Aren't You Glad That Obama and Other Westerners Helped "Liberate" Libya?

Sticking it--big time--to its infidel "liberators," the Libyans have opted to embrace totalitarian sharia law.

News That Should Inspire You to Rush Out and Get Yourself a Big, Juicy Burger

Gazillionaires Jay-Z and Al "Jazeera" Gore have gone vegan.

Cameron's Draconian "Tebos" Aim to Curtail "Extremists" Who "Misinterpret" Islam

In Cameron's U.K., "real" Islam is entirely benign and freedom's just another word for "shut the eff up." (Here's hoping this doesn't give Canadian anti-"hate" speech control freaks any ideas):

In its initial report to be detailed to Parliament today, the task force will also propose new internet filters to block extremist websites and extended powers for watchdogs to shut down charities suspected of being fronts for extremist groups.

 

‘I want to see an end to hate preaching in Britain,’ the Prime Minister said. 

As well as new civil orders against extremists – dubbed ‘Tebos’, or terror and extremism behaviour orders – the Government is to consider the case for another new type of order to ban groups which ‘seek to undermine democracy or use hate speech, when necessary to protect the public or prevent crime and disorder’. 

Controversially, both types of order are to be based on a new definition of extremism which specifically includes a ‘distorted interpretation of Islam’...

Here's the Cameronites' new definition:

Clearly, the distorted interpretation of Islam (the one which interprets it as being cuddly and non-threatening and rejecting divinely-decreed sharia and supremacism ) is Cameron's. Meanwhile, free speech, the freedom on which a free society depends, is being been snuffed out for the sake of maintaining a fiction about the "real," the "true," Islam. Ironically, that dovetails quite nicely with the Islamist agenda of ending all criticism of Islam (and infidels' free speech/"blasphemy"), an essential plank of totalitarian sharia law.

Update: Andrew C. McCarthy skewers the Cameron interpretation (the italics are McCarthy's):

Putting aside intra-Islamic debates over the tactic of terrorism—which tend to be situational rather than over the propriety of mass-murder attacks in principle—the ideology that fuels violent jihad is not confined to terrorists. It is the mainstream Islam of the Middle East, which teaches the imperative of establishing the reign of Allah’s law, the repressive sharia system. Globally renowned and revered scholars reaffirm this command with numbing regularity and identify the United States as Ummah Enemy Number One. Nevertheless, the United States government is not merely resistant to acknowledging this ideology and its prevalence; it menaces any attempt to edify Americans about it. Instead, top officials instruct their minions to avoid giving offense, to obsess over what we must have done to inspire such contempt. They indulge the fantasies that sharia totalitarianism can coexist with democracy, that the responsibilities of governance will tame radicals, and that “partnering” with movements like the Muslim Brotherhood—which openly profess a desire to conquer the West—is the best way to achieve security. 

It is delusional, and yet we are currently betting our lives on it. Indeed, the fastest route to ostracism from respectable society is to question the consensus or have the audacity to point out that our enemies actually are, well, enemies. They want to destroy us and make little secret about it, at least when speaking among themselves. How did we arrive at such a lunatic place where mortal enemies are perceived as friends? How did we lose our capacity to reason and judge?...

In the short term, the delusion is comforting. In the longer term, it is suicidal.

Time to Retire Obama's Halo, No?

He's only human, after all. And after the O-Care screw up, no one could possibly mistake him for Jesus. So why are they still photographing him with his halo in place?

"Hope You'll Visit Yad Vashem II, the Iranian Holocaust Museum"

If Iran gets to nuke the Jews as a prelude to the return of the Shia messiah (the raison d'etre of the Shia nuclear program, which, Barry's claims to the contrary, continues apace), there won't be a Yad Vashem II. For that matter, there won't be a Yad Vashem I (because there won't be an Israel).

NSA Monitors Porn-Watching Habits of Radical Muslims

Dear NSA: quel massive breach of civil liberties and major waste of time. Do you numbskulls seriously believe that watching stroke flicks and waging jihad are mutually exclusive, or that you can shame jihadis into eschewing holy war by doing a "gotcha" re their porno proclivities? If so, you are seriously out to lunch, not to mention pathologically clueless.

Man, who's in charge there--Cheech and Chong?

Barry's Boychik, Ehud the Stooge

How low can the weaselly appeaser go? This low:

How can you tell when the White House is in a panic? When they recruit a disgraced has-been Israeli politician to go after Netanyahu’s Iran message. It means they were unable to get President Shimon Peres to carry that bucket of water for them, which says a lot. After revelations that the U.S. has been misleading two of its most loyal friends in the region, Israel and Saudi Arabia, and conducting secret talks with Iran even before the latter picked “moderate” Hassan Rouhani – it’s not easy to find A-list Israelis to make fun of Bibi’s “hysteria.” 

So Olmert agreed to do the deed, and told a conference of security experts on Sunday that Netanyahu’s public criticism of the American nuclear deal with Iran was provocative and counterproductive. 

Netanyahu, you’ll recall, said the deal with Iran was an “historic mistake” and Israel is not bound by it. 

This means that no matter how much good will Rouhani is getting from Obama and the EU gang – Israel could up and bomb the plants overnight, any night. And, considering the Saudis’ mood about Obama these days – the IAF could fly through Saudi airspace unmolested. Why, the royal band would be playing Hatikva as the Israelis fly above (you don’t want them to play the Saudi anthem, because it could interfere with the mission). 

Olmert said he, too, had disagreements with Obama, but always made sure to voice them in private. 

Bibi’s response was that in contrast to “others,” when it came to the security of Israeli citizens “I will not be silent.”...

If that's "hysteria" then so is the cry "Never Again!"

Ain't That a Kitt in the Head: An O-Care "Santa Baby"

I've updated Mark Steyn's Song of the Week to reflect the current predicament of untold millions of Americans:

Barry, baby,
Just slip some health care under the tree
For me.
They say the website is "fixed,"
Barry, baby,
So hurry and insure me today.

Barry, baby,
I hear it's very easy to do
At 2
Or even at 3 a.m.
Barry, baby, just hurry and insure me today.

Think of all the mess you've made.
Couldn't keep my health care, didn't make the grade.
Also lost my fav'rite doc.
I guess your words were empty talk.
(Boo doo bee doo)
 
Barry, baby, want what I had
And, really, that's not bad.
Why did you take it away?
Barry, honey, please give me back my health care today.

Barry, cutie,
Remember that "Yes We Can"?
Oh, man.
I didn't quite understand.
Barry, cutie, so hurry and insure me today.

Barry, baby, I would have voted for Mitt, a bit.
You lied to us the whole time.
Barry, baby, you fooled 'em so you'd rule 'em today.

Come on and exempt me, please.
You've done it for unions and the Pelosis.
You sure can do it if you try.
If they don't pay then why should I?
(Boo doo bee doo)

Barry, baby, forgot to tell you how it all goes--it blows.
I don't mean like a horn.
Barry, baby, and hurry and insure me today.

Hurry and insure me today.
Hurry...today.

Artie Erdogan Goes From Bad to Verse

Who says you can't be a sensitive soul and adore the sharia?:

Turkey’s prime minister has a poetry obsession. Barely a speech of his goes by without him quoting some. 

Back in his conservative democratic days, his favorite political slogan was a line of medieval Sufi verse: “Yaradılanı severim, Yaradan’dan ötürü” (“I love the created out of love for the Creator”). It was Islamic mystical love dressed up in modern secular clothes. Today he prefers the more belligerent stance of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, a mid-twentieth century poet and ideologist of a Turkish Islamic revival who dreamed of a generation of youngsters who would fight for “their religion . . . their hatred and their revenge.”  

But we’re not just talking about snippets of poetry here: the prime minister quotes much longer passages, too. At his party conference last autumn, he regaled tens of thousands of onlookers with several stanzas of a very long poem by a contemporary poet. And on his return from a tour of North Africa this summer, met at the airport by supporters as police in cities across the country tear-gassed youngsters protesting his government, he recited a lengthy excerpt from a poem by the author of Turkey’s national anthem.  

Why does he do it? One simple answer would be that it is just a sign of the high esteem in which poetry is held in Turkey. Ordinary Turks probably know more poetry than most Western arts graduates do. Turkey’s last prime minister, Bülent Ecevit, didn’t just quote poetry; he wrote it, too, as well as translating T.S. Eliot and Rabindranath Tagore into Turkish...

Hey, I can quote old T.S., too:

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. 

Senator Diane Feinstein Dares to Tell the Truth About the Threat Yet Posed by Al Qaeda

Unlike the denizens of the Obama White House, who have long claimed that Al Qaeda has been defanged and is no longer a threat, the Democratic senator begs to differ--a lot.

"Diversity" Enforcer Insp. Ricky Veerappan (The Cop Who Strong-Armed a Local Rabbi Into Giving the Boot to Anti-Jihad Activist Pam Geller) Gets a Big Deal "Peace" Tchotchke

Because that's how it rolls in these "diversity"-crazed precincts:

A Richmond Hill police officer was awarded a peace medallion last week.  

The YMCA of Greater Toronto awarded their highest honour of the year to York Regional Police Inspector Ricky Veerappan for building peace in the community and inspiring the lives of others.  

Since December 2004, the police inspector has volunteered hundreds of hours to York Regional Police’s Adopt a Mission Jamaican Project, a Missionaries of the Poor orphanage in Kingston, Jamaica. 

Insp. Veerappan has led fundraisers, food, toy and clothing drives to provide the necessities of life to children in the orphanage. His volunteerism, perseverance and dedication has received support from local and international community organizations...

Clearly the inspector, who heads up what is euphemistically known as an "Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Bureau" (shudder; in Saudi Arabia, the EDI Bureau is called the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice), does a lot of good. But that doesn't mitigate the bad he does by acting as the muscle for those who understand "peace" in the sharia and/or Islamist sense of the word. Which is to say the peace and quiet that will be in place once everyone (especially uppity, mouthy Jewish broads like Pamela Geller) expunges "alien" notions about free speech being pivotal to a free society and no longer complains about control freaks who demonize our most crucial freedom because it supposedly encourages "hate" and/or "blasphemy." (BTW, whatever happened to the complaint Geller launched against Little Ricky? Has it gone anywhere? Or, more likely, has it been buried forever?)

Good job, Inspector Ricky! Because of your stalwart efforts, the peace the "diversity" busybodies seek can be seen, tantalizingly, just over the horizon.