Sgt. Rock comes out

We are wrapping up the Tornado squadron attack scene. Which scene should we write after that? The problem is each sequence must differentiate a little. Otherwise it's just more NATO jets flying through curtains of flack and blowing stuff up. Readers may think they want seven Death Star trench attack scenes, but we assure you all, that would get old. Remember, we are among the best there is at what we do. 

On a whim we looked at The Great Salvation of 1976, which Word tells us we hadn't cracked open since late May. After ten pages we are pleased with what we see. We also got inspiration for a pair of scenes we must needs write up front. One features the British cabinet discussing the state of things, the other a Paul Harvey radio talk. 

Mark Steyn is appropriately apocalyptic. They say Superman is gay. What isn't gay these days? Boooorrrriiiiiing! Steyn writes that a hyperspecialized America is oddly sexless. This is a shrewd observation. We have a 14 year old, and dropping her off at school we see a lot of teenaged girls dressed like middle aged lesbians. This wasn't the case when I was a HS sub in the 2000s or a college prof in the 2010s.

Anyway, back in the 80's we liked Sgt. Rock and GI-Joe. As we write that sentence it occurs to us that someone is already writing up a gay Sgt. Rock reboot, Sgt. Rock asks and tells. My late FB friend Kathy Shaidle used to complain that conservatives shake their heads at PC madness and move on rather than doing something about it. But we have no idea what to do about it. Okay we've bought a few comics from Vox Day's Arkhaven. It's a start.

What Will's Watching: Dave Chappelle, the Closer. Chappelle's is actually a great idea for a SF novel. Heh. Space Jews. You don't mean he's implying...why yes, yes he is. Tough. That's the gig my fellow Israelites. Man, does Chappelle ever know how to deliver a joke. Also, it's nice to see Netflix not cave to a pod of un-fuckable land whales. 4/4

Your Saturday Update on Friday

We are getting ready for a glorious week down the shore. Can't wait. 

The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Biden's illegal eviction moratorium was, illegal. This week they also ruled the remain in Mexico policy must be reinstated. There will be disappointments from the court, but over the long haul...

That speech yesterday was something. It's perfectly normal for the president to make a speech, eyes bloodshot, iris impossibly large and barely blink, while speaking, two words, at a time, as if someone is relaying those words to him through an earpiece. JFC. The man actually broke down when Fox News' Peter Doocy asked him a tough question. Powerline as is their wont, takes the measure of things perfectly.

Mark Steyn calls this America's Suez moment. This is worse. Is (are?) our ruling class the Bourbons? Romanovs? Maybe they're Jeff Davis attending church just as a messenger from Lee arrives notifying him that the Army of Northern Virginia is retreating from Petersburg, only they stuff the message in their pocket and say, 'Things are fine.' You tell me. 

We still have some unread Civil War books from last summer, maybe we'll just bring those to the beach. 

Did we write an Afghanistan piece for Inforos? Does our KGB handler have kompromot on us? To ask these questions is to answer them: 'The Biden Administration has been acting like the fall of Kabul was simply a bit of bad news that they had to spin till a new news cycle began. In a press conference last week, President Biden said he hadn’t been criticized by American allies and claimed that al-Qaida was no longer in Afghanistan. Al-Qaida was ‘gone’ in his words. Both statements are demonstrably false. Last June the UN issued a report detailing al-Qaida’s presence in Afghanistan. Biden’s own defense department agrees. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told the press, ‘We know that al-Qaida is a presence, as well as ISIS, in Afghanistan and we've talked about that for quite some time.’ Click it. *

We didn't know how to end the article till we heard about the ISIS suicide bomb. Thanks Joe...I guess. That article would be an interesting writing tutorial. The piece wasn't really going very well. We kept having to update. We seriously considered scrapping it altogether. At first the end was up front and the front was at the end. Only when we reversed did the piece come together. Writing is hard, but fulfilling, one of the reasons why we like cranking out Soviet propaganda. 

World War 1990: The Weser is 56,000 words. We need to wrap up the Confederates, write some fill-in scenes, and the opening blockbuster (if necessary).  That'll get us to 60,000 +, 65,000? To put it another way, we're real close to The Weser going to the sit phase. That's it. That's the novel.

We admit to being tired. It's been a long distracted week brought on by overwork and lack of sleep.

We haven't looked at The Great Nuclear War of 1975 at all. Once again, we need to finish the Falklands chapter. That's like, two scenes. Maybe three. 

Autumn will be the season of World War 1990: The Final Storm. When we get back from the beach we'll dive into the research again. We have a vague sense that The Final Storm is going to be a bog book by necessity. There's a lot to wrap up. 80,000 words?

Idea. The Australian SAS plays a big role in World War 1990: Operation Tet. Why not? Maybe we should bring those Afghan books? [Are you a woman?-Ed] Excuse us while we go take a look out our liberry.

*Drop a comment below if you click the links and read the articles. 

Monday Blue not Backed

It's supposed to be Police Week in America. Sorry fellas, this blog has seen way too many videos of cops tackling pregnant women, old people, pastors, rabbis, for exercising their god given rights. Here in New Jersey last year they arrested a woman for attempting to organize an anti-lockdown protest. All while Antifa/BLM rampages. Back the Blue, they say. We tried. Trouble is, we don't think the Blue will back us. 

Mark Steyn made this point today, 'To reprise my frequent observation about the hideous FBI re Mrs Roger Stone, Mrs George Papadopoulos et al, there was not one man among these shock troops willing to say, "Uh, no, thanks. I didn't sign up to take down little old ladies and vicars." Our brother-in-law, a life long New Yorker told us how he sees cops decked out in body armor and carrying rifles at Grand Central Station, 'What are you doing?' he said. 'Take that crap off. Put a tie on. Talk to people.' Yes, yes, we know. It's an anti-terror patrol. Guess what, the terrorists aren't going to hit a place patrolled by cops indistinguishable from soldiers. That patrol is about liability. The brass just wants to make sure their pensions are covered in case there is an attack. 

Yesterday a friend wished us a happy Mother's Day. That's where we are. That's the reality people. Just this morning Middle Daughter stubbed her toe and wailed like she just heard Harry Styles got engaged. We finally said, 'Get dressed. Either you're going to school or the emergency room. Pick one. We don't care which. But stop the sobbing.' Later we'll be complaining to the rest of the gals at Pilates. 

Thanks god Mrs. Stroock is coming back tomorrow.

Ok, if we're going to do with the Korean War chapter what we want to do with the Korean War chapter we're going to need to add a chapter. Besides, it will be interesting to see what the military is up in 1976. And we're still on 64,000 words anyway.  Subic Bay, Europe...we'll open with a chapter in which Def Sec Rumsfeld and staff are going over the current TO&E. We are very good at what we do.  

Monday Metal. When in doubt, The Answer. Feel those grinding power chords. That's the album cover. Clever video. No?:

It's Tuesday and that Means it's Soylent Green Day

Election day in Georgia. Fuck all if we know what's going to happen. Our best guess is that the GOP blows it, but who knows?  Polls had Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins in tight races, and both won easily. Ronna McDaniel and the RNC did do pretty good in November. We'll see what lessons they've learned and applied since. It'll be a mess, we think and will take a few weeks to sort out. Exit question, does it even matter and do we care?

Working on The Great Nuclear War of 1975 yesterday, we debated if we needed a new chapter showing a few places around the world during the first 48 hours of the war. We already do this for America in the prologue, where people see Air Force One in various places, Maryland, Key West, Colorado...Perhaps we should breakup those scenes with the international scenes? Haig in Europe, Thatcher being picked up by the RAF, etc etc. A then B. A then B. Hmmmm. Thoughts?

Mark Steyn reposted his old review of the sci-fi dystopian film/novel Children of Men. He's highly critical of the film adaptation of P.D. James' novel, and we largely agree with him. Still we enjoy the film on its own merits. The scenario presented is an original dystopian work, the best bit of world building since Soylent Green, itself a classic. Soylent Green is based on Harry Harrison's Make Room, Make Room. The book is actually better than the movie which has serious flaws. The plot is a boring police procedural and the 'scoops' are silly. But like CoM, the world of Soylent Green it is horrifying.  

Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire are producing movies now.  Here's the trailer for their first film. Ace seems optimistic. We we're wondering how Shapiro could pull this off, then we remembered he's an L.A. guy.* Surely an L.A. Jew knows where to get some entertainment startup capitol. This is what it takes. See also Vox Day's Arkhaven line of comics. The man has his own alternative media empire. When does he sleep?

*Not for long. He's moving the whole op to Tennessee. 

On Political Art

Politics is downstream from culture, Andrew Breitbart used to say. David Cole, who knew the man, says this is bunk. Cole has some tough words for those of us who are Andrew Breitbart and makes some good points. We suggest reading the column. 

We followed and commented on a long, interesting FB thread about Cole's article, conservatives, politics, culture and conservative art. One of the participants in the thread posted this video from a Mark Steyn cruise about same.* We don't need conservative art, the participants say, we need good art.

On the FB thread we pointed out that Social Justice Warrior art is inherently bad art. It's message first, plot and characterization second. Look at Star Wars. George Lucas's prequels are merely bad movies. But Kathleen Kennedy's sequels are bad movies because they smack the audience in the face with a feminist, girls rule-boys drool message.

Look at what the SJWs have done to comics. The Critical Drinker has chronicled how the SJWs turned comic book heroes into pudgy, A-cupped, menstruating lesbians and soi boys who are also menstruating. Click here and here for the horror. Mr. we could use a man like Sgt. Rock again.

Like we said, bad art.

But wouldn't conservative art be just as bad? Think about what a comic book about conservative superheroes would look like...there you go. Pro-Life Warrior, NRA-Man, Prayer Chain...We shudder, we shudder.

Good art gets the artist's message across without the consumer even realizing. And that's why SJW art sucks.

*All three panelists were on the FB Thread

A Conservative Alone on Campus and Then at Home

Mark Steyn writes about the case of the now deceased (by his own hand) Professor Mike Adams, a conservative who fought a decade long battle against the left at UNC Wilmington.

This puts us in mind of our own battle with academia in this case Raritan Valley Community College.

We draw attention to two bits of insight from Steyn, 'Pushing back can be initially exhilarating - and then just awfully wearing and soul-crushing,' and 'It's a miserable, unrelenting, stressful life, as the friends fall away and the colleagues, who were socially distant years before Covid, turn openly hostile.'

Below are links describing our own battle with the RVCC Humanities Department. We wrote these not long after the fight, and agonized for more than a year about publishing them. Screw it, we finally decided.
Le Affair de Adjunct
Le Affair de Adjunct Part Deux 
Le Affair de Adjunct d'Nuclear

You're goddamn right we were pissed off. And we still pissed off. We achieved some revenge, literary, and went to enormous effort to do so.

Those bastards are awfully pleased with themselves, a google search will reveal. We're glad they are. We're glad we know this about them. We hope Professor Adams has found peace.

Brexit not the Perfect Exit

Mark Steyn, who knows the man, thinks Boris wants a no-deal Brexit.

At Hotair an excellent analysis of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit problems. Basically, leaving the EU without a deal might shatter Great Britain. 

The Scots are already pushing for a second independence referendum. 'Free college. Free prescriptions. No Nukes.' they promised last time around. That's a hell of a nationalist slogan, lay about, socialist, tossers. For foreign readers, when Americans think of Scots they think of iron-willed men holding fast at Waterloo or say, Normandy, tough pioneer folk breaking the land and taming the wild throughout the Empire with their accent alone. Of course Train Spotting is a more accurate depiction. Yikes.

Northern Ireland is threatening to leave the UK and reunite with the rest of Ireland. Over at the link, lot's of technical data on the Republic of Ireland/Northern Ireland Brexit issue. Huh? Our understanding was that the good Orangemen of Belfast would fight anyone to stay British, even the British. 

We will do much research on this issue next week, and intend to present our elegent solution to the problem in the pubs of Ireland.

[Which is?-Ed]

Ireland rejoins the UK.

[You do that.-Ed]

We admit we don't really see a way out of this mess with No Deal. Unless it's all bluff and bluster.

This blog says roll the dice, just walk away. Nothing will happen.

[Easy for you to say, Yank-Ed]

Quite right, quite right.

Wither Balding Boomers

From MaClean's*an interesting discourse on Baby Boomers, the suicide of one David Gillmor and his brother's odyssey to understand why:

The suicide rate for Baby Boomers is 60 per cent higher than for their parents’ generation, and higher, so far, than the generations after their own. Historically, adolescence and old age were suicide’s fertile times, and mid-life its lull. Not anymore. For the past decade, experts have explored the spiking suicide rate among middle-aged Boomers. Socio-economic explanations dominate their discourse: Boomers have high divorce, family breakdown and substance abuse rates; a high incidence of depression (or perhaps a willingness to talk about it, an openness not shared with their parents’ cohort, the aptly named Silent Generation); and an intense sense of entitlement that many experts believe results in feelings of comparative disadvantage. 

The world was handed to the Baby Boom. They had a childhood unimaginable to any generation before. It seemed fantastical to us Gen Xr's, a utopia.

The 60's were filled with such promise. But youth and hope turned into the drudgery and decline of the 70's. By the late 80's the Boomers were work-a-day folks just like their fathers. By the 90's they were careerist hacks.

Mark Steyn once reviewed a Quebecois movie, Les Barbarian Invasions about a Baby Boomer on his death bed looking back at a life that followed every trend of his generation but at the end seemed shockingly empty. He was an adjunct professor at a community college. Trust us, those in the know...let's just say academics shouldn't be teaching US I at the end of their careers.

The article concludes:

If David Gillmor was, in the words of his brother, “a quintessential Boomer” in his flight from difficulties and his dedication to sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll—that is, to dragging his youth as far into middle age as he could—then perhaps he was also emblematic in his readiness to choose his exit to suit himself. It’s impossible to say with certainty. 

The Balding Boomer in perpetual arrested development who always had a way out. His Generation X son is indifferent, his Millennial son hates his guts.**

No wonder the present seems pretty bleak.


*We subscribed during the Mark Steyn free speech battle a decade ago
**Metaphorically.

Elites Down Under

The Global Elites think governance comes down to border adjustment taxes, Medicare reimbursement rates, agricultural subsidy schedules and a zillion other small issues - under the management of a trained technocracy,  which would be them.

Writing about Australia's referendum to become a Republic some 20 years ago, the estimable Mark Steyn points out that governments run nations, and those nations stand for more than top marginal taxe rates.

This was an important victory for western society's real silent majority: those people who dissent from the notion that career politicians should carve up all the most visible offices of state for themselves. Some of this silent majority are monarchists; some believe in a directly elected president; a large proportion are just average contented folks who aren't obsessed about politics. But they have far more to bind them to each other than they do to the establishment republicans who believe that the presidency should be just one more gift in the ruling party's box of baubles. If Australian voters tell us anything, it's that a political state isn't enough. At heart, most of us are romantic enough to demand more — either the mystique of monarchy or the rawer form of democratic politics in which a man must embark on his campaign to win the presidency by pressing the flesh in the Elks Lodge. Constitutional monarchy and a US-style presidency don't have much in common — except insofar as, either way, you find yourself sitting next to me come early November — but both speak to something larger in a nation's sense of itself.

Even in 2000, Queen country, the Union Jack and the Southern Cross meant something to the Aussie Normal. The Common Law, the weird pride in the nation's penal colony past,  the shared sacrifice in the World Wars with the Brits, Kiwis, Cannucks and even the Yanks, a modern nation-state carved out of a savage continent.

It's a vague notion, isn't it, but an important one. Australia is British.

Australians said no to becoming a Republic, by the way. As Steyn points out the Republicans still lurk Down Under, bitterly clinging to their dream, as do the Remainers in Britain.

The Global Elites just won't take no for an answer.

Europe Steyned

Yesterday the esteemed M Steyn republished one of his classic post 9/11 pieces. Like most Americans we only became Steyn-aware after 9/11*. The above linked piece is one of the reasons why.

Of NATO's post 9/11 commitments Steyn wrote:

The Nato declaration was impressive, but, even as the press release was coming off the photocopier, a big chunk of America's 18 allies were backsliding. Norway, Germany and Italy said they had no intention of contributing planes, ships or men. Even as purely political support, the first ever invocation of Article Five was written in disappearing ink. The Italian Foreign Minister – speaking for Europe's most conservative government – said "the term 'war' is inappropriate". "We are not at war," said Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel, his nation's signature on that Nato document notwithstanding. Belgium holds the current Presidency of the EU and was last seen apologizing for slavery, colonialism, etc at Durban's recent UN Conference Against Whitey, Hymie And Capitalism. 

It was during this time that we realized NATO was useless. European shrugs, Token contributions,  'Oui mon General. Perhaps a company of gendarmes?'

European smug indifference kind of made one feel unappreciated. Do they not know about the huge American military cemeteries across Western Europe?

The French should have said, 'The people of Les Republique are outraged, Mr. President. the Foreign Legion is at your service. And sorry about not letting your F-111s flyover in '86.'

*Turns out our intro to Steyn was his 1999 review of The Phantom Menace in NR. As with all things, Steyn was right. He hated it.

Canadian Thoughts

So it's Canada Day.

Despite being from New York State* we've only been to Canada once, in 2008 with our wife and daughter. We felt the difference between Toronto and NYC was no greater than the difference between NYC and Philly.**

As Homer Simpson once said, 'Canada is easy to miss, tucked away down there.' Of course South Park's 'Blame Canada' and the traitor Moore's Canadian Bacon are so funny becuase the  notion of Canada being difficult or problematic is so ridiculous.

One can forget that Canada is another country. In 1993 we were reminded of this fact during a pivotal four game series in the Bronx between the New York Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays.*** During 'Oh Canada' Yankees fans gave the infamous 'Bronx Cheer'. Mayor Giuliani apologized profusely to the mayor of Toronto and the next day legendary Yankee Stadium announcer, Bob Sheppard, gave the crowd a stern admonishment to be polite, these are Canadians.

Ten years later we went to the stadium to see the Yanks and Jays play. We sat out in the leftfield bleachers next to a nice couple come down from Toronto. They appreciated the organ guy's rendition of 'Oh Canada' and asked us, 'You have a good knowledge of the Yankees, eh? Has anyone ever hit a homer out of the park? We had a pleasant afternoon with our Canadian friends. Of course a few rows down a Bronx yahoo was shouting at the Toronto's pen, 'Blue Jays you suck!'

Anyway, with the post 9/11 rise of Mark Steyn we became increasingly aware of Canada. In 2003 we read a fascinating article by Steyn pointing out that at the end of World War Two, Canada had the third largest Allied army. In fact a Canadian army numbering nine divisions slogged across northern Europe. Steyn actually inspired us to write a short FYI style article about the Canadians in Europe. The Cannucks really made a name for themselves in the Great War with their four division attack on Vimy Ridge in 1917. 

One is not accustomed to thinking of the Canadians as a bellicose people, but they've kicked a lot of Kraut tail. Taliban too. They've also got the best damn war memorial we've ever seen:

As we have followed Steyn so have we followed Canadian politics, far more closely than any American should. The Gomery Scandal, the human rights commission, the parliamentary coup, Stephane Dion's do-over tape, Jake Layton's hockey arm pull....Rob Ford- the Canadian precursor to Trump. Over fifteen years we've watched the indifferent corruption of Chretien, the steady leadership of Stephen Harper and now Justin 'Trudeau'. Canada you don't ever again get to mock American presidents. 

So happy Canada Day. We'll conclude with words the afore mentioned M Steyn quoted just last night:

I see a long straight line athwart a continent. No chain of ports or deep-flowing river or a mountain range, but a line drawn by men upon a map nearly a century ago, accepted with a handshake and kept ever since. A boundary that divides two nations yet marks their friendly meeting ground: the 49th Parallel, the only undefended frontier in the world.

*Way down river, about half an hour north of the Bronx. Montreal was over 300 miles away. Still at the toll for the mighty Tappan Zee Bridge there used to be a sign reading, 'Canadian currency discounted 30 %' which seems awfully optimistic to us. {Actually, as of today one needs $1.26 Canadian to make a greenback-Ed.] Whatever.

**Despite deep family roots in the city, and having cheered for the Eagles during the Super Bowl becuase we love our wife, we hate Philadelphia and everything in it. We always rooted for Apollo Creed.

***Those are baseball teams, for all you World Cup addicted Europeans out there. 

Free Speech or Die

We believe in free speech here at WilliamStroock.blogsot.com. That goes for us normies and for the most despicable and deranged weirdos.

Over the last decade or so the forces of evil have subtly, but consistently campaigned against free speech in the name of tolerance and niceness. Even the Islamist governments have gotten in on the act, pushing for a so called 'human dignity' resolution at the UN against criticism of religion. Bastards.

Anyhoo here are some of our favorite free speech moments by our facorite free speech warriors.

1: Christopher Hitchens (PBUH) really lets MP Shirley Williams have it over Salman Rushdie:

2: Mark Steyn defends free speech in Australia and explains it all. Remember, in Britain a musician was arrested for playing Kung Fu Fighting:

3: Ezra Levant confronts the Canadian Human Rights Commission over their persecution of himself for publishing the dread cartoons of blasphemy. Levant wields his rhetorical sword against his persecutor like Conan the Barbarian in the final battle against the snake cult. It is glorious:

 Quoth Levant, 'I reserve the right to publish it for whatever offensive reason I want!' Damn straight.

4: Jordan Peterson on the practicality of free speech and why even people with the most despicable ideas should say them:

Those interested may support free speech via the links below:

You talkin' to me?

Mark Steyn, as is his habit, makes a great point, basically saying that President Trump's bellicose rhetoric vis-a-vis the Norks is wholly appropriate.

Indeed this is the Template. All these other tinpot, busted arse nations are watching for what happens next.

Look, at some point when someone talks smack at you, you gotta talk smack back. Maybe its a New York thing?

Le Merde Le Elite Internationale

While we don't believe the polls showing an epic wipe out in France, I mean after Trump and Brexit who believes those, we don't see how a pretty boy centrist with a senior citizen wife can loose the French election.

That said,the crackup of the Consensus Internationale continues apace. As the great M Steyn points out, Marine will double the vote total her father got in the accidental election of 2002. With Macron in office there is no reason to think Le Pen won't finally slip into power in 2023.

Sarkozy-Hollande, Blair-Cameron, Clinton-Bush, what's the difference? They are all part of the same Consensus Internationale whose foreign policy favors super-national entities and what Steve Sailor calls 'invade the world/invite the world'.

Had one told us we would write that in 2000, when we felt the future of the Republic hung in the balance, well, we would have punched you in the face and given you some American Enterprise lit to read.

We can't speak for Macron, Hollande, Sarkozy, Chirac et all, but since the end of the Cold War this country has been run by elites with elite educations, a never ending cavalcade of degrees from Yale and Harvard, Harvard and Yale. How they doing?

Since 2000 we've had a series of foreign and economic crisis, the continued collapse of the American family, crumbling infrastructure, etc etc. Can't these people do anything right?

We were thinking about this yesterday, look at the Cold War presidents vs the modern elite.

Harry Truman went to 'commercial' college for a year before dropping out. Ike of course went to West Point. Kennedy went to Harvard, but his bootlegging father bought his way in. Johnson went to a teacher's college. Nixon attended Whittier. Ford starred at Michigan, Carter attended Annapolis, Reagan went to Eureka. Not until we get to Bush the Elder do we have a real scion of the elite.

Pretty pedestrian education there.

In 2008 the elite mocked Sarah Palin because she attended a vast array of small and state schools. Which batch of presidents do you think she fits in with? Of course the elites came up with the idea of giving unsecured, variable rate loans to bad credit risks. You think Sarah Palin would've thought of that? Think she would have said, 'You know guys, we have this Muslim terror problem, let's invite a lot of Muslim immigrants.' Also, she never drove a car off a bridge like certain scions of the elite.

On the new CNN....

...no not that one, commie pukes, #fakenews.

Now that we've made our feelings known, we understand that there is talk of a new conservative news network, dare we say CNN, being formed under the leadership of Roger Ailes.

We're pretty indifferent to Fox News to tell the truth. We'll tune into Fox Business most mornings [you just want to gawk at Maria Bartoromo-ed] do I ever...anyhoo, but we really don't watch a lot of cable news.

MSNBC should be nuked from orbit, its the only way to be sure, and well, CNN is run by a pack sex criminal apologists like Chris Cuomo who think little girls should have to see penises in the bathroom. So they're right out.

This alleged conservative news network should consider what it is trying to do. Do we really need another conservative news outlet? OK if you want. But would they rather start a real cultural shift?

We vote for the latter.

We'd like to see the new CNN be a political-cultural network in stark contrast to Fox. We'll take Hannity if we have to, but have no interest in O'Reilly.

So what do we want?'

First off, we want this to be Chatty-Gal TV throughout the morning. That means have a gal-centered morning show. Let's put Dana Loesch in charge of a round table with other gals. Well have a late morning variety show, we're not kidding, hosted by some eye candy for the ladies. Moving to afternoon we'll have a day time talk show hosted by Sarah Palin. There is no reason she can't do it, she anchored local news in Alaska.

We'll fill the next few hours with true crime, hosted by ex female detectives, prosecutors, etc, etc.

From there its a straight on news hour with a no-nonsense Joe Friday type and a nightly editorial by Robert Stacey McCain from his secured undisclosed location

Prime time will shift to more male oriented programming. At 7:00 we're going to have the CNN sports report. Like ESPN but without all the SJW convergence. At 8.00 its the CNN Entertainment hour.

We'll put Hannity at 8:00  a Dateline style show at 9:00, and groom new talent at 10:00.

Now at 11:00 we're programming a late night talk show hosted by Mark Steyn. This will focus on cultural stuff,  a throwback to the old late night shows. Music, comedy, books, dancing and the arts.

We'll have some sort of underground show at 12:00.

The overall goal here is not a news network but a cultural-entertainment Network with a news element.

Also, fuck CNN.

You suck, CPAC

CPAC, or Conservative Political Action Committee has decided to dis-invite Milo Yiannopoulos for allegedly espousing the virtues of pedophilia.

A few points.

First, I've watched the interview,  he didn't espouse any such thing. He talked about loosing his little gay cherry at 13 and the very complicated issues of the homosexual lifestyle.

Second, since when does the left oppose pedophilia?

Third, Milo's journalism has exposed three pedophiles to public scrutiny.

So he's in the middle of a shit-storm right now. Fortunately Milo can handle this.

But really, CPAC, you were about to do something interesting by having Milo and instead you crapped out at the first opportunity. What's worse is you're playing by the left's rules. They target someone and then you strike for them. This is a repeat of National Review's cataclysmic error in removing John Derbyshire for writing a few impolitic things (not even at NR, mind you). Instead of firing Derbyshire, who is at least interesting unlike, say Rich Lowry, NR should have said, 'John Derbyshire did not publish the piece in question at NR, nor could he have. He wrote the offending article in another publication. Take the matter up with them.' They later removed Mark Steyn. Jesus wept.

Here are people, Milo and Steyn, doing more for Conservatism and Western Civilization than anyone at NR, and they booted because the left says so.

Really CPAC, screw you.

Your Nation Sucks, and its Your Fault

Famed economist and Nobel laureate Robert Shiller proposes the abolition of 'nation privilege':

The next revolution will not abolish the consequences of place of birth, but the privileges of nationhood will be tempered. While the rise in anti-immigrant sentiment around the world seems to point in the opposite direction, the sense of injustice will be amplified as communications continue to grow. Ultimately, recognition of wrong will wreak big changes.
For now, this recognition faces strong competition from patriotic impulses, rooted in a social contract among nationals who have paid taxes over the years or performed military service to build or defend what they saw as exclusively theirs. Allowing unlimited immigration would seem to violate this contract.
But the most important steps to address birthplace injustice probably will not target immigration. Instead, they will focus on fostering economic freedom.

There's  lot of economic gobbledygook too, something about factor-price-equalization or some such. It ain't called the dismal science for nothing, folks.

Haven't we been doing this for 20 years or so? I mean, I remember meeting a lot of Iranians in on-line chat rooms, this was back in the late 90's.

Let's move on to this nefarious notion that some nations are bad through no fault of their citizens. In his excellent work, Eat the Rich, PJ O'Rourke (PBUH) tried to answer that question. Cuba and Sweden are both socialist. Why is Cuba a crap-hole and why is Sweden a paradise? O'Rourke figured it all came down to the rule of law.

Mark Steyn noticed that most of the nice places in the world used to have a Union Jack flying over them. The U.S., Canada, New Zealand, Australia. Of course the last three still do. Herr Shiller no doubt believes this is the result of some sort of privilege; no doubt of the white variety. But what, then, about Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaya, India? The only privilege here is that of having once been run by mild-mannered, competent and utterly incorruptible British colonial ministers.

India is an ethno-linguistic hodgepodge that ought to be as conflict riven as your typical African crap-hole, like say, Nigeria.  But its not because since the late 19th century it had been run by a British trained civil service. The Indian National Congress actually began as a trade organization in 1885. Gandhi was a lawyer, after all. The British thought so highly of the Indian governing class they trained that they used them to run the far-flung reaches of the empire. Most British colonies had an Indian run civil service.

Of course, African psycho-leaders in places like Uganda and Kenya upon independence fired the Indians, confiscated their property and exiled them. Black spaces for black people, of course. Hey, look at Detroit!