TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Teacher jailed for sexually abusing students. “The 31-year-old confessed to sexual assault and admitted that she had taken advantage of her position of authority. She took videos and photos with her mobile phone of her having sex with the children, who were boys and girls aged between 13 and 14.”
Archive for 2015
November 18, 2015
METAPHOR ALERT: Vanderbilt Hate Crime Turns Out To Be Blind Girl’s Dog’s Poop.
Hello, you go to a top twenty school. Do PC bros not do grammar now? But more importantly, “As many of us sit in grief..” Oh give me a fucking break. It was a bag of poop left on the stairs outside. This left you grief stricken?
The post went viral with all the liberal media — PC BRO RACISM ALERT, THERE’S POOP ON CAMPUS STEPS — and an investigation into the bag of poop ensued.
Yep, an investigation by Vandy police. (To be fair, this is the most important investigation the Vandy police have been involved in investigating by themselves since a Kappa Delta sorority girl left her hazards on too long unloading Nordstrom bags outside the sorority house).
Who was the horrible racist who left dog poop on campus steps?
Well, it turns out that it was a blind female student whose seeing eye dog pooped on campus and she couldn’t find a trash can.
Vandy cry-bullies, we’re not laughing with you. We’re laughing at you.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The University Gone Feral: On Campus, Social Norms No Longer Apply.
IN AN EDITORIAL, USA TODAY CALLS ON CAMPUS ADULTS to protect college free speech.
TEST DRIVE: 2016 Mazda 3 2.0L Manual Sedan.
AT AMAZON, Sales & Deals in Ugly Sweaters.
RONDA ROUSEY LOSS A GOOD ARGUMENT AGAINST NARCISSISTIC PARENTING: “Ronda Rousey may have dominated her sport as a superior competitor, but her attitude made her a loser and I hope she works on that and comes back humbled.”
Related: After Bernie Sanders endorsement, UFC fighter Ronda Rousey gets KO’ed.
THEY HAVE LEARNED NOTHING: French President Francois Holland announced today that his country will accept 30,000 Syrian refugees over the next two years. Yeah, that sounds logical.
HMM: Early Prostate Cancer Cases Fall Along With Screening. “Fewer men are being screened for prostate cancer, and fewer early-stage cases are being detected, according to two studies published Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association. The number of cases has dropped not because the disease is becoming less common but because there is less effort to find it, the researchers said. . . . The decrease in testing is almost certainly a result of a recommendation against screening made in 2012 by the United States Preventive Services Task Force. The task force, an independent panel of experts picked by the government, found that risks outweighed the benefits of routine blood tests for prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, a protein associated with prostate cancer.”
You know, I understand the arguments against doing a lot of screenings — especially with tests, like the PSA test, that are only so-so — but I’m kind of suspicious that we suddenly started listening to them just as ObamaCare passed into law.
INSERT HILLARY AS BLOFELD JOKES HERE: Hasbro Releases A Lifelike Robotic Cat For Old People.
Wow, America turned into Japan so slowly, I hardly even noticed.
And to bring this depressing post full circle, owners give their obsolete Sony Aibo robot dogs funerals after they break, since Sony is no longer servicing their late 1990s invention, which they discontinued selling in 2006.
FROM THE WOMAN WHO BROUGHT YOU “THE VAST RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY:” Clinton Slams Comedians for Making Jokes About Her (Demands Their Personal Info):
as soon as the video got posted on the Laugh Factory website, he received a phone call from a “prominent” person inside Clinton’s campaign. “He said the video was disgusting and asked who put me up to this,” Masada said. The Clinton staffer, who Masada did not want to identify, also demanded to know the names and phone numbers of the comedians that appear in the video. Masada refused and hung up. He insists that the comedy stage is a sanctuary for freedom of speech no matter who is offended. “Just last night we had (Emmy-award winner) Dana Carvey doing Donald Trump and it was hilarious,” Masada said.
Presumably, this is a warning shot to other comedians and to the rest of Hollywood — don’t worry though; if there’s one thing we’ve learned from the last seven years, professional comedians will speak truth to power no matter who is in office.
IN THE ’80s, WE WERE TOLD THAT 21st CENTURY CYBER WARFARE WOULD RESEMBLE SKYNET, OR W.O.P.R. FROM WARGAMES. Instead, here’s what’s going on in the backrooms of 21st century warfare:
Shot:
NBC News also revealed that ISIS has a 24-hour help desk:
Counterterrorism analysts affiliated with the U.S. Army tell NBC News that the ISIS help desk, manned by a half-dozen senior operatives around the clock, was established with the express purpose of helping would-be jihadists use encryption and other secure communications in order to evade detection by law enforcement and intelligence authorities.
Personally, I’m not sure there’s a worse fate than quitting your comfortable job to run off and join the caliphate, all psyched to defeat the infidels, only to be told you’re being stuck on the graveyard shift at the IT desk, and you start tomorrow, oh, and if you don’t like it they’ll put you in a cage.
—Stephen L. Miller, “A Day in the Life of the ISIS 24-Hour Help Desk.”
Chaser:
Anonymous has taken credit for eliminating some 3,800 pro-ISIS social-media accounts, and it has suggested that, as in its campaign against the rather less significant Ku Klux Klan, it will gather a great deal of real-world information on Islamic State sympathizers and confederates and make it public. In the case of the Klan, that would mean mainly exposure to social opprobrium; in the case of Islamic State groupies and co-conspirators, that could mean a great deal more.
Anonymous is a famously fractious coalition of individuals and factions with internal rivalries and disagreements — a collective front rather than a united front, as Jamie Condliffe put it in Gizmodo — but it is generally regarded as being reasonably good at what it does. Terrorist groups are critically dependent upon electronic communication for everything from recruitment and motivation to actual operations, and there is some reason to suspect that groups such as Anonymous will prove more adept at disrupting that communication than our conventional intelligence and law-enforcement forces have. The Islamic State isn’t really a state, yet; like al-Qaeda, it is a non-state actor, and it is likely that other non-state actors will be enormously important in countering it.
—Kevin D. Williamson, “Anonymous at War,” who adds the line that made the rounds on Twitter earlier this week — these are not the 72 virgins that ISIS was expecting when it launched its jihad…
OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS NEARLY OVER: Finally! The Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon and Amy will have sex after five years in highly-anticipated episode.
THOMAS SOWELL: “Racism is not dead. But it is on life-support, kept alive mainly by the people who use it for an excuse or to keep minority communities fearful or resentful enough to turn out as a voting bloc on Election Day.”
Which is why in the last decade, the left moved towards weaponizing anyone with the scarlet-R when it suits their purposes – and then forgetting all of their past accusations when political expediency demands it.
COVERING THE IMPORTANT NEWS: Carly Simon Finally Reveals the ***hole Behind ‘You’re So Vain:’
After playing coy for 44 years about the song’s megalomaniac, Simon said the second verse is about Warren Beatty, according to People. Yes, Dick Tracy star and Madonna’s sarcastic ex-boyfriend who was immortalized in Truth or Dare is the jerk in the song. But what about the other verses, who are they about? Carly doesn’t think she’ll tell.
My favorite line in this Jezebel post is the last one, though:
Still, it’s fun to assume the other jerks are Mick Jagger, Kris Kristofferson, Jack Nickolson [sic] or Cat Stevens, though it’s tough to see Cat Stevens being an asshole.
Oh, I don’t know — he can be awfully churlish at parties when he wants to be:
JAZZ SHAW: The Wreckage of Baltimore after the Freddie Gray Cameras Went Away.
The rest of America will be cleaning up the mess made by Obama’s acolytes in the DNC and the MSM for years to come after he leaves office.
NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Architecture for atomically precise quantum computer in silicon.
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Parrot Pitches BeBop 2 Drone As “Flying Image Processor.” “The 500-gram drone has a 2-kilometer range, a 25-minute battery life (twice as long as its predecessor), a top horizontal speed of 60 kilometers per hour, and can resist headwinds up to 39 miles per hour. The pilotless aircraft, which can operate in first-person view mode, will sell for US $500 when it comes out on 14 December.”