Steynian 484st

Do Some Good

~ ITEM: ”Obama’s Stained Legacy” campaign

~ ITEM: Wonderful! Over $25,000 raised to help conservative blogger Caleb Howe’s family

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We Rats In A Maze

~ ITEM: YOU WILL OBE-E-E-EY! Straight out of an Orwellian horror novel, a mind control program known as “Nudge” being implemented in at least a dozen of our government agencies and departments to control your actions; Meet Obama’s new ‘nudge’ czar; Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink– Behavioral economics— the governing theory of Obama’s nanny state; First Obama, now Cameron embraces ‘nudge theory’

~ ITEM: The “Window” is simply the defining of a narrow “window” of political ideas that the public will find acceptable

The Century of the Self Documentary

~ SINCE THE EARLY part of the 20th century, “Experts” have been working hard to control everybody through advertising, propaganda, government policies– using Freudian notions at first (see the The Century of the Self Documentary above). Theories based on incomplete understanding of human nature are bound to go wrong, but you have to crush a few chickens to make omlettes.. or something like that.

That’s all old news– the latest is behavioural science, distilled into the cuddly-sounding but evil rality of “The Nudge”. After all, American radicals– schooled in Saul Alinsky’s rules for radicals– are all about theory versus reality, and boiling down all the mysterious richness, complexity, and tradition of actual people gathered into societies into “how do we get the rats to choose what we want?

It’s all about compliance, docility, doing what the government and elites want, with a minimum of fuss. Friendly smiley-face totalitarianism. The 20th century dreams of utopia are not dead, but the complete state is ever-more possible and deadly, through technology. It is a horrible hope, a dehumanized society, a domination of the many by the few. “The Nudge” is devilish psychological technology intended to create self-enslaving people. What a tiny-minded puny imagination our would-be masters seem to possess.

Just FYI, type thing. ~

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World War/ Solar Oops?

~ ITEM: Life After An EMP Attack – The American Dream

EMP Bomb Threat Scenario

~ ITEM: Solar flare EMP (electromagnetic pulse)

Expert panel on EMP threat: Electric grid protection urgently needed

Electro Magnetic Pulse Effects & Preparedness

William Forstchen and One Second After

Interview– William Forstchen and One Second After

~ ITEM: SPACE WEATHER

~ ITEM: North Korea Tests ‘Super-EMP’ Nuke; Panama finds missile parts under bags of sugar in North Korean freighter

~ A DISCOUNT WAR could paralyze the U.S. in a matter of seconds, and lead to the death of 90% (about 297 million) of the population within 2 years.

The threat? A high-altitude nuclear strike– three nukes spaced across the U.S.– which would issue an Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP)– like an invisible lighting-strike, only covering a huge area. This doesn’t kill people, but will melt all unprotected electronics, shut down the power grid for years, and knock America off the world stage for generations, if not forever. No electronic or electric power, computers or cellphones, no cars, pumps, air-conditioning, banking– across most of the U.S. = plague, famine, civil chaos, death of the young and old, and the sick, and all the rest. Instant AD900.. except most people have no idea how to live without technology, as our recent ancestors did.

The Sun Is Just Waiting…

A new group has been formed in the U.S. including Frank Gaffney, to try and raise awareness, harden the electrical grid and electronic equipment from devastating EMP or solar events, improve U.S. defences against a possible nuclear missile EMP strike, and make sure the government at national, state, and local levels get prepared. There have been reports and blue-ribbon panels and warnings over the past 10 years and more.. but Washington is politically-driven, not reality-driven.

The sun WILL electro-magnetically smack us at some point, and we have only now to fix ourselves up in preparation, and only ourselves to blame. Some rogue state/ terrorist/ CIA special op gone wrong MAY hit North America or Europe with an EMP-nuke seeking to cripple us, world-economy be damned.

This is only theoretically on Obama’s radar. One possible reason for his ill-advised collaboration with al-Qaeda in Syria is the old appeasement thing, where you hope the alligator will eat you last. He still thinks he’s in control of the world, via charm, brilliance, and a killer golf-score. He’s not, and better Presidents of days gone by would be warning him to lean back on Russia, the Norks, stand up in a friendly by clear way to China, and seek to do the right thing world-wide.

The Talking Head

Sadly, he’s Bush 2.0 with most of the foreign policy, and has no clue or pattern in his head whereby to respond properly to international threats. As a true-red communist, he’s convinced that people are inherently good, will tend to want & do the right thing (given enough regulations and threats), and therefore he’s an innocent abroad in many respects, letting the evil forces in the world grow larger, totalitarianizing American even more, and leaving the forces of good and good will worldwide to languish, fighting alone & leaderless.

Remember: he never did any real-world job, really. A million dollars of Ivy League, then running a foundation, hanging with radical political peeps, and then the story yet to be told of how he and his cronies manufactured a presidency out of nothing. Past presidents ran businesses, served in the military, ran universities, and had real-world skills to deal with real-world people and problems.

Reality Bites

Turning the power off for years and years by solar or nuclear EMP is as real-world as it gets, and unlike other spin-doctored crises to keep people stressed and obedient, this one ends everything for everybody. Mind you, given the dreams of some environmentalists of a small stustainable population, maybe that’s part of a plan, too? I dunno.

Go read the book. Preparedness– for storm, outage, or disaster– is NOT optional. ~

~ ONE SECOND AFTER— The Website, The Book … (onesecondafter.com/)

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Random Binky Linkies

~ THE WRAP-UP: Preview the Extended Edition of ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ … (screencrush.com)

Making Of “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” Full

~ HOW AUDIO BOOKS Got a Second Life.. How They Re-emerged as a Rare Bright Spot in the Publishing Business… (wsj.com)

~ COME UP WITH a password that will take centuries to crack, just by typing & checking it in the password block as suggested … (zerohedge.com)

3 guns for every prepper to consider

~ HOW TO CLEAN Your Computer Screen From The Inside … (lingdao.fr)

The Water was Troubled- acoustic performance
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~ DON’T BE A Dummy: How to Get a Full Workout With Only Dumbells … (artofmanliness.com)

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GreenEcoClimatology

“If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet.”

The Beatles – “Taxman”(alternate version)

~ INSANE SPAIN threatens fines as much as 30 million euros for those who illegally gather sunlight without paying a tax. Compare with the Bible on God’s generousity– “he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.” [ Matthew 5:45 ] … (frontpagemag.com)

~ RUH-ROH! NH utility cuts power from cough up green-taxes, you slaves! ‘EarthSmart Green’ program. Sorry renewable energy freaks. NH is smarter than you thought! … (hoocoodanode.com)

~ THE SUN JUST TRIED to knock civilization back 500 years… Hear Jim Woolsey’s weather report and what we can do to protect our electric infrastructure and country at www.StopEMP.org … (Various)

~ CLIMATE CHANGE DISPATCH— Too bad that “Keystone” isn’t a solar field or a wind farm in the Mojave Desert; Climate Change ‘Experts’: You Should Be Dead By Now; Top Experts Deem Paper Claiming That Warming Leads To Conflict Flawed And Exaggerated; Geoengineering Is Destroying The Ozone Layer; Robert Zubrin’s Merchants Of Despair Reveals Racism And Genocide Cloaked In Green Camouflage; The Next Energy Revolution … (climatechangedispatch.com)

~ THE ENVIRONMENTAL Apocalypse– The liberal billionaire who clamors about sustainability likes progress … (americandigest.org)

~ NORTH POLE Sees Unprecedented July Cold – Arctic Sees Shortest Summer On Record … (climatedepot.com)

~ OIKOPHILIA, Scruton argues, is what emboldens people to make sacrifices for their surrounding environment and neighbour … (blog.acton)

~ THOSE HORRID Wind turbines ARE a human health hazard: the smoking gun … (blogs.telegraph)

~ MISSED US BY THAT MUCH— This Just In: Chunk of Sun Headed Toward Earth at 2 Million Miles an Hour.. it missed us, but might have knocked the splat side of the earth into the pre-electric age for a while; A Nation Forsaken – EMP: The Escalating Threat of an American Catastrophe; It’s Probably Nothing … (ad, HERITAGE, sda)

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Mark Steyn

~ NRO/ STEYN-LAWSUITER Michael Mann Redefines Science– You don’t need “proof” when you have “credible theories”! … (blog.heartland)

~ STEYN ON The US Government’s official list of state sponsors of terrorism … (nationalreview)

~ SAITH EVIL Mark Steyn: “It’s remarkable that not even the Flight 93 memorial and the 9/11 Museum could avoid falling into the hands of the usual empty poseur equivalists like Mr Shulan.” … (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ ON HUGH HEWITT— Mark Steyn On Benghazi and Hideous Beltway Parochialism … (hughhewitt)

~ THE LORDS OF the Transition Team — Our leadership class’s real accomplishment is résumé padding … (nationalreview)

~ STEYN @ NRO— The Shrinking of the National-Security Right; Putting Out the Fire; Somewhere in Waziristan Mullah Omar is thanking Allah that he’s not an unlicensed doe … (nr)

~ BOB HOPE DIED ten years ago. This essay from Mark Steyn’s Passing Parade remains a reader favorite … (steynonline.com)

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Ezra Levant

~ DOES HATE PAY? Ezra Levant doesn’t want to defence a racist group but he does want to defend the ancient legal right of a man being able to write his will how he wishes, not tampered with because of political reasons … (ezralevant.com)

~ WELL DONE, THEN! Queen’s Park Denies Rally Permit To Khomeinist Hate Mongers … (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ EZRA LEVANT looks behind Bernie Farber’s Aboriginal genocide claims and finds that Farber is spreading a grievance culture that will set back Canada’s Aboriginal people … (ezralevant.com)

~ MASS-MURDERER Paul Bernardo and Omar Khadr are both unrepentant murderers so why could Khadr soon be released to cheering crowds … (ezralevant.com)

~ CANADA’S Grievance Mongers: Ezra Rips Holocaust Huckster Bernie “It’s A European Carry-All Not A Purse” Farber A New One! … (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ BIZARRE— Just three weeks after the railway disaster in Lac-Megantic, Que., the Ontario government has decided it’s not “in the public interest” to prosecute railway sabotage in their own province … (ezralevant.com)

~ THE NATPOST’S Barbara Kay speaks with Ezra Levant about the women who bare it all to fight for women who are oppressed by tyrants … (ezralevant.com)

~ IAN LEE & EZRA LEVANT examine how the Transcanada pipeline will create jobs, support national unity and displace OPEC conflict oil … (ezralevant.com)

~ EZRA LEVANT IS still fighting for answers to why Idle No More lawbreakers brazenly got away with the crime of blockading a railway … (ezralevant.com)

~ SABRINA FANG of the American Petroleum Institute joins Ezra Levant to fact-check Obama’s Keystone XL job claims; Nothing to ‘chuckle’ about: Despite what Obama says, Keystone jobs no laughing matter; America’s keystone cop … (ezralevant.com)

~ EZRA LEVANT thinks Israel-Palestine peace talks are currently unnecessary and a distraction from more pressing US foreign policy priorities … (ezralevant.com)

~ NADEEM ESMAIL, director of health policy studies at the Fraser Institute, tells Ezra Levant about the study that puts a price tag on Canada’s “free” healthcare … (ezralevant.com)

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FreeSpeechers

~ KOOTIFIED KATHY— Al Quds update: We’ll still be at Queen’s Park at 3pm today; Talk Radio Watch: Weekly recap with audio highlights; ‘I guess all those years, when we were told that the Holocaust was unique…’; America being run by Fleetwood Mac at this point; ‘Hipster racism’ strikes again?; ‘This song is a perfect example of yet another not racist thing that everyone says is racist…’; ‘Libertarian extraordinaire John Stossel asks the right questions’; Dear Muslims: This is why people don’t like you; The NYT has become ‘a sort of pep talk to the liberal bourgeoisie’; Dear gays — This is why people don’t like you; Last night I googled ‘pressure cooker’ and ‘backpack’; Gavin McInnes: 10 Secrets to Good Conversations … (fivefeetoffury.com)

~ WORLD LEADERS SHOULD unite to end anti-Christian persecution, Vladimir Putin says … (lifesitenews)

~ KEEPING UP APPEARANCES— Yes, Andy Warhol went to Mass every Sunday, but I don’t know about this … (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ CONSERVATIVES: don’t despair of our corrupted, decadent age. Write about it … (blogs.telegraph)

~ MILITANT ADVOCATES of same-sex marriage are classifying Biblical teachings as “hate speech.” Yes, Threats to Religious Liberty Happen Here … (nationalreview.com)

~ THE DELINGPOLE— Twitter wars: another proxy battleground for the future of Western civilisation; Five reasons why the Conservatives deserve to lose the next election; Middle England for wind turbines and expensive energy? Pull the other one … (B.Tel)

~ AN ANALYSIS of the Nicklinson euthanasia decision by the British Court of Appeal … (alexschadenberg.blog)

~ WHEN CULTURAL and political institutions converge to destroy the national fabric … (pjmedia.com)

~ CANADA! What’s in a name? That which we call a Muslim Brotherhood front group by any other name … (barenakedislam.com)

~ ORWELL’S PICNIC— If you know what this painting depicts; Go go Godzilla! I’m confused about atheism; Running off at the keyboard; Today’s musical choice for background noise while I’m working and folding laundry is Eastern Chant; What a pope looks like and says; Attention, Italy. I’d just like to clear up a few things; Welcome to Happy Happy NuChurch; Remember that sense of pervading doom and depression I had at the Conclave? … (anglocath.blog)

~ HATRED IS TERRIBLY IMPORTANT to a certain kind of Leftie, By Daniel Hannan … (blogs.telegraph)

~ USEFUL ATHEISTS— A memo to the Führer … (city-journal.org)

~ ANDREW LAWTON— What did the stroke survivor with heart disease get for Christmas? … (landmarkreport.com)

~ LAURA ROSEN EVIL— This is Steyn at his best-I’m laughing about the micro picture; Gang of 10 men charged with rape, sexual assault and human trafficking; Seriously, what could possibly be wrong with that?; And if you believe that-I’ve got a nice bridge in Brooklyn for you to purchase; These perpetual children will never grow up- their parents have abdicated parenting; This is an incredibly well written article by a very smart Jew who gets it; Heartwarming. May he enjoy many long, healthy years; You cannot make this stuff up; “Turning the other cheek” is not a Jewish value in the way that you might think; Porny-Teacher? E-mailing anyone about this will have no result; Obama is “relishing the opportunity to put into play what the leftists have only dreamed about in faculty lounges for 50 to 75 years”; From the UK: Pedophile drag queen and LGBT pride activist busted by police in sting; America Dying– “the political apparatus and the major cultural institutions have come together to form a monolithic bloc overshadowing and, in effect, controlling the life of a nation” … (endofyourarm.com)

~ DO HOMOSEXUALS EXIST? Or, Where Do We Go From Here? … (chroniclesmagazine.org)

~ THE DANGER of Human Rights Proliferation … (americandigest.org)

~ DAMIAN THOMPSON— The Amish, Jews, Muslims and the future of religion; Parents have a fantastic plan for a free school. Civil servants and developers may squash it. Michael Gove needs to know about this; Has Pope Francis decontaminated the Catholic brand?; Prince George: this name is a tribute to the Queen; Our future king will be free to marry a Roman Catholic. Will he also be allowed to become one? … (blogs.telegraph)

~ ON CANADA— “As I see it, there is a critical difference here: pioneers create, immigrants contribute. Multiculturalism, however, which radically changed the identity of the country, was neither a creation nor a contribution; it “was an experiment imposed from above…whether Canadians wanted it or not.” … (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ AN HISTORIC EVIL— Irish President signs abortion into law: pro-lifers vow legal challenges; Irish senator: If descriptions of abortion ‘were horrific and disgusting‘, what is abortion?; and Ireland’s abortion bill the result of 40 years of bad moral theology: priest/professor … (lifesitenews)

Jews “controlling everything” says Toronto Shia Maulana

~ BLAZING CATFUR— Miklos, who identifies as a queer, feminist and a labour activist; U.S. issue a global travel alert and embassies across ‘the Muslim world’; Man stabbed over alleged Rob Ford crack video; Say, how’s that nuke program coming along?; Progressive Ideals Are No Substitute for Jewish Values; Are all politicians psychopaths, or just Democrats?; Prayer Leader claims “cultural misunderstanding”; the mere fact that he changed his name to “James St. James” indicates that he’s still criminally insane; When Christian churches are desecrated it’s never a hate crime, only “vandalism”; So American labor Unions are basically the Westboro Baptist Church now; Jews “controlling everything” says Toronto Shia Maulana; The post mortem… Horwath wins, Hudak falters; Robert Spencer: Why It May Be Easy for Huma Abedin to Stand by Her Man; Ontario is now in the grip of the same Political Party/Public Service Union alliance that brought Detroit to ruin … (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ THE FICTION OF Gay ‘marriage’ the ‘inevitable’ outcome of the Sexual Revolution, says UK Catholic bishop … (lifesitenews)

~ WHY WAS Derek Fildebrandt told to take down his Canadian flag? … (sunnewsnetwork.ca)

Evil found Adina Spire when she was a young girl,
but she found redemption in music

~ THE IMAGINATIVE CONSERVATIVE— Literature and Transcending Order; The Myth of the Fifties: The Permissive Society; The Purloined Boy: Plato Pottering Around; Roger Sherman: Constitutional Calvinist; A Miracle in Girona: 35,000 Years Back in Time; The Abuse of the Fourteenth Amendment; Yet Beauty Remains: The Story of Romanian Composer-Conductor Adina Spire; Thoughts On Philosophy Lost; Speaking of Bow Ties… and Real Shaving; Mamas don’t let your Babies Grow up to be Soldiers?; Thanatos Syndrome: Life and Death Matters; Can We be Friends? Spirit, Duty & Our Canine Companions … (theimaginativeconservative.org)

~ THE CHILDLESS CITY— It’s hip, it’s entertaining—but where are the families? … (city-journal.org)

~ SOVIET CANUCKISTAN— Politicking In The Classroom Not Acceptable– Unfortunately for Manitoba teachers, some “social studies” curriculum material from the Department of Education looks more like “socialist studies” propaganda … (canadafreepress)

~ THE BOGPAPER— Delingpole on Friday: Why there’s no point arguing with lefties; Weekly RoundUp: 28th July – 3rd August; RGTyler: The Case for Immigration; They Aren’t Feminists – Lady Thatcher Was a Feminist; Russell Taylor: In praise of lads’ mags; Politicians’ Porn Filter goes Tits Up; The Austrian Way: is there a most important form of liberty?; Marx on Monday: US Royal Baby; Enjoy the latest episode of Radio Free Delingpole in which James Delingpole and Dr Tim Stanley talk porn, Eminem, Rodriguez, what to do with Detroit, the Royal Baby Trayvon, and other stuff; Sod the left-right political spectrum, we stand way out here! … (bogpaper.com)

~ ANTI-CHRISTIAN ACT— Christian Shrine Vandalized in Nova Scotia … (cbc.ca)

~ ONE COSMOS— Obama’s Credo: If You Can’t Denounce Reality, What Can You Denounce?; The leftist is either in rebellion against God, and therefore human nature, or against human nature, and therefore God; On WTF?! is Wrong with Man: Hx, Sx, Dx, Rx, Tx; I Am Obama, Destroyer of Slack!; I am not personally a saint. But I am utterly convinced that some people are; I am always struck by the inverse parallels between leftism and legitimate religion … (onecosmos.blog)

~ THE RELIGIOUS LEFT’S Climate of Hate– In the wake of the terrible 2011 shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Jim Wallis of Sojourners was one of many progressive activists to quickly exploit the attack for their own political advantage … (clashdaily.com)

~ DONALD SENSING— How science points toward God; How to secure the nation’s secrets; Who serves in the military? More importantly, why?; How to Successfully Self-Publish a Kindle eBook; And the line in favor of rape in war forms where?; Obama is boring? That is exactly what he wants; Just when I think there is light in the tunnel; No, the North Pole is not melting; Cornell ecologist’s study finds that producing ethanol and biodiesel from corn and other crops is not worth the energy … (senseofevents.blog)

~ ERATOSTHENES— “Are These People Idiots, or Just Criminals?”; Guilt has an amazing power to make mortals unwise; Filner, Weiner and the Fresh Prince; Fossilized ghosts of the Communist past rally against Israel; Smurfs Are Jew-Hating Communists; Self-promoting slime will diminish efforts to get answers about Sammy Yatin’s death; Depressed because no one believes your nutty conspiracy theories? Then have I got the right therapist for you!; Canada’s best known anti-Israel fanatics see the light and boycott Muslim dictatorships?; Champagne Communist … (peekinthewell.net)

~ NOT SO FREE PRESS: U.S. Journalist Fired For Conservative Views … (clashdaily.com)

~ CRAZY PLANET— Iran unveils finger amputating machine for use on thieves; I’ve had worse first dates than this; OOPS: Matt Damon’s Elysium attacks everything Matt Damon stands for; The Toronto Star gets the shakes as its crack dealer ends up in jail … (eyecrazy.blog)

~ GET RELIGION— Round II: The LATimes ignores Supremes, covenant too; Yes or no: This school has a Catholic doctrinal covenant?; The worst religion story of the year; NPR: true tolerance=open marriages; WPost: Virginia law highlights stupidity of home-schooling; Locking the two popes into one flawed news template; The moral (and news) authority of Desmond Tutu; When Planned Parenthood isn’t news (fraud edition) … (getreligion)

~ WIDESPREAD ABORTION Has Caused 300K Breast Cancer Deaths Since Roe … (lifenews)

~ BRIAN LILLEY— About that East-West pipeline; Author of book on Jesus, he’s not what the liberal media claim he is; Canada’s diplomatic corp – very overpaid; Elections Canada says election law does not apply to Liberals; If you need another reason not to vote Liberal, here it is … (lilleyspad)

~ HERE THEY COME— Pedophile support group seeks ‘truth and dignity’ – Want same rights as homosexuals … (lifesitenews)

~ CRISIS MAG— The True Face of “Happy Divorce” is Quite Ugly; How the West Really Lost God: An Interview with Mary Eberstadt; On the Pope’s Remarks about Homosexuality; Privacy and Common Core Curriculum; Islamophilia Epidemica; Holder May Undermine Rule of Law with Challenge to Zimmerman Verdict … (crisismag)

~ CAMPAIGN AIMS to boost Canadians’ plummeting trust in lawyers, but is that even possible? … (nationalpost)

~ AMERICAN DIGEST— Something Wonderful: This Day | This World; For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson; Are You Smarter Than An 8th Grader From 1912? I’m Not.; The Cremains of the Day: Items Still on the Obamatrons’ To-Do List; Pianos In Flight — Good Morning. You’re Welcome; Do Bears Pole Dance In the Woods?; “Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow“; The Resume of Captain Kink; People have talked about a coming “singularity”, where afterwards everything is different; Weiner Roast: It’s Tony’s Turn In the Barrel … (americandigest.org)

~ DAVID WARREN— Chronicles of Zomia; There are food trucks parked along Saint George Street; While we no longer have the advantage of being Christian, in the West, we still have the fading benefit from having been Christian; “Dearth of civil courage” is a phrase from Dietrich Bonhoeffer … (davidwarrenonline.com)

~ MILLIONS OF CHRISTIANS are Caught in The Crossfire of Muslim Wars in Mideast … (unitedpatriotsworldwide)

~ CREATIVE MINORITY REPORT— A Tale of Two Mothers’ Deaths and the Ensuing Reactions; Coddling the Young, Shunning the Old; Hubris. Pro-abort Gubernatorial Candidate Bill Daley Scolds Cardinal George; Gays in UK Sue to Force Churches to Perform Gay Marriage; NC Abortion Clinic Shut Down as “Imminent Threat” to Public; Man Arrested for Vandalizing Statues of Mary and Christ with Red Paint … (creativeminorityreport)

~ ON SEXUAL Orientation, Gender Identity, and Employment Law … (thepublicdiscourse.com)

~ CRANMER BLOG— DUP councillor arrested while Sinn Féin minister walks free; Tony and Barrie Drewitt-Barlow sue the Church of England over gay marriage; Jane Austen on a £10 note – a good choice for a bad reason; There’s only one way to free Bradley Manning … (archbishop-cranmer.blog)

~ WHY U.S. INTERNATIONAL Religious Freedom Policy Fails, by George Weigel, First Things … (FT)

~ BIG BLUE WAVE— “Gee, how is gay marriage going to affect your life?”; Belgium considering recognizing babies born dead before viability; Former APA President: Homosexuals Can Change Their Orientation; Abandoned Baby Given Away on Live TV in Pakistan; Study: Marijuana Use May Lower Work Productivity Over Time; Peter Kreeft on Evangelization; Minimum Wage.. It was never meant to be a living wage … (bigbluewave.ca)

~ WHAT COMES NEXT— British Gay “Couple” to Sue to Force Churches to Host Gay Weddings … (frontpagemag.com)

~ COPYBOOK GODS— Pop Goes the College Bubble; Quebec Is A Distinct Society; Meanwhile in Winnipeg… No comment is possible; Here little libertarian, here’s some pandering just for you; The Most Threatened President?; Excessive red tape is a hidden tax and a silent job killer; Decline in Poverty. Toronto Star Remains Silent … (godscopybook)

~ FIGHTING THE GOOD GUYS? £1 MILLION cost of policing Birmingham EDL rally most expensive ever for West Midlands Police … (expressandstar.com)

~ THE MALKIN: Glenn Beck Was the Victim of a ‘Blatantly Libelous’ ‘Smear Job’ … (theblaze.com)

~ GATES OF VIENNA— Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/2/2013; Islamic “Science” and Other Nonsense; Will Anyone Stop Fjordman?; Fjordman Wins the Anti-Nobel Prize; Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/1/2013; Erik Svensson Hopes for Understanding, Moderation and Balance; No One Gave a Single Thought to Security; The Spitting Professor Hunkers Down; Fjordzilla is rampaging again through the Norwegian press, bringing on the vapors; Mysterious “Vandalism” in South Bay?; When the Lights Go Out and the Music Stops; Living the Outcome of Obama’s Policies … (gatesofvienna.net)

~ ON THE SIDELINES— Conrad Black: America — never an empire … (nationalpost)

~ THE KATE @ SDA— The Sound Of Settled Science; We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans; Justice For Fort Hood Heroes Act; Public Unions vs. The Public; The Company You Keep: Name That Poisson!; Sammy Was Just A Sweet Yoot; Father, Mother and the whiney kid that just wants to spend trillons of dollars; I guess the Mounties are pretty good at getting their man, too; Honey, I Finished The Internet; Phony Scandal- Sources Say CIA Was Moving Guns in Benghazi; “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal“; CTV’s Randomly Selected Eco-Socialist In The Street Interview … (smalldeadanimals)

~ THE NSA KNOWS MUCH MORE Than You Think– In the end, both UPSTREAM and PRISM may be only the tips of a much larger system … (americandigest.org)

~ CANFREEP— Bad News for Blacks: Country’s Financial Picture Spells Their Doom; The Soaring Inspiration of Jack E. and Mark Levin; Obama to Putin: We’ll just see if I have a summit with you, Snowden protector!; Who is Barack Hussein Obama, or is it Barry Soetoro? … (canadafreepress)

~ PLAYING SCARY GAMES— Blurring the line between police officer and soldier: The rise of the warrior cop … (wsj.com)

~ HANOVER GERMANY: ‘Youths’ Jeer Maliciously as Fire Brigade Try to Extinguish Fire in Burning Church … (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ THE DIRTY FACTS— How Hollywood Helped Hitler … (americandigest.org)

~ ACTON BLOG— PowerLinks 08.02.13; Has Foodie Culture Forgotten the Poor?; Women Speak For Themselves: ‘Don’t Insult Our Intelligence’.. that ‘women care more about free birth control than freedom of religion’”; Oikophilia Will Save the World; Pat Robertson, Poverty, and Possibilities; Art needn’t be publicly-funded in order to contribute to the common good; How Church Foreign Aid Programs Make Things Worse … (blog.acton)

~ THE NEW CIVILITY? ‘Why Are Liberals So Rude to the Right?’ … (NROTC)

~ XANFIPPLES— Saturday’s joke; A few philosophical questions for you; When cops turn into robbers; Pat Condell: Who’s afraid of free speech?; Learn Liberty: Baptists and Bootleggers; To Serve, Protect and Terrorize; Walter E. Williams – The Cruel Alternative … (blog.xanthippa)

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Obysmal

~ SHHHHHHH! Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack … (atlasshrugs2000)

~ KINDLY & CARING Obama Administration Threatens Families of Personnel On Ground In Benghazi If They Talk; “If CNN Can Interview Benghazi Massacre Leader – Why Can’t Obama’s FBI?” … (rightwingnews, ulstermanreport)

~ H.M. APPROVES? After Her Extravagant Vacations, The First Lady Is Now Proud of America for the Second Time … (clashdaily.com)

~ GLENN GREEWALD: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have ‘Powerful and Invasive’ Search Tool … (ABC)

~ REMEMBER— The NSA is snooping on everything you do, but Barack Hussein Obama protects the due process rights of al-Qaeda and the Taliban … (barenakedislam.com)

~ GATEWAY PUNDIT— GOP Rep: Obama WH Is Hiding Benghazi Survivors AND CHANGING THEIR NAMES; NY County Fair Uses Obama’s Photo in Dart Game; NYT Sells Boston Globe Fishwrap for 93% Loss; Russian Social Media Giant Vkontakte Offers Edward Snowden a Job; Thugs Chanting “Lee Rigby” Beat English Soldier Bloody; Zimmerman Family Receives Over 400 Death Threats a Minute; It wasn’t that long ago that Obama told Al-Qaeda was on the run … (thegatewaypundit)

~ THE MAKING OF a Monster: Charles Manson’s Childhood … (thedailybeast.com)

~ DOUG ROSS— Illinois State Legislator Demands Military Occupation of Chicago; Larwyn’s Linx: Ted Cruz On Defunding Obamacare and Battling The Entrenched DC Establishment; Top 10 Car Memes That Went Viral Instantly; INTERNS FOR WEINER: Gag Posters Spotted Around Manhattan; Let’s Play “Spot the Recovery“!; THE CLIMATE LIARS: Why would anyone believe a single word out of their mouths?; Larwyn’s Linx: Surprise — IRS Chief Doesn’t Want Obamacare; Here’s your front-line in the War On Women™; While Obama slept and then partied in Vegas, wounded Benghazi hero David Ubben waited 20 hours for help … (directorblue.blog)

~ COVER-UP, WHITEWASH— The CIA has been ordering agents with first-hand, on-the-ground knowledge of Benghazi to keep silent under threat of ‘You will jeopardize your family.’ … (barenakedislam)

~ RADICAL Samantha Power Will Concede US Self-determination to the UN … (centerforsecuritypolicy.org)

~ OBAMA’S CRIMINAL DOJ accuses Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast of Medicaid fraud … (lifesitenews)

~ ED DRISCOLL— Ruling Class Grants Itself ObamaCare Waiver; Two, Two BBCs in One!; Nothing But JournoLists All the Way Down; The desire named streetcar strikes Hawaii; Journalism in the 21st Century: Just Be Quiet, And You’ll Be OK; My unsolicited advice to Anthony Weiner is to drop out of the race for mayor of New York City; Daily Beast: Remain Calm, All Is Well!; Salt Lake Tribune Blood Libels Glenn Beck; Strawman Arguments Burned; World Ends: Women, Children, NYT Editor Hardest Hit; Standing in the Shadows of the Motown Meltdown … (pjmedia.com)

~ MISSILES SMUGGLED & intercepted on North Korean freighter prompt fresh warnings from EMP experts… (centerforsecuritypolicy.org)

~ FORIEGN MISADVENTURES— America’s ‘Dangerous Slide’: On the Wrong Side in the Middle East … (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ CHRIS NAVIN— Conor Friedersdorf At The Atlantic-’The Attack In Benghazi: Worth Investigating After All’; Reuters: ‘Online Education Can Be Good Or Cheap, But Not Both’; Via Althouse: ‘The Fall Of The Creative Class’; Mark Cuban From His Blog: ‘The Coming Meltdown in College Education & Why The Economy Won’t Get Better Any Time Soon’; ‘Why Is Hollywood Dominated By Liberals?’; From Urbanophile: ‘What Detroit’s Bankruptcy Teaches America’; ’The Truce That Could Save American Cities’ And A Few Thoughts; ‘Wonkblog: Obamacare Will Raise Premiums…a Lot’; California: The Golden State ‘The Beholden State’ … ()

~ U.S. TAXES AT WORK— Supporters of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan have been getting U.S. military contracts, and American officials are citing “due process rights” as a reason not to cancel the agreements, according to an independent agency monitoring spending … (creepingsharia)

~ AWKWARD QUESTIONS, MemoryHole Dep’t– Will Obama presidential library house ‘missing’ and ‘scrubbed’ documents? … (hoocoodanode.com)

Memory Hole Office, Untruthing Division

~ THE DESPOT OBAMA— “Obama is planning to bypass congressional Republicans with a surge of executive actions and orders on issues like voting rights, health care, job creation, the economy, climate change and immigration.” … (rightwingnews.com)

~ HMMMMMMM— “The Benghazi attack that resulted in the deaths of 4 Americans was, with almost 100% certainty, a planned prisoner exchange to swap Ambassador Chris Stevens for “The Blind Sheik.” … (dcclothesline)

EMP Attack : The Greatest threat to National Security

~ IRS CHIEF WANTS to Stay Off of Obamacare While Imposing It on Everyone Else; Members Of Congress & Their Staffs Get Special Deal: Gov’t To Pay 75% of Obamacare Cost … (nobama, rightwingnews)

~ ULSTERMAN— why is the Obama government relocating survivors of the Benghazi Massacre and then changing their names?; OUTRAGE! Obama Grants Congress Obamacare Reprieve; “If CNN Can Interview Benghazi Massacre Leader – Why Can’t Obama’s FBI?”; “Obama Is At Two Dozen Scandals And Counting”; Obamanomics – GREAT For The 1% – HORRIBLE For Everyone Else; National “Impeach Obama” Day Set For August 6th; Barack Obama Wants To Lower Taxes So He Can Spend More Money – Yes, You Read That Right … (UM)

~ LIAR, LIAR, PATS-ON-FIRE! House Panel: Yes, Eric Holder Gave Deceptive Testimony While Under Oath … (townhall.com)

~ HILARY ENSUES— DHS NOMINEE INVOLVED IN SCANDAL WITH Mrs. Clinton’s brother? Probe of visa program threatens to sidetrack DHS nomination: did a top Obama administration immigration official improperly help foreign investors obtain U.S. visas? … (washingtonpost)

~ HOW GOOGLE SEARCHES for ‘pressure cookers’ and ‘backpacks’ led the cops to a writer’s door … (theverge.com)

~ AN ANSWER TO WHY Obama Wants to Destroy America … (rightwingnews.com)

~ WHERE’S AL SHARPTON?: Black Man in Hoodie Stabs White Girl 11 Times … (clashdaily.com)

~ HOOCOODANODE w/ Brenda Elliott– Silence Dogood: Consider Mr. ’1%’ Karl Rove’s ill-conceived advice– Can you imagine if George Washington and the Founding Fathers had said, “We don’t need to resist King George, let him impose his taxes, seize our rifles and house troops in our homes, people will see what a scourge he is and his policies will implode on themselves. We don’t need a Revolution, we’ll be blamed for it if it fails and people will hate us.” … (hoocoodanode)

~ THE MIGHTY ACLJ— No, the IRS Did Not Target Progressives Like It Targeted Conservatives; Atheist Intrusion into Church Finances; Trade Privacy Without Gaining Security; Godless Take a Plunge into the Bizzare; Atheists Target Holocaust Memorial … (aclj.org)

Jordan Sekulow on The Blaze: Defunding ObamaCare>

“Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude it, the question “What on earth is he up to now?” will intrude. It lays one’s devotion waste. There is really some excuse for the man who said, “I wish they’d remember that the charge to Peter was Feed my sheep; not Try experiments on my rats, or even, Teach my performing dogs new tricks.”

~ C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer ~

~ YOU WILL OBE-E-E-EY! Straight out of an Orwellian horror novel, a mind control program known as “Nudge” being implemented in at least a dozen of our government agencies and departments to control your actions; Meet Obama’s new ‘nudge’ czar; Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink– Behavioral economics— the governing theory of Obama’s nanny state; First Obama, now Cameron embraces ‘nudge theory’ … (Various)

~ QUEENIE— Empress Hillary, 2016: Hillary will ascend to her rightful position of World Empress. The optics will dazzle us … (americandigest.org)

~ MARK LEVIN ON Explosive CNN Benghazi Report: “It’s Iran-Contra Times a Thousand”; and The CIA is polygraphing its operatives on a regular basis in an “unprecedented” effort to prevent Benghazi secrets from leaking out … (savingtherepublic, theblaze)

~ BELMONT CLUB— The US Ambassador to Australia Debates Australia’s Former Senior Officer in Iraq; If You’re Leaving San Francisco; So how come capitalists are so mean when we can solve all these problems for 68 cents?; The New York Times writes “Al Qaeda in Iraq Scores Big”; Leaks, Intentional Or Otherwise; Perhaps the saddest thing about President Obama’s Middle East peace initiative is how tangential it is; President Obama found the very idea of the Keystone Pipeline funny; Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan are long gone. Barack Obama is new occupant of the White House. Just ask Assad what that means … (richardfernandez)

~ ZZZZZZZZZZ— Republicans are evil, Obama is weak–what a dull narrative that is, and how unsatisfying except as an object of mockery … (americandigest.org)

~ ACE OF SPADES— TGIF News Dump; Top Headline Comments 8-2-13; Update on the Googling ‘Pressure Cooker Bomb’ and ‘Backpack’ Leads to Government Search Story; Strong Content Warning for Profanity and General Terribleness and Extreme Rhubarb Covetousness; He didn’t touch this woman — no headlock, no weird tongue stuff; There is no such thing as electronic privacy. It doesn’t exist. It never did, and anyone who thought it did was living in a fool’s paradise; Beer smells like a sock and makes you pee every hour; Benghazi survivors have been ask-threatened into signing additional Non-Disclosure Agreements about that deadly night; Chattanooga Times Free Fires Editor Over Obama-Hitting Headline; Beta-Male Squish News– Internet’s Foremost Male Feminist Resigns … (ace.mu.nu)

~ THE AMERICAN CAMELS, the scimitar cats, that voted for Obama. You voted for a drink of cool water from a dangerous pit of despair … (americandigest.org)

Jay’s reaction to the “phony scandals”

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Jihad

The Ophel Inscription– 3,000 years old

~ DELIBERATE WRECKING— “Imagine what else archaeologists and historians would have found had the Muslim authorities not systematically destroyed artifacts and historical discoveries in what Natan Sharansky has called the largest archeological catastrophe in history” … (atlasshrugs2000)

~ ACCUSED Fort Hood jihad mass murderer Nidal Hasan renounces U.S. citizenship. Great– ship ‘im to Gitmo … (atlasshrugs2000)

CAUTION: GRAPHIC BEHEADING OF AN EX-MUSLIM CONVERT

~ ATLAS SHRUBS— Another Muslim cabdriver throws a gay couple out of his cab; Want to score points with the Obama regime? Bomb schools, kill teachers, poison girls schools, strap bombs on to children, oppress and torture women, harbor jihad leaders like Osama Bin Laden, – the more the better; Have you noticed how the Saudis post bond for vicious jihadists here in the US?; English Soldier Attacked on the Streets of Exeter by Gang Chanting ‘Lee Rigby’; Secret Thatcher Notes: Kohl Wanted Half of Turks Out of Germany; Daniel Henninger: Obama’s Creeping Authoritarianism; RAMADAN BOMBATHON IN THAILAND– More jihad. It’s chaos in the south of Thailand; Teenage girls sex exploitation: Ten men charged in Coventry; Netanyahu’s Amazing Response To Arab MK Who Said Arabs Were Here; Saudi Woman Attempts Suicide to Avoid Forced Marriage … (atlasshrugs2000)

~ NIDAL HASSAN— They Want Us to Know: “Right there, Nidal Hassan has said openly, in plain English, everything you need to know to understand the enemy’s motivations” … (centerforsecuritypolicy.org)

~ ANDREW BOSTOM— Huma’s 12-Year Editorial Board Stint on Sharia Supremacist Journal; Reza Aslan Fox Interview: Nothing Controversial, Just Another Dishonest Pseudo-Academic; Primer on Islamic Taqiyya (Takiya)—General Features, Not Exclusive to Shiite Islam; Bernard Lewis Served with Huma Abedin & A.O. Nasseef on the IMMA Editorial Board; Diana West on Her Opus, “American Betrayal” … (andrewbostom.org)

~ CREEPING SHARIA— Ohio: Family of pregnant woman raped & killed by Muslim doctor files lawsuit; Beware the man on the white horse; Ohio: Three Muslims arrested in $2 million food stamp fraud; Congress opens with Imam’s prayer; Fort Hood Shooting Suspect Renounces Citizenship; ‘Religion of Peace’ forces US embassies to close in “Muslim world”, worldwide travel alerts; NYPD’s Ray Kelly celebrates Ramadan pandering to Muslims at mosque; Obama ignores ban on Palestinian aid – again, sends $148M to Hamas; New Jersey DHS Director celebrates Ramadan; US releases five Taliban and two Algerian jihadis from Gitmo; FBI ignored warnings about Boston bombers’ radical mosque … (creepingsharia)

~ CITIZEN WARRIOR— Religious Practice Versus Imposition; Can We Stop This Creeping Jihad?; ACT! for America Wins Victories; If you haven’t read the powerful book, Night, by Elie Wiesel, you really should … (citizenwarrior.com)

~ CLOSET REPUBLICAN— Israel A Wound That Needs To Be Removed- Says New Iranian President Rohani; Burqa joke of the day: Halal Saudi Printer; Shia Convert Killed By Brother In Pakistan; Saudi Blogger Gets 7 Years and 600 Lashes for Insulting Islam; ‘Wage Jihad At Home’ Urge Russian Jihadists Fighting In Syria; “Virginity Tests” In Christian Georgia; How Hollywood Helped Hitler and The Nazis – by Ben Urwand … (republicaninthearts.blog)

~ RELIGIOUS favoritism, the result of religious supremacism? … (barenakedislam)

~ BARE NEKKID ISLAM— That’s what you get for allowing Arabs a voice in the Israeli government; The government has tried to deny that this was an act of terrorism; Obama-backed jihadist rebels ban croissants despite their Islam-inspired crescent shape; Pak Police accused of forcing a father and son to rape each other in front of other prisoners; The CIA has been ordering agents with first-hand, on-the-ground knowledge of Benghazi to keep silent under threat of ‘You will jeopardize your family.’; France is considering declaring Marseilles, its second largest city, a ‘NO-GO’ Zone; ‘MUSLIMS GO HOME!” What a great idea, leftists outraged … (barenakedislam.com)

~ TENNESSEE: Islamic Monster Mosque of Murfreesboro leader says, “Enough is enough,” as mosque opponents continue to keep them tied up in court … (barenakedislam.com)