Terminal Liberalism

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Leftist Politician In Norway Gets Raped By Refugee, Begs For Him Not To Be Deported For It…
Via Daily Caller:

Leftist Norway politican Karsten Nordal Hauken was brutally sodomized by a Somali and felt so incredibly guilty in the aftermath he subsequently begged authorities not to deport the man.
Hauken has finally come out to tell the public his story of his rape and forgiveness, Norway’s public broadcasting channel NRK reports.
Immediately after the rape first occurred, Hauken was taken to the hospital in Oslo where nurses collected samples for DNA evidence. About six months after the rape, police completed their investigation. They secured the DNA and fingerprint evidence necessary to move the case forward.
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[Mariner]

Ya like talking about man on man anal, eh? A lot of guys like you seem to have some deep seated fantasies about that sort of thing, pun intended.

[Lenno]

Ya like talking about man on man anal, eh? A lot of guys like you seem to have some deep seated fantasies about that sort of thing, pun intended.

You've been here less than a month but you talk like you've been here much longer, another sock puppet account? I think so; the dead giveaway is your unprovoked personal attacks
Your a real winner

[Mariner]

You've been here less than a month but you talk like you've been here much longer, another sock puppet account? I think so; the dead giveaway is your unprovoked personal attacks
Your a real winner

Unprovoked? Are you high? You have insulted me repeatedly.

[Lenno]

“A liberal is a person who is not a communist but cannot give any good reason for not being one.” Richard Weaver

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Moonbat Professors Outraged Over Pic Of “Offensive” Smiling Asian Woman Used In Promotional Tweet…
Academia sets another new world record in shark jumping.
Via College Fix:

Those of us whose professional lives require social media often live in fear that we will post something that unintentionally riles up a digital mob.
Given the heavy representation of women in social-media roles, the backlash is often misogynistic in its effects, if not its intent, as documented in Jon Ronson’s book So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed.
I don’t know who was responsible for a rather benign image tweeted out by the American Political Science Association last week, but it clearly could have been a male, female, transgender or gender nonconforming person.
Inside Higher Ed has the story: The organization for poli sci academics was promoting a new journal article on international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs). The tweet for the article used a Getty image of a smiling Asian woman in what could be a sundress.
All hell broke loose:
One of the authors of the piece is Asian, and on Saturday she shared her feelings about how APSA illustrated the description of her article.
“It’s pretty obvious to me why this is offensive, but let me spell it out,” wrote Wendy Wong, associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto and director of the university’s Trudeau Center for Peace, Conflict and Justice, in a post on the political science blog Duck of Minerva. …
“What does the Getty image ‘Portrait of a young woman smiling’ have to do with INGOs? Or authority? Or politics?” Wong wrote. “[…] Has all of my work on INGOs boiled down to some irrelevant stock image? Is it that hard to Google ‘NGO’ for images related to the work being advertised? Yeah, ‘all Asians look alike,’ but really?!”
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Bryan Adams Cancels Concert Over Transgender Bathrooms, Plays In Egypt Where Gays Are Arrested For Existing



Lena Dunham: “White Men” Can’t Understand What It’s Like To Be “Under Attack”
Except for the white guy she falsely accused of rape.
Via Daily Caller:

Lena Dunham said white men can’t understand what it’s like to be under attack like Hillary Clinton is “every day.”
During an interview with Page Six, the 29-year-old actress said she was “used to the intense scrutiny and some of the kind of hatred we’ve ­received around [‘Girls’], but every day Hillary is campaigning against a set of odds that none of the other candidates can even imagine.
“The other candidates are white men and they cannot understand, even if they can understand it intellectually, what it’s like to be under that kind of attack, and I’m so impressed by the way she continues to soldier forth,” Dunham said.

[Lenno]

Wednesday Weapons Website of the Week: Winter Soldier

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In early 1971, a series of strange gatherings were held by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War and allied and fellow-traveler groups. In case you were curious about the orientation of these groups, they tended to include such broad-based elements as the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and were sponsored by such broad-based entities as a radical Unitarian church in LA.
OK, so maybe not so broad-based.
Although they did try to bring out active duty GIs by promising free beer and loose women, on the theory that having real draftees among them boosted their authenticity.
Their gatherings included mock “attacks” and good old Marxist/Leninist “street theater,” but the flagship enterprise of the VVAW was the Winter Soldier Investigation, an imitation court-martial in which ragged, scruffy, long-haired veterans vied with one another to tell the most over-the-top tales of atrocities and misconduct in Vietnam.
In 2004, interest in the VVAW (which still existed, in true Communist fashion, as two bitterly feuding factions, which we recall as the VVAW-Marxist/Leninist and the VVAW-Anti-Imperialist, but we might have the lefty cant wrong) rose again because of the Presidential candidacy of former VVAW figurehead John Kerry. Kerry had used the VVAW to launch himself on the trajectory that would bring him into the Senate in the Watergate Class of 1974.

At the time, Vietnam veterans and historians went looking for the original Winter Soldier documents, only to find there were very few to be found — Kerry’s minions had been buying 30-year-old copies of the Daily World and Daily Worker, and a book that was published with photographs of the young soi-disant Heroes who Spake Truth to Power.
In 2004, Scott Swett and a small team assembled all obtainable VVAW documents and records into a website, and Scott was instrumental in inspiring the formation of the Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth (later, the Swift Boat Veterans and POWs for the Truth). Mostly, this is all a footnote to history now, but the archive that Scott so painstakingly gathered over 10 years ago remains on line at WinterSoldier.com.
It is full of fascinating findings. The Army commissioned an actual investigation of the atrocity claims from Winter Soldier and was able to establish only one.
More of the claims smelled bad, then and now. One SF weasel, a guy named Don Pugsley who had never deployed to combat because he was seriously injured in a helicopter crash during in-country reconnaissance training, told a story of a helicopter machine-gunning water buffalo. Placed under oath, his story withered away like the state was supposed to do under Marxism: no, he’d heard a guy talking about some U/I LTC ordering a chopper crew to shoot waterboos, which the crew then did not do. That wasn’t the way he’d told the story in Detroit, but, he wasn’tunder a real oath in Detroit.
(Pugsley, the anti-military protester, would reinvent himself later as a gung-ho SF guy and join 19th Group in California, where he rose to be a company sergeant major, and, we are not making this up, a guy who consulted for Hollywood on combat. But he was still a weasel).
Another SF-claiming guy, Paul Withers, threw his medals down and said he had won:

…the Silver Star, the Distinguished [Service] Cross, nine (!) Purple Hearts, the Bronze Star, the Army Commendation Medal for heroism, the Air Medal, and the Combat Infantryman’s Badge.

Search of an admittedly incomplete Vietnam SF database comes up blank on Withers. Search of a complete VIetnam Army DSC database at valor.defense.gov includes no recipient named Withers.
The year after Winter Soldier Withers appeared in a Communist newspaper, making outlandish claims about his Vietnam service, he was featured in a booklet called Trail of the Poppy claiming that he’d been a drug buyer for the CIA in Laos in 1966. (The booklet was published by another Communist group; that the US was, as a matter of official policy, involved in drug trade in Vietnam was a major propaganda theme of the Soviet KGB in the 1970s).
We’re willing to take one of Withers’s statements at face value: he probably really was a drug buyer.
The exaggerated claims of evil Vietnam vets that were to become a journalism, media and entertainment staple, drew extensively on the nonsense purveyed at Winter Soldier. And Swett and others have done historians a great boon by collecting the available records, publishing them online, and leaving them up for posterity.