It is truly a sad state of affairs when acts such as this make the news... BUT:
In these times, they seem to be the exception, rather than the rule. Hurrah and Huzzah for these young men!
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Accumulator of AtheoLeftist Lies, Frauds, Bullying and Racism: August 20, 2013
I am creating an accumulator for AtheoLeftisms. I will update the category periodically as the list expands. The list today is primarily on the lies the Left tells with a straight face.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124260113149028331.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet
Always remember how Obama “joked” about auditing his enemies in the USA. It came to pass.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/19/senator-obama-administration-secretly-suspended-military-aid-to-egypt.html
The pro-Muslim Brotherhood cant of the administration is obvious. They also wanted to ship fighter jets to Egypt under the Brotherhood, and cancelled the shipment quickly when the Brotherhood was kicked out.
http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/154366
Oprah’s movie vs. the actual facts. Racial propaganda and racism toward whites.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/19/staggering-mich-family-violently-targeted-after-standing-against-teacher-who-molested-their-8th-grade-son/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=Share%20Buttons
Teachers molesting students must not be punished.
http://townhall.com/video/noam-chomsky-palin-was-right-about-obama
Change = nothing. The Left has already admitted she was right about death panels.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/white-house-credibility-deficit
Lies even the Leftist press no longer believes. “That is the punchline of the Snowden affair: when we can't trust what government tells us, we come to trust those whom government doesn't trust. Thus, we no longer necessarily care what the official line is and who delivers it. And when that happens, access – the currency of the Beltway – becomes worthless. Ah, the irony.”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/19/officials-violate-one-of-the-most-important-gun-safety-rules-during-mayor-bloomberg-press-conference-announcing-massive-gun-seizure/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=Share%20Buttons
Don’t know nothin’ ‘bout guns, just like senators from CA.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/08/19/cairo-correspondent-muslim-brotherhood-spreading-terrorism-in-all-of-egypt/
Obama’s boys (Muslim Brotherhood) goes on a rampage; Obama silent while Christians and others are massacred. ” Last week President Obama gave a speech about what is going on in Egypt, and has decided to stop the upcoming joint military exercise with the Egyptian army, in an attempt to pressure the armed forces to stop their war against Muslim Brotherhood You have to understand that this created more hate towards the American goverment. In a reaction to this speech President Putin announced that the Russian army is ready to help the Egyptian army in its fight against terrorism.”
It’s an odd world when Russia is more sensible than the USA; just ask Snowden.
http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2013/08/19/obamas-strange-love-affair/
With the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist/killers.
” It’s not as if the MB is subtle. They have proclaimed who they are since their founding by Hasan al Banna in 1928 and have not wavered in any significant way since in their global jihadist goals. They have also been unstinting in their massive misogyny, homophobia and rigid support of Shariah law über alles (quite literally über alles, since the Brotherhood were — virtually the last still unrepentant — allies of Hitler in WWII).
You know, liberal stuff.
Democracy, as their kissing cousin Turkey’s Erdogan so blithely explained, is “like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.” Or, as one of the Brotherhood’s own internal documents put it in that oh-so-distant year of 2007, they (the MB) are dedicated to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house.””
AND,
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1235
” Written sometime in 1987 but not formally published until May 22, 1991, Akram's 18-page document listed the Brotherhood’s 29 likeminded "organizations of our friends" that shared the common goal of dismantling American institutions and turning the U.S. into a Muslim nation. These "friends" were identified by Akram and the Brotherhood as groups that could help convince Muslims "that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands ... so that ... God's religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions."
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/mubaraks-muslim-brotherhood-prophecy/
Here is Hosni Mubarek on the Muslim Brotherhood.
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/exposed-al-jazeera-airs-fake-brotherhood-injuries-and-deaths/
The Brotherhood fakes its injuries.
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/behind-benghazi-muslim-brotherhood-and-obama-administration/
The Administration’s lies about Benghazi seem related to the Muslim Brotherhood.
” Most recently, on July 29, 2013, Ahmed Musa, a prominent Egyptian political insider and analyst made several assertions on Tahrir TV that further connected the dots. During his program, while berating U.S. ambassador Anne Patterson for her many pro-Brotherhood policies—policies that have earned her the hate and contempt of millions of Egyptians—Musa insisted that he had absolute knowledge that the murderer of Chris Stevens was Mohsin al-‘Azzazi, whose passport was found in Brotherhood leader Khairet al-Shatter’s home, when the latter was arrested. According to the firm assurances of political analyst Musa, ‘Azzazi is currently present in Raba‘a al-Adawiya, where he, the seasoned terrorist, is preparing to do what he does best—terrorize Egypt, just as the Brotherhood have promised, in revenge for the ousting of Morsi.
But why would Morsi and the Brotherhood attack the consulate in Libya in the first place? The day before the embassy attacks, based on little known but legitimate Arabic reports, I wrote an article titled “Jihadis Threaten to Burn U.S. Embassy in Cairo,” explaining how Islamists—including al-Qaeda—were threatening to attack the U.S. embassy in Cairo unless the notorious Blind Sheikh—an Islamist hero held in prison in the U.S. in connection to the first World Trade Center bombing—was released. The date September 11 was also deliberately chosen to attack the embassy to commemorate the “heroic” September 11, 2001 al-Qaeda strikes on America. (Regardless, the Obama administration, followed by the so-called mainstream media, portrayed the embassy attacks as unplanned reactions to an offensive movie.)
The theory is this: in order to negotiate the release of the Blind Sheikh, the Islamists needed an important American official to barter in exchange. And while the violence on U.S. embassiesbegan in Egypt, it seemed logical that kidnapping an American official from neighboring Libya would be less conspicuous than in Egypt, where Egyptians, including Morsi, were calling for the release of the Egyptian Blind Sheikh. Thus the U.S. consulate in Libya was attacked, Chris Stevens kidnapped, but in the botched attempt, instead of becoming a valuable hostage, he wound up dead.
Add to all this the fact that, despite the very serious charges filed against them—including inciting murder and terrorism, and grand treason—the Obama administration, first with Anne Patterson, and now with Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham, keep pressuring Egypt to release Brotherhood leaders; McCain personally even visited the civilian al-Shatter, whose raided home revealed the passport of ‘Azzazi, whom Musa claims is the murderer of Stevens.
Needless to say, at this point, tens of millions of Egyptians are convinced that U.S. leadership is fully aware of the Brotherhood’s connection to Benghazi—and hence desperately pushing for the release of Brotherhood leadership, lest, when they are tried in Egypt’s courts, all these scandals become common knowledge.
Meanwhile in the United States, to a mainstream American public—conditioned as it is by a mainstream media—all of the above is just a “conspiracy theory,” since surely the U.S. government is transparent with the American people—except, that is, when it’s not.”
http://m.weeklystandard.com/articles/benghazi-scandal-grows_722032.html
Lying about Benghazi.
http://live.wsj.com/video/opinion-why-hillary-is-playing-the-race-card/522F8EAD-8EA0-4EB7-AA30-613E44D4218B.html?mod=WSJ_article_outbrain&obref=obnetwork#!522F8EAD-8EA0-4EB7-AA30-613E44D4218B
Hillary infantilizes black abilities. Jason Riley exposes Hillary’s racism.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/19/vitter-promises-to-go-after-lisa-jackson-on-transparency-dodges/
Secret contact between EPA and environmentalistas.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/08/18/nsa-privacy-violations-editorials-debates/2669477/
NSA lies from the top down.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/08/19/Elysium-tanks-damon-king-of-left-wing-flops
Matt Damon’s Hollywoo-woo Leftist propaganda flops again:
”All of this likely serves to explain why Damon was so shamelessly dishonest during his "Elyisum" promotional blitz. "I don't think it is trying to saying anything," Damon assured potential ticket-buyers as news of "Elysium's" left-wing agenda started to dribble out.
Obviously, Damon and Hollywood are determined to never learn the lesson that moviegoers are not interested in being preached to by hypocritical left-wing millionaires, but that doesn't change the fact that Damon's box office clout is waning fast:
His last solo smash was the 2007 sequel The Bourne Ultimatum, with his supporting turn in 2010's True Grit also flexing box office muscle. Other recent films, including The Adjustment Bureau, Margaret, Invictus, Green Zone, We Bought a Zoo and Promised Land, ranged from underwhelming to downright duds.
Don't worry about Damon, though, he still makes millions per film; more than enough for the high-profile public school advocate to send his own children to private schools.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-obamacare-0818-jm-20130818,0,5666959.story
Obama breaks his own law for political expediency (elections in ’14, doncha know).
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124260113149028331.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet
Always remember how Obama “joked” about auditing his enemies in the USA. It came to pass.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/19/senator-obama-administration-secretly-suspended-military-aid-to-egypt.html
The pro-Muslim Brotherhood cant of the administration is obvious. They also wanted to ship fighter jets to Egypt under the Brotherhood, and cancelled the shipment quickly when the Brotherhood was kicked out.
http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/154366
Oprah’s movie vs. the actual facts. Racial propaganda and racism toward whites.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/19/staggering-mich-family-violently-targeted-after-standing-against-teacher-who-molested-their-8th-grade-son/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=Share%20Buttons
Teachers molesting students must not be punished.
http://townhall.com/video/noam-chomsky-palin-was-right-about-obama
Change = nothing. The Left has already admitted she was right about death panels.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/white-house-credibility-deficit
Lies even the Leftist press no longer believes. “That is the punchline of the Snowden affair: when we can't trust what government tells us, we come to trust those whom government doesn't trust. Thus, we no longer necessarily care what the official line is and who delivers it. And when that happens, access – the currency of the Beltway – becomes worthless. Ah, the irony.”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/19/officials-violate-one-of-the-most-important-gun-safety-rules-during-mayor-bloomberg-press-conference-announcing-massive-gun-seizure/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=Share%20Buttons
Don’t know nothin’ ‘bout guns, just like senators from CA.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/08/19/cairo-correspondent-muslim-brotherhood-spreading-terrorism-in-all-of-egypt/
Obama’s boys (Muslim Brotherhood) goes on a rampage; Obama silent while Christians and others are massacred. ” Last week President Obama gave a speech about what is going on in Egypt, and has decided to stop the upcoming joint military exercise with the Egyptian army, in an attempt to pressure the armed forces to stop their war against Muslim Brotherhood You have to understand that this created more hate towards the American goverment. In a reaction to this speech President Putin announced that the Russian army is ready to help the Egyptian army in its fight against terrorism.”
It’s an odd world when Russia is more sensible than the USA; just ask Snowden.
http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2013/08/19/obamas-strange-love-affair/
With the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist/killers.
” It’s not as if the MB is subtle. They have proclaimed who they are since their founding by Hasan al Banna in 1928 and have not wavered in any significant way since in their global jihadist goals. They have also been unstinting in their massive misogyny, homophobia and rigid support of Shariah law über alles (quite literally über alles, since the Brotherhood were — virtually the last still unrepentant — allies of Hitler in WWII).
You know, liberal stuff.
Democracy, as their kissing cousin Turkey’s Erdogan so blithely explained, is “like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.” Or, as one of the Brotherhood’s own internal documents put it in that oh-so-distant year of 2007, they (the MB) are dedicated to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house.””
AND,
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1235
” Written sometime in 1987 but not formally published until May 22, 1991, Akram's 18-page document listed the Brotherhood’s 29 likeminded "organizations of our friends" that shared the common goal of dismantling American institutions and turning the U.S. into a Muslim nation. These "friends" were identified by Akram and the Brotherhood as groups that could help convince Muslims "that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands ... so that ... God's religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions."
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/mubaraks-muslim-brotherhood-prophecy/
Here is Hosni Mubarek on the Muslim Brotherhood.
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/exposed-al-jazeera-airs-fake-brotherhood-injuries-and-deaths/
The Brotherhood fakes its injuries.
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/behind-benghazi-muslim-brotherhood-and-obama-administration/
The Administration’s lies about Benghazi seem related to the Muslim Brotherhood.
” Most recently, on July 29, 2013, Ahmed Musa, a prominent Egyptian political insider and analyst made several assertions on Tahrir TV that further connected the dots. During his program, while berating U.S. ambassador Anne Patterson for her many pro-Brotherhood policies—policies that have earned her the hate and contempt of millions of Egyptians—Musa insisted that he had absolute knowledge that the murderer of Chris Stevens was Mohsin al-‘Azzazi, whose passport was found in Brotherhood leader Khairet al-Shatter’s home, when the latter was arrested. According to the firm assurances of political analyst Musa, ‘Azzazi is currently present in Raba‘a al-Adawiya, where he, the seasoned terrorist, is preparing to do what he does best—terrorize Egypt, just as the Brotherhood have promised, in revenge for the ousting of Morsi.
But why would Morsi and the Brotherhood attack the consulate in Libya in the first place? The day before the embassy attacks, based on little known but legitimate Arabic reports, I wrote an article titled “Jihadis Threaten to Burn U.S. Embassy in Cairo,” explaining how Islamists—including al-Qaeda—were threatening to attack the U.S. embassy in Cairo unless the notorious Blind Sheikh—an Islamist hero held in prison in the U.S. in connection to the first World Trade Center bombing—was released. The date September 11 was also deliberately chosen to attack the embassy to commemorate the “heroic” September 11, 2001 al-Qaeda strikes on America. (Regardless, the Obama administration, followed by the so-called mainstream media, portrayed the embassy attacks as unplanned reactions to an offensive movie.)
The theory is this: in order to negotiate the release of the Blind Sheikh, the Islamists needed an important American official to barter in exchange. And while the violence on U.S. embassiesbegan in Egypt, it seemed logical that kidnapping an American official from neighboring Libya would be less conspicuous than in Egypt, where Egyptians, including Morsi, were calling for the release of the Egyptian Blind Sheikh. Thus the U.S. consulate in Libya was attacked, Chris Stevens kidnapped, but in the botched attempt, instead of becoming a valuable hostage, he wound up dead.
Add to all this the fact that, despite the very serious charges filed against them—including inciting murder and terrorism, and grand treason—the Obama administration, first with Anne Patterson, and now with Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham, keep pressuring Egypt to release Brotherhood leaders; McCain personally even visited the civilian al-Shatter, whose raided home revealed the passport of ‘Azzazi, whom Musa claims is the murderer of Stevens.
Needless to say, at this point, tens of millions of Egyptians are convinced that U.S. leadership is fully aware of the Brotherhood’s connection to Benghazi—and hence desperately pushing for the release of Brotherhood leadership, lest, when they are tried in Egypt’s courts, all these scandals become common knowledge.
Meanwhile in the United States, to a mainstream American public—conditioned as it is by a mainstream media—all of the above is just a “conspiracy theory,” since surely the U.S. government is transparent with the American people—except, that is, when it’s not.”
http://m.weeklystandard.com/articles/benghazi-scandal-grows_722032.html
Lying about Benghazi.
http://live.wsj.com/video/opinion-why-hillary-is-playing-the-race-card/522F8EAD-8EA0-4EB7-AA30-613E44D4218B.html?mod=WSJ_article_outbrain&obref=obnetwork#!522F8EAD-8EA0-4EB7-AA30-613E44D4218B
Hillary infantilizes black abilities. Jason Riley exposes Hillary’s racism.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/19/vitter-promises-to-go-after-lisa-jackson-on-transparency-dodges/
Secret contact between EPA and environmentalistas.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/08/18/nsa-privacy-violations-editorials-debates/2669477/
NSA lies from the top down.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/08/19/Elysium-tanks-damon-king-of-left-wing-flops
Matt Damon’s Hollywoo-woo Leftist propaganda flops again:
”All of this likely serves to explain why Damon was so shamelessly dishonest during his "Elyisum" promotional blitz. "I don't think it is trying to saying anything," Damon assured potential ticket-buyers as news of "Elysium's" left-wing agenda started to dribble out.
Obviously, Damon and Hollywood are determined to never learn the lesson that moviegoers are not interested in being preached to by hypocritical left-wing millionaires, but that doesn't change the fact that Damon's box office clout is waning fast:
His last solo smash was the 2007 sequel The Bourne Ultimatum, with his supporting turn in 2010's True Grit also flexing box office muscle. Other recent films, including The Adjustment Bureau, Margaret, Invictus, Green Zone, We Bought a Zoo and Promised Land, ranged from underwhelming to downright duds.
Don't worry about Damon, though, he still makes millions per film; more than enough for the high-profile public school advocate to send his own children to private schools.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-obamacare-0818-jm-20130818,0,5666959.story
Obama breaks his own law for political expediency (elections in ’14, doncha know).
Sunday, May 26, 2013
If Tolerance is the Main Virtue, then...
...there are no virtues.
The Boy Scouts is lost as a character-development process for young males.
The Boy Scouts is lost as a character-development process for young males.
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Relativism Gets To It’s Hard Problem
Ever since the great Skepchick elevator caper, the Atheist-Skeptic community has been in a turmoil regarding the amount of predatory sexual harassment that exists at AS Conferences. (Ever wonder what Atheists talk about when all they have is “no opinion”? Apparently they have No Opinion conferences all the time).
Massimo Pigliucci takes on the “Misogyny Wars” and, rather unintentionally it appears, sums up the problem with Relativism as an ethic: what is flirting to one person might be harassment to another person. (Really? What about the groping, stalking and rape threats that have been reported? Note 1) While that Relativism is a grounding issue in determining the rightness or wrongness of an action, it leads to another more fundamental problem: if there are no rules, then there are no rules to break. To spell it out for the defender of Relativism, anything goes.
So the automatically Consequentialist and Relativist Atheist-Skeptic community is faced with having to violate their own non-principles by coming up with actual fixed principles for defining acceptable and non-acceptable behaviors for individuals at their A-S Conferences. Otherwise, anything goes, and the behaviors and reactions to the behaviors have been, well, just anything goes.
While this addition of a fixed, immutable set of rules for behavior might be seen as common sense to outsiders, it is apparently gut wrenching for the A-S crowd which has always felt “Good Without God”, and automatically “good” even without having a definition of “good”. Now they find that not to be the case, and that they must spell out what “good” is, so that the A-S crowd will know how to behave.
Massimo wraps up his article thus:
Will they remember this when the next “Good Without God” campaign is launched? I doubt that they actually grasp the full impact of this moral issue, even now. And it is now an empirical, evidential proof that (1) A significant number of Atheists don't behave well without rules, even in the moral opinions of other Atheists, and (2) Relativism, the philosophy, fails on the ground to provide an adequate structure for civilized behavior, even amongst an all-Atheist gathering.
Note 1.
It has been suggested elsewhere that it is not Atheist-Skeptics who are involved in the harassing behaviors, but outsiders. In other words, Theists coming into the Atheist compound in order to harass women. Really.
Massimo Pigliucci takes on the “Misogyny Wars” and, rather unintentionally it appears, sums up the problem with Relativism as an ethic: what is flirting to one person might be harassment to another person. (Really? What about the groping, stalking and rape threats that have been reported? Note 1) While that Relativism is a grounding issue in determining the rightness or wrongness of an action, it leads to another more fundamental problem: if there are no rules, then there are no rules to break. To spell it out for the defender of Relativism, anything goes.
So the automatically Consequentialist and Relativist Atheist-Skeptic community is faced with having to violate their own non-principles by coming up with actual fixed principles for defining acceptable and non-acceptable behaviors for individuals at their A-S Conferences. Otherwise, anything goes, and the behaviors and reactions to the behaviors have been, well, just anything goes.
While this addition of a fixed, immutable set of rules for behavior might be seen as common sense to outsiders, it is apparently gut wrenching for the A-S crowd which has always felt “Good Without God”, and automatically “good” even without having a definition of “good”. Now they find that not to be the case, and that they must spell out what “good” is, so that the A-S crowd will know how to behave.
Massimo wraps up his article thus:
”So, where do we go from here? Here are three conceptually simple, yet I’m sure extremely difficult in practice, action items. First, let’s tone down the self-righteousness, on both sides. It just doesn’t help. Second, organizers of all future CON(s), you need to take the issue seriously, develop and clearly enunciate your policies, and be ready to deal with the consequences in a firm, if courteous and hopefully constructive, manner. Lastly, the A-S community needs to take the first step toward solving any problem: admit that there is one. Pretty straightforward, no?”So they need to admit that they cannot be “good” at their own conferences, and they need to have commandments and consequences in place to deal with those who violate the commandments.
Will they remember this when the next “Good Without God” campaign is launched? I doubt that they actually grasp the full impact of this moral issue, even now. And it is now an empirical, evidential proof that (1) A significant number of Atheists don't behave well without rules, even in the moral opinions of other Atheists, and (2) Relativism, the philosophy, fails on the ground to provide an adequate structure for civilized behavior, even amongst an all-Atheist gathering.
Note 1.
It has been suggested elsewhere that it is not Atheist-Skeptics who are involved in the harassing behaviors, but outsiders. In other words, Theists coming into the Atheist compound in order to harass women. Really.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Massimo, Albert and Lawrence Krauss
Sometimes I agree with Massimo Pigliucci, and this is one of those times. Massimo is re-running some of his posts, this post refers to that “brilliant (as a physicist) moron”, Lawrence Krauss. If you are interested in observing blatant intellectual dishonesty in a physicist, then you will be interested in Massimo’s Krauss crunch.
Of particular note is the observation (in concert with my own) made by David Albert in the NY Times, where he confronts Krauss with the observation that his book, A Universe From Nothing actually doesn’t produce what the title claims. In fact, the universe in Krauss’ book required a pre-existing quantum field, not “nothing”. Read Krauss’ reply, and his subsequent attitude. Massimo and Albert and I agree that Krauss is not intellectually honest, and that his book, based on its title, is a fraud.
Of particular note is the observation (in concert with my own) made by David Albert in the NY Times, where he confronts Krauss with the observation that his book, A Universe From Nothing actually doesn’t produce what the title claims. In fact, the universe in Krauss’ book required a pre-existing quantum field, not “nothing”. Read Krauss’ reply, and his subsequent attitude. Massimo and Albert and I agree that Krauss is not intellectually honest, and that his book, based on its title, is a fraud.
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