Month: May 2019

More reasons for Synagogue Carry, Philadelphia edition

This is news out of Philadelphia.  Note that I spent some time on Sunday looking for this to hit the national news and it did not.

The whole video from MEMRI TV is below.

The Muslim Society did address the video.

Executive Director Ayman Hammous said the Muslim American Society learned of the content of the video after the Middle East Media Research Institute posted a translation Friday. The society issued a statement calling the video “disturbing” and condemning the words used in it.

So they found the words disturbing?

Translation: “we agree with what ideology here but it looks bad when our kids say what we really think.”

The Muslim American Society asked the school board to dismiss the person in charge of the program, which it did, Hammous said. He said he’s “evaluating” the leadership of the Philadelphia chapter because they failed to provide proper oversight, but could not say yet whether anyone would be removed.

So the issue is the school “failed to provide proper oversight.”

Translation: “This was supposed to happen behind closed doors, how did video of this get leaked to the general public?”

Consider how many families had to be involved in something like this.

How many people had to know that a room full of children were being taught songs glorifying terrorism and the murder of Jews.

The attitude in the European Islamic community is that attacks on Jews anywhere is an attack on Israel.  For Muslims who cannot travel to the Middle East for jihad, attacking Jews in Europe is a legitimate act.

Is this also being pushed in Philadelphia?

This is why I cannot take the argument from the Left seriously that the only threat to American Jews is from the Right and white supremacists.

Can these children every unlearn what they have been taught?

Is anybody even going to try?

There is a well established history of Hamas training and indoctrinating children in anti-Israeli terrorism and how that has facilitated a generational long conflict.

Will these children grow up and be a continuous threat to the Jewish community of Philadelphia, and beyond, for what amounts to their entire lives?

 

 

It had to be Monday to see stuff like this.

I was begging it was an ad-on for people with problems like advanced arthritis which they would have issues racking a slide, but no.

And that elicits a question: Why are you carrying a sidearm with an empty chamber, specially while driving?

Later in the page, they do mention that it could be useful for people with injured hands but no mention of debilitating sicknesses.

And since it is from Florida…. well, you go ahead and say it.

 

A New Citizen of this great Country of ours: Bayou Renaissance Man

Peter Grant stood and took the oath. On emotional things like this, I get profoundly mute and stupid so I always fear I am going to say the wrong thing. I am also a Naturalized Citizens and I want to tell you why is so moving for us:

We took the Oath.

You see? Most Americans unless they are serving in some manner to our country, do not have to take the oath. It is not quite the same like when a soldier does it, for example, but it is intense. My right hand was up, I was saying the words with the heart pounding like crazy, mind was racing and it was bogged down at the same time. It was a bit of  roller coaster of emotion.

And then I was a Citizen. It felt great.

I know Peter must felt something similar and yet, very particular.

I want to dedicate two scenes from two movies to him. The first one became  a premonition  in 1981 when I went to NYC for vacation. A siren call.

The second is from a great Robin Williams movie: Moscow in the Hudson. It is a comedy as with all comedies situations are exaggerated… and then again many of us felt identified with Robin’s character because it is hard to shed the mental chains forged from our old countries and they clash with US way of life. And when life gets tough, sometimes we made the mistake to revert to the old familiar thoughts even if they were wrong because there is comfort on what you were raised on.

In one way or another, we all were a little bit of Vladimir Ivanoff.

Peter, Welcome Brother!

 

I am gonna take a long nap

Left side is the Missus’: Ham, salami, onions and a bit of mushrooms.
Right side is mine: Ham, more ham, lots of mushrooms and anchovies.

Lots of mozzarella bottom and top with shavings of pecorino, romano and parmesan as finishing touch. Oh yes, home-made dough for the crust.

 

Florida Legislature: Gun Bills go Sine Die for 2019.

Sine die definition  – without any future date being designated (as for resumption)

We close this legislative year with two “pro-gun” bill. First is  SB7030 which include the volunteer armed teachers in the Guardian program.

Second is HB 7059 – OGSR/Concealed Carry License/DACS:  Records of those applying for a Concealed Weapons License via the Tax Collector’s office will remain confidential.

We did not get B 1238: Safety of Religious Institutions (Clarification on Church Carry). So be careful with your religious institution.

What did not pass:

  1.  Including theaters and performing art centers as Gun Free Zones.
  2.  Assault Weapons and Large Capacity Magazines Ban. (2 bills)
  3.  Universal background Checks. (2 bills)
  4.  Repealing State Preemption. (2 bills)
  5. Revising the standard under which a person is justified in using or threatening to use nondeadly or deadly force.
  6. Prohibiting a concealed weapon or firearm licensee from openly carrying a handgun or carrying a concealed weapon or firearm into any child care facility,.
  7.  Reinforcing the Red Flag law.
  8.  Shooting your firearms in your property prohibited unless it is larger than 5 acres.
  9.  3D firearms ban.
  10.  Prohibition of minors posting firearm is social media.
  11.  Reducing the number of years CWL are valid and “proficiency” test.
  12.  Making anybody convicted of misdemeanor hate crime a prohibited person.

The bills pretty much died in birth. It seems there was no political stomach for it after all the political capital spent last year and the bitchslap to the school board, the BSO and gun control in general that represented the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission Report.

I am telling you what was not helpful: The state’s Gun Rights associations. I saw Marion Hammer once testifying in one committee and that was it. I saw nothing else from Unified Sportsmen of Florida and zero from Florida Carry in the Legislature.

It was an embarrassment. If we lose rights in Florida, we have nobody but ourselves to blame.

I am taking the weekend off from all Gun Rights stuff. Funny stuff will probably be posted for filler.

IMAO: Disney Strikes Back! Tells Bernie Sanders No, HE Should Make 22 Blockbuster Movies in a Previously Unprofitable Genre

HOLLYWOOD (AP) – In response to Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ tweeted suggestion that Disney should “[use] its profits from Avengers to pay all of its workers a middle class wage,” Disney CEO Bob Iger responded that the real solution was for more socialists like Bernie Sanders to make 22 profitable, high-budget movies in a genre that had heretofore only experienced mild and sporadic success.

Disney Strikes Back! Tells Bernie Sanders No, HE Should Make 22 Blockbuster Movies in a Previously Unprofitable Genre

IMAO.us has been carrying us in their blogroll for years now. They are joining the Political Parody in Absurdity movement and I am more than happy to give them our support.

And yes, Bernie said that crap. That was not a parody quote.