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Monday, January 09, 2017

A Reader Compares The Syrian War To Everyday Violence In “Liberated” South Africa

A Reader Compares The Syrian War To Everyday Violence In “Liberated” South Africa | VDARE - premier news outlet for patriotic immigration reform:
"From: Mike [Email him]

I have just seen stats on the civilian deaths in Syria–16,913 civilians according to the “Syrian Network For Human Rights.”

But wait a minute, there is a war going on there.
Look at the civilian deaths in South Africa: 18,673 civilians.
And climbing at 5% per year. [South Africa’s murder rate rises to over 50 people killed per day, Agence France-Presse, September 3, 2016]
Some investigation is needed to find the real war!

James Fulford writes: Because South Africa has more than twice the population of Syria, their murder rate is not quite as bad as a full scale war.

It’s still really, really, really, bad. For example the entire country has twice the murder rate of Chicago, and some parts of South Africa have triple the murder rate of Chicago. You could also compare it to England:

In 1998, the late Christopher Hitchens wrote that

“Most “advanced” countries in the world have abolished capital punishment. In order to be a fully signatory nation of the Council of Europe, for example, you have to show that you have wiped it from your book of statutes. The very first act of the Constitutional Court of liberated South Africa was to abolish the penalty of death.”

Reading that in 2015, I was forced to ask “Really? Was that a clever idea?”

This chart of murders dating back to 1915 suggests the whole liberation thing may not have been a clever idea–the spike is right where you’d expect it.

Arizona lawmaker introduces bill to ban taxpayer funds for social justice classes – TheBlaze

Arizona lawmaker introduces bill to ban taxpayer funds for social justice classes – TheBlaze:

"An Arizona State legislator is doing something no one has thus far had the courage to do at the federal level — he’s introduced legislation to ban the use of taxpayer money to fund overt social justice coursework in state schools.

Rep. Bob Thorpe, who represents a rural Arizona district and is a member of the state’s Government and Higher Education Committees, has introduced legislation that seeks to deny funding for class that “violates civil rights laws” or “promotes division or resentment”"

FAKE NEWS: AOL attempts to link U.S. House relic from 1842 to 'Nazi symbol'

FAKE NEWS: AOL attempts to link U.S. House relic from 1842 to 'Nazi symbol' - The American MirrorThe American Mirror:
“Fake news” is indeed alive and well in the United States — and it resides on the “news” site of AOL.

AOL News attempted to swing for the fences on Friday by trying to link U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan’s logo — which features the ceremonial mace created in 1842 — to the emblem of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.

Here’s what AOL published yesterday, claiming Ryan’s logo had a “stark resemblance to Nazi symbol”:

But that big swing turned into a huge whiff, as Ryan’s logo features the Speaker’s mace, a ceremonial object used when the House is in session.

The mace precedes the Speaker’s entrance into the chamber, and can also be used to silence a member out of order.

Here it is:

The original mace, which had been in use since the founding of the House of Representatives, was burned by the British in 1814 during the War of 1812.

But to AOL News, it’s just proof Paul Ryan loves Nazis. Never mind the U.S. relic predates Hitler’s reign by some 90 years.

Thankfully, the “news” site conceded the similarity is “likely…just a coincidence…”

AM Fruitcake

History for January 9

History for January 9 - On-This-Day.com:
Simone de Beauvoir 1908, Richard Milhous Nixon (U.S.) 1913, Fernando Lamas 1915

Bart Starr 1934 - Football player, Bob Denver 1935, Crystal Gayle 1951

1799 - British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduced income tax, at two shillings (10p) in the pound, to raise funds for the Napoleonic Wars.

1902 - New York State introduced a bill to outlaw flirting in public.

1905 - In Russia, the civil disturbances known as the Revolution of 1905 forced Czar Nicholas II to grant some civil rights.

1929 - The Seeing Eye was incorporated in Nashville, TN. The company's purpose was to train dogs to guide the blind.

1936 - The United States Army adopted the semi-automatic rifle.

1969 - The supersonic aeroplane Concorde made its first trial flight, at Bristol.

1984 - Clara Peller was first seen by TV viewers in the "Where's the Beef?" commercial campaign for Wendy's.

2002 - The U.S. Justice Department announced that it was pursuing a criminal investigation of Enron Corp. The company had filed for bankruptcy on December 2, 2001.

Sunday, January 08, 2017

Now Obama is Blaming Democrats for Healthcare Fail | Fox Business

Now Obama is Blaming Democrats for Healthcare Fail | Fox Business:

"At a town hall event with Vox Media, Obama acknowledged the politics have been stacked against his reforms, mainly blaming Republicans who he said refused to help make legislative fixes to Obamacare, which provides subsidies for private insurance to lower-income Americans who do not have healthcare plans at work.

But Obama also said Liberals like former Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders had contributed to the program's unpopularity."

MEANWHILE, WOMEN ON AMERICAN CAMPUSES, THE BENEFICIARIES OF 50 YEARS OF FEMINISM, DEMAND “SAFE SPACE…

MEANWHILE, WOMEN ON AMERICAN CAMPUSES, THE BENEFICIARIES OF 50 YEARS OF FEMINISM, DEMAND “SAFE SPACE…:
"Female Kurdish fighters announce new training academies for Arab women to take on Isis in Syria.

2016 saw women’s participation in the fight greatly expand, Ms Abdullah said, with the formation of several new military councils designed to encourage the participation of freed Arab and Yazidi women across both Syria and Iraq.

In Manbij in particular, female residents were so inspired by the female YPJ soldiers who helped liberate them they have created their own all-female battalion to retake the neighbouring town of al-Bab.

Two units have now completed training for battle inside the umbrella Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) coalition, Ms Abdullah said, and both a military training academy and college-style institution were being set up for 2017.

“Arab people were the predominant residents of the liberated areas. They were impressed when they saw that women participated in military affairs and played a leading role in clashes. This had important consequences…. From Shaddadi to Manbij, many women have joined us,” she said.

Good"

New York City needs Hillary Clinton to run for mayor

New York City needs Hillary Clinton to run for mayor | New York Post:
"It seems unlikely — but the idea’s been floating around for several days now, and so far she’s not rejecting it.
For what it’s worth, Secretary Clinton, we’d love to see you run for mayor.
New York City needs you.
Yes, we were highly critical of Hillary Clinton in the runup to Election Day.
But that was the race for the White House, where she offered a program far to the left of the nation’s center.
Not so in New York, where she’d be dead-center in the city’s Democratic majority.

Image result for Unflattering Photos of Hillary Clinton

Progressive, but not obsessed with proving it — nor with trying to use the mayoralty to become a national leader.
Passionate for social justice, but not an ideologue who’ll stick by homeless or affordable-housing policies that are clearly failing.
Above all else, she’d actually focus on doing the job.
Clinton is a famously diligent worker — one who shows up on time and puts in the hours.
And New York needs a mayor who’ll run herd on city government.
...What’s in it for her?
Well, her presidential run shows her appetite for continued public service.
And while Gracie Mansion isn’t the White House, it’s no consolation prize:
New York’s mayor is famously “the second-toughest job in America” — and you traditionally have your own foreign policy, too.
While it’s not the glass ceiling she hoped to break,
New York has never had a woman mayor.
Isn’t it past time for that to change?"

Ten Senate Democrats Join Republicans to Condemn Anti-Israel UN Resolution - Breitbart

Ten Senate Democrats Join Republicans to Condemn Anti-Israel UN Resolution - Breitbart:

"Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and incoming Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are among 21 senators who have signed onto legislation that rejects the United Nations Security Council’s Resolution 2334, which calls Israeli construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem “illegal.”"

Who Does America Believe? 84,000 Votes Later, Here Is The Answer

Who Does America Believe? 84,000 Votes Later, Here Is The Answer | Zero Hedge
Who Does America Believe? 84,000 Votes Later, Here Is The Answer

by Tyler Durden

Jan 7, 2017 7:30 PM

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Earlier in the week, president-elect Donald Trump tweeted that:

"It is for the American people to make up their minds as to the truth."

And now we have the answer.

When CNBC's Podesta-panderer and Trump-denier John Harwood asked the question yesterday "who do you believe America?" we suspect he was not expecting the answer he received from over 84,000 American citizens...

It would appear that "We, the people" have spoken once more and only 1 in 6 believe in the elite establishment-delivered narrative.

This merely confirms Lou Dobbs' survey from earlier in the week.

Once again the establishment has learned absolutely nothing from the campaign and election of Donald Trump, and refuses to listen to anything outside of the cozy echo-chamber in which they hamster-wheel their lives away in."

"Get out of my Class and Leave America": College Prof's Intro to his Class GOES VIRAL

"Get out of my Class and Leave America": College Prof's Intro to his Class GOES VIRAL
"Progressives in the public education system have successfully managed to convince a whole generation of young folk they have the right to NOT be offended, which, of course, is complete and utter horse dung.

Image result for right to be free from being offended.

This sort of mentality is how the loony left has managed to make so much headway in limiting our First Amendment right of free speech, convincing people that anything — and I do mean ANYTHING — that offends you is something that just shouldn’t be said.

Oh, and did I mention this is going viral?
When you see it, you’ll understand why.

Let’s take a look at this fine display of awesomeness shall we?

via Townhall:

Welcome back to class, students! I am Mike Adams your criminology professor here at UNC-Wilmington. Before we get started with the course I need to address an issue that is causing problems here at UNCW and in higher education all across the country. I am talking about the growing minority of students who believe they have a right to be free from being offended. If we don’t reverse this dangerous trend in our society there will soon be a majority of young people who will need to walk around in plastic bubble suits to protect them in the event that they come into contact with a dissenting viewpoint. That mentality is unworthy of an American. It’s hardly worthy of a Frenchman. Let’s get something straight right now. You have no right to be unoffended. You have a right to be offended with regularity. It is the price you pay for living in a free society. If you don’t understand that you are confused and dangerously so. In part, I blame your high school teachers for failing to teach you basic civics before you got your diploma. Most of you went to the public high schools, which are a disaster. Don’t tell me that offended you. I went to a public high school.

This is already saturated in so much pure truth it’s guaranteed to give every liberal student in the class a nervous breakdown, which of course, is absolutely fantastic.

...Let’s continue..."

Read on!

Lunch video-----Real Housewives of ISIS

Noon-toon

This is very simple: if you can’t afford college, don’t go to college – TheBlaze

This is very simple: if you can’t afford college, don’t go to college – TheBlaze:

"Bernie Sanders suggested this week that college graduates should not only have their student loans erased, but they should be provided with “affordable” houses on top of it. This can go along nicely with the free birth control and free health care they require. Now is there anything else we can get them? Free massage chairs? Free foot rubs? A lifetime supply of roast beef sandwiches from Arby’s?"