DANIEL GREENFIELD: THE WEEK THAT WAS PART 2
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PIVOT
Without much publicity or official announcements, the Unites States released five Guantanamo Bay detainees as a nod of willingness to open peace talks in Afghanistan. After officials in Kabul expressed desire for negotiations, the Obama administration released five members of the Taliban who were detained at the US detention center.
The Afghan Taliban have offered to hand over a US soldier held captive since 2009 in exchange for five of their own currently incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay.
Releasing terrorists is unacceptable, but worse still, Obama is releasing them in exchange for terrorist goodwill, rather than bringing a captured American home.
Obama Frees Taliban from Gitmo, Neglects to Exchange Them for Captured US SoldierTHE APPEASEMENT SONG REMAINS THE SAME
I haven’t written about Israeli politics in a while. After the last election, I was too disgusted to dip my toe in that pool.
Netanyahu’s shameful behavior however does not surprise me at all. He couldn’t stand up to pressure from Bill Clinton over Wye. There was no reason to think he would do any better here.
LIES, INJUSTICE AND THE CHICAGO WAY
Can someone remind me again what the difference between Barack Obama and Whitey Bulger is?
Since January, some CIA operatives involved in the agency’s missions in Libya, have been subjected to frequent, even monthly polygraph examinations, according to a source with deep inside knowledge of the agency’s workings.
The goal of the questioning, according to sources, is to find out if anyone is talking to the media or Congress.
It is being described as pure intimidation, with the threat that any unauthorized CIA employee who leaks information could face the end of his or her career.
In exclusive communications obtained by CNN, one insider writes, “You don’t jeopardize yourself, you jeopardize your family as well.”
Benghazigate: CIA Whistleblowers Warned, “You Don’t Jeopardize Yourself, You Jeopardize Your Family as Well”
LIES, INJUSTICE AND THE CHICAGO WAY II
Obama Inc. Refuses to Cancel Military Contracts with Al Qaeda Supporters
THE AMNESTYVILLE HORROR
Amnesty Bill Also Outlaws Profiling Illegal Aliens by Ethnicity, Race or Fence Climbing
RIGHTS AND WRONGS
Gay “Couple” to Sue to Force Churches to Host Gay Weddings
MUTABLE AND IMMUTABLE
But the gay rights movement is all political agenda which leads LGBT into irreconcilable absurdities.
The LGBT movement wanted to claim that homosexuality is genetic, not a choice, for political reasons… even though genetic is hardly the same as immutable.
To make this argument stick, the gay rights movement then had to argue that every single person who decides they’re gay is following an inescapable biological drive that cannot be in any way altered. And that to claim otherwise is bigotry.
That claim was already silly. It depended on accepting that not only is homosexuality a genetically immutable identity, which is a ridiculous and intellectually repugnant bit of genetic causality that becomes quite troubling when applied to genes that supposedly correlate with criminal activity, but that it applied to absolutely everyone who in any way ever identified as gay.
Making the entire ridiculous argument even sillier, the T part of LGBT decided that gender was wholly and completely mutable at any time, even though gender is about as genetic as you get.
And so we have a transsexual movement within the gay rights movement which claims that gender is mutable but sexual orientation isn’t.
Former APA President Blasts Gay Rights Ban on Sexual Reorientation Therapy for Denying Patient Choice
IT’S OBAMA’S WORLD, WE JUST LIVE IN IT
Detroit Cops Begin Supplementing Missing Pensions with Armed Robbery
Obama Sends FSA Anti-Tank Missiles, FSA Sells Anti-Tank Missiles to Al Qaeda
California Pols Create Fake Mandatory “Retirement” Fund to Raid
US Army Switches to Ineffective Environmentally Friendly Lead-Free “Green” Bullet
Fed.Gov: Not Killing Babies Will Cost Money, Amnesty Will Bring in Money
McCain: Path to Citizenship Vital, Border Security Isn’t
IT’S NEWTON’S WORLD, OBAMA JUST LIVES IN IT
This isn’t one of those, “If a train going over the cliff at 1000 miles an hour passes another train that’s on fire and being attacked by coyotes, which of them is more like Obama” puzzles.
At some point in his second term, Obama decided to give up even pretending to feint at the truth and just begin telling crazy lies on the assumption that his supporters can’t tell the difference.
Maybe instead of asking for his birth certificate, we should have been asking for his first grade math scores.
Obama: If There Were More Gov Workers, Deficit Would be Lower, Tax Revenues Would be Higher
SO DOES THIS MEAN THAT EVERYONE IN FLORIDA WILL END UP HIV POSITIVE TOO?
Considering that the GDP of Illinois is behind Florida and Chicago is basically a Detroit waiting to happen, Jesse Jackson might look to his own backyard instead of trying to “bring down” a state which has oranges while his own hometown has gangs.
Florida is a state with a democratically elected government. Does bringing it down mean reducing it to the level of Chicago?
Jesse Jackson Vows to “Bring Down” Florida like South Africa
NANCY PELOSI OR NANCY DREW
“In other words, it’s not exactly clear why California’s businesses are disappearing. Florida, another state hard hit by the bursting of the real estate bubble, and the state with the second most businesses, added new businesses at the nation’s seventh-fastest rate.”
It’s a mystery all right. One state has low taxes and a Republican governor. One state has high taxes and a Democrat. One state is adding businesses and in the other state, businesses are mysteriously vanishing.
Can any junior detectives solve this mystery before all of California’s businesses disappear?
California Lost 5.2% of its Businesses in 2012
HO HO HOSSEIN IS GOING TO WIN
At his chummy meeting with Vietnamese Communist leader Truong Tan Sang, Obama said, “we agreed that one of the great sources of strength between our two countries is the Vietnamese American population that is here but obviously has continued strong ties to Vietnam.”
That’s like saying that the Cuban-American community is a great source of strength between America and Castro’s Cuba.
While Obama delivered this howler with a straight face, outside Vietnamese-Americans, many of whom had come as refugees to the United States, protested the shameful betrayal.
Vietnamese-Americans Protest Obama’s Meeting with Communist Dictator
RECONQUISTA
The message here is goodbye British louts, hello Saudi Islamists. I imagine the mandatory bathing suit in Majorca will soon be a Burka.
The Spanish island of Majorca has implemented a ban on drinking alcohol in public and plans to replace its budget hotels with upmarket luxury resorts in a bid to discourage binge-drinking European holidaymakers and replace them with high spending, wealthy tourists from Dubai.
“We want people who spend a lot of money, such as more tourists from China and Dubai. St Tropez, Miami and Las Vegas are the places we’re orienting ourselves towards,” Alvaro Gijón, deputy mayor of the island’s capital Palma de Majorca, added.
Because the one thing Miami and Las Vegas are known for is being alcohol free.
Spanish Island Bans Drinking to Replace Europeans with Muslim Tourists
A MORE PERFECT ONION
1.a. Eco-rider to “Abortions R’ US ” (MA1.5): To better conserve the scarce resources of our eternally-endangered Planet, all aborted fetuses will be harvested into artisanal beer coolers, packed with small-batch dry ice, and dispersed by means of surplus FBI, IRS, CIA and NSA Lear Jets to Federal tissue and organ banks for the future use of important Americans such as politicians, film-stars, social media moguls, dot-com billionaires, and their heirs and assigns in good standing with the DNC. More stored “sustainable” abortions means a better chance of a perfect match should members of these groups pack in their livers, kidneys, brains, or sexual organs with booze or drugs. If this had been done 40 years ago Walt Disney, Ted Kennedy, and Jimmy Carter would still be alive.
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3. The Better Americans Through Extra Diversity Bill (BATED): Let’s face it, too many Americans, when it comes to marriage, are still sticking to their own kind and even, in some extreme cases, the opposite sex among their own kind.
BATED solves this phenomenon via forced marriages for the diversity-impaired. This bill, which requires all Americans to register their race, color, creed and national origin at birth, will give a much needed high-colonic to the presently stalled “Coffee Colored Compromise.”
Good Democrats know well that the natural leanings of love often make mistakes (as opposed to the unnatural leanings), but with good Democratic government the mistakes that the normals make can always be rectified. Because some critics have referred to this as “eugenics,” the BATED Bill will rectify this problem by mandating that it be called “newgenics.”
I suspect Obama would probably call it Smarter Eugenics. It’s his SOP for disastrous and discredited policies.
KILL THIS WORD
Stakeholder is one of those Orwellian libspeak words creeping into English that gets on my nerves. It also gets on Steven Hayward’s nerves.
An NGO “stakeholder” is a euphemism for a self-appointed special interest group that wants to twist the administrative and legal process to get what they can’t get directly through legislation or elections. I think the only good “stakeholder” is the vampire hunter about the plunge one in the bloodsucking government we’ve got today.
Stakeholder representation refers to the growing practice of explicitly allocating positions on government boards, commissions, and advisory bodies to special-interest groups.
A hybrid of quotas, Scandinavian-style corporatism, and old-fashioned interest-group liberalism, stakeholder representation holds that interests with a “stake” in a government policy or regulatory activity should be officially represented on the government agency that oversees that area of policy.
While the theory posits a cut-and-dried reality, the practice is a sloppy, highly politicized affair. Self-appointed pressure groups such as environmentalists, consumer advocates, and civil-rights organizations share equal standing with parties who have traditionally represented constituent interests, such as business, organized labor, or property owners, while other interests are excluded altogether. . . .
DON’T FORGET TUNISIA
The Muslim Brotherhood’s overthrow in Egypt shouldn’t lead us to forget that Islamists still rule in Tunisia as the original consequence of the Arab Spring.
Tunisia: The country was rocked on Thursday by the assassination of political opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi, an open critic of the ruling Ennahda party’s Islamization policies. The assassination outside Brahmi’s home took place on the country’s Republic Day, so many Tunisians were not at work and began gathering around government buildings in protest. The Ennahda office in Sidi Bouzid – the birthplace of the “Arab Spring” – was torched by protesters.
Many in Tunisia are blaming Ennahda for Brahmi’s murder, particularly because of the inability on the part of the government to bring to justice the assassins of Brahmi’s political partner, Chokri Belaid, who was killed back in February. Reports indicated that the same gun used to kill Brahmi had also been used to kill Belaid. Now protesters are calling for the dissolution of the government led by Ennahda.
A government official this week blamed the assassinations on a cell of Ansar al-Shariah, but it’s not likely that Tunisians are going to buy the attempt by Ennahda to distance itself from the jihadist group. In the past, Ennahda leader Rachid Ghannouchi has played a public double game, denouncing Salafists to the Western press, and then colluding with them in private to push Islamization policies. He’s also known for making his own supremacist statements, such as his claim back in November that Islamists would rule the Arab world.
It should be noted that Ghannouchi has been greeted with open arms by top U.S. Islamic groups closely tied to the Obama administration, despite Ghannouchi being subject to a ban on entering the U.S. since the early days of the Clinton administration for terrorist activities until the Obama administration dropped the ban two years ago. Since, he’s been feted on Capitol Hill by the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) and he was recently the keynote speaker at an event with top Obama Muslim adviser and Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) president Mohamed Majid outside D.C.
from Patrick Poole’s column at PJ Media
NO GREAT WALL FOR AMERICA
It’s bad enough when your government is importing people to do “what Americans aren’t willing to do” at a time when Americans are willing to take any job at all, if only the government will let them contract for work without interposing itself with regulations and demands for paperwork. It’s much worse when your government is advertising abroad all the benefits you can get at the expense of the US taxpayer, if you will just move here and refuse to or can’t work.
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I suspect a lot of people will glump through life, demanding all the special perks because they’re “victims” and refusing to accept that they might not be working as hard as others, because after all “systemic racism” and “white male privilege.” (These same people, in a more traditional system, like, say, Islam, would accuse genii of cursing them. Do genii exist? Probably not, but in that society people believe them, and it provides an excuse. The same with “Systemic racism” and “white male privilege.”)
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However the China-lust of our ruling class (“We should be more like China. They know how to get things done”) leads me to believe the main idea is that them little brown peoples are more subservient, and if we had more of them we could do things more like China, by main force and command. (I did say that our elites are racist, right?)
Some observations from Sarah Hoyt. I am less optimistic than she is either about self-deportation or the prospects of constructing any kind of workable future in a society locked down into a Socialist political system.
Such a system might eventually collapse, but large dependent populations will mean that we still end up with a hybrid oligarchy/welfare state of the kind that much of the world has, where the population gets enough subsidized food from the giant corporations controlled by powerful families to keep from starving.
A system like that can be disrupted with new technology and ideas. Look at what social media did in the Arab Spring. But disrupting a society does not actually make it workable. It just adds more chaos.
After dividing the county over an unnecessary draft battle, those extra soldiers will apparently be needed for the extra wave of terror that will come once more territory and terrorists are turned over to the Jihad all to prove that Israel really means well and is complying with the latest diplomatic effort to destroy it.
I don’t have the energy or desire to type out everything I think about Israel’s dysfunctional political establishment. It would end up sounding like a rant, rather than a reasoned piece. And much of it is, as in the United States, frankly attributable to idiot voters who follow the media to the latest phony scandal and ignore the ground burning under them.
But by the time the last election rolled around, there was hardly anyone to vote for. The fact that the Likud has no alternative to Netanyahu and neither do any of the other parties says it all. (And please don’t talk to me about Moshe Feiglin, he’s a good man and well intentioned, but etc…)
Netanyahu is not a leader. He’s smart, articulate and spineless. He’s the Galut Yid that the Sabra was supposed to leave behind, writ large.
It’s a staggering bankruptcy of leadership. I could go on, but I would rather not. Netanyahu is obviously not going to resign, though he no doubt should, and his policy was entirely predictable based on his first term.
And from the policies of “conservative” leaders in most Western countries.
Netanyahu is no different than Cameron or Mitt Romney or Sarkozy or the rest of them. They head up faux conservative parties, that talk tough to conservative voters around election time or during a crisis, and then govern from the center-left consensus.
N was good on the economy and utterly terrible on everything else. That is again something he has in common with most Western conservative governments who understand economic liberalization and little else.
They think that free markets and deregulation will fix everything. They won’t.
Meanwhile right on cue, Netanyahu’s people have released a made-for-youtube tough talking video. But words are cheap. The referendum bill, which at best protects Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, is as worthless as the border security part of the US amnesty bill. It’s there to disguise the sellout.
And the Supreme Court will no doubt find a way to invalidate it once enough pressure has been applied.
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