The wind of change…
I thought I would introduce some sanity to the site by finally getting round to post and bring some much needed balance to this blog. In Mischiefland, we do not have much to complain about as the sun always shines and everyone is happy. So we devote much time, keeping an eye on the curious outside world. It must be said that we like to defy the labels of left and right, and the dreaded third way.
Before getting down to issues of huge strategic importance, and because it is a current media obsession, I thought you would be interested in learning about how things really work behind the scenes in the servant quarters in mischiefland.
There has been a re-organisation in Mischiefland, and Zippy has instructed all of his spin doctors to tell everyone there will no more spinning, especially about spinning. We retain the right however to present the activities of Zippy in a favourable way and when we can be bother to discuss those governmental non-entities, the Muppets, and the Flumps, we will accurately point why they are a bunch of losers beneath contempt. However this is not spinning because this is what people want to hear.
As Zippy’s official spokeperson I wanted to make clear, that things are absolutely going to change round here! Especially if you are a Muppet or a Flump.
ZOS
NEW MISCHIEFLAND -
Keep ‘em stupid and compliant
There is no doubt that American educators are engaged in a criminal
conspiracy to dumb-down the American people. ... [W]e have the famous words of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, which reported in April 1983: ‘The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and as a people. If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.’ ... The Commission was telling us that treason had been committed by our educators! That was written twenty years ago, and the treason is still going on today.(09/08/03)
I have held this to be the case for a long time. Keeping the populace stupid and docile makes things easier for the statists and authoritarians. A populace that is educated and knowledgable are a pain to central planners. They have an annoying habit of questioning things when its inconvenient.
State schools and universities are places of PC indoctrination that dissuade students from thinking for themselves lest they offend or divert from the propaganda put forth by the educators. Free thinkers are not seen as clever but troublemakers and potential threats.
This disturbing piece comes via Rational Review.
1 commentThe far left being classy on 9/11
CMU reports that the far left are being respectful as per normal.
KLF MAN PUTS 9/11 TRACK ONLINE FOR ONE DAY ONLY James Cauty, a founding member of The KLF and The Orb, is making a track called ‘Silent Night’ available via the web for today and today only in recognition of the second anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks. Talking to Aussie website Undercover Cauty explains: “I recorded the track a while ago and a few days ago I realized it was going to be the 9/11 anniversary. We wanted to respond to what was going on.”
The track is released under the artist moniker of Blacksmoke, “an occasional
art collective and musical group” who have just completed an EP called ‘Fuck
the Fucking Fuckers’. “It is a concept EP, the concept being fuck America
basically and fuck weapons of mass destruction. It is like a protest record.
It is the kind of record that you would want to put on if you are going to
go out on a riot. We do feel quite angry about what has been going on with
the war”.
Wouldn’t it be too bad if some angry American hacked their site today? It would just be such a great shame. Or maybe someone, with relatives in NYC, might beat the living crap out of this piece of excrement. Wonder if the media would see that as a “political statement” too.
3 commentsWhere’s Robert Fisk when you need ‘im?
From the American Enterprise Institute, via Oxblog.
By Karl Zinsmeister
Posted: Wednesday, September 10, 2003
ARTICLES
Wall Street Journal
Publication Date: September 10, 2003
America, some say, is hobbled in its policies toward Iraq by not knowing much about what Iraqis really think. Are they on the side of radical Islamists? What kind of government would they like? What is their attitude toward the U.S.? Do the Shiites hate us? Could Iraq become another Iran under the ayatollahs? Are the people in the Sunni triangle the real problem?
Up to now we’ve only been able to guess. We’ve relied on anecdotal temperature-takings of the Iraqi public, and have been at the mercy of images presented to us by the press. We all know that journalists have a bad-news bias: 10,000 schools being rehabbed isn’t news; one school blowing up is a weeklong feeding frenzy. And some of us who have spent time recently in Iraq-I was an embedded reporter during the war-have been puzzled by the postwar news and media imagery, which is much more negative than what many individuals involved in reconstructing Iraq have been telling us.
Catuitous humor
Animal lovers might want to skip this. (Via Jonah Goldberg in The Corner.)
Comments are off for this postMy 9/11 piece
Be warned, this piece might make uncomfortable reading for some. I have not indulged anyone’s feelings on the matter. I call it how I saw it and still do.
Today’s Telegraph leader reflects a similar viewpoint.
Mike, not surprisingly, has written one of the best pieces you will ever read on 9/11 and the threat we face. No po-faced sentimentality here. Just telling it like it is… Kill or be killed. The reasoning for the timing of the attacks is covered in a comment. It was on this day that the last Islamic attempt at overthrowing the West was curtailed at the games of Vienna.
We are, in fact, at war with Islam (or rather its adherents) and it is up to Muslims the world over to convince us otherwise. The co-operation we have gotten from the “Islamic street” since 9/11 speaks volumes. It speaks louder than all the “Islam is a religion of peace” bleating put together.
1 commentNo words needed
