STAY! Staaaaay!

Obama Issues Executive Order Banning Climate from Changing

the truth is as unpopular as ever

Bill Whittle Explains

yeah, them too, i guess...

sometimes we have too much to be thankful for ;)

a numbers-based explanation

for readers capable of accepting facts rather than hype

case after case of hate crimes in the wake of the trump election

the facts behind the headlines

a ruder explanation

but nearly as accurate

a more poetic explanation

Please read Sultan Knish's explanation of why the great blue wall crumbled.

The Great Progressive Repudiation

Please read it all at NRO

after the election

ignoring the candidates, i'm just glad soros lost.

see also http://www.imao.us/index.php/2016/11/promises-part-2

pot & kettle

cnn just showed the kenyan islamic communist president calling trump unqualified to be president...

anti-clinton

even if you disregard all previous evidence of clinton corruption, here are a hundred new reasons to vote against her.

anti-anti-trump

I can't make myself vote for trump, but I can vote for this and against the globalist thugocracy it opposes.

thanks for the me... somethin somethin

back in those carefree days of ought-five, this blog had a satirical spinoff made by the author of mish-mash / sackofcatfood.

today i found this seven year old cartoon based on our alter egos :)

I hate reruns...

should be a best-seller...

Edit: Welcome IMAO readers!

a sad state

meet the new boss again

Commentor tseib at Lileks (edited):

"...the attitude many Baby Boomers ultimately took toward the world of freedom and prosperity their parents' generation had secured for them. Having grown up never knowing want, and in line to inherit a post-war world of unparalleled material comfort..., they shunned their parents' straight life of compliance and conspicuous consumption (at least for a time) for adventure, self-expression, and non-conformity. Fifty years later, they ARE the establishment and - while still picturing themselves as rebellious rock-and-rollers - seek to impose a conformity of political correctness (and a hierarchy of authority with their college-educated selves as the obvious rulers over the blue-collar deplorables) far more proscribed and authoritarian than anything their parents could have dreamed up."

that Churchill speech

The earlier section is just as relevant as the later, more remembered, section:

Turning once again, and this time more generally, to the question of invasion, I would observe that there has never been a period in all these long centuries of which we boast when an absolute guarantee against invasion, still less against serious raids, could have been given to our people. In the days of Napoleon, of which I was speaking just now, the same wind which would have carried his transports across the Channel might have driven away the blockading fleet. There was always the chance, and it is that chance which has excited and befooled the imaginations of many Continental tyrants. Many are the tales that are told. We are assured that novel methods will be adopted, and when we see the originality of malice, the ingenuity of aggression, which our enemy displays, we may certainly prepare ourselves for every kind of novel stratagem and every kind of brutal and treacherous manœuvre. I think that no idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered and viewed with a searching, but at the same time, I hope, with a steady eye. We must never forget the solid assurances of sea power and those which belong to air power if it can be locally exercised.

I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once more able to defend our island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance

Serge Trifkovic via Catholic Answers:

"Some critics may object that this account of Islam in the modern world does not pay much attention to Islamic moderation, to the everyday wish of everyday Muslims for a quiet life. This is not because such moderates are rare, but because they are rarely important. Religions, like political ideologies, are pushed along by money, power, and tiny vocal minorities. Within Islam, the money and the power are all pushing the wrong way. So are the most active minorities. The urgent need is to recognize this. Our problem is not prejudice about Islam, but folly in the face of its violence and cruelty. And in any case, the willingness of moderates to be what are objectively bad Muslims, because they reject key teachings of historical Islam, may be laudable in human terms but does nothing to modify Islam as a doctrine."

please read it all

Scandalous!

(update & bump)

(found on facebook)

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are in a bar. Donald leans over, and with a smile on his face, says, "Wow, the media is really tearing you apart for 'That Scandal'."
Hillary: "You mean my lying about Benghazi?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "You mean the massive voter fraud?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "You mean my working to make sure that the votes from illegal aliens are counted but votes from members of our military are not?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Using my private email server to hide my activities and make classified material vulnerable to hackers?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Using the Clinton Foundation as a cover for tax evasion, hiring cronies, and taking bribes from foreign countries?
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "You mean the government drones being operated in our own country illegally?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Giving 123 Technologies $300 million dollars, which immediately declared bankruptcy and was sold to the Chinese?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Giving our cronies in Solyndra $500 million dollars, which immediately declared bankruptcy and was sold to the Chinese?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "You mean arming the Muslim Brotherhood and hiring them in the White House?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Hmm, maybe it's the long list of suspicious deaths, including Vince Foster's, surrounding our rise to power?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "An extensive list of shady commodity deals, including Whitewater?"
Trump: "No the other one."
Hillary: "The funding of neonazis in the Ukraine that led to the toppling of the democratically elected president and to the biggest crisis that country has had since WWII?"
Trump: "No the other one."
Hillary: "Turning Libya into chaos?"
Trump: "No the other one."
Hillary: "Leaving four Americans to die in Benghazi and go to sleep?
Trump: "No the other one."
Hillary: "Trashing Mubarak, one of our few Muslim friends?"
Trump: "No the other one."
Hillary: "Being the mastermind of the “Arab Spring” that only brought chaos, death and destruction to the Middle East and North Africa ?
Trump: "No the other one."
Hillary: "The funding and arming of terrorists in Syria, the destruction and destabilization of that nation, giving the order to our lapdogs in Turkey and Saudi Arabia to give sarin gas to the "moderate" terrorists in Syria that they eventually used on civilians, and framed Assad, and had it not been for the Russians and Putin, we would have used that as a pretext to invade Syria, put a puppet in power, steal their natural resources, and leave that country in total chaos, just like we did with Libya?
Trump: "No the other one."
Hillary: "The creation of the biggest refugees crisis since WWII?"
Trump: "No the other one."
Hillary: "Leaving Iraq in chaos?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "The DOJ spying on the press?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "You mean HHS Secretary Sibelius shaking down health insurance executives?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "The NSA's unconstitutional and widespread monitoring of US citizens?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "The State Department interfering with an Inspector General Investigation on departmental sexual misconduct?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "The IRS, Clapper, Holder, and I all lying to Congress?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "Threats to all of Bill's former mistresses to keep them quiet?"
Trump: "No, the other one."
Hillary: "When I stole the White House furniture and silverware when Bill left office?"
Trump: "No, not any of those."
Hillary: "Okay, Donald, I give up. Which scandal?"
Trump: "It's the one where you scandalously insist on wearing unfashionable pantsuits."

unmasked

the real roots of liberalism: please read it all

just a reminder

...since the media is in bed with the clintons...

stung!

by the Babylon Bee

#AllLivesMatter

"In one single day Planned Parenthood kills more unarmed black lives than police kill in one year."

A ransom to Iran by any other name...

...is just as criminal:

"Let’s not forget, when North was involved with the mere transfer of weapons and replacement parts for weapons to Iran in exchange for hostages in the 1980s, our nation was at a stand-still as Congress and the media behaved as though the presidency (and quite possibly the future of our Democratic Republic) was hanging in the balance.

Today, the circumventing of federal law by laundering US currency through a Swiss bank and converting it to 500 Euro bills (the preferred denomination of drug cartels and terrorists) and sending it on an unmarked plane in the dead of night while a plane with our American hostages waits for it to land barely warrants one question at a presidential press conference."

the perpetual story of the national news

Brexit: The Movie

Watch it here.

how to help the brainwashed?

could it be tough love?

would steps in a program of deprogramming help?

is demonstrating love enough?

would humor help?

is it enough to speak in terms of morality?

with their attention span, i bet a reading list wouldn't help:
https://www.amazon.com/American-Betrayal-Assault-Nations-Character/dp/1250055814
https://www.amazon.com/Sword-Shield-Mitrokhin-Archive-History/dp/0465003109
https://www.amazon.com/New-Lies-Old-Anatoliy-Golitsyn/dp/0945001088
http://disinfo.com/2016/05/kgb-defector-yuri-bezmenovs-warning-to-america/

They only beat the ones that escape :P

lumberyard much?

I find it hilarious that perverts and infant murderers have the gall to call over-generalization "wrong".

Which Lives Matter?

I would be more supportive of the #BlackLivesMatter movement if it was not merely a cynical attempt at manipulation of white guilt coined by black supremacists, none of whom care about black lives that are taken by gang members or abortion doctors.

...and to correct a particularly offensive meme:

recaptioning

Harvey at IMAO linked a picture of Putin holding a bird - that inspired me to make a different caption for it:

New to the Roll

Politically Short does accurate reporting from the front lines of the real war.

3D Modeling Master Class

Igor K at myCGroom makes amazing models, and demonstrates how he makes them - in mindblowing timelapse form!

History Lesson

To paraphrase she snailie at Lileks today:

For nearly a century, the Democratic Party was the political wing of the Ku Klux Klan. The femtosecond African Americans were given voting rights the states couldn't weasel away, their mantra became 'we were never at war with minorities, we were always at war with the white power structure'.

Sadly Prophetic

https://memoryholeblog.com/2016/02/21/exposing-obamas-next-big-false-flag-before-it-happens/

The only mistake the false flag puppetmasters made in Orlando is pitting one protected victim class against another.

Political Correctness Is Fascism

...at least all these right-wing nutjobs think so ;)

https://youtu.be/hkhUivqzWv0
https://youtu.be/ipwMa5uT5es
https://youtu.be/QAK0KXEpF8U

Rules of Conduct

update 3 (2016): another bump in recognition of the Standardization Committee for Unified Management's success in driving off yet another qualified employee.

update 2 (2010): just bumping this because it's so stinking relevant right now...

update 1 (2009): welcome to those of you who are buried by dust or hated by qa :)

Pursuant to Directive 1D/0T of our Eight Epsilon quality prevention system, the Standardization Committee for Unified Management has determined that employees of the Company may be reprimanded for actions including (but not limited to) the following:

• below-average performance, average performance, and/or above-average performance,
• not following Instructions, and/or following Instructions,
• not giving the customer what (s)he requested, and/or giving the customer what (s)he requested,
• thinking inside the Box, thinking outside the Box, not thinking inside the Box, not thinking outside the Box, and/or thinking whatsoever on Company time,
• failure to Suck Up.

As a material part of this Agreement, the employee agrees that any and all disputes, claims or controversies arising out of or relating to this Agreement shall be determined by final, binding, and possibly confidential, arbitration of the Standardization Committee for Unified Management. By agreeing to submit all disputes, claims and controversies to binding arbitration, the employee expressly waives its rights to have such matters heard by any sensible tribunal. Any award (ha!) or punishment shall be final, binding and conclusive upon the employee, including (but not limited to) the following:

• forfeiture of all future wages or other compensation,
• elimination of positive employment references,
• blacklisting in all relevant professional organizations, and/or
• general smugness accompanying all future Management dealings with employee.

At Eight Epsilon, our stated values are honesty, integrity, trust, and compassion. We strive to eliminate a positive atmosphere where teamwork, competence, pride, and mutual respect provide an opportunity for all employees to succeed.

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Speak Truth To Power

The Witherspoon Institute explains how "tyranny comes disguised as civil rights":

How do you get public opinion on board with an agenda that leads them to deny the reality of their own humanity? There are lots of pieces to this puzzle, including the erosion of social trust, the breakdown of family, social polarization, and growing ignorance of history. But the groundwork has been laid over a long period of time.

First, virtually all outlets of communication had to be on board—Hollywood, academia, the media. Check.

All medical personnel, particularly mental health personnel, had to be “educated” to comply with the transgender program or risk losing their licenses. Check.

The educational establishment had to imbue schoolchildren with the ideology. Check.

Large corporations had to get on board as stakeholders and enforcers. Check.

And, of course, the push to legally de-sex society had to be embedded—Trojan Horse style—within a slightly less alien idea, with the slick slogan “marriage equality.” Check.

Churches had to be brought on board so that even religion became a conduit for anti-truth. Check.

Social, emotional, and economic pressures had to be established to censure anyone who dared to question the wisdom of it all. Check.

Any such person had to be labeled a bigot, a hater, and a non-person. Checkmate.

Please read it all.

not that they'll listen, but...

...every time some leftist brings up the Koch brothers, remind them of Soros.

can we be logically consistent?

Elsewhere online, someone speculated that if Caitlyn Jenner should be celebrated for being trans-gendered, then logically Al Jolson should be celebrated for being trans-racial.

Isn't it ironic?

No, it's a warning: Burlington College will close this month, and a controversial real-estate deal made by Jane Sanders, Bernie Sanders’s wife, is to blame.

a poster that will likely be torn down

update 2: here is more proof of the gaystapo agenda

update 1: one way to fight the pinkshirts


because it speaks truth to power:



inspired by two posts and a comment. based on this image.

Cronies, indeed

This message brought to you by your friends in Iran, North Korea, and the former Soviet Union.

More on Bernie

One Bernie supporter on Facebook had posted an image about how it was government's job to redistribute wealth. Apparently my refutation of its ill logic was sound enough that the post was deleted. Here is a distillation of the points I made there:

Government has a duty to provide defense. The extent of that defense is debatable (and offense much more debatable), but the role itself is not.

Government has a duty to build infrastructure. The extent of that role is debatable, but the role itself is not.

Government has a duty to uphold justice, and to refute the demands of those who co-opt the word 'justice' for their own corrupt schemes.

Government DOES NOT have a duty to give away freebies to any constituencies. Neither Wall Street nor their Occupiers, neither college students nor corporations, neither poor nor rich nor anyone in between deserve to have government steal from other citizens to satisfy their greed.

It is the role of charity to take care of the least fortunate. Charitable people do this first by taking care of immediate needs (food, medicine, etc.), then ideally by helping the recipient help themselves (job training, eliminating addictions, etc.) Organizations can only remain charitable as far as its members remain charitable, and are as prone to corruption as any other human organization.

Subcontracting the role of charity out to the government does several things:

• it creates a bureaucracy that - by its very nature - diverts funds from the needy to sustain itself,
• it makes fraud vastly more easy, by both cheating recipients and corrupt apparatchiks,
• it removes the personal contact between donor and recpient which might result in a sense of community,
• it rewards self-destructive behaviors that cause poverty (illegitimacy, drug abuse, etc.), negating any motivation for recipients to change,
• it gives more-fortunate people a sop to their conscience that they 'are doing something for the poor' without having to sully themselves with actually doing anything for the poor, and
• it breeds dependence on government, which - because of the money and power it gives them - is government's primary motivation for promoting the welfare state.

Again, I am agreeing that "all those crony capitalist fat cats" are a problem to America, but it's much more a problem of cronyism than of capitalism - as Whitewater and Solyndra demonstrate as well as Enron. Either way, the socialist (i.e. communist) fat cats are far worse. If you look closely, today's welfare state is being pushed by forces just as greedy and power-mad as any robber baron, yet more hypocritical because they pretend to be 'on the side of angels' and fool so many people into trusting a system that is essentially slavery.

Nobody expects the Hispanophobic Inquisition!

The second-most-obvious difference between the anti-communist witch hunt by McCarthy in the 50s and the pro-communist witch hunt by today's SJW industry is that the anti-communists have a sense of decency that can be called upon.

The Kennedy Assassination Cover-Up

Bernie Sanders Hair

Inspired by swschrad's comment at Lileks' Bleat.

With an insincere apology to Kim Carnes, (reference video and lyrics )

His head is spherical,
His lips are chapped and bare,
His hands are always cold,
He got Bernie Sanders hair.
He'll keeps on yelling at you;
They won't let you think twice.
He's like Chernobyl snow,
He got Bernie Sanders hair.

And he'll tease you, he'll unease you,
Give away stuff just to please you.
He's atrocious, and he knows just
How to make America unjust.
He got Josef Stalin underwear,
He's got Bernie Sanders hair.

He'll take away your home
And wages (that ain't right).
He wants to claim the throne,
He got Bernie Sanders hair.
He'll sic the taxman on you,
Roll you like you were dice
Until you come out blue.
He's got Bernie Sanders hair.

He'll bulldoze you, when he throws you
To the street. Like a car he tows you.
He's ferocious and he knows just
How to make our businesses rust.
Everybody knows he's unfair,
He's got Bernie Sanders hair.

And he'll tease you, he'll unease you
Give away stuff tryin' to please you.
He's atrocious, and he knows just
How to make America unjust.
He got Josef Stalin underwear,
He's got Bernie Sanders hair.

He'll tease you.
He'll unease you
Tryin' to please you.
He's got Bernie Sanders hair.
We'll expose him
Cause we know him
And oppose him.
He's got Bernie Sanders hair.

Happy Earth Day!

Let's check in to see how Algore celebrated.

Politically Corrupt

Rephrasing an idea from Russ Vaughn at American Thinker:

If it is immoral or criminal for Christian-owned businesses to deny services based on their fundamental beliefs, isn't it also immoral or criminal for governments to refuse their services to the citizens of those states who protect the religious freedoms of their citizenry? Isn't it also immoral or criminal for LGBT groups - based solely on their belief in Political Correctness - to boycott, threaten, and intimidate Christian-owned businesses? Other than scale, I see little difference.

"Take a long look over the precipice, and consider the alternatives."

Winds Of Change:

"Bill is reminding us of something important here. He's reminding us of what our society - and more, our culture and civilization - has achieved over the millennia."

Read it all.

"In a world that hates the truth, telling the truth is a hateful act."

"Unlike some of the snowflakes who occupy our nation’s colleges these days, (Matt Walsh doesn’t) need to be loved by everyone."

Inequality!

Matt Walsh (secularly) re-explains what should be obvious: all religions are not equal.

March Madness!

VOTE: Make your picks for Hillary’s worst scandals to advance from the Scandalous Sixteen to the Egregious Eight!

Forget about the left-right divide...

...the in-out divide is the problem. Here is a long but worthwhile explanation.

Lileks on Trump

Read it all, but the summary is:

"Trump is... a crass, gutter-tongued, vulgar man whose self-regard blinds his ability to understand his own ignorance. A man who casually encourages the worst, enables the mediocre, and wafts aloft cartoon concepts of American greatness with gusts of flatulent banalities. It takes a certain kind of historical illiterate not to realize his facial postures are literally aping a second-rate Italian fascist."

To be fair, he's still better than Sanders.

Don't Feel The Bern

Please...

Feel The Bern-Out

How wrong were the Crusades?

Greg Sandlen explains:

"In light of President Obama’s recent remarks comparing the brutality of the Islamic State to the Crusades, it might be time to take a fresh look at those events. Were they really the one-sided Dark Ages barbarism we have been taught? Were they an early manifestation of Western imperialism and global conquest?"

Women Helping Women

Madeline Albright leveled her most chilling condemnation of the Hillary Clinton campaign so far in the 2016 election season:

some crook

"Springtime for thoughtcrime in Germany.."

Breitbart:

"The Mayor of a small German town has caused outrage, telling concerned residence their children must stay away certain areas and “not provoke” migrants to avoid sexual harassment..."

...and in related news, U.S. Park Rangers are advising salmon not to swim near bears.

p.s. Cologne stinks too.

via imao

I suspect it involves boxcars and barbed wire.

Safetrooper

blue cities

running red:

"America’s murder rate isn’t the work of the suburban and rural homeowners who shop for guns at sporting goods stores and at gun shows, and whom the media profiles after every shooting, but by the gangs embedded in urban areas controlled by Democrats."

Caliphate, then and now

How they're fighting.
How we're not.

#NoRatingsNoPeace

Theory: the networks are trying to provoke violent race riots at the Oscars to boost ratings https://t.co/WwWWCAWddV

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) January 25, 2016

Or, "Who's Ben Gozzy?"

mugshot cheap shot

there's something wrong with this comparison

the people pictured have better points ;)

all or nothing

...or something

one of these things is not like the other

now it can be told...

it should have been told earlier though, maybe starting dec.23rd?

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2332
http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2333
http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2334
http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2335
http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2336

Happy New Year!

My resolution is to separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.