It’s Monday, June 13th, 2016…but before we begin, though we truly regret politicizing the Orlando massacre, as usual, The Dear Misleader’s already beaten us to it; and we cannot allow his misleading comments on the slaughter to go unchallenged:
“We know enough to say this was an act of terror and an act of hate.” The FBI is on the scene in Orlando along with law enforcement. They’ve “reached no definitive judgment,” but are sparing no effort to learn all the facts.What is clear, Obama said, is that the shooter was a person “filled with hatred.”
It’s an especially heartbreaking day, he said, for lesbians, gays, and those identify as transgender. Pulse, the gay nightclub where the gunman opened fire, was more than a nightclub, the president said. It’s a “place of solidarity and empowerment.” “This is a sobering reminder that attacks on any American is an attack on all of us,” he added. “No act of hate or terror will ever change who we are or the values that makes us Americans.
Obama also referenced the weapons the gunman used to commit his crime, lamenting how “easy it is” for someone to get their hands on a weapon in America to shoot up a movie theater, school, night club, etc. “We have to decide if that’s the kind of country we want to be,” Obama concluded.
…“May God continue to watch over this country,” he said.
Not to beat a dead horse, but isn’t this the clown who claimed:
No matter; like Joe Isuzu…
Second, just so we’re on the same page here, BO: “We know enough to say this was an act of terror and an act of hate”, yet the FBI has “reached no definitive judgment”. Which is it?
Third, anyone care to consider what might have happened had several of Pulse’s patrons been packing?!? No, Mr. President; guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens have never been, nor ever will be the problem…except for the likes of you! And did you ever stop to consider the terrorist acted stupidly? He could have taken everyone in the club out had he chosen an easily-constructed suicide vest rather than a handgun and your “powerful” assault rifle.
Fourth, Americans have decided what kind of country we want to be, and it’s definitely NOT the same place Barry envisions. A solid majority of our fellow U.S. citizens believe in the individual right to bear arms guaranteed us under the 2nd Amendment…and prefer Obama focus on eradicating Islamic extremism rather than curtailing their Constitutional rights.
Lastly, we don’t know what holy book Barry reads (we personally believe he knows the Koran far better than the Bible), but the God with which we’re familiar will only be watching over a country where gay nightclubs are places of “solidarity and empowerment” if he’s deciding when to pull the proverbial trigger.
“The gunman who murdered at least 50 people in a Florida nightclub early Sunday morning was a follower of a controversial gang leader-turned-bank robber who was released from prison last year despite warnings from prosecutors that he would recruit people to carry out violent acts, sources told FoxNews.com.
Omar Mateen, whose bloody siege inside a packed Orlando gay nightclub ended when SWAT teams stormed the building and killed him, was a radical Muslim who followed Marcus Dwayne Robertson, a law enforcement source said.
“It is no coincidence that this happened in Orlando,” said a law enforcement source familiar with Robertson’s history of recruiting terrorists and inciting violence. “Mateen was enrolled in [Robertson’s online] Fundamental Islamic Knowledge Seminary.”
…FoxNews.com has reported extensively on Robertson, a former U.S. Marine who served as a bodyguard to the Blind Sheik involved in the 1993 World Trade Center Attack and led a gang of New York bank robbers called “Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves” before resurfacing in Orlando, where he started an Islamic seminary.
The school, recently renamed the Timbuktu Seminary, is operated by Robertson, a 47-year-old firebrand known to his thousands of followers as Abu Taubah.
Robertson, who recently spent four years in prison in Florida on illegal weapons and tax fraud charges before being released by a Florida judge one year ago, has openly and enthusiastically preached against homosexuality. The targets of Mateen’s bloody rampage were members of the gay community of Orlando, an hour’s drive from the 29-year-old’s home in Fort Pierce…”
But remember, America: it ain’t Islam, it’s those guns; those evil, nasty, unnecessary…
…guns!
Now, here’s The Gouge!
At the top of today’s order, a very disturbing video which gives us yet another reason to wish someone with the financial wherewithal would start a Conservative search engine:
In a related item from, hang on to your hats, ABC News via George Lawlor, we learn…
“Fernando himself would not answer questions from ABC News in 2011 about what qualified him for a seat on the board or led to his appointment. When ABC News finally caught up with Fernando at the 2012 Democratic convention, he became upset and said he was “not at liberty” to speak about it. Security threatened to have the ABC News reporter arrested.”
“Newly released State Department emails help reveal how a major Clinton Foundation donor was placed on a sensitive government intelligence advisory board even though he had no obvious experience in the field, a decision that appeared to baffle the department’s professional staff.
The emails further reveal how, after inquiries from ABC News, the Clinton staff sought to “protect the name” of the Secretary, “stall” the ABC News reporter and ultimately accept the resignation of the donor just two days later.
Copies of dozens of internal emails were provided to ABC News by the conservative political group Citizens United, which obtained them under the Freedom of Information Act after more the two years of litigation with the government.
A prolific fundraiser for Democratic candidates and contributor to the Clinton Foundation, who later traveled with Bill Clinton on a trip to Africa, Rajiv K. Fernando’s only known qualification for a seat on the International Security Advisory Board (ISAB) was his technological know-how.The Chicago securities trader, who specialized in electronic investing, sat alongside an august collection of nuclear scientists, former cabinet secretaries and members of Congress to advise Hillary Clinton on the use of tactical nuclear weapons and on other crucial arms control issues.
“We had no idea who he was,” one board member told ABC News.
…Fernando’s lack of any known background in nuclear security caught the attention of several board members, and when ABC News first contacted the State Department in August 2011 seeking a copy of his resume, the emails show that confusion ensued among the career government officials who work with the advisory panel.
“I have spoken to [State Department official and ISAB Executive Director Richard Hartman] privately, and it appears there is much more to this story that we’re unaware of,” wrote Jamie Mannina, the press aide who fielded the ABC News request. “We must protect the Secretary’s and Under Secretary’s name, as well as the integrity of the Board. I think it’s important to get down to the bottom of this before there’s any response.
“As you can see from the attached, it’s natural to ask how he got onto the board when compared to the rest of the esteemed list of members,” Mannina wrote, referring to an attachment that was not included in the recent document release.
…“The true answer is simply that S staff (Cheryl Mills) added him,” wrote Wade Boese, who was Chief of Staff for the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, in an email to Mannina, the press aide. “Raj was not on the list sent to S; he was added at their insistence.”…”
Once again, for the umpteenth million time, a Clinton puts personal profit and power above national security. How do you think the ChiComs and the Russkies got their 5th-generation fighters in the air so quickly?!?
Here’s the juice: the only thing Hillary’s ever shattered in her self-centered, Socialist life is the…
Since we’re on the subject of, to borrow a page from The Donald’s playbook, Hypocritical Hillary, here’s several Clinton cartoons forwarded from Balls Cotton:
Turning now from Hillary on the Far Left to a man whose precise position on the political spectrum is utterly unknown, writing at the WSJ, Joe Epstein details…
Dismissing Trump’s fans as racists and thugs is too self-congratulatory, too easy. There’s something deeper rumbling.
“…Progressives easily enough account for them as racists, fools, thugs, H.L. Mencken’s booboisie, but to a much higher power of ignorance than even Mencken himself, no slouch when it came to contempt for the common people, could have imagined. This interpretation of Mr. Trump’s supporters is, somehow, too easy, and too self-congratulatory.
Something deeper, I believe, is rumbling behind the astounding support for Mr. Trump, a man who, apart from his large but less than pure business success, appears otherwise entirely without qualification(or even a scintilla of character) for the presidency. I had a hint of what might be behind the support for him a few weeks ago when, on one of the major network news shows, I watched a reporter ask a woman at a Trump rally why she was supporting him. A thoroughly respectable-seeming middle-class woman, she replied without hesitation: “I want my country back.”
This woman is easily imagined clicking through TV news channels or websites and encountering this montage: Black Lives Matters protesters bullying the latest object of their ire; a lesbian couple kissing at their wedding ceremony; a mother in Chicago weeping over the death of her young daughter, struck by an errant bullet from a gang shootout; a panel earnestly discussing the need for men who “identify” as women to have access to the public lavatories of their choosing; college students, showing the results of their enfeebling education, railing about imagined psychic injuries caused by their professors or fellow students.
I don’t believe that this woman is a racist, or that she yearns for immigrants, gays and other minorities to be suppressed, or even that she truly expects to turn back the clock on social change in the U.S.What she wants is precisely what she says: her country back.
Who, one needs to ask, took it away? Short answer: the cultural warriors.
…The political rise of Donald Trump owes less to the economy, to his status as a braggadocio billionaire, to his powers of insult, to the belief that he can Make America Great Again, than to the success of this progressive program. What the woman who said she wants her country back really meant was that she couldn’t any longer bear to watch the United States on the descent, hostage to progressivist ideas that bring neither contentment nor satisfaction but instead foster a state of perpetual protest and agitation, anger and tumult.
So great is the frustration of Americans who do not believe in these progressivist ideas, who see them as ultimately tearing the country apart, that they are ready to turn, in their near hopelessness, to a man of Donald Trump’s patently low quality. In doing so they fail to realize that Mr. Trump has succeeded in this political season precisely because of the successful spread of these pernicious ideas. Or, to put it in the 1960s terms from which the current progressivism ultimately derives: Donald Trump, who in his vagueness and vapidity is unlikely to provide any solution, is himself part of the problem.
More importantly, at least right if I’m a Trumpeteer, he’s the vast majority of hisown problem, particularly when it comes to his disapproval rating. Case in point, provided by Leon Wolf and RedState.com:
“Trump University: we bend you over quicker than a bull queer in a prison shower!”
“If you thought the documents that were released in the Trump University case was bad, imagine what Trump himself said about the case, under oath, on video. Trump doesn’t have to imagine it, he was there. And that’s why he is fighting so hard to prevent the release of the tapes to the public.
Attorneys for Donald Trump are seeking to block the filing of a portion of his video-recorded deposition in a class-action lawsuit by former Trump University students, a move that could prevent the public release of the videos, according to a court document filed Friday.
If made public, the videos could be a powerful weapon in campaign advertisements targeting Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, as he faces off against Hillary Clinton in the general election.
A partial transcript of Trump’s testimony, which took place in December and January, has already been released at the order of U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel. But the video will illuminate Trump’s remarks in a way that words on a page cannot, said Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
…Oh and hey – guess who is going to be ruling on whether these tapes will be made public? If you guessed the same judge who Trump has been bashing in the media for the last two solid weeks, you guessed correctly.
Behold the joy of running a candidate who is the subject of a major fraud case (that is almost definitely meritorious).“
In the meantime, if Trump would just get his foot out of his mouth…and his head out of his hindquarters…The Boy Blunder has provided him not only a ready-made campaign ad…
…but an effective foil against his recent endorsement of Crooked Hillary (Seriously…that’s the best your billions could come up with?!?):
“I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office.” – Barack Hussein Obama, June 10, 2016.
“Hillary Clinton will say anything to get elected; she’ll say anything, and change nothing.” – Barack Hussein Obama, in the heat of the 2008 Dimocratic primary.
Well, BO…
Next up, we shift gears a bit and present, courtesy of NRO, Kevin Williamson detailing why one of the most significant handicaps facing this great land of ours is…
A Moral Disability
Dispiriting findings on long-term unemployment
“…Paul Ryan has just introduced a welfare-reform proposal, and it is a pretty good one. We already knew what was going to be in it — work requirements and time limits for able-bodied adults — because there are only so many meaningful avenues of reform. We also know what the Left’s response is going to be: that this is cruel, callous, punitive, etc. But there are really only two choices: Get people moving toward economic self-sufficiency or sustain them forever in the soul-killing state of dependency. There isn’t a third option.Not really.
This is only partly about money. We are a very, very rich society, and we can afford to provide decently for people who cannot care for themselves, including children and those who are physically or mentally disabled. But that isn’t our problem: Our problem isn’t people who are physically disabled but people who are morally disabled, people who wouldn’t take a bus 15 minutes to work at a gas station, much less walk 15 miles to do so.I met Preston Smith at the unveiling of a statue of him, in commemoration of his work in public service. “I didn’t know this was how it was going to turn out,” he said. If we could see the end of the path at the beginning, we might set out with a little more resolve. But we can’t. And where we once had the faith and the confidence to help carry us through the unknown, we now have an overabundance of caution, an anchoring pessimism that fixes us in place like bugs on pins.
That’s the strange reality of what has transpired in these United States: We are so much richer than we were 50 years ago, but so much poorer.“
And, to borrow a phrase from the Munchkins, its morally, ethically, spiritually, physically, positively, absolutely, undeniablyand reliably…primarily the fault of Progressives!
Jonah Goldberg sounds a similar note regarding The Left’s increasingly frequent and nasty habit of…
Progressives’ definition of conversation with Conservatives.
“…She [Katie Couric] was asked about the scandal swirling around her anti-gun-documentary — specifically, the fact that she deceptively edited a gun rights group’s response to a question to make the members seem like dangerous idiots.
I wrote about all that in a recent column, so there’s no need to repeat myself beyond noting that Couric and her producer are guilty of outright deception. But I thought her response was amusingly revealing.
“I can understand the objection of people who did have an issue about it,” Couric said. (The “it” here is the deliberate falsifying of the truth). “Having said that, I think we have to focus on the big issue of gun violence. It was my hope that, when I approached this topic, that this would be a conversation starter.”
Well, OK then. After all, who denies that starting conversations — or, as they often call them in academia, “dialogues” — is the highest aspiration there is?
For instance, a Central Michigan University professor claimed last year that she was punched in the face at a Toby Keith concert for being a lesbian. She later admitted that she actually punched herself, but said it was worth it because she wanted to start a dialogue.
As the Washington Examiner’s Ashe Schow recently chronicled, this sort of thing is common on college campuses. Students and professors initiate or exacerbate a hate-crime hoax or a false rape accusation. The orchestrators are perfectly happy to pretend the fraud is real and demonize anyone who casts doubt on the claims.
Then, when the facts come to light, instead of apologies we’re saturated with a fog of pomposity and self-justification: We were just trying to start a conversation.Raising awareness of the larger issue is more important than the mere facts.
That was the excuse offered by a herd of academics on the 10th anniversary of the Duke University lacrosse rape hoax. Professors there had taken out ads suggesting the exonerated attackers were racists. In response to criticism, they insisted that they just wanted to get a good discussion going.
…I don’t think people appreciate how pernicious and widespread this crowdsourced totalitarianism really is. Routine lies in the service of left-wing narratives are justified in the name of “larger truths,” while actual truth-telling in the other direction is denounced as hate speech or “triggering.”
Even when liberals call for an “honest conversation” about this, that or the other thing, what they really mean is they want everyone who disagrees with the prevailing progressive view to fall in line.
Almost invariably, when I hear calls for “frank talk,” “honest dialogue” or a new “national conversation,” I immediately translate it as, “Let the next chapter of indoctrination begin.”It’s a way of luring dissenters from political correctness out into the open so they can be smashed over the head with a rock…”
Were such actions performed by Republicans, they’d constitute a hate crime!
Which brings us to the So, What Else is New?!? segment, and further proof the modern 24/7 Media, in this case The Weather Channel via AOL, sensationalizes everything in search of exposure:
Hottest temperatures so far in 2016 arriving east of the Rockies
“Record highs will be threatened late this week and into the weekend as temperatures climb into the upper 90s and low 100s in the Plains, Midwest and South. In addition, dew points will be high as well, making it feel even hotter for many locations.
For many cities, the temperatures we will see late this week will be the hottest of 2016 so far.Though that is to be expected since the official start of summer is right around the corner…”
Now that’s settled science!
And in the Environmental Moment, just when we thought we’d heard it all, along comes Fabio Falchi and his band of hearty Environazi vagabonds at the Light Pollution Science and Technology Institute in Thiene, Italy:
“Across the globe, light pollution is making the night sky lighter and the stars harder to see, according to a new study. In a paper published Friday in Science Advances, researchers reveal that 1 in 3 people worldwide are unable to see the Milky Way when they gaze at the heavens in their hometown. In addition, a whopping 83% of the world’s population lives under light-polluted skies.
…“Humanity has enveloped our planet in a luminous fog that prevents most of the Earth’s population from having the opportunity to observe our galaxy,” wrote the research team led by Fabio Falchi of the Light Pollution Science and Technology Institute in Thiene, Italy.
…The authors say the light situation is almost certainly worse earlier in the evening.
There are some places in the world where people still do live under pristine skies. The scientists found that the populations of Chad, Central African Republic and Madagascar are least affected by light pollution.“
But wait: Fabio offers humanity a way out of its self-induced, over-lit doom!
“…The authors note that there are well-known and effective techniques to mitigate light pollution. For example, shielding outdoor lights so they only send light down, not up. Also, using just enough light for a task and not more, and turning lights off when they are not needed. New technologies like street lights that use real-time sensors to get brighter when cars approach would also help.
At the end of the paper, the researchers conclude that humanity’s relationship with the night sky is at a crossroads. (Audible “GASP”, please!)
It is possible that we will take more control of the light we generate and the current generation will be the last to have such a dim view of a cosmos masked by a haze of artificial light, the researchers say. Or we won’t do anything, and the world will continue to brighten until the entire population of Earth is deprived of the wonder that comes from gazing at a sky glittering with all of its potential starry majesty.
The choice, they say, is ours.“
Here’s a thought: those more concerned with seeing the Milky Way at night than public safety and the continued advance of civilization…like Fabio and his ilk…could just move to Chad, the Central African Republic or Madagascar…or perhaps any one of the Islamic countries so keen on returning to the 15th century!
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side…
Finally, we’ll call it a day with our Katie Couric-Dan Rather Memorial Other Than THAT, The Story Was Right! segment, brought to us today by James Taranto and lying Leftists the world over:
The ‘Science’ Is Now Settled
“Researchers have fixed a number of papers after mistakenly reporting that people who hold conservative political beliefs are more likely to exhibit traits associated with psychoticism, such as authoritarianism and tough-mindedness,” reports RetractionWatch.com:
As one of the notices specifies, now it appears that liberal political beliefs are linked with psychoticism.
The correction in the prestigious American Journal of Political Science explains:
The interpretation of the coding of the political attitude items in the descriptive and preliminary analyses portion of the manuscript was exactly reversed.Thus, where we indicated that higher scores in Table 1 (page 40) reflect a more conservative response, they actually reflect a more liberal response.Specifically, in the original manuscript, the descriptive analyses report that those higher in Eysenck’s psychoticism are more conservative, but they are actually more liberal; and where the original manuscript reports those higher in neuroticism and social desirability are more liberal, they are, in fact, more conservative.
This is like writing “Now” when you mean “Not” (see above), but on a much larger scale.
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