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Our Moral Superiors™

Posted on | November 15, 2013 | 54 Comments

Liberals are better than you and me because . . . they’re liberals.

So after Sarah Palin said something about the national debt comparing its burden on future generations to slavery, Martin Bashir read from the diary of an overseer on an 18th-century plantation in Jamaica (??) to justify saying something very hateful:

Despicable: MSNBC’s Bashir Wishes Sarah Palin
Would Be Defecated, Urinated On
— Noel Sheppard, Newsbusters

Martin Bashir says someone should defecate
in Sarah Palin’s mouth. Has MSNBC gone mad?
— Tim Stanley, London Telegraph

Martin Bashir is better than you and me, and so is Alec Baldwin.

You know why. And also, shut up, hater.

UPDATE: Good news for c*cksucking fags:

So I guess that whole “threatening to sue TMZ” thing didn’t work out so well. Ed Driscoll has related thoughts.

 

Category: MSNBC

Idiot Liberal Sees Feel-Good Story, Decides We Need Moral Improvement

Posted on | November 15, 2013 | 73 Comments

Make A Wish Foundation Gives
5-Year-Old Leukemia Survivor
His Dream: Being Batman for a Day

Awww! You would think everyone’s natural sympathy would overwhelm their critical capacity, but fear not: Idiot Liberal™ is here!

Ace completely dismantled her on Twitter.

It’s an attitude once riotously spoofed in a Saturday Night Live sketch, “Fondue Forks for Namibia.” There is a fascination with the exotic that I’ve sometimes called xenophilia: A preference for distant people and foreign cultures, as if one’s own nation or community — one’s family, friends and neighbors — were unworthy of interest or respect. (Xenophilia’s obverse is oikophobia, fear of the familiar.)

This is the secular liberal’s version of Christian missionary zeal, and it has been a cliché at least since Randall Jarrell mocked it in Pictures from an Institution, published in 1954.

Speaking of doing something to help children, how about not killing them in the womb? Isn’t that a way to help the world? And then raising them up to be hard-working and responsible, so that they can support themselves and maybe — just maybe — do a little something useful with their lives. Because you know, I’ve got six kids of my own.

My oldest worked her way through college, graduated summa cum laude and is now teaching the children of Haitian immigrants at a Christian school. So maybe you could say I’ve done my share, indirectly at least, for the whole “solving societal ills” thing.

But it’s never enough for liberals. Their hearts are so overflowing with compassion for the downtrodden and oppressed that they must constantly lecture the rest of us about our moral inferiority.

 

 


Category: Ace of Spades, Liberals

Feminists Fear the Republican Uterus

Posted on | November 15, 2013 | 72 Comments

“Feminism is the theory; lesbianism is the practice.”
— Ti-Grace Atkinson, 1971

“The political economy of socialist feminism establishes that, in contemporary society, women suffer a special form of exploitation and oppression.”
— Allison Jaggar, 1988

“Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice.”
— Andrea Dworkin, 1989

Professional athletes can spawn with multiple baby mamas, and feminists have no word of complaint. Gay men hiring surrogates to breed children for them? Lesbians raising adopted child sex-change experiments? No problem, say the Womyn’s Studies majors. In response to the general plague of divorce and fatherlessness, the poverty-inducing epidemic of illegitimacy that replicates underclass misery, the collective reaction of the Official Women’s Movement is . . . crickets chirping.

However, let a normal couple of married Christians give birth to more than the standard 1.7 children, and they become the targets of seething rage and resentment from the feminist Left. You saw this attitude exemplified in the hysterical reaction to Sarah Palin who, by giving birth to five children, was made the object of fathomless hatred. “For many liberal women, Palin threatens their sexual identity, which is bound up with their politics,” as James Taranto observed.

It is this same feminist fanaticism that explains the hateful campaign against the Duggar family and their TV show, “19 Kids and Counting.” Dana Pico at First Street Journal remarks:

The Duggars are the “stars” of the TLC network reality series, 19 Kids and Counting. Predictably, our friends on the left hate them: see Jezebel and Jenna Karvunidis and Bitch Magazine (check out the comments!) and, of course! Amanda Marcotte. It’s pretty simple: if your choices aren’t their choices, then your choices are wrong, illegitimate, and societally harmful. It’s not like they are actually killing anyone, and the Duggars are self-supporting, taxpaying Americans; they aren’t on welfare.
RH Reality Check thinks that it’s horrible, horrible! that Mr Duggar referenced the Holocaust, and you know, I agree: Holocaust references by pro-life groups are inappropriate. After all, the Holocaust killed only six million people, and is nowhere in our abortuaries’ league when it comes to dealing out death.

It is shocking how fanatically devoted some people are to the “right” of abortion. Doug Hagin at Daley Gator explains:

I used to try to talk sense to pro-abortion people on message boards. . . . I found out they too believe it is a baby, and they revel in the “right” to destroy it. To them, a woman is not whole unless she can have her baby executed in the womb. How depraved are they? Well, consider many of the regularly compared unborn babies to parasites, and cancerous tumors, yes really.

Such unspeakable hatred toward human life is rooted in a radical ideology that views the culture and institutions of traditional morality and family life as part of an oppressive bourgeois capitalist system which they — the feminists — must destroy.

It is not just marriage and motherhood, but also religion, patriotism and all notions of virtue, honor and decency associated with those concepts which are the targets of cultural destruction by feminists and the larger radical movement to which feminists belong. You might think there is some reasonable limit to what feminists would endorse in pursuit of this agenda, but hate is irrational and radicalism knows no limit. So when a Canadian provincial government publishes “Children’s Sexual Behaviours: A Parent’s Guide,” which tells parents that it is “natural and healthy” for young children to “touch the ‘private parts’ of familiar adults” and to look at “nude pictures on the Internet, videos, magazines,” we get the expected reaction from feminists: Crickets chirping.

Why the silence? Because the Left is willing to “normalize pedophilia” as part of its “ongoing effort to rid the world of Judeo/Christian influences,” as Matt Ross says. The failure to understand the Left’s revolutionary ambitions leads to a sonambulant indifference to the Left’s declarations of its beliefs, its methods and its purposes.

“Childlike innocence is an invention of the bourgeoisie of early capitalism.”
— Olaf Stüben, German pedophile activist, 1981

While advocating the perverse, abnormal and deviant as “rights,” the Left simultaneously attacks the wholesome and decent, so a married Christian couple like the Duggars must be stigmatized as part of the Left’s larger project, which one of their leaders described as “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

Every day brings new headlines heralding the Left’s success at destroying the moral foundation of our nation’s culture.

Why Did a Public University Pay
Dan Savage to Talk About Sex?

That’s a good question: Why would the University of Oregon bring a notorious anti-Christian speaker like Dan Savage to campus?

Why not bring the Duggar family to campus instead?

MSNBC Guest: Abortionists Are
“Doing Wonderful, Important Work”

MSNBC would never say the Duggars are “doing wonderful, important work,” because the Duggars are Christians and MSNBC hates Jesus.

 

Category: Abortion, Culture, Family, Feminism, Marriage, Sex

The Endless Debacle of ObamaCare

Posted on | November 15, 2013 | 62 Comments

No one can remember a policy disaster quite like this. Every day brings multiple new bad-news headlines. We could compare the sudden and seemingly permanent debacle of ObamaCare to the way the insurgency in Iraq sapped President Bush’s second-term popularity, but there are obvious differences between the two situations: We invaded Iraq after a long public debate, and after the policy was authorized by Congress on a bipartisan vote, whereas ObamaCare was rammed through Congress on a party-line vote with the Democrat Speaker of the House saying she had to pass the bill so we could know what was in it.

Democrats own ObamaCare exclusively, and so its failure — which is even more self-evident than was the failure of Bush’s Iraq policy — threatens to inflict permanent political damage. A few headlines:

Why liberals are panicked about Obamacare
— Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post

Befuddled Central Planner in Chief
Discovers Complexity Of Real Life
— Ed Driscoll

‘Fairy Tale’ Continues as Obama
Proposes Extralegal Obamacare Fix
— Daniel Halper, Weekly Standard

How Can Dems Mandate Policy Renewals If
State Insurance Commissioners Won’t Let Them?
— The Lonely Conservative

As Joe Curl says, Obama will try to turn this around by blaming insurance companies and Republican opposition for the failure of his policy and, at some point, the liberal media will line up in lockstep to parrot the Democrat talking points. Yet all the White House spin and all the media sycophancy in the world cannot hide the abject failure of ObamaCare, and Democrats will pay the political price next November.

Note to Democrats: Denial is not an effective political strategy.




 

 

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Category: Barack Obama, Democrats, Health Care

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.15.13

Posted on | November 15, 2013 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Obama Announces Health Care Law Fix

Racist? Terrorist? Or just completely out of his depth?

Insurers question practicality


PRC’s Aid To Philippines Dwarfed By IKEA’s Contributions
Another “own goal” in already damaged relationship


Four Marine EOD Experts Killed At Camp Pendleton
Cause of accidental explosion on the Zulu Range under investigation



POLITICS
Bipartisan Criticism Of President’s Obamacare “Fix”

No grace under pressure, and not much coherency either

Speaker Boehner questions administration’s ability to make changes by rulemaking


Miley Metaphors: John McCain Terms Kerry’s Diplomacy A “Wrecking Ball”


Congressman: Benghazi Attackers Knew Location Of Ambassador’s Safe Room

NSA Chief Says Snowden Leaked 200,000 Documents

House Repulicans Introduce Resolution To Impeach Attorney General Holder

Amtrak Loses $72 Million While Free Booze Flows

US Ending Buys Of Russian Cargo Helicopters



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Rises In Asian Trade As Yellen Promises Continued Easy Money: NYMEX $94.22, Brent $108.42
Japanese Shares Lead Asian Charge As Yellen Gives All Clear
Buffett Takes $3.7 Billion Stake In Exxon-Mobil
TVA To Shut Down Eight More Coal Plants
Lockheed Martin To Cut 4000 Jobs
McDonald’s Eyes Bigger Share Of Coffee Market
Eight Years Later, Google’s Book Scanning Crusade Ruled “Fair Use”
Sony PS4 Finally Hits The Stores
Motorola Unveils “Affordable” Smartphone
Developers Can Now Log In To Windows 8, WinPhone 8 With Facebook
Isis Mobile Wallet Goes Nationwide, Offers Freebies



SPORTS
Tigers’ Cabrera Repeats As AL MVP; Pirates’ McCutcheon Takes NL MVP

First repeat winner since Frank Thomas in 1993-4

McCutcheon beats out Snakes’ first sacker Goldschmidt

Colts Climb Out Of Early Hole, Rally To Beat Titans

Melo’s 45 Not Enough As Knicks Fall To Rockets


Bruins Top Blue Jackets In OT

Talks About Changes To Japanese Posting System Hit A Snag

Islanders Blow Two-Goal Lead, Lose To Kings

Stars Crush Flames 7-3

Johnson Ready To Claim Sixth Title

What’s On Mike Rizzo’s Winter Meetings Shopping List?



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Taylor Armstrong Slams Brandi Glanville For Joanna Krupa Diss

“She can’t keep her trashy mouth shut.”

TMZ Pleads: Shut Up About Krupa’s Vagina

Barbara Walters Steals Scene At “Catching Fire” Screening

Andy Kaufman’s Brother Claims Comedian Is Alive, In Love, And Has A Daughter

Chris Brown Still In Rehab Despite LA Appearance

Jake Gyllenhaal Hospitalized After Punching Mirror

Matthew McConaughey: Leading Man Of The Year

Shawn Levy To Direct “City That Sailed” For Fox, Will Smith To Star

“Fifty Shades Of Grey” Author “Terrified” About The Film

Alec Baldwin’s Stalker Genevieve Sabourin Gets 210 Days In Jail

Miley Cyrus: I’m One Of The World’s Biggest Feminists



FOREIGNERS
Toronto Mayor Apologizes For Oral Sex Remarks
Ireland To Exit EU’s Emergency Room
Canada’s Trade Deficit Narrows To C$435 Million On Energy
1000 US Troops To Assist In Philippines Disaster Relief
Senior Israeli Minister Slams Kerry: “No Longer An Honest Broker” In Iran Talks
386 Kids Rescued, 348 Adults Arrested In Massive Worldwide Child Porn Bust
African Union Demands UN Delay Kenyan Leader’s Trial
Jihadis Mistakenly Behead Fellow Afghan Rebel
Sewage Swamps Gaza Streets As Egyptian Tunnel Closures Cut Off Power
Pakistani Taliban Enmeshed In Bloody Leadership Succession Struggle



BLOGS & STUFF
The Looking Spoon: What Obama Would Rather Do With Individuals Complaining About Obamacare
Proof Positive: Height Of Credibility
Doug Powers: No Matter How Obamacare Enrollment Is Spun, The Net Number Of Uninsured Is Skyrocketing
Twitchy: President Threatens To Veto Keep Your Healthcare Act
American Power: Repeal – It’s The Only Cure
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, November 14
Jammie Wearing Fools: Obamacare Schadenfreuderama
JustOneMinute: Obama’s Solution – Blame The Grandfather
Pat Dollard: Not An “Isolated Incident” – James O’Keefe Releases Second Video Exposing More Obamacare Navigator Fraud
Protein Wisdom: On The Upton Plan
Shot In The Dark: Big “L”, Small “L”
The Jawa Report: Where’s Rusty? Gone Clamming
The Lonely Conservative: Why Is Obamacare Driving Up Your Premiums? Kirsten Powers Has The Answer
Megan McArdle: Obamacare Is Whatever Obama Says It Is


Category: Live at Five

Who Else Has An #ObamaCare I-Told-You-So Card To Play?

Posted on | November 14, 2013 | 24 Comments

by Smitty

Actually, I’ve got two. These date to the Kill the Bill protest of 20 March, 2010, when these babies were on the U.S. Capitol steps:

Oh say, can you see,
By the Gore-approved light
How sadly Dems failed
At democracy’s last deeming?
Whose dark bribes, kickbacks and carves,
Amidst the Constitutional fight,
O’er compliant media we watched,
Where propaganda was streaming

And the Progressives there,
The Rules Committee chair,
Faked numbers through the night,
‘Til no truth remained there.
Oh say, does leadership remain,
Which the tradeoff can stave,
From the land of the free,
To the home of the enslaved?

Almost four years of Health Care posts. I spent the bulk of the following year in Afghanistan, returning home to usher the World’s Youngest Blogger into the realm of uncountable debt.

2012 was all about pleading with the American people to do anything other than show up for a hot date with Cthulhu in November.

2013 has been rather rough, with a bout of unemployment, the most idiotic state election results imaginable, the shutdown (which brought back unpleasant memories of the preceding unemployment), and now the unfolding debacle of ObamaCare. You sort of figure our anemic economy isn’t going to weather this prostate check with a live cattle prod terribly well. But I’m nobody’s prophet. I’d like to predict that Virginia will borrow enough wisdom to send this idiot packing from the Senate next year:

For now, one just derives a grim satisfaction from having known that ObamaCare was always a river of lies, with headwaters in Hell. When the World’s Youngest Blogger peers at me across the fire, there in the rubble, and wants to know what I did to try to avert the disaster, I’ll be able to tell him that I did my part.

Category: Uncategorized

Alec Baldwin Yells ‘Fag’ at Photographer; MSNBC Host Threatens to Sue TMZ

Posted on | November 14, 2013 | 29 Comments

Is he the worst host in the history of MSNBC? Gosh, that’s tough competition. Ed Driscoll summarizes the latest outburst:

MSNBC anchor Alec Baldwin was videotaped shouting “c**ksucking f*g,” to a photographer by TMZ.com, John Nolte writes at Big Journalism:

MSNBC hired Baldwin knowing he was already guilty of hurling anti-gay hate speech at a reporter. Back in June, Baldwin not only used his Twitter account to hurl anti-gay slurs, he  threatened the reporter and called on his Twitter followers to “straighten out this f**king little bitch.”
Almost all of the mainstream media gave Baldwin a total pass for his reprehensible behavior last June. In fact, afterwards he won a weekly show on MSNBC (which is currently collapsing in the ratings).
Maybe the media was exhausted after destroying cooking guru Paula Deen over something she said thirty years ago.

Nolte refers to Baldwin as an “actor,” but as I mentioned back in August, when the idea for Baldwin’s show was initially floated by NBC, if the former actor is going to host a talk show for NBC, then he’s now in the same profession as the photographers he loves to threaten and hurl abuse at — they’re both working journalists attempting to gather news and information and present them to the public. . . .
How’s that great new addition working out these days, Phil?

We’re all “Breitbart libertarian trash” now!

And hey, Alec, if you want to sue me, get in line.

 

BomberSuesBloggers.com

 


Category: Celebrities, Ed Driscoll

Pro-Abortion Group: ‘Get the Duggars Off TV, Because Auschwitz or Something’

Posted on | November 14, 2013 | 65 Comments

This is crazy. In the comments on an earlier post, somebody linked an article at RH Realty Check, a site that is pro-abortion with the monomaniacal zeal of a Chinese Communist Party “family planning” commissar. I mean, Amanda Marcotte is moderate by comparison.

“RH” stands for “Reproductive Health,” which is progressive code for KILL YOUR BABY NOW and this is from their “About Us” page:

We enjoyed the support of the UN Foundation and the editorial independence entrusted to us for six years, from 2006-2012. In January 2012 we officially became our own independent 501c3 non-for-profit organization.

OK, now I understand: The UN Foundation was something zero-population-growth zealot Ted Turner donated a bunch of money to, back when Ted was banging Jane Fonda and before the Time/Warner/AOL merger devastated his fortune. So that makes sense.

Anyway, somebody linked an RH Reality Check article in the comments and, while the article itself wasn’t particularly interesting, I noticed that on the sidebar they had this link:

TLC: It’s time to cancel the Duggars’ show,
“19 Kids and Counting,” and stop rewarding
misuse of the history of the Holocaust.

WTF? They’re campaigning against a reality TV show because of the Holocaust? I mean, Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo is a crime against humanity as far as I’m concerned, but why would anyone invoke the Holocaust to argue for the cancellation of the Duggars?

Turns out that, during last month’s Value Voters Summit, Jim Bob Duggar referenced the Holocaust in explaining the importance of civic involvement, and various lefties complained.

Period. End of sentence.

Look, if the Left mounted an online petition every time a pro-lifer compared abortion to the Holocaust, the entire Internet would be full of nothing else but those petitions. Whether or not the analogy is fair or offensive is entirely irrelevant to the fact that such comparisons are routine in pro-life rhetoric, and therefore the question is, “Why this belated umbrage by RH Reality Check?”

Did I mention that they are a 501(c)3 tax-exempt non-profit? And did you happen to notice that we’re about seven weeks from the end of the year? Long story short: It’s a fund-raising gimmick.

With the end of the calendar year approaching, RH Reality Check wants to attract tax-deductible contributions creating the impression that “We’re Doing Something,” and taking on an “issue” with celebrity-name-value is one way to get some free publicity. An excerpt from a recent RH Reality Check article:

Jill Stanek whipped out a dictionary to argue about whether or not Holocaust references are appropriate when talking about abortion, after anti-choice celebrities Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar did just that.
Consider this phrase again from Jim Bob’s speech at this year’s Values Voter Summit that Stanek is defending, as he relayed an anecdote about a visit to a concentration camp: “That’s where we’re at in our nation.” . . .
While it’s only implied in their passive-voice arguments that hesitate to name a perpetrator, you can’t have a calculated mass murder without the calculating mass murderers. So who are the people engineering what anti-choice thought leaders describe as a Nazi-style mass murder happening now in the United States?
In sum, I think Jill Stanek just called me a Nazi. And she called you one, too, if you believe a pregnant person has the right to decide the outcome of her pregnancy, or if you are among the roughly one in three women who has exercised her constitutionally protected right to have an abortion. If she means what she says, we’re all deserving of a Nuremberg trial.

What’s important about that article is not the quote from Jim Bob Duggar or the mention of pro-life blogger Jill Stanek. What’s really important is the byline on the article:

by Natasha Chart,
Director of Campaigns and Fundraising,
RH Reality Check

Oh, fundraising. In other words, RH Reality Check is hustling a buck by trying to get the Duggars off TV. Not what I’d call a philanthropic or charitable endeavor, but then again, I don’t consider killing babies a “constitutionally protected right,” either.

 

Category: Abortion
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