Mid-Week Post

From the epicentre of stuff.

The Republican Convention kicked off in Hurricane Isaac-affected Tampa, Florida.

How effective was Ann Romney's speech? This effective:

“She gave a speech about her relationship with her husband, the strength of her marriage, the love… she has for her husband, and did a great job doing that and it was very effective,” said Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki, according to the pool report. “We’ll leave it to the voters and the viewers to decide what their thoughts are on the ticket.”

If they're not Kool-Aid swallowers, they're probably thinking what a crock the Obamas and their media lackeys are.

Listen to the inspiring words of an intelligent, articulate daughter of Haitian immigrants. The left will try to destroy her. Count on it.

Oh, will you look at this:

In lieu of airing speeches from former Democratic Rep. Artur Davis, a black American; Mia Love, a black candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Utah; and Texas senatorial hopeful Ted Cruz, a Latino American, MSNBC opted to show commentary anchored by Rachel Maddow from Rev. Al Sharpton, Ed Schultz, Chris Matthews, Chris Hayes and Steve Schmidt.

Throughout this convention, Matthews has accused the Republicans of playing dog-whistle racist politics while on scene in Tampa. It isn’t clear, however, if Matthews will hurl accusations of racism at Davis, Love or Cruz for speeches his network failed to broadcast.

Is that to be filed under the liberal/leftist heading of: women, children and minorities should not be seen or heard?

This is the left:

It was like being at aklan rally except the klansmen were wearing Abercrombie polos and Birkenstocks.YOU NIGGER, one man shouted at men. If your people want to call me a FAGGOT,I will call you a nigger. Someone else said same thing to me on the nextblock near the temple...me and my friend were walking, he is also gay butKorean, and a young WeHo clone said after last night the niggers better notcome to West Hollywood if they knew what was BEST for them.

As I have often and consistently said of Rice: she is the female version of an Uncle Tom-she is an Aunt Thomasina. She was NOT the 1st African American Secretary of State; she was the 1st Secretary of State whom happened to an African American….THERE’S A BIG DIFFERENCE

“I’ve been told I hate myself. I’ve been called an Uncle Tom. I’ve been told I’m a spook at the door,” said Timothy F. Johnson, chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a group of black conservatives who support free market principles and limited government.

Will these "educators" care to tell tax-paying parents where the money to pay their exorbitant salaries and benefits will come from? 

Canadian teachers on Tuesday protested proposals for a two-year pay freeze and curbs to their collective bargaining rights to help pay down Ontario province's $14.8 billion budget deficit.

Waving placards that read "Stop bullying me," an estimated 5,000 teachers gathered outside of the Ontario legislature, accusing Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty of "betraying" them, live television showed.

Public broadcaster CBC said the demonstrators were joined by peers from across Canada in a massive show of solidarity, while thousands of students in neighboring Quebec province continued raging against tuition hikes.

McGuinty won elections in 2003, 2007 and last October with the support of teachers.

But more recently he has said the province cannot afford teacher pay hikes and their banking of unused sick days that would cost the province $473 million.

His minority government has put forward a controversial emergency bill to freeze pay as well as ban strikes for two years.

Our moral leaders:

Liberal Senator Joyce Fairbairn's battle with dementia is sadly turning into a battle of political gamesmanship.

On Monday afternoon, Conservative senator David Tkachuk, announced that in mid-August he learned that Fairbairn, 72, wouldn't be coming back to work in September because of her "dementia, Alzheimer's."

On Monday evening, the Ottawa Citizen's Glen McGregor and Jordan Press advanced the story, suggesting that the Liberal leadership in the senate allowed Fairbairn to vote on legislation for four months even though she was declared legally incompetent.

"Fairbairn's geriatric psychiatrist diagnosed the senator with dementia of the Alzheimer's type and declared her legally incompetent in February, according to a letter sent to Senate officials by her niece, Patricia McCullagh.

It is unclear when the Liberals knew about the diagnosis, but by April, the top aide to Liberal Senate leader James Cowan had co-signed a declaration giving him and Fairbairn's niece power of care, essentially giving the two power of attorney over Fairbairn's personal care, according to a letter from McCullagh, obtained by Postmedia News."

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is recognised as a "Righteous Person Who Fights Antisemitism". Let the tongue-wagging start.

This is the real Rachel Corrie:

I was also told about how ISM activists serve to draw sniper fire down on IDF soldiers when desired. Lisa Nessan, one of those ISM trainers, told me at an ISM Georgetown conference that standing as a human shield in front of an armed terrorist as he threw rocks or shot at an Israeli soldier was indeed considered “nonviolent.” Joseph Carr, a.k.a. Joseph Smith, another ISM trainer, told me in a recorded phone interview how he and Rachel Corrie retrieved the dead body of a Hamas terrorist in Gaza from a combat zone only weeks before she was killed by an IDF bulldozer. When asked whether he feared arrest by the IDF back then he blithely replied ‘no’ because he knew that Arab snipers would be there to fire at them. Rachel Corrie, who was trained by the ISM and had read their manual, also knew that Arab snipers would shoot at the IDF soldiers driving that bulldozer had they exited it to remove her.

This poor, little pancake princess knew damn well that snipers would kill Israeli soldiers. She counted on it. For all her paternalistic bravado, she was another useful idiot and Darwinian failure.

Speaking of Darwinian failures….

Religion seems to have the same affect but it is legal. Aethiests...smart. Religious...not so much. Must be the critical thinking thingy:) 

"Firstly, using data from a U.S. study of 6,825 adolescents, the authors found that atheists scored 6 IQ points higher than those adhering to a religion.

Secondly, the authors investigated the link between religiosity and intelligence on a country level. Among the sample of 137 countries, only 23 (17%) had more than 20% of atheists, which constituted “virtually all... higher IQ countries.” The authors reported a correlation of 0.60 between atheism rates and level of intelligence, which was determined to be “highly statistically significant"

It would be pretty handy if the wag in question had initially provided a link  (the author of which was linked to Holocaust deniers) to that study but why bore the proles with the details? One can question the purpose of the study, how it was conducted, if one can quantify and qualify any kind of intelligence and religiosity or how total contradictions to the assertions in those studies pop up with such frequency that they invalidate them but let's cut this short and conclude that the kind of people who walk into this trap do so because they want to appear smarter than others even though their flies are undone.

Social Darwinism: man's way of letting you know what a mentally stunted and emotionally retarded snob he is.

And now, a monkey rodeo-rider. Enjoy.

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A Post... For Now

Quickly...


Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, has passed away.

Up, up the long, delirious burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark, or ever eagle flew — And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

The Taliban, a tine on the trident of the new fundamentalism, has beheaded seventeen people for dancing:

Taliban Islamist insurgents beheaded 17 party-goers, 10 Afghan soldiers were killed and two NATO troops shot dead in a new insider attack in a bloody day across Afghanistan, officials said Monday.

The party-goers, including two women, were holding a gathering with music in a southern Afghanistan village.

"I can confirm that this is the work of the Taliban," the Helmand provincial governor's spokesman Daud Ahmadi told AFP. "Two women and 15 men were beheaded. They were partying with music in an area under the control of the Taliban."

The hardliners were notorious during their rule for public executions and the suppression of music and parties.

There is no reason to respect this "quaint" tradition or not battle against it.



If one had to pass a Voter IQ test in order to cast a ballot, Obama would be super-hyper-global-mega-screwed:

In many cases, our alleged “democracy” only seems to exist to make society’s dimmer bulbs feel as if they’re being heard, thus preventing them from charging into the streets and cannibalizing random passersby. I lean toward favoring a basic Voter IQ Law, or at least a basic civics test, for it may help stave off an imminent idiocracy. It’s not as if most of the idiots pay any taxes anyway. If this country was founded on the principle of “No taxation without representation,” maybe we should also practice “No representation without taxation.”

 

 

(Merci)

Let's not forget: the issue is really the economy, not made up crap about women and the birth control Democrats think they want.



How cool is this?

More than 160 years ago, Sir John Franklin sailed into his Arctic prison, with the comforting conceit that technology would ensure his escape.

Franklin's vessels, the Erebus and the Terror, were outfitted with steam engines, desalinators, iron plates over their wooden hulls, and propellers and rudders that could be retracted to prevent ice damage. ...

The best engineering of the day failed Franklin and his men. But there are hopes that, with the launch last week of the largest search yet for the lost ships of Franklin's doomed 1845 expedition in search of the Northwest Passage, high-tech equipment may find the final resting place of their vessels.

On another pilgrimage, I recently found myself in a warehouse in Saanich on Vancouver Island, staring at what looks like a torpedo — a banana-yellow torpedo about four metres long. Researchers have aptly dubbed it "Mano," Hawaiian for shark. ...

The Mano, known as an AUV — Autonomous Underwater Vehicle — will travel on its own, systematically mapping the ocean floor, no matter what surface conditions plague the scientists.

"An AUV can essentially dive right below the bad weather and prowl over the sea floor at a predetermined altitude, following its planned survey lines very very closely. So that's really what we're hoping for is to increase our window of opportunity to acquire data," Harris says.

 

A Post For A Friday

Just news before the week-end.


Surely, this is a snow job:

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has found the Liberal riding association in Guelph, Ont. guilty of violating the Telecommunications Act for its use of an automated robocall in the last federal election.

This is why journalism is a joke:

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took a dig at President Barack Obama on Friday over his birth certificate in comments that reignited a controversy over the Democrat's eligibility to be president.

"No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate," a smiling Romney told a rally of some 7,000 people in his home state of Michigan.

"They know that this is the place that we were born and raised," he said to the laughter of the crowd, speaking alongside his wife, Ann.

Romney no more waded into this "controversy" than he did fly on his power. He made a joke at his opponent's expense. That really is the end of it unless you're a hack or so in the tank for Obama it's ridiculous.


Speaking of "in the tank", sit down and watch this:






Was that CNN's Anderson Cooper doing his job as a journalist and taking Debbie Wasserman Schultz to task for her complete mischaracterisation of Mitt Romney's abortion stance? Yes, it was.


Abortion and the mythical "war on women" is the duct tape keeping the perforated Obama election dinghy afloat. One can bet that it will be trotted out whenever possible.



Related: Seventy percent of Obama's Twitter followers are fake (just like his composite girlfriends).



Is the planned trek to find Franklin's lost ships about archeology or politics?



Ladies and gentlemen, Stan Rogers.



With sadness, I report that the voice of The Count- Jerry Nelson- has passed away.



(With thanks)

Mid-Week Post

What's inside the box?


Mediocre politician and philanderer Jack Layton gets a nation-wide celebration from a nation that didn't ask for it.

Does anybody remember this guy?

A mentally disabled child in Pakistan is accused of blasphemy and Christian homes and a church are destroyed. Meanwhile, in Germany, a crude cartoon attracts no bricks. Discuss.


International Idiot of the Day:

The artist behind the caricature, Mario Lars, likewise expressed surprise at the burgeoning debate. "It was not my intention to hurt the feelings of the faithful," Lars said. "I was just making a joke…. (The church) should stand aloof of such things and address more important problems. Such a large commotion over a small joke isn't good for the church."

I guess he thinks everyone except him is stupid.


Is there a Dresden joke that would be going too far?


Iran bars women from seventy-seven university courses because  “Some fields are not very suitable for women’s nature...". In the US, Democrats freak out over some manufactured outrage because they've backed a loser. Discuss.


For your reading pleasure, watch the meltdown and the realisation that the Democrats are not the adult party, after all.


Six out of ten Canadians don't want unrepentant terrorist Omar Khadr back:

Though Canada's chief ally wants to send Khadr back to the home and native land where he was born, six in 10 Canadians don't want him back, a new poll finds. ...

When asked if they support or oppose Khadr's transfer to Canada, 60% say they strongly or somewhat oppose it while just 24% say they strongly or somewhat support his return.

A majority in all parts of the country oppose the transfer though opposition is strongest in Alberta (69%) and Ontario (65%) and weakest in Quebec were 51% oppose the move.

And both a majority of those who voted for the Conservatives (79%) or the NDP (52%) in the last election don't want Khadr back.

It's a different matter for those who voted Liberal. A slim plurality of Liberal supporters (42%) oppose his transfer compared to 39% of Liberals who support his transfer back to Canada.

Religious statues are "idolatrous" in the new Egypt:

Youm-7, one of Egypt's popular secular media that was recently attacked by Muslim Brotherhood supporters, reports that at least seventeen Christian bookstores in Shubra, one of Cairo's largest districts, are under threat for selling Christian icons and statues. The storeowners, who are "in panic," say they received threat letters by mail demanding that they stop selling their "idolatry."

This filthy idol used to bring loads of revenue into Egypt.

Hijabs and the reasons for wearing them are deceptive:

Poorly written, speckled with faulty grammar and plagiarized clauses, Nusrat's piece presents a downright bizarre depiction of Western media and public opinion (among other things, she describes Western feminism as being defined by "a skewed perception of women's equality as the right to bare our breasts in public"). Nonetheless, her commentary places in full view of a wide public one of the biggest obstacles we face in combating the growth of Islam in the West, and, even more, of political, aggressively Islamist Islam as it masquerades as a faith – and a doctrine – based on justice and equal rights, slinking its deceitful, theocratic destructiveness into the secular humanism of the West.

And it is exactly that deceit which makes it all so dangerous, especially to young women struggling with their own body image and sexuality: what easier escape, what simpler coping mechanism, than to throw a sheet over your head before heading out in public, and convince yourself that no one either sees what you look like underneath, or cares? (Indeed, Dutch psychiatrist Carla Rus, who works closely with young Muslim women – including converts – notes that the ease of dress and discomfort with cultural emphases on appearance is behind much of the conversion of non-Muslims to Islam, and contributes to the radicalization of Muslim women in Western countries.)

But Islam is not about garments, any more than a hijab actually covers anything but a woman's hair. In fact, to the contrary, a hijab-wearing woman in the West attracts attention to herself merely by the fact of the scarf itself, and to the political statement it really represents: "I am not-you. I am Muslim. I am other, and I reject what is not me." It pronounces the "us" of "us and them" in a gesture of arrogance and isolationism, while ignoring the greater truth of any faith: that it exists in your heart and in your behavior, and no more. ...

Indeed, hijabs – those, that is, worn for allegedly religious, rather than political reasons – declare a submission to religious mandate (or rather, the belief in one: in truth, the Koran does not call for women to cover their hair, or even their faces and bodies). Nor, either, does it serve to desexualize women, as the high rate of rape in Muslim majority countries makes abundantly obvious. What it does do, however – and what burqas and nikabs especially do -- is dehumanize them, creating faceless beings, property to be sold into marriage, beaten, or battered to death with the pelting of a thousand stones against their heads.

And now, if I lived on a farm, I would drive this everyday.


(Thanks for the lot)

War on Women?

In case we needed some things cleared up…

Desperate not to blow the current election, the Democrats use the old standby method of smearing one’s opponent (in this case,  the allegedly heartless Republicans) with the charge that they are waging a war on women, chiefly by denying coverage for contraception and abortion, two things that have been elevated to the status of human rights.

This bears some serious scrutiny.

According to the CDC, the leading causes of death in American women are heart disease, cancer and stroke. It stands to reason that a better use of resources would be to combat those particular causes of death. Yet the Democratic platform seems bereft of that. It’s bereft of a lot of things, actually. Yes, it brings up the $700 billion in cuts Obama made and tries to waffle on. However:

The fact is that Obamacare cuts Medicare by $700 billion over its first ten years to fund other programs and imposes a board of price controllers — the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) — over Medicare to cut costs in ways that (particularly by driving providers out of the business of serving Medicare patients through inadequate payment rates) would reduce the access of both current and future seniors to care.

And:

The proposal would also have this reform begin only ten years from now, and affect only new entrants into Medicare, so that all current seniors and everyone now over 55 would be left entirely untouched for the rest of their lives, unless they chose to enter the new system. Thus, today’s seniors have no reason to complain about the proposal, since it would not affect them, and tomorrow’s seniors have essentially nothing to lose by it, since they would still be guaranteed a comprehensive benefit at only today’s out-of-pocket costs.

More choice and a delayed start plan sound more reasonable than a nationalised health service that is both unpopular and has already cost billions.

But the real “health” issues for Democrats are abortion and contraception, not the three big killers listed above. Going head-to-head with the Catholic Church is fine and dandy because it is quite easy to paint the largest Christian denomination as “anti-woman” even though it reveres the Theodokos and doesn’t stone women to death unlike a certain mad theology in Egypt. That is immaterial to the darling party of Planned Parenthood who stand to continuously benefit from a Democrat victory in November. Never mind that Planned Parenthood does not nor had it ever provided mammograms but rather referred women to them making their claim that they safeguard women’s health disingenuous to say the least. Indeed, the bulk of their business is abortion with 332,278 abortions done in 2009. If the leading killer of women in the US is heart disease, why the funding for abortion? 

If one were to take the CDC’s abortion statistics on their face (consider that the latest information was issued in 2008, is voluntary and may, therefore, be incomplete, has scant or incomplete reporting, lists in-state abortions for out-of-state women), consider that the bulk of abortions are done for adult women between the ages of twenty and twenty-nine (as of 2008, 57.1% of 825,564 abortions reported from 45 reporting areas that have co-operated since 1999), were performed between 8 to 13 weeks gestation (when eye/ear/digit development quickens and nails grow and circulatory and urinary systems are working), that 84.3% of abortions are done for unmarried women, that black women have a higher ratio of abortions and that the use or availability of contraception remains a culprit of sorts even though its use depends on various socio-economic factors. If one were to take at face value these reasons for abortion (compiled by the Guttmacher Institute), they are largely for personal, social or financial reasons, not health ones. 

Again, why the funding for abortion?

Clearly, this is a partisan issue, not a health one and certainly should not be one with which to paint one’s opponent as some troglodyte who would drag women into the Stone Age. Women in North America have suffrage, educational and employment opportunities, homes, food and medicine. If you were to ask the average woman anywhere, would she say she is grateful to live in a country that allows abortion or a country that allows her to vote, own property and basically be a rounded-off human being under the thumb of no one? The biggest health risks are heart disease, cancer and stroke. Why waste rhetoric and resources on the clearly political issues of abortion and contraception? How can abortion- which is largely for personal reasons and done primarily for certain groups- be elevated to a human right that would necessitate not only public funds but a fear-driven campaign?

There is a total disregard, even war, on women but it is not the usual suspects who wage it.

Free Cupcake

Let it happen.

A Dog's Life

It certainly is.

What does one expect from a rally that supports a mad, theocratic dictatorship Obama promised to meet without pre-conditions?





Poor, tail-wagging sweetheart (at the 1:02 mark).

Shocked Cat just cannot believe it.

Dogs are man's best friend for a reason. I do not write this elevate any animal over a human being but it's quite sick to punish a dog owner and abuse his dog because a vile pedophile from the seventh century had a problem with the more canine of the infidel population.


The real issue, however, is not the abuse and irrational hatred of dogs but how the police have become eunuchs to the Caledonia bunch, to the Occupests (TM- BCF) and now to those who identify with the Khomeinist regime of Iran. It should not matter what flag the dog owner had, what kind of dog or why he was walking his dog in a public park. These are incidental to the ineffectiveness and politicization of the police which one can see is in full swing.


How far are we from a failed Islamist state, anyway?

Kitties stand with Israel AND persecuted dogs.

Related: this is like this and just as unintentionally hilarious.


From the hostess with the mostest:

Saw this at Mark Shea's blog. I'd never heard of "Manning's Corollary to Godwin's" before, although I'm glad it has a name:

In any online conversation about an incident of violence perpetrated by adherents of Islamic fundamentalism, the conversation will inevitably devolve into claims that Christians commit the same type and degree of violent acts, regardless of how demonstrably false that is; further, the claim will be made that past historical violence involving Christians means that present-day Christians are morally incapable of denouncing current violence involving Muslims.

I could go on and on how Lutherans never flew airplanes into the sides of buildings and et cetera but instead I will issue an open challenge.

OPEN CHALLENGE

Apologists of all stripes, provide- with evidence- credible and relevant incidences, similarities and examples of Christendom's (or just the post-modern West's, if you're pressed for time) violence and fundamentalism. Please indulge the less believing.

Thanking you in advance.   

But... but the left are so peaceful......

First, Chomsky is an absolutely shameless liar. A master of the argument in bad faith. He will say anything in order to get people to believe him. Even worse, he will say anything in order to shut people up who disagree with him. And I’m not necessarily talking about his public critics. If you've ever seen how he acts with ordinary students who question what he says, it's quite horrifying. He simply abuses them in a manner I can only describe as sadistic. That is, he clearly enjoys doing it. I don't think anyone ought to be allowed to get away with that kind of behavior.

Second, Chomsky is immensely important to the radical left. When it comes to American foreign policy he isn't just influential, he's basically all they have. Almost any argument made about foreign affairs by the radical left can be traced back to him. That wasn't the case when he started out back in the late '60s, but it is now.

Third, he is essentially the last totalitarian. Despite his claims otherwise, he's more or less the last survivor of a group of intellectuals who thought systemic political violence and totalitarian control were essentially good things. He babbles about human rights all the time, but when you look at the regimes and groups he's supported, it’s a very bloody list indeed.

Where have we seen this before?



My brother's keeper needs to provide me cash and a vote:

In fact, as D’Souza points out, George’s actual brother is “a multimillionaire and the most powerful man in the world” who talks repeatedly about our obligation to be our brother’s keeper:

Yet he has not contributed a penny to help his own brother. And evidently George does not believe, even in times of emergency, that he can turn to his brother in the White House for help.
So much for spreading the wealth around.

And now from North Korea: how the Kim dynasty survives,  a true apartheid system, there's fear in their eyes, and this:

Finally, there has been a lot of loose talk suggesting that “reform” implies some sort of political change. To the contrary, economic reforms or improvements are designed to consolidate power and forestall political change, not lead it. One need look no farther than the DPRK’s northern neighbor to understand that dynamic.

I've heard that talk about China and now North Korea. I have yet to see it. Romanticise communism all you want. It won't go away until it's uprooted and destroyed, not propped with cheap goods and industrial espionage.


(Kamsahamnida)



And now, a Curious George breakfast is an important part of the day.



(with thanks to all)

This Is To Say....

Al-Quds rally a go:

"There is no question that the 2011 Al Quds rally at Queen's Park was a hateful display in which the flag of Hezbollah, an acknowledged terrorist group, was proudly flown," said Avi Benlolo, President and CEO of FSWC. "The question is whether or not groups supporting terrorism have the right to proudly promote their beliefs on these grounds; we join the majority of Ontarians who believe the right to free speech at Queen's Park does not encompass such hateful and violent propaganda."

This is no ordinary rally. It's an Israel-hating, anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying one.



The Japanese will not take crap from Chinese activists. Good for them.



Oh. My. God:

Professor Julian Savulescu said that creating so-called designer babies could be considered a "moral obligation" as it makes them grow up into "ethically better children".

I suppose this alleged ethicist has not heard of "nurture". Hitler would be proud. It's like the Cult of Peter Singer or something.



What can I add to this other than the Family Research Council is a special-interest group, not a "hate group", that homosexuals DO have the right to life, worship, express themselves, own property, vote and be employed making the term "gay rights" both misleading and dishonest, and that even some homosexuals oppose gay "marriage":

The Batman shooter showed up armed to the teeth with a plan, gas grenades and body armor. The Sikh temple shooter was a typical "suicide-by-cop" wanker but at least knew to go after old men and women.

But Mr. Floyd Lee Corkins II, loving liberal, LGBT volunteer and all-round DemocRat party useful idiot, what does he do? He walks in with a 9mm Sig and a bag from Chick-fil-A, then launches into a monolog! He stands there and runs his mouth, then after the security guards have gotten right up to him he suddenly realizes they aren't going to run away like little girls. So he starts shooting. I bet his ex-military old man Floyd Lee Corkins I is proud today, eh? ...

Floydie wasn't really -serious- about killing these FRC people. He's making a meta-ironic statement with the the bag of chicken, he's making the pop-culture "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!" statement with the gun, and he's trying to claim the moral high ground by not actually killing anyone. All at the same time. He even said "its not personal, its policy" when he shot the guard guy. Who then KICKED HIS ASS, which was -awesome- by the way, and of course makes yet another recursively meta statement about gays being the victims of The Man.

In other words, Little Floyd baby is a typical hipster. A college English major, gay-activist pussy for whom symbolism is more important than reality. This shooting was not the act of an insane person, it was a calculated political statement being made by a mainstream fag with daddy issues who's just following the narrative.

By the way, visit The Phantom Soapbox. You know you want to.



When restaurant owners fight back:

It has been a Sunday tradition for many years at restaurants all over America: Bring in a church bulletin and get a discount on Sunday dinner. But a restaurant in Columbia, Pennsylvania, is now under investigation by the Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission after a self-identified atheist filed a charge of discrimination against it over its church discount. ...

Sharon Prudhomme told the Lancaster Journal that she has no intention of ceasing the discount, explaining that there is no inherent discrimination because all a patron has to do to get the discount is to drop by a local church or synagogue and pick up a bulletin without attending the service. She added that the discount is merely a way to draw more business to her restaurant on a traditionally slow business day. “I think it's a waste to actually give it merit,” she said of the complaint.

“Prudhomme said she began offering the discount a little more than a year ago,” reported the newspaper. 

“She said she has offered all kinds of discounts or incentives at various times, including some to senior citizens, early-bird diners, children under 12, people who shop at certain other Columbia businesses, and even Columbia High School students.”

Prudhomme told Fox News that the state appears to be siding with Wolff, with a state representative going as far as suggesting that she and her husband should sign an agreement saying that they would drop the church-bulletin discount and instead offer discounts to any civic organization in town. “I said, ‘Wait a minute — you’re asking my husband and me to give anybody coming through my door a discount?’” she recounted to Fox News. The state officials said yes, to which Prudhomme responded, “Are you crazy?” She explained that “we have taxes to pay. We have utility bills, payroll, mortgages and they’re expecting me to give everyone a discount.”

Fox reported that Prudhomme “wondered if their other discounts might be considered discriminatory — like the one on Tuesday night — where kids under 12 get to eat free. Or what about the senior discount? 'Could someone under 65 complain?' she asked.”

Prudhomme told the Lancaster Journal that, as it stands now, she and her husband are not likely to back down, and, in fact, have availed themselves of legal counsel to fight the discrimination charge. “We have people who say we should do everything they want, and bend over backwards,” she said, but added that “I'm an American. This is an independent restaurant. I can do as I wish and I'm going to continue to offer the church-bulletin discount.”

Good. I blogged about this a while back. I hope the restaurant owner wins. Not only should private business owners run their businesses as they see fit, the easily-offended should develop a thicker skin and stop being offended by every little thing!



Jesus said:

“Be careful that you don’t practice your religion in front of people to draw their attention. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
 
“Whenever you give to the poor, don’t blow your trumpet as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets so that they may get praise from people. I assure you, that’s the only reward they’ll get. But when you give to the poor, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing so that you may give to the poor in secret. Your Father who sees what you do in secret will reward you.

“When you pray, don’t be like hypocrites. They love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners so that people will see them. I assure you, that’s the only reward they’ll get. But when you pray, go to your room, shut the door, and pray to your Father who is present in that secret place. Your Father who sees what you do in secret will reward you.

Damn, Jesus had some peoples' numbers!

Americans often tell pollsters they yearn for a return to the Christian principles on which the U.S. was founded. If so, they should take a closer look at the Mitt Romney–Paul Ryan ticket. Jesus’ teachings regarding wealth are nowhere to be found in Ryan’s budget proposal.

Perhaps Miss Christakis can point out where in the Bible she has not read (or the Koran- why not?) Jesus said be a Marxist yahoo.


Do these leftists not fear God? Are they not worried that one day Jesus will come down, smack them upside the head and shred them for misquoting Him and using Him as a prop for their liberal crap?



This is interesting:

“Princess Ukok,” who was discovered high in Siberia’s Altai mountains, is about 2,500 years old. She was buried in the permafrost, which kept her body remarkably well preserved, including tattoos that are among “the most complicated and the most beautiful” archeologists have found.

“More ancient tattoos have been found, like the Ice Man found in the Alps,” lead researcher Natalia Polosmak told the Siberian Times, “but he only had lines, not the perfect and highly artistic images one can see on the bodies of the Pazyryks” — the nomadic tribe to which the princess likely belonged. 

“It is a phenomenal level of tattoo art. Incredible.”

Part of what’s striking about the body art is how modern-looking it is, which is no coincidence, Polosmak says. All the mummies they’ve found that only had one tattoo had them placed on their left shoulders, which Polosmak believes is likely linked to basic body composition — it’s a noticeable place to show off the art. 

“Nothing changes with years, the body stays the same,” Polosmak said, “and the person making a tattoo now is getting closer to his ancestors than he or she may realize.”

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