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So The Kneepad Media Has A Pass On #Syria. Will It Grow Real Curiosity?

Posted on | September 2, 2013 | 22 Comments

by Smitty

Fareed Zakaria is miffed:

. . .it’s hard not to conclude that the administration’s handling of Syria over the last year has been a case study in how not to do foreign policy.

But will the media grow some stones and note that Obama’s foreign policy is roughly as jacked up as his domestic rodeo clownery?
Joe Curl notes at the Washington Times:

Whatever happens, this much is clear: We’re no longer talking about the IRS targeting tea party groups, the Justice Department tapping reporters’ phone lines, the NSA’s surveillance programs, Benghazi. The president has smartly changed the subject to the most important decision a commander in chief makes: war.

Syria looks like a twofer:

  1. #OccupyResoluteDesk can control the news cycle, and
  2. the media can pause its standard hoovering and feign doing its traditional job on a narrow topic,

all the while accidentally-on-purpose diverting from

or half a dozen other scandals like Pigford and the EPA.

If this President was anything other than a continuous river of falsehood, I might begin to feel embarrassed by my cynical attitude and unwillingness to give the guy the benefit of the doubt. But this is the time to double down, not ease up.

via Instapundit and Newsbusters

Category: Barack Obama, Syria

Rule 5 Sunday: Short Skirt/Long Jacket

Posted on | September 1, 2013 | 29 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


I was a little hesitant to put this up tonight, especially after Stacy threw down with the Fire & Brimstone in the preceding post, but I’ve been pretty slack with these lately and need to get back on track. So, as usual, let me remind you that while many of the links are to wholesome young ladies tastefully clad in appropriate summer wear (or more), some of them are to other young ladies clad in lingerie or less, which are NSFW in these days of draconian sexual harassment rules. Exercise discretion in your clicking, gentle readers!


Laughing Conservative leads off this week with Sophia Knight, Randy’s Roundtable offers Sara Sampaio, and Animal Magnetism chimes in with Rule 5 Friday and the Labor Day Weekend Asian Invasion. Blackmailers Don’t Shoot’s Pretty Girls On A Thursday is all about Chicks With Tattoos this week, while Subject to Change is focused on the kitchen. 90 Miles From Tyranny has Late Night Ladies, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Morning Mistress. Fishersville Mike is ready for Hillary (no, not that one), Goodstuff brings Rita Hayworth and Lily Cole, and First Street Journal is all at sea with her version of Rule 5.


EBL’s herd of heifers this week includes Kate Upton (getting a golf lesson from Arnold Palmer), Asma Al-Assad, Miley Cyrus, Queen Rania of Jordan, and the stages of Islamic fundamentalism, illustrated.


A View From The Beach has Paulina Porizkova, So Bad And Yet So Good, Old Lady No Longer Just Wants to Have Run, Best Scam Ever!, The Miley Cyrus Kerfuffle, I Forgot the Phone, Poor, Poor Pitiful Linda, and News from the Home Planet.


Wine Women and Politics has Saturday Sweeties, Red Hot Redheads, Fine Fillies for a Friday, Babe Time, and Hot Women of Wednesday.


Soylent Green begins with Your AM Angels, Evening Awesome Veronica, Complimentary Cassandra By Candlelight, Tuesday Titillation Classic Kimberly, Humpday Hawtness Larissa, Falconsword Fursday Kazuki, Overnighty Linky Love Contender, Corsetage, Random French Fur Babe, T-GIF Friday, Now THAT’s A Bikini, and Afternooner Viviane. Also, Evening Awesome Brooke!


Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Doutzen Kroes and his Vintage Babe is Sherry Britton; also, The Obligatory 49er Cheerleader and Sex in Advertising -Edmonton Style! Dustbury offers Tuesday Weld and Tricia Helfer this week.


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Links for next week’s Rule 5 roundup are due in to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox no later than Saturday, September 7.


Also, please note: there will be no Live At Five tomorrow on account of Labor Day.


 

Category: Rule 5

Lubricating the Slippery Slope: The Intellectual Astroglide of the Elite

Posted on | September 1, 2013 | 447 Comments

Few are willing to admit the truth, namely that our cultural elite have abandoned the truth — but that is putting it too mildly.

Our cultural elite, of which the editors of the Washington Post and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg are members, have not only abandoned the truth, but have declared war on truth, and have dedicated themselves to the advancement of falsehood.

People saw this coming and sounded a warning. Judith Reisman was one of them, and Robert Knight was another. In 2000, Knight published The Age of Consent: The Rise of Relativism and the Corruption of Popular Culture, addressing the philosophical roots of our current mess. You should also read Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law and Education by Philip E. Johnson.

Whether or not you follow my reading recommendations, the bottom line is this: Good luck with this “secular conservatism” thing.

It ain’t gonna work, and if the history of the past 10 years or so haven’t convinced you that embracing secularism is doom for conservatism — and, ultimately, for the American republic — I’m sure the next 10 years will, but by then there will be nothing left worth conserving. And we’re probably doomed already.

Paul Weyrich — he totally saw it. A nation that would let President Clinton lie his way through the Lewinsky scandal, and accept all those flimsy rationalizations in his defense . . . Doomed.

There was a sort of post-9/11 bubble of Republican popularity that lasted four or five years, but by 2006, that was completely gone. Then in 2008 somehow, that backstabbing crapweasel John McCain got the Republican nomination and . . . Doomed.

Well, the Tea Party uprising of 2009-2010 was encouraging, but then 2012 came along and, once again . . . Doomed.

How are you feeling about 2014, Republicans? What about 2016?

Exactly: Doomed.

Basically, the enemy got inside the perimeter. The bombardment of liberal propaganda convinced both the Republican Party elite and leading figures of the conservative intelligentsia that all those hillbilly Bible-thumpers were, on balance, a detriment to the GOP’s political prospects, so shut up, Sarah Palin, shut up Michele Bachmann, shut up Rick Santorum and anyone else who doesn’t applaud gay marriage as  enthusiastically as Rachel Maddow and Andrew Sullivan.

Way to go, Republican elite! You saved your reputation as sophisticated, tolerant, enlightened intellectuals and you are . . . Doomed.

The revolutionary turning point is now in your rear-view mirror, and you’re all Vichy Republicans, negotiating with the radical Left the terms of your collaboration with their progressive agenda. In November 2008, I explained where we were heading:

The Lawrence ruling was the culmination of what Justice Antonin Scalia called “a 17-year crusade” to overturn the 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick decision (which had upheld Georgia’s sodomy statute) and, as Scalia noted in his dissent, the Court’s “emerging awareness” argument was a disingenuous way to avoid actually declaring a “fundamental right” to sodomy. The legal effect was the same, however, and Lawrence was repeatedly cited in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s decision five months later mandating the legalization of gay marriage in that state. . . .
Gay activists do not construe their “rights” in terms of liberty, but in terms of radical and absolute equality. They insist that same-sex relationships are identical to — entirely analogous to and fungible with — traditional marriage.
Common sense resists this assertion, perceiving something fundamentally false in the gay marriage argument. Yet it seems common-sense resistance can only be justified by resort to religious faith, through the understanding that men are “endowed by their Creator” with rights. Eliminate the Creator from discussion, and it becomes impossible to refute the activists’ indignant demand for equality. . . .

You could read the whole thing — if you’re an ignorant hillbilly Bible-thumper like Justice Antonin Scalia. Perhaps you could also confront the reality that we have weighed anchor, sailed off into uncharted waters without a compass, and are now badly adrift in those regions of the ancient maps marked “Here Be Dragons.”

 

The Lawrence decision stopped just short of declaring a “fundamental right” to sodomy, but they might as well have gone all the way (if you’ll pardon the phrase) because we see how Justice Kennedy struck down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act as though no law prior to the “emerging awareness” had any validity at all. In 2003, the Supreme Court decreed that Texas had no authority to prohibit sodomy. Ten years later, the Supreme Court decreed that Congress itself could not deny recognition to same-sex marriage, and anyone shocked by the hasty destruction of what Chief Justice Warren Burger called “millennia of moral teaching” — well, shut up, haters.

Family Terrorized as Michigan Teachers
Support Colleague Who Molested Boy

 

Girl Commits Suicide; Rapist
Teacher Gets Just 30 Days in Jail

Only one of these stories was important enough to gain national attention outside of the right-wing media. Why? Because in the Michigan case, the teacher molested a boy. It was a gay thing, and only Bible-thumping hillbillies are against male teachers having gay sex with 14-year-old boys. By contrast, the other case involved a man having sex with a 14-year-old girl, so feminists were upset.

Heard any feminist upset about Kaitlyn Hunt dildoing a 14-year-old? Of course not: Feminists are all about supporting teenage lesbians, and to hell with those hateful puritanical age-of-consent laws.

“It was a quiet ceremony. Elizabeth Miklosovic had an outdoor wedding in June 2004 in Michigan’s Manistee National Forest, where the couple lit candles and exchanged vows. Miklosovic’s marriage lasted only a few months, however. Later that year, the mother of the bride found out that her daughter had, at age 13, become the lesbian ‘wife’ of Miklosovic, who had been the girl’s language arts teacher at Baseline Middle School in South Haven, Michigan. For some reason, state law did not recognize the legitimacy of Miklosovic’s pagan lesbian marriage, and she was convicted of felony sex offenses and sentenced to prison.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, “Sexual Anarchy: Progress, Perversion and the ‘Emerging Awareness’ Doctrine,” The American Spectator, June 26

Who knows whither the “emerging awareness” shall henceforth emerge? Certainly I can make no predictions, and it’s hard to imagine the series of court rulings or legislative action by which lesbian child brides could become a legal “right.” On the other hand, a lot of things that once were hard to imagine are happening every day of the week now. The Washington Post column defending student-teacher sex for instance, seemed like a tasteless joke:

All my current friends are 14-year-old girls. We have pool parties and sometimes we massage each other. . . .
Me and my 14-year-old jailbait posse are sick of society looking askance at our Forbidden Love.

No, that’s not from a Washington Post column, that’s Ace of Spades brutally mocking the column, which is funny as hell — the mockery, I mean, not the column itself, which is scary as hell, because editors had to approve that column, edit it, add a headline and put it on the page. And at no point during this process did any employee of the Washington Post look at that column and say, “Hey, wait a minute. This is not just badly written and badly argued, but it’s also grossly offensive and even arguably perverted.” Quoting myself again:

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.

Of course, the editors of the Washington Post are totally pro-abortion — and probably also pro-prostitution, if the truth were known — so exactly why should they be offended by an argument in defense of teachers having sex with their 14-year-old students?

Sure, let’s make fun of the Washington Post, but their editors seriously believe that a woman’s most important “right” is killing her own babies, and if people can believe that, what immoral monstrosity won’t they endorse? At some point, Republicans must either summon the courage to speak the truth — sorry, we’re not going to call you “Chelsea Manning,” you despicable traitor — or else stop pretending that they have any actual disagreements with Democrats.

Do Reince Priebus or John Boehner or Mitch McConnell have any plan at all to halt this headlong descent into lawless perversion?

“Children are not inherently unable to consent” to sex with adults. Pedophiles are “unfairly stigmatized and demonized” by society. Sex with kids is tainted by a “cultural baggage of wrongfulness.”

People need to wake the hell up.

This Weimar decadence is very bad. What comes after the decadence is likely to be worse, and if you listen closely you can almost hear the sound of hobnailed boots marching over broken glass.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! Weird to get a ‘lanche four years after I published this, but today I searched for when I first used the sentence, “People need to wake the hell up,” and here were are, eh? The election of Donald Trump, the recent street violence involving white supremacists and left-wing “antifa” radicals — yes, it seems my prophetic warnings from 2013 are being fulfilled.

A nation that has abandoned religion and morality (e.g., “Thou shalt not kill”) must sooner or later pay the price for its decadence, although it’s difficult to predict what form the consequences might take. For example, why should sexual deviance give rise to racial hostility? This connection doesn’t seem obvious, but nevertheless the perversity that flourished in Weimar Germany was followed by the ascent of a Nazi regime that murdered not only Jews, but also Poles, gypsies and other “untermenschen.” While it seems unlikely that any such thing could happen in America, who can predict the future? Just a few years ago, did anyone expect we’d be confronted in 2017 with transgenderism as a “mainstream” issue? When you’re off the map and deep into the “Here Be Dragons” territory, it’s hard to know what to expect next.



 

Category: Ace of Spades, Feminism, Gays, Sex

President Punchline: Are Obama’s Top Advisors Late-Night TV Joke Writers?

Posted on | August 31, 2013 | 39 Comments

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail)

Could he possibly look more ineffective if he tried? A year ago, after the Syrian civil war had already been going on for about 14 months, Obama declared that the Assad regime would cross a “red line” if it used chemical weapons against the opposition. By the end of April this year, there was already pretty clear evidence that chemical weapons had been used; in June, U.S. officials said chemical weapons had been used, and by early August, the Syrian opposition supplied video that appeared to confirm a chemical weapons attack.

And . . . nothing.

Nothing but a lot of noise and indecisive hand-wringing.

Let me be clear: I’m against U.S. intervention in Syria. As bad as Assad is, there are indications that the opposition is not much better.

If the U.S. had intervened early, maybe there could have been a chance of bringing to power a more-or-less secular, more-or-less pro-American coalition in Syria.

Now? The place is reportedly crawling with 10,000 foreign jihadis, key groups within the opposition have clear ties to al-Qaeda, and there’s little reason to expect that Assad’s ouster will do anything but turn Syria into a dangerously violent radical Islamic terror state. It’s a bad situation, and American intervention would probably only make it worse.

Still, the worst possible thing you can do in either  foreign policy or poker is to be exposed as a bluffer, and right now Obama’s looking like that idiot who raised pre-flop with a pair of 7’s.

Never threaten war if you’re not ready to fight, and once the British Parliament voted against attacking Syria, Obama was stuck with his pair of 7’s. OK, so he reverted to campaign mode: Says he’s going to wait for congressional authorization — which he knows damned well he won’t get — after which he will then blame Republicans as “obstructionists,” even though Democrats don’t want this war, either.

He’s a great bullshit artist, but he has never been anything more.

John Kerry will do all five Sunday shows. Kerry is not even an adequate bullshit artist. This should be amusing.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Syria

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
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