American conservatives are discovering that by confronting the left directly, in open intellectual warfare, they can win. The day of the appeasing, cowed, double-talking conservative “may” be coming to an end, at least in America:

Let this episode be instructive to all who witness it. The noise and bluster we see from these pre-fab sign-holding, flag-waving malcontents is the beginning and end of their argument. As soon as any intrepid citizen-journalist engages these pre-programmed agitators with a question or two, they reveal emptiness and contradictions as quickly as Sky did.
I’ll give this polite yet confused Obama supporter credit where credit is due: At least he didn’t call me a homosexual like his peers in Chicago did.

This moment is shaping up to become a part of modern folklore.
The toll for the reputations of all involved in SplatterGate continues, and this downfall is so worth documenting.

Nova records the damage.

Oh My:

Loveland police say a woman with a crowbar attacked a controversial piece of art and ripped it to shreds.
The incident was reported at about 4 p.m. at the Loveland Museum Gallery.
Witnesses said that the woman entered the gallery with a crowbar hidden in her coat. They said the woman broke Plexiglas protecting the art display and then she tore up the print.

But then, there’s the rest of the story.
via

Susan Jacoby tells a personal anecdote that nicely encapsulates the progressive West’s moral drift:

An 80-year-old friend of mine — a woman of forceful intellect who used to teach Renaissance history — now lives in a Florida retirement community where many of the part-time staff are teenaged children of recent Afghan immigrants. When my friend saw one of her favorite young Afghan-American women — a high school senior — weeping in the dining room, she asked what was wrong. “Oh, madam professor,” the girl replied, “my father has arranged for me to meet my future husband. He is 40 years old, and the wedding will take place in six months. I wanted so much to go to college, and this will not be permitted.”

When Jacoby’s friend reassured the distressed woman that no woman in America has to marry someone just because her parents tell her to, another resident chastised her for her lack of cultural sensitivity, telling her, “We have no right to interfere with her culture, her religion, her family.”
Ayaan Hirsi Ali:

Here is something I have learned the hard way, but which a lot of well-meaning people in the West have a hard time accepting: All human beings are equal, but all cultures and religions are not. A culture that celebrates femininity and considers women to be the masters of their own lives is better than a culture that mutilates girls’ genitals and confines them behind walls and veils or flogs and stones them for falling in love….The culture of the Western Enlightenment is better.

When the CBC, or CTV, or any network – whether it’s CNN, MSNBC, ABC, or any other – is the subject of either a newspaper news story or opinion column, the headline will inevitably describe the network by it’s name, not by a euphemistic slur; you’ll never see the headline “The LPC Promotional Network Thwarts Access to Information Requests,” for example, in a story about the CBC. Yet for some reason newspaper headlines commonly refer to Sun TV News as “Fox News North.” Try it: if you Google “Fox News North,” you’ll get more than twice as many results as by Googling the actual name, “Sun TV News.”
The phrase “Fox News North” is typically put in quote marks, of course, to indicate that the headline writer is using a euphemism, a slur, or, in most instances, both. Scott Feschuk’s piece at Macleans.ca, for example, is titled “The secret script for ‘Fox News North‘”; another Macleans article has the headline “Can ‘Fox News North‘ win its next battle?” The Canadian Press published a report titled “‘Fox News North‘ set to launch in Toronto.” The The Financial Post published “‘Fox News of the North‘ to launch in Canada”.
On and on it goes. Reuters: “‘Fox News North‘ channel set to launch in Canada.” The Globe and Mail: “Margaret Atwood takes on ‘Fox News North.'” Toronto Life: “Fox News North accepts defeat.”
Sometimes the intended slur is used absent the quotes, which, in proper grammatical usage, indicates that it’s the actual name of the proposed network. Heather Mallick’s article in The Star was titled “Fox News North is a rancid idea”; in the National Post, Tasha Kheiriddin’s piece – and she’s a supporter of Sun TV News’ application – was titled “Fox News North a welcome addition to Canadian media jungle”; Norman Spector’s story in The Globe And Mail was headlined “The real deal behind Fox News North.”
When a headline uses the correct name, Sun TV News, the phrase “Fox News North” inevitably finds its way into the text. This G&M column by John Doyle, titled “I Guess Sun TV News only works if shoved down our throats,” goes on to say “The really interesting thing all this shows about the proposed Fox News North is that…” This news story in The Star, headlined “Former Harper spokesman leaves Sun TV News”, then refers to “Quebecor’s bid to launch a new cable news network that critics have dubbed ‘Fox News North.'”
“Critics have dubbed…”
That’s the whole point, isn’t it? It’s a slur, intended as a scare-tactic, used by critics who want to stop the channel from being approved by the CRTC. So why do so many “news” organizations – particularly those who support the application – use the term in their headlines? Why aren’t dismissive slurs used in the headlines of stories about other networks?
Free advice to outlets who support the application to the CRTC: Stop using the detractors’ sneering description of the proposed network in your headlines. Use its real, actual name instead – Sun TV News.
What a concept.

EUR:

There is a battle being fought on the net over the publication of the Muslim parody of the 10:10 “no pressure” film. They really don’t like that one and as fast as new copies appear, they are moving in to get them taken down, with the last one attributed to the great Franny herself. I guess we must be keeping her quite busy.

… sure it’s a repeat, but I like the tune!

Update to a previous post … more questions:

And there you have it: W&R’s algo impact visualized based on a heuristical algo. In other words, according to the SEC, it is that barely visible blue wiggle that was responsible for a $1 trillion loss in market cap.
As we said, the SEC has not heard the last of this by a long shot.

IMHO:
1. Either we believe the SEC, in which case there is little reason for confidence.
2. Or, we consider contrary view points … in which case there is little reason for confidence.
Any wonder why investors are sitting on their wallets.

“Whoops…”

Here is your step by step manual:

In this paragraph I will state the main claim that the research makes, making appropriate use of “scare quotes” to ensure that it’s clear that I have no opinion about this research whatsoever.
In this paragraph I will briefly (because no paragraph should be more than one line) state which existing scientific ideas this new research “challenges”.
[…]
This paragraph elaborates on the claim, adding weasel-words like “the scientists say” to shift responsibility for establishing the likely truth or accuracy of the research findings on to absolutely anybody else but me, the journalist.

… or a subtle shift:

Climate change will reshape this country’s landscape in the next century, touching everything from our health to our water resources and even our activities, like golf and skiing.
The predictions come in a new report from the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy, which urges the country to plan now how it will adapt. The roundtable group and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society have also produced an education package based on the research, which will be distributed to 12,000 schools across Canada.

… shift or not, the target remains the same.

America, it’s time for a combover:

“Donald Trump, the property magnate and reality television host, has declared his interest in running for president of the United States, saying that ‘somebody has to do something, because we are losing this country.'”

EUR:

Splattergate, splattergate, ten-ten Fran,
Blow up a kid as fast as you can,
Roll it, pat it, explode it for free,
Save all the Carbon for baby and me.

As an addendum (sp?) to EBD’s post below it’s called “Crusaderism.”
It’s a mental condition that fully explains the leftist mind, in particular activists’ mentalities.
This is a LONG series posted before, but I strongly recommend watching the whole thing (martini pouring officially allowed). But if you want the real quick jist of it, the 3:10 and 5:00 minute marks more or less explains it.
The beginning of this segment actually does a good job linking worthless degrees to these crusades.

Britain is the home of a surprising number of environmental-activist groups. If you follow the links to the “partners” of British climate-doom website One Hundred Months (“We have 100 months to save our climate“) you’ll start to grasp the extent of it. One organization, Plane Stupid, (“Bringing the aviation industry back down to earth!“) demands a ban on domestic flights and aviation advertising; another protests against renewable (bio) fuels, while another suggests we can get “free energy from air.”
If you spend enough time tooling around these sites it becomes apparent that in many, if not most cases, the activists’ concern for the environment pales in comparison to their level of self-righteousness and self-obsession. This recycling, eco-village-building whiz (gallery here), who describes herself – in the third person – as someone whose “life is organized on a logical basis,” and who “tends to control life, organising systems and people,” is fairly typical of those for whom environmental activism is essentially a tool used to draw attention to their too-too special selves.
When you look at the middle-or-upper class “activists” on display here and here, you have to wonder: if they honestly and truly believed that their actions were being undertaken in the interest of saving the planet – the baby animals, and the third-world poor – from a looming climate apocalypse, would they be acting so amused, and having so much giggly fun? If they were instead protesting, say, an ongoing genocide, would there be so much celebratory, “look-at-me” merrymaking?

Prostrating ourselves before our enemies, doesn’t make them our base friends:

Calling himself a “conservationist,” Mr. Prentice stressed the need to make greener choices and develop an economy that rests more lightly on the planet. He said that Canada’s 54 coal burning plants, currently in the process of being phased out, will be replaced by wind and more sustainable technologies. This will reduce Canada’s energy emissions by 60%.

Sheep in sheep’s clothing.
Update: Epic Win

“Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense” ~ Churchill

I gave money for earthquake and flood aid … and all I got was this smelly,  useless, blood-soaked, soiled, discarded,  repugnant, t-shirt.

… not convinced? … click … click … click … click … click.
… the winner … click.
EUR on Splattergate

In his address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 23rd, Barrack Obama said:

Yesterday, I put forward a new development policy that will pursue these goals, recognizing that dignity is a human right…

We’ll have to wait to see how that one pans out. In the meantime, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, described as the inventor of the world wide web, claims that “a right to the freedom to access the internet could even be linked back to Magna Carta.”
JuliaM’s priceless response:

I’m pretty certain when that was written, the right to 24 hour access to ‘Maidens who doth show some ankle!’ and the ability to download the latest hot top ten madrigal wasn’t foremost in their thoughts…