This is an overtly antisemitic administration.
Completely and overtly antisemitic.
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Ex CBS Reporter: The Government Bugged My Computer
Imagine Big Brother reading every key stroke, listening to every Skype call, looking at every Google chat.
It's real.
The question is-what will free people do about it?
Probably just hit the liberty snooze button.
It's real.
The question is-what will free people do about it?
Probably just hit the liberty snooze button.
Ottawa Terrorist: Acting in the Name of Allah Because of Canadian Foreign Policy
"In the video, Zehaf Bibeau says he will act in the name of Allah in response to Canada’s foreign policy, a source close to the investigation
told The Canadian Press."
Make sure to read Kathy Draidlebaum's article "You Want a Fight" right here at TAKI Magazine.
“It’s been a tough week for Canadian Muslims.”
"I sincerely wish I were pulling your leg, but that’s really how the National Post began the somberly italicized deck it stuck on top of what was clearly a hastily arranged interview with career apologist for Islam Karen Armstrong."
"Because after two Canadian soldiers have been murdered by Muslims in 48 hours, who better than Armstrong to help out with the “nothing to see here” whitewash? Hey, her name even starts with an A. No need to dig much deeper into that old contact list."
"The Post went on to scold its readers: “[A] predictable backlash has emerged,” you see. “On Friday, for example, a mosque in Cold Lake, Alta., was vandalized, its windows smashed, its front defaced by graffiti calling for members to ‘go home.’”
"And, well, that was about it, actually. For a “backlash,” it was less Kristallnacht than Kristal-Not."
Make sure to read Kathy Draidlebaum's article "You Want a Fight" right here at TAKI Magazine.
“It’s been a tough week for Canadian Muslims.”
"I sincerely wish I were pulling your leg, but that’s really how the National Post began the somberly italicized deck it stuck on top of what was clearly a hastily arranged interview with career apologist for Islam Karen Armstrong."
"Because after two Canadian soldiers have been murdered by Muslims in 48 hours, who better than Armstrong to help out with the “nothing to see here” whitewash? Hey, her name even starts with an A. No need to dig much deeper into that old contact list."
"The Post went on to scold its readers: “[A] predictable backlash has emerged,” you see. “On Friday, for example, a mosque in Cold Lake, Alta., was vandalized, its windows smashed, its front defaced by graffiti calling for members to ‘go home.’”
"And, well, that was about it, actually. For a “backlash,” it was less Kristallnacht than Kristal-Not."
OH MAH GAWD HUBBA HUBBA + Inspiring!
"Fitness is better than any medicine out there."
AMEN, Sgt. Noah Galloway! What an inspiration, and does he get about a gazillion, bazillion eleventy million degrees hotter with that southern accent? I mean FOR REAL!?!?
Also on that the theme of "fitness is better than any medicine out there" (love that, gonna totally steal that..)
"Outrunning depression: Exploring the link between body and mind."
Let's put it this way-body and mind are one unit, you cannot abuse one without abusing the other.
If you are depressed, HIT THE GYM. Hit the sidewalk, move your body.
Take control of your life and move your body to improve your mind.
AMEN, Sgt. Noah Galloway! What an inspiration, and does he get about a gazillion, bazillion eleventy million degrees hotter with that southern accent? I mean FOR REAL!?!?
Also on that the theme of "fitness is better than any medicine out there" (love that, gonna totally steal that..)
"Outrunning depression: Exploring the link between body and mind."
Let's put it this way-body and mind are one unit, you cannot abuse one without abusing the other.
If you are depressed, HIT THE GYM. Hit the sidewalk, move your body.
Take control of your life and move your body to improve your mind.
Monday, October 27, 2014
Afghan Mullah Who Raped a 10 Year Old Girl: "She Seduced Me"
If you would like to know about the evil we are up against read these words:
"The girl, whose name is being withheld for her safety outside her village, sat about six feet away and covered her face entirely with her veil so she would not have to see Mullah Amin, who did not once look at her."
(Safety outside her village of course, because she could get murdered for being abused and raped.)
"The girl, whose name is being withheld for her safety outside her village, sat about six feet away and covered her face entirely with her veil so she would not have to see Mullah Amin, who did not once look at her."
(Safety outside her village of course, because she could get murdered for being abused and raped.)
"She
wept uncontrollably as the prosecutor, Mujahid Raidan, read the
mullah’s earlier, detailed confession and the investigative report
detailing her horrific injuries. But when the mullah spoke in his own
defense and claimed she had seduced him, the girl stopped sobbing and
pulled aside her veil enough to speak directly to him.
“Hey liar, hey
liar,” she said.
“God hate you, you are dirt, you are dirt, you are a
vampire.”
She is perhaps one of the bravest 10 year old girls on the planet in one of the most disgusting countries on earth.
Shame on everyone who is complicit with this evil.
America Is In the Very Best of Hands Under Obama and Kerry: Buzkashi Edition
So, while American taxpayers have forked over hundreds of millions of dollars to keep a corrupt, sharia, thug regime in power in Afghanistan, the story just gets even better...
America?
Hi, how you?
Here's what your government has been up to lately...IT IS UP TO THE WAZOO IN GOAT CARCASSES AT YOUR EXPENSE.
"Buzkashi, the national sport of Afghanistan, is a fascinating game that's sort of like a cross between polo and rugby, except that instead of a ball you play with a headless goat carcass. I recommend you watch it sometime, and apparently, the State Department does, too."
"The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko suspects something is "seriously wrong" and wants to know what the hell is going on. Earlier this month he sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry asking about a bizarre boondoggle in which the State Department paid millions to film the sport:
So really, just how much bungling, how much waste, how much appeasement, how many episodes of TSA Kabuki Theatre, how many episodes of "workplace violence", just how many goat carcasses must be purchased by the dhimmified West before we just say "enough"?
How many headless goat carcasses will you tolerate?
How many headless citizens?
The answer, of course, should be zero.
And if you had to hesitate at all, even for a moment, if you are OK with even one single solitary taxpayer-funded goat carcass, or even one solitary headless citizen with blood running down your allegedly free street, in your allegedly free country then you're part of the problem.
America?
Hi, how you?
Here's what your government has been up to lately...IT IS UP TO THE WAZOO IN GOAT CARCASSES AT YOUR EXPENSE.
"Buzkashi, the national sport of Afghanistan, is a fascinating game that's sort of like a cross between polo and rugby, except that instead of a ball you play with a headless goat carcass. I recommend you watch it sometime, and apparently, the State Department does, too."
"The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko suspects something is "seriously wrong" and wants to know what the hell is going on. Earlier this month he sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry asking about a bizarre boondoggle in which the State Department paid millions to film the sport:
The contract originally specified five trucks at a cost of $6 million (three satellite/microwave television broadcast trucks at the unit price of $1,786,779, two Ford ES350 trucks at a unit price of $157,300 and various communications equipment). The primary use of the vehicles was for "live sporting events, such as Buzkashi, Soccer, Cricket and other sports."2 On September 16, 2013, the contract was amended to require only 3 trucks, at a cost of $3.6 million (one satellite/microwave television broadcast truck at the unit price of $1,589,557 and two Ford ES350 trucks at a unit price of $568,062).3 SIGAR has been told that the contractor received unspecified compensation for costs incurred under the original contract."
So really, just how much bungling, how much waste, how much appeasement, how many episodes of TSA Kabuki Theatre, how many episodes of "workplace violence", just how many goat carcasses must be purchased by the dhimmified West before we just say "enough"?
How many headless goat carcasses will you tolerate?
How many headless citizens?
The answer, of course, should be zero.
And if you had to hesitate at all, even for a moment, if you are OK with even one single solitary taxpayer-funded goat carcass, or even one solitary headless citizen with blood running down your allegedly free street, in your allegedly free country then you're part of the problem.
Catching Up On SteynLinks...
Although I generally am of the mind that there can never be too much of a good thing, I can't keep up with the volume of STEYNLINKS. The SteynStuff, it just keeps coming!!
There is video, audio, there are blog posts...it's a veritable Steynian Symphony-so cheers to the conductor of all this Undocumented Mayhem and, of course-the maestro himself.
In case you missed it:
Mark Steyn on the Dennis Miller Show-REALLY GOOD. I really, really like Dennis Miller and this is a fantastic conversation. Ballsy and candid, forthright and emotionally and intellectually honest. Do listen to the whole thing.
Here's Steyn on Townhall's Weekend Journal.
Lastly, please have a read of Steyn's two conversations with radio host Hugh Hewitt.
This one is the preliminary conversation about the new book, The [Un]Documented Mark Steyn, and it is really a very good read.
The first transcript has the bit of business about the Saudi Wahabi that Steyn had a very hysterically funny and unusual bromance with-yeah, I went there-I called it a bromance. I actually think that the "relationship" with the late Saudi is possibly one of the funniest things to do with Mark Steyn, ever-EVER EVER EVAH EVAH (and, as you may suspect, I am familiar with much of his writing...). The dedication in the books alone makes me laugh every single time I read it, think about it or hear about it.
Also, this candid bit about loyalty is really lovely:
"Well, I’ve always been grateful. I worked in Fleet Street, and if you know anything about those slimy, duplicitous Englishmen, particularly the ones who infest the media, you will know that after you spend a couple of years among them, you’re grateful for loyalty. Conrad Black was loyal to me when I needed it, and I’m loyal to him not for any, I’m a sort of semi-reclusive guy, so when Conrad fell afoul of the U.S. Department of Justice and wound up going to jail for three and a half years or whatever it was in some terrible federal prison in Miami, where I went to visit him, because under some bizarre quirk of American law, Canadians are not eligible for minimum security prisons."
"So the guy wound up going to a prison full of, although he’d committed a sort of so-called white collar crime largely invented by the government, he wound up going to jail with a bunch of murderers and rapists and drug dealers. And it was very odd-like sitting in the visiting room surrounded by all these menacing people you’d normally cross the street to avoid. But Conrad, you know, he was loyal to me. I’m always grateful to you. I wasn’t really known in the United States when you asked me to appear on your show, and there’s certainly no reason why you should have some obscure foreigner telling your listeners everything that’s wrong with the world every week, but you were kind enough to me at a time when hardly anybody knew who I was in this country. And that’s always the most important thing, that the first break you get in a certain market, whether it’s America, Australia or whatever, I don’t forget that. And I’m very grateful for it."
The second one is here, and also, well worth your time.
"I don’t want us to change to deal with the fact that we have lunatics who have got this kind of ideological Ebola in their bloodstream, and who want to pump bullets into a corporal from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, because he’s standing in front of the Canadian War Memorial, and they want to destroy all that that represents. The price we’re being asked to pay is too high. I want to kill that ideology. It is an ideological Ebola, and we have got to eradicate it. And I’m not interested in more detectors and more rules and taking my shoes off and taking my underwear off and taking everything off and shuffling like a zombie through ever-longer security lines because we don’t have the guts to deal with it."
And this absolute gem, I mean, seriously SHUT UP!!!
(And when I say "shut up" I really mean NEVER EVER STOP WRITING, NOT EVER, PLEASE PRETTY PLEASE...)
"...you know, I love writing about songs, but you have to earn small pleasures…even the smallest pleasure, even a 32 bar song. The right to sing that requires a certain amount of vigilance. That small pleasure is not universal. The Taliban banned music. They criminalized music."
And this:
"You win by destroying the enemy’s will."
Ummm HELLO!?!??!?!? You know what??!?!
This Steyn fellow should write a book or something...
(They also talk about the Barbie in A Burqa essay from Maclean's, which is where yours truly is mentioned...)
I do enjoy listening to Steyn, but I find that I can just as easily 'hear' his voice through his writing and that often the act of reading, as opposed to listening, makes me think of the subjects in a different way, and I like that I can go back and read the conversation a couple of times to make sure I haven't missed any really choice nuggets.
I've highlighted a few bits that should stiffen your resolve and spine, but do read each of them and listen to the interview with Dennis Miller and the Townhall piece for yourselves.
There is video, audio, there are blog posts...it's a veritable Steynian Symphony-so cheers to the conductor of all this Undocumented Mayhem and, of course-the maestro himself.
In case you missed it:
Mark Steyn on the Dennis Miller Show-REALLY GOOD. I really, really like Dennis Miller and this is a fantastic conversation. Ballsy and candid, forthright and emotionally and intellectually honest. Do listen to the whole thing.
Here's Steyn on Townhall's Weekend Journal.
Lastly, please have a read of Steyn's two conversations with radio host Hugh Hewitt.
This one is the preliminary conversation about the new book, The [Un]Documented Mark Steyn, and it is really a very good read.
The first transcript has the bit of business about the Saudi Wahabi that Steyn had a very hysterically funny and unusual bromance with-yeah, I went there-I called it a bromance. I actually think that the "relationship" with the late Saudi is possibly one of the funniest things to do with Mark Steyn, ever-EVER EVER EVAH EVAH (and, as you may suspect, I am familiar with much of his writing...). The dedication in the books alone makes me laugh every single time I read it, think about it or hear about it.
Also, this candid bit about loyalty is really lovely:
"Well, I’ve always been grateful. I worked in Fleet Street, and if you know anything about those slimy, duplicitous Englishmen, particularly the ones who infest the media, you will know that after you spend a couple of years among them, you’re grateful for loyalty. Conrad Black was loyal to me when I needed it, and I’m loyal to him not for any, I’m a sort of semi-reclusive guy, so when Conrad fell afoul of the U.S. Department of Justice and wound up going to jail for three and a half years or whatever it was in some terrible federal prison in Miami, where I went to visit him, because under some bizarre quirk of American law, Canadians are not eligible for minimum security prisons."
"So the guy wound up going to a prison full of, although he’d committed a sort of so-called white collar crime largely invented by the government, he wound up going to jail with a bunch of murderers and rapists and drug dealers. And it was very odd-like sitting in the visiting room surrounded by all these menacing people you’d normally cross the street to avoid. But Conrad, you know, he was loyal to me. I’m always grateful to you. I wasn’t really known in the United States when you asked me to appear on your show, and there’s certainly no reason why you should have some obscure foreigner telling your listeners everything that’s wrong with the world every week, but you were kind enough to me at a time when hardly anybody knew who I was in this country. And that’s always the most important thing, that the first break you get in a certain market, whether it’s America, Australia or whatever, I don’t forget that. And I’m very grateful for it."
The second one is here, and also, well worth your time.
"I don’t want us to change to deal with the fact that we have lunatics who have got this kind of ideological Ebola in their bloodstream, and who want to pump bullets into a corporal from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, because he’s standing in front of the Canadian War Memorial, and they want to destroy all that that represents. The price we’re being asked to pay is too high. I want to kill that ideology. It is an ideological Ebola, and we have got to eradicate it. And I’m not interested in more detectors and more rules and taking my shoes off and taking my underwear off and taking everything off and shuffling like a zombie through ever-longer security lines because we don’t have the guts to deal with it."
And this absolute gem, I mean, seriously SHUT UP!!!
(And when I say "shut up" I really mean NEVER EVER STOP WRITING, NOT EVER, PLEASE PRETTY PLEASE...)
"...you know, I love writing about songs, but you have to earn small pleasures…even the smallest pleasure, even a 32 bar song. The right to sing that requires a certain amount of vigilance. That small pleasure is not universal. The Taliban banned music. They criminalized music."
And this:
"You win by destroying the enemy’s will."
Ummm HELLO!?!??!?!? You know what??!?!
This Steyn fellow should write a book or something...
(They also talk about the Barbie in A Burqa essay from Maclean's, which is where yours truly is mentioned...)
I do enjoy listening to Steyn, but I find that I can just as easily 'hear' his voice through his writing and that often the act of reading, as opposed to listening, makes me think of the subjects in a different way, and I like that I can go back and read the conversation a couple of times to make sure I haven't missed any really choice nuggets.
I've highlighted a few bits that should stiffen your resolve and spine, but do read each of them and listen to the interview with Dennis Miller and the Townhall piece for yourselves.
American "Higher Education" Is Finished
Mark Steyn often refers to the "battle" for gender neutral, "trans-safe" bathrooms as the singular make work, decadent, pathetic issue that defines the decline of Western society in a nutshell. Or in a bathroom stall, as it were.
When the prophet Mark Steyn, PBUH speaks about such matters, he knows of what he speaks.
Behold: San Diego State University hold "Sh&t In" to "raise awareness" about the limited number of gender neutral bathrooms on campus.
Did you hear that sound?
That is the sound of Western culture and civilization being flushed down the toilet.
I wish I could say I was sh&tting you...
"As students walked through the main thoroughfare at San Diego State University on Tuesday they were greeted by students with their pants down sitting atop a row of toilets."
"Such an appearance in the middle of a college quad is sure to raise questions, and that was the hope of the Transgender Action Advocacy Student Coalition with their “Shit In” protest."
"Five toilets – sometimes adorned with students – set along Campanille Walkway had newspapers with the words “Gender Neutral Bathrooms Now” written in bold letters. Students were encouraged to sit on a toilet and take selfies with the hashtag #SDSUShitIn."
"The protest aimed to raise awareness about what some deem is the limited number of gender neutral bathrooms on campus."
As I have said before, the only place where there should EVER be "gender neutral" bathrooms is in private homes. And as you'll notice, oddly enough, the more money people have the more bathrooms, and the more private bathrooms they invest in!
"I love sharing my bathroom with my [insert person/relationship here] and I would never want my own bathroom," said nobody EVER.
In a civilized society, there is running water, flushing toilets and there are always sex-separated bathrooms. The entrance card to a bathroom in a civilized society must be based on one's own personal plumbing, period. Political correctness and pathetic first-world coddling of lavatory neurosis be dammed, I say.
In closing, here is a helpful guide to bathrooms and who should be using them.
If you have a (real) penis =>Men's room.
If you have a (real) vagina =>Ladies' room.
YOU'RE WELCOME.
When the prophet Mark Steyn, PBUH speaks about such matters, he knows of what he speaks.
Behold: San Diego State University hold "Sh&t In" to "raise awareness" about the limited number of gender neutral bathrooms on campus.
Did you hear that sound?
That is the sound of Western culture and civilization being flushed down the toilet.
I wish I could say I was sh&tting you...
"As students walked through the main thoroughfare at San Diego State University on Tuesday they were greeted by students with their pants down sitting atop a row of toilets."
"Such an appearance in the middle of a college quad is sure to raise questions, and that was the hope of the Transgender Action Advocacy Student Coalition with their “Shit In” protest."
"Five toilets – sometimes adorned with students – set along Campanille Walkway had newspapers with the words “Gender Neutral Bathrooms Now” written in bold letters. Students were encouraged to sit on a toilet and take selfies with the hashtag #SDSUShitIn."
"The protest aimed to raise awareness about what some deem is the limited number of gender neutral bathrooms on campus."
As I have said before, the only place where there should EVER be "gender neutral" bathrooms is in private homes. And as you'll notice, oddly enough, the more money people have the more bathrooms, and the more private bathrooms they invest in!
"I love sharing my bathroom with my [insert person/relationship here] and I would never want my own bathroom," said nobody EVER.
In a civilized society, there is running water, flushing toilets and there are always sex-separated bathrooms. The entrance card to a bathroom in a civilized society must be based on one's own personal plumbing, period. Political correctness and pathetic first-world coddling of lavatory neurosis be dammed, I say.
In closing, here is a helpful guide to bathrooms and who should be using them.
If you have a (real) penis =>Men's room.
If you have a (real) vagina =>Ladies' room.
YOU'RE WELCOME.
Ottawa: An "Ideological and Political Attack" With No Actual Name or Description
From the Daily Mail:
"A gunman who shot and killed a soldier at Canada's national war memorial and then stormed Parliament before he was gunned down had prepared a video recording of himself that reveals his ideological and political motives, police claim.
"The footage of Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, which is yet to be released, is said to confirm investigators' fears that this was a meticulously planned terrorist attack."
"Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Bob Paulson said in a statement they have 'persuasive evidence that Michael Zehaf-Bibeau's attack was driven by ideological and political motives."
What kind of ideology?
What politics? What motive?
This is exactly the conversation that needs to take place but a climate of fear and political correctness has gripped our allegedly free society to the point where we cannot even discuss the issues.
The answers to questions such as what ideology, what politics, and what motive with respect to this attack in particular and other terrorist attacks in general, need to be made public.
"Lone wolves" are never really alone, are they?
"Lone wolves" are part of an internet pack. In today's day and age of digital communication, there really is no "alone". Even the most benign human rarely, if ever, ever can act and live in a complete vacuum, bereft of contact with others. Conversely, the most sinister humans amongst us will always need some kind of human collaboration, companionship, fellowship, encouragement and support.
Please note that at the very least, law enforcement forces are saying that this was a "meticulously planned terrorist attack". Not spontaneous or random: meticulous.
That word alone needs to serve as a very serious warning to us all.
Who is taking this seriously?
"A gunman who shot and killed a soldier at Canada's national war memorial and then stormed Parliament before he was gunned down had prepared a video recording of himself that reveals his ideological and political motives, police claim.
"The footage of Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, which is yet to be released, is said to confirm investigators' fears that this was a meticulously planned terrorist attack."
"Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Bob Paulson said in a statement they have 'persuasive evidence that Michael Zehaf-Bibeau's attack was driven by ideological and political motives."
What kind of ideology?
What politics? What motive?
This is exactly the conversation that needs to take place but a climate of fear and political correctness has gripped our allegedly free society to the point where we cannot even discuss the issues.
The answers to questions such as what ideology, what politics, and what motive with respect to this attack in particular and other terrorist attacks in general, need to be made public.
"Lone wolves" are never really alone, are they?
"Lone wolves" are part of an internet pack. In today's day and age of digital communication, there really is no "alone". Even the most benign human rarely, if ever, ever can act and live in a complete vacuum, bereft of contact with others. Conversely, the most sinister humans amongst us will always need some kind of human collaboration, companionship, fellowship, encouragement and support.
Please note that at the very least, law enforcement forces are saying that this was a "meticulously planned terrorist attack". Not spontaneous or random: meticulous.
That word alone needs to serve as a very serious warning to us all.
Who is taking this seriously?
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Pigs Head Put in Kosher Section of Grocery Because These People Are Not Antisemites
They just don't like those nasty Israelis, you get it?
Must Read Rex Murphy: In the Shadow of A Young Corporal's Death, Canada's Greatness Shines Through
This is a beautiful column by one of Canada's most thoughtful and eloquent thinkers and writers.
There was a lot of goodness and bravery on that dark day. I think it's really important to remember though that for the immediate family, there is no 'getting over' this catastrophe. There is only 'getting through' a very sad, new life without a loved one.
And as much as the picture of Corporal Cirrilo's dogs was heartbreaking, we must remember all the pictures we will not see of his young son.
Murphy writes:
"Everyone has seen that image, the huddle of people bent over him, and, as we have learned from news stories, even to his last breath assuring him that “he was loved.” It was very much the parable of the Good Samaritan in real and present time, only in Ottawa Wednesday morning, it wasn’t one Samaritan. There were at least four."
"Such loving attention, at a time when the scene was still in chaos and it was unknown how many shooters there might be, said so much more than the thousands of words we have heard. Even in the shadow of the young corporal’s death, it is not too much to say that this was a very gratifying moment — a tragic moment, but one worth honouring. All Canadians immediately recognized the actions of the corporal’s final companions as an example of how people should act at such a time, how we would wish to have acted. And how, heaven forbid, we may wish to be treated if it was us laying on that sacred ground, breathing our last breaths."
There was a lot of goodness and bravery on that dark day. I think it's really important to remember though that for the immediate family, there is no 'getting over' this catastrophe. There is only 'getting through' a very sad, new life without a loved one.
And as much as the picture of Corporal Cirrilo's dogs was heartbreaking, we must remember all the pictures we will not see of his young son.
Murphy writes:
"Everyone has seen that image, the huddle of people bent over him, and, as we have learned from news stories, even to his last breath assuring him that “he was loved.” It was very much the parable of the Good Samaritan in real and present time, only in Ottawa Wednesday morning, it wasn’t one Samaritan. There were at least four."
"Such loving attention, at a time when the scene was still in chaos and it was unknown how many shooters there might be, said so much more than the thousands of words we have heard. Even in the shadow of the young corporal’s death, it is not too much to say that this was a very gratifying moment — a tragic moment, but one worth honouring. All Canadians immediately recognized the actions of the corporal’s final companions as an example of how people should act at such a time, how we would wish to have acted. And how, heaven forbid, we may wish to be treated if it was us laying on that sacred ground, breathing our last breaths."
Do read the whole thing.
Regarding the National Post:
I am still tempted to cancel my Saturday subscription to the National Post because page A2 featured that disgusting apologist for terrorism, Karen Armstrong-who has the nerve to claim that those goofy guys in Syria, those silly ISIS folks just don't understand Islam. You see-she does but they don't.
Who picked that cretin to "explain" away terrorism in the National Post-really a loathsome choice, indicating a pathetic bias.
Friday, October 24, 2014
Steyn: Crying "Lone Wolf" (With Extra Bonus Agreement With Strange, Jewish Mother From Canada...)
"The guy who took a hatchet to a New York policeman was apparently a
"lone wolf", just like the guy who took a double-barreled shotgun to a
Canadian soldier was a "lone-wolf". Earlier today, I swung by Varney & Co on Fox Business to discuss the umpteenth member of Local 473 of the Amalgamated Union of Lone Wolves:"
"This term 'lone wolf' is a cop-out…the idea that they somehow have to have a membership card in Islamic State or in al Qaeda for it to be official, fully-credentialed terror, like getting a hairdresser's license in New York State is completely preposterous" he stated."
"Steyn added that the rhetoric of "lone wolf" terrorists allows those who do not want to admit that radical Islam is a problem to brush off terror as isolated incidents, saying "all jihad is local. That actually suits them, to say, 'oh no this is just some mentally ill guy in Ottawa and this is another guy who's a bit goofy in New York and there's no connection between the two.' Because otherwise you have to treat it like your other big story. You have to treat it like ideological Ebola and you have to stop the infection..."
Meanwhile:
"One other thought on events in Ottawa and St Jean this week, courtesy of Laura Rosen Cohen:
I was listening to a popular morning radio show this morning and the discussion focused on several themes. One was how to support Canada's military in the wake of the terrorist attacks this week. This is a particularly important topic given that Canada's soldiers were instructed not to wear their uniforms in public.
This of course, is the absolutely wrong way of dealing with terrorism. The terrorists targeted our soldiers and killed our soldiers.
Traditionally, in human history, when hostile forces plot and murder your soldiers-that is called war.
The answer to a declaration of war is not taking off your uniform.
It's wearing it prouder. It's more uniforms, more soldiers, more direct engagement, and being more resolute and more public about your national pride and security."
"She's right."
(I loooooove the sound of that. I mean, I love being right, and being on the right and I love Mark Steyn saying "she's right" when referring to me...it has a very nice ring to it, you know what I mean? Of course you do!)
*Waves*
*Regains composure*
*Slinks back, reluctantly to regular, suburban life*
And lastly, getting even more Steyny with it:
"If we have to have dress codes on the streets of free societies, I'd rather see more men like Corporal Cirillo in the uniform of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders ...and fewer women in head-to-toe black body bags. As I've said umpteen times on radio and TV these last two days, I'm tired of being told that we have to change to accommodate them."
AMEN, Mr. Steyn.
A final note-also on the show this morning, a former military man called in and said many people had asked why the guards at the memorial weren't armed. I haven't checked this yet, but the caller said that it is illegal for members of the armed forces to carry ammunition in their weapons when they are off base unless they are military police.
That is certainly something I think the government should change.
In Israel, for example, all soldiers have weapons and so do many civilians and there are no mass shootings-which are generally related to mental illness rather than actual possession of a weapon-contrary to the popular narrative.
As the brave Sergeant At Arms in Ottawa demonstrated, and as so many civilians and police officers and soldiers in Israel have demonstrated, it takes one good shot to prevent a massacre and neutralize a terrorist.
Of course the shrill left will protest any changes that would enable Canadians to have anything close to an open carry law. Still I think it is an important conversation to have here in Canada.
"This term 'lone wolf' is a cop-out…the idea that they somehow have to have a membership card in Islamic State or in al Qaeda for it to be official, fully-credentialed terror, like getting a hairdresser's license in New York State is completely preposterous" he stated."
"Steyn added that the rhetoric of "lone wolf" terrorists allows those who do not want to admit that radical Islam is a problem to brush off terror as isolated incidents, saying "all jihad is local. That actually suits them, to say, 'oh no this is just some mentally ill guy in Ottawa and this is another guy who's a bit goofy in New York and there's no connection between the two.' Because otherwise you have to treat it like your other big story. You have to treat it like ideological Ebola and you have to stop the infection..."
Meanwhile:
"One other thought on events in Ottawa and St Jean this week, courtesy of Laura Rosen Cohen:
I was listening to a popular morning radio show this morning and the discussion focused on several themes. One was how to support Canada's military in the wake of the terrorist attacks this week. This is a particularly important topic given that Canada's soldiers were instructed not to wear their uniforms in public.
This of course, is the absolutely wrong way of dealing with terrorism. The terrorists targeted our soldiers and killed our soldiers.
Traditionally, in human history, when hostile forces plot and murder your soldiers-that is called war.
The answer to a declaration of war is not taking off your uniform.
It's wearing it prouder. It's more uniforms, more soldiers, more direct engagement, and being more resolute and more public about your national pride and security."
"She's right."
(I loooooove the sound of that. I mean, I love being right, and being on the right and I love Mark Steyn saying "she's right" when referring to me...it has a very nice ring to it, you know what I mean? Of course you do!)
*Waves*
*Regains composure*
*Slinks back, reluctantly to regular, suburban life*
And lastly, getting even more Steyny with it:
"If we have to have dress codes on the streets of free societies, I'd rather see more men like Corporal Cirillo in the uniform of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders ...and fewer women in head-to-toe black body bags. As I've said umpteen times on radio and TV these last two days, I'm tired of being told that we have to change to accommodate them."
AMEN, Mr. Steyn.
A final note-also on the show this morning, a former military man called in and said many people had asked why the guards at the memorial weren't armed. I haven't checked this yet, but the caller said that it is illegal for members of the armed forces to carry ammunition in their weapons when they are off base unless they are military police.
That is certainly something I think the government should change.
In Israel, for example, all soldiers have weapons and so do many civilians and there are no mass shootings-which are generally related to mental illness rather than actual possession of a weapon-contrary to the popular narrative.
As the brave Sergeant At Arms in Ottawa demonstrated, and as so many civilians and police officers and soldiers in Israel have demonstrated, it takes one good shot to prevent a massacre and neutralize a terrorist.
Of course the shrill left will protest any changes that would enable Canadians to have anything close to an open carry law. Still I think it is an important conversation to have here in Canada.
Krauthammer: "Barack Obama, Bewildered Bystander"
Good essay from Krauthammer but I still believe that the "chaos" is intentional and sinister, not accidental.
He may not have managed anything in the past, but he is certainly competent at managing the complete deterioration of America. As I say, I'm inclined more and more to believe it is by design and not by 'incompetence'.
"There’s only one problem with this pose, so obligingly transcribed for him by the Times. It’s his
government. He’s president. Has been for six years. Yet Barack Obama
reflexively insists on playing the shocked outsider when something goes
wrong within his own administration."
Thus:
"When it then turns out that vast, faceless bureaucracies tend to be incapable, inadequate, hopelessly inefficient and often corrupt, Obama resorts to expressions of angry surprise."
"He must. He’s not simply protecting his own political fortunes. He’s trying to protect faith in the entitlement state by portraying its repeated failures as shocking anomalies."
"Unfortunately, the pretense has the opposite effect. It produces not reassurance but anxiety. Obama’s determined detachment conveys the feeling that nobody’s home. No one leading. Not even from behind."
He may not have managed anything in the past, but he is certainly competent at managing the complete deterioration of America. As I say, I'm inclined more and more to believe it is by design and not by 'incompetence'.
"The president is upset. Very upset. Frustrated
and angry. Seething about the government’s handling of Ebola, said the
front-page headline in the New York Times last Saturday."
Thus:
"When it then turns out that vast, faceless bureaucracies tend to be incapable, inadequate, hopelessly inefficient and often corrupt, Obama resorts to expressions of angry surprise."
"He must. He’s not simply protecting his own political fortunes. He’s trying to protect faith in the entitlement state by portraying its repeated failures as shocking anomalies."
"Unfortunately, the pretense has the opposite effect. It produces not reassurance but anxiety. Obama’s determined detachment conveys the feeling that nobody’s home. No one leading. Not even from behind."
Feeling Good About Ourselves and Our Small Battles While Losing the War
I was listening to a popular morning radio show this morning and the discussion focused on several themes. One was how to support Canada's military in the wake of the terrorist attacks this week. This is a particularly important topic given that Canada's soldiers were instructed not to wear their uniforms in public.
This of course, is the absolutely wrong way of dealing with terrorism. The terrorists targeted our soldiers and killed our soldiers.
Traditionally, in human history, when hostile forces plot and murder your soldiers-that is called war.
The answer to a declaration of war is not taking off your uniform.
It's wearing it prouder. It's more uniforms, more soldiers, more direct engagement, and being more resolute and more public about your national pride and security.
Clearly, there are many Canadians troubled by the idea of soldiers being asked, essentially, to hide themselves in public "for security" reasons. It is unacceptable that hiding your warrior identity is the new "security" in Canada, or anywhere else in the civilized world for that matter.
So the callers to the radio show and the host talked about having camouflage style armbands, or caps-proceeds of which could go to the family of the murdered solider (another bad idea in my view, what could possibly go wrong with money being raised for a good cause...). Perhaps pins? Perhaps an early distribution of Remembrance Day poppy pins?
The problem is that these are all big picture, band-aid and feel good solutions for individuals who have good intentions about showing strength, solidarity or resolution. These are fleeting and momentary, narcotic-like fixes, and little self-contained "battles" when we are already losing the war.
Losing the war? How so?
In allegedly free societies, we have already surrendered so much of our personal liberty that we have essentially lost a big part of the war against the evil barbarians.
We live in a society now where our hard-won fight to speak freely, and think freely have all but disintegrated in front of our passive eyes. When you live in an allegedly "free" society that polices jokes, regulates speech and criminalizes speech or thoughts, you have already lost.
When people are too afraid to discuss their legitimate concerns about immigration, about integration and about the religious nature of terrorist attacks, you have already lost. And make no mistake about it, these loses of personal freedom are big victories for the terrorists.
While they Tweet freely, mock our losses of life, make Facebook pages and death cult snuff videos, behead people in free countries on public roads in broad daylight, kill babies in carriages and lure teenage girls to serve as sex slaves in Syria, the same people who might somberly wear a poppy, lay a wreath and even donate money to good causes, are afraid to freely speak their mind in public about contentious issues.
The general result of having a 'controversial' opinion about the various "science-is-settled" topics of our day ensures a kind of supine and craven, punitive professional, political and social suicide for those who dare question contemporary narratives i.e have a different opinion-their own opinion about any number of subjects.
Is this what our forefathers fought for?
If you wear a poppy, but can't tell a joke, how free are you?
If you donate to the child of the murdered soldier, but are afraid to talk about religion, or politics in public, how free are you?
If your soldiers are murdered, in cold blood while in uniform, and you tell them to take off their uniform, how safe are you personally or nationally? The instruction-the capitulation- to take off the uniform is, in many ways just as damning to a society in the long run than the "lone wolf" or even the "non-lone wolf" attacking our civilians and soldiers.
If everyone would start taking the war on freedom and our way of life seriously, and make no mistake about it-it is a real war, there would not only be fewer attacks, but there would also be fewer Pyrrhic victories in small battles.
The forces of evil are emboldened not just by their own sense of invincibility, but by our pathetic acquiescence to codes of silence and behaviour and accommodation that we have imposed upon ourselves.
Culturcide is not just a terribly painful thing to watch. It is actually a profoundly evil thing for free people to participate in.
This of course, is the absolutely wrong way of dealing with terrorism. The terrorists targeted our soldiers and killed our soldiers.
Traditionally, in human history, when hostile forces plot and murder your soldiers-that is called war.
The answer to a declaration of war is not taking off your uniform.
It's wearing it prouder. It's more uniforms, more soldiers, more direct engagement, and being more resolute and more public about your national pride and security.
Clearly, there are many Canadians troubled by the idea of soldiers being asked, essentially, to hide themselves in public "for security" reasons. It is unacceptable that hiding your warrior identity is the new "security" in Canada, or anywhere else in the civilized world for that matter.
So the callers to the radio show and the host talked about having camouflage style armbands, or caps-proceeds of which could go to the family of the murdered solider (another bad idea in my view, what could possibly go wrong with money being raised for a good cause...). Perhaps pins? Perhaps an early distribution of Remembrance Day poppy pins?
The problem is that these are all big picture, band-aid and feel good solutions for individuals who have good intentions about showing strength, solidarity or resolution. These are fleeting and momentary, narcotic-like fixes, and little self-contained "battles" when we are already losing the war.
Losing the war? How so?
In allegedly free societies, we have already surrendered so much of our personal liberty that we have essentially lost a big part of the war against the evil barbarians.
We live in a society now where our hard-won fight to speak freely, and think freely have all but disintegrated in front of our passive eyes. When you live in an allegedly "free" society that polices jokes, regulates speech and criminalizes speech or thoughts, you have already lost.
When people are too afraid to discuss their legitimate concerns about immigration, about integration and about the religious nature of terrorist attacks, you have already lost. And make no mistake about it, these loses of personal freedom are big victories for the terrorists.
While they Tweet freely, mock our losses of life, make Facebook pages and death cult snuff videos, behead people in free countries on public roads in broad daylight, kill babies in carriages and lure teenage girls to serve as sex slaves in Syria, the same people who might somberly wear a poppy, lay a wreath and even donate money to good causes, are afraid to freely speak their mind in public about contentious issues.
The general result of having a 'controversial' opinion about the various "science-is-settled" topics of our day ensures a kind of supine and craven, punitive professional, political and social suicide for those who dare question contemporary narratives i.e have a different opinion-their own opinion about any number of subjects.
Is this what our forefathers fought for?
If you wear a poppy, but can't tell a joke, how free are you?
If you donate to the child of the murdered soldier, but are afraid to talk about religion, or politics in public, how free are you?
If your soldiers are murdered, in cold blood while in uniform, and you tell them to take off their uniform, how safe are you personally or nationally? The instruction-the capitulation- to take off the uniform is, in many ways just as damning to a society in the long run than the "lone wolf" or even the "non-lone wolf" attacking our civilians and soldiers.
If everyone would start taking the war on freedom and our way of life seriously, and make no mistake about it-it is a real war, there would not only be fewer attacks, but there would also be fewer Pyrrhic victories in small battles.
The forces of evil are emboldened not just by their own sense of invincibility, but by our pathetic acquiescence to codes of silence and behaviour and accommodation that we have imposed upon ourselves.
Culturcide is not just a terribly painful thing to watch. It is actually a profoundly evil thing for free people to participate in.
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