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World’s Youngest Blogger Demos Mollusc Missile System; DoD Contract To Follow?

Posted on | August 31, 2013 | 27 Comments

by Smitty


By way of explanation, we went to Mason Neck State Park today, and he waded out into Belmont Bay and threw a snail.

Category: humor, World's Youngest Blogger

Shorter @Karoli: ‘Obama Will Obliterate You Teabaggers, and If You Complain About It, That’s a Conspiracy!’

Posted on | August 31, 2013 | 53 Comments

Is there a more dishonest person in America than the vile lie peddler Karoli Kuns? Certainly, we cannot rule this out, considering that 66 million people voted to re-elect President Obama.

One might write an entire book about the perverse mind of Karoli Kuns, whose attitude toward Republicans can best be understood by studying Pol Pot’s attitude toward opponents of the Khmer Rouge. There is no standard of decency Karoli Kuns recognizes as limiting the falsehoods she writes about anyone who doesn’t vote Democrat. For her, the destruction of Republicans is an end that justifies any means.

Karoli Kuns wakes up every morning and eats a bowl of Evil Flakes for breakfast, with a hot cup of dishonesty. She then peddles vile lies all day and into the night, before going to sleep to dream of the despicably hateful falsehoods she’ll tell tomorrow. If we occasionally notice some heinous wrong she has done today, it doesn’t mean she didn’t do worse yesterday, and she’ll certainly try to do worse tomorrow.

OK, so the Wall Street Journal published an article this week about the Tea Party and the IRS scandal, and the Washington Post then paid Alex Seitz-Wald to retaliate by attacking the Tea Party — because attacking Obama’s Enemies List is Alex Seitz-Wald‘s entire ouevre — and then, on cue, here comes Karoli Kuns to claim that somehow everything is explained by the “Groundswell” conspiracy:

According to the Groundswell documents, meetings and message coordination was taking place on a daily basis via email groups and their weekly meeting. Key players included the Tea Party Patriots and True The Vote. Both of these organizations were among the first to step up and claim they had been ‘victimized.’ But before the IRS ‘news’ ever broke, activity had been going on behind the scenes.

ERMAGERD! Activity behind the scenes! Evil People Who Don’t Vote Democrat send emails and have weekly meetings!

These people have gone so far as to advocate free speech and the right to assemble and petition government for a redress of grievances — can’t Eric Holder do something to stop these extremists?

You see what I mean about Karoli Kuns? Her basic premise is the dishonest insinuation that there is something scandalous — something wrong, perhaps even criminal — about people opposing Obama’s policies.

Christians, gun owners, homeschoolers, small businessmen concerned about regulations — these people have no rights at all, according to Karoli Kuns, and so their political activism is illegitimate. Therefore the IRS scandal is not a scandal, because the Tea Party shouldn’t even exist, and anything that the IRS or any other agency of government can do to wipe these people out is justified, according to Karoli Kuns.

If Tea Party leaders were arrested without warrant and shipped to Guantanamo Bay, Karoli would lament that this crackdown on dissent didn’t happen as soon as Obama was inaugurated.

@KAROLI: IF SHE HASN’T BLOCKED
YOU ON TWITTER YET, YOU MUST
BE DOING SOMETHING WRONG

 

 


Category: Tea Party

FMJRA 2.0: Equinoxe

Posted on | August 31, 2013 | 14 Comments

–compiled by Wombat-socho

In Case You Missed It, @MileyCyrus Got Super-Skanky on the VMAs Last Night

Rule 5 Tuesday

Potius Mori Quam Foedari

Hunt Family Values: #FreeKate’s Underage Sister ‘Went Out and Drank’?

Hmm. @JamesTaranto Mildly Disagrees With @AnnAlthouse? Let Me Try That.

Family Terrorized as Michigan Teachers Support Colleague Who Molested Boy

The Foul Stench of @BrianBeutler’s Truthlessness Has Become Intolerable

#FreeKate Mom Defining Deviancy Down

‘And It Just Blew Up’

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.28.13

Q.E.D.: @MaxBoot Is a Lying Swindler

Right-Wing Extremist Attacks Black Transvestite in Homophobic Hate Crime

The Fisking of @BrianBeutler: Obsessed Obsessive Obsessions and Stuff Like That

FMJRA 2.0: Sunday Edition

‘Puerile … Progressive Hackery’: @BrianBeutler and Our Moral Superiors

VIDEO: @SenTedCruz Is A Breath Of Fresh, Post-Obama Air

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.26.13

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.27.13

Democrat Fundraiser Sentenced to Probation in Weird Stalking Case

Squeaky Fromme, Sara Jane Moore, Lee Harvey Oswald and the Radical Impulse

Is Neal Rauhauser Trying to Scheme His Way Back Into Political Consulting?

#FreeKate Mom Kelley Hunt Smith’s Alternative Morality Lecture

FAQ You, Seriously

Tara Carreon Doesn’t Know Why People Hate Her Censorious Douchebag Husband

Your Semi-Official Obama vs. Syria Armageddon Predictions Thread

Internet Douchebag Patrol: Commie Scum and Other Satanic Creatures From Hell

Haters Who Hate Hate: DHS Employs Deranged Race Warrior Ayo Kimathi

Well, I Shouldn’t Disappoint Pete

LOL: @LaurelRConrad Smacks Liberal HuffPo Commenters With the Truth

HuffPo’s Hateful Haitian Pascal Robert (@probert06) Grossly Insults Dana Loesch

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.29.13

NYT Cranks The Judas Priest

Virginia Democrat Won’t Answer Questions About His Sleepover With Teen

Public-School Graduate @abenedikt Attempts Persuasive Writing, Fails

Kim’s Ex-Girlfriend Suffers Heartache, Execution by Firing Squad; Neal Sedaka Could Not Be Reached for Comment

States’ Rights: OK for Dopeheads; Hateful Hillbilly Bible-Thumpers, Not So Much

Will Syria Be #OccupyResoluteDesk’s Resignation Letter?

Studying the Master: @AceOfSpadesHQ Brings His Blogging A-Game, Again

Bitches Be Cray-Cray: A Heteropatriarchal Theory of Non-Transformative Justice

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Ready to Make Feeble Unilateral Gesture Against Syria

Is Obama Pivoting From Jobs To Syria To ObamaCare Like A Rodeo Clown Ballerina?

Any #ManBearPig Sightings In Peru?

Hard Times for Gender Studies Major

Top linkers this week:

  1. Regular Right Guy (37)
  2. Rick’s Rants (32)
  3. EBL  (10+7 from Batshit Crazy News)
  4. Da Tech Guy (6)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links for September’s first FMJRA is Friday, September 6.

Category: FMJRA Award

To the Reader Who Bought 22 Seagate Hard Drives via Our Amazon Links …

Posted on | August 31, 2013 | 30 Comments

. . . Thanks! When I checked the sales report and saw someone had bought this — “Seagate Barracuda 3 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 7200 RPM 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ST3000DM001” — I was like, “What?” But when I looked again and saw that you bought 22 of them at $112.96 each . . .  God bless you, Amazon shopper!

Each time you click through one of the Amazon ads you see on the blog, you can then shop around and buy whatever you want and, as long as your entry point for that particular online shopping trip was our ad, we are paid a small commission at no cost to you.

 

 

Last year, one of our regular readers outfitted his entire home theater with stuff he bought via our Amazon links, and other readers have figured out that Amazon shopping doesn’t have to be merely a personal experience. The reader shall remain nameless whose job involves purchasing office supplies and equipment because, really, don’t taxpayers deserve the best value for their dollar? The vast selection and low prices at Amazon — plus, free shipping on most purchases over $25 — make it a patriotic duty for government employees to shop there.

 

 
Who needs 22 computer hard drives in one shipment? I don’t know. The sales report doesn’t identify purchasers, it just says what we sold, like an enclosure for a surveillance camera. Hmmm.

The Pentagon, the CIA and the NSA must buy lots of stuff like that, and they know I believe traitors should be hanged, so let’s just guess that these high-tech gizmos have been purchased by somebody whose job is so hush-hush, they’d have to kill us if we found out.

Your secrets are safe with me. And thanks for shopping!

 

Category: Amazon

Washington Post Publishes Jailbait Apologist (Ain’t I Done Told You So?)

Posted on | August 31, 2013 | 301 Comments

Besty Karasik is an airhead who quit her job as a laywer to become a painter. Whatever the art community gained by that transaction, the legal community lost no wisdom. In an op-ed in the Washington Post, Karasik argues for decriminalizing student-teacher sex:

[W]ith our legal and moral codes failing us, our society needs to have an uncensored dialogue about the reality of sex in schools. . . .
I don’t believe that all sexual conduct between underage students and teachers should necessarily be classified as rape, and I believe that absent extenuating circumstances, consensual sexual activity between teachers and students should not be criminalized.  . . .
[T]he utter hysteria with which society responds to these situations does less to protect children than to assuage society’s need to feel that we are protecting them.

See, the problem is not teachers having sex with students. No, the real problem is the “utter hysteria” about this, and “society’s need to feel” that children are protected. In other words, the problem is your irrationality, whereas teachers banging their students . . . well,  they’re in need of understanding and sympathy. Teachers who have sex with kids are victims, really — victims of your “utter hysteria.”

Coincidentally, I had just been re-reading Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed, which addresses this rhetorical trick:

A concern that is important to the anointed is called “a matter of principle,” while a concern that is important to the benighted is called “an emotional issue.” Apparently other people don’t have reasons or principles; all they have are emotions.

So if you think teachers having sex with students should be criminally prosecuted, Karasik dismisses you as a hysteric. By contrast, Karasik’s own enthusiasms — “My loyalty is to justice and the planet,” she declares on her Twitter profile — she regards as entirely valid.

Betsy Karasik’s experience is simply superior to yours:

I’ve been a 14-year-old girl, and so have all of my female friends. When it comes to having sex on the brain, teenage boys got nothin’ on us. When I was growing up in the 1960s and ’70s, the sexual boundaries between teachers and students were much fuzzier. Throughout high school, college and law school, I knew students who had sexual relations with teachers. To the best of my knowledge, these situations were all consensual in every honest meaning of the word, even if society would like to embrace the fantasy that a high school student can’t consent to sex. Although some feelings probably got bruised, no one I knew was horribly damaged and certainly no one died.

You have never been a 14-year-old girl, so your opinion doesn’t count. And if you have been a 14-year-old girl, but still don’t think it should be legal for teachers to have sex with students? Well, never mind your objections, because Betsy Karasik says it’s just fine.

No harm, no foul — maybe some bruised feelings, but teachers banging their students is really only a problem because of “society” which, having already been condemned for its “utter hysteria,” she now diagnoses as being in the grip of “the fantasy that a high school student can’t consent to sex.” But is this really what society believes? Are “hysteria” and “fantasy” the basis of our laws? Are there no valid reasons to treat student-teacher sex as a crime?

After saying that workplace sexual harassment is worse than consensual sex between teenagers and teachers, Karasik alludes in passing to “certain teachers I considered friends despite their sexual relations with students.” Who are these teachers? Would she be so kind as to tell us their names, so that we might examine whether (as Karasik assures us) their sexual involvement with students was harmless?

But, no, she just throws this strange fact out there — some of Betsy Karasik’s friends are teachers who have sex with their students — and continues with her condemnation of society:

The point is that there is a vast and extremely nuanced continuum of sexual interactions involving teachers and students, ranging from flirtation to mutual lust to harassment to predatory behavior. Painting all of these behaviors with the same brush sends a damaging message to students and sets the stage for hypocrisy and distortion of the truth. Many teenagers are, biologically speaking, sexually mature. Pretending that this kind of thing won’t happen if we simply punish it severely enough is delusional.

Her rhetoric — “utter hysteria . . . fantasy . . . delusional” — is deliberately dismissive. All who disagree with Betsy Karasik are irrational, or are too stupid to understand that “vast and extremely nuanced continuum” of which enligthened people like herself are aware.

It’s not as if you couldn’t predict that such arguments would be made as our culture slid slowly down the slippery slope. In April 2002, I published an article with the headline, “Promoting pedophilia; Attempts to legitimize adult-child sex on rise,” and there were people then who said that such concerns were irrational.

In January of this year, Rush Limbaugh warned about “a movement to normalize pedophilia,” and was mocked by Soledad O’Brien.

Well, here we are in August, and the Washington Post is publishing columns advocating the legalization of student-teacher sex.

Wesley J. Smith at National Review says, “How low can we go? I am afraid we are going to find out.” Betsy Karasik finds herself shocked by the “tsunami of attackers” on Twitter:

Of course, in her mind, the “tsunami” only confirms to Betsy Karasik that “society” is hysterical and delusional. She wants to “open discussion” about legalizing sex with 14-year-olds. And when society answers back, “Oh, hell, no”? This just proves you’re crazy.

 

 

UPDATE: Now a Memeorandum thread, with further commentary by Jazz Shaw at Hot Air and Tim Graham at the Media Research Center, but I like Stephen Kruiser’s solution best: “Kill the media.”

The world is full of idiots with bad ideas and the editors of the Washington Post are obligated to publish only the very worst of them. One cannot reform such institutions as the Washington Post and the New York Times, but can only pray for their well-deserved destruction, because their wicked depravity is not accidental.

The publishers are amoral monsters, their editors are active agents of evil, and their deliberate policy is to employ no honest or decent person. Nor could any honest or decent person ever wish to be associated with publications whose daily business is the destruction of Western civilization. A Christian would no more desire to be published by the Washington Post than to work in an abortion clinic or a bordello. It is a disgraceful stain on the conscience of our nation.

Fact: It’s hard to type when your fingers are trembling with rage.

UPDATE II: A couple of trolls got zapped. Wombat seems to be offline today, so I had to wield the troll-hammer myself, especially since one of these was a false-flag moby troll — the very worst kind, worse even than concern trolls. The comments are moderated and, while the proprietors obviously do not approve of everything in the comments (hell, I never even see most of them), there are certain lines that shall not be crossed, and vicious creatures who use bogus identities for deliberate evil will be zapped. If necessary, you will be IP-banned.

Go troll somewhere else, you monstrous fucktards.

 


Category: Culture, Education, Sex

Hard Times for Gender Studies Major

Posted on | August 30, 2013 | 341 Comments

Hilarity ensued Monday after @Andria_XX complained that social-media criticism of Miley Cyrus included “bodyshaming/slutshaming” and “heteropatriarchal crap.” Readers will recall that Andria has an “Honors BA in Social Justice and Peace Studies” and is pursuing a Master’s degree in Gender Studies. So . . . how’s that going?

“I have a honors BA and I’m defending my MA thesis
in two weeks. I am also apply for jobs and I can
only find stuff in the service industry. I applied
for a Hotel Front Desk Clerk job today.
My degrees mean NOTHING.
I am at the end of my rope.“

What? Being an advanced student of useless ideology doesn’t result in meaningful employment? That’s just really . . . unfair.

UPDATE: Linked by Tarpon’s Swamp and Rio Norte Line — thanks! — and welcome, Instapundit readers!

 

Category: Education, Feminism

Any #ManBearPig Sightings In Peru?

Posted on | August 30, 2013 | 24 Comments

by Smitty

The Government of Peru has declared a state of emergency in parts of the southern Andean region of Puno after temperatures have plummeted to the coldest they have been in a decade. President Ollanta Humala announced emergency states in seven separate Puno provinces: Carabay, Sandia, Lampa, San Antonio de Putina, Melgar, Puno and El Collao.
Not only have hundreds of families been affected, but more than 250,000 alpacas have died due to the freezing temperatures.

Category: Democrats, Global Warming

Is Obama Pivoting From Jobs To Syria To ObamaCare Like A Rodeo Clown Ballerina?

Posted on | August 30, 2013 | 63 Comments

by Smitty

The only way to make this any worse would be to give it full animation and “Dancing Queen”, by ABBA, for a soundtrack.


I guess if Syria isn’t proving enough of a distraction, or the IRS scandal, or the Benghazi scandal, then #OccupyResoluteDesk is just going to have to hit the road and whack the people with his rhetorical bludgeon to keep them from noticing the debt ceiling negotiations (emphasis mine):

The White House is mapping out a strategy to deploy the president, First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Jill Biden in what will be their most coordinated effort yet to sell Obamacare, senior administration officials said.
A burst of activity will coincide with the October opening of the insurance marketplaces, but the West Wing views this next phase as something more akin to a political campaign’s push for early votes. Over the six-month enrollment period, the White House will use the Obamas and Bidens strategically, tracking the turnout for the exchanges in key states and sending them into weak markets to boost numbers.

This promises to be rich. I can’t wait to see the Potemkin villages, with their Potemkin marketplaces, on this Potemkin tour.
Then there is a question over whether there is enough hush money for the unions:

A few weeks ago, I discussed the fact that labor unions have been increasing vocal about their objections to certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Obamacare will “shatter not only our hard-earned health benefits, but destroy the foundation of the 40 hour work week that is the backbone of the American middle class,” wrote three labor leaders in July. Now, according to a report from InsideHealthPolicy, the Obama administration is considering offering insurance subsidies—intended for the uninsured—to labor union members who already have employer-sponsored coverage.
…
Now, according to Rachana Dixit of InsideHealthPolicy, the administration is “working on regulations to address the issue” that people covered under Taft-Hartley plans aren’t eligible for subsidies. But it’s not an “issue” in the sense of being a glitch or a mistake; union leaders are seeking special treatment, and additional taxpayer subsidies, that other participants in employer-sponsored coverage don’t get.

Assad aside: let no one think the U.S. would be so crass as to undertake unilateral action:

The United States can always look to Bulungi for support.

via Rare
and Rare
and Breitbart

Category: Barack Obama, Health Care
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