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Feminists Chase ‘Avengers’ Director Off Twitter, Because … Gender Theory?

Posted on | May 4, 2015 | 113 Comments

Let me explain something up front: Hollywood blockbusters are not made by conforming to people’s pet political theories. The target audience is 12-year-olds who want to see a lot of explosions and chase scenes and stuff like that. Yet the bottom-line calculations of box-office profit mean nothing to feminists:

Avengers: Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon is officially off the grid, having quit Twitter today (May 4).
The filmmaker signed off from the social media service with two final messages to his 1.15 million followers. . . .
Whedon has been criticized by some Avengers fans and critics for using Scarlett Johansson’s international spy Black Widow in a typical ‘damsel in distress’ role in a few key scenes late in Age of Ultron.

OMG, a female character getting rescued by a male hero? Oh, we can’t have that kind of stuff in movies in 2015! We must critique the social construction of the gender binary within the heterosexual matrix!

No more studio executives and producers and directors — no, this capitalist structure of movie production must be replaced by a system that guarantees social justice! The era of white cis male heteropatriarchal movie-making is over! Henceforth, every script will be created by a committee of Women’s Studies majors under the supervision of Judith Butler, Sally Kohn and Anita Sarkeesian, and all characters must be either lesbian, genderqueer or oppressed minorities from the Third World, preferably disabled or, at least, neuroatypical.

Your next super-hero blockbuster will be about an undocumented Guatemalan paraplegic bisexual with a harelip and chronic depression.

And the 12-year-olds are going to like it, or else.





 

Category: Hollywood, Sex Trouble

TERROR IN TEXAS: Garland Gunman Elton Simpson Was Muslim Convert

Posted on | May 4, 2015 | 30 Comments

Sunday night’s terrorist attack on the American Freedom Defensive Initiative “Draw Mohammed” event in Texas was apparently committed by an Arizona man who converted to Islam:

The father of one of the suspected gunman in the Garland, Texas shooting told ABC News today that his son “made a bad choice.”
“We are Americans and we believe in America,” Dunston Simpson said. “What my son did reflects very badly on my family.”
Simpson’s son, Elton, was identified earlier today to ABC News by a senior FBI official as one of the suspects in Sunday’s failed attack on a Texas community center that was hosting an event displaying cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. Elton Simpson and another man were killed by a police officer after they opened fire on the officer and a security guard, local police said.
Today FBI agents and a bomb squad were at Simpson’s home in an apartment complex in north Phoenix conducting searches of the apartment. Officials believe Simpson is the person who sent out several Twitter messages prior to the attack on Sunday, in the last one using the hashtag #TexasAttack about half an hour before the shooting. Prior to that, the Twitter account holder had published messages sympathetic to Islamic terror groups such as ISIS.

Kristinn Taylor at Gateway Pundit has an excellent roundup, including this report from the Los Angeles Times:

Two social media accounts tweeted messages about the attack apparently before it happened.
A Twitter account titled “Shariah is Light” — bearing the image of extremist Islamic propagandist Anwar Awlaki, who was killed in an American drone strike in Yemen in 2011 — posted an allusion to the attack just minutes before it happened.
Before the shooting, the “Shariah is Light” account also tweeted a command to follow another account, titled “AbuHussainAlBritani,” which also tweeted before and after the attack. . . .
“The knives have been sharpened, soon we will come to your streets with death and slaughter!” tweeted the “AbuHussainAlBritani” account before the attack.
After the attack, the “AbuHussainAlBritani” account began tweeting praise of the Texas shooting, and linked the attack to the militant group Islamic State.
“Allahu Akbar!!!!! 2 of our brothers just opened fire at the … art exhibition in texas!” the account tweeted. “Kill Those That Insult The Prophet.”
“They Thought They Was Safe In Texas From The Soldiers of The Islamic State,” the account tweeted.
The accounts have since been suspended.

The second shooter has just been identified:

Law enforcement officials said Monday afternoon that the second shooter in the Texas attack was Nadir Soofi, 34, Simpson’s roommate.
FBI agents searched a Phoenix apartment Monday as part of the investigation into the shooting, which occurred Sunday evening in Garland, a city near Dallas.
The FBI had begun monitoring Simpson again recently. Authorities said Monday that they were still working to determine details about the two men and who may have instigated the plan. The FBI does not believe the shooting was directed by an international terrorist group, but is still investigating.

UPDATE: Today I’ve had my office TV on CNN all day and it was insulting to watch the network go out of its way to depict Pamela Geller as an irresponsible hatemonger. They had on two different guests (Mark Potok and Heidi Beirich) from the SPLC, as well as a professor who has written a book about “Islamophobia.” Noah Rothman at Hot Air discusses the liberal media’s smears against Geller and observes:

This isn’t the first time an organization listed as a “hate group” by the SPLC was attacked by gun-wielding maniacs, but you don’t see many media outlets looking into the climate of murderous violence inspired by this liberal advocacy group.

The SPLC is a dangerous totalitarian propaganda outfit.

UPDATE II: More information about Nadir Soofi:

According to his Facebook page, Soofi spent a considerable amount of time with his little brother. He’s a graduate of the University of Utah and the International School of Islamabad in Pakistan. His page also shows multiple posts featuring Palestinian and anti-police propaganda. Frequently, he posts the phrase “Eid Mubarak” meaning celebration to the blessed. Soofi was the owner of Effinity Solutions, a carpet cleaning business in Phoenix. In July 2013, he called himself a “newbie to the carpet cleaning industry.”

Just another law-abiding adherent of the Religion of Peace.





 

Category: Islam, Terrorism, Texas

LIVE AT FIVESEVEN: 05.04.15

Posted on | May 4, 2015 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
POLICE KILL TWO GUNMEN OUTSIDE MOHAMMED CARTOON EXHIBIT IN TEXAS

Exhibit attendees sequestered by Garland PD officers

Garland ISD security guard shot; bomb squad called in to scope out attackers’ car
Geller, Wilders unhurt

Nepal Tells Foreign Aid Workers To Get Out Of Katmandu
Help needed more in the countryside

Baltimore Ends Curfew
National Guard forces to be withdrawn over the next week



POLITICS
Ben Carson Officially Throws His Hat In The Ring

Carson speaks to the media in Mobile, April 30

Former neurosurgeon largely unknown outside conservative circles

DOJ Checks With White House Before Admitting Amensty For Illegals Already Underway

Hillary Bows To The Far Left

O’Malley: Washington Has Abandoned America’s Cities

Former Deputy CIA Director Accuses GOP Of Distorting Agency’s Analysis

Rep. Van Hollen (D-MD) Blames GOP For America’s Economic Woes

Ohio Gov. Kasich Still Unsure About Presidential Bid

Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD) Claims Too Much Policing Leads To Unrest



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Dips On Weak China Factory Data: WTI $58.80, Brent $66.22
German Data Leads Euro Shares Higher, Dollar Steadies
India April Factory Output Eases On Weak Demand
McDonald’s To Announce Latest Turnaround Plans
GM Cuts Price On 2016 Volt
The Other Enemy Of 401(k) Plans And Your Retirement
Microsoft Reveals New Edge Browser
Facebook Opens Up Internet.org For More Developers
Find Apps That Secretly Connect To Ad Sites
Tesla Begins Selling Used Model S Cars Online
Apple Watch Has A Tattoo Problem



SPORTS
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Wins At Talladega

Fans greet Dale Jr.

First win at legendary track since 2004; sixth Sprint Cup win this year


Brewers Sack Manager Ron Roenicke

Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry To Be Named NBA MVP


Astros Notch 10th Straight Win, Edge Mariners 7-6

Ducks Stay Perfect In Postseason, Blank Flames 2-0

Twins Complete Chicago Sweep With Crushing 13-3 Win

Lightning Have Habs On The Ropes

Fister Outduels Gee, Nats Blank Mets Again 1-0



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Grace Lee Whitney, Star Trek’s Yeoman Rand, Dies At 85

As we remember her best, from the original series

Former lounge singer credits Trek fans for her survival and recovery from addictions; died at home near Fresno

“Walking Dead” Actor Apologizes For Subway Rant

Princess Kate, It’s A Girl!

Models Slip Into Pajamas For Vogue Bash

The Force Awakens On The Cover Of Vanity Fair

Art World Insiders Gather For Murder Mystery Book Party

Nigel Terry, Excalibur Star, Dies At 69

Tiger Woods & Lindsey Vonn Call It Quits

The Black Widow Conundrum

Jamie Foxx’ Attempt At National Anthem Panned By Boxing Fans

Beyonce Signs Teen Wannabees



FOREIGNERS
Israeli Police Clash With Ethiopian Jews After Anti-Racism Protest Turns Violent
Everest Climbing Season Likely Over As Nepal Turns To Rebuilding
Next UK Government Likely To Be Coalition; Neither Labour Nor Tories Likely To Gain Majority
National Front Disciplinary Board To Determine Founder’s Fate
Chicom Chief Warns Against Taiwan Independence
Taliban Welcome Afghan Peace Efforts After Qatar Talks
“Schedule” Prompts Kim Jong-Un To Cancel Moscow Trip
Suicide Bomber Hits Damascus In Possible Assassination Attempt
Top Terror Suspect In Philippines Killed, Probably By Followers
Deal Or No Deal, Greece Still Faces Bankruptcy



BLOGS & STUFF
Louder With Crowder: An Open Letter To Al Sharpton
EBL: The Guilty Bunch
The Shark Tank: Cruz Releases Report – Obama’s Power Grab As Demonstrated In Court Cases
American Power: Obama Wants To Kill The Opportunity Scholarship Program
American Thinker: The Great American Riot Circus
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Punk Rock Lessons
Conservatives4Palin: Marie Harf On Clinton Corruption – “I Don’t Automatically Want To Assume It’s Problematic”
Don Surber: 2016 Campaign Slogans
Jammie Wearing Fools: Boehner Getting All Weak-Kneed On Looking For Clinton’s Lost E-Mails
Joe For America: Black Teens Execute Father & Son In New Orleans; Obama & Co. Silent
JustOneMinute: Hillary Won’t Follow In Obama’s Footsteps
Pamela Geller: Devout Muslim Twitter Account Tweets #TexasAttack Moments Before Art Contest Shooting
Protein Wisdom: “I Intend To Vote With My Vagina”
Shot In The Dark: Perspective
STUMP: Pension Quick Takes – Bullshit Assumptions And Bad Advice
The Gateway Pundit: Silence From Obama On Islamic Terror Attack In Texas
The Jawa Report: RIP Ben E. King
The Lonely Conservative: Woman Who Failed Fitness Test Will Still Become NYC Firefighter
This Ain’t Hell: LA Times Claims Nobody Wants To See A Bergdahl Trial
Weasel Zippers: Utah CCW Permit Holder Takes Out Carjacker With Taxpayer Relief Shot
Megan McArdle: Simple Or Cheap, But Not Both
Mark Steyn: A Se’ennight Of Steyn



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TERROR IN TEXAS: Gunmen Attack @PamelaGeller Event in Garland UPDATED: ISIS Takes Credit? ‘May Allah Accept Us as Mujahideen’

Posted on | May 3, 2015 | 77 Comments

Two gunmen opened fire at a “Draw Mohammed” art context in Texas, and the story is now being updated continually. Pamela Geller remains as courageously outspoken as ever:

This is a war. This is war on free speech. What are we going to do? Are we going to surrender to these monsters?
Two men with rifles and backpacks attacked police outside our event. A cop was shot; his injuries are not life-threatening, thank Gd. Please keep him in your prayers.
The bomb squad has been called to the event site to investigate a backpack left at the event site.
The war is here.

UPDATE: Brandon Darby reports at Breitbart.com:

GARLAND, Texas — Shots rang out this evening at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas during the Mohammed Art Exhibit and Contest. A law enforcement officer was shot and both suspects have been killed. Officers on the scene said that it is possible that explosives are in the area.
Attendees were immediately forced into lockdown by police, including three Breitbart News reporters. Sources say event organizer Pamela Geller and keynote speaker Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician, are safe. Breitbart Texas was conducting a live video interview with Geller at the moment of the attack.

UPDATE II: This is shocking news:

Just before the time of the attacks, at 7:35 EST, well before news agencies had reported the attacks, an Islamic twitter account reported that an attack was about to take place.

UPDATE III: Headline at the Dallas Morning News:

Gunmen open fire outside ‘Muhammad Art
Exhibit’ at Garland ISD facility, police say

Headline at WFAA-TV:

Two shot near Garland events center

Via Memeorandum with more blog commentary from Moe Lane, Jawa Report, The Gateway Pundit and Scared Monkeys.

UPDATE IV: Headline at American Power:

Two Suspects Open Fire, Shot Dead at AFDI
‘Draw Muhammad’ Event in Garland, Texas

 

Category: Islam, Terrorism, Texas

Brother Of- & World’s Youngest Blogger Experience Patriarchal Oppression

Posted on | May 3, 2015 | 10 Comments

by Smitty

Category: humor, World's Youngest Blogger

FMJRA 2.0: For The Northern Lights And The Southern Comfort

Posted on | May 3, 2015 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Anarchy in Baltimore
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
Da Tech Guy
Watcher Of Weasels
VA Right
Nice Deb
Noisy Room
Trevor Loudon
The Razor
The Right Planet

The Feminist-Industrial Complex: Academia and the Means of Production
Batshit Crazy News
First Street Journal
The Pirate’s Cove
Political Hat
A View from the Beach

Late Night Reprise With Rule 5
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach
Ninety Miles from Tyranny

Her Majesty Continues To Set The Uber-Capitalist Example
Batshit Crazy News

Intolerant Diversity, ‘Rape Culture,’ and the Feminist-Industrial Complex
Batshit Crazy News
Living In Anglo-America
Regular Right Guy
IOTW Report

FMJRA 2.0: When Things Aren’t Going Your Way
Batshit Crazy News

Introduction To Feminist Theory
Batshit Crazy News
Living In Anglo-America

If You’re Rich, Bisexual and Mentally Ill, Columbia University Wants You!
Batshit Crazy News
Dyspepsia Generation

Mayor In Dire Straits? Media Pool Accused Of Twisting Her Words?
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

LIVE AT FIVE: 04.28.15
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive

Feminism’s ‘Rape Culture’ Insanity
Batshit Crazy News
IOTW Report
Living In Anglo-America

Why Do Feminists Hate Beauty?
Batshit Crazy News
The Camp of the Saints

Forgiving Brooke Baldwin
Dyspepsia Generation
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach

In The Mailbox, 04.30.15
Batshit Crazy News

Teaching Literary Feminism
Batshit Crazy News
Da Tech Guy
Living In Anglo-America

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.01.15
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (17)
  2.  Regular Right Guy (6)

…and a bunch of folks who just missed the 5-link cutoff. :/

Special thanks to the Watcher’s Council, which voted Stacy’s “Anarchy In Baltimore” first place from all the non-Council blog posts this week!


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Category: FMJRA Award

Illegal Alien Hermes Rivera Charged With Raping 10-Year-Old Louisiana Girl

Posted on | May 3, 2015 | 16 Comments

Did Obama’s executive order amnesty make this crime possible?

A man living in Kenner has been charged with three counts of aggravated rape against a 10-year-old girl after the victim was seen in a video claiming they “made love,” police said.
The mother of the girl found the cell phone video on Thursday, April 16, 2015. It was recorded by her daughter. On it, the victim alleged that she and her mother’s boyfriend had “made love” three times.
After confronting her daughter, police said the 10-year-old victim told her mother it happened in their bedroom.
25-year-old Hermes Rivera admitted to police that he had sex with the victim three times between March and April 3, 2015.
Rivera remains in custody. At the writing of this report, no bond had been set.
Police said Rivera is an undocumented immigrant.

(Hat-tip: @exposeliberals on Twitter.) In her 2002 book Invasion, Michelle Malkin called attention to the fact that our broken immigration system means America is importing criminals (and terrorists) from all over the world. Those warnings have gone unheeded by the political elite in both parties, and advocates of multiculturalism wish us to ignore the kind of “culture” immigrants are bringing with them:

The legal age of heterosexual consent in Mexico is 12. . . .
Mexican men have a reputation for leering and worse at little girls, which shouldn`t surprise us, since sex with children is socially acceptable in Mexico. Fifteen-year-old girls have a ceremony called a Quinceañera which announces their availability to become wives, mothers and girlfriends. In America, children of that age are expected to complete three more years of high school, to be followed hopefully by a college education. But in Mexico, young girls are considered available, according to law and custom.
A 2005 news report from North Carolina found that “Culture might be factor in sexual abuse” . . . referring to Hispanic men`s propensity to prey upon little girls. . . .
An example: Mexican Diego Lopez-Mendez pleaded guilty to sexual assault on a 10-year-old girl in West Virginia, with a not-uncommon excuse that child sex is normal among his people.
“In the pueblo where I grew up girls are usually married by 13 years old. … I was unaware of the nature of the offense or that it was a bad crime”, said Lopez through the translator. . . .

You can read the rest of that 2007 report at VDare.com, which has been condemned as a “hate” site simply because they report facts and analyze news about immigration without a liberal bias. We live in an age where truth is “hate” and the news media are part of a dishonest partisan propaganda campaign to promote policies that amount to importing criminals and Democrat voters — but I repeat myself.





 

Category: Crime, Immigration, Louisiana

Demetrius Blackwell, 35, Charged in Shooting of NYPD Officer Brian Moore

Posted on | May 3, 2015 | 45 Comments

New York Daily News:

A plainclothes city cop was shot in the face in Queens Saturday when the ex-con cousin of a former New York Giant opened fire into his unmarked patrol car, authorities said.
Officer Brian Moore and his partner were driving through Queens Village when they spotted the suspect “adjusting an object in his waistband” near the corner of 212th St. and 104th Road about 6:15 p.m, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said.
The officers pulled up behind the suspicious man — identified as Demetrius Blackwell, the younger cousin of former Giants cornerback Kory Blackwell — and tried to question him.
Without warning, Blackwell whipped out a gun and squeezed off at least two rounds into Moore’s car, Bratton said.
“He immediately opened fire on them before they had time to get out of the vehicle,” Bratton said at a solemn Saturday night press conference. . . .
Moore’s father and uncle are both retired NYPD sergeants.
One of Moore’s Massapequa neighbors, who said she has known the wounded cop his entire life, described him as “an all-around good kid.”
“My daughter went to the prom with him,” said Joan Olton, 56. . . .
Blackwell, who occasionally stayed with relatives in the area, fled the scene after the shooting — but was captured 90 minutes later inside a neighbor’s house. . . .
Blackwell has nine prior arrests — including two separate assaults on police officers, sources said.

JVW at Patterico adds:

Officer Moore is the fifth member of the NYPD to be shot in the past five months. Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were ambushed and shot dead in Brooklyn by a Baltimore man this past December, and Officers Andrew Dossi and Aliro Pellerano were wounded while responding to a January grocery store robbery in the Bronx.

(Via Memeorandum.) Coverage of the Baltimore riots over a man who died in custody has created the false impression that police brutality is routine. However, in a nation of 300 million people, it is a simple trick to pick some phenomenon you want to criticize and then say, “Look, here is a Example A, and there is Example B and, oh, look! Now we have Example C — it’s an epidemic!”

The phenomenon in question (for example, lesbian school teachers molesting teenage girls) may actually be quite rare, but in a nation of 300 million people, you can find a dozen examples of relatively rare phenomena every year. The campus “rape epidemic” hysteria has been manufactured by feminists (and their media allies) using this method. Here is a video about the real frequency of “police brutality”:

Which is more common: Police brutality, college fraternity gang rapes, or lesbian teachers molesting teenage girls? None of these phenomena are really “common,” but there are activists, politicians and media with an agenda to promote the false perception that some phenomena are symbolic of social injustice. Certain incidents are emphasized to create the impression of a “trend” when there is not really a trend at all.





 

Category: Crime, Media Bias, New York, Racism
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