At Amazon, Robert O'Neill, The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior.
Sunday, June 11, 2017
Saturday, June 10, 2017
The Left's Disgraceful Drive to Overturn the 2016 Election
From Pat Buchanan, at Town Hall, "The Impeach-Trump Conspiracy":
And ICYMI, at Amazon, Patrick J. Buchanan, Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.
Pressed by Megyn Kelly on his ties to President Trump, an exasperated Vladimir Putin blurted out, "We had no relationship at all. ... I never met him. ... Have you all lost your senses over there?"More.
Yes, Vlad, we have.
Consider the questions that have convulsed this city since the Trump triumph, and raised talk of impeachment.
Did Trump collude with Russians to hack the DNC emails and move the goods to WikiLeaks, thus revealing the state secret that DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz was putting the screws to poor Bernie Sanders?
If not Trump himself, did campaign aides collude with the KGB?
Now, given that our NSA and CIA seemingly intercept everything Russians say to Americans, why is our fabled FBI, having investigated for a year, unable to give us a definitive yes or no?
The snail's pace of the FBI investigation explains Trump's frustration. What explains the FBI's torpor? If J. Edgar Hoover had moved at this pace, John Dillinger would have died of old age.
We hear daily on cable TV of the "Trump-Russia" scandal. Yet, no one has been charged with collusion, and every intelligence official, past or prevent, who has spoken out has echoed ex-acting CIA Director Mike Morrell:
"On the question of the Trump campaign conspiring with the Russians here, there is smoke, but there is no fire, at all. ... There's no little campfire, there's no little candle, there's no spark."
Where are the criminals? Where is the crime?
And ICYMI, at Amazon, Patrick J. Buchanan, Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.
Mandy Harvey Earns Golden Buzzer from Simon Cowell (VIDEO)
My sister shared this with me on Facebook.
I don't blog about it a lot, but I'm partially deaf. I lost my hearing after a head injury while seeing Charged GBH in Pasadena in 1983. Some hearing returned to my left ear. I read lips, although I never learned how to sign. I was always self-conscious of deafness, about how this somehow made me less than I was. It was an enormous personal, emotional, physical, and psychological blow. I imagine I've overcompensated for it since the injury, which is my entire life now.
So you can imagine how this moment from "America's Got Talent" makes me cry. And you can understand why my baby sister wanted me to see it.
And this woman Ms. Mandy is astounding. She's a monument to human perseverance and goodness in the world. Everyone feels at some point that they want to give up. The hardiest among us resist, but not everyone's got the strength. God gave me strength. I didn't know it at the time, but I prayed. Now I now it. I know Ms. Mandy's got God as well. She beautiful.
At the Seattle Times, "Watch: Deaf singer wows Simon Cowell, earns Golden Buzzer on ‘America’s Got Talent’."
I don't blog about it a lot, but I'm partially deaf. I lost my hearing after a head injury while seeing Charged GBH in Pasadena in 1983. Some hearing returned to my left ear. I read lips, although I never learned how to sign. I was always self-conscious of deafness, about how this somehow made me less than I was. It was an enormous personal, emotional, physical, and psychological blow. I imagine I've overcompensated for it since the injury, which is my entire life now.
So you can imagine how this moment from "America's Got Talent" makes me cry. And you can understand why my baby sister wanted me to see it.
And this woman Ms. Mandy is astounding. She's a monument to human perseverance and goodness in the world. Everyone feels at some point that they want to give up. The hardiest among us resist, but not everyone's got the strength. God gave me strength. I didn't know it at the time, but I prayed. Now I now it. I know Ms. Mandy's got God as well. She beautiful.
At the Seattle Times, "Watch: Deaf singer wows Simon Cowell, earns Golden Buzzer on ‘America’s Got Talent’."
Friday, June 9, 2017
Evelyn Taft's Slightly Warmer Forecast
I finished up my semester grading today and watched some baseball late this afternoon. Had a few beers with my old grad school buddy as well.
I have 11 weeks off and I'm gonna make the most of it, heh.
The weather's just started to reach summer perfection. By July 4th it's going to be just right.
Here's the lovely Ms. Evelyn, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
I have 11 weeks off and I'm gonna make the most of it, heh.
The weather's just started to reach summer perfection. By July 4th it's going to be just right.
Here's the lovely Ms. Evelyn, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
'People Are Strange'
From this morning's drive time (for one more trip to the office, to pick up some exams from students served by DSPS), at the Sound L.A.
The Doors:
The Doors:
American Pie
Don McLean
8:30 AM
Back On the Chain Gang
Pretenders
8:26 AM
Here Comes the Sun
The Beatles
8:23 AM
Double Vision
Foreigner
8:20 AM
My Life
Billy Joel
8:16 AM
People Are Strange
The Doors
8:13 AM
Thunderstruck
AC/DC
8:08 AM
Landslide
Fleetwood Mac
8:05 AM
Baba O'Riley
The Who
8:00 AM
That Smell
Lynyrd Skynyrd
7:54 AM
If You're a Jew in Britain, It's Time for Your Own Brexit
From a "Soldier's Mother," Paula K. Stern, at Israelly Cool, "A Message for U.K. Jews."
And at Paula's blog, "Is today the day to leave England?":
And at FrontPage Magazine, "LABOUR POSTERS NOW INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM NAZI PROPAGANDA."
And at Paula's blog, "Is today the day to leave England?":
The good news is that Jeremy Corbyn didn't win the election. Teresa May and the Conservative Party won by the numbers. But there are few today viewing the results of the election who fail to see that a clear message was sent. The only question is to whom the message was directed, and will they listen.More.
The Labour Party gained 28 seats, which is a victory in itself, but they are not in control. Not yet. Had the Labour Party been in the hands of a different main contender, we could think this was politics as normal. But it wasn't, and so it isn't.
This morning in the UK is very different than it was yesterday.
The Conservative party won in seats and votes, but lost 11 places in the Parliament. A stunning victory by Labour puts them at 259, a gain of 28 and puts Jeremy Corbyn within striking distance of the Prime Minister's office. Not this time, but maybe next time.
I will leave it to the UK to figure out the message that was sent yesterday. What it means for where England is headed - for its citizens and for the world is more than I can contemplate on a busy Friday with Shabbat just hours away.
For all intents and purposes, there is now a "hung Parliament" that is unlikely to accomplish much and may well send the country into new elections in the near future. That is the nature of the electoral system they have, as it is the one we inherited from them.
What is on my mind is something more personal, closer to my heart. If you are a Jew in Britain and you are not looking for your own "Brexit," you are making an appalling and perhaps even costly mistake. Read that sentence again. Does it scare you - it should. It frightens me. But what you'll find, if you search deep in your heart, is that it may annoy you, but you can't quite deny it, can you? It doesn't surprise you that there could be a time when you have to leave...as a few generations ago, too many didn't. You know that time may come...pretty much every Jew in the world knows that. This is the ultimate lesson of the Holocaust. You may love where you live, but there will always lurk the knowledge that no matter how comfortable it might be today, tomorrow it could change.
The only real question you have today in the UK if you are Jewish is whether today is the day to leave...
And at FrontPage Magazine, "LABOUR POSTERS NOW INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM NAZI PROPAGANDA."
Labour Posters Now Indistinguishable from Nazi Propaganda https://t.co/y2jWjAD0IG pic.twitter.com/0voZDPeZRg— = Linda🇺🇸Wray = (@_NCPatriot_) June 7, 2017
Japan Passes Law Allowing Emperor to Abdicate
This is interesting.
At the Japan Times, "Diet enacts one-time law to allow Emperor Akihito to abdicate."
At the Japan Times, "Diet enacts one-time law to allow Emperor Akihito to abdicate."
Thursday, June 8, 2017
Gal Gadot Asks Jimmy Kimmel: 'How'd You Like My Breasts?' (VIDEO)
Heh.
She's so beautiful and totally unassuming. She doesn't even come off like she's a movie star.
Such a great lady.
The movie's good, as noted earlier, here: "'Wonder Woman'."
She's so beautiful and totally unassuming. She doesn't even come off like she's a movie star.
Such a great lady.
The movie's good, as noted earlier, here: "'Wonder Woman'."
Former Scottish National Party Leader Alex Salmond Loses Seat to Tories
Election results are still come in across the pond, and so far the Conservatives look to lose their majority, with a so-called "hung parliament" in the Commons.
More on that later.
Meanwhile, Alex Salmon's loss deals the SNP a huge blow, with party leader Nicola Sturgeon saying demands for a second Scottish independence referendum are "on hold."
At the Telegraph U.K.:
More on that later.
Meanwhile, Alex Salmon's loss deals the SNP a huge blow, with party leader Nicola Sturgeon saying demands for a second Scottish independence referendum are "on hold."
At the Telegraph U.K.:
In an astonishing shock, Alex Salmond has lost the Gordon constituency to the Tories #ElectionDay2017 https://t.co/Wzk8UKbHjY pic.twitter.com/5YHrjQ0tLU
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) June 9, 2017
Jackie Johnson's Partly Sunny Forecast
My semester's done. I was home all day totaling up grades. It's been party cloudy and mild. Quite nice and relaxing, actually.
A couple of more weeks and we'll be into sunny, beach weather.
Summer! Awesome!
Here's the lovely Ms. Jackie, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
A couple of more weeks and we'll be into sunny, beach weather.
Summer! Awesome!
Here's the lovely Ms. Jackie, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Comey Delivered Drama
Yeah, he's a drama queen, lol.
An interesting piece, at the New York Times:
PREVIOUSLY: "These Photos of Sad Brooklyn Hipsters in a Bar Watching the Comey Hearing Are Hilarious."
An interesting piece, at the New York Times:
In a capital used to overcooked spectacle and insufferable congressional testimony, Comey delivered on the hype https://t.co/Ha32DJGvdL
— NYT National News (@NYTNational) June 8, 2017
PREVIOUSLY: "These Photos of Sad Brooklyn Hipsters in a Bar Watching the Comey Hearing Are Hilarious."
Stop Lying to Us
From Kurt Schlichter, at Town Hall (via Instapundit and Memeorandum):
My new Townhall is up! || https://t.co/R1YkKNGwxN
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) June 8, 2017
The most significant revelation that came out of the most recent London massacre of disarmed British subjects was not the bloodshed itself, but the pathetic sissy whining, in the midst of throats being slashed, at the Brit who refused to adhere to the comforting lie that the Muslims doing the slashing in the name of Allah were not Muslims doing the slashing in the name of Allah.
The left would rather you lie and die than tell the truth and live.
It’s exhausting being lied to 24/7 about the big issues, and don’t start with the “but what about Trump?” nonsense because…well, what about Trump?
Does Trump pretend that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam because to admit the Islamic State has something to do with Islam is an admission that the unquestionable idea underlying multiculturalism – that every culture is wonderful except the Western culture that brought about 95 percet of the learning and science that is making the grinding poverty and disease that was heretofore man’s fate a thing of the past – is an utter fraud?
Does Trump pretend that we are morally or scientifically bound by a non-treaty that was non-submitted to our elected representatives to solve the non-problem of climate change at the price of our non-employment and non-prosperity?
Does Trump blame Russians for the utter repudiation of Felonia von Pantsuit’s poisonous ideology of greed and huggy fascism? Does he contend Hillary skipped those icky workin’ folks in Wisconsin and Michigan because Putin tricked her?
I keep trying to find the big Trump “lies” and they always seem to end up being disagreements with liberal orthodoxy.
But for the so-called elite that seeks to rule us, it’s all lies, all day, every day, about everything, since they can’t be honest because we normals reject what they want whenever we are exposed to the truth and are allowed a say. So their go-to move to impose their sick will is to obscure or hide the truth, and try to suppress our voices...
'The left wants the rest of us to believe that Trump is some sort of strange aberration from an otherwise genteel elite society, when in fact he was created by the increasingly profane media overculture, and his mere presence in the White House is driving leftists into even cruder levels of discourse and violence...'
Following-up from the other day, "Reza Aslan Apologizes."
This Aslan dude's been running a scrubbing marathon, no doubt.
The Todd Akin thing goes back five years ago. I'll bet there's a treasure trove of hatred pockmarked all through this guy's timeline.
But see Ed Driscoll, at Insapundit, "HATEFUL CNN HOST’S TWEET CALLING FOR RAPE MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS":
This Aslan dude's been running a scrubbing marathon, no doubt.
The Todd Akin thing goes back five years ago. I'll bet there's a treasure trove of hatred pockmarked all through this guy's timeline.
But see Ed Driscoll, at Insapundit, "HATEFUL CNN HOST’S TWEET CALLING FOR RAPE MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS":
Some of CNN host Reza Aslan’s other disgusting and hateful tweets are mysteriously disappearing. The cable network star drew controversy when he called Donald Trump a “piece of shit” last weekend. He lamely “apologized” and declared, “That’s not like me.” Except, of course, it is...Keep reading.
Lawrence Paul Hebron, Islam Exposed
At Amazon, Lawrence Paul Hebron, Islam Exposed: What You Need to Know About the World's Most Dangerous Religion.
March Against Sharia — Nationwide Protests Set for June 10, 2017 (VIDEO)
Brigitte Gabriel's a freakin' patriot!
She's fired up at the video.
And see WND, "Anti-Shariah rallies planned for 28 U.S. cities June 10":
She's fired up at the video.
And see WND, "Anti-Shariah rallies planned for 28 U.S. cities June 10":
ACT! for America is planning a nationwide “March Against Sharia – March for Human Rights” on June 10 that so far has 28 cities signed up to participate.
Organizers say they will be taking a public stand against female genital mutilation, honor violence, the blasphemy and apostasy laws, among other elements of Shariah that are increasingly showing up in American society.
Brigitte Gabriel, the founder of ACT For America, said America is now starting to experience some of the same atrocities of Shariah that her family escaped in Lebanon decades ago.
“We want to increase awareness about certain practices that are starting to happen in our country with the rise of Islamic immigration, because we are now hearing about female genital mutilation, like the cases in Detroit recently announced by the Department of Justice,” she told WND. “Who would have thought in 21st century America, after what women did working so hard in defense of women’s rights that we’d be talking about little girls being horribly mutilated, and that 513,000 girls are at risk of this barbaric Third World procedure, according to the CDC [Centers for Disease Control].”
ACT! will also shine a light on honor killings and honor violence.
“It’s already here in America,” Gabriel said. “We’re seeing girls being killed simply for wanting to wear makeup. Under our Constitution they deserve the same rights and protections.”
She said U.S. feminists are “completely silent on this issue, and that is why we are trying to humanize this issue by putting names behind these atrocities. On our website we have faces of girls and woman who have been killed in the name of honor by their husbands in America. We want to personalize these faces so when people hear about honor killing and FGM they know it is happening here in America to American girls and women, not just in Pakistan or India or Saudi Arabia.”
Scott Presler, one of the organizers of the event, said the left will try to paint the rallies as “Islamophobic” and anti-Muslim, because that’s what the left always does in its defense of the Islamist agenda.
If radical leftists want to hold counter protests in favor of female genital mutilations, honor killings and the death penalty for former Muslims who have left the faith, they are more than welcome to do so, he said.
“You cannot be pro-Shariah and call yourself a feminist – that is called fake feminism, people like Linda Sarsour are fake feminists and hypocrites,” said Presler, referring to the leader of the Women’s March on Washington after Donald Trump was elected president...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Theresa May on Cover of the New Charlie Hebdo
Hmm...
What's up with all the beheading of heads of government?
At Althouse, "'Too much is too much!' says the severed head of Theresa May on the cover of the new Charlie Hebdo."
I think I can see this as true satire, whereas not so much with Kathy Griffin, but you be the judge.
And from the comments at Althouse, "This is quite different, though, from the Griffin bit. That it has to be explained is kind depressing, though..."
And at Pamela's, "Charlie Hebdo’s beheads U.K. P.M Theresa May."
What's up with all the beheading of heads of government?
At Althouse, "'Too much is too much!' says the severed head of Theresa May on the cover of the new Charlie Hebdo."
I think I can see this as true satire, whereas not so much with Kathy Griffin, but you be the judge.
And from the comments at Althouse, "This is quite different, though, from the Griffin bit. That it has to be explained is kind depressing, though..."
And at Pamela's, "Charlie Hebdo’s beheads U.K. P.M Theresa May."
WATCH: Kate Mara on Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
I like her.
I'm going to see "Megan Leavey" this weekend.
Video here, "Kate Mara Turned Fiancé Jamie Bell Into a Bigger NY Giants Fan Than Herself."
And at London's Daily Mail, "'He's the bride!': Kate Mara says fiance Jamie Bell is doing the wedding planning as she puts on busty display in LBD on Tonight Show."
I'm going to see "Megan Leavey" this weekend.
Video here, "Kate Mara Turned Fiancé Jamie Bell Into a Bigger NY Giants Fan Than Herself."
And at London's Daily Mail, "'He's the bride!': Kate Mara says fiance Jamie Bell is doing the wedding planning as she puts on busty display in LBD on Tonight Show."
London Bridge Must Not Fall Down
From Professor Michael Curtis, at the New English Review, "Enough is Enough: The Fight against Terrorism":
Iconic London Bridge is not falling and must not fall down, my fair lady. The attack on innocent citizens in the area on June 4, 2017 makes it a symbol of the need for the struggle of civilization against Islamic barbarism to continue. That struggle requires changes in policies of Western democracies. The soft power of humanity so far is not sufficent to eliminate Islamist dominated terrorism, to prevent, detect, and destroy it.
Britain is fully aware of the urgent need for change. It has suffered an attack by vehicle and knives in London on March 2017 when five were killed, the attack in Manchester at a concert on May 22 when 22 were killed, and now the latest manifestation of evil on June 3, 2017 when three terrorists used a van to mow down pedestrians on London Bridge and then stabbed people at random in bars and pubs in nearby Borough Market which is always busy on a Saturday night. The three murdered 7 and injured 48 before being killed by London police. The motive was unmistakable as one of the villains while stabbing an individual shouted, "This is for Allah."
Enough is enough. An Islamic terrrorist is not a freedom fighter, but an evil murderer, seeking the most deadly venue, and must be recognized as such. It is insufficient to respond to these Islamist murderers by limited remarks as did new French President Emmanuel Macron wih "My thoughts go out to the victims and their loved ones," and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, "Awful news..we're monitoring the situation." Trudeau, like the character Fagin in Lionel Bart's musical Oliver, is apparently "reviewing the situation to see if a fellow can be a villain all his life."
What is frightening are three things. One is that the murderers were obeying the ideology and instructions of major Islamic terrorists, especially ISIS calling for killing non-believers, "Crusaders," by using weapons, fire, and vehicles in shopping malls, restaurants and clubs. The killers attacked soft targets not with bombs that may need technical skill of some kind or even guns, but by vehicle and knives.
The second is the apparent considerable network of support for the killers; more than 12 people have so far been arrested in connnection with the attack on June 3. The third aspect is that the attack came during Ramadan, giving the lie to the supposed peaceful religious nature of life and faith. In cynical fashion one of the killers even wore an Arsenal shirt, the emblem of the London soccer club perhaps dear to many of the victims.
President Donald Trump may have been too quick to condemn London Mayor Sadiq Khan and perhaps to misunderstand his remark after the attack, "no reason to be alarmed," and his suggestion there were more important things to worry about. But Trump's remark did not deserve a response such as that from CNN's Reza Aslan that Trump's renewal of call for a travel ban was a "piece of s..." and that the President was an embarrassment to the US and to humankind.
The truth is otherwise. One does not have to be in accordance with Trump's tweets to acknowledge certain facts. The Islamist terrorists, a minority of the Muslims in the world, are extremists who are the embarrasment to their own religion and to humankind, and are believers and activists in favor of creating a way of life incompatible with western democracy. They reject systems based on the rule of secular law, and advocate Islamist rule to be established by jihad, holy war and terrorism.
Meaningful action is essential...
Vox Day, SJWs Always Lie
At Amazon, Vox Day, SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police.
Social Justice Warriors have plagued mankind for more than 150 years, but only in the last 30 years has their ideology become dominant in the West. Having invaded one institution of the cultural high ground after another, from corporations and churches to video games and government, there is nowhere that remains entirely free of their intolerant thought and speech policing. Because the SJW agenda of diversity, tolerance, inclusiveness, and equality flies in the face of both science and observable reality, SJWs relentlessly work to prevent normal people from thinking or speaking in any manner that will violate their ever-mutating Narrative. They police science, philosophy, technology, and even history in order to maintain the pretense that their agenda remains inevitable in a modern world that contradicts it on a daily basis. The book is named after the First Law of SJW: SJWs always lie. SJWs ALWAYS LIE is a useful guide to understanding, anticipating, and surviving SJW attacks from the perspective of a man who has not only survived, but thrived, after experiencing multiple attempts by Social Justice Warriors to disqualify, discredit, and disemploy him in the same manner they have successfully attacked Nobel Laureates, technology CEOs, broadcasters, sports commentators, school principals, and policemen. It analyzes well-known SJW attacks as well as the two most successful examples of resistance to the SJW Narrative, #GamerGate and Sad Puppies. Written by Vox Day, Supreme Dark Lord of the Evil Legion of Evil and three-time Hugo nominee who is described as the most hated man in science fiction by Black Gate and the Wall Street Journal, SJWs ALWAYS LIE is a powerful weapon in the cultural war against the thought police.
Chrystia Freeland's a Bloody Idiot
Canada's reorienting its foreign policy, claiming that the U.S. is no longer the leader of the free world.
Oh boy, I'd love to let Ottawa have a piece of my mind. No extended deterrence for you!
At Blazing Cat Fur, "Good Manners Backed by Muscle Mark Canada’s Approach to the World, Chrystia Freeland Says."
Oh boy, I'd love to let Ottawa have a piece of my mind. No extended deterrence for you!
At Blazing Cat Fur, "Good Manners Backed by Muscle Mark Canada’s Approach to the World, Chrystia Freeland Says."
So, #Canada's gonna "lead the world"? That's a laugh riot alright. https://t.co/MXsJeJvRcl
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) June 6, 2017
Key section of Canada foreign minister's speech: we'll work with the US wherever possible, but the US might not lead the world anymore, so. pic.twitter.com/LOwEH8SBs3
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 6, 2017
Islamic State Claims Deadly Attacks on Iranian Parliament and Khomeini Shrine (VIDEO)
Now this is some kind of development!
At the Guardian U.K., "Iran: 12 dead as Islamic State claims attacks on parliament and shrine":
At the Guardian U.K., "Iran: 12 dead as Islamic State claims attacks on parliament and shrine":
At least 12 people have been killed and dozens more injured in Tehran after gunmen and suicide bombers attacked the Iranian parliament and the mausoleum of the founder of the Islamic Republic.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks on the highly symbolic sites, publishing a brief video that purported to show the assailants inside the parliament. If an Isis role is confirmed, this would be the first attack conducted by the terror group inside Iran.
The parliament assault began when four gunmen armed with rifles burst into the building complex. One of the attackers reportedly blew himself up inside as police surrounded the building.
Gunfire could be heard from outside as police helicopters circled overhead, entrance and exit gates were closed, and mobile phone lines from inside were disconnected.
“I was inside the parliament when shooting happened. Everyone was shocked and scared. I saw two men shooting randomly,” one journalist at the scene, who asked not to be named, told Reuters.
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ran’s leaders sought to play down the attacks, with neither President Hassan Rouhani nor supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei making a statement by early evening.
Attacks are highly rare in Tehran and other major Iranian cities, although a Sunni militant group named Jundallah and its splinter group, Ansar al Furqan, have been waging a deadly insurgency, mostly in more remote areas, for almost a decade.
Isis, which adheres to a puritanical strain of Sunni Islam, considers Shias heretics and has carried out numerous attacks against Shia civilians, in Iraq in particular. But this assault, which appeared to have a higher degree of coordination and planning than recent Isis-claimed attacks in Europe, would be a significant escalation...
Conservative Student Lexie Kaufman Flees Emerson College After Year of Harassment
It's sad she had to flee. Folks need to stand up and fight back, but it's hard.
At Legal Insurrection, "Conservative Student Flees Emerson College Over Harassment."
At Legal Insurrection, "Conservative Student Flees Emerson College Over Harassment."
After #LondonBridge Jihad, Security Debate Sharpens in British General Election (VIDEO)
I guess the polls are tightening, and it's possible Britain could have a hung parliament after tomorrow's election.
Whatever happens, Islamic jihad should be the top priority, but as always, expect nothing to change. Indeed, if Corbyn's able to win, expect things to get worse. Much worse.
But see the Telegraph U.K., "FINAL DAY OF CAMPAIGNING: General Election 2017 Tories on course for majority of 100 after latest forecast - the eight charts that show how Britain will vote."
And at the Los Angeles Times, "With British election looming, security debate sharpens as two bridge attackers publicly named":
Whatever happens, Islamic jihad should be the top priority, but as always, expect nothing to change. Indeed, if Corbyn's able to win, expect things to get worse. Much worse.
But see the Telegraph U.K., "FINAL DAY OF CAMPAIGNING: General Election 2017 Tories on course for majority of 100 after latest forecast - the eight charts that show how Britain will vote."
And at the Los Angeles Times, "With British election looming, security debate sharpens as two bridge attackers publicly named":
Three days before a British general election in which security concerns have surged to the fore, Scotland Yard acknowledged Monday that the extremist Islamist views of one of three slain attackers who carried out a weekend terrorist strike had been known to investigators.
On the first weekday after the ramming-and-stabbing attack on and near London Bridge that killed seven people and injured dozens more, Londoners and visitors held a moment of silence amid a solemn vigil on the banks of the Thames — but they also resumed their workaday routines.
Commuters streamed on foot past police barricades and heaps of memorial bouquets. The bridge itself reopened, though some streets near the attack scene remained closed off.
Police for the first time publicly identified two of the three dead attackers — Pakistan-born Khuram Shazad Butt, 27, and Rachid Redouane, 30, who had said he was of Moroccan and Libyan extraction. News outlets scrambled to learn more about them, redoubling questions about the plotting that preceded the attack, and whether it should have come to authorities’ attention.
With an increasingly hard-fought general election set Thursday, fallout from Saturday’s attack took on ever-growing political significance.
Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party was still favored to win the largest share of seats in Parliament, but a poll published Monday by the organization YouGov suggested her party would fall 21 seats short of a 326-seat majority, while the rival Labor Party stood to increase its share.
For the last month, May has attempted to cast as the election’s centerpiece the terms of Britain’s exit from the European Union and her ability to provide stable leadership during fraught negotiations with the EU. Instead, she found herself forced to defend having presided over the cuts of thousands of police jobs during her six-year tenure as home secretary, the top security job.
Her chief rival, Jeremy Corbyn, said the prime minister should resign over the police cutbacks — a position he walked back somewhat by urging voters to let Thursday’s election be a referendum on that.
May, for her part, pointed to beefed-up security already in place, with more measures to come. “This was an attack on London and the United Kingdom, but it was also an attack on the free world,” she said Monday.
Max Abrahms, a political scientist at Northeastern University who has studied the impact of terrorist attacks on elections, said both Conservative and Labor leaders “are trying very hard to seem tough on terrorists,” adding: “There’s no question the attack in London will affect the election.”
Both candidates have also had to deal with another unexpected factor: President Trump. On Sunday and Monday, the president sharply criticized London’s Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, with whom he previously feuded.
Corbyn denounced the presidential tweets; May defended Khan but refrained from directly criticizing Trump, who is highly unpopular in Britain...
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
#LondonBridge: Sadiq Khan Should Be Ashamed
From Katie Hopkins, at London's Daily Mail, "No wonder they didn't want us to know who the London Bridge Butchers were. The more we find out, the more ineffectual the people who are supposed to protect us from the killers look":
The more we find out, the scarier it gets. READ: https://t.co/r1v8g21W8k
— Katie Hopkins (@KTHopkins) June 6, 2017
I commend Piers Morgan. There's something I never thought I would hear myself say.
I watched him interview Sadiq Khan on GMB this morning and he was 100% more professional than I would ever have been.
I can imagine coming round to find Sadiq lying on the floor with camera three lying across his limp body, and me wild-eyed, legging it down the South Bank.
He appears to show no conception of the horror our capital city is facing, keeps repeating London is the safest city in the world, and refuses to connect the glaringly obvious dots between Islamic Extremism and the attacks on our children.
He said he could not comment about the 23,000 individuals identified as 'subjects of interest' still at large because this is an ongoing investigation.
He would not answer why we did not do more to the lock up the attacker - Khuram Butt - who went on to be the Butcher of London Bridge because the police operation was still live.
It's a mantra we keep hearing from any of the people who are supposed to be keeping us safe. The Met Commissioner said it yesterday. Boris Johnson repeated it this morning.
How convenient.
Well I'm calling them on this.
I'd like to believe there are good operational reasons for taking over two days to tell us who the killers were.
But I can't help suspecting that it's more about dodging difficult questions and managing the flow of news that is bound to make people bloody angry.
Waiting until our initial horror and rage at the original attack dissipates before releasing information that will make us furious all over again.
And giving themselves time to get their stories straight before the sh*t hits the fan.
Similarly, whenever I hear a top cop or a politician start an interview with a paean of praise to the courage of the rank-and-file officers who helped stop Saturday's massacre, I can't help feeling they are being treated as human shields.
Nobody admires our ordinary police officers more than me and the courage of those who faced down the three maniacs in Borough Market – armed sometimes with just a baton – leaves me in awe.
This is not about the brave officers on the ground. Uniformed, on duty or off. Changing into riot gear on the sidewalk behind their vans. Dancing with our little girls to bring some reassurance to our fear. They are warriors. They should be rewarded. One and all.
But equally if the people at the top were doing their jobs properly, the brave bobbies on the street wouldn't need to be quite so much in harm's way. Sadiq Khan, the investigating officers, MI5, Theresa May - I've lost confidence in all of them.
As a twitter user - Sam White commented; 'Jihadis are cleverly evading the authorities by appearing in documentaries about jihadis with the word jihadi in the title'.
We now know the London Bridge, Manchester and Westminster attackers were all known to counter-terrorism agencies.
The mostly recently named of the three attackers on London Bridge, Youssef Zaghba - even told the Italian authorities why he was flying to Turkey in 2016. 'I'm going to be terrorist,' he said. Police were called and he was prevented from flying.
Authorities confirm complete dossier on him would have been forwarded to MI5 in April 2016 after he travelled to the UK.
His London accomplice Khuram Shazad Butt, 27, a British citizen of Pakistani descent, was well known to authorities and reported repeatedly by members of the public, now frustrated nothing was done.
Band of Brothers at the Eagle's Nest
I think that's Major Dick Winters fourth from the right.
Either way, phenomenal photo, and some of the greatest Americans.
Either way, phenomenal photo, and some of the greatest Americans.
PREVIOUSLY: "D-Day 73rd Anniversary."Dick Winters and Easy Company (Band of Brothers) at the Eagle's Nest, Hitler's residence pic.twitter.com/PfS25k0WNk— History In Pictures (@HistoryInPix) June 6, 2017
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D-Day 73rd Anniversary
At the Department of Defense homepage, "Ceremony Marks 73rd Anniversary of D-Day Landings."
Also, at the Heavy, "D-Day 2017: 73rd Anniversary Photos of Normandy Beach Invasion."
And watch, "President Reagan's Address at the Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-Day at Point-du-Hoc - June 6, 1984":
Also, at the Heavy, "D-Day 2017: 73rd Anniversary Photos of Normandy Beach Invasion."
And watch, "President Reagan's Address at the Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-Day at Point-du-Hoc - June 6, 1984":
James Holland, The War in the West
At Amazon, James Holland, The War in the West: A New History Volume 2 - The Allies Fight Back 1941-43.
Also from Holland, The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941: The War in the West, Volume One.
Also from Holland, The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941: The War in the West, Volume One.
The State Department's a 'Hotbed of Resistance' Against President Trump
Um, bureaucratic officials are supposed to be nonpartisan. This is wrong. Extremely wrong.
At the New York Times:
At the New York Times:
Important @MarkLandler read on State Dept as "hotbed of resistance," as career diplomats start speaking out on Trump https://t.co/xs8p2LR8yY
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) June 6, 2017
Breitbart's Katie Mchugh Fired for Politically Incorrect Tweets
I don't know Katie McHugh. Frankly, I barely recollect her name. But she's been fired from Breitbart, for tweeting that London wouldn't have terrorism if not for Muslims. (Which is an accurate statement, as far as I'm concerned. When was the last time we had an IRA bombing in Britain?)
I did notice that intrepid Twitter scavengers dug up some of the woman's old tweets, and indeed she posts some whack stuff. For example, she tweeted in favor of repealing the 19th Amendment as a method of rolling back welfare programs? I doubt I'd go for stripping women of the suffrage to get a handle of welfare, but it's not a fire-able opinion.
Whatever?
I think I noted yesterday that I'm not really into getting people fired for their views. Kathy Griffin's a special case. I don't feel sad for her, and as Ace noted, sometimes it's necessary to become the left to fight the left. But be careful what you wish for: the revolution always eats its own, and what goes around comes around. This kind of boycott-attack-character assassination and recrimination-style of politics will leave very few survivors. I've been down this road myself (Scott Kaufman and Carl Salonen come to mind).
In any case, via Twitter:
I did notice that intrepid Twitter scavengers dug up some of the woman's old tweets, and indeed she posts some whack stuff. For example, she tweeted in favor of repealing the 19th Amendment as a method of rolling back welfare programs? I doubt I'd go for stripping women of the suffrage to get a handle of welfare, but it's not a fire-able opinion.
Whatever?
I think I noted yesterday that I'm not really into getting people fired for their views. Kathy Griffin's a special case. I don't feel sad for her, and as Ace noted, sometimes it's necessary to become the left to fight the left. But be careful what you wish for: the revolution always eats its own, and what goes around comes around. This kind of boycott-attack-character assassination and recrimination-style of politics will leave very few survivors. I've been down this road myself (Scott Kaufman and Carl Salonen come to mind).
In any case, via Twitter:
Wow - Breitbart’s Katie McHugh is out at Breitbart after making horrible remarks after London attack https://t.co/03XAiQunMB— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) June 5, 2017
A Breitbart News editor said she was fired for the anti-Muslim tweets she made after a terror attack in London https://t.co/TRHrRtuFvK
— NYT Business (@nytimesbusiness) June 5, 2017
The old Katie McHugh tweets I'm seeing float by are astounding. Happy I wasn't following her but my god, what an awful person.
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) June 5, 2017
'Wonder Woman'
I love this movie.
The reviews were pretty enthusiastic, but then, you have to see it for yourself. Gal Gadot is lovable, but the movie itself is coherent and refreshing. I hope she stars in a whole bunch of sequels. Now that Wolverine's retired, I'll need something to keep me into the genre.
In any case, some links:
The reviews were pretty enthusiastic, but then, you have to see it for yourself. Gal Gadot is lovable, but the movie itself is coherent and refreshing. I hope she stars in a whole bunch of sequels. Now that Wolverine's retired, I'll need something to keep me into the genre.
In any case, some links:
WONDER WOMAN, reviewed. She's quite a Gal. https://t.co/nwGE1bIFQA
— Justin Chang (@JustinCChang) June 1, 2017
Diana Prince, we’ve been waiting for you. https://t.co/r5ixmX0sec
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) June 2, 2017
The NYT review of "Wonder Woman," a blockbuster that lets itself have fun https://t.co/VqqYHQ4M04 pic.twitter.com/crJmHzotgq
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 31, 2017
Wonder Woman is the rare — and most successful — female-led film in an overwhelmingly male superhero landscape. https://t.co/3mlnosEVp1
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) June 4, 2017
The turnout for "Wonder Woman" over the weekend was one of the best ever for a nonsequel superhero film https://t.co/9EEUCodmXW
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 5, 2017
I want to send out the deepest and sincere THANK YOU to all of you who made this so. YOU have helped us make change. Amazing!! #wonderwoman pic.twitter.com/vQQQfOzPyM
— Patty Jenkins (@PattyJenks) June 5, 2017
Is it Ethical to Have Children?
Of course it's ethical.
It's only unethical if you're a leftist anti-humanist.
FWIW, at the far-left Foreign Policy, "As Environmental Catastrophe Looms, Is it Ethical to Have Children?"
It's only unethical if you're a leftist anti-humanist.
FWIW, at the far-left Foreign Policy, "As Environmental Catastrophe Looms, Is it Ethical to Have Children?"
Monday, June 5, 2017
Marissa Miller 'iPod Bikini' in Jamaica (VIDEO)
Here's a lovely Sports Illustrated Swimsuit flashback:
Evelyn Taft's Clouds and Fog Forecast
Pretty much expected June weather. Cool and cloudy, but quite pleasant, actually.
And here the pleasant and lovely Ms. Evelyn, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
And here the pleasant and lovely Ms. Evelyn, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Thomas E. Ricks, Churchill and Orwell
*BUMPED.*
Well, this is certainly timely.
At Amazon, Thomas E. Ricks, Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom.
Well, this is certainly timely.
At Amazon, Thomas E. Ricks, Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom.
Ontario Canada's 'Bill 89' Authorizes Government Removal of 'Trans' Children from Christian Homes
This is bad. Extremely bad.
But then, this is exactly what leftists have been pushing for --- total power over the family unit, the demonization and destruction of God-fearing traditional parents.
Also, at Heat Street:
But then, this is exactly what leftists have been pushing for --- total power over the family unit, the demonization and destruction of God-fearing traditional parents.
At LifeSite, "Petition calls for repeal of ‘totalitarian’ bill allowing children to be taken from Christian homes":Petition calls for repeal of ‘totalitarian’ bill allowing children to be taken from Christian homes https://t.co/n2IGe3wz6x— LifeSiteNews.com (@LifeSite) June 5, 2017
TORONTO, June 5, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — LifeSiteNews has launched a petition for the repeal of the Kathleen Wynne Liberals’ Bill 89, which passed last week by a vote of 63 to 23.Keep reading.
Pro-family advocates warn the bill gives the state power to seize children from families that oppose the LGBTQI and gender ideology agenda, and allows government agencies to effectively ban couples who disagree with that agenda from fostering or adopting children.
“Make no mistake, Bill 89 is a grave threat to Christians and all people of faith who have children, or who hope to grow their family through adoption,” says Jack Fonseca, senior political strategist for Campaign Life Coalition.
“This is a direct hit against parental authority,” echoed Tanya Granic Allen, executive director of Parents As First Educators (PAFE), which along with the Association for Reformed Political Action (ARPA) has been at the forefront of lobbying against the bill.
Bill 89, or the Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act, 2017, repeals and replaces the former Child and Family Services Act that governs child protection services, and adoption and foster care services.
It adds “gender identity” and “gender expression” as factors to be considered “in the best interests of the child.”
At the same time, it deletes the religious faith in which the parents are raising the child as a factor to be considered, and mandates child protection services consider only the child’s own “creed” or “religion” when assessing the best interests of the child.
Pro-family advocates point to public comments by Minister of Child and Family Services Michael Coteau as evidence the Liberals will use Bill 89 to enforce a pro-LGBTQI, gender ideology agenda in the home.
Coteau told QP Briefing shortly after he introduced the bill that he sees questioning teenagers’ self-identification as LGBTQI or telling them to change as abuse.
“I would consider that a form of abuse, when a child identifies one way and a caregiver is saying no, you need to do this differently,” Coteau said.
“If it’s abuse, and if it’s within the definition, a child can be removed from that environment and placed into protection where the abuse stops.”
Coteau reiterated this to QP Briefing after Bill 89 passed Thursday...
Also, at Heat Street:
This is how totalitarianism is born. https://t.co/ENXVIDhcHK
— Heat Street (@heatstreet) June 5, 2017
Get Furious and Fight Back
Keeping calm and carrying on doesn't seem to be doing much good, so it's time to get bloody pissed off.
Here's Katie Hopkins:
Here's Katie Hopkins:
No more Keep Calm and Carry On. pic.twitter.com/pcGChS6lQX
— Katie Hopkins (@KTHopkins) June 5, 2017
Battle of Midway's 75th Anniversary in San Diego (VIDEO)
These veterans' commemorative events make my heart happy. The WWII generation is quickly passing from the scene. Few from the generation who fought the war are here today to make these anniversary events. I'm glad we still have a chance to thank them. It reaffirms our values in a most fundamental way, and hopefully passes on knowledge of past sacrifice to future generations.
At ABC News 10 San Diego:
At ABC News 10 San Diego:
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After Britain Attack, Trump Feuds With London Mayor
I love Trump's tweets. I just love 'em.
I don't care what the MSM fags think.
That's the headline, cut-and-pasted above, from Memeorandum.
Plus, from idiot prog reporter Philip Rucker, at Wapo, via Memeorandum, "Trump reacts to London terror by stoking fear and renewing feud with mayor."
The leftist media is objectively pro-jihad.
I don't care what the MSM fags think.
That's the headline, cut-and-pasted above, from Memeorandum.
Plus, from idiot prog reporter Philip Rucker, at Wapo, via Memeorandum, "Trump reacts to London terror by stoking fear and renewing feud with mayor."
The leftist media is objectively pro-jihad.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan condemns Saturday's terrorist attack on London Bridge and Borough Market #LondonBridge #LondonAttack pic.twitter.com/iDQuCF1Z5e
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) June 5, 2017
London Bridge Terrorist Was Carrying Irish identity Card
Here's the latest, at the Telegraph U.K., "Live - London Bridge attack latest: Terrorist was carrying Irish identity card, security sources reveal."
Seal Beach Paddleboarder's Close Call with Great White Shark?
Dang, I could do without that, lol.
At CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
At CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Sunday, June 4, 2017
'Instructing Londoners to run, hide, and tell is a dramatic departure from the can-do, stiff-upper-lip, globe-striding empire of a century ago...'
Following-up from yesterday, "Run. Hide. Tell."
From Jon Gabriel, at Ricochet, "In the Face of Terror, Londoners Told to 'Run, Hide, Tell'."
From Jon Gabriel, at Ricochet, "In the Face of Terror, Londoners Told to 'Run, Hide, Tell'."
Sunday Cartoons
At Flopping Aces, "Sunday Funnies."
Also, at Theo's, "Cartoon Roundup..."
Cartoon Credit: Ben Garrison.
New #BenGarrison #cartoon A Change in the Weather #trump #ParisAccord #ParisClimateDeal #Algore #obama #Merkel more https://t.co/73adImHCEe pic.twitter.com/dRZmITrZnQ
— BenGarrison Cartoons (@GrrrGraphics) June 3, 2017
Also, at Theo's, "Cartoon Roundup..."
Cartoon Credit: Ben Garrison.
Reza Aslan Apologizes
Actually, if the guy wants to call President Trump a POS he should be able to. Me? I just won't (and don't) watch his show. I wouldn't try to get him fired.
But I guess folks have turned up the heat, according to Heat Street, "Reza Aslan’s CNN Show Could Be in Jeopardy After Trump ‘Piece of Sh*t’ Tweet."
I saw some of the outrage on Twitter. And now the idiot's just posted this:
But I guess folks have turned up the heat, according to Heat Street, "Reza Aslan’s CNN Show Could Be in Jeopardy After Trump ‘Piece of Sh*t’ Tweet."
I saw some of the outrage on Twitter. And now the idiot's just posted this:
I should not have used a profanity to describe the President when responding to his shocking reaction to the #LondonAttacks. My statement: pic.twitter.com/pW69jjpoZy
— Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) June 4, 2017
Still Working on It: Richard Slotkin, Regeneration Through Violence
It's an awesome book, but a hefty slog. I've been breaking it up with some other books, but I'm almost through this one, and will be starting out on the next one in Slotkin's trilogy.
This is fine scholarship, to be savored and enjoyed.
See, Richard Slotkin's, Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860.
Also, The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800–1890, and Gunfighter Nation: Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America.
This is fine scholarship, to be savored and enjoyed.
See, Richard Slotkin's, Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860.
Also, The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800–1890, and Gunfighter Nation: Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America.
It's Time to Change Our Response to Islamic Extremism
Like I said at my earlier entry, nothing's gonna change.
If jihadists nuked London maybe?
Until then, it'll be more of the same. Political correctness drives policy, and leftists control the establishment, even with Theresa May in power.
In any case, here's the redoubtable Douglas Murray, at the Spectator U.K., "Blind, bovine hope will get us nowhere – it’s time to change our response to Islamic extremism":
Note: Murray's whole debate here is post-Manchester. Now we've had the London Bridge jihad, which goes only to prove his point. (And leftists will hate him all the more.)
If jihadists nuked London maybe?
Until then, it'll be more of the same. Political correctness drives policy, and leftists control the establishment, even with Theresa May in power.
In any case, here's the redoubtable Douglas Murray, at the Spectator U.K., "Blind, bovine hope will get us nowhere – it’s time to change our response to Islamic extremism":
Blind, bovine hope will get us nowhere – it’s time to change our response to Islamic extremism https://t.co/cVbpPQRPuz
— The Spectator (@spectator) June 4, 2017
Last Sunday, I appeared on the BBC’s Sunday Politics to discuss the aftermath of the Manchester attack. I said what I thought, and various Muslim groups promptly went bananas.Keep reading.
This was not caused by my suggestion that this country should finally crack-down on British officials who spend their retirements working as shills for the House of Saud. Nor by my ridiculing of that modern European tradition whereby someone blows us up and we respond by singing John Lennon songs (and now Oasis too). Rather they objected to my simple two-word suggestion that we could all do with ‘less Islam’.
In a short film preceding the studio discussion, I mentioned that countries like Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have very little Islam and very little Islamic terror. By contrast, France has a great amount of Islam and a great amount of Islamic terror. To most people it would seem obvious – to co-opt the immortal words of Donatella Versace – that ‘more means more’. Because although many communities are capable of producing extremists, only Islamic communities produce Islamic extremists. Of course some people don’t want to accept this fact. Not least because informed choices might result. For instance, it might help us weigh up the ongoing cultural benefits of large-scale Islamic immigration versus the down-side of dozens of obliterated lives every now and then...
Note: Murray's whole debate here is post-Manchester. Now we've had the London Bridge jihad, which goes only to prove his point. (And leftists will hate him all the more.)
Theresa May Won't Crack Down on Jihad (VIDEO)
We'll see speeches like this again and again, every time the jihadists attack. Nothing will change.
The #LondonAttacks were painfully familiar — but Theresa May's response was not https://t.co/J8q64lFOJO
— POLITICO Europe (@POLITICOEurope) June 4, 2017
#TheresaMay won't crack down. It'll be more of the same wishy-washy "Islam is a religion of peace" claptrap. #LondonBridge #Islam #Jihad https://t.co/rL4UEq2Mav
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) June 4, 2017
Saturday, June 3, 2017
Jennifer Delacruz's Marine Layer Forecast
Traditional June weather. Quite comfortable, but not as fun if you're heading to the beach.
Here's the fabulous Ms. Jennifer, for ABC News 10 San Diego:
Here's the fabulous Ms. Jennifer, for ABC News 10 San Diego:
ICYMI: W. August Mayer, Islamic Jihad, Cultural Marxism, and the Transformation of the West
I'm looking forward to reading this book.
At Amazon, W. August Mayer, Islamic Jihad, Cultural Marxism, and the Transformation of the West.
At Amazon, W. August Mayer, Islamic Jihad, Cultural Marxism, and the Transformation of the West.
Run. Hide. Tell.
London's Metropolitan Police tweeted recommendations for besieged Londoners: "Run. Hide. Tell."
Well, video shows people running alright. The whole country's running. Britain's running away from reality, and it's killing them.
Well, video shows people running alright. The whole country's running. Britain's running away from reality, and it's killing them.
#Londonbridge #boroughmarket #vauxhall pic.twitter.com/a7OciBEBjH
— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) June 3, 2017
This cell phone video shows people running for safety after a series of terror attacks took place in London. https://t.co/0gLBl40UIS pic.twitter.com/DX2gByEdLx
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 4, 2017
Claire Berlinski, Menace in Europe
Suspects in London are still on the loose, according to the Daily Mail a little while ago.
I'll have more on the attack later, of course.
Meanwhile, at Amazon, Claire Berlinski, Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too.
I'll have more on the attack later, of course.
Meanwhile, at Amazon, Claire Berlinski, Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too.
Polar Bears: The Poster Child for Climate Change
Leftists have convinced themselves that conservatives are in "denial" of climate change, hence stories about how President Trump believes it's a "hoax."
Of course, that's not it. The issue is whether human activity is causing climate change, because the climate's been changing for hundreds of millions of years, before humans used fossil fuels to power their survival.
The true science is on the side of the skeptics. Progressives are akin to a quasi-religious cult.
In any case, seen just now at the New York Times, and the related article at bottom:
Of course, that's not it. The issue is whether human activity is causing climate change, because the climate's been changing for hundreds of millions of years, before humans used fossil fuels to power their survival.
The true science is on the side of the skeptics. Progressives are akin to a quasi-religious cult.
In any case, seen just now at the New York Times, and the related article at bottom:
In a new ad for The New York Times, Josh Haner reflects on the effects of climate change on polar bears. pic.twitter.com/IVkEAwo1aj— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 2, 2017
Polar bears’ path to decline runs through Alaskan Village https://t.co/gNvJkGI5a4— NYT National News (@NYTNational) January 1, 2017
New York Times Defends Decision to Identify Undercover CIA Agent
Heh.
Of course they do.
At Instapundit, "I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN MENTIONING VALERIE PLAME — WHO WAS NEITHER UNDERCOVER NOR AN AGENT — WAS TREASON OF THE FIRST ORDER: New York Times defends decision to identify undercover CIA agent."
And here it is, so casually reported:
Of course they do.
At Instapundit, "I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN MENTIONING VALERIE PLAME — WHO WAS NEITHER UNDERCOVER NOR AN AGENT — WAS TREASON OF THE FIRST ORDER: New York Times defends decision to identify undercover CIA agent."
And here it is, so casually reported:
In the @CIA he decimated core Al Qaeda. Now he'll run Iranian operations. https://t.co/xe6mWnXhky
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) June 2, 2017
Friday, June 2, 2017
Kathy Griffin Comedy Tour Cancelled
She has only herself to blame. Indeed, apparently the Uptown Theater cancellation came after she held her press conference today.
At TMZ, "Kathy Griffin Gets Ax from Last Theater in Comedy Tour."
Hat Tip: Conservative Treehouse.
At TMZ, "Kathy Griffin Gets Ax from Last Theater in Comedy Tour."
Hat Tip: Conservative Treehouse.
New York Times: Trump's Paris Withdrawal is 'Win for Isolationists; Condemnation is Widespread...'
That's how the Old Gray Lady played it this morning, with its front-page coverage.
The left's reaction has been for the ages, no doubt.
The left's reaction has been for the ages, no doubt.
President Trump announced that he will withdraw the United States from participation in the Paris climate accord https://t.co/SH3iThYXPR
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 1, 2017
Kathy Griffin's Trump Decapitation Wasn't a Joke (VIDEO)
Comedian Kathy Griffin Claims Her Career is Over: Donald Trump 'Ruined' Her Life
Following-up, "WATCH: Kathy Griffin Press Conference (VIDEO)."
At Twitchy, "ICYMI ==> ‘He broke me’! Kathy Griffin cries that she’s the victim of ‘older white guy’ Donald Trump."
At Twitchy, "ICYMI ==> ‘He broke me’! Kathy Griffin cries that she’s the victim of ‘older white guy’ Donald Trump."
This is by far the funniest routine she's ever done. https://t.co/AMcSD11gH6 pic.twitter.com/s6pLoZxMt1
— Byron York (@ByronYork) June 2, 2017
Demi Rose Steps Out in Crop Top in Ibiza
Following-up from last month, "Demi Rose Rule 5."
At London's Daily Mail, "Dirty Baby! Tyga's rumoured former fling Demi Rose looks bootylicious as she steps out in a slogan crop top in Ibiza... and sports Kylie Jenner's brother-in-law's Yeezy trainers."
At London's Daily Mail, "Dirty Baby! Tyga's rumoured former fling Demi Rose looks bootylicious as she steps out in a slogan crop top in Ibiza... and sports Kylie Jenner's brother-in-law's Yeezy trainers."
WATCH: Kathy Griffin Press Conference (VIDEO)
At ABC News, "Kathy Griffin on Donald Trump photo scandal - FULL PRESS CONFERENCE."
(There's an even longer clip at ABC News 23 Bakersfield, "Kathy Griffin talks about the picture she posted of herself with President Donald Trump: Kathy Griffin is fighting back against the abuse and "death threats" she has received in light of controversial images released earlier this week that showed the comedian holding up a bloody head resembling that of President Donald Trump."
And at London's Daily Mail:
(There's an even longer clip at ABC News 23 Bakersfield, "Kathy Griffin talks about the picture she posted of herself with President Donald Trump: Kathy Griffin is fighting back against the abuse and "death threats" she has received in light of controversial images released earlier this week that showed the comedian holding up a bloody head resembling that of President Donald Trump."
And at London's Daily Mail:
Griffin says that Trump 'broke' her and that she does not expect her career to recover from his family's attacks https://t.co/9SyD9xEZnc pic.twitter.com/4lLwgRSgiJ
— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) June 2, 2017
The Sad Long List of Hillary's Excuses
From Amanda Prestigiacomo, at the Daily Wire, "The Complete (And Ever Expanding) List Of Hillary's Excuses For Election Loss."
Hat Tip: Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit, "DNC EXEC PUBLICLY (IF MOMENTARILY) BLASTS HILLARY FOR BLAMESHIFTING HER FAILURE."
SAD! The Full, Long List Of Hillary Excuses For Election Loss https://t.co/fbcFoPFSty @realDailyWire pic.twitter.com/j2w4jJfYNT
— Amanda Prestigiacomo (@AmandaPresto) June 1, 2017
Hat Tip: Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit, "DNC EXEC PUBLICLY (IF MOMENTARILY) BLASTS HILLARY FOR BLAMESHIFTING HER FAILURE."
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Kathy Griffin Losing It
From Ben Garrison:
Cutting off your Head to spite your brain @kathygriffin? flushed and fired. What's next? An arrest?https://t.co/te94j1Btjc pic.twitter.com/fgyHL9WDDh
— BenGarrison Cartoons (@GrrrGraphics) May 31, 2017
On Leaving the SJW Cult
From Keri Smith, "On Leaving the SJW Cult and Finding Myself":
I don’t yet know what to call this part of the left. Maajid Nawaz calls them the “Regressive Left.” Others call them SJWs (Social Justice Warriors) or the Alt-Left. The ideology is post-modernist cultural marxism, and it operates as a secular religion. Most are indoctrinated in liberal elite colleges, though many are being indoctrinated online these days. It has its own dogma and jargon, meant to make you feel like a good person, and used to lecture others on their ‘sin.’ “Check your privilege”- much like “mansplaining” and “gaslighting”- all at one time useful terms- have over time lost a lot of their meaning. These days I see them most frequently being abused as weaponized ad hominem attacks on a person’s immutable identity markers….a way to avoid making an argument, while simultaneously claiming an unearned moral highground in a discussion.RTWT.
Let's Thank Kathy Griffin
This is an absolutely fantastic essay, from Melissa Mackenzie, at the American Spectator, "CNN’s Kathy Griffin and the Face of Tolerant Democrats":
Kathy Griffin and the natural end stop for Leftist ideology: https://t.co/IuOxY7i7rh
— Melissa Mackenzie 🌐 (@MelissaTweets) May 31, 2017
Kathy Griffin should be thanked, at least, for being open about her aims. Her boldness gives the violent game away.
The CNN host, Griffin, these students, and the terrified administrations who enable them, represent power through force, intimidation, aggression, and murder.
Calm exchanges of ideas no longer happen, because one side believes their side is the righteous side. The same zeal that animated towns people to burn the witch, animates the true believers on the Left. The only way to save the sanctity of the community is by eliminating the apostates. More and more people are becoming apostates. The illiberal professors are dismayed to learn this the hard way.
Burn them.
Brand them.
Behead them.
Kathy Griffin should be thanked for making the covert, overt. Her image beautifully reveals the truth of the ideology espoused on the Left: submit or die.
Sound familiar?
John Putnam Demos, Entertaining Satan
*BUMPED.*
At Amazon, John Putnam Demos, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England.
At Amazon, John Putnam Demos, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England.
Paranoid Paleoconservatives
This is pretty good.
From Jamie Palmer, at Quillette:
From Jamie Palmer, at Quillette:
A #longread by @jacobinism on the rise and political provenance of the alt-right: https://t.co/23iI1UnEyZ
— Quillette Magazine (@QuilletteM) June 1, 2017
Amber Turner Bikini on the Beach in Marbella
At London's Daily Mail, "TOWIE's Amber Turner shows off sensationally slender figure in glitzy peach bikini as she hits the beach in Marbella."
"Towie" is "The Only Way Is Essex," a British soap opera.
Don't care, though. I mostly like the bikini beach photos, heh.
Also at Saw First, "Amber Turner on the Beach in Marbella."
"Towie" is "The Only Way Is Essex," a British soap opera.
Don't care, though. I mostly like the bikini beach photos, heh.
Also at Saw First, "Amber Turner on the Beach in Marbella."
'My hatred of Kathy Griffin isn't a hatred of her — it's a hatred of the vicious caste-based system which says she has more rights than Sean Hannity, and more rights than you, and more rights than me...'
It's Ace, but Kathy Griffin doesn't come up until near the end of this long essay on fighting fire with fire against the social justice left.
See, "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum — Again: It is imperative we begin emulating the left in its tactics..."
See, "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum — Again: It is imperative we begin emulating the left in its tactics..."
'Intersectional Quantum Physics'
That's not really a thing.
But see the Other McCain, "Feminist Insanity at Taxpayer Expense: ‘Intersectional Quantum Physics’."
But see the Other McCain, "Feminist Insanity at Taxpayer Expense: ‘Intersectional Quantum Physics’."
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Today's Deals
*BUMPED.*
At Amazon, New Deals. Every Day. Shop Our Deal of the Day. Lightning Deals and More.
BONUS: Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.
At Amazon, New Deals. Every Day. Shop Our Deal of the Day. Lightning Deals and More.
BONUS: Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.
Lebanon Bans 'Wonder Woman'
Well, I guess the Lebanese are taking a page from the radical left's playbook right here at home. Leftists want to ban everything.
Gal Gadot's banned in the "Switzerland of the Middle East."
At the Los Angeles Times:
Gal Gadot's banned in the "Switzerland of the Middle East."
At the Los Angeles Times:
Lebanon officially bans “Wonder Woman” from theaters because its star, Gal Gadot, is Israeli https://t.co/1ZGBUGZlfi pic.twitter.com/6pniXMPV1l
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) May 31, 2017
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