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Archive for 2015
December 13, 2015
SOON HAPPENING TO AMERICAN SERVICEMEN ABROAD? Note that only ONE side ever seeks to use this type of tactic. And it’s the side that’s usually guilty of the most war crimes. IDF reserve officer briefly detained in UK for war crimes. Remember, representative governments are outdistanced by tyrannical ones in the realms of propaganda and lawfare. And “International law” is a myth. A pernicious one.
December 12, 2015
IT’S NOT THE CULT I’M MOST CONCERNED WITH AT THE MOMENT, BUT THE TRUE BELIEVERS ARE PRETTY FANATICAL: Karol Markowicz: The Breast Feeding Cult Is Out Of Control.
VETTED: U.S. Visa Process Missed San Bernardino Wife’s Zealotry on Social Media. “Tashfeen Malik, who with her husband carried out the massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., passed three background checks by American immigration officials as she moved to the United States from Pakistan. None uncovered what Ms. Malik had made little effort to hide — that she talked openly on social media about her views on violent jihad. She said she supported it. And she said she wanted to be a part of it. . . . Had the authorities found the posts years ago, they might have kept her out of the country. But immigration officials do not routinely review social media as part of their background checks, and there is a debate inside the Department of Homeland Security over whether it is even appropriate to do so. . . . In an era when technology has given intelligence agencies seemingly limitless ability to collect information on people, it may seem surprising that a Facebook or Twitter post could go unnoticed in a background screening.”
The country’s in the very best of hands, and even the New York Times is noticing the fail.
The accompanying photo is likely to appear in some political ads.
VITAL OBSOLETE INDUSTRIES need bailouts!
WHAT IT’S LIKE TO EMPLOY REFUGEES IN EUROPE: “Training takes up to 60% of total working hours. Nervous employees, with few qualifications and little work experience, must be shown countless times how to do simple tasks. A few men who refused to take orders from a female boss had to be turned down for jobs.”
HMM: Houston Mayoral Runoff: Why It Might Matter to the Rest of the Country. “Houston is the fourth, or possibly third, largest city in the U.S., depending on how one counts, and one of two poised to assume the role of the U.S.’s most significant urban area. . . . Kevin Williamson recently wrote the article ‘Republicans Must Save the Cities,’ in which he noted that no city larger than San Diego has a Republican mayor. Tonight, if you hear that Bill King won Houston’s runoff mayoral election, then we will see what Republican fiscal leadership in a major U.S. city can do today.”
WELL, EVERY PRESIDENT NEEDS A ‘MISSION ACCOMPLISHED’ MOMENT: Obama: ‘Our Most Important Mission’ Realized in Climate Agreement.
And it’s far from the first time Mr. Obama has defined “climate change” as the world’s gravest threat.
READER OPTICS QUESTION: Reader Jim Ramnes emails: “I was wondering if you or your readers have any suggestions for AR optics? I’ve been surfing Amazon and the options are endless. Advice would be appreciated.”
I have the Aimpoint M4, which is pricey but excellent. When I was out at Rough Creek Lodge at Bullets & Bourbon the AR I shot had an Eotech sight, which was also good, and maybe a little easier to use. Any other recommendations?
OUCH: Trump: Hillary Says I’m Dangerous When ‘She’s The One That Caused So Many Deaths.’ “She was on one of the shows the other night and she was talking about Donald Trump talks very rough. he may be dangerous. Dangerous? She’s the one that caused so many deaths and everything with her horrible policies. You look at what’s gone on in Libya. You look at — and I’m not just mentioning Benghazi, which was a disaster in itself, but you look at so many of the decisions that she made that were so bad, so horrible, and honestly caused tremendous havoc and tremendous death. So, she’s the one that’s really got to justify her record that’s horrible.”
DHS HUNTING TWO AFGHAN AIR FORCE TRAINEES WHO DISAPPEARED FROM GEORGIA AIR FORCE BASE: “I certainly hope the two young Afghan men are safe and out for a lark, or perhaps preparing to defect. The alternative is too terrible to contemplate.”
IN MY EXPERIENCE, IT’S THE PAIN RELIEVER FOR WHEN YOU’RE NOT IN VERY MUCH PAIN: Tylenol Is Ineffective Against Flu Symptoms. There are a few things it works well for, but it’s pretty weak sauce in general.
NET RESULT: A TRANSFER OF MONEY FROM POOR PEOPLE IN RICH COUNTRIES TO RICH PEOPLE IN POOR COUNTRIES. Global Climate Change Pact Approved at COP 21 Conference in Paris.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Angela Merkel is doing more damage to the future of the West than Donald Trump.
Like most other commentators, I agree that Mr Trump’s remarks were nasty and dangerous – nasty because they libel millions of decent people, dangerous because they could drive such people to think: “If you hate and fear us, we must hate and fear you.”
But there is another reason why he has caused such a stir. Like all skilled populists, Mr Trump is touching (or rather trampling) on a real problem. If, after all, he had replaced the word “Muslims” with the words “Hindus” or “Christians” or “Jews”, everyone would immediately have concluded that he was, as well as nasty, mad. Politically, that would have been the end of him.
Alas, there are two true things lying behind his idiotic policy suggestion. The first is that the problem is about Muslims. The second is that our “elected representatives” do not know what to do about it.
The above-mentioned Ayatollah Khomeini also said “Islam is politics”. He meant that Islam tells you how to rule, and therefore any unIslamic way of ruling is illegitimate. . . .
Such ideas have become powerful in the West, partly because of arithmetic: we now have a great many Muslims in our midst – far more here, proportionately, than in Mr Trump’s country, and more in France than here. The risk of violence rises with the total. Even if it is true that 99 per cent of Muslims would not hurt a fly, when you increase the numbers you inevitably get more of those who would. People are, therefore, right to worry more about mass immigration from, say, Syria, than from, say, Poland.
But, even with high numbers, the problem would be much less severe if our leaders and institutions had greater cultural confidence. If they upheld a robust belief in the Western way of life, reflected in what our schools taught, what the BBC broadcast, what rules of citizenship were insisted on, and what was considered injurious to our values, then the doctrines of Islamism would be better resisted.
When you have a ruling class that doesn’t believe in — or even much like — the fundamental values of the nations it rules, things tend to work out poorly.
POLL: Cruz up 10 over Trump in Iowa.
Related: Cher compares Ted Cruz to Judas and ‘SATAN INCARNATE.’
Saul Alinsky, call your office!
THIS IS NICE: WWII U.S. vet honored for saving 200 Jews.
Roddie Edmonds is the first U.S. soldier to receive Israel’s Righteous Among the Nations honor, 70 years after he risked his life to save 200 Jews. The native of Knoxville, Tenn., was captured in the Battle of the Bulge in late 1944 and held at German POW camp Staleg IXA, according to Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum. When the Nazis ordered all Jewish-American POWs to step forward on Jan. 27, 1945, Edmonds — the highest-ranking noncommissioned officer at the camp — ordered 1,000 U.S. soldiers to do so, regardless of their religion, per the AP. “They cannot all be Jews,” a German commander said, per Yad Vashem. “We are all Jews here,” Edmonds replied, adding soldiers didn’t need to divulge their religion under the Geneva Conventions. The commander then put a gun to Edmonds’s head.
He said, “‘I’ll give you one more chance. Have the Jewish men step forward or I will shoot you on the spot,'” Edmonds’s son, the Rev. Chris Edmonds, tells NPR. “They said my dad paused, and said, ‘If you shoot, you’ll have to shoot us all.'” The commander yielded.
Nice story.
OBAMA’S DISGRACEFUL HANUKKAH PARTY: At Power Line, Paul Mirengoff links to a post on the Obama administration’s 2015 Hanukkah party by Daniel Greenfield of Front Page, who notes that “the White House chose Susan Talve to light the Menorah. Talve is a member of the anti-Israel group T’ruah which is currently promoting assorted ‘soft BDS’ programs. She’s also a Ferguson activist. Her behavior was deeply insulting to the religious Jewish community and made it clear that the White House was determined to hijack even a Chanukah party to promote an anti-Jewish agenda:”
Talve. . .seemed determined to jam as many leftist talking points as possible in her limited time. Instead of talking about Chanukah, Talve blathered on about getting, “guns off our streets” and to “clean up the fires of toxic nuclear waste”.
Talve screeched, “I stand here with my fierce family of clergy and black lives matter activists who took to the streets of Ferguson”.
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Then, not satisfied with having made a disgrace of the Chanukah ceremony, Susan Talve declared, “I stand here to light these lights to say no the darkness of Islamophobia and Homophobia and Transphobia.”
Talve babbled about insuring “justice for Palestinians” and began gleefully chanting, “Ins’Allah, Ins’Allah”. Or “Allah Willing”.
Mirengoff writes “If Greenfield’s account is accurate, it makes me wonder whether Obama has much use for Jews other than as cheerleaders for his “social justice” agenda — in other words, left liberalism.”
Whatever his editorializing, Greenfield’s transcription of Talve’s speech certainly sounds accurate – her speech was clipped by a C-Span user and can be watched here. It’s also on YouTube, at least for now:
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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Rutgers Faculty Rebels Against Use Of Metrics To Assess Their Scholarly Performance.
A HOSTILE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT at Ohio State Law School? “Insofar as such problems exist at OSU, it may be a result (at least in part) of a lack of viewpoint diversity among the faculty. Ohio may be a purple state, but Moritz faculty is deep, deep blue. . . . It is quite clear that Ohio State’s law faculty is well to the left of its alumni, its students and the people of Ohio. The school has faculty members who openly support BLM activism, but are there any who have supported (let alone participated in) anti-abortion activism? Are there even more than a handful who occasionally consider supporting a Republican candidate for office?”
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DON SURBER: That Day When “Rocky” Knocked Out The New York Times.
Over the years, Canby panned not only “Rocky,” but “Blazing Saddles”, “A Christmas Story”, “Rainman” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” After 20 years of this, the Times finally caught on that Canby was a kook, and switched him to covering Broadway shows.
But the damage was done. The New York Times lost whatever sway it had on the film front. And if you are wrong about “Rocky,” maybe you are wrong about Reagan. It snowballs from there.
Surber quotes Richard Feynman at the top of his blog: “It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.” It’s a good catchphrase.