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It's got to be more then just fear. This oppression and outright murder has been going on for decades in about two dozen countries around the world. The dead number in the tens of thousands and could well be in the hundreds of thousands. You could ask a similar question; why don't the pro-women groups in the west condem the terrible treatment and oppression of women in the muslim world. Both of these are serious issues and for the most part when they come up the discussion is tepid at best. It is way past the time for outrage, shaming and economic sanctions.

#1.1 GoneWithTheWind on 2014-02-28 10:17 (Reply)

I would add to GWTW's reason that of competition here - a kind of fear, I suppose. While there are many of real faith who have a sympathy for the downtrodden which is rather fuzzily applied, there are those whose real religion is liberalism, and whose goal is cultural dominance here. Aligning themselves with the Wrong People here is simply not to be thought of. We yahoos must be wrong, and any objection we have to Muslim actions must only be the result of jingoism and misplaced nationalism, eh? No aid and comfort to us, thank you very much. Better to stick to protests which kick us as well.

#1.2 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2014-02-28 13:36 (Reply)

The photo posted in Friday Morning Links is very interesting. The different cubbies for wood and starters, the musket over the pit to keep it warm and ready (a deterrent to any home invasions), but where's the ash bucket?

#2 Terry on 2014-02-28 09:00 (Reply)

I like what looks like a miniature pump shotgun up in the antlers. Looks like it's gunning for the duck.

What's that hole in the wall for?

#2.1 T.K. Tortch on 2014-02-28 09:55 (Reply)

Re: DeBlasio going ugly on charter schools

Bertha Lewis said that Moskowitz who ran successful charter schools on the grounds of failing public schools got "away with murder" but the real murder comes from the criminally failing schools that Lewis supports (she used to be the head of ACORN).

The author of the column is hoping that Gov. Cuomo will come to the rescue. That could actually happen.

#3 mudbug on 2014-02-28 09:19 (Reply)

Axolotl. The Mexican researchers seem unable to finish killing it off. Maybe the U.S. can send a team from FWS or EPA to help finish the job.

#4 BillH on 2014-02-28 09:52 (Reply)

Oregon: Gov. Retread (the first--and hopefully last--of the Governors Karamazov) has lots of bad ideas, and the progs just love them.

Human rights are not in the Koran, therefore non-existent.

#5 Sam L. on 2014-02-28 11:46 (Reply)

How did the beavers get there? Swim the channel?

#6 Ray on 2014-02-28 14:37 (Reply)

probably like all other "reappearances" of "wild animals" in "Europe".
Either released by "animal welfare groups" to "reintroduce lost species" or escaped from zoos or private collections.

Did that in the Netherlands. About a dozen beavers were caught in Poland, flown to Rotterdam, driven 50 miles south to an area they'd last been hunted to extinction a century earlier, released, and a "monitoring program" set up.
Surprise, surprise, a year later all were dead.
But the group was tenacious. They just kept on doing it until the beavers did survive longer than the budget for the "monitoring program" lasted, at which point all reports of beaver sightings stopped.
Last reported sighting was about 3 years after the last release, so they probably never bred and are all dead again, having deprived a natural population in Poland of about 50 beavers to make Dutch environmentalists feel good about themselves.

#6.1 J.T. Wenting on 2014-03-01 02:26 (Reply)

FINALLY RELEASED:
The Clinton Library Documents...

http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2014/02/released-clinton-papers.html

#7 Steve on 2014-02-28 15:35 (Reply)

Always enjoy the sound of tranzi's sputtering when their pets (here Hamas) says thanks for the relief but no to everything else. No doubt Vassar's students will produce a multi-syllabistic rationale for American audiences.

Banning bottomless brunches, suprized that MADD hadn't already taken to the barricades. The days of the 3 for 1 happy hour and long drive from bar to bar to home ended for most of us.

Occupational licensing makes sense as a revenue matter, ole Sparky do keep the Fire Deparment busy. Yet, not sure how to keep private voluntary certifying board from also restraining trade, by say limiting the number of certified whatevers or by assigning terriorital monopolies. While you might free to hire someone without papers, your insurance company might be unhappy.

Is the internet bad for relationships? Only if you have to share a terminal and forget to clear your web history.

#8 walt moffett on 2014-02-28 15:43 (Reply)

MADD is a good example of what happens when a nonprofit actually fulfills the purpose for which it was formed. It can't let go!! And, if they fessed up and admitted "job done", they would have to lay people off. Maybe even dissolve!!

They were wildly successful; in terms of directly influencing State and Federal law, they might have been the most successful nonprofit in the history of political nonprofits. They got their way in almost every state and down to the level of fine detail in how drunk-driving laws were drafted. And they got the Federal government to help bully the states into line (via the threat of withholding Federal highway funds, natch).

Now they spend their time drumming up new forms of hitherto unknown dangerous alcohol abuse, on the basis of ludicrous claims and, of course, "studies". I think they've just got a lot of staff and money and all want to stay employed, so they pump their donors full of hysteria to keep the spigot on.

#8.1 T.K. Tortch on 2014-03-01 12:49 (Reply)

mmm . . .seem as if today we have a coming together: the cry against professional licensing meeting up with the bottomless brunch crowd. I wonder if the libs might be able to see that sometimes they are coming and going faster than they can spin!

#9 apple pie on 2014-02-28 17:49 (Reply)

I for one support the abolition of bottomless brunches. I can't think of anything more disgusting than sitting around trying to eat eggs and bacon surrounded by people with no pants on. Furthermore it must be terribly unsanitary for people to be sitting on chairs where other genitalia has been...wait, what...oh never mind.

#10 phil g on 2014-02-28 19:29 (Reply)

The horrific conditions and tortures the Vietnam POWs endured, I cannot fathom. Two things I wish Jim Robbins had mentioned about the prisoners at Gitmo: prisoners regularly throw feces at their jailers and that guards who mistreat prisoners there are punished.

#11 Mark on 2014-02-28 21:31 (Reply)

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Friday, February 28. 2014

Friday morning links