A Guantanamo Bay terror detainee found the annoying old Whitesnake hit song “Here I Go” again gave him strength when it was intended to torment him into compliance.
Whose side are you on, David Coverdale?
…he says singing the lyrics to Whitesnake’s Here I Go Again – which US authorities used as part of a noise torture tactic which involved playing loud music and white noise – helped him focus on the day he would finally be free.
Psst… for future reference, the correct answer is either Skinny Puppy or Bananarama. Five minutes of that crap and they’ll tell you everything you want to hear.
Aaron Clarey on why “racist!” has jumped the shark:
Of course, deep down inside we all knew being called a “racist” or a “sexist” was nothing more than a cowardly tactic by leftists with precisely that intent. To taint and paint anybody who advocated free markets, capitalism, freedom and treating people as genuine equals as a racist because it would divert people’s attention from the left’s ultimate lack of solutions.
The Islamic State has reportedly issued a fatwa ordering the elimination of children with Down syndrome and other congenital disabilities, reminiscent of Hitler’s infamous “Aktion T4” program, which administered forced “euthanasia” on an estimated 300,000 disabled persons.
Transgendered is so last month, now all the cool kids are trans-aged. Here’s Steven Crowder’s take:
So a 52-year-old transgender man decides to abandon his family to live the life of a 6-year-old girl. Leftism demands we accept this as normal, but just how normal is it really?
A Riyadh-based “Islamic military alliance” has been formed to fight terrorism, Saudi Arabian state TV has announced. The coalition consists of 34 countries, including the Gulf States, a number of African countries, Turkey, Egypt, Malaysia and Pakistan.
Every morning at 2 a.m., they heard a kick on the door and a threat: Get up or get beaten. For the next 16 hours, No. 31 and his wife stood in the factory that owned them with their aching hands in ice water. They ripped the guts, heads, tails and shells off shrimp bound for overseas markets, including grocery stores and all-you-can-eat buffets across the United States.
The idea that the vastly imperfect governments of this world, who between them cannot guarantee anything six months out, can speak with serene confidence on the Whole Atmosphere of our Great Dynamic Planet nearly 100 years from now? As long as the faith holds, there is no call for certainties.
The Petition to ban Donald Trump from the U.K reaches 400,000. Just how do you justify trying to ban Donald Trump when Islamist hate preachers are allowed to go about their work unhindered?
Besides the depressingly seismic acceleration of Islamist attacks across the globe, the other recent spectacle has been to watch the liberal left get caught in the headlights of an inconvenient reality and engaging in a culture of almost comical denial.
Until the attacks on Charlie Hebdo earlier this year, the intermittent nature of attacks has afforded progressive liberals and the left somewhere to hide; the leisure to apportion blame elsewhere and to treat the Islamists – who are quite clear about their aims and motivations btw, like wayward teenage children who don’t fully understand why they do anything.
The day after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, reading The Guardian was like listening to someone rummage through an empty bag of tired excuses. Journalist Gary Younge led the futile search with a piece entitled, The Danger of a Polarised Debate that, amongst other apologies, cited the KKK as an example of Christian terrorism (yawn).
This sort of denial is based on two lies the left tell themselves about Islam. The first is the lie that it is a tiny minority who are ruining it for everyone else.
This simply is not true. Extensive polled research from across the globe over the past decade shows that an alarming number of Muslims hold what, we in the West, would describe as extremist views. The figures should concern everyone.
The myth of a tiny minority of Islamic extremists is just that. As Ben Shapiro illustrates, Islamic terrorists take support from broader Muslim communities who themselves hold extremist views.
The second lie they tell themselves is that Islam is a religion of peace.
The prophet Mohammed was not a peaceful man and personally oversaw the beheading of 600-900 men and boys. He owned nine swords and named them all. Islamic scripture goes into detail on how to usurp a host culture and subjugate it, and Taqiyya permits Muslims to lie in order to bring about Islamic supremacy.
Rather than a religion of peace, Islam is an expansionary, military-political ideology.
To say that Islam is a religion of peace is dangerous, and you have to wonder whether those who make such statements have any even a basic knowledge of what they are defending. Either they are ignorant or they are being dishonest.
Days after the most recent Paris attack (yes, now we have to count them like Hollywood sequels), Hillary Clinton came out with the most audacious statement of denial to date and announced that, “… Muslims have nothing to do with Islamic terror.”
Let’s be clear. If you went to a psychiatrist with this sort of logic in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, they would suggest that you were living in a state of denial.
You have to wonder how many people will have to die because of this failure to live in practical reality; before enough people wake up to the perverse logic and ideological insanity being sold as decency & tolerance?
As Mark Steyn puts it: “Some people will need to hear it from their own severed head.”
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