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San Francisco’s Intactivist Anti-Semitism

Where a foreskin has more rights than an unborn baby.

Following up on two posts, one by Da Techguy and the other by Open Blogger Ben at Ace's, I've created a Twibbon to show your solidarity with American Jews against these idiots.

Take a sad song, and make it better.

The only other thing in the news that I can find that approaches that level of dumb--including elaborate theories in defense of Weiner--is Alex Pareene's argument that Michele Bachmann must be anti-Catholic because she's Lutheran.

Ya know, Martin Luther had some harsh things to say about Jews, too, but growing up in the Milwaukee area, I never had a single Lutheran friend--and I imagine I had just about as many Lutheran as Catholic friends--who told me that the Pope was evil or that Jews were dirty. Alex Pareene apparently thinks that he can turn Papists and the Lutheran Menace against one another in the Midwest. Good luck, jackass.

Paul had some stuff to say on the subject of circumcision:

Paul emphasises the superiority of faith, love, and the new creation. By comparison, neither the rite of circumcision nor uncircumcision holds any benefit for the believer:

Gal. 5:6: "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love."

Gal. 6:15: "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation."

Paul considers this so important, that he restates it in his letter to the Colossians:

Col 3:9-11: "Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all."

We here learn of a connection between the new creation of Gal. 6:15 and the new man of Col. 3:10 -- in both cases neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any importance whatsoever.

If only these tolerant, enlightened San Franciscans were as tolerant and enlightened as that old hardass, Paul.

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Car Names

Especially with trucks, what's with the place names? Tacoma, Durango, Santa Fe and all the rest of them. Cars get named after places . . . like the New Yorker or the Firenza or the Milan, but it makes me wonder what, you know, a Mercury Milwaukee would look like. A lot of room in the trunk, I guess.

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Another Turn of the Scrutiny

Now that he's been exposed as a not-very-kosher dawg, Anthony Weiner's coming under fresh scrutiny for his womanizing ways. Via Stacy, Matt Boyle at the Daily Caller writes:

Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin told The Daily Caller Weiner’s “long history” of “skirt-chasing” raises more questions about the New York Democrat’s Capitol Hill sexual secrets and expects more women with similar stories to come forward.

“Stories about his hot pursuits of young Capitol Hill interns date back to 2001,” Malkin said in an email. “At least one young woman told liberal Vanity Fair magazine that Weiner hunted down her e-mail address, bragged about riding on Air Force One, and extended an invitation to visit his office in person. The photo gallery of his select group of young female followers/followees on Twitter suggests a continued hunt.”

Andrea Lafferty of the Traditional Values Coalition expects this emerging pattern to get bigger and clearer soon. “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” she told TheDC on Wednesday. “How many other women are going to come forward? Is he the new Tiger Woods?”

The comparison isn't entirely apt, since Weiner was married just over a month ago (I think), and Tiger was carrying on with numerous women while married to Elin Nordgren. And although she's attractive in an exotic but too-skinny way, Huma Abedin isn't Elin Nordegren attractive. She's Capitol Hill attractive, and Weiner himself is waif-like enough not to have to worry about breaking her in half when . . . uh, never mind.

There are no kids involved, and as far as we know, no Ambien. So far, he's just a lying dawg with a nose for venery.

I mean, isn't he like a lovable if somewhat too persistent porpoise? Unlike Tiger, it's not as though any stri . . . oh, wait, there is a pr0n star involved.

So far. Because, as happened in the wake of the (alleged) Sofitel Maid Attack and Strauss-Kahn, these pundits are correct that it's likely that more women will go public with their Weiner encounters.

It's in this context and the not-yet-widely-linked context of Jerry's controversial post from yesterday regarding the cachet of hotness among conservative women pundits that on Twitter last night John Hawkins announced that he was compiling a second annual edition of the Top 20 Hottest Conservative Women, as chosen by a select group of male panelists. Last year, Melissa Clouthier posted her own list, chosen by women, in response. As I said yesterday in a comment to Jerry's post, men's magazines are full of pics of hot women, and so are women's magazines. Everyone would prefer to look at women rather than men, except perhaps for the ambiguous readers of Men's Health Magazine (who have a piece on Congressman Aaron Schock, as it turns out), and gay guys. Even gay guys, though, have strong opinions about whether women are attractive. The Queer Eye evaluates everything.

The smart way for Hawkins to go would be to have a group of women panelists as well as men, and to release their list for a side-by-side comparison, then to solicit trenchant commentary from gay conservatives. That would have the virtue of being comprehensive and inclusive.

Also, Tiger Woods never choked this badly.

Collateral damage: Actaeon stumbles upon huntress Artemis and her nymphs.

They Flee From Me
By Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503–1542

They flee from me that sometime did me seek
With naked foot, stalking in my chamber.
I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek,
That now are wild and do not remember
That sometime they put themself in danger
To take bread at my hand; and now they range,
Busily seeking with a continual change.

Thanked be fortune it hath been otherwise
Twenty times better; but once in special,
In thin array after a pleasant guise,
When her loose gown from her shoulders did fall,
And she me caught in her arms long and small;
Therewithall sweetly did me kiss
And softly said, “Dear heart, how like you this?”

It was no dream: I lay broad waking.
But all is turned thorough my gentleness
Into a strange fashion of forsaking;
And I have leave to go of her goodness,
And she also, to use newfangleness.
But since that I so kindly am served
I would fain know what she hath deserved.

And with that, the English metaphysical tradition in poetry is born. Anyway, the Actaeon/venery nexus led to a flourishing of heart/hart punned poems in the English renaissance.

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Lady Marmalade Gets Bodyguards To Coucher Up Cadet

Unbe-bitchin'-lievable:

In one of the more bizarre stories involving a college football player you’ll ever hear, Army cornerback Richard King has been suspended by the West Point school for one year following an incident at a Houston airport involving R&B singer Patti LaBelle and her bodyguards.

And, not only has he been suspended for a year, his sanctions also include being sent into active duty.

(Kinda makes running steps in a stadium seem trite, doesn’t it?)

King suffered a concussion — he’s reportedly had nearly 10 of those types of head injuries — during the March 11 altercation and has filed a lawsuit against LaBelle. Because of the injuries suffered during the incident, King has been told by doctors that he’ll never play football again.

Read the whole thing to find out why she sicced her goons on the poor guy.

Just no words for this:

A former animal research technician was sentenced yesterday to 44 years in prison for killing a Yale University graduate student days before her wedding in 2009.

Before the sentence, anguished relatives described how plans to celebrate her marriage suddenly turned to unimaginable grief as they returned home with her body in a coffin.

Raymond Clark III, 26, apologized in New Haven Superior Court for strangling Annie Le, 24, of Placerville, Calif. Her body was found upside down, stuffed in a wall of a research lab, on Sept. 13, 2009, her wedding day and five days after she was last seen in the Yale medical building.

“Annie was and will always be a wonderful person, by far a better person than I will ever be in my life,’’ Clark said. “I’m sorry I lied. I’m sorry I ruined lives, and I’m sorry for taking Annie Le’s life.’’

Priorities. Daily Caller via Common American Journal:

Elizabeth Warren, a top Obama aide and liberal darling, recently told the Republican chairman of a House subcommittee she needed to leave his hearing for another scheduled meeting.

But now the chairman of the oversight committee, Rep. Darrell Issa, is telling Warren to clear a “full day” of her calendar in June so Republicans can grill her again.

“In light of the inability of all members of the subcommittee to have an opportunity to ask you questions, and your unwillingness to provide direct and responsive answers to a number of important questions, the committee would like to further discuss your plans for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB),” a June 1 letter from Issa reads.

“According to your publicly available calendar, your schedule looks completely free during the month of June. I stand ready and willing to work with you to accommodate your schedule and find a mutually agreeable date for you to testify. However, I expect you to remain before the committee until all members of the committee have had all of their questions answered and thus ask that you clear your schedule for the full day of the hearing.”

At a May 24 hearing, Warren told an oversight subcommittee chairman, Rep. Patrick McHenry, “you are causing problems … we had to change everything on my schedule to try to accommodate your time. But the agreement was that I would be out of here at 2:15 [p.m.] because there are other things now scheduled at 2:30 [p.m.].”

Miami cops don't like camera phones:

On Thursday, The Miami Herald spoke to the couple that saw the end of the 4 a.m. police chase on Collins Avenue, then watched and filmed from just a few feet away as a dozen officers fired their guns repeatedly into Raymond Herisse’s blue Hyundai. They say the only reason they were able to show the video to a reporter is because they hid a SIM card after police allegedly pointed guns at their heads, threw them to the ground and smashed the cell phone that took the video.

The three-minute video captured on Narces Benoit’s HTC EVO phone begins as officers crowd around the east side of Herisse’s car with guns drawn. Roughly 15 seconds into the video, officers open fire.

Benoit filmed the incident from the sidewalk on the northeast corner of 13th Street and Collins Avenue, close enough to see some officers’ faces and individual muzzle flashes.

Shortly after the gunfire ends, an officer points at Benoit and police can be heard yelling for him to turn off the camera. The voices are muffled at times. The 35-year-old car stereo technician drops his hand with the camera and hurries back to his Ford Expedition parked further east on 13th Street.

The video shows Benoit get into the car, where his girlfriend, Ericka Davis, sat in the driver’s seat. He raises his camera and an officer is seen appearing on the driver’s side with his gun drawn, pointed at them.

The video ends as more officers are heard yelling expletives, telling the couple to turn the video off and get out of the car.

“They put guns to our heads and threw us on the ground,” Davis said.

Benoit said a Miami Beach officer grabbed his cell phone, said “You want to be [expletive] Paparazzi?” and stomped on his phone before placing him in handcuffs and shoving the crunched phone in Benoit’s back pocket. He said the couple joined other witnesses already in cuffs and being watched by officers, who were on the lookout for two passengers who, police believe at the time, had bailed out of Herisse’s car. It is still not known whether any passengers were in the car.

Four bystanders were shot in the gunfire and three officers suffered minor injuries.

Benoit and Davis said officers smashed several other cell phones in the ensuing chaos.

Benoit said the officers eventually uncuffed him after gunshots rang out elsewhere and he discreetly removed the SIM card and placed it in his mouth.

Officers again took his phone, demanding his video. He said they took him to a nearby mobile command center, snapped a picture of him, then took him to police headquarters and conducted a recorded interview while he kept the SIM card in his mouth. He insisted his phone was broken.

Via Donald Douglas, looks like John Edwards may be awarded a Mellow Felonship:

Rachel Mellon, now 100 years old and long one of the richest women in America, has lived a life of maximum discretion and minimum exposure. Even in her prime, in the 1960s, when she redesigned the White House Rose Garden for her friend Jacqueline Kennedy, she avoided the public eye.

So it was a rude shock when Mrs. Mellon, known chiefly for her passion for horticulture (she has collected more than 10,000 books on botany) and her simple yet impeccable taste, became ensnared in the protracted scandal surrounding John Edwards, the former Democratic candidate for president.

Mr. Edwards was indicted by a federal grand jury on Friday on charges that he violated campaign finance laws in an effort to conceal an extramarital affair while running for president in 2008, mainly by using $725,000 given to him secretly by Mrs. Mellon. Mr. Edwards pleaded not guilty, and the case is headed for trial. Mrs. Mellon was not named in the indictment — she was referred to as Person C — but is essentially an unindicted co-conspirator.

“It was so sad,” said Mario Buatta, a New York decorator dubbed the Prince of Chintz who knew Mrs. Mellon in earlier days. “She’s had such a clean life.”

Read the whole thing.

Interesting post and thread on gynaepoeisis. Check out the horrible, threatening phallic imagery at the site.

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Dude, Don’t Get Your Dick in a Tweet

Right below, meep opines that most women would even prefer getting a Vermont Teddy Bear to getting a Dick in a Tweet.

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Further lies re: Weinergate

In my last post, I asked if the ladies liked man meat pics.

Though I have found a few outliers elsewhere, the general consensus is no.

The problem is that the MBM are perpetuating further lies: that women would be turned on by pics of men doing chores. What twaddle. If you hear a woman say this to you, you probably should run far far away. Because this does not bode well, for a variety of reasons.

What do women actually buy? They buy romance novels, whose erotica is purely word-based (no, the cover is just there so we know if it's going to be pirates, cowboys, ninjas, or accountants... we're not fantasizing about the cover). If they want to be aroused by pics, they buy something with pics of shoes and clothes. Not pics of men. Women are not men. [Personally, I look through the Thinkgeek catalog, but I'm not the best person to gauge these things by. Besides, I'm already taken.]

So if your lady is long-distance, and the tech for long-distance touch isn't quite there yet, my recommendation is to use words, not pictures. Poetry and songs are always a good choice - and you don't need to be original. Just steal from the best - Shakespeare, Robert Burns, Browning, Dickinson. And dirty talk is also popular with many. But please stop with the pics.

On the other side, the Princess of Swords talks about being female on Twitter and receiving dodgy DMs. I get what she's trying to say - being female online can attract unwanted attention, so that being the recipient of a nasty pic doesn't mean you solicited it. Generally one just ignores the unwanted passes, but no, not every female is thus harassed. Seriously, you have more danger from generic spammy DMs than unsolicited dick pics.

But there's probably a reason that I've not gotten anything untoward via twitter. Compare her profile pic versus mine. Yeah. If you were trying to attract a female, which one would you go for? And which one looks actually female? And which one looks like she would retweet and ridicule your pics to the entire world if you sent them?

I'm not saying that looking like a total loon will necessarily keep the pervs at bay on twitter, but it probably helps a lot. Also, talking about insurance and mortality tables frequently kills the ardor of most men.

OOOOH BABY: Here's a pic of me baking... back in 1996. Hot stuff.

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Rule 5 Praise for Minimalism

Via Jeff Dunetz, who has the greatest RINO pic EVAH:

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Ladd Ehlinger’s Interview with the Weiner Hacker

Who became a Weiner prankster, who copied and retweeted the image sent by the Congressman to the young woman from Seattle whose name is [redacted], whose mom is totally pissed at the Congressman.

Takeaways:

* Ace is the only one who got it right, and is a genius. I'm on board with that second point.

* Linda Tripp.

* Lee Stranahan, hahaha. (Note: I like Lee)

* Smoking Gun can (not safe for work or breakfast) smoke his dick.

* We are all fools, except for Ace (see above).

* You've really got to hand it to Weiner, the way he turned this all into a story about Wolfe. (???)

* I and other bloggers who thought the explanation was very simple not named Ace are chopped liver. Stacy also has the hit Weinerhouse song at that link, but Ace had it first.

* Wolfe is a private citizen.

* He types S-L-O-W-L-Y.

Iowahawk has the inside story. He's a genius, too. No, I'm not being snarky. Also, I'd better mention Stacy. Genius. Sweaty genius, but genius. If anyone else wants to be engeniused, let me know (but consider the source).

Some weinerweinerweiner linky love for Jimmie B.

From Interview with the HaXx0℞

The Silence of the Lambskin.

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