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400 Men Castrated by Cult?

Posted on | March 2, 2015 | 64 Comments

Surprisingly, this has nothing to do with feminism:

A man has been accused of encouraging hundreds of followers to be castrated in a promise for them to become closer to God.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, an Indian pop-star and telepreacher with a reported wealth of more than $50 million, is being investigated after he allegedly manipulated around 400 men to get their testicles removed — according to India Today.
One of his former followers who underwent castration seven years ago — named Hans Raj Chauhan — is one of the few to break the silence to speak out against him and the group.
“[The victims] were told that only those who get castrated will be able to meet God,” said Chauhan’s lawyer, Navkiran Singh, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Amanda Marcotte could not be reached for comment.

 

Category: Religion

Rule 5 Sunday: Post-CPAC/Blogbash Edition

Posted on | March 1, 2015 | 25 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

We sometimes regret things not done as much as things done, and one of the things not done this past week was using up my phone’s battery taking pics of all the lovely young ladies in attendance at CPAC – and especially BlogBash – this weekend. Short skirts and high heels were the uniform of the day, and if P.J. O’Rourke’s dictum on the prevalence of attractive young women on the winning side is anywhere near accurate, we’re headed for another crushing victory in 2016. Unfortunately, I spent much of my time circulating, talking, and flogging the book, and it was only towards the end of the party that John Hoge pointed out that I could have single-handedly stocked Rule 5 Sunday with pics of the women in attendance – and by then it was too late. Welp. Here’s a pic of Ashe Schow (who looked absolutely scrumptious in a white miniskirt) by way of apology; obviously this was not taken at BlogBash, or Katsucon either.

Ashe Schow of the Washington Examiner cosplaying as Zatanna Zatara.

As usual, some of the links below are to pics generally considered NSFW; please exercise discretion in your clicking. The management is not responsible for loss of job, wife, strakh, girlfriend, or purity of your bodily essence.


Thinking Man’s Zombie leads off with Rule 5 Oscars, followed by Goodstuff with a young Pamela Anderson, Randy’s Roundtable with Sara Dunn, and Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Girls with Guns, and Morning Mistress. Animal Magnetism checked in with Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, while First Street Journal likes the ROK.

EBL’s herd of heifers this week included Lady Gaga, House of Cards Rule 5, Grace Kelly, and Esperanza Spalding.

A View from the Beach brought us Cat Deeley, RIP: Mr. Spock, What is a Dane Doing in a Desert?, 6 AM Eye Opener – Emily Ratajkoski, Get Your Kicks on Rt. 66, “Don’t Get Bitter”, Did Dark Matter Do In the Dinosaurs? (with cave girls), Because Nothing Says “Party!” Like a Good Roll in the Mud, Let Them Eat Cake…, I Wouldn’t Touch This With a 10 ft Pole, and But What About Furries?

Soylent Siberia submitted Midnight Coffee Creamer, Wrestling With The Cat Again, Monday Motivationer Pencil Sharpener, Overnighty Sans Nighty, Tuesday Titillation Bedazzled, Well I Guess I Can Get Rid of That, Humpday Hawtness Morning Stretch, Day Two Of Lesbian Google Gambit, Fursday Finery, Carpetmunching Your Fursday, Corset Castanets, You Can Thank Me Later, T-GIF Friday Because Lesbians, Evening Awesome Lesbian Leftovers, Weekender Alexis, Yeah I Miss Flying First Class, and Overnighty Spectacular.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Abigail Ratchford, his Vintage Babe is Hazel Brooks, and of course there’s Sex In Advertising. At Dustbury, it’s Charlotte Crosby and Cat Power.


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Day Late And A CPAC Short

Posted on | March 1, 2015 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Monday: Winter Pinups
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Animal Magnetism
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach
Ninety Miles from Tyranny

Sex Trouble: Yes, Feminists DO ‘Practice Witchcraft … and Become Lesbians’
The Pirate’s Cove
Living In Anglo-America
SpangNation
Regular Right Guy
Rotten Chestnuts
Batshit Crazy News

Maximum Acronym
That Mr. G Guy
Gay Patriot
Batshit Crazy News
Ed Driscoll
A View from the Beach

Sexual Disorientation, Part II
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News
The DaleyGator

Texas: Teacher Suspected of Lesbian Sex With Student at Christian Academy
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
That Mr. G Guy
SpangNation

Hey, Remember When CNN Was ‘The Most Trusted Name in News’?
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News
SpangNation

FMJRA 2.0: It’s No Game
That Mr. G Guy
The Pirate’s Cove
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

Should You Let Feminists Tell You How to Raise Your Children?
Regular Right Guy
Living In Anglo-America
Batshit Crazy News
SpangNation

The Quotable Andrew Klavan
Batshit Crazy News

Uncertainty Over Someone’s Faith Triggers Race Card? Only In Kosreich
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
That Mr. G Guy

In The Mailbox: 02.24.15
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
That Mr. G Guy

Feminist Stupidity Daily: Ideological Aggression and the Kafkatrapping Game
Living In Anglo-America
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
That Mr. G Guy

#WAR!
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 02.25.15
That Mr. G Guy
Proof Positive

The #RapeCulture Feminists Ignore
SpangNation
Da Tech Guy
Batshit Crazy News

You Had Me at ‘Pansexual’
A Blog For Dallas Area Catholics
Batshit Crazy News

Will No One Rid Us Of This Turbulent Godbag Christofascist Scott Walker?
Batshit Crazy News
IOTW Report

ISIS Killer Identified as Computer Science Major Mohammed Emwazi
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

Heh
Batshit Crazy News

Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (18)
  2.  Regular Right Guy (12)
  3.  That Mr. G Guy (9)
  4.  SpangNation (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

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Category: FMJRA Award

Elections Have Consequences, But Not “Consequences” Consequences, You Revanchist Tea Party Short-Bussers!

Posted on | March 1, 2015 | 35 Comments

by Smitty

Just a side note in a Hot Air post,

. . .Republicans in the Senate have been pressing for the interpretation of a rules governing budgetary reconciliation that would allow the upper chamber to pass a full repeal of [ObamaCare] with a simple majority vote rather than with the support of 60 Senators (requiring at least six Democratic defections). Latest week, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that such a maneuver would not be possible.

Interesting. From The Hill link above:

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Tea Party groups, including FreedomWorks and the Senate Conservatives Fund, have called on the Republican-led Congress to use reconciliation on ObamaCare.
“We think from what we’ve heard there’s a really credible case to be made that the one-sentence repeal instruction for reconciliation passes all the tests,” said Dan Holler, spokesman for Heritage Action for America.
“From our vantage point, we think there are credible arguments that you can get all of ObamaCare [repealed] through reconciliation and that’s where the focus of lawmakers should be as the budget comes up and as instructions are written,” he added.
But sources say MacDonough, who declined to comment for this article, doesn’t agree.
MacDonough serves as the Senate’s nonpartisan umpire on a variety of arcane procedural moves, and this is one of her biggest calls. She was appointed to her post by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in 2012 and is respected by both sides of the aisle.
McConnell told The Hill in 2012 that it wasn’t necessary to replace MacDonough if Republicans won the majority.
The Kentucky Republican has also refused to commit to using reconciliation on ObamaCare. Last fall, McConnell appeared to downplay expectations on a 51-vote strategy, telling Fox News that it would take 60 votes and a presidential signature to nullify the healthcare law.
“No one thinks we’re going to get that,” McConnell said at the time.


I mean, the whole reason conservatives were supposed to lay by their dish the last time ObamaCare was at the SCOTUS was that ObamaCare, the World’s Most Heinous Non-Tax Tax, was, in fact, taxing enough that Budget Reconciliation could be used to slay it. All that conservatives had to do was provide a black eye to Harry Reid in the form of Republican Control. Then, Senate Majority Leader Bunsen Honeydew and his sidekick Speaker Beaker would put paid to Grendel.

However, somebody suffixed the epic with “fail”. The chances of emancipating Americans from ObamaCare, and doing something useful about reforming health care in our country, now seem about as dim as halting

  • executive amnesty,
  • the FCC takeover of the internet,
  • the resurgence of the Soviet Union, and
  • next year’s coronation of Her Majesty to carry on the flagrancy of #OccupyResoluteDesk.

I guess the good news is that the leader of the free world is addressing Congress on Tuesday. We need a shot of Churchillian rhetoric to throw back some darkness. Because, and I may not be alone in this, I get the feeling that the GOP elite hold greater allegiance to the Administrative State within the Beltway than they do to the 57 states beyond, so sadly unaware that the Constitution is just a pre-Wilsonian artifact chiefly honored in the breach.

Senate Majority Leader Bunsen Honeydew and Speaker Beaker need to get their junk in one sock, STAT.

Category: Health Care, Republicans

Hey, @natashavc, Sorry Your Dishonest Scott Walker Smear Got Breitbarted

Posted on | February 28, 2015 | 51 Comments

Breitbart (verb) — to expose dishonesty or corruption in a way that destroys the elite media’s preferred narrative, especially when done by a citizen-journalist.

Example: “Brian Cates totally Breitbarted that Walker smear.”

20 seconds of Googling would have cleared up what was going on here, but it was apparently more important to some to rush a piping hot new Walker smear out the door before doing any due diligence.

Jezebel’s “senior political reporter” Natasha Vargas-Cooper got Breitbarted, exposed as a dishonest and corrupt partisan hack, by a guy who did 20 seconds of Googling. Darleen Click:

“But hey, facts don’t matter when a White Patriarchal Werewolf must be defeated at all costs!”

Feminists and Democrats have so much in common — no standards, no integrity and no shame. Their sole principle is the selfish pursuit of power. Somebody should write a book about this.

 

Category: Andrew Breitbart, Feminism, Journalism, Media Bias, Scott Walker, Sex Trouble, Wisconsin

Unfortunate Metaphor Alert: IRS Assigns Blind Worker To Lerner Case

Posted on | February 28, 2015 | 26 Comments

by Smitty

An explosive revelation from J. Christian Adams:

Now, somebody I know is going blind, and it’s not a pleasant thing. So stipulate that we’re not piling on somebody doing their job. Somebody has to do it. Stevens, Smith, Doherty & Woods are unavailable.

However, it strikes me that, if you had an interest in rebuilding an organization’s credibility, there are better means than this to do it.

Category: Corruption, Democrats

Heh

Posted on | February 27, 2015 | 12 Comments

by Smitty

Nobody does it like James Taranto:

Category: humor

Sex Trouble: Yes, Feminists DO ‘Practice Witchcraft … and Become Lesbians’

Posted on | February 26, 2015 | 161 Comments

“[Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”
— Pat Robertson, 1992

Today the first edition of my book Sex Trouble: Essays on Radical Feminism and the War Against Human Nature is available for purchase from Amazon — just in time for CPAC — and by happy coincidence, another journalist has recently confirmed what I have been telling you guys for months: Every single word of that quote is true.

All any researcher has to do is to Google “Dianic Wicca” or “Goddess Movement” to learn all they need to know about this, but I went beyond that; I’ve already read five books about neopagan witchcraft and especially about the feminist witch cult known as “Reclaiming.”

The link between feminism, lesbianism and — yes, believe it or not — witchcraft is familiar territory for those who have been reading the “Sex Trouble” series here for the past seven months, but it was news to Guardian columnist Sady Doyle:

Season of the witch: why young women
are flocking to the ancient craft
Rapper Azealia Banks brought witchcraft back into the mainstream by tweeting ‘I’m really a witch’. But women in the US have been harnessing its power for decades as a ‘spiritual but not religious’ way to express feminist ambitions

. . .Witchcraft — and the embrace of “magical” practices, like reading tarot cards — has recently experienced a resurgence of sorts among young, creative, politically engaged women.
This is largely reflected in niche corners of US pop culture: 2013’s American Horror Story: Coven, in which witchcraft stood in for girl power, was the most popular American Horror Story season ever. A popular Tumblr blog, Charmcore, purports to be run by three witch sisters; it gives sarcastic “magical” advice and praise of the female celebrities it deems to be “obvious witches”. On the more serious side, teen sensation Rookie magazine has published tarot tutorials along with more standard-issue feminist and fashion advice, and Autostraddle, a popular left-leaning blog for young queer women, has an in-house tarot columnist. Speaking of which, those tarot cards are available in trendy Brooklyn knickknack shops and Urban Outfitters, as well as new age stores. And these days, no one thinks there’s anything weird about herbal medicine and other potions. . . .
“To reclaim the word witch is to reclaim our right, as women, to be powerful,” wrote Starhawk, in her seminal 1979 book The Spiral Dance. “To be a witch is to identify with 9 million victims of bigotry and hatred and to take responsibility for shaping a world in which prejudice claims no more victims.”
Today, The Spiral Dance is in its third edition, and has sold over 300,000 copies. It is many people’s first introduction to Wicca, the earth-based spiritual movement that was created in the 1950s and has come to be a recognized religion around the world. It is also one of the most well known and comprehensive texts from a very particular moment in feminist history which until recently was largely unfashionable: the “women’s spirituality” movement, in which women radically rewrote existing religions, or simply made their own to be in line with the goals of women’s liberation.

Doyle quotes Autostraddle’s lesbian tarot columnist talking about “women who were persecuted in the past — wise women, witches, women who practiced that kind of ‘kitchen table’ healing that wasn’t part of the patriarchal progression of medicine.” This feminist myth of medieval witches as pagan proto-feminists persecuted by religious patriarchy was promoted in the 1970s by radical lesbians Mary Daly and Andrea Dworkin. As I explain in Sex Trouble, “These claims have since been debunked by legitimate historians, including the British professor Ronald Hutton, whose 1999 book The Triumph of the Moon is arguably the definitive history of modern witchcraft.”

Let me make two points about my methods as a journalist:

  1. I never underestimate the intelligence of my readers. It is a common mistake of journalists to think they are endowed with special wisdom, so that they must explain everything to readers who are presumed to be too stupid to figure things out on their own. Such an arrogant attitude insults the reader. Besides, who wants a readership of dimwit ignoramuses? Daily Kos?
  2. In the Internet age, every reader is their own fact-checker. You can use Google the same as me. If I were to start just making stuff up like a Rolling Stone reporter, my readers would bust me in a heartbeat. There’s no point trying to deceive or mislead readers. Even if I wanted to lie to you, I couldn’t get away with it. My job is to find the truth and write the truth, and if it weren’t for the relationship of trust that has been developed with regular readers here in the past seven years, I wouldn’t be doing this.

Nobody has a monopoly on the facts, so I encourage readers to do their own research. So many of the stories I tell here begin with somebody in the comments throwing in a link, or a Twitter follower tipping me off to a story. And this whole crazy radical feminist trip really began when one of my friendly readers called my attention to this crazy sentence:

“No woman is heterosexual.”

As I explain in the concluding chapter of Sex Trouble:

That four-word sentence sent me off on an investigation of her sources, especially including Professor Dee Graham, whose 1994 book Loving to Survive theorized female heterosexuality as a response to male-inflicted “sexual terror,” akin to post-traumatic stress syndrome. Understanding this claim in turn required me to examine the sources cited in Graham’s bibliography, including lesbian feminists like Marilyn Frye, Adrienne Rich, Mary Daly, Audre Lorde and Charlotte Bunch. Graham even managed to work in a citation to “Starhawk” (neé Miriam Simos), the lesbian feminist who was the founding high priestess of a California-based pagan witchcraft cult known as Reclaiming. From such dubious sources Graham had propounded her theory of sexuality, based in a view of men as violent oppressors and women as victims suffering under tyrannical male supremacy.

Still more, from the same concluding chapter:

In 1980, Australian feminist Denise Thompson described how “countless numbers of lesbians” joined the feminist movement because it offered them “the possibility of a cultural community of women whose primary commitment was to other women rather than to men.” Furthermore, Thompson added, the rise of the feminist movement produced a “mass exodus of feminist women from the confining structures of heterosexuality” in such numbers as to raise questions about “the institution of heterosexuality in the consciousness of those feminists who, for whatever reason, chose not to change their sexual orientation.” And why shouldn’t this have been the expected result?
Women “changed their sexual/social orientation from men to women,” Thompson explained, “in response to the feminist political critique of their personal situations of social subordination.” If the personal is political (as feminists say) and if women’s relationships with men are “confining structures” of “social subordination,” why would any feminist be heterosexual?

You can buy Sex Trouble now at Amazon and read the whole thing, which brings the whole thing full circle back around to Starhawk, Dianic Wicca and the “Goddess Movement.” All of this may seem like kooky fringe stuff to some readers, but you’re not stupid. Do you really think an experienced political reporter would have spent so many months on this subject just for the fun of it? Oh, sure, it’s a lot of fun to point and laugh at these kooks and weirdos, but perhaps you’ve forgotten how this began with “The Long Shadow of the Lavender Menace.” Perhaps you didn’t recognize the significance of all those names of radical lesbians who joined the Women’s Liberation movement in the 1970s. I did.

This story isn’t going to go away, my friends. Republican strategists never had a motive to go that deep in their opposition research files in 2008, because Obama destroyed Hillary in the Democrat primaries. Yet the smart money now says Hillary is a near-certainty for the 2016 nomination; she seems to have no serious Democrat opponent. The connections between Hillary Clinton and Charlotte Bunch (who has never recanted her 1972 lesbian manifesto) and the 1995 Beijing women’s conference? Yeah, that subject is likely to become very interesting to a lot of people if and when Hillary gets the Democrat presidential nomination. Trust me on this. The prophetic omens are clear.

“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools . . . For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature . . .”
— Romans 1:22, 26 (KJV)

This special 120-page first edition of Sex Trouble is, of course, really a preview of the larger work that I now expect to finish by this fall. My original plan was to have the whole thing wrapped up months ago, but then I got swept up in the whirlpool of this radical madness and realized there was so much to synthesize and explain that there was no way I could do it in a hurry. Rather than force readers to wait another six months, however, I decided to put together this first edition for the loyal readers who have done so much already support this project.

Keep me in your prayers as I continue toiling away at this. Please buy my book, help promote it to others and don’t forget the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

 

 

Category: CPAC, Feminism, Sex Trouble
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