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Friday, March 25. 2016

Friday morning links

Mizzou Is Now Forcing Undergrads to Complete “Diversity Training” Class for Graduation


ACADEMIC ABSURDITY OF THE WEEK


Israeli Apartheid Week may be coming to a campus near you. An antidote, not complicity, is needed.


Jesse Watters: If You’re Afraid of the Name Donald Trump You’re Either an Illegal Alien or a Total Sissy 


Yoga Banned from Georgia School: Blame Christian Conservatives, Not Political Correctness - Turning kids against Christianity? That's a stretch.


K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING?


New Jersey nonsense: Actor faces 10 years in prison for using a prop gun in movie


Washington is out of control.


Fascism, American Style


Obama Needs to Get Over His Self-Serving Guilt Trip - POTUS should read some honest, non-Leftist history


Never happen 


Drug tunnel discovered from Mexico to California is four football fields long


James Comey and Loretta Lynch Hold the Whole Country in Their Hands


Man With Largest Carbon Footprint In World Says ISIS Not A Big Threat, But Climate Change Is


Z-man:



  There never has been a practical reason to import foreigners into the West, much less hostile, low-IQ savages from the Middle East. Whatever contributions have been made to the Belgian economy by Muslims were just blown to bits by a pair of suicide bombers. There are now rivers of blood because the leadership of Europe has been overrun by what looks increasingly like a suicide cult.


Angela Merkel, who will be remembered as one of history’s greatest monsters, is a good example to study. This piece on her from a few months ago walks you through her “evolution” from mundane Christian lady to a prominent deacon is what amounts to liberation theology, centered on the annihilation of the West as penance for generations of oppression.



Jihadi Idol? Kerry Team Says Fight Islamic Extremism With ‘Television Drama Series’… 


NY Times: Brussels Survived Terrorism, But May Not Survive Climate Change Or Something


Why do Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton believe they know more about Islam than Muslim clerics?



... stubbornly unwilling to deal with the reality of Islam, our leaders have constructed an Islam of their very own. This triumph of willful blindness and political correctness over common sense was best illustrated by former British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith when she described terrorism as “anti-Islamic activity.” In other words, the savagery is not merely unrelated to Islam; it becomes, by dint of its being inconsistent with a “religion of peace,” contrary to Islam. This explains our government’s handwringing over “radicalization”: we are supposed to wonder why young Muslims spontaneously become violent radicals—as if there is no belief system involved.


This is political correctness on steroids, and it has dangerous policy implications. 



NY Times Op-Ed: Europe has been living in a dream


VISIT BRUSSELS, YOU’LL HAVE A BLAST


Belgian Intelligence Had Precise Warning That Airport Targeted for Bombing


The Mafia Runs Guns for ISIS in Europe


Protests in Vietnam as prominent blogger goes on trial



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Mizzu enrollment just dropped 25% - for real.
#1 NJSoldier on 2016-03-25 08:27 (Reply)
As well it should. Too bad it wasn't more.
#1.1 Sam L. on 2016-03-25 13:16 (Reply)
"Angela Merkel, who will be remembered as one of history’s greatest monsters, is a good example to study."

Not Hitler? Saddam Hussein? Ivan The Terrible? Stalin? Mao? Genghis Khan?

The worst we can say about Merkel, the democratically elected Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, a successful democracy in Europe, is that she has seriously muddled her portfolio on immigration. Her hyperbolic transformation into "one of history’s greatest monsters" suggests that the writer is unhinged nd has no sense of proportion at all.

If anyone has the IQ of grapefruit it would appear to be this "Z-man" blogger.
#2 JJM on 2016-03-25 08:50 (Reply)
Your reply is a non sequitur. Z Man didn't say that Merkel was worse than those on your list, but simply stated that she will be seen as one of the worse, which is believable imo. A leader who openly allowed the destruction of a people, culture, and country, know full well that this would happen fits that bill imo. A different style from those on your list but the destruction of a country non the less.
#2.1 Dale on 2016-03-25 10:56 (Reply)
"Z Man didn't say that Merkel was worse than those on your list, but simply stated that she will be seen as one of the worse..."

Z-man has simply exposed himself as somewhat of a crank and a wingnut here.

Just what we need more of right now!
#2.1.1 JJM on 2016-03-25 11:12 (Reply)
It's all in how you look at it and study it.
#2.1.1.1 Sam L. on 2016-03-25 13:19 (Reply)
he makes some good points at times, but overall, he's a dingbat.

Merkel is surely a first class idiot, but I don't see her malicious intentions, not in the way the actual named monsters had in abundance.
#2.2 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2016-03-25 16:33 (Reply)
"Why do Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton believe they know more about Islam than Muslim clerics?"

Nothing annoys me more than the penchant for political leaders to pose as experts on other people's theology. Whenever I hear some Western leader telling us this about Islam, or that about Islam, I'd love to ask: "Excuse me, are you an imam? Have you ever done the Hajj? Have you memorized the Quran, chapter and verse, in Arabic?"

Sometimes I wish someone in the media would suddenly ask: "Prime Minister, I have a small growth on my back, I wondered whether you could tell me if it's benign or not? You're so expert on everything else that you surely must be a qualified dermatologist too."
#3 JJM on 2016-03-25 09:02 (Reply)
"Obama Needs to Get Over His Self-Serving Guilt Trip - POTUS should read some honest, non-Leftist history"

Why even bother?

He's gone in 301 days (206 US working days).

It's as good as over for his administration. I don't doubt his staff have already begun getting resumes out and making discreet phone calls to prospective future employers.
#4 JJM on 2016-03-25 09:08 (Reply)
301 days!!! How depressing! I was hoping it was way sooner than that!
#4.1 mudbug on 2016-03-25 10:30 (Reply)
Yeah, but it's the last summer you'll see him rubbing shoulders with the 1% peasants in Martha's Vineyard on your dime.

That's something.
#4.1.1 Scullman on 2016-03-25 10:44 (Reply)
Nah! Ex Presidents and ex congress critters spend the rest of their life on our dime! That way they're not impacted by most of the laws they pass.
#4.1.1.1 mudbug on 2016-03-25 11:14 (Reply)
Good point.
I knew there must have been a simpler reason besides the "All my life I've felt the calling to serve, to give back" crap we're subjected to every election season.
#4.1.1.1.1 scullman on 2016-03-25 11:21 (Reply)
How far we have fallen...
#4.1.1.1.1.1 mudbug on 2016-03-25 11:34 (Reply)
Don't feel too bad!

We're just getting started up here in Canada with our new Boy Wonder.
#4.1.2 JJM on 2016-03-25 14:07 (Reply)
Drama series to fight ISIS ???? WTF

Has he not noticed that these people are largely coming from comfortable, educated, middle class backgrounds? Doesn't even sound like a good propaganda program.

One thing that frightens me, though, is that on both the left and the right, the claim is being made that people have too much privacy and freedom. The FBI Apple* thing is one example, but the rush to blindly pick up people with no evidence or even idea of who they are or are supposed to have done is a threat to our lives. Today it's Middle Easterners, but it won't just stay that way.

*This is the second crypto war. The first was during Bill's day when the government was looking to prohibit all but 'crackable' encryption, everyone was to use a government provided encryption chip for security. While you could technically share encryption software with a US citizen, it was a criminal offense to post it , or even a link to it where it would be visible to non citizens.

Mainstream products like PGP started out as underground software distributed clandestinely. The writer of PGP, Phil Zmmermann was the subject of a federal grand jury for a number of years.

Eventually the government gave up a bit when it became obvious that it couldn't successfully contain it. Look up articles on the cypherpunk movement who helped break those barriers.
#5 jay on 2016-03-25 12:30 (Reply)
RE Yoga Banned from Georgia School: Blame Christian Conservatives, Not Political Correctness -

I don't get this yoga business. the whole concept sounds like some eastern mystical commie bullshit.

stretching? I played ice hockey for years and never stretched out before or after and the only injuries I suffered involved blood or blunt force trauma. stress relief? they're kids. what kind of stress do kids have? and if they do, let them de-stress the standard American way. scotch and a cigarette, or a beer if they're underage, or beat the tar out of some foreign exchange student or "I'm afraid of Trump" sissy.

namaste my ass.
#6 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2016-03-25 16:51 (Reply)
Laughed at this, Donny
#6.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2016-03-26 20:18 (Reply)
namaste, sahib.
#6.1.1 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2016-03-28 01:01 (Reply)
I salute the bear within you.
#6.1.1.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2016-03-28 19:46 (Reply)
re Cross

its Good Friday. isn't the cross supposed to be occupied? Easter's still a few days away.

or is this some protestant thing?
#7 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2016-03-25 16:57 (Reply)
Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic traditions have Christ on the cross, Protestant traditions tend not to.

Both have theological explanations for this that I don't fully believe. It's most regional, dating from an era when Northern Europe was simplifying art and architecture as a matter of taste.
#7.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2016-03-26 20:24 (Reply)
RE: Academic Absurdity of the Week.

"So I reply that I guess I’ll be calling 911 for the next couple weeks—and I will. Every time"

And that professor needs to be charged with a false report every time. Calling 911 knowing full well that it is NOT an emergency is an abuse of the system. It is a crime.
#8 charles on 2016-03-25 22:38 (Reply)
Stupidity need not be malicious. Of course it's NOT stupidity, it's leftist thinking, which simulates stupidity, and leftism is malicious.
#9 Sam L. on 2016-03-26 00:23 (Reply)

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