The Bookworm Beat 1/11/14 — The illustrated edition, and Open Thread *UPDATED*

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A mish-mash of things from the wonderful Caped Crusader, from Earl, and from my own Facebook feed.  The first one explains a lot about the bond between Leftists and Islamists, despite the fact that the former ought to hate the latter because of little things like religion, sexual constraints, etc., while the latter definitely hate the former because of little things like lack of religion, sexual freedom, etc.

Radical Islamists and Leftists have identical beliefs

Everyone knows thugs and no one knows military

It's not free if your neighbor is paying

Germany 1933 versus France 2014

Thatcher versus Che

Who was Mohamed

The Trojan Republican

Student calculator has more processing power than NASA did in 1960s

Everything in Radio Shack ad exists in a single smart phone

Hillel Neuer updates Niemoller

The UN Human Rights Council ignores Jihad

Jews killed over freedom of existence

When terrorists attack Israel the world supports the terrorists

As for this last one, I don’t know if the data is correct about the frequency with which police die on the job [see update, below], but I do appreciate the underlying sentiment:

Police officers killed routinely

UPDATE: Lee Also writes in the comment thread as follows:

The bottom statistic comes from the National Law Enforcement Officer Memorial Fund:

”A total of 1,501 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty during the past 10 years, an average of one death every 58 hours or 150 per year. There were 100 law enforcement officers killed in 2013.”

Last year, according to nleomf.org, 124 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty.

I’d trust the NLEOMF numbers.

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