Quick Hitts

Muslims are taking time out from murdering their daughters and raping women for reading the bible to attack one of our most cherished principles: Free Speech.

In 2006 Mark Steyn published an article pointing out that while civilized people are breeding at less than the replacement rate, fundy Muslims are breeding like hamsters. His conclusion: The future belongs to Islam.

As a result he faced two trials for “hate speech.”

The first one, brought up with the Ontario Human Rights Commission, was thrown out on narrow technical grounds, so the complainants shopped it to the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal. There Steyn was put on trial for having an opinion and daring to express it.

The trial was a sham, and Steyn refused to cooperate and defend himself. The judges allowed things written by other people to be introduced into evidence. They whined that he hadn’t included opposing points of view in his article.

Surprisingly, he was acquitted.

The real result of this kind of injustice is the chilling effect it has on writers. If I were living in Canada I would think twice about publishing this blog post. With legal fees, winning such a case could be almost as disastrous as losing it.

This kind of injustice is becoming prevalent in the Western world. In France former sex kitten Brigitte Bardot was recently fined 15,000 euros ($23,760) for stating the fact that the the resident Muslim community was “destroying our country and imposing its acts.” It was so nice of the French government to prove her point for her.

I’ve given up trying to distinguish between so-called moderate Muslims and the fundies. It is quite evident that the fundies are driving the religion, and they are not a tiny minority, as the left would have us believe. In a recent study of British Muslim students a third of them espoused violence to support Islam, and forty percent want to force all of us to live under sharia law.

The more I see of Islam in action, the more it becomes apparent that it’s incompatible with everything we consider important. It is incompatible with free speech. It is incompatible with women’s rights. It is incompatible with racial harmony. It is incompatible with democracy. It is incompatible with tolerance of different beliefs. It is incompatible with civil rights. It is incompatible with human rights. It is incompatible with civilization.

Barbarians have taken down civilizations before. They can do it from the outside, with violence and threats, and they can do it from the inside using our own laws and tolerance against us. We need to wake up fast and stop giving into them on everything, even things that may seem trivial. Every time we acquiesce we come one step closer to their goal of shira law for us all.

Further Reading:

The Wall Street Journal on Islam and Free Speech.

Mark’s Website.

What’s the best thing to do if you think rainbows are caused by polution in the air and water?

Why, put a video on YouTube, of course.

It’s a Conspiracy, I tell you.
A Conspiracy!

Found here.

When Elvis was alive there were only a few professional Elvis impersonators. A few years after his death there were hundreds, then thousands. The old joke was that if the trend continued, by the turn of the century we would all be Elvis.

Old jokes never die. They often become reborn as alarmist “facts” and/or government policy. So this story comes as no surprise. The claim is that in another forty years we’ll all be overweight. Guess we’ll all be impersonating the fat Elvis.

And with every crisis comes more and more government programs to “fix” the problem.

They don’t mention one tiny little fact, though. Several years ago the CDC completely munged the BMI, reclassifying what they, in their wisdom, deemed obese. Overnight thirty million Americans became obese without gaining an ounce.

Mace Hutchison, 16, evidently fell off a bridge. As he laid there with a broken back, the cops tazed him nineteen times. Nineteen!

What are the odds they’ll be punished for thier assualt? Pretty slim. Hell, they might even get an award!

Too bad he didn’t have a car, they could have stolen that too.

Protect and serve? You didn’t think they were serious about that, did you?

The idea of letting your kids run around the neighborhood and be kids has fallen out of fashion. Parents are expected to helicopter over their larvae every waking minute. They’re expected to have them participate in games where no one keeps score and everyone gets a trophy.

Those kids are now coming into the workplace and the results are a disaster. Managers are now having to deal with young adults who have been trained that they’re “special” and it’s unfair to expect them to actually accomplish anything. They’re unable to take initiative or criticism and expect promotions simply becuase they tried.

If you want to raise healthy kids, kids who grow into healthy adults, you’ll need to ignore what has become the conventional wisdom. The latest Quick Hitts Podcast, Healthy Kids, gives you a place to start.

The Free Range Kids blog, mentioned in the podcast, can be found here.

Found Here

Ahhhhhnold has been a pretty decent govinator, but a few days ago he stepped into the nanny role when he singed a bill that makes it illegal to sell prepared food that contains trans fat.

Trans-fat is, of course, The Next Big Scary Thing That Will Kill Us All. And while warning people about it, and requiring information about it on prepared foods make sense, once again the nanny government has overstepped their bounds “for our own good.” Such nonsense has already happened in several cities, but CA is the first state to do it (surprise surprise.)

“California is a leader in promoting health and nutrition, and I am pleased to continue that tradition by being the first state in the nation to phase out trans fats,” the governor said in a statement.

I wonder when we’ll here a governor say “My state is a leader in personal liberty, and I am please to continue that tradition by refusing to pass nanny laws.”