Luisa Zissman Top Tips

For Valentine's Day, actually.

But better late than never.

And more at London's Daily Mail, "'Mine are better than hers!' Luisa Zissman challenges Helen Flanagan to a 'boob-off' as she displays her prize assets in a VERY racy underwear shoot."

Ukraine Parliament Votes to Remove President Viktor Yanukovych: Sets New Presidential Elections for May 25

There's video here, from RT, "Ukrainian parliament impeaches Yanukovich," and Euronews, "Defiant Yanukovych likens opposition to Nazis."

At the Wall Street Journal, "Parliament Ousts Ukraine President: Action Comes After Yanukovych Leaves Capital and Decries What He Calls a Coup by 'Bandits'":

KIEV, Ukraine—Ukraine's parliament voted on Saturday to remove President Viktor Yanukovych and set new presidential elections for May 25. The action came hours after he left the capital and protesters took control of the city center.

Mr. Yanukovych vowed to remain in power, even as his political allies abandoned him in droves. In an interview with a TV station in Kharkiv in the eastern portion of the country, he denounced the events in Kiev as a "coup d'état" that he blamed on "bandits."

"I have no plans to leave the country and I have no plans to resign. I am the legally elected president and all the international intermediaries I've talked to (over the last few days) have given me guarantees of security. We'll see how those are fulfilled," Mr. Yanukovych said in the TV interview, speaking in Russian.

Oleksandr Turchynov, a leading opposition lawmaker, was elected speaker of parliament, which under the constitution makes him acting head of state.

Mr. Turchynov told lawmakers that Mr. Yanukovych had tried to board a plane to Russia but was turned back by border officials and had returned to the area near his hometown of Donetsk in Ukraine's east, according to the Interfax news agency. An official from the border guards later told Interfax that a plane carrying Mr. Yanukovych had sought clearance to leave Donetsk late on Saturday but was denied it because of lack of necessary permits.

In a day of fast-moving developments, Ukraine opposition leader and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was released from prison and made her way to Independence Square in Kiev where she addressed a large nighttime crowd.

Speaking from a wheelchair after suffering back problems during her 2½ years in prison, Ms. Tymoshenko called for bringing Mr. Yanukovych to the square to face the people. Though widely seen as a potential presidential candidate, she gave no hints of her plans, saying only, "I came back to work."

"When snipers were firing bullets into our guys' hearts, they were firing into everyone's hearts. And if those who organized and carried it are not punished by the worst, most severe court, it will be our shame," she told the crowd.

Tens of thousands poured onto Kiev's main square on Saturday evening ahead of her speech for funerals for some of the dead protesters. As pictures of dead protesters flashed across a big screen, the crowd chanted, "Heroes never die!" and, referring to Mr. Yanukovych, "Death to the criminal!"

More.

Saturday India Reynolds Blogging — #Rule5

She's a sweet young lady.

At Egotastic!, "Thank God It’s Funbags! The Gloriously Hot India Reynolds Strips Down in the Boudoir for Hot Bodied Perfection."

Daily Kos Diarist Defends Venezuela's Socialist Strongman Maduro: Protests Orchestrated by 'Right-Wing Oligarchy'

From Ray Pensador, at the Commentocracy of Hate, "Venezuela: A Serious Threat to the Int'l Neo-Liberal Cartel Hegemony."

Okay, Marxist-Leninist much?

Via Liberty Unyielding, "Leading liberal web site claims protesters against violent socialist regime are U.S. puppets":

The Daily Kos blog is widely read and parroted by the Democratic base, to the point that I regularly read it to get a sense of what liberal legislators and liberal activists will be pushing in the weeks and months ahead. With attitudes like this, it’s no wonder the Obama administration has said little about the violence and repression in Venezuela. The President doesn’t want to offend his own political base.

Well, yeah.

Today's Democrats are the party of Fidel Castro and Occupy Wall Street.

Indeed, it's pretty hilarious that Venezuela's Maduro wants Obama to pull his chestnuts out of the fire: "After Telling Obama to Stay Out of Venezuela’s Problems, Maduro Asks Obama to Help Him." Hey, man, can you help out a fellow socialist dictator down here, bro? Thanks.

And remember, Markos Moulitsas considers Daily Kos, with all its diarists, as "the mainstream of the Democratic Party."

World's Most-Wanted Drug Lord Captured in Mexico

At NYT, " El Chapo, Most-Wanted Drug Lord, Is Captured":

MEXICO CITY — Early on Saturday, dozens of soldiers and police officers descended on a hotel-condominium tower in Mazatlán, Mexi
co, a beach resort known as much as a hangout for drug traffickers as for its seafood and surf.

The forces were following yet another tip about the whereabouts of the trafficker Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, who, to the utter frustration of American and Mexican pursuers, had eluded such raids for 13 years since escaping from prison in a laundry cart. With an army of guards and lethally enforced loyalty, he reigned over a worldwide, multibillion-dollar drug empire that supplied much of the illicit drugs to the United States even as the authorities tried in vain to find him.

This time, however, Mr. Guzmán did not slip out a door, disappear into the night or prove to be absent, as he had in so many previous attempts to apprehend him. Mexican marines and the police, aided by information from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration and the United States Marshals Service, took him into custody without firing a shot and whisked him away, according to American officials...

Keep reading.

Democrat Gary Peters Threatens TV Station Licenses Over Julie Boonstra #ObamaCare Advertisement

Oh, so the left has to threaten lawsuits to silence a leukemia patient who dared speak out against ObamaCare. It's not like I didn't see this coming, or anything.

From Nice Deb, at Breitbart, "#DemWarOnWomen : Vulnerable Dem In MI Using Lawfare To Silence Cancer Stricken ObamaCare Critic."

And at Twitchy, "#WarOnWomen: ‘Obamacare bully’ Rep. Gary Peters tries to silence mom battling cancer [video]."

Democrat #waronwomen #waronspeech MT @DRUDGE_REPORT Dem threatens TV station licenses over Obamacare ad http://t.co/Fkek7cgdUB

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) February 22, 2014

SHAME! "@AFPhq: .@RepGaryPeters attacks mother battling cancer who had insurance canceled because of #ObamaCare -> http://t.co/VduOTjY67w"

— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) February 22, 2014

Dems employ new #Obamacare strategy, anyone who publicly complains will have the heavy-hand of govt unleashed on them http://t.co/RlIZVNCJgv

— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) February 22, 2014

Want to see a #waronwomen? Look what @repgarypeters is doing to this mom fighting cancer, all for speaking out: http://t.co/27HsC9u6rg

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) February 22, 2014

You shouldn't be attacked for not being able to afford your high Obamacare deductibles #IAmJulie @RepGaryPeters

— Katy Abram (@katyabram) February 22, 2014

Stop the left from intimidating and threatening this innocent woman for speaking out #WeStandWithJulie @AFP http://t.co/YNbc0I9iej

— Luke Hilgemann (@LHilgemann) February 22, 2014

Like I always say, the left will stop at nothing to silence those who dare get in their way.

Yulia Tymoshenko, Former Ukraine Prime Minister, Rallies Crowd at Independence Square, Kiev (VIDEO)

This is getting to be pretty major.

At Telegraph UK, "Yulia Tymoshenko arrives in Kiev as revolution forces president from power":

Freed Yulia Tymoshenko addresses crowds in Kiev as President Viktor Yanukovych flees in face of popular uprising.

Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine’s former prime minister, has walked free from detention to hail the “end of dictatorship” hours after President Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown by the revolution on the streets of Kiev.

From early morning protesters had advanced from their stronghold in the centre of the capital to take control of parliament, the presidency and the cabinet office.

The police melted away and offered no resistance. Mr Yanukovych himself fled the capital and sought refuge in his political heartland in eastern Ukraine.

As he made this exit, believed to have taken place under cover of darkness on Friday night, his leading opponent then headed back to Kiev.

The former prime minister, who was jailed on trumped up charges of abuse of office in 2011, was released from detention in hospital on the orders of parliament.

As she left, Ms Tymoshenko declared: “Our homeland will from today on be able to see the sun and sky as a dictatorship has ended,” she said, later adding: “I am sure that Ukraine will be a member of the European Union in the near future and this will change everything.”

Last night she touched down in the capital, marking the end of a two year ordeal of imprisonment in a tearful reunion with her daughter Eugenia, who has been at the forefront of the protest that brought down the president.

She is expected to be a contender for the presidency in a post-revolutionary election fixed for May 25.

Her release ended a dramatic day that transformed Ukraine. After a confrontation lasting almost three months - and a bloodstained week during which at least 70 demonstrators were shot dead in the heart of Kiev - Mr Yanukovych’s resolve appears to have cracked.

More here.

Also at the New York Times, "Live Video and Social Media Updates From Ukraine."

Scene here at Independence Square as Julia Tymoshenko speaks #Kyiv pic.twitter.com/JbEf84yfsT

— Paul Waldie (@pwaldieGLOBE) February 22, 2014

Tymoshenko: "Heroes never die." https://t.co/5Y0NN7AS1L pic.twitter.com/zLXujLAHMS

— Glenn Kates (@gkates) February 22, 2014

Tymoshenko: 'When snipers were shooting in hearts of our guys, those bullets will always hurt. If we don't prosecute, we should be ashamed'

— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) February 22, 2014

Harvard's Sandra Korn and the Leftist Crusade for 'Academic Justice'

When I first read about Harvard radical-feminist activist Sandra Y.L. Korn and her crusade for "academic justice," I was reminded of the classic piece from Zombie a few years back, "Justice Justice."

As Zombie notes, for the radical left, any and all political issues devolve to some form of "justice." Because who really can oppose justice? Americans are if anything a people committed to justice, especially in the late-20th century, when the United States made more legislative and political efforts to ensure civil rights and justice than any other nation in history. When you confront a decent, law-abiding citizen with the accusation that they are denying others justice you are wielding a powerful club of guilt over an otherwise innocent member of the polity. Leftists will hammer you with demands for justice, and you'll will submit:

The trend started with the two justice titans: “economic justice,” and “racial justice.” And someone must have thought: Why stop there? Soon we started seeing demands for “environmental justice” and “reproductive justice.” And then the floodgates were opened. The global warming scare brought us “climate justice“; the drive for socialized medicine became “health care justice“; amnesty for illegals transmogrified into “immigrant justice“; and on and on it went. By now we have

food justice
housing justice
gender justice
workplace justice
farmworker justice
urban justice
media justice
disability justice
transformative justice
birthing justice
prison justice

…to name just a few. Go to any protest or visit a left-wing Web site and you’ll find dozens more “justices” that need immediate resolution.

Want to give your hobby the veneer of righteousness? Just think of a noun, affix the word “justice” after it, and voilà: You’re part of the solution! Yes, it’s that easy.

So, hey! It's just another skip and a jump to "academic justice."

In any case, be sure to read Korn's piece at the Harvard Crimson, "The Doctrine of Academic Freedom: Let’s Give Up on Academic Freedom in Favor of Justice."

And as always, I tweeted the piece over to Robert Stacy McCain, who's been doing a seminar on radical feminism of late, and he came up with this, "‘The Second Time as Farce’: @sandraylk’s Recycled Marcusean Marxism":

Most of us who lived through the 1960s and ’70s have no desire for a repetition of that carnival of radical errors. Unfortunately, many of those who do remember that era fondly are leftist academics who have turned American university campuses into cauldrons of radicalism, where they inculcate in their young protégés a misplaced nostalgia for an idealized make-believe version of the Sixties. Brainy youth at elite institutions are therefore filled with an obsolete revolutionary zeal to “smash the system,” as if the Establishment today were as oppressive as the administration of Clark Kerr, the hapless liberal whose misfortune it was to be president of the University of California when the Berkeley “Free Speech Movement” erupted.

Because today’s radical youth do not know the actual history of the Sixties, but only what they have been taught about the Sixties by leftist academics, the students are ill-equipped to avoid the typical errors of radicalism, and seem not to realize how stale and predictable their supposedly “innovative” ideas actually are.

And so we come to Harvard senior Sandra Korn’s celebration of the hippie student mau-maus who protested psychology professor Richard Herrnstein’s research about heredity influence on IQ...

Keep reading.

And then see Bruce Bawer, "Harvard’s Rebel Without a Clue":

Ms. Korn, I further discovered, is not only a prolific columnist – writing regularly for both the Crimson and the Harvard Political Review – but an active member of Occupy Harvard, the Progressive Jewish Allliance, the Student Labor Action Movement, and BAGELS, “Harvard’s group for bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgendered Jews.” In her columns, she’s paid tribute to the Black Panthers, celebrated the Occupy movement, and chided those who cheered Kim Jong-Il’s death. She’s opposed allowing ROTC back onto the Harvard campus, one reason being that “[i]nternational students…from countries not allied with the United States” might object to their presence. She’s criticized Harvard’s plans to distribute lecture courses on the Internet as the latest development in “a long history of imperialism in which U.S. elites have told an increasingly globalized world that what they thought was best.” She’s written that “[w]hile violent resistance through Hamas is not right,” it’s “not incomprehensible,” given that “non-violent resistance cannot make the international community pay attention to the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza.” And she’s dismissed as “Islamophobia” any statement of the objective fact that anti-Semitism is a core element of contemporary Palestinian identity.

Speaking of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, summer before last Ms. Korn went on a free ten-day trip to Israel courtesy of Taglit-Birthright Israel, then wrote a column savaging the “right-wing rhetoric” she was fed – by which she meant that, for example, her tour guides displayed an unapologetic pride in Israel and were honest about the systematic inculcation of anti-Semitism in Palestinian schools. While in Israel, she wrote an article lamenting that the country – which some of her family members admired half a century or so ago as “a workers’ nation, a socialist utopia” – has now “adopted capitalism with fervor,” an action which she plainly deplores. She is, indeed, no fan of capitalism. More than once, she’s ranted about the fact that many Harvard graduates get jobs in finance. In one column (reprinted by The Nation, where she was an intern) she savaged Harvard’s Office of Career Services for steering students toward Wall Street, and wondered aloud whether they do so in order “to guarantee wealthy alumni donors.” She concluded her piece by underscoring the need to “destroy…the well-paved road between the Ivy League schools and Wall Street.” When she went to England last summer to do “research” at Trinity Colllege, Cambridge, she found stuff to complain about there, too: “Why do the fellows here dine in the same hall as undergraduates but on a raised platform apart from them?”

In the wake of the 2011 Mumbai bombings, Ms. Korn was outraged – not at the terrorists, but at Subramanian Swamy, an Indian politician and Harvard economics lecturer who responded to the atrocities with an article about how “Muslims of India are being programmed by a slow reactive process to become radical and thus slide into suicide against Hindus.” Ms. Korn and some of her confederates jumped into action, agitating for Harvard to – as she put it – “discontinue its association with an offensive figure.” The action succeeded; Swamy was banished....

Who, then, is this fierce critic of American empire, this enemy of capitalism, this scourge of Wall Street? Well, as it turns out, she’s from the affluent suburb of Basking Ridge, New Jersey, where she grew up in a house at 61 Darren Drive that was purchased in 1998 for $800,000. (If you check it out on Google Maps, it looks like the very image of the American dream: a peaceful paradise of large, pretty houses separated from the quiet street by broad, manicured lawns dotted with shade trees.) Her parents are Elizabeth A. Korn, a pediatric endocrinologist, and William D. Korn, whose own Harvard degrees are in economics and business administration and whose website describes him – the father of this proud 99-percenter – as follows:

Bill Korn is a veteran technology executive with more than 30 years of experience managing fast growth businesses. As Chief Financial Officer for seven companies he has raised over $250 million of capital, including debt and equity financing. Bill has completed seven acquisitions, including negotiating terms, arranging financing, performing due diligence and integrating teams. He has successfully created many successful partnerships and joint ventures.

The bio goes on for several more paragraphs, providing details of his years at IBM and other corporations and his involvement in the National Association of Corporate Directors and the New Jersey Economic Growth Council.

Sandra Korn is, then, the child of two parents who, taken together – to judge by their CVs – personify pretty much everything she’s rebelling against. She’s a product of precisely the kind of upper-class American suburban life for which she has professed an ardent class contempt. And she’s about to collect an immensely valuable diploma after utterly squandering a magnificent, world-class opportunity to actually learn something. Instead of grasping this opportunity, she’s spent the last four years marinating in her own ideology by writing articles, participating in activism, and taking “courses” that are about nothing more than Being Ideologues Together.

There's still more at the link, but it's hard to disagree with a key part of Bawer's conclusion: "To the extent that this young woman represents the next generation of the American elite, America is doomed – period."

What to do? Well, push back against these idiots, since their programs have a long lineage in regressive leftist "hate speech" codes on America's campuses. For example, see FIRE's piece on Korn's leftist intolerance, "‘Harvard Crimson’ Column: Time to Get Rid of Academic Freedom":

Korn’s case for “academic justice” is quite similar to the cases put forth for establishing “hate speech” laws that curb free expression, as well as many of the defenses of campus speech codes. The argument posits that there are opinions and ideas out there that, if spoken or publicized, harm listeners. Why shouldn’t we be able to censor such expression and punish those responsible for it? Just like the case for hate speech laws, the case for academic justice falls into the same trap.

For one, a regime of academic justice would surely demand fealty to a legion of nebulous concepts over which people disagree wildly—not the least of which is the notion of “justice,” which has been intensely debated for thousands of years, frequently at the cost of tremendous loss of human life. Just as the Supreme Court famously declared in Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15, 25 (1972) that “one man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric,” one man’s idea of “justice” may vary significantly from another’s. This does not mean that one is right and one is wrong. Yet it seems safe to say that there is one acceptable concept of justice in Sandra Korn’s framework, and that is Sandra Korn’s. FIRE has seen where this leads before. Columbia University’s Teachers College, for instance, has litmus-tested students in part on how they conformed to Columbia’s concept of “Respect for Diversity and Commitment to Social Justice.” The University of Delaware forced students in its residence halls through a coercive, invasive “treatment” program where they were forced to adopt highly politicized positions on sensitive topics.

Another major obstacle to this kind of value-based system is that such systems nearly always establish hazily-realized ideals as rules and trust their enforcement to those in positions of power. Proponents of such measures tend not to see much problem with this, because it is hard for them to imagine anyone having values different from their own....

Hence the danger of Korn’s position that “[o]nly those who care about justice can take the moral upper hand,” when dismissing bipartisan criticisms of the American Studies Association’s decision to boycott Israeli institutions. Korn’s argument presumes we have all the answers and can therefore stop asking the questions. It takes the position that “bad” speech should be silenced, rather than challenged with more speech. In that respect, Korn’s “social justice” framework is no different from any other form of censorship.

More at the Jewish Press, "Sandra Korn’s Academic Totalitarianism."

So, fight back against these totalitarian freaks and privileged hypocrites. Sandra Korn is a perfect representation of today's radical left. Intolerant, hateful, and hypocritical. Don't let the f-kers get away with it.

Leftist Mayor Bill De Blasio Jaywalks as He Preaches Road Safety

Well, certainly the hypocrisy's no surprise, but so soon?

Via Slone on Twitter.

TYPICAL HYPOCRITE DEM! RT @stefanjbecket: De Blasio caught jaywalking http://t.co/6fdkOlR1KN pic.twitter.com/8fccyuYSZD

— slone (@slone) February 22, 2014

More from Daniel Greenfield at FrontPage, "Bill de Blasio Announces Crackdown on Traffic Violations, Gets Caught Speeding."

Fascism, Russia, and Ukraine

An excellent, expert account of the crisis in Kiev, from Timothy Snyder, at the New York Review.

Large Chunks of Ice Hurling Toward the Pavement at New York's One World Trade Center

Man, that's gnarly!

At Popular Mechanics, "Why Is So Much Ice Falling Off One World Trade Center?"

Heads up! That's a 6-by-4 feet chunk of ice falling 1,776 feet from One World Trade Center this morning. #yikes pic.twitter.com/IbBgfXWpWH

— amNewYork (@amNewYork) February 19, 2014

Obama Stays Silent About Ukraine — Until Now, When It's Too Late for the Scores Gunned Down in Kiev

From the New York Post, in December:

No one’s calling for President Obama to declare war on Russia. But when it comes to a battle between a foreign tyrant and a people fighting for their free future, the president needs to let the Ukrainians — and the world — know America is not ­neutral.

And from last night, at Reuters, "Obama's Syria 'red line' has echoes in his warning to Ukraine":

U.S. President Barack Obama's stern warning this week to Ukrainian officials was the closest thing to a "red line" moment he has had since his threat in 2012 to act against the Syrian government if it used chemical weapons.

But Obama's admonition on Wednesday to not "step over the line" in cracking down on mass protests rocking the Ukraine raised questions on whether he would be any more effective at matching words with deeds than he has been in Syria's three-year-old civil war.

His decision to lay down another rhetorical "line" in a geopolitical crisis left many foreign policy experts puzzled, especially given the limited options he has at his disposal for dealing with the Ukraine's spiraling conflict.

"Hasn't he learned his redline lesson?" tweeted Robert Danin, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington.

Obama's choice of words evoked comparisons to the chemical weapons "red line" he established for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and then failed to enforce with military action last year, something critics say undermined U.S. credibility.

Obama warned only vaguely at a summit in Mexico of unspecified "consequences" in the event of escalating violence in Ukraine.

But despite the rhetoric, the White House made clear on Thursday that there were limits to how far the United States would go in punishing Ukrainian officials.

Well, foreign policy's been pretty much FUBAR since Obama took office, but Ukraine now, much like Syria last summer, demonstrates just how badly the American public has been served by this White House. (And at the video above, a reminder that Mitt Romney was right about the biggest problems facing U.S. national security. My, what a missed opportunity we had in the last presidential election. A damned shame.)

More from the New York Times, "Amid Fence-Mending, Another U.S.-Russia Rift."

WhatsApp Co-Founder Jan Koum: From Food Stamps to Billionaire

The kind of rags to riches story that progressives can't stand.

At Director Blue, "Your awesome, progressive-crushing juxtaposition o' the day: Ana Marie Cox beclownment edition."

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych Flees Kiev

At Telegraph UK, "Ukraine crisis: Viktor Yanukovych leaves Kiev for support base":

US official plays down suggestions embattled president has fled the capital.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has flown out of Kiev to visit Ukraine's second largest city Kharkiv, considered his eastern political base.

A US official said the embattled president made the trip to attend a meeting. Two key allies, parliamentary speaker Volodomyr Rybak and presidential administration chief Andrei Kluyev, were also reported to be on board the aircraft.

"Our information, and I talked to the foreign minister about half an hour ago, is that President Yanukovych has gone out to Kharkiv... to some kind of a meeting that is taking place out there, and that he has now arrived," the official said.

Asked about rumours that Mr Yanukovych had "fled" Kiev, after signing a deal with the Ukrainian opposition, the official appeared to play down the suggestion.

"As you know, it is not unusual after he makes large political moves for him to visit the east, where his base is," the official said.

Also at LAT, "Deal to end Ukraine unrest appears to show Viktor Yanukovich the exit."

And Hot Air, "Apocalypse soon: Ukrainian president reportedly flees Kiev."

Leukemia Patient Julia Boonstra: 'I am not better off' under #ObamaCare

I've seen it already thousands of times, but the amount of literally volcanic hatred the left spewed against Leukemia patient Julia Boonstra is simply astounding.

See my earlier entry, "Leftist Hate Mail — Julia Boonstra Edition."

And then listen to Ms. Boonstra's interview with Megyn Kelly at the clip. She liked her plan. She liked the certainty of it,  and she was happy. What is wrong with that? We're supposed to be free and self-sufficient in the country. But no. The left has other ideas. They've got a state collectivists plan and you better be on board or else!

Fergalicious! Stacy Ferguson Flaunts Hot Post-Pregnancy Body in Calvin Klein Underwear Video

At Gossip Cop, "Fergie Goes Topless in New Calvin Klein Underwear Video — WATCH HERE!"

And London's Daily Mail, "She's one sexy mama! Fergie goes topless on a bed wearing just her Calvin Klein undies in sultry video campaign."

Young 'Knuckleheads' Need Them Some #ObamaCare Mofo!

She's a vile woman.

At the Weekly Standard, "Michelle Obama: 'Young People Are Knuckleheads,' Which Is Why They Need Obamacare."

And from Townhall, "Michelle Obama Calls Young People "Knuckleheads," Says They Need Obamacare."

Leftist Hate Mail — Julia Boonstra Edition

Well, all that leftist civility bullshit went out the window a long time ago anyway.

Here's the latest Democrat leftist-collectivist two-minute hate:

Donald Douglas

dwkapell@comcast.net
to me

Hello Donald: Listen you God-damned, spineless, shit-spewing, clueless, misinforming, America fucking asshole and listen good. America deserves the truth not your baseless, nigger-hating, partisan, fact-challenged bullshit and disinformation. I refer specifically today to your Julie Boonstra propaganda and misinformation campaign.  If you can't talk and blog with truth and minimal intelligence maybe you should do something else for a living....like shovel dog shit. Fuck you, fuck your kind and fuck your God damned incompetent, worthless parents for raising such a lying sack of shit as you. I hope I have the chance to spit in your God damned face, if not, I'll just wait and shit on your grave. Learn some respect for the truth before some nigger teaches it to you with a tire iron up your clueless ass. Fuck you for fucking this country you lying little shit.  Do America a great service - drop fucking dead, asshole.  You're nothing but a cancer on truth, intelligence and progress - you're existence is offensive to any real American.

PREVIOUSLY: "How Long Until Democrats Demonize Leukemia Patient Julie Boonstra for Excoriating #ObamaCare?", and "Vicious Leftists Attack Julia Boonstra as 'Not Really Harmed by #ObamaCare'."

Fresh Spasm of Violence Hits Ukraine — Political Deal Calls for Early Elections

ICYMI, here's Sarah Kendzior's awesome piece from yesterday at Politico, "The Day We Pretended to Care About Ukraine."

And the front-page story at this morning's Los Angeles Times, "Snipers kill 20 protesters in Ukraine; allies turn against Yanukovich."

This is one of the most apocalyptic photos I've ever seen in the news. From Kiev. http://t.co/4hbDy1wlYT pic.twitter.com/ZQeMO2yyYe

— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) February 19, 2014

More at the Wall Street Journal, "Dozens Dead in Ukraine as Fresh Violence Flares in Kiev: Ukrainian Capital Plummets into Renewed Bloodshed," and "Ukraine Deal Calls for Early Elections, New Coalition: Presidential Elections to Be Held Between September and December."

And then see Foreign Policy, "Think That Kiev Agreement Will Hold? Think Again."

Charles Krauthammer: Climate Change 'Is a Matter of Almost Theology'

From Dr. K, at the Washington Post, "The myth of ‘settled science’":

I repeat: I’m not a global warming believer. I’m not a global warming denier. I’ve long believed that it cannot be good for humanity to be spewing tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. I also believe that those scientists who pretend to know exactly what this will cause in 20, 30 or 50 years are white-coated propagandists.

“The debate is settled,” asserted propagandist in chief Barack Obama in his latest State of the Union address. “Climate change is a fact.” Really? There is nothing more anti-scientific than the very idea that science is settled, static, impervious to challenge. Take a non-climate example. It was long assumed that mammograms help reduce breast cancer deaths. This fact was so settled that Obamacare requires every insurance plan to offer mammograms (for free, no less) or be subject to termination.

Now we learn from a massive randomized study — 90,000 women followed for 25 years — that mammograms may have no effect on breast cancer deaths. Indeed, one out of five of those diagnosed by mammogram receives unnecessary radiation, chemo or surgery.

So much for settledness. And climate is less well understood than breast cancer. If climate science is settled, why do its predictions keep changing? And how is it that the great physicist Freeman Dyson, who did some climate research in the late 1970s, thinks today’s climate-change Cassandras are hopelessly mistaken?

They deal with the fluid dynamics of the atmosphere and oceans, argues Dyson, ignoring the effect of biology, i.e., vegetation and topsoil. Further, their predictions rest on models they fall in love with: “You sit in front of a computer screen for 10 years and you start to think of your model as being real.” Not surprisingly, these models have been “consistently and spectacularly wrong” in their predictions, write atmospheric scientists Richard McNider and John Christy — and always, amazingly, in the same direction.

Settled? Even Britain’s national weather service concedes there’s been no change — delicately called a “pause” — in global temperature in 15 years. If even the raw data is recalcitrant, let alone the assumptions and underlying models, how settled is the science?

But even worse than the pretense of settledness is the cynical attribution of any politically convenient natural disaster to climate change, a clever term that allows you to attribute anything — warming and cooling, drought and flood — to man’s sinful carbon burning.

Accordingly, Obama ostentatiously visited drought-stricken California last Friday. Surprise! He blamed climate change. Here even the New York Times gagged, pointing out that far from being supported by the evidence, “the most recent computer projections suggest that as the world warms, California should get wetter, not drier, in the winter.”

Keep reading.