Mandatory Reading: “Collectivism and the Presumption of Guilt”

Posted on | December 22, 2014 | 22 Comments

by Smitty

Go over and read this excellent piece by Hayward in full. A taste (emphasis original):

This presumption of guilt is absolutely crucial to collectivism. The Left must teach its subjects to think of themselves as criminals. That’s the only way law-abiding people will endure levels of coercive power that would normally require specific accusations, a fair trial, and the possibility of appeals. Social-justice “crimes” can be prosecuted without any of those things. There is no appeal from the sentence, and no statute of limitations on the crimes, as any left-winger who thinks today’s American citizens need to suffer for the historical offense of slavery will be happy to explain to you. There’s no evidence you can present in your defense, for the Left has read your mind, and knows better than you what demons lurk in its recesses.
This is one reason the Left dislikes the trappings of constitutional law and order.

Our recovery from Progressivism is going to hinge upon restoring the distinction between theological guilt, “All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” and legal guilt, which still requires due process.

It’s almost as if Progress is about substituting government for God. . .

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Category: Culture, Hot Air

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.22.14

Posted on | December 22, 2014 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
Two NYPD Officers Ambushed, Killed

Mourners gather at a makeshift memorial near the murder site

Shot execution-style while sitting in parked patrol car
Officers’ slaying raises pressure on Mayor DiBlasio
Officers turn backs on mayor before press conference, sparks fly
Families mourn dead officers

GOP Critical Of Obama Response To Sony Hack
Rogers: Obama should already be responding instead of just vowing to respond

Florida Officer Killed In Weekend’s Third Murder Of Police
Officer Kondek shot, then run over by criminal attempting to avoid arrest

POLITICS
Rubio Rips Rand Paul For “Cheerleading” Obama’s Foreign Policy

Is Marco Rubio or Rand Paul the real isolationist?

Also expresses qualified support for Jeb Bush

Obama To Name Sally Yates As Deputy AG

Christie Tells Obama to Demand Return Of Cop-Killer Chesimard To Start Cuba Talks

Hillary Facing Headwinds From Liberals As Warren Rises

US Asking For Chicoms’ Help With Sony Hack?

Satanists Mount Holiday Display With Little Fanfare

Wisconsin Government Accountability Board Agents Continued Partisan Probe In Defiance Of Judges

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude On The Rise; Brent Back Over $60: WTI $57.82, Brent $62.04
Dolar matches Two-Year High against Euro; Rupiah Strengthens
Santa Comes Early As Gasoline Falls To Lowest Prices Since 2009
Pacific Northwest’s Haggen Chain Buys 146 Albertson’s, Safeway Stores In California
Gift Cards Remain Popular, And A Risk For Scams
Amazon Fire Phone Gets Major Updates
Intel Launches Easy Migration App
Microsoft Removes Third-Party Snapchat Apps From The Windows Phone Store
T-Mobile To Pay $90 Million For Cramming
“HALO: The Master Chief Collection” Adds Updated “HALO 3: ODST” For Free

SPORTS
Seahawks Dominate Cards To Close On NFC West Title

Seahawks DE Cliff Avril stands over Cardinals QB Ryan Lindley after a first-half hit

Seattle sets franchise record 596 yards of offense in 35-6 crushing of Arizona

Stars Edge Oilers 6-5 In Shootout

LeBron Scores 25 As Cavs Tame Grizzlies 105-91

Ravens’ Playoff Hopes Dim With 25-13 Loss To Texans

Zepp’s Debut With Flyers Good As Jets Fall 4-3 In OT

Kings Drop Lakers, Snap Skid

Pats Hang On, Beat Jets Again 17-16

Blackhawks Blank Leafs 4-0

Raptors Ready For The Road With Rout Of Knicks

Raiders Upset Bills 26-24, End Bills’ Playoff Hopes

Bruins Tip Sabres 4-3 In OT

The Nats, Trea Turner, And PTBNL Drama

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Could Idris Elba Be The Next James Bond?

If they can cast Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, why not give Mr. Elba a license to kill?

Sony’s Pascal all for it according to leaked e-mails; no secret Daniel Craig wants out

Kristen Bell, It’s Another Girl!

TLC To Air “My Husband’s Not Gay” Special Next Month

Margaret Cho Divorcing Husband After 11 Years

USA’s Hacker Drama “Mr. Robot” Gets Series Order

Madonna’s “Early Christmas Gift”: Six Songs From New Album

Sondheim Takes In First Preview Of “Into The Woods”

J. Crew’s Jenna Lyons Told To Cut Back On Self-Promotion

FOREIGNERS
ROK Cuts Forecasts But Sees 2015 Improvements On Oil, Stimulus
Saudis Won’t Cut Oil Output
Chicoms Condemn Cyberattacks, But Don’t Mention Norks
Kurds, Yazidis Attack Sinjar With US Air Support
Anti-Islamist Claims Victory In Disputed Tunisian Runoff
Invoking Allah, Driver Runs Down 11 French Pedestrians
Egypt Allows Gazans In For First Time Since October
Pakistan Hangs Four More Jihadis In Faisalabad
Facebook Accused Of Bowing To Putin

BLOGS & STUFF
American Power: Vicious Hatemonger @CassandraRules “Spammed By Idiots” Calling Her Out For Violent Anti-Cop Agitation
American Thinker: Mirror-Imaging The Jihadis
BLACKFIVE: Wreaths Across America At Arlington
Conservatives4Palin: Former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik – DiBlasio And Sharpton Have Blood On Their Hands
Don Surber: $21 Million Down The Education Rathole
Jammie Wearing Fools: Pennsylvania Democrats Indicted For Taking Bribes To Vote Against Voter ID Law
Joe For America: After Stoking Hate Between Blacks, Cops, Sharpton Backpedals
JustOneMinute: “Hands Up” – More Of The News Not Fit To Print
Pamela Geller: Brooklyn Cop-Killer’s FB Page Has Quran Quote
Protein Wisdom: “Lena Dunham, Al Sharpton, Eric Holder, And The New Barbarism”
Shot In The Dark: Why Atheists Piss Me Off
The Gateway Pundit: One Week Ago…Protesters Chanted “What Do We Want? Dead Cops!” At Sharpton’s NYC March
The Jawa Report: Nebraska Mom And Two Boys
The Lonely Conservative: Did Obama Stop Intel Community From Responding To Nork Hack Attack?
This Ain’t Hell: Pentagon – Move Retirees To Obamacare
Weasel Zippers: You Knew It Was Coming – Cop Killer Had “A Troubled Childhood”
Mark Steyn: He Would, Wouldn’t He?

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Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Sunday: Winter Solstice Edition

Posted on | December 21, 2014 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho
It’s just one of those days…but sometimes you just have to man up and do the work of the day, whether you want to or not.

You’re probably not going to find one of these under your tree on Thursday, but a man can dream…

As usual, be aware that some of the links below are to pix normally considered NSFW, and therefore discretion is advised when you click.

This week Goodstuff leads off with all manner of sexy curves, followed by Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Morning Mistress, Hot Pick – Auto Erotica, and Girls with Guns; Animal Magnetism chips in with Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon; Loose Endz has The Secret Guardian, and First Street Journal celebrates Aussie women in uniform.

EBL’s herd of heifers this week includes a mixed bag of The Interview-related Rule 5, Cecily Strong, a Christmas Wombat with bonus Rule 5, Wackadoos, and Seahawks v. Cardinals.

A View from the Beach contributes Madame Secretary – Téa Leone, Friday News from the Wombat,I, For One, Welcome Our New Overlords, “The Devil and Midnight”, Some Night Before Christmas, The Wednesday Wombat News, Some Mighty Fancy Shooting, Your Tuesday Wombat News, Argentine Bombshell Singer Gets Exorcise, The Twelve Days of Christmas, One Way to Do It, Can Redskins Become the Giant Killers? In short, no, and Flipping Out!

Soylent Siberia sends coffee creamer, Afternooner Linky Love, Overnighty Malene, Monday Motivationer Eyelash Candy, Overnighty Sunny, Tuesday Titillation Teacher’s Pets, Evening Awesome Tie Ball Game, Humpday Hawtness Cinnamon Sugar, Overnighty Riding Lesson, Falconsword Fursday Proud, Evening Awesome Dana, Corset Combo Platter With Cocktails, T-GIF Friday Fondle Action, Overnighty Undervue, Weekender In Motion, Afternooner Auburn Awesome Room Service, and Bath Night Hourglass.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Cara Delevigne, his Vintage Babe is Anne Gwynne, Sex in Advertising is all about the Buds, and of course there’s the obligatory 49ers cheerleader. At Dustbury, it’s Maruschka Detmers and Paulina Gretzky.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Not sure if Rule 5 Sunday will post on time over the holidays or not, but the deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox will still be midnight on Saturday, December 27.

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Category: Rule 5

Cop-Hater Kills Two Cops in Brooklyn Ambush; NY Times Obfuscates Motive

Posted on | December 21, 2014 | 187 Comments

Michelle Malkin: “Sickos on the Left have been stoking hatred against cops for months now in the wake of Ferguson and explicitly calling for their murder.” They finally got what they wanted Saturday when a cop-hater named Ismaaiyl Abdulah Brinsley shot his ex-girlfriend near Baltimore, posted anti-cop messages on social media and drove to New York where he murdered two NYPD officers in an ambush in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The cop-killer then killed himself.

The killer participated in anti-police protests and, in his social media messages, referenced both the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson and the death of Eric Garner in New York. However, Weasel Zippers points out that the New York Times is attempting to obscure Brinsley’s motive by depicting him as “random crazy.” Liberals never accept responsibility for the evil results of liberalism, because the whole point of liberalism is the evasion of personal responsibility.

Category: Crime, Media Bias, New York Times

FMJRA 2.0: For The Northern Lights,
And The Southern Comfort

Posted on | December 20, 2014 | 6 Comments

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LIVE AT ~~FIVE~~SEVEN: 12.19.14
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As Real as Rape: How Bad Journalism Advances Feminism’s Anti-Male Agenda
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LIVE AT ~~FIVE~~SEVEN: 12.16.14
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Rape Culture Update
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Emerging Awareness Update: The Real Bisexual Housewives of Beverly Hills
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Emerging Awareness Update II: Can You Guess Who’s Expecting a Baby Now?
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Lesbian Athletes Denied Constitutional Right to Have Sex With Teammates
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Sailing the ‘Sea of Misogyny’
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Take A Bow, Frank, To A String Near You
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‘Male Feminist’ Admits Well-Known Truth: ‘Male Feminists’ Are Scum
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Christmas…Christmas Never Changes.
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Regular Right Guy

Feminism’s New Enemy: ‘Rape Truthers’

Posted on | December 20, 2014 | 73 Comments

Speak of @AmandaMarcotte, and madness doth appear:

No, the real reason [the Rolling Stone UVA rape story] is turning into such a big deal is there are a surprising number of people who want to deny that rape is a serious social problem and who want to push the idea that many rape cases are just a matter of women lying because they are crazy or vindictive. For these folks — call ‘em rape truthers — this whole incident is like a second Christmas, an opportunity to take an extremely rare and strange case and pretend it should be reason to dismiss the reality that rape is a crime that happens with some frequency.

“Rape truthers.” Where shall we begin dismantling this straw man?

Let’s start by noticing how Amanda Marcotte obscures the sequence of events in how this became “such a big deal.” She begins her column by saying there has been “a shocking media feeding frenzy over the discovery that one of the young women claiming to be a rape victim in Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s recent Rolling Stone piece might be exaggerating about her experience or even lying about it.” Yet this was not the original “media feeding frenzy,” which was caused when Erdely’s story “A Rape On Campus” was published online Nov. 19. And we now know, as we did not know on Nov. 19, the motives and purposes behind Erdely’s story. She had shopped around looking for the perfect rape:

Magazine writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely knew she wanted to write about sexual assaults at an elite university. What she didn’t know was which university.
So, for six weeks starting in June, Erdely interviewed students from across the country. She talked to people at Harvard, Yale, Princeton and her alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania. None of those schools felt quite right. But one did: the University of Virginia, a public school, Southern and genteel, brimming with what Erdely calls “super-smart kids” and steeped in the legacy of its founder, Thomas Jefferson.

As Tim Graham of Newsbusters pointed out, Erdley mocked the lack of radical feminist activism at UVA, and said female students there were “sickened by the university’s culture of hidden sexual violence.”

The quest that led Erdely to Charlottesville was part of a campaign by feminists to exaggerate the prevalence of rape on campuses, a campaign in which officials of the Obama administration were actively involved.

“It is estimated that 1 in 5 women on college campuses has been sexually assaulted during their time there — 1 in 5.”
— Barack Obama, Jan. 22, 2014

“We know the numbers: one in five of every one of those young women who is dropped off for that first day of school, before they finish school, will be assaulted, will be assaulted in her college years.”
— Joe Biden, April 29, 2014

Having re-elected President Obama in a campaign that claimed Republicans were waging a “War on Women,” Democrats were clearly exploiting this “rape epidemic” narrative for political purposes. Feminist activists, Democrat politicians and liberal journalists strove to promote this message which, among other things, resulted in Title IX investigations by the Department of Education and California enacting an “affirmative consent” law that applies only to college students.

Even as this politicized “rape epidemic” campaign rolled forward, however, critics pointed to clear evidence that this narrative was false. Federal data show that the incidence of rape has declined significantly in the past 15 years, and there are obvious problems with the survey from which the “1-in-5” statistic is derived (see “Statistical Voodoo and Elastic Definitions,” June 15). Yet those who called attention to facts that contradicted the “rape epidemic” myth were excoriated for telling the truth, with one MSNBC commentator saying victims were “re-raped” and “re-traumatized” by a George Will column.

Facts are rape. Truth is trauma. And what is obviously at work here is a totalitarian effort to suppress truth, so that the truth is whatever feminists say it is, and anyone who questions feminist rhetoric is a thought criminal. “Shut up, because rape.”

It was amidst this bizarre Orwellian climate that Sabrina Rubin Erdely told the tale of Jackie’s alleged gang rape, a tale that specifically implicated members of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at the University of Virginia, and accused UVA officials of indifference to pervasive sexual violence on campus. Megan McArdle explains why the factuality of Jackie’s gang-rape tale is crucial to what Erdely was attempting to do:

[Defender’s of the Rolling Stone story] have argued that focusing on Jackie’s story is getting us “sidetracked” from “the real story,” which is about the rape culture at UVA and the slothful institutional reaction to Jackie’s story. The story was headlined “A Rape on Campus.” The first thousand words are devoted to Jackie’s horrifying story, and much of the rest of the story is devoted to Jackie’s descent into depression and her interactions with the deans. If the story is so irrelevant to the real point of the article, then it should have been pulled out when the victim refused to provide details that would have permitted the author to contact the accused for comment.
But of course, if Jackie’s story had been pulled out, the article wouldn’t have received anything like the attention it got. The story was so electric precisely because it was about the premeditated gang rape of an innocent girl, in a way that suggested that such callous and criminal treatment of women was commonly viewed by the university community as not really worthy of comment, much less punishment — and that this view afflicted even the administrators charged with protecting students from rape. Without that element, this would have been a dull-but-worthy chin-stroker about institutional bureaucratic processes that probably wouldn’t have been shared 170,000 times on Facebook.

In other words, Erdely told the horrifying story of what allegedly happened to Jackie — an 18-year-old freshman gang-raped by seven fraternity members — in order to dramatize “rape culture” which feminists insist is responsible for a “rape epidemic” on America’s college and university campuses. Yet when doubts arose about the truth of this dramatic narrative, feminists claimed that the truth didn’t matter.

Facts were irrelevant, feminists said, because the narrative about campus rape was true, and those who want facts risk being “sidetracked” from that political narrative. Now we have Amanda Marcotte smearing as “rape truthers” those who insist that facts matter:

[M]any people stand behind the myth that women routinely lie about being raped, which justifies preserving a status quo where men’s word is considered more authoritative and trustworthy just because they are male.

Well, then, who are these “many people” who say “women routinely lie about being raped”? Marcotte names Rich Lowry, Chuck C. Johnson, Kevin Williamson, George Will, Tammy Bruce, Patrick Howley and Susan Patton as promoters of a “misogynist fairy tale about false rape accusations.” Readers are invited to examine the evidence and determine whether Marcotte is telling the truth about these “rape truthers.”

We must be clear about what is happening and why it is happening. Feminists are determined to silence their critics, and they are exploiting victims of rape for that purpose. Neither I nor anyone I know of wishes to “deny that rape is a serious social problem,” nor do we dismiss “the reality that rape is a crime that happens with some frequency.” Yet anti-male hate-mongering by feminists like Amanda Marcotte is also “a serious social problem,” and deliberate dishonesty by Democrats promoting political propaganda also “happens with some frequency.”

Amanda Marcotte does not merely hate men, she hates truth. She is such a hater, she hates Christmas because she hates Baby Jesus.

You may think Amanda Marcotte’s atheism is irrelevant to her hateful dishonesty, but me and Baby Jesus think otherwise.

Category: Crime, Education, Feminism, Sex Trouble

‘Male Feminist’ Admits Well-Known Truth: ‘Male Feminists’ Are Scum

Posted on | December 19, 2014 | 58 Comments

The more any normal person knows about feminism, the less inclined they are to call themselves a feminist. This is obviously true for women — does the name “Joyce Trebilcot” ring a bell? — but is doubly true for males. Sure, everybody sees what’s up when some guy in Hollywood or a powerful Democrat politician ostentatiously panders to feminists. It’s noblesse oblige and also good for business.

However, when a random dude goes out of his way to show what a Heroic Feminist Ally he is, you know he’s some kind of creep. Last year, Professor Hugo Schwarz was exposed as a dangerous psycho. Now a “diversity consultant” named Jamie Utt confronts reality:

The first time a woman told me she distrusted me because I’m a man, she tried to explain that it wasn’t personal, that she’s not been given many reasons to trust me (or any man for that matter). She said she’s especially skeptical of me because I called myself a feminist.
That last part really threw me for a loop. She didn’t even really know me! And I’m a good guy!
Fast-forward a few years and how can I blame her? Male “feminist” allies have a history of abusing women’s trust.
For fear of making the movement look bad, the male “allies” of the Occupy Wall Street movement stood silent when multiple women came forward after having been sexually assaulted by other “Occupiers.”
After being lauded and defended by many (including myself) as a model for how to be a better man, Hugo Schwyzer was exposed to be a racist, abusive liar (as if many women of Color hadn’t been saying so all along).
Charles Clymer has been exposed as abusive and self-serving as he attempts to brand himself a “feminist” hero of some kind. . . .

You can read the rest of that. The case of Charles Clymer — a guy I’d never heard of before — is particularly interesting:

A while back I wrote about fake allies — specifically, Charles Clymer, a cis white dude who used to run a popular Facebook page called “Equality for Women” but shut it down amidst accusations that, among other things, he was deleting comments from and banning women who questioned his views or the way he ran the page. And then there was his abusive verbal flaying of Stephanie Kay in a private conversation that went public a year or so ago and revealed the dude beneath the Perfect Feminist Ally act. It didn’t help that when called on that tirade, Clymer basically stood by his remarks and went on to admit — almost proudly — that his goal is to become a professional Feminist Leader. And he dug himself in deeper when, following the many accusations leveled at him directly and via the #StopClymer hashtag (by nearly every woman who had been a moderator at the EFW Facebook page, among others), he tweeted promising to address his “mistakes” with an apology and dropped off the Internet for several weeks. When he reappeared, he deleted the aforementioned tweet and went back to promoting the “Charles Clymer: Feminist Ally” brand.

On his Twitter profile, Clymer describes himself as “Army Vet + Feminist + LGBTQ,” and yeah, whatever. The #StopClymer hashtag has been going strong for months, because Clymer is a very predictable kind of douchebag, the progressive male so arrogant as to think the feminist movement needs males for . . . well, anything.

Progressive male thinks he can get “credibility” points by quoting bell hooks on his Twitter profile? Might as well try seppuku.

I think I captured his likeness pretty well. ;) Content Creation with Clymer http://t.co/nRGxXC1ooS #StopClymer pic.twitter.com/a072llsxOo

— Rosie Claus (@MMASammich) December 12, 2014

Any male who believes the feminist movement needs his volunteer assistance should first ask himself, “Do I hate myself enough?”

It takes a profound masochistic tendency for any male to support a movement that regards all men as complicit in rape, and views heterosexuality as oppression imposed on females by the patriarchy.

Still, Jamie Utt attempts to reconcile himself to obsolescence:

If you’ve been socialized in dominant constructions of gender in the US (and many other parts of the “Western” world for that matter), no matter how much you try to be an ally, you’re going to screw up.
This is because it takes tremendous work on self for those socialized into privilege to fight that socialization. . . .
I’ve done the mental backflips necessary to justify my sexist, chauvinist, anti-feminist behavior while calling myself “feminist.” There have been times when I’ve been terrible to women. There are still times when I live more fully in my patriarchal socialization than in my feminist values.
So the work of ending abuse committed by “feminist” men must inevitably mean that I start with myself.

You’re embarrassing yourself, dude.

All feminists are insane, but “male feminists” are a special kind of crazy.

Category: Feminism, Progressivism, Sex Trouble