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Yet, once again, “experts” and our “betters” claim the opposite.  Yet, once again, we see an asylum seeker from the Religion of Peace not being so peaceful pretty much telling everyone why he is doing this at the top of his lungs (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Machete-wielding man ‘screaming Allahu Akbar’ kills one person and injures several others during rampage in Hamburg supermarket

A man wielding a large kitchen knife killed one and wounded four others after storming into a supermarket in the German city of Hamburg. The attacker is reported to have screamed ‘Allahu Akbar’ before running into the Edeka shop where he stabbed one person and slashed at four others while trying to flee.

…One officer said there was ‘no valid information on the motive of the attacker’ who has yet to be identified.

Ayup.  Look, I know that formal investigations must be made but it seems that European govts are willfully stupid about such things.  I guess Angela Merkul would have a stompy foot moment if her police simply decided “let’s take him on his word”.  Frankly, haven’t we seen this before?  That those screaming that phrase and then commit violence do tend to be exactly what it seems – not really rocket science.

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On the current state of affairs in DC:

You know what’s the funniest thing about all this? The funniest thing is that it’s still better than having the Democrats in power! Like, a lot better. We now know the Obama administration was spying on just about everybody. The Hillary gang seem to have been the ones really colluding with Putin. The Senate minority leader has given up on capitalism. And the former head of the DNC has been doing God-knows-what with a Pakistani IT guy who just got arrested trying to blow the country!

Now you may be asking: What the hell happened to the greatest country on earth — and also, why is this Klavan guy laughing? I will answer both questions.

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Let’s face it, urban Progressive Elites hate the idea of Walmart – they hate the products, they hate the price, and of course, they hate the people that shop there.  That’s why they give Walmart such a hassle (if not outright rage) when it announces it wants to build somewhere near them.  Well, I think this is a GREAT reason to give those elites the heebie-jeebies (emphasis mine):

Walmart Sells Concealed Carry Clothing

WalMart is now selling a jacket specifically designed for concealed carry. While clothing designed for concealed carry has been available commercially for decades, WalMart’s move into the CCW clothing market indicates the ongoing “mainstreaming” of American gun ownership.

It’s a TWOFER!  They already hate the idea of Walmart, that Walmart still sells guns – and now this should be the finger-to-the-eye pièce de résistance!

From WalMart.com:

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That’s from US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX).  I’d like to believe that it’s true, that the Republicans would get tossed out of power like a pit bull throws around a rag doll.  But we’ve seen the result of that before when the Dems took control mid-last decade – due to the fecklessness of the Republicans forgetting what they stood for.  Or rather, not telling voters what they REALLY stood for.  After all, here in NH, did the base go “Sure, Jeb, pass Medicaid Expansion?”  I think not.  Democrats do that kind of thing, though.  After all, they never campaigned for homosexual marriage but that’s what they did when they assumed power.

The Congressional Republicans, on the other hand, have just done the opposite.  They ALL (with the exception of Collins) campaigned on repealing Obamacare.  For seven desperate years where Govt effectively nationalized the healthcare industry, they promised us Liberty from this Govt intrusion.  It is clear from earlier this week that they never had any intention of doing so – it was all a Kabuki Theater for the rubes in several ways:

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Which is exactly what the Authoritarian Progressives (masquerading as Democrats) want for America because GOVERNMENT CONTROL.  Powerline has an excerpt from a report concerning an in-depth look at how good the Canadian system is – after all, the Dems keep tell us it will make it GREAT!  But what do the folks that have to live (and die) under have to say?

On measure after measure the data belie the boasts that medicare apologists tout as proof we have the best system in the world. When measuring the equity of our system against the others, we come a pitiful ninth out of 11, despite the fact that “fairness” is the argument most frequently trotted out to defend the status quo. Turns out Canadian health care isn’t all that fair.

Ditto for health-care outcomes. Despite being a fairly high spender, we are not able to turn that money into better outcomes for Canadians. Again, we rank ninth out of 11.

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Rather shocking to see and hear this.  The Muslim community, especially CAIR, is often warning us about “Islamophobia” and backlashes.  Well, a phobia is an unsubstantiated fear.  If I was Jewish, well, this is some substantiation for why that fear exists.  It is clear that some mosques are at the forefront of radicalization.  I’m not sure that this rises to the level of some but the elevator has certainly left the Lobby level.

Imam Ammar Shahin is the Iman at the Islamic Center of Davis (CA) and an Islamic instructor at University of California-Davis.  Just like in Europe, we are seeing a more hateful environment on US campuses towards those of the Jewish faith; I’m betting that this is one nail in that process.

“Oh Allah, liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the Jews. Oh Allah, destroy those who closed the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Oh Allah, show us the black day that you inflict upon them, and the wonders of your ability. Oh Allah, count them one by one and annihilate them down to the very last one. Do not spare any of them.

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Today’s parents and Society in general seems to be adamant that today’s kids must be watched by an adult 24/7 and should never, EVER be exposed to any kind of physical risk at all (sorta like Progressives that are trying to mitigate all bad decisions resulting in bad outcomes).  Pure stupidity, in my humble opinion.  A sheltered child is going to fail to learn some real important lessons both in the now and later in life.  But, that seems to be what is going to – a pacified nation of corner-sitters rather than daring individuals willing to take great risks (and reaping the rewards).  It also means a dearth of experiences on which to call upon when needed.  So I just loved this post:

23 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do

And then gave 23 activities that we should all let our kids try.  I know growing up I did each and everyone of them – and it was FUN.  My kids did most of them as well (except I didn’t have any firearms back then)!  And now, our grandson will do the same as we attempt to raise him.  He’ll have

• Play With Fireworks (with supervision on this one)
• Hammer a Nail
• Stick Your Arm Out a Car Window

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I’ve been listening to a lot of nonsense about the impact of the different GOP “replacement” plans for Obamacare and the numbers just didn’t make any sense. After all, none of them drastically did much on the core structure of Obamacare.  They deleted most (but not all of the taxes).  They started to tinker with Medicaid Expansion implementations (showing their backbones made of Silly String while yammering about it). The only part that made a whole lot of sense in pulling that initial string out of the tangled ball of yarn that is Obamacare (since none of them dared to add in the Freedom for us to be able to buy across State lines) was the elimination of the individual and employer mandates.  Yet, the CBO numbers made the GOP look bad.

And now we know why – Avik Roy clues us in.  Take a look at this chart and then peruse the snippets I copied over:

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Yet another failure by an old style politician to adapt to the speed of the Internet (emphasis mine, reformatted):

…Any interaction with a Democrat risks being covered by conservative outlets as a potential betrayal of the GOP, he said.  “Boehner blamed figures on the right who purchase lists of conservative activists and then position themselves as leaders of a movement. He said talks between party leaders can be ruined by ‘one person who creates a committee to preserve the Constitution’ and can ‘blast out information quickly. You used to have a little breathing room–24 hours, 48 hours before it actually got in the press. Well, that’s gone. Everything today is instant,’ he said.

…“Boehner pointed to the fragmentation of the national media as another reason for the paralysis and what he sees as alarming intensity and partisanship in politics. “’What’s making everything even worse today is because we have so much news, people get to choose where they get their news,” Boehner said. “It used to be we had three big TV networks, five big newspapers, and five big radio stations and whatever they said was the news. Everybody else followed what they do.’”

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Via RedState:

Bernie Sanders and his wife Jane when they are in Washington DC, live in this house on Capitol Hill, ok? Part of their vast real estate empire. They’re like wannabe Trumps with their real estate holdings.

The next-door neighbor…their neighbor on Capitol Hill called the Washington Post and told the Washington Post that they were cancelling their Washington Post subscription because their very expensive Sunday Post stopped showing up. Not there this week, last week, the week before, then it was there one week but the week before it wasn’t delivered, so I’m cancelling my subscription to the post because your delivery person never gets to me. I’m paying for it but it never gets to me.

The Washington Post said, “Please, do not cancel your subscription to the Washington Post. We will investigate with the delivery person and we will get back to you.”

So the Post investigated. They got back to the person cancelling their subscription to the Post and they said, “Listen, we talked to the delivery person. Our delivery person claims has seen you come out of your house again and again and grab the paper on Sunday mornings. Immediately as the paper delivery person delivers the paper, they’ve seen you come out of your house and pick up the newspaper. So, sir, you are lying to us.”

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