I meant to get this up for Martin Luther King day but was not able to obtain permission from the author in time. Still worth listening to: mlk-1
The site where this piece and others were originally published is The Seanachai. Good site!
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A new menu item, “Favorites,” has been added. It contains some of Monty’s favorite posts. It looks like Al Gore has a new follower. Osama bin Laden is apparently modifying his image and adopting the role of elder statesman for the world. Here as reported in the NY Times is his recent advice: “Talk about climate change is not an ideological luxury but a reality,” Mr. bin Laden was quoted as saying in a report on Al Jazeera’s English-language Web site. “All of the industrialized countries, especially the big ones, bear responsibility for the global warming crisis.” How long before some left loonie suggests pardoning bin Laden of past transgressions so that he might step forward and help solve the world’s problems? Certainly his position on climate change is consistent with theirs and might have been able to convert Copenhagen into the success that President Obama could not. This type of wisdom is too important to allow minor past offenses to stand in the way of valuable contributions to noble causes. Besides, it appears as though bin Laden has turned over a new leaf: In the message broadcast on Friday, Mr. bin Laden veered away from his traditional vows to inflict death and destruction on the United States, and instead discussed climate change, globalization and monetary policy in a message that he said was directed to “the whole world.” Apparently, in an effort to ingratiate himself further with the loonie left, he invoked one of their heroes: “Noam Chomsky was correct when he compared the U.S. policies to those of the Mafia,” Al Jazeera Continue reading Osama Parrots the Left A recent post suggesting that President Obama could play most of the roles in the drama Glengarry Glen Ross brought several comments from readers about David Mamet, the extremely talented author. While I was familiar with a small portion of his work, I knew little to nothing about the man. One reader referenced Mamet’s article in The Village Voice entitled David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal.’ Mamet’s categorization of society into two main groups, his role as a member of one of these groups and how he “switched teams,” so to speak, was very interesting reading. While it was not a rapid “road to Damascus conversion,” the change was just as complete as evidenced by the following quote: “‘Aha,’ you will say, and you are right. I began reading not only the economics of Thomas Sowell (our greatest contemporary philosopher) but Milton Friedman, Paul Johnson, and Shelby Steele, and a host of conservative writers, and found that I agreed with them: a free-market understanding of the world meshes more perfectly with my experience than that idealistic vision I called liberalism.” The Global Warming Wealth Scam and the buffoons that promote it go up in smoke in Copenhagen: “If there were not $45trillion of Western citizens’ money at stake, this would be the funniest moment in world history. What a bunch of buffoons. Not since Neville Chamberlain tugged a Claridge’s luncheon bill from his pocket and flourished it on the steps of the aircraft that brought him back from Munich has a worthless scrap of paper been so audaciously hyped.” Gerald Warner |
 Friedrich von Hayek founded the Mont Pelerin Society. “Monty Pelerin” is a pseudonym chosen by this blogger to convey general agreement with the philosophy, goals and spirit of the Mont Pelerin Society. No other connection exists between the blogger and the Society. |
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