- You know those famous electronic billboards in Times Square? LOL, the feds apparently demanded NYC take them all down. “Highway beautification,” you know. Then just that quickly, they denied making the demand. But turns out the signs are in violation of fedlaw. Governing highways. To paraphrase Kipling, “… if once you have
paid him the taken his Dane-geld, you never get rid of the Dane.”
- Like Pamela Geller or loathe her, she has a point. One might wish the current crop of liberal authoritarians had as good a grasp on the meaning of free speech.
- Sigh. Didja ever think you’d see the day when people would be moronic enough not only to v*te with their sex organs — but boast about it?
- I saw a guy today in our little tienda Mexicana wearing this tee-shirt. Got a big laugh — though I suppose my Irish ancestors didn’t.
- Cody Wilson is suing the State Department on First Amendment grounds for “preempting” him from posting Liberator pistol plans online. He’s got Alan Gura on his side. And SAF doing the only thing it’s actually good for.
- Kirsten Gillibrand put a kitten in a blender. No, seriously, you need to read this.
Pamela Geller is considered radical (though not necessarily wrong) – not because of what she says or does, but because she lives in a politically-correct atmosphere at the moment which, by its nature, denies her the right (that word again!) to express herself in the prevailing environment.
The jihadists are winning in several ways:
1. The most obvious is, they keep their name in the news;
2. They provoke a) discussion which gives them importance, and b) fear in those inclined to
be fearful;
3. If they attack and kill, they’ve reached their immediate goal (and continue to spread
their horror);
4. If they provoke a fight (in a nation, on a continent, or on global scale), they have
achieved their ultimate goal of a Holy War.
They are in a win-win situation at the moment, no matter what outcome in a given confrontation. They’ve certainly learned how to manipulate their success, and will also learn from the failure in Texas. (Though dying for the cause is also a win for them.)
So Geller is just meditating on the famous koan: “If you meet the jihadi on the road, lure him to your draw Mohamed contest and kill him.” It’s no wonder nobody understands her, Buddhism is hard.
Seriously, all the Pamela Geller kerfuffle is depressing but not surprising. For almost fifteen years we’ve heard terrorism this and terrorism that from both the left and right wings of the carrion bird. They’ve told us over and over about all these ‘domestic terrorists’ they’ve [provoked and then] thwarted. The few actual successful terrorists, like the Marathon bombers, were just grist for the biggest ‘good crisis’ this country has had since the war between the states. Now a couple of jihadis show up – right on cue, really, because she certainly did provoke them – and get their asses very promptly sent to heaven … and it’s a BAD thing? Because hate speech or something. They’re not mad about her hate speech. They’re mad because she’s messing with their meal ticket. What if people actually just lured out and killed the very few jihadis there are in this country? What would the fearmongers do then?
Wow. That story about Sen. Gillibrand sounds so much like Hillary’s Banghazi story that I suspect she wrote it!
Yeah. Sounds like a certain promoter of ‘rape survivors,’ too.
Oh, wait. I’m a guy. Am I allowed to say rape survivor, or is it sexual assault when I do it? I get confused.
My first thought on the vagina article was, If I’ve aged into menapause, do I get to vote? (Not that I want to.)
It does not matter who the lady votes for or what brain she uses to make the decision. The replacement for Obama has already been decided, we just get to watch the pagaentry put on for the few voters that are left.
Pamela Geller is welcome to say what she wants, how she wants using whatever medium she can afford. The recent cartoon contest was a success it drew like minded people together in Garland and demonstrated, again, how thin skinned some practioners of Islam can be.
Not clicking on the blender link until somebody tells me the kitten is ok!
The article is OK.
What Pat said. No kittens were harmed in the making of that satire.
Ya’ know? A DeWalt blender is actually a good idea. Good for portable blending needs. Besides, you stir up Pussies manually, using a machine is actually a terrible idea. ; )
Running for the hills at warp speed now, ahead of the crowds.
A Dewalt power drill (rechargeable) with a mixer beater chucked into it does a great job mixing light fluffy flapjack batter. I recommend a variable speed though and start slow.
Oh, that Gillibrand article was marvelous satire. Unfortunately, about half of my F*cebook feed seems to insist on fawning shares of the work of transparently Establishment shill Andy (puts both the ‘bore’ and the ‘boor’ in”) Borowitz, for which I have developed my own standard polite-as-possible response: “Seriously, this is what passes for satire these days? Please, people. It’s bad enough to have to weep for the fate of humanity in general, without having to weep for art too.”
So, maybe I’m a bit starved for it, but the kitten story is going to keep me giggling all day. Thanks for that.
And regarding Pat’s excellent comment:
“The jihadists are winning in several ways:
1. […] they keep their name in the news;
2. They provoke […];
3. […] they’ve reached their immediate goal […];
4. […] their ultimate goal of a Holy War.
[…] manipulate their success […] in Texas.”
Indeed. But enough about the Feds. 🙂
‘They hate us because we’re free’ may be the most pluperfectly accurate misdirection I can recall in my lifetime.
“There are indeed limits on the First Amendment; the Supreme Court has held that “fighting words” and incitements to specific and imminent violence are not protected.”
Hmmm, I don’t find that in the First Amendment either. Oh, well, who cares about consistency!
It was a good piece by Geller. I tend instead to worry about the constant bashing of Muslims, we know what that can lead to if a scapegoat is needed. But yeah, speak your mind, even if the speech is obnoxious. Let social pressure, not government, regulate such behavior.
But I have to say, both the jihadis and we are just pawns in the big game of the ruling class. Getting mad at either jihadis or Geller is just playing into their plans for us. Why not just kick back and watch the show?
I have to admit I have not followed this story very much. Too much electrical work on my plate these days.
It’s funny to find myself at least temporarily on the side of folks like Geller, and now Mark Steyn:
http://www.steynonline.com/6943/stay-quiet-and-youll-be-okay
I normally prefer not to bash the religious proclivities of others, mostly figuring it’s none of my business what fairy tales people believe. But people should say what they think, even if it offends me or someone else. God, where would we be without the Hell-raisers? Society would be intolerable without them.
Joel, you’re cracking me up! 🙂
http://joelsgulch.com/yeah-i-laughed-im-a-bad-person/
Three of the four BRIC countries are laughing at that shirt!