NY Times Wrings Their Hands Over Whether Israeli Tactics To Protect Civilians Works

By William Teach July 22, 2014 – 8:51 am

Interestingly, we never see these kinds of articles in much of the major world (non-Israeli) media when it is Hamas or some other Islamist group launching attacks which are intentionally intended to target Israeli civilians, using methods such as suicide bombers and rocket attacks

Tactics Questioned as Civilian Toll Climbs

The blast from the Israeli strike was so powerful that it threw an iron door clear over several neighboring houses. It came to rest along with a twisted laundry rack still laden on Monday with singed clothes and a child’s slipper.

When the strike leveled a four-story house in the southern Gaza Strip the night before, it also killed 25 members of four family households — including 19 children — gathered to break the daily Ramadan fast together. Relatives said it also killed a guest of the family, identified by an Israeli human rights group as a member of the Hamas military wing, ostensibly Israel’s target.

The attack was the latest in a series of Israeli strikes that have killed families in their homes, during an offensive that Israel says is meant to stop militant rocket fire that targets its civilians and destroy Hamas’s tunnel network.

The Palestinian deaths — 75 percent of them civilians, according to a United Nations count — have prompted a wave of international outrage, and are raising questions about Israel’s stated dedication to protecting civilians.

Let’s face it, Israel is always going to be condemned by Leftists around the world, who, like the Islamists, despise Israel and Jews (sadly, there are plenty of Jews who feel the same way) and want Israel pushed into the sea. When they are being attacked with rockets, Israel is blamed and told they are the aggressor, that Israel is a terrorist nation, that Israel should stop doing (insert mean thing here) to those poor Palestinians. We hear about “disproportionate responses”. Perhaps Israel should just launch the same types of missiles Hamas uses towards Gaza, let the chips fall whatever way they will. Then they will be condemned.

Israel blames Hamas, saying they have chosen to keep operating among civilians.

But while Israel has in the past killed Hamas members with attacks so precise that others riding in their cars have survived, in this conflict, there have been numerous instances of family homes being struck with residents inside. More and more Palestinians are accusing Israel of trying to inflict maximum suffering to demoralize Palestinians and weaken support for Hamas.

Perhaps if Hamas didn’t embed themselves and their weapons within civilian areas, this wouldn’t be a problem.

The article continues it’s soft condemnation of Israel, but, at the end of the day, all Israel wants is to be left alone. The answers are simple: Hamas and the other Palestinians need to stop the attacks, stop digging tunnels into Israel, and turn Gaza into a nice place to live, rather than an armed Islamist camp. It’s on Gazans to stop perpetuating the cycle of violence. If they stop, Israel won’t respond.

On Monday, the neighborhood was ghostly quiet. Most residents had fled, and where the home had been was a deep bomb crater and piles of rubble.

At the house next door, a little girl, seeing journalists approach in flak jackets, sat on a stoop, put her face in her hands and wept.

And we can blame this on Hamas, and all the Leftist Israel haters who mostly refuse to tell Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Islamist groups, to stop their attacks. The support from international Israel haters emboldens the Islamists to attack. The blood is on their hands.

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Obama Makes Everything About Obama

By William Teach July 21, 2014 – 5:51 pm

Earlier, I posted on E.J. Dionne whining about Republicans making everything about Obama, and noted

Obama makes virtually every crisis about himself by failing to act as POTUS. He typically speaks in “I” and “me”, rarely “us” and “we”. Then he disappears to do anything but the job.

Well, Obama was 25 minutes late to his own statement today, said nothing of consequence, didn’t seem to give a damn regarding the plane shoot down, and said (via Ace)

“My preference continues to be finding a diplomatic resolution within Ukraine–I believe that can still happen, that is my preference today and it will continue to be my preference…”

He rarely speaks in terms of American policy. Mostly it’s All About Obama. So, when he is criticized, it shouldn’t be a surprise.

Obama’s statement was simply a ohoto-op to show the Low Information Voters that he’s still here. Plus, his narcissism.

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What Happens When Almost Everything Is Considered Sexist?

By William Teach July 21, 2014 – 2:48 pm

There is real sexism in the world. It’s also a two way street, but, let’s be honest, most sexism is from men towards women. One thing to consider is what is really sexist and what isn’t. Is Augusta National, which pretty much excludes women, sexist? If so, then wouldn’t a women only health club or college be sexist?

(AP) When Laura Bates was followed home one night by a man from her bus, she didn’t think much of it. Incidents like that just seemed to be part of living in London.

But the writer said several other similar situations followed within days: One stranger shouted obscenities at her out of a car window. Another propositioned her forcefully in a cafe. A third groped her on the bus, and commuters looked away when she spoke up. She was startled not so much by the incidents — but how accustomed she had become to brushing such behavior aside and not taking action.

“I started talking to other women, and I couldn’t believe how many stories they had. I think many of us just think ‘maybe I’m unlucky,'” said Bates, 27, in an interview. “Just like me, so many of them said ‘until you asked me, I’ve never talked to anyone about this.'”

The problem here is that not one of those things was sexism. Why were the obscenities yelled, and what were they? Groping? Criminal, but not sexism. A man propositioning her? Not sexism.

Those conversations triggered the birth of the Everyday Sexism project, a website that Bates set up for women to share their experiences of sexism and harassment in their daily lives — in the office, on the train, in school or on the street. Two years on, what started as a simple idea has become a movement that is steadily gaining momentum, galvanizing support from politicians, police and thousands of women and men from Britain and beyond.

The project has collected 70,000 posts from some 20 countries, describing a wide range of unwelcome behavior and offenses from a colleague’s casual comment to unreported rapes. Many tell of assault, threats of violence and verbal abuse in public places. Others report seemingly innocuous behavior and comments: One woman tells how a sales assistant handed back her change to her male friend, after she had paid for the goods.

The problem is that they are labeling everything as sexism. Some things are certainly sexist, like possibly the change incident. Many are inappropriate conduct, but aren’t sexism. Again, many are criminal, but the intent, the mindset, isn’t sexism, or even sexist

“There were men in their office printing off pictures of female applicants and rating them out of ten. Other women say their colleagues went to strip clubs at lunch time with clients and they just missed out on these deals,” she said. Many such incidents go unreported largely because women are afraid of losing their jobs, she said.

Not sexist, but certainly inappropriate.

“People say sexism doesn’t exist anymore,” Bates said. “But it really is one of those things where once you see it, you can’t stop seeing it all around you.”

Sure, it exists. I know a man who was treated in a sexist manner by women. I know a woman who filed suit over pay inequality, and there was a real case (she had been there longer, had a better track record, and a better sales record). But we can’t, or shouldn’t, equate everything as sexism. We also should not regulate all thought. Some people are jerks. In some cases actions and words should mean someone is Held Responsible. We can all agree on that, right? But if I ogle a woman’s derrière, covered in a tight yoga pant with the word juicy, is that sexist, or simply an appreciation of the female form? According to this group, it makes me sexist, and I should be reported.

Is it sexist that men are often treated like doofus’ in TV shows and commercials?

PS: how can men not look and comment when radical feminist want women to wear things like this?

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 21, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrid CO2 infused beer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jammie Wearing Fools, with a post on those peaceful Occupy Wall Street nutters.

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We’re Saved: Warmists Come Up With Concept Of Giant PV Duck

By William Teach July 21, 2014 – 11:01 am

Of all the silly spreading awareness things the Warmists come up with, this one is rather amusing

(PV Magazine) A team of London-based artists have come up with a unique renewable energy generator and storage concept for this year’s Land Art Generator Initiative Design Competition in Copenhagen: a giant energy duck that covered in solar panels and equipped with hydraulic turbines capable of producing electricity 24 hours a day.

Designed by Hareth Pochee, Adam Khan, Louis Leger and Patrick Fryer, the public artwork proposal would also serve as an interactive and educational tourist destination while also celebrating local wildlife.

According to the artists’ submission, the Energy Duck is modeled on the eider duck, which is found in the waters of Copenhagen. The fact that the eider duck’s breeding habitat has been at increasing risk from the effects of climate change inspired the team to use its form to raise awareness of the local impacts of the global environmental threat.

Said “duck” is designed to float in Copenhagen’s harbor, and will be 12 stories tall. It’s actually pretty ingenious. A nice energy alternative. Why did they have to ruin it by injecting Hotcoldwetdry?

While the initiative does not guarantee that the winning projects will be realized, it seeks to promote and support the transition to alternative energy by stimulating and challenging public opinion about what clean energy can look like.

In other words, this is pretty much a spreading awareness contest. Nothing more. Shame. Energy Duck would be kinda cool.

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Israel Asks: What Would You Do?

By William Teach July 21, 2014 – 8:50 am

For liberals, the answer would be a bit of navel gazing, wondering “what did we do to make Hamas send a constant rain of rockets which intentionally target civilians?” Remember, they took this tact almost immediately after 9/11.

(Washington Times) The official Twitter account for the Israeli Defense Forces on Monday sent out a picture of the London skyline being bombarded with missiles and the caption “What would you do?” as fighting continued in Gaza.

“Hamas terrorists just fired rockets at southern and central Israel. What if they were attacking your home?” reads the tweet, which is accompanied by a doctored image of incoming rockets and an explosion over the Houses of Parliament.

An IDF spokesman told The Telegraph the picture was crafted by the military’s “interactive media branch” to illustrate what Israel is going through as Hamas launches rockets at targets in the country.

“It’s an iconic image. When people look at the image they realize what country we’re talking about,” said Captain Eytan Buchman. “If a rocket landed near Westminster, it’s not a reality that any country could tolerate.”

From the Telegraph article

James Clappison MP, the Parliamentary Chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel, supported the advert.

“For a long time rockets have been fired into Israel and that hasn’t been reported. We would not permit rockets to be fired at our country. We would take action.”

He added he wanted to see an end to the bloodshed but added: “This is Hamas’ choice. The ball is in their court.”

Obviously, the Typical Hamas Apologists did not like the tweet, and Blame Israel, showing their Israeli hatred and hatred of Jews. Hamas are the ones targeting civilians and surrounding their arms with human shields, including children, yet the Israel haters call Israel the terrorists and bad guys. It wasn’t Israel which tore down the 3,000 greenhouses in Gaza and turned it into a war camp.

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Dionne: You GOP Meanies Make Everything About Obama

By William Teach July 21, 2014 – 8:24 am

The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne is very upset over the notion that Bystander In Chief Obama is being criticized for his handling of, well, pretty much everything. Because no other president (Bush 43) has ever had to endure this. Unsaid goes the notion that you’re all probably raaaaacists for criticizing him, though he’s probably thinking it hard. On the front page of the WP the article is entitled “The foreign policy wake up call“, but titled “Will flight 17 sober us up?” in the article. Doubtful, because Liberals will support Obama no matter what

Tragedies concentrate the mind.

U.S. politics was trundling along on its usual unserious and trivial trajectory when news of the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in Ukraine shook the world. Suddenly, the stakes in public life and foreign policy were very high.

Because things like IRS targeting, illegal alien”children” are streaming across the border, the VA is a mess, and Obama is campaigning and playing golf. We’ll skip a few paragraphs regarding Putin and Flight 17

It’s an agenda that ought to bring the United States and Europe together. But will it bring Americans together? The horror has been widely described as “a wake-up call.” It’s not yet clear if our dysfunctional, foolishly partisan and petty political system will even pick up the phone.

Hey, Obama picked up the phone. On his way to multiple fundraisers on the day Flight 17 was shot down.

Partisanship — defined as vigorous, principled disagreement — has an honored place in democracy. We are in the midst of such a debate over foreign policy in both parties. The recent GOP op-ed brawl between Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky over Iraq and the United States’ world role is a sign of things to come.

That’s good. What’s not good is the habit of Obama’s foes to make every foreign policy crisis about him, whether it is or not. At the beginning of the Ukraine crisis, some Republicans compared Obama unfavorably to Putin (“He makes a decision and he executes it, quickly,” an admiring Rudy Giuliani said of the Russian dictator.) The sound-bite driven obsession with Benghazi, Libya, is the apotheosis of unseriousness.

So, to recap, in-fighting between Republicans is good, criticizing Obama is Bad. Alas, Obama makes virtually every crisis about himself by failing to act as POTUS. He typically speaks in “I” and “me”, rarely “us” and “we”. Then he disappears to do anything but the job. No one would really have a concern with a bit of down time nor campaigning if he was doing the job he ran for twice. In case Dionne missed it, after the fundraisers, he sped off to Camp David, supposedly made a few calls, then hit the golf course. That is the “apotheosis of unseriousness”.

Nonetheless, Obama needs to offer the other side of his doctrine. The notion that the United States is retreating from the world is simply wrong, as Kerry argued vigorously on Sunday.

But it’s not a case Kerry should even have to make. Obama must match his clarity about the limits on what the United States can do militarily with equal clarity about what the United States is doing and will do to create a modestly less dangerous world.

This crisis is an occasion for Obama to try to create an oasis of consensus at a time when our politics is allergic to the very idea.

So, Dionne admits this is a situation created by Obama. Kerry, and other Obama appointees, have been very forceful in their rhetoric. And, let’s face it, there is little that can be done beyond sanctions. We won’t go to war over Flight 17. But Obama could have come out and spoken passionately about the shoot down, instead of looking and sounding like the whole issue of Governing bored him to tears. He could have given more than a 38 second soundbite initially, along with cancelling his scheduled meet and greet and a restaurant. He certainly gets passionate on the campaign trail. Perhaps he can use some of the venom he aims at Republicans, ie, fellow Americans, at Putin and the Ukrainian separatists.

Obama made this situation by being a weak-knee’d milquetoast, forever leading from behind and seemingly bored with doing his job.

BTW, Dionne should probably ask his fellow media figures why they make everything about Obama, such as CNN, with an article entitled World events derail Obama’s agenda and CBS News goes with As world crises continue to erupt, how will Obama react?

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World Council Of Churches Won’t Invest In Fossil Fuels Cause “Climate Change”

By William Teach July 20, 2014 – 5:02 pm

I really don’t care who yammers on about “climate change”. If it’s a religious body, I’ll call them out from my small perch

(Ecumenical Times) The World Council of Churches says it will not invest in fossil fuels its main governing body has decided as part of its ethical policies, commitment to caring for creation and reversing climate change.

“The WCC wants to be careful in its investments, avoiding what we see as unethical in businesses today.

“And through our investment policy give signals as to practices that we believe are not serving a sustainable future,” WCC general secretary Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit said.

“The use of fossil fuels must be significantly reduced and by not investing in those companies we want to show a direction we need to follow as a human family to address climate changes properly.

Of course, they don’t mind using those same fossil fuels themselves

The decision will have an impact on discussion about energy to an upcoming Interfaith Summit on Climate Change from September 21 to 22 in New York, prior to the United Nations Climate Summit.

The WWC includes churches from all over the world. How will they get to New York City, for the United Nations IPCC sponsored whinefest?

At the end of the day, this is not about religion, but about people within religion, who should probably focus on things like, oh, morals.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 20, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrid acid ocean because some people refuse to spread awareness, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Power, with a post on what happened at an ANSWER protest.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach July 20, 2014 – 10:15 am

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. This pinup is by Fiona Stephenson, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. The Other McCain isn’t impressed with the Daily Kos comparing Arizona to apartheid South Africa
  2. Independent Sentinel notes progressive mayors discussing gun rationing
  3. House Of Eratosthenes covers a Democrat candidate getting nasty towards Kendell Jones
  4. Victory Girls Blog discusses our unelected food czar
  5. This ain’t Hell… has your Sunday feel good story
  6. The Lonely Conservative links socialism with cheating
  7. The Jawa Report notes Hamas’ talking points for liberals, er, social media activists
  8. The Hayride notes that a supposed Obamacare lie is now a reality in Louisiana
  9. Gateway Pundit notes that Elizabeth Warren’s progressive list is eerily similar to Hitler’s list.
  10. The Daley Gator reveals that Time magazine is racist for noting Obama is a coward
  11. The Camp Of The Saints wonders why no one dares call it treason
  12. Sister Toldjah wonders if the individual mandate will be delayed yet again
  13. Rhymes With Right notes those wacky peace loving Muslims
  14. Raised On Hoecakes covers a typical Progressive damned if you do damned if you don’t situation
  15. And last, but not least, Public Secrets has six astounding examples of liberal hypocrisy

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. 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

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. (BTW, since someone asked, the reason I leave links for the previous week up (or you might see a *) is because they are place holders for later in the day or for next weeks. Easier than rewriting all the time. Also, the listing order has to do with how they are added over time, not how good a post is. I just copy and paste from the previous week, then edit. If you see one of the *’s, go ahead and check out the blog anyhow, see if there is an update. I cannot update with my Android during the day.

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