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Ed Gillespie? A Button Marked ‘Crap’ Would Be An Improvement Over Warner

Posted on | January 16, 2014 | 9 Comments

by Smitty (h/t Bearing Drift)

A polished ad from the former RNC chief: While I still think Howie Lind and Shak Hill are great guys (the former, a retired squid has my nod for large, haze gray reasons) we’re talking about going after an entrenched, useless tool of an incumbent.

Maybe if Governor. . .um. . .didn’t a Republican win in 2009 in Virginia? While the ethics charges never seemed to stick against Governor BuM, the prime argument against McAuliffe, that of being the Clinton’s bagman, was essentially removed from play. Among other reasons, this neither helped Cuccinelli, nor paved the way for a GOP wave that could have bolstered a first-timer like Lind or Hill. Thus, opting for a solid, politically savvy candidate with some DC experience would seem prudent, if an occasion for accusations of selling out to the GOP elite. Guilty as charged.

In other Virginia news, Jim Geraghty points to Micah Edmond. Not merely a pretty face, he’s got Congressional staffer experience:

Most recently, I served as the senior national security advisor for two of the most influential, bi-partisan government initiatives to solve our fiscal deficit and debt issues – Congress’ Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction in 2011 and President Obama’s Simpson-Bowles Commission in 2010. Although I worked tirelessly for two years to help generate the tough choices necessary to produce a comprehensive long-term budget plan that would solve our current fiscal crisis, both efforts failed because members of Congress chose to represent the status quo rather than the interests of their constituents. Congress’ continued lack of action forces us to navigate from fiscal crisis to fiscal crisis without a long-term comprehensive budget plan and it is undermining our economic growth and national security.

It seems only fair that, after sending a useless tool who jacked up the national debt for 20+ years, VA-8 elect someone with real insight into means of walking that debt back.

Category: Republicans, Uncategorized, Virginia

Word of the Day: ‘Transmisogyny’

Posted on | January 16, 2014 | 125 Comments

Transgender feminist @papierhache reacted to yesterday’s notice exactly as predicted, by claiming victimhood, denouncing me as a bully “with sycophant minions” (that would be you, dear readers), and generally lecturing that I am the pluperfect example of how “people … use social media to orchestrate abusive behavior.”

Remember: @papierhache jumped into my timeline in response to incitement by a troll trying to stir up trouble because I’d used the common slang “shemale” in promoting a post about conflicts between transgender activists and radical lesbian feminists. And after sending me multiple messages condemning me as a terrible hater — because slang is the New Fascism — @papierhache evidently thought she would evade further criticism for her moralistic posturing.

Think again, sweetheart.

Criticism is “abuse,” disagreement is “harassment,” and contradictory facts are “hate” in the Orwellian lexicon of the Left.

Should we ignore these phony victimhood claims or laugh them off as trivial? No, because the Left is attempting to silence their critics by categorizing dissent as hate speech — exactly the point that originally called my attention to this bizarre conflict:

RadFem 2013 was a conference in London, which resulted in a gigantic controversy because radical feminists insisted on excluding the “transgendered” from their female-only event, and one of the featured speakers, Australian lesbian feminist Professor Sheila Jeffreys, was about to publish a new book, Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism, that was deeply offensive to the “T” people represented in the LGBT acronym. . . .
At one point in April, the venue tried to cancel the event after discovering that “certain language was used and some statements were made about transgender people that would go against our equalities and diversity policy.”

That was a blue-on-blue conflict between two competing tribes of far-left fringe extremists, but as such it was a classic example of the tactics of thought control the Left finds acceptable. Strange as it is to say, in this example, I agree with the radical feminists. If they wish to restrict their gathering to “cis females” (genetic women), the “trans women” have no right to demand inclusion.

For transgender activists to seek to shut down a radical feminist conference because it violates a “diversity policy” is a profound irony. The Competitive Victimhood Derby, as I have called it, is ultimately a zero-sum game, and you can scarcely blame lesbian feminists for complaining when they find people who were born male trying to co-opt the feminist brand. But this is what transgender feminism is, and one of Kat Hache’s transcomrades has a column at Feministing that includes this:

When I wrote a rebuttal to the flagrant transmisogyny evinced by Julie Burchill in her now-infamous Observer editorial, I was careful to keep the focus on what she said while also ensuring that her fundamental humanity remained in the frame of my criticism. I spared her no critique, but I targeted what was fair game: the written record of her words and ideas, the very things she had submitted to a public forum. To tell her to kill herself or worse, as some did, was unaccountably out of bounds.

“Flagrant transmisogyny”? Julie Burchill? That rang a bell:

Transsexual Bullies Successfully Censor
Feminist Writers Who Criticized Them

Have you forgotten? Suzanne Moore, a columnist for the British New Statesman, complained about beauty standards which present “the ideal body shape” for women as “that of a Brazilian transsexual.” Moore was inundated with criticism, and one of her feminist allies, Julie Burchill, derided Moore’s antagonists as “a bunch of dicks in chicks’ clothing” and “bed-wetters in bad wigs.”

Strange as it may seem, the feminists were completely routed by the transgender community in that conflict, demonstrating who now possesses the superior claim of victimhood, so that feminists are now riding in the back of their own bus, so to speak.

The transgender activists who silenced their feminist critics — the Guardian actually unpublished one of Burchill’s columns — nevertheless claim they are the ones at risk of being silenced:

I shall continue to write in spite of having been threatened with rape, in spite of having been told that I’m a “shemale feminazi with too much sand in her fake vagina,” in spite of having been called every misogynist, transmisogynist, and transphobic slur in the book many times over, and in spite of having been accused of “man-hating, race-baiting, white-hating,” and the utterly unreal crime of “misandry.” In spite of being called too loud, too shrill, too whiny, too sexist (against men, of course), and “heterophobic.” In spite of being told I should avoid graduate school unless I had a “rich boyfriend.” In spite of all that, I speak.

Katherine Cross, formerly a man, is now a better feminist than you, Julie Burchill, and she expects to be celebrated for her courage. Meanwhile, “bullying the marginalized” . . .

Yes, of course! The courageous Kat Heche, barely 12 hours after taunting me as “emasculated” (!) now decides that her critics are engaged in “textbook psychological projection.”

Oh, what delicious layers and layers of irony . . .

 

Category: Feminism, Gays

‘I Didn’t Want to Seem Crazy’

Posted on | January 16, 2014 | 15 Comments

A year before he killed 26 people, Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza called into an anarchist talk show broadcast on an Oregon university radio station and compared Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik to a chimpanzee named Travis that had turned on its human captor. After the broadcast, using his online pseudonym “Smiggles,” went into an Internet forum and evaluated his radio appearance:

“It didn’t go as horribly as I anticipated. I wish that I hadn’t spoken nonstop about Travis for so long, but I didn’t want to seem crazy by randomly bringing up a chimpanzee for unknown reasons.”

Didn’t want to seem crazy. Killed 26 people.

 


Category: Crime

32 GOP Presidential Choices? Nuts!

Posted on | January 16, 2014 | 146 Comments

by Smitty

Via the Examiner comes the news of 32 possibilities in a GOP.com straw poll.
(a) The next election is in 9 1/2 months, dudes. It’s both more important to focus on the next election, and to understand that how this November goes will inform what happens in 2016 in a major way.

(b) 32 names? Let’s bin them.

Yes:
– Sen. Ted Cruz, of Texas
– Nikki Haley, South Carolina governor
– Bobby Jindal, Louisiana governor
– Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor
– Mike Pence, Indiana governor
– Sen. Rand Paul, of Kentucky
– Scott Walker, Wisconsin governor
– Former Rep. Allen West, of Florida
– Rick Santorum, former Pennsylvania senator

Maybe:
– John Bolton, former ambassador to the United Nations
– Ben Carson, author and neurosurgeon
– Rick Perry, Texas governor
– Condoleezza Rice, former secretary of state
– Sen. Marco Rubio, of Florida
– Sen. Rob Portman, of Ohio
– Sen. Tim Scott, of South Carolina

No:
– Sen. Kelly Ayotte, of New Hampshire
– Haley Barbour, former Mississippi governor
– Chris Christie, New Jersey governor
– Mitch Daniels, former Indiana governor
– Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor
– Susana Martinez, New Mexico governor
– John Kasich, Ohio governor
– Former Rep. Ron Paul, of Texas
– Tim Pawlenty, former Minnesota governor
– Brian Sandoval, Nevada governor
– Sen. John Thune, of South Dakota

I will vote Libertarian:
– Jeb Bush, former Florida governor
– Rep. Peter King, of New York

Special mentions:
– Herman Cain, a radio host–Health concerns
– Newt Gingrich, former House speaker–Be an advisor, sir.
– Rep. Paul Ryan, of Wisconsin–You soiled yourself on the budget deal.

Category: GOP

NBC’s Maria Shriver Raves About How Abortion Barbie ‘Became a Star’

Posted on | January 16, 2014 | 13 Comments

Erick Erickson dubbed Texas Democrat state Sen. Wendy Davis “Abortion Barbie” last year when she filibustered a bill to reduce the legal window for abortion from 24 to 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Stop and think about that for a minute: 24 weeks is nearly six months. Even if you are an advocate of “a woman’s right to choose,” you can hardly say that limiting abortion to 20 weeks is a serious infringement of that right. With advances in neonatal medicine, a fetus at 24 weeks is now viable. Let’s not mince words: Abortion at such a late stage of pregnancy is killing a baby that could survive.

Yet maintaining the legality of abortion at 24 weeks in Texas was such a crusade for Wendy Davis and Democrats that they shut down debate in the legislature to try to stop a bill — one with widespread voter support — to limit abortion to 20 weeks. And they did this even in the aftermath of the horrific Kermit Gosnell revelations.

So, guess who NBC decided to feature on the Today show?

In a glowing profile of Texas state senator and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis that amounted to a campaign commercial on Wednesday’s NBC Today, correspondent Maria Shriver proclaimed: “Wendy Davis became a familiar name last year when she stood in her pink tennis shoes for eleven hours to defeat a Texas abortion bill. Even though the bill eventually passed, Davis became a star. And her story, her personal story, resonated across this country.” . . .
Beyond vaguely describing how Davis tried to “defeat a Texas abortion bill,” Shriver failed to ask a single question about the would-be governor’s staunch support for abortion in such a pro-life state. . . .
Having not once referred to Davis as liberal, Shriver made sure to label her Republican opponent: “Her likely opponent is Texas state attorney general Greg Abbott. He’s a man with a conservative record to match the blanket of red that covers most of Texas.”
According to a poll conducted by the Democratic polling company Public Policy Polling in November, Davis trailed Abbot by fifteen points. Shriver avoided any such polling data in her report.

 

Kyle Drennan’s report at Newsbusters doesn’t mention the crude partisan calculation involved in the Davis campaign (and NBC’s one-sided promotion of her campaign). Everybody knows Davis is ultimately doomed. However, by turning Davis into a national celebrity for “a woman’s right to choose” and then running her for governor, Democrats turned her into a magic fundraising machine.

This won’t turn Texas “blue,” but it will force Republicans to spend more money than usual to elect Greg Abbott governor. And this is a national Democrat Party strategy to force Texas GOP donors (who otherwise might be funding Republican candidates in “swing” districts around the country) to keep their money “at home.” The meltdown of ObamaCare has evidently upset that strategy — Democrats are now clearly on the defensive, and there is now little prospect Nancy Pelosi can recapture the House speaker’s gavel — but that was what the whole media-generated Wendy Davis “star” saga was originally about, and it’s disgusting.

Wendy Davis, Maria Shriver and Democrats’ fanatical support of “choice” is revealed as a bloodthirsty enthusiasm for death.

 

Category: Abortion, NBC, Texas

Macho @EdShow Gets Called Out on Twitter by @AnnCoulter: ‘Lying Pussy’

Posted on | January 16, 2014 | 13 Comments

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz: “Republicans, they’re afraid of me. They don’t want to talk to me.”

 

So, how’s that working out for you, Ed?

 

Category: Ann Coulter, MSNBC

‘Gentleman’ Jim Moran’s “Occupy NOVA” Reign Of Error Staggering To A Halt

Posted on | January 16, 2014 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

DLTDHYOTWO, Jim. It’s been a crummy 15 years I’ve lived in VA-8, and watched the country increasingly go down the tubes since the Democrat takeover of Congress in 2006, knowing that you’re a ringleader of the debacle.  I don’t mean crummy for me, personally: I’ve only endured one brief bout of unemployment. But, in doing the proper thing and voting against you, I guess I’ve voted “against my interests”. It seems like the Washington, DC equivalent of Occupy Wall Street, your career, only with women in lieu of drums. God have mercy on your soul, and help this country come to understand just how diabolical you and your ilk have been.

And now let’s take a walk through the archives, and sample the low notes:

Inside Voice Outside Voice
Ding, dong, da dork definitely departing! This blog can do a victory lap at the news of “Gentleman” Jim Moran’s decision to spend more time with his family next year.
Is there an ulglier record of public disservice that we can think of? Well, yes, but the number is a lot lower than it should be. We should say nice things about the gentleman.
He really has been a source of great post fodder. Like when ManBearPig flew in  to tout the tired termite.Obama said “because of Jim’s leadership, our brave service members and veterans are better protected, our civil service is stronger, and our air and water are cleaner and safer”. If a thicker wallet is a sign of strength, then the civil service portion of that phrase is true. Even if we did not always agree with Moran, we should try to find a way to respect his efforts, if possible. If not possible, at least go to some place like the Iwo Jima Memorial, and stand close to the statue, and try to transfer some respect from that to Jim Moran for as long as considering him is necessary. 
Moran was so far out to lunch as to afford Chris Matthews an opportunity to appear reasonable. Moran was certainly a man from a different era. Say, Tudor England, when the nobles were nutter and the peasants had best hold their peace.
While Virginia-8 includes the Pentagon and Mount Vernon, even the most abject tool of a veteran would have nothing more than absolutely necessary to do with a piece of work like Jim Moran. It is possible that Wesley Clark may personally esteem Jim Moran.
Should we have been shocked at Moran’s support for the Ground Zero Mosque? Money spoke, and in the language of currenncy he enjoys fluency. Moran’s regard for paying customers is a lesson for all politicians.
Should we have been shocked at Moran’s contempt for the military? Moran’s regard for paying customers is a lesson for all politicians.
The Mark Center debacle is still jacking up traffic on 395 (way to feign surprise, Jim). I still hear mentions of the bizarre commuting arrangements triggered by the dopey decision to put those jobs Right There. One can only assume that your real estate portfolio was cheered by the result. Moran’s support for the arts, as at the Mark Center, was offbeat. What no one understood at the time that the whole bullfrog gag was a Three Dog Night reference.That Jim Moran sure is a complex guy.
George Washington was a surveyor; maybe that explains some of Moran’s hankerin’ for real estate. In defense of Moran, he never did anything that the voters did not permit, and in fact re-elect him to do. Admittedly, this is tantamount to blaming sheep for bespoke suits, but baaaad jokes are what I do.
The bit with Martin Bashir referencing Allen West as the hyena and Barack Obama as the Lion King. There has to be some kind of award for blending petty and stupid like that. It is a good thing that Moran confines himself to cartoons. One shudders to think what could happen if he were exposed to any of Quentin Tarantino’s oeuvre.

So then the question moves to whether (a) Patrick Murray will run again, and (b) whether conservatives can build the enthusiasm and turn out the vote to overcome whatever godless Commie freakshow zombie carcass the Democrats pump full of embalming fluid and send out to continue the Moran tradition of voting for MOAR GUMMINT!

Category: Jim Moran, Virginia

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.16.14

Posted on | January 16, 2014 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Thai Protesters Target Revenue Offices

An anti-government protester waves the Thai flag near the Victory Monument

As government awaits graft ruling, protest movement appears to be losing steam

Blagojevich Prosecutor Hired By NJ Assembly
Will conduct investigation into “Bridgegate”

Rahul Gandhi Unlikely To Be Congress’ Candidate For PM
AAP’s Kumar Vishwas: Gandhi “incapable of taking responsibility”



POLITICS
GOP Urges Probe Of IRS Scandal Investigation

IRS officials (including Lois Lerner, center) testify before Congress

Lawmakers frustrated over slow pace of probe, conflicts of interest

House Passes Omnibus Spending Bill On Bipartisan Vote

Federal Judge Backs Obamacare Subsidies For Non-Exchange Enrollees

VA Angers Veterans With Push To Change Disability Claims Process

Republicans Cry Foul As Colorado Regulators Clear Senator Udall

Senate Report Indicates Attackers Were Tied To Al Qaeda

Christie’s Favorability Remains High In NJ Despite Media Feeding Frenzy

Supremes Appear Doubtful On Massachusetts Abortion Protest Buffer Law



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Mixed After US Stockpiles Drop: NYMEX $94.19, Brent $106.76
IMF Predicts Global Economic Recovery, But Risks Remain
JC Penney Closing 33 Stores, Laying Off 2000 Workers
Aussie Falls To Three-Year Low, Euro Stocks Retreat
Skeptics Question Banks’ Bottom Lines
Amazon Employees Vote To Reject Union
Kid Clicks Cost Apple
Facebook Tweaks Advertising Tools, Takes On Google
Use Your Phone To Buy Starbucks? This Major Security Flaw Could Kill Your Buzz
Blackphone: A Smartphone Designed To Stop Spying Eyes
Roughly Three Million Teens Left Facebook Between 2011 And 2014, But Who Cares?



SPORTS
Heat Go From White House To Outhouse

Wizards forward Marcin Gortat defends against LeBron James

Wizards deliver 114-98 whipping to reigning champs for third straight loss

Dodgers Sign Clayton Kershaw To $215 Million Deal

Pens Topple Caps 4-3

Suns Dump Crippled-Up Lakers In Game Marred By Brawling

Ducks Set Franchise Record In 9-1 Blowout Of Canucks

Harden Lifts Rockets Past Pelicans 103-100

Leafs Beat Sabres For Ninth Shootout Win


Portland Pulls Away From Cavaliers

Charlie Manuel Returning To Phillies As Adviser

Celtics Snap Slump With 88-83 Win Over Raptors

“Have You No Sense Of Decency Left, A-Rod?”

Clippers Pull Off Comeback Win Against Mavericks

Late Turnovers Cost George Mason A Win Against #16 Massachusetts

Spurs Streak Now Six After Defeating Jazz

ICC Mulls Two-Tier Test Cricket

Red Wings’ Datsyuk Named Captain Of Russian Olympic Hockey Squad

Promotion, Relegation Coming To Test System?

Nationals Extend Affiliation With Harrisburg Senators



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Demi Lovato Feels “Healthy” In Teeny-Weeny Black Bikini

Good Lord, somebody get that girl a sandwich

“What body issues?” YGBSM.


Porn Star’s O-Cup Breasts Could Prove Lethal

Margot Robbie: Kissing Leonardo DiCaprio For 17 Hours Not As Fun As It Seems


Chris Hemsworth & Elsa Pataky Expecting Twins

Miley Cyrus Apparently Taking Fashion Advice From Lena Dunham

And Speaking Of The Alleged “Queen Of Comedy”…

Trace Adkins Checks Into Rehab After Cruise Ship Brawl

Tom Brady’s Wife (Gisele Bundchen) Gives Revealing Look At Their Home Life

Kristen Stewart To Star In Romantic Adaptation Of “1984”(sic)



FOREIGNERS
Car Bomb In Lebanon Kills 3, Injures 20
Russia Says Iran Essential For Finding Peace In Syria
Thirteen Dead, Forty Thousand Displaced By Flooding In Indonesia
Kerry Vows Continued Mideast Peace Push Despite Dis From Israeli Defense Minister
Japan Brushes Off PRC’s “Troublemaker” Criticism
Ugandan Troops Join South Sudan Fighting
Norks Rattling Sabers Again Over ROK/US Military Drills
Philippines Internet Child Abuse Ring Smashed By UK-Led Police Effort
Delhi Police Arrest Two In Gang Rape Of Danish Tourist
Mexican Government Now Faces Vigilante Groups It Backed In The Drug War



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: John Kerry’s Greatest Accomplishment?
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Infighting Among The Feminists
Michelle Malkin: Tamera Mowry Is Not Alone
Twitchy: Can Debbie Wassermann-Schultz Find A Dem As Sleazy As Jim Moran? Survey Says “Hell Yes”
American Power: Government Itself Still Cited As Top US Problem
American Thinker: What Obama’s “Making Sure” Of
Blackfive: Book Review – “The Kill Order” By Robin Burcell
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: HuffPo Desperately Pretends That Lena Dunham Is Hot
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – The Trouble With Women
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, January 15
Jammie Wearing Fools: Wendy Davis Campaign Mocks Greg Abbott For Being Paralyzed
Pat Dollard: Video Montage Of Obama And Carney Blaming Benghazi Attack On YouTube Video, Not Al Qaeda
Protein Wisdom: “I Am Appalled, I Am Outraged, I Am Ashamed Of The Republican Party” – Hugh Hewitt
Shot In The Dark: Scorecard – Light Rail 10, Concealed Carry 0
The Jawa Report: New Book Explains Everything Obama Knows About Job Creation
The Lonely Conservative: Video – Jimmy Kimmel Shreds Obamacare
This Ain’t Hell: Unarmed Gun Owner Harassed In Maryland
Megan McArdle: Does Bag Tax Really Deter Us From Packing With Plastic?


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