“In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man” – Pamela Geller

As Palestine attempts to win statehood at the UN, we see many on the American fringes (left and right) dig out the same tired arguments on the topic that made them feel so sophisticated in their college poli-sci classes.

• Israel is a land of evil bastards
• Obama is totally folding and giving in to them and the Republicans (and “the Jews” of course)
• Americans are somehow one of the causes of the problem (right after “the Jews” of course)
• The poor, downtrodden and peace loving people of Palestine are getting a bum wrap

The thing is… it’s all bullshit. Let’s leave aside the obvious and rampant anti US sentiment (it’s so cliché it’s boring as shit to me). Let’s leave aside the complete lack of understanding of the history or real players in the conflict.

All that reality aside… we have a simple and clear choice… do we support the continued existence of an enclave of reasonable men… or do we support the barbaric mobs that wish to exterminate them and us.

Of course, for many in the US and around the world support for “Palestine” has absolutely nothing to do with the cause. it has everything to do with being anti-US, and thus against anything we choose to do on the world stage. That is the only explanation possible when you consider the cognitive dissonance of the position so many hold.

• How is it possible that someone will claim that the US is “evil” for not supporting the rights of gays to get married and claim that Muslim extremist cultures like the Palestinians are reasonable and good when they EXECUTE HOMOSEXUALS as a cultural norm?
• How is it possible that someone will claim the US is “evil” for not universally supporting the sexual freedoms of women in the form of abortion and then turn a blind eye to Muslim cultures that will STONE YOUNG GIRLS TO DEATH if they hold hands with the wrong boy (or any boy)?
• How is it possible that someone will claim the US is “evil” for not separating “church and state” then support a Muslim culture that hands over so much power to the priesthood, to be judged according to holy law?

I could go on and on – but in the end there is only one answer… they don’t actually care (or willfully ignore) that if the culture they vilify and attack (the US and other Western nations) acted with even a fraction of the widespread barbarism shown by those cultures they so vehemently defend they would lose their f-ing minds screaming about it. You can double check this easily – go look at the thread. See how consistently the hatred for free states and cultures aligns with pro-Palestine stances. See the virulent hatred in their words – it si no wonder they find supporting terrorist cultures easy to do.

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then it stands to reason that the ally of my enemy is my enemy as well. The “Palestinians”, and the violent extremist culture they support and represent absolutely are the enemy of free, civilized and democratic cultures. Those who stand with them, those who enable and support them are also my enemy.

credit: Here is the link to the photo that is used for this post

In the end, some of my fears were justified, and others were not. We never got as clear in our response as I would have liked – but thanks to the leadership and determination of President Bush we did a great job. A job so good that now, a decade later, the seething pile of cockroaches who desire our destruction have never repeated their blow – or even come close.

I will let my words from the time speak for me, and give you the video of our president from the time speaking just today about it*. The good part starts 51:00 minutes in.

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* p.s. – notice how much more flat our awesome Bush is than the lame, limp and frankly played out Obama.

Other posts of note…

• you know this – probably | Soulhuntre: Core Dump
• a minor rant – lot’s of bullsh*t out there | Soulhuntre: Core Dump
• very tired – a few fast thoughts | Soulhuntre: Core Dump
• 9/11 – Remembered (again) | Herdwatching

Imagine, for a moment, if Palin or any other high-profile Republican had said this? Hell, the media paints them as idiots even when they are right. For Obama though the media outlets are covering his ass as fast as they can and deleting comments that point out the error.

Further on in his speech, Obama commented that after jobs he would “pivot to Vampires” and that in this too, he looked to Abe “Vampire Hunter” Lincoln for inspiration.

I could say much more, but I’ll sum it up simply by shaking my head and uttering the word “moron”.

• Jill and Hugo are banging
• Jill and Ted are banging
• Jill gets pregnant with Alastair
• Jill and Hugo decide not to tell Ted that Alastair might not be his
• Ted and Jill get married, and Ted is as far as we know* never aware that Jill was has lied to him

While anyone rational would consider this flat-out dishonest, radical feminists (and make no mistake, Hugo is one of those) have managed to spin it in this way…

• Jill and Hugo did the right thing
• Ted has no right to know who the father of this child is
• If Ted cares who Alistair’s father is, and if knowing that the child isn’t his would change how he felt about raising him then Ted is an asshole

Now remember, these are people who believe that neither Ted or Hugo deserved any say at all in Jill’s decision to abort or carry the pregnancy. So in the end here is what we are left with.

Jill is the sole ethical arbiter of whether Alistair is born and also gets to decide who she wants to portray as the father even if she lies or withholds information to do so.

The whole thing casts a sharp light on the ethical game of double standards that are at work surrounding abortion and paternity. If you read the comments you will find more than one allusion to the idea that a male makes his last conscious choice about whether or not he is willing to be the father of a child when he has sex with a woman. In that moment he is, in theory, accepting “the consequences”.  Now, the argument that a possible pregnancy is one of “the consequences” of sex and that the potential parents have made the choice once and for all at that time is universally met with derision by the pro-choice crowd whenever it comes up in relation to women. They insist and demand that such thinking is barbaric and in essence punishes a woman for being sexual**.

Punishing men, of course, is just fine.

It seems only a short step from deciding that when a man has sex he accepts the possibility that he might father a of his own to thinking that if he has sex with a woman he might wind up as the father to any other child she might decide to foist on him. Don’t as me how that makes sense, radical feminism has never really been about making sense.

Things get more interesting when the topic of consent in general comes up – many radical feminists take a hard-line view of consent in that any deception on the part of a man is fraudulent and sometimes crosses the line into rape.  How these same women somehow feel it is ok (and make no mistake, lots and lots of them feel it is OK) for Jill to lie to Ted is a lovely example of how anti-male their thinking really is.

As usual, we can expect some of the most sane reactions from Ren about this…

I generally cannot and do not get behind MRA whining, but for real, any woman who knowingly lies to a dude about a kid being his when she knows the kid isn’t or there is a chance the kid isn’t is a fucking selfish lying scumbag and nothing but.  If a man knowingly chooses to raise/adopt a child who is not his?  Good on him.  If he is tricked and lied to?  Well fuckin’ shame on her and yeah, heaps of contempt.  There is no reason, no excuse, nothing that justifies that shit.  A woman who pulls that crap is making the foundation for numerous relationships a big fat lie and causing all sorts of damage. – in context

One more interesting side note, under current law Jill could even now take a paternity test and, if it urns out Hugo is the genetic father sue him for child support even though she and he both made the conscious decision to inflict another man with the financial burden for Jill and her child under questionable paternity.

Cause that’s just how we roll in 2011 folks.

Related links…

• I May Have a Son, but I’ll Never Know for Sure
• Wrapping up Spermgate
• Of DNA and honesty
• This shit disgusts me….

* Hugo has since walked this back to imply that maybe Ted knows everything – but he has no reason to suspect this to be true

** for the record, I am pro-choice up to about the first trimester for both men and women. I think that within whatever time period the law allows a woman to decide to abort a child the male should have the option of a “paper” abortion and be able to withdraw his consent to be legally responsible for the child.

This is very, very interesting if the info checks out.

hat tip: iOwnTheWorld

1. You managed to get Obama into office and he has been busily implementing every wet dream policy you ever had. Heck, until it destroys the rest of the economy you can touch yourself while pretending it is all going to work this time.
2. You have defined the well-meaning opposition as the crazy ones, screaming your head off for a “new tone” and “civility” in the political conversation all the while being essentially invulnerable to criticism yourself. This worked so well with racism / political correctness you just knew you could do it again here.
3. Up until a month ago Unions had massive power, and it looked like you were going to be able to get even more of the population onto the government payroll.
4. etc.

it is #2 that is interesting for this post. All you have to do is look at the video of Union thugs screaming obscenities at 14-year-old girls to see how unhinged some of the left is, but somehow they manage to disown all that. Meanwhile, anyone who is a little out of hand at a Tea Party rally shows up on CNN as if he was the official spokes-person.

In particular, this leaves the average leftie completely free to indulge any level of hatred they want with impunity. Not a shock then that the favorite target is the strongest, most intimidating female to hit the political scene in decades. Sarah Palin. Hmm… they do so love to hate them some Palin. You can see all the little erections and damp panties as they crack their fingers and get to work.

Righteous indignation as a cover for hatred? Envy wrapped in a camouflage of altruism? Hell, it practically defines most leftist ideology.

Enter Jack Stuef – freelance writer and editor for the one time interesting Wonkette. I say one time because in the last few years they have become the Perez Hilton of political blogging. They make The Huffington Post look like journalists, you know? In honor of Trig Palins birthday, here is a taste of what passes for reasoned discourse over at Wonkette. The post has since been removed, but the text is quoted all over the ‘net.

Today is the day we come together to celebrate the snowbilly grifter’s magical journey from Texas to Alaska to deliver to the America the great gentleman scholar Trig Palin. Is Palin his true mother? Or was Bristol? (And why is it that nobody questions who the father is? Because, either way, Todd definitely did it.)

Awesome right? He even got incest in there.

His mom went to a lot of trouble to leak amniotic fluid over 8 states to make sure that he arrived in this world somewhat alive,” writes Wonkette operative “Barbara_i,” reminding us of the occasion.

Oh yeah, this guy is all on board with the “new tone” the left claim to be wanting. Oh, and his half assed apology changes nothing.

• Wonkette Editor Comments on Reprehensible Birthday Greeting to Trig Palin
• Wonkette Thinks It’s Okay To Mock Trig Palin. Bulletin: It’s Not
• Trig Slimer Jack Stuef: Take That, Disabled Child
• The Internet’s Understandable Fury Over Wonkette’s Trig Palin Birthday Post
• Wonkette Removes Trig Post
• Wonkette loses advertisers over trashy Trig Palin poem response
• Wonkette’s Jack Stuef ‘Apologizes’ For Trig Smear

And how is Ryan using his new-found clout? To attack any artist who doesn’t want to let him do a remake of their music, of course. Because if you don’t want to let Ryan make big $$$ from your hard work you’re obviously a homophobe or something.

When the band Kings of Leon quietly rejected a request to license their music to the show, Murphy shot back by telling the band “F— you,” calling them “self-centered a–holes,” then accusing them of the unforgivable sin of neglecting him “arts education.”  Slash of Guns ‘n’ Roses rightly dissed the show as an insult to musicals, and Murphy tactfully declared, “people who make those comments, their careers are over; they’re uneducated and quite stupid.”  That’s odd, because the rather popular and prolific Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz didn’t have nice things to say about Glee, either.  Nor does Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters:  ”f— that guy for thinking anybody and everybody should want to do Glee.” – source

Of course the meat and potatoes of glee for Ryan is the ability to attack Republicans and Christians. I mean, this is the guy who thought getting Kathy Griffin to play a “Tea Party” member would show he was tolerant.

Moron.

This year? The response is dismal. Poor Barry must be making his pouty face. First Queen Michelle can’t get invited to a royal wedding and now this? I tell ya, it’s enough to make a guy fly in his personal trainer and throw himself a big jazz party.

“As of yesterday we had received 14 applications and the deadline is Friday,” the memo said. The memo also urged recipients to, “please keep the application number close hold.”

A follow-up memo on February 28 reported receipt of 68 applications. Noting the competition among more than 1,000 schools last year, the memo said, “Something isn’t working.” It called on staffers to ask “friendly congressional, gubernatorial and mayoral offices” to encourage schools to apply.

“We should also make sure the Cabinet is pushing the competition out to their lists,” the memo said. The note reiterated, “We do not want the actual application number out there (we didn’t release the number of applications we received last year until after the submission period)-so folks should not use it in their pitches.” – source cbs news

Hat tip to Big Government