So, Hmm, Wrong

Sarah Silverman weighs in on political correctness run amuck on our college campuses, then steps in it:

Jerry Seinfeld set off a bit of a firestorm earlier this year when he said he had stopped performing comedy at colleges because the students were generally too “politically correct.”...  But comedian Sarah Silverman has a different view.

...

“To a degree, everyone’s going to be offended by something, so you can’t just decide on your material based on not offending anyone,” she conceded. “But, I do think it’s important, as a comedian, as a human, to change with the times.” Silverman added, “I think it’s a sign of being old if you’re put off by that.”

As an example, she cited her use of the word “gay” — as in, “That’s so gay.” Silverman once defended her use of the word as a stand-in for “lame,”...

Oh, so mocking the alternatively enabled is still acceptable? Someone is going to organize a limp-out at her next campus appearance.

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Inside the ISIS arsenal

In January the U.S. Central Command announced that U.S. and coalition airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria destroyed some 184 Humvees, 58 tanks and nearly 700 other vehicles. The number of ISIS military vehicles destroyed may seem significant, but is really just a drop in the bucket compared to the militants' overall firepower.

While specific numbers are difficult to come by, reports suggest that ISIS has a huge fleet of vehicles – including tanks - its possession. Last year, for example, the jihadists captured 2,300 Humvees from Iraqi forces when they captured the city of Mosul, some of which were then converted to armored vehicles.

Unlike traditional nation states ISIS doesn't produce tanks or other weapons in factories, and unlike past insurgent forces that were supported by a nation state ISIS isn't being armed or equipped by a major power either. Yet the group's fleet of vehicles continues to grow. In May ISIS captured U.S.-built equipment, including M1A1 tanks after the group took control of the town of Ramadi, 60 miles west of Baghdad. The militants’ haul reportedly included about 100 wheeled vehicles and dozens of tracked vehicles.

Thanks, Obama!

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Oh James...

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000530579/article/eli-manning-says-he-told-rashad-jennings-not-to-score

[Caitlyn Jenner]

Someone is going to organize a limp-out at her next campus appearance.

I'll put it on my calendar in case I haven't had my surgery by then.

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John Hinderaker:

BULLSHIT FROM BERNIE

[Marlene]

Well,I had my morning snort of derision while reading the Bangor Daily News. The "trans-gender" who stabbed to death a woman in a Shaw's supermarket has been indicted for murder. The headline says she/he is a "resident" of Saco,not that she/he is a"trans-gender" of Saco.
The other accused criminals in the crime and court section are identified as "a man" or "men".
The media thinks we don't notice the political correctness.

[henry]

Wait until the FCC applies the same standards to the "last mile" of the intertubes.

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New PP video

“We’ve just been working with people who want particular tissues, like, you know, they want cardiac, or they want eyes, or they want neural,” says Dr. Westhoff to a prospective fetal organ buyer. “Certainly, everything we provide–oh, gonads! Oh my God, gonads. Everything we provide is fresh.”

[James D]

I posted this at the end of the last thread, but it's worth repeating...

Via Instapundit is this amazing paragraph from one of his links:

Merkel’s open door policy toward the migrants has earned plaudits from around the world but appears to have sown discord at home. The leader of the Bavarian CSU, which is in coalition with Merkel Christian Democratic Union, attacked the Chancellor in an interview on Friday, saying her decision was “a mistake that will keep us busy for a long time.” Privately, officials close to Merkel apparently concede that they did not anticipate that the Chancellor’s remarks would have such resonance and would encourage more migrants to try to get to Germany.

(emphasis mine)

In case there was any question why so many people are ready to support an outsider blowhard who has no policy ideas and no real idea of how government works, your answer is right there.

Highly educated, elite, experienced, expert leader of the most powerful nation in Europe, and her team of elite, highly-educated, super-intelligent, handpicked advisors...

...couldn't figure out that opening the welcome mat to hundreds of thousands of migrants/refugees/invaders would only encourage more?

A five-year-old could have told them that it would! MY CAT could have told them it would!

Maybe the reason so many people are willing to listen to Trump is that it's now clear beyond any doubt that the experts, the professionals, the super-educated, policy-wonk, ultra-elites...are a bunch of utter f**king morons who don't have the common sense God gave to the average squirrel.

[James D]

Ext @ 8:52

Yeah, I read that this morning.

They gave a brand-new $84 million contract to a QB who apparently can't count to ten.

I don't even have the words for that...

[Miss Marple]

FBI raid is at home of CEO of American Senior Communities.

[James D]

More re: Eli's costing the Giants the game...

I can understand getting confused on how many time outs Dallas had - the announcers weren't clear, either. But that shouldn't have mattered.

Whether Dallas had 0 time outs or all 3, going from a 3 point lead to a 10 point lead with 1:50 to go is ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS something you would want to do. There is no question there. There is no decision there. There is no debate there. There is no doubt there.

How someone who's played football his entire life, who's won two Super Bowls, could get that wrong...it almost does make me wonder if the game was fixed, because it's just so far beyond believable that ANYONE could have been that stupid.

[Janet S.]

Everything we provide is fresh.”

a reminder - "In the second video, we find out explicitly from Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Mary Gatter that abortions performed with feticides aren’t viable for fetal-tissue donation. If digoxin is used, it renders the fetal stem cells unusable. (See the footage and the transcript.) Knowing this, Nucatola’s graphic explanation of how to “crush” unborn babies to maximize organ retrieval requires a clarifier. These babies are being strategically maneuvered, crushed, and dismembered under ultrasound guidance—while still alive."

http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/29/why-planned-parenthood-cant-donate-tissue-from-harvested-babies/#.VeTvP7bk0td.facebook

[Threadkiller]

Smokey and The Bandit, as edited for cable tv, has been adapted for the sensitive.

When Bufurd T Justice vents his anger CMT gets hip with the times.

"Showfolk fags" is now "Showfolk freaks." Seems reasonable.

The original can be found here:
http://youtu.be/A2gev9fNb0E

The corrected version:
Believe me.

When does Silverman rewrite what is left of Blazing Saddles?

[Marlene]

TK, we watched "Casino" over the week-end,or at least the sanitized version on Sundance Channel. All the naughty words were voiced over. The movie was ruined,what fun is it to watch a mob movie that is sanitized? :)

[Threadkiller]

I'll bet the had no problem showing Pesci getting whacked in his tighty whities, Marlene.

[Cecil Turner]

Last year, for example, the jihadists captured 2,300 Humvees from Iraqi forces when they captured the city of Mosul, some of which were then converted to armored vehicles.

How do you convert a HMMWV into an "armored vehicle"? Start by changing the definition.

ISIS is no doubt profiting from captured weapons, but that article is terrible. Dunno if it's the "experts" or the way it's kluged together, but I'd recommend a shaker of salt with that one (particularly the stuff credited to Robert Farley).

[Marlene]

Ha,TK. I self censored that scene by closing my eyes!

[Threadkiller]

:-)

[Jack is Back!]

My prediction a few weeks back that Merkel will go down for her welcome mat politics still stands. Hungary has sealed its border with Serbia. Austria has controls on it's border with Hungary. Germany the same on it's Austrian border. The Poles and other Slavs are saying no-way Abdul!

The lifeline from Greece to Macedonia to Serbia is basically sealed. Imagine thousands of Muzzies in Serbia? They may want to ask the Bosnians and Kosovoians about Serbia's policy toward the Mohametans.

Forget the 11th century invasions this is starting to look like the start of WWI.

[Janet S.]

from the Bullshit From Bernie post -

"And that vision is so beautifully and clearly stated in Matthew 7:12, and it states, “So in everything, do to others what you would have them to do to you, for this sums up the war and the prophets.” ~ Bernie

Matthew 7:12 (NASB)- 12 “In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets."

(KJV) - 12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

[Janet S.]

repost from the last thread -

Another thing that kills me about all the people cheering Bernie Sanders & his socialist dream is...why don't those people give away their money & property & belongings RIGHT NOW.
Nobody is stopping them. Start redistributing YOUR stuff. DO IT.

Like this old Daily Caller video asking liberal millionaires to donate to the feds. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh9dfaSOn5o

They won't DO IT.

[Buckeye]

Also from the last thread...

Only JEB could make Kasich look good.

WSJ opinion piece by McGurn today coaches the emasculated JEB on how to get his balls back from Trump. All the points he can make about Zero's screwups. How to communicate that he is about creating jobs and increasing the size of people's pay checks.

Sorry, but if you have to be coached fundementals on the op ed pages of the WSJ, you are dead meat.

[Janet S.]

for socialist Bernie, Bernie fans, & for liberal millionaires -

These contributions are considered an unconditional gift to the government. Financial gifts can be made by check or money order payable to the United States Treasury and mailed to the address below.

Gifts to the United States
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Credit Accounting Branch
3700 East-West Highway, Room 622D
Hyattsville, MD 20782

DO IT.

https://www.fms.treas.gov/faq/moretopics_gifts.html

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[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--“To a degree, everyone’s going to be offended by something, so you can’t just decide on your material based on not offending anyone,” she conceded. “But, I do think it’s important, as a comedian, as a human, to change with the times.” --

More bluntly, courageous Sarah won't offend the cool kids cuz then she wouldn't be one of them.

[DebinNC]

Once the invaders are inside a country, in Europe or here, how do authorities know where to send them back to, unless there's proof of residence elsewhere? And doesn't the "elsewhere" country have to agree to accept returnees? The "impracticality" aspect of expulsion of mass invaders seems to be where Carson differs with Trump, unlike Jeb, Kasich, and Rubio who consider acceptance of arriving aliens to be a moral obligation.

[Rick Ballard]

Cecil,

You have to tie the equipment inventory to the intelligence "discovery" to discern the propaganda effort to promote IS from JV to varsity. Mahometan maintenance should already have taken care of a reasonable number of vehicles - the Russian Air Force must feel a little urgency if they want to get in a good round of target practice. They appear to have a decent defensive perimeter established at Latakia, now all they need is sufficient fuel and bombs.

[Threadkiller]

Now we are worried about proper identification of an invader?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Unlike traditional nation states ISIS doesn't produce tanks or other weapons in factories...--

Other than Israel name a ME state that has produced its own tanks.

Worldwide you could probably count the countries that have on two hands. (Eli is excused from the quiz.)

[Janet S.]

And doesn't the "elsewhere" country have to agree to accept returnees?

I believe any country that won't accept returnees is supposed to be cut off from all foreign aid. A State Dept. function.
Obviously it doesn't happen.

[Roses bud, and burst.]

It struck me that one of the reasons that Trump can go after the press is that he's bulletproof; his scandals are public knowledge and his name is widespread. He's coalescing the inchoate anxiety of the low information voter, who knows things are bad, but has no idea why.

He'd have to be found in bed with a dead boy or a live model yacht.

[DebinNC]

But how do we know what country that is if the arrivee won't say? I'm sure BOzo won't allow federal linguists to figure out the country of origin for use as a removal tool.

[Threadkiller]

That is right, Janet. The State dept has the power to cut all visas off as well.

If a nation does not take its people back, we don't let anyone come in from that nation.

No school, no work, no Disneyland.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Hungary has sealed its border with Serbia.--

I am given to understand that is a physical impossibility.
I suppose next you'll tell us they could actually deport their "migrants".
(Why do I always think of Henry Fonda's hang-dog face at the helm of the Clampett's old truck with thirteen gap toothed, pregnant sisters in the back and his fat, tear streaked, warty old Joad of a ma riding shotgun, when I hear that word?)

[Sue]

I don't even have the words for that...

Posted by: James D | September 15, 2015 at 09:21 AM

I have words for you...Tony Romo, Dallas Cowboys, me happy dancin'. ::grin::

[DebinNC]

I wonder if Europe has the "anchor baby" gambit available to invaders?

[Sue]

More bluntly, courageous Sarah won't offend the cool kids cuz then she wouldn't be one of them.

Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkywatzky | September 15, 2015 at 10:16 AM

I'm so sick of the PC crowd that I'm almost ready to start using un-PC words just because I'm told not to.

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All the life jackets are new.

Where did they buy hundreds of thousands of brand new life jackets, tubes and inflatable rafts? Who carries that kind of inventory? And considering the demand, how much did they pay?

(Right click for full size.)

[The Men who looked SouthEast.]

Heh, Deb, they certainly have a problem with 'allegiance'.

[Threadkiller]

Not too many countries opperate exclusively under Jus Soli, Deb.

[narciso]

well he's tony stark without the armour, so prince talal did buy his boat, btw, that fellow seems to be divesting of his assets,

[Hellmouth mold.]

When I see bread tied into plastic grocery bags as a flotation device, then I'll believe.

[Threadkiller]

Map at link, Deb.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli

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Their clothes and shoes all look new, too.

Who paid for this?

[Beasts of England]

Just read that the county at the lake has approved Sunday liquor sales, effective next Sunday. That's nice. So, when I run out of Tito's™ or PBR, I won't have to sprint to the county line, but...

Now the cruise-in restaurants will be open on Sunday. And the BBs will be saying 'But, Beeeeeasts!! We're hungry! Can't we go to The Pointe and get some Crabcakes Benedict and Mimosas?! Pleeeeease!' Add another hundred to my weekly boating budget. What's a Beasts to do? ;)

[Exercise machines on deck to power generators.]

Let 'em occupy Talal's Antibes stranded yacht.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--I'm so sick of the PC crowd that I'm almost ready to start using un-PC words just because I'm told not to.--

Welcome to the Dark Far Side, Sue.

H/t, jimmyk.

[DebinNC]

Very helpful map, TK, but it's depressing to see how stupid we are.

[I'll be otherwise occupied.]

I mean the invading migrants, not Beast's refugees.

[Janet S.]

another point about that Bernie speech.

"I believe from the bottom of my heart that it is vitally important for those of us who hold different views to be able to engage in a civil discourse." - Bernie

He speaks at Liberty University...but how are conservatives treated at secular universities & forums?
Dis-invited speakers...or never being invited at all, and protesters disrupting the speech.

It's rich to hear a lib. talk about "civil discourse" when we are constantly called racists, homophobes, teabaggers, ....that the POTUS thinks we view some humans as "less worthy in the eyes of God", ....

[Buckeye]

What we are witnessing is a well funded Muslim invasion.

Crusades in reverse.

[narciso]

this was what I was referring to,

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/15/west-ignored-russian-offer-in-2012-to-have-syrias-assad-step-aside

[Bow deeply earthward, let your head occupy her.]

So, TK, when the Tranzis win there will be no Jus Soli? Or do we just entrain Jus Gaia, and be done with it?

[What Republican could go there and expect a fair press?]

Sanders at Liberty? Audacious! This guy's got a streak of authenticity; I've a clue to his appeal.

Well, besides for all the collectivists who dream badly about the past.

[narciso]

well yes, but recall zhivago's brother, he joined the czarist army to demoralize it,

[OK, I'll go for the reset button, just don't send Hillary or Kerry with it.]

n, Putin must be alternately ecstatic and disgusted at Obama's impuissance.

[Didn't work very well, did it?]

Heh, n, fiction.

[Miss Marple]

Extraneus,

An enterprising reporter would look up the manufacturer of those life jackets and rubber rafts and find out who had placed an extra large order.

I am pretty sure those things aren't manufactured in the desert kingdoms, so a large order would have to have been placed in the West, China, or Japan.

I think I will contact that Daily Mail guy who seems to actually do reporting.

[Cecil Turner]

You have to tie the equipment inventory to the intelligence "discovery" to discern the propaganda effort to promote IS from JV to varsity.

I'd suspect something along those lines, but was surprised to see it in a Fox news story. And it seems they've gone to borderline lefty military analysts (some at least--i.e., Farley--with poli sci credentials), possibly because they couldn't get enough empty speculation from reputable sources.

[Beasts of England]

lol, Kim!! They have new life jackets, too!

[FTL]

Sanders is an aging white male hippie. There is nothing to fear from that commie gasbag.

We do not marginalize hippies. Hippies are made from people who were born to be marginal. Play the Five Man Electrical Band's Signs in a loop, and by the end of the third iteration, you will be ready to head down to the campus quad to kick some hippie ass.

It's the commies with the protected class shielding who threaten us the most. Sanders can/will be beaten like the pinata he is.

[Cecil Turner]

-- impuissance. --

Can't believe that's a word. Love it. (And now that I know it is, I'm going to use it.)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Fire update;
Unlikely to expand. Cool and cloudy with a few sprinkles last night.
~72,000 acres. 166 houses destroyed. That last number will likely increase slightly as they have better access for assessment.
Fortunately no one killed.

[Lost with Tolstoy's Kutozov.]

Oops, mebbe I'd better read it.

[Beasts of England]

Write off The Bern at your own peril. He connects with the masses in a very easy manner. Couple his 'free shit' message to his delivery and he becomes a serious opponent. Oh, and don't forget the media adulation he'll enjoy if he's the nominee. As I said, beware of The Bern.

[Miss Marple]

Heading out for a round of errands. Probably something will happen while I am gone.

Later.

[Buckeye]

Impuissance sexuelle

French for Jeb Bush

[narciso]

exactly, he knows how to play the game,

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/09/rep-dave-brat-trump-has-risen-because-dc-has-not-changed-even-after-cantor-upset/

maybe one needs to rev up the shock collar,

btw the BBC is doing a new adaptation of War and Piece for the spring,

[Jack is Back!]

Iggy,

What do you consider "sealing" the border?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3234913/Hungary-makes-border-crossing-arrests-Tough-new-rules-effect-migrants-try-illegally-cross-razor-wire-fence-EU.html

More than what we have done on our border.

[Janet S.]

Sanders is an aging white male hippie. There is nothing to fear from that commie gasbag.

I don't believe that. His ideas "sound nice" & that is all it takes nowadays.

Consequences & reality aren't very popular anymore.

[narciso]

I think he was being sarcastic, Jack

interesting about one of the partners in the kingdom tower, the batterjees, had an interesting relation with the 'black sheep' of the family,

[Old Lurker]

Except for Israel, Iggy, and excluding oil which was developed by Europe & USA, what has been produced there except for rugs for a couple of thousand years?

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Clean shaven, designer-clothes wearing, desperate refugees, fleeing for their safety.

Brand new luggage, too.

[Beasts of England]

Read a few lefty blogs: they love Che Sanders. That's where the passion is. They'll vote for Shrill, but they want to be part of the Sandernista Movement.

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Right click that one, it's a lot bigger.

[Beasts of England]

Designer migrants. 2015's hottest oxymoron.

[Yu Wi]

Typical Dallas Trump fan...

[Sitting ducks.]

The higher they build, the further they fall.

[Old Lurker]

Provide Illegal Aliens (I want to be non PC) with No welfare. No jobs. No housing. No medical. No ability to repatriate cash and what do you get?

No problem.

[Beasts of England]

She's got my vote...

[narciso]

well there was another,

http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2015/09/15/at-trump-rally-republicans-experience-obama-sized-crowd-excitement/

[Lilies of the Values.]

OL, it's unearned wealth; a classic problem.

[Back to the Sugar Shack.]

Heh, 'Sandernista' a goofy Guevara.

[narciso]

they hold a torch for Red Squaw, but they know it is not the time,

http://thefederalist.com/2015/09/14/let-the-left-destigmatize-racism/

[Bitter losers.]

Sixty years ago my Daddy told me that when the middleeastern oil was exhausted that the sheiks would own the London Stock Exchange. Well it hasn't quite worked out that way, but they are sending the occupoopers.

[FTL]

My point about Sanders is that neither he nor his supporters can hide behind his sex or his skin color. If he gets traction, he is open to being confronted with the kind of vitriol that the left gave Sarah Palin.

Make it personal. Destroy him. Destroy his supporters.

Could you picture Powerline running a "Bullshit from Barack" headline in 2007? Silly me. That would have been RAAAAAYYYYYCISSSSS!!!!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I'm all in for Trump.

[Beasts of England]

Point taken, FTL.

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♫ ♬

Clean shirt, new shoes

And I don't know where I am going to..

♪♪

[DebinNC]

Criticizing Bernie the nominee will be antisemitic.

[Beasts of England]

Sharp Dressed Migrant?

[Sue]

When entering fans are greeted by a beautiful combination of brick, granite and limestone creating the warm feeling of home. Housing both the Mavericks and the Stars the American Airlines center displays its unique versatility with its retractable seating transforming from a 20,000seat basketball arena into an up-close action-heavy 18,532 seat hockey rink.

Trump filled the arena. The local news was all over the traffic jams caused by event. Heavy construction in and around the arena creates a nightmare on a good day. With reserve tickets and a usually later start time. Trump's event was general admission, started at 6:30 PM and caused a freaking nightmare for rush hour traffic, in an area that is already rush hour traffic hell. DFW knew Trump was here. The man planned it that way. Nonstop local news coverage of traffic stalled on 35 for miles in both directions? Priceless advertising.

[Beasts of England]

The girl in the photo is not Trump, Iggy...

[This time, next time, everytime.]

Heh, Sue, he makes the press run off step.

[FTL]

Here is an example of a weaponized criticism I would not hesitate to use on a Sanders supporter in nearly any situation:

Did you hear Sanders said we don't need thirty different brands of deodorant in the supermarket?

Typical filthy hippie wants to stink.

Typical socialist wants to force the rest of us to stink, too.

[Old Lurker]

And another thing...

Why has the word "alongside" all of a sudden gained wide usage in the media?

I always thought it was one of those words one tried to avoid in proper writing.

See how thin my skin has become?

:-)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I said "for", as in "on behalf of", not "to" Beasts.

I wouldn't exactly lie back and think of Teh Donald if that's what you're driving at.
Ew, just grossed myself out.

[narciso]

jimmah's gift just keeps on giving,

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/09/15/video-north-korea-restarts-yongbyon-reactor-says-ready-to-nuke-us-any-time/

[Beasts of England]

Did Sanders really make that deodorant comment? Folds nicely with the post I made earlier this morning re: capitalism: he doesn't have to worry about how many brands are available - if there are too many, it'll self-correct very soon.

[Marlene]

Speaking of migrants,I've mentioned how much northern New England has changed in fifty years. Vermont suffered the most from the invasion of hippies in the 1970s. I remember a family camping trip to Vermont in the mid 1960s,when we visited the Calvin Coolidge homestead. If you remember your history,Cal was sworn in by his father on Aug.2,1923 while on vacation at the farm. It took another 50 years for hippies to take over the state. Fewer hippies came to Maine,if they did,they were acolytes of Scott Nearing. NH changed most drastically in the 1980s and 1990s,due to the invasion from the south. Massachusetts. :)