* Speaking of minorities who are completely peaceful and non-violent, here is a fun anecdote about the sister of the 24-year-old who yesterday killed four marines in a totally-not-typical-of-Muslims spree-killing:
Yasmeen told the Chattanooga Free Press in 2010 that some students harassed her but that she wasn’t afraid to confront people about their attitudes toward her religious beliefs. “I’m not afraid to go straight toward them and ask them, ‘Do you really know what Islam is?’ ” she said. “There’s this misconception that Islam is a violent religion. Muslims are actually peaceful.”
* That article made me sick. What it all amounts to is that we Americans kissed their asses, and though it was really super duper coolio that they willfully refused to assimilate to the country they chose to move to, and now we wonder why their son/brother murdered four Marines.
No, the real villains in this, as in so many other cases, are the racist Americans who looked at the behavior of this family and saw them for what they really are.
* Wow, Trump is the real deal on immigration, not a fake like Cruz and Walker:
I guess I was cynical enough to think he was a fake too, but there is no mistaking his all-in sincerity reading his twitter feed. The attacks on McCain are just plain delightful, and land with a hard thud, not snarky girl-slaps typical of twitter jokes.
He’s also #1 in the last two national GOP primary polls, 3 points ahead of Jeb in both of them.
He’s got a great and unique sense of self-parody: he likes his own basic persona, but has fun turning it up a few notches to an absurd exaggeration.
The press can call this humor “buffoonish” which seems to be their favorite word to describe him lately, but based on their college records Jeb, Rubio, and Walker seem to be near the bottom of the IQ range for presidential candidates in a long time, and are the real dullards inarticulately grasping at the establishment script. I’m really looking forward to the debates now, which I predict will be Trump-fests and push him 5 more points above Jeb.
* Luke: Anyone who commits terror against the West, we should act like the Russians and rape their women, kill their families and everyone they love.
* That was my hometown he visited yesterday in order to commiserate with the Federal prisoners lodged at the penitentiary there; he didn’t even take the time to sample the famous local cuisine in the form of massive onion burgers, or visit the sprawling, neon-lit Cheyenne-Arapaho casino just north of town, at the Concho Indian Reservation, within spitting distance of where I grew up. He just motorcaded straight to the prison grounds – only previously famous in American history as the origin of Harry Truman’s “the buck stops here” meme – and once the “documentary” requiring his presence was filmed skedaddled back out.
You were right: with no more elections to face, he’s reverting to unvarnished form. I mean, can you imagine any time in recent history where a sitting president of the United States would tour a Federal prison to make a “we need to go softer on crime” point? The question answers itself: nope, he’s just trolling us, now. And he has a cool helicopter in Marine One to chopper about whatever provincial landscape Air Force One deposits him in the middle of to do it in. He may, indeed, have a point about Federal drug laws being a bit onerous and prison sentences flowing from conviction of violating them over the top – but that’s not really why he was in El Reno, U.S.A., strolling the prison grounds yesterday. He was there to set the stage for massive pardons coming down the pike; yet another poke-in-the-eye to “Core Americans” whom he imagines were behind the Congressional promulgation of those laws during the Nixon-Reagan-Bush eras in the first place (or their parents).
I must confess, were I a Leftist I’d be delighted at this turn of events: every “conservative” president we’ve had in recent history has actually gotten quite liberal as his term(s) stretched late into the evening – they “grow.” For instance, Ronald Reagan signed into law amendments to the Fair Housing Act in 1988 that the 1966 Reagan would have thrown absolute conniption fits about. “Conservative” presidents tend to start worrying what history will do to their legacies late in their terms – and they know full well who holds that megaphone. So they “grow,” almost always with the urgent pleas of their Republican Party-honcho advisers at the time. Despite that “growth,” the Left still hates them, decades later – which is why the GOP’s reputation as the “Stupid Party” thrives intact.
Obama is a doctrinaire Leftist – and he knows who holds that megaphone, also. With no more elections to face, he’s scrambling to both (1) do what he always wanted to anyway, i.e, get busy being the “real” Obama just as you speculated he would all those years ago, and (2) rub the rubes faces in it while he’s at it. That’s why the White House was lit up with the Rainbow flag after five unelected liberal justices found hiding in the crevices of the Constitution some heretofore undiscovered “right” for two men playing house to get “married.”
One thing I wish Obama had done while he was in El Reno, U.S.A., is go downtown and look at the memorial to its namesake: Union general Jesse L. Reno. Oklahoma is a border state, largely settled by white Southerners after the territory was opened for our famed (or infamous: YMMV) land grabs. And yet, there was never the slightest impulse to degrade or impugn or tear down memorials to Union heroes in places like El Reno in the wake of total Southern Democrat/Dixiecrat rule in early Twentieth Century America, or any time after for that matter: a testament to how well the wounds of the Civil War finally healed, post-Reconstruction, thanks to sensible, honorable, truly humane outstretching of hands on both sides of the carnage that was that war.
Reconciliation meant you let the other guy celebrate his heroes, his symbols, his heroic battlefields in peace. I would have liked explain this to him – or had someone smarter than me explain it to him – for whatever good it would do.
Those days, of course, are long gone – thanks in large part to tens of millions of Social Justice Warriors who rightly see Obama as their titular ideological head. And while Jesse L. Reno’s statue will never see vandal’s paint splashed across it’s marble facade proclaiming “Core American’s Lives Matter,” on the other side of the divide they are literally digging Confederate general’s long laid to rest up in order to rub a huge segment of the SJW’s ideological enemies noses in the Right Side of History.
Ahhh, Orwell’s boot: stamping on human faces who deserve to have their faces stomped upon is such beguiling business, if you consider yourself on that mythical Right Side of History. I truly doubt pointing out to Obama whom is truly being “divisive” and “intolerant” in 2015 America while standing in front of Union General Jesse L. Reno’s memorial in the middle of the Reddest of Reddest states would do much good, after all. He’d just smile and say “so sue me” – which is why his freelance SJW minions love him. They should.
* I agree about the Trump tweets. When I see McCain, Graham, Rove, or any of those other useless hacks spewing their nonsense on TV I start shouting at the screen. Great to see Trump doing it publicly.
Some tweets:
–Governor Perry failed on the border. He should be forced to take an IQ test before being allowed to enter the GOP debate.
–Irrelevant clown @KarlRove sweats and shakes nervously on @FoxNews as he talks “bull” about me. Has zero cred. Made fool of himself in ’12.
–Jeb Bush will never secure our border or negotiate great trade deals for American workers. Jeb doesn’t see & can’t solve the problems.
Also, he reads and frequently mentions Ann Coulter:
–Thank you @AnnCoulter for your nice words. The U.S. is becoming a dumping ground for the world. Pols don’t get it. Make America Great Again!
