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LIVE AT FIVE: 01.13.15

Posted on | January 13, 2015 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
White House Admits Not Sending Someone To Paris Rally Was A Mistake

Josh Earnest, for once not defending the indefensible

Earnest refused to give details about discussions regarding the decision
Optics politics: Why Obama skipped the Paris rally
“Ambassadonor” Jane Hartley shows Obama’s solidarity
Doubling down: Charlie Hebdo’s next cover is another Mohammed cartoon

Nigerian Government Reduces Death Toll From Borno Attacks To 150
Claims local officials exaggerated scale of attacks
Cameroon repels Boko Haram attack, killing 143

Pope Calls For Pursuit Of Truth Over Sri Lanka’s Violent Past
Kicks off Pacific tour by seemingly appealing for reconciliation commission
Sri Lanka’s Catholics hope to heal war wounds



POLITICS
Paul Ryan: Not Running In 2016

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) at a campaign appearance with Mitt Romney in 2012

Wants to focus on his work; recently appointed chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee

Antonio Weis Withdraws From Consideration For Treasury Post

ISIS Allies Hack CENTCOM Twitter, YouTube Accounts

Administration Finally Issues Obamacare Tax Forms

Harris In, Newsom Out Of CA 2016 Senate Race

Van Hollen, House Dems Push For Tax Increases, Wealth Redistribution

Federal Judge Strikes Down SD Gay Marriage Ban

Albuquerque Tea Party Still In Limbo Five Years After Filing For Tax-Exempt Status



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Oil Extends “Disconcerting” Fall: WTI $45.36, Brent $46.73
PRC December Exports Beat Expectations, But Pressures Persist
Nikkei Leads Asian Shares Down, Following US Stocks
Cadbury Creme Egg Change Angers Chocolate Lovers
Wall Street Sinks On Sliding Oil; Gold, Bonds Benefit
Minnesota Sees Modest Crop Results
Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Up 1% In Q4
Microsoft Blasts Google For Exposing Windows Bugs Before They’re Patched
Instagram Patches Flaw That Lets Anyone See Your Private Pics
GameStop Announces Plans To Use XBox One Server Cloud Technology
“Call Of Duty Online” Goes Live In China



SPORTS
Ducks Choke On Buckeyes 42-20

Ezekiel Elliott celebrates after a second-half touchdown

Four turnovers not enough for Oregon to stop Ohio State

Fox Fired As Broncos Coach After Four Winning Seasons

Flyers Ride The Lightning 7-3

Harden Scores 30 As Rockets Rout Nyets


Caps Edge Avs 2-1 For Sixth Straight Home Win

White Sox Avoid Arbitration With Viciedo

Celtics Hold Off Pelicans, 108-100

Nationals, Mets And Rays Reportedly Discussed Desmond Deal



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Why Everyone At The Golden Globes Looked Uncomfortably Sweaty…

Amy Adams, because even by my low standards, those other women looked fugly.

…or not. (spoiler: the a/c was working after all)


Brian Williams “Not Fazed” By Daughter’s Sex Scene


Are Leo DiCaprio And Rihanna A Thing?


Angelina Jolie “Hurt”, “Upset” By Golden Globes Snub

Usher Gets Engaged To Longtime Girlfriend

Sony Honcho Amy Pascal Skips Golden Globes

Eminem Grants Wish to Terminally Ill Fan

Meet The Globes’ Mystery Winner, Ruth Wilson



FOREIGNERS
France Deploys Over 10,000 Troops To Guard Vulnerable Sites
Divers Retrieve Crashed AirAsia Jet’s Cockpit Voice Recorder
Kerry Praises Pakistani Military
Administration Officials Say Cuba Has Freed 53 Political Prisoners
UK PM Cameron Suggests Banning Encrypted Apps
Former Mexican Mayor’s Wife Sent To Prison
Nigerian Archbishop Accuses West Of Ignoring Boko Haram
Pakistan National Security Advisor Accuses India Of Attacking Pakistan From Afghanistan
German Anti-Islamist Rally Swells After French Attacks
Pro-Democracy HK Newspaper Tycoon’s Home, Office Firebombed
Putin Uses Ukraine Tensions As Excuse To Skip Auschwitz Commemoration



BLOGS & STUFF
Proof Positive: Before You Argue The Point, Know Your Bible First
Michelle Malkin: Media Cowards And The Cartoon Jihad
Twitchy: “Grade A Hypocrisy” Sally Kohn Says We Must All Be Careful Not To Infringe On Liberty
American Power: Who’s Printing The New Charlie Hebdo Cover And Who Isn’t
American Thinker: The New Privileged Class – Illegal Immigrants
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Dark Skies By Matthew Dunn
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: The Unspeakable Crime Of Noticing Things
Conservatives4Palin: Go Ration Yourself, Ezekiel Emanuel
Don Surber: This Isn’t National News? EVIL.
Jammie Wearing Fools: Dumbest Story Of The Day From WaPo – “France Has Strict Gun Laws. Why Didn’t That Save Charlie Hebdo Victims?”
Joe For America: 2,000 Black Lives In Nigeria Don’t Matter
JustOneMinute: Lafayette, We Are Not Here
Pamela Geller: Hamas/CAIR Demands Fox Drop Those Speaking The Truth About Jihad
Protein Wisdom: Hey, What Happened To The Phrase “I’m Not Anti-Semitic, I’m Anti-Zionist”?
Shot In The Dark: Do You Remember…
The Gateway Pundit: Ralph Peters – “Yesterday President Obama Chose The Side Of Terrorists!”
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Islamic Terrorism And You
The Lonely Conservative: Beware Democrats Promising Gifts To The Middle Class
This Ain’t Hell: Two More Female Marines Dropped From Infantry Course
Weasel Zippers: The VA Strikes Again – Veteran Dies Of Cancer After Waiting A Year For Screening
Megan McArdle: Obama’s College Plan Bows To Elites
Mark Steyn: The Trouser Press


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Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Monday: Midnight Snack

Posted on | January 12, 2015 | 18 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

“I just want a little piece of you/For my midnight snack…”
-The Donnas

Better late than never, right? As usual, some links lead to pix normally considered NSFW, so use discretion when clicking.

Thinking Man’s Zombie leads off this week, crossing the streams of Dr. Who and Rule 5; hard on his heels is Average Bubba with Rule 5 Friday. Goodstuff gets weird this week with Ivanka Trump (also Anita Ekberg), and Ninety Miles from Tyranny has Girls With Guns, Hot Pick of the Late Night – Goa!!!, and the Morning Mistress. Animal Magnetism also has Rule 5 Friday, plus the Saturday Gingermageddon; Loose Endz returns with Miss January, and First Street Journal turns his attention to the distaff side of the French Gendarmerie.

EBL has some odd critters in the herd this week, starting with Pudding and Bubbly, Nadia Marcinkova, an intersectional post with Vlad Putin and Anjem Choudhary (don’t say you weren’t warned), Virginia Roberts, more of the annoying imam Anjem C., Panthers v. Seahawks, Cowboys v. Packers, RIP Anita Ekberg, Winners and Losers, and Rand Paul: Asset & Liability.

A View from the Beach has Kate Moss, “My Immortal”, Wombat Thursday, Girls with ‘Gun’, I Think She Did A Bang Up Job For A First Time!, Lab Study Shows Boys Like Girls in Small, Tight Clothes, The Fox News Song, Ultimate Nerd Porn, and Wildcard: Ravens vs. Steelers.

At Soylent Siberia, it’s your weekly coffee creamer, Overnighty Sublime (almost sounds like a Bond Girl),  Monday Motivationator: Couched In Awesome, Found A New HEADer Artist For You, Irish, Evening Awesome: Grass-Fed, Tuesday Titillation Titanic, Overnighty Chest of Drawers, And For My Minions Using The Julian Calendar…, Overnighty Afterglow, Falconsword Fursday With Funbags, Corset Friday Configurations, T-GIF Friday Disco, Overnighty Peek-a-boo, Weekender Hardboiled Dick, and Bath Night – Tight Spaces.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Sonni Pacheco, his Vintage Babe is Dorothy Dandridge, Sex in Advertising has Heidi Klum in the shower, and there’s also a double dip of NFL cheerleaders. At Dustbury, it’s Taylor Swift and Nina Dobrev.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox is midnight on Saturday, January 17.

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Category: Rule 5

Feminism and Sex: ‘Bad, Dumb, and Desperately Unfun and Unsexy’

Posted on | January 12, 2015 | 65 Comments

Anna Merlan’s verdict on a destined-for-infamy scene in Girls can best be understood as a verdict on Lena Dunham’s feminist ethos.

Dunham’s ethos, in turn, can best be understood as an expression of the decadent cultural values of 21st-century “progressives”:

They are the Nowhere People — rootless, without loyalty to family, community or religious tradition, and thus “free” to create for themselves imagined identities and idiosyncratic belief systems. Although they usually think of themselves as unique individuals, they are really sheep in a herd, predictable and therefore ultimately boring. Any politics, as long as it’s not conservative politics; any religion as long as it’s not Christian religion; any sexuality as long as it’s not normal sexuality.

So when HBO provides a dishonest pervert like Lena Dunham a platform from which to promote these values, our objections and criticisms are automatically rejected as illegitimate if expressed in terms of our own preferences — Christian, conservative, normal.

Dunham deliberately degrades the most attractive actress on the show — Allison Williams, daughter of NBC News anchor Brian Williams — by depicting her engaged in a shameful (to say nothing of unhealthy) kind of depraved sexual activity, and why? Because it is necessary, in the feminist mind, to believe that human beings are incapable of finding pleasure in sex that is healthy, wholesome and consistent with traditional morality. A husband and wife happily having normal intercourse together? This is impossible, according to feminist theory, which construes heterosexual love is inherently oppressive to women.

“Male sexual violence against women and ‘normal’ heterosexual intercourse are essential to patriarchy because they establish the dominance of the penis over the vagina, and thus the power relations between the sexes. . . . There are numerous examples of ways that heterosexual practice establishes male domination in women’s most private and personal spheres. . . . Men see women as objects for their sexual gratification.”
— Dee Graham, Loving to Survive: Sexual Terror, Men’s Violence, and Women’s Lives (1994)

Heterosexual intercourse — note how Professor Graham placed “normal” inside scare-quotes — is a horrific experience inflicted on women through “male domination,” you see. If a male obtains “sexual gratification” from a woman through “heterosexual practice,” this means she has been victimized by his “sexual violence.”

Feminism’s implacable hostility to marriage and motherhood — especially as these institutions are understood by Christians — inevitably produces a rhetoric that is anti-male and anti-heterosexual. Male sexuality must be demonized, and women’s universal victimhood asserted, in order to justify the feminist project of destroying the basic institutions our society. The feminist rhetoric of “gender,” aimed at subverting our normal understanding of masculinity and femininity, is an integral part of this project. Normal women prefer masculine men and normal men prefer feminine women. Therefore, if feminists can teach young people to reject their normal “gender roles” by teaching them that these roles are oppressive, this androgynous “equality” will make it more difficult for young people to form normal relationships as adults.

“Social constructions of gender, like power, stem from patriarchal ideologies . . .
“Environmentally speaking, gender is independent of sex . . . and signifies the social constructedness of what maleness and femaleness mean in a given culture. The hierarchy that implicitly positions men above women due to reproductive difference, is a harmful one.”
— Amy Austin, “Patriarchy and the Problem of Being Born Female,” Aug. 9, 2014

Parents who wish their children to be successful and happy adults, and who therefore encourage boys to be masculine and girls to feminine, are seen by feminists as part of a system that oppresses unhappy weirdos and miserable failures. In order to satisfy the resentments of unattractive women, the normal admiration of beauty must be prohibited — the “male gaze” reduces females to being “sex objects.” In order to compensate unhappy women for their personal failures, male achievement must be derogated as social injustice — men’s success is presumed to be unfairly obtained through discrimination against women.

These feminist beliefs serve the function of telling unhappy women that they are never responsibile for their own unhappiness, and the propagation of this belief system provides career opportunities for women like Lena Dunham whose only claim to fame is her devotion to feminist ideology. No matter how wretched Girls may be — it’s supposed to be a “comedy” — critics feel obligated to praise it, because Dunham presents herself as a feminist and the show’s themes are therefore interpreted as feminist messages, even if this involves the celebration of Allison Williams getting a “desperately unfun” rimjob.

The editors of Huffington Post are required to heap unmerited praise on “the incisive, witty and hilarious dialogue that Dunham and the rest of her writing team come up with every week,” and cite as examples these lines from the first episode of the HBO show’s fourth season:

Hannah on preparing to move: “I don’t usually pack. I usually leave my crap in a pile and hope it makes it to where I’m going.”
Shosh on life after college: “I finished my degree. And now I’m just in the world, trying to get ‘er done.”

How incisive! How witty! How hilarious! Between this alleged brilliance and Allison Williams getting a rimjob, we can expect Lena Dunham to collect another pile of Emmy Awards for Girls.

No one can be permitted to criticize this phenomenon as what it actually is — a deliberately perverse insult to our sense of human decency — because telling the truth about feminism is a hate crime.




 

 

Category: Feminism, Sex Trouble

The Higher Education Bubble: Feminist Postmodern Literary Criticism, Ph.D.

Posted on | January 12, 2015 | 80 Comments

The following specimen of decadent uselessness was produced by Laura Alexander, “a PhD candidate in English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her scholarly interests include Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature, feminist theory, and women’s writing, and her research typically leads her to take interdisciplinary approaches to literature in her writing”:

In “The Laugh of the Medusa,” Hélène Cixous proposes l’ecriture feminine as a model that allows feminine desire, the language of the body, to reconstitute expression as a revolutionary movement against the masculine rhetorical structure that has defined language over time. . . .
Because feminine writing represents expression not only as writing but also as lived experience through the recreation of and through the body, I am focusing on Cixous’s model of a multidimensional being free from the constraints imposed on her through time. By employing female sexuality as a new feminine rhetoric, Cixous seeks to project expression through the image of the medusa, which symbolizes both feminine writing and feminism as a cultural, political, and linguistic movement. Just as the serpents on the medusa’s head reject the Freudian location of heterosexual feminine desires as active to passive sexual desire, so too must the many female selves (the metaphorical serpents unleashed) spread in diverse directions for fluid, feminine expression. . . .
Rather than phallocentric language that proposes lack as a perpetual human state, feminine writing offers woman a means to articulate the inner, silent she. As Cixous exhorts women to write the body, she argues that woman’s writing will redraw the politics of pleasure, allowing woman to release her many selves. These multiple selves correspond to the metaphoric snakes on the medusa’s head, also erogenous zones of the body, which cannot be liberated in a phallocentric system because they engender fear in “the abyss” that the “two horrifying myths” of castration and loss imply. . . .
Whereas “masculine sexuality gravitates around the penis,” female sexuality roves in “immense astral space not organized around any one sun” . . . Just so with feminine writing, which laughs through the medusa head and its discursive parts at language that imposes form on the formless. Unorganized through male dominated forms, the woman as medusa is woman as giver, no longer a commodity in a masculine economy but creative of “life, thought, [and] transformation” . . . The reconstitution of feminine writing and the female relationship with the male displaces Lacan’s Symbolic formulation of the dominating phallus because it possesses no order, no fixed binary. . . .

The whole thing is over 4,000 words, if you care to escape “the masculine rhetorical structure that has defined language over time” and enter the vortex of madness that is postmodern feminism.

 

Category: Feminism

A Call For A Statute Of Limitations On Cheap Equivalences

Posted on | January 12, 2015 | 32 Comments

by Smitty

I’ve had about a belly full of this noise, emphasis mine:

it’s plain that some branches or interpretations of the faith view any depictions of the Prophet Mohammed as blasphemy. That doesn’t mean that all Muslims who see such depictions as blasphemy think the appropriate response is violence; far from it. But a radical few do, and, as Middle East commentator Juan Cole has argued, they exploit such defamations against the prophet to try to radicalize others in the faith.
Unfortunately, there are some in the West who think all of Islam is tainted, and who — despite there being plenty of violence and intolerance in the texts and histories of Judaism and Christianity — believe Islam is somehow uniquely violent and intolerant. But when we mistakenly believe that a narrow and violent interpretation of Islam is the only true version, we play right into the hands of the radical zealots who want the world, including all Muslims, to believe precisely that.

So, are you saying that Bibi Netanyahu and modern Israel bear some responsibility for The Exodus and the Book of Judges? That modern Roman Catholics bear some responsibility for the Crusades? It’s hard to tell in what way contemporary people of faith are being equated with barbaric murderers here.

Perhaps Kohn could offer a  URL to a more full treatment of the subject, so that the reader can determine to what degree she’s carrying water for the anti-Enlightenment force known as  Progress.

The irony of “we play right into the hands of the radical zealots” is that this is precisely what Kohn and ilk are doing. Not that I wish violence on Sally: No, I wish consciousness.

(via Hot Air)

 

Category: CNN, Media Bias

The New Exodus

Posted on | January 11, 2015 | 169 Comments

The four Jews killed in an attack on a kosher market in Paris will be buried in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced and, despite absurd leftist hysteria about “Islamophobia,” we need not doubt who is targeted by the real climate of hate in France:

A survey of French Muslims in 2014 found a community seething with anti-Semitism. Sixty-seven percent said “yes” when asked whether Jews had too much power over France’s economy. Sixty-one percent believed Jews had too much power in France’s media.

Jamie Kirchick recalls his trip to Paris last year:

The rabbi happened to be walking out of the synagogue with his wife. After dispensing with the facts of my Jewish background and American citizenship, I promptly asked, “What’s the situation?” Our shared patrimony obviated any need for further elaboration; as a European Jew addressing an American one, he knew exactly at what I was aiming. “There is no future for Jews in France,” he said.
If the Rabbi is right, and I fear he is, then it means that there is no future for Jews in Europe. For France is home to the continent’s largest Jewish community, numbered at over half a million. But it is declining rapidly. Emigration to Israel from France doubled in 2014 from 3,400 to 7,000 people. According to Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption, the number of Jews leaving Western Europe for the Jewish State increased 88 percent last year.

The Jew-haters are winning, in France as everywhere else, because the West’s intellectual elite are dishonest, decadent and cowardly.

(Hat-tip: Allahpundit at Hot Air.)

 

Category: France, Islam, Israel, Terrorism

Asked and Answered

Posted on | January 11, 2015 | 26 Comments

Headline at National Review:

Why Do the Media Refer to
‘the Prophet Mohammed’?

Always happy to be of assistance.

 

Category: Islam, Terrorism

FMJRA 2.0: Pretty Pink Rose

Posted on | January 11, 2015 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Pretty Pink Rose

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Muslim Fanatic Defends Savage Murders by Fanatical Murderous Muslim Savages
Batshit Crazy News
Big Food, Big Garden, Big Life
Lonely Conservative
Regular Right Guy
Bits Blog
Law Of Markets
Cragin Media

Rule 5 Sunday: Happy New Year!
Animal Magnetism
Average Bubba
Political Rift
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach
Ninety Miles from Tyranny

Ex-Teenage Hooker Says She Was Forced to Have Sex With British Royalty
Batshit Crazy News
Da Tech Guy

In The Mailbox, 01.02.15
The Pirate’s Cove

Mental Illness on Parade
Political Hat

Three Home Invaders Shot After Trying to Rape Man’s 19-Year-Old Granddaughter
Political Hat
A View from the Beach

Best Mug Shot — Ever!
A View from the Beach

How to Become a Cat Lady
Batshit Crazy News
Gay Patriot

FMJRA 2.0: Day Late And A Dollar Short, New Year’s Edition
Batshit Crazy News

FBI Arrests Man and Woman in Maine for Pimping Runaway 13-Year-Old Girl
Political Rift
Batshit Crazy News

House of Representatives PSA
That Mr. G Guy
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

The World Is Safe From Me Cramming Wool Up My Backside & Using It To Knit
That Mr. G Guy
Regular Right Guy
Thinking Man’s Zombie
Batshit Crazy News

Feminism’s Campaign of Sexual Terror
That Mr. G Guy
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Observing The Decline

Man Rapes 7-Year-Old Girl at Gunpoint, Infects Her With Chlamydia
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News

REVEALED: Colonel Jessup’s Bean Jones
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox, 01.06.15
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

UPDATED: MUSLIM TERRORISTS ATTACK MAGAZINE OFFICE IN PARIS, KILL 12; AL-QAEDA IN YEMEN?
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
That Mr. G Guy
A View from the Beach

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.07.15
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach

OFFICIALS IDENTIFY THREE ISLAMIC TERRORISTS IN FRENCH ATTACK
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.08.15
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach

What I Read On My Christmas Vacation
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Political Rift
That Mr. G Guy

TERROR IN FRANCE: POLICE KILL MUSLIM FANATICS IN STANDOFFS; UPDATE: HUNT FOR FEMALE TERRORIST BOUMEDDIENE
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
That Mr. G Guy

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.09.15
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive

Shootout in Shawnee, Kansas
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News

Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (19)
  2.  Regular Right Guy (11)
  3.  That Mr. G Guy (10)
  4.  A View from the Beach (6)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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