Category Archives: Blogosphere

Hitting the terrorists in their wallets

Posted on September 26, 2014 | 1 comment

A U.S. jury said on Monday Arab Bank Plc provided material support to Hamas, and must therefore compensate the victims of two dozen attacks the Islamic militant group allegedly carried out in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Jurors needed less than two days to deliberate, following a six-week trial in Brooklyn federal court that lawyers described as the first terrorism financing civil case to reach trial in the United States.


Nearly 300 Americans who were either victims or related to victims of the attacks had sued Arab Bank in 2004, accusing it of violating the Anti-Terrorism Act, which lets victims of U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations seek damages. A trial on damages will be scheduled for a later date.

Via Israel Matzav.

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Bush did it: Fake but accurate

Posted on September 25, 2014 | 1 comment

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (whose updating of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos—including a shamelessly inaccurate plug for global warming—was so bad I stopped watching it after two episodes) is an atheist who apparently likes to make up fake quotes about believers, particularly former president Bush II.

Now Wikipedia is covering for Tyson: “Despite the fact that no evidence exists that Bush ever said ‘Our God is the God who named the stars’ shortly after 9/11 as a way of segregating Christians and Jews from Muslims, under no circumstances will Wikipedia allow that site to note that Tyson’s fabricated quote is obviously fake and non-existent.”

I still like Wikipedia as a resource, if not the bearer of absolute truth. Even the Encyclopedia Britannica has its quirks. Nor should Tyson, the latest black darling of the New York Progressives, be held to an absolute standard—although he is supposed to be a scientist before he’s a politico and he’s now failed that standard twice that I know of.

But trotting out the tired Bush and Christianity bashing in the same breath, apparently to show his fans he’s a doctrinaire Democrat, is twice too much for me.

Tyson, get thee behind me!

Via The Federalist.

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RFK’s Jr. wants to jail warming deniers

Posted on September 23, 2014 | 3 comments

Like father like son?

Daddy is infamous for ordering the FBI wiretapping of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from 1963-66, supposedly because two of Dr. King’s advisers were members of the American Communist Party — which wasn’t illegal then and isn’t now.

Now sonny, a marcher in Sunday’s socialist meetup in NYC at the Dictator’s Club, aka the UN, says Americans who dispute global warming are guilty of “a criminal offense — and they ought to be serving time for it.”

Just a chip off the old Democrat’s block. Fortunately for us, without Daddy’s power. Dream on, Junior, dream on.

Via Instapundit.

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Dr. Obamacare says we should die at 75

Posted on September 22, 2014 | 3 comments

Back in March, I reached the Psalmist’s milestone of three score and ten. By Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel’s measure, I should be ready for the grave in about 3.5 years. Or, should I say, the urn—as Mrs. Charm and I have opted for cremation and our (pre-purchased) cemetery plot so specifies.

Dr. Obamacare, as EE has been called for his contribution to that fiasco, says (Democrats always say) he will shuffle off his mortal coil at age 75 and it would be wise for the rest of us to do so as well—by such methods as declining to get flu shots. For the good of the country, you understand, the metaphorical “village” as another Democrat, a shrill harridan brimming with advice she never takes herself, has it.

I’ll believe Dr. O. when he (who is only 58) actually pulls the plug. The Democrat climate warriors, led by Al Bore, are full of advice for others while doing exactly nothing to mitigate supposed “climate change” themselves. Likewise, I suspect, with Dr. Obamacare’s advice. It is for thee and me, not for he.

As for me, I will (as always) put my fate in the metaphorical hands of G-d. Dr. Obamacare, quiet frankly, may go to hell. Whether at 75 or later is out of his hands, unless he plans to suicide. Easy to say, hard to do.

Via PJMedia.

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Cool, wet summer equals hottest August ever?

Posted on September 21, 2014 | Comments Off on Cool, wet summer equals hottest August ever?

NOAA and NASA say yes. NASA satellite data says no, the peak was actually in 1998. The agencies are part of you-know-who’s administration. The satellite data isn’t political. Not yet, anyhow. Adds so-called “flat-earther” Dr. Roy Spencer:

“The fortuitous revelation of record warm sea surface temperatures in August, only days before Climate Summit 2014, begs the question — why? Why were SSTs so warm? (Not “Why announce it just before Leonardo DiCaprio’s coronation?”)” The timing is obvious.

The Dictator’s Club (aka the UN), hosting Obozo’s climate summit on Tuesday (which will excuse our soon-to-be record-setting, further economy-killing electricity hikes), appointed the Hollyweird actor as its climate spokesfolk. Isn’t that special? And the federal lying, backing a president who can’t ever seem to tell, much less reveal, the truth, is no surprise. Adds Steve Goddard:

“Contrary to the spectacular ‘hottest August ever’ lies being propagated by NASA GISS and NOAA ahead of Obama’s climate conference – August was the coldest in five years and the second coldest in 10 years, according to far more accurate NASA satellite data.” It was, indeed, an unusually cool summer and a very wet August here in Central Texas.

Quick, one of you Democrat bureaucrats round up a tech to rejigger the sat sensors. The boss ain’t gonna like being contradicted by science.

UPDATE:  All those federal lies have produced a following, of course. The usual crowd of Marxists and assorted loons. DiCaprio wasn’t pleased when PJTV asked about his carbon footprint from his multiple private yachts and jets. He scurried away without answering.

Of course. He and Al Bore want the rest of us to do without electricity and cars while their lives stay the same. It therefore should be no surprise that the climate warriors also were as trash-can challenged as any other group of adolescents. 

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Robbery at badgepoint

Posted on September 18, 2014 | Comments Off on Robbery at badgepoint

The Badge Gang never quits. Government-approved theft is their latest thing according to the Canadian Boadcasting Corporation which has issued a warning to Canadians not to carry any more cash into the U.S. than they’d care to lose to a cop:

“There’s a shakedown going on in the U.S., and the perps are in uniform. Across America, law enforcement officers — from federal agents to state troopers right down to sheriffs in one-street backwaters — are operating a vast, co-ordinated scheme to grab as much of the public’s cash as they can; ‘hand over fist,’ to use the words of one police trainer.”

It’s the assets confiscation racket of the drug warriors, apparently now being used in some states without charges or convictions. Texas is about average on assets confiscation abuse, but, to my knowledge, there’s no cash seizures without charges or convictions going on. If they ever do happen here, there’s going to be hell to pay.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  Don’t steal, the government hates competition.

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Is it okay to steal soap from hotel rooms?

Posted on September 12, 2014 | 2 comments

Miriam of Miriam’s Ideas worries about this because of a family connection:

“One of my relatives who travels extensively has not bought soap in 20 years.  Apparently the complimentary soaps he takes from  hotel rooms fulfill the sanitary needs of his entire family.”

It’s a common behavior, apparently, since her post has drawn scores of hits, including mine. I always swiped the soaps when I traveled but I’d prefer to buy soaps than travel

Via Miriam’s Ideas.

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