[NYT] CULIACĂN, Mexico -- When Jose Antonio Sevilla and his three brothers learned that the notorious drug trafficker known as El Chapo had escaped from prison, they jumped out of their chairs and shouted with glee.
"El Chapo got out! He's the greatest of them all," said Mr. Sevilla, 19, a self-professed fan of the drug kingpin, whose full name is Joaquín Guzmán Loera. "He was famous before, but now he's even more famous."
Mr. Sevilla, an auto mechanic, was so excited that he attended a march through the streets of Culiacán, the capital of Mr. Guzmán's home state, this week to celebrate. He carried a sign that a woman gave him, which read, "El Chapo is more of a president than Peña Nieto," a reference to Mexico's president, Enrique Peña Nieto.
Here in Sinaloa State, where Mr. Guzmán was born, and even in other parts of Mexico, the drug trafficker's stunning escape through a hidden tunnel under what was supposed to be the country's most secure prison has enhanced his status as an outlaw folk hero.
Amazon and Walmart are really providing a master class in why monopolies are so dangerous. And Amazon, with its ruthless grip over book sales, has now moved on to overt censorship.
This latest target was a book by Civil War author Michael Dreese. Dreese has written a number of books, including two about battle flags. The one about Union battle flags is titled, "Never Desert the Flag". The one about Confederate flags is titled, "This Flag Never Goes Down."
Amazon, which still sells Hitler's Mein Kampf, decided to ban the second book. More at the link
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While Amazon does dominate a giant chunk of the book market, the Gettysburg Museum of History chose to respond by advertising the book as "Banned by Amazon."
I wonder if the Gettysburg Museum does on-line orders? Why, yes! They do!
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Banning a book? Shades of Nazism, Talibanism, and radical Islam. That will increase sales. Everyone will clamor for the book to see what they are missing. Banning of books or anything is a confused policy in the U.S. Confused in that things which are far more objectionable are not banned.
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Regarding Daniel Greenfield, he writes an excellent blog called Sultan Knish. I shared an posting with my wife recently and we both were impressed with the writing.
On a warm September day in 2015, the United States Senate failed to override Obama's veto of the measure rejecting his Iranian nuclear agreement. Every one of the 54 Republicans voted against the agreement, which would deliver to the mullahs $150 billion, lift the conventional weapons embargo, and validate Iran's nuclear program in exchange for vague promises not to go nuclear for 10 years. Twelve Democrats, coincidentally the Democrats holding the 12 toughest seats, were allowed to vote against the bill. Because Congress had surrendered its treaty power, 67 votes were required to stop the agreement instead of the 67 required to enact a treaty under the increasingly irrelevant Constitution.
The promised money flowed into Iran and, as predicted, the money flowed out again to America's enemies â Hezbollah, the Syrian regime, the Houthis, and even the Taliban. Their services included a massive surge in advanced IED attacks on the dwindling U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Dozens of Americans died, hundreds were maimed.
The Iranians, from the beginning, cheated on a massive scale, and Benjamin Netanyahu's government immediately redoubled its efforts to ensure the Iranians could not cross the line from aspiring to actual nuclear power. Israeli cyber warriors worked to slow the program remotely, but the NSA â on President Obama's orders â assisted the Iranians in hardening their computer systems pursuant to the nuclear deal's notorious "sabotage" provisions.
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[NATION.PK] Pakistain is the land of the pure. Quaid-e-Azam kept his nose to the grindstone to create a state where Moslems could live with peace and prosperity without fear of maltreatment by the Hindu majority. The dream was realized on the 14th of August, 1947 in the Holy month of Ramazan (Oh sorry it's Ramadan! My sincerest apologies). How fitting, right?
Fast forward to 2015. We have achieved a lot since the blessed day we got independence from the "Goras". However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... the biggest achievement has got to be how we have managed to find the Kuffaar amongst us. It was a tough job to be honest. Impossible, if you ask me, but we did it. After all, we are Paks. We are capable of achieving anything. And achieving this one objective in particular is especially praiseworthy.
Pakistain is the Land of the pure? Nope. Sorry. Not the case. It is infested with infidels. Each and every one of us. People like you. People like me. We are all infidels. A person belonging to a particular sect hates the one belonging to a different one. Branding each other "Kaafir" is a new cool apparently among the religious chauvinists. Facebook pages are chock-full of disgusting content pertaining to different schools of thoughts. Search for a particular sect and you will more maligning pages for that particular sect than the ones promoting it. You can find comments oozing with abhorrence. The other sects have pages of their own, vilifying the patrons of the opposing sects. Facebook acts as a platform for the ignorant and the fools to carry out hate crimes.
On the streets, the pattern is the same. Clerics engage in hate speeches which often lead to barbaric acts. Recently, an anti-terrorism court tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! a holy man for 10 years for making hate speech against another sect. This was just one holy man. There are millions of others with the same hidebound mentality. This begs the question, in a place where Moslems are not really safe, what's to become of the minorities?
I fail to comprehend the point in calling someone else, who doesn't follow your school of thought, a kaafir? Where is the tolerance that Islam preaches? Allah says in the Holy Koran "Let there be no compulsion in religion" (2:256). Who are we to judge then? The holier-than-thou attitude must be phased out.
Then again you ask someone this question on the street and their most probable reply would be, "All these problems are being caused by an external force. We Paks don't indulge in such horrendous activities. Oh wait, I know! It's those Zionists at it again!"
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[PJ Media] Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke told Judge Jeanine Pirro on Saturday that everything President Obama touches "turns to crap."
Appearing on Justice with Judge Jeanine to talk about the recent attack on the military recruiting center in Chattanooga, Clarke told Pirro, "One of the things that would help us that the Commander in Chief, President Obama, did not do-- or what he did do-- is he gutted the Department of Defense 1033 program." He said the program, which sent military surplus equipment to local communities, helped law enforcement respond to counterterrorism situations like the one in Chattanooga. "He gutted that."
"Everything that he does just comes up wrong. I've never seen a president like this--that everything he touches tends to turn to crap," he added.
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Well, this guy's obviously a raci...s.... waitaminute. Izzat his picture?
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Socialism. After you get past their tired denunciation of America for its failings of attaining perfection and becoming the Crystal City, you find what they have to really offer falls far shorter in delivery and offerings other than the whine of 'we meant well'.
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The Midas touch means that everything one touches turns to gold. Everything Obama touches turns to crap. Maybe we should call that the Obama touch.
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I tend to agree with the Sheriff. Of course, "O" and his supporters are celebrating what would be called his/their failures as huge successes, e.g. the bum Iran odious deal, Obamacare, etc.
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Everything progressives touch turns to crap. Then they keep having to force everyone to say it isn't crap so they don't have to face that reality. Thus re-education camps are born.
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The local police have no business using military equipment. They are not trained for it and in SOME cases are not the correct people to be using it.
I do not like a show of military force at events the government does not approve of.
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Unless you're dealing with a city of several million, the only 'para'-military force should be directly under the control of the state's National Guard, along with a state established rule of when, where, and how (ROE) that it is employed. Mother-may-I approval required by the state. Even then the municipal units should follow the same ROEs. The Mumbai attack, by you know who, where and for what purpose, means municipals need a shorter response time to implement action.
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What happens when it's guys like you and me protesting (peacefully) against the most recent violation of the constitution? Name that law enforcement shows up with an overwhelming show of force. You gonna put flowers in their guns?
This is all hypothetical of course.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Welcome to Obama's America.
[NATION.PK] Pakistain is the land of the pure. Quaid-e-Azam kept his nose to the grindstone to create a state where 
