It’s been hard not to notice in the last few years that women are disproportionately represented among the group of conservatives who take courageous stands and give no quarter to useful idiots. For some reason, conservative women like Sarah Palin, Kate, Kathy Shaidle, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter and many others – and even Democrats like Camille Paglia – are more likely than the men-folk to step to the front lines, and less likely to waffle and beat around the bush and pointlessly split hairs when important issues are being addressed.
Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, in tribute to the women who continue to change the terms of the debate, we present a song about a strong woman who takes control of her own life by changing – to an invigoratingly epic degree – that which needs to be changed. Here’s Lucinda Williams in a live performance of Changed The Locks. Turn it up.
Feel free to change the Reader Tips thread with your timely and interesting tips and comments.
allan, Lou Dobbs is an INDEPENDENT, not a Republican.
Dobbs could see the damage being done by turning a blind eye to illegal immigration and by not securing the border. He’s against the outsourcing of jobs Americans can do and FOR more manufacturing being done by Americans. Rather than capitulating to global organizations, Dobbs is pro-American and proud of it.
What I like about him is that he calls a spade a spade. He has a big ego, but he would make a sterling leader.
EBD, what you wrote above in response to the Phillips’ quote hit a real chord with me. I’ve come to the conclusion, based on tons of anecdotal evidence, that I must come across as “The Angry White Man” to anyone who only knows me on a superficial level.
In essence, all that any of us are saying is that Political Correctness makes zero sense and, worse than that, is extremely harmful to our society.
To the Extreme Leftists (which admittedly there are more than a few of here on Canada’s Left Coast where I live) nothing I can ever say will ever alter their ignorance one iota. But to open-minded middle of the road folks, perhaps it will make a difference.
Though speaking one’s mind about respecting common sense & Canada’s traditional values certainly doesn’t make me the Fun, Party Guy amidst most single females. At least not here.
Robert, you – seriously – don’t come across at all as an “angry white man.” Trust me on that one. The stereotypical “angry white man” – in my own lexicon – is someone who comes across as a) ineloquent, and b) having a privately-subducted but loudly publicly-manifest fear that his penis is being cut off at every turn, which is then channeled into – ineloquent – rage.
You’re comprehensively missing the boat on both counts. Get with the program, Robert!
I think, though, that you’ve provided a consideration-worth clue as to why women bloggers – the most exemplary and notable among them, anyway – have more balls: maybe they’re not defensive or self-conscious about being seen as “the angry white man.”
Wait…did I say “maybe?”
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Stunning 3D recreation of US Airways Flight 1549, which ditched in the Hudson River on Jan 15, 2009.
http://www.exosphere3d.com/pubwww/pages/project_gallery/cactus_1549_hudson_river.html
or
http://snipurl.com/t719s
Here’s a Reader Tip that I’m sending because this just isn’t getting enough coverage.
Canadian border guards nab Syrian with $800K in gold
“A Syrian man is awaiting a detention hearing in Vancouver after he was caught crossing the U.S.-Canada border with nearly $1 million in gold and several items that could link him to a listed terrorist organization.
When Khaled Nawaya, 35, pulled up to a Surrey, British Columbia, border crossing on Oct. 6, he said he was heading to a new job as a flight instructor at a small B.C. airport. He was already approved to be a permanent resident and had been cleared by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Interpol and Canadian immigration.
Nawaya told Canadian Border Service officers he was bringing $10,000 in cash with him, but when they searched his car and his pockets they found more than $800,000 in Canadian gold coins and about $100,000 in cash.
The border guards also discovered a pro-Palestinian scarf, DVDs of 9/11 conspiracy theories and a ring bearing the insignia of Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based entity that Canada has officially listed as a terrorist organization.”
This whole conservative women bloggers versus conservative male bloggers can only serve one purpose: a gender divide and conquer strategy. I think conservatives are not stupid enough to take the bait and be so easily manipulated.
divide – I totally am that stupid.
Speedy @10:41 – “Women get more forgiveness and deservedly so”; I think not, in this instance. A woman will be treated with gallantry by her allies, but when it comes to her enemies, those to whom she’s a hate-figure, all bets are off. Michelle Malkin has published some of the hate-mail she gets on a very regular basis – yowza! Coulter is automatically portrayed as a joke and a hysterical harpy, even though her arguments are, as far as I know, invariably watertight.
And you do remember how paternally indulgent the establishment and press weren’t towards Sarah Palin?
I think Tenebris is onto something @8:56; men are more courageous than women on average – and I’m certainly not talking about Kate, Kathy, Orianna etc. – but they’re also prissier. I’m not sure, re. Speedy, about “passionate men” being considered “flakey”, but I do admit that men feel obliged “take prisoners” (sort of “be reasonable, old chap”) in a way that women don’t. Otherwise, unless they’re very talented, they tend to wind up coming off like Kinsella – silly and mildly deranged. Exaggerated as his archetype is, I link you to Kipling’s poem.
” … women are disproportionately represented among the group of conservatives who take courageous stands and give no quarter to useful idiots.” Amen.
Hey, it’s women who have babies. ‘Nough said š
Could I add that women who hate political correctness tend to really hate political correctness because that mindset is so redolent of how all-female groups interact: i.e. Mind your manners, don’t upset anyone, don’t stand out or be energetic, and never mind what’s actually true or logical, nobody really cares about that. Some women just get sick to death of the whole thing sometime around middle-school and it pushes them over the Rubicon.
EDB and Robert W and Gunney99: I posted another link on Melanie Phillips a few days ago re the Fort Hood massacre.
Melanie Phillips, Kate, and Kathy rock!
Re my baby remark: The thing about women is that they’ve been gifted with a perseverance that many men lack. Men will forge ahead, with visions of the future — and G*d bless them for it — whereas women deal with the minutiae of life, which tends to give us a certain amount of tolerance for messes and life-in-the-process-of-happening ambiguities.
Giving birth or being in labour — it’s hard work bringing a child into the world, even harder work taking care of and civilizing a small human being over the long haul — requires a certain amount of grit.
I know that many women of true grit don’t have children; they are, however, women and the toughness and no-guffness are built into the female DNA. I’m not sure what this says about the surrender-laydown-monkey women on the left, except that they have compromised themselves by becoming radical feminists, by trying to be men without a peni*, and have allowed themselves to be allured by the perks of a desk in an office and the “power” (sic) that comes with it.
batb – argh! Read the Kipling poem, woman! Read stanzas 7,8 and 9.
Oh, and passive-aggressive. It’s the passive-aggressivity of political correctness that a certain type of female recognizes and is repelled by.
Okay, you’re all on your own now.
“good girl”.
Rebelious woman anthems?
The one that “warms” my heart is Martina McBride’s “Independence Day”.
Good for her..
not to say there is any double-standard or anything but what would the expected lifespan be of a man calling Muhammad a pedophile on national TV?
Whether he was one or not seems not to matter to the Muslims in the audience.
this is the news while Syrians coming into Canada with 800k and various hezbollah intentions is not.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091112/autos_car_wash_091112/20091112?s_name=Autos
“Was Hasan psychotic?”.
Notice the past tense: “was”.
No. Hasan is a murderer from Islam’s jihad. Islam is a death cult waging war on the West.
MSM is attempting to dissasociate a Muslim murderer from Islam.
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Military Doctors Worried Hasan Was ‘Psychotic,’ Capable of Killing Fellow Soldiers
U.S. military doctors overseeing Nidal Malik Hasan’s medical training were concerned he was “psychotic” and possibly capable of killing other American soldiers, before the Army major allegedly went on a deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas. Psychiatrists and medical officials at Walter Reed Army Medical Center held a series of meetings beginning in the Spring of 2008 to discuss serious concerns about his work and behavior, National Public Radio reported. One of the questions they asked: Was Hasan psychotic?”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384602/posts
CFRA Polls
“What’s your reaction to the new citizenship guide that embraces Canada’s military history and rejects barbaric cultural practices including violence against women?
1. I don’t like it: it puts too much emphasis on military history and we need to be more sensitive to the cultures of new Canadians
1.97%
2. I like it: it’s time newcomers understood their responsibilities and that Canada won’t tolerate gender-based violence disguised as a cultural practice
96.9%
3. Other 1.11%
http://www.cfra.com/
Two-part documentary. Don’t watch if you’re squeamish:
Shamrock Black Salerno EMT
A story about the triumph and tragedies of a trauma ward in Afghanistan.
Stemming the ‘Evil Flowers’
In Afghanistan, Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) are now the number one killer of coalition forces, and the 2009 campaigning season is seeing a record number of IED attacks. At this week’s Wednesday Lowy Lunch, the Commander of Australiaās Counter-IED Task Force, Brigadier Phil Winter, described how Australia and its partners in Afghanistan are dealing with the lethal harvest of what Afghans are now calling the ‘evil flowers’…
Chuck upchucks this AGW barf alert:
“ninety-two [months] to be precise” until AGW apocalypse.
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“Goodbye Dotty Prince Charlie
Iāve been trying to ignore the Royal visit under the principle of if you canāt say something nice donāt say anything at all, but my patience has been sorely tried.
Prince Charles, who canāt even keep the present day straight in his own mind can somehow hone in on the exact month of impending environmental doom:
āI am afraid we now have less than 100 months ā ninety-two to be precise ā to take the necessary action to limit catastrophic climate change.ā
I admit that it was very touching to see Charles standing there beside our GG yesterday for the Remembrance Day ceremonies in Ottawa, but now itās time for him and Camilla to go home.
And donāt rush back too soon, Charles. We wouldnāt want you to have to pay another royal fortune in carbon credits for your transportation sins.”
http://www.bluelikeyou.com/
Victor Davis Hanson: The Fort Hood massacre was right on schedule:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDM4YWY3NmRlNWQ4OTFhNWYxZTE3ZDdlNzdhM2I0ZGU=&w=MA==
Prepare yourselves.
When the government starts improving the weather
I hope this doesn’t give the HRC ‘roos any ideas:
John Garnaut, Chinese petitioners end up in ‘black jails’
Thousands of Chinese are abducted and detained in illegal “black jails” each year for trying to lodge complaints against officials, a human rights report says…
Officials at various tiers of government have created this network of extra-judicial abductions and detentions as a way to improve their work performance appraisals, as merit points are deducted when complaints are made against them…
Sooke: Thank YOU! That’s the coolest thing I’ve seen in some time!!
Divide: That wasn’t the purpose of EBD’s comment, nor mine either. I was pointing out that if a conservative oriented male chooses to speak up for what he believes in our baseline Leftist culture, that there are often negative repercussions.
If a conservative oriented female chooses to do the same, there is probably a similar price to be paid amongst her female friends (single females tend to be the most Leftist of all groups) but perhaps a positive for her is that she’ll be the rare exception in the proverbial herd and attract the attention of a conservative male!
China is just one big bubble. Hence the next phase in global economic crisis is coming.
My comment was not meant to insult anyone. This whole discussion stems from the interviews that Carrie Prejean has been doing. She has a book out and an accompanying sex tape (having sex with herself). The premise of her book is how conservative women are Palinized and treated unfairly in MSM. Although, I agree that conservative women are judged much harsher than liberal women, I do not think Carrie Prejean is the best person to speak out about this matter. I would not be surprised if she was actually a liberal plant aiming to make conservatives look stupid. It all just seems so contrived. She did not even answer the question she was asked by Perez Hilton – should same sex marriage be legalized, not if she agreed with it. A simple answer would have been – it is up to the voters. Instead she went on about how marriage is between a man and a women which had nothing to do with the question. She was also supposed to disclose her semi-nude pics which she did not. Nothing sells like controversy and Trump knows it. Liberals are having a field day screaming hypocrite.
Early on I supported Carrie Prejean but after her latest stint on Larry King, I sense that she’s just the Christian equivalent of Paris Hilton (though much better looking).
When the government starts improving the weather
Posted by: xiat at November 12, 2009 2:07 PM
Interesting to see how many citizens died as a result of the government’s action. A Bloomberg article mentions several incidents resulting in mortality.
Sad. A perfect articulation of government intervention within society.
tantric zantrapuss! Vit – you need to release some more funk out of the studio one of these days….
Bow Wow Wow, Yippie Yo, Yippie… Nay? ‘Atomic Dog’ Infringed
By Caleb Groos on November 4, 2009 5:24 PM | No TrackBacks
A federal court of appeals has upheld a lower court decision that “D.O.G. in Me” by the group Public Announcement (featuring a guest spot by Shaquille O’Neal) infringed copyrights in George Clinton’s funk classic “Atomic Dog.” “Bow wow wow, yippie yo, yippie yeah” (the Bow Wow refrain) first gained notoriety amongst those listening for signals from funk master Clinton’s mothership in 1982.
Bridgeport Music, the owner of rights to many of Clinton’s songs has been pursuing 476 infringement actions against various artists who borrowed from Clinton. (The funkmaster himself isn’t seeing any of this money and has spent years litigating with Bridgeport over disputed royalties.)
One of those 476 cases made it all the way to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which upheld a verdict of infringement of Cinton’s dogtastic classic.
The Court of Appeals also gave us this gem regarding the Bow Wow refrain’s origin:
“[Songwriter David Spradley] recorded the initial tracks in the studio and recalled that ‘when George arrived he had been partying pretty heavily so he was, you know, feeling pretty good,’ and was unsteady at the microphone. Spradley and Garry Shider ‘got on either side of him. We just kind of kept him in front of the microphone’ while Clinton recorded the vocal tracks that same night.”
http://blogs.findlaw.com/decided/2009/11/bow-wow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-nay-atomic-dog-infringed.html
Black Mamba: “batb – argh! Read the Kipling poem, woman! Read stanzas 7,8 and 9.”
Gotcha! Did! He gets it!
Didn’t read Kipling’s poem this morning (mea culpa); ‘was in a rush to get to work. In the shower, I thought EXACTLY along the same lines as his — that women are MOTHERS and are totally fierce about protecting their bairns — or their convictions — from crappy, self-serving, lying, compromising cowards.
When my kids were growing up, I was often unpopular in my town because of the politically incorrect stuff I said OUT LOUD, but I was damned if my kids — and others’ for that matter — were going to be lied to and put at risk.
Beware the aroused female!!!!
Speaking power to truth ā the unfortunate case of David Nutt
November 1, 2009
Sitting 3000 miles away from London in Washington DC, Iāve been following the dismissal of Professor David Nutt as the UK governmentās senior scientific advisor on the misuse of drugs, with interest. Not being steeped in British drugs politics, I was only vaguely aware of the tensions between the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, which Nutt chaired until Friday, and UK policymakers. So as the story broke, I found it tough to disentangle whether this was a case of a respected scientist demonstrating a blindingly naive understanding of policy, or a government forfeiting science in favor of ideology. But the more I dig into the situation, the more it seems to highlight a worrying disdain for science and evidence amongst policy makers.
….Iām constantly surprised at how hard it is to ensure that recommendations and decisions are informed by āevidence,ā rather than the evidence being cherry picked and massaged in support of predetermined ideas.
Even in a supposedly science-savvy administration, this is a very real challenge. For a whole host of reasons, the system is biased towards people who see knowledge as a tradeable and malleable commodity, and who have a startlingly loose attitude toward evidence. Even well-meaning players in the policy arena sometimes seem to struggle with listening to what the evidence says, rather selectively using it to make a point.
But the grounds for Nuttās dismissal also struck a more personal chord. Having a son at middle school and a daughter at high school, I have been dismayed at how āevidenceā is sometimes misused in the push to prevent children from abusing drugs (both legal and illegal). My evidence is largely anecdotal, but it seems that in their ādrugs education,ā there is a tendency for inconvenient facts to be avoided and, on occasion, information to be āmassagedā in the effort to steer the kids toward a safer and healthier lifestyle.
Read more: http://2020science.org/2009/11/01/speaking-power-to-truth-the-unfortunate-case-of-david-nutt/#ixzz0WgqHN5eB
Report from the SDA ITYS Dept.
Our Enemy, The State.
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“H1N1 a ‘dud’ pandemic, Ont. health official says
The huge investments governments made in swine flu pandemic planning might not have been justified, an Ontario health official said Thursday.
“It’s really not causing ā and is not going to cause and nowhere has caused ā significant levels of illness or death,” said Dr. Richard Schabas, Ontario’s former chief medical officer of health.
“But governments moved ahead regardless. They ramped up their response, spent a huge amount of money on vaccines and other things. I’m not sure the $1.5 billion includes the cost of new ventilators, the cost of Tamiflu stockpiles ā¦ the huge investment that’s been put into planning for what has ultimately turned out to be, from a pandemic perspective, a dud.””
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/11/12/h1n1-vaccine-costs.html
batb – and don’t you love the picture? A sort of flapper Mona Lisa.
(I always love Kipling, but The Female of the Species is very heightened. Really, we’re all androgyns. Not necessarily annoying Leo DiCaprio-in-Titanic androgyns, but still)
The Wall –
by Pink Floyd
Another Brick in the Wall
We do not need no education
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_bvT-DGcWw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH9J2_7AzoU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySO-gryuO-c&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRcQZ2tnWeg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHk6clzLeMM&feature=related
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd
Re: “We are gripped by a kind of madness in our society in which demonstrable facts and common sense are turned upside down in the service of an ideology – that is to say a governing idea to which all facts are wrenched to fit – even if it’s demonstrably absurd. And this ideology is that people who are members of ethnic minorities, who come from Third World countries, basically can do no wrong and that if we criticize them or if we hold them to account for terrible deeds that they do, we are guilty of racism – because we are The West.” (Melanie Phlllips quote)
I’m going to be technical on this one. The ideology involved is Marxism along with its offshoots including political correctness a la the Frankfurt School. Turning demonstrable facts upside down in the service of the ideology, etc., is a tactic that derives from the nature of the ideology and its overall lack of a basis in reality. Calling everyone one disagrees with “racist”, including those who point out wrongdoing by non-westerners, is another tactic in the service of the ideology.
To overcome a non-reality-based ideology one needs an ideology that properly describes reality, and that is the one formulated by Ayn Rand.
The supremacy of women bloggers relative to the men is undeniable, but for the life of me I can’t think of any possible explanation for it.