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Sunday, September 6, 2015
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Why Clinton remains inevitable — almost
"Unless she’s indicted, Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination.
"That kind of sentence is rarely written about a major presidential candidate. But I don’t see a realistic third alternative (except for one long-shot, below).
"Clinton is now hostage to the various investigations — the FBI, Congress, the courts — of her e-mails. The issue has already damaged her seriously by highlighting once again her congenital inability to speak truthfully. When the scandal broke in March, she said unequivocally that she “did not e-mail any classified material to anyone.” That’s now been shown to be unequivocally false. After all, the inspector general of the intelligence community referred her e-mails to the Justice Department precisely because they contain classified material.
"The fallback — every Clinton defense has a fallback — is that she did not mishandle any material “marked” classified. But that’s absurd. Who could even have been in a position to mark classified something she composed and sent on her own private e-mail system?" . . .
"The parallel scandal looming over Clinton is possible corruption involving contributions to the Clinton Foundation while she was secretary of state.
. . . "We are unlikely to get a straight answer from Clinton. In fact, we may never get the real answer. So Clinton marches on regardless. Who is to stop her?". . .
I doubt a Biden-Warren ticket will happen, but it remains the only threat to Clinton outside of some Justice Department prosecutor showing the same zeal in going after Hillary Clinton as the administration did in going after David Petraeus.Otherwise the Democrats remain lashed to Clinton. Their only hope is that the Republicans self-destruct in a blaze of intraparty warfare. Something for which they are showing an impressive talent.
More campus fascism -- and some pushback!
David Limbaugh highlights incident of 'professors conspiring against common sense'
. . . "The Daily Caller reports that in his “Introduction to Multicultural
Literature” syllabus, professor John Streamas warned white students that
“to do well in this class,” they must “reflect” their “grasp of history
and social relations” by “deferring to the experiences of people of
color.” This professor once berated a student who advocated limits on
illegal immigration as “just a white s–-bag.”
"He continued in his syllabus: “Conservative skeptics wonder why we need to study ‘multicultural’ texts, suggesting that the only criterion for selecting books should be literary excellence. … The conservative notion is flawed by the very fact that it is advanced by white people who just happen to think that the very best books and ideas come from white people – they have an investment in proving themselves superior.”
"There was also this gem: “Finally, understand and consider the rage of people who are victims of systematic injustice. James Baldwin wrote that people of color have an obligation to feel rage over this nation’s history of racism. If injustice does not fill you with rage, then perhaps you should ask yourself why.”
"Professor Selena Lester Breikss told students of her “Women & Popular Culture” class that they would risk “failure for the semester” if they used the terms “males” or “females,” because they are “gross generalizations” and “derogatory/oppressive language.”
"American studies professor Rebecca Fowler advised students they would “suffer a deduction of one point” each time they said “illegal alien.' ” . . .
"He continued in his syllabus: “Conservative skeptics wonder why we need to study ‘multicultural’ texts, suggesting that the only criterion for selecting books should be literary excellence. … The conservative notion is flawed by the very fact that it is advanced by white people who just happen to think that the very best books and ideas come from white people – they have an investment in proving themselves superior.”
"There was also this gem: “Finally, understand and consider the rage of people who are victims of systematic injustice. James Baldwin wrote that people of color have an obligation to feel rage over this nation’s history of racism. If injustice does not fill you with rage, then perhaps you should ask yourself why.”
"Professor Selena Lester Breikss told students of her “Women & Popular Culture” class that they would risk “failure for the semester” if they used the terms “males” or “females,” because they are “gross generalizations” and “derogatory/oppressive language.”
"American studies professor Rebecca Fowler advised students they would “suffer a deduction of one point” each time they said “illegal alien.' ” . . .
HOW TO WRITE A NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED IN THREE EASY STEPS!
Yes, Trump's base are "less-educated." This is as opposed to Democratic voters, who couldn't figure out how to fill in a Florida ballot in 2000.Ann Coulter " Today we'll talk about how to write a New York Times op-ed in 45 minutes or less. We all like labor-saving tips!
"The main point to keep in mind is that your op-ed is not intended to elucidate, educate or amuse. These are status pieces meant to strike a pose, signaling that you are a good person.
"After reading your op-ed, readers should feel the warm sensation of being superior to other people -- those who don't agree with you. The idea is to be in fashion. It's all about attitude, heavy on eye-rolling.
"(1) Psychoanalyze conservatives as paranoid and insecure. Liberals -- who, to a man, have been in psychoanalysis -- enjoy putting people they disagree with on the operating table and performing a vivisection, as if conservatives are some lower life form.
"Thus, for example, an op-ed in this week's Times by Arthur Goldwag was titled "Putting Donald Trump on the Couch."
"This should not be confused with Justin A. Frank's 2004 book, "Bush on the Couch," offering a detailed diagnosis of Bush's alleged mental disorders.
"Nor should it be confused with a column that went up on Daily Kos the day after I wrote this column, psychoanalyzing me. (I'm just glad I snubbed the guy in high school.)
"-- "The Tea Party, to be most benign about it, is primarily white, it is witnessing a country changing around it. It feels angry, feels -- the diversity." -- Katrina Vanden Heuvel, MSNBC, May 24, 2012
"(You want angry? Go to an Al Sharpton rally.)
. . .
"Times writers are like personal shoppers for people too lazy to form their own opinions. Just don't imagine that this is good writing, comedy or art. But it's not bad for something you can dash off in about 45 minutes!"
Why a crucial problem is back in the national conversation. . . . "Those last comments are particularly pertinent to the core of
Europe’s current immigrant problem: many are Muslims who worship a faith
radically different from the liberal culture of freedom, tolerance, and
individual rights that created Europe and the United States. Hence most
of the violence Powell predicted has come from unassimilated young
Muslims–– the terrorists who bombed London in 2005 and Madrid in 2004,
the rapists in England and Malmo who target non-Muslim women, the French
“youths” who periodically smash hundreds of cars or murder journalists
and Jews, and the Muslim who assassinated Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh
and drove Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Geert Wilders into hiding. And in most
cases, these criminals have been the beneficiaries of welfare largesse,
their violence often rewarded with increased “social welfare spending.”"But we Americans shouldn’t feel superior, for we have our own immigration problems, especially with illegal aliens. Our problems aren’t as severe as Europe’s, for the vast majority of our immigrants come from countries that are essentially Western, rather than from Muslim countries whose religion is inherently hostile to Christianity and the West. But we have compromised that advantage by indulging the same carelessness about policing the border or dispensing social welfare largesse. We too have problems with crime from illegal aliens, ranging from drug-gangs and murder to the daily disorder and disregard for law that makes life more difficult in many communities. And we also have an anti-assimilationist lobby that leverages white guilt and self-loathing into political power.
"But we too, for now, seem to have a prophet. Whatever his flaws and weaknesses, Donald Trump has thrust the problems of lax immigration policies and weak enforcement of immigration laws back into the national conversation. Like Enoch Powell, politicians from both parties have tried to marginalize him. But in the age of the Internet, YouTube, and cable news, the citizens who agree with Trump can voice their approval more loudly than in Powell’s day. And they delight in the rough treatment he gives to immigration hacks like Univision’s Jorge Ramos, whom Trump tossed out of a news conference. Let’s just hope that a critical mass of people is listening, and that the Republicans embrace Trump’s warnings on illegal immigration instead of demonizing him." Bruce S. Thornton
What Makes Donald Run?
. . . "After nearly seven years of Obama, the public is worn out by sanctimoniousness — by all the Professor Gates/Trayvon Martin/Ferguson lectures on race by an abject racialist, by all the sermons on climate change by a global jet-setter, by all the community-organizing banality by one who always has preferred the private school and the tony neighborhood, by all the us-versus-the-1-percent warfare by one who feels at home on the golf course only with celebrities and stock hounds. Given all that, the Republican base, at least for a few more weeks, wants someone to be unapologetically unacceptable — both to the liberal establishment that Obama ushered in, and to the wink-and-nod elite Republican opposition." . . .
And Trump so far has managed to make real outliers — non-establishment political mavericks like Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Scott Walker, and Chris Christie, who were the choices of the Tea Party movements just a fortnight ago — look like Eric Cantor/Mitch McConnell company men. That such gifted conservative politicos are considered functionaries is abjectly unfair, but it is nonetheless the jaded perception so far of much of the Republican electorate.Victor Davis Hanson
Our Weasel Of The Week!
Nice Deb "Yes, once again, It’s time to present this week’s statuette of shame, The Golden Weasel!!"Every Tuesday, the Council nominates some of the slimiest, most despicable characters in public life for some deed of evil, cowardice or corruption they’ve performed. Then we vote to single out one particular Weasel for special mention, to whom we award the statuette of shame, our special, 100% plastic Golden Weasel. This week’s nominees were particularly slimy and despicable, but the votes are in and we have our winner…the envelope please…"
Raciali$t Organizer and Cop Hater Carol (Sunshine) Sullivan!
"Less than 24 hours before Bryce Williams aka Vesper Lee Flanagan II shot and killed two WBDJ journalists, Alison Parker and Adam Ward on the air Black activist Carol (Sunshine) Sullivan, an organizer of F***YoFlag on her radio blog show hosted from Texas called, “Sunshine’s F***ing Opinion Radio Show” allegedly gave members of #FYF911 or #FukYoFlag and #BlackLivesMatter a platform from which the hate/terrorist organizations called for the lynching of white people and law enforcement officers.
"Two days after Parker and Ward were killed, Shannon J. Miles, a Black male pumped fifteen bullets into Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth at a gas station in Houston, Texas."
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: I’m Proud Of Those Young People Pushing Black Lives Matter. Debbie? Have You Seen This… ?
Weazel Zippers
Start at around 1:26, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the DNC head, at the Iowa State Fair:
. . . "The DNC with that special exquisite timing they have, just this week passed a resolution supporting the BLM, this despite all kinds of inflammatory rhetoric and actions against police.
"Everyone has at this point seen the Black Lives Matter Minnesota chant.
"But this of course was not the first time or a one off.
"Everyone has at this point seen the Black Lives Matter Minnesota chant.
"But this of course was not the first time or a one off.
"Many may remember a similar chant from them in NYC, just before two cops were assassinated by a Black Lives Matter protester/Islamic extremist Ismaiiyl Brinsley. Brinkley specifically cited Mike Brown and Eric Garner as his reason for killing the cops, and ‘putting pigs in a blanket'[putting them in a coffin]. As we reported at the time, MSM missed that Brinsley had been a protester." . . .
Language advisory here:
Miley Cyrus and the Post-Gender Generation
Jeremy Egerer . . . "The major difference between the last time this happened and the present is that today's invading "barbarians" call masculinity machismo, and our deviants are considered by our intelligentsia not as deviants, but as moralists.
And perhaps this is why Miley's so shocking: not because what she's doing is actually anything new, but because she's backed by an army of militant pantsuits who say that what she's doing is right. The New York Times has gone so far as to call her the avatar of the post-gender generation – as if the overwhelming majority of youngsters these days had already been polled and said they were tired of seeing pretty girls. Of course, there are some of them who are sick of seeing pretty girls – and they are probably all ugly girls. They're the minority of our children who've been so terribly cursed with terrible taste and minimal talents that they want to be themselves without anyone left to criticize them. And they are getting what they want – almost. They're getting it from the authorities, from their professors, and from the president. Whom they are not getting it from (if they are straight) is everyone they really want to have sex with, because the people they want to have sex with are having sex with people who are sexually attractive." . . .
And perhaps this is why Miley's so shocking: not because what she's doing is actually anything new, but because she's backed by an army of militant pantsuits who say that what she's doing is right. The New York Times has gone so far as to call her the avatar of the post-gender generation – as if the overwhelming majority of youngsters these days had already been polled and said they were tired of seeing pretty girls. Of course, there are some of them who are sick of seeing pretty girls – and they are probably all ugly girls. They're the minority of our children who've been so terribly cursed with terrible taste and minimal talents that they want to be themselves without anyone left to criticize them. And they are getting what they want – almost. They're getting it from the authorities, from their professors, and from the president. Whom they are not getting it from (if they are straight) is everyone they really want to have sex with, because the people they want to have sex with are having sex with people who are sexually attractive." . . .
Weasel Of The Week Nominees!
"It’s time once again for the Watcher’s Council’s ‘Weasel Of The Week’ nominations, where we pick our choices to compete for the award of the famed Golden Weasel to a public figure who particularly deserves to be slimed and mocked for his or her dastardly deeds during the week. Every Tuesday morning, tune in for the Weasel of the Week nominations!
" Here are this weeks’ nominees…."
The Phony Charge of Imperialism made us impotent in the face of evil
. . . "Perhaps, after Saddam's defeat, we might hope for an exorcism of this spirit from the war's detractors. That plainly was Mumford's wish in 1941. "A human society in which men will not help their neighbors to resist evil and struggle for justice will presently cease to exist as a society," he warned, "since it will lack even the animal loyalties that are necessary for survival.". . ."This criticism persisted even after the German war machine had overrun half a dozen European states, captured Paris and bombed London -- after the pathologies of Nazi rule became widely known. How could some of America's most prominent religious thinkers have so badly misjudged Hitler's gathering storm?"
The comparison with the 1930s is inevitable because we see the same mindset in the democracies; the refusal to see evil and the hope that it will not in the end be evil, but peaceful.
The peace movement of the 1930s made the Holocaust inevitable --- by accident
. . . "It was not quite thus in the 1930s. Like today, the very nicest people, the most thoughtful people, the most progressive people, the people with the highest degree of social and moral conscience, people, in short, like you and me - all aligned themselves with Hitler's interests and brought about the totally unnecessary second World War - which was very nearly lost, even after the death of 50 million people. Even though it was won in the end, it was not won soon enough to prevent making the unthinkable - the Holocaust - inevitable.
"And among those categories of people - the very nicest, the most thoughtful, the most progressive, those with the highest degree of social and moral conscience - it is not self-regard to count not only the cream of American Jewry, but probably the majority." . . .
Black Lives Matter supporter arrested for threat to purge town of all whites. Some Harley riders may agree?
"On Wednesday, 20-year-old Carlos Anthony Hollins of Waldorf, Maryland, was arrested by the Charles County Sheriff’s Office for a threat of mass violence against all white people in the town of La Plata. Earlier in the day, he allegedly issued a tweet threatening to murder all of the white people in the community.
“ 'IM NOT GONNA STAND FOR THIS NO. MORE. TONIGHT WE PURGE! KILL ALL THE WHITE PPL IN THE TOWN OF LA PLATA,” he wrote in the short message that has since been deleted. The message ended with the hashtag "#BlackLivesMatter." He later claimed it was a joke, but law enforcement officers apparently failed to see the humor in his tweet.
"Around 4:43 p.m. local time, authorities were alerted to the tweet. Department heads took appropriate precautions, the BayNet said, adding extra officers to patrol the community. Later, Hollins posted another tweet with a video claiming to turn himself in to police." . . .
DC Harley Davidson Dealership sponsoring Nation of Islam rally
. . . "The Harley Davidson dealership’s official website lists the dealership as a rally point for black motorcyclists attending the NOI rally. Louis Farrakhan has launched an effort to attract black bikers that he named “Ride For Justice.”
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| Joyce & Thomas Moorehead are the owners of the Harley Davidson | dealership that is sponsoring the Nation of Islam event. |
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