I apologize for having been so splenetic yesterday, but a troll put me out of sorts in the morning, and I had the impulse to make the site experience as unpleasant for it as it was making it for me. Today, David Thompson directs us to noted right-wing hater Todd Gitlin’s new book, which critiques the present-day left (amazing that Clarissa Pinkola Estes’s wiki can be so full, and his mostly a stub):
“The left embraced the smug disassociation from existing society epitomized in the sweeping call by Herbert Marcuse for a ‘Great Refusal’ of the confining ideals and crass manipulations of the modern capitalist political economy. But the embrace of Marcuse’s slogan has amounted in practice to a ‘great withdrawal,’ a narcissistic retreat into self-proclaimed ‘marginality,’ an obsession with ever more minute forms of identity politics and the infinite ‘problematizing’ of ‘truth,’ a reflexive opposition to America and the West, and an immurement in ‘theories’ whose radicalism is so pure that they never quite touch down to earth – follies all underwritten and protected by the perquisites and comforts of academia.â€Â
Tune in. Turn on. Drop out.
Here’s a very fragmentary list from the media and a taxonomy of phony soldiery. Also, Richard Dawkins’s new book, The Jooooo Delusion.
Dawk’s Flying Zionist Lobby Monster
More fabulous beasts, as Dr. Helen interviews Glenn Sacks:
GS: The biggest misconception is the woman-as-victim/man-as-perp model. Research clearly establishes that women are frequently the aggressors in domestic combat, often employing the element of surprise and weapons to compensate for men’s strength. Yet the domestic violence industryâ€â€funded partly by VAWAâ€â€does everything it can to suppress this reality.
Even when women are arrested for DV, the DV advocates pretend that she’s really the victim, and the police just misunderstood the situation. The DV industry calls female abusers “victim-defendants,†and advocates on their behalf. It’s a total perversion of what the battered women’s movement once stood for. And, in its early days, that was a very heroic movement.
So, how are you evil neo-cons celebrating Columbus Day? Jules Crittenden weighs in. I think he means “half empty,” but . . . he’s on a roll.
If you’re really stumped, you can watch this aptly named “slide show” of Britney.
Comment by cjd on 10/8 @ 7:09 am #
So, based on the pic, Joooos=Cthulhu?
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/8 @ 7:16 am #
Just how do you suppose “cth” is pronounced, anyway?
Comment by andy on 10/8 @ 7:16 am #
“So, based on the pic, Joooos=Cthulhu?”
You have obviously not been touched by His Noodly Appendage.
“Even when women are arrested for DV, the DV advocates pretend that she’s really the victim, and the police just misunderstood the situation. The DV industry calls female abusers “victim-defendants,†and advocates on their behalf.”
Now, if they get guns, we can have the NRA on their side.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/8 @ 7:25 am #
Heck, they shoot their husband in the back, killing him, and get six months in jail and custody. Why not?
Then you can sell your story to Lifetime and have a TV movie made of it. Sweet.
Comment by JHoward on 10/8 @ 7:25 am #
Good to see the Insties getting somewhat on board with Sacks (and hopefully the anti-VAWA crew.) Once you know how deep that rabbit hole goes, you know what using government to make billions ruining people really is.
WRECKAGE IS CONSTITUTIONAL!
Comment by Semanticleo on 10/8 @ 7:27 am #
All over the map today, Collins, A general Beef post with cave-paintings depicting Neanderthals bringing down a GOP Mastodon would make it even better. Can’t you find one at AT? BTW, what troll(s) kept you busy yesterday?
Comment by andy on 10/8 @ 7:31 am #
“Heck, they shoot their husband in the back, killing him, and get six months in jail and custody.”
If you RTFA, you’ll notice she did not get custody.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/8 @ 7:31 am #
She’s working on it. I bet she does.
Comment by JHoward on 10/8 @ 7:36 am #
I take it you were above reading the Sacks interview, Semantwit? Can’t say I blame you.
Comment by Darleen on 10/8 @ 7:52 am #
Dan
:::: ahem::: OJ :::: ahem::::
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/8 @ 7:55 am #
Gee, Darleen. Are you at least going to put some vodka in it?
Comment by Darleen on 10/8 @ 8:03 am #
Naw, I’m more of a gin and tonic kinda gal. ;-)
But heck, if we are going to talk about famous people who get away with murdering their spouses, let’s include OJ, Robert Blake and Claus von Bulow, eh?
Comment by geoffb on 10/8 @ 8:10 am #
Not sure why but when I clicked on the phony soldier link to Big Lizards it goes to a place called “http.com”.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/8 @ 8:14 am #
Thanks, geoff. I fixed it.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/8 @ 8:15 am #
Okay, Darleen. And don’t forget Henry VIII.
Comment by geoffb on 10/8 @ 8:21 am #
I looked at the link and there is an extra “http//” in it that is probably the problem
Comment by JD on 10/8 @ 8:21 am #
Dan – You were incredibly kind, patient, and quite restrained in dealing with that twatwaffle Cleo.
Comment by geoffb on 10/8 @ 8:21 am #
You are fast!
Comment by MarkD on 10/8 @ 9:22 am #
Working. We evil neocons are always working. How else will we take over the world?
I did set the mail out, having failed to remember that the mailman is allowed to celebrate the oppressor but I am not.
Comment by psychologizer on 10/8 @ 9:40 am #
Columbus Day isn’t a legitimate holoday, because “Italian beer” is the ugliest word-pairing in any language.
Comment by maggie katzen on 10/8 @ 9:45 am #
aw nuts. guess I won’t be going to the post office.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/8 @ 10:08 am #
Not necessarily, psychologizer.
What about English whiskey, Russian tequila, Scottish sake, and Australian slivovitz?
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 10/8 @ 10:14 am #
Like someone once said, the dark night of fascism is forever descending on America–but it only ever touches ground in the rest of the world.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/8 @ 10:24 am #
Shouldn’t that be DR. Clarissa Pinkola Estes?
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/8 @ 10:35 am #
Sorry, hf. Of course.
Psychologizer–if you think Italian beer is ugly, you should try Italian cigarettes.
Comment by Major John on 10/8 @ 10:37 am #
“Russian tequila”
I got a headache merely reading that…
Comment by Fat Man on 10/8 @ 11:22 am #
A Left-Handed Salute
A review of “The Intellectuals and the Flag, by Todd Gitlin” by Wilfred M. McClay posted June 8, 2007:
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/8 @ 11:29 am #
Wonder if anyone has ever called Gitlin “pasty”…
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/8 @ 11:30 am #
Thanks, FM, for bringing that to my attention.
Comment by Patrick Chester on 10/8 @ 12:07 pm #
It’s probably best not known. Might lose SAN if you did.
Comment by Pablo on 10/8 @ 1:31 pm #
Darleen,
Let’s also not forget that these cases were based on the “Nobody saw me do it” defense, and ostensibly reasonable doubt that the killer was indeed the killer. There is no argument over the fact that Mary Winkler shot her husband in the back, as he slept, then disconnected the phone so he couldn’t call for help and fled to another state with their children.
I wonder why she couldn’t have done that last bit first, and I’m reminded that it’s because he liked her to wear heels, so he deserved what he got, the bastard.
Comment by lordsomber on 10/8 @ 2:50 pm #
“What about English whiskey, Russian tequila, Scottish sake, and Australian slivovitz?”
Supposedly Japanese Scotches are the shiite. Any tasters?
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/8 @ 2:52 pm #
I think you mean shiitake.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/8 @ 3:41 pm #
There are Japanese Shiites who are allowed to drink alcohol? Must be a rather unorthodox sect, like the Sunni sect which allows its members to drink anything as long as it’s mixed with Sunni-D.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/8 @ 3:48 pm #
Just how do you suppose “cth†is pronounced, anyway?
ΧÞ, maybe? (assuming WP doesn’t mangle it)
Comment by Rob Crawford on 10/8 @ 3:58 pm #
If I recall correctly, Sandy Peterson traced it back to an Arabic pronunciation something like “Kad-hoo-loo”. But your version is the one that made it into the Greek version of the text, and through that to the English, via the Latin.
Comment by Ted Nugent's Soul Patch on 10/8 @ 3:59 pm #
“The DV industry calls female abusers “victim-defendants,†and advocates on their behalf. It’s a total perversion of what the battered women’s movement once stood for.”
This is why I’m looking forward to the Japanese inventing the sex-bot. Because paying $25,000 for a robot would be a hell of a lot cheaper and less emotionally wrenching than marrying a woman who decided after five years of marriage that she “just doesn’t want to be married anymore” and proceeds to take my house, my kids, and 40% of my income. In a world of no-fault divorce where the rate is 40-50% and laws that tilt in the woman’s favor when divorce does occur, a man overall is better off joining a monastery. At least then he’d have a spiritual reason for being left poor and destitute.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/8 @ 4:13 pm #
“Comment by Dan Collins on 10/8 @ 7:16 am #
Just how do you suppose “cth†is pronounced, anyway?”
I met L. Sprague de Camp one time and asked him that same question and he pronounced it sorta like the begining of “hanukah”: KHä
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/8 @ 4:23 pm #
KHä – thla.
That should be.
Comment by ArchieB on 10/8 @ 4:48 pm #
I will never forget Lorena Bobbitt.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/8 @ 4:49 pm #
Nonsense. It’s pronounced Jooloo.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/8 @ 4:49 pm #
“Comment by ArchieB on 10/8 @ 4:48 pm #
I will never forget Lorena Bobbitt.”
[Jack Benny]
Now cut that out!
[/Jack Benny]
Comment by ArchieB on 10/8 @ 4:52 pm #
(What the man said who was driving in the opposite direction to Lorena Bobbitt) – “Did you see the size of that bug that just hit my windshield!”
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/8 @ 5:38 pm #
I used to spend hours playing with my Jooloo Hoop when I was a kid.
Comment by narciso on 10/8 @ 6:46 pm #
well the whole Cthluthu mythos comes allegedly from Abulhazred’s Necromicon
in Yemen in 730, which was allegedly translated into Latin & Greek during the
Middle Ages, whereupon reportedly pieced together from readings in obscure
libraries around the world. It stands to reason, that the Old Ones, not unlike the
Djinn in pre-Islamic culture, ended up banished to the Ocean floor,like near where that volcano irrupted off the coast of yemen; RUN FOR YOUR lIVES!!!!
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Comment by Sean on 2/15 @ 12:36 pm #
A feminist immigration advocacy group called “Civil Society Helps” and attorney Martha J. Sullivan help perpetuate fraud against U.S. citizens and the United States of America for financial, ideological and political gain. Ironically, Civil Society Helps is funded by government programs such as VAWA ( Violence Against Women Act ). VAWA is frequently used as a business plan to bring funds to immigration advocacy groups and attorneys who specialize in immigration fraud to expedite a residency seeker’s immigration process. Can you say aiding and abetting?
With false accusations from an immigrant residency seeker, a stable American citizen can be reduced to living in poverty. All of your assets can be seized and given to the immigrant even if you are not found guilty. You will immediately be forced to surrender a portion of your income to the immigrant . The courts may also order you to turn your motor vehicle over to the immigrant even if the immigrant does not have a driver’s license or insurance.
Under VAWA and false accusations, your immigrant spouse becomes legal and you become illegal. The court system will abuse you and strip you of your rights while social programs that promote immigration fraud thrive.
The primary motivation for these advocacy groups is of course financial gain. However, the rabbit hole goes deeper and the “green” supports the “red” femi-nazi factor. Civil Society Helps sounds nice and peachy, but their ideology is skewed towards extreme feminism and socialism. Their goals of “equality” are achieved by unconstitutionally stripping a man of his possessions and home without due process or any finding of guilt. Their support for the immigrant community buys votes for the likes of Hillary Clinton who supports VAWA and immigration which supports the likes of the Civil Society. Are you starting to see the big picture now?
The immigration loopholes VAWA provides were purposely designed to appease the immigrant population which provides an unlimited supply and demand to fund groups like Civil Society Helps. VAWA is a billion dollar industry which oppresses men for financial, political and ideological gain. Immigration fraud is a federal crime. Groups that knowingly facilitate immigration fraud need to be held accountable.
Some of the Players in Minnesota
Attorney Martha J. Sullivan
Phone: 651.438.9992
1317 Vermillion St
Hastings, Minnesota 55033
Web: http://www.marthasullivanlaw.com/
Civil Society Helps
1st National Bank Building
332 Minnesota St, Suite E-1436
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101
Phone: 651.291.0713
Fax: 651.291.2588
Web: http://civilsocietyhelps.org/
Casa de Esperanza ( Hope House )
1515 East Lake Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55407
Phone: 651.646.5553
Web: http://www.casadeesperanza.org/
VAWA gives more rights to illegals than citizens
Carey Roberts Carey Roberts
September 18, 2007
Attention, ladies of the world: The U.S. Congress has now granted you the Keys to Kingdom that will unlock the door to U.S. citizenship, a good-paying job, and tons of free services. Here’s how it works.
First, get into the United States, anyway you can. If you’re going to do it legally, a Temporary Worker visa is the easiest way. But why bother with the paperwork, just walk across the border when they’re looking the other way!
Next, you need to find a man. Do it quickly before they can deport you. And preferably a guy who can’t afford his own lawyer  I’ll explain why in a minute.
Tell him you came to the United States to find a new life, to start over, whatever. Use your feminine wiles. Tell him how badly your previous boss or boyfriend treated you. Move in with him. If you can get pregnant or married, that much better.
Here’s where it gets a little dicey, but if you follow my instructions carefully, you’ll nail down that restraining order and hit the VAWA jackpot. Think of a time when he raised his voice, got angry, or told you to stop over-spending the bank account. In our abundant Land of Opportunity, all of those things are considered to be domestic violence!
Now all you have to do is go to a judge and say the argument you had last night made you feel afraid. If you can say it with a trembling lip or misted eye, that will work wonders. Or just accuse him of trying to “control” you. All this may sound unbelievable, but judges have been to lots of classes, and they know that domestic violence is all about power and control. If that doesn’t work, just make something up about him shoving or forcing you to have sex. But don’t claim he actually slugged you, or the judge might want to see the bruises  then you’d have some explaining to do.
Don’t worry about your illegal status, because amazingly the judge is not allowed to ask. Not only that, judges are instructed, “A denial of a protective order would be discrimination based on national origin which is specifically prohibited by law.” You can find that in the Arizona Domestic Violence Benchbook  right there on page 25: http://www.supreme.state.az.us/cidvc/PDF/DVBB.pdf .
That drive-through restraining order will get your husband or boyfriend kicked out of the house. Now the fun really begins.
First, claiming to be a battered woman (it’s better to use red-meat words like “battered” rather than “abused”) makes it almost impossible for the Citizenship and Immigration Service to deport you.
And now you can start to apply for a broad range of benefits  welfare, Medicaid, and child support. Remember, none of these programs need to know that you are an illegal immigrant  even if they ask, and don’t have to answer.
Then you can go to the Immigration Service and “self-petition” for work authorization, permanent residency, and eventual citizenship. Form I-360 says all you need is an order of protection  so the 15 minutes you spent at the courthouse is already reaping huge dividends.
At some point they might ask you if you are a victim of battery or extreme cruelty. Don’t worry, because if you look at the fine print, the law says your self-declaration is enough. That means whatever you say, they have to believe you. Didn’t I tell you this was going to be a blast?
And there are loads of websites that give step-by-step instructions how to work the system, like WomensLaw.org: http://www.womenslaw.org/immigrantsVAWA.htm#25
If you still don’t believe me how easy this is, then go to the website of the U.S. government: http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=499a6c854523d010VgnVCM10000048f3d6a1RCRD&vgnextchannel=828807b03d92b010VgnVCM10000045f3d6a1RCRD
So it all boils down to three simple steps:
1. Get into the country
2. Find a man
3. Accuse him of abuse
And remember the Violence Against Women Act guarantees you free legal help. But your husband or boyfriend won’t be eligible, so if he can’t afford a lawyer, you’ve already won the case.
Maybe you’ve heard of men who were falsely accused of abuse, how it ruined their reputations, emptied out their bank accounts, and destroyed relationships with their children. Don’t worry about those stories. Congress put these benefits into the VAWA law, so obviously it intended for you to take advantage of them.
You go, girl!
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