Ryan Bellerose:Things Jews Are Bad At

Dear Jews. We all know that you control the media. I mean seriously, you guys are an omnipresent super-secret cabal that controls the ebb and flow of information, and yet, you do a terrible job of getting your puppets to say nice things about you. In fact, if one didn’t know better, one might thing that you didn’t control the media at all. Heck, the level of demonization you allow on your personal etch-a-sketch is either a brilliant cover, or you simply suck at twisting those little white nobs.

Israel, it’s time to drop the G word: You guys are really bad at genocide, I mean shockingly, awful at it. Any tin pot dictator of a banana stand can conduct a Genocide (sit down Kim Jong Un. You don’t even have bananas). Yet, Israel – you guys somehow manage to fail at genocide – not just fail, but spectacularly so. Everyone knows that to conduct a proper genocide, you have to drastically reduce a population using violent means. So, why is it that, during your “genocide” of the Palestinians, their population has literally (okay, figuratively) exploded six fold? Get your act together, Hebrews! This is literally the WORST GENOCIDE EVER. Its like you aren’t even trying…. Don’t you realize that you have a multitude of neighbors who you can teach you how to fill out the proper paper work? You’ve got Syria, Iraq, Iran – the list goes on.

Your ethnic cleansing? Well, that was a pretty epic fail, too. There are nearly 2 million Arabs living in Israel. Jeesh, You should just look at your annoying neighbor, the Palestinian Authority, to see ethnic cleansing done right. They have zero Jews. ZERO. And their percentage of Christians has now shrunk below 5%. Those guys can really teach you Israelis a thing or two about ethnic cleansing...

Turkey’s hidden Armenians search for stolen identity

In 1915, during World War I, the Ottoman Empire ordered a purge of the Armenian people. One and a half million were killed in the genocide. But up to 200,000 women and children survived, converting to Islam and being integrated into the Kurdish and Turkish communities. Today, their descendants are discovering their Armenian roots that had lain hidden for generations. 

A New Yorker is shocked to learn women may not like catcalls

City Hall bleeds our money away

It’s always something at City Hall isn’t it?

Social housing bosses receiving “bonuses” while low-income tenants live in squalor amid a huge repair backlog rapidly closing in on $1 billion.

Or the never-ending renovation of Nathan Phillips Square — going on right outside the front doors of City Hall — 50% ($20 million) over budget and at least three years overdue.

Or the financially troubled Toronto-York Spadina subway, which suddenly can’t be completed without an injection of $150 million more, $90 million from Toronto property taxpayers, $60 million from those in York Region.

Or another fiasco at the TTC, broken by Sun City Hall Bureau Chief Don Peat last week.

That’s that the TTC is bleeding almost $100,000 per week — $1 million so far this year — paying about 85 bus drivers to sit around doing nothing every day before going home after five hours, while earning eight hours’ pay...

Today is Harold Lloyd Day

Today is Harold Lloyd's birthday.

Lloyd (1893-1971) was one of the greatest (I think the greatest,) of the silent screen comedians.

UC Santa Cruz apologizes for serving Mexican food during Sci-Fi space alien party

With stuff like this happening all the time, I don't know how the satirical website The Onion stays in business. Moronic political correctness has eliminated the difference between satire and reality.

In today's fun example, UC Santa Cruz is making staff undergo sensitivity training because they served Mexican food during a space alien-themed science fiction party. Don't get the connection? Neither did the caterers, or the students, or anyone else until some idiot decided that it might offend illegal aliens from Mexico and Latin America.

This actually happened:

A residential college at the University of California, Santa Cruz has apologized for serving a Mexican food buffet during an intergalactic-themed party which featured spaceships and aliens.

In an email sent to Stevenson College students, Dr. Carolyn Golz, a college administration officer, said that as a result of the event, all Programs staff will now be required to undergo cultural competency training.

“Unfortunately, the program planners made a poor decision when choosing to serve a Mexican food buffet during a program that included spaceships and ‘aliens’, failing to take into account how these choices might be perceived by others,” Golz wrote in the email. “We would never want to make a connection between individuals of Latino heritage or undocumented students and ‘aliens’ and I am so sorry that our College Night appeared to do exactly that.”...

Women get ejected from Calgary Expo Comic Convention for dissenting from 3rd Wave Feminism

Like any other movement of fanatical totalitarians, Third Wave Feminists neither tolerate dissent nor do they exhibit much understanding of humor.

Yesterday, both those unpleasant factors came into play at the Calgary Expo, a large-scale comic convention.

Normally, such things were the domain of geeky guys obsessed with the strange fantasies that unfold in comic books and science fiction. But in the last couple of decades, more women have emerged as leaders in the field. More recently still, such events have become infused with movements trying to impose their versions of political correctness, and dictates of hyper-sensitivity to their own points of view at the cost of any others.

That reached a peak at Calgary Expo when during a panel discussion, one of the panelists rhetorically asked about why Men's Right's advocates became so infuriated about women's participation in comics. A woman named Alison Tieman was in the audience and asked if she could address the question as she identifies as a female Men's Rights advocate.  Tieman raised a point about "damselling," which is a term for women playing the victim to their advantage and discussed, in what the recording sounds like a very polite, thoughtful exchange, the perceptions of female and male roles in comics and different writing genres, both as characters and creators.

One of the most salient points made by Tieman, who herself is a comic book author, was, "I made the comic I wanted to see. That was what I did. I think that's the message you need to tell people. Don't say you're a victim of this culture. Say that you build what you want to see."

Evidently that was too much for the 3rd Wave Feminists on the panel and the Calgary Expo organizers, who must have been "triggered" by Tieman's assertion of self-sufficiency and statement that women don't have to revel in their own victimhood.

The panel continued, seemingly normally, but then when it was over, Tieman and her "Honey Badger Brigade" booth was ejected from the Calgary Expo for "harassment."

The website The Mary Sue published an account by one of the panelists, Brittney Le Blanc, trying to justify Tieman's ejection. But an audio recording of the panel suggests Le Blanc's account is merely a series of distortions, slanders, and smears.

Calgary Expo's censorial priggishness took an even more preposterous turn when they attempted to justify their abhorrent narrow-mindedness. The Calgary Expo censors "discovered" a fundraising web post by the Honey Badger Brigade, to seek funds to travel to the convention. In the pose, the Honey Badgers wrote:

...the Honey Badgers plan to put on a booth at the Calgary Comics and Entertainment Expo! We plan to infiltrate nerd culture cunningly disguised as their own. Each of us has been carefully crafting a persona of nerdiness through decades of dedication to comics, science fiction, fantasy, comedy games and other geekery, waiting for this moment, our moment to slip among the unaware. Once there we will start distributing the totalitarian message that nerd and gamer culture is… perfectly wonderful just as it is and should be left alone to go it’s own way. 

That’s it folks...

Evidently, Calgary Expo's organizers believed, in literal seriousness, the sarcastic joke that the Honey Badgers had spent decades crafting the persona of comic book geeks for the purpose of slipping in to a comic convention.

It's hard to imagine how anyone who isn't functionally retarded could come to the conclusion which the Calgary Expo organizers used to justify their actions by (re)tweeting it out through their account.

I've written before that I think the Men's Rights Movement is a generally silly, but harmless phenomenon. Considering some of the responses to them, I'm no longer sure of that, at least where it comes to they're being silly. The reactions they have evoked from fanatical 3rd wave feminists show that some of the issues they raise are indeed valid. Censorship and politically correct totalitarianism is neither silly nor harmless, and it needs to be fought if we want to live in a society where only the establishment's ideas are permitted.

The ugly response by Calgary Expo's organizers to the discussion at the Women in Comics panel is sad for a number of reasons. Not the least of which is that otherwise, they seem to have done a great job of putting together what should have been a hugely enjoyable event. They had stars like Neil Patrick Harris in attendance, the convention drew huge crowds, and had a fantastic parade through the streets of Calgary leading up to the expo.

Unfortunately, by this one spectacular screw-up, Calgary Expo won't be remembered for the fun it gave the overwhelming majority of its attendees, but the cruelty and censorship they inflicted on a few.

How did a picture of Yoda get into a 13th Century church manuscript?

A long time ago, in a place far away, a manuscript was created with an enigmatic figure who looks a great deal like a certain little — and yet powerful — green guy from theStar Wars films. It's an unlikely connection between a religious tome and science fiction. 

The similarity to Jedi Grand Master Yoda was recently highlighted by British Library curator Julian Harrison, who runs the Medieval Manuscripts blog...

Bill Maher: Explaining Jokes to Idiots – #RespectForZayn Edition

Jesuit-funded Loyola University's Queer Summit Tells Students to Consider Ditching Monogamy

There's nothing I could write about this item that would make it seem more ridiculous than it actually is.

The headline is just the tip of the iceberg and I had to make sure the piece wasn't dated April 1st.

It wasn't.

Here's a sample: "...For those not interested in sex, Qmunity will also feature a workshop on asexuality and “aromantic” identity..."

The Volokh Conspiracy: How the Constitution protects “free range” parents

...The Supreme Court has always indicated that parental rights are not absolute. The state can intervene to protect children against serious threats to their health and safety, and to ensure that all children get at least a basic education. But, as Troxel makes clear, the state can’t infringe on parental control over child-raising unless they have real evidence showing that there is a genuinely significant threat to the children’s safety and well-being. Otherwise, as Justice O’Connor’s opinion makes clear, the authorities must respect the “presumption that fit parents act in the best interests of their children.”

Forcibly detaining elementary school-aged kids for walking by themselves in a safe, middle-class neighborhood doesn’t even come close to meeting the necessary standard. Statistically, such walking is extremely safe, and probably less dangerous than police officers’ actions in forcibly detaining the children and driving them to a CPS office. According to the Center for Disease Control, car accidents are a leading cause of death among small children; riding in a car as a passenger is far more dangerous for kids than walking in most neighborhoods. Far from “protecting” the two children, the police and the CPS probably put them at greater risk than they were exposed to before (though the risk was still very low in an absolute sense). The Meitivs’ parenting practices are also much safer than numerous typical childhood activities, such as participating in contact sports like basketball and hockey, or going downhill skiing. If the CPS can force parents to stop letting their children walk home from the park, it can similarly target every other comparably risky activity, including numerous sports, and even driving the children in a car.

The bottom line is that the CPS’ actions here seem to be the result of exactly the kind of “mere disagreement” with parental choices that the Supreme Court specifically barred as a basis for overriding parents’ constitutional right to direct their children’s upbringing. Economist Bryan Caplan, an expert on child safety data, sums it up well: “it’s crazy, people are being persecuted for doing things that are extremely statistically safe just because other people disagree.”...

As if needed - more proof that SJW's (Social Justice Wankers) are oblivious to irony

Not a day goes by where one or another group of  determinedly sanctimonious halfwits, whose entire identity is wrapped up in their so-called "Social Justice" activism, demonstrates their complete shallowness and inherently dictatorial nature.

What makes them funny on top of that is that they they have no sense of humor, so they remain thoroughly oblivious to the ironies of their preposterous pontificating.

In today's amusing example, the American Library Association is celebrating "Banned Books Week," a worthy cause bringing attention to the dangers of censorship by those who would limit information to others and try to impose only their own ideas.

You might think the value of adults being able to read those books they want and make their own choices about them would be self-evident to people living in a free society.

Not so to the Social Justice Wankers.

The poster for The ALA's Banned Books Week shows a woman holding up a book with an eye-slit in what is the international symbol for "restricted." In the opinion of some SJW's, it resembles a niqab, making the poster "Islamophobic," and therefore it should be banned, and they have created a petition to bring that about.

The American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom, a concept SJW's find incomprehensible, have clarified that the poster was not intended to represent Islamic dress.

But even if it were, so what? Islam, as a culture, has the least free speech and most restrictions on individual liberty of any in the world. Anyone who believes in genuine social justice would want that fact brought to light and try to change it.  But the mere effort to ban a Banned Books Week poster is of itself something that anyone with the least sense of irony should find bizarre.

So here we have another demonstration that people who call themselves "social justice activists," are active against, rather than for justice and individual liberty.

This 2008 interview with John McCain was a completely accurate prediction of Obama's foreign affairs incompetence

Leading up to the 2008 election, The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg interviewed Barack Obama and John McCain about Iran, Israel and matters related to the Middle East.

In what now looks like a glimpse into a crystal ball, McCain predicted, with total accuracy, how Obama's naivety and empathy with America's enemies would prove devastatingly dangerous to America's national security interests:

JG: What do you think motivates Iran?

JM: Hatred. I don't try to divine people's motives. I look at their actions and what they say. I don't pretend to be an expert on the state of their emotions. I do know what their nation's stated purpose is, I do know they continue in the development of nuclear weapons, and I know that they continue to support terrorists who are bent on the destruction of the state of Israel. You'll have to ask someone who engages in this psycho stuff to talk about their emotions.


JG: Senator Obama has calibrated his views on unconditional negotiations. Do you see any circumstance in which you could negotiate with Iran, or do you believe that it's leadership is impervious to rational dialogue?

JM: I'm amused by Senator Obama's dramatic change since he's gone from a candidate in the primary to a candidate in the general election. I've seen him do that on a number of issues that show his naivete and inexperience on national security issues. I believe that the history of the successful conduct of national security policy is that, one, you don't sit down face-to-face with people who are behave the way they do, who are state sponsors of terrorism.

Senator Obama likes to refer to President Kennedy going to Vienna. Most historians see that as a serious mistake, which encouraged Khrushchev to build the Berlin Wall and to send missiles to Cuba. Another example is Richard Nixon going to China. I've forgotten how many visits Henry Kissinger made to China, and how every single word was dictated beforehand. More importantly, he went to China because China was then a counterweight to a greater threat, the Soviet Union. What is a greater threat in the Middle East than Iran today?

Senator Obama is totally lacking in experience, so therefore he makes judgments such as saying he would sit down with someone like Ahmadinejad without comprehending the impact of such a meeting. I know that his naivete and lack of experience is on display when he talks about sitting down opposite Hugo Chavez or Raul Castro or Ahmadinejad.


JG: There's no rationale for sitting down with Iran?

JM: Yes. I could see a situation hopefully in the future if the Iranians would change the policies that you and I have just talked about, but there would have to be negotiations and discussions and all kinds of things happening before you lend them the prestige of a face-to-face meeting with the President of the United States of America. As you know, our ambassador in Iraq, Ryan Crocker, has met with the Iranian ambassador in Baghdad on a couple of occasions. Those discussions, according to Ambassador Crocker, have been totally unproductive, because Iran is hell-bent on the destruction of Israel, they're hell-bent on driving us out of Iraq, they're hell-bent on supporting terrorist organizations, and as serious as anything to American families, they're sending explosive devices into Iraq that are killing American soldiers.

“Don’t you someday want to see a woman president of the USA?”

Star Wars: The Force Awakens - the new trailer!

Read about it HERE

The Problem With Patriarchy Theory

This makes a lot of sense:

The Volokh Conspiracy: Gary Trudeau of Doonesbury's Brain Fart

...Islam has an estimated 1.6 billion adherents, and is the most powerful religion in many important countries. Being powerful, it has been doing plenty of its own “punching downward” lately, and not just by means of satire. It has plenty of “the self-satisfied and hypocritical” within it. Much within Islam — like much within many religions — merits some “afflicting” through criticism and even ridicule.

Yet somehow this, in Trudeau’s eyes, is illegitimate. Look closely at the rhetorical trick in his argument. First, take a general rule of good manners (don’t make fun of the genuinely afflicted, especially when they are afflicted through no fault of their own). Then broaden it to any supposedly “powerless, disenfranchised minority,” including ones that are defined by a belief system — which, like other belief systems, may well deserve criticism (regardless of how powerful its adherents might be, and especially because even “powerless” belief systems often exercise a lot of potentially harmful power over some, such as their women and children). And then deploy this to deligitimize criticism of one of the most important and powerful belief systems on the planet, because in Hebdo’s home country that belief system attracts a mere 7.5% or so of the population.

What’s more, according to Trudeau himself, this part of the population is far from innocuous. After all, he says that “many Muslims throughout France” are now “mak[ing] common cause with [presumably Islam’s] most violent outliers.” Sounds like those outliers, in Trudeau’s view, really aren’t such outliers within French Islam after all, if a few cartoons can turn “many Muslims” into the supposed outliers’ allies...

Gary Trudeau's recent sanctimony reminded me why I haven't looked at a Doonesbury comic on purpose in over 25 years.

On Jackie Robinson Day, Let’s Remember When He Was Fired From the New York Post for Being Too Republican

Today is the 68th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking Major League Baseball's notorious de facto ban against players having skin tone a shade or two darker than pure Castilian soap. As is the annual tradition, all MLB players today are wearing Robinson's #42 in homage.

As I (and plenty of others) have long argued, Jackie's awe-inspiring legend has, if anything, given short shrift to what a colossally competitive, accomplished, and complicated man he really was. He has as good a claim as anyone else at being the best all-around athlete of the 20th century (he was also a national champion long jumper, league champion collegiate basketball scorer, and All-American halfback at UCLA). He was a prolific if underappreciated author. A passionate and righteously angry civil rights activist. A banker/entrepreneur, active Rockefeller Republican, and the first black columnist for a major non-black newspaper, The New York Post. Which fired him for being too pro-Nixon.

Wait, what?...

Michael Coren and Charles McVety debate Ontario's sex education curriculum

My old friend Michael has some rather disparaging things to say about the people opposed to the Sex Ed curriculum for which convicted child pornographer and pedophile Ben Levin served as architect.

He suggests its opponents haven't read it, or are in large measure homophobic.

Here is a critique which shows that's most definitely not always the case.

A professor who challenged her students' views on sex becomes target for an inquisition

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition, but everyone who lives or works at a college probably should. A Northwestern University professor recently lamented the “intellectually embarrassing” atmosphere of moral panic concerning sex and rape on campus in a column for The Chronicle of Higher Education. Several students who didn’t appreciate her opinion—perhaps it triggered them—responded by filing formal complaints against her with the university’s Title IX coordinator.

Has it truly come to this? Will academics be subjected to heresy trials for daring to challenge their students’ immature, unhealthy, and increasingly dictatorial views about sex and consent?

That seems to be the case for Laura Kipnis, an author and professor of media studies at NU. Her column for The Chronicle documented the cultural and administrative changes made at NU in recent years, ostensibly for the purpose of combatting sexism. Kipnis is not a fan of the changes, which she claims are anti-feminist, infantilizing, and contributing to a culture of fear...

Jihadi Goes Boom!

This is the incredible moment a car being driven by an ISIS suicide bomber detonates mid-air seconds after it is blasted skywards by an explosion on the ground.

Video shows the jihadi attempting to launch an attack on Kurdish Peshmerga forces, reportedly near Kirkuk in northern Iraq.

But as the car approaches, it hits what appears to be a roadside bomb, catapulting the vehicle at least 100ft into the air.

Just as it begins to fall back down to earth, the car detonates like a firework, either due to the explosives on board or the fuel tank igniting...

If you require a "trigger warning," you're most likely an imbecile

Will John Tory keep his promise about garbage?

Nearly six months into his term as Toronto's mayor, John Tory's accomplishments are mostly those of style rather than substance. In terms of legislative accomplishments, his predecessor Rob Ford achieved significantly more in at the beginning of his mayoralty, and that was with almost all of an antagonistic Toronto's media browbeating him at every opportunity.

By contrast, Tory has enjoyed an extended honeymoon from a fawning media still breathing a collective sigh of relief that the current mayor's surname isn't Ford. That media support has helped Tory maintain high approval ratings.

But one of the promises that Ford had kept and John Tory has not was the privatization of garbage pick-up. Ford had wanted all of Toronto's garbage privatized, and had tremendous public support for that cost-saving measure. That support was created to a large extent by an aggravating garbage strike during David Miller's term, which Miller had handled so disastrously that it is credited with bringing his political career to an end.

As a compromise with the civic union-backed, socialist councilors at City Hall, Ford managed to get garbage pick-up privatized for half the city as an "experiment." The experiment is an obvious success. Not only does it save the city money, but the pick up service from private garbage collectors west of Yonge Street is substantially better than the service provided by municipal employees.

In the days before private garbage pick-up in Toronto, I didn't have to know what day of the week it was or actually lay eyes on a garbage truck to know it was garbage or recycling pick-up day. Pools of putrid ooze would fester about twenty yards apart on every block, turning the air fetid and staining the roads until the next rainfall. Broken glass was strewn across the roads, making them obstacle courses for those of us who bicycle and rollerblade through the city,

All that changed west of Yonge with private garbage pick-up. The roads are clean and the garbage gets picked up with substantially more efficiency.

During his campaign for mayor, Tory made a big deal about how he would extend private garbage pick-up, and its improved service to the entire city. That promise so far remains unfulfilled. Instead, a "study" has been commissioned, costing the city more money, and enabling the civic unions to delay a fiscal benefit to taxpayers as a compromise with union-beholden city councilors.

One of the benefits that John Tory brings to his office that Rob Ford lacked is the ability, which his media friends have bolstered, to effectively marginalized the trough-feeding far left of City Council. But one of the concerns of the people that supported Ford, first Rob and then his brother Doug, who assumed his campaign when the former mayor was taken ill, was of John Tory's natural inclination to be over-conciliatory.

The way, and if, John Tory does or does not keep his promise about privatizing garbage pick-up in Toronto will provide a good indication of the extent to which those fears were justified.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says people who don't support her pedophile-crafted curriculum are homophobes

The new Ontario Sex Ed curriculum, which introduces sexualized subject matter like anal and oral sex to pre-pubescent children, was crafted by an admitted pedophile, Ben Levin, who was Kathleen Wynne's hand-chosen Deputy Minister of Education:

Khamenei’s Choice to Head Powerful Charity Bolsters the IRGC

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed Parviz Fattah as the new head of the Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation (IKRF) last weekend. Fattah, previously the top manager of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) largest investment portfolio, will assume over a multi-billion dollar foundation hitherto controlled by Iran’s traditional conservative party, the Islamic Coalition Party. The move – which went virtually unnoticed amidst the fanfare surrounding the nuclear framework announcement earlier this month – has vast political significance...

US science and engineering professors preferred female job candidates by two to one

Universities in the United States employ many more male scientists than female ones. Men are paid more, and in fields such as mathematics, engineering and economics, they hold the majority of top-level jobs.

But in a sign of progress, a 13 April study finds that faculty members prefer female candidates for tenure-track jobs in science and engineering — by a ratio of two to one. That result, based on experiments involving hypothetical job seekers, held true regardless of the hirer’s gender, department, career status or university type, researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences¹.

“We were shocked,” says Wendy Williams, a psychologist at Cornell University...

My Little Pony To Children: Marxism Is Not Magic

...Apparently, the makers of the show “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic” feel that this social Marxism is beyond foul, and made a two-part episode to get that point across. Entertainment industry protocol be damned.

The message wasn’t subtle, either. It was a full-on direct strike against the so called “equality” movement that emanates from today’s academia-washed social-justice warriors, making references to everything from Stalin’s Russia to attacking today’s need to fit in...

Anthony Furey: Moral relativism is destroying intellectual inquiry at our universities

...“Moral relativism clears the ground for a new kind of absolutism. The emerging curriculum in the humanities is in fact far more censorious, in crucial matters, than the one that it strives to replace.”

But this isn’t just about the handful of protests the student clubs get up to. The problem has leaked into all of the humanities – the once sacred home for all forms of inquiry.

It’s about dismantling anything connected to the past, anything that suggests we can learn from the people who came before us: “The Marxist theory of ideology, or some feminist, poststructuralist, or Foucauldian descendent of it, will be summoned in proof of the view that the precious achievements of our culture owe their status to the power that speaks through them, and that they are therefore of no intrinsic worth.”

In other words, too many of the departments are screwed. What do we do now?

The change George Will predicted coming almost 30 years ago never did because while he was right to note that the silent majority clearly agreed that education was going down the tubes, they weren’t the folks running the academy. All you need is enough relativists to become heads of departments and that sets the trend...

Mystery of origin of Moon solved: Giant impact theory vindicated

Haifa - A study by Israeli and French scientists might have vindicated the giant impact theory of origin of the Moon by resolving the longstanding puzzle of almost identical chemical compositions of the Earth and Moon...  

Andrew Klavan: Obama's Clown-Car Diplomacy

At U of Michigan, a Muslim Student Unmasks the Hypocrite He Says Vandalized His Apartment

Is the University of Michigan a hostile place for Muslim students—or just a hostile place for freethinkers?

Zeinab Khalil, a recent UM graduate, Muslim, and progressive activist who won numerous distinctions during her time on campus, including an award named for Martin Luther King, Jr., thinks it’s the former. A UM group’s decision to
screen the film American Sniper offended the sensibilities of some Muslims, including Khalil, who claimed on Twitter that the campus “is already a hostile place for Arab/Muslim students. In one tweet posted on April 9th, she despaired:

“Spent 4 yrs at @umich doing anti-oppressive work; admins used me to educate campus. this is what i get in return as exhausted/exploited alum.”

In a sense, she’s right. UM has indeed proven to be a hostile place for at least one Muslim student: Omar Mahmood, whose off-campus apartment was vandalized last December by a trio of women who pelted his door with eggs and left him hateful messages because they didn’t appreciate a satirical column he'd written mocking trigger warnings and microaggressions.

Who perpetrated this act of intimidation against a Muslim student? It was Khalil herself...

If international politics were a movie, we'd be watching a porno where @khamenei_ir, Raoul Castro, and Kim Jong Un gang rape @BarackObama
— Richard Klagsbrun (@KlagsbrunTO) April 10, 2015

Take Iran At Its Word

Krauthammer: "Obama is a narcissist... bordering on the pathological"

Charles Krauthammer is a psychiatrist, and his diagnosis is hard to refute:

The Five Stages of Justin Trudeaumania

Euphoria, Gloating, Confusion, Bargaining, Acceptance.

Rex Murphy Weighs In On The Toronto Symphony Orchestra's Political Screw-Up

Human Rights Group urges the UN to prevent Judgment Day and ban 'killer robots'

...A new study by Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School is urging the UN to ban the development of 'killer robots'...

The Rob Lowe Direct TV Ads

Comcast filed a complaint about these and Direct TV was issued a non-binding ruling to remove them.

An Important Message about Sensitivity from Ed the Sock

Richard Dawkins and Brian Greene: Do We Live in a Simulated Universe?

Princeton and the University of Chicago fight back against the "microaggression movement" morons

"...Although the University greatly values civility, and although all members of the University community share in the responsibility for maintaining a climate of mutual respect, concerns about civility and mutual respect can never be used as a justification for closing off discussion of ideas, however offensive or disagreeable those ideas may be to some members of our community..."

"Anti-Semite," "misogynist," and now "joke thief"; it's turning into a bad week for Trevor Noah

Canadian comedian Russell Peters is accusing incoming Daily Show host Trevor Noah of being a "thief," saying Noah has stolen jokes from other comedians.

Peters made the accusation during an interview with Channel NewsAsia's Lin Xueling on Conversation With.

"He's also a thief," Peters said during a short clip posted to the news organization's YouTube account.

Peters started out talking about why he didn't want the hosting gig for himself before he made the accusation.

"He's stolen material from David Kau. He's stolen material from myself," he said. Both Noah and Kau are South African comics.

He said comedians don't borrow material.

"That's like stealing somebody's underwear and putting them on," Peters said...

UPDATE: Peters now says his claim that Trevor Noah  stole his material was just "a prank."

Iran's Foreign Minister Brags Islamic Republic Will Violate Nuke Deal on Day 1

Iran will begin using its latest generation IR-8 centrifuges as soon as its nuclear deal with the world powers goes into effect, Iran’s foreign minister and nuclear chief told members of parliament on Tuesday, according to Iran’s semi-official FARS news agency 

If accurate, the report makes a mockery of the world powers’ much-hailed framework agreement with Iran, since such a move clearly breaches the US-published terms of the deal, and would dramatically accelerate Iran’s potential progress to the bomb...

See also: 

Chuck Schumer bucks White House on Iran:

The top Democrat throws his weight behind legislation to give Congress power to reject a deal.

Our Universities Are Producing A Generation Of Coddled Retards, Part, um... I've Lost Count...

UNIV. OF MICHIGAN CANCELS ‘AMERICAN SNIPER’ SCREENING: ‘MADE STUDENTS FEEL UNSAFE’

University: ‘While our intent was to show a film, the impact of the content was harmful, and made students feel unsafe and unwelcome at our program’

A scheduled movie screening of “American Sniper” at the University of Michigan was abruptly cancelled Tuesday after nearly 300 students and others complained the film perpetuates “negative and misleading stereotypes” against Muslims.

“The movie American Sniper not only tolerates but promotes anti-Muslim … rhetoric and sympathizes with a mass killer,” according to an online letter circulated among the campus community via Google Docs that garnered the signatures.

The signers were mostly students, but also some staff, as well as the Muslim Students’ Association and the president of Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, a Palestinian solidarity group at UMich.

The online memo, titled a “collective letter from Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) and Muslim students on campus,” accused the public university of “tolerating dangerous anti-Muslim and anti-MENA propaganda” by showing the movie, the highest grossing film of 2014...

John Oliver's Edward Snowden interview reveals a careless narcissist

Barry University Student Suspended After Exposing University Administration's Willingness To Help ISIS

The student who helped expose the disgraceful, treasonous idiocy of Barry University staff was suspended for violating the university's "code of conduct."  Perhaps she should be grateful she was just suspended and not beheaded.

Why College Campuses Have Become Insufferable, In Two Minutes

Israel Suggests Ways to Make Iran Nuclear Deal ‘More Reasonable’

JERUSALEM — Clearly unsatisfied with assurances from Washington, Israel on Monday listed specific requirements that it said it wanted in any final deal with Iran over that country’snuclear program.

Whereas Israel’s public diplomacy has so far focused on what many have said is an unrealistic demand for the complete dismantlement of Iran’s potentially military nuclear infrastructure, Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s minister of intelligence and strategic affairs, presented a list of desired modifications for the final agreement, set to be concluded by June 30, that he said would make it “more reasonable.”...

More at The New York Times

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Top Dems voice 'great skepticism' over Iran nuclear deal

GenuineWitty's DePape Smear of a Professional Protester

As if it needed saying, not a real Conservative Party of Canada ad

The biggest surprise of Greg's virtual encounter with Canada's loony left is that apparently, the ancient hack journalist, Antonia Zerbisias, ex of The Toronto Star, is still alive.

I'm pretty sure I've eaten pizzas with toppings that were smarter than Brigette DePape...

UN Climate Official: “We Should Make Every Effort” To Decrease World Population

Climate One founder Greg Dalton and the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) Christiana Figueres, held a discussion in 2013 on the role of women in fighting Global Warming.

During the interview Secretary Figueres stated, We should should “make every effort,” to reduce the world’s population in an effort to fight Climate Change...

Zionists Target Muslim Breasts with Poisoned Bras!

 Today in crazy Arab conspiracy theories:

... A nice Muslim woman went lingerie shopping in Algeria and bought a quality bra that made her very happy. But when she went home and tried it on, she felt something hard in the cup. She cut the cra open and found a small bag there!.

She took the bag to a doctor to examine it, and he told her that it contained a mysterious substance - a substance that causes cancer!

Whoa!

Obviously, such a scheme could only have been hatched by Jews. (Never mind that the manufacturer is named "Zhou Underwear," that is all Zionist misinformation and we all know that Jews love Chinese food.)...

Read it all at Elder of Ziyon 

Original via Google Trans

Kathleen Wynne has made Ontario Canada's leader....in deficit

Well, at least Kathleen Wynne has made us number one in something!

Twitter feed of armed man shot over threats to Newfoundland politicians suggests he hated Harper, Israel, and capitalism

"No one really knows anyone just by their tweets" was one of the last twitter messages, and probably the most ironic, sent by Don Dunphy, who was shot dead yesterday when he threatened Newfoundland Premier Paul Davis' security detail with a gun. A violent threat on twitter that Dunphy made against politicians and their families was the catalyst that led to the chain of events which ended the 59 year-old's life.

While it's true you can't completely know someone by their tweets, the consistency of tone of a person's twitter feed can certainly provide insight into the disposition and sentiments of the person who posts them.

In the case of Don Dunphy, those sentiments were clearly against Stephen Harper, Israel, and capitalism. Socialist sympathies and those for the residue of the moribund "Occupy Movement" were abundant.

Dunphy's final tweet was a retweet of something by an Ed Tanas. Last month, Tanas, unsolicited, trolled me to accuse Harper of effectively being a Nazi.  (I tweeted back to Tanas that he had no facts to back up what he wrote, so he blocked me.)

It's a strange world

Real life CIA celebrates termination of employment of fictional CIA analyst Carrie Mathison

In what will likely shock on one, it turns out real-life women who work as analysts for the Central Intelligence Agency bear no resemblance to the character Carrie Mathison, portrayed by Clair Danes on the popular Showtime series Homeland.

It turns out the CIA was so annoyed at the portrayal, they have publicized their pleasure that the fictional character will no longer be depicted as a CIA employee.

Good Riddance, Carrie Mathison http://t.co/6zNSBK89Eo
— CIA (@CIA) April 5, 2015

WASHINGTON — THE co-creator of “Homeland” on Showtime revealed recently that when the new season starts, Claire Danes’s Carrie Mathison will no longer work at the C.I.A.

Her real-life counterparts can’t wait for her to clean out her desk.

The C.I.A. sisterhood is fed up with the flock of fictional C.I.A. women in movies and on TV who guzzle alcohol as they bed hop and drone drop, acting crazed and emotional, sleeping with terrorists and seducing assets...

Faculty Mutiny at Marxist Cesspool OISE - Call for Removal of Dean

The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education is an ideological cesspool of Marxist indoctrination. 

Most of the staff, were they not being paid with public funds to fill their students heads with inane propaganda, would be underqualified to be employed at baristas at Starbucks. Unfortunately, these same faculty are providing teacher education and are extremely influential in the formation of education policy and curricula in Canada, which helps explain the culture of stupidity that permeates Canadian education policy.

According to a report in the Toronto Star, 60 faculty members are demanding the firing of OISE's Dean, Julia O'Sullivan, because she terminated the contracts of some support staff.

It would have been better if the University of Toronto disbanded the entire twisted institution and gave each of the faculty a one-way ticket to North Korea, where they would undoubtedly be more at home.

50 Shades of Barack Obama

I could be so good for you

On Day 1 after Obama's Nuclear Capitulation, Iran Accuses U.S. of Lying About New Agreement

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Just hours after the announcement of what the United States characterized as a historic agreement with Iran over its nuclear program, the country’s leading negotiator lashed out at the Obama administration for lying about the details of a tentative framework.

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif accused the Obama administration of misleading the American people and Congress in a fact sheet it released following the culmination of negotiations with the Islamic Republic.

Zarif bragged in an earlier press conference with reporters that the United States had tentatively agreed to let it continue the enrichment of uranium, the key component in a nuclear bomb, as well as key nuclear research.

Zarif additionally said Iran would have all nuclear-related sanctions lifted once a final deal is signed and that the country would not be forced to shut down any of its currently operating nuclear installations.

Following a subsequent press conference by Secretary of State John Kerry—and release of a administration fact sheet on Iranian concessions—Zarif lashed out on Twitter over what he dubbed lies...

Is Obama too desperate for an Iran deal?

...The President may insist that the United States will choose no deal over a bad deal, but few people truly believe he has a credible Plan B. Few believe it, particularly in the Middle East and notably among America's Arab friends, who hold the view that Iran is running circles around the United States and outplayed Obama.

As the writer David Rothkopf aptly put it, "Iran is having a great Obama administration."

That's a belief that has already started shaking up the region. Saudi Arabia has said that it will pursue nuclear weapons if it believes Iran has not been stopped, and there is little doubt that other countries among Iran's Muslim rivals will do the same. In fact, the notion that Obama is not handling the Iranian threat effectively is contributing to a new war in Yemen, where Saudi Arabia and other Arabs are trying to push back against gains by Iran's allies...

Terrorist leader admits his group works with United Nations agency

Terror group Hamas' "Minister of religion" discusses the terror organization's close cooperation with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinians:

America's greatest living intellectual, Thomas Sowell, on Who Trashes Liberal Arts?

An op-ed piece titled "Conservatives, Please Stop Trashing the Liberal Arts" appeared last week in the Wall Street Journal. But it is not conservatives who trashed the liberal arts.

Liberal professors have trashed the liberal arts, by converting so many liberal arts courses into indoctrination centers for left-wing causes and fads, instead of courses where students learn how to weigh conflicting views of the world for themselves. Now a professor of English, one of the most fad-ridden of the liberal arts today, blames conservative critics for the low esteem in which liberal arts are held.

Surely a professor of English cannot be unaware of how English departments, especially, have become hotbeds of self-indulgent, trendy fads such as trashing classic writings -- using Shakespeare's works as just another ideological playground for romping through with the current mantra of "race, class and gender."

Surely he cannot be unaware of the many farces of the Modern Language Association that have made headlines. And when our English professor uses a phrase like "critical thinking," he must be at least dimly aware of how often those words have been perverted to mean uncritical negativism toward traditional values and uncritical acceptance of glittering catchwords of the left...

Videos emerge showing that TTC cop apparently was assaulted by arrest suspect

Toronto's municipal politicians are doing what they usually do; acting like sleazy opportunists in the wake of a cell phone video showing a transit cop punching a drunk at Union Station. Of course it doesn't help matters that it's being fueled by hysteria and the typical stupidity from what passes for mainstream media in Toronto.

The incident occurred after a drunk crowd spilled out of a Toronto Maple Leafs game and many were taking the subway home. TTC cops were trying to make an arrest of one person, and another, a burly fellow who was possibly the son of the person being taken into custody, is shown in another video clearly assaulting one of the transit cops.

Startlingly, the voice of reason in this matter is coming from Ward 21 Councillor Joe Mihevc, who said "videos like that... don't tell us what happened beforehand, who else was around, what the situation was.." 

Although there was a crowd at the subway station when the altercation occurred and since this is 2015, there were plenty of people videoing the incident. As more videos of the incident are emerging, it is looking like cops using necessary force to restrain a violent drunk who resisted arrest, rather than 'policed brutality.'

This is the video of the January 29 incident that stirred up the upset - the video was just released yesterday:

But here is another video of the same incident, released almost a month ago, showing the suspect punching and kicking the TTC cop repeatedly (see at about the 1:00 minute mark):