The Lying Liars and the Hate Lies They Tell

There's only one problem. Shepard, according to Jiminez, was not killed because he was gay. His murderers, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, attempted the "gay panic" defense in court -- suggesting that Shepard had come onto them and provoked them into murderous rage. But that wasn't true. Jiminez, who is gay, reports that Shepard dealt methamphetamine, and that one of his murderers was a sex partner. Even gay-journalistic icon Andrew Sullivan has endorsed Jiminez's work.

But the left cannot let its mythology go. And so The Matthew Shepard Foundation released a statement decrying Jiminez's book: "Attempts now to rewrite the story of this hate crime appear to be based on untrustworthy sources, factual errors, rumors and innuendo rather than the actual evidence gathered by law enforcement and presented in a court of law. We do not respond to innuendo, rumor or conspiracy theories. Instead, we recommit ourselves to honoring Matthew's memory, and refuse to be intimidated by those who seek to tarnish it."

http://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2013/09/19/matthew-shepard-trayvon-martin-and-the-power-of-leftist-myth-n1704035

These facts, if true as reported in this book I have not read, highlight an approach that is both perverse and easily recognizable.  I've never met anyone who would kill someone for being gay or for being black.  The talk about hate is the talk about a percentage of the population that is small, poor, and un-influential.  This is not a widespread and significant problem, as evidenced by the apparent fact that the supposed poster child for this "national" problem was killed by gay people in a dope deal, and there's not been a documented incident since - correct me if I'm wrong, I mean I'm sure there's some homicidal maniac who's killed a gay person somewhere, but most of the murders in the nation result from domestic violence and intoxication mixed in the same deadly brew that's been killing people since beer was invented, and/or the drug war's gift to our nation of a violent underculture fighting for drug dealing turf.  

But we can't talk about the unintended consequence of the drug war, while we can make up fantasy about dead drug dealers who were gay ....

Classic Quote, Maraboli

"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient."
- Steve Maraboli

AGW & IPCC

"The London Telegraph wrote Sunday that a leaked IPCC report "has led some scientists to claim that the world is heading for a period of cooling that will not end until the middle of this century."

"And why not? As the Telegraph has noted, "There has been a 60% increase in the amount of ocean covered with ice compared to this time last year, the equivalent of almost a million square miles."

"Yes, that's right. The dire predictions of an iceless Arctic made in 2007 were wrong, just as the fearful projections of an increase in global-warming-caused disastrous storms have also been off the mark in a missed-by-the-width-of-the-universe sort of way.

"Whether Earth cools or not is a question that won't be answered until a few more years or decades pass.

"But this we do know: Earth has not warmed in at least 16 years, maybe more. Data from Britain's Met Office, that nation's arbiter of all things climate, shows global temperatures have been flat since the late 1990s."

Read More At Investor's Business Daily: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/090913-670352-arctic-ice-increases-million-square-miles-by-60.htm#ixzz2eaXYlPct

How long do you think it will be before the cooling will lead the IPCC to say they were just dead wrong?

Classic Quote, Van Gogh

"If you hear a voice within you say, 'You cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced" - Vincent Van Gogh

Interesting "Journalism"

Interesting editorial disguised as reporting.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/business/economy/business-losing-clout-in-a-gop-moving-right.html?_r=1&

How 1980s this is, isn't it clear that Obama and the dems are just as much in the tank for corporate interests as is the GOP? The issue isn't who the partisans are, the issue is that power corrupts.  Consider the big piles of money Obamacare funnels into insurance and drug companies, for example.

Pointing a Finger at a Useful Idiot

"Indeed, going back to President Obama's much-vaunted $787 billion government spending "stimulus" in 2009, Samuelson didn't even bother to question whether the extraction of $787 billion from a limping economy in order to redistribute it might be an unwise move. He didn't given his belief that reduced government spending is "precisely the wrong" step "in a severe slump." Samuelson's problem with the alleged "stimulus" back then was that it was mostly "a political exercise." Ok, by that funny logic, how is government spending whereby money is taken from one set of hands and placed in the hands of others ever not "a political exercise"?"
http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2013/09/04/scared_american_workers_can_thank_confused_economists_100594.html

You Should Be Afraid, Because We Said So

Great article, if you like fiction.  I'll save you the time you might waste reading this - "Scientists don't know what is happening or why, but they are still very sure you should be afraid."
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/01/climate-change-warm-words-cool-waters

These people have done themselves a great disservice by over-exagerating what they say they know, what they can know, and what the stakes are. But they are more than happy to keep on providing reasons why governments should take control of even more of our lives and efforts than they currently do.  They are, in short, lying assholes, in the technical description.