News From (And For) The Hypersensitive

Elizabeth Warren is delivering a new book, whoch evidently will be target-rich. Let me highlight this howler:

Sen. Elizabeth Warren Reveals Obama Advisor’s Sexist Comments Toward Her

A new book authored by progressive icon Sen.Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reveals her insider accounts of her interactions with President Barack Obama and his staff. According to The Boston Globe, which obtained an early copy of the book A Fighting Chance, Warren reveals a series of interactions with Obama and his staff that were at times tense and, on one occasion, borderline sexist. 

Evidently the headline writer didn't want to dilute the impact by mentioning "borderline". So on to the border!

After legislation was passed creating the CFPB, Warren was informed that some named and unnamed advisors close to Obama opposed her as the nominee to head that department. One unnamed advisor to the president reportedly told Warren that her role would be a “cheerleader” for the new agency.

“I assume that was meant as a metaphor, but I had to wonder: Cheerleader?” Warren wrote. “Would the same suggestion have been made to a man in my position? I did not rush out to buy pom-poms.”

I deplore her sexism. Here is current Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid describing himself as a cheerleader for Hillarity! Here is former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott's bio, which includes a stint as a cheerleaer at Ole Miss. Among Presidents we can cite George 43's college and high school cheerleading effort, and here is a description of Wild Bill acting as a cheerleader for, hmm, Hillarity! again.

And lest you doubt, here is a story about the hard work and athleticism of the current crop of male cheerleaders at the University of Arizona.

After eight years of hearing every crutic of Obama denounced as a racist, who is looking forward to four (or eight!?!) years of "sexist"?

NOT THE DIRECTION WE WANT TO GO... Maybe the speaker was offering a tribute to Ms. Warren's native American heritage?

Comments

[Happy, happy, joy, joy Ignatz]

Borderline Personality Disorder

[narciso]

Will the AP send eleven reporters to vet her bio, rhetorical question, Madame Defarge is touchy isn't she.

[Jack is Back!]

How do you say cheerleader in Cherokee?

[Jack is Back!]

Evidently, its something close to this: Ka ne quo s di

Which means to promote.

[Comanche Voter]

Ah heckfire, the staffer should have told her that the Bamster wanted her to be a Comanche Warrior.

[narciso]

Back in the real world;

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/the-true-role-of-the-fsb-in-the-ukrainian-crisis/498072.html

[Marlene]

narciso @ 11:02...exactly. A reporter could easily dig thru archives and records.In fact,the U.S. government makes it easy.A person with the ancestry she claims needs the name of the relative and name of the tribe to search the Dawes Rolls.(Cherokee,Creek,Choctaw,Chickasaw and Seminole). The tribes still use the Dawes Rolls as the basis for determining membership. But,she doesn't have to prove anything,she can lie,because at this point,what difference does it make? Lying served her purposes.

[Jim Eagle]

OT: Somewhere on the other side of the IDL it is the 18th of April.

Remembering the Doolittle Raid

[narciso]

Well it happens to be my mother's birthday, and the anniversary of hail mary pass, stopped by JFK, not the same year.

[Clarice Feldman]

Wish your beautiful mom a happy birthday, narciso.

[Light Thursday morning reading.]

Stats geeks will enjoy Nic Lewis's latest @ climateaudit.org on radiocarbon dating. After deeply absorbing his message I came up with this;

A butterfly flaps its statistical wing,
Shudders run through the whole history thing.

[Happy, happy, joy, joy Ignatz]

Happy Birthday mama narciso.
Note I did not use the diminutive so as to avoid racism charges. :)

[narciso]

Thanks all, Red Squaw is really sensitive, isn't she, then again she fooled the Massachussetts state nominating caucus,

[narciso]

is the shield around the death star, up or down, kim, what does it mean?

[Happy, happy, joy, joy Ignatz]

Posted this on the wrong thread:

I read your nic lewis link with great fervor kim.....for about five paragraphs until I began skipping to things I could understand. Very short read. I found this part of the conclusion very convincing though;

The HPD regions that OxCal provides give less poor coverage than two-sided credible intervals derived from percentage points of the uniform prior posterior CDF, but at the expense of not giving any information as to how the missing probability is divided between the regions above and below the HPD region.

It convinced me statistics is not my field.

[centralcal]

Happy birthday to your Mom, narciso!

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Happy Birthday Narcisso's Mom!

[Marlene]

Happy Birthday to your Mom,narciso!

Steyn in for Rush. He's going to talk about the fake Indian later.

[rich@gmu]

Happy Birthday to your Mom narciso.

[Danube on iPad]

This used to be a great country.

(Jack Nicholson, Easy Rider)

[narciso]

steyn did a riff on 'Dances with Blackstone' my new coinage, the onetime Gosplan selectee.

[Danube on iPad]

RIP:

F. Reid Buckley, a novelist, columnist, founder of a school of public speaking and, in family lore, the most literary of Aloise and William F. Buckley Sr.’s 10 children, including former Senator James L. Buckley and the conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr., died on Monday in hospice care in Columbia, S.C. He was 83. The cause was cancer, his son William Huntting Buckley said. Mr. Buckley had lived in Camden, S.C., since the early 1970s. He was often mistaken for his brother William, the founder of the conservative magazine National Review.

(NYTimes)

[rich@gmu]

JamesD-

I answered your question on the other thread. As described a MSM or an ARCOM would be awarded. A Soldier's Medal would not be awarded.

[peter]

Happy Birthday to Narcisso's Mom. And thanks for reminding us of JFK's little war.

These leftists can be awfully thin-skinned. Apparently Obozo wanted Ben Carson to apologize to him.
When you're a victim 24/7 things get a little wacky.

[Tonto]

To Captain Hate:

Dear Captain, I woke up this morning thinking, "What a thoughtless post I made last night!" I want you to know that when I wrote that Hank was the best dog, ever, I really hasn't going off on a solipsistic reverie about my own pet after you'd just lost Maggie. I was just remembering the sorrow we felt when he died, and remembering that he held on until our son came home from his first year of college. What I meant was that he was the best dog I'd ever had. They say that people often pick the time of their deaths. In my experience, there's a lot of truth to that. I think it's also often true for our animal companions -- not to go all PC on you.

You and your family are very much in my prayers.

[Danube on iPad]

Mamacitas:

"Education Secretary Arne Duncan visited an elementary school in Columbus, N.M. last year where 75 percent of the students live in Mexico but are being educated in the United States because their mothers crossed the border to seek medical help, and their birth here makes them U.S. citizens. 'These are our kids and they’re trying to get a great education,' Duncan said during a visit to the school, which was part of his 2013 school bus tour."

[rich@gmu]

>>>Posted by: Danube on iPad | April 17, 2014 at 12:24 PM<<<

DOOM!!!

[Danube on iPad]

Happy birthday to your mom, Narc.

[narciso]

But you know Volodya is crazy!

http://www.businessinsider.com/maps-of-novorussia-and-old-russian-empire-2014-4?op=1

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Vlad says-- "There is NO SUCH thing as 'Novorussia... there is only RUSSIA."

[Account Deleted]

I find Putin's invocation of R2P for eastern Ukraine to be heartwarming. There's just nothing which says "true progressive" more than willingness to use as much force as necessary to protect a threatened minority from continued oppression.

I wonder when delivery of kinetic humanitarian aid will begin?

[narciso]

Well I would figure Monday, they're aren't going to do it before Easter,

[James D.]

Rich, thanks!

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

April 20th is indeed Orthodox Easter as well.
(Must Call Mom)

[rich@gmu]

congratulations on getting your previous book translated to Italian and good luck with this one.

[rich@gmu]

Rick-

wonder if he'll say it with a smirk?

[rse]

HB to narciso's mom.

Jane-thanks for the kudos, but what did I do?

At least that I have disclosed yet.

[narciso]

Interesting this was the argument, before he decided, 'no soup for you' with the Ukraine,

http://www.marx2mao.com/Lenin/CRNQ13.html

[James D.]

We'll see if anyone in Italy buys it!

I do have some family there (including a former pro bicycle racer who competed in the Tour de France, and was once suspended for blood doping or something similar), so I can at least hope for a few guaranteed sales.

[Cecil Turner]

Carp. I'm catching up (as usual) and lagging. I disagree with rich on the Soldier's Medal, and IME it would be the standard medal for lifesaving with a significant degree of personal risk (which a collapsing building would provide).

The determining factor would be significant personal risk, however, so unless stuff was still shifting around, it'd be inappropriate and should be downgraded to a lesser award. (However, also IME, award inflation is such that it might still be awarded.)

[lyle]

Me comments were on the last dying thread but I wanted to offer my condolences about, Maggie, CH. It brought tears to my eyes reading about it. Dogs are awesome. All three of ours are nine now.

[henry]

OK, the tone is now set for Walker's re-election campaign. Deranged woman stormed Sheboygan GOP office & spit on people. She was complaining about a vote on secession that the WI GOP will have.

In other news, thanks to a foot of global warming up north and continued cold Walker has declared another propane emergency.

[narciso]

Apparently it's true,

http://minx.cc/?post=348611

[Threadkiller]

75 percent of the students live in Mexico but are being educated in the United States because their mothers crossed the border to seek medical help, and their birth here makes them U.S. citizens

Nothing shows off the Founders' idea of allegiance than that.

Come here for umbilical chopping, education, and a shot at being another POTUS with split loyalties while growing up south of the border.

¿Cómo se dice 'act of love'?

[AliceH]

"Sheboygan" LOL

Even though I grew up there, so many Wisconsin town names just make me giggle.

[Frau Lachsack]

Marlene - no stinking Dawes roll necessary. Lizzie Warren carries Paw-paw's high cheek bones as her ID along with her passel of authentic Cherokee recipes.

"Oklahoma, where the crabs come sweepin' down the plains." (M.Steyn)

[narciso]

it's unprintable, in a family blog,

[Threadkiller]

Wish your mom a happy birthday, narciso!

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

Narciso - best wishes to your mother on her birthday.

[daddy]

What? Cheech and Chong weren't available?

Whoopi Goldberg Is The Denver Post’s New Pot Columnist

[Threadkiller]

"...I did not rush out to buy pom-poms.”

Why is she picking on another tribe's snowshoes?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Beautiful-Early-CREE-INDIAN-SNOWSHOES-POM-POMS-RARE-/181155733488

How insensitive.

[James D.]

Cecil, thanks! I love this site...

[Bori]

The Horde thinks that the President is trolling with the .77 cents story, that it was done purposefully.

Don't buy it, I think that people are actually calling him out on his BS. Before his lies would get a pass or just doubtful confirmation, not now.

[Old Lurker]

TK, after what RSE tells us about the state and goal of a US education, that 75% are welcome to it.

[Frau Edith Rauschgift]

daddy, is there special pot etiquette that needs to be addressed?

Introductions at pot parties.
Clip or free hand and when?.
Expressions of sympathy when friend is arrested for DUI.
Appropriate manners when complaining about quality.(Limit use of "sh*t" to once in a single sentence. Whoopi "sh*t-sh*t" Goldberg might not be best person in this case.)

Cheech y Chong--definitely a better choice.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

The 60% HE LIES--about BIG things polling. That is a killer for Dems in competitive races. The War on Womenz/ObummerCare is GREAT thing will crap out in competitive races, because of Obummer pushing it and he's lost everyone except the True Believers..

[rich@gmu]

JamesD-

Cecil has a link to a traffic accident on the other page where one was awarded (the victim was a civilian and it appears it was on a civilian road). The only time I saw one awarded was a training accident where the medic went into a burning traffic accident. I think the award has been changed to a Gold and Silver level and circumstances dictate which version is awarded.

[matt]

Cheerleader? Really?

Princess Thinskinski has a very poorly developed sense of language, it seems. Just what we need in our leaders.

There seems to be a real trend of grievance and "shut up" these days on the Left.

[Frau Edith Rauschgift]

hahahahahahahaha
Lurch is laying down ultimatums one on top of the other while Putin is busying rebuilding Russia.

Perhaps Pres.404 can send the BLM to help Ukraine.

[rich@gmu]

JamesD-

disregard my last sentence.

[narciso]

part of the problem is he didn't learn the lessons from Prince Turki, his cousin;

http://linkis.com/www.thenational.ae/w/Flocs

[James D.]

Thanks again, Rich & Cecil. The link on the prior thread sounds like a decent match for the scenario in the book, so I think the Soldier's Medal would actually fit.

[Beasts of England]

Happy Birthday to narciso's Mom!

[narciso]

Shirley, I know you don't want to admit you were so stupid but you were:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/04/elizabeth-warren-i-wasnt-taking-credit-for-occupy-movement-when-i-took-credit-for-occupy-movement-video/

[Dave (in MA)]

My favorite Fauxcahontas moment remains the time just after she was elected, when someone asked a foreign policy-related question and she got a deer-in-the-headlights look on her face and deferred the question to GOVERNOR Mini-Me.

Also, during the campaign someone actually had the temerity to ask about her supposed Indian heritage, and Deval jumped in to answer for her and scold the questioner.

[MarkO]

Feliz cumpleaños a tu mama, narc.

[GMax]

Even the WaPo thinks this is important. Read this very carefully, it has profound implications for our Republic.

A new poll shows former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's (D) numbers hitting their lowest point in six years.

Meanwhile, it finds that the Republican Party is experiencing something of a renaissance.

The Fox News poll, from Democratic pollster Anderson Robbins Research and GOP pollster Shaw & Company, shows Clinton's favorable rating dropping to 49 percent, compared to 45 percent unfavorable.

The last time her numbers were in that ballpark was during the 2008 Democratic presidential primary race. After she ended her campaign, her favorable/unfavorable split was 47/46.

Other polls have shown Clinton's numbers -- which were stellar during her time as secretary of state -- steadily dropping since she left her post last year.

The more surprising part of the Fox poll, though, might be how people view the Republican Party. It shows Americans are now evenly split -- 45 percent to 45 percent -- on the GOP. As recently as October, the same poll showed just 30 percent of Americans viewed the GOP favorably, compared to 63 percent unfavorable.

The poll actually shows the GOP's numbers are about the same as the Democratic Party, which has long been held in better regard.

[narciso]

Gracias a todos,

[maryrose]

CaptainH:'
I am so sorry about your beloved dog,Maggie. What a wonderful relationship you had and so many shared memories. My thoughts are with you and Mrs. H at this difficult time.
I think Cherokee will be drafted by the Progs. Hillary's day has come and gone and she was found to be wanting.Not presidential materiel. Hil is right to be nervous about O's flubbed economy and 5 failed "recovery summers." Methinks Biden will give it a whirl as well. What has he got to lose? Everyone knows he is a cheapskate who hardly gives any money to charity.

[Danube on iPad]

The Founders established a procedure for amending the constitution they had written. About eighty years later, that procedure was used to enact the amendment pursuant to which those children are American citizens. Tough cheese for those who don't like it.

[pagar]

Happy Birthday to Narciso's Mom, hoping she enjoys many more.

[narciso]

Try that in Mexico, and they ship you back to Tegulcigalpa, and Guatemala city, faster than you can make your head spin,

[Beasts of England]

Gracias a todos,

The first narciso comment that I fully comprehend is written in Spanish...

[pagar]

"which has long been held in better regard."

By who?

[GMax]

Compare and contrast with Pat Quinn and other imcompetent Democrat Governors in the polling. Would appear Haley is breezing to re-election:

Incumbent Republican Nikki Haley holds a double-digit lead over Democratic challenger Vincent Sheheen in Rasmussen Reports’ first look at the 2014 gubernatorial rematch in South Carolina.

A new statewide telephone survey of Likely South Carolina Voters finds Haley with 52% support to 37% for Sheheen. Three percent (3%) like some other candidate in the race, and seven percent (7%) are undecided.

[GMax]

Its the WaPo, Pagar. They are trying to throw a bone to their Democrat readers who likely find this news jarring in a "how can that be?" kind of way ...

[Bori]

"which has long been held in better regard."

By who?

Posted by: pagar

By the same people who thought that Obama is the most intelligent President, ever.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Mexico and the Central Americans. Ignoring those facts are part of the 'immigration reform' lies. Simple truths: Mexico exported its ethnic indians to the USA to remove millions of chronically poor and ethnically undesirable people. Mexico allows undocumented Central Americans to transit through Mexico on their way to unlawful status in the USA, but if you're a Guatemalan, don't dare get off that freight train, you'll be on one heading south, or worse, pronto. This makes much sense for middle class Mexicans... heh.

[rse]

close bolding

[Happy, happy, joy, joy Ignatz]

--About eighty years later, that procedure was used to enact the amendment pursuant to which those children are American citizens. Tough cheese for those who don't like it.--

I'm supposed to get worked up over one guy who has a tortoise by the tail and use that as a basis for a revolt but quietly accept an insane doctrine which floods our country with a vast pool of Dem voters who are quite efficiently destroying our country and many of whom show little regard for our culture, way of life or even language.
I find that a little more revolting than tortoises all the way down.

[Happy, happy, joy, joy Ignatz]

grrr

[Beasts of England]

I'm feeling emboldened...

[rse]

When I heard Kerry's announcement on the Ukraine while running errands it sounded like he was being played.

Make announcement publicly then arrange for it to be overriden by actions in Ukraine.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Ignatz-- no constitutional amendment is needed. repeal the Kennedy Immigration law. The numerical insanity is 'family reunification' legal immigration which leverages anchor babies into a couple of generations of immigrants. No more automatic green card status for immigrant and anchor baby family members. Replace Kennedy with rational immigration like canada and... Mexico.

[daddy]

Seems to me that the water starved farmers of Central California ought to hold a protest and all gather at the rim of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and have a communal piss. Call it the Pee Party!

Why you ask?

Portland to flush 38 million gallons of water after teen urinates in reservoir

DrJ, Iggy, Frau, Danube, CentralCal, Are you guys (and gals) ready to pull out your wang doodles fora good cause?

[Danube of Thought]

but quietly accept an insane doctrine which floods our country with a vast pool of Dem voters

You can always start a movement to amend the constitution.

[Happy, happy, joy, joy Ignatz]

Kirsten Powers kicks her liberal pals in the nuts over their treatment of Ayann Hirsi Ali.
When is she going to quit those bums?

[Happy, happy, joy, joy Ignatz]

Hetch Hetchy is drinking water for SF, daddy. I'm afraid they'd probably approve us yellowing things up.

[daddy]

And I guess we've figured out whether Planet Saturn is a boy or a girl planet:

Saturn's Pregnant!

Cassini may be witnessing the birth (or death) of a moon of Saturn
Objects, the biggest named "Peggy," spotted at the outer edge of the A Ring.

I guess that explains why she wears a ring.

[henry]

That's Krugman's alien invasion force Daddy.

[Beasts of England]

I have moments of insecurity, but I love and am proud of my body -- every part of it -- and wouldn't change a thing. - Kate Upton

Glad she cleared that up! Fire away, daddy!

[Frau Edith Rauschgift]

Exciting news from Pischer er, Putzer er, Pitzer College.

...Pitzer College (in Cleoville) is going out on a progressive limb with the vote by its Board of Trustees to begin divesting from its portfolio oil and gas companies whose products undeniably contribute to global warming.

Robert Redford--who now looks more ancient than the Mojave tortoises--is a Pitzer trustee and led the campaign for divestment. The third tier, outrageously expensive college of mediocre teachers and students alike plans to sell off a mere $4.4 million in oil and gas investments. The editorial article sez we should all help in our own small ways for the sake of Gaia's children (who are needed to pay off our country's trillions of debts).

[Happy, happy, joy, joy Ignatz]

--You can always start a movement to amend the constitution.

Posted by: Danube of Thought | April 17, 2014 at 02:25 PM--

After decades and decades of idiotic birthright citizenship (and the amnesties which are inextricably linked to it) brought about by our government intentionally not securing our borders it is no longer politically possible to amend the constitution to provide us with defensible borders. Nice how that works.

Of course it is also how insurrections are born. Not quite so nice, but it still works.

Andy McCarthy with a nice essay on how adhering to a rule of law which destroys liberty is no virtue.
I still don't think a tortoise is the horse to back in this fight but I think taking on the idiocy of bestowing citizenship on waves of illegals and their kids might very well be.

[narciso]

Judicial fiat, has replaced the cumbersome amendment process, which isn't even observed once implemented;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plyler_v._Doe

consider that amendment about Congressional pay raises.

[narciso]

I had the Upton pic, yesterday illustrating the retraction, when there was that disturbing
Rizzi business,

[Beasts of England]

plans to sell off...$4.4 million in oil and gas investments.

How will the oil and gas industries ever recover from that divestment? I better go fill-up my vehicles before gas stations are a thing of the past.

[Happy, happy, joy, joy Ignatz]

--I had the Upton pic, yesterday illustrating the retraction--

OK, I don't even want to know what that narcisoism means and I'm pretty sure any visual explanation would get cCal in a bunch of trouble at work. :)

[narciso]

It was in the Daily Mail, you can look for it at your leisure,

[Frau Edith Rauschgift]

"pull out your wang doodles"

Jeez, daddy, I'll need some real training, and it might just end up being a drop in the bucket.

BTW - Hetch Hetchy is also used to flush the many toilets in sordid Frisco. A legitimate Sierra Club would be demanding freedom for the stolen Yosemite treasure.

[GMax]

$4.4 MM is chump change. Maybe they can find some Solyndra look alike to piss away invest in with all of their sudden liquidity?