tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post6026779010805086520..comments2024-01-02T02:18:30.960-08:00Comments on Israel Thrives: Trump Calls for Banning MuslimsMike L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-18371239450988278612015-12-11T08:11:29.338-08:002015-12-11T08:11:29.338-08:00That's the pithy point though, no? When the le...That's the pithy point though, no? When the left says 'concerned' or 'afraid' they mean not only is it stupid and childish to BE concerned but that it's also dangerous and possibly treason.Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-25471236921000625632015-12-10T22:43:48.028-08:002015-12-10T22:43:48.028-08:00"“It’s O.K., it’s O.K. to be afraid,” she sai..."“It’s O.K., it’s O.K. to be afraid,” she said. “When bad things happen, it does cause anxiety and fear,” she added. “But then you pull yourself together and, especially, if you want to be a leader of our country, and you say:‘O.K., what are we going to do about it? How are we going to be prepared?’” Hilary after Trump's Muslim remarks.<br /><br />" Hillary Clinton could hardly keep herself from laughing at the mention of his name. “I’m sorry, I can’t help it,” she told ABC News on Sunday, letting out a giggle that made advisers squirm." Hilary before the remarks. Is she running scared?<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/us/politics/to-democrats-donald-trump-is-no-longer-a-laughing-matter.html?_r=0Doodadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03349941094682080146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-51294945353668697902015-12-10T19:03:35.139-08:002015-12-10T19:03:35.139-08:00"'World's biggest' drug kingpin E..."'World's biggest' drug kingpin El Chapo declares war on ISIS with chilling threat<br /><br />16:53, 10 DEC 2015 UPDATED 21:59, 10 DEC 2015 BY GEMMA MULLIN<br /><br />An alleged encrypted email from Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán to ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi has been leaked online<br /><br />One of the world's most wanted drug lords has reportedly 'declared war' on the Islamic State in a threatening letter.<br /><br />Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán apparently sent an encrypted email to the ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi after one of his cartel's shipments was destroyed.<br /><br />His letter, which has been leaked by cartelblog.com, claims his men will "destroy" the terror group if they continue to 'impact on their operation'.<br /><br />The Mexican drug baron, who runs the notorious Sinaloa cartel, allegedly told Al Baghdadi that his organisation are 'not soldiers' but 'lowly p*****s'.<br /><br />He apparently wrote: "Your god cannot save you from the true terror that my men will levy at you if you continue to impact my operation.<br /><br />"My men will destroy you. The world is not yours to dictate. I pity the next son of a wh*** that tries to interfere with the business of the Sinaloa Cartel.<br /><br />"I will have their heart and tongue torn from them."<br /><br />http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/worlds-biggest-drug-kingpin-el-6989805?ICID=FB_mirror_mainDoodadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03349941094682080146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-60746912323906193582015-12-10T16:21:44.991-08:002015-12-10T16:21:44.991-08:00Who knows? I wonder if he is a democrat. He has ge...Who knows? I wonder if he is a democrat. He has generally ruled by fiat.<br /><br />Would be nice to hear his philosophy of civil and minority rights. His zeal to attack political correctness should not ignore there are real problems where people need to be brought together.<br /><br />Would not surprise to see him as a pragmatist that can make things work better in an environment of merit. Things are now so off kilter that a shakeup is in order. His executive experience compared to Obama's in 2008 is night and day.<br /><br />That he is even in the picture, however, is testament to American schizophrenia in the age of social media. The culture created under a progressive hegemony is fueled by manipulation via the internet, where the worst of human character becomes mainstream, where click bait is a priority, and where the is ZERO time for reflection.<br /><br />Clinton is even more dishonest, and lacking in principles. She has a record filled with ethical questions. Trump cannot be similarly tarred. His misstatements are not about policies or conduct, and should be understood in the context of the man.<br /><br />In any event, not a very tempting choice. Too much poison. The right-wingers are a scary lot, too, but mainly want to be left alone, while the leftists credo is to meddle in everything.<br /><br />FWIW oldschooltwentysixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15672887176887940797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-64420402667109275912015-12-10T16:17:34.510-08:002015-12-10T16:17:34.510-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.oldschooltwentysixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15672887176887940797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-27954903627655399632015-12-10T15:55:15.076-08:002015-12-10T15:55:15.076-08:00Good article by Joshua Muravchik. But his date for...Good article by Joshua Muravchik. But his date for the turnaround of world opinion is wrong. It's not 1967 and "occupation", it's 1992 and surrender. Jewish left worked overtime to undermine Zionism in the service of Oslo.Jacobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14901811045493439598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-57342435320158935702015-12-10T15:40:11.057-08:002015-12-10T15:40:11.057-08:00A long time ago - when Carter was president and th...A long time ago - when Carter was president and the world was young - a reporter came down to Plains, Georgia, to interview his mother, Lillian.<br /><br />At one point during the interview, if my memory serves, the reporter said something like, "Lillian, does Jimmy ever lie?"<br /><br />To which she replied, "My Jimmy doesn't lie."<br /><br />To which <i>he</i> replied, "Oh, come now, Miss Lillian, surely he must have lied sometime in the past."<br /><br />Thus causing her to say something like, "Oh, well, I suppose he has occassionally told a 'white lie.'"<br /><br />And he said, "A 'white lie'? Please, Miss Lillian, what do you mean by that? What is a 'white lie'?"<br /><br />And she says, "Y'know when you first turned up at my door an hour ago and I said, 'Welcome to Plains. It's a pleasure to meet ya.'? That was a white lie."<br /><br />:O)Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-70858009921191872722015-12-10T14:49:15.542-08:002015-12-10T14:49:15.542-08:00Re your points in the above comment:
Wonderful ar...Re your points in the above comment:<br /><br />Wonderful article by Joshua Muravchik:<br /><br />http://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/2015/12/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-anti-semitism-and-anti-israelism/<br /><br /><br />And from Heather Wilhelm, re Trump etc:<br /><br />http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/12/10/when_elites_just_dont_get_it_128993.htmlkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04651898817618608477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-6576095504896740332015-12-10T10:55:32.173-08:002015-12-10T10:55:32.173-08:00Paul Berman is an important scholar.
He is one of...Paul Berman is an important scholar.<br /><br />He is one of three that I have tended to rely upon concerning the connection between Nazi ideology and what Phyllis Chesler calls "Palestinianism."<br /><br />Berman, Küntzel, and Herf... although I feel certain at this point that there are others digging into the material.<br /><br />What really gave me pause with Berman was where in one of his books, perhaps Flight of the Intellectuals, where he describes the increase in hostility among westerners toward Israeli Jews - if not Jews, in general - during the height of the Arab violence and hostility toward those Jews during the first two intifadas.<br /><br />In other words, it was during the time when Arabs most sought to kill Jewish people that European animosity toward those Jews spiked.<br /><br />The same thing is happening now.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-21418115684835886062015-12-10T08:29:19.733-08:002015-12-10T08:29:19.733-08:00I think, School, that you have a point.
Trump, li...I think, School, that you have a point.<br /><br />Trump, like, say, Ann Coulter, is expanding the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window" rel="nofollow">Overton Window</a>, but can you think of any previous US president that got elected to the highest office in doing so?<br /><br />Most American presidents come to office because they seem to represent the spirit of their times and they galvanize that mood. Ronald Reagan, for example, did not create the mood of the 80s - good times, college days - but he embodied it.<br /><br />Zeitgeist is a good word. US presidents tend to represent the zeitgeist of the time.<br /><br />Kennedy, of course, was about optimism and expansion coming out of the allegedly dull 1950s.<br /><br />{By the way, how dull and conformist could the 1950s have actually been given that it produced the Civil Rights Movement, the Beat Generation, and Rock n Roll?}<br /><br />LBJ was about civil rights, reform, big government and the new New Deal... I seem to recall where he wanted to call the Great Society, <i>the Big Deal</i>, but they wisely talked him out of it.<br /><br />Nixon, needless to say, represented a backlash against the excesses of the 1960s. <br /><br />And it goes on and on and on and on.<br /><br />American politics, in the broadest sense, is constantly swinging back and forth between the poles of FDR and Eisenhower, but I will always prefered Truman.<br /><br />What would a Trump America look like?Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-65799418506157472112015-12-09T20:16:05.207-08:002015-12-09T20:16:05.207-08:00"Start with something outrageous to get atten..."<i>Start with something outrageous to get attention. Otherwise, it simmers below the surface. And the national conversation begins."</i><br /><br />This is exactly it. He's a catalyst.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-55526071375614427442015-12-09T19:59:55.739-08:002015-12-09T19:59:55.739-08:00Not necessarily. Maybe it will be just the opposit...Not necessarily. Maybe it will be just the opposite. Trump has broken the topic wide open and now we have permission to talk about it. The Left may double down, like Loretta Lynch and her shameful threats against anyone daring to exercise free speech, but now that the conversation has started, there just might be greater and greater pushback. It's possible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-86667572265168380292015-12-09T08:51:03.993-08:002015-12-09T08:51:03.993-08:00They're usually found in a few days with colos...They're usually found in a few days with colossal handovers and an STD. Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-24199883526797298692015-12-09T08:38:59.439-08:002015-12-09T08:38:59.439-08:00"You may not be interested in war, but war is..."You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."<br />Exactly, and worth repeating.<br /><br />JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-45601445208075270862015-12-09T08:27:03.392-08:002015-12-09T08:27:03.392-08:00Doodad,
I also post at Harry's Place a few t...Doodad,<br /> I also post at Harry's Place a few times a year, but having read other commenters there I can't even imagine how you would be censored.<br /><br />As for Trump, he is playing the media like a fiddle. And his support is only going up, and that is not because we are a nation of racist Islamophobes. I have been talking to very reasonable people from very similar backgrounds to myself who are telling me they are voting for Trump. <br />A few of them have pointed out the media's consistent choice to leave off the "until our representatives figure this out" part of Trump's immigration remarks. Our liberal media very much prefers to go "a racist hunting" than to have the serious discussion they always claim they are having.JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-85913508947115688582015-12-09T07:39:25.972-08:002015-12-09T07:39:25.972-08:00This is a strategic mistake. The left and Obama ha...This is a strategic mistake. The left and Obama have to own this whether it turns out badly or turns out well. Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-63755729441239160392015-12-09T05:08:32.367-08:002015-12-09T05:08:32.367-08:00Who was it? "Ursula"?Who was it? "Ursula"?Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-32604758380831285682015-12-09T03:41:42.577-08:002015-12-09T03:41:42.577-08:00You may not be interested in war, but war is inter...You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.<br /><br />The Jewish people will stand up for ourselves.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-15328067436467266712015-12-09T00:35:12.864-08:002015-12-09T00:35:12.864-08:00Jeff,
I agree that the Left has helped to create a...Jeff,<br />I agree that the Left has helped to create an environment where both radicalization can flourish, and indeed, actual jihadi violence, too. <br />Absolutely. Absolutely.<br />I also think the effect of Trump will be that the Left will, self-righteously, hunker down in their position and refuse to hear <i> any </i> reasonable and necessary criticism of Islam or Islamism. As what we are desperately needing is to have a reasonable, rational debate where those ideas and critiques can be made, I fear his rhetoric will thus be extremely counterproductive. And at a time when things are so serious, that is quite frightening. <br />Believe me, my anger at the Left for what they have done could not be greater.<br />I also agree that the "This is not who we are" rhetoric is hollow and empty. Especially coming from Obama who has utterly failed to confront reality over this problem and who answers every difficulty by blaming the American people for their supposed bigotry. He has been an architect of the current situation, and, as usual, will refuse to take any responsibility. All responsibility will be placed on the shoulders of ordinary Americans. Although, now Donald Trump will have set himself up as the bogeyman they can blame for everything.<br />It is an astonishing mess. khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04651898817618608477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-24876441415772306872015-12-09T00:22:05.751-08:002015-12-09T00:22:05.751-08:00" “Two male Afghan air force students did not..." “Two male Afghan air force students did not report for duty yesterday at their regular maintenance training at Moody AFB in Valdosta, Georgia. Both are assigned to the 81st Fighter Squadron. They have been at Moody since. February 2015 and were screened prior to their arrival in the United States more than a year ago. The students have trained alongside American counterparts for the entirety of 2015 and do not pose any apparent threat. There is a well-coordinated process among federal agencies to locate the individuals as quickly as possible and return them accordingly to the proper authorities to manage their present situation.”<br /><br />http://m.walb.com/walb/db_347747/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=qrydxhbC<br /><br />Officers. Check local Christmas parties.Doodadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03349941094682080146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-70952419276403779012015-12-09T00:19:45.270-08:002015-12-09T00:19:45.270-08:00Jeff, exactly. Had the left been serious about def...Jeff, exactly. Had the left been serious about defending its alleged values, it would have been condemning things Islam for a long time but you know; white privilege, the OTHER etc. The silence of Feminism is a crime.Doodadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03349941094682080146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-61053453587302402252015-12-09T00:16:46.026-08:002015-12-09T00:16:46.026-08:00Jeff, yeah. I guess some snowflake didn't like...Jeff, yeah. I guess some snowflake didn't like my sense of humour, lol Oh well, I hardly ever posted there maybe 5 times in the last 5 years.Doodadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03349941094682080146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-17776246182897886882015-12-08T23:00:56.188-08:002015-12-08T23:00:56.188-08:00That's not who we are. :0)That's not who we are. :0)JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-8499448765997852312015-12-08T22:54:40.082-08:002015-12-08T22:54:40.082-08:00"I also agree that the total denial of the re..."I also agree that the total denial of the reality and danger of Islamic extremism by the Left has helped to create the environment in which Trump is flourishing."<br />k,<br />The left has helped to create an environment where jihad is flourishing.<br />JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-60099243780531807812015-12-08T22:52:42.345-08:002015-12-08T22:52:42.345-08:00k,
I agree. Paul Berman is a liberal voice in th...k,<br /> I agree. Paul Berman is a liberal voice in the wilderness who has been trying to sound the alarm, i.e., get a serious and honest discussion going.<br /><br />On another note, I find that there is a bigoted assumption behind the "this is not who we are" rhetoric. JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.com