“Frankly, this place is a dump—between the poor lighting, the overall dirtiness, and the crowds, it’s almost impossible to concentrate on anything pure or holy,” user Faruq43 wrote in a scathing review posted this week, claiming that he once even had his shoes stolen from the mosque when he removed them for Friday prayers.

When they dumped the body in the road, these two black guys had the opportunity to hurt other people if they wanted to because there were brave women with the dead guy on the floor, they were shielding and covering him. The attackers with the knives were standing over these women.

“The guy with the gun, the tall guy with the beanie cap on, even a bus had pulled up – he was going over to the bus and asking people to take his photo.”

It seemed that nearly everyone in attendance, including many of the college professors, was flogging a book or had a side gig as a “consultant”​—​that is, someone you might want to hire for your own campus or workplace exploration of the ins and outs of white oppression.

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Hang on:

Martin Luther King wore a Rolex?

Anyway, as I could have told you without an assist from Scientific American:

Most people believe that they are above average, a statistical impossibility.

Just when you thought people with “gluten allergies” couldn’t get more annoying, they start petitioning on change.org because a fucking Disney show made them out to not be the rulers of the universe.

The Shubert. The Apollo. Carnegie Hall.

So “The Snapple Theater Center” doesn’t provoke the same reverent awe as do the names of those famous New York City landmarks, but hey, a gig’s a gig, right?

Maybe Christina Crawford inherited more of her adoptive mother’s trooper spirit than she’d care to admit.

It’s so easy to imagine Joan Crawford growling, “Snapple, crapple! The show must go on!”

And so it does: the long running “Mommie Dearest” franchise, one angry daughter’s single claim to fame — first a blockbuster 1977 memoir, then a cult movie — is back in a rather downmarket iteration:

A Conversation with Christina Crawford: Live and Onstage in Surviving Mommie Dearest.

Or rather, was. The show’s very brief run at the Snapple overlapped Mother’s Day.

After more than 30 years of telling all, what possible secrets could Christina Crawford have left to reveal about her infamous mom?

Can we not steal the master print and neg or something?

I asked the same thing during Katrina:

Why do you people live below sea level?

Some people will compare this reporter’s question to the chick at the Daily Show joking that God sent the tornado to kill conservatives.

Two very different things.

(Also, who cares? SDA makes California-liberal-earthquake jokes all the time — and I’ll bet the folks at Breitbart do too, albeit using their “inside voices.”)

You’re 21st century Americans, not African or Haitians.

Surely you don’t have to keep living in a flood or earthquake zone or in “hurricane alley.”

This one sounds like crap to me, too, but the reason it is gaining traction is that is sounds SO MUCH like something a rich mom would actually do, and, as I keep saying, we have to address the “compassion creep” growing around the “disabled are getting too much special treatment” meme.

The look of Lance was, of course, all about Lycra, pointy helmets and brightly colored jerseys – a “team kit” as its called. But since “Armstrong has admitted using performance enhancing drugs … looking like him maybe isn’t so cool.”

“People just want to ride bikes without looking like a mamil,” ways Mia Kohout of Momentum, a biking magazine, using a pejorative term for a “middle-aged man in Lycra.”

Call it the “straight-ing” of BDSM, because as Paglia notes:

Weiss surveys the gradual transformation of BDSM from the “more outlaw” era of gay leathermen in Folsom Street bars of the pre-AIDS era to today’s largely heterosexual scene in affluent Silicon Valley, where high-tech workers congregate at private parties or convivial “munches” at chain restaurants with convenient parking lots.  (…)

Home Depot is sometimes dubbed “Home Dungeon” for its tempting offerings, such as rope, eye bolts, and wooden paint stirrers, which we are told make “great, stingy paddles.” The thrifty take note: Rattan to make canes can be cheaply purchased in bulk at garden-supply stores.

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If you’ve ever made the mistake of watching the Canadian TV show, Kink, you know how true the following is.

Even the male “doms” on that program look like puny beta fags; they’re about as menacing as Don Knotts.

I thought this might be semi-self-selecting — that the only kinky people they could get to agree to go on TV all happened to look like belugas, but apparently not:

Newmahr captures how her subjects, even before they entered SM, viewed themselves as “outsiders” who lived “on the fringe of social acceptance.” Most are overweight, but it’s never remarked on. Several women are over six feet tall, generally a social disadvantage elsewhere. (…)

Some men are small-statured or have vivid, angry memories of being bullied at school. Newmahr notes the “pervasive social awkwardness” in the scene, the “ill-fitting, outdated clothing” and the women’s lack of makeup and jewelry.

The men often have little interest in sports and own cars of middling quality.

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However, maybe I was right in a way.

If you’ve ever watch that Canadian show Intervention (or even The Last 10 Pounds) you’ll have noticed that those participants are almost always hideous lower class people, too.

Sure enough:

In describing her subjects’ style of “blunt speaking” and boasting, as well as their disconcerting invasion of personal space in conversation, however, Newmahr does not mention social class, about which she says little in her book. I would hazard a guess that she was uncovering the difference between lower-middle-class and upper-middle-class manners—the latter characterizing the world she customarily inhabits as an academic.

These fine distinctions are insufficiently observed in the United States, where liberal political discourse too often employs a simplistic dichotomy between rich and poor.

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Anyhow, in a related story from a few days back, Conor Friedersdorf actually manages to make sex boring, as you’d have guessed.

Confronted by such criticisms, Karber’s now mumbling that standard-issue, dog-ate-my-homework leftist alibi, the one about “raising awareness,” in this case “of the problem of homelessness.”

Guess what? I’m “aware” of the homeless every time I venture downtown.

And by the way: How come I can still see them? Ever since the “homeless” were invented by a terminally damaged, megalomaniac narcissist in the 1980s, we’ve plowed hundreds of millions of dollars into “helping” them, and yet there they still are, stinking up the joint (possibly because the “homelessness-poverty complex” is a thriving industry that keeps other lunatics off the street).

The idea was “consensual adultery”,’ explains Gay Talese, a celebrated New York writer and ‘participating observer’ at the retreat, whose bestselling 1980 book about the sexual revolution, Thy Neighbour’s Wife, put Sandstone on the map for many Americans.

‘The theory is that if both parties know what the other is doing, or thinking of doing, it can be understood and perhaps condoned without it being a cause of divorce. They were re-defining “‘sin”’.’

When I tracked down Barbara Williamson this week, now 74 and running a wildlife sanctuary in Nevada, she told me they had personal motives, too — though many would regard them as utterly misguided.

Their quest for this perverse Utopia started in 1968 when — inspired by Atlas Shrugged, the libertarian thinker Ayn Rand’s novel about industrialists who drop out of an oppressive society — Williamson gave up his electronics firm and his wife threw in her insurance sales job.

However, it leaves out a) the rampant beta-male faggotry and b) their related obsession with “racism” and “sexism” while living in the least “racist” and “sexist” time and place in history, and the way this manifests itself: in puny expressions of petty outrage towards safe targets, all of which serve as a convenient but fairly convincing substitute for demanding, risk-taking action and thought.

Hardly. The Muslims who take this position take it by claiming that only the Khalifa or the Mahdi can establish these.

By switching Muhammad from “Islamist” to “Muslim, Pipes must then answer a crucial question: is Islam defined by its founder or by Mr. Pipes? Muhammad defined Islam as “Al-Islamu deen wa dawla” (“Islam is a religion and a state”). Pipes then must remove the “and” to substantiate his false case.

Then Pipes makes even more blunders…

GRASS-ROOTS—Elite-orchestrated protests that occur in places where there is usually no grass and plenty of cement.
GREEN—Naïve and inexperienced.
GUN NUT—Anyone who owns a gun yet doesn’t belong to the group that actually commits the majority of American gun violence.
HATRED—Anything that we hate.
HERSTORY—The part of history that is usually ignored because not much really happened.
HETERONORMATIVE—Sexually normal.

So thank you, Ross Douthat…

 This point is illustrated, richly, in one of the best books of the spring, Rod Dreher’s memoir, “The Little Way of Ruthie Leming,” an account of his sister’s death from cancer at the age of 42. A journalist and author, Dreher had left their small Louisiana hometown behind decades before and never imagined coming back. But watching how the rural community rallied around his sister in her crisis, and how being rooted in a specific place carried her family through its drawn-out agony, inspired him to reconsider, and return.

What makes “The Little Way” such an illuminating book, though, is that it doesn’t just uncritically celebrate the form of community that its author rediscovered in his hometown. It also explains why he left in the first place: because being a bookish kid made him a target for bullying, because his relationship with his father was oppressive, because he wasn’t as comfortable as his sister in a world of traditions, obligations, rules. Because community can imprison as well as sustain, and sometimes it needs to be escaped in order to be appreciated.

In today’s society, that escape is easier than ever before. And that’s a great gift to many people: if you don’t have much in common with your relatives and neighbors, if you’re gay or a genius (or both), if you’re simply restless and footloose, the world can feel much less lonely than it would have in the past. Our society is often kinder to differences and eccentricities than past eras, and our economy rewards extraordinary talent more richly than ever before.

The problem is that as it’s grown easier to be remarkable and unusual, it’s arguably grown harder to be ordinary. To be the kind of person who doesn’t want to write his own life script, or invent her own idiosyncratic career path. To enjoy the stability and comfort of inherited obligations and expectations, rather than constantly having to strike out on your own. To follow a “little way” rather than a path of great ambition. To be more like Ruthie Leming than her brother.

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Well, f*** that noise. I can barely watch It’s a Wonderful Life…

But that’s the rub with libertarianism and Objectivsim of course:

It demands, and presumes, that everyone is as high IQ as they are.

Petitioning an abuser for compassion.
The “good guys” are considered to be a few people inside the abusive government. But if the good guys were really good, wouldn’t they have dissociated themselves with an abuser some time ago? By pleading for the good guys to rise up, people are asking one sub-group of the abusers to save them from the rest of the abusers. However, they all work for the same operation; they all get paid out of the same offices; according to the same rulebook. And if the good guys are so willing to turn against their employers, why would they have waited until now?

 But people with heretical opinions now expect to lose their jobs.  It’s not something shocking and new anymore, so it’s lost a considerable amount of its power.

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I, too, have been “fired” by “conservatives” and “conservative institutions” — who initially hired me to “be myself” and because I’m so “brilliant” and so on.

Then one day they are “going in a different direction” or just plain — in one instance — go post-menopausal on you and, I guess, forget to refill their meds.

(You should see THOSE emails…)

So what? Something else comes along.

I’d be way more pissed about being a “moped” if I didn’t have a tiny handful of loyal right wingers I still trust 100%, because of their actions, not their words.

The rest?

Trust no one. Count on nothing.

Also? This is pretty true.

Except for “do your best.” Instead, “do Adam Carolla’s best.” Your “best” may be pretty lame-o.

The massive publicity of these and other cases has helped push the forced-marriage business into the public eye and—with the help of taxpayers’ money set aside to tackle the problem—it is now a big public-sector money-spinner. (…)

There are expensive marketing materials in print and online materials available in any language. There are educational resources and extensively written “multi-agency guidelines” (also available in Welsh). (…)

Britain’s progressives are able to see opportunity in every crisis, and for them the formation of a new victim group is an upside. In Britain today, power flows from victimhood and money flows from power.

You simply can’t have too many victim groups.

He specializes in aggregating free speech/anti-jihad stuff from around the globe, and also writes his own thoughtful yet whimsical meditations on the issues of the day, which blend pop culture with deep history and theology.

Nice to see an old friend back online!

Both were MUCH smaller than I’d always imagined.

Anyhow, did you know that the government didn’t actually build the Hoover Dam, contrary to leftist claims?

Never mind that Hoover Dam was in fact built by a consortium of private firms headed by Bechtel-Kaiser, under precisely the sort of outsourcing/private contractor arrangement that Maddow has no time for in most other contexts — in fact, she includes a chapter in one of her books denouncing this practice.

Far more “anti-” opinions than I imagined there would be.

Not sure how many are hostility/impatience toward the disabled, how many are sincerely concerned about possible lawsuits, and how many use “health and safety” (like “hostile work environment”) to get out of doing stuff they just don’t feel like doing…

Why is it always someone else’s fault. You have a disabled son you have had him for 17 years and you still expect organisations to pamper to you. He is your son it is a shame but this restaurant has no obligation to do one off food items and they are not responsible it he chokes as someone has pointed out already There must have been soup, hummus, ect on the menu so why could he not have this. Or take your own food for him. Stop with the whining, take charge of the situation and deal with it yourself it will be a lot let hassle in the long run (…)

At first I thought “that is not very nice”, but when I read the comments I have to say I agreed with them. What if the child would have choked on a lump? We own a restaurant ourselves, and my partner just said “I would not want a potentially unclean utensil in my kitchen, just as I do not prepare food in my kitchen somebody has brought in off the street.” Restaurants are willing to do a lot if it is discussed properly beforehand, like Loran said they will even come up with ideas.

It was tough at times to get a word in edgeways (especially before the off-camera intervention took place midway through) so there are times when the interview is more like a battle for airtime-space — more Senate filibuster meets Hunger Games than convivial let-the-author-cut-loose-and-talk-about-baby.

(Watch for host’s reading of verses from The Internationale.)

As for the so-called far right — about 10 people and a dog — this would be like removing the Canadian flag because a white supremacist in his mom’s basement puts it on his website.

The rainbow flag of the gay community is still to be flown by this particular council, of course, and Islamic festivals are to be properly commemorated, but the flag known by men who died fighting the Nazis and one that represents nation, tolerance, democracy and decency is to disappear.

To their credit, several Muslim leaders have described the action as absurd and extreme, which is a welcome departure as similar flags have been taken down from police stations and public buildings due to Islamic complaints.

The two families planned a wedding party, the wedding and Nekah (The religious process in which a woman is officially married to a man) took place and the 8-years-old bride became the 50-years-old Mullah’s 2nd wife.

The mullah takes off the bride’s clothes as well as his owns and with apparent so much happiness approaches her for sexual intercourse with the 8-years-old bride. Because of the Mullah’s huge physique which gave him a big penis, he threw himself on her and started to penetrate the girl’s vagina.

After several tries that led him to failure to penetrate her vagina, the Mullah was frustrated.

He failed because the 8-years-old girl who was about to die was physically thin and had a very tight vagina opening.

Sourced from the Mullah’s animal behavior, he took out the sharp knife that he always carried with himself in his pocket and tore apart the girl’s vagina from the clitoris side upwards as well as tore it downwards towards her anus in order to make the vagina larger enough so he can enter his penis into her vagina.

But, even under this best case scenario, isn’t “four or five generations” a mite long to wait to break even?

What’s the national ROI on this four or five generation project, anyway? (…)

How much of the media momentum to crush Jason Richwine isn’t just a Pavlovian response to the felt need for a triple bankshot strategy to prevent peasants with pitchforks from finally noticing that one Ellis Island immigrant group really is higher in IQ on average? (…)

Perhaps the single most beneficial contribution to improving the quality of intellectual discourse in the United States would be if the gentiles of America could somehow convince Jewish-Americans that the gentiles already know that Jews are smarter than they are on average; moreover, that this knowledge — rather than making the gentiles want to come after the Jews with their torches and crude farm implements — inclines the gentiles of America to like Jewish-Americans for being smart and witty and good with money.

If you believe in small government, why are you participating in this exercise in bureaucratic approval?

Why are you playing along with the rules of a tax code you supposedly wish to dismantle?

No real Tea Party group has any business being a “registered” anything, and playing the same game it claims to find immoral.

This is true of churches as well.

If you flirt with the State you should expect all this, and worse.

…now he has left Islam and returned to Christianity. Watch the video; in it he makes many, many important points about how converts to Islam are lied to, and how Islam establishes an empire of fear.

Old and funny:

• Rush Limbaugh’s offer to the president
• Mark Levin’s call to abolish the IRA
• Laura Ingraham’s chat with Peter Hitchens

And MORE!

PLUS:

Mark Steyn and Hugh Hewitt talk about the scandals enveloping the White House

Mark Steyn is radio legend Milt Rosenberg’s very FIRST guest on his new podcast

More on Rosenberg’s podcasting endeavor — and why he left terrestrial radio (involuntarily)

Howard Stern buys a $52 million mansion in Florida

“This is a vile culture and if you think for a second that it’s willing to just live in the sands of God’s armpit you’ve got another thing coming,” the Israeli-born musician said on Melbourne’s 3AW radio.

“They want to come and live right where you live and they think that you’re evil.”

“Extremism believes that it’s okay to strap bombs on to your children and send them to paradise and whatever else and to behead people,” he continued.

The KISS bassist, who was in Australia on tour, continued on his anti-Muslim rant for over a minute stating that dogs are treated better than Muslim women, and insinuating that the west was under threat.

“Your dog, however, can walk side by side, your dog is allowed to have its own dog house… you can send your dog to school to learn tricks, sit, beg, do all that stuff – none of the women have that advantage,” Simmons stated.