Let's make tomorrow #NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) November 10, 2015
Category Archives: assholes
The state of free speech in academia
Not much different than shown in the photo:
How Wesleyan’s Attempt To Stamp Out Words Inflames Them
For anyone interested in freedom of the press, October 18, 2015 is a day that deserves to live in infamy. That night, for what may be the first time in the United States, the student government of an elite American university stripped funding from that university’s campus paper—for the offense of running a conservative op-ed.
The Wesleyan Argus published the op-ed in question on September 14. Conservative student columnist Bryan Stascavage’s article was titled “Why Black Lives Matter Isn’t What You Think.” Stascavage, who, by his own admission, was conflicted about his opinions on the movement, raised some rather moderate concerns about its propensity towards excusing, or even encouraging, violence toward police officers. He invited students to question if a more considered approach to police violence was necessary.
For his efforts, he was branded a racist, and a group of radical “student of color” activists started a petition to defund the campus paper that published his piece, and—and I swear I’m not making this up—to burn any copies of the paper found carrying the offending article. Yes, apparently publishing an op-ed that was merely undecided about the question of #BlackLivesMatter was enough for some activists to argue for book burning and press closure.
This is why the 2nd Amendment matters
It’s to defend against assholes like Keith Ellison and Bernie Sanders, should they get their way and attempt to pursue their eliminationist agenda:
Ellison’s ‘Extremism’ Charge Deflects from Own Subversive Affiliations
“Oath Keepers and Three Percenters [are] extremist anti-government movements,” Rep. Keith Ellison charged in a CNN hit piece we talked about in my last column. I noted then we’d take a look at the pot dissing the kettle, and now seems as good a time as any.
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I’m going to focus on Ellison’s membership – and leadership – in the Congressional Progressive Caucus, founded by Democrat presidential contender Bernie Sanders and containing 69 of the most rabidly left-wing politicians to ever menace the future of the Republic. Or as Obi-Wan said about Mos Eisley, “You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy”…
Importantly, one of the CPC’s core “principles” is contempt for the right to keep and bear arms. They know that every tyranny that ever beat its subjects into dehumanized submission had to first disarm them, rendering them pliable, subservient and helpless. But don’t take my word for it – take theirs, paying special attention to their demand to ban firearms of militia utility.
OK, so they’re typical Democrats. Is that all I’ve got?
Well, yeah, that and pointing out the CPC’s close ties with another “progressive” group, the Democratic Socialists of America.
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Do you like songs? So does the DSA, so much that they devoted a page on their website to hymns glorifying their “struggle” (i.e., what Hitler called “Mein Kampf” ). The following in particular should be of special interest, since the people they’re talking about, the “bourgeoisie,” are you and me! And they really explain (better than anything I could say) why the socialists need to take away our guns. Ready? All together now:
Are You Sleeping, Bourgeoisie
(Traditional American song, sung in rounds to the tune of “Frere Jacques”).Are you sleeping, Are you sleeping,
Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie,
And when the revolution comes,
We’ll kill you all with knives and guns,
Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie—–
Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie, See How They Run
(Usually sung in rounds after “Are You Sleeping, Bourgeoisie”. Sung to the tune of “Three Blind Mice”.)Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie,
See how they run,
See how they run
And when the revolution comes,
We’ll kill them all with knives and guns,
Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie
Don’t try to look these up at the DSA’s website; they sent them down the memory hole long ago. The Internet Archive, however, is your friend.
The Democrats’ Preoccupation with Inequality
The Democrats’ Preoccupation with Inequality
Material inequality is the predominant concern of the [Democrat] party.
Indeed, material inequality has been the predominant concern of the Left since Karl Marx. This raises two questions: How important is material inequality? And if it is not that important, why does it preoccupy the left-wing mind?
The answer to the first question is: It depends.
First Russia, now this? DNC’s warning about Romney and Afghanistan earns TBT mockery
When will Democrats learn that the Internet is forever? It’d maybe stop them from stepping on their cranks:
First Russia, now this? DNC’s warning about Romney and Afghanistan earns TBT mockery
If Mitt Romney had his way, we’d stay in Afghanistan…indefinitely.pic.twitter.com/lhOQV5AQ
— The Democrats April 14, 2012
Fast-forward to the present:
Breaking: Obama scraps 2016 Afghanistan withdrawal plan, orders 9,800 troops to remain http://t.co/5xQPDOUKJQ
— Wall Street Journal October 15, 2015
Guess who ended up being right? Once again, it wasn’t the Dogeater-in-Chief and his minions.
Scratch an environmentalist wacko, find a communist underneath
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
– H. L. Mencken
Another Climate Alarmist Lets It Slip: Why They Want To Scare You
The most persistent hobgoblin of the last quarter-century has been global warming, now called climate change but eventually to be known as extreme weather, or some such other fright-inducing name. The climate activists are constantly bombarding us with warnings, hectoring, hysteria, pleading and threats. Apocalyptic books have been written and shrill movies made, all in an effort to slow man’s combustion of fossil fuels.
Included among these is a new documentary “inspired” by Naomi Klein’s book “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.” If the title isn’t enough to give away Klein’s motives for attacking the climate “crisis,” then a comment she makes in the trailer — please forgive: watching the entire documentary would be as agonizing as any medieval torture — should.
“So here’s the big question,” says Klein. “What if global warming isn’t only a crisis? What if it’s the best chance we’re ever going to get to build a better world?”
Then comes the threat:
“Change, or be changed.”
Klein says she “spent six years wandering through the wreckage caused by the carbon in the air and the economic system that put it there.” Clearly, it is her goal to shatter the free-market system. The climate? It’s just a vehicle, a pretext for uprooting the only economic system in history that has brought prosperity and good health.
Always follow the money
The sneer quotes around “scientist” are mine, as he’d appear to be just another grifter among the Grünsturmabteilung:
Leader of 20 scientist effort to prosecute climate skeptics under RICO revealed as ‘Climate Profiteer’! ‘From 2012-2014, the Leader of RICO 20 climate scientists paid himself and his wife $1.5 million from government climate grants for part-time work.
George Mason University Professor Jagadish Shukla ( jshukla@gmu.edu) a Lead Author with the UN IPCC, reportedly made lavish profits off the global warming industry while accusing climate skeptics of deceiving the public. Shukla is leader of 20 scientists who are demanding RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) charges be used against skeptics for disagreeing with their view on climate change.
Shukla reportedly moved his government grants through a ‘non-profit’. The group “pays Shukla and wife Anne $500,000 per year for part-time work,” Prof. Roger Pielke Jr. revealed.
“The $350,000-$400,000 per year paid leader of the RICO20 from his ‘non-profit’ was presumably on top of his $250,000 per year academic salary,” Pielke wrote. “That totals to $750,000 per year to the leader of the RICO20 from public money for climate work and going after skeptics. Good work if you can get it,” Pielke Jr. added.
Μολών λαβέ, bitches
The Mask Falls: Left Calling for “Gun-Free Society”
I have a better idea: how about a gun-grabbing-liberal-free society? Whether they realize it or not, that will be the end result of any attempt at undermining the 2nd Amendment:
They had previously lied about their goals, claiming to be in favor of “sensible gun safety measures” or other rot.
But now they’re becoming more honest: a Washington Post editor just explicitly called for a “gun free society.
A Gun Free Society.By Fred Hiatt
Washington Post EditorMaybe it’s time to start using the words that the NRA has turned into unmentionables.
Prohibition.
Mass buyback.
A gun-free society.
Let’s say that one again: A gun-free society.
Doesn’t it sound logical? Doesn’t it sound safe? Wouldn’t it make sense to learn from other developed nations, which believe that only the military and law enforcers, when necessary, should be armed — and which as a result lose far, far fewer innocent people than die every year in the United States?
Yes, even saying these words makes the NRA happy. It fuels the slippery-slope argument the gun lobby uses to oppose even the most modest, common-sense reforms. You see? Background checks today, confiscation tomorrow.
And yes, I understand how difficult it would be. This is a matter of changing the culture and norms of an entire society. It would take time.
Note that he claims that using these words is dangerous, because the NRA would interpret them as a slippery slope argument to claim that the left wants a gun free society.
But that is precisely what Hiatt wants.
It’s not just the bedwetters in the press, either. 0bama has nothing left to lose at this point, and his domestic and foreign policy “legacy,” such as it ever was, is a total shambles. He’s already threatened to use his pen and his phone if the feckless weasels in Congress won’t bend to his will. If you’re already set on destroying America, why not just go for the brass ring and make sure it’s “blown up real good?”
Bitch on Wheels
Do you want this back in the White House, this time in the driver’s seat?
Hillary Clinton — Secret Service’s Bane
‘Good morning, ma’am,” a member of the uniformed Secret Service once greeted Hillary Clinton.
“F*** off,” she replied.
That exchange is one among many that active and retired Secret Service agents shared with Ronald Kessler, author of First Family Detail, a compelling look at the intrepid personnel who shield America’s presidents and their families — and at those whom they guard.
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Ronald Kessler has studied the Secret Service and its relationships with dozens of presidents, vice presidents, and their families. His astonishment at Hillary Clinton’s inhumanity should reverberate inside every American’s head. As he told me: “No one would hire such a person to work at a McDonald’s, and yet she is being considered for president of the United States.”
Click through for the details. It’s a wonder nobody in the Secret Service thought to straighten her out.
Gun-grabbers who engage in SWATting should be prosecuted and imprisoned
In case you haven’t previously heard of it, “SWATting” is the practice of calling in a false report of criminal activity to 911, usually with the intent of getting a SWAT team to show up and catch the victim unaware. It’s not just highly dangerous, it’s illegal…but laws apparently aren’t for moonbats these days.
The latest tactic of the gun-grabbers is to call the cops if they merely see you open-carrying:
“You see a GunFilth waving its penis substitute, exit, call police. Armed robbery in progress.” So wrote Twitter user “Little Black Dog” on September 13 of this year.
The injunction was a particularly colorful one, but the idea behind it, alas, is not as uncommon as one might wish. “I see you #opencarry with a gun in public,” a man named “joe villa” threatened earlier this week, “i’m calling the cops. psycho behaving erratic. make your day.” A translation for the more literate among us: “The law be damned; exercise your rights under the law and I’ll threaten your life.”
“Take a look through the comments threads on Moms Demand Action’s Facebook page,” Bearing Arms’s Bob Owens tells me, “and you’ll see a lot of this.” “Not,” he clarifies,
from the leaders of the group. But it is a mindset popular among the followers. On there, on the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence — ironically — and on GunFreeZone.net, you’ll notice commenters advocating that people call the police and exaggerate what is going on, hoping to get the cops to come in.
This is inexcusable. They’re basically looking to get people killed for daring to exercise their rights. Anyone who SWATs a gun owner should be charged with attempted murder. If the situation escalates and someone is killed (as happened with Erik Scott), the charge should be upgraded to murder.