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Feminist Professors Gone Wild

Posted on | March 12, 2014 | 40 Comments

Evidently, “pro-choice” is a synonym for “shut up” on our nation’s campuses, Jennifer Kabbany reports at The College Fix:

A department of feminist studies professor [at University of California Santa Barbara] has been accused of going berserk after coming across a campus prolife demonstration that used extremely graphic displays, leading a small mob of students to chant “tear down the sign” before grabbing one of the signs, storming off with it, then allegedly engaging in an altercation with a 16-year-old prolife protestor who had followed the educator to retrieve it.
Much of the scuffle was recorded on a smartphone by the 16-year-old, Thrin Short. The yet-to-be-released video is now in the custody of Santa Barbara law enforcement officials, who are investigating the March 4 incident.
The professor at the heart of the controversy is Mireille Miller-Young, an associate professor whose area of emphasis is black cultural studies, pornography and sex work, according to her faculty webpage. . . .
Most of the prolife demonstrators attend Thomas Aquinas College, a private, Catholic institution nearby, and none are enrolled at UCSB, [said Kristina Garza, a spokeswoman for Riverside-based Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust ].
As the prolife demonstrators tried to engage students one-on-one in conversation during a lull in the chanting, that’s when Miller-Young allegedly grabbed one of their signs and stormed off, followed by two UCSB students, Garza said, adding Thrin followed the threesome with her older sister, Joan, in tow and calling 9-1-1. . . .
According to the Santa Barbara Independent,which first reported the story, Miller-Young declined to comment and has retained an attorney, who stated on her client’s behalf that “it is a pending matter, so it is not appropriate to comment at this time. … We will let the process take its course. I am confident that it will become clear that the events did not unfold as the anti-choice demonstrators say they did.”
The Santa Barbara Independent also attempted numerous times to obtain a statement from local law enforcement, but they did not return the newspaper’s repeated request for comment.
Garza said her group is eager to publish the video, and will post updates on their website as they become available.
Joan Short, 21, also published her version of events.
“Although we were interrupted, we reached a lot of students,” she stated. “Many of them will not be able to think complacently about abortion ever again. … With babies dying every day, we know that we have to use even our spare time to do something to end abortion. We will continue to bring the truth about abortion to UCSB.”

Hat-tip: Jim Treacher at the Daily Caller.

 


Category: Abortion, Education, Feminism

E-Mail to a Friend: Are We Being Too Judgmental About the Duke Porn Star?

Posted on | March 12, 2014 | 115 Comments

@Belle_Knox is Duke freshman Women’s Studies major Miriam Weeks.

If nothing else, the controversy over Miriam Weeks, a/k/a “Belle Knox,” is proving the truth of Rule 5 (“Everybody Loves a Pretty Girl“), as the most popular posts here in recent days have been the ones about the Duke University freshman’s pornography career. And the second-most popular story Tuesday at the New York Daily News had this headline:

Duke University porn star
Belle Knox denies report that
her parents are heartbroken
The Duke University coed who turned to porn to pay tuition claimed Monday that her parents are not upset with her X-rated off-campus activities.
Miriam Weeks, 18, denied a report that her dad, an Army doctor, was heartbroken when he learned of her moonlighting gig upon returning from deployment in Afghanistan.
“My parents aren’t upset,” Weeks told the Daily News Monday in between filming scenes for an upcoming adult film.
“I want my family left out of it. If people criticize me that’s one thing, but leave my family alone,” Weeks said.
She said she was “really, really upset” over an online article Monday in The Daily Mail that identified her parents as Dr. Kevin and Harcharan Weeks, devout Catholics from Spokane, Wash.

Except, of course, that in earlier interviews conducted behind a pseudonym, she conveyed the idea that her parents’ inability (or unwillingness) to pay her tuition at prestigious Duke was responsible for her decision to do porn. In other words, her family was relevant, as long as Miriam Weeks could tell stories about them without anybody being able to fact-check her. However, once journalists started doing some actual reporting — rather than just acting as stenographers for the privileged prep-school graduate — suddenly her family is off-limits, because their version of the story doesn’t exactly match her version.

Considering that Miriam Weeks told Real Clear Education that she started watching porn when she was 11, maybe there is something about the story between her and her family worth examining, but I rather doubt her Catholic parents are overjoyed that their daughter was the No. 1 most-viewed video on PornHub Sunday. “Oh, look! Our daughter’s bisexual female co-star described Miriam as ‘quite the little freak.’ Isn’t it wonderful? Her teachers at Gonzaga Prep will be so proud.”

Controversy requires disagreement and conflict, and one friendly reader e-mailed to say I was “out of line” using the plain English word “whore” to describe Miriam Weeks. But why play word games? You can call her a “sex worker” or “adult entertainer,” and your preference for politically correct language doesn’t change the reality of what she does. So I sent my friend the following e-mail reply:

We can agree to disagree on porn and sluts. Remember: I’m a father of six, including two daughters. My oldest daughter graduated high school at 16, worked her way through community college and state university, and graduated summa cum laude, debt-free.
What we are being asked to believe in the case of Miriam Weeks, the youngest daughter of an affluent doctor — his reported income is $200,000 a year, and his home is valued at nearly $500,000 — is that it was so important for her to attend Duke (ranked #7 nationally) that she turned down a full scholarship to Vanderbilt (ranked #17) and, poor pitiful thing, she was practically compelled to do porn to pay the bills.
What originally irritated me about this (as with so many stories I report about) was the way the media handled the story, trying to tell us what to think, and just flat-out lying:

  • First, the Duke Chronicle and other outlets tried to pretend that “Lauren”/”Aurora” was still anonymous, when (a) evidently everybody on campus at Duke had known for weeks that her name is Miriam Weeks and that her porn name is “Belle Knox”; and (b) anybody with Google could find this out.
  • Second, tasteful euphemism was deployed to disguise what Miriam Weeks actually gets paid for — e.g., sucking c**k on camera — and we were told that her career was “empowering,” so that Belle Knox was presented as a sort of feminist hero role-model. Would you want that message conveyed to your daughters? I think not.
  • Third, the media tried to sneak a sort of clever reversal of morality past us, telling us that while (a) there was nothing shameful about an 18-year-old girl getting paid for sucking c**k on camera, on the other hand (b) there is something deeply shameful about disapproving of Miriam Weeks’s choice of careers.

While I am a social conservative, I am not a prude, nor am I ignorant of the ways of the world. Remember, I used to be a Democrat, and in my hedonistic hellbound youth, I worked briefly as a strip-club DJ and dated a few dancers. However, as a DJ, it was my job to remind patrons of the club’s “touch-and-go” rule:

“Gentlemen, all of our lovely Kelly’s Girls are here for your viewing pleasure, but let me call your attention to the large man beside the door. Say hello to Bruno. You can look all you want, but if you decide to touch, our friend Bruno is in charge of enforcing our touch-and-go policy here at Kelly’s and, trust me, you don’t want to argue with Bruno. All right, now, guys, put your hands together for the beautiful Shondra, coming up on the main stage!”

Dancers are not hookers, in other words. There is a difference between being nude — live on stage, or posing on camera — and getting paid to have sex. The admiration of beauty is one thing, and hired fornication is another. Perhaps many people, whether they generally approve of porn or not, don’t see the real distinction between the two, but it is important to keep it in mind.
Would I approve of my daughter posing in Playboy? No, of course not. But merely posing nude would not be as so objectionably sinful and morally corrupting as being paid to have sex on camera (or off-camera, for that matter).
If you would disapprove of your daughter or sister doing porn — as I think most men would — isn’t it in some sense hypocritical to say that it’s OK for other women and girls to do it? Let’s grant that there have always been prostitutes in the world, and some women are going to do it, no matter how much anyone may disapprove. But what the enthusiastic admirers of Miriam Weeks are trying to tell us is that we do not have the right to disapprove, that anyone who disapproves is somehow less “enlightened” than those who approve of porn, so that in effect we are being bullied into the “enlightened” view that there is nothing wrong with an 18-year-old girl getting paid to do bisexual three-ways on camera.
And hey, what about the bondage-and-rape scenes Miriam Weeks was doing? Are you telling me that having this petite, innocent-looking teenager enact the sadistic rape fantasies of perverts is harmless? Is it really “empowering” to send a message to weirdos that young girls enjoy having sex imposed on them violently? Excuse my skepticism.
The story of Miriam Weeks isn’t really about Miriam Weeks. I have no personal animosity toward her. How could I? I don’t even know her. And I wish her no harm. No, this is a story about the elite intelligentsia and their enlightened friends in the liberal media trying to tell us what to think, trying to impose their nihilistic amoral secularism on allegedly benighted Americans who, in Our President’s memorable phrase, are clinging to their guns and Bibles. But I’d rather my daughter go to a state college and maintain her dignity, than to have her go to some elite university and become an “empowered” feminist whore.
Ultimately, I believe, dignity and honor are more valuable than any prestigious credential. And I hope most Americans agree.
Respectfully yours,
— RSM

The elite are free to enjoy their prestige, but they have no right to tell us how to think. We are still free to disagree with them. We are doomed, if we lose our liberty to call sin by its right name.

 


 

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Category: Education, Feminism, Sex

LIVE AT FIVE: 03.12.14

Posted on | March 12, 2014 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


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Category: Live at Five

Brett Kimberlin and ‘False Narratives’

Posted on | March 11, 2014 | 20 Comments

‘Speedway Bomber’ Brett Kimberlin was sentenced to 50 years in 1981

“Brett C. Kimberlin schemed to elude justice with a series of bizarre plots designed to murder, maim and rob his enemies, create havoc at Speedway and discredit the chief government prosecutor.
“These plots occurred as lawmen followed the trail of the man who terrorized Speedway with bombs in 1978. . . .
“Kimberlin seemed to be the only one with a possible motive — to distract police attention from the Scyphers murder and delay or halt their quiet investigation of him.”
— R. Joseph Gelarden, “Bizarre plots planned by Speedway Bomber; Kimberlin case a maze of murder, deceit,” Indianapolis Star, Oct. 18, 1981

Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!
Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold;
Thou hast no speculation in those eyes
Which thou dost glare with! . . .
Hence, horrible shadow!
Unreal mockery, hence!
— Macbeth, Act 3, Scene 4

As much as I’d rather be reading the latest news or the several freebie books I picked up at CPAC last week, instead I’ve been reading Brett Kimberlin’s conspiracy theory masterpiece, “Second Amended Complaint for Damages, Violation of Civil Rights, RICO and State Law Torts.” I first saw this Saturday, so while Dave Weigel was getting the story of Steve Stockman’s awesome hot tub party, I was actually sitting amid the revelry  in the same hotel suite (#4105) skimming through the Pro Se Pipsqueak’s 83-page farrago of lies. Here you go:

ECF 100-2 Redacted

By my count, Kimberlin uses the phrases “false narrative” or “false narratives” 61 times. On at least one occasion, he uses these phrases three times in the same paragraph, although I’m not sure if the convicted perjurer ever explains what exactly is false about these “narratives” with which he seems so evidently obsessed. And really, this was the problem with the whole story from the start, long before I’d ever heard of the name “Brett Kimberlin.” In October 2010, Patrick “Patterico” Frey published an extensive account of Kimberlin’s “history as a convicted bomber, drug smuggler, perjurer, and suspected murderer.” In response, Kimberlin threatened to sue Frey, who replied:

My post is based primarily on a number of published news articles. I ask you to specify anything in my post that you claim is false. If I have made any mistakes I am always happy to correct them. But I won’t take down anything that is true.

To this, Brett Kimberlin infamously replied:

“I have filed over a hundred lawsuits and another
one will be no sweat for me. On the other hand,
it will cost you a lot of time and money . . .”

Patterico repeated his request that Kimberlin specify any falsehood in the post which, so far as I know, Kimberlin still never has.

Eight months after that e-mail exchange, in July 2011, Patterico was SWATted. This may be Just Another Random Coincidence, but Patterico doesn’t think so, and the question of who actually perpetrated that SWATting — or the SWATtings of Mike Stack (June 2011), Erick Erickson (May 2012) and Aaron Walker (June 2012) — has never been determined as a matter of law. Why? Because the FBI’s cybercrime unit is totally incompetent? Because protecting the First Amendment rights of bloggers is a low priority for the Justice Department? Hey, I’m just asking questions here, but according to Kimberlin’s RICO suit, Patterico actually knows for a fact that Kimberlin had nothing to do with his SWATting, yet nevertheless deliberately “imputed” that Kimberlin was responsible, then conspired with others to spread this malicious falsehood. And anyone who says different — anyone who argues that Patterico’s suspicions are sincere, who believes Patterico would be happy if the FBI could actually solve these SWATting cases — is thereby part of “an online mob engaged in a multi-year defamation campaign,” furthering “a conspiracy to threaten, assault and intimidate Plaintiff,” according to Kimberlin’s Second Amended Complaint.

The phrase “according to Kimberlin” is worth noting, because one of the additions to the perjuring plaintiff’s Second Amended Complaint (in paragraphs 33-37, pp. 7-10) begins like this:

In 2009, three military intelligence contractors, HBGary, Berico Technologies and Palantir created a secret group called “Team Themis” to destroy progressive organizations and their staff on behalf of corporate clients and federal agencies, including the United States Chamber of Commerce and FBI.

What follows in the next three pages is about 900 words of evidence that the tinfoil in Brett Kimberlin’s hat isn’t very effective in blocking out the Secret CIA Mind-Control Beams. It’s basically an adaptation of the conspiracy theory Neal Rauhauser published in February 2012 as “Andrew Breitbart’s ISR Cell?”

This theory was paranoid gibberish when Rauhauser first published it, and it is still paranoid gibberish now that Rauhauser’s “client” (or “associate”) Brett Kimberlin recycles it in his vexatious federal lawsuit. Apparently, then, Kimberlin decided that the problem with his original complaint was that it wasn’t insane enough, so he added an extra helping of crazy, and now expects U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm to approve a lawsuit which claims that nearly two dozen defendants are part of a clandestine plot against Kimberlin “on behalf of … federal agencies, including the … FBI.” Welcome to Crazyville, Your Honor.

Of course, it is possible to believe two things simultaneously:

  1. That Brett Kimberlin is suffering from paranoid delusions;
    and
  2. That the defendants did actually conspire against Kimberlin.

But the question before Judge Grimm is not whether the Plaintiff is sane, nor whether there was a pattern of cooperation among the defendants, but whether Kimberlin has adequately pleaded, as a matter of law, that he has suffered actual injury as a consequence of illegal action. We haven’t reached the fact part of litigation and are still at the law stage. This means that Kimberlin’s strategy — allege! allege! allege! — is still less important than his competence in legal tactics. I’m not a lawyer, but his endlessly repetitive elaboration of claims seems rather unlikely to persuade Judge Grimm, e.g., paragraphs 76-77, pp. 22-24:

76. Plaintiff has been under siege by the Defendants for more than two years. They have been engaged in constant cyber bullying and cyber stalking of him and his family by using information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior to harm Plaintiff. He lives in constant fear for himself and his family because of the bullying and threats against him. Virtually every time Plaintiff appears in Court, Defendants Walker and Hoge have stalked him, and Plaintiff fears that Defendant Walker will assault him again. Both Defendants Walker and Hoge constantly write blog posts, some with photos of their shots at the shooting range, stating how they are armed and dangerous and will not hesitate to use their weapons against Plaintiff. Plaintiff has witnessed Defendants Walker, Akbar, McCain,Frey and Hoge attack anyone online who questions their conduct, and at least one reporter has received many death threats after writing about the Defendants.
77. Defendants Akbar, Hoge, Walker, Thomas aka KimberlinUnmasked and McCain have continued to defame and publicly attack Plaintiff after the filing of this Complaint with thousands of tweets and blog posts falsely calling Plaintiff a swatter and stating that he caused Defendant Walker’s termination. In virtually every post and tweet, these Defendants use Plaintiffs name along with a criminal accusation to have that title listed on Internet search engines in order to cause the maximum damage to Plaintiff, his reputation, his family, his businesses and his livelihood.

See, these claims that I am engaged in “cyber bullying” and “cyberstalking” of Kimberlin, that I “defame and publicly attack Plaintiff” are merely word games; I report and comment and Kimberlin seems to think that by applying pejorative labels to my writing, he has proven that I’ve done what he says I’ve done. He’s suing me in federal court for $2 million, and separately suing me in state court for $1 million, and I’m supposed to pretend this isn’t happening? I’m not allowed to update readers on the process? But never mind that: Where are all these “thousands of tweets and blog posts” I’ve supposedly published “after the filing of this Complaint . . . falsely calling Plaintiff a swatter and stating that he caused Defendant Walker’s termination”? For that matter, the sequence of events between (a) Aaron Walker becoming a target of Kimberlin’s wrath, and (b) Aaron Walker getting fired from his job, may be examined by anyone, and it is difficult to say that (a) was wholly unrelated to (b), even if Walker was otherwise somehow at fault.

Bad things happen to people Brett Kimberlin doesn’t like. Yet, according to Kimberlin’s theory, for us to observe facts plainly in evidence, and to draw from those facts the inference that there may be a non-coincidental relationship between these facts, is evidence of malice and intentional defamation. Meanwhile, however, Kimberlin alleges that there is a causal relationship between (a) the defendants writing about him, and (b) “many death threats” against Kimberlin.

Question: How many people have been arrested, prosecuted and convicted for making “death threats” against Kimberlin?

Not a single one, to my knowledge, so why am I being sued for allegedly having incited alleged “threats” for which the threateners themselves have never been prosecuted? And all of this, of course, ignores the landmark Brandenburg v. Ohio ruling.

If I were to write, “Michael Moore is a fat, worthless, America-hating commie who deserves to die a slow, painful death,” no court could hold me responsible if some misguided reader decided to kidnap Moore, tie him to a tree and dismember him with a meat cleaver.

Michael Moore is indeed both fat and worthless, but no court would rule that even the most vehement expression of contempt for him would be “likely to incite or produce . . . imminent lawless action.” My reference to Moore’s “slow, painful death,” could easily be interpreted as the hope that he’d suffer a fatal immune system breakdown resulting in his entire body being covered in oozing herpes lesions.

If Brett Kimberlin “lives in constant fear,” why is that?

His own guilty conscience, I dare say. Like Macbeth facing Banquo’s ghost, perhaps Kimberlin is haunted by the thought that “blood will have blood,” that the departed spirits of Carl DeLong and Julia Scyphers still moan in the quiet hours of night, demanding justice.

Does the plaintiff dislike being reminded that there is no statute of limitation for murder? So be it — such reminders are not torts.

In his Second Amended Complain, Kimberlin cites a May 29, 2012 article I wrote at the American Spectator which described him as “a dangerous man who by all rights should still be behind bars.” In point of fact, in 1981, Kimberlin was sentenced to 50 years in prison. Because he was sent to prison before the passage of federal “Truth in Sentencing” laws, Kimberlin served only 17 years of that sentence and, I am informed, is still a parolee and will be until 2030. Is it controversial to argue that persons convicted of serious violent crimes should be required to serve more than one-third of their sentences? So be it — but controversial opinions are not torts, either.

“Conspiracy, my ass. He chose poorly.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, July 31, 2013

Arguing with an “all-around sociopath” (to quote Slate’s description of Kimberlin) is never a pleasant experience. Fortunately, Michelle Malkin’s attorney Michael F. Smith does masterful work:

Mr. Kimberlin’s conduct has taken this Court into uncharted waters. Twitchy’s research has not found a single case, Federal or State, involving a party’s forgery of a court summons — much less, the subsequent sending of it through the U.S. Mail with the intent to deceive. This is a serious matter, and obviously one that calls for a severe sanction. . . . [D]ismissal with prejudice and a significant award of fees against Mr. Kimberlin is warranted. . . .
[T]he questions raised to date regarding Mr. Kimberlin’s “summons” to Twitchy and other certifications to the court, against the backdrop of his many crimen falsi convictions, make this lack of authentication central. Neither the defendants nor this Court can have any confidence that anything Mr. Kimberlin attaches to his filings, is what it purports to be.
None of the additional factual material [in Kimberlin’s response to Malkin’s motion to dismiss] is relevant to the issue before this Court: whether Mr. Kimberlin validly has stated a claim, or whether dismissal is appropriate. . . . All of it is simply an attempt to portray himself as persecuted, and use this Court as a “trampoline” for his excess energies and need to have the last word. . . .
Mr. Kimberlin and the nearly two dozen defendants he has sued have diametric political views and philosophies, and when three conservative bloggers/commentators found themselves “swatted,” various defendants commented publicly about the unusual coincidence of their criticism of Mr. Kimberlin. Reading the allegations of the [First Amended Complain] in a light most favorable to him . . . what Mr. Kimberlin brings this Court is a garden-variety defamation complaint that he seeks to whip into a massive conspiracy and treble-damage claim under RICO. . . .
The outrageous parallel Mr. Kimberlin tries to draw between himself and various persecuted individuals and groups through the ages is preposterous, and deserves no response other than to note that none of those tragic victims ever blew anyone’s leg off, perjured themselves, or concocted a lie specifically designed (and timed) to throw an election for the Presidency of the United States. . . .
[T]he conduct at the heart of Mr. Kimberlin’s supposed “conspiracy” is protected by the First Amendment; his Response fails to counter that. Dismissal is appropriate.

You can read the whole thing. Having spent all day plowing through Kimberlin’s crap, I’m ready to write about something cheerful and encouraging: Sarah Palin’s unwanted “neighbor” died. Also, you’ll be glad to know Justin and Selena are back together.





 

Category: The Kimberlin Files

‘This Is a Tragedy in the Family’: @Belle_Knox’s Horrible Disgrace

Posted on | March 11, 2014 | 127 Comments

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.

 

Category: Education, Feminism, Sex

LIVE AT FIVE: 03.11.14

Posted on | March 11, 2014 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


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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

Kopitar, Kings Top Flames

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


Category: Live at Five

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.

 

 

Category: Celebrities, Feminism

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.

Category: CPAC, Sarah Palin
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