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Frontpage Magazine : Obamerica: 11-Year-Old Girls Can Buy OTC Birth Control Pills, But You Can't Buy Cough Syrup

Sat, 6 Apr 2013 14:54:49 +0000

Try to get Primatene tablets (or their generic equivalents) over the counter. No dice. Not prescription yet, but you have to ask the pharmacist and show ID and sign a statement , and acknowledge the grams per day limits, etc. Your purchases are tracked in a database. As some might know, Primatene is one of the few truly erstwhile over-the-counter drugs that you used to just purchase by taking to the cash register. No more. Why? The claim is that the active ingredient in it can be used by the occasional redneck lab expert to mix with other components and make meth. Welcome to America. Land of the regulated and not much better for the efforts at that. Paraphrase Orwell, the purpose of government power is not to foster a better world or culture or societal infrastructure. Nay, the purpose of power is power. It shows betrays the ideology of those who'd promote possibly dangerous chemicals to girls who've not even reached the geared down ages of sexual consent in order to stanch a pregnancy, but must show ID for purchasing a useful and cheap product like Primatene tablets to help asthmatics open their lungs and purge the mucus. Priorities speak.

Frontpage Magazine : Johns Hopkins Denies Pro-Life Student Group, Allows Students for Justice in Palestine

Wed, 3 Apr 2013 05:07:48 +0000

AdkinK is correct. The ISM has PLAINLY and OPENLY admitted that their goal is not ultimately some "human rights" based initiative (unless "human rights" is to be equated with the will of the Prophet, perhaps), but rather the destruction of Israel. All of it. No, not just Gaza or the "West Bank". And like the Pallies themselves, if you grill the ISM for more than 3 minutes, they'd get around to admitting this even if stateside the Obamanauts can't bring themselves to admit what the "Pally" cause is all about, or the crackpottery of the "Palestinian perspective" on things being something other than sheer hatred. As with the Pallies, if we shan't take them at their word, then whose word should we take? Hillary Clinton's State Department? They plainly say that the whole point of BDS has less to do with some protest movement on principles regarding alleged "war crimes", such as stanching the flow of Jihadist weaponry via Gaza (as one example where Israel has to act at some point, as in the Jihadtilla/"Flotilla" episode a few years back) and more to do with isolation and de-legitimization of an entire nation in the eyes of the rest of the world; the thinking here being that so isolated, Israel would be abandoned with little trade, aging weaponry, and fall to Arab powers finally empathetic to the Pallie "cause" (though in a fit of perhaps poetic justice, most of the Arab nations hate the Palestinian Arabs. They use the "Palestine" issue as a way to cook up hatred for Israel and keep matters in the region on a rolling boil on the front political burner and away from their own daily internal horrors far more real than anything the IDF has ever done). For more fun and adventure and ammo about how to take a machete to the weedy thicket double-talk of local dingbat politicians who're into this kind of thing, as well as answering left wing street zombies who’re bunking over to spread the ISM bullseed stuff, see also: http://stoptheism.com/

Frontpage Magazine : Democrats Now Claiming That Cops in Schools Won't Stop School Shootings

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 04:47:59 +0000

But Daniel, while it may very well be that media and lefties are spinning around on this so fast it might warp space-time, if I recall correctly, the GOP at the time--and more than a few conservative commentators, said Clinton's idea for the COPS in schools program was a waste of time and money and mocked it openly. Did they not?

NewsReal Blog : Are You Using Fair Trade Condoms With Your Free-Range Hookers?

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:44:20 +0000

I think we've reached a higher plane of social intercourse. Sort of....

Frontpage Magazine : Conservative Cartoonist Skewers PC Liberals

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:50:42 +0000

I’ve been to Zack Rawsthorne’s site numerous times, and will gladly attest my personal opinion that Zack’s parody of the Secular Progressive Multi-Cultural Left (or SecProgs, as Dennis Miller calls them) is hilarious. One can just imagine the high jinks and self-parody involved in growing up as the perky but hapless little girl named “Diversity” (of all names--considering the ideological purity enforced all around her by her “adult parental units”, and other alleged betters) amidst this cast of loopy characters and their unending supply of Mutli-Cultural pieties, delusional hang-ups, and other ideological donnybrooks with enemy notions--both real and perceived. In these dark times, Zack’s wry, witty, and snarky take on the Left’s flight from earthbound reality is a welcome comic relief (respite?) from the insufferably dry, bland, bureaucratic, Statist, humorless, milkwater blahs of Leftist fetishes, governances, and cultural attacks.

Macleans.ca : Speaking of hyperventilating

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:56:21 +0000

Media Matters and other Sorosian handpuppets are the very paragons of truth and virtue, no doubt. Better get some new sticks and props, though. The muppets are starting to sag of late: http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2009/08/fau... http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/04/hea... http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/03/cbo... http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/04/amer...

Macleans.ca : Speaking of hyperventilating

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:48:42 +0000

Other than the fact the Dickens had this depressive knack for making barbed wire out of chicken wire, and mountains from molehills, and exaggeration from issues that were more an issue of technological prowess of the age more so than government's wise and magnanimous hand in things, I'm sure somewhere you'd have a point. Maybe. Historians note his charm in making sappy Christmas tales about how horrible life was until advanced socialism came to Ye Olde Isle, but are not so happy with his BS on some accounts.

Macleans.ca : Speaking of hyperventilating

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:45:38 +0000

Technically legal or not, am I to understand (and maybe you have the full Monty on this, as I truly don't know and don't live in Canada) that these sham marriages, or mere "blessings" have no legal standing whatsoever when it comes to issues of property, inheretence, and state benefits of one type or another? They are therefore totally and utterly null and void in the eyes of the state?

SayAnythingBlog.com : Israeli Commando Up for Medal?

Mon, 7 Jun 2010 01:52:18 +0000

Yes, he deserved the medal. Keeping a nasty situation from getting nastier. But I swear (and go ahead and quote me on this, all the libs who're peeping in on the Intense Debate comments from me--and you know who you are) the NEXT time a Palestinian/Hamas/IHH "Love Boat" heads for Gaza loaded with activists and more than one operative trying to aid the Sons of Allah's continuous attacks on Israel, let's skip the commando part and just blow the damned thing out of the water. That will start getting the point across. We know this was not some purely "humanitarian" effort.

Macleans.ca : Don’t joke in Little Stasi-on-Avon

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:32:25 +0000

In sum, we get to keep plopping those War is NOT the Answer bumper stickers on the backs of Priuses and smirk at what might've been a better, Sons of Allah-free world if only we'd let others do the "wet work" for us, and bring female liberation and honor--via fuel air bombs and those handy Soviet-made poppers designed to look like toys that merely take children's hands off. Nice touch. Oh, and we've not even gotten into Soviet adventurism in the region that was halted. So, in sum: Others will go to war using the pamphleteering of Lenin and Marx--so WE don't have to. No matter how murderous the use of proxy here, eh? Of course. How could we have missed that? Golly. But while I'm not totally opposed to proxy warfare, I think the Soviets would've been a little over the top for a new "ally" in the general neighborhood. And a little too close for comfort on some accounts.

Macleans.ca : Don’t joke in Little Stasi-on-Avon

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:31:02 +0000

However, Edward Giradet's Afghanistan: The Soviet War will do nicely to thwart the historical revisionism of the Soviets bringing highbrow art and culture and female suffrage (though SUFFERING is another matter) to the backwater ways of Afghanistan. Indeed, it's an interesting historical take at that you have here. The Left stops at nothing in plain site of books like the above. So let's see here: The proximate cause for the rise of Islamism has NOTHING to do with sheer weight of demographic change over the last 30 years since Jimmy Carter coddled the Sons of Allah and was active in getting rid of the more secularist regime in the Shah's Iran, due to all our allies needing to have Simon purity per the advice of his A-team intellectuals of Change. Or that the Reaganite "curry" of favor was not already being done with the trillions our nation gave Saudia Arabia in oil revenue, or for that matter just plain conflict of ideology. Nay, say today's leftists, we aided them too much and should've just let the Soviet wack them a good time or two, eh?

Macleans.ca : Don’t joke in Little Stasi-on-Avon

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:29:31 +0000

We don't need to read NR. The agony of the region affected by the Soviets was well known at the time. Only the true nutcase hippies dancing in the streets like smelly dogs twirling on short leashes ever tried to justify or at least mollify that occupation with garbage about "rights" and--that while unpleasant--the Soviets were the proximate answer to Islamist ill-treatment of women and children, etc. Sort of a quirky way to see things, chief. Even IF we could've polished off the old crystal ball and could see the future, I take it as read also that for the nifty notion of using the Soviets (via proxy) quelling Islamist dissent being bandied about now would only (if at ALL?) worked if they had killed EVERY living thing in the borders of what you and I call Afghanistan. People might complain about OUR presence there as well, but we're not quite as nasty, and in fact veer to the other extreme of engagement to the point where every shot is fairly much cleared through a bureaucratic chain-of-command type apparatus.

Macleans.ca : Don’t joke in Little Stasi-on-Avon

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:29:05 +0000

I'm afraid I'll be taking your honorable word on that account, Adam.

Macleans.ca : Don’t joke in Little Stasi-on-Avon

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:26:57 +0000

Possibly, in some areas. But you'll get a stern talking-to at most. The full weight of Nanny is not quite mashing toes here just yet.

Macleans.ca : Don’t joke in Little Stasi-on-Avon

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:49:26 +0000

I'd say Bush's response, to judge from all the hippy dippy bumper stickers that are somewhat more rare these days now that the baton has been handed over for two major wars, was quite a bit more than visiting mosques. Not the best move, I'd agree. But of course a little more than historical revisionism to say it was only that.

Macleans.ca : Don’t joke in Little Stasi-on-Avon

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:46:55 +0000

The very existence of the old USSR and its satellite nations was rationale enough to thwart them, even if modern Lefties are mulishly stubborn about a world of few alternatives to their methodology of bringing "The Vote" to females. I take it as read there's more than one way to get to that lofty goal--and it need not be fuel air bombs nor bombs disguised as toys that merely left kids armless. But this is well known, so I'll not beat that mule again.

Macleans.ca : Don’t joke in Little Stasi-on-Avon

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:56:32 +0000

It was a good show. And it's culture gave me my first name. But I do believe "Hail Britannia" is one of those tunes that if turned to art, would give us the fading hue of the smile of the Cheshire Cat.

Macleans.ca : Don’t joke in Little Stasi-on-Avon

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:48:55 +0000

Yes, here in the States we call that kind of thing (for whatever the perceived ill-treatment, and only tangientially related to real harm) a "Class Action Lawsuit." lol

Macleans.ca : Don’t joke in Little Stasi-on-Avon

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:45:18 +0000

I seriously doubt that Ayn Rand, were she alive, and the other contemporary Objectivists would find much ideological and applied consistency in what Greenspan did or believed. He had one or two articles that I'm aware of in one of her many books on capitalism, and that about wraps up his tenure as Mr. Objectivist. All throughout his tenure over the economy, however, I note that government interference and the contradiction of the so-called "mixed economy" remained quite firmly in place, just as the world's third largest employer, both governmental and private, the socialistic NHS, survived quite well the "radical" transformative, and Bureacratic "gutting" of Iron Lady and "right winger" Margaret Thatcher.

Macleans.ca : Don’t joke in Little Stasi-on-Avon

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:37:47 +0000

Having the situation actually being fixed by a combo of massive tax cuts that came later and of course the work of a certain Austrian dictator gives both mirth and displeasure to the wild-eyed Keynesians in their hatred for tax cuts, capitalism, but utter joy at the proximate guess that military spending pulled the nation out of the mire. But the problem is there are only so many Austrian dudes named Hitler to fight. Or that you'd want to, in order to fulfill the dreams of Lord Keynes, who for his part thought that whatever the cause of spending on the massive mausoleums we now called "Stimulus" of this or that, war could be among them.