Sergeant Calvin Gibbs had fun in the magical kingdom of  Afghanistan, killing and mutilating the local civilians then planting weapons to make them look like the aggressors. So the US military – champions of justice that they are – has decided to punish their rogue colleague by giving him life – with a nine year non parole period! That’ll teach him not to kill innocents, won’t it? Still, it’s nine years more than Dick Cheney will ever get, and that fucker is responsible for a lot more than nine deaths…
Not written by the terror in the baseball cap, but no doubt the kind of self-loathing crap the Oscar winning, male-bashing walrus would agree with.
Apparently there have been some minor riots over the firing of Penn State Coach Joe Paterno in connection with a sex abuse scandal. I have no opinion on that issue, what concerns me is the way some half-witted dork by the name of Mike Elk has used these events as an excuse to beat up on the only targets available to left wing bigots such as himself – namely men and whites.
In the enigmatically titled “Penn State Riots About White Men Not Liking to Be Held Accountable” this cringing excuse for a man puts forward the idea that the riots are not the doing of football mad kids, but rather some sort of race riot carried out by that most vile of animals, the white American male. The disingenuous mountebank seems to offer as evidence for said vileness the fact that most of the rioters are white males, nicely avoiding the fact that in a mostly white university it would be unreasonable to expect whites to be a minority of the rioters, and that the majority of sports-mad meatheads are males and hence expecting large numbers of women to riot over football is like expecting large numbers of men to riot over the end of “Oprah”.
If this had happened at a mostly black university would this racist twat be claiming black men don’t like being held accountable? If this was a bunch of girls beating the tar out of someone on YouTube would he blame their sex? Probably not, but this kind of bigotry is exactly what I expect from the real left ( as opposed to the Obama / Bubba Clinton pseudo – left.) Unlike the Right, we inhabit a political space where the haters amongst us are forbidden traditional targets like blacks and gays, so of course assholes like Elk and his host Michael Moore focus instead on the only whipping boys they are allowed – men and whites.
Bigoted blitherings here, video of the riots below. Warning – this video contains white males, so get your barf bags ready.
Here, folks, is a good reason to treat research into social and psychological matters with great skepticism.
We all know that there are tricky ways of lying about these things by applying user-defined definitions that differ markedly from the conventional definitions, or by using hand-picked rather than randomly chosen groups of subjects, but when academics are lazy they don’t even bother with these tactics – they just make shit up.
This is what tulip-picking psychologist Diederik Stapel did. Why bother going out and asking people what they think? Why waste time carrying out fancy experiments? Just make up some figures and then get into a snit every time someone asks to see the actual research! That way you can claim that white people are more likely to discriminate against black people when in messy environments, that the very thought of eating meat makes you selfish, and that people see job applicants as more competent if they have a “male voice”, and few will be inclined to ask what you’ve been smoking.
Last month, wannabe model Rebecca Leigh Crimmins got on the piss and decided to do something a judge later referred to as “disgusting and abhorrent.”
So what did the blonde inebriate do? Did she take a dump on a nun? Did she feed Amy Winehouse’s carcass to the Queen’s corgis? No, she wetted a tampon in cordial, then – I can barely bring myself to describe it – repeatedly dabbed a McDonald’s worker on the hand while claiming she had found it in her fries!
This unprecedented atrocity resulted in a charge of common assault and sixty days of community service, presumably checking boxes of fries for stray tampons. There was a time – a saner time – when a mere apology would do, but not now. Now you can actually go to jail for such actions. How anyone can see such a harmless prank as an assault is beyond my simple intellect. No harm was done, the tampon wasn’t wet from blood so the grossout factor is greatly minimized and the potential for infection is non-existent, yet this could have landed the poor cow in jail. One has to wonder if the obviously smart people who make the laws truly believe such actions constitute assault, or if they are simply trying – successfully – to create a society where everyone is walking around on eggshells, scared shitless to do any of the thousands of things that could land you in jail these days.
In my view such draconian zeal when it comes to these harmless “crimes” is for the most part an attempt to quash dissent before it even arises. After all, if a stupid joke can land you in jail, should you even think of joining a protest when the government has told you not to? Shit, no – that could get you a lot worse than some community service, and that’s if you survive the arrest.
