December 05, 2013

From DNAIndia via TROP:

VT Prasad has been hospitalised for severe injuries and internal bleeding.

According to police, 35 men suspected to be from Karnataka Forum for Dignity (KFD) attacked the reporter near his house, beating him up with clubs and sticks and dragged him to a distance of 100 metres before they dumped him.

The group tried to prevent him from being taken to hospital, blocking the road leading to Kolnad. When the ambulance arrived, they surrounded the vehicle and tried to drag him out. A strong crowd of locals intervened and shifted him to Mangalore hospital, where his condition is stated to be critical, but stable.

What offense did he commit to deserve such treatment by The Religion of Peace™?

Prasad helped an old Muslim woman who was living alone in abject poverty. He collected donations from local residents and helped her build a small house on a piece of land she owned.

The horror.

I do not think "dignity" means what these Muslims think it means...

The young and healthy are flocking to a different gambling site than the Obamacare website:

Each of Atlantic City's twelve casinos can operate up to five gambling websites so long as they screen out customers from out of state. Peggy Holloway, senior credit officer for Moody's Investors Service, says the new sites will "appeal to a younger, more Internet-savvy demographic that might lack the discretionary budget to travel to one of Atlantic City's 12 casinos." And indeed, fifty thousand people signed up online for New Jersey’s gambling sites in the first week. That compares with 741 who signed up for Obamacare during all of October.

When you've lost the Times, you've lost the narrative. I think Chomsky said something like that once. And you know what? On the rare occasion, Chomsky was right.

Now the Times doesn't come right out and say that Obama has been lying about al Qaeda being on the run. No, they say the facts have "complicated the narrative" being pushed by Obama.

Which is as close as the partisans at the NY Times will ever come to calling The One a liar:

The new signs of an energized but fragmented jihadist threat, stretching from Mali and Libya in the west to Yemen in the east, have complicated the narrative of a weakened Al Qaeda that President Obama offered in May in a landmark speech heralding the end of the war on terrorism. The leaders of the Senate and House intelligence committees, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California and Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan, raised warnings in an interview on CNN on Sunday when they said that Americans were “not safer” from terrorist attacks than they were in 2011.

It's not just the President Obama has taken his eye off the ball. He seems to think the game is over. Unfortunately the fat lady isn't singing. Instead, she's decided to blow the stadium up.

Fatwa?

He's out celebrating the most important national holiday evah!

Today is a great day for freedom. On this day in 1933, the 21st Amendment was ratified, thus repealing Prohibition. My former colleague Brandon Arnold wrote about it a few years ago:

The website RepealDay.org urges celebrations of the “return to the rich traditions of craft fermentation and distillation, the legitimacy of the American bartender as a contributor to the culinary arts, and the responsible enjoyment of alcohol as a sacred social custom.” It’s easy! You don’t have to hold a party. Just go to a bar or liquor store and have a drink.

Eat drink and and be merry all ya Jawas.

The Joos are just too successful. That makes blacks resentful, according to soon-to-be Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo:

CROWN HEIGHTS — The alleged "knockout" attacks on Jewish residents of Crown Heights may stem from ongoing racial tension between the neighborhood's black and Jewish communities, a newly-elected Brooklyn politician said.

Councilwoman-elect Laurie Cumbo, who was elected to represent Crown Heights starting in January, released an open letter Tuesday saying that many of her black constituents told her they feel threatened by the growth of the neighborhood's Jewish community -- and she fears the tension could be spiking the recent violence. [...]

"I respect and appreciate the Jewish community's family values and unity that has led to strong political, economic and cultural gains. While I personally regard this level of tenacity, I also recognize that for others, the accomplishments of the Jewish community triggers feelings of resentment, and a sense that Jewish success is not also their success."

There's that sense of unearned entitlement of an Obama supporter.

(Hat Tip: Gateway Pundit)

UPDATE: Apparently, there are some resentful young blacks at Yale University.

Damn Joos.

The American is identified as Ronald Smith, he taught chemistry.

An American teacher working at an international school in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi was shot and killed Thursday, a school official confirmed to CBS News.

Ronald Smith, a chemistry teacher at the International School Benghazi originally from Texas, was jogging at the time of the attack, according to the official.
“He was doing his morning exercise when gunmen just shot him. I don’t know why. He was so sweet with everyone,” Adel al Mansouri, director at the school in Benghazi, told Reuters.

It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the killing..

OK its Ansar al-Sharia doing the murdering and he was murdered because he was an American infidel. For the same reason they blame the Jews for everything.

Because they are racist against non-Muslims aka the Kuffar.

Its not that hard to understand, unless you have a problem with using the terms terrorist, murder and infidel in a story about Libya. You know Libya where Obama turned the country over to terrorists.

But hey Gaddafi is dead, so Obama can spike that football, do a little dance. But after the kick he's still down 41-7 to al-Qaeda in Libya with 2:00 remaining in the 4th.

Our thoughts go out to Mr. Smith's family. His murder was just the latest senseless and bigoted act from Ansar al-Sharia and its surely won't be the last.

December 04, 2013

And they gave out gift bags, how sweet!

How's that war in Syria working out for ya?

Opposition fighters abducted 12 nuns from a Christian village overrun by rebels, Syria’s Greek Orthodox patriarch and the head of a convent said Tuesday, adding to fears that hard-line Muslim rebels trying to overthrow President Bashar Assad were increasingly targeting Christians....

The nuns and three other women were seized Monday from the Greek Orthodox Mar Takla convent in the village of Maaloula and taken to the nearby rebel-held town of Yabroud, which also has a large Christian population, said Mother Superior Febronia Nabhan, head of the nearby Saidnaya Convent.

But this time? This time it looks like the FSA, which our government is funneling money to, is really behind the kidnappings:

Loay al-Mikdad, a spokesman for the mainstream rebel Free Syrian Army, denounced the behavior of some groups in Maaloula, but blamed the regime for placing tanks and other military hardware inside the village. Speaking to Al-Arabiya TV, he said rebels went into Maaloula not for sectarian reasons but because of its strategic location.

As a matter or regional and global strategy, it is in our interests that the Assad regime fall. But as a matter of tactics, it's not clear why falling to this particular group of rebels will actually improve the strategic situation. Sure, Assad's fall will bloody the nose of Iran and a resurgent Russia, but I really don't know if the chaos that ensues will strengthen our global position.

The next 9/11 will be live tweeted.

I won't hold my breath for twitter to suspend al Qaeda in Iraq's account. Because terrorism is just another legitimate viewpoint these days.....

And you know what? Normally they'd be right. But Lebanon is square in the middle of a proxy war between Sunni opponents of Syria's Assad regime and Hezbollah, which is sending its terrorists to fight on behalf of Assad.

So, consider this rhetoric. Both sides always blame the JOOs for everything bad that happens. They're like gremlins, those wascally Jews! Don't feed them after midnight.

Hezbollah on Wednesday said one of its leaders had been assassinated near Beirut and accused Israel of being behind the killing.

"The Islamic resistance announces the death of one of its leaders, the martyr Hassan Hawlo al-Lakiss, who was assassinated near his house in the Hadath region" east of Beirut, Hezbollah television channel Al Manar said.

"Direct accusation is aimed of course against the Israeli enemy which had tried to eliminate our martyred brother again and again and in several places but had failed, until yesterday evening," a Hezbollah statement broadcast by the channel said.

December 03, 2013

I'm guessing this guy is a Tea Partier

The fact that SFSU hasn't and won't do anything just goes to show that most of what passes for cultural sensitivity is just slang for we don't believe brown people are as morally accountable as white people. It's not even the soft bigotry of low expectations, it's the hard bigotry of believing Muslims don't have it in them to act in a civilized manner and therefore we'll treat them like children. Or retards.

And yes, this guy does support terrorism. The last time I checked, Hamas is a terrorist organization and it looks like he has fond feelings for them.

And the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, also a terrorist organization.

Background here. Someone do me a favor and let me know if SFSU actually does anything about this guy or the Palestinian student organization he leads.

Well, it started out okay...

I shouldn't laugh. This is exactly what I am like before my morning coffee...

Nailed it! Rock on, kid!

H/T:@switch_d

From the Daily Caller via Gateway Pundit:

The British government tried to cover its tracks. But a new cache of documents Robert Spencer and I have received in our battle to overturn our being banned from Britain reveal that a chief reason why we were banned from the country was because we strongly support Israel. As part of our lawsuit against the Queen of England and the Home Secretary et al, we have received numerous documents between the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Office of Security and Counterterrorism, and the Home Secretary. In one of them, an official in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office whose name was redacted wrote this letter on May 7 to a recipient whose name was also redacted:

I have received initial feedback from Post to say that they do not expect that there would be any reaction from the US Administration to these exclusions.

We do have concerns with some of the reasoning in the sub, particularly citing pro-Israeli views and. [sic] Pro-Israeli views (and also support for waterboarding) apply to a large number of Americans, including former Presidents. If, for instance, Geller and Spencer were to request details of their exclusion under FOI/DPA or other mechanism, that being pro-Israeli is cited as a reason may be problematic and they could argue publically that their exclusion is on the basis of their support for Israel.

The UK has officially become antisemitic. If it finds Israeli supporters more objectionable than Islamist immigrants, then the United Kingdom is truly lost, the first major casualty in Islam's war against the West.

Image from Atlas Shrugs:

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During the Dark Ages the ignorant masses blamed God or demons for every event that seemed out of the ordinary. Crops fail? It's the wrath of God. Turn into a newt? Got better? The Devil's consort, a witch.

We know that "Climate Change" is nothing more than the new mysticism because it isn't science. Scientific theories produce hypothesis which can be nullified. That's fancy talk for when theory claims something will happen, and it doesn't, then normally we say the theory is either wrong or needs some serious tweaking.

But with "Climate Change" everything is "proof" of the theory, and nothing that happens can disprove it -- the exact opposite of the scientific method. But which is perfectly in line with faith or mysticism.

So, the temperature is rising? Climate Change! The temperature is falling? Climate Change! Ice sheets get bigger? Climate Change! Ice sheets get smaller? Climate Change!

We need only wait a few more years until turning into a newt will also be blamed on Climate Change!

Climate change, the new God or the new Devil? Either way, it's the Dark Ages all over again. Actual headline: How climate change is helping Al Qaeda.

In order to back up the claim that climate change is responsible for the increase in terrorism in Africa, the rag then decides to ask ...... a guy who works for an "energy efficiency company" and two academics -- one at Berkeley and one at UT Austin. Only the green energy guy claims there's a connection. So, when the two academics come out and say there's no evidence that climate change is increasing conflict and therefore violent extermism -- with the UT Austin guy going so far as saying:

The science is just not there yet,

But those who live in the region see a direct — and very personal — link

Science is science when it proves your point. But science isn't science when it doesn't. In fact, the narrative of illiterate villagers is also science when that narrative "proves" your point.

And having settled the question, what does the rag then propose as the solution? If you guess wrong, you're a moron:

Sloan advocates sustainable rural electrification via mini-hydro, solar or wind. “If you empower someone you give them the feeling that they have some control over their own fate,”

Science!

This low level terrorism stuff is beginning to look like a full blown insurgency/civil war:

Boko Haram, a Nigerian terrorist group with ties to al Qaeda, launched a major attack on a Nigerian Air Force base in the insurgency-wracked city of Maiduguri. A number of security personnel were killed and several aircraft were destroyed during the nighttime attack that is said to have been executed by hundreds of Boko Haram fighters.

Hundreds of fighters assaulted the base on the outskirts of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, using trucks and even a stolen armored personnel carrier, beginning at 2:30 a.m. local time, according to The Associated Press. Boko Haram fighters yelled "Allahu akbar" as they attacked.

Thanks to Harry.

Bailing his wife out of jail. Apparently she takes her 'Bama football seriously:

After an Iron Bowl party on Saturday turned violent, police have charged 28-year-old Adrian Laroze Briskey with murder for the shooting death of 36-year-old Michelle Lacette Shepherd....

When officers arrived, Shepherd was already dead. According to authorities, Briskey and Shepherd got into an argument after the game and the fight spilled into the parking lot. During the incident, Briskey allegedly shot Shepherd three times with a small caliber handgun. The women did not know each other prior to the party.

So, I almost had it right yesterday when I said I wasn't bailing Howie out.

This will not come as a surprise to those of you who are not so politically correct to whitewash Islam:

But important, ominous, and accurate as that assessment is, it was not the most important point made by these two respected lawmakers. Instead, it was Sen. Feinstein's observation in response to a question about what causes the "hatred" that makes our situation more perilous:

There is a real displaced aggression in this very fundamentalist jihadist Islamic community, and that is that the West is responsible for everything that goes wrong and that the only thing that's going to solve this is Islamic shariah law.

What makes this incontrovertible statement so noteworthy? It is the fact that the intelligence community is not allowed to say it. Under Obama administration guidelines, for intelligence officers–and for that matter, law enforcement, Homeland Security and military personnel–to talk about Islamic jihadism and shariah as the motivation for terrorism can be a career-ending offense.

You can only deny truth for so long. As Sir Winston Churchill once said, "The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."

There it is.

I'm an Atheist. But these Atheist organizations are operated by cowards who, for some reason, feel threatened and intimidated by another person's beliefs. They can only defend their own beliefs by attacking someone else's.

I would even be willing to go out on a limb here and suggest these organizations are wholly liberal leaning. Not all Atheists are liberals. But those who are imposing their beliefs by demeaning others are. Just as leftists must attack others for having different opinions politically, these leftist Atheists must attack others for having different opinions spiritually.

But they are also cowards for another reason. Christianity is not a threat to Atheists. Our Christian nation was designed to protect everyone equally despite personal religious beliefs. Still these Atheists continue to attack Christianity. Yet, Islam, which routinely executes Atheists in Islamic countries, is ignored by these organizations.

There is a double standard. It is a double standard that only exposes their cowardice. Do these group post billboards during Ramadan? Of course not. That would require more testicular fortitude than they have.

They want demean those who disagree. They want to spread their hate under the guise of tolerance. But they also want to keep their heads.

Atheist start Christmas billboard campaign:

An atheist organization is beginning a billboard campaign in Sacramento, California to encourage other atheists to "come out of the closet" as the Christmas season has believers turning their focus to faith in God.

According to a local ABC news affiliate, the Greater Sacramento Chapter of the Madison, Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation is erecting 55 billboards on Monday just as the Christmas season gets into full swing. The campaign, part of an ongoing endeavor titled, "Out of the Closet," hopes to let atheists know that having God in your life is not a necessity.

My biggest complaint with Christian conservatives is that they tend to lump all Atheists with these idiots. Most Atheists are not like this. Most Atheists don't care if you want to believe in a higher power or not. Just don't impose your spiritual beliefs on them.

When you equate all Atheists with those in these organizations, it is no different than equating all Christians with the Westboro Baptist loons. Stop judging.

And have a Merry Christmas.