1st amendment? We don’t need no stinkin first amendment: Links 1 for Sept. 16 – 2014

1. How does turning a T shirt inside out make it into a Nike one? It must be a MIRACLE!

2. Speaking of sports store ethics

3. Last night on BlogTalk Radio, Andrea Shea King had a historian on to talk about the nature of Islam and world leaders’ preposterous position on it.

(I called in with a few questions of my own)

4. UK: Jewish Schoolchildren Barred from Shop, Told ‘No Jews’

A leading British retailer has been forced to apologize after a shocking incident in which a security guard outside the store barred Jewish schoolchildren from entering.

Children from Yavneh College high school in London were astonished when the guard blocked them from entering and said simply: “No Jews, no Jews,” according to the Jewish Chronicle.

(And yet the basic right to deny entry to someone who has totally covered their face to a private business is still denied and the cost of attempting to do so would be large in many ways)

5. First US strike under new IS plan

(Video at site)

US officials said the strike destroyed an IS fighting position near Baghdad, five days after President Obama outlined his new anti-IS strategy.

IS has seized large areas of Syria and Iraq and declared a “caliphate”.

Meanwhile, Iraq’s new PM saw his two nominations for defence and interior minister rejected by parliament.

6. Westfield Stratford evacuated over ‘security alert’ 

Thousands of shoppers were today evacuated from Westfield Stratford City after a security alert. Scotland Yard confirmed police were on the scene, yards form the Olympic Park, for over two hours after reports of a suspect package.

Evacuation: Westfield Stratford

A Met spokesman said: “Police were called at 12.10 to reports and officers remain on the scene. The shopping centre was fully evacuated at 13.45.”

The Met later confirmed the incident had been “stood down”.

Witnesses on the scene described seeing a section of the shopping centre near Marks and Spencer being cordoned off by police.

(Dress rehearsal for a catastrophe?)

7. Caroline Glick: Obama’s self-defeating fight

(How do women from the West, ostensibly grounded in classical values, come to casually accept the presence of a slave in the room just because she is not a muslim?)

8. No government must ever be allowed to get away with abuse of public trust and of their positions for personal gain in this or any similar manner.

Thank you Tundra T., Oz-Rita, M., and all. More to come indeed. One can’t help but wonder if the increase in frequency of bomb scares isn’t a win for terrorists either way. Either we disrupt our own activities to the point where they become so expensive and cumbersome that we stop doing them, or we stop leaving the buildings and then the bombs really do go off. More later.

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24 Replies to “1st amendment? We don’t need no stinkin first amendment: Links 1 for Sept. 16 – 2014”

    • McCain: It’s a ‘Fundamental Fallacy’ That U.S.-Armed Rebels Will Fight ISIS in Syria

      The Republican senator from Arizona on Tuesday slammed the administration officials over Obama’s plan to arm and train 5,000 Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State, declaring that they had a “fundamental misunderstanding of the entire concept of the Free Syrian Army.”

      There would be no way, he said, to ensure that the rebels would focus entirely on destroying ISIS, when their primary enemy thus far has been the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

      “Our focus is on ISIL,” Hagel told the committee, using the administration’s preferred acronym for the terrorist group.

      “You don’t think that the Free Syrian Army is going to fight against Bashar Assad, who has been decimating them?” McCain asked incredulously. “You think these people you’re training will only go back to fight against ISIL? Do you really believe that, general?”

      Dempsey demurred. “We do not have to deal with it now,” he said.

      “For to us say that we will help and train and equip these people only to fight against ISIL, you’re not going to get many recruits to do that, general,” McCain said. “That’s a fundamental fallacy in everything you are presenting this committee today.”

      http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/mccain-it-s-a-fundamental-fallacy-that-u-s-armed-rebels-will-fight-isis-in-syria-20140916

  1. Obama to announce troops, funds to fight Ebola (CNN, video, Sept 16, 2014)
    http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/16/health/obama-ebola/index.html

    “… On Tuesday, President Obama will announce that more help is on the way. He’ll visit the Atlanta headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a briefing on the outbreak.

    The U.S. efforts already under way to fight Ebola are considered more extensive than any previous American response to an epidemic…..”

  2. 2 Americans among 3 killed by Taliban in Afghanistan (CNN, Sept 16, 2014)
    http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/16/world/asia/afghanistan-violence/index.html

    “Three members of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force were killed in an attack in Kabul on Tuesday, the coalition said. Two were U.S. military personnel, and the third was Polish, a U.S. defense official said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing targeting a convoy of foreign forces in the Afghan capital, the militant group’s spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said.

    A large plume of smoke filled the sky over Kabul, and the U.S. Embassy sounded its “duck-and-cover” alarm. Witness Sakhi Ahmad said the explosion took place on Kabul International Airport Road, near the Supreme Court compound.

    ISAF and Afghan officials are investigating the blast, the coalition said. It did not identify the names or nationalities of those killed. At least 13 Afghan civilians were also wounded in the attack, Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said. He said 17 civilian vehicles were damaged in the blast.

    The explosion in Kabul came a day after a man wearing an Afghan National Army uniform turned his weapon against ISAF members in western Afghanistan on Monday, the coalition said…”

  3. ISIS claims it shot down military jet (CNN, Sept 16, 2014)
    http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/16/world/meast/isis-threat/index.html

    “The Islamist militant group ISIS said Tuesday it has shot down a Syrian military fighter jet.

    Photos distributed by the Reuters news agency and the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights show ISIS fighters posing with pieces of what is described as debris from the aircraft.

    The observatory, based in London, said the plane was shot down while it was conducting airstrikes on the ISIS stronghold iRaqqa, Syria….”

    • Sorry… The link (and caption) changed immediately after I posted it here. The text was of course copy pasted… Seems like parts of the original text have been been incorporated into the new article. Bloody CNN…

  4. Egypt’s police detains four ‘terrorist cells’

    An interior ministry source says four ‘terrorist cells’ formed by Muslim Brotherhood members were arrested in Damietta, Alexandria, Daqahliya and Ismailiya

    A security source at the interior ministry said on Tuesday that authorities have arrested four “terrorist cells” formed by members of the Muslim Brotherhood who have lately targeted police personnel, Al-Ahram’s Arabic news website reported.

    The cells were detained in the Egyptian cities of Damietta, Alexandria, Daqahliya and Ismailiya, according to the source who spoke on condition of anonymity.

    According to investigations, many of the detained cell members were involved in vandalism and illegally possessed weapons.

    Some of the detainees confesesd during the investigations that they participated with other members to set fire to police vehicles in Damietta.

    The security source added that police officers in Alexandria said the cells had the intention to revive the Brotherhood’s military wing under the title of “Groups of Quality Operations” to target police and military personnel.

    The Brotherhood was labeled a terrorist organisation in February and has been blamed for militant attacks since the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi – a longtime member of the group – in July 2013.

    The attacks have mainly targeted security forces and the military in the Sinai Peninsula.

    However, the Brotherhood has repeatedly condemned the attacks and denied responsibility for them

    http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/110940/Egypt/Politics-/Egypts-police-detains-four-terrorist-cells-.aspx

  5. AUSTRALIA – Jacqui Lambie calls for supporters of sharia law to ‘get out’ of Australia

    Recognizing the increased call for Sharia compliance among Australia’s Muslim population, Palmer United Party Sen. Jacqui Lambie issued a direct statement aimed at those unwilling to live by the nation’s laws.

    “Anybody that supports Sharia law in Australia should not have the right to vote,” she asserted, “should not be given government handouts and should probably pack up their bags and get out of here.”

    “Anybody supporting or calling for Sharia law in Australia can get out,” she said, “simple as that.”

    As it stands, she lamented, the Australian government is spending money that should go toward more honorable pursuits in a failed attempt to placate the desires of Sharia law backers.

    “We are giving government benefits to those under Sharia law,” she complained, going on to insist that “those supporters who support Sharia law should not have the right to vote with their allegiance to a foreign power.”

    Lambie noted that, while the nation’s veterans are being redeployed without sufficient medical care, Sharia law advocates have access to government largesse.

    Sharia law is the law of extremists and terrorists. Why should we allow sharia law supporters a vote or receive public funds?

    If something is not done soon to stem the tide of encroaching Sharia influence, Lambie warned the problem could become too serious to resolve.

    “Unless we put our foot on it now,” she concluded, “it’s only going to become bigger and more dangerous well into the future.”

    Several U.S. states have decided to proactively address the potential threat of Sharia influence in this country by adopting legislation making it illegal for judges to consider such foreign concepts in court.

    http://www.westernjournalism.com/australian-senator-issues-ultimatum-sharia-supporters-country/