Today is International Women’s Day and it is a fine occasion to observe how truly rotten many cultures are. In many places, the idea that women are people with rights, dignity and aspirations has made no inroads whatsoever. From the crude Burqastans across the Islamic world to the more genteel misogyny of upwardly mobile India and China, very little has changed for women in those societies; while in the West, women have been allowed to reach their potentials, and everyone benefits.

Nothing illustrates the intellectual bankruptcy of the ideology of multiculturalism — the idea that all cultures are morally equal — than the actual lives that women lead in many of the third-word sewers we are supposed to celebrate.

If that’s not bad enough, they are coming here, bringing their crappy cultures that don’t have the wit to survive without actual slavery and other sorts of oppression built into the family structure. Yep, and Washington welcomes some of the worst human rights abuses on earth under the spawn-of-satan program that just won’t die, the Diversity Visa scam.

Consider the dreary list compiled by the Toronto Star in honor of today’s festivities, er observances, in the article Ten worst countries for women. Criminal abuse (such as the felony torture known as female genital mutilation, FGM) throughout an entire society (e.g. Sudan) is no impediment to receiving the much-prized US visa, nor is plain old cultural inappropriateness.

Here are a few bulleted items taken from the Star’s list, with the number of Diversity Visas awarded by the State Department for the year 2008 noted in [brackets]. Of course, every other category of immigration is going gangbusters also.

• Iraq [164]. The female literacy rate was once one of the highest in the Arab world is now among the lowest, because of the general violence against women that causes families to keep girls safely at home. Just 164 DVs are slotted, but the US has pledged to admit 12,000 Iraqis as refugees this year.
• Nepal [2,562]. Women are so malnourished that 1 in 24 die in pregnancy or childbirth. Young teenaged girls are commonly sold by their families, and old widows may be deemed witches and abused.
• Sudan [1,147]. Women in Darfur have been subjected to terrible violence and rape by the janjaweed Islamic militias. In addition, 89 percent have been subjected to FGM according to the World Health Organization.

Do-gooders might argue that America is being virtuous by at least rescuing a handful of oppressed women. But the numbers don’t work: with several billion people living in third-world piggy zones, multicultural immigration policies are only succeeding in bringing foreign social pathology here.

For example, notice anything odd about this street scene in the “Little Pakistan” area of Brooklyn? Is one gender missing perhaps? How many random photos of any US shopping district would show zero women and a dozen males? (From More Muslims Arrive in U.S., After 9/11 Dip, New York Times, Sept 10, 2006)

Sorry, but these cultures are too diverse for me. They can stay home and pursue their anti-women folkways out of my country.

… well, fill in your own punchline.

But if I were in her shoes … nah …

Okay, Hillary likely can’t catch up in delegates unless Obama gets caught in some scandal that doesn’t have anything to do with race. It can’t be something that black politicians are stereotypically caught at, like money or sex or drugs, or it won’t get any play. Because, you know, then it would be a stereotype and stereotypes can’t be true.

Thus, Obama’s got to show up on Youtube pummeling an endangered raptor to death with his putter because it cawed during his crucial putt on the 18th green, or some other kind of scandal that Ted Knight’s Judge Smail’s character in “Caddyshack” would get caught in. (By the way, Obama is a fairly enthusiastic golfer, but that doesn’t get mentioned much.)

So, then it comes down to the Superdelegates. The point of the Superdelegates is to huddle in a smoke-free room and come up with the nominee who is best for the Party. But if Obama comes to the Convention with a lead in regular delegates of, say, 48% - 45% over Hillary, it’s going to be hard for the Supers to come up with a plausible reason to overrule the regulars. What, Hillary didn’t get a fair chance? She lacked name recognition? C’mon …

To have a chance, Hillary’s got to win it in the polling booths. But she’s just about run out of states to make the case that she’d be the better candidate in November because momentum is now on her side. All Obama has to do is run out the clock and not screw up.

What Hillary should do, therefore, is call for a Best of Three Big Purple State Playoff: Pennsylvania, plus re-doing Florida and Michigan, which the Democratic National Committee said they wouldn’t count because they moved their primaries to January. Those three states comprise 65 of the 270 electoral votes you need to win.

Florida and Michigan say it would cost $28 million to hold another election. Hillary should offer to pay for the elections herself, if necessary.

This would put Obama in a bit of a spot. “Let’s not let Florida and Michigan participate in selecting the nominee” isn’t an appealing slogan.

His better response would be along the lines of, “Sure, let’s compete in Florida and Michigan. I certainly can’t afford to pay for the elections (as you all can see by looking at my tax returns, which, by the way, I’ve released), but if Senator Clinton can somehow afford it, let’s do it. But this “Best of Three” stuff is nonsense. There’s no reason any one state is more important than any other. Just add up all the delegates after all the states have voted and see who’s ahead. That’s the fair way to do it.”