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They Always Blame the Jews

Posted on | July 14, 2014 | 43 Comments

The “Final Solution” to the Mideast problem:

As Hamas Rockets continued to rain down on Israeli population centers, a large anti-Israel rally took place in Seattle’s Westlake Center this Saturday, July 12. Protesters screamed anti-Israel slogans calling for the destruction of the Jewish state while waving signs and marching through the downtown sidewalks. But this was more than a rally in opposition to Israel or her defensive operations. The signs being waved and the chants hollered constituted a shocking public display of shameless Jew hatred right in the heart of Seattle.
Signs comparing Jews to Nazis were commonplace . . .
While you may have thought that blood libel accusations are a relic of the past, in fact the slander was alive and well in downtown Seattle this past Saturday.

Read the whole thing — with numerous photos. Is it merely a coincidence that President Obama’s approval rating is highest among Muslims than among any other religious group? I think not.

The most fervent disciples of anti-American hatred know who their friends are — and we know who their enemies are, don’t we?

 

Category: Islam, Israel, Religion

Democrats Dump Obama

Posted on | July 14, 2014 | 25 Comments

Hope and Change have become a campaign liability:

Obama’s approval ratings are in the basement and show no signs of improving, so Democrats are keeping their distance. On the stump, in campaign ads and at fundraisers, Obama’s absence is increasingly conspicuous.
Democrats are voicing their displeasure with his policies and campaign advisers are telling candidates to avoid being photographed with him, so as to deny Republicans effective visuals for campaign ads.
“It’s a no-brainer,” said one operative who works for a senator up for reelection in 2014. “The second term has been a bit of a disaster, his approval ratings are the lowest of his presidency and Washington is in disarray.”
Many of the Democratic senators elected in 2008 rode to office on Obama’s coattails. Six years later, they’re asking, “Barack who?”
Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) last week avoided being at his own fundraiser while Obama was there, excusing himself on the grounds that he had to attend votes at the Capitol. . . .

Read the whole thing.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Democrats, Election

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.14.14

Posted on | July 14, 2014 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
IDF To Palestinian Civilians In North Gaza: GTFO

A Gaza mosque flattened by air strikes after Israel ignores UN calls for a ceasefire

IDF commandos destroy rocket launching site; civilians warned to evacuate “for their own safety”
Palestinian-Americans, other dual citizens fleeing Gaza in droves
IDF shells Lebanon after cross-border rocket attack


Ukrainian Forces Close In On Lugansk
Russia warns of “irreversible consequences” after Russian civilian killed by errant artillery shell

Tommy Ramone Dies, 65
Original drummer of the Ramones, the seminal American punk band



POLITICS
GOP Leaders: No Border Money Without Tighter Border Security

Sen. McCain: “The best way to stem the flow is to expedite deportation of these kids”

House GOP balking at size of request


Pentagon Pink Slips Thousands Of Soldiers, Including Active-Duty Officers

Illegal Pot Grower Accused Of Starting California Wildfire


Press Secretary Earnest Defends Notion Of “Most Transparent Administration”

State Officials Raise Outcry Over Resettlement Of Illegal Alien Kids



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Brent Trades Near Three-Month Low As Libya Comes Back: WTI $100.84, Brent $106.84
Citigroup Poised To Settle Mortgage Probe For $7 Billion
Wall Street Ends Week Higher, But Indexes Post Losses
Asian Stocks Rebound As Gold Slips, Corn Retreats
Crumbs Lives To Bake Another Day
Lindt Close To Deal For Russell Stover
Satya Nadella’s Big Bid To Reshape Microsoft
Apple Denies Red Chinese Accusation That Location Info Is Security Risk
Google Silent As Net Neutrality Hangs In The Balance
Yahoo Buys Streaming Startup RayV
Tekken Goes Next-Gen, Will Use Unreal Engine 4



SPORTS
Posey-Bumgarner Battery Hits Historic Grand Slams

Catcher Buster Posey jacks a grand slam in the fifth inning; pitcher Madison Bumgarner does the same thing in the sixth

Giants beat Snakes 8-4

Germany Tops Argentina For World Cup In Extras

Padres Lose Second Straight 1-0 Game To Dodgers

Keselowski Finishes Weekend Sweep With Sprint Cup Win In NH

Marlins Stagger Into All Star Break On Sour Note After Being Crushed 9-1 By Mets

Dozier Homers Twice As Twins Rout Rockies 13-5

Buchholz K’s 12 As Red Sox Blank Astros 11-0

Braves Pound Wood, Cubs 10-7

Sonny Gray Notches #10 As A’s Beat Mariners 4-1

Streaking Angels Sweep Rangers

Tribe Edges ChiSox 3-2, Ends First Half At .500 On Winning Note

Jayson Werth Leads Nationals’ Rout Of Phillies



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Forever 21 Once Told Chrissy Teigen She Was Too Fat

O RLY?

Fired from shoot – and she hasn’t forgotten or forgiven


Dinesh D’souza’s “America” Now #7 Political Documentary Of All Time

Jenni “JWoww” Farley Spawns

“Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes” Opens to Bigger Than Expected $101.4 Million Weekend

Cops Called To Bloody Brawl At Paris Hilton’s Party


Kill Me Now, CNBC Anchorman

“X Factor” Judge Cheryl Cole Marries French Boyfriend

Pixar Tried Pressuring Sony To Join Alleged Wage-Fixing Cartel

Nickelodeon’s “Sam & Cat” Axed After One Season

SAG-AFTRA Pact Goes To Vote

Tracy Morgan Sues Walmart Over Deadly Crash

Chris Brown, Drake – Screw Rihanna And Friendship, Let’s Make Money

Bobby Brown Quits New Edition Concert Tour

Steven Spielberg Finally Gets Called Out On Facebook for Being A Cold-Blooded Dinosaur Killer

Fox Halts Production On Naked Dating Show Pilot



FOREIGNERS
Beijing Orders Local Governments To Buy More Electric Cars
Boko Haram Mocks Social Media Plea To Free Kidnapped Girls
Main Libya Airport Closed As Militias Clash
Vatican Representative Denies Sex Abuse Comments Attributed To Pope
Jihadis Fire On Egyptian Military Post, Killing Two Soldiers, Seven Civilians
Koreas To Hold Talks On Asian Games
Deadlock In Iraqi Leadership Vote As ISIS Gains Ground
Red Chinese Prosecutors Arrest Top TV News Anchor
C Of E Takes Second Swing At Female Bishop Vote
Abe-Backed Candidate Loses Local Election; Defense Policy Shift Blamed



BLOGS & STUFF
Proof Positive: Under The Dome
Michelle Malkin: Hey, Snotty Bloomberg – Mind Your Own Crumbling City!
Twitchy: Brit Hume Has No Idea What Ann Coulter Is Raving About
American Power: Anchor Baby Aliens – Surge Of Illegals Includes Pregnant Teenage Mothers
American Thinker: The Political Left Is Deconstructing The Middle Class
BLACKFIVE: Benghazi Stand Down Order Bogus?
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: BDS Anti-Semites Want You To Boycott These Brands
Conservatives4Palin: NYT – All This Talk About A Border Crisis Is A GOP Myth
Don Surber: In Defense Of Rosie O’Donnell
Jammie Wearing Fools: Delusional Democrat On Obama Crisis – “The Border Is Secure!”
Joe For America: Wave Of Immigrant Disease Coming To Your Community
JustOneMinute: Billionaires Need Cheap Labor Too
Pat Dollard: DHS Chief Visits Processing Center, Lies Through His Teeth For US Public Consumption
Protein Wisdom: Obama’s TSA – Allowing Illegals To fly Without Identification
Shot In The Dark: Things I’m Supposed To Like But Never Really Did – Billy Idol
STUMP: #WarOnWomen – The Absurdity Of Statistical Equality
The Jawa Report: Pallywood And The Left
The Lonely Conservative: Obama’s Border Request Would Pay For Schooling, Health Care, And Lawyers For Illegals
This Ain’t Hell: State Department Runs Out Of Visas For Afghan Terps
Weasel Zippers: In France, Muslims Protesting Israel Trap Jews Inside Synagogue


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Category: Live at Five

The Lighter Side Of The Border Crisis

Posted on | July 13, 2014 | 13 Comments

by Smitty

Category: humor

What ‘Precocious’ Means

Posted on | July 13, 2014 | 55 Comments

The blogospheric badminton continues with Sophia the Teenage Feminist who, having made a point of bringing up her theoretical “bisexuality,” now objects to this topic being discussed critically.

Or sarcastically, for that matter.

In case you’re arriving late, a recap: While conducting a Google search Saturday as part of my ongoing series about feminism, I encountered a blog called “Please Excuse My Vagina: My life as a teenage feminist.”

OK, congratulations, you got my attention. Under the topic of “heteronormativity” (!!) I found she referenced an occasion when she and her friends were “messing around” with a Ouija board, which became the theme of my post, An Omen of the ‘Mystifying Oracle’?

To this she responded here and also here, and then I responded this morning with “The Precocious Feminist Replies.” This afternoon, while I was watching the World Cup final (damn those Germans), Sophia the Teenage Feminist responded yet again and, among other things, wonders if calling her “precocious” was intended as an insult.

No, it was a mere description of someone who is intellectually advanced at an early age — a prodigy, the Mozart of feminism, as it were.

How many kids are slinging around the word “heteronormativity” in high school? Precocious. Her prose style was impressive enough that some of the commenters here suspected her blog to be elaborate hoax, i.e., an adult pretending to be a teenager. Precocious.

She is “upper-middle class,” she takes dance lessons, and her creepy ex-boyfriend “goes to a gifted goddamn school“ — from which I deduced that Sophia the Teenage Feminist also attends this school for the gifted, which explains her own intellectual precocity.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

Having established the plausible veracity of her biography, so that we can presume she actually is a high-school student, we now proceed to Sophia’s latest volley in the badminton match:

At the age of eighteen or nineteen I hope to be studying Sociology at Columbia [University], far away from my asshole dad and my ambitionless ex. I hope to be dating a nice guy. I hope to be having the time of my life.

(Green Day allusion? Never mind. The reference to Columbia generally fits her “upper-middle class”/”gifted” profile.)

I am in fact bi on a theoretical basis. . . . But if you can say my sexuality is only theoretical, then aren’t all the good little Christian boys and girls only theoretically straight? This is heteronormativity in action, folks.

(Very clever. When you view the world through an ideological prism, no fact can disprove or discredit your ideology. A word like “heteronormativity” sets up a tautology, so that argument becomes impossible. It’s like trying to argue with a Marxist who insists that your criticism is a product of “false consciousness.”)

And you know what, maybe I’m being unnecessarily rude here . . .  and you know what? I don’t care at this point. I tried to be civil, but you can’t even call me by name or validate me as a person because of my age.

(Have I been less than civil? I didn’t call you by name because — hello? — “Sophia Hudson” is a pseudonym, as you say yourself. Is it my job to “validate [you] as a person”? What does that even mean? Never mind. Here is her response to one of my points . . .)

Oh good lord. I don’t even know how to respond to this because it is stupid on a deeper level than anything I’ve experienced. . . .
I could go on and on for years about why this is so end-all ridiculous but in the interest of not beating a dead horse, I’m just going to keep my mouth shut for now.

Well, what was this incredibly stupid point of mine? It was this:

Given the direction our culture is heading, one can imagine a scenario in which anyone who rejects a homosexual advance — “No, thanks, I’m straight” — is accused of being a homophobe, so that society is effectively divided into two groups: Gays and Haters.

Sophia the Teenage Feminist seems to think this is right-wing paranoia, but what was the argument of the “Free Kate” crusade? That enforcement of Florida’s age-of-consent law was “homophobic” when it was applied to a lesbian having sex with a 14-year-old girl. How far a leap is it from such an argument to the claim that rejecting a homosexual advance is evidence of homophobia?

And wasn’t this the whole point of Sophia’s Ouija-board story?

When the “Mystifying Oracle” indicated Sophia’s same-sex interest — gosh, I wonder how that happened? — her girlfriends were shocked and this, Sophia tells us, proved “they’re homophobes who are terrified of girls being in love with them.” What would have been the appropriately non-homophobic reaction, Sophia?

Excuse my cynicism. I used to be precocious, too.

“I’m just going to keep my mouth shut for now.”

 

Category: Feminism

Rule 5 Sunday: On The Beach

Posted on | July 13, 2014 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Holy guacamole, I’m actually getting this done on a Sunday for once. As usual, exercise discretion when clicking the links; if you don’t know why that is, maybe you’d be better off reading some other post.

Rotten to the Core leads off this week with Jennifer Lawrence, followed by Fishersville Mike with Taylor Swift, Goodstuff with Helena Bonham Carter, and Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Morning Mistress Cameltoe, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Girls With Guns. Blackmailers Don’t Shoot offers a Rule 5 Linkfest with Yaya Han, and First Street Journal contributes a very timely salute to the women of the IDF.

EBL’s herd this week includes vintage cat calls, Frieda Pinto, reporting on water parks, Jeri Ellsworth, Brazil’s agony of defeat, Global Warming and the threat to gingers, Esquire’s mockworthy salute to “older women”, more World Cup Rule 5  from Germany and of course, Argentina.

Postaldog returns after a long absence with Maria Sharapova, the Spring Breakers girls, Eva Green and more Eva Green, Paris Hilton, and Cameron Diaz.

A View from the Beach chips in with Christy Turlington, Tip Well at Shooters Cafe, Stay Classy, Virginia!, Renowned Climate Scientist Predicts End of Curvaceous Women. “Toxicity”, Climate Change to Lessen Ginger Menace, Zombie Obamacare Schadenfreude, Ban the Pill – Save the Fish!, and Hoop de Doo!.

At Soylent Refuge, it’s your Sunday morning spoon licker, an Evening Awesome with blue eyes, Monday Motivationer Rockin’, The Queen of Linky Love, Happy Hour Hawtness Formal, Tuesday Titillation, Overnighty Masque, Humpday Hawtness – Sweet Hitchhiker, Because Irish Can’t Put Her In His Own Header, Falconsword Fursday Ferocity, Evening Awesome, Corset Campfire, T-GIF Friday Shimmy, Cocktail Hour, Weekender Adrienne, and Bath Night Bliss.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Draya Michele, his vintage babe is Lillian Gish, and Sex in Advertising is all about the lingerie. At Dustbury, it’s Faye Emerson and Carole Lombard.

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week were Shoko Takasaki, Reima Tachibana, Patricia Mizen, Julia Kelly, April Bowlby, Andrea Parker, Kozue Nitta, more Reima Tachibana, Miho Imanmura, Kelly Jensen, Samara Redway, Rei Toda, Miyako Akane, and Random Beauty.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 roundup is midnight Saturday, July 19.

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Category: Rule 5

How to Get Raped at College

Posted on | July 13, 2014 | 106 Comments

A long article in the New York Times describes the fate of “Anna,” who was a freshman last fall at Hobart and William Smith Colleges (tuition $46,852 a year). This elite liberal arts college in Geneva, N.Y., has an enrollment of 2,300 students and, apparently, a campus culture that turns a blind eye to illegal underage alcohol consumption. So when a girl shows up as an 18-year-old freshman . . .

She had entered what is commonly known as the Red Zone, a period of vulnerability for sexual assaults, beginning when freshmen first walk onto campus until Thanksgiving break.
“Students arrive and you have a new environment, new social circle and the fear that goes with new expectations,” said Robert S. Flowers, vice president for student affairs. That can lead to experimentation, including excessive drinking and attendant problems.
For that reason, the school held what students call rape seminars, the first in a program that, Mr. Flowers said, has made Hobart and William Smith a leader in preventing sexual violence.

Do these “rape seminars” warn freshmen girls against drinking rum and partying with football players at the Kappa Sig house? Two weeks after school started, that’s what Anna was doing:

Anna and a senior football player she had just met were grinding to the music, rubbing their bodies together. . . .
Anna said she had begun the evening drinking shots of rum mixed into Gatorade.

By the time police Sgt. Anthony Pluretti showed up at 2:10 a.m., Anna had reportedly had sexual intercourse — evidently including anal intercourse — twice with the football  player, and had also performed oral sex on another player. Rather than this incident being investigated and prosecuted as a crime, however, it was handled as a school disciplinary matter by the college, and Anna was shocked by what she perceived as the unfairness of the proceedings:

The panel’s initial questioning was based mostly on the investigative work of campus officers who aggressively sought out witnesses, followed leads and conducted interviews. According to the federal Education Department, a sexual-assault investigation typically takes around 60 calendar days. Hobart and William Smith did it in a little more than a week.
The hearing followed almost immediately. . . .
Anna was questioned first. “It was one of the hardest things I have ever gone through,” she said later, adding, “I felt like I was talking to someone who knew nothing of any sort of social interaction; what happens at parties; what happens in sex.”
She had to relive that evening through questions that jumped around in time, interrupted her answers and misrepresented witness statements. . . .
Two of the three panel members did not examine the medical records showing blunt force trauma — it was the chairwoman’s prerogative not to share them. Instead, the panel asked what Anna had drunk, who she may have kissed and how she had danced. It was, Anna said, as if admitting you were grinding — a common way of dancing — “means you therefore consent to sex or should be raped.”

You can read the whole thing. One wonders how the world could be arranged so that 18-year-old girls can get drunk at parties and “grind” with football players without the players inferring from this behavior that the girls are interested in having sex.

One also wonders why colleges are treated like bubbles where normal rules do not apply. In the normal world, sexual assault is a felony, and is investigated and prosecuted as such. On college campuses, it seems, sexual assault is treated about as seriously as laws against providing alcohol to teenagers, i.e., not seriously at all: “Oopsie! You got drunk. Oopsie! Is that a football player’s penis in your butt?”

See, there is an unspoken agreement involved: If parents are paying $46,852 a year to send their daughter to college, the college isn’t going to kick the girl out (and forfeit $46,582) just because her idea of fun is chugging rum at the Kappa Sig house. If it weren’t for drunk freshman girls “grinding” on the dance floor, why would the guys at Kappa Sig — all of whom represent $46,852 in annual revenue to the college administration — bother throwing parties? And if the football players can’t take turns banging the drunk girl they picked up at the Kappa Sig house, what’s the point of playing football?

These are the implicit assumptions of 21st-century elite college life: Underage drinking and sexual promiscuity, for $46,852 a year.

If you don’t like that deal, go to community college. Full-time tuition at Fingers Lake Community College is only $4,022 a year, and it’s less than 14 miles from the campus of Hobart and William Smith Colleges. But you don’t get the social prestige of the elite liberal arts college experience by attending community college, and prestige is what these parents are paying $46,852 a year for, isn’t it?

Having your teenage daughter raped by football players at Hobart and William Smith Colleges is a luxury most people can’t afford.

UPDATE: Professor Donald Douglas at American Power:

I certainly don’t know what to believe, which brings me back to the notion of personal responsibility. Anna got herself into trouble. So many of these “rape” stories I read about are just like this. It always comes down to he said, she said, and alcohol is involved . . .

Alcohol is always involved in these stories, see? But colleges aren’t willing to discipline kids for underage drinking. If you want to stop “rape culture,” do something to stop “drunk culture.”

 

Category: Crime, Education, Feminism, Sex

Good-Bye, Miami Beach? The Problem With Climate-Change Hysteria

Posted on | July 13, 2014 | 47 Comments

From a Guardian feature about Miami:

“There has been a rise of about 10 inches in sea levels since the 19th century — brought about by humanity’s heating of the planet through its industrial practices — and that is now bringing chaos to Miami Beach by regularly flooding places like Alton Road,” says Harold Wanless, a geology professor at the University of Miami. “And it is going to get worse. By the end of this century we could easily have a rise of six feet, possibly 10 feet. Nothing much will survive that. Most of the land here is less than 10 feet above sea level.”

The obvious first question: Is this true?

Stipulate that Professor Wanless is correct about the 10-inch rise in sea levels in the past 200 years. This would be a measurable phenonmenon, and it would be hard for a scientist just to make up something like that. But must we accept Professor Wanless’s cause-and-effect assertion, that the rise in sea levels has been “brought about by humanity’s heating of the planet through its industrial practices”? Even if we accept that assertion, does the data really justify Professor Wanless’s claim that the trend will — or rather “could” — bring about “a rise of six feet, possibly 10 feet” within the next century?

When you start chaining together “if/then” hypotheticals to arrive at a doomsday scenario of the future, you have ceased to engage in science and are merely fear-mongering. Having seen all kinds of doomsday scenarios like this turn out to be nothing but irresponsible speculation, I am skeptical about the latest scare, and don’t think people are being serious about the whole “climate change” hysteria.

Second obvious question: Aren’t carbon-emitting “industrial practices” necessary to make Miami suitable for human habitation?

Try to imagine living year-round in Miami without air-conditioning. But how do you have air-conditioning with electricity, and how do you generate electricity without carbon emissions? There are five nuclear power plants in Florida, but most of the state’s electricity is generated by coal-burning or natural gas-burning plants.

How many more nuclear/solar/wind plants would Florida need to reduce the “carbon footprint” of their electricity needs by 10 percent or 20 percent? What would be the cost of this, and who would pay those costs? Isn’t it possible that switching from cheap coal-powered electricity to more expensive forms would involve a cost so large as to cripple Florida’s economy? And should we do this for the sake of a theoretical threat of global warming catastrophe?

Questions like this could be multiplied infinitely. Miami’s economy is largely dependent on tourism. These tourists mainly arrive by airplanes and automobiles. We can imagine (and there may already exist) technology that would reduce or eliminate the use of carbon fuels in transportation, but that technology will cost money, and if non-carbon fuels were economically feasible — if they were cheaper than “green” technology — there would be no need for government mandates or subsidies to promote them. (Keep in mind that electric cars don’t do anything to reduce carbon emissions, so long as electricity is generated by carbon-burning plants.)

As long as tourism is crucial to Miami’s economy, the “industrial practices” involved in cheap transportation will be necessary to the city’s existence. So trying to “save” Miami from rising sea levels by reducing carbon emissions doesn’t make much sense if, in the process of reducing carbon emissions, you wreck the basis of the city’s economy: No air conditioning, no jet planes, no Miami.

The Apostles of Climate Change do not generally follow the logic of their ideology to the secondary and tertiary consequences. They cast aspersions on critics — Marco Rubio is denounced as an “idiot” for his skepticism — as being unscientific, as if economics were not a science, and as if the anti-industrial/anti-capitalist biases of the global warming crowd were not apparent.

 

Category: Global Warming
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