Updated: Make Friends with Your 'Fast'

General, Ilana Mercer, Technology

Today a mysterious package arrived from Volkswagen. In it was a gloriously ugly onyx gargoyle with the following instructions for the driver of that devil, the GTI:

Dear Ms. Ilana Mercer,

This is your fast. Make sure it gets plenty of exercise.

All the best,

Volkswagen

Here you can view some ads with “fast” in the background. Lefty magazines have crowed about the anti-fem angle of the commercials. The emphasis on speed has displeased the same habitual joy killers: “irresponsible” they call it.

Volkswagen has tapped into something. “Fast” sounds a lot like my alter ego when I drive Turbo-Toad (that’s my GTI). My husband will attest to the fact that, as welcome as “Fast” is on the dashboard—ears pinned back by the wind (“they channel air away from fast’s face and off his back,” says the instruction pamphlet “Fast” came with)—I didn’t need him to remind me of my mission when driving the GTI.

Update: Pursuant to the comments hereunder, I have to ask, Why is the love of fast, fabulous cars equated with youth and folly? This country worships youth and thinks of looking good, having fun, or driving a fast car as the prerogatives of youth. Rubbish. Besides which mature drivers who’ve been on the road for a while are the real good drivers. By the way, as this great article makes clear, the GTI is just a magnificent car. Not only does it have a tremendously powerful, brilliantly engineered engine, it is accoutered with safety features and luxuries absent in many a sports car. As for my being a bit childish; big deal. So where was I? Fast comes with 4 tails. He has the devilish badboy tail on today; I may change it soon.

(Be sure to rev up with the preceding blog post, Glorious GTI)

Updated II (4/11/022) When GTI Maker Was Allowed Fem-Mocking Humor: Make Friends With Your ‘Fast’

Feminism, General, Ilana Mercer, Political Correctness, Technology

Today [Aug 21, 2006], a mysterious package arrived from Volkswagen. In it was a gloriously ugly onyx gargoyle with the following instructions for the driver of that devil, the GTI:

Dear Ms. Ilana Mercer,

This is your fast. Make sure it gets plenty of exercise.

All the best,

Volkswagen

Here [4/11/022: this was banned, for obvious, #MeToo reasons] you can view some ads with “fast” in the background. Lefty magazines have crowed about the anti-fem angle of the commercials. The emphasis on speed has displeased the same habitual joy killers: “irresponsible” they call it.

But these are my thoughts exactly: “Stop yakking; I can’t hear the engine roar.”

(Be sure to rev up with the preceding blog post, Glorious GTI)

The Unbearable Nothingness of News

The Zeitgeist

It doesn’t matter how many mocking clips a real newsman like Jon Stewart does of the fake news media, they never change their ways. (View “Algebra of Cable News”). They continue to run entire programs on…nothing. The number of experts willing to bang on about absolutely nothing is never-ending too.

Thus it came as no surprise when the news nincompoops repeated suspect John Mark Karr’s claim quite seriously that he was alone with JonBenet Ramsey when she died (in the basement of her home on Dec. 26, 1996), but that her death was an accident.

Are we talking about the same child who perished gruesomely by garroting and rape? You’d think the poor thing died peacefully with her loved ones surrounding her, Karr included. It reminds me of how the media persisted in calling Andrea Yates, the woman who drowned all her kids, “the Houston mom” (technically incorrect and morally reprehensible). I suspect this latest development is yet another brick in the edifice of bungling the case represents. Other than the odd meta-comment, you’re not going to read much on BAB about this latest obscenity. I’ll say this much for the record: whoever turned that poppet into a sexualized miniature adult and pimped her out like that was revolting in their own right.

Updated: A New Kind of Conquest

America, IMMIGRATION

I’ve begun reading Paul Johnson’s A History of the America People, and tracing the routes the first colonists took, using my large globe. Walter Raleigh: now there’s a “proto-American” clichésman of action distinguished in his courage, vision, energy, audacity (alas, cruelty), and intellect.

Speaking of colonists, there’s a new kind in town. Here are some of the intriguing facts, (collated by Human Events) highlighted in Pat Buchanan’s new book, State of Emergency, The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America:

Fact: our illegal population today is greater than the total number of Irish, Jewish, and British immigrants who ever came to the U.S.
Why the reigning Republicans ignore the law and do little or nothing to stop illegal immigration
How mass immigration inevitably tilts the center of gravity of American politics to the Left
How the numbers of Americans of European descent are rapidly decreasing — and the political and social implications
How Los Angeles today provides a glimpse of what all of America will be like in 2050
An ‘American creed’? Why those who believe that the ideas of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address hold us together as a nation are distorting or reinventing history
Fact: not only are arguments about the economic benefits provided by illegal aliens false, but illegal immigration also constitutes a massive drain on our economy
Why importing a vast diaspora from a neighboring nation so different from our own is such a hellish risk
How the United States Government threw up its hands and abdicated its constitutional duty to protect the states from invasion by illegal aliens over four decades ago
Why it is difficult, if not impossible, for cities to get control of the growing crime menace of immigrants and illegal aliens
John F. Kennedy and immigration: how, in 1991, the U.S. took in twelve times more immigrants than what JFK stated in the early 1960s as an acceptable annual limit
Bush’s guest worker plan: how it provoked a surge to the border
How, as Republicans dither, some Democrats are beginning to see the potency among voters of the illegal immigration issue
How, rather than fading away, issues of nationality long considered dead are resurfacing today
Why so many children of Asian-American and Hispanic immigrants are assimilating into a deadly subculture of gangs and crime
How even conservatives now routinely denounce as ‘racist,’ ‘nativist’ and ‘xenophobic’ anyone who argues that mass migration from the Third World risks disuniting and even destroying America

Eurabia on the rise: the devastating consequences of unrestricted immigration in Europe

Buchanan disapproves of Eurabia? Why, then, is he so eager to see Israel claimed by the same savages?

Update: Buchanan’s contradictions aside (elucidated in “Buchanan of Arabia“), his WND column today, “Prophets Without Honor” is certainly gutsy, as his book will no doubt be.