Heh.

An oversight by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has led to a same-sex marriage survey being sent out with the word “bumsex” printed in a barcode.

More than 16 million surveys were sent out across Australia by the ABS, allowing people to have their say in the postal plebiscite on same-sex marriage.

Update from Instapundit.

THE LEFT IS INSANE AND VIOLENT, WORLDWIDE: Former Australian PM Head-Butted By Same-Sex Marriage Supporter.

I am not making this up. I mean, the feministas at Ms magazine also whine that she’s white and not a transgendered Muslim and stuff, but they’re pretty upset that she (and her fellow Amazonian warrior women) are not built like the average feminist.

Especially with the body positivity movement gaining steam, the film could have spotlighted female warriors with fat, thick and short body types. While people have said that warriors can’t be fat, some of our best paid male athletes are, particularly linebackers on the football field, and no one doubts their physical strength.

H/T AoSHQ

From Ace. It’s after the jump because language.  (We try not to be potty mouths, here.)

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The American Democrat Left has learned well from their Soviet tutors. Politics must be injected into every aspect of life. There can be no respite from politics. This is what has changed ESPN from a sports network to a sports-themed progressive propaganda network, and mainline protestant denomination from Christian churches to Jesus-themed progressive social activism clubs.

Not even comic books are immune from the onslaught. DC and Marvel have both recently given over their characters and plotlines to the diversity brigades. Now, progressive social justice wankers plot to harass and intimidate those who aren’t of the party at Comic conventions.

I can find a pull-quote to summarize the article, but the gist of it is, there’s a guy with a YouTube channel who’s been critical of the comic book companies turning their product into socialist, progressive propaganda. Upon learning that this gentleman was planning to attend a comic book convention, one of the comic book authors working for Marvel called on his fans to harass him. And the fans escalated this to threats of actual violence.

By the way, there’s also an active left-wing hate campaign against a pair of professors for writing an editorial in favor of the horribly bigoted, racist, white supremacist ideal that hard work, delayed gratification, education, and common sense values were good ways to live your life. I am not making this up.

Why anyone is proud to be on the left these days, I don’t know. They all seem like a bunch of deranged, violent, hateful bigots to me.

An American leftist woman (oh boy) walked into a bar and Denmark, saw a guy wearing a MAGA hat, and threw the sort of spoiled, deranged tantrum which has become synonymous with the Democrat Left these days.

What is f***ing wrong with you? You are a horrible human being. Horrible human being,” she said as she stood up, gathered her belongings and prepared to walk away.
“Liberal tolerance at hand!” the man could be heard saying.
That, apparently, unleashed the leftist beast within as the woman let loose a torrent of foul language, leaning in to the man and repeatedly pointing a finger at him.
“I do not f***ing tolerate f***ing, f***ing racist!” she yelled. “You’re a horrible f***ing human being and I hope you go home and feel f***ing ashamed of yourself!”
“For what?” he asked.
“For f***ing being a f***ing racist you f***ing human piece of sh**!” she ranted before storming out.

Does she kiss her labradoodle with that mouth? Seriously, who taught her that this sort of behavior was OK.

Never mind. We know who.

There’s a video at the link.

Honest question: If Hillary had won the election, how do you think these people would be treating those of us who would have dissented from her aggressive, leftist agenda?

I don’t really know what this means. The babble that comes out of the elite thought-leaders of the Progressive Left grow ever more indistinguishable from the crazy meth-head standing on the corner screaming “I dry-cleaned Jesus’s wedding dress!”

Anyway, straight black guys are actually white, is apparently the deranged rant at offer.

Left-wing writers are taking the victim narrative to a new level this week, decrying “straight black men” as the “white people of black people.”
In a column for The Root’s ‘Very Smart Brothas,” writer Damon Young accused straight black men of having the “type of privilege created for and protected by whiteness.” Black men, while victims of the white man’s oppressiveness, are the oppressors of the nonheterosexual/male black person.

Speaking of crazy leftists, I’m guessing you’ve all seen the video of MSDNC’s all-but-crapping-his-pants in a display of total derangement.

There’s also a left-wing TV producer who’s teaching his kids that Trump isn’t actually president, Hillary is.

What it means to have Progressive-Left Privilege in seven quick points:

1. Assuming that you have the right to control what everyone else does, what they have, what they say, and how they think.

2. Assuming that you have the right never to hear any opinion that contradicts your own, and using intimidation and violence if necessary to protect your ideological bubble.

3. Assuming that feeling offended on your part constitutes a political crisis on the nation’s part.

4. It is your privilege to establish the standards by which others must live and to critique them at will, but any criticism of you is evidence of hatred.

5. Consistency is for other people. You are free to deny the existence of absolutes while imposing absolute standards that others must follow.

6. You must be judged only by your rhetoric and not by your results.

7. And finally, liberal privilege means never having to say “not guilty.” Laws that apply to everyone else do not apply to you.

Gee, does this sound like anyone or multiple anyones who comment here?

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/371678.php

Left-Wing Icon Valerie Plame… who became a left-wing icon when a left-wing Deep State operative (Richard Armitage) outed her (Not Really) as a CIA Agent and blamed the Bush Administration… says… well, read for yourself.

America’s Jews Are Driving America’s Wars

Gee, didn’t Mel Gibson get in heap big trouble over something like this?

Between their embrace of street violence as a legitimate police tactic, the Obama Regime’s use of the state security apparatus to spy on political opponents, and the embrace of Stormfront-like “Zionist Occupied Government” rhetoric… hasn’t the American Left become frighteningly Nazi-like itself?

Update: I did not know this.

[Plame is] also a big supporter and fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, and is on the board of Ploughshares, a key part of Ben Rhodes’/Obama’s “echo chamber” to give Iran the nuclear bomb so that it can wipe Israel off the map:

An adult gay man remembers how older gay men exploited him sexually as a teenager.

I began engaging in sex with adults when I was 14. An unexpected encounter at a college library where I, alone, found myself being molested by a much older man initiated me into this world. I would return to that same library basement several times a week, driven by my father and often dropped off on my own, seeking something more than just the thrill of the encounter. Every man I engaged with told me how handsome, beautiful, sexy and special I was. Each touched me in a way that, for a moment, made me feel validated and even cared for. And each man left me alone once the encounter was over without a thought to the impact they had.

My craving for this validation pushed me into situations I cannot even imagine risking today as an adult. Riding my bike at midnight across a river, down to a dark and secluded riverfront area to get into a car with a stranger I had spoken to online just an hour before. Spending hours in a dark, dingy stall waiting and holding my breath every time the door opened. Walking down a highway at 2 a.m. to fulfill the fantasy of a man who wanted to pick up a hitchhiker. All in a futile attempt to find that sense of meaning and to believe I was worth something.

The older man – young boy dynamic is a mainstay of gay pornography and  even the occasional mainstream film. It is worth remembering that Barack Obama’s “Safe School Czar” Kevin Jennings bragged to audiences of fellow gay activists about helping a 15 year old boy seek out hook ups with older men he met in bus station toilets. Later, after criticism from the Right {not the gay community} he backtracked a bit and said the boy had been actually 16. The gay community said this made it OK. It shouldn’t have.

The LGBT activist community is obsessed with “gay youth” and is ever so fond of using the word “vulnerable” to describe them. In fact, it is this exact vulnerability that LGBT political activists (and creepy older men) prey upon. The unmistakable message from gay activists — who cannot say the words “Family Values” without a sneer — is “Families are bad and will only oppress you.* Your loyalties should be to the community (and the Party).”

The LGBT world is doing everything in its power to separate young gays from their families and integrate them into the LGBT ‘family.’ While well-meaning from a stand point of outdated ideas of family rejection and social stigma, today it only fosters resentment and risky behaviors. In a better world, they would be told ‘No’ by the men they are attempting to hook up with.

Amen to that. It’s really the responsibility of adult gay men to say no, and not exploit teenagers. And don’t give me this bullshirt rationalization, “Oh, my teenage years were tough because I was gay, so I have a license to act like a teenager in my thirties and forties.” Man TF Up.

There needs to be an unmistakable message that older guys who prey on underage teenagers are creeps who should be stigmatized.

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This was caught in the Spam filter this morning:

Using the increase regarding extremist organizations
inside the actual Middle East, it’s understandable
that will the particular question “is it safe to travel to Iran” can be a hot theme.

However the good information is that Iran is one of
the most secure and most secure places inside the Middle
East.

This collection of headlines would seem to suggest a sustained campaign to normalize pedophilia.

I really, really hate to have to update this collage, but the media is really trying to normalize this. pic.twitter.com/JYmZcN2zGr

— Orwell & Goode (@OrwellNGoode) September 20, 2017

And the first response to thattweet was that pedophilia needed to be destigmatized so that sufferers would feel safe to seek help in dealing with their orientation. In other words, we should feel “compassion” for them. And you know what happens next toward behavior when progressives start feeling “compassion” for people who practice that behavior. There’s a definite progression for the mainstreaming of deviant and criminal behavior: destigmatization, tolerance, acceptance, and eventually mandated celebration and punishment for those who do not celebrate it enough.

And the real key to this is getting white women on board, because they run everything, and it’s really not hard to get to them. You have to get them to agree that it’s best for everybody if pedophiles come out of the closet, or the shadows, or wherever it is pedophiles are hiding; the little boys room at Toys R Us, perhaps. You just need to put some pedophiles on the morning chat shows to cry about how unfair it is that they can’t be the person they truly are/can’t experience the love that other people take for granted. Then, you get some other white women to parade their pedophile children on TV, and whine how they fear the discrimination a hateful society will heap on them. Then, some Hollywood celebrities need to come out as pedophiles, and if Corey Haim is right, finding some won’t be a problem. (The child rapist Roman Polanski is a hero to those people.)  Before too long, you got pedophiles on the cover of  Time and Vogue and abolishing the age of consent is a plank in the Democrat Party platform.

As someone once said, if pedophiles were a voting bloc, the Democrats would be demanding the Government provide them with ice cream trucks and small pairs of handcuffs.

IMHO, this is one behavior about which we should just stay appalled at and, yes, should be stigmatized.

And this is an interesting line from a New York Times article arguing for destigmatizing pedophilia.

While treatment cannot eliminate a pedophile’s sexual interests, a combination of cognitive-behavioral therapy and medication can help him to manage urges and avoid committing crimes.

Kinda sort contradicts that Narrative that sexual behavior follows sexual orientation and any therapeutic attempt to alter that dynamic is barbaric, bigoted, and not cool, doesn’t it? I mean, as we know from the attacks on Mike Pence, “managing sexual urges,” can mean only one thing… electroshock therapy for teenagers.

Nearly one in five college students says that violence is acceptable in order to prevent opinions they don’t agree with from being expressed. You can say, “Well, come on, 81% don’t agree,” but the actual number of people who agree that violence is an acceptable alternative to free speech should be 0%.

By the way, the other day Nancy Pelosi got shouted down by a mob of illegal immigrants and their supporters; and one dingbat Democrat senator blames the Russians.

Ace did a long essay tonight on how the Left (especially the media left) has gone completely insane since the election of PDT. A couple of examples he overlooks are just the fact that the Democrat Media Complex has gone to defend the MS-13 gang, violent hate groups, and even Kim Jong-Un solely because Trump has criticized them.

I found myself wondering if things would be different if the left had backed away from the crazy a few years ago. Think 2013… the left literally had everything. Obama … Obamacare… gay marriage… absolute cultural supremacy. (Yeah, Republicans had Congress, but they were as collared and submissive as a Fire Island twink.) What if they had been satisfied with controlling everything, and decided it was enough and just behaved like gracious victors.

But, everything wasn’t enough. The left wanted even MOAR. Having gay marriage wasn’t enough, they had to bully Christians into baking their gay wedding cakes, and making their gay wedding floral arrangements… even host gay weddings in their homes. And it wasn’t enough that they controlled all the power in Government and Culture, they had to humiliate conservatives, drive people from their jobs for holding the wrong opinions, sterilize the campuses of all non-leftist opinions. Deprive men of Constitutional Rights at the caprice of feminists.

And… oh yeah… put people in jail for offending transgendereds through guessing the wrong pronoun.

And, for a while, it seemed like they could do exactly that. And they loved it. They loved being the bullies. They loved the power to humiliate their opponents and people they just plain didn’t like. And they got used to it, and they assumed (correctly) that under Hillary, they would have even more power to bully, to humiliate, to crush. And, of course, the left-wing activist organizations couldn’t just disband and find real jobs. They had to push the envelope, so they adopted the transgendereds as their new cause.

If they had just backed off and just enjoyed their victories, maybe they wouldn’t pants-crapping insane, writing “F**K Trump” on the wall with their own feces right now. And it’s quite possible that if the left had stepped back from insanity, that maybe Trump wouldn’t have happened.

I have no doubt that someone wrote this line for him, but this is probably my favorite thing PDT has ever said.

 “The problem in Venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented but that socialism has been faithfully implemented.”

Anyone care to dispute that?

There was a time when Sen. Bernie Sanders, along with Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, and Jesse Jackson all praised Venezuela  for diminishing income inequality and instituting Government-provided health care.

People who are truly “woke” understand that the objective of socialism is not to raise the living standards of the poor, or even to equitably redistribute wealth. The objective of socialism is to concentrate and expand Government power within the a self-selected political class. In this respect, socialism as practiced by Venezuela, Cuba, Zimbabwe, North Korea, Detroit, Chicago, and California is succeeding exactly as planned.

It is my understanding that the comment was not well received by the “global elites.”

Speaking of PDT, now that it has been revealed that the Obama administration really was wiretapping the Trump campaign, I have noticed the Democrat Media Complex spin has gone from “Trump is insane to accuse Obama of wiretapping him” to “The fact that Obama was wiretapping Trump proves that TrumpRussia is a real scandal” without stopping for breath.

Poster seen at Melbourne University in Australia.

In related news, the gay mayor of Seattle WA (I was there last week, and it is a surprisingly dirty city) was forced to resign after a fifth victim of his sexual predation on juveniles came forward. This one was a cousin who was molested by the mayor at the age of 13 apparently.

And in the entirely-Democrat-run state of California, the legislature just passed a law to take child rapists and child pornographers off the sexual predator lists. They should have called it the “Harvey Milk – Larry Brinkin Act.” The bill was introduced by a gay state senator from San Francisco.

Did you ever think a day would come in America when the Progressive Left openly and proudly professed that they despise Free Speech and the US Constitution?

This  year, Princeton University’s annual Constitution Day Lecture contended that “the academy has never promoted free speech as a central value.”

The lecture, given by Prof. Carolyn Rouse, Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Program in African Studies, was entitled “F%*# Free Speech: An Anthropologist’s Take on Campus Speech Debates.”

A majority of Democrats in California now openly oppose Free Speech.

By now you’ve heard about the city of Sacramento’s $1.5M scheme to pay gang-bangers not to commit violence. But if you dig into the details of the scheme, it’s actually even worse.

The report and funding agreement before the council indicate that the program, the “Peacemaker Fellowship,” is to be implemented by a group called Advance Peace. It proposes to reduce gang violence through “transformational opportunities to young adults identified as most likely to be” involved in “gun violence” and by ensuring “greater connectivity to culturally competent human, social, and economic opportunities” for these individuals. The details, as fleshed out during the council meeting, were that participants will be selected from a small group of gang members thought to be behind the “re-cyclical and retaliatory” gun crimes in the community. Among other things, program participants will be required to identify and commit to “LifeMAP goals” (academic aspirations, or more basic things like “getting a driver’s license or improving their relationship with their parents or their kids”). As part of “incentivizing achievement,” the program’s “touchpoints” include “Transformative Travel” and cash stipends for participants. The cost associated with each participant tops out at an estimated $30,000.

If that sounds like a load of feelgood progressive huggy-buggy crap and a payoff to a Democrat-connected organization — it’s because that is exactly what it is. There are no metrics for measuring the success of the program, and no set dates for anything other than the city making payments, which are built-in and front-loaded.

It is an article of faith on the progressive left that the worst thing society can do to a criminal is put him in jail.

Aside from which, the city’s scheme apparently has profiled individuals in the community they think are most likely to commit violence with guns. So, apparently, profiling is bad when police are doing it to stop gang-bangers from committing violence, but perfectly OK when politicians want to give taxpayer money to gang-bangers.

“Researchers” claim that the reason grown men are better at math and physics is because little boys pee standing up.

I am not making this up.

The three professors didn’t publish their thoughts on a satirical website like The Onion. Instead, they published on Tes, a website that provides “Educational materials, jobs, news, and courses from the world’s best community of teachers and school leaders.” In the article, Anna Wilson, Kate Wilson, and David Low argue with a straight face that peeing standing up provides an advantage for boys over girls in learning physics.

Explaining what prompted their musings that led to their conclusion about the advantages peeing standing up gives boys, the professors write, “The gender gap in physics, and other related subjects including engineering, has long been a cause for concern. … Therefore we have to ask: why don’t young women perform as well in physics?”

My guess is that this “study” will lead to a Harrison Bergeron scenario where boys are encouraged to pee sitting down so as to eliminate their ‘unfair advantage.’  It’s already happening in Eurotopiastan.

It never even occurs to so-called “scientists” that evolutionary differences in the brain may account for why men are generally over-represented in STEM fields. That is by far the more probably explanation, but it is a Heresy Against The Narrative. The left — while claiming to believe in science — in fact are dogmatically attached to the myth that gender differences are entirely social and caused by the Evil Patriarchy. And that if little boys are forced to play with dolls and pee sitting down, womyn will develop an interest in science and engineering.

Recently I heard about Irish Latino people. The concept has to do with Irish immigration to Mexico. These people are genetically Ginger, politically and linguisticially Mexican.

Not to be confused with the Black Irish, which is any non-ginger or dark-haired Irish person, sometimes said to be descended from Spanish navy who were shipwrecked in Ireland hundreds of years ago.

They’re all fine people with valid identities. I like Irish, I like Mexican, I like gingers, I like the dark-haired. But, do you see where this is going? In today’s society you can be translucently pearl-white with family originally from Ireland – and, if you wish, claim Hispanic identity. Which is, supposedly, a “race” like any other.

“Race” is an example of an anti-category: A classifier that actually confuses people and harms rational thought, because it based on an arbitrary mix of concepts: part national origin, part skin tone, part birth language or language of your last name, and part personal choice. It’s as silly as if I were to categorize fruits based on whether they’re yellow, a type of apple, picked on a Tuesday, or something I like to cook with.

We should immediately drop all racial categories and move to a post-racial society.

Working on it. For several days, it has been painful to type. Sorry guys!

UPDATE: It will need surgery. It will be fine. Thanks for all of your well-wishes!
I’ll be a one-handed typist for some weeks. (Which is slower than it sounds, because of the extra typos you make.)