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August 21, 2005

Hitler ended hyperinflation, therefore he was a good leader.

I'm sure at some point the degenerates at the BBC used that sentence. After all, parasites like Howard Dean and Michael Moore use it to make Iraq seem better under a genocidal dictatorship.

So I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised when Lord Haw-Haw's intellectual heirs start waxing nostalgic over the Taliban like this:

These days, many outsiders often think it is the Taleban who were responsible for most of this country's troubles, forgetting the civil war that followed the Soviet withdrawal.

For people in Kabul at least, the worst memories come from that time, when mujahideen factions took control of the city, then proceeded to tear the city apart in internecine warfare.

Perhaps 50,000 people died. It was the Taleban who brought it to an end.

This part really makes me laugh:

And one reason many Afghans worry about these forthcoming parliamentary elections is that a significant number of those running were commanders and senior figures in those factions, some accused of direct involvement in atrocities.

Human rights groups and many Afghans say they should be standing in the dock, not in a new parliament.

posted by Tanker at 12:54 PM

Comments

Tanker...

On. F'ing. Fire.

Still don't have a clue who you are, though. The Ace of Spades limo driver? Night watchman? Meth connection/enema technician/confidant?

Posted by: Dogstar on August 21, 2005 01:34 PM

Read the article, people. Money sentence : "Two of the BBC's staff have been killed."

That says it all. It's personal at the BBC now! Damn those evil ex-Northern Alliance guys! Damn them!

Posted by: File Closer on August 21, 2005 01:42 PM

Blockquotes would make it much clearer which parts of a post are quoted from the source, and which parts are written by the blogger.

Posted by: on August 21, 2005 02:31 PM

"Human rights groups and many Afghans say they should be standing in the dock, not in a new parliament. "

Maybe/probably - BUT its the winners who always get to write the history books and preside over such prosecutions (or lack thereof)

Its a fine line...one of perception really between "Statesman" and "Butcher".

There was a reason Menachim Begin never visited the UK...

Posted by: Tony on August 21, 2005 04:23 PM

"We have not succeeded in answering all of our problems - indeed, we have not completely answered any of them. The answers we have found have only served to raise a whole new set of questions. In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we think we are confused on a much higher level about more important things."

Posted by: BULLSEYE on August 21, 2005 06:11 PM

Mussolini really did get the trains to run on time, you know.

Yet when you state this fact, people regard it as something of a joke.

Odd eh.

Posted by: lauraw on August 21, 2005 06:23 PM

Mussolini really did get the trains to run on time, you know.

Yet when you state this fact, people regard it as something of a joke.

Odd eh?

Posted by: lauraw on August 21, 2005 06:23 PM

oh fer cryin out loud.

Sorry

Posted by: lauraw on August 21, 2005 06:24 PM

With a topic name "Hitler ended hyperinflation, therefore he was a good leader." you haven't got a post from CF yet? He must be busy jerking off to CNN coverage of the Gaza pull-out.

Posted by: digitalbrownshirt on August 21, 2005 11:17 PM

seems to be some comedy in here somewhere...

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ articles/A58891-2004Jun21.html

Posted by: andrew on August 22, 2005 12:19 AM

Psychological assault forces Malkin to reveal Crowdist roots
Populist profiteer who infiltrated right unmasked

3:17 PM 8/21/2005
ANUS News

San Francisco (NNN) - A two week campaing of information terror culminated early yesterday with the Michelle Malkin award-winning blog disconnecting its trackback and response features as a consequence of ANUS activist antagonism. By taking refuge behind social pretense, and claiming to be victim, Malkin is validating claims that despite her right-wing pedigree, she is in fact an instrument of class/tribal revolt much as her leftist counterparts are.

Modern "conservatives" most commonly claim to be a bastion against a cluster of related mentalities, including Marxism and pacifism and rabble revolt, which are propelled by the ego-drama necessary to compensate for lack of superior traits in any form. The undifferentiated crowd will always be slaves to the machine, and they know it, and hate anyone who is not condemned to such a life. While Malkin insists that her "conservative" agenda would reverse this, her agenda in fact supports the very same mass revolt. ANUS activists were determined to prove this.

Using a scientifically-calculated mixture of gay pornography, racist innuendos and scatological/morbid humor, ANUS activists deliberately pushed Malkin and her blog maintainers past the tolerance threshold for socially offensive material. At this point, as psychological profiles such as the Stockholm study suggest, Malkin and staff violently reversed their positive outlook into a negative, paranoid one. Victory was achieved with a notice posted on the Malkin blog.

"We've had to turn the trackbacks feature off while Michelle is away. There was some nasty porno spam in the trackbacks and some other problems. I believe that Michelle's kind assistants are working on the problem and hope to turn it back on when she returns. I'm sorry for the inconvenience," said the statement, attributed to someone named "Betsy" (probably a bot, since even the conservatives prefer minkier names for their women these days).

Chuckling, ANUS activist Iconoclast, back from temporary confinement in the FMP room of the ANUS compound's dank and fetid basement, conjectured about the psychology of Malkin's staff. "I like how they said 'some other problems,'" he said. "When the enemy gets vague, you know they've been forced into hiding something. What they're hiding here is that they're afraid to cross the taboo line and admit that most people are idiots, and that the idea of a Filipina conservative married to a Jew is ludicrous cover for their actual Crowdist activities."

ANUS CTO (Chief Trolling Officer) Penisbird voiced his own sympathy for the situation. "People try to distract us with labels and orientations," he said. "The truth is that politics is a question of personal integrity. Those who can lead do so, and the rest form masses to tear those others down because they hate them for being beautiful and smart and capable, and we call this mass revolt 'Crowdism.' Malkin is clearly a Crowdist, no matter what she insists."

Apparently, the onslaught of sodomy, feces and burning crosses caused profound psychological change in the fifth columnist "conservative" Crowdist. Dr. Siegfried Freund, a goyish psychologist from Eastern Philadelphia, summed up his conclusion this way: "Burroughs says in Naked Lunch that the greatest hazard for an agent is merging with his cover story. Subversives like Malkin and her Jew penis, Craig Newmark, sublimate their actual intent, but when they're forced up against the thread of Crowd disapproval, they snap back to the fight and in doing so, reverse polarity."

Since the assaults began, Malkin's comments have veered away from her traditional reactionary brain-in-a-bucket conservatism and have become increasingly like cocktail party small talk or the rhyming sentiments written in greeting cards. Dr. Freund predicts that within 48 hours she will own a pair of Birkenstocks and support al-Qaeda. In the meantime, ANUS infoterror group chalks up another success for its mixture of politics and antagonism that treats Net publishing the way it was meant to be treated: like a masochistic, incontinent, HIV positive gimp.

About ANUS

The American Nihilist Underground Society advocates nihilism, or a removal of interpretive layers from our perception of physical reality, as a means of transcending neurotic crowdism and thus achieving adaptive success. It has been online since 1995 and attracts thousands of readers daily with articles about philosophy, politics, music and culture. Every major internet filtering service bans anus.com, and many "anti-hate" organizations decry it as an anti-crowdist site which must be censored and its perpetrators bankrupted.

http://www.anus.com/

About Nihilism

Nihilism is the belief that nothing we perceive has Absolute value; reality exists, but beyond its inherent meaning to us as the physical container of our existence, it has no significance outside of what we perceive. "The world is my representation," indeed. When we strip away all of the values projected onto physical reality and its outcomes, we are left only with personal ideal and natural ideal, and bringing the former into adaptation with the latter is the lifetime task to which nihilism is a gateway.

http://www.nihil.org/

About Michelle Malkin

Nationally-syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin began life by slandering liberals for the Los Angeles times, but was quickly promoted when it was discovered that her conservatism infused with leftist core values was a convenient propaganda talking point for the NWO, which supports Crowdist revolt in all its forms as heck, it's good for business. Currently Malkin churns out dreary editorials endorsing the Same Old Failing "Solutions" to problems that never go away, and when she's not busy with that, posts dramatic crap on her blog that people link so they don't have to read it. She is married to Craig Newmark, a fat Jew with one Catholic grandparent.

http://michellemalkin.com/

Posted by: thomas on August 22, 2005 12:50 AM

Enter "thomas" : confirming my theory that only liberal cranks post lengthy coma-inducing screeds as blog comments...

Posted by: Tony on August 22, 2005 02:12 AM

Goddamnit thomas, have you ever heard of a LINK, asshole?
Or how about an excerpt?

Posted by: lauraw on August 22, 2005 09:46 AM

No, Hitler didn't end the hyperinflation in 1923 - that was Hjalmar Schacht. When the German economy began to crash in 1929, Schacht was fired from his position as head of the German central bank. Hitler did bring Schacht back in 1933; Schacht began a policy of easy credit which enabled Germany to have an economics boom in the years that followed and reach a labor shortage by the end of 1938. Because Schacht refused to continue what he recognized was a risky inflationary policy, Hitler dismissed him.
Two side notes: at a Bank Christmas party (according to his autobiography) a few weeks after Kristalnacht (the night all the synagogues and Jewish owned businesses in Germany were destroyed by Nazu mobs), Schacht criticised the destruction and invited those who had participated to resign; Schacht was also (if I remember correctly) the only one of the Nazi regime big names tried at Nuremberg who was acquited.

Posted by: Ira on August 22, 2005 10:03 AM

Human rights groups and many Afghans say they should be standing in the dock, not in a new parliament.

When the BBC says this about George Galloway, then maybe I won't blow coffee out my nose laughing at the hypocrisy.

Posted by: Rocketeer on August 22, 2005 11:16 AM

Heh. I suspect "thomas" intends his post as humor.

If not, of course. . .well, I've always wondered what the bastard offspring of Butthead and Friedrich Nietzsche would look like.

Posted by: alex on August 22, 2005 11:50 AM

Hitler was a animal loving gun controling vegetarian a perfect liberal

Posted by: night heron on August 22, 2005 11:44 PM

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What? Skeleton of the most famous Musketeer, D'Artagnan, possibly discovered in Dutch church closet.
Dumas picked four names of real musketeers out of a history book, D'Artagnan, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos. So there was an actual D'Artagnan, though he made most of the story up. (Or, you know, all of it.)*

Charles de Batz de Castelmore, known as d'Artagnan, the famous musketeer of Kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV, spent his life in the service of the French crown.
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D'Artagnan was killed during the siege of Maastricht in 1673, and there is a statue honoring the musketeer in the city. His final resting place has remained a mystery ever since.

A lot of Dumas's stories are based on bits of real history. The plot of the >Three Musketeers, about trying to recover lost diamonds from the queen's necklace, was cribbed from the then-almost-contemporaneous Affair of the Queen's Necklace. And the Man in the Iron Mask is based on real accounts of a prisoner forced to wear a mask (though I think it was a velvet mask).
* Oh, I should mention, Dumas says all this, about finding the names in an old book, in the prologue to his novel. But authors lie a lot. They frequently present fictions as based on historic fact. The twist is, he was actually telling the truth here. At least about these four musketeers having actually existed and served under Louis XIV.
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A commenter asked which should be read first, The Hobbit of LOTR?
Easy, no question -- read The Hobbit first. It's actually the start of the story and comes first chronologically. It sets up some major characters and major pieces in play in LOTR.
Also, the Hobbit is Beginner-Friendly, which LOTR isn't. The Hobbit really is a delightful book, and a fast read. It's chatty, it's casual, it's exciting, and it's funny. In that dry cheeky British humor way. I love that the narrator is constantly making little asides and commentary, like he's just sitting next to you telling you this story as it occurs to him.
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Oh, I should say: The Hobbit is written as if it's for children, but one of those smart children's stories that are also for adults. Don't worry, there's also real fighting and violence and horror in it, too.
LOTR is written for adults. (It's said that Tolkien wrote both for his children, but LOTR was written 17 years later, when his children were adults.) Some might not like The Hobbit due to its sometimes frivolous tone. Me, I love it. I find it constantly amusing. Both are really good but there is a starkly different tone to both. LOTR is epic, grand, and serious, about a world war, The Hobbit is light and breezy, and about a heist. Though a heist that culminates in a war for the spoils.

The Hobbit Challenge: Read two more chapters. I didn't have much time. Bilbo got the ring.
I noticed a continuity problem. Maybe. Now, as of the time of The Hobbit, it was unknown that this magic ring was in fact a Ring of Power, and it was doubly unknown that it was the Ring of Power, the Master Ring that controlled the others.
But the narrator -- who we will learn in LOTR was none of than Bilbo himself, who wrote the book as "There and Back Again" -- says this about Gollum's ring:
"But who knows how Gollum had come by that present [the Ring], ages ago in the old days when such rings were still at large in the world? Perhaps even the Master who ruled them could not have said."
In another passage, the ring is identified as a "ring of power."
I don't know, I always thought there was a distinction between mere magic rings and the Rings of Power created by Sauron. But this suggests that Bilbo knew this was a ring of power created by Sauron.
Now I don't remember when Bilbo wrote the Hobbit. In the movie, he shows Frodo the book in Rivendell, and I guess he wrote it after he left the Shire. I guess he might have added in the part about the ring being a ring of power created by "the Master" after Gandalf appraised him of his research into the ring.
I never noticed this before. I know Tolkien re-wrote this chapter while he was writing LOTR to make the ring important from the start. And also to make Gollum more sinister and evil, and also to remove the part where Gollum actually offers Bilbo the ring as a "present" -- Bilbo had already found it on his own, but Gollum was wiling to give it away, which obviously is not something the rewritten Gollum would ever do.
But I had no memory of the ring being suggested to be The Ring so early in the tale.

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Tomorrow is March 25th, "Tolkien Reading Day," because March 25th is the day when the Ring is destroyed in the book. I think I'm going to start the Hobbit tomorrow and read all four books this time.
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