Sunday, June 11, 2017

"Toxic masculinity' saves lives

Thanks to Professor Pepple and his "I Want a New Left" for pointing this out.  A drunken English soccer hooligan, Roy Larner, successfully battled the London jihadists with his bare hands, likely saving many lives and reducing the Daesh body count.   Here's the story.  When the three terrorists entered a pub screaming their Islamic nonsense, Larner jumped up and started battering them with his bare hands.

My favorite part "I got stabbed and sliced eight times. They got me in my head, chest and both hands. There was blood everywhere. They were saying, 'Islam, Islam!'. I said again, 'F*** you, I’m Millwall!'" (I found this full quote elsewhere.)

So called "toxic masculinity" is a strength and an asset.  It is the thing that keeps evil from winning.

Well done, Lion of London Bridge Larner!


More on CNN's Faking of Muslims protesting the London murders

More footage clearly showing CNN faking the whole thing, plus some useful commentary.  Following it is an expose of other faked demonstrations, including an anti-Brexit protest.

Thursday, June 08, 2017

Socialized Medicine Kills

Here's Britain and its socialized medicine for you.  A baby in England has a rare, life threatening disease.  A doctor in the U.S. is offering a treatment that he thinks can say the baby's life, the baby's parents have received over 1.6 million USD in donations to pay for it, and a U.K. High Court has ruled that they not be allowed to take the baby abroad and that instead he be killed.  The court granted a 24 hour stay of execution while the E.U. Court of Human Rights a chance to consider an appeal.

Frankly, it seems pretty clear this is murder, and that justice would include the High Court members and the hospital officials facing the death penalty.

Today's testimony: Trump exonerated, Comey worthless, Democrats insane

Here are the important insights from James Comey's testimony today.

1. Trump told the truth.  Comey told him three times that he was not the target of an investigation.  Comey confirmed this and identified the dates.  The mainstream media and their anonymous sources lied.

2. Trump did not tell Comey to close down the investigation into Russian meddling in the election, and even said if there's evidence then it must be pursued, even if it involved people connected to Trump.  Again, the MSM lied.

3. Comey intentionally leaked information in order to try to get a special prosecutor.  He also kow-towed to Loretta Lynch and denied Hillary Clinton was under investigation, when she was.  Comey is a coward, as we as a liar, and by virtue of not living up to his oath of office, a traitor, at least in spirit.  Steele is vindicated, and the MSM again shown to be liars.

There was nothing at all in Comey's sworn testimony that supports the cranky "theories" of Trump-Russia collusion.  In fact, Comey even made clear that the FBI never touched the DNC servers; they simply took the word of a third party that Russians hacked them.  Good grief!

4. The anti-Trump MSM/left/Democrat complex is so besodden with TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) that they cannot let go.  They began with a sentence (impeach and expel from office), moved to a verdict (Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election from Mrs. Clinton), and although they have no evidence and their "best" source just refuted their arguments, the conclusion they draw from this is given by Vox & Matthew Iglesias below.  The Dems and the left are clearly entirely disconnected from reality at this point.  That's the definition of insanity, a state of mind so disordered one cannot identify reality.  This describes them perfectly.


Wednesday, June 07, 2017

Islam, Terror, and Sharia

I've just read two exceptionally powerful pieces on the recent incidents of Islamic terror.  National Review's Michael Brendan Dougherty analyzes the disingenuity (I would call it moral depravity) of those on the left who, in response to outrages like Manchester and London, downplay the events by pointing to the odds of, say, dying in a traffic accident.  (Note that one example he uses is libertarian Will Wilkinson; unfortunately libertarians seem to be jumping on the left's multiculturalist bandwagon in increasing numbers.)

An excerpt from Dougherty: "The pattern is by now familiar. Even as an Islamic terrorist killer’s proclamations about Allah’s will are still ringing in victims’ ears, these individuals are already declaring that the true danger from the attack is an Islamophobic backlash, and that you’re more likely to die by drowning in your own swimming pool than from a terrorist attack. Do they know how callous that sounds? Do they not realize that sensible human beings react differently to a car accident than to a murder plot?"

I'd add several points. First, cars aren't plotting ways to increase the number and lethality of accidents.  Terrorists are.  Second, terrorism is not fundamentally about killing people, it is about effecting political change.  Theoreticians of terrorism -- including Karl Marx, Marxist-Leninists, Qtubists among them -- explicitly develop this idea.  Counting numbers of victims is thus a stupid way of measuring the effects of terrorism, if that's all one does.  When people in the West start censoring themselves and otherwise trying to placate those who use terror, terrorists achieve their goals.  And frankly, the ultimate problem is not terrorism, it's political Islam.  It's sharia and sharia supremacy, and as the idiots who worry about "Islamophobia" keep pointing out, correctly, the vast majority of sharia supremacists are not terrorists.

And here's another even more powerful article, from Ghassan Charbel, editor of Asharq Al-Awsat.  It's a piece on the problem of Islamic terrorism, written from a Muslim's perspective.  I found it quite gripping.  I reprint it in its entirety below, just in case they don't archive it for long.  (Incidentally, Nakba is the Palestinians' term for the disaster that befell them in 1948, and Naksa for the disaster that befell them in 1967.  I don't know whether they have a similar term for the disasters that have befallen them in having leaders who are effectively indistinguishable from the SS-Totenkopfverbände when it comes to Jews.)

Charbel:

Ambassadors of the Dark

I initially wanted to write about June 05, 1967. I wanted to discuss the half century of degeneration from the Naksa to the Nakba we are drowninng in today.
This Nakba is more horrific than that we witnessed after Palestine was occupied.
I was planning to talk about what “historic leaders” did and how their escapades ended with the dissipation of nations and their wealth. They killed every promising idea and chance and left the people out in the open to face bigots who dream of taking the nation back to the stone age.
I meant to address the delusion of trans-border leadership and its expensive termination. I also intended to discuss republics that collapsed because of fear, the brutality of regimes that gambled with the fate of lands and its people, millions of displaced civilians living in refugee camps with their hungry children, hundreds of prisoners rotting in jails.
I wanted to share the experience of three of my friends on how the Naksa affected their lives. My Libyan friend said that the present is far more dangerous than the past. The youngsters who witnessed the series of civil wars initiated by the “Arab Spring” will turn into ticking bombs in the Arab nations, he added.
He believes that the disappointment of moderate Arabs is deeper than when people discovered half a century ago that the war is not going as the “Voice of Arab” radio station stated or what its famous anchor Ahmad Said reported.
My Iraqi friend said he was deeply saddened and at loss, with a feeling like a delusional disbelief. Yet, he said, he felt a sense of a challenge which prompted him to participate in the protests despite the fact that he had been in hiding since his release from prison.
He explained the role of Baath Party in persecuting every different opinion and slaughtering and arresting the opposition.
Nonetheless, my Syrian friend was very brief. He just said that the Naksa of 1967 caused pains far less than the current one.
I decided on Sunday morning to write about the Naksa turned into Nakba. Things have changed. London was enjoying a beautiful weather which doubled its magic. I left my office on Saturday night to the center of the city hoping I could steal away something of this short and swift Spring night.
People were clearly enjoying the beautiful weather. That’s the normal thing for cities that have bid farewell to tragedies of civil wars and opted for elections to express content or discontent. The British are getting ready for Thursday’s election.
All of sudden, shortly after 10 PM, police and ambulance sirens filled the air, and a few minutes later, it was confirmed that the city was attacked by a lone wolf or a group of wolves. Everyone was in shock, especially that Manchester attack happened only recently.
The news about the stabbing and rampage were on all cellphones and restaurant goers cut their visit short. I, as an Arab, had a strange feeling of guilt. Every time a similar incident occurs, we all wish the executor weren’t an Arab or a Muslim. But our wishes are always crushed by the fact that these incidents seem to be limited to the world we belong to.
I felt like apologizing.
Courtesy aside, these European countries welcomed millions of Arabs and Muslims who escaped poverty, injustice, and depression and were, in fact, kinder to them than our own countries.
Europe aimed to integrate the newcomers into its communities and economy and granted them the right to be different and respected their beliefs. It gave them money from taxpayers and enrolled their children in modern education.
I am saying this because I monitored closely how Germany was busy welcoming the Syrian refugees where one of them expressed his joy for arriving at a country where he can find his three daily meals.
The tragedy is horrific indeed. Over the past decades, darkness took over: an ideology that doesn’t acknowledge others and insists on eliminating or killing them. A creed provoked by lit streets, cultural occasions, freedom and creativity, scientific research and posing complicated questions.
A doctrine that considers anyone different as the enemy who deserves to be stabbed, rammed, or slaughtered.
Worse than that tragedy are those looking for justifications for the perpetrator, citing what this country did or what history wrote as if we haven’t done any transgressions ourselves. The situation can no longer bare justifications or silence.
Terrorists have inflicted far more damages to the West than they have done to our countries. Arabs and Muslims should take a clear stand for the sake of their countries and their grandchildren.
A comprehensive battle against extremism should be the first article in the constitution of every Arab and Islamic nation. Without winning this battle, we will continue our fall towards hell.
We do not have the right to punish the world like this.
Ambassadors of the dark’s obdurate actions will sooner or later backfire at the Arab and Islamic community and the countries they came from.

Tuesday, June 06, 2017

Stranger than Fiction: Communist press exposes "free press" creating Fake News

This may say something about who the real leftists are.  People's Daily Online (PR China) is helping expose CNN staging fake news, assembling some apparent Muslims, giving them posters and such, and orchestrating a "Muslim" anti-extremism protest in London.  CNN: Fake News 'r' us!

Update: I googled "Mark Antro" and found the tweet that shows CNN staging the protest -- certainly looks to be exactly what Antro and People's Daily claim.  I'm unsure, but I think this link will show it.

June 6, 1944 and June 5, 1967

Seventy-three years ago the Western Allies landed on Normandy's beaches to battle the Nazi aggressors.  Fifty years and a day ago Israel began its six-day war against the Arab aggressors.  These were two difficult and deadly undertakings, and resulted in two great triumphs for the free world.  I won't post any commentary here, except to note with gratitude that some were willing to fight for freedom and civilization.

Here's an interesting Hoover Institution interview of historian Michael Oren on the Six Day War.  And below is General Eisenhower's Order of the Day for June 6, 1944. (Click on it for a larger view.)


Thursday, June 01, 2017

Germany, Paris Accord, and NATO; Thank You Mr. Trump!

What a great day!  I spent most of the day attending a Hillsdale College outreach event in Bozeman, Montana, listening to talks from Professors R.J. Pestritto and Gary Wolfram, and talking with old friends, former students, and all sorts of other people.  Then I drove home to hear that President Trump has pulled the United States out of the Paris Climate Accord ... Great News!  Barack Obama could never get this ridiculous treaty ratified by the Senate, so he committed the U.S. to it without Senate approval, his usual "government by executive decree" M.O.  But what one President can decree, another can un-decree, and President Trump has done just that.

The United States should stay out of international arrangements that commit us to regulate our economy to satisfy international environmental agendas, the better part of which have nothing to do with environmental quality, and everything to do with rent-seeking and political power grabs.

There's the expected end-of-the-world hysteria over this. The Germans seem particularly upset, especially after being told by Trump to quit being NATO deadbeats.  Merkel indignantly responded that Germany will now chart an independent course, and Foreign Minister Gabriel became hysterical, accusing Trump of weakening the West and destroying Western values.  Hahaha!  The Germans' reaction makes me visualize some 30-year-old college graduate living in his parents' basement playing video games.  He's suddenly told he should go out and find a job, and responds with outraged shrieks about the unfairness of it, and runs off to join the anti-Trump "resistance."  The Germans have already greatly increased their energy costs and weakened their economy by "going green" with respect to energy, with zero environmental gains to show for it.  I guess that's what Gabby means by "Western values."  And Frau Merkel's heroic "we shall go it alone"is silly.  Yes, Germany spends a miniscule 1.2% of its GDP on defense; they are not they are not prepared to be independent and have no will to be.  This is posturing.

I think Trump is right.  Bad international deals (e.g. Paris)?  Get out of them.  Good ones (e.g. NATO)?  Get them right and then insist our partners living up to the terms.  That's the art of the deal.

Pay up, deadbeat Germans. (Kind of like you want the deadbeat Greeks to pay!)

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