In The Mailbox: 12.07.18

Posted on | December 7, 2018 | 1 Comment

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: It’s Almost Like Putin Didn’t Expect To Be Held Accountable By The Obama Administration
EBL: Sexual Abuse At CBS – Lee Moonves’ Special Perks
Twitchy: Occasional Cortex Backpedals In A Major Way After Threatening Donald Trump Jr.
Louder With Crowder: Jessica Simpson Dresses Down Natalie Portman For Virgin- & Body-Shaming, also, Joy Behar Whines About Fox Being Trump’s Channel – Her Co-Hosts Attack
According To Hoyt: A Lack Of Reading Comprehension
Monster Hunter Nation: Book Bomb! A Star-Wheeled Sky & In Plain Sight
Vox Popoli: Ubisoft Converged

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The No Leaders Edition
American Power: Leftists Are Redefining Racism
American Thinker: The Real Beto O’Rourke
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Electoral Reform Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For December 7
CDR Salamander: Japan Does Exactly What We Told You It Would Do, also, USS Oklahoma‘s Final Story
Da Tech Guy: Under The Fedora – Thoughts Not On Twitter, also, Go Ahead & Kiss The Girl – If You Dare
Don Surber: Carlson Has Tuckered Out
Dustbury: Doesn’t Want The D
Fred On Everything: Fred Dworkin Vs. The Sisterhood
The Geller Report: French Academic Stabbed For “Insulting Mohammed” During Lecture, also, U.S. Muslima Stole $85,000 In Bitcoins & Cryptocurrencies To Support ISIS
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Math Is Hard & Facts Are Stubborn
Hollywood In Toto: 25 (Mostly) Delicious Food-Related Lines
JustOneMinute: Climate Change Solutions – Easiest Prediction Ever
Legal Insurrection: Boston Globe Editorial Board Says Fauxcahontas Shouldn’t Run For President, also, Trump To Nominate Heather Nauert As Ambassador To UN
The PanAm Post: Bad News For Argentinian Taxi Drivers Battling To Ban Uber
Power Line: Middle East Disconnect At The WaPo, also, Thoughts From The Ammo Line
Shot In The Dark: A Good Ol’ Gal With A Gun
The Political Hat: The Coming Assault On The Second Amendment In Nevada
This Ain’t Hell: On This Day In 1941 – The Pearl Harbor Attack, also, Settlement Reached In Notorious “Norfolk Four” Case
Victory Girls: Is Heather Nauert Qualified?
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit – A Roundup Of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Weasel Zippers: Feds ID Largest Energy Find Ever – Enough To Cover Seven Years Of Supply Needs, also, Clinton Foundation Whistleblowers Come Forward With Hundreds Of Pages Of Evidence
Megan McArdle: The Weekly Standard May Be Tottering, But Its Anti-Trumpism Is A Model Of How To Stand On Principle
Mark Steyn: The Separation Of State And Candy Cane, also, Little Women At Christmas

Twelve Days Of Deals, Day Six – Fashion
Amazon Warehouse Deals

Category: Linkagery

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | December 7, 2018 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty

“Oh no! Bill, its optical sensors are active.”
“OK. We’re already frozen in place, Mike. It’s 200 clicks to base. Comms are down. What do we do?”
“Do? That EMP was supposed to halt all the droids. How much ammo do you have left?”
“None. You?”
“Same.”
“Bollocks.”
“You remember that machete you were making fun of?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, it’s that and the empty pistol. You think you can take this thing with a butt stroke?”
“That’s a very intimate question, don’t you think?”
“Dude! Here it comes”
The thing emitted a very natural grow and came at them.
“It’s real!”
—
via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

MUELLER BOMBSHELL?

Posted on | December 7, 2018 | Comments Off on MUELLER BOMBSHELL?

Here’s the headline stack from the top of the Drudge Report:

President Goes Off On Special Counsel Hours Before New Bombshells... MUELLER: COHEN HELPFUL... MEMO... SDNY: LOCK HIM UP... 40-PAGE FILING... 'MOTIVATED BY GREED, LIVED DOUBLE LIFE'... Paid More Than $4,000,000 by Promising Access... Claims in touch with Russian seeking 'political synergy'... MANAFORT ACCUSED OF 'DISCERNIBLE LIES'... MEMO... Contacts with admin while under investigation... Details Remain Under Seal... TRUMP TWEETS: Totally clears the President. Thank you! John Kelly questioned in obstruction probe...

What does it all mean? Give me some time to go through this Friday document dump, and I’ll try to figure it out.

UPDATE: Kemberlee Kaye at Legal Insurrection reports:

Friday afternoon, federal prosecutors issued a sentencing memorandum recommending “a substantial term of imprisonment” for former Trump attorney, Michael Cohen.
“As set forth herein, consideration of the factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) weighs heavily in favor of a substantial term of imprisonment. In particular, the nature and seriousness of the offenses and the need to promote respect for the law and afford adequate deterrence are especially weighty considerations,” says the memo.
Cohen pleaded guilty to charges of tax evasion, fraud, and lying to Congress.

UPDATE II: One America News Network:

U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort lied to federal investigators about a payment and contacts with Trump administration officials, the U.S. special counsel investigating whether Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia said in a court filing on Friday.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office submitted the filing to a U.S. District Court judge in Washington who had asked for more details on Mueller’s allegations last month that Manafort had breached a plea agreement by lying.
“In his interviews with the Special Counsel’s Office and the FBI, Manafort told multiple discernible lies — these were not instances of mere memory lapses,” Mueller’s office said in the filing.
According to the filing, Manafort lied about his interactions with Russian-Ukranian political consultant Konstantin Kilimnik, Kilimnik’s efforts to tamper with witnesses, the circumstances surrounding a $125,000 payment to a firm working for Manafort, and Manafort’s contacts with officials in the Trump administration.
Manafort also provided investigators with shifting accounts about information relevant to another Department of Justice investigation.
The filing also said that Manafort, who maintains he has been truthful to Mueller, appeared before a grand jury twice.

UPDATE III: Fox News:

The White House responded to the filing by distancing itself from Manafort.
“The government’s filing in Mr. Manafort’s case says absolutely nothing about the president,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said. “It says even less about collusion and is devoted almost entirely to lobbying-related issues. Once again the media is trying to create a story where there isn’t one.”
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani told Fox News the memos show prosecutors “have nothing” on the president and “we are very happy about it.”

That’s the bottom line, really. For the past couple of days, the liberal media have been hyping up anticipation that finally, Mueller had found “Russian collusion,” but he hasn’t found it and, after nearly two years of looking, it doesn’t seem likely he ever will. Just now on Fox News, Anthony Scaramucci said it was as “very good day for the president,” because it doesn’t appear that Mueller has gotten anything from either Cohen or Mueller that hurts Trump.

Category: MuellerGate

Transgender Totalitarianism: Virginia High School Teacher Fired Over Pronouns

Posted on | December 7, 2018 | Comments Off on Transgender Totalitarianism: Virginia High School Teacher Fired Over Pronouns

The insanity of adults encouraging confused teenagers to “transition” has reached rural King William County, Virginia:

The West Point School Board has fired a high school French teacher following an ongoing transgender controversy issue at the school.
Peter Vlaming, a teacher within the school system for seven years, was fired from his position Thursday night after a five-and-a-half hour public hearing with the school board.
Vlaming’s attorney fought the Superintendent’s recommendation to dismiss the teacher based on claims of insubordination and repeated refusal to comply with directives made by WPPS administrators. . . .
“Tolerance is a two-way street,” said Shawn Voyles, Vlaming’s attorney. “My client respects this student’s rights; he is simply asking that his rights be respected as well… The student is absolutely free to identify as the student pleases. The school board adopted one viewpoint and required Mr. Vlaming, at the cost of his job, to repeat that ideology, repeat that viewpoint. That’s where it’s compelled speech. That’s where it violates his First Amendment right he still retains as a public employee.”
This issue came to a crux during a virtual reality exercise back in October, where Vlaming said he called out “don’t let her walk into the wall” as the transgender student walked in that direction.
Vlaming claimed it was a slip of the tongue.
“I’m totally happy to use the new name,” Vlaming said. “I’m happy to avoid female pronouns not to offend because I’m not here to provoke… but I can’t refer to a female as a male, and a male as a female in good conscience and faith.”
“That was in fact discriminatory because all the other students were being used pronouns, but this student was not being used pronouns,” Superintendent Laura Abel testified.
On Oct. 31, Vlaming was placed on paid administrative leave after West Point High School Principal Jon Hochman said Vlaming did not obey his directive to use the proper identity pronouns for the student (“he”, “him” etc.). . . .
Voyles said his client was sent a letter Nov. 6 by {Superintendent Laura] Abel stating: “My expectation is that you will treat [the student] the same as other male students, including using his preferred name and using male pronouns to refer to him. If you refuse to comply with this directive or if you have any further instances of using female pronouns or of avoiding the use of male pronouns to refer to [the student], it will be considered insubordination and will result in termination of your employment.” . . .
“The policy speaks not one word about pronoun usage,” Voyles said. “There is absolutely nothing in the policy, as the witnesses admitted from the school division, that speaks to that issue. Which makes that policy so problematic that it leaves it up to the individual for interpretation.” . . .
“This is a new issue in this country,” Voyles said. “These administrators had just two words, ‘gender identity’, that were added to their policies and they decided on their own what it means to discriminate against gender identity.”

Here’s an idea: If your child is delusional — in this case, a girl who believes she’s a boy — maybe don’t send them to school. Maybe you should put them in a lunatic asylum. But instead, what is being done in the name of “inclusion” is requiring everyone to participate in the psychotic teenager’s “gender” delusions. You can be fired from your job for refusing to cooperate with this coercive insanity.

RECENTLY:

Dec. 7: Transgender Terrorism: British Feminist Professor Targeted for Harassment
Nov. 25: Jonathan Yaniv Is Not a Woman and #IStandWithMeghanMurphy
Oct. 17: ‘Transgender’ as Self-Harm
Oct. 13: Arielle Scarcella: Gay People Are ‘F–king Terrified’ to Criticize Trans Ideology
Aug. 27: Crazy People Are Dangerous: Transgender Activist and ‘Her’ Pedophile Dad
Aug. 22: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Insanity
Aug. 15: The Rocky Horror Middle School Show

Category: Education, The Transgender Cult

Transgender Terrorism: British Feminist Professor Targeted for Harassment

Posted on | December 7, 2018 | Comments Off on Transgender Terrorism: British Feminist Professor Targeted for Harassment

The transgender cult tolerates no dissent:

A law professor says she has been threatened with rape and murder and forced to hide behind trees to avoid transgender-rights activists who allegedly drenched her office door in urine.
Prof Rosa Freedman, 35, of Reading University, said an anonymous caller had also found her personal mobile phone number and made a series of ‘harassing’ calls to her overnight.
Women’s rights expert Prof Freedman is among a number of academics that have called for sex and gender to be defined differently in law, which would mean transgender women could be barred from entering ‘women’s only’ toilets or prisons.
Prof Freedman believes her abusers could have been buoyed by academics calling her a ‘bigot’ and ‘transphobic’ over her views on social media.
She has called police and said she was concerned the attacks could escalate after reporting the attack on Twitter in the early hours of this morning.
She wrote: ‘I found my office door covered in urine, including some that had seeped under the door, and I spent time cleaning it up because I could not bear the smell or the shame of what had happened.
‘Last week I discovered criminal damage explicitly encouraging me to leave the University.’ . . .
‘Last night someone seems to have accessed my mobile phone number and has been calling it through the night. . . .
Asked if she was concerned the attacks could escalate, she said: ‘It’s concerning, that being said there’s a student society on campus who are strongly opposed to everything I say – but they’ve come out quite strongly today that they condemn this type of behaviour.’
She added: ‘This started over the last year for many academics that speak about sex and gender being two separate things.
‘I’ve been on Women’s Hour in the last couple of weeks. Yesterday we had a women’s rights meeting organised by Women’s Place UK – it was in Reading and a couple of others were speaking.
‘Some students tried to shut the meeting down and have a protest so that meeting may have started it.’

The lunatics are running the asylum.

Category: The Transgender Cult

Comedian Kevin Hart Quits Oscar Host Gig Over ‘Homophobia’ Accusations

Posted on | December 7, 2018 | Comments Off on Comedian Kevin Hart Quits Oscar Host Gig Over ‘Homophobia’ Accusations

The SJW Thought Police take another scalp:

Kevin Hart is stepping down from hosting the Oscars after homophobic tweets surfaced on Thursday.
The tweets, between 2009 and 2011, included derogatory language referring to gay people and made disparaging comments about sexuality. Some of the tweets have since been deleted.
One of the tweets from 2011, that has since been deleted, said “Yo if my son comes home & try’s 2 play with my daughters doll house I’m going 2 break it over his head & say n my voice ‘stop that’s gay’.”
“I have made the choice to step down from hosting this year’s Oscar’s,” Hart, who is currently performing in Sydney, Australia, said via Twitter. “This is because I do not want to be a distraction on a night that should be celebrated by so many amazing talented artists. I sincerely apologize to the LGBTQ community for my insensitive words from my past. I’m sorry that I hurt people… I am evolving and want to continue to do so. My goal is to bring people together not tear us apart. Much love & appreciation to the Academy. I hope we can meet again.” . . .
“The reason why I passed is because I’ve addressed this several times,” Hart said. “I’m not going to continue to go back and tap into the days of old when I’ve moved on and I’m in a completely different space in my life.”
Chad Griffin, the head of an LGBT civil rights advocacy group called the Human Rights Campaign, responded to Hart on Twitter.
“You have a rare opportunity to take responsibility, teach people in this moment, & send a message to LGBTQ youth that they matter & deserve dignity & respect. You say you’ve grown. Show us. Make amends for hurtful things you’ve said & affirm LGBTQ people,” Griffin said. . . .

Why not just have Rachel Maddow host the show and be done with it? Ratings are in the toilet anyway. “Get woke, go broke.”

Category: Gays, Hollywood

Lena Dunham Lied About Rape, Again

Posted on | December 6, 2018 | Comments Off on Lena Dunham Lied About Rape, Again

A year ago, at the height of the #MeToo revelations, a young actress named Aurora Perrineau filed a police report accusing Murray Miller, writer and executive producer of HBO’s Girls, of raping her in 2012, when she was 17 years old and he was 35. Girls creator and star Lena Dunham defended Miller, claiming she had “insider knowledge of Murray’s situation” and was confident that he had been falsely accused.

Now, Dunham says she “made a terrible mistake”:

I didn’t have the “insider information” I claimed but rather blind faith in a story that kept slipping and changing and revealed itself to mean nothing at all.

She then goes on to address Miller’s alleged victim directly:

To Aurora: You have been on my mind and in my heart every day this year. I love you. I will always love you. I will always work to right that wrong. In that way, you have made me a better woman and a better feminist. You shouldn’t have been given that job in addition to your other burdens, but here we are, and here I am asking: How do we move forward? Not just you and I but all of us, living in the gray space between admission and vindication.

Publishing this mea culpa in the Hollywood Reporter might not be the most tasteless thing Lena Dunham has ever done — she’s habitually tasteless — but it’s perhaps the most insulting.

Lena Dunham lied. She lied to protect a man accused of raping a teenager. But rather than admitting she’s a liar, she claims this was a “mistake” based on her “blind faith” in Miller. Let’s take a walk down Memory Lane, shall we?

The most important thing to understand about Lena Dunham is her dishonesty. She wrote a book in which she falsely claimed to have been sexually assaulted by a Republican when she was in college. She refused for months to admit her fabrication, nor did she apologize to the innocent person harmed by her deliberate (and politically motivated) defamation.
Lena Dunham lies routinely and habitually. Slander is her raison d’etre and deceit is her modus operandi. No honest person would willingly associate with Lena Dunham, and only bad people admire Lena Dunham.

Lena Dunham is the worst sort of celebrity trash, and Chicago Tribune columnist Heidi Stevens has had enough of her:

At this point, Dunham’s apology is little more than performance art. The latest episode of her favorite show: Project Lena.
The more we watch, the deeper she digs into her own not-that-fascinating psyche, tuning out the lived experiences and thoughts and pain of other people, except as they relate to hers.
Enough. I can’t watch anymore. I feel complicit in her marginalization of literally every person whose orbit she enters. Farewell, Lena Dunham. Please get better soon.

Just shut up, go away and take your gynecological problems with you.