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New Word: “Grubado”

Posted on | November 16, 2014 | 18 Comments

by Smitty

Instapundit was noting that ‘gruber‘ is now a verb. Surely, though, the pile of hooey that is ObamaCare has room for a little more coinage as the ooze flows about, engulfing Progressive dreams in fetid sludge.

Grubado: noun. A portmanteau of ‘Gruber’ and ‘bravado’, this is that special panache with which a sociopath politician suddenly disavows a formerly prominent advisor.

Two great examples of grubado are Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi.

Let this be a lesion to all of their other thralls: once you’re a liability, your principle-free Progressive masters will un-person you with great grubado.

Category: Uncategorized

FMJRA 2.0: Day Late & A Dollar Short (Interstellar Remix)

Posted on | November 16, 2014 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Day Late & A Dollar Short (Interstellar Remix)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Flowtation
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot
Average Bubba
Batshit Crazy News
Animal Magnetism
That Mr. G Guy
Regular Right Guy
Proof Positive
Ninety Miles from Tyranny
A View from the Beach

A Lesbian Theory of the Penis
Battleswarm Blog
That Mr. G Guy
Cragin Media
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach
Instapundit

To Say the Very Least
Regular Right Guy
The Pirate’s Cove

‘Broken People,’ Cats and Prozac
Samizdata.net
Scoop.it

The Anti-War Movement Isn’t Dead; It’s Just Restin’
A View from the Beach

Signs Of Pending Apocalypse: DewItos
Batshit Crazy News

Sum Ting Wong At CNN
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
That Mr. G Guy
A View from the Beach

FMJRA 2.0: Day Late & A Dollar Short, Pre-Veterans Day Edition
Batshit Crazy News
The Pirate’s Cove
That Mr. G Guy

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.10.14
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
Brian J. Noggle

Rush Limbaugh Will Rape the DCCC
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach

Sex Trouble: Feminist Androgyny and the Polymorphous Perversity of ‘Queer’
Fighting The Long Defeat
Batshit Crazy News
That Mr. G Guy

In The Mailbox – Veterans’ Day 2014
That Mr. G Guy

And Let All God’s Children Say ‘Amen’
That Mr. G Guy

Go, #GamerGate, Go!
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

LOL! Time Magazine Suggests Ban on Word ‘Feminist,’ Freakout Ensues
Cragin Media
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Instapundit

In The Mailbox: 11.12.14
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox, 11.13.14
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

L.A. Schools Argue Girl, 14, Legally Consented to Sex With Teacher, 28
Batshit Crazy News
First Street Journal

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.14.14
Batshit Crazy News

Hard-Boiled And Hard Core
Batshit Crazy News

Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (15)
  2.  That Mr. G Guy (9)
  3.  Regular Right Guy (8)
  4.  A View from the Beach (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

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Category: FMJRA Award

‘Got Issues? Lube! Lube! Lube!’

Posted on | November 15, 2014 | 48 Comments

Chicago schools are having what is called a “controversy,” a word that means parents found out what their children are learning:

Parents at a Near West Side school say they are “shocked” and “horrified” after viewing a new sex education curriculum intended for fifth-graders, saying the way the information is presented is over the top and not age-appropriate.
During report card pickup Wednesday at Andrew Jackson Language Academy, the school hosted several parent workshops, including an afternoon meeting on Chicago Public Schools’ newest sex ed curriculum. . . .
At one point, parents could view materials intended for students. A binder labeled as the curriculum for students in fifth grade touted the benefits of female condoms for extending sex and increasing pleasure and encouraged using lubrication.
The chairwoman of the Local School Council, Angela Bryant, called the way the information was to be presented to students “appalling” and not age-appropriate. . . .
In a statement Friday afternoon, CPS officials said that the objectional material presented at Jackson was a mistake. . . .
But a slideshow posted on another school’s website, the Waters Elementary School, includes all five of the objectionable slides in a Powerpoint presentation. According to the school’s website, the slideshows contain lessons and handouts presented to students in April 2014. . . .
Under the new sex ed guidelines, 5th grade students are typically taught about contraception, [CPS spokesman Bill] McCaffrey confirmed. The discussion includes use of female condoms, he said. . . .
[S]ome of the information disturbed parents at the meeting, leading one to snap photos of five pages in the binder that included a lesson plan for fifth-graders.
One of the pages, titled “Feel Good Reasons to Use FCs [Female Condoms],” included how to make sexual intercourse last longer and read: “Once you pop, you don’t have to stop!”
The page included a drawing of a woman lifting up a 1950s-style house dress next to a smoking grill and read: “Feel the heat! FCs adjust to your body temperature, so you and your partner can both feel the heat.”
Another page reads: “Got issues? Lube! Lube! Lube!”
Bryant said she was “offended” and horrified” that the “obscene” curriculum was intended for the school’s fifth-grade children, who are typically 10 or 11 years old.
“The curriculum is appalling,” Bryant said. “The language to me was the most offensive part initially. Pop and lube, lube lube, and those kid of things. … [It] serves to rob many of our children of their innocence.”
“The language for me is very much concerning to me as a parent. The content goes beyond what I feel is age-appropriate for a fifth-grader,” said Bryant, who has two children who attend the school, which has 565 students.

What unionized government-certified indoctrination experts do to taxpayers is often quite painful. “Got issues? Lube! Lube! Lube!”

 

Category: Chicago, Education, Illinois, Sex, Unions

L.A. Schools Argue Girl, 14, Legally Consented to Sex With Teacher, 28

Posted on | November 14, 2014 | 88 Comments

Love and lawyers and “education” in the 21st century:

Los Angeles Unified School District lawyers fighting a civil lawsuit argued in court that a 14-year-old middle school student was mature enough to consent to having sex with her 28-year-old teacher, and that she bore some responsibility for what happened. The district’s attorneys also introduced the girl’s sexual history into the trial as part of their defense strategy. . . .
Last November’s case involved a math teacher at Thomas Edison Middle School in Southeast Los Angeles who in December 2010 began a six-month sexual relationship with a girl who went to the school. The teacher, Elkis Hermida, was convicted of lewd acts against a child and sentenced in July 2011 to three years in state prison.
The girl’s family filed a civil lawsuit against L.A. Unified, claiming the district was negligent and the experience had emotionally damaged the girl, endangering any future romantic relationships she might have.
During the three week civil trial, district lawyers denied that L.A. Unified had any knowledge of the relationship, argued the girl knew what she was doing when she chose to have sex with Hermida and suggested the girl was to blame for her situation, not LAUSD.
“She lied to her mother so she could have sex with her teacher,” said Keith Wyatt, L.A. Unified’s trial attorney in the case, in an interview with KPCC. “She went to a motel in which she engaged in voluntary consensual sex with her teacher. Why shouldn’t she be responsible for that?”

(Hat-tip: Yid With Lid.) Today’s lesson is brought to you by the letter “L” for “lawyer.” Remember, L rhymes with Hell, which is where evil liberal lawyers — and the selfish unionized perverts who run public schools — have been leading our society for many years.




 

Category: California, Crime, Education, Liberals, Sex

Hard-Boiled And Hard Core

Posted on | November 14, 2014 | 31 Comments

— by Wombat-socho


This week was spent reading a lot of naval history – Morison’s The Two-Ocean War, of course, because it’s enormous, and James Hornfischer’s The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, an excellent recounting of the Battle of Samar, in which half a dozen escort carriers with their puny screen of destroyers and destroyer escorts managed to meet and defeat a Japanese battleship task force. Samar doesn’t get much mention among the great battles of the Pacific War, partially because explaining how it came about is terribly embarrassing to the Navy and one of its heroes, Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey, but heroism like this deserves to be remembered, and Hornfischer does an excellent job of telling the tale of Taffy 3 and its desperate struggle in October of 1944. This book won the Morison Prize, and rightly so; Hornfischer is every bit as good a storyteller as Morison, while incorporating the more modern historians’ trope of including the stories of the crewmen who served the guns, armed the planes, and died in the hundreds when the Japanese gunners finally found the range.


I’ve been noticing a trend in science fiction and fantasy lately, where an author writes what seems to be a fantasy at the beginning, but as the story unfolds it turns out that Clarke’s Law is at work, and what you thought was magic is just technology we haven’t mastered yet. This is definitely the case with The International Lord of Hate’s Grimnoir trilogy, which begins with Hard Magic. Correia adds additional goodness by making his hero a stereotypical hard-boiled private eye straight out of Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, but unlike the classic noir P.I.’s Heavy Jake Sullivan has an additional talent: he’s a Gravity Spiker, one of those rare people who can manipulate the pull and intensity of gravity. When we first meet Jake, he’s being strong-armed into helping the federal Bureau of Investigation, which arranged to have him released from prison in return for helping them chase down and capture other Actives. This time, they want him to take down an old girlfriend, and that’s far from the last thing to go wrong. As usual, Correia does a great job of delivering lots of action along with serious thought about how the world would be changed if 1% of the population acquired magical abilities. I am waiting for a copy of Spellbound to become available through the county library, but in the meantime, since I had a copy of Warbound, I read that too – and all I can say is WOW. The stakes are huge, Jake Sullivan is surrounded by allies of questionable loyalty, and he’s going straight into Shanghai on what looks for all the world like a suicidal attack on the Chairman of the Imperium. He’s got a few tricks up his sleeve, though, to say nothing of friends in low places. I don’t think I’ve enjoyed a novel this much since finishing Correia’s Monster Hunter Nemesis, which is saying quite a bit. Not sure if you’ll like the Grimnoir novels? Have a taste with the short story “Detroit Christmas”.


Speaking of hard-boiled, perhaps the most iconic of the hard-boiled detectives isn’t a fictional private eye, it’s Prohibition agent Eliot Ness, played by Robert Stack in the Desilu/Quinn Martin TV series The Untouchables, and later by Kevin Costner in the Brian DePalma movie The Untouchables. Chicago is just the beginning of the Eliot Ness story, though, and Douglas Perry brings you – in true Paul Harvey style – the rest of the story. In Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero, Perry continues the story through Ness’ brilliant career as Cleveland’s Director of Public Safety, in which he cleaned up an infamously corrupt city police force and broke the local mob – for which he became much better known than his exploits as a T-man working against Capone, since after all (in contrast to the movies) it was the IRS that actually nailed Capone for tax evasion; Ness and his prohibition agents were more of a sideshow and backup operation in case the tax charges couldn’t be made to stick. After Cleveland, though, the story of Eliot Ness is a less happy one, but you can read about that yourself. A good book that does an excellent job of offsetting all the Hollywood hoopla surrounding a genuine hero.


Category: Books, History

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.14.14

Posted on | November 14, 2014 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Obama To Announce Ten-Point Immigration Plan Via Executive Order As Early As Next Week

Listening to the Americans who didn’t vote, i.e. the voices in his head

More “deferred action”
Up to five million illegals to be shielded from deportation
Boehner vows to fight Obama on immigration
Job market to be flooded with three million illegals

Nebraska Medical Center Prepares For New Ebola Patient
Surgeon is Sierra Leone national with permanent residency in US

Narendra Modi Arrives In Brisbane For G20 Summit
Bilateral talks with Australia’s PM Tony Abbott also on the agenda



POLITICS
General Dempsey: US Forces Could Fight Alongside Iraqis Against Islamic State

The chairman of the JCS testifies before Congress as SecDef Hagel looks on

“…any expansion of that [existing forces in Iraq] would likewise be modest.”

Report: Poor Secret Service Training Allowed Fence Jumper

Pelosi: Jonathan Who?

Dingy Harry Chosen As Senate Minority Leader; Fauxcahontas Joins Leadership

Hagel Orders Nuke Force Overhaul To Fix Failures

Gone Missing: $420 Million In Weapons, “Sensitive Items” In Afghanistan

Outgoing Arkansas Governor Calls For Delay In Tax Cuts

Retiring Rep. Stockman Acknowledges Subpoenas

Feds Using Airborne Fake Cellphone Towers To Gather Data



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Near Four-Year Low On Glut, OPEC Worries: WTI $74.41, Brent $78.10
Asian Stocks Dip After China’s Soft Data
Dow At Record High But S&P Flat As Energy Weighs
Walmart Encouraged By Sales Uptick But Only Cautiously Optimistic For Holiday Season
Halliburton, Baker Hughes Consider Merger
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys P&G’s Duracell
Dreamworks Deal Math No Boon For Hasbro Stockholders
Amazon, Hachette Bury The Hatchet – It’s Just Not Clear In Whom
One Of The Hottest Video Games, “Assassin’s Creed: Unity”, Has Some Hilarious Glitches
Facebook Using Animated Dinosaur To Explain New Privacy Policy
Video Game Sales Flat In October, But Downloads Continue To Grow



SPORTS
Ryan Tannehill Leads Dolphins Past Bills 22-9

Throws two late TDs to rally Dolphins

Breaks three-game slump against Buffalo

Habs Rout Bruins, 5-1

Bulls Escape Toronto With Win

Jets Stop Hurricanes’ Surge

Mike Trout Finally Wins The MVP

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Calls For Legalized Sports Betting

Flames Scorch Coyotes 5-3

FBI Reportedly Stepping Up Investigation Of FIFA Corruption

Sens Edge Oilers 4-3 In OT



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Michelle McLaren In Talks To Direct “Wonder Woman” Movie

Not Michelle McLaren.

“Breaking Bad” producer/director to direct Gal Gadot flick?



A “Duck Dynasty” Musical In Las Vegas?



Honey BooBoo’s Mom Claims Child Molester Hotel Pic Is Fake

Bono Cheats Death After Learjet Door Falls Off

Poppy Montgomery, It’s A Boy!

Casey Wilson Is Expecting

Brooke Shields Still Feels Guilty About Dean Cain Popping Her Cherry

Richard Simmons Speaks Out After Depression Claim



FOREIGNERS
David Cameron: UK Jihadis To Be Made Stateless If They Join Islamic State
World Leaders, Protesters Descend On Brisbane For G20 Summit
Moscow, Kiev Trade Accusations; US Warns Russia Against Escalation
Pope Francis To Build Showers For Homeless At The Vatican
India/US Deal Paves Way For Global Trade Pact
Overseas Indians In Australia Seek Dual Citizenship
ISIS, Al-Qaeda Agree To Ceasefire, Unity Against Opponents
Is Turkey Heading For A Train Wreck With The West?
Argentine Judge Summons Justin Bieber



BLOGS & STUFF
Doug Powers: Nancy Pelosi Was For Jonathan Gruber Before She Never Heard Of Him
Twitchy: Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) Decries Justice Department’s “Culture Of Misinformation”
American Power: The Demise Of The White Democratic Voter
American Thinker: ANSWER Coalition Not Letting Ferguson Crisis Go To Waste
BLACKFIVE: Anti-War BS At Concert For Valor
Conservatives4Palin: Governor Palin, Duck Dynasty To Rally In Louisiana For Bill Cassidy
Don Surber: Facts Blow Away Charles Blow’s “Negrophobes” Theory
Jammie Wearing Fools: Thanks, Obama! Penalty For Not Signing Up For Obamacare Scam To More Than Triple
Joe For America: Dems Desperate For Diversity – Fake Indian Moving To Leadership
JustOneMinute: Root, Root, Root For The Home Team
Pamela Geller: Shocked NC Mom Calls TV News Station After Reading Answers On Child’s Islam Worksheet
Protein Wisdom: “Drunk Girl In Public” Video – Another Fake But Accurate Production
Shot In The Dark: Trulbert! Part XXIII – Redemption’s Handmaiden
STUMP: Detroit Bankruptcy – It’s Over, But It’s Not
The Gateway Pundit: SMOKING GUN VIDEO – Gruber Admitted Obama Was In The Room When “Cadillac Tax” Lie Was Created, White House Logs Confirm
The Jawa Report: Jawas Are Not Surprised That Turks Are Assholes
The Lonely Conservative: Senate Democrats Create Special Leadership Post For Elizabeth Warren
This Ain’t Hell: “Hail Mary” Landrieu
Weasel Zippers: Watch 2008 Obama Make The Case Against 2014 Obama’s Executive Amnesty
Megan McArdle: Big Data Goes To The Dogs


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Category: Live at Five

Go, #GamerGate, Go!

Posted on | November 13, 2014 | 92 Comments

There are several ways a man can deal effectively with feminists:

  1. Ignore them. Deprive them of the attention they seek, and watch them “rage spiral” into a swamp of hysterical self-pity;
  2. Objectify them with the male gaze. This is my favorite method, because it’s so fun. Happily married for 25 years, I’m immune to shame. It’s not as if I’m “hitting on” a radical feminist when I call her “sweetheart” or tell her how much I’ve always been fascinated by butch lesbians. Oh, please, honey, tell me more about how I’m oppressing you with my phallic supremacy.
  3. Stand your ground. Speak truth to feminist power.

Option Three is even more dangerous than Option Two, because feminists consider it “hate” to disagree with them. A guy risks all kinds of repercussions for being branded a “misogynist,” but some guys don’t give a damn. Milo Yiannopoulos writes at Breitbart.com:

GamerGate is remarkable — and attracts the interest of people like me — because it represents perhaps the first time in the last decade or more that a significant incursion has been made in the culture wars against guilt-mongerers, nannies, authoritarians and far-Left agitators.
Industry after industry has toppled over, putting up no more of a fight than, say, France in 1940. Publishing, journalism, TV… all lie supine beneath the crowing, cackling, censorious battle-axes, male and female, of the third-wave feminist and social justice causes.
But not gamers. Lovers of video games, on seeing their colleagues unfairly hounded as misogynists, on watching journalists credulously reporting scandalous sexual assault claims just because a person was perceived to be “right-wing” and on seeing the games they love attacked and their very identities denied and ridiculed, have said: no. This will not stand. . . .
Because hard-core gaming is overwhelmingly male — don’t believe cherry-picked statistics that tell you women now make up 50 per cent of gamers; they don’t, in any meaningful sense — and because those men are often of a stubborn, obsessive, hyper-competitive and systematic bent, it has produced an army finally capable of launching offensives against the censors — using the censors’ own tactics, such as advertiser boycotts, against them.

(Via Instapundit.) The intelligentsia will give gamers no recognition for their success , but just showing the guts to fight feminism head-on was a heroic gesture that more people should emulate.

 

Category: Feminism

In The Mailbox, 11.13.14

Posted on | November 13, 2014 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Michelle Malkin: Big Truthy Is Watching (Some Of) You…And Me
Doug Powers: Will Jonathan Gruber Return $400K To “Stupid” Voters Now That Third Video Has Surfaced?
Twitchy: “Spock Has Weighed In” – Leonard Nimoy Calls Gruber’s Statements “Illogical”


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Public Approval Of Democrats Falls To Record Lows After Midterm Elections
American Thinker: Progressivism’s Last Call
BLACKFIVE: Who Is Actually Part Of The Coalition?
Conservatives4Palin: Obamacare Put Together By “Elitists Who Don’t Really Understand The American People”, Says…Howard Dean?
Don Surber: The First 2016 Electoral College Map Looks Bad For Democrats
Jammie Wearing Fools: Goodbye, Dalai – Obama Throws Tibet Under The Bus As He Grovels Before Chicoms
Joe For America: Miss Him Yet? Veterans’ Day – Obama In China, George W. Bush Rockin’ America
JustOneMinute: I Believe It Is Cooling For Our Time
Pamela Geller: The Story Of The Majority Of Christians In Egypt
Protein Wisdom: Grubergate Part 2
Shot In The Dark: Either Do, Or Do Not
The Gateway Pundit: Black Gang Shoots 5-Year-Old White Girl Dead On Her Grandfather’s Lap – No National Outrage
The Jawa Report: Chicago Boasts Four Of Ten Most Dangerous Neighborhoods In America
The Lonely Conservative: Sticker Shock – Hundreds Of Thousands To Lose Health Plans
This Ain’t Hell: Blackhawk Crew Suspended For Halloween Candy Drop
Weasel Zippers: Obama Reportedly To Issue Flood Of Sweeping Executive Orders To Stop “Global Warming”
Megan McArdle: Want Communion? Pay Your Taxes


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