Killer Jews Slaughter 14 School Kids

Just kidding!

While the MSM combs through the Gaza Strip in search of orphan kittens killed by Israeli strikes launched for no reason at all, back on Earth this sort of thing passes with nary a whisper. I guess it would need some kind of visual hook to make the news, y'know, like actual video of the attack.

Quote Of The Day

VDH on the new class war:

A few generations ago, Democrats would have opposed Palin but appreciated her blue-collar story, and applauded a working mom who out-politicked entrenched and richer male elites. But now the new aristocratic liberalism has adopted the values of the old silk-stocking Republicans of the 1950s—and so zombie-like worship rather than question entitlement.

Evil Banks Lending Irresponsibly Irresponsibly Not Lending

I guess the credit crunch must be easing after all. Now the usual suspects are complaining that the evil banks aren't lending enough money. Hmmmm... that's not exactly what they were saying back in the day.

You know what'll fix this? An enormous bureaucracy. We could call it something like the 'Financial Services Authority' and site it in the most expensive office development in the entire universe. That'll help.

Stupid Hippy Fired, Liberals Outraged

Not to give aid and comfort to the enemy, but if teachers are determined to try and convince people that they really are committed professionals, and not just geriatric adolescents, they might want to try not closing ranks round every unprofessional slob in the staff room.

It gets better:

A PE teacher who was sacked for wearing trainers in class has criticised the Government for promoting the "corporatisation" of the capital's schools.

He's not a slob! He's protesting against the system, maaaaaan!

The 57-year-old, of Canning Town, said: "Children would much rather have a good teacher who wore trainers than a bad one who was dressed like a businessman.

Yep, the kids are being educated by people who sneer at folks with actual jobs. Is it time yet for another 100 articles about how teachers don' get no respect?

"Pupils learn best in an atmosphere where they feel comfortable and not in a corporate, office-like setting, so I really don't like the way that education is going."

So we have a 57 year old man who's enraged! that he has to follow his managers orders even though he doesn't agree with them. Yep, it's a mystery why the kids are so screwed up.

Liberals Shocked! Pope 'Catholic'

Don't be shocked, but the Reverend Dale has had a squealing fit. He's claiming that His Holiness's Christmas message proves he's a really big Nazi.

Given Dale's penchant for creative writing, I thought I better check the original text and, wouldcha'believe it, it turns out....

Just to run through the scores on the doors: His Holiness suggests we need to protect the social environment as well as the physical one - a point which surely comes under 'Blindingly Obvious' even for those of us who don't play a conservative on TV - and Dale calls him a Nazi. Hmmmm...remind me again which side of the debate keeps yammering about 'hate speech'?

See, this is kind of the point: if even the most tepid support for sexual restraint sends you into an unhinged screaming fit then, yes, you do have a problem with morality. You certainly have a problem with any recognisable form of Christianity.

But no: apparently, 'True Christianity' turns out to be like 'True Conservatism' - whatever Dale and pals say it is that particular day.

It's That Time Again!

Yep, here they are again: Full Metal Elves.

Ecoloons 4 Crashes

I guess this is a win:win for them. They protect the fishes from salt in the water (????) and they take vehicles off the road. Who says ecoloons hate people?

Still Waiting For The Ramadam Rebuttal

I've got to admit I've always had a certain admiration for Channel 4's 'alternative Christmas message'. Something about the way it effortlessly combines a raging desire to stick two fingers up to everybody else with an utter lack of any actual message, it seems like the perfect distillation of modern liberalism.

Of course, back in the day Channel 4's wadical webelliousness mainly took the form of stupid puns, so we had Quintin Crisp presenting an 'Alternative Queen's Message' (geddit?), or we had a 'Black Christmas'. Unfortunately, as with much else in modern liberalism, it looks like they've lost the ability to distinguish bugging the squares from actual evil.

I'm guessing Mugabe was rejected for being just too cosy with the Establishment, maaaaaan. On the other hand... it is the season of peace and goodwill, and he's definitely the alternative to that. I just wish we didn't have to listen to these idiots congratulating themselves on their own transgressiveness when you know hell will freeze over before anyone on the right gets ten minutes to talk unchallenged about their views.

(And a tip of the hat to TDK for this one)

Social Workers: Not Agenda-Driven In Any Way

Well, I guess all this debunks any charges that social workers soft-pedal child abuse where dealing with it would damage the leftist agenda.

I guess beating Junior senseless is just one more of those wacky cultural quirks that do so much to enrich British life.

Anyway, the left prefers to engage with the RoP. Hey, how's that working out?

The Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board (Minab) - a government approved organisation established in 2006 - has set up a minimum standard for mosques which includes guidelines to safeguard child welfare. However, membership is purely voluntary and Minab has yet to recruit a single mosque.

Quote Of The Day

The Great Dalrymple on the liberal love of the scumbag:

Intellectuals need to say things that are not immediately obvious or do not occur to the man in the street. The man in the street instinctively sympathizes with the victim of crime; therefore, to distinguish himself from the man in the street, the intellectual has to sympathize with the criminal, by turning him into a victim of forces which only he, the intellectual, has sufficient sophistication to see.

What Forty Years Of Liberalism Hath Wrought

....people who can see through the whole 'weather' scam.

This is what you get when you mix post-modernism with the entitlement mentality. They're not arguing that the weather was just fine and it was all a huge fraud. Nope, it's pure hysteria, as though high volume outrage! can overcome facts. Why not? It worked for Labour for 11 years.

Battle Against Racism Proceeding Much As Expected

Hmmmmm.... race-hustling celebutard Estelle is complaining about The Racism in the media. I'd mock her, but I think she might have a point. What can you say about an industry where people can express overtly racist sentiments like this?

Adele ain't soul. She sounds like she heard some Aretha records once, and she's got a deeper voice - that don't mean she's soul. That don't mean nothing to me in the grand scheme of my life as a black person. As a songwriter, I get what they do. As a black person, I'm like: you're telling me this is my music? Fuck that!"

I bet Estelle is going to speak out against this bigoted loon any time now.

Liberal Multiculturalism Is A Fraud

Liberals might wax lyrical about the wonders of non-western cultures, yet they're blindingly ignorant about them. That's why we keep getting headlines like this. For all their allegedly evil assumptions of cultural superiority, at least the nasty old Victorians were aware that there were, in fact, other cultures out there - liberals prefer to just assume that the world is full of folks just like them and all that stuff about killing Infidels is just a rhetorical flourish.

Quote Of The Day

Jonah Goldberg on shoegate:

There's a weird double standard buried deep in all of this, and I don't just mean the biases against Bush. When conservatives hold up unsavory Muslims or Arabs as representative of the region's problems, we're told how simplistic and two-dimensional we're being. But when the same sort of unsavory doofus behaves in ways that confirm liberal biases and coform to liberal passions, then suddenly this doofus speaks for millions.

Femiloon Round-Up

Now Sexist: Asking female employees not to put it all in the shop window.

Still Sexist: Any male employees caught window shopping.

Not Sexist: Running eighty bazillion articles on how a 'superwoman' has stuck it to those men in the City.

Now Sexist: Running articles noting 'superwoman' lost nearly 10% of her funds 'investing' in an obvious fraud.

Still Sexist: Refusing to throw out basic principles of law to ensure more rape convictions.

Never Sexist: Opposing the only change in the law that would unequivocally make it harder for rapists to practice their calling.

Hollywood In A Nutshell

Don't miss the last line:

Lt Dan Now At Least 637% Cooler Than Even We Thought

Besides, you have to like a star whose photograph betrays such obvious embarrassment at his award.

Environmentalism As Hard Science Latest

Nope, not a religion at all.

Child Dies After Social Workers Rule 'Not At Risk', Liberals Enraged

Specifically, they're enraged at people mentioning the case.

Hey, like I keep saying, if social workers aren't a bunch of leftist kooks, how come liberals always close ranks round them? Note that in a shocking break with tradition these people don't engage with the substance of the charges, they just try and smear the critics. See, that's the whole thing: people are disgusted by the death of a young child after another brilliant decision by social services, and liberals are baffled by it. No one could seriously regret the loss of innocent life, so what game are they really playing?

Needless to say, when you look at the case itself, all the usual elements are in place. True, you can argue just how much could have been done to save the child, but social workers didn't even try. On the contrary, they reportedly took a 'positive' view of a pair of dysfunctional lunatics with a record of drug abuse and violence (including homicide). The bottom line is that this is just further proof that the criteria used by social workers to assess families are completely bananas.

Thanks to years of collective binging on the femiloon, pink, psychobabble kool aid, social workers are convince that the traditional family is a hot bed of abuse and, by 'eck, they'll got to any lengths to prove it. Meanwhile, anybody who can convincingly claim victim status gets a pass, with even violent insanity and drug abuse treated as just proof of authenticity.

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