The Other McCain

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

Andrea Dworkin . . .

Posted on | November 1, 2014 | 124 Comments

. . . could not be reached for comment:

BAY MINETTE, Ala. — By most accounts, 19-year-old Brittney Wood was with uncle Donnie Holland the night of May 30, 2012, the last time anyone saw her. Holland — who was under investigation for horrific sex crimes at the time — died from a bullet within days in what was ruled a suicide.
The investigation that followed has publicly unraveled what authorities describe as a dark, twisted tale of perversion in the working-class neighborhoods and piney backwoods of coastal Alabama.
Eight of Woods’ adult relatives and three family friends have been charged with dozens of felonies in two counties as the alleged members of an incestuous ring that authorities say shared children for group sex. Holland was the leader, prosecutors say, of what has been described as the largest sex ring ever uncovered in Alabama. Wood was a victim and likely key witness. . . .
Even without Wood to testify, two of her uncles and an older brother already have pleaded guilty to sex charges, and jurors this month convicted a friend of Holland’s of multiple sex charges in the first trial. Others — including the missing teen’s mother, Chessie Wood, and two aunts — await trial. . . .
The case is so big officials don’t know exactly how many kids inside and outside the family might have been victimized; estimates range from 11 to 16 children who were as young as 3 or 4 when they were first molested or made to watch adult relatives during drug-fueled orgies.

In case you didn’t get the headline reference to the late feminist Andrea Dworkin, here’s a quote from her 1974 book Woman Hating:

The incest taboo does the worst work of the culture: it teaches us the mechanisms of repressing and internalizing erotic feeling . . . The destruction of the incest taboo is essential to the development of cooperative human community based on the free-flow of natural androgynous eroticism. . . .
The incest taboo can be destroyed only by destroying the nuclear family as the primary institution of the culture. The nuclear family is the school of values in a sexist, sexually repressed society.

Most people have no idea of the insane hateful perversity that is feminism’s ideological core. The fundamental theories of feminism constitute a doctrine hostile to men, marriage, motherhood, morality and, ultimately, hostile to heterosexuality, per se.  But this esoteric doctrine is never the topic of discussion when feminists are engaged in public propaganda. The general audience hears only the exoteric discourse, which focuses on specific grievances and is couched in liberal rhetoric about “rights,” “equality” and “progress.”

Feminism’s inherent contradictions create cognitive dissonance, and the feminist is prone to irrationality, becoming unhinged from the stress. And since we’re on the topic of unhinged perverts:

Where to begin with Lena Dunham? First of all, we can’t imagine a world where accusations of the molestation of a younger sibling would be “LOL.” And second, while the most disturbing passage from Dunham’s book, “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s ‘Learned,’” has been covered by conservative outlets like National Review and Truth Revolt, it’s far from a “right wing news story” when those sites simply quote verbatim from Dunham’s book.

Weird things keep happening. Remember the gay men who shared their adopted son with a pedophile ring called the Boy Lovers Network? Remember “My Sister Is Pregnant and We Don’t Know Which of My Brothers is the Father”? Police in Arkansas say a 2-year-old girl died after suffering “severe internal injuries” when she was raped by her uncle. Yet amid this frightening epidemic of wickedness, Lena Dunham thinks she can write a bestselling memoir in which she confesses to doing creepy things with her baby sister and nobody can be allowed to criticize her for it? This freak has an HBO series?

Andrea Dworkin could not be reached for comment, but I get the feeling Lena might be seeing her soon enough, as she seems to be traveling at top speed down a highway that leads to the gates of Hell.

 

Category: Celebrities, Crime, Sex

I’ll Go With “Troll Of The Century”

Posted on | November 1, 2014 | 13 Comments

by Smitty

I mean, there is using someone else’s name to prove a point about voter fraud, but then there is going after Snidely Whiplash himself:

In my opinion, O’Keefe

boldly blazes beyond brass balls,
triumphantly treads titanium
testicle territory!

Category: Uncategorized

FMJRA 2.0: Astradyne

Posted on | November 1, 2014 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

New Rule On Firearms Reporting: No Benefit Of The Doubt For Inaccuracy
A View from the Beach

FMJRA 2.0: I Can’t Breathe Anymore
Batshit Crazy News
The Pirate’s Cove
That Mr. G Guy

Saturday Afternoon College Football & Open Post
Regular Right Guy
SimpleNewz

Police Say Dance Teacher Admitted Lesbian Sex With 15-Year-Old Student
Scoop.it
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.27.14
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

The Gay Hate Machine
Batshit Crazy News
That Mr. G Guy

‘Overpopulated’? With Liberals, Perhaps
Batshit Crazy News
That Mr. G Guy

The Crazy Feminism of Joyce Trebilcot
Batshit Crazy News
The DaleyGator
That Mr. G Guy

“Remember the Time Warner Voted Against Obama?” Said No One. Ever.
Batshit Crazy News
That Mr. G Guy
Regular Right Guy

Elections Have Consequences. Will GOP Victory = ‘Consequences’ Consequences?
Batshit Crazy News

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.28.14
A View from the Beach

Another Feminist ‘Success’ Story
That Mr. G Guy
The DaleyGator

The Problem of ‘Equality’
The Camp of the Saints
Batshit Crazy News
That Mr. G Guy

When Parody Unites With The Subject
The DaleyGator
Batshit Crazy News
That Mr. G Guy

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.29.14
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

Police: High School Dance Teacher, 37, Had Lesbian Sex With Girl, 16
Inoperable Terran
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
That Mr. G Guy

Did Pervert @LenaDunham Make Her Younger Sister Grace a Lesbian?
I’m 41
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.30.14
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

Racism, Classism and Catcalling (or, #Feminism Is for Rich White Lesbians)
That Mr. G Guy
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

Retro Love For Kaci Hickox
That Mr. G Guy
Regular Right Guy

Women’s Studies Major Gets Spanked
That Mr. G Guy
Da Tech Guy
Regular Right Guy

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.31.14
Batshit Crazy News
That Mr. G Guy
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive

Hateful Bigoted Incestophobes!
Scoop.it

Top linkers this week:

  1.  (tied) Batshit Crazy News and That Mr. G Guy (17)
  2.  A View from the Beach (8)
  3.  Regular Right Guy (7)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links for next week is noon on Saturday, November 8.

Bonus linkagery:
Mary Katherine Ham: “Frozen” Is Just Disney’s “The Shining”

Category: FMJRA Award

Hateful Bigoted Incestophobes!

Posted on | October 31, 2014 | 32 Comments

Earlier today I was reading The [Un]Documented Mark Steyn, which has many things to say about the West’s heedless descent into degeneracy — wealthy gay men employing surrogate mothers as womb-for-hire baby-makers and so forth — and then I returned to the computer to find that New York State’s highest court has ruled that an uncle has the constitutional right to have sex with his niece.

The Creepy Uncle Clause is probably right there in the Constitution next to the Emerging Awareness Doctrine that Justice Kennedy used to legalize sodomy in the Lawrence v. Texas case.

However, sophisticated ideals of social progress haven’t made much headway in Louisiana where, believe it or not, it is still considered illegal to have sex with dogs or 3-year-olds on video.

 

Category: Constitution, Crime, Sex

“He Was A Very Nice Boy…He Used To Write Science Fiction”

Posted on | October 31, 2014 | 32 Comments

— by Wombat-socho


I am speaking, of course, about Neal Stephenson, who after two unsuccessful novels broke out with the wildly successful Snow Crash, a wild tale about hackers, feudal corporatism, an Aleutian with a nuke, and a girl and her dog. He followed that up with the even more complex and fascinating The Diamond Age…and then there was Cryptonomicon. Cryptonomicon was an outstanding book that jumped back and forth between World War II and the present, with cryptography tying it all together, but whatever it was, it sure wasn’t science fiction, and it didn’t really fit in the technothriller genre box either. It was still popular with science fiction fans, and a lot of other folks bought it too. The Baroque Cycle departed even further from SF, being a three-part historical novel set in the 17th and 18th centuries. Stephenson insists that it’s SF due to some mysterious events that take place and the novels’ concentration on technology, cryptology and numismatics, but he may be the only person that believes this. With the exception of the monumentally boring Anathem -the first piece of writing by Stephenson I had to push myself to finish, hoping he’d pull a rabbit out of the hat and make the dull, boring book exciting at last- he’s avoided the genre lately in favor of historical novels co-written with a squad of other folks (The Mongoliad) or mainstream novels that, like Cryptonomicon, have a lot to do with the Internet and the people that use it, whether they’re MMORPG magnates, fantasy novelists, or deranged Russian mafiosi. I am speaking, of course, of Reamde, which resembles its predecessor Cryptonomicon quite a bit but doesn’t have nearly as much annoying and obtrusive mathematical equations interrupting the narrative.

I like Stephenson’s writing quite a bit; his non-fiction pieces are every bit as interesting as his fiction, and I think I’d pay to pick up a collection of them. One of the things I like about his writing is that for somebody who grew up in academia (admittedly, the engineering and science side) Stephenson exchanged his disdain for middle-class working folks for serious respect, and you can see this very clearly if you compare the “meshbacks” in Snow Crash to the Forthrasts in Reamde. It’s not something you see a lot of in mainstream fiction these days, and it deserves kudos. As for The Mongoliad, I have finished the first three volumes and am probably going to pick up the rest as they become available at the county library. It’s historical fiction that diverges from actual history somewhat in its explanation of the death of Ogedai Khan and the abrupt cessation of the Mongol invasion of Europe; its depiction of the brief reign of Pope Celestine IV also plays fast and loose with history. Still, they are entertaining books, and despite the contributions of the other authors (including Greg Bear) the Mongoliad comes off as a Neal Stephenson novel, with attention paid to the fine details of combat and characters alike.

On the non-fiction side of the house, I finished Rick Atkinson’s The Guns at Last Light, which covers World War II in Western Europe from 1944-45, and in its own way is every bit as bloody and gore-spattered as Stephenson’s tales of the Mongol invasion. Being a sometime student of military history and a wargamer, I was conscious in an academic way of the staggering casualties and materiel losses involved in the reconquest of Europe and the fall of the Third Reich, but Atkinson’s book brought it all home in a way that no previous history had before. Atkinson quotes dozens, possibly hundreds of soldiers, sailors and airmen who did not survive the war, and spares nothing in his account of the grisly battles from Normandy Beach through the Hurtgen Forest and into the concentration camps. I don’t know if I’ll ever re-read it, but it was definitely worth reading once.

At the moment, I’m splitting my attention between two books: Bill James’ Popular Crime, which is a fascinating book about infamous crimes, the criminals who commit them (or were convicted of them; not always the same thing) and the times in which they occurred. James first rose to public notice as a student of baseball, the coiner of the word “sabermetrics” to describe that study, and the author of several books on the subject, including the fascinating Historical Baseball Abstract, but lately he’s been branching out into other matters that interest him, and he’s very much worth your time. The other book is an old favorite, Samuel Eliot Morison’s The Two-Ocean War, a condensation of his epic fifteen-volume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, which is without question the best-written and most enjoyable of the four official military histories published by the U.S. Armed Forces. Neither are available in Kindle format, unfortunately, but at $3.96 for a used hardback copy, The Two-Ocean War is an absolute steal.

Inadvertently omitted from last week’s book post, was David Drake and S.M. Stirling’s Hope Rearmed, the second volume in the third reissue by Baen of the Raj Whitehall novels. This time the series has been republished in three two-book collections, with The Chosen (best described as Raj Whitehall and Center vs. the Draka) added to round out the original five novels. Same books, of course, but it looks like someone at Baen went through and removed the more numerous annoying typos that infested the first two editions. Worth picking up if you don’t have either of the first two editions on hand.


Joe’s Garage Acts I II & III

Category: Books

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.31.14

Posted on | October 31, 2014 | 10 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
FBI’s Most Wanted Fugitive Eric Frein Captured Alive

Captured by US Marshals at airport near Tannersville

Suspect was armed, but no shots fired
Capture of accused cop killer saves Halloween
Death penalty sought

Russia, Ukraine, EU Reach Gas Deal
Moscow agrees not to shut off the heat in Europe this winter

Former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino Dead At 71
The Hub’s longest-serving mayor reshaped the city; died after long battle with cancer



POLITICS
Shaheen, Brown Clash In Final Debate

Shaking hands before last night’s debate

RCP shows race as tossup; last poll by WMUR shows Brown trailing by 8

GOP Calls For Halt To Gitmo Transfers Over ISIS Concerns

Obama Rallies Maine Voters, Avoids Spat Over Ebola


Talks With Hickox Break Down, Gov. LePage Vows To Use “Full Extent” Of His Authority

Marine Dad Banned From School After Objecting To Daughter’s Islam Homework

Mary Landrieu Plays The Race Card

Economy, Global Threats Shred Dems’ #WarOnWomen Playbook

Reuters/Ipsos: Braley, Ernst In Dead Heat For Iowa Senate Seat



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
WTI Set For Biggest Monthly Drop Since 2012 – Bears On The Rampage: WTI $80.95, Brent $85.85
Asia Shares Rise On Brightening US Prospects
Starbucks Looking To Delivery As Sales Disappoint
US Economy Grew 3.5% In Q3
Walmart To Expand Discounts As Retail Price War Heats Up
Unemployment Claims Up For Second Week
Android Creator Andy Rubin Leaving Google
Apple CEO Tim Cook: I, Too, Am Gay
Lenovo Completes Motorola Mobility Buy, Becomes India’s #3 Phone Maker
FCC “Net Neutrality” Plan Calls For More Power Over Broadband
Amazon Giving Away Apps Instead Of Candy This Halloween



SPORTS
Saints Top Panthers 28-10,

Drew Brees: one in the air, one on the ground FTW

Win puts Saints in first place in the NFC South

Devils Finally Win A Shootout, Tip Jets 2-1

FSU Still Undefeated Despite Shaky Start By Winston


Blackhawks Beat Sens In Shootout,  5-4

MGM In Preliminary Talks To Bring NHL To Las Vegas

Pomp, Circumstance, And A Stinker For LeBron And The Cavs

Canucks Top Habs 3-2 In OT

Blazers Beat Thunder 106-89 In Opener

Timbermutts Hold Off Pistons To Win Home Opener



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Rihanna, Miley Compete For Best Cleavage At amFAR Event

I denounce myself.

“…bondage-inspired getup…” No, really?

“Game Of Thrones” Cast Signs For Season Seven With Big Raises

AMC Lands “The Night Manager” With Hugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston

Seth Rogen To Play Steve Wozniak In Jobs Biopic

Cosby Canceled From Queen Latifah After Rape Allegations Resurface

Angelina Jolie Goes Bombshell Blonde

Lindsay Lohan, Brother Facing $60 Million Lawsuit

Russian Thugs Arrested In Porn Star Rape

Mary-Kate Olsen, Olivier Sarkozy Not Married Despite Rumors Of Secret Nuptials



FOREIGNERS
Burkina Faso Army Topples Government After Day Of Violent Protests; President Vows To Stay On
Sweden Recognizes Palestine
Hong Kong Students Consider Taking Protest To Beijing
Abductee Talks Between Japan, Norks Yield Little Progress
Mexican Police Questioned In Kidnap, Murder Of Three American Students
Myanmar’s President, Army Chief Hold Rare Talks With Opposition Leader Suu Kyi
Indian Government Cuts Costs: No First-Class Flights For Babus
Hagel Admits US Attacks On ISIS May Help Assad
Hopes Fade For 100 Buried In Sri Lanka Landslide
Key Haqqani Commander Among Seven Killed In Drone Hit
US, Australia Drop Sanctions Against Fiji



BLOGS & STUFF
Doug Powers: NARAL Warns Of Condomless Apocalyptic Future If Cory Gardner’s Elected
Twitchy: Don’t Tell Oliver Willis But The Green Lantern Corps Is Scraping Bottom
American Power: Skewedenfreude
American Thinker: Why It’s Time For Libertarians To Vote For Republicans
Conservatives4Palin: Put A Sock In It, Dick.
Don Surber: Political Forecasters Flock Together
Jammie Wearing Fools: Sleazy MSNBC Host Scams Real Estate Broker Out Of $1.2 Million
Joe For America: Islamic Indoctrination In Schools Heating Up
JustOneMinute: None Dare Call It Race-Baiting
Pamela Geller: Ebola Jihad – Spanish Intelligence Uncovers Plot To Weaponize Ebola
Protein Wisdom: If You Aren’t Freaked Out By What Was Done To Sharyl Attkisson…
Shot In The Dark: Delayed Karma’s Gonna Getcha
The Gateway Pundit: Two “Stop The Violence” Organizers Arrested For Beating Roommate Unconscious
The Jawa Report: Awesome! Foreign Fighters Flooding Into Syria “Faster Than Ever”
The Lonely Conservative: Clear Path For Veterans – Supporting The Journey Home
This Ain’t Hell: First Women To Earn EIB Are Korean
Weasel Zippers: 92% Of Marine Casualties In Afghanistan Occurred Under Obama
Megan McArdle: Republicans Riding An OK Wave To Victory


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Category: Live at Five

Women’s Studies Major Gets Spanked

Posted on | October 30, 2014 | 81 Comments

Literally. @LoriAdorable is the Twitter handle of a feminist who calls her Tumblr feed “woman-centered anti-oppression analysis”:

Lori Adorable started out by taking a different (though hardly avant-garde) approach to being naked on the Internet. She wanted to de-objectify herself as an exhibitionist submissive woman by placing her public displays of sexuality within the context of her whole messy self. She uses the same name to do nude, erotic, fetish, and porn modeling as she does to write and speak about her experiences with sex work, mental illness, abuse, and chronic disability, as well as her feminist politics. . . .
Lori currently works as a ‘fetish professional’ while finishing up her undergraduate degree in women’s studies on a part-time basis. She hopes to transition to sex and sexuality education and freelance writing upon graduation . . .

Uh, yeah. Keep telling yourself that, sweetheart.

A couple days ago, I wanted to link to one of my most popular blog posts ever, “Hard Times for Gender Studies Major”:

“I have a honors BA and I’m defending my MA thesis in two weeks. I am also apply [sic] for jobs and I can only find stuff in the service industry. I applied for a Hotel Front Desk Clerk job today. My degrees mean NOTHING. I am at the end of my rope.”

That August 2013 post went so viral, it had its own Memeorandum thread and, while I was linking it, I noticed that in the quoted Twitter exchange, the Gender Studies major was conversing with @LoriAdorable.

Out of idle curiosity — “Gee, Stacy, how do you find these freaks?” — and knowing nothing at all about @LoriAdorable‘s self-described interests until I checked her Twitter stream, I saw where she had Tweeted a link to one of her, uh, fetish submissive gigs.

Two words: Spanking porn.

Now, on the one hand, I strongly disapprove of pornography. On the other hand, anybody who majors in Women’s Studies probably needs to be spanked, and often, and by someone who knows how.

So this discovery — remember, I am a professional journalist who has been researching radical feminism for the past four months — really put me into a quandary as to how it should be, uh, reported.

You have to ask yourself: Do you want to see really this? And by “this,” I mean a Women’s Studies major naked, getting spanked with a belt and then getting some patriarchal oppression in her mouth. The description is bad enough, but YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Read more

Category: Education, Feminism, Sex Trouble

Retro Love For Kaci Hickox

Posted on | October 30, 2014 | 9 Comments

by Smitty

“Jaws was never my scene / And I don’t like Star Wars”

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Category: Music, Video
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