The Boys Of Jihad

Abercrombie & Fitch is going to war, or something - the NY Times juxtaposes some ISIS proselytizing next to a report of Obama's attempts to counter same:

 

The Times also explains that Obama is updating the "No true Scotsman" argument for the 21st century:

“[W]e are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam.”

Lest you wonder who died and made Obama Grand Mufti, rest assured he has his reasons for imagining he can decide the validity of another's professed religious beliefs.

 

Comments

[Captain Hate]

Thanks again to Rick and Some Guy for giving me some useful knowledge about the Oakland/SF sports situation. I think Some Guy tried to tell me that before but I must have overlooked or somehow failed to understand the points he was making. I was probably on an anti-Ginat rant.

[Threadkiller]

SEIU purple dickhead president up now.

He is screaming "Raider Nation is in the house!!!!"

"We are bringing football back to the NFL!"

I hope Jindal is watching this.

[lyle]

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2015/02/20/india-officials-tree-obama-planted-isnt-dead-just-looks-dead/

If only this were the perfect metaphor for King Hussein's presidency.

[Threadkiller]

Goldman Sachs finance guy says the site is "the best."

[NKvirusedandback]

Lyle-- it's just 'mostly dead'.

[Threadkiller]

This from CH hould be on the fresh page.

I finally watched the Megyn Kelly segment with Rudy and I guess I should give her credit for being confrontational which is the part of her job that her counterparts at the other alphabets never learn. But she's just wrong to listen to that snaggletoothed ambulatory lice colony talking through her fat ass on what Giuliani said. Every one of those commiecrats has said much worse about GWB, Walker, Reagan and any other GOP pol worth a damn and it's high time that Ailes talking heads own up to it.

I will not apologize.

[James D.]

DoT, aside from the question of selection, isn't Obama the first (only?) president of the HLR to never have written for it?

[Miss Marple]

Nice interview by John Scott of Mike Eruzzione, captain of the USA 1980 hockey team which defeated the Soviets and went on to win the Gold Medal.

I am still of the opinion that that victory re-ignited patriotism in this country and made Reagan's election possible.

[GMax]

Is the tree strategically delayed?

[Jack is Back (on his iPad)]

JameD,

You do know the reason he never wrote for the Review, right?

Ayers never went to law school.

[Threadkiller]

Devastating question to they mayor.

"Have the Chargers assured you that they will move if you get the stadium built?"

"Uhhhhh.... double-speak....uhhh"

The reporter asked the question twice more and got similar answers.

He then said:"so what you are saying is 'no.'"

The mayor replied that he really does not know what he is saying.

Maybe we should send the sports guys to interview the democratic leadership.

[Jack is Back (on his iPad)]

MM,

Mrs. JiB's parents were at the game in Lake Placid. He continues to rave about how exciting it was. Me, I watched on a TV in Midland, Michigan.

[GMax]

Is the noose getting tight in Athens? Both German and Finnish responses were unvarnished and the only escape hatch involves a drachma that is near worthless and much more enforced austerity. I bet Syriza gets almost nothing and takes the extension.

[Jane]

Do you believe in Miracles?

Where were you 35 years ago tonite.

I was in Scituate with friends cheering our guys like crazy.

[lyle]

Long C&P alert! But it's Steyn from exdem's 12:23. I'm posting it just because I was laughing so hard at Steyn's drollery:

n 2003, Disney brought us its latest animated feature, Brother Bear, the usual New Age mumbo-jumbo with a generic Native American gloss. It told the tale of Kenai, a young fellow in a bucolic Pacific Northwest at the end of the Ice Age. To avenge his brother's death, Kenai kills the brown bear responsible. But trouble's a-bruin: his late brother is wise enough to know that killing is not the answer and so gets the Great Spirit to teach Kenai a lesson by transforming him into a bear. He thereby learns that bears are not violent beasts but sensitive beings living in harmony with nature who understand the world they live in far more than man does. I would certainly agree that bears are wiser and more sensitive than man, if only because I've yet to meet a bear who's produced an animated feature as mawkishly deluded as this.

Among the technical advisers on the film, hired to ensure the accurate depiction of our furry friends, was Timothy Treadwell, the self-described eco-warrior from Malibu who became famous for his campaign "to promote getting close to bears to show they were not dangerous". He did this by sidling up to them and singing "I love you" in a high-pitched voice. Brother Bear is certainly true to the Treadwell view of the brown bears, and he would surely have appreciated the picture had he ever gotten to see it. But, just as Kenai found himself trapped inside a bear, so did Mr Treadwell - although in his case he was just passing through. In September, a pilot arrived at the ursine expert's camp near Kaflia Bay in Alaska to fly him out and instead found the bits of him and his girlfriend that hadn't yet been eaten buried in a bear's food cache.

Treadwell had always said he wanted to end up in "bear scat", so his fellow activists were inclined to look on the bright side. "He would say it's the culmination of his life's work," said his colleague Jewel Palovak. "He died doing what he lived for."

I wonder if he was revising his view in the final moments. And if his girlfriend was quite so happy to find she had a bit part in "the culmination of his life's work".

You'd have to have a heart of stone not to weep with laughter at the fate of the eco-warrior, but it does make Brother Bear somewhat harder to swallow than its technical adviser manifestly was. There are People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, but sadly no Animals for the Ethical Treatment of People. And, just as bugs are becoming resistant to antibiotics, so the big beasts are changing, too. Wild animals are not merely the creatures of their appetites; they're also astute calculators of risk. Not so long ago, your average bear knew that if he happened upon a two-legged type, the chap would pull a rifle on him and he'd be spending eternity as a fireside rug. But these days it's just as likely that any human being he comes across is some pantywaist Bambi Boomer enviro-sentimentalist trying to get in touch with his inner self. And, if the guy wants to get in touch with his inner self so badly, why not just rip it out of his chest for him?

North American wildlife seems to have figured that out. Why be surprised if other predators do..?

In 2008, the Italian performance artist Pippa Bacca set off to hitch-hike from Milan to the Palestinian Territories to promote "world peace". She was dressed as a bride, and the purpose of her trip was to show that if only you put your trust in our common humanity then all will be well. A month later, her naked body was found in the bushes near Gebze in Turkey. She had been gang-raped and then killed. Like Timothy Treadwell's, her illusions met reality.

Most of us as individuals retain enough of a survival instinct that, if we find ourselves on a rough city block in a foreign land late at night, we mothball the PC pieties until we get back to the lobby of the Grand Hyatt. But what happens when Pippa Bacca's illusions become the dominant political discourse of a free society? And how many Timothy Treadwells crooning to their killers does a society have to have before it loses even the very idea of a survival instinct?

[Miss Marple]

Jack,

I watched on our TV in Evansville, Indiana. We were glued to the set and jumping up and down when they won.

Best sports moment I ever watched. Ever.

Before that, we felt like the Soviets could never be beaten. Afterwards, it was like anything was possible. I have never forgotten it, nor those kids skating around the rink draped in American flags.

I honestly do think it enabled Reagan's victory.

[rse]

I was studying for winter quarter finals in the the main humanities building that was 3 floors and quite large. Someone races up and down the hallways and floors that everyone needed to stop studying and come watch the game. Mass exodus to the student union and dorm lobbies.

Quite astonishing as it was so unexpected during that Cold War tension year.

[James D.]

lyle @ 1:57

Treadwell is the guy who was featured in "Grizzly Man", right?

[Danube on iPad]

I think so, JamesD.

[Danube on iPad]

So the DoJ is going to the 5th Circuit to seek a stay of the stay. Hmmm....

[henry]

Watched the game at a party in Davenport College (one of the Yale residences), with most of the Hockey & Soccer teams. Many kegs were harmed.

[NKvirusedandback]

Miracle on Ice-- watched it in the 21st Amendment Bar on Penn Ave downtown DC. Remember it was tape delayed and shown in the evening (ET), game was played late afternoon(ET).

[GUS]

I can just see Timothy Obama singing "I love you" to ISIS in a high pitched voice.
I certainly hope I haven't offended Debbie Washerwoman-Schlitz.

[Rick Ballard]

Yes, Treadmill was the Grizzly Man who became one with nature for his efforts. It was a real shame the bear was destroyed for his part in the natural cycle. He could have been offered education and employment...

[lyle]

I can't stop giggling at this one:

But, just as Kenai found himself trapped inside a bear, so did Mr Treadwell - although in his case he was just passing through.

[Eric in Boise]

"Bears were his life. He was their lunch."

Best. Headline. Ever.

http://www.fieldandstream.com/articles/tbd/2004/04/reality-bites

[lyle]

Snicker

[NKvirusedandback]

henry-- big hockey game this weekend. Yale - Quinipiac. Sellout, I believe the Quinnipiac rink holds about 5000.

PS: did you ever visit the Yale hockey player/alum lounge at the 'Whale'?

[NKvirusedandback]

Best headline?

I still favor the NY Post classic "Headless Body Found in Topless Bar"

[lyle]

This is well worth your time:

http://freebeacon.com/columns/the-bill-hillary-chelsea-and-his-royal-highness-king-salman-of-saudi-arabia-clinton-foundation/

Think any of the putative GOP prez candidates have the stones (or estrogen) to make it into a campaign issue?

[henry]

Alum lounge? No. Went to plenty of games there.

[GUS]

Timothy Tread was a man
He was a big man,
But the bear was bigger.....

[NKvirusedandback]

CNN and Obummer are desperate to find the "Great White Terrorist", they are more demented than Ahab. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/report-warns-of-right-wing-domestic-terrorism/vi-BBhNupY?ocid=iehp

[GUS]

Treadwell not TREAD.

[lyle]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/02/20/country-star-john-rich-has-a-job-for-isis-holding-my-downrange-targets/

I'm heading to the range myself in a coupla hours!

[Marlene]

We watched Grizzly Man with my brother and sister-in-law.I think hubby and my brother had a few too many beers during the movie,because I remember giggling while listening to their snide comments. I think that Treadwell was mentally ill,who is that stupid?

[Buckeye]

"So the DoJ is going to the 5th Circuit to seek a stay of the stay. Hmmm...."

Holder is going himself and taking a dozen Black Panthers.

[Eric in Boise]

My second favorite:

"Spitzer Swallowed by Scandal"

[Jack is Back (on his iPad)]

Rachel Corrie felt the same way about Cats.

[lyle]

Oh, snap, JiB!

[Old Lurker]

Waiting for our JOM legal team to tell me about the DOJ Appeal.

[Danube on iPad]

"I think so, JamesD."

That was in response to your Q about Obama not writing anything.

[Buckeye]

"Waiting for our JOM legal team to tell me about the DOJ Appeal."

OL So am I. Have no idea of the procedure, who decides, etc.

[Old Lurker]

Stay tuned Buckeye. We have the best firm ever right here.

[Old Lurker]

Ya know...everywhere you look:

"Florida Governor Rick Scott has opened the door to illegal aliens voting in Florida elections. He has decided that Florida will not appeal a ruling that limited the state’s ability to remove illegal aliens and non-citizens from Florida’s voter rolls. Even Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi opposes Scott’s abandonment of the appeal."

[Threadkiller]

Consent Decree

[NKvirusedandback]

Appeal Judge Hannan's Order?: Clarice is the expert who can give the most details about procedure. Essentially, Hannan has issued a 'temprary' stay against Obummer enforcing his EO indefinitely delaying deportations and issuing work permits to illegals. Obummer claims he is obeying the stay, and will 'appeal'.This is where Clarice can give specific procedural detail; ordinarily, these types of District Court 'temporary' orders are not appealable in Federal Courts. Instead, the stayed party would have to push for an immediate trial on the merits, and when the District Court issues a final determination on the merits, an appeal can be taken. The Fed Rules Pro, give special rights to the Justice Department to seek appeals from interim orders, and I am sure he DoJ can do so with Hannan's order, but I don't believe they get an 'automatic stay' merely by appealling. Instead, they have to move at the 5th Circuit Ct of Appeals to 'stay' Judge Hanna from enforcing his temporary order pending Judge Hannan issung a final determination on the merits. Clarice can fill in important details.

[Sandy--I Stand with Walker 2016--Daze ن]

Two of these three males are doing something similar:

and

Eh, nevermind. Nothing to see here.

[Miss Marple]

http://www.krdo.com/news/report-man-arrested-in-bombing-near-colorado-springs-naacp-office/31383752

This is the pipe bomb which made a small dark stain on the opposite side of the building from the NAACP.

[NKvirusedandback]

For those of you playing along at home, here are the 5th Circuit's rules of pro. The Courthouse in New Orleans is magnificent, watched a friend argue an oil/gas case appeal there 20 years ago: http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/docs/default-source/forms-and-documents---clerks-office/rules/federalrulesofappellateprocedure.pdf

[Jack is Back (on his iPad)]

MM,

He was targetting a tax prerparation office not NAACP. Obviously, he had a legitimate grievance.

[Buckeye]

No way NK.

Not enough hours left in my lifetime to read and digest that.

Exactly why guys like me pay guys like you big bucks to handle it.

[exdemocrat]

The DOJ's motion to stay the injunction goes first to the same District Court judge that issued it.
He will either grant, deny or ignore it.
Unless he grants it (which he won't), they will then submit it to the Fifth Circuit, which will grant or deny it in fairly short order.
After that, their next move is to file an interlocutory appeal of the order in the Fifth, which will take a while to be heard and is likely pointless anyway.

[exdemocrat]

(BTW, have we discussed fees yet?)

[Buckeye]

So the same judge could say "pound sand"?

[Buckeye]

Excellent Exdem....where do I send the check?

[Threadkiller]

Moderate Muslims having a sad:

Hundreds of Muslims said goodbye to the Krudttønden shooter ...

Several hundred people gathered at the mosque on Dortheavej in the Northwest district of Copenhagen this afternoon to say farewell to 22-year-old Omar Abdel Hamid el-Hussein.

El-hussein was shot by Danish police on Sunday morning after he had killed two civilians and wounded five police officers.

Prayers for the assassin
While the regular Friday prayers were held in the mosque, a number of Muslims in winter jackets sat and prayed outside. 

According to the Islamic Society, twice as many people gathered in and around the mosque today than is usual for regular Friday prayers.

After a short obituary for the deceased, his white coffin was carried out of the mosque and placed in a hearse.

http://cphpost.dk/news/hundreds-of-muslims-said-goodbye-to-the-krudttoenden-shooter.12753.html

#SoIsObama

[Eric in Boise]

Good catch, Sandy.

[NKvirusedandback]

exdem-- good summary. I don't know whether DoJ MUST make application FIRST to Judge Hannan to stay his order pending appeal. For us dumb private litigants, once the Dist Ct Judge grants an interlocutory stay, the best you can hope for is a rocket docket to SJ/Trial to minimize the damage of a wrongly issued stay, I've never been a gov't lawyer (and I've never sucessfully obtained an interim stay against the Feds, although I once got Judge Dearie in the Eastern district to tell the Feds to back off, otherwise he would issue a stay) but my understanding is that DoJ has procedural rights for interlocutory relief in the Circuits, which the rest of us don't have.

[NKvirusedandback]

exdem-- did you read the decision quotes from PJM I pasted earlier? DoJ will want to get as far away from Judge Hanan as quickly as possible. He hates their case.... he calmly dismantled and turned against them their Exec Authority claims. SWEET.

[exdemocrat]

NKV - they can (and probably will) skip the District Court but will have to add an argument for why they did so in their motion to the Fifth Circuit (heh).
The interesting part, to me, is how they will make the argument that implementing their policy is so urgent that posrponing its implementation - even while its questionable constotutionality is properly adjudicated - will do more irreparable harm than otherwise.

In other words that allowing the toothpaste sitting in the tube is worse than trying to get it back in.

[Old Lurker]

Darn it Buckeye. Do not open that door. I have been milking JOM lawyers for free advice for years but never offered to, you know, PAY THEM for it.

[exdemocrat]

Nkv - yes, I posted those last night (I think, unless I'm having a senior moment).

Buckeye - please make check out to "Walker (or Rudy or Sarah or Bobby or JoeThe Plumber) for President '16")

[Buckeye]

OL Sorry.

Exdem Will do.

[exdemocrat]

(Don't panic, OL, I - and I suspect the others liars, er, lawyers here - am just happy to have 'clients' we respect and admire ;-))

[henry]

White House releases list of extremists, looses FSA at them. (tip from IL).

[NKvirusedandback]

ExDem-- a further interesting Art III/Fed Rules twist is the fact that the opposing litigants here are STATES. Say the 5th Circuit stays Hanan's order, wouldn't the States have rights to Appeal directly to SCOTUS? (Sorry to the rest of you JOMers, but I really enjoy this tedious stuff.) So wouldn't the easiest course for the 5th Circuit be to direct a prompt determination on the merits by Hanan, and defer hearing the case until there is a full record and a final injunction inplace to review?

[Miss Marple]

Fournier has reappeared on Twitter, retweeting an article by that noted paragon of virtue, Mike Barnicle, attacking Guiliani's marital history.

[NKvirusedandback]

Fournier-- he is a slave to Alinsky Rules if nothing else.

[lyle]

Yeah, Buckeye! Considering the hours I've spent on this site, I shudder to get the legal bill for them.

[exdemocrat]

What troubles me is that I believe DOJ just needs one of the Fifth Circuit justices to issue the stay, no?

[NKvirusedandback]

Who hears the applivation? Check the 5th Circuit rules I linked to counsel.

[lyle]

henry, that is infuriating. Of course, they cite the infamous "97%". Effing climate Stasi.

[NKvirusedandback]

henry-- the OFA hit list, am I correct that is Obummer's 'official' website? So we have a POTUS that attacks americans in his official public venue. Is that correct?

[Captain Hate]

Is that Mike "JFK Jr was an expert pilot" Barnicle?

[GUS]

Did Fournier mention Bill Clinton's marriage in his hit piece?

[Old Lurker]

Via Lucianne:

(CNN)The Justice Department plans to ask a federal judge to allow the Obama administration to continue its plans to implement the President Barack Obama's executive order on immigration, while it appeals his ruling blocking the order.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Friday the department will ask for a stay of the ruling by U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen, who ruled this week to temporarily stop the Homeland Security Department from proceeding with the president's order.

The stay request will be filed by Monday, Earnest said. Justice Department officials plan to seek an expedited hearing of their appeal, hoping that it can be resolved in the next few months. A stay would allow the administration to continue to prepare to implement the order; DHS said it suspended all such preparation after Hanen's ruling.

The stay request is widely considered a long shot, at least when it first goes to Hanen. The Justice Department could then ask for the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals based in New Orleans, which leans conservative, to intervene and put Hanen's ruling on hold.

Obama issued the order late last year to shield as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation.

Hanen ruled in a lawsuit brought by 26 states that the administration had failed to comply with the Administrative Procedure Act, which calls for the White House to afford a longer notification and comment period before taking action.

Hanen's ruling for now accomplishes what Republicans in Congress have sought to do to block funding for DHS to implement the executive order. A standoff in the Senate with Democrats has threatened to cause a partial shutdown of DHS at month's end because of the funding issue.

Depending on how long it takes to resolve the appeals court fight, the fate of executive order may not be decided until President Obama's term in office is drawing to a close.

[henry]

NK, yes. That appears to be an official OFA website. OFA is run from within the White House political office.

[Miss Marple]

Fournier linked to Barnicle 's piece on Guiliani's marriages.

No mention of the Clintons. Nor the Kennedy scum, nor the former Virginia Democrat chair arrested for child molesting who tried to hire hit men to kill the little girls so they couldn't testify against him.

Just Guiliani.

Because no one should be allowed to criticize the One.

[GUS]

97% Saddam had 99.9% approval. Kim Jong Il once shot an 18.

[Old Lurker]

NK "(Sorry to the rest of you JOMers, but I really enjoy this tedious stuff.)"

No problem, NK. I like it when you talk dirty er I mean legal.

[lyle]

Yer a cheap date, OL.

[GUS]

Miss Marple my 3;48 agrees with you.

[Threadkiller]

Another legaler thread?

How tedious.

[Captain Hate]

I think I was the only person on the planet not to watch the Miracle on Ice.

[Porchlight]

OT,

My dad sent me the link to this excellent 2006 short documentary film, about 15 minutes long.

The filmmaker discovers his great-uncle's long-lost WWII film footage, and tracks down a Spitfire PA944 pilot who made an emergency landing. I don't want to spoil it by saying more.

I think all JOMers, but especially the pilots and aviation enthusiasts, would really enjoy this.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/ie3SrjLlcUY

[GUS]

Capn, I'm sure Holder and Obama boycotted Miracle on Ice for obvious reasons.

[Captain Hate]

Assuming they paid any attention, Gus, they were surely cheering for the Rooskis.

[GUS]

They were rooting for the PUCK.

[Captain Hate]

OMG Gus; did you see how THE MAN was beating on that poor puck with sticks.

[NKvirusedandback]

OL-- thanks for that news report. I have to admit, sound thinking by the DoJ Obamaniacs to go back to Hanen first. This is a case where the Judge has ruled that the POTUS is lawlessly ignoring the Immigration Statutes and APA, so to go straight to the 5th Circuit would reinforce the states' claim that the POTUS is lawless. Making application to Judge Hanen puts him on the spot to explain why one lowly Dist Ct Judge can hold up the mighty POTUS. My guess is Hanen denies the motion and eloquently explains why (regrettably) his stay must stand while the POTUS appeals.

[lyle]

In case this thread starts to veer into legal stuff, an interlude:

http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/jihadis-view-porn-for-the-articles-t15914.html

[narciso]

Akbar Ahmed is the fellow who came up with 'islamophobia, so even he is plainly embarrassed,

Guiliani has prosecuted terrorists and mobsters, I don't think Fournier citing plagiarist Barnicle, really bothers him,

[rse]

Oh good just got an email alert on the various states looking at enacting legislation to force stable and predictable work schedules.

Oregon, CA, Michigan, and Indiana for starters. All being pushed by people who may never have worked in the private sector.

[NKvirusedandback]

GUS@4:04-- OK that was genuinely funny.

(you know the puck was the only black thing in the game.)

[rich@gmu]

I'd be skeptical the NFL would want 2 AFC west teams in the same city using the same stadium.

A better proposal would be the Rams (NFC west) and Chargers (AFC West) sharing a stadium in LA.

[Captain Hate]

Oh good just got an email alert on the various states looking at enacting legislation to force stable and predictable work schedules.

Anybody who's ever worked production support is having a good laugh over this one. Idiots.

[narciso]

have you ever seen an effective application of operation, ie; scheduling

[Captain Hate]

A better proposal would be the Rams (NFC west) and Chargers (AFC West) sharing a stadium in LA.

How many times does LA have to fail as an enneffell location?

[Miss Marple]

Here's another interesting plane story.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/02/20/near-miss-this-f-16-landed-after-half-its-wing-was-sheared-off/