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In The Mailbox: 08.03.20

Posted on | August 3, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: No Police = Lawlessness
Red Pilled Jew: The Virus As Simon Phoenix, Part II
EBL: So Who Was St. Damien Of Molokai?
Twitchy: Mollie Hemingway Calls Out Media Who Portrayed Christopher Steele As Superspy
Louder With Crowder: Students Arrested for Writing Outside Planned Parenthood – In Chalk
Vox Popoli: Canceling Rape Rape, also, Deflationary Inaction

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Dark Days
American Conservative: How Bells, Whistles, & Greed Blew Up The Defense Budget
American Greatness: The New Old Obama, also, Cuban Restaurant Owner Says Louisville BLM Extorting Local Businesses
American Power: A Broad Ideological Project To Dominate Society, also, Stop Apologizing To The Mob
American Thinker: Strike Three – MLB’s Sordid Romance With Race-Baiting Politics
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Karen Bass As VP Would Be Highest Ranking Castro Regime Sympathizer Ever
BattleSwarm: Get Vanned, Wokies, also, BidenWatch For August 3
Cafe Hayek: Unemployment Benefits & Paid Leave Redux
CDR Salamander: Time To Get Serious About Seapower Advocacy
Da Tech Guy: Here Come The Woke Pharisees Of #NeverTrump, also, Race, Politics, & The English Language
Don Surber: Rich Lowry Outs Himself As A Fraud, also, NYC Won’t Recover
First Street Journal: Is There Zero Racism In Canada?
The Geller Report: Postal Workers Warn Mail-In Voting Will Be Catastrophic, also, NYT Op-Ed – “Let’s Scrap The Presidential Debates”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Less Lethal Advice
Hollywood In Toto: John Oliver Lies About Portland Violence, Reporters Run To His Defense, also, ACLU – Silent On Cancel Culture, But Ready To Fight For Red China’s TikTok
JustOneMinute: Duckworth For VP?
The Lid: Rep, Clyburn’s Trump Is Hitler References Are Absurd
Legal Insurrection: Portland Rioters Burn Stack Of Bibles Outside Federal Courthouse, also, Chicago Lawmaker Proposes Suspending Grade School History Classes Until “A Suitable Alternative Is Developed”
The PanAm Post: Is The Rise Of Illiberalism Driven By Fear Of Innovation & Competition?
Power Line: Portland Suffers Most Killings In Three Decades, also, Conservatism Means Sanity
Protein Wisdom: On Knees On Necks
Shark Tank: Mucarsel-Powell Voting 100% With Pelosi Could Cost Her Reelection
Shot In The Dark: Blue Fragility – Open Letter To Jonathan Chait
STUMP: Mortality With Meep – On Florida COVID-19 Deaths & Reporting Lag
The Political Hat: Institutional Privilege Of The Revolution
This Ain’t Hell: Oh, What A Tangled Web, also, The Battle For Peleliu
Victory Girls: DC Mayor Bowser Calls Lewis Funeral “Essential” For Lawmakers
Volokh Conspiracy: CT Passes Law Curbing Qualified Immunity – But With Loopholes
Weasel Zippers: Minneapolis Tells Residents To Surrender Property To Criminals, also, Cubans Rally To Support Louisville Businesses Threatened By #BLM
Mark Steyn: Marcel Dalio – Poster Boy, Invisible Man, also, Jewels & Goals

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Category: Linkagery

Targeted for Destruction

Posted on | August 3, 2020 | 3 Comments

 

When I was a road warrior on the campaign trail years ago, I got into the habit of using the blog as a sort of notebook — three or four posts a day, with photos, quotes, etc. — which I would then cannibalize in the evening for my American Spectator column. Sometimes I still utilize that modus operandi, as for example in my COVID-19 coverage, where I would often do a midday rant inspired by Andrew Cuomo’s daily briefings (dear God how I despised those), and compose some statistical comparisons that were then fed into my regular columns on the pandemic.

All of that is preamble to explaining that yesterday’s blog rant (“Democrats vs. Suburbia: Biden Will Make ‘Magic Dirt Theory’ Federal Policy”) was really a warm-up for a 1,900-word opus that begins thus:

One of the basic tasks of the political Left, not only in contemporary America but on a worldwide basis ever since the French Revolution, is to identify those social institutions that are healthy and functional, then ruin them completely, and call this result “reform.” Sometimes millions of people die as a result of the Left’s appetite for “reform” (e.g., collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union), but always innocent people are made to suffer on behalf of the allegedly idealistic motives of the self-anointed progressive “reformers.” . . .

Read the rest of my latest column at The American Spectator.

By the way, our commenter “JeffS” deserves a hat-tip for calling my attention to the anti-zoning measure enacted last year in Oregon, thus informing two paragraphs toward the end of my column.




 

Category: American Spectator, Joe Biden

Rule 5 Sunday: Summertime 2D Girls

Posted on | August 3, 2020 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

For the last couple of years, I’ve been playing a mobile game, Fate/Grand Order, and while the main storyline is interesting enough, between the chapters Type Moon diverts us with seasonal events, which provide an opportunity to pick up materials and perhaps acquire new Servants. This season, one of the possible waifusServants is an Assassin version of Ushiwakamaru.

“…Pursued by her brother’s assassins, Ushiwakamaru and Benkei fled into the country. They encountered soldiers of the Shogunate who commented on how much she looked like the fleeing Yoshitsune. Immediately Benkei began beating her with his staff. ‘How dare you look like Yoshitsune!’, he yelled.”

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1063, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Flaming Hypocrite Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Jhene Aiko, Olivia De Havilland, Lucia Di Lammermoor, July Child, Hassie Harrison, Tosca, Julie London, Ava Gardner, Rigoletto, Misty Boyce, Il Trovatore, Shayna Leigh, Candace Owens, Carole King, Rusalka, Ernani, and Die Walkuere.

A View From The Beach: Bebe Rexha, Fish Pic Friday – Gianna Goots, Thursday Tanlines, Wednesday Wetness, Tuesday’s Temptations, Motorcycles for Monday, Hot Time!, RIP: Olivia de Havilland, Greenlanders Defy BLM Movement, and Palm Sunday.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe is Olivia De Havilland, Bacon Time has Butt It’s Friday, and Red Pilled Jew brings us Women With Stars Of David.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Gonna Teach You Tricks That’ll Blow Your Mongrel Mind

Posted on | August 2, 2020 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Gonna Teach You Tricks That’ll Blow Your Mongrel Mind

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Kate Upton To The Edge Of Madness
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Arson, Shooting in ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Protests Against Police Brutality
Bacon Time
The Political Hat
Today’s News & Updates
EBL

Origins of an Error
Bacon Time
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: A Fistful of Yen
A View From The Beach
EBL

The Usual Suspects
Dark Brightness
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.27.20
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.28.20
Proof Positive
EBL

Democrats Debut New 2020 Campaign Slogan: ‘Reclaiming My Time!’
357 Magnum
EBL

Antifa Trash Fire Roundup
First Street Journal
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.30.20 (Morning Edition)
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

Herman Cain, R.I.P.
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.30.20 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Stupid Is as Stupid Does
357 Magnum
EBL

‘Drop the Knife!’
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

Feds Arrest Democrat Voters in Chicago
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.31.20
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending July 31:

  1.  EBL (16)
  2.  357 Magnum (7)
  3.  Proof Positive (6)
  4.  A View From The Beach (5)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Category: FMJRA Award

Democrats vs. Suburbia: Biden Will Make ‘Magic Dirt Theory’ Federal Policy

Posted on | August 2, 2020 | 3 Comments

 

When President Trump first raised the accusation last month that Joe Biden is planning to destroy the “Suburban Dream Lifestyle,” I didn’t know what the hell he was talking about, and half believed the media claim that Trump was just “stoking fear.” And then I investigated, and discovered that Democrats plan to abolish single-family home zoning.

Crazy? Yes, it sounds so crazy that you can’t imagine that anyone would seriously propose such a policy, but this goes back to something the Obama administration actually did (by executive order) in 2015, “tying federal community development grants to proactive efforts by communities to integrate neighborhoods,” as left-wing Mother Jones described it. This issue gets very deep very quickly, but the basic idea is that suburban communities that maintain single-family zoning thereby restrict the areas in which “affordable housing” can be built and — stay with me here — “affordable housing” is just code for homes for black people because, presumably, “black” is a synonym for poor.

If we’re going to be slinging around unsubstantiated accusations of racism (which is what the media do with Trump 24/7), can’t we discuss how racist it is to assume that all black people are poor, and vice-versa? As if there is no such thing as “white trash”? I mean, if you’re living in an upscale suburb neighborhood, and somebody proposes to build “affordable housing” right down the street, you’re going to be angry as hell. Does it really matter what race the residents of “affordable housing” are? Like, somebody is building a trailer park full of Kentucky hillbillies, but you’re OK with that, just so long as no brown people move in?

This is absurd, but you see that “proactive efforts . . . to integrate neighborhoods” was a policy based entirely on statistics about where people of different races live. Even if there is no discrimination, you see, there are still statistical disparities in housing patterns, and these disparities must be eliminated by “proactive efforts” or else, no federal money for your community. In 2018, the Trump administration rescinded that Obama-era rule, but almost nobody noticed at the time, mainly because the media was so busy with “Russia! Russia! Russia!”

What happened last month to turn housing policy into headline news? Stanley Kurtz of National Review got poking around on Biden’s website, saw what the campaign was proposing, and wrote an article with the headline, “Biden and Dems Are Set to Abolish the Suburbs.”

This is quite literally true. Biden is proposing to effectively destroy the ability of suburban communities to govern themselves, so that all zoning decisions will be subject to veto from the federal government if any such local decision were insufficiently “proactive.”

Biden and the Democrats have embraced, as the basis of policy, what Vox Day has called Magic Dirt Theory, “the idea that beliefs, behaviors, and values somehow appear in particular geographical areas, from the air, from the water, or from the ground, rather than being carried from place to place by groups of people wherever they happen to be.”

Basically, you have to be hate-listed by the SPLC to say in plain words what’s wrong with Magic Dirt Theory. Patterns of human behavior cannot be automatically transformed by transferring a person (or a group of people) from one geographical location to another. I was born and raised in Georgia by parents who grew up in Randolph County, Alabama; despite having grown up in a middle-class suburb of Atlanta, my behavioral patterns in some ways still reflect the folkways of my rural ancestors. If this is true of myself, I suppose it’s likewise true of others.

For example, my friend Pete Da Tech Guy has never set foot in Sicily, but anyone who has ever met him would have no trouble guessing that he is a man of Sicilian ancestry. We do not need to deny the possibility of cultural assimilation to observe that differences in ethnic cultures persist. Therefore the attempt to “solve” the problems of racial minorities by relocating them to majority-white communities — a Soviet-style policy of forced resettlement — is apt to disappoint the utopian hopes that inspire such proposals (to say nothing of the violations of liberty involved). I could continue this discussion at some length, but the point is that this lunatic scheme of the Biden campaign is being dismissed by the major media as a “right-wing conspiracy theory,” despite the fact that it is described at length on Biden’s own website.

It is now “racist” to quote Democrats, I guess.




 

Category: Joe Biden, Racism

The McCain Supremacy

Posted on | August 2, 2020 | Comments Off on The McCain Supremacy

 

 

Yeah, I just wanted to show off my son Jefferson. He’s 21, one semester away from graduating college, six feet tall, and a varsity athlete.

What can I say? The boy’s a beneficiary of superior DNA.

Your lovestruck young daughters can follow him on Instagram.




 

Category: Uncategorized

The Other Podcast Rides Again

Posted on | August 2, 2020 | 1 Comment

For two consecutive weeks, technical problems with Blogtalkradio prevented John Hoge and I from doing our weekly podcast, so the executive decision was made to find a new platform, and Saturday night we made our debut on Podbean.com.

 

Because it was our first time on the new platform, the beginning was just a bit wobbly, but we made it through the hour.




 

Category: Talk Radio

Implied Meanings

Posted on | August 1, 2020 | 3 Comments

 

The word “negro” is simply Spanish for black, and for many decades “negro” was the term preferred by Americans we now call black or African-American, e.g., the United Negro College Fund, founded in 1944. Deriving from a Latin root, “negro” had the connotation of being scientific (because Latin is the language of science) and was therefore preferred by the educated classes of the 20th century. More colloquially, black people were called “colored” (e.g., the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), and both “negro” and “colored” were used interchangeably by well-meaning white people with no intent to insult or offend. When did this change and why?

In the late 1960s, immediately after the triumph of the Civil Rights movement, young former activists with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, which had organized the lunch-counter “sit-in” protests against segregation) decided to go in a more radical direction than that pursued by Martin Luther King Jr. Led by Stokely Carmichael, these radicals at SNCC purged white members from what had been a biracial coalition and embraced the slogan, “Black Power.” Thus black became a signifier of radical youth, as opposed to the older, respectable, middle-class “negro” or “colored” civil-rights movement.

“Black” had a militant, revolutionary connotation in the late 1960s, and was associated with the violence perpetrated by the Black Panthers (e.g., the assassination of Judge Harold Haley in 1970) and later by the Black Liberation Army (e.g., the Nyack armored car robbery in 1981). The adoption of “black” as the preferred racial term was thus, in part, a concession to a terorist threat, although most younger white people at the time began using “black” simply because that was the cool thing to say; after about 1968 only old fogeys said “negro” or “colored.” And so the change in language marked not only a political shift, but also a generational divide. People of my father’s generation, to say nothing of my grandparents’ generation, were reluctant to adopt the new terminology and in the late 1980s, when some black activists began insisting on the pretentious multisyllabic “African-American”? Well, suffice it to say that this change did not find a widespread acceptance among older white people at the time. But I digress . . .

Two weeks ago, Roger Stone was involved in a controversy about his alleged use of the word “negro.” After President Trump commuted Stone’s sentence, he was interviewed on Morris O’Kelly’s talk-radio show:

At one point, Stone and Mo’Kelly are discussing the charges brought against Stone, which included lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstruction of a congressional committee, and why other people in the administration hadn’t faced the same kind of investigations and inquiries. Mo’Kelly pointed out that while certain people are treated differently in the federal justice system, Stone’s relationship with Trump made him different than most defendants.
“I do believe that certain people are treated differently in the federal justice system. I do absolutely believe that. But I also believe that your friendship and relationship and history with Donald Trump weighed more heavily than him just wanting to make sure that justice was done by a person in the justice system, that you were treated so unfairly,” Mo’Kelly tells Stone. “There are thousands of people treated unfairly daily. Hell, your number just happened to come up in the lottery. I’m guessing it was more than just luck, Roger, right?”
There’s a pause, then what sounds like Stone’s voice can be heard telling someone on the other end that “I don’t really feel like arguing with this negro [sic].”

Stone denied saying this, but what would it signify if he did say it?

Certainly, we must assume, if Stone did say “negro,” he did not intend for this to be heard by O’Kelly’s black listenership, who would find it offensive. And because Stone is a very intelligent man, his choice of “negro” in the context of a remark uttered sotto voce to someone present on his end of the phone conversation must be interpreted as significant — but what did he mean to signify?

Well, Stone has denied saying “negro,” but it seems to me that if he did say it, he would have used the word with intentional irony, because an intelligent person does not use an archaic term any other way. It’s as if one were to call someone a half-breed, a mulatto or a quadroon — terms that once had common usage, but which are now considered obsolete.

If I may appoint myself spokesman for the Caucasian-American community — because, really, who is more qualified to be the Al Sharpton of crackers? — I would guess that an intelligent white person using the word “negro,” in the context of expressing irritation, would expect this word to elicit laughter. Roger Stone is known to be a man who enjoys a joke, and he could not have intended “negro” any other way.

You see we are in the terrain that Jeff Goldstein calls “intentionalism,” where people are disputing what they believe someone meant by saying something deemed offensive, but where the person who allegedly said this disavows any offensive intention. Roger Stone is a Republican, and most black Americans are Democrats, so that it is very easy to accuse Stone of racism with the expectation that he will be convicted of the charge in the court of public opinion. Stone is far past the point in his career where “cancel culture” matters much to him, but this controversy highlights the way in which language conveys implied meaning — connations of social or political significance — that are distinct from the literal definition of words. And I think also we must be concerned with what George Orwell warned about, namely the way in which political control of language leads to a totalitarian regime of thought-control.




 

Category: Culture, Racism
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