“Native Americans incensed over pro-gun rights billboard in Colorado” | protein wisdom: "beemoe says April 30, 2013 at 6:03 pmRead More......
D.C. Council may push Washington Redskins into ‘Washington Redtails’Washington Red Inks would get my vote."
What, was “Washington Overlords” already taken?
“Native Americans incensed over pro-gun rights billboard in Colorado” | protein wisdom: "As for being singled out without their consent, let me just remind the Native American community that they don’t own American history. Nor do I ever remember them complaining about singled out “without their consent” for being routinely depicted as wise reluctant warriors — stewards of the earth, one solitary tear at a time — who are pitted against profane, knuckle-dragging ultra violent whites bent on extermination.
So you take the good with the bad — and more importantly, if you really do, as you claim, understand the billboard’s message, then why feign outrage over a perceived slight you don’t believe was intended, but rather only exists in the realm of your own perceptions and the imagined perceptions of those hypothetical viewers you believe to be less adept than you at sussing out the meaning you’ve been able to suss with little trouble?"
Fake Activist ‘Liberal Chick’ Gets Gullible College Students to Sign Petition Banning Pressure Cookers | NewsBusters: "Of course, there are certainly many people out there who support banning any number of things deemed to be dangerous by anyone. “If it only saves one life” goes the common refrain. To test that proposition out, fake left-wing activist “Liberal Chick” took to the Florida International University campus to see if she could get students to sign a petition to ban pressure cookers, the devices used in the Boston Marathon bombing but normally used for cooking tasty food.
Given that this was a college campus, the enthusiasm of the naive students to sign up is unsurprising. It is still pretty funny though as you can see in the video below:"
“Lesbian Activist’s Surprisingly Candid Speech: Gay Marriage Fight Is a ‘Lie’ to Destroy Marriage” | protein wisdom: "But I’ve also pointed out for years that the true objective of the movement — as it has been repeatedly laid out by queer theorists and activists, back before they believed anyone was listening, and back before they changed their tactics of denouncing traditional marriage — is to deconstruct the institution of marriage by pretending to embrace it as a “civil right,” then opening it up until it becomes legally non-exclusionary. At which point our social desire to differentiate will be trumped by the legal prohibition to do so — a move that portends widespread legal changes. Fundamental transformation, if you will.All one can say anymore is "Du'O", isn't it? Read More......
And I know this because they’ve told me that’s what the plan is — even though many of them have since tried to walk that back now that they’ve achieved the kinds of mainstream gains they couldn’t foresee in the heady days of angry queer theory and in-your-face existential protest."
Twitter / iowahawkblog: The Tsarnaev brothers were ...: "The Tsarnaev brothers were state-supported terrorists. The state was Massachusetts. "Ugh. Read More......
Report: Obama admin has issued threats against the Benghazi whistleblowers? « Hot Air: "The latest update from Fox News, however, reports that at least four career officials from the State Department and CIA are lawyering up as they prepare to provide “sensitive” information about the Benghazi attack to Congress, and that Obama administration officials have served some of these witnesses with not-so-subtle hints about the consequences of coming forward: Nice career you’ve got there. Shame if anything were to happen to it."Du'O. Read More......
Boston Bombing Suspects Did Not Have Valid Handgun Licenses - NYTimes.com: "(Reuters) - The two brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings, who police say engaged in a gun battle with officers early Friday after a frenzied manhunt, were not licensed to own guns in the towns where they lived, authorities said on Sunday."Wha? You mean psychopaths, criminals and terrorists don't purchase guns legally? Even in police surveillance states like Massachusetts?
Belmont Club » Calling All Comrades: "Saul Alinksy understood the power of using one side’s language against itself. He always advised beating the establishment to death with its own rulebook. Why would anyone on the Left disapprove of the Boston Marathon Bombers simply because they attacked America or tried to maim and dismember people? That was how Bill Ayers got his start in life.Orwell? Orwell is spinning in his grave now realizing what an innocent he was about the gap between himself and Huxley. Read More......
But it might have been a hanging offense to point out that Tsarnaev could insult Martin Luther King or beat a women. If someone can find a homophobic utterance by either brother or show they ate transfat cooked foods or drank softdrinks larger than 16 ounces then it will be all we can do to keep the surviving sibling from being lynched.
It’s not ridiculous. It’s not absurd. That’s how the liberation theology people attacked Christianity. That’s how Gramsci marched through the institutions. It works. Now that the Left is the Establishment what to do but beat them over the heads with their own rulebook?
Now Comrades, will you act? Will you learn the language of the narrative and speak in its terms?"
security theater, martial law, and a tale that trumps every cop-and-donut joke you've ever heard | Popehat: "The government and police were willing to shut down parts of the economy like the universities, software, biotech, and manufacturing…but when asked to do an actual risk to reward calculation where a small part of the costs landed on their own shoulders, they had no problem weighing one versus the other and then telling the donut servers "yeah, come to work – no one's going to get shot."Good god. RTWT. Read More......
And they were right."
Bill Gross' World View In Four Words | Zero Hedge: Gross: The world looks 4 a new Keynes but w/ hi deficits & 0% rates there is only a long tough slog ahead @ best & the unimaginable @ worst.But what does he know? He only runs the world's largest bond fund. Read More......
Did FBI miss warning signs of Boston bombing suspect? – The Lead with Jake Tapper - CNN.com Blogs: "This week was not the first time the FBI had heard of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older Boston Marathon bombing suspect who died after a shootout Friday morning. The FBI now says that "a foreign government" - Russia, or more specifically the Russian FSB, successor to the KGB - asked the bureau to check him out in early 2011, warning that Tsarnaev was a "follower of radical Islam," and "a strong believer," and may have been planning to leave the U.S. to join an underground group.Read More......
Intelligence sources tell CNN it is "rare" for Russians to reach out like that, to ask the FBI to look into someone as they did with Tsarnaev."
Boston bombers: FBI hunting 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev - Mirror Online: "More than 1,000 FBI agents were last night working to track down the cell and arrested a man and two women 60 miles from Boston in the hours before Dzhokhar’s dramatic capture after a bloody shootout on Friday.Read More......
A source close to the investigation said: “We have no doubt the brothers were not acting alone. The devices used to detonate the two bombs were highly sophisticated and not the kind of thing people learn from Google.
“They were too advanced. Someone gave the brothers the skills and it is now our job to find out just who they were. Agents think the sleeper cell has up to a dozen members and has been waiting several years for their day to come.”"
EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Israeli Publication says Boston's Tsarnaev was on Saudi & CIA Payroll!: "Our intelligence sources say that we may never know more than we do today about the Boston terrorist outrage which shook America – and most strikingly, Washington - this week. We may not have the full story of when and how the Chechen brothers were recruited by US intelligence as penetration agents – any more than we have got to the bottom of tales of other American double agents who turned coat and bit their recruiters."Read More......
Iranian connection in the Boston bombing: "Islam was designed from the beginning to infiltrate and make war upon societies that were anarchic and approximately anarcho capitalist, to fluidly switch between centralized and decentralized warfare, between statelike and piratical forms of conflict.Interesting. Charles Martel was arguably the saviour of Europe from the Muslims. But if he gave the West decentralized warfare capability, I would suggest that the only remaining keepers of the flame are the Swiss -- if that's even true any more... Read More......
Faced with this threat, Charles the Hammer invented feudalism to give Christians similar capability."
Amazing New Details from the Chase for the Boston Bombers | The Weekly Standard: "The police chief, Edward Deveau, describes how cops nearly apprehended the older suspect, and were placing handcuffs on him in the middle of the street Thursday night, when the younger suspect came at officers in a carjacked SUV. The cops were able "to dive out of the way," and the younger suspect then continued to drive directly over his brother and dragging him through the street. That's how the older suspect died, according to the police chief.A-hah. I'm betting that the older brother was the cell leader and had given his younger brother instructions to kill him if he was in danger of being captured. I'm further betting that the trail to finding their handlers goes cold rather quickly... Read More......
The younger suspect eventually dumped the SUV and ran into the darkness of the night, according to the police chief. It took nearly 18 hours and massive manhunt to find the younger suspect. He gave himself up after a 20-minute negotiation with the FBI, he said, but not before the suspect fired more rounds at the authorities."
Older Suspect Described As Controlling, Manipulative : NPR: "LAURA SULLIVAN, BYLINE: Well, these women were close friends and roommates of Tamerlan's girlfriend, Katherine Russell, and they knew him for several years while they were in college. They described Tamerlan as very controlling and very manipulative of their friend. They say he was combative and angry. He would often call her names and insult her. He would call her a slut and a prostitute, and they remember fights that they would get into where he would fly into rages and sometimes throw furniture or throw things."RTWT. Read More......
Maher: Comparing Islam to Christianity 'liberal bullsh*t' | The Daily Caller: "On HBO’s “Real Time” on Friday night, host Bill Maher entertained UC-San Bernardino professor Brian Levin, director of the Center for Study of Hate and Extremism, who maintained that despite the events in recent days, religious extremism isn’t only a product of Islam.Read More......
But Maher took issue with that claim, calling it “liberal bullshit” and said there was no comparison."
Instapundit » Blog Archive » SEEMS LIKE AN OVERREACTION TO ME: Should The Police Have Shut Boston Down? Related thoughts here…: "Plus, from the comments: “Given what happened in LA during the Dorner manhunt, and the number of police deployed here, it’s as much to prevent accidental shootings by police as to make the manhunt easier.”Two cheers for the boat owner. But he's clearly a moron for seeing the line cut and blood smears and still going up to look into the boat unless he had a gun -- which I would be shocked to hear of in the PDR of Boston Metro. (I will gladly upgrade him to five cheers if in fact he did go out with a weapon -- that's what everyone competent with a gun should have been doing all day.)
But I think this is the last word: “So lockdown is lifted because they can’t find the suspect…which allows boat guy to leave his house…and find the suspect.”
Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 10:00 am"
Tale of two terrorists - m.NYPOST.com: "The Web site of Columbia’s School of Social Work sums up Boudin’s past thus: “Dr. Kathy Boudin has been an educator and counselor with experience in program development since 1964, working within communities with limited resources to solve social problems.”RTWT. Read More......
“Since 1964” — that would include the bombing of my house, it would include the anti-personnel devices intended for Fort Dix and it would include the dead policeman on the side of the Thruway in 1981.
Maybe, if he is caught, Monday’s bomber can explain that, like Boudin, he was merely working within the community to solve social problems.
Perhaps Monday’s bomber will be caught, perhaps not. Perhaps, some day, Monday’s bomber will be offered tenure at Columbia University.
John M. Murtagh is Of Counsel to the White Plains law firm of Gaines, Gruner, Ponzini & Novick, LLP. He lives in Westchester."
Best of the Web Today: Fascism by the Numbers - WSJ.com: "What the hope-they're-white crowd really wishes for is a reason to treat their domestic political adversaries as enemies of the state.I can't improve on his title or the piece so you just need to go RTWT. Read More......
That's hard to do in a democratic republic, especially one that is closely divided between right and left, as evidenced by the swings in election results between 2004 and 2006, 2008 and 2010 and 2010 and 2012--not to mention that 2012 re-elected both a Democratic president and a Republican House.
In an effort to overcome this close division, the left has resorted to a kind of thuggish majoritarian rhetoric in which a putative minority is demonized in the hope of uniting the majority against it. The most well-known example is the Occupy Wall Street effort, which made a scapegoat of "the 1%" in the hope of unifying 99% of the population against it. Another example is "white males," a minority by definition, whose demonization is supposed to unite women and all other ethnic groups."
FBI interviewed Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, for possible extremist ties two years ago but found no incriminating information | Mail Online: "The FBI revealed on Friday that they had interviewed Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011, after a foreign government alerted officials that he had possible ties to extremists.Natch. Read More......
Federal officials vetted Tamerlan Tsarnaev but their probe not produce any 'derogatory' information and the matter was put 'to bed,' a U.S. law enforcement source said.
The revelation is the first indication that Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, were known to U.S. security officials prior to Monday's bombings, U.S. authorities said."
Moonbattery » Open Thread: "Compliments of Stormfax."
Obama administration has SLASHED budget for domestic bombing prevention by 45 per cent, says former Homeland Security Assistant Secretary | Mail Online: "Barack Obama's administration has cut the budget nearly in half for preventing domestic bombings, MailOnline can reveal.And no, it wasn't cut due to the sequester. But my prediction is that will be the received brainwashing for the Deltas on the street in 3, 2, 1... Read More......
Under President George W. Bush, the Department of Homeland Security had $20 million allocated for preventing the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) by terrorists working inside the United States. The current White House has cut that funding down to $11 million.
That assessment comes from Robert Liscouski, a former Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15 that killed three Americans and injured at least 173 others. "
Belmont Club » The House on the Corner: "Killing your own child – just as acquiescing to killing the Jews was to the German public — was a form of enlistment by complicity. It is the last and most decisive step in the extinction of freedom. Though apparently practiced upon the child the real target of abasement is the mother. And by extension it is all of us. That is the shame the conservative pundits felt. Not the shame of sexual guilt. It is the shame of having gone along. By consenting to be an accomplice in the destruction of her own child she binds herself mystically to the doctrine of Moloch. “You are nothing but meat. So take this child and eat. Do this in memory of you.”"RTWT. Read More......
Instapundit » Blog Archive » ONLINE JOURNALISM REVIEW: Journalists should wake to Obama’s free speech record. Goodale point…: "Meanwhile, nobody believes that a YouTube video was behind Benghazi, but filmmaker Nakoula is still in jail."
Review & Outlook: Now He's After Your 401(k) - WSJ.com: "How many times have you read financial-advice stories lecturing you to max-out on your IRA, save as much as you can in your 401(k), and even pay taxes now to change your regular IRA into a Roth IRA that will be tax-free until you die?Well, lemme see here. With an investment return lately of oh, say, 1% that means you're "rich" on investment income of $30,000 a year. Fr*ck. Read More......
Well, be careful how much you save.
That's the message in President Obama's budget for fiscal 2014, which for the first time proposes to cap the amount Americans can save in these tax-sheltered investment vehicles."
Jobs? Did You Say Something About Jobs? | Power Line: "Any port in a storm: the Obama administration would rather talk about anything other than the economy. Understandably. So it’s one damn thing after another. Michael Ramirez notes the administration’s most recent preoccupation:"
Instapundit » Blog Archive » CLAYTON CRAMER: Background Checks And Murder Rates. “What is the statistical evidence of the effec…: "CLAYTON CRAMER: Background Checks And Murder Rates. “What is the statistical evidence of the effects of state mandatory firearms background check laws on murder rates? For states that adopted or repealed such laws after 1960 (when consistent and high quality murder rate data becomes available), an interrupted time series analysis shows that five out of nine states have statistically significant changes in murder rates, with three having higher murder rates during the background check period, and two having lower murder rates. Of the four states with statistically insignificant changes in murder rates, two had higher murder rates during the background check period, and two had lower murder rates during the background check period.”What if we actually had background checks for politicians instead? Read More......
Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 10:30 am"
The culture that is Washington: "The Senate has severely scaled back the Stock Act, the law to stop members of Congress and their staff from trading on insider information, in an under-the-radar vote that has been sharply criticised by advocates of political transparency.As Glenn is now reduced to constantly pointing out, "Laws are for the little people". Read More......
The changes, if they become law, will exclude Congressional and White House staff members from having to post details of their shareholdings online. They will also make online filing optional for the president, vice-president, members of Congress and congressional candidates."
Don’t be fooled. Gun confiscation has already begun in NY « Hot Air: "For all of our more liberal leaning readers who continue to ask “what’s so bad” about universal background checks before we’ve even seen the specifics, this is your answer. In New York, you can be placed on a “list”of people with no Second Amendment rights on the say so of any doctor who has questions. And it already happened to David Lewis. Thankfully, he’s getting his guns back… for now. But what is the larger effect of this if we put it on a national scale?No, of course they're not going to confiscate your guns... Read More......
Completely Predictable | Sumner Books: "As reported in my new book, “Completely Predictable,” the combined spending of federal, state and local governments actually exceeded the median household income for 2010, which is the latest year for which all relevant government data are available.Sustainability. Read More......
In fiscal 2010, according to numbers published by the Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), net spending by all levels of government in the United States was $5,942,988,401,000. That equaled $50,074 for each one of the 118,682,000 households in the country.
In that same year, according to the Census Bureau, the median household income was $49,445.
That means total net government spending per household ($50,074) exceeded median household income (49,445) by $629."
Guest Post: Survivor Of Communist Cuba Defends 2nd Amendment | Zero Hedge: "Some people know. Some people have lived it. Some people have experienced the consequences first hand. And, for anyone with the intelligence to listen, this is what they have to say about gun control and the path to tyranny..."
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Lanza's murder spree at Sandy Hook may have been 'act of revenge' - NY Daily News: "NOSEITALL15 minutes ago So Adam Lanza...Bingo. Read More......
- was bullied at school
- was mentally unbalanced
- had a mother who accumulated deadly weapons of all sorts
- had a mother who encouraged him to fire deadly weapons
- played violent video games all day
- dressed in camouflage and acted out violent video games, and
- had access to firearms and other weapons.
So what do liberals propose as a solution? Taking guns away from normal, law-abiding citizens!
Funny, they never mention the liberals' push to de-institutionalize the mentally ill in the 1980s and 1990s.
These school shootings, which are surely great tragedies, are a tiny percentage of homicides in the US. Most gun violence is committed by liberal Democrats, in cities run by liberal Democrats.
What scares liberals the most is Democrats with guns in their cities. Liberals don't fear middle- or upper-income Republicans owning guns to protect their lives and property.
But of course, liberal Democrats can't come out and say that they fear their own constituents without losing an election, so they feign outrage at the NRA and Republicans. "
Brits Shocked at Easy Availability of Knives | Power Line: "Is this a parody? No. It is straight reporting. If you ban guns, this is what you get: knife crime. It’s that pesky human nature again…"Read More......
Day of the Hunter - NYTimes.com: "PEOPLE who rhapsodize about the glory of hunting never mention what an unfair fight it is."And the comments are even more ignorant. At least a few of them pointed out that what he did wasn't actually hunting.
Freeman Dyson speaks out about climate science, and fudge | Watts Up With That?: "Freeman Dyson is a physicist who has been teaching at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since Albert Einstein was there. When Einstein died in 1955, there was an opening for the title of “most brilliant physicist on the planet.” Dyson has filled it.And don't forget Feynman's definition of science: "The belief in the ignorance of the experts."
So when the global-warming movement came along, a lot of people wondered why he didn’t come along with it. The reason he’s a skeptic is simple, the 89-year-old Dyson said when I phoned him.
“I think any good scientist ought to be a skeptic,” Dyson said."
Bookworm Room » How the sequester works — an easy to understand analogy: "One day, Dad comes home and says, “Mom, the boss told me that, because of the recession, instead of getting my 4% annual raise, I’ll only get a 3% annual raise. We’ll still be bringing in more money than last year, but not quite as much more as we had expected. We may have to retrench a little.”Heh. Captures it almost perfectly. Read More......
Mom is livid. “How dare your boss do that! You’ve been a great employee. Well, if we have to retrench, I’ll show him! And I’ll make you suffer too for working for such a cheapskate.”
Here’s what Mom does not do: Mom does not pay her mortgage or credit bills on time; she does not pay attention to turning out the lights; she does not make sure to buy food she wants and then use that food; she does not curb her occasional impulse clothes spending; and she makes no effort to pay attention to parking meters.
Here’s what Mom does: she tells the kids they’re never going to Disneyland again; she starts serving only Mac ‘n Cheese from a box; she only buys the family clothes from goodwill; and she constantly tells them that it’s not her fault that their lives have become so miserable. She’s just responding to Dad and his mean boss."
Read More......Jake Tapper: Shouldn’t Obama and Bloomberg maybe learn the basics about guns before trying to regulate them? « Hot Air: "Does it use magazine clips?I had several high capacity magazines, but I used them all up last fall. With the ammo shortage and the bans, I can’t find any more full AR15 magazines. I am screwed.
BobMbx on April 5, 2013 at 5:31 PM
tdarrington on April 5, 2013 at 5:34 PM"
Armed Grandmother of 10 Gives Burglar Way More Than He Could Handle: ‘Did I Hit You?’ | Video | TheBlaze.com: "LT_SCROUNGE Posted on April 4, 2013 at 9:36pm I have a magnet on my fridge that says “Due to the current high price of ammo, warning shots will not be fired. Thank you for your understanding.”"Read More......
Moonbattery » Term “Illegal Immigrant” Struck From MSM’s Vocabulary: "So if we can’t call illegal immigrants “illegal immigrants,” what do we call them? Jay Leno has a suggestion — “undocumented Democrats.” After all, their certainty to continue voting Democrat for generations to come in order to keep the welfare payments generous is why our rulers are effectively importing them to displace the native population."
Moonbattery: "Disgraced British propagandist Piers Morgan, best known for his ongoing jihad against the Second Amendment of our Constitution, lives in a mansion in Beverly Hills. Even countermoonbats like to protect their property. Here’s how Morgan protects his:"
Hope, Change and Poverty | Power Line: "President Obama ran as the candidate of hope and change, but his regime has been one of unemployment and poverty. How a president with such a record could be re-elected is a mystery that historians will try to unravel for many years to come, but in the meantime, Michael Ramirez comments on the shocking fact that nearly one in six Americans is now living in poverty, courtesy of Obamanomics. Our golfer in chief really doesn’t seem to care that his policies have been a catastrophic failure:"
Did Obama tell a Democratic audience that a “fully automatic weapon” was used at Newtown? « Hot Air: "Either (a) O’s referring to a different shooting, which I doubt, (b) I missed a major update to the Newtown story, (c) he knows something we don’t, or (d) he has roughly the same mastery of gun fundamentals as magazine expert Diana DeGette. From last night’s DCCC fundraiser in San Francisco:These people couldn't wrestle their way out of a paper bag but they're certain I'm the one who's the moron. Fr*ck. Read More......
Now, over the next couple of months, we’ve got a couple of issues: gun control. (Applause.) I just came from Denver, where the issue of gun violence is something that has haunted families for way too long, and it is possible for us to create common-sense gun safety measures that respect the traditions of gun ownership in this country and hunters and sportsmen, but also make sure that we don’t have another 20 children in a classroom gunned down by a semiautomatic weapon — by a fully automatic weapon in that case, sadly.Adam Lanza had an honest-to-goodness machine gun on him, not a Bushmaster semiautomatic? That’s … an important detail, but I haven’t heard it mentioned once in the news coverage I’ve seen about Sandy Hook."
Why Do Americans Hate Their Government? | Power Line: "That sentiment doesn’t extend, of course, to the armed forces and a few other branches of the Washington tree, but–generally speaking–I detest the massive fraud, the trillions in wasteful spending, the borderline criminal enterprise, that is our federal government."
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