Bydio

Advice Goddess Blog

Prejudice involves the unjustified assumption that your identity is somehow better than someone else’s identity; disagreement involves the absolutely justified – indeed unavoidable – assumption that your belief is better than someone else’s belief. (If you didn’t think yours was better, you’d give it up.) So we think that Republicans are opposed to Democrats not prejudiced against them; and libertarians aren’t prejudiced against socialists, and people who believe in God aren’t prejudiced against people who don’t.

via It Isn’t Bigoted To Criticize Religion.

Elder of Ziyon

A source at state-owned oil refiner Tupras (TUPRS.IS: Quote), who did not wish to be identified, perhaps summed up the current mood in Turkey: “For us, Iran is more important than America, because we get crude oil from them. We don’t get anything from America.”

via Turkey selling gasoline to Iran – at a nice profit.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, called for an investigation of those who are protesting the building of the Ground Zero Mosque on Tuesday. She told San Francisco’s KCBS radio:

via AUDIO – Rep. Pelosi calls for investigation of WTC mosque opposition – Washington Times.

Someone needs to explain to that harpy that this is wrong on so many levels. I wonder if Billy Townsend would do it… yeah, I doubt it.

Thanks to Ricochet member Okan Altiparmak and Gateway Pundit, here’s a list of 70 members of Congress who are fully paid-up members of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Shall we have a little look at the highlights of the platform of the DSA, folks? Just so we can all be clear what we’re talking about?

via Advice Goddess Blog.

Gad damned Socialists… they’re like roaches. Bringing the brain fart disease of unlimited government and the ridiculous notion that the worker is more important than business when THERE IS NO WORKER WITHOUT BUSINESS!

UPDATE: According to Chuck Welch via Facebook: “”The list of 70 names does not belong to any socialist organization. It was quoted from the Progressive Caucus which to any right-winger is too liberal. For socialists it is too liberal in the other direction.” [...] [T]hose names are part of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.”

If this is true, then that’s good.

BREAKING: New paper makes a hockey sticky wicket of Mann et al 98/99/08 | Watts Up With That?.

Jihad Watch

There was, to begin with the end, the final stark stop-talking-nonsense put-up-or-shut-up challenge to Obama and his speechifying crew, that is the challenge that they provide supporting evidence, chapter and verse, local habitations and names, for this assertion:

“And here in the United States Ramadan is a reminder that Islam has always been part of America and that American Muslims have made extraordinary contributions to our country.”

This phrase is one more illustration of a larger problem: when it comes to Islam, Barack Obama apparently does not intend to abandon, bur rather to continue to employ, that Get-Me-Rewrite approach he used in his Cairo speech to the world’s Muslims, possibly the falsest, least-true-to-history speech ever delivered by an American president. In trying to get or be, as he likes to say (with his handful of favorite phrases, this is certainly among them), “on the right side of history” (as if, you see, history has a pre-determined “right side” and we had all “better get on it” coute-que-coute or we will be judged accordingly), he, Barack Obama, is perfectly willing to rewrite history. That is, he is willing to rewrite history in the true, and not historical determinist sense — that is, as the record of the past, as best as we can determine that record, and to make sense of it, to give the accumulated facts meaning. A little more undiluted Thucydides or Gibbon or Macaulay, and a little less watered-down historical materialism or castroesque (“history will absolve me”) derivations thereof, might be nice.

via Fitzgerald: A Little More On Obama, Islam, History, and “Getting On The Right Side Of History”.

Elder of Ziyon

So far, outside of Armenian, Kurdish and Israeli websites, the rest of the English-language media has ignored the story. It has been a full day since the initial report was published in English and German.

But I guess that if the mainstream media doesn’t report it, it cannot be very important. Sorry for wasting your time.

via Media ignores Turkey’s use of chemical weapons updated.

Here’s the funny part. The app isn’t mine, I didn’t write it, and I make nothing from it. I only wrote about it a couple of times, as did many other skeptic blogs. Yet the Sierra Club chairman Pope gives WUWT all the credit for it

via Quote of the Week: Greenie Fools Day | Watts Up With That?.

Elder of Ziyon

This is the ultimate irony: The leftists who shout about “co-existence” are the ones who want separation and who encourage by their actions the minority of Arabs who want to sabotage peaceful relations with Jews.

The people who have the best relationships with Arabs are the supposedly right-wing, militant, extremist, intolerant, religious, nationalist, racist, bigoted, land-grabbing, and illegal settlers.

via What real co-existence looks like (UPDATED).

I think I can instead add a little value by describing the different positions that make up the President’s economic team, and in particular by explaining the roles of the heads of the National Economic Council and the Council of Economic Advisers.

via Roles of the President’s White House economic advisors | KeithHennessey.com.

My head hurts….