Archive for the ‘video’ Category
Saturday, February 1st, 2014
This week’s most prominent example of baseless progressive accusations of racism come from an MSNBC tweet, now deleted, which claimed that the rightwing would hate a Cheerios ad with a biracial family. The tweeter was fired, but it’s just one in a long line of baseless accusations of racism and vitriolic hate from the Augean stables of MSNBC.
But the best part? More Republicans have mixed-race families than Democrats.
Using the logic liberals so often deploy, this “proves” that Democrats are more racist than Republicans.
On the same topic, here’s acerbic, articulate and frequently perceptive British atheist Pat Condell on the subject of progressive racism:
A few money quotes:
“In progressive hands, the word racist has become the verbal equivalent of a chemical weapon, or a dum-dum bullet, used spitefully, disproportionately, as a first resort, and without the slightest justification.”
“It seems to me that the people who constantly invoke skin color for no reason, as progressives do to the point of obsession, are the ones who actually have a problem with it. They see racism everywhere because they’re riddled with it themselves.”
“You see, progressives don’t really believe that non-white people are equal, or are capable of being equal on their own merits.”
Watch the whole thing.
Tags:Democrats, Islam, Jihad, liberal racism, MSNBC, Pat Condell, video
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Friday, January 17th, 2014
Welcome to your complimentary Friday LinkSwarm. I steal collect these from all over, including Ace of Spades HQ, Instapundit, Twitter, Facebook, and a dozen other places
Really, is there any book that screams “love story” like George Orwell’s 1984?
Reminder: North Korea is still an unmitigated communist hellhole. Not that anyone whose name isn’t Dennis Rodman has forgotten…
More people in Illinois sign up for concealed carry than ObamaCare. That’s so delicious I might have to rerun it for the next ObamaCare and gun news roundups…
Insurers say they’re just fine and dandy with ObamaCare subsidies.
ObamaCare cast pall of gloom over Democratic attempts to take the House. Now if only I could figure out where I placed my nanoscale violin…
Jonah Goldberg further explores the theme:
In 2009, retiring Arkansas representative Marion Berry presciently warned that Obamacare was setting up the Democrats for a huge defeat in the 2010 midterms, just like “Hillarycare” had led to a loss of 54 House seats in 1994. Obama scoffed at such concerns. According to Berry, the president told him, “Well, the big difference here and in ’94 was you’ve got me.” Republicans went on to win 63 House seats and six Senate seats. It was the largest swing in the House since 1938. So I guess the difference was him.
Liberal New York Times editor wonders why cancer patients can’t just hurry up and die.
Retiring congressman Jim Moran: Scumbag.
Compared to the Obama Administration, Chris Christie is a rank amateur in the vindictiveness Olympics.
“If the current president is making a mess of everything and almost no one is being held accountable, isn’t that a bigger story?”
Every so often. the New York Times publishes a lifestyle story whose entire purpose seems to be to make you hate New Yorkers. Today’s example Left-wing yuppie tells how capitalism (in the form of her failing business) made her start stealing stuff.
Obama tells Senate Democrats that he’s going to make John Boehner his bitch on illegal alien amnesty.
Ted Cruz is America’s most efficient Senator, while Rand Paul ties for most effective.
Calling all Jews, calling all Jews. Calling all Jews, calling all Jews. (Via Ace)
It occurs to me that people younger or older than a certain edge (“My lawn! Off it!”) may have no idea what I’m riffing on, so here’s the reference:
100,000 government employees escape union control.
Obama (wait for it) gives a speech, claiming that the solution is (wait for it) bigger government. (Save this sentence, and you’ll find that you can use it over and over again the next three years…)
Michael Totten on Syria: “Today we have a near-zero chance of a non-horrible outcome.”
How the American Studies Association anti-Israel boycott breaks the law.
Baltic Dry Index collapsing?
I think I know what the next Alamo Draft House “don’t talk on your cell in the theater” ad will be.
Liberal actually says that the Obama Administration has no serious scandals. It’s like that Monty Python skit where the British naval officer is denying cannibalism while the guy next to him is munching on a human leg.
I am heartened to see that not a single commenter supports his absurdist whitewash.
Is Egypt getting ready to take the wood to Hamas?
German children taken from parents because they might be exposed to incorrect thought. Nazi Germany? Communist East Germany? Try today.
“Socialism is the anti-Semitism of intellectuals.”
Tags:amnesty, Border Controls, Chris Christie, Democrats, Egypt, Germany, Hamas, Jim Moran, Jonah Goldberg, Media Watch, Michael Totten, Monty Python, New York Times, North Korea, ObamaCare, Rand Paul, Syria, Ted Cruz, unions, video, Wisconsin
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Sunday, January 12th, 2014
Another week, another flash mob of teenagers looting a store, this time in Bryan, Texas.
Once again, the video suggests that it’s an overwhelmingly (though not exclusively) black crowd.
You would think self-preservation would dissuade them from trying to rob someplace that obviously has video cameras…
Tags:black, Bryan, Crime, flash mob, Texas, video
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Saturday, January 11th, 2014
Former Israeli General and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has died at age 85 after being in a coma since 2006.
While Sharon was a hugely important and influential political figure, I want to highlight his brilliance as a general. Israel’s swift and sure destruction of numerically superior Egyptian forces in the Sinai (with a total area significantly larger than Israel itself) under the leadership of Sharon, Israel Tal and Avraham Yoffe in a mere four days in 1967 are a big reason it’s called the Six Day War.
Here’s a History Channel show on The Six day War, complete with Machinima recreations of the battles.
Tags:Arab-Israeli Wars, Ariel Sharon, Israel, Military, Obituary, Six Day War, tanks, video
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Saturday, December 28th, 2013
One problem with defining the flash mob problem is conflicting reports on the severity of particular incidents.
Thursday there was a flash mob at Kings Plaza Shopping Center in Brooklyn. How bad was it?
According to the New York Post story linked above:
A wild flash mob stormed and trashed a Brooklyn mall, causing so much chaos that the shopping center was forced to close during post-Christmas sales, sources said Friday.
More than 400 crazed teens — who mistakenly thought the rapper Fabolous would perform — erupted into brawls all over Kings Plaza Shopping Center in Mill Basin on Thursday at 5 p.m., sources said.
The troublemakers looted and ransacked several stores as panicked shoppers ran for the exits and clerks scrambled to pull down metal gates.
[snip]
“They were playing the ‘knockout’ game,” said Shante, a 21-year-old perfume merchant, in reference to a violent trend in which teens try to knock out an unsuspecting victim with a single punch.
However, this CBS NY report makes things sound pretty chaotic, but a whole lot less criminal:
“There were reports of minor damage and no store owners reported any thefts.”
Well either looting occurred or it didn’t, but you would think thefts would have been reported if stores had been “ransacked.” Did the “minor damage” consist of decorations being knocked over or windows being smashed?
All sources agree that some fights broke out (though video of that seems to have been pulled from YouTube).
There was also reports of black-on-white racial attacks in the same neighborhood back in October.
And what does The New York Times have to say? Either my Google-fu is weak, or a mini-riot at a mall in the city it ostensibly covers is simply beneath The Gray Lady’s notice, as I couldn’t find any online coverage.
More on racial tensions in Brooklyn and the knockout game.
Edited to add: Gothamist seems to have some non-embeddable videos off of Facebook. What’s shown there seems slightly on the “rowdy” side of the “rowdy/criminal” divide. I would have been concerned had I been there, but I didn’t see any window smashing or looting. Caveats on limited viewpoints and small sample sizes apply.
Tags:Brooklyn, Crime, flash mob, New York City, New York Times, race, video
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Friday, December 27th, 2013
A lazy LinkSwarm for the last Friday of the year:
ObamaCare Will Be Repealed Well In Advance Of The 2014 Elections. Well, that would be the logical thing to do. But logic isn’t a strong point for Democrats…
Affordable Care Act isn’t.
Via Instapundit comes another New York Times piece designed to make you hate everyone in NYC.
Speaking of the New York Times, it admits its reporters are clueless about guns. (Hat tip: Dwight.)
A&E blinks. Or, to put it another way, GLAAD was just as successful boycotting Duck Dynasty as they were boycotting Chik-Fil-A.
I see this as the start of a great reality show: Piers Morgan Gets Seriously Injured:
Why are UT and A&M given their official Imprimatur to an anti-Israel boycott group?
Austin American Statesman puts 110+ year-old “Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus” letter behind their paywall.
The Weekly Standard on Ambrose Bierce.
Tags:Duck Dynasty, Instapundit, Israel, New York Times, ObamaCare, Piers Morgan, Texas A&M, University of Texas, video
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Friday, December 13th, 2013
A lot of ObamaCare, a little on guns, and a pinch of everything else, from Ace, Instapndit, and elsewhere:
Man with critically ill son gives up on ObamaCare after 50 tries to buy insurance.
Complain about your insurance being cancelled due to ObamaCare? That’s an audit. For you, your advocate, and your insurance salesman.
Finally, after furiously covering for Obama when it counted, Liberal media tool Politifact is forced to admit that “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it” is the lie of the year.
Oregon spent $300 million on its ObamaCare exchanges only to sign up a grand total of 44 people.
Here’s a chance to vote for the ObamaCare launch as top Fail of 2013.
After 2 hours of open heart surgery, Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft is losing his insurance thanks to ObamaCare.
ObamaCare is already pushing low-wage workers out of jobs.
Charles Krauthammer: The ObamaCare enrollment figures are bunk.
Kathleen Sebelius is really getting tired of answering questions on why she sucks.
Obama earns a 62% disapproval rating among independents: Quick! He better give a speech!
Every time you think the ATF has sunk as low as they possibly can, they dig further.
After months of propaganda from the Democratic Party’s media wing and millions of Nurse Bloomberg’s dollars spent, the American public is now now more opposed to gun control than when the year began.
How the EU and Obama are blowing it in Ukraine.
Time magazine thinks Pope Francis is important because of his “rejection of church dogma.” In other news, the people running Time magazine just aren’t very bright.
Georgia Tea Party opposes tax giveaways for sports franchise billionaires. As well they should.
Problem: UT regent Wallace Hall investigates corruption and inluence peddling at the university. Solution: Impeach him.
Ted Cruz makes it into a question on Jeopardy.
Update on Wiliamson County race filings. John Carter, Tony Dale and Larry Gonzalez are all running unopposed.
Reminder: Dogs are awesome.
Tags:Charles Krauthammer, Fail, John Carter, Kathleen Sebelius, Larry Gonzales, ObamaCare, Pope, Pope Francis, Time, Tony Dale, video, Wallace Hall, Welfare State
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Monday, December 9th, 2013
A LinKSwarm to start your Monday off, with a mix of old and new:
Obama’s popularity down among the Obama coalition:
Obama’s job approval rating among Hispanic Americans has plunged from 75 percent in December 2012 to 52 percent today — a drop of 23 percentage points, the sharpest decline among any voter group. Among Americans who make less than $24,000 a year, the president’s approval rating has fallen from 64 percent last December to 46 percent today. Among Americans 18 to 29 years of age, it has fallen from 61 percent to 46 percent. Among women, it has fallen from 57 percent to 43 percent.
Evidently free contraceptives don’t trump lost jobs and insurance. (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
First came the first wave of ObamaCare “cancellation shock” as policies were dropped left and right. Next comes the “Doc Shock,” as people lose physicians who won’t cut their rates for ObamaCare plans. (Hat tip: Instapundit and Ed Driscoll.)
Indeed, 7 out of 10 California doctors are boycotting California’s ObamaCare exchanges. When you’ve lost California…
So get ready to see a lot more signs like this. (Hat tip: Ace of Spades.)
“The GOP establishment is loath to admit it, but the government shutdown is turning out to be a brilliant political chess move on the part of Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee.”
Why the hell is Paul Ryan trying to undo the sequester cuts?
New York City starts confiscating rifles and shotguns.
On Twitter, #LiesObamaToldUs trended for three straight days. Well, it’s a target-rich environment…
Photojournalist robbed twice in one day in Detroit. Funny how 50 years of Democratic rule mean that government is unable to enforce its most central function: keeping the populace safe by enforcing the rule of law.
Why you don’t stop shooting until the threat is neutralized:
(Hat tip: Ace of Spades.)
Is Hollywood turning the Biblical story of Noah into another tree-hugging Dances With Smurfs?
Tags:Budget, California, Detroit, gun control, Guns, Hollywood, Media Watch, Mike Lee, New York City, Noah, Obama Scandals, ObamaCare, Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, video
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