Predictable: Boston Marathon Bombing Brings Out Ghouls and Morons

Within hours of this horrific bombing, the left, on cue, begins politicizing the tragedy and once again tries to pin it on imaginary Tea Partiers, right wing extremist or basically anyone who disagrees with the radical left agenda. They've been embarrassingly wrong so many times that it's obvious The Left is incapable of shame.  Logic, history and deductive reasoning should tell you that most likely the perpetrator would be Muslim, followed by an Occupy Wall Street type. As always, reality screws up the narrative.


Wolf Blitzer, CNN 

“One intriguing notion, one intriguing thought here, and I’m curious, Mike, and I’ll ask Matt to weigh in as well,” Blitzer said. “It is a state holiday, in addition to the Boston Marathon. It is a state holiday in Massachusetts today called Patriots Day, and who knows if that has anything at all to deal — to do with these, these twin explosions.”

Patriots Day is a holiday meant to commemorate the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first battles of the Revolutionary War. Blitzer continued to inquire to about that possibility, asking if there might have been an event to mark the anniversary.
“As part of Boston’s — Massachusetts, I should say — Patriots Day, did you notice earlier in the day, Matt, any special Patriots Day events going on, anything pointing to a special day in Massachusetts?”

Well, Wolf. The Marathon is always held on Patriots Day, and it is, after all, a big public event. Maybe that's it.







 Yeah, this bombing never would have happened if Republicans would just rubber stamp a new head of ATF

CNN Analyst: Right wing Groups could be behind Boston Marathon Bombing

Al Sharpton's Producer Tweets: "We don't know anything yet of course, but it is tax day & my first thought was all these anti-gov groups, but who knows,"

Via Gateway Pundit: It took Esquire Magazine just a matter of minutes to blame “Patriots Day” supporters for the bomb blasts today in Boston.

Update: Actor & Sports Radio host, Jay Mohr Tweets: What bothers me most about today is that we're getting used 2 it. ENOUGH. 2nd amendment must go. Violence has 2 stop. Culture MUST change.

What's this 'we' shit, pal? No 2nd Amendment means no terrorist bombs??? Don't quit your day job. The 2nd is the reason you're able to spout stupidity under the 1st.

Washington Post on Gosnell Story: You did it too!

WaPo:

The charge of liberal media bias is perhaps undercut by the fact that a number of conservative media outlets — and conservative leaders — overlooked the story, too, until a flood of tweets and commentaries about it began late last week.

The Weekly Standard and the National Review, two leading conservative magazines, for example, hadn’t published anything on the trial, according to a search of the Nexis database. The New York Post’s conservative editorial board has written one commentary — an editorial lamenting the lack of coverage, which, although it doesn’t mention it, includes its own paper. The Washington Times has published five staff-written articles and guest commentaries on the matter, all focusing on the absence of press coverage.
Fox News has been the only consistent national TV source on the story, having run 11 news reports or commentaries on it over the past month.

The Post, New York Times, ABC,NBC,CBS, and CNN have long claimed a leadership role as to what is considered newsworthy. Despite losing audience to other outlets, they still collectively remain the largest source of news in the country.

By comparing their (in)actions to conservative opinion magazines like National Review and The Weekly Standard, along with a NY tabloid, WaPo concedes to what many of us already knew: That the mainstream media should no longer be relied upon for comprehensive news coverage. And that other than size, they are no different than any run of the mill blog.

But the MSM still claims status and privileges as news organizations with unique and superior standards and integrity others lack. And yet, here's The Washington Post comparing themselves to publications they would normally look down their noses upon.

So, we should at least commend them for finally admitting that they, and the rest of the dinosaur media aren't leaders of anything, and deserve less trust and admiration than they give Fox News. 

 Perhaps the press should give this story the same level of coverage it would if seven infants and a patient were shot to death in a doctor's office. Then we could have thousands of stories and editorials calling for 'reasonable restrictions' and 'commonsense laws' so as to 'prevent this tragedy from happening again.' We could also hear about how no one "needs" a partial birth abortion and that it's 'paranoid' to think anyone's trying to take away your right to an abortion. Of course, we'll also have fawning coverage of celebrities and politicians calling NARAL and Planned Parenthood murderers, and their members a bunch of backwards and violent morons.

Dennis Rodman's Thugtasctic Summer Vacation

 “I’m going back August 1,” the former rebound getter told Gossip Extra exclusively. “We have no plans really, as far as what we’re going to do over there, but we’ll just hang and have some fun!”

Yeah, it’s so much fun legitimizing a gang of murderous goons who run the world’s largest concentration camp and call it a country. I’m sure the people of North Korea will have a lot of fun as Rodman approvingly romps around with the savages who are the source of their misery. It’s an absolute blast being a useful idiot and propaganda tool for the most evil government in the world.

The Media Blackout of Kermit Gosnell Case

The blogoshere and twitterverse blew up this up this week over the Main Stream Media's shocking lack of interest in a mass murder trial that's been going on since March 18. The case of Kermit Gosnell was mostly receiving coverage only in the conservative corners of cyberspace until this week. That's when liberal columnist Kirsten Powers could no longer ignore it, and took the MSM to task on the pages of USA Today:

Infant beheadings. Severed baby feet in jars. A child screaming after it was delivered alive during an abortion procedure. Haven't heard about these sickening accusations?
It's not your fault. Since the murder trial of Pennsylvania abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell began March 18, there has been precious little coverage of the case that should be on every news show and front page. The revolting revelations of Gosnell's former staff, who have been testifying to what they witnessed and did during late-term abortions, should shock anyone with a heart.

Now, we're finally getting some coverage from large media outlets, mostly in the form of ass covering,  lame excuses and attempts to turn this around on conservatives. However, none of the major news outlets have even bothered to cover the horrors revealed in the Grand Jury Report.  

But that doesn't mean this case will ever get the level of coverage it would receive if someone shot seven children and a patient inside a doctor's office. We would hear about that 24/7 for months on end.

 Obviously, this story is toxic to the media's political agenda,. and is an example of how their bias is revealed not just through what's reported, but what's not. Here's a photo of the courtroom media section taken this week:

Coverage of this case also raises the inconvenient fact of Barack Obama's repeated votes against outlawing these horrific practices as a legislator. Planned Parenthood's -mostly ignored- position that mothers and physicians should decide the fate of these babies would receive wider scrutiny as well:

As of this writing, my local paper, The Tampa Bay Times, hasn't covered this story at all since an AP report which made passing reference in December of 2011 regarding another case similar to this one.  The TBT is home to the widely cited and Pulitzer Prize winning Politifact, which purports to "seek out the truth in politics." Thankfully, they've sorted out the facts surrounding the JayZ & Beyonce Cuba trip, which is apparently far more important than the politics surrounding the mass murder trial of an abortionist.  

Update: What I Saw at the Gosnell Trial

"Thursday’s testimony had sensational details. The court staff, convinced it would attract journalists from around the nation, has set aside three rows of seats to accommodate up to 40 reporters. But all Thursday morning, as Ashly Baldwin testified to horror after horror, only one reporter was in the reserved seating — me.
Several local news outlets were there, scattered about the mostly empty courtroom. The Philadelphia Inquirer had a reporter there. NBC10 sent a blogger for its website. The AP stopped in, but the reporter told me that resources are thin and trial coverage is not gavel to gavel.
An hour into afternoon testimony, Jon Hurdle of The New York Times showed up, and a few minutes later was gone.
The lack of daily media coverage for the most sensational abortion trial angers pro-lifers who said there is a “media black out” on the Gosnell trial.
I asked one of the court staff why so few are interested.
“If you’re pro-choice, do you really want anybody to know about this,” he said, motioning to the filthy medical equipment set up in the courtroom.
It’s a good point. As saturation coverage of the Sandy Hook elementary school coverage has caused Americans to reconsider the limits of the Second Amendment, saturation coverage of Kermit Gosnell’s clinic would likely cause the same reconsideration of abortion rights.
The details are that horrifying."

The Slow Death of a Hoax

The bogus hypothesis of Catastrophic Anthropogenic (Man-Made) Global Warming is a terminal case, and now it's just a question of much longer we'll have to endure this nonsense. A good sign has come from the Economist, who has been on board the CAGW ship for some time, but is now having second thoughts over the fact that global temperatures have been flat for almost two decades. When a well respected,  international publication starts looking for the exits, you know the end has moved a lot closer:

OVER the past 15 years air temperatures at the Earth’s surface have been flat while greenhouse-gas emissions have continued to soar. The world added roughly 100 billion tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere between 2000 and 2010. That is about a quarter of all the CO₂ put there by humanity since 1750...Temperatures fluctuate over short periods, but this lack of new warming is a surprise... If they remain flat, they will fall outside the models’ range within a few years.

That doesn't mean they've completely thrown in the towel. When you've banked a lot of your credibility on a fraud, it's natural to slowly back out of the room:

  It does not mean global warming is a delusion... But the puzzle does need explaining. 

The mismatch might mean that—for some unexplained reason—there has been a temporary lag between more carbon dioxide and higher temperatures in 2000-10. Or it might be that the 1990s, when temperatures were rising fast, was the anomalous period. Or, as an increasing body of research is suggesting, it may be that the climate is responding to higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in ways that had not been properly understood before. This possibility, if true, could have profound significance both for climate science and for environmental and social policy.

Or it likely means the alarmists don't know what the hell they're talking about and never did. There's always been a lot of holes in the CAGW argument, that have been met with ridicule, threats, hysteria and logical fallacies. But the biggest ones are also the most basic: How is it that climate scientists can predict the future behavior of an enormous, non-linear system with thousands of variables to any acceptable degree of accuracy?   How can they even measure current worldwide temperature averages to 1/100 of a degree with any confidence? It's just not believable, especially when you consider that all the historic measurements beyond thirty years are just speculative reconstructions of unreliable data. And how is it that alarmist climate scientists are immune from confirmation bias in the face of all the money, power and prestige at stake in this debate?

The Church of Global Warming is also facing an ironic dilemma in its quest to eliminate fossils fuels and dismantle modern civilization:

 But the real capper is that the United States actually achieved its (unratified) Kyoto Protocol target without the help of environmentalists.  In fact, we hit the Kyoto target in spite of environmentalists—it’s entirely the result of the fracking natural gas boom that environmentalists wished had never happened and are retrospectively trying to roll back.  Coal-fired power is being rapidly supplanted by cheap gas-fired power, which has half the CO₂ emissions as coal per BTU of energy.  If environmentalists had their way, CO₂ emissions might actually go back up, because we’d switch back to coal.

That's not good news for CAGW high-priests like Bill Mckibben, who now finds himself simultaneously screaming for reduced carbon emissions while opposing the free market phenomenon of hydraulic fracturing that is largely responsible for reducing those emissions.    

The well-deserved death of this biggest fraud in human history is coming but it wont be easy or pretty. The amount of money, power, careers and infrastructure that depends on the CAGW myth is huge and has weaved itself into much public policy. These parasites will not go quietly and can always be expected to dream up novel arguments and new scares. That's what they do, because it's not about the environment and never has been.   

Your Children are Our Children

This one has created quite an uproar over the last few days. But Melissa Harris-Perry's views are fairly common in leftists circles, especially in academia, where Ms. Perry can be found when she's not broadcasting to MSNBC's miniscule audience. Her Communitarian and collectivist notions of child rearing can be heard almost daily on college campuses throughout the country.

Normally, the left isn't this publicly candid, since even they - mostly - know how toxic an unvarnished expression of their true intentions can be to most Americans. That's why MSNBC can be so useful and instructive. At minimum, dozens of people were involved in the production and airing of this promo, so the network clearly felt it reflected the views of its audience, and themselves:

   “We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we’ve always had kind of a private notion of children – ‘Your kid is yours, and totally your responsibility.’ We haven’t had a very collective notion that these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.”

 The United States spends more per student on education than any industrialized country in the world, and receives mediocre results at best.  But that's not quite what Ms Perry is talking about. She wants the community (State) and its values do be the dominant influence in children's lives. Skyrocketing out of wedlock births, especially prevalent among younger and less educated women, have provided the left with a growing number of children for whom the government becomes the second parent, and the school as the place that provides the very food they eat.  Many of these kids will never learn much of anything useful and will be far more likely to have negative outcomes as adults, but they will be sufficiently indoctrinated with a statist value system. If you belong to the community as a child, then you will belong to it as an adult.

The problem for Ms. Perry is that too many families are the biggest influence their kids lives, and they teach them subversive values and beliefs like liberty, individualism and self reliance. They may even tell their kids - as I did with my two college graduate sons - to not believe everything their teachers told them, and to be critically thinking individuals above all else. This is why the left continuously attacks home-schooling, with some making a constitutional argument for outright bans. The left's opposition to vouchers and charter schools is not just about the greed of the NEA. It's about future generations universally believing their self worth is calculated based on their value or cost to the collective.

Like many parents, I view the raising of children as a long process of gradually letting go. That we teach, and then give them increasing levels of  independence and responsibility, until they are ready to make their own way in the world.  

The authoritarians view your children not as an end in themselves, with the right to live life for its own sake, but as a means to their ends. 

  

Why They Wont Learn About Guns

                            


This random act of media honesty has likely cropped up because the willful ignorance of the gun-control crowd is getting awfully hard to ignore, and Jake Tapper is one of the best of a bad lot.

Nevertheless, the gun-controllers betray their desire to ban all, or most guns with these all too frequent gaffes. If you want to eliminate all versions of something, why bother to learn the details? It's all the same to you.

Prohibitionists didn't make a distinction between all the varieties of beer, wine or spirits. They wanted to ban all alcohol, and said so. The gun-banners are forced to make these distinctions because the Bill of Rights and public opinion doesn't allow for such honesty. The trashing of the Second Amendment has to be done incrementally, and it's hard to learn things you don't want to know.