‘Job: Jewish Individualist’

Judaism & Jews, Religion

I got thinking about the Book of Job after La Coulter made fun of Howard Dean for choosing Job as his favorite “New Testament reading.” Dean is an unsharpened pencil, for sure, but he is right about Job. It’s unrivaled—easily the best book in the Bible…

Job challenged the ultimate authority, not because he was rebellious, but because he was righteous and true to himself…

Contemporary parallels to Job’s individualism are hard to come by, not least because the State has replaced God as the ultimate authority. Other than principled libertarians, nobody challenges the god of government in any meaningful way. Our Delphic oracles are the pundits and assorted self-styled presstitutes. Their Delphi is the TV on which they primp, preen and parrot party falsehoods. They can strike a pose but they can’t oppose …”

Here is the complete new WND.com column, “Job: Jewish Individualist.”

Maher's Moronity

Media, The Zeitgeist

Bill Maher, host of HBO’s “Real Time,” told Joe Scarborough he wants Bush impeached, but not for anything meaningful, such as, say, prosecuting an illegal and unjust war. Oh no, after all, Maher was down with the mob on that one—he wasn’t exactly unwavering in his opposition to the invasion of Iraq. Instead, the HBO host thinks impeachment proceedings ought to be initiated on the grounds that, on 9/11, after he had been told by Andrew Card that America had been attacked, Bush sat put for seven minutes at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School. The president was there “to read to a class and talk about education.”

Maher’s notion of an impeachment is as frivolous as the one initiated against Clinton.

Maher’s Moronity

Media, The Zeitgeist

Bill Maher, host of HBO’s “Real Time,” told Joe Scarborough he wants Bush impeached, but not for anything meaningful, such as, say, prosecuting an illegal and unjust war. Oh no, after all, Maher was down with the mob on that one—he wasn’t exactly unwavering in his opposition to the invasion of Iraq. Instead, the HBO host thinks impeachment proceedings ought to be initiated on the grounds that, on 9/11, after he had been told by Andrew Card that America had been attacked, Bush sat put for seven minutes at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School. The president was there “to read to a class and talk about education.”

Maher’s notion of an impeachment is as frivolous as the one initiated against Clinton.

Climate Chicken Littles

Pseudoscience

In the 1970s, climate Chicken Littles clucked about global cooling; now they claim the sky is falling because of global warming.

Republican Sen. James Inhofe outlined the historical arc of their hysteria:

“[F]or more than 100 years journalists have quoted scientists predicting the destruction of civilization by, in alternation, either runaway heat or a new Ice Age…”

Theirs is, ultimately, an “argument” against human development”—something climate kooks refer to euphemistically as “sustainable development.”

This is the crux of their “scientific” method:

Evidence that contradicts their global warming theory, these Chicken Littles enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory; every permutation in weather patterns—warm or cold—is said to be a consequence of that warming or proof of it.

They’ve created a “theory” that can’t be falsified.

(Related: Mutant Marxists in the ‘Heart of Darkness’)