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ISIS Suspected in Terrorist Attack; 36 Dead, 147 Wounded at Istanbul Airport

Posted on | June 28, 2016 | 22 Comments

An attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk International Airport reportedly killed 36 people and left 147 others wounded Tuesday. A member of the House Intelligence Committee suggested ISIS was likely to blame.

The massacre in Turkey had “all the signatures of an ISIS attack,” Rep. Eric Swalwell, California Democrat, told CNN’s Don Lemon. The attack was made by three gunman, each of whom detonated suicide bombs, according to Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim:

Police fired shots to try to stop two of the attackers just before they reached a security checkpoint at the arrivals hall, but they detonated their explosives, a Turkish official said.
“It became clear with this incident again that terrorism is a global threat. This attack, targeting innocent people is a vile, planned terrorist act,” Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told reporters at the airport.
“There is initial evidence that each of the three suicide bombers blew themselves up after opening fire,” he said, adding that they had come to the airport by taxi and that preliminary findings pointed to Islamic State responsibility.

UPDATE: Donald Trump weighs in:

UPDATE II: A surveillance camera inside the airport caught an amazing scene — as one of the gunmen charges through the terminal, he is shot by a policeman. The officer then approaches the wounded gunman before realizing that the terrorist is attempting to detonate his suicide vest. The officer runs away with seconds to spare before the terrorist’s vest explodes:

 

Category: Islam, Terrorism, Turkey

In The Mailbox: 06.28.16

Posted on | June 28, 2016 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Trump Serve Man
Louder With Crowder: “Well Regulated Militia” Only?
EBL: Hillary, Obama, And Benghazi
Twitchy: Dana Loesch Shuts Down Another Feminist And Shows Her The Door


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: UKIP’s Nigel Farage To The EU – “You’re Not Laughing Now, Are You?”
American Thinker: Why Trump Frightens The GOP Illuminati
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Wake Up America By Eric Bolling
Da Tech Guy: The Unexpectedly Chronicles – Oh, That EU Micromanagement
Don Surber: Best Spin NYT Can Give Is “No New Evidence Of Wrongdoing By Hillary Clinton”
Jammie Wearing Fools: Gay Man Threatens To Shoot GOP Senators, Claims It Was “Inartful Political Discourse”
Joe For America: Benghazi Survivor Lays Out Hillary Lies
JustOneMinute: No New News
Pamela Geller: Final Benghazi Report Shows White House And Hillary Lied, Our Boys Died – PR Was Priority
Shark Tank: Marco Rubio To Help Trump In Florida
Shot In The Dark: If I Were A Betting Man…
STUMP: Good News For Tuesday – The Vine In The Grocery Store
The Jawa Report: Crooked Hillary CC’d Muslim Brotherhood Lie
The Lonely Conservative: Playing Politics, Senate Dems Block Zika Funding Bill
The Political Hat: Venezuela Is Burning, And The Nomenklatura Feel Fine
This Ain’t Hell: Enablers, Part 2
Weasel Zippers: Suicide Bombers Attack Istanbul Airport, Over 50 Dead, Indications That [Omitted] Did It
Megan McArdle: Trump Bets It All On The Brand
Mark Steyn: “Steyn Was Right” (Continued) (Again)


Category: Linkagery

Because Feminists Know Everything

Posted on | June 28, 2016 | 27 Comments

 

“Who is Elleke Boehmer?”

That question crossed my mind while I was reading another one of those “masculinity in crisis” essays that are nowadays a dime a dozen (see “The Myth of the Masculinity Crisis,” May 9). This tsunami of hand-wringing about the plight of men has emerged from academic feminism in recent years and, like everything else that emerges from postmodern academia, is usually 180 degrees opposite of truth. Anyway, I had done one of those Google searches — using feminist buzzwords like “sexuality” and “hegemony” — that is guaranteed to turn up interesting results (and by “interesting,” of course, I mean crazy), when I came across a column in the U.K. Guardian by a left-wring writer named Owen Jones:

Being a man is not static: it can change and be redefined. “Masculinity is a performance that has a deep relationship to power,” says Gina Heathcote, a senior lecturer in gender studies at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). “There are a lot of rewards from it, even if you think of it as a continuum of experience.” . . .
An estimated 1.4 million women suffered domestic violence last year in England and Wales; 400,000 were sexually assaulted and as many as 90,000 were raped. Why do men commit these crimes? “Because they can,” says Elleke Boehmer. “It’s still in some senses socially sanctioned. Male violence against women is triggered by feelings of defensiveness, threat and insecurity.” She links some of the phenomenon to men losing their position as breadwinner, or their sense of power. “So you lash out in the way you know best, that has been socially sanctioned in the past.” Deindustrialisation, change of political regime, conflict – “In the end, it leads to women’s bodies bearing the brunt of male violence.” . . .
What it means to be a man has changed in some sections of society but Gina Heathcote is troubled by how “hegemonic masculinities” have not been so influenced. . . .

Upon reading the name Elleke Boehmer, my first thought was that she must be a sociologist or some other sort of “expert” on domestic violence, but in fact she’s an English literature professor at Oxford whose work, according to Wikipedia, “has been seen as foundational to the field of Postcolonial Studies,” whatever the hell that means.

Why did Owen Jones ask Professor Boehmer to comment on domestic violence statistics? Apparently she’s an all-purpose expert:

Elleke Boehmer, a professor of literature at Oxford University who specialises in gender, says that workforce changes in the UK have brought about an “incredible undermining of masculine self-confidence” and have “induced severe and troubling feelings of insecurity”. . . .
Elleke Boehmer offers a note of caution. The rise of LGBT and feminist movements has “thrown masculinity on to the defence”, she says. Indeed, you can see a “male backlash” against the chipping away of traditional masculine power . . .
Boehmer hopes that she has brought up her two sons as feminists but she realises that there is countervailing pressure in the playground, at school, on the football pitch. This might “militate against the feminism which is, in any case, quite irritating coming from their mother”.

There are obvious contradictions here. First is Professor Boehmer’s ostentatious concern for “masculine self-confidence,” a concern exposed as phony by her assertion that “she has brought up her two sons as feminists,” which would require destroying both their masculinity and their self-confidence. Feminists are united in their implacable hatred of masculinity and, as success is the usual basis of self-confidence, there can be no reason that Professor Boehmer could be in favor of men having self-confidence, because the prevention of male success is necessary to the destruction of patriarchy. Feminism is derived from Marxism, and approaches male/female relations from the perspective of class struggle, a zero-sum game in which whatever economic success or social prestige any man possesses is presumed to be illegitimate — a product of male privilege, derived by the unjust exploitation and oppression women. There is no such thing as a good man, according to feminist ideology, and why would Professor Boehmer suppose her sons should be exempt from the anti-male hatred that the feminist movement encourages?

This raises more questions: If Professor Boehmer is a feminist, why does she have children at all? Feminists hate babies. Feminists are anti-motherhood, so why didn’t Profesor Boehmer get abortions when she became pregnant, especially when she learned she was carrying boys?

Well, feminists “want men to be easily-controlled, neutered lapdogs,” as John Hawkins has observed, and Professor Boehmer probably used her sons as experimental guinea pigs in this feminist project. Professor Boehmer’s boys were likely raised under a regime of psychological tyranny so severe that they will never recover from it.

Professor Boehmer is a Ph.D. who “specializes in gender,” which means that she knows everything, while the rest of us know nothing, so we must sit in silence while the academic expert tells us what to think.

Far be it from me to contribute to the “male backlash” by suggesting that Professor Boehmer is a pretentious academic idiot whose all-purpose expertise in such matters has as much credibility as we might expect from any elite university literature professor, i.e., zero.

 

Category: Sex Trouble

More Scenes from a Wedding

Posted on | June 28, 2016 | 10 Comments

We were dining on barbecue beef brisket Sunday beneath the shade trees at Ole Gilliam Mill near Sanford, N.C., when Cassie asked, “When are you going to dance?” Cassie is a friend of my son Bob, and also of his twin brother Jim and Jim’s wife Danielle. Cassie remembered how I danced at Jim’s wedding — the old man busting out his old disco moves circa 1979 — and was eager for another show. “Not yet,” I said. The music wasn’t right.

About 15 minutes later, however, the deejay unleashed the classic groove, “Play That Funky Music,” and I was like, “OK, now.”

Cassie and I jumped up and started dancing, and immediately everybody else was dancing, too. There is something about the sight of an old man dancing like a fool that breaks the ice that way. Then I yelled, “Soul train!” Everybody formed up in two lines, and we took turns dancing down the line, showing our moves. By the time the song hit the key change (“Let me take you higher now”), we were, uh, moving and grooving.

Weddings are excellent occasions for a cardiovascular workout and, by the time the song ended, I’d had enough to last me until the next wedding.

After I’d caught my breath, I was content to be a spectator while the youngsters line-danced to “Uptown Funk,” and I hope somebody got video of my wife dancing the Macarena next to our 13-year-old daughter Reagan, our 15-year-old son Emerson, and our 17-year-old son Jefferson. We really are a fun family. Meanwhile, here are some more photos of the wedding, courtesy of my wife’s cellphone.

The groom, the groomsmen, two brothers and a brother-in-law.

The bride and groom, smiling after their wedding.

First dance of the newlyweds.

Mrs. McCain with our son, the groom.

The best man, Jim, with his lovely wife, Danielle.

Jade loves Jefferson, for some reason.

Myself and Mrs. McCain on the road; Reagan and Emerson in the back seat.

 

 

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Category: Family, Marriage

Rule 5 Monday: Utes Of America

Posted on | June 27, 2016 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

One would think that the most prestigious university in the state of Utah, Brigham Young University, would be located in the most notable city of that state, Salt Lake City, but one would be incorrect. The local college in Salt Lake City is the University of Utah, whose teams are named (with permission) after the Ute tribe, and here we see some of the Ute cheerleaders. As is always the case with Rule 5 posts, many of the following links are to pics generally considered NSFW, and should one be forced to experience sadness by clicking on those links without exercising discretion, this is definitely not our problem.

Off the reservation.

Ninety Miles from Tyranny starts out this week’s offerings with Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Girls with Guns, followed by Goodstuff with Liz Taylor’s eyebrows and other spaced-out science, while The Last Tradition brings us Shanina Shaik and the Unspeakable Armenian. Animal Magnetism has Rule 5 Statist Takedown Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s heifers this week include Vicky Pattison and Liz Hurley, getting nekkid for Brexit;  also, Hope Hicks, Proud Breeder Blake Lively, Westworld Rule 5, Separated At Birth: Cersei Lannister And…, and Should We Be Surprised By Brexit?

A View from the Beach has the relatively restrained Ava Sambora, Zep Wins Stairway Verdict, “Black Hole Sun”, Potomac River Coming to Terms With Snakeheads, Bikini Bandit Strikes Southern California, Eight Miles High . . ., FYI, How to Catch, Cook and Clean Lobster, A Red Head Fiddling Around and Trump Mania Reaches Japan

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is  Megan Hilty, his Vintage Babe is  Belinda Lee, Sex in Advertising is handled by Natasha Barnard for Guess, and there’s also Women of PETA L. At Dustbury, it’s Virginia Raggi and Brenda Holloway.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for the Pre-Independence Day Rule 5 Sunday Blowout is midnight on Saturday, July 2; if you want to submit links for Saturday’s FMJRA, have them in to the Wombat-socho mailbox by noon on Saturday.


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Category: Rule 5

In The Mailbox: 06.27.16

Posted on | June 27, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.27.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Louder With Crowder: Crowder Vs. Sky News On Guns, Hilarity Ensues
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: IG Blames Obama Immigration Policy For Illegal’s Murder Of Connecticut Woman
EBL: Can Trump Do This?
Michelle Malkin: Where The Hell Is The Orlando Jihadist’s Missing Wife?
Twitchy: Ben Shapiro Reminds Hillary What SCOTUS Ruling Really Means


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: SCOTUS Strikes Down Texas Abortion Law
American Thinker: Political Correctness Puts Americans In Grave Danger
Da Tech Guy: Fausta – Brexit Wins and Three, OK Four, Quick Brexit Thoughts
Don Surber: NRA Forces NPR to Back Down
Jammie Wearing Fools: Officials Say CIA Arms For Syrian Rebels Supplied Black Market Instead
Joe For America: NBC Producer Praises Trump’s Would-Be Assassin
JustOneMinute: Just A Flesh Wound
Pamela Geller: Another Young Swedish Girl Murdered BY Muslim Migrants At Refugee Center
Shark Tank: Carlos Beruff’s Charlie Crist Problem
Shot In The Dark: Stacked
STUMP: Good News For Monday – Locks Unlocked
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – The Sky Is Not Falling
The Lonely Conservative: Obama Won’t Answer Questions About Benghazi
The Political Hat: Toilet Witches For Transpersons
This Ain’t Hell: Democrats Call For “Day Of Action” Against Law-Abiding Gun Owners
Weasel Zippers: Muslim Woman At LAX Says “Fuck America, I Will Make Sure We Bomb America”
Megan McArdle: “Citizens Of The World”? Nice Thought, But…
Mark Steyn: “Steyn Was Right And I Was Wrong”, Continued


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Category: Linkagery

Scenes from a Wedding

Posted on | June 27, 2016 | 15 Comments

SANFORD, N.C.
As promised earlier, here are a few photos from Sunday’s wedding of my son Bob and his lovely bride, taken by my brother Kirby McCain.

Here comes the bride!

The bride is escorted down the aisle by her parents.

Our two daughters-in-law with our two daughters.

Mrs. McCain, Bob and his bride, me.

There will be more photos later, but right now we have to pack out of this hotel and go help clean up the venue. Thanks to readers who chipped in to help fund this occasion, and to those who haven’t chipped in yet, remember the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

 

 

 


Category: Family, Marriage

‘By Any Means Necessary’

Posted on | June 27, 2016 | 33 Comments

The radical left hates the First Amendment and loves violence:

At least five people were stabbed in a statehouse skirmish [Sunday in Sacramento] between members of the white-nationalist Traditionalist Workers Party (TWP) and “anti-fascist” activists from a group called By Any Means Necessary (BAMN). The white-power group had gotten a permit and was demonstrating in front of the California capitol. BAMN members came brandishing wooden bats and shouting “f–k fascists. Beat the fascists. Beat them.” One member Yvette Felarca told CNN she was “very, very proud” of the counter-protest that had produced such violence.
“We’ve got to build a movement in this nation,” said Felarca, noting that her group was full of people of many races and sexual orientations “standing together saying we will not accept or allow racist, genocide organizing to take place on the front steps of the capitol of California. And we would do it again.” . . .
Meanwhile, the anti-facists “came ready to fight,” as California Assemblyman Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove) put it. They arrived wearing plastic shields and carrying wooden batons. They got physical with reporters that had come to cover the white nationalist rally. . . .

Read the rest by Elizabeth Nolan Brown at Reason, who argues that “violence against people protesting peacefully — no matter how odious their ideas — will never be a winning step strategically.” Last night I was watching  coverage of this on ABC News, which reported that violence “erupted” at the rally without making clear what actually happened, i.e., the “anti-fascist” group attacked the TWP people. This kind of violent extremism is actually caused by media bias, I would argue. The liberal bias of the media allows thugs like BAMN to believe they’re doing something heroic. Liberal media bias also helps create the “white nationalist” fringe. The media provide one-sided coverage of news about issues related to race, which is only treated as an “issue” in order to promote left-wing attitudes and help elect Democrats. This helps foster a paranoia that leads people to seek out fringe views.

 


Category: Sex Trouble
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