Obama’s Failed Presidency

Posted on | October 10, 2014 | 30 Comments

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail)

“I want to make government cool again,” he said.
Obama believed in government, and he was confident that his election would signal that the American people were ready to believe again, too.
As we approach the sixth anniversary of his election, the Obama presidency is in tatters. Obama’s policies, foreign and domestic, are widely seen as failed or failing. His approval rating is near its lowest point. Obama’s base of support is loyal and fierce and shrinking. Much of the country sees him as incompetent or untrustworthy, and government, far from being “cool,” is a joke on good days and a threat on bad ones.

Read the rest by Stephen F. Hayes. The problem is not unique to Obama. He’s just Jimmy Carter with more charisma.

The seldom-recognized fact is, liberalism is a wholly destructive force. People who speak of liberalism’s “successes” generally refuse to acknowledge that liberalism only “succeeds” in destroying things, or by cannibalizing pre-existing assets and spending borrowed money. Take for example, Social Security. It began with a 1% employee “contribution” and a 1% payroll tax. Now the Social Security tax is seven times as much, yet the program is hurtling toward bankruptcy, an endless fiscal nightmare. “Success!”

To what shall we compare liberalism? It’s like the ne’er-do-well son who has become addicted to heroin, and America is the prosperous family home which the liberal junkie is steadily robbing blind. Dad comes home from the office and the junkie son says, “Here, Dad, I bought you some Social Security.” Dad thanks him and then says, “Hey, what happened to my big screen TV?”

The junkie shrugs. Dad’s power tools go missing, then Mom’s jewelry, but the indulgent parents don’t want to admit the problem.

Neither does America want to admit its liberalism problem. Go back and look at the LBJ administration. LBJ promised us a “Great Society,” but all he did was destroy a Pretty Good Society. Whatever was wrong with America in 1963, it certainly wasn’t as bad as the hopeless mess LBJ left it in when Richard Nixon took office in 1969.

Yet even as liberalism destroys America, it creates constituencies dependent on a continuation of this destructive process. Entire states have been bought off by the Democrats: “Outside of a handful of states–California (49/48), New York (50/47), Massachusetts (50/47), Maryland, which benefits from the D.C. boom (56/43) — the numbers are brutal. Even blue states like Minnesota (40/57) and Oregon (44/54) have had it with Obama. And in his last redoubts, California et al., Obama is not much more than breaking even.”

College kids think Obama is awesome, but they’re prone to weird beliefs.

Race riots in St. Louis? There’s your “Hope and Change”!

How do you like it now?

Category: Barack Obama

Jesse Matthew: Serial Killer?

Posted on | October 10, 2014 | 9 Comments

Left to right: Hannah Graham, Jesse Matthew, Morgan Harrington

Evidence is beginning to indicate that the suspect in Hannah Graham’s disappearance was a one-man crime wave:

The prime suspect in the September 2014 disappearance of U.Va. student Hannah Graham had been interviewed by police five years ago in connection with another missing young woman, NBC29 in Charlottesville, Virginia, reported Thursday.
Jesse Matthew, 32, who was arrested in connection with Graham’s disappearance last month, has been linked to the 2009 unsolved murder of Morgan Harrington. Harrington, a 20-year-old Virginia Tech student, was last seen at a rock concert in Charlottesville. Her body was found several months later.
Matthew had worked as a cab driver in the Charlottesville area the night Harrington vanished, according to NBC29’s Henry Graff. Two weeks ago, as the search for Graham intensified to areas outside Charlottesville, police found Matthew’s abandoned cab on a farm.
Following Harrington’s disappearance in 2009, police had interviewed dozens of cab drivers, including Matthew. . .
Graham, 18, was last seen during the early morning hours of Sept. 13 with Matthew on Charlottesville’s downtown mall. Matthew was arrested in Texas Sept. 21 and charged with abduction with intent to defile in Graham’s disappearance.
Two years ago, the FBI said DNA evidence showed that Harrington’s killer also was responsible for a 2005 rape in Northern Virginia, so Matthew could be linked to that assault as well.

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.10.14

Posted on | October 10, 2014 | 2 Comments

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TOP NEWS
Ebola No Laughing Matter Now

Not so funny now, is it, you idiot?

Passenger shouting “I’ve been to Africa!” escorted off flight to the Dominican by emergency responders in hazmat suits, tested for deadly virus
Dallas deputy tests negative for Ebola

Great Leap Forward: Red China Overtakes US As World’s Largest Economy
IMF estimates China’s GDP at $17.7 trillion

UKIP Wins First Seat In Commons With Tory Defector Carswell
Carries Clacton with landslide 60% of the vote

POLITICS
“Woefully Inadequate”: Congressional Republicans Rip White House Review Of Prostitution Scandal

Rep. Jason Chaffetz sounds off

White House insists Dach was a volunteer, not employee

Federal Judge Strikes Down Texas Voter ID Law As “Poll Tax”

Is The SD Senate Race Turning Sour For The GOP?

Oregon Governor’s Fiance Admits To Sham Marriage

Supremes Block Wisconsin From Implementing Voter ID Law

Oklahoma Unveils New Death Chamber

Voters Tune In, Turn Off Democrats

Anchorage Police Release Report On Brawl Involving Palin Family

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Slumps To Lowest Since 2010 As Rout Extends: WTI $83.74, Brent $88.30
Asian Shares, Oil Prices Plunge On Growth Worries
Dow Drops 334 In Worst Day Of 2014
Pepsi Earnings Hit The Spot; Market Holds Stock Back
Dollar Steady Against Euro, Yen Amid Lower US Yields
Dairy Queen Latest To Get Hacked
Icahn Demands Apple Stock Buyback
Microsoft’s Nadella Walks Back Comment On Womens’ Pay Raises
Sony Smartwatch 3 Lands With Verizon This Month
HTC Debuts Selfie Phone, GoPro-Like Camera
iRobot’s New App Lets You Control Your Robot Army With An Android Tablet
Google Now Beats Both Siri And Cortana
Zynga Launches Revamped “Words With Friends”

SPORTS
Luck On Fire As Colts Beat Texans

370 yards and three TDs

Indianapolis hangs on to win, 33-28

Blue Jackets Score Two In Third, Beat Sabres 3-1

O’s Sign J.J. Hardy To Three-Year Extension

Habs Top Caps In Shootout, 2-1

Crosby Sparks Pens To 6-4 Victory Against Ducks

Lightning Edges Panthers In OT

Wheeler, Jets Rout Coyotes 6-2

Wild Shut Out Avs 5-0

Predators Edge Sens 3-2

Nash Scores Twice As Rangers Beat Blues

Blackhawks Top Stars In Shootout

Flames Pound Oilers 5-2

Dodgers Assess Their Roster After Early Exit From Pennant Race

Kyle Busch Wins Pole At Charlotte, Denny Hamlin Third

Strauss: English Cricket Is The Real Victim Of Pietersen’s Autobiography

Will Denard Span Be Back With The Nats In 2015?

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Katy Perry To Perform At Super Bowl’s Halftime Show

“A more family-friendly act,” they said.

Or so insiders say; Perry publicly blasted the No Fun League’s “pay to play” trial balloon on ESPN

SNL Veteran Jan Hooks Dies At 57
From the long-ago days when it was actually funny

George Clooney Crashes NYCC, Jokes His Wife Has No Idea What It Is

Meet Elle’s 2014 Women In Hollywood

Scarlett Johansson Looking Hot Just Five Weeks After Daughter’s Birth

Selena Gomez Surprises Cancer Patients

Creepy: Gwyneth Paltrow Wants To Spend Time With Her Ex’s GF, Jennifer Lawrence

Kiss And Make Up With Anne Hathaway, We Dare You

FOREIGNERS
Labour Barely Holds Heywood & Middleton – Margin Of Victory Over UKIP Only 617 Votes
Kim Jong Un Absent From Major Anniversary Celebrations
More Mass Graves Found In Iguala
Islamic State Takes Over One-Third Of Kobane Despite Air Strikes
Mexican Police Nab Alleged Head Of Juarez Cartel
Chinese Fisherman Killed In ROK Coast Guard Raid
Hong Kong Students Undaunted By Authorities’ Rejection Of Talks
Iran Refuses To Admit US Member Of US Inspection Team
Japan Braces For Another Typhoon
Brazil Presidential Election: Silva’s Socialists Throw Support Behind Neves To Bring Down Rousseff
Suicide Attacks Kill 70 In Yemen

BLOGS & STUFF
Doug Powers: Hillary Clinton Reveals Her Weakness Heading Into 2016
Twitchy: Boy, Does This Gwyneth Paltrow Photo Capture Creepy Obama Cultism
American Power: Obama Ebola Bumper Stickers Appear Around LA
American Thinker: The Rise Of The Professional Slut
Conservatives4Palin: Karl Rove Is Ruining The GOP
Don Surber: LEGOs To Be Made From Unicorn Farts
Jammie Wearing Fools: Great News – Over A Dozen States To Cancel Non-Compliant Health Insurance Policies In Coming Weeks
Joe For America: Rep. Marcia Fudge Tells Her Black Constituents To Stop Complaining
JustOneMinute: The Defeat Of The Coalition Will Be Televised
Pamela Geller: Michigan Mom Outraged Over School Assignment Requiring Students To Proselytize For Islam
Protein Wisdom: Not Only Is Gender Irrelevant, It’s Now Thoughtcrime To Say Boys And Girls
Shot In The Dark: Trulbert! Part XV – Gone South
The Gateway Pundit: Deadly Enterovirus D68 First Indentified In Cities With Large Numbers Of Relocated Illegals
The Jawa Report: Another UK Terror Raid Nets Al-Muhajiroon Member Mizanur Rahman
The Lonely Conservative: HHS Secretary Says There May Be More Ebola Cases In The US
This Ain’t Hell: Pentagon – More ISIS Victories In Our Future
Weasel Zippers: CAIR Going After Woman Who Banned Muslims From Her Shooting Range
Megan McArdle: Feminists, You Can’t Pick Your Battles

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Category: Live at Five

Bad Ideas and Bad Prose at Cornell

Posted on | October 9, 2014 | 53 Comments

Cornell University may be the only Ivy League school with a “diversity” quota for the mentally ill. Or maybe the students were sane until they got to Ithaca and started studying under the tutelage of radical professors. At any rate, the Cornell campus is swarming with lunatics:

A student-sponsored event at Cornell University (CU) claimed capitalism and white supremacy are “institutions that promote rape culture” and “must be destroyed.”
The event, which recognized a “National Day of Protest Against Rape Culture” late last month, took place in CU’s William Straight Hall. Bailey Dineen, one of the sponsors of the event, reprimanded Cornell and the justice system and accused “white supremacist, imperialist, capitalist, [and] cisheteropatriarchy,” for promoting rape culture, according to the Cornell Review.
According to the event’s Facebook page, End Rape Culture, where 323 students confirmed their attendance, “[v]iolence and fear are a constant feature of our society.”
“We cannot pretend that ours is a progressive culture when sexual violence remains a daily fact of existence for minoritized identities,” the page says. “Advances toward ‘equality’ cannot purport to signify much when the reality of rape burdens women and queer bodies at every moment and remains a fixed part of the history and present of people of color, people of lower income, and other groups rendered powerless in our society.”
The page goes on to declare that “[s]o long as sexual violence exists, it will be used as a tool to ensure subordination in the interest of maintaining a white supremacist, capitalist, cisheteropatriarchy.” . . .

If you are ever tempted to use the phrases “minoritized identities” or “cisheteropatriarchy,” you should seek professional psychiatric help — or apply for a scholarship to Cornell University. Apparently, they have a Department of Bad Prose that teaches students to write this kind of impenetrable jargon. Their incomprehensible rhetoric is perfect for expressing their incoherent beliefs:

[O]ne of the event’s three organizers, Bailey Dineen, read an approximately 9-minute speech/poem (it had qualities of both) concerning her personal experiences and attacking rape culture . . .
At several points in the speech, Dineen began to cry, and in the audience several students were seen crying, too.

Are you having a protest, or are you having a nervous breakdown? At Cornell, it doesn’t matter. To-may-to, to-mah-to.

By enrolling mentally ill students, Cornell ensures that there will always be a few dozen undergraduates in attendance for any protest rally against imaginary oppressions. The deranged victims will begin weeping uncontrollably during their speeches, overwhelmed by the existential angst of their “minoritized identities” and “queer bodies.”

You may be wondering, “Who is this Bailey Dineen person?” What a coincidence — she’s been wondering the same thing!

Bailey prefers the pronouns “They, Their, Them,” so it’s probably a cisheteropatriarchal hate crime to call her “she.” Next, you may ask: “What is Bailey Dineen’s sexual orientation?” None of the above.

Bailey describes herself (or maybe “themself”) as asexual. Someone explained to her (them) that “there is this thing called sexual attraction,” but the idea of having sex “scares and repulses” Bailey. Here is a video interview with the asexual Bailey:

Some readers may be frightened by this. “Holy crap! This kook is a senior at Cornell University? An elite Ivy League institution where annual tuition is $47,286? Aren’t students at these schools supposed to be the best and brightest, the future leaders of America?”

Yep. We’re doomed. Hopelessly and irretrievably doomed.

Category: Education

‘Destroying Her Husband’s Life … Taking Back Power for Women Everywhere’

Posted on | October 9, 2014 | 26 Comments

Ben Affleck stars as Nick Dunne in Gone Girl.

“On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his beautiful wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick’s portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?”
— plot summary of Gone Girl

Feminism as revenge is a concept that many people understand instinctively. Whereas 50 years ago, the unhappy woman might have sought psychiatric therapy to help her cope with feelings of disappointment, regret and inadequacy, feminism encourages women to turn their feelings into political empowerment, to view themselves as victims of systemic male-supremacist oppression, so that whatever makes them unhappy can be denounced as social injustice.

Our common-sense understanding of feminism as revenge explains why most people reject feminism, per se. We don’t buy into the “personal is political” rationale, whereby unhappy women seek to transform their discontents into a radical cause. At the very least, common sense suggests that Women’s Studies majors — “raging lesbian feminists” who condemn Disney movies as “heteronormative” and make “Smash Patriarchy” their slogan — do not really speak for all women.

If nothing else, the new thriller Gone Girl signals that Hollywood at long last has figured out how to exploit an undeniable fact about Ben Affleck: Movie audiences don’t like him. Every cinematic attempt to make Affleck a heroic protagonist is doomed, because there is something about him people simply don’t trust. The 2013 movie Runner Runner was the first time I’ve seen Affleck cast appropriately, as a selfish, cynical offshore casino owner — the villain in a 21st-century film noir. And judging from the critical debate about Gone Girl, Affleck is set up as the fall guy in a complex feminist revenge fantasy.

Nick Dunne is a victim, but he’s not an innocent victim, nor is his missing ex-wife Amy a sympathetic character. Feminists are debating Gone Girl‘s ambiguities, Emine Sanders explains at the Guardian:

It wasn’t as if the last week’s think-pieces, roughly summed up as “Is Gone Girl a feminist masterpiece or supremely damaging to all women, everywhere?”, sprung out of nowhere. When Gillian Flynn’s novel was published in 2012, and became a bestseller, the US writer found herself accused of a “deep animosity towards women”. Her gripping, if ludicrous story — be warned that the whole plot is coming — of Amy Dunne, a wealthy and beautiful psychopath whose revenge on her cheating husband involves framing him for her “murder”, making up rape allegations against men (one of whom she murders during her demented spree) before trapping her broken husband by stealing his sperm, raised hackles. One blogger neatly summarised the objections to the character, saying she “is the crystallisation of a thousand misogynist myths and fears about female behaviour. If we strapped a bunch of men’s rights advocates to beds and downloaded their nightmares, I don’t think we’d come up with stuff half as ridiculous as this plot.” . . .
In an otherwise positive piece on the film for the feminist website Jezebel, the writer Jessica Coen admits: “Movie Amy pales in comparison to the vivid character we meet in the book. Strip away Book Amy’s complexities and you’re left with little more than ‘crazy fucking bitch’. That makes her no less captivating, but it does make the film feel a lot more misogynistic than the novel.”

You can read the whole thing and see how feminism can never accept a novel as a novel or a movie as a movie. Everything in culture and society must ultimately be refracted through the warped ideological lens of feminist theory, interpreted as political symbolism rather than enjoyed as entertainment. The classic example of this was Susan Faludi’s 1991 book, Backlash, where just one glance at the index reveals the intensity of her weird obsessions:

Fatal Attraction, 4, 25, 125-136, 141-142, 144, 157, 159, 208-210, 351

You see how this one movie, in Faludi’s mind, deserved its own 12-page treatment (pp.125-136), as well as multiple other mentions in her book. Why? Because the murderous psychopathic stalker played by Glenn Close was, in the minds of Faludi and other feminists, a symbol of a misogynistic hostility toward “liberated” women.

Personally, I’ve always viewed Fatal Attraction as a morality tale about the dangers of adultery, but many feminists seemed to take it as a personal insult, a condemnation of their own lifestyles.

Well, a hit dog will holler, as folks say down home.

If there is a stereotype of feminists as lonely, bitter, desperate, and dangerously crazy, where did that stereotype come from? Is it really just anti-feminist propaganda? Or does this stereotype contain within it some kernel of ugly truth? Returning to Gone Girl, here is Vox critic Todd Vander Werff’s take on the controversial film:

This is perhaps the most feminist mainstream movie in years, a forthright depiction of the ways that society controls women and forces them into certain roles, then lets men basically do whatever they want. Amy Dunne might be a monster, but she’s no sui generis psychopath. No, she’s Frankenstein’s monster, stitched together by a husband, parents, and a social order that demanded she be certain things, rather than who she really was.
And in destroying her husband’s life, she’s symbolically taking back power for women everywhere.

Vander Werff got scalded on Twitter for this claim, but I think he’s got a point. What he means is that Amy Dunne’s monstrous character is, as feminists would say, “socially constructed.” Or to put it in simpler terms: The patriarchy made her do it.

Amy Dunne tried to follow the script society provided her, and when that script did not bring her happiness — when Nick cheated on her — she decided she was entitled to revenge. Basically, she’s like Charles Bronson in Death Wish. Amy Dunne has been betrayed, and the abrogation of an implied contract (“Follow the script and your life will be happy”) turns her into a vigilante. Feminists are offended by Gone Girl only because they insist on viewing it through an ideological prism, perceiving the psycho killer as reflecting a negative interpretation of themselves. Here is Slate’s David Haglund’s take on the movie:

Time will tell what it is about David Fincher’s Gone Girl that people remember, but when it comes to the Gillian Flynn novel that the movie is based on, we already know: It’s the “Cool Girl” speech. That riff by the book’s titular missing woman, Amy Dunne, has been cited and debated and referenced over and over in the two years since the best-seller was published. It is, almost indisputably, the cultural legacy of the book.
The passage in question goes on for a couple of pages, but the part most frequently quoted begins like this:

Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.

“Men,” the next paragraph says, “actually think this girl exists.” And that line is key: The essential targets of Amy’s critique are men who think of women as extensions of themselves, as creatures who are meant to fulfill their own desires and not to have independent wants or needs that might occasionally come into conflict with them.

You can read the rest of that. The point here is that Gone Girl‘s actual message is about how women drive themselves crazy by attempting to live their lives according to formulas and scripts. And I would argue that it doesn’t matter whether it’s the “Cool Girl” script (threesomes and anal sex? really?) or whatever “empowered” script the movie’s feminist critics would prefer Amy Dunne to follow. Ultimately, you have to live your own life, and finding happiness in life requires that our expectations be rooted in a realistic understanding of ourselves, and of human nature. Everyone must learn to live with disappointments. Everyone must understand that they are flawed human beings, and that the other people in their lives are all flawed and human, as well. We cannot be something we are not, and we cannot solve our problems by wishing them away.

The famed sociologist Steven Goldberg wrote an entire book about this, When Wish Replaces Thought: Why So Much of What You Believe Is False. Wishful thinking is neither a good political philosophy nor a useful life strategy, and yet time after time we see people get tripped up over the “is/ought” distinction, stumbling into failure and becoming enraged because reality (life as it is) does not conform to their egalitarian ideals of “fairness” (life as it ought to be).

Good movies help us understand life. Good movies tell us the truth about our problems as human beings. One of my favorite movie scenes is from the 1984 film Repo Man. That apocalyptic Reagan-era cult classic is too weird to explain here, but basically, Otto leaves behind his life as a worthless punk slacker by taking a job repossessing cars. Toward the end of the movie, Otto is in a convenience store when one of his punk buddies, Duke, bursts through the door and tries to rob the place.

The store clerk pulls a pistol and fatally shoots Duke. As Duke is bleeding out, Otto goes to comfort him, and hears Duke speak his last words: “I know a life of crime has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame society. Society made me what I am.”

That, my friends, is a worthless punk way of thinking: “I blame society.”

If your response to failure is to look around for someone else to blame, you’re a punk. “Society” didn’t make Duke a criminal. He made his own choices. We all make our own choices in life.

Some people have advantages we don’t have. Sometimes the circumstances of our lives are unfortunate and arguably unfair. Sometimes other people hurt us and harm us, and there isn’t a whole lot we can do about it. However, the one thing we can always control is our own actions. We can choose between doing what is right and doing what is wrong. We can be wise or we can be foolish. We can do good or we can do evil. We can speak the truth or we can tell lies.

If we don’t believe that “society” makes a punk rob a convenience store, do we believe “patriarchy” causes all women’s problems? Isn’t feminism ultimately just a way of exempting women from responsibility by providing them with a scapegoat they can always blame?

If many feminists don’t like Gone Girl, it’s probably because Gone Girl tells an important truth. Feminists hate the truth.

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Category: Feminism, Sex Trouble

Birthday Week And The Admiral Of The Ocean Sea

Posted on | October 9, 2014 | 29 Comments

— Wombat-socho

This week all three of us that run this here blog celebrate our birthdays, and in fact today’s my 55th birthday. As Mickey Mantle once said, “If I’d known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.” All that aside, since I can’t afford to buy everyone a beer in celebration, I did the next best thing and knocked the price of my book, The Last Falangist, down to 99 cents for the weekend, including Columbus Day, about which more momentarily. I would have given it away for free today, but apparently it costs little enough already that Amazon won’t let me do that.

On a related topic, the deranged Anglo racists of Seattle have replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. This insults not only Italian-Americans, who have long claimed the Admiral of the Ocean Sea as a hero on account of his Genoese origins, but Latinos such as myself who realize that without him, everybody south of the Rio Grande would be speaking Portuguese, or even worse, Gaelic. Lies about Christopher Columbus abound, and since the best way to fight lies is with truth, I summon to the field of battle the eminent naval historian and retired admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning Admiral of the Ocean Sea is an honest look at the life and career of the great mariner who opened America to European colonization. A shorter version (the Reader’s Digest edition, if you will) is his Christopher Columbus, Mariner. Finally, if you want to go right to the source, there is Journals and Other Documents on the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, translated and edited by Morison. Columbus may not have been a stainless hero (who is?) but he deserves better than the lies peddled by Howard Zinn and other revisionist scumballs.

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Category: Amazon, Books

Gender Theory Hits K-12 Schools

Posted on | October 9, 2014 | 109 Comments

When I describe radical feminism as taught in university Women’s Studies programs, one typical reaction is, “So what? That’s just a bunch of academics. Besides, wait until those idiots get their Women’s Studies degrees. Where are they gonna get a job?”

Maybe your child’s school. Katherine Timpf reports at National Review:

A Nebraska school district has instructed its teachers to stop referring to students by “gendered expressions” such as “boys and girls,” and use “gender inclusive” ones such as “purple penguins” instead.
“Don’t use phrases such as ‘boys and girls,’ ‘you guys,’ ‘ladies and gentlemen,’ and similarly gendered expressions to get kids’ attention,” instructs a training document given to middle-school teachers at the Lincoln Public Schools.
“Create classroom names and then ask all of the ‘purple penguins’ to meet on the rug,” it advises.
The document also warns against asking students to “line up as boys or girls,” and suggests asking them to line up by whether they prefer “skateboards or bikes/milk or juice/dogs or cats/summer or winter/talking or listening.”
“Always ask yourself . . . ‘Will this configuration create a gendered space?’” the document says.
The instructions were part of a list called “12 steps on the way to gender inclusiveness” developed by Gender Spectrum, an organization that “provides education, training and support to help create a gender sensitive and inclusive environment for children of all ages.”

Read the whole thing. You might also want to read the Gender Spectrum guidelines. Readers will perhaps not be surprised to learn that Gender Spectrum founder Stephanie Brill is author of The Queer Parent’s Primer and The New Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth, and co-author of The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals. In a 2010 interview, Brill said: “As a part of the butch/trans community, my social and professional world is very gender diverse.” So at least she practices what she preaches, eh?

The point is that this kind of radicalism can’t be contained to college campuses. Inevitably, the feminists who learn “gender theory” in Women’s Studies programs will want to implement those theories throughout society, including your local public schools — even in Nebraska! As I have previously explained (“Radical Lesbian Feminism: Coming Soon to a Public School Classroom Near You?”), the American Association of University Women (AAUW) is pushing to introduce “gender studies” to the high school curriculum, “creating innovative spaces for young people to engage in feminism and activism, equity, and social justice in today’s classrooms.” The AAUW symposium on this program featured lesbian teacher Ileana Jimenez.

Fantastic day of queer youth strategizing w/ @GSANetwork, India's first GSA Breaking Barriers,& my #HSfeminism class pic.twitter.com/ip0npc623I

— Ileana Jiménez (@feministteacher) October 3, 2014

Yes! RT @breakthrough: We're with @feministteacher and her #feminism and #gender class! Follow the conversation at #HSFeminism. #IDG2014

— Ileana Jiménez (@feministteacher) October 8, 2014

"We are committed to culture change in our work with @breakthrough" Ishita visiting my #HSfeminism class today. #IDG2014

— Ileana Jiménez (@feministteacher) October 8, 2014

Thank you @feministteacher for inviting @cjbrandt & I to speak to your smart #HSFeminism class for #DayoftheGirl pic.twitter.com/YhWR5Ze80g

— Tammy Tibbetts (@tammytibbetts) October 7, 2014

How many HS teachers do you know can get students to stand in line to hear @bellhooks & @GloriaSteinem? #HSfeminism pic.twitter.com/9u69r6Y7kJ

— Ileana Jiménez (@feministteacher) October 6, 2014

As we move into #IDG2014, we need to remember girls of color, transgender girls, and queer girls as part of #itsaGirlThing

— Ileana Jiménez (@feministteacher) October 7, 2014

The hashtag #IDG2014 is for “International Day of the Girl” and, when you see radical feminists declaring how “committed to culture change” they are, doesn’t this make you just slightly curious as to what direction they intend to change culture?

Category: Education, Feminism, Gays, Sex Trouble

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.09.14

Posted on | October 9, 2014 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
Nigeria Succeeds In Containing Ebola

A teacher takes students’ temperatures at a primary school in Lagos

No new cases since August 31; Health Ministry declares country Ebola-free
Anxiety grows in US after death of Dallas Ebola patient
Five airports to begin screening for fever
Britain sending troops to Sierra Leone to help combat Ebola

Jihadis Advance In Kobane Despite US Air Strikes
Rioting in Turkey as Kurds protest inaction by Ankara

India: No Talks To De-Escalate Kashmir Tensions Until Pakistan Ceases Fire
Civilian casualties mounting on both sides

POLITICS
Polls Show Senate Battleground Races Leaning GOP; Roberts Up In Kansas

Pat Roberts in a debate with “independent” Greg Orman

Obama hurting Democrats in five crucial states

Aides Knew About White House Link To Secret Service’s Colombia Prostitution Scandal

EPA Claims To Have Lost Text Messages Sought In Open Records Request

Hillary Raises $500K For Illinois Gov. Quinn

Sen, Landrieu Reportedly Replaces Campaign Manager

FBI Closing In On American Jihadi After Asking For Public’s Help

No Same-Day Election Registration For NC, Supremes Rule

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Trades Near 17-Month Low As Stockpiles Surge More Than Expected: WTI $87.46, Brent $91.45
Fed Ignites Huge Stock Rally
Asian Stocks Rally After Dovish Fed Minutes
Virgin America: A Nice-Guy Airline Loses Money
Alcoa’s 3Q Boosted By Higher Aluminum Prices
AMD Appoints Lisa Su CEO
AT&T To Pay $105 Million To Settle Cramming Suit
Google Asks Supreme Court To Decide Oracle Patent Suit
Elon Musk Worries That AI Could Delete Humans Along With Spam
Microsoft Cloud Bundle Challenges Salesforce.com
Young Israeli Cyberwarriors Learn To Duel In The Dark

SPORTS
Plekanic Scores Late As Habs Beat Leafs In Season Opener

Tomas Plekanic’s two late goals buried Toronto

Montreal wins first opener against Toronto since 1969

Bruins Edge Flyers 2-1

Royals Open Registration For World Series Tickets

NFL Owners Seek Consistent Approach On Domestic Violence

“Media Whores” Comment Leads Adrian Peterson Prosecutor To Ask For Judge’s Removal

Four Wizards Suspended For Season Opener

Pacers Coach Vogel Gets Contract Extension

What Now For The Nats?

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
How Sofia Vergara Got Her Best Body At Age 42

Because the Shape cover had too many words
and not enough Sofia.

Working hard to stay gorgeous and other clues to staying hot

Stephen Collins Fired From “Ted 2” Amid Molestation Allegations

Selena Gomez: Taylor Swift Is “Begging Me” To Move To NYC

Paula Patton Files For Divorce From Robin Thicke

“Ghostbusters” Reboot Lands “The Heat” Writer Katie Dippold

Taylor Swift: This Is A Freeing Time In My Life

Teresa Giudice Opens Up After Sentencing

Five Things Jennifer Lawrence Is Looking For In A Boyfriend

Gwyneth Paltrow: I’m Psyched Martha Stewart Sees Us As Competition

NBC Wanted To Hire Jon Stewart For “Meet The Press”

FOREIGNERS
Sierra Leone Burial Crews End Strike
Kurds Protest ISIS Attacks Across Europe
Australian Jets Hit First Targets In Iraq
Kenyan President Becomes First Head Of State To Face ICC
Brazil’s Next President May Be Forced To Ration Power
Yemen’s PM-Designate Turns Down Nomination After Shiite Rebels Protest
Five Men Executed In Afghanistan For Gang Rape
CSIS Director: ISIS Threat To Canada Not Imminent, But Real
Thousands March In Mexico, Demanding Action Over Student Massacre
Japan, US Lay Out Plans For Global Defense Cooperation

BLOGS & STUFF
Proof Positive: Reduce Your Carbon Footprint To Zero
Louder With Crowder: Stephen Collins Is No Different From Muhammad (A Comparison)
First Street Journal: Democrisy!
Michelle Malkin: Ebola, Electronic Medical Records, And Epic Systems
Twitchy: Can’t Make It Up – White House Aide In Hooker Scandal Works On “Womens’ Issues”
American Power: Barack 0bola
BLACKFIVE: Women In The Combat Arms
Conservatives4Palin: Pat Roberts Surges In Two New Polls
Don Surber: Life Expectancy Ranking Dropped Under Obamacare
Jammie Wearing Fools: Piling On – Now Jimmy Carter Questions Obama’s Competence
Joe For America: Leon Panetta Speaks Truth To Power, But Is He Just Helping Hillary?
JustOneMinute: Quagmire Watch!
Pamela Geller: Muslims Torch Church In Germany
Protein Wisdom: Harvard – Our Best And Brightest?
Shot In The Dark: What Conservatism Needs In Minnesota
The Gateway Pundit: Massive Protests In St. Louis, Police Cars Attacked After Black Youth Shot By Policeman
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler Productivity Obstacle Of The Day
The Lonely Conservative: White House Link To Colombia Hooker Scandal Buried Until After 2012 Election
This Ain’t Hell: VoteVets Thinks They Represent Veterans
Weasel Zippers: NE Teachers Told To Call Children Purple Penguins Because Boys And Girls Isn’t Gender-Inclusive
Megan McArdle: Walmart’s Latest Move May Boost Obamacare

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