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THE EAGLE 2 stars (PG-13) In second century Britain, a Roman centurion (G.I. Joe's Channing Tatum) enlists a brooding slave (Billy Elliott's Jamie Bell) to guide him through the untamed highlands to recover the long-lost Ninth Legion's Eagle standard. Touching the Void director Kevin Macdonald presents a marvelous, moody first act that turns talky and tedious. Neither the thin script nor Tatum's beefy performance can raise The Eagle as an intriguing character study, but it's not fun or violent enough to be a kick-ass guilty pleasure. — Curt Holman
GNOMEO & JULIET (G) Star-crossed lovers on the wrong side of the fence, two garden gnomes fall in love. Caught in a feud between their red and blue hatted friends, the couple struggles to find happiness.
JUST GO WITH IT (PG-13) Or don't go with it. It's up to you. Adam Sandler plays a plastic surgeon who enlists his assistant (Jennifer Aniston) to play his estranged wife in a scheme to romance a young hottie (Brooklyn Decker). Nicole Kidman and Dave Matthews are also in it.
JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER (G) Because some wishes come true. This real life fairytale documentary traces the roots of Bieber Fever to Stratford, Ontario and ends in 3D with a sold out performance at Madison Square Garden. Cue the shameless screams and applause now.
THE OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS (NR) Landmark Midtown Art Cinema presents two programs for the live-action and animated short film Academy Award nominees. Don't miss Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann's surreal but achingly lovely CGI short The Lost Thing, which suggests Steven Spielberg's E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial transplanted to Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
KINGS OF PASTRY (2009) (NR) Fans of "Top Chef," "Ace of Cakes" and "Iron Chef" should check out this documentary from acclaimed filmmakers D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, who follow three contestants to a prestigious baking competition in Lyon, France. French Film Yesterday and Today. Free-$7. Sat., Feb. 12, 8 p.m. Rich Theatre, High Museum, Woodruff Arts Center, 1280 Peachtree St. 404-733-5000. www.high.org.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) (NR) George Romero established a seemingly inexhaustible genre of flesh-eating zombies craving human brains with this black-and-white horror flick, where the low production values somehow make it even more disturbing. On a double bill with Land of the Dead. Feb. 14-20. Showtimes vary. Cinefest Film Theatre, Georgia State University, 66 Courtland St., Suite 240. 404-413-1798. www2.gsu.edu/~wwwcft.www2.gsu.edu/~wwwcft
WONDERROOT LOCAL FILMMAKERS' NIGHT (NR) The Atlanta arts organization presents an evening of locally-produced short films including animations, narratives, music videos, experimental and avant-garde shorts, documentaries and other video art. Thu., Feb. 17, 9:30 p.m. $6. Plaza Theatre, 1049 Ponce de Leon Ave. 404-873-1939. www.plazaatlanta.com.
ANOTHER YEAR 4 stars (PG-13) In Mike Leigh's latest postcard from bittersweet Britain, Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen play Tom and Gerri (really), a happily married couple who try to pluck up the spirits of their depressed, friends. Leslie Manville has been justifiably acclaimed for her sympathetic, cringe-inducing portrayal of Mary, a hard-drinking, desperately lonely unmarried woman who comes across as a bottomless pit of need. Leigh allows Another Year's plot to meander more leisurely than his tighter stories like Vera Drake, but in the last act a funeral's repercussions built to modest but affecting epiphanies. — Curt Holman
BIUTIFUL 3 stars (R ) Newly-minted Best Actor Oscar nominee Javier Bardem commands this gritty, downbeat drama as Uxbal, a single dad and all-around hustler in the mean streets of Barcelona. Director Alejandro González Iñárritu narrows his focus from the globetrotting plotlines of Babel to a few days in Uxbal's insanely complicated life as he switches between his black market work with illegal immigrants, his bipolar ex-wife (Maricel Álvarez) and a health crisis that forces him to question his children's future. Even at nearly two and a half hours, Biutiful attempts to follow too many plot-threads, but Bardem gives an astonishingly rich and complex performance as a flawed man trying to transcend his surroundings. — Holman
FROM PRADA TO NADA (PG-13) Angel Gracia directs Camille Belle and Alexa Vega in a contemporary, Latina spin on Sense and Sensibility as two spoiled sisters move in with an aunt in East L.A.
THE ILLUSIONIST 3 stars (PG) In the late 1950s, a French stage magician finds his brand of entertainment pushed aside in favor of rock 'n' roll, but a young Scottish lass renews his zest for life. The Triplets of Belleville director Sylvain Chomet helms this animated adaptation of an unproduced screenplay from beloved French filmmaker Jacques Tati, and constructs a loving homage to his spiritual mentor's brand of gentle slapstick. Bittersweet and slow-paced, The Illusionist serves as a loving tribute to any profession or art form being replaced by new trends and technologies. - Holman
THE MECHANIC (R) Having driven fast cars in The Transporter movies, it makes sense that action icon Jason Statham would become a mechanic eventually. He plays an elite assassin who seeks revenge after the murder of his mentor (Donald Sutherland), and takes on a young apprentice (Ben Foster).
THE RITE (PG-13) A seminary student (Colin O'Donoghue) teams up with a Welsh veteran exorcist (Anthony Hopkins) to combat demonic goings-on. Warm up your Linda Blair references now.
THE ROOMMATE In this psychological thriller, the excitement of moving away to college is countered by the common fear of the dreaded roommate. When a college freshman, Sarah (Minka Kelly) is assigned a random roommate Rebecca (Leighton Meester) things get too close for comfort as Rebecca becomes obsessed with Sarah.
SANCTUM (R) James Cameron produces this thriller about a team of explorers who become trapped in a series of underwater caves. One wonders how the 3D effects will look in a film that's probably dark most of the time.
SUMMER WARS (2009) In this Japanese anime, a teenage math genius fights to prevent a collision between real life and a virtual world of computer simulations.
ALL GOOD THINGS (R ) Capturing the Friedmans director Andrew Jarecki helms this drama inspired by a real-life missing persons case, starring Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst and Frank Langella.
BLACK SWAN 2 stars (R) A perfectionist ballerina (Natalie Portman) begins losing her grip on reality after being cast in a high-pressure production of Swan Lake. Like the obsessive character, Portman and director Darren Aronofsky present their focused, technically top-notch artistry, but in the service of an overly simplistic, at times silly thriller about art, sex and madness. Following the naturalism of Aronofsky's previous film, The Wrestler, Black Swan's horror-movie hyperbole feels like a step backwards. — Curt Holman
BLUE VALENTINE 3 stars (R ) Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams play a young couple in this downbeat drama that chronologically criss-crosses between their budding romance and the dissolution of their marriage. The MPAA initially and inexplicably gave the film an NC-17 rating for its non-explicit but uncomfortably realistic scenes of missed sexual connections. The two leads give raw, sympathetic performances throughout, but the film ends more on a note of emotional release than character insight. — Holman
THE COMPANY MEN 2 stars (R ) Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper and a particularly moving Tommy Lee Jones play executives who reassess their materialistic values when their global transportation company institutes round after round of layoffs. To borrow an outplacement center's cheesy slogan, "I have faith, courage and enthusiasm!" writer/director John Wells shows admirable faith in his A-list and demonstrates courage by producing such a potential bummer about downbeat American trends. The enthusiasm seems to be missing from The Company Men, however, a fuzzily well-intentioned socioeconomic critique that seldom musters much passion for its subject. — Holman
COUNTRY STRONG (PG-13) Tron Legacy's Garrett Hedlund plays a rising country star who goes on tour with an emotionally unstable singer (Gwyneth Paltrow) and her manager/husband (Tim McGraw). Expect musical numbers and backstage histrionics.
THE DILEMMA (PG-13) A single guy (Vince Vaughn) discovers that his best friend and business partner (Kevin James) has a philandering wife (Winona Ryder), and wonders what he should do with this information. Who would've guessed that this film's director is Ron Howard?
THE FIGHTER 4 stars (R ) Three Kings director David O. Russell K.O.s boxing movie clichés in this docudrama about welterweight contender Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg), who discovers that his half-brother/trainer Dickie (Christian Bale) and his mom/manager (Melissa Leo) may be causing him more damage than the opponents who punch his lights out. Bale gives a game-changing performance as a fast-talking, eye-popping crack addict clinging to past glories, while Wahlberg proves wonderfully cast as a painfully conflict-adverse puppy dog of a bruiser. The Fighter hits the inspirational buttons, but also delivers some of the most raucously funny scenes of 2010. — Holman
THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST 2 stars (R) Sleuthing hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace), hospitalized after nearly dying in the last film, faces criminal charges and a hush-hush government conspiracy from her hospital room and prison cell. The third and most convoluted of Steig Larsson's bestselling trilogy of thrillers receives a tedious adaptation from Daniel Alfredson. The plot puts sexy Rapace on the sidelines and focuses on uncharismatic heroes and doddering bad guys. You might as well wait for next year's David Fincher film. — Holman
THE GREEN HORNET 3 stars (PG-13) Seth Rogen plays the party-boy son of a media magnate who turns into a masked, crime-busting vigilante after his father's murder. Puckish post-modernist Michel Gondry helms this curious-looking update of the famed pulp hero and 1960s TV star.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS (PG) Jack Black plays a mail room flunky who wins a travel-writing assignment to the Bermuda Triangle and discovers the tiny kingdom of Lilliput. Don't expect many similarities to Jonathan Swift's iconic satirical novel.
HEREAFTER 1 star (PG-13) Death touches the lives of three strangers — successful French newswoman Marie LeLay (Cécile de France), poor English schoolboy Marcus (played by twins Frankie and George McLaren), and George (Matt Damon), a factory worker/psychic — prompting them all to wonder, "What really happens when we die?" A feeble, Crash-esque attempt at intertwining the three lives and pondering the great beyond follows. Nobody expects director Clint Eastwood or writer Peter Morgan to actually answer the question, "What happens when we die?" But we'd at least like to feel engaged in an interesting discussion about the subject. — Debbie Michaud
HOW DO YOU KNOW (PG-13) In this romantic triangle from As Good As It Gets director James L. Brooks, Reese Witherspoon plays an aging athlete torn between a free-spirited baseball player (Owen Wilson) and a white-collar worker (Paul Rudd) taking the fall for the misdeeds of his father (Jack Nicholson).
I LOVE YOU PHILIP MORRIS 3 stars (R ) Jim Carrey stars in this long-shelved comedy as Steven Jay Russell, a church-going police officer turned gay con man who finds the love of his life (Ewan McGregor) while incarcerated in prison. As an obsessive lover and inveterate imposter, Carrey finds a manic but meaty role suited to his acting talents. Like last year's The Imposter!, the film's farcical tone tends to make light of its protagonist's personal problems, but Carrey and McGregor nevertheless deliver the year's most weirdly touching love story. — Holman
INSIDE JOB 4 stars (PG-13) Documentarian Charles Ferguson applies the same muckraking instincts and policy-work grasp of details from his Iraq war film No End in Sight to the 2008 global economic meltdown, with even more compelling results. Inside Job sums up the dizzying financial chicanery that caused the Wall Street crash, and zeroes in on the greed-crazed corporate culture and even more damning lack of regulatory oversight. Matt Damon narrates an infuriating tale that finds plenty of blame to go around on both sides of the political aisle. — Holman
JACKASS 3D (R) Johnny Knoxville and his merry band of reckless kamikazes return for another round of pranks, stunts and gross-outs, which this time promise to hurl body parts — and possibly bodily fluids — at the audience.
THE KING'S SPEECH 4 stars (R ) Colin Firth should rehearse his King's Best Actor Oscar acceptance speech for this light-hearted docudrama about the Duke of York's struggles with his speech impediment on the eve of World War II. The film doesn't touch on as many contemporary themes as such other Royal dramedies as The Queen or The Madness of King George, but offers an entertaining account of one man's self-actualization, with Firth and Geoffrey Rush (as the king-to-be's unconventional speech therapist) volleying the elegant dialogue back and forth like old pros. — Holman
LITTLE FOCKERS 3 stars (PG-13) In the second sequel to Meet the Parents, Ben Stiller's Gaylord Focker again clashes with his bullying father-in-law (Robert De Niro). Director Paul Weitz adds his own indie spin to the story. Weitz cleverly tempers the time between the series' signature gags with intimate close-ups. The result is a perfect marriage of warmth and humor that sends a clear message about the complexities of family. — Edward Adams
MADE IN DAGENHAM 2 stars (PG-13) Happy-Go-Lucky's Sally Hawkins plays Rita O'Grady, who pick ups the nickname "the Revlon Revolutionary" when she becomes the public face of a highly publicized 1968 strike of female workers at the Ford Motor Company's factory in Dagenham, England. Director Nigel Cole never strays far from the template for uplifting underdog films and portrays Rita as a martyr to social progress. Despite credible work from Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Geraldine James and "The West Wing's" Richard Schiff as a soft-spoken union buster, Dagenham's script relies on speeches and plot twists that feel unnecessarily manipulative, as if real life didn't jerk enough tears. — Holman
MEGAMIND 3 stars (PG) Once again Dreamworks gives us another creepy and dark underdog to fall for. The beloved guardian of Metro City, Mega Man (Brad Pitt) is fatally thwarted by his longtime nemesis, the blue-domed brainiac Megamind (Will Farrell). Quickly bored from his conquests, Megamind devises a plan to create a new hero, Titan (Jonah Hill) to add the fun back to his villainous ways. With so much to take from a cliché story of aliens sent to Earth to become do-gooders and do-badders (yeah, I made it up), this satirical pop culture slugfest has heart, jokes and some clever 3D action to have you laughing and ultimately cheering in the end. — Adams
MY DOG TULIP (NR) This hand-drawn, 2-D animated film features the voice of Christopher Plummer as an elderly Englishman who becomes unexpectedly attached to a German Shepherd. Other voice talents include the late Lynn Redgrave and Isabella Rossellini.
NO STRINGS ATTACHED (R ) Natalie Portman plays a commitment-averse medical resident who strikes up a purely carnal relationship with an old friend (Ashton Kutcher). The flick's rom-com vibe suggests these crazy kids' hearts will win out over their libidos. (Not to be confused with July's rom-com Friends With Benefits.)
RABBIT HOLE 3 stars (PG-13) Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart play mourning parents trying to move on with their lives eight months after their young son's tragic death. Playwright David Lindsey-Abaire effectively opens up his Pulitzer Prize-winning play with awkwardly humorous scenes at a support group, while Miles Teller gives a particularly impressive, unselfconscious performance as a sensitive teenager. It's not the tearjerker you might expect, but still offers a moving portrait of the grieving process. — Holman
SEASON OF THE WITCH (PG-13) Nicolas Cage plays a medieval knight who returns from the Crusades to escort an accused witch across a plague-ravaged kingdom. Reportedly, Dominic Sena's action flick is replete with references to Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal. No, really.
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SOMEWHERE 2 stars (R ) Lost in Translation director Sofia Coppola checks back into some familiar accommodations with another tale of an unsatisfied, aging movie star (Stephen Dorff) who resides in a luxurious hotel and reassesses his life thanks to a younger blonde. In Somewhere's case, the female inspiration turns out to be Dorff's tween-age daughter (Elle Fanning), and while both stars subtly capture the dynamics of celebrity family life, Somewhere doesn't draw many interesting conclusions. At least it goes nowhere in style. — Holman
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TRUE GRIT 3 stars (PG-13) In this remake of John Wayne's Oscar-winning Western, Haillee Steinfeld plays Mattie Ross, a 14 year-old girl out for revenge when a ranch hand (James Brolin) guns down her father. Ross enlists a boozy, one-eyed U.S. marshall (Jeff Bridges) to track the no-good varmint, and tolerates a preening Texas Ranger (Matt Damon) on the trail, leading to snappy repartee and suspenseful shoot-outs. The Coen Brothers' remake improves on the original, particularly in its portrait of the harshness and cruelty of the frontier, but "new Grit" doesn't achieve the greatness of the Coen's modern classics. — Holman
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I've tried the trial version of Genespring and practically everything you can do in Genespring you can do in Bioconductor (http://www.bioconductor.org/), which is open source and free! Of course, if you want to use Bioconductor, you will have to learn how to work in R-language, and it's not all nice and point-and-click (command line), but if you have someone who is willing to dive into R-language, this person will learn a lot about statistics along the way, plus you can completely customize the way you analyze the data.ReplyDelete
Unfortunately the reason we're using GeneSpring isn't its power but its ease of use. We don't want to learn R or a lot of powerful statistics, and we very much do want to just point and click.ReplyDelete
I think somewhere I have a post explaining that we're generalists, needing to do a lot of things with only modest expertise, rather than specialists who can invest the time to learn a few things very well.
I sympathize, Rosie. And can't offer much help, except I know some very happy GeneSpring users, so perhaps the investment of time, money and energy will feel worthwhile in the long run.ReplyDelete
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With one son entering his final year at high school this year, we decided to do something special for the summer holidays - just in case it's our last family holiday.
Rather than head for an Island or Australia we decided to see a part of New Zealand none of us had been to before - the top of the North Island.
I have to say that the weather was amazing.... But I will not say any more than that.
We had some awesome experiences and the highlights for me were visiting a farm at Kaiwaka (where my great great great grandparents lived when they first arrived in New Zealand from the Shetland Islands in 1859 and is still owned by descendants), taking a guided tour around the Treaty of Waitangi grounds (something I think should be compulsory for every New Zealander) and visiting Zion where I stood among 31 lions and tigers when they all started to roar.
Everywhere we went people asked where we lived.
After exclaiming about how far Invercargill was from Northland, the next thing they mentioned was our Mayor.
Everyone seemed to have a Tim Shadbolt story.
Someone knew him through the commune he lived in and a woman who was at university at the same time recalled his fundraising auctions, where he sold everything - including an umbrella with no water proof cover.
Local body politics seemed to be a touchy subject in Northland as they face the prospect of amalgamation.
Like Southland, Northland is made up of three territorial authorities - Far North, Kaipara District and Whangarei - and one Regional Council. However, the total population is 158,000, which is significantly higher than ours.
One of the reasons reorganisation has been proposed is a dilemma with the Kaipara District Council building a sewerage scheme in Mangawhai.Interestingly there are other councils who have also had reorganisation proposed.
A group called 'A Better Hawkes Bay' has applied to the Local Government Commission for the amalgamation of four councils in their area as well as the Regional Council.
The Local Government Commission has now completed the proposed draft plan for this reorganisation and it is open for submissions until early March.
Submissions on Northland's proposed plan close at the end of February.
In Wellington the Regional Council has applied for reorganisation of eight territorial authorities into one.
This includes three councils in the Wairarapa that have in turn made an application for reorganisation as they do not want to be part of a greater Wellington council.
It seems inevitable the time will come when reorganisation is suggested, proposed or as some suggest forced upon our councils in Southland.
I certainly hope if or when the time comes, people are prepared to have their say.
The law does provide opportunities for communities and individuals to speak up but we have to take those opportunities when they are given and not wait until it is too late.
And we should all be giving this some thought and considering what future we want for Invercargill and Southland.
A quote by Lee Iacocca to finish up:
''So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.''
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University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe wimps out If you are unwilling to fight for your job, you do deserve to lose it
For the Social Justice Warriors, the responsibility for any offensive act must be pushed up to the highest ranking normal white male1:
U. Missouri president resigns over handling of racial incidents
By Susan Svrluga | November 9 at 12:01 PM
University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe resigned on Nov. 9 following protests and strikes over his handling of racial incidents on the Columbia, Mo., campus. "Use my resignation to heal and start talking again," he said. (University of Missouri System)
The president of the University of Missouri resigned Monday amid escalating protests over racist incidents on campus and how he had responded to students' concerns.
Tim Wolfe announced Monday morning at a special meeting called by the Board of Curators, the university system's governing body, that he would step down immediately.
"My motivation in making this decision comes from love," Wolfe said. "I love MU, Columbia, where I grew up, the state of Missouri." But after thinking greatly over the situation he concluded resigning "is the right thing to do."
Tensions were high on campus Monday — with a student on a hunger strike, others camped out in solidarity, faculty members canceling classes and members of the football team threatening to boycott the rest of the season. In the morning, the MU undergraduate student government association formally called for the removal of the university's president.
There's much more at the link.
So, what happened that has cost Dr Wolfe his job?
- A black student government member was called a nigger: "he was walking with a friend to get cookies Friday night when a red pickup truck slowed and young people screamed the n-word at him." There is no indication that the people in the pickup were or were not students at the University of Missouri, but the alleged incident happened near, but not on the campus, and the "Columbia Police Department does not have a report of that nature by Head, according to a spokesperson there". Dr Wolfe apparently didn't express sufficient outrage, but he would have no authority at all over an incident which did not happen on campus.
- Dr Wolfe said little or nothing when Michael Brown, who had just roughed up a clerk and robbed a convenience store, attacked police officer Darrin Wilson and paid the price for his actions. Had Dr Wolfe said anything about the incident which would have reflected the truth, he'd have been called a racist; the only politically acceptable response was to express remorse that Mr Brown was murdered. Ferguson, Missouri, where Mr Brown assaulted Officer Wilson, is 116 miles along Interstate 70, a one hour, 47 minute drive, so this was not a local event.
- Jonathan Butler, a student, began a hunger strike, because he did not like what he saw as the culture at the University; one of his demands was that President Wolfe resign.
Was Dr Wolfe a decent President for the University? I really don't know, but his job performance wasn't bad enough for the Board of Curators to have met about it prior to the "strike" by the black players on the Missouri football team; that got some attention. How Dr Wolfe was supposed to be responsible for the actions of some people, who may or may not have even been Missouri students, in a red pickup2 is beyond me. but, for the SJWs, apparently he is. How Dr Wolfe is in any way responsible for the death of Michael Brown, 116 miles away, or would have any knowledge about the events beyond what the rest of us can read in the media, escapes me completely.
But, he's apparently a heterosexual3 white male, and that makes him responsible for the acts of other people who are not under his authority, and thus he had to go! Considering that he was unwilling to fight for his position, perhaps he really should have resigned.
Nevertheless, this incident shows just how poorly American colleges are preparing students for the real world. Payton Head, the Student Government president who had been called the horrible "n" word, will eventually be graduated and have to leave Mizzou to begin a career in the business world, and there won't be any university president to blame when the next red pickup drives past and someone yells offensive stuff to him.4 He'll have to just man up5 and get on with his life.6 When he finds himself competing with other people to move up the corporate ladder, to get that next promotion, if he is unable to simply disregard insults, if he gets all flustered and upset, he won't be able to compete to the best of his ability,7 and he will fall behind. That's life in the real world! Whining and bitching and complaining does not get you ahead; in the end, it gets you left behind.
- Note that this formulation excludes President Barack Hussein Obama from any responsibility whatsoever. ↩
- It must have been a Chevy or a Dodge; General Motors and Chrysler make pickups, but Ford builds trucks! ↩
- He has a wife named Molly, and two children. ↩
- Mr Head has apparently been called names for being homosexual as well, but the article is unclear as to whether he is actually homosexual. ↩
- Apparently, telling someone to "man up" is offensive at the nearby University of Nebraska-Lincoln. ↩
- If an actual threat is made against him, he would have the basis for a complaint to the police, and action could be taken against someone who threatened him, but simple name-calling, regardless of how offensive, is not a crime. ↩
- Making complaints to Human Resources that someone is being mean to you might work one time, but it tells the top management that you are an employee who needs to go away. ↩
Rule 5 Blogging: American soldiers!
It's the weekend and time, once again, for THE FIRST STREET JOURNAL'S version of Rule 5 Blogging. Robert Stacey Stacy McCain described Rule 5 as posting photos of pretty women somewhat déshabillé, but, on this site, our Rule 5 Blogging doesn't put up pictures of Katy Perry in her summer clothes, but women, in full military gear, serving their countries in the armed forces. The terribly sexist authors on this site celebrate strong women, women who can take care of themselves and take care of others, women who have been willing to put their lives on the line in some not-so-friendly places, women who truly do have the "We can do it!" attitude. This week: American soldiers protecting our county.
From Around the Blogroll Why Da'ish do not fear America edition
We'd expect this from Berkeley or Harvard, but the University of Nebraska?
Nebraska university tells students not to say 'crazy,' 'ghetto' and other bad words
By Deena Winter / November 4, 2015
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has launched a campaign to get students to stop using certain words and phrases including "man up," "no homo," "retarded," "ghetto," "crazy" and "rape" (out of context).
In fact, students may notice one of 300 student volunteers wearing brightly colored T-shirts with the banned words emblazoned on the back. A pink shirt informs students that saying "man up" only "reinforces masculine stereotypes that are unhealthy for everyone."
A purple shirt tells students saying "no homo" just "devalues love and sexual identities."
A blue shirt says the word retarded "suggests disability and stupidity are interchangeable."
A red shirt says the phrase "that's so ghetto" only "misrepresents the experiences of others and negatively stereotypes minority groups."
A green shirt informs others that saying "you're crazy" just "minimizes human emotion and those affected by mental illness."
And finally, orange shirts warn that saying rape out of context "ignores the reality of sexual assault."
The campaign, launched Oct. 22, was organized by University Housing's Multicultural and Diversity Education Committee to encourage students to "think before they speak."
"We often hear students say things like, 'That test raped me,' or that something is 'so ghetto,'" said Melissa Peters, assistant director of residence life for student leadership and diversity initiatives, in a university announcement. "The vast majority of students aren't using these words to be malicious. But, intended or not, these are words that have impact and can hurt."
It's going to be tough on the students who are graduated from Nebraska when they are graduated, and have to leave their cozy campus and find jobs out in the real world.
There's a lot more at the original, including documentation concerning similar programs at Michigan, Michigan State and Duke.
But this is why Da'ish do not fear the United States. It's not just that they know that President Barack Hussein Obama is a pussy, or that we're more probable than not to replace him with another ineffective weakling in Hillary Rodham Clinton, though those facts matter. The bigger picture is that the next generation of American leadership is being trained in "sensitivity" and weakness, and that means that the United States is going to continue down the path of weakness for as far as anyone can reasonably foresee.
And now, on to the blogroll!
- Donald Douglas on American Power: LAUSD Teachers Reeling from 'Restorative Justice,' with Unruly Students Escaping Consequences for Their Actions and Peter Beinart Justifies Jihad Terrorism
- William Jacobson on Le*gal In*sur*rec*tion: The Knife Intifada and the Never-Ending Jihad against the Jews
- Patterico on Patterico's Pontifications: So Long, Keystone
- William Teach on The Pirate's Cove: Warmists Totally Enthused To Deny Cheap Power To World's Poor
- Darleen Click on Protein Wisdom: Left-dominated media doesn't even pretend objectivity … Another example in a long series
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StaceyStacy McCain on The Other McCain: Our Moral Superiors™ and Reasons to Home School Your Kids.
- Nina Bookout on The Victory Girls: Politico Caught Covertly Editing Ben Carson "Hit Piece"
Who knew that the Speaker of the House in Kentucky was as stupid as Amanda Marcotte?
Yesterday's election results bothered the lovely Miss Marcotte no end!
These are not the only nuts: Tea Party governors and anti-LGBT statutes win when we stupidly stay home
How did conservatives crush a popular anti-discrimination ordinance in Houston? Urban legends and low voter turnout
By Amanda Marcotte | Wednesday, November 4, 2015 | 11:14 AM EST
While everyone—and I'm as guilty as the next political writer—was focusing heavily on the 2016 election, conservatives were able, yet again, to exploit the low voter turnout in off-year elections to keep racking up wins despite the general unpopularity for conservative policies. Nowhere was this more evident than in the city of Houston, which voted on Tuesday on the question of whether to repeal an anti-discrimination ordinance passed by the city council back in May.
The ordinance banned discrimination based on many things, including race, age, sexual orientation, and military service. But it was the ban on discriminating against people based on gender identity that opponents used as a wedge to attack the ordinance broadly, falsely claiming that by letting trans women use women's restrooms, cis men would dress as women to rape women in public bathrooms.
The claim stinks of an urban legend—public bathrooms have snakes in the toilets and dress-wearing rapists in the stalls!—and city-wide polling data showed that citizens weren't buying it. A few weeks ago, polling showed that the ordinance was up 6 points over repeal, with 43 percent of voters supporting it and 37 percent of voters opposing it. But somehow, on Election Day, the ordinance went down in an election that wasn't even close.
What happened? Simple: Bigots were able to turn out the vote while non-bigots mostly stayed at home, assuming that this was a "small" election in an off-year and therefore one they could sit out.
If Miss Marcotte can freely label her political opponents as bigots, I suppose I can call her what she is as well: an idiot.
To be clear, this election had higher voter turnout than usual for off-year elections in Houston, but that appears to be largely because opponents of the anti-discrimination policy were able to rally their own voters. Knowing that very few ordinary people who generally support non-discrimination laws would turn out to vote, the religious right could hammer their own people, who are notoriously gullible, with tall tales about fantastical rapes by men in dresses. Off-year elections are candy to conservatives, because they can have this kind of disproportionate influence on the ballot.
This election was high turnout for a municipal election, with 27 percent of registered voters turning out. That was nothing compared to the 59 percent voter turnout in the presidential election year of 2012.
It's not unreasonable to think the larger Houston population is smarter about these issues that the people who showed up to vote. The mayor of the city, Annise Parker (who advocated heavily for this anti-discrimination law) is not just a Democrat but is openly lesbian. Texas may be a red state, but Houston is actually quite liberal. If voters actually show up to the polls, that is.
Or, perhaps, the opinion polls were wrong. Erick Erickson noted that the pre-election polls have been pretty notoriously wrong for a while now, and, for amusement, I checked the Lost Kos, a hard-left website which tracks elections pretty closely:
Morning Digest: Conservative pollster musters up a tie for Matt Bevin
by Daily Kos Elections for Daily Kos Elections
Just days ahead of Kentucky's gubernatorial election, GOP pollster Vox Populi released the first survey since June—and just the second one all year—that does not show Republican Matt Bevin losing to Democrat Jack Conway. Vox's poll has the two leading candidates tied at 44 apiece, with independent Drew Curtis at 6.
Election junkies know that there's been precious little polling out of the Bluegrass State, but Conway's led in the last six surveys in a row—including in Bevin's own internal. The only time anyone's actually found Bevin ahead came over four months ago, when PPP, interestingly, put him up 40-38. That was a long time ago, though, and until now, no one had put up any numbers to contradict this string of a half-dozen polls.
But the question is, could Vox be right? It's certainly possible. Last year, as a brand-new firm, Vox performed well, predicting much more success for Republicans than most other outfits. However, was this because they accurately understood the nature of 2014's GOP wave? Or did they naturally lean in the direction of their partisan inclinations and just get lucky? We'll find out on Tuesday.
Matt Bevin won by eight percentage points, and all of the statewide Democratic candidates underperformed what the polls said they would do. The Lost Kos wrote as though it was only because Vox Populi is conservative in orientation that they came up with a tie for Mr Bevin, an underhanded way of saying that the results should be discounted.
And so we come to the Speaker of the Kentucky House, Greg Dumbo Stumbo:
Kentucky Democrat Claims Matt Bevin's Win Was A Defeat For Christ
The Democrat Speaker of Kentucky's House of Representatives, Greg Stumbo, was on a roll last night as it became obvious that Matt Bevin had not only won but had effectively curb-stomped the Democrat, Jack Conway. To hear him tell it, it was a rejection of God Himself.
"Let me tell you," Stumbo said. "I am going to admit I have not read the holy book from front to finish like some of you probably have, but my reading of our Bible shows that the word Republican or Democrat isn't used, and people sometimes ask me … 'What would Jesus have been if he were alive? Would he have been a Democrat or a Republican?'
"Democrat," audience members said.
"I don't know," Stumbo said. "Nobody knows. The Bible doesn't tell us that, does it? But I believe the Bible is a book of parables … I don't know whether Jesus would have been a Democrat or Republican, and nobody else does, but I know this. He was a carpenter and a teacher, and I bet every carpenter and teacher I know are pretty good Democrats.
"And the other thing I know is that if in fact the Bible is a book of parables, like I believe it is, think about this: Mary did not ride an elephant into Bethlehem that night. So you go home and you go to your church and you tell people, I'm a Democrat, I'm a God-fearing Democrat. I'm a Democrat that believes in the principles of the Bible that become the principles of our party, that this wealth accumulation in America has to cease, that people have to have a right to have an equal education opportunity, that people have a right to have health care, that people have a right to enjoy the American Dream, and we will rebuild this party starting right here in Kentucky."
I can only believe that either alcohol and/or narcotics were involved in this. The only other explanation is that [A typographical error keeps us from seeing that only other explanation, but I'd suggest outright stupidity.]
No one is deserving of humiliation more than anyone who would claim their political party embodies very essence of Christ. When your party makes a fetish of pissing on the Ten Commandments and the Gospels becomes offensive. Not to put too fine a point on it, the Democrats are the party of infanticide, they are the party of sodomy, they are the party of covetousness, they are the party of theft, the are the party of sexual licentiousness. I'm not saying the GOP is holy by any stretch of the imagination but, Merciful Heaven, we haven't accepted actively hostility to Christianity as one of our principles.
I'm trying to figure out if Our Lord would join the party which supports abortion up until natural birth . . . if not after.
Returning to Miss Marcotte, she stated that conservative ideas, that Republican principles, "are generally unpopular," but that Republicans are still doing well at winning actual elections. Perhaps her view that conservative principles "are generally unpopular" is informed by the same polls which have gotten actual election results so wrong. Harry Enten wrote:
Just as in 2014, the polling underestimated Republican candidates in Kentucky in 2015, but did so in a fairly uniform fashion. On average, SurveyUSA and Western Kentucky University (WKU) missed the final margin by 13.4 and 11.1 percentage points, respectively, in the elections for agricultural commissioner, attorney general, auditor, governor, secretary of state and treasurer.
KENTUCKY POLLING ERRORS OFFICE SURVEYUSA DEM LEAD WKU DEM LEAD ACTUAL MARGIN SURVEYUSA BIAS WKU BIAS Agriculture commissioner -7.0 -7.0 -20.2 +13.2 +13.2 Attorney general +12.0 +6.0 +0.2 +11.8 +5.8 Auditor +8.0 +5.0 -3.9 +11.9 +8.9 Governor +5.0 +5.0 -8.7 +13.7 +13.7 Sec. of state +13.0 +11.0 +2.3 +10.7 +8.7 Treasurer -2.0 -5.0 -21.3 +19.3 +16.3 Average +13.4 +11.1
A look at the table above reveals that the polls and the results for the different races were highly correlated (0.96 for WKU and 0.97 for SurveyUSA). It's as if the the electorate became about a dozen percentage points more Republican between when the polls were taken and Election Day.
It's not yet clear whether pollsters simply projected that more Democratic voters would show up than actually did or whether undecided voters broke overwhelmingly for the Republican candidates. The former suggests an electorate modeling problem that could be a big problem during the presidential primaries, when turnout is low. On the other hand, trouble modeling the electorate would be less of an issue in the 2016 general election, when turnout is at its highest.
Even in the two statewide races that the Democrats won, the winners were scions of longtime Kentucky political families — Andy Beshear, son of the outgoing Governor, won the race for Attorney General, while Alison Lundergan Grimes held onto the Secretary of State's job — and they won by much smaller margins than the polls had predicted.
I had previously noted the silliness of Brad Friedman, who has claimed for years that the pre-election polls were the true vote counts, and that the actual elections were fraudulent. It's just too bad for the left that, as we have noted before: the only polls which actually mean anything are the ones conducted on election day.
Cross-posted on RedState.
Common sense and normality win in Houston
From the Pirate's Cove:
Houston Voters Say No To Houston LGBT Ordinance
William Teach | November 4, 2015 – 7:26 am
A win for common sense and rationality:
(NY Times) A yearlong battle over gay and transgender rights that turned into a costly, ugly war of words between this city's lesbian mayor and social conservatives ended Tuesday as voters repealed an anti-discrimination ordinance that had attracted attention from the White House, sports figures and Hollywood celebrities.
The City Council passed the measure in May, but it was in limbo after opponents succeeded, following a lengthy court fight, in putting the matter to a referendum.
The Times seems a bit upset that citizens would be allowed to vote on this.
Supporters said the ordinance was similar to those approved in 200 other cities and prohibited bias in housing, employment, city contracting and business services for 15 protected classes, including race, age, sexual orientation and gender identity. Opponents said the measure would allow men claiming to be women to enter women's bathrooms and inflict harm, and that simple message — "No Men in Women's Bathrooms" — was plastered on signs and emphasized in television and radio ads, turning the debate from one about equal rights to one about protecting women and girls from sexual predators.
In reality, this ordinance was all about pandering to the tiny LGBT community and the liberals who support them, and creating yet another class of people who are protected over others. There was nothing in this about equal protection. Strangely, the Times, like so many other news outlets, forgets to include the voting results. Let's check the AP
There's more at Mr Teach's original.
The mayor of Houston, Annise Parker, is a lesbian, "married" to another woman,1 and the people of Houston were aware of that fact when they elected her on 2009; she has been re-elected twice now, so it's obvious that the voters in Houston don't have a problem with that. Yet, with 95% of the vote counted, the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance was defeated by a very wide margin, 61% to 39%. Perhaps HERO's supporters ham-handed attempt to subpoena the sermons of Christian pastors opposed to it2 might have had something to do with the defeat.
But the most important component to the Houston vote was the attempt by the "progressives" to force normal people to comply with the demands of a mentally ill few. The ordinance would have allowed transsexual individuals to use the public restrooms of their choice, not of their biological sex, and the advertising campaign had images of adult males following little girls into the bathroom. Does this happen much? The supporters of HERO would tell you that no, it does not, but there have already been too many lawsuits by these mentally ill people to force normal people to go along with their delusions. And, as you would expect, the Obama Administration has sided not with the normal people, but the mentally ill ones, trying to force the public schools, where students, most of whom are minors, are legally compelled to attend, to allow transsexual students to use the restroom of their delusions rather than their sex. And Hillary Clinton tweeted her support for this junk:
No one should face discrimination for who they are or who they love—I support efforts for equality in Houston & beyond. #HERO #YesOnProp1 -H
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 29, 2015
The difference between Houston thrice electing a lesbian mayor and the landslide defeat of HERO is really pretty simple: Americans don't really care than much about what other people do, as long as they keep it to themselves and don't try to force it on others. But the homosexual/ transsexual rights movement is not, and will never be, happy with that distinction, and thus they feel the need to keep pushing, to try to force compliance by other people, to shove it down their throats. Had HERO exempted public restrooms, it might have even passed.
The problem with being nice, the problem with being understanding, of the left's agenda, is that, given an inch, they will sue you for the mile, and demand that they can educate your children to agree to the next mile beyond that.
Cross-posted on RedState.
- Though Miss Parker and Kathy Hubbard went through a legal marriage ceremony in California, The First Street Journal does not accept the cockamamie notion that two people of the same sex can be married, regardless of what the law and the Supreme Court might say, and thus the quotation marks. ↩
- Mayor Parker claimed to have been unaware of the subpoenas, and, of course I believe her! ↩
Ben Carson surges to the lead The obvious question: will it last?
From The Wall Street Journal:
Ben Carson Vaults to Lead in Latest Journal/NBC Poll
Retired neurosurgeon overtakes Donald Trump for lead among Republican presidential candidates
By Patrick O'Connor | November 2, 2015 | 6:30 p.m. ETRetired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has overtaken businessman Donald Trump as the top pick of Republican primary voters to be the party's presidential nominee, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds.
The result marks the first time since June that the Journal/NBC News poll has found a Republican other than Mr. Trump to be leading the GOP field. Some 29% of GOP primary voters rank Mr. Carson as their top choice, while 23% favor Mr. Trump.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz rank third and fourth as the top pick of 11% and 10% of Republican primary voters, respectively.
Some 8% prefer former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. No other Republican garners more than 3% support.
There's more at the original. Unfortunately, my preferred candidate, Carly Fiorina, is stuck down at 3%; she built up her support following the first two debates, but was unable to maintain that enthusiasm, and a pedestrian performance in last week's debate on CNBC hurt her. Where she was average, Senators Rubio and Cruz were better, a lot better.
The real news, however, is that Ben Carson is now outpolling Donald Trump. Is it an aberration, or has Mr Trump's popularity really started to wane? Mr Trump's performance in the CNBC debate was not that great either, but Mr Trump has the advantage of not needing campaign contributions; he can finance his campaign out of his own wealth, and has promised to do so.
The next debate is scheduled for November 10th on Fox Business Network. Jeb Bush tried to knock out Mario Rubio in the last debate, and it backfired on him; he's got to make a top-flight performance next week, or he's toast. Mrs Fiorina got her surge in the polls from the first and second debates; she needs to duplicate those performances next week, or she'll be effectively out of the race. Mr Trump will be taking aim at Dr Carson — all of the candidates will be taking aim at Dr Carson — but he was doing that in the last debate, and it didn't work for him.
Fifteen candidates is too many for the GOP going into the Iowa caucuses; the herd has to be thinned before January.
Apparently telling the truth is a "microaggression." If we cannot call criminals criminals, can we at least label idiots idiots?
The rhetorical question that is so often used, "What part of illegal don't you understand?" might not be as rhetorical as you might think. From the sanctuary city of San Francisco:
San Francisco neighbor says don't call thieves 'criminals'
A new extreme in political correctness?
Amy Graff | Updated 9:52 am, Saturday, October 31, 2015
Is it wrong to call someone who steals a "criminal"?
In a recent thread on NextDoor, a group of neighbors living in the Noe Valley-Glen Park area were engaged in a discussion around the city's crime and debated whether labeling a person who commits petty theft as a "criminal" is offensive.
In the site's Crime and Safety area, where residents share strategies for fighting crime, Malkia Cyril of S.F. suggests that her neighbors stop using the label because it shows lack of empathy and understanding.Cyril pointed out that instead of calling the thief who took the bicycle from your garage a criminal, you could be more respectful and call him or her "the person who stole my bicycle."
"I [suggest] that people who commit property crimes are human and deserved to be referred to in terms that acknowledge that," Cyril, who's the executive director of the Center for Media Justice in Oakland, writes in the thread.
"I think we should think twice before speaking in disparaging terms about 'those criminals,'" she adds later in the thread.
Cyril started the thread because she wanted to shift the NextDoor conversations about security cameras, alarms and the police to more thoughtful discussions about strategies for addressing the cause of crime. In her posts, she blames our societal problems — gentrification, economic inequality, lack of affordable housing, the defunding of public schools — for pushing people into lives of crime.
You know, I grew up poor, but somehow, some way, that didn't lead me into stealing someone's bicycle, or anything else. Actually, I was devastated when someone stole my bicycle (some time between the fourth and sixth grades), a Schwinn Spitfire, off of our front porch; my mother couldn't afford to replace it. I knew other poor kids as well, and I don't recall ever knowing that any of them were thieves.
In a world of extreme political correctness, washing away words that have been deemed inappropriate is becoming commonplace. Many of these words are blatantly inappropriate, but with others, such as "criminal," the offensive implication is subtle. These less obvious insults are often referred to as microggressions, which a recent article in the Atlantic Monthly explains are "small actions or word choices that seem on their face to have no malicious intent but that are thought of as a kind of violence nonetheless."
Is referring to a person who steals as a "criminal" an example of a microaggression?
I would think that it is an example of telling the truth! Apparently telling the truth is a "microaggression."
The San Francisco Chronicle captured some of the discourse:
Boo hoo. Poor people. Malkia you're totally right. How dare I call the low life who last Wednesday stole my gym bag a "criminal". After all he's probably not even reading this, since he goes to fitness sf Castro like I do (did). No, he's not a criminal, you're right. He's a f______ thief. And deserves to be caught and go to jail. But he likely won't because this city is soft.
To which Miss Cyril responded:
Your gym bag was stolen? People's lives are being stolen by poverty, over policing, and more. You can recover stolen property, and even if you can't — you're alright. But it does not compare to the primary drivers of crime. Addiction is not a selfish act, it is a medical crisis. People are not simply lazier than you, and there's so much underpinning your assessments that it's best I don't respond to . . . .
And the Chronicle even agreed, writing:
Cyril pointed out that the man's loss of his gym bag is a small inconvenience for someone of privilege.
Well, you know what, there actually are people lazier than the man who had his gym bag stolen. We don't know much about the man who had his gym bag stolen, but we can assume that he had to spend his own money to buy it, and the money he spent on the gym bag was money he could not spend on something else. We don't know the motivation of the criminal who stole the man's gym bag, but I assume that Fitness SF Castro has a membership fee1; it's a privately owned business.2 One would think that the thief had enough money to actually pay the fees at the gym, so he was (probably) not the poverty-stricken victim of society Miss Cyril assumed.
As for the City by the Bay looking the other way, not treating criminals like criminals, Kate Steinle was unavailable for comment.
People like Malkia Cyril are a huge problem in our society. Rather than insist on civility and order, they excuse and enable criminality; we can bet that if she knew who stole the gentleman's gym bag, she wouldn't turn him in. If San Francisco suffers from "over policing," as she says, it is because too many ordinary citizens enable criminals, and allow them to be criminals, allow them to continue breaking the law and getting away with it.
Way back in 2007, we noted how the city of Philadelphia didn't take crime seriously, and the result was a dead police officer. In 2008, it happened again, more than once. We also noted how San Francisco released an illegal immigrant and "alleged" gang member, refusing to turn him over for deportation, and he then murdered three people. But people like Miss Cyril don't seem to have a problem with things like that, just as long as we don't hurt the poor dears' feelings by calling them criminals, by telling the truth, and by treating crime seriously.
If it's wrong for me to call criminals criminals, is it at least acceptable for me to call Malkia Cyril an idiot?
Cross-posted on RedState.
- I searched, but was unable to find the fees online. ↩
- Fitness SF Castro had to shut down the steam room because there was too much "hanky panky" going on. Gosh, what a surprise that is! ↩
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