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Today’s Ray Of Hope: Harvard Gets A Clue

Posted on | May 14, 2014 | 51 Comments

— Wombat-socho


“Despair is a sin.” – J.E.Pournelle


This should actually have gone up yesterday, but I spent most of the day waiting for my truck to be worked on and am not much interested in trying to make posts from my cellphone, bolshy great phablet that it is. It’s actually better for having waited a day, since now I can point you to Da Tech Guy’s excellent post on the Eucharistic Adoration held Monday night at MIT’s chapel, and the consequent mass at St. Paul’s in Cambridge, which were a protest to the Black Mass scheduled to be held at Harvard. You should go read it now, enjoy the many interviews Pete did with (among others) former mayor of Boston and ambassador to the Vatican Ray Flynn, and check out the even more numerous pictures. Throw money at Da Tip Jar while you’re there.


Maybe I’m blowing this out of proportion, but I find it significant in this time of “anything goes” religious and anti-religious practice that the people of Boston and Cambridge stood up in great numbers and said “This far and no farther.” The Black Mass was not only protested by local folks but by thousands of students and faculty at Harvard itself, and whatever failures of nerve Harvard President Drew Faust may have shown in the past, I think it took a bit of courage to attend the Adoration and the Mass. Andrew Breitbart is often quoted as saying “Politics is downstream from culture,” and is it too much to hope for that the Silent Majority has finally grown sick of hipsters mocking their religion and pretending to play at Satanism to shock the bourgeoisie? As Pete points out, the outcry was enough for the club originally sponsoring the Black Mass to withdraw its sanction and with it, the use of Harvard space. Some sources say that the event was eventually held off-campus at a Chinese restaurant; others say the property owner refused to rent the space. One thing is clear: there was no Black Mass held at the college that once was known for training Congregationalist preachers.


Category: Catholics, Culture, Da Tech Guy

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.14.14

Posted on | May 14, 2014 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
201 Dead, Hundreds Missing In
Turkey Coal Mine Fire

Medics help a wounded miner after the mine disaster in western Turkey

Almost 800 miners inside when electrical unit exploded, triggering fire

Uttar Pradesh Embraces Modi, Bihar Not So Much
Secular voters combine with Muslims against BJP in Bihar; Modi leading in all four major polls anyway

Ukraine Round Table Talks Begin Today
Degrees of decentralization to be discussed



POLITICS
Tea Party Favorite Ben Sasse Wins Bruising Nebraska Primary

Midland University president Ben Sasse, now GOP candidate for Senate from Nebraska

Establishment favorite Shane Osborn concedes after finishing third


Rove Defends Comments Questioning Hillary’s Health

Federal Judge Strikes Down Idaho Ban On Gay Marriage



Mooney Wins Crowded WV-2 GOP Primary; Capito To Face Nick Casey In General For Senate

Rep. Conyers Fails To Qualify For Michigan Primary Ballot

Sallie Mae Reaches $60 Million Settlement With DOJ Over Military Student Loans

Ras Baraka Declares Victory In Newark Mayor Race



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Up On Hints Of US Crude Exports: NYMEX $101.96, Brent $109.35
Asian Shares Rise, Euro Wobbles Under Pressure
Dow, S&P 500 End At Record Highs Again
Hollywood, Amazon, And Your Local Realtor Pushing To Legalize Drones
IRS Misses Deadline To Appeal Tax Preparer Rules Rejection
Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift Didn’t Deliver For Elizabeth Arden
Microsoft Backflips On Kinect For XBox One
Google’s Self-Driving Car Makes Strides
Suspected Iranian Hackers Target US Defense Industries
Oracle Wants Its $1.3 Billion Pound Of Flesh In Unique SAP Theft Case
FCC Adjusts Open Internet Rules Amid Controversy



SPORTS
Rangers Cap Comeback, Top Penguins 2-1 In Game 7

The Rangers’ Boyle shoots, and scores!

Lundqvist made 35 saves to put the Rangers ahead

Gortat Pummels Pacers As Wizards Narrow Gap To 3-2

Wild’s Season Ends With 2-1 Loss To Blackhawks


Stan Van Gundy Hired By Pistons

Royals Shut Down Rockies Offense In 5-1 Win

Keuchel Goes The Distance As Astros Blank Rangers

Parmelee’s Sayonara Blast In 9th Wins For Twins

Nats Rally, Edge Snakes 6-5



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Harry Potter Spinoff “Fantastic Beasts” To Hit Big Screen November 2016

J.K. Rowling

First movie in a projected trilogy

Channing Tatum Cast As X-Man Gambit

Justin Bieber – LAPD Investigating Alleged Attempted Robbery

Alec Baldwin Arrested For Wrong-Way Biking In NYC

Roberto Orci To Direct “Star Trek 3”

Drew Barrymore “Couldn’t Be Better” After Having Second Child



FOREIGNERS
PRC Set To Charge Glaxo Over Bribery
Vietnam Protesters Torch PRC Factories Over South China Seas Dispute
Nigeria Signals Readiness To Talk To Boko Haram
Special UN/Arab League Envoy To Syria Suddenly Quits
Italy Lashes Out At EU After Migrant Shipwreck
Suspected Nork Drone Found On Mountain Near Seoul
Japan’s PM Shinzo Abe To Pitch Security Change To Divided Voters, Wary Partner
ICC Prosecutor To Examine Alleged British Crimes In Iraq War



BLOGS & STUFF
Doug Powers: Behold The Epic Self-Inflicted Beclowning Of Eleanor Clift
Twitchy: Chris Hayes Uses Benghazi In Failed Trolling Attempt
American Power: Harvard’s Kennedy School Adds “Check Your Privilege 101” To New Student Orientation
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Noted Di Blasio Supporter Has Run-In With Petty Statists
Conservatives4Palin: Joni Ernst Snags Chamber Of Commerce Endorsement In Iowa
Jammie Wearing Fools: Warren Buffett Has Given $1.2 Million To Abortion Groups
Joe For America: Does Hillary Clinton Have Brain Damage?
JustOneMinute: Don’t Dream It, Be It
Pat Dollard: MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart Doesn’t Think Tolerance Should Be A Two-Way Street
Shot In The Dark: Chanting Points Memo – The Straw War
STUMP: Campbell’s Law And Talking Back To Numbers – The Public Pensions Connection
The Lonely Conservative: CAIR Wants “Islamist Extremist” And “Jihadism” Removed From 9/11 Memorial
This Ain’t Hell: Along With The A-10, Guess What Else The Air Force Wanted To Ax?
Weasel Zippers: Obama-Appointed Former CIA Director Backs Benghazi Select Committee
Megan McArdle: The Little States That Couldn’t On Obamacare


Category: Live at Five

The Brutality of Kurt Schlichter

Posted on | May 13, 2014 | 46 Comments

Of course, I mean brutality as a compliment, expressing my admiration of his skillful demolition of a liberal “argument”:

Mock them. Accuse them of adhering to a transphobic cisnormative paradigm and start shrieking “Hate crime!”
Don’t worry about not making sense. They’re college students. They are used to not understanding what people smarter than they are tell them.
Respectful argument should be reserved for those who respect the concept of argument. The sulky sophomores who babble about privilege do not. They only understand power. And we give them power when we give their nonsense the respect we would give a coherent argument.
They deserve only laughter. . . .

Read the whole thing. Somebody ought to teach classes in this kind of rhetoric. And that column should be included in the textbook.

 

 

Category: Conservatism 101, Intellectuals

Vote Sodom/Gomorrah 2016!

Posted on | May 13, 2014 | 234 Comments

by Smitty

You can despise Greenwald all you like, but I have the puke-coming-out-my-nose feeling he’s spot-on here:

How do you feel about the early presidential jockeying?
Hillary is banal, corrupted, drained of vibrancy and passion. I mean, she’s been around forever, the Clinton circle. She’s a f_____ hawk and like a neocon, practically. She’s surrounded by all these sleazy money types who are just corrupting everything everywhere. But she’s going to be the first female president, and women in America are going to be completely invested in her candidacy. Opposition to her is going to be depicted as misogynistic, like opposition to Obama has been depicted as racist. It’s going to be this completely symbolic messaging that’s going to overshadow the fact that she’ll do nothing but continue everything in pursuit of her own power. They’ll probably have a gay person after Hillary who’s just going to do the same thing.

I hope this happens so badly, because I think it’ll be so instructive in that regard. It’ll prove the point. Americans love to mock the idea of monarchy, and yet we have our own de facto monarchy. I think what these leaks did is, they demonstrated that there really is this government that just is the kind of permanent government that doesn’t get affected by election choices and that isn’t in any way accountable to any sort of democratic transparency and just creates its own world off on its own.

And. Still. I. Will. Not. Vote. For. Jeb.

Can we emphasize this point enough for the Vichy GOP? No amount of Hillary Angst is going to get votes for the next Dole/McCain/Romney. Especially if non-reformer #4 is Yet Another Bush.

If you want to impress me, Mr. Bush, don’t run. Show that you care about the country, and it’s not about you, by Not Making It About You. Get together with Sarah Palin, tour the country on the Tea Party Express, connect with the people, and support someone else. Get behind the Convention of States in an honest way that will make the Founders smile as they look down from Eternity.

We’ve got 300+ million people in this country. If the only way somebody who is nominally conservative can win a Presidential election is to bear the name ‘Bush’ (as has been the case since 1988) then just screw us to the wall.

I voted Perot in ’92, and I’ll write in the old codger again before I vote for another Bush. Sure, I’m just the one vote, but I’m far from alone. If the Republican party wants to turn the 2016 vote into a suicide pact, Then So Be It.

via ZeroHedge

Category: Hillary Clinton

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 05.13.14

Posted on | May 13, 2014 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
East Ukraine Separatists Seek Union With Russia

Rebel leader Denis Pushilin says Ukraine’s presidential elections won’t be held in Donetsk

Russia keeps its distance


Boko Haram Leader Shows Abducted Girls In Latest Video
Vows not to return girls until imprisoned jihadis are freed


Exit Polls Indicate Narendra Modi Will Be Next PM Of India
BJP-led National Democratic Alliance on track to win majority in Lok Sabha



POLITICS
Black Mass At Harvard Cancelled

Mass held at St. Paul’s Church in protest was standing room only

University club withdraws sponsorship under fire from students, faculty and local Catholics

Judge Strikes Down Gay Marriage Ban In Arkansas; Most County Clerks Stick To Law Regardless


Clay Aiken’s Primary Opponent Dies At Home

Geithner’s Memoirs Hint That White House Asked Him To Lie

Rand Paul Threatens To Delay Obama’s Fed Nominees Over Audit Bill

Report Says Thousands Of Convicted Criminal Illegals Released While Waiting For Deportation Hearings



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Ukraine Tensions Keep Asian Crude High: NYMEX $100.62, Brent $108.33
AT&T In Talks To Buy DirecTV For ~$50 Billion
Strong Results Push Euro Stocks To Six-Year High
Hillshire To Move Beyond Meat With $4.2 Billion Purchase Of Pinnacle Foods
Happy Monday! Dow, S&P Close At Record Highs
Pinterest Starts Displaying Ads
Sony CEO Hirai To Take 50% Pay Cut, Other Execs To Follow Suit
Twitter Finally Adds Mute Button
Microsoft’s Office For iPad Racks Up 27 Million Downloads In Six Weeks
GM Reveals Price To Turn Your Car Into A Rolling 4G Hotspot
Facebook Removes Poke, Camera From Mobile App



SPORTS
Ducks Edge Kings 4-3 In Game 5

Not Quick Enough: Kings goalie Jonathan Quick fails to block a shot from Ducks RW Devante Smith-Pelly

Anaheim now has 3-2 lead in series


Damian Lillard Delivers As Blazers Stave Off Elimination


Habs Force Game Seven With Shutout Of Bruins


MLS Confirms Broadcast Deal With ESPN, Univision, Fox

James Scores 49 As Heat Top Nyets For 3-1 Lead

Marlins Shelve Phenom Fernandez; Could Miss Rest Of Season

Mariners Rout Rays 12-5

Tyler Moore Summoned From Syracuse As LaRoche Hits DL



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Jane Krakowski Joins Tina Fey On NBC’s “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”

A “30 Rock” reunion?

Joins cast after Fox folds “Dead Boss”

Jay-Z Assaulted By Beyonce’s Sister Solange

“Community” Unlikely To Go Elsewhere

Where Is Casey Kasem? Judge Concerned About Legendary DJ’s Whereabouts, Safety

Jennifer Lawrence Almost Repeats Oscars Fall At X-Men Premiere

Kelly Rowland Marries Tim Witherspoon

NBC Sets Live Production Of “The Music Man”

Octavia Spencer Joins “Divergent” Sequel

Sherri Shepherd Files For Divorce

Justin Bieber Gets Booed By Sports Fans At Clippers Game

Chris Colfer On “Glee” Controversy: I’m Just Too Old For Drama

Lindsay Lohan Swears Under Oath She Had A Miscarriage

Tori Spelling’s Husband Ripped In Explosive Deposition By Ex-Wife



FOREIGNERS
PRC Urges Kerry To Be “Objective” On South China Sea Dispute
Israeli Court Sentences Former PM Ehud Olmert To Six Years
Pressure Mounts On Thai Senate As Crisis Persists
Modi Calls For Healing As India Stocks Surge On Expected Win
Hamas-Fatah Unity Government To Form By End Of Month
Search Resumes For ROK Ferry Victims
Pope Says Martians Have Right To Be Baptised
Car Bombs Kill 23 In Baghdad
Slanders Spark Anti-Nork Sentiment



BLOGS & STUFF
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Matt Yglesias – A Profile In The New Elite
Doug Powers: Least Surprising News Of The Day? Guess What Some Are Blaming For Boko Haram Kidnappings
Twitchy: What Could Go Wrong? Jim Geraghty Asks Key Question About Harvard Satanists, Boston Mosques
Quinton Report: Union-Connected O’Malley Appointee Connected With Campaign Sign Theft
American Power: Gay NFL Draftee Becomes Sacred Cow
American Thinker: The Left Embraces Blacklisting
BLACKFIVE: A Three-Step Plan To Begin Eating The VA Elephant
Conservatives4Palin: Sarah Palin Endorses Ben Sasse For Senate From Nebraska
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, May 13
Jammie Wearing Fools: No Fear Of Hashtags – Boko Haram Maniacs Kidnap More Children, Kill More Villagers
Joe For America: Woman Blames Walmart For Her Poverty; Why Walmart?
JustOneMinute: At Mark Steyn’s Suggestion
Pat Dollard: Ft. Hood Shooting Victims To Finally Receive Purple Hearts
Protein Wisdom: Privilege
Shot In The Dark: This Is Your Obama Economy, Part MMMCCXLVIII
The Jawa Report: Tom Cotton Blasts Democrats’ “Fake Outrage” Over Benghazi
The Lonely Conservative: Whistleblower Says VA Denied Cancer Tests To Cut Costs
This Ain’t Hell: Hagel Says Military Should Review Transgender Ban
Weasel Zippers: Ed Schultz Claims Gays, Not Jews, “Were Really The Ones Being Persecuted In Hitler’s Germany”
Megan McArdle: Inequality’s A Loser For Democrats


Category: Live at Five

In The Mailbox, 05.12.14

Posted on | May 12, 2014 | 12 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
The First Street Journal: Telling Half The Truth, The Half-Truth, And Nothing But The Half-Truth
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: The Inanity Of American Feminism
Twitchy: FSU Linebacker, Others Notice Head-shaking Michael Sam/Tim Tebow Comparison


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: No More Excuses For Islamic Monsters
American Thinker: Christian Brotherhood An Impeachable Offense While Gay Incest Celebrated
BLACKFIVE: Calling Terrorists Terrorists
Conservatives4Palin: Feminists Ruin Reputation By Trashing Lewinsky’s
Jammie Wearing Fools: Cost Of Obamacare’s Failed Massachusetts Site Now Tops $500 Million
Joe For America: Veterans Administration Back Charges Triple Amputee Airman Brian Kolfage Thousands Of Dollars
JustOneMinute: Man And Satan At Harvard
Pat Dollard: Criminal Charles Rangel Says “No American Is Going To Lose Sleep Over Benghazi”
Protein Wisdom: Trey Gowdy Is Serious
Shot In The Dark: Be Thankful, Peasants
The Jawa Report: White Guilt
The Lonely Conservative: Why Do They Lie To Us?
This Ain’t Hell: I’m With Staff Sergeant Old School On #bringbackourgirls
Weasel Zippers: Obama Administration Urged Nigeria To Show Restraint Toward Boko Haram, Even Rebuilt Mosque In Boko Haram Area
Megan McArdle: Revisiting Obamacare’s Health Benefits


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Category: Linkagery

#NOAFW A Gift to Aspiring Mothers

Posted on | May 11, 2014 | 69 Comments

Excuse the relative paucity of blog output, but I’ve been wrestling for two days with my massive Mother’s Day essay. Today marks the conclusion of sixth annual National Offend a Feminist Week, and I want to do something special. However, the special essay keeps growing longer and longer — it’s very hard to write with penetrating insight — and with the additional problem of a computer glitch or two, it will necessarily be delayed until later this evening.

However, to provide amusement and enlightenment for you while I toil over that 3,000-word monster essay, I’ll share something special for women who are not yet mothers.

How many “safe sex” lectures have young women been forced to endure in the past 20 years? How many TV and magazine ads for condoms and contraceptives have they seen? And how can women who desire motherhood overcome, so to speak, the anti-maternity propaganda that now pervades our culture? After all, young men have also been targeted by the “safe sex” evangelists, and her man may therefore feel an aversion to his necessary masculine role in procreation.

If the journey to reproduction is to arrive (so to speak) at its desired destination, it may be necessary for a young would-be mother to empower herself, exercising her feminine prerogative to speak to him the Nine Sexiest Words a Woman Can Ever Say to a Man:

NZXP TYDTOP XP. T HLYE EZ SLGP JZFC MLMTPD.

Amateur cryptographers are hereby strongly cautioned: Do not — repeat, do NOT — write the uncoded message in the comments, nor on Twitter or on your own blogs. At least not in English. Translations in French, Spanish, Latin, etc., might be amusing.

Hey, did I ever mention that my wife and I have six children?

 

Category: National Offend a Feminist Week

Rule 5 Sunday: Insert Appropriate Song Title Here

Posted on | May 11, 2014 | 14 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Yep, it’s time once again to consider the merits of Rule 5 – Everybody Loves A Pretty Girl – and as usual, I feel it necessary to remind the Loyal Readers that some of the following links are to NSFW depictions of (at least) half-pretty girls (at most) half-dressed to show it, and that discretion is advised regarding where and when you click on the links.

First Street Journal takes us where the action is, and shows us women with weapons; Blackmailers Don’t Shoot brings us up to date on the adventures of Jennifer Lawrence, especially her relationship with Elvis, and Rotten To The Core chimes in with the “nonpartisan” Eva Longoria  and Shailene Woodley, Bane of the Feminists. Goodstuff goes Hawaiian and also has some hot stuff from the 1920s named Josephine Baker. Ninety Miles From Tyranny offers the Morning Mistress, Naked On The Beach, and Girls With Guns; Animal Magnetism steps it up this week with Leanna Decker, Rule Five Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon, while Laughing Conservative contributes Jenna Dewan.

EBL’s herd this week includes Feminist Pin-Ups, Shailene Woodley, Monica Lewinsky, Da Vinci’s Demons, Paula Patton, Dr. Monica Wehby, and more Paula Patton.

At Soylent Refuge, it’s your weekly coffee creamer, along with Flash Flash, Overnighty Stefanie, Monday Motivationer Sasha, Evening Ala Awesome,  Tuesday Titillation, Vintage Humpday Hawtness Nancie, Afternooner Underboob Awesome, Evening Awesome Linky-Love Contender, Fursday: Set The Snoochinator To 1990, Overnighty Fur, Corset Friday: Latent Lingerie, T-GIF Friday Snoochography, Mmmm Candy!, Weekender Hayden, and Bath Night In The Garden.

A View From The Beach supplies us with Jessica Biel – More Indian than Elizabeth Warren, Yep, Still There, A Little Child Shall Lead Them, “Black Wind Howlin”, He is the Walrus, Jimi Hendrix, Korean Style, Who Did the Hobbits?, “You Go Down Smooth”, “For Whom The Belle Tolls”, When Someone Calls You a Neanderthal. . . (with cave girls), and “Hiding Under Water”.

Proof Positive’s Babe of the Week is Kelly Reilly, his vintage Babe is Rosalind Russell, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Dita von Teese this week. At Dustbury, it’s Miranda Lambert and Shailene Woodley.

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, May 17.

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Category: Rule 5
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