Scum and Scummier

A Monster of Our Own

The impoverished life of Hillary Rodham Clinton

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415417/monster-our-own-kevin-d-williamson

Before the St. Patrick's Day Parades - Did we give Gerry Adams a get out of jail free card?

Lest we forget. Not all the snakes were driven out of Ireland by St. Patrick. Over a decade ago, Gerry Adams would show up in Irish Pubs in the Northeastern US soliciting funds for guns, bombs and terror training in Libya. He is supported by priests and publicans alike, yet the IRA is still a Marxist terror gang. There is a sick heritage here. m/r



Did we give Gerry Adams a get out of jail free card? | Daily Mail Online



By PETER MCKAY FOR THE DAILY MAIL 3-15-15

The news from America that Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams might have been an IRA terrorist commander who ordered the bombing and shooting of innocent civilians falls into a special category. Call it the 'So what else is new?' file.

It might not even be news to insular Americans, who, via their reckless donations to Irish Republican terrorists, made sure they had a plentiful supply of weapons and munitions to prolong their cause until they'd exhausted our politicians into cutting a deal.

Adams's crowning achievement subsequently was an invitation to the White House by President Bill Clinton in 1994.

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Strange Fruit

Gay narrative and media continue to promote their end-justifies-means chronic, perverse lies. m/r

"All the plays and movies were like that: Hamlet without the Prince; The Matthew Shepard Story with no Shepard, only a bunch of sheep following the party line. In creating the iconic Matthew, his family and the Big Gay opportunists smothered the real Matthew."

Shepard and Sheep :: SteynOnline

by Mark Steyn Steyn on Culture March 12, 2015

By rights, Stephen Jimenez ought to be a famous author and his book a bestseller - and taught in journalism schools, law school, and police academy to boot. Because his subject - the murder of Matthew Shepard 17 years ago - is the clearest example of what happens when a favored lobby group inserts itself between the news coverage and reality. The official version - gay martyrdom in the heartland of a bigoted rural America - is still being peddled, in The Huffington Post and on the Oprah Network. The fact that it is completely false makes no difference to the Big Gay enforcers, as Mr Jimenez, who is himself gay, discovered when he set out to tell the truth about what happened.

A few days ago Spiked! in Britain carried a fascinating interview with Jimenez:

Stephen Jimenez spent 13 years researching The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard, which argues that the Matthew Shepard story, a US 21-year-old student who was allegedly beaten to death for being gay in 1998, as it has been popularly told has little, if anything, to do with the details of Matthew's life and death. He spoke with me this week about the book, and some of the well-guarded territory it covers.

Mark Adnum: You've said that the media reported the story of Matthew's murder 'inaccurately from the beginning', and as a result 'an overtly simplistic narrative got set in stone'. What core elements of the story are inaccurate?

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Now We are All Lost: "Part of their "Never Lost" system - Hertz puts cameras in its rental cars

Like the NSA, DHS and the rest of the Gov't said it would never spy on Americans. m/r

Hertz puts cameras in its rental cars, says it has no plans to use them -- Fusion

Sadly This Scene Is Too Familiar Here in Every Aspect

Vuyo Mvoko mugged in full view of SABC cameras

Published on Mar 10, 2015

Sadly, while our contributing editor Vuyo Mvoko was busy with the coverage of President Lungu visit to Milpark hospital this evening, he became a victim of mugging outside the hospital in full view of SABC cameras.

One Might Think Obama Hates Jews in General, Netanyahu Specifically

Ousting An Ally? - Rpt: Senate Probes Grants To Oust Netanyahu - Fox & Friends

Mar 15, 2015

Ousting An Ally? - Rpt: Senate Probes Grants To Oust Netanyahu - Fox & Friends
Funding Flap - Onevoice Receiveds $350,000 From State Dept.

In Mexico, their President Peña Blames the US to Distract From His Corruption

Much like Obama, he's a small minded, mean hypocrite, attacking the reporter who exposed him. And like our suck-up press, the report's media bosses are helping Peña hide his corruption. m/r

In Mexico, a hard-hitting journalist is getting her wings clipped, again - LA Times

3-13-15

Carmen Aristegui may be Mexico's most famous journalist — and her bosses are clipping her wings

Are the moves by a Mexican radio station meant to intimidate and punish hard-hitting journalists?

She is sort of a cross between Christiane Amanpour (let us hope not that bad) and a dog with a bone. Carmen Aristegui is possibly Mexico's most famous journalist, very courageous and often annoying. She hosts an enormously popular four-hour daily radio program and has a nightly talk-show gig on the Spanish-language service of CNN.

And now, she is in trouble.

Again.

Aristegui has clashed with the corporate bosses who own her radio station and for at least the third time in recent years has faced being off the air at least temporarily.

This time her bosses, without consulting her, she says, fired two key members of her investigative reporting staff. They happen to be the journalists who exposed possible conflict-of-interest real-estate deals involving Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and his wife and several mansions, unleashing a scandal that the government has yet to put to rest.

Mexico
president's approval plunges over scandals, missing students

Many people in Mexico see the station's actions as an effort to intimidate and punish hard-hitting journalists and wonder who is really behind it.

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Stalin is Alive and Well in "Progressives" - The Cultural Gulag of Islam & Liberal Progressivism

Muti-Cultural, Relativist, Commie-Fascists are inside our gates. m/r

The Cultural Gulag of Islam & Liberal Progressivism 

March 13, 2015  In Culture,Middle East,World News 

A watch tower stands in a museum commemorating victims of Soviet-era political repressions located in a former prison camp, some 110 kms (69 miles) northeast of the west Siberian city of Perm, Russia, Friday, March 6, 2015.  (AP Photo/Alexander Agafonov)

There are many threats to the continuity of the modern world, of which Islam in its manifold guises — international terrorism, the razia of unfettered immigration, Iranian nuclear ambitions — is the most prominent. But the Islamic agenda would not be what it is without the “progressivist” mentality and attendant policy making that are handing the barbarians the keys to the city. Islam and progressivism, to cite Jamie Glazov, are United in Hate ^[1]. Indeed, as Executive Director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism Stephen Schwartz remarks in First Things ^[2], the deep complicity between Islam and the left goes a long way back, to the writings of the chief Communist impresarios, Marx and Lenin, as well as to lesser lights like Bolshevik intellectual Karl Radek. America’s far-left^[3], pro-Muslim ^[4] president has merely continued the dismal tradition.

Thus, we need to consider the broader canvas to which the camel in the room directs our attention. The obsession with multiculturalism that is destroying our civilizational patrimony is a sign of the feverish intoxication with the humanly improbable that characterizes leftist thinking: that we are all born equal (true with respect to rights, but not with respect to talent, intelligence or personal qualities); that sociopolitical changes can eradicate the flaws and blemishes of our nature (demonstrably wrong); that competition is a social evil that must be eliminated for the general advantage (pure fairyland); that education should be politically motivated to promote what is absurdly termed “social justice” (the death knell of critical thought); that tolerance for the “Other,” however defined, trumps due process in the courts (the erosion of equity); that ancient guilts require present expiation (rank unfairness); and, the great canard of our time, that all cultures are on an existential par, none being “better,” more ethical or more advanced than any other (manifestly false).

Hence the dogma of cultural and moral equivalence to which the liberal/left adheres, as practiced most conspicuously by the jerk in the White House and by the majority of our political, community and institutional leadership. No culture, religion or civilization, apparently, is superior to any other, an axiom derived, as I observed in a 2011 PJM article, “The Origins of Postmodernitis ^[5],” from the early anthropologist Franz Boas. Boas laid it down in his seminal The Mind of Primitive Man ^[6] that all cultures should be regarded with sympathy, that we should hold the conviction that all “races” —  today we would say “ethnicities” —  have “contributed to cultural progress in one way or another” and that they are equally capable of “advancing the interests of mankind.” Unfortunately, as I conclude there, what started out as a methodological discipline in the field of anthropology has mutated into an intellectual sickness that regards our own culture as nothing more than a provisional adaptation. We are all, it appears, moral and cultural isomorphs.

The utopian malady runs deep in the leftist psychodrama. Consider the irony of the Charlie Hebdo attack. As Clash Daily contributor William Spencer-Hale points out ^[7], “The employees, artists, writers and editors of Charlie Hebdo were all true to life followers of the Church of Leftism. They…eagerly embraced all the tenets of liberalism. They, like so many of their fellow countrymen, voted to implement those policies that are the hallmark of the modern leftist. Among them being gun control and unfettered immigration.” The fantasy world continues to impinge upon the real one, regardless of deadly consequences.

There is a lesson to be learned from contemplating the lasting damage that such torpid maunderings and emotional convulsions can inflict.

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Can't We Do Better than These Two?

Why, when Clinton's and Warren's most prominent identity, aside from being homely women, is being terrible liars? m/r

Tropic of Cankle :: SteynOnline

by Mark Steyn Steyn on America
March 13, 2015

"Ignore the noise - Clinton will win in 2016," we are assured by a columnist in Hillary's journalistic namesakeThe Hill. "The email flap will be gone soon enough."

That's probably the way to bet. Rightie pundits are going on about government-issue Blackberries, insecure servers, federal record-keeping, the law, national security, peripheral stuff like that. Leftie pundits are saying: yawn, nobody cares, it's never gonna catch fire, give it up. Everyone implicitly agrees that Hillary did something she shouldn't and that her justification for doing so is ridiculous. The only disagreement is whether it makes any difference. The Hill's Fernando Espuelas says no:

Clinton has a built-in advantage — her gender... Some percentage of Americans, likely a large one, would like to cast a historic vote. When polling points to Americans wanting "change," what bigger change than a woman as president?

A change to a competent citizen-executive whose administration spends within its means, ceases obstructing economic growth and middle-class prosperity, and restores American influence in the world?

Oh, well. One takes his point: Most other citizens of developed and not-so-developed societies cast those "historic votes" long ago - Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, India, Dominica, Jamaica, Guyana, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Israel, Turkey, Portugal, Germany, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia, Transnistria... At the time of those "historic votes" on a good half of that list, "gender" was not "a built-in advantage" but a built-in disadvantage that skilled and nimble female candidates had to be exceptional to overcome. If I follow Mr Espuelas correctly, he's saying that America is getting round to its "historic vote" so late that "gender" is now such an advantage that any old female candidate can be dragged across the finish line, no matter how shopworn, wooden, charmless, tin-eared and corrupt.

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She Doesn't Look That Good

Michelle Obama got me fired: Disgraced Univision host claims First Lady's office intervened when she heard his racist Planet Of The Apes remark | Daily Mail Online