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July 20, 2015
VIDEO: WATCH AS LIBERALS EAGERLY SIGN PETITION PROMOTING ‘WHITE PRIVILEGE TAX’ ON WHITE PEOPLE: The logical outgrowth of the privilege movement.
When will white stars be proposed as well?
THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: U.S. military tells recruiting centers to step up security by closing blinds.
On Facebook, Tam Keel asks if they’re also handing out special, “monster-proof blankets for personnel to pull over their heads as well.” But don’t worry, federal forces. Ordinary citizens are here to protect you.
Or as Sen. Frank Nicely puts it: “In a twist to recent controversies, Southern States’ militias arming quickly to defend Federal (Union) troops.”
THE LOVE BOAT FOR LEFTWING POLICY WONKS: “’The love boat for policy wonks’ is how the New York Times describes The Nation magazine Caribbean cruise, setting sail in December from Miami,” Steve Hayward writes at Power Line. “I got the email from The Nation with a rundown on the speakers,” ranging from Ralph Nader to Katrina vanden Heuvel to Robert Scheer.” And if that wasn’t enough excitement, it gets better:
“AND a pre-cruise send-off featuring a freewheeling, intimate conversation with Representative Alan Grayson on December 12—free for all booked passengers!”
Oh, the conversations tut-tutting income inequality, global warming, and oh-so-problematic free markets the cruisers paying between two and six thousand dollars a cabin will have! But then, P.J. O’Rourke’s classic “Ship of Fools” essay on early 1980s Nation magazine cruisers sailing up the Volga to see the wonders of the Soviet Union, while packing their own toilet paper, and the Washington Free Beacon’s more recent look at a New York Times-sponsored vacation in Tehran sums up the mindset of the socialist “Omnipotent Tourist Syndrome” quite nicely.
If you’re a conservative or libertarian who wants a much more fun getaway in December, then join us in Texas here:
TWO “TOP EDITORS” HAVE RESIGNED FROM GAWKER, IN PROTEST OF “INTERFERENCE” FROM THE “BUSINESS SIDE” OF THE ENTERPRISE:
This piece is hosted on an archive site, so Gawker doesn’t get any traffic from it.
Nick Denton published an extraordinary claim on his site Kinja (no link):
I’m sorry also that Jordan Sargent, reporting this story impeccably despite a personal drama, was exposed to such traumatizing hatred online, just for doing his job.
Gawker is apologizing for exposing Jordan Sargent to “traumatizing hatred online”?
Isn’t exposing random people to traumatizing hatred online their entire business model?
Don’t forget: The Justine Sacco incident was contrived by a Gawker writer at ValleyWag, a vertical which seeks to dump hatred on random people in Silicon Valley.
If you don’t know about the Gawker meltdown, you can read my piece about it from Friday night. It’s got a hell of a headline, if I do say so myself.
This is like watching a game between two teams you despise: You’re rooting for injuries.
RELATED: “Is Gawker Destroying Itself From The Inside? Let’s Hope So.”
MORE:
“This may be the first article in Internet history where the comments are more humane than the actual story” – http://t.co/SAvUys2jNG
— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) July 17, 2015
Heh, indeed.™
IDEAS FOR REPORTERS STRUGGLING TO COVER PLANNED PARENTHOOD: In 2008, Michelle Obama promised her husband’s supporters that her husband will “demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”
When will the media shed their cynicism and push themselves to become better, by moving out of their comfort zones to stop leaving their customers so uninformed and uninvolved?
RELATED: White House spokesman Josh Earnest “Instantly Dismisses Reporter’s Question About Planned Parenthood.”
He really should come out of his isolation and put down his partisan divisions.
THE UNITED STATES OF SELF-DOUBT: “Today, on the 46th anniversary of Apollo 11’s triumph, its celebration feels hollow. America no longer leads the way into space. She doesn’t even have a vehicle to get astronauts into orbit. Americans no longer seem intrigued by what might be possible. Instead, they fear it. The unknown that was once so inviting is now forbidding. In the mistaken pursuit of a paradise on Earth, America has ceded the heavens:”
Conservatives would contend that private firms are better suited to pick up where NASA has left off. Democrats might claim that space exploration and its associated technological benefits is a great project worthy of a great nation, but so, too, are universal health care or federally-funded pre-kindergarten education programs. Both attitudes would indefinitely consign mankind to its rocky cradle.
Put me down in the former camp — while even Ayn Rand celebrated NASA landing a man on the moon, getting there was essentially yet another variation on the left’s century-old moral equivalent of war trope (as even NASA admits), which it always uses to grab more power and money. Best to use the memories of this day in 1969 as the inspiration for more commercial development than government spending.
“‘WHITENESS GOGGLES’ SET OUT TO CHANGE HOW YOU SEE CULTURAL APPROPRIATION:”
Having a hard time understanding the meaning of appropriation? Take a look at Portland-based artist Roger Peet’s handy “Whiteness Goggles” series.
In the images he created for the series, the history of violence and oppression endured by people of color quite literally becomes the backdrop for the quirky styles and awesome music of white people. Take for example his biting ode to Miley Cyrus. In the image above, she twerks before a crowd of armed policemen in Ferguson, Missouri. In another, Katy Perry poses in a geisha costume in front of an exploding atomic bomb.
Blue on blue on blue – an Obama supporter uses (bad) art to destroy his fellow Obama supporters, as the left continues to devour itself.
PELOSI PROPOSES LOWERING THE VOTING AGE TO 16: Why it’s like the left seeks to create as many low information voters as possible. Otherwise, this seems rather counterintuitive, considering the drinking age was long ago raised to 21, and Obamacare assumes someone isn’t an adult until age 26. And considering an increasing number of college students are demanding “Trigger Warnings” and “Safe Spaces” in response to classic literature and campus speeches, how can they handle learning about the rough and tumble world of politics?
Clearly the 26th Amendment should be declared a failed experiment in light of the increasing sensitivities of the young “Survivor Class.” Do it for the (overaged) children.
BUDGET SUPERCAR: $117,500 for a Viper ACR? That’s a Steal. “The third Viper to wear the ACR badge is capable of lapping a track at speeds few cars available at any price can approach, let alone match.”
AT AMAZON, deals on Janitorial Supplies. Keep it clean!
FDR COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT: Former Democratic Presidential Candidate Gen. Wesley Clark: Let’s Throw Radical Muslims Into Internment Camps:
“If these people are radicalized and they don’t support the United States and they are disloyal to the United States as a matter of principle, fine. It’s their right and it’s our right and obligation to segregate them from the normal community for the duration of the conflict.”
Will any of Clark’s fellow Democrats be asked about his comments by their operatives with bylines?
JESSICA VALENTI MOVES FROM THE COMPLAINING-ABOUT-MALE-ATTENTION PHASE TO THE COMPLAINING-ABOUT-LACK-OF-MALE-ATTENTION PHASE: Men rarely catcall me any more. I hate that our culture makes me miss it. The important thing is that she continues to complain.
UPDATE: From the comments: “Shrews gonna shrew. #shrewculture.” Yeah, pretty much.
TO BE FAIR, ISN’T EVERYTHING? Are Bicycles Sexist?
ENOUGH! ENTIRE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY SAYS ‘NO MORE’ TO SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS: “Suddenly, it seemed that Adam Baldwin wasn’t the only Hollywood figure taking a stand against the authoritarian left. And why would he be? If the new political correctness were to dig its heels in, it would do serious damage to Hollywood’s fortunes.”
Still though, I’m sure both SJWs and non-SJWs can agree that repealing the Hollywood tax cuts would be a useful small first step towards helping to reduce that industry’s horrendous income inequality.
READER BOOK PLUG FOLLOWUP: So I read Laura Montgomery’s Sleeping Duty over the weekend and it was good. I hope there’s a sequel.
BETTER DRINKING through science.
HOW TO BUILD A PIZZA OVEN with junk from your garage.
Of course, a lot of InstaPundit readers like this rotating pizza oven, and it’s a lot easier.
The CDC definition of maternal mortality is much more expansive than the rest of the world.
Why?
Because they’re a bunch of go-it-alone cowboys, who reject the value of consistent measurement internationally, thinking they know better?
Or because they intentionally choose to overstate the problem, the better to acquire more funds for their projects?
Hmm. I know how to bet.
TRUMP DOES TRUMP: The Donald has an oped in USA Today taking on Sen. John McCain and other Republicans, “I don’t need to be lectured.”
John McCain has called his own constituents who want a secure border “crazies.” No one in the news media or the establishment, including the Republican National Committee, criticized the senator for those comments. . . .
Thanks to McCain and his Senate colleague Bernie Sanders, their legislation to cover up the VA scandal, in which 1,000+ veterans died waiting for medical care, made sure no one has been punished, charged, jailed, fined or held responsible. McCain has abandoned our veterans. I will fight for them.
The reality is that John McCain the politician has made America less safe, sent our brave soldiers into wrong-headed foreign adventures, covered up for President Obama with the VA scandal and has spent most of his time in the Senate pushing amnesty. He would rather protect the Iraqi border than Arizona’s. He even voted for the Iran Nuclear Review Act of 2015, which allows Obama, who McCain lost to in a record defeat, to push his dangerous Iran nuclear agreement through the Senate without a supermajority of votes.
A number of my competitors for the Republican nomination have no business running for president. I do not need to be lectured by any of them. . . .
Trump punches back twice as hard, which is kind of fun to watch. No wonder the GOP Establishment hates him as much as the Democrats.
NEW YOU CAN USE: How To Properly Grip A Pistol.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Carly Fiorina, The Other Woman.