In The Mailbox 09.11.15

Posted on | September 11, 2015 | 4 Comments

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Never Forget Past Lessons
Da Tech Guy: WaPo Finally Notices Lack of Hillary Accomplishments Two Years After We Started Asking
Doug Powers: Notorious Liar Nancy Pelosi Calls Iran Deal “Historic”, “Grand”, and “Visionary”
Twitchy: “Her Work Here Is Done” – Baltimore Mayor “Safe Space For Rioters” Rawlings-Blake Won’t Seek Re-Election

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: New 9/11 Memorial In Shanksville, PA
American Thinker: Europe’s Refugee Crisis – Violence, Demands, And Muslim Conquest
BLACKFIVE: 9-11
Conservatives4Palin: Ted Cruz – Democrats Responsible For Those Murdered By Iran Nuke Deal
Don Surber: Are We Losing On 9/11?
Jammie Wearing Fools: Just Like Her E-Mails, Grandma’s Lead Over GOP Candidates Vanishes
Joe For America: Planned Parenthood Faces A Million Protesters – 28th Annual LifeChain
Pamela Geller: Hungary Takes Military Action Against Muslim Invasion
Protein Wisdom: 9/11 #NeverForget
Shot In The Dark: You Had One Freaking Job
The Gateway Pundit: Ship With “Aid” For Refugees Arrives In Greece Full Of Weapons And Ammo
The Jawa Report: Never Again
The Lonely Conservative: Obama Orders Administration To Take In At Least 10,000 Syrian Refugees
This Ain’t Hell: Paul Tillson Pleads Guilty To Defrauding VA
Weasel Zippers: Office Depot Refuses To Print Flyers Criticizing Planned Parenthood
Megan McArdle: The Danger Of Managing Drug Prices
Mark Steyn: Drawing Down

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Category: Linkagery

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | September 11, 2015 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

“…beside all that, I will give you centuries of life, free you from the need to sleep, and give you the might of a dozen flaring limbs,” said her lush lips, while her emerald eyes hinted at much, much more. The pearl necklace, diamond tiara and wand-like cigarette holder, combined with the familiar on her shoulder, marked her a princess, a sorceress, and a seductress.
The lodge where she kept her workshop had all of the usual pentagrams, tomes and spell ingredients expected. Would he emerge empowered for his revenge?
Then he saw the face in the wall decoration.

via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

A Couple Of Very Nice People

Posted on | September 11, 2015 | 6 Comments

— by Wombat-socho

I’m not sure when I first became aware of Tim Powers. It’s entirely possible that it wasn’t until he was Guest of Honor at Arcana, a small dark fantasy/horror convention in St. Paul that I can’t recommend highly enough. Anyhow, Mr. Powers was Guest of Honor for Arcana 34 back in 2004, and was a very nice, congenial fellow; he’s also a hell of a writer, skilfully manuevering between science fiction and the supernatural. He’s probably best known for his horror novel On Stranger Tides, which became one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies (if you look carefully, you can see Mr. Powers as one of the extras), or if you’re a fan of Charles Stross’ Laundry series, you probably saw the reference to Powers’ Declare which like Stross’ novels blends Le Carre with supernatural horror. I am currently reading Earthquake Weather, which combines the legend of the Fisher King with the wild ghost story of Expiration Date and the mystical poker game of Last Call. I think part of what gets me excited about Powers is his gift for taking the ordinary everyday world of buses and taxicabs and day laborers and suddenly shifting your point of view to include all the things lurking in the spaces between, or perhaps right out in plain sight. From the Siege of Vienna (The Drawing of the Dark) to the wild adventures of Lord Byron among the vampires (The Stress of Her Regard) and to the modern day, where a father and daughter struggle to comprehend Einstein’s deadliest invention, more terrible than nuclear weapons (Three Days to Never), there’s not a clunker in the lot. For a while, his books were terribly difficult to find, but fortunately Del Rey has brought them out in Kindle editions. A wonderful man who writes wonderful books.

Maggie Hogarth, on the other hand, likes to write about aliens, and apparently does so quite well, though she came to my attention as a result of political tussles on LiveJournal some years ago. Which is how I wound up signing on to the Kickstarter for her novel/script Spots the Space Marine: Defense of the Fiddler, which concerns a middle-aged Marine reservist sent to reinforce a guard company protecting an extremely valuable target. It’s also how I became aware of her taking a quirky webcomic about art, business and life (that hadn’t really earned its keep online) and bringing out a print edition. I have to say, The Three Jaguars: A Comic About Business, Art, and Life works a LOT better as a graphic novel (for reasons that Hogarth explains) and has additional material not previously published online. It’s instructive, funny, and occasionally heart-wrenching (if you’re familiar with the lawsuit by Games Workshop after Spots was published, you’ll understand, and if not you should look it up) by turns, and well worth your money. Not quite as entertaining, but possibly more helpful in a specific way, is From Spark to Finish: Running Your Kickstarter Campaign, which takes you through the steps you need to follow to run a Kickstarter campaign to get people to support you while you’re writing something they want to read, or creating some other kind of art that people want to pay actual $ (and hopefully $$ or even $$$$$) for. There aren’t a lot of people who can write well, and in this degenerate age, it seems there are even fewer who can draw and paint well, but Ms. Hogarth is blessed with both those talents. Buy her stuff.

Category: Books

Lesbian ‘Comedian’ Wants You Guys to Know Women Are ‘Not Incubators’

Posted on | September 10, 2015 | 233 Comments

“Feminist humor” is one of those terms describing a hypothetical category, like “honest Democrat.” Anyway . . .

Cameron Esposito (born 1981) is an American comedian best known for her stand-up comedy, which often focuses on LGBTQ+ topics and references aspects of her lesbian identity. Originally from Chicago, Esposito now resides in Los Angeles with her fiancee and fellow comedian Rhea Butcher. . . .

Her comedic repertoire consists mainly of repeatedly mentioning that, in case you didn’t get it the first time, she’s a lesbian. It’s as if Jerry Seinfeld had made a career of standing onstage pointing out that he is Jew from New York, rather than actually, y’know, telling jokes. I mean, sure, there are fat comedians who make a lot of fat jokes, and black comedians who make a lot of black jokes, but in general comedy works best when it relates to universal human experience. And speaking of universal human experience, what’s the deal with all these dead babies, huh?

In the midst of the recent Planned Parenthood controversy, Cameron Esposito has some feelings on the matter — some very strong feelings.
The comedian recently took the stage to explain why Planned Parenthood is absolutely vital to everyone, not only women. . . .
“Women deserve access to abortion services. We f**king do because we’re not incubators.” . . .
“If you don’t want to pay for health care for people that live in poverty, then you should help women who live in poverty to not have children that they are not able to provide for,” Esposito says. “That is how you personally will not have to pay that bill.” . . .
“If you are a guy and you are against Planned Parenthood and you sleep with women — I hope to god it is infrequently.”

That’s what you call a “feminist punch line.”

You’re supposed to laughing.

No, really. Dead babies are hilarious. Ask any feminist.

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Category: Abortion, Sex Trouble

Feminism as Sadistic Revenge Fantasy

Posted on | September 10, 2015 | 26 Comments

“Radical feminism, by definition, seeks to dis-cover and examine the root of women’s global oppression by men, and the sources of male power.”
— “Radfem 101: A Radical Feminist Primer”

What is seldom noted in discussions of feminism is the extent to which the movement’s ideology represents a calculated appeal to the resentments of psychological misfits. Feminism attracts maladjusted personalities who, to employ Freudian terms, displace the rage of their hypercritical superego onto a male scapegoat. The damaged ego, unable to cope with a profound sense of personal shame, must escape the superego’s condemnation and does so by an externalization of blame, projecting onto males an all-encompassing malice that in fact represents the wrongful desires which the woman’s own conscience condemns in herself. Such women are attracted to the feminist movement because it promises to “empower” them, enabling them to indulge their pathological appetite for punitive cruelty against the hated male scapegoat.

“All women are prisoners and hostages to men’s world. . . .
Each man is a threat. We can’t escape men.”

This function of feminism as a vehicle for rage-displacement explains why its adherents so often exhibit a generalized anti-male fear — a paranoid identification of men as a collective enemy — so that the feminist lashes out with frightful vehemence toward men she doesn’t even know, presuming them to be guilty of heinous crimes and bad motives, simply because they are males. The damaged ego (“broken people,” to employ Professor Glenn Reynolds’ phrase) simply cannot deal appropriately with feelings of failure and disappointment. We indulge such deformed personalities at our peril, because they crave power in order to inflict a sadistic revenge on their chosen scapegoats.

“Feminist consciousness is consciousness of victimization . . . to come to see oneself as a victim.”
— Sandra Lee Bartky, Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression (1990)

Believing themselves to be victims of oppression, feminists thereby absolve themselves of any moral obligation to treat males fairly. The male oppressor can expect no mercy from women who, having organized themselves to seize political power, employ that power to impose vindictive punishment on males without the need to prove that any individual target of this feminist revenge is personally guilty of wrongdoing. Anything that harms men is “social justice” according to the zero-sum logic of feminism. Studying radical feminist texts by Andrea Dworkin, Mary Daly, Kathleen Barry and others, I notice their tendency to present an indictment of “male supremacy” based upon a historical collection of atrocities compiled from all over the world, and this tendency can be observed whenever feminists try to delegitimize their contemporary critics by accusing them of tacit complicity in criminal wrongdoing. You can never rationally discuss a simple policy question with feminists; Christina Hoff Sommers was accused of “rape denial” for attempting to discuss facts and logic with Oberlin College students.

Feminists employ a cumulative, collective approach to male guilt, reciting a catalog of global wrongdoing — Chinese footbinding, Islamic female genital mutilation, medieval witch-hunts, child prostitution in Thailand, the violent abuse of women in BDSM pornography — as proof that all men are evil monsters. This is a method of anti-male hate propaganda, and it does no good to point out that you, as an individual, are not Chinese or Muslim, that you were not alive during the Middle Ages, have never been to Thailand and are not “into” BDSM. Nor, for that matter, does it do any good to point out that the feminist who recites these atrocities is a privileged member of the academic elite, whose affluent parents paid for her to attend the finest schools in the world. She has not been victimized by these atrocities, but rather wields the victimhood of other women as a weapon with which to intimidate you into silence, threatening to destroy your reputation by branding you an apologist for these crimes unless you SHUT UP and grant her whatever else she may demand in addition to your silence. (Male silence is mandatory, under the First Rule of Feminism.)

Feminists routinely resort to totalitarian tactics because feminism’s ideology is totalitarian in nature. Although the movement’s professional “mainstream” spokeswomen are usually careful to pretend to care about democracy and freedom, occasionally the mask slips and we find Julie Bindel arguing that men should “have their power taken from them” so that feminists can “put them all in some kind of camp.” Anyone tempted to dismiss such hateful rhetoric as an expression of “fringe” beliefs outside the feminist “mainstream” simply has not paid close attention to what feminists have been saying and writing for the past four decades. Inside the Feminist-Industrial Complex of academic Women’s Studies programs, blatantly anti-male attitudes are not only tolerated, they are encouraged and justified by an ideology that makes “male power” the root of all evil. We may find this belief system expressed whenever feminists gather anywhere they believe themselves beyond external scrutiny. This is from a 2012 post at a radical feminist blog:

By facing the enemy’s power I mean the big rape industries, the big male military, economic, religious and state institutions, but also male criminals, abusers, rapists. Men and their institutions are so hard to attack, socially, physically, psychologically, linguistically or institutionally, and because of this, it’s easy to feel completely powerless and hopeless. How many times, as feminists, do we punish, shame or even lock up male criminals every year, with our own hands, as a group? I have never had the opportunity to do it myself yet, although I am looking forward to when it will happen. Regularly measuring the effectiveness of our actions according to how much male power over women has been removed is a good way not to lose focus of the enemy.

Notice not only the description of males as “the enemy,” but also the feminist’s gleeful anticipation of personally inflicting punishment on “male criminals.” Is she planning a career as a police officer or prosecuting attorney? And notice also how she insists that feminists must measure “the effectiveness of our actions according to how much male power over women has been removed.”

The feminist’s obsession with power — an inability to accept the voluntary mutual cooperation that is the basis of free a society — is typical of totalitarian thought, and also of paranoia. This is why dictators like Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot so often display paranoid tendencies, because the desire to obtain vast power over others is rooted in the totalitarian’s pathological fear of being harmed by power exercised by others. Legitimate authority (as wielded by parents, teachers, police, etc.) does not bother honest, decent, moral people, but it is terrifying to those who secretly harbor wicked and selfish desires. The totalitarian is not honest, decent or moral. A warped character, permanently twisted by a sense of personal humiliation rooted in an unhappy childhood or unfortunate adolescence, the totalitarian craves power to inflict revenge on a society whose law, morality and culture are rejected as unjust.

Revenge is what feminists want, and the fact that men targeted as victims of this revenge may have done nothing to deserve punishment is irrelevant to the totalitarian worldview of deranged women who speak of men as “the enemy.” Like the Ukrainian peasants who starved to death in Stalin’s terror famine, the victims of feminist policy can never be innocent, because feminism’s ideology defines them as a part of a collective enemy. A feminist conception of “social justice” requires that males must suffer, and the movement thus attracts sadistic women who derive a sick pleasure from the idea of inflicting that suffering on men.

All men deserve to suffer, because they are men — this is the psychological basis of feminism, and everything else about the feminist movement is merely a means to accomplishing its punitive goal.

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox, 09.10.15

Posted on | September 10, 2015 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Is The Camp of the Saints Actually Happening In Europe?
Proof Positive: Things That Go “What Difference Does It Make?” In The Night
Michelle Malkin: Meet Candy Carson – The Anti-Michelle Obama
Twitchy: “Who Could Have Seen That Coming?” French Police Hunt For ISIS Terrorist Hiding In Calais Refugee Camp

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: USA Today Reporter Madeleine Behr, Covering Scott Walker Campaign, Signed Recall Petition In 2011
American Thinker: Mohammed’s Cuckoos
BLACKFIVE: Shaded Intelligence? Shocked, Shocked I Am
Conservatives4Palin: Gov. Palin – You’re Either For Israel’s Destruction, Or You’re Not
Don Surber: Obama May Finally Prosecute His Buddies On Wall Street
Jammie Wearing Fools: Former Clinton IT Staffer To Lawmakers – No Testimony Without Immunity
Joe For America: Alyssa Milano Doesn’t Care If You Have A Problem With Her Breastfeeding Pics
JustOneMinute: Give The People What They Want
Pamela Geller: Obama Warns US To Prepare For 10,000 Muslim “Migrants”
Protein Wisdom: Snow White And Her Seven Friends
Shot In The Dark: Consistent
STUMP: Quick Takes – Who’s Up For Some Taxes? Lotteries, Teachers, And Property Owners, Watch Out!
The Gateway Pundit: EPA Official Accused Of Lying Under Oath On Gold King Mine Disaster
The Jawa Report: Racist Pamela Hardyment Kill Da Joooos
The Lonely Conservative: Feminism Today – Throw Men In Camps And Scrap Heterosexuality
This Ain’t Hell: Oathkeepers Offer To Protect Kim Davis From LEOs
Weasel Zippers: Law Enforcement Agencies Put On Alert Over #blacklivesmatter Threats To Lynch Whites, Kill More Cops
Megan McArdle: What’s Fair? Swift, Automatic Consequences
Mark Steyn: Book Now For Next Week’s Hillary Clinton Act Of Spontaneity!

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Category: Linkagery

Everybody Is Shocked — Shocked! — the Administration Falsified ISIS Intellgence

Posted on | September 10, 2015 | 39 Comments

Political “leaders” demand dishonest spin:

More than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military’s Central Command have formally complained that their reports on ISIS and al Qaeda’s branch in Syria were being inappropriately altered by senior officials . . .
The accusations suggest that a large number of people tracking the inner workings of the terror groups think that their reports are being manipulated to fit a public narrative. . . .
The analysts have accused senior-level leaders, including the commander in charge of intelligence and his deputy in CENTCOM, of changing their analyses to be more in line with the Obama administration’s public contention that the fight against ISIS and al Qaeda is making progress.

Ace of Spades:

So, how does a president who’s failing catastrophically overseas hide that information from his domestic audience?
Simple answer, really: You lie about everything.

It’s Potemkin villages all the way down.