Wednesday, 11 March 2015

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Narrative, busted (again)

This Time For Sure!  Dept
The Smoking Gun:
The unarmed Wisconsin teenager who was shot to death last night during a confrontation with a Madison cop...
Yes! Yes!  Go on!
... [had] pleaded guilty last year to armed robbery and [was] serving a three-year probation term for that felony conviction...
Dang.  You can just feel the enthusiasm leak out over at the Democrat-media complex.  And this time it got stomped so fast it didn’t even get started.

Oh, and, once again, a demonstration of how soft on crime -> unnecessary deaths. ’Cause if he’d been in jail, this wouldn’t have happened...

Via:  Unsympathetic Mike

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Wednesday, 04 March 2015

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Nancy Pelosi ‘‘womans up’’

Drama Queen Politics  Dept
The Hill:
‘‘I was near tears throughout the Prime Minister’s speech — saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States as part of the [negotiating] nations, and saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran and our broader commitment to preventing nuclear proliferation...’’
When you’ve got nothin’ else, cry.


Elsewhere:
The Other McCain:  Bibi Speaks, Pelosi Weeps

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Monday, 02 February 2015

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‘‘Messaging the yokels’’


139 I hear some of the Super Bowl ads were pretty bad.... Since I didn’t watch, were they?
Posted by: hello, it’s Me Donna ....again at February 02, 2015 11:00 AM (Bn6aD)


Well, Nationwide decided to set its current brand on fire which was a bold strategy, Cotton.
Posted by: alexthechick - I’ll stop attention whoring when you start listening at February 02, 2015 11:02 AM (mf5HN)

60 You are all going to drown in a bathtub.

Have a good day.
Posted by: Nationwide is on your side at February 02, 2015 10:43 AM (wg9gY)

157 Well, Nationwide decided to set its current brand on fire which was a bold strategy, Cotton.
Posted by: alexthechick - I’ll stop attention whoring when you start listening at February 02, 2015 11:02 AM (mf5HN)


Because nothing sells like dead children! -Nationwide marketing department.
Posted by: physics geek at February 02, 2015 11:05 AM (MT22W)

191Because nothing sells like dead children!

Yeah, especially [to the] parents of dead children who got an unexpected sucker-punch during the Super Bowl.

Thought you were going to kick back for a football game and party w/friends?  Hah!  We’re going to remind you you’ll never do that or anything else that’s fun w/your kid.  You’re welcome for ‘‘raising your awareness’’ and ‘‘starting the conversation!!’’
Posted by: Lizzy at February 02, 2015 11:12 AM (ABcz/)

225But just because you can recognize a trend doesn’t mean you need to base an ad campaign on it.

Saw some Nationwide people interviewed on CNN.  They were just like SJWs - they claim they didn’t want to sell insurance, the wanted to raise awareness and start a conversation on safety.  Basically, they wanted to lecture to parents that they should take better care of their kids (so they don’t have to pay out the insurance?).

It was the exact same goal as the ‘‘Run like a girl’’ ad: let me interrupt your super bowl fun to lecture you on what I think you should be talking about.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 02, 2015 11:19 AM (ABcz/)

237 @191 Lizzy, I thought the same thing.  I know 3 families that lost kids to accidental deaths or illness and they live day to freaking day missing them.  I cannot imagine the pain parents who lose children go through.  For some insipid marketing ‘‘social’’ messaging, Nationwide crossed a line.  How come no social messaging about living off the dole your whole life and hating whitey, or blacks that try to lift themselves up?  A social message maybe on paid trouble-makers inciting riots for their own cause at the expense of the fabric of community.

No social message about demonizing false rapey allegations and how it often ruins the life of the accused.  Or the one about poor and downtrodden foreigners being enticed to break our immigration laws and get public assistance at the expense of everyone that plays by the rules.

Thanks Nationwide for showing us what happens when your marketing dept is full of social warriors and probably all under the age of 30.  Plus it shows they secretly harbor disdain for Red-State football fans that want to enjoy a game and the fun of friends... no, no... we must message to the yokels... for their own good.
Posted by: yip at February 02, 2015 11:26 AM (84SRe)
It’s all about scoring points with the politically correct.


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Off key


116  Jeep: Nothing says AMERICA! better than showing Chinese scenery and a commie Woodie Guthrie song.
Posted by: kbdabear at February 02, 2015 10:58 AM (GrXXa)

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Tuesday, 27 January 2015

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We can do SJW, too!

Mock them mercilessly  Dept

From the comments here:
• TheLincolnian
This article suggests that Plato and Aristotle were Italian.

As a Greek-American, I am deeply offended.  Italian imperialists conquered and colonized my ancestral homeland for centuries.  I was so triggered I found it difficult to focus on the rest of the article.

— The class read "Plato and Aristotle, … Hobbes, Locke, Hegel, Marx, Weber and Foucault,” i.e., "economically privileged white males from five imperial countries (England, France, Germany, Italy and the United States).”  (Not sure who the American is …)

• ASCB
Excellent post!  I’m Italian and on behalf of the Roman Empire I apologize.  But I, too, am offended: Greece colonized Sicily at some point.  I don’t recall when or for how long but I do know that I’m terribly outraged.

Another good point you made: who’s the American?  I guess they’re confusing the Englishman Locke with an American Founding Father.  I guess Google isn’t available in California.

Finally, they don’t like Foucault?  Really?  His whole argument was that logic and reason were fantasies made up by rich white men to keep them rich.  You’d think they’d recognize their ideas’ progenitor.  Also, I think Foucault may have been gay; if so, this editorial clearly is homophobic.

• Alastor
In that Foucault is arguably best-known as a swinger, I’m astonished that he is not on the Approved List!

• Reynardine
Foucault’s works are at least a half century old by this time, making them sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, and speciest.

We’re post-post-modern now.
...
• Alexa
This is awesome, the only thing I’d like to say is, why stop at social sciences and humanities?  White cis men shouldn’t have control over other curricula either!  I’m an engineering student, and too many engineers pretend that structures of oppression have nothing to do with the "hard sciences.”  This is bullshit.  We have to push instructors in all disciplines to open their curricula.
...
• mark abrams
Besides cis-gender what about cis-species and trans-species?  Why aren’t there courses on designing for trans reptiles?  Surely climbing stairs can’t be pleasant for those who have snakes’ brains in human bodies.
...
• Self-Abusin’ Pete
"Sometimes, we were so uncomfortable that we had to leave the classroom in the middle of lecture.”

It was horrible.  We were subjected to the presentation of ideas that made us uncomfortable.  At a university!

• Caucasoid88
Berkeley, no less.  Where mental clout is supposedly recruited.
...
• Big Bird
The world and academia does not revolve around Gender and white male guilt.

• Gunnar Thalweg
Easy for you to say.  You’re yellow and eight feet tall.

• Big Bird
I’m white and 6’6 which I guess makes me guilty of something?

• Gunnar Thalweg
Yes, it does.  Stop oppressing others, immediately.
This could get to be fun...

(Via Insty, where the consensus is that, while the original could be a troll, it’s probably not!)

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Tuesday, 13 January 2015

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Because the political establishment would rather kill liberty?

The Easier-For-THEM Association  Dept

Bill Quick:
Rather Than Killing Liberty, How About Killing Muslim Jihadis and Their Enablers?
UK prime minister wants backdoors into messaging apps or he’ll ban them | Ars Technica

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Andrew Bolt:
Your ruling classes will not easily admit to having made an error that cannot now be fixed.  [They] will prefer oppression to freedom, if that brings at least the illusion of peace — and many may even think they are right.

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Either fools or liars

More Mush From the Wimps  Dept

Via Jim Hoft:
Martha MacCallum [Fox News]:  Leaders... in Canada, and Australia and Paris... [have] all said quite clearly that the battle is against Islamic extremism.  Why is that so hard [for the U.S. government] to say?

Marie Harf [State Department Deputy Secretary]:  Well, it’s not hard to say but it’s not the only type of extremism we face. I would recommend people look at this administration’s counter-terrorism record…  Much of it is Islamic.  But some of it is not. So we’re going to focus on all of the different kinds of extremism.  With a heavy focus on those who do this in the name of Islam.  We would say falsely in the name of Islam. But there are other forms of extremism.

MacCallum:  Tell me, what other forms of extremism are particularly troubling and compelling to you right now?

Harf: Well look, there are people out there who want to kill other people in the name of a variety of causes.
Government by #TheBestAndBrightest.  (Ain’t it wonderful!)

UPDATE:  Seems one thing they’re ‘‘troubled’’ by is ‘‘extreme” speech that Muslims might not like:
President Barack Obama has a moral responsibility to push back on the nation’s journalism community when it is planning to publish anti-jihadi articles that might cause a jihadi attack against the nation’s defenses forces, the White House’s press secretary said Jan. 12.

"The president … will not now be shy about expressing a view or taking the steps that are necessary to try to advocate for the safety and security of our men and women in uniform” whenever journalists’ work may provoke jihadist attacks, spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters at the White House’s daily briefing.
I guess that makes it clear.  Fools.

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Saturday, 10 January 2015

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Oh, by the way...


We have all been conned.  You see, the big news is not what has been happening in France the past couple days.  No, the news of consequence occurred in Nigeria on the same day as the Charlie shootings.  It will be ignored because it does not fit the narrative.

On Wednesday, a Muslim army attacked a group of small towns and villagesTwo thousand (2,000) people are reported dead, with hundreds more dragged off into slavery.  Why is this being ignored by MSM?

In the case of Charlie, talking heads will be busy for weeks debating whether the cartoonists’ ‘‘provocative’’ actions led to righteous indignation among Muslims, which erupted furiously.  When done, obfuscation will be the order of the day.  As for the kosher market killings, well, if Jews were not wantonly killing Palestinians and occupying Palestinian land it would not have happened.  Again, relativity will prevail – six of one is a half-dozen of another.  There will be no really bad persons and Islam will remain ‘‘the religion of peace.’’

But, in Nigeria, the helpless victims of Islam had done nothing to provoke violence other than simply being non-Muslim.  These villagers were not in the business of printing cartoons unflattering to the prophet and they were not staunch defenders of the hated Zionists.  Nope, they just were not Muslim and that was enough to bring down the wrath of god. Muslims behaved as Muslims do when no one is watching.

Oh, the Nigerians are not white or Western, which means they are uninteresting.  Their fate has no relevance to the West. What happens on the ‘‘dark continent’’ stays on the dark continent.  As an aside, Boko Haram (‘‘Western education is forbidden’’) is officially named, Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'Awati Wal-Jihad (‘‘People Committed to the Prophet’s Teachings for Propagation and Jihad’’).  As I said, there is nothing to see here.

There will be no great debates about ‘‘fundamental,’’ ‘‘radical,’’ or ‘‘faux’’ Islam when it comes to the dead in Nigeria and their killers.  Dead in their thousands, they will make hardly a blip on the radar screen during any news cycle.  Herds of news people will not trample the grass of Nigeria looking for great scoops and endlessly debating cause and effect and defending the benign nature of Islam.  Because of this, you see, the actual murderous nature of Islam will remain hidden from view.  That is the story.  Again, consider: Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'Awati Wal-Jihad (‘‘People Committed to the Prophet’'s Teachings for Propagation and Jihad’’), aka Boko Haram.

I love Paris …
A comment by ‘‘originally allen 2’’ at PJMedia, links added by O.G.


UPDATE (150111):

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Thursday, 08 January 2015

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After yesterday, I'd be amazed if it was *only* ‘‘one-third’’


Breitbart’s Big Government:

Pollster Pat Caddell: One-Third of GOP ‘Hanging by a Thread from Bolting’

(Via: Silverdeth)

Elsewhere:
UPDATE
(150108): And then there’s this:
Are You Ready For A Hike In The Gas Tax?  Some Leading GOP Senators Are Open To Talking About It.
On the list: James Inhofe, John Thune, Orrin Hatch, Bob Corker.

Keep it up, guys!

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Score: 3.1/10, not there yet


James S. Robbins, USA Today:

President Obama strongly condemned the shooting and said that the United States would ‘‘provide any assistance needed to help bring these terrorists to justice.’’  Immediately recognizing that this domestic incident as an act of terrorism was a turnaround for the White House.  The administration initially hesitated to use that label after the 2009 Ft. Hood massacre and the 2013 Boston Marathon...
but...
Words not used by Obama to condemn Paris terror attack: ‘‘Islam,’’ ‘‘Muslim,’’ ‘‘Jihad’’…
Gee, if we could only figure out what kind of terrorism...

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