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Bloomberg and De Blasio's legacy: New York City unhappiest city in America

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Why we fight....................http://www.theospark.net/2014/07/why-we-fightby-dan-gordon.html

 

by Dan Gordon

 

Years ago in my misspent youth, as a film student at UCLA ,I saw a World War II documentary called “ Why We Fight’” So this is my go at it. But I’m not a good enough writer to do this one the way it ought to be done.I apologize for that up front. You won’t be able to feel what I felt yesterday in the the warm embrace of a an amazing family who live in one of the small agricultural communities on the border they share the Hamas’s Terrorist enclave in Gaza, and who have been under almost constant fire for thirteen years. I won’t be able to convey the emotion, the frustration, the courage, the grace, the anger at a world that refuses to see what’s right in front of them, the love, even for their so called enemies, their unbelievable determination not to give in to the terror their terrorist enemies try day and night to instill in them, their determination to live their lives in peace in their own country, a right every American, Canadian, Frenchman Brit, you name it, takes for granted. And why not? Even if those countries go to war, no one is sworn to kill every last one of them. No one denies them their right simply to breathe. Besides, America’s and Nato’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, in Bosnia and Kosovo are a world away.

 

This family’s war is literally a few hundred meters away.

 

Read that one again.

 

I didn’t say it was a few hundred miles away. Like ,say you lived in LA ,and the war was in Las Vegas.

 

I didn’t say it was a few hundred kilometers away. Like, say you lived in New York, and it was at the other end of New Jersey.

 

I didn’t even say it was a mile away.

 

The war they face and have faced almost constantly for thirteen years is about two thousand meters, as the rocket flies, from their front door. At least that’s the distance away from their front door that it was up until a few days ago when the first thirteen terrorists popped up like zombies from graves opening up on their FRONT LAWN! Except these weren’t Zombies on a cable TV series. There’s no way to switch channels on this one. These were terrorists, armed to the teeth with anti tank missiles, machine guns , grenades, handcuffs, tranquilizers, all bent on murdering, maiming,kidnapping and taking hostage as many of them and their children as possible.

 

Imagine if Afghanistan wasn’t in Afghanistan. Imagine if it was on your front porch.

 

That’s their reality.

 

That’s where the war is.

 

Quite literally in their front yard.

 

You have gophers who come up out of holes and eat your petunias, let’s say?

 

They have Hamas terrorists who come up out of sophisticated tunes, some of them built, by the way with YOUR TAX DOLLARS!

 

A dear friend of mine, Vicki, is married to my high school classmate who has been one of my best friends since I was a kid in Israel fifty years ago. She knows I’m “ down South” in the war zone. So is her son Benji who serves as a medic in the Homefront command. She said, " lLsten, if you want a shower or a chance to rest or a hot meal or even someone to wash your uniform,I have a dear friend in one of the border communities. She and her family have opened up their home to any soldiers in the area. And check with Benji and give him a ride down there too if he wants a break. So I check with Benji, but he’s not getting any breaks today, not with the amount of rockets Hamas is launching against our civilians. He’s on constant alert. But I’m not that important. If I want a break I can take it. I’d kill to stretch out on a mattress right now and take a nap. I smell a bit ripe because one tends to sweat a tad in a flack jacket. I’d love a shower and a change of uniform. So absolutely, I’m headed down to see her friend. Let’s call her Rachel. Not her real name because she asked me not to use it. So I plug the name of the community into the GPS and I’m off .

 

And the closer I get the louder the sounds of war and the more I have to pull off to the side of the road and take cover from the rocket attacks.The rockets don’t bother me as much as the mortars because there’s no warning with a mortar round. No siren, no Code Red alert on the radio , no phone app that says watch out you might just get killed if you don’t take cover in the next fifteen seconds. Besides the closer I get the less time there is to take cover. Fifteen seconds is going to seem like a life time in a few more kilometers.

 

Now understand, I’m a former kibbutznik. I know what a little agricultural village looks like. But reality begins to change the closer I get.

 

The MPs have closed the road leading to this little community and the dozens of others down here. Only residents and military personal can get through. But I’m in Uniform and flak jacket and show my officer’s I.D. and they wave me through, assuming obviously, I must be a fighter, a warrior on his way to take up his position on the front. In reality I’m a lazy so and so who wants a shower, a free meal and a cot..

 

But when I get to this little community the thing that assaults your senses first are the sounds of battle. Its deafening and constant. Because this is where the war is. It’s not in Afghanistan or Bosnia or anywhere else far away. It’s not even like the wars of my youth in Sinai or the Golan Heights.

 

It’s right here! It’s in their front yard. I don’t mean their metaphorical front yard. I mean the front yard they water. Soldiers, and not any soldiers, not sad sack, rear echelon guys someone gave a weapon to, and said go stand guard at that latrine, type soldiers. I mean elite combat soldiers in full battle gear. I mean as good as it gets soldiers, weapons at the ready, helmets, flack jackets, locked and loaded soldiers. Except this isn’t an army base or some battlefield “somewhere” else, anywhere else but here, in these peoples’ front yard.

 

I ask directions to Rachel’s house and get there and it’s locked. She’s not there. I go next door. Maybe I have the wrong house. This looks like the right one because someone has set up cots on the front porch. They’ve even put a tv outside . I’m already eyeing the cot I mean to sleep on. I knock on the door and a big hearted woman with a smile that could light up the world comes to the door. “ I’m making the pizzas “ she says, “ But they’re not ready yet.”

 

“ I’m Vicki’s friend” I say. “ She said if I was in the area..”

 

“ What Vicki?” she says.

 

OK I must have the wrong house . “ I’m looking for Rachel” I say

 

“ I’m Rachel “ she says.

 

“ But you don’t know Vicki?”

 

“ You must want the other Rachel.She lives next door.”

 

“ Oh “ I say, “ She’s not home”

 

“ Okay, “ She says, “ So come on in. Sit down , rest. The pizzas will be ready soon. You want something to eat?”

 

This woman doesn’t know me from Adam, but I’m a soldier, so now I’m quite simply family, even though I have the wrong house, I have the right one.

 

The house smells of all good things . Onions and mushrooms being sautéed for the pizza, the aroma of coffee, dough beginning to bake like fresh bread in the oven.

 

It smells like home.

 

But it sounds like war.

 

Artillery , tank fire, small arms fire, rockets and mortars . 'How can it sound like war?" I think," She’s making pizza. She has kids and two dogs, and vegemite, if somebody ever wanted anything like that. But it’s a home, a normal home. Except there’s a war going on not miles away but a few thousand yards away.."

 

She introduces me to her daughter and son, two of four or five kids she has. The daughter is 30 and a beauty, in that feisty, friendly, farm girl way. The son is a teenager, tall, handsome kid, very much being the man of the house while the father is away. In addition to the pizza and the onions and mushrooms being sautéed, I smell something else. I smell a story. I explain who I am, what I’m doing, and ask if I can interview her and her son and daughter about what it’s like to live literally in a war zone, under constant fire and threat of being killed.

 

“ I don’t want to be interviewed” she says.

I turn to the daughter. “ What’s it like living like this?"

 

And the flood gates open up. I’m just someone to talk to right now. Someone whom she can tell what it’s like. The words come out staccato , pouring out of her, as if she can’t speak quickly enough to keep up with the emotion driving each word.” What’s it like? It’s constant.”

 

“ We haven’t slept in two weeks” the mother says, and I know i won’t have to ask another question of anyone. All I’ll have to do is listen, “ I don’t know how we function . I don’t know what day it is. “

 

“ It hurts your ears.” The daughter says, “ when we’re in the reinforced room and the rocket hits, it changes the pressure or something, the shock waves, it hurts your ear drums.”

 

“ I’ve already lost some of my hearing “ The mother says, “ In this ear. I can’t hear well any more.”

 

Just then the code red alert sounds. We don’t have fifteen seconds here. We have five seconds. That’s it.

 

There isn’t a bomb shelter outside because you’d never get to it in time. There’s a reinforced concrete room with an iron door.

 

The mother moves quickly to the front door and shouts to the soldiers who are outside like a mother hen “ Boys! “ She shouts, “ Get in the shelter. Now!”

 

Then there’s the all clear.

 

“ The pizzas will be ready in a few minutes “ Mama Rachel says, patting some of her olive drab, machine gun wearing baby chicks as they go back to their posts...

 

“ That’s what it’s like . “ says the daughter “ and it never ends.

 

The son, a teenager, says, “ It’s all I’ve known my whole life. Rockets falling. Mortars.”

 

“ Thirteen years! “ says the daughter, “ What country in the world would put up with that? Thirteen years of rocket attacks? Would the Americans let that happen to I don’t know, San Diego, New York?…Texas? For thirteen years? Would France put up with that? Would England? What do you think Putin would do? And we’re supposed to “ show restraint” Show restraint?! How much more restrained can we be?! For thirteen years we’ve been under attack ! Even after the last two operations in 2009 and 20012, when there was supposedly a ceasefire.”

 

“What ceasefire?! “ the mother says,"Every month Hamas would fire a rocket here, a rocket there, ten rockets , twenty in a month….”

 

“ And Israel said, well it’s only a few rockets a week, so we can’t react to that!”says the son.’

 

“ A few rockets a week?! Is the whole world insane?!” The daughter says,not tome, not to anyone. To God maybe." Are they all crazy?! Listen to that, only a few rockets a week and for them that’s normal! That’s how we’re supposed to live! Only a few rockets a week! Only what they call a drizzle of rockets! And we were restrained. We didn’t do anything because after all it’s only a few rockets! And I don’t even care about the rockets! But the tunnels , now! The terrorist tunnels. Right out there!”

She points to her front door, “ Right out there!

 

“ You know what happened here today?” the son says.

 

“ They tried to attack again. The terrorists .” The daughter says," They came up out of a tunnel that just opened up in the ground. The army got some of them but then said that two were still on the loose so they tell you to go into the fortified room and lock the door.”

 

“ Do you have any weapons in the house?” I ask

 

“ “ What weapon?! “ she says, “ They have anti tank missiles with them! Anti tank missiles that can rip a tank apart and kill everyone inside, except this isn’t a tank. It’s my home!”

 

"So why do you stay here?" I ask.

 

“ It’s our home! “ the son says.

 

“ You think this is politics” the daughter asks, “ We’re what they’re fighting for! This is our home. This is their home! Hamas wants to kill us. And they say they want to kill us! They go on television and say we want to kill the Jews! They don’t lie about it. They announce it to the whole world and, what? They don’t see ? They don’t hear”

 

This beautiful girl suddenly grabs both sides of her head as if her head is about to explode with the insanity of the life she lives, “ You know the story about the Palestinian boy who got the transplant here? There was a boy..from Gaza and he needed an organ transplant and the mother brings him over here to Israel so we can save her little boy’s life. And that’s fine. I say it’s fine if we can help them, if we can save a life, a child’s life? Yes of course! Bring him. So whose organ gets transplanted? There is a Jewish boy, an Israeli boy who is killed in a terrorist attack and his father gives the ok to transplant his dead son, his murdered son’s kidney or whatever they transplanted, into the Palestinian boy from Gaza, to save his life. And they say you know who will get your boy’s kidney ? It will be a boy from Gaza, from the place that dispatched the terrorist that killed your son. And he says, yes I know and I want to do it. I want to do it, so they’ll see who we are and we’ll have peace. We’ll start with this boy and his mother. That’s how we’ll build the peace. So they do the transplant and the boy lives.And you know what the woman says? She says it on television so the whole world can see it and hear it. She’s not ashamed. She says, you saved my son’s life and you Jews have a right to be angry about what I’m going to say. That’s your right and I don’t care. Because now that you’ve saved him, when my son grows up, I want him to become a “ Martyr “ and kill Jews, as many as he can! That’s who we’re dealing with and the whole world hears her and says well you know, you’re stronger than they are so , you know that’s okay that’s the only way they can fight you. But we don’t want to fight them. We want them to live in peace and let us live in peace! And they shout it from the roof tops that they want to kill us and when one of them blows himself up, whether he kills Jews or not, their parents hand out candy and celebrate. If they kill a few Jews, they hand out more candy. But as long as he tried to kill Jews that’s the main thing. Then you can hand out the candy. Then they’re happy. So when I see a woman on the television and she’s crying because her child has been killed in this war, I’m a woman, my heart aches for any child who is killed, it’s awful but I think to myself, if this is the woman who wants her child to grow up so he can blow himself up while killing Jews, while trying to kill me or my mother or my brother or my neighbor, what’s the tragedy? Is it that the child didn’t live long enough to kill me? Is that the tragedy for her?! Or is it that she’s afraid that if she doesn’t raise him to kill Jews the Hamas will kill her, or kill him. It’s insane!! Do you hear that? It’s insane” Again she holds the sides of her head as if her skull is about to explode; as if it can’t possibly contain the insanity of it all.

 

“ And we don’t hate them! “ She says, “ Do you understand? We don’t hate them.

That we spent money we don’t have , that we should have spent on education, to build the iron dome which saves us from their rocket attacks?! And still we warn them first . We drop leaflets and send text messages and call them on the phone and say listen, we’re very sorry but we have to bomb you in a few hours so in order that you shouldn’t be hurt could you please leave? That’s what we do. And Hamas puts a gun to their head and says no, go up on your roofs and they celebrate their murders and they lie!! My God how they lie! Here did you see this picture?”

 

She opens the internet and shows me a picture of a Palestinian family; father mother and child, all killed by an Israeli bomb strike. Except she shows me that this is really a picture of a SYRIAN family killed by Assad’s forces, in their civil war. “ That’s really bad luck, huh? “ she says, “ To be killed twice? Once in Syria and again in Gaza!? And the world sees it and they don’t care. They open up their wallets and say here we have to give them money so they can rebuild. Like they did after 2009. You Jews destroyed their homes. They need concrete and steel to rebuild. They’re not going to make bombs out of concrete and steel. So the world pays for it and we let it in and no, they didn’t build bombs out of it. They built the tunnels that they dug to come and murder me and my family and my neighbors and their families. That’s what it went for! Did they build shelters for their children? Did they build schools for them? They hid their rockets in The UN schools!

 

The UN just said it. That’s who we’re dealing with! And they fire them from mosques and crowded neighborhoods and WE’RE the aggressors? We’re the evil ones and they’re the poor victims?! Egypt offered a cease fire and we said YES. What’s that expression? Learn to take yes for an answer? We said yes! But they didn’t have enough dead babies yet. Not enough dead Palestinian babies , not enough dead Jewish babies. And the world looks and it doesn’t see. That’s what makes me ill. Not the rockets. Not even the tunnels and the terrorists. The world looks and it doesn’t see or it doesn’t care.And we tell them and it doesn’t matter.It’s like trying to empty the ocean with a tea spoon. It’s insane.”

 

After a few moments she calms down." I’m glad you’re here, “ she says, “ I just had to get that all out. Just had to say it to somebody. Somebody who would listen. With all the Tsuris( troubles) , you know what? We’re not going anywhere. This is our home. Not just our country. Our home. And everyone in it is our family. I go to bed at night and I can’t sleep because I hear the gunfire and I think of those boys out there and I now they’re fighting for me! And here I am in a nice bed. Thanks to them."

 

“ The Pizzas are ready” Mama Rachel says and gives me a slice and then calls to the “boys”.

 

“ Boys” she says, “ Here , eat while it’s still hot”.

 

I was with a Golani officer. Some of “ The boys” had come out for a few hours rest. How were they doing?

 

“ We’re strong. The guys are excellent. We’re going to complete the mission. We’re going to destroy the tunnels, and we’re going to put a serious dent in Hamas’s day ( loose translation) and we’ll be victorious. Because we know what we’re fighting for. We’re not Nato.We’re fighting for our homes.”

 

Golanchick is an endearing term for a member of the Golani Brigade. “ Golanchick, “ I say, “ If you want to get a shower and some rest and maybe some pizza, I have some dear friends. The woman’s name is Rachel.”

 

Dan Gordon - Capt. IDF (Res)

 

 

Via TheoSpark

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It's come to this: Pregnant woman trapped by Obama motorcade

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You stay classy, TMZ.

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Via iOTW

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The Audubon Society calls the new Minnesota Vikings stadium a death trap

7/23/14

 

The Audubon Society is not happy about the design of the new Minnesota Vikings stadium, which is set to open in 2016. The organization, whose mission is to conserve wildlife ecosystems and, specifically, birds, started a letter-writing campaign to get the NFL team and the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority to re-think the type of glass it chose build some walls and the roof:

 

 

The new Minnesota Vikings stadium is primed to become one of Minnesotas biggest bird killers unless quick action is taken. The planned building features nearly 200,000 square feet of glass (thats 4 football fields of glass walls!) and is sited near a major bird migration pathway along the Mississippi River corridor. This decision is a death warrant for birds. This is a billion dollar stadium, and the cost to save thousands of birds by using bird safe glass could cost about one-tenth of one percent of that.

The suggested subject line of the Audubon Society suggests letter-writers use is Dont fumble on bird safety.

 

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California wind farm not responsible if eagles fly into blades, feds say

June 26, 2014

 

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Garry George is the Renewable Energy Director for Audubon California, a state program of the National Audubon Society. He says the conditions of the permit are still unclear because the permit has not been issued yet.

"We don't like it when any bird is killed. We certainly don't like it when any eagle is killed," George told CNN Thursday.

 

But the group has supported the permits as a way to work with the industry to help it minimize the number of bird deaths on wind farms.

"We think the permit process is one way to do that." He added "we hope it provides conservation, but we don't know if it will."

 

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All birds are equal, but some are more equal than others.

[Valin]

You stay classy, TMZ.

I wonder if TMZ/Media understands that out here in flyover land people think...Sarah must be doing something right.

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Huge major shocking I can't believe it news alert!

 

 

How anti-capitalist Michael Moore built a £30m fortune

As the Fahrenheit 9/11 director finalises divorce from Kathleen Glynn, details have emerged of how he made a fortune

Kate Palmer

 

Dont be hoodwinked by his casual demeanour and capitalism rants Michael Moores millions make him one of the richest men in American media.

 

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Michael Moore

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The Week in Pictures: Same Damn Thing Edition
Steven Hayward
July 26, 2014

Ho-hum, another week, another loss for the Obama Administration in federal court (looks like still more work for Dear Chief Justice Roberts to sort out), another foreign crisis, another fundraising trip by Obama. As Edna St. Vincent-Millary is reported to have said, “History isn’t one damn thing after another; it’s the same damn thing over and over again.” Certainly is with the Obama White House.





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Is this not the greatest pic ever showing what the Israeli government thinks of the Obama Administration?

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And finally, a special shout out for the women of the IDF:

 

 

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A reminder for @righteousmomma! if she still comes around here: don't forget to watch the final stage of Tour de France today for shots of your statue! (Kinda mine too since Jeanne d'Arc is my confirmation name.)

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Voters wish they'd elected Romney instead

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Voters wish they'd elected Romney instead

 

 

TOO LATE NOW!!

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Ventura trial: Jury says it's hung, judge says try again
Marino Eccher
07/28/2014

Jurors in the Jesse Ventura defamation trial told the judge Monday they are deadlocked, raising the specter of a mistrial.

In a note read in open court, the jurors said they feel "we will not come to a unanimous decision."

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The jury was told to decide three things: Whether Chris Kyle's story about Ventura was defamatory; if the story was false; and whether Kyle published the story knowing it was false or had serious doubts about its truth.

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Lot of really stupid people in St Paul.

 

Dollars to donuts it is just one idiot.

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From the You Can't Make This Up file......

 

ISIL opens wife-recruiting office for militants in Syria, watchdog says

BEIRUT — Reuters Jul. 28 2014

 

Islamic State in Iraq and Levant insurgents have opened an office in northern Syria where single women and widows can register to marry fighters from the radical al-Qaeda offshoot, a monitoring group said on Monday.

 

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Ahmed

Likes: long walks in the evening, soft rains, quiet suppers, kittens, peaceful heartfelt talks, fondling his AK 47 under a star lite sky

Dislikes: any Infidel Dog who disagrees with him, Jews, uppity women, Valerie Jarrett (i]there's some good in everyone)

Goals: Hope I die before I get old.

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Know Your Military Colonists http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2014/07/know-your-military-colonists.html

 

"Military Colonist" is a term that has gone out of fashion in this brave new world of "No Human Being is Illegal" and "Every Refugee Deserves to be Resettled."

 

The university history professor with an office full of fake Indian jewelery and a view of the parking lot will lecture on the military colonies of the Roman period, always careful to emphasize their eventual fate. And he may even get up to the 16th century. But he'll stay away from the present.

 

But if you are going to take land or seize power, you will need military colonists to hold it. The military colonist may be an ex-soldier, but he's more likely to be someone the empire, present or future, doesn't particularly need or have a use for. The Czars used serfs. The present day military colonist who shows up at JFK or LAX may also be a peasant with even less value to his culture.

 

Mexico's military colonists are not military. Often they aren't even Mexican. But they have managed to take back California without firing a shot. Unless you count the occasional drive by shooting.

 

While the United States sent tens of thousands of soldiers to try and hold Iraq and Afghanistan only to fail; Mexico took California with a small army of underpaid handymen who claim entire cities and send back some 20 billion dollars a year. As conquests go, it's not hard to see who did more with less.

 

In 2009, 417 Mexican migrants died trying to reach America, and 317 American soldiers died in Afghanistan. But Mexico has more to show for it than America does. Every Mexican who settles across the border is a net gain who sends back money and spreads political influence.

 

Meanwhile America is spending trillions on a much smaller army in a country whose land no one actually wants.

 

In 2009, the year Obama approved a 30,000 man troop surge, 3,195 Afghans received permanent legal status in the United States.

 

In the decade since the US invaded Afghanistan, 24,710 Afghans successfully invaded the United States and received permanent legal status. That is an occupying force larger than US troop numbers were at any point in time in Afghanistan until the very end of the George W. Bush's second term.

 

During this same period there were also 19,000 Afghan non-immigrant admissions. As invasions go, the Afghan invasion of America was far more successful than the American invasion of Afghanistan.

 

That is even more true when you consider birth rates. Military colonists are not a mere invading army.

 

They are generational footholds.

 

The American birth rate was at 13.5. The Afghan birth rate was at 37.3 at the time. American soldiers go home when their time is up.

 

Sometimes they come home with a Muslim wife after converting to marry her. Afghan immigrants come with a birth rate that is nearly three times that of the country they are invading.

The military colonists flooding our shores are part of an unacknowledged partnership between their political leaders and ours. Their political leaders are fighting a war to redress the wrongs of centuries or millennia. Our political leaders are looking to shift the voting balances in a ward or a district for the next election. When they resettle the next shipment of Afghans in an otherwise conservative area with a view to tilting the electoral balance, they are using them as military colonists for the short term while their homelands use them as military colonists in the long term.

 

War is about controlling land, resources and populations. Land just sits there. It's the populations that cause the trouble. The military colonist makes a more enduring occupation possible by settling the land and giving the conquering power a deeper foothold in the enemy territory.

 

There was a time when American settlers acted as military colonists holding down lands in Florida and Texas. Today America is being colonized by the settlers of other nations and ideologies. And we will find ourselves in the same position as the Spanish did in Florida and the Mexicans did in Texas.

 

Mexico invited American settlers to move in to Texas on the understanding that they would learn Spanish and otherwise fit in. Instead language and culture proved to be stronger than land and oaths of citizenship. Many of the Texas settlers might not have had much use for the United States at the time, but creed and culture made them American military colonists whether they knew it or not. The same holds true for the present state of affairs there today.

 

It's more than just cultural or ethnic differences that make one a military colonist. It's a cause. Whether it's Manifest Destiny or the Reconquista or the Caliphate. Underlying it all is that sense of destiny. The power of an exceptionalism that makes it impossible for the settler to sink in and abandon his roots and beliefs to the tidal pull of a new culture when his grudge against it is more than the mere personal dissatisfaction of the new immigrant or his children caught between two worlds.

 

Integration is hopeless in the face of that sense of destiny.

American liberalism and European republicanism have no answers to Islamic terrorism. Their embrace of the Arab Spring was motivated by the need to believe that the Muslim world was ready to "advance" to the same postmodern level of existence eliminating the need to worry about women in Burkas or Al Qaeda. The same misreading of the power of tribe and religion that led to the foolish belief that Saudi Arabia's military colonists could safely be turned into Labour voters led to the Arab Spring's equally misplaced confidence that the Muslim Brotherhood wanted to be just like Europe.

 

It isn't only a tiny minority of extremists who believe that Islamic values are superior to Western values and who would like the law to recognize that assumption. It's a tiny minority of extremists who try to prove their devoutness by jumping the gun and killing people over it before the full demographic impact of the military colonists would make a Burka ban into the next Syrian Civil War.

 

Think of two armies maneuvering into position. The extremist is the one who fires before the enemy is fully in range ruining the strategic effect of the surprise attack. Trying to understand the extremist not only misses the point, it misses the whole chain of events in motion. The schemes for integrating the disgruntled youth and countering violent extremism is symptom control.

Western countries have achieved individual comforts with an unsustainable system.

 

This unsuistainability is both economic and demographic as budgets and children are both lacking. Meanwhile the countries and cultures that have failed have achieved a perfectly sustainable state of misery. They may not have much income, but they also don't have much to eat. They may have high infant mortality rates, but they have even higher childbirth rates.

 

America of 2013 cannot go on being this way indefinitely. It probably can't even manage another two decades without major changes of some kind. Afghanistan 2013 however can go on being the way it is indefinitely. And that sustainability is what makes its people effective military colonists. Living the Afghan lifestyle in London or Los Angeles is even sustainable because food and housing are free.

 

That just leaves large packs of nomadic youths roaming the streets, selling drugs and rioting at the slightest provocation until it's time for them to get married and make more nomadic youths of their own. It's not that different from Afghanistan. It's the tribal life transplanted to the West.

 

 

SultanKnish via iOTW

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Via TheoSpark

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BREAKING: President Calls for Section 8 Housing on Martha's Vineyard to Accommodate Illegal Alien Children

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2014/07/breaking-president-calls-for-section-8.html

 

 

By Biff Spackle

 

Citing a concern with diversity on the posh resort island of Martha's Vineyard, President Barack Obama today called for a massive local buildup of Section 8 Housing to accommodate thousands of unaccompanied alien children (UACs).

 

"To paraphrase a famous movie," the President joked, "'I see white people.' In all seriousness, our national mandate for social justice demands that we integrate Martha's Vineyard, which today is a haven for millionaires and billionaires, as well as corporate jet- and yacht-owners, almost all of whom have pasty white complexions. And just think of all of the thousands of construction jobs we'll save or create!"

 

The President's auto-pen in Washington signed an Executive Order commanding the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to build "not less than three thousand low-income housing units on the north side of the island near Lambert's Cove."

 

The units, according to the order, will be devoted to housing up to 12,000 illegal alien children and their guardians.

Obama noted that he would not be vacationing on the Vineyard this year and would instead spend three weeks in Hawaii.

 

 

 

Via DougRoss@Journal

[nickydog]

From the You Can't Make This Up file......

 

ISIL opens wife-recruiting office for militants in Syria, watchdog says

BEIRUT — Reuters Jul. 28 2014

 

Islamic State in Iraq and Levant insurgents have opened an office in northern Syria where single women and widows can register to marry fighters from the radical al-Qaeda offshoot, a monitoring group said on Monday.

 

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Ahmed

Likes: long walks in the evening, soft rains, quiet suppers, kittens, peaceful heartfelt talks, fondling his AK 47 under a star lite sky

Dislikes: any Infidel Dog who disagrees with him, Jews, uppity women, Valerie Jarrett (i]there's some good in everyone)

Goals: Hope I die before I get old.

 

Oh yeah. Wouldn't it be great to be married to him. I wonder how often he washes that beard, or the rest of him come to think of it. Eeeew.

[Valin]

@nickydog

 

You're being judgmental again! Tsk Tsk Tsk

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Thomas, the imperialist tank engine?

[Valin]

Wisconsin police chief signed local tea party leader up for gay dating and pornography sites: prosecutors
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sunday, July 27, 2014

LA CROSSE, Wis. — A police chief in Wisconsin pleaded no contest Friday to a charge that he signed a local tea party leader up on gay dating, pornography and federal health care websites.

Prosecutors charged Town of Campbell Police Chief Tim Kelemen earlier this month with one misdemeanor count of unlawful use of a computerized communication system. The La Crosse Tribune reported (http://bit.ly/1nDxlNC ) Kelemen entered the plea in a deal that calls for the charge to be dismissed in two years if he doesn’t commit any new crimes, continues counseling and completes 40 hours of community service.

The charge stems from a feud between Kelemen and tea party leader Greg Luce. It began last fall when the tea party began holding protests on an interstate overpass in Campbell. Concerned the protests were distracting drivers, Kelemen persuaded the town board to ban signs on the bridge.

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Gosh that seems like a real harsh punishment!

Meanwhile who knows who now has access to Greg Luce's online information.

[Valin]

Thomas, the imperialist tank engine?

 

My inner 7 year old loves Thomas the tank engine!

[nickydog]

@nickydog

 

You're being judgmental again! Tsk Tsk Tsk