Peace, Love, Flowers, Bullets

This is Islamic triumphalism, pure and simple.

It’s a symbol of the old rules of dhimmitude, whereby dhimmis’ churches and buildings would be, by law, restricted to be shorter than Muslims’, thereby symbolically affirming Islamic dominance. Except here, the dominance was first established by flying bomb filled with jet fuel.

In case you weren’t sure of what the symbolism was intended to be, Khan’s eager to remind you. The super-mosque — the world’s largest Temple of Murder — is set to open on the ten-year anniversary of 9/11 — September 11, 2011. […]

Someone who cared for what the dhimmi thought at all would recognize this as singularly, incandescently inappropriate.

Someone truly interested in peace and moderation would not build a temple to the religion that killed 2,996, allowing jihdis to literally — literally — dance on the unmarked, uncollected remains of their victims.

Other interesting facts about this insult: it will be called the Cordoba House (Cordoba being the capital of what was the Caliphate of Cordoba) and it will cost at least $100 million to build (no doubt Saudi [i.e. Wahabbist] money will be involved).

Shorter Mark Lilla: How dare you serfs think you can run your own lives and think for yourselves!

From Jeff G. in the comments:

By the way, I think we should send a copy of Lilla’s article to everyone in the country.

The message is clear: if you aren’t a coastal elite, he despises you. He resents your power. He curses your vote. He decries your unwillingness to join the herds he’s hoping to round up and put in pens, where he hopes he can control you.

He is angry that you are circumventing the official gatekeepers of his narrative. He is stung by your ungrateful attitude toward his intellectual largess spent on your behalf (for what else are his plans to run society but a plan to save you who are unfit to do as he from your very selves).

He loathes your associations. He sneers at your food choices. He belittles what you watch and what you read, because doing so makes you less likely to listen to him — and he is what is well and truly good for this country: a lifelong thinker who has thought enough for all of us and reached his conclusions.

And those conclusions involve his right to tell you how to live your lives.

I’m not sure his message will play in Peoria, frankly. So let’s pass it along!

Consider this post as me doing my small part.

Obama simply lucked out when this particular terrorist turned out to be incompetent. Obama continues to be unserious when it comes to national security.

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One has to question the character of individuals involved in such an effort, and their trustworthiness in any endeavor. They create stereotypes and perpetuate them for media consumption in order to demonize and alienate their fellow Americans from one another. And to what end?

The crashtheteaparty.org website exists for one reason and one reason only: to stifle the voices of those with whom they disagree and to render mute a rising chorus of dissatisfaction with a government that is acting in ways that deeply distress a growing majority. It is a censorship plot. It is an attempt to stoke anger and distrust, and it is as insidious and distasteful to the hearts of free men as any book-burning or pogrom.

So there you have it. Jason Levin — truther, Olberdouche fan and evil, lying bastard. The website says they want to silence their fellow Americans “by any non-violent means necessary.” When they fail to do this, I’m sure they will try violence next. It’s how these radical leftists roll.

Fred Phelps sucks!

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So, where Hanson calls what is happening in Washington today a revolution, he is more clearly describing a coup d’etat. As long as we understand that a coup d’etat does not have to be violent, but can easily use the mechanisms of government to subvert the system, we have no problem grasping what is going on.

As Hanson describes it, you have an elite minority, American liberals, who have seized control of the Democratic party and the national government. They know that their days are numbered, but they want to make the best use of this opportunity to change the system to empower people like them.

They want to disempower bankers, industrialists, and entrepreneurs in favor of government workers, union members, trial lawyers, media intellectuals, academics, and stand-up comics.

Now, we are not just seeing the intellectual elites, filled with Nietzschean resentment, punishing the productive class of society, we are also seeing them create fault lines of social division.

As Hanson and many others have pointed out, you cannot tax the productive sector into submission and assume that it is going to continue to produce the wealth that will keep the rest of the nation afloat. At some point, you are going to cook the goose and it will no longer produce those golden eggs.

Whatever happens this weekend in Congress, the fact remains that the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats have borrowed so much money in the last fourteen months that we are unlikely to dig our way out without major social unrest.

But remember folks, Sarah Palin and other conservatives are “uncurious” and “anti-science”:

Ortiz admits that prior to introducing the bill he did not research salt’s role in food chemistry, its effect on flavor or his bill’s ramifications for the restaurant industry.

This comment from the thread sums up my own thoughts:

Can someone please tell me when the enviromorons gained so much power that they get to dictate everything these days?  Global warming, cap and tax, “green power,” no drilling for oil in the US, no nuclear plants….how the hell do they have all this power?

All I know is I want them out of power.

No wonder Penn loves Chavez so much…Penn is a dictator wannabe.

None of this surprises me:

The other professors hated him because he was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings, and it was clear that the position was nothing more than a political stepping stool. According to my professor friend, he had the lowest intellectual capacity in the building. He also doubted whether he was legitimately an editor on the Harvard Law Review, because if he was, he would be the first and only editor of an Ivy League law review to never be published while in school (publication is or was a requirement).

Can I get an amen?

The notion that citizens have no good reason to be armed, because the State can protect them from violent crime, is one of the most dangerous lies Big Government has fed its subjects. The government reduces crime through the police and court systems, but no matter how tirelessly the police work, there is very little chance they can actively defend you from assault. There aren’t enough of them, and there never could be. The very areas of privacy that allow us to relax with our friends and families will always be soft targets for criminals… unless we fortify them ourselves. The police arrived at my house several minutes too late to play a role in my attempted execution. They made excellent time – there happened to be a unit in the area. If things had gone a little different, they might have arrived just in time to avenge me.

Citizen access to firearms has reduced crime rates time and again, but this is more than a matter of practicality. It’s a question of principle. The people of an orderly nation surrender the business of vengeance to the government, replacing it with the rule of law. They cannot be expected to surrender the right of defense. The right to protect yourself, and your family, from injury and death is an essential part of your dignity as a free man or woman. Without the First Amendment, you are a slave. Without the Second, you are a child.

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What’s the surest thing to follow adolescent, blind love?

Disillusionment.  Obama followers, who genuinely believed what the media told them, now are experiencing massive disillusionment.  Where’s all that hope and change from the god who would be president?

The law is still the law; nothing there changed.  The repo man can still take your house and your car and your furniture if you don’t pay as you said you would.  Did the seas recede?  Well, the deceived people are finding out that “climate change” was a lie, too — contrived by greedy politicians, fraudulent scientists and, once again, media elites.  Did everyone get their jobs back?  Not even close.  More lost their jobs.  Did the world start loving America?  Not even close there, either.  The world is more volatile and enemies are more empowered.  The threats just keep coming no matter how many bows and suck-up speeches Barack Obama gives.

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Simply put, Obamacare takes a long and detailed look at the current state of American health care and identifies those areas in which it is not yet fucked-up and closes all those unfucked-up loopholes in only 2,000 pages. Given the problem of having to fuck up still functioning elements of the health care system in all 50 states, Obamacare is a masterpiece of concision.

Do you have only catastrophic health insurance that kicks in with enough money to keep you from going bankrupt if you get a life threatening disease? What are you? Selfish enough to want to keep on living when a disease says you need to just die? Selfishness on your part when millions of Obama supporters need freed medical marijuana to enhance their sex lives is just fucked up. Obamacare, by removing any chance you might have for surviving, will see that you are fucked up for good.

Getting free Medicare when you’re too old to work and pay taxes at a rate well into the 60% range. That’s fucked. Obamacare will see too it that this unproductive loophole in the current program will get closed pronto and, well, fuck you just die.

These two ridiculous yammering dingbats make me think that maybe the 19th Amendment wasn’t such a good idea after all.