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Will Syria Be #OccupyResoluteDesk’s Resignation Letter?

Posted on | August 29, 2013 | 59 Comments

by Smitty

Stacy hates this sort of noise, but I’ll throw it out there, because I think it’s plausible.

  1. BHO is a narcissist.
  2. BHO has an awful lot of issues/scandals set to go lively after Labor Day:
    • Benghazi
    • IRS
    • Debt ceiling increase
    • Immigration
    • Continuing resolution in general–
    • ObamaCare in particular
  3. BHO is to the Presidency what Wally is to the Dilbert comic strip, hold the laughs.
  4. Leaders such as Coburn and Boehner have already laid down markers saying “Don’t do it” concerning Syria.
  5. This is of such concern that no less than David “the Greasy One” Axelrod himself got on the air to denounce Coburn.

Prediction: citing high-minded concerns about “the children”, #OccupyResoluteDesk gives the orders to bomb Syria.
This triggers a Constitutional crisis so severe that the anti-War movement, dormant since Bush’s last wave goodbye, is roused. It unites with the Tea Partiers and everyone else sick to death of our Rodeo Clown foreign policy, and the House votes to impeach.
Before Harry “the Cadaver” Reid can be roused from his quasi-comatose stupor, #OccupyResoluteDesk grabs the camer for one last, personal-pronoun-drenched, racial dog-whistle soundtracked, interminable, strawman-army-decimating soliloquy that says, in summary, that neither the American people nor this Constitutionally-obsessed Congress are worthy of the power of his glow.
And that’s how he maintains his streak of never dealing with the responsibilities of his office in any intelligible way.

Category: Barack Obama, Republicans

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

Posted on | August 29, 2013 | 109 Comments

OK, so a Puerto Rican guy kidnapped and raped girls in Cleveland and everybody reported about that case, and not once do I remember anyone arguing that Ariel Castro’s crimes, or the reporting about his crimes, had any specifically racial context. Everybody was just horrified by it, and nobody said either (a) that Puerto Rican guys are particularly prone to chaining up kidnapped girls in their rape dungeons, or (b) that reporting about Ariel Castro was motivated by deliberate racist fearmongering to demonize Puerto Ricans.

Why, then, is there some kind of score-keeping about crime involving blacks and whites? Why can’t we all just get along — and worry about those crazy Puerto Rican rapist kidnappers?

Also, dildo-wielding lesbian cheerleaders, but I digress . . .

Brian Beutler’s shoddy assertion that he knows the Secret Motives of those who have reported about black-on-white crime — and these are, of course, evil racist right-wing motives — mistakes the reaction for the action. That is to say, if there is some kind of backlash going on here, to what is it a backlash, and is it justified? And if Beutler would care to explain why the original action (i.e., relentless wall-to-wall media coverage of the Trayvon Martin case) was justified, he’ll find himself hard-pressed to refute those who argue that a reaction is equally justified, if not more so, by quite similar arguments. This is not an argument about race. It’s an argument about media bias.

The correct conservative argument is that liberal media hyped up and deliberately distorted the Trayvon Martin case because it was an election year and an apparently juicy story about racism and gun control was a nice way to exploit black grievances against whitey. Let’s be honest: If you’re a black person who thinks The Man is keepin’ you down, you’re not going to vote for Mitt Romney, and so Trayvon Martin became a Democrat Party voter-turnout poster child.

There, I said it: This was just Democrats playing ugly partisan politics.

Democrats have never recognized any standard of decorum, civility, decency or honesty in political rhetoric, and the fact that they would exploit a shooting in Florida this way surprises no one who has paid attention to American politics.  (Fact: In 1916, Woodrow Wilson’s re-election slogan was, “He Kept Us Out of War”; less than a year after he was re-elected, America went to war.)

Democrats are just goddamned liars. The fact that one of their more politically useful falsehoods nowadays is telling black people that their problems are caused by white racism should not require us to treat that lie any more seriously than we do any other Democrat lie.

When Democrats say we need “a conversation on race,” what they really mean is they want to have a monologue, a tedious lecture about all the evils perpetrated against black people by those evil racist Republicans. Your part of the “conversation” is, shut up.

All of this was motivated by James Taranto’s defense of colorblindness, including a strategic disagreement with Ann Althouse:

Counter-Trayvonism, according to Althouse, refers to efforts “to rebalance public opinion after the distortions that surrounded the George Zimmerman case” by “looking for incidents in where the killers are black and the victims are white . . . to undo the distortions.”
She thinks this is a terrible mistake . . .

Althouse’s argument includes the assertion that reporting about black crime “gives air to the white supremacists among us. These people have been outcasts for a long time, but they exist, perhaps not quite yet recognizing what they are.”

Whoa! Hold on there, Professor: Are you saying you know such people? Have you reported these dangerous haters to the Department of Homeland Security? Oh, wait, never mind . . .

Here’s Professor Althouse’s headline: “The conservatives’ high ground on race is colorblindness, and they’d be fools to abandon it.”

And who can argue with that?

Yet the fact remains that Democrats mopped the floor with the GOP last year by exploiting all manner of transparently false appeals (“War on Women,” anybody?) aimed at special-interest groups that compose the Democrat constituency. Because the liberal media enthusiastically promote the Democrat Party’s agitprop campaigns, however, it is very difficult to persuade the targets of such appeals that these partisan lies are not simply “the news.”

For crying out loud, no Republican could get elected in the South for an entire century because Democrats had folks convinced that voting Republican would be a disgrace to the Heroic Cause of the Glorious Dead. (BTW, “Confederate” is the new talking point.)

Go ask any Democrat voter — black, white, male, female, whatever — why they voted to re-elect Obama. And good luck getting any rational explanation of how voting Democrat has actually made life better for themselves or their community.

(Has anybody heard from Peggy Joseph lately?)

It is an undeniable fact of American political life that any precinct that votes overwhelmingly Democrat is typically composed of either (a) affluent white elites, or (b) the most wretchedly poor minority populations in the nation. Somebody’s getting screwed over in that deal, and I’m pretty sure it ain’t the rich white folks.

Whatever your problem is, “vote Democrat” is never the solution.

If you suffer from such low self-esteem that it makes you feel better to have a bunch of rich white liberals throw a year-round pity party for you, you’re going to get just about as much actual help as you deserve, which is to say, none at all.

So I’ll leave Professor Althouse to worry about whether those white supremacists are getting “air” from the daily news. Instead I’m going to focus on the goddamned Democrats and their hired liars in the media who have never said an honest word in their lives.

 

Category: Ann Althouse, Crime, Democrats, Media Bias, Racism

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

Posted on | August 29, 2013 | 40 Comments

Every guy who has ever been dumped by a girl knows the feeling. You mope around the house, thinking back on all the good times you had together, and then you start dreaming of the day you become the paranoid dictator of a totalitarian police state:

Kim Jong-un’s ex-girlfriend was among a dozen well-known North Korean performers who were executed by firing squad nine days ago, according to South Korean reports.
Hyon Song-wol, a singer, rumoured to be a former lover of the North Korean leader, is said to have been arrested on Aug 17 with 11 others for violating laws against pornography.
The reports in South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper indicate that Hyon, a singer with the Unhasu Orchestra, was among those arrested on August 17 for violating domestic laws on pornography.
All 12 were machine-gunned three days later, with other members of North Korea’s most famous pop groups and their immediate families forced to watch. The onlookers were then sent to prison camps, victims of the regime’s assumption of guilt by association, the reports stated.

Kinda harsh, Kim. Couldn’t you have just asked her to return your varsity jacket? Or maybe work out the stress by nuking somebody?

 

Category: North Korea

Public-School Graduate @abenedikt Attempts Persuasive Writing, Fails

Posted on | August 29, 2013 | 78 Comments

Allison Benedikt hates Ken White at Popehat, but of course, so does Charles Carreon, and we don’t need to go there just yet. I digress . . .

If You Send Your Kid to Private
School, You Are a Bad Person

That’s an interesting headline, which Allison Benedikt endeavors to justify without success, because she’s an idiot.

I went K–12 to a terrible public school. My high school didn’t offer AP classes, and in four years, I only had to read one book. . . . I left home woefully unprepared for college, and without that preparation, I left college without having learned much there either. You know all those important novels that everyone’s read? I haven’t. I know nothing about poetry, very little about art, and please don’t quiz me on the dates of the Civil War. I’m not proud of my ignorance. But guess what the horrible result is? I’m doing fine. I’m not saying it’s a good thing that I got a lame education. I’m saying that I survived it, and so will your child, who must endure having no AP calculus so that in 25 years there will be AP calculus for all.

Allison is “doing fine,” because she’s an editor at Slate, where any ill-educated cretin can get hired, as long as they’re a liberal white girl whose wedding was reported by the New York Times.

Oh, and apparently being an anti-Israel Jew helps, too.

Free of knowledge, unencumbered by facts or logic — yes, send your kids to public school so they can be a liberal like Allison Benedikt.

 

Category: Education

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

Posted on | August 29, 2013 | 58 Comments

If you’re an unmarried politician who gets caught with a 17-year-old girl spending the night at your house, you’d better have a plausible excuse ready when reporters ask you about the police investigation, or else you’re instantly guilty in court of public opinion:

Del. Joe Morrissey, teen at
center of police investigation
— Jon Burkett, Mike Bergazzi and Scott Wise, WTVR-TV

56-yr old Virginia Democrat Del. now under
investigation for having a 17-yr old
teenage girl over his house for a sleepover
— Eric Dondero, Libertarian Republican

Henrico police investigating
Morrissey’s ties to teen girl
— Bill McElway, Richmond Times-Dispatch

Joe Morrissey under investigation
for contact with teen
— Suzanne Kennedy, WJLA-TV

Of course, Joe Morrissey is a Democrat, and voters who elect Democrats obviously don’t care if they’re putting perverts in office — at least as long as the perverts don’t get caught:

Why would a 17-year-old girl’s father be concerned about her spending the night at Morrissey’s house? Perhaps because the 56-year-old Democrat seems somewhat notorious as a sexually adventurous bachelor. He has never married, but Morrissey has admitted fathering three children out of wedlock.

Read the whole thing at ViralRead.

But this isn’t really a “scandal.” Unless Joe Morrissey goes to prison, Democrats will keep electing him, and even if he did go to prison, Democrats would just vote for some other criminal pervert.

 


Category: Crime, Democrats, Scandal, Sex, Uncategorized, Virginia

NYT Cranks The Judas Priest

Posted on | August 29, 2013 | 29 Comments

by Smitty

Could be the most unintentionally funny headline of the year: “Bomb Syria, Even if It Is Illegal”

There are moral reasons for disregarding the law, and I believe the Obama administration should intervene in Syria. But it should not pretend that there is a legal justification in existing law. Secretary of State John Kerry seemed to do just that on Monday, when he said of the use of chemical weapons, “This international norm cannot be violated without consequences.” His use of the word “norm,” instead of “law,” is telling.
Syria is a party to neither the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972 nor the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993, and even if it were, the treaties rely on the United Nations Security Council to enforce them — a major flaw. Syria is a party to the Geneva Protocol, a 1925 treaty that bans the use of toxic gases in wars. But this treaty was designed after World War I with international war in mind, not internal conflicts.

‘Rodeo clown’ is the new cowboy, no? After around 6 years of anti-Bush Adventurism arguments (and the bulk of a year spent in Afghanistan helping carry out one of Obama’s rare promises kept) the skepticism has kind of settled in. Also, one cannot possibly fathom what strategic interest the U.S. even has in the Levant. Maybe standing by our ally, Israel. It is a cheery thing to see the occasional greeting on YouTube from Bibi Netanyahu. But is the refreshment of hearing from an actual leader of the non-rodeo-clown variety of sufficient value to justify throwing blood and treasure at Damascus?

Of course ethics, not only laws, should guide policy decisions. Since the Rwandan genocide and the Balkan mass killings of the 1990s, a movement has emerged in support of adding humanitarian intervention as a third category of lawful war, under the concept of the “responsibility to protect.” It is widely accepted by the United Nations and most governments. It is not, however, in the charter, and it lacks the force of law.

Morality, or ethics? I’d argue, against the dictionary, that the two are not synonymous. There really isn’t any moral case in favor of disregarding law. Law is a human product, and therefore may be incomplete, or out of sync with the times. There could be ethical reasons for disregarding a law. I wish the author, Hurd, had provided a link to this famous movement, though. Maybe the “humanitarian intervention” community could help us track down the elusive anti-war movement that flourishes during Republican administrations, whenever those corporatists are out to drive up profits. Perhaps the anti-war movement is cryogenically suspended in Jane Fonda’s basement.
I’ve got to emphasize this closing bit:

Since Russia and China won’t help, Mr. Obama and allied leaders should declare that international law has evolved and that they don’t need Security Council approval to intervene in Syria.
This would be popular in many quarters, and I believe it’s the right thing to do. But if the American government accepts that the rule of law is the foundation of civilized society, it must be clear that this represents a new legal path.

Anybody who thinks that Russia isn’t fomenting unrest to drive up oil prices is clueless. President Rodeo Clown should know that peace, prosperity, and a Keystone XL pipeline are the best ways to stick it to the Russian bear. At least in DC, no one uses the phrase “it’s the right thing to do” without a disdainful eye roll. In DC it means: sure, we’re jacked up to high heaven, but isn’t everything else, too?

via Insty

Assad aside:
Rush’s brother David considered afflicting the Syrians with ObamaCare,

Category: Barack Obama, Syria

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.29.13

Posted on | August 29, 2013 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Syria Resolution Authorizing Military Force Fails In Security Council

Antiwar protesters in London

Permanent members can’t agree on British resolution
Obama: I haven’t made a decision about Syria


Fort Hood Shooter Gets Death Sentence
Interminable appeals to follow


NYC’s Mayor Bloomberg Donates $350K To Fight Colorado Recalls
Two Colorado Democrats fighting recalls after voting for gun restrictions



POLITICS
California Lawmakers Threaten Boy Scouts Tax-Exempt Status Over Gays

Gay Scout, supporters deliver petition to BSA headquarters in Dallas

Bill would strip tax exemption from groups discriminating against LGBT members


Missouri Poised To Nullify Federal Gun Laws


Pennsylvania Officials: Gay Marriage Licenses Issued By County Invalid

GOP Mayoral Contenders Weigh In On NYPD Stop And Frisk Policy

Montana Judge Ripped For Light Sentence, Comments  In Rape Case Involving Ex-Teacher

Democrat Bill Would Trigger Huge New Taxes On Guns, Ammo

Conservatives Accuse Obama Of Court Packing

Regulators Relax Proposed Mortgage Rule



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Retreats From Two-Year High On Growing US Inventories: NYMEX $109.38, Brent $115.85
Yen Steady Against Dollar, Markets Still Anxious About Syria
Airline Merger Fight Begins With Trial Date Tug-Of-War
Rupee Tumbles To Record Low; Sensex Closes Up 28
Qantas Jumps Most Since 2006 After Paring Long-Haul Loss
Vodafone Shares Surge On Verizon Wireless Talks
Nintendo Announces New 2DS Console, Wii U Price Drop
Sergey Brin Love Quadrangle Blamed For Google Exec’s Sudden Departure
Twitter Tweaks Mobile Site, Apps To Make Conversations Easier
Miniature Human Brain Grown In Laboratory
Google + Hangouts Upgrading To HD
Humble Bundle Brings The Laughs With New Pay What You Want Comedy Collection



SPORTS
Byrd Pounds It In Pirates Debut, Brewers Pillaged 7-1

OHHHHH YEAHHHHH!

Gorzelanny’s future with Brewers questionable after terrible outing

Puig Drama Continues As Dodgers Blank Cubs 4-0

No Evidence Manziel Took Cash For Autographs, Penalized Anyway

Archer Impressive As Rays Beat Angels 4-1, Snap Skid

Yanks’ Fleeting Playoff Hopes Dim after 7-2 Crushing At Hands of Jays

Moss Clubs Double Dingers, 6 RBI As A’s Skin Tigers 14-4

Bosox Edge Birds 4-3

Jay Bruce Leads Reds’ 10-0 Rout Of Cardinals

Sale Ks 12 As Pale Hose Beat Astros 6-1

Nationals Outlast Rain, Marlins For 4-3 Win



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Lisa Kudrow Joins ABC Drama “Scandal”

Coming back in front of the camera

Signed for recurring role

Liam Hemsworth Mortified By GF Miley’s Raunchy VMA Performance

Kris Jenner’s Talk Show Axed

Lamar Odom Not The Only Druggie In The NBA

Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones Separate

Ex-Scientologist Leah Remini To Compete On “Dancing With The Stars”

Is The Co$ Still Watching Katie Holmes?

Jamie-Lynn Sigler: It’s A Boy!

Paris Hilton Signs Huge DJ Contract

“Queen Latifah Show” Lines Up All-Star Guest List

Alexander Skarsgard Leads Drunken Chant At Swedish Soccer Match



FOREIGNERS
Fifteen Afghan Police Killed In Taliban Ambush
Indian Mujahideen Founder Yasim Bhatkal Arrested
UN Aid Program In Syria Firmly Linked To Assad Regime
Baghdad Bombs Kill 86 As Sectarian Violence Spreads
Colombia Ready To Talk With ELN Rebels
Israel Calls Up Reserves As Syria Attack Looms
US To Sell Apache Attack Helos To Indonesia In $500 Million Deal
Schaeuble Says Spain Exports Show Merkel Formula Working
Bookie Declares Opposition Win In Aussie Election



BLOGS & STUFF
Leather Penguin: Air Idiot Didn’t Die, It’s Living On MSNBC’s Dime
First Street Journal: With Liberals, The First Casualty Is Always The Truth
Michelle Malkin: Colorado’s Grass-Roots Revolt Against The Gun Grabbers
Chicks On The Right: A Mom’s Letter To Her Daughter About Miley Cyrus
Twitchy: “Shut Up White Bitch” – Stacey Dash Quotes MLK Jr., Gets Attacked For “Calling Blacks Negro”
American Power: A Better Way To honor Dr. King’s Dream
American Thinker: The Marketing Of Porn To Children Via Sweet Young Things
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – All About Privilege
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, August 28
Jammie Wearing Fools: The Historic Incompetence of The Obama Administration
JustOneMinute: Hold The Presses, Or, Everything Old Is New Again
Pat Dollard: CNN Guest Doesn’t Understand Why Black Senator Should Have Been Invited To MLK Anniversary
Protein Wisdom: This Is What A Faculty Lounge Presidency Looks Like
Shot In The Dark: Growing Pains
Jawa Report: Iraqi Muslims Kill 50+ Other Iraqi Muslims For Being The Wrong Kind Of Muslim
Megan McArdle: Costco’s Second-Class Citizens


Category: Live at Five

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

Posted on | August 28, 2013 | 97 Comments

Earlier today I mentioned DHS employee/hatemonger Ayo Kimathi, who described himself as “Haitianist,” to which a few readers responded, “Huh?” A simple translation would be “Kill Whitey”:

We Haitianists invite all PanAfrikans, Black Nationalists, Black Progressives, and other anti-white, noble-minded Black people to join us in celebrating our Afrikan New Year in August of each year. From this day forward, August will officially be “Nat Turner Month” for WOH and it will mark our Afrikan New Year.

Have I got your attention now? Let us examine the rather more articulate racialism of Huffington Post contributor Pascal Robert:

As long as the oppressed group views its oppressor as the fountain from which all approval and validation comes, there can never be any true achievement of justice based on eliminating the authority of the oppressor in that power relationship. . . .
Status quo forces of oppression do not concede rights and political viability to those they oppress because token symbols of achievement and demonstrative humanity have been shown by those on the margins. The oppressor simply keeps dangling the carrot, moving it farther and farther down the road, as you continue to do every seemingly morally upright thing he demands to achieve that coveted “equality.” .  . .

You are “the oppressor,” whitey, and in case you haven’t figured it out yet, Pacal Robert is not a reform-oriented liberal Democrat. He is a radically anti-American black nationalist whose allegiance is to Haiti (from which his parents immigrated here) and who blames Haiti’s problems on “constant U.S. intervention and destabilization.”

Pascal Robert is not a “liberal.” He is not merely “prejudiced.” He has an elaborate anti-white ideology, which explains his absolutely shocking Twitter campaign against Dana Loesch:


Several of Dana’s friends on Twitter misunderstood this, calling Robert a “liberal” or “progressive,” but he is neither: He is a racialist who hates America because he hates white people.

Why do you think the background image on his Twitter page is a painting of the 1791 Haitian uprising, showing whites decapitated?

Honestly, it is way past time for Americans to acknowledge the extent to which what often passes for “liberalism” is nothing of the sort.

This is simply hate, and Huffington Post is publishing it.

 

Category: Racism
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