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Boob Job [UPDATE]

Writing in the Village Voice, Roy Edroso is upset that Sarah Palin managed to turn the boob job rumor on her critics:

But wasn't the implant story an unwelcome distraction from it? No, because for the Palin machine, there are no distractions -- anything that happens, however negative it may seem to normal people, can be repurposed in support of her cause. This is, after all, the woman who claimed quitting political office was about "what is best for Alaska."

Whereas the White House pulling strings to try to keep Arlen Specter around was all about principle.

Yep. Palin Machine. Like . . . Daley Machine.

I'm not going to rehearse the insanity of Atlantic blogger/columnist Andrew Sullivan and his vagino-spelunking, because you're all familiar with that, although it's interesting that in his link-filled article Edroso manages to segregate out that continuing spectacle of dementia. Instead, I'd like to connect this with the left's meltdown over Carrie Prejean's pageant-paid boob job, which the California pageant organization later attempted to repossess.

Women are, of course, free to have breast enhancement or reduction as they please. But if you're a conservative woman, refabrication of your breasts synecdochically means that you are false, deceptive, inauthentic. And this is really what the attack on Palin's tits was about. Pelosi's plastic surgery doesn't mean a thing to these people, but Palin? Different story.

See, the thing is, if you're conservative, you're held to a different standard of authenticity. You can't possibly be black and conservative. That makes you an Oreo, right? But Bill Clinton was the first black president, in part because he probably screwed more black women than Obama did. That makes him an Oero.

If someone wants to declare a different gender than the one imposed on him/her by the essentialist paradigms of the social construction of sex on his/her passport, though, have at it. It would be repressive to infer that that wasn't authentic. Got it? Good.

UPDATE: Malkin on the tolerant left.

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My Boobs Are Real

Somehow put me in mind of The Go-Gos.

Can we move on, now, or are there other Sarah Palin erogenous zones that need to be investigated?

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Nathan Tabor, Assaulted by Obamaist Union Thug, Charged with Assault for Defending Self and Wife

YouTube, magistrates defend Holder Doctrine. Interview at Breitbart.tv.

Liberal civil rights lawyers argue that because “a history of official discrimination” can be one subsidiary factor in voting cases it “wipes out every other factor” and prohibits cases from being brought against blacks. And further, that since “socio-economic” factors can be considered in determining whether voting discrimination has occurred, these cases cannot be brought against black defendants until there is economic parity between blacks and whites. Such attorneys use phrases like “traditional civil rights cases” and “traditional civil rights victims” to signal that only minority victims and white perpetrators concern them. Justice sources tell me that career attorneys have been “assured” that cases against minority defendants won’t be brought. In testimony before the civil rights commission, Thomas Perez denied he was aware of any such conversations or sentiments.

To date the Democratic Congress has exercised virtually no oversight over either the Panther case or the department’s civil rights enforcement approach generally. The OPR investigation shows no sign of completion. Neither Holder nor Perrelli has been questioned in depth about his participation in the case or about the allegations that Justice attorneys don’t intend to enforce civil rights laws against anyone other than white defendants.

Smith and Wolf, who just this week fired off two-dozen questions to Attorney General Eric Holder, continue to pursue the case, but without Democratic support they cannot subpoena either witnesses or documents. That may change after the November election. If the House of Representatives or Senate flips to Republican control and new committee chairmen decide to engage in actual oversight, Perrelli and Holder may find themselves forced by subpoenas to tell the complete NBPP story and explain why Obama’s Justice Department believes the civil rights laws exist only to protect citizens of certain races.

Save-A-Life Foundation gets Chicago judge to throw whistleblower in jail.

Obamaists contaminate report on offshore drilling. Offshore platforms moving to Brazil (which works out nicely for Soros).

As of May 24th, NASA was providing satellite images of spill:

Do they still?

Transparency. Competence.

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Mosab Yousef, Pam Geller, New Black Panthers, & ct.

Little Miss Attila asks that we link to the new site supporting Mosab Yousef's bid for asylum. If you're not familiar with the case, he's a convert to Christianity whose father is a founding member of Hamas. So far, his petitions for asylum have been denied, though his claim is significantly better than, for example, Auntie Zeituni's. We wonder why.

Please raise a stink about this, as his hearing is fast approaching: June 30th. Make it clear to Holder that if he's deported and murdered (the latter seeming almost inevitable in the wake of the former), we will hold him and the Obama administration responsible.

Pam Geller's been booted off of PayPal. Hawala get money to her?

NBP:

The Panthers like to tout their “victory” and parrot the Obama Justice Department’s line that the case was unmeritorious. The party held a national convention in Atlanta over Memorial Day weekend (sponsored and attended by the once mainstream Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a grab bag of socialist and anti-Semitic figures). Its website boasts: “The New Black Panther Party has been embroiled in a battle between Republican Congressmen and the U.S. Department of Justice over a ‘voter intimidation’ scandal for the last 18 months. During these 18 months right wing and Republican Newspaper and Electronic media have gone to exhaustive lengths to discredit and slander the New Black Panther Party and its Chairman and Attorney Malik Zulu Shabazz.”

But on June 4, J. Christian Adams, a veteran lawyer in Justice’s voting section and a key member of the trial team, resigned. His reasons were spelled out in a letter that also noted that the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which was investigating the dismissal, had subpoenaed him and Coates, but their superiors, in violation of federal law, had ordered them not to testify. He noted that “the defendants in the New Black Panther lawsuit have become increasingly belligerent in their rhetoric toward the attorneys who brought the case. .  .  . Their grievances toward us generally echo the assertions [by Justice Department officials] that the facts and law did not support the lawsuit against them.” Coates, too, has left the Voting Section, moving to South Carolina to work in the U.S. attorney’s office. Last Friday, the civil rights commission’s general counsel, David Blackwood, announced that he had received an email from Christian Adams’s attorney stating that Adams is now available to provide information to the commission. Commissioner Todd Graziano said they would schedule Adams’s appearance at a public hearing as soon as possible as the commission had been seeking his testimony for many months.

With Adams’s resignation and letter, a clearer picture is finally emerging of what led to the dismissal of the case, the actions of DoJ political appointees, the department’s misrepresentations about the case, and the Obama administration’s approach to civil rights enforcement.

Read the whole thing.

What's the message here?

[via Newsalert]

Nature red in tooth and . . . oy.

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Almost as Cool as That Water Trick

Oh, ye of little faith. Do not fear... for it is I.

PSHOP BY GUEST CHOPPER - AJV

Enoch_Root

AKA. Bobby Donn Brubaker (the most popular man in Mesa, AZ), the Umbrella of Terror, Jack Ketch.

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