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Archive for 2017
June 6, 2017
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: 13 Not-So-Little White Lies Women Tell on Dating Sites.
IT’S ALWAYS NICE TO MAKE TWITCHY. “Luckily a few men haven’t been so emasculated that they can’t defend themselves in the era of third wave feminism … like Instapundit.”
True. My hypermasculinity is legendary. I mean, just look.
PROBIOTICS AND ULCERATIVE COLITIS.
QUESTIONS NOBODY IS ASKING: “As Environmental Catastrophe Looms, Is it Ethical to Have Children?,” asks a headline at left-leaning Foreign Policy.
Somebody give the needle on the record a push; the left have been stuck in the role of Chicken Little for a half-century now. I’m sure the Frisbee Ion will bring eco-doom any day.
HIGHER MINIMUM WAGES, NANNYISM, AND OVERREGULATION: The Decline of the Summer Job. Summer jobs promote a work ethic and a spirit of independence. They don’t want people growing up with those anymore.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Milo Yiannopoulos shoots to number one on Amazon with self-published book after it was dropped by Simon & Schuster.
As Glenn asked yesterday, “frankly, if you know your book is going to be a big seller, why use a publisher at all? And where are publishers once people figure that out?”
ONE SECOND AFTER: EMP Commission Chair Warns on North Korean EMP.
‘I WORK AT A F**KING NEWS STATION, MOTHERF**KER’: YOUNG REPORTER ARRESTED AFTER UNLOADING ON COP:
A young reporter went on an obscenity-peppered tirade Sunday night outside a Philadelphia entertainment venue before getting arrested by local police officer.
Employees at the Helium Comedy Club asked Colleen Campbell, a 28-year-old recent graduate of Temple University, if she could be more quiet during actor and comic Craig Robinson’s standup performance, according to Philadelphia Magazine.
Even though management personally declined to comment, the broadcaster reportedly refused to lower her voice during Robinson’s show.
“About last night: this very obnoxious lady, who wasn’t drunk (nor high I think) was disturbing the show with her ‘loud whispering,’” comic Wil Sylvince wrote in a Facebook post. “After 3 warnings and other customers were complaining she was asked to leave.”
But as Campbell is escorted out of the building, she allegedly became extremely unruly to the point where a police officer felt compelled to get involved.
Sylvince notes that when she was initially kicked out of the comedy club, she kicked, punched, and even poked the eyes of three different employees.
“You guys are fucking dickeaters, that’s what you fucking are. You going to record that on tape?” Campbell says directly in the face of a well-mannered officer. “You are fucking cocksuckers, ” she continued emphatically, making sure to enunciate the “S” sounds.
And not surprisingly, the New York Post reports that Philadelphia’s PHL-17 quickly offloaded the young would-be television journalist and airbrushed her from their Website. Or as the New York Post adds, “Fired TV reporter says she’s ‘ruined’ after ugly rant:”
A television reporter who was fired for berating a cop during an expletive-filled tirade outside of a Philadelphia comedy club says she feels “ruined” and wants to apologize to the officer after getting threats.
Colleen Campbell, 28, of Philadelphia, said she only learned that her cringe-worthy rant outside of the Helium on Sunday was caught on camera and posted to Facebook after she was busted on charges of resisting arrest, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct.
“When I came home, I called my producer to talk about why I was absent,” Campbell told Philadelphia Magazine. “I didn’t realize a video was out. I found out about it later because HR called me and said I was being terminated. They said there’s a video. I said, ‘What video?’”
Oh there’s video all right; click on the link above to watch it at the Post. After the video ended, according to Philadelphia magazine, “Police: Colleen Campbell Later Assaulted the World’s Most Patient Cop.”
According to a police statement about the incident, shortly after the calm, cool, and collected cop who responded to the scene led her away in cuffs and the video stopped, Campbell, a recent Temple University graduate, allegedly assaulted him. Police say that she kicked him repeatedly and also kicked the doors and windows of a police car.
If those last allegations are true, Iowahawk really needs to update his 2008 blog post titled, “Bylines of Brutality: As Casualties Mount, Some Question The Emotional Stability of Media Vets.”
WE MAY NEVER KNOW HIS TRUE MOTIVE: Notre Dame hammer attack suspect yelled ‘This is for Syria’
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CHUCK SCHUMER: ‘BDS Supporters Will Be Defeated’
Schumer argued that the Obama administration should have vetoed Resolution 2334, which declared Israeli settlements to be a violation of international law, in December and said the U.S. “should never use the United Nations as a forum to put pressure on Israel of any kind.”
Schumer slammed the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement as a “deeply biased campaign aimed at delegitimizing the Jewish State.”
“There’s no greater example than this insidious effort to harm the Jewish State than through boycotts, divestment, and sanctions,” he said. “The global BDS movement is a deeply biased campaign aimed at delegitimizing the Jewish State and its supporters, sometimes wittingly, sometimes unwittingly, but all of them practice a modern form of anti-Semitism, and we have to call them out for that.”
Schumer said the BDS movement is silent about the human rights abuses happening in the Middle East.
“BDS condemns Israel and seek to impose boycotts solely on the Jewish State, but willfully turn a blind eye to nations that actually violate human rights. When Iran sponsors terror and executes dissenters, BDS movement is quiet. When Arab nations jail journalists and punish homosexuality with prison sentences and physical abuse, BDS is nowhere to be found,” he said.
President Obama helped unleash a wave of “legitimized” Jew-hatred in a fit of pique against Benjamin Netanyahu.
THE STORM BEFORE THE STORM: Liberalism is exhausted, but illiberalism is still taboo. What’s next for Weimar America?
IMPORTANT ADVICE FOR A LIFE OF CRIME: “Get the money and don’t get caught getting the money.”
WASHINGTON EXAMINER: @realDonaldTrump, delete your account.
President Trump too often uses Twitter to stream his thoughts directly to the world. Some of his supporters revel in the howls these tweets produce from news media and other critics. This trollish appreciation misses the main consequence, that Trump imperils his own agenda, much of which we agree with, when he tweets from the hip.
“[T]weets on legal matters seriously undermine Admin agenda and POTUS,” wrote respected Republican attorney George Conway, husband of Kellyanne Conway, councilor to the president. He continued, “and those who support him, as I do, need to reinforce that and not be shy about it.”
Conway is right, and early on the morning after the London Bridge terrorist attack, in a span of 14 minutes, Trump rattled off a series of tweets that demonstrated his potential and actual self-harm.
Campaigning and governing are two different things.
THEODORE DALRYMPLE ON TERROR AND THE TEDDY BEAR SOCIETY:
My female Muslim patients who had grown up in Britain told me that the school inspectors had never intervened when their parents prevented them from attending school, often for years. On the other hand, white working-class parents were bullied by those inspectors when their refractory 15-year-old daughters refused to go. A few years ago it came to light that police in Rotherham had for decades systematically turned a blind eye to the mass sexual abuse of children—at least 1,400 victims—by Muslim men. This type of willful neglect by the authorities came as no surprise to me. On the contrary, it is precisely what I would have expected.
From all this the terrorists surely draw a great deal of comfort. It gives them the impression of living in a weak society that will be easy to destroy, so that their acts are not in the least nihilistic or pointless, as is often claimed. They perceive ours as a candle-and-teddy-bear society (albeit mysteriously endowed with technological prowess): We kill, you light candles. The other day I passed a teddy-bear shop, that is to say a shop that sold nothing but teddy bears. I am sure that terrorism is good for business, but the teddy bears are more reassuring for the terrorists than for those who buy them to place on the site of the latest outrage.
Fortunately though, Europe is finally pushing back hard against terrorism…with more gun control laws.
I’m sure that’ll work this time, right?
LINDSEY GRAHAM: I don’t think GOP can pass healthcare bill this year.
WELL, WE HAD EIGHT YEARS OF OBAMA. WE’VE ONLY HAD FOUR MONTHS OF TRUMP TO UNDO THE DAMAGE. Study By MIT Economist: U.S. Has Regressed To A Third-World Nation For Most Of Its Citizens.
THIS IS NOT AN EXCUSE TO GAIN WEIGHT: An apron of fat is the body’s first line of defense.
SEARS WENT RADICAL CHIC SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED: Sears Hawks ‘Free Palestine’ Line of T-Shirts.
Related: “Can someone tell Sears [you] can’t free or restore a state that never existed!!”
I get the feeling they may take a creative liberty or two.