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In The Mailbox: 01.13.16

Posted on | January 13, 2016 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Sorry about the lack of posting. It’s been a difficult week.


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: The Twitter Outlaw Unverified
Da Tech Guy: We Won’t See A Slutwalk In Cologne Any Time Soon
Proof Positive: Hillary Control, We Are Standing By!
Louder With Crowder: Obama’s Gun Control Town Hall Lies Refuted
Shark Tank: Jeb Bush’s Granite State Comeback
Michelle Malkin: My Straight Talk On The REAL State Of The Union
Twitchy: Joe Trippi Throws Cold Water On The Sanders Surge


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: SecState Kerry Thanks Iran For “Quick Release” Of U.S. Sailors Held Hostage
American Thinker: At What Point Do Obama Loyalists Start Asking “Why”?
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Where It Hurts By Reed Coleman
Conservatives4Palin: Governor Sarah Palin – Happy Birthday, Rush Limbaugh!
Don Surber: Germans Admit Muslims Planned New Year’s Eve Rapes
Jammie Wearing Fools: Daesh Burns Fighters Alive For Letting Ramadi Fall
Joe For America: Ted Nugent Just Pissed Off The ENTIRE Religion Of Peace
JustOneMinute: Commence The Mad Dash For The Memory Hole
Pamela Geller: Imam LIED About Philly Jihadi Cop-Shooter’s Ties To His Mosque
Protein Wisdom: Obama’s Parting Gift To America – Subprime 2.0! What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Shot In The Dark: RIP David Bowie
STUMP: Puerto Rico – After The Default
The Gateway Pundit: Rep. Steve King Walks Out On Obama SOTU
The Jawa Report: Probably THE Best Nekkid Protest Ever
The Lonely Conservative: States Move To Take Back Land From The Federal Government
This Ain’t Hell: Rep. Duncan Hunter Says SecNav Mabus “A Worse Threat To The Marines Than ISIS”
Weasel Zippers: Obama Mocks “Rhetoric” About America Getting Weaker, Joint Chiefs Not Amused
Megan McArdle: You Binged For the Holidays. Now It’s Time To Nibble.
Mark Steyn: Notes On A Phenomenon


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Category: Linkagery

#RollTide: Alabama Crimson Tide Defeats Clemson 45-40 for National Title

Posted on | January 11, 2016 | 23 Comments

 

Defense wins football games. Senior linebacker Reggie Ragland (above) and his University of Alabama teammates know this, and they face a tough challenge against the undefeated #1-ranked Clemson Tigers in the BCS championship game. Never mind anything else the analysts and commentators tell you. If ‘Bama’s defense can stop the Tigers, the Crimson Tide will win tonight.

The game may be decided in the first quarter. Clemson’s high-scoring offense has been held to less than 24 points only twice during the past season, against Louisville Sept. 17 and against Florida State Nov. 7. But Alabama has only given up 24 points once, in their 43-37 loss to Ole Miss Sept. 19, and the Crimson Tide’s defense was untouchable in their 38-0 shutout of Michigan State in the Dec. 31 Cotton Bowl. Because Clemson usually expects to score a lot of points, if Alabama can keep the Tigers off the scoreboard during the first quarter, this will give the Crimson Tide a huge psychological edge. (Trash talk, Clemson?)

Stopping Clemson will not be easy, of course. Their quarterback, Deshaun Watson, threw for 3,699 yards and 31 touchdowns this year and — perhaps more importantly — Watson also ran for 1,032 yards and 12 touchdowns. Watson is a very dangerous threat, and the Alabama defense will have its hands full. But the Crimson Tide’s defensive front line is the best in college football. ‘Bama rotates eight players in a three-man front, and seldom uses more than one linebacker in pass rush, keeping seven men in coverage. If the Tide defense can shut down Clemson’s running game and force Watson into 3rd-and-long situations, Alabama should make the Tigers pay a price in sacks and interceptions.

Alabama’s offense, of course, has the Heisman winner Derrick Henry at running back, and if it were up to me, the play-calling would be “Henry right, Henry left, Henry up the middle” until Clemson shows they can stop the run. But Coach Nick Saban also has a very good, but underrated quarterback in Jake Coker, who has thrown for 2,775 yards and 19 TDs. Coker had the best game of his career against Michigan State, throwing for 286 yards and two touchdowns.

Still, the key for the Tide will be defense. Defense wins football games.

UPDATE: Derrick Henry ran 50 yards for a touchdown. Alabama 7, Clemson 0.

UPDATE II: Capping a 91-yeard drive helped by a pass interference penalty, Watson threw 31 yards for a touchdown.

Alabama 7, Clemson 7. Damn it.

UPDATE III: Clemson ends the first quarter with a 73-yard drive, concluding with an 11-yard touchdown pass by Watson.

Clemson 14, Alabama 7. Damn it.

UPDATE IV: Eddie Jackson intercepted a Watson pass at the Clemson 42, and seven plays later, Derrick Henry ran for his second touchdown with 9:35 remaining in the first half.

Alabama 14, Clemson 14.

UPDATE V: A blown coverage assignment by a Clemson safety left Alabama receiver O.J. Howard wide open on the sideline, and Jake Coker hit him for a 53-yard touchdown pass with 12:53 left in the third quarter.

Alabama 21, Clemson 14.

UPDATE VI: Clemson forced to settle for a field goal.

Alabama 21, Clemson 17.

UPDATE VII: Clemson drives 60 yards in 9 plays and scores a touchdown on a 1-yard run by Wayne Gallman with 4:48 remaining in the third quarter.

Clemson 24, Alabama 21. Damn it.

UPDATE VIII: Alabama settles for a field goal.

Alabama 24, Clemson 24.

UPDATE IX: WOW! WOW! Alabama 31, Clemson 24.

UPDATE X: Clemson gets a field goal with 7:47 left in the game.

Alabama 31, Clemson 27.

UPDATE XI: Alabama’s Kenyan Drake returns the kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown.

Alabama 38, Clemson 27.

UPDATE XII: Deshaun Watson and the Tigers don’t quit. Clemson scores a touchdown on a 15-yard Watson pass, tries for a two-point conversion and misses.

Alabama 38, Clemson 33.

UPDATE XIII: Exciting touchdown drive! Coker hit O.J. Howard on a swing pass and Howard raced 63 yards down the sideline. Coker ran for a first down at the Clemson 3-yard line and then, on 3rd-and-goal from the 1, Derrick Henry plunged over for the touchdown.

Alabama 45, Clemson 33.

UPDATE XIV: Clemson gets a touchdown pass, then unsuccessfully attempts an onside kick.

FINAL: Alabama 45, Clemson 40.

 

Category: Alabama, Football

Rule 5 Sunday: Teenage Wasteland

Posted on | January 10, 2016 | 12 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Unlike most of the other posts on this site, the titles for the FMJRA and Rule 5 Sunday have no particular significance, no connection to the contents, except as a key to whatever young woman (or not so young woman) I’m using as an appetizer this week. Set the Objectifying Male Gaze cannons to Stunning! In this case, the former Elizabeth Wooldridge Grant, better known to pop music fans as Lana del Rey, who coincidentally has a song out called “Prom Song (Gone Wrong)” which everyone thinks is called “Teenage Wasteland”, which used to be what everyone thought The Who’s “Baba O’Riley” was called. This has been your bit of music trivia for the weekend. In any case, the management reminds you that many of the following links are to nekkid or almost-naked women. and we’re not responsible for what happens if you click on them while people who can and will make your life even more miserable than it is already are watching. Discretion: use it.

Not actually named Lana Del Rey.
(inb4 screams of “Cultural Appropriation!”)

Blogfodder debuts with Rule 5: Girlfight!, followed by Political Clown Parade with Flowing Curves of Beauty, Goodstuff with the wet, wild, wobbly, and willing Jennifer Aniston, and Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism chips in with Rule 5 Animal Rights Friday and a Saturday Ebbamageddon, The Last Tradition presents Eva Herzigova and Marie Blanchard, and First Street Journal celebrates the women in Switzerland’s army.

EBL’s thundering herd this week has Lola Kirke from Mozart in the Jungle, Hillary Knight, Ice Ice Wild Card, Packers & Redskins, AFC Wild Card Playoff Cheerleaders, and Kansas City Chiefs Cheerleaders.

A View from the Beach brings us A Pretty Normal Little Liar – Ashley Benson, Gone Fishin’, Did “Climate Change” Chase Bigfoot from Asia to America?, Star Wars Gone Wild, The World’s First Smart Bra?, Not Enough Menhaden for the Bay’s Stripers, Johnny Depp Pays Homage to His Better Half, Gratuitous Monday Morning Kate Upton, Can the Redskins Count Coup on the Cowboys? and Bassline Sunday.

Soylent Siberia is serving Cafe Au Lait, followed by Monday Motivationer Old School, Tuesday Titillation, Humpday Hawtness Windblown, Fursday Trim, Corsets Etc.,  and Weekender: Licking the Spoon.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Angelique Boyer, his Vintage Babe is Leslie Brooks, Sex in Advertising is covered by an angel (?), and of course there’s the obligatory 49ers cheerleaders. At Dustbury, it’s Akina Nakamori and Taylor Swift.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit your links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox is midnight on Saturday, January 16.


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Category: Rule 5

More Tumblr Feminism

Posted on | January 10, 2016 | 119 Comments

The logic of totalitarian hatred is impeccable:

Psst: men will never support actual feminism because actual feminism is about female liberation from males. Think critically about it. Why would the dominant class want to help those they’ve built an entire society around the domination of? They wouldn’t. The only feminism that men support is the ~libfem~ shitfuckery that caters to them; they love that rebranded patriarchal tripe. And why wouldn’t they?

Males are “the dominant class” and “actual feminism is about female liberation from males” and, therefore, short of moving to a lesbian separatist commune somewhere in the Oregon woods, nobody will ever have “actual feminism.” Because men have “built an entire society around the domination of” women, the “only feminism that men support is . . . rebranded patriarchal tripe.” This belief, that systematic male “domination” of women is the defining characteristic of “society,” is the fundamental basis of feminist ideology.

“Marriage means rape and lifelong slavery. . . . We reject marriage both in theory and in practice. . . . Love has to be destroyed. It’s an illusion . . . It may be that sex is a neurotic manifestation of oppression. It’s like a mass psychosis.”
— Ti-Grace Atkinson, 1969

“Women are an oppressed class. . . .
“We identify the agents of our oppression as men. . . . All men have oppressed women.”
— Redstockings, 1969

“We are angry because we are oppressed by male supremacy. We have been f–ked over all our lives by a system which is based on the domination of men over women, which defines male as good and female as only as good as the man you are with. It is a system in which heterosexuality is rigidly enforced and Lesbianism rigidly suppressed.”
— Ginny Berson, “The Furies,” 1972

“The heart of lesbian-feminist politics . . . is a recognition that heterosexuality as an institution and an ideology is a cornerstone of male supremacy. Therefore, women interested in destroying male supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism must, equally with lesbians, fight heterosexual domination — or we will never end female oppression.”
— Charlotte Bunch, “Not for Lesbians Only,” 1975 (quoted in Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women’s Lives, edited by Rosemary Hennessy and Chrys Ingraham, 1997)

“The radical feminist argument is that men have forced women into heterosexuality in order to exploit them . . .”
— Celia Kitzinger, The Social Construction of Lesbianism (1987)

“From the beginning of second-wave feminism, sexuality was identified as a key site of patriarchal domination and women’s resistance to it. . . .
“While heterosexual desires, practices, and relations are socially defined as ‘normal’ and normative, serving to marginalize other sexualities as abnormal and deviant, the coercive power of compulsory heterosexuality derives from its institutionalization as more than merely a sexual relation.”
— Stevi Jackson, “Sexuality, Heterosexuality, and Gender Hierarchy: Getting Our Priorities Straight,” in Thinking Straight: The Power, the Promise, and the Paradox of Heterosexuality, edited by Chrys Ingraham (2005)

“Heterosexism is maintained by the illusion that heterosexuality is the norm.”
— Susan M. Shaw and Janet Lee, Women’s Voices, Feminist Visions (fifth edition, 2012)

“All women are prisoners and hostages to men’s world. Men’s world is like a vast prison or concentration camp for women. This isn’t a metaphor, it’s reality. Each man is a threat. We can’t escape men.”
— Radical Wind, August 2013

“I don’t particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding . . . time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness. . . . I don’t want a baby. . . . Nothing will make me want a baby. . . . This is why, if my birth control fails, I am totally having an abortion.”
— Amanda Marcotte, March 2014

Feminism is a totalitarian movement hostile to men, marriage and motherhood. The Tumblr blogger who rants that men do not support “actual feminism” is certainly correct. If a man really wants to support feminism, all he can do is to commit suicide.




 

Category: Sex Trouble

Our Moral Superiors™

Posted on | January 10, 2016 | 29 Comments

Liberal intellectuals are convinced that the rest of us are so stupid we need them to tell us what to think. Their narcissism manifests itself as a contempt for the common sense of ordinary Americans, an attitude Thomas Sowell analyzed in The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy. What inspires the Left’s rage — the source of their constant accusations that ordinary Americans are racist, sexist homophobes — is simply that the Left expects the rest of us to accept their authority as Our Moral Superiors™ and they become angry when we refuse to do so. The children of privilege spend Daddy’s money to get an Ivy League diploma and how dare you fail to acknowledge their right to tell you how to live?

However, the intellectual class harbors so many lunatics, perverts and criminals that one suspects the faculty hiring process systematically excludes decent and honest people from academic employment. The psychotic Professor Hugo Schwyzer’s 2013 meltdown was just the tip of an iceberg of degenerate madness in academia. Walter Lee Williams, whose works include Overcoming Heterosexism and Homophobia, was “an eminent professor of gender and sexuality studies” at the University of Southern California before he pleaded guilty in federal court to traveling the world to pursue sex with boys as young as 9. Columbia University political science Professor David Epstein copped a plea bargain for having incest with his daughter. Rutgers University Professor Anna Stubblefield was convicted of sexually molesting a mentally disabled man. Lehigh University Professor Yujie Ding was convicted of federal fraud charges, and Florida State University Professor James Doran was convicted of embezzlement. One could make a long list of university faculty — Professor Alyssa Azotea (psychology, Simmons College), Professor Michael Dean Stroup (economics, Stephen F. Austin State University), Professor James Francis Quinn (criminology, University of North Texas), Professor Douglas Paul Dohrman (health science, Texas A&M University), Professor Christopher DeZutter (chemistry, University of Minnesota-Rochester), Professor Noel Campbell (business, University of Central Arkansas), Professor Kevin Sullivan (public health, Emory University), Professor Amol Kharabe (business, Ohio University), Professor J. Martin Favor (African American studies, Dartmouth College), to name just a few recent cases — arrested on child pornography charges. The FBI says self-described “boy lover” Professor James Cavalcoli used the Internet in his attempt to meet a minor for sex. And, of course, there was University of Georgia Professor Max Reinhart, who was charged with prostitution for peddling himself online as a transvestite named “Sasha.”

Meanwhile, the intellectuals have decided to mess with Texas:

Chanting, “Gun-free UT. Make it safe for you and me,” and, “Guns are not a teaching tool. They do not belong in school,” more than 200 attendees at the Modern Language Association’s annual meeting marched to the Texas Capitol Friday to protest the state’s new “campus carry” law.
The law, which will take effect this year, allows guns into public college classrooms and dormitories — much to the anger of many professors at Texas and elsewhere. . . .
Roland Greene, a professor of English and comparative literature at Stanford University and president of the MLA, said the association wanted Texas faculty members to know that “we stand with you.” . . .
The MLA is one of 29 scholarly associations that have jointly condemned the campus carry law.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) What the MLA is saying is that Texans are so manifestly unfit to govern themselves that they need literature professors to dictate their laws to them. Does anyone really think the average Ph.D. in English is so superior to the average Texan that a Stanford literature professor (author of such books as Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes) has the authority to tell Texans what to do? Good luck with that, buddy.




 

Category: Crime, Education, Intellectuals, Texas

FMJRA 2.0: Rubycon

Posted on | January 9, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

What’s Wrong With ‘Equality’?
Dark Brightness
The Political Hat
The Daley Gator
The Pirate’s Cove
Batshit Crazy News

Rule 5 Sunday: Happy New Year!
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles from Tyranny
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

When Crazy Is Against the Law…
Regular Right Guy
First Street Journal
Batshit Crazy News

FMJRA 2.0: Wolf Like Me
BlurBrain
The Pirate’s Cove
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News

Chicago: Murder City, U.S.A.
Regular Right Guy
First Street Journal

Bad Advice From Bad Women
Batshit Crazy News

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.04.16
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.05.16
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox, 01.06.15
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

Marriage Matters
Dustbury
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox, 01.07.16
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

Muslim Rape Gangs Attack Women, and Feminists Won’t Say a Word About It
Gay Patriot
The Political Hat
Dark Brightness
Spawny’s Space

Feminist Barbie and ‘Rape Culture’
Batshit Crazy News

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.08.16
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
Batshit Crazy News

Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (12)
  2.  Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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Category: FMJRA Award

General Kelly, You Clearly Don’t Understand How “Progress” Works

Posted on | January 9, 2016 | 17 Comments

by Smitty

This is precisely the sort of scurrilous, retro-warrior thinking that Political Correctness was supposed to squash:

Kelly, who has been a Marine for 45 years and served three tours in Iraq, said the sole basis for change in the military should be whether the change will make units more lethal.

We no longer have the intellectual honesty to ask whether a given policy enhances combat effectiveness. Only whether the policy helps our godless Commie sodomites in office feel better about themselves.

Category: Culture, Military

Jax State Is #FCSCocky Today #FearTheBeak! #BlowSoutherners UPDATE: Bisons Defeat JSU 37-10 as NDSU Claims Fifth Straight Title

Posted on | January 9, 2016 | 11 Comments

 

True story: One afternoon when I was a sophomore at Jacksonville (Ala.) State University, two of my buddies and I left Jack Hopper Dining Hall and headed over toward the student center to shoot some pool.

Just as we were approaching the front doors of what is now the Theron Montgomery Building, the doors swung open and there she was: Teresa Cheatham, Miss Alabama 1978 and runner-up in the Miss America Pageant. Our eyes popped open at the sight of the most beautiful girl on a campus that was then, as now, famous for its beautiful girls. But what happened next was the real shocker.

“Hi, Stacy! How are you doing!” Teresa said, greeting me with a smile.

“Well, uh . . . Hi, Teresa,” I replied, reaching out to shake her hand. “Congratulations. You did us proud, but you should have won. They cheated you, honestly.” So we stood there for just a minute, chatting and laughing, and then Teresa went on where she was going, while me and my buddies headed into the student center. As soon as the doors closed behind us, my buddies started high-fiving me.

“Wow! You know her?”

Yeah, I played it off real casual-like, but that moment was actually a tribute to Teresa, who had the kind of memory for faces and names that is part of the “poise” and “leadership” element of being a pageant winner. She had played a lead role in the student performance of Cabaret my freshman year, when I was in a non-speaking role among the cast. Although I can’t remember if we had ever actually talked to each other during the weeks of rehearsals, somehow Teresa had remembered my name, so that she was able to greet me like an old friend after she had become a famous celebrity at JSU.

Jax State is “The Friendliest Campus in the South” and, with only about 7,500 students, there is a small-town atmosphere that makes it easy to get to know people. Tuition is only $8,790 a year, which makes for a down-to-earth attitude — many of the students are from working-class families, and nobody’s rich, so you don’t have a lot of snobbery or the kind of politically correct social-justice mentality that seems to make the so-called “elite” schools such a wretched nightmare.

Anyway, my beloved alma mater is playing today in the NCAA FCS Championship Game in Frisco, Texas:

Jacksonville State is the No. 1 ranked FCS team in the country and has beaten three Top 10 teams in this year’s playoffs, yet is a 3-point underdog in Saturday’s national championship game.
And with good reason.
The Gamecocks’ opponent is none other than North Dakota State, not only the country’s second-ranked FCS team but the winner of four consecutive national championships. All of those victories have taken place at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas, once again the site of Saturday’s championship game.
“People probably look at us as the underdog, but I don’t really feel like we’re the underdog,” Jacksonville State quarterback Eli Jenkins said. “We’re the No. 1 team in the nation, and we’re that for a reason. But North Dakota State, they deserve the attention. This is their fifth year in this position. They’re a great, well-coached football team. They deserve everything that’s coming to them.”

Game time is noon ET, 11 a.m. Central, and I’ll be updating for y’all. Everybody say, “GO BIG COCKS!”

UPDATE: North Dakota was stopped on their first possession and settled for a field goal, then drove for a touchdown to go ahead 10-0 early in the second quarter. Then they had an interception and North Dakota went ahead 17-0. That’s OK, Gamecocks. Still plenty of time. Just hang in there and keep on fighting.

UPDATE II: Alas, a Gamecock victory was not to be:

The greatest modern college football dynasty kept rolling along on Saturday as North Dakota State won its fifth consecutive FCS national championship — a record for consecutive titles at any level of college football — with a dominating performance against Jacksonville State.
North Dakota State cruised to a 37-10 win over the Gamecocks in Frisco, Texas. The Bison defense locked down on the dynamic Jacksonville State offense and turned a pair of first half turnovers into touchdowns as North Dakota State jumped out to a 24-0 halftime lead.
On offense, the Bison got a great game from star quarterback Carson Wentz, who returned after missing eight games due to a wrist injury. Wentz is one of the top quarterback prospects for the upcoming 2016 NFL Draft, ranked as the No. 4 quarterback and 36th overall in CBS Sports’ prospect rankings.
Wentz completed 16-of-30 passes for 197 yards 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions, looking solid in his first game back under center after the injury.
Not only did Wentz spin it through the air, he showed off the wheels with 9 carries for 79 yards and two touchdowns, including a great effort this 11-yard touchdown run that put the Bison ahead 17-0.

My wife said, “I hope that’s not an omen.” Yeah. My Dad’s alma mater — maybe you’ve heard of them — has a game Monday night.




 

Category: Education, Football
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