PERHAPS IT’S TIME TO REVIVE THE TRADITIONAL PUNCH-IN-THE-NOSE REMEDY FOR OFFICIOUS STRANGERS: I was taking pictures of my daughters. A stranger thought I was exploiting them.
Archive for 2014
August 29, 2014
UM, IT’S KIND OF HAPPENING NOW: Anne Applebaum: War in Europe is not a hysterical idea. You know, what with the invasion of Ukraine and all.
If I were the Poles I’d be arming up bigtime. And if I were the Baltics, I’d be doing my best to become indigestible. I think I’d try to develop a special-forces capability to wreck Russia’s oil pipelines and other facilities; that seems like the cheapest way to make a Putin invasion expensive. But I’m sure they know much more than I do.
I’M SORRY, BUT ISN’T THE MOST LIKELY EXPLANATION THAT they were wiped out by invading Inuit? Rather than coincidentally dying out from “climate change” just as the invaders arrived? Scientists seem awfully squeamish at the prospect that the “First Peoples” were actually just the last people to wipe out whoever was there before.
AT HOT AIR, an interview with Gov. Rick Perry.
THE ROBOSEXUAL AGENDA IS SLOWLY TAKING HOLD: 6 Major Advantages Of Having Sex With Robots (But No, Really).
AT AMAZON, Outlet Deals in Electronics.
EUGENE VOLOKH: Christians, Muslims, the heckler’s veto, and liberal judges.
NARRATIVE MANAGEMENT: After Hearing What a Tea Party Group Recently Did in Ferguson, You Likely Won’t Be Surprised That You Haven’t Heard About It.
Many local businesses in Ferguson were vandalized, looted, and even set on fire as demonstrators took to the streets to protest the shooting. Sadly, innocent business owners have been left to foot the bills. This is where the St. Louis Tea Party realized they could help.
The group spread the word of the “BUYcott” event on Facebook, hoping to get at least 20 people to show up and spend their hard-earned money at local Ferguson businesses on August 21. They apparently ended up with a group of about 40 “(mostly) white people” — and something amazing happened.
They reportedly targeted small businesses who “were hit hard by violence–violence committed (mostly) by out of town agitators, criminals, vandals, and hooligans.”
Bill Hennessy, one of the tea party members who attended the event, later wrote about his experience in Ferguson and how their presence made residents rethink their preconceived notions of the tea party.
Read the whole thing, which won’t shock you if you’ve been paying attention.
One 11-year-old known as Child H told police that she and another girl had been sexually assaulted by grown men. Nothing was done. When she was 12, Child H was found in the back of a taxi with a man who had indecent pictures of her on his phone. Despite the full co-operation of her father, who insisted his daughter was being abused, police failed to act. Four months later, Child H was found in a house alone with a group of Pakistani men. What did the police do? They arrested the child for being drunk and disorderly and ignored her abusers. As President Obama said about the fiends who beheaded the journalist James Foley: “No just God would stand for what they did.”
My, what the British people would give to hear such ringing moral condemnation from our own political leaders.
The Labour Party, in particular, is mired in shame over “cultural sensitivity” in Rotherham. Especially, cynics might point out, a sensitivity to the culture of Muslims whose votes they don’t want to lose. Denis MacShane, MP for Rotherham from 1994 to 2012, actually admitted to the BBC’s World At One that “there was a culture of not wanting to rock the multicultural community boat, if I may put it like that. Perhaps, yes, as a true Guardian reader and liberal Leftie, I suppose I didn’t want to raise that too hard.” Much better to hang on to your impeccable liberal credentials than save a few girls from being raped, eh, Denis?
Labour deliberately brought these immigrants in to change British culture. It worked.
OVER AT REASON: GWU Prez Should Not Apologize for Remark About Drunk Girls and Rape.
Plus: “On the whole, I don’t think Trachtenberg’s comments are offensive. But that doesn’t mean his advice—drink less—is particularly helpful, either. Instead, he should advocate a clear policy change that would actually reduce binge drinking (and by extension, opportunities for rape): lowering the drinking age. Since drinking any amount of alcohol is illegal for most undergraduates, they have an incentive to cram all their drinking into short windows of time. They can’t just order a drink here and there; they have to go to parties where alcohol is being consumed recklessly, secretly, and illegally.”
A LOOK AT Military and Special Operations Fitness.
SO MUCH SO THAT EVEN CNN GOT BEYOND TALK OF BRANGELINA TO COVER IT: Obama’s no ‘strategy yet’ comment on ISIS in Syria sparks a political uproar.
What’s worse? If it’s true? Or if it’s a lie?
THERE ARE SECTIONS OF TEXAS, ABU, THAT I WOULD NOT ADVISE YOU TO INVADE: Judicial Watch: A Terrorist Attack On the Texas-Mexico Border is ‘Imminent.’
And that would be pretty much all of them, with the possible exception of a few neighborhoods in Austin.
UPDATE: Austin Bay emails:
Even South Austin and West Campus will surprise you, Glenn.
You paraphrased “Casablanca” and Rick’s warning to Major Strasser about “certain sections of New York.” Before Abu kicks off his Texas operation he should ask himself “Do I feel lucky?”
With Birdie Barry in charge instead of Dirty Harry, perhaps he does.
Sigh. Yes.
LANHEE CHEN: The Republican Obamacare Battle Plan for 2015.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Volvo’s New SUV Will Be Super-Safe Because It’s Semi-Autonomous.
AT AMAZON, today’s deals in Movies & TV.
IT’S REPARATIONS FOR WIDESPREAD DISCRIMINATION: Scot cashes in with fake ‘ginger discount card.’
WELL, THEY DID HIRE DAVID PLOUFFE RECENTLY: Uber ‘brand ambassadors’ using burner phones, credit cards to sabotage Lyft. If true, though, this could lead to a nasty lawsuit.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Socially-assistive robots help kids with autism learn by providing personalized prompts.
OBAMA CALLED WHAT HE DID “WORKPLACE VIOLENCE,” NOT ISLAMIC TERRORISM: Fort Hood shooter says he wants to become ‘citizen’ of Islamic State caliphate. “It would be an honor for any believer to be an obedient citizen soldier to a people and its leader who don’t compromise the religion of All-Mighty Allah to get along with the disbelievers.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University of Oregon Slaps Student With Five Conduct Charges Over Four Words. Again, these places want massive amounts of your money, but this is how they act.
MICHAEL LEDEEN: Latest Big Lie: ‘We Have No Strategy.’ “They DO have a strategy, but they prefer to appear indecisive. That’s because the strategy would likely provoke even greater criticism than the false confession of endless dithering. The actual strategy is detente first, and then a full alliance with Iran throughout the Middle East and North Africa. It has been on display since before the beginning of the Obama administration. . . . President Obama’s quest for an alliance with Iran has been conducted through at least four channels: Iraq, Switzerland (the official U.S. representative to Tehran), Oman and a variety of American intermediaries, the most notable of whom is probably Valerie Jarrett, his closest adviser.”
THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: Massachusetts Has the Worst Drivers.
IMAGINE HOW WELL OFF WE’D BE IF WE OPENED UP FEDERAL LANDS TO DRILLING: A New American Oil Bonanza. “Most of the price of gasoline is determined by the world price of crude, now hovering around $100 a barrel. Turmoil in major producer countries like Iraq and Libya does matter. But the new source of American energy means more supply has been added to global markets — almost the exact amount that has been taken off the market at times because of unrest in the Middle East and Africa over the last five years.”