‘This Is a Tragedy in the Family’: @Belle_Knox’s Horrible Disgrace
Posted on | March 11, 2014 | 127 Comments
Miriam Weeks (@belle_knox) "Welcome home, Daddy! I'm a porn star now!" http://t.co/HMEPG5w0Ya @DailyMailUS pic.twitter.com/89qQM336Tl
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) March 11, 2014
Army physician Dr. Kevin Weeks returns home from deployment in Afghanistan to learn that his youngest daughter Miriam has become notorious as the Duke University porn star “Belle Knox”:
Amanda Minor, the mother-in-law of Miriam’s brother Paul, told MailOnline: ‘This is a tragedy in the family. The father is one of the best human beings I’ve ever met. He is just back from Afghanistan; he served his country, how awesome is that?
‘He’s so proud of his daughter; there’s no way they could have known this was going on. It’s terrible. . . . This is a nightmare what the family are going through.’ . . .
You can read the whole embarrassing thing.
Remember that this is what the freshman Women’s Studies major calls “empowerment.” Miriam Weeks probably feels extra empowered now that both the New York Post and NewsMax are also on the story.
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Posted on | March 11, 2014 | 3 Comments
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TOP NEWS
Ukraine May Have To Go Nuclear, Says Kiev MP

A Ukrainian worker cuts into a nuke-capable air-launched cruise missile in 2002
Rizanenko and others say Clinton-era Budapest memorandum was supposed to prevent Russian incursions
Pope Francis Goes On Retreat, Takes The Bus
“I’m not a Superman,” Pope says
Snowden Speaks At SXSW
Calls for public oversight of U.S. spy programs
POLITICS
General’s Sexual Assault Court-martial In Jeopardy

Brigadier General Sinclair leaves the courthouse with his lawyers
Did Army push to make an example of Sinclair to “send a signal”?
Senate unanimously passes revision to military sexual assault law
New Administration Policy Grants Benefits To Illegal Relatives of Servicemembers
DC Mayoral Race Turns Into Referendum On Gray’s Credibility
States Game The System To Prevent Food Stamp Cuts
The Senate Democrats Are Serious About Climate Change, But Not Serious Enough To Write A Bill
E-mails Showed HHS Officials Stonewalled Reporters’ Inquiries Into Sebelius’ Shakedowns
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Up From NY Close On Ukraine Tension: NYMEX $101.18/Brent $108.08
US Stocks Fall As Industrials Lead Drop On PRC Data
Sbarro Files For Bankruptcy Again
Asian Stocks Pare Gains As BOJ Stays The Course
IBM Struggles To Shift Into The Cloud Era
McDonald’s Not On Value Menu Despite Weak Sales
Apple Releases iOS 7.1 With CarPlay, Siri Improvements
Microsoft Fired Up About “Titanfall” Debut
Refer Businesses To Google Apps, Make Money
Verizon CFO: Phone Subsidies And Two-Year Contracts Aren’t Going Anywhere
Microsoft’s Battery-Boosting Surface Slab Cover Coming Soon
SPORTS
Knicks Send Sixers To 17th Straight Loss

Tim Hardaway Jr leads the way with 28 points
New York beats Philly like rented mule, 123-110
Blue Jackets/Stars Game Postponed After Ex-Bruin Bruce Peversley Collapses On Bench
UConn Ladies Blow Past Louisville For First AAC Title
Duchesne Scores Winner In OT As Avs Edge Jets 3-2
Tiny Dancers: Delaware Beats William & Mary For CAA Title
Soriano Pounded In 7-4 Loss To Astros
FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
The Very Bright Future Of Elisabeth Moss

Pic with Vulture article bordered on NSFW
“Mad Men” star goes topless for New York magazine
Juliette Lewis At 40: “I Quit My Bull**** At 22”
Cristin Milioti Debunks Morbid “How I Met Your Mother” Ending Theory
Katie Holmes To Play Manhattan Socialite In Upcoming NBC Pilot
Lena Dunham Deletes, Apologizes For Molestation Tweet
Fox Cancels “Raising Hope” After Four Seasons
Zac Efron Talks “High School Musical” Reunion: “We’re All Thinking About It”
Shailene Woodley Doesn’t Own A Cell Phone
FOREIGNERS
Search For Malaysian Jet Expands As PRC Launches Satellites
Pistorius Vomits During Graphic Testimony
Kerry Declines Meeting With Putin On Ukraine
Israeli Troops Kill Jordanian Judge During Scuffle At Border Crossing
Maduro Regime Blocks Opposition March In Caracas
New Zealand To Hold Referendum On “Post-Colonial” Flag
Cyprus Central Bank President Quits
Nuns’ Release Was Part Of Hostage Swap
NATO Jets To Monitor Ukraine Border
Is A Narendra Modi Wave Behind Sensex Rally?
El Salvador’s Election Deadlocked As Conservative Opposition Charges Fraud
The Power Of Nationalism In Quebec
BLOGS & STUFF
Proof Positive: Bear False Witness
Michelle Malkin: Eat Your Own Words, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz!
Twitchy: New Tone – “I Hope Only GOP Children Get Shot”
Stump: Welcome To The Public Pension Watch – Hooray For New Jersey!
American Power: Russia Condemns “Lawlessness” In Eastern Ukraine
American Thinker: The Media, Not Racism, Turned The South Republican
Blackfive: Book Review – “Stone Cold” By C.J. Box
Conservatives4Palin: Amazing America With Governor Sarah Palin
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, March 10
Jammie Wearing Fools: Irony Meter Explodes – Union Says Obamacare Hastens Income Inequality
Joe For America: Obama On Life Support, CNN Reports “He’s Flatlining”
JustOneMinute: Boo, Wall Street! Yay, Uh, Evil Corporations?
Pat Dollard: Inhofe Accuses Obama Of Wasting $120 Billion On Global Warming, Could Have Bought 1400 F-35s
Protein Wisdom: Radical Atheists Demand Censoring Of 9/11 Museum
Shot In The Dark: Things I’m Supposed To Like But Can’t Stand – The B-52s
The Jawa Report: Tens Of Thousands Of Foreign Students Missing
The Lonely Conservative: Sharyl Attkisson Calls It Quits With CBS News
This Ain’t Hell: Study On Returning Veterans
Megan McArdle: More Obamacare Numbers, More Speculation
Who Is @LenaDunham’s Uncle and Why Does He Keep Making Her Get Naked?
Posted on | March 10, 2014 | 30 Comments
Oh, it was just a joke, says the habitually naked HBO star, but why would she even have thought of a “joke” like this? Responding to someone on Twitter who criticized Dunham’s “branding” as The Unattractive Girl Who Is Always Naked, she responded: “Please tell that to my uncle, mister. He’s been making me!” Then she deleted the Tweet and explained it by saying she was just “sleepy” but . . .
Can we say issues, boys and girls? I think we can.
Twitchy points out that Dunham has made uncle molestation “jokes” before and — I think this is highly relevant — many women who identify as feminists (as Dunham adamantly does) have personal histories of previous sexual abuse, so that “the personal is political” becomes a way to make their grievances with specific victimizers part of an ideology that generalizes such abuse into a narrative of oppression. And if you dare to question the politicization of individual trauma, then you are a misogynist who is “blaming the victim.”
Let me digress briefly to remind you that (a) Democrats have signaled that they plan to recycle the “War on Women” meme for the 2014 mid-term campaign; (b) the whole Todd Akin episode in 2012 shows how Democrats routinely turn policy debates into discussions of rape and incest; and (c) the looming menace of Hillary Clinton in 2016 means that conservatives need to get serious about isolating feminist rhetorical tactics as an issue. But I digress . . .
When you scratch a fanatical feminist, a psycho nutcase bleeds.
That is to say, you will seldom encounter an outspoken feminist who isn’t on Prozac or some other medication to help her deal with her emotional issues. Crazy is as crazy does. To make yourself an advocate for the unlimited slaughter of unborn children is crazy and so, when we start noticing evidence that a feminist has “issues,” we ought not ignore it. You may remember the #StopRush fanatic Melissa K. Brewer, whose harassment of pro-life activists on Twitter led to her exposure as a convicted prostitute. Brewer’s defensive reaction? She’s a victim with psychiatric problems:
No matter how hard I tried to suppress it, I had underlying mental illness, and “looking normal” or “acting okay” never erased that desire to destroy myself, cut myself, or take my own life. . . .
Living with a secret mental illness isn’t easy. . . .
When I look back at it, it all feels like some surreal nightmare to me. My psychiatrist once told me that people with PTSD walk around with a feeling of “unreality” . . .
By the time I was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, I had attempted suicide three times. . . .
Go read my October 2013 post in case you’ve forgotten who Melissa Brewer is and what Melissa Brewer did. However much sympathy we may have toward abuse survivors and the mentally ill, we cannot permit emotionally damaged people to exploit claims of victimhood as an excuse to inflict their craziness on the innocent.
This would be bad enough in any situation, but the victimology obsession of feminism enables outright craziness to infect our political discourse in a way that always favors Democrats — “The Pervert Party” whose advocacy of deviant sexual “liberation” is, in fact, directly implicated in the victimization of women and girls.
Virginia Democrat molested two little girls at
his 10-year-old daughter’s birthday sleepover
“Trigger alert,” as the feminists like to say.
There is a fundamental irrationality involved which becomes evident when the feminist argument is reduced to a syllogism:
- A. I was molested as a child;
- B. Rush Limbaugh is a Republican;
and therefore - C. VOTE DEMOCRAT! BECAUSE RAPE!
If this sounds like hyperbole, you have not critically examined Melissa Brewer’s demented apologia, in which she says she “grew up with little to no sense of self-worth,” because she “had been molested by my father as a child” and she “was raped at age 17 while I was run away from home” and as a result she is certifiably crazy:
Living with a secret mental illness isn’t easy. Coping on a daily basis is nearly possible. You often end up being friends with people that are pretty much in the same situation that you are: self-hating, self-loathing, angry with the world, ashamed of their problems. Unable or unwilling to pinpoint the trauma they’ve experienced, or in some cases, put themselves through. (People with trauma issues tend to get into relationships that are toxic, turn to prostitution or despair, unknowingly from the underlying belief that trauma a “normal part of life.” If you spend the first 15 or so years of your life being abused, well..It becomes normal.) Drugs and alcohol can often numb the despair, dull the symptoms, and otherwise help you cope with day to day life. Drug and alcohol abuse enabled me to play the role I believed I was supposed to play in that world; party girl, crazy drunk, helpless addict, pathetic girlfriend who didn’t mind if you pushed her around, hit her, or called her names.
All of this may be true. However, one of the manifestations of Melissa Brewer’s mental illness is that she is a pathological liar, to say nothing of her narcissistic tendency toward self-pity and blame-shifting. Lots of people endure misfortune and hardship without turning their circumstances into an excuse for attempting to destroy the lives of innocent people who did them no wrong.
In April 2012, Melissa Brewer (then using @subculturestuff as her Twitter handle) was described as “one of the main instigators” of an attempt to get conservative activists banned from Twitter. Failing to learn from that episode, she continued her online harassment as @catsrimportant until someone figured out she was the same Melissa Brewer who, at age 28 in 2006, had offered herself on Craigslist as a prostitute providing “full service” for $200 an hour — with a convicted teenage sex offender as her pimp.
Exactly how does it make sense for this person, who by her own admission is mentally ill, to appoint herself as arbiter of who is allowed to participate in political discourse, filing bogus Twitter terms-of-service violation complaints against her chosen enemies in an effort to get their accounts suspended? Yet the rage of this madwoman was accepted by Twitter as a legitimate reason to punish sane people, because PROGRESSIVE! Because PRO-CHOICE! Because FEMINIST!
The irrationality of feminism explains how you get a sexual harasser like Bill Clinton being defended by Nina Burleigh: “I’d be happy to give him a blow job just to thank him for keeping abortion legal.”
I repeat: Crazy is as crazy does, and feminism is to crazy women what your front-porch light is to moths at night.
Are Lena Dunham’s perverted uncle “jokes” merely jokes?
Maybe, but maybe not. She’s a feminist who thinks it is “empowering” to get naked on cable TV every week and, based on years of observing emotionally damaged feminists in action, that kind of persistent craziness is usually the product of a weird background.
Lena Dunham and Jack Antonoff went on a 'double date' with the Obamas http://t.co/8ZX1TikGIf via @Femail pic.twitter.com/nuADi0hCxG
— DanRiehl (@DanRiehl) March 11, 2014
Sarah Palin CPAC 2014 Part 2 (Seuss!)
Posted on | March 10, 2014 | 9 Comments
by Smitty
Thanks Texas, lauds Senator Ted Cruz, then starts in on a Dr. Seuss parody.
The rest of Seuss:
Genuinely funny, but delivered more as an entertainer than as a serious contender for high office.
Yale Girls Are Sluts
Posted on | March 10, 2014 | 54 Comments
On an elevator in the lobby of the Gaylord National Convention Center during CPAC, I spotted a smiling girl wearing a T-shirt that indicated she was a volunteer for the event. She was carrying a stack of books, and when I commented about this, she explained that she had received them as freebies, distributed in the volunteer room. “Would you like one?” And how could I possibly refuse?
This explains how I got a copy of the 2010 essay collection, Proud to Be Right: Voices of the Next Conservative Generation, edited and with an introduction by Jonah Goldberg. It includes 22 essays by young writers, some of whom you likely already know — e.g., Bretbart.com editor Joel Pollak and documentary filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney — and others you probably don’t. Nathan Harden is author of God & Sex at Yale and editor of The College Fix, and his essay in Proud to Be Right is entitled “The Girls I Knew at Yale”:
Sex in college exists apart from and, occasionally, as a prelude to love. Many girls engage in sex with the hope that it will lead to “something more.”
At Yale, a guy shows up at a party and meets a new girl. They have a few drinks, nod to the music, ask each other, “What’s your major?” and “What college are you from?” (At Yale, dorms are referred to as “residential colleges.”) Maybe they dance. At this point, if the two are getting along, it is not considered unreasonable for the guy to expect oral sex at the end of the night.
Men, I would argue, do not benefit spiritually or morally from such a promiscuous culture. But women receive the worst end of the bargain. . . .
At Yale, caring about love is a weakness. If a girl resists, doesn’t get with the program and get into bed, another girl will take her place. Expectations are so slanted toward casual hook-ups that any girl who holds out for a meaningful relationship is in danger of being left out altogether. It’s either “friends with benefits” or another Friday night spent alone. As a result, many girls go further and faster sexually than they really want to go. . . .
You can buy the book and read the whole thing, but you see the point: This is not “empowerment.” This is not “autonomy.”
This is desperation, loneliness and peer pressure. And rather than address the underlying personal problems involved in what Nathan Harden calls the “promiscuous culture” on campus, the intellectual class instead offers lectures against “slut-shaming.”
But sluts should be ashamed, because their promiscuity doesn’t only harm them, it also harms other girls by encouraging boys’ expectations of casual drunken hook-ups and “friends with benefits.”
In such a toxic environment, it’s hard to blame college girls who become LUGs (Lesbians Until Graduation) simply to avoid creeps who expect a blow job from any girl who talks to them at a party.
BTW, the girl on the elevator who gave me the book wasn’t from Yale. She was a nice girl from Oregon. Nice girls don’t go to Yale.
Or Cornell, for that matter. And certainly not Duke.
Château de Raceur
Posted on | March 10, 2014 | 19 Comments
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Update: I stand accused of plagiarism for using the four mug shots from The Onion, while only linking, and not explicitly crediting the source. My degenerate crapsack of an accuser seems less worried about the NYU pic at the top of the post, but I didn’t take that one myself, either.
I deeply regret any reader confusion as to whether the non-verbal content of this post, which I did not initially credit to my name, and on which I have made exactly $0.0, was my personal product. I don’t think any “reasonable” people are in any way taken in by the content of this post, verbally or photographically. It is intended as a humorous jibe at precisely the sort of degenerate twit I’m dealing with on Slashdot. If you have a moment, please feel free to navigate to Slashdot and tell damn_registrars that, when you’re so jacked up as to make Rachel Maddow seem a straight shooter, you know you’ve got issues.
Thanks,
Smitty
Daniel Hannan CPAC 2014
Posted on | March 10, 2014 | 4 Comments
by Smitty
I’m a tremendous fan of this chap. His new tome looks great, as well.
LIVE AT FIVE: 03.10.14
Posted on | March 10, 2014 | 2 Comments
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TOP NEWS
Crimean Rallies Turn Violent

Pro-Ukraine demonstrators in Simferopol, Crimea
Massive rally in Kiev to celebrate Taras Shevchenko’s birthday, mourn the dead
Mexican Forces Kill Drug Lord Nazario Moreno
Head of “Knights Templars” gang was supposedly killed in 2011
Search Continues For Missing Malaysian Airlines Jet
No sign of debris spotted from the air
POLITICS
Rand Paul Outlines Potential 2016 Platform

CPAC straw poll winner aims appeal at libertarians
Says Fourth Amendment has to be just as important to GOP as the Second
House GOP Quashes CBC Attempt To Unseat Issa
Medical Marijuana Coming Soon To Florida?
Obama Wants More Billions To Subsidize Alternative Energy Vehicles
No Charges For Dem Rep Alan Grayson In Tussle With Estranged Wife
Gillibrand Pushes For Steep Increase In Child Care Tax Credit
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Brent Declines As PRC Exports Drop, WTI Holds Steady: NYMEX $102.41, Brent $108.48
Despite Obstacles, Bull Market Turns 5
Boeing Reports Wing Cracks On 787 Dreamliners In Production
MasterCard, Visa Form Industry Group To Push for Tighter Security
Advocates Claim Americans’ Use Of Public Transit Highest Since 1956
PRC Warns Of Risks In Retiring Windows XP
Google To Offer Android For Wearables
XBox One Makes Hot Debut As Console War Heats Up
Will A Consumer Version Of Oculus Rift Debut At E3?
Facebook To Revive F8 Conference After Three-Year Hiatus
Court Order Forces Aereo Out Of Denver, Salt Lake City
SPORTS
Lions Owner William Clay Ford Dies, 88

“Frustratingly loyal” to the Lions’ front office
A Navy pilot in WW2, Ford bought the Lions in 1963 for $4.5 million and ran them for the next fifty years
No Shock: Wichita State Enters NCAA Tourney 34-0
Blazers Blow The Lead, Fall To Rockets In Overtime
Kings Extend Streak To Seven Against Oilers; Penalty Box Busy All Night
Keselowski Edges Dale Jr. On Last Lap In Vegas
Blues Beat Wild For Fifth Straight Win
Meeks Scores Career Best 42 In Lakers Victory Over Thunder
Bruins Score Four In Third To Maul Panthers
Ohio State Scores Last Four To Edge #22 Spartans
Rangers Top Red Wings 3-0 As Lundqvist Earns Win #300
Warriors Hold Off Suns For Fourth Straight Win
Livan Hernandez: Giving The Nats Whatever They Need
FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
It’s Not Ke$ha Any More

Just Kesha
Reaching out to fans on social media after finishing two months in rehab for eating disorders
Charlie Sheen’s No-Shows Delay “Anger Management” Production
Jennifer Beals To Star In TNT Pilot “Proof”
Jennifer Aniston Says She’d Trade Bodies With Gisele Bundchen
Jay-Z Not Interested In Being Kanye’s Best Man
“Workaholics” Star Blake Anderson Welcomes Baby Girl
Johnny Carson Sex Tape Hits The Market – Check Out This Mono-Log
“Basketball Diaries” Director Scott Kalvert Dies, 49
Shakira Returns With New Album, Steamy Rihanna Video, Country Duet
“Honeymooners” Actress Sheila McRae Dies, 92
Rapper Da Brat Paying Off Her Debt – Slowly But Surely
FOREIGNERS
Japan Q4 Growth Revised Down to 0.2%
Fake Passports On Fatal Malaysia Air Flight Reveal Flaw In Airline Security
Kidnapped Nuns’ Harrowing Ordeal With Syrian Rebels Ends
Kim Jong Un “Elected” With 100% Of Vote
Both Candidates Claim Victory In El Salvador Election Cliffhanger
From Afghan Warlord To First VP: Mohammed Fahim Dies In Kabul
Former Colombian President Uribe Elected To Senate
Suicide Bomber Kills 45 At Iraqi Checkpoint
New Zealand Sets Elections For September 20
BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: When Government Is Friendly To Business, Business Gets Done And Jobs Get Created
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Sheldon Cooper Is The New Steve Urkel
Stump: Obamacare Watch – How’s Enrollment Going? Who Knows?
Kevin Williamson: The Destroyer Cometh
American Power: GOP Establishment Pissing Its Pants Over “Challenges From The Right”
American Thinker: Changing The SAT For “Social Justice”
Blackfive: Need A Pick Me Up Today?
Conservatives4Palin: “Thank You”
Jammie Wearing Fools: Shady Farrakhan “Charity” Got $160K In Farm Subsidies
Joe For America: Sleep Soundly, America – 81 Year Old Woman Jailed For Feeding Birds
JustOneMinute: So Important They’re Not Bothering To Track It
Pat Dollard: Cardinal Dolan – No, The Pope Did Not Endorse Gay Civil Unions
Protein Wisdom: “Black Teen Unemployment 32.4%”
Shot In The Dark: Same As It Ever Was
The Jawa Report: DHS Approves Of Public Stonings
The Lonely Conservative: Mitch McConnell Wants To Crush Tea Party Challengers
This Ain’t Hell: “Wild Bill” Guarnere Passes
Megan McArdle: How Not To Help The Uninsured



