In The Mailbox: 10.18.19

Posted on | October 18, 2019 | 1 Comment

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: HOAs Are Just Evil
Locomotive Breath: Stanley Cup Champion St. Louis Blues Visit The White House
EBL: Red China Cancels Release Of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Over Bruce Lee Scene
Twitchy: Tulsi Gabbard Responds To Hillary’s “Russian Asset” Accusation, And It’s AMAZING
Louder With Crowder: Hate Crime Case Opened After Male Photographer Refuses To Have Sex With Penis-Having Tranny
According To Hoyt: The Crystal Ball of Hong Kong
Monster Hunter Nation: October Update Post
Vox Popoli: The Democrats Back Down, also, Spying On U.S. Conservatives In Ukraine

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – Muh White Privilege Edition
American Greatness: All Nine GOP Members Of House Intel Committee Blast Schiff For Withholding Docs, also, Trump Campaign Threatens To Sue CNN
American Thinker: Beto Would Risk Another Waco
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Fusion Friday
Babalu Blog: Alicia Alonso – Reflections On A Cuban Diva Who Sold Her Soul To The Devil
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For October 18
Cafe Hayek: Lies, Damned Lies, And…
CDR Salamander: Ford And The Wages Of Transformationalism
Da Tech Guy: The Two Real Stories In This Piece About Biologists & Life
Don Surber: Highlights Of The News
First Street Journal: The Diocese Of Lexington Ignores The Rules, And Something Bad Happens
The Geller Report: CAIR’s Sharia Thugs Demand Maine Sports Official be Fired For Facebook Posts, also, Islamic Schools For Girls More Like “Finishing Schools For Child Brides”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Democrats Can’t Meme
Hollywood In Toto: The Left Threatens Violence, Shuts Down Art (Again)
Legal Insurrection: Data Suggests Less “Climate Crisis” Than Activists Would Have You Believe, also, Iran Economy To Shrink 9.5% As U.S. Sanctions Bite Deeper
The PanAm Post: Hermann Tertsch – “Without A Credible Threat, Maduro Will Never Give Up Power”
Power Line: Is Hillary Drunk-Podcasting? also, Thoughts From The Ammo Line
Shark Tank: GOP Pulls Away From Democrats In 2020 Fundraising
Shot In The Dark: You Have To Be Breathtakingly Depraved To Join Our Elite
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – The Republican Party & Mr. Nixon
This Ain’t Hell: Marines Expand Training, also, The Continuing Story of Turkey
Victory Girls: Chicago Teachers Strike Should Be A Warning
Volokh Conspiracy: Is The CFPB Unconstitutional? We’ll Soon Find Out, also, Go Walgreens!
Weasel Zippers: State Department Finishes Clinton E-Mail Review, Finds Over 600 Security Violations, also, Tulsi Gabbard Wrecks Hillary For Calling Her A Russian Asset
Megan McArdle: Hey, Democrats, Why Not Talk About Healthcare Delivery, Not Just Costs?
Mark Steyn: Brother From Another Mammy, also, The Banana Vote Song – Tallying Time

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Category: Linkagery

Why Are the Feds Monitoring Me?

Posted on | October 18, 2019 | 2 Comments

Email from Amazon:

Hello Associate,
This is a reminder of your disclosure obligations under the Operating Agreement. Any time you share an affiliate link, it’s important to disclose that to your audience. They will trust you more if you are transparent about where you are directing them and why. To meet the Associate Program’s requirements, you must (1) include a legally compliant disclosure with your links and (2) identify yourself on your Site as an Amazon Associate with the language required by the Operating Agreement. To comply with Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulations, your link-level disclosure must be:1. Clear. A clear disclosure could be as simple as “(paid link)”, “#ad” or “#CommissionsEarned”.2. Conspicuous. It should be placed near any affiliate link or product review in a location that customers will notice easily. They shouldn’t have to hunt for it.In addition, the Operating Agreement requires that the following statement clearly and conspicuously appears on your Site: “As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.” For social media user-generated content, this statement must be associated with your account.Associates should also consider the relevant social media platform’s guidelines. For example, Associates may use Facebook’s Branded Content tool. To read more about the FTC Endorsement Guides, visit: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftcs-endorsement-guides-what-people-are-asking#affiliate. Visit this page on AC to bookmark this information about disclosures.
Thank you, Amazon Associates Program

What exactly the hell is a “legally compliant disclosure”? In case anyone doesn’t understand, under the Amazon Associates program, anytime you visit Amazon through my links here, I get a small commission (at no cost to you) on every purchase you make during that visit. Because I’ve always been “transparent” — hey, give me your money, this is a capitalist blog! — I can’t imagine any reader feels they have been deceived when I do an affiliate link (usually to a book title) on the blog. But now, apparently, somebody went and got the doggone Federal Government involved, and I’m supposed to include an officially-approved “disclosure” on every single link? What the hell is the point of electing Donald Trump president if he can’t put a stop to this kind of meddlesome regulation? It’s not like I’ve been defrauding my readers or doing some kind of shady scam here.

Anyway, now I’m going to have to read the fine print on my Operating Agreement now, but you’d better believe some of my friends in the Trump administration will get an earful about this. I pay taxes on my income, and I don’t expect my tax money to be used to pay a bunch of pointy-head bureaucrats at the FTC to monitor my blog!

Category: Amazon

‘Team Woman’ and Their Victims

Posted on | October 18, 2019 | 1 Comment

Edmund Burke famously wrote of the French Revolution, “The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations which may be soon turned into complaints.” The truth of Burke’s warning to France was proven by subsequent events, and yet it seems we have learned nothing from the history of the past two centuries. Think about the consequences of the Sexual Revolution and modern feminism, which began in the late 1960s as the Women’s Liberation Movement. The catastrophic effects of “liberty to individuals” can scarcely be denied, and we can see this not only as statistical trends, but in particular cases. Some people are simply incapable of exercising prudent judgment, and their folly often inflicts heartbreaking pain on those unfortunate enough to be associated with such fools. In a post earlier this week (“What Causes Misogyny?”), I discussed the case of a man who discovered from a DNA test that his 15-year-old daughter was not actually his daughter, but rather the result of his cheating ex-wife’s affairs. What perhaps shocked me most in that tale was when the man told how, after discovering how he’d been deceived, he determined have nothing more to do with his ex-wife’s daughter — and yet allowed his mother to talk him into embracing the child as if she were actually his own! Some readers took issue with my opinion on that story, but Adam Piggott gets the point:

Three generations of women were lined up against the man — his mother, his cheating wife, and the girl who he had thought was his daughter. . . .
The man’s mother is the key figure here. She sided against her son. She took the side of the mother of the girl who was actually not her granddaughter. Now, I am sure that the vast majority of you are aware of what grandparents are like around their grandchildren and how they tend to lose their brains. Mind you, the grannies are the Boomers now so maybe that’s not a thing anymore.
Anyway, my point is that no-granny here took the side of team women even though every logical point ruled against her taking that position. But women are not logical. Even worse, they are out of control and slaves to their feelings. We have let them have unfettered access to their feelings and given those same feelings a measure of artificial importance.
Feelings lead to chaos which inevitably leads to destruction.
Women will always always go team woman if they have a say in the matter and if there are no social consequences for them to do so.

Of course, Adam over-generalizes here — not all women are hyper-emotional or irrationally devoted to Team Woman. Nevertheless, the point is how such irrationality makes family unity impossible.

One of the principles that my wife and I consciously applied in parenting our children (five of whom are now adults, and the youngest 16) was to have a United Front of parental authority. Children can be very shrewd in exploiting any potential division between parents, and if they can succeed in doing so, bad consequences predictably follow. Parents have to consult between themselves and reach agreement in terms of what the rules are for their children and how the rules should be enforced, because every child is a potential tyrant who will employ a divide-and-conquer strategy, unless faced with a resolute unity of adult authority.

My assumption, from the absence of any reference to the cuckolded man’s father in that tale, is that his parents either never married, or else they were divorced and he was raised under his mother’s authority — a “mama’s boy,” taught from earliest childhood to defer to women’s wishes, which may explain why his ex-wife had no respect for him.

Every man must be the judge of his own honor. That’s a point I’ve made in other contexts, where someone has insulted me and, when I call attention to the insult, they respond by saying that they didn’t intend to insult me — which is a further and arguably more grievous insult, in that they are now telling me that I have imagined the injury I’ve suffered, or perhaps that I deserved to be mistreated. Where I come from, that would get you a punch in the nose, or worse. I grew up around rednecks, and when a redneck tells you he is offended by something you said or did, you’re only going to make matters worse if you tell him he is mistaken.

The curious thing of my own experience is that (a) every fight I’ve been in as an adult involved a quarrel over a woman, and (b) I’ve never thrown the first punch. No, i was always getting sucker-punched by some fool who let himself be tricked into playing “White Knight.” My attitude was captured in a throw-away line Ronnie Van Zant stuck into the live version of “Gimme Three Steps,” where he says, “I ain’t fixin’ to die over no [vulgar term for a vulva].” It is as predictable as sunrise in the East, however, that when a woman gets her feelings hurt, she will conceive a plan of revenge, often without bothering to say anything to the person against whom she bears a grudge. Women seem to learn this attitude in childhood, squabbling amongst themselves on the elementary school playground, and many of them never grow out of this childish tendency, which often takes the form of being a gossipy tattletale: “Did you hear what So-and-So did? I’m going to tell teacher!”

Women doing that playground tattletale act can literally get men killed. She develops a grudge against a guy — for whatever reason, or no sometimes no discernible reason at all — and finds some fool who’s willing to play “White Knight” for her. The fool listens to her one-sided sob story about how this terrible man said or did something mean to her and, being a fool, the “White Knight” doesn’t doubt a word she tells him, nor even stop to consider whether her tale of grievance is plausible. No, sir, he’s a pretty girl crying, and he’s going to avenge her by whuppin’ the ass of the low-down scoundrel who done her wrong. Next think you know, he or the other guy ends up dead, and the one who’s still living is one his way to prison, and the judge don’t want to hear you sad story, pal. The jailhouse is full of fools with stories to tell, and there are men in the graveyard whose side of the story died with them. But I digress . . .

Every man must be the judge of his own honor, as I say, and if a man has been cuckolded by his wife, deceived into raising another man’s child, why would his own mother take side against him when he declares he wants nothing more to do with the child who is, from his perspective, the living symbol of his own humiliation? It is cruel to expect a man to endure such shame, but as Adam Piggott says, it’s “Team Woman.”

Apparently with no sympathy for her son, who has suffered a grievous wrong, his mother instead is full of gushy irrational feeling for the child who has been foisted upon her son by his ex-wife’s deception! It apparently does not occur to her that her son’s cheating ex-wife as also deceived her into imagining that this child was her granddaughter, and she permits her sentimental connection to the child — now a teenager — to trump “every logical point” in favor of her son’s position.

Feelings are more important than facts to Team Woman, and we must pity this poor guy who’s been dominated by women his entire life.

Family unity, as I say, requires parents to maintain a United Front of authority with their children, and there are many unfortunate consequences of failing to do this. One of them is that, in a divided household, children don’t develop a proper sense of self-respect. Under wise parental authority — the United Front — children learn to live by the shared values of the parents, and to respect themselves according to how well they live up to those values. Children often go through a rebellious stage as adolescents, but once they reach maturity and get on the right track, upholding the values they learned growing up, the well-raised child will say, “I turned out all right, so I guess Mom and Dad must have known what they were doing all along.” The decadence of our society in the 21st century is simply a result of millions of bad parental decisions.

Well, I could extend this lecture a long way before exhausting every relevant point, but I’m nearing 1,500 words already, and I expect the readers will want to share their own insights. Bottom line, I reckon, is that we shouldn’t wonder why the suicide rate is now so high for men. Their souls are being crushed to despair by Team Woman.

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 10.17.19

Posted on | October 18, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.17.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The First Lady of Naval Cryptography
Bacon Time: Horowitz IG Report – My Greatest Fear
Locomotive Breath: Rep. Elijah Cummings Dies, No Arkancide Suspected
EBL: Pence & Erdogan – Turkey Agrees To Cease-Fire In Syria
Twitchy: Hunter Pollack Pens Op-Ed Opposing Sheriff Scott Israel’s Reinstatement
Louder With Crowder: Climate Zealots Block Morning Commute, Commuters Strike Back

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Violence Solves Many Things
American Greatness: CNN Staffer – Our Obsessive Anti-Trump Coverage Won’t Stop Until He Dies, also, National Security Doesn’t Care About Your Feelings
American Thinker: A Texas Mayor Defends The Constitution Against Sharia Law
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Dark Ages News
Babalu Blog: “The Biggest Defeat In United States History!”
BattleSwarm: They Made Hypocrite Judgments After The Fact/But The Nam Of The Game Is Be Hit & Hit Back
Camp of the Saints: California, Here I Don’t Come
Cafe Hayek: “Fear China?”
Da Tech Guy: 1984 Was Supposed To Be A Warning, Not An Instruction Manual, also, A Reminder To Democrat Debate Viewers & Other Matters Under The Fedora
Don Surber: How The Media Blew The Syria Story
First Street Journal: Kathleen Kane Has Dumped The Orange
The Geller Report: Obama Endorses Canadian PM Zoolander For Reelection, also, FBI Conducted 3.1 Questionable & Illegal Searches From 2017-2018
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Pronoun Menu
Hollywood In Toto: Woke Sunnyside Yanked, Star Slams NBC’s “Racist” Move
JustOneMinute: Trouble For Trump?
Legal Insurrection: Pence Announces Turkey Agreed To Syrian Ceasefire So US & Kurdish Forces Can Leave, also, Rick Perry To Resign As Energy Secretary
Power Line: How Evil is The Left? This Evil, also, NFL Viewership Bounces Back
Shark Tank: FL AG Moody Launches “Major” Vaping Investigation
Shot In The Dark: Fake, But…Well, Let’s Not Get Hung Up On Details
This Ain’t Hell: MSG Mark Allen Dies Of His Wounds, also, Syrian Troop Withdrawal
Victory Girls: Elijah Cummings Dies – What Happens Now?
Volokh Conspiracy: The NBA/Hong Kong Tweet Controversy & The Symbolism Of The HK Protesters’ Logo
Weasel Zippers: Democrats Cut Mic On House Floor To Avoid Rep. Scalise’s Impeachment Question, also, Video – Democrats, Journalists Use Same Talking Points On Trump Impeachment
Mark Steyn: The Most Busted Name In News, also, Eat, Pray, Love – Burka Edition

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Category: Linkagery

Crazy Meth-Head Mexican Whore Found Dead in Desert Near Las Vegas

Posted on | October 17, 2019 | Comments Off on Crazy Meth-Head Mexican Whore Found Dead in Desert Near Las Vegas

Esmerelda Gonzalez worked in ‘the adult entertainment industry,’ sources say.

Look, I realize “whore” is a strong word, but when a “model” (ahem) is described as working in “the adult entertainment industry,” it seems safe to assume she was engaged in, uh, commercial transactions. Also, she had breast implants and an Instagram account full of photos that were rather obviously intended to advertise her, uh, services. And did I mention that her family said she was diagnosed with schizophrenia and that police say she was doing methamphetamine before she was killed? Furthermore, Esmeralda Gonzalez was a native of Michoacán, so you combine these facts and calling her a “Crazy Meth-Head Mexican Whore” is simply objective journalism. Like Joe Friday: “Just the facts, ma’am.”

The body of a Las Vegas woman who was reported missing in May is believed to have been found in the Nevada desert, completely encased in concrete inside a “wooden structure,” court documents reveal.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police were dispatched to a home on May 31 just before 7 p.m. concerning a missing person report. The victim, later identified by Las Vegas Review-Journal as Esmeralda Gonzalez, 24, had not been heard from for several days.
Several months later, on Oct. 8., homicide detectives recovered a body in the desert area just north of Las Vegas. Police said the body was found completely encased in “concrete and in a wooden structure.” Although police have not yet formally identified the victim, court documents obtained by the Review-Journal name Gonzalez.
Days later, police arrested Christopher Prestipino, 45, and Lisa Mort, 31, in connection with the discovery of the body.
According to a press release from the LVMPD, investigators believe that the victim had at some point been inside Prestipino’s residence. She was being held against her will and was subsequently “murdered.” . . .
The pair was arrested on Oct. 11 and Prestipino was charged with open murder, kidnapping in the first degree resulting in substantial bodily harm and conspiracy murder.
Mort was also booked into the Clark County Detention Center on the charge of harbor/conceal/aid a felony offender.
According to court documents obtained by the Review-Journal, Prestipino strangled the victim and then injected her body with pool cleaner after leaving her “tied up to a bedpost for an extended period of time.” After she was killed, he reportedly transported the body to the desert using a rented U-Haul.
The victim, who was said to work in the adult entertainment industry and had a large following on social media, lived about one-tenth of a mile from the suspect, according to the report.
Court documents also stated that the victim suffered from mental illness and was captured on surveillance the day she disappeared walking around her neighborhood in high heels and lingerie asking for rides.

Additional background:

Gonzalez had more than 300,000 followers on an Instagram page laden with partially clad glamour shots; her Facebook and Instagram pages say she was also a college student. . . .
According to his LinkedIn page, Chris Prestipino worked as a “stagehand-Audio Visual Technician” at Bally’s/Paris Hotel in Las Vegas from 1999 to present. . . .
Clark County online court records show that Prestipino is a felon. He has multiple drug cases on his criminal history, including one for manufacturing meth. Mort is accused of harboring, concealing or aiding a felon. Prestipino is accused of murder and kidnapping.
Mort also has a drug history. She’s Prestipino’s girlfriend.
His felony case for drug dealing dates to 2001 and resulted in a suspended sentence and probation.

So, you’re a drug-dealing felon and one day you spot a crazy Mexican whore wandering around the streets in nothing but lingerie and heels, and you do what any drug-dealing felon in Las Vegas would do. How many dead whores are buried in the desert outside Vegas whose bodies have never been found? More than a few, I’d guess. Decades worth.

Is there any real cultural or political significance to this story? No, but John Hoge keeps accusing me of failing to maintain Rule Five standards, and this seemed like a convenient opportunity to even the score.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)

Category: Crime, Nevada

The Loser Derby

Posted on | October 17, 2019 | Comments Off on The Loser Derby

Stephen Kruiser:

“There is no personality lurking over there that is going to lay waste to the field by providing a fighting alternative. They pretended they loved Biden because he was the most electable, but now the two raving socialists are raking in all of the money in what could be the Mother of All Ironies.”

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.) For the past few weeks, I’ve paid no attention to the polls of Democrat presidential candidates, because it dawned on me how irrelevant it’s likely to be. Once the debates began, it became apparent that Biden is not a viable challenger to Trump. He is simply too old, and has too much baggage — not least of which being his son’s deals in Ukraine and China — and cannot inspire the left-wing grassroots. The idea that Biden is a “moderate” who can appeal to blue-collar voters was, perhaps, wishful thinking for Democrats, who have become the anti-white, anti-male, anti-American party. If they nominated Biden, Democrats would be symbolically repudiating everything on which their identity-politics “social justice” agenda is based. Therefore, even if Biden could win the primaries, this would set up the Democrats for defeat in November 2020, because so many of their supporters — especially of the purple-hair feminist SJW variety — would not bother to vote.

So now look at the polls: Since July, Biden has hovered in the vicinity of 30% while Elizabeth Warren has zoomed from about 15% to around 25% — mostly at the expense of Bernie Sanders, who recently had a heart attack and is stuck permanently at around 15% support. Everybody else in the Democrat primary field is in single digits, and only Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris likely have what it takes to make it past Iowa and New Hampshire. Beto O’Rourke? Doomed. Corey Booker? No chance. By the end of next February, the choice for Democrats will be down to two or three candidates who have pledged themselves to the far-left agenda of the party base, and it’s far from certain that Biden will still be a candidate at that point. Frankly, his money situation may doom Biden worse than any other factor, because his campaign’s most recent cash-on-hand total (about $9 million) was less than half of the $23.4 million Buttigieg reported, and not even a third of Warren’s whopping $33.7 million. Everything now favors Warren to be next year’s Democrat nominee, and Trump will stomp Warren like Godzilla stomped Tokyo.

WATCH: Meghan McCain says it's "breaking my heart" that Warren is leading Biden in the polls https://t.co/j4k8XlxJKP pic.twitter.com/WfF1UaZxb4

— The Hill (@thehill) October 15, 2019

Oh, so sorry, my #NeverTrump cousin — you’re hopelessly doomed.

Category: Democrats, Election

Democrat Impeachment Leader Dies

Posted on | October 17, 2019 | Comments Off on Democrat Impeachment Leader Dies

Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, who chaired the House committee leading Democrat efforts to impeach President Trump, died early this morning.

UPDATE: “De mortuis nihil nisi bonum,” is generally good advice, but many people disliked Elijah Cummings, and they are not silent.

THANK YOU… ELIJAH CUMMING FOR LEAVING BALTIMORE A RAT INFESTED CRACK DEN… GOOD JOB!

— Eugene Trimble (@EugeneTrimble6) October 17, 2019

Elijah Cumming dead at 68. Baltimore City will not miss him. He participated in destroying that city and profited greatly personally for decades. @RepCummings https://t.co/brZ55Na881

— Michelewith1L (@3buzygirls) October 17, 2019

I was trying hard to keep this about the honorable work Mr. Cummings did as a civil rights leader, but since you decided to bring up alleged corruption by Mr. Trump…

Mr. Cummings violated campaign finance laws, ducked child support and the IRS, and left Baltimore a mess.

— #Dizzology?? (@TalkMMA) October 17, 2019

What I recall about Cummings was that he never missed an opportunity to accuse Republicans of racism, while doing nothing to help actual black voters in his own Baltimore district. It was all scapegoating, all the time, with Cummings, and the same can be said of Democrats generally.

Well, don’t worry about Elijah Cummings. Like all dead Democrats in Baltimore, he’ll still be voting in elections for many years to come.

Category: Democrats