If they can’t even properly identify that which they want to ban, perhaps they should treat themselves to a nice cup of STFU.

Democrat Lawmakers Fail To Provide Factual Support For “High Capacity Magazine Clip” Bill

“High capacity magazine clip?”  Never heard of such a thing.  Some guns take a removable box magazine, which may or may not be quickly reloaded with a stripper clip.  In some cases (such as the M1 Garand), the magazine is part of the gun, not a separate element.  (You can load the Garand with individual cartridges, but it’s faster if you use the en bloc clips designed for the purpose.)

Perhaps they’re related to the “30-magazine clip” described by the asshole in this video:

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Obama at National Prayer Breakfast: You Know, American Christians Are Really No Better Than IS Terrorists, When You Think About It

Obama at National Prayer Breakfast: You Know, American Christians Are Really No Better Than IS Terrorists, When You Think About It

How incandescently stupid—and/or morally bankrupt—do you have to be to come up with the following, a direct quote from the Community-Organizer-in-Chief?

How do we, as people of faith, reconcile these realities–the profound good, the strength, the tenacity, the compassion and love that can flow from all of our faiths, operating alongside those who seek to hijack religious for their own murderous ends?

Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.

The ignorance on display here is just incredible. First, the Crusades were a response to the Mohammedans’ invasions of the Holy Land and of parts of Europe, and of their attempts at spreading elsewhere throughout Europe. Is 0bama arguing that they should’ve just rolled over and let the Mohammedans take over Europe? Second, it was Christians who put an end to slavery throughout the civilized world, and put an end to Jim Crow here at home. Assuming for the moment that Christianity had ever been used as justification for either of those practices, that it no longer does should be taken as an indication that it can evolve—and has evolved—to a better understanding of how people should relate to each other. Furthermore, that large chunks of the present-day Mohammedan world have not had a similar evolution should give the lie to any notion of a moral equivalence between them and Christians…or them and pretty much anybody in the civilized world, for that matter. Slavery, to name just one atrocity, is not only alive and well in the Mohammedan world, it’s making a comeback:

In late November, after nearly four months as Isis slaves, a 19-year old Yazidi woman and her younger sister escaped their captors — and have revealed how the terrorist group’s slave trade operates.

The woman, identified as Girl B, was taken by Isis fighters in early August following their invasion of the Kurdish city of Sinjar. Her 14-year old sister was also taken by the group, but their mother prevented the capture of their 11-year old sister.

She told The Times: “My mother started screaming and begging for mercy as the Daesh (Isis) fighters told my sister and me to join the group of younger women specially selected.”

“But they tore us from her grasp. I saw other women in the building being dragged out to waiting lorries by their hair.”

[…]

Girl B and her sister were moved twice before they ended up at a house in Baaj, Iraq owned by an Isis sheik.

It was there that they were repeatedly raped by three Isis fighters, a health worker explained as Girl B became distressed and couldn’t detail that part of their capture.

They were then sold to an Isis commander called ‘Abu Ghuffram’ – whom Girl B knew – and taken to his house in the village Rambussi.

She said her period of enslavement alternated between chores and physical abuse, including one incident in which she was choked.

As is practice in Isis, the Yazidis were forced to renounce their faith and convert to Islam.

Jim Geraghty’s take on the matter:

Is it a problem that Americans or American Christians think of themselves as better people than those who seek to hijack religion for their own murderous ends?

News flash: Americans are better people who those who seek to hijack religion for their own murderous ends. No, really, go ahead. Feel good about yourself. I have confidence in declaring you, reader, for whatever flaws you have, a better human being than any member of ISIS or al-Qaeda.

[…]

By the way, the president with a “kill list” who’s authorized more than 390 drone strikes probably ought to tone it down a little on lines like, “No grievance justifies the taking of innocent lives.”

Ace’s advice to Sir Golfsalot on the matter is…umm…a bit shorter:

Go fuck yourself back to Indonesia.

Wealthy L.A. Schools’ Vaccination Rates Are as Low as South Sudan’s

Jenny McCarthy is as much an epidemiologist as Andrew Sullivan is an obstetrician.  When you operate outside your zone of competence, this is what results:

Wealthy L.A. Schools’ Vaccination Rates Are as Low as South Sudan’s

When actors play doctors on TV, that does not make them actual doctors. And that does not mean they should scour some Internet boards, confront their pediatricians, and demand fewer vaccinations for their children, as some Hollywood parents in Los Angeles have apparently been doing.

The Hollywood Reporter has a great investigation for which it sought the vaccination records of elementary schools all over Los Angeles County. They found that vaccination rates in elite neighborhoods like Santa Monica and Beverly Hills have tanked, and the incidence of whooping cough there has skyrocketed.

On a related note, the Puppy Blender found this bit of snark from Nigeria:

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All that said, it also doesn’t help that truckloads of illegal aliens got sent all over the country a while back, many of whom were no doubt carrying diseases that had pretty much been wiped out within our borders.  Diseased illegals + unimmunized Hollyweirdos = Bad News.

It’s hard to not go Godwin on this right away

LandscapSickening…aw, screw it:

Iraqi libraries ransacked by Islamic State group in Mosul

When Islamic State group militants invaded the Central Library of Mosul earlier this month, they were on a mission to destroy a familiar enemy: other people’s ideas.

Residents say the extremists smashed the locks that had protected the biggest repository of learning in the northern Iraq town, and loaded around 2,000 books — including children’s stories, poetry, philosophy and tomes on sports, health, culture and science — into six pickup trucks. They left only Islamic texts.

The rest?

“These books promote infidelity and call for disobeying Allah. So they will be burned,” a bearded militant in traditional Afghani two-piece clothing told residents, according to one man living nearby who spoke to The Associated Press. The man, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared retaliation, said the Islamic State group official made his impromptu address as others stuffed books into empty flour bags.

Don’t cross the streams!

Surely a sign of TEOTWAWKI:

Bill Gates Inadvertently Shows Off Ubuntu on His Facebook Page

Screencapped, in case it goes down the memory hole:

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(Yes, the likely explanation is that he pulled a stock photo from somewhere, but you’d think he, of all people, would’ve spent a few minutes extra to find a stock photo with a Windows desktop.  Hell, he could’ve called someone in Microsoft’s PR department to either find an image or have one made on short order.)

Climbing up a waterfall


Of course, it helps that it’s frozen over:

Adventurer completes first-ever climb up frozen Niagara Falls

Canadian climber Will Gadd has become the first person to ever climb frozen Niagara Falls.

More commonly associated with the daredevil pursuits of highwire walks or riding the powerful cascades in a barrel, Gadd, 47, made history when he took the opportunity of the area’s annual freeze to scale the 180-foot frozen cliffs next to Horseshoe Falls.

“I checked out the spot we were thinking of climbing in the summer,” Gadd told Redbull.com. “You’d be swept away by the torrential downpour then.”

Gadd may have claimed the glory of being first over the lip, but he didn’t climb alone. His partner — who achieved the same remarkable climb just hours later — was a fellow Canadian, 34-year-old Sarah Hueniken.

She was left huddling in an ice cave for several hours partway up the route, to avoid being hit with chunks of ice, National Geographic reports.

[…]

The vulnerable ice formations posed peculiar challenges to the experienced climbers. “The ice is formed in layers,” Gadd said. “That means there’s a layer of ice, then snow (with a lot of air), then another layer of ice. It’s unstable, for sure.”

Something completely predictable has happened

One of the hajjis cut loose from Club Gitmo in exchange for the deserter Bowe Bergdahl is back to his head-chopping ways:

Terrorist Traded to Get Our Deserter/Defector Bowe Bergdahl Back is Now, Get This, Trying to Re-Start His “Militant” Career

The U.S. military and intelligence community now suspect that one of the five Taliban detainees released from Guantanamo Bay in return for Bowe Bergdahl in May of last year has attempted to return to militant activity from his current location in Qatar, CNN has learned exclusively. The development has led to an ongoing debate inside the administration about whether there is a new threat from this man, and potentially the other four.

This is the first known suggestion that any of the detainees involved in the exchange may be trying to engage again in militant activity. It comes at a politically sensitive time as the administration has quickened the pace of prisoner release in an effort to encourage the closure of the facility, and the Army must decide in the coming weeks whether and how to punish Bergdahl for leaving his post.

Thanks, 0bama! :-P