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The Gaza Jihad Is on Twitter

Posted on | July 21, 2014 | 20 Comments

Check the #Gaza or #Israel hashtags on Twitter and you’ll see that anti-Israel activists are flooding social media with their messages.

This is absolutely not an accident:

The Middle East Media Research (MEMRI) published Thursday a translation of a new Hamas internet campaign to provide guidelines for Gaza’s social media users. According to MEMRI, the Hamas Interior Ministry has instructed Gazans to use Facebook and Twitter to “play their part in strengthening the home front and properly convey information worldwide.” The guidelines in fact instruct social media users to mislead the public and propagate disinformation worldwide.
The interior ministry’s “Be Aware — Social Media Activist Awareness Campaign” centers around an instructional video and posters published on the ministry’s Facebook and Twitter pages. Gazans are taught, first and foremost, to refer to all terrorists as innocent civilians.
“Anyone killed or martyred is to be called a civilian from Gaza or Palestine, before we talk about his status in jihad or his military rank,” the guidelines state. “Don’t forget to always add ‘innocent civilian’ or ‘innocent citizen’ in your description of those killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza.” Mainstream media outlets would do well to remember this when quoting distorted reports from Gaza of civilian casualties.
The guidelines go on to tell Facebook and Twitter users how to spin Hamas terrorist activity aimed at harming Israeli civilians to appear legitimate.

The current Israeli campaign in Gaza is a response to Hamas firing missiles at Israeli civilians. Exactly how anyone could believe that Hamas terrorists are innocent civilians, I don’t know, but some people are credulous simpletons, and easily propagandized. Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to killing Jews, period. It is also the elected government of Gaza, which should tell you something about the general sentiment of “innocent civilians” in Gaza.

 

Category: Israel, Terrorism

The New Feminist Fashion

Posted on | July 21, 2014 | 52 Comments

Feminist artist Eleanor Beth Haswell (@Elle_Haswell) has designed what the fashionable Women’s Studies major will be wearing:

Art student Eleanor Beth Haswell’s ‘Why are you so afraid of your own anatomy?’ collection is all about the vagina knickers.
Haswell’s undies . . . are a true celebration of the female anatomy and come complete with an annotated diagram of said lady parts, demonstrating exactly where everything — from the fallopian tube to the cervix — actually is.
The designer-turned-gynaecologist also created a bra to go with her knickers making the ultimate matching set.

See, ladies? If you’re not parading your vagina around in public, you’re “afraid of your own anatomy,” according to feminism.

Let’s read the “about” page at Eleanor Beth Haswell’s web site:

Eleanor Beth Haswell is an eighteen year old art student from North East England, who previously studied Fine Art and Graphic Design at Durham Sixth Form Centre and is going on to start Sunderland University and complete the Foundation Degree in Art and Design. Her work is mainly photography based, covering feminist issues such as body shaming in the media, as well as her previous project on domestic violence. Prior to this, Eleanor also created a project based around the cruelty to animals within the cosmetic and fur industry, to which she made a series of advertisements showing the unseen effects. She highlights mainly upon the negative views of body hair within her work, and the perception of beauty that the medias imprints within society today.
Out of education, she runs a North East England female identified arts collective named Clandestine Collective, of which she is also the logo/poster designer.

“Female-identified,” huh? From the collective’s Twitter account:

Feminists obsessed with female genitalia, which they are not afraid to proclaim “good enough to eat”? Yeah, there’s a word for that.

UPDATE: Twitchy’s having a blast with this:

 

Category: Feminism

‘I Got Him in a Bloody Puddle for You’: Father Beats Gay Teen Molesting Son

Posted on | July 21, 2014 | 104 Comments

Raymond Frolander is an 18-year-old homosexual who was molesting an 11-year-old boy when the boy’s father caught him:

A father who walked in on a man allegedly sexually assaulting his 11-year-old son beat the man to a pulp before calling police to say they could come collect him from a ‘bloody puddle’ on his floor.
The 35-year-old man, who has not been identified, told a 911 dispatcher in the early hours of Friday: ‘I just walked in on a grown man molesting [name redacted]. And I got him in a bloody puddle for you right now, officer.’
Police arrived at the Daytona Beach home in Florida to find Raymond Frolander, 18, unconscious. . . .
When the 911 responder asked the father if any weapons were involved, he said: ‘My foot and my fist’.
‘He is nice and knocked out on the floor for you, I dragged him into the living room,’ the father said. ‘Send an ambulance. He is going to need one.’
The dispatcher asked: ‘Is he still unconscious?’ to which the father responds: ‘Yes… I hit hard, sir.’
He said that Frolander was a ‘damn lucky boy that I love my God’.
The father added: ‘He stood up and his pants were around his ankles and nothing else needed to be said. I did whatever I got a right to do except I didn’t kill him.’
The father had left his home around 1 am to pick up some food and when he returned, heard a strange noise coming from the bedroom, police said.
He pushed open the door and allegedly found Frolander with his pants down performing a sex act on the child.
The boy told investigators he had been playing video games with friends but when they left, Frolander took him to a back room and pulled down his pants. He also said Frolander had been abusing him for three years.

This had been going on since Frolander was 15 and the boy was 8 — and nobody in the media will us the word “gay” about this story.

Had it not been for the fact that the father caught Frolander in the act, with his pants around his ankles, the father would have been accused of homophobia if he had said he didn’t want this creepy gay teenager hanging around with his son. You’re also a bigoted homophobe if you notice that accused child pornographer Matthew Graziotti — a Cub Scout leader! — liked little boys:

A South Daytona elementary teacher and former youth pastor accused of possessing thousands of child pornography images — including some he produced — remained jailed Tuesday, while federal agents continue to investigate the case.
Matthew Graziotti, 42, was arrested [July 14] after FBI agents searched his Edgewater home and found the illegal images on his laptop, according to a criminal complaint filed in Orlando federal court. . . .
Agents began investigating Graziotti in May, when an undercover agent using a peer-to-peer file sharing program downloaded about 140 child pornography images and six videos from him. . . .
A forensic examiner found 8,761 images in one of Graziotti’s computer folders, many of which depicted the sexual abuse of boys, court records said.
In a folder titled “personally known,” Graziotti created 41 subfolders titled with different boys’ names.
Investigators found pictures in one of those folders of Graziotti sexually abusing a boy in his living room in 2012, court records said.
In another folder, examiners found a picture of a boy asleep on Graziotti’s couch, and the child’s shorts were removed so he was exposed, court records said. That picture was taken in May.

Notice both of these cases occurred in Florida, where the state chapter of the ACLU and the state’s largest gay-rights organization last year supported lesbian sex offender Kaitlyn Hunt, who molested a 14-year-old girl. “Emerging awareness.” IYKWIMAITYD.

 

Category: Crime, Florida, Gays, Sex

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.21.14

Posted on | July 21, 2014 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Bloody Sunday: 100 Palestinians, 13 Israeli Soldiers Killed

Pre-dawn assault on Shejaiya, near Gaza City

Most Palestinian casualties occur in Shejaiya, scene of a “blistering” Israeli assault
Thousands of Palestinians flee
Two American IDF soldiers killed in Gaza fighting



Ukrainian Rebel Leader Claims To Have Black Boxes In Donetsk
Kiev releases new intercepts indicating Moscow’s complicity in Malaysian airliner shootdown

Iran Eliminates Enriched Uranium
IAEA says Iranian stockpile now converted to reactor fuel, no longer weapons-grade



POLITICS
Georgia Senate Race Zeroes In On Metro Atlanta Ahead of Tuesday’s GOP Primary

David Perdue greets a voter in Gainesville

No natural advantage for Rep. Jack Kingston or Dollar General CEO Perdue

White House Reportedly Ignored Warnings On Border Crisis Last Year

McKinney Seeking Upset In CT GOP Governor Primary

No Welcome Mat In Moscow For Rep. Moran, Lynndie England

Quinn Signs Bill Permitting Weed For Seizures In Illinois

Hundreds Of Protests This Weekend Against Illegal Immigration, Obama’s Policies

DNC Raises $9 Million In June, Reduces Debt To $3 Million

Top Colorado Court Halts Denver Gay Marriages

10th Circuit Rules Oklahoma Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Slips: WTI $102.90, Brent $107.11
McDonald’s, Yum Halt Purchases From Shanghai Meat Supplier
Market Basket Workers Fired As Employees Rally For Ousted CEO
Euro Slips Below $1.35, Dollar Posts Broad Gains
Forbes Reportedly Valued At $475 Million In Sale To Hong Kong Group
EU Tells Apple & Google To Limit In-Game Purchases
Facebook To Challenge Amazon Next?
Verizon FiOS To Pump Up The Upstream
Microtransactions On The Rise In MMOs
Amazon Announces All-You-Can-Read Plan



SPORTS
Angels Rally Against Rodney, Sink Mariners

Shot down in flames for shooting prematurely?

Angels score in their last at-bat to pull out 6-5 win


Winston Circus Brings Drama To Usually Low-Key ACC Media Day



Despaigne Loses No-Hit Bid, Padres Beat Mets 2-1 Anyway

Chase Elliott Wins Third NNS Race Of Season At Chicagoland

Slumping Sparks Sack Ross

Dominguez Has 4 RBIs As Astros Win 11-7 Slugfest Against Pale Hose

A’s Rout O’s 10-2

Werth’s Double In Ninth Helps Nats Hold Off Brewers, 5-4



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
James Garner Dies, 86

Good night, sweet prince

Star of “Maverick”, “The Rockford Files”

“The ultimate affable man of action”


Adam Levine, Behati Prinsloo Get Hitched In Mexico

Weekend Box Office: #1 “Apes” Hold, #2 “Purge” Surges, #3 “Planes” Meh, #4 “Sex Tape” Tanks

Ex-Destiny’s Child Singer Farrah Franklin Busted For Disorderly Conduct

Showtime’s “Homeland” Teaser

“Teen Wolf” Star Tyler Posey To Host Teen Choice Awards


Could This Be The End Of Beyonce And Jay-Z?

And Now, Your Long-Distance Mortification…

NPR Learns About New Media Accountability The Hard Way

TV Critics Award “The Good Wife”, “True Detective”, “RuPaul” And Give “Breaking Bad” A Big Sendoff

Beyonce Teases Sexy “Crazy In Love” Remix For “Fifty Shades Of Grey”

Andre Gregory Dishes On His Upcoming Memoir

Jake LaMotta Still “Raging” At 92



FOREIGNERS
UNSC Calls For Immediate Cease-Fire In Gaza
Former Indonesian Strongman Rejects Result Of Presidential Election
At Least Four Dead As Militias Fight Over Tripoli Airport
Typhoon Kills 17, Leaves 5 Missing In Southern China
Norks Flip-Flop Over Improving Relations With ROK, Asian Games
Lebanese Troops Kill Militant Linked To Beirut Bombing
South Sudan Rebels Break Truce, Retake Town Near Ethiopian Border
ISIS Jihadis Claim Credit For Deadly Baghdad Bombings
Nigerian Jihadis Kill More Than 40 In Northeast
Israel Reduces Embassy Staff In Ankara After Violent Pro-Palestinian Protests



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: Senator Bob Casey – Lying Through His Scummy Teeth
Dead Republican Party: Videos Of Importance
Michelle Malkin: Mrs. Obama’s Operation VA Scandal Distraction
Twitchy: Matt Yglesias Flogged With His Own Seven-Month Old Buffoonery
American Power: National Protests Against Amnesty
American Thinker: Of Horses, Politicians, And Fences
BLACKFIVE: Bring The Fun To National Review
Conservatives4Palin: Governor Palin’s Speech At The Western Conservative Summit
Jammie Wearing Fools: Pivot! Obama Back To Babbling About His Awesome Economy
Joe For America: Paul Arnold – A Man, A Truck, And An Idea To Stop Amnesty Goes Nationwide
JustOneMinute: Global Income Inequality Falling
Protein Wisdom: Mexicans Fire .50 Caliber Rounds At Border Patrol Across The Rio Grande
Shot In The Dark: Rose Colored Glasses
The Gateway Pundit: Oklahoma Governor – ICE Sent Us 1200 Illegal Immigrant Children, Including 90 From India
The Jawa Report: Hamas – “Don’t Worry, Our Missiles Only Hit Jews”
The Lonely Conservative: Michelle Obama Tells Kids “Folks In Congress” Want To Make Their Meals Unhealthy
This Ain’t Hell: Ventura Vs. Kyle Estate Not Going Well For Ventura
Weasel Zippers: Breaking – Governor Perry To Send 1000 National Guardsmen To The Border
Megan McArdle: A Mortgage That Feeds Your Piggy Bank


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Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Sunday: Electric Avenue

Posted on | July 20, 2014 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

As usual, the links in this post lead to pics of attractive (usually) women in little or no clothing (usually) which may not be well received by others who happen to view your computer’s monitor. Be wise, and exercise discretion when clicking.

Laughing Conservative kicks things off this week with Sophie Howard, followed by Goodstuff with the legendary Jayne Mansfield, Randy’d Roundtable with Helen Flanagan,  and of course Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Morning Mistress,  Hot Pick of the Late Night, and of course Girls with Guns. Animal Magnetism contributes Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, again with hi-rez bonus! We also heard from Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Selena Gomez Posts Something On Instagram, People Flip Out.

EBL’s thundering herd is apparently suffering from a lack of heat: this week it’s just Dutch soccer fans, Too Fat for Forever 21, #thinspiration, and Emma Peel as played by Dame Diana Rigg in her delicious prime.

Fortunately, A View from the Beach steps up with Fat Chicks Never Forgive, Never Forget – Chrissy Teigen, I Didn’t Even Know There Was One, Kacy Up At Bat, Ginger Tired of Being Treated Like a Redheaded Stepchild, The First Race War? (has cavegirl content), Red Dress Makes Women Sexier, Annoys Other Women, World Cup Final, and Beautiful Woman Makes Ugly Post.

Also, Soylent Refuge with Sunday brunch, Overnighty, Monday Motivationer woodwork, Evening Awesome F**k Yeah Brazil, Tuesday Titillation Titanus, Overnighty Awesome, Humpday Hawtness Amber, Fursday Finery, Overnighty 17, Corset Comforts, T-GIF Friday Tit-Flash Fiesta, Evening Awesome Cinnamon Sugar, Weekender Ainsley, and Bath Night Bodacious.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Chrissy Teigen, his Vintage Babe is Stella Stevens, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Jessica Simpson. At Dustbury, it’s Taylor Swift and Agnez Mo.

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week include Meisa Kuroki, Tinashe, Ryo Kashima, Tara Conner, Sienna Miller, Ali Cobrin, Alexis Naiomi, Renee Goldsberry, Kristal Marshal, Chiharu Mizuno, Michelle Jenneke, Errika Katagiri, Shoko Takasaki, Draya Michelle, and Anya Manzikova.


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday is midnight on Saturday, July 26.


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Category: Rule 5

Commies in Anaheim?

Posted on | July 20, 2014 | 18 Comments

ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) is a front for the Marxist revolutionary Workers World Party. This is simply a fact, but a fact routinely omitted from media coverage of ANSWER protests. This was the case in California, where the local CBS affiliate deliberated ignored the communist orientation of this weekend’s “march against police brutality” in Anaheim:

Reporter Art Barron ignored the radical, anarcho-communist protesters, many of whom wore shirts and held signs calling for death to the Anaheim Police Department. Even worse, the back bloc anarchists are shown at the video without even a 10-second description or explanation of the real and violent ideological program.

That’s from Donald Douglas, who covered the protests and has compiled a series of reports on the event at American Power:

Cowardly #ANSWER Communists
Violently Harass ‘American Power’
at Anaheim Police Brutality Protest!

– – –

Responses to ‘Cowardly #ANSWER Communists’

– – –

Hey, Leftists: You’re Gonna Need a Bigger
Collectivist Army to Shut Down ‘American Power’!

Notice the red flags? I became familiar with ANSWER when they organized “peace” protests in D.C. during the Iraq War. Of course, commies don’t want peace. They want to destroy America.

 

Category: American Power

Tales of the Mission Gone Wrong

Posted on | July 20, 2014 | 18 Comments

Last night, my 12-year-old son Emerson got the DVD of Lone Survivor from Red Box. My wife can’t watch this movie — the true story of Marcus Luttrell and a squad of Navy SEALs that gets wiped out in Afghanistan — because Army son Bob is training to do this kind of special ops stuff, and his mother does not want to think about it.

After watching it, I realized Lone Survivor is like Black Hawk Down and We Were Soldiers — the Mission Gone Wrong.

The old military adage is that no battle plan survives the first contact with the enemy. The Bad Guys — whether they’re the NVA or Somali militia or the Taliban — have their own battle plan, and if our intelligence has underestimated the enemy’s numbers and capabilities (a common theme of the Mission Gone Wrong), a lot of Good Guys are going to die in the process of discovering the error.

We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young, the 1992 book on which the 2002 movie was based, is the story of the November 1965 attack of the First Battalion, 7th Cavalry (Airmobile) against a regiment of the regular North Vietnamese army (NVA) in the Ia Drang valley. It was the largest such battle up to that point in the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. You can read Hal Moore’s after-action report.

What happened was this U.S. battalion at Landing Zone X-Ray — about 450 troops — had landed right next to the headquarters of a full regiment (about 1,600 troops) of NVA, which held the high ground on Chu Pong Mountain. The battle at Landing Zone X-Ray went on for two days, and the total U.S. losses (79 killed, 121 wounded) were more than 40% of the total battalion strength; NVA losses were 634 killed, by body count, which means that the U.S. inflicted casualties at about an 8-to-1 ratio — clearly an American victory. But the day after the two-day battle at LZ X-Ray, the Second Battalion, 7th Cavalry was overrun at Landing Zone Albany, suffering 155 killed and 124 wounded after they were ambushed by fresh NVA units. Both of these 7th Cav units were basically put out of action until they could replace their losses, and the unexpectedly high U.S. casualty rates in the Ia Drang were an omen of things to come.

Black Hawk Down — also a book before it became a movie — began as a mission (code-named “Gothic Serpent”) in October 1993 targeting Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. The heavy losses to U.S. special forces in the resulting two-day Battle of Mogadishu were primarily caused by the discovery (oops!) that Somali militia could shoot down U.S. helicopters with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), and the lack of U.S. armored vehicles (which the Clinton administration had denied to the U.S. commander).

Lone Survivor continues this tradition of Mission Gone Wrong tales, beginning with a bestselling book. It is very similar to Black Hawk Down in that the mission (code-named “Red Wings”) began with a plan to target a local Islamic militia leader (Ahmad Shah) and involved the shoot-down of a helicopter (in this case, a CH-47 Chinook with 16 troops). There has been some dispute about the number of Afghan fighters faced by Luttrell and his three comrades. If Shah had only 20 militia, then the four SEALs were outnumbered 4-to-1 — worse odds than Hal Moore’s men faced at LZ X-Ray — and there have been some who say that Shah’s militia numbered 40, 50 or even as many as 200. The number of Bad Guys is tactically irrelevant to what went wrong in Operation Red Wings. The four SEALs were inserted on a remote mountain where communication proved difficult, without much consideration of what might happen if the Bad Guys found them. Evacuation or reinforcement would be equally difficult and, because of the comms problem, headquarters didn’t even know the mission had been compromised until the SEALs were already under attack.

U.S. troops are the best in the world, and Special Forces are the best of the best, but they are not bulletproof superheroes, and when the excrement hits the rotary ventilation device — the Mission Gone Wrong — bad thing happen to the Good Guys.

After watching Lone Survivor, I e-mailed my Army son: “Your career goal should be to have only missions so successful that nobody wants to make movies about them.” Can I get an amen?

 

Category: Military

Andrew ‘The Nailgun’ O’Hehir Calls Israel America’s Frankenstein Monster

Posted on | July 20, 2014 | 29 Comments

Andrew O’Hehir (@AndOHehir) is the all-purpose genius at Salon whose job includes (a) writing crappy movie reviews and (b) spouting off about any random thing that catches his fancy. Last year, O’Hehir got himself memorably owned by Ace of Spades:

Nailed it again. I’m gonna just call this guy “The Nailgun” because he nails everything in sight.

So, here’s the headline on O’Hehir’s latest opus at Salon:

Israel: America’s Frankenstein monster

In the interest of fairness, because I’m willing to give even the most obstinate left-wing doofus the benefit of the doubt, my first reaction was: “Well, that’s just the headline. Everybody knows that Salon.com is a troll operation that publishes click-bait headlines to attract traffic.” But then I read the article, which concludes thus:

From the American perspective Israel looks something like Frankenstein’s monster, a morally dubious and arguably unnatural creation that was stitched together with the noblest of intentions but not much foresight, and that produced a painful litany of unintended consequences. In that analogy we are Victor Frankenstein, who can never unmake his wayward creature, control it or untether himself from it. If I remember the story correctly, they destroy each other in the end.

This is so wrong in so many ways I don’t even know where to begin. I’m going to trust that Ace of Spades will dismantle it for us.

 

Category: Israel
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