It’s Wednesday, October 14th, 2015…and no, we didn’t waste a single moment of our limited life listening to five Liberals out-drivel each other. But since we’re on the subject of Liberal drivel, in a picture truly worth a thousand words, here’s how Progressives and their minions in the MSM and every level of our education system portray the Founding Fathers:
And oh, by the way; any demands Paul Ryan might make on House Conservatives in exchange for deigning to be crowned Speaker are in our mind unreasonable.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, as Noah Rothman observes at Commentary Magazine…
“…“He’s challenging your leadership, Mr. President,” Kroft reiterated as though he was trying to snap an addlepated mind out a hallucination. “He’s challenging your leadership.”
“My definition of leadership would be leading on climate change, an international accord that potentially we’ll get in Paris,” the president replied.Allow that to sink in.
Even if you’re of the opinion that the amorphous threat of climate change, which exists forever just over the horizon, is of a greater danger to American national security than a nuclear power engaging in kinetic warfare against American-backed forces in a strategically vital part the world – thus rendering you an unserious person — this answer should disturb you…
…The inescapable impression that the president gave viewers last night was that his highest priority is not the advancement of American national security priorities but political damage control and face-saving. The Anbar Awakening was an outgrowth of the success of the Iraq surge, and there would have been no surge if George W. Bush had not been possessed of the ability to accept that his original approach to the war in Iraq was a failure. America is again in need of a strategic about-face, but the current president seems unable or unwilling to admit his mistake.“
Two thoughts: (1) that would be “mistakes“…as in plural…as in too many to possibly count! (2) For The Obamao to have “given up” would require he was ever actually acting on America’s part in the first place; an assumption we’re far from willing to accept.
Speaking of those consistently acting contrary to the best interests of the United States and her citizens, the great Thomas Sowell explores the parasitic relationship between…
“The prevailing social dogma of our time — that economic and other disparities among groups are strange, if not sinister — has set off bitter disputes between those who blame genetic differences and those who blame discrimination. Both sides ignore the possibility that groups themselves may differ in their orientations, their priorities and in what they are prepared to sacrifice for the sake of other things.
Back in the early 19th century, an official of the Russian Empire reported that even the poorest Jews saw to it that their daughters could read, and their homes had at least ten books.This was at a time when the vast majority of the population of the Russian Empire were illiterate.
During that same era, Thomas Jefferson complained that there was not a single bookstore where he lived. In Frederick Law Olmsted’s travels through the antebellum South, he noted that even plantation owners seldom had many books.
But in mid-18th century Scotland, even people of modest means had books, and those too poor to buy them could rent books from lending libraries, which were common throughout Scottish towns.
There is no economic determinism. People choose what to spend their money on, and what to spend their time on.Cultures differ…”
Everybody makes choices, every single day: how they spend their time, money and energy; how hard they study, work and practice; whether or not to do what they know to be right…
…or simply opt for what’s personally expedient.
Yes, we all make choices; Liberals just don’t want to be held accountable for making consistently poor ones!
Next up, courtesy of NRO, Eftychis John Gregos-Mourginakis (talk about a mouthful!) and Joshua Jacobs detail how…
Bad Regulations Can Kill: El Faro’s Sinking Is a Tragic Example
“The search for survivors from El Faro has been called off, the crew consigned to the depths. We are left to mourn the loss of 33 brave mariners, 28 of whom were American. But as we mourn, we should also be angered, because their deaths may very well have been avoidable. Hurricane Joaquin wasn’t the sole culprit; it had an accomplice, and that accomplice is a monstrous piece of legislation known as the Jones Act.
Between the lines of this disaster, something should jump out at the reader: What were those sailors, in the middle of a Category 4 hurricane, doing onboard a vessel dating back to the Ford administration? In an era where we replace our phones every two years and trade in our car leases in not much longer than that, why is it that these people were stranded in the middle of a maelstrom aboard what El Faro seaman Chris Cash called a “rust bucket”?…”
In another item related to the lives of innocents offered up on the altar of Progressive politics, National Review recently interviewed Casey Mattox, senior counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, regarding the…
“Can the undercover videos from the Center for Medical Progress with Planned Parenthood executives be trusted? Planned Parenthood and the New York Times certainly don’t think so. But the Alliance Defending Freedom set out to answer that question when they commissioned a forensic analysis of the videos. Now, with a congressional committee established to investigate Planned Parenthood, ADF’s senior counsel Casey Mattox answers some questions about the report.
…LOPEZ: “Coalfire’s analysis of the recorded media files contained on the flash drive indicates that the video recordings are authentic and show no evidence of manipulation or editing.” But that is in absolute contrast with what Planned Parenthood argues.Who is to be believed?
MATTOX: It’s in contrast to what Planned Parenthood and its allies argue, but it’s actually consistent with Planned Parenthood’s own report. The Fusion GPS report commissioned by Planned Parenthood confirms that the audio is not tampered with and that its “analysis did not reveal widespread evidence of substantive video manipulation.” Coalfire confirms that finding, looking even at the raw source footage. But where the Fusion GPS report only had access to the full videos on YouTube and raised suspicion about the “edits” in those videos, Coalfire looked at the full raw footage and confirmed David Daleiden’s explanation that the “edits” to the full videos that CMP has posted on YouTube are “non-pertinent.”…”
Here’s the juice: Planned Parenthood and their Progressive protectors lie like rugs. But since wisdom oftentimes emanates from the mouth of babes, we’ll leave the last word to a youngster wise beyond his years; and these days…
…lucky to have made it full term.
Moving now to the Muddled East, writing at Israel Hayom, one Mudar Zahran suggests his fellow anti-Semites consider more than their unreasoned hatred of the Jewish state. For,…
“Since 1948, we Arabs have been taught that all we need to do is get rid of the Jewish state, and everything else will go well after that. Our dictators took full advantage of this idea. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser locked up and executed his opposition members using his famous excuse: “No voices are to be allowed except for those for the war with Israel.” Iraqi President Saddam Hussein adopted the Palestinian flag and had it printed, distributed and flown alongside his own flag, and even said, “Palestine and Iraq share the same identical cause.” In short, we Arabs have put 70 years of our existence on hold while awaiting that ”glorious day” when we defeat Israel and “feed the Jews to the fish.”
But that day did not come, nor does it seem to be coming, as Jordanian opposition figure Emad Tarifi once told me: “It seems the fish in the sea are not betting on us feeding them Jews.”
…In addition, we Arabs have given our dictators carte blanche to impoverish, terrorize, oppress and destroy us all in the name of “the great Arab struggle to end the Zionist entity.” The outcome of this has been clear: While Israel made 10 new breakthroughs in cancer and cardiac treatments in the last two years alone, we Arabs developed new execution methods. The latest is death by drowning in a cage, as shown in an Islamic State group video two weeks ago.
We Arabs have wasted seven decades of our existence awaiting Israel’s demise. It is time to think of the future, and whether Israel’s “disappearance” should be our ultimate wish.
…If Israel were to disappear and be replaced by a Palestinian state, the Palestinians would most likely end up with another Arab dictatorship that oppresses them and reduces them to poverty.We have partially seen that with the Palestinian Authority and the “liberated” areas it rules. I regularly visit the West Bank and have interviewed scores of Palestinians there. I can confirm that, as much as they hate Israel, they still openly yearn for the days when it administered the West Bank. As one Palestinian told me, ”We prayed to God to give us mercy and rid us of Israel; later, we found out that God had given us mercy when Israel was here.”
To those Arabs, Muslims, Westerners and others insisting that Israel must be erased from face of the planet, I say: Don’t bet on it, as Israel is becoming stronger every day through its democracy and innovation, while Arab countries are getting weaker through dictatorship and chaos. And be careful what you wish for, because if you were to get it, you too would most likely disappear, unless you yearn to be ruled by Iran or Islamic State.
In short, if the day were to come when Israel falls, Jordan, Egypt and many others would fall, too, and Westerners would be begging Iran for oil.
We can hate Israel as much as we like, but we must realize that without it, we too would be gone.“
What we find amazing is while Zahran recognizes reality, he remains unable to overcome his inbred antagonism towards anything Israeli.
In a related item, courtesy of the WSJ, Bret Stephens suggests Zahran and his ilk have entered…
“…Treatises have been written about the media’s mind-set when it comes to telling the story of Israel. We’ll leave that aside for now. The significant question is why so many Palestinians have been seized by their present blood lust—by a communal psychosis in which plunging knives into the necks of Jewish women, children, soldiers and civilians is seen as a religious and patriotic duty, a moral fulfillment. Despair at the state of the peace process, or the economy? Please. It’s time to stop furnishing Palestinians with the excuses they barely bother making for themselves.
Above all, it’s time to give hatred its due.We understand its explanatory power when it comes to American slavery, or the Holocaust. We understand it especially when it is the hatred of the powerful against the weak. Yet we fail to see it when the hatred disturbs comforting fictions about all people being basically good, or wanting the same things for their children, or being capable of empathy.
Today in Israel, Palestinians are in the midst of a campaign to knife Jews to death, one at a time. This ispsychotic.It is evil. To call it anything less is to serve as an apologist, and an accomplice.“
Yes, they’re psychotic:
Yes, they’re evil:
Now allow us to introduce two of their most ardent apologists/accomplices:
And no, Barry:
Islam’s “golden age” of science ended in the 13th century; the only advancements Muslims have made since then are in the fields of terror, mayhem and murder.
Turning now to today’s Environmental Moment, also writing at NRO, Ian Tuttle pitches fact instead of the fiction:
“Unable to address Texas senator Ted Cruz’s questions about “the Pause” — the apparent global-warming standstill, now almost 19 years long — at Tuesday’s meeting of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, Sierra Club president Aaron Mair, after an uncomfortable pause of his own, appealed to authority: “Ninety-seven percent of scientists concur and agree that there is global warming and anthropogenic impact,” he stated multiple times.
The relevant exchange begins at 1:39 (though the whole segment is worth watching):
The myth of an almost-unanimous climate-change consensus is pervasive. Last May, the White House tweeted: “Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made and dangerous.” A few days later, Secretary of State John Kerry announced, “Ninety-seven percent of the world’s scientists tell us this is urgent.”
“Ninety-seven percent of the world’s scientists” say no such thing…”
Are we the only one left wondering how such an dimwitted douche pump was ever elected president of anything, let alone the Sierra Club?!? Oh…
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