Is Voting Democrat A Job ‘Americans’ Won’t Do?

Democrats, Elections, IMMIGRATION

This cartoon is funny (doff of the hat to Myron Pauli for much needed comic relief). But are poor immigrants solely responsible for Democratic electoral victories? It’s hard to tell from this recent Gallup poll breakdown by political affiliation, although it’s entirely possible.

An average 43% of Americans identified politically as independents in 2014, establishing a new high in Gallup telephone poll trends back to 1988. In terms of national identification with the two major parties, Democrats continued to hold a modest edge over Republicans, 30% to 26%.

Some People Need Killing

Crime, Islam, Jihad, Justice, Terrorism

Breaking. 2:08 AM Pacific Time: “Presumably they’ll want to take them alive” so that justice can be meted, said the BBC News anchor to a fellow reporter, who was reporting from the scene of “a warehouse in northern France,” where the suspects implicated in the Charlie Hebdo massacre are holed up, as I write.

Shots have been fired and there are reports of a hostage being taken as French police close in on suspects linked to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.
Several people are said to have been wounded at Dammartin-en-Goele, 35km (22 miles) from Paris, but officials denied reports of deaths.
Negotiations between the gunmen and police are now under way, reports say.
The development comes nearly 48 hours after the attack on the magazine’s office, when 12 people were shot dead.
The heavily armed gunmen fled Paris by car after the attack.
A convoy of police vehicles has been seen heading by motorway to Dammartin-en-Goele.

(BBC News)

Justice will be served just fine if the the French kill these two on site. I hope to awaken later this morning and hear that these devils have been dispatched, their decent into hell hastened, rather than that they are headed for a French resorts for the next 30 years (commensurate with sentencing in France).

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For Media, Lying About Islam A Hard Habit To Break

Islam, Media

The malfunctioning Media must have gotten something of a fright at the horrific events unfolding in Paris, where France’s top cartoonists and satirists were taken out by their French compatriots, practitioners of Islam. Living in a parallel reality as the media do has its price. The Fourth Estate (media) has moved the country into the Third Dimension. They lie so much that when shit happens that scares them; they no longer know where to turn for the truth.

But desperate times call for desperate measures. Truth tellers who seldom get a hearing on the idiot’s lantern, Fox News included, have been called upon to shed light where media and their cyphers in skirts have shed only darkness.

Thus, yesterday Megyn Kelly’s “expert” on Islam was Brooke Goldstein; she is generally Kelly’s choice on matters Muslim. Unless good looks qualify one to expatiate on Islam, Goldstein is gormless; she knows next to nothing meaningful about Islam. Yet she and her ilk are fixtures on TV talking about the topic.

Today, however, Megyn Kelly traded Goldstein for Ayaan Hirsi Ali, whom Kelly had only ever interviewed, in the past, about women in Islam and not about Islam.

Ayaan is valuable in what she says about Islam, not in the cures she advocates (intellectual outreach):

“All that violence you can no longer divorce from the religion of Islam,” she told Kelly.

Like Kelly, Anderson Cooper had also decided to quit beating about the bush. He was treated to tougher words from Ayaan:

the most important bit of it is to face the grim reality that this is embedded in the religion that we were brought up in. I happen to have left the religion, … but at some point we have to face the grim fact, it is an ugly fact, it’s a fact we want to turn away from, no one wants to turn away that fact more from than I am.
This is embedded in Islam, and the best way to fix this is to acknowledge that, and when you talk about attitudes and our mindsets, the first thing comes to my mind is it is an attitude toward the Qur’an. These individuals who committed this crime and all of these people who are committing this crime, they treat the Qur’an like a driver’s manual. They look at their Prophet Muhammad as a moral guide for today, and if they look at the Prophet Muhammad as a moral guide on some instances, that would be OK, but in some instances, he cannot be a moral guide.
And that’s … the rest of us who are brought in the house of Islam, we need to stand up and to say in many ways the Prophet Muhammad cannot be a moral guide. That is what Charlie Hebdo was doing. If we want to be a part of civilized society, we have to say that the Prophet Muhammad, especially in his years after Medina, he cannot be a moral guide for good. He was from our 21st century perspective absolutely immoral. We have to satirize that…

Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch would have bested Ayaan Hirsi Ali by far.

UPDATED: A Show Of Solidarity Or Sentimentality? Winning À La The West

Free Speech, Islam, Jihad, Justice, The West

Lots of displays of profound, understandable sorrow are underway around the Western world, in response to the massacre by native (as in French) Muslims of French journalists and caricaturists. Plaintive signs and symbols are being held up, mournfully. In Barcelona, Brussels, London, Paris, Nice, Lyon, tens of thousands of Europeans are flaunting their feelings: “Je Suis Charlie,” “Not Afraid.” Pencils and notepads are being piled up on sidewalks, symbolically.

But where is the rage?

Anderson Cooper interviewed a French “documentary maker”—a title everyone with a camera assumes these days. The Frenchman declared that we were winning. How so? Coming out en masse to plonk teddy bears on a sidewalk: Is that winning?

As Diana West observed, “Islamic blasphemy law, the barbarous essence of mainstream, authoritative Islam,” is making progress in the West. West, like myself, looked to the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders for a prescription.

The assassinations of ten journalists and two policemen today in Paris serve as a warning to all the countries in the free world. We are at war. Charlie Hebdo was under police protection following numerous threats because of its outspoken criticism of Islam. Despite the protection by the police, terrorists were able to murder their opponents.

He gave it.

If we continue dying while we practice what we believe in; how, pray tell, are we winning?

UPDATED (1/8): More of What Winning Looks Like In The West:

We contribute “an outpouring of art in response,” as signatories to the dhimma pact (“pact of surrender”) at CNN called the response to the execution of irreverent talent in Paris.

We add a plural option to the rallying cry, Je Suis Charlie: We are Charlie Hebdo – Nous Sommes Charlie.