http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3501/spain-innocent-prophet-film The case demonstrates how the fear of Muslim rage is threatening the exercise of free speech in Europe. Firasat said he has received far more threats from the Spanish government than from angry Muslims. “I have been threatened by the authorities [and told] that my refugee status will be revoked; I will be deported […]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/16/i-am-adam-lanzas-mother-mental-illness-conversation_n_2311009.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
THE WORDS “MENTALLY ILL” AS A CATCH-ALL FOR ALL MANIFESTATIONS OF MENTAL ILLNESS….FROM ANXIETY OR DEPRESSION OR ATTENTION DEFICIT TO CRIMINALLY INSANE…ARE OFFENSIVE. I HAVE FRIENDS WHO THEMSELVES OR THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS HAVE FORMS OF MENTAL ILLNESS WHO ARE PEACEFULLY FUNCTIONING AND PARTICIPATING AND CONTRIBUTING TO LIFE. THESE PEOPLE WHO MURDER ARE CRIMINALLY INSANE AND THAT SHOULD BE THE TERM TO DESCRIBE THEM. PLEASE READ THIS HEARTBREAKING LETTER….RSK
Written by Liza Long, republished from The Blue Review
Friday’s horrific national tragedy — the murder of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut — has ignited a new discussion on violence in America. In kitchens and coffee shops across the country, we tearfully debate the many faces of violence in America: gun culture, media violence, lack of mental health services, overt and covert wars abroad, religion, politics and the way we raise our children. Liza Long, a writer based in Boise, says it’s easy to talk about guns. But it’s time to talk about mental illness.
While every family’s story of mental illness is different, and we may never know the whole of the Lanza’s story, tales like this one need to be heard — and families who live them deserve our help.
Three days before 20 year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother, then opened fire on a classroom full of Connecticut kindergartners, my 13-year old son Michael (name changed) missed his bus because he was wearing the wrong color pants.
“I can wear these pants,” he said, his tone increasingly belligerent, the black-hole pupils of his eyes swallowing the blue irises.
“They are navy blue,” I told him. “Your school’s dress code says black or khaki pants only.”
“They told me I could wear these,” he insisted. “You’re a stupid bitch. I can wear whatever pants I want to. This is America. I have rights!”
“You can’t wear whatever pants you want to,” I said, my tone affable, reasonable. “And you definitely cannot call me a stupid bitch. You’re grounded from electronics for the rest of the day. Now get in the car, and I will take you to school.”
I live with a son who is mentally ill. I love my son. But he terrifies me.
December 16, 2012 The Martyrdom of Avigdor Lieberman By Steven Plaut In 1999, Benjamin Netanyahu lost the Israeli election to leftist Ehud Barak to the squealing delight of Israel’s conscripted media and of many in its judicial system. At the time, a criminal investigation was launched against Netanyahu for supposedly misappropriating property from the Prime […]
Dwight Schultz: Life, Acting and Conservatism — on The Brewster Gang
by Josh Brewster
Actor Dwight Schultz opens up about his life and intellectual journey — and about surviving as a conservative in Hollywood.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/josh-brewster/dwight-schultz-life-acting-and-conservatism-on-the-brewster-gang/
When your Mother
Comes through the door
As I turn my head
To look towards her,
At first my sight
Falls not upon her face,
But upon the place,
Nearer the threshold
Where your dear little
Face would be,
When bright with happiness
You would come in with her,
as usual, my little daughter.
When your Mother
Comes through the door
With the glow of a candle,
It seems to me as if,
As always, you came in with her,
Scurrying around behind her,
As ever, into the room.
O you, little bit of your father,
Ah, too quickly
Extinguished light of happiness!
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2012/12/newtown_just_leave_us_to_grieve_in_peace.html
“So spare us all for a decent interval the long distance shibboleths of gun control, the amateur psychoanalysis, the morbid and soul killing paparazzi shots of parents learning for the first time of the slaughter of their children.
Let’s have a decent silence to contemplate the eternal nature of evil and the tragic loss we all feel. Back away from the microphones. Put down those cameras.” (AMEN!….RSK)
As I do every Friday, I sort through my week’s clipping files in preparation for this column. I was going to write about energy. The optimistic assessments of natural resources and the fracking technique to extract them has every potential of changing our economic future for the better and the repressive regimes of the Middle East for the worse.
This despite the uninformed blather about its dangers and constraints to its use, and the ridiculous wasted billions on government subsidies and grants funneled into a make-believe solar energy future.
Even better, the draft report of the UN’s climate watchdog, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was leaked this week, and it undermines their claim that anthropogenic (man-made) global warming is a serious global threat. The irradiation from the sun plays a bigger role in the climate of the earth and there doesn’t seem a whole lot that throwing money at bundlers and UN grifters can do about that.
As Professor Pielke notes, the report is optimistic on several other counts: “[IPCC Draft report echoes Climate Depot’s Extreme Weather Report]: ‘No significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency… does not support AR4 conclusions regarding global increasing trends in droughts… low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scale… there is currently no clear and widespread evidence for observed changes in flooding'”.
But that and everything else in my clipping file faded to insignificance when reports of the Newtown, Connecticut school massacre hit the wires.
There have been school shootings before but this one was particularly painful to learn about.
In the first place the children were so young and innocent — kindergartners. In the second, it is the season when young children are especially full of happiness. Their homes are filled with Chanukah and Christmas decorations and gifts. Their houses smell of yummy things to eat. Families make a special effort to be together for the holidays. One account of the incident underscores this. Kaitlin Roig, who rescued her first grade students by locking them in the bathroom and barricading the door, told reporters, “The kids were being so good. They asked: ‘Can we go see if anyone is out there? …I just want Christmas… I don’t want to die, I just want to have Christmas.’ I said, you’re going to have Christmas and Hanukkah.. I tried to be positive.”
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ If you’re the biblically minded sort, then the trouble began when a jealous Cain clubbed Abel to death, but if you’re evolutionarily minded, then it’s a ‘chicken and egg’ question. Violence had no beginning, except perhaps in the Big Bang, it was always here, coded into the DNA. If people are just grown-up animals, […]
http://times247.com/articles/clinton-gets-concussion-after-fainting
FIRST: DEFINITION OF “FEINT”:
Definition of FEINT
Something feigned; specifically: a mock blow or attack on or toward one part in order to distract attention from the point one really intends to attack.
1
: to lure or deceive with a feint
2
: to make a pretense of
Clinton faints, may avoid Benghazi hearings
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who skipped an overseas trip this past week because of a stomach virus, sustained a concussion after fainting, the State Department said Saturday.
The 65-year-old Clinton, who’s expected to leave her job soon after serving as America’s top diplomat during President Barack Obama’s first term, is recovering at home and being monitored by doctors, according to a statement by aide Philippe Reines. …
Congressional aides do not expect her to testify as scheduled at congressional hearings on Thursday into the Sept. 11 attack against a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador.
Read more: http://times247.com/articles/clinton-gets-concussion-after-fainting#ixzz2FDR9KeYO
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2265/will_obama_appoint_disastrous_defence_secretary_ Democrats and Republicans have both expressed concern over President Obama’s possible selection of former Senator Chuck Hagel as the next secretary of defense Hagel has been criticised for his work in pushing forward a US defence policy lobbying organisation that seeks to rid America of its nuclear deterrent. The former Republican Senator is also […]
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2012/December/Generation-Identity-Wages-War-on-France-Islamization/
PARIS – It was a political protest with shock value, the likes of which has never been seen on French TV news: a group of young people stormed a mosque in the city of Portiers, going to the roof and unfurling a banner calling for a national referendum on Muslim immigration.The banner included the number 732, the year Charles Martel defeated the Islamic invasion in Portiers.
The group calls itself Generation Identitaire, or Generation Identity. They say they are at war with “the 68’ers,” the baby boomers who run France, for wrecking their future with multicultural policies that some fear are turning France into a Muslim nation.They released a video called “A Declaration of War.”
In the video, members say, “We are Generation Identitaire. We are the generation of ethnic fracture, the total failure of coexistence, and the forced mixing of races. We have stopped believing in a ‘Global Village’ and the ‘Family of Man.'”
Their rhetoric sounds racist, but they say they do not believe in racial superiority or racial stereotypes. Rather, they fear losing France to Muslim immigrants from Africa.
CBN News interviewed a leader of the group, Julien Langella, in the southern French city of Toulon.
“It’s not about hate of other people,” Langella insisted. “It’s about heritage. It’s about loving our people and our land. And we fight for this.”
