Mailvox: to the editors

LL is a big fan:

I read Vox Day's Commentary "Beating he War Drum". I was discusted by it. I used to think this man was a Christian, and I linked to his commentary on the Narnia Chronicles" in my blog, but after reading "Beating The War Drum". I have no use for this man!

I hope youu will drop him because he isnot a Christian and he doesn't have a clue about the post 911 era we live in, nor does he have a clue about the iblical times we live in. He is very sophomoric.

I can't believe this man could suggest we wait for Iran to nuke Israel before we do something or that we should wait for Iran to give nukes to terrorist cells in USA or Europe, or that we should allow Iran to destroy USA with a EMP weapon fired from a freighter off our coast.

He is still asleep in a pre 911 paradigm, he knows nothing about Bibilical prophecy nor the biblical times we live in, he is antisemitic, he is a Bush hater, he is stupid.

Why is he allowed on your website?

I laughed, I cried, much better than Cats. It seems the definition of anti-semitism has been broadened to include insufficient enthusiasm for unprovoked attacks on Israel's enemies.

Here's a simple question for you. If Iran making threats against Israel justifies the USA preemptively attacking Iran, aren't the USA's threats against Iran similar justification for anyone else who wishes to attack the USA? If not, do please explain your reasoning.

NRO: dumb or desperate?

Brookhiser on NRO's Corner:

Did anyone else think that W's praise of Bill Clinton, which was all over my AOL startup menu yesterday, was sly sabotage of Hillary (grossing out the Kossacks)?

If you doubted the depths to which Three Monkeys would sink, doubt no more. First, note the telling confession... AO-freaking-L? NRO has crawled so far up the elephant's posterior that I have no doubt that Goldberg will soon be cracking wise about the pachydermic stomach acid and Lowry will explain how funding Hamas is a clever Bush administration plan to bankrupt it.

As for the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton crack, indications are that Hillary has already been Anointed. If so, George Delano would surely know and is not tweaking the Kossacks, but the clueless electorate. I still don't see how Hillary can possibly be considered electable, but it is early yet and it is not hard to envision various scenarios that would render her so.

1. Hillary becomes the Border Warrior. This would be the easiest move, especially if the Republicans continue to alienate their base.
2. Republicans nominate a pro-choice candidate. A major Republican runs as a pro-life third-party candidate and splits the Republican vote ala 1992.
3. War in Iran goes poorly, Hillary becomes the Mideast Peace Candidate.
4. No war in Iran, inflation in 2007, Hillary becomes the New New Dealist.

The economically-illiterate Left

Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM.N: Quote, Profile, Research), the world's largest publicly traded oil company, on Monday reported a quarterly profit of $10.7 billion, capping a year of record earnings dominated by surging oil and gas prices.

The results pushed up Exxon's profit for the year to a staggering $36.13 billion -- bigger than the economies of 125 of the 184 countries ranked by the World Bank. Profit rose 42 percent from 2004.

The company and its peers have come under fire for posting billions in profit while consumers struggle with high gasoline prices. Exxon was quick to emphasize that such results would help it make long-term investments to meet energy demand.

The Irving, Texas company's fourth-quarter net income rose 27 percent, to $10.71 billion, or $1.71 a share, from $8.42 billion, or $1.30 a share, a year earlier. Revenue was just shy of $100 billion.

Try to keep this little profit statement in mind the next time you run into one of the morons from the "No Blood For Oil" crowd. As I pointed out in an article two years ago, oil is paid for in dollars, which are nothing but debt. So, there's no national incentive to wage war for oil unless you can't pay for it in dollars. And if you want to theorize about global corporate conspiracies influencing politicians behind closed doors, you should probably know that the oil companies LOVE expensive oil, for as the quote above demonstrates, they make significantly more money. Nobody wants cheap oil except the masses, whose feelings are irrelevant no matter which way you look at it.

I am no fan of the Bush administration, the neocons or their World Democratic Revolution, for a myriad of reasons. But don't ever make the mistake of lumping me in with those utterly clueless cretins on the Left.