The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Feminist Wonders: Why Do Christofascist Godbags Keep ‘Dehumanizing’ Hillary?

Posted on | March 16, 2015 | 57 Comments

Melissa McEwan channels her inner Dworkin:

This is the most basic, primitive, unapologetic misogyny: Dehumanizing a powerful woman by calling her a monster.
A devil. A witch. A beast. A castrating fiend.

What set her off on this moonbat rant? Evidently, Kurt Schlichter and Kevin Williamson said Mean Things About Hillary. Now, let’s quickly flash back to February 2007:

[Democrat presidential hopeful] John Edwards . . . hired Amanda Marcotte of the blog Pandagon to be his blogmaster and Melissa McEwan of Shakespeare’s Sister to be his online communications person. If personnel is policy, let’s just say those two hires reflect the Edwards campaign’s desire to be “Queen C—of F—k Mountain” and “F—k BushCo.”
It’s not exactly the winning populist message John-Boy was shooting for, I reckon, and bloggers on the right side of the aisle recognized that immediately. . . .
By Wednesday, the Edwards campaign was fighting push-back on the picks that were supposed to grant him great Netroots power. Marcotte and McEwan were slammed for being anti-Catholic, outside the mainstream, and just plain vulgar. Edwards fired the two bloggers. . . .

Read the whole thing. The suggestion that Melissa McEwan has credibility to criticize others for “dehumanizing” rhetoric is laughable, but I did mention she’s a feminist, didn’t I?

“Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon. . . . He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don’t listen to him. Remember that — do not listen.”
— The Exorcist (1973)

Feminists are Satan’s craven slaves. Do not listen to them.

UPDATE: Crazy? Who you calling crazy?




 

Category: Feminism, Hillary Clinton

‘Sickening Desires’

Posted on | March 16, 2015 | 27 Comments

Shakyla Wilson is charged with aggravated sexual abuse.

Political correctness is bad for the news business. Cops and prosecutors give you quotes that are solid gold? Headlines, baby.

Lesbian Coach ‘Preyed on the Innocence
of Young Girls,’ Police Chief Says

Alternately:

Prosecutor Condemns Accused Lesbian
Molester’s ‘Sickening Desires’

Do you want to sell newspapers or don’t you? The late Hunter S. Thompson said, “Nothing grabs an editor’s eye like a good rape.”

Here you have public officials offering Headline Gold, but political correctness prevents editors at the Chicago Tribune from making the most of this lurid and lucrative material:

A Naperville volunteer youth basketball coach has been charged with having inappropriate contact with one of her players at a sleepover, according to DuPage County prosecutors.
Bail was set Friday at $100,000 for Shakyla Wilson, 22, of Naperville, who is charged with one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, authorities said. . . .

(In my mind, I hear the voice of a grizzled city editor: “What the hell is this ‘inappropriate contact’ bulls–t? Stop dancing around the facts and write the g-dd–d story!”)

Wilson is charged with having sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl from Hill Middle School, where Wilson was volunteering as a girls basketball coach.
The abuse allegedly occurred Feb. 20 during a sleepover at a player’s residence, according to police. Wilson accompanied some of the girls on the team to a movie that night, and she then spent the night with them at the sleepover, authorities said. . . .

(OK, so we have now reached the fourth paragraph of the story. What then follows are another 10 paragraphs in which school officials discuss their policies for screening employees and we get all the details of Wilson’s basketball career. It is not until the 15th paragraph that we get to the good stuff.)

Naperville police Chief Robert Marshall said he was “deeply disturbed” by the allegations.
“Ms. Wilson purposely put herself in a position of influence and trust in order to prey on the innocence of young girls,” Marshall said.
State’s Attorney Robert Berlin called the allegations appalling.
“A coach’s role is to motivate and inspire athletes to be the best they can be, both on the court and off it,” he said. “Coaches are there to help athletes attain their goals, not to take advantage of the trust their position holds just to satisfy their own sickening desires.”

Read the whole thing. Never mind the sarcasm — and set aside the lesbianism for the minute — it infuriates me to see such confounded laziness in journalism. Writing is re-writing. Back in the day when I was working as a news editor, it wouldn’t have taken me maybe 20 minutes to completely re-write a story like that, which looks like the first draft submitted by a college intern. Here, try this:

A Naperville volunteer youth basketball coach satisfied her “sickening desires” by molesting a 14-year-old girl on her team during a sleepover at the player’s house, police and prosecutors say.
Shakyla Wilson, 22, “purposely put herself in a position of influence and trust in order to prey on the innocence of young girls,” Naperville Police Chief Robert Marshall said after Wilson was charged Friday with aggravated criminal sexual abuse. . . .

And so forth. Maybe the phrase “college dropout” would have appeared somewhere in the fourth or fifth paragraph. After editing the story, I would have taken a smoke break with the reporter — if I was in charge of the newsroom, smoking would be more or less mandatory — and told him to compare his original draft with the edited version. You don’t become a better writer without that kind of instruction from experienced editors when first you’re starting out. Most newsroom staffs have been stripped to the bare minimum by layoffs during the past decade, but there is no reason why shoddy efforts should be tolerated.

Now, what about the words “lesbian” and “gay” in such a circumstance? Are these words an accusation, or merely a description? Is it ethical to use such words in a headline to describe a sex crime? Ethics, shmethics. Stop pretending journalism is a Priesthood of Correct Thought. Try to remember that you are in the business of selling newspapers. Good crime reporting doesn’t have to be sensational, but there is no reason it has to be boring. The purpose of a headline is to get the reader’s attention.

‘SICKENING’ LESBIAN SEX CHARGE: COACH
PREYED ON ‘INNOCENCE’ OF GIRL, 14, COPS SAY
Law Professor Urges ‘Teach Women Not to Rape’

Obviously, you won’t win any GLAAD awards for that kind of headline, but you might sell some newspapers. Just sayin’ . . .

(Hat-tip: Aaron Walker on Twitter.)





 

Category: Crime, Gays, Journalism, Media Bias, R.S. McCain School of Journalism, Sex

Band Idea: The Alpha Epsilon Stigma

Posted on | March 15, 2015 | 17 Comments

by Smitty

Let’s just add our voices to the ‘duh’ chorus for Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Hopefully the rank stupidity of a song invoking the Bigger Digger Trigger will lead to a general purging of all such moronic material from two centuries ago. We want to flatter ourselves that these United States got past this trash; thanks for giving Eric Holder ammunition. You don’t give Eric Holder ammunition. He wets himself, literally and orally. Instapundit writes in USA Today:

You may think it’s unfair for me to treat [the racist chants and the subsequent expulsions] as comparable, and if you do think that you’re right: The difference is that David Boren broke the law, while the [Sigma Alpha Epsilon] brothers merely behaved badly.
As a state institution, the University of Oklahoma is constrained by the Constitution. Among other things, that means that it must respect the free speech guarantees contained in the First Amendment, even if that speech is repugnant. Just because the university doesn’t like what students say, thinks it’s hateful, or worries that it will produce an unpleasant atmosphere on campus, doesn’t grant it the authority to punish people for speaking. One would think that Boren — a former U.S. senator who took an oath to uphold the Constitution when he was sworn into office — would know better. Apparently not.

Here’s the idea: form a gangsta rap cover act, and go on tour. Cover well-known outbursts of racism, misogyny, anti-police hatred, and generally Holder-esque stupidity. For a sample of the desired form, see:

Let the Left figure out how to deal with the dissonance of such a rank stream of foolishness, which Commie rags like Rolling Stone have been giving five stars for years, coming from the bad boys of OU.
Meanwhile, The Alpha Epsilon Stigma can be just the kind of extended self-denunciation we need to keep the Racism Industrial Complex at bay.

Category: humor, Racism

Anti-Police Protester Jeffrey Williams Arrested for Shooting Two Police Officers

Posted on | March 15, 2015 | 43 Comments

Allegedly, I hasten to add:

A 20-year-old protester has been charged with shooting two police officers in Ferguson, Mo., last week, authorities said Sunday.
County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch said Jeffrey Williams was charged with two counts of assault in the first degree, one count of firing a weapon from a vehicle and thee counts of armed criminal action. . . .

Via Memeorandum, with more at Gateway Pundit, Fox News and Hot Air, where Jazz Shaw adds details:

[McCulloch] said the investigation is still ongoing, but a weapon has been recovered which has been connected to shells recovered at the scene of the crime. . . .
The weapon was reported by police as being a .40 caliber handgun. . . . Williams was also cited as being someone who was “part of the ongoing protests” and told them he was there “as a demonstrator.” He had been seen taking part multiple times in the past. . . . Williams also had an outstanding warrant for receiving stolen property and was wanted for not having checked in with probation for at least seven months.

You know who hates cops? Criminals hate cops. So when liberals deliberately incite hatred against cops, is it any surprise that criminals are among the protesters? It’s the basic liberal urban policy agenda:

1. Hate cops
and
2. Vote Democrat.

Professor Donald Douglas at American Power calls the shooter a “black mofo,” but given Professor Douglas’ ancestry — he’s way more “black” than Elizabeth Warren is Cherokee — he’s just daring liberals to call him “racist.” Brian Ross of ABC News is reportedly “scouring Facebook” to determine if there is a Tea Partier named “Jeffrey Williams.”

 

Category: Crime

Rule 5 Sunday: Congratulations, Miss Palin!

Posted on | March 15, 2015 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I haven’t seen WeSmirch in a couple of weeks, but the explosion of happiness on Facebook over the impending nuptials of Sergeant Dakota Meyer, USMC, and Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol has been hard to miss. I wish them a long and happy marriage.

Bristol Palin in a promo photo for “Dancing With The Stars” season 11

As usual, this post contains links to pictures of attractive women attractively clad (or not) and occasionally NSFW. Readers are advised to exercise discretion in their clicking of aforementioned links.

Goodstuff leads off again this week with Tia Carrere (and much more!), followed by Randy’s Roundtable with Jennifer Stano, and Ninety Miles from Tyanny with Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Girls with Guns. Animal Magnetism has Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, while First Street Journal strays from his usual women in the military to observe Pi Day. Most scientific!

EBL’s herd this week includes famous TV witch Elizabeth Montgomery, Huma Abedin, Save The Cosplayers!, and St. Patrick’s Day Rule 5.

A View from the Beach likewise notes Amateur Night (as we Irish refer to St. Patrick’s Day) with A Little Bit of Ireland, Kathy That Is, Putin on Paternity Leave?. When the Truth is Found to be Lies, Is This Real Life or Is This Just Parody?, Climate Change Offers End of Mummy Menace, $7.4 Million in “Blurred Lines” Jury Verdict, Dolphins Enjoy People Show, The Baptist’s Bones Found in Russia?, A Cushion from the Pushin’, Won’t it Make Your Brown Eyes Blue, In Other World News  (caution, aliens), and Obamacare Schadefreude Goes to the Supremes.

At Soylent Siberia, it’s your morning coffee creamer, Monday Motivationer Soylent Favorite, I Miss Saturday Morning Cartoons, Overnighty Latent Lingerie, Tuesday Titillation Animation, I’m Clearly Shopping At The Wrong Liquor Store, Tuesday Evening Window Dressing Chelsie, Humpday Hawt – Another Future Ex Mrs., Your Late Night Lesbians, Falconsword Fursday Sushi, Corset Connivances, T-GIF Friday Slip & Slide & Munch, Weekender In Motion, and Bath Night Beasties.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Karreuche Tran, his vintage babe is Gene Tierney, and of course there’s always Sex in Advertising. At Dustbury, it’s Apollonia Kotero and Mallika Sherawat, while Three Beers Later returns with Rule 5 Extra Dirty and Rule 5: Biden Exploratory Committee Picks Its Theme Song.


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Both Ends Burning

Posted on | March 14, 2015 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday: Spring Thaw?
Batshit Crazy News
Animal Magnetism
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach
Ninety Miles from Tyranny

Feminist Ph.D. Blames @KatiePavlich for Patriarchy, Misogyny, ‘Rape Culture’?
Political Rift
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Living In Anglo-America
Ed Driscoll

No, Sir, You Cannot Be a Feminist
Living In Anglo-America
Batshit Crazy News

FMJRA 2.0: Daylight Savings Time Edition
The Pirate’s Cove
Batshit Crazy News

Life Sentences for Michigan Couple Who Raped 1-Year-Old Girl on Video
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
That Mr. G Guy

Columnist Uses Libel in ‘Hate Speech’ Attack on First Amendment Rights
A View from the Beach

Did You Know …?
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Living In Anglo-America

Issa: Her Majesty & #OccupyResoluteDesk Are Both Beyond Justice & They Know It
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

55k Actual Pages. You’re [Redacted] Me
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

Our Moral Superiors™
Batshit Crazy News
The Lonely Conservative
Law of Markets

Fremdschämen On Behalf Of Lanny Davis
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

FBI: Award-Winning NYC Teacher Paid Teenage Boys for Illegal Nude Photos
Top News
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

Perhaps You’ve Forgotten …
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

Her Majesty Is Under Siege; This Blog Must Needs Leap To Her Defense!
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

Remember: The Affordable Care Act Is Pelosi, Reid & Obama’s Zombie Abortion
Batshit Crazy News

Two Cops Shot in Ferguson
Regular Right Guy
The Pirate’s Cove
Batshit Crazy News

30,000 ‘Personal’ Emails?
Batshit Crazy News
Big Food, Big Garden, Big Life
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach

Called ‘Fat Cow,’ @LenaDunham Has ‘Hired Her Own Personal Tweeter’
Living In Anglo-America
Batshit Crazy News

Let Us Enjoy A Moment When We’ve Something Nice To Say Of Stacy’s Cousin
Batshit Crazy News

The World Keeps Getting Weirder
Political Rift

EmailGate Is Just How Her Majesty Rolls
Batshit Crazy News

Tumblr + Feminism = GENIUS!
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox, 03.12.15
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
Proof Positive

Ferguson Update: Three Questioned After Shooting of Two Police Officers
Regular Right Guy
Da Tech Guy
Batshit Crazy News

Patricia Jannuzzi Is Right
Regular Right Guy
Living In Anglo-America
Batshit Crazy News

‘Early in Their Political Lives, the Clintons Needed to Maintain a Level of Artifice’
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

The 19th Paragraph: Feminism’s Eternal Quest for the Great White Defendant
Living In Anglo-America
Regular Right Guy
First Street Journal

An Honest Headline
Batshit Crazy News
IOTW Report
Living In Anglo-America
A View from the Beach

The Origin Of Her Majesty’s Horse Pucky
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (26)
  2.  Regular Right Guy (16)
  3.  Living In Anglo-America (7)
  4.  A View from the Beach (6)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery, especially those folks who boosted “Late Night With Rule 5: Spring Thaw?” into first place this week!

Viva! Roxy Music

Category: FMJRA Award

In the Future, Everyone Will Be a Victim

Posted on | March 14, 2015 | 117 Comments

If you’re a University of Texas girl with blue hair and “queer social issues,” the sisters of Gamma Rho Lambda are there for you:

UT students established a campus colony of the national sorority Gamma Rho Lambda this semester — the first queer-focused and transsexual-inclusive women’s Greek society at the University, according to the organization’s leadership.
The sorority aims to combat issues regarding the status of queer women in mainstream society and within the LGBT community, Lauren Ferguson, president of the colony and art history and English senior, said. As part of the three-semester colonization process, the organization’s leaders recruited nine members this semester for the Alpha class and will start taking pledges in the fall.

Ferguson is also a columnist for the UT student newspaper, and recently published a column containing some interesting non-facts:

According to a 2001 report from the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, women on college campuses are more likely to be assaulted than women in the general population. And Katherine Hirsch’s study titled “Fraternities of Fear: Gang Rape, Male Bonding, and the Silencing of Women” estimated that one in four college women will be assaulted during their academic career.

Fact: Female college students are actually less likely to be raped than female non-students the same age.

Fact: The incidence of rape has significantly declined in the U.S.

As I wrote when the Justice Department report was released:

According to the report, the actual number of rapes of college-age females is 6.1 per 1,000, a drastically smaller number than 1-in-5. Meanwhile, non-college-attending females in the same 18-to-24 age group had about a 20% higher rate of rape (7.6 per 1,000).
To put it quite bluntly, there is zero evidence to support feminist claims of a “rape epidemic” on U.S. college campuses.
To put it even more bluntly, feminists are lying about rape.

The claim of a “rape epidemic” is a deception, manufactured with “Statistical Voodoo and Elastic Definitions,” as part of a propaganda campaign by feminists to augment their own (already formidable) power within academia. Of course, we don’t expect an art history major to understand that she is a pawn in someone else’s political power-grab. Indoctrination doesn’t work if the subjects realize that they’re being indoctrinated. The blue-haired queer Laura Ferguson is an LGBT celebrity now, interviewed by Huffington Post Live:

“I was really bothered when I first came to Austin and couldn’t find a safe space for queer women.”

Safe space? Safe from whom? The idea that “queer women” are unsafe in Austin — terrorized by heteronormative patriarchy, we might presume — is contradicted by Ms. Ferguson’s own words in another interview: “For every one person who doesn’t like us, there’s a thousand who support us. UT has been insanely supportive of us. . . . They’re not only willing to support us, but they’re excited about it.” One wonders what sort of menace requires these “queer women” to have a “safe space.”

Well, yes — mocking laughter might damage their self-esteem, and so the UT administration is “insanely supportive” of Gamma Rho Lambda providing a “safe space” where the weirdos can gather without being exposed to cruel jokes. This is where the cultural celebration of victimhood leads, to a world in which misfits and malcontents can imagine they are oppressed. (See “‘There Is No Spoon’: Radical Feminism and the Paranoid Matrix of Patriarchy.”) Despite the fact that university administrators are “insanely supportive” of LGBT activism on campus, it is still necessary — for the purposes of this charade of pretended victimhood — for the “queer women” to present themselves as suffering societal oppression and injustice. Does no one in Austin have enough common sense and courage to call bullshit on this bogus hustle?

There are more than 50,000 students at the UT Austin campus, and yet when Gamma Rho Lambda offered “safe space” for “queer women,” they were able to recruit a grand total of nine members. A little more than half of UT-Austin students are female, and if we assume that 2% of those are lesbian, that means about 500 “queer women” on campus. Yet it would seem that fewer than 2% of lesbian students at UT-Austin care enough about “safe space” to join Gamma Rho Lambda.

To repeat: THERE IS NO SPOON.

UPDATE: Why do the president and vice-president of the UT-Austin chapter of Gamma Rho Lambda have the the same name? Thanks to Zohydro in the comments and my brother Kirby for pointing me to this story which clarifies this point:

Lauren, and her sister, Audrey, decided to create a new organization. . . .
“Being a transwoman it’s hard to find places that are completely comfortable, I knew this needed to be an area specifically for female identifying and female queer individuals,” Audrey Ferguson said.

In other words, Lauren’s “sister Audrey” is in fact her brother, who is “identifying” as her “sister.” As Kirby said, “Imagine family Thanksgiving at their house!”

Yeah. It’s like The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

 

Category: Education, Feminism, Gays, Sex Trouble

Hmmm …

Posted on | March 14, 2015 | 12 Comments

During a Friday hearing in Montgomery County Circuit Court, Brett Kimberlin tried and failed to persuade a judge to grant a peace order against John Hoge. During the course of that proceeding, Kimberlin introduced as “evidence” what would appear to be a deliberate misrepresentation — a printed fascimile of a Tweet by Lee Stranahan, presented as though it had been sent by Hoge, who in fact had merely RT’d Stranahan’s message.

Aaron Walker discusses the hearing and the evidence. As readers may have noticed, I haven’t blogged much about the Kimberlin case lately. (My most recent post about the case was Sept. 25.) The explanation is simple: I’ve been up to my eyeballs in radical feminism and resolved to pay as little attention as possible to the Perjuring Pro Se Pipsqueak. My motion to dismiss Kimberlin’s absurd federal RICO suit is among several such motions pending, and we await the court’s decision.





 

Category: The Kimberlin Files
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