… and kisses the modern world goodbye. Eli Lilly and Cummins are the first major employers in the state to announce that if they’d WANTED to move to Mississippi, they would have done so. They’re initiating the withdrawal method.
Other corporations located in the state will follow.
Happily, there will be new jobs opening up for the unemployed Hoosiers they’re leaving behind — in knitting needle, coat hanger, crochet hook, and arsenic factories.
… take a bow! Look what the refusal of many of you to vaccinate your children has brought back.
… we gotta start talking stoooopid “exceptions.” Gag me.
It’s all the fault of that ten year old vixen who made that guy keep raping her. If she’d just quietly hemorrhaged giving birth as God intended, no one would have been the wiser.
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I mean, did I say “That baby deserves a right to life whether it is conceived in incest or rape or there are concerns otherwise for the mom.” ?
HAHA I WAS JUST KIDDING. I MEAN OKAY LET’S UH… LET’S … LET THE MOM LIVE!! HOW’S THAT? YOU HAPPY?
What an impressive achievement for the Jewish homeland.
As an Islamic revolution rages outside,
an old man sits on his balcony fantasizing
about slashing the bodies of infidels.
No kidding. File this post with the overwhelming pro-abortion rights referendum that just took place in red state Kansas (see post just below this one). Strong majorities of Israelis don’t want any ultra-Orthodox representation in their government.
… which Macmillan Dictionary elaborates upon here; UD proposes that we extend this rich, alliterative phrase’s provenance to the actual air. That is, she suggests that we begin to designate the many ultraorthodox men who refuse to sit next to women on commercial aircraft flying fucks (details here), and that we get the word out as broadly as possible that under no circumstances should you ever give in to flying fucks who think qua woman you stink. Do not change your seat.
Consider a recent case:
[A] flight attendant approached [a woman flying from Israel to New York] and asked her to change her seat.
As the previous Director of IRAC and current Executive Director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), there is no one more prepared for such a situation than [Rabbi Noa Sattath], and yet it was a difficult and embarrassing experience for her all the same. She turned to the flight attendant and asked her, point-blank: “Are you asking me to move because of my gender?”
When the flight attendant said yes, Noa responded that the request was both offensive and against the law. The flight attendant apologized, then pointed to the man assigned the seat beside Noa and said that he could not sit next to her. The flight attendant left, and other passengers started discussing the situation. A few minutes later the flight attendant returned, apologized, and once again asked Noa to move. Noa knew her rights, and responded: “No. The request is against the law. Don’t ask again”.
At that point, 40 minutes before takeoff, Noa found herself surrounded by passengers trying to convince her to give up her seat, saying things to her like: “You know, it’s nothing against you personally;” and trying to explain halacha, Jewish law. It doesn’t matter how strong you are, or how prepared you think you are for this kind of scenario: it is upsetting and humiliating, and a lot of pressure can be placed on women to be silent and acquiesce to this discrimination.
The flight attendant must have found another solution, since the man did not end up sitting next to Noa.
One doesn’t expect primitifs to be reasonable; the obscene part of the story lies entirely with the other passengers, who in this disgracefully common situation often behave like this. They often gang up on the woman and say inane things that further humiliate her and they tell her she has to move. They try to make her believe she is the fuck in this situation, whereas the fuck is, with crystal clarity, the appalling woman-reviler.
The flying fucks are out there and they don’t care that what they’re doing is against the law. They are ineducable; your job is not to educate them. Your job is to sit tight and sue the airlines.
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I’m talking about Israel. Here in the States they seem to be united on the total ignorance front; in Israel, where the government has found the balls to withdraw some funding from the most profoundly retarded schools (where they don’t teach anything secular above baby Hebrew and toddler math), we begin to see some ultraorthodox factions moving insidiously toward the education of their children.
Two months ago, the ultra-Orthodox newspaper HaMishpacha reported that the Belz Hassidic sect, a sect considered conservative, in a behind-the-scenes move led an effort to integrate its educational institutions into the public school system. The sect’s schools would be directly integrated into the Ministry of Education without becoming part of the ultra-Orthodox “independent education” branch.
According to the plan, which has caused an uproar within the ultra-Orthodox community, Belz institutions would agree to include secular subjects in their curricula. In exchange, they would receive full funding. This is a change from the current situation where they are defined as “exempt institutions,” which means that they are exempt from government curricula, but receive only partial funding.
… [U]ltra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party, which is composed of the Hassidic Agudat Yisrael faction (which includes Belz) and the Lithuanian Degel HaTorah faction, may even split up.
… that this nation’s first case of polio in many years originated in an ultraorthodox Jewish sect. The Times of Israel summarizes:
Young man who recently got married is suffering from paralysis; was not vaccinated; is a resident of Rockland County, which has a history of low vaccine compliance
The story is getting wide coverage. What it represents is the shame of a nation. A modern, enlightened country like the US should see no polio at all, since any outbreak is the result of absolutely basic disregard of personal and civic health norms.
Imagine: A highly contagious disease like that lurking, and a community’s indifference to basic science and the well-being of its children allows people to go unvaccinated. It’s of a piece with these same communities refusing to educate their children to national standards, breaking tax laws, and breaking non-discrimination laws. Not to mention refusing vaccines for other easily avoided scourges.
The new polio case comes amid fierce backlash against vaccination in some Orthodox communities fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic and following a measles outbreak in Rockland County in 2018 and 2019 that was centered in the area’s Haredi Orthodox population.
The New York Times:
[This] community was also a nexus of a measles outbreak in 2018 and 2019, with hundreds of cases in the county and in Brooklyn, which is also home to many Orthodox residents. Rockland County’s rate of polio vaccination for small children is significantly lower than the rate for other counties outside of New York City, according to state data.
These communities, which voted at a higher percentage for Trump than any other community in America, and which sent busloads of community members to, er, various January 6 events in Washington (the insurrection was one of the very few places on earth where you could watch ultraorthodox Jews and neo-Nazis cavorting together), will fight national authorities tooth and nail if any government agency actually tries to make them behave. We have already witnessed, in the streets of New York, how shockingly violent they can be.
Indeed these are the Trumpian shock troops, communities of people who recognize that Trump’s violent nihilism is their own. If government has any defensive purpose at all, it is to respond to the threat profoundly non-compliant sects like this one represent.
Todd’s Indiana’s Attorney General, and I bet he thinks Dr. Caitlin Bernard’s real purty too, but that don’t seem to be keeping her from suing him for defamation. Why?
Well, since Ohio is a feudal fiefdom, where a pregnant ten year old rape victim can’t get an abortion, the child had to go to Indiana, where Bernard performed the procedure and in so doing got Todd so riled up he spewed all kinds of lies about her on national media and now she needs round the clock security.
Turns out broadcasting life-destroying lies about people is defamation, and Bernard will almost certainly successfully sue Rokita on these grounds.
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What a comedown for Todd Rokita. Once that ten year old hemorrhaged to death trying to give birth in Ohio, he’d for sure have been given Ohio’s Distinguished Service Medal. Now all he has to look forward to is a whopping legal settlement.
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Contribute to Dr. Bernard’s legal/security fund here.
LOL. Love the bit about educating Israel’s massive, massively powerful, population of violent bigots in the ways of kindly pluralism.
How did this country devolve into a farce, where millions of Jews cannot worship freely — or even get married?
Easy. It forgot to kick against the pricks. Israel let itself become a theocracy. Bad career move.
Filthy stupid yahoos who give the whole enterprise a really bad look.
Seems richly ironic, but once you drift into theocracy you can certainly expect this outcome.
And I know you’re more taken up with not being annihilated in an American gun massacre, but keep in mind that Harvard’s Adrian Vermeule and his merry band of authoritarian theocrats would love it if America looked like Israel. Only ruled by reactionary Catholics, not ultraorthodox Jews.
I’M DREAMING OF A WHITE FETUS
JUST LIKE THE ONE GOD’S MOTHER USED TO KNOW
WHERE HIS BLOND HAIR GLISTENS
WHEN HE GETS CHRISTENED
IN TEMPLES WHITE AS FALLING SNOW…
MAY YOUR DAYS BE MERRY AND BRIGHT
AND MAY ALL YOUR FETUSES BE WHITE
A [divorced] teenage mother from Overbrook, Kan., Ms. Fluke-Ekren slowly embraced the Islamic State’s ideology...
[Her first ISIS husband] was killed in an airstrike as he was conducting reconnaissance for a terrorist attack …
… Ms. Fluke-Ekren married another Islamic State terrorist, a Bangladeshi man who specialized in drones and worked on a plan to drop chemical bombs using them. After the man, Wamiq al-Bengali, died, Ms. Fluke-Ekren married another Bangladeshi man, an Islamic State military leader who was responsible for defending Raqqa, Syria. He died while fighting for ISIS in 2018…
She was smuggled out of Syria in about May 2019 and married a fifth time, according to the statement of facts. But the couple separated…