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Re: Mother of Michelle Obama Questioner Will Not Be Deported [Mark Krikorian]

No surprise there. In a tightly run immigration system that actually had integrity, the illegal-alien mom might have something to worry about. But given that the "kids say the darnedest things" moment happened before the TV cameras, in front of the first lady (and her Mexican counterpart), the illegal-alien mom actually won the lottery — she's as good as amnestied now.

meanwhile, Derb finds reasons to hope: "Hungry, angry people working two jobs for a handful (or wheelbarrowful) of inflated-away dollars won’t be in a mood to fuss much about the human rights of detained terrorists, or of people in unfriendly nations, or of migrants violating our borders. Nor will they bother much about global warming or spotted owls (yummy!) Smiting one’s enemies hip and thigh may even come back into fashion — a jolly good thing in my opinion."

leftists always say that the poor and desperate turn to fascism, always nice to hear someone hoping for it

In Case You Missed It [Jonah Goldberg]

You have 364 days to plan for the next National Asian and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.

05/20 09:30 AMShare

fuck this dude btw

Raquel Welch [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

My column on her awakening to the pain that the Pill has wrought seemed to strike a nerve this week. For more on the topic in the last weeks (the anniversary of the Pill) see here and here.

http://www.takimag.com/site/article/two_and_a_half_men_airs_otherwise_unpalatable_truths/#When:04:02:20Z

oh man i didn't know that Derbyshire moonlights on other websites spouting even more ridiculous creepy shit

* Inside a pretty woman there is often a slut, who can be awakened by a man with good “game.”

* Low-class white women are often obese and coarse.

Now, these aren’t the kinds of truths you’d want as up-front advertisements for a stable, harmonious society. They are truths none the less, and need an occasional airing.

the kind of fascinating part is the delusion that because society rejects a belief it is inherently noble to support it.

Palin on Rand Paul [Ramesh Ponnuru]

Pete Wehner: "Understandably scarred by the 2008 campaign, [Palin] is on a quest to clear her name by pounding the media at every turn. They are always to blame — even when, as in the case of Rand Paul, they are not actually to blame."

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re: Palin on Rand Paul [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

She may also be determined to demonstrate what political loyalty looks like, in response to the lack thereof some on the McCain campaign showed her.

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Re: Palin on Rand Paul [Ramesh Ponnuru]

Loyalty is no excuse for making false claims. Those of us who believe that the media often treats conservative points of view unfairly should be especially annoyed when that legitimate argument is used to cover for Republican mistakes and thus discredited.

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Re: Palin on Rand Paul [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

No argument here, Ramesh.

OWNED.

Sex Makes Babies [Maggie Gallagher]

The problem is not the Pill. The problem is the idea, which promoters of the pill introduced and promoted with great fanfare, that we have separated sex from reproduction.

We teach the young to think of pregnancy as a rare emergency, an unexpected side effect of engaging in sexual acts. This disconnect produces a great deal of lunacy in our culture, and suffering for children, too.
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Newsflash: Sex makes babies.

is that what's behind all the gay hate, that they get off easy?

pretty much

'Obama's Katrina' [Yuval Levin]
I think it’s actually right to say that the BP oil spill is something like Obama’s Katrina, but not in the sense in which most critics seem to mean it.

It’s like Katrina in that many people's attitudes regarding the response to it reveal completely unreasonable expectations of government. The fact is, accidents (not to mention storms) happen. We can work to prepare for them, we can have various preventive rules and measures in place. We can build the capacity for response and recovery in advance. But these things happen, and sometimes they happen on a scale that is just too great to be easily addressed. It is totally unreasonable to expect the government to be able to easily address them—and the kind of government that would be capable of that is not the kind of government that we should want.

Let’s say a major hurricane hits a large and densely populated American city with five hundred thousand inhabitants. Much of the city is below sea level, and the flood-waters that follow in the wake of the storm quickly overrun it, filling nearly every street with water, in many places fifteen feet in depth. The magnitude of human suffering and destruction of property is mind-boggling. But within six days, everyone is out of the city and in total approximately one thousand people—one in five hundred residents—lost their lives in the calamity. Hour by hour, the government response was messy and ugly—it could hardly be otherwise given the magnitude of the disaster. But looked at with a little perspective, is that really a story of a failure of government response, or is it an example of how to contend with an immense natural disaster in a densely populated urban center? Is it a model of incompetence, or the most effective mass evacuation in human history?

Now let’s say a massive oil drilling platform, working with a variety of flammable and explosive liquids and gases in huge amounts more than 40 miles out in the ocean suddenly experiences a catastrophic failure that sets off a fiery explosion, sets the rig on fire, and causes it to sink—releasing an enormous gush of oil into the ocean more than 5,000 feet below sea level. Vast quantities of oil spill into the sea, threatening fish, wildlife, and coastal industries. The company that owns the rig, together with federal regulators, scientists, and engineers, tries a variety of different techniques—from remotely operated vehicles to containment domes to pumping heavy fluids down large pipes onto the well head—some of them invented on the fly, while 80 ships and several thousand people engage in a sophisticated cleanup and containment effort. Is this a failure of regulation and a model of slothful inefficiency, or is it an impressive display of human ingenuity and power in response to a terrible accident? We don’t yet know how long the spill will continue or how bad its consequences will turn out to be. And obviously it would have been great to avert such an accident, or to respond even faster and more effectively when it happened. But can we really say that not having done so is a massive failure of government, or of the oil industry?

We seem to think that given our modern powers, there ought to be no accidents and no natural disasters anymore, and when those happen we blame the people in charge. Well, call me crazy but I don’t want a government so powerful that it could move half a million people in mere hours in response to a hurricane, or would have such total control over every facet of every industry that the potential for industrial accidents would be entirely eliminated. Such power would come at enormous cost to a lot of things we care about.

you're crazy

the kind of government that would be capable of that is not the kind of government that we should want

rong

Considering the positions + readers of NRO, that's actually a pretty well articulated point. If you are against government power then you certainly can't complain when they fail to act effectively in the face of disaster.

Well you can't wan't to drown government in the bathtub and expect it to do your laundry in the end I suppose.

As I leave Oslo, Evo Morales, the Bolivian president, arrives. He is just perfect for the Norwegians — I mean, for the Norwegian political elites: Third World, “indigenous,” not quite a commie, not quite a democrat, something in between. Perfect.

love the scare quotes there

those Norwegian political elites, thinking they're hot stuff.

Post of the week:

Rhymes Without Reason [Mark Steyn]

I had no idea until today that this was the marching slogan of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid:

Butch, femme, bottom, top
Israeli apartheid has to stop.

Hmm. Michael Coren expands on the paradox of an anti-apartheid rallying cry itself obsessed with categorization. But I found myself wondering: Is there a Queers Against Sharia? If not:

Butch, femme, top, bottom
Gay bars in Riyadh? It's hard to spot 'em

Bottom, top, femme, butch
Pride parade's dull since the Taliban putsch

Top, bottom, butch, femme
With complimentary FGM

Top, bott, butch, femme, trans
Quit your chanting and read your Korans.

If there's one thing I never get tired of, it's the idea that to criticize one thing you must also criticize all things wrong with the world. (Also, a google search didn't reveal gay rights criticism of Islamic states?)

well that's the thing with any ideological cultural crit---all the failings of the world (as you see them) are secondary to the collective's failure to understand whatever it is you have ~grasped.~

how is Evo Morales not indigenous? also, the critique (such as it is) could be said about the "elite" in any country (I think).

http://article.nationalreview.com/435185/conservative-rock-songs-deconstructed/john-j-miller

lol

found this clicking around from that link:
John J. Miller on Iron Maiden on National Review Online

hahaha.

The second song is one of Iron Maiden's most familiar: "Two Minutes to Midnight." It's an anti-nuke tune whose politics aren't exactly to my liking.

lol pathetic

http://rightwingnews.com/2010/06/the-20-hottest-conservative-women-in-the-new-media-2010-edition/

http://rightwingnews.com/resizebyid.php?id=1

Judge Not [Jonah Goldberg]

Yes, I was a judge of the Hottest Conservative Women in New Media "contest." My shame spiral is bottomless.

figured that out years ago, J

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poor k-lo

the liberalheretics' video section is just a ray stevens video.

http://www.theliberalheretic.com/blog/node/993

http://www.opednews.com/populum/uploaded/2682500807_fb4fe635c5-41896-20091231-2.jpg

poor k-lo

has anyone ever pointed out how much Steele looks like Shock G/Humpty Hump

http://25.media.tumblr.com/zk2Z35IWTkstjwa2r5qxzcZ6o1_500.jpg

dude.... they kind of have the same voice too!

WHAT UP

let's take it to the streets

i always thought he looked like larry david

http://nicedeb.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/michael_steele.jpghttp://l.yimg.com/l/tv/us/img/site/54/00/0000035400_20061023184733.jpg

btw, is there any way any of us could help start a nutjob argument about whether Malkin's shattering of the race barrier on that Hot Women list is a byproduct of affirmative action? I would like to see her thought process if someone could get that rolling.

ann coulter's inclusion was a nice gesture towards transgendered people as well.

classy

Marfan's took Lux Interior, yet Coulter still lives. UNFAIR.

Sir Jerk? [Jay Nordlinger]
So, Paul McCartney is in the East Room of the White House, with President and Mrs. Obama. He is being fêted because he has just won an award from the Library of Congress. He caps the evening with this remark – this is his farewell, his send-off: “After the last eight years, it’s good to have a president that knows what a library is.”

Can anyone tell me why people are such schmucks? Why they are so graceless and clueless and nasty? I mean, Paul McCartney’s like the richest, most popular, most honored musician in the world. Does he not have it in him to behave like a gentleman — or at least a non-boor — while he’s being celebrated at the White House? Does he have to be the Wanda Sykes of popular music? Is it not possible to love Obama, as McCartney does, without hating Bush — or at least insulting him on a high, non-political occasion?

I don’t care that “Penny Lane” is a pretty tune, Paul McCartney is a horse’s butt. Let me amend that: He acted like one, on Wednesday night.
06/04 09:14 AM Share

Funny how this WH and its supporters laugh about Bush and reading yet show their own ignorance in making comments about a law in Arizona deriding it yet they openly admit they have not read it. This comes from the highest law enforcement and homeland security positions in the land. Is it perhaps 17 pages is beyond their comprehension skills or do they feel that reading is unnecessary since their supporters seem to swallow everything they say hook line and sinker and feel that perhaps they are too inferior to read for themselves and therefore won't discover that the Arizona law is more protective of immigrants than the federal law? I think if I were a democratic supporter I wouldn't be ridiculing anyone right now for their reading skills, and I won't even mention they can't read the laws that make it illegal to offer someone a position whether paid or unpaid to get out of a race. But then I guess worrying about laws only comes into play when a democrat is trying to prosecute a republican, otherwise they claim "business as usual and everyone does it". Maybe they can make a list so we can all read it of which laws only apply to certain political parties and which ones we can ignore when it suits us.

Posted by: justmyvoice | June 3, 2010 5:55 PM | Report abuse

It's crazy, but I don't totally disagree with Nordlinger xp, I think he makes a reasonable point. If I were in the White House, I'd be really formal and not crack jokes about other Presidents

I mostly posted that Nordlinger comment to set the scene for the Corner comments that are sure to follow.

btw, I totally think it's ok to make jokes about President Taft getting stuck in the bathtub nowadays.

LOL @ the outrage over Macca's remarks. Bush read books OK, but he was the king boor as pres, back-slapping and nick-naming, treating the world stage as his personal lockeroom

anybody else notice that the corner has been hacked w/bogus spam-links