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‘New Motherf–king Tone’ Update, and Also: New Commie Wonkette Editor

Posted on | April 5, 2013 | 24 Comments

Gay-rights activists are among the most hateful people in the world. Remember the Prop 8 reaction in 2008?

Taking to the streets in furious indignation, activists created an “enemies list” of those who had contributed to support the measure, targeting them for boycotts and protests.
The elderly co-owner of a Mexican restaurant, who had given $100 to support the referendum, was driven to tears as she confronted “60 members of Los Angeles’ LGBT community” who demanded an apology and an equal contribution to a proposed effort to repeal the referendum. . . .
One activist who helped compile the enemies list told Time magazine: “My goal was to make it socially unacceptable to give huge amounts of money to take away the rights of one particular group, a minority group.” Of course, the restaurant owner’s $100 contribution to the “Yes on 8” cause was not “huge,” but the principle is the same.
As the California activists spewed their fury — allegedly vandalizing Mormon temples, making terroristic threats toward Catholics, and hurling racial epithets at African-Americans (who voted 3-to-1 in favor of Prop 8, according to exit polls) — their vitriolic rage highlighted how the progressive rhetoric of “rights” undermines and destabilizes political consensus.

Homosexuality has gone from being “the love that dare not speak its name” to being “the political agenda that won’t shut up,” and its enthusiasts — 3.4 percent of the U.S. population, according to a Gallup poll last year — seem determined to make up in angry outrage what they lack in numbers. Tim Graham calls attention to one Daily Kos diarist’s self-righteous rant:

Do you not remember who you motherf–kers are? . . .
You no good low-rent gaggle of hateful self-serving bigot-for-hire whiny a– titty babies.
Entire election cycles were gleefully covered in slick wall-to-wall homophobia and hatred.
Remember that sh-t? Good. Now go f–k yourselves. Here. Here’s a ratty leather glove covered in rusty spikes. No. No. Here’s two. You can all go bend over and collectively fist each other in a frenzy until all the pain equals all the hate and the stupid you have given us for ages in spades. You all made your bones stoking and exploitating hate. . . .
Eat all your sh–t and feel some real f–-king shame.
Calling you ‘Bigots’ to your collective faces is just a really, really good f–king start.

Isn’t it time for Mary Katharine Ham to do a sequel to this video?

Some of you young people might not believe it, but there was a time when being gay was mostly about sex. Also, disco.

Then, during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, being gay became mostly about blaming Republicans for AIDS. Nowadays, being gay seems to be mostly about wishing violent death on Republicans.

How homosexuality changed from being a personal preference to being a political identity is deserving of an essay or even an entire book, but nobody’s offering to pay me to write either. Still I can’t help but wonder: Is hating Republicans really that much more fun than sex and disco?

Speaking of fun and hate, M. Joseph Sheppard is a blogger I’ve sometimes linked and vice-versa, and he cited me as an authority on the “Red Diaper” milieu that produced Obama’s top political advisor David Axelrod. There is a backstory: It seems that Wonkette got a new editor, Rebecca Schoenkopf, a self-declared “Commie,” and Sheppard was having some kind of tiff with the aforesaid Commie who — in “punching down” at her stubborn nemesis — threw in the accusation that Sheppard is “constantly citing white supremacist Robert Stacy McCain as some kind of moral authority.”

Sheppard brought this to my attention on Twitter, and when I checked over at Wonkette, I noticed they had moved on from punching down at Sheppard (and his “white supremacist” friend) to calling Michelle Malkin an “anchor baby.”

Because they’re all about racial equality, you see.

And then I immediately hit Joe Sheppard’s tip-jar for $20, and now recommend that everybody else do the same.

Anybody who pisses off a Commie that much deserves it.

 

Category: Gays

LIVE AT SIX: 04.05.13

Posted on | April 5, 2013 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
School Faces New Questions In Colorado Massacre

Murderous dirtbag and his attorney

Murderous dirtbag and his attorney

Did campus cops drop ball after his shrink said he posed threat?



Fukushima Reactor’s Cooling Plant Fails
EVERYBODY PANIC (no, don’t, really)


Hillary Signs Book Deal With Simon & Schuster
Memoir on SecState tenure to reap at least $500K advance



POLITICS
Senator Scott Brown (R-NH)? Maybe…

Former Senator Scott Brown watches a Pequot tribal drum ritual

Former Senator Scott Brown watches a Pequot tribal drum ritual

Former Massachusetts Senator doesn’t rule out challenge to Jeanne Shaheen

Alabama Legislature Votes To Pardon Scottsboro Boys

Poll: Majority Of Americans Favor Legalizing Pot; Also, Majority Don’t Understand How The Constitution Works


Obama Catches Bipartisan Flak For Kamala Harris Remark

Maryland Legislature Passes Tough Gun Control Law

Virginia Restaurant Offers Discount To Armed Patrons

Navy Embarrassed By Loss Of $300 Million Minesweeper

Senate GOP Staff Estimates Immigration Bill Could Cost Billions; Rubio Disagrees



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Up Slightly In Asia After Sharp Drop On US Jobless Claims, Supply Glut: NYMEX $93.44, Brent $106.50
Enron’s Skilling Could Get Early Release From Prison
HP Chairman Lane Steps Down, Two Directors Depart
“Loose Cannon” Yellen As Bernanke’s Successor Scares Bond Markets
Consumer Bureau Fines Mortgage Insurers $15 Million Over Alleged Kickbacks
Samsung Posts Near-Record 1Q Earnings On Galaxy Sales
Corzine Slammed In Freeh Report On MF Global Collapse
Treasuries Gain: 10-Year Yield Falls Below 1.8%
Jobless Claims At Four-Month High
Bank Of America’s New ATMs To Connect Customers With Live Tellers
T-Mobile Opens Pre-Orders For iPhone 5 At $99.99
Gartner: Microsoft Threatened As Smartphones And Tablets Rise
Hooray, The First Free DLC For “SimCity” Is…An Advertisement
Apple’s New Spaceship Campus $2 Billion Over Budget
Apple’s iMessage Encryption Trips Up Feds’ Surveillance
Google Fights US National Security Probe Data Demand
Five LinkedIn Tools Job Hunters Must Use
Google, Microsoft Turn Up Office Heat



SPORTS
Pac-12 Ref Coordinator Ed Rush Resigns Amid Probe

Pac-12 Commish Larry Scott: Rush'sactions "completely inapropriate"

Pac-12 Commish Larry Scott: Rush’s actions “completely inapropriate”

Allegedly offered refs inducements to toss or foul Arizona coach Sean Miller before the conference tourney

Caps Edge Islanders 2-1, Take Division Lead

Nuggets Rally After Gallinari Injury, Beat Mavericks 95-94

Pettitte, Rivera Salvage Win For Yanks Against BoSox

Jagr Scores In Boston Debut As Bruins Shut Out Devils 1-0

Thunder Win Battle Of West’s Bests, Top Spurs 100-88

Weak-Hitting Royals Win Behind Guthrie

Gaborik Already Paying Off For Columbus As Blue Jackets Beat Predators 3-1

Depleted Bulls Defeat Nyets 92-90

Twins Pound Tigers In 8-2 Victory

Nats Off To Clean Start With Sweep Of Marlins



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Film Critic Roger Ebert Dies, 70

Good night, sweet prince

Roger Ebert, 1943-2013, R.I.P.

“Roger Ebert loved movies. Except for those he hated.”
– Neil Steinberg
Dead of cancer after decade-long struggle

Christopher Abbott Leaves “Girls” After Suddenly Realizing It Sucks

Lindsay Lohan’s BFF Vikram Chatwal Busted For Drug Possession & Trafficking

Beyonce, Jay-Z Turn Heads In Cuba

Magic Johnson Opens Up About Gay Son EJ

Life Imitates Art: Lena Headley, Queen Cersei On “Game Of Thrones” Dead Broke With Less Than $5 In Bank

Jada Pinkett-Smith Addresses Open Marriage Rumors

Benedict Cumberbatch To Star In Del Toro’s “Crimson Peak”

Justin Lin Won’t Direct “Fast & Furious 7”

Iconic Hollywood Hotspot Sued Over Alleged Rapes



FOREIGNERS
Mumbai Building Collapse Leaves Dozens Dead
Anonymous Hacks Nork Social Media Accounts
Burma Religious Strife Spreads To Indonesia
U.S. Embassy Triggers Row With Egypt Over Jon Stewart Tweet Twitting Morsi
Group Claims South Sudan Gives Nonlethal Aid To Sudanese Rebels
And Now It’s A Crime To Hate The Sex Pistols
Philippines, US Open 29th Balikatan Joint Exercises
Egyptian Navy Seizes Ship Carrying Arms In Red Sea
Afghanistan Mission Ends For Kiwi Soldiers



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: I Told You So!
Michelle Malkin: The Open-Borders “Journalists” Who Banned “Illegal Immigrant”
Allahpundit: Democratic Gay Marriage Pool Update
Gateway Pundit: Shameless Liar Obama Claims Newtown Killer Used “Fully Automatic Weapon”
Power Line: Obama Doesn’t Know Anything About Guns Either
AmSpecBlog: New Connecticut Gun Laws In Depth, In Context
Weasel Zippers: Eric Holder Has Second Thoughts, Takes Pay Cut
Weekly Standard Blog: McAuliffe Tight-Lipped On Child Sodomy Case
NewsBusters: NYT Finds Another Republican For Gay Marriage…Ronald Reagan?
Via Meadia: Ahmadinejad – Media Darling?
Twitchy: Sad Obama Pines For Speaker Pelosi
Ed Morrissey: ADP March Jobs Report Shows 158K Growth In Private Sector
American Thinker: Obamacare Means Hiring Boom For “Navigators”
Mary Katherine Ham: Poll – Sequester Fallout Not Going Democrats’ Way
Protein Wisdom: Obama – “I Am Constrained By A System That Our Founders Put In Place”
Legal Insurrection: Five Signs Buzzfeed May Have Peaked
Riehl World News: Is The NRCC Poised To Copy Buzzfeed?
Lonely Conservative: Immigration Reform Could Cost $40 Billion A Year Just For Medicaid And Medicare


Deadline to submit links for the FMJRA is midnight tonight.


Category: Live at Five

Late Night Administrivia

Posted on | April 4, 2013 | 17 Comments

— by Wombat-socho

The death march to April 15 has begun, which means that instead of the previous 46 hour a week schedule I was working, I will be working 54 hours a week until the end of the tax season. Feel free to quote Han Solo on the subject of rewards to me. This is going to force some changes to my blogging around here…first of all, Live at Five will be shifted to Live At Six for the duration. I can’t seem to stay awake late enough to get it done while going to bed early enough to get a decent night’s sleep, and waking up early enough to do it isn’t working any more either. So, an hour’s delay. The FMJRA will still be posting on the nights of the 6th and 13th, and Rule Five Sunday will be back on the 7th with a Super Double-Coverage Illness Makeup Edition, featuring a contribution from the foremost scourge of the Unspeakable Armenian. There will be a return to normalcy on the 14th once the backlog from last week is cleared out.

After tax season is over, I’m taking a few days off to visit family and friends in Minnesota; regular linkagery will resume on Tuesday, April 23, God and Southwest Airlines permitting. In the meantime, aspiring guestbloggers and/or linkmonglers should submit resumes, writing samples, and full-length photographs (Speedos optional) along with your gruel and grog requirements to the proprietor, one R. Stacy McCain, no later than this Friday. Applicants are advised that due to the strictures of the Test Act of 1673, no PopishCatholic individuals can be accepted without an Act of Indemnity and/or a completed I-9 form*. Your cooperation is appreciated.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Yes, of course this is a joke. What is WRONG with you people?

Category: Blogging, FMJRA Award, Live at Five, Rule 5, Taxes

Unenforced Laws, Preventable Crimes: California Still Circling the Drain

Posted on | April 4, 2013 | 9 Comments

Law-abiding taxpaying citizens are fleeing California, an increasingly ungovernable bankrupt disaster, but hey, they’ve got a good-looking attorney general and Paul Krugman thinks the state is making a “comeback,” so why worry? Well, among other things, they can’t afford to keep criminals in prison:

He was released from custody in July 2012 because of a new law that transfers authority over some felons from state prisons to county jails and, on their release, from state parole to county probation departments. The law, also known as public safety realignment, was intended to reduce overcrowding in state prisons.

This criminal who got out of prison last July was picked up on a parole violation in January, but released less than a week later.

And now, as Paul Harvey would say, the rest of the story:

In the early-morning hours of March 27, a 10-year-old girl was kidnapped from her home near the Northridge campus of California State University. About 12 hours later, the redheaded girl was discovered walking barefoot in the parking lot of a shopping center near a Starbucks. Police say she was sexually molested after being abducted by two men with lengthy criminal records, one of whom — Tobias Dustin Summers, 32 — is still a fugitive at large.

Read the rest, and pay close attention to just how much crime these two perpetrators had previously committed:

Summers has convictions for receiving stolen property, grand theft, petty theft, possession of an explosive, and presenting false identification to police, according to records. In 2009, he was convicted of battery. Originally, he was also charged with annoying a child, but that charge was dismissed.
Between 2004 and 2012, Martinez was convicted of burglary, petty theft, grand theft, resisting a police officer, and unlawfully entering a property, according to records. In April 2012, he was convicted of making threats of death or great bodily injury.

When habitual offenders are turned loose because the state can’t afford to keep them in prison, bad things happen. Liberals tells us that the answer is passing more laws, but what about enforcing the laws on the books?

Every time some Democrat talks about the need to “keep guns out of the hands of criminals,” I want to scream at my TV: “How about getting the criminals off the street?” And when liberals start babbling about keeping children safe . . . well:

The complaint alleges that Summers broke into the home and used a knife to abduct the girl.

A 10-year-old girl gets kidnapped and raped by career criminals who should have been behind bars, but this crime doesn’t fit the liberal narrative, so don’t expect to see any Democrats or liberal pundits talking about it on MSNBC.

 

Category: California, Crime

‘Undocumented Workers’: Dating Underaged Girls Americans Won’t Date

Posted on | April 4, 2013 | 14 Comments

Say hello to Jose Zarata, 25, described by a sheriff’s deputy in Maricopa County, Arizona, as “a non-U.S. citizen who has been living in the country without proper authorization.”

Turns out there were other things Jose wanted to do “without proper authorization,” such as dating the 13-year-old daughter of Maria Saucedo. She said “no,” so Jose shot her in the chest.

The Associated Press won’t call Jose Zarata an “illegal immigrant,” nor will they mention that the age of consent is 12 in Mexico, so we have to turn to other sources:

John Hill of the group Stand With Arizona Against Illegal Immigration blamed the crime on “the sick culture of Mexico,” where the age of consent is 12, and said Mexico ”rarely prosecutes child rapes.”

“Family values don’t stop at the Rio Grande,” President Bush said, but maybe those values are somewhat difficult to translate.

UPDATE: “Do you think the illegal immigrant obtained his weapon legally?” 

 

 


Category: Arizona, Crime, Immigration, Mexico, Sex

Amanda Marcotte: So Dangerously Crazy, Even Conor Friedersdorf Fears Her Now

Posted on | April 4, 2013 | 18 Comments

Amanda Marcotte: So humorless, it’s hilarious

No public controversy involving sex is complete until feminist scold Amanda Marcotte makes a fool of herself, and she’s continually striving for ever-lower nadirs of stupidity.

So, a high-school boy in Los Angeles recorded a YouTube video asking famous model/actress Kate Upton to be his prom date. Upton at first indicated on the Today show that she might accept the invitation, but then politely declined. End of story? No, because Amanda Marcotte had not yet made a fool of herself.

Just in case you’ve forgotten, Marcotte was one of two feminist bloggers (along with the hate-filled Melissa McEwan) who was hired by the John Edward presidential campaign in 2007, inspiring the memorable headline, “Vote for Edwards, Godbag Christofascists!”

As PJMedia’s Bryan Preston points out, “Marcotte is so entertainingly nuts that we once made a movie about her.”

How did Marcotte react to the Kate Upton prom-date story? By interpreting it through a prism of sexual violence:

The lesson learned: You may be a rich and famous model, but any random man can, just by making a video, force you to do a little song and dance about how delightful his attentions are.
Instead of applauding Davidson for this, adults should be appalled. All that’s been taught here to young men is that they are entitled to women’s attention simply because they ask for it. . . . This entitlement we teach men crops up all the time for women, and it’s rarely as cute as a silly comedy video: When a man demands that you stop on the street to entertain his proposal of going back to his place and then follows you for blocks because you pretended not to hear him. When a rape victim is told that if she didn’t want to have sex, she shouldn’t have gone to the rapist’s hotel room. When a woman files for a restraining order because she’s afraid her abusive husband means it when he says that if he can’t have her, no one can. . . .
[M]en who are violent feel justified because they believe that women owe them their attention, their bodies, and their love. By joining in the collective pressure on Upton to give her attention . . . to a young man just because he wants it, we’re contributing to the overall culture of male entitlement.

Could we unpack the bizarre and tendentious assumptions packed so tightly into Marcotte’s pointy head? Yes, we could.

Do we really need to bother doing so? No, we don’t.

Because Ace of Spades notices that Marcotte’s argument is so preposterous even Conor Friedersdorf objects to it.

Friedersdorf’s usual gig is denouncing any successful or influential conservative spokesman — Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, et al. — but he took time out from his assigned duties at The Atlantic to expose Marcotte’s crypto-Marxist idiocy:

Her ideology causes her to write as if she doesn’t understand what is plain to most observers: Kate Upton is far more privileged, powerful, culturally savvy, and capable of fully exercising her autonomy than the vast majority of straight white males in America, and certainly more than a dateless, non-celebrity 18-year-old high school student on YouTube.

Now that Marcotte has jumped the Friedersdorf shark, so to speak, it’s probably safe to objectify Kate Upton again:

She’s obviously a helpless victim of the patriarchy, isn’t she?

 


Category: Celebrities, Feminism, Rule 5

Lady Gaga-Gate Continues

Posted on | April 4, 2013 | 7 Comments

Yesterday, I noted the RNC’s emphatic denial that they knew anything about this. Well, that denial was apparently wrong:

Following up on reports that Lady Gaga was offered — and turned down — $1 million to perform at last year’s Republican National Convention, Jeff Quinton has obtained documents and e-mails showing that an RNC official was privy to the negotiations.

Jeff Quinton has a full report at Naked DC.

Category: Scandal

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 04.04.13

Posted on | April 4, 2013 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Connecticut Lawmakers Pass Sweeping Gun Control Measure

Connecticut lawmakers embrace after passing gun control law

Connecticut lawmakers embrace after passing gun control law

Governor ready to sign bill

Civilian Employee Shot Dead At Fort Knox
Authorities say it wasn’t a random act

Norks Warn Military Cleared To Launch Nuke Attack Against U.S.
ROK Defense Minister says missile moved to east coast doesn’t have the range





POLITICS
Obama Raises California Cash For Dems While Trying Not To Derail His Second-Term Agenda

"There is hope...send money."

“There is hope…send money.”

Raising money to help Democrats retake the House in 2014

Governor Perry To Speak At Memorial For Slain DA

White Supremacist Gang Members Sought In Murder Of Colorado Prison Chief


West Virginia Sheriff Murdered, Suspect Wounded

Alabama Legislature Passes Tighter Rules For Abortion Clinics

Obama’s Chump Change

Colorado Sheriffs Push Back Against Calls For More Gun Control

Hagel Unveils $1 Billion Plan To Beef Up Missile Defense

Bloomberg Made Big Donations To Republican County Committees

$700 Million In Katrina Relief Funds Missing



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Sinks As U.S. Inventories Surge: NYMEX $94.41, Brent $107.37
ADP: U.S. Hiring In March Slowest In Five Months
Draghi Considers Plan B After Cyprus Fumble
Monsanto Beats Profit Expectations, Raises Full-Year View
March Auto Sales May Be Highest Since 2007
Clearwire Investor Offers $240 Million In Financing To Avert Sprint
Zynga Shares Still Cheap Despite Boost
The Mouse Cleans House: Disney Shuts Down LucasArts Game Studio
Samsung Gets Own Stores Inside Best Buy
Can You Hear Me Now? Cell Phones Turn 40
Google Expands QuickOffice To Android, iPhone
Baidu Reportedly Developing Wearable Eye Web Device Similar To Google Glass
Samsung And Mozilla Announce New Browser Engine “Servo”
FTC Awards $50K In Robocall Challenge
Apple iPad Is Three Years Old Today
Google Sells Frommer’s Travel Guides Back To Founder
California Bill Would Make Google, Facebook Disclose User Data Collected
Mozilla Firefox 20 Brings Enhanced Private Browsing, New Download Manager



SPORTS
Talk Of Brittney Griner In NBA Sparks Debate

Baylor's Brittney Griner

Baylor’s Brittney Griner

Controversy rages after Mavs owner Mark Cuban suggested he’d draft her


Anthony Scores 40 As Knicks Roll To 10th Straight Win

Lincecum Wild, But Giants Top Dodgers 5-3


Kings Lose To Rockets As Franchise Fate Debated In New York

Oilers Extend Streak To Five With 8-2 Rout Of Flames

Andy Enfield And His Model Wife Welcomed To USC By Song Girls

Timbermutts Bomb The Bucks 107-98

Newcomers Fuel Rangers Victory Over Pens

Rays Beat O’s With Ninth-Inning Homer

Gio Homers, Pitches Six Scoreless Innings As Nats Blank Fish 3-0



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Zoe Saldana Joining “Guardians Of The Galaxy”?

Zoe Saldana

Zoe Saldana

“Avatar” actress to join Marvel movie as female lead

Brad Pitt To Star In David Ayers’ WW2 Pic “Fury”

Leno Blesses “Tonight Show” Succession Plan


Liam Hemsworth Is So “The Raven”

Richie Sambora Skipping Tour Dates With Bon Jovi Due To Personal Issues

USA Network Eyes “Happy Endings” Pickup If Cult Comedy Series Not Renewed By ABC

TLC Orders “Breaking Amish” Spinoff With Original Cast

Wynonna Fears She Disappointed Tony Dovolani With Early DWTS Exit



FOREIGNERS
Cameron Defends Trident As LibDems Mull Replacement
Torrential Rains, Flooding Kill 31 In Argentina
Gillard Off To PRC To Promote Trade
WW2 Russian Bomb Defused In Berlin
U.S. Offers Up To $5 Million For Leads On Ugandan Warlord Kony
Pakistani Youth Cool To Democracy
Four Sisters Injured In Uttar Pradesh Acid Attack, One Serious
Canadian Border Shooting Suspect In Custody
Attacks On Goths And Punks Now Classified As Hate Crimes



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: What Could Go Wrong?
Sondrakistan: There’s a Word For This
Ed Morrissey: Q-Poll Shows 2016 GOP Field Wide Open
Reince Priebus: Media Covers Up Democrat-Backed Planned Parenthood’s Support For Infanticide
Jammie Wearing Fools: Obama Pretends He’ll Sacrifice 5% Of His Salary
Hit & Run: Congresswoman Doesn’t Realize “Assault Magazines” She Wishes To Ban Are Reusable
NRO Corner: Dem Rep Tells Constituent “You’d Probably Be Dead” If Confronted By Armed Intruder
JustOneMinute: Gun Magic, Or, More Fun With Numbers At The NYT
Via Meadia: Illegal Imimgration Debate Is So 1990s
Breitbart: ICE Union Chief Says “Disproportionate Numbers Of Criminals” Entering US
American Thinker: It Looks Like The Best Way To Repeal Obamacare Is To Implement It
Rush Limbaugh: I Don’t Think Obamacare Can Work, And Obama Doesn’t Care If It Does Or Not
Weasel Zippers: NYT Feminist Crank Maureen Dowd Compares Justice Scalia To George Wallace
Lonely Conservative: Abuse, Addiction, Racism And Desperation On The Reservation


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