"In what has been described as a “horrifying” incident two women were attacked by a group of men who identified themselves as “transgender women” at the Portland State University “Law and Disorder Conference” which billed itself as a “provocative space for comparative critical dialogue between activists, revolutionaries, educators, artists, musicians, scholars, dancers, actors and writers”.
The women were attacked in a coordinated assault as they sat at a table which sold feminist books and literature. The men destroyed the books and marked up the table display with permanent markers. One of the women was also marked up by the men. Predominantly male conference onlookers by all reports allowed the attack to take place, watching in stunned silence. Two males affiliated with the same group as the feminists - Deep Green Resistance - were also in attendance and the “trans women” threw a projectile at the head of one of them.
According to reports, the transgender males or “trans women” took issue with the feminist content in the Deep Green Resistance materials. Specifically, a portion of the materials reflected the feminist position that social roles based on sex are undesirable and harmful to women........"
The Flo character in Progressive Insurance commercials may get on your last nerve, but she isn’t the best reason to get your insurance elsewhere. Wild Bill for America gives us a better one — Peter Lewis:
Read the Whole Story at Moonbattery
I've had flurry of hits from this address lately......and me thinks maybe the Pope is a fan of Middle Finger Symphony Theater......and maybe I should tone down my Good Monday Morning post a bit.......
"I seem to recall, back in the early days of the 2012 elections, this unbelievable outpouring of anger towards Mitt Romney because the blueprints for his La Jolla beach-front home had a garage with a car elevator, even though Mitt Romney never claimed he would be playing around on it, moving his Cadillacs up and down while major foreign policy crisis were threatening to engulf the stability of a major world region. Regardless, being rich is probably stupid and makes you do douchebaggy things, like forget to tip a waitress on your Ace of Spades, and completely disqualifies you from holding higher office. And the reason that’s probably an idiomatic campaign idea is because people like John Kerry do, indeed, spend major holidays puttering around on their hundred-thousand-dollar boats and phoning into their jobs from secure cell phone lines. He tried to deny it, but turns out iPhones do have pretty good telephoto capabilities.
"John Kerry’s spokesman has admitted the Secretary of State did go sailing off Nantucket as the Egyptian President was ousted from power after pictures emerged of him out on the water on July 4. The Secretary of State had been criticized yesterday for taking a vacation with his family at his holiday home in Nantucket, as Egypt plunged into crisis. New pictures of Mr Kerry on a kayak and a boat in Nantucket Sound on July 4 have surfaced after his spokesman had forcefully denied he went sailing after an earlier photo was posted to Twitter....."
There’s probably a good explanation for all this. After all, we did spend all that money on Barack’s African vacation. It’s hard to imagine there was any room in Marine One’s line item budget to fly the Secretary of State back from New England for a military coup. And you just don’t mess with John Kerry’s vacation time.Read the whole Story Here
"Late Wednesday afternoon, the silence from the White House about events in Egypt finally ended. In a statement, President Obama claimed that he is neutral on the question of who controls Egypt but wishes to uphold certain principles. The text contains anodyne proclamations about democracy and the participation of all groups in the government of Egypt that are unexceptionable. But it also clearly states that the president is “deeply concerned” about the ouster of Morsi and the suspension of the Egyptian constitution that brought him to power, calls upon the military not to arrest the deposed leader or other Muslim Brotherhood officials, and then pointedly says that he has “directed the relevant departments and agencies to review the implications under U.S. law for our assistance to the Government of Egypt.”
In other words, you don’t have to read too closely between the lines to understand that Obama is angrier about regime change in Cairo than he ever was about the Islamist attempt to remake Egypt in their own image.
President Obama stood by passively for a year as Morsi and the Brotherhood began to seize total power, repress critics and pave the way for a complete transformation of Egypt into an Islamist state without threatening a cutoff of U.S. aid. Now Obama has finally found the guts to use America’s leverage over the country but only to register his protest against the downfall of the Brotherhood.
This will do nothing to help Morsi and the rest of his authoritarian crew that had already topped the excesses of the Mubarak regime in only a year. The Egyptian military knows–despite the attempt of the Brotherhood to sell the West on the myth that a fascist-style movement like their brand of Islamistm is democratic in nature–that the only way to prevent it from fomenting violence is to use the same tactics it wanted to employ against Morsi’s critics.
But by doing so in this manner, the president has made it clear again to the Egyptian people that his sympathies are not with those who want a government that doesn’t wish to impose Islamism on the country or the minority that actually want democracy but with Morsi and the Brotherhood. Rather than repair the damage he has done in the last three years, the president sounds as if he is determined to double down on his mistakes."
