‘The Mentalist’ Ends with Strong Affirmation of Show’s Uncommon Values

Liberty 21 Institute

. . . "Although Jane had a tragic past—his wife and teenage daughter were murdered by a serial killer whom Jane finally identified and brought to justice (execution, in fact), in the series’ penultimate season—he largely kept depression at bay and made a new life for himself by catching murderers while seeking the identity of the murderer of his wife and daughter, a serial killer known as Red John. Although Jane was far from perfectly content, that was understandable given the magnitude of his loss. It was a marvel to watch a modern TV drama continually convey the beauty of self-reliance and refusal to indulge in self-pity." . . .

. . . "That became a problem for The Mentalist as the show wore on: the unrealistic nature of the hunt, with the preternaturally brilliant and manipulative Jane continually thwarted in his pursuit of Red John. The dance went on a season or two too long, for my taste, but the other qualities of the show sustained interest.

GOP DOUBLE-CROSSING TRAITORS

Ann Coulter   . . . "Poll after poll showed Americans ranking illegal immigration as the No. 1 most important problem facing the nation. We haven't changed our minds. Last week, an Associated Press-Gfk poll showed that Obama's single most unpopular policy is his position on illegal immigration. 

"In other words, Obamacare is more popular than amnesty. That's like losing a popularity contest to Ted Bundy. 

. . . 

"But voters went ahead and held Obama accountable! Now McConnell is Senate majority leader -- and he claims his hands are tied. 

"McConnell's spokesman at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Brad Dayspring, predicted that Obama's amnesty threat would drive voters to "elect a new Senate (that) will stand up to the president." 
. . .
"To gin up votes, "Republican insiders" told the Washington Examiner last fall that "the results of the midterm elections" would determine how "aggressive" the GOP would be in fighting Obama's amnesty. 

"Voters gave you a blow-out victory, Republicans. You cleaned their clocks. (Have you seen Harry Reid lately?) Where's that promised aggression on amnesty? " . . .

Countering Violent Extremism with Extremists

Blackfive  "President Obama's strategy for dealing with Islamist terrorists is to refuse to call them Islamists and invite their friends and enablers to help him hide the fact. So it is unsurprising that the Countering Violent Extremism Summit this Wednesday 18 Feb, in DC will be a festival celebrating the randomness of man-caused disasters and workplace violence with root causes of poverty, inequality and oppression and all the usual suspects like the Muslim Brotherhood & CAIR will be there advising him. Well at least they HAVE a strategy, right?" 

Take This Hijab And Shove It; A new word coined: "Harfing"

HopeN'Change

. . .  "Gosh, Marie - you're right! Nobody has ever won a war by killing the enemy! At least, not in your brief lifetime. So what exactly can we do to cope with this growing tidal wave of fanatical killers?

"We need to be "fighting them on social media," according to Harf, no doubt alluding to the fierce warriors of Tweet Team Six. And "we need, in the longer term, to go after the root causes that lead people to join these groups."

"Root causes like rabid Islamic radicalism - right, Marie? Right...? 

Of course not! The root cause is "lack of opportunity for jobs." No doubt because those profit-seeking (as opposed to Prophet-seeking) bastards from WalMart opened megastores all over the Middle East and put all of the small local businesses out of work.

"But what Hope n' Change finds a little hard to understand is why unemployment is forcing ISIS members to behead and immolate people, while Democrats in the United States routinely suggest that unemployment is actually a liberating experience which encourages the idle citizenry to create works of art, music, and literature."

Marie Harf ignores the First Law of Holes  . . . "Harf has now become a national joke, and it is difficult to see how she can recover any dignity, mich less the gravitas necessary to represent the State Department. Steven Hayward of Powerline suggests a new term be put into play, Harfing. Although he doesn’t define it precisely, I would suggest: “Ignoring the obvious in an effort to deflect attention away from an inconvenient truth.”

"There’s a whole lotta Harfing going on in the era of Obama."

Michelle Malkin: The persistent left-wing myth of the poor, oppressed jihadist is absolute madness.  . . . "How many times do we have to remind the clueless kumbaya crowd that al-Qaida mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri had a medical degree, as did Hamas bigwig Abdel al-Rantisi and the seven upper-crust doctors who helped plan the 2007 London/Glasgow bombings?" . . .

Biden claims to know lots of Somali cab drivers.

A Detroit man stabbed two people at a suburban bus stop after asking his victims whether or not they were Muslim, according to police. Federal authorities are now looking at the case as a potential hate crime, police said on Tuesday.
If this man only had a job this would not have happened.

#jobs4muslimsnow

Watcher's Council Nominations - 'All ISIS Needs Is Jobs' Edition   "Then there's the president's new 'war' request,which ought to be voted down, at least at this time. [This video] tells us why the sort of mindset that prevails in the White House shouldn't be trusted to manage a successful war.

Harf is promoting Great Society liberalism as the answer to “violent extremism.

. . . "Harf cites George W. Bush in support of her thesis (as she also did today on Twitter). Listening to Harf, I find that nuance and subtlety are not the first things that comes(sp) to mind."

Shame on those who boycott Prime Minister Netanyahu's Congress address

ELIE WIESEL DEFENDS NETANYAHU'S SPEECH FOR WASHINGTON . . .

In an interview with Israel Hayom, Wiesel strongly sided with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to address the U.S. Congress on the issue, despite controversy and White House disapproval. Wiesel declared in the ad that he would be attending the speech, scheduled for March 3, and urged Obama to join him.

This was a rare call, made by one Nobel Peace Prize laureate to another, to change direction, put politics aside, and realize that the real danger is Iran and not Netanyahu's address.

"Continue reading at the link. Wiesel's doing the right thing to stand by Israel at a time when serious crises are taking place, and make clear what the real problems are." . . .

Respect must be shown to Netanyahu . . . "It is arguable to suggest, as Leslie Gelb has done, that Obama Team lacks the basic instincts and judgments necessary to conduct U.S. national security. Whatever one’s views on this general issue, it is evident that Obama Team and its Democratic supporters is attempting to prevent honest debate on Iran’s nuclear program. By preventing discussion of strategic issues the administration is not only behaving in deferential manner to Iran, it is also disrespectful of those who disagree in three respects." . . .
. . .
"One can only hope, perhaps in vain, that those who intend to boycott the speech should reconsider their disrespectful behavior toward the political leader of Israel."

Harf and Psaki as Lucy and Ethel; Contrast Obama's State Department silliness with Islamist malevolence

Before reading about the interview below with Marie Harf, for contrast and perspective go to this intelligent commentary on dealing with ISIS:

The Atlantic: What ISIS Really Wants  "The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it."  Full Atlantic article here.

We can gather that their state rejects peace as a matter of principle; that it hungers for genocide; that its religious views make it constitutionally incapable of certain types of change, even if that change might ensure its survival; and that it considers itself a harbinger of—and headline player in—the imminent end of the world.

NRO: Lucy and Ethel Take Foggy Bottom

"Never in the history of public relations have an institution and its representatives been so mismatched as at the current U.S. Department of State, where, tasked with articulating America’s position toward Middle East terror outfits, Russian aggression, and the world’s other vicissitudes, are Jen Psaki and Marie Harf, currently in the midst of an interminable Lucy-and-Ethel routine as Foggy Bottom’s spokesperson and deputy spokesperson, respectively. In an administration that has always given the distinct impression of being directed by second-year poli-sci majors from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Psaki and Harf are the only two under the impression that Legally Blonde was a documentary — one which they are apparently trying to recreate, with little success, at Foggy Bottom."

Sure, it is easy to be hard on the Obama administration’s press people. The have the undesirable task of putting a serious face on an administration whose conduct is usually laughably unserious. 

The Daily Caller   "As Al Weaver reports, State Dept. Pledge Director Marie Harf appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball last night. When noted chickenhawk warmonger Chris Matthews started rattling his saber about ISIS, Harf shut him down real quick."

. . . "“We cannot win this war by killing them. We cannot kill our way out of this war. We need, in the longer term, medium to longer term, to go after the root causes that leads (sic) people to join these groups. Whether it’s lack of opportunities for jobs…”

Good point. ISIS just needs a good jobs program. And maybe midnight basketball, stuff like that. Hey, what could it hurt?" . . .

This all caught Rush Limbaugh's eye today: Marie Harf: We Can't Win War on ISIS by Killing Them, We Have to Find Them Jobs . . . "This woman is an absolute throwback to 1960s, feel-good liberalism that is senseless. It's chickified, it denies reality, and this is the number two spokeswoman at the State Department. Her boss is not very much more cogent. That would be the infamous Jen Psaki." . . .

Last night Marie Harf, the State Department spokesman with those glasses, showed once again why they are the smartest thing about her.   . . . " This is not the responsible approach of any commander in chief. If the destruction of ISIS is a just and necessary priority of the United States, the president ought to do it, and do it right. The longer he waits to be dragged into this conflict, the more people will die." . 

These are the people the Obama Administration chooses to put out in front, to answer important questions of policy for Obama himself, and the State Department.

Joy: When has Beethoven penetrated your soul as much as he has this young man?

Youtube  
"This is 3 year old Jonathan conducting to the 4th movement of Beethoven's 5th Symphony. This piece was conducted by Herbert von Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker, one of Jonathan's favorite conductors and orchestras. Jonathan's passion for classical music became apparent when he was only eight months old. Shortly after that he began trying to conduct on his own."
He handles it joyfully even when he blows it at the end.

Can We Just Skip “Presidents' Day” This Year?

Voice of Lillpop

"The day was supposed to honor all previous chief executives, as well as the current White House occupant.

"In hindsight, the day seems a good idea, meant for reflecting positively on the many achievements and accomplishments of our presidents in protecting and defending the US Constitution and advancing the concept of self-governance through Democratic republic and our shared cultural values.

"Unfortunately, when the holiday was originally conceived there was little, or no, concern that a Marxist tyrant and hysterical, anti-American, religious zealot with affections for terrorists would somehow slither into the presidency.

. . .

Besides, we had an aggressive, sophisticated, well-heeled press, 4th Estate, that would protect America through independent, objective, truth-seeking inquiry!" . . .

Mr. Lillpop's closing thought:

"Who would have thought that the president would be an irresponsible, reckless abuser of the nation’s treasure, such that the national credit was downgraded during his term, and the national debt would grow as a severe threat to the economic health of the nation?

"In short, who would have thought that America would elect an incompetent, anti-American wrecking ball like Barack Obama?"

Remember this? Senator Rand Paul Questions Hillary Clinton on Benghazi

Rand Paul: 
"Hillary Clinton must accept culpability for the attack at Benghazi. If I had been Commander-in-Chief, I would have relieved her of duty."

Hat tip to Stephan Leclerc at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

What the Media Don't Want You to Know About What Evolutionists Teach

http://mightymag.org/category/cartoons/evolution-cartoons/

Godfather Politics  "People who attack doubters of Darwin rarely get confronted with questions about what evolutionists say about evolution. The following is a collection of statements by evolutionists about evolution that could result in a lot of commentary:"

• Carl Sagan: “The universe is all that is or ever was or ever will be.”[3]

• Larry Finkelstein (from an episode of the TV comedy "Dharma and Greg"): “We’re all molecules. We’re no different from the plants and the rocks.”

• Leslie Stahl: “They’re just a bunch of cells.”[4]

• Lionel Tiger: “‘Good’ and ‘bad’ as ideas are rooted in bodily tissue as realities.”[5]

• Francis Crick: “The Astonishing Hypothesis is that you — your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. . . .”[6]

• Lester Frank Ward: “[N]ature has neither feeling nor will, neither consciousness nor intelligence.”[7]

• Michael Ruse: “Morality,” like gills in fish and lungs in homo sapiens, “is just an aid to survival and reproduction, and has no being beyond this.”[8]

Read more . . .

http://www.englishblog.com/2009/03/cartoon-the-evolution-of-communication.html#.VOLc_PnF-So

Next Obamacare push will come via the pulpit

Legal Insurrection  “The body is a temple and it must be insured!”

"Obama Administration officials are feeling the heat from the downward spiral of its figurehead health care legislation, and they’re looking for allies in what is arguably the most unlikely place on Earth—the Church.

"Unlikely indeed, considering religious organizations (and organizations run by religiously-minded entrepreneurs) have been engaged in an all-out war over Obamacare’s various mandates since before the thing was signed into law. Officials charged with making sure Americans enroll for coverage have always thought of religious organizations as outlets for promotion, but they’ve recently stepped up their game and started re-pushing pre-made educational materials to churches.

"The Weekly Standard explains: . . .
HHS Pushes Church Talking Points, Bulletins to Promote Obamacare . . .

. . .

. . . "Let’s say it again: partnership between the church and the government. Isn’t this the very thing liberals freak out about when discussing abortion, or gay marriage, or “lobbying from the pulpit?”

"Welcome to 2015, where literally nothing remains sacred."