Friday Freakout

Because it's time.


Did Bill Clinton's pitch for Obama ring true? Nope.


(Gracias)



The Democrats aren't just Godless; they're rude:

Rabbis from the wrongly named Conservative movement are used to preaching to empty rooms, but there was something surreal in the image of the Los Angeles Sinai Temple’s Rabbi David Wolpe blessing a deserted stadium late Wednesday night long after the Democrats had departed. Named by Newsweek the most influential American rabbi, Wolpe beamed empathy and gestured eloquently to the vacant stadium. After the last-minute vote by acclamation to return God to the party platform, Wolpe’s benediction had deep symbolic overtones. Clint Eastwood talked to an empty chair, while Wolpe talked to ten thousand empty chairs. ...

The cultural divide in the United States is now almost absolute; Democratic Party liberalism, which once embraced devout Catholics and observant Jews, cannot conceal its contempt for religion. Even the clergy who cling to the Democratic Party have trouble concealing their lack of interest in religion. On the other hand, Americans of faith have rallied together as never before: Catholic and Jew, Evangelical and Mormon. For this observant Jew, hearing an Orthodox rabbi quote Torah to open the Republican convention was a milestone for America as well for the Jewish people (not to mention the fact that Rabbi Soloveichik is associate rabbi of my synagogue). And to hear an overwhelmingly Christian audience listen to this rabbi was a great event. The good news is that Americans who seek the love and guidance of the God of the Bible have put their differences aside where the good of the country is concerned. My prayer is: Let this not be too late.

Indeed.


In the words of another Jew:

For even as the body without the spirit is dead: so also faith without works is dead.

No works, no faith, no manners.



Related: atheism- the great killjoy. 



How right he is:

How does that work out for you? Does the other side ever stop pushing their issues?

No.

Which means if our side shuts up then they win every time through sheer persistence. As I’ve said before, one day we will wake up and your kid’s math tests will ask the following question, “Khalid, a transgendered boy who was bullied for his gender fluidity wants to buy sun dresses for himself and his mother. Given that they are imported from a coal burning region of the USA, how much should the carbon tax on the dresses be?”

Think I’m crazy?

In British Columbia they are about to change the curriculum to put more emphasis on concepts and less emphasis on facts.

“A more flexible curriculum that prescribes less and enables more.”

What a great way to make a perfectly good kid into a useless voter. As long as someone is functionally literate, who cares if he doesn't have a love of learning, critical thinking skills, any real life skill or an aversion to what would normally be relegated to some dark hole somewhere?



In yet the words of another Jew:

But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Happy Shabbat, by the way.



Do Coptic Christians have the power to overcome fear?

DC Comics introduced a new Green Lantern on Wednesday - a Muslim from Dearborn, Michigan, who leaves behind street racing to join an intergalactic police force.

Simon Baz, the muscular protagonist in his early 20s with the Arabic word for courage, "al-shuja'a," tattooed on his arm, is the latest example of superhero diversity in the comic book world. His debut comes after DC Comics unveiled a gay Green Lantern in June and Marvel Comics presented a half-black, half-Latino Spider-Man last year.

(Muchas gracias)



It's done:

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says he's cutting ties with Iran amid worries about the safety of Canadian diplomats in the country.

Baird says the Canadian embassy in Tehran will close immediately and Iranian diplomats in Canada have been given five days to leave.

He says he's worried about the safety of diplomats in Tehran following recent attacks on the British embassy there.

He's also warning ordinary Canadians to avoid travel to Iran.

People seeking Canadian consular services in Iran are being directed to the embassy in Turkey.

Baird says Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism and has been spreading anti-Semitic hatred.

What took everybody so long?



Because he's Mark Steyn:

So this is America's best and brightest – or, at any rate, most expensively credentialed. Sandra Fluke has been blessed with a quarter-million dollars of elite education, and, on the evidence of Wednesday night, is entirely incapable of making a coherent argument. She has enjoyed the leisurely decade-long varsity once reserved for the minor sons of Mitteleuropean grand dukes, and she has concluded that the most urgent need facing the Brokest Nation in History is for someone else to pay for the contraception of 30-year-old children. She says the choice facing America is whether to be "a country where we mean it when we talk about personal freedom, or one where that freedom doesn't apply to our bodies and our voices" – and, even as the words fall leaden from her lips, she doesn't seem to comprehend that Catholic institutions think their "voices" ought to have freedom, too, or that Obamacare seizes jurisdiction over "our bodies" and has 16,000 new IRS agents ready to fine us for not making arrangements for "our" pancreases and "our" bladders that meet the approval of the commissars. Sexual liberty, even as every other liberty withers, is all that matters: A middle-school girl is free to get an abortion without parental consent, but if she puts a lemonade stand on her lawn she'll be fined. What a bleak and reductive concept of "personal freedom."

America is so broketastically brokey-broke that one day, in the grim future that could be, society may even be forced to consider whether there is any meaningful return on investment for paying a quarter-million bucks to send the scions of wealth and privilege to school till early middle-age to study Reproductive Justice. But, as it stands right now, a Cornell and Georgetown graduate doesn't understand the central reality of the future her elders have bequeathed her. There's no "choice" in the matter. It's showing up whatever happens in November. All the election will decide is whether America wants to address that reality, or continue to live in delusion – like a nation staggering around with a giant condom rolled over its collective head.

Any space aliens prowling through the rubble of our civilization and stumbling upon a recording of the convention compatible with Planet Zongo DVD players will surely marvel at the valuable peak airtime allotted to Sandra Fluke.

If Sandra Fluke were in any way intelligent, she would be affronted by this. I am confident that Mr. Steyn will never be slighted by her because she will never know what he is saying.


(Gracias)



If this girl had been the victim of what the FBI would call a serial killer, she would be trotted in front of every camera.



(two paws up)



Tomorrow is Our Lady's birthday.

It is also the forty-sixth anniversary of Star Trek.



It aired in Canada two days before the American premiere.

They boldly went before the Americans.

Something to think about.