Aug. 30th, 2010

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The National Republican Trust
The National Republican Trust is an independent political action committee that raises money and inserts advertising, "independent" of a candidate's wishes, into various political campaigns for national congressional offices around the United States.

This has to be the most insane anti-BurlingtonCoatFactoryIslamicCommunityCenter ad yet. The screenshot above is the closer for the ad, which is a minute long.

And if you want jingoism that'll make your balls want to crawl up into your belly and hide-- even if you don't identify as a man, maybe especially if you don't-- don't miss the pop song "I am America" at the top of the playlist on the right.

I got this from Conor Friedersdorf, one of those conservatives from the Oakshott tradition (into which I'm completely grooving, even though I'm re-reading Russel Kirk's "The Conservative Mind" this month). His post, entitled Two Mobs, a Stabbing, and an Arson, ends:
I'd ask that everyone reevaluate that judgment. Besides the mob antagonism directed at people in protest zones who didn't even turn out to be Muslims, we've recently had protests at mosques in California and Tennessee, an arson at the site of the latter, and a Muslim cab driver stabbed, among other anti-Muslim acts. One way to prevent this from getting worse without abandoning legitimate debates about Islam in America is to forcefully push back against irresponsible elites (honorable mention goes to Adam Serwer and Outside the Beltway, among others, for doing this kind of work) rather than pretending that their incitement is without consequence.
Indeed.
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A quiet weekend, all together. I'd forgotten just how expensive back-to-school shopping is; the bill for Yamaraashi-chan's outing was over three hundred bucks, and we didn't even buy that much. Kouryou-chan was supposed to go with us, but a fever laid her low most of Saturday.

Sunday, we were supposed to go out to the local water-based theme park, Wild Waves. Omaha, Yamaraashi-chan, and Lisakit got to go. Kouryou-chan and I stayed home and played innumerable games of cards, a couple of hours of Lego Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, and spent half an hour practicing drawing and illustration.

And that was pretty much it. Nothing much happened, really.

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