Actually, they didn’t say “dangerous.” That’s the Worm’s lie. No surprise. He lies.
What he also didn’t say is what WUWT does: “…while 97% of scientists may agree that global warming is caused by humans, virtually 100% agree that global warming has stopped or slowed considerably during the 21stcentury.”
I still contend that this climate change dodge (a wholly-owned subsidairy of the Democrat Party) is a tax scam, just like Obamacare.
Via WSJ & WUWT
Even the Democrat Progs at the New Republic finally get it:
“…the senselessness and brutality of the synagogue assault, and the otherworldliness of the victims, lays bare the inadequacy of rational political explanations for terror. No doubt the murderers had their grievances (and some perhaps were reasonable), but the butchery in Har Nof shows that any sense of strategy has been overwhelmed by hate. The murder of non-Zionist Torah scholars is an attack on Jews more than Israel, and explaining it requires an understanding of hatred, not of politics.”
Watch a video of aftermath pix to see the butchery of four middle-aged rabbis, ambushed at prayer by two young Arab terrorists, the pictures the news media does not want you to see. If you dare.
Via Israel Matsav
Times of Israel editor David Horovitz reiterates: It’s not going to work.
“For this is the homeland of the Jewish nation, the only place we have ever been sovereign or sought sovereignty. And what needs writing and saying, most especially on a terrible day like today, is that we will not be driven from it.”
The two terrorists, who used knives, axes meat cleavers, and a pistol, were killed by Israeli police at the scene, a synagogue in Jerusalem. Hamas supporters in Gaza danced in the streets and handed out candy to celebrate the bloodshed. Bibi promised retribution.
Austin’s Congregation Agudas Achim held a prayer service at 6 p.m. to mourn the innocent, show solidarity with Israelis and pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
Via Simply Jews.
UPDATE: Despicable CNN headlined the deaths of the two Palestinians. Then called the synagogue a mosque. Hours later they apologized.
The “runaway train” the Wall Street Journal called Obamacare in 2009, when it was still roaring down the tracks to passage, all 1,990 pages of it. It might well be, said the Journal’s editorial writers, “the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced….eventually all medicine will be rationed via politics.”
And then it passed with only Democrat votes in the face of the polled opposition of a majority of the country. Then its Web site crashed, because it was a joke. (So is the new one.) Then people who already had private health insurance began to lose it because it didn’t meet the “standards” of Obamacare, including such things as birth control pills and abortions for everyone, including children and the elderly.
Finally more than half the states refused to set up the exchanges the law required for Obamacare to “work.” Came the mid-term elections of 2014 and the voters got even: many of those same Obamacare-voting Democrats lost their seats in the House and Senate. They’re still acting like they don’t know what hit them.
Now the Supreme Court is poised to send the train onto a siding that will take it over a cliff and out of sight. Whew. Not that Wormtongue has learned anything. He’s apparently readying a whole new train to do something like it all over again, unilaterally this time, by giving 5 million, mostly Hispanic, illegal immigrants amnesty and work permits. Once more against the wishes of the polled majority of the country, many Democrats and almost all of the GOP.
If he sends the new train out of the station, his party will cringe and if they’re smart the elected ones will start making plans for new employment after 2016.
And then we may have a good chance that these two Progressive train crashes back-to-back will keep the Democrats from claiming the White House again for a generation. Bye, bye, Lizard Queen and Groper. Even with millions of apparent new amnesty voters on the Democrat side and graft in their pockets from the big corporations lobbying for the amnesty. Party of the people, yeah right.
Posted in Obsessions, The Culture, The Economy
Tagged amnesty for illegals, obamacare at supreme court, Wall Street Journal
“It would…be a signal that [the new Republican] Congress understands the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution: ‘The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.’
“The authors of the Bill of Rights understood what today’s politicians and pundits often forget, which is that Congressional inaction is an opportunity for state or local governments, for businesses, or for voluntary organizations.”
Pipe dream? Undoubtedly, but we have to start somewhere. We have so many laws now that no one, not the police, lawyers or the courts, can claim to be anything but ignorant of the law. It’s an absolute excuse for official lawlessness and selective enforcement that needs reversing before it’s too late.
And while we’re dreaming, here’s the Congressional Reform Act.
Via Reason
Detente with Iran seems to be the Worm’s next big thing. He needed his party’s help in Congress to screw up American health care, costing thousands of people their private insurance and imperiling their health. He can help the Mullahs get the bomb all by himself. He’s already gone a long way towards doing it.
“In case you had any doubts, the White House has thoughtfully made it luminously clear that we restrained Israel on behalf of Iran, and the nasty anti-Israel language provided to journalists would pass muster at Friday prayers in an Iranian mosque,” writes PJMedia’s Iran expert Michael Ledeen.
“The most likely outcome of all this seems to me to be an ever weaker America, an ever more aggressive Iran, quite possibly with nukes ready to launch, and lots of Iranian spittle in our national face. Yet again.”
It may be extreme to paint the Worm as Renfield, Dracula’s enabler, as Weekly Standard editor Lee Smith does in Tablet, envisioning him hoisting a toasting glass of blood to the mullahs at his hoped-for new-alliance summit in Tehran. The new Republican majority Senate would likely never okay any treaty he signed with Iran.
And, of course, he’s a lame duck and one-legged ducks swim in circles. But the Great Divider does have a way of frightening people when they discover the truth behind his continuous, duplicitous lies and broken promises.
Via PJMedia and Tablet.
Posted in Blogosphere, Israel, Obsessions, War Without End
I don’t usually read dystopian fiction. I can see the appeal and understand why it’s popular, but I don’t need the depressive (and usually far too cynical) view of humanity-under-siege.
Emily St. John Mandel’s dystopian novel “Station Eleven,” is different. Not only because of her beautiful writing and character development, but because despite the collapse-of-civilization theme, her view of people (the bad as well as the good) and her overall story actually are hopeful.
For the survivors, that is. The few left after a believable, airborne pandemic (no, it’s not ebola) kills most of the world’s population in a matter of weeks. Which takes down the electric and transportation grids, the Internet and smart phones, along with just about everything else. Very thought-provoking.
The novel ends with a vision of ships at sea. I prefer to think of one of the story’s main characters, the Traveling Symphony moving on, ever in search of audiences, rosin and bow hair. (Not to mention new strings.)
I also liked Mandel’s first novel, Last Night in Montreal, for similar reasons and her third one The Lola Quartet. though both involve parents who ignore their children. None of it is light-reading, in other words. The tragedy-of-life theme the litterateurs love so much. It’s nevertheless good stuff you should try.
But start with Station Eleven.
Posted in Library, Obsessions, The Culture
Tagged dystopian fiction, Emily St John Mandel, Station Eleven
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