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Joe Biden’s Slow-Motion Implosion

Posted on | September 5, 2019 | Comments Off on Joe Biden’s Slow-Motion Implosion

 

Viewers of Wednesday’s climate-change “town hall” on CNN witnessed former Vice President Joe Biden suffer a hemorrhage in his left eye:

Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to have a blood vessel burst in his left eye while participating in CNN’s town hall on climate change.
A broken blood vessel in the eye, also known as a subconjuctival hemorrhage, can be caused by several things, including high blood pressure, bleeding disorders, blood thinners, or even excessive straining.
Biden, 76, has long been plagued by health issues. In 1988, he suffered an aneurysm that burst and required him to undergo emergency surgery. The then-senator was so close to death that a Catholic priest began preparing to administer the sacrament of last rites.
Months later, surgeons clipped a second aneurysm before it burst. Biden then took a seven-month leave from the Senate following the surgery. Describing the operation, he once said, “They literally had to take the top of my head off.”

Why is Biden enduring this public humiliation? To maintain the pretense that Democrats are still a party that cares about working-class voters, and that “moderate” liberalism is still viable, despite every evidence that the party has been completely taken over by the radical fringe Left.

Consider the latest New York Times exposé:

Former Vice President Joe Biden is facing increased scrutiny over his record on busing and racial issues, and this week old comments resurfaced in which he said, in 1977, that non-“orderly” racial integration policies would cause his children to “grow up in a racial jungle.”
The quote was originally discovered by University of Southern California Law School professor and scholar Daria Roithmayr and first reported by The New York Times, which published a lengthy story on Biden’s record on busing and school de-segregation on Monday morning.
In the quote, which appears to come from a congressional hearing related to anti-busing legislation, Biden emphasized wanting to “insure we do have orderly integration of society,” adding he was “not just talking about education but all of society.”
He then said: “Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point. We have got to make some move on this.”

Anyone old enough to remember the 1970s understands that, in opposing court-ordered school busing, Biden was taking a mainstream position supported by a solid majority of voters in both parties. In fact, many black parents opposed busing not only because of the inconvenience — having their children removed from neighborhood schools to be bused across town to majority-white schools — but also because of the insulting implication that black children couldn’t succeed academically without being in close proximity to white children. And everybody, black and white alike, could see that these busing plans, imposed on communities by federal judges, were creating racial conflict where none had previously existed. Growing up in Douglas County, Georgia, where schools were peacefully desegregated before I entered first grade in 1965, I was astonished to watch TV news coverage of the violent protests over busing up North in the 1970s. I clearly remember seeing school buses on fire in Pontiac, Michigan, and when busing was ordered in Boston — good God! Who could have imagined that Yankees in Massachusetts, who had spent the past 20 years lecturing Southerners about the evils of Jim Crow bigotry, were capable of such flagrant racial hatred?

The history of that era is being re-written by journalists too young to remember what actually happened and why, and I guarantee you that in all the coverage of Biden’s opposition to busing, no one in the media will point out the elitism and hypocrisy involved. One of the ugly little facts of the Boston busing drama, ignored by most media coverage but notorious among the protesters in South Boston, was the federal judge responsible for this nightmare lived in suburban Wellesley. In other words, while Irish Catholic working-class parents in South Boston were being forced to subject their children to this social-engineering scheme, the children of the judge who ordered it would be exempt from the consequences of his federal decree. This little fact was a microcosm of the whole controversy: Wealthy white liberals, who could afford to live in lily-white suburban enclaves or else send their kids to private schools, were using the children of poor whites as guinea pigs in these “desegregation” experiments.

Joe Biden actually deserves praise for his opposition to forced busing, and the fact that he’s being dragged through the mud by the New York Times tells you a lot about where the Democrats are heading.

Democrats will not nominate Biden in 2020. He currently leads the polls among Democrat primary voters (about 30% in the Real Clear Politics average) because of his name-recognition factor, but the 70% of primary voters who support other candidates will eventually coalesce behind one of his “progressive” rivals, and once Biden loses the aura of being the “inevitable” nominee, his support will collapse. It’s also entirely possible that Biden’s health problems will end his campaign long before the Iowa caucus next February. He is manifestly too old for the job, and unable to endure the ordeal of a presidential campaign. And the Democrats are never again going to nominate a white male candidate for president.



 

Category: Election, Joe Biden, Racism

Oops! Tried to Rob the Wrong Woman!

Posted on | September 4, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

The unlucky criminal made a bad choice:

A woman shot and wounded a suspected robber who reached for her purse, police say.
It happened around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday on Creekbend at Fondren in southwest Houston.
Police say Lachelle Hudgins had just parked her vehicle outside her home when two men reached through her driver’s side window and grabbed her purse. Before they could take it, Hudgins frantically reached into her bag and grabbed her gun.
“I couldn’t do anything except scream. At one point, they told me to stop screaming, and he reached his hand inside my car,” Hudgins explained.
Officials say she fired two rounds and the men ran away.
“It was all I had in my gun. I shot until I couldn’t shoot anymore,” Hudgins said.
A short time later, authorities received a call about a man found shot on the other side of the complex.
The suspect underwent surgery. He’s expected to face aggravated robbery charges.
Hudgins told ABC13 that she still can’t believe she survived an attempted robbery unscathed.
“I saved my life,” Hudgins said.

A panic-stricken woman with only two bullets in her gun, and yet she managed to hit one of her assailants? Pretty good result, I’d say.

If you want to read more about armed self-defense, permit me to recommend the work of my good friend Robert A. Waters. He has written multiple books about such situations, including The Best Defense: True Stories of Intended Victims Who Defended Themselves with a Firearm, and his most recent book, co-authored with his son, Guns and Self-Defense: 23 Inspirational True Crime Stories of Survival with Firearms.



 

Category: Crime, Texas

‘Monster People’: Were Alec Holowka’s Fears Paranoid — Or Prophetic?

Posted on | September 4, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘Monster People’: Were Alec Holowka’s Fears Paranoid — Or Prophetic?

 

Last week, independent videogame developer Alec Holowka committed suicide four days after being accused by Zoe Quinn of abusive behavior when Holowka and Quinn briefly lived together in 2009. Nearly three years before his suicide, Holowka wrote a Facebook post in which he said “monster people” in the gaming community were attempting to destroy his career in order to drive him to suicide. Diana Davison described Holowka’s 2016 message:

He discussed “cognitive distortion” and stated, “I believe that certain people in the indie game community want me dead.” He elaborated, saying that on a daily basis he lived with the fear “they are trying to covertly hurt me and my career to the point where I’m driven to suicide.”
Holowka said he had trouble attending conferences, knowing that these people who he believed wished to harm him would be at those events but had tried to engage in exposure therapy by forcing himself to attend. He doesn’t name any of the individuals who he felt held this animosity towards him and acknowledges that he was struggling with a psychological problem.

Holowka says his enemies in the indie game community “committed actions and created circumstances that lead me to suicidal ideation. They are smart people who are capable of predicting what results their actions would cause.” Holowka says these enemies are “sociopathic” in their hostility toward him. He discusses how he’s trying to deal with his “cognitive distortions” through therapy. Here’s the whole post:

 

The question is whether Holowka’s fears were paranoid — an irrational delusion — or whether the hostility he perceived was real. In the wake of last week’s events, it certainly would seem that Quinn, at least, harbored a deep grudge against Holowka and, after soaring to prominence in the wake of the 2014 #GamerGate controversy, Quinn gained enough influence that, when she went public Aug. 27 with her accusations against him, Holowka’s partners almost instantly dropped him from the development project he’d co-founded. Was Quinn one of the “monster people” he was talking about in that October 2016 Facebook post?

We don’t know. It could be that other of Holowka’s former associates had their own grudges against him, and that he perceived their animosity as dangerous to his career, even if he didn’t expect Quinn to be the agent of his destruction. What is clear is that Holowka felt that he had enemies who were “trying to covertly hurt me and my career,” and that he believed the intention of these enemies was to drive him to commit suicide.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 09.03.19 (Late Edition)

Posted on | September 4, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: Look Out!!! Weather Hype!!!
EBL: Messaging In Hong Kong That The Chicoms Can’t Block
Twitchy: NY Post Reports Ilhan Omar’s Husband Filing For Divorce Over Affair
Louder With Crowder: Vegan Suing Her Neighbors Over BBQ Smells

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: How To Effectively & Emotionally Communicate With A Woman
American Greatness: Inspector General’s Report Exposes Another Collusion Myth
American Power: Pete Buttigieg Was Rising, But Then Came South Bend’s Policing Crisis
American Thinker: Liberals Embrace Anti-Feminism In Transgender Sports Debate
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily 4th Amendment News
Babalu Blog: In Socialist Cuba’s Marvelous Education System, Not Even The Teachers Can Spell
Baldilocks: My August 2019 Post Digest For DaTechGuy Blog (also, hit her tip jar.)
BattleSwarm: Nice First-Person Defensive Gun Use Piece, also, Dave Chappelle On Jussie Smollett
Camp of the Saints: Send In The Adolescent Clowns
CDR Salamander: 6.8mm On The Way – Eventually, Everyone Goes Salamander
Da Tech Guy: This Just In – Trump Is Right On China
Don Surber: Highlights Of The News
Dustbury: Should I Not Have Done That?
First Street Journal: Be Careful For What You Wish…
The Geller Report: Thirteen Bombs Found In Storage At Bangladeshi Mosque, also, NYPD Searching For Man Who Asked Imam To Help Blow Up Precinct
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Standards Of Living
Hollywood In Toto: Whoopi & Joy Behar Shred Will & Grace Blacklisters, also, Hollywood Can’t Stop Othering Red State America
Joe For America: Alyssa Milano Challenges Ted Cruz to 2nd Amendment Debate, Cruz Accepts
Legal Insurrection: Ilhan Omar’s Current Husband Spills The Beans, also, Germany’s AfD Surges In Eastern States
The PanAm Post: The “New” FARC – Urban Terrorism & Attacks On The Economy, also, Mexican Children With Cancer Dying Due To Lack of Medicines
Power Line: Ilhan Omar Feels The Heat, also, A Conservative Plan To Reduce Shootings & Other Homicides
Shark Tank: Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Gaza) Blames Israel For Honor Killing
Shot In The Dark: Crocodile Tears On A Stick
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Back To Work!
This Ain’t Hell: Yer Workweek Music, also, Biden Vs. Multiple Round Magazines
Victory Girls: New Mattis Book Blasts Joe Biden
Volokh Conspiracy: Bloomberg Law’s False & Misleading Report About Leif Olson
Weasel Zippers: Professor On Hurricane Dorian – “These Storms Are Manmade Storms”, also, MSNBC Says It’s Time For Anti-Gun Activists To Start Going After NRA Members
Mark Steyn: Sixteen Tons, also, Triumph Of The Will & Grace

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Category: Linkagery

In The Mailbox: 09.03.19 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | September 3, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Will A State’s Attorney Plead The Fifth?
EBL: It’s Out Of Control – Pedestrians Being Killed By Cyclists In NYC
Twitchy: Megan McArdle Defends WaPo Fact Checkers Who Slammed Sanders’ Medical Bankruptcy Claim By Further Dismantling That Claim
Louder With Crowder: Crowder Declares Taylor Swift “A Piece Of Sh*t”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: A Weekend At The Spa Grand Prix
American Greatness: From Icon To Just A Con
American Power: The Joke Police Are Looking To Strip Dave Chappelle Of His Speech Rights
American Thinker: It’ll Be Trump In A Landslide, And Here’s Why
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue (Labor Day) Monday
Babalu Blog: QOTD From Cuba’s New Socialist Cardinal
Baldilocks: Spinning A Web
BattleSwarm: Jack Hacked, also, Democratic Presidential Candidate Clown Car Update
Camp of the Saints: On The Death Of The Rule Of Law, Part III
CDR Salamander: Hong Kong’s Reminder & Warning
Da Tech Guy: Hey, DaTechGuy, What’s Taking So Long With Da Move?
Don Surber: Trumping Red China In Hong Kong
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Metal Babe
First Street Journal: The Tolerant Left Doesn’t Want To Tolerate The Straight Pride Parade
Fred On Everything: Dispatches From The Race War
The Geller Report: “Apologies Are Not Enough” Eric Trump To Sue MSNBC Over Lawrence O’Donnell Report, also, Only 4% Of Donations To Ilhan Omar Came From Minnesota
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, NGC 1097
Hollywood In Toto: Media Can’t Spin Away Hollywood’s New Blacklist, also, Chappelle’s Sticks & Stones Offends With Purpose
Joe For America: Will & Grace Star Endorses Sign Calling Black Republicans Mentally Ill, Wants Trump Supporters Outed
JustOneMinute: Is Climate Change The New Gay Marriage?
Legal Insurrection: Red Caps Trigger Fragile Pulitzer Prize Finalist, also, GOP Senators Accuse Sen. Whitehouse (D-RI) Of Openly Threatening SCOTUS With Political Retribution
The PanAm Post: The Myth Of Natural Resources
Power Line: Will IG’s FISA Report Spur Criminal Charges? also, How Montgomery County, Maryland, Enables Rapists
Shark Tank: The Great Progressive “Gay Pride” Hypocrisy
Shot In The Dark: Fall Weiss
STUMP: Mortality With Meep – Some Mortality Trends In The Storyline Game
This Ain’t Hell: Another Five Return, also, “The Bible Stays”
Victory Girls: Technicality Prevents Justice For Kate Steinle
Volokh Conspiracy: So Much Wrongness In Just One Matthew Dowd Tweet
Weasel Zippers: 27 Shot, Seven Killed In Chicago This Weekend, But Nobody Seems To Care, also, Growing Number Of Governments Shutting Down Internet To Quash Dissent
Megan McArdle: Boris Johnson Is Presiding Over Britain’s Stupidest Hour
Mark Steyn: Experts As Ideologues, also, Movie Magic – No Computer Required

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Category: Linkagery

Book Launch!

Posted on | September 3, 2019 | 1 Comment

— by Wombat-socho

I could have sworn we had a “Shameless Capitalism” tag in here somewhere, but I guess not. Anyway, since I took the day off yesterday, I’ll be doubling up on the linkagery today as soon as I get back from having my claws filed this afternoon, but I did want to mention that I have a new book out. It’s a collection of short SF stories titled The Anti-Dog Tank and Other Stories, and it’s available for $1.99 from Amazon. You can also read it through Kindle Unlimited or the Prime Lending Library, if you have access to those. I think if you liked my essay collections, The Last Falangist and What Did You Do In The Cold War, Dad?, you’ll like The Anti-Dog Tank and Other Stories.

Category: Books

The Dangerous Myth of ‘Gender Equality’

Posted on | September 3, 2019 | Comments Off on The Dangerous Myth of ‘Gender Equality’

 

Rational Male author Rollo Tomassi called my attention to a recently published study by Florida State University psychology professor James McNulty and his colleagues, summarized thus:

Sex is critical to marriage. Yet, there are several reasons to expect spouses to experience declines in the desire for sex over time, and the rates of any declines in sexual desire may differ for men and women.. . . Results demonstrated that women’s sexual desire declined more steeply over time than did men’s sexual desire, which did not decline on average. Further, childbirth accentuated this sex difference by partially, though not completely, accounting for declines in women’s sexual desire but not men’s. Finally, declines in women’s but not men’s sexual desire predicted declines in both partners’ marital satisfaction.

These results are surprising only to people who permit political ideology to blind them to what any adult with common sense already knows.

Men and women are different.

The differences between men and women are socially significant.

Pretending that men and women are the same, for the sake of an ideology that treats male-female differences as a product of patriarchal oppression, is a surefire formula for social catastrophe, and while some women may benefit in some ways from a regime of legally enforced “gender equality,” most women will suffer as a result of the instability and conflict that such a regime will predictably produce.

Having spent five years studying radical feminism, I can tell you that there are some feminists (see Sheila Jeffreys, Anticlimax, 1990) who never bought into so-called “pro-sex” feminism. They understood that what was being sold to women as “sexual liberation” from the 1960s onward — a celebration of shameless promiscuity as “empowering” — was contrary to women’s best interests. Indeed, it is unnatural to expect women to enjoy meaningless hook-ups, and such behavior tends to undermine women’s psychological health, to say nothing of the risks of venereal disease and other gynecological problems. Furthermore, a culture that promotes sexual promiscuity will expose women to greater risk of male violence. If nothing else, The Law of Large Numbers suggests that the more men a woman has sex with, the greater her risk of encountering at least one violence-prone partner. The harms of “sexual liberation” are so numerous that they cannot be summarized in a single blog post, but my point is that the harmful effects on women of this kind of “equality” are obvious enough that radical feminists cannot deny the common-sense observation: Men and women are different, and nowhere is this difference more clear than in the matter of sexual behavior.

What the Florida State study found — not surprisingly — was that men and women began marriage with different levels of sexual desire. Men want more sex than women do, quite generally. Everyone with two eyes and a brain can observe this as a matter of fact, and adjust their expectations accordingly, but the ideology of “gender equality” tells us we’re not supposed to notice this difference, let alone talk about it.

What happens when we silence discussion of important facts? How are relationships damaged by unrealistic expectations? Why do so many feminists become enraged by any attempt to explain meaningful differences between men and women? Who is afraid facts?



 

Category: Sex Trouble

Please Go Hit Kirby’s Tip Jar

Posted on | September 3, 2019 | 2 Comments

My brother Kirby has been out of work for two months because of health problems. The good news is, he apparently won’t need more surgery. The bad news is, he’s still getting tied up with the process of getting medical clearance to return to work, so I sent him $100 via Pay Pal. He’s also got a fundraiser at Go Fund Me, if you’d like to contribute that way.

Thanks in advance and God bless.

Category: Family
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