WILL THERE BE ANY ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE MARATHON ATTACK?

Prairie Pundit:

FBI:

...

Once the FBI learned the identities of the two brothers today, the FBI reviewed its records and determined that in early 2011, a foreign government asked the FBI for information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The request stated that it was based on information that he was a follower of radical Islam and a strong believer, and that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the United States for travel to the country’s region to join unspecified underground groups.

In response to this 2011 request, the FBI checked U.S. government databases and other information to look for such things as derogatory telephone communications, possible use of online sites associated with the promotion of radical activity, associations with other persons of interest, travel history and plans, and education history. The FBI also interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev and family members. The FBI did not find any terrorism activity, domestic or foreign, and those results were provided to the foreign government in the summer of 2011. The FBI requested but did not receive more specific or additional information from the foreign government.

Note that before 9-11 the Bush administration had no specific information on the individuals who attacked us.  Here the Obama administration had the name and the association.  If they had been paying attention they would have noted the trip to Russia to meet with the people in question.   They could have followed him after his return and also check his online history. 

Democrats continually attacked Bush for not stopping the 9-11 attacks.  I predict they will not care about the Obama administration's failure. 

Obama and the FBI should be held accountable. 

I doubt they will be held any more accountable for this than Obama was for Benghazi.

2ND BOSTON JIHADIST CAPTURED

Dzokhar Tsarnaev, the second of the brothers who planted the bombs at the Boston Marathon and destroyed the lives of many people there, has been captured by the police. This USA Today report says he became more observant of the Religion of Rape not too long ago (via Jihad Watch):

...Tamerlan occasionally commented on a certain alienation he felt in America. "I don't have a single American friend. I don't understand them," he was quoted as saying in a photo package that appeared in a Boston University student magazine in 2010.

He identified himself then as a Muslim and said he did not drink or smoke: "God said no alcohol." He said he hoped to fight for the U.S. Olympic team and become a naturalized American.

As a boxer, he was known for his nerve. "He's a real cocky guy," said one trainer who worked with him, Kendrick Ball. He said the young man came to his first sparring session with no protective gear. "That's unheard of with boxing," Ball said. But he added: "In this sport, you've got to be sure of yourself, you know what I mean?"

More recently, Tamerlan - married, with a young daughter - became a more devout Muslim, according to his aunt, Maret Tsarnaeva. She told reporters outside her Toronto home Friday that the older brother had taken to praying five times a day.

Tamerlan attended Bunker Hill Community College in nearby Charlestown as a part-time student for three semesters from 2006 to 2008. He studied accounting.

Anzor Tsarnaev, said Dzhokhar is "a true angel" and "an intelligent boy." In subsequent media interviews, he said his sons had been framed for Monday's bombings.

Ruslan Tsarni, an uncle who had not spoken to his brother's sons since December 2005, urged Dzhokhar to turn himself in to authorities. Meeting with reporters Friday outside his home in Montgomery County, Md., Tsani said he believed the brothers may have been recently "radicalized."

Albrecht Ammon, 18, lived directly below the apartment of the two suspects. He said he recently saw Tamerlan in a pizzeria, where they argued about religion and U.S. foreign policy. He quoted Tsarnaev as saying that many U.S. wars are based on the Bible, which is used as "an excuse for invading other countries."

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is believed to have dropped a backpack laden with explosives at the site of Monday's second explosion. He was pictured wearing a white baseball cap in video images released by the FBI Thursday.

His page on the Russian social networking site Vkontakte says he attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, graduating in 2011. He won a $2,500 college scholarship from the city of Cambridge. On the website, his world view is described as "Islam" and he says his personal goal is "career and money."

The parents, as seen here, are acting defensively and not willing to admit they could be at fault themselves, nor are they willing to come to terms with their son's guilt.

Unfortunately, this same paper is also going out of its way to apologize for Chechnyans, and they begin this propaganda by saying:

Oppressed, war-ravaged nations are the breeding ground for great warriors as well as evil terrorists, from Afghanistan to Palestine.

Dear dear dear. Furthering the lie the latter name was used for, I see.

Now that the man has been captured, they say the authorities are searching for his motivations. But the sad part is that, unless advocates of safety and freedom work hard to ensure an honest investigation, they're bound to follow political correctness.

THE OBAMA RECOVERY: THE RECOVERY THAT ISN'T

NYTIMES:

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

Despite strong recent job growth, 7.6 million Americans who want to work more hours have been stuck in part-time jobs.

THE POLICIES WE'VE FOLLOWED SINCE THE CRASH HAVE FAILED.

POLES HONOR WARSAW UPRISING

Poland honours Jews who fought Nazis in Warsaw

Sirens wailed and church bells tolled in the city, where several hundred Jews battled the Nazis in World War II. About 13,000 Jews died in the ghetto when the Nazis reduced it to rubble. Survivors were sent to death camps. 

Poland's president praised the Jews' "last stand" in a speech on Friday. "This was the last stand of people deprived of dignity and hope," Mr Komorowski said. "Hundreds of insurgents stood to defend the last remnants of human freedom." 

In 1942, before the uprising, the Nazi SS deported about 300,000 Jews from the ghetto to the Treblinka camp, where they were murdered in gas chambers.

IT WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN: JEWS ARE BETTER ARMED!

HOW THE LEFTISTS WANTED THE MARATHON ATTACK TO UNFOLD...

FOUND AT THE PEOPLE'S CUBE.

WHY DO LEFTISTS THINK THAT CONSERVATIVE, TRADITIONAL-VALUE AMERICANS - WHO BELIEVE IN THE US CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS - HAVE AN IDEOLOGY THAT WOULD MOTIVATE TERROR, BUT THAT ISLAMISTS DO NOT?

IT'S INSANE.

IF WE FAIL TO RESPOND TO THE MARATHON BOMBINGS CORRECTLY, THEN THE USA WILL SOON BE ATTACKED LIKE THIS AS OFTEN AS THEY ARE IN IRAQ

A CIVIL TRIAL THAT TREATS THE MARATHON ATTACK AS A CRIME - AND NOT AN ACT OF WAR - WILL LEAD TO MORE ATTACKS.

PERHAPS ATTACKS AS FREQUENT HERE AS THEY ARE IN IRAQ. IOW: DAILY.

IT WILL DO SO BECAUSE IT WILL AFFORD THE PERP RIGHTS THAT WILL INTERFERE WITH THOROUGH INTEL GATHERING.

AND A THOROUGH ROOTING-OUT OF OTHERS HERE AND ABOARD WHO WOULD SEEK TO DO THE SAME IN ORDER TO INTIMIDATE US.

THE "ISLAMO-TERROR IS A CRIME" APPROACH THAT CLINTON FAVORED AFTER THE 1992 WTC ATTACK AND THE USS COLE ATTACK AND THE AFRICAN EMBASSY ATTACKS FAILED.

AND THIS FAILURE HELPED LEAD TO 9/11.

BUSH'S MORE ROBUST "ISLAMO-TERROR IS WAR" APOPROACH KEPT US SAFER.

WE HAVE BEEN ATTACKED MORE UNDER OBAMA 'S 5 YEARS THAN UNDER BUSH'S 8 YEARS.

THE XMAS UNDERWEAR BOMBER AND THE TIMES SQ BOMBER WERE NOT FOILED; THEY FAILED. WE WERE LUCKY.

FT HOOD WAS NOT "WORKPLACE VIOLENCE" AS OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES CLAIM.

ALL THE ATTACKS DURING OBAMA'S TERMS SO FAR, AND ALL THE ATTACK DURING CLINTON'S TWO TERMS SHOULD HAVE BEEN HANDLED S BUSH HANDLED 9/11:

AS WAR.

AND IN WAR... WE HAVE TO DEFEND OURSELVES WITH OUR MOST EFFECTIVE TOOLS, NOT THE ONES THAT ARE THE LEAST DIFFICULT AND MOST POLITICALLY CORRECT.

JUST SAYING...

AND SO IS AMBASSADOR BOLTON; (VIDEO).

OBAMA AND THE LEFT ARE ASKING THE WRONG QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MARATHON ATTACK

WASHINGTON POST:

President Obama framed what comes next when he addressed the nation Friday night after police captured the 19-year-old. 

“Obviously, there are still many unanswered questions,” he said. “Among them, why did young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities and our country resort to such violence? How did they plan and carry out these attacks? And did they receive help?”

WE KNOW WHAT MOTIVATED THEM:

ISLAMISM.

HERE'S WHAT A REAL INVESTIGATION WOULD SEEK TO DISCOVER:

1. WHO HELPED THEM? 
2. WHO FINANCED THEM? 
3. WHO TRAINED THEM? 
4. WHO WAS AWARE BEFOREHAND AND KEPT QUIET? 
5. WHO KNEW AFTERWARDS AND KEPT QUIET? 
6. WHY DID THE FBI DROP THE BALL IN 2011? 
7. WHICH FOREIGN COUNTRY WANTED THE FBI TO INVESTIGATE THEM? 
8. WHAT ROLE - IF ANY - DID AL HARBI PLAY IN THIS? 
9. IS THERE A HOTBED OF ISLAMISM HIDDEN WITHIN THE COLLEGE THE YOUNGER BROTHER ATTENDED AND OTHER CELLS? 
10. DID ANY PROFESSORS ENCOURAGE THEM BY TEACHING THEM AN ANTI-USA/ANTI-RUSSIA NARRATIVE FOR THE CHECHEN WARS?

SADLY, I DON'T HAVE CONFIDENCE THAT THE OBAMA APPOINTED US ATTORNEY OR THAT THE "PC" FBI WILL GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS.

LAUTENBERG TO INTRODUCE ANTI-BLACK POWDER BILL - JUST AS PREDICTED??????

While the media was occupied with the Boston bombings, Senator Frank Lautenberg decided to use the event to push his new legislation that would regulate the purchase of gunpowder in order to ‘reduce terrorism’.

The Senator from New Jersey made the announcement on his Senate page, detailing how his bill would initiate full background checks on anyone seeking to purchase gunpowder (also known as black powder). 

A move that would ultimately affect law-abiding citizens who are purchasing gunpowder for their own use, just as ‘gun free zones’ have been shown to allow for criminals to run amok due to the disarmament of the average citizen. Full-fledged terrorists simply will not submit to background checks to purchase gunpowder, especially when there are so many easier options.

THIS WAS PREDICTED IN A COMMENT POSTED TO DOZENS OF RIGHT-WING BLOG COMMENT THREADS - A COMMENT THAT WAS LARGELY RIDICULED.

BUT WAS THE COMMENTER CORRECT?

YOU DECIDE:

I work on a security commission and I’ve just received word to start on a campaign we’ve been working on for the last two months and now it all makes sense.  

I’ll keep it as short can I can 

They’re going to pin this event on a male late teens to early 20s and say he did it because he’s unstable. 

They are going to find firearms and a NRA book in his home.  

They are going to to say he used reloading powder for the explosion and that reloading powder shouldn’t be for sale to the public. They are then going to say that because the powder in ammunition can be used for explosions that the number of rounds you can buy should be limited and taxed to help pay for these events. 

I can’t do anything or I’ll lose my job and possibly face criminals charges. Please don’t let them get away with it. They won’t find the suspect till later this week and the raid is issued to occur on Friday. This was a staged event. The people hurt are real but the event was planned. Don’t let them hurt our rights.

WELL… HE WAS ARRESTED FRIDAY AND NOW LAUTENBERG IS INTRODUCING THE ANTI-GUNPOWDER BILL!

JUST SAYING….

NOW - TO BE CLEAR: 

I DON'T THINK THAT THIS ATTACK WAS A FALSE FLAG ATTACK CARRIED OUT BY THE USG IN ORDER TO DISCREDIT THE RIGHT AND THE NRA AND "TAKE AWAY OUR GUNS AND GUNPOWDER".

BUT IT SURE DOES SEEM LIKE THE LEFT IS ATTEMPTING TO EXPLOIT IT AS THEY DID NEWTOWN: IN ORDER TO ADVANCE THEIR LONG-HELD ANTI-GUN/ANTI-2ND AMENDMENT AGENDA.

JUST AS THEY SEEK TO EXPLOIT EVERY MAJOR WEATHER EVENT TO ADVANCE THEIR LONG-HELD ANTI-FREE ENTERPRISE/ANTI-INDUSTRY AGENDA.

WE MUSTN'T LET THEM SUCCEED.

EERIE COINCIDENCE?: JOKER/DZHOKHAR?

APPARENTLY, THIS ISLAMOMANIAC PRONOUNCED HIS NAMED "JOKER" WHICH IS HOW THE AURORA MANIAC SAW HIMSELF.

ODD.

THAT'S NOT ALL THEY HAD IN COMMON.

THEY ARE BOTH PSYCHOPATHS. WHO DON'T DESERVE TO LIVE.

AND THE LEFT HAS MADE IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR SOCIETY TO PROTECT ITSELF FROM THESE TWO TYPE OF MANIACS.

THE SCARY THING IS: THERE ARE MILLIONS MORE LIKE DZHOKHAR.

JUST SAYING...

WHY HAVE SO MANY EUROPEANS FOUGHT HARDER TO STOP "AMERICANIZATION" THAN ISLAMIZATION?

JUST ASKING...

(YOU KNOW WHO I'M TALKING ABOUT: THE CHIC DEGENRATI ON THE LEFT WHO FIGHT AGAINST McDONALD'S AND DISNEY AND NATO, BUT WHO DEFEND NON-ASSIMILATING IMMIGRANTS FROM THE THIRD WORLD WHO GO THERE TO COLONIZE.)

JUST ASKING....

MORE ON CULTURE HERE (WITH GREAT QUOTES FROM MAMET ET AL).

MAYBE IT WASN'T ISLAMISM: Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a pot-head who supported President Obama for re-election last November, according to friends and his Twitter account

Boston bombing suspect and fugitive Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a “normal pot head” who supported President Obama for re-election last November, according to friends and his Twitter account
.

BOSTON JIHADIST'S SOCIAL MEDIA PAGE SHOWS HE HAD INTEREST IN ISLAM

Jihad Watch has a screenshot, which shows some details of Tsarnaev's interests, which include the Religion of Peace and explosives. And Deadspin's got more (also via Jihad Watch):

Tamerlan says his girlfriend is half Portuguese, half Italian girlfriend and converted to Islam: "She's beautiful, man!"

Tamerlan demonstrates a way of walking to strengthen the ankle muscles at the Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts center. A native of Chechnya, Tamerlan says: "In Russia, we used to train like this. Here nobody does it, I don't know why!"

Tamerlan says he doesn't drink or smoke anymore: "God said no alcohol." A muslim, he says: "There are no values anymore," and worries that "people can't control themselves."

Tamerlan says he doesn't usually take his shirt off so girls don't get bad ideas: "I'm very religious."

And here's another screenshot of Tamerlan's Youtube page, which features videos by the sheik Feiz Mohammed, who called for jihad against infidels. And even if his girlfriend converted to Islam, that did not keep him from assaulting her in 2009.

So now we know that jihad did have a connection to this repulsive act of barbarism. Even the UK Guardian is willing to acknowledge this.

OPINION: SAUDI, AL-HARIBI, IS THE RINGLEADER, CHECHNEYANS ARE FOOTSOLDIERS

THIS IS MY OPINION

NOT NEWS

THIS SAUDI GUY:

IS ABDUL RAHMAN ALI AL-HARBI

HE IS THE RINGLEADER OF THIS

THE CHECHNEYAN GUYS ARE THE SOLDIERS

1. AL-HARBI WAS LIVING IN A RAT-INFESTED APARTMENT IN ONE OF THE WORST PARTS OF BOSTON
2. EVEN THOUGH HE IS A MEMBER OF A VERY WEALTHY SAUDI FAMILY

THOSE TWO THINGS DO NOT GO TOGETHER.

I THINK HE WAS THE LEADER OF THE CELL - AND OUR GOVERNMENT DEPORTED HIM.

I THINK OUR GOVERNMENT IS TREASONOUS

More on al-Haribi and his address.

CHABAD WORKERS IN BOSTON HELPED PROVIDE AID TO VICTIMS

Here's some news to appreciate about some of the religiously affiliated people who did their part in helping the victims of the Boston bombing:

BOSTON – Signing up for the shaliah (emissary) gig in Beantown, Chabad Rabbi Mayer Zarchi probably never thought counseling victims of a terror attack would be part of his job requirements.

But with his headquarters located only a few blocks from the scene of the Boston Marathon bombing site this past Patriots Day, his office near Mass General Hospital where he is a chaplain become a spot frantic runners and spectators could call loved ones after the cellphone lines went down due to high volume.

“People needed help, and we were there to provide it,” Zarchi told The Jerusalem Post. [...]

“It was a beautiful day,” said Zarchi, reflecting. “Everybody was enjoying themselves. The Boston Marathon is one of the great national sporting events. But in a nanosecond, everything transformed.”

The Algemeiner also spoke with representatives, who said:

Mayshe Schwartz, Rabbi at Chabad Chai Center in Brookline, Massachusetts, told The Algemeiner that the community is still trying to come to terms with what happened, but that the incident must not shake people’s morale.

“We know whoever did do it wants to disrupt our freedom and our love of life. And the only response, when someone wants to take that away from you, is have more love of life and express more freedom and kindness at each other. That’s the only thing we can do right now.”

Rabbi Schwartz added that the Jewish community must remain strong and that it “cannot allow the fear that [the perpetrators] try to instill in us to manifest.”

True. Neither the Jewish community nor any other civilized society around the world can let that happen.

ONE SUSPECT IN BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING DEAD, THE OTHER STILL ON THE LOOSE

There was a shootout at the MIT in Boston with the suspects that resulted in one of the criminals being gunned down. Tragically, a police officer was also killed. The horror has led to a shutdown of Boston's transit services (H/T: Hot Air):

The search for one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects — the man seen wearing a white baseball cap — this morning led to the sudden shutdown of the MBTA’s entire network of commuter rail, bus, and subway services.

State authorities also asked people who live in Watertown, Waltham, Newton, Belmont, Cambridge, and Allston-Brighton to stay home and for businesses in those cities and towns to stay closed. …

The other Boston Marathon bombing suspect, the man seen wearing a black hat in photos released Thursday evening, is dead after firing bullets and launching explosives at police.

“We believe these are the same individuals that were responsible for the bombing Monday at the Marathon,’’ State Police Colonel Timothy Alben said today. “We believe that they are responsible for the death of an MIT police officer and the shooting of an MBTA police officer. This is a very serious situation that we are dealing with.’’

There is another revelation to consider: both suspects originally lived near Chechnya:

BREAKING: AP sources: Boston bomb suspects from Russia region near Chechnya, lived in US at least 1 year. -SS
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 19, 2013

Chechnya has a lot of Muslims living there.

NBC tells how the criminals exposed themselves:

With a bomb strapped to his chest, one of the Boston Marathon suspects was killed early Friday after he and his accomplice robbed a 7-Eleven, shot a police officer to death, carjacked an SUV and hurled explosives out the window in an extraordinary firefight with law enforcement, authorities told NBC News.

The second suspect — the one in the white hat in photos released by the FBI — was on the loose, and police ordered people in the Boston suburb of Watertown to stay in their homes and businesses not to open. Boston shut down its buses and subway system for the hunt.

The suspects are brothers with the last name Tsarnaez, law enforcement officials told NBC News. The suspect on the loose is 19 and has a Massachusetts driver’s license, they said. Law enforcement officials told NBC News that both men had international ties, had been in the United States about a year and had military experience.

Frightening.

OBAMA: MORE PISSED AT THE NRA THAN AT THE MURDERERS IN BENGHAZI

JUST SAYING...

New Zealand's Parliament Passes Homosexual Marriage, Breaks Out Into Spontaneous Song In Aboriginal Language

From the Guardian

New Zealand becomes the first country in the Asia Pacific to legalise same sex marriage. The public gallery in parliament breaks into song following the vote, singing the traditional Maori love song Pokarekare Ana. New Zealand is now the 13th country to legalise gay marriage, after Uruguay passed its law earlier in April

HERE:  

You may ask yourself why they would do this. It seems insane, and yet it fits so perfectly, right? 

That because it makes absolute sense:

This is all about a return/regression to Paganism and Heathenism and Barbarity.

It is concomitant with tattoos and piercings and abortion-on-demand, and X-rated displays during the halftime of the Super Bowl.

IOW: The End of Civilization.

LET'S FACE IT: WHAT HISTORY REFLECTS IS THAT MOST PEOPLES WITHOUT THE BIBLE WERE SAVAGES.

That's what the chic degenerati who passed the law in New Zealand were celebrating with song: the return to savagery.

NPR Says Hitler's Birthday "Big On The Right" - Truth Is, Leftists Weed-Smokers Celebrate Hitler's Birthday Every Single Friggin' Day

HITLER'S BIRTHDAY WAS APRIL 20TH.

THINK ABOUT IT. IN WHAT PART OF MODERN AMERICAN CULTURE IS APRIL 20TH PART OF EVERY DAY, COMMON VERNACULAR?

420, DUDE.

UH-OH: CHINA ADMITS NEW BIRD FLU MIGHT BE H2H

... the Chinese government openly begins to speculate about the possibility of human-to-human transmission of the H7N9 bird flu strain, an international team of experts, including some from the World Health Organization, have been deployed to investigate the disease in the country. 

If true, the development would quickly raise concerns of the disease outbreak leading to a pandemic. 

IF TRUE, THIS MAY VERY WELL DEVASTATE MUCH OF THE WORLD POPULATION BEFORE THERE'S A VACCINATION THAT WORKS...

STAY TUNED...

PREDICTION / GUESS: GOOGLE GLASS WILL BE A BUST LIKE APPLE LISA AND 8-TRACK

IT'S A COOL IDEA NOBODY NEEDS AND NOBODY WANTS.

MUSLIM TEEN FROM NEW ORLEANS CONVICTED OF ROCK-THROWING

Someone took a trip to Israel all for the sake of committing violence:

JERUSALEM - An Israeli military court sentenced a Palestinian American teenager Wednesday to two weeks in prison for throwing rocks at Israeli forces, the military said, in a case that has drawn attention to Israel's system of military detention of Palestinian minors.

Israel's military said a juvenile military court convicted Mohammad Khalek, 14, of throwing stones, along with other Palestinians, at Israeli security forces April 2. It said Khalek confessed to the stone-throwing and reached a plea bargain for a fine of about $830 and a total of 31 days in jail, including the time he was held awaiting sentencing.

The parents can be blamed, of course, but then, even the teenager himself has to look at himself in the mirror, and also stop buying into all that propaganda that even the AP Wire is pushing.

DESPITE MORE THAN A DECADE OF GOVERNMENT "STIMULUS SPENDING",JAPAN SUFFERS WORST TRADE DEFIFICT EVER

MY MY: HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED!

30 YEARS AGO, JAPAN WAS THE EXPORT KING OF THE WORLD.

NOW - AFTER DECADES OF OBAMA-LIKE "STIMULUS SPENDING - THEIR ECONOMY IS CRAP.

ASIDE: WITH APPLE CRASHING 5% YESTERDAY (ON THE HEELS OF NEWS THAT PC SALES SUCK, AND NEWS THAT HIRING  SUCKS AND CHINA'S GROWTH HAS BEEN CUT IN HALF), I THINK THE CRASH IS COMING SOONER THAN ANYONE THINKS.

UAE ARRESTS 7 MEN FOR PLANNING ATTACKS INSIDE UAE

Seven members of an alleged al-Qaeda cell have been arrested over plans to attack targets in the United Arab Emirates, officials tell state media. The group was planning actions which compromised the Gulf nation's security, according to state news agency WAM.
An unidentified source told the agency the cell recruited people, promoted al-Qaeda and provided finances and logistical support to the organisation. All seven members are believed to be Arab nationals.

FURTHER PROOF THE GLOBAL WAR AGAINST ISLAMIST TERROR IS FAR FROM OVER - DESPITE OBAMA CLAIMING OTHERWISE.

TO EXPLAIN EVOLUTION, SCIENTISTS DECODE DNA FROM THE COELACANTH - A FISH THAT HASN'T CHANGED IN 400 MILLION YEARS!?

THEY THINK THE COELACANTH HAS FINS THAT LOOK LIKE LEGS THAT ITS DNA MIGHT REVEAL THE SECRET OF EVOLUTION.

SINCE THE FISH LOOKS THE SAME AS IT DID 400 MILLION YEARS AGO, MAYBE THEY OUGHT TO BE EXAMINING THE DNA TO FIND UT WHY IT DIDN'T EVOLVE!

Heh.

SAUDI NATIONAL QUERIED IN BOSTON BOMBINGS WILL BE DEPORTED

Steve Emerson told on Fox that the Saudi national who was questioned about the bombing at the marathon this week is being deported on security grounds.

This is troubling because it turns out the Saudi whose name is al-Harbi has connections with jihadists as well as friends in high positions. It appears the Obama administration is trying to keep the House of Saud happy, which is troubling.

There definitely is something wrong going on here.

RIP LADY THATCHER

A GIANT.

DETAILS OF HER MODEST, RESERVED, DIGNIFIED FUNERAL SERVICE HERE. EXCERPTS:

Alan Southern, a former member of the Parachute Regiment who fought in the Falklands War, said: 

"Lady Thatcher was an absolutely wonderful lady. She loved the armed forces and she did so much for the country, she put the 'great' back in Great Britain."

HERE'S THE FIRST THING SHE CHOSE TO HAVE APPEAR IN THE PROGRAM OF HER SERVICE:

What we call the beginning is often the end

And to make an end isto make a beginning.

The end is where we startfrom.

We die with the dying:

See, they depart, and we go with them.

We are born with the dead:

See, they return, and bring us with them.

The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew-tree

Are of equal duration. 
A people without history 
Is not redeemed from time, 

for history is a pattern

Of timeless moments. 
So, while the lightfails

On a winter’s afternoon, in a secluded chapel

History is now and England.

With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling

We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time. 

Little Gidding (1942) 

from Four Quartets

T. S. Eliot(1888-1965)

HER IS WHAT WAS WHAT SHE WANTED TO BE READ FIRST:

First Reading read by
Amanda Thatcher, Granddaughter

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 

Put on the whole armour of God, 

that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,

against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, 

against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, 

that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, 

and having done all, to stand.

Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, 

and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 

And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 

Above all, taking the shield of faith, 

wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, 

which is the word of God: 

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, 

and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.

Ephesians 6. 10-18 [EMPHASIS ADDED]

HERE IS THE LAST STANZA OF THE POEM SHE CHOSE TO CLOSE THE SERVICE:

Then sing, ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song!

What though the radiance which was once so bright

Be now for ever taken from my sight,

Though nothing can bring back the hour

Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;

We will grieve not, rather find

Strength in what remains behind;

In the primal sympathy

Which having been 
must ever be;

In the soothing thoughts that spring

Out of human suffering;

In the faith that looks through death.

Ode: Intimations of Immortality

from Recollections of Early Childhood (1802)

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

AND THE MUSIC SHE CHOSE TO END THE SERVICE:





LADY THATCHER WAS THE SECOND MOST IMPORTANT BRITISH PERSON OF THE LAST CENTURY.

AND LIKE #1, A PERSON WHO HELPED SAVE HUMANITY FROM TYRANNY AND THE POVERTY WHICH TYRANNY CREATES.

AND - CONTRARY TO WHAT #1, W.S. CHURCHILL, USED TO SAY - SHE WAS INDISPENSABLE.

AND MISSED.

RIP LADY THATCHER.

LAMESTREAM MEDIA PROVES ONCE AGAIN IT'S A PROPAGANDA ARM OF THE ADMINISTRATION

"For 3rd year, ‘spring swoon’ slows U.S. momentum"

WASHINGTON POST: Economy hits ‘spring swoon’ 

For the third year in a row, the nation’s economic recovery seems to be petering out just as temperatures start to go up. 

Hiring has dropped off. Shoppers are putting away their wallets. 

Government spending cuts are looming. That has fueled predictions of an abrupt slowdown over the next few months. 

Economists are forecasting tepid growth of just over 1 percent during the second quarter of the year. The economy was expanding at roughly twice that pace over the winter. 

In fact, although the drivers have been different, the slowdowns have become so reliable, and the timing so consistent, that economists have given them a name: the “spring swoon.” 

No one seems to have a good explanation for why the recovery has taken a nose dive around the same time each year.

ER UM.... NO ONE!?!?!

HOW ABOUT THIS:

TAXES HAVE TO BE PAID AND PEOPLE  HAVE TO TIGHTEN THEIR BELTS AS A RESULT.

SHEESH. THE DANG ARTICLE IS PUBLISHED THE DAY AFTER TAX DAY, TOO.

ANY POSSIBLE ANGLE THAT HURTS OBAMA AND THE LEFTIST AGENDA IS IMMEDIATELY DISCOUNTED BY THE APPARATCHIKS IN THE MEDIA AND THE NOMENKLATURA.

SOME SAY THIS BROWN BAG IS ONE OF THE BOMBS, BUT I DISAGREE

HERE'S THE PHOTO  MANY THINK THE  BROWN BAG TO THE LEFT OF THE PO BOX AND ON THE STREET-SIDE OF THE META HORSE IS THE BOMB.

CLICK AND OPEN IN A NEW TAB TO SEE ENLARGEMENT

HERE'S WHAT I THINK:

CLICK AND OPEN IN A NEW TAB TO SEE ENLARGEMENT

FOR THE METAL HORSE TO BE BLOWN TOWARD THE STREET AND AROUND THE PO BOX, THE BOMB WOULD HAVE TO BE BEHIND THE METAL HORSE.

THE BROWN BAG IS IN FRONT OF THE METAL HORSE, SO IT CANNOT BE THE BOMB - IMO.

ASIDE:

BASED ON TH ACCOUNTS I HEARD OF EYE-WITNESSES IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE EXPLOSIONS, I THINK THAT THE BOMBS WERE DIRECTIONAL IED'S - A HALLMARK OF THE IRG.

IRG = THE IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY GUARD.

THAT'S WHO TRAINED THE BOMBER(S) OR MADE THE DEVICES, IMO.

MAYBE VIA HIZBALLAH, WHO HAVE OPERATIVES ALL OVER THE WORLD AND ARE LINKED TO BOMBINGS IN PLACES AS FAR AWAY FROM  THEIR TURF IN LEBANON AS BULGARIA AND ARGENTINA.

Saudi Man Not A Suspect In Boston Terror Attack, But He is a "Witness"

U.S. law enforcement officials said Tuesday that a Saudi national injured in the Boston Marathon bombing is regarded as a witness, not a suspect. 

The Saudi, who is recuperating at a Boston hospital, is in his 20s and is in the United States on a Saudi scholarship to study at a university in the Boston area. 

The federal officials’ explanation echoed comments by a Saudi official at the country’s embassy in Washington. The embassy official said that a Saudi national has been questioned as a witness but is not regarded as a suspect. The Saudi official cited information provided to the embassy by U.S. law enforcement officials. 

“We’re not aware of any Saudi suspect or Saudi person of interest,” said the Saudi official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the preliminary nature of the information. 

He declined to identify the young man, but said he sustained serious burn injuries. The official said the victim is cooperating with U.S. investigators and granted permission for his Boston area apartment to be searched.

WASHINGTON POST COVERING UP FOR OBAMA

WASHINGTON POST HEADLINE:

After a decade of plots foiled, one succeeds
Scott Wilson and Peter Finn

BULLS*T.

FT HOOD SUCCEEDED.

AND THE XMAS BOMBER AND THE TIMES SQ BOMBER WERE NOT FOILED; THEIR ATTACKS LUCKILY FAILED.

BY WITHDRAWING FROM AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ THE WAY HE DID - AND BY USING DRONES AND KILLING THE ENEMY INSTEAD OF CAPTURING THEM AND SENDING THEM FOR RENDITION OR TO GITMO - OBAMA HAS MADE US LESS SAFE.

I FEAR A MUCH MUCH WORSE ATTACK IS IN THE WORKS.

AND IT WILL SUCCEED AS THE MARATHON ATTACK HAS - AND AS THE FT HOOD ATTACK DID, AND AS THE XMAS BOMBER AND THE TIMES SQ BOMBER MIGHT HAVE - BECAUSE OBAMA HAS MADE US LESS SAFE.

Islam Is A Religion Of Peace Boston Marathon Attack Edition

Islam Is A Religion Of Peace Boston Marathon Attack Edition

From an Anonymous commenter:

I couldn't watch the press conference beyond a few moments. Revealing nothing, not even admitting it was a terror attack, the FBI spokesperson was deliberate in his message, and was closely intensely watched over his left shoulder by an individual who relaxed only after this spokesperson clarified that there were only 2 devices (not the five reported on several msm/websites earlier). 

I walked out of the room when this spokesperson mentioned "interfaith" service . . .deceptively revealing. 

WILL THE MARATHON TERRORISTS AND THEIR APOLOGISTS BLAME OBAMA?

Just asking....

Will the MSM ask Obama why we have been attacked more during the 5 years of his watch than in the 8 years of Bush's?

Just asking...

WTFOTD: Obama administration is now making it easier for Saudis to enter the United States

WTF:

Obama administration is now making it easier for Saudis to enter the United States

MEMO TO "GOSNELL TRIAL MEDIA BLACKOUT DENIERS": NYTIMES: "Online Furor Draws Press to Abortion Doctor’s Trial"

NYTIMES:

Online Furor Draws Press to Abortion Doctor’s Trial 

 Through four weeks, prosecutors have laid out evidence against Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion provider on trial on charges of killing seven viable fetuses by “snipping” their necks with scissors and of causing the death of a pregnant 41-year-old woman during a procedure. 

The grisly details drew mainly local attention. But after an online furor that the case was being ignored by the national news media because of troubling accounts of late-term abortions, reporters from major newspapers and television networks descended Monday on the Court of Common Pleas. It was the latest example of the power of social media 

SO: ALL YOU LEFT-WING WATER-CARRIERS WHO TRIED TO SAY THAT IT WAS COVERED: STFU.

ASIDE: THIS BLOG WAS AMONG THE VERY FIRST TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE MEDIA BLACKOUT OF THE GOSNELL TRIAL (AND DID SO BY LINKING TO A GOOGLE NEWS-SEARCH OF GOSNELL WHICH TURNED UP TWO OR THREE CITATIONS AT THE TIME).

WHEN DAYS OF JOY ARE DESTROYED

The New York Daily News writes about how the act of terrorism in Boston has left several people murdered, and destroyed the happiness of many more:

A day of joy ripped apart. Death. Blood. Panic. Images like those from a war. And yes, that familiar word burned in our minds more than a decade ago, a word we wished we could forget: terror.

That is what the Federal Bureau of Investigation has labeled Monday’s bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon, and it is the only word that can sensibly be used to describe explosions designed to kill, maim and cause widespread havoc.

Business Insider (via Jihad Watch) tells how the suspect in the case was tackled by a bystander while trying to get away:

The Saudi Arabian man who is reportedly in police custody following the Boston Marathon bombing was chased and tackled by bystanders shortly after the blast, according to CBS.

Senior correspondent John Miller, a former assistant director of the FBI, reported this:

There is an individual in custody … he is not free to go.

He is a Saudi national who was near the scene of the blast. When the blast happened he began to run. Now, in context, a lot of people began to run. A civilian who thought he was acting suspiciously chased him down and tackled him and then turned him over to Boston police, saying, I saw this guy hanging around over there acting suspiciously. And then he ran. That may mean a lot, it may mean nothing at all.

And in this report (also via Jihad Watch), it says he had a burn mark:

Following the twin blasts at the Boston Marathon that has claimed two lives and dozens injured, a Saudi national is being held in custody in relation to the incident who was near the scene of the blast, CBS News correspondent John Miller reported.

Law enforcement sources told Miller a witness saw a person acting suspiciously when the explosions happened along the marathon route.

"They see him running away from the device," said Miller. "Now, a reasonable person would be running away. But this person had noticed him before. This is a civilian -- chases him down, tackles him, turns him over to the Boston police. The individual is being looked at [and] was suffering from burn injury. That means this person was pretty close to wherever this blast went off, but not so close as to suffer the serious injuries that other people did."

Authorities told Miller that the person in custody is not charged and not under arrest. He is being cooperative, answering their questions, and denying involvement. They'll likely be going over this person's communications and examine every aspect of his life, as well as talk to the witness who tackled him to find out what the person of interest did that seemed suspicious.

"So if that individual pans out that," said Miller, "that of course,it gives the case a big jump forward. If not, then they're back to physical evidence, forensics, witnesses, and whatever they can pick up on those surveillance cameras."

Why did he run and not seek medical help on the spot? I think that's very legitimate grounds for concern, and they shouldn't try to say the suspect isn't under arrest, where there could be a lot of good reason to keep him in custody.

The Wash. Free Beacon (via Hot Air) reports that the investigation is being taken over by the FBI.

One of the worst things about terrorist attacks like these are that the monsters who commit the violent crimes set out to destroy the happiness of innocents.

Update: many residents of Boston are helping provide aid for victims. It's good that they can do all possible to help.

Update 2: one of the worst tragedies in this case is that an 8-year-old child was among those murdered. The monsters who carried out the terrorist attack must pay a very heavy price for taking the life of a young child.

Cynthia McKinney Knows Who Attacked Boston, So What Is Obama Prepared To Do About It?

Barack Obama says he is going to do whatever he has to do to find the people who are responsible for the terror attack in Boston.

Just like he is doing about the Benghazi attack:

But, Cynthia McKinney says, the U.S. Government is behind the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon.

Ok, great.

So, Barack Obama followed Osama Bin Laden to the ends of the Earth, hunted him down, and killed him.

Let's just hope he is willing to do the same thing to his own Government.

Turkish pianist given jail sentence for insulting Muslim "values" - updated

BBC: World-renowned Turkish pianist Fazil Say has been given a suspended 10-month jail sentence for insulting Muslim values. An Istanbul court found Say guilty over a series of posts on the social networking site Twitter. Say was not in court for the sentencing. But he denied the charges, saying they were politically motivated. The case renewed concern about the influence of religion on politics in Turkey.

THE SENTENCE IS NOT IMPORTANT. 

WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS THAT THE CHARGE AND CONVICTION SEND A CHILLING MESSAGE TO OTHER TURKISH NON-ISLAMIST/SECULARISTS.

THAT WAS THE REAL PURPOSE OF CHARGING FAZIL SAY, AND THE REAL REASON FOR CONVICTING HIM AND SENTENCING HIM.

TO SEND A MESSAGE.

A FASCIST MESSAGE.

AN ISLAMOFASCIST MESSAGE.

TURKEY IS PROOF THAT IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER WHETHER A MUSLIM NATION TAKES A FAST ROAD TO ISLAMISM - LIKE EGYPT SINCE OBAMA WAS ELECTED, OR A SLOW ROAD - LIKE TURKEY SINCE ERDOGAN WAS ELECTED.

ISLAMISM IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH SECULARISM AND PLURALISM - AND THEREFORE DEMOCRACY.

THE SOONER WE IN THE WEST ACCEPT THIS... THE BETTER.

THE DELUSION THAT ISLAMISM CAN CO-EXIST WITH THE WEST INTERFERES WITH OUR ABILITY IT DEFEND OURSELVES AND LETS THE ENEMY CONTINUE TO GAIN  STRENGTH.

UPDATE: A DAY LATER AND INSTAPUNDIT WEIGHS IN:

BARBARIC: Turkish Pianist Sentenced for Twitter Postings. ” court here handed down a suspended 10-month prison term on Monday for Fazil Say, an internationally acclaimed Turkish pianist and composer convicted of insulting Islam and offending Muslims in postings on Twitter. . . . In recent years, many intellectuals, writers and artists have been prosecuted for statements about Islam and Turkish identity, both of which the pro-Islamic government seeks to shield from criticism. Social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter, however, have rarely figured in previous trials, although Turks are active users of the sites.”
Posted at 10:41 am by Glenn Reynolds    

THE BOSTON MARATHON'S VICTORS POINT OUT THE INSANE EVILNESS OF THE ATTACK

THE MARATHON ITSELF IS AN ANCIENT GREEK TRADITION.

GREECE WAS POLYTHEISTIC AND IS NOW MOSTLY GREEK ORTHODOX.

TODAY'S MARATHON WAS RUN IN BOSTON - A LARGELY ROMAN CATHOLIC CITY IN A LARGELY PROTESTANT NATION.

THE WINNERS OF TODAY'S BOSTON MARATHON WERE AFRICAN - AN ETHIOPIAN MAN AND A KENYAN WOMAN.

NOT WHITE. NOT AMERICAN. NOT WESTERN.

THE MAN, DESISA, IS FROM A REGION IN ETHIOPIA THAT IS EQUALLY CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM.

KENYA IS CHRISTIAN, MUSLIM AND OTHER.

SO... JUST WHO DID THE TERRORIST(S) BEHIND THIS ATTACK THINK THEY WERE ATTACKING?

IF THE PERP WAS THE SAUDI (WHO IS NOW MENTIONED IN THE MEDIA AS "A PERSON OF INTEREST), WAS HE MOTIVATED BY ISLAMISM?

IF HE WAS, THEN HOW DOES ATTACKING AN EVENT OF SUCH INCREDIBLE HETEROGENEITY ADVANCE ISLAMISM?

HOW DOES IT ADVANCE ANYTHING - ANY COGENT AGENDA?

IMO: ALL ATTACKS OF THIS NATURE REALLY DO IS... EXPRESS THE POWER OF EVIL.

EVIL HATES EVERYTHING GOOD AND DECENT AND HAS AT ITS VERY CORE THE VISCERAL DESIRE TO SEEK OUT AND TO DESTROY GOODNESS AND DECENCY.

TERROR IS EVIL'S PRIMAL ESSENCE AND ITS PRIMAL URGE. 

TERROR IS EVIL'S SCREAM.

GOOD PEOPLE EVERYWHERE MUST ACCEPT THAT WE MUST TAKE BOLD, KINETIC ACTIONS IN SELF-DEFENSE... OR WE WILL BE VANQUISHED BY EVIL.

EVIL WON'T STOP ON ITS OWN.

TERRORIST BOMBING AT BOSTON MARATHON

A horrifying incident just took place a short time ago at the Boston Marathon:

Two explosions at the Boston marathon are believed to have killed at least 12 people. According to eyewitness, "mass casualties" are being reported after two powerful explosions detonated in quick succession near the famed marathon's finishing line. Boston Police are currently perfomring a controlled explosion on a suspicious item found just blocks away from the bomb site in Boston.

It has yet to be confirmed whether or not the explosion is part of a terrorist attack, but dozens of people are known to be injured. The explosions were heard near the finish line in the Fairmount Copley Plaza Hotel.

Police have found unexploded devices in the area and are conducting security controlled explosions, according to the Boston Globe.

There's more here at the New Zealand Herald and at Breitbart's Conversation. Keep the victims in your prayers.

Update: more news available at Hot Air and also Pajamas Media.

Update 2: The Weekly Standard has some videos. Be forewarned that there's graphic content in them.

Update 3: the Boston police have a suspect, who turned out to be a Saudi national:

Investigators have a suspect — a Saudi Arabian national — in the horrific Boston Marathon bombings, The Post has learned.

Law enforcement sources said the 20-year-old suspect was under guard at an undisclosed Boston hospital.

It was not immediately clear why the man was hospitalized and whether he was injured in the attack or in his apprehension.

The man was caught less than two hours after the 2:50 p.m. bombing on the finish line of the race, in the heart of Boston.

If this info is correct, it tells why it's very dangerous to allow men from that awful country into the USA.

THE HIDDEN SUBTEXT OF THE GOSNELL BLACKOUT WAS... RACE

IF GOSNELL WAS WHITE, THEN THIS STORY WOULD HAVE BEEN EVERYWHERE FROM THE GET-GO.

BECAUSE IT WOULD HAVE FIT INTO A LEFTIST TEMPLATE: 'WHITES KILLING BLACKS".

BUT BECAUSE IT WAS BLACK-ON-BLACK MURDER (MASS MURDER, IF YOU WILL), IT GOT AS LITTLE ATTENTION AS "ROUTINE" MURDERS WHICH OCCUR IN CHICAGO EVERY DANG WEEK.

THIS ISN'T THE FIRST TIME THE LEFT-WING DOMINATED MEDIA HAS IGNORED A CRIME STORY BECAUSE OF RACE:

THEY IGNORED THE HORRIFIC CHANNON CHRISTIAN/CHRISTOPHER NEWSOME RAPE/TORTURE/MURDER CASE, TOO. (VICTIMS WERE WHITE AND THE PERPS BLACK.)

BUT WHEN THEY THINK THE CRIME FITS THEIR AGENDA,THEY GO FULL STEAM AHEAD - AS WITH TRAYVON MARTIN. THAT STORY TOOK OFF WHEN THE MSM ASSUMED THE PERP WAS WHITE.

BY SELECTIVELY REPORTING CRIME CASES - ESPECIALLY SENSATIONAL ONES LIKE GOSNELL'S - THE MEDIA PROVES THEY ARE BIASED AND BASICALLY NOT REPORTING BUT DOING PROPAGANDA.

THE GOSNELL CASE PROVES THAT RACISM IS A MAJOR ISSUE DRIVING THEIR DECISION-MAKING PROCESS:

IF THEY THINK A STORY WILL STRENGTHEN THE  LIBERAL RACE-AGENDA, THEN THEY RUN WITH IT.

IF THEY THIN IT WILL HURT THEIR RACIST AGENDA, TEN THEY BURY IT.

THEY BURIED GOSNELL BECAUSE HE WAS BLACK.

IF HE WAS WHITE, THEN WOULD HAVE RUN WITH THE STORY AS AN INSTANCE OF WHITE GENOCIDE AGAINST BLACKS.

IMO.

MORE ON THE GOSNELL/MSM DEBACLE HERE.

PROPAGANDA THAT REWRITES HISTORY

Pamela Geller's written about some of the propaganda exhibits that falsely claim there was ever a "palestinian people" of Arab/Islamic background (Hat tip: Jihad Watch):

Today we are at a point where history and facts must be “erased” and rewritten, because truth is racist-Islamophobic-anti-Muslim bigotry. Historical revisionism has taken on a new life, as history is scrubbed and manufactured Muslim myths are presented as fact.

Pioneering historian Bat Ye’or recently visited the British Museum and found that “Palestinian propaganda and its cohorts of EU bowdlerizing troops have also visited the Museum – which is why all the information notes pertaining to the artifacts that mention the history of the Kingdoms of Judea and Israel now also mention the word “Palestine” – even 3,000 years B.C. – while the name was only given to the land in 135 A.D. by Roman Emperor Hadrian when he incorporated it into the Roman Empire.”

This is beyond depressing; it’s shocking. The “Big Lie” Nazi-esque narrative has been thrust upon every corner of culture, education and “dialogue” in the weak and subdued West. There is no escape from this Islamic imperialism. Shariah enforcement extends far beyond the obvious attempts to silence critics of jihad and Shariah. The scrubbing of the 270 million victims of jihadi wars, land appropriations, cultural annihilations and enslavements from academic texts has been going on for well over a decade. The demonization and smearing of politicians who dare speak against the most extreme and radical ideology on the face of the earth is virtually automatic at this point, as is the self-enforcing Shariah compliance of the mainstream media. And now, history itself is being rewritten.

There is no “historical” Palestine – it’s Israel. The Romans wanted to punish the Jews after their defeat at Masada in the first century. The Roman emperor Hadrian meant to erase the name of Israel and Judah, so that there would be no memory of the country that belonged to that Jewish people. He wanted a name that would humiliate the Jews, and found that in an extinct people called the “Philistines,” the enemies of the Israelites.

Some things never change – but it is fitting that the namesake of today’s “Palestinians” is the Philistines. And they do indeed mirror the savagery of that ancient and now-extinct people.

Nor is the British Museum alone. 1001 Muslim Inventions, a traveling museum exhibit, has appeared all over the West to huge acclaim. (A half-million visitors attended it in Los Angeles alone.) It has indoctrinated hundreds of thousands of children into a rosy and romanticized view of Islam that makes them less appreciative of their own culture’s achievements and more complacent about Islamization in the West.

Definitely disturbing, and needs to be countered whereever it's being displayed. That's another something I hope Geller will bring up in her next conferences.

BRITISH WRITERS AND PLAYWRIGHTS WITH ANTI-ISRAEL POVs

Giulio Meotti's spoken about how many British writers are anti-Israel:

British intellectuals have gone anti-Semitic. Today you won't find a single Quixotic writer in the UK who would openly defend the State of Israel and its people. It is the debacle of the entire British cultural elite, a kind of ideological conformism like that in the Soviet Union, which Czeslaw Milosz called "the Captive Mind".

Famous UK author Iain Banks just announced that his novels would no longer be published in Israel. “I support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign because, especially in our instantly connected world, an injustice committed against one, or against one group of people, is an injustice against all, against every one of us; a collective injury,” Banks stated in The Guardian daily.

“My particular reason for participating in the cultural boycott of 'Israel' is that, first of all, I can; I’m a writer, a novelist, and I produce works that are, as a rule, presented to the international market,” underlined the best selling novelist.

Banks belongs to a long list of British writers who proclaim the sentence to death on the Jewish State and its people. It is impossible to keep a list of writers and poets who have endorsed Israel's elimination: Kevin Cadwallender, Jimmy Powdrell Campbell, Jenny Diski, Alison Fell, Naomi Foyle, Ian Gregson, Sarah Irving, Fred Johnstone, Wendy Klein, Diane Langford, Tom Leonard, Catherine Lupton...

And the list goes on and on. But at least I can save a load of money on their output, which probably didn't have much going for it anyway.

HONORING ISRAEL'S FALLEN HEROES

Today is War Memorial Day, and we again, we pay our respects to those who defend this country:

Remembrance Day ceremonies were held across Israel on Monday following a two-minute siren sounded at 11 am in honor of the country's fallen soldiers.

The number of Israelis who fell while in the line of duty stands at 23,085 on April 15.

"Look around you at the wonder called 'the State of Israel': Newly built Jerusalem, vibrant Tel Aviv, flourishing Haifa, the Negev and Galilee which are in a new momentum, and the whole State of Israel, which is a sun-lit island of stability and progress in a darkened, boiling, raging space," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during the main State ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

"Our success has been achieved thanks to you, citizens of Israel. From the days of the founders, through the generations which have continued to build and create and until our own generation.

"Facing the amassed threats, the IDF is stronger than ever. We'll keep bolstering our defenses, keep hoping and acting to reach peace with our neighbors, and keep defending our country," the PM said.

"We'll always remember – the Day of Independence we celebrate annually was achieved thanks to our fighters – those who survived the battles and those who gave their lives. With tearful eyes and a proud heart, we salute the fallen, our beloved, the heroes of Israel," he said.

Moshe Yaalon took the time to address the Iranian nuclear threat as well:

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon honored Israel's fallen soldiers at a Remembrance Day ceremony at the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery in Tel Aviv on Monday, saying that while Israel will always extend its hand for peace, it is forced into war by those who refuse to recognize the Jewish state's existence.

"There are still more than a few groups that refuse to recognize our right to a national Jewish home in the land of Israel in whichever borders, and we are forced to fight back in order to defeat their intentions," Ya'alon stated.

Ya'alon said that over time, the threats against Israel had not lessened, but only changed.

"Terror attacks, firing rockets on the civilian population and the delegitimiazation campaign are challenges before us in recent years that will accompany us in the foreseeable future as well, forcing us to respond aggressively," he said.

Ya'alon also addressed the Iranian nuclear threat saying that, "a nuclear program of a state that praises hatred of Jews and the destruction of Israel is being given life as we speak. If it is not dealt with appropriately, it will threaten Israel, the Middle East and the whole world."

The defense minister added that the world must never "sweep the Iranian nuclear problem under the rug," because history has shown that a lack of perseverance on such matters is a recipe for future tragedy.

Exactly. And it's a sad reality we're already facing.