Rule 5 Sunday: Dawn Wells

Posted on | October 19, 2020 | 3 Comments

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Happy birthday to Dawn Wells, former Miss Nevada and TV actress, best known for her role as Mary Ann Summers on Gilligan’s Island. She also appeared in a lot of other roles in various TV shows, eventually winding up with a career that lasted over 50 years. Here she is in a still from Gilligan’s Island.

Definitely more attractive than Ginger.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1140, Morning Mistress, & Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule 5 Campaign Speech Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: La Fille du Regiment, Lucia di Lammermoor, Destiny Leaves The Democrats, Leah Baldacci, Anna Bolena, Le Elisir d’Amore, Maria Stuarda, The Nodding Woman, Roberto Devereux, #WalkingAway Gothix, and Don Pasquale.

A View From The Beach: Melanie Griffith, A Perennial Post, Fish Pic Friday – Mallory Hendrix, RIP: Golden Girl, MD Striped Bass Suffer Another Setback – Bad YOY Index, Some Wednesday Wetness, Gone Fishin’, Tuesday Tanlines, Your Monday Morning Stimulant, Palm Sunday, Fluffy, Come! and Georgia Takes the Red Pill

Proof Positive: Ingrid Pitt

Red Pilled Jew: Women & Cars

Bleach Cocktail: Monday Motivator, Tuesday Titillation, Wednesday Whoopee, Thursday Thunder, and Friday Fire.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

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Ralph Z. Hallow, R.I.P.

Posted on | October 18, 2020 | Comments Off on Ralph Z. Hallow, R.I.P.

Having worked with many colorful figures over the years, I can confidently say none was more colorful than Ralph Z. Hallow, the veteran political correspondent who died Saturday at age 82.

In his youth, Ralph was a member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and could tell all kinds of stories about Sixties radicals, but by the time I met him — when I joined the staff of The Washington Times in 1997 — he was already a legend in the D.C. press corps. George H.W. Bush famously called Ralph a “horrible fellow,” basically because Ralph wouldn’t let Bush off the hook on his broken promises.

Ralph always dressed colorfully — his ties, his shirts, his pocket squares — in the old-school style that was also preferred by our late editor Wes Pruden, and he and his wife, longtime NRA executive Millie Hallow, threw legendary Christmas parties at their home. You’d see all kinds of famous people from politics and journalism at these parties, and once we had a gigantic singalong with Ralph’s stepson Ian Walters on piano, me on guitar, and talk-radio host Blanquita Cullum leading the whole crowd to the tune of “La Bamba.” But I digress . . .

Ralph had sources like no journalist in the world ever had sources. He was on a first-name basis with every influential conservative you’d care to name, and he could dial up Newt Gingrich or Grover Norquist as casually as you might call your own brother. After a couple of years at the Times, I became Ralph’s more-or-less permanent editor, which could be a challenging task because Ralph would sometimes “file his notes,” as we used to say, and it was my job to translate this into English.

How it usually went was this way: After the noon editorial meeting, managing editor Fran Coombs would call me into his office and tell me that Ralph’s proposed story had a chance at Page One if the story matched what Ralph had promised in his “tout” (the one-paragraph thumbnail summary that reporters sent in for the noon meeting). This meant that by the 4 p.m. meeting, the story needed to be close enough to a finished product that the editors could greenlight it for A1. Fran would give me notes saying to “make sure he gets” such-and-so an element into the story to “back up the lead.” The challenge was often to get an on-the-record quote from a named source saying what Ralph knew to be true, but which nobody wanted to put their name on. You’d hear him on the phone arguing with a source — an RNC member, a congressman, a former cabinet secretary — about the exact wording of a quote that the source was willing to have attributed to him.

Oh, they don’t make ’em like Ralph anymore. It was a pleasure to know him and work with him, and he will be missed. R.I.P., sir.

Category: Journalism

FMJRA 2.0: Bring Me My Sword Of Burning Gold

Posted on | October 18, 2020 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Bring Me My Sword Of Burning Gold

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Rule 5 Sunday: Phoebe Kline
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Trump Has Utterly Broken Their Minds
The Pirate’s Cove
Battleswarm Blog
Bacon Time
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Cherokee Lane
A View From The Beach
EBL

Denver: ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Protest Until Gunman Murdered a Trump Supporter
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Annual Admiral Of The Ocean Sea Appreciation Post
EBL

‘Well, We Just Have to Win Then’
Dark Brightness
Bacon Time
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.13.20 (Afternoon Edition)
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 10.13.20 (Evening Edition)
EBL
Proof Positive

Philadelphia: Murder City, U.S.A.
First Street Journal
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 10.14.20
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Big Tech Desperate to Suppress Bombshell News in Hunter Biden Ukraine Scandal
A View From The Beach
EBL

BREAKING: Steve Scully ‘Indefinitely Suspended’ by C-SPAN Over ‘Hacking’ Lie
357 Magnum
EBL

Twitter Getting Its Hunter Biden On
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.15.20
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

A Blue-Collar Philosopher
First Street Journal
EBL

Can Savannah Guthrie Prove Democrats Are NOT a Satanic Pedophile Ring?
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.16.20
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending October 16:

EBL (17)
(tied) A View From The Beach and Proof Positive (7)
357 Magnum (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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‘Allahu Akbar’: Muslim Immigrant Decapitates French Teacher

Posted on | October 17, 2020 | 1 Comment

The Religion of Peace™ strikes again:

A history teacher who had shown caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammed in class was on Friday decapitated and his assailant shot dead by French police as they tried to arrest him, police and prosecutors said.
The attacker shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he was confronted by police, a police source said. The Muslim phrase, meaning “God is Great,” has often been heard in jihadist attacks.
The suspect’s identity was not made public. French media reported that the suspect was an 18-year-old Chechen, born in Moscow. That information could not be immediately confirmed.
French President Emmanuel Macron called the beheading an “Islamist terrorist attack.” . . .
French anti-terror prosecutors said they were investigating the assault which happened on the outskirts of Paris at around 5 p.m. (1500 GMT) near a school in Conflans Saint-Honorine, a western suburb of the French capital.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

A high school teacher was decapitated for blasphemy in France—the most secular of nations—and the @nytimes frames it like this pic.twitter.com/xnxJKGNfiE

— Claire Lehmann (@clairlemon) October 17, 2020

As did the Guardian pic.twitter.com/WctaReYyms

— davem (@davemac00) October 17, 2020

Notice that when “right-wing” or “white supremacist” violence occurs, the motive becomes the most important thing about the story, and every politician is expected to denounce the motive, per se. By contrast, when violence is perpetrated by left-wing extremists, by Muslims, or by any protected minority group, the media will never generalize these crimes as representing the collective sentiment of a group, nor is there any political pressure to denounce the attacker’s motive.

In fact, the media will often times bend over backward to humanize terrorists who fit a favored political or ethnic profile, with the suggestion that their motives are legitimate grievances. The media feels compelled to depict certain terrorists (e.g., Dzhokhar Tsarnaev) as sympathetic figures because, they fear, an unsympathetic portrayal of such figures might inspire “backlash” against whatever group the attacker represents. Obversely, when the accused terrorist is white and can plausibly be shown to have a “right-wing” motive, not only is the perpetrator (e.g., Dylann Roof) depicted without sympathy, but the media employ broad-brush smear tactics to imply that similarly hateful sentiments are widespread among white people, and that every vaguely “right-wing” public figure is somehow complicit in the atrocity. The rationale of news coverage in such cases is to inspire prejudice against conservatives, and particularly to incite fear that further “right-wing” violence is likely, requiring renewed efforts to “educate” the ignorant masses.

Category: France, Islam, Media Bias, Terrorism

In The Mailbox: 10.16.20

Posted on | October 17, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Usual deadlines for the usual weekend posts.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: Echoing Ayn Rand – Fence-Sitters Will Enable America’s End
357 Magnum: Venezuela Is Out Of Gas
EBL: Lyin’ With Biden
Twitchy: Person On Hunter Biden-Red China Email Thread Reportedly “Corroborated The Veracity Of These Messages”
Louder With Crowder: Rudy Giuliani Tells Crowder He Has Proof Hunter Biden’s Hard Drive Is Authentic
Vox Popoli: The Global Shutdown, also, “This Should Trouble You Immensely”
According To Hoyt: Say Goodbye To Hollywood, also, Read This & Consider It
Monster Hunter Nation: George Orwell Would Have Thought This Week’ Plot Too Far-Fetched
Gab News: An Open Letter To President Trump On Section 230

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: How Trump Still Divides The Republican Old Guard
American Greatness: Giuliani – Hunter Biden’s Attorney Contacted Computer Repairman After NY Post Story Broke, Wanted Hard Drive Back, also, RNC Files FEC Complaint against Twitter
American Power: Peter Schweizer, Profiles In Corruption
American Thinker: Can The Democrats Sell Their Worst Candidate Ever? also, In Richmond’s Public Schools, A Rabid #BLM Leftist At The K-12 Helm
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Campaign Speech Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s Switch To Dollar-Based Economy Will Only Benefit Its Tyrannical Ruling Class
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For October 16
Cafe Hayek: Competition Is A Discovery Procedure
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: The Science Behind Coronavirus Lockdowns Is Far From Settled, also, Twitter & Facebook Cross The Rubicon
Don Surber: Trump Should Expand SCOTUS To 29 And Appoint 20 More Judges
First Street Journal: Voting By Mail – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The Geller Report: Savannah Guthrie Blasted For Hostile Behavior Towards Trump During Town Hall, also, Paris Schoolteacher Beheaded By Muslim Parent
Hogewash: Twitter, Section 230, & Being A Speaker, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Comedian Brian Scolaro Shines Light On Hollywood’s Lesser Known Players, also, Is Battlefield Earth Worth A Second Look?
The Lid: Liberal Media Confirms Biden Is Least Scrutinized Candidate Ever
Legal Insurrection: SCOTUS To Hear Case Over Trump’s Exclusion Of Illegals From Congressional Apportionment, also, Tucker Carlson Exposes Biden Family Influence Peddling In Ukraine, Including New Emails
Power Line: About That Laptop, also, Thoughts From The Ammo Line
Shark Tank: Widow Of Pulse Nightclub Shooter Honored By Muslim-American Group
Shot In The Dark: Blue Fragility – State Of The States
The Political Hat: Struggle Sessions British Style
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, New AWOL Policy After Macabre Summer Calls Attention To Missing Soldiers
Victory Girls: Biden Tells Police “Shoot ‘Em In The Leg!”
Volokh Conspiracy: Canceling Dianne Feinstein
Weasel Zippers: “Bins Full Of Ballots” Found In Louisville Dumpster, also, Stevie Nicks Thanks Moloch For Fleetwood Mac’s Success
The Federalist: Savannah Guthrie Hated Voters’ Questions, So She Took Over The Town Hall, also, 1619 Project Founder Melts Down Over Criticism Of Her Fake History
Mark Steyn: Liberty Vs. Lockdown

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Can Savannah Guthrie Prove Democrats Are NOT a Satanic Pedophile Ring?

Posted on | October 16, 2020 | 2 Comments

Has anyone asked Joe Biden whether he’s against pedophilia? Do you think it’s a coincidence the media haven’t asked him about this?

SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: While we’re denouncing, let me ask you about QAnon. It is this theory that Democrats are a satanic pedophile ring, and that you are the savior of that. Now, can you just once and for all state that that is completely not true?
DONALD TRUMP: So–
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: Can you disavow QAnon in its entirety?
DONALD TRUMP: I know nothing about QAnon.
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: I just told you.
DONALD TRUMP: I know very little– you told me, but what you tell me doesn’t necessarily make it fact. I hate to say that. I know nothing about it. I do know they are very much against pedophilia, they fight it very hard. But I know nothing about it.

Why is it that only Trump is ever asked to denounce stuff like this? All kinds of crazy ideas are rampant among Joe Biden’s supporters, but because the media are all Democrats, Biden is never asked to repudiate various toxic elements of the Democratic Party constituency.

While I haven’t paid much attention to QAnon, my understanding is that they were rather more specific in their accusations. In particular, they named former Hillary Clinton campaign adviser John Podesta as being implicated in a sex-trafficking conspiracy. That’s where the Comet Ping Pong angle arose, and if you will recall, this “PizzaGate” theory was not only inspired by the hacking of Podesta’s emails, but also by the fact — not a theory, but a fact — that Clinton aide Huma Abedin was married to ex-congressman Anthony Weiner. In September 2016, it was learned that Weiner had been “sexting” with a 15-year-old North Carolina girl.

The FBI’s seizure of Weiner’s laptop led to the discovery of evidence relevant to Hillary’s email scandal. So the idea that Democrats are hiding pedophilia-related secrets is not really so far-fetched, is it?

What else might lend credibility to QAnon? Well, there’s the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, and the sinister activities of Hollywood pedophiles, among other things. There is clear evidence of the Epstein-Clinton connection, and everybody knows Hollywood is a Democrat-controlled town, so there are plenty of dots there that might seem connected.

And can we talk about Creepy Uncle Joe?

Look, I can’t prove that Joe Biden is part of a Satanic Pedophile Ring. On the other hand, Savannah Guthrie can’t prove he’s not.

Category: Donald Trump, Media Bias

A Blue-Collar Philosopher

Posted on | October 16, 2020 | 1 Comment

Our education system, and the elite culture that this system influences, is now organized around a concept of “diversity” that is explicitly anti-white and anti-male.” To be a white male in America is to be persona non grata at Yale, Harvard, Stanford, etc. No one in our education system expends any effort to encourage young white males in their dreams or ambitions. Everything taught in the classroom stigmatizes white males, and administrative policy is to hinder (if they cannot actually prohibit) white males from academic achievement. The result of this discrimination is that there are great number of talented and intelligent young white men who have turned their backs on the education system:

I’m a 26-year-old American working-class college dropout who owns and operates a small business. From the time the COVID-19 lockdown began, I’ve had to scramble to ensure that I could keep working. The company that employed me in northern Nevada had me working nearly full-time during the first quarter of 2020, doing repairs on federal buildings in the western states — a job that presented an opportunity for upward mobility and education within the building trades. But when governments abruptly restricted projects in March and April, and limited outside contractors from their facilities, the work dried up long enough to get me moving.
So I moved to Northern California, where I’d previously lived and worked. Sleeping on the floor of a friend’s home near Sacramento to begin with, I reconnected with clients in need of wildfire risk mitigation, as well as handyman and landscape services. It’s been stressful juggling work, finding a place to live, and dealing with unexpected costs. Getting set up in a decent mobile home ate up about three-quarters of my savings. I felt that it wasn’t just the pandemic that put me in this spot, but the heavy-handed response by state and federal government agencies.

Let me point out here that this young man writes more clearly than do many of his college-educated peers. One might wonder why he’s working construction jobs, instead of being employed as a teacher, journalist, lawyer or some other white-collar profession.

As I say, however, the anti-white/anti-male ideology that prevails in academia means that everything possible was done to discourage this young man’s pursuit of a college degree. Even if he had stayed on campus and graduated, he could not have gotten hired as a journalist — all major media organizations now hire on the basis of “diversity,” which is a synonym for “no white males need apply.” Because every major corporation now discriminates against white males under this “diversity” rationale, there is no point even trying to get on that kind of career treadmill. Better to just get a blue-collar job and sweat for a living:

My first year in community college didn’t go well. I thought girls would never want me, remained stuck living at home, and sometimes contemplated suicide. As my 18th birthday approached, adult life looked bleak. . . .
After only a year at college, I decided I had to get out of my parent’s house and find a way to become financially independent. With few options, I took work as a freelance laborer in various trades. Reading the great literary works of the 19th and 20th centuries in my spare time, I imagined that I was emulating my fictional heroes. But the unromantic reality was that this brutal transition toward independence involved poverty and couch surfing. And the work itself was dirty, and often bloody. I did long hours of tree work with arborists, painted, landscaped, and trained as a farrier (one who trims and shoes horses’ hooves). . . .
After a few years of shoeing horses, briefly interrupted by a temporary job mining silver, I ran a brush-clearing and landscaping company as a side hustle. During this scramble for meaningful independence, the leftist tendencies I’d absorbed at college dropped off bit by bit. Life as a capitalist entrepreneur brought out the best in me, even when I was flirting with homelessness. . . .
As a straight white male, I was supposedly luxuriating in a life of privilege—a stereotype that had nothing to do with my experience as a blue-collar worker who’d faced debilitating family traumas.

You can and should read the whole article by Austin Schue.

Do I have to explain that there are many thousands of guys like this out there? One consequence of the anti-white/anti-male bias of our educational system is that it is steadily creating a reservoir of intelligent young white guys who have no stake in the socioeconomic status quo. Alienated from the elite culture, and aware of their status as despised scapegoats — everybody in academia hates white males — these young men are desperate for someone who can explain to them what’s actually going on in the world. Austin talks about finding guidance from Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan. It’s important to realize the inherent danger posed by the existence of this class of alienated young white men, some of whom may be tempted to listen to the siren song of hateful conspiracy theorists. If you wonder where the “alt-right” came from, the answer is as simple as one word — diversity. Recall that Richard Spencer was a graduate student at Duke University when the lacrosse team rape hoax made blindingly obvious the hateful nature of “social justice” ideology.

One could trace a direct line of causation from the 2006 Duke rape hoax to the 2017 Charlottesville riot. Our elites think young white men are too stupid to understand what is happening to them — the destruction of their dreams — or why it is happening. The professors and TV news anchors may be surprised to learn that they are wrong, and I fear that they little apprehend what the ultimate result of all this will be.

(Hat-tip: Lawrence Person.)

Category: Education