Road Sassy

I have been late writing anything on Georgia because I didn’t want to leave the oasis of contentment that a new grandchild affords and, sure enough, that bubble was promptly burst when in my research I came across Frank Schaeffer’s Why Russia Invaded Georgia….(H/T: Brian Akira)

I’ll be damned if it’s not all America’s fault - again. Oh, I don’t deny we need to keep our freaking hands out of the Balkans. I detest that our interference in Bosnia, Kosovo and Serbia served to elevate an Islamic nation to the detriment of the former eastern bloc countries that we need to support. But you would think the left could write a different song. Come up with a damnable argument that has something to it beyond the usual inculpatory script and dialog berating America.

It takes a special breed of a-historical American president who is steeped in the Protestant idea of denominationalism; wherein Methodists, Presbyterians, Southern Baptists etc., all do their thing and somehow get along, to so thoroughly misunderstand the fact that Russia is reemerging first and foremost as a country reconnecting with its Orthodox historical imperial roots. We just have no concept of blood ties, soil and holy tradition in America. Since we don’t take tradition seriously we can’t believe that anyone else does.

And it takes a very common breed of Ameri-phobic writer to exalt Russian history and tradition while sneering at America. And who exactly are the Americans who do not take tradition seriously? Could it be the Progressives (whose camp this self-confessed Obama supporter is clearly in) who have made America’s roots and founding a point of attack in endless revisionist histories and with relentless denigration of American ideals. Are not those Americans who seek to preserve our traditions, who seek to circumvent the continuous attacks on our constitution, who endlessly offer proof of our Judeo-Christian roots the very ones who are derided as atavistic, racist nativists?

Oh yes, Mr. Schaeffer pens a good screed but he seems very conflicted to me. He snorts contemptuously at the American proclivity to

…shop for church experiences as we shop for everything else …

yet has written a book entitled “CRAZY FOR GOD-How I Grew Up As One Of The Elect, Helped Found The Religious Right, And Lived To Take All (Or Almost All) Of It Back“, which suggests to me that Schaeffer exercised an American tradition of religious freedom. A freedom he disparages when Bush signals the presumption of that freedom demonstrated by the fact that a multitude of denominations actually do

somehow get along .

Perhaps, it is because too many Americans

… have no concept of blood ties, soil and holy tradition in America

, that we now stand to lose it all. Writers like Schaeffer can’t even manage to maintain reverence for the brief and brilliant history that we can lay claim to. Our flag is burned with impunity, our founding fathers are scorned, our history revised by academic jackals whose lips are bloody from gnashing on the body and soul of America. Citizens of Schaeffer’s ilk can’t even manage to render respect to our grandparents’ generation, let alone “blood ties”.

Yet, Schaeffer scolds America for not understanding that

Russia is reemerging first and foremost as a country reconnecting with its Orthodox historical imperial roots.

So Russia’s roots, steeped in the blood of it’s own citizens, are to be respected, but America’s roots, which ultimately engendered freedom and prosperity around the globe, are to be routinely spurned and castigated.

Schaeffer and his brood of sniping parrots can squawk away endlessly about American, so-called, imperialism , wringing their hands that we

have been busy insulting and humiliating the Orthodox world since the end of the Cold War.

Does the fool even understand what the Cold War was about? Do we just sweep under the rug the imperialistic “insults” that the USSR inflicted on it’s neighbors and citizens for decades. We, who for quite a long time, had the means to really humiliate Russia with a couple of quick nukes but chose not to, are, in the end, swinish louts because we didn’t what? Apologize for being America?

He admires the resoluteness of Russia

with its Orthodox historical imperial roots

yet lambastes Bush for being

… willing to impose [his] vision by brutal force of arms.

He disdains McCain’s

… bellicose smart ass — “All I see is KGB in his eyes posturing

but has nothing to say about the Georgian civilians just freshly murdered by a rather bellicose smart ass Russian response. And he doesn’t imagine that Putin also has a vision that he has just demonstrably executed by “brutal force” in Georgia? And does he not imagine that Putin’s vision differs little from Russia’s historical vision of domination far beyond Georgia? But, oh, that history is to be revered.

Indeed, he exudes admiration for resurgent Orthodox Russia- but is oh so quick to blame America that Russia chose to “resurge” in Georgia, as if Georgia was never in Russia’s “resurging” sights to begin with?….

In Russia’s case its public humiliation at the hands of the United States, following the Cold War, could not have been designed better to have produced the invasion of Georgia….

Indeed this writer’s words stroke Russia like some exotic wild animal, admiring it’s “flexing muscles” , abjuring us to show due respect.

As Russia flexes her muscles we’re reminded that history and religion are serious matters for some people, not just products to try then discard.

Unless those “some people” happen to be traditional Americans, constitutionalists, Christians and patriots. It is quite alright to dismiss Russia’s many sins and defer to it as a reemerging nation and in the same breath denigrate Bush for deciding

it would be a good idea to place a missile defense system in Poland, disregard Russia’s advice and invade Iraq and further insult and encircle the heart of the Eastern Orthodox world.

Russia’s advice on Iraq?!? Dear Mr. Schaeffer, Russia had long been in bed with Saddam and I am sure Putin’s advice would have been to ignore their complicity with our enemies in the food for oil imbroglio. In the eyes of the Schaeffer’s of the world, it is quite alright for Russia to suggest that they will put missiles in Cuba but damn President Bush for seeking to keep Americans safe.

And with this sentence he just flat out gives himself away.

What’s going on is the slow-motion counterattack of the Orthodox world against the West’s latest crusade. Georgia is just a symbol for the counter-punch to the modern version of the West’s sack of Constantinople in 1204.

Earlier in his diatribe he despairs that

American evangelicals invaded Russia with missionaries, because they said the Orthodox aren’t real Christians

but I guarantee you he has nothing to say about Islam’s chauvinistic global agenda of converting all infidels to Islam and slamming us all under sharia law. No, it’s always the “Crusader’s” fault.

America should scurry out of the way of an awakening Russia, defer to and genuflect to the land that gave us Stalin, the Gulags, and the scourge of Communism and then we should proceed to take out our whips and flagellate our crusader hides, because indeed

…why is Russia invading? It’s pay back thumb-in-your-eye time.

Russia is reemerging first and foremost as a country reconnecting with its Orthodox historical imperial roots.

And America is cannibalizing it’s own body, convulsed in some atavistic urge to worship at the feet of thugs and theocrats, willing to sacrifice freedom and heritage and prosperity for some blood atonement that will never ever wash our “sins” away in the eyes of the left.

Related Reading:

• Post-Imperial Third Romes: Resurrections of a Russian Orthodox Geopolitical Metaphor by Dmitrii Sidorov
• Now Russia Will Bleed
  
• PUTIN’S MUNICH SPEECH
• The Russian Civil War
  
  

From Sweetness and Light

Crumbling home prices and $100 oil helped Wall Street’s Highest Earners pull in $19 billion last year.Problems paying the mortgage, filling the gas tank and feeding the family have eroded living standards for millions of Americans during the past several months.

Not so for people who manage big piles of money–many of them made a fortune betting correctly on the housing debacle and rising commodity prices last year.Our second annual look at the pay of folks who run hedge and private equity funds shows that the top 20 took home a collective $18.7 billion last year, 43% more than in 2006.

To even make the list you needed minimum earnings of $350 million, which is $90 million higher than the year before. No chief executive of a traditional Wall Street investment bank even came close…For hedge fund billionaires Pickens and second-ranked George Soros ($2.4 billion), whose own investments compose a significant portion of their funds, there’s more to be made from asset appreciation than from fees. Soros made $2 billion from the growth of personal investments within his $17 billion Quantum Endowment Fund, which returned 32% for the year…
continue reading… Soros 2nd Biggest Profiteer In Housing Crisis
(via LGF Links)

Censorship comes riding in on many a dark horse. On one horse rides anal-retentive little Napoleons like Richard Warman, commanding the imperious storm troopers manning the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission. Other horses steal in bearing very powerful men, men who have deemed themselves guardians of the media gate, deciding what the masses are permitted to see and read and think. Men intent upon shaping the world according to their suffocating utopian vision. Men apparently so frightened of American power and exceptionalism that they are willing to spill treasure, perpetrate treason, and deploy millions solely to eradicate it. Obama supporter George Soros is singing in Jeremiah Wright’s choir.

Let’s sing it one more time. “God Damn America”.

If the Warmans of the world are noisome mosquitoes sucking at the blood of freedom, gluttonous men like George Soros are the cannibals gorging wholesale on the flesh, smirking lips dripping with the blood of their gore while their leftist minions wince and whine about Rupert Murdoch and the oh-so radical right wing.

Not too many commentators seem to have noticed that George Soros is slowly but surely becoming the mainstream media that is the focus of the analysis we do at NewsBusters. The liberal billionaire-turned-philanthropist has been buying up media properties for years in order to drive home his message to the American public that they are too materialistic, too wasteful, too selfish, and too stupid to decide for themselves how to run their own lives.

As Capital Research Center (my employer) reported in a recent paper, three years ago Soros acquired 2.6 million shares of the huge diversified media company Time Warner. In 2006 his companies, Soros Strategic Partners and Dune Capital Management, paid $900 million to buy the DreamWorks SKG film library from Viacom, a move that gave Soros the DVD and rebroadcasting rights to films such as Saving Private Ryan (1998), Gladiator (2000), and American Beauty (1999). As James Hirsen noted, the transaction gives Soros “some highly desirable film rights at a time when the marketing and distribution model is changing to video on demand, video iPods and other forms of digital distribution.” But more importantly, it gives Soros “a presence in Hollywood where likeminded libs are ready, willing and able to collaborate in cinematic social engineering.” Soros is also a funder, whether directly or indirectly, of Media Matters for America, the reflexively liberal noise machine and pretended media watchdog whose modus operandi is to mau-mau the media into mouthing the politically correct platitudes that pass for profound insights on the far left.

Soros is also venturing into media overseas. Earlier this year Soros Fund Management plunked down $100 million for 3% of India’s Reliance Entertainment, a $3 billion conglomerate that aims to provide Internet-based TV programs in India. Reliance also churns out movies and owns movie houses, radio stations and social networking websites in the country with one of the fastest growing economies in the world. When in the 1980s Soros set up offices in Eastern Europe for his philanthropy, the Open Society Institute (OSI), he helped to finance publishers, independent TV and radio outlets, and political parties.

Soros has long been a player in Hollywood. As Rondi Adamson reported in “George Soros, Movie Mogul: ‘Social Justice’ Cinema and the Sundance Institute,” (Foundation Watch, March 2008), OSI has been underwriting “social justice” documentaries since 1996, and in 2001 Soros let actor-director Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute take over his Soros Documentary Fund (since rechristened the Soros/Sundance Documentary Fund).

continue reading….Soros Anti-American Horror Propaganda Coming to a Theater Near You (via Say Anything)

Related Reading:
Soros’s Political ‘Hit Man’ Brock Takes Aim at McCain

Special Report: The Plan To Silence Conservatives

The Cult of Soros

The Shadow Party

George Soros is a man who has invested heavily into destroying America and Barack Hussein Obama has been his boy for a long time. But then Obama, as evidenced by his array of sordid supporters, mentors and “spiritual” advisors, is a good match for Soros; man of guile, an egomaniacal manipulator, and a self-loathing Jew who was happy to profit from his people’s slaughter. Yup, there certainly are a good many Jew haters in Obama’s crowd.

I felt that this old interview with Soros that I found via Right Wing News is worth posting. Another piece of the puzzle that, as it becomes complete, gives us the true nature of America’s own dime store jesus, Obama.

Steve Kroft: And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps.

George Soros: Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say that that’s when my character was made…

Steve Kroft: …My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.

George Soros: Yes. Yes.

Steve Kroft: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.

George Soros: Yes. That’s right. Yes.

Steve Kroft: I mean, that’s’that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?

George Soros: Not-not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don’t - you don’t see the connection. But it created no-no problem at all.

Steve Kroft: No feeling of guilt?

George Soros: No.

Steve Kroft: For example that, I’m Jewish and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there? None of that?

George Soros: Well, of course I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn’t be there, because that was-well, actually, in a funny way, it’s just like in markets- that if I weren’t there- of course, I wasn’t doing it, but somebody else would-would-would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the-whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the-I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt.

If Obama is presented with the opportunity to destroy America, Soros will have found his monies well invested, and trust me, neither man will feel a twinge of guilt.