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On ‘Crackers’

Posted on | November 2, 2015 | 85 Comments

 

Latausha Nedd, alias “Eye Empress Sekhmet,” was a guest on Megyn Kelly’s show Monday night. Ms. Nedd became notorious after she posted a YouTube video ranting against police and white people:

In one segment, Nedd holds a machete in one hand and points a handgun at the camera with the other as she says, “Right now we declare, it’s open season on a motherf–king cracker. All you motherf–king crackers y’all need to watch your motherf–king heads.” Elsewhere in the video, Nedd suggests taking action against police. “I say let’s have a take a gun day, and start walking up on these untrained and stealing their weapons,” she says. She also suggests trying to take over a police station. Nedd lives less than two miles from the Clayton County [Georgia] police headquarters.

Ms. Nedd was arrested in September and charged with making terroristic threats. She appeared on Megyn Kelly’s show to claim that she didn’t really mean what she said. And in the course of her interview, Ms. Nedd claimed that the word “cracker,” as a pejorative for white people, originated as a code-word among black slaves.

Ms. Nedd is wrong. The true etymology:

Georgia Cracker refers to the original American pioneer settlers of the Province of Georgia (later, the State of Georgia), and their descendants. In the late 19th century and the early part of the 20th century, Georgia ranchers came to be known as “Georgia Crackers” by Floridians when they drove their cattle down into the grassy flatlands of Central Florida to graze in the winter, stopping where the citrus groves began. In order to get the cattle’s attention they became very adept at cracking a bullwhip. The term “cracker” was in use during Elizabethan times to describe braggarts. The original root of this is the Middle English word crack meaning “entertaining conversation” (One may be said to “crack” a joke; a witty remark is a “wisecrack”). This term and the Gaelic spelling “craic” are still in use in Ireland and Scotland. It is documented in Shakespeare’s King John (1595): “What cracker is this… that deafes our eares / With this abundance of superfluous breath?” By the 1760s the English, both at home and in the American colonies, applied the term “Cracker” to Scotch-Irish and English settlers of the remote southern back country, as noted in a passage from a letter to the Earl of Dartmouth: “I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by Crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia, who often change their places of abode.” The word was later associated with the cowboys of Georgia and Florida, many of them descendants of those early frontiersmen.

So this “lawless set of rascalls,” to quote the Earl of Dartmouth, were known as “crackers” a term that, like “redneck,” referred specifically to a lower-class type of person –poor, uneducated, lacking social refinement. So you see that this word “cracker” was originally used by whites to put down other whites, and Ms. Nedd’s Afrocentric claims are entirely bogus. She is both ignorant and dishonest.

There is probably a word to describe a person as ignorant as Letausha Nedd, but I can’t imagine what that word would be.

 

Category: Racism

In The Mailbox: 11.02.15

Posted on | November 2, 2015 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.02.15

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Just a little administrivia – first, I’ve shut off the e-mail notifications for my Twitter account because it was getting out of hand, so if you have something you want me to link, send me an e-mail. My e-mail address is right up there at the top of the post. Second, thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in October!


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Why Women May Not Trust College Men
First Street Journal: Apparently Telling The Truth Is A “Microaggression”
Da Tech Guy: The GOP Didn’t Punch Back, Ted Cruz Did
Michelle Malkin: My Message To Melissa Harris-Perry – Sweat Is Color-Blind
Twitchy: Unexpectedly! Effect of “Affordable Care Act” Not A Surprise For Many


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Hundreds Arrested At Electronic Music Raves In Pomona, San Bernardino
American Thinker: Obama’s Corrupt And Immoral Abuse Of The Military
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – PT 109 By William Doyle
Conservatives4Palin: Jim Webb’s Views Too Centrist For Today’s Democrats
Don Surber: CNBC Just Cost NBC Millions
Jammie Wearing Fools: It’s Come To This – “Climate Change Is Sexist”
Joe For America: Bullies Think It’s Cool To Pick On Young Girl, Until They Realize Who Her Father Is
JustOneMinute: Good Luck To Our Bargaining Chips In Syria
Pamela Geller: German Muslim – “Islam Is Coming To Take Over Germany Whether You Like It Or Not!”
Protein Wisdom: “Palestinian” Stabby Fashions
Shot In The Dark: Woodbury – Time To Get Off The Clown Car
STUMP: Remember My Obamacare Prediction? I Didn’t Predict Hard Enough
The Gateway Pundit: For The First Time Ever, Majority of Democrats Now View Socialism Favorably
The Jawa Report: NC Still A Sanctuary City State
The Lonely Conservative: Another Obamacare Coop Bites The Dust
This Ain’t Hell: Marine Gets Bronze Star After False Allegations Investigated
Weasel Zippers: Hillary Clinton Supporters Endorse Sharia Law In America
Megan McArdle: The Economics Behind Grandma’s Tuna Casseroles
Mark Steyn: A Sharp Mind In A Sharp Suit


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Category: Linkagery

Charlie Sheen Has AIDS?

Posted on | November 2, 2015 | 45 Comments

 

Allegedly, I hasten to add. Regular Right Guy runs down the tabloid gossip that has been going around Hollywood the past year, most recently in a report at Radar Online. The recklessness of Sheen’s life — cocaine and whores — was bound to catch up with him sooner or later, and if he is indeed infected with HIV, this would not be particularly surprising. But these are mere allegations, I hasten to add, so if any coke-addled whores want to have sex with Charlie Sheen, don’t worry about it. Roll the dice. It’s probably just a rumor, right?

 

Category: Celebrities

She Is 23 and ‘So F–king Exhausted’

Posted on | November 2, 2015 | 106 Comments

Feminist Tumblr is about many things, but in general it’s about young women who hate the whole world and everyone in it. Marina is an “intersectional feminist and a human rights advocate” who hates the whole world because everybody is sexist and she recounts the various hassles she must endure before she finally blows up and calls her boss “a sexist a–hole,” which is not her fault:

this is what sexism does – it makes it impossible to win if you’re a girl, or a woman, it makes your entire existance an uphill battle. and truth be told, i am getting so f–king tired. i am 23, a quarter of my life behind me, and i am already tired of educating men twice my age about what is right and appropriate. i am tired of the stares that say i am over-reacting, the replies to calm down, the polite smiles that are meant to knock me down a few pegs. i am tired of explaining to men that sexism is not this one incident, it is my entire life, my every single day. i am 23 and i am so f–king exhausted.

See? She needs to educate us about “what is right and appropriate” because she is 23 and an expert on everything, while the rest of us (especially men twice her age) are clueless idiots.

This is why we cannot simply laugh at feminism’s death-grip on college education. Young women emerge from the protective campus cocoon — where no one is permitted to criticize feminism — and enter a world where most people don’t spend their days worrying about “human rights” and “intersectionality.” In the real world, people have work to do and bills to pay, and the last thing they need is for some young fanatic fresh out of college, hired for an entry-level position, to go crazy in the office because somebody made a joke she didn’t like.

Feminism makes women unemployable.

A paranoid worldview that perceives misogyny and social injustice everywhere renders feminists incapable of functioning in normal life. Because success in the real world requires cooperation and teamwork, a hostile chip-on-your-shoulder attitude is no more conducive to professional success than it is to personal happiness.

One more thing, sweetheart: You misspelled “existence.”

 

Category: Sex Trouble

Guys: Never Talk to a College Girl, Because All College Girls Hate You

Posted on | November 1, 2015 | 70 Comments

 

The implementation of so-called “affirmative consent” policies means that every heterosexual male student is at risk of expulsion if he attempts to have sex on campus. College orientation is now basically an anti-sex training program where female students are (a) taught that all men are rapists and (b) encouraged to file sexual assault charges if they have any physical interaction with male students. The fate of “John Doe” at Brown University — banned from campus for making out with a girl he met at a party — illustrates the extreme danger male students face in an academic environment where feminists have ginned up a frantic hysteria of hatred. Because the number of actual rapes does not justify their claim that 1-in-5 college women are victims of sexual assault, officials are trying to make up for the “Rape Shortage” by inciting false accusations.

At Washington and Lee University, an official reportedly told female students that “regret equals rape.” At Ohio State University, you are guilty of sexual assault unless you and your partner agree why you are engaging in sexual activity. At Harvard University, there were six false rape accusations in 2014. The organizer of a “Summit on Sexual Assault” conference at Darmouth College suggested male students should be expelled as soon as they are accused.

This is what feminism means for college students in 2015: Every male student on campus is a suspected rapist, and every female student on campus is his would-be victim. A college boy risks an accusation of “harassment” if he even speaks to a girl. The smartest thing a male student can do is to avoid female students as much as feasibly possible. Shelby Emmett interviewed students at New York University and one boy expressed the fear of sex caused by “affirmative consent” policies:

“That’s what scares the sh*t out of me. Because if anything happens, if someone says I did anything or something is misconstrued, I’m automatically the villain, I’m automatically the bad guy, and it’s up to me to prove that I’m not — which is interesting, because in America it’s supposed to be innocent until proven guilty.”

Yes, college boy, you are “automatically the villain.” Feminists hate you for being male, and they want to see you expelled.




 

Category: Education, Sex Trouble

Rule 5 Sunday: Just What It Says On The Label

Posted on | November 1, 2015 | 14 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

With the coming of cool weather to Las Vegas, one’s thoughts naturally turn to hot & spicy foods – and, of course, hot and spicy women. What better example than Kate Upton, who in a classic example of truth in advertising, went to a Halloween party dressed as a bottle of Tabasco? I daresay the McIlhenny folks are missing out on an awesome marketing opportunity if they don’t glom on to this. Since I haven’t done the disclaimer thing for a few weeks, let me take this opportunity to remind our Gentle Readers that many of the following links are to pictures generally considered Not Safe For Work since they are of young women clad in little or nothing. Nothing pornographic, mind you, but any problems you have with wives, girlfriends, bosses, or SOs objecting to them on your computer screen are YOUR problems, not ours.

Mr. Verlander’s not the only one in the couple bringing the heat. 🙂

Politically Incorrect Conservative leads off this week with some fine videos by Charlotte McKinney, followed by Tricking and Treating with the Goodstuff, Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls with Guns, and the debut of Missouri Spectator with some criticism of Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia. Animal Magnetism has Rule 5 Friday and a Super-Sized Saturday Gingermageddon Deluxe, which I can personally verify has no cheese. First Street Journal this week blogged about the women of the IDF (alas, with all their clothes intact) and we also heard from The Last Tradition (another debut!) with Anastagia Pierce.

EBL’s thundering herd this week has Mitzi Gaynor, The Force Awakens, Supergirl, Becky Quick, Mets WAGs, Game 4 World Series Rule 5, Halloween Cheerleaders, and Demi Lovato.

A View from the Beach chips in withElvira’s Halloween Special, Zombie Crabs Haunt Chesapeake Bay, Aussie Develops Sudden Interest in Mexican Weather, But It’s Good to Be a Guy, Modern Vampires Plague New Orleans, Tuesday Morning Golf Tips,  “We’re Not the Jet Set”, Is Man the Boxing Ape? (Cave girl), Can the Redskins Maroon the Buccaneers?, and RIP: Maureen O’Hara.

Soylent Siberia’s Sunday coffee creamer is a kitchen elf, followed by Monday Motivationer Carmen, Tuesday Titillation Elena, Humpday Hawtness Carpet & Woodwork, Falconsword Fursday Sushi, Corset Friday Underwear Oversight,  T-GIF Friday Don’t Poke Your Eye Out, and best wishes for a Soylent Halloween.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Ashley Benson, his Vintage Babe is Norma Talmadge, and Sex In Advertising is covered by Gisele Bundchen. Also, the obligatory 49ers cheerleader! At Dustbury, it’s Mindy Kaling and Maitland Ward.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery, especially the linkagery that’s made Rule 5 Sunday the most linked post at The Other McCain two weeks running! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Pre-Veterans Day Rule 5 Sunday is midnight on Saturday, November 7.


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Category: Rule 5

Hillary Is Lying, People Are Dying

Posted on | November 1, 2015 | 14 Comments

Patrick Howley reports:

Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s embassy in Tripoli, Libya, warned State Department officials in Washington, D.C., not to blame the Youtube video, Innocence of Muslims, for the Benghazi terrorist attack.
The House Benghazi Committee released a new email Saturday that a Tripoli embassy official sent to Clinton’s underlings in Washington, D.C., on September 14, 2012, two days before Susan Rice appeared on Sunday talk shows to use the administration’s “video” talking point.
“Colleagues, I mentioned to [redacted] this morning, and want to share with all of you, our view at Embassy Tripoli that we must be cautious in our local messaging with regard to the inflammatory film trailer, adapting it to Libyan conditions,” the official wrote.

You can read the whole thing. The official in Tripoli told the State Department that it was “increasingly clear that the series of events in Benghazi was much more terrorist attack than a protest which escalated into violence,” and warned against conflating the simultaneous protests in Egypt with “this well-planned attack by militant extremists” in Libya. What this email shows is that Clinton cannot plausibly claim she believed the lies about the Benghazi attack that she and others (including Susan Rice) promoted in the days after Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed on Sept. 11, 2012.

The Benghazi cover-up was necessary, first of all, to protect Obama’s re-election campaign message that, with the death of Osama bin Laden, the threat of Islamic terrorism had been defeated. By deliberately lying — portraying the Benghazi attack as a protest against a YouTube video — Clinton sought to reverse the meaning of this event, creating the false impression that right-wing “Islamophobia” was a greater threat than radical Islam itself. Furthermore, there is clear evidence that what happened at Benghazi was a consequence of U.S. covert operations to influence the so-called “Arab Spring” uprisings that had begun in 2011. Questions about what Ambassador Stevens was doing in Benghazi, and the nature of the CIA operations in Libya he was apparently overseeing, are at the heart of what this scandal is really about.

 

“What difference, at this point, does it make?”

The answer to Hillary Clinton’s now-infamous question is that the death of four Americans in Benghazi brought to light an aspect of Obama administration policy that continues to have consequences for U.S. national security. Was the “Arab Spring” a spontaneous occurrence or was it a result of a U.S. covert policy intended to overthrow the governments of Libya, Egypt and Syria? There have been reports that the United States supplied weapons to the rebels who toppled Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi and then sought to recover those weapons, shipping them to opponents of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. It is believed that Ambassador Stevens went to Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, as part of that operation, to conduct negotiations with Libyan rebels who were refusing to give up their U.S.-supplied weapons. This backstory of the Benghazi attack, as part of a much larger U.S. policy in the North Africa/Middle East region, is why this ongoing investigation cannot be dismissed as mere partisan politics or a trivial concern with Hillary Clinton’s personal emails. The current crisis surrounding ISIS militants in Syria and Iraq, which has caused the deployment of U.S. Special Forces to Syria, is directly connected to the policies that Hillary Clinton implemented and supervised during her tenure as Secretary of State.

Meanwhile, Islamic extremists are exploiting the instability that the Obama administration’s policies have created. Egypt:

ISIS has released a video purporting to show the final moments of the Russian jet that crashed in Egypt, killing all 224 people on board.
The terror group has claimed it downed the aircraft, but has not said how it might have done so. The horrific footage . . . shows a large structure resembling a plane falling through the air, before being consumed by a mass of smoke.
Cairo and Moscow have denied any possible terrorism link in the incident, which was one of the deadliest Airbus crashes in the past decade.
However, it has emerged that the aircraft broke up mid-air scattering debris and bodies over a wide area. . . .
Professor Michael Clarke, Director General of the Royal United Services Institute said early indications suggest that the jet may have been destroyed by a bomb on the aircraft.
He told BBC Radio Five Live: ‘This aircraft was 200km north of its take-off zone, that means it was flying at around 31,000 feet. Terrorists, as far as we know, don’t have equipment to take down an aircraft at that height.
‘They have shoulder-launched missiles, known as man-portable missiles. They can get aircraft when they are taking off or landing, when they are going low and slow. But anything above 8,000 or 9,000 feet is out of the range of the weapons that they’ve got.’
He said the area where the jet crashed is a known location for groups affiliated to Al Qaeda and ISIS, but it was highly unlikely that a ground-based weapon was responsible for the in-flight break up.
‘Early reports said it split into two and that suggests a catastrophic failure, not a mechanical failure, but perhaps an explosion on board, so I would be much more inclined to think, if we have to guess at this stage, it is much more likely to have been a bomb on board than a missile fired from the ground.’

A terrorist attack in Egypt against a Russian airliner, at a time when Russian forces are engaged in defending Assad’s regime in Syria? We are seeing the consequences of a disastrous policy failure by the Obama administration, a failure in which Hillary Clinton is deeply implicated.




 

Category: Hillary Clinton, Islam, Libya, Syria, Terrorism

American Academia Is a Corrupt Racket

Posted on | October 31, 2015 | 31 Comments

Arthur Brooks reports the deliberate and systematic prejudice:

This year, a team of scholars from six universities studying ideological diversity in the behavioral sciences published a paper in the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences that details a shocking level of political groupthink in academia. The authors show that for every politically conservative social psychologist in academia there are about 14 liberal social psychologists. . . .
In one survey cited, 82 percent of social psychologists admitted they would be less likely to support hiring a conservative colleague than a liberal scholar with equivalent qualifications. . . .
One of the study’s authors, Philip E. Tetlock of the University of Pennsylvania, put it to me more bluntly. Expecting trustworthy results on politically charged topics from an “ideologically incestuous community,” he explained, is “downright delusional.”

(Hat-tip: Donald Douglas at American Power.) This has profound repercussions, because every intelligent college student is aware of the political biases of the faculty. Because the left-wing prejudice of professors is so extreme — 14-to-1 — young conservatives know that they have a near-zero chance of ever being employed in academia. Therefore, conservatives simply don’t pursue advanced degrees that would qualify them for such employment. No matter how much interest a conservative student might have in a field like psychology or history, there is no incentive for a conservative to seek a Ph.D., because no university would ever knowingly hire a conservative scholar.

Systematically excluded from employment in academia, conservative students instead get degrees in fields like business management or engineering, which qualify them for private-sector employment with just a bachelor’s degree, or else go to law school. The built-in political prejudices of the arts, humanities and social science faculty thus have a self-replicating effect, discouraging the interest of any student who does not support the radical far-left politics of the professors.

Discrimination against conservatives in academia, in turn, influences the larger culture. An obvious reason for the blatant bias of the mainstream media is that all the university professors who train journalists are Obama voters. Go to Northwestern University or Columbia University and try to find a Republican on the communications, journalism or political science faculty. Think about this: Who is the most successful radio broadcaster of the past 25 years? Rush Limbaugh. Has any university communications department in America ever asked Rush Limbaugh to lecture their students? Don’t be absurd.

Likewise, have any of the more prominent on-air personalities on Fox News — Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Megyn Kelly — ever been invited to share their expertise with journalism students? What about the reporters, commentators and editors at National Review and the Weekly Standard? Do they get asked to teach any college journalism seminars?

No, of course they don’t. Our nation’s university campuses are off-limits to conservatives. What colleges now provide students is not education, but political indoctrination by fanatics who see their primary mission as recruiting and training activists for the Democrat Party.

Our nations’s colleges are totalitarian institutions controlled by radicals who hate America almost as much as they hate God.

Damn them all. Damn them all to Hell.




 

Category: Education
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