The Other McCain

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Friday FictionPoetry: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | August 7, 2015 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

Darleen offered a thoughtful mood set to music, and I’ll reply with a bit of verse:

Your life’s a book, brief or dense
And though we live in the present tense
Parts boring, or all suspsense
We cannot change the pacing

No, time’s the same for rich or poor
Until the pages are no more
And none remain to keep a score
Past end to which we’re racing

Prayerfully ponder passing page
Focus on love; forget the rage
In orchestra pit or on the stage
Look past the pain you’re facing

And when the final day is here
We’re scored by amount of cheer
We have brought, and also tear
We’ve dried–while end we’re chasing

via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

Please Follow @SexTroubleBook

Posted on | August 7, 2015 | 15 Comments

When @Twitter locked me out of @rsmccain today, this inspired me to do something I’ve needed to do for a while, namely create a Twitter account to promote my book Sex Trouble: Radical Feminism and the War Against Human Nature. As regular readers know, I’m now working on a revised and expanded second edition, which I plan to publish later this month. Maybe I’ll include something about this story:

A lesbian couple faked a hate crime that left their home a pile of charred rubble at their Venore, Tenn., property in 2010, local reports said.
An insurance company caught on to the ruse months after the blaze and accused Carol Ann and Laura Stutte of perpetuating a hoax and blaming the fire on their neighbor, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported.
A federal jury ruled in favor of the insurance company’s belief that the couple spray-painted an anti-gay slur on their own garage to spin the fire as a hate crime based on their sexual orientation.

Fake anti-lesbian hate crimes, like campus rape hoaxes, are part of how the Left dishonestly exploits sympathy for women, relying on liberal media’s lack of skepticism toward any narrative that portrays white heterosexual Christian males as oppressors. Dishonest activists know that dishonest journalists will amplify these hoax stories, because blind loyalty to the Democrat Party unites them in promoting a false narrative that benefits their partisan agenda. Understood in this context, feminism has nothing to do with improving the well-being of women, but is instead simply part of the overall Cultural Marxist strategy to destroy constitutional liberty by scapegoating those who oppose the Left.

Only women, ethnic minorities, non-Christians and homosexuals are recognized by the Left as having “rights,” a term the Left understands as entitlement — a “right” to favorable treatment from the government, at the expense of demonized classes who have no such rights because they are said to be “privileged” by systems of social oppression. This worldview has been taught in schools, colleges and universities for the past 20 or 30 years. These attitudes are also promoted by both the entertainment industry and the news media, so that few Americans under age 40 are able to think beyond the constraints of Cultural Marxism (otherwise known as “political correctness”). Anyone who questions the Left’s ideas is accused of hate and bigotry — sexism, racism, homophobia, etc. — and by this method of character assassination, critics are excluded from participation in academia, journalism, politics or any other field where the intelligentsia’s influence is decisive.

Am I angry about this? Honestly, I’m more angry that other conservatives aren’t as angry about it as I am.

Radical feminism could be defeated if so many people weren’t afraid of being considered “sexist” for speaking out against it. If conservatives would pay attention to the Culture War, and focus on the weakest link — i.e., the blatant dishonesty of feminism’s claims of “oppression” — we could blow a hole in the Left’s agenda big enough to drive a truck through. If you’re a praying person, pray that people will wake up to this situation. while there is still any hope at all.

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Category: Sex Trouble

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.

Please buy my book, help promote it to others and don’t forget the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

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Category: Uncategorized

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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This is part of the Sex Trouble series, which has been funded by contributions from readers. Your support is deeply appreciated.





 

Category: Journalism, Media Bias, Sex Trouble
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