The pen is mightier than the sword. Ridicule is mightier than the pen. Humor is a caricature of reality: an exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others. (Wiki) But that theory of humor presupposes that the observer is in touch with reality. This explains why many won't accept present schtick. LOL
In today’s culture there is a tendency to associate capitalism with religion. That association stems from generations of conservatives suggesting that what makes America free, great, and exceptional is faith. So it’s hardly a surprise that many Americans who revere science oppose capitalism.
Onkar Ghate challenges the view that we face a choice between science and capitalism.
In this talk, delivered as part of ARI’s Road to a Free Society tour, ARI senior fellow Onkar Ghate challenges the view that we face a choice between science and capitalism. Instead, he argues that capitalism is the system of reason and science — and that statism is the system of faith and obedience to authority.
Recorded on December 3, at ARI’s headquarters in Irvine, California.
In the last few days reports keep coming in of hundreds of Assyrian Christians abducted from their villages. (Source) In the margins of that terrible news cultural cleansing is taking place at unprecedented pace, part of the official definition of genocide.
Feb 27, 2015 CBS: ISIS terrorists take the hatchet to priceless 3,000 year old Assyrian artifacts in Nineveh Museum, Mosul. H/t @Kromst
The Islamic State released a video on Thursday showing militants using sledgehammers to smash ancient artifacts in Mosul. There is no place in the reborn world for three thousand year old 'idolatry'. These aren't 'idols' as such, but that Biblical commandment is just an excuse anyway. The psycho-epistemology that moves these primitives is plain. These Utopians want to rid their post revolutionary world of all impure thoughts. They mean to destroy ideas, which is why they destroyed the people first. Taking the hatchet to the symbols of their past is just the final nail in the coffin.
The ISIS Propaganda Unit have posted a video that is supposed to be the terror organization's answer to the Oscar winning, blockbuster movie American Sniper directed by Clint Eastwood. All they do is prove who they are: knuckle dragging Neanderthals with guns.
Feb 25, 2015
The footage, showing a series of assassinations in Syria, is said to be a bid to rival the Oscar nominated film American Sniper.
You could have fooled Michael Moore, or the other primitive life form called ISIS, but American Sniper isn't about shooting as many people in the head as possible. The opening scene shows Kyle with a target in the cross hairs. He abstains from shooting him. Next he is presented with a mother and child, which poses an almost impossible moral dilemma for any soldier who has just become a father for the first time. The mother hands the boy an IED (or some other explosive device) for a suicide mission against the convoy Kyle is to protect. Kyle shoots both nevertheless, saving the lives of his comrades.
Mental babies with razors are running an existential war against our civilization (source), some on purpose, some out of stupidity. This is the moment where we all burst out in to hysterical laughter by the absurdity of it all. It could actually be funny in a bizarre sort of way if it wasn't so exceedingly dangerous.
Sen. Tom Cotton and Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney on Fox News Channel’s “The Kelley File” had harsh words for Obama. (Source) UPDATE: Democrats bending their minds in order to stick to the party line. They're really good old politically correct collectivists.
Feb 25, 2015
MRCTV's Dan Joseph asks DNC members why President Barack Obama won't use the term 'Islamic Terrorism'. (Source)
Yemen is the ground zero where the forces of Islam's two great traditions -- Sunnism and Shi'ism -- collide over the hegemony of the Middle East. It also happens that whoever controls Yemen, controls shipping through the Red Sea.
Terror sympathizers are being emboldened by the lack of resolve of our leaders. Most would think that the arrest of 3 Al Jazeera journos (PR arm Muslim Brotherhood) for allegedly operating a drone from a park in Paris, is a hoax. But it's by no means certain they were the only ones conducting reconnaissance flights.
Paris drone sightings.
Three Al-Jazeera journalists have been arrested for flying a drone in Paris after French capital was put on terror alert because remote control gadgets had been seen flying over landmarks.
The reporters were allegedly operating the drone from a suburban park.
There is no suggestion they were involved in a recent spate of sightings. Meaning, their may be others, also conducting test flights.
Unmanned aircraft were seen flying over tourist hotspots in French capital.
Appeared in 'at least' five locations in the city in early hours of Monday.
Security officials were unable to catch the operators of the drone aircraft.
Civilian drones are thought a serious security risk and are banned in Paris.
Danish police confirmed that a gunman opened fire at the Copenhagen Synagogue on Krystalgade Street less than 24 hours after a shooting at a free-speech event. In the attack on the synagogue 2 people were killed, 2 wounded. (Source) UPDATE: Oh well, reform of Islam was a great idea for an hour or two..
The Muslim Brotherhood looks pragmatic, but that's a tactic. Their goal is infiltration to directly challenges western thought. MB actively recruit Muslim intellectuals. Brothers use western ideological terms, such as democracy to lend their own definition to these concepts. The MB's stated goal is the conquest of the Western world by cultural means.
UPDATE: Entryism, the favourite tactic of the 1980s’ Militant Tendency, is when a political party or institution is infiltrated by groups with a radically different agenda. Since Militant’s Trotskyites were expelled from the Labour Party, the word has rather fallen out of fashion.
But now, according to one Muslim leader, Islamic radicals are practising entryism of their own — into the heart of Whitehall – courtesy of a woman who was until recently a government minister.
Baroness Warsi, the first Muslim woman to sit in Cabinet, handed official posts to people linked to Islamist groups, including a man involved in an “unpleasant and bullying” campaign to win planning permission for the controversial London “megamosque” proposed by a fundamentalist Islamic sect.
He sits – alongside other radicals or former radicals and their allies – on a “cross-Government working group on anti-Muslim hatred” set up by Lady Warsi and Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister. (Source)
Those who listen to Obama don't understand the nature of his Postmodern world view: reality is not an independent external truth, but is in the eye of the beholder. The description of such a reality makes words fluid, meaning one thing one moment, something other the next. So instead we should look at what his actions tell us. Riddle me this:
#USA policy in Syria is the most complicated policy in d history of human kind: #IS in Iraq (be4 Mosul) was supported by U.S allies 4 years+
