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Rule 5 Sunday: Alita – Battle Angel

Posted on | March 18, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

“Hats off, gentlemen, a genius”
– Robert Schumann on the young Mozart


We can say the same of Robert Rodriguez, who brought Frank Miller’s Sin City graphic novels to the big screen with an all-star cast, not to mention the highly successful Spy Kids, From Dusk Till Dawn, Machete, and sequels to the preceding. He’s done it again with Battle Angel Alita, a live-action rendition of a two-part anime based on the long-running manga series Gunnm (Gun Dream). Alita has some star talent as well – Christoph Walz plays the surgeon & bounty-hunter Doc Ido, Jennifer Connelly is awesome as his ex-wife Chiren, and Mahershala Ali reminds me very much of Wesley Snipes as he plays the role of Vector, the commissioner of motorball and crime lord. Rosa Salazar has the lead role as the little cyborg girl recovered by Doc Ido from the Scrapheap, and rebuilt using what turns out to be the cyborg body intended for his murdered daughter. It’s a great movie, an improvement on the original anime, and very much worth your time. Here we see Alita just before beginning the motorball match that will make her Final Champion.

Hail, Nova…

Ninety Miles From Tyranny starts with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #559, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism graces us with Rule 5 Blind Hogs & Acorns and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd this week includes Elvis Presley, American Gods Season 2, Pancake Day, Felicity Huffman, Jewel, Pi Day, Betomania, Pandemonium, Lady Gaga, Vintage Hollywood St. Patrick’s Day, and Janet Munro.

A View From The Beach offers Wait, For Chantel Jeffries, Spring Break!, Speaking of Divided Loyalties, A Mother’s Love, MD House Passes Styrofoam Food Container Ban, Popular Chinese Actress Runs Afoul of “Social Credit” System, Why You Don’t Ask a Feminist for Sex Advice, Ain’t Science Grand? and Local Girl Goes to the Big City. Also, from newcomer Bacon Time, Maria Conchita Alonso (NSFW).

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Cindy Sampson, and his Vintage Babe is Kathie Browne. At Dustbury, it’s Jaimie Alexander and Aisling Bea.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Control Issues

Posted on | March 16, 2019 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Control Issues

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Iowa Poll Shows More Than Half of Democrat Voters Support Old White Guys
Western Rifle Shooters
Trump’s Minutemen
The Constitutional News Network
Freedom’s Back
EBL

Rule 5 Monday: Komi-san Has A Communication Problem
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Crazy People Are Dangerous: Violence Results in Arrests at Chicago Gay Bar
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Four Wheel Drive
A View From The Beach
EBL

Bad Sex Advice
EBL
A View From The Beach

Tucker Carlson: Sorry, Not Sorry
357 Magnum
EBL

Democrats Have Standards
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.11.19
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Democrats and the ‘Sailer Strategy’
EBL

Tucker Carlson: Still Not Sorry
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.12.19
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 03.13.19
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

The Hypocrisy of the Rage Mob
EBL

Gillibrand Aide Abbas Malik Fired in Senate Sexual Harassment Scandal
EBL

Sanders Aide Who Used ‘Dual Allegiance’ Smear Against Jews Is an Illegal Alien
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.14.19
EBL
Proof Positive

One Hundred Trillion Dollars: Zimbabwe, Hyper-Inflation and the ‘Green New Deal’
EBL

SPLC Fires Founder Morris Dees
EBL

Like ‘Call of Duty’ IRL: Aussie Gunman Massacres Muslims at NZ Mosque
EBL

NZ Mosque Shooter’s American Dystopia
First Street Journal
EBL

CNN’s Ratings Are SO LOW…
EBL

OK, Rod Dreher Nails It
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.15.19
EBL
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending March 15:

  1.  EBL (23)
  2.  Proof Positive (6)
  3.  A View From The Beach (5)


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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Bad Sex Advice for $250 an Hour

Posted on | March 16, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Becoming a licensed marriage and family therapist in California is so easy that even people who are against marriage can do it, as is the case of “sex-positive” therapist Moushumi Ghose. She has a “private practice specializing in sexuality, alternative relationships and lifestyles including kink, polyamory, gender non-binary, lgbt and more.” Not sure what the “and more” might include, but Ms. Ghose identifies as “queer” and has written at length of her opposition to monogamy, so she is theoretically in favor of anything except normal heterosexual relationships.

Do people practicing “alternative relationships and lifestyles including kink, polyamory,” etc., have much need for licensed therapists? And if so, what goes on in such therapy sessions? Does it involve whips and chains? It is difficult to believe there is much demand for Ms. Ghose’s practice, whatever sort of “therapy” it may involve, because kinky freaks are more or less making up the rules as they go along. How can someone say their “gender non-binary” polyamorous partner has violated the rules or that their “alternative relationship” fails to meet their expectations? Exactly what rules or expectations apply in such a “relationship”?

My point is that, once you decide there are no rules — rejecting all moral standards so that everything is acceptable — it becomes impossible to say that any “relationship” is wrong or harmful, so long as its consensual. Has someone violated your consent? Call the cops, not a therapist. If nothing is ever wrong, then any unhappiness you experience with your non-binary kinky polygamous partner(s) is entirely your problem. What’s the use of seeing a marriage and family therapist in such a situation? She’s going to counsel you and your partner(s) on how to make your basement BDSM dungeon experiences more pleasurable?

As in the case of Cosmopolitan “Sex & Relationships Editor” Carina Hsieh — who is mentally unstable, sexually dysfunctional and infected with herpes — I’m inclined to doubt that Moushumi Ghose has any real expertise that qualifies her to give other people sex advice. Nevertheless, she has a YouTube channel of sex-advice videos with titles like “Drag Queen Life in Israel,” “One Female-to-Male FTM’s Journey to Transition,” and “Why You Should Embrace Your Kink Fetish.”

Moushumi Ghose with Israeli drag queen ‘Moksha.’

What next, “How to Get Laid in the Star Wars Cantina Scene”?

Forgive me for suggesting that the proper therapy for some of these people would involve a straitjacket and heavy doses of Thorazine.

WE NOW INTERRUPT FOR THIS BREAKING NEWS UPDATE:

Houston Public Library is apologizing after a man charged for sexually assaulting a child was allowed to entertain children at Drag Queen storytime.
The library said Friday that a review revealed the volunteer never completed a background check before he was allowed to participate in the program.
Albert Alfonso Garza, 32, was last seen reading to children at the Montrose Library in September 2018.
ABC13 Eyewitness News has learned Garza was charged with child sex assault in 2008. According to records, his victim was a child under the age of 14 years old.
The library said appropriate action is being taken to ensure every participant in every program is verified to ensure similar incidents cannot happen in the future.

Albert Alfonso Garza performs in a Houston gay bar as ‘Tatiana Mala-Niña.’

If there are no rules, then nothing is ever bad or wrong, except perhaps insofar as it is illegal, but as long as you don’t break the law, how are “gender non-binary” polyamorous people supposed to judge the quality of their “alternative relationships and lifestyles”? What standards apply, that would permit Moushumi Ghose to counsel them? What’s her hourly rate? Let’s see, a “single session” is $250, a five-session “Coaching Package” is $1,125, and a six-month “Mentorship Program” is $12,000.

If you’re willing to pay those rates, you’re crazy enough for Thorazine.

Anyway, Professor Reynolds linked to an article by Ms. Ghose that included this sentence: “We must allow men safe spaces to voice their sexual needs and desire so we can understand their own perspectives.”

What should you notice about that sentence? “We.”

Who is “we”? This first-person plural pronoun suggests a group of people who are not currently allowing men to have their “safe spaces.” According to Ms. Ghose, there is some collective “we” who need to “understand” men’s “sexual needs” from “their own perspectives.” Who is “we”?

6 Things We Blame On Men That Are Totally NOT Their Fault
Over the last decade or so feminism has gone mainstream in terms of sex and sexuality, including a huge surge in the production of feminist porn. Global feminism’s 4th wave is off and running, giving women all around the world a voice via the Internet to speak out about everything from rape to sexual harassment to body image (think Dove commercials and SlutWalks).
Women are everywhere these days and sexuality is just one area in which women are joining forces globally to have a voice.
Interestingly, with all of this emphasis placed on empowering women, more and more stigmas and myths around sexuality are being directed towards men. While I don’t believe this movement is taking away men’s voices, I also don’t believe we’re empowering men to understand that they have a role and a voice in the conversations around sexuality as well. . . .

You can read the rest of that article by Ms. Ghose, but the only person she’s actually interested in “empowering” to have a “voice in the conversations around sexuality” is herself (for $250 an hour). In case you didn’t already know it, men have basically been driven out of the field of psychology, where women now get nearly 80% of bachelor’s degrees. Nobody in the field of psychology gives a damn about “men’s voices,” or otherwise they’d be doing something about the rampant anti-male discrimination in academia that has caused this. Especially in terms of “sexuality,” the feminists who now dominate the field of psychology have zero interest in the “sexual needs” of men. Feminism is an anti-male hate movement, and I don’t know why Moushumi Ghose, a self-described “queer” feminist, would pretend to care about males or their “sexual needs” except to drum up business for her $250-an-hour therapy racket.

If any woman is interested in hearing about a man’s “sexual needs,” she can save herself a lot of money by skipping therapy and arranging an appointment at my favorite “safe space,” Benny’s Pub, where I’d be happy to explain everything to her for the price of a few beers. Being “a voice in the conversations around sexuality” is such hard work . . .



 

Category: Sex Trouble

God and Women’s Soccer at Yale

Posted on | March 16, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Rudy Meredith was the coach of women’s soccer at Yale University for 24 years, winning 224 games and the 2005 Ivy League championship. He resigned in November and has pleaded guilty to federal charges:

The biggest school admissions scandal ever prosecuted began with a tip from an executive investigators were targeting in a securities fraud probe, a law enforcement official said Thursday.
The executive told Boston authorities chasing down the market manipulation scheme that the women’s soccer coach at Yale University said he would label the executive’s daughter as a recruit in exchange for cash, the official said. The official was not authorized to discuss the case and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Investigators recorded a meeting between the executive and the coach at a Boston hotel room in April 2018. During the meeting, which is described in court documents, authorities say Rudy Meredith told the father he would help his daughter get into Yale in exchange for $450,000. Meredith accepted $2,000 in cash in the hotel room and gave the executive directions about how to wire the rest of the money, authorities say.
Meredith began cooperating with the investigation that same month in the hopes of getting a lesser sentence, prosecutors say in court documents. Meredith, who resigned from Yale in November, has agreed to plead guilty to charges including wire fraud. . . .
At least nine athletic coaches and 33 parents, many of them prominent in law, finance, fashion, the food and beverage industry and other fields, have been charged in the case. They include Hollywood stars Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin.
Prosecutors said that parents paid an admissions consultant to bribe coaches and administrators to falsely make their children look like star athletes to boost their chances of getting accepted. . . .
The consultant, William “Rick” Singer, pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges in federal court Tuesday in Boston.

Professor Glenn Reynolds, a Yale Law alumnus, shares an email from Yale President Peter Salovey, calling the scandal “an affront to our community’s deeply held values of fairness, inclusion, and honesty.” Also, Salovey is one of the worst university presidents in America.

It was at Yale, in the early years of the Cold War, that a student named William F. Buckley Jr. observed and described the first signs of decadence in elite education. God and Man at Yale showed how “academic freedom” was employed as an excuse for teaching students values contrary to those for which the university claimed to stand, and contrary also to the values of the alumni who funded Yale. The faculty and administration were able to fend off the challenge to “academic freedom,” in part by smearing Buckley as a fascist and in part by pretending to take his criticisms seriously while, in fact, doing nothing to prevent further subversion. Thus, the moral decay at Yale and other elite schools continued to grow steadily worse until the 1960s, when Ivy League campuses erupted in radical protests and cowardly administrators surrendered to the student radicals. And eventually, the former student radicals became professors themselves.

No well-informed Christian parent nowadays would wish his child to attend Yale, where both the faculty and student body are composed almost entirely of atheists, sexual perverts and Democrats:

Data from Federal Election Commission filings demonstrate that a vast majority of 2018 campaign contributions made by Yale faculty members went to Democratic campaigns and political action committees.
The News analyzed this year’s donations from University employees who are listed as professors, lecturers and instructors based on public data from the FEC. Since Jan. 1, Yale professors, lecturers and instructors have donated $302,943 to political candidates, political action committees, super PACs and nonprofit organizations. 96 percent of these donations went to Democratic political campaigns and committees.

There are few places in America where you’re less likely to find a Republican than on the Yale University faculty. In Cook County, Illinois, which includes Chicago, Hillary Clinton got only 75% of the vote, and even in San Francisco she got only 86% of the vote, yet Democrats receive nearly 100% support from Yale’s faculty. Given this fact, is anyone actually surprised that Yale is a festering swamp of corruption, where coaches solicit bribes to lie about applicants’ qualifications?



 

Category: The Ivy League Is Depraved and Decadent

The Long Shadow of Bushism

Posted on | March 16, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Well, of course:

Former 2016 Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said he thinks a Republican should challenge President Donald Trump in next year’s election, arguing the party “ought to be a given a choice.”
“I think someone should run. Just because Republicans ought to be given a choice,” said Bush, who also served as the governor of Florida, in an interview with David Axelrod that will air Saturday on “The Axe Files.” He added that beating Trump in 2020 will be difficult for anyone because “he has a strong, loyal base” and “it’s hard to beat a sitting president.”
“But to have a conversation about what it is to be a conservative I think is important,” he added. “And our country needs to have competing ideologies that people — that are dynamic, that focus on the world we’re in and the world we’re moving towards rather than revert back to a nostalgic time.”

A return to Bushism is the real goal of the #NeverTrump crowd. They are Bush loyalists who simply cannot stand the idea that someone could win the Republican nomination without their approval. Jeb’s desire to have people question “what it is to be a conservative” signifies his own belief that an open-borders/pro-amnesty policy is “conservative.”

Bush represents the wing of the GOP that wants an American equivalent of Angela Merkel’s government in Germany, and they consider it morally wrong — racist! — to oppose unlimited immigration. They are “conservatives” who don’t conserve anything, except their own prestige.



 

Category: Jeb Bush

In The Mailbox: 03.15.19

Posted on | March 16, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: What Happens When Students are Better At Cybersecurity Than The Administrators?
EBL: Beware The Ides Of March
Twitchy: Occasional Cortex Politicizes NZ Shooting By Trashing Prayer Then Backpedals To Blame NRA
Louder With Crowder: Mike Rowe Weighs In On College Admissions Scam
According To Hoyt: The Eyes Of The Present
Vox Popoli: New Zealand = False Flag

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Luxury Of Being Humane
American Power: Arthur C. Brooks, Love Your Enemies
American Thinker: We Fight Now, Or The Socialists Win
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Blind Hogs & Acorns Friday
Babalu Blog: Socialism In Action – Another Building Collapse In Havana
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For March 15
CDR Salamander: So How Was Your Deployment? also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Non-Tweets Under The Fedora, also, Lenten Reflections – The Long Game
Don Surber: You Silence Him, You Silence Yourself
Dustbury: The Time Has Come
First Street Journal: The Christchurch Massacre And NZ’s Gun Laws
The Geller Report: Muslim Migrant Crimes In Germany Concealed To Prevent “Prejudice”, also, Top Facebook Executives Bolt As Zuckerberg Takes A Wrecking Ball To Social Media Giant
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Meanwhile At The SPLC
Hollywood In Toto: Conan Scribe Explains Why O’Brien Avoids Trump-Bashing
Joe For America: School Violence Skyrocketed After Obama’s DOE & DOJ Imposed Racial Discipline Quotas
JustOneMinute: No Brexit No Peace, or, The Wall Will Stall
Legal Insurrection: UN Appoints Iran To Global Womens’ Rights Commission, also, Trump To Issue First Veto After Senate Rejects Emergency Declaration
The PanAm Post: Luisa Ortega Diaz – Chavez Is Responsible For The Tragedy In Venezuela
Power Line: Go Beto! [Update – “I Need A Butt Shine], also, Omar Headlines For CAIR
Shark Tank: Rep, Waltz Honors Womens’ History Month On House Floor
Shot In The Dark: A Good Congregant With A Gun
STUMP: Judgment In Moscow – Story About The Trial For Truth That Didn’t Take Place
The Jawa Report: Terrorist Murders 49 In NZ Mosque Attack
The Political Hat: The Ides of March
This Ain’t Hell: Actress Chooses Army Over Hollywood, also, Valor Friday
Victory Girls: St. Patrick’s Day Meets Political Correctness
Volokh Conspiracy: Implications Of The Senate Vote Against Tump’s Emergency Declaration
Weasel Zippers: Beta O’Rourke Belonged To Infamous Hacker Group, Wrote Fantasies About Murdering Children, also, Top Defense Officials Slam Google For Aiding Chicom Military
Megan McArdle: The College Education Scam Reveals A Lot About Our Self-Perpetuating Elites


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Category: Linkagery

OK, Rod Dreher Nails It

Posted on | March 15, 2019 | Comments Off on OK, Rod Dreher Nails It

During his 2007 Crunchy Con phase, I dissed Rod Dreher hard in a Reason book review, but either (a) he’s gotten better or (b) times have changed, or maybe just (c) a little of both. Anyway, Dreher has gotten out of his crypto-Buddhist thing and has been doing excellent work lately, including this take on the New Zealand massacre:

Here’s the chilling part: Everything Tarrant identifies as qualities of a disintegrating Western civilization is true. You may think that declining numbers of ethnic Europeans is a good thing, or something that has no particular moral meaning. But it really is happening. So are all the rest.

Read the whole thing. It’s very good.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

 

Category: Terrorism

CNN’s Ratings Are SO LOW …

Posted on | March 15, 2019 | Comments Off on CNN’s Ratings Are SO LOW …

 

Ace of Spades calls attention to the latest cable-news ratings, as reported by @RoadMN on Twitter, and it really is astonishing how bad CNN ratings are. It’s not just the fact that Fox News is stomping the crap out of CNN in prime time where, for example, Tucker Carlson’s 8 p.m. ET audience (3.14 million viewers) is three times larger than Anderson Cooper’s (1.03 million). CNN’s ratings are so low that no show on the network rates higher than 28th in all cable news programming.

 

(You can click that graphic to enlarge full-size.)

You see that the highest-rated hour on CNN (Chris Cuomo at 9 p.m. ET) has an audience of 1.11 million, which is not only dwarfed by Sean Hannity’s audience (3.3 million), but is also smaller than, for example, the 7 a.m. hour of Fox & Friends (1.47 million). The audience for CNN’s morning programming is microscopic — New Day, hosted by Alisyn Camerota and John Berman, gets barely half a million viewers.

How can words convey just how pathetic CNN’s numbers are? You’re talking about a national network, with anchors earning millions annually, supported by a vast staff of reporters, producers, editors and technicians. And at 8 a.m. ET, Camerota and Berman are viewed by an audience of 567,000. By comparison, Olivia Jade Giannulli, the vapid airhead whose mother cheated to get her into college, has 1.9 million YouTube subscribers. That’s right — this idiot teenager can post a makeup tutorial that gets more than twice the viewers of CNN’s New Day.

CNN has no viable commercial purpose. There are many YouTube channels with larger audiences — PewDiePie routinely gets 4 million views. If a Swedish comedian on YouTube is four times more popular than your cable-news network, the word for this is failure.



 

Category: CNN
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