Dubai is not releasing his name, identifying him only as "K S."

He got his ass kicked. And he had a knife, and she was unarmed.

(I guess if this were a movie, this is where Fred Thompson, playing an Admiral, would bark: "A US Naval sailor is never unarmed, punk.")

An off-duty US navy sailor wrestled a bus driver to the ground and beat him into submission after he attempted to rape her at knife point, a court heard yesterday.

Prosecutors said that she knocked the knife from his hand, broke it in two, bit him in the hand, forced him to the ground and locked him between her thighs.

Three shocks follow: He'd been drinking, he seems to be from Pakistan, and he was unable to produce legal ID.

Update/Correction: Apparently the woman was not a US Naval sailor-- or at least people don't think she was. They're thinking maybe she was a civilian sailor.

But it seems sketchy. Who knows, now I don't even know if it was a US citizen, or a woman.

Thanks to @theh2, Andy, for harshing my mellow.

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Andrew Klavan explains the background, and why Andrew Breitbart became interested in the case.

Barack Obama and his administration facilitated a multi-billion dollar fraud to funnel taxpayer money to any African-American willing to rip off the public till. The complex scandal known as Pigford began with a reasonable claim by a few black farmers that they’d been treated wrongly by a racist government — but exploded, with Obama’s help, into a shameless dole out to any minority huckster who happened along. It took them a while to get there, but kudos to the Times for doing the job.

The reason the Pigford scandal touched Andrew so deeply was that he believed it was behind the Shirley Sherrod firing — for which he was wrongly blamed.....

Andrew showed that a company formed by Sherrod and her husband received a huge Pigford pay-off of some $13-million. He believed that that’s why she was fired so fast — and why he was vilified so cruelly: to keep journalists from asking too many questions and uncovering the Pigford scandal, the iceberg beneath the Sherrod tip.

Well, he's been vindicated. Breitbart.com is doing a victory lap about the New York Times reporting on A1 what Breitbart.com's been reporting for two years.*

The cost of the settlements, which could exceed $4.4 billion, is the result of a process that "became a runaway train, driven by racial politics, pressure from influential members of Congress and law firms that stand to gain more than $130 million in fees," the Times notes.

Among those influential members of Congress was then-Senator Barack Obama, who made Pigford payouts a priority in exchange for political support for his 2008 presidential campaign among a coveted group of black voters in the rural South, the Times reports.

As president, Obama continued to support payouts for new groups of claimants while abandoning a review process that had been used to fight fraud. The aim was "buying the support" of minorities, according to the Times, while middlemen created a "cottage industry" in defrauding the government.

* I put off reporting this because I didn't know how to write it-- Andrew's vindicated because the New York Times confesses the story is true? Why should I give the NYT that power to arbitrate what is true or not?

It was just as true yesterday, before the NYT finally reported it.

So I don't want to feed this lunatic idea that the NYT decides what the truth is.

But in this case, it's a leftist outlet making an admission against its interest, as they'd say in court, and therefore having an indicator of credibility.

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He was scheduled to speak there. Then, Gosnell.

So Jay Carney said the other day the trip was cancelled, claiming that Obama wished to spend more time with the victims of the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion.

That was the claim. I guess to he claimed this simply to put out the word to the press that there would be no inconvenient optics so they shouldn't bother covering them.

Not that they would, anyway.

Trouble is, he actually did show up there.

So why did Jay Carney claim he'd be spendin' time with the folks of West, Texas, instead? Correction: Commenters including Lauren are telling me I misinterpreted Jay Carney's statement, and say he always said the scheduled Thursday speech would just take place on Friday.

President Obama vowed Friday to fight with Planned Parenthood against what he said were efforts across the country to turn women's health back to the 1950s.

Obama's comments were the first to be delivered by a sitting president before the abortion-rights group. He lauded the group's nearly 100 years of service to women, providing cancer screenings, contraceptives and other health services.

"When politicians try to turn Planned Parenthood into a punching bag, they're not just talking about you," he said. "They're talking about the millions of women who you serve."

In related news, Gosnell regularly delivered babies upon an operating table and then severed their spines to kill them.

Obama refuses to comment on this matter, claiming he can't comment on an active legal proceeding.

Apparently this concern did not prevent him from doing his typical We Got Him victory dance last Friday, when local police found and chased and captured Dzhohkar Tsarnaev.

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From @benk84's news dump.

Why did this have to happen? What exactly turned this from "amusing incident" to Source of National Concern?

Here is a bullshit theory.

So why has Martinson’s screed been such popular online fodder? Many reasons, according to Michael Fertik, founder and CEO of Reputation.com, who told CNN it was because of the "mean girls" stereotype, the surprise factor of "something so vulgar and crude being spouted by someone who looks fairly angelic,” and the fact that a quick search of her social media accounts revealed other less-than-politic moments. And, he added, the email could follow the college junior for years.

“The Internet is forever,” Fertik added. “Unfortunately for her, her ‘online tattoo’ will stick with her for a long, long time—and it will likely color how peers, future employers, grad school admissions officers, etc., regard her as a person. She’s going to have to work very hard to show that she's taken this experience and used it to grow into a more mature, thoughtful, tolerant and compassionate person.”

I have an alternate theory: It's that deep down, people's favorite hobbies include Judging and Selecting an Ostracized Person for Coordinated Social Scorning.

I would further propose that because liberals have convinced themselves they do not have the impulses towards such things, they have no internal restraints against them. (Much like the observation that you can't quit drinking until you admit you have a problem; if you're telling yourself Everything's Just Fine, you lack the first prerequisite for modifying your behavior.)

This email was... what? Nothing. An angry email. With some profanity and some new deployments of rhyming vulgarities. And which looks dopey from the outside. From the outside, of course, we can see that it really doesn't matter if Delta Gamma impresses Sigma Nu or not; from the outside, the amount of emotional investment in pleasing the Sigs seems pretty trivial. So it strikes us as funny.

And... so? So we read a funny email. Why is it necessary to speculate, as CNN did, that there's something more to it than a somewhat embarrassing email which will be forgotten in a week?

I think it's because people, such as those speculating on CNN, and CNN "reporters" themselves, are quietly ashamed of themselves for pushing such a thing as "serious news" and, in the process, beating up on a 19 year old girl (or whatever age).

And I think they're doing this for ratings, and to satisfy viewer's desire for Judging and Scorning the Outsider Who (Horrors!) Erred.

Thus they have to justify such behavior to themselves, they cook the books on the supposed Importance Factor and dial up the knobs for What This All Means measurements and then hook it up to the Teachable Moment Bullshit Morality Tale generator.

They are compelled to justify their own bad behavior by blackening this girl's behavior into some great offense.

She wrote a stupid email.

I made an observation about Hate last week. Leftism is a cult. I'm sure most of you agree with that. Now, in many cults (or religions, more broadly) there are certain actions which are deemed taboo -- but a religion usually affords some way in which performance of the action is sanctified, if it's an action that is important and necessary.

For example, let's take sex. Sex is a taboo in most religions (and in most societies, period) and there are a whole bunch of rules for how sex must happen, if it it is to happen, and not be taboo. In a traditionalist religion, the most obvious form of sanctification of sex is via the vehicle of marriage -- marriage makes the relationship not about base sexual gratification but about something important and eternal (children, family).

Even non-religious society creates methods of sanctification of otherwise taboo acts. For example, among non-religious 16 year old girls, perhaps they might call a girl who sleeps around a "slut," but they also probably have constructed a sanctification safe harbor for sex: if it's a boyfriend you're going steady with (i.e., have dated for two weeks or more, almost an eternity!) and it's about love, then you're not necessarily a slut for having sex, unless we don't like you, in which case you still are.

The reason I bring this up is to point out that in the Cult of the Left, "Hate" is the Ultimate Taboo. The left has few taboos about sex, for example (except the general one that whatever you're doing, it's wrong, because They Know Best; also, they seem pretty convinced that if you don't just Experiment a little with Homosexuality yourself, you may be a Hater Who Hates).

But Hate is their big taboo. But note that they have created a ritualistic safe harbor for a sanctified, praiseworthy expression of hatred: If the Committee of the Whole declares someone persona non grata and Not of the Body, then all taboos against hate are rescinded and you are permitted -- nay, obligated -- to direct as much hatred towards that Designated Hate Object as your blackened heart may contain.

And thus, the need to hate -- to judge, to scorn, to mock, to ostracize, to bring low with insult and venom and screaming and anger -- is channeled, by the High Priests of the cult, towards socially benevolent purposes (at least when viewed from the perspectives of the High Priests).

Hatred is their taboo, their ultimate taboo, the One Forbidden Fruit of which they must not eat, but they soooo wish to bite into this delicious fruit of sweet hatred. To deny them fully would be very difficult, contrary to human programming, and Also No Fun At All.

So a safe harbor for sanctification of the free venting of hatred, judgment, and bullying ostracism is thereby created to appease this urge.

In this case, this girl was a Mean Girl and so that, of course, justifies all the Mean Girl behavior in the world against her (including, of course, the Mean Girl behavior of men, who really ought to be embarrassed of themselves).

This is the general Ritual Consecration of the Free Hate-- the claim that the Designated Hate Opponents are themselves haters and therefore it is now Moral and Godly to hate the Haters as hatefully as cerebral blood vessels will allow.

Nice little racket they've got there, no? Crusade against "hate" all day long, and then periodically declare an Approved Hate Opportunity to keep the parishioners happy and coming back to church.

There's a saying in Christianity that "God is difficult, but he is not impossible." He asks us to do the difficult-- but not the impossible.

The God of the Left is similar, it seems. The High Priests of the Left knows full well that hatred is not really taboo in the Cult, but rather the whole point for joining the cult in the first place.

So while hatred is, supposedly, forbidden, it in fact occupies the center of the cult in the dark church's most sanctified place. As every primitive, totemic religion requires scapegoats, sin-eaters, and blood sacrifice, so too does this one.

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An icon passes.

Even if you're not a fan of country music, you have to respect the man for living the AOSHQ lifestyle to its fullest.

His most famous song below. more...

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I don't think the airline delays were as bad as they were being made out to be but the pressure of them forced Democrats to give in and allow the FAA to shift funds under the sequester.

The Senate measure would give the administration flexibility to transfer money among Transportation Department accounts, creating a level of fluidity that Republicans say the department has had all along. The White House has insisted otherwise, arguing that sequestration required the across-the-board reductions that resulted in about 1,500 air traffic controllers a day having to take an unpaid day off.

In the midst of that debate came word that the Justice Department had reversed a plan that would have required 116,000 workers to take 22 unpaid days off between now and Oct. 1. In a letter to his staff, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Wednesday that additional flexibility provided by Congress and “aggressive steps” taken by the department to cut costs allowed him to eliminate the need for furloughs.

But he said that if sequestration continues in the next fiscal year, “furloughs are a distinct possibility.”

Obama wanted to make the sequester pain as public as possible but it's pretty clear that spending a $100 billion or so less than planned isn't the end of the world. This is especially true when you consider that smart management of existing funds enables you to prioritize (what a novel concept for the government) services.

As always, Obama wanted a comprehensive and "balanced approach" which meant keep all the spending and raise taxes. He didn't want the ability to move money around because as we see that would make clear sequester was a non-event.

The House could act on this as early as today and then send it to Obama. Enjoy the rare case where the GOP held firm. Good for them.

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• Results Of The First Round Of Last Night's NFL Draft
  
• Confirmed: Cowboy And Jets Fans Are Not The Brightest Bunch
  
• Mother Of Boston Bombers Also On Terror Watch List
  
• Remember The Left's Cries About the August 6, 2011 Presidential Daily Briefing?
  
• California High Speed Rail Estimates Are Astounding
  
• The 90% Rallies Against Guns
  
• Chernobyl 27 Years Later
  
• Whoever Wrote This Headline Clearly Didn't Read The Article
  
• Are You Ready For A Todd Akin Comeback
  
• Floyd Corkins May Get 45 Years In Prison For Southern Poverty Law Center Inspired Shooting
  
• Chris Matthews Is Currently In The Lead For Craziest MSNBC Host
  
• Senate Votes To End FAA Furloughs
  
• College Logo Promotes Rape Or Something
  
• Another Anti-Voucher Democrat With Kids In Private School
  
• C*nt Punt Sorority Girl Resigns From Her Sorority
  
• Joe Scarborough Is Willing To Change His Political Positions Based On Who Is Paying Him At Any Given Moment
  
• Apparently There Is A Growing Trend Of Not Letting Kids Be Kids
  
• Indian Man Sells Baby On Facebook
  
• Florida Atlantic University Is The Worst College In The World
  
• Woman Misses Out On Chance To Win A Ferrari On The Price Is Right
  

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Happy Friday. Finally.

NYTimes finally catches up to Andrew Breitbart, discovers -- shock! -- that the Pigford settlements are a major scam and fraud magnet that the Obama Administration used (after circumventing career federal lawyers) to deal out phoney reparations to favored groups.

Poll finds that most people say that Fox News was the most believable cable news channel for Boston coverage, CNN the least.

Obama's "red line" talk about Syria and chemical weapons was always a bluff.

Philip Klein has more on Congress' attempt to fix the part of Obamacare that requires that Congresscritters and their aides buy health insurance through the exchanges. Smart take; read it.

House Judiciary is making its own start on immigration reform.

And it's not just Sen. Baucus anymore; Democratic Sens. Shaheen, Harkin, and Cardin complain to the White House about Obamacare implementation. Too bad House conservatives left the implementation slush fund intact instead of moving that money to a program that expires in 2014.

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(1)Harvard researchers find a hormone that triggers rapid pancreas beta cell reproduction in diabetic mice. Humans have a similar hormone. This could be it, THE one...

(2)SRI researchers find an anti-body that causes bone marrow stem cells to become brain cells. All sorts of nerve damage repair possibilities here with no rejection issues. This too could be THE one...

(3)SRI researchers discover that natural body produced interferon can BOOST persistent infections (like AIDS, hepatitis and such) by shutting down T-cell response prematurely before the infection is wiped out. This is a very significant and counter intuitive revelation.

... over the longer term a sharp drop in levels of immune-suppressing IL-10, as well as PD-L1, both inducers of T-cell exhaustion, was associated with restoration of antiviral immune response and virus clearance. And although blocking the IFN-I-a-b receptor led to higher bloodstream levels of virus in the first days after infection, it soon brought about a stronger, infection-clearing response...

(4)SRI again -- this time they've discovered a way to treat prion diseases. Interestingly, one of the effective drugs uncovered was an OTC antihistamine withdrawn from the US market some years ago for causing rare cardiac arrhythmia, although its still commonly available overseas. Would you rather get dementia and die from mad cow or have a chirpy heart? I'd say there's no contest. This prion shit has been pretty scary in that there was no known treatments. Now there some hope.

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Meet The World's Most Beautiful Woman: Gwyenth Paltrow

So declares People magazine. I'd say that at best she's cute but hardly a world beauty. Hell she's only the 3rd best looking woman just on the magazine cover.

Given that she's super-wealthy and has no real job this is probably the best that science and teams of cosmetic technicians with nearly unlimited resources can do with her. And if I were an auditor I'd start looking for some large unexplained deposits in People magazine editors' bank accounts. And/or demand a piece of the next great shameless cover sell-out.

Oh and if you don't like Gwyneth, it's because you're lazy and jealous. Also and because you're American and hence stupid.

Also the Hollywood height chart. There sure are a lot of short people not named Danny Devito who are big in Hollywood. (click for full size)

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