But first, show us your ID:
NAACP Demands Photo ID For Attendees to Join Protest Against Photo ID Laws.
There ain’t no cure.
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Those Moderate Muslims!
Although the religious component of the 2011 census in India has yet to be released, it is believed that the Hindu population has dropped below 80% for the first time since independence in 1947. The official word is that the data on religion is being withheld so as not to influence the upcoming elections this year. Apparently, political leaders worry that the information will skew election results as Hindus become increasingly alarmed about Muslim population growth and cast their votes for the political party that opposes illegal immigration. Their concerns are not misplaced, as areas with marked Muslim population increases have seen higher rates of violent crime.
In a push to appease the growing Muslim population and garner votes, the Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence Bill was created and has been promoted. The legislation is built on the erroneous assumption that majorities violently target minorities. The bill has been characterized as discriminatory, biased, and unconstitutional by Hindu leaders because it targets the Hindu majority, presumes guilt even from anonymous complaints, and is designed solely to aid prosecutions brought by minority populations. Hindu leaders are rightly concerned that if this bill becomes law, only Hindus will be prosecuted and convicted of violent acts and the incitement of hate crimes.
h/t Me No Dhimmi
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
World’s Largest Cardboard Bucket: PETA member wants roadside memorial for chickens
Bin Laden Is Dead And Ambassador Stevens Is Dead
Jihadism: Seven Assumptions Shaken by the Arab Spring
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
George Will on “the perils of government run by believers in magic words and numbers.”
Y2Kyoto: Cold Enough For Ya?
Because accuracy improves as distance from the target increases:
If you think it just couldn’t be possible for any weather outfit to perform as poorly as the UK’s Met Office in long-term outlooks (13 out of 14 wrong), think again. It appears the US national weather services are right on their heels when it comes to who can make the all-time least accurate outlooks.
And we’re supposed to believe these people when it comes to their climate forecasting?
Oh, Shiny Pony!
“Being a Liberal, I guess, means never having to say thank you.“
Reader Tips
In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips Richard Thompson (guitar and vocal), Eliza Carthy (violin), and The Band’s Garth Hudson (accordion) perform a live version of the traditional English Folk song “The Cuckoo” (or “The Cuckoo Bird”), but one that’s based lyrically and melodically more on Appalachian claw-hammer banjo player Clarence Ashley’s 1929 recording as heard on Harry Smith’s seminal Anthology of American Folk Music than on the older traditional English versions. From 2001, here’s Coo Coo Bird.
The comments thread is open for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
The most perfect watch commercial ever made.
Put It Over There Beside The ‘No Smoking’ Sign
It’s Probably Nothing
The founder and CEO of American Title Services in Centennial was found dead in his home this week, the result of self-inflicted wounds from a nail gun, according to the Arapahoe County coroner.
You know, these things always happen in threes fours.
h/t james
Y2Kyoto: Two Guys With A Ruler
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
In 2013, PETA killed 1,792 cats and dogs, an average of 5 per day. The 1,792 figure represents 82 percent of all animals PETA took into its shelter throughout the year.
‘This delusional animal rights group is talking out of both sides of its mouth – on one side preaching animal rights, while on the other signing the death warrant of 82 percent of cats and dogs in its care. Labeling PETA as hypocritical would be the understatement of the year,’ said Will Coggin from the Center for Consumer Freedom.
In 2005, two PETA employees were arrested in North Carolina after allegedly killing adoptable pets and tossing the bodies into a supermarket trash dumpster.
Related: Parents Outraged After Kids Given PETA Pamphlet Showing Mutilated Cows
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Awkward: CBC journo Laurie Brown caught donating publicly-owned property to anti-oil sands group
Reader Tips
In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips Cheryl Crow, Vince Gill, Eric Clapton, and English guitar legend Albert Lee put a little extra zip into Don Williams’s laid-back 1978 hit Tulsa Time.
Some might call it light rock ‘n’ roll. I call it a head-bobber.
The comments thread is open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Are We Still A Member Of This Thing?
Iran’s Bomb In The Basement
Caroline Glick: “Just as its leaders have always believed, Iran’s new nuclear status is its economic salvation.”
h/t Adrian
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Frankly, My Dear
Feminism has nothing to do with the proposition that women should be considered whole and complete members of the body politic, though it has enjoyed great success marketing itself that way.
It has become simply “I Want!” in the mouths of a minority of women, but the right kind of women. Yet feminism throws up pretty poor leaders.
More Pavilions At Folkfest
George Jonas; (link fixed)
It was in the past 40 years that the immigrant of dubious loyalty emerged, followed by the disloyal native-born, sometimes of immigrant ancestry, sometimes of Islamic conversion. The new immigrant seemed ready to share the West’s wealth but not its values. In many ways he resembled an invader more than a settler or an asylum-seeker. Instead of making efforts to assimilate, the invader demanded changes in the host country’s culture.
Democracy, Immigration, Multiculturalism — pick any two.
h/t Victor M.