George Rebane
Islamophobia is ill-defined as an unreasonable fear of global Islamism. RR has maintained for years that we are in a renewed war between civilizations – Islam vs the west (or Christianity as they see it). The west’s Left has identified Islamophobia as a racist reaction by the western Christians. In the last two years more and more western commentators have begun to agree that the current conflict is much bigger than the ‘war against terror’ caused by western imperialism or bad economies in Muslim countries. The most recent to expound on the realities facing the west is Scott Richert, executive editor of The Chronicles, in his very readable ‘Thoroughly Modern Muslims’.
Putin will move on the Baltics before Obama leaves office. I make this a high likelihood given the spineless foreign policy of the Obama administration and our president’s patently erroneous calls on the world’s reaction to forcing the US to lead from behind.
The Iranian mullahs will roll up our much celebrated ‘nuclear deal’ into a tight cylinder and tell Obama where to shove it as soon as they get their hands on a sufficient amount of their $100B+ that our president agreed to let them have for reasons which the world to this day has no idea about.
The FBI will find Hillary culpable for unending security violations concerning her private email server and the emails which she claims she didn’t know were classified because they were not so marked. Since AG Lynch will not prosecute Hillary, FBI Director Comey will resign, and that will start others to discover their own reasons for principled resignations.
[4jan16 update] Am told that the local Left still does not get the purpose of the Second Amendment in its high disapproval of the recent NC Tea Party raffle of an AR-15. They do not understand the comprehensive statement about our times that such a gun makes when included in their fundraiser. Some of the ignorant continue to believe that the Second was all about duck hunting.
Women STEM graduates are lagging men, and something must be done. The blame game is in full swing to satisfy the quota shortfall watchdogs. I am still amazed that anyone can take still elevate this into a social problem after all the female specific programs launched in recent years to get girls interested in STEM careers. Maybe there are some intrinsic differences in the sexes, or is that also beyond debate – who knows? (more here)
[5jan16 update] In the sheeple department I am reminded again how government raises the tax burden unbeknownst to the consumer by continually convincing them that business taxes will be raised as opposed to personal income taxes. The poor schlub, usually voting the Democrat ticket, believes what he hears and does not even murmur that business taxes are just another ‘invisible’ tax burden that he must bear. He cannot be taught that businesses pay no taxes. To business tax is just another expense that is used to justify higher prices to the consumer of their products and services. Since all businesses have to pay the taxes (at least the ones without clever tax lawyers, accountants, and lobbyists), they all raise prices in concert. The alternative is to go out of business, which also happens while progressives continue to trumpet that tax rates do not affect business behavior. These thoughts reprised as I was doing some family portfolio work this morning.
Islam's history of contemporary colonization is documented in detail by Dr Peter Hammond in his Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat. A synopsis was sent to me by a correspondent. I am too lazy to reformat the email, but do consider its content important to understanding our continuing study of Islam. So I just uploaded a pdf of it which you can access here - Download DrPeterHammond.
[6jan16 update] Crocodile tears from the consummately compassionate community organizer yesterday as he desperately seeks to divert national attention from a long limping economy, disastrous foreign policy, and growing Islamist attacks and assaults in the heartlands (including our own) of the west. Imposing further restrictions on exercising Second Amendment rights, restrictions totally irrelevant to the carefully induced tears, signals the eight years’ failure of this presidency. Not to be outdone, CA’s idiot voters have populated Sacramento with calamitously corrupt politicians who have passed another law now making it a crime for CCW permit holders to carry on the state’s college campuses. It is hard to conceive of a dumber response to the insane or the terrorists who are invited to slaughter where assuredly unarmed sheep assemble. (more here and here)
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