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GOP to NBC: Drop Dead

Posted on | January 19, 2016 | 15 Comments

Matthew Boyle at Breitbart reports:

The Republican National Committee (RNC) officially voted on Monday afternoon to sever its business relationship with NBC News for the previously-scheduled Feb. 26, 2016, GOP presidential primary debate, Breitbart News has learned.
The Debate Committee for the RNC met via conference call and after hearing updates from RNC chairman Reince Priebus officially voted to cancel the partnership with NBC, according to sources on the call. The vote was unanimous.
After the October debate hosted by NBC partner CNBC — in which co-moderator John Harwood was roundly criticized for a poor performance –the RNC suspended its relationship with NBC News over that upcoming Houston debate.
“I write to inform you that pending further discussion between the Republican National Committee (RNC) and our presidential campaigns, we are suspending the partnership with NBC News for the Republican primary debate at the University of Houston on February 26, 2016,” Priebus wrote to NBC News chairman Andy Lack back in late October. . . .
In response, NBC News signaled in a statement at the time that it thought the situation could be resolved. . . .
Clearly, however, despite NBC’s previous hopes that the RNC would reinstate the network as a moderator of the upcoming debate, the RNC has officially moved forward with formal actions to end the network’s plans for the Houston debate. . . .
The move by the RNC to formally extricate NBC News from the process is sure to seriously harm the media organization’s reputation, and its financial bottom line. Typically, networks make millions of dollars in ad revenue with debate moderation due to the extraordinarily high viewership.

(Via Memeorandum.)

 

Category: Debates, Media Bias, NBC, Republicans

Democrats Against Justice

Posted on | January 19, 2016 | 2 Comments

The Democrat Party is a criminal protection racket:

If you are a Democrat, the safest place in the world to be is under the authority of other Democrats. Lois Lerner, the criminal who used the Internal Revenue Service as a political weapon on behalf of the Democratic party, was never going to be charged, or even disciplined, by her overseers in the IRS or at the Department of Justice. After pulling one of the worst Gestapo stunts in modern American history, she’s receiving a nice, comfortable pension, and those who enabled her crimes were given fat bonuses. There was no way that Eric Holder or Loretta Lynch was going to charge Lerner — what do you imagine the odds are that they’ll discover their integrity in the matter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee?

(Hat-tip: Maetenloch at Ace of Spades HQ.)

 

Category: Democrats, Hillary Clinton

In The Mailbox: 01.18.16

Posted on | January 18, 2016 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Sex, Lies, And Catfishing At UVA
Da Tech Guy: Ted Cruz Springs The Monty Python Apology Trap
Louder With Crowder: GOP Debate Cartoon Parody
Proof Positive: 13 Hours Opened Thursday Night. Why Haven’t You Seen It Yet?
American Irony: If Things Don’t Work Out For Bernie…
The Political Hat: Planned Parenthood Loves AIDS
Doug Powers: If Bernie Sanders And Michael Moore Want To Take Flint’s Water Problem To The Top…
Twitchy: Code Pink Busting On @DWStweets For Sunday Night #DemDebate


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Bernie Sanders Is A Hardline Communist
American Thinker: “Peddling Fiction” Or Repealing Math?
BLACKFIVE: Exclusive Interview With Newt Gingrich About His Latest Novel Duplicity
Conservatives4Palin: Why Sanctuary Cities Threaten Dems
Don Surber: Enjoy Your Habib, Feminists
Jammie Wearing Fools: Muslim Teens Stone Transgender Women In Germany
Joe For America: Benghazi Witness Confirms What Hillary’s Been Hiding
JustOneMinute: Frequently Unasked Questions
Pamela Geller: In Sweden, State-Funded Muslim “Sniper” Training
Protein Wisdom: Obama Discusses The Patriarchal Conspiracy Against Tampons
Shot In The Dark: Why We Fight, Part III – The Public Good
STUMP: On New York (And Chicago, And Connecticut, And Boston) Values
The Gateway Pundit: Three Americans Kidnapped In Baghdad By Shiite Militia, Probably Linked To Iran
The Jawa Report: JUICE Mind Control Moves To Jupiter
The Lonely Conservative: Iran Gets Huge Windfall Thanks To Obama Deal
This Ain’t Hell: Army Holds Back Decision On Bergdahl Awards
Weasel Zippers: When Bernie Argues For Single Payer, Remind Him What Happened In Vermont
Megan McArdle: Gaming Of Obamacare Poses A Fatal Threat
Mark Steyn: Hold the Mohamed Salad


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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Sunday: Otakon Vegas Edition

Posted on | January 17, 2016 | 13 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I spent part of my weekend at Otakon Vegas, a smaller and much more tolerable version of the massive anime convention in Baltimore. It had many of the usual anime convention features: a sizable artists’ alley for the benefit of young amateur/semi-pro artists, a massive dealers’ room, a dance, a rave, and some panels & workshops. I avoided most of these since I had to work on Friday and was there mainly to drum up interest in the National Fantasy Fan Federation in any case. Still, I took the opportunity on Sunday to lounge about in one of the video rooms, which was showing Full Metal Panic: FUMOFFU?, a more romantic and comedic offshoot of the original Full Metal Panic! series. The leading lady of both series, Kaname Chidori, is a psychic who’s been assigned a bodyguard (Sosuke Sagara) who has spent his life since childhood as a mercenary and has zero concept of what a normal civilian teenager’s life is like. Hilarity ensues. Our appetizer for today is from the beach episode of Full Metal Panic: FUMOFFU? and shows Kaname in her swimsuit.

Impossible to cosplay properly because NOBODY has hair like that.

As usual, many of the following links are to pics generally considered NSFW. If we have to tell you not to click on them at inappropriate times and places, you are probably too stupid to be reading this blog and should just close the tab now. In any event, your problems aren’t our problems.

Leading off this week is Political Clown Parade with another installment of Flowing Curves of Beauty, followed by Goodstuff, who enlists Britt Ekland as our tour guide to the far reaches of the cyberworld. Ninety Miles from Tyranny serves up Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns; Blogfodder has Bad Girls, and Animal Magnetism has Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon. The Last Tradition chips in with Olivia Munn and Cara Delevingne, while First Street Journal pays tribute to Italian women in uniform. We also heard from Postaldog with Maitland Ward, Anna Camp, and Linda Blair.

EBL has Golden Globes Rule 5, Roll Tide, Cardinals v. Packers, Raptor Rape Culture, Livin’ The Dream, Chiefs v. Patriots, Seahawks v. Panthers, and Steelers v. Broncos.

A View from the Beach brings us Cecilia and Belen Rodriguez, Gone Fishin’, We Got Screwed!, Did El Chapo’s Moll Cause His Capture?, “China Girl”, This Old Guy is My Hero!, Can the Redskins Send the Packers Packing?, and You Can’t Win ’em All.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Ava Fiore, his Vintage Babe is Marguerite Chapman, Sex In Advertising says Baby, It’s Cold Outside, and this week there’s a double scoop of NFL cheerleaders. At Dustbury, it’s Bryce Dallas Howard and Bai Ling.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: All Fired Up

Posted on | January 16, 2016 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Our Moral Superiors™
A Blog for Dallas Area Catholics
The Daley Gator
The Political Hat
357 Magnum
Batshit Crazy News

Rule 5 Sunday: Teenage Wasteland
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles from Tyranny
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

Feminist Tumblr Syndrome
The Political Hat
First Street Journal
Batshit Crazy News

Jax State Is #FCSCocky Today #FearTheBeak! #BlowSoutherners UPDATE: Bisons Defeat JSU 37-10 as NDSU Claims Fifth Straight Title
The Daley Gator
Batshit Crazy News

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

General Kelly, You Clearly Don’t Understand How “Progress” Works
The Daley Gator
Batshit Crazy News

More Tumblr Feminism
The Daley Gator
Batshit Crazy News

#RollTide: Alabama Crimson Tide Defeats Clemson 45-40 for National Title
The Daley Gator
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 01.13.16
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

Courtesy Is Now ‘Rape Culture’
The Pirate’s Cove

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.14.16
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

Will Cruz Cruise or Get Trumped?
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox, 01.15.16
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

What Women’s Studies Teaches
The Daley Gator
Batshit Crazy News

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
Batshit Crazy News

Feminist Tumblr: Having Babies Is ‘One of the Most Selfish Things’ People Can Do
The Daley Gator
Batshit Crazy News

Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (15)
  2.  The Daley Gator (7)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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Category: FMJRA Award

Rave Review for ’13 Hours’

Posted on | January 16, 2016 | 26 Comments

 

John Nolte (@NolteNC) at Breitbart’s Big Hollywood:

Director Michael Bay’s riveting, heartbreaking, and infuriating “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” opens with five simple words: “This Is a True Story.” What it should have read was, “This Is a True Story The Media Has Covered Up For Years.”
God damn these people to Hell. . . .
Michael Bay — you know, the guy who makes those “Transformers” movies — just made a film critical of a sitting president’s foreign policy, and knocked it straight out of the park.
Bay’s “13 Hours” is not only a compelling, unbearably tense, brilliantly choreographed action film, but like a true artist, he does not stoop to being preachy or pedantic to make a damning case against a Obama Administration, that not only has a depraved indifference towards the truth, but also towards American lives. . . .

Read the whole thing. Nolte points out that 13 Hours is not a “political” movie. It’s a true-life action movie like Blackhawk Down (about an earlier Clinton-connected debacle) that allows viewers to draw their own conclusions about the policy which resulted in the action portrayed. What I hope is that the audiences who see 13 Hours will ask themselves, “What was the policy? Why was Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi? Why weren’t the American people told the truth, not only about the events of Sept. 11, 2012, but also about the covert State Department operations that led up to that disaster?”

The media know the truth — all of the essential facts have actually been reported — but the full story of incompetent Obama/Clinton policy blunders that led up to Benghazi, and which also resulted in the rise of ISIS, has never gotten the kind of sustained coverage that CNN typically devotes to “white cop kills teenage black criminal” stories.

Our national media have sold their souls to the Democrat Party. Their news coverage is determined by political calculations. The editors, producers and reporters are all Democrats who never miss an opportunity to promote partisan propaganda. They are hired liars.

John Nolte is exactly right: “God damn them all to Hell.”

 

Category: Movies

Feminist Tumblr: Having Babies Is ‘One of the Most Selfish Things’ People Can Do

Posted on | January 15, 2016 | 84 Comments

Deep thoughts from a bisexual radical feminist in the Midwest:

I’ve believed for a long time that purposely choosing to have biological children is one of the most selfish things a person could ever do. It IS selfish to create another human because you want it. It’s also foolish when parents convince themselves that they’re doing good for the world by procreating. Maybe your kid will cure cancer, but in all likelihood they won’t change the world in all that big of a way. I just hate when people pretend that having a baby isn’t selfish, that it’s for the good of humanity. Own up to it! You want a human for you. It’s selfish, and it’s also fine. I say this as someone who is seriously considering trying to have kids someday, too. I wish people were more reflective and honest.

Where to begin analyzing this? If I were a psychiatrist, I’d start by getting the patient to narrate the basic facts of her own life: How many brothers and sisters do you have? Are your parents married? How old were you when you realized you were bisexual? How many sexual partners have you had? What’s the longest romantic relationship you have been in? Whenever you encounter a person with strange beliefs, you see, there must be an explanation somewhere in her past. Crazy people — and that’s most feminists are, really — don’t become crazy for no reason. Even if you subscribe to the “neurochemical imbalance” theory of mental illness, not every woman with a personality disorder is a radical feminist bisexual spewing irrational nonsense on the Internet. No, there must be an etiology of this particular case of Feminist Tumblr Syndrome:

Growing up “gifted”, exceeding in academically, and originally getting into Ivy League schools honestly f–ked me up. Now as a person with multiple disabilities who is a family disappointment for going to an average small liberal arts college, I spend every minute feeling intense shame. My adult life has been a gradual descent into a less and less able person, and I don’t know how to cope with it. Even though I (unknowingly) had PTSD, dyslexia, and epilepsy my whole life, it didn’t hold me back academically. I never learned how to study, how to cope with grades below an A, how to manage my time well, how to fail even if I worked hard.
Seriously, never build the core of your identity around being “gifted” or smart or academically capable or whatever. It could all be taken away from you and you’ll feel so f–king lost. Same goes for kids. Don’t hold them to such impossibly high standards that you leave them no room for anything but perfect performance.

Oh, that explains a lot, doesn’t it? I was “gifted” as a child, but I was always an underachiever and a troublemaker who just barely graduated high school and only went to college because my father insisted on it. My personal war against the public education system began in fifth grade, really, and a lifelong antipathy toward bureaucracy probably explains my libertarian tendencies, whereas my conservatism could perhaps be seen as reflecting a belated appreciation for my father’s better qualities. Dad was a New Deal Democrat and proud member of the Machinists union who used to argue politics with me after I turned Republican in my mid-30s, although he was nonetheless gratified by his underachiever son’s success as a journalist. But I digress . . .

We may surmise that the bisexual radical feminist’s animosity toward parenthood in general (“one of the most selfish things a person could ever do”) reflects her resentment of her own parents whose “impossibly high standards” she blames for her feelings of “intense shame” as being the “family disappointment.” And who am I, an underachiever journalist playing amateur psychiatrist on my blog, to argue with her criticism of her parents? Honestly, I agree with her point about parents who push, push, push their “gifted” child onto the academic fast-track where acceptance to an Ivy League school is the expected outcome.

The obvious problem with pushing a child toward success is that they may fail to develop an inner drive for excellence. This wasn’t my problem as an underachiever. I had plenty of drive, but the public-school bureaucracy did not recognize or reward my idiosyncratic aptitudes. In fact, I was a target for frequent punishment for failing to conform to the “one-size-fits-all” structure of public education.

Schools are run by teachers, all of whom liked school when they were kids, and schools are organized for the kind of kids who also like school and will probably grow up to become teachers themselves. The quiet, obedient, do-exactly-what-the-teacher-says type of child — which is to say, a natural-born bureaucrat — is always the Teacher’s Pet, while the creative, energetic rebel is the Problem Child. Thus it was that I learned by heart the Three Rules of Public School:

  1. Sit down;
  2. Shut up;
    and
  3. Do your work.

“Excuse me, Ms. Flood, but isn’t this ‘work’ supposed to be teaching me something? If I’m already reading at a college level, why is it necessary that I do these tedious worksheets about matching subjects with verbs and pronouns with antecedents?”

Asking such questions is “disruptive,” and punishment was by paddling in those days. Up to the chalkboard, bend over to grab the rail, and — no flinching — whap! whap! whap! whap! whap!

Trust me, no feminist ever wanted to “smash patriarchy” as much as I want to smash the public school system, which I consider a greater menace to American liberty than ISIS. If you ever want to hear me rant for 45 minutes, just ask my opinion of what’s wrong with public education — everything, basically, but I can give a detailed accounting of the system’s errors which are numerous, pervasive, and beyond hope of reform. The only way to “fix” the problem is to ABOLISH THE ENTIRE GODDAMNED SYSTEM! But I digress . . .

“The personal is political,” as radical feminist Carol Hanisch famously said, but why do women’s pet peeves qualify as a progressive political movement, whereas progressives don’t care about my pet peeves with public schools or your pet peeves with whatever pisses you off? People have been grumbling and complaining about their problems since the dawn of time, but for some reason the grumbling and complaining of women is a special case. And this bisexual radical feminist Tumblr blogger is a very special case, indeed. Take a look at some of the problems she describes under her “personal” tag. Playing amateur psychiatrist again, I’m tempted to conclude either:

A. Her medical issues are largely psychosomatic in origin;
or
B. Both her medical issues and her psychological problems are symptomatic of overall poor health.

Is she getting enough sleep? What is she eating? Does she get enough sunshine and vigorous exercise? Has she consulted an endocrinologist? You have to suspect she has some serious underlying problem to explain all the things wrong with her. (Seriously, she has a lot of problems.) The only alternative is that she is cursed or possessed by demons, supernatural possibilities that Educated 21st-Century Americans are supposed to rule out as absurd, but after you read enough Feminist Tumblr blogs, it’s tempting to wonder if Beelzebub is ultimately to blame. A girl starts messing around with a Ouija board or tarot cards when she’s a kid and then — boom! — Satan grabs her, body and soul.

Now she’s on Tumblr, telling everybody way too much about her sex life and her gynecological problems and — oh, by the way — her first boyfriend was a rapist and a sociopath:

“I was with my first serious boyfriend for two years, age 14-16, and during that time we made a lot of art together and wrote notes that we passed off at school. I had hundreds of these notes from him. He was manipulative and abusive. He raped me. He was (is) a sociopath. When I was 18, confronting my PTSD, and put on antidepressants that were making me really unstable, I tossed out all of his notes and the art we made together. I regret this. I wanted to simplify the relationship. I didn’t want the good memories around; I didn’t want to fool myself. He was a huge part of my life and those years are still a part of who I am. Even though he is a piece of s–t and I have no interest in ever reconnecting, I really wish I didn’t try to erase him entirely. It just seemed easier to paint the relationship as all bad and try to forget it. I want to get over this regret I feel for throwing all those things away. So many years have passed and I’m still sad about it.”

And there’s this:

“I attended and helped organize Chicago’s first Slut Walk.”

This proves she is a Minion of Evil. And also crazy as hell.

 

Category: Sex Trouble

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | January 15, 2016 | 4 Comments

by Smitty

Rumors of the Doom of Korbill at Vally Myzods had finally drifted to Wesloch. Korbill’s son Korban had rallied the tattered, drenched remains of the Leimeners at Korbill Tower. The Wizard Zygiell’d had healed Korbill, and they were rumored to be mounting an expedition East to the Grey mountains, through which the orc horde itself had poured, to find the Dravonid Library.
Which. Must. Not. Happen.
The King of Wesloch had dispatched him, the Wizard Rogand, as ambassador to Korban. The wreckage of Leimen, while tragic, was no reason to risk uncovering the Codex Lopodunum. There was enough woe already.

Previously:
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 3
—
via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction
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