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General News and Comment
Excerpt: Unlike crazy North
Korea, Pakistan
is not necessarily just blowing smoke. For years, elements of the Pakistani
intelligence services have worked hand-in-glove with al-Qaeda–affiliated
terrorists to thwart American efforts to build consensual government in
neighboring Afghanistan.
It was no accident that Osama bin Laden lived with impunity for years right
under the noses of Pakistani authorities. Not to be left out, Egypt’s junta is likewise furious at another new
Hollywood film, Exodus.
Excerpt: To put it in Victorian terms, 2014 had a case of
the vapors. It was all aflutter. It needed smelling salts and a fan, and a good
rest on a fainting couch to restore its bearings. It was a year when the
national pastime of taking offense and of fearing that someone might be
offended reached such parodic levels that Kim Jong-un got in the act.
LtCol Ken Pipes
addresses Recon & Special Ops Marines on being a real man
Col. Pipes would know. ~Bob
Hillary, 48 Percent
Of Americans Said They Are Not Voting For You. By Matt Vespa
Excerpt: Is this a Christmas gift for the GOP? Despite what
many pundit circles have been saying about the invulnerability of Hillary
Clinton’s reported presidential ambitions, almost half the country said they
weren’t going to vote for her if she ran in 2016... (She will still likely win.
A lot of so-called "conservatives" would prefer her rather than vote
for Jeb or Mitt or some "RINO" they consider not 100% pure. They
preferred to have Obama win in 2012 rather than vote for Mitt who wasn't in
agreement with them on every issue. ~Bob)
James Woods Tweets
EPIC Anti-Obama Cartoon, Immediately Goes Viral [PICTURE]
Excerpt: Jeb Bush is the clear Republican presidential
frontrunner, surging to the front of the potential GOP pack following his
announcement that he's "actively exploring" a bid, a new CNN/ORC poll
found. He takes nearly one-quarter — 23% — of Republicans surveyed in the new
nationwide poll, putting him 10 points ahead of his closest competitor, New
Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who tallied 13%. (I have problems with Jeb on
immigration and Common Core, but prefer him to Christie, who is soft on jihad. And,
of course, I prefer any of the GOP potentials to Hillary, Biden, Warren,
Sanders, O'Malley et. al. ~Bob)
Here's the Real
Reason for US Military's Declining Morale
Excerpt: The key factor is senior leadership that has
not kept faith with its troops. (Loyalty has always been and always will be a two
way street. MasterGuns)
Good Samaritan stops
purse snatcher inside Manchester Walmart
Excerpt: Rhonda Healey, 51, was looking at holiday cards
inside the store Tuesday afternoon, when a man police identified as Alan White,
24, took her wallet from the purse that was in the child seat of her shopping
cart. ... As Healey began to yell, "Stop him, he has my wallet," Rick
White, 43, heard her screams and saw Alan White running, police said. (Note
comment: Could this be considered a white on white crime? --George)
The Two Biggest
Donors in Politics Are on the Left. By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
The next time somebody complains about Republicans winning
because of all of that big money in politics, cycle were Tom Steyer and
Michael Bloomberg, aiming to help pro-cap-and-trade and pro-gun-control
Democrats. Steyer donated nearly $75 million, Bloomberg $27 million. By
comparison, the biggest right-of-center donor was Sheldon Adelson, with . . .
$13 million. A cheapskate by comparison!
Worth Reading:
Frontpage’s 2014 Person of the Year: The
American Police Officer. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: As we sit here in our homes with our families and
loved ones around us, tens of thousands of children wonder if their parents
will come home tonight. Their fathers and mothers aren’t stationed in
Iraq or
Afghanistan. They’re on duty in
places like
Englewood in
Chicago
where there are
2 violent crimes for every 1,000 people in one month,
Columbus Square in
St. Louis or Bedford-Stuyvesant in
New York City where two police officers were
just murdered. ... Since 2001, more than 700 officers have been killed by
gunfire. During the Gulf War, more officers were killed on the streets of
American cities than in combat against Saddam.
How My Son Mike Came
To Recognize The Wickedness In Washington.
By Donald Hank
Excerpt: As I read report after report on how Washington had
given this or that group guns and materiel which later were used against us and
against minorities in their countries, I became so impacted by this
phenomenon of American officials' complicity with the murder of good and
innocent people that I began warning about it at my blog. That was several
years ago.
Worth Reading: ear America, I Saw
You Naked. And yes, we were laughing. Confessions of an ex-TSA agent. By Jason Edward
Harrington
Excerpt: One week earlier, on Christmas Day 2009, a man
named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had tried to detonate 80 grams of a highly
explosive powder while on Northwest Airlines Flight 253. He had smuggled the
bomb aboard the plane in a pouch sewn into his underwear. It was a masterpiece of
post-9/11 tragicomedy: Passengers tackled and restrained Abdulmutallab for the
remainder of the flight, and he succeeded in burning nothing besides his own
genitals. The TSA saw the near-miss as proof that aviation security could not
be ensured without the installation of full-body scanners in every U.S. airport.
(This is an older piece, but it confirms my suspicions about the TSA. I always
thought I could get a gun on a plane if I wanted to, though I'm not near stupid
enough to try. ~Bob)
Another Common Core
Lesson Promotes Islam
Excerpt: Yet more and more we are seeing lesson plans that
teach the Islamic religion and the only ones complaining are Christians. None
of the groups that fight to eliminate religion from the public schools seem to
be doing anything to stop the teaching of Islam, just Christianity. (There is
no danger in attacking Christianity or Judaism. Say something Muslims don't
like and you can be killed. ~Bob)
FBI briefed on alternate Sony hack theory. By Tal Kopan
Excerpt: FBI agents investigating the Sony Pictures hack
were briefed Monday by a security firm that says its research points to
laid-off Sony staff, not North Korea, as the perpetrator — another example of
the continuing whodunnit blame game around the devastating attack. (My money is
still on N. Korea. Just as Obama said... ~Bob)
Rep. Michael Grimm announces his
resignation from Congress, effective Monday
Excerpt: U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.) announced late
Monday that he will resign from Congress effective next week. Grimm pleaded
guilty in federal court last week to felony tax fraud. He privately told House
Republican leaders Monday that he will resign, following calls from Democrats
for him to step down.
Excerpt: It tells us a lot about academia that the president
of Smith College quickly apologized for saying,
"All lives matter," after being criticized by those who are pushing
the slogan, "Black lives matter." If science could cross breed a
jellyfish with a parrot, it could create academic administrators. ... When the
political left wants to help the black community, they usually want to help the
worst elements in that community -- thugs they portray as martyrs, for example
-- without the slightest regard for the negative effect this can have on the
lives of the majority of decent black people.
America interrupted. By Cal Thomas
Excerpt: A Pew
Research Center study
confirms one trend that has been obvious over several years. The
"typical" American family is no longer typical. Just 46 percent of
American children now live in homes with their married, heterosexual parents.
Five percent have no parents at home. They most likely are living with
grandparents, says the study. These startling figures about the decline of the
American family contrast with the year 1960 when 73 percent of American
children lived in traditional families. (Kids living with two committed gay
parents are in much better shape than those living with single parents, in
foster homes, in domestic violence situations and living with other
pathologies, IMHO. ~Bob)
Florida State’s unusual bond with Seminole Tribe puts
mascot debate in a different light
Excerpt: The course — born in 2006, hatched right after the
NCAA clamored about changing Native American mascots, conceived with input from
the Seminole Tribe of Florida — doubles as epitome. It demonstrates the unusual
bond between a 41,000-strong university way up in the Florida Panhandle and a
4,000-strong tribe that history shoved into the Everglades and below Lake
Okeechobee and way down almost to Miami, some
400 miles from Room 208 of the HCB
Classroom Building.
It helps explain why, if Native American mascots keep ebbing in the United States
through the 21st century, “Florida State Seminoles” could be the last one
standing in the 22nd. (Madison
sports writers bash the Seminoles when UW plays them. But being white, they
know what's better for the dumb Indians than the native Americans do. ~Bob)
Sweetheart deal?
Unions allowed to cut retiree benefits rather than fix underfunded pensions
Excerpt: The United Food and
Commercial Workers Union is a heavyweight on the labor scene. It pays its
president $350,000 a year. It’s holding its next
executive board meeting in February at a swanky beachfront resort in
Hollywood,
Florida. And it just doled out nearly $8 million to
influence the last election and lobby
Washington.
But when it comes to standing by the obligation unions made to provide pensions
to retirees,
UFCW pleaded
poverty in persuading
Congress to let
chronically underfunded union pension plans cut the benefits of workers,
including those already retired.
Gun News
Reason's Gillespie:
Crime Rate Drops as Gun Permits Rise. By Greg Richter
Excerpt: Despite efforts from the left to restrict gun
ownership on claims that it will reduce crime, the opposite is actually true,
says Reason.com editor Nick Gillespie. In a
Sunday blog post, Gillespie points out that crime
rates drop in states that enact laws allowing more people to carry concealed weapons,
and they drop even further as more residents of those states avail themselves
of their right. In 1987, Gillespie notes, the total crime rate was 5,550 per
100,000 people while the violent crime rate was 610 per 100,000. By 2013, those
figures had dropped to 3,099 and 368. (Gee, here's an interesting idea...
except it seems there are facts here, not just an idea. --
Del)
Good Samaritan Gunman Stops Assault
In Progress
Excerpt: A North Texas man
is being heralded a hero after police said he held a man at gunpoint who was
assaulting a woman. ... Chief Steve Mylett with the Southlake Police Department
said the man had just witnessed the driver of the red vehicle hitting his
female passenger. Police arrested MacMichael Nwaiwu, 28, who is now in jail.
Homeowner With a Gun
Warns Armed Intruders Not to Take Another Step Toward Him. They Refuse — and It
Turns Out to Be Their Final Mistake.
Excerpt: But this homeowner was armed, too. And he
reportedly gave a verbal warning to the trio not to take another step toward
him — but they refused, WREG reported. So the homeowner fired several shots,
killing two men — Jordan Mitchell, 18, and Melvin Atkins, 20, the station said.
The third alleged intruder got away, WREG said. (Sad that one got away. ~Bob)
Race Card News
Excerpt: Some of us, who are old enough to remember the old
television police series Dragnet may remember Sergeant Joe Friday
saying, “Just the facts, ma’am.” But that would be completely out of place
today. Facts are becoming obsolete, as recent events have demonstrated. What
matters today is how well you can concoct a story that fits people’s
preconceptions and arouses their emotions.
Excerpt: Let’s look at some of the ways white liberals use
black people. One of the more obvious ways is for liberals to equate any kind
of injustices suffered by homosexuals and women to the black struggle for civil
rights. But it is just plain nonsense to suggest any kind of equivalency
between the problems of homosexuals and women and the centuries of slavery
followed by Jim Crow, lynching, systematic racial discrimination and the blood,
sweat and tears of the black civil rights movement.
LAPD on Tactical Alert After Two Men Attempt Assassination
of Police Officers. By Jennifer Burke
Excerpt: The Los Angeles Police Department is under a
city-wide tactical alert after at least one gunman opened fire on two
officers driving in their patrol car. This tactical alert sent every officer
available to the area. The officers reportedly returned fire and were,
thankfully, uninjured.
NYPD-Style
Assassination Attempted on Durham
Police Officer. By Leah
Barkoukis
Excerpt: On Sunday, officers patrolling in
Los
Angeles and
Pasco County,
Florida were
shot
at in unprovoked attacks, and on Thursday,
Durham, North Carolina
police officer J.T. West successfully thwarted an assassination attempt
eerily
similar to the NYPD attack earlier this month. ... The man who fired
the gun was described as a black male, 18 to 25 years old, approximately 6 feet
tall with a skinny build. He was wearing an oversized black hoodie. The second
suspect was described as a black male, 18 to 25 years old, 5 feet 8 inches to 6
feet tall and weighing 180 to 200 pounds. He was wearing a light-colored
jacket. (Lucky thing he didn't kill the shooter. Black rioters would have
looted and burned out black-owned businesses in protest of white racism. ~Bob)
Fox News Host Asks 2
Questions About Al Sharpton’s Tax Evasion That We’d Love to Hear Him Answer
Excerpt: Why should Reverend Al Sharpton getting a pass from
the IRS and the White House? (and the NYC Mayor!) 1. Why hasn't the IRS
garnished Reverend Al Sharpton's MS/NBC pay for all his back taxes? Reports are
that he owes more than 4 million dollars in back state and federal taxes. 2.
And why does the Obama Administration continue to invite him to the White House
for his advice while he has outstanding this reported (New York Times) tax
debt? Why not make him pay up, and then invite him? (Black privilege. ~Bob)
Ex-Con’s Key to
Staying Out of Prison Is a Passionate Message Every Hardworking American Can
Take to Heart
Excerpt: In the video, a man named DeAndre Dunn opens
up about how he manages to stay out of prison. Dunn has held a job at Hudson
Auto Body in Tuscaloosa, AL after serving time in prison, and he
credits work with giving him a chance at a new life.
Worth Reading:
Break code of silence in black communities. -- Melvin Boone, Sanger
Powers Correctional Center, Oneida
Excerpt: Dozens of murders go unpunished in black
communities across the country due to a code of silence -- not by the police,
but by African Americans who fear being labeled a snitch. I applaud a peaceful
protest by people in Ferguson,
Missouri, or elsewhere who feel
their lives and the lives of those in their community have been devalued by
police who took an oath to protect them. But when protest arises out of a
community where hundreds of senseless murders occur each year -- even of
innocent children playing in their front yards -- and little if any protest
occurs, I question their motives. (From jail, this guy writes excellent letters
about racial issues. ~Bob)
Excerpt: A potentially dangerous interaction with a man who
pointed what appeared to be a chrome-plated handgun at a couple in a drugstore
parking lot ended with the man arrested and the lookalike weapon identified as
a laser lighter, Madison police said. ... When the gun holder realized the
woman was nearing the car, he aimed the laser lighter at her. This prompted the
boyfriend to go for his own loaded weapon. Thompson then reportedly said: “Go
ahead and shoot me, I’m not afraid of you, I’m from the south side of Chicago and I’m not
afraid of white people.”
Worth Reading: Cops’ Lives Matter: It’s
dishonest or paranoid to claim that the greatest danger to young black men is
from the police. By Lee Habeeb
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/395427/cops-lives-matter-lee-habeeb
Excerpt: Cops across the country are mad. Mad as hell. Mad
because some of America’s
leaders have reinforced for months the dreadful lie that black people in America should
fear the police. That cops are dangerous. That cops are racists. ... And no one
bothered to mention that New York City
is on track in 2014 to have the fewest murders in 50 years. As of the beginning
of December, there had been 290. That’s down from 2,200 in the early 1990s. The
majority of lives saved were black, because the overwhelming majority of murder
victims in the city are black. Do the math. Tens of thousands of black lives
have been saved in the past two decades by cops in New York, but Mayor de Blasio couldn’t
manage to share that fact in his heartfelt speech.
Just What Is the
‘Appropriate’ Way for Police to React to Mayor de Blasio? By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
Yes, the NYPD officers acted in a disrespectful manner when
they turned their backs to the mayor. It’s disrespectful because a lot of men
and women on the police force do not respect the mayor -- right now,
and sadly, for the foreseeable future. This was not an accidental faux pas;
this was the clearest way to send the signal, “Despite the fact that you are in
the city’s highest elected office, we don’t respect you.” Let’s begin by saying
that any NYPD officer reacting to the news that two of his brother officers
were gunned down in cold blood deserves a wide berth in processing all of the
emotions from that horrific event. There’s a lot of anger in the force, and
they’ve got good reasons to be angry. A symbolic gesture like this might be a
particularly powerful and not destructive way of channeling that anger.
“Respect the office, not the man.” Boy, some elected officials make this simple
request difficult.
Excerpt: Saturday night anti-police protest with bonus
American flag burning takes place in Los
Angeles. ... Cop-bashing agitators accused the police
of not doing enough to help them (pause for laughter).
Man Arrested After Threatening to ‘Kill Cops and Innocent
White Kids.’ But a Friend Downplays It All as ‘Speaking His Mind.’ By Dave Urbanski
Excerpt: After a suburban
Chicago man made threats on Facebook that he
would “kill cops and innocent white kids,” police searched a home he sometimes
stays at and arrested him on weapons and other charges,
WLS-TV reported.
Black Mob Violence at
Christmas, All Over the Country. By Colin
Flaherty
Excerpt: But not Christmas. Not usually. Not until this
year:
Black
mob violence and resentment erupted across the country during the 72
hours before, during and after Christmas. And not the “carry signs and send out
a press release” kind of political violence. This year’s Yuletide racial
violence was more spontaneous. More deadly. More old school. Not connected to
the recent political protests over Mike Brown, Eric Garner and fill in your
favorite atrocity that racist police
inflicted on black people For No Reason What So Ever.
Obama: US Race Relations
Haven't Worsened in Decades
Excerpt:
President
Obama says "gaps of understanding" and "mistrust"
persist between blacks and whites in
America but have improved since he
took office six years ago. "I actually think that it's probably, in its
day-to-day interactions, less racially divided," Obama said of the country
in an interview with NPR taped on Dec. 19 and released today. (Back in the
Choom Gang. That was the group that Mr. Obama hung with in high school, where
their major pastime was smoking dope. Well, maybe he's still having THC
flashbacks, because the link will take you to an article in which he claims-
seriously!- that race relations in this country haven't gotten any worse in the
last six years. I kid you not, he really said that, and expounded on the
thought for the reporters. Every now and then I really wonder what color the
sky is on the planet where he lives. --
Del)
Worth
Remembering: A Senator's Shame
Excerpt: Byrd's book offers a truncated description
of his days with the Klan that does not completely square with contemporaneous
newspaper accounts and letters that show he was involved with the Klan
throughout much of the 1940s, and not merely for two or three years. (Democrats
were always very forgiving of racism among their own. ~Bob)
House Majority Whip
Scalise confirms he spoke to white supremacists in 2002
Excerpt: Scalise, 49, who ascended to the House GOP’s
third-ranking post this year, confirmed through an adviser that he once
appeared at a convention of the European-American Unity and Rights
Organization, or EURO. But the adviser said the congressman didn’t know at the
time about the group’s affiliation with racists and neo-Nazi activists.
Undocumented Democrat News
Mom of Officer Killed
by Illegal Immigrant Pens Scathing Letter to Obama: ‘I Want My Voice Heard On
This Issue.’ By Oliver Darcy
Excerpt: The mother of an Arizona officer killed by an undocumented
immigrant driving drunk in May sent a scathing letter directly to President
Barack Obama Wednesday afternoon, demanding that her voice be heard. Mary Ann
Mendoza contends the federal government knew Raul Silva Corona, whose blood
alcohol content was three times the legal limit at the time of the wrong way
crash, was in the country illegally, but still did not deport him
Kidnapped Mexican
priest found shot dead in Guerrero state
Excerpt: A priest who was kidnapped in Mexico's
south-western state of Guerrero on Monday has been found shot dead, officials
say. The body of Father Gregorio Lopez was discovered near the city of Ciudad Altamirano.
Religion of Peace News
Merry Christmas: ISIS blows up Catholic church in Mosul
Ferry catastrophe: Muslims beat women and children to save
themselves. By Nicolai Sennels
Excerpt: There were men, Iraqis, Turks, Pakistanis on the
ship, who was told to sit down to allow rescuers to prioritize children,
elderly and women. But they climbed, beat and pulled the people to come first
to the rescue helicopter and into safety. I was also beaten. I was so furious.
It was really ugly. I will never forget it.”, Said Dimitra Theodossiou.”
After years of
delays, Pakistan
cracks down on violent Islamists
Excerpt: After pledging for years to crack down on violent
Islamists, Pakistani authorities are now taking exceptional steps to do so,
with a major military operation against the militants and a vow to rein in
radical propaganda. The government’s campaign has intensified in the wake of
a
massacre
at an elite army-run school in
Peshawar
this month, reflecting a striking change in public opinion about the danger
posed by the extremist groups. (Turns out keeping a pit viper as a pet is not a
good idea. ~Bob)
Europe's Year of the Jihadist. By Abigail R.
Esman
Excerpt: Among the trends of 2014 – "Gone, Girl,"
Lena Dunham, and
$55,000 potato salad – was another the list-makers
seem to have missed: it was also a very good year for Islamic jihad. And while
this was true on the battlefields of
Syria
and the cities and villages of
Pakistan,
it was true, too, in more subtle ways throughout the West – and especially in
Europe. It was, for instance, the year of Mehdi Nemmouche's
slaughter of four Jews at the Jewish Museum in
Brussels.
Excerpt: Evidently ISIS plans to wipe out all of us,
starting with those in the Middle East, those of other religions, all
atheists, and those who don’t subscribe to their particular brand of Islam. At
least that’s what a German reporter claims. He was permitted to be embedded in
the Islamic State for 10 fun-filled days. Well, that must have been more fun
than a barrel of severed heads. ... And why wouldn’t they be extremely
confident, knowing that Western politicians lack the courage and will to do
what is truly necessary to stop them.
Excerpt: The Islamic State has released photographs showing
its fighters using a US-made BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missile against elements of
the US-backed Free Syrian Army in the Damascus
countryside. The images were published by the Islamic State's Wilayat Damascus
(State of Damascus) and disseminated on Twitter by its supporters. (We need to
plant weapons programmed to blow on firing. ~Bob)
The Top Anti-Muslim Hate Crime Hoaxes of 2014. By Robert Spencer,
JihadWatch.org
Excerpt: On Christmas morning, a man drove up to the Islamic
Cultural Center in
Fresno,
threw rocks through the windows, and then entered the center and destroyed
things inside. The local ABC outlet, KFSN,
reported Friday that “Fresno Police Chief Jerry
Dyer says it is clear the incident is a hate crime which is why the FBI is also
investigating this case.” But
on Saturday, it turned out that the incident was not an
“anti-Muslim hate crime” at all: the vandal was
Asif Mohammad Khan, a Muslim. The destruction at
the Islamic Cultural Center in
Fresno was yet
another in a long series of fake hate crimes designed to prop up the fiction
that Muslims in the
U.S.
are routinely targets of discrimination and harassment.
Excerpt: A recent example of this is the December 16 Taliban
attack on an army public school in Peshawar, where 145 people were killed, the
majority being schoolchildren age 18 and under. This incident was reported all
over the mainstream media, and rightfully so.
Yet this begs the question: why do similar attacks, when
directed at non-Muslims—especially Christians—rarely if ever get the same sort
of media coverage?
Excerpt: The “resisters of occupation in the occupied West
Bank and Jerusalem”
are spreading on Arab social media a frightening video demonstrating tactics on
how to stab a Jew to death quickly and efficiently. (I suppose if someone made
"How to feed a live Jihadist to wild pigs" video, Obama would blame
it for every terrorist attack for six months. ~Bob)
Pakistan: Christian couple burned, buried alive
after allegedly burning Qur'an pages. By Jhun Ramos
Excerpt: According to the report by
World Watch Monitor, the victims, Shazad Masih and his
wife Shama Bibi, were tortured by the mob, and murdered on November 4. In the
report, Shazad and his wife, who was five months pregnant, were 'bonded
laborers' at the brick kiln, which means the couple had huge debts and so they
were unable to flee the country even when Christians were threatened.
Excerpt: Security chiefs have taken the dramatic step of
withdrawing Royal Guards from their high-profile posts outside palaces amid
mounting fears of ‘lone wolf’ terrorist attacks.
Elite soldiers of the Queen’s Guard have pulled back from
public positions at many landmarks in response to possible threats from Islamic
extremists.
Islamic State
executed nearly 2,000 people in six months: monitor
Excerpt: The Islamic State militant group has killed 1,878
people in
Syria during the past
six months, the majority of them civilians, a British-based Syrian monitoring
organization said on Sunday. Islamic State also killed 120 of its own members,
most of them foreign fighters trying to return home, in the last two months,
according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (few things are as well
established in Islamic tradition as Muslims killing Muslims for Allah. ~Bob)
The Islamic State is
failing at being a state. By Liz Sly
Excerpt: The Islamic State’s vaunted exercise in
state-building appears to be crumbling as living conditions deteriorate across
the territories under its control, exposing the shortcomings of a group that
devotes most of its energies to fighting battles and enforcing strict rules.
Services are collapsing, prices are soaring, and medicines
are scarce in towns and cities across the “caliphate” proclaimed in Iraq and Syria by the Islamic State,
residents say, belying the group’s boasts that it is delivering a model form of
governance for Muslims. (This was what some had predicted from the start, but
they did seem to keep things going initially. However, running even a remotely
modern society requires a lot more than religious fanaticism, and people smart
enough to be technical are usually smart enough to decide that they are far
better off somewhere else. --Del)
CAIR Sues Navy Over
Beard Discrimination
Excerpt: A Muslim sailor has filed suit against the Navy for
alleged discrimination that occurred after he requested to be allowed to grow a
beard for religious reasons. The Council on American Islamic Relations is
representing Jonathan Berts, who requested to wear a beard back in January
2011. At the time, the Pentagon did not allow religious exemptions for
grooming.
Taliban crow over “the defeat of the
infidel Western military alliance.” By Robert Spencer, JihadWatch.org
Excerpt: Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid
said: “Isaf rolled up its flag in an atmosphere of failure
and disappointment without having achieved anything substantial or tangible.”
That is certainly true. The Taliban also said: “It should be emphasized that
due to the blessed Jihad most of the involved nations excluding America have
withdrawn all of their troops from Afghanistan … without a doubt the defeat of
the infidel Western military alliance in Afghansitan [sic] at the hands of a few
empty handed believing Mujahidin, the destruction of fortified bases by their
own hands and their hasty withdrawal were unconceivable [sic] and is a clear
sign of the divine help of Allah Almighty.” Not that this has anything to do
with Islam.
Germany: Muslims storm church on Christmas Eve,
shout “shit Christians.” By Robert Spencer, JihadWatch.org
Excerpt: On the one side there is this. On the other side
are graying, ineffectual Christian bishops calling for “dialogue” and “peace.”
Denmark: Muslims beat non-Muslim couple with
chains on Christmas Eve. By Robert Spencer, JihadWatch.org
Excerpt: There was no robbery here. This was just gratuitous
violence against Infidels.
Why Does Nobody Want
to Play with Turkey?
By Burak Bekdil
Excerpt: Theoretically, Turkey is a NATO ally. In reality,
it is a part-time NATO ally. It became the first member state that had military
exercises with the Syrian army and the Chinese Air Force; awarded a
NATO-sensitive air defense contract to a Chinese company; supported jihadists
in Syria and the Muslim Brotherhood elsewhere in the Middle East; allied with
what NATO nations view as a terrorist organization (Hamas); shared, until
recently, an embarrassing list of potentially terrorist-sponsoring countries
with seven others including Syria and Pakistan, and sported a population with
the lowest support for the NATO alliance.
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Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five
terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of
The Coming Collapse of the American Republic.
http://tiny.cc/g02s4 For a free PDF of
Collapse, e-mail him at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com.
Hall’s eleven books are listed here:
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His blog of political news and conservative comment is
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