Sri Lankan Bombings Blamed On Local Islamic Extremist Group

By William Teach April 22, 2019 – 7:09 am

Interestingly, many, many news outlets are suddenly OK with mentioning that the group is Islamic, when they used to go out of their way to avoid mentioning that

Sri Lanka on edge after local Islamic militant group blamed for Easter Sunday attacks: report

Sri Lanka took drastic steps Monday to crack down on new potential terror threats by blocking social media and arresting more than a dozen after a series of suicide bombings allegedly carried out by a domestic radical Islamic group ripped through its capital on Easter Sunday.

The country’s health minister said the attacks, which killed at least 290 and injured more than 500, were carried out by seven suicide bombers from a local militant group named National Thowheed Jamath. Experts cited by The New York Times said the group promotes an Islamic terrorist ideology. Police said 13 suspects in connection with the bombings have been arrested.

“These attacks appear to be quite different and look as if they came right out of the ISIS, Al Qaeda, global militant jihadist playbook, as these are attacks fomenting religious hatred by attacking multiple churches on a high religious holiday,” Anne Speckhard, the director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism, told the Times.

All of the bombers were Sri Lankan citizens, but authorities suspect foreign links, Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne said at a news conference.

Six nearly simultaneous blasts took place in the morning at the shrine and the Cinnamon Grand, Shangri-La and Kingsbury hotels in Colombo, as well as at two churches outside Colombo. Two more blasts occurred a few hours later outside Colombo — one at a guesthouse, the other near an overpass.

What is known at the moment is that 290 people were murdered and over 500 wounded in the Easter Sunday attack, which saw coordinated, simultaneous, detonations at three churches and three hotels by seven suicide bombers. Twenty four people have been arrested in connection with the attack, and there were apparent warnings back on April 11th about attacks from the Islamist group. The NY Times also notes

The State Department said that terrorist groups “continue plotting possible attacks in Sri Lanka” and raised its travel advisory to warn visitors about potential threats.

It said terrorists could attack “with little or no warning,” and listed several potential targets, including tourist spots, transportation centers, markets, malls, government offices, hotels and places of worship.

The travel advisory level was raised to “exercise increased caution,” the second lowest of four levels. It had previously been at the lowest level, “exercise normal precautions.”

In a separate article, the Times also suddenly discovers that “religious minorities”, ie, Christians and Buddhists, are increasing under attack from Islamist extremists, including those in governmental positions.

Suicide bombers often leave other bombs behind so when people rush out they face a second bomb

It’s horrific.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 21, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…are white rabbits which will totally be affected by you eating burgers, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post saying that the Dems should really try and impeach Trump. Please, please, please.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach April 21, 2019 – 9:01 am

Walt Otto Patriotic Pinup

Happy Easter Sunday! It’s a gorgeous day in America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and my old pleco (like 3 years) seems to be hanging on. It looks like it’s fading out, then starts swimming around a few days later. This pinup is by Walt Otto, with a wee bit of help.

What’s happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Watts Up With That? wonders if climate change is a cult (yes it is)
  2. Welcome To The Rightly Guided notes that Trump just dared to defend himself
  3. Weasel Zippers covers a pint sized AOC impersonator
  4. The Last Tradition notes that Dems just won’t quit a lost battle against Trump
  5. The First Street Journal covers Romney clutching his pearls
  6. The Daley Gator notes that libraries are now raaaaacist
  7. Powerline writes about speech being violence and vice versa
  8. Pacific Pundit covers Trump preparing to declassify FISA documents
  9. Moonbattery notes a Democrat candidate denouncing America
  10. Legal Insurrection discusses the SJWs coming after Kate Smith and “God Bless America”
  11. Just One Minute is trudging through the Mueller Report
  12. Jihad Watch covers the Easter jihadi attack in Sri Lanka
  13. Geller Report notes CNN saying the Mueller report looks bad for Obama
  14. Diogenes’ Middle Finger discusses Adam Schiff becoming a whiny crybaby
  15. And last, but not least, Datechguy’s Blog covers invincible ignorance from the NY Times regarding Notre Dame

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list.

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Easter Is The Perfect Time To Reflect On ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach April 21, 2019 – 7:42 am

That’s not really the point of Easter….

The meaning of Easter is Jesus Christ’s victory over death. His resurrection symbolizes the eternal life that is granted to all who believe in Him. The meaning of Easter also symbolizes the complete verification of all that Jesus preached and taught during His three-year ministry. If He had not risen from the dead, if He had merely died and not been resurrected, He would have been considered just another teacher or Rabbi. However, His resurrection changed all that and gave final and irrefutable proof that He was really the Son of God and that He had conquered death once and for all.

….but, then, the Cult of Climastrology likes to hijack pretty much most days of meaning, along with most issues. I mean, if we want to get political, we could say that we should reflect on the utter immorality and heartlessness of murdering the unborn through abortion. Anyhow, here’s Warmist Rod Oram

An Easter to reflect on our fragile home

Easter is the perfect time for us to consider how well we’re looking after our life support system. Many of us have a few days off in places urban, rural, seaside or wild to savour nature, the source of everything we need for our survival; and for those of us of the great faiths of the world, all founded in the northern hemisphere, this is our spiritual spring, a time of rebirth and renewal.

We think nature is boundlessly abundant. Yet, it is astonishingly scarce. The biosphere, home to all living things from our largest plants and animals to our tiniest microbes, is just a gossamer thin layer of air, water, soil and sea enveloping the planet.

The atmosphere is barely 100km deep, with virtually all the air we breathe in the bottom 10 km. If all the atmosphere was collected in one place at sea level pressure, it would be a bubble just 2,000km in diameter, less than the drive down our north and south islands. Yet into this bubble we humans pumped last year 37 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, compounding our climate catastrophe.

Perhaps Warmists should consider living back in nature. Give up their modern homes, live in huts and caves, no more vehicle travel, no more anything past 2000 B.C. Unfortunately, they conflate a little bit extra of carbon dioxide with the actual environment.

Yet this biosphere, our one and only, supports teeming life forms, including 7.7 billion people. But we humans have tripled in number in the past 70 years, wreaking havoc on our very life support system.

The obvious inference here is that there needs to be a population reduction. How do we do that? And how does population reduction work in the meaning of Easter and the teachings of Jesus? Well, wiping out a couple billion people doesn’t.

Now, Oram does continue on in discussing the actual environment and taking care of it, which, I think would be part of the teachings of Jesus and God, but once you’ve put it under the wing of the idiocy of anthropogenic climate change, you’ve made it all nutty political.

So, this long weekend, should you take a brief break from communing with nature to read about nature, please my I recommend an excellent companion piece to Environment Aotearoa 2019 – Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudao Si’, On Care for our Common Home.

How many Warmists actually commune with nature? Some. Most live in urban areas and think a manicured park is communing with nature.

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Warmists Super Enthused To Host Celeb Emma Thompson At Extinction Rebellion “Protests”

By William Teach April 20, 2019 – 4:08 pm

CNN and Lauren Said-Moorhouse are squeeing along with other Warmists

Emma Thompson boards the pink climate change boat in London

British actress Emma Thompson has climbed aboard a pink boat that has occupied one of central London’s main traffic intersections for the last five days as climate change activists continue to protest in the UK capital on Friday.

Since Monday, the British-based Extinction Rebellion (XR) group has orchestrated non-violent mass protests, crippling some of city’s major traffic routes — including at Marble Arch, Parliament Square, Oxford Circus and Waterloo Bridge — to highlight “disastrous inaction” on climate change.

The grassroots movement has three aims: to get governments to declare a “climate emergency;” to eliminate net greenhouse gas emissions by 2025; and to have citizens’ assemblies lead the government on climate and ecological justice.

On Friday, Oscar-winner Thompson — known for “Sense and Sensibility,” “Saving Mr. Banks” and “Love Actually” — joined protesters in the brilliant Good Friday sunshine at Oxford Circus. She told reporters she had been inspired to join after watching the movement over the last week, Britain’s Press Association reported.

“This is the most pressing and urgent problem of our time, in the history of the human race,” she said, adding that young people have been failed by her generation and politicians.

“I have seen the evidence for myself and I really care about my children and grandchildren enough to want to be here today to stand with the next generation,” Thompson added.

OK. Others were super thrilled, too. But, um

Emma Thompson joins climate change protest – after hopping on 5,400-mile flight

Dame Emma Thompson arrived in London to join the Extinction Rebellion protests, even though she had to 5,400-mile flight to be there.

The 60-year-old Hollywood star flew in from Los Angeles and has stated she is willing to be arrested as part of the protest in central London.

A representative of Dame Emma said she needed to take the 5,400-mile flight home to London after working in LA.

She joined the protests on the day organisers announced plans to target Heathrow Airport at the start of the Easter bank holiday weekend, which has been condemned by London mayor Sadiq Khan.

Huh. Imagine that. Climahypocrisy. But, she couldn’t stick around to get arrested, because she had other Celeb things to do, and you can bet she drove away in a fossil fueled vehicle.

Meanwhile

(UK Telegraph) Police have begun carrying and leading activists away from the protest in Oxford Circus in an apparent escalation of force.

Specialist officers entered the ring of police around the pink boat that has formed the focal point of the Extinction Rebellion protest since Monday

Many officers wore hi-vis jackets with “protester removal team” written on them while others wire harnesses and carried boxes of equipment and protective visors.

The crackdown has started, partly because “some officers were seen dancing and skateboarding in the streets” with the protesters. Even crazy London Mayor Sadiq Khan has had enough, and wants a crackdown, pluse

After a briefing from Met Commissioner Cressida Dick, the Home Secretary said: “I totally condemn any protesters who are stepping outside the boundaries of the law”.

“They have no right to cause misery for the millions of people who are trying to lead their daily lives. Unlawful behaviour will not be tolerated.

Annoying the ever loving hell out of people, causing them problems, great ways to get people behind your movement, eh?

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 20, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is an area turning to desert from Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on Ancestory.com making an ad that trigger snowflakes.

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Hot Take: Should A White Man Be The Face Of The Democratic Party?

By William Teach April 20, 2019 – 11:54 am

The obvious result of Identity Politics. Now, imagine how a headline asking if a black man or bisexual biracial woman should be the face of the Democratic Party would go down with the SJWs

Should a White Man Be the Face of the Democratic Party in 2020?

As Peter Johnson and Emily Neal waited for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to arrive at Barley’s, a brick-lined sports bar in southwestern Iowa, they gamed out possible nominees in the Democratic presidential primary.

Mr. Johnson, a 27-year-old law student, said the large field was a great equalizer, and “if at the end of it we get an old white guy, someone who represents the status quo, it’ll be because they’ve proven themselves.”

Ms. Neal, a dental hygienist, made an agonized face at Mr. Johnson, her boyfriend. Wouldn’t something be lost, she asked, if the historically diverse slate of 2020 Democrats was passed over?

“Personally I’d love to see a woman,” Ms. Neal, also 27, said at the event on Thursday night. “If people are being catty and holding gender or race against a candidate, it would break my heart.”

By people, she means “Democrats”, because they’re the ones mostly voting in the primaries.

As former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. prepares to enter the 2020 race this coming week, Democrats have seen the strong diversity in their field — with candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris reflecting the multiracial and largely female base of the party — become somewhat overshadowed by white male candidates. Bernie Sanders has a wide fund-raising lead, he and Mr. Biden lead in polls, and Beto O’Rourke and Pete Buttigieg have enjoyed outsize attention from votersin early primary states, extensive media coverage and viral success with online donors.

Interviews with several dozen Democratic voters around the country show how the party, which enjoyed victories in 2018 that were powered by female and nonwhite candidates, is now grappling with two complicated questions about race, gender and politics in the Trump era.

Yeah, somehow this is Trump’s fault, like it hasn’t been going on for decades amongst Democrats

Is a white male the best face for an increasingly diverse Democratic Party in 2020? And what’s the bigger gamble: to nominate a white man and risk disappointing some of the party’s base, or nominate a minority candidate or a woman who might struggle to carry predominantly white swing states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania that both Barack Obama and Mr. Trump won?

So, wait, are the NY Times’ Astead W. Herndon and Matt Flegenheimer saying that the white male candidate is best? You can bet the NY Times is getting a lot of hate email and tweets on that from the Usual Nutters. Anyway, this is all about the standard Democrat race mongering which sees people as being in certain groups, rather than being individuals. And this goes on and on, basically describing the Democrats as less about beliefs and more about how people fit in certain boxes, ending with

For Hannah Reid, 22, who is a graduating senior at the University of Tampa and heard Mr. Buttigieg at an event recently, her decision making on a Democratic candidate will go beyond identity.

“I am a woman of color, but that’s not all that I am,” said Ms. Reid, who is black. Referring to Mr. Buttigieg, she said: “He’s in the L.G.B.T. community, which is something we’ve never seen before. It’s got to be about more than just who you are; it’s got to be about what you think and what you say, what your ideas are.”

If true, she’s in the Democratic minority, but, since Democrats rarely run on ideas, it will be about identity politics.

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Warmist Rantings: Ignoring ‘Climate Change’ Is Almost Criminal Negligence Or Something

By William Teach April 20, 2019 – 7:20 am

It’s not the first time members of the Cult of Climastrology have wanted to criminalize Wrongthink regarding anthropogenic climate change, nor will it be the last. There are lots and lots of examples where Warmists have called for Skeptics to be locked up and/or killed, and, hey, remember how Bernie Sanders went Brownshirt and called for “climate deniers to be brought to justice”, language reminiscent of Bush saying this about the Islamic jihadis involved in 9/11? Now we have digital Greenshirt Tim Winton wanting to almost criminalize those who refuse to pass Hotcoldwetdry legislation

Our leaders are ignoring global warming to the point of criminal negligence. It’s unforgivable

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The problem – and it’s an existential threat both profound and perverse – is that those who lead us and have power over our shared destiny are ignoring global warming to the point of criminal negligence. Worse than that, their policies, language, patronal obligations and acts of bad faith are poisoning us, training citizens to accept the prospect of inexorable loss, unstoppable chaos, certain doom. Business as usual is robbing people of hope, white-anting the promise of change. That’s not just delinquent, it’s unforgivable.

Over the last 15 years in Australia our national governments have failed to respond effectively to the challenge of climate change, and for most of that time we actually gave ourselves the luxury of calling it a challenge. Now it’s more of a crisis. And it’s not as if our leaders are incapable of producing a timely response to a crisis. After all, in 2009 the government took bold steps to avoid an economic depression. And in the matter of refugees arriving by boat, governments still spend billions on emergency-level funding and infrastructure to meet what they view as a crisis of national security. But in the case of climate change there’s no equivalent sense of immediacy, no sense of priority commensurate with the dangers it poses to our future ability to feed ourselves, defend our largely coastal settlements, insure our homes, maintain national security and keep our children safe from harm.

The message implicit in our governments’ refusal to act is that we should all just suck it up – as in “climate change is bullshit, and even if it’s not there’s nothing you can do about it”. Once internalised, this narrative is profoundly dangerous, not only for individuals, but for the entire community. It’s a licence for nihilism, a ticket to hell in a handbasket. And the cohort responsible for this mixture of denial and fatalism is far removed from the daily experience of the ordinary citizen, especially the youngest and poorest of us. They have become a threat to our shared future and we must hold them to account, immediately and without reservation.

An interesting hot-take, in that it attempts to not only paint them as criminal, but that elected and appointed government leaders should be authoritarians, rather than respond to what citizens want. Remember, again, after the implementation of ‘climate change’ policies in Queensland, Australia, the party that passed them and was in charge lost so badly during the 2012 elections that they no longer had enough members to be considered an officially recognized political party. When given a chance, most citizens vote against ‘climate change’ policies, especially carbon tax schemes.

Hey, how about we consider prosecuting Warmists for neglect, since they mostly refuse to practice what they preach? Oh, and, hey, does this apply to people like AOC and Ed Markey, who refuse to push an vote on their Green New Deal in the House, and even whined when the Senate voted on it? How about all the Democrats, including Markey himself, who voted “present” during the Senate vote? Isn’t that all “criminal negligence”?

It’s time to make sharp demands of our representatives, time to remove those who refuse to act in our common interest, time to elect people with courage, ingenuity and discipline, people who’ll sacrifice pride, privilege and even perks for the sake of something sacred. Because there’s something bigger at stake here than culture wars and the mediocrity of so-called common-sense. It’s the soil under our feet, the water we drink, the air we breathe.

Life. It’s worth the fight. But, by God, after decades of appeasement, defeatism and denialism, it’s going to take a fight. Time’s short. So, let’s give our grief and fury some shape and purpose and reclaim our future together. Enough cowardice. Enough bullshit. Time for action.

Sure think, Buttercup. It’s too bad that ‘climate change’ tends to come in last or next to last on lists of things people care about, and that most do not want to spend even $10 a month on ‘climate change’ policies.

What this really is about is attempting to criminalize those who dare to not follow the authoritarian policies of the Cult of Climastrology, because they are Very Unhappy that their snake oil isn’t being bought.

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Top Dems Refuse To View Less Redacted Version Of Mueller Report

By William Teach April 20, 2019 – 6:46 am

If the law actually allowed it, Attorney General Barr should give them the full unredacted version, but make it so the resulting leaks could be easily traced, then file charges. This is just more of Democrats being sore losers

Democrats Decline to View Less Redacted Mueller Report

Top Democrats responded to a proposal from Attorney General (AG) William Barr to view a less redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report that confirmed President Donald Trump did not collude with the Russian government during the 2016 presidential election.

In the wake of the Mueller report’s release, Pelosi and Schumer said that Mueller needs to testify before Congress. House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nalder (D-NY) said that Mueller should testify before his committee because they “clearly cannot believe” what Barr tells us about the Mueller report.

This included Pelosi, Schumer, Nadler, Adam Schiff, Feinstein, and Mark Warner

Rather than accept Barr’s proposal to view the Mueller report, they insisted that they have access to redacted material and “access to grand jury material.”

However, Barr redacted four categories of material, including material presented to a federal grand jury, sources or methods gathered by intelligence agencies that would damage national security, material that would impair ongoing court cases or ongoing DOJ investigations, and material that would impact the privacy or ongoing reputations of innocent third parties.

Federal law mandates that grand jury testimony remain confidential, meaning that the DOJ would likely be barred from revealing this information to Pelosi and the other Democrats.

The above six Democrats know this. You know if they didn’t beforehand they’ve had it explained to them, just like it has been surely explained to the rest of the Democrats. So, at this point, they’re just grandstanding for the news and their unhinged base, since the part about the law disallowing viewing the redactions is often left out of news reports or way, way down in articles.

Speaking of Excitable Jerry Nadler

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) on Friday issued a subpoena to compel the Department of Justice to turn over special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report.

His order comes one day after Attorney General William Barr publicly released a redacted version of the Mueller report.

“I have issued a subpoena to the Department of Justice for the full version of the Mueller report and the underlying evidence. The Department is required to comply with that subpoena by May 1,” Nadler said in a statement.

He has to know that he cannot view it by law, right? Right? He can’t be this stupid, right? Or does he think the bullying by him and other Top Democrats will get the DOJ to violate the law? Sure, maybe with Holder or Lynch under Obama, but not now. This could even be considered unlawful intimidation, since Nadler and other Democrats are promising retaliation if the DOJ doesn’t comply.

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So, How Do Those Polled Feel About The Mueller Report?

By William Teach April 19, 2019 – 6:12 pm

It’s time to MoveOn, folks. Drop the impeachment talk (via Twitchy)

Actually, again, we don’t want Dems to move on, because it will hurt them badly during the 2020 elections, and, because they’re Sore Losers

Democrats set sights on Trump’s finances as post-Mueller probes take shape

No need for anything beyond the CNN headline.

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