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Battlestar Galactica Show Runner: Are we adopting Islamo-Nazi tactics?

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Monday, February 11, 2008 11:24:44 PM
That might be the point of a post Ronald D. Moore's blog. Or it just might be something he thought was interesting because he thinks the current Administration is run by Drinky McBushitler. Who knows?

Moore is Battlestar Galactica's Show Runner, i.e., Executive Producer - the guy in charge of producing the show each week. During the WGA's Writers' Strike he created has his own blog (he needed something to do while waiting for his extended vacation ... uh, I mean the Writers' Strike to end) creatively titled: "Ronald D. Moore blog".

Under the heading "I like Ike", he has this 'sound bite' from the book Legacy of Ashes:
“We were engaged in the defense of a way of life, and the great danger was that in defending this way of life we would find ourselves resorting to methods that endangered this way of life.”

"The president noted that the Joint Chiefs of Staff  had told him, “we should do what was necessary even if the result was to change the American way of life.  We could lick the whole world... if we were willing to adopt the system of Adolph Hitler.”
My question is: What's the point?

A constant theme in BSG is how a government becomes like the enemy in order to fight the enemy. So is Mr. Moore saying that America is at risk of becoming like the Islamo-Nazis that we are at war with?

If you're going to step out onto the blogging stage, Mr. Moore, you might want to do a little more than just drop a pithy quote into a post now and then. Being able to copy something from a book means very little, in my book.
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Oh Polygamous Canada

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Monday, February 11, 2008 11:10:47 AM
More evidence for the West's slow suicide. Canada is working hard to beat Britain in giving welfare benefits to Muslim "families" based on the number of wives.
"Mumtaz Ali, president of the Canadian Society of Muslims, said wives in polygamous marriages are recognized as spouses under the Ontario Family Law Act, providing they were legally married under Muslim laws abroad. ...  He estimates "several hundred" GTA husbands in polygamous marriages are receiving benefits. Under Islamic law, a Muslim man is permitted to have up to four spouses. ... The average recipient with a child can receive about $1,500 monthly, city officials said."
Four spouses, with one child from each spouse, means that a Muslim man in Canada can potentially receive about $6,000 a month in welfare benefits.

How long before the polygamous heathens start screaming for such benefits in America? Will Dearborn-istan be the first to establish welfare based on number of wives?
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Mitt Romney did the right thing. Will Huckabee?

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Thursday, February 07, 2008 1:25:42 PM
Late Tuesday night I wrote that Super Tuesday was to Romney  what Florida was Giuliani. Today, at CPAC, Mitt Romney stood up like a true conservative, put America before his own personal desires and dropped out of the Presidential race.

Thank you, Gov. Romney.

Now, will Gov. Huckabee do what is right and also step aside so the GOP can establish a unified front against the party of retreat, defeat and European style socialism?

Furthermore, what will McCain say to those gathered at CPAC? Will he make a strong conservative case against the hard Left policies promoted by Obama or Clinton?
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China Mieville - Mind the Trees, not the Terrorists

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:59:54 AM
It is a wonder that any young person develops conservative ideas given the Leftist indoctrination that occurs nearly every minute of every day. Even a bit of escapist fantasy isn't safe from the Left's heavy hand.

Case in point: China Mieville's book Un Lun Dun. The Democrat Times of New York Book Review does readers a favor by warning them (or teasing them, depending on your politics) of the Leftist ideology Mieville is feeding his "Young Adult" (I think we used to call these "teenagers" - or are they "tweens" now?) readers.

"Beyond its abundant charms, “Un Lun Dun” never misses an opportunity to undermine the tiresome plot devices and tedious moralizing of traditional fantasy. When its disheveled characters are sent on exactingly prescribed quests, you can be sure these heroes will cut corners or otherwise fail to fulfill their missions; when prophecies are invoked, they generally don’t come true; and any character complacent enough to believe he or she is some sort of Chosen One is all but guaranteed not to save the day. Like his fellow Britons Lewis Carroll and Roald Dahl, Miéville has no illusions about what utter bastards children can be, and his novel encourages them to be reckless, mistrustful and secretive; it also finds time to teach them lessons about caring for the environment and being suspicious of officials who raise the specter of terrorism for their own political gain." (emphasis added)

There you have the Leftist world-view in a nutshell: Global Warming is a greater threat than Islamo-Nazis who strap bombs to adults with Downs Syndrome and kill them, and anyone standing next to them, in a pet store. And never mind the bomb-vest wearing crazy chanting "Allah hu Akbar" who wants to see your body blown into bits small enough to fit into a Glad sandwich bag; we need to save ANWR. If the Islamo-Nazi swine, which currently target people, started targeting so-called old growth forests, perhaps then Mr. Mieville, and his ilk, would begin to think ill of them.

That this work, at least, seems to hustle his Left-wing tripe, shouldn't surprise us given that Mr. Mieville is a communist ... uh, I mean active member of the British Socialist Workers Party (a distinction without a difference). And we all know that for the Left life begins and ends with politics.
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Let the Dems fight it out

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 12:22:48 AM
Senator John McCain looks like the big winner on the Republican side. I was for Romney in the Primaries and will be for the Republican come the General. If that means I cast my vote for McCain, so be it.

At this point, I think Romney and Huckabee would do the GOP a great favor, given the acrimony during the Primary contests, to drop out, back McCain and let Hillary and Obama fight it out till until the Democrat Convention.

Knowing when to get out shows a great deal of grace and character. On the other hand a wasted effort that will do little but create even more division among the Republican base shows a certain lack of character. Super Tuesday was to Romney and Huckabee, what Florida was to Giuliani. Mayor Giuliani knew enough to drop out after losing in Florida. How long will it take for the same message to sink into Mitt & Huck?

And will Congressman Ron Paul please go home to Texas. He is a rather pathetic side show.
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The McCain - Santorum kerfuffle

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:52:08 AM
When Sen. Santorum, who supports Mitt Romney, made statements critical of John McCain's temperament, Sen. McCain responded, "... I don't know what a defeated candidate for reelection who begged me to come up and campaign for him has to say."

If McCain was that tough on Democrats I would gladly cast my vote for him. Instead McCain's most vile attacks are directed at the most conservative members of his own party.

No wonder the Democrat Times of Los Angeles and New York both support John McCain.
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Maybe we should leave Los Angeles

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Monday, February 04, 2008 6:23:30 PM
The LA Times' Homicide Report chronicles about 1,000 murders in LA County each year, mostly minorities. Given that kind of body count will be long before the politicians start calling for America to leave LA? Or perhaps there is a "civil war" going on in Los Angeles.
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Conservative case for McCain

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Monday, February 04, 2008 5:30:12 PM
Jeff Jacoby, despite being highly critical of McCain in the past, makes a good conservative case for John McCain.

Included in Jacoby's list of McCain's conservative qualities are:

"On the surpassing national-security issues of the day - confronting the threat from radical Islam and winning the war in Iraq - no one is more stalwart."
...
"He is a spending hawk and an enemy of pork and earmarks. He has never voted to increase taxes, and wants the Bush tax cuts made permanent for the best of reasons: "They worked." He is a staunch free-trader and a champion of school choice. He is unabashedly prolife and pro-Second Amendment. He opposes same-sex marriage. He wants entitlements reined in and personal retirement accounts expanded."

Not one candidate forcefully argues for reigning in the leviathan and establishing a limited federal government as envisioned by the Founders, except Ron Paul. Unfortunately, Ron Paul is a force of one on that score even as a Congressman, and he has no understanding of foreign policy and the threat of Islamo-Nazism.

For me, however, it comes down to a matter of trust. Just like I don't trust the government to when it comes to "comprehensive immigration reform", at this point I don't trust John McCain to act like a conservative. Many McCain supporters offer McCain's 83% American Conservative Union rating. However, this overall lifetime rating ignores his 65% rating in 2006, and his average rating of 74% between 1998 and 2006. The 2006 rating puts John McCain between such staunch "conservative" Senators Ben Nelson (D-NE), at 64%, and Chuck Hagel (R-NE), at 75%.

What really strikes me about McCain's ACU rating numbers is how much he fluctuates, from a low of 65% in 2006 to a high of 96% in 1994. This makes me wonder what his rating might be as President over the next 4 years.                    
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Pure Evil in Iraq

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Monday, February 04, 2008 12:29:11 PM
Is there any other way to describe the bottom dwelling sacks of human waste who would send mentally handicapped men and women into a market as unwitting homicide bombers?

I do not receive television service at home and get my news from the radio and the internet. So it wasn't until this morning that I learned about this evil while browsing Roger Kimball's blog 'Roger's Rules'. Where is the Main Scream Media on this story?

Aaron Hanscom, at Pajamas Media, notes, "In fact, this was only the latest – not the first – instance of mentally disabled individuals being used unwittingly as human bombs." Mr. Hanscom goes on:

Last year, two children with mental problems were put in the back seat of a car that was subsequently blown up in a suicide attack in Baghdad’s Adhamiyah neighborhood.

A local NGO spokesperson explained how these children are “recruited”:
Some children were given by their families but many others were kidnapped by insurgents when they knew that those children had mental problems. Some of them were even taken from the doors of their houses or schools.
Abu Ahmed is a spokesman for al-Qaeda in Iraq and was quoted by IRIN. He spoke about 13-year-old Barak Muhammad, a mentally handicapped boy who was sold to the terrorist group by his father.
We’re doing a favour to Barak. We’re giving him the chance to be useful and not suffer daily beatings from his father. Here, with us, he gets Islamic lessons and is soon going to be a good fighter and maybe one day even become a suicide bomber in the name of God.
Ahmed’s celebration of death could not be more at odds with Western values.

"At odds with Western values" Gee, you think? Will the Left finally get with the program and recognize this evil and call it what it is? Apparently not. Liberal blogger Libby, at 'The Newshoggers', has described the use of Down's Syndrome adults as "a sign of adaptation and a brilliant one at that." Brilliant, Libby? You should be ashamed of yourself for even thinking this obscenity.

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How much is that extra wife worth?

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Monday, February 04, 2008 10:41:49 AM
According to the British Department for Work and Pensions Muslim men, and anyone else in a polygamous marriage legally sanctioned in a foreign nation, each extra wife garners an extra $66.44 a month in dole.
"New guidelines on income support from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) state: "Where there is a valid polygamous marriage the claimant and one spouse will be paid the couple rate ... The amount payable for each additional spouse is presently £33.65."
Outside of Islamic nations, what government legally sanctions polygamous marriages?

Thanks to KJL at NRO's The Corner.
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Micheal Medved's McCain/Feingold defense

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Sunday, February 03, 2008 3:59:27 PM
"How has that law affected you personally? How? Just tell me how you personally were affected by McCain/Feingold."

That is Michael Medved's constant reply to anyone who dares to point out that John McCain joined ranks with one of the most Left-wing Democrats in the Senate, and drastically undercut American's free speech rights protected by the First Amendment.

Is Medved's response valid? Well, what if we were to turn it back on him. Michael Medved has spoken fondly of the Marriage Amendment and the need to ensure marriage is not redefined to include same-sex unions. But how, exactly, does the marriage of two men or two women affect Michael Medved personally? Will a marriage ceremony between to men men that Michael is going to want to hang out at the gay bars in Seattle's Capital Hill or try to pick up men in Minnesota airport toilets? Will his children decide that they want to marry the same-sex? And if they do, so what? How does his children's decision affect Mr. Medved personally?

Do you see how dishonest that line of questioning is? It is a cheap debaters trick to change the subject; from focus on the topic at hand to focus on the individual making the argument. It is nothing more than argument ad hominem.

Medved steadfastly refuses to honestly deal with any argument against John McCain. Instead he uses any criticism of McCain as a way to dismiss the one making it as "obsessed" and "pathetic".

Michael Medved was tied with Michael Reagan as the 6th most listened to talk radio host in America. After this election he may be lucky if he is anywhere on the list.
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Got ADD?

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Sunday, February 03, 2008 3:19:32 PM
Then this might be the thing for you.
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A return to roots will reform Islam?

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Friday, February 01, 2008 10:59:12 AM
Christopher D. Geisel, in his review of George Weigel's new book Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism writes, "... Islamic tradition ... contains older elements that can foster compatibility with consensual government and religious freedom." Geisel is summarizing Weigel's view that Islam might reform behind someone "who “reaches back into the deeper philosophical resources of his tradition in order to broker a critical engagement with Enlightenment political thought.”

My problem with the Weigel seems to be offering is made clear in this passage, by Geisel,

"... the Enlightenment ideal of universal human rights—seen as a gift from God and not a dispensation of government—is deeply rooted in the Western Judeo-Christian tradition. Further, the concepts of limited government and separation between church and state can be found in the New Testament, Weigel notes."

While this is true for the West, it is not true of the Islamic world. There has never been a separation between church and state in Islam. Sha'ria law has always been the tradition in Islam.

I do not know what it will take for Islam to leave behind the 6th Century idea of violent jihad, and theocratic rule. But going back to Islam's roots does not strike me as a viable solution, given that is exactly what the Islamic fascists are calling for.
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The new McCain catch phrase

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 11:46:34 PM
Is "For Patriotism, Not for Profit" supposed to attract the Republican base?

I don't know about you, but I find it rather offensive. McCain seems to be doing his darndest to prove that Republican is truly the "stupid party".
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A Senator in the White House?

Posted by Daniel Crandall on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 10:16:28 PM
Whenever a sitting Senator runs for POTUS, the chattering class talks about how hard it is for a sitting Senator to win, and that no Senator has done it since JFK.

If McCain gets the Republican nomination, which looks likely from my little corner of the Great Northwest, then a sitting Senator will definitely win the White House.

Does anyone know when the last time the Democrat and Republican nominees were both sitting Senators?  What might this bode for future American political contests?

Is this the end of the "outsider" challenging the Washington D.C. powers-that-be?
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