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I, for one, think that #OccupyResoluteDesk should stay in broken record mode about bin Laden. The more Obama and his sycophants natter on about the One True Accomplishment of this administration, the more solitary it looks, and the more stark the contrast with the rest of the unfolding disaster that is this administration.

Just keep [nsfw] pluckin’ that chicken, Barack: at least it’s not a dog.

Update: or, if you like: It's almost as though Barack was unserious, or something.

Update II: linked at Bob’s Blog.

Category: Barack Obama, humor

Students Walk Out After Anti-Bullying Speaker Dan Savage Calls Bible ‘Bulls–t’

Posted on | April 28, 2012 | 92 Comments

Two weeks ago, the Journalism Education Association and the National Scholastic Press Association sponsored a national conference for high school journalists in Seattle. They invited San Francisco-based sex-advice columnist Dan Savage as a speaker. Savage reportedly began his speech by announcing to the teenagers, “I hope you’re all using birth control,” and made lascivious comments about his “husband.”

More than 100 students reportedly walked out of the event after Savage, who founded the “It Gets Better” project — widely praised as part of the “anti-bullying” movement — used obscene language in attacking religious beliefs against homosexuality:

“People often point out that… they can’t help with the anti-gay bullying because it says right there in Leviticus, it says right there in Timothy, it says right there in Romans, that being gay is wrong,” Savage tells the crowd in a short video posted on Tumblr by a student attendee.
“We can learn to ignore the [expletive] in the Bible about gay people the same way we have learned to ignore the [expletive] in the Bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation,” Savage said.
At this point, student Jenny Patterson yelled “That’s bull,” and walked out. As other students followed, Savage called them “pansies,” she said.
Patterson said she had put up with Savage’s cussing and “references to how good his husband looks in a Speedo and how he has to pry him off.” But his attacks on Catholics, Mormons, and Christians for their stance on homosexuality went too far.
“I didn’t come to hear someone preach to me about how wrong my beliefs are,” said Patterson, 17 . . . “I don’t know what the agenda was behind [Savage’s] session, but it was unnecessary.”

Here’s the video and notice how many of the students cheered and applauded when Savage called the Bible “bulls–t”:

Savage calls the Bible a “radical pro-slavery document,” thinking that this certainly makes him morally superior for his anti-Christian bigotry, but notice the student walking out at the 2:44 mark.

Ironically, Lisa Graas credits Savage with awarding “crown jewels.” Among other issues raised by this disturbing report:

Isn’t it time to admit that the “anti-bullying” movement is just another way to get gay-rights activism into public schools?
Can we also now admit that, insofar as the public education system is pro-gay, it must also be anti-Christian?
Why aren’t you home-schooling yet?

More from Karla Dial at Citizen Link and Todd Starnes at Fox News. Now a Memeorandum thread with commentary by Jawa Report and the Washington Examiner. Dan Savage and his “husband” were guests at last year’s “Gay Pride” Month reception at the White House, and Savage wore an “Evolve Already” button to the the event:

“I believe the president should evolve,” Savage told pool reporter Julie Mason from Politico at the reception to honor LGBT Pride Month. . . . “He says he’s evolving, I believe him.” Savage added, “I want to hurry him along.”

Since President Obama has invited Savage to the White House, perhaps someone should ask whether the president approves of Savage’s speech to the high school journalists. We know we’ll get an honest answer from Jay “I Never Lie” Carney.

BTW, Dan Savage: I stopped eating shellfish more than 20 years ago when I married a Seventh-Day Adventist. Don’t miss it at all.

Happy Sabbath!

UPDATE: Linked at Protein Wisdom, One Red Thread, Daley Gator and The Lonely Conservative — thanks! And also thanks to Bill Quick at Daily Pundit for resisting the urge to write a “searingly corrosive screed about religious bigotry, ignorance, hatred, and the thug life of homophobic high school fag beaters.” Jazz Shaw at Hot Air writes:

So you picked a raunchy sex advice columnist who publishes a column called “Savage Love” as your ambassador to help out at risk children. What could possibly go wrong?

More from the “Did You Know?” files: I played trombone in high school band and was a drama major in college. Obviously, I know nothing about “bullying” and am insensitive toward gays.

Perhaps schools should pay me to teach Advanced Bullying Survival Methods, such as: Drop out of the “gifted” program, develop a criminal attitude, and join a gang of adolescent hoodlums who will beat the crap out of anybody who lays a hand on you. Become one of the biggest dope dealers in high school. Learn how to play guitar. Also, if somebody calls you a “faggot,” overcompensate by becoming voraciously heterosexual.

UPDATE II: Linked by Donald Douglas at American Power.

For the benefit of the irony-impaired, I should admit that the proposed Advanced Bullying Survival Methods curriculum is intended as humor. Just because it worked for me doesn’t mean I would recommend it to anyone else.

The point of the joke: While I am not unsympathetic to victims of bullying, most kids either have the inner resourcefulness to figure out how to deal with it, or else they are hopeless losers anyway.

The current “anti-bullying” crusade is another one of those Ideas So Stupid Only Public School Teachers Could Think It Was Smart. Having gone to school in the 1960s and ’70s, I was a guinea pig in more than one of those “innovative” educational experiments, including an early attempt at a “gifted” program.

You know what any smart kid eventually figures out? Most of his teachers aren’t very smart. Putting an obviously mediocre teacher in charge of a “gifted” program? That’s really stupid.

I love education. It’s school I hate.

UPDATE III: Nice headline by Doug Powers:

Anti-bullying speaker teaches students all about irony

Category: Education, Gays, Religion, Sex

‘Pleasure Activist’

Posted on | April 28, 2012 | 10 Comments

by Smitty

Language used in the service of making the foul, twisted and unspeakable seem somehow good, upright and acceptable sets me right off. Liberty is a beautiful thing, but how can we continue in the face of confusion? That a whore is being elevated to a position of honor as a speaker at the college isn’t news; politicians travel the lecture circuit all the time.

Colleges and universities have been known to push the envelope when it comes to inviting controversial figures to campuses, and Williams College, a prestigious private institution in western Massachusetts, is the latest — by inviting a porn star.
The speaker, Jiz Lee, is described in the college calendar advertising the event as “an award-winning genderqueer performer, author, artist and pleasure activist.” Friday night, a sample of the performer’s work is scheduled to be shown on campus followed by a discussion with students.

The disappointment here is with the school administration. How does Williams College possibly think that Jiz Lee is adding any lasting value to student education? Is Jiz going to speak at length of the nihilistic futility of a protein-drenched life lived in front of a camera? How letting sexual pleasure, a wonderful peripheral aspect to the joy of carrying on the human tradition, become the focal point of life, is ultimately unsatisfying? Note that I take a libertarian view of what Jiz is on about, insofar as no laws are broken, so long as my ignorance remains intact.

It’s not that The World’s Youngest Blogger must be ‘protected’ from ‘attack’ by the likes of Lee. Oh no. It’s just that, when you look a the rule of nines, the groin counts for 1% of the surface area of the body. So, a rational analysis of hedonism has to step back and ask: utility, or futility? In the bigger picture, so what?

The task of parenthood is to equip children with the rationality to spot a con job. The administrators of Williams College are the Jack Kevorkians of the Cultural Assisted Suicide movement, and deserve to be ignored. WTF, ‘Pleasure Activist’? That sounds like a Community Organizer in the buff.

via The Blaze

Update: the Daley Gator isn’t impressed, either.

Update II: linke by Truth Before Dishonor.

Category: Culture, Education

Propaganda Vacuum Unexpectedly Sucking Will Ferrell Back To SNL

Posted on | April 27, 2012 | 13 Comments

by Smitty

Breitbart reports that Will Ferrell will, in a move that surprises no one except Derek Smalls, trot out his George W. Bush impersonation on 12 May’s SNL installment. Maybe it won’t appear to be Yet Another Cheap Distractor, as the administration grasps at every straw to distract from #OccupyResoluteDesk‘s sucktacular performance.

Maybe we’ll at least get a Celebrity Jeopardy installment, or some cowbell out of it. Unfortunately, one expects the episode will be as humorless as Hulu’s embed policy, replete with alternative lifestyles and political sucker punches. The TiVo barely renders SNL watchable anymore.

Category: humor

Sandra Fluke Flunks on MSNBC

Posted on | April 27, 2012 | 16 Comments

Well-known Georgetown University “women’s issues” expert Sandra Fluke was asked on MSNBC to comment about a recent case in which an Indiana woman was fired from her job teaching at a Catholic school because she had undergone in-vitro fertilization treatments. To which Fluke’s answer could be summarized briefly as, “Duh.”

Category: Catholics, Contraceptive Culture, MSNBC, Video

The Pro From Poca Rides Into the Sunset

Posted on | April 27, 2012 | 10 Comments

— by Wombat-socho
I take a brief break from pounding my head with the Auditing review text* to mourn the departure of Don Surber from the Blogosphere. There was some confusion earlier in the week when he mentioned this on Facebook; some of us thought his account had been hacked, but eventually the hideous truth came out. Although he was having a blast doing the blogging thing, the workload of trying to maintain his regular reporter & columnist gig at the Charleston (West Virginia) Daily Mail and do the blog got to be Too Much. It’s not an uncommon thing in the blogosphere, but in this case it hit a little closer to home. I’d been reading Don’s blog since before my move down to Alexandria from Minnesota in 2007, and when I started my Career of Evil here at The Other McCain, Don was a frequent linker to Live At Five. It was a big boost to my ego to see that somebody thought my linkagery was comparable to what Lucianne Goldberg, Doug Ross and the folks at Maggie’s Farm were doing, and it was one of the things that kept me flogging the keyboard through the long months when next to nobody commented on what I was doing.
Thanks, Don. Clear skies and many top-down days to you; don’t be a stranger.
*Yeah, it’s pretty much like this.

Category: Blogging, Don Surber, Live at Five

Lying Liar: ‘I Never Lie,’ Says Jay Carney

Posted on | April 27, 2012 | 11 Comments

The Washington Free Beacon cites a list of fibs, fables and dubious half-truths told by the White House spokesman, and quotes what Jay Carney said today at a luncheon event:

“[W]hen I go and stand up in front of the podium, in front of the White House press corps, I never lie. I never say something that I know is not true.”

Category: Barack Obama, Video

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