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When #CrackerQuotes Get Tuneful

Posted on | June 30, 2013 | 23 Comments

by Smitty

After Rachel Jeantel’s “creepy ass cracker” went legendary, Twitter swung into action. For reasons that refuse to make sense, like some of the Zimmerman trial testimony, this blogger felt the need to work ‘cracker’ into rock lyrics:
Some Tangled up in Blue:


My sponsor:


You’re in the mood for a king:


A favorite:

Category: humor

Evanescent Youth, Predatory Persistence

Posted on | June 29, 2013 | 152 Comments

“Now there is what appears to be a concerted effort to lower, or even obliterate, the age of consent; but I suspect the culprits engaged therein are less interested in long-term relationships — children eventually grow up, after all — than in simply getting their hands into some poor kid’s Garanimals.”
— Charles G. Hill, Dustbury.com

Our friend Mr. Hill has zeroed in on exactly the problem with this particular perversity. Pedophilia is the fetishization of youth, wherein a person is persistently obsessed with sexual objects of a certain age. This dehumanizes the object of the obsession, and is the opposite of the “one life, one wife” permanent pair-bonding that is the social ideal.

Because youth does not last, neither can the “relationship” between the pedophile and his prey. One may point to the unusual exception: After her release from prison in 2005, Mary Kay LeTourneau married Vili Fualaau, with whom she began her involvement when he was a 13-year-old middle schooler and she was his 34-year-old teacher.

Mary Kay LeTourneau in court, 1998.

But this merely highlights how such relationships transgress the lifelong pair-bonding norm: First, LeTourneau abandoned her husband and four children to pursue this relationship and, second, she is now 51 and her second husband (the father of her two youngest children) is 30. How much longer may we expect this fellow in the prime of life to remain a devoted husband to his elderly wife?

If the LeTourneau case is exceptional in many ways, nevertheless it is typical in others. The adult who pursues illegal sex with minors is always — invariably — a troubled personality, either (a) the maladapted misfit unable to find a satisfactory and enduring adult relationship, or else (b) a sort of sexual opportunist seeking a new thrill to relieve the boredom or soothe the disappointments of adult life.

Some who have been more sympathetic to LeTourneau have pointed to problems in her marriage to Steve LeTourneau, seeing her as the victim of domestic abuse. And while this background may to some extent explain LeTourneau’s problems, it cannot excuse her illegal actions because if we were to accept such an excuse even once, no student would be safe from the predatory sexual interest of any teacher discontented with the quality of their adult relationships.

“Your honor, my client ‘s wife is a nagging bitch, so you
can’t blame him for boning that 15-year-old.
And, hey, it was consensual.”

This commonly heard rationalization, that illegal sex with minors is not really a crime when it is “consensual,” is invalid because (a) it ignores every advantage that the older offender may employ to obtaining such illegal consent, and (b) it ignores the fact that young people are not competent judges of their own best interests.

Point (b) is something that every responsible parent understands. If I were to let my children do whatever pleases them, they would never do anything except watch TV and play video games. Some children are more mature and responsible than others, but their superior qualities cannot be used as evidence against them, as it were, to argue that they should be treated as sexual “fair game.”

“Your honor, the alleged victim is fully developed —
just look at the rack on her, will ya? — and she’s so
emotionally mature that it was only natural she
wanted to get naked with her sophomore gym teacher.
Like I said, it was consensual.”

All age-of-consent laws are to some extent arbitrary: One day a young person is jailbait — off-limits, taboo, the Forbidden Fruit — and then they hit the Magic Birthday where they can legally do anything they want (consensually) with any of their fellow adults. Police, prosecutors, judges and juries may in every case use their discretion in regard to the enforcement of these laws, considering all circumstances in determining how severely any specific infraction should be punished.

One summer day in 1974, I arrived at high school band camp to find all my hoodlum buddies in the trombone section abuzz with the excitement provoked by a certain freshman majorette. Tanned and brunette, with high cheekbones and the brilliant white smile of a carnivore, Sally on that hot Georgia day wore pink short-shorts tightly encasing a pelvis that was a casus belli — hips to kill or die for — and she had legs of perfection beyond the power of mere words to describe. Completing her ensemble of adolescent irresistibility, Sally wore a tight white midriff top, exposing her lean abdomen and emphasizing the pert firmness of her breasts.

Nearly four decades later, that splendid vision remains embedded in my neural cortex, and I doubt any other alumnus of the 1974 Douglas County High School Marching Tiger Band can say he’s ever forgotten what Sally looked like that August day. Her smile so bright, her body so temptingly lithe — oh, every male within eyesight of Sally the Freshman Majorette must have struggled to restrain his inner pirate: “Arggh, what a comely young wench you are! You will be mine!”

Sally was eventually wooed and won by our band’s drum major, a former trumpet section leader who was a senior that year, and the last I heard they were still married. I invoke the vision of Sally her first day at band camp — when all the guys were asking each other, “Who the hell is that chick in the pink hot pants?” — to say that there are entirely understandable urges which the law nonetheless requires us to resist.

Dude, the Pope would have hit that. Read more

Category: Crime, Culture, Kaitlyn Hunt, Sex

FMJRA 2.0: Diamonds And Rust

Posted on | June 29, 2013 | 16 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The Face of Cowardice: Theresa May

Ben Smith Wants You to Ignore This

Perverts, Degenerates and Sociopaths

Rule 5 Monday

@TedCruz & The Broken Immigration Record: Heard This Bef–Heard This Bef–

Benghazi: The Unanswered Question

Crony Journalism at Think Progress?

FMJRA 2.0: Starface

Headline Round-Up: Snowden Flees

Real Life Is Not a Reality TV Audition

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.24.13

“It’s Tough To Be A Man, Baby!”

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.25.13

Your Morning OJ Reference

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.26.13

World’s Youngest Blogger: Get Your Motor Runnin’

Lost In (Divided) America

Just Like Mandela: Has Banging Jailbait Become the New Civil Disobedience?

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.27.13

#FreeKate’s Mom: ‘I Will NOT Have Anyone Ruin This for Family!!!!’

Speaking Of Kooks…

Glenn Greenwald Is A Ridiculous Joke (And Alas, The Internet Never Forgets)

Thursday Evening Silliness

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.28.30

Journalism Errors And Character Flaws

Worst. Cartoon. Vagina. EVER.

Taylor Swift: A Fornicating Whore?

Interesting that the top posts in terms of attracting links had the common themes of perverts, degenerates, sociopaths, Ben Smith, and Theresa May (BIRM), no?

Top linkers this week:

  1. Rick’s Rants (27 the hard way)
  2. EBL (22 the hard way; 3 disqualified links)
  3. DaleyGator (5)

As usual, a lot of folks came close but just missed the cutoff. I’ll be spending the Independence Day holiday off the internet, so there won’t be an FMJRA unless Smitty decides to pick up the slack, in which case send your links to him no later than Friday, July 5.


Category: FMJRA Award

Taylor Swift: A Fornicating Whore?

Posted on | June 28, 2013 | 80 Comments

For years, Westboro Baptist Church has been accused of homophobic hatred because of their infamous “God Hates Fags” protests. Finally, they’ve decided to get serious about heterosexual sin:

Yes, that’s right: THE WHORISH FACE OF DOOMED AMERICA, the pop-country star formerly known as Taylor Swift, has been guilty of “hopping from one young man to the next and strutting across the world stage like a proud whore,” according to the WBC press release. . . .

Read the whole thing, because I think we can all agree on this.

God: A uniter, not a divider, you fornicating whores.

 

Category: Celebrities, Sex

Worst. Cartoon. Vagina. EVER.

Posted on | June 28, 2013 | 61 Comments

Here’s the headline:

Cartoon Vagina Fights
‘Cultural Stigma’ of Masturbation

And I know your first question: “Is this NSFW?”

It’s probably OK, unless you start laughing so hard that Diet Pepsi comes out of your nose and gets all over your computer screen.

Your second question: “Stacy, how did you find that weird thing?”

Well, I was going to do a Kaitlyn Hunt update and wanted to see if there was any recent news I could use as a “hook” for the latest eruption of craziness from inside the “Free Kate” universe. So I did a Google search and turned up a link to FeministLawProfessors.com. Turns out their “Free Kate” item was more than a month old, but while scrolling down, I saw “Apps Can Teach You Anything: Yes, a Masturbation App,” and I was like, who really needs to learn that?

This has been one of my pet peeves for at least 15 years: Why is it that every single issue of Cosmo has a “how to masturbate” article or a “how to have better orgasms” article or some variation thereof? And why are these magazines in racks at the supermarket checkout line, so that the minute your kids learn to read, they’re confronted with cover-blurb headlines like “Super Sex Secrets to Drive Him Wild”?

Beyond the offensiveness of having this lurid smutty stuff thrust into my daughter’s face — to teach her the “empowering” lesson that the most important thing in life is driving men wild in bed — is the absurd redundancy of it. Stipulate the hypothetical that there are women:

A. Too stupid to figure this out without expert advice;
but
B. Sufficiently literate to read a magazine article.

Even with those stipulations, do they need to read endless reiterations of the same basic “lesson” — and face it, Cosmo has been recycling the same Drive-Him-Wild sex article since 1973 — every single month?

You don’t have to be a prude to be offended by these monthly magazine sex sermons. You just need the critical thinking capacity to realize that nobody really needs this kind of advice. Human beings were having sex successfully a long time before we had magazine articles by “experts” telling us we weren’t doing it right. (By the way, most sex-advice articles are actually written by underpaid 20-something recent college graduates breaking into the magazine business, who are mainly “experts” at eating Ramen noodles and shopping at thrift stores.)

The whole “Drive Him Wild” approach to the subject is wrongheaded, suggesting that happiness is a matter of technique. Here’s the best advice you’ll ever get, ladies: If you’re not happy with your sex life, you’re not going to find the answer in Cosmo.

Anybody can learn mere technique without benefit of magazine articles, simply by imagination and trial-and-error.

“Does that feel good?”
“Yeah, but maybe try it a little faster.”
“Better?”
“Oh. Oh. Ohhhhhh …”

Seriously, if you don’t know how to have sex without reading Cosmo, you don’t have a sex problem, you have a stupidity problem.

And while we’re at it: Why are taxpayers spending millions of dollars to have Professional Sex Educators teach this stuff, if everything kids need to know about sex is in Cosmo magazine every month?

Also, now that we have the Internet, can’t kids just look up whatever they need to know about sex with a Google search? According to some sources I’ve talked to, you can even find videos and pictures of that kind of stuff on the Internet. (Thanks, Al Gore!)

We have all these “experts” and “activists” and “educators” who want to teach us (and our kids) about sex, because we are apparently so stupid we can’t figure it out without their assistance. And just in case you didn’t click that link already: CREEPY PINK CARTOON VAGINA.

Because you need a cartoon teaching you how to diddle yourself.

UPDATE: In case you haven’t heard about Bert and Ernie . . . well, if they can finally confess this, why can’t Oscar the Grouch admit he’s a pedophile? Next on Sesame Street: “C Is for Cornhole.”

 

Category: Culture, Education, Feminism, Gays, Sex

Journalism Errors and Character Flaws

Posted on | June 28, 2013 | 43 Comments

It would appear that George Stark, a Hollywood-based reporter for the British Daily Mail, was mistaken when he reported that Alec Baldwin’s wife was Tweeting while attending the New York funeral of actor James Gandolfini. The three-hour time differential between the Eastern and Pacific time zones (and let’s face it, George Stark’s stupidity) caused the error. But what about Alec Baldwin’s unhinged reaction?

“I’m gonna find you, George Stark, you toxic little queen, and I’m gonna fuck…you…up.”

“If put my foot up your fucking ass, George Stark, but I’m sure you’d dig it too much.”

“George Stark, you lying little bitch. I am gonna f%#@ you up.”

Whatever one thinks of a journalist who tries to create a celebrity “scandal” because he can’t read Twitter timestamps, what are we to think of an actor who so spectacularly loses his temper, and whose first instinct is to gay-bait and threaten violence against the reporter?

Look, I lose my my temper occasionally.

I yell. I rant. I cuss a blue streak. I invoke Gaelic war oaths.

But no matter how angry I get, I have never erupted on Twitter angrily spewing derogatory slurs like “queen” and “bitch.”

Alec Baldwin has a character flaw, and the size of his enormous, entitled narcissistic ego prevents him from seeing it. 

The 55-year-old actor’s 28-year-old wife shows more maturity.

Hilaria Baldwin and her baby should be in our prayers.

Seriously.

UPDATE: Ed Driscoll asks:

What’s in your wallet? Sadly, for Alec Baldwin, it’s not an emergency Prozac capsule . . .
Baldwin may or may not have fired his publicist, but he has apparently deleted his second Twitter account after his latest public meltdown. Will the company most associated with Baldwin delete its long–troubled spokes–hulk? As Twitchy notes, “Your move, Capital One.”

Don’t worry about Alec Baldwin. He is very much like Charlie Sheen — such a valuable commodity as an actor, his personality flaws are tolerated. And that’s really part of the problem, isn’t it?

 

Category: Celebrities

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.28.13

Posted on | June 28, 2013 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Immigration Reform Bill DOA In House

No. End of discussion.

No. End of discussion.


“The House is not going to take up and vote on whatever the Senate passes.”

DOJ Targets Retired General In Leak Probe
Only leaks that make The Lightworker look like he has cojones are allowed!

Ecuador Renounces US Trade Benefits
Communications Minister Alvarez says trade agreement is “a new form of blackmail”.



POLITICS
Hobby Lobby Wins Partial Victory From Appeals Court In ObamaCare Challenge

Fines in abeyance

Fines in abeyance

10th Circuit holds chain’s owners have the right to sue on religious liberty grounds


Ground Zero Museum On Track To Open In 2014


Boston Marathon Bomber Indicted

DEA Announces Largest Ever Synthetic Drug Bust; 11 Arrested In Louisiana

Former JP, Wife Indicted In Murders Of Texas Prosecutors

Sidewalk Chalk Activist Faces Thirteen Years In Jail

General Dempsey Getting Another Tour As JCS Chairman



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Rises On Talk Of Continued Stimulus: NYMEX $97.37, Brent $103.00
Japan Recovery Strengthened In May; Boost For Abe
Mortgage Rates Spike In Response To Fed Announcement
CFTC Commissioner: Solid Case Against Corzine
Bangladesh Angry Over US Trade Agreement Suspension
U.S. Bank Corporation To Reimburse Service Members In Auto Loan Crackdown
ConAgra Surges As Earnings Beat Estimates
Google At Work On Android Gaming Console
Foursquare, Facebook, Flipboard Apps Heading To Windows 8
Digg Reader Now Available On Digg’s iOS App
Facebook Opens Beta Testing For Android App
Google Threatens To Shut Down Adult Blogs With Adult Ads
Anchor Launches As “Facebook For Work” On iOS, Web
Apple TV Ads Touting Company Values Flop With Viewers



SPORTS
Pierce, Garnett Traded To Nyets

Speaks for itself.

Celtics get Gerald Wallce, Kris Humphries, four other players


Price Of Keeping Coyotes Revealed

Two Big Boston Plays Key To Beat Jays

Bennett #1 In NBA Draft Full Of Surprises



Greinke, Puig Lead Dodgers To Victory Over Phillies

Dwight Howard: Say Goodbye To Hollywood?

Machado’s Ejection Sparks O’s 7-3 Defeat Of Tribe

Mets Edge Rockies, 3-2

Twins Finally Solve Guthrie, Beat Royals 3-1

Holland Throws Two-Hitter, Rangers Blank Yanks 2-0

Garza Keeps Calm, Throws 10 K’s As Cubs Own Brewers 7-2

Snakes’ Suicide Squeeze Scores In 11th; Nats Fall 3-2

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Julianne Moore Poised To Join “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”

Julianne Moore

From VP candidate Palin to District 13 President Coin

Martha Stewart Expresses Sympathy For Paula Deen

James Gandolfini’s Family Arrives In NJ For Private Wake

Kat Von D, Deadmau5 Break Up; DJ Responds To Cheating Rumors

Aaron Hernandez: Bail Denied

“Fifty Shades Of Grey” Gets Release Date

Brian Austin Green On “Anger Management” As New Regular


Paula Deen Dropped By Target, On Hold At QVC As Fans Express Support

Alec Baldwin’s Baby Mama Tweets About Rachael Ray, Anniversary Gifts During Gandolfini Funeral

Lady Gaga Moves Into $22k/Month NYC Penthouse

Maxim Babe Pops Top

Tiger’s Ex-Mistress On The Prowl



FOREIGNERS
Obama’s Push For Africa Ignored By US Companies
Mandela’s Condition Described As Stable
Chicom Official Gets 13 Years In Sex Tape Scandal
PRC Media: “Extraordinary Welcome” To ROK’s Park
PRC Calls Sinkiang Unrest “Terrorist Attack”, Death Toll Reaches 35
Pakistan To Start Treason Probe Of Musharraf
PRC Lifts Ban On Dalai Lama Photo, Tibetans Remain Skeptical
After Crackdown, Turkish Officials Probing “Social Media Insults” By Protesters



BLOGS & STUFF
Looking Spoon: A Little FYI To Those Of You That Think Progress On Marriage Was Made Yesterday
Matt Lewis: The Case For Polygamy
Maggie’s Farm: A “Right” To Polygamy?
Shot In The Dark: Hold The Straw
Twitchy: “And You Teach?” Brit Hume Takes On Wendy Davis Supporters, Twitter Trolls In Classic Style
Allahpundit: New Fauxtrage – Rick Perry Insults Wendy Davis By Celebrating Her For Not Having An Abortion Or Something
Charles C. W. Cooke: Stand With…Death
Sister Toldjah: Feminists Play Victim Card After Rick Perry “Compliments” Wendy Davis
NRO Corner: Governor Perry Appropriately Compliments Wendy Davis, Left Goes Crazy
Steven Crowder: “Retarded” Racist Zimmerman Trial Witness
Clayton Cramer: Not Sure Which Is Scarier…
Vox Day: How Dare You Say Ignorant!
Legal Insurrection: Treasury IG Admits Liberal Groups Weren’t Targeted Like Tea Party
Gateway Pundit: Audit Confirms 292 Conservative Groups Were Targeted, Just Six Liberal Groups
Erika Johnsen: Might Congress Actually Split Up The Gigantic Farm Bill?
Jihad Watch: Britain Embraces Jihad Terror
Atlas Shrugs: British Home Secretary Theresa May’s Jihad


Deadline to submit links for the FMJRA is tonight at midnight. DO IT.


Category: Live at Five

The Face of Cowardice: Theresa May

Posted on | June 27, 2013 | 177 Comments

Meet the hideous creature who banned Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer from England: British Home Secretary Theresa May, a disgrace to her office, to her nation and to every British citizen who ever lived. On June 25, this deplorable stain on the reputation of a once honorable people “personally directed that [Geller] should be excluded from the United Kingdom” because it is believed that Geller would “foment or justify terrorist violence . . . provoke others to terrorist acts . . . foster hatred,” etc. Robert Spencer writes of the ban:

We had planned to lay a wreath at a memorial to British soldier Lee Rigby, who was beheaded by Islamic jihadists on a Woolwich street on May 22. But it is not conducive to the public good in Britain to oppose jihad violence and Islamic supremacism.

British schoolgirls are being systematically gang-raped by Muslims and British soldiers are being hacked to death in the street by Muslims and yet this despicable gutless appeaser, Theresa May, thinks the way to solve the problem is to ban critics of Islam?

Neville Chamberlain was a heroic statesman by comparison.

I’m trying to get an e-mail address for Theresa May, so that I can send her a request that she also ban me from the nation whose honor she has so despicably surrendered to the despotic rule of sharia.

Meanwhile, I just hit the tip jar at both Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs and Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch, and hope you will, too.

UPDATE: Years ago, there was a BBC mini-series about the RAF pilots who saved England in the darkest hours of the Blitz.

A squadron of Spitfires would take off, lose perhaps one-third or one-half their number in the desperate dogfights with the Nazis and, when the surviving pilots made it back to base, the question would be asked, “How was it up there today?”

“Piece of cake.”

What heroic nobility! That’s the old British stiff-upper-lip stoicism, the jaunty indifference to danger: “Piece of cake.”

Damn, to see England go under in dishonor like this . .

 

 

UPDATE II: A belated welcome to Instapundit readers, and I’m pleased to report that a commenter has provided an e-mail address for Teresa May: [email protected]

 


Category: Great Britain, Islam
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