HOW TO PREPARE QUINOA SALAD ON BOARD THE ISS...

A great video via EarthSky:

ESA astronaut and Italian Air Force Captain Samantha Cristoforetti demonstrates how she prepares one of her favorite meals in microgravity, quinoa salad with tomato, mackerel and leek cream in a warm tortilla.




Video taken inside Unity, or Node 1. It's one of three nodes ("passive connecting modules") in the US Orbital Segment of the station. Launched in December 1998 as a cargo of the Endeavour Space Shuttle, it was the ISS's first US-built component. It's cylindrical in shape, with six berthing locations facilitating connections to other modules.




Some essential info on Unity via Gunter's Space Page:

"The Unity connecting module, technically referred to as Node 1, layed a foundation for all future U.S. International Space Station modules with six berthing ports, one on each side, to which future modules will be attached. Built by The Boeing Company at a manufacturing facility at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Unity is the first of three such connecting modules that will be built for the station. Sometimes referred to as Node 1, the Unity module measures 15 feet in diameter and 18 feet long.

Carried to orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, Unity was mated with the already orbiting Zarya control module, or Functional Cargo Block (Russian acronym FGB), a U.S.-funded and Russian-built component that will have been launched earlier aboard a Russian rocket from Kazakstan. In addition to connecting to the Zarya module, Unity eventually will provide attachment points for the U.S. laboratory module; Node 3; an early exterior framework, or truss for the station; an airlock; and a multi-windowed cupola.

Essential space station resources such as fluids, environmental control and life support systems, electrical and data systems are routed through Unity to supply work and living areas.

More than 50,000 mechanical items, 216 lines to carry fluids and gases, and 121 internal and external electrical cables using six miles of wire were installed in the Unity node. The detailed and complex hardware installation required more than 1,800 drawings. The node is made of aluminum.

Two conical docking adapters will be attached to each end of Unity prior to its launch aboard Endeavour. The adapters, called pressurized mating adapters (PMAs), allow the docking systems used by the Space Shuttle and by Russian modules to attach to the node's hatches and berthing mechanisms. One of the conical adapters will attach Unity to the Zarya, while the other will serve as a docking port for the Space Shuttle. The Unity node with the two mating adapters attached, the configuration it will be in for launch, is about 36 feet long and weighs about 25,600 pounds.

Attached to the exterior of one of the pressurized mating adapters are computers, or multiplexer-demultiplexers (MDMs), which will provide early command and control of the Unity node. Unity also will be outfitted with an early communications system that will allow data, voice and low data rate video with Mission Control, Houston, to supplement Russian communications systems during the early station assembly activities."

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UDO ULFKOTTE'S NEW BOOK: MECCA GERMANY - THE SILENT ISLAMIZATION.

Our brothers-in-arms at Gates of Vienna recently had a topic on Udo Ulfkotte's new book, Mecca Germany - the silent islamization.

New Ulfkotte Book: Mecca Germany

... Can we still be saved? Or have we already capitulated to Islam? And what is coming down the road at each and every one of us? Did you know, for instance, that the state’s attorney has launched an investigation because German patients’ food rations are supposed to be cut in favor of Muslims? We are now doing things we would have considered crazy ten years ago. A silent majority believes that, in premature obedience to Muslims, we have given up not just freedom of expression, but consequently the core of our democracy. Our previous freedom has been replaced by a fear of injuring the religious feelings of immigrant Muslims.

When recently some few Muslims felt their religious feelings hurt by a new, oriental cream soap because the silhouette of a mosque appeared on the package, the shelves were instantly emptied. The supermarket chain capitulated. From fear of Muslims. That has become an everyday thing in the erstwhile Land of Poets and Thinkers. The primary virtue of Islam — submission — is now the chief virtue of the Germans.





The bestselling author Udo Ulfkotte (Bought-And-Paid-For Journalists) describes in his new book Mecca Germany what specific consequences that will have for each of us: for students, apprentices, workers and officials, the unemployed and the retired. So, for instance, right here in Germany, food rations for the sickest patients are to be cut so that the money saved from the funds for the legitimately insured can be used for special cuisine exclusively for Muslims. And everybody looks the other way. Even as politicians and the media deny that there is any Islamization, separate sets of cutlery for meals are given out to Muslims and non-Muslims in the army. Ulfkotte illuminates the increasingly serious development of Islamization against the background of the massive waves of refugees from North Africa and the Near East. He concludes that a child born now in German-speaking territory will in all likelihood die in a substantially Islamized country.

In Mecca Germany, Ulfkotte shows us an absurd world, in which we are introducing sharia-compliant car insurance, life insurance and a sharia MasterCard, but are stubbornly denying that there is Islamization in politics and the media. In the new world of subjugation to Islam, where we transform churches into mosques and call for action against “infidels” to the applause of our media, there will be sharia vacations and sharia tours. And in the Federal Ministry of Justice, there is already a budget allowance for sharia law. We are training Afghans, Syrians, Chechens and Turks as hiking guides for the Alps, so that they can bring tourists closer to the beauties of Islam. Politicians and the media are lying to the public, saying that all this has nothing to do with Islamization — it’s just a natural part of our “welcoming culture.”...

Click on the picture below to buy Ulfkotte's book:




Es ist ein Albtraum.



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THE AWESOME AVRO VULCAN.

Watch this fascinating video of an Avro Vulcan display over Throckmorton Airfield, formerly RAF Pershore. Throckmorton is a tiny village in Worcestershire. Its airfield is now operated by QinetiQ, the UK's sixth largest defence contractor.




The Vulcan was one of the three types which made up the UK's "V-Force", it's strategic bomber fleet capable of delivering nuclear warloads over the USSR. When you look at that plane, it's hard to imagine its prototype first flew over Farnborough in 1952 (even though the delta planeform has become old-fashioned). A mere 7 years separate that event from the end of WWII, and it's amazing the strides that aeronautics and jet propulsion made during that short time span.

The RAF operated the Vulcan from 1956 to 1984. It is probably best remembered as the plane that bombed the Port Stanley runway free of Argentine aviation during the Falkland Wars. CDR Sharkey Ward's allegations about the stupidity of sending an entire fleet of Vulcans from Ascension (using a refueling scheme that ultimately allowed only one or two planes to drop bombs) may be true. But I guess he seriously underestimated the psychological impact on the Argentines. Not to mention the galvanizing effect on the home front.

The RAF accepted its first Vulcan B.1's in 1956; the improved Vulcan B.2 appeared in 1960. The B.2 featured a larger wing, more powerful engines, ECM and improved electrical systems. Although the Vickers Valiant and the Handley Page Victor were sound designs too, it was the Vulcan which was the backbone of the UK's airborne nuclear deterrent during the 'better' part of the Cold War.




What a bird!!! Length 30m, wingspan 30m, maximum speed 0.96.

Vulcans are powered by four Rolls-Royce Olympus engines, originally known as Bristol BE.10's "Olympus". They are two-spool axial-flow turbojets. The arrangement is two pairs positioned close to he fuselage, not unlike the configuration of the Vulcan's civil contemporary the Comet.




Pity I can't elaborate. Only so many hours in a day. Good night, hope you enjoyed the video.



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A DAY OUT IN THE ARDENNES.

Sunday, June 7, 2015.

Weather good? Check.

In the mood for a walk? Check.

Daughter also willing to go? Check.

So we off to the Ardennes, more precisely the central part. There's a plethora of good walking guides but I almost always use my trusted Julien Van Remoortere books, and today I picked (two thirds of) a walk near Nadrin, some 7 kloms east of La Roche en Ardenne (La Roche for short).

Somewhere near Grimbiémont, on the N888:





When almost in Nadrin, I took a sideroad in the little village of Bérismenil. If you follow that sideroad for 1.5 kilometer, you arrive at a small spot that's being used as a launching pad for paragliding. I don't do paragliding, but I appreciated the view. That's the tiny village of Maboge down there.




Incidentally, Bérismenil is also the place where in May 1944 a B17 came down. There's a small memorial consisting of a prop of the bomber on a rock pedestal:




A commemmoration plaque has some info on the B-17, which it's crew had christened "The Joker". The plaque explains that most of the crew could bail out and were either able to flee occupied Europe with the help of the Resistance, or where taken captive, spending the rest of the war in some Stalag. At least one crew member though, James Young, the dorsal gunner, perished. IIRC it was his charred remains that were discovered in the wreckage. I suppose that by this time, all of the surviving crew have deceased too. RIP gentle heroes.




Our walk started near Ollomont cemetery:




The view on the road from Nadrin to Filly, looking towards the wooded Ourthe Valley:




Before the Ourthe becomes, well, the Ourthe, there's the Eastern Ourthe, actually called the Ourt, and the Western Ourthe. This is the confluence of the two:




But barely downstream, the river is kept in check by a dam, thus creating a long, narrow horseshoe shaped "lake", the Lac de Nisramont. The crest overlooking the Lac is so wooded that you can barely make out a sliver of water though. Pity, for once trees are ruining the view.




Okay, to the left you can make out the Barrage de Nisramont. I know, the Hoover Dam it ain't.




Pic of La Roche:




No way to escape the (spoils of ) the Ardennes Offensive in the Ardennes. Driving out of La Roche, you can't miss the M10 tank destroyer still holding guard over the town. La Roche was heavily contested between US and German troops in winter 44/45. Now, there's a something to be investigated here. To the best of my knowledge, the Brits did not fight in La Roche. Yet this particular M10 has some kind of commemmoration plaque fixed to its front claiming it belonged to the 51st Highland Division. In which case we should rather speak of a Wolverine, since that's how the Brits referred to their M10's. My best guess is that the town authorities needed an AFV to commemmorate the battle, somehow couldn't get their hands on an American one, and fetched a Wolverine from the 51st Highland Division. Some blokes then painted a white star on the vehicle. I guess I won't be that far off.




As for the M10/Wolverine, it was not a "tank", but a "tank destroyer" - specifically designed to chase and destroy enemy tanks. It was equipped with a 3 inch (76.2mm) gun and was a relatively potent weapon. What you can't see is that the turret is open-topped. This may sound foolish, what with enemy infantry being able to lob grenades in, but somehow this configuration did make some sense. The open top allowed for easy observation by the turret crew in all directions, plus facilitated communication with accompanying infantry. Also, in case the TD was hit, or if a grenade was lobbed in, at least the gunner, commander and loader were able to get out quickly. The driver however...


So. That's all for today. Nite.


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SATURDAY NIGHT SAM AND DAVE, AL STEWART.

Sam and Dave with Hold on I'm comin' (1966).




Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members Samuel David Moore and Dave Prater were a hugely influential soul and R&B duo from Florida, active between 1961 and 1981.



Al Stewart with On the Border. From the 1977 album Year of the Cat.




Scottish singer/songwriter from Glasgow.


Good night y'all.



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BILL WHITTLE ON SOCIALIST UTOPIA FLICK TOMORROWLAND.

Bill Whittle on Disney's Tomorrowland fiasco:




And here is the transcript:

"Hi everybody, welcome to Afterburner, I'm Bill Whittle. Well I've been looking forward to the movie Tomorrowland since I first saw the trailer many months ago. You know, I was a young boy at the 1964 World's Fair, and it rewired my brain. I came out dreaming of monorails and jet packs, and frankly, I never got over it. So, imagine my delight when I discovered that the movie opens with a young boy and his jet pack at the 1964 World's Fair. I enjoyed the first three minutes of this movie immensely. The remaining two hours and seven minutes were excruciating. It was oral surgery without anesthesia. Tomorrowland is a message movie, but before I talk about the message, let me briefly talk about the movie. This mess is simply one of the worst acted, worst written, worst directed, and worst designed debacle since, well, since Jupiter Ascending. Another nine digit, leftist catastrophe from earlier this year. Tomorrowland is simply appallingly made. Now, I'd love to tell you about the plot, but there is no discernable plot. Apparently, robots from another dimension are trying to help and kill young Casey Newton because she was given a pin that allowed her to see the alternate dimension, Tomorrowland. And she wants to ride on the interstellar band camp trip along with other genetic perfection teenagers. Basically I think, it comes down to this. We stupid, greedy, ordinary people are bad, because we don't have Tomorrowland pins, but especially because we didn't listen to the smart people who do have pins when they told us that the world was about to end through global nuclear war, and also, global warming, global flooding, global winding, and global fashion failure. Therefore, the smart people with the pins in Tomorrowland have been transmitting a fake signal which is nevertheless true. Sound familiar? About the coming catastrophes in order to get us stupid people without pins to do the sensible thing. Which is of course, to submit to the instructions issued by the smart people with the pins dressed in future clothes, designed by Brazilian transvestites with unresolved Nazi fetishes. But look, there's a point to be made here, and it's the point that super liberals like writer-director Brad Bird and George Clooney are trying to make. It's the point about their point really. First, they can read the future in this movie. How flattering for them. And there's apparently a countdown timer with a big number 55 or something like that, that's when the world is going to end. 100% certainty. In 55 days. Through a series of nuclear explosions that set off global flooding or something like that 55 days from now. So I guess we'd better start listening to the people with the enamel pins right now. They're scientists after all. And when scientists with enamel pins say something, you had better listen or else, you know, as the movie says, you kinda deserve to die. Now for example, when they say that the Arctic will be ice free in summer in 2009, or 2011, or 2014, only to discover that pack ice is not only not disappeared as predicted by the Tomorrowland computers, but it's actually rather increased. Wow.

Some of us without the pins think that there might be a problem with the theory. Turns out, we're just greedy and we want to die, so there's that lesson. But of all of the lessons learned from the subconscious projections on the part of uber-libs Brad Bird and George Clooney, it must be the contrast between the gleaming, magnificence of the actual city, and the dead-eyed, robotic inhabitants of it. Everyone living in Tomorrowland has that same, exotic, dead-eyed, utterly useless look of a runway model in Milan, or those heroin chic, self-haters in a fragrance ad for Vogue or GQ, You know, vain, vacant, unsmiling, lifeless diversity mannequins. The only real people that appear in this movie are right at the very first few minutes, the 1964 citizens of the America whose passing we conservatives lament. You know, friendly, happy, decent, confident people. None of them wearing badges, none of them robotic, none of them dressed like Venetian space palace guards, just normal, average Americans at the height of their powers. Now, somewhere in this mess, we're supposed to feel sorry for the broken windows and mildewed paint of that gleaming city fallen into ruin. Well, I actually did, you know, the actual city was the only character in the movie that I actually liked. So, what killed it? What killed the actual Tomorrowland of Walt Disney? And of the future of the 1964 World's Fair?

Progressives killed it, that's who. The gleaming promise of tomorrow is not built on wind power or recycling, or sullen, brain dead, fashion model citizens with shiny little enameled genius pins. The promise of the future was based on confidence. The confidence of a people who at that time were uniquely free of all politics. Tomorrowland was not a government vision, it was a product of a single man named Walter. With a vision, and the corporation that brought that vision to life. The World's Fair that inspired both me and Brad Bird was a collection of pavilions sponsored by General Motors, IBM, Bell, Westinghouse, and Ford, to name a few. The NASA logo, that features so prominantly on our team protagonist CAT, well, that NASA didn't build a single rocket or a capsule. Those were done by greedy, dollar loving corporations named North American Rockwell, and Grumman, IntelliDyne, and Hughes, Lockheed, and all the rest. Now you see, this is the inescapable irony of this artistic and financial disaster. Liberals like Brad Bird and George Clooney lament the loss of the optimistic future, while demonizing the free market, non-coercive, business dynamos that were going to, you know, actually make it possible. Now at the same time, they worship the big state, big brain elitist politicians who meet in places like Tomorrowland, or the Harvard Law School, and issue pins to those other big brains to enable them to tell the rest of us whatever lies are needed in order to get us to bend a knee.

Gleaming Tomorrowland fell into ruin for the same reason that gleaming Detroit, home of so many of the sponsors of that 1964 World's Fair, fell into ruin. It's the progressive ideology of entitlement, division, and especially the self-hatred that destroys confidence, punishes the successful, and rewards the incompetent.

And that's the final insult of Tomorrowland. It's uttered at the very end, not in a purile, monologue telegraph from Brad Birds keyboard to Hugh Laurie's lips, but rather, in a supposedly upbeat ending. In it, George Clooney issues instructions to his army of dead-eyed, Kafiad, over-moussed, neurotic-looking, heartless children robot recruiters. Telling them to take a new set of magic enamel pins, and discover an entirely new crop of pin-wearing, elitist fascists, to repair and renew the world destroyed by the last crop of pin-wearing, elitist fascists. And as these robot children walk off into the rainforests and the windmill farms of the bright future, your chance of getting into the new Tomorrowland are apparently about zero if you're one of the white males that actually built the real thing. But it's approaching 100% if you're a street style, mixed-race, artist of color, or an aged female Thai rice farmer who also does pottery. If you're one of those you're pretty much in automatically. Now this is the real travesty. The real travesty of the message in Brad Bird and George Clooney's world. Because in their world, you don't find Tomorrowland. Tomorrowland finds you. And if it does, if you're selected, you wake up in a field of presumably gluten-free, Non-GMO wheat, and stare at a beautiful soul-less prison with no suburbs and no slums, because the big brains with the enamel pins have determined, they've determined, not you, not anybody else, and certainly not your merit, who gets to live there, and who gets to die like a dog out in the world of greedy, great, unwashed people who don't appreciate the sacrifices that the smart people have made on their behalf. You know, if Walt Disney had seen this film as a young man, he would've torn up his proposal for Disneyland, and started drinking himself to death, and that's what Tomorrowland makes me want to do right now."

Amen to that, Bill, and thx for saving us from throwing 10 bucks away.


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BELGIUM: STREET IN LIEGE TO BE NAMED AFTER TURKISH WRITER HALIDE EDIP.

The relentless islamization of our country goes on day after day. If it had not been for rightwing site Clint.be, I would have missed it, but a street in Liège, a big city in Wallonia's east, is going to be named after a Turkish female writer.


This is how Turkish site Today's Zaman reports it:

The idea to name the street after Edip was proposed by Liege City Council member and Chairman of the Culture Commission Mehmet Aydoğdu, who said that once the street is finished, a small ceremony will be held in September.

“I am an artist myself, and Halide Edip Adıvar was a very important writer. At the same time, she was a female member of Parliament and became a symbol for having resigned due to women not having enough rights. She was a writer who lived both in the Ottoman Empire and in the Turkish Republic,” said Aydoğdu.

Edip was born in 1884, graduated from the American College for Girls in İstanbul and became one of the central figures in the Turkish nationalist and intellectual movement of the early republic.

This is a photo of Halide Edib:




Champion for women's rights in Turkey huh? I can see that.


To the best of my knowledge Belgium does not have a street yet named after Jane Brigode, a groundbreaking feminist (in the good sense of the word) activist, a person of tremendous moral and intellectual stature whose tireless efforts for education and voting rights for women a century ago have until now gone completely unnoticed among our "elites". A true patriot too, who, right after Germany invaded Belgium in August 1914, founded the Union Patriotique des Femmes Belges. Under her guidance the Union would become a key organization for the distribution of much needed aid in war-stricken occupied Belgium. Brigode was also a key figure for the Liberal Party during World War II, holding clandestine meetings in her house and serving de facto as Party Chairwoman. (keep in mind that back in those days liberals were classical liberals, not hardcore leftists). It was in essence thanks to Jane Brigode's tireless efforts that post WWII, in 1948, Belgian women finally obtained the right to vote.




So no, in the Year of Our Lord 2015 Belgium's got not Rue Jane Brigode or Jane Brigodestraat.

But we do have a Rue Halide Edib. How's that?


As for Mehmet Aydoğdu being a Liège City Council member... Outlaw would not be Outlaw if he did not have a hunch as to what party Mehmet Aydoğdu belonged.

So I did the following experiment: I googled "Mehmet Aydoğdu" and "Parti Socialiste". And this is what showed up:




A Parti Socialiste member!!! Who would have thunk it??

This is what happens when a despicable clique of self-hating leftists ushers in cohorts of 7th century barbarians.

Over time, and in the big localities first, muslim town selectmen, city council members, and ultimately mayors, will completely take over the management of our cities. It will lead to catastrophic situations of which the autochton population will be the first victim. A fine study in microcosm is offered by the Brussels commune of Molenbeek, which after decades of Parti Socialiste management, and soft ethnic cleansing resulting in a current muslim population of around 85 percent, is now facing bankruptcy:




Molenbeek can no longer function because it is virtually bankrupt. Main culprit is the socialist scoundrel and former mayor Philippe Moureaux. Even when it was clear that this northwestern part of Brussels was heading for financial disaster, this 76-year old scumbag, not so long ago rewarded for his efforts with a muslim bride half his age, in the truest Keynesianist fashion let the ranks of city personnel swell from 889 to 1,364 between 2005 and 2012. A main reason for the dramatic rise of costs of course, while over the past decade the population grew from 75,000 to 100,000: almost exclusively muslims who live on welfare.


Socialists can't build anything...


... except a Road to Hell.



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OUTRAGE: UK'S OFSTED REFUSES TOP GRADE TO WELL-PERFORMING PRIMARY SCHOOL IN LINCOLNSHIRE BECAUSE IT IS TOO WHITE AND BRITISH.

Excellent column by Ed West over at Express Online. Mr West rightly laments the fact that recently, OFSTED, which stands for Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted), and which is a non-ministerial department of the UK government, refused to give a top grade to a well-performing primary school in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire.

The reason?

The school was too British.

Ik kid you not:

"THIS week it emerged that high–performing Middle Rasen Primary School missed out on Ofsted's top grade because pupils lacked "first–hand experience of the diverse make–up of modern British society".

Gosh, the poor little things! According to the education watchdog the children did not get to see the "cultural diversity of modern British society" or have "first–hand interaction with counterparts from different backgrounds".

In other words the school was too white and too English, despite being in the multicultural melting pot that is rural Lincolnshire.

This is, bizarrely, part of Ofsted's new drive to impose "British values" in response to the "Trojan horse" scandal in Birmingham where it was discovered that hardline Islamists had attempted to take over a number of schools and indoctrinate pupils with their views.

Birmingham was at the very forefront of a particular government policy of the 1980s – multiculturalism, whereby the state dealt with people from various minorities through self–appointed community leaders.

Multiculturalism was a practical way of dealing with large numbers of people from ethnic minorities but it also stemmed from a psychological self–hatred among Britain's elite who did not wish to celebrate "our" culture above anyone else's, a sense of moral equivalence that took on grotesque proportions with their failure to deal with forced marriages and female genital mutilation.

(In a nursery near my home there is now an ad warning about FGM – what would a time traveller from 1955 make of that?)

ALSO there was a sense that religious and cultural diversity would "enrich" British life, to use one of those euphemisms now applied almost entirely ironically (along with "vibrant").

Ofsted's ruling on Middle Rasen Primary reflects this strange idea among white liberals that there is something offensive about Englishness.

Would they berate schoolchildren in rural Nigeria or Vietnam for their lack of diversity? What about Shanghai, top of the PISA education world rankings but – offensively – 98.8 per cent Han Chinese?

The immigration debate has never really been about economics, since the financial benefits or costs are small and transient, but about the cultural effects.

It's whether you believe that greater diversity makes people more spiritually enhanced, tolerant and kinder or whether you think it causes people to feel more isolated, unhappy and likely to segregate.

What grates is that those in a position of power are most likely to benefit and feel few of the downsides.

By every available educational measure multiracial London schools are ahead of the rest of the country and there is a fair bit of evidence that not only do the high scores of Chinese and Indian pupils raise the average mark but they may actually have an impact on pushing up the standards for white British pupils.

But these high–achieving schools tend to be concentrated in the wealthier areas.

In London young liberals who cannot afford those catchment areas where house prices insulate the schools from social problems tend to move out.

They don't send their children to the inner–city schools where none of the parents speak their language (for example Newham in east London where this month a 15–year–old boy was stabbed to death during a lunch–break mugging).

In fact recent research by a leading think tank found that people with liberal views on race were just as likely to move out of diverse areas as anyone else.

Multiculturalism has been a disaster, encouraging religious separatism, the surest symptom of this problem being the fact that there are believed to be more UK–born fighters for IS than there are Muslims in the British army.

But the "British values" that have replaced it are just as dubious, being in effect a way for the liberal–Left to impose their view of society on everyone else.

This is what Labour started to do under Tony Blair, creating a citizenship test that "defined Britishness" with questions about immigration, diversity and the EU.

Likewise Labour's citizenship classes, introduced in 2002, while one of the assumptions of the national curriculum is that all students should be prepared for "life in a multicultural society".

Equality chief Trevor Philips at one point even decreed that schoolchildren should learn "race relations and multiculturalism with every subject they study – from Spanish to science", a common practice of totalitarian states where the values of the ruling party are imbued in every aspect of education..."

Insane.



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RECOMMENDED READS: KURT SCHLICHTER'S "FOUR PIECES OF ADVICE FOR YOUNG CONSERVATIVE MEN."

Well, like Kurt said, here's some advice for young conservative men. Especially for those in Europe, have I got the attention of all three of yours? Yes? Okay then, via Townhall:

"So, though no fault of your own, you are a young conservative male coming of age in a time when the deck is so heavily stacked against you that it’s like Michael Moore was leaning on it. Sure, it’s entirely the fault of a liberal elite led by President Nine Iron and a culture that bought into its lies long before you were born, but suck it up. It isn’t an excuse for failure – you may have an uphill climb at a higher angle of incline than I did, but tough luck. I can’t make the environment for you any friendlier, but maybe I can share some insights that might help.

Now, this is targeted to straight conservative males from 18-25 not because of the inherent cisnormative racism your TA told you about but because that’s who I was. Those who identify as “women” are welcome to take what they can from it. Those who are gay, well, my gaydar is so bad anyway that my exceedingly hot wife is constantly telling me, “Wait, you didn’t know XXXXX was gay? How did you not know XXXXX was gay?”

For those of you who are quick on the uptake, the key takeaway from that last paragraph is that I have an “exceedingly hot wife.” For that reason, if no other, you should listen to me. We’ll discuss relationships down the line. But first:

1.) Join the Army

Or the Marines, or the Navy, or Coast Guard, or even the Air Force, if you swing that way. I’m not judging. The point is, you should do a tour if you are one of the 30% of Americans who can qualify for military service. It will change your life, and enroll you in a true fraternity, one of men (and women) of extraordinary character and commitment that puts into perspective the cute, childlike Delta Cappa Whatevers and their bizarre paddling rituals.





This is what a Real Man may look like. Okay, it don't look like he just watched a Palace Flophouse production. He prolly just learned that Obama's new Secdef is pushing for nudists to serve openly, or some such.



When you earn a place in the ranks of those who defend our country, it may well be the first thing you ever really earned. There’s no helicopter mommy to complain to the drill sergeant that he needs to be more understanding of your delicate nature. There are no excuses of any kind. You will have earned something that is totally yours and can never be taken away – and you will live a life adventure that your contemporaries who are now second assistant to the guy who runs the Xerox machine can only dream of. Plus, chicks dig it. Trust me.


2.) Think Carefully Before You Go To College

If you aren’t already through college, why are you wanting to go? Understand that college is, to a significant extent, a scam. Hey, maybe you will get lucky and go to a place like Hillsdale where the word “education” isn’t a synonym for “drunken four-year vacation surrounded by petty fascists,” but the odds are against you. College was a huge help to me back in the 80’s, when a bachelors at UC San Diego didn’t mean I’d still be paying off debt out of my Social Security checks. I got to write humor, edit a conservative paper, and work on Capitol Hill, plus I have a lifetime of stories about my beer-fuelled adventures. Notice how none of that has to do with actual classes?

Consider living your life instead. If you really want to go to college, it can wait until you’ve lived a little. Finish a hitch in the service. Get a job. You’ll then be able to make the most of your investment. I did law school after my first tour, and paid much of it with the GI Bill. I was prepared for class every single day, while everyone else showed up nursing hangovers. Sure, I was hungover too, but I was prepared, damnit, because I was three months out of a war zone and officers didn’t show up unprepared.

Unfortunately, you do need a bachelors to do certain things, like go to law school. And on that note, don’t go to law school. Just trust me. Unless you want to spend your life making guys like me richer, take the money you’d borrow for it and not borrow it. Don’t go a quarter million dollars in debt so some name partner’s wife can get a pink Tesla to match her shoes. But if you do, let me know. I will appreciate your sacrifice, and so will my exceedingly hot wife.



3.) Pick a Career You Don’t Hate

You will be faced with the dilemma of choosing short-term money over long-term satisfaction. Don’t choose the money. I know liberals think we are all about money, but liberals know nothing or they would not be liberals.

Now, this notion is not some Millennial happy talk; it’s based on cold, hard reality. Life is too short to throw away doing something you hate, unless you incurred obligations and have no choice, in which case be a man and suck it up.

But, as a practical matter, if you hate it, you’ll do it poorly. And if you do it poorly you won’t rise. But if you love what you do – not always, and not every minute, but in general – you’ll focus on it and get better at it and, in the long run, you will succeed.

Hard work actually works. Sure, this economy sucks, and you can’t ride the crest of the Reagan wave of prosperity like I did, but then technology gives you opportunities and options I didn’t have starting out. Want to make a movie? Hell, you can get equipment for five grand that in the 1990s would have cost you a quarter million. Liberals want you to think there are limits, that you are trapped, that you can’t succeed. They lie.



4.) If You Want A Real Woman, Be A Real Man

Remember my exceedingly hot wife? You should, because your romantic relationship should be the cornerstone of your life and you want to get it right. Now, in a world of creepy feminists and whiny femboys, you need to understand that biology still trumps stupid social fads. Women want men. Not girly men. Not boys. Not manchildren. Men.

This is true of liberal women too, whether they admit it or not, but you don’t want one of them – well, at least for more than a few hours. Which reminds me – have an alias and use it.

The point is to avoid liberal women. If you see a chick hauling around a mattress, keep moving no matter how open to experimentation you hear she is. Do not become the lead in some daddy issue-plagued hysteric’s personal psychodrama.

You want a conservative woman. Ignore the liberal deniers – science proves that right wing women are hotter and sexier. Hey, conservatives don’t tend to have large families because they’re prudes. With liberal girls, a romantic interlude means a lot of sobbing about patriarchy, plus the vibe gets spoiled when you have to constantly stop to notarize affirmative consent forms.

There’s a lot of pressure on you young men to be passive and, frankly, wussy. Reject it. Call the girl. Don’t freaking text – texting is for the weak. Call her, like a man, and tell her what you want: “Hey, I want to take you out to [Quality Place] Friday. I want to pick you up at 7. You in?”

None of this lame, ambiguous texting crap: “Want 2 hangout w/ sum friends maybe sumwhere sumtime? LOL ;)”

Hang out, shmangout. Be a man and ask her on a damn date. She’ll be shocked, and pleased. Then open the door for her because you are a man and she’s a woman and men open doors for women whether the hairy-pitted, never-got-asked-to-the-prom crew from the local Womens’ Resource Center likes it or not.

Oh, and pay the check. Why? Because you are the man and I don’t care if she makes more than you. You asked her out, you’re the host. Pay the check.

And of course you should go out with a woman who asks you out. She’s got it together and knows what she wants. And if she asks you out and wants to pay, fine. But you still better open the door for her or I’ll smack you.

A date is an audition – you are auditioning her for the role of the woman you will spend the rest of your life with. If she’s cool, tell her, and tell her you’ll be calling her the next day. Then call her.

“Oh, Kurt, but she’ll think I like her and then maybe reject me!” Sheesh, that’s pathetic. Stop caring about rejection and start caring about not being a wuss who cares about rejection. Oh no, a chick didn’t like you! Trust me, you’ll find the strength to move on. And if you don’t, it’s only right and proper that your pathetic genetic line ends when you die alone in your mom’s basement.

Now, does my conservative advice work? Let’s review the key point here: “Exceedingly hot wife.” Any questions?

Got that y'all?

Okay, as a reward a pic of a Real Woman. A relatively exceedingly hot one no less!




Muslims are kindly requested to refrain from masturbating, lest their hands become pregnant.



MFBB.

TURKEY'S ENCROACHING INFLUENCE IN BELGIAN POLITICS: THE MAHUNIR OZDEMIR CASE.

The CDH party comprise the former Walloon Christian Democrats. I say "former", because one of the leading ladies of that party, Joëlle Milquet, orchestrated the move to make the "C" stand for "centrist" instead of "Christian" - about a decade ago.

Anyway - they still pretend to take pride in their humanist stance. Which is why the party leadership prior to the May 2014 elections demanded that all CDH members holding a political mandate sign a deontological code thereby promising to "recognize all genocides of which the existence is confirmed by national, European and international institutions."

And just recently, CDH party chairman Benoît Lutgen declared on radio broadcaster La Première "that if there are negationists in his party, they will be thrown out in a second".

Therefore, last week Walloon commercial TV station RTL-TVI wanted to know whether CDH parliamentarians of Turkish extraction agree with the chairman's sentiment where it concerns the Armenian Genocide.

Enter Mahinur Ozdemir, who is both a member of the Brussels Parliament for CDH as well as a member of the City Council of Schaarbeek, one of the 19 communes forming Greater Brussels.

The following is a screenshot from the site of the weekly magazine Knack (to be sure, a hotbed of leftists, especially since the ouster of the last two somewhat center-right columnists, Rik Van Cauwelaert and Koen Meulenaere):



Translation: "Armenian Genocide: Mahinur Özdemir (CDH) walks away from cameras (video). 29/05/15 at 10:56 Better not ask questions about the Armenian Genocide to Mahinur Özdemir. The CDH parliamentarian for Brussels twice evades RTL-TVI's cameras. And this while she signed, just like all her party members, a deontogical code prompting the undersigned to recognize genocides".

Here's the relevant RTL-TVI video. Sorry it's in Fwench, but you'll get the gist if you can hold out beyond the two blokes:



Génocide arménien: Mahinur Ozdemir fuit devant nos caméras

And here is a telling sequence of screenshots I took from the video - this because that video will be gone in a couple of months, whereas the screenshots won't.



Mahinur Özdemir sitting in the Brussels Parliament, right after she has been alerted by "communications specialists" that there's an RTL-TVI camera crew present wanting to interview her on the Armenian Genocide. As a matter of fact, she's looking straight in the lens and you can see she doesn't like that one bit.




She's getting up and quickly leaves the Brussels Parliament. The caption reads: "Armenian Genocide: Mahinur Özdemir flees before our cameras".




The video then shows a statement by the same "communications specialists" explaing that "Mahinur Özdemir is under medical control. Her doctor has recommended the greatest possible rest".




But 'lo and behold, Mrs. Özdemir miraculously recovered because that very afternoon, she showed up for a meeting of Schaarbeek's city council. Owww - there's that nasty RTL-TVI camera crew again!!!



Madam Özdemir all of a sudden gets very, very sick again....



... and disappears down the stairs. Sorry dude, no luck again!


So much for Mahinur Özdemir's recogniton of the Armenian Genocide and her pledge, signed in May of last year. YES, we're headed for a bright democratic future with all those well-integrated Turks in our institutions.

It must be said that true to his word, Benoit Lutgen, CDH party chairman, right away fired Özdemir. This was on Friday 29 May.

But that's not the end of the story however...



... Because last Saturday an outfit called the "Union of Democratic European Turks" held a demo in front of the CDH offices in Brussels in support of the recalcitrant former CDH member...



...Leaving behind a mourning crown with the following message: "CDH has killed freedom of expression and Mahinur Özdemir's fundamental rights..."

Which really is rich, given the fact that under Erdogan's authoritarian regime, which throws people in jail for daring to mock Ataturk or the Great Sultan Erdogan, Turkey became the country with the biggest number of jailed reporters. Indeed, as of December 1, 2013, it was world leader in jailing journalists for the second time in a row, with 40 in prison, accounting for around 20 per cent of the global total.

And it gets better, because that same Saturday afternoon, the "AKP Brussels" issued a statement in which it said "that it fully supported Mahinur Özdemir".


I was actually shocked that this statement came not from some group of AKP Parliamentarians sitting in the European Parliament in Brussels, but from the "AKP Brussels".

Does that mean that Erdogan's AKP already has a foothold in our capital itself???

It might be, given the fact that the Turkish autocrat only a couple of weeks ago came to Hasselt, in Belgium's easter province of Limburg, to exhort his followers to "get out the vote in the upcoming Turkish elections".


This, and numerous other incidents, should constitute a dire warning for the CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER that Turkey would pose if a cabal of lunatic EU bureaucrats, among them former PM Guy Verhofstadt, manage to make that country a full-blown EU member.


We can only hope that the Turkish traitors among us keep exposing their true nature, so that possibly, maybe, a sufficient number of Europeans are able to in time block hauling that Trojan horse inside Europe's walls.



MFBB.

SATURDAY NIGHT STEELY DAN, THE WALKABOUTS.

Steely Dan with Kid Charlemagne. From the 1976 album The Royal Scam.




Legendary jazz rockband around Walter Becker and Donald Fagen.



The Walkabouts with All for This. From the 1996 album Devil's Road.




US rockband around singer Carla Torgerson and singer/songwriter Chris Eckman. Formed in Seattle in 1984. I love that city. Been there once. Clean, beautiful, not too big, glorious setting with Mr Rainier at the horizon.


MFBB.

BELGIAN PM CHARLES MICHEL DEEMS ELECTION "MR GAY FLANDERS" IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO ATTEND.

Promoting the wonderful lifestyle of homosexuals reached a (temporary) all-time high in Belgium yesterday, when our PM Charles Michel insisted on being present at the election of Mr Gay Flanders.

The winner is Skelte Willems, a 21-year old hairdresser from Aarschot.






A horror story in Belgian daily HLN Online:

"Skelte Willems, a 21-year old hairdresser from Aarschot, got elected Mr Gay Flanders 2015 in Antwerp's Elckerlyc theater. Willems had to compete with eleven other finalists. First honourman was restaurant supplier Jens Van Maele (24) from Bruges, followed by social-cultural worker Bart Bruyninckx (24) from Deurne (Antwerpen).

Winner Skelte works as a hairdresser in Bonheiden and outed himself as gay five years ago. During the election show he told openly about his desire for children and he pleaded for making gay parentage debatable.

A surprise in this third edition was made by Belgian PM Charles Michel (MR), who, together with Bart Peeters, Jani Kazaltzis, Maaike Cafmeyer, Kobe Ilsen, Lesley-Ann Poppe, Roos Van Acker, Belle Perez and Joyce De Troch, sat in the jury.

"Apart from dance, choreography and catwalk there were also personal and multiple choice questions. Skelte excelled especially in presentation and expression. Also working in his favour was his message about gay adoption and his wish for children with his partner, a story that moved us very much", said organizer Bram Bierkens."

OOOOO-kay.

It's Saturday night and I wanna see a DVD with my daughter and I actually DON'T want to spend my precious time on this topic, but I feel I must offer at least a token resistance to this madness. So here goes.

I DON'T KNOW what's happening these days with the downright promotion of homosexual behaviour in our media and among our "cultural" and political "elites".

The last days I've picked up whiffs of there being rodeos for gay people, about the Irish voting en masse for gay marriage, about National Review, of all Reviews, promoting gay marriage, about the Girl Scouts of the US accepting boys who feel like girls, about the PM of Luxembourg marrying his friend, and now this. Our own PM, AFAIK straight though not married to be sure, and a Walloon no less, attending the elecion of Mr Gay Flanders.

Listen - and if there are gay people out there listen well. I don't hate or despise homosexuals or lesbians. In fact, I consider myself "liberal" in the sense that I'm okay with civil relationships that offer "lasting" gay couples a modicum of certaintly in legal matters when one of them dies. I think there's been tremendous unjust discrimination against gay people. And more than once I've been cringing myself when hearing nasty slurs and unsavoury jokes about them. I also think there's certainly a noble fight to be fought to stop harassment of gays and to make homosexuals and lesbians feel accepted in our society.

One of my best friends is gay and he's a marvellous character.

But the buck stops for me when gay marriage and gay adoption is mentioned.

And I AM FED UP with anything that passes for a blitzy gay lifestyle being shoved in my face every other day.

Here we are, and from tens of photos we see the smiling faces of the fine fleur of Belgium' entertainment sector AND OF OUR PRIME MINISTER, as if living the gay way of life is something wonderful and desirable.

Well arseholes, you may be able to fool confused kids - actually a normal thing for many a teen - with your rubbish, but there are A COUPLE OF INCONVENIENT TRUTHS.

From the site Facts about Youth:

"MALE HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR

Men having sex with other men leads to greater health risks than men having sex with women1 not only because of promiscuity but also because of the nature of sex among men. A British researcher summarizes the danger as follows:

“Male homosexual behaviour is not simply either ‘active’ or ‘passive,’ since penile-anal, mouth-penile, and hand-anal sexual contact is usual for both partners, and mouth-anal contact is not infrequent. . . . Mouth-anal contact is the reason for the relatively high incidence of diseases caused by bowel pathogens in male homosexuals. Trauma may encourage the entry of micro-organisms and thus lead to primary syphilitic lesions occurring in the anogenital area. . . In addition to sodomy, trauma may be caused by foreign bodies, including stimulators of various kinds, penile adornments, and prostheses.”2

Although the specific activities addressed below may be practiced by heterosexuals at times, homosexual men engage in these activities to a far greater extent.3

a. Anal-genital

Anal intercourse is the sine qua non of sex for many gay men.4 Yet human physiology makes it clear that the body was not designed to accommodate this activity. The rectum is significantly different from the vagina with regard to suitability for penetration by a penis. The vagina has natural lubricants and is supported by a network of muscles. It is composed of a mucus membrane with a multi-layer stratified squamous epithelium that allows it to endure friction without damage and to resist the immunological actions caused by semen and sperm. In comparison, the anus is a delicate mechanism of small muscles that comprise an “exit-only” passage. With repeated trauma, friction and stretching, the sphincter loses its tone and its ability to maintain a tight seal. Consequently, anal intercourse leads to leakage of fecal material that can easily become chronic.

The potential for injury is exacerbated by the fact that the intestine has only a single layer of cells separating it from highly vascular tissue, that is, blood. Therefore, any organisms that are introduced into the rectum have a much easier time establishing a foothold for infection than they would in a vagina. The single layer tissue cannot withstand the friction associated with penile penetration, resulting in traumas that expose both participants to blood, organisms in feces, and a mixing of bodily fluids.

Furthermore, ejaculate has components that are immunosuppressive. In the course of ordinary reproductive physiology, this allows the sperm to evade the immune defenses of the female. Rectal insemination of rabbits has shown that sperm impaired the immune defenses of the recipient.5 Semen may have a similar impact on humans.6

The end result is that the fragility of the anus and rectum, along with the immunosuppressive effect of ejaculate, make anal-genital intercourse a most efficient manner of transmitting HIV and other infections. The list of diseases found with extraordinary frequency among male homosexual practitioners as a result of anal intercourse is alarming:

Anal Cancer
Chlamydia trachomatis
Cryptosporidium
Giardia lamblia
Herpes simplex virus
Human immunodeficiency virus
Human papilloma virus
Isospora belli
Microsporidia
Gonorrhea
Viral hepatitis types B & C
Syphilis7

Sexual transmission of some of these diseases is so rare in the exclusively heterosexual population as to be virtually unknown. Others, while found among heterosexual and homosexual practitioners, are clearly predominated by those involved in homosexual activity. Syphilis, for example is found among heterosexual and homosexual practitioners. But in 1999, King County, Washington (Seattle), reported that 85 percent of syphilis cases were among self-identified homosexual practitioners.8 And as noted above, syphilis among homosexual men is now at epidemic levels in San Francisco.9

A 2010 CDC data analysis underscores the disproportionate impact of HIV and syphilis among gay and bisexual men in the United States. The data, presented at CDC’s 2010 National STD Prevention Conference, found that the rate of new HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men (MSM) is more than 44 times that of other men and more than 40 times that of women. The rate of primary and secondary syphilis among MSM is more than 46 times that of other men and more than 71 times that of women.10

A 1988 CDC survey identified 21 percent of all Hepatitis B cases as being homosexually transmitted while 18 percent were heterosexually transmitted.11 Since homosexuals comprise such a small percent of the population (only 1-3 percent),12 they have a significantly higher rate of infection than heterosexuals.13

Anal intercourse also puts men at significant risk for anal cancer. Anal cancer is the result of infection with some subtypes of human papilloma virus (HPV), which are known viral carcinogens. Data as of 1989 showed the rates of anal cancer in male homosexual practitioners to be 10 times that of heterosexual males, and growing.13 Thus, the prevalence of anal cancer among gay men is of great concern. For those with AIDS, the rates are doubled.14

Other physical problems associated with anal intercourse are:

hemorrhoids
anal fissures
anorectal trauma
retained foreign bodies.15

b. Oral-anal

There is an extremely high rate of parasitic and other intestinal infections documented among male homosexual practitioners because of oral-anal contact. In fact, there are so many infections that a syndrome called “the Gay Bowel” is described in the medical literature.16 “Gay bowel syndrome constitutes a group of conditions that occur among persons who practice unprotected anal intercourse, anilingus, or fellatio following anal intercourse.”17 Although some women have been diagnosed with some of the gastrointestinal infections associated with “gay bowel,” the vast preponderance of patients with these conditions are men who have sex with men.18

“Rimming” is the street name given to oralanal contact. It is because of this practice that intestinal parasites ordinarily found in the tropics are encountered in the bodies of American gay men. Combined with anal intercourse and other homosexual practices, “rimming” provides a rich opportunity for a variety of infections.

Men who have sex with men account for the lion’s share of the increasing number of cases in America of sexually transmitted infections that are not generally spread through sexual contact. These diseases, with consequences that range from severe and even life-threatening to mere annoyances, include Hepatitis A,19 Giardia lamblia, Entamoeba histolytica,20 Epstein-Barr virus,21 Neisseria meningitides,22 Shigellosis, Salmonellosis, Pediculosis, scabies and Campylobacter.23 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) identified a 1991 outbreak of Hepatitis A in New York City, in which 78 percent of male respondents identified themselves as homosexual or bisexual.24While Hepatitis A can be transmitted by routes other than sexual, a preponderance of Hepatitis A is found in gay men in multiple states.25 Salmonella is rarely associated with sexual activity except among gay men who have oral-anal and oral-genital contact following anal intercourse.26 The most unsettling new discovery is the reported sexual transmission of typhoid. This water-borne disease, well known in the tropics, only infects 400 people each year in the United States, usually as a result of ingestion of contaminated food or water while abroad. But sexual transmission was diagnosed in Ohio in a series of male sex partners of one male who had traveled to Puerto Rico.27

In America, Human Herpes Virus 8 (called Herpes Type 8 or HHV-8) is a disease found exclusively among male homosexual practitioners. Researchers have long noted that men who contracted AIDS through homosexual behavior frequently developed a previously rare form of cancer called Kaposi’s sarcoma. Men who contract HIV/AIDS through heterosexual sex or intravenous drug use rarely display this cancer. Recent studies confirm that Kaposi’s sarcoma results from infection with HHV-8. The New England Journal of Medicine described one cohort in San Francisco where 38 percent of the men who admitted any homosexual contact within the previous five years tested positive for this virus while none of the exclusively heterosexual men tested positive. The study predicted that half of the men with both HIV and HHV-8 would develop the cancer within 10 years.28 The medical literature is currently unclear as to the precise types of sexual behavior that transmit HHV-8, but there is a suspicion that it may be transmitted via saliva.29

c. Human Waste

Some gay men sexualize human waste, including the medically dangerous practice of coprophilia, which means sexual contact with highly infectious fecal wastes. This practice exposes the participants to all of the risks of anal-oral contact and many of the risks of analgenital contact.

d. Fisting

“Fisting” refers to the insertion of a hand or forearm into the rectum, and is far more damaging than anal intercourse. Tears can occur, along with incompetence of the anal sphincter. The result can include infections, inflammation and, consequently, enhanced susceptibility to future STDs. Twenty-two percent of homosexuals in one survey admitted to having participated in this practice."

GOOD ENOUGH FOR YA MR CHARLES MICHEL????? YOU STILL WANNA DO YOUR PART TO SEND SOME MORE TEENS DOWN THIS PATH?????


Or shall I elaborate on some tasty stories from nurses who had to patch up devastated rectums, rammed to a bloody pulp by dicks and arms up to the elbows???? You wanna hear that asshole? I pity these nurses. I pity them. They find themselves in deep shit.

Sometimes literally.




I get the distinct feeling that everybody is going stark bonkers. Why am I so godforsaken lonely here in this nuthouse called Europe?


MFBB.

RECOMMENDED READS: MARK STEYN ON THE LATEST THE NEW YORKER COVER.

As per usual, a priceless Mark Steyn column. In Europe, the MSM are doing their damnedest best to deny that he even exists, lest the Great Unwashed on our side of the pond discover Steyn and find out to their horror they've wasted half their lives reading and listening to smug, smelly, self-congratulating drivel.

"The New Yorker cover at right has attracted a lot of comment. It shows Hillary Rodham Clinton outside the locker room trying to get in. But the locker room is full of white Republican males - Walker, Paul, Bush, Cruz, Rubio... Okay, the last couple are Hispanic, but let's not get hung up on details. And Bush identifies as Hispanic on voter registration forms, but let's not get hung up on the paperwork...

But, in fact, the GOP has already let a female into the locker room - Carly Fiorina - plus a black guy - Ben Carson - and an Indian - Bobby Jindal. So nothing celebrates diversity like the locker room for the Republican primary debate: whites, blacks, browns, Hispanics, men, women, old, young... Over in the Dem locker room, there's hardly anybody in there, and the few that are are all white, and old: Hillary, Bernie, Elizabeth Warren.

By the way, is there a whiter cultural artifact than The New Yorker? Mark Ulriksen is the cartoonist, and a useful reminder of why I'll take the Charlie Hebdo crowd any day. He should do a picture of Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina and Bobby Jindal banging to get in the door of his outmoded Republican stereotype.

Also by the way, I hate having to talk like this - to buy into the left's hideous civilization-sapping trope that identity politics is the only thing that matters: We've got two Hispanics; where's yours? Where's your Indian? Where's your transgender candidate? It's pathetic, but what can you do with an artist who thinks "provocation" means "pandering to the delusion of upscale white liberal solipsists"?



Making no sense at all. But what would you expect from a leftist rag like The New Yorker and a fourteenth grade cartoonist like Ulriiksen?


And isn't the big problem with the picture is that it's the wrong way round? I mean, Hillary's in the room, isn't she? Hermetically sealed off from voters and reporters and competing candidates. And it's not any old locker room, but the A-list power-players' locker room: There's Hillary, and Bill, and Chelsea, and tireless Clinton Foundation charity worker Sid Blumenthal; and Hillary's brothers Tony and Hugh, who got into a spot of bother over a hazelnut scam in the Caucasus (not a phrase one often has cause to type) but it's all been smoothed over and, during their brother-in-law's tenure as Haitian earthquake-relief honcho, they wound up on the advisory board of some Haitian gold-mining venture; and that FIFA guy Septic Bladder whose corrupt and criminal organization is a Clinton donor; and the corrupt and murderous Government of Qatar, who are also Clinton donors; and high-flying paedo Jeffrey Epstein, who likes to offer Bill a ride on the Lolita Express, where the stewardesses take off more than the plane; and a couple of Kazakh warlords, and Russian oligarchs fronting for Putin, and Saudi princes, but only the real heavyweights, none of your distant cousins...

What are the chances of poor old Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders busting into that room and having a real primary?

Yeah, right. Is that Hillary I hear through the door doing her amusing southern accent for the benefit of the Kazakhs while Tony passes the bowl of hazelnuts?

~Maybe the best explanation of Mark Ulriiksen's all-male locker room is that it's meant to be the local bathhouse. Several folks have asked me to comment on the decline of National Review as represented by their 5,500-word cover story in support of gay marriage, which, with their usual impeccable timing, they published the day before the launch of their spring fundraiser asking loyal readers to pony up to keep this bastion of principled conservatism standing athwart history.

I generally don't comment on publications to which I used to contribute, because it's best just to move on. But I confess I did get a mordant chuckle out of Kathy Shaidle's take. As she likes to say, we're gonna need more KY for that slippery slope.

~I'm not usually envious of other people's book titles, but I did feel a stab of regret when I saw that Ann Coulter's new release is called, brilliantly, Adios, America! That would have made a great trilogy-completer for America Alone and After America. I also liked her subtitle "The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third-World Hellhole", until I reflected for three seconds or so and remembered it's "The Left's and Seven-Eighths of the Right's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third-World Hellhole". See these immigration policy scorecards. That all-white GOP locker-room evidently needs a lot of towel boys. It's not just Jeb with his wacky plans to save Detroit by making it part of the ummah.

Unlike the wimps at ABC, CBS and NBC, Jorge Ramos of Fusion TV is actually willing to have Miss Coulter on his show, and she was on splendid form, starting with her advice to Americans: "If you don't want to get killed by ISIS, don't go to Syria. If you don't want to get killed by Mexicans, I can't help you." She continued:

I think there are cultures that are obviously deficient and if they weren't deficient you wouldn't be sitting in America interviewing me. I'd be sitting in Mexico. You fled that culture because... there are a lot of problems with that culture. Hopefully, it can be changed. But we can share our culture with other nations without bringing all of their people here. When you bring those people here you bring those cultures here. That includes honor killings, it includes uncles raping their nieces, it includes not paying your taxes, it includes paying bribes to government officials. That isn't our culture. You can see the successful cultures in the world that have been studied ad infinitum. America is about, it is the best in the world and we are about to lose it. And, everyone who lives here is going to lose that.

She's right. You're gonna lose it. Culture trumps economics - every time. So, absent assimilationist incentives everyone's too squeamish to apply, a country that grows more Latin-American demographically will trend more Latin-American culturally, too. America's not alone, of course. The entire western world has chosen to commit immigration-assisted suicide as some kind of civilizational penance for imperialism, or racism, or just being so culturally insensitive as to build the parts of the planet that function. In Europe and Canada, they're ceding their turf to Islam. In the United States, they've chosen Latin America. So fewer clitoridectomies.

Without cultural continuity, a country is just real estate. Just across the Iraq border, where I stood 12 years ago, is the town of Mari. It's in Eastern Syria now, but it was once the furthest outpost of the Kingdom of Hammurabi, the guy who cooked up the first legal code. It's currently being destroyed by jihadist loons. What value do Hammurabi and his pre-Islamic laws have to ISIS? The past has no meaning, because it's someone else's past.

In a mid-21st century America that's imported millions more low-skilled Latin-American peasants on the transformative scale Democrats and most Republicans accept, why should the Founding Fathers be any more relevant than Hammurabi is to the Islamic State?"

How true. Outlaw Mike no longer buys into the notion that Hispanics are by nature conservative. I may have been sympathetic to that nonsense ten years ago, but no longer. Here are the US's Founding Fathers:




Anyone still believing these chaps cause a stir in Pablo, Manuel or Margarita, I have a bridge across the Rio Grande to sell you.



MFBB.

ROBERT GATES LOSES OUTLAW MIKE.

In April I had a small post dealing with a Belgian "Christian" youth organization hiring staffers who identify as male, female, or "X".

'Lo and behold, the Girl Scouts of America must be reading DowneastBlog! Via American Thinker, a sobering article by Trevor Thomas:

"...The Girl Scouts of America recently announced a policy shift and will start allowing gender-confused boys into their ranks. The FAQ section of the Girl Scouts’ website reads, “Girl Scouts is proud to be the premiere leadership organization for girls in the country. Placement of [gender-confused] youth is handled on a case-by-case basis, with the welfare and best interests of the child and the members of the troop/group in question a top priority. That said, if the child is recognized by the family and school/community as a girl and lives culturally as a girl, then Girl Scouts is an organization that can serve [him] in a setting that is both emotionally and physically safe.”

Interestingly, after their surrender to the liberal sexual agenda nearly two years ago that allowed for homosexual members, I thought that the Boy Scouts next would capitulate when it comes to the gender-confused. Not wanting to let the boys outdo them, and showing themselves to be fine feminazi role models for today’s young females, the adults who lead the Girl Scouts beat the Boy Scouts to the punch!

Rather than delve into gender perverseness, it seems the Boy Scouts are still hung up on homosexuality. So much so that Boy Scouts of America (BSA) president Robert Gates recently announced that the BSA’s longstanding ban on homosexual scout leaders is now in question. Noting the “open defiance” that exists with some Boy Scout councils across the U.S. when it comes to “current membership policy,” Gates said that such issues could no longer be “ignored.”

He also noted the “social, political, and ‘juridicial’ changes taking place in our country.” Gates reminded listeners of the debates raging in the U.S. over “discrimination” based on “sexual orientation,” and rightly expressed fear that U.S. courts would force a change (full-on acceptance of all things homosexual) on the Boy Scouts.

So what’s Gates’ solution? Sounding much like the modern champion of “tolerance” that he is, Gates began, “We must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it would be.” He then offered a policy “that accepts and respects our different perspectives and beliefs, allows religious organizations -- based on First Amendment protections of religious freedom -- to establish their own standards for adult leaders, and preserves the Boy Scouts of America now and forever.”

Ahh, the sweet smell of compromise. Given Gates’ previous desire to allow homosexual scout leaders, preceded by his efforts to end “don’t ask, don’t tell” in the U.S. military, his recent comments come as little surprise. It’s almost as if Gates was placed in his position as president of Boy Scouts of America in order to lead the Scouts down the same path that he took our military...."

So Gates was a proponent of ending DADT in the US military. Hmmmm. I really should appreciate my gut feelings more, because I somehow never trusted him as much as I did Rummy.






And then come some verrrry important statistics:

"...Since the Scout motto says, “On my honor, I will do my best… to keep myself physically strong,” it would also be nice if Boy Scout leadership told the truth on the tremendous health dangers associated with sexual immorality. This is especially the case for those involved in a homosexual lifestyle.

There are abundant data that reveal the dangers of a homosexual lifestyle. Even government health organizations who’ve fully bought into the homosexual agenda can’t deny the sad and sobering statistics when it comes to homosexuality. As the CDC notes, when compared to the general population, LGBT individuals are more likely to:

Use alcohol and drugs
Have higher rates of substance abuse
Continue heavy drinking later in life
Men who have sex with men account for 75% of primary and secondary syphilis cases in the U.S. and are 17 times more likely to develop anal cancer than are heterosexual men. Though homosexuals make up only about 2% of the population, homosexual men account for about two-thirds of all new HIV infections.

The Canadian healthcare system notes that the life expectancy of homosexual men is 20 years less than the average. In addition, gays, lesbians, and bisexuals in Canada:

Commit suicide at rates from 2 to 13.9 times more often than average
Have smoking rates 1.3 to 3 times higher than average
Have rates of alcoholism 1.4 to 7 times higher than average
Have rates of illicit drug use 1.6 to 19 times higher than average
Show rates of depression 1.8 to 3 times higher than average
Gay and bisexual men comprise 76.1% of AIDS cases
Gay and bisexual men comprise 54% of new HIV infections each year
If they are committed to the truth, Scouting organizations should also reveal to young boys and girls that, though they may experience same-sex attractions, they are not doomed to the devastation that comes from living a homosexual lifestyle. In other words, it is possible to come out of the homosexual lifestyle. In spite of the recent best efforts of liberals to suppress the truth -- going so far as to make it illegal -- conversion therapy works.

Any organization committed to helping young boys maintain a “physically strong,” and “mentally awake” lifestyle, or committed to helping young girls “respect” themselves and to be “Courageous and Strong,” should certainly make our youth aware of the dangers of a homosexual lifestyle.

Gates is right about one thing: these issues can’t be ignored. However, instead of fighting for what’s right, the former secretary of defense has surrendered on one of the most important moral battles of our time. How tragic that two of the oldest and most premiere youth organizations in the U.S. have taken the wide road that leads to destruction when it comes to these important truths."

Amen to that man.

Now people, if you've got your daughters in the Girl Scouts of America, GET THEM OUT ASAP!!! Same goes for your sons if they are in the Boy Scouts of course. EXCEPT if they show, dixit Mr Gates, “open defiance that exists with some Boy Scout councils across the U.S. when it comes to current membership policy.”


This was MFBB, writing from his bunker in the middle of LoonyLand.


MFBB.

MEMORIAL DAY 2015.

On March 6 1945, the US 3rd Armoured Division entered the ruins of Cologne. The German Army having been bled white in the costly battles in the Rhineland, not much resistance was encountered. However, when an M4 Sherman tank of F Coy., 32nd Armoured Regiment, tried to negotiate a pile of rubble in the Komoedienstrasse, near Cologne Cathedral, it was hit by a 75mm round from a Panther tank belonging to Pz. Abt. 2106 of Panzer Brigade 106 "Feldherrnhalle". Of the crew of 5, three men were killed. An M26 Pershing of E Coy. of the same regiment, advancing slowly in a parallel street, was alerted to the Panther's presence, sneaked up behind it, and destroyed it with a couple of rounds from its 90mm gun.

Coincidentally, some cameramen were on hand to film the entire episode.

At the 0:28 mark you can see the Sherman commander, 2nd Lt. Karl E. Kellner, climb out of his burning vehicle. His left leg is blown off behind the knee. Barely visible behind him you can make out another crew member tumbling off the stricken tank.


The Sherman crew consisted of:

Tank Commander Karl E. Kellner
Gunner John J. Gialluca
Asst. Gunner Curtis Speer
Driver Julian Patrick
Asst. Driver Oliver Griffin


Here's some info I found on this well-known tank duel at a German site run by a Cologne inhabitant:

"The second soldier seems to be 19 years old Corporal 'Gunner' John J Gialluca of the 3rd Armored Division 'Spearhead'. His son Doug found my site on the web and sent me the following mail where he describes the situation as he heard it from his father:

*The last tank battle in Cologne Germany on March 6 1945 happened as Corporal Gunner John J Gialluca approached the square of town between two buildings where suddenly by surprise a Panther Mark V hit their Sherman tank. John remembers the tank burning and they were trapped. The shrapnel went through his legs and he said he was pinned to his seat when a second blast under the turret forced him free from his position. There were no other survivors except Corporal John J Gialluca. There was another tank disabled next to his tank that tried to help the injured. They found John lying on the ground with his 45 caliber hand gun in his hand. Then John said as they were helping him he could hear the blast and gunfire from what is known now the battle of the last tank. The Sherman tank that Corporal John J Gialluca was in was facing the cannon of the 75mm high velocity Panther Mark V. The 76 mm is questionable as for penetrating the heavy armored Panther head to head. This was John's second tank hit in his journey from Normandy Beach and very fortunate to survive. Corporal Gunner John J Gialluca was sent to a hospital in England where he had a lengthy recovery and was able to walk again. After a long fight with kidney cancer John went to be with the Lord on July 5th 1998."

Two men survived: gunner John J. Gialluca and Assistant Driver Oliver Griffin. Of the other three, Driver Julian Patrick and assistant gunner Curtis Speer were killed instantly. Cdr. Kellner, who managed to clamber out of the cupola despite his mortal leg wound, died shortly thereafter.

The photo below is a still from the movie. Kellner has made it onto the engine deck. Clearly visible is the bloody stump that's left of his leg.




Medics were instantly at the spot, dragged him in a bomb crater and started treating him. Soon therafter however he died from his injuries.

These days, it takes only a couple of minutes to extract accurate info from the web on 2nd Lt Kellner. This is what showed up:





He was buried in Section 6 West, Lot 136, of Sheboygan's Calvary Cemetery, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.




Freedom isn't free.

Rest in peace, Lieutenant Kellner. Your sacrifice was not in vain. God bless.



MFBB.

MEET HILLARY CLINTON, MONSTER.

We all know - or we all should know - that Hillary Clinton's eulogy for the fallen at the Benghazi US Embassy attack was as fake as Heidi Montag's boobs.

Not only that, she was LYING when she attributed the attack on the video 'Innocence of Muslims', made by Nakoulah Basseley Nakoulah. This is what she said to the father of NAVY Seal Tyrone Woods:

Speaking to the “Lars Larson Show,” father of Seal Tyrone Woods — who died defending the consulate and Benghazi — told about his experience of meeting the President and Secretary Clinton at the memorial service for the fallen a few days after the attack. Charles Woods said that the President “couldn’t look me in the eye” and “mumbled” an “I’m sorry” but that it didn’t seem “genuine”. He said the same of Secretary Clinton and that Clinton assured him that they were going to “arrest and prosecute” the man that made the scapegoated youtube video critical of Islam.

As a result, Mr. Bassely got indeed arrested - a crime in itself.

Now, with the publication of the carefully selected emails she deemed good enough to fool the Great Unwashed that she was bona fide with her email server, some other unsavoury facet of Hillary Clinton's fauxlogy has become public. Madam Clinton must have overlooked that.

This is what she writes in her "memoir" Hard Choices on Ambassador Chris Stevens regarding the immediate aftermath of the embassy attack:

"My thoughts immediately went to Chris. I had personally asked him to take on the assignment of Ambassador to Libya, and I shuddered to think that he and our other people on the ground were now in danger."

And this is the ugly truth about all the Chris here, Chris there buddy talk. Via Lachlan Markay's twitter account:




Chris Smith huh? Funny, all the chummy talk gave me the impression they'd been together since kindergarten.


What a pathologically dishonest BITCH. Should have called her "memoir" Lie Hard.

Any American out there willing to vote for this monster with an endless trail of dead bodies behind her - you've got to be INSANE.



MFBB.

SATURDAY NIGHT SOFT CELL, TAFKAP.

Soft Cell with Tears Run Rings. Early eighties synthpop band around Marc Almond and Dave Ball. IIRC Soft Cell comes from a furry cocoon-like two-person sofa they used to perform in. Were pretty ghey you know. Not that I care.




Catchy tune, but forgive ole Outlaw the terribly wrong video. Eighties ya know.


TAFKAP with Dinner with Delores. Only hit drawn from the 1996 album Chaos and Disorder.

TAFKAP (Dinner With Delores) sur WAT.tv sélectionnée dans Musique

If you missed the extinction of the Dinosaurs, 65 million years ago today, then you prolly don't know TAFKAP stands for The Artist Formerly Known As Prince.


Slaap wel.


MFBB.