The Other McCain

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

Why I’m Not A Campaign Manager

Posted on | March 22, 2015 | 48 Comments

by Smitty

I’m a huge Ted Cruz fan. I like the fact that he is willing to admit that the ethanol mandate is bogus and needs to go. I’d love to see him do this, but it would probably be a Bad Move:

Category: humor, Politics

The #NYFLC2015 Agenda

Posted on | March 22, 2015 | 15 Comments

OK, I previously included excerpts of this extraordinarily queer program from the National Young Feminist Leadership Conference. Now I have uploaded the full document:

#NYFLC2015 Feminist Conference Agenda

As I said previously, I must apologize for the low quality of this scan because the Feminist Majority Agenda didn’t list the panel descriptions or name the participants on their web site. This was scanned using a smartphone by a person who deserves credit, but until that person grants me permission to credit them, I’m protecting my source from the Feminist Wrath Brigades.

Now, here’s where I need help from readers: Go through the list of speakers and identify (in the comments) every speaker who identifies as “queer,” “lesbian,” “trans,” LGBT, etc. Just a list of names will do, but if somebody could count them and then calculate what percentage of the speakers were self-identified weirdos, that would be helpful, too. Links to online biographies of the speakers would be an extra bonus.





 

Category: Education, Feminism, Gays, Sex Trouble

They’re Here! They’re Queer!

Posted on | March 22, 2015 | 33 Comments

They’re the #NYFLC2015! The Feminist Majority Foundation’s National Young Feminist Leadership Conference is meeting this weekend in Washington, D.C., but if you mistook this event for a lesbian festival, the confusion is not your fault. Last year, several attendees at the conference complained that the event was not “queer” enough. No one could make that complaint this year. A blue-haired nose-pierced teenager who last year demanded “more queer feminism” this year was crying in joy over a speech by lesbian activist Darlene Nipper.

Queer feminists were everywhere at this year’s conference, including on the “Sex Positivity” panel, where college girls learned about “exploring and deconstructing gender norms and promoting self-love.”

There was a “Queering Your Campus” panel offering college girls “inclusive discussions . . . to organize on campus for gender-neutral restrooms or housing” and “sustain a queer campus community.”

Queering Your Campus

Nancy Aragon, National Campus Organizer, FMF
Rukia Brooks, Feminist Collective, University of South Carolina
Cassidy Hammond, Feminists Organizing Real Transformation Here (FORTH), SUNY Purchase
Beth Feldstein, Wellesley College
Samantha Master, Youth and Campus Engagement Manager, Human Rights Campaign
Koda Mehalba, President, The Alliance, Salem State University

And then, of course, there was the “LGBTQ Frontiers” panel because “it’s time for our activism around LGBTQ+ to expand,” teaching “what true liberation and equality for LGBTQ people looks like.”

LGBTQ Frontiers: Beyond Marriage Equality

Gautam Raghavan, Vice President of Policy, The Gill Foundation
Shelley Hallstead, Law Students for Reproductive Justice Fellow, National Center for Lesbian Rights
Laura Durson, Director, Center for American Progress LBGTQ Research and Communications Project
Cathy Santos, Secretary & Co-Founder of Trans Students Advisory Committee, Feminist Collective, University of South Carolina


Just included a couple of biographies to point out that these college girls were spending the weekend in Washington with Nancy Aragon, “a proud queer feminist,” and Samantha Master, a “Black, queer, feminist activist,” among others. Hey, did you notice the name of Carmen Rios here? Yeah, we remember the “raging lesbian feminist” Carmen Rios.

Just a few tweets of possible interest to feminist youth:

Please excuse the low-quality scans from the #NYFLC2015 program. The Feminist Majority Agenda didn’t list the panel descriptions or name the participants on their web site — I wonder why? — and so my source scanned in pages using a smartphone. Not going to name my source without permission. I wouldn’t want an agent of the patriarchy to be targeted for “inclusivity” by a mob of angry lesbians.





 

Category: Education, Feminism, Gays, Sex Trouble

John Doe v. Cornell

Posted on | March 22, 2015 | 40 Comments

One night in December 2013, a male Cornell University student hooked up with a female student at the woman’s apartment. Both students had been drinking. More than two months later, the woman “filed a complaint against Plaintiff, alleging that Plaintiff raped Jane Doe on December 14, 2013, while she was incapacitated.” Note the word “Plaintiff” in that sentence and also note the word “complaint.” The female student did not file criminal charges; rather, she complained to university officials who conducted their own “investigation” and expelled the male student, who is now suing the university, saying that officials violated his rights:

In a 53-page complaint, the student’s attorneys launch a wide-ranging critique of both Cornell’s handling of the specific case and the overall framework of the university’s judicial system.
The lawsuit also assails the university’s decision in 2013 to lower the burden of proof for sexual assault cases from a “clear and convincing” standard of evidence to the much-lower “preponderance” standard of evidence.
But Cornell failed to administer even this lower standard of evidence fairly, the lawsuit contends.

You can read more at Legal Insurrection, where Professor William Jacobson notes that this is at least the third pending lawsuit by male students who have been subjected to unjust disciplinary proceedings for sexual assault claims. (Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

Rape is a felony. If someone rapes you, call the cops. Don’t wait two months and then demand that university officials to “investigate” your hookup and punish a guy because your casual hookup was unpleasant or embarrassing. While it is always impossible to know the truth of what happened in a “he-said/she-said” incident like this, let me point out what should be obvious: This was a one-night stand that occurred after four witnesses had been at the apartment with John Doe and his accuser, and evidently knew he spent the night with her. It would be a common-sense inference that, because this hookup was not followed by further sexual intimacy or a romantic relationship, that there was a lack of any deep attraction between John Doe and his accuser.

Ergo, to continue our common-sense inference, the accuser felt remorse about her behavior. Yet post-hookup remorse is (a) not uncommon and (b) not proof that the hookup was rape.

Also: RAAAAACISM!

Can we be honest about our common-sense inferences here? Read the complaint closely. Both of these students were majoring in chemical engineering. The female is of German ancestry, while the male student is from California, studied piano for 10 years, was part of his high school “Science Bowl” club, and “John Doe’s immigrant parents strive for the ‘American Dream’ of educating John Doe at a prestigious University.”

I got $20 that says this guy is Asian-American, probably of Chinese ancestry. Anybody want to bet against me? No, you don’t.

OK, so the Teutonic Goddess spends the night with this geeky Asian guy. She perceives a subsequent diminution of her social status, and it is that which inspires her vengeful claim of rape.

If my common-sense inference is correct — c’mon, I got $20 here — then John Doe v. Cornell would be at least the second such recent case. At Vassar College, Chinese-American student Peter Wu was accused of rape by white girl Mary Claire Walker.

A blog is not an appropriate venue to pass judgment on college students’ sexual activities, and neither is a college disciplinary process the appropriate venue to try a rape case. The sooner we all agree that rape is a felony, which should always and only be prosecuted in criminal courts, the better. Until such time, however, I’ll be here imposing judgment in these cases, employing the vast resources of slut-shaming misogyny available to me as an agent of male supremacy — including that most notorious weapon of the heteronormative patriarchy, common sense.





 

Category: Crime, Education, Legal Insurrection, Sex Trouble

Late Night In The FMJRA Mine

Posted on | March 21, 2015 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Can We Make #FactsMatter Trend?
Law of Markets
Regular Right Guy
Matt Barber
Freedom’s Floodgates
Batshit Crazy News
BCNN2

This Is So True
Living In Anglo-America
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
Dyspepsia Generation
Muslim Anonymous

In the Future, Everyone Will Be a Victim
Living In Anglo-America
Batshit Crazy News

Anti-Police Protester Jeffrey Williams Arrested for Shooting Two Police Officers
Da Tech Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Bits Blog

Oh No: Rachel Marie Stone Caught At Christianity Today Wielding An Airbrush
Batshit Crazy News

Hmmm …
Batshit Crazy News

FMJRA 2.0: Both Ends Burning
The Pirate’s Cove
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

Rule 5 Sunday: Congratulations, Miss Palin!
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach
Ninety Miles from Tyranny

‘Sickening Desires’
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

Band Idea: The Alpha Epsilon Stigma
Batshit Crazy News

Feminist Wonders: Why Do Christofascist Godbags Keep ‘Dehumanizing’ Hillary?
Batshit Crazy News
SpangNation

The Riot Ideology in Ferguson
The Pirate’s Cove
Batshit Crazy News

Fake #GamerGate Victims
Regular Right Guy
Living In Anglo-America
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox, 03.17.15
Regular Right Guy
Proof Positive

CASE DISMISSED!
Batshit Crazy News

‘Wearing Murdoch’s Leash’
Batshit Crazy News

Netanyahu Wins, Obama Loses
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Da Tech Guy
A View from the Beach

Fernando To Her Majesty:”Dahling, You Look Mahvelous”
Dustbury
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

Of Strange Worlds and Heroic Adventure
Regular Right Guy

But … ‘Progressive’!
Batshit Crazy News

From a Ph.D. Dissertation
Batshit Crazy News
Living In Anglo-America
A View from the Beach

Murderer Served Only 13 Years for Killing Girlfriend, and Guess What Happened?
Batshit Crazy News
First Street Journal


Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (20)
  2.  Regular Right Guy (9)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Next weekend’s FMJRA will be delayed until April Fool’s Day, since I’ll be in Minnesota and off the net.


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Category: FMJRA Award

Question To #OccupyResoluteDesk Next Time His Piehole’s Open Near A Reporter

Posted on | March 21, 2015 | 18 Comments

by Smitty

The no-talent rodeo clown hath spoken: Netanyahu’s comments ‘erode the name of democracy’. OK, it’s not clear what that means. It’s still ‘democracy’, and not ’emocracy’ or ‘democrac’. Because if we’re going to hammer Bibi for saying something stupid, e.g.:

Following Netanyahu’s pre-election statement that there would be no Palestinian state if he were re-elected, Obama “indicated to him that given his statements prior to the election, it is going to be hard to find a path” forward on negotiations, Obama said.
Obama also said that he took issue with Netanyahu’s campaign trail warning that Israeli Arabs were headed to the polls “in droves.”

Shouldn’t the president at least be precise in the criticism? How do you erode the name of an abstract concept whose symbol is fairly constant, irrespective of who is throwing it in the urinal like an aromatic cake?

But that’s just a pedantic quibble. More practically, isn’t President Obama the same jackwagon who discussed voting as the ‘best revenge’?

So, if we can get Jake Tapper or Major Garrett a free moment, I’d like to have them inquire of ol’ Stompyfoot McPointyfinger:

How, exactly, does he think Netanyahu’s campaign trail remarks substantially differ from his 2012 entreaty?

I was pretty concerned about Obama when he made that remark, as it’s a challenge to reconcile tempting others to behave in a spirit of vengeance with Christian faith. But I’ll keep praying for BHO and the world. And I certainly should try use the respect level due the office, and not the respect his record has earned, in addressing BHO. Blogging is scant recompense for the ridiculous damage he’s inflicting, though.

via HotAir

Category: Barack Obama

More Feminist Tumblr

Posted on | March 21, 2015 | 40 Comments

Some people find feminist insanity amusing, but then again, some people find film footage of the 1934 Nuremberg Rally amusing.

If you’re the type of person who is amused by totalitarian propaganda, just go to Tumblr.com and search for “feminism.” It’s an endless carnival of anti-male rage dispensed by lunatics like this “20-something, gender-fluid, bisexual”:

If you are a man who thinks it’s funny to make misogynist jokes purely to make your female friends uncomfortable/angry, then you are a misogynist. It is not “just a joke.” You literally are finding humor in the discomfort and dehumanization of women. You are not helping, you are not making satire. You are just being misogynist.

Perhaps you recognize the basic problem here.

Question: What is a “misogynist joke”?

Answer: A joke that a feminist doesn’t think is funny.

Q. Can you give me an example of a non-misogynist joke?

A. Die in a fire, you vile heteropatriarchal swine.

Q. Why are you so angry?

A. I’m not angry.

Q. But you just told me to die.

A. No, you asked me for a non-misogynist joke.

Q. And “die in a fire” is your idea of a joke?

A. Ha. Ha. Ha.

Feminists are forever playing their Thought Police game, categorizing (a) male behavior they don’t like as (b) political oppression. You told a joke she didn’t find funny? You’re a misogynist who is engaged in the “dehumanization of women.” It is never enough for a feminist to say, “Your behavior is rude” or even just, “I don’t like you.” No, the man she doesn’t like is a misogynist, and his rudeness is a civil rights violation.

 

Category: Sex Trouble

Feminist Problems

Posted on | March 21, 2015 | 40 Comments

Note how @TracyClarkFlory twists the knife here:

A vibrator is not a substitute for a
partner. But how do you tell men that?

We see here a classic example of feminism as psychological projection. Never mind the pathetic fate of women so desperately lonely that the only boyfriends they can get require batteries. No, this story has to be about “men’s insecurities,” because the whole point of feminism is to insult, demonize, disparage, ridicule and blame men.

Why kind of feminist would want a male “partner,” anyway? According to feminists, all men ever do is rape and oppress women.

Sometimes you almost wonder if feminists ever actually believe anything they write, or whether it’s all just deliberate lies.

 

Category: Sex Trouble
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