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Rule 5 Sunday: D is for Debbie

Posted on | June 5, 2016 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Generally speaking, I don’t care much for blondes, but I’ve always made an exception for Debbie Harry, lead singer of Blondie. I’ve always liked the band since its origins in punk, and the fact that the lead singer was a hot ex-Playboy Bunny was just icing on the cake. And so, this week’s appetizer, commemorating “Atomic”, one of the singles off Eat to the Beat. For the benefit of anyone reading Rule 5 Sunday for the first time, many of the following links are to pics generally considered NSFW, and if you insist on clicking with a complete lack of discretion, the management is not responsible for the ugly consequences.

“Your hair is beautiful…”

Leading off this week is 90 Miles from Tyranny, with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls with Guns, followed by Goodstuff with Bernadette Peters, Animal Magnetism with Rule 5 Inequality Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon,  The Last Tradition with Gigi Hadid and Amber Rose, and First Street Journal with Basic Combat Training.

EBL’s herd of (occasionally mutant) heifers this week includes Quakers, Jessica Valenti, Amber Heard, Gilly from Game of Thrones, Gals and Gorillas, Alexandria Vera, and Bobbie Gentry.

A View from the Beach offers Belgian Waffle – Rose Bertram, Narcissistic Actress Celebrates UCLA Shooting With Selfie, “Leather and Lace”, It’s Always Nice to Have an Endowment, Turkish Model Gets Suspended Sentence for Bad Poetry, Amber Heard Granted TRO against Johnny Depp, Prepare for Sharknado 2016!, and A Reporter Really Dives into Her Work.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Christen Harper, his vintage babe is Suzan Ball, and there’s a bonus link to Flowing Curves of Beauty. At Dustbury, it’s Shirley Manson and Bobbie Gentry.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday is midnight on Saturday, June 11; deadline to submit links to the Wombat-socho mailbox for the FMJRA is noon on Saturday.


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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: D-Day

Posted on | June 4, 2016 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: O Girls!
Animal Magnetism
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach
90 Miles from Tyranny

New York City Is a Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy — Just Ask @JessicaValenti!
Brother Andrew’s Muses
First Street Journal
Living In Anglo-America
Batshit Crazy News

FMJRA 2.0: Live From Baltimore
The Pirate’s Cove
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

Feminism and ‘Strong Delusion’
Batshit Crazy News

Johnny Depp, Chump?
Dark Brightness
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

Surrender Without a Fight?
Batshit Crazy News

Feminism: Hatred as ‘Social Justice’ (or Why @MostlyPregnant Won’t Apologize)
ThoughtOffense
Animal Magnetism
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox, 05.31.16
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach

Why Do College Girls Lie About Rape?
Batshit Crazy News

Student Offers to Debate Feminists About the ‘Rape Epidemic’ and Guess What?
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox, 06.01.16
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach

Julie Bindel Is Right: Marriage Can Never Be Feminist (So Don’t Marry a Feminist)
Batshit Crazy News

‘An Alphabet Squad of Weird Genders’
The Pirate’s Cove

In The Mailbox: 06.02.16
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach

Oberlin College Is Decadent and Depraved
Inoperable Terran
Batshit Crazy News

Stereotypes Are Accurate (and Feminists at DePaul Are Man-Hating Witches)
Living In Anglo-America
Batshit Crazy News

Is Amber Heard ‘Duplicitous, Untrustworthy, and Indecisive’?
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 06.03.16
Da Tech Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive

Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (17)
  2.  A View from the Beach (6)
  3.  Proof Positive (5)


Category: FMJRA Award

‘Social Justice’ and the End of Fun

Posted on | June 4, 2016 | 22 Comments

Today I was scrolling around feminist sites when I saw another angry young Tumblrina ranting about the patriarchy (because a guy was rude on the subway) and it hit me why this bothers me so much: When I was a teenager, life was fun because America was a free country.

Don’t get me wrong. There was plenty of misery and loneliness in the world during the 1970s, but people didn’t have to tiptoe around in fear they might say something “offensive” to somebody. In fact, America in the 1970s was arguably a Golden Age of free expression. The great convulsive upheaval of the 1960s — stuff that happened while I was in elementary school — had the effect of undoing many of the constraints on art, music, literature, movies and TV that had previously imposed limits on what you could say or write. So when I was a teenager, my buddies and I could listen to comedy albums by George Carlin, Richard Pryor and Cheech and Chong saying stuff that was hilarious in part because it was stuff you weren’t supposed to say. We went to the movies and saw Blazing Saddles, Kentucky Fried Movie and Animal House — movies that were a deliberate poke in the eye of “good taste.” National Lampoon was full of wicked satire, “Doctor Demento” was on the radio every week, Saturday Night Live was in its glory days and, for anyone with a sense of humor, the 1970s was a great decade to be alive, because there were no rules.

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO AMERICA?

What about freedom, huh? When did we turn into a nation of busybodies and tattletales, constantly pointing the finger of blame at each other? Everybody’s yelling accusations — racism! sexism! homophobia! — and trying to silence anybody who says anything they don’t like.

Long before my @rsmccain Twitter account got shut down by these feminist totalitarians, I was conscious of how the #GamerGate controversy had exposed the busybody/tattletale third-grade hall-monitor mentality of the 21st-century “progressive” movement. Allum Bokhari coined the term “cultural libertarianism” to describe the emerging opposition to the rigid political correctness that so-called “Social Justice Warriors” (SJWs) seek to impose on public discourse.

 

This is what Milo Yiannopoulos and the “Dangerous Faggot” tour is all about. Milo doesn’t even have to say anything to spark a left-wing riot on university campuses. His mere existence offends progressives so much that you could shut down any college in America for a day, merely by announcing that Milo would be there. If he missed his flight and didn’t even show up for the speech, you’d still have a bunch of angry fat girls with bad hair stomping around campus chanting stupid slogans, claiming to be “traumatized” by the thought that someone who disagreed with them had been invited to speak. So if Milo missed a connecting flight in Atlanta or Chicago, he’d still be trying to get a new ticket and meanwhile, outside the university auditorium 800 miles away, protesters would be screaming themselves hoarse in paroxysms of rage for no reason at all.

How did we get here? Who is to blame for the fact that so many “educated” young people have no sense of humor and are unable even to understand how ludicrous their aggrieved mau-mau pose is?

Also, why do mobs of crazy people show up to protest Trump rallies? We’re five months away from Election Day, and all the “experts” keep telling us there’s no way Trump can win, so why bother? If you live in California — a state that hasn’t gone Republican in a presidential election in more than 20 years — why get so worked up about it?

California is a gigantic lunatic asylum, full of psychotics, perverts and Communists. It’s almost as bad as New York City, except the weather is better in California and the women aren’t as ugly as New York women.

Look, I don’t claim to have any solutions to all the world’s problems, but if feminism was the solution to women’s oppression, don’t you think maybe after all this time it would have solved the problem? Are creeps on the subway in New York less creepy than they were in 1968? Are there more creeps on the subway, or less? Is there more rape on college campuses or less? Please, tell me what you expect me to do about these problems. I don’t live in New York and I’m not a college student, but as far as I can tell from reading feminist blogs, both New York City and college campuses are terrible places where evil violent men constantly terrorize helpless women, and yet women nevertheless continue (a) going to college and (b) moving to New York after they graduate. You want a solution to this problem? You want “social justice”? OK, we should abolish college education and, as for New York City . . .

Drastic, you say? Well, sure, but if you want to solve the problem, it’s obvious that drastic measures will necessary. Once we’ve wiped New York City off the map with a thermonuclear blast, then maybe those Commie a–holes in California will understand we mean business.





 

Category: Uncategorized

In The Mailbox: 06.03.16

Posted on | June 3, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Democrat Thuggery – Disgraceful Dem Sam Liccardo And the Promotion Of Violence Against Trump Supporters
Michelle Malkin: Sanctuary City San Jose’s Climate Of Hate And Violence
Twitchy: #PPSellsBabyParts Scandal Gets Even More Disgusting


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Open-Borders Activist Ireri Carrasco Sues Obama Administration Over Deferred Deportation
American Thinker: “Roots” Remake – Snoop Dogg Got It Right
Da Tech Guy: Fausta – David Frum And The Seven Guardrails
Don Surber: None Dare Call It Fascism
Jammie Wearing Fools: High School Principal Praised By DiBlasio Covered Up Gang Rape
Joe For America: Joe The Plumber Endorses Trump, Cracks Up Stuart Varney
JustOneMinute: The Brownshirts Are Coming, But Whose Side Are They On?
Pamela Geller: Qatar Gives Texas School $100K To Push Arabic, Islam
Shark Tank: Debbie Wassermann Schultz Has A Weed Problem
Shot In The Dark: A Rhetorical Question, Sort Of, For The Rev. Nancy Nord Bence
STUMP: Rahm’s “Win” Means Pensions Lose, or, You Can’t Tell Us We Can’t Kick The Can, Rauner!
The Jawa Report: TRIGGER WARNING – Feminist Rage Compilation
The Lonely Conservative: Director Of Georgia ACLU Quits After Daughters Scared By Men In Womens’ Room
The Political Hat: Lady Gaga Praises Her Dear Leader
This Ain’t Hell: The Political Opinions At VFW Halls
Weasel Zippers: Minneapolis Police Union Leader Says “Black Lives Matter Is A Terrorist Organization”
Megan McArdle: A Sad Fact From Today’s Bag Of Hate Mail


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Is Amber Heard ‘Duplicitous, Untrustworthy, and Indecisive’?

Posted on | June 3, 2016 | 28 Comments

 

Last week, we reported on the acrimonious split between Johnny Depp and his wife, Amber Heard. “Johnny Depp got used, manipulated, set up and made to look like an a–hole,” Depp’s friend Doug Stanhope said. Without regard for whether Heard’s abuse claims are true, it’s obvious that Depp was a fool to marry a bisexual woman half his age who had previously spent four years in a lesbian relationship. When she demanded Depp pay her $50,000 a month in spousal support? Yeah, she’s all about the Benjamins, baby, and she saw Johnny as her personal ATM.

Johnny Depp’s assistant says Heard fabricated text messages that appeared to support her abuse claims, and frankly I don’t believe a word she says, because’s she’s bisexual. “Never trust a bisexual” is probably a good rule because, really, how could you trust someone who lacks the strength of character to decide if they’re straight or gay? It’s like college football, and you can’t decide whether you’re an Alabama fan or an Auburn fan, Michigan or Ohio State, USC or UCLA. Pick a team, OK?

Someone can’t even limit their sexual attraction to 50% of the human race? C’mon, that’s 3.5 billion potential partners to choose from, but no, they’re bisexual, and have to keep the full 7 billion within reach.

Of course, bisexual feminist Carolyn Cox is offended by such criticism:

What’s been surprising to me is the incredible amount of biphobia demonstrated by the media’s coverage of this case. Given that it’s 2016, I hoped we wouldn’t see outlets framing Heard as inherently duplicitous simply because she’s bisexual, but I guess that was way optimistic of me. . . .
The biphobia demonstrated in multiple publications over the past few days is inexcusable, regardless of what transpired in this specific marriage. . . . That, for me, cuts to one of the most frustrating aspects of bisexuality: as a bi woman, I feel I’m always seen as actually gay, or a liar, or both. When I’m with a man, I’m perceived as having chosen men, and when I’m with a woman, I’ve switched teams. I wish more publications, in discussing Heard, would remember that bisexuality doesn’t inherently connote promiscuity, and that it’s possible to be bisexual and be in a happily monogamous relationship. . . .
Bisexuals are often perceived as duplicitous, untrustworthy, and indecisive . . .

Everybody knows bisexual women are opportunistic, selfish and emotionally unstable, which is why lesbians don’t trust them. What Amber Heard did to Johnny Depp shows why guys shouldn’t trust them, either, and if it’s “biphobia” to tell the truth, so be it. Somebody’s got to warn guys against getting mixed up with dishonest promiscuous bisexuals, or else they’ll all end up paying $50,000 a month to Amber Heard.

 


Category: Celebrities

Stereotypes Are Accurate (and Feminists at DePaul Are Man-Hating Witches)

Posted on | June 3, 2016 | 24 Comments

Kate Hardiman reports at the College Fix:

A Rutgers University social science professor set out to research how stereotypes are inaccurate so he could proclaim and promote that to the world with hard scientific data — but eventually made a startling discovery: most stereotypes are accurate.
Scholarly claims of “stereotype inaccuracy” are baseless, Dr. Lee Jussim told The College Fix in an interview.
“When I first began my research, I had assumed all those social scientists declaring stereotypes to be inaccurate were right, so I wanted to know the basis for those claims,” he said. “I would track down the source in an attempt to get the evidence. And slowly, over many years, I made a startling discovery — claims of stereotype inaccuracy were based on nothing.” . . .
Many researchers cite social psychologist Gordon Allport’s classic book “The Nature of Prejudice” in support of the claim that stereotypes are inaccurate or at least exaggerations of real differences. But Allport relied on a few anecdotes — hardly scientific evidence, Jussim said.
“Famous psychologists declaring stereotypes inaccurate without a citation or evidence meant anyone could likewise do so, thereby creating an illusion that pervasive stereotype inaccuracy was ‘settled science,’” Jussim said. “It was only if one looked for the empirical research underlying such claims did one discover that there was nothing there, just a black hole.” . . .

Read the whole thing. This is one of the ways “consensus” among intellectuals is harmful. Beliefs that are widely accepted in academia are never examined skeptically, and contradictory evidence is ignored or suppressed. A classic case was Dr. John Money’s theories of gender which were hugely influential in the 1970s and ’80s based on the so-called “John/Joan” case. Yet it turned out that Money’s research was fraudulent, and the “John/Joan” case actually proved the opposite of what he claimed. (See As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto.) Still, the lessons of that case have not been fully learned, because feminists have politicized research to such an extent that no one in academia can speak the simple truth: Boys and girls are different (as Lawrence Summers learned at Harvard).

One of the books I most often recommend is Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy, which examines how certain liberal prejudices distort public policy discussions. Chapter Four, “The Irrelevance of Evidence” shows how liberal beliefs are simply immune to facts. For example, no matter how much evidence you produce showing that the breakdown of the family is a major cause of poverty, liberals insist that racism is the main reason for poverty in America, even though it can be shown that family breakdown causes poverty for white people, too.

The willingness of people to accept explanations that confirm their own prejudices produces myths of “settled science” that can endure for decades within the elite intelligentsia. In his book The Quest for Cosmic Justice, Sowell examines the claims made in Vladimir Lenin’s Imperialism. Lenin asserted that the collapse of capitalism (which Marx had claimed was imminent in the mid-1800s) had been delayed because capitalists had found new sources of profit by exploiting the poor in undeveloped countries. It takes Sowell precisely two pages to destroy Lenin’s claim, showing that the “evidence” provided by Lenin was simply false. And yet, despite the demonstrable falsity of Lenin’s core thesis, and despite the subsequent failure of the Soviet economy, anti-capitalist ideas about “imperialism” and “exploitation” continue to be influential among intellectuals and policy makers. This is just one example of how the leftist prejudices in academia have prevented us from learning useful lessons from recent history. In fact, as John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr explain in their 2005 book In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage, academics refuse even to admit the most basic truths of Cold War history, i.e., that the Communist Party in the United States was controlled by Moscow as an instrument of Soviet policy, used for espionage and subversion. The idea that “McCarthyism” was essentially paranoid — that there was no domestic threat from Soviet agents and that innocent liberals were wrongfully persecuted in a “witch hunt” — continues to be promoted in American universities, despite the abundant evidence that Joe McCarthy was basically right about the Communist menace. (See Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies by M. Stanton Evans.) The world looks much different when you are willing to examine facts that may contradict your own prejudices, but for decades the academic elite in America has ignored evidence that doesn’t conform to the “progressive” worldview. Read more

Category: Education, Intellectuals, Sex Trouble

Lesbian Couple Convicted of Murder in Torture Death of Two-Year-Old Boy

Posted on | June 3, 2016 | 17 Comments

 

Last month we reported on the Liam Fee case in Scotland, where a lesbian couple were charged with murdering a 2-year-old boy that one of the women had from a previous relationship with a man, and then trying to blame the toddler’s death on another boy the couple allegedly had abused. The case involves the March 2014 death of Rachel Trelfa’s son. The boy’s father had been living with Trelfa more than five years when their son was born. A few months later, however, Trelfa moved in with Nyomi Fee, with whom she later registered for a civil union. This week, a jury found the couple guilty:

Rachel Fee, 31, and Nyomi Fee, 29, were convicted [Tuesday] of killing two-year-old Liam by inflicting severe blunt force trauma to his body at a house in Fife, Scotland.
The youngster, who had been subjected to a life of pain and neglect, suffered a ruptured heart after sustaining injuries similar to those seen in car crash victims.
The defendants were both also found guilty of wilfully assaulting, neglecting and abusing two young boys, including the one they blamed for Liam’s killing, over a two-year period.
This abuse involved being imprisoned in a home-made cage, given cold showers, tied up in a dark room where snakes and rats were kept, and forced to eat dog excrement, a court heard. . . .
Now, they are both facing life sentences for the murder of the youngster, who suffered a fractured upper arm bone and a broken thigh bone in the days before his death. . . .
[Tuesday], the couple were convicted of all eight charges they faced, with a majority verdict returned on the murder charge after around 10 hours of deliberations by the jury.
In addition to this charge, the pair were found guilty of assaulting Liam over a period of more than two years prior to his death by jurors at the High Court in Livingston.
They were also convicted of ill-treating and neglecting the toddler January 2012 onwards by leaving him for prolonged periods of time, failing to provide him with adequate exercise and mental stimulation and — in the days leading up to his death — failing to get him proper medical attention for a broken leg and a fractured arm.

Meanwhile, in a related case:

A teenager who hurled abuse at child murderers Rachel and Nyomi Fee outside court has been spared jail.
Her lawyer successfully argued that she might be regarded as “some kind of hero” if she was sent to prison.
At Livingston Sheriff Court the 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted shouting homophobic abuse at the couple.
A television news crew recorded her comments as they filmed the pair arriving at court for their trial. . . .
The teenager, from Livingston, pled guilty to behaving in a manner likely to cause a reasonable person fear or alarm by shouting and swearing aggravated by sexual orientation.
Sheriff Jamie Gilmour took other unrelated offences into account when he sentenced her to be electronically tagged on a nine-month curfew.
He also placed her under supervision for two years and ordered her to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work within nine months.

It’s illegal in Scotland to shout homophobic slurs at murderers.

Because that might hurt their feelings, I guess.

 

Category: Crime, Gays

In The Mailbox: 06.02.16

Posted on | June 2, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.02.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Erick Erickson Throws Cold Water On Bill Kristol’s David French Brainstorm
Twitchy: State Department Quickly Hits Dead End In Exhaustive Investigation Of Video Glitch


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Professor William Klug Killed In UCLA Murder/Suicide
American Thinker: Anchors Away – Obama Sinks The U.S. Navy
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Legend by Eric Blehm
Da Tech Guy: Baldilocks – Rooted In Folly
Don Surber: Laugh Of The Day – Hillary To Attack Trump On Foreign Policy
Jammie Wearing Fools: Shocker – Everything About Clinton Appearances Is Staged And Scripted So As Not To Confuse Grandma
Joe For America: Lord’s Prayer Canceled At Ohio High School Graduation – Students Continue 70-Year Tradition Anyway
JustOneMinute: Hillary Claims Donald Is Dangerous On Foreign Policy
Pamela Geller: CNN Finds Muslim War Criminal Working Security At DC-Area Airport
Shark Tank: Grayson Got Married Again?
Shot In The Dark: The Dreamsicle Ghouls
STUMP: Why There Will Be No Bailouts
The Jawa Report: ISIS Issues Death Fatwa Against TV
The Lonely Conservative: New Study Shows Best Run States Are Red, Worst Blue
The Political Hat: High Schools Reward Students For Campaigning For Democrats
The Quinton Report: Army Spending $200K On Transgender Bathroom?
This Ain’t Hell: Eikenberry Denied Academic Post By Pointy-Headed Academia
Weasel Zippers: ACLU Leader Quits After Elementary School-Aged Daughters Encounter Men In Womens’ Restroom
Megan McArdle: Obamacare, Executive Power, And The Rule Of Law
Mark Steyn: Trial Of The Century Update!


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