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Israel Haters Lose at UCLA

Posted on | March 1, 2014 | 13 Comments

One of the weird consequences of the Bush-era “Global War on Terror” is that it inspired sympathy for terrorists among young progressives, whose reasoning seems to have been: “If Republicans are against terrorists, therefore, terrorists must be victims.”

This kind of sympathy for America’s enemies has long been endemic on the far Left, but the anti-war movement of the Bush era had the effect of vastly augmenting the ranks of what I’ve called the “Sirhan Sirhan Wing of the Democrat Party.” Lately, left-wing students on campus have adopted the Hamas/Hezbollah/Al-Qaeda view that Israel is an illegitimate “apartheid” state, and are urging universities to adopt “diverstiture,” boycotting investments in Israeli corporations. They lost a vote this past week at UCLA:

It isn’t often that militant moonbats fail to get their way on college campuses. Consequently, it isn’t pretty when they are thwarted. Libs were crushed when the UCLA student council narrowly defeated an anti-Israel divestment resolution intended to punish the lonely outpost of Western Civilization on behalf of the Arab terrorists who have been trying to drive the Jews into the sea.

Via Moonbattery, which has video of the leftist tantrum.

 


Category: Education, Israel, Terrorism

The New Crimean War

Posted on | March 1, 2014 | 39 Comments

The latest headlines via Memeorandum:

Putin’s War in Crimea Could Soon
Spread to Eastern Ukraine
— The New Republic

Condemnation isn’t enough for
Russian actions in Crimea
— Washington Post

Explainer: The Budapest Memorandum
And Its Relevance To Crimea
— Radio Free Europe

Russia wresting control of Crimea from Ukraine
— Reuters

Russian ‘invasion’ of Crimea
fuels fear of Ukraine conflict
— Guardian

What caused this? What happens next? Is there anything that the U.S. could have done to prevent it? Such are the questions being asked today, but my mind — steeped in history — turns back to the Crimean War of 1853-56. It was during this conflict that the French army used rifles firing the minié ball which, when employed on the battlefields of the American Civil War, did so much to lengthen the casualty rolls and, ultimately, prolong the conflict. Rifled musketry increased the advantage to defenders, often allowing troops holding earthwork trenches to inflict casualties at a ratio of 3-to-1, 4-to-1 or even more. At Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1863, Burnside sent seven Union divisions to assault Longstreet’s line on Marye’s Height, resulting in more than 6,000 Union casualties compared to only 1,200 for the Confederate defenders. In Grant’s main assault on Lee’s position at Cold Harbor, Virginia, on June 3, 1864, the Union losses were as high as 7,000, while the Confederates suffered just 1,500 casualties.

Military history isn’t much studied anymore. Maybe I’m the only person whose mental processes automatically connect “Crimea” + “minié ball” and thence to Cold Harbor. Probably more people — not many, but more — will remember that it was during the Crimean War that Florence Nightingale gained fame as the “ministering angel” of the battlefield.

War was once regarded as a romantic endeavor. It was not until the 20th century, after the horrors of two World Wars, that sane men cured themselves of the romantic view, but there are still madmen in the world. Unless they are deterred by credible military opposition, we shall likely see more “romantic” death from these madmen.

 

Category: History, Military, Russia, Ukraine

VIDEO: NSC Meeting On Ukraine; BHO & Biden Have A Wee Jog

Posted on | March 1, 2014 | 12 Comments

by Sissypuss the Blog Kitty



When done with the fun run, Sissypuss heard, Obama and Biden were to hear about plans to blame the Ukrainian crisis on some random B-movie film maker. “It’s one way to get attention off ObamaCare,” said Greasy Joe.

via Gateway Pundit and Pat Dollard

Category: Barack Obama, Farce, Joe Biden, Ukraine

She Craved the Taste of Boy Flesh

Posted on | March 1, 2014 | 23 Comments

“Allegedly,” I hasten to add: Utah teacher Brianne Altice pleaded not guilty Thursday to three counts of first-degree felony rape for having sex with a 16-year-old Davis High School student. However, previous reports indicate Altice “acknowledged to investigators that she had engaged in sex with the boy,” so her prospects for acquittal aren’t good. Her case was one I highlighted in January when I observed:

Ever since the Debra LaFave case, some people have marveled at instances of female teachers arrested for molesting teenage boys: “But she’s good-looking — why can’t she get a man?”
The assumption is that sexual desperation is the motive for these crimes, when in fact, it’s a matter of sexual preference: Sure, they can get men, but they don’t want men — they want boys.

Brianne Altice was married at the time of her alleged crime:

Altice’s husband filed for divorce shortly after his wife’s arrest. It was finalized in December.
Altice was originally arrested in October. Altice was believed to have had sex with a 16-year-old on many occasions, including at her South Weber home and at a park in addition to the church parking lot, a Davis County Jail report states.
Police have said there may be other potential victims.

The preferential appetite for boy flesh — allegedly! I said “allegedly”! — is particularly obvious in Altice’s case. She’s a slender 5-foot-7 blonde with high cheekbones, and she showed up for her court hearing Thursday looking like Hot Teacher Barbie:

The blonde former teacher appeared collected in the Utah courtroom and chose to wear a close-fitting top, slim pants and conspicuously high heels.

Is this what a felony sex criminal looks like? Every red-blooded male who remembers his 16-year-old self is perplexed at the thought: How could this woman be accused of a felony for fulfilling your wildest adolescent fantasy? But on second thought — when your responsible adult mind finally wrestles control of the mental dialogue away from your depraved inner teenager — you realize that to allow a legal loophole for blonde Barbie-looking hotness would be to undo the Rule of Law, to permit a special caste of protected perverts. If you let the attractive teachers get away with banging jailbait, the ugly teachers who get caught doing the same thing would claim that their prosecution was unfair.

A 30-year-old middle school teacher was arrested in Pennsylvania [Jan. 21] for allegedly entering into a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student.
Jessica Saienni, of Landenberg, Pa., surrendered herself to the Berks County Detectives Office in Reading about 10am.
Detectives on [Jan. 20] obtained a warrant for Saienni’s arrest.
Investigators said Saienni was a science teacher at Southwest Middle School in Reading from June 2012 through August 2012, when she allegedly had an ‘inappropriate relationship’ with the male victim, according to The Express Times. . . .
Police say the initial sexual encounter took place in Saienni’s vehicle while she was parked near the Body Zone Sports and Wellness Complex, 3103 Papermill Road in Wyomissing, Berks County.
The victim told police that Saienni sent him sexually explicit photos, court records say.

Once you agree that fairness requires us to grant frumpy brunette teachers as much “right” to adolescent boy flesh as the slender blondes, the demands for equality would then follow in due course: If we’re going to let ugly women have sex with teenage boys, certainly we cannot deny gay male teachers their own “right” to do the same.

Mountain View police arrested Harlan Edelman, a longtime San Francisco teacher . . . after he allegedly agreed to meet a teenage boy in the park for sex.
The only problem is that “teenage boy” was actually undercover cops waiting to bust the former San Francisco teacher.
On [Feb. 4], police descended upon Peaceful Cuesta Park in Mountain View after exchanging social media messages with Edelman in the guise of being a 17-year-old boy. At the park, they found Edelman waiting for the boy with whom he had arranged a sex date.
“He was reaching out for sex,” Mountain View Police Sgt. Saul Jaeger told NBC News. “The initial contacts were explicit material, sexually explicit material and he ended up agreeing to meeting for sex.” . . .
Edelman was a teacher employed by the San Francisco Unified School District from 1995 to 2013; he most recently taught at the Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also held teaching positions at Lowell High School, Lincoln High School and the School of the Arts.
He resigned from the district in September 2013, according to Gentle Blythe, spokeswoman for SFUSD.

Next thing you know, lesbian coaches will demand their “rights,” too.

A teacher at a private all-girls Catholic school in Little Rock, Arkansas, had a sexual relationship with a teenage student. The teacher’s live-in lesbian partner, who was athletic director at the school, failed to report the crime. Kelly O’Rourke, 42, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in October 2013 for having sex with the girl beginning in 2010, when the victim was 16. O’Rourke’s partner Kathy Griffin, 55, was convicted in September 2013 after a trial where O’Rourke testified that Griffin knew about the illegal relationship months before the “distraught” mother of the girl contacted Mt. Saint Mary Academy principal Diane Wolfe. The girl had graduated in 2011. Her mother “said the victim wouldn’t get out of bed, was crying all the time, and wouldn’t go to her college classes.” O’Rourke’s sentence was initially suspended on condition that she have no further contact with the victim, but she violated the no-contact order. O’Rourke contacted the victim more than 50 times, telling her in one recorded phone conversation “that she wanted their relationship to continue.” O’Rourke was sent to prison.

“She took my daughter’s innocence away,” said the mother of a 17-year-old Catholic school girl who was molested by the lesbian who coached her swim team. Sarah Blessing, 28, taught fifth grade at a public school in Scotch Plains, N.J. and was also the swim team coach at Bishop George Ahr High School in Edison. When she was sentenced to a year in jail and five years of probation in 2010, Blessing defended her consensual relationship with the girl, telling the judge: “It wasn’t manipulative. It wasn’t predatory. I had feelings for this person.”

If women teachers and gay teachers have a “right” to sex with teenagers — consenting teenagers, of course — then it will be no crime for the football coach to bang the homecoming queen, and we will have arrived at what Matt Barber calls “sexual anarchy.”

Moral decadence encroaches steadily on our society in the age of the “Emerging Awareness” Doctrine, and we do not have to imagine the arguments for de-criminalizing sex with minors, because they are already being made. This was what the “Free Kate” movement was all about: The claim that it was an expression of homophobia to prosecute an 18-year-old lesbian for having sex with a 14-year-old.

Many in the media (notably, ABC’s 20/20) seemed strangely sympathetic to this attack on Florida’s age-of-consent laws. Yet if one extrapolates the known number of cases where adults have been charged with crimes for “consensual” sex with teenagers — male or female, gay or straight — into a trend, the risk involved in treating these cases with leniency becomes apparent. Even with the possibility of felony prosecution to discourage them, many adults seem unable to restrain their deviant desires, and how much more common would such crimes be, if the perpetrators believed they would likely face only probation if apprehended?

This was what I warned about in January: “Perversion is rampant and we may be in the midst of a complete societal breakdown.”

We cannot permit our sympathies — for the Barbie-doll teacher like Brianne Altice or the “cute” cheerleader like Kaitlyn Hunt — to influence our judgment in such cases. If society starts showing leniency on such a basis, we’ll be traveling the Highway to Hell at top speed.

 

Category: Crime, Education, Sex

#OccupyResoluteDesk Totally Knows Him Some Foreign Policy

Posted on | March 1, 2014 | 15 Comments

by Smitty

Look at Obama just mop up the floor with Romney during the 2012 debates:


Five years of observing BHO, from Zelaya in Honduras, to Chavez in Venezuela, to the Green Revolution in Iran, to Libya and Syria, and now Russia/Ukraine lead to the following observation: I daresay Obama’s sympathies are totally with Putin, and all the other hard workin’ world leaders just tryin’ to keep civilization goin’.

The peasantry craving old-fashioned notions like rule of law, budgets, political- and religious expression are merely a pesky detail to remove.

Category: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Russia, Ukraine

Palin Vindicated on Russia, Ukraine: ‘I Could See This One From Alaska’

Posted on | March 1, 2014 | 34 Comments

She who laughs last:

Sarah Palin may be having a bragging rights moment.
In 2008, when she was the GOP vice presidential nominee, Palin questioned in a speech whether then-Sen. Barack Obama would have the foreign policy credentials to handle a scenario in which Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine.
“After the Russian army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama’s reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence — the kind of response that would only encourage Russia’s Putin to invade Ukraine next,” she said in Reno, Nevada on October 21, 2008.
The former Alaska governor was happy to highlight her prediction on Friday and scold those who criticized her 2008 comments.
“Yes, I could see this one from Alaska,” she said on Facebook. That remark was a reference to a 2008 interview in which Palin argued that Alaska’s proximity to Russia helped boost her foreign policy experience.
Saturday Night Live parodied her remarks in a now-famous sketch with Tina Fey, who played Palin on the show, saying “I can see Russia from my house.”
On Facebook, Palin continued to explain how she anticipated a growing crisis between Russia and Ukraine, where there has now been an uncontested arrival of Russian military forces by air at a Russian base in Ukraine’s Crimea region. They are believed to be Russian land forces, according to a U.S. assessment.
“I’m usually not one to Told-Ya-So, but I did, despite my accurate prediction being derided as ‘an extremely far-fetched scenario’ by the ‘high-brow’ Foreign Policy magazine.”

And while Vladimir Putin was reportedly sending 2,000 paratroopers to the Crimean peninsula, what was Obama’s reaction?

President Obama himself, having delivered a limp warning to Vladimir Putin, decamped for a meeting of the Democratic National Committee, where he told a cheering crowd: “Well, it’s Friday, it’s after 5:00. So this is officially happy hour with the Democratic Party.”

 


Category: Barack Obama, Russia, Sarah Palin, Ukraine

Federal Judge Issues Devastating Opinion in Brett Kimberlin Copyright Case

Posted on | February 28, 2014 | 15 Comments

Aaron Walker discusses this at his blog, but the order itself is delightful reading in its own right, particularly when the judge recites the numerous federal cases Brett Kimberlin has filed previously:

Memo Opinion

 

What’s the Latin phrase for “pimp slap”?

 


Category: The Kimberlin Files

The Feminist Fringe

Posted on | February 28, 2014 | 12 Comments

As mentioned previously, I’ve been re-reading Susan Brownmiller’s feminist memoir In Our Time, and what stands out — if one reads with an informed and critical eye — is how Women’s Liberation (a/k/a “Second Wave” feminism) originated on the far-left fringe among women whose life experiences were atypical, if not downright weird.

Brownmiller herself had three illegal abortions before 1968, and her book’s biographical profiles of other feminist pioneers are littered with examples of how the movement’s leadership came out of the anti-war New Left and the bohemian “alternative lifestyles” of ’60s hippie culture. Here is Brownmiller’s description (pp. 189-192) of the founders of the Denver-based feminist newspaper Big Mama Rag:

Chocolate Waters, a Navy brat from Pennsylvania (she legalized her childhood nickname), got dumped in the city by her old college boyfriend. “Yeah, we were traveling across the country and he took off and left me with no money in one of those old-timey women’s bars. I was bisexual then, so I started hooking up with the dykes. At a women’s festival somebody had an idea about doing a newspaper. We passed around a sign-up sheet.”
Jackie St. Joan — then Jackie Bryson — arrived in Denver with her husband and two children. Her interracial marriage, the first in Virginia after the Supreme Court struck down the state’s notorious antimiscegenation statute in 1967, began to founder when the couple moved west. Jackie swallowed her pride and went on welfare for five months before she found work as a secretary. At a potluck dinner sponsored by the Denver Peace Coalition, she heard about plans for a women’s paper. . . . Big Mama Rag came to fruition late in 1971. Maureen Mrizek, radicalized at college in Carbondale, Illinois, set the tone of the first issue by asking, “How can you conquer an oppressor when you sleep with him every night?” . . .
After leaving her husband, Linda Fowler from North Carolina had taken her child to a commune in the Colorado Rockies . . . “Those were my days of pot and acid,” she says. “I was smoking dope, chopping firewood, learning carpentry, and trying to figure out who I was, and how lesbianism fit into feminism.” On a trip into Denver she stopped into a radical bookstore and saw Big Mama Rag. “The fog lifted,” she exclaims. “Within a month I left the mountains and got involved with the paper.” . . .
Some of the women paired off: [editor] Carol [Lease] with Linda, and Chocolate with Jackie, who solemnly chose St. Joan as her new last name. . . .
[In 1975] the women learned via the establishment media that “Carla Weinstein,” who’d been in on their start-up, was the fugitive Jane Alpert, wanted in New York on bombing charges. . . .

Non-conformists, radicals, misfits, druggies, divorceés, lesbians and, of course, a terrorist bomber: Such were the freaky ingredients of the fringe movement that feminism was in its origins. And I point this out because one sometimes hears people who are ignorant of feminism’s radical beginnings express the mistaken belief that there is, or once was, a “mainstream” feminism which has somehow been “hijacked” by radicals.

No, the women’s movement was radical from the start, and if you ever thought feminism was “mainstream,” you just weren’t paying very close attention. Not paying attention to the radical fringe may seem like a safe bet — “Just ignore those kooks!” — until one day you notice that the kooks and radicals have taken over the country:

Outrage Over Sexist Remarks Turns
Into a Political Fund-Raising Tool
In the past few months, Republicans have called Wendy Davis, a Democratic candidate for Texas governor, “Abortion Barbie,” likened Alison Lundergan Grimes, a Senate candidate from Kentucky, to an “empty dress,” criticized Hillary Rodham Clinton’s thighs, and referred to a pregnant woman as a “host.”
Democrats do not just get mad when they hear those words. They cash in.
In fact, they are trying to find even more examples by tracking Republican opponents, their surrogates and conservative news media personalities, then blasting their comments out to supporters to build voter lists and drum up donations, casting aside the well-worn advice to shrug off sexist comments lest they draw attention to gender over issues.
It is proving effective. Emily’s List, the political action committee that backs female candidates who support abortion rights, has raised a record $25 million this election cycle. . . .

So, a pro-abortion group has raised a record sum to elect Democrats, who are now The Abortion Party. If you are against abortion, you’re anti-woman, see? And this startling turnabout — a revolution in morals, standing common sense on its head — has been accomplished by those weirdo radicals you ignored for so long.

 

Category: Feminism
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