Update (4/12): Perhaps it's unfair to suggest "Doctor" Helen is mentally unbalanced without explaining why. The thing speaks for herself, of course, but let me elaborate. Here's the "Doctor":

Let me give you an example of the professional man who keeps other men down. If you work in — or are involved in — academia, you will know what I mean. There are a number of older guys, in their sixties or so, who worked with the civil rights movement and considered this their heyday. They are now full professors who pride themselves on helping women and minorities get ahead. They come into every faculty meeting harping about the need to give a step-up to the women in the department or they demand that a minority be hired for some position, meanwhile overlooking the qualified men who should also be in the running. You, the young, untenured guy in the department, often wonder why this deadwood won't step down if he cares so much — and give up his much-coveted chair to some minority.

If you're not a persecuted young academic with a pale dick, you can stop reading now. The "Doctor"'s not talking to you.

Of course, professional men keep other men down every day when they select one man over others, for reasons pure and not so pure. But the "Doctor" only thinks this is bad if the professional man prefers a woman or "a minority" to a man. If you screw one man over in favor of another man, no matter how base your motive or unjust the result, the "Doctor"'s not bothered.

More importantly, the "Doctor" seems incapable of comprehending that many minorities are men, and that women aren't a minority. In her view, a professional man is keeping other men down if his decision favors a minority man. So when the "Doctor" pretends to worry about men being kept down, it's only white men she worries about.

After barely concealing her bigotry, the "Doctor" goes on to claim that men are persecuted because although more of them are in positions of power and wealth, there are also more men who are on death row and more men who die on the job. Apparently women are avoiding capital punishment not because they kill less than frequently than men, but because the jury boxes are filled with tenured radical professors who give all the best prison sentences to women.

The "Doctor" then opines that Bill Gates hates capitalism and sexual harassment laws were all Bill Clinton's idea. (Oh, and Heather Mills -- who is apparently is a man -- keeps Paul McCartney down by wanting to spend time with the couple's daughter.)

In the end, the "Doctor" comes full circle, asserting that men are to blame for other men's problems because they blame other men for their problems.

No, really.

Finally, ordinary men also keep other men down (see this comment section at my blog for more on this). Chivalrous men who think women can't make it on their own and need men's protection at any cost, as well as men who stick their head in the sand (ostriches) and blame other men for their problems or say that the problem does not exist, only serve to perpetuate misandry in the culture. In addition, men are indoctrinated to say bad things about other men. How many times do you hear men saying "he's a dog, a deadbeat, a loser," often without proof? And these are their friends. Some men buy into the "men are evil" myth hook, line, and sinker. It is often not warranted.

Forget about adjusting the "Doctor"'s meds, just pull her license.

The Senate Gay-Straight Alliance Club

Republican Senator Larry Craig (R-WC) demonstrates that he is wide but not narrow as he extends a consoling hand under the partition to embattled fellow Republican, Sen. David Vitter, according to The Hill:

Embattled Louisiana Sen. David Vitter (R) is getting support from fellow Republicans who say he should not resign over a public sex scandal — including from someone who can speak from experience.

Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho was among several GOP senators who say Vitter's testimony in the "D.C. Madam" prostitution case should not compel his resignation.

"First and foremost, in these kinds of issues, it's the state and the relationship you have with your state that really determines where you ought to go," Craig said. "That was certainly my case. The Senate itself wasn't going to judge me. I would allow the citizens of my state to do so. And there is still strong support there."

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[Craig] also said he sympathizes with Vitter's treatment by the media.

"My story became a situation where my wife and I watched it almost as if it were caricatures out there being talked about," Craig said. "It certainly wasn't me, but that was quite typical in a 24/7 news cycle like we have today."

Craig was caricatured in the media as a man who didn't contest charges that he had solicited sex from a cop in an airport bathroom, which is totally unlike him.

The article fails to name any of the "several GOP senators" beside Craig who support Vitter. Perhaps they're his fellow Johns, McCain and Warner.

When A Wingnut Wet Dream Explodes

It was the perfect story. A innocent white 13-year-old girl menaced by swarthy thugs while trying to protect our borders:

A teenager who took a sign reading "If you love our nation, stop illegal immigration" to school said she was hurt after being swarmed by angry classmates, and administrators said Tuesday they have suspended three students involved in the scuffle.

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J.R. Bowers, the girl's father, said Melanie suffered scratch marks along her neck, face and arms. He said she also had a swollen jaw.

Bowers said as many as 20 students surrounded his daughter in the hallway, and Hayes said others may have hurled verbal insults. The poster was ultimately destroyed by other students.

"She was like a zebra on her arm," Bowers said of the bruises. "She believes they were intentionally trying to hurt her."

The three students given in-school suspension are Hispanic, Hayes said. Bowers is white. Although the school has video surveillance, Hayes said the incident occurred in a blind spot out of camera range but no punches were thrown.

The usual wingnuts became orgasmic, lighting crosses first and asking questions never. Sample drooling (no links):

"the open-borders mob reaction to one girl's project is absolutely unacceptable"

"Jail is too good for these scumbags-in-training... Not that they'll get any real punishment, anyway."

"How much more of this shit are we going to take?"

"Government schools. Have you delivered your child into the hands of government today? Do you feel good about that?"

Of course, unless you were blinded by irrational hatred, you could see the truth coming a mile away.

DALLAS -- An eighth-grader lied when she claimed a mob of angry students assaulted her for making a poster that said, "If you love our nation, stop illegal immigration," Athens school district officials said Wednesday.

Surveillance cameras at Athens Middle School show Melanie Bowers, 13, making scratch marks on her face and arms in a hallway after a classmate took her poster in a "snatch and grab," Superintendent Fred Hayes said.

Melanie had told administrators she was clawed and hit after about 20 students, angry about the poster she made for a class project, swarmed her and wrested the sign away.

The reported scuffle led to the suspension of three Hispanic students.

"The real error in this whole thing lies in the young lady telling lies," Hayes said. The school is pursuing misdemeanor charges against the girl for making a false report.

Melanie's future as a wingnut blogger is looking even brighter today.

Update (4/10): I should have called this post "Nava, Again."

Worst Case Scenario

The most interesting thing about Rummy's worst-case scenarios (see below) is that the Administration never informed the public about any of those disasterous consequences. And, of course, while the WSJ review of Doug E. Feith's book doesn't include Rummy's entire list, the deaths and mutilations of tens of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands Iraqi noncombatants are conspicuous by their absence from the parade of horribles. Perhaps Rummy and Feith didn't foresee those outcomes. Or perhaps they didn't consider them worst-case.

For a fuller look a Feith, check out Athenae's FDL post, Throwing the Book at Douglas Feith.

One Hundred Years of Crapitude

The SCLNYT takes another dive for the Hundred Year Old Man:

BY THE NEW YORK TIMES

Senator Barack Obama has come under some criticism for suggesting that his colleague in the Senate, John McCain, wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years, even though Mr. McCain was speaking hypothetically. Today in Pennsylvania, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton did not shy away from using that line of attack either.

At a speech at Hopewell High School in Aliquippa, Pa., Mrs. Clinton praised Mr. McCain, but then added that the Senator "has said that it would be alright with him if we kept troops in Iraq for up to 100 years and again yesterday, he basically reiterated his commitment to the course that we are on in Iraq. Well, I don't agree with that."

Of course, McCain wouldn't be in office long enough to make it to the 100th anniversary and couldn't legally commit American soldiers for 100 years. But it's indisputable that McCain wants a Century of Occupation, at the very least. And that's exactly what he said.

Congratulate Us, We're The Biggest Fuckups Ever

Reviewing Doug E. Feith's recent tome in the War Street Journal, Bret Stephens unveils the neocon war criminals' latest defense -- We meant to do that:

In October 2002, a memorandum outlining the worst-case scenarios for postwar Iraq was circulated among the top members of the Bush administration. Among its 30 or so warnings were the following:

- "US could fail to find WMD on the ground."

- "Post-Saddam stabilization and reconstruction efforts by the United States could take not two to four years, but eight to ten years."

- "The United States could become so absorbed in its Iraq effort that we pay inadequate attention to other serious problems -- including other proliferation and terrorism problems."

- "Syria and Iran could help our enemies in Iraq. . . . Iraq could experience ethnic strife among Kurds, Sunnis, and Shia."

The provenance of this remarkable memo? If you guessed the State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency or anyone else who today might claim to have been unhappy with the administration's drift toward war, you guessed wrong. Rather, the memo was the handiwork of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who drafted it with the assistance of his key military and civilian advisers.

That Rummy, such a genius. Not only could he imagine the worst case scenario, he and his neocon cronies could implement it to a T.

And surpass even his wildest imaginings -- tenfold.

No one tell Bret, though. He thinks it proves something else.

All Christians Are Like This

A report on Christians in the New York Times:

Her husband sexually assaulted her, and when he was angry, he would beat her while other women held her infant, [a 16-year-old girl] told a family violence shelter in a series of secret calls that triggered an investigation of the polygamist sect here.
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"Investigators determined that there is a widespread pattern and practice of the (YFZ) Ranch in which young, minor female residents are conditioned to expect and accept sexual activity with adult men at the ranch upon being spiritually married to them," read the affidavit signed by Lynn McFadden, a Department of Family and Protective Services investigative supervisor.

McFadden said the girls were spiritually married to the men as soon as they reached puberty and were required to bear children.

It's past time our leaders stopped referring to Christianity as a religion of peace and started acknowledging the true nature of the religious threat.