The military can be good at governing otherwise ungovernable situations. Democracy cannot keep the French safe. Democracy is not working. France has had military coups before.
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* Probably not the most effective ad today at the Nice airport.
* Do not tell me to stand united. Don’t preach ‘they’re trying to divide us’. We are divided. We are sitting ducks. Multiculturalism failed.
* When Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, they imagined carriages, not modern vehicles of war. #TruckControlNow
* Reality is Islamophobic.
* I think we should join our liberal friends and #PrayForTheNarrative
* I’m getting terrorism news fatigue. But the more this keeps going, the more the establishment leaders (Hollande, Merkel, Obongo, Hillary, and I suppose Trudeau and Turnbull) are made to look like idiots. There are only so many arm-linked walks and candelit vigils the public can take before they want some effective action.
This is a great time for the events of the day to be imprinted in the mind of Theresa May, while she is at liberty to chart a fresh course. She should take heed and not be seen as yet another do-nothing member of the Axis of Open Borders.
* The BLMers are going to have terrorism envy. I expect them to escalate their ‘demonstrations’ tomorrow because they’ll be frantic to knock the French attacks off the front pages.
* That’s what happens when you live in a country where it’s easier to buy a truck than a book or a computer.
* I guess the “Imagine” piano guy is going to head over to Nice after his gig in Dallas.
If I were the entrepreneurial type, I’d print up some “World Tour” T-shirts:
Paris
San Bernardino
Brussels
Istanbul
Dallas
Nice
Coming soon to YOUR TOWN!
* No matter what outrage, atrocity, massacre, murder, kidnapping, rape, torture etc etc etc third world immigrants to the west perpetrate, the ‘power-people’ ie those who actually control the destiny of western societies – the political class, The Economist, the WSJ, the mass media, the NGOs, Amnesty International, the EU, the UN, the Council of Europe, the OSCE, Goldman Sachs, the CBI, the TUC, the Labour Party, the Conservative Party, the BBC, the NYT, the LA Times, Time magazine, Newsweek, the activist judiciary, the ‘christian’ churches, etc etc etc etc will all unite in one voice to * demand yet more third world immigration*.
* Sometimes members of our Muslim community go astray. That just means they need to be hugged extra hard.
* “A plane crash is a “tragedy”.”
No, MacBeth is a tragedy. Oedipus the King is a tragedy. An accident is an accident, a disaster, a calamity. And what happened in Nice was a crime, an atrocity.
* Left Wingers on MSNBC are saying the high unemployment rate among Muslims causes them to become terrorists.
Than why aren’t Native Americans and Gypsies for example becoming terrorists? After all their unemployment rate is also quite high. Jihadists don’t want jobs, they want a sequel to the Armenian genocide, except replace Armenians with Europeans and their diaspora descendents.
* First, death to these terrorists and their enablers. May the souls of the victims rest in peace.
Now, some OT items that may get buried due to the latest atrocity:
Forget new gun laws. Here’s what could really keep people from shooting each other.
Gun violence is most acute among young black men. The National Council on Crime and Delinquency says the homicide rate per 100,000 of white males between 15 and 19 years old is 1.8. For Hispanic males, it’s 14.6.
For African American males, it’s a staggering 50.6 per 100,000.
Let me repeat that: for white males 15-19, 1.8/100,000. For Hispanics, 14.6/100,000. For blacks, 50.6/100,000. 1.8 vs. 14.6 vs. 50.6. Hmmm, what (or who) could be the problem?
Next, the MSM’s rearguard action against UVA on the topic of sexual assault: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/he-said-it-was-consensual-she-was-blacked-out-u-va-had-to-decide-was-it-assault/2016/07/14/4211a758-275c-11e6-ae4a-3cdd5fe74204_story.html
He said it was consensual. She was blacked out. U-Va. had to decide: Was it assault?
Apparently, the MSM is still trying to gin up a “controversy” at UVA, but let’s look at the facts of the case:
She unwrapped the condom and placed it on him, he said…
According to the U-Va. report, an older resident of the house became aware that Lind and the freshman athlete were inside the bathroom and angrily climbed out onto a second story roof to slam on the window and get their attention. He yelled at them to break it up.
“Would you just give us a minute?” Lind said, the older resident told investigators…
Here, let’s make out and then let me invite you upstairs and put a condom on you… Rape! Rape! Rape! Hey, who’s banging on the window? In a minute – we’ll get out of your hair once my assailant is done raping me, all right?
The result of the university investigation:
Ultimately, the investigators concluded that the freshman athlete had no way to know that Lind had blacked out. Because he had just met her, and because she was capable of carrying on a conversation, walking upstairs and performing “fine motor tasks, such as unwrapping a condom,” he was unaware of her “possible incapacitation.”
In short, how was he supposed to know how drunk she was? The investigators determined that there was insufficient evidence to determine that the freshman was responsible for sexually assaulting Lind. [Boldfaces mine.]
And the actual criminal-legal angle:
Charlottesville Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Libby Killeen declined to comment on the possibility of charges against the freshman athlete. Charlottesville police Capt. Gary Pleasants said last week that the investigation into the matter has been “suspended,” effectively meaning that it is no longer active.
Hmmm, where did I hear of another “suspended” sexual assault investigation in Charlottesville?
And finally, this wonderful headline: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evidence-shows-bias-in-police-use-of-force-but-not-in-shootings.html
Surprising New Evidence Shows Bias in Police Use of Force but Not in Shootings
But when it comes to the most lethal form of force — police shootings — the study finds no racial bias.
Got that? Surprise! A black Harvard economist ran the numbers and there is no racial bias in police shootings. “No racial bias.” Now, let’s look at the actual finding regarding officer-involved shootings buried deeply in the article:
In shootings in these 10 cities involving officers, officers were more likely to fire their weapons without having first been attacked when the suspects were white. Black and white civilians involved in police shootings were equally likely to have been carrying a weapon. Both results undercut the idea of racial bias in police use of lethal force. [Boldfaces mine.]
I don’t know about the rest of you, but that strikes me as racial bias… against white suspects. So, if I got this line of reasoning correctly, if the result indicated that blacks were more likely to be shot, then there IS racial bias, but if it turned out – as is indicated by the actual data – that whites are more likely to be shot, then there is “no racial bias.”
* The surveillance state is politically correct.
Consider:
It employs large numbers of affirmative-action bureaucrats (TSA).
It creates large government contracts for the connected (G4S).
It scratches the militaristic itch.
It is in theory, impossible for machines to discriminate
The solutions to the terrorism/black crime problem are quite obvious, racial profiling, civilian gun ownership and paternalistic shaming of black culture/banning Muslim immigration.
But those solutions would “allow our enemies to defeat us by causing us to abandon our (((liberal))) values.”
* I disagree with Ann Coulter and others’ view that Trump picking Pence is a mistake.
Trump simply cannot run without the support of the GOP establishment, which is basically divided three ways: Koch-plex wants Pence, The Jews want Newt, the SoCons want Cruz.
Looking at these three groups, the Koch-plex is the most important of the three groups by a large margin. It is also the least supportive of him right now.
The RCP poll average right now is Hillary 44.0 Trump 40.9. There are a ton of undecideds still, and some of them are conservatives.
Putting a Koch-loyalist as VP is a good move. It gets their network’s support, which is unrivaled in the GOP, and larger than the RNC and all 50 state parties combined.
Mitt Romney is a pretty smart guy, and he put a Koch-loyalist on his ticket.
Pence’s open boarders record is almost as bad as Ryan’s. But is the view of both of the Koch Brothers too, and they do not like dissent on this issue. I don’t like it, but Trump needs them to win.
* I’m an American and a member of the Front National. Just go to their website and provide them with the pertinent information. I think that they accept credit cards. You’ll get a nice membership card with Marine Le Pen (although I wanted one with Marion Marechal Le Pen) on it. So I’m now a “card-carrying” FN member. It makes me feel slightly better–at least I’m doing something.
* “The National Council on Crime and Delinquency says the homicide rate per 100,000 of white males between 15 and 19 years old is 1.8. For Hispanic males, it’s 14.6.”
* Of course, way way back in 1968, a highly significant year for the French for reasons which we can now see are totally irrelevant to the grand course and sweep of history, a pointless wrong course if there ever was one, Enoch Powell made his famous ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech.
This, of course, prophesied the future dystopia of England, though France was ‘busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre’ too.
I’d hate to personally witness the carnage caused by a 10 ton truck ploughing into a parade of human flesh, but I’d imagine ‘rivers of blood’ would be an apt description.
