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Laci Green Talks Dirty to Girls

Posted on | July 8, 2015 | 103 Comments

 

Laci Green (@GoGreen18) is a large-breasted blonde who is famous for talking dirty to girls on YouTube. She is an atheist who hates all religions because she hates her parents: “I was brought up Mormon, so I was brought up in a household that really shamed and stigmatized sex . . . It just made me feel rotten inside, anything having to do with sexuality.” She claims, “I was 18 or 19 and didn’t know what a clitoris was, and that’s sad, to me.” This is a very interesting claim because while attending Sierra College as a teenager, she was an officer in a student gay-rights group and in 2008, when she was 18, she was part of the campaign against California’s Proposition 8, which prohibited same-sex marriage. A teenage gay-rights activist who don’t know what a clitoris is? Yeah. Right.

Laci Green attended the University of California-Berkeley, where she was a “Female Sexuality program facilitator” and now lives in San Francisco. Among other things, she is an expert on lesbian sex and, coincidentally, she’s a feminist. Did I mention she really likes lesbians a lot? I think I did.

Exactly who you want talking to your teenage daughter, right?

The Rochester Institute of Technology will be hosting a girl who runs a graphic YouTube channel about sex its “featured orientation speaker.”
RIT announced Laci Green is slotted to be the school’s orientation speaker in a Facebook post. . . .
The RIT orientation website confirms Green will be speaking on Aug. 19 on the topic of “Taking Back Rape Culture.”

Oh, “Rape Culture”! In her video explaining why she’s a feminist — besides hating religion and her parents — Laci Green claims her “first boyfriend sexually assaulted” her. Whether that was before or after she found out what a clitoris is, I’m not sure. She identifies as “bisexual” and she really enjoys meeting her teenage fans:

Before and after every presentation, Laci Green can be found off the stage, chatting it up with her viewers. “My goal is to connect with people personally. It’s part of what I’m trying to do with the channel,” Green says.

Laci Green wants to TALK! about SEX! with your DAUGHTER!

 

Uh, not that there’s anything wrong with that . . .





 

Category: Sex Trouble

Overwhelmed, Sad and Lonely

Posted on | July 8, 2015 | 58 Comments

 

The children of the American elite class suffer from a form of oppression that most of us can never understand. Parents whose privileges are a matter of having the right resumé — Ivy League diplomas, etc. — are keenly aware that, in order for their child to follow in their footsteps and become members of the soi-disant “meritocracy,” the child must get into their school’s “gifted” program, must maintain a perfect GPA, must achieve certain scores on the SAT, and must accumulate the kind of extracurricular and school leadership positions that will make their college application a winner. If Dad went to Yale and Mom went to Harvard, their child would be deemed a disappointment if she weren’t accepted at either of the parental alma maters.

To attend a mere state university? This will not do. She might as well be living in a trailer park and working the day shift at Waffle House.

Those who inhabit the affluent uplands of 21st-century America have problems the rest of us cannot imagine. When you’re near the top of the mountain, it’s a long way down, and there are limits to what elite parents can do to prevent their child from suffering the stigma of downward mobility. Money can buy a lot of things, but money alone will not inoculate your child against failure, especially if your idea of “success” requires your kid to have perfect grades, be senior class president, win the state science fair, be solo violinist in the school orchestra, and spend her summers helping famine victims in a Third World country. This results in an over-scheduled childhood, with parents in the role of Doctor Frankenstein and their child as a sort of laboratory experiment to produce the future Harvard student.

 

If you have to jump through all those hoops to prove how elite you are, are you really so elite? Or are you merely a well-trained hoop-jumper? If a child has outstanding natural ability, and also has a genuine appetite for achievement, is it really necessary for parents to push, push, push kids this way? And what happens when you send such a kid off to a school like Stanford University (annual tuition $44,757) where all the other kids are Frankenstein experiments, too? Not surprisingly, many of these little monsters can’t cope with the pressure:

From 2006 to 2008, I served on Stanford University’s mental health task force, which examined the problem of student depression and proposed ways to teach faculty, staff, and students to better understand, notice, and respond to mental health issues. As dean, I saw a lack of intellectual and emotional freedom—this existential impotence—behind closed doors. The “excellent sheep” were in my office. Often brilliant, always accomplished, these students would sit on my couch holding their fragile, brittle parts together, resigned to the fact that these outwardly successful situations were their miserable lives.
In my years as dean, I heard plenty of stories from college students who believed they had to study science (or medicine, or engineering), just as they’d had to play piano, and do community service for Africa, and, and, and. I talked with kids completely uninterested in the items on their own résumés.

That’s from Julie Lythcott-Haims who not only recognizes that there is an emerging crisis among America’s elite youth, but realizes that this problem is not limited to the children of the elite:

In a 2013 survey of college counseling center directors, 95 percent said the number of students with significant psychological problems is a growing concern on their campus, 70 percent said that the number of students on their campus with severe psychological problems has increased in the past year, and they reported that 24.5 percent of their student clients were taking psychotropic drugs.
In 2013 the American College Health Association surveyed close to 100,000 college students from 153 different campuses about their health. When asked about their experiences, at some point over the past 12 months:

  • 84.3 percent felt overwhelmed by all they had to do
  • 60.5 percent felt very sad
  • 57.0 percent felt very lonely
  • 51.3 percent felt overwhelming anxiety
  • 8.0 percent seriously considered suicide

The 153 schools surveyed included campuses in all 50 states, small liberal arts colleges and large research universities, religious institutions and nonreligious, from the small to medium-sized to the very the large. The mental health crisis is not a Yale (or Stanford or Harvard) problem; these poor mental health outcomes are occurring in kids everywhere. The increase in mental health problems among college students may reflect the lengths to which we push kids toward academic achievement, but since they are happening to kids who end up at hundreds of schools in every tier, they appear to stem not from what it takes to get into the most elite schools but from some facet of American childhood itself.

This is excerpted from Ms. Lythcott-Haims’s book, How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success, which will almost certainly find an avid readership among elite parents who went to Harvard or Yale and who therefore probably don’t have a lick of common sense. If you need an expert to tell you how to avoid turning your kid into a stressed-out psychological basket case, how “elite” are you? I’ve read enough books and articles about parenting to understand that all the truly useful advice from experts tends to confirm what any good parent knows from ordinary common sense.

If you care enough about your kids to read books about parenting, and if you’re intelligent enough that you’re actually able to read and comprehend books about parenting, congratulations — you’re probably going to be a good parent and your kid’s probably going to be a good kid. Intelligence is a highly inheritable trait, and the combination of nature and nurture (a naturally smart child being nurtured by smart parents) usually produces good results. Maybe you jumped through all those hoops necessary to obtaining an elite education and actually enjoyed all that hoop-jumping. Maybe your own child will naturally wish to replicate your path to meritocratic success, and you have the experiential knowledge to provide them guidance in this regard.

Both common sense and expert advice, however, would caution against the kind of control-freak attitude known as “helicopter parenting,” where children are so vigilantly supervised that they never develop the resourcefulness and sturdy confidence necessary to cope with the disappointments and hardships of ordinary life.





 

Category: Education

In The Mailbox, 07.08.15

Posted on | July 8, 2015 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Da Tech Guy: The Big Lie Supported
EBL: Fascist Oregon
Doug Powers: WH Spox Points To GOP After Murder By Five-Time Deportee Who Took Asylum In Sanctuary City
Twitchy: A Slip Of The Tongue, Or Does Hillary Clinton Not Understand How Sanctuary Cities Work?
Dan Bongino: There Is No “Done” In Politics
Loose Endz: In The Noose
The Camp of the Saints: On Sur-Reality And Blood Libel


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Deep Dreaming Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas – The Great San Francisco Acid Wave
American Thinker: The Fate Of The Republican Establishment
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Target Utopia by Jim DeFelice and Dale Brown
Conservatives4Palin: After Obamacare Ruling, GOP Must Refocus On Repeal
Don Surber: Communism Failed Here
Jammie Wearing Fools: Homelessness And Empty Stores Becoming The New Normal In NYC
Joe For America: Jeb Bush – “Trump Outside Mainstream GOP Thought”
Pamela Geller: 1.5 Million Muslims In UK Support The Islamic State
Shot In The Dark: The Only Question Is…
STUMP: Public Pensions Watch – What Does Chicago Say About Its Own Pensions?
The Gateway Pundit: China Stocks Nosedive
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Things That Are Sad
The Lonely Conservative: Documents Show DOJ, IRS Wanted To Prosecute Obama Opponents
This Ain’t Hell: Veterans Support Organization Under Scrutiny Again
Weasel Zippers: Hundreds Of Thousands Of Illegal Alien Criminals On The Loose In US
Megan McArdle: Helicopter Parents And The Kids Who Just Can’t
Mark Steyn: Luck Be A Lady


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Category: Linkagery

Off The Shelf

Posted on | July 7, 2015 | 7 Comments

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Been a while since the last book post, for which I apologize; for obvious reasons, I’ve been trying to avoid picking up new books, and I didn’t get around to picking up a card for the local library system for a couple weeks after I got here. Now that I’ve done that, time to update you on a few books worth reading and one that isn’t.


Along with the release of the Tom Cruise/Emily Blunt flick Edge of Tomorrow, the folks at Viz decided to release the original light novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, All You Need Is Kill, under the movie’s title. My opinion of Edge of Tomorrow? Not only was the movie better, they would probably have done better to novelize the movie script, because the script is more coherent and has a better ending than the novel, which is your typical Japanese romance while trying hard to pretend it isn’t. There’s a manga version of All You Need Is Kill available, and the county library has a copy, but I wasn’t even remotely interested in picking it up.


Much better is Charles Stross’ Neptune’s Brood, a sequel of sorts to Saturn’s Children via the short story “Bit Rot”. The protagonist, Krina Alizond-114, is a posthuman cyborg searching for her sister and only gradually becoming aware that she may be on the wrong end of the biggest banking scam in history. It’s a decent read, though Stross’ tendency to infodump and his obvious fondness for Communism make a couple of sections rough going. Still, not bad for free.


Man-Kzin Wars XIV is the latest anthology of stories set in Larry Niven’s Known Space universe, and there’s not a dull story in the lot. With peace having broken out -or so it seems- the monkey-boys and ratcats are coexisting and even cooperating, but that doesn’t mean things are all calm and peaceful. My personal favorite, Matthew Harrington’s “Leftovers”, involves my least favorite character in the series, ARM General Buford Early, trying -and hilariously failing- to outthink a Protector. If you liked the first thirteen volumes in the series, you’ll like this one too.


Thanks to the Amazon Prime Lending Library, I was able to check out Peter Grant’s Forge a New Blade, the sequel to his War To The Knife. It’s a worthy sequel, and Grant deserves praise for not succumbing to Clancy-Weber syndrome and expanding each of these books to 700-page doorstops. He could quite easily have gone into mind-numbing detail about what the dozen or so secondary characters are doing off-stage, but avoids this temptation and delivers a nice little compact novel instead. I’m looking forward to the next book in the series.


Finally, one from the vaults – Stephen Sears’ Gettysburg. I was expecting great things after reading Sears’ Landscape Turned Red, an excellent account of the extremely bloody Battle of Antietam, and I was not disappointed. You won’t be either.


Category: Books

In The Mailbox: 07.07.15

Posted on | July 7, 2015 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Da Tech Guy: Donald Donald Donald
EBL: Democrat Bernie Sanders Says Unemployment’s At 10.5%
Doug Powers: Of Course – Murder Suspect Who’d Been Deported Five Times Chose San Francisco Because It’s A Sanctuary City
Twitchy: WaPo Op-Ed Actually Suggests Amy Schumer’s Comedy Inspires Racist Monsters Like The Charleston Murderer


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Germany Sticks To Hard Line After Greece Vote
American Thinker: Dying On The Sidewalk Of Nancy Pelosi’s Sanctuary City
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – What Lies Behind By J.T. Ellison
Conservatives4Palin: Is Hillary Clinton’s Reporter Rope Line Her “Michael Dukakis Tank Moment”?
Don Surber: Democrats Want Iran To Have Nukes
Jammie Wearing Fools: Good News – Your Stupid Electric Car Is Damaging The Environment
Joe For America: Navy Vet Brutally Attacked By Thug As Part Of “Knockout Game”
Pamela Geller: Every Day, The Iran Nuclear Deal Becomes Worse And Worse
Protein Wisdom: Goodbye To The First Amendment
Shot In The Dark: Fighting The Tyranny Of Law
STUMP: Choices Have Consequences. While Waiting For The Greeks To Decide…
The Gateway Pundit: Previously Deported Mexican Illegal Held In Grisly Double Murder Of Girlfriend And Her Child
The Jawa Report: Jawa Primer – More Tips On Insults
The Lonely Conservative: American Cities Resemble War Zones
This Ain’t Hell: Legislating Stupidity
Weasel Zippers: San Francisco Sheriff Defends Releasing Illegal Immigrant Murderer
Megan McArdle: Regulation? Great Idea. For Someone Else.
Mark Steyn: The Stupidity Of Sophisticates


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Category: Da Tech Guy, Linkagery

Illegal Alien Who Murdered Woman Had Exploited S.F. ‘Sanctuary City’ Policy

Posted on | July 7, 2015 | 32 Comments

Francisco Sanchez’s murder of Kate Steinle in San Francisco last week was a result not only of the Obama administration’s failed immigration policy, but also of the city’s policy:

An undocumented immigrant suspected of killing a woman at a San Francisco pier said he chose the city for its sanctuary policies — that is, he knew San Francisco was a good place to avoid deportation, he told ABC station KGO-TV. . . .
Kate Steinle, 32, who was walking the pier with her father, was shot dead, authorities said, noting that Sanchez, 45, was arrested an hour later.
Sanchez, who was on probation in Texas at the time of the shooting, served time in federal prison for repeatedly sneaking back into the country, authorities said.
Sanchez told KGO-TV that he kept coming back to the country because he was “looking for jobs in the restaurant or roofing, landscaping, or construction.” He said he knew San Francisco was a sanctuary city where he would not be pursued by immigration officials.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had said in a statement that Sanchez was turned over to the San Francisco Police Department this past March on an outstanding drug warrant, and that the department requested that police notify Immigration and Customs Enforcement prior to his release so ICE officers could make arrangements to take custody.
However, the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department said that it had no “legal basis” to hold Sanchez based on a federal immigration detainer, according to the Associated Press.

“Let ’em in” (Democrat immigration policy) and “Turn ’em loose” (Democrat crime policy) operated in perfect synchronization to put this foreign criminal on that pier in San Francisco so that he could kill Kate Steine. The political power of the Democrat Party is crucially dependent on its support from the criminal element in society, and the party reciprocates that support by promoting policies favorable to criminals. Democrats look at dangerous criminals — thieves, burglars,  drug addicts, sex perverts, illegal aliens like Francisco Sanchez — and sees a potential vote for Democrats. The party’s media operatives are assigned to do emotional feature stories that portray criminals as oppressed victims of society, generating sympathy for the vilest scum on the planet. Liberal media are always throwing a pity party for criminals, suggesting that these selfish antisocial misfits are suffering hardship — “social injustice!” — because of something (sexism, racism, whatever) that can be blamed on those Rich Greedy Hateful Republicans.

Once people buy into this Democrat perspective on crime, it becomes possible for them to view even the most depraved monster as a “victim of society.” The liberal sees a news story about a school teacher who had sex with a teenager and thinks, “Well, who are we to judge?” Likewise, the streets of Chicago have become a deadly a war zone — 203 people shot to death so far this year, another 1,115 wounded — and no Democrat voter in America ever seems to ask who is shooting whom, or wonders why this shocking rampage of violence continues in a city that has been governed by Democrats for decades:

A 7-year-old boy who was one of seven people shot to death in Chicago over the holiday weekend was the son of a gang leader with a lengthy arrest record, and police say the man’s refusal to cooperate with detectives highlights the city’s ongoing challenge to curb gang-related violence. . . .
[Police Superintendent Garry] McCarthy said that the bullet that struck Amari Brown in the chest “was meant for his father,” whom he described as a “ranking gang member” who had been arrested 45 times.
Antonio Brown’s refusal to cooperate with the investigation is a familiar hurdle for Chicago police that as of Monday had yet to capture a suspect in Amari’s death.
After Brown was arrested for gun possession last April, he was released on bail the next day, McCarthy said.

“Turn ’em loose!” — Democrat policies are aligned with Democrat electoral strategy, both requiring that this “ranking gang member” with 45 arrests on his record be allowed to roam the streets. You would be condemned as racist by Chicago Democrats if you argued in favor of the kind of tough law enforcement policies that would put a “ranking gang member” in prison for life. Never mind that the vast majority of crime victims in Chicago are the same race as criminals in Chicago. Also never mind that more or less everyone in Chicago — the gang members, the mayor, the police chief, the 203 people shot dead so far this year — is a Democrat. No, never mind any of that, because Democrats in the liberal media require you to believe that somehow all this death and mayhem is the fault of those Rich Greedy Hateful Republicans.

Blame Donald Trump! Only an evil Republican hater would say illegal aliens from Mexico are perpetrating crimes in America (that is, in addition to their presence here, which is in itself a crime), and everybody must condemn Trump! Meanwhile at the headquarters of the Chicago Democrat Conspiracy Against America:

The White House on Monday defended its immigration policies and blasted Republicans following the killing of a San Francisco woman — allegedly by an illegal immigrant.
When asked if the case was a failure of the administration’s enforcement policies, White House press secretary Josh Earnest chided Republicans for blocking a bipartisan immigration bill that would have boosted funding for border security.
“I recognize that people want to play politics with this,” Earnest said. “The fact is the president has done everything within his power to make sure that we’re focusing our law enforcement resources on criminals and those who pose a threat to public safety.”
Kathryn Steinle, 32, was shot and killed Wednesday at a popular tourist destination in San Francisco. The suspect, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, had multiple felony convictions and had been deported to Mexico five times.
Earnest faulted the “political efforts of Republicans” for blocking “the kind of investment that we would like to make in securing our border and keeping our communities safe.”

You see how this works? The more clearly a problem is the result of Democrat Party policies, the more vehemently Democrats blame the problem on those Rich Greedy Hateful Republicans.

No one can be employed in the media who doubts this pretzel logic. Therefore, if you turn your TV to CNN or NBC or CBS, or pick up the New York Times or the Washington Post, you will find that they either ignore the obvious facts that contradict Democrat Party propaganda or, more likely, they deliver the Democrat propaganda narrative without the slightest hint of skepticism. Nothing so trivial as truth can be allowed to prevent Democrats from “fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” a goal that the media intend to accomplish no matter how many people get killed in the process.

The really brilliant part: In places like Chicago, murderers vote Democrat and the people they killed? Yeah, they keeping voting Democrat, too. Dead people have the right to vote in Chicago, where the graveyards are full of registered Democrats.





 

Category: Chicago, Crime, Democrats, Immigration

In The Mailbox: 07.06.15

Posted on | July 6, 2015 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Ugh, Monday.
(h/t Fritz at A View from the Beach)



OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Sometimes You Just Have To Dance
Michelle Malkin: Vigilance Is Patriotic
Twitchy: How Badly Did Hillary Clinton’s Comms Director Bungle Journo Herding Explanation? THIS Badly



RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Black Mob Violence In Cincinnati On The 4th
American Thinker: The Rocky Road To Ending Judicial Tyranny
Conservatives4Palin: “Where Are You From?” And Other Unspeakable Acts Of Bigotry
Don Surber: Greece Is Right
Joe For America: Erasing History – Memphis Mayor Wants Civil War Statue And Grave Removed
JustOneMinute: Happy 4th – Obamacare Premiums Set To Soar
Pamela Geller: ISIS Releases Savage Video Of Child Jihadis Executing 25 Prisoners In Roman Amphitheater Of Palmyra
Protein Wisdom: When, In The Course Of Human Events…
Shot In The Dark: We Win When They All Lose
STUMP: Public Finance Disaster Watch – Chicago Public Schools
The Gateway Pundit: Donald Trump – “My Poll Numbers Will Go Higher; People Agree with Me On Border”
The Lonely Conservative: Clinton Campaign Literally Dragged Reporters Along Rope Line
This Ain’t Hell: Is It Worth It?
Weasel Zippers: Illegal Immigrant Murderer Went To San Francisco Because It Was A “Sanctuary City”
Megan McArdle: Greece Hits The Self-Destruct Button
Mark Steyn: Apollo 13


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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Sunday: Independence Day Weekend Edition

Posted on | July 5, 2015 | 10 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Another Fourth of July weekend has come and gone, and dog owners across America breathe a sigh of relief that their critters won’t have to be doped up to get through the night. Unless, of course, the neighbors have a few M-80s left over from last night…anyway, this is the time of year when the young women like to don the Stars and Stripes in bikini form, but we’re a little more conservative here at The Other McCain, so for this week’s appetizer we’re going with a classic Gil Elvgren pinup.

Notice how this young lady eschews eye protection and a head-to-toe Nomex suit in favor of proper pyrotechnics training.

As usual, many of the following links lead to pictures not normally considered safe for work. In order to preserve your purity of essence (presuming your precious bodily fluids weren’t already contaminated this weekend) reader discretion is advised when clicking.

Leading off this weekend is Goodstuff, who lives up to his name (again!) by choosing Catherine Bach to host this week’s mega-blog. imNsho follows with 4th of July Rule 5, and Ninety Miles from Tyranny has Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night: Raquel Welch (has cave girl content), and Girls with Guns. Animal Magnetism has Rule 5 Friday and Independence Day Totty, and First Street Journal has American (Female) Soldiers in Training.

This week, EBL brings us Rita Moreno, Diana Rigg, Our Sex(less) Future Rule 5, Dominion Day, Vintage Hollywood 4th of July, and yet more Vintage Hollywood 4th of July.

A View from the Beach checks in with Abigail Ratchford Wrapped in the Flag, Pretty Women Have the Power to Cloud Men’s Minds, I Blame Jenny McCarthy and RFK Jr., Where was YouTube When I Was Young?, Some Gigi to Start a Hot Day, So Where Did I Hide the Chocolate Bars?, No Contest, and Working in a Car Wash.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Bryce Dallas Hamilton, his Vintage Babe is Bunny Yeager, and Sex In Advertising this week is covered by Guess. Also, Keep Hamilton On The $10! At Dustbury, it’s Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg, and more Catherine Bach.

Thanks to everybody for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 roundup is midnight on Saturday, July 11 – that’s midnight Pacific Time, three hours later than the deadline used to be.


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