Tuesday, 11 January 2011
News.......
Cop goes cult
By all means, let us do away with the politics of divisiveness ...
Let us now speak bluntly and with candor about the assault upon gabrielle giffords and the murder of john roll ...
Not wanting to start a backlash
Riverine Want
It always takes longer to bug out than it takes to say "Bug Out"...
Lib Rep. McCarthy Who Knows Nothing About Guns to Introduce New Legislation Banning Guns (Video)
Gore Hate-Speech.
Paper pauper - could the Fed go broke?
Global trade war likely says Brazil
Honey laundering: The sour side of nature’s golden sweetener
Britain's most workshy estate: The community where this man is the only person has a job
Iran says Israeli spy network dismantled, terrorists arrested
Grand theft auto robbers foiled by satellite-powered security system
American Conservative Union Board Member: ‘We Are Prepared to Give Our Lives for the Cause of Islam’
Future Ferrari to read drivers' moods
The world's 10 greatest parties
Defeat The Anti-White Double Standard
Sacked over 'elf and safety, teacher who took two boys of 15 sledging as part of technology lesson
Royal Navy's Falklands ship turned away by Brazil
Australian floods: Brisbane homes evacuated as crisis escalates
China: a force fit for a superpower
Army's 400 tanks may be cut to 50
Britain's isolation on Falklands grows with 'anti-colonial' Brazil snub
Afghanistan: 'Tea bag' solider survives after being shot five times by Taliban
Falklands Islands: timeline of tensions since the war
Belarus facing unprecedented sanctions
Italian man shot in head sneezes out bullet
Deadly new clashes on Sudan's north-south border highlight lack of oil deal
and finally......
The 7 worst legal defenses ever attempted
World's Most Expensive Movie Posters
Media bingo..............from Rico
For anyone who still had ANT doubts about the agenda of our librul media, the unfortunate shooting in Arizona provides ample evidence of it.
Playing their usual "progressive" truth bingo, there has been NO REPORTING so far (and I suspect there will be none in future) that the shooter was an:
- anti-religion pothead, who LOVED the Communist Manifesto, and
- by all accounts is insane.
But truth doesn't matter as much as following the scripted party line.
The Left Escalates Blame Game Over Arizona Shooting
This is really amazing.
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik doubles down: "Arizona Sheriff Blasts Rush Limbaugh for Spewing 'Irresponsible' Vitriol." (Via Memeorandum.)
And at Pat Dollard, "Leftist Tucson Sheriff Tries to Gain Political Profit From Blood of Dead Victims."
Contrast that to the measured reason of Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu:
See also, Andrew Klavan, "The Hateful Left":
To be sure, there is a lot of heated rhetoric in American politics, as ever. For instance, last spring, three Democratic congressmen cruelly slandered Tea Party members by accusing them of spitting on them and calling them racial slurs—a charge that was reported as true by the Times even after it was thoroughly debunked by videotapes of the event. Film director Rob Reiner compared the Tea Party to the Nazis on Bill Maher’s HBO show last October. And in May, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg infamously blamed an Islamist attempt to bomb Times Square on “someone who didn’t like health care or something.” Indeed, the Left’s hysterical response to all who disagree with it—that they are racist or sexist or “phobic” or somehow reminiscent of Hitler—has become so predictable that satirists, from the libertarian Greg Gutfeld to the liberal Jon Stewart, have made fun of it in routines.RELATED: "The Left's Climate of Hate and Libel."
But never mind that, because the Left’s sudden talk about incendiary political rhetoric in the wake of the Arizona shooting isn’t really about political rhetoric at all. It’s about the real-world failure of leftist policies everywhere—the bankrupting of nations and states by greedy unions and unfundable social programs, the destruction of inner cities by identity politics, and the appeasement of Muslim extremists in the face of worldwide jihad, not to mention the frequently fatal effects of delirious environmentalism. Europe is in debt and on fire. American citizens are in political revolt. Even the most left-wing president ever is making desperate overtures to his right.
But all that might be tolerable to leftists if they weren’t starting to lose control of the one weapon in which they have the most faith: the narrative. The narrative is what leftists believe in instead of the truth. If they can blame George W. Bush for the economic crisis, if they can make Sarah Palin out to be an idiot, if they can call the Tea Party racist until you think it must be true, they might yet retain power in spite of the international disgrace of their ideas. And though they still mostly dominate the narrative on the three broadcast networks, most cable stations, most newspapers, and much of Hollywood, nonetheless Fox News, talk radio, the Internet, and the Wall Street Journal have begun to respond in ways they can’t ignore.
That’s the hateful rhetoric they’re talking about: conservatives interrupting the stream of leftist invective in order to dismantle their arguments with the facts. As for leftists’ reaction to the Arizona shooting, call it Narrative Hysteria: a frantic attempt to capitalize on calamity by casting their opponents, not merely as racist or sexist or Islamophobic this time, but as somehow responsible for an act of madness and evil. Shame on them.
Cross-posted from American Power.
Monday, 10 January 2011
Setting New Records of Depravity: Progressives and the Giffords Shooting
See: "Progressives and the Giffords Shooting."
And at Michelle Malkin's, "The Progressive “Climate of Hate:” An Illustrated Primer, 2000-2010."
Updates on the shooting at American Power.
Hoot!
One of the coolest things about any of Great Satan's super democrazy little sisters - kindred spirits in every way - with hot! literacy rates, fun and free choice - totally into all the cool endeavors of the human spirit - Academics, Art, Biz, Communications, Meds, Technology and even Space Exploration.
SoKo's "Girls Generation" is a cool reflection of the "League of Hot! Democrazies" ala daemoneoconic Dr Kagan. "Hoot" is their latest release with a swinging Sixties retro Brit beat - complete with electric sitar and James Bond "009" theme.
With legs like this - one could - rule the world. Check out the blatant mercantilismus with collector cards
Democracy projection and protection, putting the Hoot in Hoochie since 1776.
Celebrated without modesty or restraint by the hoochies at GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD
News........
Legislation proposes Utah adopt a gold-based system
Splodey vids- B-52 edition, part one…
Want One
UK Preppers - preparing for the economic and societal breakdown.
Massive Silver Withdrawals From The Comex
Muslim Inbreeding produces disasterous results
Latest on shooting of Congresswoman Giffords...motivation: anti Semitic and she was the target
Best of Left-Wing Hate From 2010
Imagining the Commander in Chief Anywhere Near a Combat Zone
Don't raise your middle finger in Dubai, court says
Canada ranks last in freedom of information: study
Is older always better when it comes to whisky?
Controversy as the n-word is removed from Twain classics
Megyn Kelly Confronts AZ Sheriff Over ‘Political Spin’ on Shooting
Boy's toys the new frontier for erotica industry
The lion and tiger cubs that herd sheep
Firms get powers to sack the slackers
Device ends whine of dentist's drill
Portugal facing €80bn EU bail-out
US will respond to Chinese military build-up
Two French hostages killed by al-Qaeda kidnappers during failed rescue attempt
Russia 'terrified' over Viktor Bout trial, lawyer claims
The Slow-Motion Exodus of European Jews
A train............from Rico
If you have never ridden the tube, the metro, rapid transit, etc then this 'map' of the FaRT won't mean much to you without some study.
Then again, it may also depend upon how you view a train.....
Six Truths in Life............
1. You cannot stick your tongue out and look up at the ceiling at the same time, a physical impossibility.
2. All idiots, after reading #1 will try it.
3. And discover #1 is a lie.
4. You are smiling now because you are an idiot.
5. You soon will forward this to another idiot, or perhaps, to many idiots.
6. There is still a stupid smile on your face.
I sincerely apologize about this but I'm an idiot and I needed company.
H/T Shelly
Clueless.............from Rico
These four charts should tell you everything you need to know about our situation. Where we were vs. where we are, with a visual of where we go from here.
They should also explain why the MSM and FTV cheerleaders and many "economists" of the Keynesian-Marxian variety are clueless about our situation.
- Our politicians? Well, they're clueless by definition I'd say...with the rare exception that proves the rule like Ron Paul.
Hey, this isn't "rocket science" and you do NOT have to be an Ivy League professor to grasp the concept that borrowing your way out of debt doesn't work.
- In fact, it is quite an advantage being outside the Halls of Macademia and in the real world. It gives those of us who actually know HOW make things work a perspective quite removed from ivory tower bloviations of how things SHOULD work....in 'theory' of course.
Here is a one-question "pop quiz" for Prof. Bernanke, Timmy Geithner, Berry Soetoro and their delusional ilk:
- Name ONE example from the entirity of human history where "getting out of debt by getting into debt" actually worked?
Bonus essay question for extra credit:
- When has this economic theory EVER ended well, and exactly why are things different THIS time?
Video: Harriers Low Level Training " Mach Loop CAD WEST "
The idiot at the MOD thought getting rid of our Harrier squadrons is a bloody moron.
Sunday, 9 January 2011
The Lone Gunman
By Alan Caruba
In 1247, the Bethlem Royal Hospital was established at Bishopsgate, just outside the London wall. It was better known as Bedlam and was the first asylum for the mentally ill in England. By 1403 it had some prominent guests. Bedlam had become the generic name for psychiatric hospitals and, more colloquially for a disturbance of the peace.
There was such a disturbance on Saturday when Jared Loughner shot U.S Representative Gabrielle Giffords in the brain at point blank range. He then shot others including a Federal judge and a nine-year-old child.
There is something like 25,000 laws on the books concerning the purchase and ownership of guns and not one single one of them could have prevented what happened.
This is not a defense of guns. The U.S. Revolution began at Concord and Lexington when a group of farmers picked up their guns and shot at British soldiers. No one is going to un-invent guns and everywhere they were banned, tyrannies of every description occurred.
This is about the Jared Loughner’s who, in my lifetime, assassinated men like John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Some nine U.S. presidents have either been killed or attacked by assassins. In 1981, John Hinkley Jr., in an effort to impress the actress, Jodie Foster, nearly succeeded in assassinating Ronald Reagan. Earlier Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Gerald Ford were shot at.
Anyone who has been a reporter as I have been will tell you that every American city has a section that local residents fear to travel to or through. Murder occurs in every American city, large and small, every day. Usually it is a drug deal or robbery gone bad or a gambling dispute.
For reporters, the killing of someone prominent is a news bonanza. It overrides the usual buzz in a newsroom devoted to the more commonplace stories. There’s a reason the news channels are into full coverage mode and why, by the end of the week, when they have exhausted the few known facts of the Tucson shooting, they will return to a normal coverage of the news.
Here’s what you need to keep in mind. It’s not about gun laws. It’s not about Tucson. It’s not about Arizona. It’s not about political analysis and dialogue, so you can ignore the hypocritical ravings of MSNBC’s Keith Olberman and others eager to blame Rush Limbaugh or the Fox News Channel.
Loughner is Hinkley redux. Described by all who know him as “a loner” and rejected for military service, invited to leave the campus of a local college, more than a few people understood that Jared had a screw loose.
The closest you can get to understanding what happened is to rent Martin Scorsese’s brilliant film, “Taxi Driver.” There you will see Robert DeNiro’s portrayal of Travis Bickle, the archetype of every lone gunman. And yes, also in the film, you will find Jodie Foster.
The shooting was about mental illness. It was about paranoia. It was about schizophrenia. It was about all the other killings where innocent people were gunned down by someone hearing voices in his head.
Say a prayer for Rep. Giffords, but remember, they walk among us.
© Alan Caruba, 2011
In 1247, the Bethlem Royal Hospital was established at Bishopsgate, just outside the London wall. It was better known as Bedlam and was the first asylum for the mentally ill in England. By 1403 it had some prominent guests. Bedlam had become the generic name for psychiatric hospitals and, more colloquially for a disturbance of the peace.
There was such a disturbance on Saturday when Jared Loughner shot U.S Representative Gabrielle Giffords in the brain at point blank range. He then shot others including a Federal judge and a nine-year-old child.
There is something like 25,000 laws on the books concerning the purchase and ownership of guns and not one single one of them could have prevented what happened.
This is not a defense of guns. The U.S. Revolution began at Concord and Lexington when a group of farmers picked up their guns and shot at British soldiers. No one is going to un-invent guns and everywhere they were banned, tyrannies of every description occurred.
This is about the Jared Loughner’s who, in my lifetime, assassinated men like John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Some nine U.S. presidents have either been killed or attacked by assassins. In 1981, John Hinkley Jr., in an effort to impress the actress, Jodie Foster, nearly succeeded in assassinating Ronald Reagan. Earlier Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Gerald Ford were shot at.
Anyone who has been a reporter as I have been will tell you that every American city has a section that local residents fear to travel to or through. Murder occurs in every American city, large and small, every day. Usually it is a drug deal or robbery gone bad or a gambling dispute.
For reporters, the killing of someone prominent is a news bonanza. It overrides the usual buzz in a newsroom devoted to the more commonplace stories. There’s a reason the news channels are into full coverage mode and why, by the end of the week, when they have exhausted the few known facts of the Tucson shooting, they will return to a normal coverage of the news.
Here’s what you need to keep in mind. It’s not about gun laws. It’s not about Tucson. It’s not about Arizona. It’s not about political analysis and dialogue, so you can ignore the hypocritical ravings of MSNBC’s Keith Olberman and others eager to blame Rush Limbaugh or the Fox News Channel.
Loughner is Hinkley redux. Described by all who know him as “a loner” and rejected for military service, invited to leave the campus of a local college, more than a few people understood that Jared had a screw loose.
The closest you can get to understanding what happened is to rent Martin Scorsese’s brilliant film, “Taxi Driver.” There you will see Robert DeNiro’s portrayal of Travis Bickle, the archetype of every lone gunman. And yes, also in the film, you will find Jodie Foster.
The shooting was about mental illness. It was about paranoia. It was about schizophrenia. It was about all the other killings where innocent people were gunned down by someone hearing voices in his head.
Say a prayer for Rep. Giffords, but remember, they walk among us.
© Alan Caruba, 2011
Keith Olbermann on Arizona Shooting: 'Violence Has No Place in Democracy'
From Olby: "Violence, or the threat of violence, has no place in our Democracy, and I apologize for and repudiate any act or any thing in my past that may have even inadvertently encouraged violence. Because for whatever else each of us may be, we all are Americans."
Good try, I must say, although the overwhelming bulk of the "special comment" blamed the right, despite the fact that the shooter was a conspiracy theorist and atheist progressive and that Giffords was targeted by Democrats and Daily Kos fanatics. See, "IS DAILY KOS INVOLVED IN ARIZONA MURDERS?"
PREVIOUSLY: "Rachel Maddow Crestfallen — Giffords Shooter ID’d as Crazed Conspiracy Theorist and Marx-Reading Progressive Atheist."
Also, "Bloodshed Puts New Focus on Vitriol in Politics," and "Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot by Gunman at Townhall Event in Tucson — Progressives Blame Sarah Palin 'Hit List'."
Cross-posted from American Power.
WORD IS HE's DATING KATIE COURIC
Sean Linnane reports on the Homeless Dude and the Cougar . . .
Talk about your Beauty and the Beast . . .
. . . of course it's hard to tell which one's which . . .
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