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Best Buy supports Islamist terrorism

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Apr 222012

Apparently not content to navigate only an increasingly poor business model, Best Buy has decided to misguidedly and unapologetically support CAIR—the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

CAIR is innocuously named, but closely linked to Islamist terror organization Hamas. If you ask about it on Best Buy’s Facebook page, here is the canned statement you get:

Best Buy’s customers and employees around the world represent a variety of faiths and denominations, and we respect our employees’ efforts to constructively promote diversity and education in their communities. Over the past two years, our Inter-Faith Employee Business Network, a group of employees focused on promoting diversity and inclusion at Best Buy, has supported CAIR-Minnesota with $1,450 in total contributions to support an annual banquet.”

This is not “inclusion.” It’s “terrorism.”

A retail landscape increasingly hostile to the Best Buys of the world is, apparently, just not challenging enough all by itself. So incredibly, they’re trying to stop the bleeding with a straight razor.

Best Buy, this isn’t hard to understand, but I’ll say it plainly: support of CAIR is incompatible with ever seeing another dollar of mine. Any freedom-loving person who spends 60 seconds and as many IQ points looking into CAIR is going to come up with a remarkably similar conclusion.

How many of those are there, do you reckon?

19-year-old Qatari: “We just sit, smoke, and eat junk food”

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Apr 162012

Heartening news, my fellow Americans: the crimes of indulgence against our bodies are not quite as heinous as those in at least one other country. In Qatar, half of all adults are obese, and 17% of the population is diabetic. Wouldn’t you have guessed the United States headed those categories? (Here, about a third of adults are obese, and 8% of the population is diabetic.)

The problem in Qatar is a one-two of the most wealth per capita in the world and a habit of having servants take care of everything the least bit unpleasant and/or mundane.

I’ve been chewing on what the American media might do with such a story (note that this story appears on a British site), and I think the answer is nothing. I mean, it’s a bit of a conundrum, when you think about it. You’d think they’d be eager to excoriate Big Oil for this, as that’s the source of the wealth. However, we’re also talking about a country where essentially the entire indigenous population claims Islam, so the standing order not to say anything the least bit critical about Muslims would be really tough for them to navigate.

Poor U.S. media. It’s so confusing when knee-jerk, politically motivated directives collide.

Happy Easter

Current Events, Family, History, Religion No Responses »

Apr 082012

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over Him. The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives [...]

The beer countdown

Consumption, Religion 1 Response »

Mar 272012

I’ve made it this far, and I’ll make it the rest of the way. I’m not going to put three-quarters of it in the books and then quit. It’s unfun enough to have spawned several moments of reflection, which is the point, yes?

About Obama’s (latest) apology…

Annoyances, Current Events, Language, Liberty, Politics, Religion 4 Responses »

Feb 262012

Folks, I apologize. The topic of our esteemed president’s apology to Afghanistan over the inadvertent burning of four Korans—an act for which practitioners of this religion of peace have already murdered 25 people as of this writing—deserves more than dropping a couple of links. However, a) I’m too pissed off to get anything of sustained [...]

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