First of all, using it to kill Jews-duh!
But they are also using it to crush their own people.
And what could possibly be wrong with that?
Palestinian journalist Khaled Abu Toameh reports:
"Until 2007, the Palestinians had only one corrupt and undemocratic
regime, called the Palestinian Authority. Since then, the Palestinians
have earned another regime that is even more ruthless and repressive:
Hamas."
"So if $4.5 billion brought the Palestinians two corrupt and
undemocratic regimes, what would have happened had the U.S. and Europe
invested a few more billion dollars in promoting Palestinian democracy?
The Palestinians would most likely have seen the emergence of a few more
dictatorships in the West Bank and Gaza Strip."
"Of course, the Palestinian Authority prime minister did not tell the
visiting U.S. Congressmen that the $4.5 billion the Americans invested
in promoting Palestinian democracy went down the drain or ended up in
secret Swiss bank accounts."
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Steyn: The Party of Why Nothing Can Be Done
As Hannity says, Steyn is in full fighting form in this interview.
Many Americans, and indeed, many Western citizens are fed up with shrugged shoulders and the permanent bureaucratic class screwing up our respective countries through their unfettered, fiat-style, authorizations of multicult invasions of uncivilized persons and customs.
Do watch the whole thing.
Then I have LOTS of other good stuff to post today, so keep checking back.
Many Americans, and indeed, many Western citizens are fed up with shrugged shoulders and the permanent bureaucratic class screwing up our respective countries through their unfettered, fiat-style, authorizations of multicult invasions of uncivilized persons and customs.
Do watch the whole thing.
Then I have LOTS of other good stuff to post today, so keep checking back.
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Trump Owns Social Media
Hi Republican Establishment types!
Have you heard of this thing called "the internet"?
Apparently, Donald Trump knows about it.
Have you heard of this thing called "the internet"?
Apparently, Donald Trump knows about it.
Justin Trudeau's Liberal Candidate Wishes Israel Supporter Would Have Been Aborted With Coat Hanger
Celebrate diversity!
It's a beautiful thing!
But what do you expect from an "anti-bullying" activist?
It's a beautiful thing!
Liberal candidate wished Israel supporter had been aborted with coat hanger https://t.co/UuJ78ouP7f pic.twitter.com/b2mdKk5BsH
— Dean Skoreyko (@bcbluecon) August 18, 2015
She also talks about people being "a waste of sperm".But what do you expect from an "anti-bullying" activist?
@bcbluecon I also included a pic from her fb page about not bullying for the irony of it all. pic.twitter.com/y9Ysls8k0T
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) August 18, 2015
Like I Always Say "Security" Is the New Shut Up
UK "Draw Mohammad" exhibit cancelled because of "security".
"Sharia Watch director and former UKIP candidate Anne Marie Waters has announced today that a forthcoming exhibition of Mohammed cartoons to be shown in London has been cancelled after discussions with counter-terror police."
"Writing for Breitbart London, Waters revealed the security services believed the event would be attacked, leading to a “very real possibility that people could be hurt or killed – before, during, and after the event”."
"The organisers of the event had approached over 200 galleries with requests to host the exhibition and were turned down by almost all of them. After the final gallery, which had initially agreed had a change of heart the Draw Mohammad exhibition was left homeless."
"Waters regrets that the lack of a single gallery space in the country willing to stand up for the Mohammed cartoons and the pressure from counter terror police to cancel event confirmed her suspicions that Britain had become a “frightened nation”.
Actually, most of Europe is not "just" frightened, it has completely surrendered:
Belfast pastor on trial for offending Islam.
UK courts are now sharia enforcers.
This is the Blasphemy Mutawa in action.
"An evangelical Christian pastor in Northern Ireland has made his first court appearance after he was charged with making "grossly offensive" remarks about Islam."
"James McConnell, 78, appeared at Laganside Magistrates Court in Belfast on August 6, after local Muslims complained that he delivered a sermon in which he described Islam as "heathen" and "satanic."
"According to Northern Ireland's Public Prosecution Service (PPS), McConnell — whose sermon was streamed live on the Internet — violated the 2003 Communications Act by "sending, or causing to be sent, by means of a public electronic communications network, a message or other matter that was grossly offensive."
"Pastor McConnell's prosecution is one of a growing number of examples in which British authorities — who routinely ignore incendiary speech by Muslim extremists — are using hate speech laws to silence Christians."
Actually, they are being used to silence all infidels and this is just the beginning.
"Sharia Watch director and former UKIP candidate Anne Marie Waters has announced today that a forthcoming exhibition of Mohammed cartoons to be shown in London has been cancelled after discussions with counter-terror police."
"Writing for Breitbart London, Waters revealed the security services believed the event would be attacked, leading to a “very real possibility that people could be hurt or killed – before, during, and after the event”."
"The organisers of the event had approached over 200 galleries with requests to host the exhibition and were turned down by almost all of them. After the final gallery, which had initially agreed had a change of heart the Draw Mohammad exhibition was left homeless."
"Waters regrets that the lack of a single gallery space in the country willing to stand up for the Mohammed cartoons and the pressure from counter terror police to cancel event confirmed her suspicions that Britain had become a “frightened nation”.
Actually, most of Europe is not "just" frightened, it has completely surrendered:
Belfast pastor on trial for offending Islam.
UK courts are now sharia enforcers.
This is the Blasphemy Mutawa in action.
"An evangelical Christian pastor in Northern Ireland has made his first court appearance after he was charged with making "grossly offensive" remarks about Islam."
"James McConnell, 78, appeared at Laganside Magistrates Court in Belfast on August 6, after local Muslims complained that he delivered a sermon in which he described Islam as "heathen" and "satanic."
"According to Northern Ireland's Public Prosecution Service (PPS), McConnell — whose sermon was streamed live on the Internet — violated the 2003 Communications Act by "sending, or causing to be sent, by means of a public electronic communications network, a message or other matter that was grossly offensive."
"Pastor McConnell's prosecution is one of a growing number of examples in which British authorities — who routinely ignore incendiary speech by Muslim extremists — are using hate speech laws to silence Christians."
Actually, they are being used to silence all infidels and this is just the beginning.
The "Dual Loyalty" Antisemitic Blood Libel
Happening now in America, and in Italy:
”Dual loyalty” is an antisemitic term applied to Diaspora Jews whose support for Israel is unwavering to the point of not being critical enough to satisfy detractors."
"The The Obama administration is now insinuating charges of dual loyalty against any Jewish Americans who oppose the nuclear deal — as though Israel’s endangerment is the only hitch in the otherwise acceptable agreement, and the sole cause of a potential congressional rejection of it."
”Dual loyalty” is an antisemitic term applied to Diaspora Jews whose support for Israel is unwavering to the point of not being critical enough to satisfy detractors."
"The The Obama administration is now insinuating charges of dual loyalty against any Jewish Americans who oppose the nuclear deal — as though Israel’s endangerment is the only hitch in the otherwise acceptable agreement, and the sole cause of a potential congressional rejection of it."
Monday, August 17, 2015
Steyn: The Trumping of Party
A very good post from Mark Steyn, who notes:
"...as every functioning society understood until two generations ago, immigration has to benefit the people who are already here. Government owes a duty to its own citizens before those of the rest of the planet - no matter how cuddly and loveable they might be. The fact that it is necessary to state the obvious and that no "viable" "mainstream" candidate from either party is willing to state it is testament to how deformed contemporary western politics is. Trump may not be a "real" Republican or a "real" conservative, but most of his rivals are not "real" - period, as Carly Fiorina would say."
I am obviously interested in the American elections, but America is not my country, I just have a longstanding love affair with it, with the whole idea of America, the American dream, the whole thing. I love American ingenuity, patriotism, how everything is BIG, making it BIG-the works. I love American redemption stories, war stories, success stories. I love the idea. I love America's founding documents and founders. So it really has been, and continues to be personally heartbreaking to watch the decline.
But the one thing I wonder, while I watch the various Republicanweenies establishment people battle it out with Trump supporters on Twitter and on various media is really, how bad could he be as President? It's a serious question. Do these people actually think that Trump would be worse for America and the world than Hilary Clinton? Is Trump worse than Obama has been for America?
I think all of the know it all folks in the mainstream "conservative" media should be asked that question.
How would, how could Trump be worse for America than Obama or Hilary? Who would you trust more with a billion, or a trillion of your dollars? I don't have real skin in the game except where America's relationship with Israel is concerned, but I'd be very curious to hear the answer to those questions. How could he be worse?
But hey, what do I know? I'm not very bright.
"...as every functioning society understood until two generations ago, immigration has to benefit the people who are already here. Government owes a duty to its own citizens before those of the rest of the planet - no matter how cuddly and loveable they might be. The fact that it is necessary to state the obvious and that no "viable" "mainstream" candidate from either party is willing to state it is testament to how deformed contemporary western politics is. Trump may not be a "real" Republican or a "real" conservative, but most of his rivals are not "real" - period, as Carly Fiorina would say."
I am obviously interested in the American elections, but America is not my country, I just have a longstanding love affair with it, with the whole idea of America, the American dream, the whole thing. I love American ingenuity, patriotism, how everything is BIG, making it BIG-the works. I love American redemption stories, war stories, success stories. I love the idea. I love America's founding documents and founders. So it really has been, and continues to be personally heartbreaking to watch the decline.
But the one thing I wonder, while I watch the various Republican
I think all of the know it all folks in the mainstream "conservative" media should be asked that question.
How would, how could Trump be worse for America than Obama or Hilary? Who would you trust more with a billion, or a trillion of your dollars? I don't have real skin in the game except where America's relationship with Israel is concerned, but I'd be very curious to hear the answer to those questions. How could he be worse?
But hey, what do I know? I'm not very bright.
Security Threats Are the New Shut Up
I usually say that "security is the new shut up", more here and here.
It's the way that mealy mouthed administrators on university and college campuses, and venue-owners and local police become the compliant, tyrannical Free Speech Mutawa of the Western world, and shut down lectures and speeches by various 'politically incorrect' (read: non-leftist) speakers.
Apparently though, we've moved a little beyond "security is the new shut up" to "bomb threats are the new shut up".
Hard to keep up with how the Shut Up morphs!
Imitation may be the most sincere form of flattery (yeah, whatever, not so sure about that, we used to call that "copying" when I was a kid, or "plagiarism", but whatevs, right...), but apparently, bomb threats are the greatest compliment of all, and the newest shut up.
"But bomb threats have become commonplace to those of us who are critics of the intersectional third-wave feminist hierarchy. Despite being branded violent misogynistic manbaby shitlords, it’s only ever us who get our events disrupted by furious harpies panicking that someone might tell the empress she’s wearing no clothes. And then ask her to please, for the love of God, put some on."
"Honestly, though, bomb threats are a blast because they show how utterly the other side has lost the argument. All that’s left for them is violence. Those of us on the side of common sense skip the impossibly gauche step of leveraging threats for sympathy and to demand money from useful idiots, but in the game of social status it’s all fair game, darling."
The thing is, though, it doesn't matter that the other side has "lost" the argument.
They still own the space, because they own the magical leftist Shut Up Scepter.
The left takes the Shut Up very seriously.
If you control the flow of information, and the language, and the physical space where debate ought to happen, but doesn't, then you control the narrative and the argument and therefore, in time, the prevailing public opinion.
I think these episodes prove Mark Steyn's Rule of Politicians (which could just as equally be applied to university administrators): you cannot expect them to do the right thing. You have to make it consistently and unrelentingly difficult, if not bloody well impossible for them to do the wrong thing.
It has to be very painful to do the wrong thing.
There have to be excruciating consequences for doing the wrong thing.
That's the only strategy that will keep any sort of equilibrium between us and the dark forces of the Shut Up, and I don't say 'victory' firstly because they never rest and secondly because we have so very much catching up to do.
It's the way that mealy mouthed administrators on university and college campuses, and venue-owners and local police become the compliant, tyrannical Free Speech Mutawa of the Western world, and shut down lectures and speeches by various 'politically incorrect' (read: non-leftist) speakers.
Apparently though, we've moved a little beyond "security is the new shut up" to "bomb threats are the new shut up".
Hard to keep up with how the Shut Up morphs!
Imitation may be the most sincere form of flattery (yeah, whatever, not so sure about that, we used to call that "copying" when I was a kid, or "plagiarism", but whatevs, right...), but apparently, bomb threats are the greatest compliment of all, and the newest shut up.
"But bomb threats have become commonplace to those of us who are critics of the intersectional third-wave feminist hierarchy. Despite being branded violent misogynistic manbaby shitlords, it’s only ever us who get our events disrupted by furious harpies panicking that someone might tell the empress she’s wearing no clothes. And then ask her to please, for the love of God, put some on."
"Honestly, though, bomb threats are a blast because they show how utterly the other side has lost the argument. All that’s left for them is violence. Those of us on the side of common sense skip the impossibly gauche step of leveraging threats for sympathy and to demand money from useful idiots, but in the game of social status it’s all fair game, darling."
The thing is, though, it doesn't matter that the other side has "lost" the argument.
They still own the space, because they own the magical leftist Shut Up Scepter.
The left takes the Shut Up very seriously.
If you control the flow of information, and the language, and the physical space where debate ought to happen, but doesn't, then you control the narrative and the argument and therefore, in time, the prevailing public opinion.
I think these episodes prove Mark Steyn's Rule of Politicians (which could just as equally be applied to university administrators): you cannot expect them to do the right thing. You have to make it consistently and unrelentingly difficult, if not bloody well impossible for them to do the wrong thing.
It has to be very painful to do the wrong thing.
There have to be excruciating consequences for doing the wrong thing.
That's the only strategy that will keep any sort of equilibrium between us and the dark forces of the Shut Up, and I don't say 'victory' firstly because they never rest and secondly because we have so very much catching up to do.
BDS Jew Hatred At Work
American Jewish singer banned from festival 'because of BDS'.
He's not Israeli.
He's "just" a Jew.
So how is the BDS movement NOT antisemitic?
He's not Israeli.
He's "just" a Jew.
So how is the BDS movement NOT antisemitic?
The Ghetto Jew And Israel
This is a biting, accurate portrait of the left-wing liberal extremists who just happen to have been born Jewish and/or Israeli.
Well put:
"The Ghetto Jew views Jews through a funhouse mirror that magnifies each flaw and offense. He is constantly seeing Jews as he imagines others see them and the sight makes him anxious. He battles the anti-Semite living in his head by rushing to apologize for things he never did and mounting overarching defenses against attacks that most others would shrug off."
"He is other-directed. He cares little what Jews think of Jews. What interests him is what everyone else thinks of Jews. He will enthusiastically fight for the causes of others, rather than for his own, to avoid any accusations of selfishness. He will generously build hospitals and engage in feats of philanthropy. In doing so he thinks that he is helping Jews, because to him the Jews can only be helped by changing how others see them. His Jews don't have a separate existence or identity."
"For all his sophistication, erudition and education, he is an empty house with no one living inside."
Well put:
"The Ghetto Jew views Jews through a funhouse mirror that magnifies each flaw and offense. He is constantly seeing Jews as he imagines others see them and the sight makes him anxious. He battles the anti-Semite living in his head by rushing to apologize for things he never did and mounting overarching defenses against attacks that most others would shrug off."
"He is other-directed. He cares little what Jews think of Jews. What interests him is what everyone else thinks of Jews. He will enthusiastically fight for the causes of others, rather than for his own, to avoid any accusations of selfishness. He will generously build hospitals and engage in feats of philanthropy. In doing so he thinks that he is helping Jews, because to him the Jews can only be helped by changing how others see them. His Jews don't have a separate existence or identity."
"For all his sophistication, erudition and education, he is an empty house with no one living inside."
Friday, August 14, 2015
Mark Steyn's New Book: "A Disgrace To the Profession"
Cannot wait to read this one...
This is possibly the first time I might agree that the pen is mightier than sword.
(Because really, it's not. I believe in superior firepower. Leave the pens to the nancy boys with the man buns, with their lumberjack beards and/or tight pants. You know, the ones who order soy lattes, and can't change a tire...)
CAVEAT ON THE PEN AND SWORD STUFF:
The pen is mightier than the sword only when we are talking about the Steyn-pen being mightier than the Mann-sword.
I mean, for real, and not for joking, how delicious is this?
Don't get mad, geteven published, baby!
More Steyn-thoughts from his weekly interview with Hugh Hewitt here.
And if you want to hear EVEN MORE from Steyn this weekend, my friend Andrew Lawton will be chatting with Steyn tomorrow on the Roy Green Show, at 4pm Eastern Time/ 1pm Pacific.
In the meantime, "don't wake the snake", and "rock and rollah, Ayatollah"!
This is possibly the first time I might agree that the pen is mightier than sword.
(Because really, it's not. I believe in superior firepower. Leave the pens to the nancy boys with the man buns, with their lumberjack beards and/or tight pants. You know, the ones who order soy lattes, and can't change a tire...)
CAVEAT ON THE PEN AND SWORD STUFF:
The pen is mightier than the sword only when we are talking about the Steyn-pen being mightier than the Mann-sword.
I mean, for real, and not for joking, how delicious is this?
Don't get mad, get
More Steyn-thoughts from his weekly interview with Hugh Hewitt here.
And if you want to hear EVEN MORE from Steyn this weekend, my friend Andrew Lawton will be chatting with Steyn tomorrow on the Roy Green Show, at 4pm Eastern Time/ 1pm Pacific.
In the meantime, "don't wake the snake", and "rock and rollah, Ayatollah"!
A Must Read From the Great Victor Davis Hanson: Israel Stands Alone
From Victor Davis Hanson, a look at Israel's reality in the wake of the Obama capitulation on Iran:
"Obama and his negotiators seem surprised that Israelis take quite seriously Iranian leaders’ taunts over the past 35 years that they would like to liquidate the Jewish state and everyone in it."
"The Israelis, for some reason, remember that well before Hitler came to power, he had bragged about the idea of killing Jews en masse in his sloppily composed autobiographical Mein Kampf.
" Few in Germany or abroad had taken the raving young Hitler too seriously. Even in the late 1930s, when German Jews were being rounded up and haphazardly killed on German streets by state-sanctioned thugs, most observers considered such activities merely periodic excesses or outbursts from non-governmental Black- and Brownshirts."
"The Israelis have taken to heart lots of lessons over the last 70 years. They have concluded that often the world quietly wants Israel to deal with existential threats emanating from the Middle East while loudly damning it when it does. They have learned from the experience of the Holocaust that, for good or evil, Jews are on their own and can never again trust in the world’s professed humanity to prevent another Holocaust. And they are convinced that they can also never again err on the side of the probability that national leaders, with deadly weapons in their grasp, do not really mean all the unhinged things they shout and scream about killing Jews."
"Given all that, we should conclude that any deal that leads, now or in the near future, to an Iranian bomb is unacceptable to Israel — a nation that will likely soon have no choice but to consider the unthinkable in order to prevent the unimaginable."
"Obama and his negotiators seem surprised that Israelis take quite seriously Iranian leaders’ taunts over the past 35 years that they would like to liquidate the Jewish state and everyone in it."
"The Israelis, for some reason, remember that well before Hitler came to power, he had bragged about the idea of killing Jews en masse in his sloppily composed autobiographical Mein Kampf.
" Few in Germany or abroad had taken the raving young Hitler too seriously. Even in the late 1930s, when German Jews were being rounded up and haphazardly killed on German streets by state-sanctioned thugs, most observers considered such activities merely periodic excesses or outbursts from non-governmental Black- and Brownshirts."
"The Israelis have taken to heart lots of lessons over the last 70 years. They have concluded that often the world quietly wants Israel to deal with existential threats emanating from the Middle East while loudly damning it when it does. They have learned from the experience of the Holocaust that, for good or evil, Jews are on their own and can never again trust in the world’s professed humanity to prevent another Holocaust. And they are convinced that they can also never again err on the side of the probability that national leaders, with deadly weapons in their grasp, do not really mean all the unhinged things they shout and scream about killing Jews."
"Given all that, we should conclude that any deal that leads, now or in the near future, to an Iranian bomb is unacceptable to Israel — a nation that will likely soon have no choice but to consider the unthinkable in order to prevent the unimaginable."
Instapundit Gets Contacted By A Journalists Who Wished To Remain Anonymous
The header is:
"WHAT NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT BUT WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO WORRY ABOUT"
Well, guess what Mr. or Ms. No Balls anonymity-requesting journalist.
If you really cared, you would be the one publishing your very own points, and under your own damned name.
You're welcome.
"WHAT NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT BUT WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO WORRY ABOUT"
Well, guess what Mr. or Ms. No Balls anonymity-requesting journalist.
If you really cared, you would be the one publishing your very own points, and under your own damned name.
You're welcome.
The UK Is Screwed
"Doe, from Mitcham, who is employed by the Metropolitan Police Uniform Services and is a vocal campaigner for gender diversity, was found not guilty yesterday at Kingston crown court of attempted murder on July 5 last year."
"Doe’s case was that she was suffering “non-insane automatism” — involuntary movements she was not responsible for — and medical experts backed her up."
UPDATE:
Nothing to see here.
"Doe’s case was that she was suffering “non-insane automatism” — involuntary movements she was not responsible for — and medical experts backed her up."
UPDATE:
Nothing to see here.
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Please Remind Me Exactly Why Sweden Needs Eritrean Refugees
Cause I cannot figure it out.
But, to demonstrate how truly and royally f&cked up the Swedes are, how very determined they are to commit suicide via immigration, and how utterly morally inverse their police force is, one must-simply must-take a gander at this piece from the BBC.
In a normal democratic society that wishes to remain democratic, after a stabbing by African asylum-seekers, policy-makers might question their immigration policies. One might even think that security forces would take extra measures to protect citizens.
HAHAHAHAHAHAH right fat chance. If one thought that, one would be TOTALLY WRONG, SUCKAAAAAHS.
Instead of protecting native-born citizens from knife-weilding asylum seekers, Swedish police (see "they're royally f&cked" above) have increased security at...wait for it....asylum centres!
"Police increased security at refugee accommodation centres in the region this week after confirming they had arrested two Eritrean asylum seekers over the murders."
"Local officials feared a backlash from "dark forces" who wanted to exploit the case, police chief Per Agren said."
But, to demonstrate how truly and royally f&cked up the Swedes are, how very determined they are to commit suicide via immigration, and how utterly morally inverse their police force is, one must-simply must-take a gander at this piece from the BBC.
In a normal democratic society that wishes to remain democratic, after a stabbing by African asylum-seekers, policy-makers might question their immigration policies. One might even think that security forces would take extra measures to protect citizens.
HAHAHAHAHAHAH right fat chance. If one thought that, one would be TOTALLY WRONG, SUCKAAAAAHS.
Instead of protecting native-born citizens from knife-weilding asylum seekers, Swedish police (see "they're royally f&cked" above) have increased security at...wait for it....asylum centres!
"Police increased security at refugee accommodation centres in the region this week after confirming they had arrested two Eritrean asylum seekers over the murders."
"Local officials feared a backlash from "dark forces" who wanted to exploit the case, police chief Per Agren said."
HEY THAT'S RAAAAACIST!
But seriously, "dark forces" is Soooper Seeekrit Political Correct Talk for "normal people who are not inclined to have their country turn into a third-world sh&thole".
Seems that Sweden is charging ahead with Project Total Malmöization at warp speed.
It's terribly hard to feel sorry for Sweden.
SO I DON'T.
American Genocide
Just when you thought it couldn't get worse, it does.
Planned Parenthood harvested and sold baby parts without the consent of the patient-otherwise known as "the mother" in antiquated circles.
Truly evil. Truly heartbreaking.
Hug your children very tight.
Planned Parenthood harvested and sold baby parts without the consent of the patient-otherwise known as "the mother" in antiquated circles.
Truly evil. Truly heartbreaking.
Hug your children very tight.
Spengler: A Thoughtless Age
Elegy for a culture indeed.
"Western culture has become inaccessible to the general public because we have lost the ability to see the world through the eyes of those who created it."
"A generation ago, the literary critic Harold Bloom complained in The Western Canon that it no longer was possible to teach English literature to undergraduates because they lacked the cultural references to make sense of it: imagine reading Moby Dick without knowing who Ishmael and Ahab were in the Bible, or Joyce’s Ulysses without knowing that someone named Homer had written an epic about a certain Odysseus"
"The last place where literature is read closely by a non-specialist public might be the Orthodox Synagogue, where the Hebrew Bible is examined through the eyes of ancient as well as medieval and modern commentators. It is read not as literature but as family history, and its readers have an existential interest in the result. The Hebrew Bible, to be sure, is not all of literature, but it is the best of it (nothing in Greek or Latin compares to the grandeur of Isaiah). Most of all, it is the continuing concern of a living community which has read it together for thousands of years."
"Western culture has become inaccessible to the general public because we have lost the ability to see the world through the eyes of those who created it."
"A generation ago, the literary critic Harold Bloom complained in The Western Canon that it no longer was possible to teach English literature to undergraduates because they lacked the cultural references to make sense of it: imagine reading Moby Dick without knowing who Ishmael and Ahab were in the Bible, or Joyce’s Ulysses without knowing that someone named Homer had written an epic about a certain Odysseus"
"The last place where literature is read closely by a non-specialist public might be the Orthodox Synagogue, where the Hebrew Bible is examined through the eyes of ancient as well as medieval and modern commentators. It is read not as literature but as family history, and its readers have an existential interest in the result. The Hebrew Bible, to be sure, is not all of literature, but it is the best of it (nothing in Greek or Latin compares to the grandeur of Isaiah). Most of all, it is the continuing concern of a living community which has read it together for thousands of years."
Real War on Women and Humanity, Real Rape Culture
Apologies for linking to the New York Times, the disgusting rag that buried the Holocaust and never met an anti-Western or anti-Israel story or writer that it didn't like.
This is too important to skip.
"ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape"
Western feminists and Social Justice Warriors were unavailable for comment at press time.
This is too important to skip.
"ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape"
Western feminists and Social Justice Warriors were unavailable for comment at press time.
"Qadiya, Iraq — In the moments before he raped the
12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain
that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl
practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the
right to rape her — it condoned and encouraged it, he insisted."
"He bound her hands and gagged her. Then he knelt beside the bed and prostrated himself in prayer before getting on top of her."
"When it was over, he knelt to pray again, bookending the rape with acts of religious devotion."
“I
kept telling him it hurts — please stop,” said the girl, whose body is
so small an adult could circle her waist with two hands."
“He told me
that according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said
that by raping me, he is drawing closer to God,” she said in an
interview alongside her family in a refugee camp here, to which she
escaped after 11 months of captivity."
These are the real "neo" Nazis of our times.
"A growing body of internal policy memos and
theological discussions has established guidelines for slavery,
including a lengthy how-to manual issued by the Islamic State Research
and Fatwa Department just last month. Repeatedly, the ISIS leadership
has emphasized a narrow and selective reading of the Quran and other
religious rulings to not only justify violence, but also to elevate and
celebrate each sexual assault as spiritually beneficial, even virtuous."
You understand?
The modern caliphate has a whole department that generates literature to elevate and celebrate sexual assault as spiritually beneficial and virtuous.
This is not what us "haters" or "right wingers" or "Islamophobic" persons are saying about them.
This is what they are saying this about themselves. And when people tell you about themselves, and tell you what they do, and believe, and what they are going to do to you, you better damned well believe them.
Jews, Christians and especially children are fair game.
"The Islamic State recently made it clear that
sex with Christian and Jewish women captured in battle is also
permissible, according to a new 34-page manual issued this summer by the
terror group’s Research and Fatwa Department."
"Just
about the only prohibition is having sex with a pregnant slave, and the
manual describes how an owner must wait for a female captive to have
her menstruating cycle, in order to “make sure there is nothing in her
womb,” before having intercourse with her. Of the 21 women and girls
interviewed for this article, among the only ones who had not been raped
were the women who were already pregnant at the moment of their
capture, as well as those who were past menopause."
"Beyond
that, there appears to be no bounds to what is sexually permissible.
Child rape is explicitly condoned: “It is permissible to have
intercourse with the female slave who hasn’t reached puberty, if she is
fit for intercourse,” according to a translation by the Middle East
Media Research Institute of a pamphlet published on Twitter last
December."
This is another element of sexual depravity that the Islamic jihad has in common with the Western left. Funny that.
This is barbarity on a Nazi scale.
These are the real neo-Nazis.
This is Real Rape Culture.
This is the Real War on Women and Humanity.
Barbarians.
This is why we fight.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
I Crack Myself Up Sometimes...
This Tweet makes me feel like America is being run by imbeciles. https://t.co/6v84RIPwbR
— Laura Rosen Cohen (@LauraRosenCohen) August 12, 2015
AND...
I need a coffin (Benghazi), whopper and Pinocchio emoji for Hillary. 💀🍔👺
— Laura Rosen Cohen (@LauraRosenCohen) August 12, 2015
Norway: Jew Hatred And BDS More Important Than Film About Disabled Children
Hey Norway? You there?
Fuck you.
I mean it.
Seriously, fuck you.
Norway will only show Israeli film of a certain kind:
“I’m sorry but we can’t show this film,” a letter from the organizers to Zafrani said."
“We support the academic and cultural boycott of Israel so unless the films are about the illegal occupation, or deals with the occupation or the blockade of Gaza, or otherwise about the discrimination of Palestinians, we can’t show them.”
Fuck you.
I mean it.
Seriously, fuck you.
Norway will only show Israeli film of a certain kind:
“I’m sorry but we can’t show this film,” a letter from the organizers to Zafrani said."
“We support the academic and cultural boycott of Israel so unless the films are about the illegal occupation, or deals with the occupation or the blockade of Gaza, or otherwise about the discrimination of Palestinians, we can’t show them.”
OH MAH GAWD Milos Yiannpoulos is Hysterical
This is an excellent comment on the sucky, wussy, totalitarian Canadian response to "Roosh".
(Of course, Kathy Draidlebaum's essay is great, and she even quoted me in it, but this pull quote from Yiannpoulos is Da Bomb. You know, I like Kathy's 'dark meat' quote too, and I plead guilty-I do like Teh Swarthy in general. Full disclosure: the husband is Persian. I dig Persians. Actually I dig the entire range of swarthy Jews from Middle Eastern countries, but exceptions can, and are made occasionally for the whiter, red-headed end of the spectrum...*waves at Mark Steyn* )
ANYWAY:
I nearly fell off my chair:
"Disclosure: I had lunch with Roosh in London last month. We had fish and chips. We didn’t agree on everything, but I liked him and found him smart and intellectually engaging. He did not try to rape me. Even after I insisted. "
I'm dying!!!
Actually, I thought I was FINITO when I read this comment, but the next one was also a beauty.
THIS. THIS NEEDS TO BE FRAMED:
"...this failed feminist fox hunt is a good excuse to remind those retarded pseudo-French losers what freedom of speech is, and how avoiding and banning speech we dislike is a really, really bad idea, like almost as bad as Avril Lavigne, Rufus Wainwright, Michael Cera, Nia Vardalos or for the love of fucking Christ Shania Twain."
And finally:
FREE, GRATUITOUS ADVICE FOR MEN:
Nice looking men (and you don't have to be gorgeous, just presentable and well-groomed because women are VERY forgiving) who are non-obese, functional (ie: gainfully employed) who aren't getting laid, or even getting dates or phone numbers and (rightly) feel as though their balls have been sliced off by the general culture of angry, man-hating feminists really could do a lot worse than to listen to a good looking (Iranian??) American give them tips on growing back a solid pair in lieu of the jelly beans that most of them are fiddling with nowadays.
I'm delighted that the attempts at muzzling "Roosh" completely backfired.
The publicity that he is getting translates into money, and exposure, the exact opposite of what the SJW's had planned.
Bravo!
(Of course, Kathy Draidlebaum's essay is great, and she even quoted me in it, but this pull quote from Yiannpoulos is Da Bomb. You know, I like Kathy's 'dark meat' quote too, and I plead guilty-I do like Teh Swarthy in general. Full disclosure: the husband is Persian. I dig Persians. Actually I dig the entire range of swarthy Jews from Middle Eastern countries, but exceptions can, and are made occasionally for the whiter, red-headed end of the spectrum...*waves at Mark Steyn* )
ANYWAY:
I nearly fell off my chair:
"Disclosure: I had lunch with Roosh in London last month. We had fish and chips. We didn’t agree on everything, but I liked him and found him smart and intellectually engaging. He did not try to rape me. Even after I insisted. "
I'm dying!!!
Actually, I thought I was FINITO when I read this comment, but the next one was also a beauty.
THIS. THIS NEEDS TO BE FRAMED:
"...this failed feminist fox hunt is a good excuse to remind those retarded pseudo-French losers what freedom of speech is, and how avoiding and banning speech we dislike is a really, really bad idea, like almost as bad as Avril Lavigne, Rufus Wainwright, Michael Cera, Nia Vardalos or for the love of fucking Christ Shania Twain."
And finally:
FREE, GRATUITOUS ADVICE FOR MEN:
Nice looking men (and you don't have to be gorgeous, just presentable and well-groomed because women are VERY forgiving) who are non-obese, functional (ie: gainfully employed) who aren't getting laid, or even getting dates or phone numbers and (rightly) feel as though their balls have been sliced off by the general culture of angry, man-hating feminists really could do a lot worse than to listen to a good looking (Iranian??) American give them tips on growing back a solid pair in lieu of the jelly beans that most of them are fiddling with nowadays.
I'm delighted that the attempts at muzzling "Roosh" completely backfired.
The publicity that he is getting translates into money, and exposure, the exact opposite of what the SJW's had planned.
Bravo!
Alan Dershowitz, Who Voted For Obama Twice, Cashes in On New Israel Activism Career With Book About Iran Deal
Never let a good anti-Israel crisis go to waste!
KA-CHING!!!!!
He voted for Obama TWICE, but hey-let's listen to this guy and buy his book $$$$$.
Disgusting loser.
He is an extreme liberal, who just happened to have been born Jewish.
KA-CHING!!!!!
He voted for Obama TWICE, but hey-let's listen to this guy and buy his book $$$$$.
Disgusting loser.
He is an extreme liberal, who just happened to have been born Jewish.
The Death of Religious Freedom In America
Further proof that when lefties assure you of something and promise that you will not get hurt, your life will not be impacted, etc...it is all lies.
Basically, this is not about equality, and it never has been about equality.
This is about power, and running your life the way the left sees fit. The left is very serious about power, and it never rests. They are very, very good at the power game. This is all about destroying "choice"-the choice to lead a religious life and punishing Christians and Jews.
But don't worry. You are entitled to their opinion of course.
"In Ohio, the State Judicial Conduct Board has ruled that judges can't decline to marry only same-sex couples because of their personal religious beliefs. But the Judicial Conduct Board's ruling went much further than that:
Basically, this is not about equality, and it never has been about equality.
This is about power, and running your life the way the left sees fit. The left is very serious about power, and it never rests. They are very, very good at the power game. This is all about destroying "choice"-the choice to lead a religious life and punishing Christians and Jews.
But don't worry. You are entitled to their opinion of course.
"In Ohio, the State Judicial Conduct Board has ruled that judges can't decline to marry only same-sex couples because of their personal religious beliefs. But the Judicial Conduct Board's ruling went much further than that:
In addition, judges who stop performing all marriages to avoid marrying same-sex couples may be interpreted as biased and could be disqualified from any case where sexual orientation is an issue, according to an opinion by the Ohio Supreme Court's Board of Professional Conduct issued Friday and made public Monday. ...
"For example, if a judge who has declined to perform same-sex marriages is later assigned to hear a misdemeanor domestic violence charge involving a same-sex couple, the judge's ability to follow the law and impartially apply the domestic violence laws could reasonably be questioned," the board said."
Toxic Sludge In Colorado: "We Were Very Careful".
"We're from the government, and we're here to help you."
DEFINITELY trust these people with your health care, and your personal financial information. And national security.
DEFINITELY trust these people with your health care, and your personal financial information. And national security.
Hillary Clinton's Top Secret E-Mails Being Investigated in FBI Criminal Probe
Will this prevent the Clinton coronation?
I don't see this on many (any?!?!) mainstream media web sites.
I don't see this on many (any?!?!) mainstream media web sites.
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
"I Don't Know If I'm Pro-Choice Anymore"
This is a pretty haunting essay.
It's an essay full of words, but the words evoke in my mind a very acute mental picture. It's the coin dropping. Through the lines I can feel the mind changing.
I haven't read anything by this author previously, but I can really feel the self-doubt and horror emanating through the words.
I don't know how anyone could be "pro-choice" after those videos. (Even before, frankly.) And the whole language 'pro-choice' is so deceptive anyway, as is the 'incest-rape' thing. If you're pro-life then you are pro-life even when 'incest-rape'. I also don't know how a vociferously pro-life person could be married to a 'pro-choice' person. That seems to me to be a pretty unbridgeable gap.
Do read the whole thing.
It's an essay full of words, but the words evoke in my mind a very acute mental picture. It's the coin dropping. Through the lines I can feel the mind changing.
I haven't read anything by this author previously, but I can really feel the self-doubt and horror emanating through the words.
I don't know how anyone could be "pro-choice" after those videos. (Even before, frankly.) And the whole language 'pro-choice' is so deceptive anyway, as is the 'incest-rape' thing. If you're pro-life then you are pro-life even when 'incest-rape'. I also don't know how a vociferously pro-life person could be married to a 'pro-choice' person. That seems to me to be a pretty unbridgeable gap.
Do read the whole thing.
Real War on Women
"A depraved Islamic State militant used an 11-year-old sex slave as a human shield by strapping her to the bonnet of his car while driving into battle. The terrified girl was left screaming for her life after being tied to the windscreen of a Humvee military vehicle to protect her captor from enemy gunfire."
"When she is not being paraded through war zones, the Yazidi child is repeatedly raped by the fanatic, activists have revealed."
"The girl is among 3,750 prisoners from the minority sect (I THINK THEY MISSPELLED CHRISTIAN HERE) who were captured during the terror group's brutal uprising through northern Iraq last year."
So but please, let's continue to listen to the Pope blather on about his crackpot Marxist theories about the economy and climate change, and chat some more about Megyn Kelly's period.
Priorities!
"When she is not being paraded through war zones, the Yazidi child is repeatedly raped by the fanatic, activists have revealed."
"The girl is among 3,750 prisoners from the minority sect (I THINK THEY MISSPELLED CHRISTIAN HERE) who were captured during the terror group's brutal uprising through northern Iraq last year."
So but please, let's continue to listen to the Pope blather on about his crackpot Marxist theories about the economy and climate change, and chat some more about Megyn Kelly's period.
Priorities!
Oy to the Vey: American Taxpayers' Money Being Used to Teach Transgendered Males To Talk Like Chicks At a University
No, I'm not making this up.
"The University of Connecticut, which received state and federal funding, has a program to teach men who want to be pretend to be women how to talk like girls.."
They have a CLINIC. At a UNIVERSITY for this hooey.
This is the state of American "higher eduction". I guess by "higher" they just mean "higher" vocal, estrogen-laden tones?
"The majority of the transgender clients at the clinic are transitioning to female. Hormone therapy will naturally cause a lowering in the voice of someone transitioning to male, Chase said. Many "F to Ms," as they are sometimes called, need to learn the other subtleties."
(Doesn't that sound mildly strange "M to Fs"? Or is it just me?!?!)
"The clinic also has served some people who are not transgender, such as men who wish to sound less effeminate - a topic explored in the new documentary "Do I Sound Gay?" And some clients, including people who are only considering a change in gender, want a voice that is more neutral, Chase said."
"The University of Connecticut, which received state and federal funding, has a program to teach men who want to be pretend to be women how to talk like girls.."
They have a CLINIC. At a UNIVERSITY for this hooey.
This is the state of American "higher eduction". I guess by "higher" they just mean "higher" vocal, estrogen-laden tones?
"The majority of the transgender clients at the clinic are transitioning to female. Hormone therapy will naturally cause a lowering in the voice of someone transitioning to male, Chase said. Many "F to Ms," as they are sometimes called, need to learn the other subtleties."
(Doesn't that sound mildly strange "M to Fs"? Or is it just me?!?!)
"The clinic also has served some people who are not transgender, such as men who wish to sound less effeminate - a topic explored in the new documentary "Do I Sound Gay?" And some clients, including people who are only considering a change in gender, want a voice that is more neutral, Chase said."
(Note to potential views of "Do I Sound Gay" movie: if you have to ask if you sound gay, then you do. You don't need the documentary. You're welcome.)
"Literature
[Ed. Note: OH MY F&CKING GAWD THEY ARE CALLING THIS DRECK LITERATURE] in the field dates back 50 years, but until the past 20 years only a
handful of people were doing voice work with transgender people, and the
work is still in its infancy, Chase said."
And don't think this is some kind of silly, first-world indulgence of mental illness or anything.
This is a matter of LIFE AND DEATH.
For real, and not for joking!
""For me, passing is important," she said.
"But, in some cases it's a matter of survival. There are some places
where you do not want to be read as being anything other than female.
It's dangerous."
What the hell? Where is a dangerous place, where it is a matter of survival to be "read" as "anything other than female"? The Kardashian's bathroom now that Bruce is out of the house? A Tampax sale at Costco?
This is totally nuts. These are the new Chia pets of the left. A lot of lives are going to be destroyed before the left moves onto its next pet project.
Kathy Shaidle: Same Vomit, Different Day
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Another great column from evil, skeeeekrit Jew-toboggan, Kathy Draidlebaum.
With a shout-out to yours truly! Thanks, Draidle.
"Our left still prosecutes the occasional homegrown victim, but lately they’ve actually broadened their efforts, trying to keep their latest trumped-up “hate crime” villain from entering Canada in the first place—and often succeeding."
"And even when we push back and they stumble, they just walk it off and hoist up a new human piñata. This week, it’s notorious “pickup artist” Roosh V."
"Their first order of business: the obligatory Change.org petition, which asks “Mayor Bonnie Crombie of Mississauga, Mayor John Tory of Toronto, and Mayor Denis Corderre of Montreal to denounce ‘RooshV’ and to urge local businesses and organizations to deny him accommodation while in Canada.”
"The word hate pops up again and again in this petition (which, as I type this, has just under 40,000 signatures). Roosh’s “hate website” The Return of Kings is “hate-based,” as is Roosh himself, who holds “hateful misogynistic views” that are “likely to breach public peace.”
“WE MUST STOP HIM!”
"I give these broads credit for one thing: Roosh (whose real name, they note, is Daryush Valizadeh) is quite possibly the brownest, most foreign-looking guy they’ve ever picked on."
"I’d also bet that many of this petition’s female signatories defended swarthy Canadian liberal heartthrob, secular Muslim, and accused serial woman-basher Jian Ghomeshi for day after embarrassing day, and that they swoon over even-swarthier Canadian liberal heartthrob, convicted Muslim terrorist, and documented woman-hater Omar Khadr."
(My friend Laura Rosen Cohen calls left-wing dames’ well-known taste for dark meat the “Ooo Ooo Mahmoud!” Syndrome.)
Another great column from evil, skeeeekrit Jew-toboggan, Kathy Draidlebaum.
With a shout-out to yours truly! Thanks, Draidle.
"Our left still prosecutes the occasional homegrown victim, but lately they’ve actually broadened their efforts, trying to keep their latest trumped-up “hate crime” villain from entering Canada in the first place—and often succeeding."
"And even when we push back and they stumble, they just walk it off and hoist up a new human piñata. This week, it’s notorious “pickup artist” Roosh V."
"Their first order of business: the obligatory Change.org petition, which asks “Mayor Bonnie Crombie of Mississauga, Mayor John Tory of Toronto, and Mayor Denis Corderre of Montreal to denounce ‘RooshV’ and to urge local businesses and organizations to deny him accommodation while in Canada.”
"The word hate pops up again and again in this petition (which, as I type this, has just under 40,000 signatures). Roosh’s “hate website” The Return of Kings is “hate-based,” as is Roosh himself, who holds “hateful misogynistic views” that are “likely to breach public peace.”
“WE MUST STOP HIM!”
"I give these broads credit for one thing: Roosh (whose real name, they note, is Daryush Valizadeh) is quite possibly the brownest, most foreign-looking guy they’ve ever picked on."
"I’d also bet that many of this petition’s female signatories defended swarthy Canadian liberal heartthrob, secular Muslim, and accused serial woman-basher Jian Ghomeshi for day after embarrassing day, and that they swoon over even-swarthier Canadian liberal heartthrob, convicted Muslim terrorist, and documented woman-hater Omar Khadr."
(My friend Laura Rosen Cohen calls left-wing dames’ well-known taste for dark meat the “Ooo Ooo Mahmoud!” Syndrome.)
Obama's Thug and Gangster Administration
You cannot make this stuff up.
"A White House staffer coaxed her boyfriend into her home to have sex — but instead allegedly stole his gun and tried to shoot him because he was sleeping with another woman, according to a report."
"A White House staffer coaxed her boyfriend into her home to have sex — but instead allegedly stole his gun and tried to shoot him because he was sleeping with another woman, according to a report."
Feel Good Story of the Day (So Far)
Anyone who makes life a little better or a little brighter for critically or terminally ill children is assured a place in heaven.
Monday, August 10, 2015
Monday Jewlicious Link Dump
You know the drill, busy, busy, busy OY AM I BUSY.
But, there are a bunch of things going on in the world that are really making me sick, so I have to share them with you.
In no particular order.
Eurabia is doomed:
Danish lefties prefer national suicide to curbing mass immigration.
Anjem Choudary get thrown in the clink, looks forward to prime proselytizing time. This is another band-aid solution, 'tough talk' baloney "solution" to an immigration policy problem.
America is screwed:
As per the great Mark Steyn "the mullahs are nuking us and American leaders are talking about transgendered washrooms"...make that toys.
Priorities!
This is your city on liberalism: frustrated NYC cops take pictures of swarms of homeless bums, post on social media, disgusted by decline under commie mayor.
As the NY Post puts it, '20 years of clean-up pissed away'.
What else?
Via Instapundit, a glimpse into the mind of leftists when it comes to free speech: vilify free speech advocates, plain and simple and try to turn them into "crazies".
"Speech nuts, like gun nuts, have amassed plenty of arguments, but they—we—are driven, too, by a shared sensibility that can seem irrational by European standards. And, just as good-faith gun-rights advocates don’t pretend that every gun owner is a third-generation hunter, free-speech advocates need not pretend that every provocative utterance is a valuable contribution to a robust debate, or that it is impossible to make any distinctions between various kinds of speech. In the case of online harassment, that instinctive preference for “free speech” may already be shaping the kinds of discussions we have, possibly by discouraging the participation of women, racial and sexual minorities, and anyone else likely to be singled out for ad-hominem abuse. Some kinds of free speech really can be harmful, and people who want to defend it anyway should be willing to say so.
And Professor Reynolds has the right prescription for this soft totalitarianism:
"...the lesson from the “gun nuts” is: Don’t compromise, don’t admit that there’s such a thing as a “reasonable restriction,” don’t back down, and keep pointing out that your opponents are liars and hypocrites. And punish the hell out of politicians who vote with the other side."
To which I would add, that conservatives must do as Mark Steyn says: not expect politicians to 'do the right thing', but rather, consistently and relentlessly make it difficult, if not bloody impossible for them to do the wrong thing.
For heaven's sake, make them pay too high a price for doing the wrong thing (see Chuck Schumer for example)!
And some heartache-leftist media sort of notices Obama vilifying an opponent.
Thoughts for the day from John Nolte of Breitbart:
And this:
Listening to consultants has not really paid off for Republicans in America, unless by 'paying off' one means, "keep cushy government job" and not "be in power and lead", but what do I know?!?!
But, there are a bunch of things going on in the world that are really making me sick, so I have to share them with you.
In no particular order.
Eurabia is doomed:
Danish lefties prefer national suicide to curbing mass immigration.
Anjem Choudary get thrown in the clink, looks forward to prime proselytizing time. This is another band-aid solution, 'tough talk' baloney "solution" to an immigration policy problem.
America is screwed:
As per the great Mark Steyn "the mullahs are nuking us and American leaders are talking about transgendered washrooms"...make that toys.
Priorities!
This is your city on liberalism: frustrated NYC cops take pictures of swarms of homeless bums, post on social media, disgusted by decline under commie mayor.
As the NY Post puts it, '20 years of clean-up pissed away'.
What else?
Via Instapundit, a glimpse into the mind of leftists when it comes to free speech: vilify free speech advocates, plain and simple and try to turn them into "crazies".
"Speech nuts, like gun nuts, have amassed plenty of arguments, but they—we—are driven, too, by a shared sensibility that can seem irrational by European standards. And, just as good-faith gun-rights advocates don’t pretend that every gun owner is a third-generation hunter, free-speech advocates need not pretend that every provocative utterance is a valuable contribution to a robust debate, or that it is impossible to make any distinctions between various kinds of speech. In the case of online harassment, that instinctive preference for “free speech” may already be shaping the kinds of discussions we have, possibly by discouraging the participation of women, racial and sexual minorities, and anyone else likely to be singled out for ad-hominem abuse. Some kinds of free speech really can be harmful, and people who want to defend it anyway should be willing to say so.
And Professor Reynolds has the right prescription for this soft totalitarianism:
"...the lesson from the “gun nuts” is: Don’t compromise, don’t admit that there’s such a thing as a “reasonable restriction,” don’t back down, and keep pointing out that your opponents are liars and hypocrites. And punish the hell out of politicians who vote with the other side."
To which I would add, that conservatives must do as Mark Steyn says: not expect politicians to 'do the right thing', but rather, consistently and relentlessly make it difficult, if not bloody impossible for them to do the wrong thing.
For heaven's sake, make them pay too high a price for doing the wrong thing (see Chuck Schumer for example)!
And some heartache-leftist media sort of notices Obama vilifying an opponent.
Thoughts for the day from John Nolte of Breitbart:
But a "hahahahaha" doesn't change the fact that Wilson is a CONSULTANT who is literally PURCHASED by pols. LITERALLY https://t.co/CUd8YqbEPV
— John Nolte (@NolteNC) August 10, 2015
And this:
Y'all do know that Ben Howe is literally for sale, correct? Candidates purchase him to promote them. FOR. SALE.
— John Nolte (@NolteNC) August 10, 2015
Listening to consultants has not really paid off for Republicans in America, unless by 'paying off' one means, "keep cushy government job" and not "be in power and lead", but what do I know?!?!
Fitzgerald and the Jews
A cute, short essay from the New Yorker.
An interesting little piece about Fitzgerald's Jewish assistant, a nice Jewish girl from the Bronx, Frances Kroll Ring who died this past June at the age of 99.
"As Kroll tells it, Fitzgerald displayed a great deal of curiosity about Jewishness, pestering her about Jewish characteristics and customs. He was fascinated by “the Passover feast” and the practice of keeping kosher. After learning that Kroll’s father had emigrated from Russia at age sixteen, he impulsively sent him a King James edition of the Old and New Testaments, with a note that read “from a friend and colleague of your daughter.”
"It would be nice to report that Fitzgerald eventually rid himself of anti-Semitic feelings, but it wouldn’t be true. As Kroll noted, nothing was simple with Scott. He was a man of insistent contradictions; and with a few drinks under his belt, his darker and more foolish side took over. When drunk, he could sing out “Lily Shiel” and “She’s a Jew.” Or he might take Kroll aside and confide to her that Graham was “part Jewish,” as though he and Kroll were in cahoots."
"But he wasn’t often drunk, not toward the end, and it’s entirely possible that the company of Jewish women made Fitzgerald feel warmer toward Jews in general."
"And though it was probably nothing more than a tic, he apparently liked going to delicatessens, according to Graham, and ordering knishes because he liked saying “knish.”
"The last word, however, should belong to Kroll, who, I suspect, would not have put up with any anti-Semitic nonsense from him; nor would she have remembered him quite so fondly had he exhibited a virulent bias toward her people:"
“My memory harbors a gentle man with a nearly collapsed dream whose prevailing gift gave him the strength to keep doing what he did best—to write.”
An interesting little piece about Fitzgerald's Jewish assistant, a nice Jewish girl from the Bronx, Frances Kroll Ring who died this past June at the age of 99.
"As Kroll tells it, Fitzgerald displayed a great deal of curiosity about Jewishness, pestering her about Jewish characteristics and customs. He was fascinated by “the Passover feast” and the practice of keeping kosher. After learning that Kroll’s father had emigrated from Russia at age sixteen, he impulsively sent him a King James edition of the Old and New Testaments, with a note that read “from a friend and colleague of your daughter.”
"It would be nice to report that Fitzgerald eventually rid himself of anti-Semitic feelings, but it wouldn’t be true. As Kroll noted, nothing was simple with Scott. He was a man of insistent contradictions; and with a few drinks under his belt, his darker and more foolish side took over. When drunk, he could sing out “Lily Shiel” and “She’s a Jew.” Or he might take Kroll aside and confide to her that Graham was “part Jewish,” as though he and Kroll were in cahoots."
"But he wasn’t often drunk, not toward the end, and it’s entirely possible that the company of Jewish women made Fitzgerald feel warmer toward Jews in general."
"And though it was probably nothing more than a tic, he apparently liked going to delicatessens, according to Graham, and ordering knishes because he liked saying “knish.”
"The last word, however, should belong to Kroll, who, I suspect, would not have put up with any anti-Semitic nonsense from him; nor would she have remembered him quite so fondly had he exhibited a virulent bias toward her people:"
“My memory harbors a gentle man with a nearly collapsed dream whose prevailing gift gave him the strength to keep doing what he did best—to write.”
Instapundit: Trump Indicts America's Ruling Class
Indeed:
"Trump’s rise is, like that of his Democratic counterpart Bernie Sanders, a sign that a large number of voters don’t feel represented by more mainstream politicians."
"To this ruling class, the rest of the country is sometimes an annoyance or obstacle, sometimes a source of necessary funds or votes, but always the “other” — not our kind, dear. Too ignorant, too unpolished, too unconnected to the right institutions and pieties to really count. With ruling-class Republicans having more in common with ruling-class Democrats than with the people they rule, it’s unsurprising that, as Codevilla predicted in a later essay, millions of voters feel orphaned. Democracy doesn’t do much for technocratically set policy that always seems to reflect ruling-class preferences, and people feel they’ve lost control of their own fates."
"Trump’s rise is, like that of his Democratic counterpart Bernie Sanders, a sign that a large number of voters don’t feel represented by more mainstream politicians."
"To this ruling class, the rest of the country is sometimes an annoyance or obstacle, sometimes a source of necessary funds or votes, but always the “other” — not our kind, dear. Too ignorant, too unpolished, too unconnected to the right institutions and pieties to really count. With ruling-class Republicans having more in common with ruling-class Democrats than with the people they rule, it’s unsurprising that, as Codevilla predicted in a later essay, millions of voters feel orphaned. Democracy doesn’t do much for technocratically set policy that always seems to reflect ruling-class preferences, and people feel they’ve lost control of their own fates."
So Good! Jim Goad on Donald Trump.
Thanks to Kathy Draidlebaum for posting this.
I laughed out loud. I'm still laughing.
The whole thing is wickedly good, but this part is hysterical:
"On Twitter—where he’s constantly insulting people as if he were a mix of Ronald Reagan and Don Rickles—Trump denied that his “blood” comment had anything to do with Megyn Kelly’s magical mystical sacred vagina and was instead a reference to her nose:
"And see, this is why I love Donald Trump. It has nothing to do with his policies, because I don’t know what they are beyond the fact that he hates illegal immigration. And I care not whether he was referring to Kelly’s nose or her vagina, either. What I love is that we’re living in the year 2015 and he uses the word “deviant.” It’s more refreshing than a thousand Altoids to hear a presidential candidate refer to others as deviants. I’d bet the last president to call someone a deviant was Nixon, and I love that guy, too."
"No matter how egregiously someone acts like a dick toward him, Trump’s default response is, “Sorry, but I’m gonna be the bigger dick in this scenario. Bite me!” He’s brought unabashed name-calling back into politics, and for that I thank him."
OH MAH GAWD I LOVE THAT PART.
That's exactly it. I was trying to figure out what I love so much about the Trump candidacy, and boiled it down to two main points. One, that he could not be any worse than Obama, and two, that he has enough money to not give a single sh&t about anything anyone says about him, or how this plays out.
But "sorry, but I'm gonna be the bigger dick in this scenario, bite me" is absolutely what it is all about and I am so mad at myself that I didn't think of that first. ARGH.
Kudos, Mr. Goad.
I laughed out loud. I'm still laughing.
The whole thing is wickedly good, but this part is hysterical:
"On Twitter—where he’s constantly insulting people as if he were a mix of Ronald Reagan and Don Rickles—Trump denied that his “blood” comment had anything to do with Megyn Kelly’s magical mystical sacred vagina and was instead a reference to her nose:
Re Megyn Kelly quote: “you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever” (NOSE). Just got on w/thought“Only a deviant would think anything else,” Trump later told a reporter.
"And see, this is why I love Donald Trump. It has nothing to do with his policies, because I don’t know what they are beyond the fact that he hates illegal immigration. And I care not whether he was referring to Kelly’s nose or her vagina, either. What I love is that we’re living in the year 2015 and he uses the word “deviant.” It’s more refreshing than a thousand Altoids to hear a presidential candidate refer to others as deviants. I’d bet the last president to call someone a deviant was Nixon, and I love that guy, too."
"No matter how egregiously someone acts like a dick toward him, Trump’s default response is, “Sorry, but I’m gonna be the bigger dick in this scenario. Bite me!” He’s brought unabashed name-calling back into politics, and for that I thank him."
OH MAH GAWD I LOVE THAT PART.
That's exactly it. I was trying to figure out what I love so much about the Trump candidacy, and boiled it down to two main points. One, that he could not be any worse than Obama, and two, that he has enough money to not give a single sh&t about anything anyone says about him, or how this plays out.
But "sorry, but I'm gonna be the bigger dick in this scenario, bite me" is absolutely what it is all about and I am so mad at myself that I didn't think of that first. ARGH.
Kudos, Mr. Goad.
Saturday, August 8, 2015
Very Disturbing on So Many Levels, From Vanity Fair: Charlie Hedbo's Money and How It's Dividing France
Charlie Hedbo, flushed with cash and no longer publishing Mohammad cartoons.
I wasn't aware of the background of one Hedbo staffer, who is also an emergency doctor:
"Patrick Pelloux has another life outside Charlie. He is an emergency-room doctor, accustomed to traumatic injury, a man schooled to make tough decisions fast. But nothing in his training prepared him for the scene he confronted on January 7—his colleagues at Charlie Hebdo shot at point-blank range with Kalashnikovs. Summoned by a call from a friend, Pelloux was the first to reach the satirical weekly’s small meeting room. Grief and professional instinct vied with each other as the physician-journalist performed rapid triage on his fellows: dead, dead, gravely injured, dead."
"On Pelloux sifted, through almost a dozen corpses. Two of his friends, the cartoonist Jean Cabut (known as “Cabu”) and the economist Bernard Maris, were still seated, slumped against each other at the table. Others had slipped from their chairs to the blood-soaked floor. Pelloux relives the carnage daily, in his dreams, and in the exercise in survival that has become his precarious Parisian existence."
"His hair dyed blond in an attempt at disguise, Pelloux met me upstairs at Café de Flore, in Saint-Germain. He’s 51 but looks younger, a man with a restless energy in his darting eyes. It was a beautiful spring day in Paris, the kind that can only summon whispered gratitude for the gift of life, preferably on the Left Bank. The doctor is followed these days by a retinue of police, dedicated to protecting him from any follow-up squad of jihadist killers, and several psychologists, who monitor the tribulations of his psyche.
"Pelloux refuses to be intimidated."
I wasn't aware of the background of one Hedbo staffer, who is also an emergency doctor:
"Patrick Pelloux has another life outside Charlie. He is an emergency-room doctor, accustomed to traumatic injury, a man schooled to make tough decisions fast. But nothing in his training prepared him for the scene he confronted on January 7—his colleagues at Charlie Hebdo shot at point-blank range with Kalashnikovs. Summoned by a call from a friend, Pelloux was the first to reach the satirical weekly’s small meeting room. Grief and professional instinct vied with each other as the physician-journalist performed rapid triage on his fellows: dead, dead, gravely injured, dead."
"On Pelloux sifted, through almost a dozen corpses. Two of his friends, the cartoonist Jean Cabut (known as “Cabu”) and the economist Bernard Maris, were still seated, slumped against each other at the table. Others had slipped from their chairs to the blood-soaked floor. Pelloux relives the carnage daily, in his dreams, and in the exercise in survival that has become his precarious Parisian existence."
"His hair dyed blond in an attempt at disguise, Pelloux met me upstairs at Café de Flore, in Saint-Germain. He’s 51 but looks younger, a man with a restless energy in his darting eyes. It was a beautiful spring day in Paris, the kind that can only summon whispered gratitude for the gift of life, preferably on the Left Bank. The doctor is followed these days by a retinue of police, dedicated to protecting him from any follow-up squad of jihadist killers, and several psychologists, who monitor the tribulations of his psyche.
“I am no longer the same—in fact, I no longer know who I am,” Pelloux told me.
“The reference points I had disappeared. I saw all my friends with bullets in their heads or thoraxes or abdomens. The killers wanted to assassinate laughter, slaughter the smile. Dictators and torturers never laugh. This was a political act of pure Fascist and Nazi extraction.”
I think that those who have lived through terrorist attacks, or lost family members in terrorist attacks each have their own unique way of "living" after. It's a different kind of living, a different kind of life.
This man is very, very brave. And I think the article really identifies so many of the big issues. It's very well done.
“We have to talk of Islamofascism. We have to call it by its name,” he told me.
And this is a chilling, accurate and concise summary of where we are at, and obviously why he can go on, living each day in the wake of such horror.
“We cannot go back to the Middle Ages. You don’t kill people because they make cartoons and laugh. It’s crazy. Islamic State wants to destroy everything, lead us to nothingness. If they have their way we’ll have to go into museums—the Met, the MoMA—and destroy the Picassos, repaint every canvas. We are at war. I wake up saying to myself, We are at war—an underhand war."
We certainly are at war.
The infographic at the end of the article is also particularly chilling.
This article simultaneously scares and inspires me.
Chinese Jews!
Amazing story.
Jews don't just go out for Chinese food on Christmas you know.
We have Chinese Jews.
WE ARE EVERYWHERE.
WE SPEAK EVERY LANGUAGE.
JOOOOOOOOZ
ZOG!
FOR REAL!
Ha!
Jews don't just go out for Chinese food on Christmas you know.
We have Chinese Jews.
WE ARE EVERYWHERE.
WE SPEAK EVERY LANGUAGE.
JOOOOOOOOZ
ZOG!
FOR REAL!
Ha!
Mark Steyn: Party Pooper
OOOOH this is a good one.
You must watch Steyn on Hannity, having a post-Republican debate little chit chat.
(The dog poop line is a classic and I snorted out loud about 'Hillary's husband-HAR!)
Steyn basically explains what the deal is with Donald Trump:
"Many electors agree with Trump - that America is dying before their eyes. If that's the case, why should fealty to a party that bears a large measure of responsibility for that decay take precedence over love of country?"
So yes, Trump was the winner of that debate, but only because Carly wasn't involved.
You must watch Steyn on Hannity, having a post-Republican debate little chit chat.
(The dog poop line is a classic and I snorted out loud about 'Hillary's husband-HAR!)
Steyn basically explains what the deal is with Donald Trump:
"Many electors agree with Trump - that America is dying before their eyes. If that's the case, why should fealty to a party that bears a large measure of responsibility for that decay take precedence over love of country?"
So yes, Trump was the winner of that debate, but only because Carly wasn't involved.
I'm finding it puzzling how Donald Trump is causing the vapors among Americans. I mean, for real and not for joking, they are needing super-sized fainting couches and weeping schmattahs about The Donald.
The way I see it is that the current batch of Republican "leaders" are no longer conservative, and have all chosen to live in the gonad-free zone known as Washington, D.C, living the Cartel Highlife (kudos to Ted Cruz for that line, it really is outstanding-and I remain a Cruz Jooooz).
They are all sucky over-conciliatory eunuchs. The only people with stones, as far as I can see are Trump, Cruz and Carly.
Trump has made enough money that he couldn't give a single shit about what anyone says about him. That's America, baby. Cruz is a principled conservative who has the right moral principles and intelligence to lead America out of its current decline, and Carly is a bloody firecracker who also knows about politics, business and she certainly channels Reagan and Thatcher.
Trump could not in any way, shape or form be worse than Obama. But the current Republican leadership in America might as well have Obama kneepads for all the sucking up and sucking off of this administration that they partake in, day in and day out. You better believe Trump will not be doing any "blowjobby" (thanks, Kathy Draidlebaum for that term) shenanigans.
As for Megyn Kelly and the sexist comments ooooooooh dear so sleeeeeepppy now zzzzzzz......
Here's the bottom line: you cannot sit at the big boys' table and then try to pull The Estrogen Card.
Apparently, statistically (think I saw this on Rush Limbaugh's web site, I have to double check), most of the airtime on the Fox News debate went to....wait for it...the Fox News Hostess With the Mostess Estrogen.
So, if you want that spotlight on your Fox(y) Face, you better be in the make-up room with Teflon being applied shortly after your foundation.
Otherwise, pass the mike to a bro, ya know?
AND, NOTE BENE:
Most importantly, can we please discuss Steyn's sartorial fare on the Hannity interview for a moment? Of course we can BECAUSE IT'S MY BLOG.
Beige, tan colour scheme: excellent choices-very debonaire. We like!
Ya know, a bunch of cranky people were writing to Steyn saying the equivalent of him having a face for radio-I mean they were like TOTALLY DISSING his TV spots. Of course, I totally disagree, and I think Hannity and Steyn have a very good rapport. He asks very intelligent questions, and gives Steyn the requisite time to actually answer properly.
And, hey, if the punditry business goes down the tubes, Steyn could VERY EASILY have a second career as a Fashion Policeman, as good as the late great Joan Rivers. A Steynian What Not to Wear would be fab. Love it. Can easily see that happening.
Friday, August 7, 2015
Jezussss Canadians Suck Sometimes
You know, "Roosh" is right.
The truth hurts.
This is ridiculous.
"Valizadeh is touring Europe, the U.S. and Canada, hosting events on “self-improvement for men” as well as “how culture is lifting up women and gay people while pushing (men) and their needs down.”
He is 100% right about Canadians that there is “something in the water in Canada that makes people extra sensitive and prone to censoring speech that they don’t agree with..".
DING DING DING!
Men are bashed here all the time. And there are way too many obese people here, and too many special snowflakes looking for "safe" space. I hate it.
It would be a very good thing for men in Toronto to hear about upping their game.
"The organizers of the petition say they believe Valizadeh will be violating section 319 of the Canadian Criminal Code, which prohibits gathering and organizing for the purposes of inciting hatred of an identifiable group."
These super sucky precious social justice warriors and their censorship fetish make me vomit.
The truth hurts.
This is ridiculous.
"Valizadeh is touring Europe, the U.S. and Canada, hosting events on “self-improvement for men” as well as “how culture is lifting up women and gay people while pushing (men) and their needs down.”
He is 100% right about Canadians that there is “something in the water in Canada that makes people extra sensitive and prone to censoring speech that they don’t agree with..".
DING DING DING!
Men are bashed here all the time. And there are way too many obese people here, and too many special snowflakes looking for "safe" space. I hate it.
It would be a very good thing for men in Toronto to hear about upping their game.
"The organizers of the petition say they believe Valizadeh will be violating section 319 of the Canadian Criminal Code, which prohibits gathering and organizing for the purposes of inciting hatred of an identifiable group."
These super sucky precious social justice warriors and their censorship fetish make me vomit.
George Will: The Barbarity of A Nation
Do read the whole thing:
“Having a procedure” — stopping the beating of a human heart — can indeed be a difficult decision for the woman involved. But it never is difficult for Planned Parenthood’s abortionists administering the “procedure.”
The savage butchers of Planned Parenthood stop the beating of a human heart. That is what needs to be said over and over again. The language we use to describe this barbarism must be clear and non-euphemistic if there are ever to be better days ahead.
That phrase will haunt me forever.
My heart is breaking.
“Having a procedure” — stopping the beating of a human heart — can indeed be a difficult decision for the woman involved. But it never is difficult for Planned Parenthood’s abortionists administering the “procedure.”
The savage butchers of Planned Parenthood stop the beating of a human heart. That is what needs to be said over and over again. The language we use to describe this barbarism must be clear and non-euphemistic if there are ever to be better days ahead.
That phrase will haunt me forever.
My heart is breaking.
The World Wide War on Free Speech
Blasphemy is a capital offense in some places in the world.
Just remember that when lefties ask 'what could possibly go wrong' with enabling sharia courts in Western countries.
Just remember that when lefties ask 'what could possibly go wrong' with enabling sharia courts in Western countries.
Real War on Women
"A survivor of female genital mutilation (FGM) has revealed her terrifying ordeal after she was forced to undergo the procedure without anesthetic when she was just 11-years-old."
"Damaris Monty, now 14, from Tangulbei, Kenya, and a mother to a two-year-old daughter, had no idea what getting cut meant before it happened to her and four other young girls who were lined up to be mutilated."
"Damaris Monty, now 14, from Tangulbei, Kenya, and a mother to a two-year-old daughter, had no idea what getting cut meant before it happened to her and four other young girls who were lined up to be mutilated."
Thursday, August 6, 2015
Fantastic, Must Read: Daniel Greenfield Gives A Tour of Our Decadent Civlization
This is sooooooooooooooo good.
I have read it several times already and you should, too.
I wish I could pull excerpts from it, but it appears to be coded to prevent that (which is really annoying, but I guess linking is preferred).
Read the whole thing.
It's definitely one of the best summaries of Western decadence and decline that I have read recently. It's short, sweet and devastatingly accurate.
Well done, Sultan Knish.
The Knish is a very, very, very smart Jew.
I have read it several times already and you should, too.
I wish I could pull excerpts from it, but it appears to be coded to prevent that (which is really annoying, but I guess linking is preferred).
Read the whole thing.
It's definitely one of the best summaries of Western decadence and decline that I have read recently. It's short, sweet and devastatingly accurate.
Well done, Sultan Knish.
The Knish is a very, very, very smart Jew.
For All Their Talk About Green, Clean and Pristine, Why Are Liberal Cities So Disgustingly Filthy?
Good question! And I think we all know the answer.
BECAUSE LIBERALS.
Behold: your city on liberalism.
"San Fransisco lamp post, corroded by urine, nearly kills motorist."
BECAUSE LIBERALS.
Behold: your city on liberalism.
"San Fransisco lamp post, corroded by urine, nearly kills motorist."
George Jonas: Is There A Clash Between Civilizations?
Via scaramouche a good one from George Jonas referring to Bernard Lewis, who really did go soft on Islam in my opinion. Just because you are smart, doesn't mean you get it right-especially about Islam.
"A broken record is an annoyance at the best of times; in the nuclear age, it’s a calamity. Letting 12th-century minds have access to 21st-century weapons, as the West did in Vienna last month, in exchange of a promise of “peace in our time,” is likely to ensure a war in our time — and one that may not even be possible to win."
"A broken record is an annoyance at the best of times; in the nuclear age, it’s a calamity. Letting 12th-century minds have access to 21st-century weapons, as the West did in Vienna last month, in exchange of a promise of “peace in our time,” is likely to ensure a war in our time — and one that may not even be possible to win."
Thursday Link Dump! The World According to Me!
Me me me!
VERY BUSY BLAH BLAH BLAH, lots to do, but always time for interesting articles, and sharing is caring, right?!?!
So, here's a random sampling of doom and gloom and other stuff I find interesting and cool from the four corners of the world.
Cool-ancient Mikvah found in Jerusalem.
And, the most ancient scroll since the Dead Sea Scrolls has been found and deciphered in Israel.
From our 'I hate it when that happens file':
Joe Jackson strokes out in Brazil after popping mucho Viagra and trying to bonk too many young ladies at a time. Hey, nobody's perfect, am I right?!?!
New York City mayor: a fictitious creation, good one on The Politics of Delusion from City Journal.
"To call de Blasio a self-made man would be a charitable way of putting it. More accurately, he is a made-up man. Born Warren Wilhelm, Jr., he painfully watched his Loomis- and Yale-educated war-hero father decline into anger, depression, and drunkenness after he lost his federal budget-analyst job in the wake of a congressional probe into his and his wife’s left-wing politics."
From our "fake hate crimes" file: After falsely accusing their neighbour of being a rednecked homophobe, two Tennessee Lesbaneses have been found out for defacing and burning their own house down to get "hate crime" insurance pay off.
Public School Educators (fire them all): 8th grade teacher in Arizona assigns vulgar, violent, profanity-laced gangster rap as poetry assignment.
Palestinian discusses the difference between Jews and Palestinians when it comes to the murder of innocents:
"We have failed to educate our people on the principles of tolerance and peace. Instead, we continue to condone and applaud terrorism, especially when it is directed against Jews. We want the whole world to condemn terrorism only when it claims the lives of Palestinians. We have reached a point where many of us are either afraid to speak out against terrorism or simply accept it when it claims the lives of Jews."
"The Israeli president has good reason to be ashamed for the murder of the baby. But when will we Palestinians ever have a sense of shame over the way we are reacting to the murder of Jews? When will we stop glorifying terrorists, and naming streets and public squares after them, instead of strongly denouncing them and expelling them from our society? We still have a lot to learn from Israeli leaders and the Israeli public."
ENJOY TALK TO YA LATER!
VERY BUSY BLAH BLAH BLAH, lots to do, but always time for interesting articles, and sharing is caring, right?!?!
So, here's a random sampling of doom and gloom and other stuff I find interesting and cool from the four corners of the world.
Cool-ancient Mikvah found in Jerusalem.
And, the most ancient scroll since the Dead Sea Scrolls has been found and deciphered in Israel.
From our 'I hate it when that happens file':
Joe Jackson strokes out in Brazil after popping mucho Viagra and trying to bonk too many young ladies at a time. Hey, nobody's perfect, am I right?!?!
New York City mayor: a fictitious creation, good one on The Politics of Delusion from City Journal.
"To call de Blasio a self-made man would be a charitable way of putting it. More accurately, he is a made-up man. Born Warren Wilhelm, Jr., he painfully watched his Loomis- and Yale-educated war-hero father decline into anger, depression, and drunkenness after he lost his federal budget-analyst job in the wake of a congressional probe into his and his wife’s left-wing politics."
From our "fake hate crimes" file: After falsely accusing their neighbour of being a rednecked homophobe, two Tennessee Lesbaneses have been found out for defacing and burning their own house down to get "hate crime" insurance pay off.
Public School Educators (fire them all): 8th grade teacher in Arizona assigns vulgar, violent, profanity-laced gangster rap as poetry assignment.
Palestinian discusses the difference between Jews and Palestinians when it comes to the murder of innocents:
"We have failed to educate our people on the principles of tolerance and peace. Instead, we continue to condone and applaud terrorism, especially when it is directed against Jews. We want the whole world to condemn terrorism only when it claims the lives of Palestinians. We have reached a point where many of us are either afraid to speak out against terrorism or simply accept it when it claims the lives of Jews."
"The Israeli president has good reason to be ashamed for the murder of the baby. But when will we Palestinians ever have a sense of shame over the way we are reacting to the murder of Jews? When will we stop glorifying terrorists, and naming streets and public squares after them, instead of strongly denouncing them and expelling them from our society? We still have a lot to learn from Israeli leaders and the Israeli public."
ENJOY TALK TO YA LATER!
Mark Steyn: Bakin' Baby Syndrome
Mark Steyn comments on the Mengele-level destruction of human life in America, via "Planned Parenthood".
I believe he is the only commentator thus far to rightly say "so what", to the argument that any percentage of non-crunchy, well-baked baby murder is alright.
Thus:
"~After I discussed the matter with Sean Hannity on Fox News last week, I got a barrage of abuse from abortion absolutists with a familiar talking point: abortions are "only three per cent" of what Planned Parenthood does. This statistic is very curiously formulated:
"Any murderer could make the same defense: Murderers actually spend very little time murdering. For 99.99 per cent of the time Major Hasan was providing psychiatric services to US military personnel, and standing on the table, opening fire and yelling "Allahu Akbar!" was only 0.01 per cent of his business model. So what?"
"That dentist in Minnesota everyone wants to string up: C'mon, give the guy a break. Ninety-seven percent of his time is devoted to cavities and root canals. The lion-killing portion of his schedule is minimal."
"If you were told that the fellow at the convenience store devotes 97 per cent of his time to selling groceries and gasoline but once in a while he likes to go down to the seedy part of town, chop up a hooker and leave the pieces in a trunk at the airport, but don't worry, it's only three per cent of what he does, would you still want to buy a quart of milk from the guy? American liberals say: What's the problem? They're so used to looking the other way, they've immobilized their moral compass."
PLUS EXTRA BONUS STEYN CITING OF STRANGE, ZIONIST JEWISH MOTHER FROM TORONTO:
"~But then the self-absorbed hedonism of modern western life necessarily requires desensitization. Bloomberg reports an ISIS "sex slave" price list acquired in Iraq by UN official Zainab Bangura: A woman over 40 will set you back a mere 41 bucks, but if you prefer a girl aged nine or under - and who doesn't? - the price rises to $165. As Laura Rosen Cohen points out, this is the real "war on women". But nobody cares - because to care, seriously, either about an infanticide-industrial complex or nine-year-old sex-slaves in an American protectorate, would ask something of us. And to ask something - anything - more than a supportive hashtag is too much."
*waves*
*Mark-we just cannot go on meeting like this, only "getting together" to discuss baby murders. OY VEY, I'M SO DEPRESSED ALREADY...GOOD GRIEF EVERYTHING IS SO GLECHHHHHH*
*Dr. Laura prescribes taking two People magazines with (dry) Red Wine Therapy on a full stomach (sushi always nice), taken liberally with Show Tunes and calling me in the morning...*
I believe he is the only commentator thus far to rightly say "so what", to the argument that any percentage of non-crunchy, well-baked baby murder is alright.
Thus:
"~After I discussed the matter with Sean Hannity on Fox News last week, I got a barrage of abuse from abortion absolutists with a familiar talking point: abortions are "only three per cent" of what Planned Parenthood does. This statistic is very curiously formulated:
The group said that abortions account for three per cent of the 10.9m services its provides in nearly 700 clinics."Even if you know what that actually means, the correct response is: So what? Do American liberals listen to what they're saying: What percentage of a business model does selling baby parts have to be for it to disturb you?"
"Any murderer could make the same defense: Murderers actually spend very little time murdering. For 99.99 per cent of the time Major Hasan was providing psychiatric services to US military personnel, and standing on the table, opening fire and yelling "Allahu Akbar!" was only 0.01 per cent of his business model. So what?"
"That dentist in Minnesota everyone wants to string up: C'mon, give the guy a break. Ninety-seven percent of his time is devoted to cavities and root canals. The lion-killing portion of his schedule is minimal."
"If you were told that the fellow at the convenience store devotes 97 per cent of his time to selling groceries and gasoline but once in a while he likes to go down to the seedy part of town, chop up a hooker and leave the pieces in a trunk at the airport, but don't worry, it's only three per cent of what he does, would you still want to buy a quart of milk from the guy? American liberals say: What's the problem? They're so used to looking the other way, they've immobilized their moral compass."
PLUS EXTRA BONUS STEYN CITING OF STRANGE, ZIONIST JEWISH MOTHER FROM TORONTO:
"~But then the self-absorbed hedonism of modern western life necessarily requires desensitization. Bloomberg reports an ISIS "sex slave" price list acquired in Iraq by UN official Zainab Bangura: A woman over 40 will set you back a mere 41 bucks, but if you prefer a girl aged nine or under - and who doesn't? - the price rises to $165. As Laura Rosen Cohen points out, this is the real "war on women". But nobody cares - because to care, seriously, either about an infanticide-industrial complex or nine-year-old sex-slaves in an American protectorate, would ask something of us. And to ask something - anything - more than a supportive hashtag is too much."
*waves*
*Mark-we just cannot go on meeting like this, only "getting together" to discuss baby murders. OY VEY, I'M SO DEPRESSED ALREADY...GOOD GRIEF EVERYTHING IS SO GLECHHHHHH*
*Dr. Laura prescribes taking two People magazines with (dry) Red Wine Therapy on a full stomach (sushi always nice), taken liberally with Show Tunes and calling me in the morning...*
New York City Public High School Thinks "The Three Little Pigs" Is Age Appropriate
Public school educators.
Your moral and intellectual superiors:
"The city DOE said the use of “The Three Little Pigs” at Landmark was a five-minute “Do Now” activity at the start of class to get the juniors settled down and ready to work."
"It was also intended to help the kids consider whether telling the tale from the wolf’s point of view would change the moral of the story, officials said."
These "officials" should have their asses whooped.
“The purpose was to use a simple, well-known story to support understanding of bias in a college-level text,” Principal Caron Pinkus said in an e-mail.
“After this introduction exercise, students held a discussion about bias and point of view in the college-level texts they were reading.”
This Principal should be out on his butt. FIRED.
"But Robert Pondiscio, a senior fellow at the Fordham Institute, said, “The Three Little Pigs . . . is simply not a grade-level text, at least no version I’m aware of. Color me skeptical.”
Your moral and intellectual superiors:
"The city DOE said the use of “The Three Little Pigs” at Landmark was a five-minute “Do Now” activity at the start of class to get the juniors settled down and ready to work."
"It was also intended to help the kids consider whether telling the tale from the wolf’s point of view would change the moral of the story, officials said."
These "officials" should have their asses whooped.
“The purpose was to use a simple, well-known story to support understanding of bias in a college-level text,” Principal Caron Pinkus said in an e-mail.
“After this introduction exercise, students held a discussion about bias and point of view in the college-level texts they were reading.”
This Principal should be out on his butt. FIRED.
"But Robert Pondiscio, a senior fellow at the Fordham Institute, said, “The Three Little Pigs . . . is simply not a grade-level text, at least no version I’m aware of. Color me skeptical.”
Wisconsin's Shame, Americans Should Be Very Worried
Audio tapes of the disgraceful "John Doe" investigation of witch hunt on conservatives emerge.
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Obama Court Eunuch Jeffrey Goldberg Interviews John Kerry And the Results Are Horrifying
Goldberg values his Court Jew status too much to really make any kind of sensible, bold statement about how his BFFs are treating Israel i.e enabling genocidal Iranian Shia anhiliation.
However, given his access to the most antisemitic administration in American history, one should read this interview very carefully.
I imagine Binyamin Netanyahu has already read it, and boy would I like to be a fly on the wall in that situation room. And by "would I like to be there", I mean like, give away my first-born child level of want, if you know what I mean?!?
So, here's what we are dealing with:
Goldberg: Do you believe that Iranian leaders sincerely seek the elimination of the Jewish state?
Kerry: I think they have a fundamental ideological confrontation with Israel at this particular moment. Whether or not that translates into active steps to, quote, “Wipe it,” you know...
Goldberg: Wipe it off the map.
Kerry: I don’t know the answer to that. I haven’t seen anything that says to me—they’ve got 80,000 rockets in Hezbollah pointed at Israel, and any number of choices could have been made. They didn’t make the bomb when they had enough material for 10 to 12. They’ve signed on to an agreement where they say they’ll never try and make one and we have a mechanism in place where we can prove that. So I don’t want to get locked into that debate. I think it’s a waste of time here.
And what kind of diplomat speaks like this? This is crude, gutter talk and completely undignified and an utter defilement of such a high office. This man is so vulgar, it's embarrassing:
"The ayatollah constantly believed that we are untrustworthy, that you can’t negotiate with us, that we will screw them. This will be the ultimate screwing."
Shame on America. Shame on Americans for electing Obama twice.
However, given his access to the most antisemitic administration in American history, one should read this interview very carefully.
I imagine Binyamin Netanyahu has already read it, and boy would I like to be a fly on the wall in that situation room. And by "would I like to be there", I mean like, give away my first-born child level of want, if you know what I mean?!?
So, here's what we are dealing with:
Goldberg: Do you believe that Iranian leaders sincerely seek the elimination of the Jewish state?
Kerry: I think they have a fundamental ideological confrontation with Israel at this particular moment. Whether or not that translates into active steps to, quote, “Wipe it,” you know...
Goldberg: Wipe it off the map.
Kerry: I don’t know the answer to that. I haven’t seen anything that says to me—they’ve got 80,000 rockets in Hezbollah pointed at Israel, and any number of choices could have been made. They didn’t make the bomb when they had enough material for 10 to 12. They’ve signed on to an agreement where they say they’ll never try and make one and we have a mechanism in place where we can prove that. So I don’t want to get locked into that debate. I think it’s a waste of time here.
And what kind of diplomat speaks like this? This is crude, gutter talk and completely undignified and an utter defilement of such a high office. This man is so vulgar, it's embarrassing:
"The ayatollah constantly believed that we are untrustworthy, that you can’t negotiate with us, that we will screw them. This will be the ultimate screwing."
Shame on America. Shame on Americans for electing Obama twice.
Joining the Family Business (Death) in Pakistan
It's a living, right?
"Like most executioners from the times of the British Raj, Mr Masih is a Christian. His surname is the local name for Jesus, and is a common surname among Christians of the sub-continent.
He has sunken and heavily wrinkled eyes, teeth turned yellow from chewing tobacco and a heavy stammer in his speech, but a lean, 5ft 10in frame and bold facial features."
"Hanging is my family profession," he says.
"My father was a hangman, and his father was a hangman, and his father and grandfather before him - since the times of the East India Company."
"Like most executioners from the times of the British Raj, Mr Masih is a Christian. His surname is the local name for Jesus, and is a common surname among Christians of the sub-continent.
He has sunken and heavily wrinkled eyes, teeth turned yellow from chewing tobacco and a heavy stammer in his speech, but a lean, 5ft 10in frame and bold facial features."
"Hanging is my family profession," he says.
"My father was a hangman, and his father was a hangman, and his father and grandfather before him - since the times of the East India Company."
Naked Archeologist Tour of Israel! Nice!
My buddy Simcha Jacobovici is putting together a really amazing tour of Israel.
It's not cheap, but if you've got the dough, this is a really great itinerary.
If you have never been to Israel and money is not an issue, I'd highly recommend this tour to you.
It's not cheap, but if you've got the dough, this is a really great itinerary.
If you have never been to Israel and money is not an issue, I'd highly recommend this tour to you.
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Heaven Help Us
The Islamic barbarians of ISIS have released a list of prices for sex slaves. They like them 'the younger the better'.
Of course, these bastards are just as disgusting as Planned Parenthood.
This is the real war on women, the real war on humans.
The outrageous part of all of this is the abject lack of outrage.
Woe unto us.
Of course, these bastards are just as disgusting as Planned Parenthood.
This is the real war on women, the real war on humans.
The outrageous part of all of this is the abject lack of outrage.
Woe unto us.
The 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do
I saw this mentioned by Rush Limbaugh, and thought Rush's thoughts were excellent as well as the original article he cited.
Not to brag, but it sounds pretty much like a laundry list of the advice I live by, and that I give to others. Very sensible stuff, so I won't be buying the book. This is exactly the kind of common sense whooping I give to people who ask for my advice.
It does make me wonder if there is really a healthy market for such books. I guess not everyone has a friend that they can talk to, or relative that can give them such a healthy dose of common sense.
Like I always say-"common sense", NOT SO COMMON.
I think one of the main things is definitely not to live in the past. The most miserable people I know are always re-hashing their past wounds. It's unproductive and really boring and prevents living a really good and full life in the present and future. That's because nobody can change what they did in the past, or how they responded. Being angry or resentful about the past keeps people trapped in a vicious grievance theatre kabuki loop. It's so awful, and simply excruciating to listen to-sometimes you have to, because you're trapped.
I would also say that forgiveness is a very important part of living a good, "mentally strong" life. When you forgive, you don't forget the past pain entirely, you just don't let it dictate your present or future behaviour. Forgiveness is liberating. It does not mean that an event didn't hurt, and it did not mean that you should trust a person who hurt you. It means that you are the master of your own feelings, and you are not shackled to the past.
(There are exceptions of course. I am not talking about violence and murder. I am referring primarily to the emotional and psychological rendered by "friends", family and colleagues unto one another.)
Tomorrow is a new day, and we still have the rest of today. The past has been put to bed and that's where it should stay.
Not to brag, but it sounds pretty much like a laundry list of the advice I live by, and that I give to others. Very sensible stuff, so I won't be buying the book. This is exactly the kind of common sense whooping I give to people who ask for my advice.
It does make me wonder if there is really a healthy market for such books. I guess not everyone has a friend that they can talk to, or relative that can give them such a healthy dose of common sense.
Like I always say-"common sense", NOT SO COMMON.
I think one of the main things is definitely not to live in the past. The most miserable people I know are always re-hashing their past wounds. It's unproductive and really boring and prevents living a really good and full life in the present and future. That's because nobody can change what they did in the past, or how they responded. Being angry or resentful about the past keeps people trapped in a vicious grievance theatre kabuki loop. It's so awful, and simply excruciating to listen to-sometimes you have to, because you're trapped.
I would also say that forgiveness is a very important part of living a good, "mentally strong" life. When you forgive, you don't forget the past pain entirely, you just don't let it dictate your present or future behaviour. Forgiveness is liberating. It does not mean that an event didn't hurt, and it did not mean that you should trust a person who hurt you. It means that you are the master of your own feelings, and you are not shackled to the past.
(There are exceptions of course. I am not talking about violence and murder. I am referring primarily to the emotional and psychological rendered by "friends", family and colleagues unto one another.)
Tomorrow is a new day, and we still have the rest of today. The past has been put to bed and that's where it should stay.
Palestinian Says Palestinians Are Destroying Themselves (Duh!)
But who will listen to him?
Nobody. The Palestinians provide the world with too juicy an antisemitic raison d'être.
"The growing state of anarchy in the Gaza Strip, as well as the continued power struggle between Hamas and Fatah, do not bode well for those who still believe that the creation of a Palestinian state will bring about peace and stability in the region. The way things are going these days, particularly in the Gaza Strip, it seems that a future Palestinian state will be added to the list of Arab countries that are currently witnessing civil wars and bloodbaths."
"It is time for the international community to wake up and realize that the Palestinian dream of establishing an independent state is being destroyed by none other than the Palestinians themselves."
Nobody. The Palestinians provide the world with too juicy an antisemitic raison d'être.
"The growing state of anarchy in the Gaza Strip, as well as the continued power struggle between Hamas and Fatah, do not bode well for those who still believe that the creation of a Palestinian state will bring about peace and stability in the region. The way things are going these days, particularly in the Gaza Strip, it seems that a future Palestinian state will be added to the list of Arab countries that are currently witnessing civil wars and bloodbaths."
"It is time for the international community to wake up and realize that the Palestinian dream of establishing an independent state is being destroyed by none other than the Palestinians themselves."
The Atlantic: The Grotesque Chumminess of Obama And the Iranian Regime
MUST READ.
"When one speaks about an unfree country, one may refer either to its people or to its regime. One cannot refer at once to both, because they are not on the same side."
"Obama likes to think, when he speaks of Iran, that he speaks of its people, but in practice he has extended his hand to its regime."
"With his talk about reintegrating Iran into the international community, about the Islamic Republic becoming “a very successful regional power” and so on, he has legitimated a regime that was more and more lacking in legitimacy."
"(There was something grotesque about the chumminess, the jolly camaraderie, of the American negotiators and the Iranian negotiators. Why is Mohammad Javad Zarif laughing?)"
"The text of the agreement states that the signatories will submit a resolution to the UN Security Council “expressing its desire to build a new relationship with Iran.” Not a relationship with a new Iran, but a new relationship with this Iran, as it is presently—that is to say, theocratically, oppressively, xenophobically, aggressively, anti-Semitically, misogynistically, homophobically—constituted.
"When the president speaks about the people of Iran, he reveals a bizarre refusal to recognize the character of life in a dictatorship. In his recent Nowruz message, for example, he exhorted the “people of Iran … to speak up for the future [they] seek.” To speak up! Does he think Iran is Iowa?"
"The last time the people of Iran spoke up to their government, they left their blood on the streets"
Because Obama let them bleed to death, of course. The Iranian people needed a Reagan and they got a Worse-Than-Carter.
"When one speaks about an unfree country, one may refer either to its people or to its regime. One cannot refer at once to both, because they are not on the same side."
"Obama likes to think, when he speaks of Iran, that he speaks of its people, but in practice he has extended his hand to its regime."
"With his talk about reintegrating Iran into the international community, about the Islamic Republic becoming “a very successful regional power” and so on, he has legitimated a regime that was more and more lacking in legitimacy."
"(There was something grotesque about the chumminess, the jolly camaraderie, of the American negotiators and the Iranian negotiators. Why is Mohammad Javad Zarif laughing?)"
"The text of the agreement states that the signatories will submit a resolution to the UN Security Council “expressing its desire to build a new relationship with Iran.” Not a relationship with a new Iran, but a new relationship with this Iran, as it is presently—that is to say, theocratically, oppressively, xenophobically, aggressively, anti-Semitically, misogynistically, homophobically—constituted.
"When the president speaks about the people of Iran, he reveals a bizarre refusal to recognize the character of life in a dictatorship. In his recent Nowruz message, for example, he exhorted the “people of Iran … to speak up for the future [they] seek.” To speak up! Does he think Iran is Iowa?"
"The last time the people of Iran spoke up to their government, they left their blood on the streets"
Because Obama let them bleed to death, of course. The Iranian people needed a Reagan and they got a Worse-Than-Carter.
Ooooh! Hope and Change I Can Actually Get Behind! In Europe Of All Places!
Via Instapundit:
The Dutch royalty are, in a sense, telling the folks to go Dutch!
"In its place a "participation society" is emerging, in which people must take responsibility for their own future and create their own social and financial safety nets, with less help from the national government."
FURTHERMORE:
"The classic welfare state of the second half of the 20th century in these areas in particular brought forth arrangements that are unsustainable in their current form."
(Now if they would only deal with their "unsustainable" immigration policy-otherwise known as cultural and national suicide-there could be hope for Europe.)
The Dutch royalty are, in a sense, telling the folks to go Dutch!
"In its place a "participation society" is emerging, in which people must take responsibility for their own future and create their own social and financial safety nets, with less help from the national government."
FURTHERMORE:
"The classic welfare state of the second half of the 20th century in these areas in particular brought forth arrangements that are unsustainable in their current form."
(Now if they would only deal with their "unsustainable" immigration policy-otherwise known as cultural and national suicide-there could be hope for Europe.)
Obama Publishes New Book on How to Destroy Israel
Oh whoops. Did I say Obama?
I meant Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, silly me!
Obama might have ghost written.
He loves his Jew-hating, Jew-killing terrorists.
Maybe he just hired Bill Ayers to ghost write.
Whatevs, right?
I meant Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, silly me!
Obama might have ghost written.
He loves his Jew-hating, Jew-killing terrorists.
Maybe he just hired Bill Ayers to ghost write.
Whatevs, right?
Looks Good on You, Europe.
The Dar Al Islam is spreading throughout all of Europe with nary a fight.
There are now new, stylish, "No Go Zones" (i.e sharia enclaves) in Germany.
It's terribly hard to feel sorry for Germany.
So I don't.
There are now new, stylish, "No Go Zones" (i.e sharia enclaves) in Germany.
It's terribly hard to feel sorry for Germany.
So I don't.
The Coming American Revolt Against the Ruling Class
"America has long had a ruling class but the public was willing to
tolerate it during the three decades after World War II, when prosperity
was widely shared and when the Soviet Union posed a palpable threat.
Then, the ruling class seemed benevolent and wise"
"Yet in the last three decades – when almost all the nation’s economic gains have gone to the top while the wages of most people have gone nowhere – the ruling class has seemed to pad its own pockets at the expense of the rest of America."
Yup.
"Yet in the last three decades – when almost all the nation’s economic gains have gone to the top while the wages of most people have gone nowhere – the ruling class has seemed to pad its own pockets at the expense of the rest of America."
Yup.
Rest in Peace: Les Munro, Final Suriving Pilot of WW2 Dam-Busters Mission Dies at 96
An incredible story of bravery skill and heroism.
If you don't know about the dam-busters, you should.
Rest in peace.
If you don't know about the dam-busters, you should.
Rest in peace.
The Bravest Jew In Britain?
While the Official Jews sit out the storm, waiting for the calm that will never come to the UK, one Jew takes action. Apparently, it is beyond the Official Jews' "capacity" to organize a demonstration. ZZZZzzzzz *baloney*.
Meet a Cohen who has got SOME STONES.
This is good stuff.
He says it's a mitzvah to DO SOMETHING.
Amen to that.
Something is always better than NOTHING.
Meet a Cohen who has got SOME STONES.
This is good stuff.
"His inspiration and his approach come from the Muslims that he has met."
“Islam is the fastest-growing religion in
Britain and their outreach programs train young Muslims. I was inspired
by their evangelism and ability to convert thousands of people to Islam
in Britain using similar tactics. You can see their stalls on many
street corners where with free material and well trained advocates they
persuade large numbers of people to join Islam,” he says."
“I want to channel a similar energy and
technique into advocating for Israel and exposing the British public at
street level to the Israeli cause,” says Cohen, who sets up tables with
information on Israel at the pro-Palestinian protests he attends."
He says it's a mitzvah to DO SOMETHING.
Amen to that.
Something is always better than NOTHING.
Sunday, August 2, 2015
Looooong Weekend, Baby!
We Canucks have a long weekend! Yay us!
I'm pretty much off-line having fun, wish you were here, etc...
See ya Tuesday!
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