Gateway Pundit: Cook may believe Indiana’s new law is very dangerous towards gays…
But it’s not as dangerous as the several countries Apple does business with where they execute gays.
Four of the ten countries where they kill gays are on this Apple list:
– Uganda
– Nigeria
– Qatar
– Saudi Arabia
If Tim Cook really wanted to help gays, he might want to focus on the Apple customers who execute them.
Dennis Prager writes: Iran today is America’s greatest enemy, Israel’s greatest enemy, the Jewish people’s greatest enemy and the greatest enemy of moral civilization.
There is, apparently, no evil that the Iranian Islamic regime will not engage in to further its ends.
It is one of the only countries in the world that supports North Korea, the most monstrous regime (in terms of how it mistreats its own citizens). North Korea is effectively the world’s largest prison, run by a sick and diabolic cult for whom the starvation of its own citizens is as little concern as it was to Mao Zedong, who inflicted death by starvation on upward of 60 million Chinese, selling the food they produced to the Soviets for industrial and military goods.
Most of the world has ostracized North Korea, but not Iran, which has signed military agreements with the North Korean regime. It is one of the ways (we do not know all of them) by which Iran can circumvent any agreements it signs with the West in order to avoid sanctions.
As the Christian Science Monitor reported on Sept. 20, 2012:
“North Korea and Iran appear to be increasing their dealings in nuclear technology and missiles with each other under a breakthrough agreement reached between the two nations in Tehran three weeks ago. ‘It’s likely the tempo of shipments of technology to Iran has increased,’ says Bruce Bechtol, a former United States intelligence official and author of two books and other studies on North Korea’s military buildup. ‘We have seen a large number of North Korean scientists visiting Iran.’
“At the heart of this catchall listing, in the view of analysts here, lies a commitment for North Korea to step up shipments of missiles and other arms to Iran, along with technology.
“North Korean scientists were providing the technology and Iran the cash for building the nuclear reactor in Syria that Israeli planes bombed in September 2007.
“ ‘North Korea is the seller, not the buyer,’ he [Bechtol] says, and in that role ‘continues to assist Iran in its highly enriched uranium program by providing scientists, centrifuge technology, and even raw materials.’ North Korea, he notes, is rich in raw uranium and other natural resources.”
It gets worse:
As reported by the Jerusalem Post this week:
“A senior German defense figure said in a report this week that Iran may be significantly further ahead in its nuclear weapons program than public intelligence assessments have so far suggested. Hans Ruhle, who directed the planning department of the German Defense Ministry from 1982 to 1988, argued that Iran may have been involved in the detonation of an experimental uranium nuclear bomb in North Korea in 2010.”
Iran’s intimate relations with North Korea reveal two things about Iran. One is that it is hell bent on producing nuclear weapons. The other is that it has no compunctions about supporting a sociopathic dictatorship that enslaves all its people and tortures and kills many of them. In other words, Iran is led by vile men who seek nuclear weapons above all else.
That President Barack Obama and the Europeans think they can negotiate a deal with Iran that would halt that country’s movement toward nuclear weapons is breathtaking in its naivete and self-deceit.
Dennis Prager writes: …Palestinian men reflected two characteristics of the Arab world and parts of the larger Muslim world: one is the lack of acknowledgement that Muslims are committing atrocities; the other is the prevalence of conspiratorial theories to explain many major events. Not only is Islamic State an Israeli and American operation, so was Sept. 11. Likewise, AIDS in Egypt is popularly blamed on Israeli prostitutes. And almost all Egyptians, including the Egyptian government, deny despite overwhelming evidence from the cockpit voice recorder that the Egyptian co-pilot deliberately crashed Egypt Air Flight 990 into the ocean in 1999. Egyptians blame it on Boeing.
My respondents live in the conspiratorial fantasy world that exists in much of the Arab world. Peace simply cannot be made with people who deny reality. Just as World War II was rendered inevitable because of the fantasy world that Germans lived in after their defeat in World War I.
To the question of whether peace is possible, all three said it is — provided Jews, Christians and Palestinians live together . . . under Muslim rule. One of them described such a society; it was exactly as outlined in the Quran and medieval Muslim theology. Muslims and Christians would be allowed have their own communities and pay the jizya. He actually used the word jizya, which refers to the tax that the Quran demands dhimmi (Jews and Christians) pay.
As is written in the Quran (9.29): “Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture — [fight] until they give the jizya willingly while they are humbled.”
Another one of the men spoke eloquently about all people getting along irrespective of religious identity, and no one imposing their specific religious practices on anyone else. And then he added that, after all, “You are a Muslim; everyone who submits to God is a Muslim.”
When added to everything else the three Palestinians told me, and to what the chief spokesman for the Palestinian Authority told me three years ago in Ramallah — that there is no such thing as the Jewish people, only the Jewish religion — it is close to impossible to imagine Palestinians accepting a Jewish state.
Dennis Prager writes: Remember the “Hands up, don’t shoot” narrative that dominated American media and all of the protests against a white officer’s shooting of Michael Brown, a Black teenager in Ferguson, Mo.?
It was all a lie.
Never happened.
Yet, media personalities, NFL players, and even congressional representatives employed the arms-up gesture and recited the mantra “Hands up, don’t shoot” for the television cameras. And even after the Justice Department released a report thoroughly refuting both the lie and Brown’s victim status, President Barack Obama has made multiple references to Ferguson in his speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Selma march — as if there were all sorts of moral parallels.
That lie ruined a city’s economy, not to mention the livelihood and life of an innocent policeman. And, of course, it gave those Black Americans resentful toward America another reason to express anger at white America.
But that hysteria is small scale compared to the hysteria fomented against Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s voters for his having won an election he was supposed to lose.
This hysteria — whipped up by the (Jewish as much as non-Jewish) left and especially by the president of the United States — has allowed this president to weaken the bonds between America and Israel more than at any time in the 66 years of Israel’s existence.
The vitriol directed against Netanyahu and Israel is allegedly based on two comments Netanyahu made in Israel shortly before the election.
One was about a Palestinian state:
“The right-wing rule is in danger. The Arab voters are coming in great numbers to the polling stations. The left-wing nonprofit organizations are bringing them in buses. Go out to the polling stations, bring your friends and family, and vote Mahal [Likud] in order to close the gap between us and the Labor Party.”
The president of the United States and most if not all of America’s and Israel’s left repeatedly describe this as “racist” and
anti-democratic.
That is a lie.
There is nothing racist or anti-democratic about the comment.
If “racist” actually means something — other than being useful as a left-wing epithet with which to regularly describe right-wingers (in America as well as Israel) — there is not a hint of racism in the comment. How exactly are Arab Israelis depicted negatively in this comment? Do not Democrats in America regularly inveigh against “old white males”?
Nor is there a hint of disenfranchising Arab Israelis. The message to Netanyahu’s followers was simply an appeal to get to the polls because his political opponents appeared to be ensuring that as many Arab voters as possible got to the polls where they were expected to vote against him and his party.
Yet, not only is the accusation false, the comment on which it is based is almost universally mistranslated. Almost all citations of the phrase use the term “in droves” or, less frequently, “hordes of.” Both terms are far more derogatory than what Netanyahu actually said — “in great numbers” (kamuyot adirot). But because “great numbers” of Arab voters sounds considerably less disrespectful, the Western press prefers “in droves” and “hordes.” That’s how they can charge Netanyahu with “racism” never implied in the original Hebrew — by manipulating his words in translation.
On the day of the Israeli election, March 17, The New York Times correctly translated Netanyahu: “Right-wing rule is in danger. Arab voters are streaming in huge quantities to the polling stations.” But it has since joined the other mainstream media in using the inaccurate and loaded translation, “in droves.”
* Social media is a powerful tool.
One reason the Left is winning is the Right doesn’t fight out of fear.
On Facebook all my lefty friends and family use their real names as they spew SJW crap and call everybody racist, sexist, homophobic scum. They don’t seem the slightest bit worried about their jobs being threatened.
My righty friends and family mostly keep quiet on Facebook. Terrified of saying the wrong thing.
But abandoning the battlefield guarantees victory for the other side. 90% of success is showing up. The Left shows up in the daily Facebook/Twitter wars.
* He knew that the information people would concentrate on is the fact that the has three children to support. The apology was a means to convey that information to the public. And it worked.
I, and every other adult male I know, make sexual (and sometimes sexist) jokes all the time. Especially during boring conferences. I also have three children. I am not a developer, but when I read the article I thought “It could have been me.”
Adria Richards is a nasty woman who eavesdrops on other people’s private conversations, then goes public about what she heard, even publishing pictures, to do MAXIMUM HARM to others. She had no second thoughts about ruining the life of a guy she didn’t even know. Who would want to work with such a person? I wouldn’t. Because she’s dangerous.
I guess that most female developers understood the message: “If you want to work with men, don’t be dangerous for them.”
* I see this kind of short sightedness mostly on the left because they are so convinced that they are totally right and that they will alway be in power because history is on their side or something.
You saw that in Richards who felt confident lashing out but was totally blindsided and amazed when the blowback came.
You see that in the Senate where Reid changed centuries old rules regarding the filibuster in order to achieve short term advantage, with no concern about what that would mean for Democrats in the distant future once they were again in the minority (which turned out to be a whole two years later).
It does not seem to occur to them that establishing the principle that it is OK to cause people who hold opinions or sing songs or tell jokes that you find disagreeable to lose their jobs, be expelled from college, etc. might someday come back to bite them.
Everything that they believe in is right, so how could you ever be punished for holding a correct opinion? And why should people of good conscience be made to feel unsafe in their school or workplace by having to tolerate those whose views are just plain wrong?
It never occurs to them that they could end up being on the other side of this equation as the ones considered “wrong”, because clearly (in their heads) they are and always will be right. If their views weren’t correct, they wouldn’t have them in the first place.
* The Greek-English idea was that argument should be a sport. They did pretty well for themselves out of it.
USC has Jewish groups and black groups. Will it get a safe place for white people to hang out?
When some USC student government leaders voiced support for creating a cultural house for black students, Ama Amoafo-Yeboah thought that she and other undergraduates were closer to having a space where they could hang out and hold events.
But before a vote was held, word spread that the house could be located on the Row, USC’s two-block stretch of fraternities and sororities near 28th and Figueroa streets. Social media lit up.
“Why would they open a prison on the Row?” one user asked on Yik Yak, a popular social media app that allows anonymous comments from users within a 1.5-mile radius.
* How would you like an African American heritage house on your block? As opposed to a Jewish/Chinese/Korean/Latino/Islamic heritage house?
Friend: “Saw a bunch a black people turning a historic house into a mosque the other day though.”
Susan: How would you like an Aussie moving in to your neighbourhood and setting up a humpy?
* After congratulating the Mexican for the second time today on Cesar Chavez day, I told him that I considered him white and he gave me a strange look because he evidently considered himself Mexican and not white, even though he looks white and he sounds white and acts white. I thought I was giving him a compliment but I don’t want to commit cultural genocide.
* The ACLU opposes censorship of library books, but supports making libraries unbearable to visit by representing horrible-smelling homeless people who want to hang out all day in the library.
In my experience, librarians are really nice people. I trust them to not wantonly kick people out who are not causing any harm or disruption. But the ACLU is OK with turning them into de facto homeless shelters / bum-computer-porn-masterbation safe places.
* People generally get the interest rates they deserve.
* Rip-off loans is where banker scumbaggery and IQ denialism profitably intersect.
Good paternalistic liberals like Senator Warren just want to ban payday loans, which often feature 7,000% interest rates.
The banks, however, insist the solution is “financial education.” Rather than cap interest rates, let’s protect the IQ<85 set by forcing schools to try to teach them concepts like present value, compound interest, and amortization.* No they give good rates because they know Blacks and Hispanics aren’t good loan prospects, many lie out their ass, are flakey and often abuse the merchandise or just drive it down to Mexico where it disappears and the driver vanishes.Or they let it get stolen and stripped to the frame, The frame ends up at a auto salvage auction where it’s sold for pennies on the dollar to the same people who stole and stripped it. Since they have all the parts, they put it back together and sell it for a nice profit and it’s legal as can be. I used to see it all the time at the auctions. No one dared bid on the frames except the thieves.Now some dealers make serious bank dealing with deadbeats. We got this one dealer where I live who specializes into selling and scamming deadbeat Mexicans and Blacks and it’s made him rich. First off he does his own financing(which looks good but isn’t), two he installs a tracker in each vehicle so he knows where they are at all times. When a buyer has trouble making payments, he calls them in saying the car is due for a free preventative maintenance check, the driver shows up, he escorts him/her into a office, while a employee repossessed the car. When the buyer walks out the car is gone. Then the car is cleaned up and put back on the lot for sale.* When I was still in high school I would sub in for my older sister who taught remedial math at the local community college. (It was a small town in the 90′s, things like that happened.) The students were working adults who wanted to better themselves going to school at night, and it was just heartbreaking to see them unable to do long division and multiplication of 3 digit numbers when they really tried hard to do so.These are the people the payday loan scumbags target. The ones who have a steady paycheck than can steal away so easily by having them sign forms they don’t understand. Another prime target for high-interest loans are fresh military recruits, often 18-year-olds from rural areas who have never had a bank account, and are seduced by retired officers who sign up as the salesmen for payday loan places and sleazy auto lenders.* I am not libertarian, but I find that laws seldom prevent stupid people from doing stupid things.It seems to me that, when looking at out-of-wedlock birth rates and such historically, there was a time when even the “IQ<85 set" didn't engage in as reckless behaviors as they do now. The answer seems to be social-cultural constraint of negative (short-sighted) behaviors, rather than arbitrarily capping numbers (which, once established as a precedent, can always be set lower still).When the "IQ<85 set" had intact families and fathers at home, they seemed to have learned through oral tradition if not school home economics classes that obtaining usurious loans was not a good idea.* Back when I first started buying cars, with no down payment, no credit rating, and desperate because I was married with small children, I ended up paying a 40% markup from the list price over the course of a loan. Decades later, I end up paying 7% over markup over the course of the loan; and if I don’t get to do it my way, I leave.People get charged higher rates not because they are black but because they are poor credit risks and also because the customers will take whatever they can get. If you have an established credit rating with no defaults or bankruptcies you are in a far better position to call the tune.The other reason why these bad deals go through is because people are not only innumerate but they are embarrassed that they are innumerate and don’t bother to take a break or use a calculator to figure out exactly how much they will be paying over the course of the loan. In his reparations pitch, Ta Nehisi Coates extends this to home mortgages, as well. But, let’s face it, slavery is no excuse for being bamboozled in a financial transaction.Now, if someone decides that predatory lending practices should cease, OK, but don’t make an affirmative action case out of it. There are plenty of innumerate white people who are prone to making poor financial decisions, too. It is frankly insulting to everybody, and in particular black people, to act as though black people are uniquely stupid such that they have to be protected from poor financial decisions.* Holder’s DOJ is the kind of organization that would litigate over ‘food deserts’, forcing supermarket companies to open new stores, and then sue them because they raised prices due to shoplifting:To lure the shoppers, the department said, the markets were situated in overwhelmingly African-American neighborhoods.* I dated an hispanic girl, first generation, worked a white collar job, worked check to check, lived in an expensive apartment. She got a settlement for a car accident she was in and was awarded $50K.Immediately, she was making plans on how to dole out her “winnings” to her immediate family, and to spend it on frivolities. She was in her early twenties. This was in 1995. I told her if she put some money aside into the stock market, and pretended she didn’t have it for at least ten years, she’d have a nice nest egg for her to retire. She couldn’t deal with the idea. I told her to buy 1K shares of Apple when it was at 15, btw.Had she done what I advised, since apple has quintupled the stock since then, and added dividends, she would currently have no financial worries, and a money tree of dividends every quarter.She doled it all out to her relatives, and on a fancy vacation, blowing the entire amount in a year. She still lives in an apartment, not much savings, living check to check. I explained all she needed to know. The what, how, and why of it, over and over and over. She was too stupid to hear a thing. So this “educate them” business isn’t all some make it out to be.If you’re too stupid, you will sit and nod your head while something is explained to you, and you will still do the stupid thing.* I bought a pretty nice used car last year and paid precisely what I considered its reasonable value. Afterward, I was bragging to a buddy who’s an ad man about my hard negotiation tactics and he said, “We’re the sort of customers that dealerships hate, because we actually know what the car’s worth”– “we” meaning white guys. He explained that black guys pay a good deal more than it’s worth “and not because of racism, but because they want to brag about how much they paid.”
David Steinberg writes: Yesterday, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency appeared to be the first media outlet to notice a disturbing tweet from Comedy Central’s new hire Trevor Noah, who is pegged to replace Jon Stewart as host of the Daily Show:
South Africans know how to recycle like israel knows how to be peaceful.
— Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah) June 2, 2010
Late this evening, author and former Conservative MP Louise Mensch found several more:
Behind every successful Rap Billionaire is a double as rich Jewish man. #BeatsByDreidel
— Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah) May 7, 2012
Luke: I notice the media bending over backwards to be gentle with Trevor Noah, because he’s half black.
* Great illustration of progressive double-standards.
The guy has an obvious pattern of ugly anti-Semitism and misogyny.
Michael Richards says the N-word in a nite-club act – any potential friends or defenders run and hide – is crucified on national news – and must go on a teary-eyed apology tour.
This guy is a half-black ( symbolizing a stand-in for Barack Obama, psychologically for progressives ) – South African ( favored nation status ) and ready to join the Holy Grail for progressives – Daily Show.
So they rush to apply the soothing balm – mitigating circumstances – oh, it all happened years ago. Oh – he’s just a comedian – not a politician. ( If you ever looked at salon.com – you would know that Jon Stewart is regarded as a political figure by progressives).
* He’ll learn soon enough that for his audience the only acceptable object of hate is Republicans…
* These jokes made me cringe not because they’re offensive, but because they’re just so DUMB. Not funny in the least. And you’d think Comedy Central would have done a social media check before hiring him? Stupid all around.
* John Stewart can cross the line, but NOT ANYONE WHO IS NOT A MEMBER OF THE “tribe”. You can only target Christians, Muslims, Arabs, Putting, Iran, Gaddafi, Southerners, Hillbillies and rednecks.
Them are the rules.
I didn’t make them.
/ducks
* Distasteful, and not very good jokes aside, do we really need yet another foreign (Canadians don’t count) comedian getting a major hosting job where the can lecture the USA on everything that is wrong with us while ignoring how screwed up the rest of the world is. This is three in the last year by my count, 2 Brits and now a South African. It’s not like there is a lack of American comedians who hate America.
* I think the reason this is so disturbing (to me, YMMV), is that all the Daily Show correspondents so far have been like Caesar’s wife and beyond reproach in how they conduct themselves. Even if you disagree with their politics, or find them unfunny,
From Colbert to Carrell to Wiltmore to even Jason Jones (the most bro-y, frat boy like of them all), I don’t get the sense that they are terrible people, or that they go after low hanging fruit when it comes to comedy. Even when they skirt the line, I trust their intent.
With this Noah person, I dont feel the same way. Maybe I’m mistaken and these tweets and what have you are taken out of context. But he’s on probation as far as I’m concerned.
The United States has decided to go in a new direction. As part of our reorganization, we would like to make you this one-time offer, expiring in six months, of $50,000 to leave the country.
