IF MSM PROPAGANDA WAS A SONG, THEN WHAT WOULD IT SOUND LIKE?

THIS.

(HAT TIP MARK LEVIN.

FOR YOU TUNED-OUT FOLKS, IT'S THE THEME FOR NBC'S MTP, HOSTED BY LIFELONG DEM AND UBER LIB TIMMIE RUSSERT.

WHENEVER YOU HEAR THIS MUSIC YOU SHOULD BRACE YOURSELF FOR AN HOUR OF BDS BS.)

BASS-AKWARDS: OBAMA BARACK WON'T BOMB IRAQ, BUT HE WOULD ATTACKISTAN PAKISTAN

JPOD AT NRO:

Obama's Foreign Policy

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to be: Make nice with nightmarishly bad regimes that have effectively or rhetorically declared war on the United States (North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba) but invade an erstwhile, problematic ally (Pakistan).

Obama just wanted TO SOUND TOUGH, and thought he could temper the sound of his redeployment idiocy by saying he'd be bolder elsewhere.

I think the US military would rather kill the enemy in Iraq's plains then in Pakistan's mountains.
MORE HERE.

TERRI SCHIAVO NEVER GOT THIS CHANCE...

NYTIMES:

A 38-year-old man who spent more than five years in a mute, barely conscious state as a result of a severe head injury is now communicating regularly with family members and recovering his ability to move after having his brain stimulated with pulses of electric current, neuroscientists are reporting.

“I still cry every time I see him, but now it’s tears of joy,” said the man’s mother, in a conference call with reporters on Wednesday; her name was withheld, to protect the patient’s privacy. “He can speak, he can watch movies without falling asleep, he can say Mom and Pop, and ‘I love you, Mommy.’ ”

The new report, which appears in the journal Nature, provides the first rigorous evidence that any procedure can initiate and sustain recovery in such a severely disabled person, years after the injury occurred. An estimated 100,000 to 300,000 Americans subsist in states of partial consciousness, and most are written off as beyond help. ...

“He has regained his personhood, his personal agency,” said Dr. Joseph J. Fins, chief of medical ethics at Cornell, and a coauthor of the study. The patient has amnesia and cannot yet fully represent his interests, Dr. Fins added, “but now he’s got interests to represent.”

TERRI SCHIAVO NEVER GOT THIS CHANCE. Her mother never got the chance to hear her say "Mommy, I love you."

Instead - in the absence of any clear instructions from Terri herself - the state followed the wishes of her estranged husband, (who was living with another woman - the mother of his children), and stopped feeding her, and stopped giving her liquids.

If you or I did that to a dog, then we'd be arrested for cruelty.

If we did it to a Gitmo prisoner then we'd be pilloried by the Left for inhumane torture. If Bush did it, then he'd be called Bushitler and impeached.

But, if you're a Leftist, then you can do that to your ex-wife. And you get to call it painless and humane.

May Terri Rest In Peace.

And may her leftist murderers repent or rot in hell.

GERMAN SANCTIONED INCEST AND PEDOPHILIA PARTS 1 & 2

GERMAN GOVERNMENT RECOMMENDS INCEST AND PEDOPHILIA - part 1

July 31st, 2007 by Aurora

This needs no comment from me. I’m appalled and nauseated:

BERLIN, July 30, 2007 - Booklets from a subsidiary of the German government’s Ministry for Family Affairs encourage parents to sexually massage their children as young as 1 to 3 years of age. Two 40-page booklets entitled “Love, Body and Playing Doctor” by the German Federal Health Education Center (Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung - BZgA) are aimed at parents - the first addressing children from 1-3 and the other children from 4-6 years of age.

“Fathers do not devote enough attention to the clitoris and vagina of their daughters. Their caresses too seldom pertain to these regions, while this is the only way the girls can develop a sense of pride in their sex,” reads the booklet regarding 1-3 year olds. The authors rationalize, “The child touches all parts of their father’s body, sometimes arousing him. The father should do the same.”

HAT TIP: Conservative Thoughts

Posted in Liberalism, Moral Breakdown in the West, Western Europe, Morality

PART 2

To address the criticism that the story on the German government's publication on incest and pedophilia is an urban myth and not typical of liberalism. Here is some further information on it.
First: a) How did the sexualisation of children become sanitized enough to be introduced at a government level in Germany?

German sociologist Gabriele Kuby said that "the German Federal Health Education Center (Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung - BZgA) has in almost all their publications promoted the sexualisation of children as young as one year of age.

THE NEW YORK TIMES' WAR ON NEWSCORP

There's a great quote with an FBI Agent in Curt Gentry's excellent biography, "J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and The Secrets." By now we know what kind of man J. Edgar Hoover was and how he was able to hold onto the Directorship of the FBI for nearly 50 years. An agent said under Hoover it was their job "to find out what he wants and to create the world he believes in."

Now, in the 21st Century, the New York Times has become the J. Edgar Hoover of the MSM. They've pretty much given up all pretense of journalistic ethics and unbiased reporting. No, they won't plainly state, "yes, we're liberals (or "progressives") and we hate conservatism and it's various factions. We're going to do what we can to destroy it and those that don't follow the blueprint of the way we think the world should be, we're gonna take them out," but their actions convey those exact words.

When word came down a few weeks ago that Rupert Murdoch wanted to buy Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal, it must have been the equivalent of hearing that Voldemort is back in the New York Times building. They were in a panic. They put a group of reporters on the job to find anything damning about Murdoch that could derail the deal. They failed. He got it.

Well, they're not giving up on doing what they can to put as many chinks in the media giant's armor as they can. Drudge is reporting that the Times is now looking into any and all connections between Murdock, Roger Ailes and Presidential frontrunner Rudy Giuliani. Reports Drudge:

Having failed to thwart a Murdoch purchase of the WALL STREET JOURNAL, the NEW YORK TIMES intensifies battle with the NEWS CORP. empire on Thursday, newsroom sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.

The paper is preparing a provocative examination of Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani's relationship with FOX NEWS chief Roger Ailes.

Is this journalism? Many will say, sure it is. It's the job of the media to keep the big boys honest and hold their feet to the fire. True enough, but when you pursue a story with the intention of finding dirt that will damage a certain person's reputation, are you practicing journalism or something else entirely. Yellow Journalism? Not quite. That's scandal-mongering for the sake of scandal-mongering with little concern over who the target will be.

What the New York Times is practicing is pure agenda journalism with the intent to destroy. And why? Because people like Murdoch, Ailes and Giuliani work against the world that the New York Times believes in.

The MSM is out of control, and it's only going to get worse until a massive segment of the public says enough.

After Pakistan

The song at the left is meant to parody the right wing obsession with bombing every thing in sight where the right observes international political problems.

Except that it seems like, in the words of the great Jimmy Durante, "Everyone is trying to get in on the act." It appears that my esteemed Senator from Illinois and Presidential Contender Barack Obama is trying to get in on the act.

WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday that he would possibly send troops into Pakistan to hunt down terrorists, an attempt to show strength when his chief rival has described his foreign policy skills as naive.

The Illinois senator warned Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf that he must do more to shut down terrorist operations in his country and evict foreign fighters under an Obama presidency, or Pakistan will risk a U.S. troop invasion and losing hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. military aid.

"Let me make this clear," Obama said in a speech prepared for delivery at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. "There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again. It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had a chance to take out an al-Qaida leadership meeting in 2005.

You can't make this stuff up. I'm surprised he didn't mention Saudi Arabia. For that matter we know Iran is "holding" some pretty high level Al Queda members. Perhaps it is past time that Obama got on the bomb Iran bandwagon.

Update: I found out why he didn't mention Saudi Arabia. Edwards already has it.

Cross Posted at Classical Values

PUTIN PLANTS FLAG AT NORTH POLE AND CLAIMS THE TERRITORY FOR RUSSIA

What the heck? I mean, America owns the moon, right?

(That's sarcasm, if you didn't get it.)

The next statement is not sarcasm, although it will sound outlandish.

One has to wonder if Putin is set on starting a world war. That sounds outlandish, right? Ok fine. But, if that is simply an outlandish idea, then why the hell is he doing this?

An audacious Russian mission to claim the North Pole for Moscow is due to reach its climax in the next 24 hours, after a week-long journey through thick ice-sheets.

Two Russian vessels - including an atomic icebreaker - are expected to reach the Pole this afternoon.

There they will release two mini-submarines which will drop a metal tube containing a Russian flag onto the seabed. The release is likely to take place tonight or tomorrow morning, according to organisers.

The gesture, while symbolic, marks an escalation of the growing international dispute over who owns the Lomonosov Ridge, a 1,240 mile underwater mountain range that crosses the polar region. It is thought to contain rich oil and gas deposits.

Moscow believes the research mission will prove that the ridge is a geological extension of Russia, and can therefore can be claimed by Russia under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Denmark believes that the ridge is in fact an extension of the Danish territory of Greenland.
The US and Canada are also anxious to defend their Arctic territory, with both planning billion-pound investments in new patrol ships.

More than 100 Russian scientists are on the Akademik Federov, the expedition's research vessel.

While on their dive the mini-submarines are due to collect specimens of Arctic flora and fauna, as well as researching the geography of the Lomonosov Ridge.

They will reach a depth of 14,000 feet before dropping the flag cannister.

The most difficult part of the mission, scientists say, will be getting them back to their point of departure to avoid them being trapped under the ice.

The expedition comes amid an outpouring of nationalist fervour after Russian scientists claimed in May that they had evidence to back up a long-held claim to nearly one million miles of the Arctic.

If upheld, Russia could have access to oil and gas deposits potentially worth more than £1 trillion.

In a speech on a nuclear ice-breaker earlier this year, President Vladimir Putin urged greater efforts to secure Russia's "strategic, economic, scientific and defence interests" in the Arctic.

Reliapundit wrote me to say, "This is not unlike Saddam's claim on Kuwait."

That's true.

It's also not unlike Germany's claim on Czechoslovakia and Poland.

Anti-illegal-Immigration Minutemen are "Nazis"

A fevered Washington State "human rights" honcho is out of real arguments so abuse and accusation has to do:

"It is sad to see that the Minutemen and similar groups have succumbed to using hate propaganda to undermine basic tenants of American democracy - opportunity and tolerance....

Unfortunately, it seems like the Minutemen have made progress in some of our communities, including in Everett. The Minutemen rely on the use of hateful speech, the Big Lie, and fear of people who are different to corrupt and coarsen political dialogue, just as their Nazi forebears did.

The so-called Minutemen, like their former fellow traveler Tim McVey, are precursors to domestic terrorism and vigilantism. The federal government is charged with enforcing the immigration laws of the United States. Let the federal government do its job, without "assistance" from gun-toting, self-appointed know-nothings.

Source

It's pretty clear who is uttering the hate speech there. As Larry Simoneaux comments:

"Really? Have the Minutemen offered a "Final Solution" to the problem of illegal immigrants? Is it in any way similar to what SS Lieutenant General Reinhard Heydrich proposed in the Wannsee Protocols?

Have the Minutemen called for the establishment of places like Aushwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Birkenau, Buchenwald, Dachau, Majdanek, Mauthausen, Sobibor, or Treblinka?

Have the Minutemen called for the wholesale death of illegal immigrants? Have they called for the killing of mothers and children, fathers and sons, the sick and the old? Have they experimented with various poisonous gases? Have they suggested that "bath houses" be built in close proximity to ovens?

Does the term "Nazi" also apply to those who say that the influx of illegal aliens needs to be stopped immediately, our borders secured, and a hard look be taken at those who are here to determine what would be best for the nation? Does it apply to those who argue that what our "representatives" in D.C. have allowed to happen is both disgraceful and outrageous?

Source

The name of the "human rights" wacko is Marc Brenman. The surname means "burning man" -- which is amusing given my diagnoss of fever in him.


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Interesting war review

Excerpts below:

In a wider sense, the war is as most wars: an evolution from blunders to wisdom, the side that makes the fewest and learns from them the most eventually winning. Al Qaeda and the insurgents in 2004-6 developed the means, both tactical and strategic, to thwart the reconstruction, but we, not they, have since learned the more and evolved.

As in the Civil War, WWI, and WWII, the present American military - which has committed far less mistakes than past American forces - has shifted tactics, redefined strategy, and found the right field commanders. We forget that the U.S. Army and Marines, far from being broken, now have the most experienced and wizened officers in the world. Like Summer 1864, Summer 1918, and in the Pacific 1944-5, the key is the support of a weary public for an ever improving military that must nevertheless endure a final storm before breaking the enemy.

The irony is that should President Bush endure the hysteria and furor and prove able to give the gifted Gen. Petraeus the necessary time - and I think he will - his presidency could still turn out to be Trumanesque, once we digest the changes in Europe, the progress on North Korea, the end of both the Taliban and Saddam, and the prevention of another 9/11 attack. How odd that all the insider advice to triangulate - big spending, new programs, uninspired appointments, liberal immigration reform - have nearly wrecked the administration, and what were once considered its liabilities - foreign policy, the war on terror and Iraq - may still save it.

Source. Note also below:

Honest reporting at last: "On Monday this week Rush Limbaugh talked about all the members of the mainstream media who are now coming to the conclusion that the surge is working. I think Burns and his fellow Times correspondent Michael Gordon have done more than anyone to change those attitudes and they did not do any of it as partisans. It is especially ironic that these two men of integrity work for the paper that has done its worse to insure defeat." [See also here]

The Left are afraid of success in Iraq: "As I predicted earlier in the day, the left wing blogosphere has turned on the Brookings scholars who went to Iraq and noted the results of the surge. Glenn Greenwald, a.k.a. “The Lion of Jalalabad”, penned a characteristically windy attempt at character assassination. Thankfully, Matthew Yglesias showed more brevity. Characteristically, both pieces didn’t take issue with what Brookings-men Kenneth Pollack and Michael O’Hanlon reported seeing in Iraq but instead attacked them personally. If you’ve studied the moonbats in their native habitats as I have the past several years, this comes as no surprise. After all, what is the chickenhawk meme but an attempt to win an argument by attacking your opponent rather than engaging his ideas? Has anyone come back from Iraq recently and not seen progress? Wouldn’t an effective rebuttal of O’Hanlon’s and Pollack’s article sought out such friendly sources?

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VIDEO: POTTS SINGING "CARUSO" - A SONG ON HIS NEW CD. (AND HE HAS NEW TEETH!)

WOW. Great feeling here - as in all his performances.

BTW: I know this song well; it's by my second favorite singer - Lucio Dalla; (my first is the Chairman of the Board).

Here's Lucio singing it with the greatest tenor of out era, Pavarotti.



I think Paul Potts does it well- even in comparison; his voice has a sad softness and sublime pathos to it which neither Luciano or Lucio have. Dalla's singing is brilliant and brutally honest and daring and unfettered, and oh so very human; Pavarotti's stunning for it's pureness and perfection.

There's room in this life for all three. Thanks to God we have these three, and don't have to choose just one. We get to enjoy them all. Including Potts.

BTW: here's a link to Pott's with his NEW SMILE, (new teeth). Before and after photos.

BRITISH ARMY LEAVES NORTHERN IRELAND - 38 YEARS LATER

NYTIMES/REUTERS:

The army watchtowers have gone and British soldiers no longer search homes looking for wanted men but for many in Northern Ireland's border towns the trauma of conflict still burns.

The British army ends on Tuesday its 38-year role supporting police in Northern Ireland, its longest ever military operation.

They stayed for as long as it took.

We did the same elsewhere - and are still on the watch in in Germany and Japan and South Korea. And it's a good thing considering that Putin is threatening trouble for Europe and Kim is making trouble for South Korea and Japan.

Staying until the JOB IS DONE. It's the RIGHT thing to do.

The Brit's did. We've done it before. And are still doing it.

Which is why we mustn't bug out of Iraq. It would be the WRONG thing to do.

Liberal Slogans

Since I'm an optimist I normally don't like to post negative things but these posters from Demotivators are hilarious. Since they are so pessimistic I thought labeling them liberal slogans would be very appropriate.

Check out the rest of them, here! My other favorites besides the Defeat one are, Cluelessness, Idiocy, Mistakes and Wishes.

WHEN AMERICANS ARE WINNING THE WAR, IT'S A PROBLEM FOR THE DEMS

This has got to top it all. A frank admission from the third-ranking Democrat in the United States House of Representatives that he is worried Al Qaeda just isn't delivering Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi the results they need to overthrow Chimpy Bushhitler McHalliburton:

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Monday that a strongly positive report on progress on Iraq by Army Gen. David Petraeus likely would split Democrats in the House and impede his party's efforts to press for a timetable to end the war.

And it's even worse than that:

Many Democrats have anticipated that, at best, Petraeus and U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker would present a mixed analysis of the success of the current troop surge strategy, given continued violence in Baghdad. But of late there have been signs that the commander of U.S. forces might be preparing something more generally positive. Clyburn said that would be "a real big problem for us."

"Generally positive" results from the surge in Iraq would be "a real big problem for us." The Democrats in the House want America to lose the war.

Traitors. That's all they are. Traitors. A vote for any Democratic Party candidate in any election in this country is a vote for treason.

UPDATE: Mark Steyn asks:

In how many wars fought by democratic countries has the majority party in the legislature announced that its political interests require national defeat?

O tempora! O mores!

UPDATE: Thomas Sowell notes:

Senator Reid feared that the surge would turn out not to be a failure — and the Democrats had bet everything, including their chances in the 2008 elections, on an American defeat in Iraq.

And he continues:

Victory is not inevitable, any more than victory was inevitable when American and British troops landed at Normandy in 1945.

The Punditarian would add that victory is not inevitable, but it is achievable, and it does not seem too much to ask that the Democrats in Congress would advocate American victory rather than American defeat. The mask is off.

Using Correct English is Racist??

We read:

"What is a nerd? Mary Bucholtz, a linguist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been working on the question for the last 12 years. She has gone to high schools and colleges, mainly in California, and asked students from different crowds to think about the idea of nerdiness and who among their peers should be considered a nerd; students have also "reported" themselves. Nerdiness, she has concluded, is largely a matter of racially tinged behavior. People who are considered nerds tend to act in ways that are, as she puts it, "hyperwhite."

As a linguist, Bucholtz understands nerdiness first and foremost as a way of using language. In a 2001 paper, "The Whiteness of Nerds: Superstandard English and Racial Markedness," and other works, including a book in progress .... the nerds she has interviewed, mostly white kids, punctiliously adhere to Standard English. They often favor Greco-Latinate words over Germanic ones ("it's my observation" instead of "I think"), a preference that lends an air of scientific detachment. They're aware they speak distinctively, and they use language as a badge of membership in their cliques. One nerd girl Bucholtz observed performed a typically nerdy feat when asked to discuss "blood" as a slang term; she replied: "B-L-O-O-D. The word is blood," evoking the format of a spelling bee. She went on, "That's the stuff which is inside of your veins," humorously using a literal definition."

Source

All the Asian nerds around the place will be amazed to hear that they are "hyper-white"!

The nerdy Jerome Schmitt suspects that Ms Bucholtz hasn't actually met many nerds. He says that an ability to handle mathematics is the main characteristic of nerds. My son teaches mathematics at our major university here so I suppose there is no hope for him!

My reference to "correct" English in the heading on this post will be a red rag to Leftists. "There is no such thing as right and wrong", you see. There is, though. See here


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A failed study of academic ideology

A study published late last year by sociologists John F. Zipp and Rudy Fenwick under the heading "Is the Academy a Liberal Hegemony? The Political Orientations and Educational Values of Professors" has got a fair bit of attention. It is a rather desperate attempt to deny the obvious -- that American university and college teachers are overwhelmingly Leftist.

They concede that party identification runs 7 to 1 in favour of Democrats among professors but argue that this does not adequately reflect ideology. Conservatives would certainly agree with that -- seeing professors as much more extreme Leftists than most Democrat voters are. That is the WRONG conclusion, however, according to the zippy one. He and his friend in fact argue that a lot of those academic Democrats are really centrists!

The study has been thoroughly shot down on a number of grounds by others (e.g. here and here) but I thought I should have a look at it nonetheless. I spent 20 years or so trying to measure people's political attitudes as precisely as possible and have over 100 academic journal articles in print reporting on the results of that. So the research concerned really is in my line of country. I thought I might be able to see defects that others have missed.

And I sure did! The attitude surveys from which they derived their data had only a 50% response rate! For many purposes that may not matter. That is actually a fairly good response rate compared to attitude surveys and opinion polls in general. But there is ONE occasion where a low response rate does matter a great deal. And that is the sort of occasion we have in the present case: Where one's sample includes a large number of political extremists. I tried for many years to get Communists and Nazis to complete my attitude surveys. I used every trick in the book to persuade them to do the task -- including getting recommendations of the task from their own authorities. But the comrades just would NOT do the task. They obviously felt -- probably rightly --that the results could be used to "get at" them in some way. And, as we all know, academe is now the only place where Marxism still has a strong following. I taught in a Sociology Department at a major university myself for many years so I can vouch for the popularity of Marx in such places. And what is true of Marxists as far as paranoia is concerned is probably also true of the fruitier versions of Leftism that also infest academe.

So Zipp and friend based their research on data from which the real Leftists were self-excluded! No wonder they found that the Leftists they did have were rather moderate! Rather hilarious, really.


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THE ART WORLD IN NY IS AS CORRUPT AS POLITICS IN DC

THERE'S A REVOLVING DOOR BETWEEN COLLECTORS, GALLERIES, AUCTION HOUSES AND MUSEUMS.

AND THE BIG COLLECTORS ARE ON THE BOARDS OF DIRECTORS OF THE MUSEUMS.

CURATORS BECOME DEALERS.

ONE HAND WASHES THE OTHER.

HERE'S A RECENT EXAMPLE.

WANT MORE? GOOGLE "ART WORLD" AND "INCESTUOUS."

RUSSIA WILL SHUN HAMAS

FINALLY, A LITTLE GOOD NEWS FROM PUTIN: Russia announces intentions to downgrade ties with Hamas

Russia intends to downgrade its ties to Hamas, and no high-level contacts are planned for the near future, Russia's deputy foreign minister said Tuesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told visiting Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday that he is the legitimate leader of all Palestinians, Russian news agencies reported.

"I want to assure you that Russia will support you as the legitimate leader of the Palestinian people. I am convinced that you will do everything to restore the unity of the Palestinian people," Putin was quoted by ITAR-Tass and Interfax as telling Abbas during his visit to Moscow.

WE MUST REMAIN GRATEFUL FOR LITTLE THINGS.

MARK LEVIN: WHY DO THE DEMS SUPPORT HILLARY, SHE SUCKED AT BEING FIRST LADY

THE GREAT ONE (PARAPHRASING):

SHE WAS A LOUSY FIRST LADY.

AND HILLARYCARE COST THE DEMS THE CONGRESS FOR OVER A DECADE.

SO WHAT DO THEY SAY?

"LET'S GIVE HER THE NOMINATION."

THEY'RE NUTS.

HE'S RIGHT.

NYTIMES: IF YOU ARE AMERICAN AND FAT, THEN THAT'S BAD. IF YOU ARE CUBAN AND FAT, THEN THAT'S COOL. GEE, I WONDER WHY?

OBESITY IN AMERICA IS A CRISIS, RIGHT!?!?

I MEAN, IT MUST BE; AFTER ALL, IT'S ANOTHER REASON LEFTIES WANT TO RESTRICT FREE SPEECH.

AND TO RESTRICT RESTAURANTS FROM USING COMMON INGREDIENTS.

THINK AGAIN: MORE HYPOCRISY FROM THE NYTIMES:

The prima ballerina of the Danza Voluminosa troupe weighs 286 pounds, and as she thumps gracefully across the floor, she gives new meaning to the words stage presence.

Her body is a riotous celebration of weight — of ample belly and breasts, of thick legs and arms, of the crushing reality of gravity.

... this company of obese dancers has become a cultural phenomenon in Cuba, breaking stereotypes here of dance, redefining the aesthetics of beauty and, along the way, raising the self-esteem of heavyset people.

NO SURPRISE HERE: IN THE 1930'S THEY COVERED UP STALIN'S GENOCIDE; IN THE 1960'S THEY SWEPT CHE'S PURGES UNDER THE RUG. THEY - AND THE REST OF THE MSM - CONSTANTLY KISS FIDEL'S BIG FAT OLD TYRANNICAL ASS.

BOTTOM-LINE: IF YOU'RE AN ANTI-AMERICAN COMMIE THEN THE NYTIMES WILL FORGIVE YOU OF ANYTHING - EVEN BEING FAT!

VEGANSEXUAL?

NEWS.COM (AU): ' Vegansexuals' shun sex with meaties

A GROUP of vegans in New Zealand - vegansexuals - are shunning sex with meat-eaters because their bodies are made up of animal carcases.

"When you are vegan or vegetarian, you are very aware that when people eat a meaty diet, they are kind of a graveyard for animals," vegan Nichola Kriek said in the Christchurch daily The Press.

Another said: "I would not want to be intimate with someone whose body is literally made up from the bodies of others who have died for their sustenance."

Annie Potts, co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human and Animal Studies at Canterbury University, identified the people she called "vegansexuals" in her research study, Cruelty-Free Consumption in New Zealand: A National Report on the Perspectives and Experiences of Vegetarians and other Ethical Consumers.

MORE ON THESE INSANE NUTS HERE.

VERY FUNNY STUFF HERE. EXCERPT: "Interestingly she does not mention the disgust many meat eaters may feel at the thought of having sex with a compost heap."

I THINK THE MEAT ABOVE LOOKS VERY APPETIZING, AND THE OMNIVOROUS MEAL BELOW SIMPLY DELICIOUS. AS JULIA USED TO SAY: BON APPETIT!

TERRORISTS ARE RAISED NOT BORN: Child Abuse and Jihado-terror

FRONTPAGE:

The physician and researcher Daphne Burdman, writing in the Jewish Political Studies Review, says the Palestinians’ ongoing aggression toward Israel and Jews results from Koranic and Hadith teachings, the PA’s own brand of systematic indoctrination and incitement, and “psychological processes arising from Arab childrearing practices.” The first two factors are more familiar than the third, which requires much more attention from people concerned about this conflict.

In the West, Burdman notes, “the connection between child abuse and the eventual criminal, often violent adult is. . .well documented,” and she quotes “‘a consistent finding in the childhoods of extremely violent criminal recidivists . . . of severe abuse.’”

But what if there was a society where the violent and sexual abuse of children did not just occur in isolated cases but was, instead, the norm? Such societies do exist—in the Arab world, and the Palestinian Authority is a particularly virulent case where the pathological patterns are fused with especially intense inculcation of Jew-hatred.

In Arab childrearing, Burdman points out, “the incidence and severity of corporal punishment are much greater than in the Western world.” A noted psychohistorian says this “extends to whipping, thrashing, and worse.” Meanwhile “a recent survey of Palestinian society indicated child sexual abuse to involve 50 percent of boys and 31 percent of girls aged six to twelve, in a study involving 184 subjects. The author [noted] the unusual predominance of boys among the victims. . . .”

RTWT.

WE HAVE ALSO ARGUED THAT ISLAMO-MISOGYNY, POLYGAMY, AND ENDOGAMY PREDISPOSE THE ARAB MALE TO XENOPHOBIA AND GENOCIDE:

IF YOUNG MEN ARE RAISED TO BELIEVE THAT MURDERING THEIR OWN SISTERS AND DAUGHTERS CAN RESTORE HONOR TO THEIR FAMILIES, THEN OF COURSE THEY WILL BE CAPABLE OF GENOCIDE AGAINST INFIDELS.

NAACP: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CRIMINAL PEOPLE?

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In stark contrast to its position on last year's Duke non-rape case, the NAACP has urged the public not to judge Michael Vick before he has his day in court.

In a news conference early this morning, Atlanta NAACP President R.L. White charged that the Atlanta Falcons star quarterback's suspension and sponsor desertion amounted to premature punishment, adding that,

"If Mr. Vick is guilty, he should pay for his crime, but to treat him as he is being treated now is also a crime. Be restrained in your premature judgment until the legal process is completed."

And, while one can't deny the merits of avoiding yet another trial by media, neither can one deny the duplicitous nature of White's "premature judgment" words.

I DON'T KNOW IF IT IS DUPLICITOUS.

AFTER ALL, IN BOTH SITUATIONS THE NAACP IS DEFENDING THE PERP.

THE TRUE PERP IN THE DUKE CASE WAS THE WOMAN WHO MADE FALSE ACCUSATIONS.

THE PERP IN THE VICK CASE APPEARS TO BE VICK.

THE NAACP SEEMS TO HAVE BECOME AS WORTHLESS AS THE ACLU.

NAH. NOT WORTHLESS: HARMFUL.

REMEMBER: SC*MB*G JULIAN BOND VIRTUALLY CALLED BUSH HITLER.
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