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Oddly, Not Surrendering

A French "youth movement" calling itself Generation Identity has had about enough of multiculti, and they don't want any more of islam - whose members refuse to assimilate into the French culture. While the media have, as might be expected, branded them as far right, studies indicate that their views fall well within the mainstream of French citizens.

Six out of ten French people believe the influence of Islam in France is “too big” and 43 percent see the religion as a “threat” to national identity, according to the results of an opinion poll published on Thursday.

Two thirds of people surveyed said they thought French Muslims and people of Muslim origin were not well integrated into French society.

And there's a reason for that: as is increasingly recognized, muzzies don't want to integrate; they want to take over. Hence, where they've been tolerated, we see growing calls from them to abandon principles such as freedom of speech, replacing them with "blasphemy laws" and other restrictions intended ultimately to subjugate the citizens of their host countries.

The French citizens are among the few with the backbone to stand up to the threat, and to call for a declaration of war against the muzzie invaders. And as always, the media stand for "appeasement" - just as they did with Hitler.

Leftist Tolerance On Display

Naturally, it comes to you from the rich fat boy.

When there's no record to run on, you hire some actors and have them claim that the Republicans are going to steal the election. And of course, in order to appeal to the base, expletives are required - it's all they understand.

Left unsaid: why Dems oppose voter identification (answer: it would be harder to get illegal aliens, convicted felons, and dead people to vote Democrat).

Hockey-Stick Guy Digs Deeper

In the lawsuit he's filed against CEI, NRO, and Mark Steyn, Michael Mann claims no less than three times that he's a Nobel Prize recipient - a position that the Nobel committee repudiates. Evidently, it escaped the esteemed doctor that in filing a lawsuit demanding reparations for damage to his reputation, he moved out of his familiar milleu: these aren't so-called "climate scientists"; these are judges, and they aren't going to hang on his every word as gospel.

Lying about his awards in legal documents isn't something that, as a rule, sits well in the legal system. It's rather difficult to claim that one's reputation has been damaged when one makes provably fraudulent statements. It speaks rather strongly to credibility.

Professor Roger Pielke Jr of the University of Colorado, in a post on "embellishing science", grasps the significance of Dr Mann's fraudulent Nobel claim:

Mann's embellishment has placed him in a situation where his claims are being countered by the Nobel organization itself. Mann's claim, rather than boosting his credibility actually risks having the opposite effect, a situation that was entirely avoidable and one which Mann brought upon himself by making the embellishment in the first place. The embellishment is only an issue because Mann has invoked it as a source of authority is a legal dispute. It would seem common sense that having such an embellishment within a complaint predicated on alleged misrepresentations may not sit well with a judge or jury.

This situation provides a nice illustration of what is wrong with a some aspects of climate science today -- a few scientists motivated by a desire to influence political debates over climate change have embellished claims, such as related to disasters, which then risks credibility when the claims are exposed as embellishments.

Much like our local esteemed tax law perfesser,

The ever insecure Dr Mann is still busy deleting comments from "deniers" over on his Facebook page.

The similarities between the two are most interesting; they appear to harbor the same mind-set.

One major difference is that the hockey-stick guy was "investigated" by his Penn State employer, which so far as can be determined, has not yet transpired over at Lewis & Clark College.

The same man who ran the Sandusky investigation was in charge of investigating Mann.

Oddly, he found in favor of both Sandusky and Mann. What are the odds?

Free Food

I don't follow sports at all, but somebody apparently stole a base during the recent "world series", and so Taco Bell's giving away a free Doritos taco between 2:00 and 6:00 p.m. tomorrow. That is all.

Frankenstorm

It's Monday, so it's the start of another exciting week of radiation treatment. I landed there around 9:30, a bit ahead of schedule, but didn't have time to read even one sentence in the Smithsonian magazine before I was hauled off through the foot-thick blast door.

My usual tech asked how the weekend had been, and I replied that aside from being soggy, not too bad - not like the folks on the east coast, where they expect sustained winds of 45-60 miles an hour! Geeze, I noted, I get that all the time up at my place.

He laughed, and commented that they ought to try living in Troutdale or on the Oregon coast.

It's weird to have so much coverage on a freaking storm. Sure, it's big, covering some 600 miles, but so what? Winds gusting to perhaps as much as 75 mph is a big deal? The only thing that makes sense is that there's panic because the headquarters of the LameStream Media are there, and some of them might have their lives affected in some way.

Excuse me for not getting all worked up.

When I was growing up back in the Midwest, a tornado took the roof off our house (which I managed to sleep through until rain woke me up). It also took the roof off the chicken coop, set that in the back pasture, then stuck the house roof over the chicken coop.

Weird stuff.

Out here, things were relatively calm, although we did have St. Helens blow, and winds a year or so back snapped off doug firs like toothpicks out toward the coast. And of course, floods happen fairly often, along with landslides. You never see 24-hour coverage of stuff like that here, because it isn't really as important as what's up with Snookie or Paris Hilton. It's only news when it happens on the east coast.

Most Expensive Pizza Delivery In History

Barky flew down to Orlando, Florida, last night, with plans to hold campaign events in the area today. It was eerily reminiscent of what he did on Sept. 11-12 as the slaughter at the Libyan consulate was occurring: rather than attend to his duties, he determined that campaigning in Las Vegas was more important.

As the lies and cover-ups emerging from his failure in Benghazi spun increasingly out of control and his approval ratings were negatively affected, his approach has been to tell more lies. But Benghazi has remained, looming over his campaigning at every turn. And there can be no doubt that this is exactly why his campaign staff insisted that he fly back to Washington this morning, so that they could release photos of Barky bravely monitoring the Hurricane events. Two failures to at least pretend that he was serving the country, within a two-month period, was almost certain to drag the community organizer down even further.

While in Orlando last night, however, he took time to deliver pizzas to a campaign office:

Mr. Obama had already flown to Florida on Sunday night to hold campaign events on Monday but canceled them and flew back to the White House on Monday morning. The only campaigning he did was to deliver pizzas to a campaign office — prompting one reporter, Bloomberg's Hans Nichols, to tweet: "Obama's 12 hour trip to Orlando. ... Most expensive pizza delivery in history?"

By contrast, the Romney campaign canceled events in Florida as well, but urged supporters to contribute to aid organizations.

Romney also sent an email to supporters in the path of the storm, urging them to be safe and to remove yard signs so they don’t harm people or property.

From Barky: nothing.

And Romney's gone further, sending his campaign bus off to pick up basic supplies for delivery to storm-relief centers around the path of the hurricane. 

And the campaign has added a Red Cross donation box to the front of Romney's website.

Doubtless, Barky's prepared to hold somebody accountable.

Increasingly, it seems that Romney appears more Presidential - in word and in deed - than does the incumbent.

Nutty Perfesser Whines On

Portland's resident Libtard and control freak now takes aim at Metro's Oregon Zoo because they're gonna install parking meters in the lot. Well, actually, the City's doing it, but it gives the perfesser something else to whine about. Aside from "banning" anybody who dares to disagree with him (and often even those who agree), the main theme of his blog is whining.

I've described how to get past his "bans" if anybody feels it's actually worth the time and effort - but increasingly, as he spins further out of reality, it isn't. His site does illustrate how remarkably little time and effort is actually required of perfessers at Lewis & Clark College. Overpaid, underworked, and whining seem to be the hallmarks of the place. Well, that, and of course their famous graduate, Monica Lewinsky.

Monica and Johnny seem to be the two great claims to fame, there.

It's a mystery as to why anybody would pay good money to attend a place that's now defined by Leftist loons.

 

Portland Occutard "Liberation"

A few months ago, amid great celebration, Portland's Occutards "liberated" a home that was in foreclosure and moved the former resident back in. There's just been one teensy little problem: the water was turned off, and CoPo won't turn it back on because the resident doesn't own the property.

So now the Occutards are back, and they're hopping mad: the city, they claim, is "siding with the banks". 

Actually (and this is why they're called "Occutards"), the city is siding with the property owner - not the squatting former resident. If you sign a contract and then don't live up to it, it's the responsibility of the folks with whom you contracted to recover the funds that you essentially stole from them.

It has nothing to do with "gentrification", or forcing blacks out of a neighborhood - it's about behaving in a responsible manner.

It's a hard concept for some to grasp.

Walkers, Portland Idiots

A small group began a four-day walk Friday from Portland to Salem to seek reinstatement of driver licenses for undocumented immigrants.

In view of the fact that there are no "undocumented immigrants" - merely illegal aliens - The Statesman Journal gets the story wrong in the very first sentence.

“We know he cannot reverse the law and that it has to go to the Legislature. But we feel this is a great first step in educating the community about how not having drivers’ licenses affects undocumented people, and spreads our message.”

Avila said her group wants to call attention to the necessity for drivers’ licenses, which allow mobility of people for work, school and family chores.

Note to illegals: this may come as a huge shock to your system, but it's illegal for you to work here. Why would we want to facilitate your continued law-breaking? How many of our laws have you broken since you decided to enter the country illegally? Why would we have any desire to make it easier for those who demonstrate such disrespect? Go home.

 

Massive Headaches Beat Meth Face In Oregon

You ever taken oxycodone? It may be okay at killing pain in some areas of the body, but it often gives users a killer headache. Nonetheless, the federally controlled substance, along with Vicodin and other so-called opiates, are the drug of choice in the state; beating out even cheap meth.

As agencies start pulling the plug on the prescription drugs, look for an uptick in heroin use. It seems unimaginable that people would willingly take any of that stuff, but apparently they build first a tolerance, and then a craving. Then, they vote Democrat.