Last night I commented on the Scottish vote to stay in the United Kingdom by stressing the welfare state aspect with the following: [The Scots] find themselves on the horns of a dilemma. With the English they can’t vote in a complete worker’s paradise. Without the English they’d actually have to find the funds for it. A vote no shouldn’t necessarily be read as a conservative vote. A great percentage
September 2014
September 17, 2014
First World Vagina Warrior problems [Darleen Click]
I regard heterosexual marriage as a much more important feminist issue and bigger oppressor of women than the burka. — Catherine Deveny (@CatherineDeveny) September 16, 2014
September 17, 2014
Dude! “Severed head falls out of neighbor’s trash bag” [Darleen Click]
Don’t you just hate it when this happens? MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) —A Memphis man who went to police after he saw a severed head in a man’s backyard says it’s an image he can’t forget. […] Michael Wilson, Jr., is now facing charges of second-degree murder and abuse of a corpse. Lacedric Ruffin said he went to Wilson’s home on Dunn to pick up some scrap metal Wilson said he
September 17, 2014
Un-Islamic-non-State-Jr-Varsity ISIS in Jerusalem [Darleen Click]
The “Palestinian” branch. Israel’s Channel 10 on Wednesday night broadcast what it said was footage from a recent “Islamic State gathering” on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The report, which is to be broadcast in full next week, said the gathering underlined that Islamic State intends to focus on Israel in the future Formally, the gathering, attended by thousands, was organized by the Tahrir party, which the report described as
September 16, 2014
“We’ve seen this before. There’s a master race; now there’s a master faith.” [Darleen Click]
No wonder Obama and Billary Clinton can’t stand Bibi In a speech on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared Islamist terrorist groups such as ISIS, Hamas and Hezbollah to Nazis: “We know this. We’ve seen this before. There’s a master race; now there’s a master faith.” “The tactics are uniform. Terror first of all against your own people,” Netanyahu told attendees at the International
September 16, 2014
Obama: Rubber boots gloves on the ground [Darleen Click]
Prez IWonPenPhone is adamant that there will be no ground troops evah to deal with the un-Islamic-non-State Jr. Varsity ISIS but he is quick to commit 3,000 combat troops to Africa to deal with ebola. Hospitals and clinics in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone — the countries hit hardest by the outbreak — are overwhelmed by what the WHO is calling the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history. The virus has
September 15, 2014
Hillary & Obamacare: “Her fingerprints are all over that legislation.” [Darleen Click]
And that was said by Tom Harkin in praise of the Red Queen. Harkin praised Clinton’s longtime commitment to health care overhaul, which passed while she served as Obama’s secretary of state. “Her fingerprints are all over that legislation. It would not have happened but for her strenuous advocacy all those years,” he said. Let’s see if the Stupid Party can do anything with that unforced quote.
September 14, 2014
“Uncovered: U.K. intel encouraged Arab armies to invade Israel in 1948” [Darleen Click]
A fascinating read for anyone wanting to understand British hostility towards the nascent Jewish state. A major hurdle when studying the 1948 war is the lack of access to Arab archives. The Syrian documents, obtained by French intelligence – which contain uncensored private correspondence and secret agreements between the Arab leaders, as well as diplomatic exchanges – give scholars a closer look at the Arab stand toward a Jewish state
September 13, 2014
Vagina Warrior Amanda Marcotte has an Enemies List [Darleen Click] UPDATED
How precious. She does limit it to only seven at this time and includes — Cathy Young and Christina Hoff Summers Cathy Young & I at top of SALON enemy list.We are both pro-choice, pro-LGBT,libertarian-leaning feminists.Our crime?We check feminist facts. — Christina H. Sommers (@CHSommers) September 13, 2014 Mandy’s latest hissy fit consisting of a roster of fallacies, straw and fantasist assertions can be shortened down to “These women are