The Polar Vortex That Is Obama's "Friendship"

Michael Ledeen writes:

As I’ve asked many times, if Obama were determined to weaken America, to favor the cause of our enemies and put our friends and allies at maximum risk, how would those policies differ from the ones he has adopted? 

Well?  Maybe someone will ask Prime Minister Netanyahu, whose arrival in America today was greeted with an ultimatum from Obama:  do what I say, turn over more land to the Palestinians, or we’ll abandon you to your enemies.

Brrrrr. With ice-cold "friends" like Barry, who needs hot-headed Muslim eliminationists?



Update: How cold is Obama? He's as cold as a March windchill warning in Toronto.

Update: In strongest language possible, Obama warns that Israel could face bleak future if peace talks fail.

Also if "peace" talks succeed (ba dum pum).

Update: A poem for the ratfink:

There once was a POTUS named Barry
And of him I would be very wary.
Threw the Joooos 'neath the bus
Without too much fuss
Because they were tough and contrary.

Ontario University Students Chug-a-Lug the Zionhass Kool Aid

Ladies and germs, let's give it up for (or should it be give up on?) the young Zion-loathers of academe. If they really had a handle on things, they'd be "celebrating" Palestinian Chicks Apartheid/Honour Murder Misogyny month instead.

Zionhass Rears Its Ugly Head in D.C. as Hezbo Supporters Hoist Their Flag Outside the AIPAC Confab

That'll show those pesky Joooos!:

Internationally designated terrorist group Hezbollah was represented outside the AIPAC policy conference in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, by two Americans waving its flag.

While a small group of protesters were waving Palestinian Authority flags and holding placards condemning Israel, as at some other public Jewish and Israeli events, AIPAC delegates said they were horrified to see the Hezbollah flag, which is a rare sight.

Pointing to the band of protesters at the convention center entrance, Ilan Weinglass, Executive Director of the American Center for Democracy & Economic Warfare Institute, said, “What they’re doing over there is legal, First Amendment, fine, but this is different.”

“Hezbollah is a terrorist organization, which is not legal, and while waving their flag might not be illegal, it is certainly something we should worry about,” Weinglass said. “Waving their flag can be like a gateway to taking part in real terror, and that we must object to.”

The two young men carrying the flags were not Lebanese, but American, and while they declined to be interviewed, one made a comment when asked why he chose to recreate, apparently with magic marker on yellow cloth, the Hezbollah flag.

“Well you know, it’s the only real answer that Israel understands,” the Hezbollah flag waiver said...

In another era the Nazi flag would have had the same impact. So, yeah, homemade Hezbo flag-maker, Israel does understand your symbolism.

What Do the Kander/Ebb Muscial Cabaret and Canada's "Human Rights" Mausoleum Have in Common?

Well, there is this: while Cabaret, a musical reworking of a novel by Christopher Isherwood, is a tuneful romp through a decadent Weimar Germany that is soon to give way to the horrors of Nazism, the mausoleum is a chamber of horrors that fetishizes victimhood and that serves to highlight the decadence of "human rights" in our time.

But I'm pretty sure that's not what this chap, a theatre guy in Winnipeg, site of the soon-to-open mausoleum, had in mind when he said this:

The linchpin of his season is a revival of Cabaret, the timeless classic that will soon be returning to Broadway in a production featuring movie stars Michelle Williams and Alan Cumming. It is set in a seedy Berlin nightclub at a time when Hitler's power in Germany is taking hold. The run is a nod to next season's opening of the Canadian Museum of Human Rights. 

"It's a phenomenal musical," Schipper said. "The question it asks is, 'What would you do?' The point it makes is that all it takes for evil to occur is for good people to do nothing."

No, sir. The point it makes is that some people--say, like, Sally Bowles--are reckless hedonists who love to wallow in decadence, and who could care less about evil.

Another point: the ill-conceived, colossally expensive "human rights" edifice is a monumental mistake which, unlike perennial fave Cabaret, is bound to be an epic failure.





Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome, im "human rights,"
au "human rights" to "human rights"....



Rob Ford at the Oscars

Hollywood may never be the same again.

I predict that while there he'll hook up with David Spade to discuss the possibility of remaking Tommy Boy (and calling it Robby Baby, of course).

Cultural Anthopologist's Problems With "Settled Science" in His Field Mirror Mark Steyn's Difficulties With Climate Change Theocrat Michael Mann

Climate change isn't the only area given to adamantine pronouncement. In his 2013 book Noble Savages, cultural anthropologist Napoleon A. Chagnon describes the pickle he got into when his work--in 1963, be began living amongst and studying a primitive people found in Brazil and Venezuela--failed to line up with the "settled science" of the cultural anthropology authorities/authoritarians:

   My observation that Yanomamö men fought mostly over women and, equally important, that these conflicts and their outcomes had important consequences for understanding Yanomamö culture and society, disturbed some of my fellow cultural anthropologists. Why? As I look back on the history of my research, I was saying not just one, but two things that deeply concerned these anthropologists and that were considered to be controversial at the time.

   The first was that warfare was common among the Yanomamö and that it apparently was not caused by capitalist exploitation, nor was it a reaction to oppression by Western colonial powers. This raised the possibility that warfare was, in a sense, a "natural" or "predictable" condition among tribesman who had not been exposed to or corrupted by capitalistic, industrialized and/or colonial cultures.

  The second possibility raised was that lethal conflicts between groups might not be explicable by citing "shortages of scarce strategic material resources," considered by anthropologists and other social scientists to be the only legitimate "scientific" reason for human conflict and warfare.

Rather like the Michael Manns of the world insisting that humankind's--and, more specifically, the developed world's--humungous carbon footprint is the only legitimate "scientific" reason for global climate change, no?

After continuing for several more paragraphs about how his research conflicted with the foregone conclusions of the leaders in his field, Chagnon sums up his experience like this:

   During the weeks, months, and years I spent among the Yanomamö I began to explore and document their lives in statistical and demographic ways--and my doubts about much of what I learned about anthropology from my professors only grew.

   One lesson that I eventually learned from the history of my own anthropological research and the controversies it caused was that cultural anthropology did not fit a traditional scientific definition where facts are established by observations that are verified by others to establish patterns and, if empirical observations by others do not verify the original observations, then efforts must be made to account for the differences to the observations. Instead, anthropology is more like a religion. Indeed, the organizational and intellectual structure of a large fraction of cultural anthropology is best understood if viewed as an academic fraternity that intimidates and suppresses dissent, usually by declaring that the dissenter is guilty of conduct that is unethical, immoral--or Darwinian.

   Many cultural anthropologists today are afraid to make even timid challenges to this authority and are very careful to describe their findings in cautiously chosen words that are frequently vague so as not to give people "the wrong impression" or, more important, not to invite the suspicion or condemnation of the ayatollahs of anthropology, the Thought Police who guard the received wisdoms.

Shocking, no? Well, it was shocking to me, anyway. In fact, until I read it the other day, I had no idea that cultural anthropology was a viper's nest that married the worst of the religion of climate change to the Marxist-tinged authoritarianism of Canada's wretched "human rights" system. It just goes to show what can happen when an area becomes politicized--genuine scientific inquiry and common sense are deemed "blasphemous," and die a quiet death.

Zionhass, Zafar Bangash Style

This 'toon adorns a pernicious piece of poison written by zany local Khomeinist Zafar Bangash. It appears in the March issue of Khomeinist e-rag Crescent International.



It's always amusing--in a dark, mordant way--to see Khomeinists projecting their global ambitions onto the Joooos.

Ayatollah That Would Happen

Despite Agreement With West Iran Advancing Its Nuclear Program

Reputable Scientific Journals Fooled Into Publishing "Unreadable Gibberish"

Proving that it's often hard to distinguish between the real gibberish and the fake sort:

Some 120 papers published in established scientific journals over the last few years have been found to be frauds, created by nothing more than an automated word generator that puts random, fancy-sounding words together in plausible sentence structures. As a result they have been pulled from the journals that originally published them. 

The fake papers are in the fields of computer science and math and have titles such as “Application and Research of Smalltalk Harnessing Based on Game-Theoretic Symmetries”; “An Evaluation of E-Business with Fin”; and “Simulating Flip-Flop Gates Using Peer-to-Peer Methodologies.” The authors of those papers did not respond to requests for comment from FoxNews.com. 

This is not the first time nonsense papers have been published...

And, no doubt, it won't be the last time.

What Do You Can a First Time Thief in Syria?

Lefty.

Dhimmi Perry Put in Her Place

Triumphalism prevails once again:

The Islamic symbol used in the online version of Katy Perry music video for 'Dark Horse' has been removed after an online petition claimed it was offensive to the Muslim religion. 

In the Change.org petition, Shazad Iqbal had cited that in the video, a man is shown being burned, whilst wearing a pendant forming the word 'Allah' which is the Arabic word for God, and had demanded that the video be removed from YouTube, Fox News reported. 

Iqbal had added that blasphemy is clearly conveyed in the video, as Perry, who appears to be representing an opposition of God, is seen engulfing the believer and the word God in flames. 

Due to the petition, which was signed by 60,000 people, the pendant has now been erased from the video.