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Because Satan Is a Yankees Fan

Posted on | April 13, 2013 | 4 Comments

The Orioles had two men on base and nobody out in the top of the 8th. The Yankees were leading 5-2, but the O’s had the tying run at bat and the count went to 3-and-2. And then something happened that had never happened in the entire history of Major League Baseball:

Triple plays of any kind are rare: The Yankees hadn’t turned one at home since 1968, and the O’s hadn’t hit into a triple play since 1996, but this particular sequence for a triple play had never occurred, period. ViralRead sports editor Jeff Gurner on the historic play:

By the way, if you were keeping score at home, you can mark that gem as a 4-6-5-6-5-3-4 in your books.

Damn Yankees!

 

Category: Sports

Stop the Killing. Stop the Crying.

Posted on | April 13, 2013 | 57 Comments

Trang Bang, South Vietnam, June 8, 1972 (Photo: Nick Ut, Associated Press)

Did I ever mention that I can’t stand to hear children cry? It’s rather odd, considering I’m a father of six, that I can’t stand the sound of a crying child. When my kids were babies, I’d take them for long walks, rocking them in my arms until they fell asleep, rather than hear them cry.

As they got older — and this was especially true with the twin boys, who would beat each other up for fun — my trick for dealing with this problem was to strike a pose of callous indifference to their pain: “Is it bleeding? Are there any broken bones? No? Then shut up or go to your room.”

The thought of my children actually being injured horrifies me, and seeing them suffer the inevitable dings and bruises of childhood — the stumble on the playground, the cut or scrape — was so traumatic that I can’t actually recall any specific incident. Evidently, I’ve blocked these psychic wounds from memory. And the fact that one of my sons is now a 20-year-old Army private in training to become a front-line warrior involves risks I prefer not to think about.

Ever.

All this is as a preamble to quoting Megan McArdle’s reflection on her admitted role in the media’s Gosnell blackout:

[T]he MSM has barely covered a story that could plausibly be named “The Trial of the Century”. And that demands explanation. So I’ll tell you why I haven’t covered it.
To start, it makes me ill. I haven’t been able to bring myself to read the grand jury inquiry. I am someone who cringes when I hear a description of a sprained ankle.
But I understand why my readers suspect me, and other pro-choice mainstream journalists, of being selective—of not wanting to cover the story because it showcased the ugliest possibilities of abortion rights. The truth is that most of us tend to be less interested in sick-making stories—if the sick-making was done by “our side.”
Of course, I’m not saying that I identify with criminal abortionists who kill infants and grievously wound their patients. But I am pro-choice.
What Gosnell did was not some inevitable result of legal abortion.

Except that it is, just as legal abortion is the inevitable result of the Contraceptive Culture, which was sanctioned by the “penumbras, formed by emanations” that Justice Douglas miraculously discovered in 1965, and if you are “someone who cringes when [you] hear a description of a sprained ankle,” you really ought to think about why these results are inevitable, including The Law of Large Numbers.

Having spent many years thinking this through, and unwilling to deliver a sermon on the topic, I am content to let others think through it for themselves, if only I could get them to pay attention to what is actually happening — “What ‘Choice’ Really Means” — and trace these horrors back to their philosophical and historical origins. Read more

Category: Abortion, Contraceptive Culture, Intellectuals, Media Bias

Like Freshman Orientation at Harvard

Posted on | April 13, 2013 | 2 Comments

Chilling images from inside
the mass indoctrination ceremonies
where communist ‘cult’ leaders
brainwash North Korea’s children

Category: Education, Intellectuals, North Korea

The #Gosnell Horror Prompts Flashback to Bush Derangement Syndrome

Posted on | April 12, 2013 | 24 Comments

As the feminists say: “Trigger alert!”

Wow! The communications director of Salon — their dismissive treatment of this horror turned into a talking-point on CNN where Erin Burnett helped make excuses for the dreadful Philadelphia baby-killer — suddenly erupts into a deranged Bush-bashing rage? On the same day that the story finally breaks through the orchestrated cone of silence?

Questions about why major news organizations were refusing to cover gruesome revelations in the trial of Philadelphia abortion clinic operator Dr. Kermit Gosnell finally boiled over today: A Washington Post health reporter told blogger Mollie Hemingway that Gosnell’s trial was a “local crime” story, not a matter of policy and Breitbart.com’s John Nolte posted a photo of empty seats in the reserved press section at Gosnell’s trial. Finally, Conor Friedersdorf, a writer for the liberal Atlantic Online published a column with the headline: “Why Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s Trial Should Be a Front-Page Story.“

Read the rest, including the part about how Salon’s been losing money practically since the beginning of the Internet.

Meanwhile, you may remember that on Tuesday, I tried to get feminists to comment on this heinous homicidal butchery:

And you will perhaps be pleased to learn that Amanda Marcotte has finally commented on the Gosnell story — by blaming this baby-killing monster on pro-life conservatives!

You just can’t make this stuff up . . .

 


Category: Abortion, Media Bias

Why Won’t Democrats Answer Questions About Kentucky Eavesdropping Scandal?

Posted on | April 12, 2013 | 20 Comments

The minute I mentioned the scandal involving Progress Kentucky’s secret recording of Mitch McConnell, the lady on the phone at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee said, “I’ll put you through to his voicemail” — meaning DSCC spokesman Justin Barasky, who didn’t return my call. Gee, I wonder why?

The question of connections between Progress Kentucky and Democrat officials is not merely a matter of public relations, but also a matter of federal campaign law, which regulates “coordination” between political campaigns and outside groups. . . .
A Kentucky Democrat said Thursday that the Progress Kentucky activists bragged to him about their secret recording of McConnell. Did anyone at DSCC have knowledge of Progress Kentucky’s recording prior to its publication by David Corn at Mother Jones? McConnell has asked the FBI to investigate the recording, and it is not yet known whether potential violations of federal campaign law are part of that investigation.

You can read the whole thing at Viral Read. I’m not the only reporter getting the runaround from Democrats on this story. Dan Riehl asks: “What Did Brad Woodhouse Know and when did he know it?”

Yeah, as soon as their “progressive” pals get caught in shenanigans, Democrats do their Sergeant Schultz act: “I know nuzzink!”

 

Category: Democrats, Election, Kentucky, Mitch McConnell, Scandal, Senate

Mark Pryor: Reliably Unreliable

Posted on | April 12, 2013 | 9 Comments

As much as conservatives hate RINOs, liberals hate “Blue Dog” Democrats like Sen. Mark Pryor, and I have a hard time convincing conservatives that they should hate Pryor as much as the Left does.

Blue Dogs are majority-makers for Democrats, providing liberals with a tissue-thin pretext for pretending that the Democrats are not wholly controlled by far-left radicals (which of course they actually are). Democrats’ pretense of being a “mainstream” party — a fiction their stooges in the media help impose on the minds of gullible low-information voters — is made possible in large part by ridiculous frauds like Mark Pryor, a fossil vestige of the corrupt Clinton era in Arkansas.

Nobody with an IQ above room temperature believes a word Mark Pryor says about anything, and the exactly two reasons the White House and the national Democrat Party establishment have lined up to support Pryor in his (probably doomed) 2014 re-election campaign are:

  1. They believe Pryor can raise enough money from big corporate donors that the DSCC won’t have to spend money on his behalf, leaving them a free hand to defend seats they might actually keep; and
  2. The Democrat Party in Arkansas is so hopelessly weak that they can’t find any primary challenger to Pryor who stands a snowball’s chance in Hell.

Make no mistake: Pryor is completely doomed next year, and Democrats know it, but they have to maintain the illusion that Pryor might get re-elected, because otherwise the math tilts significantly toward the GOP’s chances of taking of the Senate, and once the big-money donors see that result as likely, Democrats are going to have a hard time raising campaign cash. This is why, by the way, Democrats were so desperate to make it look like Mitch McConnell was in a “scandal” — a desperation that didn’t work out too well — because if the Dems can’t challenge any GOP seats in red states, there could easily be a campaign-donor stampede toward the Republicans next year.

If you want to see Mark Pryor’s future, just look at what happened to Blanche Lincoln four years ago: She got challenged by Lt. Gov. Bill Halter in the Democrat primary, barely survived that, and then lost by a whopping 21-point margin to John Boozman in the general election.

Blanche Lincoln is now a corporate lobbyist for Wal-Mart, and Mitt Romney carried Arkansas with 61% of the vote last year.

Any attempt to find a Democrat other than Pryor for this year’s Senate race would probably require putting their face on milk cartons or something: “Have you seen this missing Democrat?”

The next Senator from Arkansas will be a Republican, and the question is whether there is enough of a moonbat constituency in Arkansas to run a “progressive” challenge against Pryor, which might encourage him to announce his retirement early.

Meanwhile, this two-faced “Blue Dog” weasel is still in the Senate, trying frantically to pretend that he’s a viable hope for re-election, which requires him to pretend he’s not out of touch with folks back home: He was FOR the assault-weapons ban before he was against it!

What a freaking joke . . .

 


Category: Arkansas, Democrats, Election

LIVE AT SIXEIGHT: 04.12.13

Posted on | April 12, 2013 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Kerry Visits ROK Amid Nork Missile Test Fears

Secretary of State Kerry

Secretary of State Kerry

Says Norks won’t be accepted as nuke power, current rhetoric “unacceptable”

Facebook’s Zuckerberg Launches FWD.us
Will use social media to mobilize for immigration reform, better schools

Putin Unveils $50 Billion Russian Space Drive
Aims to preserve Russian lead in space



POLITICS
Bomb Sent To Sheriff Joe Arpaio Intercepted, Deactivated

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Package addressed to sheriff’s downtown office

Rival Candidates Plan Stiff Challenges For Weiner

Boston Mayor’s Race Will Have Domino Effect On City Council

Delaware Becomes Latest State To Take Up Gay Marriage

Maine’s North Pond Hermit Arrested For Hundreds Of Burglaries After 27 Years In Woods

Kentucky Democratic Blows Whistle On Progress Kentucky Activists Behind McConnell Tape

Polls Show Most Back Pathway To Citizenship In Immigration Bill

Army Chaplain Given Posthumous Medal Of Honor



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Oil Slips On Demand, Growth Concerns: NYMEX $93.09, Brent $104.08
US Stock Futures Drop As Cyprus Seeks Larger Bailout
Ten Billion Euros For Cyprus Bailout Non-Negotiable, Germany Says
Jobless Claims Drop To 346K
Jocks Socked In Investment Scam
LinkedIn Announces Buy Of News Aggregator Pulse For $90 Million
Foursquare Gets $41 Million Investment
Twitter Acquisition Hints At Music Service
Hacking An Airplane With Just An Android Phone
Google Lets Users Plan Their Digital Afterlife
Why PC Sales Are In Free Fall
Baidu Opens AI Lab In Silicon Valley
Layoffs At EA: Company Not Disclosing Specific Teams Affected
BlackBerry Is The Phone People Want Least
IBM Doubles Down On Flash Media With $1 Billion R&D Investment
Check Out Ray Liotta, Joey Pants And More In “Black Ops II: Mob Of The Dead”



SPORTS
Padres/Dodgers Brawl Ends With Greinke’s Broken Collarbone

Padres OF Quentin charges Dodgers P Greinke after being hit by pitch

Padres OF Quentin charges Dodgers P Greinke after being hit by pitch

Dodgers win game 3-2, but Greinke out indefinitely

Bulls’ Robinson Explodes for 35 As Chicago Stops Knicks Streak

Former QB Garcia Says Tebow Can Only Hurt The Jets

Kings Edge Avs In Shootout

Cubs Blow Five-Run Lead As Giants Rally For Victory

Durant Leads Thunder Over Warriors, 116-97

Jets Rout Panthers 7-2

Rangers Beat King Felix 4-3

Islanders Keep Pace, Beat Bruins 2-1

A’s Sweep Angels With 8-1 Rout

Nationals Complete Sweep Of ChiSox With 7-4 Win; Still Undefeated At Home



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Miranda Kerr’s Caught In Angel Flap

MIranda Kerr

MIranda Kerr

Sources say Kerr jumped, not pushed away from Victoria’s Secret due to brand’s time demands

Lance Armstrong Takes Haircut On Sale Of Austin Estate

Joe Jonas Declines Girl’s Invite To College Formal, Makes Counteroffer

Kerry Rhodes: “I Am Not Gay”

Rachel McAdams In Talks To Join Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone In Cameron Crowe Film

Gwyneth Paltrow Says She Lights Up Once A Week

Patricia Arquette Joins “Boardwalk Empire”

Woody Allen Collaborator, TV Writer Mickey Rose Dies, 77

Second Child On The Way For Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner

Brandi Glanville Shares Bizarre Pic Of Burned Face After Beauty Procedure

Morgan Freeman Finds “Transcendance” With Johnny Depp

Lindsay Lohan Lands In LA Covered In Leather

California Bill Would Do Something About (Celebrity) SWATting



FOREIGNERS
Taliban Attack Kills 13 Afghan Soldiers
Norks Capable Of Arming Missile With Nuclear Warhead, Pentagon Says
India Concerned UN Arms Treaty Not In Its Best Interests
Belorussian Dies After Beaver Severs Major Artery
Turkey’s Drive For Kurds Will Boost Creditworthiness, Moody’s Says
Rights Groups Urge Kerry To Address Chicom Human Rights Record
Japan Reaches Deal With US On Joining TPP Trade Talks
West Has “Hard Evidence” Of Syrian Regime’s WMD Use
Florida Parents Who Kidnapped Kids To Cuba Face Pretrial Detention Without Bail
Overseas Pakistanis May Lose Voting Rights



BLOGS & STUFF
Riehl World News: Progress Kentucky’ Shawn Reilly Linked To Controversial Shooting Death In 2003
First Street Journal: Sovereign Bank And Their Terrible Phone System
Michael Totten: What If North Korea Is Serious?
Weasel Zippers: Pentagon Admits Norks Can probably Nuke Us If They Want To
Rep. Jeff Duncan: Expanded Background Checks And Gun Show Requirements Wouldn’t Have Stopped Aurora, Sandy Hook, Or Tucson
Gateway Pundit: Court Bars Anti-Abortion Giveaways In School
Scared Monkeys: “Hanoi Jane” Fonda Tells Vets Boycotting Her New Film “Get A Life”
Hot Air: US Debt To Hit A Gnarly 78% Of GDP By 2014
Wall Street Journal: The President’s Priorities
Atlas Shrugs: #MyJihad In Turkey – Embassy, Synagogue, Targeted In Islamic Bomb Plot
Paul Rahe: Progressive Racism
Power Line: This Week’s Dumbest Global Warming Overreach
Conservatives4Palin: Did Democrats Block Resolution To Honor Margaret Thatcher?
Kirsten Powers: Philadelphia Abortion Clinic Horror
Ed Driscoll: “We’ve Forgotten What Belongs On Page One”
Neo-neocon: Kirsten Powers
Lonely Conservative: Indoctrination By Crossword


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


Category: Live at Five

UC-Irvine English Lecturer Kaufman Demonstrates His Psychic Powers

Posted on | April 12, 2013 | 54 Comments

Scott Eric Kaufman lectures at UC-Irvine, 2007

“As the sarcastic title and tone of ‘Homophobic Bigotry Update’ indicates, McCain knows that for him and his audience this is a ‘Dog Bites Man’ story. He’s just not honest enough to admit that he wants to call attention to what he believes to be an epidemic of gay child-rearing perfidy, because he knows that expressing his homophobic beliefs will out him as a homophobe and is just this side of smart-enough not to want that to happen.”
— Scott Eric Kaufman, University of California-Irvine, “Robert Stacy McCain, a homophobe, doesn’t even understand what he calls ‘a basic rule of journalism,'” April 11, 2013

Kaufman clearly missed his calling: Given his amazing ability to read minds — his certainty about what other people “know,” “believe” and “want” — Kaufman could make a fortune as a psychic, or at least a carnival sideshow act.

Kaufman the Magnificent: He Sees All! He Knows All!

Kaufman is one of those people who expect to succeed on the basis of having the Officially Approved Opinions, and who are outraged to discover that anyone can succeed on any other basis.

It’s the Hall Monitor Syndrome — Ferris Bueller’s sister.

Nobody ever cared about my opinion on the subject of “gay child-rearing” (perhaps an inconvenient choice of words in this context, but never mind) until I started writing about politics.

In the world of politics, having the Officially Approved Opinions seems to be the entirety of virtue, which explains how Ted Kennedy could be celebrated as a courageous champion of women’s rights, and Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.

Well, if I’d written anything about Scott Eric Kaufman before today, I don’t remember it, but others know him well: Three years ago, he appeared as a “moby” false-flag troll at Ann Althouse’s blog.

About the same time, Donald Douglas observed, Kaufman was “apparently teaching courses on ‘Manga’ and the literary origins of films like The Last Airbender.”

It’s a busy life for Scott Kaufman, Ph.D.: Blog-trolling, lecturing about cartoons and vigilantly monitoring the Internet to detect homophobia with his clairvoyant mind-radar. Perhaps this explains why Scott Kaufman, Ph.D., has so much difficulty finishing other projects:

He is currently under contract with Fountainhead Press to produce a book on visual rhetoric called, appropriately enough, Seeing Rhetoric. It will be published in 2011 if it kills him.

Hmmm. Checking Fountainhead Press — “a conscientious, eco-friendly publisher that provides innovative yet inexpensive products to the higher education market” — and I don’t see Kaufman’s Seeing Rhetoric there, and if he’s published it anywhere else, I can’t find it.

What else has Scott Kaufman, Ph.D. published? Well, for a while, he had a blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education, where on Sept. 10, 2009, he published a post with this title:

Be nice, now. The English language is not
Ed Morrissey’s strong suit, and he at least
makes a show of reining in the racist comments
he knowingly baits from his audience.

Ed Morrissey’s a racist and I’m a homophobe and Scott Kaufman, Ph.D. is one mightier than either of us, the latchet of whose shoes we are not worthy to stoop down and unloose. Meanwhile, in July 2009, Scott Kaufman, Ph.D., began a blog post with this pompous preamble:

Before I get started, I want to acknowledge that I know Ann Althouse is an attention fiend, and as such revels in any that comes her way. Furthermore, I know that giving her the attention she craves will only embolden her to spout even more outrageous nonsense in the future. However, the white-hotness of her intellectual dishonesty here compels me to consider it a vacuity of historical import.

The subject of this lecture on “intellectual dishonesty”? Whether Obama had looked at Mayara Rodrigues Tavares’s butt.

No, I’m not kidding.

Between his examinations of these lofty academic matters — and being a “moby” and lecturing about cartoons — Scott Kaufman, Ph.D., applies his keen forensic skill to diagnosing those who suffer irrational fear of homosexuals, because he is not just an arrogant know-it-all, but also selflessly devoted to eliminating all haters, everywhere.

SCOTT ERIC KAUFMAN
 You Don’t Need a Ph.D. in English from UC-Irvine
to Become a Laughable Douchebag — But It Sure Helps!

 

Category: Intellectuals
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