LIVE AT FIVE: 11.26.14

“Fox and CNN viewers witnessed a police car, a car dealership and the local Little Caesar’s Pizza set ablaze, a beauticians’ store looted, a McDonald’s with its windows smashed — and ‘Full circle: Liquor store Michael Brown accused of robbing being looted.'”
— Ed Driscoll, Nov. 24, 2014

The grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, returned a “no bill” against police officer Darren Wilson, and devotees of the slain Saint Michael Brown — a martyr to the Holy Cause, in the eyes of idolators who worship at the Civil Rights altar — engaged in a ritual riot, while the High Priest of Social Justice, Barack Obama, gave a ceremonial press statement.

Why?

That question goes unasked in the wall-to-wall cable TV news coverage. Because I’m up to my eyeballs in a book project, I don’t have time to pay attention to every Major National News Story that comes along, but I’ve spent the past three months wondering, “Why Ferguson?”

I'm hundreds of miles away from Missouri. You're probably hundreds of miles away from Missouri. Why let cable TV tell you what "news" is?

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) November 25, 2014

It’s like Trayvon Martin. The basic idea of that drama was, a black teenager got shot by a white man and this was an injustice.

Of course, black teenagers are shot to death on a daily basis in America, but because they are usually killed by other black teenagers, there is nothing in the death of a young hoodlum of interest to the Civil Rights cult unless the shooter is white (or at least half-white, as it turned out that George Zimmerman’s mother is Hispanic). This cultural phenomenon is so obvious, one hesitates to state it so explicitly: “Civil Rights” has been re-defined to mean “whatever gives black people an excuse to hate white people more than they already do,” and the journalistic establishment is committed to inciting such hatred.

A white person has to be pretty goddamned privileged, if I may borrow that phrase from the social-justice theorists, to pander to professional grievance-mongers in such a blatantly irresponsible manner. You need a degree from an elite college, and a job in media or academia that pays you a handsome salary, in order to be the kind of white person who believes that stoking black anger is beneficial to society, and yet it is clear that many white liberals do believe this.

“In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.”
– William F. Buckley Jr., Up From Liberalism (1959)

Excuse me for re-using that Buckley quote, but we cannot understand liberalism without recognizing it as an effect of indoctrination.

Why do liberals “think” the way they do? In fact, they don’t actually think at all. Our elite are utterly irrational, like the monkey in the psych lab experiment, pushing the button in the Skinner box to get another hit of cocaine, heedless of the consequences. Our current system of education does not teach facts and skills, it teaches attitudes, and one of the prescribed attitudes is: Black, good; white, bad.

No justice! No peace! Burn and loot and hate police!

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) November 25, 2014

Liberalism involves a crude Manichean worldview:

Women, good; men, bad.
Youth, good; adults, bad.
Atheists, good; Christians, bad.
Hedonism, good; responsibility, bad.
Abortion, good; motherhood, bad.
Sodomy, good; normal sex, bad.
Wilderness, good; carbon energy, bad.
Labor unions, good; entrepreneurs, bad.
Government, good; corporations, bad.
Foreigners, good; Americans, bad.
Democrats, good; Republicans, bad.

It is this last distinction — blind loyalty to the Democrat Party — which is the ultimate goal of the attitudinal training we now call “education.” Our government school system annually hands diplomas to teenagers who can barely even read their diplomas, and the bureaucratic mediocrities who run the system don’t care that their “education” teaches kids nothing useful, so long as the student learns to vote Democrat.

What did public schools teach Michael Brown? That it is entirely acceptable to get high on dope, steal from a local convenience store and, when apprehended by a police officer, to resist a lawful arrest:

“The witness’s account of the unarmed Brown
charging Wilson — even after he had been shot in the
hand during a struggle at the cop’s patrol car —
supports the officer’s contention that he fired
a series of shots as Brown bore down on him.”

The governor of Missouri is a Democrat. The mayor of Ferguson is a Democrat. The prosecuting attorney in the case is a Democrat. I’m not sure there were any Republicans on the grand jury that returned a no-bill against Officer Wilson. Yet the media manipulators who are stoking racial rage over this story are doing so with the certain knowledge that, by fomenting anti-white resentments, they are serving the political interests of the Democrat Party.

That’s all it is, nothing more. They should be ashamed of themselves, but if liberals had any sense of shame they would not be liberals.

Category: Crime, Liberals, Media Bias, Missouri, Racism

He Stands There Appealing His Fruit

Posted on | November 25, 2014 | 28 Comments

by Smitty

What honest, patriotic American isn’t sick at heart to watch a liar stand there and do his diabolical work?

President Barack Obama appealed for calm and understanding in Ferguson on Monday after a grand jury decided not to indict in the death of Michael Brown, pleading with both residents and police officers to show restraint.
“We are a nation built on the rule of law, so we need to accept that this decision was the grand jury’s to make,” Obama said.
In a late-night statement from the White House, Obama said it was understandable that some Americans would be “deeply disappointed — even angered” that police officer Darren Wilson wasn’t indicted. Yet he echoed Brown’s parents in calling for any protests to be peaceful, saying that the wishes should be honored as they grieve their son.

Obama always appeals to the flesh, always strokes the adrenalin, always ensures a finger is pointed, even while offering superficial appeals to calm.
In six years, has the man ever made a rational appeal to fact? Ever encouraged a humble admission of fault? Ever encouraged anyone to pray for those with whom there is a dispute? Ever suggested. . .forgiveness?
Why, no: no, he has not. One suspects that requesting people grow up might affect his business model in a deleterious way.
There is massive power in forgiveness. Just not Obama’s.

Category: Barack Obama

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.25.14

Posted on | November 25, 2014 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
SecDef Hagel Resigns Under Pressure From White House

It took them almost two years to figure out he wasn’t up to this?

A casualty of political infighting over national security policy, Hagel will remain until his replacement is named
Crazy Cousin John: Hagel Faces “Unfair” Sniping On His Way Out
Michele Flournoy the front-runner to succeed Hagel?

Grand Jury Declines To Indict Officer Wilson
Violence (predictably) erupts in Ferguson

Iran Nuke Talks Extended After Deadline Expires
New deadline is June 2015

POLITICS
VA Fires Phoenix Hospital Director In Wake Of Wait Times Scandal

Sharon Helman, director of the Phoenix VA Health Care System

Departmental IG concluded that delays in care contributed to the deaths of at least 30 veterans

Could Jim Webb Give Hillary A Run For Her Money In 2016?

Speaker Reappoints Gowdy To Head Benghazi Select Committee

Labor Union Work By Federal Employees On “Official Time” Costs Taxpayers Millions

Gov. Brown Names Top Obama Administration Lawyer To California Supreme Court

White House Quietly Releases Plans for 3,415 Regulations Ahead Of Thanksgiving Holiday

Obama Awards Medal Of Freedom To Diverse Group Of Actors, Artists, And Scientists

Admiral Denies Role In Counterfeiting Casino Chips

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Flat As Expectations Of OPEC Production Cut Wane: WTI $75.67, Brent $79.43
Asian Shares Slip, Oil Edges Down Ahead Of OPEC
Kuroda Tells Japan Inc. To Stop Hoarding Cash
Irish Benchmark Bond Yields Fall To Record Low Of 1.46%
Minnesota AG Accuses Savers Thrift Stores Of Misleading Public
Redbox Rates To Increase
Symantec Uncovers Computer Malware With “Stealth” Features
Google Fiber Details Prices For Austin
Sony Corp. Computers Allegedly Hacked In Blackmail Plot
Google Faces Breakup Call As EU Patience Wanes
Sony Pulls Controversial PS Vita Ad

SPORTS
Bills Rout Jets On the Road In Detroit

Bills WR Chris Hogan and TE Scott Chandler celebrate after Hogan’s TD in the second quarter

Bills lay 38-3 whipping on hapless Jets

Red Sox Splash Out On Free Agents Sandoval, Hanley Ramirez

Harden Leads Depleted Rockets Past Knicks, 91-86

Red Wings Edge Sens 4-3

Clippers Extend Hornets’ Skid To Six With 113-92 Win

Pens 3, Bruins 2 (OT)

Cavaliers Snap Losing Streak Against Magic, 106-74

Islanders Top Flyers In Shootout, 1-0

Sloan Leads Pacers Over Mavericks, 111-100

Wild Whip Panthers 4-1

Adam LaRoche Signs Two-Year/$25 Million Deal With White Sox

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Katy Perry “Hyped” For Super Bowl Halftime Show

Crash test dummies riding fire-breathing sharks?
“Not dangerous enough.”

Sneak peek at promo video

Bette Midler Schools Ariana Grande: “You Don’t Have To Act Like A Whore”

It’s Official – Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch, Kelly Reilly To Co-Star In “True Detective”

Unspeakable Armenian Stars In Elle UK’s Confidence Issue

Oscar Isaac To Play Villain In “X-Men: Apocalypse”

Halle Berry Accuses Gabriel Aubry Of Trying To Make Their Kid White

Christian Bale Admits Being Jealous When Ben Affleck Took Over Batman Role

New FDNY Firefighter Starred In At Least Ten Gay Porn Movies

HBO Prepping Bombshell Scientology Film

Robert Downey Sr. Most Proud When Junior Turned His Life Around

FOREIGNERS
Ukraine To Hold Referendum On Joining NATO
Turkish President Erdogan: Women Are Not Equal To Men
UN: Child Trafficking On The Rise
UK Home Secretary: “Time Is Right” For New Police Powers
Pact Tightens Russian Ties With Abkhazia
China, US Exchange Barbs Over Spratly Reef
Hong Kong Officials Begin Clearing Part Of Protest Site In Mong Kok District
Libyan Air Strike Hits Tripoli’s Last Functioning Airport
Pope Francis Heads To Strasbourg To Reinvigorate “Tired” Europe
US Seeks To Revive Trade With India After WTO Row

BLOGS & STUFF
Doug Powers: Satire Collides With Satire As WaPo Fact Checks SNL Skit
Twitchy: Ferguson On Fire – Nothing Says Social Justice Like This Iconic Metro PCS Looting Selfie
American Power: Missouri Governor Jay Nixon Won’t Rule Out Armored Vehicles, Tear Gas
American Thinker: The Dutch Say No To PC And Win
BLACKFIVE: Smoking Weed In Uniform Survey Results
Conservatives4Palin: Joe Wilson’s “You Lie!” Wasn’t Wrong, It Was Prescient
Don Surber: Pedophiles For Democrats
Jammie Wearing Fools: How Helpful! After Fomenting Unrest In Ferguson, Holder Talks Of The Need For “Nonviolence”
Joe For America: Ferguson Grand Jury Decision At 8 PM CST, Riots At 8:10 CST
JustOneMinute: Hagel’s Out, And Now For The Bad News
Pamela Geller: Ft. Sam Houston – Saudi National With Explosives In Car Detained After Driving Through Gate Without Stopping
Protein Wisdom: No Indictment In Ferguson
Shot In The Dark: Time To Secede…
STUMP: Public Pension Watch – Illinois Reform Goes Down, As Expected
The Gateway Pundit: Ferguson In Flames
The Jawa Report: Stupid Voters Fire Gruber
The Lonely Conservative: Price Tag Of Obama’s Amnesty Is Staggering
This Ain’t Hell: My Prediction For SecDef? Michele Flournoy
Weasel Zippers: Ferguson Protests In Other Cities – DC, NYC, LA, Oakland
Megan McArdle: A Defense Of Marion Barry’s Politics

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Category: Live at Five

In The Mailbox, 11.24.14

Posted on | November 24, 2014 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

First I couldn’t get to sleep and then I couldn’t wake up. 🙁
There will be no Live at Five or In The Mailbox on Thursday and Friday, and the FMJRA won’t be happening until Sunday since I’m going to be off the internet for the Thanksgiving Day weekend. We’ll see if I have time to squeeze in a book post before heading down the road on Wednesday.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical: The Flipside Show
First Street Journal: Man Of The Year
Twitchy: Epic Fail In Progress As Morons On Twitter Fall For Fake Sarah Palin Story

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Dana Loesch Gives Emperor Amnesty A Lesson In Scripture
American Thinker: Revenge Of The Ditz Lord
BLACKFIVE: Should Soldiers/Veterans Be Able To Use Marijuana?
Conservatives4Palin: “Context” Is No Excuse For Gruber’s Lies
Don Surber: Government By Castor Oil
Jammie Wearing Fools: Friday News Dump – 30,000 Lois Lerner E-mails Magically Recovered
Joe For America: Obama To DHS – Go Easy On Immigrant Sex Offenders
JustOneMinute: Obama’s Immigration Move Bad For Democrats?
Pamela Geller: Canada Jihad Murderer – There Can’t Be World Peace Until There’s Only Muslims
Protein Wisdom: Obama’s Amnesty Is Like Lincoln’s Freeing Of The Slaves…Or Something
Shot In The Dark: Rethinking The Seventies – The Eagles
STUMP: New Public Pension Series – The 80 Percent Pension Funding Hall Of Shame
The Gateway Pundit: Venezuelan Thugs Break Into Blogger’s London Home – Threaten To Kill Him And His Young Children
The Jawa Report: North Korean With Ties To Kim Jong Un Reportedly Escapes Kidnap Attempt In Paris
The Lonely Conservative: Immigration Agitators Aren’t Satisfied With Obama’s Immigration Action
This Ain’t Hell: Marine Accepts Bronze Star While Wearing Robotic Legs
Weasel Zippers: Ferguson Protesters – “We Don’t Give A F*ck About Your Laws”
Megan McArdle: Obama Gave A Bad Speech. Let It Go.

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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Sunday: Wax Ecstatic

Posted on | November 23, 2014 | 12 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

A cowgirl in her native environment

Time again this week to contemplate the glory of God’s creation, especially if that creation is scantily clad and female. As usual, some of the links are to pics considered NSFW (unless you have a really awesome work environment) so exercise discretion in your clicking. Management not responsible for ostracism, hair loss, physical injury, shunning or other forms of social unpleasantness. Whatever you do or don’t do will be held against you as a member of the repressive cishet Patriarchy, so you might as well enjoy it.

Average Bubba leads off this week with Rule 5 Friday: Blonde Babe Edition, followed by the debut of Thinking Man’s Zombie with a Serious Rule 5 post – and a fine debut it is! Goodstuff’s Blogging Magazine features Sunny Leone this week, and of course Ninety Miles from Tyranny dishes up the trifecta: Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls with Guns. Animal Magnetism has Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon; this week, First Street Journal notes Italian women in uniform. Also, Loose Endz with Dragoncon Dolls. Also also, Postaldog kicks in Maitland Ward, Rose McGowan, and the Unspeakable Armenian.

EBL supplies an answer to joyless anti-space exploration feminists, and also posted Hello Dali for Movember, Postmodern Jukebox, Michael Phelps and his cougar, Hollywood Vintage Thanksgiving Rule 5, and finally, Cardinals vs Seahawks.

At A View from the Beach, it’s A Peta, Not a PITA, “Gimme Chocolate!”, Teach Women Not to Hit Men!, Crazy Women Drivers, Local Sheriff Seeks the Limelight, Groupers Go to the Supreme Court, The Goose is Getting Fat, Christmas Tree Tax Kicks In, “Put Your Hands Up for Detroit”, Drained!, Redskins Vs. Buccaneers, and Recurring Dreams.

Soylent Siberia comes in from the cold with Football, Monday Motivationer Perfection, Overnighty Reflections, Tuesday Titillation Tease, Evening Awesome Sash, Humpday Hawtness: In The Best Of ALL Possible Worlds, Overnighty, Fursday Fantastic, Overnighty Think Pink, Corsetage, T-Gif Friday Science: Resonance & Wave Propagation, Overnighty Honey, Weekender Orange Crush, and Bath Night Foamy.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Jenna Dewan, his Vintage Babe is Sheila Ryan, Sex in Advertising is covered by Victoria’s Secret, and of course there’s the obligatory 49ers cheerleader. At Dustbury, it’s Queen Maxima of the Netherlands and Jeanine Pirro.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Submissions to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox are due by midnight on Saturday, November 29.

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Category: Rule 5

In #GamerGate Battle, Feminists Predictably Resort to Totalitarian Tactics

Posted on | November 23, 2014 | 52 Comments

Randi Harper (@freebsdgirl) is an unattractive woman with blue hair who is into (a) video games and (b) totalitarian ideology. In the 21st century, where “harassment” has been re-defined to mean “expressing disagreement with a feminist,” Harper decided to create a blacklist of Twitter users who support the #GamerGate project:

In a sign of how frenzied, panicky and intolerant the games industry establishment has become over the legitimate concerns of ordinary gamers, the International Game Developers’ Association branded some 10,425 Twitter accounts, including those of journalists, as harassment “offenders” in a humiliatingly ill-conceived attempt to provide a “blocking tool” to its members.
The blocking tool, which has been widely mocked online for its lack of sophistication and “blanket ban” approach, was assembled by Randi Harper, a persistent online agitator. The tool prevents users from seeing not only the tweets of users Harper has decided are implicated in harassment, but also many accounts who simply follow those users, by blocking a list of thousands of users with the use of an automated “bot.” . . .
Dozens of innocent developers, journalists and even some feminist critics have been caught in the tool’s exceptionally wide net, thanks to whom they follow on Twitter. Prominent internet personality and YouTuber Total Biscuit noted this weekend the absurdity of an international trade body accepting unfit-for-purpose software and capricious, arbitrary “harassment” clarifications by an independent developer who is hardly non-partisan in the ongoing GamerGate controversy. . . .
In the best traditions of far-Left feminist activists, Harper has also spuriously accused GamerGate supporters such as lawyer Mike Cernovich of “rape threats.” . . .

Read the whole thing by Milo Yiannopoulos at Breitbart.com.

This mass-blocking of Twitter accounts is the latest attempt by so-called “Social Justice Warriors” to extend the hegemonic influence of “progressive” ideology to include the video game industry. If I were a lawyer for any developer blocked by Harper in this IGDA list, I’d be drafting a carefully worded letter informing the IGDA of the provisions of the Sherman Antitrust Act. It’s one thing for “social justice” goon squads to mau-mau their targets on college campuses. IGDA blacklisting businesses in the private sector? See you in court.

Category: Culture, Feminism, Progressivism

FMJRA 2.0: Sold Me Down The River

Posted on | November 22, 2014 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Monday
Average Bubba
Batshit Crazy News
Animal Magnetism
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach
Ninety Miles From Tyranny

‘I Suffer From Oppression’
Batshit Crazy News
The Camp of the Saints
The DaleyGator
Gay Patriot
Regular Right Guy

‘Got Issues? Lube! Lube! Lube!’
The Pirate’s Cove
Regular Right Guy

FMJRA 2.0: Day Late & A Dollar Short (Interstellar Remix)
Batshit Crazy News

No Prison for Lesbian Teacher, 24, Accused of Raping 17-Year-Old Girl
Batshit Crazy News

New Word: “Grubado”
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.17.14
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.18.14
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.19.14
Batshit Crazy News
The Camp of the Saints
A View from the Beach

In The Mailbox: 11.20.14
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

LIVE AT ~~FIVE~~EIGHT: 11.21.14
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach

Reconciled to Servitude
Regular Right Guy
Law Of Markets
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