Credo

Jim Kalb still has his site Turnabout where he posts his activities on other websites and publications.

Here is the credo he posted at Turnabout, I assume around 2003 from the comments it generated.

Turnabout is:

- Antimodernist, and rejects the stripped-down understanding of knowledge, reason and reality that has led to the current intellectual, social, and spiritual dead end,
- Hierarchical, and accepts that man is a composite being—free and bound, individual and social, physical and spiritual—and each aspect of what he is must be given weight within an ordered whole.
- Traditionalist, and views particular attachments, the development of social habit, and informal refinement and transmission of past acquisitions as essential to a reliable understanding of almost anything,
- Catholic, and accepts the authority, sacraments, and teaching of the Church as an ultimate reference point.

We recognize that the great enemy today of Catholicism, a tolerable human existence, and even reason itself is a technocratic view of man and society. That view takes human desire, know-how, and purely formal—and therefore empty—concepts like equality as its final standards. It rules out all thought of a precedent order of things that is given by God, nature, or culture, and so must be respected. The “dignity of the individual” becomes identified with an equal right to the satisfaction of desire, and everything becomes a means to that end.

The technocratic outlook thus aims at comprehensive transformation of human life on simple principles. Equality, rationality, and efficiency become the highest goals. Traditional distinctions and standards are done away with in favor of universal technically-rational organization designed to secure the equal satisfaction of desire.

The self-contained perfection to which the outlook aspires demands that all things be subordinated to a universal administrative scheme that pervades and controls everything. The creation of such a system, and the abolition of principles of order not based solely on human will and formal rationality (for example, the particularities of religion, historical community and sex), become overriding political goals.

The attempt to establish such a system leads to self-seeking hedonism, politically-correct bureaucratic tyranny, and in the end utter irrationality due to its inability to recognize any principle of order or judgment outside itself. To avoid such an outcome, renewed emphasis is needed on man’s transcendent setting, on the natural basis of human life, and on the relative mutual autonomy of the various spheres of life.

The good life is possible only with the aid of the principles of well-ordered freedom, which Catholics sometimes call subsidiarity—limited government, decentralization, tradition, and public recognition of transcendent religious authority. Catholics should therefore promote those principles, and reject whatever fundamentally opposes them: liberalism, the welfare state, “human rights” as now understood, radical secularism, and contemporary ideologies such as feminism and inclusiveness.

By taking such a position. we put ourselves at odds with the functionaries and apologists of the technocratic order: the experts, educators, academics, lawyers, bureaucrats and media people who provide and make authoritative the asserted facts, concepts, and principles that order relies on.

Turnabout will develop facts and arguments relating to these issues and propose considerations relevant to their understanding. Criticism and debate is of course welcome—there’s nothing necessarily correct about what any of us say, and what’s worthwhile in it can only become apparent if it’s questioned and tested. I hope you join us!

Incompatibilities

Trudeau at the Al Sunnah Al-Nabawiah mosque, Quebec 2014

From Mark Richardson's Oz Conservative:

Another good find by Conservative Thoughts (Konservative Gedanken), this time by Collin Cleary:

The liberal “celebration of diversity” is in fact a celebration of culture only in its external and superficial forms. In other words, to Western liberals “multiculturalism” winds up amounting simply to such things as the co-existence of different costumes, music, styles of dance, languages, and food. But the real guts of the different cultures consist in such things as how they view nature, how they view the divine, how they view men and women, and how they view the relative importance of their own group in the scheme of things. And it is by no means clear that members of cultures with radically different views on these matters can peacefully co-exist.

Unless, of course all cultural differences are eliminated save the purely external, via the transformation of all peoples into homogenized, interchangeable consumers bereft of any deeply-felt convictions. This is, in fact, the hidden global capitalist agenda of multiculturalism, now being cheerfully advanced by useful idiots on the anti-capitalist Left.

Nothing

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music" Friedrich Nietzsche


Derek Hough, the talented dancer from
Dancing With the Stars

I was by the lovey Jubilee Garden in Mississauga when I saw a young man moving gracefully. At first it looked like he was dong some kind of stretching exercise, but he was moving to some inner rhythm. He was not a dancer (I didn't think so) but he was artistic.


The Jubilee Garden as winter approaches
[Photo by KPA]

"Are you an artist?"

"No."

"What do you do?"

"Nothing."

"Oh. What did you study?" I've met before another young man who told me he had recently been a student at the nearby Sheridan College and was going on with more school since he couldn't find work.

"Philosophy," said this young man.

"You're a philosopher!" I concluded, pointing my finger at him telling him off for his lazy withdrawal.

How many times did this young, white man hear that he was "nothing?" In this world where the brown-skinned man rules, where Chinese and Indian philosophers are venerated, where multiculturalism runs the world, the heir to the white western civilization is deemed "nothing."

Does this young man realize that it is this "nothing" civilization that his "nothing" ancestors built which draws all these people here, reaping all the benefits but giving him nothing in return, other than to call him "nothing?"


Derek Hough

Voting for Trump is not hypocrisy. It’s realism

November 11, 2016 Remembrance Day event
at Celebration Square Missisauga, Canada
[Photo By: KPA]

Laura Wood has the following responses to readers' reactions to her endorsement of Donald Trump:

Susan-Anne White, from Northern Ireland:

I cannot understand why you are recommending that your American readers vote for Donald Trump. To say that this is hypocritical on your part is an understatement.

Laura Wood:

It’s not hypocrisy. It’s realism.

Let’s say you lived in a neighborhood ruled by two rival gangs. There is no hope in the immediate future, outside of a miracle, of ridding the neighborhood of gangs.

One gang leader recruits children as prostitutes and randomly torches houses to terrorize and instill fear. The other gang leader promotes the drug trade and kills his enemies, but does not present the same threat of imminent physical harm to children and non-criminal elements in the neighborhood.

They are both evil. But there is a lesser evil. Supporting the second one does not mean you endorse crime. Similarly, we only have two viable candidates. That’s it. If we support one who is seemingly less dangerous than the other, we are choosing a lesser evil not endorsing evil itself.

We keep forgetting (or get side-tracked from remembering) just how bad Hillary Clinton and the "Clinton Machine" really is in this brouhaha.

"If Hillary wins, Bill Clinton will be the first First Lady who’s a rapist." - Laura Wood

It is also interesting that the commentator Susan-Anne White is from Northern Ireland. She doesn't have to live with a (another) Clinton - nepotistic this time - rule.

The same thing happened in Canada. The media and his own party turned on Stephen Harp and in came Trudeau Jr. (nepotism if ever there was one) and this is what we got:

From an email I sent to a friend:

Trudeau, the lisping liberal, won the federal elections. He is married to a French-speaking Quebec woman, and I wonder what language they speak at home? I think it is French. Poor English Canada, with enemies from all sides. It was a depressing outcome, but then again, we will now have up front everything that the liberals want (or dream of). One of which is to advance the agendas of the "new" Canadians, by which they mean the Third World ethnic Canadians.

Harper, in one of his speeches, used "Old Stock" Canadians, by which he meant the English, Scottish, Irish, and even French (Quebec) conservative Canadians. I don't think it was a slip, and he meant it as a contrast to what we're seeing now, which is an ethnic, non-white, liberal population, which mostly came to Canada in the mid-twentieth century, around the 1970s, and which are majority populations in several Canadian cities, and even suburbs.

This actually goes some ways to prove my thesis that Mississauga [a suburb city of Toronto] has become a Third World enclave, a part of which is Muslim.

I said recently that we should look for the next suicide bomber/jihadi in Canada to come from Mississauga.

My work is cut out for me. Now, I know I am really separate, from my family and "friends."

I expect there will be a further exodus of whites away from here into the surrounding small towns (those racist towns...), and let Mississauga deteriorate as would a Third World city. Already, in my building, the majority, I should really say ALL, the residents are Indians or Chinese. And appliances and elevators are always breaking down. The cardboard wall separating rooms magnify conversations (Chinese or Indian) and Jeopardy TV shows. The building s showing wear and tear despite the being relatively new. I see a few elderly whites who were lured here as an ideal place for retirees. They always look bewildered, and are uncharacteristically silent in the elevators, where it is Canadian manners to at least say hello. I think they are also beginning to leave, as other whites also left in droves.

Trump's Roadkill

Billy Bush: What a difference six months makes

Left: At the Kaleidoscope Ball May 21, 2016
Presented by the Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA
"...to benefit the UCLA Children's Discovery and Innovation Institute (CDI)."

Right: Monday October 10 2016
After his suspension from NBC Today Show.
This is only 3 days after the suspension, although Bush may have known about it before.
He looks bloated and heavier, probably due to lack of sleep and his messy stubble

Trump defends his T&A banter with Billy Bush as something which all men do, especially in locker rooms.

Think about it. Does your husband speak like this anywhere? Your father, your brother, your boss, your colleague? I've never heard, or heard of, any of these members of my circle speak in such a manner, or accused of speaking like this, EVER!

Trump's casino lifestyle, where he has associated with low-lifes and criminals, tells us where he heard such language.


Trump wth Bob Libutti,
"a racehorse swindler" with ties to the mafia, in 1994


Interview on Wall Street Journal outlining Trump's shady connections

And in true Trump style, he drags people down with him.


Trump the Senior Role Model
With Billy Bush interviewing him in 2004 at the 56th Emmy Awards


Trump the senior role model

Admittedly, Billy Bush, then entertainment reporter at the mildly tabloid Hollywood Reporter, willingly participated in the post-interview banter.

I didn't know Bush is part of that Bush. But he does have that cheeky grin President Bush Jr. used to display in moments of confidence, and I've seen him on some shows where he is fast-talking and slightly abrasive. But his boyish grin excused him from audience wrath. Somewhere in the ample links now tied to his name on the WWW there is an interview where he asks Jennifer Lopez about her big behind. I bet J-Lo didn't mind that question at all, and it most likely added to her millions of fans (mostly male) who have no problems with her ample anatomy.

If Presidential Nominee Donald Trump had stuck to his casinos and real estate deals, no-one would have bothered him as he went about his usual abuses other than law enforcement agencies and various shades of mafia and criminal organizations he was known to cavort with. The women would have sucked it up and kept quiet as par for the course.

Nancy O'Dell, the woman Trump was bragging about, was Billy Bush's co-host at Access Hollywood at the time, knew that Trump's words were normal in the nefarious entertainment industry, which is what she signed up for when she took the job at Access Hollywood. O'Dell was in the middle of a divorce at the time (here is her Wikipedia chronology) and probably not a particularly convivial co-host to Bush.

Bush had three young children in 2005 when this incident too place, with a wife he had been married to since 1999. Perhaps the thirty-three-year-old Bush was worried about how to keep his job with the appearance of this fifty-nine-year-old media czar, senior to him by twenty-six years who took a liking to him. He had to play along.

And who lost? Billy Bush has now been suspended from his job at NBC's entertainment reporting program the Today Show, whereas Trump runs around reigning in pathetic women to appear at his televised assault on the American public, women who were willing accomplices in Bill Clinton's escapades. Bush may be wealthy by ordinary men's standards but he still has to hustle and work. He has a wife and three young children who have by now got used to living in the Hollywood Hills.

Surely that is why Presidential Nominee Donald Trump's current Eastern European wife kept quiet all these years (and how she managed to "forgive" him). How did she get into America and into the Trump House in the first place? Her immigration trajectory into America is still a mystery. She came to America as a "model," which in pop culture lingo means she "modeled" nude or semi-nude for various magazines before she met Trump. And there is one where she lies across a bear skin rug in nothing but her skin when she was co-habiting with the Donald. Presidential Nominee Donald Trump gives her the kind of life unimaginable for a poor Slovanian girl who used to live in Communist housing. She made it BIG in America. I'm sure there's very little she wouldn't do.

I suspect part of her "forgiveness" ("I forgive him" she declared when all this started to implode as her husband geared up for his role as America's leader) is for Trump's insatiable appetite for "pretty women." I don't doubt he still gallivants around. He made those taped statements with Billy Bush while Melania Trump was in his Tower, pregnant with their son. If he can do that then, what does he do at other times?


Melania Trump on her roadkill, posing for GQ in 1999
While Trump's live-in girlfriend
And before their 2005 marriage

Trump's roadkill are not just media personalities, but his family (or his wives) as well. Ivana Trump is a wreck of a woman. Marla cheated on him, which was no victory for her. How can anyone stay married to such an egomaniac? Melania better be careful.


Left: Billie Bush and his family
Wife of 18 years, Sydney
Daughters Josie 18, Mary Bradley 15, and Lillie 9

Right: Trump with his third family
Wife of 11 years, Melania
Son Barron 10