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In The Mailbox: 07.12.16

Posted on | July 12, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.12.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Why I Want Crooked Hillary To Lose – Notorious RBG
Twitchy: Feel The Love As College Democrats Push Pathetic New Power Couple


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: The NYT And The Left Have Blood On Their Hands
American Thinker: Obamacare And The Private Practitioner, 2016
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Shadow War by Sean McFate
Da Tech Guy: Pat Austin – Report From Louisiana – Outside Agitators, Go Away!
Don Surber: Austin Bay Made My Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Of Course – Five Shot At Baltimore Murder Victim Candlelight Vigil
Joe For America: Top Democrat Official Assassinated In Washington, DC
JustOneMinute: Lots Of News
Pamela Geller: France’s Head Of Intelligence – “France Is On The Verge Of Civil War”
Shark Tank: Rubio Says He Won’t Accept Presidential Nomination From Convention Floor
Shot In The Dark: Memories And Memory Holes
The Jawa Report: Feel The Bern! Sanders Sells Out, Endorses Hillary – Youth Shocked!
The Lonely Conservative: The Latest On The “Free The Delegates” Movement
The Political Hat: The Ultimate Tool Of The Patriarchy? Carbon Fiber!
The Quinton Report: Bob Ehrlich Called Out By Federal Prosecutors
This Ain’t Hell: Out Of The Pool, Tourists!
Weasel Zippers: Obama Defends Black Lives Matter At Funeral Service For Slain Dallas Police
Megan McArdle: The Public Option – It’s Baaaack!


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Category: Linkagery

Criminal Who Killed Two at Courthouse Was a Great Guy, Says His Ex-Wife

Posted on | July 12, 2016 | 36 Comments

Cop-killer Larry Gordon in happier times.

Two bailiffs, Joseph Zangaro, 61, and Ronald Kienzle, 63, were killed and Berrien County Sheriff’s Deputy James Atterberry Jr. were wounded at a Michigan courthouse Monday when a prisoner tried to escape:

Larry Darnell Gordon, 44, of Coloma was apparently attempting to escape and tried to take hostages inside the Berrien County Courthouse when he shot and killed two bailiffs and wounded a deputy. . . .
“A preliminary investigation reveals that Larry Darnell Gordon disarmed one of the officers who were escorting him to a court hearing inside the Berrien County Courthouse,” Berrien County Sheriff Paul Bailey told reporters at a 9 p.m. Monday press conference. “After shooting the officers, Gordon briefly attempted to take hostages while other bailiffs and police officers in the courthouse engaged Gordon and he was shot and killed.”

Gordon, 44, had a criminal record dating back to 1992, when he was charged with robbery but copped a plea to a misdemeanor. In 1998, Gordon “pleaded guilty to felony fleeing a police officer and misdemeanor operating while intoxicated,” according to WZZM-TV, and in 2013, Gordon pleaded guilty to “second-offense misdemeanor driving while intoxicated or impaired and to felony theft from a building.” In April this year, Gordon was charged with very serious crimes — armed first-degree criminal sexual conduct, first-degree criminal sexual conduct during a felony, felony kidnapping, felony assault with a dangerous weapon and misdemeanor aggravated domestic violence — that could have put him in prison a long time. Despite this, his ex-wife said Gordon was a swell guy:

Gordon’s ex-wife, Jessica Gordon, 39, said Larry Gordon did it because he feared he would never be released and wanted to see his 6-year-old daughter.
“Larry was not a violent person,” she said Monday at the home they shared. “The only thing I can think of is that he was completely terrified, and people do things out of character when they’re scared. With all my heart I believe he was trying to get home to see Cheyenne (his daughter).” . . .
“He probably found out how much time he could potentially be looking at and wanted to get out to see us,” she said. “He thought he would die in prison.” . . .
She said she still loves him and that Tuesday would have been their 10-year wedding anniversary. She said they had been a couple for 19 years, and Cheyenne turns 7 on Saturday.

What struck me about this was how it echoes the narrative that the media always feed us whenever a black criminal gets shot by cops, or when a Muslim goes on a one-man jihad attack — oh, he was an honor student, and he loved his family, blah blah blah. So here we have a white guy who commits an atrocity and, yeah, his ex-wife wants to assure us that Larry Gordon was “not a violent person,” despite the numerous felonies he was accused of committing. Are there any activists on TV claiming that Larry Gordon was a victim of social injustice? No, because he was a heterosexual white male, and social justice rhetoric tells us that heterosexual white males are oppressors who benefit from “privilege.”

Larry Gordon was a thug, just like Michael Brown was a thug, and yet the media don’t seem to understand this. The media are always eager to buy into a prefabricated victimhood narrative — the innocent black man wrongly targeted by racist police — and facts be damned.

Don’t jump to conclusions and don’t believe everything people tell you — this is basic Journalism 101 stuff, and yet time after time, we see the media get bamboozled by professional “activist” types who peddle tales about innocent victims of racism, sexism and homophobia. No one can deny that such prejudices actually exist and cause real harm, but the media need to be sure they have the facts before they start turning the news into social justice sermons. Larry Gordon wasn’t a black guy or a gay guy or a transvestite like Bradley “Chelsea” Manning, so this incident at the Berrien County Courthouse is just a one-day crime story. Instead of having a “national conversation” about some kind of oppression, the media will quickly forget Larry Gordon.

Just a dead white criminal. Nothing to see here. Move long.

 

Category: Crime, Media Bias

Butt-Hurt Jeb Bush Blames the Pope?

Posted on | July 12, 2016 | 18 Comments

Moaning on MSNBC about his defeat in the GOP primaries — his campaign spent $34 million for nothing — Jeb Bush needed a big scapegoat:

Asked about his final days on the campaign trail, Bush reflected on the South Carolina primary during which he was in a three-way tie behind Trump with Sens. Marco Rubio (FL) and Ted Cruz (TX). Recalling South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s endorsement then of Rubio, Bush said “it clearly hurt.”
In addition to Haley’s endorsement of Rubio, for whom Bush was once a mentor, Bush also went on to blame the Catholic Church, saying, “the Pope intervening in American politics didn’t help.”
“[The Pope] was talking about basically open borders at a time when the whole Trump phenomenon was to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it. [The Pope] literally goes to the border for a massive mass,” Bush said. “I don’t think he should be intervening… I don’t think he understood he was intervening in our political affairs.”

Where does blaming the Pope fit in the Kübler-Ross “five stages of grief”?

 

Category: No More Bushes, Republicans

In The Mailbox: 07.11.16

Posted on | July 11, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.11.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: News From The Future – The Failure Of Hillary’s Great Leap Forward, 2017-2020
EBL: Should The NRA Be Championing The Cause Of Philando Castile?
Twitchy: Man Who SWATted NRA Head Sentenced To Two Years


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: How Many People Have To Die Because Of #BlackLivesMatter?
American Thinker: The Law Is Dying Because Morality Is Dying
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Ghosts Of War by Brad Taylor
Da Tech Guy: John Ruberry – If All Black Lives Matter, Then Why No Protests In Crime-Ridden Areas?
Don Surber: Keep Calm And Remain Adult
Jammie Wearing Fools: Pathetic Clinton Blames “Negativity”, Not Her Criminal Behavior, For Low Approval Ratings
Joe For America: America Now Entering The Stone Age?
JustOneMinute: Sunday Morning
Pamela Geller: Head Of DIA Fired For Calling Our Enemies Radical Jihadis
Shark Tank: Prominent Democrats Want Debbie Wasserman Schultz Out
Shot In The Dark: Obama’s Dumbest Idea Yet
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Facebook Safe And Welcoming To Everyone
The Lonely Conservative: Condolences And Prayers For A Dear Friend
The Political Hat: The Perfect Confluence Of Political Correctness And Jihad
This Ain’t Hell: That “Decorated Veteran” With An “Assault Rifle” In Dallas
Weasel Zippers: Minneapolis Cops Working Lynx Game Walk Out Over Player Comments, #BLM Warmup Jerseys


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Category: Linkagery

Man-Hater @AlannaBennett Promotes #Ghostbusters as Feminist Revenge

Posted on | July 11, 2016 | 67 Comments

 

Alanna Bennett is the kind of selfish feminist who attends elite Oberlin College (annual tuition $50,586) and then spends the rest of her life angry because nobody gives her as much pity as she feels she deserves.

“As a professional writer, my life now is stuffed with privileges I’ve longed for since I found out they existed. . . . And yet: The money I make barely covers a life in New York and my student loans.”
— Alanna Bennett

Yeah, it’s terrible that somebody put a gun to your head and forced you to attend Oberlin, because obviously Oregon State (annual tuition $10,107) wasn’t good enough for a Special Snowflake™ like yourself.

Feminism is motivated by anti-male revenge fantasies, providing selfish women a chance to bask in applause for their deliberate acts of cruelty. Feminists consider it “courageous” to inflict harm on males, which is why Alanna Bennett knew she would be praised for urging women to cause “male tears” by supporting the feminist Ghostbusters remake:

 

The new Ghostbusters remake is hate propaganda, promoting the fundamental feminist belief that males are useless, stupid and/or evil.

Like all feminists, Alanna Bennett hates men, and it is therefore not surprising she hates movies with heterosexual themes.

 

Was anyone surprised that Alanna Bennett tweeted out images of kissing her girlfriend (a “non-binary” “queer” feminist) during BuzzFeed’s LGBT Pride celebration? (Are there any heterosexuals employed at BuzzFeed? If so, are they afraid to admit they’re heterosexual?)

Rather than being honest about her man-hating motives for supporting the feminist remake of Ghostbusters, however, Alanna Bennett insisted that it was critics of this project who were motivated by “hatred.”

 

In other words, if you don’t like seeing old movies hijacked by feminists and turned into anti-male propaganda, you’re a hater. As I’ve explained, the whole project is just a feminist political statement:

The message of the all-female cast is simple: Males are useless, because girl power saves the day!
Sometimes I’ve called this “Lesbian Ghostbusters” because it was predictable, from the moment the project was announced, that this new movie would emphasize a familiar “Third Wave” feminist theme of males as either (a) incompetent idiots or (b) evil oppressors. Like so many recent feminist movie projects, the new Ghostbusters aims to pass the “Bechdel Test,” which originated with lesbians who did not want to see either male heroes or heterosexual romance in movies.

Keep in mind that I wrote that without knowing anything more about the new Ghostbusters than could be learned by reading a couple of reviews. However, if you understand what “Third Wave” feminism is about (Feminism Is Queer), the implicit premise was obvious enough. And, as Matt Zion’s “rage review” shows, my prediction was right:

“They make Chris Hemsworth . . . he’s an idiot. They make him an idiot. Then they have the guy who delivers the Chinese food to them — it’s a running gag throughout the movie — he’s terrible at his job and he’s an idiot. And then the villain is not an idiot, he certainly is very intelligent, but he’s creepy, weird and he’s just antisocial. . . . Every man is portrayed like a complete a–hole. The mayor is an a–hole. . . . They go to like a rock concert or something, and the guy who is in charge of that . . . he’s an a–hole. Every man in this movie is an a–hole. . . . Basically, it was a man-bashing film.”

Twenty-first century feminism is about demonizing and silencing males, teaching young women to despise men as either irrelevant or dangerous.

Alanna Bennett‘s mind is completely warped by her vicious hatred of men. Because feminists are psychologically incapable of relating to males in a normal way — they are “without natural affection” (Romans 1:31) — they consider it “hate” for any man to defend himself against the relentless slander of feminism’s anti-male rhetoric. This means that any man who disagrees with feminist ideology is a sexist. This is a “Kafkatrapping” tactic, where denying the accusation is cited as proof of your guilt.

Because she is a feminist, and therefore views males as inherently inferior, Alanna Bennett considers all male opinions invalid. So the fact that men don’t like the new Ghostbusters is as irrelevant to her as any other male preference or belief, except insofar as her anti-male belief system means that this wretched movie is good because men don’t like it.

Anything men hate is good, and anything men like is bad — this is a fair summary of the basic feminist worldview, the anti-male political ideology around which Alanna Bennett has organized her life. Therefore, no matter how awful the new Ghostbusters actually is, it must be praised!

 

You see that Alanna Bennett is emotionally invested in this anti-male propaganda film. Feminists demand the new Ghostbusters be praised, in the same way Goebbels demanded praise for Triumph of the Will.

“If you look at the argument of a lot of these reviews [of the new ‘Ghostbusters] that have come out, there are so many of them that are like, it’s not good or it’s average, but it’s going to do so much for women. Go see it.”
— Matt Zion, “Ghostbusters 2016: How Every Man Is An Idiot Or An A–hole”

This bizarre attitude — requiring that a mediocre movie must be praised, because it is politically incorrect not to like it — reminds me of Lysenoism under Stalin in the Soviet Union. Facts don’t matter to an ideologue like Alanna Bennett, whose commitment to feminism is an all-encompassing loyalty. The feminist is a True Believer, fanatically devoted to the movement, and ferociously hostile to the male enemy.

 

What is sad about such women is how their anti-male beliefs function as a self-fulfilling prophecy. Because feminists like Alanna Bennett are so profoundly prejudiced against men, smart men avoid them. There are 3.5 billion women on this planet, and most women actually like men. Therefore, no intelligent guy with any sense of self-respect would waste his time hanging around an ax-grinding man-hater like Alanna Bennett. Because the only men who ever hang around feminists are stupid (or perhaps, desperate), it is easy for women like Alanna Bennett to believe there are no intelligent or virtuous men in the world. Feminism acts as a sort of force-field of hatred that drives good men away.

 

It’s a good thing she likes her cat. At least she won’t be lonely.

“The fanboys rallied against the project and it turns out . . . those f–kers were right.”
— Ed Whitfield




 

 


Category: Movies, Sex Trouble

FLOP! New Feminist ‘Ghostbusters’ Toys Already on Clearance Before Movie Opens

Posted on | July 11, 2016 | 65 Comments

 

 

The question about the feminist remake of Ghostbusters now seems to be not whether the movie will fail, but how bad its failure will be:

Toys for the new movie are already on clearance shelves in stores across the country.
While Sony and many media outlets would have you believe that the early criticism of the new movie is coming from a small minority of mouth-breathing woman haters, in reality the majority of the fandom is extremely put off by the reboot. . . .
To give the toys the benefit of the doubt, part of the poor sales could be in part due to young boys not wanting to play with female action figures and girls just not playing with action figures much at all. But whatever the reason for the clearance, it certainly is strange that toys for a yet-to-be released film are already getting shooed off the shelves.

Is it “sexism” to admit that boys and girls are different? Are we now so intimidated by political correctness that people are afraid to say that sexual role-reversals usually produce unhappiness and failure? Is it misogyny to say that feminist “gender neutral” ideology is simply wrong?

If the new Ghostbusters proves to be “a disaster of biblical proportions,” what should we expect Hillary Clinton’s presidency to be? How long before feminism ruins America and we end up on the clearance rack?




 

 

Category: Movies, Sex Trouble

Why Does CNN Hate Police?

Posted on | July 11, 2016 | 12 Comments

 

CNN’s role in creating the Black Lives Matter movement cannot be ignored. Back in 2012, it was CNN that turned the Trayvon Martin case into such a national media carnival, and after George Zimmerman was acquitted, the network went scouting around for other “social justice” sagas to exploit for ratings. This led eventually to CNN’s 24/7 saturation coverage of the Michael Brown shooting. Focusing the media spotlight on Ferguson caused riots there, and then CNN covered the riots.

Civil disorder is good for CNN’s ratings, apparently, so network executives are trying to cause as much civil disorder as possible.

People get shot all the time in America, but CNN only pays attention to shootings that fit a certain narrative. The endless carnage of black-on-black violent crime? Not newsworthy, according to CNN. More than 300 people have been shot to death in Chicago so far this year, and more than 250 of the victims were black, but CNN ignores that bloodshed, because it can’t be exploited by “social justice” activists blaming racist cops.

“So what I think is very important for you to understand just like there are rogue cops who shoot black people for sport.”
— Angela Rye, CNN, July 8

“Turn off your TV!” I want to shout at people who let themselves get worked into a frenzy over this stuff. “Cable news is making you crazy!”

No one ever seems to question the basic editorial decisions behind this kind of coverage. More than 100 people were shot last week in Chicago, but that’s just another average week in Chicago. Because this happens routinely, it is not news, and nobody cares:

Chicago, for all intents and purposes, is a “gun-free zone.”
But all the state and city regulations associated with firearms in Chicago have failed to produce a safe city, and these are the policies that President Obama and Secretary Clinton wish to extend to the rest of the country.

The streets of Chicago are covered in blood:

Weekend gun violence in Chicago pushed the number of people shot in the city this year to around 2,100, about 700 more than this time last year.
A total of 43 people were shot in the city over the weekend, four of them fatally. Nineteen of those were shot during an 11-hour stretch Friday night into Saturday morning, including two men wounded on a crowded sidewalk outside a taco restaurant in Wicker Park, according to police.
Late Saturday, a 21-year-old man was killed and a 15-year-old boy was wounded as they played basketball in Ogden Park in Englewood on the South Side, police said.
Between Friday into Saturday morning, two men died and at least 17 others were wounded; another man was killed and 15 people were hurt from Saturday morning to early Sunday; a fourth man was killed and seven were wounded in shootings Sunday afternoon and evening.

While the death toll in Chicago is strictly local news, CNN continues exploiting “social justice” for ratings and also, partisan politics:

Hillary Clinton wasted little time in assigning responsibility for Thursday’s shooting in Dallas that left five police officers dead — blame whitey!
“I’m going to be talking to white people, we’re the ones who have to start listening to the legitimate cries coming from our African-American fellow citizens,” Mrs. Clinton told CNN Friday. “Clearly, there seems to be a terrible disconnect between many police departments and officers and the people they have sworn to protect.”
Exactly what “legitimate grievances” motivated cop-hating gunman Micah Xavier Johnson were not specified by the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee. Nor did Mrs. Clinton explain why reports of wrongful police actions in Louisiana and Minnesota should have led to bloodshed in Dallas, where the police chief is a black man and law enforcement officials have striven to build trust in the community. Yet the former Secretary of State’s misplaced concerns were not disputed by the interviewer Wolf Blitzer, whose network’s bias is so blatant that Democrats who supported Bernie Sanders in this year’s primary campaign revived the longstanding Republican claim that CNN is an acronym for “Clinton News Network.”
Being pro-Clinton requires CNN and other establishment media outlets to conform their coverage to fit whatever narrative serves the “permanent campaign” mode that Democrats have maintained since Bill Clinton was inaugurated more than 20 years ago, after he received a mere 43 percent of the vote in the three-way election of 1992. Liberal journalists have never ceased singing along with the Fleetwood Mac tune that was the Clinton campaign theme song, “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow,” expressing their shared hope that the future would bring eternal Democratic control of the federal government. . . .

Read the whole thing at The American Spectator.




 

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Category: CNN, Crime, Hillary Clinton, Racism

Rule 5 Sunday: This UFC Thing

Posted on | July 10, 2016 | 14 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I’m going to admit that I don’t get the appeal of the whole UFC mixed martial arts thing when it comes to women. Granted, we’re blessed by an excess of attractive women here in the United States, but is that any reason for them to be beating each other to a pulp? Anyhow, UFC 200 was held last night in Las Vegas, screwing up traffic for blocks around the T-Mobile Center (more so than normal for a Saturday night on the Strip) and apparently the reigning female champ, Miesha Tate, got choked out by the contender Amanda Nunes. Since Miss Nunes is one of the handful of Brazilian women who is uglier than the south end of a northbound bulldog, we’ll use this pic of the former champion as our appetizer this week. [Insert standard disclaimer here.]

Miesha Tate about to hit the pool.

Ninety Miles from Tyranny leads off this week with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress July 4th Edition, and Girls With Guns July 4th Edition, followed by Goodstuff with Jeri Ryan (one of the few good things about Star Trek: Voyager), Animal Magnetism with Rule 5 “Rule of Law?” Friday and  the Saturday Gingermageddon, The Last Tradition with Adriana Sklenarikova and Brooklyn Decker, and First Street Journal with Norwegians.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes Olivia de Havilland, Independence Day pinups, Laci Green, Women Eating Fried Chicken, Ivanka Trump, Baristas, and Grace Kelly in High Noon.

A View from the Beach presents Alexandra Daddario, Mean Girls, Nope, Not Yet, Five in One Wednesday Eye Opener, A Year and a Day Late, Happy Fourth of July!, and Smithsonian Supports Solutrean Hypothesis.

Soylent Siberia returns with some sweetness for your coffee creamer, Monday Motivationer Blonde Fury, Tuesday Titillation Sensation, Humpday Hawtness Hose, Faptasmic Fursday, Corset Friday Fantasm Plasm, T-GIF Friday Eggs, and Wanton Weekender.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Brittny Ward, his Vintage Babe is Luana Patten, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Gotcha.

Unfortunately, there’s nothing in the mailbox from Chaz at Dustbury, because he’s recovering from surgery for spinal stenosis, so I snooped a bit and grabbed this post on Bai Ling. Also, one of his friends has set up a GoFundMe. Throw a few bucks at the guy, why don’t you?

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery, especially to those of you who contributed links to the FMJRA to make Rule 5 Sunday (once again) the most linked post last week at The Other McCain. Deadline for submitting links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox is midnight on Saturday, July 16; deadline to submit links to the Wombat-socho for the FMJRA is noon on Saturday.


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