Friday, December 19, 2014

Supporting Repression and Torture in Cuba; a Reading List

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American Thinker    "There is a book our president should read. He might find the U.S. should “be better than that” when it comes to supporting torture. 

"It is the sort of book that once started, it can’t put it down. But the president might find he would want to put it down because the grisly tortures endured by the author for 22 years are almost too much to comprehend.

"The book is Armando Valladares’ Against All Hope, the account of his decades’ long imprisonment and torture by the regime of Fidel Castro. It makes for grim reading.  Arrested for not denying Christ and for not supporting Marxism, Valladares was tortured, starved and even thrown into a pit of human excrement.  At one point, rats were about to eat his genitals. A guard intervened at the last moment." ... More here.
Political Cartoons by Jerry Holbert
James Longstreet; Beyonce now free to travel to Cuba ..."Who else off the radar was delighted with this move?  Who else in the inner circle of the President?  The Congressional Black Caucus, for another.  Recall the jaunt to Cuba by leaders of that caucus and their publicized praising of the Castro regime." ...

Leftists are drawn to dictators, but they come by that honestly.

Mona Charen: Cold War Replay: This Time We Lose  "Has there ever been a president more eager to make concessions to vicious regimes than Barack Obama? The opening of diplomatic relations with Cuba is the latest and, one fears, not the last in a string of preemptive concessions." ...  Full article

... "The Obama White House conducted these negotiations itself, with no meddling from the State Department. The centralization of all activity in the White House continues, and in this case the American negotiator was Ben Rhodes. Rhodes is a speechwriter with a graduate degree (M.F.A.) in creative writing, so one might wonder if he struck the hardest bargain possible. But of course those would not have been his instructions anyway: The president didn’t want a hard bargain. He wanted to destroy 50 years of American policy toward the Castro regime." ...


Political Cartoons by Glenn McCoy

"Sen. Ted Cruz on Obama’s Castro Bailout: Obama “does Not Understand the Difference between our Friends and our Enemies".
"After Handing Victory to the Castros, Obama Admits No Indication Castros are Changing their Ways on Human Rights.
"Krauthammer on Obama Castro Bailout: “Is there No Tyrant that Obama will not Appease for Nothing in Return?' ”...


From RedState: Engaging Cuba Is the Right Move "For too long the United States’ only policy toward Cuba consisted of sanctions and non-engagement. Engaging Cuba is the right thing to do. Unfortunately, President Barack Obama is doing it the wrong way." ...

Cuban Relations
Did Obama’s new Cuba policy just launch Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign?

Jihadists Using Liberalism Against Itself

Dry Bones Blog

Commentary Magazine   "While the West’s enemies become ever more unrestrained in the barbaric nature of their attacks, Islamist militants are increasingly pursuing tactics aimed at limiting what the West can do in its own defense. As a recent case in Britain has demonstrated, jihadists and their supporters are more than happy to fabricate the most outlandish allegations in an often successful attempt to hinder the fight against them. This is the kind of thing that Israel has been having to deal with for decades, and at some point other Western states need to comprehend that they are all up against the same enemy, one which is willing to employ the same underhanded tactics against all of us." ....

Bonus Rich Terrell cartoon; too good to not use

Australia’s Cafe Jihadist:Known To CIA & Obama Too. Apologists Galore…


"ASIDE from the perennially deluded (read:leftists and surrogates), few are unaware that Islam incites/serves as the inspiration for Islamic jihad. G-d have mercy, but not on them. Besides, they deserve whatever blow back wends their way.

"HOWEVER, despite all the slaughters invoked under the banner of Allah – via exhorting, Allahu Akbar – some still require remedial education. Slaps too. Regardless, check the mindless drivel out, almost immediately after the jihad ended in Sydney, Australia:

“ 'That Sydney Sheikh, he’s a phony Muslim cleric. He just wants to kill people. That’s not what, you know, Islam is calling for – to kill people at the cafe.' ”

Ignorance kills.

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Why Liberals Really, Really Hate Us

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Red State
David P. Goldman   "They really, really hate us. George Orwell wrote a morning “Two Minutes Hate” session into the daily life of his dystopia in 1984. One blogger notes that 2,000 of Rachel Maddow’s facebook fans wished that Ted Cruz would fall into an open elevator shaft. What would he have made of the hyperventilating hatred that liberals display against conservatives? Over at National Review, Katherine Timpf reports on a hate manifesto published by the chair of University of Michigan’s Department of Communications. Republicans “crafted a political identity that rests on a complete repudiation of the idea that the opposing party and its followers have any legitimacy at all.” wrote Prof. Susan Douglas. “So now we hate them back,” she explains. “And with good reason.' ”
...
 "The antics of the “small and arrogant oligarchy” that controls the temples of liberal orthodoxy have turned into comic material that Monty Python couldn’t have dreamed up a generation ago. There are now dozens of prospective genders, at least according to the gender studies departments at elite universities. What do the feminists of Wellesley College do, for example, when its women become men? The problem is that no-one quite knows what they have become, as a recent New York Times Magazine feature complained:"    Full article

Lena Dunham, Al Sharpton, Eric Holder and the New Barbarism




"Rioting. Slander. The wanton personal destruction of people known by their accusers to be innocent. In his latest Firewall, Bill Whittle shows how events like the rioting in Ferguson do not occur in a vacuum, and how Progressives not only tolerate this lawlessness, this New Barbarism -- they teach it." ...
From the rioters on the street stealing car rims under the Progressively-sanctioned cover of so-called social justice; to inhuman attention-junkies who are perfectly happy to ruin the lives of people they perceive as political enemies, knowing full well they are innocent; through Leftist college professors who teach them that the truth and the law do not matter so long as the Progressive goals of identity politics are advanced; and right on up to the President and Attorney General, who use IRS intimidation of political enemies and simply dictate laws they cannot get passed – Progressivism is a philosophy of lawlessness, disregard for truth, contempt for individual lives and individual freedom. It is utter, total barbarism.

Obama rescues communism in Cuba


Thomas Lifson    "A perfect storm was brewing that could have meant the end of communism in Cuba.  The more than half century of hemispheric Cold War was about to pay off.

"And now President Obama has short-circuited this historic opportunity.  The regime is no doubt already telling its people that the Yanquis have capitulated and accepted the legitimacy of the regime. There is no point holding out the hope of change that has been so carefully nurtured for decades."  Read more:

The Castros Finally Hit the Jackpot  "Candidate Barack Obama said that, as president, he would talk to anti-American dictators without precondition. He didn’t mention that he would also give them historic policy concessions without precondition.

"His surprise unilateral change in the U.S. posture toward the Castro dictatorship came without even the pretense of serious promises by the Cubans to reform their kleptocratic, totalitarian rule."  Read more:  RICH LOWRY

NRO: Obama Acts on Cuba   "Here are four names, long forgotten, that should be noted today: Armando Alejandre, Carlos Costa, Pablo Morales, and Mario de la Peña. They were three U.S. citizens and one permanent resident. They were pilots with Brothers to the Rescue, the outfit that looks for Cuban refugees, as they are stranded or desperate on the sea.

"On February 24, 1996, the four pilots were shot out of the sky by the Cuban dictatorship’s forces. The planes were in international airspace at the time. The Castro government killed the men simply because they were trying to help innocent Cubans." ...
Political Cartoons by Gary Varvel

Don't wish for Hillary to do better at running the country:

  • Hillary Praises Obama's Cuba Deal
  • Hillary Decries ‘Excessive’ Law Enforcement, ‘Brutal’ CIA

Che Guevara and Fidel Castro Pictures In Alan Gross' Lawyer's Office
 Now this makes sense: From 2008: "Barack Obama won’t wear an American flag on his lapel, but on the wall of his Houston campaign office: a Cuban flag with a picture of Communist mass murderer Che Guevara."



The Battle of the Bulge: Dec 1944-January 1945

 
 How stuff works

This African-American turns on Obama, Sharpton, Farrakhan and the Democrats

 Apparently a townhall meeting went poorly for Sharpton.*  This man expresses his thoughts about it simply, straightforward and -sadly - without fear of how he will be treated by the left.

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 *"...McKinley called on President Obama to help the grassroots by discontinuing aid and government grants that go through Chicago’s political machine to “name-brand-blue-ribbon-negro-organizations” such as the NAACP and Urban League. McKinley told Breitbart News those groups “are poverty pimps, and are part of the problem and not the solution.”

International Emissions Idiocy

Alan Caruba

 

"Most of the people of the world have concluded that the decades of warnings about “global warming” and its successor, “climate change”, is just idiotic nonsense. Few believe that humans ever had or ever will have any role in what the weather will be tomorrow or a thousand years from now. They are right.

"One of the most distinguishing factors about the Anthropogenic Global Warming theory has been the way its advocates have always predicted major changes decades into the future. When the future arrived, as it has since the first doomsday predictions were made in the late 1980s, they simply push off the next arrival date for another couple of decades. A classic example is the prediction that that Arctic and Antarctic sea ice would have all melted by now. Instead the global cold weather have been making new records of late." ...More...
 

Did a compliant Congress empower this petulant, defiant president?

Red State claims: The GOP Emboldened Barack Obama on Cuba
... "The United States Congress just declared Barack Obama’s actions on amnesty unconstitutional, then promptly funded them.
"I said just a few weeks ago that if the congress did that, it would embolden Barack Obama on a host of other foreign and economic policy matters."  Erick Erickson

December Surprise: Obama normalizes relations with Cuba
 "Just as Congress left town, and everyone is focused on Christmas and New Year’s holidays."

Ted Cruz: Obama Is Unilateral President – Exhibiting Anger & Defiance Towards American People (Video)


 “Listen, there’s no doubt that this is a unilateral president who is exhibiting right now anger and defiance towards the American people. He’s angry at this last election. He’s angry that there’s this tidal wave that retired Harry Reid. He is acting in defiance of that… It’s like Ronald Reagan said about the hard left. It’s not what they don’t know it’s that so much of what they do know just isn’t so. "”

5 Takeaways from Media Coverage of Christians in 2014; Gored or ignored, Christians can’t win with liberal media.

Meanwhile, we cower in fear of the North Koreans and Islamic radicals, to whom respect must be paid by us.

MRC Culture   "It’s the reason for the season, so naturally, attacks on Christianity tend to pick up around this time of year. The mocking and sacrilege gets a bit more pointed in the media. The sneering contempt from entertainers and lefty activists gets a bit thicker. 

"But insulting Christians is a year-round sport, like bowling. Unlike bowling, you’ll find all the best people doing it, from the New Yorker to Comedy Central, from CNN to Hollywood. Whether it’s a “beef baby Jesus,” “climate change Christmas carols” or simply slandering core beliefs as “bigotry,” media liberals haven’t held back when it comes to Christians this year. 

"Unless there was serious or good news to report. Then there was mostly silence. 

"If you didn’t know anything about Christianity and its place in American culture and history, and had to learn it from the mainstream and entertainment media in 2014, what would your takeaways be? These would probably be your top five:" ...Keep reading...