Shannon Love

A Clitoris-Free Zone

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Every once in a while you hit a phrase that condenses an issue with such precise concision that it sticks in your mind and keeps your attention like a glass shard in your eye.

Here’s one such phrase.

While the media are kvelling about “freedom” in Egypt (“protesters” having finally persuaded Mubarak it was high time to am-scray), it behooves us to take a deep breath and consider this: the Egyptians are  not like us. The Egyptian concept of “freedom”  is an  Islamic–not a Western–one.  They still hate Jews/Israelis like poison. And you’re talking about a country that  is essentially a clitoris-free zone (9 out of 10 women in Egypt being the victims of Female Genital Mutilation).[emp added]

It’s hard to read “clitoris-free zone” without wincing and you should be wincing when contemplating that particular barbaric practice.

And he is correct that too many people forget that Egyptians do have a radically different culture and thus radically different political expectations than we do. A democracy they create will not make the same decisions that our democracy makes. For some reason, the people who scream the loudest about the virtues of multiculturalism seem the least able to grasp this idea.

[hat tip path: Instapundit–>Althouse–>shoutingthomas–>scaramouchee]

Top 10 Reasons Someone Votes Democrat

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Rather funny comment from this post:

top ten reasons YOU voted Democrat
 
10. I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies’ profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn’t.
9. I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.
8. I voted Democrat because Freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.
7. I voted Democrat because I’m way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves.
6. I voted Democrat because I believe that people who can’t tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don’t start driving a Prius.
5. I voted Democrat because I’m not concerned about the slaughter of millions of babies through abortion so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.
4. I voted Democrat because I think illegal aliens have a right to free health care, education, and Social Security benefits.
3. I voted Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the democrats see fit.
2. I voted Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.
1. I voted Democrat because my head is so firmly planted up my a$ that it is unlikely that I’ll ever have another point of view.

Use the Force, Luke

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Man, this happens to me almost everyday. The [explicative deleted] of the thing is, I need the Internet to do research for just about everything I do. I just can’t turn it off and keep working. I can get diverted into pointless wanderings at the drop of a hat click of the mouse.

What I need is a hefty dose of self-discipline. I wonder where they sell that?

Tilt Your Kilt, Senator?

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OMG, LOL, ROFL and other internet acronyms for hilarity.

The anti-democracy Wisconsin Democrat senators who fled the state to prevent the democratic process from working were found in Illinois shacked up in a hotel that had a Scottish Pub themed Hooters-like restaurant called, and I’m not making this up, “The Tilted Kilt.” [h/t Instapundit]

Given that people already think that politicians are sleazy, everyone’s minds will instantly jump to the most salacious interpretation for the good senators’ choice of hideouts. Expect the phrase, “titled kilt” to become a big joke in Wisconsin and probably nationally. Their carelessness (or arrogance) in their choice of hideouts has converted the senators’ escapade from a principled last stand into a smirking joke.

My spouse, ever willing to rub things in, humorously suggested calling up senators’ offices tomorrow and asking if the good senator, “got his kilt tilted,” during his little flight from law.

It’s not a bad idea. Humor and mockery are the most effective, and most justified, political weapons of all.