U/T: IOTW and Sergey_Larenkov
Friday, July 30, 2010
Photo-Merge
Click here to see an incredible collection of merged-photos: B&W WWII pics with recent color pics of the same place.
U/T: IOTW and Sergey_Larenkov
U/T: IOTW and Sergey_Larenkov
Another Spy!
Anna Fermanova, 24, was working as a teacher in Texas until the imperialist Americans deported her as part of the recent Russian spy ring. We think she is mis-understood and should have been allowed to stay. Can't we all just get along?
U/T: EnglishRussia (Click For More Pics!)
U/T: EnglishRussia (Click For More Pics!)
Enemies of the People
"One Man's Journey to the Heart of the Killing Fields"
A documentary opening today in New York, and next week in Los Angeles.
A documentary opening today in New York, and next week in Los Angeles.
Enemies of the People Movie Trailer from Rob Lemkin on Vimeo.
Communist [Inspired]
There are those hard-line Communists, and then there are what we call the 'Communist-Inspired'. Both have the same grand ideas and solutions for our problems, but the latter is constrained by a Constitution, must conceal their true intentions, and have learned to settle for delayed and incremental progress.
Here are a couple recent pics of both.
Found at Townhall:
And here is a recent pic from the DMZ:
Here are a couple recent pics of both.
Found at Townhall:
And here is a recent pic from the DMZ:
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Thursday Night Cigar
You can never go wrong with an Ashton.
We are still reading Robert Conquest's Stalin: Breaker of Nations
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Pages 193-194. Sound like someone else?
We are still reading Robert Conquest's Stalin: Breaker of Nations
.Pages 193-194. Sound like someone else?
One of his [Stalin's] greatest characteristics was a phenomenal memory, at least in the matters which concerned him most. And he had the ability to master the facts in a variety of fields. He mistook this, as laymen often do, for the ability to understand at least the essentials of any field whatever and make informed judgements. He was to decide not only questions of economics, in which he was barely competent, but also crucial issues of, for example, biology, on which his knowledge was no more than comparable, at best, to that of an all-purpose journalist called upon to write an article, or a lawyer required to 'brief himself' for a week or two on some technical problem.
This attitude, which led to such absurdities, must in part be based on the Communist principle that a dogma transcending other knowledge had been discovered, and that political leadership, and political considerations generally, are on a higher and more comprehensive plane than all other elements of life and society, and are empowered to make final decisions. It allowed Stalin to decimate, and more than decimate, his engineers, his physicists and so on. When the Kharkov Physics Laboratory, one of the best in Europe, was destroyed by the arrest of almost all its leading staff, one of its departmental heads commented: 'You need five years to train an engineer, and even then the government had a very great deal of trouble before it could get suitable engineers for its new factories. But a capable physicist needs from ten to fifteen years' of training.'
The most crucial area in which Stalin failed to appreciate the need for specialists was, however, to be military science. Here, as we have said, he clearly believed that he himself had shown high talent in spite of a total lack of training. His destruction of the military cadres, which nearly resulted in disaster in 1941-43, was a natural result.
This attitude, which led to such absurdities, must in part be based on the Communist principle that a dogma transcending other knowledge had been discovered, and that political leadership, and political considerations generally, are on a higher and more comprehensive plane than all other elements of life and society, and are empowered to make final decisions. It allowed Stalin to decimate, and more than decimate, his engineers, his physicists and so on. When the Kharkov Physics Laboratory, one of the best in Europe, was destroyed by the arrest of almost all its leading staff, one of its departmental heads commented: 'You need five years to train an engineer, and even then the government had a very great deal of trouble before it could get suitable engineers for its new factories. But a capable physicist needs from ten to fifteen years' of training.'
The most crucial area in which Stalin failed to appreciate the need for specialists was, however, to be military science. Here, as we have said, he clearly believed that he himself had shown high talent in spite of a total lack of training. His destruction of the military cadres, which nearly resulted in disaster in 1941-43, was a natural result.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
The Pro's of Unemployment
Ok, maybe just one "pro".
Blogger and Law Professor William A. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection has a post on the Diversity Industry.
We have over 10 years in Corporate America, which means we have spent 10 full days in mandatory Diversity Training classes. And despite never having owned a slave, wanted to own a slave, or know of anybody who owned a slave, we still had to submit to 8 hours of someone speaking to us as if we either have these desires or are trying to purge these thoughts from our instinctively slave-owning minds.
The pain and suffering is twofold. As someone who performs a productive role in the company that either makes the company money or saves the company money, we had to sit there and be led by someone who offers the company nothing more than a litigation barrier and government mandated white-guilt lecture. Those were the longest days of our life.
We once sat in an all-staff meeting at a Fortune-500 company and when the CEO (a white man) offered to take questions, some shmuck stood up and asked the CEO's position on diversity. His response is now our response: "I celebrate diversity. I embrace diversity. I've hired some folks from Harvard this past year, and some from Stanford. I will continue to find and recruit the best people for the job, period."
U/T: Glenn Reynolds
Blogger and Law Professor William A. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection has a post on the Diversity Industry.
The diversity consultant industry is pretty much like any industry; it has a product to sell and it needs to create demand for that product.
We have over 10 years in Corporate America, which means we have spent 10 full days in mandatory Diversity Training classes. And despite never having owned a slave, wanted to own a slave, or know of anybody who owned a slave, we still had to submit to 8 hours of someone speaking to us as if we either have these desires or are trying to purge these thoughts from our instinctively slave-owning minds.
The pain and suffering is twofold. As someone who performs a productive role in the company that either makes the company money or saves the company money, we had to sit there and be led by someone who offers the company nothing more than a litigation barrier and government mandated white-guilt lecture. Those were the longest days of our life.
We once sat in an all-staff meeting at a Fortune-500 company and when the CEO (a white man) offered to take questions, some shmuck stood up and asked the CEO's position on diversity. His response is now our response: "I celebrate diversity. I embrace diversity. I've hired some folks from Harvard this past year, and some from Stanford. I will continue to find and recruit the best people for the job, period."
U/T: Glenn Reynolds
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Change
Van Helsing at Moonbattery ponders the "change" suggested in this clip of Commie Obama Hat Owner Glenn Beck: from soft tyranny to hard tyranny.
You decide, while we put a few more dollar bills into our Obama Cuss Jar...
U/T: Moonbattery & Glenn Beck
You decide, while we put a few more dollar bills into our Obama Cuss Jar...
U/T: Moonbattery & Glenn Beck
