The Deuce, NASA and Muslim Self Esteem

"It is not only my right, but my civic duty, to ridicule the ridiculous."

Robert Heinlein


"NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.

Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA's orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel."

Muslim nations list "Top Ten Ways Interaction With Us Would Advance Space Travel."

10. The Koran Code...secret to faster-than-light travel!

9. If we can live in Afghanistan you KNOW we can live on the Moon.

8. Oil! "Greener" than your infidel rocket fuel.

7. ET getting upitty? JIHAD! Reasonable rates.* ( Jihad subject to conversion ).
6. Highly experienced with short range rockets. Just ask the Jews.

5. Two out of three Muslim doctors recommend clitorectomies in zero gravity.

4. Nip those embarrassing astronaut love triangles in the bud. Nobody does honor killings like us.

3. We've got the world's leading technology on turbans and burqas suitable for space.

2. Got killer asteroids? Troublesome spy satellites? We've got suicide bombers for every occasion.

1. We've got an unlimited supply of potential astronauts. They can't take off or land, but they're good at colliding...uh, we mean docking."

* Degrading advanced cultures via slow illegal immigration extra. See France and England for details.

Allah Akbar!

The Deuce, America & Western Civ, II

The world gets a bit smaller every day. First it was the telegraph, then radio, then movies, then air travel. TV followed, satellites broadcast it all over the world, then the Internet exploded and just like that people could sit in their living rooms and communicate instantaneously with people on the other side of the world whenever they wanted to for a cost next to nothing. We can trade pictures, movies, music and everything else you can imagine, send and receive money, conduct all kinds of business, and suddenly every culture in the world is mixing with every other culture at the speed of light, 24/7. We can watch online as the space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station transit the sun and marvel at our technology...





and minutes later we can see video of a Jew being decapitated by Muslims, and gasp in horror at the barbarity of ancient blood feuds.



How are we to react to cultures so disparate? One culture explores space while another is deeply entrenched in 7th Century barbarism. One culture embraces individual liberty, free enterprise, science and technology that has demonstrably improved the lives of all humanity, while at the very same time another culture on the other side of the world embraces the brutal subjugation of women and non-believers, content to live in mud huts or palaces built with petro-dollars while they desperately try to deny the advancement of all of humanity except themselves.



Peoples and cultures are clashing like never before all over the world. Basques seek greater autonomy from Spain; Scotland from Great Britain; Kurds from Iraq; Quebec from Canada; Flanders from Belgium. Armed conflict along ethnic and or religious lines have occurred or are currently happening in Serbia, Sri Lanka, Georgia, Chechnya, Rwanda, Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia.

America is not immune from ethnic nationalism that threatens to escalate from protests, boycotts and racially motivated crime to the usurpation of political power by the executive branch at the expense of Congress, the diminution of individual liberties and the calculated refusal to enforce existing laws for political advantage.




The Department of Justice drops voter intimidation charges against the New Black Panthers after two members were video taped standing in front of a Philadelphia polling place in para-military uniforms brandishing clubs and threatening white voters. One DOJ attorney who was working on the case has resigned in protest, claiming the civil rights voting section of the DOJ has and will continue to refuse to enforce voting rights laws when the accused is a minority and the victim white.



Congressmen John Kyl of Arizona reported to his constituents that President Obama said he would not effectively secure the U.S. border with Mexico until Congress had passed "comprehensive immigration reform", effectively using the tide of illegals as a political bargaining chip. Some wit has now coined the term "undocumented Democrats" to describe illegals. In the 2008 presidential election, 68% of Hispanics voted for Obama. No one knows how many of those votes were cast by illegals.



President Obama supposedly sat in the pews of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church for twenty years, but he says he never heard Wright make a racist comment. It's not that Wright's black liberation theology isn't blatantly racist against Whites, it's just that Obama didn't think it was racist when he heard it.


If you understand liberation theology, you will understand why Obama is "fundamentally changing" America. In my view, Liberation Theology posits two main doctrines; first, there is no such thing as individual salvation, there is only collective salvation; secondly, the world is divided into two groups of people, the oppressed and the oppressor. In short, the oppressed are the "have nots", and the oppressor is "the privileged class", or the haves. Liberation Theology requires the haves to raise the have nots out of poverty and powerlessness by giving away their wealth to the have nots. Only in this way can the haves find salvation. And in the eyes of black and brown people in the U.S., the oppressor is White people, and the oppressed is everyone else.

Liberation Theology is fundamentally a Marxist doctrine and a perversion of the Christian Faith. The bible is clear; salvation requires a personal, individual belief in Jesus Christ and the Grace of God. While charity is certainly a large part of the Christian faith, salvation is not achieved by good works nor is it a communal effort.

Obama believes in liberation theology. He has publicly stated that his own individual salvation can not occur without the salvation of all Americans... collective salvation. Clearly, Obama's policies, both domestic and foreign, prove this.

Effective ownership of GM and Chrysler was given to a labor union, the United Auto Workers, when the American taxpayer bailed out the failing auto companies. The "have nots" got G.M., the "haves" (stock holders) got nothing but a vague prayer that their GM stock would be worth something some day.

Obamacare became law, laying the groundwork to drive all private health insurers out of business and turn the American health care system into a one-party payer system, which Obama has repeatedly stated was his ultimate goal. The have nots got bad insurance, the haves got bad insurance and the bill.

What's next is the so called "cap and trade" plan. Long story short, this will make the haves pay more for energy, particularly electricity, than the have nots, who will have their electric bills subsidized by the haves.

In foreign affairs, one of Obama's first acts as President was to return a bust of Winston Churchill to England ( a White Imperialist don't you know )...an insult so blatant the Brits were dumbfounded.

Then came the 2009 Apology Tour, where Obama travelled the globe apologizing to all non-white nations for America's "arrogance". The media ignored the fact that Obama bowed to Arab, Japanese and Chinese leaders, a repulsive act of submition that insulted America worse than the Brits had been insulted.

Obama has reached out to all Muslim nations while castigating Israel as racist Zionists intent on keeping the innocent Palestinians down and provoking it's Muslim neighbors into developing nuclear weapons.

Obama accepts Mexican President Felipe Calderón's recommendations on how America should secure it's borders...we shouldn't.

We all heard Obama say that "...it's time to return America's wealth to it's rightful owners." We all heard Obama say, "We're going to fundamentally change America." We all heard Rev. Wright say, "God Damn America".



Obama hates Western Civ. We, the Whites ( haves ) are his enemies. We're in a blood feud. Deal with it!

The Deuce, America & Western Civ, I

If you're over 40 and went to college back in the day, you were likely required to take a couple of semesters of a course called Western Civiliation. If so, you were lucky. If not, you likely don't know where you come from nor why you are the way you are, the study of Western Civilization having fallen out of favor in the ivory towers of acadamia.



Western Civ equals The White Man's History. Understand that before you go on. The Greeks, the Romans, Charlamagne, the Vikings and Saxons and Normans. Western Civ means the legends and myths of Achylles, Odysseus and Hector; of Romulas and Remus and the birth of Rome; of Roland and Grindal, King Arthur and Camelot; Robin Hood and Sherwood Forest.




If your ancestry is other than White, then you have your own ways, history and legends, and more power to you, but know this...America was founded by and has remained for 234 years a nation of White peoples of European ancestry. Other peoples have immigrated here, or been forcibly relocated here, but European Whites have remained the majority people, and our culture quite naturally reflects that. We were not the first people here, but we were the first to build a nation-state here. We do not need to apologize for this. We do need to apologize, and have, for what it's worth, for the way we treated other peoples different from ourselves, particularly Amerindians and Blacks. We continue to try and make it right with these peoples as best we can.

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking so what? It's all ancient history or kid's stories. 'Don't mean nothin' to me.' But it does...or rather, it should. After all, if you don't know history, you're destined to repeat it, and if you don't know your own history, the history of your people...well, you're just awash in the currents of time, floating here and there, heedless of the people and times and events that made you what you are.



Why do you speak English? Why is Christianity the majority religion in America? Why are we a Representative Republic ( please, not a democracy )? Why are we capitalists? Why do we believe in the rights of the individual, rather than the rights of groups? Why do we believe in primacy of "rugged individualism" rather than the primacy of "the village?" Why do we believe in charity rather than forced redistribution of wealth?

We are these things, and believe in these things, for two reasons. First, where we come from; and second, how we improved upon where we come from. We took what was good and kept it, and created other things that had never been. We got rid of everything else.

If you're having trouble understanding what's happening to America right now, you're not alone, nor are you crazy for thinking that it's all crashing down.
History shows us that all empires eventually fall. America has never been an empire in the classical sense...but in most ways we were an empire for awhile. We tried very hard to be a benevolent empire. An empire that worked and fought to spread our ideals around the world. Ideals like the God given rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.



What we have failed to realize all these years is that people don't like being pushed, prodded or forced to live by "God given rights" as understood by a foreign power, namely us, no matter how benevolent. Every people wants to make their own way; to live life as they see fit; to honor the history and traditions of their own people. And peoples differ on what ways are best.



This is why our way of life fails to translate to other peoples, and their ways of life to us. The American way of life is apparently ill suited to the Arabs of the Middle East, and to the Asians of the Far East and to the Blacks of Africa. We have our ways, they have theirs. There's no sin in that. We should stop trying to convert all peoples to our own way of life. They resent it, as well they should, and the attempt is bankrupting our treasury and killing our progeny. By the same token, we should resist efforts on their part to convert us to their way of life, and more importantly, we should reject outright any American who sees our way of life as faulty and attempts to forceably inject the ways of other peoples into our culture.



Aspects of other cultures that seem good to us will naturally flow into America and be embraced by us, as we have always done. Those aspects of other cultures that seem to us too alien or injurious to our core beliefs will naturally be resisted.

McChrystal's a True Warrior

Mr. Quarter is not buying the media spin of the McChrystal story. I think that the real story is much more cleaver and involves a level of sacrifice that is uncommon in the US government today. General Stanley McChrystal is a true warrior who fell on his own sword to save the lives of American soldiers and preserve the honor of his country.

General Stanley McChrystal, a 4-star (i.e., FULL) general. A U.S Army Ranger, and leader of the United States arsenal of special operations forces up until the time that he was tabbed to lead the Afghanistan campaign. Is it in any way beliveable that let a 26 year old Gucci wearing fag reporter from Rolling Stone magazine manage to "get the goods" on him and take him down? Mr. Quarter ain't believing it for an instant.

No, Mr. Quarter believes that General McChrystal saw that the Obamaites (James Jones and Carl Eikenberry) were screwing him and backdoor undermining of his efforts. He saw a command quagmire and American soldiers dying needlessly. So he made his plan, and played a reporter from Rolling Stone like a cheap fiddle feeding him information through his subordinates. Get the story out in the press and expose these foolish men for what they were. He knew all along that he would have to fall on his own sword in the end, but it would save lives and hopefully be his last best sacrifice for his country.

It is well known that Jones and Eikenberry were countermanding his orders, interfering with strategy and generally wreaking havoc in the Afghan theater. They reported negatively back to Washington, undermining McChrystal, making it more and more difficult to achieve McChrystal's objectives. By the way, I have not confirmed it, but I have read that Jones and Eikenberry were roommates at West Point. Think they might have a joint agenda if that is true?

So General McChrystal realized that the only way to straighten the situation out was to plant the story, take the hit, hope that Obama has the gonads to do what is right and fire Jones and Eikenberry. In exchange, he makes the deal to retire and keep his mouth shut for a couple years. Then he will write his book. Did anyone notice that no one in the Administration is crowing about it after the day of the firing? Let the media quiet down and move on to the next big story. Part of the deal. Obama tamps down the fervor, Stan takes a quiet walk, and the bobsey twins get fired so that America can win.

Post Script: Eikenberry, in fighting with McChrystal over the past year used many of the same arguments that another American commander, John Abizaid, had used in opposing Petraeus's approach to Iraq. It was Abizaid and Eikenberry that were West Point roommates in the class of 1973.

Moral Authority

Mr. Quarter has often pondered the issue of "Moral Authority" and "Moral Relativism" in the West generally and in the United States specifically. Why is it that maintaining moral authority is perceived as advantaging our nation as opposed defeating our opponents and making our adversaries kneel before us? This is particularly puzzling since reality is that the much of the West practices moral relativism, forgiving the means if the ends are worthy. Shelby Steele opines in today's WSJ on the issue of moral authority had how it has constricted our ability to defend our selves and address the problems that are leading to the rapid demise of our nation. Mr. Steele observed that:

"Today we in the West are reluctant to use our full military might in war lest we seem imperialistic; we hesitate to enforce our borders lest we seem racist; we are reluctant to ask for assimilation from new immigrants lest we seem xenophobic; and we are pained to give Western Civilization primacy in our educational curricula lest we seem supremacist. Today the West lives on the defensive, the very legitimacy of our modern societies requiring constant dissociation from the sins of the Western past—racism, economic exploitation, imperialism and so on."

For 10,000 years, human beings have survived and flourished individually and as societies not by maintaining their moral authority, but by making sure to win all contests with their adversaries and preventing their adversaries from every gaining advantage. This is not moral relativism. Rather it is self-interest and self-preservation. Works rather well. Maybe we should rethink and re-calibrate?

The Deuce and the 2010 World Cup

Soccer blows. Yeah, I said it. That's not exactly a Fox News Alert, like everything else seems to be, but it needed to be said. Now, having said that, I still check out the World Cup. As a sports fan it's pretty much impossible to ignore "the world's biggest sporting event", no matter how irritating it is.

As an American, it is my God given right to celebrate sports that most closely resemble medieval slaughter, hence my love of football, hockey, boxing, MMA and presidential campaigns. Soccer, alas, rarely displays any of the manly arts of mayhem, except the occasional riot, and that doesn't even take place on the "pitch". FIFA should seriously consider making riots a regular half time show. Just let all the soccer hooligans onto the field for a twenty minute melee'. Last man standing wins a guest spot on The View, where four American women will give him a serious beat down, thereby emphasizing the superiority of America, where even our talking head women are tougher than the world's toughest soccer hooligan.

Oh, I admit to admiring the athleticism of the world's greatest soccer players...kind of like I admire the athleticism of the carjacker who thinks he can outrun the police helicopter after he dumps the stolen car. Sure, he weaves his way through six lanes of interstate traffic zipping by at 70 mph and leaps over the ten foot wall into some poor schmuck's back yard before the cops tase him into an epileptic seizure, but he doesn't score. Great moves, but to what end? Soccer is a lot like that.

However, if you know the secrets of the World Cup, your entertainment factor can sky rocket. For example, did you know African and Caribbean teams routinely employ the services of witch doctors?



How great is that? What other sport gives you the public casting of spells and voodoo dolls smoking blunts? Yeah! Can't you just hear the play by play guy? "Clearly Cameroon has the superior team, but Nigeria has some serious juju. It's strategy and skill versus the demons of hell, and it's live on ESPN!"

Despite all the hilarity provided by the voodoo zombies, this World Cup has special problems not seen by any previous venue.



It's the incessant noise of the vuvuzelas. Vuvazelas are three foot long plastic trumpets that South Africans like to blow on special occasions, like when they find some food. But at the World Cup, they blow the damn things for the entire 90 minute game, creating a buzz like a seriously pissed off hornets nest. It's maddening! I mean, they don't just blow the things when their team walks onto the pitch, or when a goal is scored (that would be a waste of the $2.50 it cost to buy one, as goals are rarer than prosperous nations in Africa), but instead they blow them every second of the game, like they're HIV positive and blowing the vuvuzela is the cure. Maybe I shouldn't complain...I'd rather they blow the damn vuvuzela than rape virgins, which is the generally accepted cure for AIDS in Africa.

And if all this doesn't crank your tractor when it comes to soccer, consider this. The winning team gets a cool $30 million. With that kind of cash on the line you have to root for a Brazil vs. South Africa final. Voodoo hexes will take a back seat to more modern cheats, like knives and brass knuckles. It'll be a cage fight with a ball thrown in just so FIFA can call it a soccer match.




Now that's soccer any red blooded American can enjoy.

The Deuce and the Dalai Lama

He looks like a nice enough guy. Interviews show him to be soft spoken and quick to laugh...almost jolly even. But behind that avuncular facade lurks an intellect of stunning stupidity.

"(Marxism has) moral ethics, whereas capitalism is only how to make profits," the Dalai Lama, 74, said.

This from the man who was exiled from Tibet by the invasion of the Marxist Chinese and has called Chinese rule of Tibet "cultural genocide". Doesn't that just reek of "moral ethics."

How does the Dalai Lama justify his position? Here's how. He wrote;

As for the failure of the Marxist regimes, first of all I do not consider the former USSR, or China, or even Vietnam, to have been true Marxist regimes, for they were far more concerned with their narrow national interests than with the Workers' International;

Isn't it always that way? 'If just the right people would lead we'd have a true Marxist state/world and everyone would live in peace and prosperity.' I bet the Dalai Lama is a BFF of Barack.



But wait, it gets even worse.

I think the major flaw of the Marxist regimes is that they have placed too much emphasis on the need to destroy the ruling class, on class struggle, and this causes them to encourage hatred and to neglect compassion. Although their initial aim might have been to serve the cause of the majority, when they try to implement it all their energy is deflected into destructive activities. Once the revolution is over and the ruling class is destroyed, there is not much left to offer the people; at this point the entire country is impoverished and unfortunately it is almost as if the initial aim were to become poor.

Notice the great man of peace does not object to the destruction of the ruling class ( think Pol Pot's killing fields in Cambodia or the "re-education camps" in the USSR, China and Vietnam ) as long as the "cause of the majority" is served.

So much for the "moral ethics" of Marxism. But what about the second part of the lead in quote, "...whereas capitalism is only about how to make profits."

Out of the man's own mouth;

"(Capitalism) brought a lot of positive to China. Millions of people's living standards improved," he said.

Still more:

As Chinese become richer, "they want more freedoms, they want an independent judiciary, they want to have a free sort of press", he said.

The Dalai Lama confesses profits bring about improved living standards for millions of people, which in turn make people desire increased freedoms, which he seems to support. Yet, capitalism is amoral and Marxism is the answer?

One can hope that since China has started their experiment of a hybrid Marxism, a rapidly growing Pseudo-capitalist economy while continuing a strict communist authoritarian control over all other aspects of the Chinese people, that the Dalai Lama's political and economic philosophy might coalesce into something resembling reality!


(full disclosure, the above photo has been altered from the original)

While I mean no disrespect to Buddhists, the Dalai Lama's beliefs regarding capitalism, Marxism and morality are fabulously incoherent. He should run for the U.S.Congress ( Democrat, of course ). He's already been awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, so he should be a lock to get elected.