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In The Mailbox: 05.09.16

Posted on | May 9, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.09.16

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OVER THE TRANSOM
Louder With Crowder: Facebook Is Censoring This Conservative Website!
EBL: Donald Trump, 300, and Hillary Twerking – Making Parodies Great Again
Da Tech Guy: Rahm Touts Bread And Circuses While Chicago Bleeds And Pays
The Political Hat: What Rough Progressive, Xirs Hour Come Round At Last
Michelle Malkin: Finally, VA Responds To Navy Vet’s Self-Immolation
Twitchy: Watch The Incredible Moment When Josh Earnest Can’t Deny Administration Officials Lied About Iran Deal
Shark Tank: Obama Cuts Army Ranks To Historic Levels


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Sarah Palin Endorses Paul Ryan Challenger Paul Nehlen
American Thinker: A Look At The Dysfunctional Relationship Between Women And Men
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – The Arm By Jeff Passan
Don Surber: Quote of the Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Former Facebook Workers Say They Routinely Suppressed Conservative News
Joe For America: Obama Paves The Way For The Slaughter Of Thousands Of American Eagles
JustOneMinute: Ignorance Is Her Best Defense
Pamela Geller: Ohio Attack Victim Says “I Didn’t Come Here To Hear The President Preach About Islam”
Protein Wisdom: On Trump, Sombreros, And A Newish Third Way
Shot In The Dark: Jon Stewart Admits “Stand Your Ground” Is Democracy’s Only Legitimate Response To Street Crime
STUMP: Failed Predictions And Predictions Of Failure
The Jawa Report: Radio Killed The Jihadi Star
The Lonely Conservative: Old Trump – The Party Must Unify! New Trump – Never Mind That Unity Business
The Quinton Report: “Little Obama” Ice Cream For Sale In Russia
This Ain’t Hell: That “Highway Of Death” Canard
Weasel Zippers: Bernie Sanders Calls For Dems To Launch Liberal Version of Fox News – ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN Unavailable For Comment
Megan McArdle: The Wisdom To Know Which Causes Of Inequality Can Be Changed


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Rule 5 Sunday: May Flowers

Posted on | May 8, 2016 | 7 Comments

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There’s an old saying that “April showers bring May flowers,” but that seems to have been reversed out here in the desert, where April was rather dry but the beginning of May has been rather damp and a tad chilly. Still, that’s no reason not to use this young lady and her tulip as an appetizer for this week’s post.

Not all flowers are the result of careful gardening…or are they?

Goodstuff leads off this week with Jacqueline Bisset – for SCIENCE! 90  Miles from Tyranny follows with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls with Guns, while Animal Magnetism presents a Rule 5 Trumpkin Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon. The Last Tradition brings us Megan Fox and Devon Windsor, Political Clown Parade returns with more Flowing Curves of Beauty, and First Street Journal salutes the ladies at BCT Fort Jackson.

EBL’s herd this week includes Trigger Warnings, Natalia Lima, Sway, Something In Common, Jennifer Beals, and Furries.

A View from the Beach presents Kelly Rohrbach and the Baywatch Reboot, High School Student Goes Topless for School Photo, Tanlines Thursday, Bad News, Boys, Young Women Chant, Take Off Shirts for Trump, Hot Mama Sued Over Organic Labeling, Another Victory for Socialism – No Money for Beer and Eat More Chocolate!

Soylent Siberia submits a steamy coffee creamer, followed by your Monday Motivationer, Tuesday Titillation with Kyla, Humpday Hawtness, Falconsword Fursday Perfection, Corset Friday with Leather and Lesbian Subtext, T-GIF Friday, Weekender In The Wild, and Bath Night Old School.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe was Francesca Chillemi, his Vintage Babe was Phyllis Coates, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Trudy. At Dustbury, it’s Angela Bofill and Julia Roberts.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s wild weekend in Reno is midnight on Saturday, May 14. Deadline to submit links for the FMJRA is noon on the 14th; please do try not to get them confused! If necessary, cc: my main mailbox with your FMJRA links.

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FMJRA 2.0: Seven Days To Reno

Posted on | May 7, 2016 | 7 Comments

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First, thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in April; secondly, a reminder that next Friday I’ll be driving up to Reno for the Nevada State GOP convention at which there will hopefully be shenanigans, hilarity and tears to be harvested for the entertainment of our Loyal Readers. If you’d like to kick in a few shekels for gas and McFood, in the tradition of the great Shoe Leather Journalism Fund, it would be very much appreciated.




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FMJRA 2.0: Strange News From Clark County
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In The Mailbox: 05.02.16
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Lawsuit Says Feminist @jenniferbedbaum Fired Employee in Purge of Lesbians
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In The Mailbox: 05.03.16
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Delusions of Persecution: #TrigglyPuff’s Feminist Friend Jennie Chenkin Is Crazy
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In The Mailbox: 05.05.16
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Proof Positive
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The White Donkey and Other Tales of War
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In The Mailbox: 05.06.16
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Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (10)
  2. (tied) A View from the Beach and Proof Positive (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

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Connecticut Outlaws College Sex

Posted on | May 7, 2016 | 236 Comments

“Affirmative consent”:

If you’re a college student in Connecticut and want to have consensual sex, you might want to leave the state to do it.
The Legislature approved an “affirmative consent” bill Wednesday night that now goes to Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy, a proponent of the idea that sex is rape if one partner does not get the other partner’s repeated and mutually-agreed upon consent throughout the act.

The problem with “affirmative consent” is that such laws make it practically impossible to use circumstantial evidence as a defense against an accusation of rape. It is not enough to show that a woman voluntarily went to a man’s dorm room with the intent to have sex; it must be shown that she agreed to engage in specific sex acts. Thus, “affirmative consent” shifts the burden of proof so decisively against the accused that the accusation alone suffices as proof of guilt. All sex is effectively illegal, requiring only an accusation to make your hookup a crime.

Ashe Schow at the Washington Examiner:

From the moment the students are about to touch, they would have to ask: “May I kiss you?” “May I touch you here?” etc. . . .
The policy decouples context from the totality of the sexual experience. If a student fails to ask for permission before one escalation, but asks for it for a different escalation, the entire encounter can be considered sexual assault. If a student has been drinking (the bill doesn’t require an accuser to prove they were incapacitated), then all consent is negated. Further, once someone is accused, their level of intoxication doesn’t matter, even if under the same policy they could be considered too incapacitated to consent. . . .
Past sexual encounters between two people also don’t count as consent, so even people in years-long relationships are required to follow these rules or they’ve committed rape (unless, of course, no one reports it).
That’s the thing about these policies: No one has sex this way, which means every student (even the accusers) are sexual assaulters and sexual assault victims. . . .
All an accuser has to do is claim they were too drunk and that they were not asked for consent and the accused is considered guilty, thanks to pressure from the federal government. Following this policy to the letter means nothing if an accuser claims one did not follow it precisely.

Greg Piper at the College Fix:

Only one lawmaker opposed the bill, Republican Sen. Joe Markley, saying it creates an uneven playing field between college students and others, the Hartford Courant reports:
“It criminalizes what many of us would consider entirely normal,” Markley said. “Almost any of us would say that we have done things under this policy which do not correspond to affirmative consent. To ask to change that behavior would ask to change human behavior.”

It’s 2016, and “entirely normal” human behavior is a crime.

Remember, guys: Never Talk to a College Girl.

UPDATE: Reporting another “John Doe” case, this one involving the University of St. Thomas, a Catholic school in Minnesota, Greg Piper remarks:

It should be abundantly clear by now that any disputed sexual contact between male and female college students will get the male in trouble, even if the female initiated sex and hard evidence contradicts her account.

To repeat what I have said before:

The more I read about the current climate on America’s college and university campuses, the more convinced I am that no man smart enough to go to college would ever be stupid enough to date a college girl.
Feminists have ginned up a frightening hysteria of anti-male fear among female students. Any boy who kisses a girl on campus could be expelled for sexual assault, and even speaking to a college girl might result in accusations of harassment.

Never Talk to a College Girl. Warn your sons, America.

 

Category: Education, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 05.06.16

Posted on | May 6, 2016 | 4 Comments

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OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Call Me Cassandra
EBL: Damian Lewis In Julius Caesar – Antony’s Funeral Oratory
Da Tech Guy: The Best Explanation For Jew Hatred I’ve Ever Read
The Political Hat: Nevada Democrats Celebrate Trump’s Nomination
Michelle Malkin: Hey, Silicon Valley – American STEM Workers Are Right HERE
Twitchy: “Selfie President” Reminds Trump Being POTUS Is No “Reality Show”
Shark Tank: GOP Does Not Want To Unify Behind Donald Trump


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: “When Traditional Religion Is Rejected, The Odds Are Pretty Good That Something Cultish Will Replace It”
American Thinker: Trump Supporters Need To Be Held Accountable
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Blood Defense by Marcia Clark
Don Surber: What A Coal Miner Tweets
Jammie Wearing Fools: White House Admits It Played Us For Fools to Sell Iran Deal
Joe For America: Hacker Easily Gained Access To Hillary’s Server – People Died
JustOneMinute: Two Thumbs Down
Pamela Geller: Genocide In The Congo – Christians Hacked To Death As Thousands Flee Continuing Muslim Violence
Protein Wisdom: Thoughts My Brain Made
Shot In The Dark: Death Is Easy, Survival Is Hard
STUMP: Lunchtime Pension Post – Around The Web In 20 Minutes!
The Jawa Report: Zo! Noooooo!
The Lonely Conservative: FNC Hosts Silent As Trump Spouts Conspiracy Theory About Cruz’ Dad And Lee Harvey Oswald
The Quinton Report: Former Cruz Consultant Blasts GOP, Conservatives
This Ain’t Hell: SFC Richard Crossen Saving The World
Weasel Zippers: Homeland Security Officer Murders Wife, Shoots Three Others At Bethesda, Md. Mall


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A Little Coonskin In The Game

Posted on | May 6, 2016 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

One of the rare pleasures amid our slow-motion political collapse is sending ‘shop notions to my curmudgeonly friend over at Political Clown Parade: . In defense of Kerry: he hasn’t managed to get an Ambassador butchered; he thinks a mail server is having a dude wait his table down ‘the country club; and he’s not much of a Presidential threat anymore. As long as you’re not living in an area where American foreign policy ineptitude has significantly increased the chaos, he’s mostly harmless.

“If Assad’s strategy is to somehow think he’s going to just carve out Aleppo and carve out a section of the country, I got news for you and for him: this war doesn’t end.” He also suggested that if serious progress is not made toward politically removing Putin’s puppet from power by August the Obama Administration would have no other choice but to dramatically change its approach to Syria’s 5-year-old civil war.

In future administrations, our foreign policy would seem to be heading toward a “default isolationism”. Bismarck was a brilliant foreign minister. The battleship Bismarck proved that being immensely powerful really macht nichts if your rudder has you stuck in a Lefty turn, swinging through all possible courses, awaiting your demise.
Kerry is a disaster on land or at sea.

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The White Donkey and Other Tales of War

Posted on | May 5, 2016 | 4 Comments

— by Wombat-socho


Most of you who are interested in the Marines, or military humor period, are probably familiar with Max Uriarte’s webcomic Terminal Lance. Well, Max had a Kickstarter a while back so he could devote all his waking hours not spent on the webcomic, hookers, and booze to his magnum opus, The White Donkey. While Abe and Garcia appear in this too, it is as different from the webcomic as combat is from garrison duty, and it is a harrowing read. I don’t get emotional over books too often, but The White Donkey hit me like a Mike Tyson sucker punch, and I maintain that if you don’t have a similar reaction, you have no soul. I don’t want to get into the details, because it’s really a short story in the form of a graphic novel and to discuss the plot would spoil it, but I cannot recommend it highly enough.


Not quite as hard-hitting, but still containing some first-class combat SF, is the Castalia House reissue of Jerry Pournelle’s There Will Be War Volume IV, formerly subtitled The Day of the Tyrant. Among the great stories in this volume are Poul Anderson’s “No Truce With Kings”, “Interim Justice” by William F. Wu, and “Three Soldiers” by D.C. Poyer; it also includes G.K. Chesterton’s epic poem “Lepanto” and a fair amount of non-fiction that unfortunately seems to be coming around to being topical again. Recommended.


Old stuff I’ve been (re)reading of late: Alexis Gilliland’s The End of the Empire, which I’ve previously reviewed (back in March, as it happens) and am obviously still quite fond of. Also, Robert Frezza’s A Small Colonial War, first book of Frezza’s Suid-Afrika trilogy, previously reviewed here.


Category: Books

In The Mailbox: 05.05.16

Posted on | May 5, 2016 | 4 Comments

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OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Re-elect Donald Trump
The Camp of the Saints: Swing And Sway With Donny – Hey!
EBL: Natalia Lima & Ed Henry Fox News Scandal
Da Tech Guy: Baldilocks – Inserting a Brand-New Language Into A Not-So-New Brain
The Political Hat: Survival Guide For Social-Justice-Minded Special Snowflakes
Michelle Malkin: Tale Of Two Tribes – “Climate Refugees” Vs. EPA Victims
Twitchy: Hillary Clinton Suffers Convenient Memory Loss During Anderson Cooper Interview
Shark Tank: Top McCain Aide Says He’d Back Clinton Over Trump


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Vox Day – “Why I Support Donald Trump”
American Thinker: Get Over What About Trump, Exactly?
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – I Let You Go By Clare Mackintosh
Don Surber: With Malice Toward None
Jammie Wearing Fools: Washed-Up Hag Madonna Claims Ridiculous Outfit Was “Political Statement”, Not Desperate Plea For Attention
Joe For America: Want To Watch A West Virginia Coal Miner Rip Hillary A New One?
JustOneMinute: Sharing His Pain
Pamela Geller: EBay Removes Mohammed Cartoon Auction
Protein Wisdom: The Bully You’ve Brought To The Party…
Shot In The Dark: Minneapolis – “We Can’t Be Bankrupt, We Still Have Checks!”
STUMP: Puerto Rico Watch – PR Defaults! Again! Also, A New Jersey Connection
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – What Communists Eat
The Lonely Conservative: Who Is John Galt?
The Quinton Report: Kasich Event With Bob Ehrlich Likely Off
This Ain’t Hell: Senate Caves To Unions In VA Omnibus Bill Dispute
Weasel Zippers: Oldest WW2 Veteran Dies At 110
Megan McArdle: The Four Horsemen Of The Republican Apocalypse


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