Monthly Archives: March 2015

Something for the anti-theists to consider

…if they can only take off their blinders for a sec:

10 Americans Helped By Religious Freedom Bills Like Indiana’s

The federal government passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 1993. It was authored by Chuck Schumer, passed with nearly unanimous support from both parties, and signed by President Bill Clinton. The legislation was needed after a bad Supreme Court ruling delivered by Antonin Scalia that limited religious freedom for Native Americans who smoke peyote as part of their religion. A later Supreme Court ruling ruled that the RFRA didn’t apply to state or local governments. Twenty states passed RFRAs and another 13 have protections like the ones in RFRA.

And yet when Indiana passed the legislation last week, the media characterized it as nothing more than a bigoted anti-gay bill and celebrities and activists called for a boycott against the state. The media is highly uninformed about the topic and despite RFRAs being around since 1993, no one can provide any evidence to substantiate the outlandish claims made against them. In fact, RFRA simply allows religious people to challenge government activities that encroach on their beliefs. They have to show that the government action substantially burdens a religious belief that they sincerely hold. And if they prove all that, it falls to the government to show that the challenged action is justified as the least restrictive means of furthering a compelling governmental interest. Having a RFRA doesn’t mean that you know which side wins, it just sets the terms of the debate.

Liars gonna lie

I guess I’ll just keep those rumors of Harry Reid’s pederasty in circulation, then:

Harry Reid is proud he lied about Mitt Romney’s taxes

Harry Reid, D-Nev. has no regrets about his 2012 claims that then presidential candidate Mitt Romney paid no taxes for 10 years.

The outgoing Senate Minority Leader even bragged to CNN that the comments, which had been described as McCarthyism, helped keep Romney from winning the election.

“They can call it whatever they want. Romney didn’t win did he?” Reid said during a wide-ranging interview.

So, in Reid’s world, it is perfectly acceptable to make a defamatory charge against an opponent to damage his campaign.

Connecticut’s Governor Doesn’t Understand His Own State’s RFRA

He should’ve taken the opportunity to STFU, but SJWs never do:

Connecticut’s Governor Doesn’t Understand His Own State’s RFRA

I don’t know how many staffers, lawyers, and advisers currently work for Malloy, but it’s a real shame that not a single one of them told the governor that Connecticut has had an expansive RFRA on the books for over two decades. That’s right: Connecticut passed its own RFRA law on June 29, 1993. You can read the law for yourself here. The inanity of Malloy’s move doesn’t stop there, though. What makes his grandstanding particularly absurd is the fact that Connecticut’s RFRA provides far greater religious liberty protections than Indiana’s or even the federal government’s.

If you dislike Indiana’s RFRA, then you should loathe Connecticut’s. The difference comes down to a single phrase: “substantially burden.”

Both the Indiana law and the federal law declare that the respective governments may not “substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion[.]” In other words, the laws require the courts to analyze cases brought under these laws using the strict scrutiny standard. Under the Indiana and federal religious liberty laws, government can burden religious exercise, but it cannot substantially burden it. That’s a key distinction.

Connecticut’s law, however, is far more restrictive of government action and far more protective of religious freedoms. How? Because the Connecticut RFRA law states that government shall not “burden a person’s exercise of religion[.]” Note that the word “substantially” is not included in Connecticut’s law.

American media: asleep at the wheel again

Pro-Hassan Rouhani Iranian editor defects while covering nuclear talks in Lausanne

Probably the most explosive line is right at the end: “The US negotiating team are mainly there to speak on Iran’s behalf with other members of the 5+1 countries and convince them of a deal.” If that’s the case, who’s speaking on our behalf?

0bama and Kerry are working for the enemy, not for you.  Last time I checked, that was treason.  Too bad Boehner and McConnell don’t have the stones to reel in this lawless duo.  The nagging suspicion that there’s not one thin dime’s worth of difference between Democrats and Republicans gets louder still.

Pix from the 2015 Boulder City Beerfest

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How’s that hope and change working out for you?

Richard Engel: US Allies in Gulf Won’t Tell Obama Anything Because They Believe That Obama Is Leaking Secret Information to Iran to Kiss Up To Them

The Saudis began operations in Yemen without informing the US — a hitherto unlikely scenario.

But they kept the operation a secret.

Because they think Obama is so determined to make kissy-face with Iran that he would have leaked their battle plans directly to their enemy.

They no longer consider the US “reliable.”

Wasn’t the son of a bitch supposed to have improved our relations with the rest of the world?  How’d that work out, 52%ers?

I love the smell of Schadenfreude in the morning

Actions have consequences.  A few months after he was sacked in Phoenix, he found another job up in Portland…but was fired again after only two weeks when his boss figured out who it was he had hired.

The only downside?  It’s people like me who are keeping this bigot afloat:

FAR LEFT JERK Who Abused Chick-Fil-A Worker & Posted the Video — Is Now on Food Stamps

In 2012 medical device manufacturer CFO Adam Smith posted this video on YouTube of himself proudly abusing a Chick-Fil-A worker.

Smith harassed and berated the worker and then posted the video online.

Smith was fired after his video went viral.

Today former medical device manufacturer Adam Smith is out of work and on food stamps.

Too bad there’s no Chick-fil-A around here.

Some news that will surprise absolutely nobody who’s paying attention

learnaboutislamOf course, you can count on the fifth column that is our “mainstream” media and political class to try to bury this little nugget:

GERMAN NEWS REPORT: Co-Pilot of Germanwings Airbus Was MUSLIM CONVERT …’Hero of Islamic State’?

Police have reportedly found an “item of significance” at the apartment of the co-pilot who crashed the Germanwings passenger plane into the Alps this week.
The item was NOT a suicide note.

A German news website claims Andreas Lubitz was a Muslim convert.
Speisa.com reported:

According to Michael Mannheimer, a writer for German PI-News, Germany now has its own 9/11, thanks to the convert to Islam, Andreas Lubitz.

Translation from German:

All evidence indicates that the copilot of Airbus machine in his six-months break during his training as a pilot in Germanwings, converted to Islam and subsequently either by the order of “radical”, ie. devout Muslims , or received the order from the book of terror, the Quran, on his own accord decided to carry out this mass murder. As a radical mosque in Bremen is in the center of the investigation, in which the convert was staying often, it can be assumed that he – as Mohammed Atta, in the attack against New York – received his instructions directly from the immediate vicinity of the mosque.

Converts are the most important weapon of Islam. Because their resume do not suggests that they often are particularly violent Muslims. Thus Germany now has its own 9/11, but in a reduced form. And so it is clear that Islam is a terrorist organization that are in accordance with §129a of the Criminal Code to prohibit it and to investigate its followers. But nothing will happen. One can bet that the apologists (media, politics, “Islamic Scholars”) will agree to assign this an act of a “mentally unstable” man, and you can bet that now, once again the mantra of how supposedly peaceful Islam is will continue. And worse still, the attacks by the left against those who have always warned against Islam, will be angrier and merciless.