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Islam’s Terrorist African Caliphate

Posted on | January 21, 2014 | 12 Comments

Will America stand idle while this happens?

Islamist militants stormed a village in remote northeast Nigeria on Monday, torching houses and spraying them with bullets in an attack that killed 18 people, witnesses said.
The latest Boko Haram assault, on Sunday night, came hours before Nigeria’s four top military chiefs handed over to fresh commanders in a ceremony on Monday.
President Goodluck Jonathan announced the reshuffle of his entire military leadership last week in a bid to reinvigorate the fight against the insurgents.
“Most of those who survived the attack have fled the village as they do not know if they will be attacked again,” said Bulama Ibrahim, the chief of Alau Ngawo village, which was attacked sometime after 10 p.m. on Sunday. . . .
The village lies in remote northeastern Borno state, the epicenter of the insurgency and relic of Nigeria’s oldest medieval Islamic caliphate, which once prospered from trans-Saharan trade routes passing though the largely Muslim north.
Boko Haram is fighting to re-establish an Islamic kingdom in northern Nigeria, breaking away from the largely Christian south. Its fighters have killed thousands of people since they launched an uprising in mid-2009.

Just another 18 people killed by terrorists whose ambition is to forcefully take over Africa for a worldwide Islamic caliphate.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

 

Category: Islam, Nigeria, Terrorism

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.21.14

Posted on | January 21, 2014 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Four Killed As Explosions Rip Plants In Two States

The International Nutrition plant in Omaha

Explosions at Nebraska feed plant, Oklahoma steel mill being investigated by OSHA

Assad Regime Accused Of Torture, 11000 Executions
Former war crimes prosecutors present graphic evidence

US, Russian Security Forces Hunt Jihadis Inside Sochi Olympics Security Zone
Female suspects include “white widow”



POLITICS
March For Life Makes Room For Other Causes

Pro-life, pro-abortion activists face off at the Supreme Court

Contraceptive mandate not the only issue spurring a new generation



As Obama Hammers “Income Inequality”, Gap Grows During His Presidency



NJ Lt. Gov Guadagno Denies Threatening To Withhold Sandy $$

Maverick Dem Congressman Otis Pike Dies, 92

Obama Celebrates MLK Holiday With Visit To Soup Kitchen

Conservative Groups Hit Rep. Lankford As He Announces For Coburn’s Senate Seat



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Slips In Asian Trade As Iran Deal Eases Supply: WTI $93.89, Brent $106.31
PRC’s 2013 Growth Dodges Fourteen-Year Low; Risks Remain
Unilever Sales Boosted By Sales In Emerging Markets
Lenovo, IBM Near Deal On Low-End Servers
Overstock.com Now Accepting Bitcoins
Propane Supplies Low, Partially Due To Huge Corn Harvest
HP: Windows 7 “Back By Popular Demand”
Rethinking Microsoft’s Tablet: Surface Pro 2 Succeeds
Google Pulls Chrome Extensions After Complaints
Hershey’s To Make Custom 3D-Printed Chocolate
Is Samsung’s Strategy Failing?



SPORTS
Pacers Squelch Warriors Rally, Extend Streak To Five

The Pacers’ Paul George leads the way with 23 points

Building and holding a big lead before hanging on for the 102-94 win

Canucks’ Tortorella Draws Fifteen-Day Suspension After Brawl

Parsons, Rockets Snap Blazers’ Winning Streak

Panthers Rout Penguins 5-1, Take Season Series

Bulls’ Gibson Beats Buzzer And Lakers In OT

Leafs Double Up Coyotes For Desert Victory

KU Pushes Baylor Further Down The Spiral

Marchand Scores Two As Bruins Edge Kings

Creighton Sinks Big East Record 21 Bombs, Routs #4 Villanova

Nats Sign Zim, Desi, Storen, Blevins And Ramos



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Victoria Beckham Nixes Future Spice Girls Reunion

“I won’t ever do it again.”

While posing for Spanish/Italian issue of Vanity Fair: “Sometimes you’ve got to know when it’s time to leave the party.”

Treasure Trove Of Drugs In Bieber’s Apartment During Police Raid


Nobody Is Safe From Joan Rivers’ Acid Tongue

Affleck’s P3nis Huge Joke At Producers’ Guild Awards

Brad Pitt’s Short New Haircut? “It’s Not A Choice”

Kelly Clarkson’s Expecting A Girl

Beyonce And Jay-Z To Perform Together At The Grammys

Drew Barrymore Won’t Let Daughter Pose For Playboy



FOREIGNERS
Mexican Couple Arrested At Texas Border In Connection With Target Data Breach
Massive Data Theft Affects 40% Of South Koreans
ILO Warns Global Joblessness To Rise
Thai Protests Continue As Government Mulls Emergency Decree
Family Pleads For Norks To Release Imprisoned Missionary
Turkish Strongman Erdogan Under Corruption Cloud
Clashes Continue For Third Day In Kiev
South Sudan Draft Deal Includes Ceasefire, Pardons
AAP Protest Turns Violent After Supporters, Police Clash; One Policeman Injured
Harper To Israel: Through Fire And Water, Canada Will Stand With You



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: You Can’t Get Away With Lying About Things On The Public Record
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Sad Man’s Tongue Has A Bunch Of New Stuff
Doug Powers: Tight Cell Phone Control At Michelle Obama’s 50th Birthday Bash
Twitchy: Dr. Ben Carson Nails It With Simple Key Point On MLK Day
American Thinker: Hillary’s Political Football Baggage
Conservatives4Palin: EJ Dionne Thinks America’s Better Off After Five Years Of Hope And Change
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, January 20
Joe For America: Top Dem Recruit Jerry Cannon Caught Lying To Media?
JustOneMinute: The Future Of Gun Control In One Headline
Pat Dollard: Pastor Tells O’Reilly “I’m Sure Obama’s Not The Antichrist; The Antichrist Would Have Higher Poll Numbers”
Protein Wisdom: Obama – “If You Don’t Like Me, It’s Because You’re RAAAAACIST!”
Shot In The Dark: Every Iowan A King – In Minnesota
The Jawa Report: Ten Years Ago, Rusty Said “Let There Be Blog”
The Lonely Conservative: Pro-Life? Support The Second Amendment? Andrew Cuomo Wants You To Leave New York
This Ain’t Hell: Doomsday Prepper Rats Himself Out
Megan McArdle: Amazon Workers Opt Out Of A Union


Category: Live at Five

David Zirin, Marxist Sports Blogger

Posted on | January 20, 2014 | 23 Comments

Professor Donald Douglas has been trying to get me to pay attention to this, and I’ve struggled mightily to resist. It makes my head hurt to think of it, but The Nation — a publication that spent 74 years cheerleading for the Bolsheviks — now has a sports blogger named David Zirin, whose output is about as zany as you’d expect:

Get ready for two weeks of stories that pit the polished Peyton Manning against his supposed antithesis, Richard Sherman. Get ready for two weeks of interesting coverage about how the best quarterback in the game and probable 2013 MVP takes on the best cornerback in the game and the probable Defensive Player of the Year at the Super Bowl. Also get ready for two weeks of utterly uninteresting coverage that paints Peyton as a Southern gentleman in shining armor who will hopefully slay Richard Sherman, Compton’s “loudmouth” dread-locked dragon. There will be more articles, tweets and commentaries from the media bemoaning Richard Sherman’s lack of “class”. There will be even more tweets from so-called fans that sound like press releases from a White Citizen’s Council. There will be a running loop of Sherman’s already “insta-classic”WWE-infused “promo” rant after Sunday’s victory over their rival the 49ers.

There is a word for such writing. That word is . . . bad.

UPDATE: Zirin is a comrade of the International Socialist Organization, and a contributor to its Socialist Worker site. The ISO is one of those Marxist splinter groups that you used to see at anti-Iraq war protests, handing out their grubby little tabloid newspapers and trying to sign up members. They were pathetic during the Bush era and are even more pathetic in the Obama era, where the the extreme Left is so completely co-opted by the Democrat Party (and vice-versa) that revolutionary Marxism is irrelevant.

 UPDATE II: To get a sense of the fringe nature of the ISO, you need to read this (long) manifesto by former ISO member Donna Chidi, who makes the point that leadership of the ISO, an organization whose members claim to see racism everywhere, is overwhelmingly controlled by whites. In 2010, there was a de facto purge of members from the Washington, D.C., branch of ISO, resulting in a group that is 90% white in a 54% black city:

[T]he leaders of the branch called an “Emergency Meeting” . . . in which we would discuss some important issues in our branch and which Ahmed Shawki of the national steering committee would attend and convene.
At this Emergency meeting, Shawki described reasons why the national steering committee had voted to expel Zach Mason and indefinitely suspend David Thurston of the DC branch. . . [Mason and Thurston] were not welcome to this “members only” meeting where the issue of their expulsions would be discussed by everyone else. . . . I commented on how sad it was to see socialists stand up and slander and crucify people they had worked with for 14 years and 7 years respectively without even allowing them to attend and defend themselves.
Among several other hostile comments made in my direction because of this, Shawki closed the discussion by inviting me to leave the ISO, although he has never spoken to me before, “If you think these guys are being crucified, then maybe this organization is not the right organization for you.”

In a 2010 e-mail to the DC-ISO’s (white) leader, Michelle Bollinger, Chidi mentioned David Zirin among her antagonists:

I believe it was made undeniably clear in the last meeting that I attended that I am not welcome in the DC ISO branch — especially in the comments made by comrades Dave Zirin, Mike Stark, and Ahmed Shawki.

Fighting racism by expelling black people? As a strategy, it makes about as much sense as anything else these kooks advocate.

 

Category: Sports

In The Mailbox: 01.20.14

Posted on | January 20, 2014 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
First Street Journal: From Around The Blogroll and The Normalization Of Homosexuality
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Complaints About Marcella Sills Go Back To 2009
Proof Positive: If You Like Your Civil Rights, You Can Keep Them


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Grantland Grovels Before The Transgender Thought Police Of The Left’s Ministry Of Truth
American Thinker: Liberalism In Brooklyn
Blackfive: Happy 10th Birthday To The Jawa Report!
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – Nothing But Churn
Conservatives4Palin: Sarah Palin – “Happy MLK Jr. Day!”
Don Surber: Ideas On How To Avoid Another Water Crisis
Jammie Wearing Fools: Cyber Security Expert Says Obamacare Website Now Much Worse Off
Joe For America: Texas Judge Orders Home-Schooled Children Removed From Christian Parents’ Home
JustOneMinute: Nominally Past The Statute Of Limitations
Pat Dollard: Arizona Bill Outlaws Enslavement Of Christians By Gays
Protein Wisdom: First World Problems – Women “Duped” Into Shaving Their Legs By EVIL Capitalists
Shot In The Dark: Dayton Administration – “Rules Are For Peasants!”
The Jawa Report: Ten Years Of Fatwas And Death Threats!
The Lonely Conservative: Dem Rep Admits Nobody Read $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill
This Ain’t Hell: Do Your Research, Willard Scott


Category: Linkagery

Let’s Slut-Shame @WendyDavisTexas!

Posted on | January 20, 2014 | 62 Comments

“Over time, the Davises’ marriage was strained. In November 2003, Wendy Davis moved out. Jeff Davis said that was right around the time the final payment on their Harvard Law School loan was due. ‘It was ironic,’ he said. ‘I made the last payment, and it was the next day she left.’ . . . In his initial divorce filing, Jeff Davis said the marriage had failed, citing adultery on her part . . .”
— Dallas Morning News

Smitty already took a whack at the Wendy Davis piñata today, and that’s probably enough Wendy Davis bashing for the week.

She’s so far down in the polls as to be hopelessly doomed. She will lose to Greg Abbott in November without any further help from us.

However, the point of mocking progressive celebrity women is not because such mockery will contribute to their electoral defeat. No, the purpose of deriding Democrat women is to inspire feminists to frothing rage over the alleged sexism of conservatives.

Of course, Republican women are routinely disparaged in the most foul misogynist ways by left-wingers, and feminists never say a word about that, but let Rush Limbaugh make a wisecrack about Sandra Fluke and suddenly it’s a right-wing #WarOnWomen.

Conservatives are going to be slammed as misogynists no matter what we say or do, so we might as well have some fun and try to do something that will provoke a wildly unhinged Amanda Marcotte rant.

Most of the resentment over Wendy Davis’s fudging of her biography — “My language should be tighter,” she admitted to the Dallas Morning News — is focused on her depiction of herself as a struggling “single mom,” despite the way she hooked up with an older sugar daddy when she was 21, married him when she was 24, moved into a posh neighborhood, and got him to pay her way through Harvard Law. Then Wendy left him with custody not only of the daughter they’d had together, but also with her daughter from her first marriage.

Not to be judgmental or anything, but that’s scarcely the tale of hardship and woe that wins much sympathy from actual single moms, many of whom are conservative women, and disinclined to RSVP to the Wendy Davis Feminist Victimhood Pity Party.


You get the general idea: We want to force feminists to defend the real Wendy Davis — a liar, a cheater, a selfish gold-digger — and to make them explain how her actual biography (and her dishonesty about her biography) is consistent with progressive ideals. And if they refuse to fight Wendy’s fights for her, we’ll then have a wonderful headline: “Feminists Abandon Democrat Wendy Davis.”

Heads we win, tails they lose.

 


Category: Abortion, Election, Feminism, Texas

Take Paul Krugman’s Money

Posted on | January 20, 2014 | 44 Comments

Paul Krugman tediously rehashes his “economic inequality” gripes:

The reality of rising American inequality is stark. Since the late 1970s real wages for the bottom half of the work force have stagnated or fallen, while the incomes of the top 1 percent have nearly quadrupled (and the incomes of the top 0.1 percent have risen even more). While we can and should have a serious debate about what to do about this situation, the simple fact — American capitalism as currently constituted is undermining the foundations of middle-class society — shouldn’t be up for argument.

Why the generalization, Dr. Krugman?

Why do you pin the blame so vaguely on “American capitalism,” when clearly the cause of economic inequality is you?

As the Smartest Economist in the Whole World™  it was your job to fix this  problem. Obviously you’ve been goofing off — phoning it in, going through the motions — and here you are again, recycling the same arguments you’ve been making for decades.

So we’re coming to take it back, Dr. Krugman. The middle class will be showing up to collect The People’s Refund. That three-bedroom $1.7-million Riverside Drive apartment you bought in 2009? It’s got enough square footage to house a dozen struggling grad students from Columbia and NYU. They’ll be moving in next week.

What’s your salary at Princeton University, professor? Last time I checked, the average Princeton professor made $190,000 a year and you’re clearly above average, so let’s say $250,000. We’re going to let you keep $60,000 of that — “incomes of the top 1 percent have nearly quadrupled” — and redistribute the other $190,000 to the janitorial staff at Princeton, because . . . fairness.

Now, how to redistribute your New York Times income? If they’re paying you $300,000 a year (which is Tom Friedman’s reported salary, and certainly they wouldn’t pay a Nobel Prize winner less) then I figure we’ll cut you back to $75,000, re-distributing $225,000 in $25,000 increments to nine struggling young writers to be chosen annually for what will be known as The Krugman Fellowships.

See, Dr. Krugman, this is why your “economic inequality” arguments haven’t been fixing the problem. By dwelling on general categories — “the top 1 percent” and the “middle class” — you have failed to make it personal. If you break it down to individual cases, people can relate a lot more directly to the issue, deciding on how they’ll divvy up the wealth of specific rich people, like you.

Even after we re-distribute three-quarters of your income, Professor, you’ll still be making more than $100,000 a year.

That money will come in handy when you’re buying pizza for all those grad students sleeping on the floor of your apartment.

Social justice, eh?

 

Category: Economics, New York Times

Wendy Davis Used The Roman Alphabet. Isn’t That “Honesty” For A Democrat?

Posted on | January 20, 2014 | 27 Comments

by Smitty


I can’t see any level of prevarication in Wendy Davis’s history that has not been normalized by #OccupyResoluteDesk:

[Wendy Davis] has admitted to the Dallas Morning News that she lied about key events in her life, including her first divorce. Davis may even have lied under oath, testifying in a federal lawsuit over redistricting that “I got divorced by the time I was 19 years old,” when in fact she was divorced at age 21.
Other missing details have included: her second husband paid her way through law school and she divorced him the day after the last payment was made; her ex-husband accused her in initial court filings of adultery, and was awarded custody of their two daughters; and she first ran for city council in Fort Worth as a Republican.
“My language should be tighter,” she said, admitting her campaign biography has been less than truthful.

She really should have tarted up that bio some more. A mother who was an expat from Bulungi, where that branch of the family had run a coffee plantation, to give her a more exotic feel. She could write some fanciful book with a title like “Dreams from Gaia by Way of My Mother”, or something.

We’re looking at a young version of Hillary Clinton here. If you can’t understand one woman’s epic struggle to free herself from the cruel rows of shark-like teeth arrayed against her by the ravenous, insatiable Male Patriarchy, you’re clearly sexist.

If a bit of creative writing becomes necessary to overcome centuries of Masculine Oppression, then we must look past our own peevish adherence to facts and help a sista out.

Category: Feminism, Texas

Ode To Global Warming Wankery

Posted on | January 20, 2014 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

When you say Global Warming,
The critics are a-swarming,
For scientists, they too need a vig.
And if you are a-doubting,
There will follow some loud shouting,
Delivered by some cat called ManBearPig.

But if we’re not a-fooling,
And we truly need some schooling,
They could use a little polish on the thesis.
If those busy ‘crisis’ hatching
Could but show some action matching
Their results might not have the waft of feces.

Category: Global Warming
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