I can’t wait till Sanjaya wins American Idol. March 30, 2007
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Theres a lot of talk about groups like Vote for the Worst and the Howard Stern Show “compromising” and “sabatoging” American Idol because they’re encouraging people to vote for this bizarre, phenomenally untalented Mumbai reject freak show Sanjaya Malakar. People are saying its defiling the sanctity of Idol, lawsuits are in the works, Simon has declared that he will leave the show if Sanjaya emerges victorious.
You know what? I’m rooting for the poor bastard.
Why?
Because Sanjaya Malakar is exactly what Idol deserves and has coming for a long time.
For 6 years, Idol has been granting hopeless mediocrities the status of exalted musical virtuosity, wholly undeserved and usually with much spiteful blowback from the American populous. You honestly want me to believe that some unemployed clowns, with such “obvious” innate musical talent need a fucking Fox reality TV show to showcase to the world what it should have already witnessed? In a world with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Jessica Simpson you think I’m a naive fool to believe that these “true” American idols with untold talent resevoirs need a half-rate reality show to become famous? Give me a break.
For 6 years Idol has been dishing out revoltingly obnoxious and cliched popcorn popstar blowhards like Kelly Clarkson, Clay Aiken and Carrie Underwood. No talent, nothing remotely deviating from the infinite sea of American pop redundancy, and masqueraded as “original”, “cutting-edge”, and “avant-garde”.
Well, finally Idol is getting its just deserts. We saw the beginning of the end some years ago with WilliamHung, unfortunately the clown couldn’t make it beyond the audition tapes. But now we have a musical-air-pollutant vermin that managed to slip through the laughable Idol bureaucracy, week after week surviving and flourishing from the bad press he’s getting. Week after week proving himself impervious to rudimentary talent litnus tests, week after week creeping ever closer to that oh so rever and cherished prize…
Go Sanjaya! May your victory herald the end of the most worthless American pop-culture convention of the last decade! If not that, at least it will mark the departure of that pompous doofus Simon Cowell, who’s lame lame British humor got old after about 10 minutes.
So whats to be done about Iran? March 29, 2007
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Theres been a lot of discourse in the political rabble-stream over the recent “Iran Sailor-Gate” bonanza. As a neocon of Iranian descent myself, allow me to inject my own little spin on the whole issue.
First and foremost, this isn’t a big deal, at all. The detained sailors could very well have been crossing marinal lines here, geographically-speaking border discrimination in this case is an incredibily awry affair. Certainly its a matter of techincality to say the least, and a move of risky arrogance on the part of the Iranian government considering its current global image. But the move to capture these sailors wasn’t heretical in the scale some people are making it out to be; and hell, while we’re on the issue of naval capturings, how about the Iranian liason employees arrested by US forces for entering American waters on January 11th, whose fates still remain unclear? We haven’t heard much at all about that have we?
Regardless they’re being treated with the utmost civility and humanity, I have no doubt there will be a peaceful resolution to this whole matter. This story certainly doesn’t afford the public outrage and media musings its been receiving.
Now, on the broader issue of Iran and how best to mitigate the very real threat it poses, the talking heads have been mixed in the level of intellectual handling of the matter. The left, unsuprisingly, seeks to take an isolationist, “pretend nothings happening” approach, an imbecile folly just begging for a calamity that will dwarf 9/11 in its magnitude. You can’t blissfully allow the continuation of a genocidal regime that has more than once called for the annihilatino of Western civilization, that would be geopolitical suicide.
On the other hand some of the more sophomoric thinkers on the right like Glenn Beck and Bill O”Reilly have called for immediate war with Iran, an equally foolish move. War with a nation 3 times the size of Iraq, with a better army and resources, and with the vicious forces of Hizbollah at its arsenal, not to mention the Islamic Republican Guard Corps and the Mehdi Army, would be an apocalyptically foolhardy tactical maneuver. Not to mention the entire socio-economic mechanism of the Middle-East would implode upon itself, you would be waging war on roughly an entire region.
But thank god we don’t have to rely on those people for our leadership, for the most part the folks over at National Review and Frontpage Mag seem to have the right idea. How do we defuse the ticking Iranian time-bomb? How do we neutralize a His Unelected Imperial Majesty President Aquavelvijad? By cultivating a democratic revolution of course! Iran’s population is 70 percent under the age of 30, young, angry, pro-American, completely anti-Sharia, I know this first-hand.
It is no secret that Ahmadinejad has an incredibily limited constituency; there is now a serious Iranian reform movement being led inside and out of the country by such leading Persian thinkers as Mehdi Khalaji, Mohsen Sazegara, Ali Afshan and Frood Fouladvand. If the Western alliance is smart about its business it can take advantage of that and put an end to this all right now without firing a shot. They’ve certainly done it before, just ask Mohammad Mossadeq.
The tides of change are raging, a flame of revolution is just about ready to be ignited. Lets hope Bush and Blair are listening.
A more official pronunciation… March 27, 2007
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I think I’ve made this quite flagrantly evident in my columns as of late, but what the hell, might as well spell it out plainly: I have disengaged any last harnesses that once bound me to the rudder of liberalism. Not that I ever really was a raging leftist, but any fond sentiments I once had of progressivism has since dissolved. Very early on in this site I wrote with a liberal slant, citing people like George Galloway and Keith Olbermann. I resent and regret that now, and while I probably won’t enact some sort of site purge of the articles that harbored a more liberal bias on this site early on (much too lazy), know that I have rejected them. You can read a much more detailed expose of my political philosophy on the much updated “about” page.
What prompted this shift in ideology? A lot of reading in the last year. Tomes of the Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal and Howard Zinn sort on my bookshelf were gradually overtaken by those of Dinesh D’Souza, Robert Spencer Dr., Serge Trifkovic, Dr. Daniel Pipes and Mark Steyn. I’ll trade my old intellectual idols for my new ones any day.
But in general the change of heart was fostered by a realization in the more sickly aspects of liberalism; its articulation of jihadist apologia and appeasement, its daft and phillistine attacks on America and the ideals it representes, and its responsibility for the corrosion of traditional culture.
Liberals call neoconservatism blasphemy. I call it politics for grown-ups, politics for a more dystopian world.
And I am the Dystopian Philosopher.
(cue The Dark Knight theme)
Democrats have a remarkable talent in generating “controversy” where there is none. March 26, 2007
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I am absolutely astonished by the alacrity in the villifying remarks spat by Democrats as of late over absolutely nonsensical charges. First we have the whole Libby circus, in which case the entire premise of the “scandal” couldn’t hold even the most minute of water when examined for more than 5 seconds. It sincerely hope the poor man is pardoned, it would be absolutely criminal of Bush not to.
Now we have this whole liberal rabble-fest over the Gonzales fiasco. Allright, Gonzales may have been a bit sloppy in the execution of this normally standard bureucratic termination process, but beyond that his actions were completely legitimate and justifiable. For God’s sake why did he deny that there was presidential colluding in this affair? Thats the norm! Clinton blatantly and openly fired 93 attorneys! The only difference was he didn’t try to hide it! Gonzales should indeed by vindicated, just not for this allegedly illegal political maneuver, as the lefist cheerleaders are proclaiming. He should be criticized for creating a maelstrom of ugly political discourse where there was none.
But thats beside the main point; what the hell is wrong with the Democrats? Have they no shame? Do they not grow tired of yelling and whining about matters that don’t concern the legislative branch of the American government apparatus, let alone the ears of the American people? Is this some sort of petty and pitiful tactic to make up for their spineless compliance with the 2003 invasion of Iraq without the slightest bit of inquiry or objectivity? They couldn’t be acrimonious about things that matter, so now they wil be about things that don’t?
Is that why they just voted for this lamentably ludicrous Iraq timetable legistlation? Dates that are sure to get little smiley-face stickers on Bin Ladin’s “Upcoming Events” calendar?
God help us if we have one of these pedantic monkeys as our next president.
Dennis Miller tells it how it is. March 25, 2007
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Whether its androgynous bodily humor, laying the smack-down on political liberalism or just being a total badass comedic avant-garde, Dennis Miller is the shit. Don’t forget to check out his new radio show starting tomorrow, check for local listenings.
The consequences of this newly passed Iraq timetable legistlation… March 23, 2007
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I’m recovering from a rather aggravating cold at the moment, and don’t really feel like wrting much right now. For the moment just take a look at whats going to happen thanks to our fantastic geopolitically erudite friends at Washington. God bless the Democrats, what would we ever do without them…
Liberalism rears its true face! March 18, 2007
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…through what appears to be a transvestite Code Pink operative with an “impeach Bush” t-shirt at the Valerie Plame hearing.
Of course I’m speaking facetiously here, but its still pretty damn funny; the kind of thing you would see on South Park or something.
But this brings me to a more serious note. Yesterday, legions upon legions of Iraq war protesters descended upon Washington to coincide with the 5th year anniversary of the invasion. Like maggots rushing toward a succulent carcass, thousands of these hopelessly simple-minded post-materialist slugs marched through the bitter global warming induced cold to whine about the war. But I only have two questions for these clowns:
Who are you protesting for? Certainly not the troops, because the indisputable vast majority of them have spines (an appendage you poor half-wits are desperately in need of) and want to complete their mission. And certainly not the Iraqi people, as the majoritarian consensus here as well demonstrates actual Iraqis, not spoiled progressive jackasses, prefer Iraq under Maliki over your good buddy Saddam. Plus the majority of them believe that the new security implementations will be successful, and that if the US were to withdraw it would bring only further bloodshed, all sentiments you revile. But what do they know, they’re only, pfft, Iraqis. You’ve got Cindy Sheehan and Michael Moore, true paragons of the intellectual community.
But there is a second, more revealing and penetrating question we must ask of these protesters, who are you protesting against? Yes, yes, we know, you’re protesting against George “Satan Incarnate” Bush. But what about that other, more eminent enemy…you know, al-Qaida? Hizbollah? Global Jihad? You never seem to protest against their crimes against humanity, their willfull and coordinated mass-murders, their perpetual desire for the annihilation of all of America, a state which allows progressives like you to fester? Aren’t you just a bit disingenouus?
We look at these snarling, ravenous banner-wielding squealing people parading through the streets, but what are we really seeing? We see the pinnacle of human cynicism and petulence, we see the result of the Hemingway philosophy, a human plague, a group of socially alienated and obtusely thinking creatures attempting to prove to the world that they’re important, that they’re making a difference. When in the end once their little circus subsides, the world keeps turning, and no one cared. And no one should.
By definition liberal progressivism is characterized by a social movement against the injustice of the state. When no such injustice exists, when the only evil and terror is resonating from abroad, supposed domestic injustice must be manufactured. Truth is an inconvenient afterthought.
Thus ultimately that transexual protester at the Libby trial is an adequate representation of ultra-progressivism, lonely rejects attempting to masquerade rancor and rudeness as benign dissent.
But we can’t be fooled.
Rosie O’Donnell should be shot. March 15, 2007
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So not only is this abhorable lesbian broad impossibly stupid, bitchy, and ugly, but she’s also now a treasonous harpy as well. In case you already hasn’t heard, on top of O’Donnell’s grievances against America she can now be remembered as an al-Qaida sympathizer. She is a lying, hysterical, vile piece of fecal matter; anyone so hopelessly and shamelessly devoid of moral precepts to vociferously defend Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, a man who has been bragging and lauding the 9/11 attacks from the very beginning, a man with actual blood-ties to mujihideed-extraordinaire, Ramzi Yousef…any diabolical creature who has more respect for a mass-murdering Islamist than their own president should be deported out of the country.
Bill Maher’s comments 6 years ago about terrorists exhibiting bravery were disputable, but could have remained in the realm of public discourse. His comment was that of a debatable strain of thought, highly bright people have argued on both sides, hell Dinesh D’Souza even defended Maher in this case. But this is extravagantly different, this is a regularly watched talk show host turned poltical commentator making an outlandishly un-American, indisputably unfounded assertion and passing it off as truth. Rosie O’Donnell is a national disgrace, every American should shun this manic dyke, and if ABC had half a sense of decency or integrity they would cut her from the View. This isn’t about freedom of speech, this is about honor.
Halliburton in UAE a recipe for calamity. March 14, 2007
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I would like to opine on this whole Halliburton HQ migration to Dubai business. Let me just say it is in the shameless mockery of every American citizen that a major defense firm like Halliburton, which plays a crucial role in infrastructure reconstruction, as well as petroleum management operations in Iraq, to recklessly transfer its base to the United Arab Emirates; a state with known al-Qaida ties, a state that Bin Ladin himself has professed has become a buffer state for terrorist transactions and more or less a proxy financial arm of the mujihideen. This is a disgrace and a stupendous tactical blunder, compromising our geopolitical interests just for some petty corporate gain; this deserves much more scrutiny than the media is affording.
Hey media, pull that stick out of your ass, stop covering the Anna Nicole Smith trial of tears and start igniting another Dubai Ports World maelstrom of collective rage; this might not be as staggering a political blow, but it rather perfectly demostrates the carelessness of this administration in its stance on Islamism.
Start rabbling.
Dennis Miller’s Politically Incorrect Guide to the Six Imams Fiasco. March 14, 2007
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Ahh Dennis. You’re like Keith Olbermann, except conservative, funnier, smarter and with a more cohesive vocabulary. In this vid he spanks the left, CAIR, and any other jihadist apologist related to this case.