How many lone wolves make a pack?

From Howie Carr at Boston Herald:

' Needless to say, nobody knew from nothing that their pal was a bomber, even though he’d been bragging to them about his bomb-making prowess. What could they possibly know about infernal devices? Well, they understood enough to get the Vaseline the hell out of Junior Terrorist’s dorm room.

And that’s another thing. After they got back to their apartment in New Bedford, the Borats and their faithful Cantabrigian companion “freaked out” when they saw their comrade on CNN.

Yet they again neglected to call 911. Instead, they return to UMass Dartmouth to scrub the incriminating evidence out of Junior’s room.

OK, so these guys weren’t the brightest bulbs. One of them actually flunked out of UMass Dartmouth. Who knew that was even possible?'

Related:  "They All Idolized Jahar"

Obama Called Jason Collins To Offer His Support

Who? Oh, he's the NBA player who proclaimed to all the world that he's a homosexual.

Zzzzz.

I wonder how many soldiers wounded in Afghanistan Obama has called this week, or parents of murdered teens on the mean bloody streets of Chicago?

But let’s make front page news of his call to a sodomite…

Hoo boy. His female former fiance of 8 years says, 'What are you talking about? That man is not gay!' 

This pile of dog squeeze smells like a publicity stunt.

If Koch Brothers Buy LA Times, Half of Staff May Quit (VIDEO)

Yeah. Sure.

Don't let the door hit you in the behind on the way out to scoop up ALL THOSE high paying JOURNALISM JOBS just waiting to be filled.

Nitwits.


Related: Newspaper Ad Revenues Lowest in 62 Years

‘Misha’ Speaks: An Interview with the Alleged Boston Bomber’s ‘Svengali’

 From the New York Review of Books. Who knew they do investigative journalism?

'It started in 2009. And it started right there, in Cambridge,” Tamerlan’s uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, told CNN after the attacks. “This person just took his brain. He just brainwashed him completely.” These accusations set off a frenzied search for what some reports have called an Islamic Svengali, and over the past few days, the FBI has said it has located and has been talking to “Misha,” though his identity has remained unknown.

Today I was able to meet “Misha,” whose real name is Mikhail Allakhverdov. '

Oh, OK.

'Boston Bomber’s ‘Svengali’

Obama sat in the pews of a church pastored by a hate-mongering, anti-american, racialist bigot for 20 years, and all the MSM chimed in that there was nothing to see; no connection; didn't mean a thing.

And now, we're supposed to swallow this horsesh!t about some guy named 'misha?'

Obamanation Rumination

The Hatred in the Heart of White America

That wording is a bit stilted, but stick with it, as it's not what you first might think.

 By Mona Charen:

'We Americans are not confused about the morality of what happened in Birmingham that September morning in 1963, nor during the Jim Crow era in America generally. We do not hesitate to condemn utterly the behavior and the beliefs of the Ku Klux Klan (the perpetrators of this bombing and others) and their white supremacist fellow travelers. We do not worry that reviling white supremacists and their grotesque deeds will somehow taint all white people.

But when it comes to other groups and other motives for the same kind of terrorism -- we lose our moral focus. Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn and Kathy Boudin have become honored members of the faculties at leading universities. Ayers is even the friend of the president of the United States. Regarding his own record of setting bombs that kill and dismember innocent people, Ayers told The New York Times on the ironic date of Sept. 11, 2001 that "I feel we didn't do enough ... (there's) a certain eloquence to bombs, a poetry and a pattern from a safe distance." So says a retired "distinguished professor" at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Today, American liberals are obsessed not with terrorism but with the color and ethnicity of terrorists. They can readily enough attribute violent tendencies to groups they dislike -- the tea party, for example, which hasn't committed so much as a littering offense. But when it comes to Islamic terrorism, their voices falter...'

An excellent read that highlights exactly what our counter-terrorism measures should focus upon - the ideology motivating certain people who commit heinous acts of terror, and not simply the tactic itself.

Why Does Evil Make Liberals Stupid?

 "This piece in The Atlantic is a good exemplar of the mushy liberal commentary that has proliferated in recent days. Authored by one Megan Garber, it is titled: “The Boston Bombers Were Muslim: So?”

Before taking a close look at Ms. Garber’s article, let’s advise The Atlantic not to put away that headline. It could come in handy so often. “The Cole Bombers Were Muslim: So?” “The Embassy Bombers Were Muslim: So?” “The First World Trade Center Bombers Were Muslim: So?” “The September 11 Bombers Were Muslim: So?” “The Madrid Bombers Were Muslim: So?” “The London Bombers Were Muslim: So?” “The Shoebomber Was Muslim: So?” The Underwear Bomber Was Muslim: So?” “The Fort Hood Shooter Was Muslim: So?” “The Beslan Child-Murderers Were Muslim: So?” “The Times Square Bomber Was Muslim: So?”

We could keep this up for a very long time, but let’s move on to Ms. Garber’s soulful meanderings..."

Contrived, Demagogic Headline of the Day

From politically opportunistic Reuters:

Boston bombing suspects did not have valid handgun licenses

Oh, noes. I'm shocked. They probably didn't have valid pressure cooker with C4 licenses, either. Idiots.

"Within hours of their images being released on Thursday, the two (Tsarnaev) brothers are accused of shooting dead a Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus police officer in his car, hijacking at least one car at gunpoint, and of shooting at least one police officer during the gun battle in nearby Watertown."

That dead officer's name is Sean Collier.

Meanwhile: FBI hunting 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

But in the interim,  let's amuse ourselves with MSNBC's psycho-babbling psucho-babblers babbling on about our collective 'responsibility for or connection to their violence.' Idiots.

Emma Watson Strips For Earth Day (VIDEO)

And according to her publicist, much to disrobed Emma's surprised, the Gaia deity also demands a naked Hollywood tool thrown into the volcano. Something about photography's carbon footprint and penance.

I don't understand the science. (yes, it's safe for work)

We've dealt with previous Earth Day narcissism here, there, and yonder.

Watch 24 Hrs of Global Internet Activity in 8 seconds

'The animated map, from an anonymous researcher, is beautiful, mesmerizing — and made using highly illegal means.'
 

(graphic courtesy of The Week)
 
So, how did they do it? I'll let Peter Weber at The Week explain:

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Misusing Words

I'm fed up with the misuse of the word 'phobia.'

If someone has no rational point for disagreement with me, they toss 'phobe' on the end of a word and hurl it at me during the discussion. For some reason this passes as intellectual ammo in today's sound bite world.

A 'phobia' is defined as a pathological fear of something or someone. It is irrational in nature and spurs unreasonable thought or action in the suffering individual.

However, my informed disapproval or rejection of a stated action or idea does not make me a 'phobe' of any stripe or color simply because someone repeatedly screams it at me. Grow up, get a coherent thought, or shut up.

That is all.

Westboro Baptist now Sees a 'Rainbow House' across the Street

From Gawker (with photo goodness):

So while considering the Westboro Baptist Church, he began dinking around on Google Maps late one night. He pulled up the church, at 3701 SW 12th St. in Topeka, and took a virtual walk around the block. In the front yard of a house across the street, he noticed a For Sale sign.

“It hit me right away,” Jackson told me last night by phone. “Huh. That would be interesting to own a house across from the Westboro Baptist Church and turn it into something.’ And then, within five seconds: ‘And I’ll paint it the color of the pride flag.’ Perfect.”

I think the term 'pride flag' is rather dubious, but even I can appreciate the 'thumb in the eye' toward these raucous Westboro wack-a-doodles, whom we've dealt with many times before.

Hate Monger Hater Spews More Hate Against Those He Hates. Again

But he votes politically correct, so the media sycophants will give this loathsome lil man a pass.

Hundreds of Students Brawl at Minn. High School

 From the local CBS affiliate: Race Culture Riot? 

"The fight, students say, was the result of long-simmering tensions between the 8 percent of students who are Somali Americans and the 20 percent who are African Americans."

 Last I looked at my world map, Somalia is in Africa. But I'm not viewing that map through the perverse funhouse mirror of multi-hyphenated-culturalism.

 No arrests were made, but police plan to review surveillance video, which may lead to charges.

From a complacent AP:

"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A food fight quickly turned into a brawl involving hundreds of students at a Minneapolis high school on Thursday, forcing police to use chemical spray to break up the melee.

Four people were taken to hospitals with minor injuries, including a staff member who was hit in the head with a bottle, according to the school and police.

The 15-minute fracas broke out during lunchtime at South High School. No weapons were used, but about 200 to 300 students were involved, Minneapolis police spokesman Sgt. Bill Palmer said."

Gee. If only there were a list of 10 rules or commandments in which to teach self-control to these students...

Ohio School Board Votes to Keep Jesus Portrait Up in School

Diversity. I heard the ACLU's collective head explode way over here in Missouri.

'Toon Thursday

(not to be confused with Floyd Thursby)

 Rob Parker fired by ESPN following his racist comments about RGIII. (Personally, I don't think the man should've been fired for that on-air malarky. Reprimanded for his stoopid racialism, yes. Fired, no.)

Miss Alabama Katherine Webb has no problem with Musburger comments. (yes, there's pulchritudinous delight)

Brazil prostitutes learning English for 2014 World Cup. (oldest profession adapts to global markets)


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Is America Becoming a Pagan Kingdom?

An interesting and thoughtful article in the Canada Free Press:

"...Paganism is a set of beliefs and practices essentially tied to the societies of the ancient world outside Judaism and Christianity. In particular, classical paganism was the worldview of the ancient Greeks and Romans. The revival of these ancient cultures during the Renaissance by way of the ancient writers is the foundation for Humanism. Despite the many high points of ancient classical paganism, these cultures’ values were rejected by the Christian West as utterly at odds with the great standards created by the rise of Christian Europe. This article details how these standards, misunderstood and rejected, are being slowly lost and replaced by unenlightened instincts and more primitive beliefs."

I. The Drift of Modern American Public Policy & Societal Mores
II. Ancient Roots of Modern Paganism
III. Chief Doctrines of Reborn Paganism

Taking Mohamed Out of Christmas

*repost from 2010

Teen plotted to bomb Oregon tree-lighting ceremony

"Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested at 5:40 p.m. just after he dialed a cell phone that he thought would blow up a van laden with explosives but instead brought federal agents and Portland police swooping in to take him into custody.

Mohamud yelled "Allahu Akhkbar" and tried to kick agents and police as the arrest came, according to prosecutors.

He was charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction."

Search the intertoobs and notice that none of the headlines dare say this pile of dog squeeze is a Muslim.

The folks in Portland are simply thankful none of their Mao ornaments were damaged.

MM has a murderers row of Islamic terrorists who have plagued us in recent years with their death, violence, and attempted destruction.

"Yes: Violent jihad. Two words the current occupant of the White House won't say together and about which he remains in stubborn denial.

Violent jihad. A fundamental tenet of legions and legions of Muslims worldwide -- and untold numbers of homegrown and immigrant practitioners of the Religion of Perpetual Outrage here on American soil."

We may not be at war with Islam, but Islam sure as h*ll is at war with us!

TY L (title courtesy of commenter #14 - cause I ain't that clever)

Pres. Harry Truman's 1952 Christmas Address

".... let us also pray for our enemies. Let us pray that the spirit of God shall enter their lives and prevail in their lands. Let us pray for a fulfillment of the brotherhood of man.

 Through Jesus Christ the world will yet be a better and a fairer place. This faith sustains us today as it has sustained mankind for centuries past. This is why the Christmas story, with the bright stars shining and the angels singing, moves us to wonder and stirs our hearts to praise.

Now, my fellow countrymen, I wish for all of you a Christmas filled with the joy of the Holy Spirit, and many years of future happiness with the peace of God reigning upon this earth."

 Harry Truman was a stubborn-as-a-Missouri-mule, life long Democrat.

Can you imagine the all out apoplectic sh*t fit the Liberals, Proglodytes, and Democrats of today would have if a POTUS invoked the name of Jesus Christ to extended a Christmas blessing "filled with the joy of the Holy Spirit" during a Presidential address??!

What a pathetic shadow of our former selves we've become.

Merry Mas!

I'm not sure what one does at Mas Time, but I wish you a merry whatever voodoo that you do at Mas time: observe the Solstice; cage fight Druids; worship Gaia, spend $4 million tax payer dollars in Hawaii as the country chokes, stumbles, and falls off a cliff, etc.

Of course, you'll have paid time off.

After all, it's a special time of year that's special because, well, because it's holiday season; officially recognized by the govt., so we can all have a holiday, for the season, because that's the reason for the holiday. So long as no one is offended.
 
Or something.

"I'll be unemployed for Mas, you can count on it;
Please have postponed foreclosure, or subsidized housing;
and food stamps, so we can subsist..."

Everybody sing!