The Other McCain

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

“Remember the Time Warner Voted Against Obama?” Said No One. Ever.

Posted on | October 27, 2014 | 10 Comments

by Smitty

What a tool-icious record. I guess it’s a comfort to know that when #OccupyResoluteDesk comes to Virginia’s Fort Belvoir to golf, the President can rely on Mark Warner to hold Obama’s balls.

Vote Ed Gillespie

It’s high time the number of Virginia Senators with a shred of dignity was above zero again.

via Phil Kerpen

Category: Republicans

‘Overpopulated’? With Liberals, Perhaps

Posted on | October 27, 2014 | 76 Comments

It is never enough for a liberal to argue the point at issue, and generally, liberals never actually “argue” at all: They just lie, and when you catch them lying, they then accuse you of hate. “Never mind facts or logic — you’re a Nazi!” That’s a liberal “argument.”

Because they don’t care about logic or truth, and because they are arguing for bad policies that produce bad results, it is always necessary for liberals to distract from the most important fact in every argument, i.e., the disastrous wrongness of liberalism.

So when liberals are not using one distraction tactic (“Republicans are Nazis”) they are always using some other tactic of sophistry. For example, “Look How Smart I Am” is a distraction tactic intended to change the subject by inspiring awe at the liberal’s intelligence and erudition. However, this is never disputed by liberalism’s critics.

“Yes, Professor, we grant that you are both intelligent and highly educated. We acknowledge that you are fluent in the English language and resourceful in debate. The problem is that your intelligence, your education and your rhetorical skills — all of which we do not doubt — are being employed on behalf of policies that are destroying our country and ruining the world. You are not stupid, but you are still wrong, and America is going to hell in a handbasket because smart people like you spend so much time arguing in favor of bad policies and wrong ideas.”

At some point, we begin to consider the possibility that smart people who are so consistently wrong are not merely wrong, but evil.

However, the point I wish to make is that we inevitably reach that moment in an argument where the conservative has plainly demonstrated what he had intended to demonstrate, and where the only thing the liberal can do to “win” is to flaunt his imagined intellectual superiority. The purpose of such an ostentatious gesture is to salvage the prestige of liberalism, to convince the reader that, despite all the evidence adduced in support of a conservative argument, it’s still smarter to be liberal. “Look How Smart I Am!”

So, the subject was lesbian sorority girls and the correlation between that phenomenon and other facts, including the “humane values” of the “inclusive community” ballyhooed by a small liberal arts college in the 21st century. This was a formerly Christian college, and it was simple to deduce that (a) the abandonment of Christianity by the college was implicated in (b) the acceptance of lesbianism as a desirable lifestyle for students whose parents paid more than $30,000 a year in tuition to have their daughters permanently lesbianized.

Nothing particularly controversial in this, except for the fact that colleges nowadays try to conceal this reality behind a lot of feel-good rhetoric about “diversity,” blah blah blah, because they don’t want parents and alumni to figure out what is actually happening.

“What? You’re telling me that my alma mater has jettisoned the belief system to which I subscribe? They’ve hired a bunch of perverts and Marxists to brainwash kids into supporting a political agenda that involves homosexuality and socialism? And you expect me not only to pay to send my kids to this school but also make a generous contribution to the alumni fund to help you implement this program? Hell, no!”

The gap between public perception and campus reality must be maintained at all costs, you see. If ever parents and taxpayers caught on to what the administration and faculty are doing, the Higher Education Bubble would collapse like Lehman Brothers in 2008.

My item “Postmodern Education, Postmodern Love” was just a demonstration of the hidden truth of 21st-century higher education, and I think it was an adequate demonstration. Yet there showed up in the comments of that post a pseudonymous troll, using the moniker “Weedlord BonerHitler” and posting from the IP address 68.53.107.147, and he began to flaunt his erudition thus:

Here is a radically simple summation of the convoluted mess that conservatives find when it comes to women like these:
Now that people do not feel societal pressure to marry a member of the opposite sex (and stay married forever,) and now that people have new ways to experiment sexually, and now that they can raise children with any partner they wish (or no partner,) they really do want to “marry their best friend.” Marriage is becoming more about companionship and happiness, and less of a socially-enforced contract that people feel pressured to adopt and maintain for reasons apart from their own happiness. . . .

Blah blah blah. You’ve heard one pseudo-libertarian rationalization of perverse decadence, you’ve heard ’em all. But then we arrive at Weedlord BonerHitler’s neo-Malthusian conclusion:

“The earth is overpopulated as it is.
Seven billion people is plenty if you ask Weedlord.”

Really? You want us to believe that the choice facing us is between Lesbian Nation and Soylent Green? But never mind that: The earth is not “overpopulated.” This can be demonstrated easily.

England

Land area: 50,346 square miles
Population: 53,012,456
Population density: 1,054 per square mile

Texas

Land area: 268,581 square miles
Population: 26,448,193
Population density: 98.1 per square mile

Argentina

Land area: 1,073,518 square miles
Population: 42,669,500
Population density: 37.3 per square mile

The population density figures in the Wikipedia entries need to be adjusted by a few fractions, but we’ll use these rough numbers just for comparison, to make the following points:

1. Argentina would have to add more than 60 million people (reaching a total population of 106 million) in order to be as densely populated as Texas.
2. Texas is far from the most densely populated state in the U.S., ranking 26th in population density.
3. Texas would have to increase its population more than ten-fold — to about 275 million — in order to be as densely populated as England.
4. Argentina, which is nearly four times larger than Texas in land area, would need a population of nearly 1.2 billion — that’s billion, with a “b” — in order to be as densely populated as England.
5. The per capita income figures of England ($50,566), Texas ($19,617) and Argentina ($9,640) confirm a basic historical truth, i.e., that higher population density is associated with greater wealth.

Human beings are an economic resource. Manpower is also brain power. Ceteris parabus, more people means more wealth, more wealth means more education, and more education has an exponential effect on the wealth-creating power of a population. Capital investment (large reserves of accumulated value) combined with an educated work force is an amazing engine of wealth creation.

This is why big cities attract smart people who create wealth, which in turn explains why poor people move to big cities, seeking access to the wealth the smart rich people have created there.

What liberal economists bemoan as the “income gap” in big cities like San Francisco is mainly a function of (a) mobility and (b) welfare. Mobility enables people to go where the money is.

Welfare tends to act as a “glue” holding people in poverty by discouraging workforce participation and encouraging poor people to stay places where there are not good employment opportunites. Other than that, the “income gap” is just basic arithmetic. In big cities where wealth is generated and accumulated, (a) the rich will get richer and (b) the poor from other places will move there, hoping to get rich and to derive other socioeconomic benefits of proximity to wealth. If you’re poor, you’re better off being poor in a relatively rich place, like Seattle. Being poor in a poor place, like Somali, is much worse. If liberals understood the implications of this in terms of public policy, they wouldn’t be liberals (advocates of an expanding bureaucratic redistributionist system that punishes efficiency and rewards sloth), they’d be conservatives or maybe libertarians. But I digress . . .

The paranoid Chicken Little fears of anthropogenic global warming are merely the latest sky-is-falling theory by which doomsayers have tried to frighten Americans into not having babies. It’s fairly obvious that someone (maybe our foreign enemies, maybe the Democrat Party or perhaps Satan himself) really hates America and wants to kill our babies, so that we destroy our nation and evil can then rule the entire world unopposed. But the two most common liberal ideas about demographics — that (a) the earth is overpopulated and (b) overpopulation causes poverty — are both provably false.

“OK, you’ve convinced me,” says the skeptic. “But what about the billions of poor people in the world? How can we help them?”

Answer: HAVE MORE BABIES!

I explained this in reply to “Weedhead BonerHitler” :

“Total fertility rate” (TFR) is a demographic measurement describing the average number of lifetime births per woman that can be expected, based on current birth rates. Here are the Top 10 nations ranked by TFR:

1. Niger 6.89
2. Mali 6.16
3. Burundi 6.14
4. Somalia 6.08
5. Uganda 5.97
6. Burkina Faso 5.93
7. Zambia 5.76
8. Malawi 5.66
9. Afghanistan 5.43
10. Angola 5.43

All of these nations are desperately poor. The per-capita income of these nations:

Niger $800
Mali $1,100
Burundi $600
Somalia $600
Uganda $1,500
Burkina Faso $1,500
Zambia $1,800
Malawi $900
Afghanistan $1,100
Angola $6,300

As a mental exercise, imagine one average citizen from each of these countries, assembled together and placing on a table their per capita share of GDP.
The total amount on the table — the combined annual income of these 10 people — is $16,200.
Now, the total fertility rate (TFR) in the United States is 2.01 and the annual per capita income is $52,800. So, the average American’s annual income (every man, woman and child) is more than three times greater than the combined annual income of these 10 residents of these nations with the highest fertility rates in the world.
THE WORLD IS BECOMING POORER AS A RESULT OF THIS PHENOMENON.
The question before us is not whether 7 billion is “plenty,” nor is the question whether desperately poor people in foreign countries are having too many babies. The question is, “WHO WILL POPULATE THE FUTURE?”
How many children will we — the fortunate people with educations, running water, electricity and laptops, etc. — contribute to the future? Do we want the population of the future to be more prosperous, more educated, more democratic, more free? Because if that is what we want — to increase the share of human happiness in the world — the best way to do it is for educated, affluent, freedom-loving people to have lots of babies. Or, at least, more babies than we’re having right now.
In 1957, the U.S. total fertility rate hit its postwar Baby Boom peak at 3.74. That is to say that in 1957 (two years before I was born), the average American woman was more likely to be a mother of four children than to be a mother of “only” three. So we know, as a historical fact, that middle-class prosperity and relatively high birth rates are not incompatible. This was true quite recently, in my own lifetime, and could be true again.
However, the “overpopulation” hype of the 1960s (e.g., Paul Ehrlich) convinced many educated Americans that there was an urgent need to reduce birth rates, so smart people stopped having so many babies. Meanwhile, stupid Americans (who don’t read books or newspapers, anyway) continued having babies and (more importantly, in the big picture) poor people in distant foreign countries paid no attention at all to this “overpopulation” hype.
The result? An anti-natalist culture took hold in the West, particularly among the most affluent and highly educated segments of the population (the people who are the targeted consumers of the elite intelligentsia’s output), and so the population of the present (today is yesterday’s future) is LESS educated and LESS affluent because of this differential pressure (lower fertility for the affluent, relatively higher fertility for the poor).
This is not to say that there are no other factors influencing social, economic and demographic trends. It is to say that the false “overpopulation” myth has an overall negative impact on society. If you don’t understand this, you could read What to Expect When No One’s Expecting by Jonathan Last or America Alone by Mark Steyn.
How much can we (the affluent and educated citizens of democratic industrial nations) do to improve the lives of the poor, either here in our own nations or in distant impoverished places like Mali and Burundi? I’m not sure. What I am sure of is that the more or us there are, the more we will be able to help. Why do I say this? It’s not just a matter of math, although it is obvious that 400 million Americans can offer 25% more manpower to the world than can 300 million Americans. It is also the fact that, generally, small families are both a result of selfishness and a breeding ground for selfish attitudes among children.
Parental love is sacrificial love, and the deliberate avoidance of parental responsibility is evidence of a selfish personality. Quod erat demonstrandum. Conversely and ironically, low birth rates are also a reflection of pessimism: “The world is an awful place. There is no hope for the future. I will be unable to provide for a child. I had better not have any kids.”
Selfish pessimism or generous optimism: Which attitude do you suppose is more beneficial to the world?
Me? I’ve got six children. You, Mr. Weedlord? I hope you practice in your own life the anti-natalist Death Cult beliefs you advocate, because obviously there are too many selfish anti-social assholes like you in the world already.

Like I say, when liberals continue being liberals even after confronted with the facts that refute the premises of their arguments — when they can see that liberalism is a ginormous lie based upon errors and falsehoods — the question is whether they are just wrong, or whether they are actually evil. When a liberal tries to flaunt his imagined intellectual superiority at me, this does not improve my opinion of him, you see. If you have proved yourself smart enough to understand the truth, and the truth is that your policies are destroying America and thus dooming the Last Best Hope on Earth, then you are not stupidly wrong. You are intelligently evil, in which case . . .

Fuck you, you hateful perverted satanic monsters.

 

Category: Gays, Sex

Police Say Dance Teacher Admitted Lesbian Sex With 15-Year-Old Student

Posted on | October 27, 2014 | 41 Comments

 

WSMV-TV reports from Nashville, Tennessee:

An employee at a Goodlettsville dance studio has been arrested on a rape charge.
Sabrina Antoinette Epps, 19, was arrested Sunday and is facing a charge of statutory rape by an authority figure.
According to the Hendersonville Police Department, the 15-year-old victim was a student at the dance studio.
Three incidents allegedly took place at the victim’s home in Hendersonville. . . .
According to police, she admitted to having a sexual relationship with one of her dance students.
“This parent became concerned about the amount of attention her daughter was receiving,” said Hendersonville Police Det. David Harrell.
Both Goodlettsville and Hendersonville police are investigating because the dance studio is in Goodlettsville.
Investigators said the sex acts occurred in the victim’s Hendersonville home.
“The adult should know better to have a sexual relationship with a minor or a child,” said Harrell.
Epps is a student at Trevecca Nazarene University.
“Trevecca is shocked to learn of the charges made against Sabrina Epps and takes these charges very seriously,” said a Trevecca spokesperson in a prepared statement. “This behavior is not in harmony with behavioral expectations for being a student at Trevecca.” . . .
Epps has been released on a $12,000 bond. A court date has been set for Nov. 12.

Dance teachers having lesbian sex with teenage girls:

  • Nichol Marie Phelps, a married 30-year-old dance teacher in Florida, said she would leave her husband for the “hot” 15-year-old female student she molested in 2012. Phelps was sentenced to prison in June.
  • Amanda Michelle Feenstra, a married 30-year-old dance teacher at Humble High School in Texas, had lesbian sex with a 17-year-old student. The girl said Feenstra “approached her saying she was really attracted to her and would like to get to know her. . . . most of their sexual encounters would happen at Feenstra’s home while her husband was away. . . . The girl said the two of them had so many sexual encounters that she could not remember them all. . . . The teen said Feenstra told her she loved her and wanted to be with her forever, but she did not want to continue the relationship. She lost all of her friends and felt trapped. She thought she would be rid of Feenstra after she finally graduated, but Feenstra began to stalk her; constantly coming by her job and calling her phone. . . . The student’s mother accused Feenstra of stealing her daughter’s innocence.” Feenstra was sentenced to probation last week.

Not like there’s a trend here or anything . . .

 

Category: Crime, Gays, Sex

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.27.14

Posted on | October 27, 2014 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Christie, Cuomo Defend Ebola Quarantine Orders

Not buying the Administration’s BS, and neither is Cuomo

NJ, NY governors say federal guidelines don’t go far enough
Quarantined nurse to sue for freedom
Fauci argues against quarantining health workers returning from West African Ebola zone


Gaza Peace Talks Halted After Sinai Attacks
Egypt on full alert; curfew imposed after two attacks by Islamists kill 33 Egyptian troops

Exit Polls Show Big Win For Pro-EU Parties In Ukraine
Three main pro-Western parties take 56% of the vote



POLITICS
CBS Battleground Tracker Shows GOP In The Lead For Senate Control

State estimates based on recent YouGov poll

Iowa, Colorado tighten; may go Republican
On the other hand, Chuck U. Schumer thinks the Dems will hold the Senate

Jeb Bush Moving Forward On 2016 Bid

Suspect In Murder Of California Deputies An Illegal Who’d Already Been Deported Twice

VA Promotes Administrator Who Hushed Up Deadly Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak In Hospital

Franken, McFadden Trade Attacks In Senate Debate

Democratic Billionaires Outdo GOP In SuperPAC Contributions

Man Says Devil Made Him Smash Ten Commandments Statue; Satanists Disapprove



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Up Slightly From Friday Close: WTI $81.11, Brent $86.00
Asia Stocks Mostly Higher After ECB Stress Tests
Williams, Access Midstream Partners To Merge In $50 Billion Deal
US Gasoline Prices Drop To Lowest Since 2010
Market Basket To Open First Of Five New Stores
USPS To Begin Delivering Groceries
Twitter Keeps Twitpic Archive And Domain Alive
Apple Pay Faces Challenge As CVS, RiteAid Reject System
Elon Musk: “We Are Summoning The Demon” With Artificial Intelligence
More Smart Device Makers Sign Up To Work With Nest
Pandora And Apple Struggle With Unsettled Music Industry



SPORTS
Dale Jr. Gets Emotional Win At Martinsville

Winning the Goody’s 500 a week after being eliminated from the Chase

Teammate Jeff Gordon finishes second

Bumgarner’s Game 5 Shutout Gives Giants 3-2 Lead

Sharks Fill Net, Penalty Box In 4-1 Win Against Ducks

Saints Blow Past Packers 44-23, Now Tied For First

Jets Edge Avs 2-1 (OT)

Big Ben Pounds Colts Defense For 6 TDs As Steelers Rout Colts 51-34

Blackhawks Tip Sens 2-1

Tom Brady Throws 5 TDs As Pats Crush Bears 51-23

Blue Jackets Fall To Kings 5-2

Seahawks Rally Behind Wilson, Rally Past Panthers 13-9

Canucks Beat Caps 4-2



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Marcia Strassman Dies, 66

Starred in “Welcome Back, Kotter” and “Honey, I Shrunk The Kids”

Died after long battle with breast cancer


No Crack Pipe Found At Scene Of Ashley Greene’s Apartment Fire

Mindy Kaling Mistaken For Nobel Prize Winner Malala

Lake Bell, It’s A Girl!


Jenny McCarthy Won’t Shut Up About How Awesome Donnie Wahlberg Is

“Duck Dynasty” Star Jep Robertson Suffers Seizure

Rumer Willis: Photoshopping Me For Facebook Was “F*cked Up”

Cindy Crawford, Husband Spend $30K On Nude Portrait

Sting, “The Last Ship” Cast Serenade “Jersey Boys”

How Billy Joel’s Three Wives Stole His Heart And His Money

Iggy Azalea’s Giant Entourage Crowds SNL’s Backstage



FOREIGNERS
Brazil’s Rousseff Preaches Unity After Hard-Won Re-Election Victory
American, British Troops Pull Out Of Afghanistan’s Helmand Province
Iraqi Forces Seize Four Villages After Victory Near Baghdad
Uruguay Elections Go To Runoff; Vasquez Leads First Round
Indonesia’s President Widodo Announces Cabinet
At Least Seventeen Killed In Suspected Boko Haram Attack
Massive Protests In Hungary Against Proposed Internet Tax
Hong Kong Protest Leaders Divided Over Movement’s Goals
Tunisians Vote For New Parliament, Hope For Full Democracy
German Rally Against Islamist Extremism Turns Violent
Kurds Thwart New ISIS Bid To Isolate Ain Al-Arab



BLOGS & STUFF
American Power: The Ebola Anti-Hysteria Hysteria
American Thinker: The Left And The Distortion Of History
BLACKFIVE: An Ebola Article Worth Your Time
Conservatives4Palin: CNN Puts Sarah Palin In The Crosshairs
Don Surber: Why I Stop Listening When You Say “Police Brutality”
Jammie Wearing Fools: SC Democrat On Nikki Haley: “We Are Going To Escort Whore Out The Door”
Joe For America: Dr. Alveda King On Obama – “How’s That Working For You?”
JustOneMinute: Bees, Elephants, Terror
Pamela Geller: US Journalist Murdered After Exposing Turkey’s Support For The Islamic State
Protein Wisdom: Leftism Is The Biggest Threat To America – And They Don’t Care Any More If You Know It
Shot In The Dark: Joe Persell – Lying About Guns
STUMP: Friday Fun – Orson Welles And Winston Churchill
The Gateway Pundit: Houston’s Mayor Caught Lying About Daughter’s Driver’s License
The Jawa Report: Where’s Rusty? Know The Powah!
The Lonely Conservative: Democrats Want Government To Regulate Blogs And Websites
This Ain’t Hell: Rescuing The Warthog
Weasel Zippers: Republican Candidate Attacked For Being Catholic
Megan McArdle: Can’t Afford A House? Don’t Buy One


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Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Sunday: Ricochet

Posted on | October 26, 2014 | 13 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Looks like it’s that time again. Time to take up arms against a rising tide of radical feminist lesbianism (BIRM), vile politicians, and downright ugly people; time to celebrate what is best in life – well, maybe not THAT, which is a bit beyond the scope of this post. What I’m talking about, of course, is Rule 5, of which the following is a splendid example:

Redskins cheerleaders hard at work

And with that fine example, let us examine the links sent to us by our friends and allies. As usual, take care not to click at inauspicious times and locations.

Animal Magnetism was out reducing the surplus elk population, but he left this for your consideration. Also (because evidently he bagged his limit early) Rule 5 Friday  and the Oktoberfest Special. Average Bubba returns with one of our favorite models, Kate Upton; Goodstuff chips in with Daisy Fuentes and other hot tamales, and Blackmailers Don’t Shoot reminds us that Katy Perry Turns Thirty. Ninety Miles from Tyranny adds Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls with Guns; First Street Journal of course does Rule 5 a differently, and this week is all about our female Sailors.

EBL’s herd of heifers this week includes devotees of Sappho, Richly Endowed Women, Pant Suits, and the TopCats – Carolina Panthers Cheerleaders.

Postaldog returns with Maitland Ward, Game of Thrones, varied hotness, Miley Cyrus, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Kristen Stewart.

At A View from the Beach, it’s The Woman with Two Faces, A Pretty Good Flight Safety Video, The Barrier, Practice, Practice, Practice, Striped Bass Break Even in 2014, Does This Pass the Sniff Test?, Fanatic Fem Finds “Frozen” Insufficiently Feminist, Boss Hawg of Tilghman Island, “Girls in a Country Song”, Redskins Tackle Titans, and “Owner of a Lonely Heart”.

Meanwhile, at Soylent Siberia, it’s your morning coffee creamer, Monday Motivationer Late Edition, Tuesday Titillation, Overnighty Nancy Lynn, Humpday Hawt Linky Love Contender, Evening Awesome “More Tea, Vicar?”, Spassfabrik Fursday Featurette Uliana, Any Excuse To Post, Corset Friday Filigree, T-GIF Friday Disco, Happy Hour Hawtness, Weekender Auburn Awesome, and Bath Night Snooch Loops.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Maggie Q, his vintage babe is Yvette Mimieux, Sex in Advertising is brought to you this week by Miller Lite, and there’s also Women of PETA XLI and the obligatory 49ers cheerleader. At Dustbury, we have Taylor Swift in Australia and Nancy Snyderman under wraps.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 roundup is midnight on Saturday, November 1.

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Category: Rule 5

‘Vagina Warrior Lynch Mobs’

Posted on | October 26, 2014 | 42 Comments

Thanks to Darleen Click for that phrase, describing the feminists who have ginned up a campus sex panic with hysterical claims about a (non-existent) “rape epidemic” at colleges and universities.

Rape has real victims — including murdered victims like Hannah Graham — but this phony hysteria has real victims, too, including male students accused of sexual assault and denied their due process rights in university disciplinary proceedings.

This has been the problem behind the “rape epidemic” rhetoric all along. What has happened is this: In response to feminist pressure, universities and colleges have begun treating accusations of sexual assault not as crimes, but as infractions of campus policy. Why? Because most of the cases involve “he-said/she-said” disputes about consent: Boy and girl get drunk; drunk boy and drunk girl have sex; girl sobers up and regrets having sex; girl claims she was raped.

In nearly all of the specific cases like this that have come to my attention, the accusation of rape was made several days or weeks or even months after the incident. No witnesses, no evidence, and no way to make a criminal prosecution. Whatever happened, however traumatic or shameful it was for the female involved, no prosecutor is going to take a case like that to trial. So . . .

To satisfy feminist demands, university administrators started using disciplinary hearings to punish males accused of rape — punishing them as if they had been found guilty of a crime, which they have not. This extra-judicial campus “rape court” system clearly violates the rights of the accused students. This is what I wrote last year about the case of Vassar College student Peter Yu:

If this guy is, in fact, a predatory sex offender, he should be charged and tried for the alleged crime. Merely to kick him out of school — to ruin his name on the basis of a disciplinary hearing — is both unjust to him, and inadequate as a public safety measure.
And let me be perfectly blunt here: Belated remorse over an unsatisfactory drunken hook-up doesn’t make you a victim.
Any drunken hook-up is a bad idea, but feeling embarrassed or regretful about it afterwards does not make your partner a rapist.

Alas, common sense is even more unfashionable on college campuses than the Anglo-American common-law tradition.

The minimum age for alcohol possession is 21, and there are laws against underage drinking which, if enforced rigorously, would substantially reduce the number of these types of incidents, but guess what? Getting drunk and having sex are popular pastimes for college kids, and if university administrators cracked down on underage drinking, they would be forced to expel so many students, they wouldn’t have enough tuition revenue to pay the bills. Instead of cracking down on illegal underage drinking, therefore, they’re cracking down on sex — specifically, they’re cracking down on male heterosexuality.

Have any gay males or lesbian students been treated to this administrative disciplinary star-chamber process? Of course not.

In today’s campus climate, it would be a hate crime for a student to claim that he or she had been raped by a homosexual, yet I do not doubt that drunken gay hook-ups happen on campus which are regretted the day after in the same way heterosexual hook-ups are regretted by girls who claim the guy they hooked up with raped them.

Only heterosexual males are targeted by the “rape epidemic” hysteria, and if nobody else will bother to point out this fact, I must.

“Shut Up, Because Rape” — that’s the real feminist message here. Wielding the sword of victimhood, feminists are attempting to silence all discussion of sexuality (especially on campus) that contradicts feminism’s anti-male/anti-heterosexual ideology. What students are permitted to “know” about sex must be exactly what feminists want to teach them, and if anyone challenges this authority that feminism arrogates to itself, that person must be demonized and shouted down:

[M]ore than 100 people turned out Wednesday for the protest outside his Miami University lecture. There were also online petitions against Will’s talk.
The protests against the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist were over a June column he wrote about federal pressure on colleges in reporting of sexual assaults. Will questioned statistics cited by President Barack Obama’s administration and suggested that federal authorities were making “victimhood a coveted status.”
Will explained Wednesday he was criticizing loss of due process for those accused of the serious crime.
“Our society has decided rightly that rape ranks close to and not far behind murder as the most serious crime,” Will said in response to a question after his lecture. Because it carries severe penalties, “it is particularly important that people accused of this heinous crime have all the protections.”

However, the Vagina Warrior Lynch Mobs (excellent phrase, Darleen) have decided that due process is a synonym for rape, and that the Constitution should not protect male heterosexuals from extra-judicial punishment. New York lawyer Andrew Miltenberg is defending several male heterosexual students who say they have been falsely accused and wrongfully punished:

He’s already filed four lawsuits — against Vassar College, Columbia University, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Drew University — will file several more before month’s end, and is consulting on 20 or so appeals at the college disciplinary level. In each, he is suing the schools for violations of the Title IX gender-parity law of 1972, contractual claims, unfair trade practices, as well as a number of tort claims.
If you feel like you’ve been reading more about campus rape of late, that’s because you have—most recently in a New York magazine cover story in September. The trend has been gathering steam since the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights sent a letter to colleges nationwide on April 4, 2011, mandating policy changes in the way schools handle sexual assault complaints, including a lowering of the burden of proof from “clear and convincing” evidence to a “preponderance” of evidence. . . .
Mr. Miltenberg and [another attorney in his firm, Kimberly] Lau get about 10 calls a week from parents whose sons have been accused, suspended, or expelled. Too many of those calls, says Mr. Miltenberg, describe the same basic story: “The majority of them have botched the investigations, either on purpose because they’re simply pandering to the current political climate or because they’re not equipped to conduct them in the first place.” . . .
“Look, I’m not a senior partner at Blank, Blank, and Blankety Blank. I’m just Andrew Miltenberg with an office across the street from Penn Station. But if you dare question the motives of an Ivy League School, you’re suddenly trapped in a room with a bunch of white-shoed guys with Roman numerals after their names. And they’re all harrumphing about the audacity of questioning anything they do. Well, we’re questioning them. And we won’t stop until the schools admit that they need to severely revamp their approach to handling sexual assault accusations.”
Or abandon it entirely: he thinks it should be up to the criminal justice system to handle campus complaints that rise to the level of felonies. “A school’s disciplinary board wouldn’t be dealing with a campus shooting, would they? So why are they dealing with sexual assault?”

Exactly. Sexual assault is a crime. If you are a victim of crime, call the police. A hearing in the dean’s office is not justice, unless what you’re seeking is “social justice,” which in certain circumstances looks a lot like personal revenge: “You took advantage of me when I was drunk, so now I’m going to ruin your life.” Hell hath no fury, etc.

Common sense: Stay sober and keep your britches on, honey.

Alas, common sense is now prohibited on American university campuses.




 

 

Category: Crime, Education, Sex, Sex Trouble

FMJRA 2.0: I Can’t Breathe Anymore

Posted on | October 25, 2014 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The Insufficient Man-Hating of ‘Frozen’
The Pirate’s Cove
Regular Right Guy
The Camp of the Saints
Batshit Crazy News
That Mr. G Guy
The Lonely Conservative
A View from the Beach

The Externalization of Responsibility: Monica Lewinsky’s Personal Shame
Political Rift
That Mr. G Guy
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Ego Vero
Ed Driscoll
Western Rifle Shooters Association

Rule 5 Sunday: Shadows Of The Night
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach
Animal Magnetism
Proof Positive
Ninety Miles From Tyranny

In The Mailbox: 10.21.14
Political Rift
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach

The Schmuck-tacular Folderol Of Brooks
That Mr. G Guy

The #GamerGate White Knight Syndrome
That Mr. G Guy
FeedRead News
Batshit Crazy News
Political Hat

The Liberation Theology Pope Proves Conquest’s Second Law
Batshit Crazy News

FMJRA 2.0: We’re An American Band
The Pirate’s Cove
Batshit Crazy News

Store Clerk Shoots Robber
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

Essential Feminist Quotes: ‘Access to a Sexuality Autonomous from the Male’
Political Rift
That Mr. G Guy
Something Fishy
Batshit Crazy News

#WendyDavisWontSay If She Reads TheOtherMcCain, But The Pelosi-Esque Visage Is A Probable ‘No’
Batshit Crazy News
That Mr. G Guy

A #GamerGate Oddity
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.22.14
Batshit Crazy News
That Mr. G Guy
Regular Right Guy

ISIS Crisis in Ottawa Shooting? UPDATE: Gunman Is Canadian Muslim Convert
Political Rift
The Lonely Conservative
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News

Canadian Terrorist: Crazy Muslim
Da Tech Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.23.14
Political Rift
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

What Self-Hatred Looks Like
Batshit Crazy News

Brain Candy
First Street Journal

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.24.14
Regular Right Guy
Proof Positive

Postmodern College, Postmodern Love
Batshit Crazy News

Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (17)
  2.  That Mr. G Guy (11)
  3.  Regular Right Guy (9)
  4.  Political Rift (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links for next week’s FMJRA is noon on Saturday, November 1.


Category: FMJRA Award

Saturday Afternoon College Football & Open Post

Posted on | October 25, 2014 | 11 Comments

— perpetrated by Wombat-socho

Virginia Tech elbows.

This evening we’ve got all kinds of college football action:

  • Syracuse @ #20 Clemson
  • #3 Mississippi @ #23 LSU
  • #4 Alabama @ Tennessee #rolltide
  • South Carolina @ #6 Auburn
  • #12 Ohio State @ Pedophile, er, Penn State
  • #21 USC @ #19 Utah
  • #14 Arizona State @ Washington



Also, Game 4 of the World Series.  Royals are ahead two games to one.
#partylikeits1985


Also also, Kirby McCain (Stacy’s brother) has finally dipped a toe into the world of blogging. I think his first post is an excellent start, what with Rule 5 and all.


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