DANIEL GREENFIELD: THE WEEK THAT WAS PART 2
Hezbollah Leader Begs Al Qaeda for a Truce
WE CARE A LOT
Head of Hamas in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh told UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, that the Gaza Strip couldn’t take in Syria’s Palestinian refugees due to an ideological issue: If they take in the refugees from Syria, Israel could use it against them when it comes to the Palestinians’ demand for the “right to return” to villages inside present day Israel, by pointing out that the refugees no longer need to return to Israel because they have been relocated to new homes in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas Refuses to Accept Palestinian Refugees from Syria to Spite Israel
FAIR, LOGICAL AND COMPLETELY UNBALANCED
Sheikh Ayed al-Qarni was scheduled to speak twice during the Muslim American-Society (MAS)/Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) national convention Dec. 22-25.
But a statement released during the convention expressed “the unpleasant and saddening news” that al-Qarni had been removed from his flight from Saudi Arabia despite having a visa from the U.S. embassy, and that he appears to be on the U.S. “no-fly list.”
Al-Qarni is described as “one of our great speakers” and as someone known “for his logical discourse and balanced views, he promotes understanding and collaboration between all people, regardless of their faith, background, or language.”
Here is an example of Al-Qarni’s speaking skills.
I pray to Allah that He will make the enemies fall into their own trap and that He will destroy the Jews and their helpers from among the Christians and the Communists, and that He will turn them into the Muslims’ spoils.
Throats must be slit and skulls must be shattered,” al-Qarni said. “This is the path to victory, to shahada, and to sacrifice.”
But while Al-Qarni is a fan of killing Jews and Americans… he’s also a fan of Barack Obama.
“Now we have an educated and rational president with roots in Islam.
“We tell Barack Obama: ‘What a blessed hour, O Abu Hussein! You are a thousand times welcome.’”
CAIR Protests No-Fly Ban of Terror Sheik Who Called for Slitting Jewish Throats
AL-CORRUPT
Probably the funniest thing about the Clinton Administration is that Al Gore was supposed to be the figure of integrity in it, the straight man to Bill Clinton’s rowdy man, except Gore was at least as sleazy as Clinton. The entire Current TV debacle is an ugly reminder of just how creepy, manipulative, exploitative and corrupt Gore really is.
It’s an open question whether Al Gore really intended for Current TV to be a viable proposition or whether he used his influence to get cable providers to carry it long enough to be able to then sell it off and cash in.
Current TV was never viable, it lacked programming, viewers and anything to distinguish it from MSNBC, its chief competitor. Even its name made for poor branding.
But it did have one asset. Carriage.
Al Gore Threatened to Denounce Cable Companies as Islamophobes to Protect $100 Million Al Jazeera Payout
FINALLY REPUBLICANS HAVE THEIR OWN DICK DURBIN
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is somewhat light on the crazy factor. Even the Democratic members are not the worst you could think of, with the exception of John Kerry and Dick Durbin. Kerry is moving on, but for the last decade or so, he wasn’t nearly as bad as Dick Durbin.
Fortunately the Republicans have decided to supplement the SFRC with their own Dick Durbin, Rand “Let’s Send All the Gitmo Terrorists Back to Afghanistan” Paul.
Rand Paul isn’t the first Republican senator to be pro-terrorist. We’ve got Hagel coming back as a wannabe SofD as a reminder of that, but his appointment certainly is a present to Democrats. And Rand Paul with all his talk of stopping the American Empire is a good deal worse than Hagel or Durbin and in Bradley Manning territory.
Bradley Manning at least had to smuggle out intelligence on Lady Gaga CDs. How will Rand Paul do it? And I can’t wait till we get that hearing into whether steel can really melt.
IT’S OBAMA’S WORLD, WE JUST LIVE IN IT
Indian Women Rushing to Buy Guns After Gang Rape
California Supreme Court Claims Unions Have Special Right to “Invade Private Property”
Mandatory Exercise for the Obese Comes to the UK
Egyptian Magazine Claims 2 High Ranking Homeland Security Officials are Muslim Brotherhood Operatives
Socialism Killed Kim Jong Il
China Rushes to Define Itself as a Muslim Country
Back to the Stone Age: Greens Unveil New “Body Heat” Home Heating Plan
Finally Socialism is regressing all the way to the Stone Age, where it belongs.
And how about, in the spirit of perpetual generosity, we just make this work by forcing entire families to live together in the same room and crowding hundreds of employees together in a few thousand square of feet.
Just think of the energy savings and the cycle of generosity as the heat gets turned off and employees huddle together for warmth.
3/4 of Bad British Doctors are 3rd Worlders
Saddam Hussein Party Running for Office in Jordan
Saudi Cleric Promises “Paradise” to 14-Year-Old Girls Who Have Sex with Terrorists
The Jihadis get to molest an underage girl and the girl is told by her family that if she goes through this, she’ll earn paradise and unlike most women, who are hellbound according to Mohammed, will not have to worry about the afterlife
African Migrant Rapes 83-Year-Old Woman in South Tel Aviv
Tzioni pointed at the sidewalk and counted the passersby, most of them Africans, many of them families with baby strollers. At night “you won’t see any Israelis anymore,” he said.
On Salomon Street, haggard prostitutes, strung-out addicts and Israeli Arab drug dealers loiter in the late afternoon sun. Two Chinese workers begin brawling on the corner of Fein Street, throwing bottles at each other before their friends pull them apart and the group scatters. Further down the street, at 22 Salomon Street, sits an Eritrean-run bar, where a 19- year-old woman was drinking on May 14, before she was followed out by a group of African men she had argued with in the bar who then raped her in a nearby parking lot, according to police.
Palestinian Authority Tortured 96% of its Prisoners
Female Blogger Exposes Tunisian Islamist Minister’s Affair, Islamist Leader Says She Should Be Flogged
74% More Mosques in America Since September 11
Muslim Population of Britain Doubles
AND NOW THE ROUNDUP
…Doug Ross has a special gift just waiting for your favorite member of Congress
Socialism, so caring, so “fair,” so humanity based, so green… and so wonderful for the environment! Especially when all the parasites run out of money:
A haze of smoke hangs over the city skyline in Athens, early Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. The cloud is the result of a massive switch to wooden stoves and fireplaces for heating as many households, already hard hit by the economic crisis, can not afford to buy heating oil after the cash-strapped government decided to harmonize taxes on heating oil and diesel fuel, leading to a 40 percent rise in the price of heating oil.
What’s next? Wood is about as basic as it gets. When the infrastructure loses momentum, and the going get tough, then the tough go back to hunting and fishing, to knights, nobles and peasants, and all the rest of it. Civilization is a fragile thing and it rarely survives the civilizers.
FREEDOM ON FOUR WHEELS
The automobile represents freedom.
You climb into a car and go, go, go, whenever and wherever you want. The car is modern man’s path to liberty.
Contrast cars with trains.
Railroads are an expression of the collective. Individual identity is erased. You are at the mercy of a state-controlled system that turns citizens into passive cogs, manipulated and at the mercy of government bureaucrats.
That’s why democrats/progressives/liberals/ (what are they calling themselves this week?) are obsessed with high-speed rail. The freedom of the road is repellent to big government fanatics.
…from Robert at Seraphic Secret
or alternatively, from Small Dead Animals
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
…minus the random part and the invite part
CHECKMATE
“…If you create artificial states with substantial minorities, as British and French cartographers did after the First World War, the only possible stable government is a minority government. That is why the Alawites ran Syria and the minority Sunnis ran Iraq. The minority regime may be brutal, even horribly brutal, but this arrangement sets up a crude system of checks and balances.”
Spengler, via Blazing Cat Fur
ME AND THEE
Gregory will never be indicted, prosecuted or punished for a crime he clearly committed, and for which any of the rest of us would have already seen a swift and vicious application of Almighty State “justice.” The “investigation” is nothing more than a delaying tactic, and will be abandoned or whitewashed over as soon as it’s practicable. Sure, there have always been abuses of the system, and the rich will always be able to buy justice at the expense of the rest of us; those truths are eternal, and universal. But we are now undeniably living under two separate but unequal sets of laws in this foul country, and its machinations are right in front of our noses and exercised in broad daylight: one for the protected elites, and another for the rest of us.
…from Cold Fury, Life in the Third World
GOOD TIMES AND BAD
What I’ve deduced (yeah fancy shit words) is that gun bans, confiscations or whatever have not happened during times of tribulations but during times of prosperity and peace. That’s only when they will they work. Two examples, when Hitler came to power he promised that Germany would be prosperous, healthy and would avenge the humiliation of the Versailles Treaty and he did just that. Hitler was a monster beyond all compare but he was what others weren’t…a consummate, savvy politician and he knew what the people wanted and he delivered it to them. During the ’30s Germany prospered where other nations were drowning, including the United States. In return all he asked was for a little obedience, order and certain other things that were relatively minor (unless you were a Jew) and the people happily complied. One of those things was gun registration and eventually confiscation. The people thought “Hey, life is good, I’m making money, prices are low so is crime and Germany is once a power player on the world stage what do I need a gun for?” Germans weren’t afraid of the unknown.
The second? The 1994 Assault Weapons Ban. Same thing. Life was good, inflation was low, unemployment was low, GDP was up, the Berlin Wall was dust, the Soviet Union was history and the good times were rolling on Wall Street and Main Street. You want to take some guns? Ok, crime is down so we don’t need’em so go ahead, take’em. Americans weren’t afraid of the unknown so they took them, but we’re going to put a time limit on it…just in case.
…from the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler.
And it’s an important point. Security is important to people. In insecure times, unthinking cooperation is harder to come by.
Finally, from Oleg of the People’s Cube, an important American Thinker article
The laws of society and human nature are such that socialism can only be achieved through a certain sequence of steps and manipulations. For instance, the only way to attain material equality is to confiscate someone’s property and give it to others. That necessitates a centralized mechanism of coercion, redistribution, and control. Such a system gives extraordinary corrupting powers to a small centralized elite, while turning the rest of the citizenry into a compliant, obsequious herd.
All those who claimed they can do it differently were doomed to retrace the same path. Once you unleash the ancient powers of collectivism, you have only two options: control the human herd or be trampled underfoot.
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