Boston Bombing: Boxing Coach Says Don’t Blame Boxing

By William Teach April 29, 2013 – 8:50 am

One of the media narratives has been that, somehow, Tamerlan Tsarnaev went from well adjusted citizen to psychotic bomber motivated by, well, the media aren’t quite sure, could have something to do with some obscure religion, but, probably not, due to the failures of his boxing career. His coach says “nope!”

(Fox News) The Boston Marathon bomber’s former boxing coach says his one-time pupil may have been dispirited by boxing setbacks, but that’s no reason for the attacks that killed three people and injured more than 200.

The coach is clear: Don’t blame Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s metamorphosis from a seemingly well-adjusted American immigrant – with dreams of one day representing the U.S. in the Olympics – into a radicalized killer on amateur boxing.

“That’s ridiculous,” Bob Russo, 58, of Portland, Maine, tells FoxNews.com. “You can’t tie the sport of amateur boxing — that has helped so many immigrants and unfortunate people — to his transition to radical Islam.

The NY Times was the biggest cheerleader attempting to say that because of two incidents in Tamerlan’s boxing career (a controversial loss and a rule change leaving him unable to compete in the Golden Gloves since he wasn’t a citizen) he went from being said well adjusted person to a crazed “lone wolf” homicidal bomber, and it was pretty much America’s fault for failing to integrate Tamerlan. And the Liberal Media most definately would prefer to Blame America rather than a small section of Islam that has become radicalized and murderous. Heck, here’s CNN’s Candy Crowley

CNN’s Candy Crowley on Sunday started to say that deceased Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev had posted “Islamic videos” online before apologizing and calling them “terrorist videos.”

“We know that both the CIA and the FBI were told by Russia, their counterparts, ‘You got to look at this guy, we think he’s been radicalized. We think he’s a terrorist,’” the “State of the Union” host told panelists. “Then we have the fact that up came these, at some point after a trip to Russia and before it, up came Islamic videos — or, I’m sorry, terrorist videos on his website. … At least one department, Homeland Security I believe, knew he’d either come or gone to Russia. And he’s putting up, you know, in praise of terrorism. Why in the world didn’t anybody think, oh, wait, this is a danger sign?

They were Islamic videos. Had the bombing been performed by people extolling Christianity, does anyone think that the media wouldn’t be blaming the whole?

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Washington Post Wonders If Charm Is Obama’s Last, Best Hope

By William Teach April 29, 2013 – 8:01 am

This occurs at the intersection of journalism and wishful thinking from those who most likely voted for Obama

After string of setbacks, more charm may be the last, best option for Obama

Writers Juliet Eilperin and Zachary A. Goldfarb picked the perfect picture to explain Obama and his charm, wouldn’t you think?

There was little time to mingle Tuesday night at the White House. Five minutes after greeting them, President Obama ushered 20 female senators into the State Dining Room and invited each to offer her thoughts on the issues of the day. And that was about it.

“That took up our entire two hours, to go around the table,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), recalled in an interview. “It was not the kind of warm banter that can go back and forth. People had their points they wanted to make to the president. It was all business.”

After more than four years in the White House and weeks into his latest effort to woo lawmakers, Obama still isn’t very good at using his personal charm to achieve political success. Yet, it may be one of the few strategies the president has left if he hopes to accomplish his remaining ­second-term priorities, including a sweeping budget deal and a comprehensive immigration bill.

Nope, sorry, “charm” is a dead end for Mr. Obama. I’m not such an Obama hater* that I think the man has no charm: I’m sure he does in small settings, and he has shown that he, like most people, can be charming. However, he spent years demonizing political opponents, often even before said opponents offered any opposition to Obama policies. One must remember that politics is a dirty, nasty business that involves attacks. Except, Obama likes to make things very, very personal and paints his opponents with a broad tar brush. He has no problem tarring private citizens, a violation of the spirit of the 1st Amendment.

Nor does he have that much charm, at least politically, with the elected officials of his own Party. He rarely reaches out for conversations with them about politics, much less just having a talk about family, friends, and personal stuff.

At this point in his presidency, Obama has pretty much tried it all. He has met privately with Republican leaders in the House, collaborated with bipartisan groups of senators and taken his case to the people, hoping that the power of public opinion could win over his opponents in Congress. This year, for the most part, none of those approaches have worked.

He started off his presidency with a bit of nastiness to the guy he defeated, John McCain, along with his “I won” bit. He spent 4 years Blaming Bush and everyone else. He continuously crosses the line between political attacks and personal attacks. It’s rather hard to work with someone who: 1. offers ideas and legislation that you do not agree with or in a way that goes well beyond ones personal beliefs, 2. blame them for all his own problems, and 3. attacks you mercilessly and personally before turning around and saying “how ya doing? I need you to pass this”.

The Washington Post even goes on to say charm is something he’s not very good at. He is great at it when he wants to, such as on the campaign trail. But, it’s too darned late. He has too much invested in highly partisan politics.

* I do not hate Obama personally, I oppose the majority of his political leanings. But, he does make it hard to like him even as a president, much less a person, when he is constantly denigrating and demonizing Republicans and Conservatives, which, by extension, is me.

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DU: “You Won’t Believe What These Muslims Are Protesting About”

By William Teach April 28, 2013 – 9:46 pm

A bit of a late night palate cleanser, I haven’t featured a Democratic Underground thread in quite some time. redqueen links to an article from Upworthy about Muslims protesting for women’s rights and stuff. Good for them. Quite a few DUmmies aren’t sure why they aren’t supposed to believe it. Here’s where it gets fun from redqueen

Posted by an atheist who is concerned about some of the anti-religious hatred and bigotry being shared here (at the DU) lately.

Yes, there are extremists of all sorts, including religions. No, that doesn’t give you the right to be an asshole.

Got that? Because there are nutjob Islamists trying to kill Americans (and other Westerners) as wells destroy our country (both violently and through sneaky means) is no reason to be mean to them. Sheesh!

Oh, and apparently there’s been lots of bigotry and “hate” at the DU regarding the Boston jihadis, so they need to flagellate themselves and knit diversity quilts.

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Watcha Reading?

By William Teach April 28, 2013 – 5:37 pm

Let’s see: finished the 3rd book of the Day Soldiers trilogy. Excellent, excellent series, and I’m not usually that big on werewolves and vampires. I’d give the series a 4.5 out of 5.

Took on The Mighty Quinn. It was a so so read, but kept my attention all the way through. Gave Dawn Of Destiny (Epic) a try, just couldn’t hold my attention. Wasn’t bad, just wasn’t interesting for me at the time. The Blood Eagle In the Big Easy started out really fracking preachy and slow, gave that up quickly. Zombie Patrol became very silly with Men In Black crap. I’ve been reading Eye Candy, got about 35% in (it’s a long, long book. It’s not a perfect match, but The Mighty Quinn was 242 pages at 376kb. Eye Candy is 737kb), but it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere, just stuff happens. Like Seinfeld, there seems to be no plot. No purpose. Too bad, because it started very well.

I have a couple downloaded, both free and samples, that I’ll give a whirl. What’s on your menu?

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A Warmists Wants You Skeptics To Consider The Facts

By William Teach April 28, 2013 – 2:25 pm

Alas, like most Warmists, Mr. John Currie, writing to the The Patriot News, forgot to bring scientific facts, just politicalization

Climate change skeptics, consider these facts

From 1993 to 2006, the earth’s oceans rose more than 3.3 millimeters per year, more than 50 percent above projections. On the U.S East Coast, Atlantic Ocean rise is accelerating. The Arctic’s ice cap has shrunk to its smallest size in recorded history.

The World Bank recently said, “Climate change is a fundamental threat to global development.” In Peru’s Andes mountains, glacial ice that took 1,600 years to form has nearly melted away in the past 25 years, an Ohio State University team recently announced.

As we say here in the South, that’s some pretty damned weak tea. Heck, it’s unsweetened tea stretched too far. Nothing in those “facts” proves anthropogenic causation. Nor is ocean rise accelerating, and if it was caused by AGW wouldn’t we see a worldwide change? 3.3mm is still at the historical norm, and actually below the norm for a warm period. The rest goes like this

Britain’s Royal Society, a preeminent scientific organization founded by Isaac Newton, says if we do not change our energy policies, we face a “hellish future.”

NASA cites as “compelling” evidence for climate change: rising sea levels, warming oceans, shrinking ice sheets, declining sea ice, retreating glaciers, extreme weather events and ocean acidification.

Scaremongering, consensus, politics, and a failure to provide any scientifically factual data proving anthropogenic causation is the typical motif of a Warmist, especially one who ends by whining about fossil fuels usage. And then is beaten like a rented mule in the comments at the link.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 28, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil bottle of hair spray, evil iPhone, and lots of plugs drawing vampire power, you might just be a Climate Astrologer

The blog of the day is Junk Science, with a post on “more than 100% of the warming”

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach April 28, 2013 – 9:32 am

Happy Sunday! It’s another gorgeous day, albeit cool, in America, and a time to reflect on the once and future nation. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

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

  1. The Gateway Pundit discusses Tamerlin discussing jihad with his mom
  2. NoFrakkingConsensus discusses how climate scientists think
  3. The Blogmocracy wonders just how the Boston bombers became radicalized
  4. Bob Owens talks about rape at UConn because of a logo
  5. Cold Fury: what is Executive Order 13603?
  6. Director Blue has some hard monetary figures for Marco “Amnesty” Rubio
  7. Flopping Aces says it’s unfair to blame Obama for Boston…..
  8. Gay Patriot discusses filtered history vis a vis George Bush
  9. Joshuapundit has more from the peaceful “pro-Palestinian activists”
  10. Legal Insurrection highlights more anti-Semitism from academics
  11. Moonbattery finds another great way our tax dollars are wasted
  12. Patterico discusses manipulated GDP numbers
  13. Pundit Press has questions on an all day breakfast menu from McDonald’s
  14. Raised on Hoecakes brings the latest insanity from Brokeifornia, regarding illegals and juries
  15. And last, but not least, Rhymes With Right wonders when the Pledge of Allegiance becomes too much

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

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.

The posts do take a long time, so, if you want to send me your links for Rule 5 babeage or links, use ye olde email in the header bar (remove the NOSPAM part). Preferably, create the html link so I can copy and paste how you want it to read.

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Gang Of 8 Bill Could See 33 Million Immigrants In 10 Years

By William Teach April 28, 2013 – 7:50 am

Fantastic. In a time when American citizens are struggling for jobs, and good paying jobs, let’s bring in a ton of immigrants, particularly illegals and their families

(Daily Caller) The pending Senate immigration bill would bring a minimum of 33 million people into the country during its first decade of operation, according to an analysis by NumbersUSA, a group that wants to slow the current immigration rate.

By 2024, the inflow would include an estimated 9.2 million illegal immigrants, plus 2.5 million illegals who arrived as children — dubbed ‘Dreamers’ — plus roughly 3.4 million company-sponsored employees with university degrees, said the unreleased analysis.

The majority of the inflow, or roughly 17 million people, would consist of family members of illegals, recent immigrants and of company-sponsored workers, according to the NumbersUSA analysis provided to The Daily Caller.

There you go: it’s not just the “amnesty” offered to people who broke our laws by either coming across the border illegally or overstaying their VISAs, but their families who still live outside the United States. A good chunk who will almost immediately end up on the government dole.

What we’re hearing now is what we heard back in the 198o’s before the amnesty was granted. It’s “the right thing to do.” “It’s a right.” “People who oppose a pathway to citizenship are heartless and big meanies.” “We have to bring illegals out of the shadows.” Strangely, the proponents of amnesty never seem to mention the rule of law, nor what all these low skilled workers can do to the jobs market. We do hear about how we need to make sure this doesn’t have to happen again, but then these same people immediately work to gut the legal protections against more illegal aliens.

And we can surely expect that the border will never be secured in the first place, nor will proper protections be put in place for those who are here on visas, either for work or to visit, if the Gang of 8 bill passes. Once again legislation fails to put in one of the best methods, namely making the penalties, both civil and criminal, on those who knowingly hire illegals so tough that no would hire them, which would significantly reduce the inflow.

NumbersUSA calls their estimate “conservative”, with the possibility of growing up to 40 million, based on future legislation and regulation, as well as how governmental agencies deal with the Gang Of 8 legislation.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

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We’re Saved! Super Awesome Breakthrough In Nuclear Power Will Reduce Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach April 27, 2013 – 4:05 pm

With this, we can do away with all fossil fuels, and that evil Keystone XL. Of course, Warmists tend to hate nuclear, too, because mumble garrble

One giant leap for mankind: £13bn Iter project makes breakthrough in the quest for nuclear fusion, a solution to climate change and an age of clean, cheap energy

It may be the most ambitious scientific venture ever: a global collaboration to create an unlimited supply of clean, cheap energy. And this week it took a crucial step forward. Steve Connor reports

Whew! Sounds awesome, doesn’t it? And all for a bit over $20 billion US! And a solution to climate change! I mean, really, this is mega huge!

An idyllic hilltop setting in the Cadarache forest of Provence in the south of France has become the site of an ambitious attempt to harness the nuclear power of the sun and stars.

It is the place where 34 nations representing more than half the world’s population have joined forces in the biggest scientific collaboration on the planet – only the International Space Station is bigger.

Hooray….um, hooray?

(Breitbart) The “breakthrough” is that they got final approval for pouring the reinforced concrete blanket. After thousands of words extolling the benefits of nuclear fusion, and relating the long history of the Iter project, we’re finally given a timeline that doesn’t even mention the year 2013 at all. The last significant event on the timeline was 2005, when the Iter site was chosen; the next notable event will come in either 2021 or 2022, when the first infusion of ionized gas is scheduled. Electricity will not be produced until sometime in the 2030s, and power from the plant won’t be commercially available until sometime in the 2050s.

Via Ace, who rewrites the headline: “$20 Billion Multi-Government Project Begins Pouring Some Concrete After 10 Years of Planning”.

Oh, and let’s not forget that, despite some attempt to do “green” things with concrete, it is one of the worst “carbon” offenders, supposedly putting out 5% of all CO2 emissions.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 27, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil bottle of pop infused with CO2 and a mean fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Public Secrets, with a post on surprise and shock.

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