Police Have Not Named Suspect in Stabbing That Sparked Dublin Riot

Posted on | November 24, 2023 | 2 Comments

Various online sources say it was an Algerian immigrant, but I’m not finding that from any official source:

Gardaí [i.e., Irish police] investigating the stabbing attack on children in Dublin city centre have searched the accommodation of the chief suspect in the case.
The man’s laptop and telephone have also been seized for searching as gardaí try to establish a motive for the attack.
The suspect, who is in his late 40s and is a naturalised Irish citizen, has lived at different addresses around Dublin.
Gardaí believe he is a single man with no children in Ireland, where he has lived for about two decades. As the motive for the attack, at about 1.30pm on Thursday on Parnell Square East, has not been established, gardaí have not ruled out a mental health episode or a terror-related link.
Garda sources said the suspect for the stabbing at lunchtime in Parnell Square East was seen loitering in the area and when children were being brought into an aftercare centre, he lashed out at them with a knife. He stabbed a five-year-old girl in the chest and an aftercare worker was also stabbed as she attempted to use her body to shield the children from the attack.
Two other children, a boy aged five and a six-year-old girl, were also injured and taken to Crumlin children’s hospital. The boy was treated and quickly discharged while the girl remains in hospital.
The five-year-old girl who was stabbed in the chest has undergone emergency surgery at Temple Street hospital and remains in a serious condition while the injured woman is also in a serious condition in the Mater Hospital.

The stabbing provoked a riot, which Irish politicians and media denounced as “far right,” as if being angry about immigrants stabbing children is some kind of extremist political position, rather than an entirely natural attitude. The fact that police have not named the suspect or said what country he is from could be interpreted as confirmation that he’s a Muslim/Arab, but it’s best to avoid such speculation.

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In The Mailbox: 11.23.22 (Thanksgiving Edition)

Posted on | November 23, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Of the many things I am thankful for in these wretched and depressing times, I am most thankful for two things: first, the commentariat here at The Other McCain, who extended a host of helping hands a few years ago when I was living in the barracks for homeless veterans after being evicted from my apartment here in Las Vegas and have continued to reward me for mongling the links here. Right up there with you readers, I am thankful that 14 years ago Stacy took a chance and hired me as a (we thought) temporary fill-in for Smitty, who was being sent off to Asia to serve as the Admiral of the Afghan Seas. I’ve been filling in for almost a decade and a half, and been blessed to do a lot of stuff I wouldn’t have otherwise: CPAC, The Other Podcast, my first exposure to Vegas during the 2012 primary debates…it’s been quite a ride, and I thank all of you for it. Hope everyone is enjoying their Thanksgiving; I’ll be hitting the buffet at Main Street Station next door to the Plaza before the long holiday drive home to Tonopah.

Also, if you run short of good reading this weekend, the Black Friday/Cyber Monday Based Book Sale is on! Many books for 99 cents, and a lot of free stuff! Check it out! (h/t L. Jagi Lamplighter Wright at Wright’s Writing Corner)

Turkey with all the trimmings!

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Vintage Thanksgiving, Rainbow Bridge Explosion at Niagara Falls, Geert Wilders heading for a massive win in the Netherlands? and Happy Thanksgiving and Give Thanks!
Twitchy: Journalist Gets Community Noted & Dogpiled For Claiming American-Israeli Soldier Is U.S. Marine, OK Department Of Wildlife Tweets About Watching For Deer & Hilarity Ensues, and Memesgiving – Feasting On Thanksgiving Belly Laughs
Louder With Crowder: Woman Has Epic Melt Down Over Gas Prices, Yet Believes The Christian Right Is To Blame For Some Odd Reason, ‘As God as my witness…’: Start your Thanksgiving with the infamous ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ turkey drop, and Matt Rife reacts to haters trying to cancel his Netflix special with something that will REALLY trigger them
Vox Popoli: The Payments Never End, You Never Were, Kemosabe, and BASED BOOK SALE 2023
Stoic Observations: The Stoic Samurai
Gab News: How Christmas Music Went From Sacred To Secular
Flappr: The First Thanksgiving

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CDR Salamander: Happy Thanksgiving,
Dana Loesch: Happy Thanksgiving
Don Surber: Chicago may quit being a sanctuary city, also, Highlights of the holiday
Glenn Reynolds: Happy Thanksgiving

And let’s not forget the boys on the Group W bench.
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Thanksgiving and the Meaning of America

Posted on | November 23, 2023 | 2 Comments

What are you thankful for, this holiday? Personally, I’m thankful for gluten. Our oldest daughter has been on a gluten-free diet for some time, and because she’s visiting us for Thanksgiving — with her husband and two sons, Franco and Luca — my wife bought some gluten-free bread. Not realizing it was gluten-free, I accidentally used this to make a sandwich the other day and, wow. Thank God for gluten. I’d never realized how much I loved gluten, until I didn’t have it.

Ingratitude is a sin. God does so many things for us — the wonderful miracle of gluten! — that we ought to express our gratitude often, but if we only say thanks once a year, it’s the least we can do.

Everybody knows the story of the first Thanksgiving in Plymouth, Massachusetts. In the fall of 1621, the surviving English colonists had their first harvest of corn, and invited a group of Wampanoag Indians to join them in a three-day feast to celebrate this success. Fewer are aware that the colonists in Virginia had celebrated Thanksgiving even earlier:

Thanksgiving services were routine in what became the Commonwealth of Virginia as early as 1607; the first permanent settlement of Jamestown, Virginia, held a thanksgiving in 1610. On December 4, 1619, 38 English settlers celebrated a thanksgiving immediately upon landing at Berkeley Hundred in Charles City County, Virginia. The group’s London Company charter specifically required “that the day of our ships arrival at the place assigned for plantation in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God”. This celebration has, since the mid 20th century, been commemorated there annually at present-day Berkeley Plantation, the ancestral home of the Harrison family of Virginia.

For that matter, the claim to the first Thanksgiving in what is today the United States actually belongs to St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565.

All of these observations remind us that our nation was founded by Christians, who considered the blessings of God necessary to the success of their dangerous adventure in attempting to establish colonies in what they described as the “wilderness” of America. It is little appreciated now how perilous life was for those early settlers. Captain John Woodlief, who led the expedition that founded the Berkeley plantation in Virginia, was a survivor of the “starving time” in the Jamestown colony. During the winter of 1609-1610, three-quarters of the Jamestown settlement perished, leaving just 60 survivors of the 240 who had begun the winter inside their fort, besieged by hostile Powhatan Indians. The hazards involved in crossing an ocean to establish those first English settlements in America made the colonists keenly aware of the need for divine protection, so their “thanksgiving to Almighty God” was quite sincere.

We ourselves are cursed to live in an age of ingratitude, with idiotic intellectuals demanding we “decolonize Thanksgiving.” The Left has persuaded our intelligentsia that success is something to be ashamed of — to succeed is to become an oppressor — rather than something for which we should be grateful to God. The beneficiaries of college education are nowadays indoctrinated with this destructive nonsense, wherein the success of English colonists in America is viewed as a bad thing, and we’re supposed to feel guilty that any of them survived.

Recall what I said last month about Gaza:

Liberals make the same mistake about this situation that they make on every other issue: Having made an idol of “Equality,” liberals decide that members of a less-than-successful group are victims of “oppression,” and then accuse their more successful neighbors of perpetrating this oppression.

This obsession with victimhood produces a mentality that sees “oppression” everywhere, and results in a rhetoric of demonization, making scapegoats of people in order to justify retaliatory measures against them. This mentality explains how many on the Left actually celebrated the terrorist massacres that Hamas perpetrated on October 7: Those Israelis deserved to die, according to this perverse leftist worldview, because all Israelis are complicit in the “oppression” of Palestinians. My friend Marty Seiff’s book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Middle East, is a solid rebuttal of the Palestinian victimhood myth, but the Left doesn’t care about facts. They’re just trying to provoke a lynch-mob mentality, and rely upon the ignorance of their followers, who are too lazy to discover the truth for themselves, and instead regurgitate whatever pro-Hamas propaganda they are fed.

Excuse me for bringing up the Gaza war, but you see that the people who tell us Israel is guilty of “genocide” are the same people who think Americans have nothing to be grateful for at Thanksgiving.

Well, I’m grateful for gluten, among other things, and nobody’s going to make me feel guilty for enjoying today’s feast.

The first English colonies in America were founded during the reign of King James I, the Scots-born great-great-grandson of Henry Tudor. The Jamestown settlement was named in honor of the king, whereas the Virginia colony was named in honor of his predecessor, Queen Elizabeth, who never married and thus was known as “the virgin queen.” It is a source of some amusement to me that those “social justice” activists who complain about Confederate memorials seem to have no problem with place names that honor British monarchs. If you ever visit Alexandria, Virginia, you’ll notice King Street, Queen Street, etc., and none of the liberals who claim to venerate “democracy” seem to have any qualms about these historical tributes to British royalty. But I digress . . .

The English came late to the colonial enterprise in the New World. Beginning with the voyages of Christopher Columbus, the Spanish led the way, first in the Caribbean islands and later in the mainland of Central and South America. Mexico was conquered by Cortez in 1521, and by 1532 Pizarro conquered the Incas in Peru, all of these conquests preceding by many decades the first English colonies in North America. These Spanish conquests, however, were sequels to the beginning of the Age of Exploration. In the second volume of his History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill writes about how the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople set this age in motion:

The destruction of the Byzantine Empire and the Turkish occupation of Asia Minor imperilled the land route to the East. The road which had nourished the towns and cities of the Mediterranean and founded the fortunes and the greatness of the Genoese and the Venetians was now barred. . . .
Portugal was the first to discover a new path. Helped by English Crusaders, she had achieved her independence in the twelfth century, gradually expelled the Moors from her mainland, and now reached out to the African coastline. Prince Henry the Navigator, grandson of John of Gaunt, had initiated a number of enterprises. Exploring began from Lisbon. All through the later fifteenth century Portuguese mariners had been pushing down the west coast of Africa, seeing for gold and slaves, slowly extending the bounds of the known world, till, in 1487, Bartholomew Diaz rounded the great promontory that marked the end of the African continent. He called it “the Cape of Storms,” but the King of Portugal with true insight renamed it “the Cape of Good Hope.” The hope was justified; in 1498 Vasco da Gama dropped anchor in the harbour of Calicut; the sea-route was open to the wealth of India and the Farther East.

Notice how African slaves merit just a passing reference in Churchill’s account of these Portuguese explorations in the 1400s. The whole point of the enterprise, after all, was to find some way to reach Asia by sea, after the Muslim conquest of Constantinople had “barred” the overland route to the Far East. The first African slaves were brought back to Europe from these expeditions in the 1450s by Portuguese mariners who, sailing up the Gambia River in search of a route to Asia, hadn’t found the fabled wealth of the East, but had found natives who were willing to exchange their slaves for trade goods. All of this activity was in response to the loss of Constantinople and, as Churchill remarks, Portugal itself had spent decades fighting to escape the Moorish Islamic conquest.

When I was a schoolboy, we learned about the history of the Age of Exploration, and I recall the names of Diaz and de Gama as answers on multiple-choice questions in fifth-grade history class. Do they still teach this kind of history in schools? Are young people imbued with the sense of this historical era as one of great adventures and rivalries between European powers? The Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the French — all of them were competitors in this colonial game, and the English didn’t make their entry until quite late. Decades before the English founded their colonies in Virginia and Massachusetts, for example, Jean Ribault had sought to establish French colonies, first building a fort on the South Carolina coast, and then getting into a disastrous fight with the Spanish in Florida. Growing up in Georgia, I was taught that one of the main reasons this colony was founded was to create a buffer between the Spanish in Florida and the English colonies in the Carolinas.

History gives meaning to our lives. If we study this history, we understand that the success of the English colonies in America was by no means certain, and that the colonists who survived the many dangers of those early years had reasons for their “thanksgiving to Almighty God.” (Perhaps not least of which, they didn’t have to eat gluten-free bread.) The specifically Christian nature of their belief ought to be acknowledged, and while some may scoff at such beliefs, I myself don’t doubt that God’s help was necessary to the success of these colonies that have since grown to become the United States of America.

Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heav’nly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Category: History

‘Progressives’ Become Hitler Youth Targeting the ‘Zionist War Machine’

Posted on | November 22, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘Progressives’ Become Hitler Youth Targeting the ‘Zionist War Machine’

Nineteen-year-old Calla Walsh was already notorious before Monday’s ~~protest~~ violent attack against a Jewish business in New Hampshire:

Protesters voicing support for Palestine were arrested in connection with vandalism Monday at Elbit Systems of America, a defense contractor in Merrimack, police said.
Three people were arrested on several charges, including riot.
Police before 8 a.m. were called to 220 Daniel Webster Highway for reports of protestors blocking the driveway and multiple people believed to be on the roof.
The fire department also was sent for a report of smoke coming from the roof.
Police found protesters blocking the driveway voicing support for Palestine, according to Merrimack police.
They eventually vacated the roadway and allowed officers to access the property.
Officers discovered the front of the building had been spray painted with red paint, windows had been smashed, and at least one of the main lobby doors had been locked shut via a bicycle anti-theft device, police said.
Officers also confirmed that at least three people accessed the roof. They were charged with riot, sabotage, criminal mischief, criminal trespass and disorderly conduct.
Arrested were Sophie Marika Ross, 22, of Housatonic, Mass.; Calla Mairead Walsh, 19, of Cambridge, Mass., and Bridget Irene Shergalis, 27 of Dayville, Conn., according to police
Police said the smoke was caused by an incendiary device similar to ones later located on one of the suspects. Officers on the roof found more spray painting, smashed skylights and damage to HVAC equipment.
The three were held on preventive detention and will be arraigned in the Hillsborough County Superior Court – South at 1 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said.
The FBI is working to determine who else might have been involved.
Elbit Systems of America is a wholly owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems Ltd., which is headquartered in Haifa, Israel. . . .
Gov. Chris Sununu condemned the attack.
“The antisemitism, hate, and significant damage protesters brought to Elbit America’s campus this morning has no place in our state and will not be tolerated,” he said. “I am confident law enforcement will work to bring those responsible for this vile act of hate to swift justice. The people of New Hampshire stand with Israel and with Elbit Systems of America.”

It’s a 21st-century Kristallnacht, and the perpetrators are “voicing support for Palestine,” to borrow the media’s euphemistic language. At least WMUR-TV did some actual reporting:

The protesters in front of the building identified themselves to News 9 as a group called Palestine Action U.S. They posted a photo on social media stating that their goal is to dismantle Elbit Systems and what they referred to as the “Zionist war machine.”
“We’re a direct-action network targeting Elbit Systems, their U.S. chapter specifically,” said Fergie Chambers, of Palestine Action U.S. “They are Israel’s largest weapons supplier. Eighty-five percent of the drones being used in Gaza right now are produced by this company. This location here in Merrimack, New Hampshire, produces display systems for fighter jets.”

Say hello to James “Fergie” Chambers:

The 38-year-old cop-hater is the decadent heir of a media fortune, “the first-born son of James Cox Chambers, the co-owner of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks with a net worth of $5.65 billion.” What happened to him? Well, his grandmother was good friends with Jane Fonda back in the day. And as for the notorious Calla Walsh . . .

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Calla Walsh in 2020

When she was in high school, Walsh became an organizer for the reelection campaign of Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, who faced a Democratic primary challenge from Joe Kennedy III. Somehow — it’s rather mysterious — Walsh and other left-wing youth were persuaded that Markey was a “progressive” hero (when, in fact, he’s a nondescript party hack) and believed that the young Kennedy was some kind of “right wing” menace. If anything, Calla Walsh’s role as a teenage leader of the “Markeyverse” illustrates just how naïve young leftists can be, but since then, she’s gone on to become a fixture in radical activism. And by “radical activism,” of course, I mean, Iran-sponsored Jew-hating:

In December 2022, a coalition of 28 organizations asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement over its extensive links to terrorist groups. Of particular concern was the BDS movement’s links to a mysterious “Mapping Project” that published an apparent hit list of targets linked to the U.S. government, Israel, and the Jewish community.
An investigative report by the Zachor Legal Institute exposed the Mapping Project’s links to supporters of terrorists, the BDS movement and, in all likelihood, the government of Iran.
The Mapping Project’s content makes it clear that its anonymous creators’ intention is to inspire violent attacks on the listed sites. The project’s website states, “Our goal in pursuing this collective mapping was to reveal the local entities and networks that enact devastation, so we can dismantle them. Every entity has an address, every network can be disrupted.” . . .
The project openly supports Palestinian terrorists, putting to rest any notion that the Mapping Project is merely a provocative academic exercise. “Glory to the martyrs! Free Palestine from the River to the Sea! Free All Political Prisoners!” the website proclaims in a statement expressing solidarity with Palestinian terrorists seeking the destruction of Israel. . . .
The identities of the project’s creators remain murky. However, one name has been reportedly linked to the project: Calla Walsh, a member of BDS Boston, Democratic Socialists of America and, as of April 2022, Office Manager for Massachusetts Peace Action. An investigation by the Canary Mission found four tweets by Walsh that idolized the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist group.
Walsh says she’s simply a promoter of the Mapping Project and denies having worked on it. However, Al-Jazeera reported that she “participated” in it and, in an apparent slip of the tongue, referred to the project as “we” in a tweet. She’s also implied that she knows the authors of the project who, she says, “have been working on it for years.” . . .
The common denominator among the groups that appear closest to the Mapping Project is support for the Iran-backed PFLP terrorist group.
The first PFLP connection comes through BDS Boston, whose Twitter account was the first to report the project’s debut. As mentioned, BDS Boston member Calla Walsh posts pro-PFLP material. . . .

So, they’re making a list of Jews, and putting them on a map, and they’re doing this while supporting an Iran-backed terrorist group. Move along. Nothing to see here. Just “young people who are taking an interest in peace and social justice,” as Jamie Raskin might say.

Category: Israel, New Hampshire, Progressivism, Terrorism

In The Mailbox: 11.21.23

Posted on | November 22, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.21.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Going down to Las Vegas for a VA appointment, coming back on Thanksgiving after an early dinner there. Posting may be erratic over the next few days.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: LAPD Revoked His Carry Permit Because He “Yelled” At Cops
EBL: Treadstone, also, Wild Turkey Day
Twitchy: Iowahawk Mocks Pro-Palestinian Vandals, BBC Claims Real Victims Of The Black Death Were,,,Black Women? and CNN Triggered By “New Victory In Global Rise Of Far-Right Politics”
Louder With Crowder: Dude swings on a group of Marines outside a nightclub; gets hit with fists, pavement, and instant regret, Scarborough Loses His Mind, Claims Trump Will “Execute” Anyone “He Is Allowed To” If Reelected, and “You nutters”: Bystander goes on must-watch rant on how those climate protesters blocking traffic suck at life
Vox Popoli: She’s Far from the Only One, Ideology is Rhetoric, The Global Economy is Dead, The Invasion of Britain, and Word Counts
Flappr: The First Thanksgiving – Good Thing? Bad Thing?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: How Many Heretic Cardinals will it Take?
American Greatness: Dinner with a Dictator: When American Business Leaders Support the Enemy
American Thinker: First They Came for the Smokers
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Dominatrix News
Babalu Blog: Cuban political prisoner from July 11 protests dies from lack of medical care, The Western left’s idolization of Hamas and Che Guevara, and The Castro dictatorship bids farewell to the visiting ‘diaspora’ in Cuba for investment opportunities
BattleSwarm: Video Of More Of That Voter Fraud That Doesn’t Exist
Behind The Black: Musk Says Next Starship/Superheavy test launch could happen in only 3 to 4 weeks, India now plans robotic lunar sample return mission, Rocket engine startup Ursa Major enters solid-rocket motor business, North Korea announces it will attempt orbital launch of spy satellite this week, and Will libertarian Javier Milei actually be able to institute his revolution in Argentina?
Cafe Hayek: Opposition to Progressivism Isn’t the Equivalent of Trumpism
CDR Salamander: How do you pull a merchant fleet out of a hat?
Da Tech Guy: It’s Amazing How the Narrative From a Reporter Can Change, A Primer on Real Life Pt One: I’m Old Enough to Remember When This Was Real Life 101, and A Mideast Thanksgiving
Don Surber: Make a fun movie, gals
Gates Of Vienna: A MAGA Moment for Argentina
The Geller Report: Elon Musk and X Files ‘Thermonuclear Lawsuit’ Against Far-left Media Matters Hate Machine, also, “They Came To Slaughter Us”: Machete Armed Migrant Mob Attacks Teenagers at Village Hall Dance in France, ONE DEAD, SEVERAL STABBED
Hogewash: Panning Across M83 with MIRI, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Sagittarius C, The Difference a Year Can Make, and A Civil Rights Victory
Hollywood In Toto: Kevin Hart, Theo Von Say the Obvious About President Biden, Why Do Conservatives Like Star Trek? andJulianna Margulies Made One MASSIVE Mistake in USA Today Op-Ed
The Lid: Biden Claims ‘Wartime Powers’ Lets Him Ban Gas Stoves, Heaters To Combat Climate Change Hypothesis
Legal Insurrection: Three Radicals Arrested for Allegedly Damaging, Setting Fire to Israeli-Owned Factory in New Hampshire, Israel Agrees To Trade 150 Imprisoned Terrorists For 50 of 240 Hostages, Plus Multi-Day Ceasefire, LA Times Op-Ed: This Thanksgiving, Honor Turkeys By Not Eating Them, ‘Faithful Catholic Colleges’ See Increase in Enrollment, University of Arizona Suspends Two Profs Over Israel/Hamas Comments, and Iowa Board of Regents Votes to Eliminate Most Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Programs
Nebraska Energy Observer: Stumbling upon
Outkick: Florida State Might’ve Lost Jordan Travis, But The Seminoles Still Have A Legitimate Shot At Winning A CFP Title Behind Tate Rodemaker, LSU’s Kim Mulkey Clarifies What Angel Reese Suspension Is For Somewhat, But She Still Doesn’t Get It, Dan Le Batard Joins HBO Max, After Calling Streamer Low Quality ‘Crap’, Paul Finebaum Goes After Lincoln Riley: ‘Don’t Know If I’ve Seen A Worse Coaching Job’, Deion Sanders Supports Player Ripping The Team As Selfish, and Michele Tafoya Reveals Truth Behind NBC Exit, Slams Insanity Of Transgender Athletes
Power Line: Thought for the day, The Bonfire of Biden’s Vanities, and Winsom Newsom’s Kamala Word Salad Recipe
Shark Tank: Wassermann-Schultz Calls For National Antisemitism Strategy
Shot In The Dark: Submitted Without Comment, also, The GULAG On The Hudson
The Political Hat: Organs For Interspecies Transplants: Could Genetically Engineered Catgirls Be Not Far Behind?
This Ain’t Hell: Tuesday twinks, Liberty Call Austin Texas, Covid Troops to Sue for Billions, and Teen receives two-year sentence for veteran’s death
Victory Girls: John Kirby Schools Reporters On “Genocide Joe” Nickname
Volokh Conspiracy: Settlement and Apology as to Restriction on Holding “God Bless the Homeless Vets” Sign by City Hall
Watts Up With That: Claim: High Cost Green Policies will Reduce the Drug Epidemic, California Aims to Force Adoption of Electric Trucks, But 19 States Sue to Block, and Beijing’s Coal Boom Is Here to Stay
The Federalist: When Formula One Flamed Out In Vegas, Fans Got Badly Burned, 3 Of The Trans People Eulogized By Biden Admin Died Attacking Innocent Strangers, Elon Musk Should Sue Media Matters Into Oblivion, Transportation Safety Board Proposes Dystopian Technology To Limit Your Speed While Driving, Barack Obama Is Still Forcing His Unwanted ‘Change’ On America, Election Integrity Groups Pressure Wisconsin Republicans To Squash ‘Devastating’ Ranked-Choice Voting Bills, and Court: Unless Congress Clears Up The Voting Rights Act, Only The AG Can Enforce Section 2
Mark Steyn: Le Grand Décivilisation

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Damn Right I’ve Got The Blues

Posted on | November 21, 2023 | Comments Off on Damn Right I’ve Got The Blues

by Smitty

What could motivate me to get a blue check on ~~Twitter~~X?

Elon Musk Just Detonated His ‘Thermonuclear’ Lawsuit
The shark food doesn’t come cheap, but if Musk is successful, this might prove as important a move as buying Twitter.

Godspeed, Elon.

Category: Uncategorized

‘Young People … Taking an Interest in Peace and Social Justice’

Posted on | November 21, 2023 | 3 Comments

We now have a new synonym for rioters, coined by Maryland Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin, to describe the pro-Hamas mob that attacked the Democratic National Committee headquarters in D.C. last week:

Jake Tapper, CNN: But I want to ask you about the video this week of the pro-Palestinian protest outside the DNC that turned violent, outside the Democratic headquarters. . . . At another rally just down the street from here at Union Station, crowds were chanting: “From the river to the sea. Long live the intifada.”
What do you make of this, as a Jewish American, a proud progressive, a Democrat? There’s antisemitism in the Democratic Party these days.
Raskin: Well, I mean, there’s antisemitism everywhere these days, as we were discussing with Elon Musk.
Tapper: Yes.
Raskin: And, I mean, we’re talking about a problem that goes back thousands of years, obviously. I was very disappointed to see what happened over at the DNC the other day. I mean, I’m glad that there are young people who are taking an interest in peace and social justice. And those people, I encourage. But for those who are somehow tempted to engage in pushing and shoving, like Kevin McCarthy in Congress, but doing it outside, I’m totally opposed to that. They should study the history of nonviolent movements in America, like the women’s movement, the civil rights movement, the LGBTQ movement, the environmental movement, that have been the great civilizing movements of our time and of American history that have transformed things.
And that does work better than violence.

What’s interesting here is Raskin’s automatic reflex response — deflection and “whataboutism” — to point fingers at Elon Musk or Kevin McCarthy, when the question asked was about Democrats supporting Hamas. Keep in mind that Raskin was one of the top inquisitors on the J6 “insurrection” committee. He’s in favor of sending Republicans to federal prison for years, if they cause trouble, but when a left-wing mob riots at the DNC, these are merely “young people who are taking an interest in peace and social justice” in whom he is “disappointed.”

Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin: "I was very disappointed to see what happened over at the DNC the other day. I mean, I'm glad that there are young people that are taking an interest in peace and social justice…" pic.twitter.com/Dil6WeKe0b

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 19, 2023