POWIP Piece of Work In Progress

Presented as commentary on Amy Bishop is Tea Partier lie

Earlier, I linked to William Jacobson, and topsecretk9 commented on it, too, but Michelle Malkin notes it again, today.

The article that William quotes has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever had the amusement to have read. This guy's so dopey he doesn't even amount to a douchebag. Here's his self-reverential profile.

As it typifies a peculiar asshat mentality, I'm also going to reproduce a comment from Malkin's:

On February 18th, 2010 at 10:51 am, Red State Skeptic said:

Why don’t you focus on legitimate criticisms of the Tea Parties? Oh that’s right, you don’t want to acknowledge they exist!

Meanwhile, Duke Lacrosse Team accuser Crystal Mangum is in a bit of a jam:

She really ought to have been jailed for bringing false accusations against those kids, no matter what kinds of "subject position" excuses her apologists bring to bear. Nifong should have been, too, and the Duke 88 ought to have suffered some kind of professional censure.

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Could You Pull Off . . . Sarah Jessica Parker’s Pleat Dress?

That's the question posed at the UK's Daily Mail.

Let's just say she's not my type. So, in comments, I noted that "I'd rather pull myself off," and got this message in return:

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At the Daily Mail? Must have violated community standards. Meanwhile, give that girl a sammich.

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Jay Exposes His Zionist Paymasters

Deep down, I always suspected as much.

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Obama’s Tar Baby “Debt Commission” Ruse

RAAAAACIST, I know:

If any further evidence is needed that the Obama Debt Commission is a farce and should not be taken seriously by Republicans, it can be found in the laughable timeline the Obama White House is pushing for the commission’s recommendations and follow-on congressional action. The plan is to have the commission spend most of this year behind closed doors coming up with the most far-reaching tax hikes and spending cuts seen in a generation. Then, after voters have already cast their ballots in the mid-term congressional elections in November, the commission would make its recommendations known and the lame-duck Congress would take them up and pass them in a matter of weeks, with almost no time for public debate. And politicians wonder why the electorate is cynical.

Dan Collins

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Pat Caddell’s Warnings to Dems Get Him Blackballed

Romanoff message:

Longtime Democratic strategist Pat Caddell on Wednesday blasted the Obama White House for creating “a world in which there is no dissent,” following his banishment from Colorado Democrat Andrew Romanoff’s campaign for Senate.

Caddell, in a phone interview with The Daily Caller, doubled down on the comments he made in November that he said public sector employee unions in Colorado used as leverage to get him tossed from the Romanoff campaign.

“What I said about Andy Stern and the SEIU? Sure, they’re thugs,” said Caddell, a former adviser to President Jimmy Carter, who until Monday* had an informal advising role with the primary challenger to incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet.

Read the whole thing. He's quite right. As we saw in RI where an entire district's worth of teachers and administrators were fired for refusing to work 25 more minutes per day, where their salaries were two to three times the local average, people are just at the point where they're not going to put up with it anymore. Countless articles have noted the explosion of the public sector and its pay and benefits under Obama, who likes to rail against outsized compensation in the (once) private sector. Class warfare has assumed a new and troubling aspect.

RELATED: CBO deficit predictions predicated on assumptions that may not pan out, deficit likely much higher.

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Douchebag Vampire Elopes with Minnesota Teen

Jonathan "The Impaler" Sharkey is a 45 year old dude who fancies himself a vampire. Apparently, he's a professional wrestler as well. Undoubtedly inspired by Jesse Ventura, he's run for governor of the state, as well as President of the United States. His colorful past includes a prior arrest for harassing a previous 16-year-old "wife" who tried to break off her relationship with him. He appears to meet his child brides online, where he puts them under his douchebag sucking vampedophile Svengali spell.

At risk is 16-year-old Paige Marie Brewer. Much more in the related links on the linked page. In the following video, Sharkey seems to indicate that he's strong on defense, but I doubt that the Republicans have a big enough tent to encompass him:

He seems to have some issues with the English language, and misspells Favre (not that that in itself disqualifies him). Seems more like Vlad the (capital L) Libertarian.

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Bio Students at UAH Petitioned To Have Amy Bishop Removed

"Podila just sort of blew us off," said Phillips, who was among a group of five students who met with him in fall 2008 or early 2009 to air their concerns.

After students met privately with Podila, Phillips said, Bishop seemingly made a point in class to use some of the same phrases they had so they would know she knew about it.

"It was like she was parroting what we had said," Phillips said.

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Podila, the Department Chair, was the first to have his head blown off, although the article goes on to say he supported her tenure bid. It also states that Bishop didn't have a lawyer as of the time of the writing, which explains why James Anderson continues talking.

I have to say that it's pretty extraordinary for a student petition of the kind to garner dozens of signatures, particularly when grades haven't been handed out yet, and particularly for a course that can have a major impact on one's future profession.

Via Dan Riehl.

More:

The head of the technology-transfer office at the University of Alabama at Huntsville says he tried a week ago to reassure an anxious Amy Bishop that the biology professor, now accused of killing three colleagues, could keep working on potentially profitable inventions even if she lost her tenure bid.

Kannan S. Grant, director of the Office of Technology Commercialization, said Ms. Bishop called him on February 6 initially to discuss a new invention idea. But Mr. Grant said he had also spent time on the call "trying to calm her down" over her tenure dispute, which was a concern she had raised with him in the past, even though he made clear to her that it was a matter over which he had no control.

It seems that she stood to make millions on an invention, and had at least one other good idea---and one that seems a little out there, to me. (h/t Sarah W. on Twitter = @sarahww)

At least one of her colleagues characterized her to others as "crazy":

When the professor found out on Friday afternoon that there had been a shooting on the campus, he didn't immediately hear exactly where it happened, who was involved, or whether the shooter was a faculty member, student, or someone from outside the university. Even so, the professor said his first thought was: "Oh my God. I bet it was Amy Bishop."*

She planned to use that comment as a point in her gender discrimination suit against the university. No, there's no connection at all with Nidal Malik Hasan, you racist sexist.

* "A spokesman for the university declined to comment, citing the still-active EEOC complaint." WTF.

Jammie Wearing Fool on the same.

William Jacobson points out an attempt to link Bishop with Tea Partiers, which has more to do with my PoliBlog Metacritique post from yesterday than this, really.

UPDATE: doubleplusundead of mee.nuvia channel's Led Zep's ""Whole Lot of Love"

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Funny Guy Steve Almond

Steve Almond's a funny writer, at least some of the time. My wife bought me a book of humorous pieces he'd written, and although I didn't finish the thing, there were parts that made me smile, or touched me. Not that I agree with his politics, mind you, but humor can be an almost universal solvent.

Unfortunately, his piece on Canada's Olympics hosting troubles didn't amuse me. That may be my fault, but I doubt it. I learned that male figure skaters are teh gay, that we're inclined to like Canada because of their awesome health care system, that Canadians are preternaturally laid back, and that the polar bears are dying due to global warming. In addition to which, Bob Costas' hair.

Highlighting Canada's #fail in the context of an article that itself represents #fail? Not too cool, particularly when it turns out that the Zamboni travesty is the result of the greenism you promote, dude. Lazy, catty and ungrateful, but I guess you know your audience.

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I’m Gonna Kill that N*gg*r

Charming post-racial controntation on a bus in Oakland, via Guyism.

Hate crime?

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Ramblings and Mixed Metaphors On Lent

For the Christian, Lent serves to assist the Church militant (the living) in becoming smaller in order that we become more profoundly in tune with the Will of the Creator. In brief, we are called into the desert... an inhospitable place: the "Inner Room" of the Self. There, we are called upon to take an inventory and to cast those aspects of Self that continue to bog us down, trip us up, and prevent us from following The Way. We are called to cast off all that impedes our full sublimation of the Self to the Will of God. For on-lookers, the thought of giving up this or that (ie. smoking, eating too much, etc) may seem trivial. And for many believers, Lent is trivialized in this manner. Lent is not about becoming healthier, physically-speaking, per se. It is not about kicking habits solely for the purpose of kicking habits... and it is trivialized when it is cast as such. Lent is about what Christianity is about: that is, mastering the selfish, creaturely Self in order to give oneself entirely to living in the manner Christ demonstrated and instructed we are to live.

Manna - it Does a Body Good.

So "killing" of the Flesh is a necessary and lifelong process - and from this desire of the Faithful to cast off the chains (concupiscence) - the desires of "the lower appetite contrary to reason" - we at once realize we are called to come to grips with who we are - to come to know ourselves - to identify our self-defeating weaknesses - to acknowledge them, embrace them and own them as our own - and to work tirelessly to shed these very weaknesses ... or, at the very least, to mute them to the degree that they do not interfere with God's greatest gift to man (besides Himself): Reason. So, mastering the Flesh is an important struggle. One that will die only when the flesh is truly dead. But this process/struggle reveals very much. And in all of our failures, the Christian eventually distinguishes that there are aspects of the selfish will that cannot be mastered by the Self alone. And when this occurs to the Christian, he knows precisely where he is called to turn for help. And the advice he receives is compassionate and perfect: "pick up your cross and follow me." Once we commit ourselves to trying to walk this Narrowest of Paths to our death, we struggle mightily to follow the Master: we fall, we get back up, we fail, we make some progress, we fall away, we fall back, we slow down, we grow weary of the crowd heckling us and casting all manner of insults, we grow tired spiritually. And eventually, the Christian comes to realize that once again there is only One who can assist - but that we ask. Calling out to the Master, the lost sheep listens for his Shepherd's Voice - which is known to the lamb as a man knows the scent of his lover - that is, at the very core of his being. It sounds a great deal like Harmony when the soul resonates with the tenor of the Creator. And this Sound is expressed as Light by the instrument of Grace. And that is what we are to become: instruments of Grace in this world, trumpeting Light. In so doing, we encourage others who continue to struggle likewise - to pick up their crosses on this Pilgrims' Road (to pick them up again and again and again) - in order to follow the Christ - to LIVE into Baptism always. To go to the desert of the Self and recognize it for what it is... and in so encountering the self naked and hungry and thirsty - to grow in desire for the Lush Garden that is not of this world at all. And to pick up our crosses and follow the Christ to Calvary to be crucified with Him. He knows the Way. And He keeps His promises. But that we Listen to Him and do what He tells us.

Lent is about killing of the selfish Self. But that is only a necessary means to a much more profound end. That of living each moment in accord with God's Will - being the Instrument of Grace - LIVING each moment as a servant, slave, and Fool for Christ. Becoming "small" in order to do God's Profound Bidding. Allowing ourselves to be crucified... assisting as we might to drive in the nails and hoist our crosses for the gathered witnesses to see. Bleeding and dying to ourselves - and offering our spirits to God.

Go to the desert... encounter your self. Embrace all of your weakness and own them. Master them. God is there in the Desert. He knows you better than you know yourself. He will assist if you ask. Explain that you are there to get to know Him. Explain that you wish to become as perfect an instrument of Grace as you can become. Explain you wish to come out of the Desert with Him. He will not abandon you as you prepare a place for Him in your heart. There you will find your cross. He will invite you to pick it up. You will complain that it is heavy. And He will very much understand. As you converse with God He will encourage you, giving you strength. And as long as you continue to listen when you emerge alive from certain death in the dunes, His Way will be clear. But that it was easy. But that the world we returned to was not so damned tempting.

I am a lowly sinner. Yet I am convinced this Earthly Garden is only a mirage - arid and empty of sustenance - and I am likewise convinced that the Lush Eden awaits all of us just down this Pigrims' Road.

God Bless all of you and I wish you all very much love and fortitude on your Lenten Journey.

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