Crappy Kennedy Reminder

Democrats, Family, Justice, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Morality

Yesterday, on the phone to my father in South Africa, he reminded me of who Ted Kennedy REALLY was:

“A man who left a young girl to drown”:

“On the evening of July 19, 1969, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts drove his Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, drowning his passenger, a young campaign worker named Mary Jo Kopechne. The senator left the scene of the accident, did not report it to the police for many hours, and according to some accounts considered concocting an alibi for himself in the interim. … At the time, Kennedy managed to escape severe legal and political consequences for his actions thanks to his family’s connections…”

Amidst the latest genuflection to TK, Americans and the mindless media would do well to reflect on this man’s defining act. Dad thinks the Kennedy clan is rotten to the core.

My father has been a big influence; he’d always remind that justice was the most frequently occurring word in the Hebrew Bible. When Waco happened, dad was outraged. “They—the government—murdered those people in cold blood,” he fumed. It’s an immutably true insight that has eludes too many Americans. Needless to say that we did not debate, but only touched on, the kidnapping by Texas authorities of 450 FLDS kids—it was implicit and obvious dad would be appalled by that act of tyranny. And he was.

What’s more remarkable is that dad has always been left-leaning. Although I would not call him a left-liberal, he’s certainly not quite the classical liberal, as he seems to believe state interventions outside the remits of classical liberalism can be a good thing.

Still, my father’s sense of justice is really quite extraordinary, always has been. It doesn’t matter who commits injustice, he will speak truth to power, a trait that has been as helpful to his career as it has to mine.

Always an original thinker, Dad had this to say about the banal Obama: “He reminds me of a community organizer.”

Another of his funny lines that stuck with me from last night’s call: In the wake of these assaults, “a few thousand people had fled South Africa to the safe haven of Zimbabwe.”

Pedigreed Islamic Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism, Islam, Judaism & Jews

In a WorldNetDaily.com review of our friend Andrew Bostom’s new book, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History, Alyssa A. Lappen
writes:

“Particularly since the late, lifelong Muslim Brother, Yasser Arafat, shifted anti-Israel jihad into fifth gear in September 2000, several Middle East and Islamic scholars have repeatedly asserted that 20th and 21st century Islamic anti-Semitism sprang solely from Nazi and European Christian influence.”

“Even now, Islamophiles like Bernard Lewis preach (as it were) that virulent Jew-hatred is not inherent to Islam – but rather, anti-Semitism migrated to the Middle East with European colonialism. The Quran uses ‘hard words … about the Jews,’ even Lewis admits. Yet under Islamic rule, he claims they were ‘only rarely subject to persecution’ and ‘their situation was never as bad as in Christendom at its worst. …'”

“Dr. Andrew G. Bostom’s extensive, scientific and largely unprecedented new book, ‘The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History’, definitively disproves such claims. (Full disclosure: I copy-edited several of these first-time English translations, and proofread many chapters.)”

“Publication of this landmark book informs self-respecting scholars, they can no longer shamelessly blame Christianity as the sole source of anti-Semitism – or more importantly, that Islam does not and never had its own innate brand of loathing for the Jewish people. Islam detests non-Muslims generally – whom sharia laws institutionally oppress and tax as underclass ‘dhimmis’ – but inveighs especially intense odium against Jews…”

ILANA here: almost intractably ingrained among Jews themselves is the perception of Christianity as a source of all things bad for them. Not a week goes by when I am not laboriously explaining to relatives that, no, Hagee is not about to ride into Pittsburgh to conduct a pogrom. Jews, especially those residing in Eurabia, had better begin to better tell their friends from their foes. I imagine it must piss off a friend immensely when nothing he does satisfied the Stiff-Necked Ones.

Read the rest here, and, naturally, buy the Bostom book.

Updated: The Loathsome Liberal 'Shshaun' Is Back

Barely A Blog, IlanaMercer.com, Internet, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Private Property

The loathsome ‘Shshaun’ is back

I thought I recognized his style, but I assured myself that no one could be as brazen as to sneak back onto this space after being told never to come back pursuant to performances such as this one on Jewcy.com, (look for posts by ‘Shshaun’; he fouled up the discussion board), and this, an example of his early “efforts.”

Yes, it seems that the loathsome Canadian ‘Shshaun’ has snuck back onto this forum, after being ousted. This worm now goes by the name “Gumdrops.” His IP numbers can be traced from here:

Bell Canada BELLCANADA-16 (NET-76-64-0-0-1)
76.64.0.0 – 76.71.255.255
Sympatico HSE HSE20070629-CA (NET-76-67-12-0-1)
76.67.12.0 – 76.67.15.255

I thought I recognized the grating style. (Likening his own “thinking” to that of Socrates in an erased post was the real give-away.)

The next step is a stalking complaint and a letter to abuse@sympatico.ca.

Please, y’all, re-read the posting policy, and always provide a real e-mail address when posting to this blog.

Update (May 26): Liberals believe that they can trespass and trash private property—corporeal or other—and still demand that their identities remain private. That’s rich—and that’s a reality in the universe loathsome ‘Shshaun’ shares with the likes of Rev. Wright, Obama, and his lowly Mama.

Not on this mama’s property.

Here’s an excerpt from our Posting Policy: “No information or content of any kind that you submit or make available to ILANA MERCER, or post to BarelyABlog.com, shall be deemed confidential.”

Of course, most posters to BAB are honorable. Therefore their host honors their privacy.

Updated: The Loathsome Liberal ‘Shshaun’ Is Back