So, how shall I put this...
What the hell?!?!?!??!?!?!
This is so offensive, so stupid and so deranged and tyrannical, that it really could have only been invented and developed on a North American university campus:
"An anti-harassment training session at a Catholic university in Wisconsin encouraged employees to report anyone they hear criticizing gay marriage to the school’s human-resources department."
(You with me so far-this is at a Catholic university, and it is "anti-harassment" to report your colleagues if they dare have a critical opinion about gay marriage. You must denounce them, and report to HR right away so that they can be properly re-educated at the local, State Diversity Gulag site. Let's continue....)
"A presentation at the Marquette University training featured a story about a fictional wheelchair-bound employee, “Harassed Hans,” who had been overhearing his co-workers Becky and Maria talk about “their opposition to same-sex marriage all week,” according to an article in the National Catholic Register."
(This is really too much. "Harassed Hans" is our fictional character! It is harassing to Hans that anyone dares dissent on gay marriage! Presumably, Hans needs to be wheelchair-bound to add to his victim credentials? Perhaps "Harassed Hans" is not just wheelchair bound, but also gay AND wheelchair bound? Perhaps he is wheelchair bound, gay, Jewish and black?!?! That would be totally awesome. Let's continue...)
“Hans is right to report Maria and Becky’s conversation,” the presentation stated, adding that he should do it “right away.”
HANS MUST REPORT IT RIGHT AWAY. THIS IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO, CLICK HEELS AND WHEEL AWAY TO HUMAN RESOURCES!!!
So wait. Maybe "Hans" is wheelchair bound, gay, Jewish, black and German, maybe left-handed and lactose intolerant also???
That would be even more awesome.
Let's continue....
“Even though Becky and Maria were only expressing their opinions and
didn’t mean to offend, they could still be engaging in harassment."
(Fantastic. Their intention is irrelevant, as is their freedom of conscience. What could possibly be wrong with that? Their thoughts have been criminalized and must be punished. They were merely having a conversation, expressing opinion but that means they could be "harassing" someone. Hey, to total hell with the First Amendment-thoughts and opinion are harassment! Let's continue...)
"The
complainant does not need to be involved in the conversation to be
offended,” it continued. “Hans’ sexual orientation is also irrelevant;
he does not need to be gay to be offended by his co-workers’ discussion
of same-sex marriage.”
That's perfect!
"Harassed Hans" like the many celebrated complainants in Canada's "Human Rights" Tribunal Cases, do not actually need to be a direct victim of anything.
It is suffice (and ultimately quite profitable) to feel offended on behalf of some fragile, aggrieved victim group or another.)
I think the wording of this diktat is one of the most offensive things I have seen in print in some time.
Read this very carefully:
"he does not need to be gay to be offended by his co-workers’ discussion
of same-sex marriage"
This is a license to persecute and prosecute anyone for their thoughts, to destroy lives in order to establish a victimhood pecking order, a sinister squelching of free speech to assuage the exquisite sensitivities of people who often can really dish it out but can't take any criticism, and to silence debate.
To "settle" the science, as it were.
"he does not need to be gay to be offended by his co-workers’ discussion
of same-sex marriage"
This is a terrifying statement and Americans should be ashamed, deeply ashamed that this type of totalitarian thought policing is being tolerated, in the name of tolerance on campuses of higher learning.
It's outrageous and pathetic but not unusual in this day and age.
"he does not need to be gay to be offended by his co-workers’ discussion
of same-sex marriage"
Shame on Americans who don't resist this particularly odious form of tyranny in any way, shape or form.
Unfortunately, you can't shame the shameless, but that's another story.
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Who Cares About Your Stupid T-Shirts?
I am actually very sympathetic to the victim, mostly because it seems to me completely insane that someone should die at the hands of law enforcement, essentially because of a tax matter.
I'm not going to argue with anyone about choke holds or not. I have no expertise in that.
What I do have expertise in, is in detecting hollow, bullshit.
I'm actually really good at that.
And just like FLOTUS hashtags, these t-shirts are stupid, vapid, empty gestures, made by simple people who should just shut up and play, or sing and leave leadership to leaders and politics alone. It is all for appearances, without any substance.
I need a "Rolls Eyes" t-shirt.
I'm not going to argue with anyone about choke holds or not. I have no expertise in that.
What I do have expertise in, is in detecting hollow, bullshit.
I'm actually really good at that.
And just like FLOTUS hashtags, these t-shirts are stupid, vapid, empty gestures, made by simple people who should just shut up and play, or sing and leave leadership to leaders and politics alone. It is all for appearances, without any substance.
I need a "Rolls Eyes" t-shirt.
"I Have A Young Soul and I Am Connected to G-d"
Great story via Chabad.
"Shlomo Lichtenberg’s story begins in Bucharest, Rumania, where he was born in 1929. Together with his family, he relocated to Argentina as a child."
“My Jewish education was very limited,” he recalls.
“I spent one year studying with a Russian-born teacher in preparation for my Bar Mitzvah—and that was it.”
"When asked about the stamina needed to keep a rigorous yeshivah schedule that entails learning from early morning to deep into the evening, he explains:
"I grew up with anti-Semitism in Argentina, but I was never afraid of a challenge, and that is how I am alive now at 85."
"Everybody asks how I am so energetic, and I reply that I have a young soul and am connected to G‑d.”
"Shlomo Lichtenberg’s story begins in Bucharest, Rumania, where he was born in 1929. Together with his family, he relocated to Argentina as a child."
“My Jewish education was very limited,” he recalls.
“I spent one year studying with a Russian-born teacher in preparation for my Bar Mitzvah—and that was it.”
"When asked about the stamina needed to keep a rigorous yeshivah schedule that entails learning from early morning to deep into the evening, he explains:
"I grew up with anti-Semitism in Argentina, but I was never afraid of a challenge, and that is how I am alive now at 85."
"Everybody asks how I am so energetic, and I reply that I have a young soul and am connected to G‑d.”
This is How It's Done: Donor Withholds $4.5 Donation To University Employing Convicted Domestic Terrorist
What more can I say?
This is how it's done.
Money talks.
We have to pay taxes, but other than that-nobody has to give their hard-earned money away. Money is influence. Fundraising is competitive.
This is a great example and I salute Richard Hill for not just putting his money where is mouth is, but only choosing to put his money where his ideas are, or not respected.
"A Chicago businessman is withholding $4.5 million in donations from the University of Illinois (UI) Urbana-Champaign until the school agrees to get rid of former domestic terrorist and convicted murderer James Kilgore."
"Richard Hill, the retired CEO of Novellus Systems, wrote a letter to UI at Chicago administrators notifying them of his intent to rescind his pledge to donate $6.5 million to the school’s bioengineering department, according to The Chicago Tribune. Hill has already donated $2 million dollars of that money, but is refusing to cash in the other $4.5 million until the school agrees to fire Kilgore."
"I no longer wish to be associated with University of Illinois," Hill wrote to in a letter to UI, following the board’s decision. "The Academy at the University of Illinois has clearly lost its moral compass."
This is how it's done.
Money talks.
We have to pay taxes, but other than that-nobody has to give their hard-earned money away. Money is influence. Fundraising is competitive.
This is a great example and I salute Richard Hill for not just putting his money where is mouth is, but only choosing to put his money where his ideas are, or not respected.
"A Chicago businessman is withholding $4.5 million in donations from the University of Illinois (UI) Urbana-Champaign until the school agrees to get rid of former domestic terrorist and convicted murderer James Kilgore."
"Richard Hill, the retired CEO of Novellus Systems, wrote a letter to UI at Chicago administrators notifying them of his intent to rescind his pledge to donate $6.5 million to the school’s bioengineering department, according to The Chicago Tribune. Hill has already donated $2 million dollars of that money, but is refusing to cash in the other $4.5 million until the school agrees to fire Kilgore."
"I no longer wish to be associated with University of Illinois," Hill wrote to in a letter to UI, following the board’s decision. "The Academy at the University of Illinois has clearly lost its moral compass."
The Art of the Pitch or "You Had Me At Hello"
I've kind of been on a podcasting binge for a few weeks, learning about them and about radio.
I love radio, I think it's an outstanding medium for telling stories. I can't even begin to list what I love about it.
Have you been listening to "Serial"? A friend got me hooked on it-only one more episode to go. From the official Serial web site, I got to the main site for This American Life and was looking around.
From the main site, I got onto this absolutely fascinating audio recording about The Art of the Pitch ("You Had Me At Hello").
A lot of this stuff is common sense, and a lot of it reminds me of how I advise people to write their cover letters and tailor their CVs and their interview skills.
This has a lot of really good information about pitching story ideas, about clarity, and how to get your story out there and how stories for radio (and also for other media) peculate up to to story meetings.
It's very important to anticipate the question "why should I care".
If you have time, put it on in the background and have a really good listen, it has stuff in it for everyone-journalists, media personalities, regular people trying to pitch and idea, business people and just about storytelling in general.
I love it.
Lots of gems in here. Seriously-have a listen.
I love radio, I think it's an outstanding medium for telling stories. I can't even begin to list what I love about it.
Have you been listening to "Serial"? A friend got me hooked on it-only one more episode to go. From the official Serial web site, I got to the main site for This American Life and was looking around.
From the main site, I got onto this absolutely fascinating audio recording about The Art of the Pitch ("You Had Me At Hello").
A lot of this stuff is common sense, and a lot of it reminds me of how I advise people to write their cover letters and tailor their CVs and their interview skills.
This has a lot of really good information about pitching story ideas, about clarity, and how to get your story out there and how stories for radio (and also for other media) peculate up to to story meetings.
It's very important to anticipate the question "why should I care".
If you have time, put it on in the background and have a really good listen, it has stuff in it for everyone-journalists, media personalities, regular people trying to pitch and idea, business people and just about storytelling in general.
I love it.
Lots of gems in here. Seriously-have a listen.
The UK Is Screwed: "Cinderella Law"
Nanny bastards.
A new law in Great Britain could criminalize normal parenting—the kind practice by people who are not perfect every single second of every day. The so-called "Cinderella Law" expands the definition of child cruelty to include any form of "emotional, psychological or intangible harm,"
As the author of this piece Lenore ("Free Range Kids") Skenazy says:
The state shouldn't decide how to parent.
A new law in Great Britain could criminalize normal parenting—the kind practice by people who are not perfect every single second of every day. The so-called "Cinderella Law" expands the definition of child cruelty to include any form of "emotional, psychological or intangible harm,"
As the author of this piece Lenore ("Free Range Kids") Skenazy says:
The state shouldn't decide how to parent.
Dear Liberal Extremists Who Just Happened to Have Been Born Jewish
Tikkun Olam is not in the Torah.
"Now, the actual phrase “tikkun olam” goes back many centuries – although it’s not used even once in the Hebrew Bible. It appears most prominently in an important prayer (the Aleinu) and in Kabbalah – Jewish mysticism. But the term never referred to a broad program of social change until very, very recently."
"In the last half-century, though, tikkun olam has become the catchall phrase for advocacy of goals that are nearly all left-of-center: environmental activism, feminism, nuclear disarmament, universal health care, gay marriage, urban renewal, reproductive rights for women, and more. And make no mistake: tikkun olam as it’s used today grew out of recent liberal American politics, and is not a value uniting the Jewish community across space and time."
You're welcome.
"Now, the actual phrase “tikkun olam” goes back many centuries – although it’s not used even once in the Hebrew Bible. It appears most prominently in an important prayer (the Aleinu) and in Kabbalah – Jewish mysticism. But the term never referred to a broad program of social change until very, very recently."
"In the last half-century, though, tikkun olam has become the catchall phrase for advocacy of goals that are nearly all left-of-center: environmental activism, feminism, nuclear disarmament, universal health care, gay marriage, urban renewal, reproductive rights for women, and more. And make no mistake: tikkun olam as it’s used today grew out of recent liberal American politics, and is not a value uniting the Jewish community across space and time."
You're welcome.
Ayaaan Hirsi Ali and the Real War on Women
Brave soul this woman, incredibly brave soul.
"Wherever [Islamists] gain power, you see exactly what they do: The first thing they do is they chase women out of the public space, force them to cover up, beat them up, rape them, sell them into slavery,” Hirsi Ali said."
"Such violence against women needs to be exposed, and Western liberals need to “review their thinking,” she said."
"That will prove difficult."
"In her speech to the dinner guests in Washington, Hirsi Ali recalled meeting Vice President Joe Biden. He informed her that “ISIS had nothing to do with Islam.”
"When she disagreed with him, Biden actually responded: “Let me tell you one or two things about Islam.”
“I politely left the conversation at that,” Hirsi Ali said, to laughter.
“I wasn’t used to arguing with vice presidents.”
"Wherever [Islamists] gain power, you see exactly what they do: The first thing they do is they chase women out of the public space, force them to cover up, beat them up, rape them, sell them into slavery,” Hirsi Ali said."
"Such violence against women needs to be exposed, and Western liberals need to “review their thinking,” she said."
"That will prove difficult."
"In her speech to the dinner guests in Washington, Hirsi Ali recalled meeting Vice President Joe Biden. He informed her that “ISIS had nothing to do with Islam.”
"When she disagreed with him, Biden actually responded: “Let me tell you one or two things about Islam.”
“I politely left the conversation at that,” Hirsi Ali said, to laughter.
“I wasn’t used to arguing with vice presidents.”
Gruber, You Arrogant Bastard!
"This is the luxury academics have. You can pontificate all day about how things should be done, knowing that you’ve never tried to actually do them yourself."
"Until something screwy happens in our politics and society, and suddenly you can do them. You are allowed to design a health care plan that you insist is a utopian dream come true. Sure, there will be some collateral damage – a few lives ruined – but that’s all just part of the calculation. And hey, if we have to lie to get the thing passed, so be it.
"The ends always justify the means for tyrants."
"Until something screwy happens in our politics and society, and suddenly you can do them. You are allowed to design a health care plan that you insist is a utopian dream come true. Sure, there will be some collateral damage – a few lives ruined – but that’s all just part of the calculation. And hey, if we have to lie to get the thing passed, so be it.
"The ends always justify the means for tyrants."
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Mothers, Speak Up For Your Sons
North American mothers:
Don't let your sons be "cannon fodder for the radical feminist agenda".
Read the whole thing.
Don't let your sons be "cannon fodder for the radical feminist agenda".
Read the whole thing.
Gruber Lawyers Up Because You're Stupid
Because you're too stupid to understand the incredible value he provided to the American people, and that his remuneration was totally worth it, stupid!
I've Never Hated Mark Steyn More Than At This Moment
Damn you, Mark Steyn.
You made me picture President Obama doing this!!!!!!!!!
"Maybe he just went down to the National Archives in a Miley Cyrus thong and twerked out his new immigration law in the Constitution's face."
I can forgive Mark Steyn for a lot of things, but this-this is simply unforgiveable!!
WHAT IS YOUR ADDRESS, MARK STEYN?!?!?
I'M SENDING MY THERAPY BILLS TO YOU, MISTER.
As I say-I shall never forgive Mark Steyn for that image.
I'm devastated, crumpled up in a little ball, weeping, sucking my thumb in a fetal position, thinking of my age of innocence, just moments ago (I know, that's really hard to imagine, but just work with me here, I'm on a roll..), before all came crashing down in horror...I don't think I shall ever recover... pass the smelling salts, etc...
Well-on second thought, maybe I'll just seethe for a few minutes in complete revulsion.
Or maybe I'll just mull it over for a few seconds feel totally sick to my stomach and then, well HEY THERE WHADAYA KNOW-I'M TOTALLY OVER IT!!
MARK STEYN, NEVER FEAR, ALL IS FORGIVEN!!!!
RIGHT.
NOW BACK TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED STEYNFRAU MODE....
*waves*
Do read the whole blog post because it has lots of good stuff in it, especially this particularly pithy summary of Big Climate:
Steyn: "...climate change is the Obama motorcade of international summitry: its bloat is central to its sense of itself".
OH MAH GAWD THAT'S A KEEPER.
You made me picture President Obama doing this!!!!!!!!!
"Maybe he just went down to the National Archives in a Miley Cyrus thong and twerked out his new immigration law in the Constitution's face."
I can forgive Mark Steyn for a lot of things, but this-this is simply unforgiveable!!
WHAT IS YOUR ADDRESS, MARK STEYN?!?!?
I'M SENDING MY THERAPY BILLS TO YOU, MISTER.
As I say-I shall never forgive Mark Steyn for that image.
I'm devastated, crumpled up in a little ball, weeping, sucking my thumb in a fetal position, thinking of my age of innocence, just moments ago (I know, that's really hard to imagine, but just work with me here, I'm on a roll..), before all came crashing down in horror...I don't think I shall ever recover... pass the smelling salts, etc...
Well-on second thought, maybe I'll just seethe for a few minutes in complete revulsion.
Or maybe I'll just mull it over for a few seconds feel totally sick to my stomach and then, well HEY THERE WHADAYA KNOW-I'M TOTALLY OVER IT!!
MARK STEYN, NEVER FEAR, ALL IS FORGIVEN!!!!
RIGHT.
NOW BACK TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED STEYNFRAU MODE....
*waves*
Do read the whole blog post because it has lots of good stuff in it, especially this particularly pithy summary of Big Climate:
Steyn: "...climate change is the Obama motorcade of international summitry: its bloat is central to its sense of itself".
OH MAH GAWD THAT'S A KEEPER.
News You Can Use: Kate Middleton's Complete NYC Wardrobe and Where to Get It
You're welcome.
She has excellent taste, and is a real beauty.
I really like her and Will.
Lovely couple, I hope they enjoy many long and happy years together.
She has excellent taste, and is a real beauty.
I really like her and Will.
Lovely couple, I hope they enjoy many long and happy years together.
"I Was Surrounded By Death And A Lot of Dirt, Especially the One From our Perpetrators' Souls "
Klara Marcus survived the gas chambers because it ran out of gas.
"My mother and older sisters were taken directly to Auschwitz. I never saw them again,' Klara Markus told a Romanian newspaper in 2010."
"When I asked about them, SS members replied shortly: "Maybe, you should search for them in the smoke or ashes!" and they laughed.'"
"The mother-of-two remained in Budapest for another two years, before the Nazis ordered the remaining Jews in the city to march toward the concentration camps."
Mrs. Marcus just turned 100.
Mazel Tov and G-d bless.
"My mother and older sisters were taken directly to Auschwitz. I never saw them again,' Klara Markus told a Romanian newspaper in 2010."
"When I asked about them, SS members replied shortly: "Maybe, you should search for them in the smoke or ashes!" and they laughed.'"
"The mother-of-two remained in Budapest for another two years, before the Nazis ordered the remaining Jews in the city to march toward the concentration camps."
Mrs. Marcus just turned 100.
Mazel Tov and G-d bless.
Modern Feminism: Appalling Stupidity Backed By Hysterical Rage
Yup.
That about sums it up.
Via Instapundit
"Modern feminism is getting embarrassing. There’s a reason why so few women identify as feminists: It’s less a true “women’s movement” than the public face of hysterical leftist intolerance — combined, of course, with utterly bizarre (and bizarrely stupid) ideas."
That about sums it up.
Via Instapundit
"Modern feminism is getting embarrassing. There’s a reason why so few women identify as feminists: It’s less a true “women’s movement” than the public face of hysterical leftist intolerance — combined, of course, with utterly bizarre (and bizarrely stupid) ideas."
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Rush Limbaugh: It's Absurd For An American To Die For Selling Cigarettes
This is exactly the point I was making last week.
"I think the real outrage here is that an American died while the state is enforcing tax collection on cigarettes. This is just absurd. "
"And, you know, people talk about the left, they want a big state, they want a powerful state. Well, here it is. You've got to take all of it. If you want a powerful state, there's your police force acting on demands of the authority to go out and make sure that every dime of tax is collected particularly from tobacco. Look how we stigmatize tobacco. To the point it's so despised and reviled a guy loses his life selling single cigarettes in New York City. It's absurd."
"I think the real outrage here is that an American died while the state is enforcing tax collection on cigarettes. This is just absurd. "
"And, you know, people talk about the left, they want a big state, they want a powerful state. Well, here it is. You've got to take all of it. If you want a powerful state, there's your police force acting on demands of the authority to go out and make sure that every dime of tax is collected particularly from tobacco. Look how we stigmatize tobacco. To the point it's so despised and reviled a guy loses his life selling single cigarettes in New York City. It's absurd."
Rush, of course says it much better and pinpoints the crux of the matter with much more devastating accuracy.
When is the last time that an American died because of a tax collection matter?
I'm sure it wasn't during the American Revolution but wouldn't it be better if it was?
Who are the other American citizens who have died recently because of a tax collection matter?
How many American citizens have died because the underlying reason for the application of police force was a taxation issue?
It's actually a very frightening question if you really think about it.
And Americans should really be thinking about this more, because the IRS is the tax collecting arm of the Democratic party and the Democratic party is, to quote Mark Steyn-very serious about power. That's the national strong arm operation, but leftist states are clearly just as dangerous and willing to apply lethal force just as the IRS is willing to use coercive and invasive audit pressures on free born citizens with whom they disagree with politically.
The left then, is serious about power and serious about taxation-its lifeblood.
Sounds much more like a military type of regime to me than a Republic, but really-what do I know?
Hey Genderbread Monstrosity Thing: Bite Me!
Educators-your moral, intellectual and grooming superiors.
This is disgusting and NUTS. It's California this time, but it's everywhere there are public schools.
Oh wait, I guess it can't be NUTS because someone will get an allergic reaction to seeing the word NUTS on the Internet.
Remember "sex education" = grooming your children.
"Included in the materials provided to students were documents and worksheets that included a checklist entitled, “Sex Check! Are You Ready For Sex?” in which the 13 and 14-year-old students are asked questions such as if they have water–based lubricants and condoms and if they could handle a possible infection or pregnancy. Another worksheet reads like a how-to on obtaining consent from a possible sexual partner and offers possible statements like “Do you want to go back to my place?” and “Is it OK if I take my pants off?"
"They were also taught about gender identity with the “Genderbread Person,” a play on the name of the holiday cookie, to teach them on how to identify themselves as either, “agender,” “bigender,” and “two spirit” to name a few."
This is disgusting and NUTS. It's California this time, but it's everywhere there are public schools.
Oh wait, I guess it can't be NUTS because someone will get an allergic reaction to seeing the word NUTS on the Internet.
Remember "sex education" = grooming your children.
"Included in the materials provided to students were documents and worksheets that included a checklist entitled, “Sex Check! Are You Ready For Sex?” in which the 13 and 14-year-old students are asked questions such as if they have water–based lubricants and condoms and if they could handle a possible infection or pregnancy. Another worksheet reads like a how-to on obtaining consent from a possible sexual partner and offers possible statements like “Do you want to go back to my place?” and “Is it OK if I take my pants off?"
"They were also taught about gender identity with the “Genderbread Person,” a play on the name of the holiday cookie, to teach them on how to identify themselves as either, “agender,” “bigender,” and “two spirit” to name a few."
Because Nothing Says Save the Planet More Than Creating The Biggest Single Conference Carbon Footprint in the Entire World
What a load of dogsqueeze.
Behold: The environmental movement and its Emperor's New Clothes.
Nothing says SAVE GAIA more than burning that jet fuel to get to a climate conference in the Third World.
Nothing says "I care about the planet" more than being in attendance at a climate junket at taxpayer's expense and mingling with the climafiosos .
It really, really shows just how much you care.
It's so humbling, so beautiful, SNIFF SNORT SNIFF SNIFF I'm getting all emotional.
Such wonderful, compassionate people.
Behold: The environmental movement and its Emperor's New Clothes.
Nothing says SAVE GAIA more than burning that jet fuel to get to a climate conference in the Third World.
Nothing says "I care about the planet" more than being in attendance at a climate junket at taxpayer's expense and mingling with the climafiosos .
It really, really shows just how much you care.
It's so humbling, so beautiful, SNIFF SNORT SNIFF SNIFF I'm getting all emotional.
Such wonderful, compassionate people.
VDH: Lying for the Cause
As he says:
"facts and truth are not that important, if myths can better serve social progress or the careers of those on the correct side of history"
Not only are they not important-they are irrelevant!
"The new generation of progressive mythmaking has taken up where prior generations left off."
(Myth-making merriment happens even faster now because of the Internet-thanks Al Gore!)
Furthermore:
He notes: “truth” is what is deemed socially useful"...liberal lies are cheap. They by intent turn attention to easy icons rather than the more difficult and complex paradoxes of the human condition that defy easy sloganeering or cookie-cutter big-government solutions..."
Read the whole thing.
"facts and truth are not that important, if myths can better serve social progress or the careers of those on the correct side of history"
Not only are they not important-they are irrelevant!
"The new generation of progressive mythmaking has taken up where prior generations left off."
(Myth-making merriment happens even faster now because of the Internet-thanks Al Gore!)
Furthermore:
He notes: “truth” is what is deemed socially useful"...liberal lies are cheap. They by intent turn attention to easy icons rather than the more difficult and complex paradoxes of the human condition that defy easy sloganeering or cookie-cutter big-government solutions..."
Read the whole thing.
"The Closer You Are, The Less You Have to Say"
This is a beautiful, beautiful essay and I quite agree.
Via Instapundit.
It's not what you say that really matters although words are important.
It's what you do.
A hug, a meal, a shoulder to cry on, or a hand to wipe away the tears, a good deed in someone's honour.
"The closer you are, the less you have to say. A friend loses a grandparent, you say you’re sorry. A friend loses a parent, silence and presence suffices.
Via Instapundit.
It's not what you say that really matters although words are important.
It's what you do.
A hug, a meal, a shoulder to cry on, or a hand to wipe away the tears, a good deed in someone's honour.
"The closer you are, the less you have to say. A friend loses a grandparent, you say you’re sorry. A friend loses a parent, silence and presence suffices.
Must Read: Statement of Geert Wilders to the Thought Police in Eurabia
You must read every single word.
"Our freedom is being threatened. Threatened by a violent totalitarian ideology – Islam – that brings with it death and devastation. Threatened by a politically correct elite that does not tolerate criticism of Islam and mass immigration, and that nurtures cultural relativism."
"I rise up against this."
"Our freedom is being threatened. Threatened by a violent totalitarian ideology – Islam – that brings with it death and devastation. Threatened by a politically correct elite that does not tolerate criticism of Islam and mass immigration, and that nurtures cultural relativism."
"I rise up against this."
The UK Is Screwed: Britain's Unrequited Love
From the great Douglas Murray:
"Willing to be endlessly open and hospitable, Britain finds itself at a loss when that hospitality is neither respected nor returned."
"It is worth asking why British Muslims should have their scripture represented in the coronation of the new monarch, when many will not even pray in their mosques for the well-being of that monarch"
"Willing to be endlessly open and hospitable, Britain finds itself at a loss when that hospitality is neither respected nor returned."
"It is worth asking why British Muslims should have their scripture represented in the coronation of the new monarch, when many will not even pray in their mosques for the well-being of that monarch"
What Would We Do Without Research?
"The allure of high-heeled shoes is no secret among women, who have used them to entice men from the streets of Ancient Rome to the New York City sidewalks of Carrie Bradshaw. Heels have also been a controversial symbol in the battleground of sexual politics."
"Now a scientific study in France has measured their power."
"The study found if a woman drops a glove on the street while wearing heels, she's almost 50 percent more likely to have a man fetch it for her than if she's wearing flats."
"Another finding: A woman wearing heels is twice as likely to persuade men to stop and answer survey questions on the street. And a high-heeled woman in a bar waits half the time to get picked up by a man, compared to when her heel is nearer to the ground."
"Women's shoe heel size exerts a powerful effect on men's behavior," says the study's author, Nicolas Gueguen, a behavioral science researcher.
"Simply put, they make women more beautiful."
"Now a scientific study in France has measured their power."
"The study found if a woman drops a glove on the street while wearing heels, she's almost 50 percent more likely to have a man fetch it for her than if she's wearing flats."
"Another finding: A woman wearing heels is twice as likely to persuade men to stop and answer survey questions on the street. And a high-heeled woman in a bar waits half the time to get picked up by a man, compared to when her heel is nearer to the ground."
"Women's shoe heel size exerts a powerful effect on men's behavior," says the study's author, Nicolas Gueguen, a behavioral science researcher.
"Simply put, they make women more beautiful."
The Blood on Al Sharpton's Hands
Just a helpful reminder that some people get away with (encouraging, provoking, and inciting-being the spark if you will, of) murder.
Compare and Contrast: The People's Prince Versus the Imperial American President
Prince William and his beautiful bride Catherine fly Catherine commercial.
King Obama of "Barackingham Palace" (as Mark Steyn has cheerfully dubbed the White House) does not.
King Obama of "Barackingham Palace" (as Mark Steyn has cheerfully dubbed the White House) does not.
"It Feels Like A Smooth Motion Floating Through The Clouds"
How wonderful.
Enabling a human being with a disability to float through the clouds.
If that's not a sign of an angel on earth, what is?
Enabling a human being with a disability to float through the clouds.
If that's not a sign of an angel on earth, what is?
Monday, December 8, 2014
Educators: Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
"How do you spell illiterate?"
"A majority of students training at scores of New York colleges to become teachers flunked a literacy test they have to pass to be licensed, new figures show."
"The state Board of Regents for the first time is requiring would-be teachers to pass the Academic Literacy Skills exam."
"It measures whether a prospective teacher can understand and analyze reading material and also write competently. The results show many don’t belong anywhere near a classroom."
"At Boricua College in The Bronx, 13 students took the literacy test. Not a single one passed."
"A majority of students training at scores of New York colleges to become teachers flunked a literacy test they have to pass to be licensed, new figures show."
"The state Board of Regents for the first time is requiring would-be teachers to pass the Academic Literacy Skills exam."
"It measures whether a prospective teacher can understand and analyze reading material and also write competently. The results show many don’t belong anywhere near a classroom."
"At Boricua College in The Bronx, 13 students took the literacy test. Not a single one passed."
Tim Blair: Warmism Becomes A Full Blown Faith
Yesterday I was at the public library and saw a David Suzuki book in the religion section.
Wish I had taken a picture of it.
This update from Tim Blair is hysterical.
And I'm in love with Tim Blair's advice to the disciples of the Church of Climate Change:
"get proper jobs, you talk-festing, leaf-chewing, planet-worrying, Jesus-screaming academic deadbeats"
Wish I had taken a picture of it.
This update from Tim Blair is hysterical.
And I'm in love with Tim Blair's advice to the disciples of the Church of Climate Change:
"get proper jobs, you talk-festing, leaf-chewing, planet-worrying, Jesus-screaming academic deadbeats"
Israeli Police Celebrate Chanukah With Holocaust Survivors
"As part of a joint Yad Vashem project called Father and Sons,
Israeli border police stationed in Jerusalem ‘adopt’ Holocaust
survivors living in neighborhoods throughout the capital. Since 2007,
the Israeli border guards have made a point to celebrate birthdays with
Holocaust survivors, as well as calling them before holidays and making
monthly visits to their homes. The Israeli border police also assist
survivors in their own homes when their help is needed."
Ebola Czar Ron Klain Cures Ebola
Out of the papers, the news, out of the national and international consciousness.
Off the President's 'to do' list entirely (he has a sore throat, don't you know).
Job well done!
Bon Voyage!
Off the President's 'to do' list entirely (he has a sore throat, don't you know).
Job well done!
Bon Voyage!
The Latest "Honour" Murder in Toronto
She went 'to the government' for help and ended up dead, along with her two children.
"At the gravesite Friday, Nur Qase, who described himself as a distant relative, said many people let the woman and her children down."
“This person came to the government, came to the authorities and said, ‘I need help,’ ” he said."
“That’s where we failed.”
"Sonia Berry, a close friend and colleague, said Ms. Abdille had long been afraid of her husband."
“I knew she was scared, but I don’t think she thought he would ever hurt the kids and that’s probably why she went back,” she told The Toronto Star.
There is a pattern here that so few people want to talk about. It's messy and interrupts the multicultural narrative.
"At the gravesite Friday, Nur Qase, who described himself as a distant relative, said many people let the woman and her children down."
“This person came to the government, came to the authorities and said, ‘I need help,’ ” he said."
“That’s where we failed.”
"Sonia Berry, a close friend and colleague, said Ms. Abdille had long been afraid of her husband."
“I knew she was scared, but I don’t think she thought he would ever hurt the kids and that’s probably why she went back,” she told The Toronto Star.
There is a pattern here that so few people want to talk about. It's messy and interrupts the multicultural narrative.
Famous "Coexistence" Photograph A Totally Staged Fake
Imagine my surprise.
The 1993 photo portrayed what seems to be a Jewish and Arab boy with their arms around each other while overlooking Jerusalem, and exemplified hopes for peace in Israel during the Oslo peace process.
The 1993 photo portrayed what seems to be a Jewish and Arab boy with their arms around each other while overlooking Jerusalem, and exemplified hopes for peace in Israel during the Oslo peace process.
Friday, December 5, 2014
Hillary Clinton's Empathy Tripe
This should probably be inscribed on America's gravestone:
"Empathized With Enemies"
R.I.P American Republic, it was nice knowing you.
"Empathized With Enemies"
R.I.P American Republic, it was nice knowing you.
An Adopted Boy Who Survived Abuse Touches America With A Hug
Really inspiring story.
The image is transfixing.
Good on Jen and Sarah Hart for making a difference in so many lives.
The image is transfixing.
Good on Jen and Sarah Hart for making a difference in so many lives.
Mark Levin Urges States (and Citizens) To Take Back Power From Runaway Obama
Love this guy.
Ballsy, smart and honest. Watch and listen to the whole thing.
Restore your Republic, America!!!
Ballsy, smart and honest. Watch and listen to the whole thing.
Restore your Republic, America!!!
I Love You America, But Your Police Are Out of Control
It is my view that Eric Garner was killed as a result of an over-militarized police force having been conditioned to believe that lethal force is an acceptable way for officers of the state to enforce by-laws.
Hell hath no fury like the nanny state, and simply put-the consequences of hyper regulation can be lethal.
The Department of Bureaucracy has a permit to kill you for any number of reasons.
In this case, a bylaw violation was a licence to kill.
A legal one.
This article, via Instapundit, explains it very slowly and clearly:
"On the opening day of law school, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a law they are not willing to kill to enforce. Usually they greet this advice with something between skepticism and puzzlement, until I remind them that the police go armed to enforce the will of the state, and if you resist, they might kill you."
"I wish this caution were only theoretical. It isn’t."
"Whatever your view on the refusal of a New York City grand jury to indict the police officer whose chokehold apparently led to the death of Eric Garner, it’s useful to remember the crime that Garner is alleged to have committed: He was selling individual cigarettes, or loosies, in violation of New York law."
This is clearly the case for fewer laws in free societies. The more regulation, the less freedom and more chance of abuse of power, leading in many instances to a wanton disregard for common sense and many unnecessary deaths at the hands of the state.
In a nutshell, the advice 'don't support a law you are not willing to kill to enforce' is sage and brilliant and a very pertinent warning to citizens the world over.
Hell hath no fury like the nanny state, and simply put-the consequences of hyper regulation can be lethal.
The Department of Bureaucracy has a permit to kill you for any number of reasons.
In this case, a bylaw violation was a licence to kill.
A legal one.
This article, via Instapundit, explains it very slowly and clearly:
"On the opening day of law school, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a law they are not willing to kill to enforce. Usually they greet this advice with something between skepticism and puzzlement, until I remind them that the police go armed to enforce the will of the state, and if you resist, they might kill you."
"I wish this caution were only theoretical. It isn’t."
"Whatever your view on the refusal of a New York City grand jury to indict the police officer whose chokehold apparently led to the death of Eric Garner, it’s useful to remember the crime that Garner is alleged to have committed: He was selling individual cigarettes, or loosies, in violation of New York law."
This is clearly the case for fewer laws in free societies. The more regulation, the less freedom and more chance of abuse of power, leading in many instances to a wanton disregard for common sense and many unnecessary deaths at the hands of the state.
In a nutshell, the advice 'don't support a law you are not willing to kill to enforce' is sage and brilliant and a very pertinent warning to citizens the world over.
Schadenfruedelicious: Sweden Sucks
It really looks good on Sweden, pathetically rife with a festering rape, "yooooot" violence capital of Malmö and assorted antisemitic attacks.
I mean it looks really good on them.
Euro-lefty government FAIL.
"Although the budget was the trigger, most observers believe that immigration is at the root of the fall."
I mean it looks really good on them.
Euro-lefty government FAIL.
"Although the budget was the trigger, most observers believe that immigration is at the root of the fall."
Lovely: Mane in Heaven Brings Miniature Horses to Visit Sick Children
I'm telling you, there are angels on earth, quietly going about their truly G-dly business.
If you don't believe me click here.
Mane in Heaven: Bringing a Little Heaven to Those in Need
If you don't believe me click here.
Mane in Heaven: Bringing a Little Heaven to Those in Need
Most Antisemetic American President and Administration in History Mulls Sanctions-Against Israel
Apparently the crime of building in the Jewish capital while being Jewish is an unforgivable one in President Obama's eyes.
Those uppity Jews building in the Jew country must be punished!
Clearly, there is no other problem more grave in the whole entire world than Jews building apartments in Jerusalem!
Jew-hating schmuck.
"The Obama administration is refusing to discuss reports that emerged early Thursday claiming that the White House is considering imposing sanctions on Israel for continuing construction on Jewish homes in Jerusalem."
"State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf dodged several questions on Thursday when confronted with reports that the administration had held secret internal meetings to discuss taking action against Israel for its ongoing building in East Jerusalem."
Those uppity Jews building in the Jew country must be punished!
Clearly, there is no other problem more grave in the whole entire world than Jews building apartments in Jerusalem!
Jew-hating schmuck.
"The Obama administration is refusing to discuss reports that emerged early Thursday claiming that the White House is considering imposing sanctions on Israel for continuing construction on Jewish homes in Jerusalem."
"State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf dodged several questions on Thursday when confronted with reports that the administration had held secret internal meetings to discuss taking action against Israel for its ongoing building in East Jerusalem."
Some "Conservatives" in Canada
What she says:
FIRE. THEM. ALL.
Do you have a little time to do some searching?
Help Ezra find the doozies in the report by going to this web site LangtryExpenses and submitting your findings.
FIRE. THEM. ALL.
Do you have a little time to do some searching?
Help Ezra find the doozies in the report by going to this web site LangtryExpenses and submitting your findings.
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Must Watch: Binyamin Netanyahu's Tribute to John Henry Patterson, "Godfather of the IDF" on His Burial in Israel
What an inspired, and beautiful tribute to a truly righteous man, G-d bless him and rest his soul.
More information here, and here.
His bio is next on my reading list.
More information here, and here.
His bio is next on my reading list.
Mark Steyn: "You Have to Be An Equal Opportunity Offender"
This is a fantastic spot which contains more details about Mann vs Steyn and gives us Mark's answer to Michael Mann's desire for Steyn to stop being mean to him.
Steyn's position can be summed up thus: "I ain't gonna shut up."
NEED I SAY MORE? NOT REALLY BUT I CAN'T HELP MYSELF AND IT'S MY BLOG AND I QUITE LIKE MARK STEYN SO BEAR WITH ME...
I like a lot, lot lot about this interview (not the least of which is the lovely colour palate of spring pastels on Steyn's tie and pocket square-I mean FOR REAL???)
BUT I DIGRESS...SORRY WHERE WERE WE?
Hmm...don't shut up, nice suit, nice tie, hmmm...OH RIGHT FREE SPEECH.
*ahem*
*regains composure*
*waves*
At this juncture, I must also point out Mark Steyn's exceptionally gracious shout out to Ezra for his relentless fight for free speech, and for 'going nuclear' on the Alberta Human Rights Commission, which got the ball rolling on the death of Section 13. His remarks were extremely generous and well, Steyn is just a mensch.
And it was also good of Ezra to acknowledge thegrassroots Bully Bloggers many other individuals who helped with the battle from the sidelines instead of, as Steyn says politely "sitting on their hands" and only joining the battle when it was clear who was winning.
And this advice, of course, is ever pertinent: "Push back harder."
And FOR SERIOUS AND NOT FOR JOKING THIS:
"You have to be an equal opportunity offender."
OMG NOT ONLY DO I LOVE THAT I HOPE AND PRAY THAT I RESEMBLE THAT REMARK.
The shout out to La Fallaci is divine as well.
You must watch the whole clip.
Ezra also is not saying much about his appeal, but I will say something about it.
As a Jew who is not really terribly popular with the Official Jews (crazy, right?!?) I have to say once again that the ruling against Ezra really will make it more than likely that many, many more Jews and non-Jews alike are going to be sued for calling anyone an anti-semite. The people facing the anti-Semites on the front lines will not have the legal savvy or time for the nuance of opinion versus statement of fact when they face immediate danger or any form of Jew-hating activists and various sundry thugs.
The Official Jews may not like me and they may not like Ezra Levant, but some of the best thinking, legal Jew brains in the community should bloody well be reading over that decision with a fine tooth comb and realizing how extremely dangerous it is to current and future activism on behalf of Israel and the Jewish people.
(And if they don't care, or don't think it's important, then well-the community is doomed and don't say you weren't warned...)
The organized community (CIJA, Federation, and all the other Israel based charities, non-profits) can dislike Ezra and me and others ad infinitum, but that doesn't change the very real and serious and expensive consequences they will all face (can you spell L-A-W-F-A-R-E, yes, I thought you could) if Ezra does not win this appeal.
I've always thought of this trial as Ezra's Blasphemy Trial and looks like I was right.
A very dangerous and freedom-limiting precedent will be set in Canada if Ezra loses his appeal.
It will of course affect Jews first, but as history shows us time and time again the things that start with the Jews, never end with the Jews, now do they?
P.S: Penn State SUCKS.
Steyn's position can be summed up thus: "I ain't gonna shut up."
NEED I SAY MORE? NOT REALLY BUT I CAN'T HELP MYSELF AND IT'S MY BLOG AND I QUITE LIKE MARK STEYN SO BEAR WITH ME...
I like a lot, lot lot about this interview (not the least of which is the lovely colour palate of spring pastels on Steyn's tie and pocket square-I mean FOR REAL???)
BUT I DIGRESS...SORRY WHERE WERE WE?
Hmm...don't shut up, nice suit, nice tie, hmmm...OH RIGHT FREE SPEECH.
*ahem*
*regains composure*
*waves*
At this juncture, I must also point out Mark Steyn's exceptionally gracious shout out to Ezra for his relentless fight for free speech, and for 'going nuclear' on the Alberta Human Rights Commission, which got the ball rolling on the death of Section 13. His remarks were extremely generous and well, Steyn is just a mensch.
And it was also good of Ezra to acknowledge the
And this advice, of course, is ever pertinent: "Push back harder."
And FOR SERIOUS AND NOT FOR JOKING THIS:
"You have to be an equal opportunity offender."
OMG NOT ONLY DO I LOVE THAT I HOPE AND PRAY THAT I RESEMBLE THAT REMARK.
The shout out to La Fallaci is divine as well.
You must watch the whole clip.
Ezra also is not saying much about his appeal, but I will say something about it.
As a Jew who is not really terribly popular with the Official Jews (crazy, right?!?) I have to say once again that the ruling against Ezra really will make it more than likely that many, many more Jews and non-Jews alike are going to be sued for calling anyone an anti-semite. The people facing the anti-Semites on the front lines will not have the legal savvy or time for the nuance of opinion versus statement of fact when they face immediate danger or any form of Jew-hating activists and various sundry thugs.
The Official Jews may not like me and they may not like Ezra Levant, but some of the best thinking, legal Jew brains in the community should bloody well be reading over that decision with a fine tooth comb and realizing how extremely dangerous it is to current and future activism on behalf of Israel and the Jewish people.
(And if they don't care, or don't think it's important, then well-the community is doomed and don't say you weren't warned...)
The organized community (CIJA, Federation, and all the other Israel based charities, non-profits) can dislike Ezra and me and others ad infinitum, but that doesn't change the very real and serious and expensive consequences they will all face (can you spell L-A-W-F-A-R-E, yes, I thought you could) if Ezra does not win this appeal.
I've always thought of this trial as Ezra's Blasphemy Trial and looks like I was right.
A very dangerous and freedom-limiting precedent will be set in Canada if Ezra loses his appeal.
It will of course affect Jews first, but as history shows us time and time again the things that start with the Jews, never end with the Jews, now do they?
P.S: Penn State SUCKS.
Some of the Bravest People in Israel And What They Are Doing
Love this woman.
She is so gutsy, so brave and patriotic and in the summer, during the war in Israel I saw her on Israeli TV literally blasting the crap out of the anti-Israel Israeli Arab crowd. She correctly identified the Jewish left as more of a threat to Israel than the minorities in Israel. Her Hebrew is perfect, her sons are fighters in the IDF and she is a very ballsy broad.
And then, there is this magnificently brave man and his equally inspiring son.
If you do not know about Father Nadaf and his bravery, I urge you to get to know him and support him and certainly pray for him and his whole family because they are, no doubt, in grave danger all the time.
"Judaan Nadaf, the son of prominent Israeli Greek Orthodox priest Father Gabriel Nadaf, joined the IDF this week."
"Jubran voluntarily joined an elite IDF unit, while accompanied by Father Gabriel Nadaf at the recruitment office in Tiberias. On his Facebook page, Father Nadaf stated that his son joined “out of a sense of mission and belonging and the aspiration to contribute to his country Israel.”
"Jubran Nadaf was the target of a violent hate crime in December 2013. Opponents of Father Nadaf targeted the son and beat him in the streets of Nazareth.
"After the attack, Father Gabriel Nadaf issued a statement proclaiming that “[M]y son very much wants to enlist, in the near future, and serve in a combat unit. He believes in what I do, that we all have a home here, that he also needs to give to the country. The country gives him his rights, and should receive what it is due in return. We all need to live here in peace, and protect the existence of the country that we live in, since our future is here.”
May G-d bless and keep this incredibly brave and inspiring individuals.
She is so gutsy, so brave and patriotic and in the summer, during the war in Israel I saw her on Israeli TV literally blasting the crap out of the anti-Israel Israeli Arab crowd. She correctly identified the Jewish left as more of a threat to Israel than the minorities in Israel. Her Hebrew is perfect, her sons are fighters in the IDF and she is a very ballsy broad.
And then, there is this magnificently brave man and his equally inspiring son.
If you do not know about Father Nadaf and his bravery, I urge you to get to know him and support him and certainly pray for him and his whole family because they are, no doubt, in grave danger all the time.
"Judaan Nadaf, the son of prominent Israeli Greek Orthodox priest Father Gabriel Nadaf, joined the IDF this week."
"Jubran voluntarily joined an elite IDF unit, while accompanied by Father Gabriel Nadaf at the recruitment office in Tiberias. On his Facebook page, Father Nadaf stated that his son joined “out of a sense of mission and belonging and the aspiration to contribute to his country Israel.”
"Jubran Nadaf was the target of a violent hate crime in December 2013. Opponents of Father Nadaf targeted the son and beat him in the streets of Nazareth.
"After the attack, Father Gabriel Nadaf issued a statement proclaiming that “[M]y son very much wants to enlist, in the near future, and serve in a combat unit. He believes in what I do, that we all have a home here, that he also needs to give to the country. The country gives him his rights, and should receive what it is due in return. We all need to live here in peace, and protect the existence of the country that we live in, since our future is here.”
May G-d bless and keep this incredibly brave and inspiring individuals.
They Should Probably Be Drafting An Obituary As Well
Nuts.
(This is one of the first times I have read one of these stories where "parents"-plural are mentioned. More often than not these stories have some type of mentally questionable mother gushing about how wonderful this all is, and the father is totally absent. So, I wonder if these "parents" are a mother and a father or not.)
(This is one of the first times I have read one of these stories where "parents"-plural are mentioned. More often than not these stories have some type of mentally questionable mother gushing about how wonderful this all is, and the father is totally absent. So, I wonder if these "parents" are a mother and a father or not.)
Great News: Obama Massively Expanding Federal Bureaucracy To Help Integrate Illegals
What could possibly be wrong with this?
"Department of Homeland Security officials wasted little time in ramping up for President Obama’s amnesty, posting 1,000 job openings the day after his announcement and announcing it already has space for hundreds of employees at a new location in Arlington, Virginia — an indication that it had laid its plans well before Mr. Obama’s announcement."
"And even though Mr. Obama said his policy is temporary, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is hiring the employees for permanent positions, at salaries of up to $157,000 a year, according to the job postings listed on the official federal jobs website."
"Department of Homeland Security officials wasted little time in ramping up for President Obama’s amnesty, posting 1,000 job openings the day after his announcement and announcing it already has space for hundreds of employees at a new location in Arlington, Virginia — an indication that it had laid its plans well before Mr. Obama’s announcement."
"And even though Mr. Obama said his policy is temporary, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is hiring the employees for permanent positions, at salaries of up to $157,000 a year, according to the job postings listed on the official federal jobs website."
Maybe John Heinz Kerry Will Supply Some Ketchup For Obama's Massive Sh&T Sandwich On Fort Hood
Bon appetite!
"Victims of the Fort Hood shooting will soon be eligible to receive the Purple Heart, with Congress pushing ahead with a policy change that would officially recognize domestic terrorism as an issue, rather than the “workplace violence” designation the Obama administration had used."
"Victims of the Fort Hood shooting will soon be eligible to receive the Purple Heart, with Congress pushing ahead with a policy change that would officially recognize domestic terrorism as an issue, rather than the “workplace violence” designation the Obama administration had used."
Norman Lear Talks Archie Bunker, Mary Hartman And More...
Really nice podcast from Tablet.
If you don't read Tablet, you should. Apparently, Archie Bunker was modeled on his dad. He clearly had a complicated relationship with him, and his mother (a "full fledged narcissist"). His quote about his mother, "life was a mirror, all she saw was herself" is quite brilliant.
I am totally going to steal that because I know quite a number of narcissists and that's a devastatingly accurate way to describe them.
If you don't read Tablet, you should. Apparently, Archie Bunker was modeled on his dad. He clearly had a complicated relationship with him, and his mother (a "full fledged narcissist"). His quote about his mother, "life was a mirror, all she saw was herself" is quite brilliant.
I am totally going to steal that because I know quite a number of narcissists and that's a devastatingly accurate way to describe them.
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— Dakota Meyer (@Dakota_Meyer) December 3, 2014
Robert Wistrich on the Long History of Leftist Jew-Hatred
A good summary, but not quite as explicit as I would have been about the real "neo-Nazis".
"Hatred for America, the West, and Israel thrives beneath the cloak of human rights and social justice. This fanciful branding has not prevented the cause of the “oppressed” from being represented by dictators such as Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, the Ayatollah Khomeini, Saddam Hussein, and Yasir Arafat. These tyrants have often been worshipped by Western radicals as defenders of “Third World peoples” against U.S. imperialism and Zionism. International solidarity with the Palestinians has given a counterfeit halo of respectability to the world’s most despicable characters. The Islamists are only the latest in a long line of manipulative exploiters of Palestinian or Third World misfortunes. All have indulged in the demonization of Israel as a “genocidal state” engaged in “ethnic cleansing from the day of its birth.”
"Contemporary Marxists and Islamists share a curiously similar apocalyptic agenda of earthly redemption that aspires to the installment of absolute “social justice” through violent means. For both parties, Palestinian martyrdom has become a glowing symbol of “resistance” not only to Israel but also to globalization and the “corrupt” West. At the heart of such radical utopianism, there is the quasi-religious belief that the world will only be “liberated” by the downfall of America and the defeat of the Jews. This chiliastic fantasy has today emerged as a notable point of fusion between the radical anti-Zionist left in the West and the global jihad. Meanwhile, in the real world, the transnational jihadi warriors are in the process of conquering large swathes of northern Syria and Iraq and establishing a new base for their Islamic caliphate."
When one reads facts such as the ones presented above, one can only conclude that Jews who remain married to leftism duffer from serious mental defects, with suicidal tendencies. They are not "self-hating", they are self-adoring Jewish Jew-haters.
Their basking love for themselves and for their own theoretical legendary concern for "the other" willfully blinds them to the existential dangers that are right in front of their own lying eye.
They are dangerous fools.
"Hatred for America, the West, and Israel thrives beneath the cloak of human rights and social justice. This fanciful branding has not prevented the cause of the “oppressed” from being represented by dictators such as Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, the Ayatollah Khomeini, Saddam Hussein, and Yasir Arafat. These tyrants have often been worshipped by Western radicals as defenders of “Third World peoples” against U.S. imperialism and Zionism. International solidarity with the Palestinians has given a counterfeit halo of respectability to the world’s most despicable characters. The Islamists are only the latest in a long line of manipulative exploiters of Palestinian or Third World misfortunes. All have indulged in the demonization of Israel as a “genocidal state” engaged in “ethnic cleansing from the day of its birth.”
"Contemporary Marxists and Islamists share a curiously similar apocalyptic agenda of earthly redemption that aspires to the installment of absolute “social justice” through violent means. For both parties, Palestinian martyrdom has become a glowing symbol of “resistance” not only to Israel but also to globalization and the “corrupt” West. At the heart of such radical utopianism, there is the quasi-religious belief that the world will only be “liberated” by the downfall of America and the defeat of the Jews. This chiliastic fantasy has today emerged as a notable point of fusion between the radical anti-Zionist left in the West and the global jihad. Meanwhile, in the real world, the transnational jihadi warriors are in the process of conquering large swathes of northern Syria and Iraq and establishing a new base for their Islamic caliphate."
When one reads facts such as the ones presented above, one can only conclude that Jews who remain married to leftism duffer from serious mental defects, with suicidal tendencies. They are not "self-hating", they are self-adoring Jewish Jew-haters.
Their basking love for themselves and for their own theoretical legendary concern for "the other" willfully blinds them to the existential dangers that are right in front of their own lying eye.
They are dangerous fools.
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Subway Tales From The City
She was wearing a knitted pink winter bonnet with ears, and a puffy little pink winter coat.
Her cheeks were red, it was so very cold outside that day, the wind was strong and billowing. She was tucked into her little umbrella stroller with her pink winter boots gently lying on the rubber foot rest.
Dad was thirty something and tall, his hair was completely blown by the wind. He was a very nice looking man, with a day or so of growth, old enough not to be paying too much attention to the gaggle of exuberant college students on the train, but still vain enough to look at his reflection in the subway window and take a moment to fix his hair, smooth it down. His hair was thinning just slightly and he had happy wrinkles starting to form around his eyes.
"Daddy, my nose," said the pink princess.
"My nose," she repeated, pointing for emphasis.
And thus, dutiful Dad fished into his pocket and came up with a white Kleenex, opened it purposely and leaned right down-all six feet (at least) of him to help the pink princess blow her little nose.
For good measure, he dabbed under her nostrils and straightened her hat, asked if she was hungry or thirsty and wiped a wisp of hair away from her face. It was so lovely, and so completely natural and loving, I was mesmerized. When I think about it, it was holy.
To randomly see so much love in so few seconds is such a gift, a snapshot to be remembered.
To participate and experience it first hand is a blessing and privilege granted by G-d.
In those few moments I thought about just how civilizing having children is not just for women or men, but for society. It was not hard for me to picture that same dear Dad only a few years earlier cavorting in bars, hanging out with the boys, flirting with women, partying-not really thinking about tomorrow or pink puffy coats and strollers, and having a pocket full of tissues. Of course these are natural stages of growing up in North America, but so many people never really grow up. How sad. How terribly sad.
Marriage and having children creates something so much bigger than oneself. You can know this on a certain cerebral level, but to actually see love in action, to witness it, is something altogether different. Not a loving gesture, but the love itself-sort of feeling, by extension, the feelings of that person's heart as it radiates outward.
Almost as quickly as they got on the subway, the pink princess and dear Dad got ready to exit, but not before Dad had another quick look in the window, and took a very modest nanosecond moment to once again smooth his hair and exit the train with the love of his life in her perfect, puffy, pink princess coat.
Her cheeks were red, it was so very cold outside that day, the wind was strong and billowing. She was tucked into her little umbrella stroller with her pink winter boots gently lying on the rubber foot rest.
Dad was thirty something and tall, his hair was completely blown by the wind. He was a very nice looking man, with a day or so of growth, old enough not to be paying too much attention to the gaggle of exuberant college students on the train, but still vain enough to look at his reflection in the subway window and take a moment to fix his hair, smooth it down. His hair was thinning just slightly and he had happy wrinkles starting to form around his eyes.
"Daddy, my nose," said the pink princess.
"My nose," she repeated, pointing for emphasis.
And thus, dutiful Dad fished into his pocket and came up with a white Kleenex, opened it purposely and leaned right down-all six feet (at least) of him to help the pink princess blow her little nose.
For good measure, he dabbed under her nostrils and straightened her hat, asked if she was hungry or thirsty and wiped a wisp of hair away from her face. It was so lovely, and so completely natural and loving, I was mesmerized. When I think about it, it was holy.
To randomly see so much love in so few seconds is such a gift, a snapshot to be remembered.
To participate and experience it first hand is a blessing and privilege granted by G-d.
In those few moments I thought about just how civilizing having children is not just for women or men, but for society. It was not hard for me to picture that same dear Dad only a few years earlier cavorting in bars, hanging out with the boys, flirting with women, partying-not really thinking about tomorrow or pink puffy coats and strollers, and having a pocket full of tissues. Of course these are natural stages of growing up in North America, but so many people never really grow up. How sad. How terribly sad.
Marriage and having children creates something so much bigger than oneself. You can know this on a certain cerebral level, but to actually see love in action, to witness it, is something altogether different. Not a loving gesture, but the love itself-sort of feeling, by extension, the feelings of that person's heart as it radiates outward.
Almost as quickly as they got on the subway, the pink princess and dear Dad got ready to exit, but not before Dad had another quick look in the window, and took a very modest nanosecond moment to once again smooth his hair and exit the train with the love of his life in her perfect, puffy, pink princess coat.
Pigs Fly: Saudia Arabia Totally Hip To Selling Oil To Sons and Daughters of Apes and Monkeys
Hey, Jews Israel no hard feelings about that terror Wahabi stuff, right?
Ancient history, right?!?!!
So, yah, let's totally get together and I have some awesome oil to sell you and then maybe we can chat about that Iran thing....
Ancient history, right?!?!!
So, yah, let's totally get together and I have some awesome oil to sell you and then maybe we can chat about that Iran thing....
Must Read David Solway: "Politricks" and The English Language
A magnificent essay from David Solway on the utter perversion of the English language to service the left and political correctness.
I found myself nodding along the whole way, so you must read the whole thing.
This is a very brave and bold piece. Kudos to David Solway for his clarity, wisdom and forthright manner of laying out the facts in an irrefutable manner.
He says:
"Poor thinking corrupts language; slovenly language corrupts thinking—and the inevitable result of these twin perversions is moral corruption and political barbarism."
"...what should not cease to astonish is the extent to which the language sickness has spread to the democratic West. Far from a mere aberration or an occupational hazard, the Big Lie has been installed among us as the primary form of political and cultural address along the entire gamut of disinformation, from outright interment of fact and customizing of inconvenient truths to unmitigated calumny and virulent libel. The Western media and the “progressivist” left-liberal political class have, over the years, incrementally adopted the discursive techniques of totalitarian states and theocratic dispensations."
"One sees the neutralizing or flattening of language intended to mislead especially with regard to Islam. Muslim rapists and felons in the UK and Scandinavia are routinely referred to as “Asians”—a demographic blend that serves as a linguistic cowcatcher sweeping law-abiding Korean, Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese and Filipino immigrants into its purview. The distinction between “Islamic” and “Islamist” is another such evasion"
"It behooves us to get the language right. Are we so timorous that our greatest fear is of contravening the detours of political correctness — the technique of evasion — rather than of an adversary who aims to destroy us, whether through terror or demography? I confess that I am still hunting in vain for a credible definition of “Islamism” or for that mysterious entity known as an “Islamist.”
I found myself nodding along the whole way, so you must read the whole thing.
This is a very brave and bold piece. Kudos to David Solway for his clarity, wisdom and forthright manner of laying out the facts in an irrefutable manner.
He says:
"Poor thinking corrupts language; slovenly language corrupts thinking—and the inevitable result of these twin perversions is moral corruption and political barbarism."
"...what should not cease to astonish is the extent to which the language sickness has spread to the democratic West. Far from a mere aberration or an occupational hazard, the Big Lie has been installed among us as the primary form of political and cultural address along the entire gamut of disinformation, from outright interment of fact and customizing of inconvenient truths to unmitigated calumny and virulent libel. The Western media and the “progressivist” left-liberal political class have, over the years, incrementally adopted the discursive techniques of totalitarian states and theocratic dispensations."
"One sees the neutralizing or flattening of language intended to mislead especially with regard to Islam. Muslim rapists and felons in the UK and Scandinavia are routinely referred to as “Asians”—a demographic blend that serves as a linguistic cowcatcher sweeping law-abiding Korean, Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese and Filipino immigrants into its purview. The distinction between “Islamic” and “Islamist” is another such evasion"
"It behooves us to get the language right. Are we so timorous that our greatest fear is of contravening the detours of political correctness — the technique of evasion — rather than of an adversary who aims to destroy us, whether through terror or demography? I confess that I am still hunting in vain for a credible definition of “Islamism” or for that mysterious entity known as an “Islamist.”
America is Screwed: Pig Farts In Thailand Edition
We're here from the government and are here to help you!
"Republicans are targeting wasteful and “egregious” spending at the Environmental Protection Agency, issuing a new report showing the agency has lost millions to employee scams, lax oversight and wasteful research projects."
A report released by Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake found numerous examples of EPA mismanagement and excess, including employees illegitimately spending $15 million on agency credit cards and $9 million the agency lost track of funding projects in California."
"The report found the agency spent “$3,500,000 to fund ‘Planning for Economic and Fiscal Health’ workshops across the country… $1,500,000 annually to store out-of-date and unwanted publications at an Ohio warehouse” and another “$700,000 to attempt to reduce methane emitted from pig flatulence in Thailand.”
"Republicans are targeting wasteful and “egregious” spending at the Environmental Protection Agency, issuing a new report showing the agency has lost millions to employee scams, lax oversight and wasteful research projects."
A report released by Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake found numerous examples of EPA mismanagement and excess, including employees illegitimately spending $15 million on agency credit cards and $9 million the agency lost track of funding projects in California."
"The report found the agency spent “$3,500,000 to fund ‘Planning for Economic and Fiscal Health’ workshops across the country… $1,500,000 annually to store out-of-date and unwanted publications at an Ohio warehouse” and another “$700,000 to attempt to reduce methane emitted from pig flatulence in Thailand.”
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Today in Eurabian Judenhass: French Jews Robbed, Raped "Because You Are Jewish"
"Three unknown assailants invaded the home of a Jewish couple in the
Paris suburb of Créteil on Monday, raped the 19-year-old woman, and
robbed the home, saying it was “because you are Jewish,” local French
media reported on Tuesday."
The community is "shocked"?
I'm not. Disgusted yes, angry yes, but shocked? No.
The community is "shocked"?
I'm not. Disgusted yes, angry yes, but shocked? No.
Jonathan Kay on Terrorism: Frequently Wrong, Never in Doubt (UPDATED)
My good friend scaramouche brought this to my attention, and has already made some very astute observations about this silly essay.
My first reaction to Kay's piece was 'standard leftist tripe'.
That is to say, it is standard operating practice for leftist to guffaw at the "bungling", or "amateur", or "silly" or "unprofessional" terrorists operating among us.
As scaramouche rightly noted, if the victim is a member of your family, then it doesn't really matter if they were professional, "lone wolf" or "amateur", does it? You still have a dead relative or friend and a lifetime of bereavement ahead of you. And yes-I know from what I speak. It's personal.
He's just a guy, don't you know.
It's pretty rich for someone who refrains from using the "I" word (Islam) to describe the "root cause" of these murders to joke about whether or not one should be calling these murders by the "T" word.
Ha ha, so cute.
It's pretty brazen cowardice not to mention the religious roots of this terror and the whole "ist" ("Islamist") schtick is getting pretty tiresome.
But alas, cowardice seems to run pretty deep in the media these days, as one can see from the strange reluctance of the judiciary in this case, to publicize the name of the random Ottawa real estate agent who cut his daughter's finger off with a butcher knife and beat his wife when the daughter told him that he could no longer control her life and Daddy Dearest saw a photo of his daughter near a man (from Glee Club, I mean, how sinister is that).
Why the publication ban?
Rather to avoid "re-victimizing" the victims, I suspect it's rather to try to prevent the unwashed masses, hatemongering masses from coming to the conclusion that this is Islamic honour/shame "culture" violence.
"The Crown prosecutor in the case requested and was granted a ban on publishing the names of the accused and his family so the victims wouldn’t be “re-victimized”.
"He told court that although media reports at the time described the attacks as a family “honour crime”, nothing in the case file supports that theory."
Really?
So, who are you going to believe? The official edict of the Crown lawyer-no doubt a highly trained expert on the fine points of sharia, or your own lying, reading eyes?
"The strict father had forbidden his children to have any presence on the Internet and was so controlling that he monitored their mobile phones, computers and bank accounts. He didn’t allow his three children — aged 16 to 20 — to date anyone or post online photos of themselves, let alone have a Facebook account."
Where have I heard that before?
"May 3, 2014, was a big day for their family. His wife and daughter had just returned from his daughter’s new apartment. The father had never agreed that his eldest daughter, 20, could move out. And when she said her father no longer controlled her life, he said that in fact he did and slapped her across the face."
"He then grabbed a butcher knife from the kitchen and slashed his daughter in the shoulder. When she tried to grab it to stop the attack, her right pinky finger was severed and her ring finger partially severed."
"When the attacker’s wife yelled for her daughter to call 911, drawing her husband’s attention, the man pushed his wife and slashed her. His wife suffered severe defensive wounds to both hands and her skull."
If memory serves, the name of this Daddy Dearest father of the year did appear in print when the episode happened but now I can't find a link that has the family name in it. I've tried a few searches, but if you find one cached, please feel free to send it along to me. It seems to have been completely scrubbed.
Here's another nugget that is pause for thought:
"The father, who cries himself to sleep most nights at the Innes Road jail, pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of aggravated assault in a plea bargain with the Crown that spared him prosecution on the more severe charges of attempted murder."
Shame on the reporter (Gary Dimmock) for this despicable and pathetic attempt to portray this monster in any way as sympathetic. What the hell is that sentence doing in there?
Getting back to Kay's piece, one realizes how expert in terror people become in hindsight.
It's very clever to analyze the terrorist attacks that have already happened, and be a counter-terrorism expert in hindsight. The harder task is avoiding them. And unfortunately, the misguided idea that there is a minimal threat and cause for optimism is extremely naive and dangerous.
In fact, despite surveillance and pretty much getting blueprints for terror attacks, individuals and police and security forces have been brainwashed by our elites to ignore the signs, ignore their human instincts in favour of 'minimizing' the concept of threat and rationalizing the real signs of danger and most importantly bury the investigations in paperwork.
Hey, people will get slaughtered, and police and security forces will have known about the threats, but as long as nobody's feelings get hurt-that's the main thing, right?
Stay optimistic!
Just as left wing liberal Jews obsess about the war that has already been won, and focus on the irrelevant "fight" against non-existent "right wing" boogeymen, instead of identifying the real, actual semitic "neo Nazis" who threaten us, so too do leftists try to minimize the threat of terrorism and pooh-pooh it in their smug, superior sneers.
It gives them great comfort to know that they are so much smarter and advanced than us primitive knuckle-draggers, and this enlightened plane of analysis no doubt insulates them forever from terrorism.
Glass half full, carry on!
Unfortunately, this is not only naive but dangerous but actually absurd and profoundly immoral.
Ultimately, this is not a story "just" about "a guy".
It's not just about Corporal Cirillo, or Warrent Officer Patrice Vincent. It's not "just" a story about "a guy" who was my brother-in-law, David Cohen, murdered by Palestinian "lone wolves', gunned down in cold blood on his way to work one morning.
It's not "just" about the "guys" and the "gals" in the Twin Towers, in pizzerias, in shopping malls, on airplanes, in discotheques, American army bunkers, embassies, hotels, churches and synagogues, in airports, at bus stops and in movie theatres around the world.
It's "just" about our extremely young and exceptionally fragile system of living in Western, Judeo-Christian democracies. There are clear, existential threats, blueprints all around us but it's much more comfortable to retreat to a mental happy space in the land of wishful thinking.
Clearly, our (superior) way of life means more to some than others.
And that's unfortunately "just" the way of the world right now.
UPDATE:
scaramouche found an old article with Daddy Dearest's details:
"OTTAWA - A realtor accused of cutting off his daughter's finger and stabbing his wife was charged with two counts of attempted murder Monday."
"Labib Khawas, 55, will remain behind bars for at least the next three days so police can conduct "further investigation."
My first reaction to Kay's piece was 'standard leftist tripe'.
That is to say, it is standard operating practice for leftist to guffaw at the "bungling", or "amateur", or "silly" or "unprofessional" terrorists operating among us.
As scaramouche rightly noted, if the victim is a member of your family, then it doesn't really matter if they were professional, "lone wolf" or "amateur", does it? You still have a dead relative or friend and a lifetime of bereavement ahead of you. And yes-I know from what I speak. It's personal.
He's just a guy, don't you know.
Please get a grip, folks. This is not "war." It's one Islamist-inspired lunatic killing one guy and then getting killed in a famous building
— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) October 23, 2014
It's pretty rich for someone who refrains from using the "I" word (Islam) to describe the "root cause" of these murders to joke about whether or not one should be calling these murders by the "T" word.
Ha ha, so cute.
It's pretty brazen cowardice not to mention the religious roots of this terror and the whole "ist" ("Islamist") schtick is getting pretty tiresome.
But alas, cowardice seems to run pretty deep in the media these days, as one can see from the strange reluctance of the judiciary in this case, to publicize the name of the random Ottawa real estate agent who cut his daughter's finger off with a butcher knife and beat his wife when the daughter told him that he could no longer control her life and Daddy Dearest saw a photo of his daughter near a man (from Glee Club, I mean, how sinister is that).
Why the publication ban?
Rather to avoid "re-victimizing" the victims, I suspect it's rather to try to prevent the unwashed masses, hatemongering masses from coming to the conclusion that this is Islamic honour/shame "culture" violence.
"The Crown prosecutor in the case requested and was granted a ban on publishing the names of the accused and his family so the victims wouldn’t be “re-victimized”.
"He told court that although media reports at the time described the attacks as a family “honour crime”, nothing in the case file supports that theory."
Really?
So, who are you going to believe? The official edict of the Crown lawyer-no doubt a highly trained expert on the fine points of sharia, or your own lying, reading eyes?
"The strict father had forbidden his children to have any presence on the Internet and was so controlling that he monitored their mobile phones, computers and bank accounts. He didn’t allow his three children — aged 16 to 20 — to date anyone or post online photos of themselves, let alone have a Facebook account."
Where have I heard that before?
"May 3, 2014, was a big day for their family. His wife and daughter had just returned from his daughter’s new apartment. The father had never agreed that his eldest daughter, 20, could move out. And when she said her father no longer controlled her life, he said that in fact he did and slapped her across the face."
"He then grabbed a butcher knife from the kitchen and slashed his daughter in the shoulder. When she tried to grab it to stop the attack, her right pinky finger was severed and her ring finger partially severed."
"When the attacker’s wife yelled for her daughter to call 911, drawing her husband’s attention, the man pushed his wife and slashed her. His wife suffered severe defensive wounds to both hands and her skull."
If memory serves, the name of this Daddy Dearest father of the year did appear in print when the episode happened but now I can't find a link that has the family name in it. I've tried a few searches, but if you find one cached, please feel free to send it along to me. It seems to have been completely scrubbed.
Here's another nugget that is pause for thought:
"The father, who cries himself to sleep most nights at the Innes Road jail, pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of aggravated assault in a plea bargain with the Crown that spared him prosecution on the more severe charges of attempted murder."
Shame on the reporter (Gary Dimmock) for this despicable and pathetic attempt to portray this monster in any way as sympathetic. What the hell is that sentence doing in there?
Getting back to Kay's piece, one realizes how expert in terror people become in hindsight.
It's very clever to analyze the terrorist attacks that have already happened, and be a counter-terrorism expert in hindsight. The harder task is avoiding them. And unfortunately, the misguided idea that there is a minimal threat and cause for optimism is extremely naive and dangerous.
In fact, despite surveillance and pretty much getting blueprints for terror attacks, individuals and police and security forces have been brainwashed by our elites to ignore the signs, ignore their human instincts in favour of 'minimizing' the concept of threat and rationalizing the real signs of danger and most importantly bury the investigations in paperwork.
Hey, people will get slaughtered, and police and security forces will have known about the threats, but as long as nobody's feelings get hurt-that's the main thing, right?
Stay optimistic!
Just as left wing liberal Jews obsess about the war that has already been won, and focus on the irrelevant "fight" against non-existent "right wing" boogeymen, instead of identifying the real, actual semitic "neo Nazis" who threaten us, so too do leftists try to minimize the threat of terrorism and pooh-pooh it in their smug, superior sneers.
It gives them great comfort to know that they are so much smarter and advanced than us primitive knuckle-draggers, and this enlightened plane of analysis no doubt insulates them forever from terrorism.
Glass half full, carry on!
Unfortunately, this is not only naive but dangerous but actually absurd and profoundly immoral.
Ultimately, this is not a story "just" about "a guy".
It's not just about Corporal Cirillo, or Warrent Officer Patrice Vincent. It's not "just" a story about "a guy" who was my brother-in-law, David Cohen, murdered by Palestinian "lone wolves', gunned down in cold blood on his way to work one morning.
It's not "just" about the "guys" and the "gals" in the Twin Towers, in pizzerias, in shopping malls, on airplanes, in discotheques, American army bunkers, embassies, hotels, churches and synagogues, in airports, at bus stops and in movie theatres around the world.
It's "just" about our extremely young and exceptionally fragile system of living in Western, Judeo-Christian democracies. There are clear, existential threats, blueprints all around us but it's much more comfortable to retreat to a mental happy space in the land of wishful thinking.
Clearly, our (superior) way of life means more to some than others.
And that's unfortunately "just" the way of the world right now.
UPDATE:
scaramouche found an old article with Daddy Dearest's details:
"OTTAWA - A realtor accused of cutting off his daughter's finger and stabbing his wife was charged with two counts of attempted murder Monday."
"Labib Khawas, 55, will remain behind bars for at least the next three days so police can conduct "further investigation."
Mark Steyn: Free Speech Crusader and Sartorial Celebrity
Free speech, blah blah blah whatever, zzzzz!
LOOK AT THAT SUIT.
Fantastic cut and lovey harmony between the tie and pocket square, I mean seriously SHUT UP!!!!
And by "shut up" what I mean is-Mark Steyn: Never shut up and keep looking sharp!
Reliable sources point me to this fine establishment.
Nice!
Anyhoo, I'm really just staying true to my blog mission-commenting on important stuff!!
You know, the other day, that evil SEEEKRIT JOOOOO Kathy Draidlebaum was having a brain freeze and a column was due the next morning and she was kvetching about it a bit, so Dr. Laura (that would be me) had to step in and give her a prescription:
Take two People magazines and call me in the morning.
We all need a break from politics, jihad and the collapse of civilizations once in a while.
For Mark Steyn it's music and Broadway, for me it's celebrity gossip (especially the "SEE 'X' WITH NO MAKE UP ON-yes, I know it's horrible of me but too bad) and fashion and oh, of course, can't forget the truly important thing commenting on Mark Steyn's wardrobe.
Be what you want to be, but for goodnesssssssssake BESPOKE!!!!
Do watch this whole video, in which Steyn gives an update about his battle with Big Climate, Michael Mann's reluctance to debate anyone who disagrees with him and the Climafiossos trying to shut people up if they dare disagree with the "settled" science (of which there is none, and if you missed this article, check it out, it's a really good one).
LOOK AT THAT SUIT.
Fantastic cut and lovey harmony between the tie and pocket square, I mean seriously SHUT UP!!!!
And by "shut up" what I mean is-Mark Steyn: Never shut up and keep looking sharp!
Reliable sources point me to this fine establishment.
Nice!
Anyhoo, I'm really just staying true to my blog mission-commenting on important stuff!!
You know, the other day, that evil SEEEKRIT JOOOOO Kathy Draidlebaum was having a brain freeze and a column was due the next morning and she was kvetching about it a bit, so Dr. Laura (that would be me) had to step in and give her a prescription:
Take two People magazines and call me in the morning.
We all need a break from politics, jihad and the collapse of civilizations once in a while.
For Mark Steyn it's music and Broadway, for me it's celebrity gossip (especially the "SEE 'X' WITH NO MAKE UP ON-yes, I know it's horrible of me but too bad) and fashion and oh, of course, can't forget the truly important thing commenting on Mark Steyn's wardrobe.
Be what you want to be, but for goodnesssssssssake BESPOKE!!!!
Do watch this whole video, in which Steyn gives an update about his battle with Big Climate, Michael Mann's reluctance to debate anyone who disagrees with him and the Climafiossos trying to shut people up if they dare disagree with the "settled" science (of which there is none, and if you missed this article, check it out, it's a really good one).
Ezra Levant Warns: Is It Now Illegal In Canada to Call Someone An Antisemite?
It may well be.
Watch this whole thing.
HEY OFFICIAL JEWS hi, you may want to think about this.
You're welcome.
Watch this whole thing.
HEY OFFICIAL JEWS hi, you may want to think about this.
You're welcome.
Monday, December 1, 2014
Read the "Hostile" Column That Got A Student Writer Suspended in Michigan
It's really hysterically funny.
No wonder he got the axe.
Read the whole thing.
Apparently, some lame humourless wuss felt "threatened" so the First Amendment therefore goes down the toilet.
Enjoy!
"TRIGGER WARNING!"
"It was one of the coldest days of this winter past, and I was hurrying along the Diag to class. The blistering cold did not turn my eyes from all the white privilege falling around [me]. All those white snowflakes falling thick upon the autumn leaves, burying their colors. Majoring in womyn’s studies, I’ve learned that oppression comes in many forms. Sometimes we fail to notice it because it’s just everywhere – just like that white snow."
"As it were, a white cis-gendered hetero upper-class man came down the steps just as I was falling. He looked at me with that white man’s burden face that I see too often on this racialized campus."
“Cold, isn’t it?”
"Behind his words I sensed a patronizing sneer, as if he expected me to be a spokespersyn for my whole race. He offered his hand to help me up, and I thought to myself how this might be a manifestation of the patriarchy patronizing me. I doubt he would’ve said those violent words had I been white, but he would take any opportunity to patronize a colored m@n or womyn. People on this campus always box others in based on race. Triggered, I waved his hand aside and got up of my own accord."
No wonder he got the axe.
Read the whole thing.
Apparently, some lame humourless wuss felt "threatened" so the First Amendment therefore goes down the toilet.
Enjoy!
"TRIGGER WARNING!"
"It was one of the coldest days of this winter past, and I was hurrying along the Diag to class. The blistering cold did not turn my eyes from all the white privilege falling around [me]. All those white snowflakes falling thick upon the autumn leaves, burying their colors. Majoring in womyn’s studies, I’ve learned that oppression comes in many forms. Sometimes we fail to notice it because it’s just everywhere – just like that white snow."
"As it were, a white cis-gendered hetero upper-class man came down the steps just as I was falling. He looked at me with that white man’s burden face that I see too often on this racialized campus."
“Cold, isn’t it?”
"Behind his words I sensed a patronizing sneer, as if he expected me to be a spokespersyn for my whole race. He offered his hand to help me up, and I thought to myself how this might be a manifestation of the patriarchy patronizing me. I doubt he would’ve said those violent words had I been white, but he would take any opportunity to patronize a colored m@n or womyn. People on this campus always box others in based on race. Triggered, I waved his hand aside and got up of my own accord."
Mark Steyn: Writer, Singer, Human Rights Activist and Seduction Expert
Just when you thought he couldn't expand the scope of his expertise further, the great Mark Steyn blends the classy and the sassy in this endearing essay on "Baby It's Cold Outside" which contains some great bits of reflection on the art of seduction-a lost art in this day and age.
News you can use:
"...seduction is superfluous in the hook-up era."
"I chanced to be in a Vermont bookstore the other day and overheard two teenagers' plans for the evening gang agley because (if I understood correctly) she had texted him an insufficiently gynecological pic for him to warrant investing an hour or two in a first "date." I'm sure it's all much better to get this stuff up front without a lot of coy byplay, but it's harder to get a song out of it."
Thus the bottom line:
"I'm a reasonable chap, and I'd be willing to meet the Muslim Brotherhood chaps halfway on a lot of the peripheral stuff like beheadings, stonings, clitoridectomies and whatnot. But you'll have to pry "Baby, It's Cold Outside" from my cold dead hands and my dancing naked legs. A world without "Baby, It's Cold Outside" would be very cold indeed."
Absolutely.
News you can use:
"...seduction is superfluous in the hook-up era."
"I chanced to be in a Vermont bookstore the other day and overheard two teenagers' plans for the evening gang agley because (if I understood correctly) she had texted him an insufficiently gynecological pic for him to warrant investing an hour or two in a first "date." I'm sure it's all much better to get this stuff up front without a lot of coy byplay, but it's harder to get a song out of it."
Thus the bottom line:
"I'm a reasonable chap, and I'd be willing to meet the Muslim Brotherhood chaps halfway on a lot of the peripheral stuff like beheadings, stonings, clitoridectomies and whatnot. But you'll have to pry "Baby, It's Cold Outside" from my cold dead hands and my dancing naked legs. A world without "Baby, It's Cold Outside" would be very cold indeed."
Absolutely.
The Jew-Hating Media Based in Israel
Nicely done.
It's not really an expose, because who doesn't know this stuff about reportage from Israel. Still, nice to see it in black and white.
Who are the foreign press correspondents and their NGO/UN friends?
"Their SUVs dominate sections of East Jerusalem and their expense accounts keep Ramallah afloat. They provide reporters with social circles, romantic partners, and alternative employment—a fact that is more important to reporters now than it has ever been, given the disintegration of many newspapers and the shoestring nature of their Internet successors."
"Mingling occurs at places like the lovely Oriental courtyard of the American Colony hotel in East Jerusalem, or at parties held at the British Consulate’s rooftop pool. The dominant characteristic of nearly all of these people is their transience. They arrive from somewhere, spend a while living in a peculiar subculture of expatriates, and then move on."
How they think:
"In these circles, in my experience, a distaste for Israel has come to be something between an acceptable prejudice and a prerequisite for entry. I don’t mean a critical approach to Israeli policies or to the ham-fisted government currently in charge in this country, but a belief that to some extent the Jews of Israel are a symbol of the world’s ills, particularly those connected to nationalism, militarism, colonialism, and racism—an idea quickly becoming one of the central elements of the “progressive” Western zeitgeist, spreading from the European left to American college campuses and intellectuals, including journalists. In this social group, this sentiment is translated into editorial decisions made by individual reporters and editors covering Israel, and this, in turn, gives such thinking the means of mass self-replication."
"Many freshly arrived reporters in Israel, similarly adrift in a new country, undergo a rapid socialization in the circles I mentioned. This provides them not only with sources and friendships but with a ready-made framework for their reporting—the tools to distill and warp complex events into a simple narrative in which there is a bad guy who doesn’t want peace and a good guy who does."
"This is the “Israel story,” and it has the advantage of being an easy story to report. Everyone here answers their cell phone, and everyone knows what to say. You can put your kids in good schools and dine at good restaurants. It’s fine if you’re gay. Your chances of being beheaded on YouTube are slim. Nearly all of the information you need—that is, in most cases, information critical of Israel—is not only easily accessible but has already been reported for you by Israeli journalists or compiled by NGOs. You can claim to be speaking truth to power, having selected the only “power” in the area that poses no threat to your safety."
Thus:
"Many foreign journalists have come to see themselves as part of this world of international organizations, and specifically as the media arm of this world."
It's not really an expose, because who doesn't know this stuff about reportage from Israel. Still, nice to see it in black and white.
Who are the foreign press correspondents and their NGO/UN friends?
"Their SUVs dominate sections of East Jerusalem and their expense accounts keep Ramallah afloat. They provide reporters with social circles, romantic partners, and alternative employment—a fact that is more important to reporters now than it has ever been, given the disintegration of many newspapers and the shoestring nature of their Internet successors."
"Mingling occurs at places like the lovely Oriental courtyard of the American Colony hotel in East Jerusalem, or at parties held at the British Consulate’s rooftop pool. The dominant characteristic of nearly all of these people is their transience. They arrive from somewhere, spend a while living in a peculiar subculture of expatriates, and then move on."
How they think:
"In these circles, in my experience, a distaste for Israel has come to be something between an acceptable prejudice and a prerequisite for entry. I don’t mean a critical approach to Israeli policies or to the ham-fisted government currently in charge in this country, but a belief that to some extent the Jews of Israel are a symbol of the world’s ills, particularly those connected to nationalism, militarism, colonialism, and racism—an idea quickly becoming one of the central elements of the “progressive” Western zeitgeist, spreading from the European left to American college campuses and intellectuals, including journalists. In this social group, this sentiment is translated into editorial decisions made by individual reporters and editors covering Israel, and this, in turn, gives such thinking the means of mass self-replication."
"Many freshly arrived reporters in Israel, similarly adrift in a new country, undergo a rapid socialization in the circles I mentioned. This provides them not only with sources and friendships but with a ready-made framework for their reporting—the tools to distill and warp complex events into a simple narrative in which there is a bad guy who doesn’t want peace and a good guy who does."
"This is the “Israel story,” and it has the advantage of being an easy story to report. Everyone here answers their cell phone, and everyone knows what to say. You can put your kids in good schools and dine at good restaurants. It’s fine if you’re gay. Your chances of being beheaded on YouTube are slim. Nearly all of the information you need—that is, in most cases, information critical of Israel—is not only easily accessible but has already been reported for you by Israeli journalists or compiled by NGOs. You can claim to be speaking truth to power, having selected the only “power” in the area that poses no threat to your safety."
Thus:
"Many foreign journalists have come to see themselves as part of this world of international organizations, and specifically as the media arm of this world."
One of the Best Damned Pieces of Advice I've Ever Read
Advice columnists are a spotty bunch, but I have to tell you, David Eddie from The Globe and Mail is a great writer and I think he gives very good advice.
He's moderate and honest, with a touch of self-deprecation-all necessary ingredients, I think for a good agony aunt/uncle.
He usually defers to forgiveness and letting go of anger-all good things.
Anyway, when I read this piece of his over the weekend I just about died laughing, and it's seriously one of the best anecdotes I've read in a very long time.
I am TOTALLY STEALING IT BECAUSE I LOVE IT.
His advice to someone who has a friend who is always, annoyingly bragging about her kids is very simple, and basically boils down to:
"Just grin and bear it"
But this anecdote is such a gem, it really needs some kind of freaking award or prize.
Am I ever glad I saw it, because like I said, I'm going to totally liberatesteal it from now on.
"I’d apply what my friends and I call the Proctologist’s Code to this one."
"It’s from an actual quote a proctologist once said to a friend of mine at a party: “When I come across an inflamed area, I find it doesn’t pay to probe too deeply.”
SAGE WISDOM.
SERIOUSLY IN LOVE WITH THAT.
If more people would only follow the Proctologist's Code, they would be much happier in life.
He's moderate and honest, with a touch of self-deprecation-all necessary ingredients, I think for a good agony aunt/uncle.
He usually defers to forgiveness and letting go of anger-all good things.
Anyway, when I read this piece of his over the weekend I just about died laughing, and it's seriously one of the best anecdotes I've read in a very long time.
I am TOTALLY STEALING IT BECAUSE I LOVE IT.
His advice to someone who has a friend who is always, annoyingly bragging about her kids is very simple, and basically boils down to:
"Just grin and bear it"
But this anecdote is such a gem, it really needs some kind of freaking award or prize.
Am I ever glad I saw it, because like I said, I'm going to totally liberate
"I’d apply what my friends and I call the Proctologist’s Code to this one."
"It’s from an actual quote a proctologist once said to a friend of mine at a party: “When I come across an inflamed area, I find it doesn’t pay to probe too deeply.”
SAGE WISDOM.
SERIOUSLY IN LOVE WITH THAT.
If more people would only follow the Proctologist's Code, they would be much happier in life.
"Young Humans Are Not Born Civilized"
Great essay, via Instapundit.
Lots of good nuggets in here.
"The cure for barbarians within the gates is to educate the barbarian children. Humans are not born civilized. They acquire civility by living in civilization, and they learn it as they grow up in it. In the United States we have had waves of immigrants from areas with entirely different cultures, some from more civilized cultures than ours, but many from less, and few in which civilization was based on freedom: American citizens act civilized because they are civilized, not from fear of apprehension and punishment."
(Good lesson in here for sharia-based societies as well. Just because they have "elections" does not mean they are democratic, and just because they have a "functioning" country, does not mean they live in a civilized manner.)
"But the way to civilize barbarians is to do it in the schools, from the earliest grades on: enforcement of discipline, being polite, respectful deference to authority – not cringing fear, but respectful deference. But those values have to be instilled, and enforced."
Lots of good nuggets in here.
"The cure for barbarians within the gates is to educate the barbarian children. Humans are not born civilized. They acquire civility by living in civilization, and they learn it as they grow up in it. In the United States we have had waves of immigrants from areas with entirely different cultures, some from more civilized cultures than ours, but many from less, and few in which civilization was based on freedom: American citizens act civilized because they are civilized, not from fear of apprehension and punishment."
(Good lesson in here for sharia-based societies as well. Just because they have "elections" does not mean they are democratic, and just because they have a "functioning" country, does not mean they live in a civilized manner.)
"But the way to civilize barbarians is to do it in the schools, from the earliest grades on: enforcement of discipline, being polite, respectful deference to authority – not cringing fear, but respectful deference. But those values have to be instilled, and enforced."
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Journalists: Your Moral and Intellectual and Too Scared To Read Comments Superiors
When I read this article yesterday I did a MASSIVE EYE ROLL.
Like ****EYE ROLL*****
The good stuff is always in the comments.
If you can't handle being called a name, Anne Applebaum, or a whatever, then you are in the wrong line of work.
I for one, relish the comments on all the stuff that I write. Bad, good, antisemitic.
The days of columnists and preening opinion journals being totally and hermetically sealed off from criticism are OVER.
Tough.
Given that many friends of mine have been sued for blog comments, I don't allow comments here, but I'm an e-mail away and most of the articles that I have published in the mainstream media have allowed comments. Some pretty awful, some pretty supportive.
The comment section is even more free than the letters to the editor section, and that's why journalists and politicians fear it. Letters are accepted or not, edited down-it's not always a pure reflection of the writer's opinion.
Comments on mainstream media sites have levelled the playing field.
Now, anyone with access to the Internet can be heard and published.
There is no more (mostly left-wing) media monopoly on opinion.
And that's a very, very good thing.
So if you can't handle being called a name, or fear more intelligent comments on your piece than you could have ever come up with, or idiots BACK AWAY FROM YOUR COMPUTER WITH YOUR HANDS UP.
Same with "cyber bullying".
Shut your damned computer off if you can't handle it, whatever "it" is.
You're welcome.
Like ****EYE ROLL*****
The good stuff is always in the comments.
If you can't handle being called a name, Anne Applebaum, or a whatever, then you are in the wrong line of work.
I for one, relish the comments on all the stuff that I write. Bad, good, antisemitic.
The days of columnists and preening opinion journals being totally and hermetically sealed off from criticism are OVER.
Tough.
Given that many friends of mine have been sued for blog comments, I don't allow comments here, but I'm an e-mail away and most of the articles that I have published in the mainstream media have allowed comments. Some pretty awful, some pretty supportive.
The comment section is even more free than the letters to the editor section, and that's why journalists and politicians fear it. Letters are accepted or not, edited down-it's not always a pure reflection of the writer's opinion.
Comments on mainstream media sites have levelled the playing field.
Now, anyone with access to the Internet can be heard and published.
There is no more (mostly left-wing) media monopoly on opinion.
And that's a very, very good thing.
So if you can't handle being called a name, or fear more intelligent comments on your piece than you could have ever come up with, or idiots BACK AWAY FROM YOUR COMPUTER WITH YOUR HANDS UP.
Same with "cyber bullying".
Shut your damned computer off if you can't handle it, whatever "it" is.
You're welcome.
Great Story: Canadian High School Football Coach Offers Hope and Is Father Figure to South Side Chicago High School Students
Really nice story, again showing how one person can make a difference in a lot of lives.
Beautifully written also, by Joe O'Connor, who is certainly one of the best feature writers in Canada.
He touches lightly on the absent father theme in the article. That's important because one of the biggest problems facing black America, in my opinion is the utter decimation of the black family (largely thanks to Democratic policies).
Do read the whole thing.
Beautifully written also, by Joe O'Connor, who is certainly one of the best feature writers in Canada.
He touches lightly on the absent father theme in the article. That's important because one of the biggest problems facing black America, in my opinion is the utter decimation of the black family (largely thanks to Democratic policies).
Do read the whole thing.
Rogue Administration in America: White House Secretly Planned to "Test" Limits of Legal Immigration
What can I say?
Every time I think I hear the most disgusting story about this disgusting administration and how it is ruining America, there is a new low.
Why is this not an impeachable POTUS?
Why the silence?
"Months before President Obama took executive action last week to reshape the nation’s immigration system, Jeh C. Johnson, the secretary of Homeland Security, quietly convened a small group of advisers to explore the legal limits of the president’s powers."
"Working in secrecy, Mr. Johnson’s team huddled for hours daily under orders to use “our legal authorities to the fullest extent” on a new deportations policy, a senior administration official said."
Every time I think I hear the most disgusting story about this disgusting administration and how it is ruining America, there is a new low.
Why is this not an impeachable POTUS?
Why the silence?
"Months before President Obama took executive action last week to reshape the nation’s immigration system, Jeh C. Johnson, the secretary of Homeland Security, quietly convened a small group of advisers to explore the legal limits of the president’s powers."
"Working in secrecy, Mr. Johnson’s team huddled for hours daily under orders to use “our legal authorities to the fullest extent” on a new deportations policy, a senior administration official said."
"In five White House meetings over the summer, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Obama, both lawyers, pored over proposed changes, eventually concluding that the president had the authority to enact changes that could affect millions of people and significantly alter the way immigration laws are president had the authority to enact changes that could affect millions of people and significantly alter the way immigration laws are enforced."
Naftali Bennett to Israeli Left: Calm Down, and We Won't Be Silent Anymore
This is good stuff.
This is how it's done:
"What was not here is this dangerous incitement of the Left, which tries to keep its mouth shut over democratic moves," he thundered."
This is how it's done:
"What was not here is this dangerous incitement of the Left, which tries to keep its mouth shut over democratic moves," he thundered."
"Gone are the days where incitement against the Right was met with silence. We will not be silent anymore."
"We are not ashamed to be right-wing, and we're not going to stop promoting what we believe in," he declared."
"We are not ashamed to be right-wing, and we're not going to stop promoting what we believe in," he declared."
"On the contrary: the rules do not change because of incitement against us in the streets."
Friday, November 28, 2014
OMG This is Hysterical: "Pardoned White House Turkey Defects to ISIS"
I'm dying!
Via Instapundit.
"WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senior U.S. officials are literally calling “fowl” after the Thanksgiving turkey pardoned by President Obama publicly defected to the Middle Eastern terrorist group ISIS."
" Popcorn the Turkey, now calling himself Babakurn al-Turki, was pardoned from the dinner table only yesterday by President Obama in a public ceremony at the White House. Normally the pardoned bird is sent along with its competitor to live out its remaining days at Morven Park’s Turkey Hill in Leesburg, Virginia."
"However, U.S. officials have now admitted that al-Turki instead hijacked an Osprey out of Andrews Air Force Base in nearby Maryland and flew like a bat out of hell to Syria."
"A group of senior intelligence officials and ornithologists with birds-eye surveillance of the war-torn country have suggested he is nesting in Raqqah or across the northern border in another neighboring country."
Via Instapundit.
"WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senior U.S. officials are literally calling “fowl” after the Thanksgiving turkey pardoned by President Obama publicly defected to the Middle Eastern terrorist group ISIS."
" Popcorn the Turkey, now calling himself Babakurn al-Turki, was pardoned from the dinner table only yesterday by President Obama in a public ceremony at the White House. Normally the pardoned bird is sent along with its competitor to live out its remaining days at Morven Park’s Turkey Hill in Leesburg, Virginia."
"However, U.S. officials have now admitted that al-Turki instead hijacked an Osprey out of Andrews Air Force Base in nearby Maryland and flew like a bat out of hell to Syria."
"A group of senior intelligence officials and ornithologists with birds-eye surveillance of the war-torn country have suggested he is nesting in Raqqah or across the northern border in another neighboring country."
"Free Speech is Sooooo Last Century"
As I've often said, if you disagree with the ruling class about something it's off to Diversity Gulag with you.
But, who needs Diversity Gulag when institutes of "higher education" serve that purpose already, shaping the minds of young adults into mush before they are mature adults, saving time and effort...
What a bunch of totalitarian wretches.
Again it's not about "safety" or "mental health" or "comfort".
That's always the sappy, saccarine excuse that makes sort of normal people feel 'guilty' or that there is a grain of truth...
IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT THE SHUT UP, OK!?!??!?!
"I was attacked by a swarm of Stepford students this week. On Tuesday, I was supposed to take part in a debate about abortion at Christ Church, Oxford."
"I was invited by the Oxford Students for Life to put the pro-choice argument against the journalist Timothy Stanley, who is pro-life. But apparently it is forbidden for men to talk about abortion. A mob of furious feministic Oxford students, all robotically uttering the same stuff about feeling offended, set up a Facebook page littered with expletives and demands for the debate to be called off."
"They said it was outrageous that two human beings ‘who do not have uteruses’ should get to hold forth on abortion — identity politics at its most basely biological — and claimed the debate would threaten the ‘mental safety’ of Oxford students."
If someone's opinion threatens your mental safety, you are a basically a pussy and your opinion doesn't count.
But because it's not really about the 'mental safety' and it's about the SHUT UP, you should fight back and offend at every opportunity.
But, who needs Diversity Gulag when institutes of "higher education" serve that purpose already, shaping the minds of young adults into mush before they are mature adults, saving time and effort...
What a bunch of totalitarian wretches.
Again it's not about "safety" or "mental health" or "comfort".
That's always the sappy, saccarine excuse that makes sort of normal people feel 'guilty' or that there is a grain of truth...
IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT THE SHUT UP, OK!?!??!?!
"I was attacked by a swarm of Stepford students this week. On Tuesday, I was supposed to take part in a debate about abortion at Christ Church, Oxford."
"I was invited by the Oxford Students for Life to put the pro-choice argument against the journalist Timothy Stanley, who is pro-life. But apparently it is forbidden for men to talk about abortion. A mob of furious feministic Oxford students, all robotically uttering the same stuff about feeling offended, set up a Facebook page littered with expletives and demands for the debate to be called off."
"They said it was outrageous that two human beings ‘who do not have uteruses’ should get to hold forth on abortion — identity politics at its most basely biological — and claimed the debate would threaten the ‘mental safety’ of Oxford students."
If someone's opinion threatens your mental safety, you are a basically a pussy and your opinion doesn't count.
But because it's not really about the 'mental safety' and it's about the SHUT UP, you should fight back and offend at every opportunity.
Brave: Iranian Woman Breakdances on Teheran Subway
Gawd that takes courage.
AMAZING.
If you want to "like" these brave women, their Facebook page is here.
More from The Independent here.
Pray for this woman.
Her face is blurred in the video, but I am sure she is being hunted now.
AMAZING.
If you want to "like" these brave women, their Facebook page is here.
More from The Independent here.
Pray for this woman.
Her face is blurred in the video, but I am sure she is being hunted now.
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