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Ukraine! Ukraine! Ukraine!

Posted on | September 24, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

The media-generated anti-Trump hysteria never ends:

House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff announced Tuesday that the whistleblower who filed a mysterious complaint, which includes allegations about President Donald Trump’s conduct, would like to speak to the committee.
The whistleblower has requested guidance from acting DNI Joseph Maguire on how to do so, Schiff said.
“We have been informed by the whistleblower’s counsel that their client would like to speak to our committee and has requested guidance from the Acting DNI as to how to do so,” Schiff tweeted.
“We’re in touch with counsel and look forward to the whistleblower’s testimony as soon as this week,” he added.
The whisteblower’s legal counsel did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment.
That news came shortly after Trump said Tuesday he will release the “unredacted transcript” of his July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — a call which has been scrutinized in the wake of the whistleblower complaint and Trump’s admission that he pushed Zelensky to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter during the conversation.
There is no evidence of wrongdoing by either Joe or Hunter Biden.
“I am currently at the United Nations representing our Country, but have authorized the release tomorrow of the complete, fully declassified and unredacted transcript of my phone conversation with President Zelensky of Ukraine,” Trump tweeted while attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Everybody needs to calm the hell down. My expectation is that this latest “scandal” will prove to be nothing, and that it will end up hurting Democrats more than it hurts Trump. Be patient.



 

Category: Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Ukraine

Trump Country

Posted on | September 24, 2019 | Comments Off on Trump Country

 

In 2016, Donald Trump got 84% of the vote in Johnson County, Kentucky. And you may ask, “Why does this matter?” Because there’s a tiny community in Johnson County called Butcher Hollow, which is the birthplace of Loretta Lynn, the First Lady of Country Music. If you start looking up the hometowns of Grand Ole Opry legends, you’ll find that practically all of them come from places that voted for Trump, including Merle Haggard, who was born in Kern County, California, which went for Trump by a 13-point margin. The political geography of country music might tell us more about America than just about any other metric:

Dwight Yoakam had me in tears Sunday night. I was watching the new Ken Burns PBS documentary series about the history of country music, and Yoakam quoted a Merle Haggard song, “Holding Things Together,” which is about a man trying to raise his children after his wife has left the family. When Yoakam sang the verse about a heartbroken father attempting to comfort his daughter on her birthday, he choked up, and suddenly the tears were streaming from my eyes, too.
They just don’t write ’em like that anymore, not even in Nashville. Those old songs about hard times and broken hearts, crying in your beer over a cheating woman — you can literally feel the pain in the twanging voices and the whining steel guitars. And the men and women who sang those songs knew a thing or two about hard times, having come from backgrounds of poverty that few Americans in the 21st century can imagine.
Give credit to Burns for this: His eight-part series reminds us that what our contemporary progressives denounce as “white privilege” has never been universal in America, and it certainly didn’t typify the backgrounds of the folks who made Nashville famous as “Music City, U.S.A.” Haggard, for example, was born in Kern County, California, in 1937, the youngest of three children in a family that had left a farm in Oklahoma after their barn burned down. The Haggards were “Okies,” characters right out of a Steinbeck novel, at the bottom of the heap in one of the worst economic eras in American history. . . .

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



 

Category: American Spectator, Music

Accomplices of Evil

Posted on | September 24, 2019 | 1 Comment

Feminists support abortion, an inherent evil, and in doing so, permit rapists to destroy evidence of their crimes:

In defending himself and his clinics against state allegations, the Illinois physician [Ulrich Klopfer] recounted how he performed an abortion on a 10-year-old girl who was raped by her uncle, never reporting the crime to police and, as a result, helping her parents cover up the atrocity by a family member. State officials cited the sickening defense as part of their reason for stripping him of his medical license. He was previously charged with failing to report performing abortions on two 13-year-olds.
According to a complaint filed by the Indiana Medical Licensing Board, Klopfer worked in clinics in South Bend, Gary and Fort Wayne from 2012 to 2015.
With thousands of ghoulishly stored dead bodies straight out of a horror movie, medical malpractice and a multistate mystery, you’d think the news media would be all over this story. Not so much.

How do such people sleep at night? How do feminists justify their association with monsters like Klopfer? And why are journalists unwilling to tell the truth about what is done in the name of “choice”?

(Hat-tip: Ace of Spades.)



 

Category: Abortion

In The Mailbox: 09.23.19

Posted on | September 24, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.23.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: Why I Support Red Light Cameras
357 Magnum: School Officials Are Afraid Of MAGA Hats & American Flags
EBL: Howdy Modi, also, Mayor Pete’s Presidential Hopes In Trouble
Twitchy: Why The Left’s Weaponization of Greta Thunberg Is Particularly Egregious
Louder With Crowder: Climate Activist Twerks For The Planet

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Ability To Think For Yourself
American Greatness: Trump Punks The Press On Biden And Ukraine, also, The Madcap Adventures Of “Buckaroo Banzai” Biden
American Power: Democrats Will Lie, also, Greta Thunberg – Abused & Exploited
American Thinker: Democrat Censured For Voting With Trump 19% Of The Time, also, Dems Veto Red Flag Law For Gangbangers
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Hispanic Republican Woman Veteran Launches Campaign To Unseat Charlie Crist, also, Mostly Mexican* Protesters In Gay* Mecca San Francisco Hail Che Guevara During Anti-ICE, Anti-Trump Protests
BattleSwarm: In Which The NYT Straight Up Lies About Ed Buck, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Camp of the Saints: Our Young People – Can This Malignant Circle Be Unbroken? also, Everyday Men Walk The Line
Cafe Hayek: Are You Sure Stoller’s Piece Isn’t Really From The Onion?
CDR Salamander: The MQ-25A Imperative
Da Tech Guy: Reminder That Climate Change Activists Are Full Of It, also, Banners, Beto, Chick-Fil-A, and #NeverTrump For Biden Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Deplorables Got It Right, also, Modi Visit Shows Trump Diplomacy At Its Best
First Street Journal: My Monday Evening
The Geller Report: NZ Muslim Rams Police Car, Attacks Cop With Ax, Yells “Allahu Akbar”, also, Five Female Jihadis Go To Trial For Botched Attack On Notre Dame
Hogewash: Running For Second Place, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Did Annie Hall Predict Greta Thunberg’s Climate Cry? also, Running With The Devil (Sadly) Keeps Cage In Check
Joe For America: Young Hottie Packing Heat Lays The Smackdown On Beto, also, Trump-Bashing Rep. Tlaib In Trouble At Home?
JustOneMinute: Back In The Ukraine
Legal Insurrection: President Trump Joins PM Modi At Mega-Rally In Houston, also, Warren & Other Democrats Call For Fracking Ban
The PanAm Post: After Eighteen Fruitless Years In Afghanistan, It’s Time To Pull Out
Power Line: Stand By Your Sham – Datapoints, also, Ignorance On Guns Is Common But Inexcusable
Shark Tank: DeSantis Accused Of Voter Suppression
Shot In The Dark: In Memory Of Lives Sacrificed For “The Greater Good”
STUMP: Chicago & Illinois Update – Summer 2019 Catch-Up Edition
The Political Hat: Shamans Of Christianity
This Ain’t Hell: Thirteen Marines Charged With Smuggling Illegals, also, TRICARE For Gray Area Retirees
Victory Girls: Sociology PhD Candidate Claims False Rape Accusations Do No Harm, also, Greta Thunberg Is Her Parents’ Failure
Volokh Conspiracy: “Islam Is RIGHT About Women”, also, Eleven Cases Everyone Should Know From The White & Taft Courts
Weasel Zippers: Greta Thunberg Speech At climate Summit Is Completely Insane, also, Flashback – Joe Biden Admits Strong-Arming Ukraine To Fire Prosecutor Investigating His Son
Mark Steyn: Distant Intimacy In The Dining Car, also, Night & Day


*Who Che Guevara despised


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Category: Linkagery

Climate Cult Goes Mad: ‘How Dare You!’

Posted on | September 23, 2019 | Comments Off on Climate Cult Goes Mad: ‘How Dare You!’

 

Ryan Saavedra reports at Daily Wire:

Far-left climate extremist Greta Thunberg had a meltdown while speaking at the United Nations on Monday about climate change, claiming that the state of the world is on the verge of collapse. . . .
Thunberg repeatedly condemned adults by dramatically saying, “how dare you!” as she warned of a future that she suggested may not even exist due to climate change.
“My message is that we’ll be watching you. This is all wrong, I shouldn’t be up here, I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean,” Thunberg began. “Yet, you all come to us young people for hope, how dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words and yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering, people are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.”
Thunberg’s speech, which was widely criticized online as bordering on child abuse, also included statements that could be perceived as threatening, including the statement: “If you choose to fail us I say we will never forgive you. We will not let you get away with this.”

Eighty years ago, her type were wearing brownshirts.



 

Category: Global Warming

Rule 5 Sunday: Cecile Haussernot

Posted on | September 22, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Time flies, doesn’t seem a minute
Since the Tyrolean spa had the chess boys in it
All change don’t you know that when you
Play at this level there’s no ordinary venue
It’s Iceland, or the Philippines, or Hastings, or…or this place!
-“One Night In Bangkok”, Murray Head

Well, chess isn’t now and never really has been just for boys, and it’s nice to see attractive young ladies taking up the game and doing quite well at it. For example, International Master Cecile Hauusernot, four-time French youth champion and two-time European gold medalist, who in addition to being damn good at chess is also very easy on the eyes.

Cecile looking a bit like Morticia Addams, NTTAWWT

Ninety Miles From Tyranny makes the first move with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #748, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Campaign Speech Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL begins the weekly stampede with Faye Marsay, Georgina Campbell, Lucille Ball, Pom Klementieff, Ad Astra, Paz Vega, Tuppence Middleton, and Cokie Roberts.

A View From The Beach is back with Naomi Campbell, Fish Pic Friday – Brandie Metts, Nilüfer Yanya Likes Straws, Resuming Regular Russiagate Coverage, Water Bottles for Wednesday, Tanlines Tuesday Yet Again and Palm Sunday Yet Again.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe is Ava Gardner, and at Bacon Time, we have the Rule Five Mary Ann.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

A Great Football Saturday

Posted on | September 22, 2019 | Comments Off on A Great Football Saturday

For the opening of The Other Podcast, I did “College Football Scoreboard,” figuring that every real American cares as much as I do, because if you don’t love college football, what are you, a Commie?

Assuming you are not a Communist, you had to love Saturday, because Alabama won big (of course), and there were some other good games.

First, Georgia came back with 16 points in the second half to defeat No. 7 Notre Dame 23-17. Now, the No. 3 Bulldogs were playing at home and were a two-touchdown favorite going into the game, but when the Irish took lead early — after recovering a fumbled punt return at the Georgia 8 — it looked like it might be a long day for the ’Dawgs. Led by their great quarterback Jack Fromm, Georgia quickly evened the score, and Georgia’s hard-fought win vindicated the SEC’s dominance.

Speaking of the SEC, Texas A&M played a good game against No. 8 Auburn, but even 17 points in the fourth quarter wasn’t enough. Cal-Berkeley, rated No. 23 nationally, had its hands full playing at unranked Ole Miss. Talk about a culture clash: The team from Antifa playing in Mississippi? Alas, the Rebels lost 28-20, but it was close.

Upsets were common this week: TCU (#25) got beat at home by unranked SMU, Arizona State (#24) lost at home to unranked Colorado, and unranked Pitt beat #15 UCF, but the real barn-burner was on the West Coast, where #19 Washington State was upset by unranked UCLA 67-63. Like, you scored nine touchdowns and still lost the game? Wow.

Anyway, I just wanted to share my enthusiasm. Football is awesome, and anyone who says otherwise is a Commie.



 

Category: Football

Guy Gets Laid, Feminists Get Angry

Posted on | September 22, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

Feminists are enraged because the popular Instagram account “Humans of New York” did a profile of a pickup artist:

“I was like an ‘incel’ kid. I’d never had a girlfriend. I’d only had sex with prostitutes. I was very suicidal. Then one day I was standing next to a cute girl at a bus stop, and I googled: ‘How to approach women.’ That’s when I came across a forum for pick-up artists. It’s exactly what I’d been looking for. It seemed like a cure for my autism. I watched all the videos I could find. I started working out at a gym. I’d spend all day approaching women. Soon I was only hanging out with other pick-up artists. They respected me. They wanted to learn from me. Finally there was something I was good at. Right now I have over one thousand numbers in my phone. It’s a bit like gambling. Sometimes it goes well. Sometimes it doesn’t. But you always have the chance for sex. There are so many tricks to learn. Women have emotional brains. They get addicted to feelings. You can use that to your advantage. The first time you meet her — tell her she looks amazing. But never give her a full compliment again. She’ll always chase that validation. It’s like a drug. Tell her ‘she looks beautiful for her age.’ Tell her ‘she looks good in this lighting.’ Keep her insecure with half compliments. Keep her feeling like there’s something wrong with her. Like she’s not good enough for you. Like she needs sex for validation. Of course it’s manipulation, but why should I care? I’ve been manipulated so many times in my life.”

Now, I do not endorse deliberate emotional manipulation and, as a Christian, I must condemn fornication as a a sin. But the feminist reaction . . . They’re totally losing it.

Kate Gardner at the feminist blog The Mary Sue:

An unknown man’s story was shared in which he talked about being a pick-up artist and the way he manipulates women into sleeping with him. A self-described incel, the man seems like a giant warning sign, a walking red flag if you will.
No one should be saying that they need to manipulate a woman into sleeping with them by denying them validation, and yet here we are. Being manipulated doesn’t give you a free pass to manipulate others. Just because this guy had never had a girlfriend doesn’t mean that he should have the chance to try and con women into sleeping with him because he likes to feel in control.
The idea of women having more emotional brains is also textbook sexism. Women are not inherently more emotional than men. That would be years of the patriarchy telling us that women are hysterical for voicing opinions and having feelings, not scientific fact. All people like validation, not just women. . . .
This is disgusting, of course, but it’s also frightening because of how many men probably think like this. We live in a culture where women are afraid to turn down men because they’re worried they might be beaten up or killed. We live in a world where domestic abusers will go on shooting sprees. This isn’t something to be posted about casually, as it is a symptom of a larger cultural problem surrounding masculinity in our world.

Why this rage? Because a guy is getting laid regularly.

Feminists believe that women should have 100% control of sexual activity, that they should be arbiters of who does and doesn’t get laid. And this pickup artist guy — an erstwhile “incel,” who could never get a girlfriend as a teenager — threatens their hegemony. All he did was start working out at the gym and learn a few simple tricks for approaching women, and now he’s swimming in an ocean of poontang, with a thousand women’s numbers in his phone. It’s so . . . unfair.

Let’s ask: What does Marjorie Ingall mean when she says pickup artists are “preying on women”? She means . . . they’re getting laid. We may assume that Ms. Ingall has no moral basis for condemning sex outside marriage; she does not condemn fornication, per se, and she would never express moral judgment of female promiscuity. But if a guy finds a way to increase his chances of scoring? He’s a predator, according to Ms. Ingall.

Likewise, why does Kate Gardner protest so vehemently against the pickup artist’s claim? “Women have emotional brains. They get addicted to feelings. You can use that to your advantage.” This is rather a crude summary of what Rollo Tomassi calls “intersexual dynamics,” but if it’s not true, why does this belief help an ex-“incel” get laid? The proof is in the pudding: What works in practice must be based on sound theory.

The key to pickup technique, really, is not to be intimidated by women. Get over your idealistic reverence and realize that women are human. The most beautiful woman in the world has weaknesses, doubts and insecurities, and why should a guy be afraid to approach her? Nothing ventured, nothing gained, and you’re playing the odds — “a bit like gambling,” as he says — so you have to learn to take rejection in stride.

Feminists wouldn’t be angry about pickup technique if it didn’t work. What their rage against the Humans of New York profile reveals is what should have been obvious: Feminists don’t want men to be happy and, because getting laid makes men happy, they’re against men getting laid.

If feminists really believed their own rhetoric about “equality,” they would admit that it takes two to tango — pickup artists couldn’t succeed if women weren’t screwing around promiscuously. C’mon, what kind of woman gives her phone number to a complete stranger? Yet there are enough women like that in the world (and especially in a big city like New York) that a shrewd player can collect hundreds of numbers, and keep four or five women in his regular rotation of partners. Each of his girlfriends (who don’t know about each other) may think of themselves as being “in a relationship” with him, and it’s not in his interest to disrupt their illusions. If she tires of his frequent unavailability and unwillingness to make a long-term commitment, she can end it, but he’s always got other candidates willing to fill any vacancy in his rotation.

The only way a girl can “win” that kind of game is not to play at all.

That’s what feminists don’t want to admit — men and women are not “equal,” especially when it comes to sex. Feminists have promoted the false belief that women can (and should) engage in a casual hookups without suffering emotional damage in the process. But women are by nature predisposed to prefer long-term monogamous commitment, a preference that is rational, because it serves women’s best interests. In a society where female promiscuity is celebrated, however, men are understandably reluctant to make long-term commitments. This creates a permanent conflict in which male-female relationships are afflicted by suspicion and hostility, approaching the Hobbesian nightmare of “the war of all against all” (Bellum omnium contra omnes).

There is no secular solution to this problem, which has arisen as a consequence of the decline of religious morality. We should not be surprised that, in a godless culture, men become hedonists, utterly selfish in their pursuit of pleasure. Feminists have no answer to this problem, because feminism is such a significant cause of the problem.

They have turned men and women into monsters, and like Doctor Frankenstein, they are horrified by the monsters they have created.



 

Category: Sex Trouble
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