Not good
Jihadi trouble in Paris tonight. Current reports are three separate scenes, thirty dead and ‘scores’ taken hostage, but it’s all very fog-of-war just now.
I wish we had a decent news outlet on the scene, but failing that: BBC Live Coverage; Sky Live Coverage. They’re as bad as each other, but they have bodies on location.
Unfolding as I type.
Posted: November 13th, 2015 under international.
Comments: 33
Comments
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: November 13, 2015, 10:21 pm
The Telegraph live. Not great, but at least they’re reporting the gunmen shouted “Allahu Akbar” — something, so far, the BBC is refusing to admit.
Comment from Ric Fan
Time: November 13, 2015, 10:52 pm
You have a rifle at least? Protect the chickens! Protect Uncle B!
Seriously, I see the dumbest comments on twitter by lefty brits. They are mad at this guy for posting a photo of himself with a hunting rifle:
https://twitter.com/gilescoren/status/665289004603035650
Comment from Ric Fan
Time: November 13, 2015, 11:05 pm
Sigh, Coren deleted his tweet. Pussy.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: November 13, 2015, 11:06 pm
No. We could probably get a shotgun permit, but the regulations are so onerous — and the penalties so severe — we haven’t bothered.
All of that will change if violence comes to visit.
Comment from Ric Fan
Time: November 13, 2015, 11:08 pm
But people still hunt over there, do they not? Do they make it onerous for hunters?
Churchill did say that if the Hun invaded that even the British housewife could grab a meat fork off the kitchen table and plunge it in their chest. So, you can try that. 🙂
ps: Since it was the UK & the US who did the drone attack, be careful of potential retaliation.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: November 13, 2015, 11:18 pm
Hunters are the only ones with guns. Well, farmers, but their excuse for having them is to shoot foxes and euthanize livestock.
The rules require a gun safe, with the permit holder keeping the key about hisself all the time and never giving it to someone else. I believe the ammo has to be in a separate safe. Certainly, you can’t leave one loaded. Penalties for breaking the rules are deeply nasty.
Comment from Deborah HH
Time: November 13, 2015, 11:55 pm
I bet Uncle Badger keeps a sharp edge on his shovels. I would.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: November 14, 2015, 12:01 am
What, these innocent farm implements? Certainly not. They’re purely for the purpose of maintaining our lovely garden.
Comment from Ric Fan
Time: November 14, 2015, 12:20 am
This keeps getting worse…
Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: November 14, 2015, 12:25 am
Stoaty, I am confident that Uncle Badger keeps Grandfather’s axe well polished to a fine edge….remember he would have wanted it that way.
As for Paris, well, one can only speculate that this is not going to increase the popularity of the mass Muslim migration to the West.
Comment from Ric Fan
Time: November 14, 2015, 12:38 am
I just hope they dont have one of those stupid solidarity parades with candles and shit. I hate that kumbaya stuff.
Comment from Skandia Recluse
Time: November 14, 2015, 12:44 am
Woke up from a cookie coma to stumble into the news of the moment.
I don’t see our situation improving in the short run.
Comment from mojo
Time: November 14, 2015, 5:44 am
Just the start, folks.
Comment from JuliaM
Time: November 14, 2015, 7:32 am
Watched ‘American Sniper’ last night to avoid the bloody charityfest of ‘Children In Need’. Film went off, I check Twitter to see what’s occurring before I turn in for the night, and see Paris atrocity.
Friday 13th. Another date that will live in infamy.
Comment from jic
Time: November 14, 2015, 2:02 pm
The BBC coverage of Paris I watched this morning continued their infuriating habit of referring to “the so-called Islamic State”. I don’t recall the BBC ever referring to ‘the so-called Irish Republican Army’.
Comment from QuasiModo
Time: November 14, 2015, 6:09 pm
Muslims, box cars, some assembly required.
Comment from technochitlin
Time: November 14, 2015, 7:34 pm
Y’know, the French are like America’s crazy uncle- we can make fun of him all we want but you outside folk start messing with him and it’s “Lafayette, we are here”…
Comment from Subotai Bahadur
Time: November 14, 2015, 9:05 pm
Comment from technochitlin
Time: November 14, 2015, 7:34 pm
Not this time. First, we no longer have the military capability to do so. Second, our National Command Authority is working for the other side.
Americans are going to be busy at home shortly. I just got a message from a trusted correspondent that the first wave of 10,000 “Syrian Refugees” that Obama has been rushing to admit have started arriving last night and will be scattered around the country ASAP.
The European reaction is problematic also.
A trusted friend in the field forwarded this with his endorsement:
It would have been politically difficult to prevent the attack in the midst of the ongoing Muslim invasion of Europe that the EU is supporting. One wonders what our government is sitting on.
I am recommending to my friends in this country:
Be armed at home. If you can get concealed carry training, do so and carry. Every American needs to be a first responder, with a non-existent southern border and the Federal government importing terrorists by the brigade and division.
“Be Thou then Truly Resolved . . . .”
Comment from Carl
Time: November 14, 2015, 11:02 pm
JIC. United States government uses the name ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) or Daesh (the Arabic equivalent). When ISIL shortened the name to Islamic State the BBC started to use that name but were heavily criticised because it was considered to give undue credibility to the organisation. The BBC compromise was to switch to the term “so-called Islamic State” to suggest a certain distaste.
The name of the Irish Republican Army was in general use long before the BBC was created so it would have been odd for the BBC to refer to it as the “so-called IRA”.
Comment from Carl
Time: November 14, 2015, 11:03 pm
JIC. United States government uses the name ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) or Daesh (the Arabic equivalent). When ISIL shortened the name to Islamic State the BBC started to use that name but were heavily criticised because it was considered to give undue credibility to the organisation. The BBC compromise was to switch to the term “so-called Islamic State” to suggest a certain distaste.
The name of the Irish Republican Army was in general use long before the BBC was created so it would have been odd for the BBC to refer to it as the “so-called IRA”.
Comment from jic
Time: November 15, 2015, 2:35 am
“When ISIL shortened the name to Islamic State the BBC started to use that name but were heavily criticised because it was considered to give undue credibility to the organisation.
The name of the Irish Republican Army was in general use long before the BBC was created so it would have been odd for the BBC to refer to it as the ‘so-called IRA’.”
Virtually every terrorist organisation in history has chosen a name designed to imply legitimacy. IS seems to be the only name the BBC has ever felt the need to specifically delegitimise. Please don’t try to tell me that this is a neutral rule that just happened to be invented *now*.
Comment from Timothy S. Carlson
Time: November 15, 2015, 4:19 am
ISIS bombs Russian plane, kills 224.
‘President’ Obama: “ISIS is contained”.
ISIS attacks Paris, kills 128.
First wave of 10,000 Syria ‘refugees’ enter America.
[Expect something very unpleasant in the next month]
The entire world is administered by imbecils.
Comment from Carl
Time: November 15, 2015, 10:15 am
JIC “I don’t recall the BBC ever referring to ‘the so-called Irish Republican Army’”.
Maybe not, but they frequently used the terms ‘so-called Continuity Irish Republican Army’ and ‘so-called Real Irish Republican Army’.
What do you suggest we call them? Simply ‘Islamic State’? They may be Islamic but they are certainly not a state.
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: November 15, 2015, 3:36 pm
I suggest we call them the “Islamic so-called State”
Islamic = definite
State = questionable
Comment from jic
Time: November 15, 2015, 8:54 pm
“Maybe not, but they frequently used the terms ‘so-called Continuity Irish Republican Army’ and ‘so-called Real Irish Republican Army’.”
Frequently? Not that I remember.
“What do you suggest we call them? Simply ‘Islamic State’? They may be Islamic but they are certainly not a state.”
As I said before, virtually all terrorist organisations choose names that are intended to give a veneer of legitimacy. Why not call them ‘the terrorist organisation Islamic State’?
Comment from Carl
Time: November 16, 2015, 12:36 am
JIC – The BBC seems to be reluctant to use the term ‘terrorist’. Possibly because members of so-called terrorist organisations often end up becoming part of legitimate governments. e.g. ANC in South Africa, EOKA in Cyprus, Mau Mau in Kenya.
Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: November 16, 2015, 10:58 am
The BBC is reluctant to use the word terrorist because, like the good little liberals they are, they are desperate not to be seen to be being ‘judgemental’.
After all, killing and maiming innocent people is a very complicated moral issue, isn’t it?
Comment from mojo
Time: November 16, 2015, 12:59 pm
Gonna have to get nasty with these people, and perhaps give up on the idea that “We’re better than that”.
“Better” will get you dead.
Never mind who’s better, let’s talk about who’s going to be dead and who’s going to live.
Comment from jic
Time: November 16, 2015, 4:22 pm
Carl – And Islamic State might end up as an actual state. But how about ‘the militant organisation Islamic State’?
Comment from BJM
Time: November 16, 2015, 9:47 pm
Words fail after watching Hte Won lie, deflect and blame game this morning.
I am also up to _here_ with the useless mobs of sad-saddy, tilty-headed Progs milling about with candles and their dicks in their hand.
So how about a smallish giggle while we await Armageddon, eh?
Her Maj excellently pawn’d.
Comment from ✯Ново-Зеландия✯
Time: November 19, 2015, 10:57 am
I thought i would let the dust settle before defecating upon this pile.
Firstly, ISIS is financed and trained from the US State Department.
Secondly, Amerikan tax payer dollars go towards funding this Islamic Terrorism – because the democratically elected President of Syria, decided to ask Whitehall for a 5% transit fee for the Levant pipeline crossing Syria.
The rest – is bloody and nasty.
Just remember, Iraq, Russia and New Zealand were in the know days before.
John Key’s daughter got a call not to turn up at the theater.
Bingo.
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