Presented without comment: #BREAKING: Two groups clash outside L.A.’s Museum of Tolerance as the center screens a film on Hamas atrocities. LAPD officers move in as several people appear to have been punched and pepper-sprayed. Eyewitness News is live with the tense situation. Tonight at 11 from ABC7 pic.twitter.com/JJSpV6MmXi — ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) …
Category: Islam
Nov 07 2023
The Sea
Now and then we get a clear statement of verifiable facts from some figure known as a “public intellectual.” Depending on the tenor of the time and the attitude of the ruling elite, that statement might be honored, dishonored, suppressed, or ignored. Those who take note of the patterns involved will reach their own …
Nov 03 2023
The Biggest Picture
The exchanges of rhetoric over the IDF invasion of Gaza have already breached the ludicrousness threshold and are rocketing toward utter insanity. The tweet embedded here lays the matter out plainly. And as I said immediately below that, wars of extermination have no rules. No amount of hand-wringing will change the fundamentals here. …
Nov 01 2023
Give No Quarter To Those Who Seek Your Blood (UPDATED)
I was pleased to read this, from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: While Israel is doing everything to get Palestinian civilians out of harm’s way, Hamas is doing everything to keep Palestinian civilians in harm’s way. Israel urges Palestinian civilians to leave the areas of armed conflict, while Hamas prevents those civilians from …
Nov 01 2023
Awake
I had to get up early today for a number of reasons, and since I’m somewhat daft I decided that as long as my schedule included an early awakening, I might as well make the best of it. Last Sunday I was given a batch of sourdough starter. I made English muffins with it yesterday, …
Oct 25 2023
For This Disease There Is Only One Cure
There cannot be peace with persons such as this: A phone call by a Hamas terrorist in Israel who called his parents in Gaza to boast how he killed 10 jews. “Dad, be proud of me!” Part of this recording was played by Israeli FM Eli Cohen at the UN today. pic.twitter.com/TaflXJkeSf — Moshe …
Oct 13 2023
Let There Be No Mistake
I stand with Israel. Faiths don’t matter. Locale doesn’t matter. This is a war between civilization and Seventh-Century barbarism. Israel is civilization. Work out the rest for yourself, if you must. And now we have proof: A member of the Palestine Scholars Association in the Diaspora, Mahmoud Al-Shajrawi, is on video boasting …
Oct 13 2023
Just a reminder: Nobody likes the Palestinians
Egypt, which shares a border with Gaza, is smartly refusing to allow any of those sub-human barbarians across their shared border. Don’t be fooled by the news agencies or by whatever platitudes other mooslim nations might utter. Not a single raghead nation wants to bring in the Palestinians, and they never have. Egypt has discussed …
Oct 11 2023
The Needs Of The Times
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” – C. S. Lewis If you’ve seen the delightful movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, you’ll surely remember Toula’s father, played by Michael Constantine, touting Windex as the panacea of all …
Oct 11 2023
A Few Pleasant Thoughts With Which To Begin Your Day
Cruelty, beheading, burning to death, torturing and mutilating are the essence of Islam. — Daniel Greenfield Savages have no rights. – Ayn Rand. And a little more from your humble Curmudgeon: No scheme of objective analysis can deal with the suppression of self-interest characteristic of love, or with the inclusive nihilism …
Oct 10 2023
Well, Well!
Get a load of this: A senior Hamas official said the group is open to discussions over a possible truce with Israel, having “achieved its targets.” Moussa Abu Marzouk told Al Jazeera in a phone interview that Hamas was open to “something of that sort” and “all political dialogues” when asked whether …
Oct 09 2023
On Israel
If you haven’t seen the news by now, then I’m sorry, but go back to sleep. For those who HAVE seen the news, we all know that this is the continuation of the genocidal war that Islam constantly wages against Judaism. Mark Steyn put up a good number of links, including videos. If you want …
Aug 01 2023
Red on Red
What happens when two of the Democrat Party voting blocks follow “their truths”, or whatever the hell they want to call it? The military calls it “Red on Red”. Two enemy groups attacking each other. All we have to do is sit back and watch. Sibley was “blasting music and dancing with his pals at …
May 16 2023
Chronicles Of The Collapse
Via Arthur Sido: The leader of Minnesota’s Democratic Party says he is calling an emergency meeting this week to “ban individuals engaged in violent assaults” from its ranks after a tense confrontation erupted over the weekend at an event to nominate candidates for a Minneapolis City Council seat. The showdown between supporters …
Dec 27 2022
Interfaith…Dialogue?
The lunacies of our time include this one, which has recently not been in the news: the notion that Christians and Muslims can, through “interfaith dialogue,” reconcile their differences sufficiently to put an end to the enmity between them. Pope Francis is a principal exponent of this nonsense, which stands as powerful evidence that …
Jul 20 2022
Objectives And Constraints
“If you’re willing to die you can do anything.” – lapel button Yes, there’s a point to the above – and it’s not that the accumulated wisdom of Mankind can be found on lapel buttons. (It’s also not that I’m willing to die.) Life under the veil of Time is an exercise …
Sep 12 2021
The Shoulds
Good morning, Gentle Readers. A number of you have written to ask why I haven’t posted anything about the twentieth anniversary of the greatest atrocity ever visited upon this nation. The short answer is that the date has left me both heartsick and furious: too heartsick to say anything encouraging, and too furious to …
Jul 01 2013
Present Enemies, Future Wars
[I had intended to produce a gentle, philosophical musing with which to open the new week — something about why the Yankees can’t hit this season or what madness could have induced the Rangers’ front office to spurn Mark Messier as the team’s next head coach — until I came upon this bit of news …
Sep 18 2002
Reason, Death, And Unholy Desire
When confusion abounds and a multitude of strident voices make the world into one giant cacophony, I retreat to the classics. No, not Shakespeare or Milton, though they too have their place. I’m thinking of the great theorists of war and international relations, the RAND Corporation and Hudson Institute conflict-resolution scholia: Albert and Rebecca …
- 1
- 2
Fran’s Recent Novels
Margaret’s Recent Novels
