DANIEL GREENFIELD: THE WEEK THAT WAS PART 2
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THIS TIME IT’S PERSONAL
Colin Powell left the Republican Party on bad terms, twice, washing out of the Bush Administration, and then running to Obama out of spite at not being picked by McCain. Four years later he has nothing to show for it. The Republican Party hasn’t gotten into the White House, but neither has Colin Powell.
Powell can’t wait around another four years to see what happens in 2016, so he has nothing to lose. In 2008, he still maintained the pretense of being an objective observer looking for a transcendent figure to unite the country. Now Powell sounds shrill and angry. The accusations have become irrational and petty.
Colin Powell is pimping himself out on everything from gun control to false accusations of racism, showing how eager he is to do any of the dirty work that the Democrats might have for him.
The Colin Powell we see on the Sunday morning shows is a bitter man, angry over not getting as far as he wanted to go. It isn’t racial bitterness that Powell projects, but personal grievance.
Colin Powell Isn’t Embarrassing the Republican Party, He’s Embarrassing Himself
OBAMA WANTED A CLEARER PICTURE IN BENGHAZI TOO
France is increasingly upset by what it sees as limited Obama administration support for the war it is waging in Mali against al Qaeda militants.
The U.S. has yet to decide on whether to agree to France’s request for U.S. planes to refuel French fighters in flight, they said. France has a small fleet of aging refueling tankers and says more are needed to maintain the tempo of air operations in remote Mali.
Obama administration officials have said they support the French campaign but want to get a clear picture of the mission and the rebels being targeted in French strikes before providing more assistance.
Obama Refusing to Provide Support for France’s Fight Against Al Qaeda
WHISKEY, SEXY, THEOCRACY
Amran Jhah Syed Ali, a 23-year-old unemployed Pakistani asylum seeker, visited the home of his Italian fiance with his Chadian friend. They took advantage of the opportunity to empty a bottle of vodka between them.
This touching scene of multi-ethnic fraternisation was brutally interrupted when the Italian woman pronounced the name of Allah in vain. Her “fiancé” then attacked her after having broken the vodka bottle in fury.
The woman took refuge in her bedroom, where she locked herself in and called the carabinieri for help, at around 1 am, while the fiancé tried to break the door down.
Among the local newspapers, the Gazetta Iblea had the headline : “Paki handcuffed in the name of Allah”.Insula Report is more balanced and without doubt more exact: “Rage in the name of Allah and vodka”
Drunk Muslim Attacks Italian Fiance W/Broken Vodka Bottle for “Taking Name of Allah in Vain”
HE ISN’T DEPRAVED, HE’S DEPRIVED
He has no trouble smashing police car windscreens with milk crates but it seems Muslim rioter Omar Halaby is not fit to work, receiving a $200-a-fortnight disability support pension.
In documents tendered to the Downing Centre Local Court, Legal Aid lawyer Sophie Edin said Halaby suffered from “certain disabilities” which had seen him claim the pension for the past three years. Ms Edin told the court. “He has literacy issues, a short attention span, things to that effect.”
We ain’t no delinquents, We’re misunderstood. Deep down inside us there is good!
LIBERALISM IS A STATE OF MIND
Here lies the empty head of the professional liberal. The present isn’t a year or an age, it’s a moment. A passing fleeting thing.
1791 is an eternity away. A period of time that is so vast that he can hardly conceive of it, not because of the chronological distance, but the cultural distance.
How far away is 1791? To Matthew Modine, its an infinite distance measured by every liberal social gimmick that he is wedded to. The modern liberal is not an American, he is a citizen of Liberalvania, a fanciful magical kingdom where money is infinite and everyone gets gay married and then breaks into showtunes. It’s not a real place, it’s a state of mind.
Who’s Up for Another Celebrity Lecture About Gun Control?
THE FARCE
The media maintained its embargo on President Morsi’s speeches until the New York Times chose to run a piece highlighting both the Memri released video and a second video, featured on Bassem Youssef’s show and now also translated and released by Memri, until the New York Times ran a piece on both videos. This was followed by a condemnation from the White House.
This is a show. A carefully staged show whose purpose is to divert attention from something else. And there are a number of candidates for what that something else might be.
The most obvious one is the Hagel nomination. The timing of the two are closely intertwined. Morsi’s comments had been around for a while. A staged condemnation of them however would allow the White House to posture as pro-Israel at an extremely critical period.
What is Really Behind Obama’s Condemnation of Morsi?
IT’S OBAMA’S WORLD, WE JUST LIVE IN IT
Obama’s CIA Director Pick Called for Censoring the Media
Man Banned From D.C. For Protesting Obama Inauguration
Mayor Bloomberg Doubled New York City Debt to $110 Billion
Communists Confess They Were Behind Israel’s Social Justice Protests
UN Giving Syrian Government $519 Million for Humanitarian Assistance
Muslim Brotherhood Using Benghazi as its Political Base
Algerian Attack Was Carried Out Using Weapons and Gear Provided to Libyan Rebels
Mexican Mafia Leader Sentenced for Trying to “Ethnically Cleanse” Blacks from California City
Newly Liberated Libya Rejects Attack on Mali Islamists
FLIES ON THE WALL
Baalzebub (pron.: /biːˈɛlzɨbʌb/ bee-EL-zə-bub or /ˈbiːlzɨbʌb/ BEEL-zə-bub; (Hebrew: בעל זבוב, Baʿal Zəvûv Arabic: بعل الذباب, Ba‘al az-Zubab;, literally “Lord of the Flies”; Greek: Βεελζεβούλ, Velzevoúl; Latin: Beelzebūb), with numerous archaic variants, is a deity that was worshiped in the Philistine city of Ekron.
…from Lemon Lime Moon
21 Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are. — Exodus 8
…from American Digest
The Jewish translation of that is a bit more intimidating than flies, but gnats are a good starting point.
OF MENDACIOUS DEMAGOGUERY
This kind of mendacious demagoguery flourishes when the press is biased and/or cowed, and fails to challenge the political leaders. Every appeal from the leadership gets to be emotional; government is discussed in unaccountable, irrational, and even hysterical terms, as when the president postulated, in his speech on gun restrictions during the same press conference, that the victims of mass shootings had been “denied their rights” by the shooters. The distinction between committing crimes against individuals, which the citizens can do, and denying the people’s rights – which only government can do – is one of the most important concepts underlying the American system of government. But Obama elided it out of existence on Wednesday, in his quest to depict the use of firearms as, principally, a means of injuring others.
from the Optimistic Conservative
ABSOLUTE ZERO
It is the inherent, ineluctable nature of a state of zero in a person that a man who is lacking in character and values must be a destroyer. He becomes something when he is able to demonstrate his capacity for destruction. He must act to sustain the illusion. Destruction is his own proof of power.
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