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In The Mailbox: 02.02.15

Posted on | February 2, 2015 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Michelle Malkin: Obama’s Taliban Tools And Treachery
Twitchy: American Sniper Sets Super Bowl Weekend Box Office Record
John C. Wright: Sad Puppies 3 Announces Its 2015 Hugo Sample Slate


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Vows Revenge For Beheadings
American Thinker: Obama Is Openly Colluding With The Enemy
Conservatives4Palin: Ferguson – The Line To Apologize Forms On The Left
Don Surber: Why Isn’t This National News? EVIL.
Jammie Wearing Fools: RAAAAACIST Sixty Minutes Host Steve Kroft Told His Black Mistress “Don’t Dress Like Beyonce”
Joe For America: Triple-Amputee Vet’s “F*CK YOU” Letter To Obama Goes Viral
JustOneMinute: Out With The Old, In With The Older
Pamela Geller: Islamic State Burning All Books Except Islamic Texts
Protein Wisdom: I Blame The Administration And Its Niggardly Funding Of The Army
Shot In the Dark: Women And Guns
STUMP: Obamacare Tax Watch – Obama Notices
The Gateway Pundit: Anti-Netanyahu Talking Point That Israel “Blindsided Obama” Was A Lie
The Jawa Report: Netanyahu The Bibi-Sitter
The Lonely Conservative: Creepy Democrats Escorted Reporters To Bathroom At Philadelphia Retreat
This Ain’t Hell: Asians Outraged By Army Headline That Had Nothing To Do With Them
Weasel Zippers: UK Muslim Leader Accuses London Mayor Boris Johnson Of Terrorism For Calling Jihadis “Wankers”
Megan McArdle: Hillary Clinton’s Late Start Won’t Stop The Punches
Mark Steyn: No-Go Contendere


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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Sunday: Wax Ecstatic

Posted on | February 1, 2015 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

For those of you taking a break from the Super Bowl (or just not watching it to start with) welcome to this week’s Rule 5 Sunday, our celebration of pretty women attractively dressed or otherwise. This week we lead off with a cover pic from Wax Ecstatic Magazine, an online Christian magazine presenting an alternative to more mainstream magazines that are more interested in “…how much they are able to shock you instead of how much they are able to inform you.” One can only assume the founders were unaware of the Sponge song by the same name.

Not Angelina.

Readers are reminded that some of the following links are to pictures generally considered NSFW, and if you get canned for watching these at work, well, you had it coming. Exercise discretion in the clicking; we aren’t responsible for your bad judgement and poor choices.

Goodstuff leads off this week with what can only be called the Chemical Warfare Issue, followed by The Bionic Woman. We gladly note the return of Randy’s Roundtable with Johanna Lundback, Average Bubba’s Rule 5 Friday: Blonde Bombshell Edition, and Ninety Miles from Tyranny’s trifecta: Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism checks in with Rule Five Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, Loose Endz celebrates Bond Girl Honor Blackman, and also exposes Wonder Woman as a man-hating feminist! First Street Journal looks at women in Basic Combat Training.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes much ado about balls*, Miss Universe, Jeffrey Epstein & Bill Clinton’s Fantasy Island, Gisele Bundchen, Ashley Moss, more stuff about balls, Katy Perry, and Super Bowl cheerleaders.

At A View from the Beach, it’s Willa Ford Wanna Be Bad, More Blue Catfish Than People, A Bad Accident and a Great Recovery, Well, It’s Worth a Try, A Wee Bit o’ the Irish, Wombat’s Wednesday News, Surf’s Up!, Les origines de la beauté, How Many Countries Can You Name?, Stormy Monday Wombat News Review, “Don’t Know Why”, and “Burn”.

Soylent Siberia kicks off with your morning coffee creamer, followed by Overnighty Unbridled Bazoom, Monday Motivationer MILF Mania, Evening Awesome: Brazilian Balcony Bodacious, Tuesday Tit-illation With Fishnet Finery, Overnighty Linky Love Contender, Humpday Hawtness Jessica, Evening Awesome Country Fine, Fursdayski Hotski, Happy Birthday Soylent!, Fursday Evening El Fuego, Corset Friday Fillup, Soylent Blogasm: The “New” New Comment Widget, T-Gif Friday: The Future Mrs. Soylent In Training, Happy Hour Hawtness, Weekender In Motion, and Bath Night Bonus – That’s The Plural

Postaldog returns with Tiffany Amber Thiessen, Miley Cyrus, Kate Hudson, and Stacey Dash.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Eugenie Bouchard, his Vintage Babe is Lina Romay, and Sex In Advertising is covered by All Natural Burgers. Also, Deflategate cheerleaders! 😉 At Dustbury, it’s Liu Wen and Daniela Bianchi.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next weekend’s Rule 5 Sunday is midnight on Saturday, February 7.


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Category: Rule 5

The Errors of ‘Democracy’

Posted on | February 1, 2015 | 93 Comments

We are heirs of a tradition. Each of us is born into circumstances that were created by our parents, by our grandparents, by our ancestors, and by the civilization in which they lived. Human life existed before we were born and will continue after our deaths. As children we inherit the past. As parents we create the future. Wisdom requires us to understand ourselves as a single link in an infinite chain of human existence, rather than to imagine ourselves as free-floating atoms unconnected to others.

Popular ideas of “democracy” — the modernistic idolatry that speaks the language of “rights,” “choice” and “equality” — obscure the truth of human existence, trapping us in the present tense, isolating us as rootless individuals removed from the authentic traditions of our inheritance. Children are taught that the past is not merely useless, but actually harmful, because human history is nothing but a catalog of oppression, atrocities and victimhood. Thus, the modern child cannot be allowed to believe that his grandparents were wise or virtuous, that the great achievements of our civilization are worthy of respect.

The great idol of modernity is Progress. Everything that happened prior to today is “old-fashioned” and obsolete, and nothing is more obsolete than yesterday’s ideas. Whatever your parents or grandparents believed in 1980 or 1950 or 1920 is presumed to be wrong. Your ancestors were all racist sexist homophobes enslaved by patriarchal religious bigotry. Never mind that their beliefs enabled your ancestors to survive hardship that would be unimaginable for most Americans in the 21st century. In a remarkable span of six decades, America survived the Great Depression, triumphed in World War II and destroyed the Evil Empire of Soviet tyranny. Yet the American child today is taught to despise the values of the people who accomplished all that. The child cannot cherish his own inherited tradition or respect his own ancestors, and is instead commanded to bow down at the altar of Progress.

“To live for the moment is the prevailing passion — to live for yourself, not for your predecessors or posterity. We are fast losing the sense of historical continuity, the sense of belonging to a succession of generations originating in the past and stretching into the future. . . .
“Narcissism emerges as the typical form of character structure in a society that has lost interest in the future.”
— Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (1979)

What has resulted from this modernistic idolatry of democratic Progress — the utopian fantasy of an imagined future where we all live in absolute equality, free of “old-fashioned” beliefs — is a sort of social epidemic of bipolar hysteria, in which minds unmoored from cultural tradition constantly shift between utter confusion and radical certainty. Anyone who paid close attention to the “Occupy” protests of 2011 saw evidence of what kind of disordered personalities this progressive epidemic has produced. Young people who were clearly incompetent to manage their own lives nevertheless felt themselves entitled to dictate to the rest of us how “society” must be changed so as to “empower” these mobs of emotional unstable misfits. Refusing to take responsibility for their own failures, the Occupiers believed they were supremely qualified to pass judgment on the “system” that served as an all-purpose scapegoat onto which they could externalize blame for their misfortunes.

Duke: The lights are growing dim Otto. I know a life of crime has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame society. Society made me what I am.
Otto: That’s bullshit. You’re a white suburban punk just like me.
Duke: Yeah, but it still hurts.

Great art speaks great truths and the death of Duke in Repo Man is an under-appreciated highlight of 20th-century cinematic art. Whatever the authorial purpose behind Alex Cox’s 1984 cult classic, that scene speaks eternal truth. Duke and his girlfriend Debbie try to rob a liquor store, and Duke laughs in psychopathic glee as he points his pistol at one of the clerk: “I’m going to kill him! I’m going to kill him! I’m going to kill everybody!” Unfortunately for Duke, there is a thing called karma in the world, and when Duke is momentarily distracted, the store clerk gets his shotgun and fatally wounds Duke. Debbie responds by shooting the clerk dead and it is then that Duke’s death scene plays out. Breathing his last gasps and spitting up blood, Duke speaks his own epitaph, expressing the worldview of every worthless punk who ever lived: “I blame society.”

Irresponsible people always need a scapegoat to blame for their faults and failures. They can never be satisfied to let their own shortcomings or disappointments be blamed on bad luck. Other people may be unlucky — indeed, many millions are far more unfortunate in their circumstances than the punk — but bad luck won’t do for him. No, the punk must always have someone to blame. His own failures and the problems that he has caused for himself? Not his fault. Blame society.

A punk’s entire life is basically one long quest for revenge, an attempt to even the score with “society,” to get back at the people he blames for whatever it is that has made him unhappy or unsuccessful.

The Cult of Progress has spawned a Punk Generation of people with no system of values except intellectual abstractions — “democracy,” “rights,” “equality” and so forth. They have learned nothing of sturdy virtue, nothing of classic Stoicism, nothing of the Calvinist ethos of enduring life’s hardships with a spirit of reverent gratitude.

We are told that democracy is synonymous with freedom, but we see how a false belief in “equality” between the wise and foolish, between the evil and the good, must ultimately enslave us all.

“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”
— Romans 1:22 (KJV)





 

Category: Culture, Intellectuals

In The Mailbox: Late Weekend Edition

Posted on | January 31, 2015 | 28 Comments

— by Wombat-socho

Apologies for the lack of linkagery yesterday; I spent the morning with my lawyer before heading into the tax mines for my Friday shift, and by the time I was done with that it was almost 9 PM and I didn’t have the energy left to do anything by the time I got home. /whining
Part of what’s been sapping my energy is impending bankruptcy…ah, you can read about that here, and if you can help at all, it would be very much appreciated. Every little bit helps, and who knows – maybe the incentives will tickle your fancy. In the meantime, on with the items of interest from various and sundry blogs…

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Andrew Sullivan Is Retiring From Blogging
Proof Positive: The Polaroid President
Louder With Crowder: Kevin Costner Uses The N Word
First Street Journal: Obviously A Joke, But Can You Imagine The Reaction From The Feminists?
Michelle Malkin: Choose To Refuse
Twitchy: Nationwide #runwarrenrun House Parties Rival Sandra Fluke Rallies In Numbers, Diversity

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Former Oregon State Student Kendra Sunderland Arrested After Making Porn Video In Campus Library
American Thinker: Pedophilia And The American Future
BLACKFIVE: Free Fire Zone – Bring It Bibi
Conservatives4Palin: Sarah Palin Is Right – Go On Offense, Tout Conservatism
Don Surber: Communists Lure Democrats. GOOD.
Jammie Wearing Fools: HuffPo Author Barack Obama Tells Democrats “Get Informed, Not By Reading The Huffington Post”
Joe For America: Here’s A DREAMER For You
JustOneMinute: Not Enough One-Percenters
Pamela Geller: Ted Cruz Calls For Investigation Into Taxpayer-Funded State Department Group Trying To Oust Netanyahu
Protein Wisdom: Liberal Writer Discovers Resurgent PC Movement Is Essentially Illiberal In Ideology
Shot In The Dark: There’s A Reason They Called Bobby Heenan “The Brain”
STUMP: What I’ve Read – The Bounty Of Zelazny
The Gateway Pundit: Jordan Threatens ISIS – Kill Our Pilot And We’ll Execute ALL Our Prisoners
The Jawa Report: War Porn – Freshly Dead ISIS Courtesy Of Iraq MOD
The Lonely Conservative: Six Million Households May Be Fined For Failure To Buy Health Insurance
This Ain’t Hell: What My Military Pension Means To Me
Weasel Zippers: Texas Governor Greg Abbott Declares February 2 “Chris Kyle Day” In Texas
Megan McArdle: A Tall Order For McDonald’s
Mark Steyn: Mood Indigo

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Category: Linkagery

FMJRA 2.0: Rubycon

Posted on | January 31, 2015 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Shake It Off
Average Bubba
Animal Magnetism
Muslim Anonymous
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
Political Rift
Ninety Miles from Tyranny
A View from the Beach

The First Rule of Feminism
The Lonely Conservative
Batshit Crazy News
Living in Anglo-America
Regular Right Guy
First Street Journal
Philosophies of a Disenchanted Scholar
Dyspepsia Generation

FMJRA 2.0: Rip & Tear
Batshit Crazy News
The Pirate’s Cove

Props To Prof. William Jacobson And Judicial Watch
Regular Right Guy

WTF My Tax Reform, @GOP?
Dyspepsia Generation

Campus Kangaroo Courts
Victims of Gay Bullying
Theological Geography
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 01.26.15
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

‘PC Addled Losers’
Political Rift
Batshit Crazy News

U.S.-Backed Subversion in Israel?
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach

Feminism and First-World Problems: ‘Hypervigilance’ as Irrational Phobia
Muslim Anonymous
Da Tech Guy
Regular Right Guy

In The Mailbox, 01.27.15
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.28.15
A View from the Beach

In the Mailbox, 01.29.15
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach

Top linkers this week:

  1.  (tied) Batshit Crazy News and Regular Right Guy (8)
  2.  A View from the Beach (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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The First Rule of Feminism

Posted on | January 29, 2015 | 183 Comments

Feminism is the belief that men are entirely useless, except when men are destructive and evil. If you think any man ever had any skill, knowledge or virtue that entitled him to be treated with courtesy and respect, you are not a feminist. According to feminism, all that is good and worthy in human history — all important accomplishments, every act of courage and kindness — has been done by women. Anyone who believes otherwise has been brainwashed by the patriarchal myth that males have imposed on society as “history” and so-called “science.”

Such are the esoteric doctrines of feminism, the c0re ideology that inspires their endless complaints about inequality and oppression. By proclaiming that they have a monopoly of wisdom and virtue, feminists thereby empower themselves to tell the rest of us what we are allowed to say and what we are permitted to think. If at any time you make any statement that is not consistent with feminist ideology, you will be vilified and insulted, shouted down by the feminist mob that exercises a heckler’s veto over public discourse. Totalitarian movements require totalitarian tactics, and the foremost goal of feminists is to silence those whom they aim to enslave or destroy. See for yourself:

RULES FOR MEN IN FEMINIST MOVEMENTS

  • Shut up and listen
  • Ask me, don’t tell me
  • Prepare to be wrong
  • Call fellow men out on problematic behaviour
  • Never dismiss the lived experiences of women
  • Do not attempt to take a leadership role

Feminists who say their movement is about “equality” are lying. Feminism is a movement about power — absolute and unlimited power — and therefore the first rule for men in feminist movements is, SHUT UP. (That list of rules has been “liked” or “reblogged” more than 20,000 times on Tumblr.com since it was posted in April 2013.)

The three principles of feminism are selfishness, dishonesty and hate. If feminism had a fourth principle, it would be more hate.

“I don’t particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding . . . time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness. . . . I don’t want a baby. . . . Nothing will make me want a baby. . . . This is why, if my birth control fails, I am totally having an abortion.”
— Amanda Marcotte, March 2014

Feminism’s fanatical hatred empowers feminist dishonesty. They usually try to pretend that “choice” isn’t about hating babies, but the question remains: If feminists don’t hate babies, why do they want to kill them?

To which their answer is, SHUT UP.

We cannot be permitted to speak the truth about feminism. Facts and logic are tools of the patriarchy, and ordinary “common sense” — well, that’s just an obsolete male-supremacist myth!

A movement that systematically excludes honest, sane and intelligent people will tend to become a paranoid hive of fools. This brings us to “Ask a Radfem,” a Tumlbr blog that describe its purpose thus:

This blog exists to bridge a gap between people with honest questions about radical feminism, and radical feminists with something to say.

Let’s meet a few of the site’s contributors, shall we?

  • Ash is a fat, creative writer, lesbian radical feminist from Australia who aspires to be a women’s health nurse. She is a gender abolitionist, is anti-kink culture and pro the destruction of the porn and prostitution industries – but supports porn actresses and prostitutes themselves.
  • Cammy is a white-passing American woman from a Puerto Rican household. A bisexual radical feminist in the Southern U.S., she focuses on lesbians, childfreedom, gender and sex industry abolition, religious apostates and the poor. She is an atheist and a survivor of trauma from emotional abuse, molestation and rape dealing with C-PTSD, anxiety and depression. Past experiences include BDSM, polyamory, self-harming, abortion, an abusive marriage, Christianity and Islam.
  • Blossom is an outreach worker from Canada. Her passion lies in harm reduction, outreach, & housing initiatives with people experiencing addiction & homelessness. She is a de-transitioned lesbian who lived “as male” from 2004-2011 and has experienced the process of transition and eventual de-transition with the help of mental health professionals and family. . . . She is also a former webcam girl and behind-the-scenes employee of various adult websites. She focuses on gender abolition, mental health, & lesbian activism.
  • Lauren (Lo) is a 17-year-old white-passing Chicana from Southern California. Her career aspiration is to work against internet crimes against children for either local or federal law enforcement. She identifies as bisexual and is open about her struggle with anxiety disorder.
  • R4df3m is a no-nonsense fat, disabled, bisexual radical feminist from Portland, Oregon who does not mince words. A former sex worker and abuse survivor, she speaks primarily about the harms of the sex industry and the realities of sex based oppression. As a bisexual radical woman in a heterosexual marriage she addresses the unique intersections of straight passing privilege and the abuse inherent to heterosexual relationships.

It’s an all-star lineup of feminist kooks. You could not assemble such a crew of weirdos by accident. The pattern is not random. Crazy movements attract crazy people. Here is one of the more seemingly sane contributors to “Ask a Radfem”:

Alisha M. is a feminist blogger, writer, musician, and poet, from the Southern United States. She is focused on gender abolition, women’s media, health, spirituality and activism for women with mental illness.

Feminism = “activism for women with mental illness.” Thanks for the concise definition, Alisha! Now let’s get to the big question:

Can/how a male promote radical feminism?
Listening. Really listening and being involved. Listening. This is something I’m trying to explain to my male friends who by some stroke of “altruism” really want to help be better allies. Just listen. Listen with empathy and emotions, be human, be vulnerable . . . accept silence on your part and accept sometimes being wrong.
-Alisha

In other words, SHUT UP.

Or applaud the feminist’s courage for killing her baby:

I couldn’t bring another monster into the world. We already have enough enemies as it is.

That’s from an article with the empowering feminist headline, “I Aborted My Baby — Because it was a Boy.”

Feminism is organized insanity. Why be merely crazy, when you can turn your mental illness into a political movement?




 

 

Category: Feminism, Sex Trouble

In the Mailbox, 01.29.15

Posted on | January 29, 2015 | 12 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Epstein’s Fantasy Island
Proof Positive: President Obama’s Credibility Takes A Dive
First Street Journal: The Pennsylvania AG’s Office Is Vacant In Everything But Name
Louder With Crowder: Chilling Interview With Imam Anjem Choudhury
Jerry Pournelle: Abolish The Air Force, And Other Stories


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Reaction To Jonathan Chait’s Essay On Political Correctness Proves His Thesis Correct
American Thinker: The Elites Bow To Mecca
BLACKFIVE: Hosting Secure Freedom Radio And Talking Iran
Conservatives4Palin: Amazing America To Feature the Motor City Madman
Don Surber: Is Scott Walker The Democratic Nightmare? GOOD.
Jammie Wearing Fools: Deranged Lefties Want Boehner Tried For Treason For Inviting Netanyahu To Speak To Congress
Joe For America: White House Pressuring Army To Let Bergdahl Go Free
JustOneMinute: Too Dumb Even For Environmentalists
Pamela Geller: Sharia Tribunal In Texas – This Is How It Starts
Protein Wisdom: Trigger Warning – “I’ve Already Seen The Bulge…”
Shot In the Dark: Trulbert! Part XXVI – Darkness Before The Damned
STUMP: Are Public Pensions Actually In Crisis? Or Is It “Just Math”?
The Gateway Pundit: Race Hoax Exposed – Cop Who Detained NYT Columnist’s Son Was Also Black
The Jawa Report: Blog Sabbath On A Wednesday – IStoned Edition
The Lonely Conservative: Seattle Residents To Be Fined For Throwing Out Too Much Food
This Ain’t Hell: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) Introduces Legislation To Half-Ass The War Against ISIS
Weasel Zipper: NOW Feminazi Mocks Joni Ernst By Wearing Bags On Her Feet
Megan McArdle: Moral Panics Won’t End College Rape
Mark Steyn: Education As Child Abuse


Administrivia: Live At Five will be on hiatus until the site’s scheduling software gets fixed. I’m tired of staying up until all hours and setting posts to go off at 5 AM only to not have them post until 2 PM after I’ve poked them.


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Category: Linkagery

U.S.-Backed Subversion in Israel?

Posted on | January 28, 2015 | 126 Comments

Alana Goodman at the Free Beacon reports astonishing news:

A U.S. State Department-funded group is financing an Israeli campaign to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and has hired former Obama aides to help with its grassroots organizing efforts.
U.S.-based activist group OneVoice International has partnered with V15, an “independent grassroots movement” in Israel that is actively opposing Netanyahu’s party in the upcoming elections, Ha’aretz reported on Monday. Former national field director for President Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign Jeremy Bird is also reportedly involved in the effort.
OneVoice development and grants officer Christina Taler said the group would be working with V15 on voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts but would not engage in overtly partisan activities. She said OneVoice and V15 are still formalizing the partnership.
While V15 has not endorsed any particular candidates, it is working to oppose Netanyahu in the March elections.

Barack Obama and John Kerry need to answer for this.

(Hat-tip: Memeorandum.)

 

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