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Finally: Washington Post Covers Death of Woman at Maryland Abortion Clinic

Posted on | February 10, 2013 | 17 Comments

Friday, I described a complete blackout by the mainstream media in regard to reports that a 29-year-old woman died after a late-term abortion at the clinic of the notorious Dr. LeRoy Carhart.

In particular, I called out the Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun, because this clinic — run by a sort of celebrity abortionist — is in Germantown, Maryland, just 20 miles from the nation’s capital. Trust me, if some nut with a gun had opened fire on Carhart’s clinic, the Post and the Sun would devote front-page coverage to the story. If a woman dies after a botched abortion . . . eh, not so much.

Jeff Quinton reports that the Washington Post has now broken the mainstream media embargo of this story. The Post‘s Dan Morse reports:

The Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the Montgomery County Police Department are investigating the death of a woman who died at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital on Thursday — days after she was believed to have started an abortion procedure at a controversial clinic in Germantown. . . .
In this case, the 29-year-old woman, who has not been identified, died Thursday after being taken to Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, according to local and state officials.
The circumstances that led to her death are unclear. Carhart and clinic officials could not be reached. . . .
“At this point, there is no indication of any criminal activity in this case,” said Capt. Paul Starks, a spokesman for the Montgomery County Police Department.

OK, it’s only a 350-word item in the Metro section, but it’s something. Still nothing from the Baltimore Sun, the New York Times, USA Today or the Associated Press, but at least now one major news organization has grudgingly acknowledged that a 29-year-old woman has died after being treated at the clinic where “Doctor Death” was willing to perform an abortion in the 33rd week of pregnancy.

Yes, I said the 33rd week — eight months pregnant — which is actually legal in Maryland. So maybe “there is no indication of any criminal activity,” as the police spokesman said, but there is butchery and horror and evil. Lots and lots of evil. Also, a dead 29-year-old woman.

We mustn’t forget the #WarOnWomen.

 

 


Category: Abortion, Maryland, Media Bias, Quinton Report

The Brooks/Parker Cage Match

Posted on | February 10, 2013 | 19 Comments

by Smitty

I don’t run around wishing mayhem on people, but I bet a cage match between Star Parker and David Brooks would sell some tickets. Brooks begins an interesting exchange beginning around 9:00:

(emphasis mine):

There’s been a lot of calls for Republicans to change. And we have seen that from everybody to Paul Ryan to Marco Rubio. Now we’re beginning to see the donor class really begin to change. There is some question, are they trying to change just the candidates, so they don’t get Todd Akin, or they trying to actually change some of the substance?
And, so far , it seems to be just the candidates. One of the interesting things — and I can’t say I know the answer to this — is, how much will the Tea Party fight back? There has been some effort that they are saying, oh, the establishment is taking over.
But my own sense of things so far is that there is not the will to fight among the Tea Party and that a lot of people in the Tea Party are, frankly — they’re not — they are also Republicans. And a lot of — say, Rush Limbaugh, for example, who is not Tea Party, he’s more an establishment Republican who wants the Republican Party to win.
So I have a feeling that the establishment is going to have maybe an easier time of it than some might think.

Star Parker takes completely the opposite tack (emphasis still mine):

Karl Rove would like to weed out candidates like former Missouri Rep. Todd Akin. Akin, who was defeated by Democrat incumbent Claire McCaskill in the Senate race in Missouri, was a six-term Republican congressman with a flawless conservative record. For most of 2012 he was ahead of McCaskill in the polls. Then, in August, he expressed himself poorly in an interview about abortion. Despite his apologies and efforts to clarify himself, his own party abandoned him.
McCaskill ran ads, over and over, showing Mitt Romney questioning Akin’s qualifications. This race could have been saved. But the party elite wasted not a second to dump Akin because they were not comfortable with his conservative values to begin with.
We’re living in a deeply troubled country today. Americans are looking for answers, not a political class feathering its own nest. There are tens of millions of conservative American patriots who seek an opposition party to represent their conviction that America will not get back on the path to strength and prosperity without restoration of freedom, limited government, free markets and traditional values.
Today’s big question is whether the Republican Party is going to be that opposition party. If not, it is not conservative values and convictions that will be abandoned. It will be the Republican Party.

My thought is that the GOP heads view the Tea Parties as sort of a warmed-over collection of malcontents, a la Perot voters in 1992 (and I was one) who can be gently herded back into the fold. Flock you, GOP: we’re not sheep!

The technology has shifted to the point that the GOP elite commitment to Progress in lieu of limited government is painful, obvious, and not being tolerated at the polls, 2008 and 2012 mean much. Hint to GOP elite: if you want to go for a three-loss trifecta, all you have to do is heed Karl Rove and run Jeb Bush.

Category: GOP

America’s Sex-Crazed Colleges

Posted on | February 10, 2013 | 17 Comments

William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection calls attention to a rather disturbing trend on our nation’s campuses:

What’s up with that? It used to be that such extracurricular activities, so to speak, were entirely a matter of horny college kids trying to get some action with their fellow students. Nowadays, however, the administration and faculty have made sex a matter of official policy — something subsidized and/or supervised under institutional auspices — and the obvious question is, “Have these policies of Official Sex actually solved whatever problems they were intended to address?”

My hunch tells me that the answer to that question is “no,” and I further suspect that the institutionalization of campus sex has created new problems that didn’t exist back in the day when the main concern of university officials was trying to keep guys from sneaking their girlfriends into the dormitory after regular visiting hours.

 

Category: Education, Sex

CNN Anchor Deb Feyerick Apparently Thinks Global Warming Causes Asteroids

Posted on | February 10, 2013 | 57 Comments

As previously noted here, a large asteroid will pass within 17,000 miles of Earth — a near-miss, astronomy-wise — next week. And this provides a network airhead the chance to demonstrate he utter ignorance in an interview with scientist Bill Nye:

“Talk about something else that’s falling from the sky and that is an asteroid. What’s coming our way? Is this an effect of, perhaps, of global warming or is this just some meteoric occasion?”

Remember: The media elite are your intellectual superiors. The proof of their superiority is that they’re on TV, and you’re not.

Category: Gays, Media Bias

FMJRA 2.0: Turning Japanese

Posted on | February 9, 2013 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Please be advised that some of the following links…oh, wait, wrong post. Never mind.

I Guess We’re Not Supposed To ‘Shop The #OccupyResoluteDesk Skeet Photo

Hate Kills: Left’s Demonization of Conservative Group Inspired Shooter

HookerGate: Miami Herald Confirms Elements of Menendez Prostitute Story

Billion With a ‘B’: Did Menendez Provide Special Favors to HookerGate Donor?

Third Option–Term Limits

Is Senator Menendez Doomed?

A Scandal Too Far: Steve Capus Terminated as NBC News President

Daniel Hannan Quotes Our Declaration Of Independence To The Eurocrats

Prepping The Next Conflict

Bolshevik Subversive Conor Friedersdorf: Innocent ‘Liberal’ Dupe or Red Agent?

How to Make Babies

FMJRA 2.0: Free Bird

The 2016 White House Game, Briefly

Just Hit Da Tech Guy’s Tip Jar

Super Bowl XLVII: Ravens Win 34-31 as Satan Honors Contract With Ray Lewis

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.04.13

Dominican Prostitute in Menendez Scandal Says They Were ‘Very Mistreated’

HookerGate: What Did @AliciaMenendez Know, and When Did She Know It?

Rule 5 Tuesday

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.05.13

100,000 Hookers vs. the Alleged Heterosexuality of Robert Menendez

Janet Napolitano In 2016?

Will Jeb Bush Connect With Tea Partiers At CPAC?

The Wrong ‘Yaneisi Fernandez’? Stupid Media Trick Fails to Clear Menendez

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.06.13

ObamaCare: Unexpectedly!

The Liberal Consensus Factory

Karl Rove On Hannity

VIDEO: Why Moms Need Guns

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.07.13

Is ‘Corrupt Democrat’ Redundant?

25 May Gun March On The Mall

You Don’t See A 19 Minute Speech With The Whittle Sustain Too Often

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.08.13

Crazed Ex-Cop Kills 3 People After Quoting Mia Farrow in Bizarre Manifesto

Doctor Death: 29-Year-Old Patient Dies After Late-Term Abortion in Maryland UPDATE: Complete Media Blackout by Feminists, Major News Organizations

Soopermexican Mocks Serious Academics With PhDs In 17th Century Belgian Lesbian Studies

Yes, Indeed: Amazon Kindle 8.9″ HD Kicks the Apple iPad’s Overpriced Ass

Teenage Sex in the News (Also: Questions the SPLC Doesn’t Want You to Ask)

Don’t Worry About That Asteroid Hurtling Toward Earth, Say the Scientific Experts Who Are Always Right About Everything

Top linkers this week:

  1. Rick’s Rants (24 the hard way)
  2. (tie) The Lonely Conservative and Sad Hill News (8)
  3. Daley Gator (7)
  4. (tie) The Camp of the Saints and Daily Pundit

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links for next week’s FMJRA is Friday, February 15.


Category: FMJRA Award

HOOAH! Army Training Update

Posted on | February 9, 2013 | 35 Comments

At 1440 hours today, telephonic communication was received from Recruit McCain at the military installion where he is being trained as a fearless warrior to destroy America’s enemies. HOOAH!

Concern for operational security forbids disclosure of the training location, although (a) any Army veteran could figure it out, (b) historians would be aware that the site is named for a military figure known as “Old Rock,” and (c) the installation’s namesake played a crucial role in a battle at a famous bridge my son visited often in his youth. Nevertheless, operational security shall be maintained. HOOAH!

Recruit McCain sounded strong and cheerful during the telephonic communication, which was limited to five minutes. The “Snowmaggedon” storm was responsible for the decision to permit recruits this privilege, since many had family members living in the affected region. Recruit’s family is not near that area, but what the heck? HOOAH!

Recruit McCain was informed by his father of the communcation from Uncle Kirby (formerly of the 101st Airborne) that the recruit must not disgrace the family honor by scoring less than “expert” in marksmanship. Recruit McCain replied that, while live-fire training does not begin until next week, he is in the top five of his training unit in electronic marksmanship testing. High-tech Army these days. HOOAH!

It has been a month since Recruit McCain shipped out. Processing at the training installation occupied the first week or so of his duties, so that he has just completed Week Three. Recruit McCain transmits further data via postal communication, written in a special encryption called “chicken scratch” that would baffle any enemy attempt to decipher it. However, I’ve managed to make out a few details. HOOAH!

His wake-up call is at 0430, first formation is at 0515 followed by physical training at 0530. At 0700, they change into ACU (Army Combat Uniform), eat chow at 0730, attend classes/activities until chow again at 1200, more classes/activities until chow at 1730, followed by “clean the company area” — “this is when we get smoked a lot,” Recruit McCain reports — then mail call at 2000 and lights out at 21000. HOOAH!

What does it mean to “get smoked” in training? Extra PT (physical training) ordered at random times or as discipline/punishment. On one military forum, a recruit is advised: “Be prepared to get smoked and do an ungodly amount of pushups for no reason.” In his postal communication, Recruit McCain describes a rough day when the platoon got “smoked” twice, in addition to morning PT. HOOAH!

In one postal communication, Recruit McCain writes that he “just got back from camo (camouflage) class, that was around 3 miles away, that we marched to.” So, six miles round-trip, the marching equivalent of a 10K, but that’s going to seem like child’s play by the time they’re through with him. The final “Ruck March” (in full gear) to Honor Hill is somewhere between 12 and 20 miles. HOOAH!

Recruit McCain writes that he got a bad rope-burn on his hand, but refused to go “on profile” for the injury. The term “on profile” refers to a situation where a recruit is medically exempted from certain types of training exercises, which can delay completion of training. Recruit McCain endured full training despite his injury, is now fully healed and writes: “Profile is a bitch’s excuse to do nothing.” HOOAH!

Recruit McCain’s contemptuous attitude toward weaklings and malingerers must be understood as evidence of his own high morale, a corollary of commitment to excellence. Army veteran Charles G. Hill explains the philosophy of basic training: “Laggards bring down the whole unit, and identifying them quickly is a priority.” HOOAH!

A psychological commitment to completing the mission — that is to say, the mental focus necessary to get through basic training — requires the recruit to develop a certain indifference to hardship, and this should not be confused with callousness or a lack of empathy. Recruit McCain writes that he feels bad for fellow trainees who suffer serious injuries (one guy “blew out his knee” and may be medically discharged), and also writes that he wasn’t the only recruit who was fighting back tears when they got their first letters from home. HOOAH!

In case you didn’t know it, the U.S. military is all about acronyms and “HOOAH!” actually derives from an acronym for the reply to an instruction: “Heard. Understood. Acknowledged.”

The last line of Recruit McCain’s postal communication instructs his father, “Blog about your patriotic son.” HOOAH!

 

Category: Family, Military

Stop Putting Out So Much, Ugly Sluts: Science Proves Undeniable Truth #24

Posted on | February 9, 2013 | 48 Comments

Boston ‘Slutwalk’ 2011: Unattractive women chant stupid slogans

Instapundit linked a dating study and added this:

Interestingly, the more attractive the woman, the fewer sexual partners.

You didn’t really need a scientific study to know this, if you’ve been studying feminism as long as I have. Just ask yourself: Why are feminists so angry at men? It’s not merely because they are ugly — not all ugly women are feminists — but rather because they are bitter after discovering that their promiscuity doesn’t actually make them more attractive (which popular culture had convinced them would be the case).

That’s what all the rhetoric about “sexual empowerment” is really aimed at, and it’s also why feminists get so riled up about “slut shaming.”

Back in November, when Gen. David Petraeus was immersed in a sex scandal, I set off a minor controversy by entitling a post about the general’s mistress, “The Slut Paula Broadwell,” which was cited by several feminists (e.g., Kate Sheppard at Mother Jones and Meghan Casserly at increasingly leftist Forbes) as proof of the horrible damage inflicted by the sexist double standard, etc.

Of course, no one could deny that Paula Broadwell was a two-timing homewrecker, and no one ventured to argue that what Paula Broadwell did was actually a good thing, but my blunt contradiction of the sexual empowerment narrative clearly enraged the soi-disant intellectuals who can’t think outside the Conventional Wisdom, which nowadays insists that no woman should ever be called a “slut,” no matter how demonstrably slutty she may be. This is identity politics as a self-esteem exercise: “Yea for our team!” — in this case, women, but in other cases ethnic groups or homosexuals — and anyone who doesn’t unskeptically cheer for the team must be denounced as a hater.

Once the collectivist groupthink takes hold, it doesn’t matter whether the policy that flows from this self-esteem politics is actually good for the group or not. So long as the policy is justified by the Official Group Ideology and approved by the Official Group Leaders, skepticism about the efficacy of the group-endorsed policy will be condemned as betrayal of the group. (News flash: Republicans are often guilty of the same thing, cf. “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” Medicare Part D, No Child Left Behind, and the Bush administration in general.)

Ah . . . yes, sluts. Excuse the digression.

Having convinced themselves that promiscuity is “sexual empowerment,” feminists must expunge from our language such fine Anglo-Saxon words as slut and whore, as part of an ideological campaign to exterminate whatever vestigal remnants of Judeo-Christian morality may have survived the Sexual Revolution. And because this is justified by the Official Group Ideology and approved by the Official Group Leaders, no man may criticize it without being denounced as a misogynistic patriarchal oppressor. Any woman who questions the “sexual empowerment” rhetoric — “Hey, why is it so ’empowering’ to risk getting your ladyparts all gunked up with herpes, genital warts and chlamydia?” — is ostracized as a Traitor to the Revolutionary Cause.

Unfortunately for the feminist commissars, human nature refuses to yield to their dogma, and the strident fury of their denunciations amounts to an attempt to suppress facts through the exercise of political power. As I mentioned last night, political correctness is hostile to common sense, because if the utopian visions of the progressive ideologues were compatible with common sense, there would be no need for all the legislation, litigation and indoctrination by which they attempt to remake the world to fit their intellectual abstractions.

When scientific research is applied to the problem, therefore, we are not surprised that facts debunk the “sexual empowerment” myth:

  • Very physically attractive women are more likely to form exclusive relationships than to form purely sexual relationships; they are also less likely to have sexual intercourse within the first week of meeting a partner. Presumably, this difference arises because more physically attractive women use their greater power in the partner market to control outcomes within their relationships.
  • For women, the number of sexual partners decreases with increasing physical attractiveness, whereas for men, the number of sexual partners increases with increasing physical attractiveness.
  • For women, the number of reported sexual partners is tied to weight: Thinner women report fewer partners. Thinness is a dimension of attractiveness for women, so is consistent with the finding that more attractive women report fewer sexual partners.

There are many cruel blows to the feminist worldview here. To start with, their “sexual empowerment” rhetoric seems mainly to have been embraced by ugly fat women, which may explain why Sandra Fluke was so adamant about getting free contraceptives.

Secondly, decades of feminist indoctrination and pop-culture propaganda have failed to make promiscuity the desired lifestyle of women who are best able to choose their options. Really good-looking women don’t put out because they don’t have to put out, and instead prefer fewer partners and exclusive relationships.

Third, this scientific study was done by a young female sociologist, Elizabeth McClintock. Of course, Dr. McClintock teaches at Notre Dame University, so the Amanda Marcotte/Melissa McEwan feminist axis can comfort themselves by calling her a “christofascist godbag.”

Fourth and finally — ah, the cruelest cut of them all — Dr. McClintock’s research provides further scientific proof of a controversial hypothesis.

“Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.”
— Rush Limbaugh, Undeniable Truth of Life #24

Nothing is more offensive to feminists than the truth.

 

 


Category: Feminism, Rush Limbaugh, Sex

Corrupt Thought Studies, Holder Edition

Posted on | February 9, 2013 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

The idea that Constitutional rights are ‘entitlements’ moves them from being constants that the government can’t touch to variables, which can be expanded or contracted by fiat. Clip below the fold for autoplay reasons. Read more

Category: Eric Holder
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