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In The Mailbox: 06.15.15

Posted on | June 15, 2015 | 15 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Truth


Not all the way back in the saddle…


OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Are These Truths Self-Evident?
Louder With Crowder: Why The Rachel Dolezal Scandal Really Handicaps The Left





Michelle Malkin: Why America Hates The GOP-Obamatrade Deal
Twitchy: Rachel Dolezal Resigns, But George Wallace Steals Her Thunder


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Broken City – San Bernardino
American Thinker: Colonization And Cultural Genocide – They Call It “Immigration”
BLACKFIVE: Someone You Should Know – Captain Gavin John Hamilton, MC
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Overdue Friday Fiction 100 Word Challenge
Conservatives4Palin: In Stinging Defeat, Obama Declares Victory
Don Surber: Who Else On Flag Day But Betsy Ross?
Jammie Wearing Fools: NBC Hack Andrea Mitchell Complains About Obama’s Golfing
Joe For America: Texas’ Governor Abbott Lays Smackdown On Mexican Government
JustOneMinute: The Alliance Of Free Riders
Pamela Geller: American Muslims Who Plotted To Murder Me Are Loyal To ISIS
Protein Wisdom: Rachel Dolezal And “How To Be Black”
Shot In The Dark: Trulbert – A Comic Novella About The End Of The World As We Know It
STUMP: Buyers Of Distressed Munis – Get Out!
The Gateway Pundit: Breaking – Rachel Dolezal Resigns As Spokane NAACP President
The Jawa Report: Council Of Islamic Losers Losing
The Lonely Conservative: What’s With The Outrage Over The Trans-Race Woman?
This Ain’t Hell: Marine SGT Cody Leifheit Saving The World
Weasel Zippers: “Wheels Up!” Michelle Obama Leaves On Yet Another Taxpayer-Funded Vacation
Megan McArdle: US Can’t Import The Scandinavian Model
Mark Steyn: Fangs, Light Sabers, And A Supernumary Papilla


Trulbert!: A Comic Novella About the End of the World As We Know It

Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Sunday: Showgirls and Other Attractions

Posted on | June 14, 2015 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This week I’m trying to get back into the blogging saddle, so to speak; you might even see the return of Live at Five tomorrow! For now, insert the usual disclaimer here about being discreet in your clicking, ogle the intro pic of traditional Vegas show girls, and on with the linkagery.

Members of the “Jubilee” revue at Bally’s.

Randy’s Roundtable returns to lead off with Barbara Fialho, followed by Goodstuff with Caroline Munro, and Animal Magnetism with Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd this week includes a Rule 5 tweet, Feminist Lindy West, Melisandre from Game of Thrones, the late Monica Lewis, High Sparrow Obaa and Cersei Pelosi, Rachel Dolezal, and Songs Sinatra Never Sang.

American Power returns after a long absence with Emilia Clarke bikini pix, Afternoon Rule 5, Melissa Debling, Hannah Davis, and Emma Kuziara.

A View from the Beach checks in with The Witch of Sleepy Hollow – Katia Winter, All the News That’s Fit to Bare, A Graceful 67, “Jerry’s Breakdown”, Kate Moss Not a Model Passenger, One Mean Rugby Player, Scientists Go Gaga Over Ferns, Obamacare Schadenfraude – Aloha to Hawaii,  and Crazy Cat Ladies – Cause or Effect? (cave girls).

At Soylent Siberia, it’s your morning coffee creamer followed by Monday Motivationer – Fire!, Greek Goddess, Tuesday Titillation Water Ballet, High Style, Humpday Hawtness Museum Piece, Falconsword Fursday Strapped, Happy Birthday Kate Upton!, Corset Confabulation, T-GIF Friday Because Corsets, and Weekender Honey Bunny.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Jennifer Rikert Wolski, his Vintage Babe is Monica Lewis, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Hardee’s All American Burger.* At Dustbury, it’s Susana Gimenez and Jedediah Bila.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox is midnight on Saturday, June 20.

*It’s Carl’s Jr. in this part of the USA, but the nested possessive contractions annoyed me.


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Category: Rule 5

James Boulware Was Crazy

Posted on | June 14, 2015 | 59 Comments

James Boulware attacked Dallas Police Headquarters and then was shot to death by SWAT officers after a standoff in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant. He was crazy:

Boulware’s family said in a statement that it was “in shock.”
“We tried to get him mental help numerous times, but the system failed him, because he was declared ‘sane.’ He was very delusional. It was very obvious,” the family said.
Boulware, 35, of Paris, Texas, had been arrested multiple times. One of the more troubling arrests was in May 2013, when he allegedly choked his mother, strangled his uncle and made threats, including one about a mass shooting.

How crazy was he?

At the time of Boulware’s arrest in 2013, police issued a public alert that he was armed with guns, a large amount of ammunition, and also had body armor, and might go on a shooting spree.
“He was going to just kill all the adult members of the family and then that’s when he made the comment he may shoot up some churches and schools,” said Paris police chief Bob Hundley, according to a 2013 news report on NBC station KTEN.
According to an arrest report, the incident began when Boulware attacked two family members and went on a rant.
His mother “had gone into the kitchen to make her something to eat when the suspect began making comments about North and South Korea, and began talking rudely about religion, Jews and Christians,” a police affidavit said. “The suspect suddenly grabbed (his mother’s) throat with both of his hands and began squeezing.”
“He then punched his uncle and choked him “to the point of unconsciousness,” the affidavit said.

What has happened to our court system and our mental health system that someone like James Boulware, who has perpetrated serious violence and is so obviously deranged, is turned loose into society?

At what point was it decided that crazy people had a “right” to be crazy that was so important as to outweigh basic considerations of public safety? Who made the court rulings that limited our nation’s ability to lock up dangerous lunatics?

Answer: Federal judges whose courtrooms have metal detectors and armed police to protect them.

The key decisions were made in the 1960s and 70s, at a time when liberalism was the dominant legal philosophy, and when eminent intellectuals proclaimed that criminals and lunatics were victims of an unjust society. Mentally ill people and dangerous criminals were turned loose in the name of “social justice.” Now here were are, decades later, where it seems every day brings us headlines of shocking violence perpetrated by people like James Boulware who — despite their obvious mental problems and known capacity for violence — can’t be locked away. Because “social justice.”

His family said the system failed James Boulware. Perhaps more importantly, the system has failed America. People need to read Clayton Cramer’s My Brother Ron: A Personal and Social History of the Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill.

The people who most need to read that book, alas, are the least likely to read it. Federal judges, legislators and law school professors — the people whose bad ideas, bad decisions and bad laws have produced this mess — can’t be bothered to read anything written from the perspective of common sense. Our nation’s policy-making elite have become corrupt and decadent, blinded to facts and reason by their quasi-religious devotion to the ideological cult of “social justice.”

A deranged gunmen can hurt a lot of people, but what about America’s corrupt and decadent elite? Aren’t they really more dangerous? What do you think America is going to look like after Hillary Clinton gets elected president in 2016 and re-elected in 2020?

Our nation’s elite hate our nation’s people. Because the elite despise everything that made America great, they have deliberately sought to destroy the foundations of a free society.

Damn them and damn their decadent souls. Damn them all to Hell.

 

Category: Crime

Here It Is: #ClintonJennerDolezal2016

Posted on | June 13, 2015 | 22 Comments

by Smitty

In this blog’s relentless quest to immanentize the Next Big Thing, we proudly proffer the Tres Bimbos ticket.

That it’s Her Majesty’s turn, and we [nsfw] must not jack this up for her, goes without saying. And we’re supposed to feel vaguely positive about the “courage” inherent in an intensely personal decision that not everyone fully agrees with. Finally, we should offer three cheers to Rachel Dolezal, whose approach to fabulism is only exceeded by that of #OccupyResoluteDesk, as far as I can tell.

Thus, by the Power of Common Core, we humbly announce that three (3) is just a large value of two (2). We adjure you to vote for Clinton/Jenner/Dolezal in 2016, by write-in, if those odious, pedantic conservatives somehow infringe on your right to feel however you want about that age-old tool of patriarchal oppression, integers.

As the Really Hip Individual Currently Choosing to Retain a Male Sexual Identity Ezra Klein noted, the Constitution is, like, really old, or something. What better way to fight that Ancient Screed of Cisgender, Euro-Masculine Domination than to vote in a First Trimulierate in 2016? Progress is predicated upon the idea that anything conservatives esteem is on the target list for rhetorical saturation bombing. Progress takes a village, and rubs the lotion on.


Why not put another nail in the coffin of the idea of the Rule of Law by supporting the Tres Bimbos ticket? How about it?

Category: Democrats, Hillary Clinton, humor

The Hugo Packet: The Novels and Related Works

Posted on | June 13, 2015 | 13 Comments

— by Wombat-socho

It’s been a while since I did a book post, since most of the time when I was on the road I was either driving, recovering from driving, or hanging out with friends and relatives, but I hope this makes up for it.

As most of you are aware, the Kulturkampf between the Social Justice Wankers who want to use the arts to preach and dictate and the rest of us who just want some decent entertainment has spread to SF fandom, much to the distress of the SJWs, who had been having it their own way with the Hugos up until this year, when it became public knowledge that anyone with $40 could register for the convention and actually vote. Thousands of people did this (further enraging the SJWs) and it looks like Sasquan will have the biggest membership of any World SF Convention (Worldcon for short) in quite some time, if not ever. In fact, if you haven’t registered yet, you can still get a supporting membership for $40 through August 2, which entitles you to not only vote for the Hugos, but to get free e-copies of many of the nominated works, which is arguably worth more than the $40 you’re shelling out all by itself.

So, having duly registered and obtained my packet, and read most of what’s in it, here’s how I’m going to be filling out my ballot. This is, of course, subject to change once I read the stuff I haven’t gotten to yet.

Best Novel
This is the biggie, the one that draws most of the attention. Before I got the packet, I was strongly inclined toward putting Jim Butcher’s Skin Game at the top of my ballot for two good reasons: up to that point, it was the only one of the nominees I’d read, and I thought Jim Butcher deserved some long-overdue recognition for the “Dresden Files” books, which arguably put urban fantasy on the map as a subgenre.
Unfortunately, now that I’ve read Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem, I can’t honestly do that any more. Liu’s book is an awesome combination of alien contact, secret societies, an immersive computer game, the Cultural Revolution and its effects, and a hard-drinking chain-smoking policeman who doesn’t care who he pisses off because his people instincts are damn near infallible. A great book, and getting it for free from Sasquan beats forking out $13 to Tor. Also very good, but not quite good enough to beat out Butcher’s novel, is Katherine Addison’s The Goblin Emperor. The tale of a half-goblin prince who suddenly ascends to the throne after the Emperor and other senior heirs are killed in an airship “accident”, this makes for very hard reading in the early chapters, since our hero knows nothing of the Imperial court, has no friends or relatives he can trust…Maggie Hogarth is absolutely right. And yet, you keep going, maybe because you can’t believe the author will put the screws to such a well-meaning protagonist, maybe because you want to see the trainwreck – but to give any clue beyond that would spoil the book for you, and I’m not going to do that.

So when the dust settles, my ballot is going to look like this:

  1.  The Three-Body Problem
  2.  Skin Game
  3.  The Goblin Emperor
  4. (not yet read) The Dark Between The Stars
  5.  No Award
  6.  Ancillary Sword (No copy, no vote. Screw you, Orbit.)

Related Works
This category too had a virtual lock going in: Mad Mike Williamson’s Wisdom From My Internet, since 1) it was chock-full of politically incorrect humor, 2) the SJW’s deserved a swat on the nose for handing a certain mediocre author and former SFWA president a Hugo for a similar collection, yclept Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded, and 3) they deserved a further swat for completely ignoring Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 2: The Man Who Learned Better 1948-1988the second volume of William Patterson’s Heinlein bio in favor of some ahistorical trash by Kameron Hurley.
Once again, I find myself forced to change my mind as a result of reading the packet. John C. Wright’s Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth is a collection of brilliant essays on SF and fantasy that in many ways parallels what Stacy has been doing in his Sex Trouble posts, but with particular attention to our corner of literature and media. “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Tolkien” is particularly funny, but all of his criticisms are on point.
Lou Antonelli’s Letters from Gardner was not in the packet, and I haven’t read Tedd Roberts’ essay yet, so the tentative rankings look like this:

  1.  Transhuman and Subhuman
  2.  Wisdom From My Internet
  3.  “The Hot Equations”
  4.  (not yet read) “Why Science Is Never Settled”
  5.  No Award
  6.  Letters From Gardner

I’ll try and throw up some more posts in the coming week regarding the other categories.

Category: Books, Culture

FMJRA 2.0: Heat In The Street

Posted on | June 13, 2015 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Hannan On The Fraternal Nature Of Commies And Nazis
Muslim Anonymous

Her Majesty’s Frontside #LibHorseNames
Batshit Crazy News

Feminist Tumblr: Human Train Wreck Offers Online ‘Support’ to ‘Survivors’
Living In Anglo-America
Da Tech Guy

FMJRA 2.0: D-Day On The Purple Heart Trail
The Pirate’s Cove
BlurBrain
Batshit Crazy News

‘Just an Incredible Amount of Misogyny’
Constantinople Not Istanbul
Living In Anglo-America

‘We Need to Get Him Off the Internet’
Living In Anglo-America
Inoperable Terran
Batshit Crazy News

Rule 5 Sunday: Welcome To Las Vegas
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach

Who Is ‘Tiggy Upland’?
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

Heh. Heh. Heh.
A View from the Beach

Rapists Everywhere (1-in-5)
Constantinople Not Istanbul
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
Living In Anglo-America

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
Batshit Crazy News
Jim-O-Rama
Regular Right Guy

Top linker this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (7)

Thanks to everyone for the linkagery!


Heat In The Street

Category: FMJRA Award

Who Is ‘Tiggy Upland’?

Posted on | June 12, 2015 | 103 Comments

During my explorations of Feminist Tumblr, I stumbled across an online “advice” site called Tiggy Upland. The word “advice” must be put in quotation marks because it’s actually an advocacy site, promoting bisexuality and polyamory (i.e., what used to be called “swinging”). The name “Tiggy Upland” is obviously a pseudonym. At first I suspected the person behind it must actually be male, because there was such a weird “Dear Penthouse Forum” vibe of kinky fantasy to it.

A simple and obvious question: How does a person hiding behind a pseudonym become an online advice columnist? That is to say, where does the adviser get that first advice-seeker? Ah! The self-created “Tiggy Upland” must have invented this seeker and also invented the seeker’s dilemma, you see. Does the phrase roman à clef mean anything to you? Don’t you suspect this first post included some element of autobiography? Whatever your mere suspicions or speculations may be, however, any intelligent person must conclude that there is a self-interested authorial purpose behind the creation of “Tiggy Upland.”

Anyone can see — it’s right there in plain sight, clearly written — that “Tiggy Upland” wants people to believe it is perfectly normal for a man in a heterosexual relationship to masturbate with gay porn and also to want his girlfriend to penetrate him with a strap-on dildo.

Furthermore, pay attention to the backdating of posts, so that “May 3, 2011” was actually posted Jan. 3, 2012. Why would “Tiggy” do this? January 2012 was quite a busy month for “Tiggy” in terms of creating backdated Q-and-A posts, and the similarity of themes is notable. Were any of those questions authentic? Why was “Tiggy” doing this?

Check the “late bloomer” tag, and you find “November 1, 2011” (posted Jan. 10, 2012), “November 15, 2011” (posted Jan. 12, 2012) and “January 10, 2012” (also posted Jan. 12, 2012). So in the span of three days, “Tiggy” posted three Q-and-As with people who were interested in pursuing bisexuality. Some of these questions seemed authentic. But look very closely at this backdated post in which “Tiggy” answers two questions from bisexual women, the second of whom says she “grew up in North Carolina and didn’t really even know what it meant to be LGBT until I moved to Boston four years ago.” The answer to that question included this unusually detailed information:

Since you’re in Boston, I highly recommend that you attend the peer-led group, “Straight Marriage, Still Questioning” on the second Monday of each month. For more information, contact kate.e.flynn [at] gmail [dot] com. . . . They’re in the same position you are and will welcome you into their mutually-supportive space with open arms.

Is that just random and coincidental? Is “Tiggy” simply such a conscientious adviser that, upon getting a question from a woman in Boston, “Tiggy” did some research about support groups in the area and (what luck!) found this monthly meeting advised by Kate E. Flynn?

No, of course not. Here’s your answer: “Ask Tiggy” is a regular column in the quarterly newsletter of the Boston Bisexual Women’s Network. It would seem that the column first appeared in the Summer 2011 issue. Yet if this is a women’s group, and the advice columnist is supposed to be giving advice to bisexual women, why is the “Tiggy Upland” site fielding questions from so many bisexual men?

In the fine print of the Boston Bisexual Women’s Network newsletter, they declare their purpose to provide “a safe environment” for support of “women of all sexual self-identities, gender identities,” promoting “full acceptance” of bisexuality “within the larger LGBT community,” including “transgender people.” Carefully examine Page 16 of the Spring 2015 issue of their newsletter and see if you can’t guess who might have managed to smuggle a penis into their November 2014 brunch.

“Tiggy Upland” made her public debut in October 2011, performing at the Bilicious Boston show, produced “in association with the Bisexual Resource Center.” Oh, what’s the Bisexual Resource Center?

It’s a Boston-based tax-exempt 501(c)3, the administrative director of which was, from 2004-2014, Ellyn Ruthstrom, whose resumé is quite interesting: After getting her master’s degree in Women’s Studies from Ohio State University, Ms. Ruthstrom worked five years (1995-2000) at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass., then spent six years (2001-2007) as editor of Teen Voices, “the only national magazine and website written by, for, and about teen girls,” where she “trained a team of college-aged editorial assistants and mentors,” etc., etc. If the dates on Ms. Ruthstrom’s LinkedIn profile are correct, therefore, during the years 2004-2007, she was simultaneously president of the Bisexual Resource Center and the editor of Teen Voices.

(Hey, Teen Voices, let’s talk about your vaginas!)

While Ms. Ruthstrom is too old to be “Tiggy Upland,” she certainly must know who “Tiggy Upland” is, which leads us to the question, “Why the strange masquerade? Why the pseudonym?” Because I stumbled onto this entirely by accident, the why part of this question is as mysterious as the who, and Ms. Ruthstrom’s career is an intriguing tangent. The director of the Bisexual Resource Center is the former editor of Teen Voices, “an intensive journalism, mentoring, and leadership program for teen girls in Boston”? Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

What happened to Teen Voices? Their former website is defunct, but the non-profit tracker GuideStar showed their blog address on WordPress, which hasn’t been updated since August 2012. However, the site had an embedded Twitter feed for @TeenNews — “the girl news site of Women’s eNews that delivers news about teens to a global audience and incorporates teens into the production of news.” In 2013, it seems, the former Boston-based Teen News was absorbed by New York-based Women’s ENews, about which we learn:

Women’s eNews became independent on January 1, 2002. Women’s eNews grew out of a 1996 roundtable discussion conceived and funded by the Barbara Lee Family Foundation and hosted by the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. After additional research on the need for a media outlet to distribute news of concern to women and the opportunity to provide women’s voices to commercial media, NOW Legal Defense underwrote in 1999 the creation of Women’s eNews as an Internet-based news service for all women, with a special emphasis on being a resource for commercial media. . . .

This 501(c)3 outfit gets money from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Family Fund, United Nations Foundation, the Open Society Institute, and the Starry Night Fund of Tides Foundation. The editor of Teen News is now Katina Paron, who is director of the NYC High School Journalism Collaborative at Baruch College. From Ms. Paron’s online profile at the Youth Media Learning Network, we learn that her “youth media career began as an editor, mentor and Board of Directors member with the Boston-based Teen Voices magazine.” Thus we return full circle to the publication where Ellyn Ruthstrom was editor for six years, prior to Ms. Ruthstrom’s subsequent position at the Bisexual Resource Center.

Random coincidence. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

All these coincidences were discovered because I encountered the “Tiggy Upland” Tumblr and wondered, “Who is Tiggy Upland?”

Still don’t have the answer to that question, but I imagine it would be a very interesting answer. Only haters ask questions, y’know.

UPDATE: @TiggyUpland on Twitter was kind enough to share this photo of herself speaking at the 2012 Boston Dyke March:

Just so you know, OK?

UPDATE II: What kind of event was this?

Each year, the Dyke March is held in Boston the day before the Pride Parade as a grassroots efforts to remind the public and the government that “they are a movement, not a market.”

You stay classy, Boston Dyke March ladies!

UPDATE III: There modern double standard involves the way in which feminists constantly derogate masculinity and heterosexuality, whereas no one may express even the mildest criticism of women or homosexuals. It is therefore quite a risky enterprise to suggest that most “bisexuals” are either mainly gay, mainly straight, permanently confused, or just hopelessly perverse.

What are we to say, then, of Tiggy Upland’s approving attitude toward the man in a heterosexual relationship who wanted “his girlfriend to penetrate him with a strap-on dildo”?

We can consult the testimony of a woman who wrote to gay advice columnist Dan Savage (second letter), complaining that she was dating “a wonderful guy” who requested this particular practice. “Honestly, it turned me on as much as it did him,” she said. Then the guy said he wanted to try, uh, “the real thing.” She was also OK with that, “having a threesome with a trusted bi guy friend . . . and we all had fun.” Ah, but then she reaches the plot complication: “We never have vaginal intercourse anymore unless I ask. How soon will it be before I am left out entirely? Have I just been the testing ground for a shy gay boy who is now coming to fully realize that he would rather be with men than women?”

Ma’am, you are an enabler to a narcissist. You are a supporting character in a drama in which he plays the starring role. Yet you willingly cast yourself in this role, otherwise why would you think someone like this is “a wonderful guy”? And, as you say, you enjoyed playing your part up until you realized that this would eventually lead to you being excluded from the final scene. What was it that originally made you think he was “wonderful”? Doesn’t it say something about you — your disastrously bad judgment, or perhaps your own subconscious personality problems — that you would have been attracted to this guy, and willingly gone along with his deviant schemes?

Until people are willing to accept responsibility for their own problems, they will never be able to solve those problems, and feminism is all about absolving women of responsibility.

My advice to anyone who wants a normal life is to stop hanging around weirdos. However much weirdness you might have ever indulged in the past, it’s not actually the past until you walk away from it, renounce it, start socializing with respectable decent people, and try to become someone decent and respectable yourself.

 

Category: Sex Trouble

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | June 12, 2015 | 17 Comments

by Smitty

Redlight Mind

“And I followed her to the station with her suitcase in my hand. Well, it’s hard to tell, it’s hard to tell. . .when all your love’s in vain. All my love’s in vain.
When the train rolled up to the station. . .I looked her in the eye. Well, I was lonesome, I felt so lonesome. . .and I could not help but cry.
When the train, it left the station with two lights on behind
. . .well, the blue light was my blues. . .and the red light was my mind. All my love’s in vain.”

via Darleen

Bonus:

[I’ve always loved the delicate minimalism of this tune. Keb Mo’s recording of the Robert Johnson masterpiece is true to the emotion, and a clean recording. I certainly won’t be trumping the emotion on display anytime soon.]

Category: Friday Fiction
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