Quotes of the day
posted at 10:00 pm on February 13, 2009 by Allahpundit
“In 1982 President Reagan came to the House of Commons, where he did a speech very few people liked. Reagan called upon the West to reject communism and defend freedom. He introduced a phrase: ‘evil empire’. Reagan’s speech stands out as a clarion call to preserve our liberties. I quote: If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.
What Reagan meant is that you cannot run away from history, you cannot escape the dangers of ideologies that are out to destroy you. Denial is no option.”
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“In Britain, Canada, the Netherlands and elsewhere (as the Instaprof has often noted) the state is teaching a very dangerous lesson.”
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My mother’s mother’s father was a Lutheran minister in Christianity (now Oslo), Norway, but I I don’t think that any lightning ever came near him and his church was so small that he was also the janitor.
MB4 on February 14, 2009 at 12:58 AM
Well talk about being screwed. I just don’t know how much more of this crap our country can take. Me either for that matter.
Obama to Drop Sanctions On Iran
Brat4life on February 14, 2009 at 12:58 AM
Obama is of the school of thought that the problem with both the Fabians and Chamberlain was that they thought to small.
MB4 on February 14, 2009 at 1:05 AM
Well, I gotta run.
MB4, our church isn’t quite that small!
Brat4life, thanks (as a courtesy, but what news!) for the link.
Is it too early to say Manchurian Candidate?
GP is right: It’s like watching Carter on Speed.
Or I should say, the Anchoress.
INC on February 14, 2009 at 1:06 AM
If he really does end up removing the sanctions on Iran then he is a bigger idiot than people give him credit for. The sanctions we were using against them especially our use of the global financial system has been really the only thing keeping Iran in check and slowed the development of their Nuclear program. If he goes through with this I can pretty much guarantee that Israel will move to strike Iran’s nuclear program sooner rather than later.
Dreadnought223 on February 14, 2009 at 1:09 AM
Barack Obama, Fabian Socialist
Who needs Molotov when we’ve got Alinski?
MB4 on February 14, 2009 at 1:10 AM
God Save the UK….we’re next!!!
d1carter on February 14, 2009 at 1:16 AM
Barack Obama is a Fabian socialist. I should know; I was raised by one. My Grandfather worked as a union machinist for Ingersoll Rand (nyse: IR – news – people ) during the day. In the evenings he tended bar and read books. After his funeral, I went back home and started working my way through his library, starting with T.W. Arnold’s The Folklore of Capitalism. This was my introduction to the Fabian socialists.
Arnold taught me to question everyone–my president, my priest and my parents. Well, almost everyone. I wasn’t supposed to question the Fabian intellectuals themselves. That’s the Fabian MO, relentless cultural and journalistic attacks on everything that is, and then a hard pitch for the hope of what might be.
That’s Obama’s world.
- Jerry Bowyer
MB4 on February 14, 2009 at 1:17 AM
How is individual liberty, economic opportunity or global democracy or even national pride possible when the ‘evil empire’ is domestic liberalism?
Reagan’s freedom pillars are cloaked in an era of socialist darkness.
Speakup on February 14, 2009 at 1:25 AM
Yup, they’ve been replaced by Hussein’s Pillars of Progressive Socalism.
Kini on February 14, 2009 at 1:29 AM
The audacity of hope was for his campaign
Fear and demonetization will be for his reign
His candidacy was rather like that of a Henry Houdini
His presidency is shaping up to be much more like that of a Benito Mussolini
MB4 on February 14, 2009 at 1:40 AM
I agree with you 100%
It’s very scary.
Brat4life on February 14, 2009 at 1:49 AM
Talking about the mentally ill:
“The GOP is borderline autistic in its understanding of the necessary to-and-fro of democratic government. Or rather: its ideological nature prevents it from engaging in the actual tasks of pragmatic government.”
Andrew “The Conservative Soul” Sullivan
Sullivan Says: Respect Mah Authoritah!
Mr. Joe on February 14, 2009 at 2:49 AM
Quote of the YEAR….
Received this phone call from my U.S. Army son this evening….
He was ordered by his command to report all his civilian weapons, numbers, calibers, their exact location, their serial numbers, and if they are/are not registered.
He told them to go frak themselves and reported that he and his men own NO civilian weapons.
If HA is interested give me an e-mail and I’ll give HA the specifics for some enterprising soul(or not) to verify what I just reported.
The purpose, as told, is to prevent military suicides.
Riiiiiiightttttttt.
FRAK the Fed.
Limerick on February 14, 2009 at 3:00 AM
All this hype about England dragging Herself up from the gutter is nonsense. The masses made their decision in 1945, and they are a lot dumber now, than then. All that the average peon wants is whatever he can get from someone else, without having to do anything for himself.
Given their news stream of choice – the sports page – they are woefully ignorant of what is happening around them, and even the recent dissatisfaction with the EU has more to do with an attempt by it to reduce the largesse, rather than the realization that the EU is not in their best interests.
Even the recent protests regarding jobs for the British first doesn’t hit on the real problem – lack of willingness to shoulder their own burden, even if it means going backwards for awhile. They want the wound healed without removing the infection – entitlements.
They are their own worst enemy and the invaders know it.
If this comes across as a bitter tirade, I have the right – my country was stolen from me by these socialist jerks.
OldEnglish on February 14, 2009 at 3:04 AM
Don’t Tell, Don’t Ask.
Kini on February 14, 2009 at 3:05 AM
You posted that twice. My I use that quote?
I’m gonna anyway. It’s too good and you haven’t © or ® it yet.
Kini on February 14, 2009 at 3:09 AM
I am ashamed of what my country has done.
Or rather – what our Government did.
But there is a great deal of public anger about the banning of Geert Wilders – and the kowtowing to the rabble-rousing Lord Ahmed.
JohninLondon on February 14, 2009 at 5:57 AM
Well, it would be nice to see some of that public anger in the form of street demonstrations. Between the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Ahmed, and the outrageous Ahmedinijad Christmas message, I’m not sure what everyone is waiting for.
Passively sitting back and blaming your government will get you exactly nowhere except dhimmi status to the vocal minority.
CarolynM on February 14, 2009 at 7:24 AM
My, that sounds like an awfully frightening…um…blogger. You’d better start thinking happy thoughts before you get sent into the cornfield.
Pablo on February 14, 2009 at 8:09 AM
You’re talking about sheep (most people.) What do you expect? If the wolves are stronger than the sheepdogs, the sheep succumb. The same is true here. The same is true everywhere. If European sheep move here, they will go whichever way they are led. The question is, who will succeed in leading them, our own home-grown wolves, or our sheepdogs?
JiangxiDad on February 14, 2009 at 8:36 AM
WWII? France was almost immediately taken over by the Germans in WWI. As for the UK, maybe they are now where France was. And what about us? Maybe where the UK was prior to WWII. Some large part of it’s elties and intelligentsia were pro-Hitler and pro-fascism. Some large part of our elites are pro-evil now.
JiangxiDad on February 14, 2009 at 8:40 AM
So now we are seeing the same things here. Are you living here now? Where to go next?
JiangxiDad on February 14, 2009 at 8:42 AM
Just provide the link here, or email HA yourself please. Maybe AP or ED will miss your comment.
JiangxiDad on February 14, 2009 at 8:48 AM
I’m in Australia, which is, now, slowly going the same way as the US. It would seem that the Right is being marginalized everywhere.
OldEnglish on February 14, 2009 at 9:18 AM
First of all, sorry you had to leave your homeland. I’m beginning to get a sense of what that must feel like, as the political scene here in the US is worrying me a lot. I don’t know whether socialism will be repudiated by a disastrous Obama Presidency, or whether it will take root more firmly. If it’s the latter, I’m going to look at some of the economically free but politically illiberal Asian countries. That’s because I now feel that the universal franchise, while noble, doesn’t help sustain capitalism, or freedom.
JiangxiDad on February 14, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Reagan vs. Obama in their own words.
Mr. Joe on February 14, 2009 at 9:46 AM
I got out in late ’72, immediately after Heath sold England off to the, then, Common Market. I knew what was coming.
As for the universal franchise, I have always felt that it was the daftest idea that politics could force upon us. I don’t think it was noble, I think it was moral cowardice to hand effective control of the ship of state to a section of the population least fit to pilot it.
That may sound elitist, but I’d rather trust the pilot, not the passenger.
OldEnglish on February 14, 2009 at 9:47 AM
Idea for new bumper sticker
Obama: MENE MENE TEKEL PARSIN
jbinnout on February 14, 2009 at 9:59 AM
The way things are going not only will we see the Islamification of Europe come to fruition but also witness communism’s rise from the ashes.
Disturb the Universe on February 14, 2009 at 10:04 AM
I know we’re echoing each other, but I like to hear someone else say it too. Here in NY, I feel like a total alien–as in alienated. That’s why I’m willing to consider moving to somewhere culturally unfamiliar. Might as well feel alienated in a society on the upswing. And I’ve got the futures of two young kids to consider. If not for them, I’d probably just disappear somewhere far removed from the world.
JiangxiDad on February 14, 2009 at 10:06 AM
Of course.
MB4 on February 14, 2009 at 1:53 PM
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