According to The Daily Caller Linda Sarsour Accused Of Enabling Sexual Assault Against Woman Who Worked For Her.

Allegations of groping and unwanted touching were allegedly brought to Sarsour during her time as executive director of the Arab American Association. In response, Sarsour, a self-proclaimed champion of women, attacked the woman bringing the allegations, often threatening and body-shaming her, these sources alleged. 

Why would a self-proclaimed feminist act like this towards women complaining of sexual assault in the work place.  I thought #believewomen?

Well…

The most serious allegations were dismissed, Asmi Fathelbab, the alleged victim told The Daily Caller, because the accused was a “good Muslim” who was “always at the Mosque.”

What did this man do?

The problems began in early 2009 when a man named Majed Seif, who lived in the same building where the Arab American Association offices are located, allegedly began stalking Fathelbab.

“He would sneak up on me during times when no one was around, he would touch me, you could hear me scream at the top of my lungs,” Asmi Fathelbab tells TheDC. “He would pin me against the wall and rub his crotch on me.”

Asmi claims one of Majed’s alleged favorite past times was sneaking up on her with a full erection.

It wasn’t just Sarsour who enabled the sexual assault.

Desperate after multiple dismissals by Sarsour, the distraught employee says she went to the president of the board of directors, Ahmed Jaber.

“Jaber told me my stalker was a ‘God-fearing man’ who was ‘always at the Mosque,’ so he wouldn’t do something like that,” Fathelbab claims. “He wanted to make it loud and clear this guy was a good Muslim and I was a bad Muslim for “complaining.”

In fact, it was the whole institution that enabled this sort of behavior.

The operative, who is a practicing Muslim in the community, says a toxic culture at the Arab American Association led to the environment of harassment.

“It’s always going to be the woman’s fault over there,” she alleges. “And Sarsour was there to protect the men. She’s not for other women. The only women she’s for is for herself.”

Who didn’t see this coming?

Doesn’t anybody remember what happened in New Years in Germany?  Over 2,000 (Muslim) men assaulted women during the New Year’s celebration.

How about the spike in rape throughout Europe due to Islamic immigration?

Yeah…

I am shocked—shocked—to find that sexual assault is going on in here!

I found this very hand guide to Smith & Wesson metal frame center fire pistols at Lucky Gunner.

I am a huge fan of the Smith & Wesson third generation semi autos.

It is in my opinion, that the 4506 is the finest non-1911 style 45 ACP handgun ever made, and quite possibly what John Browning (Peace be Upon Him) himself would have developed had he lived long enough to do a 1911A3.  The Third Gen S&Ws are essentially a Hi-Power action with a Walther P38 fire control.

If I had the money, I would LOVE to buy the rights and blue prints from Smith & Wesson for their Third Gen pistols and start making them again (minus the magazine disconnect safety), and with a Novak sight cut (for more end user options for aftermarket sights).

I prefer the feel of a metal frame gun to a polymer one, and I really love a DA/SA for concealed carry.  I hear about too many accidents with striker fired pistols.  Something like the old S&W CS9 is a dream gun for me for CCW; less than an inch thick, 3″ barrel, DA/SA aluminum frame.

Maybe one day I could get the capital to do this, if S&W was willing to licence the design.

Press Secretary Sarah Sanders went to Twitter with this fact about the tax bill.

A typical family of four earning $45,000 per year will get a tax cut of $1,379 next year under our plan. Democrats will vote against it anyway because they care more about big government than working families

— Kayleigh McEnany 45 Archived (@PressSec45) December 19, 2017

Some #resistance dipshit fired back with this.

https://twitter.com/RESISTAllDayOK/status/942951172121305088

This is the profile for RESISTAllDayOK.

“Love trumps hate, lets eliminate Trump supporters.”  Their definition of “love” is very different than mine.

The girl in the picture looks like she’s in college, so I have a feeling she’s still on daddy’s money.

For working Americans, lets see what a family of four making $45,000 a year looks like.

$45,000/yr is roughly $21.00/hr.   That is median for a CNC machinist in Alabama.

Dad had an Associates and is a machinist.  Mom is a stay at home mom because the cost of daycare for two kids is more than she’d make with a full time job at $12/hour after taxes.

OR

The median income for automotive service technician is $16/hr.  That comes out to about $33,000/yr.

Dad is a service tech changing oil at the Midas and mom has a minimum wage job with two kids in public school.

What will an additional $120/mo buy them?

That’s two full tanks of gas for dad’s used F150 making it easier for him to get to work.

That’s an additional week’s groceries.

That is a used car payment for mom.

That is the chance to take the family out for dinner and movie.

For a family on a tight budget, $120/mo can make a big difference in quality of life.

But according to RESISTAllDayOK, this makes the Press Secretary an idiot.  The because she can spend $120/week in Starbucks or $120/night in microbrew on dad’s Platinum Visa card, what a working family goes through is nothing she knows or cares about.

The funny thing is, when she graduates with her degree in Transgender Dance Studies and starts making $11/hr at Starbucks, $120/mo will be important to her.

According to Campus Reform, the University of Minnesota is trying to put the kibosh on Christmas – or any other religious celebration – on campus this holiday season.

I’m not a lawyer, but I’m pretty fucking sure that is a solid First Amendment violation.  Twice, once for the “prohibiting the free exercise thereof [religion]” clause and the “abridging the freedom of speech” clause.

Back when I was in college, we had white boards and wrote messages on them.  I used to post Happy Hanukkah and pass out Star of David shaped cookies.

I still pass out Star of David shaped cookies at work and do my Hanukkah decorations at my desk.  I have to, I am the lone Jew at the company.

If a public school administrator tried to punish me for passing out Hanukkah cookies as a student… well… I’d welcome it actually.

First I would sue his ass for violating my religious freedoms, then I’d sue his balls for violating my freedom of speech.

The point is, there is nothing so innocent, nothing so innocuous, nothing so fun and joyous that these pricks won’t try and ban it and punish people for doing it.

They can take my blue and white frosted, Star of David sugar cookies from my cold dead hands.

All I need is the Hebrew translation for Molon Labe.

Chapman University is a private college in Orange County, California, which costs about $50,000/yr in tuition.

From that information, take a guess how the politic of the school and its student body lean.

So a poli-sci major at Chapman wrote an OpEd for the school newspaper that was about is inside the box, stereotypical as you can imagine.

Centrism is a privilege.

Many progressives acknowledge the existence of privileges that counterbalance oppression. The most commonly referenced and recognizable is white privilege, which describes the benefits that white people, often unknowingly, receive from a society that can be discriminatory against racial minorities.

Good start.  Nothing makes friends like telling people that they are awful because of the color of their skin.

Liberals and progressives can be quick to call attention to many privileges, but one that often goes unrecognized is centrist privilege.

Centrist privilege, that’s new.  Tell me more, self hating white man.

In a political environment that receives criticism for polarization, it has become almost honorable to self-describe as a “moderate” or a “centrist.” While there is value in recognizing opposing viewpoints and reaching compromises, the Republican Party has become too conservative for this to be possible.

So the Republicans are the problem.  That’s not what Pew Research has found.  Two years ago the New York Times asked Have the Democrats Pulled Too Far Left, which was before the rise of Bernie Sanders.

This has created a situation in which liberals who follow the moderate, compromising path – as opposed to holding steadfast progressive values – quietly benefit from the struggles of countless Americans. 

And here we come to the thesis of the OpEd.  What Mr. Joy is suggesting is a policy of “no compromise.”

Centrism is as vile as right-wing conservatism, but it contains the additional atrocity of having no social consequences for holding views that leave fellow Americans at a disadvantage. This creates a type of privilege. Centrist ideas must only garner electoral support when they are the final option standing between the public and a conservative disaster, and even then must be met with reluctance. Just as progressives denounce white privilege, it is time to denounce centrist privilege.

Yeah!  Forget trying to come up with policy that tries to accommodate a wide swath of people of different political and socio-economic backgrounds.  There is no middle ground with the enemy.  Just take that hard Left policy and guilt trip Americans into letting the Left ram it down their throats.

I think when progressives hear the word “privilege” they expect the rest of America to react the same way that they do.

Trying to “privilege shame” moderates into being radical leftists might be effective in California.  Here in Alabama, a progressive accusing someone of some sort of privilege results in a hearty “Fuck you!”

I think a better title for this OpEd would be “How to never win a national election ever again.”

I saw a video about Bourbon made by Bloomberg news.

Bourbon is a lie.  Most of the brands of Bourbon you buy are made from a large distillery and not small individual distilleries.

And?  Beer works the same way.  So do a lot of products.

What’s next, an expose on how the Twix commercials are a lie and there is no left and right factory and they are all part of Mars, Inc.?

Less then a minute into the video, I was done.

“What can distinguish one Bourbon brand from another may be little more than how long the liquid sat in the barrel.”

NO FUCKING SHIT ASSHOLE, THAT IS 99% OF THE SCIENCE OF WHISKY MAKING.

This is chemical engineering, right up my alley.

Step one, make the mash.  Use a grain containing sugar and ferment the grain into a solution of ethanol and water.  This has to be done under the right conditions or the yeasts will produce fusel alcohols as well.  The mineral content of the water, the type of grain used, the fermenting conditions all have an effect on how much ethanol or fusel alcohol is made.  This is why Scotch makers go on and on about the stream they got their water out of.

Step two, distill.     Using heat, separate as much ethanol as you can from everything else.  Too much heat and you get other impurities in your condensate.  Too little and you don’t get much of anything.  Distillation is not a perfect means of separation, so some of the other organics and aromatics from the mash come through  into the distillate.  You may want this or not.  For a Vodka, you don’t want any flavor so you distill several times to get as much out as you can that is not ethanol.  For a rye whisky, the rye imparts a flavor so you keep it.

Step three, make the barrel.  Take an oak barrel.  Burn the inside.  The inner layer turns into charcoal.  The outer layer is raw wood.  In between the heat caramelizes the natural sugars in the wood.  The more intense the heat, the darker they turn, and the more the flavor varies.  This is the same science as is used in candy making.

Step four, age.  Put the ethanol solution in the barrel.  Diffusion will occur, and ethanol will dissolve into the wood.  Then it reaches steady state and the ethanol will move back out of the wood into liquid in the barrel, carrying the caramelized sugars and other wood flavors with it.  The charcoal will adsorb some of the other flavors as well.  The longer you age, the more wood flavors and sugars go into solution.  Bourbon uses new barrels.  Other whiskies use used barrels from wine, brandy, or beer production so the whiskey absorbs some of the flavors left in the barrel from the previous spirit.

This process of diffusion, along with the charring of the barrel is critical to the flavor of the Bourbon.  You have little control over the diffusion rate so all you can do is vary the time.

Aging time is important in wine, cheese, tea, beef, etc.  This know-nothing Bloomberg dipshit acts like aging time is a scam.  Bullshit.  Aging time is the difference between a fine Bourbon and throat burning piss.  It’s the difference between farmer’s cheese and a fine roquefort.

This is what happens when a journalism major tries to explain something he knows nothing about.

I have always wanted to make whisky in clean glass corboys.  Rather than charring the barrels, I’d carefully roast different wood chips at different temperatures to control the amount of caramelization that occurred in each batch of chips.  Then adjusting the ratios of the different roasts of chips, I could adjust the flavor.  Using small chips, the solution would reach equilibrium faster (shorter diffusion distance) and aging time could be decreased without a reduction in flavor.  This would be scientific whisky making.

I’m on vacation.  I am using this to catch up on season 2 of Stranger Things.  In episode 8, The Mind Flayer, I saw something that made me stop and have to post.

Dear Third Wave Feminists, Social Justice Warriors, Pajama Boys, and Soy Boys,

This is masculinity right here:

That is Jim Hopper, carrying a sleeping child and a flashlight in one arm,  providing cover with an M4 with the other, escorting the women and children out of harm’s way.

That is what it means to be a man, being a supporter, protector, and defender.

If you are dealing with a problem and are not sure how to proceed, ask yourself this question:

What would Jim Hopper do?

The answer is: say “fuck,” smoke a cigarette, do the responsible thing, then have a beer.

For 99% of life’s problems, that’s a pretty good solution.