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MUSLIM CONVERT BEHEADS WOMAN IN OKLAHOMA TERROR ATROCITY

Posted on | September 26, 2014 | 179 Comments

The Islamic jihad in America continues:

MOORE, Okla. – Officials with the Moore Police Department say the FBI is now involved in the investigation related to a brutal attack of workers at a food distribution plant.
Sgt. Jeremy Lewis says the alleged suspect, 30-year-old Alton Nolen had just been fired when he drove to the front of the business, hit a vehicle and walked inside.
He walked into the front office area where he met 54-year-old Colleen Hufford and began attacking her with a knife. . . .
Lewis confirms that Hufford was stabbed several times and that Nolen “severed her head.”
At that point, Lewis claims Nolen met 43-year-old Traci Johnson and began attacking her with the same knife.
Officials say at that point, Mark Vaughan, an Oklahoma County reserve deputy and a former CEO of the business, shot him as he was actively stabbing Johnson. . . .
The FBI is now looking into Nolen’s background after his former co-workers said he tried to convert them to Islam after recently converting himself.
Lewis says the FBI is working in conjunction with the Moore Police Department, especially when it comes to the religious aspect of the case.
At this time, it is not known if the suspect’s beliefs played a role in the attack.

You think so, maybe? Donald Douglas has more at American Power.

 

Category: Crime, Islam, Media Bias, Terrorism

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.26.14

Posted on | September 26, 2014 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Attorney General Holder Resigning

Still in contempt of Congress

California AG Kamala Harris: No thanks
Deval Patrick: no interest in AG gig
Ron Paul: An enemy of liberty resigns


Poll: British Public Behind Strikes On ISIS
Parliament expected to vote in favor of joining anti-ISIS coalition



Rockstar: Narendra Modi On Track To Sell Out Madison Square Garden
September 28 visit to New York a high point of the Indian PM’s trip



POLITICS
Democrats Raising Big Bucks While Whining About GOP Spending

Harry Reid: suffering from Koch addiction

Liberal outside groups outspending conservatives


NRA Outgunned? Gun Grabbers Spend Millions On Background Check Measure


Detroit Mayor & City Council Retake Control

Educrats And Union Officials Join Attack On Foley’s Education Plan

Congress Releases War Funds To Fight Ebola

San Fran, LA DAs Threaten Ridesharing Companies With Injunctions



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Brent Headed For Weekly Decline On Ample Supplies: WTI $92.54, Brent $97.01
A Year Later, Most Mega IPOs Are Mega Laggards
Dollar Stands Tall, Asian Shares End On Low Note
NASDAQ 100 Sinks Most Since April As Apple Leads Tech Selloff
US Bank Fined $9 Million, Must Return $48 Million To Customers
Jobless Claims Rise To 293K
Apple Grapples With Gaffes After iPhone 6 Launch
Intel To Invest $1.5 Billion In Two Chinese Chipmakers
Facebook Rival Ello Gets The Timing Right
DirecTV Shareholders Overwhelmingly Approve AT&T Takeover
New Angry Birds Transformers Has Robots, Lasers, And Falling Pigs!



SPORTS
Giants Clinch Playoff Berth, Then Hold On To Edge Padres 9-8

Hunter Pence gets sprayed with bubbly in the clubhouse

Backing into the playoffs with a little help from the Reds

Pirates Tighten NL Central Race With 10-1 Scalping Of Braves

Royals Magic Number Is One After 6-3 Win Over White Sox


More Casualties For Injury-Riddled Redskins After 45-14 Loss To Giants

Derek Jeter Delivers Walkoff Magic In Final At-Bat In Yankee Stadium

NBA Player Charged With Domestic Assault

Fish Top Phillies 6-4

Tigers Beat Twins 4-2, Stay 2 Up In AL Central

Nats Split Doubleheader With Mets



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Rachel McAdams Closes In On “True Detective” Female Lead Role

Sources say HBO offered her the part…

…but actress and network staying mum

Jason Aldean Engaged To Former Mistress Brittany Kerr

Nina Dobrev Heading To “The Originals”


Fox Adding Anna Paquin Back To “X-Men: Days Of Future Past”

Lindsay Lohan Has Audience In Stitches For London Stage Debut…Pity It Wasn’t In The Script

“The Situation” Ordered To Stay Sober By Judge

First Listen: Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross’ “Gone Girl” Soundtrack



FOREIGNERS
Japan Inflation Slows In August
Iraqi Leader Says Jihadis Planning Transit Attacks
Nobody’s Seen Kim Jong Un For Three Weeks
US Considering Meeting Iran “Close To Halfway” In Nuke Talks
Shells Fall In Turkey As ISIS Advances On Syrian Border Town
Syrian Refugees Saved By Cruise Liner Debark In Cyprus
More Than 3000 Europeans Have Joined ISIS
Ukraine Pushes For NATO Membership As Gas Talks Commence
Fresh Fears Of Aggression In Latvia As Kremlin Warns About Russian Minorities
Anger As Indonesia Ends Local Elections
India, China Resolve Two-Week Border Standoff



BLOGS & STUFF
Michelle Malkin: “A” Is For Agitation – What’s Really Going On In Jefferson County Schools
Twitchy: “The Stupid, IT BURNS” – Lena Dunham Whines That GOP Senate Will Affect Your Sex Life
American Thinker: Eric Holder Out, Special Prosecutor To Follow?
Conservatives4Palin: Governor Palin’s Press Conference In Joplin
Don Surber: Democrat Blames Victim For Rape
Jammie Wearing Fools: Corrupt Holder Jumps Off Sinking Obama Ship
Joe For America: Gun Grabbers Moms Demand Action Love Nazis
JustOneMinute: Pumping Iron
Protein Wisdom: Un-Islamic Non-State ISIS Not As Frightening As Global Cooling Warming Climate Change Disruption
Shot In The Dark: One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other
STUMP: Who Was Dr. Death Really Targeting With Death At Age 75 Goal?
The Gateway Pundit: Liberia’s Largest Newspaper Accuses US Of Manufacturing Ebola Virus
The Jawa Report: Anjem Choudhary Arrested In UK Terror Sweep
The Lonely Conservative: WebMD Was Paid $13.9 Million To Promote Obamacare
This Ain’t Hell: IS Not Impressed By Airstrikes
Weasel Zippers: Al Sharpton Says He’s Helping Pick The Next Attorney General
Megan McArdle: What’s Worse Than a Subprime Auto Loan?


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Category: Live at Five

Special Request

Posted on | September 25, 2014 | 24 Comments

Readers are familiar with the Brett Kimberlin situation. I have said little about the case since announcing our victory over the notorious bomber in the Maryland case Kimberlin v. Walker, et al.

John Hoge and Aaron Walker have continued updating on proceedings in the federal suit, Kimberlin v. National Bloggers Club, et al.

What I’d like to ask is that readers consider making a special donation — $10, $25, whatever — to BomberSuesBloggers.com.

We have in mind a project, which would involve travel expenses, the details of which I am not at liberty to discuss publicly, for reasons that should be obvious. But if the folks who have previously been so generous in their support would be so kind as to kick in a few more dollars, that might help speed us on our way, so to speak.

BomberSuesBloggers.com

 

Category: The Kimberlin Files

Arrest in Hannah Graham Case

Posted on | September 25, 2014 | 42 Comments

 

The disappearance of University of Virginia sophomore Hannah Graham has not been solved — she has not been found and it is not known whether she is dead or alive — but a suspect in her Sept. 13 disappearance, who fled to Texas, is now in police custody:

The man suspected of kidnapping a University of Virginia student reported missing on Sept. 13 was taken into police custody Wednesday night.
Jesse Matthew was arrested in Galveston, Texas, Wednesday on charges of abducting 18-year-old Hannah Graham, NBC Washington reports.
Police obtained a felony arrest warrant for Matthew, a 32-year-old patient technician at the University of Virginia, earlier this week.
Officials believe Matthew was the last person seen with the teen before she vanished. Graham went to dinner with friends the night of Sept. 12 before attending two parties held at off-campus student housing units.
She left the second party alone, and surveillance videos appear to show her walking with Matthew, his arm wrapped her waist, walking at Charlottesville’s downtown mall at around 1 a.m. Sept. 13.
Police say Matthew bought Graham alcohol at a restaurant and they left the establishment together.
Graham has not been seen since.

There are many troubling aspects to this story, and things that don’t seem to make sense. These “parties held at off-campus student housing units” — was alcohol served at these parties? Was Hannah Graham drunk when she “left the second party alone” after midnight? Do police in Charlottesville plan to prosecute those who illegally provide alcohol to 18-year-olds? Because it seems to me that there is a rather lackadaisical attitude toward the enforcement of laws against underage drinking in Charlottesville, and that this may have been a contributing factor in Hannah Graham’s disappearance.

You see this scenario all the time in “date rape” cases on college campuses: Teenage girl and teenage boy get drunk; sex happens; girl subsequently says the sex wasn’t consensual; feminists then begin shouting about the heteronormative patriarchy. Yet common sense suggests the obvious question, how are these teenagers getting drunk at college, if the legal drinking age is 21?

My supposition is that underage drinking is so common for college kids that school officials and police in college towns take it for granted, so girls keep getting raped and feminists keep shouting about patriarchy, when booze is really the basic problem.

Hannah’s parents, John and Sue Graham, moved from England to Washington, D.C., when Hannah was 5. At a press conference earlier this week in Charlottesville, Hannah’s father said:

“As this nightmare for Hannah, for us, for Hannah’s big brother James, her grandparents and extended family continues we would like to make this statement.
“Hannah is our little girl, our only daughter, James’s little sister. She is also the oldest granddaughter of her grandparents. She is enormously precious to us.
“Now somebody knows what happened to Hannah. We don’t know who that is. Others who may be watching, they may know something about what happened to Hannah.
“Did anybody see Hannah? Did you see Hannah? Who saw Hannah? Somebody did. Please if you have anything no matter how insignificant you think it may be please call the tip line.
“Anything that just might help us to bring Hannah home.”

Every parent’s worst nightmare, and I’ve got the feeling that feminists shouting about patriarchy won’t solve the problem.

 

Category: Crime

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.25.14

Posted on | September 25, 2014 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
US, Coalition Forces Hit Syrian Oil Refineries

French military video shows results of an airstrike on an Islamic State fuel & supply depot

Strategic warfare strikes against ISIS
F-22 fighter makes combat debut over Syria
Obama urges unity against ISIS network of death
Holder hints at US troops going into Syria




Will Modi’s Visit Boost US-India Ties?
Prime Minister Modi Calls Mars Mission Success “Historic”

Nigerian Military Claims Scalp Of Boko Haram Leader
Secret police had claimed Shekau was dead earlier; man killed in Konduga was leader’s body double



POLITICS
GOP Heavyweights Flock To Kansas In Support Of Pat Roberts

Crazy Cousin John, Jeb Bush among party stalwarts rushing to shore up Roberts

Race tightens drastically after Democrat’s withdrawal


Jim Webb In 2016?


Federal Appeals Court Allows Controversial Walker Probe To Resume

US To Pay Navajo Nation $554 Million To End Royalties Suit

Former Ohio Rep James Traficant Injured In Farm Accident

Price Tag For Fighting California Wildfires Tops $53 Million



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Up On US Stockpile Drop, Supply Glut Weighs On Market: WTI $92.65, Brent $96.76
Modi Asks Soda Makers To Blend In Juice To Help Farmers
Chicoms Set To Replace Central Bank Chief?
New Home Sales Surge To Six-Year High
Dollar Jumps In Asia On Upbeat Housing Data
Wall Street Advances As Consumer Companies Rally
Apple Apologizes For iOS 8 Update Bug
BlackBerry CEO Takes Jab At Apple: Try Bending Our Phone
Bash Bug Could Leave IT Systems Shellshocked
GoogleX To Circle The Earth With Internet-Linked Balloons
Forza Horizon 2: Massive Multiplayer Online, Massive Fun



SPORTS
Kershaw Leads Dodgers To NL West Title, Crushes Giants 9-1

Adrian Gonzalez and Juan Uribe celebrate after the Dodgers’ victory

Kershaw notches 21st victory; aiming to lead NL in ERA for fourth consecutive season


No Criminal Charges For Tony Stewart

Rangers Beat Astros 5-1 For Sweep


Phillies Edge Fish 2-1

ESPN Suspends Bill Simmons After He Rips Goodell

Braves Show Life, Top Pirates 6-2

Hughes Pitches Twins Past Snakes, 2-1

Brewers Stave Off Elimination With A Little Help From The Dodgers

Tribe Stays Alive With 6-4 Win Over Royals

Yankees Hit Three Homers, Still Lose 9-5 To O’s

Mets-Nationals Rained Out; Doubleheaders Today And Tomorrow



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
“It Helps With The Perception That I’m Just A Psycho”

Not a flake any more?

The TimeOut interview

More Rappers Divorcing Each Other

Jeremy Renner Admits He Secretly Married Baby Mama


Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino Indicted For Tax Fraud

Gwyneth Paltrow Still Running Chris Martin’s Life

College Football Dominates Saturday Night Cable Ratings

Britney Spears Is Sending Kate Middleton Her Entire New Lingerie Collection

Keanu Reeves’ Second Home Intruder In Two Days Showers & Skinny-Dips In Pool



FOREIGNERS
Algerian Jihadis Behead Kidnapped French Tourist
Ukraine Prepares To Close Border With Russia
American Begins Six Years Of Farm Work, Isolation In Nork Prison
Activists Making Plans For Hong Kong Democracy Sit-in
PM Cameron To Apologize To Her Majesty Over “Purring” Comment
Australian Government To Reintroduce Temporary Protection Visas
Nine Arrested In London As Part Of Investigation Into Islamic Terrorism

BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: PA Attorney General Kathleen Kane – Blaming The Rape Victim
Michelle Malkin: Hicken-Weasel – Why Colorado’s Gutless Guv Is In Trouble
Twitchy: Was This Vox’s Worst Screwup Yet?
American Power: AmSpec Caves To Vexatious Litigant Brett Kimberlin
American Thinker: Twenty Years Ago, Americans Learned How To Win
BLACKFIVE: World Report – Obama Starts His Own War
Conservatives4Palin: Senator Pat Roberts And Picking Our Battles Wisely
Don Surber: Charleston Gazette – Free Speech For Me, Not Thee
Jammie Wearing Fools: Australian Police Gun Down Jihadi, Lefties React Predictably
Joe For America: Colorado Students March Out To Protest Patriotism
JustOneMinute: This Is A College Campus, Not A Place For Common Sense!
Protein Wisdom: The Poor – Jonathan Swift Engaged In Satire, Ruth Ginsburg Not So Much
Shot In The Dark: Minneapolis’ Real Scandal
STUMP: The Seven Deadly Sins Of NJ Pensions Are Really Only One Sin
The Gateway Pundit: More Lies From Susan Rice
The Jawa Report: Moderate Arab Muslims Help ISIS Recapture Yazidi Slaves
The Lonely Conservative: NY Democrat Used Taxpayer Subsidies While Delinquent On His Own Taxes
This Ain’t Hell: Army Division HQ Deploying To Iraq
Weasel Zippers: FLOTUS Bashes US During UN Event
Megan McArdle: Now Your Kitchen Can Match The Food You Burned


Category: Live at Five

Historian Erupts: ‘I Will Not Be Lectured to by a Public School Girl Like You!’

Posted on | September 24, 2014 | 38 Comments

Laurie Penny (@PennyRed) was the subject of an item here yesterday because of her quarrel with lesbian feminist Cathy Brennan, an argument that highlights the profound schism between radicals like Brennan (who are and always have been the core of the feminist movement) and trendy opportunists like Ms. Penny. The American reader may ask, “Who the hell is Laurie Penny, and why the hell are you writing about her?”

Briefly, then: An ambitious young British journalist who attended exclusive private schools (which are for peculiar reasons called “public schools” in England), Ms. Penny graduated from Oxford and then went to New York. There, she was rescued from death by actor Ryan Gosling, an incident that became the subject of an embarrassingly narcissistic article at Gawker. Ms. Penny is a certain type — a “posh bird,” as the Brits would say, whose ostentatious leftism is a fashionable pose among many upper-class youth — and as such is well on her way to becoming the Most Despised Woman in England. She came to my attention here in the States only because, in researching my “Sex Trouble” series on radical feminism, I was browsing Amazon for recent feminist books and came across Ms. Penny’s new volume, Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution. Ranked #6 by Amazon in the “Gender Studies” category, and #11 in “Feminist Theory,” this seemed relevant to my project.

With our American reader’s questions asked and answered, then, we proceed to explain what no English reader needs to be told, namely that Laurie Penny is an impudent young fool with a penchant for making an utter spectacle of herself. As soon as I blogged about her yesterday, comments on the blog and feedback on Twitter began to fill up with notices of Ms. Penny’s previous self-inflicted embarrassments, including this public implosion in June 2012:

More details have emerged of the heavyweight clash of the commentariat this weekend between radical blogger and journalist Laurie Penny and the outspoken TV historian David Starkey at the Sunday Times Festival of Education.
The newspaper released video clips today of the contretemps, which occurred after the historian had talked about the values of the Asian men from Rochdale who were convicted of grooming young white girls for sex as being “entrenched in the foothills of the Punjab or wherever it is”, and how the men needed to be “inculcated in the British ways of doing things”.
Penny accused Starkey of “playing xenophobia and national prejudice for laughs” and asked him in a leading question whether he had a home in America, implying that Starkey might have tax questions to answer, a strong innuendo in the current climate of zero-tolerance.
The video shows Starkey bouncing out of his seat in response to this perceived smear, taking to the lectern to “share a little story” about how he and Penny had both been invited to debate by the Thomas Paine Society, but that while he had agreed to waive his fee the younger polemicist had asked for “such a large fee that the event had to be cancelled”.
“I think that is as mean and grasping as some runt comedian and I will not be lectured to by a public school girl like you!” a visibly angry Starkey spits, advancing on the diminutive Penny until he is standiung directly in front of her, while stabbing the air with his finger to punctuate his points.
“I came from the bottom and I will not have it!” he signs off with a flourish to considerable applause from a crowd quite evidently relishing the ruckus.

You can see the whole thing with video. It’s worth pointing out that David Starkey is no manner of right-winger, but a gay atheist. When he says that he “came from the bottom,” you have to understand that Starkey is from a true working-class background, in a nation where socioeconomic class is much more rigid than in America. His ascent in academia required him to overcome many disadvantages, including being born with two club feet, being stricken with polio, and suffering a nervous breakdown at 13. Starkey has many bad ideas and bad tendencies, but he is a man who has earned by his own merit and labor whatever privileges he has. For him to be lectured in public by such a person as Laurie Penny, accusing him of xenophobia and tax-dodging, was certainly more than anyone like David Starkey could be expected to endure.

“The organisation of human love has little to do with how children are raised and everything to do with the maintenance of the bourgeois state . . .”
— Laurie Penny, “Lesbian mums and the end of patriarchy,” 2008

She insists that lesbian motherhood is part of the Marxist revolutionary project to overthrow “the bourgeois state,” even as she insists she is not a lesbian. It’s the same old story, isn’t it? The revolutionary vanguard of an intellectual elite, claiming to speak for the proletariat, thus deputizing themselves with authority. Except instead of Lenin and Trotsky speaking for the peasants and workers, Comrade Penny is a heterosexual intellectual wielding power on behalf of the lesbian proletariat. We who know history expect in a few years a terror-famine against the lesbian kulaks and “show trials” for feminists accused of treason and sabotage — conspiring with the patriarchy!

No, the “runt comedian” Ms. Penny has no respect for anyone or anything worth respecting, and has never been able to understand why adults resent her presumptuous attitude. Here she is, from 2009 when she was 23, engaged in a blogfight:

And when I had my breakdown at 17 and was carted off to the loony bin for a year, I had my parents’ private healthcare insurance making sure that I wouldn’t be kicked out of hospital when the NHS cover ran out, as it did for many of the young people I shared the ward with. There’s every chance that private health insurance saved my life.
It’s not that I haven’t fought, struggled and worked extremely fucking hard every day for the past five years just to survive. It’s not that the struggle to stay well and stay productive and work for a secure future doesn’t take everything I have, every day.

Yadda yadda yadda. Don’t we all know the Laurie Penny type?

Top of the heap within their juvenile millieu — extraordinarily bright and on the academic fast-track — they conceive themselves too good for any humdrum work. You wouldn’t find this type of person getting a job as a city-beat news reporter and working hard to learn her craft. Nor can a Laurie Penny type ever be content to hire on as an assistant editor at a magazine, doing layout work, proofreading copy, happy occasionally to see her byline on a back-of-the-book item, a film review or something. No, she’s Veruca Salt: She wants the whole world, and she wants it now. If she is not recognized as a celebrity — if others don’t praise her and pet her and applaud her every petulant phrase — then the Laurie Penny type believes she has been deprived of what is rightfully hers.

She deserves recognition as one of Our Moral Superiors, you see, and our failure to recognize her as such is a social injustice.

Anyone who ever worked for anything, everyone who literally sweated to collect a wage to pay their bills, must bristle at the insult implied by Laurie Penny’s attitude of entitlement. If it weren’t for TV bookers who decided to make her England’s New Fresh Face of Feminism™, nobody would ever pay attention to her. When her career finally comes crashing down, people will wonder why anyone ever cared. We await Ms. Penny’s post-celebrity memoir, It Was the Patriarchy What Done Me In.

Meanwhile, an actual feminist — the radical lesbian Cathy Brennan — continues to say things so crazy as to be actually true:

The alternative to defining things is not defining things. That is, words mean whatever you say they mean, and God forbid if you try to define words. Defining words is bigotry. This neat Jedi Mind Trick was used very effectively in the run up to the marriage equality movement, where GLBTWTF activists succeeded beyond all imagination in convincing everyone that people who define marriage as “One Man, One Women” are bigots. Never mind that that is what marriage meant — for better or for worse (ha, see what I did there) — for centuries. Using words as defined makes you a bigot — and we all know what happens to bigots.
For what it’s worth, I think people who oppose marriage equality may or may not be bigots. It does not necessarily matter to me to demonize these people. They lost a political battle. Part of the reason they lost this political battle is because of propaganda that changed the definition of marriage.
Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy propaganda, I’ve deployed it, it is useful. But it’s propaganda. It’s not reflective of reality; it creates a new one.
This same propaganda is now used against Lesbians, to tell us that we are bigots for understanding that Lesbians are female homosexuals. This is transphobia. This is wrong. This is “cissexism.”
Indeed, USING WORDS CORRECTLY IS A FORM OF BIGOTRY.

Brilliant — and so politically incorrect as to be quite useful for my purposes. What Brennan has realized, and has had the courage to admit, is that in their quest for “marriage equality” the GLBTWTF activists engaged in a sort of rhetorical prestidigitation, playing word-games to exploit sympathy. In the process, however, these GLBTWTF activists established the premises of a syllogism that now threatens what radical feminists like Brennan had hoped to gain for their Lesbian Nation: Sanctuary from the menace of males and heterosexuality.

Brennan sees the old threat recrudescent in a strange new form, i.e., men who not only claim to be women, but say they are lesbians. In this disguise, they seek not only sexual access to females, but also assert authority as feminists to speak for women’s interests!

Cathy Brennan may be crazy, but she’s nobody’s fool. When a man who calls himself “Colleen” exposes his penis to little girls, do you actually expect Cathy Brennan to agree that this is “progress”?

Progress, as General Bullmoose said, is the root of all evil.




 

 

Category: Sex Trouble

Now That Is A Subtle Lie

Posted on | September 24, 2014 | 40 Comments

by Smitty

Isn’t this rich?

An article on the “Focus on the Family” website written by evangelical author Chip Ingram says, “The Bible’s word on discipline clearly demands that parents be responsible and diligent in spanking.”

I grew up in the evangelical South in a pro-spanking family. When my fellow Christians talked about protecting parents’ “rights to discipline their children,” they would often quote Proverbs 13:24: “Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.”

That settles it, right?

Wrong.

The key to interpreting this verse is the word “rod.” As Michael Eric Dyson, an ordained Baptist minister and professor of sociology at Georgetown University, noted in The New York Times recently, the Hebrew word translated “rod” refers to a shepherd’s rod, which “was used to guide the sheep, not to beat them.” The author of this Proverbs 13:24 (and the other “rod” verses) is saying that parents who love their children will guide, lead, and discipline them — not beat them.

Dyson here seems about as far afield as Robert Boyd Munger claiming that shepherds would break a leg of a wayward sheep and carry it around until healed. Or maybe Michael Eric Dyson is to theology what Neil DeGrasse Tyson is to science: an unreliable tale-spinner.

The logical extension of Dyson’s error would be to say that the shepherd never uses the rod as a weapon against predators, either. That rod should merely be used to “guide” the wolf along more mindful, aware, tolerant lines of behavior.

The operative phrase here is “an ordained Baptist minister and professor of sociology at Georgetown University”. Per Wikipedia, there isn’t any evidence that MED ever, actually, you know, ministered anywhere. Thus it seems we have another specimen of guy with a lot of degrees that’s as wise as a thermometer.

Category: Culture

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.24.14

Posted on | September 24, 2014 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
WaPo: Obama Bending His Own Counterterrorism Rules In Syria

“So now we’re bombing the crap out of the people we were kind of supporting against the guy we’re now kind of supporting but not really. Clear?”

Stretching his own legal and policy limits
US told Iran it would strike in Syria, vowed not to hit Assad forces
America’s air strikes on ISIS may help Bashar Assad keep his regime alive
Islamic State blows away Gulf states’ qualms about taking action

CDC: Ebola Cases Could Hit 1.4 Million In Four Months
CDC Director calls for surge in aid to prevent worst-case scenario

Labour’s Miliband Insists Deficit Is A Priority Despite Forgetting To Mention It In Speech
Ed Miliband’s 10-Year Plan



POLITICS
Rocky Mountain Upset? Polls Show Once-Popular Hickenlooper In Trouble

No longer a safe bet

Quinnipiac poll shows Democrat incumbent trailing GOP challenger Beauprez by 10 points

Scott Brown Hits Shaheen, Obama On ISIS In New Ad


DOJ: Federal Prison Population Drops For First Time In Three Decades

Philanthropist Launches Non-Profit Bid For San Diego’s Biggest Newspaper

Judge Strikes Down Hawaii Law Barring Legal Immigrants From Gun Ownership

Will Illinois Be 17th State To Decriminalize Pot?



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Mixed As Libyan Production Returns: WTI $91.55, Brent $96.53
Wall Street Ends Lower, S&P Falls For Third Straight Day
Dollar Falls Vs. Yen On PM Abe’s Remarks
GM Says China Sales This Year To Top 3 Million
Starbucks To Buy Out Japan Joint Venture Partners
California Energy Plan Calls For Big Renewables Projects In State’s Deserts
Breaking Fad: New iPhone 6 Bends In Owners’ Pants Pockets
ARM Looks To Rev Up Internet Of Things With New Embedded-Chip Design
Samsung To Release Galaxy Note 4 In China Before Apple Launches iPhone 6
AT&T Rolls Out New $39/Month U-Verse Bundle
Microsoft Cuts XBox One Price In UK



SPORTS
Cole Shines As Pirates Lock In Playoff Berth

Pirates coach Rick Sofield celebrates in the locker room as the Pirates make the playoffs

Cole sets down 17 straight batters as Pirates edge sagging Braves 3-2

Angels Blank A’s, Drop Oakland Into Wildcard Tie

Royals Win Third Straight, Thrash Tribe 7-1


White Sox Rally Late And Insufficient; Fall To Tigers 4-3

Rangers Hang On To Edge Astros 2-1

Mighty Jeter Has Struck Out: O’s Win 5-4

Blue Jackets Coming On Hard, Shut Out Penguins In Preseason Match

Fish Blank Phillies 2-0

Roark Pitches Nationals Past Mets, 4-2



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Emma Watson Threatened By 4Chan After Feminist Speech At UN

Hackers threaten to release nude pix

Exactly the kind of behavior she was complaining about

“Modern Family” Star Sarah Hyland Gets Restraining Order Against Ex-BF, Alleges Abuse


Kris Jenner Files For Divorce From Bruce 11 Months After Announcing Split

Woman With Three Breasts Outed As Fake

Liam Neeson Brings His Particular Skills To “Taken 3”

HBO Confirms Colin Ferrell, Vince Vaughn To Star In “True Detective” Season 2

Bette Midler Announces First Album Since 2006: “It’s The Girls”

Charlie Sheen Pursuing A Return To “Two And A Half Men”

Portland Police Protect And Serve Pizza After Crash



FOREIGNERS
Britain Close To Joining Strikes Against ISIS
India Puts Satellite Into Mars Orbit
Australian Terror Suspect Shot Dead After Knifing Two Police Officers
Israel Shoots Down Syrian Jet Over Golan Heights
Radical Imam Abu Qutada Cleared Of Terrorism Charges In Jordan
French Police Lose Three Jihadis After Waiting At Wrong Airport
Ibope Poll Shows Brazilian Presidential Election Headed For Runoff
Former Papal Nuncio Placed Under House Arrest At The Vatican
Former Chicom Deputy Planning Minister Confesses To Graft



BLOGS & STUFF
The Camp of the Saints: The Leftist Mind Explained By Stacy McCain And Glenn Reynolds
Doug Powers: Obama Fires Up Air Force One, Marine One, And Huge Motorcade To Deliver Climate Change Warning At UN
Twitchy: Pathetic Libs Compare Obama’s Disgraceful Cup Salute To Marines With THIS
American Power: Mark Zuckerberg’s $10 Million San Francisco “Fixer-Upper” Has Neighbors Pissed Off
American Thinker: The Plot To Create A Permanent Democratic Majority
BLACKFIVE: US Military Rescues ISIS Sex Slaves
Conservatives4Palin: CNN – Palins Deserved The Benefit Of The Doubt
Don Surber: Telling The Customer Off
Jammie Wearing Fools: PETA’s Call To Muslims To Observe Vegetarian Eid Backfires, Violence Ensues
Joe For America: Old, Rich White Liberals – Running California Into The Ditch And Getting Richer
JustOneMinute: Coalition Of The Shilling
Protein Wisdom: Mother Of Second Grader Berates Teacher For Not Accepting Vagina Cookies
Shot In The Dark: Trulbert! Part XII – The Klieg Lights Of Freedom
STUMP: Wonkblog Asks, “Can Insurance Companies Save Public Pensions?”
The Gateway Pundit: Breaking – Pictures Of Saqlawiyah Massacre – 300 Iraqi Soldiers Killed By Chlorine Gas
The Jawa Report: The Blessed Release Of The FBI Investigation Of Samir Khan a/k/a Inshallahshaheed
The Lonely Conservative: John Kerry – Climate Change A Bigger Threat Than Terrorism
This Ain’t Hell: A-10s To Iraq
Weasel Zippers: Moonbat Waitress Uses $2000 Rush Limbaugh Tip To Fund Abortions
Megan McArdle: Don’t Ever Appear On “The Daily Show”


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