Females in the Marine Corps currently are not required to do even a single pull-up, and a deadline mandating that by Jan. 1, 2014, they be able to do at least 3 pull-ups as part of their training has been delayed for at least a year, the Corps quietly announced on social media.
Unlike their female counterparts, male Marines have long been required to do at least 3 pullups as part of the Physical Fitness Test (PFT).
We Don’t Need No….
Clean energy stagnation: Despite the rhetoric around the rise of renewable energy, this stagnation suggests how policies employed to accelerate rates of decarbonization of the global economy have been largely ineffective.
Y2Kyoto: Escape From Irony
More at Fox News.
h/t Kevin B
Those Moderate Muslims!
The world’s largest halal food certification company is the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America (IFANCA), based in Park Ridge, Illinois, an affluent suburb of Chicago. IFANCA’s symbol, a crescent alongside an “M,” can be found on different baby formulas, including ones made by leading brands Similac and Gerber, their Crescent-M dwarfing the O-U kosher hechsher sitting next to it.
Those seeking kosher food – even those seeking halal food – or anyone else who uses these baby food products may be shocked to find out that IFANCA is linked to international terrorism and bigotry.
IFANCA is working with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) to create a national halal standards and accreditation body. In 2007 and 2008, ISNA, which was co-founded by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) leader Sami al-Arian, was named by the United Sates Justice Department as a co-conspirator in the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. Just this past September, the Canadian government stripped ISNA of its tax status in Canada for the financing of a Pakistani terrorist group.
IFANCA is an active member of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC). Other members include: the Mosque Foundation (MF), which has held fundraisers for individuals and groups associated with PIJ and Hamas; Islamic Relief (IR), which has been associated with al-Qaeda financing and that was named by the Israeli government a front for Hamas; Helping Hand (HH), which partnered with a Pakistani charity at the same time that charity delivered close to $100,000 to the residence of the head of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal; and the Muslim American Society (MAS), which has used the internet to propagate materials degrading women, cursing Christians, and calling for the murder of Jews and homosexuals.
IFANCA’s terror and hate-related affiliations are understandable, given the individuals who are in charge of the organization.
Muhammad Munir Chaudry is a Founding Board Member and President of IFANCA. He is listed, along with a photo, on the “Speaker” page of ISNA. Sharing the page with him are fellow ISNA speakers: Esam Omeish, who resigned from the Virginia Commission on Immigration, after videos surfaced depicting him calling for violent jihad; Nihad Awad, National Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a reported front for Hamas; Siraj Wahhaj, who was named a party to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; and Zulfiqar Ali Shah, the former South Asia Division Coordinator for KindHearts, a charity whose funds were frozen by the U.S. Treasury Department in February 2006 for its alleged role as a Hamas financier.
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Ahmad Hussein Sakr is a member of IFANCA’s Board of Directors and has been with IFANCA since its inception. […] Sakr is the author of the book, ‘Pork: Possible Reasons for its Prohibition.‘ In it, he describes Jews as being cursed, monkey-like, filthy and corrupt.
Via Sheikyermami
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Depends on the party: Will the Obama-era hypocrisy continue when the next president takes office?
h/t EBD
How’s That Hopey Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
Barack Obama, 2010: “I am glad that the only person whose approval ratings are lower than mine is here tonight. Great to see you, Jay!“
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
“The EU wants to limit how much of a toxic chemical coumarin, found in small amounts in the most commonly used type of cinnamon is heavily restricted in use. This means an effective ban on the consumption of Danish pastries as they are currently made today.”
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Reader Tips
In tonight’s musical detour en route to the tips we listen to two consecutive short tracks from the 1970 album New Morning: The first is a street-level urban vignette, a kind of lucid dream centered around three ornamental plastic angels, perched high atop a pole, whose transcendental message goes unheeded by the big city denizens as they go about their daily activities below. The next, a soberly upbeat, wide-awake, rhythmically angular song of worship and praise contrasts with this slow reverie, but the similar underlying theme, and the otherworldly female vocals that swell up at the end of the first song and punctuate the end of each verse in the second, make both entirely of a piece, somehow: Here are Three Angels & Father of Night.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
“There has to be a continent somewhere that likes this guy. Your turn, South America.”
Phil Robertson – 1, Media Industrial Complex – 0.
[A]fter discussions with the Robertson family, as well as consulting with numerous advocacy groups, A&E has decided to resume filming Duck Dynasty later this spring with the entire Robertson family.
Of course, it will escape the notice of GLAAD and their supporters that they live in a country already so tolerant that, until now, they believed they held the majority viewpoint.
#probablynothing
BREAKING: 66 YEAR OLD REUBEN KRESSEL OF REGO PARK, QUEENS HAS LIQUIDATED HIS ENTIRE POSITION IN $TWTR. DEVELOPING. http://t.co/Or3I5ZhjKN
— Timothy Connolly CFA (@SconsetCapital) December 27, 2013
Y2Kyoto: The Time Has Come
…the Warmist said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–
Of cabbages–and kings–
And why the sea is boiling hot–
And whether pigs have wings.”
An Engineer, A Geologist, and Some Humourless Prick Walk Into A Bar…
Rig Pigs – they don’t make ’em like they used to. (via email)
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Some Lighter Fare
Never could remember if it was “fair” or “fare,” but found a new little piece of music that will put most in a better mood. That or at least make you think you’re at a kitchy martini party in the early 60’s:
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Mann Overboard
Score one for the good guys.
#graveyardofpoliticians
Statesmanship.
(Related*)
Reader Tips
Tonight, très mélancolie philosophe existentialiste Henri Le Chat Noir endures his Worst Noël.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
The Making Of Mandela
The point here isn’t to make any moral statement about segregation in general or SA’s version in particular. It is, rather, this: regardless of the extent to which white South Africans were inhuman — as all peoples can sometimes be — they did nothing unhuman. Their social policies were exactly what could be expected from any group of humans in their situation.
If any question this, try a thought exercise. Imagine there was an African tribe that had a long history in a land, had turned that land into a nation, brought it into modernity and created its democracy, and had reason to believe that sharing power would lead to its own persecution. Would it surprise anyone if they took measures to ensure their safety, cultural integrity, and hold on power?
But we don’t have to theorize. There’s no shortage of African countries where one tribe dominated government — such as with the Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda — and tribes have often spilled blood vying for power. One difference, though, is that the dominant group usually doesn’t rule democratically but autocratically; another is that they’re generally far more brutal than SA’s apartheid government. And there’s a third difference: whatever the persecutions, oh-so humanitarian Western moderns generally pay these countries little mind. So it’s hard to escape the conclusion that the real problem the West had with SA was that the ruling tribe happened to be the wrong color.
h/t EBD