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U.S. and Allies Scramble to Confront North Korea Missile Threat

Posted on | March 7, 2017 | Comments Off on U.S. and Allies Scramble to Confront North Korea Missile Threat

 

Agence France-Press reports:

Nuclear-armed North Korea said Tuesday its missile launches were training for a strike on US bases in Japan, as global condemnation of the regime swelled.
Three of the four missiles fired Monday came down provocatively close to US ally Japan, in waters that are part of its exclusive economic zone, representing a challenge to US President Donald Trump.
In separate phone calls, Trump — whose rhetoric on the campaign trail had raised doubts about the issue — reaffirmed Washington’s “ironclad commitment” to Japan and South Korea.
The US will demonstrate to Pyongyang that there were “very dire consequences” for its actions, the White House said in a statement.
The UN Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting for Wednesday after a request by Washington and Tokyo to discuss additional measures following the launch.

Bloomberg News reports:

Japan moved to the highest possible alert level after North Korea fired four ballistic missiles simultaneously into nearby waters, the latest provocation from Kim Jong Un’s regime.
Three of the missiles fell into Japan’s exclusive economic zone, with one dropping about 350 kilometers west of the nation’s northern Akita prefecture, government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters after a meeting of Japan’s National Security Council. Authorities were still analyzing the type of missile launched, he said.
The launches “clearly show that this is a new level of threat” from North Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told lawmakers in Tokyo. American officials held phone calls afterward with counterparts in Japan and South Korea, which rely on the U.S. for security.

CNN reports:

The first pieces of a US-built missile defense system designed to mitigate the threat of North Korean missiles arrived at the Osan Air Base in South Korea Monday night, according to the US military.
The announcement comes just a day after North Korea test-fired four ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea.
China has voiced opposition to the proposed placement of the military hardware known as the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, which it sees as a threat to its own security.
“We will firmly take necessary measures to preserve our own security interest, and the US and South Korea must bear the potential consequences,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Geng Shuang said Tuesday.

Associated Press reports:

North Korea’s latest volley of missile tests put new pressure on a preoccupied Trump administration Monday to identify how it will counter leader Kim Jong Un’s weapons development.
North Korea’s march toward having a nuclear-tipped missile that could reach the U.S. mainland is among the pressing national security priorities President Donald Trump faces. He has vowed it “won’t happen” but has yet to articulate a strategy to stop it. . . .
An administration official told The Associated Press Monday that tougher sanctions, military action and resumption of long-stalled negotiations with North Korea are all under consideration as part of a policy review to provide options for the president within weeks.

The North Korean people are starving, but the communist dictatorship under Kim Jong Un has got money for a ballistic missile program.

 

Category: Japan, Military, North Korea

In The Mailbox: 03.06.17

Posted on | March 6, 2017 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


A double scoop from the bloglist this morning. Thanks to everyone for their kind words and prayers this past week.


OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Logan – A Movie Review (Of Sorts)
EBL: Mark Steyn Needs Our Help
Michelle Malkin: A Lesson For Planned Parenthood’s Pinup Girls
Twitchy: Flawless Victory! Katie Pavlich Nukes Hillary Fanboy Peter Daou In Gun Conversation
Louder With Crowder: Back To Berkeley – “Antifascists” Brutally Attack Trump Supporters
Blazing Cat Fur: Food Racism Is The Latest Front For High-Pitched Whining


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: 457 Visas – The Trump Effect, also, Two Podcast Episodes For You To Disagree With
American Power: President Trump To Unveil New Travel Ban Today, also, Bernard DeVoto’s Across The Wide Missouri
American Thinker: A Master Tactician Serves Filet After The Russian Souffle Collapses, also, Ask James Rosen And Angela Merkel About Obama Spying
Animal Magnetism: I’m A Lumberjack, also, Goodbye Blue Monday
Bring The HEAT: Sweden Brings Back Conscription, also, Five Years On – RIP Neptunus Lex
Da Tech Guy: JD Rucker – The Useless Idiots Of Mainstream Media And Why They’ll Lose To Trump, also, 10 Thoughts Under My Fedora
Don Surber: Over 36,000 Dead Lose Their Voting Rights In WV, also, Washington Post Accidentally Tells The Truth
Dustbury: Strange Search-Engine Queries, also, It Puts The Grunt In Disgruntled
Fred On Everything: What To Do With Latinos? Get Used To Them
The Geller Report: Obama AG Loretta Lynch Says We Need More “March, Blood, Death On Streets”, also, Robert Spencer – It’s Been A Big Week For Fake Hate
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
Jammie Wearing Fools: Suspect In JCC Bomb Threats Arrested – He’s A Left-Wing Fake News Reporter, also, Russian Hackers Allegedly In Possession of Damaging Info Seeking Hush Money From Liberal Groups
Joe For America: Obama DOJ Funneled Billions To Communist Front Groups, also, Obama Abandoned CIA Officer For Seven Years; Trump Freed Her In Six Weeks
JustOneMinute: Sessions Recuses
Power Line: The AP Springs To Obama’s Defense, also, What We Know And What We Don’t
Shark Tank: Nelson Leads Scott In New Senate Poll, also, Corcoran Says He’s Ready To Gut EFI, Visit Florida
Shot In The Dark: Why I Ignore The Journalistic “Fact Check” Racket, also, The Delicious Dish
STUMP: Mortality Monday – How Young Is “Too Young To Die”?, also, Friday Trumpery – DOL Pick Take Two
The Jawa Report: The Lurid Tabloids On Biden’s Hookers And Blow, also, Star Wars Stormtroopers Are Nazis (Or Something)
The Political Hat: #BlackLivesMatter vs. Yakub’s Soulless Albino Mutants, also, The English Language Is Liberating; The Left Wants To Corrupt And Silence It
This Ain’t Hell: Washington Post Tries To Smear McMasters, Fails Miserably, also, Marines United – A Photo Scandal
War Is Boring: Wojtek The War Bear Was Fond Of Hauling Artillery, also, American Troops In Armored Vehicles Roll Into Syrian Flashpoint
Weasel Zippers: Illegal Alien Escapes After Attacking Border Agent, Tucson Police Refuse To Help, NYT Columnist Solicits Felony, Asks IRS Employees To Leak Trump’s Tax Returns
Megan McArdle: Lenten-Fast Recipes That Don’t Sacrifice Taste
Mark Steyn: Doing Things By Half, also, Announcing The Mark Steyn Show Bag!


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Category: Linkagery

MURRAY-MANIA! Why Are College Kids Going Wild for the Latest Sensation?

Posted on | March 6, 2017 | Comments Off on MURRAY-MANIA! Why Are College Kids Going Wild for the Latest Sensation?

 

 

 

Not since The Beatles played Shea Stadium, perhaps, have mindless mobs of hysterical youth made news by going wild the way Middlebury College kids did last week. It’s not a pounding backbeat or lovable moptops singing four-part harmony that’s driving them crazy these days, however. No, it’s a 74-year-old policy analyst named Charles Murray:

When Murray is introduced before an audience of some 400, a patter of boos and catcalls disrupt the introduction. When he rises to speak, most of the audience rises en masse and turns its back on Murray. For the next 20 minutes, as Murray stands calmly at the podium, the mob cycles through a sequence of obviously rehearsed chants: “Who is the enemy? White Supremacy,” “Hey hey, ho ho, Charles Murray has to go,” “Racist, sexist, anti-gay, Charles Murray go away,” “Your message is hatred we will not tolerate it,” “Charles Murray go away Middlebury says no way,” etc. . . .
College officials, apparently anticipating a disruption, announce, to renewed boos, that Middlebury Professor Allison Stanger will conduct an interview with Murray from another location and stream the proceedings back to Wilson Hall. . . .
Once the interview began in the second room, protesters swarmed into the hallway, chanting and pulling fire alarms. Still, the interview was completed and officials, including Ms. Stanger, escorted Mr. Murray out the back of the building.
There, several masked protesters, who were believed to be outside agitators, began pushing and shoving Mr. Murray and Ms. Stanger, Mr. Burger [a spokesman for the college] said. “Someone grabbed Allison’s hair and twisted her neck…”
After the two got into a car, Mr. Burger said, protesters pounded on it, rocked it back and forth, and jumped onto the hood. Ms. Stanger later went to a hospital, where she was put in a neck brace.
Note that the violence occurred as Murray and Stanger attempted to leave. As Andrew Stuttaford of National Review observes, “The ‘justification’ for disrupting his speech was that opinions such as Murray’s should not be given a hearing on campus, but this was something else. Murray was not about to speak, he was about to depart, and yet he and Ms. Stanger were attacked.” . . .

Yes, the crowd went wild at Middlebury — like Beatlemania, but not in a fun way — and Murray explains the mob’s rationalization:

A few months ago, AEI’s student group at Middlebury College invited me to speak on the themes in Coming Apart and how they relate to the recent presidential election. Professor Allison Stanger of the Political Science Department agreed to serve as moderator of the Q&A and to ask the first three questions herself.
About a week before the event, plans for protests began to emerge, encouraged by several faculty members. Their logic was that since I am a racist, a white supremacist, a white nationalist, a pseudoscientist whose work has been discredited, a sexist, a eugenicist, and (this is a new one) anti-gay, I did not deserve a platform for my hate speech, and hence it was appropriate to keep me from speaking. . . .

The Bell Curve was published more than 20 years ago. It does not advocate eugenics, it is not racist in any meaningful sense of that word, and the facts examined in the book have not been “discredited” — a fact is always a fact. What the ignorant Middlebury mob has done is to recycle a controversy from two decades ago, basing their false claims on what critics wrote about Murray, rather than what Murray wrote himself.

Such idiots claim to know what Murray “believes” (i.e., that he is a “white nationalist” or whatever), as if they were clairvoyant mind-readers, capable of knowing Murray’s hidden intentions despite everything he has done to contradict this decades-old “white supremacist” smear. This nonsensical way of approaching The Bell Curve is the result of the Left’s propaganda tactics, which involve labeling a critic or opponent as an Enemy of the People, demonizing them in such a way as to prevent anyone from seriously examining their arguments. While I do not wholly agree with every interpretation Murray (and his late co-author, Richard Herrnstein) made of the various data they examined in The Bell Curve, it is nevertheless important to look at the actual data — the facts as they exist — rather than to base our arguments on myths or prejudice. Effective public policy cannot be based on the mere emotional appeal of some sentimental slogan we learned in grade school. Clearly, facts and logic are not being taught in America’s schools today:

The goons who attacked Charles Murray at Middlebury College probably think of themselves as rebels, defending “diversity” against a fascist enemy, but the truth is the complete opposite. Murray is the real rebel, and the mob who attacked him are the real enemies of diversity. Being a left-winger on an elite campus like Middlebury is the most conformist thing imaginable. The anti-Murray protesters were defending a failed status quo against a genuinely radical critic of the system. Murray is a man who creates controversy because he asks tough questions and follows wherever the facts lead. Does this sound familiar?
“I always asked why people did things and why society was like it was,” John Lennon told an interviewer from Playboy magazine. “I didn’t just accept it for what it was apparently doing. I always looked below the surface.” . . .

Read the whole thing at The American Spectator. The Middlebury madness is symptomatic of serious problems. If young people don’t wake up to this danger, America could collapse quite suddenly, and soon.



 

 

 

Category: Culture, Education, History, Intellectuals, Music

Rule 5 Sunday: Massachusetts Girl

Posted on | March 6, 2017 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Without further ado, I present probably the best-known person from Watertown, Massachusetts: Eliza Dushku, perhaps best known for her role as Faith on Buffy The Vampire Slayer. As usual, many of the following links lead to pics generally considered NSFW, and the management is not responsible for any ill effects arising from your mistimed, misplaced clicking.

Venus on furs?

Ninety Miles from Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls And Girls And Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism chipped in with Rule Five Dissolving EU Friday and the Saturday Vikamageddon.

EBL offers Mandi Gosling, Kellyanne Conway – Kneegate, Janet Nguyen, Alexandra Turshen, Maria Zakharova, Brianna Keilar, Janelle Monae, and Chrissy Teigen.

A View From The Beach has Forward with Myla Dalbesio, Can Lizard Blood Save Our Lives?, Actress Shocks Hollywood with Display of Graciousness, But Was It Like Rape Rape?, But In His Defense, His Eyebrows are Perfect!, Getting Clean for Tuesday, Monday Morning in Curacao, and Reason #5458 Trump Was Elected.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Emmanuelle Vaugier, his Vintage Babe is Cristina Ferrare, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Victoria’s Secret Dream Angels. At Dustbury, it’s Cush Jumbo and Vimala Raman.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!
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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Home Again

Posted on | March 5, 2017 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Home Again

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: In Like A Lioness
The Pirate’s Cove
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Second Amendment and @LogCabinGOP: Because Survival Is the First Natural Right
EBL

#CPAC2017: @SaveTheStorks Offers Free Services to Help Pregnant Women
EBL

#CPAC 2017: Witches vs. Trump
The Political Hat
EBL

#CPAC2017: Draft Sheriff Clarke
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: And Now A Word From The Evolution Control Committee
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

‘Aggressive Heterosexuality’
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.27.17
Proof Positive
EBL

Trigger Warning: @SkyJordan4 Says You Can’t Tell Her She Has ‘Daddy Issues’
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.28.17
Proof Positive

Trump: ‘A New Chapter of American Greatness Is Now Beginning’
EBL

Pelosi Explained
EBL

Liberal Feminism, Radical Feminism and the Ultimate Failure of All Feminism
EBL

#BlackLivesMatter Activist Missed the Memo From Democrat Party HQ
EBL

Violence Against Women
EBL

Feminism: The Demonization of Males
EBL

Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
EBL

Police Say Illegal Alien Raped Girl, 3
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
EBL

Language Alert: “Conservative Opposition To #Obamacare Repeal”
A View From The Beach
EBL

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Remember, to qualify for the FMJRA, your links must be for the week preceding the FMJRA. So, next week I’ll be looking for links to posts from 3/4 through 3/10.

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Language Alert: “Conservative Opposition To #Obamacare Repeal”

Posted on | March 3, 2017 | Comments Off on Language Alert: “Conservative Opposition To #Obamacare Repeal”

by Smitty

Emphasis mine:

Privately, senior Republican lawmakers and staff are more blunt. They say they have no problem steamrolling conservatives by daring them to vote against an Obamacare repeal that their constituents have demanded for years.
Sen. Rand Paul walks to a room on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 2, where he charges House Republicans are keeping their Obamacare repeal and replace legislation under lock and key and not available for public view.
“Conservatives are going to be in a box,” said one senior Republican lawmaker. Trump, the source predicted, eventually will “go out front and … tell the conservatives … they’re either for this or for keeping Obamacare.”

Wait a godforsaken minute. If they’re actually repealing ObamaCare, then Speaker Ryan should be greeted with hurrahs. What sort of Orwellian suppository is this? Conservatives don’t want any part of this noise, and the Progressive tools in Congress have made no alternative case.

FreedomWorks suggests we Join [Them] in DC for Our Day of Action on March 15!

It’s starting to look like I might have to take the afternoon off and visit the compost heap at the East end of the Mall.

Category: Health Care

Police Say Illegal Alien Raped Girl, 3

Posted on | March 3, 2017 | Comments Off on Police Say Illegal Alien Raped Girl, 3

 

Stamford, Connecticut:

Police say the 19-year-old Cove man charged with sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl was supposed to attend an immigration hearing only hours before he was arrested Thursday morning.
Douglas Hus-Flores, a Guatemalan native, appears to have been living in Stamford illegally, police said. An immigration detainer has been placed on him as well as a $250,000 court appearance bond, following his arraignment at the Stamford courthouse Thursday afternoon.
Hus-Flores was charged with first-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor after the toddler was transported to Stamford Hospital for injuries and bleeding police say she sustained in the assault.
Lt. Tom Barcello said the girl’s mother called for an ambulance late Wednesday night after the child complained of pain.
Stamford Hospital doctors determined the child’s injuries were likely caused by a sexual assault, Barcello said. . . .
Hus-Flores told investigators he “felt lonely and wanted to be with a woman” and admitted sexually assaulting the girl, the police report said. . . .
Barcello confirmed Hus-Flores had an immigration hearing scheduled in Hartford on Thursday.

Do you think any feminists will mention this crime? Of course not. Try using Twitter to ask a feminist — Amanda Marcotte, Jessica Valenti, Melissa Fabello, Laurie Penny, Meghan Murphy, et al. — why they never seem to notice violence against women and girls committed by illegal immigrants. See how long it takes before you get banned from Twitter.

(Hat-tip: Stephanie on Gab.ai.)




 

 

Category: Crime, Immigration, Sex Trouble

Don’t Cry for Me Argentina

Posted on | March 3, 2017 | 2 Comments

 

Patrick Dollard calls this the “feel good story of the day”:

A 22-year-old who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials early Wednesday, moments after giving a speech at an immigration press conference, will be deported without a hearing, according to her lawyer.
Daniela Vargas spoke at a press conference in front of city hall in Jackson, Miss., and was driving away with a friend when ICE officials pulled them over and detained her, her lawyer said, according to The Associated Press.
Vargas’s attorney said ICE agents told her Thursday she would be immediately deported, rather than being offered a court hearing or bond, according to The Huffington Post.

Vargas “came to the U.S. from Argentina when she was 7 years old [and] previously had a work permit and deportation reprieve under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA,” the Huffington Post reports. However, her visa expired in November, and now . . . Hasta la vista, baby!

 

Category: Immigration
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