Rule 5 Rescue: Hot Latvian Blondes!

Man, I've got to give a big shout-out to JammieWearingFool! The guy's on fire with some hot Rule 5 blogging.

He's got an entry today on Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and local KTLA-TV news reporter Lu Parker. Says Jammie: The mayor "is schtupping yet another local newscaster." But I'd be remiss if I did without some of these hot Latvian blondes!

See, "Positive Energy: Blonde Parade Lifts Spirits in Gloomy Latvia."

This is also a chance to thank all my blogging buddies for their "reach-around" blogging: Ann Althouse, The Blog Prof, The Classical Liberal, Dana at CSPT, Dan Collins, Dan Riehl, The Daley Gator, Fausta, Fishersville Mike, Gateway Pundit, Generation Patriot, Glenn Reynolds, Jimmie Bise, Little Miss Attila, Moe Lane, Monique Stuart, No Sheeples Here!, Pamela Geller, Pirate's Cove, Private Pigg, Pundit & Pundette, The Rhetorican, Right Wing News, R.S. McCain, Saber Point, Stop the ACLU, Suzanna Logan, TrogloPundit, and William Jacobson.

Just send me an e-mail if I've left you off the roundup!

Public Rejects Minority Preferences: Implications for Sotomayor and the Democrats

A new Pew survey shows Americans rejecting affirmative action programs when defined as "giving preferential treatment" to women and minorities:

With the Supreme Court expected to soon rule on a case involving job discrimination claims by white firefighters, and Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor's decision in a lower court ruling on the case drawing scrutiny, there is renewed focus on public opinion about affirmative action programs and overall efforts to improve the position of minorities in this country. The public has generally been supportive of such efforts, but is decidedly opposed to the idea of providing preferential treatment to minorities.

In the most recent Pew Research Center values survey, released May 21, just 31% agreed that "we should make every effort to improve the position of blacks and minorities, even if it means giving them preferential treatment." More than twice as many (65%) disagreed with this statement. That balance of opinion has fluctuated only modestly through the 22-year history of the values survey.

The values survey revealed continuing racial differences in attitudes about this issue. Majorities of both African Americans (58%) and Hispanics (53%) favor preferential treatment to improve the position of blacks and other minorities; just 22% of whites agree.

Check the rest of the article. White Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents oppose race preferences by a margin of 66 percent! Yo, GOP cross-party outreach opportunity!

Also, compare and contrast the findings in Pew to today's Gallup poll, "Majority of Americans Favor Sotomayor Confirmation."

Just 54 percent of Americans support the nomination of Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. The findings show less support for her nomination than was true for John Roberts, although she's favored slightly more than was Samuel Alito. Interestingly, less than a majority, 49 percent, agrees that Sotomayor's views are "in the mainstream."

More at Memeorandum.

American Power Hate Mail: "Neocons are Homosexual"

It's been some time since I've gotten any "American Power Fan Mail."

But I just got some "hate mail" in the comments right now. I had this asshole blocked with Haloscan on my previous blog, but Blogger's comments come right through unless moderation is enabled.

This despicable slur can be found at my earlier post, "The Left's Misogynistic Hatred:"

All neocons are gay.
They follow a gay ideology.
They are the vanguards of gayness.

"Duh troops" are fighting for the very "freedom" of homo "rights" and other degenerate "rights". It is a homosexual war to turn the musilman sheep herder into a capitalist metrosexual. Such a war is gay.

Donald Douglas is the gayest blogger ever.
Anyone who uses the words "John Galt" is a homo.

This is the empirical, objective truth. No bias.

Your wife and child are in your head. Never any mention of them on "Burkean reflections". They suddenly appeared when Sullivan-the-Gay negged your "Chosen" Israel, and the hawt jewish males who inhabit it, the neocon's world's most precious resource. Your "fambly": they're fake. They don't exist. Neocons are homosexual.

You are a dark skinned tanning bed queen Donald. You are a cuban cabana boy, a bathhouse turk. Anything but a white-racist anglo-saxon man, the heart of any true conservatism.

Geez, this is almost as good as Michelle Malkin's hate mail!

Scott Roeder Charged With First-Degree Murder

From Fox News, "Accused Abortion Doctor Shooter Charged With First-Degree Murder":

This undated booking photo released Tuesday, June 2, 2009 by the Sedgwick County Jail shows Scott Roeder, 51, who made his first court appearance Tuesday in Sedgwick County District Court in Wichita, Kan. Roeder was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the death of late-term abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, asking the judge by video when he would see his court-appointed lawyer. (AP Photo/Sedgwick County Jail)

Scott Roeder was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the shooting death of late-term abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in church.

The 51-year-old Roeder appeared at a brief 4 p.m. EDT hearing in a Wichita, Kan., court via video from jail in the doctor's killing.

Roeder is accused of gunning down Tiller on Sunday as the doctor served as an usher at his Lutheran church in Wichita.

Roeder also is charged with aggravated assault for allegedly threatening two people who tried to stop him.

The Kansas City Star reported that Roeder's mental health and anti-government activities were factors in a custody battle in 2003 involving a girl in Pennsylvania.

Earlier Tuesday, Roeder's former wife said his family life began unraveling more than a decade ago when he got involved with anti-government groups, and then became "very religious in an Old Testament, eye-for-an-eye way."

"The anti-tax stuff came first, and then it grew and grew. He became very anti-abortion," said Lindsey Roeder, who was married to Scott Roeder for 10 years but "strongly disagrees with his beliefs." He moved out in 1994, and the couple divorced in 1996. They have one son, now 22.

"He started falling apart," Lindsey Roeder told The Associated Press on Monday. "I had to protect myself and my son."

This morning's Los Angeles Times featured a front-page story on Roeder, "Suspect in Kansas Abortion Doctor's Slaying Reportedly Belonged to Anti-Government Militia."

But check Michelle Malkin on the dearth of media attention on the William Long military recruiting murder, "Obama Condemns Muslim Attack on Arkansas Army Recruiters … Not."

Michelle links to Newsbusters, "To the Media, Some Murders Matter More Than Others." More at Memeorandum.

The Left's Misogynistic Hatred

The server's knocked out at The Activist Conservative, with all the hits to its screen-cap piece, "The Playboy Article — Screenshots below the fold. Not edited for content."

The shot below's from Gateway Pundit, with a link to Michelle Malkin. Playboy took down its hate-piece within hours.

Classical Values posts some of the best commentary I've yet read on all of this:

While this sort of viciousness would not be surprising at a far-left site or at the sort of angry radical gay blogs that heaped abuse on Carrie Prejean, what's remarkable is that it occurred at Playboy. (Misogyny goes mainstream!)

I have to say, for a variety of reasons I'm surprised.

I'm also surprised that they'd include Peggy Noonan (who's seen by many conservatives as a sellout) with people far to her right. (I can't think of a better reminder of the hang-together-or-hang-separately principle.)

Moreover, the timing is a bit off. The left has power, both in the White House and Congress, while conservatives have been dispirited, disunited, and largely disillusioned. Such tactics right now are completely unnecessary. I guess the angry left just can't stop being angry.

However, there's a lot more to this than anger. Many conservatives are angry too, but there is simply no right wing counterpart to the misogynistic hatred routinely displayed towards conservative women.

Nor are conservative men subjected to anywhere near the same type of personal attacks on their hairstyles, clothing, or personal anatomy that conservative women have to endure. Over the years I have seen such abuse directed against Margaret Thatcher, Kathleen Harris (during the Florida vote count), and of course we all remember what happened to Condoleezza Rice (whose additional crime was being a black conservative). While rape advocacy is a new escalation, in many ways, this misogyny springs from identity politics. Conservative women are seen as traitors to their sex, and thus no holds are barred. Not even hate speech of the sort the left would call "eliminationist rhetoric." So, while it's certainly sick and twisted, the rape advocacy piece in Playboy is in many ways a very logical culmination.

If the left keeps stuff like this up, the right won't have to do anything to win.

Also, don't miss Ed Driscoll, "Hefnerpalooza Update." See also Memeorandum.

Right Wing News: The 10 Hottest Liberal Women In Politics

You've got to love John Hawkins' classy post, "The 10 Hottest Liberal Women In Politics."

Who knew Janeane Garfalo could look, well, sexy? And how about John on Maureen Dowd: "Great hair, elegant, spicy. You got to give Modo her due: she's a fine looking woman."

Now, if she'd just write her own copy!

Hat Tip: Little Miss Attila and Memeorandum.

Barack "Tutankhamen" Obama to Show Empathy for Muslim World!

A new CNN polling report finds that just one in five Americans holds a favorable view of the Muslim world.

Meanwhile, the Muslim world hearts them some Barack "Tutankhamen" Obama! According to the Los Angeles Times:

A souvenir shop in Cairo, where Obama will speak Thursday, hawks a T-shirt with the slogan “Obama: New Tutankhamen of the World.” Aides says he will deploy a diplomacy of personality that rests on the hunch that the best way to make friends for his country is by winning them over himself.

When President Obama takes the podium in Cairo this week for his much-anticipated speech to the Muslim world, he'll stand before them as an American leader born of an African Muslim father and raised partly in Indonesia, as well as a politician who cut his political teeth in an Illinois political culture that has a sizable Muslim population.

And he will talk, aides say, about those roots he shares with the Muslim world.

It is a politics of biography rapidly becoming synonymous with the Obama presidency. The message he hopes to deliver to Muslims, outlined by advisors ahead of the president's departure Wednesday for the Middle East, will draw on the same storytelling instincts Obama has employed with great success at home.

Now, as Obama attempts to forge new relations with a Muslim community that is at best suspicious of American motives, he relies on a diplomacy of personality that rests on the hunch that the best way to make friends for his country is by winning them over himself.

"The fact is that the president himself experienced Islam on three continents before he's been able to visit, really, the heart of the Islamic world," said Denis McDonough, Obama's deputy national security advisor for strategic communications. The president sees a fundamental need, McDonough said, to change "how we engage our allies."

So when Obama arrives in the region Wednesday, advisors say, he won't be carrying detailed policy proposals, but rather an appeal focusing on common experience and mutual respect.

That is, he'll be carrying "empathy."

President Tutankhamen wouldn't want to alienate the 32 percent of Muslims in Nigeria and Pakistan who support suicide bombings to defend Islam; nor the 37 percent in Indonesia. Nor would President Tutenkhaman want to alienate the 55 percent of Palestinians who support continued suicide bombings against Israel.

At that's not even counting President Tutenkhamen's U.S. Muslim consituency: Old "Pres Tut" wouldn't want to offend the 25 percent of young American Muslims who support suicide bombings in defense of Islam.

But no worries, he's going to make friends in the Islamic world by winning them over with "empathy."

And by the way: According to Wikipedia, "Tutankhamun was one of the few kings worshiped as a god and honored with a cult in his own lifetime."

Well, as they say, "The light of the New Age is here."

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JammieWearingFool has more, "'Obama: New Tutankhamun of the World'."