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Geert Wilders & Ezra Levant in Ottawa May 10!
An Huzzah! & Bravo!
“Fenris Badwulf is a man of the people. His prune mush has nourished the less fortunate souls of Mitchieville (soon to be renamed Fenrisville). His devotion to Set, The Snake God, has provided a spiritual example for us all. He provides shelter and canned salmon to our homeless raccoon Canadians. Fenris cares. Most importantly of all: Fenris Badwulf is mighty!”
~ ITEM: Mitchieville– Fenris Badwulf archive
~ ITEM: Fenris Badwulf is on Facebook
~ ITEM: The people have spoken and Fenris Badwulf is now the new Mayor of Mitchieville
~ BLOGGERS DESERVE a little praise now and again, saith Teh Binks.
So the simple brilliance of the Mitchieville writings via the nom de plume of the lunatic gadfly ‘Fenris Badwulf’ is a real gift to the blogosphere. Every offering is a trove; little masterpieces of Screwtape-style upside-down thinking tuned to the issues of the day, and the deeper matters of ultimate commitments, spiritual realities, consequences, and civilizational direction.
FaceBook fave him; read everything; if I could write that well or insighfully even 10% of the time, I’d consider myself a very lucky elf indeed. ~
Send In The Clowns.ca
Or, the funniest man in Canada.. lives in New Hampshire
~ ITEM: Satyricon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
~ ITEM: The Romans produced two types of satire
~ ITEM: Reviewing the ‘Alimony Tour,’ one writer tackles the puzzle that is John Cleese
~ ITEM: Scott Feschuk @ Maclean’s
~ ITEM: Monty Python’s Flying Circus
~ ITEM: The curse of Eddie Izzard, as told in pictures
~ NO, NOT ACTUAL CLOWNS, since I think they are Satan’s idea of ‘funny’. But where are the funny Canadian men of letters in the 21st century? Or the truly great comedians & comedic actors?
The other day one of the Binklings (who had been reading Maclean’s) asked “Why does Scott Feschuck have a job? Does anyone actually find him funny?” That thought stayed with me as I read the latest laugh-out loud Iowahawk entries, plus The Onion, and Cracked.com.
The Laughing Beaver
Canada has a long tradition of Anglo-Scottish self-deprecating humour– not so much Vaudeville or mocking others as Stephen Leacock or SCTV or Wayne & Shuster. Where are they now? Am I just missing teh funny Canuckistan these days? Russell Peters is OK as a side-dish, but where are the side-splitting articles– online or in print? Where the great side-splitting genius of the 1960s-1980s?
Jim Carrey is past-date, and seems to have nothing new to offer. Occasional feeble wheezes from reading Feschuk just won’t do. TV like This Hour Has 22 Minutes? Bitterly Leftist & political. Rick Mercer? Maybe. Newfoundland’s CodCo? Or Kids In The Hall? Not so much, actually. People still watch SCTV, after all.
Are we seeing some of the natural consequences of political correctness, which imposes outward and inward constraint, lest some self-appointed victim be offended? The Earle Human rights debacle– though not immediately about comedy itself– may be a sign and warning of what is.. well, NOT to come.
Ye Olden Days
Anciently, parody and satire was a fine Roman art– whether of the gentle or harsher kind under Lucilius, Juvenal, Horace and others.. even the politically dangerous comedy of Fabricius Veiento, or the semi-anonymous Satyricon by Petronius, both under the arbitrary tyranny of the Emperor Nero, who executed favourites as often as enemies.
Properly used, such arts are keenly political, and properly subversive of the vagaries or horrors of the status quo. Pompous tyranny is hilarious, even if to mock it is to risk censure, exile, or execution.
Wretched Witty Wreckery
In a recent surreal moment, former Monty Python member John Cleese woke up from his comfortable semi-retirement, looked about, and noticed that not only is the England which he and the rest of the Python savagely mocked now mostly dead, but that it is unlikely in 2011 anything like Monty Python could get off the ground.
“In a way he is symbolic of what went wrong with his clever, sarcastic generation at Oxbridge, riddled as it was with a strange mixture of self-satisfaction and cultural doubt. It loved to mock, but now finds itself adrift.”
Talented Wreckers
Gosh, thanks John– you and the boys got rich & famous from mocking post-war England, and pretty much stopped paying attention after the 1980s, when the rise of Islamism, humour & human-crushing political correctness, and bureaucratic busybodiness wrecked everything for Britain, and for all the comedians in your wake. Oooo.. edgy Margaret Thatcher jokes– really? Comedy is supposed to ridicule ‘what is’ by contrast with ‘what should be’, and the Python spirit became all acid and no fertilizer: all arson, no architecture.
After his orgies slowed down, Terry Jones has done some good TV; Cleese some odds and ends; Eric Idle lots of cameos and The Rutles; Terry Gilliam a heap of giant agonized movies; Michael Palin world travel documentaries and suchlike. But cutting-edge or topical comedy.. not so much.
Just in case you suppose I say the above as one unfamiliar with Pythonism, I once had most of the records memorized. I was teh hardcore Python-nerd.. but as a way of thinking or a form of entertainment, it ultimately failed me.
Canada All Sick
In any case, the death of humour is a symptom of intellectual & social rigour mortis in Canada– even the UK still produces real comedy and witty stuff (not including Eddie Izzard), if none of it dares tread outside the safety zone dictated by the chattering classes, same-sex speech codes, Muslim separatism, and the death of British freedom and parliamentary government.
Perhaps I’m terribly, terribly wrong– please let Teh Binks know of really good books, TV, articles by Canuckis in which Canadian humour– glorious and free– is allowed free rein and scope on every topic. Right now, in my opinion at least, the funniest man in Canada.. lives in New Hampshire! ~
President Goof?
~ ITEM: Barack Obama has taken the greatest public relations triumph of his presidency and ruined it
~ ITEM: There are definitely symptoms beginning to unfold of something very wrong in this White House
~ ITEM: Leon Panetta, not Obama, issued order to kill bin Laden?; Obama overruled: “Coup in the White House”
~ ITEM: White House Insider: Obama Hesitated – Panetta Issued Order to Kill Osama Bin Laden
~ BACK IN THE DAY, one of the worst Binks neighbourhood insults you could stick on someone was ‘goof’– not as in Goofy the Disney dog, but a failure, non-entity, and disappointment all wrapped up in one.
Did CIA Director Leon Panetta & Co. make the call to hit Bin Laden as POTUS empty-suit waffled? Was there in effect a DC palace coup on this issue, “primarily led by Leon Panetta, Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates, David Petraeus, and Jim Clapper”, with Obama and radical Valerie Jarrett on the other side?
What did Empty Suit know, or decide, and when?
It Gets Worse
If these speculations are deliberate misinformation, then are Hillary & her Clintonites making a pre-2012 political hit on Obama, to make him look even more unpresidential? And trying to use blogs to do it?
Either way, the bizarre and ever-changing White House account of the Bin Laden killing are making the POTUS look very bad, and wasting the biggest U.S. moral victory in a decade.
How bizarre. ~
The Royal Wedding!
~ ITEM: The royal wedding proves this is still a Christian country. Hallelujah!; also The royal wedding marks the triumph of the good mother
~ ITEM: Marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton and the reaffirmation of Christian and English values
~ ITEM: The Royal Wedding: How sweet it was!; Will and Kate’s big day: The chatter and the etiquette.
~ ITEM: The culture war behind the Will’n’Kate debate
~ ITEM: Trial marriage on trial— Stylish, classy, tear-jerking and ultimately discouraging, is a sociologist’s verdict on the Royal Wedding: “The problem is that cohabitation doesn’t work like that. Cohabitation in general lasts an average of two years and is popular precisely because it provides easy access to sex without the legal, moral, and social commitments that marriage entails.”
~ ITEM: Yes, do set the world on fire.. Aiming at a family of six would be a good way for the newlywed royals to do it
~ ITEM: “The Royal Wedding is chick crack….”
~ ITEM: I appreciate the role of art (good art, that is) in the life of the Church. It can say all kinds of things that can’t be said in words
~ TEH BINKS IS BELATEDLY WATCHING the Beeb coverage of the royal wedding, and feeling all happy & glorious. Back in the day, a younger Binks got up early ln to watch Chuck & Di in 1981– plus, I’m a strong believer in the British monarchy, the single oldest political institution on the planet, at 1500+ years old. Plus, Will & Kate will be King & Queen of Canada sometime (hopefully soon), and huzzah for that.
Yes, everybody else may be heartily sick of the wedding, or insta-bored by news older than a few days, but that’s why I’m watching it now. It’s a very happy-looking crowd, of many many different colours and countries. It’s a joy-making moment in a troubled England; a kind of global moment, and reminder of the abiding memory and influence of Britain around the world– even in unhappy and turbulent lands.
Off With Their Heads?
Every time the wretched republican spirit (this means you, Olivia Chow) raises the befanged head and growls about ditching the monarchy, it’s a horrid thing. It’s all about erasing the past, destroying memory of something better and older than the smelly little orthodoxies of would-be political masters, under the tyrant-powers of political correctness. Of course England has many crimes to answer for at the court of history, and the gate of heaven. Of course many people suffered under the hand of British masters around the world, not least in the ending of World War 2, when Churchill and Roosevelt and Truman fumbled the peace with the Soviet Bear, who gobbled up Eastern Europe, replacing the Nazis and worsening the situation.
Power is a difficult matter– being able to change things and make a difference and to make mistakes is all part of the same thing. The old saying has it: the only way to avoid mistakes is to do absolutely nothing. Judging the past by the skewed standards of the present– we forget that the future will likewise judge us for our since, crimes, blind-spots, abuses of power, and negligences.
Larger & Bigger
Every wedding is itself, and larger shapes and mysteries as well. Spiritually speaking, Will & Kate.. are also Adam and Eve, king & queen of creation, God & Israel, Christ and His Church, and the eternal union of God & his people in heaven forever, united in the bonds of eternal life. This imagery is shown forth in Eastern Orthodox wedding services, where the bride & groom wear crowns. This, of course, is the lost dimension in the era of romantic luuurve, narcissistic sexual anarchy, easy divorce, and general puzzlement about human nature & destiny & basic biology.
Perhaps the grandeur of this wedding can be a reminder that while we’re not all British royals, we can be– through Christ– royals of heaven, with a higher and brighter purpose and glory than that conceived of for us by advertisers & corporations, politicians, social engineers, progressitopians, and all the rest of the busybodies.
Danger! Beauty & Truth Ahead!
The other thing which was remarkable about the service: it was Christian, and beautiful. Set in the Westminster Abbey, it was the old 1662 Prayerbook wedding service with a few omissions; and the music (adult & youth choir & orchestral & organ) was truly glorious. The power of beauty and truth and haunting mystery still has the power to touch souls and remind people there’s more to everything than the flutter and flash of the moment. It’s why the progressives demand ugly churches, heejus vestments, boring or trite hymns, re-worded Bibles, puppet-sermons and all the rest: we can’t have thoughtfulness, introspection, peace & silence, dangerous questions, uncomfortable truths– or, heaven help us, God showing up to interfere with the shiny new communitarian masterplans.
Long Live The Queen! God bless Prince William & Princess Catherine! ~
P.S. Where has the time flown? Elizabeth 2.0 is 85, and Prince Phillip is 90?! Celebrating their 63rd Anniversary this year. Diamond Jubilee 2012!
P.P.S. Didn’t see a lot of obviously Muslim folks in the coverage– no burkas, nor groups of happy-looking turbaned folks. The terrorist-types were not in evidence either, being cowards, and knowing that the crowds would probably tear them to pieces given the chance.
Obama Could Botch A Fish-Shoot in a Barrel
~ ITEM: Via The Real Barack Obama
~ ITEM: Clearly out of place
~ ITEM: What really happened in the Situation Room
“Uppity Woman has graciously agreed to share her latest insights into the mysterious depths of the Osama bin Laden fairy tale.
It’s all clear now, she writes….
Osama’s wife was killed. His wife was not killed. She was a human shield. She was not a human shield. She rushed at the SEALs and got killed. She rushed the SEALs and got shot in the calf. She did not rush the SEALs, she got shot in the calf in the cross-fire.
Osama fought back. He did not fight back. He made a wrong move. He didn’t move. He moved. He fought back. He was in a firefight. He did not fight back. He was armed. He was not armed.
Five people were killed. One was a woman. She was and was not a human shield. She was and was not Osama’s wife. She was and was not Osama’s aide’s wife. She was Osama’s courier’s wife. She rushed the SEALs when they entered. She did not rush the SEALs. She was killed in cross-fire. She got killed being a human shield. She was not a human shield. She’s dead.
Osama’s son Hamza was killed. No, it was his son Khalid. It probably doesn’t matter. He’s probably got a boatload of them and couldn’t even keep them straight himself.
The SEALs had little cameras on their helmets, and Barack and Everybody who is Anybody watched the mission unfold. They saw the whole thing but they didn’t see Osama get killed.
Osama is dead but his body is gone. Osama swims with the fishes. But before they put him in the plastic bag with the concrete block, they gave him a bath, wrapped him in a sheet and gave him a Muslim funeral ceremony. Then they put him in the bag with something very heavy and yelled to the sharks not to come around so the carp could get their turn. Then they gently dropped his carcass lowered him into the water.
There was a goat. There is always a goat, I’m telling you. The goat is doing fine now. Osama, not so much. But hey, at least they didn’t behead him on video. That would have been bad and offended somebody, unlike the beheading videos America had to endure.
Bush said he wanted Osama dead or alive. That was bad. Bush was a cowboy. That was bad. Obama said he wanted Osama dead or dead. That was good. Obama is a cowboy. That is good. Bush killed AQ’s number two a couple of times. That was bad. KILLER! KILLER! KILLER! Obama killed Osama. That was good. GO USA! USA! USA! OBAMA! OHHHHHH BAMAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Obama announced that Justice Has Been Served. Besides, it beats listening to his base bitch and moan if they took the cockroach alive and had to torture him over at Camp X-ray, which would have been bad if Bush did it, but would have been good if Obama did it because it would have been 11 Dimensional Chess. Obama is not like Bush. It just looks that way because of the Chess. K THX Shuddup.
Any questions?” ~
Aye, There’s The Rub
~ ITEM: Lilley: NDP promises all a bunch of hogwash
~ ITEM: US unions paid for the NDP’s convention in Halifax
~ ITEM: Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: Leave the NDP alone, you meanies!
~ ITEM: Christie Blatchford on “massaging the truth about Jack Layton“
~ ITEM: The NDP clown show gets off to an early start
~ ITEM: NDipper Secret Agenda
~ YES, TEH BINKS feels a little besmirched over the whole Whorehouse Jack issue; but now that Daycare Dad is in charge of the opposition, it’s time. Time for the blogosphere, SunNews and the rest to to give Layton and the Dippers the full TSA treatment, factually speaking.
The Dippers are like those funky gourmet ‘blood-oranges’ a friend introduced to me a while back– orange on the outside, red on the inward parts. And just because there`s no mobs in the street, we need not be decieved– these are the far more sublte and polished ‘community organizer’ kinda commies, not smelly 1917 Russian Bolsheviks.
- What’s the deal with the ‘secret’ NDP constitution?
- Who what when where why how are radical U.S. unions pumping filthy lucre into NDP coffers?
- How about the whole story on the Rub-N-Tug, and let’s not forget that retired cop, who may be in real trouble from the retroactive memory hole crowd over his revelations regarding Whorehouse Jack?
- Let’s get the whole public housing fiasco into the daylight, whereby a rich ‘man of the pipples’ faked himself into Toronto public housing (for the poor) under his immigrant mother-in-law’s name.
- We need to expose the longtime pro-Taliban & pro-terror connections of the Dippers. This party supports the rabid barbarians seeking to enslave the West, period. It goes back years, even before Taliban Jack himself.
The Canucki interwebs is already full of lotsa blogger footwork & factchecking on the Canucki soft-commie party: someone needs to do a Canadian Connect The Networks on them, and put the info together in a handy, useful, SunMedia friendly way to allow the public to get the full monty on the party that Jack built. ~
Binks
Random Binky Linkies
~ UNSPEAKABLY Bad Vestments.. Because Christian worship is not supposed to be about you …. (badvestments)
~ ARCHAEOLOGY, SCOTLAND— ‘Viking shipyard’ found on Skye …. (bbc)
~ SUNRISE FROM the stratosphere …. (ghostofaflea)
Something Wonderful: “Jersey Shore” Gone Wilde
~ A NIFTY Retractable dog snap leash Povodokus …. (artlebedev)
The Actual King’s Speech, 1939
GreenEcoClimatology
“What was this pioneering eco-warrior’s sin – improperly sorted recycling bins? A secret stash of incandescent bulbs? No, the corporate pigs busted him just because he thoughtfully composted his girlfriend in 1977″
~ O HAPPY happy official Earth Day! And I can’t think of a better way to kick it off than to remember the founder of Earth Day, Ira “The Unicorn” Einhorn- now better known as Inmate #ES6859 at Houtzdale State Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania …. (iowahawk, philly.com)
~ YOUR FRESH Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, May 5th 2011 …. (dailybayonet)
~ LORNE GUNTER: Ontarians will pay dearly for McGuinty’s ‘green’ energy fantasy …. (nationalpost)
~ PRINCE OF WALES— Charles gets exposed as a hypocrite on Global Warming; Eco-Hypocrite Prince Charles to Address Georgetown …. (theblogmocracy, landmarkreport)
~ ONE PROMINENT Environmentalist Finally Discovers His Religion’s Catch-22 …. (eddriscoll)
~ BELIEVERS in anthropomorphic climate-change (or whatever they are calling it at this moment) ascribe all destructive acts of nature to humanity …. (curtjester)
~ JAMES PANERO ON The Hudson River Destruction Project: How the EPA is harming nature and ruining communities …. (city-journal.org)
~ ODDLY ENOUGH, “Six Scottish windfarms were paid up to £300,000 to stop producing energy, it has emerged” …. (eddriscoll)
~ DEATH OF CLIMATE Nut Osama to Revive Obama Climate Agenda? …. (spectator)
~ HOW CAN “scientific findings” be trusted when they translate directly into restrictive environmenal regulations? …. (classicalvalues)
~ THOSE WHO consumed the least salt had a 56 percent higher risk of death from a heart attack or stroke compared with those who had the highest consumption, even after controlling for obesity, cholesterol, smoking, diabetes, and other risk factors …. (drhelen.blog)
~ THE GREEN CHOICE? Number of Years it Takes to Break Even on some Hybrid Car Purchases: a mere 394 years of driving 12 000 miles each year …. (weaselzippers)
~ CLIMATE Alarmists Use Kids To Push Their Stupid Warmist Lawsuits …. (rightwingnews)
~ YOUR 2011 Iowahawk Grand Champion Carbonator; The 2011 Iowahawk Earth Week Cruise-In …. (iowahawk)
~ JAPAN DISASTER— Fukushima Blockbuster; Radiation in the #1 building is at highest levels since the crisis; A Radiation Safety Expert Says – Tokyo Uh Oh …. (CV)
Mark Steyn
~ THE DEATH OF BIN LADEN: WITH ALLIES LIKE THESE… Pakistan and the big picture ~ plus bonus footnote …. (ocregister, nationalreview)
~ STEYN LIVE! “BLOCKY, BEARDED MAN” COMES TO TOWN– The Oberlin Review reviews Mark’s appearance in Ohio …. (oberlinreview)
~ STATISM vs LIBERTY: “GETTING TO DENMARK”– Something certainly is – plus No laughing matter …. (nationalreview, steynonline)
~ NO LAUGHING MATTER— STATISM vs LIBERTY: Guy Earle discovers the joke’s on him …. (steynonline)
~ HATE-ME CRIMES– REQUEST OF THE WEEK: Hey, don’t beat yourself up over it …. (steynonline)
~ THE HUGH HEWITT SHOW: STRONG HORSE/WEAK HORSE– Mark and Hugh discuss the death of bin Laden and the rest of the week’s news …. (hughhewitt.com)
~ MARK’S FRIDAY FEATURE: KANDAHAR– A prototype burqapic …. (steynonline)
~ ALL AT SEA— Readers continue to muse on the bin Laden fallout (from the plane) …. (steynonline)
~ LINE ITEMS— In the time it takes to type up the budget “cuts”, we’ve borrowed more money than they save …. (steynonline)
~ HI, HONEY, THEY’RE HOME– AVE ATQUE VALE: Remembering two sitcom greats …. (steynonline)
Ezra Levant
~ THE EZRA: Bell’s bold bias; also, Hey, Bell… Go to hell! …. (xanthippa, mooseandsquirrel)
~ EZRA LEVANT on the newest Canadian ‘Human Rights’ debacle …. (IFPS)
~ SKIPPY— “Ezra’s a very nice man and all, but no one can kill a painful erection faster than him” …. (skippy-posts.blog)
~ PUTTING THE JEW back in Judo and other wise sayings …. (ezralevant)
~ EZ ON TORIES, Liberals, NDP, the Bloc — and then the Media Party …. (ezralevant)
FreeSpeechers
~ DEBORAH GYAPONG— The removal of bishops– unprecedented but it is happening; Father Z on “Gather us in” and similar music; The dirty old man in all of us?; Hilary reports on the Vatican Blog Meet; French and English divide among Catholic voters; Kathy Shaidle revisits the My Pet Goat episode; Hermeneutic of Continuity on the Rome Blog Meet; Damian Thompson on how Pope John Paul II saved the Catholic Church from becoming like the Anglican Church; Christie Blatchford on “massaging the truth about Jack Layton“; My girlfriend Hilary gets interviewed on Vatican Radio; I Am Whole Life– a fundraiser for Ruth Lobo and James Shaw, two of the five university students who were arrested, handcuffed and hauled away in a police wagon last October for trying to mount a pro-life photo exhibit …. (deborahgyapong.blog)
~ SHAIDLISM— ‘These SEALs, these guys who killed bin Laden, earn about $54,000 a year’; It’s time for the poor to start paying their fair share; Tyler Perry vs Spike Lee? NeNe Leaks vs Star Jones? Let them fight; Revenge is my destiny: I’d rather be human than ‘Christian’; Bernie Farber’s decided to run for office as… a Liberal!; Kennedys losing their brains without help from bullets now; UK judge to welfare Muslim: ‘Learn English, get a job and stop smoking cannabis’; Julie Burchill on the ‘progressive’ anti-Tesco snobs; Reviewing the ‘Alimony Tour,’ one writer tackles the puzzle that is John Cleese; Another atheist who makes more sense than the Christians; Ezra Levant bashes Bell for dumping Sun News, calls boycott; Canada’s leftists love Omar Khadr. The Khadrs love Osama bin Laden. Any more questions?; ‘Fire One Regulatory Bureaucrat, Create 98 Private Sector Jobs’ …. (fivefeetoffury)
~ REMEMBERING Lepanto, 1571: The Battle that Saved Europe …. (insidecatholic)
~ WHAT THE HELLSPIT? Conservatives plan to clamp down on Free Speech on the Internet– Bill C-51: Investigative Powers for the 21st Century Act …. (Various)
~ SHAME ON DENMARK! Lars Hedegaard found guilty of hate speech; Lars Hedegaard’s final words in the Court; The Danish Show Trial against Lars Hedegaard by Katrine Winkel Holm; Meanwhile, Back in Copenhagen; President of Danish Free Press Society convicted for ‘Racism’ …. (IFPS)
~ KLAVAN on the Culture: The Hilarious World of Abortion …. (PJM)
~ A TIRELESS HERO— Fr. Ted Colleton, RIP …. (theinterim)
~ BLAZING CATFUR— Get a load of Farooq Khan – He really hates Kingston; SS Sea Hitler Given Fake Name “Tahrir”; Happy 40th Anniversary, VOM Canada!; Rowan Williams… Still an Idiot; Shocker! Bernie Farber A Liberal!; Casmo have disappeared their web site; A Guy Earle Update; Mohammed Causes Cancer – Zam Zam Spritzers Toxic!; UN Blasphemy Law by Stealth; Geert Wilders Is Comin To Town…..With Ezra Levant… Get Your Tickets; Mark Mercer on the 2nd Annual “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!”; After bin Laden, the torch passes to the Muslim Brotherhood; The Star Asks: Won’t Somebody Think Of Osama Bin Ladens Children!; Take that Communist Chinese! Falun Gong Ruled A Creed by HRTO; JDL To Hold Protest Outside Pride Offices Friday May 6th 12 Noon; What is journalism school producing these days? …. (blazingcatfur.blog)
~ COLLEGE STUDENTS Defy Free Speech Restrictions to Celebrate Death of Bin Laden; Speech Code of the Month: Montclair State University …. (thefire.org)
~ ED DRISCOLL— Drunkblogging the First Republican Primary Debate; Well, Now We Know that the C in CNN stands for ‘Conspiracy’; Bring Me the SX-70 of Osama Bin Laden; Who Knew Oliver Stone Ate at Hooters? …. (eddriscoll)
~ BENEDICT XVI: In No One’s Shadow– Critics seem willfully blind to his civilizational mission …. (spectator.org)
~ MARK SHEA— Down the Memory Hole: In which we question the dominant narrative that we are thousands of years smarter than our ancestors …. (markshea.blog)
~ AMERICAN DIGEST— “Now nearly a decade, “a low dishonest decade,” has past since the day after September 10 and the thing that looked like a man, the monster that set the events of the 11th in motion, has been expunged from the Book of Life” …. (americandigest)
~ FINAL REMARKS by Geert Wilders at his trial in Amsterdam, May 2nd, 2011; Meanwhile, Back in Amsterdam; Victory for Freedom of Speech and Religious Liberty at Northern Illinois U; Political and Religious Organizations Finally Get Equal Treatment …. (IFPS, dianawest, thefire)
Sorry, but the background thing looks like an evil Star Trek doomsday machine
~ HARPER will be expected to deliver on the expectations of social conservatives. Admittedly, it’s been these expectations that have been at the core of darkest nightmares of Harper’s detractors …. (nexusofassholery.blog)
~ PAUL TUNS COMMENTARY— Election wrap-up; Pro-life commentary on the election …. (theinterim.com)
~ ANOTHER good election result: Anti-Israel Mountain Equipment Co-op Board candidate flames out …. (eyecrazy.blog)
~ GERRY HUNTER— “Before I was 35, I had occasion to stand by the bed of each of my dying parents. Don’t let anyone tell you that is an easy thing to do. But likewise, don’t let anyone pervert and corrupt you by coming to think it would have been better had they offed themselves to spare you that ordeal.” …. (lfbtl.wordpress)
~ SURVEY SAYS.. More Than 20% of Atheist Scientists are Deeply Confused …. (markshea.blog)
~ CALEDONISTAN— Fantino’s Billion Dollar Legacy – Part 1; Fantino’s Billion Dollar Legacy – Part 2 …. (landmarkreport)
~ THE NDP CLOWN show gets off to an early start; The Khadr Family mourns the loss of Osama bin Laden.. Aren’t we lucky Jack bin Layton wants to see our most prominent terrorist back in Canada? …. (eyecrazy.blog)
~ GOOD RIDDANCE, Superman, by James Bowman …. (newcriterion)
~ CLOSET CON— Detroit: An American Disaster Area; Children are better off in homes than in institutions; And can we please stop calling them pirates already??; Farber is a liberal, who just happened to have born Jewish; Obama’s a dreadful Marxist who is woefully incompetent; Please Die Already, Or just STFU; Yes, our culture is better than this; Bell Canada is obviously terrified of competition; “Oh, hey honey, there’s someone at the door…”; OK, full disclosure- my kids love The Biebs; Hurt Feelings Costs Big Bucks in Canada; Britain Awakening to Muslim Homophobia? …. (conservativeinthecloset.blog)
~ SOME SAD NEWS— Harold Albrecht is the Conservative MP from Kitchener-Conestoga and is a principled pro-life, pro-family conservative. On Monday night as he and his wife Betty were preparing to go to the victory party — he had just won a third term — she suffered a spontaneous intracranial hemorrhagea …. (soconvivium)
~ REBRANDING EVIL— This story posted at Reuters Africa is about a scientist who thinks the concept of evil is obsolete and needs to be rebranded. It’s all a matter of empathy deficit disorder …. (merecomments)
~ BLUB BLUB BLUB BLUB— Rogers said the UK coalition government needed to go further in order to avoid financial catastrophe …. (cjunk.blog)
~ MORE PEOPLE IN NEED of Insensitivity Training.. Bin Laden, Geronimo link angers Native Americans …. (markshea.blog)
~ GOATS & FLEAS— Kenneth Branagh’s Thor; Satan machines; A not entirely safe for work short film; This is the way the world ends; Stealth H-60 Blackhawk; A fear of personal insignificance …. (ghostofaflea)
~ ABORTION killed entire generation of students, says candidate for university president …. (lifesitenews)
~ A TOP CANADIAN Socialist Says bin Laden Photos Don’t Exist …. (spectator.org)
~ IGNATIEFF’S LIBERALS were the New Coke of Canadian politics …. (eyecrazy.blog)
~ SAITH SOCON— Harper rolling the dice with his eternal salvation; Five Conservative Priorities Harper Must Address; State Religion Being Imposed on Catholics, other Christians; Browbeating us with “charity”; The Real Blognic; Dinner with the Pro-Life “Movers and Shakers”; CCCB Calls D&P Abortion Scandal Bloggers, “Polarizing Voices”, “Radicalizing”; Thanks for being honest, Mr. Tyler. May God bless and heal you; Vatican Bureaucracy Spooked by Bloggers; Well, Harper won. That’s not the greatest news for social conservatives …. (socon.ca)
~ MELANIE PHILLIPS— An open letter to the Rt Hon David Cameron MP; Free speech dies in Denmark; The Hamas/al Qaeda/Fatah axis; A marriage made in hell …. (melaniephillips)
~ SALON REPORTS that Canadian blogger Derek Miller died shortly after blogging his own death; ‘Here it is. I am dead‘: Canadian blogger announces own death in heart-rending post from beyond the grave …. (theanchoress)
~ THE RIOTS IN CHINA You Never Heard About; How the internet and mobile phones are outsmarting China’s propaganda machine …. (CV, blogs.telegraph)
~ JAY CURRIE— The CPC has the opportunity to line up thirty new seats in Quebec; CPC for Free Speech?; Ezra Bashes Bells Decision To Block SunTV; Dawg on the Left’s struggle ahead; The Toronto Party – well, sort of; Winners and Losers …. (jaycurrie)
~ DOG BITES MAN— COMMUNISTS DEVELOP REGULATORY (AHEM) AGENCY– Let’s not give anyone any “Internet Czar on Steroids” ideas …. (nytimes)
~ SCARAMOUCHE— Playing the Victim Card; Attention Doubting Thomases; The CUNY Sez “Kish Mir*” to Kushner; We’re Ready For His Close Up; Sheema Sez Onus On Infidels to Keep North American Muslims Happy; Run, Bernie, Run; “Grassroots” Khomeinist group CASMO seems to have vanished into the ether; J Is For Jackass; This Just In– No Charges, Er, Laid in the ‘Velvet Touch’ Massage Parlor Case; What An Insult– To Orange Traffic Cones; Ignatieff scores the cushiest academic gig going; Why all “isms” save Capitalism (including Communism, Socialism, Fascism and Islamism) bring nothing but human misery; Whinging lefty adds her own thoughts; New moms pop pills made from freeze-dried placenta; A “Bracha” for Goldstone; Shut the door, Hillary. You’re letting the ‘SlamoNazis in; I’m pitching The Ruth Ellen Brosseau Story as a biopic on the Ceeb; Appeasing Our Way Into Silence and Submission; Something Rotten in Denmark; Happy Jack’s Kinder Surprise …. (scaramouchee.blog)
~ RIGHTEOUS COFFEE— “As I write, I see a sign announcing that the coffee I am drinking has been “ethically” sourced and batch roasted for me. Ethically? So there are objective ethical standards? And where do I find those standards?” …. (merecomments)
~ CANADA’S newest TV news channel has run into a problem with satellite broadcaster Bell TV …. (dailybayonet)
The Tooley
~ THE MIGHTY MARK TOOLEY— “The destruction of Osama bin Laden underlines how many U.S. church voices, even since 9/11, have adamently insisted that Christianity demands pacifism” …. (orthodoxytoday)
~ JONATHAN KAY explains our election result to Americans; No offence, Conservatives, but all you did was win 24 more seats. Jack Layton’s Daddy Day Care is far more compelling …. (nationalpost)
~ SHOCKINGLY, Parental intervention reduces number of sexual relations among adolescents …. (bigbluewave.ca)
~ THE PROPAGANDIST— Pakistan’s Complaint; Hezbollah Sets Up Shop In Mexico; Draw Lessons from Afghanistan’s Past; How Will He Die?; Cuban Blogger Wins Freedom Prize. Forbidden To Leave Cuba To Accept It; Kefaya Punk On Egyptian Democracy; Follow The Propagandist On Twitter; Canadian Conservatives Win. Lefties Lick Wounds; The Jihadist Genie Is Set Loose; Abottabad Blues. A One-Act Play …. (propagandistmag)
~ A POST-ELECTION Reflection on Contempt …. (nexusof*ssholery.blog)
~ YOUR RIGHT TO Get Off in the Library Ends Where My Right to a Sperm-Free Keyboard Begins …. (landmarkreport)
~ QUO VADIS— I just finished reading Henryk Sienkiewicz’s “Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero” and I am stunned by its brilliance. Freebie: you can read it free online, and aside from the famous 1951 movie version, a multi-part Polish modern version was done a few years ago.. well worth it, even with the subtitles …. (curtjester)
~ HEATHER MALICE Doesn’t Really “Get” This Whole “Canada” Thing …. (nexusofassholery.blog)
~ CALIFORNIA’S state university system offers everything.. but a liberal education. “Mission Lost” …. (victorhanson)
~ MOOSE & SQUIRREL— The Evil Geert Wilders in Canada!; As long as we’re telling Bell-hell stories; Obama overruled: “Coup in the White House”; NDP: The picture of uninformed “Vote Mob” success …. (mooseandsquirrel.ca)
~ OSAMA BIN LADEN, good riddance, by Roger Kimball; and Curt Jester– I do not normally take delight in the death of a fellow human being …. (newcriterion, curtjester)
~ THE PEACE-LOVING government of the People’s Republic of China has apparently chosen a new enemy: Science Fiction …. (landmarkreport)
~ PATELS— Ignatieff was never meant to be in politics; Is this the kind of NDP caucus Layton wanted?; My open letter to The Guardian about Heather Mallick’s defamation of Canada; Liberal Party may be dead already, but Liberals cling to false hopes …. (wernerpatels)
~ THE FATHERS of the Orthodox Church on Abortion …. (orthodoxytoday)
~ VENTRILOQUIST’S DUMMY— Gay British hysteric Andrew Sullivan demands that Sarah Palin prove that she gave birth to her youngest son but is willing to take Barack Obama’s word for it that Osama Bin Laden is dead …. (themcj)
~ SMALL DEAD ANIMALS— A Soldier Of The Great War; With the recent federal election now a distant memory; And the Pope wears a funny hat; Election 2011: “It’s The Ground Game, Stupid“; It’s Time For The Poor To Pay Their Fair Share; Bring me the head of Osama bin Laden; Hunting for Horrible Heather Malice; The New Face Of The NDP; We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans; waiting for the Shaw cable guy to arrive …. (SDA)
~ THE WAY WE LIVE NOW, a continuing series, by Roger Kimball from Pajamas Media …. (newcriterion)
~ HRC WARS— The Lynch List, 02-May-2011 …. (missnixon)
~ TERRY GLAVIN— Arab Spring, Afghan Spring: No Pasaran; Andrew Potter On the Loss Of A Good Man; Standpoint Of The Proletariat; Yoani Sánchez Awarded Freedom Prize, Cuba Forbids Her To Travel To Copenhagen …. (transmontanus.blog)
~ FREE SCHOOLS: the stake in the heart of the Progressive vampire, By James Delingpole …. (blogs.telegraph)
~ LANDMARK REPORT— Harper Derangement Syndrome (HDS) …. (landmarkreport)
~ TORY DR. ROY— Pollsters except for Conrad Winn of Compas and Ipsos Reid underestimated Tory strength; My Cabinet Suggestions; I congratulate HM PM Harper on an historic accomplishment …. (TDR)
~ LIBERAL CHRISTIAN reaction to the death of Osama Bin Laden has been about what you’d expect. Here are some typical examples; and the most vile Bin Laden reaction yet …. (themcj)
~ A NEW BOOK: To Miss with Love— A third of British teachers leave within their first term on the job. One who stayed explains why; and “My new school will free parents from the tyranny of the bossy middle classes”; also “There’s an attempt to discredit my book. What are my critics afraid of?” …. (mercatornet)
~ SCOTLAND could be heading towards independence – and David Cameron is partly to blame; Scotland should hold an independence referendum, By Daniel Hannan …. (blogs.telegraph)
~ RAPE IS BUILT on the dishonest edifice of “penetration bias.” …. (classicalvalues)
~ GOD’S ENGLISH— The Making & Endurance of the King James Bible, 1611—2011, by Barton Swaim …. (touchstonemag)
~ DALRYMPLED: Of Evil and Empathy– Dalrymple has often written of his belief in, and preference for, the complexity and even inscrutability of human behavior …. (blog.skepticaldoctor)
~ REMEMBERING THE GULAGS— Film Director Peter Weir On ‘The Way Back’ Interview …. (orthodoxytoday)
~ IS THIS THE END of George Galloway’s political career? …. (blogs.telegraph)
~ OTHER PEOPLE’S SINS— PJTV: Is Political Correctness a form of Pathological Altruism? …. (drhelen.blog)
~ BRAIN FLATULENCE— Nutty professors: Calling pets “pets” is demeaning to pets …. (catholic-caveman.blog)
~ SKIPPY— About last night: Harrowing death rattles and a pathetic requiem for the Liberal Party of Canada …. (skippy-posts.blog)
~ DALRYMPLENESS— The Guzmán Parallel– In City Journal Dalrymple compares Osama bin Laden to Shining Path leader Abimael Guzmán …. (blog.skepticaldoctor)
~ RIGHT GIRL: Right This Way: Osama Sleeps With the Fishes; I couldn’t be happier; Osama Bin Laden DEAD; Hear ye! Hear ye! Brass Balls Radio is up!; Jack Layton likes a bit of strange; Happy Blogaversary to the Sundries Shack! …. (girlontheright)
~ PONDERING Christians in a Post-Welfare State World …. (orthodoxytoday)
~ SOONER OR LATER, some idiot was sure to watch Logan’s Run and think, ‘Hey that’s a great idea!’ …. (vladtepesblog)
~ VATICAN: Osama’s death cause for reflection, not rejoicing; Charles Lewis: Forgive Bin Laden? No way in hell; What should be the Christian response to death of Osama Bin Laden? …. (nationalpost)
~ THIS IS National Offend a Feminist Week …. (theothermccain)
~ KIDDIE-PRON Bishop Lahey goes directly to jail after guilty plea …. (catholicregister.org)
~ MELANIE PHILLIPS— The Hamas/al Qaeda/Fatah axis; Molotov and Ribbentrop are alive and well and living in Gaza and Ramallah; The massacre at Camp Ashraf; 400 people have been killed in Syria during six weeks of protests …. (spectator)
~ GENUINE FALSE HOPE – The Truth About Embryonic Stem Cells …. (orthodoxytoday.org)
~ THE SAINTS: “Flesh and Blood Human Beings”; Sainthood Process: Thousands of Pages …. (CJ)
~ STAND YOUR GROUND: Political Engagement – The Cultural Imperative; Gibbons Case Headed To Supreme Court; 1993 Upside Down; Faceless Voting – Religious Accommodation To The Extreme; NDP Accepts Contributions From US Unions; NDP – Do We Even Know What It Stands For?; FiveFeetOfFury on Ezra’s Show; Get Rid Of Destructive Human Rights Commissions; Save The Earth, Kill The Humans? An Inconvenient Truth For “An Inconvenient Truth” …. (forlifeandfamily.blog)
~ WHAT PRICE BABY BLISS? Social acceptance of commercial conception ignores all the hidden costs …. (mercatornet)
~ BARBARA KAY— Our era isn’t governed by common sense and respect for universal human nature, but by therapism -a kind of emotional correctness that confuses aspects of the human condition with disease …. (barbarakay.ca)
~ ORWELLS PICNIC— Thermopylae V: Flight; We had a great time; Save the Cardinal!; Fr. Ted Colleton: a genuine hero; I’m famous! (Again.); Vatican blognic livefeed; Someone has just brought this book to my attention; All I need now is a port in the back of my neck; Vatican blognic; I appreciate the role of art (good art, that is) in the life of the Church; So it’s obviously time for another medical crisis; People have asked me why I’m not keen on the JPII “phenomenon”; What the Duke and Duchess Tart Cambridge.. Should have said to each other today; The new metaphysics; A tribute to the Alpha Male …. (anglocath.blog)
~ CANADIANS DESERVE better than Justin Trudeau (Messiah 2.0) and Jack Layton …. (exurbanleague)
~ INDEED: “When someone dies with as much on his soul as Osama bin Laden had on his, it should prompt us to drop to our knees and think about the fact that he had many opportunities every day to turn away from the path of destruction, to make the right choices that would bring light into the world instead of darkness.” …. (happycatholic.blog)
~ MARPRELATE— a campaign that reminds me of the cartoons where someone runs off the side of a cliff; Miss Marprelate’s Favourite Party; Ottawa Events for May …. (marprelate.blog)
~ BARBARA KAY— Paging Dr. Layton …. (barbarakay.ca)
~ DON’T PICK A FIGHT with China’s Christians …. (blogs.telegraph)
~ ACTION DINO— Steve Tyler reflects on his abortion experience; New NDP Layton Class Destroyer; Hey taxpayers prepare to be fisted!; US unions paid for the NDP’s convention in Halifax …. (actiondino)
~ THE PUNDITA— Canada makes real economic progress; meanwhile U.S. corporations flee to quaint medieval town in Switzerland to avoid fate of Golden Goose …. (pundita.blog)
~ THE ASSUMPTION behind the “rights-duty-dignity-values” understanding of the modern world… is that no human nature exists …. (insightscoop)
~ BLOGGERS TO BLAME— Canadian Bishops Speak to Development and Peace Controversy …. (bigbluewave.ca)
~ WINTRY KNIGGIT— William Dembski reviews a new book by two theistic evolutionists; New study finds that US rich pay a larger share of taxes than in any other country; What Christian men want from Christian women… in paintings!; How George W. Bush’s secret CIA prisons and waterboarding killed Osama Bin Laden; How the Obama administration deliberately ships jobs overseas; Stephen C. Meyer explains why rational systems of morality require God; MIT student offers a secular case against same-sex marriageV …. (winteryknight)
~ DAMIAN THOMPSON: “Blessed John Paul II saved the Catholic Church from going the way of the Anglican Communion” …. (blogs.telegraph)
~ FENRIS BADWULF— “Lucky you. You don’t have to put up with Christian missionaries beating at your door, pushing Bible papers at you. There won’t be a Bible in your motel bedroom, either. And Christianity is freely mocked on television. You can direct hatred at members of a religious group, the Christians” …. (mitchieville)
~ GLOB & FLAIL— Why voters elected the NDP’s ‘Vegas girl’ anyway; Three thoughts about Ruth Ellen Brosseau …. (theglobeandmail)
~ PRO-SHARIA ANGLICAN DRUID Guardian-reading Dr. Rowan Williams says killing of unarmed al-Qaeda leader leaves ‘a very uncomfortable feeling’ Cristina Odone: ‘Archbishop Rowan Williams is dead wrong‘ …. (telegraph)
~ CHARLES LEWIS: A pope and an atheist explain a universal wisdom …. (life.nationalpost)
~ THE TRAGEDY of Democracy without Authority: A Reflection on Maritain and Thucydides …. (insightscoop)
~ VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Our 21st-century political correctness can have us behaving like 20th-century denizens of Leningrad or Moscow. “The American Soviet” …. (victorhanson)
~ MO’ SKIPPY— “I don’t think that Layton having his pud pulled is the interesting story here”; Well, that’s done: VHow the Liberals dodged a bullet; Serenity and denial: Michael Ignatieff and the fall of Berlin …. (skippy-posts.blog)
~ HUMBERTO FONTOVA: Castro and Che’s Foiled (and Forgotten) 9/11; lots more Che links …. (townhall)
~ THE WELFARE STATE and the Selfish Society …. (orthodoxytoday)
~ PITY THE COMMIES— Surviving May 2nd: Even Reds Get The Blues …. (thepeoplescube)
~ IOWAHAWK— London Wedding Unites Chav, Ned Monarchies …. (iowahawk)
~ MITCHIEVILLE— One For The Ladies; Junk On Fire Week 1; The Top 10 Ten Financial Links Of The Day; Thoughts On The 2011 Canadian Election; Election Mitchieville 2011; Easy Like Sunday Morning – Celebrating Diversity Edition; We’re Not Worthy; Americans – Taking Jobs Foreigners Don’t Want; Mitchieville’s musings on the Canadian election …. (mooseandsquirrel.ca)
Obysmal
~ THE REAL BARACK OBAMA— NY State Senate Dems Plan to Ban Doctors from Wearing Ties; Planets Align for Obama in 2011, But Not in 2012; Uppity Woman: Let’s Recap and Clarify; Antiwar Commie Says Obama Will Campaign on Osama bin Laden Kill; White House Faith Advisor ‘Lived With’ Communist Bill Ayers; Before and After Shots: Where’s the Obama Love?; Osama Is Dead. Obama Worship Is Alive and Well in Hollywood; Obama’s ‘Parallax View’ of America; Lying Liars: The Democrats’ Illegal Immigration/Amnesty Hypocrisy …. (therealbarackobama)
~ WHITE HOUSE Insider alleges: Obama Hesitated – Panetta Issued Order to Kill Osama Bin Laden …. (socyberty)
~ DITHERING, LONG-WINDED IDIOT ALERT— Obama overruled: “Coup in the White House” …. (mooseandsquirrel.ca)
~ RECENT Congressional Investigation Exposes White House ‘Transparency’ Myth …. (theothermccain)
~ BY THE POWER OF BOTCH! Well, it didn’t take long for President Obama to obliterate those warm feelings he generated on Sunday night. From the moment we heard the news, I’ll bet some not-insignificant percentage of the American public said, “I want to see the body.”; ‘Easing’ bin Laden’s body overboard: that’s where the problems began; 10 ways Barack Obama botched the aftermath of the masterful operation to kill Osama bin Laden; Osama bin Laden: that White House clarification in full …. (ace.mu.nu, telegraph)
~ VICTOR Davis Hanson: Decline is a choice, not a fate. “OK, Let’s Decline” …. (victorhanson)
~ OBAMA THE BASTARD— Natural born narrative killer?; Andy McCarthy asks: given how trivially easy it was for Obama to produce the document, where were the indignant questions to Obama from the press on this?; The game is over! Let the new game begin! …. (classicalvalues)
~ WITH THE RELEASE of the Birth Certificate, Today’s Burning Question Has Become, “What took him so long?” …. (americandigest)
~ STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN— Department of Justice scuttled the prosecutions of Muslim Brotherhood-tied groups like CAIR, named co-conspirators in the largest terrorist funding trial in US history …. (atlasshrugs2000)
~ SO IF OBAMA Staged A Photo-Op And No One Cared, Is It Still A Conspiracy? …. (mypetjawa)
~ POLITICO— Obama Makes “Triumphant Return To Ground Zero”; Obama Turns His Back on 911 Family Members …. (stoptheaclu, atlasshrugs2000)
~ VICTOR Davis Hanson: Rules for Killing Rogues …. (townhall)
~ #FAILPREZ— Jimmy Carter’s Mystery Gift for Kim Jong Il; Jimmy Carter, Guest-Blogging for Pyongyang …. (PJM)
~ TAX CARS BY THE MILE? Who Came Up with THAT Hair-Brained Scheme? …. (therealbarackobama)
~ TARA “CRASH” VARGAS Examines Obama’s Alleged “Birth Certificate”; So THIS Is The Birth Certificate? REALLY?; Obama NOT A ‘Natural-Born’ Citizen, Therefore Not Eligible for Presidency …. (sentinel.blog)
~ BASH THAT TRIG! Rebutting Jesse Kornbluth’s rebuttal re his original Andrew Sullivan article …. (rightwingnews)
~ POTUS Obama has outside contract worth $100K for teleprompter coach …. (WaTi)
~ TELEGRAPH— The strange death of Osama bin Laden: Why the conspiracy theories matter …. (blogs.telegraph)
~ MICHAEL LEDEEN consults the spirit of James Jesus Angleton and asks a good question: “What if the Killing of Bin Laden Is the Beginning of The Great American Retreat?” …. (classicalvalues)
~ THE PEACE-LOVING DALAI LAMA on bin Laden: “Sometimes a SEAL’s gotta do what a SEAL’s gotta do.” …. (eddriscoll)
~ IDIOTIC White House Can’t Get Its Story Straight on How Osama Bin Laden Was Killed …. (theothermccain)
~ THE MUMMIFIED Joan Rivers Drops F-Bomb on Obama: ‘Stop Campaigning’ and ‘Take Care of the F***ing Country’ …. (breitbart.tv)
~ PEW CENTER STUDY of American Political Attitudes …. (volokh)
~ TAX-GREEDY Obama Administration Considers Plan to Tax Cars by the Mile …. (ace.mu.nu)
~ OBAMA CRUSHING Free Press To Hide Dissent …. (sfgate.com)
~ THE STEALTH H-60 Blackhawk– “Well, now we know why all of us had trouble ID’ing the helicopter that crashed, or was brought down, in the Osama raid.” …. (ghostofaflea)
~ TELEGRAPH: ‘For the public face of the White House to be someone so lacking in gravitas is a PR disaster.’ …. (pajamasmedia)
~ LIBERAL POLICIES put in place by liberal politicians to achieve liberal goals kill thousands of Americans each year. In the past half-century, liberalism may have killed up to 500,000 American citizens …. (orthodoxytoday)
~ LARWYN’S LINKS: The Obama Administration’s cloud of confusion explained; President Obama: We Can’t Release Photos of Bin Laden Lest We Be Perceived as Doing the Icky Shuffle on Bin Laden’s Body …. (directorblue.blog)
~ IS BARACK OBAMA illegally occupying the Oval Office? Corsi’s much-anticipated, much-feared, No. 1 bestseller now in stock! …. (wnd)
~ AS WE WATCHED President Obama tell us Sunday evening of Osama bin Laden’s death, we knew the media would be starting the Mother of all victory laps …. (eddriscoll)
~ THE DANGER in Severing God from America’s Identity …. (orthodoxytoday)
~ LOOKS LIKE SN.. AFU: Revealed: The disagreements and tension in the White House bunker as SEALs closed in on their prey halfway around the world; Obama took SIXTEEN HOURS to make up his mind about Bin Laden mission; Osama bin Laden’s death: Clarifying the Obama administration’s cnofsuoin and missteaks …. (lucianne, latimes)
~ DEMOCRATIC Incompetence Not So Funny In Illinois Where Vendors Are Begging the State to Borrow More So It Can Pay 9-Month Old Invoices …. (directorblue.blog)
~ LEFTIST GARBAGE Disposal Michael Moore: Bin Laden Deserved a Trial, He Was Straight up Executed …. (weaselzippers)
~ 10 MINUTES VS. 16 HOURS— My Pet Goat: You Had To Be There (aka The Awful Truth Liberals Don’t Want to Face: Bush Was Right) …. (mypetjawa)
~ STOSSEL: “In America, we don’t have a free market….” …. (ibloga.blog)
~ RACERS VS. BIRTHERS— “Something still bothers us about the ‘birther’ kerfuffle,” James Taranto writes in his latest “Best of the Web” column. “Why the compulsion on the left to turn it into a racial matter?” …. (pajamasmedia)
~ REP. ALLEN WEST: End Aid to Pakistan …. (theothermccain)
~ VPOTUS DERP— Apparently Oblivious To The Fact It’s Never Admitted, Biden Outs The Navy SEALs …. (weaselzippers)
~ I SUGGESTED that someone ask President Obama what his plan is for bringing down high gasoline prices …. (spectator.org)
~ IN THE NAME of “multiculturalism” we have crammed our cities full of people like Mona Eltahawy, who feel no love or allegiance to this country, but instead cling to their narrowly defined ethnic identities …. (theothermccain)
~ HAR DE HAR HAR— The Palace Guard Comedy Stylings of the Daily Show …. (pajamasmedia)
~ AMERICAN PRIDE is Back Out of the Closet!” And Iowahawk has some fun …. (eddriscoll, iowahawk)
~ ONION NEWS: Obama Befriends Senior Citizen Billionaire Adelia Scott’s In Attempt to Lower National Debt …. (viralfootage)
Jihad
~ AL QAEDA has confirmed that Osama is dead. But of course, they’re all secret Mossad agents anyway, so they WOULD say that; Best of all, Reuters has downgraded Al Qaeda from “murdering terrorists” to “Islamist militants” …. (scaramouche, phantomsoapbox.blog)
~ HIZBALLAH setting up operations in Mexico, near border …. (jihadwatch.org)
~ MASTERMIND Osama bin Laden dead – but no body. Now for an explosion of conspiracy theories; For the US to actually provide Osama bin Ladin’s body with the proper Islamic burrial is not just wrong, it is actively immoral! …. (senseofevents.blog, xanthippa)
~ DID “SON OF HAMAS” AUTHOR Mosab Hassan Yousef dupe the counter-jihad movement? “It sounds as if Mosab Hassan Yousef hasn’t modified his old Hamas views all that much… I am surprised that the Jewish groups that are so earnestly championing his cause don’t seem to have read his book very closely.”; Walid Shoebat Repudiates Mosab Hassan Yousef …. (jihadwatch.org)
~ PUNDITA— U.S. and Pakistani damage control on Rawalpindi’s involvement in terrorism ignores much history; U.S. government goes to lengths to shield Pakistan’s ISI at Rana trial in Chicago. Once again, keep your eye on the USG’s little cat feet; “The devils look the same, no matter the era” …. (pundita.blog)
~ WHETHER BY by accident or design, the manner in which Osama bin Laden was buried signals he was not a Muslim martyr; and Don’t Worry: Osama Was Shot in Accordance with Islamic Tradition; More Muslim backlash against bin Laden’s at-sea burial; osama bin laden is dead …. (senseofevents.blog, PJM, torydrroy)
~ NINA SHEA WARNS— Michigan Muslim Exception to the First Amendment
…. (vladtepesblog)
~ CAROLINE GLICK— Yom HaShoah address at Young Israel of Hillcrest; Competing visions of “Never Again”; Israel’s fabulous judges and an eagle tried to land; Netanyahu’s time to choose; Obama’s altruistic foreign policy …. (carolineglick)
~ DEAD BIN LADEN: The Ultimate Danish Motoon …. (dianawest.net)
~ THE PAKISTANI government should be apologizing. It should be groveling …. (jihadwatch.org)
~ JIHADI BLOODSPORT— Ottoman Muslim troops against Christian villagers, c. 1876 …. (atlasshrugs2000)
~ FUN WITH A Stealth Islamic supremacist summit: Ground Zero mosque Imam Rauf, Reza Aslan speak at UCLA tonight …. (jihadwatch.org)
~ SHEIK YERMAMI— In Islamic Countries, Every Christian is a Hostage …. (sheikyermami.com)
~ THE GOOD GUYS— High School Students Making a Difference – Raising Awareness About Saudi Women’s Rights at the Peters Township High School in Pennsylvania …. (acrobat.com)
~ TERRORIST Hamas mourns bin laden; Hamas condemns the martyrdom of Bin Laden> …. (torydrroy.blog, vladtepesblog)
~ LET`S HEAR your response to the death of Osama bin Laden …. (nationalpost)
~ MEMRI: Preacher Eulogizes Bin Laden at Al-Aqsa Mosque and Warns: Obama Will Soon Be “Hanging from the Gallows,” Next to Bush …. (mypetjawa)
~ SUPREME LEADER: Europe to Experience Islamic Awakening Soon …. (ibloga.blog)
~ STRATFOR: In the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death, one of the things it is important to keep in mind is that jihadism is much bigger than just the al Qaeda core group …. (vladtepesblog)
~ A NORWEGIAN LAMENTS THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF HIS STATE— Oslo’s slow but sure transformation into a city with a foreign majority …. (vladtepesblog)
~ LOOK WHAT Obama adviser thinks about U.S. freedom: Astonishing remarks from presidential aide who admits he could have become terrorist …. (wnd.com)
~ BRUSSEL’S JOURNAL— Osama Bin Laden And The Nemesis Of History; An Obituary And Other Pleasurable Items …. (brusselsjournal.com)
~ ROOM TEMPERATURE REPORT— “Bin Laden believed “his network was strong enough he’d get a heads-up” before any U.S. strike against him.” …. (ibloga.blog)
~ OBAMA – BIN LADEN IS DEAD– LONG LIVE THE MOSLEM BROTHERHOOD! Bin Laden is Dead …. (noiri.blog)
~ A SIGNIFICANT number of teens didn’t know who Osama Bin Laden was until we killed him …. (theothermccain)
~ NIGERIA: Muslim Slaughter of 300 Christians Began With Coordinated Shouts of “Allahu Akbar” From Mosque Loudspeakers Across City …. (weaselzippers)
~ INTERESTING website indeed. Egyptian feminist tries to fight back …. (vladtepesblog)
~ UK ARRESTS 5 in terror alert near nuclear site …. (vladtepesblog)
~ AMANPOUR in 2008: Bin Laden in ‘Nice Comfortable Villa in Pakistan’ …. (breitbart.tv)
~ DENMARK: Non-Muslim convicted for comments on Islam… in his own home …. (creepingsharia)
~ MICHIGAN: Jessica Mokdad shot and Killed by Obsessed Muslim Stepdad to save his “honor” …. (vladtepesblog)
~ U.S. REPORT: al Qaeda plotted against rail sector in 2010 …. (vladtepesblog)
~ MUSLIM BROTHERS sue Fox television network for ‘libel by implication’ …. (creepingsharia)
~ HERE WE GO: “Bin Laden was Zionist puppet…” …. (sheikyermami)
~ THIS LITTLE PIGGY needs all the lipstick in Australia …. (sheikyermami)
~ WHY NOT JUST MOVE the UN Human Rights Council to Syria; and How About a Goldstone Rating System for the UN? …. (claudiarosett)
~ STUPID EFFING INFIDELS! Pakistan: Christian assaulted for condemning both Koran burning and Church assaults …. (teaandpolitics)
~ MAN SENTENCED to life for killing 5 family members. Prosecutors say he was angry they wouldn’t convert to Islam …. (vladtepesblog)
~ JEWS KILLED, Palestinians Thrilled: Where’s the Peace? …. (landmarkreport)
~ BREAKING: Al Qaeda Acknowledges That Osama Is Having Fun With 72 Male Virgins …. (stoptheaclu)
~ IT LOOKS LIKE the widely circulated ‘photo’ of the ‘dead Osama bin Laden’.. is a fake …. (xanthippa)
A Swift Sunrise 