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Death by Criticism

Posted on | January 24, 2013 | 9 Comments

Bernard Loiseau was one of the world’s most famous French chefs:

Ten years ago, Loiseau was France’s most feted chef. The charismatic cook’s beaming face smiled from billboards, TV shows and recipe books. His restaurant, Le Relais Bernard Loiseau in Saulieu, Burgundy was a favourite with the late president François Mitterrand.
Robert de Niro would drop in by helicopter for his signature dish of frog’s legs with garlic purée and parsley sauce.
But on February 24, 2003, the chef finished his lunchtime service, rolled up his apron and drove home. Telling his ten-year old son — one of three children — to go and play outside, he went upstairs, locked the bedroom door and shot himself in the head with a hunting rifle, a present from his wife.

What happened? Loiseau had been privately warned by the editor of the Michelin travel guides that his restaurant was in danger of being demoted from the coveted three-star ranking. Michelin denied it at the time of Loiseau’s suicide, and tried to fix the blame on other critics, but a just-discovered note confirmed the truth.

The night manager at Waffle House doesn’t have any self-esteem issues, but the great French chef couldn’t stand to be a mere two-star chef.

(Hat tip: T.R. Sterling.)

Category: France

Complete Decadence

Posted on | January 24, 2013 | 58 Comments

“You can kill half of your young men and repopulate your country in relatively short order. . . . But when you kill your young women . . . your country has no future.”
— Roxeanne de Luca, “Really, Leon Panetta? You want Sandra Fluke in combat?”

Have Americans become so decadent that they have lost all instinct for their preservation as a people? Well, 55 million abortions in the past 40 years would certainly seem to indicate this. And remember that a key issue in 2012 was Sandra Fluke’s “right” to free contraception, because it’s such a horrible thing when sex results in pregnancy. So this shouldn’t really surprise anyone:

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is lifting the military’s official ban on women in combat, which will open up hundreds of thousands of additional front-line jobs to them, senior defense officials said Wednesday.

Oh, did you hear about the 11-year-old transgender who “transitioned” in kindergarten? This is the future America voted for: No future at all.

 

Category: Culture, Military

Jimmy Buffett: Feminist Hero?

Posted on | January 24, 2013 | 7 Comments

I really do appreciate the fact you’re sitting here.
Your voice sounds so wonderful,
But you face don’t look too clear.
So bar maid bring a pitcher, another round of brew.
Honey, why don’t we get drunk and screw?

Is this what they’re teaching in Women’s Studies classes nowadays? Evidently so, according to one young British feminist:

The idea that my generation are unhappy and sexually unfulfilled because, thanks to the dwindling of traditional gender roles, we’ve been able to have sex on our own terms, makes absolutely no sense to me. Especially as in Britain, we never really had a dating culture to begin with. Americans are complaining because “dinner and a movie” has been replaced with “hanging out”, when on this side of the Atlantic people have been flinging themselves at one another outside the pub following last orders since time immemorial, and it’s worked fine. Likewise, while the Americans see the classic “are u out?” fishing text as evidence of shallow promiscuity, we see it as a convenient way of minimising social embarrassment by ensuring both parties are too drunk to attempt a conversation capable of, let’s face it, shattering the illusion whose maintenance is so essential for successful coitus.

OK, so if getting “too drunk to attempt a conversation . . . is so essential for successful coitus,” how is this a triumph for women? Is this what being “able to have sex on our own terms” means?

Or does it mean, you’re getting played?

Making the bar/club/party scene your native habitat makes you a potential prey for the practicioners of “game.” And if he’s good at it, you won’t realize you’ve been played until it’s too late. Ladies, if want to know what the players really think of you, you should read their blogs:

What is a bar? It’s a social venue where women can receive attention from men at predictably constant rates. Every approach performed will increase her worth. Every hot stud who lays pipe inside her via a one-night stand will reinforce in her mind that she deserves Mr. Perfect. These men feed her ego like an IV bag nourishes a surgery patient.
The effect of all this is cumulative so that a 30 year old woman who is well past her prime will put out attitude multiple times higher than a hot 18 year old who just started going to clubs. Since the older woman simply can’t forget all those men who have approached her and wanted to take her home, she won’t receive your approach unless you’re nearly the best of what has attempted to f–k her in the past, even though the number of guys willing to wife her up has decreased exponentially. Nightlife venues give average women near unlimited choice and attention, causing a sharp degradation in her attitude, warmth, and even her appearance. . . .

Sure, go read the whole thing. It’s foul, cynical and offensive, but it’s a real first-person expression of the worldview of the player, provided by a guy who quite literally wrote the book on “game.”

The idea that “hook-up” culture results in women being “able to have sex on our own terms,” as Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett claims, is an assertion unsupported by evidence — which is true of nearly everything feminists believe, but especially true in this case.

Tyler O’Neil at Counter-Cultured has some polite advice on this topic. But if you ladies don’t want to listen, here’s your theme song:

 

Category: Feminism, Sex

Let The 2016 Campaign Begin, With A Show Of ‘Support’ For Hillary

Posted on | January 24, 2013 | 17 Comments

by Smitty

The mighty Looking Spoon thinks that Hillary could be a stand-in for Omar Saeed al Sahaf:

To paraphrase Jean-Pierre McGarrigle:

“In an age of spin, Clinton offers feeling and authenticity. Her message is consistent–unshakeable, in fact, no matter the evidence–but she commands daily attention by her on-the-spot, invective-rich variations on the theme. Her lunatic counterfactual art is more appealing than the banal awfulness of the Reliable Sources. See is a Method Actress in a production that will close in a couple of days. She stands superior to truth.”

Via just a conservative girl,

And, finally, some theme music from ma Twitter feed:

I was gonna fix the security, but Ambassador died
I was gonna tell the American people, Ambassador died
I was gonna have Ms. Rice come clean, but talking points fried!
Ambassador died, Ambassador died, Ambassador died.
[To Congress] LaDaDaDaDaDa

I was gonna spring Nakoula from the can, cuz Ambassador died
I was gonna honor the other dead man, cuz Ambassador died
I was gonna ‘splain about the two ex-SEALs, and I know why!
Ambassador died, Ambassador died, Ambassador died.
{To Congress} LaDaDaDaDaDa

I was gonna ask me the Turkish envoy, cuz Ambassador died
I was gonna find me a Syrian gun-toy, cuz Ambassador died
I was gonna plumb me a Taliban death-ploy, and I know why!

Category: Hillary Clinton

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.24.13

Posted on | January 24, 2013 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
Emotional Hillary Angrily Denies Benghazi Coverup

“What difference does it make?”

“Nothing could be farther from the truth,” she insisted
Ayotte: So many questions that went unanswered

Norks Plan Nuclear Test Aimed At U.S.
Also, rockets.


Panetta’s Parting Gift: Lifting Ban On Women In Combat
Policy change calls for women to be serving in combat roles by January 2016



POLITICS
House Votes To Suspend Debt Limit

Speaker Boehner says it’s time to get serious about deficit reduction

Refuses to extend debt limit suspension unless Senate cuts a deal to cut deficit

AF General Welsh Calls Sexual Assault A “Cancer”

Union Membership Falls To Lowest Percentage In 76 Years

Boehner: Obama’s Goal Is To Annihilate The Republican Party

Some Female Vets Say The Time Has Come For Women In Combat Arms

LA Teacher Accused Of Sexually Abusing Up To 20 Kids

NRA’s LaPierre Says Obama Doesn’t Understand Gun Owners



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
U.S. Oil Prices Plunge After Seaway Pipeline Cuts Rates: NYMEX $95.23, Brent $112.80
PRC Manufacturing At Two-Year High
Asian Stocks Swing Between Gains, Loss; Japan Stocks Jump
Defense Department Cuts Spark Losses At General Dynamics
Logitech Swings To Third-Quarter Loss On Weak Global PC Market
Netflix Gets A Boost From New Streaming Customers
McDonald’s Expecting Decline In January Sales
US Airways 4Q Profit Doubles
Apple Plunges After Flat Earnings Report
Zelda, Mario Kart, other Favorites Coming To Wii U
Feds Bust Three For Widespread Gozi Virus
RIM Gains Momentum Ahead Of Blackberry 10 Launch
Facebook Overtakes Google Maps As Top Mobile App
Researchers Turn DNA Into Digital Storage Medium
Windows 8 To Mainstream Solid-State Drives?
THQ Dissolved In Bankruptcy, Assets Split Among Several Companies



SPORTS
Grizzlies Maul Lakers, 106-93

The Grizzlies’ Rudy Gay, left, and the Lakers’ Kobe Bryant (24) battle for a loose ball

Memphis sends the Lakers to their fourth straight loss

Tom Brady Fined $10K For Unnecessary Roughness Against Ravens

Lopez Leads Nyets Past Timbermutts 91-83

Gaborik’s Hat Trick Gives Rangers 4-3 Win In OT Against Bruins

Dick Vitale Rips Duke After Blowout Loss To Miami


Heat Outlast Raptors In 123-116 OT Win

Junior Seau’s Family Files Wrongful Death Suit Against NFL

Hofstra Loses On Half-Court Shot As Buzzer Sounds

NCAA Investigation Of Miami Flagged

Soriano Provides Needed Storyline For Nats Beat Reporters
A sports story about the difficulty of writing sports stories. Kill me now.



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Queen Of Soul Amused By Beyonce Lip-Sync Controversy

The Queen of Soul and some rapper’s wife

Celebs have mass Chris Crocker moment in support of Beyonce

SXSW Rejects Lohan/Schrader Flick “The Canyons” Over Quality Issues

Private Diaries Reveal Dark Secrets About Unspeakable Armenian Clan

Bieber’s Stoned Sex Romp With Nursing Student Drove Away Selena Gomez

Manti Te’o’s Real Girlfriend Speaks Out: He Was The Victim Of A Hoax

Taylor Swift Poses As Rapunzel For Disney

Paula Deen: How My Whole Family Got Fit

National Enquirer Claims Rachael Ray’s Husband Repeatedly Visited Manhattan Swinger’s Club Before – And After – His Marriage

Inigo Montoya T-Shirt Causes Stir On QANTAS Flight
Yes, people really are this dumb.



FOREIGNERS
PM Cameron Promises Britain More Freedom From The EU
Barak: Elections A Win For Social Justice Movement
Mali’s Army Accused Of Summary Executions By NGO
Indian Panel Pushes For New Laws After Fatal Gang Rape
Mexican Court Frees Frenchwoman In Kidnapping Case
Chavez Ally Morales Claims Ailing Venezuelan President Undergoing Physical Therapy
Russians Flee War-Ravaged Syria For Moscow
Philippines Takes PRC Island Dispute To UN Tribunal



BLOGS & STUFF
Elliott Abrams: Hillary Clinton’s Management Failure
Breitbart: Hillary On Libya – “What Difference Does It Make?”
Theo Spark: Hillary Clinton #Benghazi Hearings
Riehl World News: Idiot Liberal Blogger Dishonestly Defends Hillary, Falsely Attacks The Right
Weasel Zippers: Rand Paul Hammers Hillary Over Benghazi During Senate Hearing
NRO Corner: Benghazi – They Know We’re Stupid
Rush Limbaugh: The Cleansing Of Hillary Clinton’s Record
Twitchy: Salon Writer – Abortion Is Killing, And I’m Okay With That
Power Line: Unions’ Decline Continued In 2012
RightWingNews: 2/23/2013 Will be A Day Of Resistance
Stephen Kruiser: Forget Subtlety – Media Encouraging Executive Overreach For Second Term
Maggie’s Farm: The Left’s Unfinished Agenda
Gateway Pundit: Morsi Warns US Officials Of Jewish Media, Gets F-16s Anyway
Ed Driscoll: Blank Generation
Kori Schake: Flawed Diamond – A Vanity Project Posing As Anthropology




Category: Live at Five

All My XXX’s Live in Texas

Posted on | January 23, 2013 | 73 Comments

The Lone Star State has become the Porn Star State:

When a friend told Hollie Toups that topless photos of her had been posted on an Internet pornography site, she felt horrified, but she didn’t feel alone: She recognized more than a dozen other South Texas women on the website, she said.
Last Friday, Ms. Toups and 16 other women filed a civil lawsuit in Texas state court against the site, Texxxan.com, alleging that their intimate photos were posted illegally and included information that made them easy to identify. They are seeking damages and to have the site closed down. . . .
Legal experts say they are seeing an increasing number of such lawsuits targeting so-called revenge porn, in which intimate images are posted online, often by jilted former lovers but also by computer repairmen or hackers who gain access to private photos. . . .
“I’m not saying I’m perfect, but I’ve been exploited,” said Ms. Toups, a 32-year-old graduate student in criminal justice, who lives outside Houston. She said she had sent the photos years earlier to a former boyfriend, wasn’t sure how they had ended up on the Internet, and hasn’t sued the former boyfriend. She said the photos appeared on the website alongside a link to her Twitter account . . .

Notice the contradiction: Hollie is stupid enough to send naked photos of herself to at least one of her (perhaps numerous) boyfriends, but Hollie is also smart enough to attend graduate school in Texas.

Talk about your Higher Education Bubble . . .

Hollie and her fellow “revenge porn” plaintiffs want you to think they’re victims of something besides their own stupidity:

Erica Johnstone, a San Francisco lawyer who has represented about a half-dozen victims of revenge porn sites, said that “the emotional toll on women can be devastating,” and includes depression and anxiety.
Ms. Toups said she at first became reclusive last summer, when she learned that her revealing photos had landed online. “I shut everyone off but my mom,” she said, adding that when people greeted her in public, she wondered, “Is it because they are polite or have seen me topless?”

It’s because you’re dumb, Hollie. And also because you’re a naughty girl.

See, here’s what this lawsuit is really about: These tramps are suing for the right to keep their promiscuity secret. They want to be able to send naked photos of themselves around the Internet — “Woo-hoo! Check me out!” — whenever it suits their fancy, but they imagine that somehow they can keep it from becoming general knowledge that they are the kind of girls who send naked photos of themselves around the Internet.

Hollie’s attorney makes this dubious legal principle clear:

The lead lawyer for the Texas plaintiffs, John Morgan of Beaumont, Texas, said he plans to sue the owners and operators of the porn site once he learns their identities.
“None of these women consented to having their photos used,” Mr. Morgan said, adding that all of his clients subsequently suffered bouts of depression. “This site has to be shut down.”

“None of these women consented to having their photos used” . . . how?

That’s the question, you see.  The women consented to having their photos “used” by whomever the chosen recipient was. And when they hit the “send” button on their computers, they consented to that usage, but are now suing because the implied contract between naked-photo sender and naked-photo recipient has been breached, and that the property which the sender in fact consented to share with the recipient was subsequently shared with others, and that the “revenge porn” site is now deriving profit from that breach of (implied) contact.

But how do we know that Hollie Toups or any of her fellow plaintiffs are telling the truth about how their naked photos got online?

Hollie Toups says she only sent her topless photos to only one of her ex-boyfriends, but are we just supposed to take her word for it? For all we know, she was sending those photos to prospective “sugar daddies.” Such arrangements are reportedly all the rage nowadays:

As college costs continue their stubborn rise, and with work harder to come by during an anemic economic recovery, some students are resorting to a rather unusual measure in order to pay their college bills.
“Sugar Daddies,” wealthy older men who provide financial support to younger women in exchange for sex and companionship, have seen a rise in popularity among college students struggling to find a way to pay tuition.
College student membership on SeekingArrangement.com, a website that matches sugar daddies and sugar babies, has increased by 58 percent from December 2011 to December 2012
“Currently, we have over 2 million members, 44 percent of which are college students,” Leroy Velasquez, public relations manager at SeekingArrangement.com, told ABC News. ”It’s very difficult to retain a part time or full-time job, especially when you have an academic life. With SeekingArrangement, we offer these types of relationships.”

Doing the math here — 44% of 2 million — that means there are 880,000 college girls currently seeking “sugar daddies” via the Internet, and who knows what kind of photos these girls are sending to their . . . uh, clients? Patrons? Benefactors?

Do I have any reason to believe that these Texas floozies were using their naked photos for such purposes? No. But I can’t rule it out, either.

Notice that I am trying to be as deliberately offensive as possible.

It’s not that I am entirely insensitive to the “emotional toll” suffered by these women, it’s just that I’m sick and tired of people trying to blame others for their own stupidity, then expecting everybody to view them as victims, when the answer to their problems is just common sense:

DON’T TAKE NAKED PHOTOS OF YOURSELF! DON’T LET YOUR BOYFRIENDS TAKE NAKED PHOTOS OF YOU!
STOP BEING SUCH DUMB SLUTS!

And stop expecting the rest of us to feel sorry for you.

 

Category: Sex, Texas

The Other Democrats Wonder: Is Failure Linked To Being The Other Democrats?

Posted on | January 23, 2013 | 16 Comments

by Smitty

Byron York:

The bottom line is that RNC members know something is terribly wrong. Some point out that chairman Reince Priebus — who is expected to be re-elected in an uncontested ballot Friday — cannot come before the committee and say, “We were out-spent” or “We couldn’t match the resources of the other side.” The party’s problem is more fundamental than that — simply put, Republicans have either a basic identity problem or an equally basic competence problem — and demands more fundamental answers.

Read the whole thing, as the RNC gathers in Charlotte for navel gazing, and, one hopes, repentance.

If anybody down there reads this post, please relay to the homies that Hispanic outreach is great. More solid get-out-the-vote efforts are fine. But they are peripheral to the ongoing collapse of our Republic into a failed state.

The GOP can’t out-spendthrift the Democrats, and has no business playing that game any more.

It’s also time to quit with the equestrian nice-nice, and answer the Democrat propaganda with firm, unflinching directness. Step into Twitter for smaller examples of telling these Lefties what’s what, while keeping it family friendly. It can be done, but it takes some thought to engage without veering into f-bomb territory. This GOP is about one Dole/McCain/Romney aristocratic milquetoast away from ceasing to function, as far as I can tell.

Speaker Boehner’s “No Budget No Pay” act is a step in the right direction.

Delivering remarks on the House floor today, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) urged support for the No Budget, No Pay Act (H.R. 325) that will force Senate Democrats to finally pass a budget, which they have refused to do in almost four years. In his remarks, Speaker Boehner reiterated that the No Budget, No Pay Act is just a first step toward a long-term plan that balances the budget over the next 10 years, and addresses the fiscal crisis that threatens our economy and future generations.

Can you guys cut a little YouTube clip and explain why we can’t do that in five years? A sober little “No Speaker, No Cry” video would really help.

Balancing the budget over the next 10 years means that we save the future for our kids and our grandkids. It also means that we strengthen programs like Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid that can’t continue to exist in their current form without some kind of controls.

Fortunately, the sunrise is not dependent upon our Congress, or the future truly would be in jeopardy. How about a more long-term plan to privatize these vote-buying schemes? This would help the GOP not sound so much like The Other Democrats.

Category: Uncategorized

SWAT Hoax? Moody Air Force Base Locked Down After Fake 911 Call

Posted on | January 23, 2013 | 3 Comments

Moody Air Force Base was put on security lockdown today after an apparent hoax call sent sheriff’s deputies to investigate a false report of an armed threat at the base near the south Georgia town of Valdosta.

According to WCTV-TV, the report of “a situation involving an active shooter” resulted in a lockdown at the base that lasted for nearly two hours. Deputies from the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department were “dispatched to Moody AFB after a 911 call, they were told there was a supposed active shooter on the base,” WCTV reported, but the report turned out to be “unfounded.” The lockdown ended before 3 p.m. ET.

A sergeant in the office of public affairs at Moody told me in a brief telephone interview that “a threat was reported that never existed” — which sounds like SWATting, a potentially deadly kind of hoax in which false 911 calls are used to intimidate or harass individuals.

Several celebrities, most recently Kim Kardashian, have been targeted by SWATtings. Members of Congress last year called on Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the use of SWATting as a terrorist tactic against political bloggers.

Category: Crime
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