Thursday, 30 December 2010
Feminist Resistance
Just sharing something I found when writing my latest post on the #MooreandMe feminists.
Here's a 1994 flashback from the New York Times, "Mrs. Bobbitt is Symbol of Feminist Resistance":To the Editor:
Hmm, feminist innovation.
Like most of the American mass media, you have framed the Lorena L. Bobbitt affair as an issue of penile mutilation. You ignore the social context of Lorena Bobbitt's actions.
Prof. Catharine MacKinnon of the University of Michigan and the writer Andrea Dworkin long ago pointed to the institution of marriage as a legal cover for the act of rape and the permanent humiliation of women. Lorena Bobbitt's life has been a poignant instance of that nightmare, which elicited a bold and courageous act of feminist self-defense.
As one who recently returned from a conference of feminist activists in Europe, I can assure readers that the Lorena Bobbitt case has galvanized the women's movement worldwide in a way the Anita Hill case never did. No feminist is advocating emasculation as the weapon of first choice. And some women question the political prudence of "sociosexual vigilantism." But whatever the judgment of America's patriarchal legal system, Lorena Bobbitt is for most feminists no criminal. She is instead a symbol of innovative resistance against gender oppression everywhere ....
STEPHANIE MORRIS
Sydney, Australia, Jan. 12, 1994
Yeah. Sure.
Syria can do no wrong
...you gotta give BHO credit, he realized that this move was so ludicrous that he did it while the US Congress was in recess (thereby removing the otherwise needed congressional approval for ambassadorship).
The US pulled the ambassador six years ago after Syria killed the Lebanese Premier Rafik Hariri. But that's not all. They are actively aiding Hezbollah in taking over Lebanon and waging war against Israel (smuggling weapons, missiles, and fighters). They imported terrorists into Iraq to kill US troops. They are actively rebuilding and updating their huge, horrible chemical weapon arsenal...
Read the rest at DoubleTapper
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Movie Review: Tron: Legacy (2010)
Short Review: Sure it is brainless, plotless eye candy, but it is well done brainless, plotless eye candy.
Full Review Here
News.............
When the wind sucks
The Four Questions Every Liberal Must Be Asked
How Not to Help Blacks Find Employment
Traver Off Target
The Rule of Sebelius
'Iceberg Cowboy' Finds Archway in Middle of Ocean
Why Nobel laureate Obama will not cry for Binayak Sen
Driving dogs, babies with bongs: Florida tops odd news in 2010
£300,000: Cost of each crime solved by Blunkett's Bobbies
Stuffed! The 30,000-calorie Christmas feast eaten by the world's fattest mum in ONE two-hour sitting
German Inflation hits 1.1 percent in 2010
NASA's new 'smart' foam bra boosts your cleavage if you're 'hot'!
Red meat has a calming effect
Taliban in Pakistan get new start for new year
If Christians Were Treated Like Muslims
Time, gentlemen: An elegy on the British pub, by our obituaries editor
A Salute to a Brave and Modest Nation
Taliban border between Afghanistan and Pakistan 'is impossible to seal'
Entire Australian town evacuated by helicopter after worst rains in a decade
Italy's debt costs approach red zone
Iraq advisers seeks a third of Gulf Keystone oil wealth
Australian man 'discovered missing wife on Antiques Roadshow' after 28 years
China preparing for armed conflict 'in every direction'
South American drug gangs funding al-Qaeda terrorists
Laurent Gbagbo threatens to attack immigrants if troops are sent to Ivory Coast
Iran nuclear weapon is further off, Israel says
The Eve of Secession: What the Future Might Hold for Southern Sudan
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U.S. Congress Asked to Pre-Approve Apache Block III Sale to India
The lamest generation................from Rico
The GREATEST generation was followed by the LAMEST generation. Smug, arrogant, childish and child-like. Irresponsible.
- As Nasty Pelosi once said "it's for the children!" She oughtta know. Irresponsibility on Botox.
Now we have the "boomers" beginning to retire.
- The median retirement account these mental midgets have accumulated is $2,000.
- 1 in 3 Americans has $0 [zero] dollars in a retirement account....not ONE rapidly eroding Dollar! Groovy, man. Far out.
Is it any wonder that this electorate turned over the Nation's purse-strings by electing a Democratic Congress in 2006? Cool, huh? The debt accumulated by the 110th and 111th Congress under Reid-Pelosi has dwarfed that of the 100 previous Congresses. Irresponsibility writ large.
Neither Banks nor Nations are TBTF [too big to fail]. Repeat after me: Weimar, Zimbabwe, Argentina...
Wednesday, 29 December 2010
News Story of the Year — WikiLeaks
Read Nick Gillespie's essay, "The #1 Game-Changer of 2010: Wikileaks By a Landslide." The key point is that unlike the umpteen other purported "game-changing" news stories, WikiLeaks is genuinely new. And Gillespie argues the frequently heard point that WikiLeaks' impact goes far beyond one individual, such as Julian Assange. Beside that though is to what effect? What's the utility beyond the crazed anarchist's dream of sowing mayhem and destroying state operations, if not the state. We get that discussion at this Reason video, which features Eli Lake, Aaron David Miller, Steven Aftergood, and Heather Hurlburt (in that initial order).
It's a thoughtful clip, although there's a bit of romanticism at parts. I like Lake's comments on the immediate impact of simply generating greater knowledge of international actor behavior and interests. Miller's comments are both lyrical and penetrating. He suggests that the effects could be like footsteps on the beach, possibly washed away by the next big wave. Aftergood, who directs the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, is matter-of-fact and to the point (and agreeable if not that animated), and, sorry, but I'm not learning much from Hurlburt.
What's just barely touched is the effect of WikiLeaks on the continued rise of anti-Americanism in the world. Eli Lake mentions this at the start of the clip, but the point gets lost at the remainder of the discussion. WikiLeaks has tightened the tacit alliance between the anarcho-libertarians and the neo-communist progressives. Nick Gillespie is a respectable guy, but the problem with libertarianism is that its adherents give cover for some of the most vile revolutionary doctrines now gaining increased respectability. See, "WikiLeaks: The Revolutionary as Entrepreneur." More on that later. Meanwhile see my previous entries, "How Communists Exploit WikiLeaks," and "Exposing the WikiLeaks/Communist/Media Alliance."
RELATED: "Wired Battles Glenn Greenwald."
Cross-posted from American Power.
Latest Update on Julian Assange Rape Allegations
See, "Progressives and the Julian Assange Rape Allegations."
RELATED: At The Other McCain, "Julian Assange, Libertarian ‘Reactionary’?"
PLUS: At WSJ, "Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers." Also, at CNN, "Jessica Yellin’s response to last night’s Assange discussion," and Wired, "Putting the Record Straight on the Lamo-Manning Chat Logs" (via Memeorandum).
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