George Rebane
China has announced that it is on the path to making the yuan (aka renminbi) a global currency (more here). In short, the yuan will then take its place beside the euro and the dollar as a currency in which international accounts may be settled – in other words the yuan will become a major convertible international currency that will directly compete with the dollar in international trade. To the more sheltered progressives who do not understand the significance of this, let’s make it real clear – crap like QE2 will no longer fly; if we then print, we pay big time.
It was an eye opener probably missed by most who were busy watching football or the latest ‘reality’ show. Our VP Joe Biden, currently in Afghanistan, concluded on camera that in fighting the Taliban we “are breaking the momentum” of that raghead contingent. Earlier we had been led to believe that we had things ‘turned around’, and even before that we were on the ‘upswing’ of the fight against those fundamentalist murderers. Now we are back to just breaking the momentum of their advances? This is a careful retreat which the administration has managed in the media regarding our fortunes in a country that has eaten empires. As these pages have warned, fundamentalist Islam is yet again the most powerful enemy that liberal western civilization has encountered. (Recall that Islam was western civilization’s greatest enemy until the Battle of Vienna in 1683.) It almost makes our collectivists look like pussycats, except when their political correctness plays into the hands of the mullahs.
Few people in the land still know when to use a singular possessive vs a plural, and use of the plural possessive is now in the rarefied realm of rocket science. The first person personal pronoun is an entrenched mystery, we have now progressed from ‘Him and me went home’ to ‘He greeted Mary and I.’ And the use of English in journalism continues reaching for new lows. Even conservative outlets like Fox News confuse labeling pictures of burned churches with “Christian Attacks” instead of ‘Christians Attacked’. Reports about the coming demographic tsunami of retiring baby boomers, who were supposedly born “between 1946 to 1965”, confuse the issue by excluding the cited bookend years. The correct ‘from 1946 through 1965’ continues to elude our professional word wizards.
Now the country’s Hispanic contingent has let it be known that they are offended by calling their south of the border brethren, those who enter the country as fugitives from our laws, ‘illegal immigrants’. They now prefer ‘undocumented immigrants’, a label properly attached to those aliens legally in the country (immigration is a two-party process) who have either lost their papers or let them lapse. This change is important because of the picture it paints for the nation’s light thinkers. Don’t even think of calling them illegal entrants or alien fugitives. Viva Reconquista!
Ever since the Ground Zero dust settled, our left has been scuttling around the country trying to remove American cultural icons that might be deemed to insult the sensitive natures of Muslims. This has reached heights such as removing Old Glory from classrooms that might have Muslim students so that they don’t have to have their studies diverted by the colors of the Great Satan. And it goes on and on. By every imaginable measure in this war between civilizations, the west has taken it in their private parts. If anyone remains who is interested to know when we have turned the corner in this conflict, there remains one undeniable metric of western ascendancy. It is when we see our leaders sit with crossed legs in the presence of Islamic leaders. That will surely signal that we are starting to hold our own, and can rekindle hope for western civilization ascending.
Finally, I end with the observation that the livid left has spent the last four days screaming from every portal available to it that it was the conservative right which bears full blame for the Tucson massacre and should take full responsibility for it. There is no waiting for facts. The lies are instant, the judgments unequivocal, the remedies direct and uncompromising. Their asymmetries define them to reside across what elsewhere I have labeled as our unbreachable chasm.
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