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Rod Dreher doesn’t like what he sees coming down the road:

In my experience, this is where most (but not all) business people are politically. To the extent they back Republicans, it’s out of hoping that GOP pols will say what the religious and social conservatives want to hear, but not deliver on it…. If I were betting on it, I’d say that every traditional religious organization in this country is on track to lose its tax-exempt status in the next 10 to 20 years.

12-15 years sounds about right to me. Two terms of Hillary Clinton will other have the country ready for the second coming of Ronald Reagan or else so demoralized and decivilized that her successor will have carte blanche to really twist the knife on the remnants of the Christian Nation.

A crucial GOP fundraising committee is nearly broke, according to its latest monthly filing with the Federal Election Committee last week. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) reported $1.6 million in cash on hand and $4 million in debts as of Aug. 31. The group helps bankroll House campaigns for GOP candidates. Its counterpart, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, reported $22.1 million, more than 10 times its Republican counterpart.

It looks like conservatives are following up on their threat to stop giving money to Republicans following the president’s pro-immigration push earlier this year. Here’s hoping they all stay home on election day if Rudy McRompson is nominated and the Republican Party takes such a horrific, historic beating that the neocons and pragmatists will run like lemmings to the Democratic Party where they always belonged.

Those now supporting Ron Paul should remember these words from National Review’s Rick Brookhiser when he is pleading with Paul’s supporters to help Rudy McRompson defeat Hillary Clinton instead of sitting at home watching the Republicans sink on election day:

Ron Paul is a pencil head, leading a jacquerie of wicked idiots.

Yes, those wicked, idiotic libertarians are practically Jacobins because they refuse to goose-step behind a fascist faux-republican like Rudolph Giuliani.

As I have repeatedly written before, the Republican Party doesn’t deserve Ron Paul. If they refuse to nominate him, they will richly deserve the crushing electoral defeat that is in the making.

And don’t fail to notice that whatever they say about the woman George Bush is secretly advising, their real antipathy is reserved for the only presidential candidate who honors the U.S. Constitution.

He who does not believe in God will often find very strange ways of occupying his time. Perhaps some of you will recall my statement that from a societal perspective, atheism is but a halfway point en route to paganism. NRO’s Corner was waxing lightheartedly apocalyptic about an upcoming Furry convention in Atlanta yesterday and the first thought that struck me was that the fetish sounded like the sort of thing that would harbor inordinate appeal for the socially autistic:

Religion:
33% Agnostic/Undecided
20% NeoPagan
18% Christian
10% Atheist
05% Non-denominational Theist
05% Jewish
01% Eastern Philosophy

Unsurprisingly, that appears to be the case. In case you don’t recall the general statistics, that’s 20x overrepresentation for High Church atheists and 2.4x overrepresentation of Low Church atheists. Pagans were by far the most overrepresented with 133x, which contrasts greatly with the Christian underrepresentation by 4x. The survey also showed 3x overrepresentation of the most highly educated. Obviously, one can only conclude from this that attending church is crazy, but dressing up like animals and engaging in homoerotic frolics is simply a rational, scientific way to spend an afternoon.

And here I thought the one sci-fi con I attended was a bit of a freak show.

Now, I fully support your right to dress up like a dragon-squirrel and molest the nearest stuffed panda if that’s what you want to do, but please do not expect me not to laugh or view it as a positive sign of societal health.

Newsflash: Foreign investors think it’s a good idea for foreign investors to control US public assets:

When asked to vote, a show of hands indicated virtually every attendee in the 300-person audience was in favor of public-private partnerships to structure the next U.S. generation of highways as foreign-operated private toll roads.

I have no problem with the private ownership of roads, but I have a serious problem with the “public-private partnerships” which are designed to provide the private partner with the maximum of revenue while saddling the public partner with the risk. See the newly democratic Russia for details on how this sort of thing works; very few of those Russian gazillionaires living in London created any of the former state corporations they now own.

In related news, 300 out of 300 children surveyed believe that children should be provided chocolate cake, chocolate chip cookies and three flavors of ice cream at every meal.

It’s getting ugly:

90 East Mesa WhiteTrash
59 Burns Hausfraurers

70 Masonville Marauders
39 Winston Reverends

69 Village Valkyries
62 Greenfield Grizzlies

63 W.C. Silver Spooners
61 Cranberry Bogs

60 Black Mouth Curs
51 Mounds View Meerkats

The sad thing is that I’ve been favored in every projected matchup this year… obviously I should have kept Marion Barber instead of Reggie Bush or Maurice Jones-Drew. What’s really ironic is that wasn’t even the choice that I spent much time thinking about; as it turns out, I made the right call in dropping the Bears defense for all that it matters now.

Even some in the mainstream media are beginning to figure it out:

Politicians often wonder why people don’t vote. This is the wrong question. The real puzzler is why on earth anybody bothers voting at all. If you multiply the chance of influencing the outcome by the difference that a change of government might make to your life, you might calculate that the benefit to you is not enough to risk, say, that on the way to vote a caravan full of violins falls on your head, having been pushed off a third-floor council house balcony by a drunk dentist.

This is why the low probability that the rare liberty-friendly candidate like Ron Paul will win doesn’t trouble me at all. I don’t believe there is a soft landing for the USA, in my opinion the experiment is already dead, it simply hasn’t stopped twitching yet. But supporting Paul does no harm, it’s like giving a stopped heart one last jolt of electricity and every now and then the low probability chance comes through.

But it’s been clear that the fix was in for years, as President Bush’s consultations with his anointed successor, Hillary Clinton, tend to demonstrate. Consider the following report, which shows how Fox News is attempting to keep Paul’s candidacy out of the media, not to benefit Giuliani and the other Republican candidates who cannot win in 2008, but rather Hillary Clinton, who Rupert Murdoch is supporting.

My recommendation is to support Ron Paul until he can go no farther, then withdraw from the process. Inasmuch as your vote matters, it’s worth noting that voting for the lesser evil is still supporting evil evil; in this case, voting for the current Republican party is voting for treason, foreign aggression and the conversion of America into a third world dependent nation.

I don’t understand why we’re supposed to be concerned about the fate of the foreign relatives of the very people who are trying to ban Christmas and have publicly declared war on Christianity:

I find it troubling that, because of Ahmadinejad’s vitriol (and nuclear threats) against Israel, and his denial of the Holocaust, non-Jewish students seem to regard this as a Jewish problem, about which they can comfortably be passive, and evaluate the speaker as if his words, occasionally reasonable, had any relation to his actions. There is nothing sophisticated about the intellectual pose, common among students, that one must listen and evaluate “each side.” (Which, in any case, they don’t mean when it comes to conservatives.) Listening legitimates.

Now there are many reasonable Jews and Israelis whom I like and respect. Nor do I have any affection for the Islamic Republic whatsoever; I have two Christian Iranian friends who were forced to flee for their lives from the Islamic revolutionaries. But the fact is that Iran poses no danger to America and Ahmadinejad and his rambling rhetoric are far less likely to cause problems for Americans than the sort of Ivy League Jew who doesn’t believe that Americans should even LISTEN to free speech.

I’m guessing that like many of her left-leaning co-religionists, she’s probably not all that keen on the Constitutional freedoms of association, the press and the right to bear arms either.

Anyhow, God’s chosen people would do well to rely on God rather than the strength of a Christian nation that many of them appear to despise.

I am a staunch opponent of “representative democracy”. Even direct democracy, with all its theoretical evils, is to be preferred to a system designed to reward those who are most capable of lying about their intentions to the general public:

The betrayal of the Dutch by their political class continues. Dutch News has the details:

A majority of Labour MPs on Tuesday decided not to back calls for a second referendum on the European Union, making it almost certain that the approval of the new EU treaty will be left to parliament rather than the public at large.

This is what the same party had to say in its election platform back in ancient history (well, 2006, but you know how it is):

Europe exists for the sake of the citizens. The result of the referendum on the Constitution was crystal clear. The PvdA will not accept that such result will be circumvented. A new (constitutional) treaty will require a new referendum.

If there is anything guaranteed to secure the rise of extremist parties within the EU it is the open contempt that is shown again and again to the continent’s voters by a political class blinded by greed, arrogance, and the delusion that is “Europe.”

Being a professional politician should be made a crime, punishable by expulsion and permanent exile. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO NEED FOR THEM IN ANY SORT OF DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM. The sole reason for their existence is to violate the very will of the people they are supposedly representing.

Das Europa uber alles
Uber alles im Erdteil
Einigkeit und Gewaltherrschaft
Fur der neue Vaterland.