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The Yellow Peril

Posted on | June 28, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

One of the recurring tropes in science fiction (and pulp fiction as well) is the Yellow Peril, the notion that America is in danger from the Asian hordes – originally Chinese, but later Japanese, and now Chinese again – whose fiendish plots are foiled only by heroic deeds, super-science, or both. Or neither; the literature is full of tales where the United States has been utterly defeated, and only scattered bands of Americans fight on against the Asiatic occupiers.

The most famous of these is, of course, Philip Nowlan’s Armageddon 2419, which introduces us to Anthony “Buck” Rogers, veteran of the Great War and hero of the Second American Revolution. Rogers wakes from a 500-year-long sleep induced by a radioactive gas pocket to find that the United States he knew is long dead, but scattered gangs of Americans carry on the war against the decadent Han, having developed new technologies to aid them in the fight. Rogers brings to the table forgotten tactics  that prove lethally useful, and provides a leader the mutually suspicious gangs can follow. Nowlan’s original novel and its sequel (The Airlords Of Han) are both available for free on amazon and through Project Gutenberg, but the Ace paperback edition combines them into one novel. Speaking of the Ace edition, when the Buck Rogers TV series became popular, Ace hired Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle to come up with a series of outlines for four sequel novels: Mordred (written by John Eric Holmes) , Warrior’s Blood, Warrior’s World (both by Roger McEnroe), & Rogers’ Rangers (by John Silbersack). Since these sequels are all based on Nowlan’s novel (with some slight tweaks from Niven & Pournelle) they don’t have much to do with the TV show, but that’s okay – the TV show didn’t have much to do with the book. Fun, quick reads for cheap; if they were doing them these days, they’d probably be a lot longer.

I really wanted to like Buck Rogers: A Life In The Future, by Martin Caidin. I really did. Unfortunately, Caidin plays fast and loose with the original plot, and instead of Anthony Rogers leading the gangs of America to victory against the Han, instead he gets dragged along on a number of pointless adventures and meaningless contests, and zzzzz…oh, sorry. The worst part of all this is that Caidin is a decent writer who’s written a bunch of exciting books, and this just feels like he phoned it in to TSR. Not recommended.

Meanwhile, back in the 1940s, Robert Heinlein wrote Sixth Column, based on an idea given to him by John W. Campbell, and the odds are even longer in this one than in the Buck Rogers novels. Not only are the conquering PanAsians well on their way toward setting up a global totalitarian state, the only opposition left is a handful of scientists and soldiers led by a former ad executive drafted into uniform. Fortunately, they have a super-science gizmo to end all gizmos, and that Old Time Religion. Sort of. It’s only Heinlein’s second novel, but you wouldn’t know it. Recommended.

The Bear & The Dragon was Tom Clancy’s last novel, and if I remember correctly the last 20% was actually finished by Mark Greaney, which might account for all the swearing and sex that some of the reviewers complained about…anyhow, this is set in the Ryanverse, with Jack Ryan as President, and an assassination attempt in Moscow is just the start of the bad news here, because Red China intends to succeed where the Japanese failed and seize the Northern Resource Area (Siberia) for themselves. This is a good, if dated, mix of spy novel and technothriller, culminating in a clash between Red Chinese mechanized forces and Russian/American armor while the U.S. Air Force and PVO Strany have a turkey shoot against the People’s Liberation Army Air Force. Not the best of Tom  Clancy’s books, even in the Ryanverse, but good enough brain candy.

Have a favorite Yellow Peril novel I’ve overlooked? Mention it in the comments!

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Category: Books

FMJRA 2.0: Run With Me, Wherever I Go

Posted on | June 27, 2020 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Run With Me, Wherever I Go

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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Bacon Time
EBL

Didn’t We Try to Warn You?
The Pirate’s Cove
357 Magnum
First Street Journal
EBL

Surprising Plot Twist in Atlanta: ‘Girlfriend’ Is Suspect in Wendy’s Arson
EBL

A Death in Antifastan
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: I’m The Runaway Son Of The Nuclear A-Bomb
A View From The Beach
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Michelle Malkin
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive
Ninety Miles From Tyranny

The Definition of ‘Execrable’
Bacon Time
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.22.20
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Black People Celebrate ‘Juneteenth’ Weekend by Shooting Each Other
EBL

The Hotepping of America
Dark Brightness
EBL

Rayshard Brooks’ Girlfriend Arrested
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.23.20
EBL
Proof Positive

Old And Busted: Auto-da-fé
New Hotness: Tina da Fey
EBL

Fake Noose, Fake News
357 Magnum
Pushing Rubber Downhill
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.24.20
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

The New York Times Smears French Author Who Predicted Our Current Crisis
EBL

Why Does New York Hate Freedom?
EBL

‘We Can See Through That’
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.25.20
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 06.26.20
EBL
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending June 26:

  1.  EBL (20)
  2. (tied) A View From The Beach and Proof Positive (6)
  3.  357 Magnum (5)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Parenting Against ‘The Village’

Posted on | June 27, 2020 | 3 Comments

Many readers will recall that in 1996 Hillary Clinton published a book — I won’t say she wrote it — called It Takes a Village, the title of which was supposedly inspired by an African proverb. Whether or not this actually is a proverb among Africans, or whether it was merely attributed to them to make it seem trendy and “multicultural,” I’ve always been averse to the claim that “It takes a village to raise a child.”

Whatever the origin of its title, Clinton’s book was essentially an argument against parental responsibility, a demand that government take charge of raising children whose parents were incompetent, and thus an embrace of collectivism. Back in the mid-1990s, my wife and I were already the parents of three children — our youngest three came along latter — and it was a heckuva struggle. While we certainly had family and friends who were helpful, our situation was made more difficult by several factors, including the fact that my mother died when I was 16, so we had half the ordinary supply of grandmotherly care, and we lived 700 miles from my wife’s family. Beyond that, we had discovered that the public schools are a complete disaster, with an anti-Christian curriculum and other problems too numerous to detail here. So . . .

You’re on your own.

Raising excellent kids in a world of mediocrity requires that parents make up their minds to think independently, to exercise their own inherent authority, to assert their proprietary interest. Reject the collectivist mentality that insists your children aren’t actually yours.

What is necessary, really, is a proper sense of self-respect.

Are you an intelligent, high-quality person? Is your spouse likewise a person who is above the norm? Do you both have good values? If you consider yourself a worthwhile person, and not some no-account degenerate trash, then doesn’t it follow from this that you are qualified to make decisions about what is best for your children? If this is so, why should you outsource this decison-making to others? If you consider yourself qualified to judge what is in your child’s best interest, why would you allow a Board of Education bureaucrat to determine what your child should be taught and how? Are you less qualified than the bureaucrat?

Don’t try to sell me your argument in defense of “good” public schools. Most Americans believe that their own local public schools are an island of “quality” in an ocean of decay. They will admit public schools are generally bad, but insist their child’s school is an exception. I’m sure parents in Parkland, Florida, were making this argument right up until the moment when the mass murder began.

If you believe you are a good parent, and if you believe your children deserve the best possible education, you will not shove them into the dangerous, dumbed-down conformity factories of public education.

Every intelligent Christian in America understands that we are living in an evil and decadent age, in which the elites are morally bankrupt and our social institutions have been subverted. Your children must be taught to resist the herd mentality, or else they will be pulled down by the undertow of decadence that surrounds them. Peer pressure is dangerous, as can be seen from a review of Abigail Shrier’s new book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters:

Shrier’s book discusses a social theory that some trans activists really don’t want to see the light of day. Teen girls, the theory says, can decide they are transgender males as a result of interacting with other young girls who have transitioned through a phenomenon known as “peer contagion.”
Peer contagion is defined as “the transmission or transfer of deviant behavior from one adolescent to another.” It has been scientifically linked to depression, eating disorders, and drug use.
“Today,” the book’s description reads, “whole groups of female friends in colleges, high schools, and even middle schools across the country are coming out as ‘transgender.’ These are girls who had never experienced any discomfort in their biological sex until they heard a coming-out story from a speaker at a school assembly or discovered the internet community of trans ‘influencers.’” . . .
Almost 90 percent of parents surveyed in [researcher Lisa] Littman’s study said their child was the second, third, or fourth person in their friendship group to question their gender.
Additionally, 21 percent of parents reported that their child came out as transgender around the same time that a friend came out as transgender.
Further, one-third of parents said more than half of their child’s friendship group was transgender-identified. Littman said this represented a rate of transgender-identification that is more than 70 times the expected prevalence for young adults.
“Parents have described clusters of gender dysphoria in pre-existing friend groups with multiple or even all members of a friend group becoming gender dysphoric and transgender-identified in a pattern that seems statistically unlikely based on previous research,” she wrote.

Public schools now actively promote the transgender cult.

“It Takes a Village to Mutilate a Child.”




 

Category: Education, The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 06.26.20

Posted on | June 26, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

It’s Friday, and you know what that means – reminders that links are due by noon tomorrow for the FMJRA and by midnight for Rule 5 Sunday. Also this weekend, the Pre-Independence Day Yellow Peril Book Post!

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Another Cop Kneeling On Someone’s Neck
Red Pilled Jew: Random Thoughts
Bacon Time: Put Me Down As Calling This Suspicious
EBL: The Radical Left Is Grooming Your Kids
Twitchy: Sean Spicier Tweets About Flynn, The Obama Administration, & NASCAR, And The Lefties Freak Out
Louder With Crowder: Pathetic – Pelosi & Schumer Can’t Even Remember George Floyd’s Name
Vox Popoli: They KNOW They’re Hypocrites, also, The Other Great Replacement
According To Hoyt: The Danger Of War Elephants

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: How To Retrofit Your Neighborhood To Save Urban Civilization
American Greatness: The Democrats Indulge Their Death Wish, also, Indian Leader Calls For Destruction Of Mount Rushmore
American Thinker: The Left Craps Out, also, BLM/Antifa Violence Is Prelude To November
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Data & Facts Friday
Babalu Blog: How The Cuban Exile Pilots Of Makasi Fought Communism In The Congo
Baldilocks: Present Help
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For June 26
Cafe Hayek: The Emotigentsia
Da Tech Guy: The $86 Million Carpe Donktum Twitter Advertiser Question
Don Surber: BLM Proves The Broken Windows Theory, also, #NeverTrumper Casts Shade On A Trump Win
The Geller Report: DeBlasio & Cuomo Get Schlonged In Court, also, Migrant Who Stabbed Three To Death Was In UK’s “Deradicalization” Program
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Well, I’m Glad That’s Done
Hollywood In Toto: My Spy Pins Dave Bautista To The Mat
The Lid: Jerry Nadler Says Antifa Is Imaginary
Legal Insurrection: Radical Left Makes Inroads At Scalia Law School Under #BLM Banner, also, Harlem Blacks Push Back Against Defunding The Police
The PanAm Post: Iran Trains Venezuelan Military To Control Communications, also, Avior’s Excuse To Avoid Sanctions
Power Line: Voter Fraud – The Democrats’ Ace In The Hole, also, Frederick Douglass Speaks
Shark Tank: Democrat Ag Commissioner Asks DeSantis For Mask Order
Shot In The Dark: A Little Bit Country
STUMP: State Bankruptcy & Bailout Reactions
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – How To Protest
This Ain’t Hell: Why I Believe Mikey Weinstein Is A Bottom-Feeding Opportunist, also, Valor Friday
Victory Girls: Suicide Of The Republican Party, Or Salvation?
Volokh Conspiracy: NY Officials’ Endorsement Of Anti-Racism Protests Leads To Successful Religious Freedom Challenge To Gatherings Ban
Weasel Zippers: 20% Of Ballots Rejected As Fraud Is Charged In NJ Mail-In Election, also, Antifa Attacks Portland Police Precinct, Sets It On Fire
Megan McArdle: Trump Will Richly Deserve His Fate, But He Won’t Pay The Ultimate Cost
Mark Steyn: Columbians At War

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In The Mailbox: 06.25.20

Posted on | June 25, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.25.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: First History, Now Religion
Red Pilled Jew: Wednesday Whittle
Bacon Time: A New Stupid Trend Will Be Starting
EBL: Talking Heads – “Life During Wartime”
Twitchy: Dana Loesch Not Having Any Of Tater Stelter’s Pearl Clutching Over Trump Calling Monument Vandals “Terrorists In A Sense”
Louder With Crowder: Black Heavy Metal Singer Exposes #BlackLivesMatter Using Erasable Markers
Vox Popoli: Totally Not Suspicious, also, Welcome To The Third World

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Statue Wars Come To The British Empire
American Greatness: Against The #FakeNoose Media, also, Obama & His Gang Of Untouchables
American Thinker: The #BlackLivesMatter Movement Is The Enemy Of Black Americans
Animal Magnetism: Vacation Totty IV
Babalu Blog: Real Life “Wasp Network” Cuban Spies Murdered Americans & Plotted Terrorist Attacks In The U.S.
BattleSwarm: Joe Rogan Interviews Colion Noir
Cafe Hayek: More Mistaken Motivated Justifications For Minimum Wages
CDR Salamander: Post-COVID-19 Red China Is The Old China
Da Tech Guy: The American Voters Can’t Pretend They Don’t Know Their Choice, also, Things Would Be So Much Better If The U.S. Media Was Worthy Of Our Trust & Respect
Don Surber: Defeating Satan Is Racist?
The Geller Report: “Tolerant” Liberals Target Sen. Tim Scott With Threats & Racist Voicemails, also, Google Censorship Kills “Voice Of Europe” Site
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: Jon Stewart Apologizes For His Blindingly White Daily Show Staff, also, Why Cruise’s Days Of Thunder Tops His “Need For Speed”
JustOneMinute: Cases Surging, Deaths To Follow?
Legal Insurrection: Student Activists Demand Removal Of Lincoln Statue At UW-Madison, also, Minneapolis Neighborhood Promised To “Check Is Privilege”, Then A 300-Strong Homeless Camp Moved In
The PanAm Post: Progressivism Will Destroy History & Science, also, Nobody Likes Traitors
Power Line: Strzok Strikes Again, also, How Many COVID Deaths Are There, Really?
Shark Tank: Laura Loomer Surges In FL-21
Shot In The Dark: Reagan Spoke Too Soon
The Political Hat: UN-Serious, UN-Fair, & UN-American, also, All The Cops Are Criminals, And All The Fundamental Transformative Revolutionaries Saints
This Ain’t Hell: The Real Reason Mobs Are Tearing Down Monuments, also, Proposed Changes To Veteran Preference Points
Victory Girls: Scott Rips Democrats For Blocking Police Reform Bill
Volokh Conspiracy: In Re Michael Flynn As Bush v. Gore
Weasel Zippers: Another White Leftist Tries To Lecture Black Cop About Racism, also, Trump Says “Every City That Has Problems Is Run By Radical Left Democrats”
Mark Steyn: Revolt Of The Know-Nothings, also, The Wheels Of Justice Grind

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‘We Can See Through That’

Posted on | June 25, 2020 | 1 Comment

Glenn Reynolds calls attention to a feature article about black Democrats in Michigan that is an eye-opening glimpse into 2020:

“We look at Joe Biden and see more of the same. It’s about the era he came up. It’s about his identity—he’s a rich, old white man. What are his credentials to us, other than Obama picking him? It’s nice that he worked with Obama. But let’s keep it real: That was a political calculation. Obama thought he needed a white man to get elected, just like Biden thinks he needs a Black woman to get elected. We can see through that.”

Even though all of the people interviewed are partisan loyalists who will vote Democrat no matter what, at the same time they are all profoundly convinced that Donald Trump will be re-elected.

And this is good news. What it means is that the cynical calculations of white liberals, who have built their careers on a strategy of obtaining political power by pandering to black voters, have become transparent to the voters to whom they pander. That’s very bad news for Democrats.

More bad news for Democrats: 16-term New York Democrat Rep. Elliott Engel has apparently lost to primary challenger Jamaal Bowman:

Over the last few weeks, Engel received high-profile endorsements from Democratic establishment figures, including from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA), and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. . . .
On the other hand, Bowman boasted endorsements from far-left politicians, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), whose 2018 primary upset occurred in the neighboring district, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).

See? Now they’re going after the Jews. It was one thing, perhaps, when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took out the Irish Catholic Joe Crowley, but for Democrat primary voters to declare, in effect, that Jews are no longer eligible for Congress? Oh, that’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt bad.




 

Category: Democrats

Why Does New York Hate Freedom?

Posted on | June 25, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

New Yorkers are not allowed to celebrate the Fourth of July:

More than a dozen people were arrested in separate fireworks busts across New York City as part of a new crackdown.
Two men in Staten Island were arrested on Tuesday as part of the crackdown.
The FDNY posted pictures of the $6,000 worth of fireworks fire marshals found in the suspects’ car.
Matthew King, 35, and Rayval Singh, 22, will face charges of reckless endangerment and the unlawful dealing of fireworks.
Fire marshals were conducting surveillance near the Goethals Bridge to try to intercept illegal fireworks being brought into the city.
Also, Deputy Sheriff Fireworks Task Force Officers arrest two people in Canarsie, Brooklyn, for unlawfully dealing with fireworks and dangerous fireworks valued at more than $2,000 that were trafficked from Pennsylvania.
In the Bronx, officials say two more people were arrested after being caught selling fireworks out of their vehicle last week.
A buyer was also summonsed. The fireworks were confiscated, and the vehicle was seized for forfeiture.
Another bust in the Bronx on Wednesday led to the arrests of 12 more people and the confiscation of two rifles and a handgun.
FDNY Fire Marshals also arrested Jeffrey Andrew Lee, 25, for possession of approximately $2,500 worth of illegal fireworks. Lee was arrested in Manhattan by Fire Marshals investigating and conducting surveillance regarding illegal fireworks in our city. He is charged with reckless endangerment and the unlawful dealing of fireworks.
And not far from the city in Yonkers, cops busted a 34-year-old man for selling illegal fireworks from the trunk of his car. Police found 28 cases of fireworks valuing about $10,000.

Every patriotic American enjoys shooting “extremely dangerous” illegal fireworks on the Fourth of July, but patriotism is illegal in New York. Meanwhile in West Virginia, where “extremely dangerous” fireworks are actually legal — because freedom! — our family has accumulated a supply that would probably send us to prison in New York. We are grateful to readers who support this patriotic celebration.

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Category: Fireworks, New York

The New York Times Smears French Author Who Predicted Our Current Crisis

Posted on | June 25, 2020 | Comments Off on The New York Times Smears French Author Who Predicted Our Current Crisis

Twenty-five years ago, when a friend sent me a copy of Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints, it was a book so taboo that you were considered racist merely for knowing of its existence. The 1973 novel, which imagines France invaded by a flotilla of refugees from the Indian subcontinent, pointed out how Western civilization had lost its will to survive, having become decadent, full of self-loathing and racial guilt.

Five years ago, however, when the Syrian civil war produced an influx of “refugees” into the European Union, suddenly Raspail’s novel was recognized as prophetic; even many liberals said the scenes in Europe were reminiscent of The Camp of the Saints. The election of Donald Trump and other politicial events indicative of a “nationalist” mood in the electorate seemed to validate much of Raspail’s critique.

Jean Raspail died at age 94 earlier this month, and his obituary in the New York Times was an act of deliberate character assassination.

Phyllis Chesler describes the crude smear:

A photo of Raspail’s book is accompanied by a caption: “Mr. Raspail dehumanized immigrants in his 1973 book.” The piece describes Raspail’s followers as “white supremacists, far-right political figures;” worse yet, as one “member of the Trump administration.” In addition, “many conservatives” attended his funeral; his readers were “far right,” his book spawned or influenced today’s “white supremacists” — and led to the shootings at two mosques, one in New Zealand, one in Texas. . . .
In case you still don’t know what Raspail represents, the obituary goes on to describe Raspail as one of the “last members of the old reactionary right” in France. One of President Trumps advisers had “written approvingly of the novel in an email (!) to an editor at the right wing website Breitbart.” Can’t be clearer than this.
But, in case you are still unsure of whose reputation must be shamed, cancelled, and toppled, his novel has been called a “racist novel.” Raspail insisted that he was not a “racist,” but he also said that he would not change a single line in The Camp of the Saints, and “described himself as ‘right wing, even right-right-wing.’” The Obituary continues along in this vein. The novel is a “racist diatribe.”

Never mind, of course, that Raspail’s novel accurately predicted the future in which we are now living. The fact that Raspail was correct in his assessment of the West’s cowardice doesn’t matter; what matters, to the New York Times, is that Raspail was against surrendering to foreign invasion. You’re not allowed to be against surrender. It’s “racist” to think French people have a right to defend France against foreigners.

You’d better buy the book now, before they ban it.




 

Category: France, New York Times, Racism
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