tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post3608378138732385498..comments2024-03-28T21:41:52.558-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Since 9/11, Jihadists Have Killed 26 Americans On U.S. Soil - Here Are The Statistics On Domestic Killers Of Us CitizensDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-76966391715370732722015-06-21T01:20:25.742-04:002015-06-21T01:20:25.742-04:00Time to arm up, Ash, Quirk. My wife has done so, a...Time to arm up, Ash, Quirk. My wife has done so, as all responsible citizens should do. Get that concealed weapons permit now.<br /><br />" An armed Bar is a polite Bar"<br /><br />Deuce<br /><br />"Without the 2nd Amendment we got nothin'"<br /><br />Rufus<br /><br />If One of the Churchgoers in Charleston Had Been Armed . . . fullscreen (Scott Olson/Getty) <br /><br /> by David French June 18, 2015 11:00 PM @DavidAFrench <br /><br />While it may be weeks or months before we know the full details of Dylann Storm Roof’s alleged attack on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., the early reports are both heartbreaking and infuriating. Roof allegedly entered the church, attended a Bible study, sat next to its pastor — state senator Clementa Pinckney — and then opened fire. It’s hard to imagine a more callous and profane act. It appears that the shooting was quite deliberate. He’s said to have reloaded five times during the course of the attack, allegedly even taking the time to talk to his victims. According to the New York Times, he said: “I have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.” If these reports are true (again, it’s early), Charleston, S.C., has just suffered a race-motivated terror attack. As I read the news and watched the coverage, I felt stricken for the victims, fury at the attacker, and more than a little personal conviction. Not because of any silly notions of collective white guilt or other nonsense peddled by the radical Left — and certainly not because I’ve long opposed the Left’s gun-control efforts and supported the individual, inherent right of self-defense, including the right to keep and bear arms. No, I felt conviction because of the numerous times that I’ve walked out of my house unarmed and thus largely incapable of defending myself — and, more important, others — from violent acts. Perhaps I chose not to wear the right kind of clothing — pants that allow me to conceal my carry pistol, for example. Perhaps it crossed my mind to carry, but I thought, “I’m not going anywhere dangerous.” The men and women at the Emanuel Bible study probably didn’t think they were in any danger, either. When we go to the movies, or a political rally, or show up for work — or go to any of the sites of recent mass shootings or other acts of violence — danger is generally the last thought on our minds. Yes, I know the chances of violence on any given day or at any given location are vanishingly small. Yes, I know that even if I’m traveling in higher-crime sections of my community, the odds are overwhelmingly good that I’ll be fine. But I know this: If the unthinkable happens, and I watch as my family, my friends, or even members of my community I’ve never met are hurt or killed when I could have prevented it by carrying the weapon I’ve trained myself to use, I could never forgive myself...................<br /><br />Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420022/carry-weapon-its-your-civic-dutyCharltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51727509673549798612015-06-21T01:05:57.800-04:002015-06-21T01:05:57.800-04:00If you intend to criticize Israel, Deuce, and it s...If you intend to criticize Israel, Deuce, and it seem to be your Raison D'être these days - a truly sad state of being in the world - can't you at least <i>try</i> to do it in an intelligent fashion, like this -<br /><br />Israel’s Great Opportunity<br />June 19, 2015 by Caroline Glick<br /><br />SYR05_SYRIA-DRUZE-_0917_11Originally published by the Jerusalem Post. <br /><br />Over the past two decades Israel has managed to destroy its regional reputation.<br /><br />With our own hands, we have twice shown our neighbors they have little reason to tie their fates to ours. We are unreliable........<br /><br />http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/caroline-glick/israels-great-opportunity/<br /><br />I intend to pleasantly crucify <i>The New You</i> in a few days.<br /><br />Please don't take it personally.<br /><br />Not meant that way. After all, I remember well the old Deuce, capable of good humor, and judicious opinions.<br /><br />Cheers !<br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-79352404926081838822015-06-21T01:05:00.526-04:002015-06-21T01:05:00.526-04:00I feel sorry for Bob. He is probably a nice man bu...I feel sorry for Bob. He is probably a nice man but he is trapped. If he applies some skeptical thinking to any of his deeply held myths, one treasured belief after another will collapse around him.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-31415763712120434362015-06-21T00:56:40.416-04:002015-06-21T00:56:40.416-04:00One high school teacher in a nation of 320 million...One high school teacher in a nation of 320 million people cannot end high culture and if you have been paying attention, there has been no preponderance of high culture anywhere in the US for sometime.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27325695003395182012015-06-21T00:56:03.269-04:002015-06-21T00:56:03.269-04:00Quite the contrary. I sympathize with truly oppres...Quite the contrary. I sympathize with truly oppressed people anywhere. They are all over the place. On the other hand there are many groups that claim to be oppressed but are not. I haven't any sympathy for these folks.<br /><br />I sympathize with the Iranian people for instance, with the Neda's of the world.<br /><br />I hope one fine day the Iranian people will once again rise up and finally get the job done and boot out those mullahs who are "fighting for civilization'.<br /><br />And there you go again with your apartheid in Israel bullshit.<br /><br />You are embarrassing yourself.<br /><br />I have pared the the List of Countries to the following for my Thought Experiment -<br /><br />Israel<br />Jordan under the Monarchy<br />Egypt under Sisi<br />Egypt under the MB<br />Iran<br />ISISland<br />Iraqo/Iranian Shiite Iraq<br />Saudi Arabia<br />Gaza<br />Kurdistan<br />Afghanistan<br />Northern Nigeria<br />Southern Nigeria<br />Libya<br />Syria<br /><br />That is where this Work in Progress stands at this time.<br /><br />Hope to make more progress tomorrow, though it's going to be a busy day.<br /><br />You may be looking at next week.<br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-3351928613527737332015-06-21T00:49:49.062-04:002015-06-21T00:49:49.062-04:00He believes every lie ever taught to him. He is in...He believes every lie ever taught to him. He is incapable of mature independent thinking and skeptical analysis of the obvious lies, contradictions and fabrications of the corporate security and surveillance state despite the catastrophic and obvious failures that surround us day in, day out, year after year and decade after decade. Seven decades on and there is not a glimmer of hope he will ever outflank the captors and owners of his mind.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-68383142479181708922015-06-21T00:46:51.535-04:002015-06-21T00:46:51.535-04:00The end of high culture in the US of A has been an...The end of high culture in the US of A has been announced:<br /><br />UPDATE: High school teacher says Shakespeare is not to be in her classroom......Drudge<br /><br />Not good for ethnically diverse students......DrudgeCharltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-4651107645535007592015-06-21T00:36:27.691-04:002015-06-21T00:36:27.691-04:00No surprise there. Bob is consistent in being a mo...No surprise there. Bob is consistent in being a moral bankrupt incapable of empathy to any oppressed people anywhere, be they US cops strangling a citizen in the streets, US mercenary armies doing violence anywhere or the IDF running a bulldozer over a young American woman demonstrating against apartheid in Israel.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-67538151672777958282015-06-20T22:49:55.620-04:002015-06-20T22:49:55.620-04:00http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/website-...http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/website-appears-to-show-manifesto-of-charleston-shooting-suspect/article25048483/?service=mobileAshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-57446437444255545142015-06-20T22:46:49.613-04:002015-06-20T22:46:49.613-04:00"In the manifesto, Roof writes: “The event th..."In the manifesto, Roof writes: “The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case. I kept hearing and seeing his name, and eventually I decided to look him up. I read the Wikipedia article and right away I was unable to understand what the big deal was. It was obvious that Zimmerman was in the right. But more importantly this prompted me to type in the words ‘black on White crime’ into Google, and I have never been the same since that day.”"<br /><br />Holy smokes batman that sounds just like our very own Idaho Bob!Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32741114644631043182015-06-20T21:50:07.233-04:002015-06-20T21:50:07.233-04:00I have news for you: Bernie Sanders would beat JEB...<b>I have news for you: Bernie Sanders would beat JEB Hiding in the Bushes</b><br /><br />NDIANOLA, Iowa — Bernie Sanders likes to call it “practicing democracy.” He doesn’t take the stage to a blaring soundtrack. He doesn’t have a teleprompter or a phalanx of Secret Service agents surrounding him. But when his Brooklyn accent booms out at a campaign stop in rural Iowa, heads nod along in approval.<br /><br />“What I’m doing in this campaign is trying to tell the people the truth – but a truth which is not heard a whole lot in Washington or discussed a lot in the media,” Sanders said recently at a picnic in Iowa’s Warren County, south of Des Moines.<br /><br />“So let me lay it out on the table for you,” he said. “You’re living in a country today which has more wealth and income inequality than any major industrialized nation on earth.<br /><br />In a race for the Democratic presidential nomination with Hillary Rodham Clinton, the blunt talk about the economy and the gap between the rich and poor is working for Sanders. The independent senator from Vermont is an unconventional messenger at a time when many politicians test-drive what they want to say in polls and with focus groups.<br /><br />Sanders is drawing sizable crowds in the early voting states. He’s also gaining against Clinton in very early polls, particularly in New Hampshire, a factor that impresses the political class even though opinion surveys at this point are limited in predicting who will win.<br /><br />Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46954578877817581082015-06-20T21:14:48.792-04:002015-06-20T21:14:48.792-04:00.
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I suppose one could say by the authority of the....<br /><br /><i>I suppose one could say by the authority of the god's of peace...</i><br /><br />Well, I suppose. That is, of course, if the 'one' s a nitwit.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-24849227022651185902015-06-20T18:58:27.301-04:002015-06-20T18:58:27.301-04:00.
I am not especially worried about the ruling as....<br /><br />I am not especially worried about the ruling as it does nothing to affect my opinion of the death penalty. I am against it.<br /><br />As is much of the United States. Twenty years ago 80% favored the death penalty. Today it s around 60 % and falling. There are only 18 states and the Feds left that allow the death penalty. The court's ruling merely reflect a trend.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-11435590760197906682015-06-20T18:48:07.131-04:002015-06-20T18:48:07.131-04:00.
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On what author...Deuce ☂Sat Jun 20, 05:01:00 PM EDT<br /><br />On what authority does Israel deserve a nuclear monopoly? <br /><br /><br />A non sense question.<br /><br />What authority ?<br /><br />Makes no sense.<br /><br />I suppose one could say by the authority of the god's of peace, but you are unlikely to approve the gods or their authority.<br /><br />Meanwhile <i>The List of Countries</i> on the Thought Experiment's Questionaire having, at over 100, grown unwieldy and confusing, I am working even now to pare The List back a bit.<br /><br /><br />Deuce ☂Sat Jun 20, 05:09:00 PM EDT<br /><br />Did you do a header off the tractor when you were a kid?<br /><br />When did you first determine, and why, to undergo the mental/political equivalent of a sex change operation ?Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27156923879047181302015-06-20T17:09:23.306-04:002015-06-20T17:09:23.306-04:00Did you do a header off the tractor when you were...Did you do a header off the tractor when you were a kid?Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-19685450264285139732015-06-20T17:03:06.217-04:002015-06-20T17:03:06.217-04:00Did the UN bestow it on them? What other rot and n...Did the UN bestow it on them? What other rot and nonsense from the Israeli firsters.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-52353204996839495272015-06-20T17:01:39.088-04:002015-06-20T17:01:39.088-04:00On what authority does Israel deserve a nuclear mo...On what authority does Israel deserve a nuclear monopoly? Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-33738328360649537672015-06-20T16:59:39.204-04:002015-06-20T16:59:39.204-04:00The cash belongs to Iran. It is their money. Israe...The cash belongs to Iran. It is their money. Israel has 300 nuclear weapons, all acquired illegally. They get cash that does not belong to them, our money.<br /><br />Israel has been supportive of ISIS. What kind of organization is ISIS? Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-22248304512519223842015-06-20T16:51:27.640-04:002015-06-20T16:51:27.640-04:00By the way, Quirk, just had an hour long talk with...By the way, Quirk, just had an hour long talk with Wayne this very morning.<br /><br />He thinks we have a wolf/coyote hybrid mix out there now.<br /><br />Smaller than a Canadian wolf, much larger than a coyote.<br /><br />An odd critter.<br /><br />This is unusual. Usually the wolves just run the coyotes off, or kill them outright.<br /><br />Since the wolves have so many elk in the area on which to feed now, they probably don't eat the coyotes after killing them.<br /><br />The killing just being a natural reaction to thin the perceived competition.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-88005152035350786072015-06-20T16:44:03.129-04:002015-06-20T16:44:03.129-04:00So types Quirk, as he munches on his new improved ...So types Quirk, as he munches on his new improved McDonald's Steak Burger Super Sized Dinner Meal.<br /><br />The steak having just been shipped in day fresh from the Stockyards in Chicago.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-12795385736869122912015-06-20T16:40:45.063-04:002015-06-20T16:40:45.063-04:00from my ever growing Iran Fighting For Civilizatio...<i>from</i> my ever growing Iran Fighting For Civilization Files -<br /><br />State Dept: Oh, by the way, our nuclear negotiating partner hasn’t changed its terrorism sponsorship a bit<br />posted at 4:01 pm on June 20, 2015 by Ed Morrissey<br /><br /> Share on Facebook<br /><br />Good to know, since the Obama administration has enabled Iran to access billions of dollars more in cash by loosening sanctions during the negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear-weapons development. The supposed rapprochement hasn’t dimmed the mullahs’ appetite for terrorism, especially via its main proxy Hezbollah, but hardly limited to it:<br /><br /> The State Department said Iran’s support for terrorism was “undiminished” in 2014, and the U.S. remains very concerned about the activities of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and its proxies in the Middle East.<br /><br /> The U.S. worries about Iran’s activities were included in an annual report of global terrorism between 2013 and 2014, released Friday.<br /><br /> Of particular concern, the report said, was Iran’s continued support of the powerful Hezbollah militia and political party in Lebanon; and its assistance to fighters supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Iran also hasn’t identified or initiated judicial proceedings against senior al Qaeda leaders it has in custody. …<br /><br /> The report said “Iran’s state sponsorship of terrorism worldwide remained undiminished” in 2014 and Ms. Kaidanow said the U.S. continued to be “very, very concerned” about its activities, adding that Tehran hasn’t changed its behavior this year.<br /><br />Why should they? The US and other P5+1 nations seem desperate to get any kind of agreement in place to let themselves off the hook for vigilance on nuclear proliferation. The West has practically airlifted cash to Tehran in an effort to wheedle them into remaining at the bargaining table. That allows the mullahs to shore up their political strength at home without cutting into the funds that they spend on spreading radical Shi’ite Islam and attempting to gain control of the region. The mullahs get the best of both worlds.<br /><br />Anyone who understands cash will understand the fungibility of its application here. The Israelis have been warning about this for months, if not longer. The State Department continues to believe that it can compartmentalize the two issues:<br /><br /> “We think it’s essential that we pursue those negotiations,” said Tina Kaidanow, the State Department’s coordinator for counterterrorism. “None of that implies that we would be, again, in any way taking our eye off the ball with respect to what Iran is doing as a supporter of terrorism.”<br /><br />This is nonsense. Iran does not have separate nuclear-weapons and terrorism programs; they are all part of the same strategy. Iran wants to establish its hegemony over the Middle East, eventually take control of Mecca and Medina, seize control of its oil resources, and most definitely wipe Israel off the map. They are fighting the Shi’ite-Sunni war with every resource they can grab and every proxy they can prop up, from Bashar al-Assad to the Houthis.<br /><br />The retreat on sanctions has done nothing to deflect Iran from this course. If they can’t get nukes right away, they’ll use cash to build more terror-network proxies. Eventually they’ll have both, and that will give them all the tools they need to extort the West and the Sunni states in the region, and commit genocide against the Israelis.<br /><br />We had an opportunity to use sanctions to starve the mullahs out of their support for terrorism and force them to comply with non-proliferation pacts — or force the Iranians to act against their oppressors and solve the problem completely. We traded off nukes for terrorism, and we’re certain to end up with both in the end.<br /><br />http://hotair.com/archives/2015/06/20/state-dept-oh-by-the-way-our-nuclear-negotiating-partner-hasnt-changed-its-terrorism-sponsorship-a-bit/Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.com