Tom McMahon

What Happened In Blacksburg

Excerpts from Pat Buchanan:

What happened in Blacksburg cannot be divorced from what's been happening to America since the immigration act brought tens of millions of strangers to these shores, even as the old bonds of national community began to disintegrate and dissolve in the social revolutions of the 1960s. ...

Since the 1960s, we have become alienated from one another even as millions of strangers arrive every year. And as Americans no longer share the old ties of history, heritage, faith, language, tradition, culture, music, myth or morality, how can immigrants share those ties?

Many immigrants do not assimilate. Many do not wish to. They seek community in their separate subdivisions of our multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic, multilingual mammoth mall of a nation. And in numbers higher than our native born, some are going berserk here.

Some berserk immigrants include:

• The 1993 bombers of the World Trade Center
• The 9/11 terrorists
• Colin Ferguson, the Jamaican who went on an anti-white shooting spree on the Long Island Railroad. 6 dead, 19 wounded.
• John Lee Malvo, the Beltway Sniper
• Julio Gonzalez, who burned down the Happy Land social club in New York. 87 dead.
• Ali Hassan Abu Kama, who went on a rampage on the observation deck of the Empire State Building. 1 dead, 7 wounded.
• Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Robert Kennedy
• The rifleman who murdered two CIA employees at the McLean, Va., headquarters
• Chai Vang, who shot 6 Wisconsin hunters to death
• Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, the UNC graduate who ran his SUV over nine people
• Juan Corona, who murdered 25 people in California

Seems like we could use a little better screening process, eh?

Watching The Milwaukee Brewer Game At Miller Park: Ever Since The PC Police Stole His Beer Stein Bernie Brewer Looks Like An Idiot On That Stupid Yellow Slide

Bernie Brewer At Miller Park

From James Widgerson:

My six-year-old: Why is there a yellow slide?
Me: When the Milwaukee Brewers hit a home run, Bernie Brewer goes down the slide.
SYO: How does he get up there?
Me: There's a big ladder.
SYO: Why does he go down the slide?
Me: Well, that's kind of an existential question.

At the old Milwaukee County Stadium, well, Life Was Simpler then:

Bernie Brewer At The Old Milwaukee County Stadium

Milwaukee was famous for beer, the team name was the Brewers, the mascot was Bernie Brewer, so when a Brewer hit a a home run then Bernie would slide down into a big stein of beer. Easy to understand, even for a six year old. And best of all, you didn't need to use the word "existential" at a baseball game.

The Classic Response To Multiculturalism

From General Sir Charles James Napier, a British general and Commander-in-Chief in India back in the days of the British Empire:

A quote for which Napier is famous involves a delegation of Hindu locals approaching him and complaining about prohibition of Sati, often referred to at the time as suttee, by British authorities. This was the custom of burning widows alive on the funeral pyres of their husbands. The exact wording of his response varies somewhat in different reports, but the following version captures its essence:

"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."

Homosexual Debauchery

Now there's a title for a post, eh? This week was the first time I ever heard those two words together on TV. It was on a History Channel special on the Night Of The Long Knives, when Hitler purged all the leaders of the SA.

Actually, I don't hear the word "debauchery" all by itself much on TV either. It's one of those fun words we don't use often enough, eh?

Silencing Charlie Chan

Silencing Charlie Chan

Excerpts from Leonard Maltin:

That’s why I’m so annoyed by Fox Movie Channel’s decision to cancel its Charlie Chan film festival this summer, after an Asian-American organization stirred up this ancient hornet’s nest. They don’t like the fact that Charlie Chan was played by Caucasians.  Fair enough, but what do we accomplish by taking those movies out of circulation?  Do we convince young Asian-Americans that such casting never existed?  Moreover, does anyone gain anything by wiping this piece of movie (and social) history off the map?  Why should we obliterate the good work of such Asian-American actors as Keye Luke and Victor Sen Yung, who played Charlie’s sons so well?

Instead of pretending these movies never existed, they should serve as a springboard for intelligent discussion about racial stereotyping and Hollywood casting. ... we should all attempt to learn from the past, in order to improve ourselves. As Cicero said, “Not to know what happened before you were born is to forever remain a child.”

As a movie buff, I feel especially sad.  I’ve loved the Charlie Chan movies since I was a kid; they’re enormously entertaining.  And unlike many other ethnic groups who have a valid complaint about their portrayal in films gone by, Asian Americans have in Chan a genuine hero—a warm, wise, witty crime-solver and behavioral psychologist who is invariably smarter than any white man in the movie.  If this is racial slander, I must confess that I just don’t see it. But for now, he has been silenced.  With him goes a chunk of Hollywood history, a prime piece of popular culture, and an opportunity to learn and grow.

AIDS Sufferers Forgotten?

An excerpt from Hilary White:

Huge profits for pharmaceutical and condom manufacturers, bottomless grants for researchers and NGO’s, publicity and money for research foundations, six-digit salaries for advertising executives and increasing fame for big name celebrities are creating a disincentive to actually stop the disease say some AIDS activists.

The “AIDS industry,” is a multi-billion dollar international enterprise now, and those who gather to enjoy lavish meals and hotels in Toronto this week, are more interested in “managing the disease” than in curing it or stopping its spread, says Martin Sempa, a leading AIDS fighter from Uganda.

Sempa, who has struggled against HIV/AIDS in his home country for 16 years – through radio, college “edutainment” rallies, research and advocacy and government policy formulation – told LifeSiteNews.com that the roving publicity circus that the annual International AIDS Conferences have become is a distraction from what is really happening in Africa and other countries blighted with the disease.

But worse than this, he says, they have become a vehicle for an inhuman leftist ideology under the guise of multi-million dollar philanthropy, a vehicle for a Hollywood-style celebrity cult and brazen anti-American political machine.

(via Relapsed Catholic)

The Politically Incorrect Alphabet

The Politically Incorrect Alphabet

(via PCL Linkdump)

Funny, No AARP Discount

From The Original Blog:

You can get a discount on recreational stuff in the Mansfield District of England by filling up a form and obtaining a discount card. One of the (voluntary) questions concerns the burning issue of ethnicity, to wit:

Which of the following describes your ethnic origin?

INDIAN
PAKISTANI
BANGLADESHI
BLACK CARIBBEAN
BLACK AFRICAN
BLACK OTHER
CHINESE
WHITE
IRISH
OTHER

Pity the poor Irish, the underclass of the Europe.

The Politics of Pity

An excerpt from a timely article by Mark Goldblatt:

My mother died of emphysema in December 2003. She spent the last two weeks of her life in a hospice, under heavy sedation but still gasping for air and coughing up phlegm, as my sister and I alternated vigils so that, in case she woke up, she wouldn't feel alone. She never woke up.

Watching my mom die of emphysema made me an expert in...well, what it's like to watch your mom die of emphysema. The experience didn't provide insight into the disease itself, its onset or prognosis, or its treatment options. I've no idea whether the federal government is spending too little, too much, or just enough on emphysema research. My mother's death didn't mystically impart a capacity to speak intelligently on these issues.

The brouhaha over conservative columnist Ann Coulter's disparaging remarks about 9/11 widows has obscured the validity of her underlying point. Grief does not confer competency. If Coulter went overboard in calling the four New Jersey women "harpies" and "the witches of East Brunswick," she's nevertheless correct in asserting the irrelevance of their views on pre-9/11 intelligence failures, the state of homeland security, and the ongoing war on Islamic terrorism. None of the women has the slightest claim to analytical proficiency in these areas. To act as though they do is to fall victim to the classical logical error argumentum ad misericordiam -- an argument that appeals to pity in order to support an unwarranted conclusion.

Good Question

Alston Ramsay on the Akaka bill:

How can legislation that requires the federal government to form a race-based committee with expertise in race determination to create a race-based list of people who will vote on a race-based government not be considered race-based?