"Radical Islamic terror"? You don't see these words in the headlines of The New York Times and The Washington Post. Rather, you see idle talk about discovering the motive for this latest travesty. The motive? It's as clear as day: radical Islamists hate the U.S. and will do all they can to destroy America's infrastructure, culture and way of life. You don't believe me? Type the words "Islam death to America" into Google, and spend the rest of the day educating yourself. Travel from Iran to Egypt, to Yemen, to Indonesia.
Radical Islam opposes women's rights. It opposes gay rights. It opposes religious freedom. It opposes freedom of speech.
It's time to wake up.
In her latest New York Times op-ed entitled "No Bully in the Pulpit" (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/opinion/sunday/dowd-president-obama-is-no-bully-in-the-pulpit.html?_r=0), Maureen Dowd again ignores what happened in Boston and busily berates Obama for failing to gain Senate approval of new gun control legislation. Dowd writes:
"President Obama has watched the blood-dimmed tide drowning the ceremony of innocence, as Yeats wrote, and he has learned how to emotionally connect with Americans in searing moments, as he did from the White House late Friday night after the second bombing suspect was apprehended in Boston.
Unfortunately, he still has not learned how to govern.
How is it that the president won the argument on gun safety with the public and lost the vote in the Senate? It’s because he doesn’t know how to work the system. And it’s clear now that he doesn’t want to learn, or to even hire some clever people who can tell him how to do it or do it for him.
It’s unbelievable that with 90 percent of Americans on his side, he could get only 54 votes in the Senate. It was a glaring example of his weakness in using leverage to get what he wants. No one on Capitol Hill is scared of him."
Obama is a fabulous teleprompter speaker, but an incompetent leader? You don't say. It took Dowd more than four years to find this out.
Gun control? As I've stated repeatedly, I favor a ban on the sale of assault rifles and stricter background checks. But I also acknowledge that each year knives kill four time more Americans than rifles (see: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8).
And now Americans have painfully come to learn of the dangers of pressure cookers packed with explosives.
Guns don't kill, people do, and there are plenty of organizations like al-Qaeda prepared to teach them how to do it.
hmmm. Russia asks FBI to question Tamerlan in 2011. Then Tamerlan spends 6-7 months in Russia in 2012, just before becoming a US citizen on Sept. 11, 2012.
ReplyDeletesorry JG, but the more we learn, the more this looks like a black op, perhaps ordered by Putin, who knows.
At most, Americans need a geography lesson.
I am challenging a post at PJM that conflates Circassians as Chechens (a high insult to all Circassians), even as the msm is covering the Czech Republic trying to make sure everyone knows Czechs are not Chechens.
Meanwhile, where do U.S. consumers buy hand grenades???
Just do not jump to the conclusion that Boston was an Al Qaeda attack.
All they had to do was watch NCIS to learn how to drop a pressure cooker IED at an internationally televised event, where the police decided no backpack inspections needed.
Yankee Stadium has higher security.
K2K
No black op.
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Debka disagrees :)
Deleteor, maybe it is just the 15 minutes of fame obsession that is too American.
K2K
"even as the msm is covering the Czech Republic trying to make sure everyone knows Czechs are not Chechens."
ReplyDeleteHa. Czechs, Chechens, what the difference?
I think I saw Havel carrying some suspicious bags.
"Gun control? As I've stated repeatedly, I favor a ban on the sale of assault rifles and stricter background checks. But I also acknowledge that each year knives kill four time more Americans than rifles"
ReplyDeleteWhat about handguns? I think those are used more than knives to murder people... why leave out that fact with your insinuation that gun control is a waste of time.
If you were to regularly read this blog, you would know that I favor other tactics, e.g., a television advertising campaign aimed at reducing the "rage" in America responsible for the murders. Would I put the genie back in the bottle if I could? Sure. But consider the following data provided by Time (http://business.time.com/2012/12/18/americas-gun-economy-by-the-numbers/#ixzz2RAVsLqrv):
Delete"The Gun Economy
47% Percentage of Americans who say they have a gun in their home or elsewhere on their property, according to Gallup, the highest reported number in two decades
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310 million Estimated number of firearms in the U.S., according to the federal government, which includes 114 million handguns, 110 million rifles, and 86 million shotguns
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131,806 Number of federally licensed firearms and ammunition dealers in the U.S., about four times as many the number of grocery stores, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
5,459,240 Number of new firearms manufactured in the U.S. in 2011, 95% of which are sold domestically, according to the ATF
3,252,404 Number of firearms imported into the U.S. (529,056 shotguns, 998,072 rifles, and 1,725,276 handguns) in 2010, according to the ATF"
I do not believe that "gun control is a waste of time." I do believe that gun control must be accompanied by some serious "out of the box" thinking (see: http://jgcaesarea.blogspot.co.il/2013/04/maureen-dowd-chris-murphys-crucible.html).
It does look like the winner is .... Putin.
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