Friday, 14 January 2011
Disconnect: The Liberal Left is As Sick as Jared Loughner...........from Dan Friedman
By now, many of us have already realized a byline in the NY Times or a handsome face on Face The Nation indicates neither expertise nor a balanced state of mind. Instead, it’s often a calling card for consuming jaundice and intellectual depravity. So if anything good can possibly come out of this tragedy then it will be the average American’s further alienation from the influence of the sickos who populate the elitist liberal media.
An F/A-18C Hornet launches from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 8, 2011. The Carl Vinson and Carrier Air Wing 17 are deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility. The hornet is assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 25. U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Nicolas C. Lopez
H/T Marc
News............
Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Jan.13
Why the sheriff of pima county is a cynical, disingenuous, duplicitous and deceitful political hack
Rush Speaks on the Left’s Unbridled Hatred for Sarah Palin (Video)
Great Democrat Memorials Past: Clinton's Tear for Ron Brown, 1996
Quotable Montana Tech Football Coach Retires
Obama team to evaluate new gun control proposals
Too Asian! Too Asian! The Dying have just killed Multiculturalism
Racing to Be Wrong
Chinese spend big on Belgian racing pigeons
With fox hunts outlawed, English hunt people
Technician in Israel is producing alternative energy harvesting system
Fox Bites Off Woman's Finger
EU sends out £4.4m diaries to schools which list Muslim, Chinese and Hindu holidays... but miss out Christmas and Easter
Immigration is too high, say four in five Britons
Now 300 dead birds fall from the sky in Alabama (how much longer can scientists keep saying this is normal?)
Tunisia riots: Reform or be overthrown, US tells Arab states amid fresh riots
Australia floods: residents warned against entering flooded suburbs
Fox 'shoots hunter' in Belarus
Burmese prison inmates 'used as human mine sweepers'
How can we feed 9 billion?
Roast beef and a pirate chaser
Iran arms smuggling details to be disclosed
Illegal Immigration: Shutting the Back Door to Fortress Europe
and finally......
Still running on empty... just by little Jimmy May
6 really messed up origins of classic fairy tales
A Gallery of Movie Posters from a Parallel Universe
"Blood Libel" For Dummies...........from Dan Friedman
Origins: Classic anti-Semitic canard that Jews use Christian blood to make Passover matzo. Since Passover and Easter are close to each other on the calendar, the blood libel was a big favorite among Christian clergy who repeated it in sermons during Easter mass in order to incite their flock to pogrom against Jews on their way out of church.
Today: Still crazy after all these years, but has come to have a broader meaning. A false accusation that someone’s speech, conduct, politics, analogies, opinions, tone of voice, lipstick - and now graphics - has led to the shedding of blood by a totally zoned out third party who couldn’t tell a Republican from a hot dog bun. Big favorite among desperate liberals and the Left who repeat the nonsense in sermons in the New York Times and on MSNBC in order to incite their dwindling flocks to pump up flagging circulation, credibility, influence and ratings.
Thursday, 13 January 2011
9 Year-Old Christina Taylor Green Laid to Rest
At LAT, "Funeral Held for Christina Green, 9-Year-Old Victim of Tucson Shooting":
PREVIOUSLY: "Christina Taylor Green (Profiles of the Arizona Shooting Victims)."The U.S. flag that flew atop the World Trade Center is displayed at the service for Christina Taylor Green, who was born on Sept. 11, 2001. 'I felt I had to be here to pay my respects,' says a mourner outside the church.
Less than a week after the deadly mass shooting that left six dead and 13 injured, Tucson began to bury the dead on Thursday.
The first funeral from Saturday's shooting was for the youngest victim, Christina Taylor Green, a 9-year-old girl who was born on Sept. 11, 2001, the day of the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
The U.S. flag that flew atop the World Trade Center was displayed at the funeral, linking the two tragedies that served as parentheses enclosing the brief span of the child who has become a symbol of how violence can shatter a life.
Hundreds of mourners lined the roadway leading to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton church, where the funeral began at 1 p.m. Mountain Standard Time. Many wore white and carried a single rose.
"I felt I had to be here to pay my respects," said David Johnson, 38, of Phoenix. "It was something I felt really strongly about. It hits really close to home."
According to the program, Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas led the service, a Mass of resurrection. Readings included Psalm 23 and John 14:1-6.
The University of Arizona choir performed as did a piper, who played "Amazing Grace."The front of the program had a picture of a smiling Christina wearing a tiara. On the back were the lyrics to Billy Joel's "Lullaby," with its haunting lyric, "Good night my angel, now it's time to sleep."
RELATED: "Why Progressives Lost It."
CROSS-POSTED from American Power.
Top Ten Things We Can't Say Anymore
According to the Dept. of Homeland Security the following words, phrases and idioms are henceforth verboten:
1. Target audience
2. The movie bombed
3. I have a question. “Shoot!”
4. Attack ad
5. He shot his big mouth off
6. Over my dead body!
7. Annie get your gun
8. Bullets over Broadway
9. Killer app
10. I almost died laughing
H/T Dan
Krauthammer: Palin's Statement on Tucson 'Unfortunate and Unnecessary'
Charles Krauthammer responds to Jewish criticisms of Sarah Palin's use of the term "blood libel."
He mainly laments that Palin gave the speech at all. Sure, it might be a sensitive issue given that Gabrielle Giffords is Jewish, and she's fighting for her life while the rest of the nation debates allegations of "blood libel"? I'm personally not bothered by the use of the term as it's applied to the libelous attacks on Palin and tea party conservatives. Frankly, Glenn Reynolds' essay at WSJ the other day has been one of the most penetrating: "The Arizona Tragedy and the Politics of Blood Libel." Harvard's Alan Dershowitz vigorously defended Palin today. And Joe Weisenthal at Business Insider writes that "Sarah Palin has finally weighed in with a long, thoughtful reaction to the Arizona tragedy and all the talk that it was somehow the result of 'heated rhetoric'." There's still lots more up on this at Memeorandum, but see the Los Angeles Times, "Sarah Palin Video on Giffords Aftermath Stays True to Who Palin Is":
The video had elements of a presidential-level address, with an American flag featured prominently in the frame. Palin spoke in a calm tone — noticeably different from her rousing "mama grizzly" style during last year's election campaign — about the democratic process and the need to condemn violence "if the republic is to endure." She appealed for a common response to the tragedy, saying, "We need strength to not let the random acts of a criminal turn us against ourselves, or weaken our solid foundation, or provide a pretext to stifle debate."More at the link.
She released the video on the same day that President Obama traveled to Arizona to speak at a memorial service, and won a position opposite the president on many news outlets. By comparison, potential GOP candidates Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee this week issued statements on the shootings that went largely unnoticed.
Ken Khachigian, a former speechwriter for Presidents Nixon and Reagan and a longtime GOP strategist in California, said he was struck by Palin's bearing in the video, saying he thought the former vice presidential nominee "appeared more grown-up."
"She captured some of what she did at the [Republican] convention in '08," he said. "She was more conversational, more dignified."
In her message, Palin did not refer directly to accusations that her use last year of a map showing Giffords' Arizona district, among others, targeted in crosshairs helped foster a climate of violence. Instead, she said, "After this shocking tragedy, I listened at first puzzled, then with concern and now with sadness to the irresponsible statements from people attempting to apportion blame for this terrible event."
The resulting "blood libel" serves "only to incite the hatred and violence that they purport to condemn," she said. "That is reprehensible."
Jewish groups and others reacted swiftly, saying Palin had associated her political plight with centuries of anti-Semitic behavior. A "blood libel" is a term that dates back to the Middle Ages, when Jewish people were accused of using the blood of Christians in religious rituals.
"Palin's comments either show a complete ignorance of history or blatant anti-Semitism," said Jonathan Beeton, a spokesman for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), who, like Giffords, is Jewish. "Either way, it shows an appalling lack of sensitivity given Rep. Giffords' faith and the events of the past week."
But Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz, commenting Wednesday on the Big Government website operated by conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, defended Palin's use of the term.
"There is nothing improper and certainly nothing anti-Semitic in Sarah Palin using the term to characterize what she reasonably believes are false accusations that her words or images may have caused a mentally disturbed individual to kill and maim," Dershowitz said.
And previously: "The Great Communicator: Sarah Palin Calls Out Despicable 'Blood Libel'."
And also Instapundit here and here.
Cross-posted from American Power.
From Ireland-President Obama's First Campaign Song for 2012
Corrigan Brothers the Irish band who have amassed over 7 million YouTube hits and charted all over the world with their 2008 hit "There's no one as Irish as Barack Obama" are back with a 2012 version of the song. Lead singer Gerard Corrigan explained "we received a number of calls from our American friends to think about updating the song for 2012 so we did just that. The band have had a very busy three years since their first hit, they have toured the USA, racked up over 40 tv appearances around the world and played at President Obama's inauguration. This new version of the song has already seen them invited to many campaign events later this year. Canon Stephen Neill and President Obama's cousin Henry Healy will join the brothers for a recording of a new video in Oliie Hayes's pub in Moneygall in early February. Lead singer Gerard Corrigan said, "we can't wait to get back to Moneygall and strut our stuff with the Obama dancers. We hope that the wonderful researcher Megan Smolenyak will also join us for an Irish Hooley! Our ambition is to play the song for President Obama when he finally visits his ancestral home in Moneygall Ireland”
Editors Note: When the Corrigan's first asked me to help with the original song how was I to know the idiot would beat Hillary to the White House. However they are a great band and I will continue to support them despite the politics.
Here is another of their songs
American Dream
Uploaded by wellywanger
You can buy their brilliant album HERE
Movie Review: The Last Exorcism (2010)
Short Review: Now if we could only exorcise these Blair Witch Project knock-off pseudo-documentaries from the industry.
Full Review Here
Video: The Water Brothers - HD Teaser
The Water Brothers is a T.V. series that will be airing on TVO in the Fall of 2011, about two young eco-adventurer brothers who travel the world to explore humans relationship with water. What are the problems and where will the solutions come from? The next generation takes us on the search.
GROUNDHOG DAY 2011
This year, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union address occur on the same day.
It's an ironic juxtaposition of events; one event involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of limited intelligence for prognostication . . .
. . . while the other involves . . .
. . . a groundhog ! ! !
. . . . . . . . . . . . . STORMBRINGER
Australian Cricket........
WHAT do you get if you cross the Australian cricket team with an OXO cube?
A laughing stock.
What do you call a world class Australian cricketer?
Retired!
The Australian bobsleigh team have asked the Aussie cricket team for a meeting.
They want to ask their advice about going downhill so fast!
What's the difference between Ricky Ponting and a funeral director?
A funeral director doesn't keep losing the Ashes.
What do you call an Australian cricketer with a champagne bottle in his hand?
A waiter.
Of everyone in the Aussie team, who spends the most time at the crease?
The woman who irons their cricket whites.
What's the height of optimism?
An Aussie batsman putting on sunscreen.
What is the main function of the Australia coach?
To transport the team from the hotel to the ground.
What's the difference between an Aussie batsman and a Formula 1 car?
Nothing! If you blink you'll miss them both.
What do Aussie batsmen and drug addicts have in common?
Both spend most of their time wondering where their next score will come from.
What did the spectator miss when he went to the toilet?
The entire Australian innings.
What's the Australian version of LBW?
Lost, Beaten, Walloped.
What does Ricky Ponting put in his hands to make sure the next ball is almost certainly going to be a wicket?
A bat.
What do you call a cricket field full of Australians ?
A vacant lot.
H/T Rodney
Never let.........from Rico
To badly paraphrase Rahm Enamel (who earlier said 'never let a good crisis go to waste') I have been waiting for our Dem's (C) and their fellow-traveler RINO's in the wake of recent events in Arizona to "never let a tragedy go to waste" and was not disappointed.
The "progressive" Left's immediate instinct was to push for further criminalization of political discussion [stifle dissent - don't disagree with us, or it will be a crime; never mind the 1st Amendment] and to steal more Freedom and Liberty from "We the People" [don't come near us with those pitchforks, or it will be a crime; never mind the 2nd Amendment].
These Commiecrats NEVER leave the path of 'do as we say, not as we do' and continue to try and bend the will of free people to make them accept the yoke of slavery by any means possible. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights mean nothing to them, and are mere annoyances and a speed bump on their road to Marxist utopia, and in a 'crisi' or 'tragedy' you can count on them to put the pedal to the metal..............
It is past time to become 'refuseniks' so just say NO!
- The only 'rights' are those you're willing to defend and stand up for.
News........
Some People Really Shouldn’t Drink
Picking on Penguins - scientists studying penguins are bad for penguins
SnowCare for Troops offers free snow removal for military families
I Have Always Embraced Moderate Speech...
The Jobless Rate for People Like You
Earliest known winery found in Armenian cave
Chafee to Issue Talk Radio Ban
Bloggers' word choice bares their personality traits, study finds
Tax Scam Leader Gets More Than 17 Years
What President Obama Should Say in Wake of Tucson Massacre About Political Speech.
Flying squad is here: Midlands force's latest patrol car is a 168mph Lotus
Prince William lobbied PM to save RAF search-and-rescue
Lebanon government collapses after Hizbollah walks out
Police officers put wrong fuel in cars hundreds of times despite in-built alert in petrol caps
British cruise ship pursued by pirates
Russian TV channel to challenge Kremlin-grip on news
North Korea reopens cross-border hotline with South
Japan should buy F-35 stealth fighters, US says
Provocations by North Korea could become catastrophic: Mullen
Pakistan violates ceasefire again
Progressives Going Crazy Over 'Blood Libel'
Sarah Palin's statement on the Tuscon massacre is at the link: "The Great Communicator: Sarah Palin Calls Out Despicable 'Blood Libel'."
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Palin And American Jews
A Re-post:
Jews Stand with Governor Palin’s Use of ‘Blood Libel’
by Adrienne Ross on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 18:03 EST
By Adrienne Ross – www.motivationtruth.com
Wearing her trademark U.S.-Israel flags pin
Early this morning, Governor Palin released a video address about the Arizona shooting this past Saturday.
The Governor expressed her sincerest sadness at this tragedy, her disappointment in those who have used it to promote their political agenda, and her hope in America’s enduring strength. Her message was the right one and one that we are the better for hearing.
Of course, because it was Governor Palin who delivered the message, many of the same people who disgustingly seek to blame her for the actions of a lone, deranged murderer, Jared Loughner, seek to find fault in the message she delivered. Because she called them out on their irresponsible, hateful attacks on her and others on the Right, because they make their money playing partisan games with real issues that affect all Americans, and because her name is Sarah Palin, they had to find something with which to find fault. What was it this time? The use of the term “blood libel.”
Their need to pick apart everything Governor Palin does and says is really getting tired, and Americans are growing weary. You’d think, after undergoing intense criticism from even some on the Left for playing politics with pain, they’d get a clue and cut out this ridiculous obsession with demonizing all things Palin. Their tactics haven’t worked–except to anger all fair-minded, truth-loving Americans–but they persist.
So today the complaint is that use of the term “blood libel” is an affront to our Jewish brothers and sisters. Well, we’re hearing quite a bit from some Jewish people, and they say something entirely different.
Pamela Geller commits her life to issues that affect Jewish Americans. She takes on the radical Left with unwavering fortitude and is never guilty of holding back. Would she agree with Governor Palin’s assessment that what has transpired since Saturday is indeed “blood libel”? She writes (emphasis added):
Today Sarah Palin responded to the vicious blood libel leveled against her by the army of destroyers. The ferocious, relentless attacks on Sarah Palin are a testament to her greatness, proof of how deathly afraid of her they are, like Dracula to the silver cross.
Obviously she agrees with the Governor’s assessment. So why, then, this attack–once again–on her? Geller continues:
Here’s the thing. The mission by objective of the haters, the party of destruction, is to ruin the best, the brightest, the good. The left has, day after day, month after month, year after year, decade after decade, trafficked only in ruin and destruction, focusing on the most effective leaders on the right.
Read Pamela Geller’s full piece here.
Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin also issued a statement today:
Sarah Palin got it right.
Falsely accusing someone of shedding blood is the definition of a blood libel – whether it’s the medieval Church accusing Jews of baking blood in Passover matzos, or contemporary Muslim extremists accusing Israel of slaughtering Arabs to harvest their organs – or our political partisans blaming conservative political figures and talk show hosts for the Tucson massacre.
[...]
“Blood libel” does not refer exclusively to accusations against Jews. It does not refer only to medieval episodes that resulted in pogroms. It is a term that has been, and continues to be, legitimately used in contemporary American political discourse by all sides. Governor Palin’s use of the term is accurate, reasonable, and squarely within the bounds of accepted political discourse. It is her opponents’ attempts to falsely connect her to the Tucson massacre which is inaccurate, and unreasonable, and beyond the pale of civilized discourse.
Click here to read this entire piece concerning historic and current use of the term.
Sheya of Conservatives4Palin, Organize4Palin, and PalinTV–and a devout Jew–shares his heartfelt thoughts. I will excerpt the piece, but please read it in its entirety:
As many of our readers know, I am an observant Jew. I observe the Sabbath and all the Jewish Holidays. I went to Jewish schools and so do my kids. Not only do I live by all the rules, I am part of the Jewish culture and I even look the part.
Ever since I was two years old, I was told stories of Jewish persecution and blood libels. I was told how the Jews were accused for using the blood of Christian children to bake matzoh bread. I was told the stories of how whenever there was a murder in town the Jews were blamed for it. Whatever the scenario, the chain of events were the same. The Jews were accused of a murder, followed by calls for their deaths, followed by riots and then killings of all the Jews. At all time when the Jews spoke up and defended themselves, they were told to sit down and shut up and further killings took place just for that reason alone.
After the horrific killings in Tucson this Saturday and the finger-pointing at Governor Palin begun, I was mad and I was angry. Not that I’m not used to seeing irrational criticism thrown at Governor Palin, I’m used to seeing that by now and frankly I have come to expect it. But this time it was different; this time it felt as if all those stories I was told as a kid were coming to life. A heartless murderer shot and killed innocent victims. Governor Palin, who is hated just because she exists, was blamed, and that was followed by a flood of calls for her death on Twitter and Facebook. If this isn’t a blood libel than nothing is.
I have just spoken to many of my Jewish friends. Neither myself nor any other Jew I know is offended by Governor Palin’s comments. On the contrary, based on what we know and were taught about blood libels, this is exactly what this was: a blood libel.
The term blood libel wasn’t invented to define what happened to the Jews; it’s just that what happened to Jews were blood libels, and this term fits perfectly to what happened to Governor Palin.
[...]
I am a proud observant Jew, and I am always proud to stand with Governor Palin, but today we are also partners in blood.
Read more here.
Adam Brickley, another C4P colleague and Jewish brother, shares his personal story in his piece, and this is some of what he says about the term:
The media is abuzz today about Gov. Palin’s use of the term “blood libel” to describe the left’s appalling exploitation of the Arizona tragedy to demonize conservatism. Supposedly, this is an insult to the Jewish community given that “blood libel” can be defined as a purely anti-Semitic act, which requires one to accuse Jews of using human blood in religious rituals (which is the origin of the term). So far the debate has focused on semantics, highlighting technical definitions rather than the spirit in which the act was carried out.
[...]
Now, fast-forward to 2011, and we are talking about whether it is appropriate for Sarah Palin to use the term “blood libel” to describe the fashion in which she was personally blamed, despite irrefutable evidence to the contrary, for a savage and demented mass murder. In my mind, there is no question. This was blood libel of the most savage kind. There is absolutely no difference between what I felt I feel now, as a member of a movement falsely accused of gunning down a Congresswoman, and what I felt when my family’s Judaism was used as supporting evidence in a campaign to falsely accuse us of psychotic threats of violence. I can’t imagine how Gov. Palin herself must feel after having been personally accused, considering that I was moved almost to tears simply as an anonymous member of the broader “tea party”.
“Blood libel” was coined as a term to describe false accusations of ritual murder against the Jewish people – but it’s an action verb, and it’s an act that can be committed in the future against anyone. We cannot and should not deny people the right to call this despicable act what it is. If we do so, we allow the perpetrators to continue using one of the most painful and traumatizing propaganda tactics ever invented.
Read Brickley’s full article and learn about his own experience with blood libels by clicking here.
There is much more out there, and perhaps we’re not done with this issue, but the bottom line is really the same bottom line it was yesterday, the day before, and the day before that. The Left simply wants to tear down Governor Palin no matter what she says or doesn’t say. Their issue with her has nothing to do with rational thought, honest debate, or issues of importance. Their issue with her is that she…well, that she is. They cannot figure out why she has not yet sat down and shut up, packed it in, turned off the lights. They have thrown absolutely everything at her–yes, even blood libel. Yet she continues to stand–and stand she will.
I stand with her.
My sole motivation? The TRUTH!
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