Imperial President On Annual Pilgrimage to Hawaii, Runs Errand En Route

I'm in the wrong line of work. 

Oh, and on the way, he had an errand to run. 

"On the way to Hawaii, Obama stopped in Southern California to carry out what has become one of the grimmest rituals of his presidency: consoling the grieving relatives of victims of gun violence."

I THINK YOU SPELLED JIHADI TERRORISM WRONG THERE

"Obama and his wife spent nearly three hours late Friday hearing from the loved ones of the nine men and five women killed December 2 when a married couple opened fire on the husband's co-workers at a workplace holiday party in San Bernardino, east of Los Angeles. "

YUP JUST A MARRIED COUPLE NOTHING TO SEE HERE COULD HAVE BEEN ANY MARRIED COUPLE

"Obama said the meetings in a high school library were 'so moving' because the families were so representative of the country."

YUP NOTHING LIKE HAVING A BROAD SELECTION OF CITIZENS MURDERED BY JIHADI TERRORISTS TO FULLY REPRESENT THE COUNTRY THAT'S THE MAIN THING, RIGHT? 

Duuuuuuude!

From Our Growing "Jews Are the New Jews" File

Nutbar Iranian-American professor from the University of San Diego thinks Muslims are the new Jews.

Sorry.

Jews are the new Jews.

Jihadis are the new Nazis. 

Jean Vanier: Finding the Places of Hope

Jean Vanier is one of my favourite living Catholics. And yes-I like him much better than the current socialist Pope for what it's worth.

Vanier is a magnificent human being.

He's a living saint, whose grace radiates from every word he speaks and every action he does. He simply elevates the human spirit. I just love him even though I completely disagree with him on the nature of Muslim terrorism.

This is a magnificent article by Ian Brown. Humbling and wondrous and the ending made me cry. Like really cry.

See what you think.  

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks: The Value of "Reframing"

This is a delightful essay by Rabbi Sacks on this week's Torah portion, Vayigash. 

I love the story of Joseph, I find it profoundly moving. I was also reading today about Daniel the Prophet, dreams, and the writing on the wall. Daniel is another figure that resonates with me personally every time I read about him.

Do read the whole essay from Rabbi Sacks, it's wonderful.

"Before being sent to Auschwitz, Frankl had been a therapist specialising in curing people who had suicidal tendencies. In the camp, he devoted himself, as far as he could, to giving his fellow prisoners the will to live, knowing that if they lost it, they would soon die."

"There he made the fundamental discovery for which he later became famous:

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.[2]

What made the difference, what gave people the will to live, was the belief that there was a task for them to perform, a mission for them to accomplish, that they had not yet completed and that was waiting for them to do in the future. Frankl discovered that “it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.”[3]

"Joseph, without knowing it, had become the precursor of one of the great movements in psychotherapy in the modern world. He showed the power of reframing. We cannot change the past. But by changing the way we think about the past, we can change the future."

"Whatever situation we are in, by reframing it we can change our entire response, giving us the strength to survive, the courage to persist, and the resilience to emerge, on the far side of darkness, into the light of a new and better day."

The Scourge of Super Dumb, Morally Preening Liberal Dhimmi Jews - UPDATED!

It's a real problem.

A lot of liberals who were born Jewish use their Jewish birthright to show off their self-defined, self-designated moral superiority, they are the ones who "virtue signal" at every opportunity.

("Look how sensitive I am! I am a nice Jew, you will like me! We are not so bad! If you only knew us Jews, you would like us and hate would go away and everyone would eat manna from heaven all day, and cats and dogs would get along, and our cars could be driven on unicorn farts! Please love us!")

They are dangerous and a blight on the community-even if they are the "official Jews" allegedly "leading" the community. And even if they wear kippot.

Having an official title, or a lot of sway in the community doesn't mean that you have any smarts. 

Unfortunately, it usually means the exact opposite.

The Canadian Jewish community is chock full of stupid. 

Shimon Fogel should be fired. CIJA should stop pandering to the left. It's pathetic already.

Jews should not be "helping" or funding "Syrian" "migrants".

Syrian Muslims are not the "new" Jews.

Jews are the new Jews. 

The jihadists are the neo-Nazis.

Jews who fund and assist this endeavour are naive, self-centred and imbecilic at best, and at worst, will be indirectly responsible for the attacks on the Jewish community that will inevitably come as a result of their feckless actions.

And that's not an "if", it's a "when".

Too many leftist extremist who spit on their Jewish birthright by way of their political activities are unwilling to see the danger, and unable to see how obscene their comparisons are between Jewish victims of the Nazis and the current hijrah.

What's most important is they feel good about themselves! That's the main thing!

They are not like those other icky, xenophobic, Islamophobic, yucky Jews!!! They are different! They are the anointed ones. They plead LOVE ME to the people and communities that hate them. It's so sick.

These Jews are dumb and complicit. 

They have no concept of Judaism or history. 

They identify more with the enemy than with the Jewish people because it feeeeeeeels good to talk about how good they are. 

These are preening, supine dhimmis. 

Official Jewish community organizations are being hijacked by a leftist agenda, and nobody seems to care. 

Woe unto us.

And when I say "us" I refer not to the Jews only, but to the entire Western world.

Don't say you weren't warned.

UPDATED: 

From Daniel Greenfield, the last word on the subject:

"The Left's Muslim Replacement Theology For Jews" 

Seriously the best essay I have read thus far on this topic.

Read the whole thing.

Liberal, Canadian Feminist Female Journalist Attempts Slow, Mental Castration of Boys...

Fails miserably. 

Boys will be boys. 

This is absolutely hysterical.

I know it's meant to be earnest and stuff, and to try to show how reasonable and sane and wonderful and moderate Canadian liberals are, and how smart they are (smarter than you of course) but that's the reason why it's so funny.

Maybe using your children as social justice projects and try to change human nature is not such a great idea?

"My stepson was a toddler when we first met, and he regarded me with a mixture of guarded affection and well-founded suspicion. One of my first, idealistic moves as his new liberal Canadian stepmother was to confiscate his substantial collection of toy guns and hide them in a shopping bag at the bottom of the laundry hamper."

(His suspicious was clearly well-founded. Kids can smell insincere adults from a mile away.)

"At first I thought my domestic-disarmament policy was working, but after Freddy’s last birthday party, I realized my mistake. After opening the enormous haul of military battleships, supersoaker water pistols and light-up laser guns that his friends’ parents see as perfectly acceptable birthday presents, he threw himself across his pile of gifts and wailed, “Please Leah, let me keep my killing toys!”

This part is pathetic: 

"As it stands now, both boys in my house talk more or less constantly of killing. The more my husband and I earnestly try to impress upon them the real-life horrors of terrorism, mass shootings and the carnage of the ongoing missile attacks on Syria, et cetera, the more their murderous little eyes widen and their hunger for make-believe violence grows. Their blood-thirstiness seems to flourish in inverse proportion to the number of anatomically correct dolls, toy kitchens and gender-neutral non-conflict-based games I press upon them. Just last week, my three-year-old told me that when he grows up he wants to be “a flying soldier with loads of guns and a cricket bat for killing zombies who try to eat my brain.”

And now, the most excellent conclusion, from our bulging "from the mouths of babes" file: 

"When I try to introduce pro-gun-control arguments to my kids, their instant response is the same kind of fact-allergic, closed-loop thinking favoured by NRA supporters in the United States. “Santa doesn’t bring kids guns for Christmas because in real life guns are dangerous and kill people,” I told Freddy the other day."

"He looked at me like I was a long-haired bleeding heart naively chaining myself to a redwood pine as the logging trucks moved in."

(The truth hurts. Nice that she has some momentary lucid moments in here.)

“But what are we supposed to do if aliens come from outer space and try to kidnap us?” he queried."

“WHO’S GOING TO PROTECT OUR FAMILY THEN?"

Exactly. 

You know who is going to protect that family? 

Freddy. 

They're lucky to have him. 

My Idiot People: Hero IDF Officer Aviv Morag Finally Exonerated

This fine, brave young man was almost destroyed by the stupidity of some of the leftist army elites.

He was put through an absolutely disgusting ordeal. 

In a normal country, he would have immediately received his rank and have been recognized as a hero.

Better late than never some would say.

Better never late-and never dhimmi.

Enemies should never be coddled.

Imagine My Surprise!

Small Dutch down not so hot about the plans for getting invaded. 

Mazel Tov: Terror Victim Celebrates Bar Mitzvah at the Kotel

And not the funeral that those barbaric jihadist, Jew-hating, Palestinian child terrorists had planned for him.

Mazal tov, this gave me chills. 

Obama's America: Allahu Akbar is the New Merry Christmas

I

NOT

MAKING

THIS

UP

See here. 

Steyn: The Hundred Million Dollar Loooooooooooser

OK, that's my headline not Steyn's.

His is more polite.

I have the clip here from Mark Steyn's spot with Sean Hannity from last night.

But let's get the important stuff out of the way up front: fabulous tie (great colour) lovely suit!

Now, what were we talking about? Hmm...nice tie, nice pocket square, good suit.

Anything else on the agenda? I think that's all the critical stuff. Let me just think...

OHHHH!

Right right, OK now I remember, there is some kind of leadership race going on between Ted "Make Sand Glow" Cruz, Donald Trump and in Steyn's inimitable phrasing 'some 6 and a 1/2 other guys'.

HA!

OK, first watch Steyn, then listen to the Mark Levin clip below, because Cruz and Trump are surging exactly because Americans who are not crazy lefties or squishy fake conservatives are sick of being sold out by the people who are supposed to represent them.

Steyn first:


So now, lets talk about the dickless wonders of the Republican party.

Americans are clearly getting sick of being told to shut up and conform by the left and by the traitorous Republican establishment.  It's nauseating.

Here's a piece from Breitbart and Levin's clip is embedded within. It's so good, I love that he 'banned himself' from FOX. That's hysterical. 

Levin is very ballsy. I like him. Listen to the whole thing. I love his name for the WaPo, the "Washington Compost". Ha!

And here's exactly the kind of thing he's talking about.

A perfect example,  Paul Ryan's sleazy non-Republican move.

This guy is worse than useless to the Republic, he's damaging it. He's a loser.

A life-long bureaucrat and clearly an Obama fan girl.

Feh. 

France Is Dar Al-Islam, Paris is the new Gaza City

Eurabia is doomed.

From the Islamic hellhole formerly known as France:

"Paris synagogue daubed with poison, over a dozen Jews taken to hospital."

"Fourteen people were mildly poisoned by a toxic substance that was applied to the keypad of an electronic lock of a synagogue south of Paris. Members of the Jewish community of Bonneuil-sur-Marne on Monday called rescue services to report a sudden strong burning sensation in their eyes and itchy rashes on their skin, Le Parisien reported."

(Just "mildly" poisoned. Nice. As opposed to seriously, moderately, fatally-what? Seriously JTA, you can do any better than that?)

Some folks, like the Kuwaits, whose pathetic BUTTS were saved by the Western world, at a great cost in blood and treasure, take a more nuanced approach to their Jew-hatred.

Hey, they just don't want to get Joooooties! 

Meanwhile, here's a video from On December 7, when a charming passenger on a train from Paris to the southeastern suburb of Melun threatened and insulted a group of French Jews.

Just "mildly" of course because nothing ever done to Jews is serious.

These are just random, moderate, mild attacks by individuals who have nothing to do with Islam of course.

Welcome to the new France, which will hopefully be Judenrein within the next few years. 

Situation assessment: "Submission Possible"

(This is a must read by Clifford May about Michel Houellebecq's new book and I am so bloody pissed at myself for not thinking of that headline, it's so good because it's so bad and depressing. ARGH!)

Marhaba! 

Bienvenue à la République Islamique de la France!

Obama's Middle East

Awesome reset, President Obama.

Behold: the new Middle East.

"Death everywhere and extremism blooming, and killing beautiful souls.”

Breaking: Strange, Jewish Mother Makes Twitchy

Still laughing. 

Steyn: King Canute Sets The Global Thermostat

First of all, King Canute!

I mean, for real and not for joking, who even knows about that nowadays.

BUT ANYWAY:

Do listen to Mark Steyn this morning on the Oakley show. 

(The Bennet link is acting weird, I can't find any way to scroll, it may be that we have to wait until tomorrow to actually download the whole episode.)

In this interview, Steyn wickedly notes that Jeb Bush has spent an awful lot of money, close to $100 million dollars just to be at 3%, and that you should really spend much less money to be such a colossal loser.

The other best quip (in my not so humble opinion, because I don't do humble that well) Steyn's observation about Donald Trump, which was "if you think he's an idiot, you're gonna lose to him".

I thought that was awesome.

Actually, it reminded me if the standard Alinsky playbook (which actually Ted Cruz mentioned during the debate) where the political left declares anyone who is not on the political left "stupid". Reagan-stupid. Bush-stupid.

STOOOOOOOOPID. 

Only THEY can be be smart! And they are MUCH smarter than you, and know better than you how to run your life, and your money!

Conservatives only get moderately and incrementally smarter to the left, somehow, after they are dead.

It's sort of like how the political left likes dead Jews, but lives ones-especially those uppity ones living and breathing in Israel, not so much.

Cruz also had a great line that I thought would go viral, but alas, it didn't get much traction: "make sand glow".

The Oakley interview ends with a very nice plug for Steyn's new Christmas album, Feline Groovy. 

I've actually always suspected that Steyn and Marvin were Mew-ish, but hey what do I know?

James Bartholomew: "I Invented 'Virtue Signalling' And Now It's Taking Over the World

Do read the whole thing. 

"To my astonishment and delight, the phrase ‘virtue signalling’ has become part of the English language."

"I coined the phrase in an article here in The Spectator (18 April) in which I described the way in which many people say or write things to indicate that they are virtuous. Sometimes it is quite subtle. By saying that they hate theDaily Mail or Ukip, they are really telling you that they are admirably non-racist, left-wing or open-minded. One of the crucial aspects of virtue signalling is that it does not require actually doing anything virtuous. It does not involve delivering lunches to elderly neighbours or staying together with a spouse for the sake of the children. It takes no effort or sacrifice at all."

"I guess the reason that ‘virtue signalling’ has been used so much is that it fulfils a need"

"For years, people have noticed the phenomenon but did not have a word or phrase to describe it. One person tweeted, ‘Love it when you find out something that’s irritated you for years has a name #virtuesignalling.’ The lack of a phrase obstructed open discussion of what was going on."

"Newspeak, the fictional language created by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, limited the number of words people used with the intention of restricting the ability of people to express themselves and even to think. New phrases and words are the opposite of Newspeak. They make expression and argument easier."

The Mother of Virtue Signalling Images:
Imagine If This Woman Had Contacts With Powerful World Leaders, Just Imagine What She Could Do!

PS: Just sayin....

Beth Steinberg: "My Child, A Drain On Society? A Chanukah Story"

"A boy with obvious special needs, about 13, is accompanied by a teenaged girl, a couple of years older, to his after-Shutaf-camp program in Jerusalem. During the cab ride, the taxi driver, all smiles, chats with ease with his two travelers, playing the radio station requested by the boy with disabilities. The teen remembers feeling pleased at how pleasant the driver was, how accommodating."

"Upon reaching their destination and dropping off the boy with disabilities, the driver turned to her, a girl really, not quite 15 at the time, and remarked, “These children shouldn’t be allowed to live.”

"She was shocked. She remembers the feeling, the horror of what she felt at his statement, made with such seeming ease."

"Who was that 13-year-old boy? My son, Akiva."

LeBron James Wins the Internet Today

What a mensch.

Really.

I cried.

Camels and Goats and Terror OH MY!

A few stories that caught my ZioCon eye:

"Saudi husband's family calls for divorce after woman caught kissing camel." 

Yeah, don't you hate it when that happens?

Meanwhile in Sweden, puzzled locals ask who could be this cruel to a little, virgin goat? 

GEE I HAVEN'T GOT A CLUE!

But don't worry, local police have been contacted:

"We have contacted police but they have got a hard job to find the kind of person who does things like this," he said. 

Right, cannot imagine who on earth would be raping living things in Sweden. It's a real mystery. 

In "no Islamic terror to see here" Paris: 

"French police open fire on driver in central Paris." 

Hmm. Open fire on a "driver"? 

Then, we read further down and realize: 

Vehicular jihad is has arrived in Paris. 

France was totally chill about vehicular jihad when it only happened to Jews, in Israel. 

Alas, mes amis-what starts with Jews never ends with Jews. 

"Police in central Paris were forced to open fire on a vehicle after it smashed through security barriers at the Hôtel des Invalides monument, where the national memorial to the terror victims took place last month."

Surely a coincidence.