MSNBC’s Harris-Perry: Hey, The Boston Bombers Being Muslim Is Not Relevant

By William Teach April 22, 2013 – 8:04 am

Yes, the same lady who thinks your kids aren’t yours, and should be fully handed over to The State

(Mediaite) Making the point that the Tsarnaev brothers’ Muslim faith at the moment bears little relevance to the investigation into the brothers’ decision to attack the Boston Marathon last week, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry observed that Tsarnaev’s faith is about as relevant to the investigation right now as are Ben Affleck movies about violent events in Boston. Her panel guests agreed and added that Americans have to “otherize” violent actors in order to absolve themselves from responsibility for or connection to their violence.

But Progressives were extremely hot to trot to paint all Conservatives with a broad brush when the bombings first happened, just like they’ve done time and time again, blaming the whole for the actions of a few or one (even when we eventually learn that the perpetrator had little to nothing to do with Conservatism, and often more to do with Left side politics). Progressives mostly seem incapable of realizing that there is a set who practice Islam that are radicalized, that are violent, that want to destroy Western culture, especially Israel, Britain, and The United States. That intentionally target civilians. They want to spread the hard-core version of Islam. This is not “Islamophobia”, it’s a plain truth. Had the two brothers been, say, Romney voters or members of the NRA or the TEA Party, we would be hearing non-stop from people like Harris-Perry about how evil Conservatives as a whole are. Perhaps we could term this “Conservaphobia”.

Now, do we know what motivated the two? Not fully. But we can certainly take some educated guesses based on the material available, which points at the two being radicalized Muslims, which those who discuss this issue refer to as “Islamists”, in order to separate them from those Muslims who aren’t raging nutjobs practicing the hard-core version. Right now there have been over 20,700 deadly terrorist attacks by these Islamists since 9/11/2001.

The Powerline guys wonder why evil makes liberals stupid, and end with

When asserting the obvious is not a respectable option, asserting gibberish becomes the option of choice for people of ordinary intellect who wish to opine. And these days, the market for such gibberish is booming.

A big question revolves around whether liberals are stupid or become stupid. Are they espousing these views because they are dogmatic idiots or because they intentionally act stupid? We saw, in the immediate aftermath, liberals talking about last Monday being tax day and Patriot’s Day, trying to make connections to people on the political Right in a manner to blame all on the Right. When it became clear that they were Muslims, and apparently the Islamist version, that there were links to other jihadis, and all the other information, liberals started forming ways to avoid linking them to Islam, and more specifically Islamists.

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Whatcha Reading?

By William Teach April 21, 2013 – 7:57 pm

Finally finished The Twelve early in the week. Whew! Long book. Started on A Not So Singular World. Excellent premise, but the writing was so so (still more than I could have come up with, have to admit), couldn’t hold my attention past 25%. And there was no way I’d read just the 1st and not move on to the 3 followups. So, moved on to Day Soldiers by Brandon Hale (still free at Amazon Kindle store). Usually I’m not all that big on vampires or werewolves unless it’s really, really good. This was really, really good. Enough so that I finished it fast and moved on to the second one. And done with that just before I started writing this post. That’s a 272 page book and a 312 page book this week.

Now on to the 3rd book!

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Gun Control

By William Teach April 21, 2013 – 3:59 pm

Via In a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 21, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is an awesome home garden providing locally grown veggies in order to reduce Mankind’s carbon footprint (instead of just being a way to grow your own superfresh veggies), you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm (from which I grabbed the picture), with a post on university-assisted suicide.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach April 21, 2013 – 8:46 am

Happy Sunday! Another great day in the once and future country of America. The birds are singing, the sun is shining, global warming is causing it to be cooler than normal. This pinup is by not a clue, with a wee bit of help. Can’t read the signature, but, hey, baseball season!

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Legal Insurrection says to add the Boston Bombers to the list of failed liberal memes
  2. Wake Up America (with the spiffy new header) has an interesting poll on guns
  3. Victory Girls says “Why” is the wrong question to ask about the Boston bombings
  4. This ain’t Hell… has dueling Blamestormposts
  5. Doug Powers features the king of rush to judgement
  6. The People’s Cube has logical fallacies
  7. The Lonely Conservative points to the shame of passing CISPA
  8. The Daley Gator brings the Irony
  9. Scared Monkeys covers the NY Times’ sympathy for the bombers
  10. Rhymes With Right offers some light-hearted material regarding cops and donuts
  11. Public Secrets reveals the latest phrase to be considered raaaaacist
  12. Outside The Beltway wonders if North Korea is calming down
  13. Joshuapundit discusses racism, hypocrisy, and cowardice
  14. America Power has sickening leftists
  15. And last, but not least, everyone go (figuratively) beat up on Goldfish and Clowns for defending Bieber
  16. And one to grow on: Blazing Cat Fur discusses some crazy Boston conspiracy theories.

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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Fish Wrap: Passing Comprehensive Immigration Will Increase Security And Rule Of Law

By William Teach April 21, 2013 – 8:15 am

I’ve been following politics for a long, long time, well before Al Gore’s Internet became a big hit and allowed the average citizen to put their opinion out there, and for the life of me I still don’t understand the serious mental machinations that Liberals go through to come up with mule fritters like this from the anonymous editorial board

Immigration and Fear

On the main Opinions page, this is positioned as “Want a safer country and stronger rule of law? Pass comprehensive immigration reform.” Because nothing says “rule of law” by legalizing people who broke the law.

Much of the country was still waking up to the mayhem and confusion outside Boston on Friday morning when Senator Charles Grassley decided to link the hunt for terrorist bombers to immigration reform.

“How can individuals evade authorities and plan such attacks on our soil?” asked Mr. Grassley, the Iowa Republican, at the beginning of a hearing on the Senate’s immigration bill. “How can we beef up security checks on people who wish to enter the U.S.?”

What the Fish Wrap misses is that Chuck Grassley was talking about legal immigration and how to look out for crazies like the Boston Bombers, not the people who come across the borders and that the Left (and some squishy Republicans) want to create a pathway to citizenship for.

Until the bombing came along, the antis were running out of arguments. They cannot rail against “illegals,” since the bill is all about making things legal and upright, with registration, fines and fees. They cannot argue seriously that reform is bad for business: turning a shadow population of anonymous, underpaid laborers into on-the-books employees and taxpayers, with papers and workplace protections, will only help the economy grow.

Au contraire, we have plenty of arguments, but, there is absolutely no need to manufacture any more. The same ones work perfectly well. Does a mother come up with new arguments to use on a 5 year who wants cookies before dinner? No. And our arguments against giving illegals a pathway to citizenship are just as valid.

But, I am amused by the “making things legal and upright”, as if making people who broke our laws legal is peachy keen. We aren’t talking about someone who was ticketed for speeding: we’re talking about people who intentionally broke our sovereignty, who may be violent criminals, who may have stolen Social Security numbers and people’s identities, ruining those people’s lives. We’re talking about people who use and abuse our social systems, costing the taxpayer money, and have demanded that America kowtow to them with things like signs, forms and such in Spanish, providing education to their kids, free healthcare, and so forth. Yet so many do not bother to attempt to be a part of America. They do not bother learning English, but expect American’s to learn Spanish. They drive with no license or insurance and harm or kill US citizens. Is it any wonder many Americans are annoyed by illegals (obviously, all that doesn’t apply to all illegals, and many are people who have overstayed their visas).

And once they’re on a pathway to citizenship, how will it help the economy to put another 11 million or so into an already crummy Obama economy, competing for the limited pool of jobs?

There is a better way to be safer: pass an immigration bill. If terrorists, drug traffickers and gangbangers are sharp needles in the immigrant haystack, then shrink the haystack. Get 11 million people on the books. Find out who they are.

Newsflash for the Times: the bad people will not come out of the dark, and this will simply provide an incentive for more illegals to come.

And if we are serious about making America safer, why not divert some of the billions now lavished on the border to agencies fighting gangs, drugs, illegal guns and workplace abuse? Or to community policing and English-language classes, so immigrants can more readily cooperate with law enforcement? Why not make immigrants feel safer and invested in their neighborhoods, so they don’t fear and shun the police? Why not stop outsourcing immigration policing to local sheriffs who chase traffic offenders and janitors?

And boom, there you go, the Fish Wrap wants to not only legalize the illegal aliens, but open up the border, forgetting that the only way conservatives will go along with any of these schemes is to secure the borders so we do not have to deal with this again 20 years in the future. All they want is to create more Democrat voters and more people dependent on The Government.

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Bummer: Global Movement To Reduce Carbon Intensity Has Flat-Lined

By William Teach April 20, 2013 – 3:38 pm

Much like the global temperature since 1990, but this really, really upsets Warmist Jeff Spross at Joe Romm’s highly partisan and George Soros funded Climate Progress

The global effort to produce less carbon-intensive completely stalled over the last two decades, according to a new reportby the International Energy Agency. The paper put together a measure of carbon intensity — how much carbon is released per unit of energy created — and found its essentially been flat in the United States since 1990, while dropping slightly for Europe and rising for China

The combined result was that the carbon intensity of the world’s energy production dropped 6 percent from 1971 to 1990, but then flat-lined afterwards.

The headline wonders why this has happened. After some blah blah blah and noting that energy usage has double (which is apparently a big problem for the Warmists when it comes to other people, especially the people in “developing countries”, having energy) we get

Instead, thanks to our refusal to put a price on carbon, America remains the single largest subsidizer of fossil fuels in the world. Instead of doing the heavy lifting on renewables ourselves, we’re leaving the less fortunate of the world to carry the burden.

Why would we put a price on carbon? It’s not carbon that Warmists say is the problem, it’s carbon dioxide. There’s a big difference. The very fact that Warmists refuse to use proper terminology shows they care little for science and a lot for social movements.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 20, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is snow that schoolchildren will now see because it has gotten warm enough, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Nice Deb, with a post on Glenn Beck telling the Obama regime to come clean on the Boston Saudi.

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Here Comes Another “The Science Is Settled (stomps foot)” Opinion Piece

By William Teach April 20, 2013 – 11:25 am

It’s just a little one feature in the Bowdoin Orient by Hugh Ratcliffe, but amusing nonetheless

There is no longer a scientific debate concerning the existence of climate change. Despite what the National Association of Scholars may claim, anthropogenic warming is not a premise to believe in but rather a scientific fact. In the past few weeks the College has seen a frenzy of debates, panels and meetings dedicated to issues of climate change and sustainability. But what seems to be missing from the discussion is an acknowledgement of the gravity of the situation—just what it is that’s at stake.

Climate change is an unscientific term. Warmists have been attempting to shut down debate for decades. A .08C increase in global temps since 1990, and .28F since 1997. Not exactly doom worthy. Warmists are not interested in science, because science is always debatable.

Stopping climate change is not just about saving the polar bear. It’s not about hotter summer afternoons and it’s certainly not about the rise of the Prius. In a 2009 address, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that climate change “is the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.” Unfortunately climate change is insidious, and by the time we realized it was occurring, it had already been going on for nearly a century. Yet we have already begun to feel the disastrous consequences of a warming climate all across the globe, and it is only going to get worse.

How much worse can .08C over 20+ years be? Hugh follows up with lots of things Doooooom!!!! in the future. So, what does Hugh recommend?

Sustainability and divestment may indeed be the sacrifices Bowdoin must make to play its part. As an elite institution dedicated to the common good, we don’t do nearly enough to fight against the real effects of climate change.

Ah. Divestment. The current Warmist trope where they want schools and businesses to stop all links with evil fossil fuels companies, yet, Hugh, like most Warmists, refuses to tell us what changes he’s made in his own life, nor does he recommend changes for others. Strange, that, wouldn’t you say? I bet he drinks lots of CO2 infused beer and takes road trips in fossil fueled vehicles.

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NY Times Notices Lots Of People Stuck In Part Time/Low Pay Jobs

By William Teach April 20, 2013 – 7:42 am

They can’t quite get over their extreme liberal bias to note that this is the state of the Obama economy, but it’s a start!

(Part-Time Work Becomes Full-Time Wait for Better Job)

The American economy has generated 30 straight months of job growth. But for millions of people looking for more work and greater income, that improvement provides little solace.

In March, 7.6 million Americans who want more hours were stuck in part-time jobs, about the same as a year earlier and three million more than there were when the recession began at the end of 2007.

These almost invisible underemployed workers do not count toward the standard jobless rate of 7.6 percent. A broader measure, which includes the involuntary part-timers as well as people who want to work but have stopped looking, stands at 13.8 percent.

Let’s not forget about all the people who’ve dropped out of the jobs market in despair, sitting at levels not seen since the malaise era of Jimmy Carter.

Even for those who have been able to take advantage of the better job market, the opportunities have not been good. Since the economy began to recover almost four years ago, hiring has been concentrated in relatively low-wage service sectors, like retailing, home health care, and food preparation, and in contingent jobs at temporary-hiring companies. For example, nearly one out of every 13 jobs is at a restaurant, bar or other food-service establishment, a record high.

Remember the good old days during Bush’s presidency when the media and Bush hating liberals whined about all the jobs being “bad jobs” because many were low paying, though the unemployment rate was much lower than today and far fewer people had dropped out of the jobs market? Now we see that the Obama economy is about low paying jobs and part time jobs, despite the massive amount of money, much of it (43 cents on the dollar) borrowed by President Obama and Congressional Democrats.

While increases in part-time and temporary work can sometimes be an early sign that employers will soon take on more permanent hiring, many workers have been trapped in such jobs far longer than they had anticipated.

Not in the Obameconomy, where they are now the new norm, and this condition will get worse as Obamacare kicks in and companies scale back hours and jobs to avoid the draconian requirements (which the Times eventually points out).

But, hey, this is what you voted for, America. You thought Obama was cool and super awesome and forgot that his policies have been disasters. So, suck it up.

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