Can't make this stuff up, ya'll.
OS sincerely wishes it weren't true, because it means we are now approaching that day when a Politburo rules, with motorcades of armored limos escorting the PeopleInCharge through the boulevards...
From American Thinker:
Our
U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans who served us there
are dead because of insufficient security while the assistant to the
president for public engagement and intergovernmental affairs, a woman
named Valerie Jarrett, has been given an entourage of well-armed, highly
trained protectors as she goes to and from work in Washington, goes
shopping or out to dinner, and travels to political events and vacations
on Martha's Vineyard.
Why
is Valerie Jarrett such a high priority when it comes to security, and
why are our diplomats in Libya so much less of a priority? In their
eagerness to serve and protect the political interests of Barack Obama,
the news media do not bother to ask and then inform the American people
about this administration's particularly peculiar priorities when it
comes to security at a time when security is something very much in the
news and of great interest to the public.
Conservative
outlets which have made inquiries about why some White House staffer
merits better protection than U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens was accorded
are refused answers on the grounds of "security concerns." Really!
Think
you might have seen a major media story -- perhaps even a great many of
them -- comparing the contrast in security protection between Valerie
Jarrett and Ambassador Stevens if George W. Bush were president and it
were Karl Rove rather than Valerie Jarrett?
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Friday, October 19, 2012
The Poster That Says All That Needs Saying About The EU
Amazing...or not really, these days. DanHan weighs in.
Take a close look at this promotional poster. Notice anything? Alongside the symbols of Christianity, Judaism, Jainism and so on is one of the wickedest emblems humanity has conceived: the hammer and sickle.
For three generations, the badge of the Soviet revolution meant poverty, slavery, torture and death. It adorned the caps of the chekas who came in the night. It opened and closed the propaganda films which hid the famines. It advertised the people's courts where victims of purges and show-trials were condemned. It fluttered over the re-education camps and the gulags. For hundreds of millions of Europeans, it was a symbol of foreign occupation. Hungary, Lithuania and Moldova have banned its use, and various former communist countries want it to be treated in the same way as Nazi insignia.
Yet here it sits on a poster in the European Commission, advertising the moral deafness of its author (I hope that's what it is, rather than lingering nostalgia).
The Bolshevist sigil celebrates the ideology which, in strict numerical terms, must be reckoned the most murderous ever devised by our species. That it can be passed unremarked day after day in the corridors of Brussels is nauseating.
Remember, ya'll. This is the organization that won the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
This organization drinks from the same philosophical waters as the US Democrat party.
Something terribly wrong is at large.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Thank You Cristina Odone, For Speaking Up About The REAL War On Women
Enough, finally, does become enough.
A 20-year-old Afghan girl has been beheaded, by her in-laws, for refusing to become a prostitute. Her mother-in-law and and a hired man cut off Mah Gul's head in the province of Herat last week.
The horrific case has confirmed the plight of women and girls in Taliban-strongholds such as Herat: it comes in the wake of the Taliban's attack on 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai, who campaigned for girls' education in Pakistan.
Ms. Odone then goes on to ask:
Surely, enough is enough? How many women martyrs do Muslim leaders need before they speak out against such misogyny?
What she fails to understand is the simple truth that Islam itself is the problem. 'Muslim leaders', who are the mullahs, have zero interest in speaking out against misogyny. It would be like Larry Flint preaching against porn, or SnoopDogg preaching against pot, or the Pope denouncing the Nicene Creed. Not even Saul of Tarsus, in his new role as Apostle Paul, rejected Judaism in his embrace of Christ.
What bothers OS is that our President, while yammering away about 'binders' and 'women's rights' ad nauseum, will stand up and tell the UN that he's down with Mohammed all the way, that he won't let anybody talk trash about The Prophet, US First Amendment be damned.
Miz Hillary, you got anything to say about this? You down with this, too? Does being Secretary of State trump everything?
We need people at every level of public life who will say the simple thing: These people are monsters, and we don't truck with them. At every opportunity given, we will oppose them with every means at our disposal.
Obama will not do that. There is some basic conflict of interest inside his personality that will not allow him to state the obvious. This is not to say he is secretly Muslim--who knows, who can say? It it to say he is not the man for the job going forward.
A 20-year-old Afghan girl has been beheaded, by her in-laws, for refusing to become a prostitute. Her mother-in-law and and a hired man cut off Mah Gul's head in the province of Herat last week.
The horrific case has confirmed the plight of women and girls in Taliban-strongholds such as Herat: it comes in the wake of the Taliban's attack on 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai, who campaigned for girls' education in Pakistan.
Ms. Odone then goes on to ask:
Surely, enough is enough? How many women martyrs do Muslim leaders need before they speak out against such misogyny?
What she fails to understand is the simple truth that Islam itself is the problem. 'Muslim leaders', who are the mullahs, have zero interest in speaking out against misogyny. It would be like Larry Flint preaching against porn, or SnoopDogg preaching against pot, or the Pope denouncing the Nicene Creed. Not even Saul of Tarsus, in his new role as Apostle Paul, rejected Judaism in his embrace of Christ.
What bothers OS is that our President, while yammering away about 'binders' and 'women's rights' ad nauseum, will stand up and tell the UN that he's down with Mohammed all the way, that he won't let anybody talk trash about The Prophet, US First Amendment be damned.
Miz Hillary, you got anything to say about this? You down with this, too? Does being Secretary of State trump everything?
We need people at every level of public life who will say the simple thing: These people are monsters, and we don't truck with them. At every opportunity given, we will oppose them with every means at our disposal.
Obama will not do that. There is some basic conflict of interest inside his personality that will not allow him to state the obvious. This is not to say he is secretly Muslim--who knows, who can say? It it to say he is not the man for the job going forward.
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Arlen Specter, The Man Who Led The Charge To Smear Robert Bork, Lawyer For Ira Einhorn, Turncoat, Poster Boy For Everything Wrong With Washington, Meets His Maker
Gone, soon forgotten, mainly unmourned.
He really was completely dumfounded in 2009 when greeted with thousands of angry constituents who had begged him not to vote for Obama's stimulus press and health care bill.
He really assumed no one was paying attention, was shocked to find that he was mistaken, and was shuffled off to a friendless oblivion by primary voters in 2010.
Three cheers for the primary system, and the secret ballot.
He really was completely dumfounded in 2009 when greeted with thousands of angry constituents who had begged him not to vote for Obama's stimulus press and health care bill.
He really assumed no one was paying attention, was shocked to find that he was mistaken, and was shuffled off to a friendless oblivion by primary voters in 2010.
Three cheers for the primary system, and the secret ballot.
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