SUPERB ILLOGIC

As I have noted previously, I sometimes put up posts on a new blog called Majority Rights. I think the cause concerned is an important one. Why should minorities have rights -- including the right to celebrate their own culture -- when the politically-correct crowd are frantically trying to deny the same rights to the majority? They are even trying (often successfully) to deny us the right to mention Christmas, for goodness sake!

The blog concerned is however a group blog with a fair range of contributors and some are a bit nutty by most people's standards -- with the inevitable deep suspicion of Jews occasionally popping up. I am however one of the most pro-Israel bloggers there is so it is perfectly clear that I myself am not of that ilk. In fact, I am so outspoken on the matters concerned that I get a lot of flak in the comments section from the more paranoid types who read the blog.

So, knowing all that, note the following comment posted by Jason Soon:

Apparently there's a new blog on the block that calls itself Majority Rights. The Australian blogosphere's err. unique . John J. Ray is a contributor. While Dr Ray is undoubtedly an intelligent and erudite man, some of his opinions can be regarded as monomanical and eccentric. But his membership of this group blog which includes a genuine anti-semitic conspiracy theorist and people who just 'love their race' among its contributors really doesn't do wonders for his reputation, except insofar as one can say that he comes across as among the most reasonable and moderate of its regulars. And for his pains, in a relatively innocuous post arguing that Hispanics are not dumb, he gets excoriated by one of his readers (wintermute) as a 'far Left monstrosity' (an honour he apparently shares with our Queen). Needless to say, any blog whose readership regards Dr Ray as a 'far Left monstrosity' will be of great entertainment value to Catallaxy readers but I daren't say much else for it.

The post shows some attempt at balance but I posted a comment about Soon's use of the term "monomania". I said: ""Monomania" is a clinical term associated with paranoid psychosis. Don't you think some more moderate term might become you better...?"

Soon replied:

"As for monomania, call that poetic licence. Your obsession with associating leftism with nazism (a rhetorical ploy now undercut by your association with actual nazis) is a monomania though your means of expressing it may be outwardly coherent".

I replied:

I guess Galileo was a monomaniac too with his ridiculous idea that the earth revolved around the sun. In Galileo's case, you just had to look through his telescope. In my case you just have to read the historical documents. But both actions were/are "absurd" according to the contemporary wisdom. Galileo was still right, though. And his campaign to educate people in the facts WAS important.

You also seem to be overlooking the fact that I reduce the "Nazis" on the blog concerned to what is apparently teeth-grinding rage. I guess that by Jason Soon logic, if I oppose Communism, I must be a Communist.

The amazing thing is that Jason had himself noted how much the antisemitic commenters on the blog dislike my posts but he still seems to think that it discredits me to post stuff that enrages them! Jason Soon logic is definitely too deep for me to follow. I think it will be a long time before I read any more of his posts.

Jason was once a Gene Expression blogger so would have been seen by most people as pretty Rightist. In recent years, however, elitism seems to have lured him to the Left, with all the devotion to argument-by-abuse that is customary in such circles. I suppose quoting out of context will come next. Maybe as he gets older, however, he will re-establish contact with reality and logic.

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TUESDAY ROUNDUP

What I think are the best posts on my various blogs for this week:

Dissecting Leftism explains why Libertarians should support the GOP

Political Correctness Watch shows that the ACLU is really anti-liberty

Greenie Watch says that buying the cheapest is environmentally friendly

Education Watch says that Americans are diploma-mad

Socialized Medicine says that doctors are being driven to labor union-like tactics by the high costs of litigation

Leftists as Elitists shows that Leftist elitism leads to Leftist hate

Gun Watch shows how horrible was history's most successful attempt at a complete ban on guns.

MarxWords shows that Hitler and Karl Marx agreed about the Jews

But the post that generated most emails was my fun Greenie Watch post on steam cars (scroll down)! That really brought the technophiles out of the woodwork! They all had better ideas of course. But nobody mentioned orbital engines. Shame!

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ELSEWHERE

I got an interesting email yesterday. Someone in Iran plans to translate some of my writings into Farsi -- presumably for circulation in Iran. The young people over there are a feisty lot. The Iranians now appears to be the most pro-Western population in the Middle East (Israel excepted, of course). They have had a gutful of the Ayatollahs. Note: "The grandson of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has condemned his country's clerical regime and suggested military intervention by the United States as a possible path to liberation".

I understand that some of my writings have also been translated into Russian -- for the benefit of Russian-origin Israelis -- who are generally a conservative lot. They KNOW what real socialism is like.

Abortion: Kudos to Australian Catholics. I have been advocating this sort of thing for years and GWB advocated it in the Presidential debates too: "One of the last announcements Cardinal George Pell made before taking his annual leave this week was to introduce a program, new to Australia and only the third of its kind in the world, to provide support to pregnant women who are contemplating abortion. "We want to respond to the needs of women facing an unexpected or difficult pregnancy by providing them with life-affirming options," he said. "Through the program, expectant mothers and, if required, their families, will be provided with social, emotional and practical support to enable them to continue with their pregnancy to full term. Women need real alternatives to abortion, and this new program is targeted to meet the specific needs of women contemplating abortion."

If there is anybody who is by now not totally fed up with the U.N., this post about the "Toyota Taliban" should settle the matter. It might even put one or two Leftists off the U.N.

How much will reach the victims? "The United Nations has received a record $US1.5 billion ($1.93 billion) in one week in donations after the devastating tidal waves in the Indian Ocean, a UN official said".

It looks like Al Capone's dictum of "vote early and vote often" is the reason the Democrat finally got over the line in the Washington State Governor's race.

There have been a fair few comments recently about the death of Susan Sontag. I have said nothing so far because I think the stupid old bitch's own words about the white race being "the cancer of human history" condemn her more effectively than anything I could say. No doubt she also said that races don't exist.

Betsy Newmark has been doing well. She deserves the kudos. I like her choice of template too, though the colours could be improved. The Newmarks are a whole family of bloggers, of course. Betsy has an excellent post here about how the media ignore successful conservative blacks while constantly pushing Leftist ones.

Wayne Lusvardi looks at the Leftist claim that the war in Iraq is "unconstitutional".

The Policeman is still one of the funniest blogs on the net. You have to "get" dry British humour, though.

The latest posting on my MarxWords blog shows that Engels despised both liberty and democracy.

For more postings, see EDUCATION WATCH, GREENIE WATCH, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, GUN WATCH and SOCIALIZED MEDICINE. Mirror sites here, here, here, here and here

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That power only, not principles, is what matters to Leftists is perfectly shown by the Kerry campaign. They put up a man whose policies seemed to be 99% the same as George Bush's even though the Left have previously disagreed violently with those policies. "Whatever it takes" is their rule.

Leftists are phonies. For most of them all that they want is to sound good. They don't care about doing good. That's why they do so much harm. They don't really care what the results of their policies are as long as they are seen as having good intentions.

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