Bloodthirsty Liberal

Of course not all Muslims are terrorists.

But how many Muslims who are not terrorists harbor Muslims who are?

Police say that Anis Amri, the prime suspect in Monday’s deadly terror attack in Berlin, visited a local mosque shortly after the murderous attack that killed 12 and left 48 wounded.

On Friday it was revealed that Amri, a 24-year old Tunisian migrant living in Germany, was spotted on a closed circuit television system while entering a mosque in the Moabit neighborhood of Berlin.

Authorities have reported that Amri entered the mosque roughly eight hours after the attack on a Christmas market, in which a truck ran down shoppers preparing for the upcoming Christmas holiday.

The mosque in question was raided by police on Thursday in connection with the ongoing investigation into Monday’s attack

No thanks to the pious patrons of that mosque they wiped out Anus—sorry, Anis:

Authorities in Milan, Italy say a man matching the description of the key suspect in this past Monday’s attack on a Berlin Christmas market was shot and killed during a shootout Friday morning.

According to the Italian Ansa news outlet, the man was shot after he drew a gun during a security check outside of the Sesto San Giovanni train station.

Anis Amri, a 24-year old Tunisian whose ID was found inside the truck used to run down shoppers in Monday’s attack, has been the main suspect since Tuesday, after a Pakistani migrant was initially detained following the massacre, but later released for lack of evidence.

Italian police contacted German security officials after the incident and efforts are being made to positively identify the man killed as Amri.

We’ll see how much of this is true, but how a man who was a known terrorist, who was supposed to have been deported, who committed this despicable crime, was able to travel the continent like a college student on holiday staggers the mind.

I asked the question sarcastically yesterday in a post about gays in Orlando against the right to tote a gun. Of all places, right? I mean, what are they if not dumb? (I concluded they were leftists, which is a distinction without a difference.)

But Obama seems really to think gays are thick:

In a recent interview with The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates, President Barack Obama, who in 2008 said he was “not in favor of gay marriage,” expressed frustration with the “gay activists,” who he says pestered him throughout his presidency.

Obama criticized the lack of “awareness” among LGBT activists, suggesting that both they and immigration reform activists would not have criticized him if they had done “sufficient homework” on the issues they were protesting, adding later those activists made him feel “a little bit hurt.”

Woozums. Maybe they felt a little bit hurt when you said this:

When then-Senator Obama ran for president in 2008, he went on record saying “I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage.

What does he expect? I’m straight, and I’d boo his ass for saying that. And now he’s calling gay people ignorant. Given their inexplicable hostility toward Donald Trump, however, he may not be wrong.

When I read of the record homicide levels in big cities this year, I recall the clear-eyed honesty of George Carlin:

I like it when nature is excessive. That’s why I like natural disasters. All these natural disasters that’ve been going on, I fu*king love ’em. I can’t get enough of them. Ah, when nature’s going crazy, throwing things around, scaring people and destroying property, I’m a happy fu*king guy. I’m a happy fu*king guy.

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[N]o matter what kind of problem humans are facing, whether it’s natural or man-made, I always hope it gets worse. Don’t you? Don’t you? Don’t you have a part of you, a part of you that secretly hopes everything gets worse? When you see a big fire on TV… don’t you hope it spreads? Don’t you hope it gets completely out of control and burns down six counties? You don’t root for the firemen do you? I mean I don’t want them to get hurt or nothing, but I don’t want them to put out my fire. That’s my fire – that’s nature showing off and having fun. I like fires. You know something else I like? Those spring floods in the Midwest! Aren’t they great? Like clockwork, spring floods in the Midwest.

Guilty.

I’m also guilty of simultaneously recoiling in horror at the self-inflicted holocaust on young black men in Chicago and other cities, even as I disgustingly hope it gets worse. Good for you if you don’t, but I cheer for chaos, I secretly pull for calamity.

This year has been awesome:

Homicides rose in most big American cities in 2016, continuing a worrisome trend for police and criminologists that began last year, even as murder rates in most cities are nowhere near the levels of two decades ago.

Sixteen of the 20 largest police departments reported a year-over-year rise in homicides as of mid-December, a Wall Street Journal survey found. Some notched minor increases, while Chicago has experienced one of the most dramatic jumps, with more than 720 murders—up 56% from 2015.

Chicago’s homicide count, greater than the considerably larger cities of Los Angeles and New York combined, marks a grim tally not seen since the violent drug wars of the 1990s. As the bodies in Chicago pile up—including that of Nykea Aldridge, cousin of basketball star Dwyane Wade, shot while walking with her baby in broad daylight—police are struggling to solve the killings, clearing only one in five homicides so far this year.

The article surveys the familiar reasons why violent crime and murder might be on the rise—pervasive poverty, black hostility toward police and police reluctance to appear heavy-handed, guns, drugs, etc.—but there is no doubt that it is on the rise.

Not that you hear that:

A recent poll from Pew Research Center found nearly 60 percent of voters believed crime rates had increased in the United States since 2008.

“The general reality, while crime has steadily dropped, people have consistently thought crime is going up even just year to year,” Fordham University School of Law Professor of Law John Pfaff said.

The reality is violent crime rates have fallen nearly 20 percent in that time frame, and even with a rise in crime in 2015, the violent crime rate in the United States remains lower than it was just three years earlier, according to the FBI.

Tell that to the families of all those dead Chicagoans. And the year ain’t over yet!

I avoid discussing politics on Facebook, but among those who do, this is consistent with what I’ve observed:

A survey shows a significant number of Democratic women are reacting to Hillary Clinton’s unexpected election loss by blocking, “unfollowing” and “unfriending” people on social media who express political opinions they don’t like.

Thirty percent of Democratic women reported cutting off online communication with someone for political reasons since the Nov. 8 election, according to a Public Religion Research Institute poll published Monday. They are more than twice as likely to blot out dissenting points of view from their social media timelines as Democratic men, who reported doing so at a 14 percent rate.

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The survey found Republicans have been more tolerant of opposing points of view since Donald Trump’s election victory. Just 10 percent of Republican women and 8 percent of Republican men reported unfriending people on social media for political reasons.

Overall, 24 percent of Democrats said they have used “block,” “unfollow” and “unfriend” icons to deal with dissenting viewpoints since Election Day, compared with 9 percent of Republicans and 9 percent of independents, the survey found.

Those who self-identified as politically liberal were even less tolerant of opinions that strayed from their preconceived notions, with 28 percent acknowledging that they had shunned at least one online political adversary, compared with 11 percent of self-identified moderates and 8 percent of self-identified conservatives.

I can’t say how “scientific” this poll is, and I know my observations are not. But it sure is consistent with what I’ve observed.

Some suggest that women are less tolerant on social media because they were more invested in electing a woman president. But I’m not so sure. The women that I’m reading online don’t seem so pro-Hillary as they are vehemently, incendiarily anti-Trump. There are men in the same fit of pique, too, but the leading voices, the ones circulating petitions, urging phone calls and emails to electors, digging in their heels at every step to the gallows (Inauguration Day) are women. They hate, loathe, and despise Trump, and anyone or anything that supports him. There is no nuance or accommodation.

Which I can understand, up to a point. Trump doesn’t give two sh*ts what you think of him—or rather, he does, but if your opinion of him is low, he goes even lower. That’s got to be unnerving to liberals used to RINOs cowering before them if they don’t pay obeisance to liberal orthodox dogma and doctrine; but even more so among liberal women who still cling (bitterly) to an outdated notion of feminism. Trump still is what we called back in the day a “male chauvinist pig”. Trophy wives, beauty pageants, pu**y-grabbing—he’s a Neanderthal all but genetically. And while he’s never been known to strike a woman, he will go after women verbally (and Twitter-ly) if they cross him. Twice as hard. In that sense, Trump treats women as he treats men—and women don’t like it. Neither do men (ask Jeb Bush), but women, even feminists (especially feminists) expect courtly manners in political discourse. As this story demonstrates, they just don’t always practice it themselves.

I’m visiting family for the holidays and will return before the new year, I think. So happy, happy, happy, merry, merry, merry…

– Aggie

It’s called a “puffer fish”:

Ha-ha. Just kidding. It’s real name is a “dog (tough) fish”.

Nah, I’m still messing with you. It’s called…well, you try saying it:

When scientists discovered a new species of fish in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, they noticed a distinctive, colorful spot near the tail that bore a striking resemblance to President Barack Obama’s campaign logo. That’s one of the reasons why they decided to name the species after him. And as Obama’s second term as president draws to a close, scientists are hoping the species will symbolize his legacy for many years to come.

Scientists from the Bishop Museum, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and the Association for Marine Exploration on Wednesday published a description of the new species called “Tosanoides obama,” which was discovered during a NOAA expedition to Papahanaumokuakea in June. The small, pink and yellow fish is a type of basslet, which is the only known species of coral-reef fish endemic to the monument, meaning it cannot be found anywhere else on Earth.

“Small, pink and yellow”: sounds about right.

Or is moronity a linked trait?

Several LGBT-focused organizations that support gun control will demonstrate outside of FedEx stores Wednesday to protest the discount shipping company offers to members of the National Rifle Association.

A deal worked out with FedEx means NRA’s 5 million members can enjoy discounts up to 26 percent.

“This isn’t like a senior discount,” said Igor Volsky, director of Guns Down, a group pushing to decrease the number of guns in the U.S. “This is a discount that empowers and subsidizes an organization that is actively working to make life more dangerous by gutting background checks and allowing guns in schools.”

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“I can’t speak for the whole community, but Orlando was hit very hard by the Pulse tragedy, and anything that contributes to more violence like that is problematic, and we want it to stop,” said Nicole Varma, a community organizer affiliated with Guns Down who is organizing the FedEx protest in Orlando. “We don’t want any other community to be affected by gun violence.”

Then pack heat, for crissakes! Who would know better the tragic absurdity of gun-free zones than the Orlando gay community? It is your right not to carry a gun, but you should drop on your knees (wipe that smirk off your face) and thank whatever you hold holy that the NRA is fighting for your right to carry one. Who else is going to defend you if not yourself, the Fairy Fairy?

At least somebody gets it:

But within the LGBT community, support for gun restrictions is far from unanimous, says Gwendolyn Patton, a spokeswoman for the Pink Pistols. The national organization claims that “armed queers don’t get bashed,” and its local chapters help gay and trans people learn to shoot and get licensed to carry guns.

Patton also cites Orlando—but she sees it as a reason to support responsible gun ownership. Since the massacre at Pulse, she says, interest in the organization spiked. Though Pink Pistols doesn’t track membership, the organization’s Facebook likes surged over 9,000 after the Orlando killings, up from just 1,500 before. And Patton says she’s also seen a surge in people wanting to open local chapters.

“We’ve run into a basic divide here, and I think it’s based on an awful lot of political ideology,” Patton says. “The stereotype of those on the right is that they don’t like gays but they do like guns, and then there’s the opposite stereotype, that if you’re on the left you don’t like guns but you do like gays. That perspective is based on the premise that gay people should give up their right to self defense, give up their right to guns, so they can get their gay rights from the politicians who support gun control. I personally don’t like that. Why do we have to give up some rights?”

“It’s based on an awful lot of political ideology”: That’s not only not moronic, it’s brilliant! It’s not gays who are stupid, but left-wing gays. And left-wing Croats, Poles, Jews, blacks—the left would like to think that police are bad, preferable only to being massacred by a self-loathing gay Muslim in a gay nightclub. They believe people (gay or straight) can’t prepare for their own self-defense—someone might get hurt. That’s idiocy or madness.

“Why do we have to give up some rights?” Again, genius! You don’t. Why would you negotiate your inalienable rights at all, much less to an ideology that would rather see you dead than armed? That’s just stupid.

You might think that an Israel-hating adherent of the Nation of Islam would be just the man to lead the Democrats—and you would be right.

If not for…

[Keith] Ellison’s critics in the DNC and some supporters of Labor secretary Tom Perez, the other top candidate, are pointing to the Minnesota Democrat’s past tax troubles, campaign finance violations and minor legal issues that once led to his driver’s license being suspended as evidence that he’s ill-equipped to lead the DNC.

Some of those instances date back to the 1990s. All of the issues have been rectified and were previously used in attacks against Ellison during his first run for House in 2006.

That year, Ellison’s then-wife, Kim Ellison, who acted as his campaign treasurer, wrote to the Minneapolis Star Tribune to accept responsibility for all of the violations.

At the time, Kim Ellison said that memory loss associated with her multiple sclerosis was the reason for the unpaid traffic tickets, late campaign finance reports, and household bookkeeping errors.

But Ellison’s detractors within the DNC say that it’s evidence he can’t manage his personal life and would be a poor choice to manage an institution the size of the DNC.

Bob Mulholland, a DNC member from California and one of 447 who will vote in the February election, says he has not backed a candidate yet but will not support Ellison.

“One Republican said to me, ‘You’re going to elect a tax cheat who drives without a license?’” Mulholland said. “It’s absurd.”

“If Ellison were running as a Republican, Democrats would attack him as a tax cheat, so I have no idea why Washington insiders are urging the grassroots to elect another insider. If you can’t drive or pay taxes, you can’t organize your life, so I concluded early on that he can’t organize for this job.”

Tax cheats teem in the Democrat Party, from Tim Geithner to Charles Rangel. Why can’t one lead them? And half the illegal aliens who (illegally) voted Democrat drive without licenses (the other half acquired licenses with fraudulent documents), so Ellison is just a man of his people.

And if a person is unqualified for office over unpaid parking tickets, Obama couldn’t have been elected dog catcher. His 17 citations over three years (1988-91) didn’t get paid until he thought about running for president.

The Minnesota Democrat has been dealing with blowback over his support as a young man for the Nation of Islam, which he has since rejected, and past comments about U.S. foreign policy being beholden to Israel.

“This is the same bullshit as people pulling up his past comments to try and paint him as an anti-Semite,” said Minnesota Democratic chairman Ken Martin, an Ellison supporter who also has a vote in the DNC race.

Martin points to Ellison’s Jewish supporters—including campaign chairman and former ambassador to Morocco Sam Kaplan—as proof that the anti-Semite accusations are “complete bullshit.”

Language, please! You don’t catch the feces-throwing orangutan talking that way.

All we are saying is give Keith a chance.

We can’t do much of anything, apparently:

Update: MTV took down the video after less than 48 hours following an intense backlash from online commentators.

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‘MTV News’ produced this video of proposed New Year’s Resolutions for “white guys,” because that group could “do a little better in 2017.”

“Try to recognize that America was never ‘great’ for anyone who wasn’t a white guy,” the video urges America’s white men, referring to Donald Trump’s campaign slogan. “And learn what mansplaining is, then stop doing it.”

It also advises them to: “Stop bragging about being ‘woke.'”

“Just because you have black friends doesn’t mean you’re not racist. You can be racist with black friends,” it clarifies. “And feel free to take Kanye West, though. You guys can have him.” West met with Donald Trump last week.

As of this writing, the video had 89 ‘thumbs up’ votes on Youtube and 11,922 ‘thumbs down’ votes.

My white male mathematics says that’s 133-to-one against. But is that just they tyranny of the majority talking? I’m trying not to “mansplain”, but if it’s in my genes…

NON-WHITE FEMALE #1: First off, try to recognize that America was never great for anyone who wasn’t a white guy.

Is that “Non-white Female” Michelle Obama? After becoming proud of her country only eight years ago, she’s back to contempt for it. Or at least “hopelessness”.

NON-WHITE FEMALE #2: Can we all just agree that Black Lives Matter isn’t the opposite of all lives matter? Black lives just matter. There’s no need to overcomplicate it.

WHITE MALE #1: Also, Blue Lives Matter isn’t a thing.

BLACK MALE #1: Cops weren’t born with blue skin — right? I mean — yeah! They weren’t born blue.

Can we all just agree that Black Lives Matter isn’t the opposite of all lives matter?

Yes, we can agree! I think they’re synonymous. Use either one without offense. But Blue Lives Matter is a thing—very much a thing.

WHITE MALE #2: Nobody who has black friends says that they have black friends.

BLACK MALE #1: And just because you have black friends doesn’t mean you’re not racist. You can be racist with black friends.

Absolutely! Look at Obama. Black friends aplenty, and still dismissive of “typical” white people, “bitterly clinging” to their guns and religion. Textbook definition of racism.

BLACK MALE #1: Please cause 2016 was bad. 2017 can’t be worse than this, alright? Cause this is bad.

In six months—June 20, 2017—you won’t recognize the place. It’ll be terrific. Beautiful. Unbelievable.

As the Left stumbles through the stages of grief, some are finally arriving at their destination: acceptance.

Candidates matter. We learned that lesson for the umpteenth time over the past two years as races — from the presidential on down — turned on the quality of the candidates. As a consultant put it to me a long time ago: If the dog doesn’t like the dog food, it doesn’t matter how good the marketing campaign for it is.

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It’s impossible to overstate how big a favorite the former secretary of state was in both her primary fight against Bernie Sanders and the general election matchup against Donald Trump. She was the biggest non-incumbent front-runner for the White House in modern political history.

And yet, from the start, it was clear that Clinton’s appeal on paper didn’t match her appeal in the real world of political campaigning. She badly underestimated Sanders’s appeal from the start and then, because of ongoing doubts about her commitment to liberal causes, found it difficult to attack the senator from Vermont. As a result, a primary that was expected to be a coronation turned into a long-lasting problem — exposing the lack of enthusiasm for Clinton, particularly among young voters.

A general-election matchup against Trump was expected to be a fix for what ailed Clinton’s primary effort. After all, faced with a choice between Clinton’s deep résumé and Trump’s bluster and showmanship, voters really had only one serious option, right? Clinton might not be exciting or represent the change voters wanted but no way, no how would people pick Trump, right?

Those assumptions led Clinton to run a campaign that can be summed up thusly: “I’m the one not named Donald Trump in the race.” Turns out that wasn’t enough for voters. Trump, for all his talk and inexperience, represented radical change. Clinton represented more of the same politics people hated.

I think the dog analogy in reference to Hillary is uncalled for. But since he brought it up:

Her bark is worse than her cough.

Actually, no it’s not:

Sorry about that.

For a moonbat, Chris Cilizza is fairly clear-eyed. No ranting about Putin, or Comey, or “angry white men”. He exhibits if not acceptance, at least resignation:

She lost because she was overly cautious. Because she was slow to adjust to a changed race — in the primary and the general election. Because she never really connected with voters. Because she offered no positive message that resonated with those voters. Because she never grasped the import to her candidacy of the email story. Because she simply wasn’t a good candidate.

I think he goes too far, actually. She lost the electoral college—which is what counts—but she did gain nearly three million more votes than Trump. I say that not in her defense, but in reminding those of us who anticipated her presidency with dread how close it came to happening.

I laugh at the wailing and moaning of the Left—how could I not?—but I have some empathy. I know how I would have felt had Hillary won. Our country would have been lost, lost forever. That’s how the moonbats feel instead, but they’re wrong. We would have been right. And it came this close:

PS: Rush delights in pointing out that Hillary has lost the presidency four times. Once in 2008, and three times this year: Election Day, the recount, and the Electoral College. There’s a fifth in the offing if people try to prop her up on January 6th (Epiphany, appropriately enough) when Congress certifies the Electoral College count—but the image recalls the worst of how Christ Stevens’ lifeless body was defiled by the Benghazi mob. Have we no respect for the dead?

Even a relentless critic such as I would have to admit that Obama would cut a fine figure as a doctor. Crisp, white lab coat contrasting with his attractively dark skin; stethoscope tossed casually around his neck; graying hair suggestive of wisdom and experience; developing golf game…

All hat and no scalpel, in other words:

Ziv Medical Center, which has treated over 700 casualties of the Syrian civil war, including women and children is now working to raise funds for their treatment and return to Syria.

The casualties all reach the border, by any means at their disposal. Among the injured are children and young adults who arrive on their own, unaccompanied by a family member, perhaps they have lost their families during the course of the war. Most of them have sustained severe, complex war injuries, from bullets, shrapnel and blast damage, suffering from internal injuries and amputated limbs.

In contrast to routine treatment of patients hospitalized in Ziv, these casualties are treated over a long period of weeks and even months, without the comfort of a family member by their side, arriving without even the most rudimentary items required by a patient.

In addition to the life-saving treatment given to the patients, Ziv also provides the support of its social services as well as physiotherapist, to assist the casualties in dealing with the traumatic experiences they have experienced.

Ziv is currently working to purchase much needed medical items for the Syrians. Their time in Israel is limited, and they return from Ziv to unknown circumstances in Syria. After their return, they may no longer be able to access medical services, hospitals or rehabilitation facilities which will insure their recovery.

Ziv therefore makes every effort to provide the patients with medical items which will enable them to function following their return, including medical equipment, medication, bandages and guidance for continued self-treatment.

Obama washed his hands of the Syrians. So did, Israel—but only in preparation for surgery. What kind of monstrous world do we live in when the callow narcissist presumes to judge those who practice—practice, not prattle—tikkun olam?

Spattered red is the new black!

Berlin attack latest in disturbing terror trend

If the truck attack on a crowded Berlin market that killed a dozen people sounded familiar, that’s because it follows a disturbing trend of terrorism that requires little organization, manpower or technological know-how.

Whether the Berlin rampage represents the latest lone wolf attack or is the latest example of an Islamic State operative able to conceal his ties to the terrorist organization worries authorities.

German officials are still searching for the unknown driver who plowed a truck loaded with steel beams into a popular Christmas market Monday night. Whatever his identity, his method has become commonplace.

In July a Tunisian resident of France, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, used a rented cargo truck to run through a crowd in Nice, France, killing 86 people and wounding hundreds more. And Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a Somali-born student at Ohio State University, crashed his car into a crowd of pedestrians in November before getting out and stabbing several of them with a butcher knife.

Rita Katz, executive director of the SITE Intelligence Group, said the Islamic State has been heavily promoting the use of trucks in recent years. The group even dedicated a three-page feature in the November edition of its online magazine explaining the right way to carry out such an attack, including a picture of a U-Haul truck, a list of suggested targets and tips on what kind of truck to use.

Good for USA Today for connecting the dots.

If we may add a few more:

A Palestinian terrorist purposefully rammed his car into Staff Seargent Benjamin Yaakovovich, seriously injuring him. The perpetrator was apprehended directly following the attack, but Yaakovovich died of his wounds four days later.

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Shalom Sherki was killed and his girlfriend was seriously injured on Holocaust Rememberance Day, when West Bank resident Khaled Koutineh ran his car into a bus stop in Jerusalem.

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In a similar attack to the one that claimed the lives of a 3 month old child and a 22 year old woman on October 22, a Palestinian man drove his car into a light-rail station on November 5. The attack left one Israeli Border Police officer dead and 14 other individuals injured.

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On the afternoon of Wednesday October 22 a 3 month old baby girl was killed when a Palestinian individual rammed his car into a group of Israelis waiting for the light-rail train at the Ammunition Hill station.

To sum it up…

A year of terror – 13 September 2015 to the present

Since 13 September 2015, 42 people have been killed in terrorist attacks and 602 people (including 4 Palestinians) injured.

There have been 167 stabbing attacks and 89 attempted stabbings; 116 shootings; 48 vehicular (ramming) attacks; and one vehicle (bus) bombing

Don’t worry if you missed the “trend”, USA Today. It’s hard to spot them—even at a rate of three or four a month—if you can’t be bothered to pay attention. We’ve been on to the “trend” for years.