About
Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors.
Do you understand that you are alone?
You are outside history, you are non-existent.
—O’Brien, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part Three, Chapter 3
WHO IS ROBERT BELVEDERE?
The name Robert Belvedere is a nom de plume I have adopted for the following reason…
I am currently employed by one of the state governments in the Northeast. My current superiors have been very kind to me and have never asked me to take any actions that violate my conservative principles. I have been fortunate to work for a part of the government that is actually doing its best to uphold a right found in both the state and federal constitutions. My main superior is a Leftist and, for the reasons mentioned above and in order not to embarrass this person, I have decided, in the tradition of the Founders, to adopt a false name when publishing here.
The following list should give you an idea where I’m coming from…
PHILOSOPHY:
I like to describe myself as an 18th Century conservative. I am not an ideologue and, therefore, do not subscribe to any ‘ist’ or ‘ism’. I want to be left alone. I believe the Federal Government should not be allowed to take any actions not permitted by The Constitution. State and local governments should, likewise, be bound by their constitutions and charters. Life is absurd. Any man who does not have at least one vice should not be trusted. The 17th Amendment should be repealed [and possibly the 19th]. Thomas Jefferson was a blackguard. Vlad The Impaler was a hero.
MOST INFLUENTIAL THINKERS:
Russell Kirk, Ayn Rand, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, John Adams, George Orwell, The Founding Fathers.
RELIGION:
I am a fallen Catholic who believes that the Catholic Church has been, and still is, a force for good in the world. I consider myself a warror for Saint Michael The Archangel.
AREAS OF HISTORICAL STUDY:
Leftism, Western Civilization, Russia from the reign of the last Tsar through the fall of the Bolsheviks; American history up to the fall of the Federalists; the decisions of John Marshall; Dark Age/Medieval England; the Roman Republic and Empire; the military history of World War II; the American Civil War; the Cold War.
ADMIRED LEADERS:
-American: George Washington, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Calvin Coolidge, Grover Cleveland, U.S. Grant, Ronald Reagan, George S. Patton, William T. Sherman, William Halsey.
-Non-American: Charlemagne, Constantine The Great, Augustus, Henry II and Edward I of England, Winston S. Churchill, Alfred The Great, Margaret Thatcher, John Paul II, Benedict XVI.
ADMIRED FICTION WRITERS:
Fydor Dostovevsky, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope, Bernard Cornwell, James Ellroy.
ADMIRED NON FICTION WRITERS:
William F. Buckley, Mark Steyn, Jonah Goldberg, Whittaker Chambers, Edmund Burke, Quin Hillyer, Robert Stacy McCain, Andrew McCarthy, Michael Ledeen, Roger Kimball, Victor Davis Hanson, John Derbyshire.
FAVORITE FILMS:
The Godfather, The Godfather II, The Lord Of The Rings, 1984, A Night To Remember, Damn The Defiant!, Ben Hur, Patton, Dirty Harry, 1776, My Fair Lady, The Lion In Winter, The Last Waltz.
FAVORITE TELEVISION PROGRAMS:
Upstairs Downstairs, The Pallisers, Mannix, Baretta, Deadwood, Rome, I Claudius, Churchill: The Wilderness Years, House Of Cards, Dragnet.
FAVORITE COMPOSERS/MUSICIANS:
Frank Sinatra, Led Zeppelin, Joy Division, Richard Wagner, Bill Haley And The Comets, Black Sabbath, Muddy Waters, Bunny Berigan, Robert Johnson, Rainbow, Rush, Deep Purple, Dean Martin, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Lynard Skynard, The Clash, The Rolling Stones, J.S. Bach, P.D.Q. Bach, Pre-1990 Bruce Springsteen, Louis Armstrong, Julie London, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, New Order, Bauhaus, Ultravox [with John Foxx], Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, The Allman Brothers, The Band.
OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST & STUDY:
Architecture, film direction and cinematography, woodworking, graphic design, the paintings of the Masters, and amassing large book and music collections.
TITLES BESTOWED:
By Capt’n Smitty over at The OtherMcCain: Sir Bob of Belvedere; By someone who, for good reasons, wishes to remain anonymous: Lord Fatheringay von Whoopsie of the Dung Heap Hooter
ANCESTRY:
-Father’s side: Italian
-Mother’s side: Scots-Irish, English, German, American Indian. My great, great maternal grandfather served in the Union Army Company F, 5th Missouri Voluntary Calvary; his brothers and father served in the Confederate Army.
I have been involved in the music business as a composer, musician, and producer. I have always fancied that there is a great writer within me waiting to burst forth. This remains to be seen.
As Evelyn Waugh wrote of Kipling, so it applies to me: He was a conservative in the sense that he believed civilization to be something laboriously achieved which was only precariously defended. He wanted to see the defences fully manned and he hated the liberals because he thought them gullible and feeble, believing in the easy perfectibility of man and ready to abandon the work of centuries for sentimental qualms.*
I am a DHS-Certified Right Wing Extremist.
I am a Renaissance Man striving to be A Man For All Seasons.
I am currently at work on a projected multi-volume, unauthorized autobiography [Make Then Think You're Stupid... (...And They'll Leave You Alone)].
*The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh, p. 625, 1983 edition [discovered via a posting by John Derbyshire in The Corner at NRO]
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‘I wanted to be in the arena because some things matter,
some things need to be said, some things need to be defended.’
—Charles Krauthammer
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An excellent introducton to an American thinker and patriot. I’d suggest another addition to your list of Admired Fiction Writers: Robert Heinlien. Try Starship Troopers, a book I still give as a gift to anyone I know who is about to be commissioned as an officer in the US military.
Never mind the goofy movie; read the book.
Bob – go to Mass! Where you are ultimately going to end up anyway. It’s like the Borg – resistance is futile. May the Hounds of Heaven overwhelm you!
Probably, but I have to do it at my own speed. For now I content myself with being a simple warrior for St. Michael The Archangel.
Dig it – “Through the intercession of St. Michael the Archangel,” may you persevere on your journey! Godspeed to the arms of your Mother.
I do venerate The Virgin Mary.
Bob,
Thank you for acknowledging the link from my blog. It was unnecessary, as you were busy fighting the C and D cup wars, and had already given me my title (concerning Trog) Your blog is a daily must read and I hope that my blog someday comes to the standard of yours, as well as His Awesomeness and Smitty. Deo Gratias!!!!
Thank you for the kind words.
Thank you for acknowledging the link from my blog. It was unnecessary, as you were busy fighting the C and D cup wars, and had already given me my title (concerning Trog) Your blog is a daily must read and I hope that my blog someday comes to the standard of yours, as well as His Awesomeness and Smitty. Deo Gratias!!!!
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Dear Mr. Belvedere,
Will you please turn off “SnapShots?”
This is easily the most annoying useless feature in blogging. The annoyance level is so high that I will stop coming to your site if you leave it turned on.
Yours,
Bob Sykes
I’m looking into the issue. I was not aware that this was happening. Please keep checking back here for updates. Thank you for letting me know because I find them annoying too.
Nice to read about you Bob. I too, like St. Michael the Archangel as our best defender. I have a little plastic statue of him, stepping on satan’s head, and I’ll be slapped by a squirrel if the likeness of the viper doesn’t look like hussein.
PS: I agree that snapshots is the MOST annoying thing ppl put on their blogs, and
I’m glad you don’t have it.
Yea, Bunni, I noticed that too – the likeness is amazing.
Only this morning have I discovered this site. Already I feel I am friendly terrirory at the least. My intercessors are Tne Archangel and Saint George the Victory-Bringer.
I am glad to see you read Solzhenitsyn; I have read almost all of his works and wrote a Master’s paper on him years ago. He is mmy inspiration for the struggles ahead. But I would also recommend Robert Conquest, and “We” by Evgenii Zamyatin.
Machifer: This is friendly territory, indeed, for all who want to preserve The West. Welcome.
I have read a good number of Mr. Conquest’s works and have read We serveral times – all worthy works. I would highly recommend Richard Pipe’s books.
Bob,
So nice to meet you; we have much in common and I’m going to enjoy adding your site to my list of daily viewing. I like your writing style very much. I too see this as friendly territory, and am glad to meet another warrior for truth. I’m not Catholic, but have long admired St. Michael the Archangel.
Deadwood, P.D.Q. Bach, Muddy Waters, early Springsteen–just a few things we have in common, in addition to the obvious, a fierce defiance against the leftist coup happening as we speak.
Wishing you much continued success.
Pup
CP: Back at you.
I have developed a list which I would like you to reference or post on your site if at all possible. It shows all of the opponents of the 219 House Dems who voted in March 2010 to pass Obamacare by listing the House Dems by state, district, general geographic area of district, and membership in the Congressional Progressive Caucus. This list is currently posted on the following website which you may want to link to:
http://www.docs4patientcare.org
The Docs4PC website also has an interesting WSJ article written by
a doctor to his patients, “Dear Patients — please vote to repeal Obamacare”. By the way, I am not a doctor — only a patient interested in preserving our country and our current quality of healthcare.
If you would like me to forward a copy of the list in a PDF or EXCEL format which you can change in any way you wish to fit your purposes, please let me know asap — we only have 23 more days until the election. Hopefully, this list will encourage people to contribute to or vote for the opponents!
Thanks!
So, this site is as truely conservative as Colbert? Nice work, troll on!
Ich habe gesehen die fnords. Bekommen Sie gesehen Sie?
I came for the fnords, but I found the Big Brother spying on me. Luckily I always wear my most fashionable tinoil beret, handmade of course.
On a side note, Google Translate is a rather sad tool, evidently. Bing gets the job done better most of time I have come to experience.
With regards, may the Trinity of Chaos bless you.
You gotta fight the Ewige Blumenkraft!
Far from it actually, just between you and I. Nietzsche knew it, Karl Moor and Faustus merely realized it too late.
Mal-2: I read the thread over at
http://kugutsumen.com/showthread.php?6959-Connoisserus-advice-needed-Ingenious-troll-page-or-am-I-just-in-disbelieve
My Answer: I would definately consider myself a troll, but, hey, I’ve been involved in Operation Mindfuck for years, so whadda I know.
Cordially…
Robert ‘Bob’ Belvedere
aka: Pope Voluptuosus I, The Church of The Permanent Things [Emitte lucem et veritatem! Dude Possideo]
aka: Kerim Bay, Rug Merchant
aka: the real Hagbard Celine
aka: Dr. Clyde ‘Fingers’ Proctor, Scatologist
aka: Lord Fatheringay Von Whoopsie, Humanitarian
aka: The Right Reverend Murray Schadenfreude-Zeitgeist
Bob, this is a very interesting site. However, I’ve got to tell you one thing. Your eminently quotable quote on the Live Free or Die section uses “it’s” twice. Both wrong, sorry to say. “It’s” means it is or it has. Any other use of “its” is just that–no apostrophe.
Oh, by the way, tell Malaclypse the Younger how to spell “truly” and that the correct phrase is “between you and me” not “between you and I”.
Now, I know this sounds quite snotty and schoolmarmish, but look at it this way: The left has the support of the great unwashed, unlettered, and unemployable (outside of the government, of course). You’ll never get to them. They feed off the state. The right has to influence the classes that remain–the entrepreneurial, the self-educated, the literate. That means they have to write carefully and correctly.
Or, you could just forget about all that and talk to each other, preach to the converted, as it were.
Chengdu: Which quote?
Sir, is your sight named for the book “The Camp of the Saints” written by Jean Raspail? I’m asking because I haven’t seen any posts that deal with the scenario covered in his book, namely the death of the West through mass immigration (although this was just the symptom, the root cause was self-hatred in Western (white) peoples caused by progressed Marxism).
One other thing, do you sell t-shirts? I think a t-shirt with your symbol, NIL DESPERANDUM, and CAMP OF THE SAINTS below would be awesome! It would at least be a great conversation starter in the local pub.
That’s where I first heard the phrase and it is one of my favorite novels, not just because I agree with the message, but because I like the style in which it was written, and it’s a very gripping narrative.
So, while I am in agreement Jean Raspail’s outlook, the concept of a Camp Of The Saints, a last bastion of [Western] civilization in a world gone mad, was more influential on me in choosing the name. That would explain the motto of TCOTS: ‘Celebrating and defending Western Civilization’. The fact that it comes from a sentence in The Bible also added to the phrase’s appeal, as one of the pillars of The West is a belief in the God of Abraham.
While I am in favor of strict enforcement of immigratin laws, that is not my focus here – it it one issue among many. My biggest mission with TCOTS is to expose the thinking behind Leftism – which I consider a malignant cancer. Also, I want to reaquaint those on the Right with their History – the glories of The West that I have discovered through self-study. Further, I want to have a bit of fun and celebrate life and it’s joys and absurdities.
I hope, despite my long-windiness, that I have answered your question.
Bob
Any pal of No Sheeples Here and St. Michael the Archangel is a friend of mine.
I’m happy to link to your blog.
What do you think of Ayn Rand? I just read The Fountainhead and must say i’m impressed!
Hey there
I done did it…
http://www.reverbnation.com/kalvinkooledge
(lost your e-mail address in a computer transition at work)
hope things is well with you
have a wonderful…
MikeL
Dang! I think I’m going to hang out here a bit. You didn’t list a single interest different from my own. Although, I know there’s not a book inside my head…it’s too jumbled.
Jump in – the water’s fine.