SYRIA = FLYPAPER

This is why we need to keep the Syrian civil war/Syrian proxy war going:

WASH POST: "New wave of foreigners in Syrian fight"

AND WHY WHAT SPANISH AUTHORITIES ARE DOING IS COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE:

Eight people have been arrested in the Spanish territory of Ceuta on suspicion of recruiting jihadist fighters to go to Syria and elsewhere, police say. Those detained in the raids on Friday morning are accused of being part of a network linked to al-Qaeda. They are suspected of funding, indoctrinating and facilitating travel for would-be fighters. Police say the network was based in the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta and the Moroccan city of Fnideq. Interior Ministry Jorge Fernandez Diaz called the operation a "hard blow" against international terrorism.

WE NEED TO LET AS MANY FOREIGN FIGHTERS INTO SYRIA AS POSSIBLE, AND KEEP BOTH SIDES AT PARITY SO THAT THEY CAN KEEP KILLING AND KILLING AND KILLING EACH OTHER AND SO NEITHER CAN EVER GET CONTROL OF THIS STRATEGIC LAND AREA.

WE JUST NEED TO LET INNOCENT CIVILIANS FLEE TO TURKEY AND JORDAN.

BRITAIN ALLOWING MUSLIM PREACHER WHO CONDONES WIFE-BEATING TO ENTER THE COUNTRY

While Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer are the subjects of a campaign to keep them from entering the UK to speak at a rally against Islamofascism, the UK authorities are letting a most unwelcome creature in with the doors wide open (also via Jihad Watch):

In the light of the furore caused by Charles Saatchi's assault on his wife Nigella Lawson, the decision by the UK's Home Office to allow a radical Saudi preacher to come to Britain this week is interesting.

Mr Saatchi said he accepted a police caution for assault only to prevent a cloud hanging over the couple for months to come.

There was popular outrage at photographs published in a newspaper, and widespread condemnation which re-energised the debate about domestic violence.

Now entering the fray comes the popular Saudi preacher Muhhamed al Arefe who is a Sunni Muslim with pronounced views on Islam.

In the past he is alleged to have made anti-Semitic and anti-Shia Muslim views.

He certainly takes a different view of what in the UK is considered domestic violence.

He argues that a man "may use beatings to discipline his wife", but he says, "he must beat her lightly".

This caveat may explain why the Home Office, post Woolwich/Nigella, feels this is the sort of foreign preacher this country needs.

Despite our enlightened cleric's dubious views on Shia Muslims and Jews, which the Swiss felt were not the sort of the thing people should be propagating in the land of cuckoo clocks, the Home Office seems to take a different view.

Mr al Arefe is expected to preach at a London mosque at the weekend.

The Home Office told Sky News it would not comment on individual cases.

Correction: they just don't want to admit they're making a horrific mistake letting such an awful man into the country.

This serves as an example of how there are Muslim sects out there with nothing but hate for other sects too. The claim that beatings must be light is taqqiya, and even then, that's still legitimizing domestic violence. And tragically, the UK government is allowing him to enter and stir up more misogyny in the Muslim community.

IRAN'S NEW PRESIDENT TIED TO BOMBING OF JEWISH CENTER IN ARGENTINA

I didn't think the election of Hasan Rowhani would lead to anything better. Now, this so-called "moderate" Islamist has been exposed as yet another vile criminal (Hat tip: Jihad Watch):

Hasan Rowhani, the president-elect of Iran, was part of a special government task force that plotted in 1994 to bomb a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, a terrorist attack that ultimately left 85 dead and hundreds wounded.

The Washington Free Beacon first reported the connection on Thursday.

Argentine authorities say the Iranian government plotted the bombing while members of Hezbollah actually carried it out. Interpol still maintains a list of ‘most wanted’ Iranians believed to be tied to the attack, Ynet News reported.

A former Iranian intelligence officer who defected in the 1990s said the attack was the brainchild of a special committee tied to the Supreme National Security Council. Mr. Rowhani served as secretary of that council and as a member of the special committee during the formation of the bomb plot, Ynet said.

I think it's pretty obvious that Iran's nuclear development won't stop under this new tyrant.

IMMIGRATION TRUTH

I know several immigrants — legal and illegal — who are wonderful people of excellent character and a laudable work ethic. You likely can make the same observation about immigrants whom you encounter.

However, the chilling video below should make us realize that political activism appearing humanitarian and socially just in the short term may well be something else entirely in the long term. The speaker, immigration activist Eliseo Medina, has connections with the SEIU, the Communist Party USA, and the Democratic Socialist Party:


Some text from the video:

So I think there’s two things that matter for the progressive community. Number one, if we are to expand this electorate to win, the progressive community needs to solidly be on the side of immigrants, that we’ll expand and solidify the progressive coalition for the future…

When you are in the middle of a fight for your life you will remember who was there with you. And immigrants count on progressives to be able to do that.

Number two. “We reform the immigration laws, it puts 12 million people on the path to citizenship and eventually voters”. Can you imagine if we have, even the same ratio, two out of three? If we have eight million new voters who care about …… and will be voting. We will be creating a governing coalition for the long term, not just for an election cycle…

How many Congress critters are aware of the above? How many Congress critters CARE?

Also see The American Birdfeeder, which draws the perfect analogy.

Yes, we need immigration reform. But what KIND of immigration reform?

BEN-GURION'S ASSAULT ON THE ALTALENA DAMAGED FRENCH RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL

Moshe Fuksman-Shaal tells some interesting history about how the assault on the Altalena ship Ben-Gurion approved of did serious harm to Israel's relations with France:

Today is the 65th anniversary of the Altalena incident, which still stirs controversy. The Altalena was an Irgun ship bringing in weapons to help fend off the Arab invasion. But Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion saw it as an attempt to undermine the authority of his provisional government ordered that the Altalena be sunk. In the confrontation between the Irgun and the Israel Defense Forces, 16 Irgun members and three IDF soldiers died. An important arms shipment ended up at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea and Holocaust survivors who had come to fight the Arabs were shocked by the unexpected greeting they received from the Israeli government. A civil war was only avoided due to the determination of Irgun leader Menachem Begin, who opposed the members of his group who demanded retaliation.

Today, it is worth turning our attention to a previously overlooked aspect of the incident: the source of the weapons that were onboard the ship. The Altalena carried thousands of rifles, several hundred machine guns and millions of rounds of ammunition, as well as explosives, mortars, shells and body armor. The arms shipment, worth millions of dollars, was donated to the Irgun by the French government.

The French government's provision of weapons to the Irgun shocked Israel's provisional government, whose requests for military aid from Western nations, including Britain and the U.S., had been rebuffed. These countries had imposed an arms embargo on both Israel and its Arab opponents. Much to the provisional government's distress, it had to turn to the Communist bloc for weapons. After getting approval from Joseph Stalin, Czechoslovakia agreed to sell Israel the arms it needed. But the weapons weren't cheap, and, given the tough economic situation Israel was in, extraordinary efforts were required to raise the funds for the more than $12 million expenditure, a huge sum in those days that totaled one-third of Czechoslovakia's foreign currency income.

Despite the opposition of other Western countries, the French government, which consisted of former Resistance members who had fought the Nazis, decided to give weapons to the Irgun due to the French government's view of Irgun members as brothers-in-arms and its solidarity with the Irgun's fight against British colonialism.

For years, Irgun members had been portrayed as "dissidents" and "terrorists" who harmed the world's sympathy for the Zionist struggle. But now, the French arms shipment might change the public's attitude toward the Irgun, as the group had obtained an unforeseen gift from a Western government. [...]

After the sinking of the Altalena, the French government's anger at Ben-Gurion led to France's recognition of Israel being delayed for many months and it took almost a decade for France to openly support Israel.

Ben-Gurion was so embarrassed by the incident he opposed any investigation into it afterwards. He never apologized for inciting against the Irgun or attacking the ship, and ended up damaging relations with France, and possibly Czechoslovakia too. All out of pointless jealousy. Now, we have to hope this kind of news benefits Israel for the better.

JEWISH WHACKJOB AT WESTERN WALL YELLED "ALLAHU AKBAR" AND WAS SHOT DOWN

A peculiar incident took place at the Western Wall:

A Jewish man was killed on Friday morning at the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem after being shot multiple times by a security guard.

Initial reports indicated that the 46-year-old victim was in a public bathroom onsite, and that he shouted “Allahu Akbar,” an Arabic phrase meaning “God is greater.” The phrase, though common in Muslim parlance, has historically been shouted by terrorists ahead of perpetrating attacks in Israel.

The guard told police that the victim reached for his pocket while shouting the Arabic phrase.

Magen David Adom crews that arrived on the scene attempted to resuscitate the man, who succumbed to his wounds at the scene.

It's very sad this had to happen, but when somebody starts yelling the phrases common among jihadists, this is what can happen. The assumption for now is that the man was a loonybin, but he could have been a convert to Islam, which sadly, is possible depending on how demented the person in question is.

WAS GANDOLFINI MURDERED.... WHACKED BY SOME REAL ITALIAN MAFIOSI???

AY, NO DISRESPECT...

JUST ASKING... ON ACCOUNT OF THE FACT THAT HE LOOKED AND SOUNDED FINE THAT DAY:

MAYBE HE WAS POISONED BY SOME ITALIAN MAFIOSI WHO DIDN'T LIKE GANDOLFINI OR THE SOPRANOS TREATMENT OF LA COSA NOSTRA?

PUTIN PUBLICLY SCHOOLS CAMERON ON THE TRUE NATURE OF THE SO-CALLED SYRIAN REBELS

Asked about the issue, Mr Putin, speaking through an interpreter, defended his decision to continue supplying weapons to the regime, which he said was no more than completing legal contracts. And in a direct message to Mr Cameron, he added: 

"Recently the British people suffered a huge loss. It was a tragedy next to his barracks on the streets of London. A violent assassination, a very brutal killing of a British serviceman. Clearly the opposition is not composed all of this but many of them are exactly the same as the ones who perpetrated the killing in London. If we equip these people, if we arm them what is going to control and verify who is going to have these weapons, including in Europe as well. So we call all our partners, before making this dangerous step, think about it very carefully."

PUTIN IS RIGHT. OBAMA AND CAMERON ARE WRONG.

IS THE DEPT OF TREAS PAYING IRS AGENTS HUSH MONEY?

LOOKS LIKE THAT TO ME...

WAS TWA 800 THE VICTIM OF A TERRORIST ATTACK?

That's what the producers of a new documentary about the plane that exploded in 1996 are trying to figure out:

The producers of an upcoming documentary on TWA Flight 800—which exploded and crashed into the waters off Long Island, N.Y., on July 17, 1996, killing all 230 people on board—claim to have proof that a missile caused the Paris-bound flight to crash. And six former investigators who took part in the film say there was a cover-up and want the case reopened.

"There was a lack of coordination and willful denial of information," Hank Hughes, a senior accident investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, said on Wednesday during a conference call with reporters. "There were 755 witnesses. At no time was information provided by the witnesses shared by the FBI." [...]

Dozens of eyewitnesses in the Long Island area "recalled seeing something resembling a flare or firework ascend and culminate in an explosion," the CIA said in a 2008 report. "Had the crash been the result of state-sponsored terrorism, it would have been considered an act of war."

ABC News (via Hot Air) says:

TWA Flight 800 exploded in mid-air on July 17, 1996 about 11 minutes after taking off from New York’s JFK airport on its way to Paris. Though theories abounded as to what happened to the plane — from a bomb on the aircraft to it being struck by a missile or even a meteorite — the National Transportation Safety Board concluded after a four-year investigation that the probable cause of the crash was an accidental fuel tank explosion. The NTSB said it could not be sure what exactly ignited the blast, but “of the sources evaluated by the investigation, the most likely was a short circuit outside of the [fuel tank] that allowed excessive voltage to enter it through electrical wiring…”

But according to the new documentary, named TWA Flight 800 and premiering on Epix next month, six former members of the official crash investigation have stepped forward to refute the NTSB’s findings, saying the crash report was purposefully falsified, and to claim the investigation was “systematically undermined” by federal authorities.

“We didn’t find any part of the airplane that indicated a mechanical failure,” one of the whistleblowers says in a trailer for the film. The former officials allege the explosion came from outside the plane, though they don’t speculate any further on the original source.

Another of the whistleblowers, former senior accident investigator with the NTSB Hank Hughes, said in a preview of the documentary that FBI agents were spotted on surveillance cameras going through the hanger where the crash evidence was kept “in the wee hours of the morning… for purposes unknown.”

While even the filmmakers don't want to jump to conclusions, this is eyebrow raising information, and I hope to see the documentary myself when it's ready. And with the number of witnesses they had, that's one more reason why this may be something to take note of.

MUSLIM THREATENED TO MURDER HIS MOTHER FOR SERVING PORK

This appears to be a convert who tried committing such a horror, and the crime took place in Pennsylvania (via The Jawa Report):

[Joshua Lee] Coffey accused his mother of “attempting to poison him,” noting that “the meat he was given to eat was pork, which was against his Muslim religion," according to a probable cause affidavit. A criminal complaint alleges that Coffey “did threaten to kill his mother…due to his displeasure with the dinner served to him.”

During the ensuing argument, Coffey allegedly threatened to kill his mother and her boyfriend (with whom she had been eating dinner in her bedroom).

At one point, Coffey went to the kitchen and retrieved a 10-inch kitchen knife. He then returned to the bedroom and “held the knife in a threatening manner,” prompting his mother to “flee out the window of the bedroom onto the roof.” Sherri Coffey subsequently called 911 and then went to a neighbor’s home to await the arrival of officers.

It's clear that letting our children convert to Islam without opposition and then even allowing them to visit without repenting can be very dangerous.

VICTIM OF BOSTON JIHAD CALLS CULPRITS' MOTHER JUST WHAT SHE IS: VILE

A lady who was badly injured in the explosion also says we have to discuss the Religion of Rape more, and not adhere to PC trash (via Jihad Watch):

A Boston Marathon bombing victim hospitalized for weeks after the blasts lashed out at the mother of the accused bombers, calling Zubeidat Tsarnaeva “vile” for her jihad-laced rants and denials.

Michelle L’Heureux, a 38-year-old John Hancock consultant, told the Herald yesterday it’s time to stop being “politically correct” and speak out — making her one of the first victims to stand up to the terror-talking Chechen family.

“I feel a little bit of hatred towards her. I think she is a vile person,” L’Heureux said of the mom. “If you don’t like our country, get out. It’s as simple as that.”

L’Heureux lost most of her left knee in the blasts, and 30 percent of her hearing in her left ear. Her left arm is riddled with shrapnel scars, and there’s a piece of metal still inside her leg. She was 8 feet away from the first blast on Boylston Street. She came to the city to see her boyfriend cross the finish line.

“To come in and hurt all these children and people. ... I don’t know any other religion that kills for their religion and think they are going to heaven. That part’s tough to understand,” she said. [...]

“A Muslim terrorist bombed us, and people need to start talking about that more, instead of being so politically correct,” L’Heureux said. “The more politically correct we are, and the more ‘Oh, let’s not hurt their feelings,’ the more they’re going to be able to do these type of things.

Excellent common sense. It is the silence of the dhimmis that enables and encourages the jihadists to commit their obscene assaults on human dignity, and that's something that needs to be overcome. And the mother of the jihadists should be called other things besides vile: she should also be called filthy excrement. People who raise their children on hate and evil are asking to be called some of the most vulgar things possible.

SHAS PARTY THINKS "REALISM" IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN IDEOLOGY

Their members are taking part in a leftist conference this week:

Dozens of senior members of the Shas party are taking part this week in an event led by the far-left Geneva Initiative group in which the group teaches its view of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Shas MK and former minister Yaakov Margi explained his party’s decision to participate. “The facts that we see with our own eyes when it comes to demography, facts on the group, and world opinion – cannot be ignored,” he said.

“While we are connected to the land of Israel and to a united Jerusalem on the emotional level, and while our claim is just, we have to find creative solutions,” he continued.

“I am very right-wing ideologically, but reality is stronger than any ideology,” he added.

Margi’s hint at “creative solutions” regarding Jerusalem may come as a surprise to Shas votes. The party has traditionally pledged not to compromise on the status of Israel’s capital.

To me it doesn't come as a surprise. I wonder if they were paid to attend this? They go wherever the money does, and their willingness to associate themselves with such vile people is proof of the pudding they were never truly in favor of a united Jewish state, or Jerusalem. This is basically a suggestion they're willing to divide the very city they live in, made all the more dangerous when Aryeh Deri is their leader again. Margi also has no idea what he means by "reality", when he's willing to legitimize leftist propaganda.

ALICE WALKER STOOPS TO MORE ANTI-SEMITISM

I wonder what Steven Spielberg thinks of the woman whose Color Purple he adapted in 1985 now that she's making her hatred clearer than before?

American writer Alice Walker, who has long made clear her antipathy toward the state of Israel, “has taken her extreme and hostile views to a shocking new level” in her latest book of meditations on life and her personal activism, according to a review of the book by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

Walker’s “The Cushion in the Road” devotes 80 pages to fervently anti-Jewish ideas, explicit comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany.

The 12 essays of the section, titled “On Palestine,” which make up a quarter of the book, are rife with comparisons of Israelis to Nazis, denigrations of Judaism and Jews, and statements suggesting that Israel should cease to exist as a Jewish state. Walker’s book also attempts to justify terrorism against Israeli civilians, claiming that the “oppressed” Palestinians should not be blamed for carrying out suicide bombings.

“Alice Walker has sunk to new lows with essays that remove the gloss of her anti-Israel activism to reveal someone who is unabashedly infected with anti-Semitism,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director.

“She has taken her extreme and hostile views to a shocking new level, revealing the depth of her hatred of Jews and Israel to a degree that we have not witnessed before. Her descriptions of the conflict are so grossly inaccurate and biased that it seems Walker wants the uninformed reader to come away sharing her hate-filled conclusions that Israel is committing the greatest atrocity in the history of the world.”

She also does a grave disservice to African-Americans, and I wouldn't even want to buy the Color Purple after this.

GANDOLFINI: RIP

RIP.

EUSSR ABOUT TO OFFICIALLY ERADICATE FREE SPEECH: WILL LIFT LE PEN'S IMMUNITY SO FRENCH SOCIALISTS CAN CHARGE HER WITH "HATE SPEECH" FOR COMPARING THE BLATANT ISLAMIFICATION OF PARIS TO NAZI OCCUPATION

The full [EUROPEAN] parliament is now expected to formally lift her protection from prosecution as an MEP after a vote on the recommendation on July 3, clearing the way for her to face race hate charges in a French court. 

Sajjad Karim, a British Tory MEP on the parliament's legal affairs committee, voted in favour Ms Le Pen losing her parliamentary immunity. 

"There is a red line between freedom of speech and inciting racial hatred," he said. "I, along with many other MEPs, today voted to drop Ms Le Pen's immunity and I am confident that the majority of the European Parliament will follow our lead in July." 

French prosecutors asked the EU assembly last November to lift the French National Front leader's immunity as a lawmaker so she could be prosecuted for remarks likening Islamic prayers to the Nazi occupation. 

Ms Le Pen faces charges for comments she made in a speech to National Front supporters in December 2010 when she denounced the holding of Muslim prayers in the streets of France in areas where there are no mosques. 

"For those who like to talk about World War II, to talk about occupation, we could talk about, for once, the occupation of our territory. There are no armoured vehicles, no soldiers, but it is an occupation all the same and it weighs on people," she said.

LE PEN SPOKE THE TRUTH, AND AS THE WISE WOMAN SAID: TRUTH IS THE NEW HATE SPEECH.

THERE ARE MANY "NO GO" NEIGHBORHOODS ALL OVER EUROPE'S MAJOR CITIES.

BELGIUM HAS AN OFFICIAL SHARIA PARTY THAT IS SEEKING TO GAIN ENOUGH POWER TO ALLOW THE AREAS UNDER ITS CONTROL TO SECEDE.

AND ISLAM IS MORE FOREIGN TO EUROPE THAN THE NAZIS WERE TO FRANCE.

LE PEN SPOKE THE TRUTH

THE TRUTH IS ONLY OFFENSIVE TO THE BAD, THE WRONG, THE GUILTY AND THE EVIL.

AND THEY ARE NOW IN CONTROL OF EUROPE.

I WANT TO MAKE THIS VERY CLEAR:

THE COMPARISON OF ISLAMISM TO NAZISM IS UNFAIR TO NAZIS.

• THE NAZIS DIDN'T THROW ACID IN THE FACES OF THEIR DAUGHTERS FOR NOT BEING MODESTLY DRESSED, OR DENY WOMEN AN EDUCATION.

• THE NAZIS DIDN'T DESTROY THE ART THEY FELT WAS PERVERSE.

• YES: THE NAZIS USED TERROR WHEN THEY BOMBED LONDON, BUT THEY MOSTLY USED VIOLENCE  FOR MILITARY ATTACKS ON MILITARY SITES AND ASSETS.

• THE NAZIS DIDN'T BEHEAD THEIR ENEMIES OR SET UP GROOMING GANGS OR PRACTICE RAPE JIHAD.

• AND THE NAZIS - WHO KILLED FEWER HUMANS THAN STALIN - KILLED FAR FEWER THAN ISLAM HAS SINCE MOHAMMED.

• YES: THE HOLOCAUST IS INDEED A UNIQUELY HORRIBLE CHAPTER, UNEQUALED IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY IN ITS EVIL. BUT STALIN SENT MORE TO THEIR DEATHS - AND TOGETHER WITH MAO THESE THREE SOCIALISTS STILL KILLED LESS THAN ISLAM HAS.

JUST SAYING...

LE PEN IS RIGHT TO SOUND A WARNING.

IT'S SAD HER WARNING IS BEING TREATED AS A CRIME.

ULTIMATELY, IF ISLAM DOES GAIN A MAJORITY POSITION IN EUROPE  AS IT SEEMS TO BE, STEADILY, THEN IT IS THE EUROPEANS WHO WILL BE PUNISHED... BY 1000 YEARS OF DARKNESS...

PITY...

TODAY'S ANTI-IRS RALLY OUTDRAWS OBAMA'S ASTRO-TURFED BERLIN SPEECH

OUR TEAM IS RED-HOT; THEIR TEAM IS ALL SHOT.

THE MASK SLIPS, AT THE ZOO...

I went to a zoo with a life-long leftist - and American, born and bred here -  and big-shot at a world famous NGO.

When we got to the wild turkeys, I mentioned two things: first, that I preferred Jim Beam or Old Grandad, or IW Harper. or Maker's Mark - (to Wild Turkey - which went over his/her head), and second, that Ben Franklin wanted the turkey to be our national bird and not the eagle because the eagle was a predator.

The NGO leftist said the predator was more apt.

I mentioned that Europeans might not feel that way and (s)he ignored me and went to see the emu's...

Postmodern leftists believe that America has been a bad player in history - a predatory and hegemonic empire - and hate the USA as much as they hate Israel and Judeo-Christian civilization.

The key reasons they feel this way are simple - and simply false:

1. they blame the West for sexual repression
2. they blame the West for causing catastrophic climate change
3. they blame the West for most of humanity's genocide
4. they blame the West for Third Word poverty

ALL of these notions - foundational to the left's hatred for the West and Jude-Christianity and the USA - are false.

Here's the truth:

• Women are more liberated in he West than anywhere on Earth
• personal liberty without Natural Law devolves into libertinage, and widespread libertinage devolves into anarchy and epidemics

• Climate change is natural, a little warming is beneficial, and CO2 is benign

• Most of humanity's genocide was committed in the name of Islam, and socialism killed more people in the 20thC than Jews and Christians killed in the preceding 20 centuries.

• Third World poverty is the result of their lack of industrialization, and their kleptocracies; Asia was once poorer than Africa but prospered when it became more Western and more industrialized and developed more commericial exchange with USA and the West.
• In addition, CO2phobia and the climate alarmists are killing Third Worlders by making it next to impossible for them to industrialize.

And without the left acting as a Fifth Column in the West, global jihad wouldn't have gotten a toe-hold which is fast becoming a threatening stranglehold.

WHICH IS WHY I HAVE LONG SAID, IF WE WANT TO MAKE GLOBAL POVERTY AND GLOBAL IGNORANCE HISTORY, THEN WE NEED TO MAKE LEFTISM HISTORY.

GUN CONTROL ADVOCACY GROUP PUTS JIHADIST ON THEIR LIST OF VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE

This is an outrage. A gun control activist group in New Hampshire put Tamerlan Tsarnaev on their list of victims of gun violence (Hat tip: Hot Air):

The event [in Concord, New Hampshire] had people supporting the Mayors Against Illegal Guns movement, founded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, reading the names of those “killed with guns” since the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary outside their “No More Names” bus…

Some of the loudest shouts came when a reader spoke the name of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects who was killed by police during a gunfight.

“He’s a terrorist,” several protesters shouted.

What else could the vile scum who shamelessly pulled that stunt be promoting? The idea that police shouldn't have guns either? What MAIG has done is offensive to the victims of Tsarnaev in Boston and desecrates their memory. Bloomberg has a lot of explaining to do for why he's founded a group like that if they're going to include violent criminals on their lists.

EU SUPPORTS FREE PRESS

The American Thinker found that the EU's stood up to the UN's dhimmitude and the OIC's dominance:

The European Parliament (EP) in Strasbourg passed two resolutions Thursday, each detailing a set of recommendations to protect the rights of journalists to speak and print freely. 21

"The EU, as a community of values, should aspire to lead in ensuring the free word, whether blogged or spoken, and information, whether researched or photographed, are protected. Journalists and a free, pluralist media, are essential for democracies and checks on power. Freedom of speech and freedom after speech are at the core of open and free societies," said Marietje Schaake (ALDE, NL), rapporteur for press and media freedom in the world. The EP is the directly elected parliament of the European Union. [...]

Both moves by the EP stand in contrast to the more restrictive policies endorsed by the United Nations (UN) and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The OIC has endorsed "blasphemy laws" -- the same type of law denounced by the EP in today's resolution. Although now blasphemy laws are often euphemistically referred to as laws protecting the "defamation of religion," the concept remains the same -- laws that punish non-incitement speech about religion. The UN has worked with the OIC to help codify this type of speech restriction as international law.

This is a positive development, considering the EU does still suffer from some dhimmitude themselves. Now it'll be additionally appreciated if they're willing to cut out any demands that Israel label produce from Judea/Samaria.

BRITISH PET SHOP BOYS BAND WILL PLAY IN ISRAEL

There was an anti-Israel campaign in the UK trying to get the Pet Shop Boys to cancel their concert here. Fortunately, the duo running the show stood strong. For now, anyway. And the plus is that the duo also made clear that Israel, unlike African concerts in the past, does not run segregated seating at its concert halls.

MORE PROOF OBAMA IS A TRAITOR: WANTS TO WEAKEN OUR NUCLEAR DEFENSES BY 30%

US President Barack Obama is to use his speech at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate to propose cuts of one-third in American and Russian nuclear arsenals, US officials say. They say he will also call for reductions in the number of tactical warheads deployed in Europe.

THE WORLD IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN EVER - THE NROKS HAVE NUKES AND SOON IRAN WILL TOO.

SO WHAT DOES OBAMA WANT TO DO?

MAKE OUR RETALIATORY THREAT WEAKER.

HE'S NOT FOR PEACE; OBAMA IS ON THE OTHER SIDE.

NYTIMES: OBAMA A LOUSY DIPLOMAT

NYTIMES: Extending a Hand Abroad, Obama Often Finds a Cold Shoulder:

... the two bruising encounters in such a short span underscore a hard reality for Mr. Obama as he heads deeper into a second term that may come to be dominated by foreign policy: his main counterparts on the world stage are not his friends, and they make little attempt to cloak their disagreements in diplomatic niceties. 

Even his friends are not always so friendly. On Wednesday, for example, the president is to meet in Berlin with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, who has invited him to deliver a speech at the Brandenburg Gate. But Ms. Merkel is also expected to press Mr. Obama about the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs, which offend privacy-minded Germans. 

For all of his effort to cultivate personal ties with foreign counterparts over the last four and a half years — the informal “shirt-sleeves summit” with Mr. Xi was supposed to nurture a friendly rapport that White House aides acknowledge did not materialize — Mr. Obama has complicated relationships with some, and has bet on others who came to disappoint him.

IOW: OBAMA SUCKS.

UPDATE: MORE PROOF OBAMA SUCKS:

The Afghan president on Wednesday suspended talks with the United States on a new security deal to protest the way his government was being left out of initial peace negotiations with the Taliban meant to find a way to end the nearly 12-year war. The move by Hamid Karzai raises tensions significantly and could derail the peace process even before it has begun.

OBAMA WOULD RATHER CHAT WITH THE TALIBAN THAN KARZAI.

OBAMA GIRLS DO IT AGAIN: DRESS LIKE CRAP WHILE MAKING AN OFFICIAL APPEARANCE

SHEESH: On an official state visit, the Obama girls dressed up like they were going to the mall:

But they were not making a little quiet, personal and private visit to the mall. They were

I don't give a crap what the Obama girls wear in their private time: at school; at home - whenever they are not making an official appearance.

But this was an official state visit. 

THIS SHOWS NO RESPECT FOR OUR COUNTRY - WHICH THEY REPRESENT - OR RESPECT FOR THE HOST COUNTRY.

IT'S DISRESPECTFUL AND SICKENING.

‏

It isn't the first time - 

- and therefore... it's an accurate reflection of their parents values.

Since turnaround is fair-play, the Northern Ireland official (in first the photo at the top of this post) by rights could have shown up in a sweatpants, sneakers, and a t-shirt.

But he is showing more respect for us than Obama and his family are showing to him and his compatriots.

Awful.

I apologize.

8 YEARS LATER AND THE HOUSE FOLLOWS RELIAPUNDIT'S STRATEGY: ROLLS BACK THE LEGAL ABORTION DATE BASED ON VIABILITY

TODAY - VIA HOT AIR:

NBC:House passes bill banning abortions after 22 weeks

TAB IN 2005.

ONE YEAR LATER AND SENATOR MIKE LEE AGREES WITH RELIAPUNDIT: LOOKS LIKE ROBERTS WAS INTIMIDATED INTO CHANGING HIS VOTE ON OBAMACARE

TODAY:

HMM: Was Justice Roberts Intimidated Into Voting for ‘ObamaCare’? Senator Mike Lee Presents the Evidence. 

Posted at 2:47 pm by Glenn Reynolds  

TAB A YEAR AGO.

HERE'S WHY SOME WESTERNERS SAY ISLAM IS A "RELIGION OF PEACE"

GEORGE W. BUSH AND OBAMA AND MANY IN BETWEEN CALL ISLAM A "RELIGION OF PEACE".

DO THEY BELIEVE IT?

NOPE.

BUT THEY SAY IT - FOR TWO REASONS.

• WESTERNERS WHO WANT TO PREVENT THE ISLAMIZATION OF THE WEST SAY IT BECAUSE THEY FEEL THAT IF THEY CALL ISLAM WHAT IT IS, THAT THEY WILL LOSE ONE BILLION MUSLIMS AND BROADEN THE GLOBAL CONFLICT.

• THESE WESTERNERS THINK THEY CAN PUT A WEDGE BETWEEN THE ISLAMISTS AND MOST MUSLIMS, AND MARGINALIZE THE ISLAMISTS.

• THIS STRATEGY IGNORES THE KORAN, THE HADITHS, AND THE SURA AND THE FACT THAT THE ISLAMISTS ARE THE ONES WHO ARE MOST EMULATING MOHAMMED. 

• THEY USE THIS STRATEGY IN THE HOPE THAT IGNORANT NON-MUSLIMS AND IGNORANT MUSLIMS WILL REMAIN DETACHED AND ON THE SIDELINES.

• THEY CALL PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPLICITLY OPPOSED TO ISLAMIFICATION ISLAMOPHOBES AND EXTREMISTS FOR THE SAME REASON: TO MARGINALIZE US.

MANY MUSLIMS ALSO CALL ISLAM A RELIGION OF PEACE.

BUT THEY ARE JUST LYING; IT'S CALLED TAQIYAH IN ARABIC, AND IT'S A STRATEGY THEY USE WHILE PRACTICING CREEPING ISLAMIFICATION.

I THINK THE WESTERNERS WHO CALL ISLAM A RELIGION OF PEACE AND SEEK TO MARGINALIZE THE EXTREMISTS ARE, UNFORTUNATELY, ONLY GIVING THE ISLAMISTS MORE TIME TO STRENGTHEN THEIR ATTACKS IN BREADTH AND FORCE:

THEY ARE NOW ATTACKING US IN MORE PLACES AND WITH MORE WEAPONS AND WILL SOON HAVE NUKES.

NO ONE IN THE HISTORY OF ISLAM HAS DONE MORE TO SPREAD ISLAMISM MORE WIDELY THAN BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA.

HE - AND HIS CLOSEST ALLY RECIP ERDOGAN - HAVE GIVEN THE ENEMY TUNISIA AND LIBYA AND EGYPT AND AFGHANISTAN AND SOON SYRIA AND IRAQ.

THEY HAVEN'T BEEN CHECKED ANYWHERE; THEY ARE ON THE MOVE EVERYWHERE.

THEY FEEL FREE TO BEHEAD OUR SOLDIERS, RAPE OUR CHILDREN, AND BOMB OUR GATHERINGS IN OUR OWN CITIES.

AND BY "THEY" I MEAN THE PEOPLE WHO BELONG TO... "THE RELIGION OF PEACE".

BERNIE SAUNDERS IS CORRECT ON THE IMMIGRATION BILL AND MARCO RUBIO ALL WRONG

I NEVER THOUGHT I'D BE AGREEING WITH THE SELF-DESCRIBED SOCIALIST, BUT WHEN HE'S RIGHT... HE'S RIGHT:

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a liberal independent, ripped the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill on Tuesday on the Senate floor, arguing it would give American jobs to foreigners in a time when Americans need those jobs more than ever. Sanders said that, while he supports many parts of the Gang of Eight bill, including the amnesty or path to citizenship with legalization, “what I do not support is that at a time when nearly 14 percent of Americans do not have a full-time job, at a time when youth unemployment is somewhere around 16 percent and kids from California to Maine are desperately seeking employment, I do not support a huge expansion in the guest worker program that will allow hundreds of thousands of entry-level guest workers to come into this country.”

FOR MANY REASONS, THIS IS THE WRONG BILL AT THE WRONG TIME.

ONLY POLITICIANS WHO PLACE THEIR OWN AMBITIONS ABOVE THE COUNTRY'S WELL-BEING COULD SUPPORT IT.

NEWS FROM SODOM AND GOMMORAH

SODOMITES AND GOMMORAHCANOS WEREN'T SINFUL OR DEBAUCHED; THEY WERE JUST TOLERANT AND INTO DIVERSITY.

THOUGH, I THINK EVEN THEY WOULD BE SHOCKED BY SOME OF THE TRANSGENDER STUFF REPORTED NONCHALANTLY IN TODAY'S NEWS; HERE ARE A FEW OF THE RECENT HEADLINES:

• CNN: Former Navy SEAL comes out as transgender

• ABCNEWS: Transgender Candidate Could Become a First in NYC

• NPR: Transgender Youth Battle The Odds

• POLICYMIC: Meet the 15-Year-Old Transgender Teen in Maine Leading the Fight For Equal Rights

• CBS: Calif. Bill Would Allow Transgender Students To Have Equal Access To School Programs, Facilities

WHAT'S NEXT? I SHUDDER TO THINK... MAYBE.... REASSIGNING SOME PEOPLE AS SOME OTHER ANIMAL SPECIES, (AFTER SOME ARTFUL SURGERY/MUTILATION), AND BESTIALITY, I GUESS...

DON'T SMIRK AND CALL ME A RIGHT-WINGNUT; IT'S ALSO A HEADLINE FROM TODAY'S NEWS:

Waukesha man argues constitutional right of goat love, charges filed 

A 41-year-old Waukesha man was charged last week with allegedly arguing (loudly) on behalf of one of America’s lesser known freedoms: the right of a man to love a goat.

WE'RE NOT ON A SLIPPERY SLOPE.

WE'RE DEEP IN A CESSPOOL OF AMORALITY.

JUST SAYING....

AND ANOTHER THING: ITS NO ACCIDENT THAT ALL THE LEFT-WING DOMINATED MEDIA OUTLETS IN THE LIST ABOVE ARE PUSHING THE TRANSGENDER ITEMS.

IT'S THE NEXT ITEM IN THE POSTMODERN LEFT'S GRAMSCIAN AGENDA.

ALINSKY, CLOWARD & PIVEN AND GRAMSCI: THE AUTHORS OF THE STRATEGIES BEING USED BY THE POSTMODERN LEFT TO DESTORY WESTERN CIVILIZATION IN ORDER TO REPLACE IT WITH A SOCIALIST, SEXUALLY PERMISSIVE NANNYSTATE.

AND THEY'RE WINNING.

SIGH...

DETROIT: PROGRESSIVE "DREAM" REALIZED

Asylum Watch has an excellent comprehensive post on the plight of Detroit. Money quote from that post:

Detroit said Friday [June 14, 203] it would stop making payments on about $2.5 billion in unsecured debt and ask creditors to take about 10 cents on the dollar of what the city owes them in a move to avoid what bankruptcy experts have said would be the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Detroit used to be a city and region to which people went to fulfill the American dream. No more!

The same kind of thing may be in progress in California: San Bernardino, Stockton, and, possibly, Los Angeles.

Democratic Party control of a city or region is economic disaster — time and time again.

UPDATE (RELIAPUNDIT):

VIDEO: BLACK DEMOCRAT LEAVES PLANTATION AND COMES HOME TO THE GOP

OBAMA'S PAL MORSI JUST APPOINTED A TERRORIST GOVERNOR OF LUXOR

OBAMA OUSTED MUBARAK FOR THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD. 

AND OBAMA HAS RELEASED $1 BILLION IN AID TO EGYPT.

SO,,, WHAT IS MORSI DOING?

THIS:

Morsi Appoints Member of Al Qaeda Allied Group that Massacred European Tourists in Luxor, Governor of Luxor

OBAMA IS AIDING THE ENEMY, WHICH MAKES HIM A TRAITOR TO THE USA - 

THE ENEMY IS ISLAMISM WHICH MAKES OBAMA ALSO A TRAITOR TO JUDEO-CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION.

DOCUMENTS SHOW FBI SCRUBBED MATERIAL DEEMED "OFFENSIVE" TO MUSLIMS

Tom Fitton at Big Peace wrote about the FBI's dhimmitude in the past few years:

Judicial Watch recently released hundreds of pages of FBI memos and other documents revealing that, in 2012, the agency purged its anti-terrorism training curricula of material determined by an undisclosed group of “Subject Matter Experts” (SME) to be “offensive” to Muslims. The excised material included references linking the Muslim Brotherhood to terrorism, tying al Qaeda to the 1993 World Trade Center and Khobar Towers bombings, and suggesting that “young male immigrants of Middle Eastern appearance … may fit the terrorist profile best.”

These discoveries all stem from our investigation of a February 8, 2012, meeting between FBI Director Robert Mueller and various Islamic organizations. During the meeting, Mueller reportedly assured the Islamic groups in attendance that the agency had ordered the removal of presentations and curricula on Islam from FBI offices around the country that were deemed “offensive.”

Fitton says that as the jihad in Boston shows, the country is less safe if Muslim sensibilities are going to be put ahead of public safety.

"HEY, I GOT A GREAT IDEA: WITH THE ECONOMY BARELY GROWING, LET'S IMPORT A FEW MILLION UNSKILLED WORKERS!"

THE BILL IN THE SENATE WILL INEVITABLE EXPAND IMMIGRATION - AND NOT OF HIGHLY SKILLED LABOR.

THIS WILL EXPAND UNEMPLOYMENT, EXPAND GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES AND LOWER WAGES.

IT'S THE WRONG BILL AT THE WORST POSSIBLE TIME.

SOMETIMES, THE MASK SLIPS AND LEFTISTS SAY EXACTLY WHAT THEY BELIEVE - AND IT'S SCARY

Me and some right-wing pals had dinner with an leftie old friend - (a left-winger who works at a famous NGO) - after (s)he went to a memorial for an older old friend - also a big-time leftie.

One of the events in the LATE leftie's life - which was prominently noted in the program of the memorial -  was the first big protest (s)he organized in the 50's: an effort to get the author Howard Fast permission to speak on the campus of an Ivy Legue University. The author of SPARTACUS had been a member of the CP and the administration banned him. At the time, they demanded the First Amendment rights!

One of the right-wingers - (A PERSON WHO HAD BEEN ON THE LEFT IN THE 1950's) - pointed out that IRONICALLY the left was trying to BAN conservative speakers from appearing almost anywhere - speakers like David Horowitz, Ann Coulter, Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller have been attacked and their scheduled venues and hosts threatened by leftists, even when they agree to appear in a structured debate.

The leftie who works at the famous NGO didn't bat an eye and immediately played the GODWIN'S LAW card: she said some people don't deserve to speak and that, for example, (s)he would ban a NAZI from speaking!

I pointed out that the First Amendment protects free speech - all speech, not just speech on the left, not just speech you like.

(S)he replied that she did not believe in free speech because some speech is bad, reprehensible and dangerous.

I said that speech you don't like and that is offensive is exactly speech that had to be protected. Besides: who gets to decide what speech is good and which is bad? It leads to tyranny.

I pointed out that while the left was attacking Coulter and Horowitz and trying to shut down their appearances on every campus and often disrupting their speeches - they were defending Ahmadinejad's appearance at Columbia University.

NO REPLY. CONVERSATION OVER.

(S)he wouldn't speak to me for hours - as if I'd uttered an offensive thing by defending the Bill of Rights!

(S)he had honestly - or by a slip of the tongue/slip of the mask - revealed ONCE AGAIN that the heart and soul of the left is basically, intrinsically and inextricably antagonistic of individual rights.

This is why a committed leftist should never be given any authority in American government: they should not be trusted with power.

Tricky, mendacious scum like Obama ONLY manage to get elected by lying and denying that they hate individual liberty.

And as soon as they get enough power, they diminish our liberty - as Obama has via Obamacare and the EPA and the IRS and the AP/FOX surveillance and the NSA surveillance.

Scratch a leftist and you find a person who likes tyranny.

CHENEY AGREES WITH RELIAPUNDIT: SNOWDEN IS PROBABLY A SPY, NOT A LIBERTY-LOVING WHISTLE-BLOWER

I'VE BEEN SAYING FROM THE GET-GO.

TO THE SOUND OF CRICKETS.

I AM GLAD CHENEY IS EQUALLY SUSPICIOUS.

MAYBE NOW MORE PEOPLE WILL LISTEN.

RECEP ERDOGAN THINKS IT'S HIS OH-SO SACRED DUTY TO END PROTESTS AGAINST HIM

The sick Turkish premier has gone about justifying his actions against opposition to his totalitarian rule:

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday it was his "duty" to order riot police to evict activists occupying an Istanbul park that became a center of defiance against his rule, even as the government crackdown continued across town with tear gas fired at protesters trying to regroup.

In a thunderous speech to hundreds of thousands of supporters in western Istanbul, Erdogan also railed against foreign media coverage of the unrest amid criticism over his government's handling of the protests that left his international image battered, and exposed deep rifts within Turkish society. [...]

Protesters are angry over the eviction of overwhelmingly peaceful activists at Gezi Park, next to Taksim Square, who oppose government plans to rip down its trees and erect a replica Ottoman-era barracks. But the protests quickly spiraled into a widespread denunciation of what many say is Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian way of governing, charges he vehemently denies.

Sad he's got his share of supporters. They're all misleading and deluding themselves. The man is nothing more than a tyrant, plain and simple, and should be deposed from his premiership.