Basically he went through the motions and said nothing new. I think he spent about a minute covering both the No Fly/Terror list and “assault weapons and that “we” must do something about them. I know that lots of people were worried about Executive Orders, but the Prez had many of them brutally reversed in court on other issues of less clout. Having an Executive Order about gun reversed by the court would be a stain his ego would not stand in my opinion.
If you get (And you will) an idiot going desperate about how do we need to pass a law to stop the individuals in the No Fly/Terrorist watch list, here is a tip.
In September 2007, the Inspector General of the Justice Department reported that the Terrorist Screening Center (the FBI-administered organization that consolidates terrorist watch list information in the United States) had over 700,000 names in its database as of April 2007 – and that the list was growing by an average of over 20,000 records per month.1 (See also this new March 2008 report.2 ) By those numbers, the list now has over one million names on it. Terrorist watch lists must be tightly focused o
The number is now close to a million as some people in the know say. Worldwide and depending which source, some say that there are under 200,000 and some up to 350,000. So the question begs How the hell that list contains between 700,000 and a million names? That is twice the worldwide number! And if there are that many? How come we have not had at least one act of terror per week? And if we know who they are and they are conspiring, why are they not arrested/extradited?
Ergo: the list is bullshit.
PS: I did find something that surprised me in Obama’s speech: He finally admitted that Ft. Hood was a terrorist incident.
Jim Morin’s cartoon in yesterday’s Miami Herald.
You have to admit it is a new approach and he get kudos for moving the goalposts at least all the way to Key West with this one.
But I seem to recall Mr. Morin is not too fond of cops either:
Linda Stasi, of the NY Daily News, wrote a piece about the San Bernardino shooting that is about as detestable a piece of moral equivocation as anything I’ve every seen.
In a nutshell: “Farook may have killed 14 people, but one of this victims didn’t like Muslims or Planned Parenthood and was an NRA supporter, so… I guess the terrorist attack really wasn’t ALL bad.”
Well Ms. Stasi, I didn’t know the victim Nicholas Thalasinos. His Facebook page is now defunct, so all I can read of it is second hand quotes. But here is what I know, and what Mr. Thalasinos knew, and what many, many Jews have learned or are learning, and what you are amazingly ignorant to.
Muslims hate Jews. I know I’m not supposed paint withe a broad brush, so let’s break it down just a tad. Pew Research Center conducted a poll in a number of countries, about how the people in different countries feel about other religions.
Guess what?
100% of Jordanians hate Jews.
93% of Palestinians hate Jews.
Lebanon its 99%, Egypt is at only 98%. Turkey, a supposedly moderate state, is at 71% hatred of Jews. You can get a better country by country breakdown here.
Read news from the Middle East or watch Middle Eastern TV online and you will see Muslim leaders call Jews apes, pigs, disease, filthy, etc. You will hear how Jews drink blood and steal children. Cartoonspublished in the Islamic world are indistinguishable from cartoons printed in the official Nazi tabloid. Hezbollah claims that it wants to wipe out all Jews worldwide. Hamas likewise calls for the extermination of Jews.
Our Children watch Sesame Street or the Disney Channel. Our children are taught to share and make friends. Muslim children watch a guy in a bumblebee costume teach them how to kill Jews.
This is the world I live in. This is the world all of us Jews live in. This is the world I raise my Jewish children in. A world in which Muslim leaders call for our extermination. Every. Single. Day. And if the recent bout of stabbings and shootings in Israel, France, the UK, and US are any indication, the Muslim population is listening.
Even IF only 1% of the Muslim world were radical enough to murder Jews. That’s 16 million radicals to 15 million Jews, total.
Maybe, just maybe, you might understand why we Jews are starting to get a little cranky. Why we Jews are starting to arm up. Why perhaps the Left’s “don’t confuse Islam with terrorism” head-in-the-sand cowardice isn’t really protecting us. Fighting Islamic antisemitism with tolerance and platitudes gets you a knife in the ribs or a bullet in the back.
I am not calling for the extermination of Muslims. I’d prefer to life in peace. But I’m not going to trust my safety and safety of my family to words. I trust trust my safety and safety of my family to Hornday Critical Defense, Speer Gold Dot, and Corbon JHP. When I say “never again” I mean it. With a bullet.
If you can’t tell the difference between hating another group of people because your religion and culture commands that you hate them because of their religion, and disliking (or even hating) the people that hate your for your religion and call for your extermination daily, than you have a serious problem with your moral compass.
By your asinine logic, it’s wrong for Jews to dislike Nazis too. Or does that make me a bigot?
Florida gets a bad rap for being the country’s stupidest state. For the most part, that goes back to the 2000 election and the butterfly ballot issue. The then every once in a while, my people (I’m a born and raised Floridian) decide to reinforce the stereotype.
Growing up in Miami, I am familiar with the Art Basel and the pop art district of Miami Beach. It’s weird. Seriously. I don’t get art. Some art I like. Like the stuff that adorned our bombers in WWII. But I have been told that doesn’t count as art.
Artists are weird. Performance art is weirder (you have been warned).
Case in point, the new iguana I call Anaranjada (Orangy).
She is not that big for South Florida standards but I think big enough to take care of the neighborhood dogs that run into the medium to small sizes .
But what surprised the hell out of me is that 10 minutes after I took that picture, Anaranjada jumped into the water and proceeded to swim across the lake to the other side (214 yards according to Google maps), on a straight line with a crosswind of at least 10 mph. I was so amazed I did not think to video the event until she was halfway inside the lake.
So what has been happening with people after the San Bernardino TERRORIST attack? People marching in the streets demanding ban all the guns? Burning of the NRA HQ in Virginia? Stoning gun owners at gun ranges?
So the LA Times published an opinion piece on how it’s too easy to get guns and only the military should have…. blah… blah… blah… usual bullshit, whatever.
At the top of the article was this hard hitting cartoon:
David Horsey is a little late to the party when it comes to criticizing America by making our flag out of guns.
A left wing blog posted a similar cartoon after the Tuscon shooting.
The horrible movie “The Purge: Anarchy” which was supposed to be anti-American and anti-conservative used a similar logo for its poster.
I guess these are supposed to scare me or something. Make me fear for my life because my country is awash in guns.
Except, my country is already awash in guns. There are more guns in America than people and guns are still flying off the shelves. I live in one of the top ten most gun owning states in the Union.
Horsey’s gun flag doesn’t scare me. I want one. Not exactly like it with Glocks and AK’s. I want one that is full American, 1911’s and alternating AR-15 and M1 Garands. I would fly that un-ironically. I would have that as a window sticker on my pickup. I would embrace the heck out of it.
Just note the juxtaposition. A flag made of guns, tools of freedom, is used by Liberals to try and scare and shame America. And yet they would fly a flag with the president’s face on it, because obsequious kowtowing to a cult of personality is totally what a free people in a free country do. That offends me a lot more than a flag made of guns.
