Portrait of a hater

Remind you of anyone you know? Anyone you've seen on the TV news? Congresspersons, perhaps? Squaddies?

Further reading: "Here’s why Ilhan Omar's claim that 'white men' are greater threat than jihad terrorists is wrong", by Matt Walsh, Daily Wire, 25/7/19, reposted by Dr Rich Swier, 7/8/19.

Brilliant satire from the People's Cube: dream diary of Tiffany, SJW

Komissar al-Blogunov, writing in The People's Cube, has concocted a brilliant piece of satire: "From the dream diary of Tiffany, SJW". Constraints of space prevent us from reposting the whole thing, but these excerpts will give you the flavour of it. To read the aarticle in its entirety, follow the link at the end.

Okay, like, I had this totally awful dream last night, okay - in my safe space! It was literally the worst dream I have ever literally had. It went like this:

It was November 3, 2020. Bernie won! It was wonderful that he won because that meant that Trump was gone! My feminist studies professor told me that Trump was literally the worst Republican president since Hitler, and I believe him. Everybody on campus was cheering, hugging, dancing, getting high, and waving rainbow flags while burning American flags. It was the greatest day in our nation's history.

Bernie gave the best inaugural address that I have literally ever heard. He said, "The time has come to realize FDR's Second Bill of Rights."

I had to Google FDR, and Google said that he was literally the best president ever and AOC said Republicans persecuted him and rewrote the Constitution (some kind of boat, I don't get it) so he couldn't run for a fifth term after he died.

My bad, back to the speech. It was literally awesome.... I thought I was literally going to go deaf from all the cheering. But then something really weird happened in my dream, and it was like I was going forward in time....

I guess I needed to like, work or something. I knew I could make a lot of money with the new minimum living wage of $50 per hour (Thank you, thank you, Bernie!) so I looked for my first job. I was so confused because it was like everybody else needed a job, too. Everywhere I went some guy or some woman would tell me they couldn't afford to hire me. I went to the Employment Council building, and they said that since I was white I had to move to the back of the line. How come there were no jobs when the pay was so good?

We ended up living in an alley, and I'm not lying when I tell you it was literally the filthiest place I've ever seen. We tried to make a shelter, but it didn't do much to keep the rain out, and nobody would share their tent with us. My little brother got sick, so we took him to the hospital because all the health care was free (Thank you again, Bernie, you're awesome!) and we knew we could just walk in. You know what? There were so. many. sick people there. When we got to the desk, Mommy said that my brother may have typhoid (she used to be a nurse) and needed to be seen immediately. Well, the clerk told us to go home and come back when there weren't so many sick people in the waiting room and the earliest appointment we could get was 11 months later.

When I woke up, I was so confused, so angry. I mean, how is it even possible for socialism to turn out so bad when they make so many cool promises? Whatever. We just need the right people in charge.

Click here to go to The People's Cube and read Tiffany's bad dream, in its entirety. Good job, Komisar! Keep up the good work!

UPDATED 3x: Toronto police chief needs a reality check!

UPDATE FROM ED., added at 1600. I no sooner posted this piece than Our Man in Toronto(ish) called to say that there had been another shooting in Toronto's notorious Lawrence Heights district, raising the numbers for the weekend to 12 shootings, 14 wounded, 0 killed. More target practice needed, bwoyz!
FURTHER UPDATE FROM ED., added at 1808. Guess what? Another victim walked into a nearby hospital about the time I was writing the first update! That makes 12 shootings, 15 wounded, still no fatalities.
YET ANOTHER UPDATE FROM ED., added 6/8/19, 0520. Checking the mojo wire by the dawn's early light, CBC reports two more shootings, two more injured, bringing the totals for Toronto's Caribbean Carnival weekend to 14 shootings, 17 injured. "Police have not released any information on possible suspects" in any of the incidents.

This is a screen grab from CTV's Toronto flagship's website, this afternoon. One of Walt's agents, who was born in Toronto and lived there for some years but now avoids it like the plague [black plague? Ed.] says Chief Saunders is badly in need of a reality check. 11 shooting incidents, with 13 people wounded (but none killed -- poor shots!) is indeed Toronto... or, at least, Toronto on the weekend of the Caribbean Carnival.

Said Carnival is billed as "the largest cultural event of its kind in North America". What culture do you suppose they're talking about? Why, errr, Caribbean culture, mon! The 11 shooting incidents mentined above are only those that were reported, as millions (literally) of the people of colour who have contributed so much to Canada swarmed the streets in a hyuge jump-up. Diversity reigned! Numerous "Jamaican salutes" were fired. The debris is still being cleaned up as this is written.

Perhaps the problem, for Chief Saunders (who is a human of colour) is that he doesn't like to admit that the perps as well as the victims were, to a person, black. At least that's what one may conclude from viewing the bits of video that are being shown on CTV. But Chief Saunders' persons are "not releasing any suspect information." That's because the only applicable adjective would be "black", and a description like "black male, spoke with a Jamaican accent" would fit tens of thousands of revellers.

Hundreds of said revellers were celebrating de end of carnival at a "packed" nightclub in Toronto's northwest ghetto when someone starting shooting, injuring five or seven, depending on which channel you're watching. The Toronto Police "Service" is appealing to any witnesses to come forward, but so far no-one has done so. Chances of someone snitching on a bro? Slim and none!

I would hope Toronto voters would remember this weekend during the upcoming election campaign, every time Just In Trudeau or his Minister of Refugees and Immigration (seriously, that's his title!) says "Diversity is our strength!" But I'm betting the other way.

Further reading: "How Canuck lamestream media 'whitewash' news of black crime", WWW 13/7/19.

Islamic terrorists strike close to home -- theirs!

While we were waiting to see who was behind this weekends mass murders in El Paso and Dayton -- wondering if it was the work of terrorists (domestic or imported) or maybe just a couple of deranged individuals (as it turned out) -- the real terrorists, the jihadists, were in training in the Middle East. In Cairo, chief shithole of Egypt, to be specific.

Sadly for mearly two dozen Cairenes, their practice run -- moving a car full of explosives to the site of a planned attack -- didn't go off as planned. Or perhaps I should say it went off before it was planned, as the car exploded late Sunday night on the busy Corniche boulevard along the Nile River, setting other cars on fire, killing at least 20 and injuring at least 47, most of them Muslims. No cries of "Allahu akbar!" were heard, just a shout of "Oh shit!"

The massively weaponized vehicle [Hey! You learned a new word! Ed.] exploded near Egypt's main cancer hospital (pictured) shattering parts of the facade and some rooms inside and forcing the evacuation of dozens of patients. The hospital's main gate was damaged, along with several patient rooms and wards, according to a statement from Cairo University, whose medical school uses the institution as an educational facility. Windows and glass doors on the hospital building were shattered.

One patient told the meeja, "Parts of the ceiling of the hospital were collapsing as I got out of my room. People were running everywhere and shouting." The Egyptian Health Ministry did not say whether any patients or hospital staff were among the casualties. Another witness said that several vehicles on the street were damaged, burning those inside.

Inspector Mohammed Mohammed of the Cairo Police initially said the explosion was caused by a multi-vehicle accident. But today the Interior Ministry acknowledged that a car bomb was involved. The authorities accused a militant group known as Hasm, which has links to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, saying it was moving the car, which had been stolen months ago, to carry out an attack, errr, somewhere else.

The attack is the deadliest in Cairo since a bombing at a chapel adjacent to Egypt's main Coptic Christian cathedral killed 30 people during Sunday mass in December 2016. That attack was claimed by Egypt's affiliate of the ISIS group. For years, Egypt has battled Islamic militants, led by an ISIS affiliate, in the Sinai Peninsula. That insurgency has at times spilled over into other parts of the country. Smaller bombings, usually by roadside devices, have taken place more often, targeting security forces and in two cases tourists near the Pyramids. Car bombs, however, have been far rarer in the capital.

LMAO at this "fake news" from the Babylon Bee

I confess to not having heard of the Babylon Bee until I read, earlier this week, that the notoriously left-leaning "fact-checker", Snopes, is trying to shut the website down. In "No Joke: Babylon Bee Sics Lawyers On Snopes Over 'Fact Checks'", HotAir reports that Snopes has attempted to exploit its position as a Facebook partner to "deplatform" the "Christian news satire" site.

Apparently, Snopes doesn't know the difference between satire and "fake news", and rated a Bee piece "false", prompting FB to threaten BB with limitations and demonetization. When the folks at Bee pointed out that their work is not intended to be taken seriously -- indeed, the legend "Fake news you can trust" appears at the top of every page -- and after some media attention shed light on the problem, Facebook apologized for their handling of the matter and admitted that satire is, errr, not the same as fake news.

That would be the end of it, if it weren't for Snopes' role as a sometime Facebook gatekeeper. That role gives Snopes a significant amount of power over a major distribution channel for independent publishers, not just the Bee. The threat of malicious deplatforming in that context is real, and Snopes' disparate treatment of the Bee as opposed to The Onion certainly makes it look personal and biased against conservative satire.

Intrigued, I visited the Babylon Bee website today, and have bookmarked it for perusal every day for the rest of my years. Here follows an example of the Bee's sense of humour.

Disaster At Seesaw Art Installation As Obese American Children

Catapult Mexicans Over The Border

What? You want me to repost the text as well? Just click on the headline and you can read it for yourself, straight from the Bee's, errr, proboscis. Enjoy.

Netherlands latest EU country to ban the burqa

The Netherlands today joined a number of other European nations -- and non-EU countries too -- in implementinga law requiring people to show their faces in public, when providing or accessing public services. Clothing that "covers the face" must not be worn in a variety of public spaces, such as schools, hospitals, public buildings and public transport. A similar law was recently passed by the National Assembly of the Canadian province of Québec.

Contrary to the fake news being spread by the usual gang of Islamophiles and SJWs, the ban does not target only Muslim women. It applies equally to men and women, and prohibits not only burqas and nijabs -- see "Hijab, niqab, burqa -- what's the difference?", WWW 28/7/10 -- but any full-face covering, such as a balaclava or motorcycle helmets. [What about a hockey goalie mask? Ed.] Anyone who doesn't comply can be denied access to public areas, and fined up to €150 ($167 in real money).

France was the first country in Europe to ban the veil almost ten years ago. Last year, however, a committee of the United Nations (of course!) ruled that the legislation violated human rights. In spite of the UN's predictable opinion, other European countries have followed suit. In Denmark, the burqa ban has been in effect for a year. And earlier this year, Austria passed a law intended to ban Muslim girls from wearing headscarves in primary schools. The headscarf ruling came in addition to Austria's prohibition of full-face coverings which has been in force since 2017.

The German state of Hesse has implemented similar burqa restrictions for the civil service. Six months ago, full-face coverings were forbidden at Kiel University in northern Germany, citing the need for open communication that includes facial expressions and gestures. However, some politicians (Hello, Angela Merkel!) came out against the move, saying it undermined religious freedom.

The most surprising imposition of a burqa ban comes, however, from the Islamic kingdom of Morocco! As reported in "Burqas banned in... you'll never guess!", WWW 17/1/17, because of concerns about... wait for it... security! A spokesthingy for the Moroccan Ministry of the Interior told AFP, "We have taken the step of completely banning the import, manufacture and marketing of this garment in all the cities and towns of the kingdom, since bandits have repeatedly used this garment to perpetrate their crimes." ("Bandits" is Arabic for "terrorists".)

What are the chances of a burqa ban being enacted in The Rest of Canada (Just In Trudeau, Prop.) or the Paranoid States of America? In today's political climate, where any proposal that smacks of "Islamophobia" is instantly condemned by all progressive, correct-thinking people as "racist" and "divisive", the chances of a burqa ban are slim and none.

Further reading (and viewing): "'Ordinary Muslim' sez banning the burqa makes sense", WWW 18/1/19 - video interview with Toronto Sun columnist Tarek Fatah.

Seen during last night's Demb debate

Just a thought that crossed my mind during the fourth (already!) not-so-great debate.

It's early days yet, in the Dembs' bitter contest to see who will lose to President Trump, but it looks to me as if Old White Joe's got the inside track, if only because Kamala Devi Harris, Colonel Sanders, and Fauxcahontas are fighting so hard for the outside.

Footnote: Rumour is that the White House security crew had to use a fire extinguisher to put out a minor conflagration in the Oval Office, on the cuff's of the President's shirt to be specific, which started when he rubbed his hands together in glee.