Posted on 05/09/2015 11:32:16 AM PDT by Rummyfan
As we mentioned a week ago, I'm none too well at the moment, and it so happens my preferred position in which to write causes me severe pain - which is presumably some kind of not so subtle literary criticism from the Almighty. But I'm back, more or less, with lots to catch up on. There were two big elections in recent days, with dramatic results: in Alberta, the Tories were wiped out; in Scotland, the Labour Party was slaughtered; in England, the Liberals were crushed. Strange times.
I'll have more to say about the elections in the days ahead, but for now let me offer a whole-hearted good riddance to Ed Miliband, the now departed Labour leader who, in a desperate last-minute pander, offered to "outlaw Islamophobia". That was the British political establishment's contribution to a rough couple of weeks for free speech, culminating in the attempted mass murder in Garland, Texas.
That's what it was, by the way - although you might have difficulty telling that from the news coverage. The Washington Post offered the celebrated headline "Event Organizer Offers No Apology After Thwarted Attack In Texas", while the Associated Press went with "Pamela Geller says she has no regrets about Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest that ended in 2 deaths". The media "narrative" of the last week is that some Zionist temptress was walking down the street in Garland in a too short skirt and hoisted it to reveal her Mohammed thong - oops, my apologies, her Prophet Mohammed thong (PBUH) - and thereby inflamed two otherwise law-abiding ISIS supporters peacefully minding their own business
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
How long do you hang upside down like a bat in a cave? And does it kind of do what chiropractors do but in a different way?
“What if the Garland gunmen had been as good as the Paris gunmen”
The Garland gunmen were gonna need someone to key the jihadis in. Dang if that kind of woman just couldn’t be found and was surely the one organizing the contest.
Give that woman a Stetson.
That's it, exactly. He doesn't have a "dog in the fight", so he can afford to be completely honest.
He also managed to somehow avoid the personality cults that Levin and Hannity developed. I sort of put Rush in his own world. He openly admits he’s an entertainer so I take his stuff in that light whether I agree with him or not. The others blow in the $$$ and political winds as their careers depend on GOP guests and book sales/ad dollars.
Steyn sells books but does not play word games in his columns to keep the cash flowing.
You’ve got it.
So if a conservative decided to take out Chrissy Mathews for his hateful speech, I would not mind. Go at it. All hate speakers must be beheaded. Sissy would understand.
Steyn is wonderfully brilliant!
Staying queit doesn't work and making a lot of noise while sitting on one's butt also doesn't work.
Our side has been taking "the high road" and staying civilized in the face of rabid and feral foes and it doesn't work.
if we are to make any inroads (especially in politics which fosters the crap that harms us) we need to be noisy and just as in-your-face as those we mock for doing what works.
Until we can muster up the drive and energy to get out in large numbers and make threatening noises against that which subjugates us, we will continue to lose our Freedoms.
He’s back on the air and says he’s okay.
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