Category Archives: Blogosphere

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Nazi past

You have to wonder how much history President Wormtongue studied between hits of Choom back in his shadowy youth in an elite Hawaiian prep school before Affirmative Action began further greasing his collegiate wheels in California, New York and Massachusetts.

For instance there’s the Nazi connection to the Muslim Brotherhood he thinks so much of and its blatant anti-Semitic agenda—only coincidentally, I’m sure, also found in today’s Hamas charter.

From the Volokh Conspiracy:

“The Brotherhood’s campaign used not only Nazi-like patterns of action and slogans but also German funding. As the historian Brynjar Lia recounts in his monograph on the Brotherhood, ‘Documents seized in the flat of Wilhelm Stellbogen, the Director of the German News Agency affiliated to the German Legation in Cairo, show that prior to October 1939 the Muslim Brothers received subsidies from this organization.

“Stellbogen was instrumental in transferring these funds to the Brothers…coordinated by Hajj Amin al-Husseini and some of his Palestinian contacts in Cairo.'”

On this subject, though, Barry probably is innocent by reason of laziness. He’s far too self-satisfied to do any actual research before embarking on his Islamist-lovin’ policies, or anything else, for that matter.

Meanwhile, back at the Oval Office:  “Leaders of groups identified by the federal government as fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood are given top seating for presidential speeches and are welcomed into the Oval Office to offer their advice prior to presidential trips to the Middle East.”

Gee, do you suppose this might have had something to with the Democrat IRS audits of pro-Israel charities?

“I am not here as a serf or vassal…

….I am not begging my lords for mercy. I’m a born free American woman, wife, mother and citizen. And I’m telling my government that you’ve forgotten your place.

“It’s not your responsibility to look out for my well-being, and to monitor my speech. It’s not your right to assert an agenda. Your post, the post that you occupy, exists to preserve American liberty. You’ve sworn to perform that duty. And you have faltered.”

—Becky Garritson of the Wetumpka (Alabama) Tea Party testifying Tuesday to the House Ways and Means Committee.

Via Althouse.

Krystal Ball: the snooze media’s future

I can see (and hear) the executive meeting in the publisher’s office where the print bigs ponder what to do, what to do, now that they have lost forever the bills-and-salaries-paying classifieds to the Net and the alphabets seek a remedy to Fox News.

Ah, ha, they hit upon it! If you can’t beat the Net, then you join the Net, and not with just a blizzard of advertising pop-ups on your snazzy new subscription site where subscriptions are going begging.

No, the brainstorm is more obvious than that (though, granted, snooze media executives have real problems with the obvious). It’s this: which Net product (after the ancestry sites, that is) makes the most money? Okay, after Fox. Exactly. Porn.

Well, you could go for a real merger, but probably not. How would you continue to get all those young PC women journalism school graduates to work for peanuts, for the thrill (down the leg and elsewhere) of helping the Democrat party maintain (and, yea, verily) expand its hold on America?

I’ve got it, yells the new up-and-coming rising exec star. And, lo and behold, the new angle is unveiled on MSNBC, the most blatant of the Democrat-pushing snooze sites: Introducing…. ta-da (or, more appropriately, ta-ta) Krystal Ball.

Krystal Ball. Get it? Sounds like a fifth-tier porn queen with grotesquely-inflated breasts, a MILF with pets, no children, who actually prefers DP? Yeah, okay, so what? That’s the point, ace. It’s the future.

Via Weasel Zippers.

Troubles for MyOldRV

College Station Andy of MyOldRv and his lady love Miss Kathy of San Marcos have been through some hard times lately, including a South Texas hail storm that did in their OldRV and their paid-for (naturally) Suburban.

It put them to seeking (and thankfully finding) temporary substitutes, as they save for permanent while still making a livin’ gate-guardin’ in the shale oil patch. As always, Andy’s posts are worth reading and you might even click through their Amazon link when you want to buy something anyway to help them out a little. As payment for a good read.

Rule 5: Kaitlyn Ashley Hunt

I’m not on the “Free Kate” bandwagon, you understand. Jailbait is jailbait.

So when 18-year-old Kate here decides to have a lesbian affair with an underage girl, then Kate deserves what would happen to any 18-year-old boy in an affair with an underage girl (or another boy, for that matter): Arrest and jail.

So why am I making green-eyed Kate into a Rule 5? Because, as Stacy McCain, the godfather of Rule 5 (with whom I share prior experience as a journalist and teenage hoodlum, a not-uncommon combination, BTW), so eloquently puts it: She’s cute.

And, just coincidentally you understand, this pretty gal is also news.

Shrinking government

The so-called “progressives” are always expanding government, especially after the bureaucrats abuse their power or otherwise screw it up. I have watched this phenom for years after every Texas tornado or hurricane.

FEMA was late again getting aid to Oklahoma (big surprise) but you can bet that instead of getting its head handed to it by Congress, FEMA will get more money and more bureaucrats to “solve” the problems. We can be sure the Democrats will try to do the same with the IRS scandal:

“The progressive answer to this is more rules and regulators, more agencies and safeguards and accountability projects. Republicans should recognize this intervention for the ridiculousness it is – creating more federal entities to watch over federal entities – and focus their arguments instead on the only solution which will actually work: removing power from the federal government and returning it to the states or the people. The only way to ensure that government doesn’t abuse a power is to make sure it doesn’t have this power in the first place.”

Read that last line again:The only way to ensure that government doesn’t abuse a power is to make sure it doesn’t have this power in the first place.”

For instance, how about a flat tax or a national sales tax? Eliminate all the discretion now given to the IRS and its partisan Democrat thugs.

Not that I think the Republicans are any more likely to shrink government than the Democrats. Indeed, they’ve proven they won’t. But they’re our last (and fading) hope.

UPDATE:  U.S. ‘crats have held up Canadian charity relief supplies for Oklahoma tornado victims at the border.

Finally, a subpoena for the Benghazi emails

It’s about time Congress got tough on the State Department, though it’s curious why they waited until Lady Macbeth left the building to do it.

U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa wrote: “The documents the enclosed subpoena covers will help the Committee understand why, although on the day after the attacks senior State Department leadership believed that Islamic extremists were involved, there were reservations about publicly acknowledging any such involvement just three days later. This issue is at the heart of the Committee’s ongoing investigation.”

As Yid With Lid says, we now know that the Obama administration lied to us and the world about what happened in Benghazi but we still don’t know why they lied to us. That’s what Issa’s subpoena aims to uncover.