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It COULDN’T be those millions of military aged Muslim men, could it?  After all, they MUST have as much respect for our Western mores, our culture(s), and our way of life, right?  Why ELSE would they have left their home countries, their families, their wives, and their children?  Andrew McCarthy, a respected security expert, over at National Review has a take on those questions – here’s his real take (longish) on the issue:

Truth being the first casualty of war, it was left to Henriette Reker, the fantasy Islam–drenched mayor of Cologne, to blame the victims for their ordeal. Such assaults could be prevented, she declaimed, if German women adopted a “code of conduct” tailored to the new, multi-culti Deutschland.

In the spirit of multiculturalism, I have such a code just off the shelf (on which rests The Grand Jihad, in which I outlined it a few years back). It goes like this:

To be absolved from guilt, the raped woman must have shown some sort of good conduct . . . Islam addresses women to maintain their modesty, so as not to open the door for evil . . . The Koran calls on Muslim women in general to preserve their dignity and modesty, just to save themselves from any harassment. So for a rape victim to be absolved from guilt, she must not be the one that opens . . . her dignity for deflowering.

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Yup, an incipient Soup Car Nazi; SeacoastOnline has an article dealing with the idea of changing their housing ordinances to allow micro-apartments.  These are gaining traction in really high cost cities (San Fran, NYC) where lack of space, land use regulation and rent-subsidies have artificially put a distortion that has resulted in extremely high rents on those places on the open market.  Sufficiently high that it has forced low income and “workforce” folks out of the local markets.  So the idea of “micro apartments” was born – 250 to 350 square feet and at “reasonable prices”.  In other words, a space equal to some folks’ walk-in closets.  But Portsmouth (NH) thinks it needs this idea (reformatted, emphasis mine)?

PORTSMOUTH – City Councilor Eric Spear wants the city to look into putting micro-apartments for workforce housing at the Parrott Avenue parking lot. “Ever since I’ve been on the council we’ve been trying to get workforce housing for a number of years,” Spear said this week. “We’ve had good intentions but we haven’t had success.” Portsmouth residents or people who work in the downtown have been frustrated by the lack of success, Spear said, and by considering the idea of putting micro-apartments at the city-owned parking lot, officials can get the discussion started.

“Rather than wait interminably for a developer to come in sometimes you have to take leadership on an issue,” Spear said.

Er, maybe

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Just saw this at the Boston Globe – am REALLY surprised (because of their very liberal slant) they even printed it.  But given the absolute vitriol that the Left has for folks like me, I’ve put that Letter to the Editor here (reformatted, emphasis mine):

When I boarded the commuter rail, you were already in the midst of a spirited phone conversation and didn’t seem to care about how loud you were talking. You were talking with someone about the Paris train attack and the growing epidemic of gun violence in America.  You spoke about the “murderous NRA” and “bloodthirsty gun nuts” who were causing our schools to “run red with blood.” You spoke profanely of the Republicans who opposed President Obama’s call for “sensible gun control,” and you lamented the number of “inbred redneck politicians” who have “infiltrated Capitol Hill.”

When the Left talks about tolerance, that is what they do – belittle, dehumanize, and describe those that disagree with them in the most derogatory terms.

I found myself amazed at the irony of the situation.

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It isn’t just those agencies but others that made my head hurt.  After all, Obama has made it a defining pillar of his foreign policy to make changes here in the US to impress other countries (e.g., “other countries WILL follow our lead at decarbonizing ourselves to save the planet from global cooling warming change chaos”).  Yet, notice the dichotomy – even as he’s aching to disarm civilians (and the Libs are full throated about doing it now by calling for severe restrictions, higher taxes on guns and ammo, and outright calls for total confiscation), look at how these Fed agencies are arming up.  I can see law enforcement, but the Smithsonian??

Since FY 2006, 44 traditionally administrative agencies have spent over $71 million on items like body armor, riot helmets and shields, cannon launchers and police firearms and ammunition, according to federal spending data from watchdog group OpenTheBooks.com.  This comes in addition to the $330 million spent on such equipment in that period by traditional law enforcement agencies like the FBI, Secret Service and Drug Enforcement Administration.

• Nearly $2 million spent by the Department of Veterans Affairs on riot helmets, defender shields, body armor, a “milo return fire cannon system,” armored mobile shields, Kevlar blankets, tactical gear and equipment for crowd control.

Tell me, when is the last time that we heard about a riot at a VA hospital (although, with the abysmal and uncaring outlook on all the vets that didn’t get the care they deserved so that administrators could get bonuses, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear of such)???

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That was from an email I received from Kelly Ayotte, the junior Senator from NH.  She’s running for reelection and I’ve been getting a bunch of her emails touting her “accomplishments”.  No, I’m not going to post it here – especially as it leaves out some of her accomplishments that, well, don’t sit well with the conservative base here in NH.  Like “crossing the aisle” in supporting Obama’s EPA power grab (literally and figuratively) in the Clean Power Plan.  Being a lawyer, I am still waiting to hear from her where in the US Constitution the EPA / Executive Branch has this authority?

And given, yet again, Obama’s lawlessness (which she voted for the budget bill that didn’t even give him a slap on the wrist for his waywardness) actions today, former NH State Senator Bob Clegg has a few bon mots on that decision that enabled Obama to do this (emphasis mine):

I just watched Obama Press conference. Am I the only one who want a to know how the president can hire more FBI and fund more money to make background checks more efficient on Unites States citizens. BUT he CAN’T find a way to do background checks on immigrants coming into this country in droves.

Indeed, if it is part of the narrative, Loretta Lynch is

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Obama wants to impose more gun control. My response.#? COME & TAKE IT @NRA #tcot #PJNET https://t.co/RUPbcev5jY pic.twitter.com/8VNwisj966

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) January 1, 2016

Texas governor challenges Obama to ‘come and take’ the Lone Star state’s guns as the president prepares to take executive action

Texas Gov Greg Abbott criticized President Barack Obama’s plan to move ahead with possible executive actions on guns in a tweet in which he told the Commander-in-Chief to ‘come & take’ the state’s guns. Obama said in his weekly radio address that he is looking for ways to keep guns out of the hands of ‘a dangerous few’ without depending on Congress to pass a law on the fraught subject of gun control.

The problem is that for many of us the phrase ‘a dangerous few’ means pretty much all of us –

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