Archive for 2016
June 16, 2016
OMAR MATEEN’S FATHER: The nightclub’s sort of at fault here too, you know. As Allahpundit writes, “don’t worry. He’s not laying all the blame on the victims. He’s also blaming the cops.” Plus this: “Like the search for the real killer in the O.J. case, the media search for the real motive in the Orlando massacre continues.”
Read the whole thing.
A GENTLE REMINDER FROM DAVID FRENCH: Christians Didn’t Commit the Orlando Massacre.
If you read just the major news outlets, there might be some confusion about that.
FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Syrian Immigrant Who Said 9/11 ‘Changed The World For Good’ Is A Homeland Security Adviser:
Exactly a year later, she claimed that, after September 11, “Being American meant you were white.”
In April 2013, she responded to a tweet from activist Pamela Geller who called the Boston Marathon bombings “jihad” by tweeting: “go fuck yourself.”
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As originally reported by The Daily Caller, the subcommittee Alawa serves on instructed the DHS to begin “using American English instead of religious, legal and cultural terms like ‘jihad,’ ‘sharia,’ ‘takfir‘ or ‘umma‘” when discussing terrorism in order to avoid offending Muslims.
Two months before Secretary Johnson created the Subcommittee on Combatting Violent Extremism, Alawa tweeted: “THE US HAS NEVER BEEN A UTOPIA UNLESS YOU WERE A STRAIGHT WHITE MALE THAT OWNED LAND. straight up period go home shut up.”
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In September 2014, a week after saying that “9/11 changed the world for good,” Alawa said that “9/11 is your day to pull out your flag themed clothing, and my day to look behind my back as I walk home.”
Laila Alawa was profiled in a puff piece at CNN earlier this year. Naturally, they couldn’t be bothered to ask her about her more, umm, outré tweets – unlike say the grilling the network gave Florida’s attorney general on Tuesday for not tweeting sufficiently on LGBT issues before the Orlando massacre.
“SOD OFF, SWAMPY” ON STEROIDS: Global Warming Skeptic Responds To Massachusetts AG’s Subpoena.
Alex Epstein had a terse response to a subpoena sent by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey Wednesday.
Healey demanded the oil giant ExxonMobil hand over 40 years of documents, including information pertaining to the company’s dealings with about a dozen think tanks and trade associations, which have been targeted by environmental groups for opposing left-wing global warming policies.
Healey’s subpoena targeted the Center for Industrial Progress (CIP), a for-profit think tank founded by Epstein. Epstein wasn’t exactly happy about being targeted for disagreeing with Healey on global warming, so he sent the AG’s office the following response:
Punch back twice as hard, the wise man once said.
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Milo Yiannopoulos Slams Twitter For Being ‘Sharia-Compliant,’ Credits Drudge With Reinstatement.
Milo Yiannopoulos has hit out at Twitter after they suspended his account earlier today, accusing the social networking service of being “Sharia-compliant” and in financial freefall.
In a press conference at Ground Zero Orlando, delivering a truncated speech following Sunday’s mass shooting — one he was supposed to give on Muslims and gays at the University of Central Florida (UCF), which was canceled by campus police — Yiannopoulos said Muslim campaigners were responsible for him briefly thrown off Twitter this morning.
Milo told a lively crowd that influential news aggregation site The Drudge Report linking to Heat Street’s article on him directly resulted in him being re-instated on Twitter. He said: “My Twitter account was suspended as a result of a campaign by Muslim tweeters. It has been re-instated because the Drudge Report put my picture on the front page with a gigantic headline- thank you Matt Drudge- saying ‘Twitter tells Milo to go to hell!’ . . .
Milo also slammed the decision of campus police to postpone his talk at UCF which was scheduled for Tuesday. He said: “What they couldn’t do is spare 6 or 8 officers to let a gay man say what the media won’t tell you, say what politicians won’t say, say what your celebrities are too f**king dumb to realize which is that this is not radical Islam, it is not terrorists forcing Obama to say radical Islam is only 25% of the war…the rest of the battle is being honest about about the challenges you face in this country.”
Twitter is looking shadier all the time.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Jobs, Salaries Dwindle For Ph.D.s.
If only someone had foreseen this.
HOLLYWOOD’S GUN HYPOCRISY, in 15 Movie Posters from 2016.
As Hollywood’s Alec Baldwin asked of himself, his industry and his ideology in 2011, “What Changes Will We Make After the Giffords Shooting?”
If only his fellow leftists had listened to his impassioned cri de coeur, so much of his industry’s dangerous — arguably racist — eliminationist clip art could have been avoided.
21ST CENTURY QUESTIONS: Would It Be Immoral To Send Out A Generation Starship?
June 15, 2016
THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Syrian Immigrant Who Said 9/11 ‘Changed The World For Good’ Is A Homeland Security Adviser.
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK: Man has panic attack in Lincoln Tunnel, abandons car, prompting 80 minute delay.
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ARTHUR CHRENKOFF: The Ten Commandments Of Social Justice Warriors.
THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT A SECRET LIZARD PERSON WOULD DO: Mark Zuckerberg Denies Being a Secret Lizard Person.
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THIS ISN’T THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: In less than two years, NASA will send three unique Lego Minifigures to their fiery deaths in Jupiter’s atmosphere.
CALL ME CRAZY, BUT I THINK THAT IF YOU HAVE “ANXIETY AND COGNITIVE PROBLEMS” YOU MAY NOT BE A GOOD CANDIDATE FOR BIG-FIRM LAW PRACTICE: Harvard Grad Who Flunked Bar Sues Over Loss Of Big-Law Job.
IT’S FAST: 2017 Nissan GT-R First Drive.
LAURENCE JARVIK: Garry Apgar’s Mickey Mouse is a Symbol for Our Time.
SOMEONE ALERT GEORGE TAKEI: Bigots? No, Heroes: U.S. Gun Owners Everywhere Offering FREE Shooting Lessons to Gays.
THIS HEADLINE WAS JUST A MATTER OF TIME, ALAS: Reporter Blames North Carolina’s Transgender Bathroom Bill For Orlando Terrorist Attack.