"In the face of all the facts that point to the deal further enabling a genocidal regime, why would Jews in Congress or the clergy close their eyes to the threat and allow other considerations to sway their support?"
The short answer is: leftism.
Those Jews (in name only) supporting Obama and this capitulation, at the risk of Israel's existence, are religious leftists. They were merely born Jewish. Their religion is leftism.
By the way, The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege is excellent. I highly recommend it.
In this post, Steyn Mannsplains a little bit about why he wrote the book:
(Featuring VERY STRANGE Jewish mother from Canada with her unique endorsement of said book, which is Steyn's "personal favorite quote on the book so far". He calls it the money quote, baby!!!)
SO THERE.
UMMM.....IS IT HOT IN HERE?
(IS IT JUST ME? IS THAT A HOCKEY STICK IN THAT SAVILLE ROW BESPOKE SUIT OR ARE YOU "JUST" OH NEVERMIND AND SUCH... WELL MANN DID SAY THE EARTH IS HEATING UP OR SOMETHING AND WHATEVS. SORRY WHERE WERE WE?!??!)
"I wrote the book because climate mullah Michael E Mann attempted to sue me into silence, and it's necessary to let like-minded bullies know that that doesn't work. So my personal favorite quote on the book so far comes from Laura Rosen Cohen at Canada's Rebel Media in a piece on how fighting back works:
"First of all, it is an entire book of pushback. An entire book."
It's not punching back twice as hard, or even thrice as hard."
It's punching back something like eleventy bazillion gazillion times as hard.
"It's probably the longest, funniest, most savvily organized and meticulous "screw you" in the history of Western literature. It's probably a new genre. I don't know of any precedent for a literary vehicle of this kind."
"Instead of waiting for the opportunity to flush more of his hard-earned money down the toilet, waiting for the sclerotic US justice system and Michael Mann to crush him into pulp, using their process as punishment, Steyn has gone on the offensive."
"It would have been easy to write a book in which I gleefully insult Michael E Mann's hockey stick and the rest of his science for 300 pages. But, given that his entire case rests on an appeal to authority (including false appeals to authority, like his fraudulent claim to be a Nobel Laureate), I decided to take him at his word and find out what other authorities - other scientists, bigshots with letters after their names, like PhD and FRS and whatnot - thought of his act."
(LOVE THIS PART!!)
"So, just to clarify that money quote, it's not just me saying "Screw you!" to Mann, but lots of other people, too."
"Jacobs made the revelation on Sunday during a speech near the eastern city of Arnhem, days after an armed Islamist attempted to kill passengers aboard the Thalys train, which connects Paris to Amsterdam."
“The events illustrate the threat is real not only for Jews, but for all in Europe because we are in the same boat,” Jacobs told JTA ahead of the event, where 500 people convened to note the 40th anniversary of his years in service of Dutch Jewish communities.
"The police advice was due to Jacobs’ official function, for which he often appears on television, making him easily identifiable, he said."
Listen to the good Rabbi, because what he is saying is what I always say-what seems to be about the Jews is never "just" about the Jews. And what starts with the Jews, never ends with the Jews.
We Jews are merely the canaries in the coal mine.
"We are in the same boat."
Anyone who doesn't understand this is already living in the Dar-Al-Islam intellectually and philosophically, and it's just a short time before it envelopes them physically, too.
"There is more to say about the three Americans. They were childhood friends who met at a Christian middle school. They are of different races, but despite the impression you'd get from the current tone of national politics, that was irrelevant to their friendship. They also seem to have been rambunctious boys — a trait that tends to be pathologized in modern America."
"There's one more thing to be said of the heroes on the train. They were men. So-called "traditional masculinity" is a major target of feminists on college campuses and elsewhere. That, they teach, is what creates the "rape culture." The Obama administration has joined in (naturally). A government website urges that colleges "promote an understanding of the ways in which traditional masculinity contributes to sexual assault and other forms of men's violence against women."
"In Aurora, Colo., in 2012, when a crazed gunman opened fire on a crowded movie theater, no fewer than three young men covered their girlfriends with their own bodies and lost their lives in the process. That, and not the loutish behavior of some frat boys, is true "traditional masculinity" — or better, manliness."
"Men have been defamed and devalued in our society for decades. Their high spirits are punished in schools. Their natural protectiveness has been scorned as sexism."
"The passengers on that French train are surely grateful that some manliness remains indomitable."
Having seen it myself, I thank G-d that I am a Jew NOT living in those times.
When I tuck my kids in at night, in my warm, safe house, and the wind is howling outside, especially in the winter, I cannot help but think specifically of Poland, and how there but for the grace of G-d go I.
My ancestors were hunted like animals.
They were gassed, their blood soaks the European continent. Even in death, they were disturbed and desecrated. The Jew-hunters, the Jew-murderers wore Nazi uniforms then.
Jews are still being hunted as prey, and nowadays, by the "neo" Nazis, Islamic jihadist terrorists of all denominations. Now they wear keffiyehs over their faces, and brandish knives, relishing in bloodletting, thriving on murdering with their own hands, and by using every single possible item on earth that they can weaponize, from vehicles to bombs, to planes, to musical instruments, to sacrificing their very own children, their own flesh and blood in order to murder as many Jews as possible. Barbarians.
Here's a story I found while doing some research. It's a wire story, the front page of the Calgary Herald from 1943. If you read closely, you'll see the tiny little story that I almost missed. Read it, and tell me how the Islamic Nazis are not the "neo" Nazis.
"Thirty one children sacrificed for 'show'."
They murdered their own children as well. Little coffins. Parents burying children then, as it is now.
Shame on those Jewish and non-Jewish who are unwilling to admit the similarities that are so obvious, that they knock you in the face.
Thankfully now, we Jews have a country and an army of our own.
Our enemies will still try to hunt us, but their barbarity does not go unchallenged anymore.
Thank G-d for Israel and for the IDF.
And screw all of our enemies who would prefer we stay hunted, and only mildly tolerate suffering, losing or dead Jews.
Our very existence is an affront to our enemies. So, too bad for them.
Next stage: breaking the incest taboo, then onto children.
Don't say you weren't warned.
The groundwork is being laid right now, with the "sex education" i.e sexual grooming curriculum and all the trans activism.
Not that the lefties care. Their goal is chaos and abhorrent behaviour, the destruction of Judeo-Christian values and traditional families and the sexualization of children.
"A Disgrace to the Profession" is about the most famous science graph of the 21st century and its inventor - Michael E Mann, the Big Climate enforcer and self-conferred Nobel Laureate who decided to sue me three years ago. Usually in these situations, the defendant is supposed to fall silent for the half-decade or more it takes the dysfunctional court system to get around to hearing the case. But I decided to go a different route. I liked this line on the book from Laura Rosen Cohen in a post called "Fighting Back Works":
"It's probably the longest, funniest, most savvily organized and meticulous "screw you" in the history of Western literature. It's probably a new genre. I don't know of any precedent for a literary vehicle of this kind.
Instead of waiting for the opportunity to flush more of his hard-earned money down the toilet, waiting for the sclerotic US justice system and Michael Mann to crush him into pulp, using their process as punishment, Steyn has gone on the offensive.
"The women follow his instructions. He then tells Kay to put her hands behind her back. Kay pleads for her life in Hebrew, Kristine in English."
“We good,” the man says, hand on his heart. “We don’t kill.”
"Barefoot, hands tied behind their backs, gagged with pieces of Kristine’s fleece jacket, and led nearer to the brow of the hill by the two men who sit them down in the thorny thicket, delusions of reprieve consume the women."
"The man takes Kay’s sunglasses and Star of David, separating her from Kristine."
"Then a knife plunges through Kay’s side and rips through her organs, insides on fire."
“Shema Yisrael…” she says. He grinds the machete into her bones and raises his arm, the silhouette of the blade blocking out the sun’s rays."
"Peanut yelps as they stab her also. Kristine is drowning in her own blood, letting out the kind of groan one can only make once in their life.The men are leaning on her thigh and stabbing her in the back, sound of bones crunching, ripping flesh."
"Kay is stabbed repeatedly, ribs broken, her lungs and diaphragm punctured, no longer feeling her now-dislocated shoulder, nor her shoulder blade, nor her broken sternum."
"She looks at the knife going inside her, next to her heart. She rolls over with her eyes open, as if she’s already gone. The men look to the women in the dirt who they see are now dead. Then they retreat back into the forest."
"The Palestinian who stabbed and lightly wounded an Israeli border policeman in Jerusalem’s Old City Wednesday evening is the convicted killer of an Israel Prize winning professor."
"Muammar Ata Mahmoud, 56 of Hebron, was released in 2013 as part of an ultimately unsuccessful round of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Ynet news reported."
"Mahmoud, along with Salah Khalil Ahmad Ibrahim (also released in 2013) was convicted of murdering Menahem Stern, a history professor at Hebrew University. Stern was stabbed to death while walking to work at the university’s Givat Ram campus on June 22, 1989. In addition, the two murdered a Palestinian suspected of collaborating with Israel, Hassin Zaid."
Ontario's bullsh&t "Human Rights" code only works for certain pet groups.
Muslims will always win.
Basically, my feeling about this issue is that if you don't want "government" to interfere with your pet project, pet organization or cause, then don't take government tax receipts or grants. If you open yourself up to the tax receipt/charitable organization game, then tough luck. Your cause likely has a lot of potential donors that won't want or need your tax receipt. If you're good enough at what you do, people will trust you with their money (so don't eff up).
Similarly, if your pet housing project takes taxpayer's money, then it should be open to all. If you want to tell "the government", i.e us taxpayers to screw off, then do it on your own dime.
There are Jewish groups that take provincial taxpayers' funds for their programs. They are therefore required to open up said programs (housing, for the disabled, etc.) to the entire community. Reena for example is one such organization that I am familiar with.
So, why are some groups allowed to discriminate, and others not?
By the way, this is going to get worse, and not better as Canadian demographics change due to immigration, and a larger, more "diverse" sampling of ethnic and religious groups get into the sucking-taxpayer-teat as profession gam.e
"Barack Obama only cares about LGBT causes and is closing his eyes and big mouth on the killing of Christians and other minorities (he has already abandoned the Israeli Jews under the Iranian atomic umbrella). Europe is living as if it is the last generation there ever will be, inspired only by hedonism, science and a horrible cult of the present. A few days ago, Le Figaro, a French newspaper, published an interview between Alain Finkielkraut and Michel Houellebecq, the most important philosopher and writer in France. It is an amazing piece, shedding light on our tragic times."
"Finkielkraut says: "God is gone, and getting Him back is beyond our control. 'Where there was God, is today's melancholy' said Gershom Sholem."
"Answers Houellebecq: "On that, Alain, I totally disagree with you. Only those who believe in eternal life survive. Religion always wins in the end - if only for demographic reasons".
"They are both right, Finkielkraut and Houellebecq, and they both explain why only Israel and its people, not the West, are the ultimate hope of civilization. Only Israel still uses war and military force for good reasons, and only in Israel you have that mix of vibrant modernity and ancient spirit which give reasons for survival. "
This has been a pretty good month for pushing back.
I don't know if there is something in the water, or if it's as simple as goodness and bravery inspiring other goodness and bravery but there are interesting things going on, so I thought I would take a few minutes to riff on that theme.
Earlier this month, the disgusting Jew-haters who cloak themselves in the veneer of "anti-Israel" BDS activism (some of their BEST friends are apparently Jews/Israeli, etc...) really blew their cover in Spain when it came time for the Matisyahu concert.
To catch you up, Matisyahu is a Jewish American (formerly religious) singer who is NOT Israeli.
He was too Jewy, so much Jewy Jewish blood, that the Spaniards, who annihilated their own Jewish population, who pioneered identifying Jews by their clothes, who pioneered bloodline eugenic theories about Jews that the Nazis emulated AND who have not a small amount of AHEM Dar-Al-Islam trouble with their own Andalusia Is Ours Forever crowd IF YOU GET MY MEANING, went along with this disgusting antisemitic episode. (By the way f&ck you, Spain.)
Unfortunately for Spain, the blowback was swift and painful and Spain and the festival were forced to eat a massive, KOSHER SH&T sandwich. A Jewy sandwich, like a Reuben on rye with mustard and a sour dill, or a falalfel. Yeah, that JEWY.
And Matisyahu for his part, gave the Jew-haters a massive f&ck you at the concert, singing "If I Forget You, Jerusalem" as they waved their crappy, Jew-hating, terrorist-loving Palestinian flags in his face.
They lose! Look at the damage a few Jews with only a few guns did in the Warsaw ghetto! This is why we fight. Courage my friends, courage!
So that's Episode 1 and in the news business, remember "three's a trend".
Now we come to Episode 2, and Glenn Reynolds described it better than anyone, so this is a must read. When the jihadist terrorist was tackled, and beaten unconscious by a few brave unarmed Americans, a Brit and a Frenchman, he wrote "Fear is contagious. So is courage."
Amen to that.
Amen.
And I wrote earlier this week that "Let's Go" is the new "Let's Roll". It certainly is.
Instapundit always talks about punching back harder. Twice as hard.
Now Steyn is taking it up a notch and promoting punching back thrice as hard.
First of all, it is an entire book of pushback. An entire book.
It's not punching back twice as hard, or even thrice as hard.
It's punching back something like eleventy bazillion gazillion times as hard.
It's probably the longest, funniest, most savvily organized and meticulous "screw you" in the history of Western literature. It's probably a new genre. I don't know of any precedent for a literary vehicle of this kind.
Instead of waiting for the opportunity to flush more of his hard-earned money down the toilet, waiting for the sclerotic US justice system and Michael Mann to crush him into pulp, using their process as punishment, Steyn has gone on the offensive.
And it's a delightfully offensive book.
I bet his lawyers are simultaneously happy and sad.
Happy that they have such a crushing and meticulous compilation of evidence at their fingertips, but devastated perhaps that they can't charge that research back to Steyn at $1000 per hour or whatever they charge.
The book is educational as well.
One cannot read it and not come out very highly informed, beyond the shadow of a doubt about the massive stink of corruption and tyranny surrounding Big Climate. Steyn follows the 'show' not 'tell' method of writing. He shows readers the words of world-famous scientists discussing the depth of the rot, from painstakingly collated e-mails, videos and articles. The organization of this book is clever and devastating. It's hypnotizing.
The scope of this book, by someone currently embroiled in litigation of this nature is, I believe, unprecedented. The approach is uniquely Steynian. I don't know of any other writer, or individual, who, when sued for defamation, decides to publish an entire book, compiling what other "peers" have said about the litigant.
But then again, the scope of the utter tyranny that Big Climate can impose upon hapless taxpayers in the Western world is also probably unprecedented. I was trying to think of a government program or international program, in the history of the West that has the same scope and the closest I could think of was perhaps the New Deal (which was national), or perhaps the financial toll on allied forces in either of the world wars. I haven't run the numbers of course, I am just thinking about the degree to which "climate" can be used as a tool of tyranny by the left against the rest of us.
The world wars would have cost countries lots of money, but the limitless potential for interference in every day life is unique to "big clime" as Steyn calls it.
I would urge you to pick up a copy, and get the facts.
If nothing else, you will certainly come away wondering, as I do, how these scientific "reconstructions" and this whole warming/Kyoto/ circus can be considered anything but guesswork, and really not even "educated" guesses at best. At the worst, and this comes through in the book, we could be trying to fight against political conclusions upon which theories were built around. That's a devastating possibility.
And this brings me to why Donald Trump is surging in the American polls.
He's pushing back, showing signs of leadership instead of fatigue or dreaded malaise. He is showing signs of patriotism instead of retreat.
Ronald Reagan was an actor who brought down communism.
Trump, a business leader, (who cares about the 'conservative' or not label right now) cannot be any worse than 8 years of Obama and his Marxist, American-hating, hope and change decline.
I believe that Americans see him as a leader, indeed intent on making America great again and not, as Mark Steyn pointed out earlier today on the Rush Limbaugh program, "gracefully managing the nation's decline" as other GOP "leaders" are content to do.
"...[Corbyn] hosted the show Comment, on Press TV, the [official television] channel of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2009, Corbyn welcomed Dyab Abou Jahjah to the UK’s parliament. Jahjah is a political activist and publisher who became known for publishing, in 2006, a series of cartoons poking fun at the Holocaust. As late as 2013, Corbyn attended events organized by Paul Eisen, at that time known as an outspoken Holocaust denier. In 2012, he hosted the hate preacher Raed Salah at the House of Commons. In a sermon two years later, Salah—whom Corbyn had called a “very honored citizen” and invited for tea—expressed hope that Jerusalem would soon become “the capital of the global caliphate.“
"Corbyn also came publicly to the defense of Stephen Sizer, an Anglican vicar who, as he put it, “dared to speak out against Zionism".
"Activists in leftist “human rights” organizations have attempted, in recent days, to locate kibbutz communities that would be willing to temporarily house illegal infiltrators who are being freed from the Holot detention facility – but to no avail."
"According to Haaretz, none of the kibbutz communities that were contacted has responded favorably thus far."
"The circumstance is ironic, since the infiltrators owe their freedom to unflagging efforts on their behalf by leftist organizations, whereas the kibbutzim – which were founded on the basis of a socialist ideology of agricultural communalism – are bastions of leftism."
“It’s better to die like a lion that be slaughtered like sheep. And this terrorist coward deserved what he got, and the PC crowd needs to recognize terrorism for what it is. And I thank you very much for having me on,” the father said.
"For reasons I’ll never understand, the mistreatment of the most disempowered women in the world doesn’t seem to inspire much concern from privileged progressives. While women in Iraq and Syria are subjected to the most sadistic treatment imaginable, we have “the sisterhood” agitating about mindless nonsense."
"Palmyra’s symbolism is powerful, and not lost on IS. At its height the city was the centre of an empire that covered, among other territories, all of modern Syria and Israel and parts of Iraq and Saudi Arabia. It is still one of the most impressive archaeological sites in the Middle East, with a small theatre, temples, monumental gateways, a long colonnaded street, a crossroads monument known as a tetrapylon, and, at the city limits, extensive necropolises with Roman-era tombs. Approaching visitors see a mirage in the distance, the salt pans of the oasis with its feathery palms, and then the luminous ruins slowly taking physical shape out of the plain. They are, an early traveller wrote: “The most glorious structures in the world.”
"Man of North African origin (with no name or national identity or religion presumably) opens fire on European train. Too early to determine if terrorism is motive."
Well, glad that is solved.
Thank G-d for the US Marines who brought him down and prevented a bloodbath.
East London Jewish memorial defaced with raw meat.
"Vandals have desecrated a Jewish memorial statue with raw meat in an apparent anti-Semitic attack in London."
"A drinking fountain, paid for by local Jewish residents to honour Edward VII in the early 20th century, in Whitechapel, east London, was seen covered in chicken and slabs of red meat on Thursday morning."
"The inscription on the sculpture, designed by William Silver Frith, says: “In grateful and loyal memory of Edward VII, Rex et Imperator, Erected by subscriptions raised by Jewish inhabitants of East London, 1911.”
"She criticized the curriculum for introducing biological details at inappropriate ages, noting that in her professional opinion, teaching the names of body parts in Grade 1 is “not necessary.” Six-year-olds are “very little and they’re innocent,” she said. “A child’s innocence and modesty comes naturally and should be protected.”
“What’s really going on in this curriculum is an attempt to de-sensitize children,” she said, pointing out that it “confuses sensitivity and modesty with shame and negative self-image.”
"It is sufficient, in order to protect children against sexual predators, to teach them “that we all have private parts, those that are covered by a bathing suit,” and that “anyone who wants to see or touch you there, that’s a bad person” and “you scream and tell your parents.”
"Grossman added that the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry advises that in talking to their kids about sex, “parents should respond to the needs and curiosity level of their individual child, offering no more or less information than their child is asking for and is able to understand.”
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My mom is a fluent Yiddish speaker. Her parents spoke to each other in Yiddish, so she's native in that language along with English. My grandmother refused to speak Polish ever again once she was in Canada, but she was also fluent in Polish.
My dad just told me that he only realized recently that his parents were fluent in Yiddish (!!!). They spoke to each other exclusively in English and only peppered their conversations with Yiddish words.
So, I grew up knowing a lot of these terms, although I don't speak Yiddish it's certainly on my bucket list. I don't think many people of my vintage know a lot of Yiddish, other than in ultra-Orthodox circles, where they learn it in school and it is the lingua franca among religious Ashkenazi Jews.
This article has a wonderful audio clip that goes along with it.
The funny thing is the author mentions that she doesn't know anyone else who uses the term "ongepatchke". I use that ALL THE TIME but it's more like too much puttering-like I won't use a recipe that is too ongepatchke. Too much futzing around.
I even use "oiskemutcheh", which is basically like pestering . Like how siblings oiskemutche each other.
I think she's also wrong about nebbish. It's more like nerdy loser, beta.
I use "feh" a lot.
And "ballaboosta" comes from the Hebrew ba'alat habayit, the home owner, the lady of the house. If you are 'ballabatish", you are a lady of the house, a mensch, a hostess with the mostess.
Fressing is how animals eat-not humans. So, if you say a human is fressing, they are eating like a pig. My grandparents improved on that. They called it (and I have NO IDEA the roots of this), "PUCKING" it in. This still lives on amongst my cousins. "Pucking" in the food is considered very uncouth and ghastly.
"Schvitz" is literally sweat, so it's also used for the sauna. Nothing I like better than a good workout and a schvitz.
"The strength of a nation is not measured by the number of its weapons in its possession, but rather in its ability to assist a weak population during day-to-day life...”
That's a silly platitude, a state's strength is certainly measured in weapons and its army, and Israel does just fine in that department.
What she may be referring to is the strength of a nation, meaning the people. The nation of Israel-the Jews.
So, therefore, it's more that the humanity of a nation is measured by how it treats its most vulnerable.
"In an idyllic mountainous region in the Galilee, a veritable Garden of Eden for special needs integration may soon crop up on the landscape: Last month, Israel’s top building committee approved land for a community called Shibolet, a town designed for a mixed population of Israeli families and high-functioning special needs adults, clearing a major hurdle in its development."
"The vision, years in the making, would bring in its first stages some 50 families – most of whom have no immediate family members with special needs – and dozens of special needs adults, selected by the Welfare Ministry and the National Insurance Institute. The community will employ the special needs adults alongside its workers in the local services, and in agricultural tourism."
"There’s a reason that people like Dolezal, and now allegedly King, masquerade as black. It’s an advantage in the academic, media, and political arena – and that’s true on both sides of the political aisle, where Barack Obama would not have been elected or re-elected without being black, and whereDr. Ben Carson would be approximately as well-known asDr. Milton Wolf were he white."
"The question isn’t why King reportedly tried to pass as black. The question is why America keeps pretending that blackness is an unbreakable barrier, when in fact, it can be a tremendous asset."
"Until 2007, the Palestinians had only one corrupt and undemocratic
regime, called the Palestinian Authority. Since then, the Palestinians
have earned another regime that is even more ruthless and repressive:
Hamas."
"So if $4.5 billion brought the Palestinians two corrupt and
undemocratic regimes, what would have happened had the U.S. and Europe
invested a few more billion dollars in promoting Palestinian democracy?
The Palestinians would most likely have seen the emergence of a few more
dictatorships in the West Bank and Gaza Strip."
"Of course, the Palestinian Authority prime minister did not tell the
visiting U.S. Congressmen that the $4.5 billion the Americans invested
in promoting Palestinian democracy went down the drain or ended up in
secret Swiss bank accounts."
Many Americans, and indeed, many Western citizens are fed up with shrugged shoulders and the permanent bureaucratic class screwing up our respective countries through their unfettered, fiat-style, authorizations of multicult invasions of uncivilized persons and customs.
Do watch the whole thing.
Then I have LOTS of other good stuff to post today, so keep checking back.
"Sharia Watch director and former UKIP candidate Anne Marie Waters has announced today that a forthcoming exhibition of Mohammed cartoons to be shown in London has been cancelled after discussions with counter-terror police."
"Writing for Breitbart London, Waters revealed the security services believed the event would be attacked, leading to a “very real possibility that people could be hurt or killed – before, during, and after the event”."
"The organisers of the event had approached over 200 galleries with requests to host the exhibition and were turned down by almost all of them. After the final gallery, which had initially agreed had a change of heart the Draw Mohammad exhibition was left homeless."
"Waters regrets that the lack of a single gallery space in the country willing to stand up for the Mohammed cartoons and the pressure from counter terror police to cancel event confirmed her suspicions that Britain had become a “frightened nation”.
Actually, most of Europe is not "just" frightened, it has completely surrendered:
"An evangelical Christian pastor in Northern Ireland has made his
first court appearance after he was charged with making "grossly
offensive" remarks about Islam."
"James McConnell, 78, appeared at Laganside Magistrates Court in
Belfast on August 6, after local Muslims complained that he delivered a
sermon in which he described Islam as "heathen" and "satanic."
"According to Northern Ireland's Public Prosecution Service (PPS), McConnell — whose sermon was streamed live on the Internet — violated
the 2003 Communications Act by "sending, or causing to be sent, by
means of a public electronic communications network, a message or other
matter that was grossly offensive."
"Pastor McConnell's prosecution is one of a growing number of examples
in which British authorities — who routinely ignore incendiary speech
by Muslim extremists — are using hate speech laws to silence Christians."
Actually, they are being used to silence all infidels and this is just the beginning.
”Dual loyalty” is an antisemitic term applied to
Diaspora Jews whose support for Israel is unwavering to the point of
not being critical enough to satisfy detractors."
"The The Obama
administration is now insinuating charges of dual loyalty against any
Jewish Americans who oppose the nuclear deal — as though Israel’s
endangerment is the only hitch in the otherwise acceptable agreement,
and the sole cause of a potential congressional rejection of it."
"...as every functioning society understood until two generations ago, immigration has to benefit the people who are already here.
Government owes a duty to its own citizens before those of the rest of
the planet - no matter how cuddly and loveable they might be. The fact
that it is necessary to state the obvious and that no "viable"
"mainstream" candidate from either party is willing to state it is
testament to how deformed contemporary western politics is. Trump may
not be a "real" Republican or a "real" conservative, but most of his
rivals are not "real" - period, as Carly Fiorina would say."
I am obviously interested in the American elections, but America is not my country, I just have a longstanding love affair with it, with the whole idea of America, the American dream, the whole thing. I love American ingenuity, patriotism, how everything is BIG, making it BIG-the works. I love American redemption stories, war stories, success stories. I love the idea. I love America's founding documents and founders. So it really has been, and continues to be personally heartbreaking to watch the decline.
But the one thing I wonder, while I watch the various Republican weenies establishment people battle it out with Trump supporters on Twitter and on various media is really, how bad could he be as President? It's a serious question. Do these people actually think that Trump would be worse for America and the world than Hilary Clinton? Is Trump worse than Obama has been for America?
I think all of the know it all folks in the mainstream "conservative" media should be asked that question.
How would, how could Trump be worse for America than Obama or Hilary? Who would you trust more with a billion, or a trillion of your dollars? I don't have real skin in the game except where America's relationship with Israel is concerned, but I'd be very curious to hear the answer to those questions. How could he be worse?
It's the way that mealy mouthed administrators on university and college campuses, and venue-owners and local police become the compliant, tyrannical Free Speech Mutawa of the Western world, and shut down lectures and speeches by various 'politically incorrect' (read: non-leftist) speakers.
Apparently though, we've moved a little beyond "security is the new shut up" to "bomb threats are the new shut up".
Hard to keep up with how the Shut Up morphs!
Imitation may be the most sincere form of flattery (yeah, whatever, not so sure about that, we used to call that "copying" when I was a kid, or "plagiarism", but whatevs, right...), but apparently, bomb threats are the greatest compliment of all, and the newest shut up.
"But bomb threats have become commonplace to those of us
who are critics of the intersectional third-wave feminist hierarchy.
Despite being branded violent misogynistic manbaby shitlords, it’s only
ever us who get our events disrupted by furious harpies panicking that
someone might tell the empress she’s wearing no clothes. And then ask
her to please, for the love of God, put some on." "Honestly, though, bomb threats are a blast because they
show how utterly the other side has lost the argument. All that’s left
for them is violence. Those of us on the side of common sense skip the
impossibly gauche step of leveraging threats for sympathy and to demand
money from useful idiots, but in the game of social status it’s all fair
game, darling."
The thing is, though, it doesn't matter that the other side has "lost" the argument.
They still own the space, because they own the magical leftist Shut Up Scepter. The left takes the Shut Up very seriously.
If you control the flow of information, and the language, and the physical space where debate ought to happen, but doesn't, then you control the narrative and the argument and therefore, in time, the prevailing public opinion.
I think these episodes prove Mark Steyn's Rule of Politicians (which could just as equally be applied to university administrators): you cannot expect them to do the right thing. You have to make it consistently and unrelentingly difficult, if not bloody well impossible for them to do the wrong thing.
It has to be very painful to do the wrong thing.
There have to be excruciating consequences for doing the wrong thing.
That's the only strategy that will keep any sort of equilibrium between us and the dark forces of the Shut Up, and I don't say 'victory' firstly because they never rest and secondly because we have so very much catching up to do.
"The Ghetto Jew views Jews through a funhouse mirror that magnifies each flaw and offense. He is constantly seeing Jews as he imagines others see them and the sight makes him anxious. He battles the anti-Semite living in his head by rushing to apologize for things he never did and mounting overarching defenses against attacks that most others would shrug off."
"He is other-directed. He cares little what Jews think of Jews. What
interests him is what everyone else thinks of Jews. He will
enthusiastically fight for the causes of others, rather than for his
own, to avoid any accusations of selfishness. He will generously build
hospitals and engage in feats of philanthropy. In doing so he thinks
that he is helping Jews, because to him the Jews can only be helped by
changing how others see them. His Jews don't have a separate existence
or identity."
"For all his sophistication, erudition and education, he is an empty house with no one living inside."
This is possibly the first time I might agree that the pen is mightier than sword.
(Because really, it's not. I believe in superior firepower. Leave the pens to the nancy boys with the man buns, with their lumberjack beards and/or tight pants. You know, the ones who order soy lattes, and can't change a tire...)
CAVEAT ON THE PEN AND SWORD STUFF:
The pen is mightier than the sword only when we are talking about the Steyn-pen being mightier than the Mann-sword.
I mean, for real, and not for joking, how delicious is this?
And if you want to hear EVEN MORE from Steyn this weekend, my friend Andrew Lawton will be chatting with Steyn tomorrow on the Roy Green Show, at 4pm Eastern Time/ 1pm Pacific.
In the meantime, "don't wake the snake", and "rock and rollah, Ayatollah"!
"Obama and his negotiators seem surprised that Israelis take quite
seriously Iranian leaders’ taunts over the past 35 years that they would
like to liquidate the Jewish state and everyone in it."
"The Israelis,
for some reason, remember that well before Hitler came to power, he had
bragged about the idea of killing Jews en masse in his sloppily composed
autobiographical Mein Kampf.
" Few in Germany or abroad had taken the raving young Hitler too
seriously. Even in the late 1930s, when German Jews were being rounded
up and haphazardly killed on German streets by state-sanctioned thugs,
most observers considered such activities merely periodic excesses or
outbursts from non-governmental Black- and Brownshirts."
"The Israelis have taken to heart lots of lessons over the last 70
years. They have concluded that often the world quietly wants Israel to
deal with existential threats emanating from the Middle East while
loudly damning it when it does. They have learned from the experience of
the Holocaust that, for good or evil, Jews are on their own and can
never again trust in the world’s professed humanity to prevent another
Holocaust. And they are convinced that they can also never again err on
the side of the probability that national leaders, with deadly weapons
in their grasp, do not really mean all the unhinged things they shout
and scream about killing Jews."
"Given all that, we should conclude that any deal that leads, now or
in the near future, to an Iranian bomb is unacceptable to Israel — a
nation that will likely soon have no choice but to consider the
unthinkable in order to prevent the unimaginable."
"Doe’s case was that she was suffering “non-insane automatism”
— involuntary movements she was not responsible for — and medical
experts backed her up."
But, to demonstrate how truly and royally f&cked up the Swedes are, how very determined they are to commit suicide via immigration, and how utterly morally inverse their police force is, one must-simply must-take a gander at this piece from the BBC.
In a normal democratic society that wishes to remain democratic, after a stabbing by African asylum-seekers, policy-makers might question their immigration policies. One might even think that security forces would take extra measures to protect citizens.
HAHAHAHAHAHAH right fat chance. If one thought that, one would be TOTALLY WRONG, SUCKAAAAAHS.
"Police increased security at refugee accommodation centres in the region this week after confirming they had arrested two Eritrean asylum seekers over the murders."
"Local officials feared a backlash from "dark forces" who wanted to exploit the case, police chief Per Agren said."
HEY THAT'S RAAAAACIST!
But seriously, "dark forces" is Soooper Seeekrit Political Correct Talk for "normal people who are not inclined to have their country turn into a third-world sh&thole".
Seems that Sweden is charging ahead with Project Total Malmöization at warp speed.
"Western culture has become inaccessible to the general public because we
have lost the ability to see the world through the eyes of those who
created it."
"A generation ago, the literary critic Harold Bloom
complained in The Western Canon that it no longer was possible
to teach English literature to undergraduates because they lacked the
cultural references to make sense of it: imagine reading Moby Dick without knowing who Ishmael and Ahab were in the Bible, or Joyce’s Ulysses without knowing that someone named Homer had written an epic about a certain Odysseus"
"The last place where literature is read closely by a non-specialist
public might be the Orthodox Synagogue, where the Hebrew Bible is
examined through the eyes of ancient as well as medieval and modern
commentators. It is read not as literature but as family history, and
its readers have an existential interest in the result. The Hebrew
Bible, to be sure, is not all of literature, but it is the best of it (nothing
in Greek or Latin compares to the grandeur of Isaiah). Most of all, it
is the continuing concern of a living community which has read it
together for thousands of years."
Apologies for linking to the New York Times, the disgusting rag that buried the Holocaust and never met an anti-Western or anti-Israel story or writer that it didn't like.
Western feminists and Social Justice Warriors were unavailable for comment at press time.
"Qadiya, Iraq — In the moments before he raped the
12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain
that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl
practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the
right to rape her — it condoned and encouraged it, he insisted."
"He bound her hands and gagged her. Then he knelt beside the bed and prostrated himself in prayer before getting on top of her."
"When it was over, he knelt to pray again, bookending the rape with acts of religious devotion."
“I
kept telling him it hurts — please stop,” said the girl, whose body is
so small an adult could circle her waist with two hands."
“He told me
that according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said
that by raping me, he is drawing closer to God,” she said in an
interview alongside her family in a refugee camp here, to which she
escaped after 11 months of captivity."
These are the real "neo" Nazis of our times.
"A growing body of internal policy memos and
theological discussions has established guidelines for slavery,
including a lengthy how-to manual issued by the Islamic State Research
and Fatwa Department just last month. Repeatedly, the ISIS leadership
has emphasized a narrow and selective reading of the Quran and other
religious rulings to not only justify violence, but also to elevate and
celebrate each sexual assault as spiritually beneficial, even virtuous."
You understand?
The modern caliphate has a whole department that generates literature to elevate and celebrate sexual assault as spiritually beneficial and virtuous.
This is not what us "haters" or "right wingers" or "Islamophobic" persons are saying about them.
This is what they are saying this about themselves. And when people tell you about themselves, and tell you what they do, and believe, and what they are going to do to you, you better damned well believe them.
Jews, Christians and especially children are fair game.
"The Islamic State recently made it clear that
sex with Christian and Jewish women captured in battle is also
permissible, according to a new 34-page manual issued this summer by the
terror group’s Research and Fatwa Department."
"Just
about the only prohibition is having sex with a pregnant slave, and the
manual describes how an owner must wait for a female captive to have
her menstruating cycle, in order to “make sure there is nothing in her
womb,” before having intercourse with her. Of the 21 women and girls
interviewed for this article, among the only ones who had not been raped
were the women who were already pregnant at the moment of their
capture, as well as those who were past menopause."
"Beyond
that, there appears to be no bounds to what is sexually permissible.
Child rape is explicitly condoned: “It is permissible to have
intercourse with the female slave who hasn’t reached puberty, if she is
fit for intercourse,” according to a translation by the Middle East
Media Research Institute of a pamphlet published on Twitter last
December."
This is another element of sexual depravity that the Islamic jihad has in common with the Western left. Funny that.
Norway will only show Israeli film of a certain kind:
“I’m sorry but we can’t show this film,” a letter from the organizers to
Zafrani said."
“We support the academic and cultural boycott of Israel
so unless the films are about the illegal occupation, or deals with the
occupation or the blockade of Gaza, or otherwise about the
discrimination of Palestinians, we can’t show them.”
This is an excellent comment on the sucky, wussy, totalitarian Canadian response to "Roosh".
(Of course, Kathy Draidlebaum's essay is great, and she even quoted me in it, but this pull quote from Yiannpoulos is Da Bomb. You know, I like Kathy's 'dark meat' quote too, and I plead guilty-I do like Teh Swarthy in general. Full disclosure: the husband is Persian. I dig Persians. Actually I dig the entire range of swarthy Jews from Middle Eastern countries, but exceptions can, and are made occasionally for the whiter, red-headed end of the spectrum...*waves at Mark Steyn* ) ANYWAY:
"Disclosure: I had lunch with Roosh in London last month. We had fish
and chips. We didn’t agree on everything, but I liked him and found him
smart and intellectually engaging. He did not try to rape me. Even
after I insisted. " I'm dying!!!
Actually, I thought I was FINITO when I read this comment, but the next one was also a beauty.
THIS. THIS NEEDS TO BE FRAMED:
"...this failed feminist fox hunt is a good excuse to remind those
retarded pseudo-French losers what freedom of speech is, and how
avoiding and banning speech we dislike is a really, really bad idea,
like almost as bad as Avril Lavigne, Rufus Wainwright, Michael Cera, Nia
Vardalos or for the love of fucking Christ Shania Twain."
And finally:
FREE, GRATUITOUS ADVICE FOR MEN:
Nice looking men (and you don't have to be gorgeous, just presentable and well-groomed because women are VERY forgiving) who are non-obese, functional (ie: gainfully employed) who aren't getting laid, or even getting dates or phone numbers and (rightly) feel as though their balls have been sliced off by the general culture of angry, man-hating feminists really could do a lot worse than to listen to a good looking (Iranian??) American give them tips on growing back a solid pair in lieu of the jelly beans that most of them are fiddling with nowadays.
I'm delighted that the attempts at muzzling "Roosh" completely backfired.
The publicity that he is getting translates into money, and exposure, the exact opposite of what the SJW's had planned.
Further proof that when lefties assure you of something and promise that you will not get hurt, your life will not be impacted, etc...it is all lies.
Basically, this is not about equality, and it never has been about equality.
This is about power, and running your life the way the left sees fit. The left is very serious about power, and it never rests. They are very, very good at the power game. This is all about destroying "choice"-the choice to lead a religious life and punishing Christians and Jews.
But don't worry. You are entitled to their opinion of course.
"In Ohio, the State Judicial Conduct Board has ruled that judges can't
decline to marry only same-sex couples because of their personal
religious beliefs. But the Judicial Conduct Board's ruling went much
further than that:
In addition, judges who stop performing all marriages to
avoid marrying same-sex couples may be interpreted as biased and could
be disqualified from any case where sexual orientation is an issue,
according to an opinion by the Ohio Supreme Court's Board of
Professional Conduct issued Friday and made public Monday. ...
"For example, if a judge who has declined to perform same-sex
marriages is later assigned to hear a misdemeanor domestic violence
charge involving a same-sex couple, the judge's ability to follow the
law and impartially apply the domestic violence laws could reasonably
be questioned," the board said."
It's an essay full of words, but the words evoke in my mind a very acute mental picture. It's the coin dropping. Through the lines I can feel the mind changing.
I haven't read anything by this author previously, but I can really feel the self-doubt and horror emanating through the words.
I don't know how anyone could be "pro-choice" after those videos. (Even before, frankly.) And the whole language 'pro-choice' is so deceptive anyway, as is the 'incest-rape' thing. If you're pro-life then you are pro-life even when 'incest-rape'. I also don't know how a vociferously pro-life person could be married to a 'pro-choice' person. That seems to me to be a pretty unbridgeable gap.
"When she is not being paraded through war zones, the Yazidi child is repeatedly raped by the fanatic, activists have revealed."
"The girl is among 3,750 prisoners from the minority sect (I THINK THEY MISSPELLED CHRISTIAN HERE) who were captured during the terror group's brutal uprising through northern Iraq last year."
So but please, let's continue to listen to the Pope blather on about his crackpot Marxist theories about the economy and climate change, and chat some more about Megyn Kelly's period.
"The University of Connecticut, which received state and federal funding, has a program to teach men who want to be pretend to be women how to talk like girls.."
They have a CLINIC. At a UNIVERSITY for this hooey.
"The majority of the transgender clients at
the clinic are transitioning to female. Hormone therapy will naturally
cause a lowering in the voice of someone transitioning to male, Chase
said. Many "F to Ms," as they are sometimes called, need to learn the
other subtleties."
(Doesn't that sound mildly strange "M to Fs"? Or is it just me?!?!)
"The clinic also has
served some people who are not transgender, such as men who wish to
sound less effeminate - a topic explored in the new documentary "Do I
Sound Gay?" And some clients, including people who are only considering a
change in gender, want a voice that is more neutral, Chase said."
(Note to potential views of "Do I Sound Gay" movie: if you have to ask if you sound gay, then you do. You don't need the documentary. You're welcome.)
"Literature
[Ed. Note: OH MY F&CKING GAWD THEY ARE CALLING THIS DRECK LITERATURE] in the field dates back 50 years, but until the past 20 years only a
handful of people were doing voice work with transgender people, and the
work is still in its infancy, Chase said."
And don't think this is some kind of silly, first-world indulgence of mental illness or anything.
This is a matter of LIFE AND DEATH.
For real, and not for joking!
""For me, passing is important," she said.
"But,in some cases it's a matter of survival.There are some places
where you do not want to be read as being anything other than female.
It's dangerous."
What the hell? Where is a dangerous place, where it is a matter of survival to be "read" as "anything other than female"? The Kardashian's bathroom now that Bruce is out of the house? A Tampax sale at Costco?
This is totally nuts. These are the new Chia pets of the left. A lot of lives are going to be destroyed before the left moves onto its next pet project.
"Our left still prosecutes
the occasional homegrown victim, but lately they’ve actually broadened
their efforts, trying to keep their latest trumped-up “hate crime”
villain from entering Canada in the first place—and often succeeding."
"And even when we push back and they stumble, they just walk it off
and hoist up a new human piñata. This week, it’s notorious “pickup
artist” Roosh V."
"Their first order of business: the obligatory Change.org petition,
which asks “Mayor Bonnie Crombie of Mississauga, Mayor John Tory of
Toronto, and Mayor Denis Corderre of Montreal to denounce ‘RooshV’ and
to urge local businesses and organizations to deny him accommodation
while in Canada.”
"The word hate pops up again and again in this petition
(which, as I type this, has just under 40,000 signatures). Roosh’s “hate
website” The Return of Kings is “hate-based,” as is Roosh himself, who
holds “hateful misogynistic views” that are “likely to breach public
peace.”
“WE MUST STOP HIM!”
"I give these broads credit for one thing: Roosh (whose real name,
they note, is Daryush Valizadeh) is quite possibly the brownest, most
foreign-looking guy they’ve ever picked on."
"I’d also bet that many of this petition’s female signatories defended
swarthy Canadian liberal heartthrob, secular Muslim, and accused serial
woman-basher Jian Ghomeshi
for day after embarrassing day, and that they swoon over even-swarthier
Canadian liberal heartthrob, convicted Muslim terrorist, and documented
woman-hater Omar Khadr."
(My friend Laura Rosen Cohen calls left-wing dames’ well-known taste for dark meat the “Ooo Ooo Mahmoud!” Syndrome.)
"A White House staffer coaxed her boyfriend into her home to have sex —
but instead allegedly stole his gun and tried to shoot him because he
was sleeping with another woman, according to a report."
