God forbid.

Malkin’s evidence: A student who hasn’t taken the class, and this:

For McCarthy, it seems Peace Studies is not just a cause; it is a crusade.

“Unless we teach them peace, someone else will teach them violence,” he said.

Oh my. Subversive indeed. As are, from the textbook which Malkin links to derisively, the teachings of Gandhi, King, and Einstein.

Einstein:

We must begin to inoculate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. … I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

Inoculating our children against militarism. Strikes fear in your heart, doesn’t it, Michelle?

See how easy it would be? That’s all you have to say: It’s not ricin.

You had enough time on your hands to post nearly a dozen links on the topic while it was breaking, to track down pictures, do research on the history of ricin in the United States, even to admit when more tests are needed…

…so why no time to admit that the whole thing was a false alarm?

Update:

“I guess you can say I was just weirded out,” said Kelly Heinbaugh, a freshman kinesiology major. “It seemed out of place … I figured I’d rather be safe than sorry.”

I have no problem with the “better safe than sorry” argument, especially given the level of hysteria the average American has been whipped into by people like Malkin, but what’s out of place, exactly, about a chunky white powder in a laundry room, or in a roll of quarters which presumably has spent time in and around a laundry room?

Update 2: One story calls the powder “whitish-brown”, which certainly doesn’t sound like detergent. While the update above was mostly snark anyway, I’ll officially retract the suggestion that the powder shouldn’t have looked out of place.

See how easy that was?

Knock it off, guys. It’s not very funny.

Oh, sure I know she SAYS Turktelecom. You and I both know the 3Bulls! and Liberal Avenger posses are infinitely resourceful.

Malkin’s making a thing about the liberal behavior at Scalia’s recent speech.

The thought occurs to me that so-called unhingedness is proportional to feelings of powerlessness. The power structure of this country has never been more impenetrable, more imperious, more disconnected from dissent. The “common people” have never been more powerless.

The conservative establishment has spent forty years trying to get to this point, and now they’re going to complain that the peasants are impolite. Screw that.

It took me until the third post of his to realize it, but this blogger speaks the truth.

Michelle Malkin, much like Ann Coulter, has come to understand that ‘Conservativism’ now means to many so-called Conservatives…

It means racial, cultural and religious animus.

It means welcoming and encouraging the ‘Clash of Civilizations’.

It means, ultimately, the offer of either subjugation or extermination to the ‘Other’.

My uncomfortableness with the Dubai ports deal has been very tentative and qualified - based simply on the UAE’s history as the center for finance in the Muslim world and therefore, by default, finance for terrorism - not to mention UAE citizens involved in 9/11.

But Dennis is right, and it’s kind of surprising that in this day and age Democrats, usually so quick to denounce xenophobia, are just blindly engaging in it without disclaimer or qualification.

He’s wrong about one thing, though.

Not that Malkin would be so crude as to lay these particular cards on the public table.

She couldn’t give away those particular cards more clearly if they were pasted to her head.

(Thanks to both sonic and jade in comments for bringing this blog to my attention)

I’m extremely busy at work this week, as can be seen by my general absence. I should be back over the weekend and can maybe catch up with things.

Gmail’s targeted ads just love my “Michelle Malkin” Google News automatic updates. Today Gmail offered me this:

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Rave reviews for Malkin(s)watch! (Courtesy Babelfish):

The Angelos has right in the comments of previous post: what I attributed in intolerance, ignorance and neosyntiritjke’s convictions (all things where sjhaj’nomaj but consider end pa’ntwn agnoy’s objectives) is actually Olympic age-group propaganda. See here one extensive xempro’stjasma. Things that promotes the lady: under the environment, I ask the camps of concentration, “O Saint Mpoys”.
Anyway, I take behind “ancypogkomenj’djo”? because the photograph in mplogk plays it is before 300 years.

Can the money be far behind?

Update: I’ll at least take some groupies. Male, female, it’s all flattering.

Academic rigor:

In the question-and-answer session, a student asked Malkin if these hoaxes she described were representative stories.

“For every one that is faked, dozens are true,” the student said.

“There’s a lot less than you might think,” Malkin responded. “A lot of stats are hyped.”

She added that a lot of “under reporting” occurs with regard to fake hate crimes.

Asked for a percentage on exactly how many hate crimes might be fake, Malkin said, “I can’t put a percentage on it…This is about a psyche. It deserves greater scrutiny…I wish a sociologist would take up this field.”

It has to be true - I wrote a book about it!

She told the audience that once, in kindergarten, she came home crying because she was called a racist name.

“My mom wiped my tears…and told me everyone has prejudice,” she said. “I am eternally grateful for this [lesson].”

Oh, I see. Everyone has prejudice, but many hate crimes are faked. And speaking of fake hate crimes…

Reading from her notes, bodyguard standing in front of her, Malkin recounted tales of Oberlin students seeing racism in situations that to her were not racist at all.

Oh? Situations like this?

In honor of the bloggers in Amsterdam today:

It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank - Linda Pastan

It is raining on the house
of Anne Frank
and on the tourists
herded together under the shadow
of their umbrellas,
on the perfectly silent
tourists who would rather be
somewhere else
but who wait here on stairs
so steep they must rise
to some occasion
high in the empty loft,
in the quaint toilet,
in the skeleton
of a kitchen
or on the map-
each of its arrows
a barb of wire-
with all the dates, the expulsions,
the forbidding shapes
of continents.
And across Amsterdam it is raining
on the Van Gogh Museum
where we will hurry next
to see how someone else
could find the pure
center of light
within the dark circle
of his demons.

The argument against global warming (as with the argument against evolution) seems to be “if even one scientist says it, you can take it to the bank, unless almost every scientist says it, in which case it’s clearly politically motivated bullshit.”

Like so:

So, Paramount is gearing up to release an Al Gore documentary about global warming. But at least two scientists in the Philippines are rejecting Gore’s hot air. The Philippine Daily Inquirer reports:

‘Not everyone was pleased with the way former US Vice President Al Gore was given “celebrity” treatment when he spoke as a crusader against global warming in Manila.

‘Two scientists from the University of the Philippines yesterday lamented how Gore’s “doomsday” pronouncements apparently received more attention than the more detailed analyses and solutions offered by Filipino environmental experts. They also challenged and branded as “exaggerated” what the former US leader said about Manila Bay “overflowing” because of the greenhouse effect…’

…I hope more scientists committed to the truth speak up about Gore’s bloviations.

Now, if one reads the full reprinted section, it’s clear that these Filipino scientists are, for the most part, picking nits. They’re worried that the focus on global warming will lead local officials to ignore the other problems involved in causing Manila Bay to overflow. Still, they do call global warming exaggerated, which should lead to a job offer from the Heritage Foundation any day now.

But it’s an unfortunate coincidence (for both Malkin and the scientists) that this week also happens to be the week in which some obscure rag called Science decided to release some interesting news about global warming.

Spoiler warning: It’s even worse than we thought. (No direct link available because of the paywall.)

Increased meltwater production, if it reaches the glacier bed through crevasses, provides a clear mechanism for enhanced flow through basal lubrication and sliding.A clue to this is provided by observations of the coincidence of ice acceleration with the duration of summer melting on the ice sheet even beyond the boundaries of fast-flowing outlet glaciers…

Existing and forthcoming satellites will continue to measure ice-surface elevation and any shifts in the rates of surface melting and accumulation. In a warming world, it is likely that the contribution to sea-level rise from Greenland is set to grow further, assuming that the observed acceleration in outlet-glacier velocities is sustained, with possible increases in precipitation providing the onlyprospect of short-term amelioration.

Whatever the cause of global warming (hint: it’s us), global warming is happening, and it’s a problem. Rather than wringing our hands about who’s saying it, conservatives like Malkin need to face up to it and move on into supporting solutions.

Shorter Michelle Malkin:

This is what criminals look like in case you’ve forgotten.

Malkin goes home:

The best moment of the [Oberlin] event came during Q&A, when an Asian-American student stood up and said she was afraid to join the College Republicans because of peer pressure. She confirmed that groupthink on campus was strong, among both students and professors. After the lecture, she took the plunge and signed up with the CRs. Made the whole trip worth it!

“Took the plunge”? Um, she joined the youth organization of the party which currently controls the Presidency, the Congress, and the Judicial Branch, not to mention the bulk of the blogosphere.

Now that’s bravery.

Just crazy:

There’s a storm brewing at the University of Washington, where students have rejected a proposed memorial to one of the school’s bravest military heroes.

Yes. They rejected it because they wanted more decorated alumni to be honored.

Malkin closes her “booga-booga liberal academia” post with a letter (posted by the Raghead Jawa Report) from the president of the UW student senate:

I would also like to remind you that as ASUW President I cosponsored this bill to create a memorial, it failed by one vote, and a good majority of those who voted against it wanted more inclusion of other alumni who were combat veterans who earned the Medal of Honor. This week a new resolution to that effect is being drafted and introduced. In the meantime the ASUW supports veterans in other ways, currently we are supporting state legislation that will hopefully pass and guarantee veterans tuition waivers. In the end, the buck stops here, I would appreciate further comments to be made to me. Please do not participate or condone the hate-filled comments and phone calls made toward individuals in our student government. It has been appalling to see what is being said to people. I too am nauseated.

I don’t know if he’s referring to death threats or not, but considering the way the world works, I have to assume he is. Didn’t take long for wingnuts to remind us that the “high road” only applies to other people, did it?

Unless and until tanks roll across the plains of Armageddon, wherever that is, I will not be posting another word about the so-called “cartoon jihad.”

If I don’t take that step, my next post will be filed from an undisclosed padded location.