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Roger Simon: That Fluid On Your Desk May Have Once Been Coffee

Posted on | August 7, 2015 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

Roger Simon at PJ Media offers three reasons Trump won’t go independent.

3. Trump doesn’t like to lose — and he would.

Recalls a mildly vulgar joke (to which the title alludes). I’ll quote the setup:

The auditor said, “Well, sir, you have an extravagant lifestyle and no full-time employment, Which you explain by saying that you win money gambling. I’m not sure the IRS finds that believable.”
“I’m a great gambler, and I can prove it,” says Grandpa. “How about a demonstration?”
The auditor thinks for a moment and said, “Okay. Go ahead.”

You can totally bet your bippy that Her Majesty would cast The Donald as the new Perot, and he’d lose with a smile on his face. Allow me to speculate as to why:

  • Her Majesty has substantial dirt on The Donald.
  • The Donald has substantial animus against the GOP.
  • Her Majesty would offer The Donald some plumb position in Her Privy Counsel (formerly known as the Cabinet).

Summarizing: I was entertained by The Donald last night at the debate in Ohio. I found his unabashed willingness to mention profit highly refreshing (even as he probably energizes Her Majesty’s Commie base thereby). And, if the GOP is so asinine as to let JEB buy the nomination, I’ll play this idiotic game right with The Donald.

No mas Bush!

via Instapundit

Category: Republicans

Perhaps @Twitter @Support Can Explain Why My @rsmccain Account Is Locked

Posted on | August 7, 2015 | 29 Comments

I was scarcely on Twitter yesterday because I was doing research for my Sex Trouble series, but this morning I received notification that I am locked out of my account @rsmccain and I won’t be able to unlock it for 12 hours. There was no explanation given, but probably some enemies — feminists, maybe? Neal Rauhauser’s friends, maybe? — have falsely accused me of “harassment.” Yet the fact is I’ve been using Twitter since 2009 and have myself frequently been a target of harassment that Twitter has seldom done anything to prevent.

In fact, false accusations of online “harassment” (which have become a standard tactic of the Left) are a deliberate form of harassment used against the Left’s opponents. Critics of feminism, especially, are not permitted to engage feminists on Twitter, because the silencing of opposition is necessary to their success: Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It.

Anyway, my friends should ask @Twitter @Support what this is about, because they didn’t bother explaining it to me.

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In The Mailbox, 08.06.15

Posted on | August 6, 2015 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Matt Yglesias Has Issues
Proof Positive: About That Dentist Who Sucker Punched Cecil
Doug Powers: Iran Deal Update – Obama’s Picture Soon To Appear In Dictionary Under “Projection”
Twitchy: “Armed Force Can Be Armed!” TN National Guard Changes Policy On Personal Firearms
Shark Tank: #PPAct Official Admits Abortion Procedures Altered To Meet Demand For Baby Parts


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Thank God For The Atom Bomb
American Thinker: What Mike Royko Knew That Jon Stewart And The Mainstream Media Don’t
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Badlands By C.J. Box
Conservatives4Palin: Senate Report – IRS’ Lerner Also Targeted Bristol Palin
Don Surber: People Today Cannot Eat Cheese Without Government Assistance
Jammie Wearing Fools: Huma Planned Party For Clinton Pal On Taxpayers’ Dime
Joe For America: Governor Jindal Says Sanctuary City Mayors Should Be Arrested
JustOneMinute: Hillary’s Run
Pamela Geller: WaPo Laments Arrest Of Notorious Hate Imam Anjem Choudhury, Attacks Sean Hannity, Fox News, Pamela Geller
Protein Wisdom: Federal Judge Strikes Down Ban On #PPAct Videos On First Amendment Grounds
Shot In The Dark: A Tale Of Two City Papers
STUMP: Puerto Rico Finally Defaults – Now What?
The Gateway Pundit: Conservative Group Announces “Cantor List” Of 105 Wobbly Republicans To Primary Out Of Office
The Jawa Report: The Making Of An SJW Martyr
The Lonely Conservative: It Just Keeps Getting Worse With Planned Parenthood
This Ain’t Hell: “Middle Eastern Males” Approach Military Family Members
Weasel Zippers: Alabama Governor Terminates All State Funding For Planned Parenthood
Megan McArdle: China Hopes To Defy History Of Market Bailouts
Mark Steyn: Bakin’ Baby Syndrome


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Category: Linkagery

The Science Is Settled: It’s a Baby

Posted on | August 6, 2015 | 75 Comments

Kirsten Powers on what we might call “The Sonogram Effect”:

Pope Francis has correctly described the unborn as “the most defenseless and innocent among us.” But in the sordid tale of strategic crushing of the unborn to better harvest their hearts, lungs and livers, many Democrats have incredibly cast an organization with a roughly $1.3 billion annual budget in the role of the innocent and defenseless. Hillary Clinton emerged as Planned Parenthood’s highest profile protector Monday, decrying the “assault” against her allegedly helpless campaign donors.
The Democratic Party shilling for barbarism — whether by politicians, liberal media outlets, union officials or unrestricted abortion advocates — is not likely to be viewed favorably by future generations. These Democrats will be remembered for demonizing the activists who lifted the veil on a previously sanitized process and for seekingrestraining orders to silence truth tellers. They will be remembered for publishing dehumanizing decrees — as The New Republic did — that people stop criticizing Planned Parenthood because as a medical matter, “The term baby … doesn’t apply until birth” (that thing on your sonogram is nothing more than a “product[] of conception.”) And they will be remembered for demanding investigations into citizen journalists for meticulously exposing atrocities in our midst.

Read the whole thing. Science is on the side of life. For more than 30 years now, parents have had the experience of staring at that ultrasound screen and seeing their own children alive in the womb at 10 or 12 weeks gestation. And, because of advances in neo-natal care, there are adults alive today who were born more than three months premature.

Madeline Mann, who was born in 1989 weighing less than 10 ounces, graduated with honors from Augustana College in 2012, and last year got her master’s degree in psychology. She is certified in suicide prevention.

Life deserves a chance.

Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise . . . Well, they’re evil.

The science is settled.

“See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil . . . I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.”
— Deuteronomy 30:15, 19 (KJV)

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Category: Abortion, Barack Obama, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Planned Parenthood

In The Mailbox: 08.04.15

Posted on | August 4, 2015 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Democrats Taking Trump Seriously
Da Tech Guy: Why Trump Resonates And Why The Left Doesn’t Get It In One Image
Conservative Intel: Rand Paul Gaining In Spite Of Media Attacks
Michelle Malkin: Desperate Democrats Recycle Planned Parenthood’s Mammogram Lie
Twitchy: Fifth Planned Parenthood Video Out – Now Discussing Selling “Whole Bodies Of Babies”
Shark Tank: Sunblock Needed In Florida’s Ongoing Solar War


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Green Nutjobs Push California Gas Restriction Act
American Thinker: Psychopathy In The White House
Conservatives4Palin: Rusty Humphries’ “Man On The Street” Interview With Sarah Palin
Don Surber: New York Times Admits Rush Limbaugh Was Right
Joe For America: Texas Strikes Back Against Islamic Incursion – One Pig Dousing At A Time
JustOneMinute: Reaching For The Wet Blanket
Pamela Geller: Stop Obama’s Flood Of Muslim “Refugees”
Protein Wisdom: Cecil The Lion? Pffft. Robert Mugabe Eats An Entire Zoo For His Birthday
Shot In The Dark: Bend Over, Citizen Part I – Our Ignorant Priests Of Knowledge
STUMP: June/July 80 Percent Funding Hall of Shame (And Heroes!)
The Gateway Pundit: Thanks To Mitch McConnell, Senate Democrats Defeat Bill To Defund Planned Parenthood
The Jawa Report: Muhammad Turns Up On A Toilet Wall In Mali
The Lonely Conservative: Hang Onto Your Wallet – Obama To Unleash Even More Costly Energy Regulations
This Ain’t Hell: Washington Post Sets Its Sights On Lindsey Graham’s Career
Weasel Zippers: Genius Carjacker Tries To Steal Unmarked Police Car – With Two Undercover Police Inside
Megan McArdle: Ex-Im Bank Is A Tiny But Tempting Target
Mark Steyn: Pathway To Codswallop


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Category: Linkagery

Feminists Are Raping Journalism

Posted on | August 4, 2015 | 49 Comments

Rolling Stone‘s UVA rape hoax continues to echo in discussions of the legal and cultural consequences of bad journalism:

Tamara Tabo is a summa cum laude graduate of the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the school’s law review. After graduation, she clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She currently heads the Center for Legal Pedagogy at Texas Southern University, an institute applying cognitive science to improvements in legal education.

Ms. Tabo’s impeccable credentials are relevant to her blistering critique of the media’s irresponsible coverage of “rape culture”:

What is surprising is, even after the Rolling Stone debacle, how many dubious beliefs persist about women who allege that they have been sexually assaulted, the men those women accuse, and how the media reports on it. . . .
The folks at Rolling Stone were apparently so afraid of throwing shade on a woman who claims to have been raped that they were tripping over themselves to seem as sensitive as possible, even once her story began to crumble. . . .
When men say that it doesn’t matter whether a woman is telling the truth about a sexual assault because what really matters is the “big issue,” those men have internalized their own oppression too. They’ve adopted the attitude that any harms done by a woman lying about a rape are not important. They’ve bought into the lie that “good guys” continue to focus on the suffering of women, even when facts suggest that a woman has inflicted suffering on men she has falsely accused.
A man blaming “campus rape culture” or “the patriarchy” or whatever instead of blaming an alleged rape victim whose story unravels is no more noble than a woman telling another woman that she must have been “asking for it” if she was raped.
How many false gang-rape allegations need to happen before everybody cultivates some healthy skepticism?

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) The astonishing thing is how, despite the clear evidence that the “campus rape epidemic” is non-existent (i.e., sexual assault has actually declined signifcantly in the past two decades) and despite indications that feminists have created a witch-hunt climate that has produced numerous false accusations, we see lawmakers and university officials acting as if there really is such an “epidemic.”

If there is an epidemic of anything on campus, it’s a Binge Drinking epidemic, which leads to a Bad Sex epidemic, and that in turn has created a Maybe My Bad Drunk Sex Was Rape epidemic. It is ridiculous to expect teenage college kids to responsibly negotiate “affirmative consent” after they’ve been doing tequila shots all night.

In October 2014, before the Rolling Stone hoax, but after Jesse Matthew had been arrested in the murder of UVA student Hanna Graham, the feminist “rape culture” discourse was critiqued by Heather MacDonald. She quoted a Duke University coed who had described to Laura Sessions Stepp the morning-after reaction to a typical drunken hook-up: “You roll over the next morning so horrified at what you find next to you that you scream.” It is this reaction, I believe, which provides the emotional energy behind the “campus rape epidemic” hysteria.

Robert Tracinski has suggested that “the emotional dark side of promiscuity” is a major factor in this phony crisis. I’ve made this point more bluntly: “Why Do Drunk Sluts Get Drunk?” Alcohol can function as moral anesthetia that suppresses the qualms of conscience, enabling people to overcome their inhibitions and do bad things they want to do, but would have difficulty doing if they were sober. When they wake up with a hangover, they are overcome with a sense of shame about their drunken revelry, which they may barely remember.

Given the prevalence of the Bad Drunk Sex phenomenon on our college campuses, how are we to discern the difference between the roll-over-and-scream morning-after remorse reaction and actual incidents of sexual assault? In a he-said/she-said scenario, is there no room for skepticism? Must we cast aside all doubt and embrace policies that effectively void the due process rights of male students who are accused under such circumstances? Is it too much to expect female students to stay sober, keep their britches on and avoid the situations in which these incidents typically occur? We know that feminists don’t give a damn about facts, but must we allow these unscrupulous ideologues to destroy what little credibility still remains in the news media?

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Category: Journalism, Media Bias, Sex Trouble

Memphis Manhunt for Cop Killer

Posted on | August 3, 2015 | 39 Comments

Shooting suspect Tremaine Wilbourn (left); Officer Sean Bolton (right).

Tremaine Wilbourn Hunted Over Shooting
of Memphis Police Officer Sean Bolton
— NBC News

Police issue warrant in slaying of officer
— Memphis Commercial Appeal

Memphis police officer killed; suspect identified
— CNN

MPD: Tremaine Wilbourn wanted
in shooting of Officer Sean Bolton
— WHBQ-TV, Memphis

Toney Armstrong, director of the Memphis Police Department, gave an emotional press conference after Officer Bolton was murdered:

“As a community we say so often as a theme — black lives matter. And at the end of the day, we have to ask ourselves, do all lives matter? Regardless of race, creed, color, economic status, what profession that person holds,” Armstrong said. “All lives matter. And this is just a reminder of how dangerous this job is.”
“One life is too many, but how do you put a value on somebody’s life? How do you say one life is more important than another,” Armstrong said later during the press conference. “So, again, what we need more than anything right now is just your prayers again for this MPD family as well as this officer’s family.” . . .
Bolton’s death is the third police officer death in four years with Armstrong at the helm of the police force, he said during the press conference. In December 2012, Officer Martoiya Lang was killed; Officer Timothy Warren’s life was taken in January 2011.

Wilbourn, 29, had been sentenced to serve 10 years for robbery, but was out on “supervised release.” Officer Bolton, 33, was a veteran of the Marine Corps who served a tour of duty in Iraq. Officer Bolton was killed late Saturday night:

Armstrong said Bolton, a patrolman assigned to the Mt. Moriah station, saw a red 2002 Mercedes-Benz parked illegally on Summerlane. Bolton pulled in front of the car and turned on his spotlight.
As Bolton approached the Mercedes, the passenger got out and a struggle ensued, police said. The passenger then opened fire, hitting Bolton multiple times at close range.
“After inventorying the suspect vehicle, it was found that Officer Bolton apparently interrupted some sort of drug transaction,” Armstrong said, noting that police found a digital scale and 1.7 grams of marijuana. “We’re talking about less than 2 grams of marijuana. We’re talking about a misdemeanor citation. We probably would not have even transported for that.”
That fact particularly outraged Armstrong.
“You gun down, you murder a police officer, for less than 2 grams of marijuana,” he said. “You literally destroy a family. Look at the impact this has had on this department, this community, this city, for less than 2 grams of marijuana.”

This is what cops deal with every day. There are lots of criminals on the streets of America’s cities, criminals like Tremaine Wilbourn turned loose parole or probation, criminals who love violence and hate cops. The cop who goes to work every day never knows when his next traffic stop might cost him his life. When the media irresponsibly demonize the police, portraying criminals as “victims of society,” they send a dangerous message that incites lawless violence.

Since the April riots in Baltimore, violent crime in the city has escalated to unprecedented levels, with 45 murders during the month of July, the most since 1972, when Baltimore had 275,000 more residents. This is a direct result of the anti-cop rhetoric spewed by irresponsible demagogues and promoted by the national media.

You cannot protect innocent citizens by demonizing the police.

 

Category: Crime

Rule 5 Sunday: Moe Windows Mascots? Yes, Please!

Posted on | August 2, 2015 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The Japanese penchant for making cute anthropomorphic mascots for all manner of inanimate objects* inevitably came to be applied to computer operating systems. Microsoft Windows, with its plethora of variations over the years starting with 3.1, has inspired an entire family of “OS-tans” in cartoon form, some of which have actually been adopted by Asian branches of Microsoft for marketing. Since cute cartoons inevitably inspire cute girls’ cosplay, we get things like today’s appetizer, a young lady dressed up as Windows 2000 Professional-tan, and very nicely too.

Thank you, Miss Ayaka!

As usual, some of the following links are to pics normally considered NSFW, so be discreet in your clicking.

Randy’s Roundtable leads off this week with Alexina Graham, followed by Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns: Walk Softly and Carry A Bazooka. Animal Magnetism has Rule 5 Friday, Rule 5 Friday Bonus – Arguing Against Gun Control? and the Saturday Gingermageddon, while First Street Journal chips in with the ever-popular IDF.

EBL’s herd is swollen this week with Melissa Mayeux, Hannah Bleau,  Hillary Duff, Huma Abedin, #CatLivesMatter, and “Energizer”. Also, Gisele!

Postaldog is back with Mena Suvari, Denise Richards, Britney Spears, Kayleigh Morris, Lindsay Lohan, and Courtney Stodden.

A View from the Beach offers Miss Bum Bum 2014,** “Once in a Very Blue Moon”, Everything About Texas…, This Barely Passes as News, Virginia, Maryland Fight over Crabs, Wednesday Wake up – “It’s Not Easy”, Kate Upton Kicks Bill DeBlasio’s Ass, I Kind of See Their Point, Dueling Theories on American Indian Origins, Mime Through Time, Mime Through Time, and Scientists Continue to Excavate Paleolithic German Porn Stash (cavegirls).

Soylent Siberia has your morning coffee creamer, Monday Motivationer, Tuesday Titillation with Fishnet, Son Of Humpday Hawtness – The Sequel, Fursday Fullness, Corsetation Conglomeration, T-GIF Friday Caress, Weekender Wetness, and Bath Night Auburn Awesome.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Yanet Garcia, his Vintage Babe is Jayne Meadows, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Velvet Orchid. At Dustbury, it’s Rina Aizawa and Rebecca Black.

*You can Google the A-10, er, gal if you want to. Not supplying a link.
**Link will post Monday morning.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox is midnight on Saturday, August 8.


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