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Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Lessons of the War in Gaza
Israel came off well in this faceoff with barbarism, though it can expect more assaults before long.
Daniel Pipes ... "Hamas’s unrelenting barbarism created a rare consensus among Jewish Israelis in favor of victory. This near unanimity both strengthens the government’s hand in dealing with outside powers (Prime Minister Netanyahu admonished the U.S. administration never again to second-guess him) and is likely to move Israeli domestic politics decisively to the right, into the nationalist camp."
Gaza “Civilian Casualty” Count Untrue and in Question ... "Spokesman Captain Eytan Buchman told BBC News that “the UN numbers being reported are, by and by large, based on the Gaza health ministry, a Hamas-run organisation.”
" While jihadists behead non-Muslims and religious minorities en masse, the world continues its obsession with the Jewish state."
Monday, August 11, 2014
Hamas TV: Dress Up Like A Jew And Become A Suicide Bomber
Truth Revolt These are the beloved of Code Pink and campus liberals.
"During the Gaza war, the official television stations of Hamas and the supposedly-moderate Fatah party, which runs the Palestinian Authority, released videos promoting suicide bombings against Israel. The Hamas video suggested the bombers dress up like Orthodox Jews to perform their act of terror, while Fatah recommended turning oneself into a human bomb as an expression of life.
"The Hamas video, which ran at least three times on Al-Aqsa TV, the official Hamas TV network, during July, shows a terrorist putting on a suicide belt and dressing up as the stereotyped, bearded Orthodox Jew before he is led off to kill himself and others."
Detonate The Truth: Liberals Willingly Enable Genocide
KURT SCHLICHTER "Understand this clearly: Liberals are absolutely fine with the genocide in Iraq.
"How do I know? Because they’ve told us. Barack Obama looked into the camera and said he will not send in American ground forces. Of course, everyone knows that only American ground forces, backed by airpower, can stop ISIS. So Obama has made a choice, as have his liberal minions. They have chosen to let the genocide continue.
"Disgraceful. Even Bill Clinton has the moral wherewithal to regret his craven abandonment of the million Rwandans butchered as he dithered."
"But you won’t hear liberals admitting the choice they have made. Instead, you'll hear a lot of nonsense about how the ISIS disaster in Iraq is all the fault of Bush, Halliburton and the Trilateral Commission. Apparently, that's supposed to be an all-purpose excuse to do nothing but allow a few tactically meaningless airstrikes as, right now, men, women and children are being tortured, enslaved, and ethnically cleansed by these jihadist scum.
" We cannot allow liberals to escape the consequences of their conscious decision not to use all sufficient forces to defeat ISIS. They are absolutely willing to allow this genocide to happen, and we need to make sure everyone knows it." ...
People like this need have no fear of western liberals: Jihadist Tweets Pic of Son Holding Decapitated Head
"Terrorist Khaled Sharrouf tweeted a picture of his son holding up the head of a decapitated Syrian soldier with the caption "that's my boy." The boy was raised in the suburbs of Sydney. "
That should have been a boy holding a fish he caught.
Sunday, August 10, 2014
There is a knowledgeable concensus on the Obama foreign policy and it ain't pretty
Obama's chickens are coming home to roost
Hillary Spanks Obama For His ‘Failure’ In The Middle East "It’s not even Presidential election season yet and already Lady Hillary is distancing herself from Barack Obama’s foreign policy disasters.
"In an interview with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, Mizz Pantsuits took a shot at her former boss’s failure to take the right side during the Syrian uprising. She said that he should have supported the rebels in their struggle against the government of President Bashar al Assad.
Because he didn’t, she said, we now have ISIS invading Iraq.
"“The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad—there were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle—the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled,” Clinton said."
George Will: Obama’s Foreign Policy Is ‘Conceding The Advances That Our Enemies Have Made’
"Will said that he learned three things about the President’s foreign policy this week. First, he said, the President wants a settlement in Iraq where there are no victors and no vanquished.
“ 'Now, ISIL is not in the realm of splittable differences,” Will said. “They cut people’s heads off. They say that the Yazidi have to be exterminated because they’re devil worshipers. It’s very hard to have a ‘no victors/no vanquished’ relationship with people like this.”
"Next, Will noted that the President said that “we have a strategic interest in pushing back ISIL.” But back to where?"
Suppose young Obama immediately gave his lunch money to the school bully every day to get the guy to not bother him?
Ron Fournier Calls Obama ‘The Underestimator-In-Chief’ Over ISIS, Says We Are In For Another Terrorist Attack
Hillary Spanks Obama For His ‘Failure’ In The Middle East "It’s not even Presidential election season yet and already Lady Hillary is distancing herself from Barack Obama’s foreign policy disasters.
"In an interview with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, Mizz Pantsuits took a shot at her former boss’s failure to take the right side during the Syrian uprising. She said that he should have supported the rebels in their struggle against the government of President Bashar al Assad.
Because he didn’t, she said, we now have ISIS invading Iraq.
"“The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad—there were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle—the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled,” Clinton said."
George Will: Obama’s Foreign Policy Is ‘Conceding The Advances That Our Enemies Have Made’
“ 'Now, ISIL is not in the realm of splittable differences,” Will said. “They cut people’s heads off. They say that the Yazidi have to be exterminated because they’re devil worshipers. It’s very hard to have a ‘no victors/no vanquished’ relationship with people like this.”
"Next, Will noted that the President said that “we have a strategic interest in pushing back ISIL.” But back to where?"
Suppose young Obama immediately gave his lunch money to the school bully every day to get the guy to not bother him?
Ron Fournier Calls Obama ‘The Underestimator-In-Chief’ Over ISIS, Says We Are In For Another Terrorist Attack
A Weak Horse Will Not Defeat ISIS
And post-Kennedy Democrats are weak horses.
Nice Deb "... Retired General Thomas McInerney has been saying that we need to [be] hammering ISIS with up to 200 strikes a day. A general consensus has formed that Obama’s actions in Iraq are more of a political solution than a military one.
“ 'It’s clearly very very ineffective to say the least,” Senator John McCain told Fox News, Sunday morning. Some generic Democrat no one’s ever heard of skillfully spouted the talking points the White House supplied him: “I think what has contributed clearly to the situation has not been our presence or lack of presence…” (uh-huh) “It’s been the politics of Maliki. – his alienation of the Sunni community…” Oh, that’s clearly it, Ben Rhodes. (We may as well address the actual person behind these idiotic talking points.)
Nice Deb "... Retired General Thomas McInerney has been saying that we need to [be] hammering ISIS with up to 200 strikes a day. A general consensus has formed that Obama’s actions in Iraq are more of a political solution than a military one.
“ 'It’s clearly very very ineffective to say the least,” Senator John McCain told Fox News, Sunday morning. Some generic Democrat no one’s ever heard of skillfully spouted the talking points the White House supplied him: “I think what has contributed clearly to the situation has not been our presence or lack of presence…” (uh-huh) “It’s been the politics of Maliki. – his alienation of the Sunni community…” Oh, that’s clearly it, Ben Rhodes. (We may as well address the actual person behind these idiotic talking points.)
... "Sick slasher films with lots of blood and gore, screaming, and crying. But these monsters are real. So is the blood and gore, screaming and crying. These monsters can not be placated or negotiated with. They simply need to be stopped – which means eliminating them off the face of the earth."
“Liberal” Is Just A Synonym For “Smug”
Kurt Schlichter " It's astonishing that an ideology which such an unbroken track record of failure has adherents who are so incredibly pleased with themselves." ...
"I guess it's easy to be moral when morality is defined as whatever you need at that moment. Still, it’s annoying to listen to people with such a weird, unearned sense of their own moral superiority. In truth, they are utterly morally illiterate. These are folks who draw parallels between Hamas and Israel when the only parallel between the Israelis and the jihadist degenerates is that they share the habit of breathing oxygen."
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"I guess it's easy to be moral when morality is defined as whatever you need at that moment. Still, it’s annoying to listen to people with such a weird, unearned sense of their own moral superiority. In truth, they are utterly morally illiterate. These are folks who draw parallels between Hamas and Israel when the only parallel between the Israelis and the jihadist degenerates is that they share the habit of breathing oxygen."Nazi-era anti-Semitic propaganda handed out at pro-Palestinian rally — in Chicago
Joe Newby "Not that long ago, I said the one difference between Hamas and the Nazis was the native language spoken by members of the two organizations.
"According to a post at Legal Insurrection, it seems supporters of Hamas have decided to recycle the same propaganda used by Hitler’s thugs."
"According to a post at Legal Insurrection, it seems supporters of Hamas have decided to recycle the same propaganda used by Hitler’s thugs."
"There is one difference, here, and it’s very important. This wasn’t handed out at a Nazi reunion in Germany — it was reportedly handed out at a pro-Palestinian rally — in Chicago."
But wait! There's more!
Nazi-Like Posters In Rome Urge Boycott Of Jewish-Owned Shops ... "Renzo Gattegna, the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, issued the warning after fliers urging a boycott of Jewish-owned stores in the capital were discovered plastered on walls in several districts of Rome on Saturday. " ...
"Spectacularly Wrong", by Alan Caruba
Warning Signs
... "The irony of the speech is that it was spoken by a man for whom no leader in the Middle East has any respect, putting the Prime Minister of Israel and the Supreme Leader of Iran on the same page together. Add to them the leaders of virtually all other nations. Obama thought he could dictate to Israel and could charm the Iranians to make concessions. He was wrong."
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"These days, Iran is still playing Obama for a fool while pursuing its quest to build its own nuclear weapons. The Russian Federation has seized the Crimea from Ukraine. Latin American nations are dumping their children into an America that has no real border anymore.
"Since he gave that speech in 2009, the Middle East has seen the rise of the Islamic State stretching from Syria to Iraq. Syria remains embroiled in a civil war. The Palestinians are again attacking Israel. Iran is still intent on building its own nuclear weapons. Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya have removed former dictators and chaos is the order of the day in Libya.
"If you read Barack Obama’s Cairo speech from start to finish, you are likely to conclude that a self-deluded fool gave it, a man determined to avoid confronting the enemies of mankind until an Islamic-inspired genocide required it."
McDonald’s Replacing Cashiers With Machines?
Legal Insurrection
“ 'Would you like fries with that?” may soon be a long forgotten relic of American pop culture."
"McDonald’s employees who picketed for a better living wage (whatever that means) may come to regret that decision. According to a Redditor, a McDonald’s in Illinois replaced their cashiers with machines. The machines appear to be the cousins of the ones found in grocery stores, big box stores, and CVS that allow customers to complete transactions.
"How cost effective is replacing an organic employee with a mechanized one? According to an economic blog, and unsurprisingly, the machines likely come out on top in terms of pricing:
"This is all basic economics, really. As costs of labor increase the added cost must be offset. In order to satisfy operating costs, produce a product consumers want to purchase, and still turn a profit, it’s perfectly reasonable for a company like McDonald’s to look for cost-cutting alternatives. As Forbes pointed out, the added pressure to increase wages only serves to expedite technological solutions.
"But cooks are safe from the machination of American fast food, right?
"Not if companies like Momentum Machines has anything to do with it. “Our technology will democratize access to high quality food making it available to the masses,” their site claims. They also claim their burger making machines can, “do everything employees do except better” and that the machines reap such large labor savings, restaurants will be able to afford twice as fancy ingredients. Tempting little proposition they have there.
“ 'Would you like fries with that?” may soon be a long forgotten relic of American pop culture. And all because it makes good economic sense.
"Update (WAJ): Prof. Reynolds notes that Robot makers must be loving the recent NLRB ruling, as well, which held McDonald’s parent corporation liable for franchisee employment practices. Can a kiosk file an employment grievance?"
This cartoon below shows us how liberals look upon the small businesspeople who are the engine of this economy; with great disdain. Shame on the left. Shame on cartoonist Milt Priggee for this cartoon.
“ 'Would you like fries with that?” may soon be a long forgotten relic of American pop culture."
"How cost effective is replacing an organic employee with a mechanized one? According to an economic blog, and unsurprisingly, the machines likely come out on top in terms of pricing:
For a location open 24 hours: The cost of human cashiers, not counting benefits, $15/hour * 24 hours * 365 days/year = $131,400
For a location open 6AM to Midnight: $15/hour * 18 hours * 365 = $98,550.
For the machine to be cost effective, all it needs to do is cost less than $100,000 a year to buy and maintain.
A recent article at the Huffington Post makes the claim that if McDonald’s MCD +0.26% doubled its employees salaries it would only cause the price of a Big Mac to go up by 68 cents. The implication here is that 68 cents isn’t much money, so they should do it. There’s a few things missing from this.
One is that the article itself alleges that doubling wages would lead to a 17% increase in costs. And I guess this is obviously supposed to seem like a small amount? It doesn’t look that way to me. What do people expect will happen when prices go up 17%? If McDonald’s could raise its prices by that much without lowering demand they would. No, what would happen is people would shop at those stores less, there would be less profit and less McDonald’s stores to hire workers.
Doubling of labor costs will simply increase a fast food restaurant’s incentives to adopt technology like this. And if fast food wages doubled everywhere it would spur the development of these technologies even faster.
"This is all basic economics, really. As costs of labor increase the added cost must be offset. In order to satisfy operating costs, produce a product consumers want to purchase, and still turn a profit, it’s perfectly reasonable for a company like McDonald’s to look for cost-cutting alternatives. As Forbes pointed out, the added pressure to increase wages only serves to expedite technological solutions.
"But cooks are safe from the machination of American fast food, right?
"Not if companies like Momentum Machines has anything to do with it. “Our technology will democratize access to high quality food making it available to the masses,” their site claims. They also claim their burger making machines can, “do everything employees do except better” and that the machines reap such large labor savings, restaurants will be able to afford twice as fancy ingredients. Tempting little proposition they have there.
“ 'Would you like fries with that?” may soon be a long forgotten relic of American pop culture. And all because it makes good economic sense.
"Update (WAJ): Prof. Reynolds notes that Robot makers must be loving the recent NLRB ruling, as well, which held McDonald’s parent corporation liable for franchisee employment practices. Can a kiosk file an employment grievance?"
This cartoon below shows us how liberals look upon the small businesspeople who are the engine of this economy; with great disdain. Shame on the left. Shame on cartoonist Milt Priggee for this cartoon.
Saturday, August 9, 2014
National Review on Obama's Foreign Policy
Box-Checking as Leadership; Obama’s foreign-policy failures are always the fault of someone else. ... "Let us stipulate — at least for the sake of argument — that the First Cause of Iraq’s unraveling was the Iraq War. That doesn’t change the fact that the second, third, fourth, fifth, and nth causes of the chaos are the result, directly or indirectly, of President Obama’s decisions (or indecisions). Obama chose to pull troops out of Iraq as quickly as possible. Obama chose to dismiss ISIS as the “jayvee squad” this year. Obama chose to issue a “red line” ultimatum, then chose to say “never mind.” The guy has been president for five years. And yet to listen to him and his defenders he’s been utterly powerless to undo his predecessors’ mistakes, real or alleged. It’s like these people think the twice-elected president of the United States is still new to the job." ... Jonah Goldberg
Do More for Iraq ... "Defeating the Islamic State is a crucial national-security priority. The organization President Obama quite recently derided as al-Qaeda’s JV team has had a championship year, which demands much more than one fusillade of airstrikes. The Islamic State has surprised with its effectiveness, and it’s become clear that the Kurdish peshmerga paramilitary forces are underequipped to fight it." Editors of NRO
Was General Greene a Victim of ‘Workplace Violence’ Too?
Do More for Iraq ... "Defeating the Islamic State is a crucial national-security priority. The organization President Obama quite recently derided as al-Qaeda’s JV team has had a championship year, which demands much more than one fusillade of airstrikes. The Islamic State has surprised with its effectiveness, and it’s become clear that the Kurdish peshmerga paramilitary forces are underequipped to fight it." Editors of NRO
Was General Greene a Victim of ‘Workplace Violence’ Too?
The global jihad is not nearly done with us, even if the president thinks he can wish it away. Andrew C. McCarthy
Pity America’s Friends; People in the Middle East who put their trust in Barack Obama are suffering right now. ... " I wrote at the time, was an indication of what might become the “Obama doctrine,” which I described thusly: “The United States will remain passive in the face of genocide.” Seven years later, I regret to say, my prediction stands up pretty well.
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"So pity the Yazidis, the Kurds, the Israelis, the Saudis, the Egyptians, the Jordanians, and the rest of America’s erstwhile friends in the region. They had the naïveté to put their trust in Barack Obama."
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"So pity the Yazidis, the Kurds, the Israelis, the Saudis, the Egyptians, the Jordanians, and the rest of America’s erstwhile friends in the region. They had the naïveté to put their trust in Barack Obama."
Gaza War Has Changed the Way the World Talks About Hamas
Seth Mandel "Amid all the metrics commentators propose to determine “who won” Operation Protective Edge, one is staring everyone in the face: the international community’s attitude toward a postwar (if and when the war is over) Gaza. And on that score, Israel seems to have won a convincing victory. The Gaza war has changed the way the world is talking about Hamas and the Gaza Strip–and, despite all their tut-tutting at Jerusalem, they sound quite a bit like Benjamin Netanyahu.
"... This time Hamas seems to have overplayed its hand.
"It’s possible that this is Hamas being a victim of its own morbid “success” with regard to the propaganda war. ... And no matter how often they try to blame Israel, they seem to understand that there’s only one way to prevent future bloodshed: demilitarize, at least to a significant degree, the Gaza Strip.
JACK LEVEY responds to the idea discussed above of the UN monitoring any cease-fires in this region:
- Would that be the same UN that refused to enforce access to the Suez Canal for ships to and from Israel?
- The UN that withdrew its peace keepers from the Sinai in 1967 at Egypt’s demand?
- The UN whose forces in Lebanon blocked Israel’s attempt to rescue kidnapped soldiers, failed to block terrorist attacks on Israel, and obstructs Israel’s attempts to respond to attack? Who allowed Lebanese terrorist to rearm, falsely accused Israel of targetting UN forces, and then came pleading to Israel for help when the terrorists attacked them?
- The UN whose schools in the disputed territories go beyond anti-Zionism to teach out-and-out Jew-hating?
- The UN that let Hamas divert millions of dollars of cement and rebar to constructing terror tunnels, after promising Israel to make sure that the supplies would be used only for rebuilding civilian infrastructure?
- The UN who falsely accused Israel of targetting UN schools, and who blamed Israel for deaths caused by Hamas shells and rockets? Who blatanly publishes false statistics about Gazans killed in the recent conflict, and who blasted Israel in the trumped up Goldstone Report after the last one? (I think I’ve read about those events at Contentions, as recently as today.)
- Who let Hamas build tunnels under UN schools and clinics (one of them with 12 barrels embedded in the walls, each barrel containing 170 lbs of high explosives — well, the UN guys must have been out for coffee), and handed rockets over to Hamas after finding them stored in UN schools?
- The UN that routinely condemns Israel as a human rights violator, while finding nothing wrong with such bastions of freedom as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, and Sudan? Who allowed genocide to occur under the noses of its troops in Rwanda? Whose envoy endorsed the fraudulent claims of a massacre in Jenin?
- The UN whose court ruled that Israel had no right to build a fence to keep terrorists out because the terrorists were not a sovereign nation and accordingly Israel had no right of self defense against them?
- Am I the only one who thinks this might not be the best idea? Why would Israel agree to such an agreement, and how could it possibly rely on the UN to monitor Hamas instead of aiding and abetting them?
- ...
However, leftist -oops, "progressive"- cartoonist Pat Oliphant shows us that liberals cannot learn, cannot be made to learn, from the obvious:
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