One of my favorite on-line distractions is playing “room escape” games (best starting site is Escape Games 24). Imagine my surprise when I ran across this typical piece of leftist wackadoodle insanity
Just move on, lefties, just move on. I understand Prozac helps many of you adjust to rational, adult society, and reduces the amount of foam on your faces.
One of my favorite on-line distractions is playing “room escape” games (best starting site is Escape Games 24). Imagine my surprise when I ran across this typical piece of leftist wackadoodle insanity
Just move on, lefties, just move on. I understand Prozac helps many of you adjust to rational, adult society, and reduces the amount of foam on your faces.
by Maggie at Maggie’s Notebook
ABC News is crediting the “net posse” that helped track and report the activities of Jihad Jane (Colleen LaRose). Our friends at JawaReport, QuothTheRaven and the YouTube Smackdown Corps are rightly credited for their ongoing counterterrorism tracking – even though ABC also refers to these patriot sites as ‘net vigilantes.’ Oh, well, words are cheap for the lame MSM.
The JawaReport’s Rusty Shackleford said this in an interview with ABC News:
Shackleford, a pen name, says he is a libertarian college professor who created the blog JawaReport in 2004 after he was enraged that Iraqi Islamists had beheaded an American named Nick Berg.
It was my way of venting. But mostly it was about countering violent Islamist propaganda, specifically the videos that were being produced by al Qaeda in Iraq and other Salaafist jihadists fighting our troops,” he said.
Shackleford said his goal from the beginning was combating violent Islamist material and support on the Web.
I’m a blogger, but also an activist against violent Islamism. One of the things we do is try to pressure Webhosts to remove Websites that belong to terrorist organizations. An example of this would be the dozen or so times we’ve successfully had the Taliban’s website removed. The websites sometimes pop back up, sometimes not,” Shackleford said.
Shackleford and other contributors to JawaReport and sites like it noticed YouTube had become a hug for videos and comments in support of violent extremism and attacks against the West and it’s allies, leading to the creation of the YouTube Smackdown.
Shackleford said the groups identify videos in support of violent Islamism and pressure the Web site to take them down, “as they would child pornography or other obscene material.”
According to the Quoth the Raven blog, since the “smackdown” movement began in 2007, users have had over 31,000 videos removed from YouTube, and 695 users suspended. They say LaRose was one of those suspended.
Drop by The Jawa Report and leave a nice comment.
More on Jihad Jane:
Colleen LaRose is Jihad Jane aka Fatime Larose – Indicted on Charges of Terrorism
You didn’t need to read up on B. Hussein Obama’s background to know in advance that he is an authoritarian collectivist. All you had to do was pay attention during the debates. When asked whether healthcare is a privilege or a “right,” Chairman Zero promptly answered that it is a “right.”
Healthcare consists of goods and services. To say that you have a “right” to goods and services provided by others, irrespective of whether you pay for them, is an assault on the very concept of rights. Bureaucrats could just as easily declare that everyone has a “right” to free groceries, clothes, and automobiles.
Goods and services consist of our property and our time. What the bureaucrats are really saying when they create phony “rights” is that we do not have a right to our own property and time. These can be confiscated for redistribution at the whim of the State. That is to say, we have no true rights. All we have are privileges masquerading as rights — privileges that can be yanked away by the heavy hand of government at any moment. Whether you choose to call this communism, fascism, “social justice,” or state slavery, it is tyranny in its purest form.
After our rulers have provided us with a “right” to second-rate government healthcare at the expense of our right to own property, what will be next? According to the collectivists at the BBC, the answer is Internet access — for everyone on the planet.
Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.
The survey — of more than 27,000 adults across 26 countries — found strong support for net access on both sides of the digital divide.
Countries such as Finland and Estonia have already ruled that access is a human right for their citizens.
International bodies such as the UN are also pushing for universal net access.
Who will pay for every last shoeless peasant in Uganda to have Internet access? Who do you think?
Of course, Internet access isn’t much good without a computer, so get ready to pay for every last shoeless peasant in Uganda to have a new computer too. But what if they don’t have power for the computer? No matter, American taxpayers can see to it that everyone on earth has power, preferably provided by windmills at exorbitant cost.
Once everyone is online, they’ll be able to see all the other marvelous things that the squishy soft tyrants in the media and UN will soon declare they have a right to at someone else’s expense — until the whole corrupt house of parasitism collapses under the weight of taxes, and we’re all shoeless peasants, with no right even to our own grass huts, which will be confiscated for redistribution if we make them any bigger than any of the other huts.
On a tip from UmmahGummah. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
The Guardian, official mouthpiece of Britain’s pointy-headed establishment Left, can’t help but admit that the Nobel Prize-bedecked Al Gore is a figure of fun. Referring to the Goracle’s recent desperate rant in the friendly New York Times, Guardian contributor Dan Kennedy (a Boston journalism professor) laments that Prince Albert
has not only spent his political capital, but is running a deficit. Mocked by the right every time he pops up, he is no longer in a position to convince anyone who isn’t already convinced — especially when he writes for our most liberal daily newspaper.
It started, of course, with the vicious lies told about Gore during the 2000 presidential campaign, the most notorious of which was that he claimed to have “invented the internet” … the smear campaign that almost certainly cost Gore the presidency.
You don’t get much more vicious than poking fun at a blowhard politician for indulging in excessive self-promotion. It’s almost as mean as saying that skunks stink.
The hate stirred up by that effort has long since congealed into conventional wisdom. Now, whenever Gore speaks out on climate change, he is subjected to withering, fact-free scorn. It has its effect on those trying to figure out the truth. Go ahead. Feel the hate:
“Do you think of your breathing passages as spewing sh*t?” sneered Ann Althouse, referring to Gore’s use of an “open sewer” metaphor.
Another rightwing blogger, Van Helsing, wrote that Gore had emerged “to demand totalitarian restrictions on economic activity in the name of a crisis that clearly does not exist”.
And Andrew Breitbart’s notorious Big Journalism site ran a commentary by Kyle-Anne Shiver, who said of Gore, “His life as a jet-setting, Nobel Peace Prize-sharing, Oscar-brandishing celebrity is on the line. Without the people’s diehard faith in his religion of global warming, Al will be forced to trade his lifestyle of the mega-rich-and-famous for an ignominious and expensive defense of never-ending lawsuits brought by enraged sucker governments and private investors.”
Not to worry, moonbats. Another hero has arisen to take up the burden of rescuing the polar bears from our freedom and prosperity:
But if Gore’s effectiveness as a climate-change activist has expired, there is nevertheless reason to hope. Because there, in the same edition of the Sunday Times, just a few inches away, was columnist Tom Friedman’s interview with the ghost of climate change present, South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham—living proof that it is possible for a conservative Republican not only to be sane, but to work toward real solutions to actual problems.
Grahamnesty is praised for wanting to shut down Club Gitmo (which would be a big propaganda coup for Muslim terrorists and their liberal enablers), for backing racist radical Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, and most of all, for conspiring with the disgraceful Hanoi John Kerry to drive millions of jobs overseas in the name of the global warming hoax with Tax & Charade. They might also have mentioned his support for shamnesty, his denunciation of those who want our border defended as “bigots” who need to “shut up,” his alliance with sinister hard left financier George Soros, the delight he took in Dems taking over the Senate, and his support for leaping toward communism by nationalizing banks.
With uncharacteristic understatement, the Guardian admits that Goober is “well to the left of many South Carolina Republicans.” Fortunately, Tea Partiers are on to Graham; as is the Republican Party of Charleston. Less fortunately, there’s nothing voters can do about him until 2014. Maybe he’ll pull a Specter by then.
On a tip from Floccinaucinihilipilificator. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
