privacy." One owns ones own life as ones own private property, and from there, one can and may own things other, given the restriction that one cannot violate another's privacy. We co-operate. We have exchanges that more or less mutually benefit. We don't rob and rape and murder for gain, as a rule. We try to live harmoniously. We aren't mad in the head. We have rules to live by, and they allow us to prosper. Some people really hate that.

Bourgeois values are "mediocre." There is little or nothing aristocratic in shaving a penny. It's not noble to save ones pennies and build them into dollars. Such is greedy, grubby, and mean. It's a mean nation, as we hear from those who know. Who could be proud of such smallness? Only a bourgeois would like putting off for now in order to have more later. Where is the Grand Gesture? Where the heroism of Life? Muddling along and saving and working for tomorrow is petty. Who can love it? It's not only petty and greedy and myopic, it's anti-social to isolate ones gains from others. Why not share and be at one with others? Individuals are solitary. Like beasts. We should all be one. We don't really need all this stuff we gain from counting and saving and hiding away and amassing. Small, man, real small.

Look around at the world and you'll see The People are exploited and starving and enslaved by bourgeois values, i.e. by those who adhere to bourgeois values. If not for the selfishness of the few, then all of everyone could have enough, and the world would live as one. Muslims lived as one till America and Israel destroyed their culture through imperialism and phony borders creating nations that don't reflect the authentic boundaries of the natural groupings. The world's people used to live in a Golden Age of enough, a pleasant time of free fruit hanging from the trees for anyone to take, in harmony with animals and snail darter fish. Then along came a man with a tape measure who declared that the land was his alone, and now, thanks to bourgeois values, most people are starving and enslaved by him, the Capitalist. Driven by poverty, they have to use their very bodies as bombs to try to rectify the evils of the imposition of bourgeois values on The People. And ya ya....

Are those with bourgeois values really any better? Bourgeois values come from an understanding of power: that one has the power to live ones own life according to ones own best lights, in "pursuit of ones happiness." The gods might wreck the pursuit, but maybe not. And if they do, then one tries again, and again, and maybe in time, with luck and a good wind, one succeeds over-all. But regardless, one might try, and there is the power of the bourgeois, that he feels free to try at all. His attempts to control his own life might be mean and petty and silly, but they are his. So long as he doesn't outrage his neighbours, he is free, more or less, to do as he will. If he can do so and make a profit, well, next thing we know, we have flush toilets where before we had ankle deep sewage everywhere. It's not heroic. It's small. It's bourgeois, not aristocratic. It's not villainous; not the mind of a Romantic peasant at work. It's just getting along as well as one may. One is a "boor," as in bourgeois. Petty.

There are those with the aristocratic mind, those who feel entitled to the riches of the world, whose titles provide them with what it is to be a Big Man in the world of peasants. Appointments, sinecures, positions. They amass, however it's done, great fortunes, which they use to arrange appanage for the peasants, bread-payment for the docile and grateful. The court toadies, the bohemian intelligentsia lavish praise on their betters, and all is right with the world. Except for those petty bourgeois who have too much money for their stations. They are a mockery of aristocratic privilege. Their success in the world is an insult to the grandness of the aristocrats, an affront to the peasants, of whom the middle are but for the resented elevation within the bourgeois vision. What right do petty peasants have to succeed? Maddening.

They should, at least, be happy working class contributors to the whole, to the just price economy, to the moral economy in which most are poor but happy, and tended by Philosopher Kings. At best, they would be savages living in harmony with nature, dancing and smiling and performing native rituals for the amusement of the enlightened classes. Muslims will do. Angry and violent savages yearning to breathe slavery-- perfection in its authenticity. The well-to-do and undeservedly so middle class peasant must step aside and allow pride of authentic place to the savage, the truly noble being.

The middle muddle. They quietly pay off all whom they must. They pay off the Philosopher Kings and the peasants and the savages and they keep what there is left to keep. It's a penny-shaving life. It has value. Compromise, give in, sell out, back out and shame themselves, anything for a part of a penny. The bourgeois are rightly despised for their pettiness. Especially when it is grand. When it is America.

Those with bourgeois values have little grasp of the other sides of life, being involved in their own lives and aware otherwise only of the need to pay for peace. Rampaging Muslim savages committing murder by the hour around the world? Pay them off. Give them what they ask for, and we'll say we feel their pain, that in the hope they will feel better about us in time, if not now. Just don't rock any boats or burn any bridges or cross any streets without looking up and down. It's in everyone's interest to remain harmonious, trading a bit of this for a bit of that to everyone's mutual advantage.

And then there are the mad. They don't have so much love of the bourgeois values today as perhaps yesterday they did. Maybe it was one terror attack too many, one person brutalised too badly, one city destroyed by primitives, and then in the smoke and the flames and the scorching heat of battle the primitives don't look like they are worth paying in money for a worthless peace at all. One moves on, abandoning the mediocre middle to those who live it quietly. Is it good, friend?

Pappagallo: "You’re happy out there, are you? Eh? Wandering? One day blurring into another? You’re a scavenger, Max. You’re a maggot. Did you know that? You’re living off the corpse of the old world. Tell me your story, Max. C’mon. Tell me your story. What burned you out, huh? Kill one man too many? See too many people die? Lose some family? Oh, so that’s it, you lost your family? That makes you something special, does it?” George Miller, The Road Warrior. (1982)

If the general system of bourgeois values is to succeed, then most will have to give up to get, in the interest of all, particularly oneself. Mad men are not part of a delicate system of harmonies.

Harmony of Interests

With a proper understanding of one's interests, it can be seen that there is a harmony of interests between rational men. That we benefit enormously from positive interactions with others. This benefit comes in the form of the abundance of wealth made possible by a Capitalism, to the continuing increase of knowledge available to mankind. It comes in the form of friendships, romantic love, and the support of one's family. The harmony of interests bring men together in peaceful cooperation to benefit their lives. This is the bedrock of society. It is why people choose to live in a society.

Although the desires of men may be opposed, their interests are not. Living in a peaceful society is of incalculable benefit to man. Any possible advantage gain from living outside of a peaceful society is insignificant compared to the loss. For instance, living in a wilderness may bring you more peace and quiet, but it is at the expense of friendships and the enormous material wealth possible in a society.

The harmony of interests only exists between rational men. Irrational men and the use of force are not in the interests of other men. Men's interests are only in harmony with peaceful, voluntary interactions. Only when men live by the Trader Principle do their interests unite. Only when men accept persuasion and trade do they become a benefit to other men.

http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com/Ethics_HarmonyOfInterests.html. Accessed 5 March 2011.

Our Modern world is rational, and our rational people know it is cheaper to pay off the primitives than to wage war against them. We know, too, that we cannot always buy them off, and that we must have a rational military force to defend us against the primitives who would otherwise attack and devour such a fat and tasty beast as the Modern world. But we mostly use our militaries today to do the paying off. Organised, efficient, petty in its aims and methods, not heroic, not grand, not interesting. Our military is petty and bourgeois. It is a multitude of penny parts accumulated into one massive machine that more or less works most often in an imperfect world. There are few warriors among the soldiers of our Modern world. Most soldiers want to get along by going along. It is a harmony of interests at work. "Living in a peaceful society is of incalculable benefit to man. Any possible advantage gain from living outside of a peaceful society is insignificant compared to the loss."

It is a fundamental bourgeois value, methinks, to leave political power to the aristocrats and the peasants of the Modern world. The bourgeois is satisfied with paying the bills and plodding along as best he can, pinched and harassed as he might be by each other side. It's the price of doing business. It is an act of rational harmony to interact.

But there are those few who don't have the same bourgeois values. Post-bourgeois, we might say. Road Warriors, to push the point. Those who are as savage as the savage; as pitiless as the aristocratic; as mad as Max. What possible advantage is there in such madness? The bourgeois shakes his head and offers money and a place to count it within the sphere of normal. Rejecting bourgeois values for those post, one is seen as "Just as bad as they are!" The bourgeois is angered and incensed by the betrayal of the rational man who rejects the bourgeois value of passivity in the face of violence. The man post-bourgeois is a a traitor, "No better than they are!" Not a man to build and lay up and save and store, the mad man is alone. One cannot deal with him as a moral being. He is a betrayer of bourgeois values. Where is the harmony of interests? Reject. We cannot trade with such a man. What does he want? Nothing.

Max: "I'm just here for the gasoline."

A gentle reminder that my book, An Occasional Walker, is available at the link here:

http://www.amazon.com/Occasional-Walker-D-W/dp/0987761501/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331063095&sr=1-1

And here are some reviews and comments on said book:

http://nodhimmitude.blogspot.com/2012/04/dagness-at-noon.html

Had we but world enough and crack

I was buying fruit and veggies at the market in Chinatown a while ago, the sidewalk crowded with shoppers, the cement slick with stuff fallen and trampled, making the way a chore in itself, making it a matter of caution just passing. I wasn't paying attention till I spotted a young woman and her decrepit mother. The young one was attractive, so I looked. Cabbage, even red and on sale, only goes so far, even at my age. I checked her out, and I saw her mother, looking much less attractive than cabbage on a bad day. The babe asked her mom what she would like. When I heard I kind of lost interest in the whole day. Old lady said: "I want a dick."

It was then, in a flash, that I saw that the old lady was the young woman's younger sister.

Look:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41786945/ns/health-addictions/