Islamic State of Iraq and Syria: The Modern Day Khmer Rouge

     The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), also known as the Islamist State in Iraq and Syria (ISIL) taking over after U.S. withdraw from Iraq is starting to look like the modern equivalent of the Khmer Rouge taking over after U.S. withdrew from Vietnam.

     Is the massacres in Iraq by ISIS the beginning of the genocide of Shia in Iraq?

     It also seems likely that Iran will intervene in Iraq like Vietnam intervened in the Khmer Rouge’s Kampuchea.

     Examples of the butchery can be seen below.

     Warning: Some of the image might be disturbing.

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News of the Week (June 15th, 2014)

 

News of the Week for June 15th, 2014


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Happy Flag Day, 2014

     Happy Flag Day!

     There are many historical flags associated with the United States, particularly during the War of Independence.

     One such flag is the Pine Tree Flag that was “was used originally by a squadron of six cruisers commissioned under George Washington’s authority as commander in chief of the Continental Army in October 1775.”

     “The phrase is a particular expression of the right of revolution used by British philosopher John Locke’s in Second Treatise on Civil Government which was published in 1690 as part of Two Treatises of Government refuting the theory of the divine right of kings.”

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The New Doublethink: Natural Born Social Construct?

     Can 2 + 2 = 3, at the same time 2 + 2 = 5?  According the Orwellian Doublethink, it can and must.  This doublethink is the fundamental argument of transgenderism.

     On one hand, we are told that transgendered individuals, i.e. those who think they are something other than what they are biologically, are “born that way” and are thus protected by the same laws, and for the same reason, that persons are protected based on their race, biological sex, and purportedly their sexual preferences.  Thus, 2 + 2 = 3.

     On the other hand, we are told that “gender” is a “social construct” that has nothing to do with one’s biological sex.  Thus, “cis-gendered” individuals, i.e. those who think they are what they actually are, are declared to be suffering from cis-normative oppression, and are encouraged to abolish that notion of gender… particularly if they are little boys who act like little boys.  Thus, 2 + 2 =5.

     Anyone who questions this Doublethink is condemned as a monster in the most negative manichean terms possible.

     Question for the Leftists who support sex-reassignment surgery: If they are “born that way” (which is the basis for their “protected class” status), then why should that be changed?  Further, why should someone else be forced to pay for that?

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Quick Takes – Say What They Want; Think What They Want; Know Only What They Want

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: What the Progressive Left wants: YOU.

     The Progressive Left are on the verge of winning total power and are letting their mask not only slip, but be thrown to the floor.  Charles Krauthammer notes the increasing honesty the Left have with their totalitarianism.

“Six million Californians joined Eich in the crime of “privileging” traditional marriage. So did Barack Obama. In that same year, he declared that his Christian beliefs made him oppose gay marriage.

“Yet under the new dispensation, this is outright bigotry. By that logic, the man whom the Left so ecstatically carried to the White House in 2008 was equally a bigot.

“The whole thing is so stupid as to be unworthy of exegesis. There is no logic. What’s at play is sheer ideological prejudice — and the enforcement of the new totalitarian norm that declares, unilaterally, certain issues to be closed.”

     It has never been so clear that “tolerance” was just an excuse to normalize behavior and beliefs that were anathema to society.  Now that they have normalized their favored behaviors and beliefs, they will become paragons of intolerance in order to deny anyone else from using the weasel methods that they used to gain power.

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A Question Regarding the “Right to Privacy”

     A question to all those who was totes cool with Sterling’s legally protected private speech being used to purge him from his work:

     What if someone leaked information pertaining to an employee of a Christian bookstore having an abortion, resulting in that woman who had the abortion getting fired.  Would that still be totes cool and the businesses right like it was with the NBA?

     After all, both are legally recognized “rights to privacy.”

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The Modern Day Menshevik

     With increasing regularity, the far Left feel themselves to be ensconced enough in power as to punish others for not being as rabidly radical in their Progressive ideology as they are.  Case in point: Anti-straight & “anti-bully” bully Dan Savage is being condemned for uttering the word “tranny.”

     Savage spoke the words at the University of Chicago at a pro-Gay event.  The irony is that Savage was trying to “reclaim” the word “tranny” as a term of pride, much like has happened with the word “queer.”  Of course, as far as the outraged LGBTQ students who started a petition to condemn the “transphobic” slurs are concerned, Dan Savage is a member of the White Cis-Patriarchy, who is also condemned for being “misogynstic, biphobic, transphobic, and racist.”

     When places and institutions run out of the designated “boogie-man” of White Cis-Gendered Heterosexual Males (i.e. the “Kyriarchy), the ingrained thinking of the Left seeks another boogie-man, for theirs is the ideology of “us vs. them” – of “oppressors vs. oppressed.”  In a world where the more “oppression” you can claim to suffer results in a higher place in the moral hierarchy of Leftist grievance groups, you can only maintain that moral purity be lashing out against “less oppressed” groups that are deemed to have more “unearned privilege.”

     After the October Revolution in Russia, the greatest enemies were not the Bourgeoisie or the Czar, but fellow Marxists and anarchists who were rivals for post-Revolution power.  Much like the Leftists of old, the modern day Bolsheviks will smash all rivals to their hierarchical primacy.  The modern day Menshiviks, such as Dan Savage, will then suffer the fate of the unrepentant who are morally “impure,” such as the White cis-genderd male that Dan Savage is.

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Belgium Aims to Censor the World

     Europe, and specifically Belgium, sinks even more towards totalitarianism and the outlawing of “incorrect” utterances.  Not willing to sit back and enjoy the slaughter of children under the guise of “compassion,” Belgium has decided to outlaw any and all speech or communications that anyone in Belgium subjectively finds sexist, and allow prosecution of the dastardly utterers of naughty speech anywhere in the world.

     This “Anti-Sexism Act” (Antiseksismewet) is a broad ranging ban that includes utterances in person, but also all books, magazines, the internet, and any other form of communication now known, or may be known in the future.

     This is not limited to persons actually present in Belgium.  If you send an e-mail, tweet, or write an article on the internet that is accessible in Belgium, you could be criminally charged.

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Queering Humpty Dumpty

     What does “he” mean?  What does “she” mean?  To the vast majority of the English speaking world, “he” is the personal pronoun used towards a male person, while “she” is the personal pronoun used towards a female person.  This is as it always has been, because the fact that the two biological sexes have always been regarded as different, with the differing pronouns making it clear as to what the speaker is speaking about.

     However, these fundamental definitions are on the verge of being overthrown.  Long has the left wished to abolish any notion of “gender.” and they are achieving that be declaring that “gender” is a social construct, while the differences between the biological sexes is just a superficial difference of who has which reproductive organs, and that those differences between the sexes are irrelevant to anything and everything else.

     To this end, a multitude of “genders” are invented.  While there are “neutral” pronouns around, that is not transgressive enough.  “He” has been redefined to refer not to a male, but someone who simply fancies his or herself as a male.  “She” has also been similarly redefined.  It is the small cabal of “gender studies” professors and think-tank minions who are pushing this, all under the guise of “tolerance.”

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News of the Week (June 8th, 2014)

 

News of the Week for June 8th, 2014


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