Since 2008 Obama has been treating us to his pseudo-professorial ruminations. Nothing new here.
"...If the president truly believes that ISIS poses a dire threat to the United States — one requiring a military response that puts the lives of American soldiers at risk, costs billions of dollars, and leads to the death of hundreds or thousands of people on the other side of the conflict — then it makes no sense at all for him simultaneously to encourage Americans to adopt a stance of moral ambiguity toward that threat.
Does Obama want us to kill the bloodthirsty psychopaths of ISIS? Or does he want us to reflect dispassionately on the myriad ways that they’re really not that different from the grandfather of my friend from Mississippi?"
"A wise president understands that his role is categorically different from that of a journalist, a scholar, a moralist, or a theologian. It’s not a president’s job to gaze down dispassionately on the nation, rendering moral judgments from the Beyond. His job is to defend our side. Yes, with intelligence and humility. But the time for intelligence and humility is in crafting our policies, not in talking about them after the fact. When the president speaks as he did at the Prayer Breakfast, he sounds like a man who believes that executing his own sometimes ruthless policies is too narrow-minded, too partial — a word, too political — for a man as worldly and cosmopolitan as he."
This is the chosen tactic of the left: Relativism.
"...as an intellectual exercise, Obama’s remarks weren’t wrong. Christianity has been invoked to justify a wide range of moral atrocities down through the millennia, and the Crusades, Inquisition, and Jim Crow are all excellent examples."
No. He's dead wrong when applying it to ISIS.
I just don't see how Jim Crow falls under the banner of Christianity. Cannon Law must come from The Vatican. Saying Jim Crow happened in the USA - a Christian country ergo is part of the Christian faith is a stretch and misleading. Jim Crow is no more Christian than the Nazis or Communists were.
My God, think about it for a second, pal.
Obama is asking us to understand ISIS because Jim Crow.
To this I say, cool story, bra.
***
I'm not for mandatory vaccination (everyone is free to make their choices) but I do consider anti-vaccinists to be irrational and their fears without scientific merit.
"Queen’s University says a professor who has come under fire for teaching anti-vaccination materials will not lead the course in question for the rest of the term."
I'll leave it to Rex Murphy to set things straight:
"When anybody listens to, or seeks medical guidance from, Jenny McCarthy, or any of her fellow neurosurgeons on the View, they have confessed to having the intellectual power of a dead tree stump. And may even be living in one."
PERFECT AND AMEN.
***
From the comments:
"Interesting how Rex correctly denounces medical science deniers for their stupidity & ignorance when it comes to vaccines, while Rex himself has been, for years, the most vocal anti-climate-science, global warming denying, crank in the Canadian MSM (he wrote countless news columns denouncing climate science's findings). And to paraphrase Rex, "When anybody listens to, or seeks guidance on climate science, from noteworthy 'climatologist' (not!), Rex Murphy, they have confessed to having the intellectual power of a dead tree stump. And may even be living in one." Take that, Rex."
Ah yes. If you don't believe inclimate system change then everything else flows from there and leaves you to be anti-science.
Nonsense that can only come from the climate change community despite the mounting evidence pointing to the entire movement's arguments being rooted on false premises and fabrications.
No such thing happens with vaccines. It's rock-solid science.
Man made climate change is on far more shaky ground than vaccinations. It's not even in the same stratosphere.
In any event, it's a false equivalence.
***
"The tally of retail closures continues to grow in Canada with a new report from real estate company CBRE pegging the total to 1,114 stores in a little over three years.
Jones New York added its name to the long list Thursday when it announced it was closing 127 stores, 36 of which are in Canada.
The retailer’s decision comes on heels of Target’s decision to leave Canada and shutter 133 stores in the coming months. In total 16 brands have left the country since 2012.
Here’s the list, the number of locations and the year the chain closed:
Jones New York, 36, stores, 2015
Target, 133 stores, 2015
Sony, 14 stores, 2015
Mexx, 95 stores, 2015
Smart Set, 107 stores, 2014
Bombay, Bowring & C0. Inc. and Benix & Co. Inc. 110 stores, 2014
Jacob, 92 stores, 2014
Juicy Couture, 5 stores, 2014
Grand & Toy, 19 stores, 2014
Petcetera, 18 stores, 2014
Big Lots/Liquidation World, 78 stores, 2014
Zellers, 220 stores, 2013
Espirit, 46 stores, 2012
Fields, 141 stores, 2012
***
"A 28-year-old man from Sydney is facing a hefty fine — and possibly a higher than expected vehicle rental fee — after allegedly being clocked at 226 kilometres an hour on the Trans-Canada Highway in Pictou County.
Cpl. Mark Kellock of the RCMP’s Eastern Traffic Services said police stopped the westbound driver Monday at 5:30 a.m., just east of New Glasgow.
The man was alone in the vehicle, a rented Chevrolet Malibu, and was driving in a 100-km/h zone."
Confessions of T..C: Me and my cousin took my father's Alfa-Romeo to 230 km/h back in the day.
***
Congressman Lee Zeldin of New York wonders if Obama is campaigning against Netanyahu.
Would not surprise me in the least if it were accurate.
***
WE ARE A NATION OF LAWS!
New Jersey is a laughable joke.
"...In the process, Matt Molinari and Eric Schnepf, both 18, also learned a valuable lesson about one of the costs of doing business: government regulations.
The two friends were canvasing a neighborhood near this borough's border with Bridgewater early Monday evening, handing out fliers promoting their service, when they were pulled over by police and told to stop."
One can but nod their head in disappointment.
***
Greece should really knock it off. Begging and bullying other nations should cover their debts they wholly incurred is embarrassing. The EU and Germany don't owe Greece squat. No one forced Greece to hand out lavish public sector jobs while operating in an obscenely corrupt landscape in a country with a small population little industry that relies on tourism to get by.
Greece entered the EU in 1981 and from that point forward have never really been a model member. That they would demand reparations for WWII is outrageous and the Germans are correct to tell them to piss off.
I wonder if their left-wing, socialist 10 plan tin pot plan includes them manning up for their own troubles.
The reparations is a strawman; a neat ploy on the part of the Greeks to try and guilt Germany into covering debts they alone incurred.
***
Right out of the left-wing play book. NEVER GIVE UP until you get the answer you want. Sorta like the PQ here in Quebec.
"Vermont rejected a beverage tax in 2011, 2013, and 2014. Now, only a few weeks into 2015, and some folks are pushing once again for new beverages taxes on Vermont families.
This time there’s talk of a whopping 2¢ per-ounce tax on grocery items like sodas, juice drinks, sports drinks, teas, and other beverages."
"...If the president truly believes that ISIS poses a dire threat to the United States — one requiring a military response that puts the lives of American soldiers at risk, costs billions of dollars, and leads to the death of hundreds or thousands of people on the other side of the conflict — then it makes no sense at all for him simultaneously to encourage Americans to adopt a stance of moral ambiguity toward that threat.
Does Obama want us to kill the bloodthirsty psychopaths of ISIS? Or does he want us to reflect dispassionately on the myriad ways that they’re really not that different from the grandfather of my friend from Mississippi?"
"A wise president understands that his role is categorically different from that of a journalist, a scholar, a moralist, or a theologian. It’s not a president’s job to gaze down dispassionately on the nation, rendering moral judgments from the Beyond. His job is to defend our side. Yes, with intelligence and humility. But the time for intelligence and humility is in crafting our policies, not in talking about them after the fact. When the president speaks as he did at the Prayer Breakfast, he sounds like a man who believes that executing his own sometimes ruthless policies is too narrow-minded, too partial — a word, too political — for a man as worldly and cosmopolitan as he."
This is the chosen tactic of the left: Relativism.
"...as an intellectual exercise, Obama’s remarks weren’t wrong. Christianity has been invoked to justify a wide range of moral atrocities down through the millennia, and the Crusades, Inquisition, and Jim Crow are all excellent examples."
No. He's dead wrong when applying it to ISIS.
I just don't see how Jim Crow falls under the banner of Christianity. Cannon Law must come from The Vatican. Saying Jim Crow happened in the USA - a Christian country ergo is part of the Christian faith is a stretch and misleading. Jim Crow is no more Christian than the Nazis or Communists were.
My God, think about it for a second, pal.
Obama is asking us to understand ISIS because Jim Crow.
To this I say, cool story, bra.
***
I'm not for mandatory vaccination (everyone is free to make their choices) but I do consider anti-vaccinists to be irrational and their fears without scientific merit.
"Queen’s University says a professor who has come under fire for teaching anti-vaccination materials will not lead the course in question for the rest of the term."
I'll leave it to Rex Murphy to set things straight:
"When anybody listens to, or seeks medical guidance from, Jenny McCarthy, or any of her fellow neurosurgeons on the View, they have confessed to having the intellectual power of a dead tree stump. And may even be living in one."
PERFECT AND AMEN.
***
From the comments:
"Interesting how Rex correctly denounces medical science deniers for their stupidity & ignorance when it comes to vaccines, while Rex himself has been, for years, the most vocal anti-climate-science, global warming denying, crank in the Canadian MSM (he wrote countless news columns denouncing climate science's findings). And to paraphrase Rex, "When anybody listens to, or seeks guidance on climate science, from noteworthy 'climatologist' (not!), Rex Murphy, they have confessed to having the intellectual power of a dead tree stump. And may even be living in one." Take that, Rex."
Ah yes. If you don't believe in
Nonsense that can only come from the climate change community despite the mounting evidence pointing to the entire movement's arguments being rooted on false premises and fabrications.
No such thing happens with vaccines. It's rock-solid science.
Man made climate change is on far more shaky ground than vaccinations. It's not even in the same stratosphere.
In any event, it's a false equivalence.
***
"The tally of closed retail stores in Canada keeps growing".
"The tally of retail closures continues to grow in Canada with a new report from real estate company CBRE pegging the total to 1,114 stores in a little over three years.
Jones New York added its name to the long list Thursday when it announced it was closing 127 stores, 36 of which are in Canada.
The retailer’s decision comes on heels of Target’s decision to leave Canada and shutter 133 stores in the coming months. In total 16 brands have left the country since 2012.
Here’s the list, the number of locations and the year the chain closed:
Jones New York, 36, stores, 2015
Target, 133 stores, 2015
Sony, 14 stores, 2015
Mexx, 95 stores, 2015
Smart Set, 107 stores, 2014
Bombay, Bowring & C0. Inc. and Benix & Co. Inc. 110 stores, 2014
Jacob, 92 stores, 2014
Juicy Couture, 5 stores, 2014
Grand & Toy, 19 stores, 2014
Petcetera, 18 stores, 2014
Big Lots/Liquidation World, 78 stores, 2014
Zellers, 220 stores, 2013
Espirit, 46 stores, 2012
Fields, 141 stores, 2012
***
"A 28-year-old man from Sydney is facing a hefty fine — and possibly a higher than expected vehicle rental fee — after allegedly being clocked at 226 kilometres an hour on the Trans-Canada Highway in Pictou County.
Cpl. Mark Kellock of the RCMP’s Eastern Traffic Services said police stopped the westbound driver Monday at 5:30 a.m., just east of New Glasgow.
The man was alone in the vehicle, a rented Chevrolet Malibu, and was driving in a 100-km/h zone."
Confessions of T..C: Me and my cousin took my father's Alfa-Romeo to 230 km/h back in the day.
***
Congressman Lee Zeldin of New York wonders if Obama is campaigning against Netanyahu.
Would not surprise me in the least if it were accurate.
***
WE ARE A NATION OF LAWS!
New Jersey is a laughable joke.
"...In the process, Matt Molinari and Eric Schnepf, both 18, also learned a valuable lesson about one of the costs of doing business: government regulations.
The two friends were canvasing a neighborhood near this borough's border with Bridgewater early Monday evening, handing out fliers promoting their service, when they were pulled over by police and told to stop."
One can but nod their head in disappointment.
***
Greece should really knock it off. Begging and bullying other nations should cover their debts they wholly incurred is embarrassing. The EU and Germany don't owe Greece squat. No one forced Greece to hand out lavish public sector jobs while operating in an obscenely corrupt landscape in a country with a small population little industry that relies on tourism to get by.
Greece entered the EU in 1981 and from that point forward have never really been a model member. That they would demand reparations for WWII is outrageous and the Germans are correct to tell them to piss off.
I wonder if their left-wing, socialist 10 plan tin pot plan includes them manning up for their own troubles.
The reparations is a strawman; a neat ploy on the part of the Greeks to try and guilt Germany into covering debts they alone incurred.
***
Right out of the left-wing play book. NEVER GIVE UP until you get the answer you want. Sorta like the PQ here in Quebec.
"Vermont rejected a beverage tax in 2011, 2013, and 2014. Now, only a few weeks into 2015, and some folks are pushing once again for new beverages taxes on Vermont families.
This time there’s talk of a whopping 2¢ per-ounce tax on grocery items like sodas, juice drinks, sports drinks, teas, and other beverages."
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