The National Socialist fellow travelers at The Occidental Quarterly hold a party.

Now, who could that quote be from?

Why, Lewrockwell.com contributor Bob Wallace*, of course:

Most “bigotry” is the act of noticing the truth.

Blacks are genetically intellectually inferior, always have been, always will be. Except for music and sports, they will always be on the bottom. They’ve never had a culture worthy of the name, never will.

Asians have an ages-old group mentality than I doubt can be eradicated. They have no creativity, and I doubt anything can be done about that, either.

There never was a Muslim Golden Age. Most of it consisted of stealing from Christians and Jews. Islam was, and always will be, an intellectually and morally dead obscenity. It is the worst thing that has happened to the world.

Jews will always be ostracized because of their attempts to destroy every culture that admits them.

Whites will always be on top, Asians right underneath them, Mexicans far below, and blacks right at the bottom.

Nearly everything in the world has been created by Western Christian civilization, especially in America since 1776.

Not really anything to add to that, I think, except to perhaps ponder on Mr. Wallace’s previous charges of cultural destruction levied at No-Treason.com. Does Mr. Wallace judge that NT is really a tool for the great Jew Conspiracy To Destroy Every Culture That Admits Them, or are we simply unwitting pawns in said Conspiracy’s machinations?

What do you think? Cast your vote in the No-Treason forum now, before filthy wetbacks and money-grubbing “neocons” destroy your culture!

* Update: Tom Palmer, in comments below, notes that Wallace has now been removed from the list of LRC contributors. An archive of some of Wallace’s columns can be found here.

From referrers like this.

From the disturbed minds of Vera Brosgol and Jenn Kluska. It’s all about making friends.

“The sun is just an nuclear weapon that hasn’t finished killing us yet”

Chicken, pot, and ice-axe provided by private means, of course.

PS: getcher Trot-bustin’ duds here!

Micha Ghertner takes time off from persecuting ghosts to observe a post or two down:

Even if you are right, businessmen need to know that there is a demand for their product before they enter the market.

What kind of business are we talking about here? The magical-government-avoiding-elixir business? Sounds like Dungeons and Dragons to me (One Bag of Holding, one Staff of Vituperation, one Elixir of State Avoiding). Sorry, I’ll believe in the Government Avoiding Elixir when I see it. What too-clever-by-half ideas will tomorrow bring? I have a few ideas, myself:

1. The Floating Virtual Cyber City.

A solar-powered Unix server is set adrift in a rubber raft. On this server is a specially modified version of Quake III:Arena, except that it has provision for a virtual world of anarcho-capitalistic free markets. In the real world it’s illegal to smoke pot, but in The Floating Virtual Cyber City you are free to “smoke” as much “pot” as you want. In the real world, your money is taxed, but in The Floating Virtual Cyber City your “money” will never be taxed! Hundreds, or even thousands of floating Unix servers are set adrift and connected to the Intarnets via hundreds of tiny homemade satellites (launched, of course by private companies) The government will never be able to shut them all down! Also, there will be really cool encryption.

This is kind of like Patri’s floating city thing, but even more clever.

(future lung says: “Everything will stop sucking by 6,000,000,000,000,000,000 AD” So there’s that, anyway.)

A bit of nostalgic, old-time stupidity from Flying and Popular AviationJanuary, 1941, complete with a ridiculous (and smugly self-deluding) little anecdote supposedly told by “old East Asia hands” - Japan Is Not an Air Power.

Occam’s Razor says that when multiple explanations are available for a phenomenon, the simplest version is preferred. Justin Raimondo prefers to employ a different principle in evaluating evidence.

In the wake of the London bombings Raimondo asks “What did Bibi know – and when did he know it?” He’s very excited about an early AP story that said:

British police told the Israeli Embassy in London minutes before Thursday’s explosions that they had received warnings of possible terror attacks in the city, a senior Israeli official said.

Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had planned to attend an economic conference in a hotel over the subway stop where one of the blasts occurred, and the warning prompted him to stay in his hotel room instead, government officials said.

Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said he wasn’t aware of any Israeli casualties.

Just before the blasts, Scotland Yard called the security officer at the Israeli Embassy to say they had received warnings of possible attacks, the official said. He did not say whether British police made any link to the economic conference.

What I find fascinating here is not whether this early report is true but how Raimondo evaluates it. The story claims that (1) Netanyahu had prior knowledge of the attack (2) because he was notified minutes before the explosions (3) by Scotland Yard. If this were true the interesting part of the story would be about Scotland Yard. There is nothing in the story that implicates Netanyahu or Israel in any questionable behavior. Yet Raimondo makes the story about Netanyahu and Israel, which is very odd. I brought this to his attention in a comment thread on Catallarchy. In response Raimondo urged me to read his original piece, which of course I had already done. In it he simply dismisses out of hand that any warning could have come from Scotland Yard:

I don’t believe that Scotland Yard knew diddly-squat about the terror plot, either days or minutes before the bombs exploded, although what seems beyond dispute is that Netanyahu was warned beforehand.

Why is it beyond dispute that Netanyahu was warned beforehand if the original story is substantially false? The second piece of evidence Raimondo cites in his piece from Stratfor:

Contrary to original claims that Israel was warned “minutes before” the first attack, unconfirmed rumors in intelligence circles indicate that the Israeli government actually warned London of the attacks “a couple of days” previous. Israel has apparently given other warnings about possible attacks that turned out to be aborted operations. The British government did not want to disrupt the G-8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, or call off visits by foreign dignitaries to London, hoping this would be another false alarm.

The British government sat on this information for days and failed to respond. Though the Israeli government is playing along publicly, it may not stay quiet for long. This is sure to apply pressure on Blair very soon for his failure to deter this major terrorist attack.

Curiouser and curiouser. Raimondo writes: “Although several news reports had Netanyahu on his way to the conference, Stratfor avers that he simply stayed put.” But the Stratfor piece he cites avers nothing of the sort. It cites a rumor which if true would call into question the need to notify Netanyahu moments beforehand. So Raimondo has already dismissed point (3) of the AP story out of hand and he cites this rumor to dismiss point (2). But points (2) and (3) were almost the entire substance of the AP story. This is not arguing for the credibility of the AP story.

Note further that the rumor in the Stratfor piece, like the AP story, does not implicate Netanyahu or Israel in any unsavory or even suspicious behavior. Again, the Stratfor rumor only implicates the British in questionable behavior, but for Raimondo the real story can only be about Israel.

In the Catallarchy thread Raimondo cites a third piece:

Terrorism expert Tommy Preston of Preston Global in Frankfort, Kentucky, said sources in the intelligence community reported that at least one person in London, England was warned of Thursday morning’s terrorist attacks moments before the initial blast. Preston, citing sources in the intelligence community, said former Israeli Prime Minister and current Finance Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was in London this morning for an economic forum. “Just before the first blast, Netanyahu got a call from the Israeli Embassy telling him to stay in his hotel room. The hotel is located next to the subway station where the first attack occurred and he did stay put and shortly after that, there was the explosion,” Preston said.

This report is consistent with the AP story though it omits any mention of Scotland Yard. And again, if this story is true then the rumor that Stratfor reports would appear to be false - there would be no need to to inform Netanyahu moments beforehand if the Stratfor rumor were true. So think a minute: What is it in the Stratfor rumor that supports Raimondo’s theory? And Raimondo said in his own piece that he doesn’t find credible that the idea that Netanyahu was warned minutes beforehand, so how does a report he was so warned support Raimondo’s theory?

I don’t know what the basis of the original AP story was. Occam’s Razor suggests to me that perhaps in the hectic hours after the London attack someone got confused about when Netanyahu was notified. That doesn’t mean this is what happened - it’s just the simplest explanation of events consistent with the reported facts and one we should not reject without good reason.

Raimondo has given no good reason. He applies a different methodology.

Raimondo’s Razor: When multiple explanations are available for a phenomenon, the version which implicates Israel is preferred.

UPDATE: Raimondo responds here.

Bryan Caplan points out that Hong Kong has long had the most free economy in the world, yet it’s citizens strongly favor socialist public policy.

Kaplan:

To be blunt, it looks like the lack of democracy under British rule was a key component of Hong Kong’s ascent. The policies worked wonders, but they never became democratically self-sustaining. In politics, people often resist policy change just because “things have always been this way,” even if the results were never very good. But free-market policies apparently labor under a greater political handicap. Even if “we’ve always left these things to the free market,” even if leaving things to the free market has worked in the past, it just isn’t enough to win over public opinion.

This ought to be especially troubling for consequentialist libertarian evangelists. How can they expect their arguments to persuade the public when even massive successful demonstrations don’t sway public opinion in favor of free markets?

(lung is using johns account again because she lost her password.)

johns friend is racal. sometimes racal is called the tall one! she lives with a drake monger and a girl photograph (jeliza!) the stork just brought racal another little baby!

the new baby is called elisabeth. she is adorable! it is a special time for her! when the lungs come out of the mold at trw it is a special time for them too. they are still a little soft and rubbery. they walk around and make little noises that mean they want a donut! then they see dean wooldridge and they run over to dean and sit on his lap and dean gives them a donut. it is lung’s first donut and then the new little lungs fly around the assembly building and the engineers throw donuts to them! it is a happy time.

the lung molds are turning out lungs every minute now. w. has ordered all-out lung production! w. is nice. MILLIONS OF LUNGS! MILLIONS OF LUNGS! yay!

the new baby came a little early because the new baby wanted everybody to be happy. elizabeth knew that racal is sweet and kind and good and a good mommy and that jeliza is nice and glossy and drake monger is big and writes programs for apple (so he is automatically nice. because lung loves macintosh! it is userfriendly, like lung!)

elizabeth also came early because she wanted to see her big sister olivia!

olivia is using the magical powers taught her by lung to command the green-blooded ones without fear of contamination! olivia is a living, breathing, creature of the cosmic entity! lung taught her the secrets of sefer yetzirah (just like ayn rand!) and now olivia is mistress of men and monsters! even nyarlathotep in unknown kadeth must fear olivia’s commands!

olivia is adorable! soon her sister will join her and they will rule over the universe! (lung will help!) yay!

happy birthday, elisabeth!

(lung asked racal if lung could arrange some omens for elizabeth’s birth. omens are useful in your later career. earthquakes and floods are impressive omens! two-headed calfs falling from the clouds are funny! racal said no.)

racal

(Note: a varient, non-lung spelling of “racal” is “Rachael”; some scholars believe that “jeliza” can also be translated as “Jane”. Scholars are divided on what “drake monger” actually means. - JS)

Stephan Kinsella on the LRC blog:

Thank God! The draft of the Iraqi Bill of Rights just shows America is helping to spawn liberty in the mid-east.

Looks like the Iraqis are going to get limited government just like we have here in the US of A. What’s that, you say? The Iraqis are having a state with effectively unlimited powers imposed on them? But that’s what “limited government” is, folks: government limited only by itself. And how can government limit itself? It can’t, because any government, anywhere, implicitly has the power to dispose of the life, liberty, and property of anyone under its thumb: if it didn’t have that power, it wouldn’t be a government.

Every government has in principle unlimited power under the law. That’s why the de facto conditions in the US pretty much mirror what the Iraqis are spelling out explicitly: you have the freedom to do X, except where X is prohibited by law.

Then you don’t.

And that’s all that there is or ever was to “limits” placed on government by various government documents: a layer of paperwork that needs to be completed before the aforesaid disposal can get started. A layer of paperwork that can be legislated away (or ignored - who’s going to stop it?), should it prove a little too burdensome.

So it’s “Mission Accomplished” for Iraq, I guess. (Honestly: did anyone expect anything more?)