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In The Mailbox: 08.26.19

Posted on | August 26, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: Florida Man Convicted After Using Stand Your Ground Defense
357 Magnum: Given Enough Bad Press, Even The Clueless Will Come To Their Senses
EBL: He Said, Xi Said
Twitchy: Amy Siskind Thought She Had The Perfect Photo To Shame Trump At The G7 Conference…
Louder With Crowder: KS Library Board Divided Over Banning Pedophiles From Reading To Kids

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Beginning Of The Great Pushback, also, Test Cricket Is The Greatest Game In The World
American Greatness: Angry Father Confronts Antifa In Bloomington, IN After They Make His Kids Cry, also, The Mythical Trump Hydra
American Power: “Hockey Stick” Hoaxer Michael Mann Loses Multi-Million $ BC Libel Suit, also,  Is College A Good Investment?
American Thinker: Left-Wing Institutions Mainstreaming Hatred, also, Legitimate Concerns About Joe Biden’s State Of Mind
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Meme of The Day – The Four Types of Communists, also, Reporter Discovers Extreme Apartheid In Cuba, Barfs Up Communist Party Excuses For It
BattleSwarm: 80th Anniversary Of The Great Totalitarian Teamup, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Camp of the Saints: Meet The New Berserkers
CDR Salamander: Missile Defense At Sea And Onshore On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: Trump’s Playing The Old Reagan Game With Red China, also, Report From Louisiana – Locking Up Cell Phones
Don Surber: Japan Backs America In Trade War With Red China, also, Tariffs Force Red China To Talk Trade
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, And Now Introduce Yourselves
First Street Journal: Saira Rao And The Failure Of Racial Integration, also, Accusations Of Racism & Kafkatrapping
The Geller Report: Alabama GOP Passes Resolution Calling For Ilhan Omar’s Expulsion From Congress, also, Bernie Sanders Claims To Be “Proud Jewish Person” While Hanging Out With & Supporting Vile Anti-Semites
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, Gilmore v. Jones et al News, also, The Easiest Way To Discredit…
Hollywood In Toto: How High Tech Made New Rembrandts Music A Reality, also, Taylor Swift Embodies The Very Worst Of Celebrity Culture
Joe For America: Pelosi’s Brother-In-Law Received $737 Million “Loan Guarantee” From Obama’s Energy Department, also, Mark Hamill Targets Jimmy John’s For Boycott After Old Photos Resurface
JustOneMinute: Future Chaos Today
Legal Insurrection: Trump Supporters Are Quoting Journalists’ Embarrassing Social Media Statements, & The NYT Is Furious, also, Posters Seeking “Missing” DeBlasio Plastered Around NYC
The PanAm Post: Argentine Presidential Candidate Denies Venezuela Is A Dictatorship, also, The PanAm Post & The Venezuelan Opposition
Power Line: Michael Mann Refuses To Produce Data, Loses Case, also, Police Chiefs Say Warren’s Lies Are Putting Officers’ Lives In Danger
Protein Wisdom: An Identity Politics Post To Revisit
Shot In The Dark: I’ll Believe It’s A Crisis…
STUMP: Are Public Pensions In Crisis? Replacing DB Plans With DC Plans
The Political Hat: Posting Hiatus For A Week
This Ain’t Hell: Judge Gives Stolen Valor Convicts Unique Sentences, also, Murder At WV VA Hospital
Victory Girls: Journalists Cry Foul Over Their Rules, also, Obsession – White Supremacy & The Democrat Pivot
Volokh Conspiracy: Lawyer Loses Bid To Redact Opinion Labeling Him A “Copyright Troll”, also, Man Sues Diocese For Using Crucifix During 1925 Baptism
Weasel Zippers: Border Patrol Releases Drone Video Showing Miles Of “New Wall System” Being Built, also, Leftists Call For Olive Garden Boycott After Lying Tweet Accuses Chain of Donating To Trump
Mark Steyn: End Of The Peer Show, also, Scarlet Street

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Category: Linkagery

Fall Back To The Fortified Blogs!

Posted on | August 26, 2019 | 6 Comments

— by Wombat-socho


Given the ongoing “cancelling” of conservatives and libertarians on social media, I’ve been using the title of this post as something of a catchphrase, and occasionally educating random yoots on how blogs worked before Jack and Zuck enticed us into their walled gardens. The rest of us ought to be giving some serious thought to those alternatives in case Google, Facebook, and Twitter decide to take the gloves off and just boot everyone who even looks like they might vote for Trump off their platforms before the 2020 elections.

Up to this point, the Silicon Valley oligarchs have been careful to single out the edge cases, the people they can count on Bill Kristol and other #NeverTrump “principled conservatives” to go “Ewwww! Alex Jones deserved to get deplatformed! Laura Loomer deserved to get deplatformed! Lauren Shepherd deserved to – oh, wait…” But come September of 2020, what if they decide to emulate their heroes and business partners in Beijing, and shut down anyone who isn’t sufficiently woke for them? How many of us would be thoroughly cut off if our Gmail accounts, Blogger and WordPress blogs, and our Facebook & Twitter accounts were suspended?

We should be giving serious consideration to taking that power away from them. We should have accounts on Gab and MeWe, and e-mail accounts with local ISPs or third-party vendors, even if we have to shell out a couple of bucks extra a month for it, or at least have an account with Microsoft, which doesn’t seem to be moving in lockstep with its Silicon Valley partners – yet. Here’s a useful article from Techdirt back in June listing plenty of options to avoid Google. We should have e-mail networks already set up, and updated blogrolls listing friends and allies. Maybe I’m being paranoid, but after the last few years of deplatforming, shadowbanning, monkeying with search results, and other forms of suppression, is it really paranoia? They really do seem out to get us, after all.


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Category: Blogging, How This Here Internet Thingy Works, Zeitgeist

Rule 5 Sunday: Katie Williams

Posted on | August 26, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that since the left considers everything political, and insists that any non-Left people and Ideas have to be “canceled” from public life, that this week we learned that Katie Williams, Miss Nevada was stripped of her title for essentially the same reasons Kathy Zhu, Miss Michigan lost hers – for the unpardonable crime of being conservative and/or supporting President Trump. There’s some question as to whether Williams or the Miss Nevada pageant runners actually followed the rules, but one thing’s for certain, Miss Williams isn’t Miss Nevada any more. Here she is with her tiara during her brief reign.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny has Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #270, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism it’s Rule Five Red Light Cameras Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, while this week’s special from Bacon Time is Mamie Van Doren.

EBL’s herd this week includes Nukaka, The British Sixties Seaside, Roger Ailes’ Threesome, Catalina Lauf, Sexy Savory Scrapple, Camilla Belle, Rule 5 Space Crimes, and Ana Carolina Di Fonseca.

A View From The Beach netted Girls of Greenland, Fish Pic Friday – Nicole Spence, Annapolis and Baltimore Compete to Virtue Signal, Disney Star Plays Peek – a – Boo, Coal State Rep Proposes to Deny Power to Parasite States, A Little Bit of Russiagate, An Early Epstein Incident, Rain Dilutes Upper Bay Crabbing, #HerToo Again!, #Ransom the Nipple Fail, What’s He Been Smoking? and It’s a Small World After All.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe of the Week is Jane Russell, and at Dustbury, it’s Taylor Swift and Diana Ross.

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: But They’ll Never Take The Man Alive

Posted on | August 25, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

FMJRA 2.0: Stand And Deliver
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

Feminist Mom: ‘Memes Are Turning Teenage Boys Into White Supremacists!’
Dark Brightness
Animal Magnetism
EBL

Mother Cat Defends Kitten, Racks Up Impressive Body Count
Dark Brightness
EBL

SJWs Silent as Palestinian Government Prohibits LGBT Activism in West Bank
357 Magnum
EBL

My Most Popular Tweet Ever
EBL

Feminism Makes You Fat
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.19.19
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

CNN Panelist: ‘The Greatest Terrorist Threat in This Country Is White Men’
Dark Brightness
EBL

Democrats Embrace Pro-Terrorist Group That Recycled Blood Libel Against Jews
Bacon Time
The Pirate’s Cove
357 Magnum
EBL

‘Special Needs’: Autistic Neo-Nazi Killers
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.20.19
Proof Positive
EBL

Italy: Will Salvini Become Prime Minister?
First Street Journal
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.21.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

NBC/MSNBC Smears the Epoch Times
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.22.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.23.19
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending August 23:

  1. EBL (17)
  2. (tied) A View From The Beach and Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the linkagery!

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Category: FMJRA Award

Hey, Kids: Communism Isn’t Cool

Posted on | August 24, 2019 | 2 Comments

Why do so many young Americans hate their own country? Why does Hasan Piker think himself clever for obscenely smearing Dan Crenshaw as a warmongering tool of the “military industrial complex”? I blame Communism. In fact, I blame one particular Communist, Howard Zinn. When the FBI file on his Stalin-era association with the CPUSA was made public in 2010, I wrote “The Case Against Howard Zinn” for The Americam Spectator, summarizing the evidence of Zinn’s subversive activity. Yet the influence of Zinn’s anti-American ideology has actually increased since he reached room temperature (and thereby became the only kind of “good Communist”). Now, historian Mary Grabar has published Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America, which ought to be assigned reading for your back-to-school teenagers. (Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

 

Category: History

In The Mailbox: 08.23.19

Posted on | August 23, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Catalina Lauf For Congress
Twitchy: Pelosi Says “The Public Isn’t There On Impeachment”
Louder With Crowder: Occasional Cortex Silent On Twitter Since CoS Chakrabarti’s Departure
According To Hoyt: History Changed So Slowly I Almost Missed The Dragons!
Monster Hunter Nation: Double Barrel Book Bomb
Vox Popoli: China Rejects Servitude To Satan

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: They’re Not Your Children Anymore, also, Friday Hot Chicks & Links – The White Edition
American Greatness: The War On “White Supremacy” Reaches The Farmers’ Market
American Power: Reparations Won’t Make Blacks Whole
American Thinker: Trump Challenges Birthright Citizenship
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Red Light Cameras Friday
Babalu Blog: National Cuban Sandwich Day
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For August 23, also, Ex-HPD Raid Officer Charged With Murder
Camp of the Saints: From Europe To Eurabia – Maximum Acceleration
CDR Salamander: The Enemy Within
Da Tech Guy: A Rare Misstep & Other Thoughts Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Orange Man Trumpenfreudens The Press
Dustbury: That Was Then. This Is Scary.
First Street Journal: Amy McGrath Henderson Is Lying To Us
The Geller Report: Documents Reveal Taxpayer-Funded Islamic Propaganda Forced On Teachers, also, Boko Haram Takes Two Nigerian Towns After Government Declares Them Defeated, Many Feared Dead
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, An Unintended Consequence
Hollywood In Toto: Liberal Media Suddenly Fear Censorship. Guess Why? also, Iraq War, The Sequel? Hollywood Revisits Bush-Era Attacks
JustOneMinute: Where’s The Beef?
Legal Insurrection: Enough Yet? Obamas Buying $14.8 Million Mansion On Martha’s Vineyard, also, Red China Retaliates With New Tariffs On $75 Million In U.S. Goods
The PanAm Post: The Rapists Who Are “Honorable” Congressmen In Colombia, also, Bolsonaro & Guedes Oversee Brazilian State Company Privatization Wave
Power Line: The Lonesome Death of Rina Shnerb, also, David Koch, RIP
Shark Tank: Rubio Targeted By FBI In “Political Espionage” Probe
Shot In The Dark: What I’m Not Doing This Weekend
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Her Motto Is “Do No Harm But Take No Shit”
Victory Girls: Miley Cyrus Divorces, And Yes, You Should Care, also, Is Patrick Byrne Crazy Like A Fox Or Just Crazy?
Volokh Conspiracy: The 80th Anniversary Of The Nazi-Soviet Pact, also, Videographers Have 1st Amendment Right Not to Make Same-Sex Wedding Videos
Weasel Zippers: Sanders Says You Can’t Nibble Around The Edges, Government Must Take Over Energy Production, also, MSNBC Calls Republican’s Belief In Only Two Genders “Incendiary”
Megan McArdle: When Will Trump Supporters Finally Say “Okay, This Is Not Normal”?
Mark Steyn: War of Words

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Category: Linkagery

In The Mailbox: 08.22.19

Posted on | August 23, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: Going To A Caucasian BBQ
EBL: Roger Ailes’ Threesome Movie
Twitchy: People Are Speculating About The Reason For Occasional Cortex’s Twitter Hiatus
Louder With Crowder: Reporter Tries To Prove It’s Easy To Buy A Gun At Walmart, Fails Miserably

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Recycling Scam Exposed
American Greatness: Minorities Don’t Believe Trump Is A Racist
American Power: YouTube – Publisher Or Public Forum?
American Thinker: We Must Say No To The 1619 Project In Schools
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Back To School Interrogation News
Babalu Blog: Great News! Cuba Tourism Declines Sharply
BattleSwarm: China Has A Great MMA Fighter, But The Chicom Government Hates Him
Camp of the Saints: Tech Culture & Madness
CDR Salamander: We Need More Unsexy
Da Tech Guy: Busting Some Myths About Mass Shootings, also, Under The Fedora – Latin & English, Etc.
Don Surber: The 5.2% Illegal Alien Tax
Dustbury: Trailers For Sale Or Rent
First Street Journal: Is The European Union Falling Apart?
The Geller Report: Bombings In Sweden Up 45%, 120 So Far This Year, also, Palestinian Authority Has Paid Millions To Terrorists, Will Continue Paying Them More Every Month
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, 30 Years Ago
Hollywood In Toto: Zo Rachel – Here’s How Conservatives Can Fight Back
Joe For America: Ms. Nevada Stripped Of Her Crown For Supporting Trump
JustOneMinute: Greenland Debate Turns Icy
Legal Insurrection: Trump Executive Order Cancels Disabled Vets’ Student Loans, also, Oberlin College Seeks New Trial In Gibson’s Bakery Case
The PanAm Post: No Way To Receive More Venezuelans – Host Countries Running Out Of Money
Power Line: The Collapse Of English Lit At Columbia, also, The Growing Slavery Crisis
Protein Wisdom: Further Update & Thanks!
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Prays For Maduro’s Downfall
Shot In The Dark: Since Tony Soprano-Style Trash Collection Was Such A Success
STUMP: Are Public Pensions In A Crisis? Is It Just An Accounting Problem?
The Political Hat: Transgender Lies – Pronouns, Magical Transformations, & Unwoke Feminists
This Ain’t Hell: Thursday Feel Good Stories, also, Canadian Legion Reacts To Stolen Valor
Victory Girls: Marcotte Claims Republicans Are Coming For Your Birth Control
Volokh Conspiracy: A Major Decision On The FTC & Equitable Restitution
Weasel Zippers: Obama Family Reportedly Buying Massive Martha’s Vineyard Mansion, also, Rihanna Plans To Honor Talcum X At Diamond Ball
Mark Steyn: The Homophobic Chicken Has Landed

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Category: Linkagery

NBC/MSNBC Smears the Epoch Times

Posted on | August 22, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

Nothing more displays the left-wing media’s devotion to propaganda than the way in which they use their influence to attack any journalistic endeavor which contradicts the liberal narrative. They have done this to Rush Limbaugh and every other successful talk-radio host, they have done it to Fox News, they have done it to Breitbart, they have done it to two publications (The Washington Times and The American Spectator) for which I have written, and they’ve done it to me personally.

Their latest target of character assassination is The Epoch Times, which had been a little-noticed newspaper until recently, when they beefed up their reporting staff and began to score some valuable exclusives, including excellent reporting on the “Russian collusion” scam. The Epoch Times also launched an online advertising effort to promote their reporting, and it was this effort — about $1.5 million in Facebook ads — that became the hook for a 3,000-word article at the NBC News web site with this kind of concern-trolling tone:

Those video ads — in which unidentified spokespeople thumb through a newspaper to praise Trump, peddle conspiracy theories about the “Deep State,” and criticize “fake news” media — strike a familiar tone in the online conservative news ecosystem.

That NBC should be accusing others of peddling “conspiracy theories,” after NBC went all-in on the phony “Russian collusion” narrative is . . .

Laughable, would be a good word. Psychological projection, if you want to go with the diagnostic approach. NBC also spends a lot of time thumping on the fact that the Epoch Times is apparently run by members of the Falun Gong, a dissident Chinese religious sect. Yeah, the liberal media are now leveraging ethnic and religious bigotry to smear their opponents — next they’ll report on the, uh, ((( ownership ))) of the New York Times? Of course not. Don’t be silly. The ethnicity and religious affiliation of journalists only matter when these characteristics can be used as an ad hominem smear against conservative media. So there won’t be any NBC News stories about the ethnic/religious identity of Andy Lack or Jeff Zucker, no insinuations that liberal media outlets are untrustworthy because of ((( who ))) the ((( executives ))) are.

The NBC News smear job on The Epoch Times got turned into a half-hour segment on Rachel Maddow’s show Tuesday night. She spent nearly 10 minutes going on about an incident in 2006 when a Falun Gong protester disrupted a press conference with President Bush and Chinese President Hu, which is relevant to The Epoch Times journalism . . . how?

See, when you’re engaged in character assassination, as Maddow is, you’ll use whatever you can to discredit your target, in this case, a cheap guilty-by-association smear intended to convey the idea that The Epoch Times is untrustworthy because Falun Gong is a bizarre cult full of wackjobs who act crazy in public. But in fact, according to what I can gather from a swift scan of a Wikipedia article, Falun Gong is a blend of Buddhist and other beliefs that are common in Eastern religion, and the woman who disrupted the 2006 press conference was angry because China’s Communist government is persecuting Falun Gong.

The Epoch Times editor has responded to NBC’s slimy hit job:

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, known for her biased coverage of the Trump administration and for getting the Trump–Russia collusion story wrong, dedicated a whole 30 minutes of prime-time television to us on Aug. 20.
In her segment, Maddow presents a carefully crafted picture based on false claims that The Epoch Times is a purveyor of “conspiracy theories.”
As Maddow and the staff at NBC News know themselves, nothing could be further from the truth.
Maddow and the NBC reporters dismiss but do not provide a single point of factual rebuttal to our extensive coverage of the actions by Obama-era officials to target the Trump campaign in 2016, which have become known as “Spygate.”
Instead, Maddow engages in a description of Spygate that borders on lunacy, saying the scandal is “something about Donald Trump saving America from ‘satanic Democratic pedophiles.’”
The reality is that The Epoch Times has become a recognized leader in its coverage of the Spygate scandal. The tireless reporting by our team of reporters based on actual evidence — including court documents, congressional testimony, and interviews — has received wide acclaim from readers across the country and validation from other media outlets, including The New York Times, which has cited our coverage. . . .

You can read the whole thing. The fact that they got smeared by MSNBC means The Epoch Times must be doing good work.

Meanwhile, Maddow’s ratings are not so good lately.



 

Category: Journalism, MSNBC
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