Progressivism in a nutshell: Whoopi explains statutory rape of a drugged 13-yr old isn’t the same as RAPE-rape. (What?!)

I don’t watch The View, and haven’t for years. The only time I see clips of it is when the “ladies” say something so asinine that the media or another blogger reports on it. This is one of those times. Hat-tip to Ed Morrissey on HotAir for this unbelievable reflection of our modern society.

Just for the record, I do understand the difference between “statutory rape” and “rape-rape.” A good (hypothetical) example of a time when “statutory rape” might be handled differently than “rape-rape” would be when an 18-year old boy gets caught in a parked car with his 17-year old girlfriend, who is obviously not being coerced into anything she didn’t want to do. Is this illegal? Yes. Is it wrong? Yes. Should he go to prison for the rest of his life? Her parents might think so, but this situation is clearly different from the one we’re dealing with in the Roman Polanski situation.

In this clip, Whoopi Goldberg explains that “the world” doesn’t view what Roman Polanski did as rape-rape. I’m thankful to be living in a country that still recognizes that a grown man drugging a 13-yr old girl and sodomizing her is “rape,” and should be punished as such.

 

Nonie Darwish Under Fire Today

Not again. Ah, yes again and again until we have won this war of ideas.

Nonie Darwish, the warmest, sanest, least prejudiced Palestinian/Egyptian whom I know, has both been attacked and has not been defended by the administrative elite at the Whittier College Law School where she is scheduled to speak later today. According to Steven Emerson, the Muslim Student Association on campus defamed Darwish and tried to stop or at least delay her presentation.

Not surprising. They specialize in such demonization and censorship campaigns. Darwish pleads the case of Muslim women whose human rights are seriously violated by shariah law. But the academic administrators at Whittier Law School have not strongly defended her right to speak, nor have they praised her work. This is unforgivable; according to Emerson, many happen to be women who are also feminists.

Alas, this is also not surprising. I wrote an entire book about this phenomenon: The Death of Feminism. What’s Next in the Struggle for Women’s Freedom…Continue reading on Chesler Chronicles >>

 

Jay Leno on the ACORN Debacle

Jay Leno has a tip for anyone looking to get away with prostitution, and not paying taxes: Just go to Congress; they’re the professionals!

 

(Hat-Tip to Jack, of Site-51, via our Web 2.0 Reader)

 

Michelle Malkin and the ACORN prostitution scandal

Michelle Malkin comments on the ACORN scandals where they are willing to promote child prostitution.

 

Also see: ACORN’s illegal alien home loan racket

 

San Diego ACORN Office – Child Prostitution Smuggling

In yet another undercover investigation, ACORN is willing to assist in the smuggling of child prostitutes in San Diego.

 

Also see: FHK’s ACORN Archive

 

ACON

I won’t be a minute. I told Naomi and the ACORN bunch I’d stop in and visit as soon as they were settled at the new headquarters.

For more fun, visit www.DiversityLane.com

 

Common Sense: Craigslist, eBay and Twitter

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Could California’s budget crisis be solved by a triumvirate of Internet services, Craigslist, eBay and Twitter?

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is raiding the state’s storage sheds to sell off unneeded items on eBay and Craigslist. His signature on a California fleet car adds, it is estimated, $400 to its auction value.

He got the latter idea from one of his million Twitter followers.

Wow. I have nowhere near a million Twitter followers. I’m told that I should envy the governor’s Twitter cred, but . . . I’m not the jealous type; I won’t seek any “Tweet” revenge. Still, I’d be happy if all my listeners joined, and I got some usable ideas for raising money.

Unfortunately, neither I nor my sponsor, Citizens in Charge Foundation, have a vast resource of unneeded inventory to sell off. Nor do I have the cachet of the actor-turned-governor: My signature won’t add much value to a Ford Focus.

Yep. Someone paid $1,625.01 for a state-owned Focus with over 110,000 miles on the odometer. The governor signed the visor.

That’s better than a car once owned by Jon Voight!

The only new thing here, really, is using Craigslist and eBay. This isn’t a singularity in the progress of civilization. From this no miracles follow. But it is a healthy sign of thinking slightly outside the proverbial box.

This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.

 

Obamacare Opponent: “He Ate My Finger In The Process”

Bill Rice had words with a supporter of ObamaCare and gets his finger bitten off.

 

California Town Hall Meeting Is Venue For Woman to Speak in Opposition to Obamacare

A woman slowly build in her passion for opposition to Obamacare and the crowds cheers her on.

 

Steven Crowder Goes Undercover, to Find out How an “Astroturf” Movement Really Works

WARNING: Some of the things you are about to hear are both shocking and hillarious…all of you “silly conservatives” need to know how the grass roots really work!

For more info, visit StevenCrowder.com or PJTV.com

 

Hat-Tip, Dr. Bill, of ARRA

 

Sex Slave in California

He kidnapped her and kept her as his sex slave. When she was not sexually servicing him, she “lived” in a coffin-like box beneath his bed in sunny, sunny California. His wife knew all about it.

No, I am not talking about the ordeal of Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was kidnapped in 1991 when she was 11-years-old and who has just been rescued after an eighteen year captivity in the northern California home of Phillip and Nancy Garrido.

I am talking about 20-year-old Oregonian, Colleen Stan, who in 1977 was kidnapped by Cameron and Janice Hooker, buried alive in a coffin-like box and enslaved for seven years in southern California. The Hookers were a well-liked couple who had two children. Cameron was a 24-year-old bespectacled mill-worker at a lumber company. Janice was the kind of wife and mother who sewed, crocheted, entertained friends and who eventually worked at a nearby convenience store.

Here’s what the “average, mild, well-liked” mill worker did to Colleen Stan…Continue reading on Chesler Chronicles >>

 

Rep. Diane Watson Slams Rush, Uses Race Card, and Praises Castro

Rep. Diane Watson of California takes a swipe at Rush Limbaugh, uses the race card, and praises Fidel Castro.

 

Also see Michelle Malkin: Race-baiter Democrat Rep. Diane Watson praises Cuban health system, Castro & Guevara who “kicked out the wealthy”

 

Tea Party – Sacramento Style

Our second Tea Party here in Sacramento and it was another great turn out with super speakers as well as some of the nicest people you will meet in this great state of ours. Special issues included water and jobs as California approaches 12% unemployment and a growing state government.

‘American Heart’ by Jon David – Video and Lyrics

I received the following from Jon David, on Facebook. It’s a great song and video – check it out!

Purchase on iTunes

 

I’ve attached a link to a song “American Heart” which I wrote and performed in response to a liberal woman in LA who told me flat out that she didn’t like the country.

The song was introduced and launched by Andrew Breitbart and I have done interviews on the Dennis Miller show and Rusty Humphries show about the song and its origins. It’s also been linked to FOX nation, weekly standard, Mike Savage etc…

We’re hoping this song can be a battle cry for the party. So I’m reaching out and asking folks, if they like the message, to please help spread the word. I’d be so grateful.

The song really gains traction when Republicans start linking, posting, emailng, Twittering…the works…much of which I am just learning.

Just doing my little part in hopes that the country will get back on the right track.

The song means the world to me. The country means more.

 

 

American Heart, by Jon David
Lyrics

 

They say, “Our reputation needs a new coat of paint and a delicate melody.”
But I say I like the bruises, ’cause a melody don’t mean a thing if we don’t have the strength to say,
and I won’t be made to ever feel ashamed…

 

That I’m American made! I’ve got American parts.
Got American faith, in America’s heart.
Go on, raise the flag, I’ve got stars in my eyes.
I’m in love with her, and I won’t apologize!”

 

They say, that, “We need changin’!” (As if all the Founding Fathers seemed to get it wrong.)
But I say I still believe in the greatest liberator, innovator, cultivator freedom knows. So, I suggest you take a look inside, ’cause I think you changed already. You went and lost your pride.

 

But I’m American made! I’ve got American parts.
I’ve got American faith, in America’s heart.
Go on, raise the flag, I’ve got stars in my eyes.
I’m in love with her, and I won’t apologize!

 

Dress her up so you don’t recognize her.
She’ll still be there, if you wake up in the night.
‘Cause a mother can always find her child,
Even when that child don’t know he’s lost.

 

I’m American made! Got American parts.
Got American faith, in America’s heart.
Go on, raise the flag, I’ve got stars in my eyes.
I’m in love with her, and I won’t apologize!

 

I’m in love with her, and I won’t apologize!
‘Cause I’m in love with her, and I won’t apologize!

 

Treason and Terrorism and You

All tyrants love unlimited government. But do all advocates of unlimited government love tyranny? Well, recently major fans of big government sure have been blurting out their hysterical hatred for normal democratic disagreement.

Take Paul Krugman, New York Times rah-rah boy for humungoid government. He recently referred to opposition to the cap-and-trade bill as “treason against the planet.”

Treason, really?

Since the consequences of that policy for the food supply will almost certainly further raise worldwide prices, economist David D. Friedman asked whether Krugman himself isn’t committing some kind of murder: Because of policies Krugman pushes, thousands more will likely starve to death.

But if you think Krugman’s rhetoric is overblown, get a load of California Assembly Speaker Karen Bass. In an interview in late June, she objected to Californians who influenced their Republican representatives to vote against “revenue” — her word for tax increases. She said, and I quote: “I don’t know why we allow that kind of terrorism to exist. I guess it’s about free speech, but it’s extremely unfair.”

Yes, the Democrats’ leader in the California Assembly referred to that special feature of representative democracy commonly known as “free speech” as “terrorism.”

Krugman and Bass need an education on basic terms. I guess it’s up to us to provide it.

If this be treason — or terrorism — make the most of it.

This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.

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