Grocery Owner Chauncy Childs Donates to 'Gay Suicide Prevention Group' in Bid to Appease Homosexual Torquemadas

Yeah, and maybe she'll save a few homosexuals from dying of AIDS first.

No doubt she's a nice lady, but boy big mistake in expressing her traditional Christian views on Facebook. And in Portland! You might as well descend on the Castro District with a "God Hates Fags" sign around your neck, lol!

At Freedom is Fabulous, "The Tolerance Gestapo – Grocery Store Must Be Stopped!":

According to Oregon Live, a farmer who is opening a store in Sellwood, had the unmitigated gall to twice post her personal opposition to gay marriage on her private, personal FaceBook page. That means the Gay and Tolerance Gestapo have to spring into action to make sure the store owner knows she is being watched, and she might not find this tolerant community so welcoming. No kidding. Here’s a quote from the story from a Disingenuous White Progressive:

“They’re choosing to open a business in a very open-minded neighborhood,” said Tom Brown, owner of Brown Properties and president of the Sellwood Moreland Business Alliance. “I think their personal views are going to hurt.”

See, you’re going to get hurt if your personal views clash with the “open-minded” population...

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Now get this, the neighborhood homosexual Torquemada Sean O'Riordan made a seven-minute YouTube clip attacking Ms. Childs for her opinions, in what essentially worked as a shakedown racket. He removed the video once Ms. Chauncy made her contribution to the homosexual foundation. At KGW Portland, "Man takes down video that sparked gay rights controversy."

O'Riordan's statement is here.

And here's Ms. Childs' confession and apology for her thought crimes, "A MESSAGE FROM THE OWNERS OF THE MORELAND FARMERS PANTRY":

You may be aware that the media has been asking questions about the personal opinions of the owners regarding gay marriage and freedom of expression. We understand that this is a sensitive topic for many. We would like to reiterate our position that we will not discriminate against anyone in any form. We support diversity and anti-discrimination in all business practices. As a gesture of goodwill we donated $1,000 to the LGBTQ Youth program of the Equity Foundation in Portland. This program supports safe communities for LGBTQ individuals where sexual orientation and gender identity should not be the basis for social alienation or legal discrimination. We encourage others to make additional donations to this worthy cause at: Equity Foundation...

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Oh brother.

More at Gateway Pundit, "Gay Mafia Targets Oregon Grocer Over Anti-Gay Marriage Facebook Statements."

And on it goes, at the Portland Mercury, "Is the Furor Over a Sellwood Market Now Turning Toward Nick Zukin?"

The thought police are alive and well in Portland. "Believe as we do or suffer." No effort to persuade, only to punish. Tolerance is dead.

— Nick Zukin (@extramsg) April 4, 2014

Arrest that man!

'American power is what has kept the world from massive conflicts for the past 70-plus years and retreating from that position invites world chaos...'

A quote to sum-up the founding vision of this blog, from the letters the the editor, at the Wall Street Journal, "Face It, the U.S. Isn't Just Another Country."

Charles Krauthammer: The Left's Attack on Brendan Eich Was Totalitarian — #UninstallFirefox

Video, at American Glob.

Normcore: How Hipster Narcissism Managed to Take an Ugly Turn

Never heard of this, actually, lol!

At NYT, "Normcore: Fashion Movement or Massive In-Joke?":

A little more than a month ago, the word “normcore” spread like a brush fire across the fashionable corners of the Internet, giving name to a supposed style trend where dressing like a tourist — non-ironic sweatshirts, white sneakers and Jerry Seinfeld-like dad jeans — is the ultimate fashion statement.

As widely interpreted, normcore was mall chic for people — mostly the downtown/Brooklyn creative crowd — who would not be caught dead in a shopping mall. Forget Martin Van Buren mutton chops; the way to stand out on the streets of Bushwick in 2014, apparently, is in a pair of Gap cargo shorts, a Coors Light T-shirt and a Nike golf hat.

Regardless of how insular the concept may be (Stop the presses! People are dressing in normal clothes!), the idea has spread far beyond the 718 area code. A Google search of normcore now yields about 559,000 results. Fashion publications like Lucky have offered normcore shopping guides brimming with velour pants and Teva sandals. Even the French were quick to give “le normcore” a kiss-kiss on both cheeks, as if it were the Jerry Lewis of American style trends.

A style revolution? A giant in-joke? At this point, it hardly seems to matter. After a month-plus blizzard of commentary, normcore may be a hypothetical movement that turns into a real movement through the power of sheer momentum.

Even so, the fundamental question — is normcore real? — remains a matter of debate, even among the people who foisted the term upon the world.

The catchy neologism was coined by K-Hole, a New York-based group of theoretically minded brand consultants in their 20s, as part of a recent trend-forecasting report, “Youth Mode: A Report on Freedom.” Written in the academic language of an art manifesto, the report was conceived in part as a work of conceptual art produced for a London gallery, not a corporate client.

As envisioned by its creators, “normcore” was not a fashion trend, but a broader sociological attitude. The basic idea is that young alternative types had devoted so much energy to trying to define themselves as individuals, through ever-quirkier style flourishes like handlebar mustaches or esoteric pursuits like artisanal pickling, that they had lost the joy of belonging that comes with being part of the group. Normcore was about dropping the pretense and learning to throw themselves into, without detachment, whatever subcultures or activities they stumbled into, even if they were mainstream. “You might not understand the rules of football, but you can still get a thrill from the roar of the crowd at the World Cup,” the report read. The term remained little more than a conversation starter for art-world cocktail parties until New York magazine published a splashy trend story on Feb. 24 titled “Normcore: Fashion for Those Who Realize They’re One in 7 Billion.” The writer, Fiona Duncan, chronicled the emergence of “the kind of dad-brand non-style you might have once associated with Jerry Seinfeld, but transposed on a Cooper Union student with William Gibson glasses.” An accompanying fashion spread dug up real-life L-train denizens rocking mall-ready Nike baseball caps and stonewashed boyfriend jeans without apparent shame...

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Right Wing Extremist Kristina Ribali!

Nothing like a big beautiful buxom blonde toting an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, lol.

On Twitter:

@JayCaruso Did you see what I won? Yeah... I'm an extremist. Extremely happy! pic.twitter.com/P1YuPMo21U

— Kristina Ribali (@KristinaRibali) April 6, 2014

As More States Repeal Universal Motorcycle Helmet Laws, Fatalities Surge

Click through for the graphed data.

Frankly, though, some folks would rather die with their boots on. Me, I like the feel of the helmet.

At NYT:

Graphic: What happens when states repeal their motorcycle helmet laws http://t.co/Hui2JU76i4

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 6, 2014

International Pillow Fight Day

Crazy.

And I'll tell you, back in the day when we had pillow fights, man that was no fluffy-feely affair. We got brutal!

At London's Daily Mail, "Feathers will fly! Trafalgar Square hosts a giant pillow fight as thousands around the world celebrate childhood tradition."

And a video, from AP, "Raw: People Celebrate World Pillow Fight Day."

Celebrate Conformity!

From Mark Steyn:

On Wednesday, I wrote about the Mozilla CEO in trouble for a five-year-old donation to Proposition Eight, the successful California ballot measure that banned gay marriage - if only until America's robed rulers declared the will of the people to be "unconstitutional". Brandon Eich is a tech genius: Aside from co-founding Mozilla and creating Firefox, he also invented JavaScript. Apparently, the disgusting homophobic hatey-hatey-hateful belief that marriage is a sacrament between a man and a woman is not incompatible with knowing your way around a computer.

Nevertheless, unlike Hollywood director Brett Ratner, Mr Eich declined to eat gay crow. And so yesterday he was fired. Mozilla's chairwoman Mitchell Baker issued the usual tortured justification...

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PREVIOUSLY: "'Without question and without exaggeration, the 'gay rights movement' is the angriest, most ruthless, most controlling, most intolerant of all the ideological enterprises in the country. Now, everyone knows it...'"

Rep. Trey Gowdy Slams Democrat Jim Moran's Call for Congressional Pay Raise

At Biz Pac, "Notion that Congress is underpaid didn’t sit well with Trey Gowdy."

Eviscerating response.

The Left Legitimizes Despicable Tactics

At Truth Revolt, "Ben Shapiro on Mozilla: 'It's a frightening country to live in when a boycott can be led against you specifically based on your beliefs...'"

Video at Nice Deb, "Saturday Movie Matinee: Growing Backlash Against Mozilla After Forced Resignation of CEO."

Keep in mind, this didn't start as a "boycott." I don't have a problem with boycotts, which can only work when people make decisions in the marketplace. This was a witch hunt. Eich never expressed a bigoted sentiment, and carried himself with respect toward all people. No, this was a payback for supporting Prop. 8 and a warning that more leftist intolerance is coming down the pike.

Stupid idiots, however. The left doesn't see it's own self-defeating pathologies. ICYMI, ""Without question and without exaggeration, the 'gay rights movement' is the angriest, most ruthless, most controlling, most intolerant of all the ideological enterprises in the country. Now, everyone knows it..."

NewsBusted — Jimmy Carter Says the Government is Monitoring His Email...

Via Theo Spark.

"Without question and without exaggeration, the 'gay rights movement' is the angriest, most ruthless, most controlling, most intolerant of all the ideological enterprises in the country. Now, everyone knows it..."

Football-spiking cowards, don't be confused: yours is a Pyrrhic victory.

From Matt Walsh, "Hey gay rights fascists: in spite of your Mozilla victory, you will still lose":

Dear gay rights militants, dear progressive tyrants, dear liberal fascists, dear haters of free speech, dear crusaders for ideological conformity, dear left wing bullies:

You will lose.

I know you’ve got legions of sycophants kowtowing to you these days, and the rest you’ve set out to destroy — but you will lose.

So, you’ve tracked another dissident and skinned him alive. You’ve made an example of Brendan Eich, and now you dance joyously around his disemboweled carcass. You have his head on a spike, and you consider this a conquest in your eternal crusade to eradicate diversity and punish differing opinions. You launched your millionth campaign of intimidation, and now another good man has been dragged through the mud, to the sounds of taunting and jeering and death threats.

You found out that the CEO of Mozilla gave a few dollars to support a pro-traditional marriage ballot measure several years ago, and you proceeded to publicly tar and feather him until he was forced to ‘resign’ in disgrace.

You again chose to forgo debate, in favor of coercion and bullying.

You again attempted to end the ‘gay rights’ argument by defrocking your opponent.

Hey, good for you.

Enjoy the spoils of your cowardice.

It won’t last.

You will still lose.

Don’t you people read? Haven’t you learned anything from history? ‘Advancements’ earned through tyranny never endure. You can only win a debate by suffocating your opposition for so long. Your strategy is doomed for failure, because it has always failed.

In the name of ‘fighting for the freedom to love,’ you’ve utilized hate. For the sake of ‘tolerance,’ you’ve wielded bigotry. In order to push ‘diversity,’ you’ve been dogmatic.

You are everything you accuse your opponents of being, and you stand for all the evil things that you claim they champion.

You are exposed. We see you for what you are: a force of destruction and division.

You showed your hand, and now you’ll lose the game.

It’s inevitable.

Marriage has, had, and always will have, by definition, a certain character and purpose; a character and purpose centered around, above all things, the family. Marriage is the foundation through which a thriving and lasting civilization sees to the propagation of itself. Human beings can only reproduce by means of ‘heterosexuality,’ and this reality sets the ‘heterosexual’ union apart. Marriage is meant to be the context in which this reproduction occurs.

Marriage is many things, but it is also this. And ‘this’ can never be removed from it, no matter the direction of the political winds, or the motion of the shifting sands of public opinion.

Marriage and the family are dimensions of the same whole. They cannot be detached from one another. They, as a whole, as an institution, can only be weakened — not erased or redefined. And so the campaign to protect and strengthen the institution was and is designed to do just that. It was never about ‘legislating love’ or imposing intolerance or ‘discriminating against gay people,’ or any other silly bumper sticker platitude.

You want to be free to love? You are. You always have been.

Heterosexuals don’t claim to monopolize love; only reproduction. Me, I love in many ways and in many directions. I love my wife, yes, and I also love my parents, and my country, and football, and hamburgers. These are all different kinds and degrees of love, yet still love.

But, alas, only one of these loves can (or should) result in the creation of a biological family. Thus, this love carries with it a certain distinction and a certain responsibility.

Bigotry? There is nothing bigoted about it. This is mere science. You see, bigotry only enters into the conversation when you try to destroy a man’s life just for participating in the conversation.

You are the agents of bigotry, my friends. You. You are what you say we are....

Because of your own behavior, when people like myself tell the world about the vicious death wishes and vulgar hate mail we receive from your kind on a DAILY basis, everyone will believe us. It’s no secret anymore. Without question and without exaggeration, the ‘gay rights movement’ is the angriest, most ruthless, most controlling, most intolerant of all the ideological enterprises in the country. Now, everyone knows it.

So you’ll lose. People are starting to see that you are the pigs on this Animal Farm, and the equality of which you preach is a very unequal equality indeed.

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I've been dealing with people like this all day.

.@NotGayDalek YOU'RE A LIAR.

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 5, 2014

.@NotGayDalek YOU'RE THE ONE MAKING AN ASSERTION, THAT BRENDAN EICH QUIT VOLUNTARILY. YOU LIE. STOP LYING.

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 5, 2014

.@NotGayDalek HE WAS PERSECUTED FOR HOLDING AN OPINION IN 2008 NO DIFFERENT FROM BARACK OBAMA. YOU'RE A LIAR AND UN-AMERICAN.

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 5, 2014

.@AmPowerBlog @NotGayDalek My kind of Tweet! You go...

— Alessandra Ref (@Alessandra_Ref) April 5, 2014

Yes, evil, hateful people whose masks have been thrown to the wind, like caution. The tide will turn on this charade of homosexual marriage, as it has on the "pro-choice" movement, which only tolerates one choice, murder of the unborn. So, time is on the side of goodness and decency. The hate trolls are showing their true colors, black and gangrenous oozing hate-filled purplish bile. And they will not learn, even when engaged with respect and reason. Knaves, fools and liars. It's not going to end well for them.

Meredith Powell, Former Math Teacher, Accused of Having Oral Sex with Two Male Students Inside Her Locked Classroom

At the Other McCain, "#RapeCulture: Fourth Boy Says Teacher Told Him: ‘This Stays Between Us’":

After she pleaded not guilty to charges made by three previous accusers, the news coverage led another accuser to come forward. And you know it’s a great story when the link to the prosecution affidavit carries a warning for GRAPHIC SEXUAL CONTENT...

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And at London's Daily Mail, "A FOURTH student comes forward with allegations Math teacher, 24, had sex with him 'when he asked about raising his grade'."

Women Voted Throughout #Afghanistan on Saturday

Following up from earlier, "Afghans Vote in Strong Numbers Despite Taliban Threat."

Via Twitter:

Best thing about this pic is the pose, circa 1990s hip hop. Peace sign looks kinda badass. And it is #AfElex pic.twitter.com/ZUxy29FoJZ

— Muhammad Lila (@MuhammadLila) April 5, 2014

And at Haaretz, "Afghans vote in historic elections, undeterred by threats."

Weightlifting Mom Lea-Anne Ellison Back to the Gym Just Three Weeks After Giving Birth

Remember the lady who was doing those overhead snatch lifts in (what looked like) her third trimester.

She's looking incredible now!

At London's Daily Mail, "'My baby is great and I'm back in the gym!' New mother whose pregnant-weightlifting photos sparked media storm continues to defy her critics."

Volokh Conspiracy on Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta

I actually checked over at Volokh before blogging my last entry, "Federal Judge Tosses Lawsuit Against Obama Administration Over Drone Strikes."

They've got something up now. Kenneth Anderson does the honors, "Al-Aulaqi ‘Bivens’ damages suit in drone strikes dismissed":

Judge Rosemary Collyer (District Court of DC) yesterday dismissed a damages lawsuit filed by families of Anwar Al-Aulaqi, his son Abdulrahman Al-Aulaqi, and Samir Khan, who were US citizens killed in US drone strikes. This was a Bivens suit for damages against individual US government officials alleged to be responsible for violations of the 4th and 5th amendments. After finding that the case is not precluded by the political question doctrine, Judge Collyer found that the 4th amendment was not at issue and focused her discussion on the 5th amendment instead; she then dismissed, with some hesitation, finding that cautionary principles attached to Bivens actions, counseling against judicial encroachment on the political branches, urged dismissal. The 41-page ruling is here and the national security and law website Lawfare has coverage of the oral argument from last July here and discussion and links to the briefs here. A couple of observations...

Keep reading.

Anderson doesn't quibble too much with Judge Collyer's decision, although I raised some additional/different questions at my post and I'm sure I'll be seeing more about them later. (Glenn Greenwald's too busy shilling around with Edward Snowden at the moment, but do check back.)

And FWIW, at the ACLU, "Court Dismisses Lawsuit Challenging U.S. Drone Killings of Three Americans."

Viewers Reject Megyn Kelly Dress That Highlights Her Rack

It does look kinda strange, heh.

At Twitchy, "Viewers adore Megyn Kelly, not so sure about Friday’s dress" (via iOWNTHEWORLD).



More Megyn Kelly blogging at the link.

Why Firefox Is Blocked — #UninstallFirefox

There's a website for that:

Mozilla recently forced its CEO, Brendan Eich, to resign over his personal support for traditional marriage. The firing followed a vicious smear campaign against Eich by dating website OKCupid, in which OKCupid blocked Mozilla users from visiting their website.

We would therefore prefer that our users not use Mozilla software to access our site, given Mozilla’s crackdown on political and religious positions held by millions of Americans.

We're sorry for the inconvenience, but we feel that fighting discrimination and intolerance of this kind is worth some inconvenience today to avoid massive loss of freedom in the future.

Catholic Vote is on the case.



And from John Hawkins, at Right Wing News, "It’s Time For Christians to Blacklist Mozilla Firefox and OkCupid."

Federal Judge Tosses Lawsuit Against Obama Administration Over Drone Strikes

The case is Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta (sometimes called Al-Awlaki v. Panetta), filed by the father of Anwar al-Awlaki.

This one's touchy for me. Anwar al-Awlaki had certainly joined al-Qaeda and was indeed an "enemy combatant." But he was a U.S. citizen and his targeted killing denied him of due process in a court of law. He should have been captured and brought to justice, just like the president always says he's going to do when Americans are killed in terrorists attacks. To be clear, I shed no tears for the man. I just don't love the idea of the U.S. government targeting its own citizens for extrajudicial killings. Other than that, I love the drone warfare program. It's killer!

See the New York Times, "Judge Dismisses Suit Against Administration Officials Over Drone Strikes":

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit against top Obama administration officials that was filed by the parents of three United States citizens whom the government killed without trial in drone strikes, including Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric.

In a 41-page opinion, Judge Rosemary M. Collyer of Federal District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that courts should hesitate before deciding to hold a government official personally responsible for violating a citizen’s constitutional rights in the context of a wartime action.

“The persons holding the jobs of the named defendants must be trusted and expected to act in accordance with the U.S. Constitution when they intentionally target a U.S. citizen abroad at the direction of the president and with the concurrence of Congress,” Judge Collyer wrote. “They cannot be held personally responsible in monetary damages for conducting war.”


The lawsuit sought unspecified damages against several top national security officials for the deaths caused by two American drone strikes in Yemen.

In September 2011, a strike targeting Mr. Awlaki killed him and Samir Khan, also an American citizen. Two weeks later, another drone strike killed Mr. Awlaki’s teenage son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki. The Obama administration has said that the deaths of Mr. Khan and the younger Mr. Awlaki were unintentional.

If it stands, the ruling suggests that courts have no role to play, before or after, in reviewing the legality of government decisions to kill citizens whom officials deem to be terrorists in overseas wartime operations, even away from “hot” battlefields where conventional American forces are on the ground.

“We believe the court reached the right result,” said Brian Fallon, a Justice Department spokesman. Lawyers at the Center for Constitutional Rights, which helped bring the suit, said they had not decided whether to appeal.

Baher Azmy, the center’s legal director, criticized the judge for accepting “at face value the government’s claims” that Mr. Awlaki was a terrorist without first conducting an adversarial hearing to gather evidence.

“The Constitution cannot permit the killing of U.S. citizens based on the government’s untested claim of dangerousness,” Mr. Azmy said.

Judge Collyer cited officials’ statements that Mr. Awlaki was a terrorist leader with the Yemeni group known as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. She also cited an account of his role in a plot to blow up a Detroit-bound jet in 2009, based on court documents from the trial of a Nigerian man who pleaded guilty to trying to bomb the plane, and statements by Mr. Awlaki praising and encouraging acts of terrorism.

Nasser al-Awlaki, the father of Anwar and grandfather of Abdulrahman, and Sarah Khan, Mr. Khan’s mother, filed the lawsuit in July 2012 against several officials it accused of authorizing and directing the strikes, including the secretary of defense and the director of the C.I.A. It did not name the president, who is immune from such lawsuits.

I've bolded the key bit. There's something about unchecked, unreviewable executive power that rankles here. Maybe I've been reading too much Glenn Greenwald, but remember Jonathan Turley has spoken out against the Obama administration's tyrannical moves as well.

I'm not going to spend too much more time with this one. I think Judge Collyer is too deferential to executive/military power and uncritical of distinctions between U.S. citizens and non-citizen enemy combatants. Unfortunately, I think the plaintiffs erred in seeking damages from individual governmental officials. Officials are acting in the name of the state, and that's where the liability should lie. But we'll see. I doubt this will be the last on this. The concentration of power in this administration must give Dick Cheney a hard on.

Americans' Concern About Global Warming Ranked Lowest in List of Top Environmental Threats

A list composed and asked of respondents in Gallup's continuing surveys of Americans' views on climate change.

See, "Americans Show Low Levels of Concern on Global Warming":

PRINCETON, NJ -- The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a new report this week warning of the existing and potentially severe adverse future impact of climate change, yet most Americans continue to express low levels of concern about the phenomenon. A little more than a third say they worry "a great deal" about climate change or about global warming, putting these concerns at the bottom of a list of eight environmental issues.

Remember, the global warming consensus is man-made.

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