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Show Some Civility, You Nazi Racists!

Posted on | January 21, 2013 | 25 Comments

Steve McCann on the divisiveness of the Obama Age:

This past week, Bob Sheiffer of CBS compared defeating the NRA to defeating the Nazis in World War II. Not to be outdone Martin Bashir of NBC said the NRA “…deserved to be compared to Hitler.” Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA) claimed:  “…they [NRA] cannot get over the fact that Obama is black.” And the ever reasonable Charlie Rangel (D-NY) in discussing gun control said: “..the Southern states have cultures that we have to overcome.” These are but a few of the many references to either Hitler, the Nazis, racism or backwoods gun-totting hicks in fly-over country since the debate spawned by Obama’s determination to impose more stringent gun control measures began. . . .
Since Barack Obama was inaugurated in January of 2009, the use of the race card has reached epidemic proportions. Anyone who disagrees with his policies is branded a racist — a term filled with negative and ominous connotations. Its use is solely intended to demonize and intimidate the political opposition and is succeeding only in creating the most polarized society since the 1960’s.

Actually, America is much more polarized than we were 50 years ago. In 1963, pro-Castro Marxists were relatively few. “Lone nuts,” we called ’em. Even as late as 1968, pro-Palestinian radicals were so rare in America that nobody could comprehend their sentiments. I remember one day in June 1968, my mother crying, “Why? Why?”

Now those people are in charge of the country and, if you disagree with them, you’re the radical . . .

 

Category: Barack Obama, Progressivism, Racism

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.21.13

Posted on | January 21, 2013 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Eric Schmidt, Daughter Sophie Open Up About North Korea Visit

Bill Richardson and Eric Schmidt

Schmidt talked a lot about opening North Korea to the internet, but were Great Successor’s minions actually listening?
Related: Sophie in North Korea


Rahul Gandhi Takes #2 Post In Congress Party
Congress Party leader’s son condemns elitism, vows to decentralize political power

Death Toll At Algerian Gas Plant Rises To 81
Many bodies so badly disfigured after Saturday’s attack, security forces can’t tell if they’re jihadis or hostages



POLITICS
President Obama Sworn In For Second Term

The Capitol

Obama: Inauguration isn’t just about me (yeah suuuuure)

Thousands Turn Out For “Gun Appreciation Day” Rallies

Journal News Takes Down Map Of Gun Owners

Biden Thanks Latinos For Support In Obama Re-Election

Dallas Church, Gun Enthusiasts Compete For Weapons

Pennsylvania Kindergartner Suspended For Threatening To Shoot Friend With Bubble Gun

Obama Campaign Organization Relaunches As PAC

“Safety First” Helps Avoid “Accidental” Shootings

Nebraska Farm Bureau Rejects Governor’s Tax Plan

Minnesota Public Employee Pensions Short $16 Billion



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Prices Mixed On Unclear PRC, US Demand; NYMEX $95.56, Brent $111.89
US Widens Dreamliner Probe After Battery Finding
Asian Stocks Rise In Choppy Trade As Nikkei Slides
Huawei Sales Jump 8% On Smartphones, Probably Topping Ericsson
Solar Power Installations Set Record In Massachusetts
Sony’s Sexy Xperia Z Could Be Thinnest Tablet Ever
Google Research Paper: Passwords No Longer Enough For Online Security
Java Security Warnings: Cut Through The Confusion
Reality Check: Instagram Just Fine With Over 90 Million Monthly Active Users
How Would You Change Nokia’s Lumia 610?
Microsoft’s ARM Blunder: Seven Reasons Why Windows RT Was DOA
Major Layoffs At Wild Man Dev



SPORTS
Flacco Leads Ravens To The Super Bowl

Ray Lewis retirement party in two weeks; y’all invited

Ravens defense makes Tom Brady look ordinary in 28-13 win

49ers Bring Down Falcons 28-24, Advance To Super Bowl

Nuggets Snap Thunder’s Streak With OT Victory

Uninspired Rangers Not Looking Like Beasts Of The East

Fields Scores 18 As Raptors Beat Struggling Lakers


Penguins Far From Perfect, But Off To Perfect Start

Kings Owners Reach Agreement With Seattle Group

Hoosiers Hold Off Pesky Northwestern

Nationals Avoid Arbitration With Tyler Clippard, Announce Deals With Five Others



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Selena Gomez: It Helps To Have Friends Like Taylor And Vanessa

Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, and Vanessa Hudgens

Justin who?

Olympic Medalist Skater Michelle Kwan Gets Married

Why Manti Te’o And His Family Are Talking To Katie Couric

Lindsay Says Take Your Plea Deal And Shove It!

Arnold, Mark Wahlberg And Russell Crowe Terminated By “Mama”, “Oh Dark Thirty”


Octomom: Oops, I’m Stripping Again

Daniel Radcliffe Seen Kissing Costar Erin Drake At Sundance

J.J. Abrams, Paramount Developing Lance Armstrong Movie

Carrie Underwood: Don’t Call My Husband “Mr. Underwood”

“Glee” Star Mark Salling Sued For Pulling An Assange



FOREIGNERS
German Opposition Narrowly Wins Lower Saxony
PRC Income Gap Narrows, Still At Levels Risking Unrest
French, Malian Troops Advance Cautiously Against Jihadis
Taliban Suicide Bombers Attack Traffic Police HQ In Kabul
Syrian Opposition Attempts To Pick PM-In-Exile
Netanyahu: This Election Won’t Be My Last
Cameron To Give Key Speech On EU Ties
Venezuela’s Oil Tied To Chavez’ Fate
Inept Assassin Fails To Kill Bulgarian Politician At Point-Blank Range



BLOGS & STUFF
Weasel Zippers: Democratic State Assemblyman Arrested After Allegedly Threatening State Speaker In Vegas
Jawa Report: Joe Morrissey – A History Of Violence
NRO Corner: Bill Clinton’s Bounce On Those “Bitter Clingers”
Hot Air: Axelrod – Obama’s Second Term Priorities Include More Than Just Fiscal Crises
Bob Owens: Two Injured In Negligent Discharge At Raleigh Gun Show
Legal Insurrection: When Concerts Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Concerts
Doug Powers: Obama, Biden Sworn In For Second Term; Now Officially Inheriting Problems From Themselves
Joanne Jacobs: Another Day Older And Deeper In Debt
Washington Free Beacon: Democrat Group Airs Ad Blasting Hagel As “Anti-Gay, Anti-Woman, Anti-Israel”

Category: Live at Five

Convicted Felon John Tiessen: Crazy? Certainly, But Is He Also Dangerous?

Posted on | January 21, 2013 | 31 Comments

John Tiessen, ranting on YouTube about Nixon and Jesus and the Rothschilds

Where do all these crazy people on the Internet come from, and why do they always seem to end up obsessively stalking me? Maybe I should write a book, Troll Magnet: How to Become an Irresistible Scapegoat for Every Deranged Lunatic With a Twitter Account.

Sunday afternoon, I Tweeted an item that Lee Stranahan posted about how one member of Anonymous “doxxed” another member of Anonymous who is involved in the Steubenville rape story. My plan had been to write a long article about the Steubenville case, but that got pushed back a day because of the inauguration. And in the meantime, my Tweet attracted attention from a kook named John Tiessen.

Tiessen associates himself with Anonymous, and also claims affiliation with the defunct “Project PM” started by former Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown, who notoriously got arrested after a September online video meltdown in which Brown threatened an FBI agent’s family.

After seeing my Tweets with Stranahan and the person from Anonymous that Stranahan was writing about, Tiessen called me a “racist pig” in a message that was, for some unknown reason, also CC’d to the anti-Anonymous hacker known as “The Jester.”

Uh . . . bad move, Mr. Tiessen.

At some point in the past, it seems, Tiessen got the brilliant idea to falsely accuse Jester of being a child pornographer. This cheap smear was apparently an attempt by Tiessen to make himself a hero to the Anonymous movement, whose members all hate Jester.

John Tiessen’s Excellent Adventure, however, had the effect of making him a target for Jester and — wouldn’t you know it? — the Jester discovered that John Tiessen is a convicted felon himself:

I think at the very least, we have a classic case of something called ‘projection‘ — Psychological projection or projection bias is a psychological defense mechanism where John Tiessen subconsciously denies his or her own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, usually to other people. Thus, projection involves imagining or projecting the belief that others originate those feelings.

Something about John Tiessen and a 1992 sex offense. While I can’t vouch for the accuracy of that “dox” — what is it with these people always doxxing each other? — Tiessen admitted that he’s a convicted felon in his weird 17-minute YouTube rant against Jester. A few excerpts:

“I do have a lot of things going on . . . Been down to Occupy Minnesota. I’ve got a lot of things going on there. . . .
“Nixon was bombing Cambodia long before Obama ever thought about bombing people. . . . And he was doing the same thing Obama’s doing today. . . . To me, nothing has really changed. . . .
“When I got out [of prison], I joined a lot of [Web] sites of ex-cons, prison groups and prison rights groups and ex-con rights groups . . .
“Most control freaks are either rapists or child molesters . . .
“I still have contacts in law enforcement. . . . I don’t lie. I have no reason to lie . . .
“Some people blocked me — ‘Anonymous.’ Some people denied knowing me — ‘Anonymous.’ Some people said some things about me — ‘Anonymous.’ . . .
“I’m a Christian. I’m not the kind of Christian you see on TV. . . . People are bashing gay people or bashing Muslims. . . .
“I’m a true Christian. . . .
“You people who kicked me to the curb because of my lifestyle, you’re doing the same thing that you’re fighting against. . . . You want these people to get out of prison and . . . you want them to be ridiculed, laughed at, made fun of. . . .
“That’s just one of many things that I’m accused of and today I still have a hard time with what I did. I know I’m guilty. . . .
“The coke whore that I picked up promised me a blow job if I gave her coke and then she tried to renege on it, and I said, ‘No, you’re going to do it.’ . . .
“Don’t ostracize people who are coming out of prison. . . .
“I’m a f–king true freedom fighter. I’m not one of these f–king wannabes. . . . You want to grow some f–king cojones and be a true freedom fighter? Stand up like Jesus did. Stand up to these kings and these so-called f–king religious leaders. . . [Tell them] ‘You’re not speaking for God.’ I don’t care who you are — Obama, Putin, on and on — I don’t care. You’re speaking for the Devil, man.
“You ain’t speaking for the people. You’re speaking for the Rothschilds and the J.P. Morgans and the f–king banks of this world.”

Those are merely excerpts, of course, and if you’re a graduate student working on a thesis about abnormal psychology, maybe you’ll want to watch the whole 17 minutes of pure crazy-talk:

Notice how Tiessen lacks the self-awareness to realize that this video completely undermines his avowed purposes:

  1. To convince people in Anonymous that he’s not worried about having his criminal record exposed; and
  2. To establish his credibility so that people in Anonymous will take his word — as a “true Christian” and a “f–king true freedom fighter” — that Jester is actually a child molester, because Tiessen’s law-enforcement sources told him so.

When he ends up crazy-talking about God and Obama and the Devil and the Rothschilds, everybody can see that Tiessen is a deranged wacko. Even if you’re OK with Tiessen’s method of dealing with dishonest coke whores, it’s hard to say, “Yeah, I’ll take this guy’s word that he’s got solid sources in law enforcement,” once he starts spewing lunatic gibberish about God and Jesus and the Rothschilds, with an f-bomb or two in every other sentence, just for good measure. Read more

Category: #Occupy, Barrett Brown, Conspiracy Theories, Crime

Rule 5 Sunday: Chrome Angel

Posted on | January 20, 2013 | 12 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


The following links are sometimes to material considered NSFW. Reader discretion in opening links is advised.


Subject To Change makes its Rule 5 debut with a post full of awesome, as does Lowering The Boom, and Laughing Conservative has Jessica Clement. Animal Magnetism brings Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, while Fishersville Mike wonders if the Ravens (and their cheerleaders) are ready for the big game. Reaganite Republican has Miss Croatia, Elizabeta Burg, and First Street Journal continues their tributes to women in uniform with “M*A*S*H Was Real”. Randy’s Roudtable offers Kelly Weekers.


EBL leads off with a TMI tweet, followed by Jessica Chastain, Lena Dunham, Scarlett Johanson, and Anna Kendrick – with suitably appropriate accompaniment by the  Divinyls.


A View From The Beach leads off its Rule 5 linkagery with Abi Titmuss, followed by Ooops, Wrong Girl!, Hot Chicks For Tuna, Brazilians Against Biodiversity, Would Ya?, Topless Vatican Protest, and a Saturday Night PSA. Due to the lack of cave girls in these posts, the management opts to include this link to something suitable by Fastner & Larson.


El Opinador Compulsivo checks in this week with Emmy Rossum, Sofia Vergara for Pepsi, Marina Calabro – model, journalist and free-market advocate! Also, Vikki Blows, a report on George Clooney’s testicles, plus the music of David Garrett and Orianthi!


Soylent Green has your Sunday Sanja, a football post, Monday Motivationer Gracie, Tuesday Titillation Christine, a Humpday Hawt Czechmate, Evening Awesome Domino, Falconsword Fursday Gracyanne, Overnighty Adrienne Friend, Corsetcare: Revolution, Go(Ogler) Chum, and Afternooner Alexa.


Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe was Laetitia Casta, his vintage babe was Karin Dor, and Sex In Advertising is covered this week by the Unspeakable Armenian. Also, cheerleaders from the 49er’s, Falcons, Texans and Broncos! At Dustbury, it’s Emmy Rossum and Annaliese Braakensiek; at The Camp of the Saints, it’s Emmanuelle Chriqui and the Rule 5 News.


The Daley Gator’s DaleyBabes this week were Yukiko Watanabe, Leslie Bibb (with a Rule 5 roundup), Diane Mizota, Elizabeth Christian, Amerie, Moran Atias, and Paola Andrea Rey.


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday is Saturday, January 26.

Category: Rule 5

Democrats: The Party of Criminals

Posted on | January 20, 2013 | 21 Comments

The Filthy Rotten Party of Corruption, Treason, Fraud, Sodomy and Abortion is represented in Congress by such vicious specimens as Harry Reid, Charlie Rangel, Robert Menendez and Jim Moran.

But the party elects thieves and thugs at every level, which explains why suburban Richmond is represented in the Virginia House of Delegates by a disbarred, disgraced and divorced ex-lawyer who wants to disarm law-abiding citizens:

A Virginia lawmaker who drew gasps from his colleagues when he brandished a borrowed AK-47 during an anti-gun speech Thursday was found guilty in 2002 of committing a vicious 1999 assault, was sanctioned for legal misconduct while prosecuting a rape case, spent six months in jail for contempt of a federal court, and saw his law license revoked in 2003. . . .
Morrissey paid a man $500,000 in 2007 to settle a 2002 court judgment against him, related to a 1999 physical assault.
According to legal brief filed by the victim’s attorneys, Morrissey shouted, “I’m going to kill you. I’m going to beat your head in,” before beating the victim and “smash[ing] his head into the corner of a brick wall.”

Clearly, Joseph Morrissey is a menace to society, which is why he could only be elected to office as a Democrat, indicating that the 74th District is a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

No decent, honest and intelligent person would associate themselves with the vile creatures elected to office as Democrats, who believe in a government of the criminals, by the criminals, for the criminals.

Somebody ought to write a book about this . . .

Category: Corruption, Crime, Democrats, Scandal, Virginia

When the Good Guys Win

Posted on | January 20, 2013 | 25 Comments

“She was very brave, she stayed on the phone with the dispatcher the whole time — talked all the way through it and was still on the phone with dispatch when we got into the house.”
— Ken Golden, Bryan County (Okla.) Sheriff’s Department

“I had to do what I had to do. I was scared out of my mind.”
— Kendra St. Clair

“The perversity I want to understand starts in the ’60s. What happened? This: intellectuals took over the elite.”
— David Gelernter, Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber

When Instpundit linked the story yesterday and I Tweeted it as the “feel-good story of the year,” some people evidently got the mistaken idea that I was being sarcastic, which I wasn’t. When a 12-year-old girl shoots a burglar, that’s good news:

BRYAN COUNTY, Okla. — A 12-year-old girl did what she had to do to protect herself from an intruder in her home on the Texas border.
She hid in a closet and shot him when he tried to open the door.

Here’s the 911 call Kendra made:

The suspect, 32-year-old Stacey Adam Jones, was apparently a very bad guy. He had been a suspect in the case of a missing girl a year earlier.

What I had in mind, in calling this the “feel-good story of the year,” was something that David Gelernter observed in his 1997 book, Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber. While doing some historical research, Gelernter came across a photo caption in a magazine from the 1930s, showing police with the bodies of two robbers the cops had shot dead in an ambush, a feat that the caption writer called a “neat trick.”

Cops shoot two bad guys — neat trick.

We don’t see that attitude much among journalists nowadays, Gelernter remarked, because journalism is a profession that has been taken over by intellectuals, and intellectuals have had their heads stuffed so full of ACLU rhetoric about police brutality and the “rights” of criminals that it’s impossible for them to believe that (a) criminals are bad people and therefore (b) it’s a good thing for criminals to get shot.

A few years ago, my younger brother shot a knife-wielding crackhead who broke into his house. The intruder was undeterred by the barking dog and failed to heed my brother’s warning, so he was dispatched with a blast of 12-gauge buckshot. My kids still laugh at the laconic matter-of-fact way my brother described the incident. What happened? “I shot him.” Did you kill him? “Yep.”

Crackhead with knife. Homeowner with shotgun. Neat trick.

Americans used to think that way, and the intellectuals who have tried to teach us to think otherwise — to view criminals as “victims of society” — should be regarded as accomplices to crime.

Law-abiding citizens have the right to armed self-defense, and anyone who advocates the infringement of that right is a bad person.

My friend Robert Waters wrote two books I highly recommend: The Best Defense: True Stories of Intended Victims Who Defended Themselves with a Firearm and Guns Save Lives: True Stories of Americans Defending Their Lives With Firearms. You have to wonder why nobody in Hollywood has thought to turn those true stories into a movie, or at least a cable TV series, but of course the intellectuals have taken over Hollywood, too. That’s the only possible explanation for why you haven’t heard more about the story of Kendra St. Clair.

Twelve-year-old girl shoots intruder. Neat trick.

 

 

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Category: Constitution, Crime, Intellectuals, Oklahoma

Should @TedNugent And The NRA Just Morph Into A Political Party?

Posted on | January 19, 2013 | 51 Comments

by Smitty

His Tedness remains quintessentially American:

My point here is:

  1. The GOP seems kinda feckless.
  2. Political parties ain’t beanbag.
  3. The NRA offers great depth, if not breadth.
  4. The threat of an under-bussing might get a bit of notice from the GOP elite, once Boehner’s tear tank runs low.

The NRA has succeeded by focusing on just the one amendment. However, the collapse of the other nine in the Bill of Rights is truly worrisome.

via Fox and Bunker91

Category: Celebrities

FMJRA 2.0: Disco Boy

Posted on | January 19, 2013 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Eighteen Severed Human Heads Stopped En Route to Chicago ‘Research Facility’

FMJRA 2.0: Modern Love

Nobody Really Likes @LenaDunham, and Deep Down Inside She Knows It, Too

What Depression Is, and Isn’t

Michael Moore’s Politics of Prejudice

WaPo’s Cillizza Says Political Party Power Dying for GOP, But What Does it Mean?

Ed Said Nix Flick: Odd ‘Squad’ Cop Flop, Mugs Thugs With Lame Gang Bang-Bang

‘Anonymous’ and Steubenville: Online Lynch Mob Complicates Rape Case

Neal Rauhauser: FBI Informant?

Rule 5 Sunday: Body Love

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.14.13

Marxism by Any Other Name

Obama’s Festival of Lies

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.15.13

Transsexual Bullies Successfully Censor Feminist Writers Who Criticized Them

The Problem With ‘Sponsored Content’: Atlantic Unpublishes Scientology Article

Why Doesn’t President Obama Support ‘Citizens Against Senseless Violence’?

Steubenville ‘Rape Crew’? Non-Facts Smear the Innocent in an Ohio Town

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.16.13

‘Just Another Elitist Hypocrite’

Slow-Mo Walkback Beginning? Sheepish Silence From Anti-Steubenville Media

The Iranian Navy On A Med Cruise?

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.17.13

Dear Texas: Please Secede Now

Jonah Goldberg, Professional Loser?

Crisis in Algeria: More ‘Arab Spring’ Consequences; U.S. Hostages Seized

The Filthy Rotten Party of Corruption, Treason, Fraud, Sodomy and Abortion

Five Years Ago Today …

LIVE AT FIVE:  01.18.13

#LennayKekuaFacts: What You Don’t Know About Manti Te’o’s Fake Girlfriend

The Country’s Going Straight to Hell, But at Least We’ve Got a ‘Likeable’ President

National Review Institute Summit: Will This Controversial Event Make Headlines?

Top linkers this week:

  1. Rick’s Rants (13 the hard way)
  2. (tied) Hogewash and Daley Gator

Couple of folks just missed clearing the bar; I prescribe a daily link to Live At Five. 🙂

Deadline to submit links for next week’s FMJRA is Friday, January 25. Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

 

Category: FMJRA Award
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