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		<title>Bill de Blasio May Ban Barnum &amp; Bailey Circus from New York</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2014 17:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Animals in nature don’t naturally wear tutus and stand on their hind legs." ]]></description>
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<p>At least the old lefties went in for bread and circuses. The new lefties like William Wilhelm Jr. aka Bill de Blasio are out to ban the circuses too. Maybe they hate the competition from professional trained clowns.</p>
<p>The engine behind the ban is the deeply controversial animal rights group NYCLASS that helped bankroll Bill de Blasio&#8217;s win. With so many top politicians in its pocket, it&#8217;s moving on from <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/group-pushes-ban-animals-circuses-nyc-article-1.1609081">attacking horses to attacking elephants</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The circus is coming to town — and some advocates want it to be for the last time.</p>
<p>NYCLASS, the animal rights group that’s been the key player in pushing for a ban on Central Park horse carriages, says it also wants the city to bar the use of animals in circuses — one item on an expanded agenda it plans to pursue this year.</p>
<p>“Animals in the circus are horribly abused. Animals in nature don’t naturally wear tutus and stand on their hind legs,&#8221; said Allie Feldman, the group’s executive director.</p></blockquote>
<p>Well you learn something new every day. But wait, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2203248/Elephant-stands-legs-eat-tree-leaves.html">here&#8217;s an elephant doing just that in nature</a>.</p>
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<p>Animal rights activists like Allie Feldman are ignorant swine when it comes to knowing anything about the animals they want to<del> save</del> kill for their own good. But that&#8217;s unnecessarily insulting to swine who don&#8217;t deserve being compared to Allie Feldman.</p>
<p>Feldman however is correct about tutus. Animals in nature don&#8217;t wear them. Animals in nature however also eat obnoxious animal rights activists so let&#8217;s call it even.</p>
<blockquote><p>If animals were banned, the circus would cancel all city appearances, said Stephen Payne, vice president of Feld Entertainment, Ringling’s parent company.</p>
<p>“This is another attempt by an organization with a radical animal rights political agenda to tell people not just in New York but everywhere what they can and cannot see,” he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Telling people what they can and can&#8217;t do is the whole reason that the totalitarian left exists.</p>
<blockquote><p>Councilwoman Rosie Mendez (D-Manhattan) has introduced bills to ban the use of “wild or exotic” animals in circuses in the last two sessions of the Council, but they have never come to a vote.</p>
<p>Mayor de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito both signed on to previous versions of the bill. A Mark-Viverito spokesman said she would have to review any new legislation and a de Blasio rep did not respond to a request for comment.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s NYCLASS&#8217; move. Let&#8217;s see how much they&#8217;re willing to bribe the politicians to banish elephants and tigers from the Big Apple. Can a bid to close the Bronx Zoo be far behind?</p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s All the Tea Party&#8217;s Fault</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Left's haters continue their smear campaign. ]]></description>
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<p>Remember &#8220;Not Me&#8221;? He was the famous invisible cartoon gremlin in the newspaper comic strip &#8220;The Family Circus.&#8221; Whenever toys were left on the floor or other school-age disasters struck, the kids in the comic pointed their fingers at &#8220;Not Me.&#8221; Today, &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; is the juvenile left&#8217;s new &#8220;Not Me&#8221; — an all-purpose scapegoat for every crime and disaster.</p>
<p>Last Thursday, a disturbed pilot flew a small plane into an Austin, Texas, office complex that contained an Internal Revenue Service office. Several workers in the building were injured, and Joseph Andrew Stack, the pilot, was killed in the crash. Local authorities suspect he set his house on fire — from which his wife and daughter escaped — before taking off on his deadly journey. Investigators found a Web posting, identified as Stack&#8217;s &#8220;suicide manifesto,&#8221; in which he railed against tax laws, inequity, government and crony capitalism. He also targeted &#8220;puppet&#8221; George W. Bush, murderous health care insurers and the pharmaceutical industry.</p>
<p>The &#8220;manifesto&#8221; ended:</p>
<p><em> The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.</em></p>
<p><em>The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed. </em></p>
<p>This nutball had deadly grudges that transcended partisan lines. But within minutes of the story breaking, a furious left-wing blogger at the popular Daily Kos website — where countless Democratic leaders have guest-posted — fumed: &#8220;Teabagger terrorist attack on IRS building.&#8221; The article immediately cast blame on the anti-tax Tea Party movement: &#8220;After months of threats on the United States government, and government institutions, the Anti-Government forces known as the teabaggers have struck with their first 911 (sic) inspired terrorist attack.&#8221;</p>
<p>At the eponymous mega-website of Arianna Huffington, a 2,000-plus comment thread was filled with allusions to &#8220;teabaggers&#8221;:</p>
<p><em> I would bet he has a membership card to teabag nation and the Glenn Beck fan club!</em></p>
<p><em>Tea bag bomb.</em></p>
<p><em>Good to see natural selection still works! Tea party Unite!</em></p>
<p><em>This guy sounds just like a teabagger.</em></p>
<p><em>Oh please. This has tea bags dripping all over it.</em></p>
<p><em>I hope teabaggers are proud!! &#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>Great opening day for CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference) isn&#8217;t it?? </em></p>
<p><em>This guy sounds like a Tea Partier first class! Maybe that movement is more DANGEROUS to our freedoms than they let on! Be afraid America, BE VERY AFRAID!</em></p>
<p><em>He was a Tea Party Terrorist. </em></p>
<p>In the early aftermath of the suicidal pilot&#8217;s attack, there was no evidence that Stack belonged to a Tea Party organization. In any case, no law-abiding Tea Party group would ever condone what he did. But it didn&#8217;t stop the haters from immediately smearing advocates of limited government. And it&#8217;s just the latest in a long line of calculated attempts to paint the vast majority of peaceful Tea Party activists as terrorist threats to civil society.</p>
<p>This week, absurd liberal pundits and bloggers also tried to connect the tragic University of Alabama-Huntsville murders to the Tea Party movement. No matter that the alleged killer, Amy Bishop, was an Obama-worshiping academic who repeatedly got a soft-on-crime pass. Or that Democratic Rep. William Delahunt of Massachusetts was the former prosecutor involved in dropping charges against Bishop in the deadly shooting of her teenage brother. Or that liberal-dominated campus officials apparently looked the other way in response to Bishop&#8217;s several red-flag flashes of violence leading up to the U of A shootings.</p>
<p>Tea Party-bashers claimed that the murders were a manifestation of racist conservative influence on the American landscape. Reuters Foundation Fellow Jonathan Curiel picked up the theme: &#8220;The &#8216;results&#8217; that the Tea Party movement envisions include less government — and less of Obama.&#8221;</p>
<p>Curiel bemoaned the rejection of a post-racial society by tying together the Alabama massacre and the rise of the Tea Party movement more explicitly. Proof of anti-Obama bigotry, he wrote, could be found in &#8220;last week&#8217;s shooting in Alabama, where a disgruntled white professor murdered three minority professors; and the growing success of the Tea Party movement, which is overwhelmingly white and increasing (sic) vocal in its violent dislike of the nation&#8217;s first black president.&#8221;</p>
<p>The same warped worldview blamed Tea Party conservatives for Kentucky census worker Bill Sparkman&#8217;s insurance-scam-inspired suicide and for Holocaust Museum shooter James Von Brunn&#8217;s rampage (despite his published rants against Fox News).</p>
<p>The smear merchants, of course, are simply following Rahm Emanuel&#8217;s advice to exploit every crisis. Pointing fingers at the Tea Party gremlin demonizes the left&#8217;s most potent political opponents. This is the blame-gamers&#8217; ultimate agenda: criminalizing dissent.</p>
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		<title>Why the Rich Muslim Boy Became a Terrorist &#8211; by Jamie Glazov</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamie Glazov]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And why liberals can’t acknowledge what drove Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.]]></description>
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<p>The liberal milieu and mainstream media are baffled: What could have possibly led the 23-year-old Nigerian boy <a href="http://detroit.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/de122609.htm"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab</span></a> to attempt jihadi suicide on a passenger plane? How could such a nice, educated Islamic boy, who grew up in a rich and prosperous family, have come under the “radical” and “extreme” influences that set him on his violent course? It’s just all so mysterious.</p>
<p>It’s so mysterious that the news anchors on CNN continue to incredulously ask each other and their guests these questions — back and forth, over and over again, in a cyclical circus that has no end and that never produces the most obvious answer staring any sensible person right in the face. In the liberal imagination, there is just this “extremist ideology” out there somewhere and somehow this unfortunate Muslim boy fell under its spell, but no one can be exactly sure how or why it happened. All one can be sure of is that an adversarial culture or ideology must not be blamed and that America, somewhere, somehow, must definitely be at fault.</p>
<p>And so, when it comes to the liberal left trying to digest Abdulmutallab and his suicidal quest, perplexed dismay becomes a much safer hiding place than honesty, because the basic truth threatens the very survival of the liberal faith. For the liberal to accept the evident reason why Abdulmutallab set off on his suicide odyssey would necessitate him having to completely shed himself of his <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2009/eon1222jg.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">entire world</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">view </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">and personal identity</span></a>. The much easier route, therefore, is to keep oneself confused and to stay focused on how American capitalism and imperialism must have surely had something to do with it — even though, as is the case with <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/104/god-and-mammon-does-poverty-cause-militant-islam"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">the cause of Islamic terro</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">r itself</span></a>, these factors are so obviously <em>not</em> involved in Abdulmutallab’s suicidal and murderous yearnings (i.e., Abdulmutallab comes from a privileged, wealthy, and educated life, etc.).</p>
<p>What the lib-left milieu simply can’t digest is what Islamic terrorists like Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab <em>themselves </em>insist motivated them. And these are things like, you know, reading certain religious texts and following a certain religion’s teachings. They are things, sort of like, well, following Islam and reading the Koran and stuff like that.</p>
<p>When all is said and done, the true reasons why Abdulmutallab embarked on his murderous mission of suicide are completely understandable — and only to be expected — in the context of his Islamic odyssey. And Abdulmutallab himself clearly points to the influence of his religion in his own personal writings on the internet.</p>
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