“… Sound historians know that most tyrannies
have been possible because men moved too late.
It is often necessary to resist a tyranny
before it exists.”
~ G.K. Chesterton ~
Cutting (one) Of The Sewer-Pipes
~ ITEM: Why TV is EVIL – simulated reality and brainwashing by repetition
~ ITEM: THE WRITER OF OUR STORY– Divine Providence in The Lord of the Rings, by David Mills
~ ITEM: From the Archives: Godly Hobbits
~ ITEM: Orc (Middle-earth)
~ EVERY FEW MONTHS, they call.. the cable-people. We have interwebs & telephone, but not TV-cable. The cable-people seem very puzzled by this– but I’m not interested in opening the home to 24-7-364 advertising, re-runs, and the sewage which passes for pop culture.
Marshall McLuhan famously said “The medium is the message”– that is, before the shows or ads or flickering images, the TV itself forms us, shapes us, creates a passivity and receptivity and uncritical attitude towards mass-media.
The boob-tube is hypno-sewage. The idiot-box kills yer brain, large amounts of time, steals from book-readage, family-time, daydreaming-time, the outdoors.. life.
The internet is addictively bad, too– but as a blogger, I’m “Talking Back” to the machine, to the mass-media mass-marketing of politics, events, fake crap, spin-messages, lies and laughable nonsense.
A Gift From God
Indeed, I’d say that for all the problems with the web (it reflects human sin & virtue, glory and depravity), that the internet itself is a providential heaven-sent gift, a last gasp of freedom and free speech and an opportunity and duty to speak up, speak out, speak with one another out from under the umbrella of state-control, state supervision and the old-stream media one-message fits all system.
I’m not sure how long the freedom of the internet will be permitted in the West– already social networking companies like Book Of Face are censoring, hiding, and shutting down groups they don’t approve of, or issue-based FaceBook pages which the U.S. regime wants controlled (i.e. gun-control, IRS, PRISM, DOMA, Trayvon, Benghazi, Jihad, etc.).
Now Or Never
While the free peoples of the West may speak out, do so, before it’s too late– the orcs are already here, inside and outside our societies: Tolkein called “orcs” all those who want to create an in human “perfect” TechUtopia of wheels and cogs and circuits and group-think and destruction– all in the name of a dark Sauronic kingdom of control, perfection, fear.
Warning– reality is sometimes unpleasant, depressing, and stark: along with your awakening and fighting, I really think you need faith, and hope, and love. After all, the point of the Lord of The Rings is the point we’ve forgotten, or cast aside, for fear of fanaticism– that God’s Kingdom has come; that his providential hand is over all (Frodo was “meant” to find the Ring); that the true victory over sin, death, and hell has been won in Christ; that even the smallest ones can rule the destiny of many, and change the world (the hobbits), and confound the high powers of darkness.
Hobbit on! ~
The Price Is Right!
~ ITEM: Food for Thought
~ ITEM: The Open Library
Writes G.C. McLoughlin over at Mere Comments:
OPEN LIBRARY: Thanks, in part, to the folks at Open Library, I have a virtually endless supply of Summer (And Fall, and Winter, and Spring) reading material for my e-book. Yes, I know nothing can surpass the sensation of the creamy and comforting page with its lingering scent of vanilla and milk—when I die, I wish to be pressed, like a rose, between two pages of St. John’s Gospel—but there’s good to be found in almost everything—even e-books. (E-books, for those who don’t know, are Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, and Apple’s I-Pad. You can also read e-book files on your desktop PC, about which more below.)
Wicked, Tricksy, False
Unretouched Bilbo
~ ITEM: Frodo Baggins, Now with Digital Botox
~ ITEM: Christopher Tolkien gave his first ever press interview with Le Monde, shedding light on his father’s vision and sharing his own deep dismay with Hobbit director Peter Jackson
~ ITEM: 7 Little-Known Lord of the Rings Facts
~ TOLKIEN HEIR & co-writer son Christopher Tolkien is much displeased (as JRR Tolkien himself would have been) as he has every right to be. On The One Ring fan-blog he’s dismissed as a fuddy-duddy perfectionist jerk… I’d rather say he’s probably a lot like his father, who when the horrid Novus Ordo was used for the first time in his parish, loudly spoke the Latin responses.
Too many modern people consider fantasy and literature as projecting their wonderful elves all over everything; that fantasy is about amorality, anti-Christianity, and Leftist paradise/ disaster/ sex & violence mongering, without connecting things too much to The Real, or The Great Story of the Bible, and The Great Conversation of Western Civilization. You know, everything is just a mirror in which to find our amazing selves, our narrow views, and to ignore what Tolkien or his characters thought and represent and say. How boring and how selfish.
Digitally Retouched Bilbo
But Enough About You
C.S. Lewis once wrote that Christian preacher & fantasy author George MacDonald baptized his imagination– filled his inner mind’s eye and heart with Christian light, via fiction and inspired story-telling: good writing by a Christian, but not directly about Christianity.
Tolkien baptized my imagination; his proto-evangelion, “a profoundly Catholic novel” said he, shone with a greater light than itself; his wisdom and unapologetically Christian mindset is why the novels are great, even the Hobbit, and why Peter Lucas.. er, Jackson, needs to leave well enough alone. Jackson’s the brilliant mind, of course, who says that LOTR saga is mainly about “friendship”.
Finally, In Conclusion
Two last thoughts: (a) I’m very much wishing that Guillermo del Toro had stuck with the project. Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: A Peter Jackson Production by Peter Jackson is very much verging into George Lucas Prequel & Jar Jar Binks territory, and Hobbit 2.0 & 3.0 are very likely to just be more and more awfuller. I fear to even wonder– will Smaug fart? Will Gandalf giggle at juvenile dwarf-jokes? Will we see endless revisitings and piratings of his own scenes, ideas, words, and special-effects from the LOTR trilogy? Will they keep on digitally re-colouring and smoothing everything and everybody?
Sigh. Expectations are low. ~
Random Binky Linkies
~ FAITH & FACTS— King David’s suburban palace unearthed; Take a virtual tour of the Temple Mount … (wnd, biblicalarchaeology.org)
~ LET’S GIVE RICHARD III the last great Gothic tomb in Britain … (telegraph)
Honest Trailers – X-Men Origins: Wolverine
~ IF YOU`VE GONE to the movies recently, you may have felt a strangely familiar feeling: You’ve seen this movie before. Not this exact movie, but some of these exact story beats … (theothermccain.com)
Making-Of
~ DIDN`T KNOW What I Was Missing – How I Became Duck Dynasty’s #1 Fan … (theulstermanreport)
~ GOD SMITES 79 Percent Fewer Men Than He Did in the ‘60s … (slate.com)
~ GLEE SINGER Cory Monteith and the misery of modern celebrity, By Damian Thompson … (blogs.telegraph)
GreenEcoClimatology
~ CHARLES ADLER: Global warming scare is dying … (sunnewsnetwork)
~ FAKING IT— Once again, people described as “leading scientists” turn out to be economists, UN officials, and those with links to activist organizations … (SDA)
~ IN THE GLOBAL-warming scam, this happens all the time: A chicken-little will deliver some snotty monologue about “I’ve learned it is futile to discuss it with…” blah, blah, blah. With big smiles on their faces and with their eyes closed“ … (peekinthewell.net)
~ KING COAL gets a chill as the World Bank tackles global warming … (blogs.telegraph)
~ BUMMER: Satellite Records Still Not Following UN IPCC Prognostication … (rightwingnews.com)
~ DELINGPOLE— Another day, another wind farm scandal: “the National Grid has been secretly forking out millions on diesel-generated power in order to stop the lights going out.. For all those occasions when the wind isn’t blowing” … (telegraph, dailymail)
~ ECO-RADICALS— Once embracing the ‘green revolution’, Elizabeth Nickson experienced the chokehold environmentalists have on us while trying to sell her land. She joins Anthony Furey to explain the outrageous actions of eco-facists … (sunnewsnetwork)
~ BRITAIN— “Our lights will stay on – but it will cost us a fortune: The Government is preparing for energy shortages, but this will mean further hikes in our bills”; and “What is happening, in other words, is that we are being set up for massive price increases. This is damage limitation prior to the event” … (telegraph, eureferendum)
~ INDIA threatens Wind farms with fines … (SDA)
Why The Global Warming Agenda Is Wrong
Mark Steyn
~ CITY DOWN! The Downfall of Detroit — It took only six decades of “progressive” policies to bring a great city to its knees; Detroit: Where Liberalism Goes to Die; and Detroit Rock-Bottom City; Motown’s Greatest Hit Job … (Various)
~ THE MIGHTY Mark Steyn on Terrorist as Celebrity, and “Immigration” Reform … (hughhewitt.com)
~ STEYN ON Honor Killing … (nationalreview)
~ OBJECTION, Your Honor! … (nationalreview)
~ STEYN’S SONG of the Week– Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)? … (steynonline)
Ezra Levant
~ INNOCENCE: Charges against Levin are horrific enough, but how much darker is it that he had a hand in drafting graphic sex lessons for kids?; Sex-ed expert charged with sex crimes against kids … (ezralevant.com)
~ SAINT DAVID SUZUKI slams immigration – Levant and Kenney respond; CBC star’s comments tantamount to looking every new Canadian in the eye and saying, ‘you’re disgusting’ … (blogs.canoe.ca, Ez)
~ TAREK FATAH and Ezra Levant investigate Justin Trudeau’s pandering to groups who support Sharia law and have radical Islamist affiliations … (ezralevant.com)
~ CYBERBULLY bill is a disaster.. a regurge of Section 13 soft-law; Ezra has a warning for those who want to legislate away bullying: it will only create big government bullies … (ezralevant.com)
~ EZRA LEVANT and Greg Renouf discuss the violent, racist idiots of Occupy Toronto … (eyecrazy.blog)
~ THE MEDIA PARTY made a big deal about the Conservative’s “enemy list,” all parties have them but as it turns the most vicious enemy list belongs to the Media Party … (ezralevant.com)
~ ONTARIO WYNNE Liberals beg neighbours for money– Ezra examines Kathleen Wynne’s latest attempt to fix her own problems by grabbing cash from prosperous provinces … (Ez)
~ BEN SHAPIRO joins Ezra to discuss Jenny McCarthy’s ridiculous claim that kids should not be vaccinated … (ezralevant.com)
FreeSpeechers
~ THE SHAIDLE OF EVIL— Talk Radio Watch: Weekly recap of conservative talk radio highlights; Yesterday’s “extreme, racist” opinions are tomorrow’s mainstream news; Yippie-Kay-25th-Birthday, ‘Die Hard’; David Solway: ‘The Snob Factor among Conservatives’; President of National Assoc. of Scholars: Mitch Daniels was right about Howard Zinn; ‘In a healthy society, Sharpton might be on parole now…’; The Weather Underground mentality is now just received liberal wisdom; ‘Everything I Learned in College Was a Lie’; ‘I don’t think I know a guy who was so often empirically wrong’ as Noam Chomsky; And this ‘woman’ differs from a ‘transsexual’ how exactly?; ‘Something tells me an astronaut’s parents never have to inform people that their child is ‘gifted’…’; So basically everyone can go screw themselves; My husband broke the story of Justin Trudeau’s visit with Muslim extremists, by the way … (fivefeetoffury.com)
~ EDUMACATORS as a co-parent? Nonsense! The story of Ben Levin underscores why we need to keep curriculum as simple as possible … (sunnewsnetwork)
Petty Tyrant Harriet Harman
~ A WORLD OF PETTY TYRANTS… “what underlies Ms Harman’s proposal is a belief that the state should have the right to overhaul and reword the constitutions of private associations. Stop and think about what that would mean. It would represent the end of freedom of association in Britain, the end of people’s age-old right to mix in private with whomever they choose” … (blogs.telegraph)
~ WHY MOVIES SUCK— Save the Movie! — The 2005 screenwriting book that’s taken over Hollywood— and made every movie feel the same … (slate.com)
~ HOUNDED GERMAN Homeschooling Family Will Take Their Fight to the Supreme Court … (theblaze.com)
~ CHRISTIAN Evangelist Arrested in London Says He Preached on All Sexual Immorality, Not Just Homosexuality; Student Who Disagrees With Homosexuality Wins Free Speech Lawsuit Against Teacher … (christianpost)
~ BLAZING CATFURZE— Unexplained Fire at Femen HQ in Paris; Scratch an anti-fascist and you’ll find a fascist every time; 11-Year-Old Yemeni Girl Nada Al-Ahdal Flees Home to Avoid Forced Marriage; Instant Death Penalty… Now that’s a campaign poster; WWF Partners With Country Where Rape Victims Are Jailed; Heather Mallick Doesn’t Mention Her Lady Parts Even Once; Nouvelle Rioting By Muslims In France; Is this America?; Thank God it’s Ramadan… 12 killed and wounded; Here Come Evil Zionist Carrots?; Cyberbully bill is a disaster; Losing it in Toulouse; Maybe men and women are different; ABC News Seattle Soils Itself, Goes Rogue; Ontario Human Rights Commission 2012 Sunshine List, Rankings and Analysis; Racist White Supremacist Mother & Daughter rushing child to hospital attack peaceful #justicefortrayvon supporter … (blazingcatfur)
~ PRIVACY: Bill requiring warrants for email searches nears Senate vote … (instapundit)
~ MELANIE PHILLIPS— Pandering Boris’s discriminatory cable-car; The baseless hatred of the EU towards Israel; Hope on the death pathway, but a hole at Britain’s heart; Denial is a river in Londonistan … (melaniephillips.com)
~ JUICY ECUMENISM— A Foreign Policy Lesson from Congressman Gohmert; By Their Fruits: Liberal United Methodist Leader Charged with Sexual Immorality; Federal Judge Grants Crucial Exemption For Hobby Lobby; A Strange But Lasting Marriage; The Westboro Baptist Muzzle; Facepalm Friday – Camp Crossdress … (juicyecumenism.com)
~ PROPAGANDIST— “Progressive” lynch mobs vs. American justice; Affirmative Action, Aquatic Apartheid, and Absurd Accommodating Acts; Smackdown on Cohen’s Smear; Poetic justice for the latest alleged jihadists captured in Canada?; Roger Cohen’s Smear Attack on South African Jews; Fourteen School Girls Killed by Terrorists in Pakistan … (propagandistmag.com)
~ KEEPING EUROCRATS EMPLOYED— “Should the EU have a €622 million aid budget for Mozambique?” … (eureferendum.com)
~ ERATOSTHENES— Pick of the Week; Nick Searcy Apologizes for Chris Matthews; No, You NEVER STARTED Arguing; Most little girls don’t want to play with dump trucks; There are two economic systems fighting each other for supremacy right now; This is fail. Self-induced fail. Mass-produced. That makes it a real problem; You become whoever you watch … (peekinthewell.net)
~ MOOSE & SQUIRREL— The PM wannabe mouthpiece speaks; Platitude for the politically correct and mindnumbingly stupid … (mooseandsquirrel.ca)
~ GHASTLY ROSEN COHEN— Nothing to be concerned about here; Don’t wear the gangster uniform; Entirely Random Observations About Etiquette and Dead Jew Haters; A few million bucks for an ambassadorship seems like a really great deal; The government has urged police to respect Muslims; Mark Steyn responds to Detroit’s exquisite, Democrat sensitivities about their one-party, bloated, union-led and ruined city; I was the affirmative action poster child, and had a white Mom; The past decade also has seen an alarming degree of mission creep for U.S. SWAT teams … (endofyourarm.com)
~ GATES OF VIENNA— News Feed 7/20/2013; Erdogan’s Dilemma & the ongoing uprising; A Night Out for the Youths of Trappes; Fear and Loathing in the City of Westminster; Swedish Firm Fires Raped Norwegian in Dubai; Why Is Obama Trying to Start a Race War?; Eric Holder Meets the Sundance Kid; Are You Demanding a Return to Communist Albania?; Repugnant and Dangerous; From the Standpoint of Eternity … (gatesofvienna.net)
~ PANDERING JUSTIN TRUDEAU— Pro-life youth call out hypocrisy of pro-abortion Trudeau endorsing John Paul II Day … (lifesite)
~ MERCATOR NET— The French establishment has been rattled by the vigour and intelligence of opposition to the new law on same-sex marriage; A book that builds character; Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai has become a symbol of resistance to Taliban terror; Malala’s dreams are up against a rough terrain; It is shameful to use children as front-line troops in political campaigns; Remember Pearl Harbor? The NSA certainly does; What happened in Eastern Europe post-World War II, and why the Communist system was bound to fail … (mercatornet.com)
~ HORRID HILARY WHITE— Christians are the most persecuted group in the world, expert says … (lifesitenews.com)
~ DIRTY EVIL JOOOOZ— “What is most striking about modern-day Israel-bashers is their conviction that Israel is not only a state that sometimes fights wars, like, say, America and Britain does, but more importantly is a state which corrupts global politics” … (blogs.telegraph)
~ COLUMN: Lilley – Turning off the bulb ban … (blogs.canoe.ca)
~ LIFESITE— Pro-life congressman: The steps of the U.S. Capitol are ‘stained with the blood of our own children’; Phil. Medical Examiner: No third party will be given Gosnell victims’ bodies, will be cremated; ‘Heads should roll’: Pro-life leaders react to U.S. Bishops agency’s funding of abortion giant PSI; Women most likely to be sterilized also most likely to regret procedure, study finds; Is the Italian family about to be replaced by The Messianic State?; Therapists: Ask Chris Christie to veto reparative therapy ban; Baby declared dead ‘comes back to life’ after being placed on chapel altar … (lifesitenews.com)
~ ALEX SCHADENBERG, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Euthanasia Holocaust, Not About Nazis … (alexschadenberg.blog)
~ HAIRY COOTIFIED MARK SHEA— America accelerates its transmogrification into a surveillance state ruled by unelected and unaccountable tyrants; Do a Vital Work of Mercy for a Poor Family with a New Baby Whose Mom has Breast Cancer; If you have a couple of hours and love Tolkien; Seattle: Epicenter of Leftist Pieties and Hypocrisy … (patheos.com)
~ BRITAIN GOES MAD— Gay Marriage Officially Legal in Britain as Queen Gives Royal Approval to New Same-Sex Marriage Law … (christianpost, telegraph)
~ CRAZY PLANET— Nick Cage knows what you think of him; UNESCO’s Grotesque Embrace of Che Guevara; GM is so afraid of Tesla it has assembled a special team to keep an eye on the electric car company; Like trying to get the turkeys to vote for Thanksgiving; How to determine if someone is a moron: a) they take Alice Walker seriously; Glorifying the worst: Upcoming Rolling Stone covers; Paul Krugman’s Nasty and Inane Attack on ‘Libertarian Populism’ … (eyecrazy.blog)
~ HILARY WHITE OF EVIL— Is the Italian family about to be replaced by The Messianic State?; and Withstanding Christian Civilisational Collapse Disorder … (lifesite)
~ MERE COMMENTS— From the Archives: Growing Up Baptist among Catholics; A Plague of Insomnia Leads to Amnesia; Mere Links 07.19.13; From the Archives: Return to Beauty; The Mill of God’s Justice Grinds Slowly, But Exceedingly Fine; On Oscar Wilde & Orson Scott Card … (merecomments)
~ STAND YOUR GROUND— Eco-Zealots and Fred Phelps Sect – So Much Alike; 40 Days For Life Webcast – July 16, 2013; Lac-Megantic Mother Saved By Unborn Child … (forlifeandfamily.blog)
~ THE IMAGINATIVE CONSERVATIVE— Story Telling & Judgment: Cultivating the Imagination; Philipp von Boeselager: Remembering the Plot Against Hitler; The Novels of G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis; Edmund Burke and the American Nation; The Young Man’s Guide to Building a House; Rehabilitating the Liberal Arts; The Christian Response by Hans Urs von Balthasar; Ainulindale: Music of Creation in Tolkien; Five More Movies That Every Conservative Should See; Saving Liberal Education from the “Humanities” … (theimaginativeconservative.org)
~ THE DUMB-HEAD MCJ— This is where blue governance has brought Detroit in the end; “I’ll bet it would be cool to live alone again.”; African-American man screws up the narrative; I can remember when Amazon.com only sold books; I didn’t really want to comment on the George Zimmerman controversy; If the darkness doesn’t claim this kid too early, you’re going to hear a lot from her down the road; The moral depravity of abortion enthusiasm; Some of you seem to have badly hurt the feelings of particularly clueless hipster douchebag Ben Sherman; The US Justice Department spent tax dollars to organize demonstrations against an American citizen; From your fingers to God’s ear, Ben; Responding to this question regarding the recent homosexual marriage rulings … (themcj.com)
~ SOCONVIVIUM— Introducing our children to the abortion issue; The importance of accessing abortion stats; Blogger takes Ontario government to court over suppression of abortion information; A Toronto Indy post on a pro-life website?; Defending feminism (that is, the right kind of feminism) … (theinterim.com)
~ ACLU USES DOMA RULING TO WIN IN FEDERAL COURT— 1st victory in new strategy to take same-sex marriage battle to states; and More fallout from DOMA decision: House Legal Advisory withdraws from lawsuit protecting marriage … (wnd, lifesite)
~ THE ONTARIO Human Rights Commission is finally tackling an issue I’ve been warning about for years: employers’ bogus demand that job applicants have “Canadian job experience” … (wernerpatels.com)
~ THE FIRST FREEDOM— Eight Iranian Christians received heavy jail sentences on Tuesday (July 16) after being found guilty of “action against the national security”; Christians Flee Villages in Egypt’s North Sinai after Terrifying Murders … (morningstarnews.org)
~ SOBERING THOUGHTS— I find the the buy local mentality to be a particularly pernicious form of bigotry; The IRS scandal has legs; Is Pierre Poilievre the Pete Campbell of Canadian politics?; George Zimmerman’s favourable/unfavourable ratings better than Al Sharpton’s; “This day an eerie silence fell on American journalism’s attic.”; Al Sharpton is the Herpes of race hucksterism the civil rights movement; If Obama had a city … (ST)
Pat Condell: A word to left-wing students
~ WINTERY KNIGGIT— J. Warner Wallace: the difference between murder and killing in the Bible; Is the root cause of crime poverty or fatherlessness?; Rasmussen poll finds that men are more pro-life than women; Miriam Grossman: a brief history of sex education; Which of the moral rules in the Old Testament are still binding on Christians?; New report exposes NHS socialized medicine as an unmitigated disaster; DOJ won’t prosecute government officials for flagrant lawbreaking unauthorized access of tax records; How brief was the period in which the Cambrian phyla suddenly appeared?; Greg Koukl: six things you have to believe to be a Christian; Panama seizes shipment of missile guidance equipment from Cuba bound for North Korea; Bro-Choice: understanding the motivations of the pro-choice man-child; Teen heroes rescue abducted child in Lancaster, Pennsylvania … (winteryknight)
~ ADVOCACY FOR Gay Marriage Should Lead to More Freedom, Not More Government Control– Requests for tolerance must not become demands for approval… (reason.com)
~ NUISANCE-WATCH: Why Do We Kill the Handicapped? Out of Selfishness, Not Compassion … (lifenews.com)
~ ‘GAY’ LAWS SET STAGE FOR PEDOPHILIA ‘RIGHTS’— Psychologist claims ‘minor-attracted persons’ normal as heterosexuals … (wnd)
~ VDH’S PRIVATE PAPERS— Race-Industry Leeches; Syria’s Graphic Beheading Videos; Crucified Again — Venn Institute Interviews Raymond Ibrahim … (victorhanson.com)
~ GET RELIGION— Some RNS cheerleading for gay marriage; About God and that best/frequent/satisfying sex report; The AP discovers the Christian hipster pastor; Intrigue in the wide, wide world of the religion-news beat?; Nice art (but few facts) about Baltimore Carmel nuns; Pope says retweets spring the soul!; Boy Scouts: Hollywood vs. some vague army of Americans … (getreligion)
~ OCCUPY TORONTO Features Calls for Forming Taliban, Killing White People … (frontpagemag.com)
~ TRUTH— Fear: The Greatest Threat To Free Speech … (instapundit)
~ SMALL DEAD ANIMALS— “An honest conversation about race? Bring it on.”; Helen Thomas, Dead At 92; Free Big Meany!; Detroit: The Dictionary Definition of “Progressivism“; If Zimmerman wanted Obama to leave him alone, he should have just killed a US ambassador; White Parents, It’s No Longer Safe to Let Your Teenage Sons Outside!; Indeed, it was a climactic moment; The chief counsel of the IRS is one of only two Obama political appointees in the entire agency; Why would anyone be surprised when their own government proves not to be a friend … (smalldeadanimals.com)
~ PEASANTS’ RIGHTS: the latest attack on the universality of human rights … (blog.unwatch.org)
~ “DECISION”— The Supreme Court recently decided that the Defense of Marriage Act was illegitimate because a majority of the unelected lawyer-judges on the bench decided that they didn’t like it … (sultanknish.blog)
~ CANADIA— Defined benefit pension plans threaten to undermine the finances of governments – and taxpayers, too. You know, because unlike many of the immigrants of past generations brouunght in to replace our missing, killed, or prevented babies, lots of the current ones are net drains on the social safety-net … (sunnews)
~ PROWOMAN PROLIFE— I want to see you at the symposium!; Someone else in West Virginia is Pro-woman, Pro-life; “Congratulations, you’ve just affirmed her right to choose”; Celebrate good news from Texas; Blogger takes Ontario Gov’t to court over abortion statistics; Friends don’t let friends publish angry rants; A good ruling for pro-lifers and freedom of speech; Since we’re thinking about the Irish and Canadian governments … (prowomanprolife.ca)
~ THE RACISMS! — Twitter Explodes With Vulgar Racial Epithets Towards Bill Cosby and Charles Barkley … (newsbusters)
~ TODD STARNES – Why Did Facebook Block Kirk Cameron’s New Movie? … (townhall.com)
~ BLOGMOCRATS— Aurora “No More Names” Protest; We may as well get something for our money; Palooka Of The Month: July’s Winner, John McCain; Angela Corey’s disturbing past, and a real life Atticus Finch; Darrell Issa- selling the American people out for whatever he can; Let the Generational Fight Begin!; “No woman is safe in a cab” in Britain; Propaganda 101: Part 2- Rewriting History … (theblogmocracy.com)
~ SCARAMOUCHE— FYI: It’s Mid-Summer Break Time!; A Face You Won’t See on the Cover of the Rolling Stone; Kerry Cites Israel-Palestinian Issue as “Core” Reason for Mideast “Instability”; How Did the Muslim Brotherhood Mess Up So Fast in Egypt?; “I Really Just Want to Throw Up“; Al Jazeera’s Purported Neutrality Evaporates; Fighting “Racism” With Jew-Hate; In Other “My Dinner With Justin” News; Reason Enough for Justin Trudeau NOT to Speak at ISNA Canada’s Iftar Dinner; Obama Siccs His DOJ on Zimmerman; Samantha Power’s “Astoundingly Ignorant and Malicious” World View; THIS is Pedagogy at Ben Levin’s OISE? Oy Vey!; Kathleen Wynne Shocked–SHOCKED!–By Allegations That Her Former Deputy Min of Ed Has a Penchant for Kiddie Porn, Claims He Had NOTHING to Do With Crafting Notorious Sex-Ed Curriculum … (scaramouchee.blog)
~ DANIEL HANNAN— Statism is turning America into Detroit – Ayn Rand’s Starnesville come to life; and “Detroit bankruptcy – this is what happens if you vote Democrat for 51 years” … (blogs.telegraph)
~ PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS— Pro-Morsi backlash turns deadly for some Christian communities; Archbishop of Canterbury and UK Foreign Office Minister alerted to need of Syrian Christians; Iran convicts six Christian converts … (worldwatchmonitor.org)
~ ORWELL’S PICNIC— Coffee experiment; It’s making me feel very sophisticated and European, kinda like an existential novel from the 1930s; A hymn to NewChurch; Finally, something about this papacy that is filling me with hope; Don’t drink Coke!; Conversion, not so fun, actually … (anglocath.blog)
~ JOURNALIST HIT?– Eye Witness to Michael Hastings Murder Says Body Not Charred Beyond Recognition … (infowars.com)
~ THEODORE DALRYMPLE— “Is a taste for graveyards and cemeteries morbid? If so, I have been morbid for most of my life, since about the age of twelve when I first developed it. For me, cemeteries are like bookshops: I cannot pass them without entering, though I usually leave the latter with a purchase and the former only with my thoughts and emotions … (newenglishreview)
~ SHOCKA! The Atlantic: Look! Pro-Life Women Exist … (newsbusters)
~ ROGER KIMBALL— “Did former governor, now university president, Mitch Daniels seek to censor the late Howard Zinn, a Communist prof who wrote the anti-American bestseller A People’s History of the United States?” … (pjmedia.com)
~ THE PEOPLES CUBE— Iran Demands Social Justice for Trayvon, Stoning Zimmerman; Circuit Inquisitor Protects the Workers of Debtroit; Chicago Police to Deliver Letters to Stop Gun Violence; President Obama Breaks Silence on Zimmerman Verdict; “Socialism in one city!” goes bankrupt; Who Are You…; Charles Barkley for Rooster Intelligentsia! [or Trayvoning.]; Destroy Everything!… For Trayvon; Rachel Goes To College; Socialism to Boost Baby Quotas … (thepeoplescube)
~ MO’ SHAIDLE— When Educators Wind Up Incarcerated; Don’t Tug on Lucifer’s Cape; Alec Baldwin Sticks His Foot up His Ass Again; It’s the Fertility, Stupid … (takimag)
~ SULTAN KNISH— Forty-four years ago, a nation that we now know was racist, didn’t care; Friday Afternoon Roundup – I Am Not Trayvon Martin; The Shawarma Republics are Burning; When everything else is in doubt, racism isn’t. It can’t be. It’s become the anti-weather, the thing we discuss because everyone knows that it exists and everyone knows that everyone is racist … (sultanknish.blog)
~ THE PUNDITA— America is becoming a police state. What’s the solution?; Pundita breaks her New Year’s resolution to be nice; India’s Arvind Kejriwal, America’s Edward Snowden … (pundita.blog)
~ XANTHIPPA— The Truth About Gun Control; Modern Society & Overcriminilization; Pat Condell: A word to left-wing students; Hubble finds a new Neptune moon … (xanthippa)
Obysmal
AFTERBURNER w/ BILL WHITTLE: A Lynching
~ BREITBART— Obama said he had experienced racial profiling personally … (breitbart.com)
~ BEHOLD THE FRUIT— The Obama Economic Legacy: Gas Prices UP, Growth DOWN, Middle Class DESTROYED … (theulstermanreport.com)
~ ANCHORESS— Obama’s Speech: Cynical Me and Cynical He … (theanchoress)
~ MICH. JUDGE RULES DETROIT BANKRUPTCY UNCONSTITUTIONAL— Filing is a violation of the state’s constitution and that it fails to “honor” President Barack Obama who “took (Detroit’s auto companies) out of bankruptcy.” … (theblaze.com)
~ TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 73 … (instapundit)
~ SHHHHHHHH! — HHS Admits: You Might Not Be Able to Keep Your Doctor Under Obamacare..; In Indiana, Individual Health Insurance to Cost 72% More Due to Obamacare. Saith Binks– So: not cheaper, lose your doctor, not necessarily transferable.. did anything he claimed about it turn out to be true? … (weeklystandard)
~ TALKLEFT: “Not once did he express any empathy for George Zimmerman, the man who was acquitted who spent the past 16 months under the cloud of criminal charges, and who continues to have a target on his back.” … (instapundit)
~ MICHAEL COREN— Justice is colour blind: In the Martin-Zimmerman case, an innocent man walked … (sunnewsnetwork.ca)
~ TRANSPARENCY: Secret Court that Swears it Isn’t a Rubber Stamp Rubber-stamps NSA Telephone Snooping Program … (instapundit)
~ PROTEIN WISDOM— “She sure shouldn’t be going to the press.”; Obama’s hoodie moment — “Coulda been me” and the real agenda; Hobby Lobby wins injunction against HHS mandate; “McCain: I Don’t Know How Many Passports We Let You Forge”; A message from the Senate Conservatives Fund; GOP ready to offer “revenue enhancements”; Jesse Jackson: Florida is “an apartheid state”; Detroit goes bankrupt: Michael Moore blames guns, Bush, racism, and a dogged refusal by Americans to embrace Castro; Obama Admin forces Benghazi survivors to sign non-disclosure agreements … (proteinwisdom.com)
~ OBAMACARE HAS DOCTORS PLANNING EXIT— 60% say many physicians will retire from medicine early within next 3 years … (wnd.com)
~ SAITH OTHER LIMBAUGH— It’s Time for Obama to Live Up to His Post-racial Promise; Krauthammer: Obama ‘Reinjected’ Race Into Zimmerman Controversy; and Malkin Column: Eric Holder’s Stand Your Ground Squirrel … (newsbusters.org)
~ WASHINGTON — The investigation into the IRS practice of targeting conservative groups moved one step closer to the White House today … (wnd.com)
~ DELINGPOLE— Would Zimmerman have walked if he’d been blond, white and Anglo Saxon? … (jamesdelingpole)
~ DETROIT’S BANKRUPTCY didn’t happen overnight – and it didn’t have to happen … (reason.com)
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~ CLAIM: OBAMA HID ‘GAY LIFE’ TO BECOME PRESIDENT— Chicago homosexual community shocked he could keep it secret … (wnd.com)
~ WEAZEL-ZIPPERS— Sharpton Plans Trayvon Martin Rallies Across Country; Pakistani Clerics Ban Women From Shopping Without Male Escort For “Spreading Vulgarity; NYC Mayoral Candidate Anthony Weiner Takes Al Jazeera Cash; Congressional Black Caucus Members Support Jesse Jackson’s Threat To Boycott Florida Over Zimmerman; Woman Scams Almost Half Million By Claiming To Be Boston Bombing Victim; Anti-Semitic White House Reporter Helen Thomas Dead At 92; High Number Of Chicago Killings? Illinois Dem State Rep: Maybe The Police Are Doing It; Journalist For Progressive Publication Salon Asks If Eric Holder Is Obama’s “Inner Nigger”; Former Tea Party Senate Candidate Christine O’Donnell Had Her Tax Records “Improperly Accessed”; Health Care Premiums Jump Almost $2,000 Since Obamacare Passed; Obama To Detroit: Drop Dead … (weaselzippers)
~ AMERICA HEADING for all kinds of marital Detroit– Marriage Rate Lowest in a Century; The Six Sirens of the Sexual Apocalypse … (heartiste)
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~ DETROIT BANKRUPTCY Likely to Spark a Pension Brawl– Filing Will be a Test Case of How Far a City Can Go in Shedding Retiree Costs.. “Retiree Costs” being smarmy-words for already paid monies pre-spent by the Detroit corruptocracy to save the sinking ship: “Of the city’s $18 billion in long-term liabilities, $3.5 billion is now owed to city pensions, while another $6.4 billion is owed to fund other employee benefits, largely retiree health care” … (wsj.com)
~ GOOD GAWD… Barack Obama’s “All About Me” Statement On Trayvon Martin … (theulstermanreport.com)
~ A BOMBSHELL in the IRS Scandal.. No, it wasn’t confined to a few rogue workers in Cincinnati … (wsj.com)
“Using automated scanners, law enforcement agencies across the country have amassed millions of digital records on the location and movement of every vehicle with a license plate, according to a study published Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.”
~ PHANTOM SOAPBOX— Obama unhappy with Traaaaayvon rioters; US Cops are tracking your car too. Punks rioting anyway; Microsoft researchers can predict your physical location in the future; the US government just repealed a very interesting law at a very interesting time; Dear Media Party: The love affair is over, we want our keys back; Electronic medical records: the ultimate bad idea; Looks like Barack “Die Auserwählte” Obama is turning to the Stasi’s Big Book of Instructions for his new security policy … (phantomsoapbox.blog)
~ HOOCOODANODE— Race Baiters Damage Legacy of Sanford, Florida’s Black History … (hoocoodanode.com)
~ UBER-SCARY Samantha Power’s Nomination Hearing: Video & Transcript … (blog.unwatch.org)
~ VERRRY INTERESTING— FAA warns public against shooting guns at drones; Drafting a bill to issue drone hunting permits … (yahoo, lady-patriots)
~ ULSTERMAN— Obama DOJ Tells Zimmerman – YOU DON’T GET YOU GUN BACK – TO HELL WITH FLORIDA LAW; BREAKING – Obama DOJ “Trolling for Tips” To Use Against Zimmerman … (theulstermanreport.com)
~ SCRAPPLEFACE— Obama Clarifies Detroit Bankruptcy Prevention Pledge; Obama Defends NSA Program Tracking Social ‘Selfies’; Obama Proud of NBA Player Coming Out as Brony … (scrappleface.com)
~ POWERLINE— The bankruptcy of the city of Detroit is a warning and portent; the “Justice for Trayvon” rallies that were held in various cities today didn’t amount to much; President Obama’s little speech about the Trayvon Martin matter seemed to have two purposes; Iran’s foreign ministry on Friday criticized the acquittal of George Zimmerman and chastised the United States for widespread “racial discrimination.”; Detroit is bankrupt, Obamacare continues to crumble, and our national security challenges remain a festering mess, and Obama decides he has to talk about . . . Trayvon Martin; climate change has been happening for millions of years, and will continue for as long as the Earth exists; The IRS scandal reached the IRS Office of the Chief Counsel this week … (powerlineblog.com)
~ GATEWAY PUNDIT— Now That Barack Obama Lectured Us on Trayvon Martin Will He Talk About Marley Lion?; Obama Will Bail Out Detroit ‘Over My Dead Body’ (Video); FOUR DEAD, NINE WOUNDED After Chicago Trayvon Rally; Muslims Riot in Paris Suburb Over Right to Wear Islamic Veil; Jay Carney Says Amnesty Will ‘Increase Wages’, Media Laughs at Him; Allen West Responds to Obama: Be Respectful to People – They Won’t Lock Their Doors … (thegatewaypundit.com)
~ IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES: THE CASE FOR REMOVING BARACK OBAMA FROM OFFICE … (wnd)
~ NEW MOVEMENT IGNITES TO IMPEACH OBAMA— Protests on freeway overpasses demand action now … (wnd.com)
~ THE OTHER McCAIN— Also, You’re Not Cynical Enough; And Then, Inexplicably, the Villain Decides to Deliver an Arrogant Lecture; News Link-O-Rama; Remember when people told us that the Internet was a magical instrument that would enlighten the masses?; Deranged Cyberstalker Bill Schmalfeldt Continues His Obsessive Cyberstalking; Former Disney Child Starlet News; Angela Corey Should Be Fired, Disbarred, Imprisoned and Sued Into Bankruptcy; Politician of Unknown Partisan Affiliation Is a Notorious Serial Sexual Harasser; Ask yourself this: Why did George Zimmerman think Trayvon looked “suspicious,” “up to no good,” “on drugs or something”?; “Run, Trayvon! Dat creepy-ass cracker gonna rape you!” — and all the “liberals” react as if this were the apex of wisdom … (theothermccain.com)
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~ EL PRESIDENTA Hillary Clinton Launches Presidential Campaign…Sort Of… (theulstermanreport)
~ DEFIANT HOBBY LOBBEY Wins Injunction Stopping Enforcement of HHS Mandate … (lifenews)
~ ANTHONY FUREY says cities need to reduce their debt and shake off union control or they will end bankrupt just like Detroit; Steven Crowder explains how liberal policies lead to the failure of Detroit … (sunnewsnetwork.ca)
Jihad
~ FUN WITH SLAVERY— Slavery in America, Saudi-Style … (rightwingnews)
~ IT’S A TREND— How 100,000 Britons have chosen to become Muslim… and average convert is 27-year-old white woman … (.dailymail.co.uk)
Muslim vs. Islamist
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~ NEWSBUSTERS— Bozell Column: Terrorist Rocks Rolling Stone; MSNBC’s Hayes Suggests He Defended Rolling Stone Cover Because Michelle Malkin Attacked It … (newsbusters.org)
~ RECENT SIOTW— The Polish Defence League’s warning to Muslims; The Horrors of Child Marriage in Niger; Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks; Muslim prisoners threaten to stab inmates who eat pork … (siotw.org)
~ JAWA REPORT— French Riots: Muslim Tries To Strangle Police Officer; Interior Minister Calls On Police To.. Respect Muslims; Pot, kettle, black. Any system without due process would have convicted him; BTW, if you don’t want to spread a ridiculous, unsubstantiated rumor, then maybe you shouldn’t, um, SPREAD IT!; You thought Underwear Bomb I was bad news, wait until you see Underwear Bomb II: Electric Bugaloo; Is Obama swatting the fly away, or is the fly swatting Obama away?; I think I need Rachel Jeantel to translate this for me; Doesn’t jihad just mean peaceful inner struggle?; Gang Rapist in Australia Pleads the “She Wasn’t Wearing a Headscarf” Defense; Alice Walker Blames Travon Martin’s Death on Sleestak … (mypetjawa)
~ UN-WATCH BLOG— “No such thing as Islamic terrorism,” delegate tells UN confab on religious sensitivities; The Council’s silence on the tragic events in Egypt … (blog.unwatch.org)
~ FREEDOM-LOVING Saudi Arabia: Man is selling his castrated black African slave on Facebook … (iranaware.com)
~ AUSSIE Commonwealth Government: To Ban halal certification in Australia … (change.org)
~ THE VILE VLAD TEPES— More from Trappes France; China’s Beijing airport hit in blast protest; Links and news for July 20 2013; Muslims ambush police in Trapes; Time to Wise Up to the Muslim Brotherhood; Rescue workers were reportedly pelted with stones and thieves stole personal belongings from the victims; Indonesia: Muslims force closure of 17 churches; Allah is my Lawyer and if you do not release me, he will send a flood … (vladtepesblog.com)
~ SCOTS GONE MAD— Imported Algerian rapist Hamadache Hamza won praise from a judge as he was jailed for a savage attack on a woman in Glasgow yesterday – for overcoming a “difficult background” and setting up a business … (britainfirst.org)
~ ENJOYABLE Egypt: Coptic Priest Forced To Flee Church After 500 Islamists Attack… (Wz)
~ LOVELY LIBYA: Women covering themselves up to play football isn’t good enough for Islamists. They don’t want to see women in public at all … (bloomberg.com)
US DHS Joins Muslim Brotherhood Sharia Law in the US
~ DAS AUTO-B-Q = Germany: Muslims Riot In Hamburg, Police Blame.. the Muslims who actually burnt the vehicles Failed Immigration Policies … (midnightwatcher)
O, The Infidel Tiny Cars!
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