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Michelle Goldberg, After Lying Down With Jew-Hating Dogs, Expresses Chagrin About Waking Up With Jew-Hating Fleas

Posted on | October 12, 2023 | Comments Off on Michelle Goldberg, After Lying Down With Jew-Hating Dogs, Expresses Chagrin About Waking Up With Jew-Hating Fleas

Liberalism is many things, including a job qualification for journalists. Is there anyone who thinks Michelle Goldberg would be working for the New York Times if she were anything but a liberal? It’s not just that she writes badly, but rather that she cannot think clearly. If your stock in trade is bad writing in support of bad ideas, the only way you can find work is to be a liberal, Michelle Goldberg got her start at the worthless Salon-dot-com, and if she ever wrote anything worth reading, I missed it. Anyway, here’s her column today:

The Massacre in Israel
and the Need for a Decent Left
On Tuesday evening, I was drinking on the porch of my friend and neighbor Misha Shulman, the Israel-born rabbi of a progressive New York synagogue called the New Shul. All day, he’d been on the phone with congregants deeply distraught over the massacres and mass kidnappings in Israel. Of all the people he spoke to, he said, those most devastated were either people who had lost close friends or family, or young Jews “completely shattered by the response of their lefty friends in New York,” who were either justifying Hamas’s atrocities or celebrating them outright.
This sense of deep betrayal is not limited to New York. Many progressive Jews have been profoundly shaken by the way some on the left are treating the terrorist mass murder of civilians as noble acts of anticolonial resistance. . . .

This could only be surprising to those who have paid no attention to the Jew-hating climate on university campuses fostered by the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) movement. Was any conservative surprised by the pro-Hamas rally in New York? Or were we surprised when Black Lives Matter celebrated this terrorist attack? I don’t think so. Some of us had noticed how there was a remarkable rise in anti-Semitic hate in the black community after the George Floyd riots of 2020. And so for BLM to celebrate the atrocities committed by the “Palestinian resistance” was entirely predictable.

Anyway, you can read the rest of Goldberg’s latest embarrassing column, if you’re a masochist. Ann Althouse notes that “Goldberg gets in a shot at conservatives,” because, of course, she must. That’s her racket, taking shots at conservatives, even when her own leftist “allies” are celebrating terrorism.



 

Category: Israel, New York Times, Progressivism

Ironic Crime Update: Did a Gay Pedophile Basically Issue His Own Death Warrant?

Posted on | October 12, 2023 | Comments Off on Ironic Crime Update: Did a Gay Pedophile Basically Issue His Own Death Warrant?

Josh Kruger (left); Robert Davis (right)

When I wrote last week about Josh Kruger, the “left-wing Philadelphia journalist who mocked concern over rising crime in Democrat-run cities,” and was shot to death in his home, there was no public information available about who the suspect was or what the motive might have been. It just seemed kind of ironic, and I figured it was probably some kind of robbery.

Kruger, a formerly homeless drug addict, “was proudly queer and openly HIV-positive” and “worked for the City of Philadelphia for about five years, overseeing the mayor’s social media platforms and policy campaigns, and acting as communications director and spokesperson for the city’s Office of Homeless Services.” That Kruger could have been the victim of a random street crime seemed entirely probable, given the prevalence of street crime in “Killadelphia,” a city more violent than Chicago. But that wasn’t what it was.

Several days after Philly police said they had identified a “person of interest” in the case, they finally named the suspect as Robert Edmond Davis, 19, and a police spokesman said, “At this time we believe that Mr. Kruger was trying to help Mr. Davis, and they were acquaintances. . . He was just trying to help him just get through life.” Because that’s what “proudly queer” men do, right?

SHOCKING PLOT TWIST!

The family of Robert Davis, 19, who is accused of killing local journalist Josh Kruger, said that Davis was just 15 when he and Kruger began a years-long relationship involving drugs — and that Davis told them Kruger was threatening to post sexually explicit videos of him online before, police say, Davis shot Kruger.
Those assertions by Davis’ mother and older brother in recent interviews with The Inquirer add troubling new complexities to a killing that has garnered national attention. Their account, they said, is drawn from recent conversations with Davis, and from the years of watching his life unravel as he tried to keep the relationship and his drug addiction hidden. . . .

(“Troubling new complexities” — yeah, this is gonna make it kind of hard for the Philadelphia Inquirer to continue portraying Kruger as some kind of “proudly queer” hero.)

The family’s contentions come as detectives separately discovered and are investigating what multiple law enforcement sources have called explicit photos and messages in Kruger’s phone. The sources, who requested anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, did not say whether the images or messages were connected to Davis, but said they were “disturbing” and have been turned over to the department’s Special Victims Unit for further analysis. . . .

(Oh, “disturbing” images and messages on his phone? Calling in the police Special Victims Unit? Do you need me to spell this out for you?)

Damica Davis and her older son Jaylin Reason said in an interview that Davis faced mental health issues from a young age. He struggled to control his anger in school, his mother said, partially because of the absence of his biological father in his life, and often got into fights. When he was about 15, she said, his troubles intensified after he started sneaking out in the middle of the night and coming home high on drugs.
They said Davis told them he was seeing an “older white woman” he met online who “worked for the government.”
They frequently saw the name “Josh” pop up in messages on his phone, they said, and when they asked who Josh was, Davis told them it was the woman’s brother, who was gay.
It was only later, in their call with him Friday, they said, that Davis told them he had been seeing Kruger all along.

As Dana Pico points out, sex with a 15-year-old would be a felony, and let me be clear that I am not saying Josh Kruger deserved to be shot to death by his alleged victim. I’m just saying it’s ironic.

BTW, police still haven’t caught Robert Davis, who remains at large and is considered “armed and dangerous.” But of course it’s Philadelphia, and basically everybody in Philadelphia is dangerous.



 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 10.11.12

Posted on | October 12, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.11.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Bosch Fawstin’s Pigman knows.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Concealed Carry In Chicago
EBL: Paige Spiranac, Steve Scalise likely going to be next Speaker of the House, and The Devil Conspiracy
Twitchy: Straight Talk To Queers For Palestine, Harvard Student Group “Retracts Its Signature” From Pro-Hamas Statement, and Retired Admiral Concerned That Tommy Tuberville Is Keeping US Out Of Combat In Gaza
Louder With Crowder: What Are You Doing Step-Terrorist?! Mia Khalifa FIRED For Hamas Support! Aaron Rodgers issues a challenge to “Mr. Pfizer” Travis Kelce, tells him to bring a friend, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Gaza) refuses to admit that Hamas chopping off babies’ heads is a bad thing
Vox Popoli: Too Soon? Thus Spake Spacebunny, Juden Peterstein, and Israel Caught Lying
Draw & Talk Comics: The Final Comic Of 2023 – Burn The House Down Now!
Flappr: Misadventures In Internet Pr0n With ClothOff.com

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Should Conservatives Play By The Rules? Hedging Against a Trump Victory, and Conserving the New Deal
American Greatness: House GOP Vows Probe of Biden Administration’s Unfreezing of $6 Billion for Iran, Biden’s VP Office Exchanged Emails With Hunter, His Brother Jim, and Both of their Businesses OVER 29,000 TIMES, and Hamas Leader Calls For Global Day of Rage on Friday: ‘This is the Time for Jihad’
American Thinker: The Seven Dirty Secrets of Solar Energy, also, America at the Crossroads: A Free Republic or a Police State?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuba reelected to UN Human Rights council despite human rights abuses and terrorism support, Cuba continues to support Hamas’ savage terrorist attack on Israel, and Movie about Cuba’s female political prisoners wins best foreign film award at Toronto film festival
BattleSwarm: ATF Pistol Brace Regulations Blocked, also, Verifying the Hamas Baby Beheading
Behind The Black: Astrobotic resumes suborbital test flights of assets purchased from Masten bankruptcy, South Korea is in final negotiations to cancel two Russian launch contracts, Massive landslide in Martian canyon, October 11 Quick space links, and You can’t negotiate with someone who wants to kill you
CDR Salamander: Gaza COA Decision Brief
Chicago Boyz: The New Pogrom
Da Tech Guy: Once upon a time in Israel, Five Completely Non Israel Things Under the Fedora, The Most Important Question for Americans (not America) in the Wake of the Response by BLM & Democrat Socialists to Hamas’ Baby Beheaders, and Harvard, Columbia, NY Law et/all about to Become Post War Germany & France
Don Surber: Donald The Inevitable
First Street Journal: 1,891 lives saved in Kentucky! The Israeli-Hamas War and the frustration of the Usual Suspects, and A surprising (?) new twist in the Josh Kruger case
Gates Of Vienna: Report From Sderot: Day 4, Éric Zemmour: “Israel’s Struggle is That of Our Civilization”, Pinkwashing the Perps, The Gaza War — in Thailand, Portuguese Casualties of Hamas, and New Germans in Neukölln Celebrate Hamas
The Geller Report: American Jihad: Thousands of Terror-Linked Migrants Stopped at U.S. Southern Border, Hamas Terror Leader Calls Muslims Around the World To Global Day Of Jihad on Friday the 13th, Calls for Blood, and Mayor of America’s First Muslim Majority City Council Declares ‘No Peace’ With Israel
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, MIRI Looks at NGC 346
Hollywood In Toto: Schwarzenegger Calls for Trump’s Border Wall (But Won’t Use the Word), Ryan Long Humiliates Virtue-Signaling Stars (And Much More), and Colbert, Kimmel Make Hamas Terrorism All About … Trump
The Lid: Despite His Claims, Data Shows Biden Has Hardly Deported Anyone in Three Years
Legal Insurrection: Law Firm Rescinds Job Offer to NYU Law Student After She Claims Support for Hamas, American Higher Education Has a Serious Hamas Problem, Cornell U. DEI Director Under Fire for Describing Hamas Terror Attacks as a ‘Resistance’, Appeals Court Upholds Tennessee Voter Fraud Law Restricting Absentee Ballot Application Distribution, Penn State Students Arrested After Flipping Table at Riley Gaines Event, and House Republicans Nominate Scalise for Speaker, But Vote Likely Not Happening Today
Nebraska Energy Observer: There’s more, also, The Wages of Danegeld
Outkick: How Does Shedeur Sanders Not Have A Watch Deal? The Deion Sanders Effect Trickles Down To The Philadelphia Phillies Before Showdown With Atlanta Braves, Olivia Dunne Rocks Air Force Hoodie In Patriotic TikTok, Reminds Everyone America Is Awesome, Steelers Fans Crash Penguins Home Opener With ‘Fire Matt Canada’ Chants, LIV Golf Furious With OWGR’s Decision To Not Reward World Ranking Points, Swiss Soccer Player Alisha Lehmann Says A Well-Known Celebrity Offered Her More Than $100k For A One Night Stand, and Houston Doesn’t Have A Problem With Bye, Days Off, Or Road – Advances to ALCS With Win At Minnesota
Power Line: BLM Is a Racist Hate Group, Intelligence Failure, and A word from Bari Weiss
Shark Tank: Eskamani Calls Out DeSantis Over Iran Sanctions
Shot In The Dark: Dr. James Blake, Anti-Democratic, Soundtrack Part 7, and Sincere Sober Suggestion
This Ain’t Hell: Intel weenie attempts to spy for China, Four More Accounted For, American arms and ammunition for Israel, US commando mission not ruled out, and Navy Recruiting Fails
Victory Girls: Speaker Race: Scalise Wins Nomination, So Was It Worth It?
Volokh Conspiracy: “Trying to ‘Absofuckinglutely’ Take Down a Montana Business” Creates Personal Jurisdiction Based on Defendant’s Online Statements
Watts Up With That: Bad Policy: Germany Keeps Making Its Energy Increasingly Expensive, Fueling Inflation, Australia’s Answer to Greta Thunberg Faces Years In Jail, and Electric Grid Reliability: Texas vs. EPA
The Federalist: With SCOTUS Poised To Rein In Out-Of-Control Bureaucrats, Leftists Lash Out, Indulging The Left’s Historical Revisionism Has Consequences, Hamas Attack Is A Warning To America About The Risks Of Our Open Border, Why Calling For Israel’s ‘Restraint’ Is Depraved And Offensive, Why Elon Musk Nuking X Headlines Is A Good Thing, Shocker! Embracing Drag Queens Didn’t Fix The Navy’s Recruiting Crisis, and The U.S. Money Trail With Iran Is Worse Than You Think
Mark Steyn: Climate of Fear, Sleepless in Gaza, Fly the (Hamas) Flag! and Proportionate about Gang Rape

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In The Mailbox: 10.10.23

Posted on | October 11, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.10.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

How the Cold War should have ended.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How’s That Bail Reform Working Out?
EBL: Happy Che Guevara Day, Israel at War With Hamas and Iran, Frankie Biden Goes To Hollywood…I mean Washington, D.C. , 10 October 732 AD: Charles Martel defeats Islamic Invasion of Europe, and Israel’s Most Wanted: Mohammed Deif
Twitchy: The Atlantic Publishes An Article Critical Of Kamala Harris & The Left Freaks Out, Hot Take – Fictional Characters Can’t Consent Since They Don’t Have Agency, and “Are Your People Dead? Good.”
Louder With Crowder: Naked man tries touching kids at mall…until their dads start touching him with their fists, Weapons left during Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal used by Hamas in Israel attack…just as Biden predicted in 2007, and Porn starlet gets CANCELLED from nudie mag, mushroom company over offensive pro-Hamas tweets
Vox Popoli: A Forgotten Script Resurfaces, RIP Dick Butkus, October Book Notes, When Rhetoric Goes Astray, Green Flag or Neoclown Bait?, and The Chickenhawk Contemplates
Flappr: Torts Illustrated – A Full-Throated Defense Of Mia K.

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: General Milley’s Own Private Constitution, also, On Columbus Day
American Greatness: Reflections on Israel’s New Existential War, Black Lives Matter Grassroots Issues Statement of ‘Solidarity With the Palestinian People’ After Brutal Hamas Attack on Israel, Rashida Tlaib Blasted For Hanging Palestinian Flag Outside Her Capitol Hill Office, and Biden’s Border Reversal: Now Walls Are Good?
American Thinker: Trump’s Not the Problem – He’s the Reaction to the Problem, The Moral of the McCarthy Saga? Promises Matter, and China’s Goal is World Supremacy, and America is Helping
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, also, Animal’s Daily Legacy Media News
Babalu Blog: The war in The Middle East and its implications to the US-Mexico border, Aussie tourist finds Cuba ‘frustrating,’ vows never to return…maybe, The struggle of Cuban families to find enough food, Castro dictatorship opens new luxury hotel while buildings continue to collapse, and Cuba’s communist elites flock to swanky Havana bar for drinks, drugs, sex
BattleSwarm: The First Time As Tragedy, The Second Time As Farce, The Final Solution To The Gaza Problem, and Israel-Hamas War Update for October 9
Behind The Black: Software patch saves Europe’s Euclid space telescope, Arianespace’s Vega rocket successfully launches 12 satellites, Ingenuity completes 61st flight on Mars, SpaceX blasts FAA for claiming falling satellites could by 2035 kill someone every two years, Aerojet Rocketdyne satellite power units are chronically failing, and Pushback: Court rules that schools cannot punish or suspend students who defy queer agenda
Cafe Hayek: On the Meaning of “Deindustrialization”, More from Thomas Sowell on Social-Justice Fallacies, and Dan Klein in the Wall Street Journal on the Censoring of Science
CDR Salamander: Prelude to Slaughter
Da Tech Guy: Five Random Thoughts Under the Fedora, Star Wars deserves better, Israel, I Advise General Sherman’s War Unless You Want a Replay in Years to Come, ,Arming our enemies: From scrap metal being sold to Japan before World War II to $6 billion for Iran and Five Israel Thoughts Under the Fedora
Don Surber: The Palestinian attack was suicidal
First Street Journal: More media tributes for the connected white guy in Philly, The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Editorial Board know better than you MAGAts and deplorables how to rear your children! and Israel is great, militarily, but let’s tell the truth here: they have proven to be poor conquerors
Gates Of Vienna: Breakout From Gaza, A Cornucopia of Cultural Enrichment in Italy, Taking Hostages and Desecrating Corpses: Just Another Work Day in Gaza, Military Hardware News From Gaza, The Peace of Allah, and Iranian Influence Operation Is Deep Inside the U.S. Government
The Geller Report: Joe Biden Approved the Release of $75 Million Dollar to Palestinian Jihadis Just Hours Before Attack on Israel, Israeli Babies Kidnapped By Muslim Terrorists Held in Cages, Hamas Threatens to Behead the Child Hostages on Live TV, and In Israel: “40 Babies Discovered With Their Heads Cut Off”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, The Real Minimum Wage is Zero, Don’t Know Much Biology, Caldwell 70, and What Winning Looks Like
Hollywood In Toto: Why Biblical Horror Movies Make Perfect Sense, Bill Maher Dubs Hasan Minhaj the Jussie Smollett of Stand-up, The Faculty – Future Stars Held Back in Mediocre B-Movie, Can This Pink Floyd Feud Get Any Uglier?, and How Hollywood Bet Big on The Exorcist… and Lost
The Lid: Enabling Iran’s Role In The Hamas Attacks And Lessons Going Forward, also, A Guide To Diplomacy When Discussing Israel
Legal Insurrection: Conservative Law Professors Who Have ‘Had Enough’ Are Leaving Academia, Kibbutz Nir Oz: Hamas Murdered A Grandmother, Then Posted The Murder On Her Facebook Page, Joe Rogan on Taking His Kids Out of ‘Woke’ California Schools, Ex-CIA Director Stands By Statement That Sen. Tuberville Should be Removed From the ‘Human Race’, Chicago Residents Protest Plan to Use Park’s Field House as Housing for Illegal Immigrants, Biden’s National Security Spokesman Asserts Climate Change More Existential Threat than Nuclear War, and Chris Rufo Gets Daily Beast To Back Down On Allegedly Defamatory Article Slamming Him
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity, and October!
Outkick: Forget The Facilities, Mike Gundy Says ‘Don’t Build It, Put The Money In The Bank’ For NIL. College Football World Continues To Change, Stephen A. Smith Has Changed His Tune On Lamar Jackson, Kelsey Plum Calls Out Tom Brady For Finally Showing Up To Aces’ Game After Being Announced As Minority Owner Seven Months Ago, It’s The Gardner Minshew Show In Indy For The Next Month, And That’s Great News For NFL Bros, LSU’s Brian Kelly Wanted DB Major Burns Not To Score With Late Interception, Shedeur Sanders Taunts Students After Barely Beating Horrible Arizona State Team, and Prime Win: Colorado, Deion Sanders Defeat Arizona State On Last-Minute Field Goal, Just Two Wins Away From Postseason
Power Line: So Much For “Peace”, Doing Iran’s Bidding, Time to Close Harvard? Democrats For Mass Murder, and The Nations That Dominate the Global Economy
Shark Tank: Florida Dems Bent On Removing State’s Statutory Same-Sex Marriage Ban
Shot In The Dark: Bob Richardson, Notes From Underground, Open Letter To The Entire Twin Cities Media, Bill King & His Employees, and Soundtrack Part 5
The Political Hat: Posting Hiatus Due To Work/Travel
This Ain’t Hell: Milley clowns himself once more as he leaves office, Israel at war after Iran-backed Hamas kills hundreds, Monday quickies, Israel Announces Gaza Siege, Vows to Destroy Hamas, American carrier strike group ordered to the Eastern Mediterranean, Guess who is protesting Israel? Army special operations could see 10% cut, and Military to House the Homeless?
Transterrestrial Musings: Biden’s Latest Foreign-Policy Debacle, Rand Paul’s Fauci Expose, Israel’s Intelligence Failure, Stories And Society, and The House Members Who Flunked The Moral Test
Victory Girls: Blinken Gives Palestine Money For Food, Then Gaza Starts A War, White House Aims To Alienate Religious Foster Families, and Biden Administration Scrambling To Deflect Blame For Hamas War
Volokh Conspiracy: Biden’s Cruel Resumption of Deportation Flights for Migrants Fleeing Venezuela’s Socialist Dictatorship, “Antizionists” Show Their Genocidal Colors, Second Amendment Roundup: Fusillade of Amicus Briefs Filed in Rahimi, and The Single Best Article (So Far) on the Hamas-Israel War
Watts Up With That: ERCOT Readies ‘Retired’ Gas Generation for the 2023/24 Winter Peak, A Monumental Milestone: Celebrating 500 Million Pageviews on Watts Up With That, The electric grid needs good failure mode analysis, and United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Covers-up UN failures by Blaming Climate Change!
The Federalist: New Documentary Probes The Cheating Scandal That Rocked Baseball Fans Everywhere, As VP, Joe Biden Emailed His Brother And Son About Foreign Business More Than 29,000 Times, Why Americans Should Celebrate Columbus Day, Senate Republicans Probe Whether VA Is Caring For Service Members Injured By The Jab, All Christians, Not Just Catholics, Should Be Worried About Pope Francis’ Synod, and North Carolina Republicans Override Democrat Governor’s Dishonest Veto Of Election Integrity Bills
Mark Steyn: “We Are at War”, Lust in the Dust – King Vidor, the Sexy Western and Duel in the Sun, Send in the Clowns, and Partying On

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‘Palestinian Resistance’ = Beheading Babies

Posted on | October 10, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘Palestinian Resistance’ = Beheading Babies

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is a campus organization that has been accused of fostering anti-Semitism at American universities. And how do you suppose these undergraduate miscreants have reacted to the recent Hamas attacks on Israel? By issuing this statement on their Instagram account:

“Today, we witness a historic win for the Palestinian resistance: across land, air, and sea, our people have broken down the artificial barriers of the Zionist entity, taking with it the facade of an impenetrable settler colony and reminding each of us that total return and liberation to Palestine is near. Catching the enemy completely by surprise, the Palestinian resistance has captured over a dozen settlements surrounding Gaza along with many occupation soldiers and military vehicles. This is what it means to Free Palestine: not just slogans and rallies, but armed confrontation with the oppressors.”

The Daily Caller reports:

In an SJP toolkit, students are instructed to organize protests, sit-in demonstrations, and workshops and share “statements of solidarity” expressing support for “Palestine” following Hamas’ attacks on Israel. In a section dealing with “messaging and framing,” SJP tells students that “resistance is justified” and to “normalize the resistance,” calling it “morally and politically necessary.”
Students are instructed not to use the terms “war” or “conflict” but instead call the situation in Israel a “struggle for national liberation,” according to the toolkit. SJP also argues that “settlers” are not “civilians,” referencing the hundreds of Israelis massacred over the weekend by Hamas, and that all deaths are the fault of the “Zionist entity.”

Well, let’s discuss the details of this “struggle for national liberation,” shall we? Let’s talk about the “armed confrontation with the oppressors,” i.e., helpless women and children who just happened to be near the Gaza border when this “historic win for the Palestinian resistance” occurred.

If you poke around a bit, you’ll find Hamas sympathizers claiming that this is Israeli propaganda, that there is no “proof” of babies being beheaded, as if we must see photos or videos of such atrocities in order to believe they happened. Well, CBS News is reporting it, OK? Maybe you think it’s another Texas Air National Guard thing, I don’t know, but whether or not you believe Hamas beheaded babies, will you at least stipulate that they attacked unarmed civilians? Because, see, SJP wants you to believe that “armed confrontation with the oppressors” means killing any random Jews they happened to encounter.

What about all those young people at a music festival? Were they “oppressors”? Was gunning down these people the “armed confrontation” that SJP is celebrating? Another “win for the Palestinian resistance”?

Your “struggle for national liberation” is a license for mass murder, isn’t that what you’re saying? And you expect people to sympathize with your cause?

Oh, and Israel’s supposed to make a “proportionate” response?



 

Category: Israel

The Annual Admiral of the Ocean Sea Appreciation Post

Posted on | October 10, 2023 | Comments Off on The Annual Admiral of the Ocean Sea Appreciation Post

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This is the day when we remember the brave Genoese navigator who talked Queen Isabella of Spain into financing an expedition intended to sail west across the Atlantic to the Indies and their fabulous spices, avoiding obstreperous Moors and well-armed Portuguese. As we all know now, there were some sizable continents in the way, which became an abundant source of gold, silver, souls and lands where hungry young Spaniards could found estates of their own. True, Columbus never set foot on North America, but aside from some Portuguese fishermen off Newfoundland, nobody much cared about that relatively worthless land until the English decided to see what, if anything, lay on the shores of the Chesapeake and Massachusetts Bays. So: go read Morison’s epic biography of the great Christopher Columbus, appointed Admiral of the Ocean Sea by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. As for “Indigenous Peoples’ Day”, promoted shamelessly by the shameless wannabee Cherokee from Massachusetts, she who is called Fauxcahontas in the true language of her people, we could care less.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

“In this house, Christopher Columbus is a hero.” Damn right.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Sweden Is Unprepared For Gangs
EBL: Happy Canada Thanksgiving Tomorrow
Twitchy: And now for some feelgood news from Danica McKellar, Obama bro Tommy Vietor whines about Israel cutting off Gaza’s power, and RFK Jr.’s siblings try to sink his third party run faster than Uncle Ted sank his car at Chappaquiddick
Louder With Crowder: Girl born a dude crowned “Miss Portugal,” will now compete in “Miss Universe” against another girl born a dude, Should Women in Relationships Go Clubbing with Single Friends?, and Joe Rogan shares shocking story about LA schools
Vox Popoli: Fireworks in Israel, How KU Destroyed the Ebook Market, An Informative Analogy, A Tale of Two Invasions, and Forza Milan!
Stoic Observations: Cricket Flour

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: 24,669 Americans Murdered By Terrorists In One Day, 
Dana Loesch: What Israel Must Do Now
Don Surber: We lost 9/11
Glenn Reynolds: Is Everything Suddenly Going To Hell?

AN ASSORTMENT OF RECENT BOOKS
The latest installment in Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter International series is out, Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever, co-written with Jason Cordova, and like the other novels in the Memoirs series, this is a look into the past of MHI at some of its legendary hunters. In this case, the hunter is Chloe Mendoza, and she’s got a little something extra going for her: she’s a nagualii, a shape-shifter who’s the daughter of the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca. This comes in handy as she and the newly formed Los Angeles MHI team find themselves up against what initially seems to be a werewolf pack but -as sometimes happens with MHI- turns out to be something far worse, something that has its hooks into the local Monster Control Bureau office. Agent Franks makes a cameo appearance but serves mainly to inject more tension and mystery into an already tense situation. A solid addition to the MHI library.

John Wright’s Null-A Continuum was a wild ride. People familiar with Wright’s work may see some similarities to his Eschaton series (Count to a Trillion, etc.) but on balance it is faithful to the first two of A.E. van Vogt’s Null-A novels, The World of Null-A and The Players of Null-A*. Continuum starts with a murder that Gilbert Gosseyn appears to have committed, but he has no memory of doing so -and this is the least of his problems, since Enro the Red is on the loose again and there are apparently some non-human aliens who would like to eliminate humanity and take our galaxy for their own. Still, Gosseyn has an extra brain, Null-A training, the ability to replicate the distorter effect with his extra brain, and allies in unexpected places. This is a really good combination of A.E. van Vogt’s wild imagination and Wright’s gift of descriptive prose, and if you liked the first two Null-A novels, this will be a welcome treat.
* We will not discuss Null-A Three, for reasons Wright explains in the foreword.

The conversion of Ralts Bloodthorne’s Behold Humanity! epic from posts on r/HFY into actual books continues with Ashes, Ashes, the eleventh book in the series. The alien Atrekna, time manipulators from a dying universe and creators of a previously unseen form of berserkersPrecursor Autonomous War Machines, make their appearance in the midst of the Confederacy’s war against the Lanaktallan Great Herd, and almost immediately make a pair of serious mistakes in dealing with Terran Descent Humanity (quite aside from meddling with time, which our Universe Does Not Like) although at first it seems they’ve managed a killing blow as first the SUDS devices that allow dead Terrans to revive in new bodies go offline, and then a temporal attack aimed at “gentling” Terrans goes awry in a fashion lethal to 90% of Terran Descent Humans. This series has been an amazing mulligan stew of influences and shoutouts to all manner of science fiction and horror works from the last sixty years, and I’ll be sorry when it finally comes to an end. Highly recommended.

I met Rebecca Kuang at a Balticon some years ago, when The Poppy War had just come out, and I was so excited by the idea of a fantasy loosely based on the Second Sino-Japanese War that I went down to the dealer’s room, bought the book, and spent much of the convention reading it. Well, here we are in the third and final book of the trilogy, The Burning God, and to quote Private Pyle from Full Metal Jacket, “I am already in a world of shit.” I should have known better than to accept a Washington Post review at face value, because the war our protagonist (I hesitate to call her a heroine at this point) is fighting looks a lot less like the war that started at the Marco Polo Bridge than it does like a hellish combination of the Taiping Rebellion, the Boxer Rebellion, the Opium Wars, and (to a very,very tiny extent) the war the Post reviewer thought they were seeing. This is a brutal book with a lot of nasty, horrible things happening in it, much like all the aforementioned wars, and I am taking a break from it because the amoral carnage got to be a bit much for me. I’ll finish it, if only because after reading the first two books in the trilogy I want to know how it ends, and the idea of spending $15 on a book I’m not going to finish is just Wrong. Still, if you’re not comfortable with genocide, near-constant treachery, and a very unhappy protagonist who’s not sure she’s doing the  right thing, this may not be the book for you. 
(Portions of the preceding book reviews appeared in somewhat different form in Esmeralda County Line #5, an apazine for N’APA #266.)

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Noah Berlatsky, Who Seems to Be OK With Pedophiles, Sure Does Hate Republicans

Posted on | October 9, 2023 | Comments Off on Noah Berlatsky, Who Seems to Be OK With Pedophiles, Sure Does Hate Republicans

In case you wondered whatever happened to this particular scumbag — who, just a few years ago, was busy defending pedophiles as “MAPs” (minor-attracted persons) — he seems now to have latched onto his buddy Aaron Rupar’s blog Public Notice, where today he declared: “Republicans have used the crisis [in Israel] to indulge in monstrously irresponsible lies and inflammatory conspiracy theories that seem designed to hobble peace efforts and encourage dissension, confusion, and war.”

Thanks for this information, Mister Pedophile Defender.

To recount a bit of history, I first took notice of Berlatsky in 2015, when he was doing a “male feminist” trip that annoyed Meghan Murphy. A few years later, in January 2020, I asked a simple question: “Is Noah Berlatsky a Pedophile?”

Look, I’m not making any accusations here, and far be it from me, an award-winning journalist, to engage in irresponsible speculation. There is no actual evidence that Noah Berlatsky is a pedophile, as far as I know, and it would be reckless to attempt to infer anything about his sexual preference based merely on a few messages on Twitter, taken out of context. Rather, if anyone seriously suspected Berlatsky of pedophilia — which, as I say, there’s no specific reason they should suspect this — it might be more productive to consider his overall oeuvre of work, including his oft-noted status as a so-called “male feminist.”
If you get my drift. Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink.

That 2020 post proved to be rather prophetic, because by the summer of 2021, Berlatsky had become “the Communications Director for Prostasia, a not-for-profit group that is reportedly attempting to legitimize pedophilia under the guise of helping children.” In the words of feminist Anna Slatz, “all of Prostasia’s goals and campaigns lead to the exact same conclusion: The total normalization and acceptance of pedophilia in wider society.”

Berlatsky’s association with this pro-pedophile group got renewed attention a few months ago when he published an opinion column at Bloomberg that attacked the popular anti-trafficking film, The Sound of Freedom.

As I have said before, far be it from me to accuse anyone of being a pedophile without evidence, but on the other hand, if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, you should consider the possibility it’s actually a duck.



 

Category: Progressivism

Politics Is a Team Sport

Posted on | October 9, 2023 | Comments Off on Politics Is a Team Sport

Saturday evening on The Other Podcast, I found myself ranting furiously about the idiots who decided that what the conservative movement needed was for eight House Republicans to join the Democrats and vote the GOP Speaker out of office. It prompted me to invoke Casey Stengel who, frustrated by the ineptitude of the 1962 Mets, asked, “Can’t anybody here play this game?”

The problems with our team are bad enough, but at least we no longer have the problem of Bill Kristol, Tom Nichols, Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt and the rest of the #NeverTrump crew who quit the GOP in a childish tantrum and now are allied with Democrats and the Somnambulist-in-Chief, Sleepy Joe Biden.

Does any friend of Israel think Biden’s Middle East policy is better than Trump’s? And how do Messrs. Kristol, et al., feel about their current alignment with the party of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib? Not happy, I’ll bet.

Kristol is stuck with grumbling about what he claims are “some GOP misrepresentations” about Biden’s Iran policy, because it would not do for a #NeverTrumper to admit the reality that he is now on the wrong side. The pathetic fate of the #NeverTrump crew reminds me of nothing so much as one of those hotshot college football players who, having failed to win the starting quarterback job as a freshman at a major conference powerhouse, decides to enter the “transfer portal,” only to end up at some third-rate program.

To join the Democratic Party team — as the #NeverTrumpers have done, whether they’re willing to admit it or not — requires one to tolerate (if not indeed to embrace) the left-wing fringe movements that provide the Democrats with their grassroots energy. And what is the left-wing fringe doing now?

If you look closely at those signs, you’ll notice the branding of the Workers World Party and the Party for Socialism and Liberation:

These are actually two factions of the same fringe Marxist cult. Sam Marcy quit the Socialist Workers Party which wasn’t totalitarian enough for his taste. Marcy founded the Workers World Party (WWP) in 1959. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the WWP joined forces with Ramsey Clark to form International ANSWER (“Act Now to Stop War and End Racism”), a front group that has spent the past 30 years organizing protests against U.S. policy. In 2004, ANSWER leader Brian Becker and others (including Gloria La Riva and Sunil Freeman) “left the Workers World Party in June 2004, announcing that ‘the Workers World Party leadership is no longer capable of fulfilling [the] mission’ of building socialism,” and thus was born the Party for Socialism and Liberation. One may well ask, how does supporting Hamas help the socialist “mission” that the WWP and PSL seek to advance? It doesn’t matter. To these fringe kooks, “socialism” always turns out to be whatever is bad for America. There is no anti-American movement they will not support. Because Hamas hates America, the kooks are pro-Hamas — a logic not too unlike the anti-Trump hysteria that led Kristol and his friends to become pro-Biden.

Now they’re all part of the same coalition. The worst people always end up together somehow, and they certainly deserve each other.



 

Category: Politics, Progressivism
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