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Category: I hate hippies

  • Let’s hear your ideas, Barbara Lee

    In today’s Huffington Post, Barbara lee gloats over the fact that she voted against the defense authorization bill for the use of force against the Taliban and al Qaeda in 2001;

    …the time has come to reorient United States foreign policy to meet the threat of terrorism in a more effective and sustainable manner.

    She might as well have ended her little self-back-patting piece there because the rest is totally useless. I expected to read how she would change our policy to meet the terrorist threat, but she doesn’t. It’s the usual social justice bullshit about saving our money from the war and using it to buy every kid a pony and put Skittles in every candy dish across the country. Nothing about defeating the terrorist threat.

    It’s so easy to mouth the empty platitudes of social justice, not so easy to create a peaceful atmosphere in which social justice works.

  • 100+ protesters arrested says VFP

    The protesters at the White House yesterday, some of whom were veterans can’t get any respect from the media. The protesters reported that over a hundred “veterans” were arrested yesterday in front of the White House. I put the word “veterans” in parenthesis because the only names I saw of arrestees were names like Daniel Ellsburg, Debra Sweet, and Elaine Brower – none of whom are veterans. But this comes from Ward Reilly;

    Apparently, being a veteran means you can break the law with impunity to these clods. If you look at the video I posted yesterday, you can see they forced their way through barriers erected by the police to protect themselves and the White House, they chained themselves to the White House fence and they through postcards over the White House fence. All illegal.

    So, Ward, veterans fought to keep this a nation of laws, not a nation of lawbreakers. Using protester math, though, there were probably a few dozen arrested and Ward extrapolated that to over a hundred.

    Anyway, there’s no mention of the protests or the arrests in the Times or Post this morning, although the Post mentions that one man was arrested on Capitol Hill for assaulting the Capitol police. But nothing about the smelly hippies.

  • Arrests at White House

    The Geezers For Sitting On Our Hands aren’t wasting any time getting arrested today at the White House. Here’s a video of them crashing through the barriers and chaining themselves to the White House fence;

    Ward Reilly has posted a couple of photos of Daniel Ellsburg getting arrested supposedly for the 80th time on his 80th birthday.

    There’s your future, IVAW.

  • MacDonald’s sued over Happy Meal toys

    The Center for Science in the Public Interest has filed a lawsuit against the MacDonald’s Corp for their “decision to markets its meals directly to young children”. Um, since when do kids have jobs and money with which they can make decisions about their purchases? Apparently some mother from Sacramento has joined the Center in the lawsuit. Is she looking for someone who can tell her kids ‘no’ so she doesn’t have to be a big ol’ meany?

    The lawsuit was filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco on Wednesday morning.

    They claim McDonald’s decision to markets its meals directly to young children violates several consumer protection laws because it exploits a child’s vulnerability.

    A child’s vulnerability? Really? What children are running around with a wallet full of cash? My kids got one fast food meal a month (usually because that’s how often I could afford to feed them one) sometimes they chose a Happy Meal, but most of the time they wanted pizza at Pizza Hut. Are they going to sue Pizza Hut because they put cheese in the crust – cuz that’s what excited my kids.

    I don’t understand this at all. I’ve never thought that all of my parenting failures could be solved in the courts.

    But not Monet Parham;

    According to Parham, the main reason her six-year-old daughter, Maya, asks to go to McDonald’s is to get toys based on Barbie, i-Carly, Shrek, or Strawberry Shortcake. The food seems almost beside the point to the kids, says Parham, because the toy monopolizes the attention of Maya and her two-year-old sister Lauryn.

    Um, tell them ‘no’, ya twit.

    “I am concerned about the health of my children and feel that McDonald’s should be a very limited part of their diet and their childhood experience,” Parham said. “But as other busy, working moms and dads know, we have to say ‘no’ to our young children so many times, and McDonald’s makes that so much harder to do. I object to the fact that McDonald’s is getting into my kids’ heads without my permission and actually changing what my kids want to eat.”

    Oh, so all of the responsible people who only take their kids to MacDonald’s as a treat have to suffer because you want to be your kids’ buddy instead of a parent? If you don’t want MacDonald’s in your “kids’ heads”, turn off the TV, too, ya want-wit.

    I know this has nothing to do with the military, it just cheesed me off.

  • Hippie auditions for Hamas Idol

    Someone sent me this video of some hippies in Oakland protesting American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) at the Marriott.

    As near as I can tell they were auditioning for the Hamas version of American Idol. Randy Jackson is sending them to Gaza with a golden ticket. Dog.

  • Harvard twit ruminates TAH criticism

    You may remember the vacuous Harvard twit, Sandra Korn, who thinks that her education about the world around her ended on the day she was accepted to Harvard. Korn wrote “Keep ROTC Out of Range” in the Harvard Crimson recently which I critiqued to some acclaim. Well, it seems that she takes exception in her blog to some of our characterizations of her – specifically the one written by UpNorth.

    Is it illegit to study things like “Sex and Power in Modern Latin America and US Latino Culture” and “Postwar Feminist Thought”? Are “Medical Management of the Female Body” and “Postcolonial Women’s Writing” somehow “liberal” courses? There is nothing inherently illegit or leftist about studying the 50% of the population often underrepresented in the philosophy, history, and literature departments.

    Um, yeah it is, Sandra. Those aren’t subjects for a Harvard education, it’s the intellectual equivalent of taking “Basketweaving for fun and profit”. How do you figure a “Women’s Studies” major is going to prepare you for anything? Like the millions of college students who major in Psychology every year and end up working at a hair extension kiosk in the mall. It’s an absolutely useless endeavor that universities market to cum bubbles like you who think they can educate themselves to self-discovery.

    Why, yes, in fact, I have considered majoring in “women’s studies,” although here’s it’s called “Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.”

    What’s wrong with you, Sandra? Are you a complete moron? You’ve been accepted to arguably the most prestigious university in the country and you haven’t picked a major yet? I’m guessing you’re in your late teens and you’re piddling away your life complaining about the ROTC program and you don’t even know what you want to be when you grow up? Let me ask you, who the fuck do you think you are?

    Many of the readers on my blog are on their second careers, having retired from their first…and you don’t even know what you want your first TO BE YET? Again, you little pretentious twit, who do you think are?

    So it distresses me that for the uber-conservatives hating on my Crimson article, “women’s studies major” is an insult paramount to calling me an asswipe. I’m flattered, but I am disturbed by the connotation that only radical leftists would be interested in studying women’s** contribution to history.

    And I truly hope that, at some point before the US abolishes its military and becomes a pacifist nation, Women’s Studies will become a widely respected and favored major for college students.

    Yes, Sandra, “Women’s Studies” majors are indeed ass wipes, to use your word. If your ambition is to be nothing more than what you were on the day you were born, you’re a useless asswipe. Excuse the rest of us while we busy ourselves at keeping you safe and secure so you can be a useless twit the rest of your born days.

  • Fort Benning Protests, Told you so.

    In the golden promise of getting fatter in the celebration of Thanksgiving, I forgot to check what happened with the Protests at Fort Benning. I made a post about it a week before the event and some of the things did happen.

    But really the only people that really win are the people that rent parking spaces and sell food near the Victory Drive area.

    But that is not even the case as listed in a story for New York Times.

    The protest has brought the city as much as $2.2 million in business, more than twice what the annual Jehovah’s Witness convention did, said Peter Bowden, president of the Columbus Convention & Visitors Bureau.

    But…

    But the times, they are a changing. This year’s protest, the 20th, drew its smallest crowd ever over the weekend. Both the police and organizers agree that fewer than 5,000 people showed up.

    Signs of its decline were everywhere. At the Masonic lodge near the protest site, a local military family had hoped for a lucrative weekend selling hot dogs and drinks. They packed in 15 cases of water, but by Saturday afternoon only a dozen bottles had sold. They did not even bother on Sunday.

    Some other signs as well.

    Last year, more than 500 signed up to attend, mostly students from Catholic high schools and colleges. This year, only 128 were bused on base for the 90-minute session.

    The small crowd at the gates of Fort Benning disappointed Sheri Hosek, 39, who traveled from Dubuque, Iowa. She had heard about the event through her work with Franciscan nuns.

    “There was a lot of hype about it, but it feels like a much smaller presentation than I had expected,” Ms. Hosek said. “It feels more like a summer festival, a very liberal one of course.”

    But of course that it is not because people think what they are doing at Fort Benning is moronic but for other reasons.

    Others wondered if Latin America politics just are not capturing the attention of American youths as they once did.

    “My generation is all over the place,” said Ben Johnson, 28, of Athens, Ga., who was grabbing a coffee in a hotel lobby near the base. “They are completely apathetic, or they’ve completely devoted their entire life to change.”

    But I like this line the best and will close out with it.

    On the anniversary the following year, a small group led by the Rev. Roy Bourgeois, a Catholic priest, held a water-only fast at the gates. He has since become an internationally known peace advocate and still lives in a small apartment near the gate.

    “Most of the young people in the crowd don’t even know who he is,” said Liz Loescher, 68, an eight-time veteran of the protest who runs the Georgia Conflict Center in Athens.

    Yep time to turnout the lights, the party is over.

  • Wikileaks slam US diplomatic efforts

    So Bradley Manning, the wikileaker, really did it this time. Now it turns out that his document dump earlier this year before his arrest included communications from the Obama State Department. No one except the anti-war crowd got upset over the “collateral murder” video, we all collectively ignored the second dump, but now, heavens to Betsy, he’s whittled away the facade of smart diplomacy.

    The New York Times outlines some of the communications which include Saudi Arabia eager to convince the US to attack Iran, bribes to isolated kingdoms to take Guantanamo prisoners, the reticence of our partners in the war against terror to shut down terror cells in their own countries.

    Here’s a video from Fox News;

    All because Bradley Manning broke up with his boyfriend. A private first class with a troubled past had this kind of access to classified material. Clearly, military clearances need to be reviewed more often than they are, especially among first-termers and lower enlisted ranks. And potential drama queens that have access to millions of classified documents that they might release to super-gay looking hackers when their main squeeze takes away the lovin’.