From the Boston Marathon bombing to the devastation of West, Texas by a series fertilizer plant explosions, this has been a rather bad week for news.
As an antidote to that, here is a little animated film that might just help put a smile back you your face.
The younger of the two Boston Marathon terrorists, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was finally taken into custody, less than 24 hours after his elder brother Tamerlan died during the previous night’s police chase.
In time, we will likely find out what out what motivated these terrorists and cowards to commit the atrocity at the Boston Marathon.
I am reminded, for some reason, of the lyrics from this song:
“A wave of hatred comes like the flood
Brother on brother on, brother
Brothers in blood“Hate is so much easier to feel than love
Brother on, brother on
Brothers in blood”
William Jacobson over at Legal Insurrection has a recent post on how “language is destiny, and we have lost the language.” Indeed, defining the terms that we use can be 90% of the battle over not only politics, but the future. After all, how many people would buy Rape Oil if it weren’t called Canola Oil?
The problem goes far beyond what Jacobson talks about in regards to the Associated Press banning the term “illegal aliens.” There are plenty of examples noted on this blog such as:
There are many other examples. Equality becomes not equality under the law or of opportunity, but exclusively of outcome. Gender becomes something different from biological sex to the point where it can be contra biological normalcy. Discrimination and Racism become redefined such that it become dependant on who is what race/gender/orientation/&c.
In effect, what Progressives believe in have been defined with good sounding words, while what they are against are defined with bad sounding words.
By now, most people watching the news know about the massive explosions at a Texas fertilizer plant.
The main chemical in fertilizer, ammonium nitrate, is particularly nasty stuff. Nitrates are themselves partial to exploding: Both TNT and gunpowder have NO3 groups that tend to react violently and rapidly. However, the ammonium (NH4+) part is also quite nasty, particularly when it is in the form of its neutral compound, NH3 (i.e. anhydrous ammonia).
"Ammonia Suit" used to protect against anhydrous ammonia
When most people think “ammonia,” they think of the liquid (& aqueous) solution of ammonia, which is just ammonium hydroxide. Anhydrous ammonia is far, far nastier. It is a liquid at very low temperatures or under pressure, so its gaseous nature can create clouds of ammonia. It is reported that the fertilizer plant had just gotten in about 200 tons of anhydrous ammonia. Ammonia can cause blindness and even cessation of breathing. Far beyond the explosion itself, it is the leak of ammonia gas that caused such an extensive evacuation of the town of West, Texas.
Kermit Gosnell was a Philidelphia area abortionist who is on trial for mueder. He is not only responsible for killing one of the women who came in for an abortion, but also for delivering babies alive and then killing the children by severing their spinal cord, even to the point where the babies could scream aloud or where Gosnell would joke that they were big enough to walk home. He even performed an abortion on a young, underage girl who did not want an abortion and tried to leave.
The Grand Jury indictment has been released. It is beyond disturbing. In it the Grand Jury, consisting of both Pro-Life and Pro-Choice supporters, condemned the sheer and utter evil of Gosnell:
“This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable, babies in the third trimester of pregnancy – and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors. The medical practice by which he carried out this business was a filthy fraud in which he overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease among them with infected instruments, perforated their wombs and bowels – and, on at least two occasions, caused their deaths. Over the years, many people came to know that something was going on here. But no one put a stop to it.
“Let us say right up front that we realize this case will be used by those on both sides of the abortion debate. We ourselves cover a spectrum of personal beliefs about the morality of abortion. For us as a criminal grand jury, however, the case is not about that controversy; it is about disregard of the law and disdain for the lives and health of mothers and infants. We find common ground in exposing what happened here, and in recommending measures to prevent anything like this from ever happening again.”
The Grand Jury indictment can be found here or read below.
The Progressive left have played the long game to power, and they are entering the final phase of taking control: The indoctrination of America’s children. They are confident enough such that they can be open and honest about believing that your children really belong to them, for the state to indoctrinate and mold.
For far too long, many parents have conceded education completely to the “experts,” not realizing that what schools taught, and how communities were, when they were youths is not necessarily what they are now. Today, many of the “leaders” in education are anti-American radicals and Progressive warriors, or at least influenced and indoctrinated by them. Now, many schools are teaching that transvestitism, gender-bending, and the evil of “persons of pallor” as fact while punishing children who dare to dissent. The schools even lie outright. They have gone from being places of education, to places of indoctrination.
With many parents oblivious to what their schools are teaching and doing to their children, it is practically a miracle that any parent not only finds out what the schools are propagandizing, but actually know and care enough to publicize those facts. Here are but three examples:
I know someone who was running the the Boston Marathon. Thankfully, that person is safe and sound.
Many others were not so lucky.
Coverage of the terrorist attack, the additional information rolling in, the breaking news that has been covered admirably and not so admirably elsewhere, and the aftermath. I have little that can add or subtract from that in that regard.
For those police, doctors, and volunteers who have done so much to help in response to this attack, my hat’s off to you.
The most that the majority of us can do is offer thoughts and prayers.
Here is a bit of mood music for this tax day…
An update on firearms related bills going through the legislature:
The bad bills:
However, two anti-civil liberties bills that attack our 2nd Amendment have been passed out of their original committees:
The pro 2nd Amendment bills AB143, SB137, AB340, SB223 are effectivly dead as they did not pass out of their general committees.
However, two pro-2nd Amendment bills are still alive:
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News of the Week for Apr. 14th, 2013
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