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In The Mailbox, 05.12.14

Posted on | May 12, 2014 | 12 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
The First Street Journal: Telling Half The Truth, The Half-Truth, And Nothing But The Half-Truth
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: The Inanity Of American Feminism
Twitchy: FSU Linebacker, Others Notice Head-shaking Michael Sam/Tim Tebow Comparison


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: No More Excuses For Islamic Monsters
American Thinker: Christian Brotherhood An Impeachable Offense While Gay Incest Celebrated
BLACKFIVE: Calling Terrorists Terrorists
Conservatives4Palin: Feminists Ruin Reputation By Trashing Lewinsky’s
Jammie Wearing Fools: Cost Of Obamacare’s Failed Massachusetts Site Now Tops $500 Million
Joe For America: Veterans Administration Back Charges Triple Amputee Airman Brian Kolfage Thousands Of Dollars
JustOneMinute: Man And Satan At Harvard
Pat Dollard: Criminal Charles Rangel Says “No American Is Going To Lose Sleep Over Benghazi”
Protein Wisdom: Trey Gowdy Is Serious
Shot In The Dark: Be Thankful, Peasants
The Jawa Report: White Guilt
The Lonely Conservative: Why Do They Lie To Us?
This Ain’t Hell: I’m With Staff Sergeant Old School On #bringbackourgirls
Weasel Zippers: Obama Administration Urged Nigeria To Show Restraint Toward Boko Haram, Even Rebuilt Mosque In Boko Haram Area
Megan McArdle: Revisiting Obamacare’s Health Benefits


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Category: Linkagery

#NOAFW A Gift to Aspiring Mothers

Posted on | May 11, 2014 | 69 Comments

Excuse the relative paucity of blog output, but I’ve been wrestling for two days with my massive Mother’s Day essay. Today marks the conclusion of sixth annual National Offend a Feminist Week, and I want to do something special. However, the special essay keeps growing longer and longer — it’s very hard to write with penetrating insight — and with the additional problem of a computer glitch or two, it will necessarily be delayed until later this evening.

However, to provide amusement and enlightenment for you while I toil over that 3,000-word monster essay, I’ll share something special for women who are not yet mothers.

How many “safe sex” lectures have young women been forced to endure in the past 20 years? How many TV and magazine ads for condoms and contraceptives have they seen? And how can women who desire motherhood overcome, so to speak, the anti-maternity propaganda that now pervades our culture? After all, young men have also been targeted by the “safe sex” evangelists, and her man may therefore feel an aversion to his necessary masculine role in procreation.

If the journey to reproduction is to arrive (so to speak) at its desired destination, it may be necessary for a young would-be mother to empower herself, exercising her feminine prerogative to speak to him the Nine Sexiest Words a Woman Can Ever Say to a Man:

NZXP TYDTOP XP. T HLYE EZ SLGP JZFC MLMTPD.

Amateur cryptographers are hereby strongly cautioned: Do not — repeat, do NOT — write the uncoded message in the comments, nor on Twitter or on your own blogs. At least not in English. Translations in French, Spanish, Latin, etc., might be amusing.

Hey, did I ever mention that my wife and I have six children?

 

Category: National Offend a Feminist Week

Rule 5 Sunday: Insert Appropriate Song Title Here

Posted on | May 11, 2014 | 14 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Yep, it’s time once again to consider the merits of Rule 5 – Everybody Loves A Pretty Girl – and as usual, I feel it necessary to remind the Loyal Readers that some of the following links are to NSFW depictions of (at least) half-pretty girls (at most) half-dressed to show it, and that discretion is advised regarding where and when you click on the links.

First Street Journal takes us where the action is, and shows us women with weapons; Blackmailers Don’t Shoot brings us up to date on the adventures of Jennifer Lawrence, especially her relationship with Elvis, and Rotten To The Core chimes in with the “nonpartisan” Eva Longoria  and Shailene Woodley, Bane of the Feminists. Goodstuff goes Hawaiian and also has some hot stuff from the 1920s named Josephine Baker. Ninety Miles From Tyranny offers the Morning Mistress, Naked On The Beach, and Girls With Guns; Animal Magnetism steps it up this week with Leanna Decker, Rule Five Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon, while Laughing Conservative contributes Jenna Dewan.

EBL’s herd this week includes Feminist Pin-Ups, Shailene Woodley, Monica Lewinsky, Da Vinci’s Demons, Paula Patton, Dr. Monica Wehby, and more Paula Patton.

At Soylent Refuge, it’s your weekly coffee creamer, along with Flash Flash, Overnighty Stefanie, Monday Motivationer Sasha, Evening Ala Awesome,  Tuesday Titillation, Vintage Humpday Hawtness Nancie, Afternooner Underboob Awesome, Evening Awesome Linky-Love Contender, Fursday: Set The Snoochinator To 1990, Overnighty Fur, Corset Friday: Latent Lingerie, T-GIF Friday Snoochography, Mmmm Candy!, Weekender Hayden, and Bath Night In The Garden.

A View From The Beach supplies us with Jessica Biel – More Indian than Elizabeth Warren, Yep, Still There, A Little Child Shall Lead Them, “Black Wind Howlin”, He is the Walrus, Jimi Hendrix, Korean Style, Who Did the Hobbits?, “You Go Down Smooth”, “For Whom The Belle Tolls”, When Someone Calls You a Neanderthal. . . (with cave girls), and “Hiding Under Water”.

Proof Positive’s Babe of the Week is Kelly Reilly, his vintage Babe is Rosalind Russell, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Dita von Teese this week. At Dustbury, it’s Miranda Lambert and Shailene Woodley.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday is midnight on Saturday, May 17.

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Every Picture Tells A Story

Posted on | May 11, 2014 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


‘Homo Rapiens’: Anti-PIV RadFem Goes Total Moonbat on Climate Change

Beltway Hypnosis Syndrome

A. Ejaculating on a Fat Girl

The Left’s Mob Rule on Campus

FMJRA 2.0: Jackson, Mississippi

Benghazi: A Hole in the Tick-Tock

Rule 5 Sunday: The Portland Double-Dip Edition

Call It the ‘Post-DTF Stroll,’ Maybe?

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.05.14

#NOAFW Kinder, Gentler Baby-Killing

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.06.14

When Lies Succeed

The #RapeCulture of Planned Parenthood

Feminism Is a Journey to Lesbianism

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.07.14

A Twitter-Length Play For Your Attention

Theory 2a: #Benghazi-Bimbo Connection

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.08.14

Contempt of Congress

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 05.09.14

The Farce of Sequester

Things Fall Apart

Under All That Spin & Whitewash, I Guess That Tammy Bruce Isn’t A Hillary! Fan

Top linkers this week:

  1. Batshit Crazy News (21)
  2. A View From The Beach (8)
  3. Regular Right Guy (7)

A couple of near misses this week by a couple of folks, too. Good to see the linkagery picking up – thanks to everyone who linked!


Category: FMJRA Award

GOP’s Angst Correlates To Progressivism

Posted on | May 10, 2014 | 30 Comments

by Smitty

Totally disagree with Dean Clancy at U.S. News:

And no matter how the GOP fares in November — even if it should somehow wipe the floor with the Democrats — President Obama’s veto pen will still be there, waiting to stop any plan they can manage to put on his desk. This will make the fainter-hearted among their ranks skittish about the whole “repeal” project. Why not work with the president to “get something done”? Why not — yes — “fix” Obamacare?

In short, Republicans appear to be damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

The damned thing in play at the moment is Progressivism. I’ve grown up hearing that Social Security and the other entitlements are out of control. And then we have this partisan cramdown of ObamaCare.

ObamaCare has been a river of lies from conception to delivery. Why, then, not simply articulate such to the American people: “You’ve been scammed. Here is the reform plan.”

#OccupyResoluteDesk’s veto pen isn’t a bug: it’s a feature. A potential GOP Congress, sworn in next January, would have two years to hone and refine substantial reform ideas. Republicans could lay out for the American people a comprehensive, frack-this-noise blueprint for the future of the country extending well past a 2016 rejection of Her Majesty, Empress Clinton.

Sure, #OccupyResoluteDesk is ideologically incapable of doing anything useful. I get that. His only real commitment seems to be dishonesty–how do you negotiate or compromise with a man bereft of honor? Don’t bother. If the American people have the truth and an alternative served up, then the energy of 2009 will likely return, and we’ll see a non-Progressive Republican candidate (not Jeb Bush, not John S. McCain) earn a hefty mandate.

Granted, Europe sure looks like it’s on a war trajectory. Obama’s general foreign policy impotence means that a significant portion of the GOP effort is going to have to be about foreign policy. Again, step up to the plate. Dude, I know it was more than two years ago, but the days of “support friends, oppose  foes” really should be considered again for a possible return.

Down the road, the GOP should support the Convention of States and an actual return to limited government. The more Progressive the Republican party the more it deserves to, and will, lose.

Category: Republicans

Boko Haram and the Jihad in Africa

Posted on | May 10, 2014 | 72 Comments

The #BringBackOurGirls Twitter hashtag — online activism about the plight of girls abducted by Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria — has been embraced by numerous celebrities, including Alyssa Milano. This situation has gained worldwide attention and highlights a reality that American media have in recent years deliberately ignored: The persistent menace of violent Islamic jihad in sub-Saharan Africa.

If the news of the Boko Haram abductions was shocking, it was because the American media have been so busy promoting the Obama administration’s narrative that, since the death of Osama bin Laden, the threat of Islamic terrorism has essentially ended. This narrative is politically convenient for Democrats, but as with most such narratives, it’s a gigantic lie. There are still many millions of Muslims in the world who hate us and want us all dead, and many of them are willing to take up arms to accomplish that goal.

Today, First Lady Michelle Obama will highlight the Boko Haram abductions in the weekly White House radio address, and I guarantee you in advance that the words “Muslim” and “Islam” will not be part of her script. American news media are willing accomplices in this dishonest propaganda, habitually referring to Boko Haram as “militants” or “rebels” (not terrorists, you see) and, as to the religious orientation of Boko Haram, they might as well be rogue Episcopalians for what you could gather from most media reports. Meanwhile, in Nigeria . . .

Damning testimonies gathered by Amnesty International reveal that Nigerian security forces failed to act on advance warnings about Boko Haram’s armed raid on the state-run boarding school in Chibok which led to the abduction of more than 240 schoolgirls on April 14-15.
After independently verifying information based on multiple interviews with credible sources, the organization today revealed that the Nigerian security forces had more than four hours of advance warning about the attack but did not do enough to stop it.
“The fact that Nigerian security forces knew about Boko Haram’s impending raid, but failed to take the immediate action needed to stop it, will only amplify the national and international outcry at this horrific crime,” said Netsanet Belay, Amnesty International’s Africa Director, Research and Advocacy. . . .
Amnesty International has confirmed through various sources that Nigeria’s military headquarters in Maiduguri was aware of the impending attack soon after 7:00 p.m. on April 14, close to four hours before Boko Haram began their assault on the town.
But an inability to muster troops — due to poor resources and a reported fear of engaging with the often better-equipped armed groups — meant that reinforcements were not deployed to Chibok that night. The small contingent of security forces based in the town — 17 army personnel as well as local police — attempted to repel the Boko Haram assault but were overpowered and forced to retreat. . . .

Read the rest. When the terrorists — oops, I meant to say militants — are better armed than the army, you’ve got a problem.

But where are the feminists who made #WarOnWomen and #RapeCulture into such trendy phenomena? Why aren’t feminists sounding the alarm about the dangers Islamic jihad poses to girls and women worldwide? Because our so-called “feminists” in America are merely the handmaidens of the Democrat Party, promoting whatever phony “issues” will help elect more Democrats and, as such are part of the same propaganda operation where the Obama administration and its media enablers refuse to call Boko Haram what they really are: Islamic terrorists. And just in case anyone is naive about what doctrines of the Prophet these rapists with AK-47s are imposing on their young captives, Phyllis Chesler is here to enlighten you:

On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram . . . captured three hundred Christian and Muslim Nigerian schoolgirls to become their sex and domestic slaves. The Muslim fundamentalists swooped down upon them as they were learning in a “forbidden” government secular school. . . .
The world media calls this a “kidnapping” in Nigeria. It is not a “kidnapping.” It is the face of Jihad, the way of Jihad. Boko Haram are not holding these girls for ransom, they are not willing to return them for money. They already view the girls as their God-given booty, and as sale-able property. . . .
The Christian girls will be raped, converted to Islam, and then, like the Muslim girls, “married” to one of their captors. Some will be trafficked into the sex trade, which is pandemic throughout Africa and the Muslim Middle East. . . .
Please understand: Boko Haram are the Nigerian Taliban. Like their Pakistani and Afghan counterparts, they oppose education for girls and would rather marry and impregnate them instead — for Allah’s sake.

Schoolgirls are being raped in the name of Allah and Mohammed, and there was ample warning of the danger: I wrote about Boko Haram in December 2012 (“Islamists Target African Christians“) and in January 2014 (“Islam’s Terrorist African Caliphate“).

But the Democrat-dominated media won’t mention Islam and won’t call Boko Haram “terrorists” because, so far as our journalistic establishment is concerned, the real enemy are always Republicans.

UPDATE: Dana in the comments informs us that my prophecy was correct — no mention of Islam in Michelle Obama’s radio address about the Armed African Girl-Rapers of Unknown Motive.

 

Category: Islam, Nigeria, Terrorism

Under All That Spin & Whitewash, I Guess That Tammy Bruce Isn’t A Hillary! Fan

Posted on | May 9, 2014 | 31 Comments

by Smitty

Absolutely brutal assessment of Hillary!, brought on by the Monica Lewinsky resurgence:

…I, too, want a woman in the White House. But not just any woman. I want a president who loves this country more than herself. I want a president who genuinely views the American people as valuable, important and worthy of respect, who disables the predators in our midst who threaten our future, and actually understands the “difference it makes.”

Savor in full.

Via Ed Driscoll at Instapundit

Category: Hillary Clinton

Things Fall Apart

Posted on | May 9, 2014 | 32 Comments

— by Wombat-socho


Literally and figuratively, this is the plot of John Barnes’ Daybreak novels, which start with Directive 51 and continue on through Daybreak Zero and The Last President. These have a very weird feel to them; the basic plot, in which ecosaboteurs spread genetically engineered plastic- and gasoline-eating bacteria along with nanobots designed to wreck electronics, is very reminiscent of both S. M. Stirling’s Change novels (Dies the Fire) and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, while also containing elements of Barnes’ previous apocalyptic novel, the nightmarish Kaleidoscope Century. The Daybreak novels give you a front-row ringside seat for the collapse of global civilization as scattered, seemingly anarchic ecoterrorists, religious nutjobs, and hippie fruitcakes plunge the America into bloody chaos, exacerbated by a split of the Federal government into Provisional and Temporary factions over the issue of who’s in charge and whether Daybreak is a conventional enemy that needs to be crushed by military force or a memetic weapon that needs to be countered by other means. I’ve finished the first two novels, am going back for the third today, and can attest that these are some good -if occasionally squicky- reading. Barnes makes a powerful argument in these books for the power of ideas, and also recognizes that there’s times when nothing but brute force will do.
Recommended.


This is shaping up to be a busy year for John C. Wright. Not only has he (courteously and with cold logic) shaken the dust of the SFWA from his sandals, he is concluding the crazy, wildly inventive, millennium-spanning series of evolutionary novels started in Count to a Trillion with The Judge of Ages, not only has he had the massive cojones to write sequels to William Hodgson’s half-forgotten “The Night Land” (Awake in the Night Land) , he’s also put together a collection of essays: Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth which I have seen excerpts of. I don’t know if Mr. Wright is the best SF author out there, but in these sad times when it seems every competent tale slinger is surrounded by packs of dull-witted, unhousebroken PC puppies with not a tenth of his talent, he’s definitely in my top ten. Go read his stuff. You’ll thank me later.


Speaking of the whole SFWA and Hugos kerfluffle, Vox Day’s Hugo-nominated “Opera Vita Aeterna” is one of the three stories in The Last Witchking, which I snapped up when it was offered for free last month. All three stories are set in the universe of Day’s A Throne of Bones, and are definitely not your usual elf & dwarf crap. I thought they were all pretty good, with the nominee story the best, but they’ve accomplished their main goal, which is to get me to read -and maybe buy- more of Vox’s stuff.


I hardly need that prodding to read Sarah Hoyt’s writing. On the contrary, I was frustrated that it took me as long as it did to pick up A Few Good Men. However, I haven’t read much of her fantasy, so I thought I’d try out Where Horse And Hero Fell, a short story involving a computer geek suddenly thrust into a leadership role in a wizards’ guild. It was a fun read, but I’m not sure it’s worth $1.99; stories like this are a good reason to have Amazon Prime, so you can borrow them for free.


Finally, I have to admit the trailers for Edge of Tomorrow are looking very interesting, if for no other reason than the protagonist’s cycle of death/rebirth/combat/death/rebirth/etc. reminds me of the undeservedly obscure On My Way to Paradise by Dave Wolverton. I’m giving serious thought to picking up the movie’s source novel, All You Need Is Kill, though I may pick up the manga instead.


So…what’s on your summer reading list?


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