Embrace Multiculturalism As it Embraces, Or Anyway Gropes, You

And a Happy New Year to the Euro elites who are busy pretending that vast cultural differences with Muslim immigrants won't be much of a problem:

Reports of Attacks on Women in Germany Heighten Tension Over Migrants

BERLIN — The tensions simmering beneath Germany’s willingness to take in one million migrants blew into the open on Tuesday after reports that scores of young women in Cologne had been groped and robbed on New Year’s Eve by gangs of men described by the authorities as having “a North African or Arabic” appearance.

Taking advantage of the New Year’s Eve street party, hundreds of young men broke into groups and formed rings around young women, refusing to let them escape, the authorities said. Some groped victims while others stole wallets or cellphones.

Witnesses described the atmosphere around the city’s central train station as aggressive and threatening, with firecrackers being thrown into the crowd. The women who were attacked screamed and tried to fight their way free, a man who had struggled to protect his girlfriend told German public television.

The Cologne police added that they had received 90 complaints from victims, including one who said she had been raped. No arrests have been made.

Somewhat surprisingly, most of the Times commenters have not embraced this opportunity to broaden their cultural horizons and instead are belaboring such stale 20th century topics as women's rights. However, a few commenters have managed to channel their counterpart to Stephen Colbert's character:

Most of the comments here malign the behavior and culture of some of the migrants. But this shows that the authors have assimilated the idea that their Western culture is somehow superior to that of the migrants. Why not be more liberal and agree that the migrants have the right to their ages-old attitudes and behaviors?

Insisting that the newcomers behave "properly" is just a sign of Western cultural imperialism.

Exactly. On New year's the assault victims were women; later it will be gays, or Jews, and so what - surely these ambassadors from the Third World have the right to their cultural observances? And as another astute commenter noted drolly, Germany has had a troubled history with immigrants.

But before we ride too far on our high horse, let's remember that yes, this can happen here. And did, in Central Park on a hot day in June:

35 Scary Minutes: Women Tell Police Of Assaults in Park

By C. J. CHIVERS and KEVIN FLYNN

Hmm, a younger CJ Chivers gets the byline.

One woman, a newly wed French tourist, had two gold chains snatched from her neck as chanting men removed her skirt. Three others, teenagers from London, were surrounded by the group of men, who sprayed them with water, tore at their clothing and sexually abused one of them. Another woman, on in-line skates, was pulled to the ground by her backpack by the men, who then desperately tried to pull down her shorts.

These were among the accounts the authorities were sorting through yesterday as they struggled to find members of a wild, cheering mob that attacked at least seven women in Central Park on Sunday evening after the National Puerto Rican Day Parade.

In 35 riotous minutes that terrified the victims and have perplexed public officials and the police, the men, whose number has been estimated variously as 15 to 25, overwhelmed and groped at women in four separate attacks. It was a bizarre sequence of lawlessness in a park whose revival has been emblematic of the city's rebirth.

''I never felt in my entire life that I couldn't protect myself until then,'' said the skater, Peyton Bryant, 29, a kickboxing teacher who lives in Manhattan. ''I felt confused. I felt terrified. I felt traumatized.''

The authorities made two arrests, charging Dave Rowe, 24, of Hempstead, N.Y., and Tremayne Bain, 23, of Brooklyn, but they were still trying last night to determine who else was involved. The two arrested were charged with the second-degree robbery, first-degree sexual abuse and second-degree aggravated sexual abuse of a British tourist. The police said the men, as part of a larger group, had surrounded the tourist, groped her and robbed her of $200.

Hard to tell from the reporting, but the assailants might have been an out-of-control rugby club from the suburbs. Or maybe it was some Duke lacrosse players.

Or maybe not. This is the aftermath as of  May 1 2001:

Mr. Garcia was among 33 men arrested after the melee, which was videotaped by several paradegoers who turned the tapes over to the police.

Of the men arrested in the attacks, 30 were indicted, 16 pleaded guilty, 3 went to trial and 2, Mr. Garcia and Abel Ortiz, 24, were convicted. One was acquitted. Charges against 11 of those arrested were dismissed.

Twenty-two women testified at trial that they had been beaten, dragged, groped and penetrated vaginally and anally with their attackers' fingers. Though few identified the defendants as their attackers, Mr. Garcia and Mr. Ortiz, both of the Bronx, were held responsible for the actions of the mob they were part of.

 A few weeks back the Times boldly acknowledged the obvious as it described a new assimilation program in Norway:

Norway Offers Migrants a Lesson in How to Treat Women

...

Fearful of stigmatizing migrants as potential rapists and playing into the hands of anti-immigrant politicians, most European countries have avoided addressing the question of whether men arriving from more conservative societies might get the wrong idea once they move to places where it can seem as if anything goes.

But, with more than a million asylum seekers arriving in Europe this year, an increasing number of politicians and also some migrant activists now favor offering coaching in European sexual norms and social codes.

More "conservative" societies. Uh huh - that is why visitors to Amish country tremble in fear.

Comments

[narciso]

these are the folks they based that season on Homeland on,

http://www.understandingwar.org/otherwork/haqqani-network-and-threat-afghanistan

[pagar a bacon, ham and sausage supporter]

It never ends.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/40000-packages-of-backlogged-claims-material-discovered-at-single-va-office/

Wonder how many bonuses the employees in that office got?

[narciso]

there does seem to be a particular vicious streak to European politics,

Lindh died in the early morning of 11 September 2003 after a knife attack in Stockholm on the afternoon of 10 September. Just after 4 pm, she was attacked while shopping in the ladies' section of the Nordiska Kompaniet department store in central Stockholm. Lindh was shopping for new clothes for a televised debate later that night on the referendum about Sweden's adoption of the euro (which she supported). She was stabbed in the chest, abdomen and arms. At the time of the attack, Lindh was not protected by bodyguards from the Swedish Security Service; this proved controversial, given the similarity between Lindh's murder and that of prime minister Olof Palme in 1986 (the first murder of a government member in modern Swedish history).[citation needed]

[Jim Miller]

JiB - I understand all that, and don't disagree with you.

What interests me about Reker is that she is not a far-left member of the Social Democrats, as I had guessed. So I am wondering where her "pro-Muslim immigration" ideas came from.

She seems to have a severe case of multi-culturalism, far more severe than I would expect, given her background.

And, of course, I am wondering whether the assassination attempt gave her the victory in that election. (The CDU and SDP seem to be pretty evenly matched in Cologne, judging by the way the mayors have alternated parties since 1948.)

[lyle]

Is that Extraneus?? Welcome back.

[Jack is Back (but On Alert)!]

Congrats Mike Piazza and Ken Griffey. Newest Baseball HOF members. Hard to believe Curt Shilling can't even get past 60%. I am not a fan of the HOF voting.

[Jack is Back (but On Alert)!]

Jim Miller,

There is no such thing as conservative in Germany. All those parties are separated by 2 degrees minimum. But the twist to the victim instead of the perp tells you where Europe is going. My wife is depressed as I am.

[narciso]

well the CSU, Strauss's old faction, seem to have more of a clue,

[Marlene]

Yes,Jane. I think you can take US 41 to Venice from Port Charlotte. The dog beach is just one of the many beaches in Venice. We can make plans when we meet on the 18th.

[narciso]

I lived in South Florida, right in the aftermath of the Mariel boatlift, now in my little corner, I didn't fully appreciate how violent that era was in retrospect, in fairness, there are many people that I knew who came here, who were upstanding citizens through that process,

[narciso]

fwiw:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/01/06/alabama-top-justice-orders-judges-not-to-issue-gay-marriage-licenses.html

[Gentlejim]

Pagan,
Death in a fire is too good for those involved at the VA, but I'd settle for that.

[Extraneus]

Thanks, lyle. I can only helicopter in these days, but it's good to see that you guys are still on top of the news!

I was going to post a pic of the "Welcome Refugees" idiots with a comment along the lines of "Please feel free to finger my daughters," but I thought the better of it. Until now, apparently.

[Rocco]

Would he, could he?

http://ferrall.radio.cbssports.com/2016/01/06/why-bill-belichick-might-actually-want-new-york-giants-job/?cid=twitter_CBSSportsRadio

[Miss Marple]

I don't know what to make of this article. It doesn't make Hillary look very good, and portrays Huma as a climber and greedy, getting all the dough she can get.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/01/huma-abedin-hillary-clinton-adviser

[Gentlejim]

Pagar
Damn autocorrect. We can throw that feature in the fire with the VA employees.

[narciso]

facts still elude cohan, as they did in the nifong whitewash, re naseef and quaradawi, yet she still doesn't look good,

[Extraneus]

portrays Huma as a climber and greedy, getting all the dough she can get

Who could she have gotten that from?

[narciso]

conde nast, is a fact free zone,

http://historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=wael_hamza_jelaidan

I'm reminded that michael lewis's big short, arose out of one of their more unsucessful projects, portfolio, and the late joe mcguiness fouled the nest there,

[pagar a bacon, ham and sausage supporter]

Gentlejim, here are some more to add to the pile.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/va-officials-have-committed-thousands-of-privacy-breaches-since-2011/

"Violations have included a VA official improperly accessing a veterans’ health records over 60 times and posting some of the individual’s medical information on Facebook"

[Jane]

TC,

If I win $500million tonite, will you be my tax lawyer?

[Dave (in MA)]

Hard to believe Curt Shilling can't even get past 60%.

Being conservative is worse than being a roidhead.

[narciso]

zaphod does the proverbial autograph*

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/01/06/pentagon-begins-wave-gitmo-transfers-sends-2-detainees-to-ghana.html

*in the film, not the book, he signs off on earth's demolition, thinking it was an autograph seeker,

[Miss Marple]

Ghana?

I laugh to myself.

[Jack is Back!]

MM,

Ghana doesn't

[narciso]

ditto,

http://therightscoop.com/mark-levin-stop-chasing-dumbass-issues/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

May already have been linked;
Wayne LaPierre on how poorly the present NICS system is run.

[Buckeye]

JiB

Open carry is legal in Ohio, no permit of any type required. However, when taking my concealed carry class the instructors had many horror stories about the harrassment you can expect from the police.

Hopefully things will be better in Texas, but I have my doubts.

[henry]

They found the factory that made all migrants' life jackets.

An evil Jewish entrepreneurial Turkish factory using exclusive green compliant non littering materials (guaranteed to sink rather than wash up on a beach).

[Jack is Back!]

Buckeye,

No Islands in ahia that qualify for St. Janes Island.

[narciso]

Izmir, it's that charming town where they set that Turkish soap opera, that has been dubbed into Spanish,

[narciso]

where practices are much as the thread discusses,

[middyfeek]

@Lyle Isn't Florida in the SEC? Weren't they in the SEC Championship game? Michigan walked up one side of them and down the other. As a matter of fact Michigan beat them significantly worse than the Crimson Tide did.

[narciso]

just more flak over the target,

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/corrected-cruz-still-favors-slashing-ethanol-mandate-every-year-for-five-years/article/2579743

[Miss Marple]

Jack,

My estranged spouse is there.

Ghana is very Christian for about 2/3. I don't think the terrorists will get much traction there. Why Ghana took them, I cannot imagine.

[Thomas Collins]

Tax lawyer, Jane? Are you kidding? I thought I was going to be your kept man! I've already cleared it with my wife!

[Buckeye]

"No Islands in ahia that qualify for St. Janes Island."

True, although some of the Lake Erie islands can be a lot of fun during the season. The other 40 weeks of the year, not so much.

[Buckeye]

Jane

I just want to manage your portfolio. Standard 1%?

[Threadkiller]

Extraneous!!

Happy New year!

[Threadkiller]

Roof just collapsed at a FedEx building in San Diego. Scripps Ranch, maybe.

Lots of water.

[Jack is Back (but On Alert)!]

Buckeye,

Can't remember the island I flew to in a Ford Tri-Motor from Port Clinton but it was a hoot since I was on business, believe it or not. I think a nuclear power plant was involved.:)

[Threadkiller]

narciso, did you listen to the whole Levin audio? I'm curious if he mentions that Trump is getting asked first.

[Sue]

MM,

That VF article on Huma is something.

[James D.]

Re: the Hall of Fame vote...

I wonder who the 3 voters were, who didn't vote for Griffey?

[Gentlejim]

Pagar,
I'll amend my punishment for these scumbags. They should first be "volunteers" for whatever agency is still training in aggressive interrogation techniques, see water boarding, etc. They can then be used as fuel for a very large fire.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

-- Why Ghana took them, I cannot imagine.--

Protein.

[Thomas Collins]

Rocco, if Belichick left the Pats for the Giants, 93.7 and 98.5 would need their bleep machines going overtime. . . for the hosts, as well as the callers. Belichick would go from greatest coach in history to _ _ _ _ in cheater to _ _ _ _ in buttfu_ _er to who knows what. And Belichick would need armed guards the first time the Giants played in Foxboro.

[Thomas Collins]

To add to the fun, the Pats would then hire Pete Carroll for a second go around as head coach.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Oklahoma seemed to get stronger and stronger over the course of the season and I expected them to manhandle Clemson.

Never underestimate the ability of Bob Stoops to drop a huge rancid turd in a big game. I thought against Klempsun that even he wouldn't blow it. Lesson learned.

[narciso]

they just pass those propeller hats around,

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-01-06/george-w-bush-could-be-key-to-stopping-donald-trump-republican-says

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

I wonder who the 3 voters were, who didn't vote for Griffey?

I hope you're sitting down for this but there are a lot of extremely petty people with drinking problems in the MFM. I still think the baseball voters are mensas compared to the NFL HOF counterparts.

I would expect Pete Carroll to be on the 2016 "looks like a lesbian" list.

[narciso]

what was that carly simon song, it's meant ironically,

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/01/donald-trump-no-i-did-not-try-to-woo-megyn-kelly/

[Buckeye]

JiB

Davis Besse is just west of Port Clinton, maybe 15 miles or so.

The Tri-Motor service used to run over to South Bass Island, town on the island is Put-In-Bay. Basically party central. Does the Roundhouse Bar ring a bell?

[Thomas Collins]

CH, do you think Cleveland would accept His Hoodiness for a second go around (well, technically, a first go around, since the franchise formerly held in Cleveland is now in Baltimore).

By the way, I don't buy the notion that Belichick has accomplished everything he could in Foxboro. If I recall correctly, no coach has won five Super Bowls with the same team.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

In a second, TC; Browns fans are so starved for a winner they'd prop up Paul Brown's body on the sidelines. Even though Darth Hoody was extremely polarizing when he was here, the fans could justifiably blame it on Arthur B. Modell who has the distinct qualifications for ultimate dumbfuckery for firing 2 HOF coaches.

[matt]

Just shuckin' ya, JiB, but it feels that way, don't it?

[narciso]

who does one trust in this circumstances,

http://sputniknews.com/asia/20160106/1032756499/us-plane-test.html

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

When the show is on hiatus, the Zuckerberg POI page is worse than useless.

[narciso]

they might as well call it 'the ministry of silly walks'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-islamists-jihadi-john-isis-siddhartha-dhar-abu-rumaysah-leave-a6799656.html

[Miss Marple]

narciso,

Trust is indeed a puzzle. Our government has eroded trust to the point where I find both sides equally plausible.

Quite a difference from when Ike was president.

[narciso]

well occam's razor would suggest the most obvious solution, maybe the full cascade didn't occur, but that's not reassuring,

[narciso]

what strikes me about CBS's behavior, is with a whole host of shows, they don't disrespect the fan base, so agregiously, take Under the Dome, who was clamoring for that?

[jimmyk]

Considering the source, maybe take it with a grain of salt, but talk about making Hillary look bad:

Anxious to etch her name in glass, as well as in history, the woman now vying to be president of the United States and her closest aides raised nearly $37 million from corporations and foreign governments to build a U.S. Diplomacy Center, to be named after her.

http://thehill.com/opinion/dick-morris/264870-dick-morris-the-hillary-building

[Beasts of England]

I got a letter two weeks ago from OPM stating that all my information from my clearance investigations had been compromised. Charming. Three years of 'free' credit + identity monitoring and fraud insurance is provided. I guess I'll sign up.

[narciso]

well I don't concur with it all,

http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/trump-on-the-path-of-reagan/

[Beasts of England]

They misspelled 'shook down', jimmyk.

[Jane on Ipad]

Buckeye,

1% of $500 million? I'm not sure I can count that high.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

I agree, narc; the high handed treatment has been a real eye opener.

[jimmyk]

portrays Huma as a climber and greedy, getting all the dough she can get.

Just remember this piece on Huma, from New York Magazine in 2013:

She approached in a knit white top and navy-blue business skirt, her dark, almost black hair down to her shoulders. She wore bright-red lipstick, which gave her lips a 3-D look, her brown eyes were pools of empathy evolved through a thousand generations of what was good and decent in the history of the human race. The harsh, cheap buck lighting in the coffee shop couldn’t lay a glove on her. By the time she sat down, the harmony of angels had vanquished the tinny background music from every corporate space on the planet. Of course, you’d seen pictures before. But you’d also seen pictures of the Taj Mahal. It didn’t quite come up to actually being there.

[narciso]

as capt, would say, there isn't enough ipecac, for that kind of writing, cohan is agregiously wrong from the start, this is a pattern going back to his book on Goldman, which had little to commend it,

[Beasts of England]

Oh yeah, I exchanged a few texts with rich after Christmas. He seems to be doing well. FYI

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Btw as time goes on and it becomes obvious what a GOPe POS Woody Johnson is, Darth Hoody's stiffing of the Jets becomes more enjoyable.

[narciso]

good to know, beasts,

[Rick Ballard]

"It didn’t quite come up to actually being there."

Well,there really isn't any way to paint a word picture of the sulfuric stench of brimstone emanating from every pore, so I'd say the last sentence is quite accurate.

[Threadkiller]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/06/ann-coulter-calls-absolutely-false-nyt-article-saying-ted-cruz-natural-born-citizen/

[Miss Marple]

Those odious twits on Buzzfeed looked up George Wallace's sister and daughter, who of course said Trump reminded them of their daddy and brother.

And why wouldn't they? What did they expect?

"Does this extremely popular and glamorous candidate remind you of your dad?"

"No, my dad wasn't near as popular and he was dirt poor."

They spent all afternoon retweeting each other with that article. What a bunch of jerks.

[Dave (in MA)]

jimmyk | January 06, 2016 at 09:36 PM, It was a dark and stormy night...

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Buzzfeed is scummy even by MFM standards.

[narciso]

well they do practice, acts of random journalism, besides the lolcats,

[Jim Miller]

The scandals here in Washington have been piling up, lately. I have been spending so much time on national and international issues that I haven't had time to cover them.

Here's one of the more interesting. It's amazing how long these bureaucratic cover ups can go on.

(They keep calling it a "computer glitch", but I am nearly certain that it was either a fairly simple programming error, or a mistake in the specifications.)

[Rick Ballard]

The Shanghai Index is now down 12% YTD. Don't worry, it won't go down any more while you're asleep.

They stopped trading for the second time this week.

[narciso]

how deep is that well, China is in, Rich?

[Jim Miller]

narciso - Any opinions on the Masha Gesson op-ed in today's NYT?

(I found it interesting, but don't know enough about Putin's daughter, or the background, to even guess how accurate it might be.)

[Dave (in MA)]

Clarice posted a FB link to an article about Sir Golfalot's gun policy, and in the sidebar of the article there was this:

Chicago, or "Chi-Raq," as Spike Lee refers to it, is a place full of peace and harmony with no need of guns or self-protection because after decades of being run by liberal Democrats, they've replaced poverty and violence with rainbows and unicorns...

[narciso]

well Karen Dawisha is the authority on that, she had to publish her tome, here, before the British lion, is frightened silly, Volodya's web is very extensive,

[GUS]

all these black gang bangers, BUYING their guns from NRA members at gun shows.

Yeah Ok Barry.

[Dave (in MA)]

https://twitter.com/atensnut Over 6 years between tweets (I thought I was bad), but now she's got a good reason to start up again.

[GUS]

Narciso. Who is Volodya. I'm way behind on the terminology.

[narciso]

all this one about Litvinenko's investigation was new to me, sometimes I think when you dig under the iceberg, there was no real perestroika, in terms of the fundamental relations of the state, Volodya had his piece of the action, going back to 1991, the
assets of the nation, were transferred into the hands of who ran the state,

[Rick Ballard]

Narciso,

The appropriate word is 'unfathomable' due to shadow banking and the structure of interlocking arrangements made by regional authorities. OL cited an article on business closures in HK which barely scratches the surface of what is occurring. The number of HK ex/im shops which specialized in invoice manipulation to mask the transfer of income out of China was truly staggering.

The AIIB opens in a couple of weeks and CIPS is going to be mandated for Chinese settlements within the Eurasian Co-Prosperity Sphere very shortly. That will take almost all the fun out of using false invoices and SWIFT to game the Chinese revenue agents.

[Buckeye]

"1% of $500 million? I'm not sure I can count that high."

Jane, that is the beauty of my proposal. You won't even have to worry about it. It will be my job.

You will have "people" ;)

[Rocco]

However, the low point of this whole thing might have come Sunday morning. In a virtually under-the-radar radio interview with Mike Francesa, CBS Sports play-by-play broadcaster Jim Nantz — one of the most respected names in the business — made a laughable claim, saying he wouldn’t discuss the Manning allegations during the broadcast of Denver’s game against the San Diego Chargers because it was a “non-story.”

http://nesn.com/2016/01/jim-nantzs-calls-peyton-manning-hgh-allegations-non-story-which-is-ridiculous/

It looks like Nantz and his puppets might have to talk about it now! The NYT's finds this non story is quite a story after all.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/sports/baseball/al-jazeera-peyton-manning-derek-jeter-charles-sly.html?smid=tw-nytsports&smtyp=cur&_r=0

nite all

[narciso]

was there a test for presence of HGH, or is our new East German protocols, just a way of life,

[Beasts of England]

Looks like the Norks didn't get their fusion decoder ring as it's doubtful that their secondary detonation was successful. I guess that's filed under 'good news'.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

That Times story is a miasma of something that doesn't even reach the level of innuendo.

[clarice]

http://freebeacon.com/issues/report-obamas-free-college-proposal-spends-billions-on-students-who-wont-receive-a-degree/

[Miss Marple]

clarice,

Another scam in which the supposed beneficiaries will end up getting the shaft.

And the Taxpayers will foot the bill.

Lovely.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Japan is a relatively free and open society and yet they reacted to their burst, centrally-planned bubble disastrously when they had an advanced and prosperous economy.

Imagine how the repressive, secretive, autocratic communists in Peking are going to try to strongarm their markets, especially with half the country still living as peasants.
Problem is markets, being a relentless piper who will always be paid, are never strongarmed for long.

It'll probably make the era of the Mongol hordes seem like Switzerland in the spring.

[Miss Marple]

Good night, everyone!

[Dave (in MA)]

GUS, I think you're just supposed to smile and nod.

(J/K narciso)

I *think* he's talking about Pooty-Poot.