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In The Mailbox: 06.07.19

Posted on | June 7, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #642
EBL: Wavery B. Woodson Jr., RIP
Twitchy: Tech Reporter Peter Bright Arrested For Soliciting Sex With Children
Louder With Crowder: Shoutout To Everyone Who Supported Free Speech During The #VoxAdpocalypse
According To Hoyt: Just Deserts
Vox Populi: The End Of The Conservative Party? also, Delighted To Hear It

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Swamp Tour Edition
American Greatness: A Sovereign People Need Data Sovereignty – Now
American Thinker: Is Whiteness Really Killing Our Country?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Green Fascism Friday
Babalu Blog: Senators Melendez & Rubio Demand Extradition Of Murderer Joanne Chesimard From Cuba
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For June 7
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Thoughts Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Highlights Of The News
Dustbury: Where Have All The Monarchs Gone?
First Street Journal: Vox Media Unionizes, Leftist Ownership Doesn’t Knuckle Under
The Geller Report: Ilhan Omar Found Guilty Of Six Campaign Finance Violations, Fined Thousands, also, Minneapolis Police Officer Mohammed Noor Gets 12 1/2 Years For Killing Unarmed White Woman
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Social Justice Warfare Update
Hollywood In Toto: Dark Phoenix Offers Modest Superhero Rewards
JustOneMinute: Weaker But Not Yet Weak
Legal Insurrection: Jury Awards Gibson’s Bakery $11 Million In Lawsuit Against Oberlin College, also, Democrats Once Again Trot Out Yale Psychiatrist To Declare Trump Insane
Michelle Malkin: Did Ilhan Omar Commit Federal Tax Fraud?
The PanAm Post: How Hezbollah Operates In Venezuela
Power Line: Ilhan Omar’s Blizzard Of Lies, also, Thoughts From The Ammo Line
Shark Tank: Ethics Panel Signs Off On Gillum Settlement
Shot In The Dark: Simultaneously Villain & Scapegoat
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – The Culture Of The Left
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Creepy Porn “Lawer”
Victory Girls: Ilhan Omar Fined For Campaign Finance Violations, Tax Fraud Charges May Be Next
Volokh Conspiracy: Originalism & The Law Of The Past
Weasel Zippers: Mexico Agrees To Immigration Control Deal To Avert Tariffs, also, Rep. Elijah Cummings’ Wife Hit With Perjury, Self-Dealing Charges In Revised IRS Complaint
Mark Steyn: Return Of The Thoughtcrime Commissars

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WOW! Ohio Jury Delivers $11 Million Verdict Against Oberlin College

Posted on | June 7, 2019 | 1 Comment

In November 2016, Jonathan Aladin, a black student at Oberlin College, was caught shoplifting at Gibson’s Bakery near the campus of the elite private school, and two other black Oberlin students, Endia Lawrence and Cecelia Whettstone, were charged with attacking one of the bakery owners who tried to apprehend the thief. Activists with the #BlackLivesMatter movement at Oberlin accused the bakery owners of racism, and college officials promoted this false accusation. The three students pleaded guilty and, in November 2017, Gibson’s sued Oberlin, accusing the college of “libel, slander, interference with business relationships, interference with contracts, deceptive trade practices, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent hiring, and trespass.” Today, a jury came down hard on Oberlin, as Professor William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection reports:

The Jury in the Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College case has reached a verdict.
According to our reporter in the Courtroom, the jury awarded $11 million. Here are the details: Allyn W. Gibson was awarded $3 million, David Gibson $5.8 million, Gibson Bros. $2,274,500. Next Tuesday there will be a separate punitive damages which could be a double award (meaning tripling the $11 million to $33 million).
[Oberlin ice President and Dean of Students] Meredith Raimondo was held liable on the libel and interference with business relations, but not intentional infliction of emotional distress. By stipulation, the college is responsible for any amounts awarded against her, so she will not pay anything out of pocket.
We followed this case from the start of the protests, through the lawsuit process, and now trial. Here’s my statement:

The verdict sends a strong message that colleges and universities cannot simply wind up and set loose student social justice warriors and then wash their hands of the consequences. In this case, a wholly innocent 5th-generation bakery was falsely accused of being racist and having a history [of] racial profiling after stopping three black Oberlin College students from shoplifting. The students eventually pleaded guilty, but not before large protests and boycotts intended to destroy the bakery and defame the owners. The jury appears to have accepted that Oberlin College facilitated the wrongful conduct against the bakery.

A “strong message,” indeed! The cost of attending Oberlin is $71,390 a year, including room and board, and the mystery is why parents would pay such a sum to have their children indoctrinated with lunatic ideology at a school whose faculty and administration are infamously dishonest.

(Hat-tip: Steve White in the comments.)

UPDATE: It’s difficult for most people to understand how crazy Oberlin has become, or what an awful “education” students get there. A few years ago, I highlighted one typical Oberlin student, Kaela Elias, who hates men, Republicans and heterosexuality, not necessarily in that order:

“I hope men realize that we (women) actually fear for our safety every time we walk by you on the street.”
— Kaela Elias, Aug. 4, 2015

“when i was younger, i thought i was straight because society makes you think that. it’s sad.”
— Kaela Elias, Aug. 9, 2015

I hate male entitlement; I hate the things men are expected to do and think; I hate how much space men take up and that they don’t even realize it; I hate the way men oppress others and create violence and the fact that it’s often unintentional; I hate that I often don’t feel safe around men but still feel pressure to seek their approval.
— Kaela Elias, Nov. 24, 2015

“I recently learned that the guy who lives next to me and literally never even makes eye contact with me is a REPUBLICAN. I am scared.”
— Kaela Elias, Dec. 14

When did paranoia and hatred become a curriculum? Why would parents pay money to send their children to a campus crowded with such lunatics? Also see “Get Woke, Go Broke: ‘Social Justice’ Agenda Leads Oberlin College Into Crisis” (Feb. 27, 2018) and “The Cult of Social Justice” (The American Spectator, Dec. 21, 2015).



 

Category: Crime, Education, Racism

Google Lawsuit Proceeds

Posted on | June 7, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

A California judge ruled Friday that a lawsuit accusing Google of employment discrimination against conservatives, males and white people can proceed to the discovery phase. Clara County Superior Court Judge Brian Walsh rejected Google’s motion to dismiss in the class-action lawsuit. James Damore, who was fired by the Internet giant in 2017, was the original plaintiff, but last year Damore opted for arbitration, and four other men joined as plaintiffs in the lawsuit, although only two now remain. At any rate, this is a huge win, because discovery will likely uncover very damaging evidence documenting the extent to which SJWs have taken over Google, imposing speech codes and hiring quotas.



 

Category: Culture

Violence Against Women Update

Posted on | June 7, 2019 | Comments Off on Violence Against Women Update

 

In November 2016, the Atlanta suburb of Covington was shocked by the murder of a 19-year-old girl:

No one is able to explain any of it — 19-year-old Alyssa Wright was strangled Tuesday, and investigators say it was her boyfriend, Elijah Ramoutar, 19, who killed her, at the home of his parents.
But what happened between them?
“That’s still what I’m waiting on. I have no answers,” Melinda Wright said.
Alyssa’s Facebook is filled with photos of her and her boyfriend. Her mother said they started seeing each other in January. She said he doted on Alyssa and there was no sign of any trouble.
Alyssa graduated from Alcovy High School in May. She was preparing to go to school to become a nurse.
“She had so much to live for,” her Aunt Tina said. “And this was such a senseless crime”
Alyssa’s is a face many will miss in her family and in the community.
“She was such a joy to be around. She was always smiling, always laughing,” her Aunt Phyllis said.

This week, the murderer pleaded guilty:

A Covington man was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to strangling his 19-year-old girlfriend 2½ years ago, according to the Newton County District Attorney’s Office.
Jury selection just started Monday in the case of 21-year-old Elijah Romoutar on charges of malice murder, felony murder and aggravated assault. “In the middle of the state’s sixth witness,” the DA’s office said in a statement, “the defendant indicated that he wanted to plead guilty to all the charges against him.”

 

Feminists won’t mention this violence against women, for some reason.



 

Category: Violence Against Women

Leni Reifenstahl and Steven Crowder

Posted on | June 7, 2019 | 1 Comment

Look, I don’t care what you think of Steven Crowder, his YouTube channel is not in the same category as Triumph of the Will, but in the great crackdown at YouTube — evidently inspired by gay totalitarian Carlos Maza’s complaints — they’ve banned Leni Riefenstahl’s 1935 Nazi propaganda film, to say nothing of suspending advertisements on dozens of innocent channels. YouTube will regret surrendering to the SJWs, the only question is when and how they will pay the price.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

UPDATE: Here’s liberal Katie Herzog’s take on l’affaire Crowder:

Crowder is a comic, doing exactly what comics do: Mocking a public figure. There’s nothing illegal about that, and if YouTube does reverse its decision and start to ban everyone who mocks people for their sexuality or race, they’re going to have to ban a whole lot of queer people of color who enjoy making fun of straight white dudes next. That’s not a precedent I’d like to see set.

Exactly. Maza’s attitude reminds me very much of certain feminist Tumblrinas who publish unhinged anti-male screeds and yet immediately cry “harassment” as soon as they get any blowback. Engaging in public debate — which is what you’re doing when you publish a political blog or produce videos about politics — makes you a public figure, and makes you a fair target for criticism. There is a difference between criticism and harassment, but many people don’t seem to understand this.

Feminists like Anita Sarkeesian led the way in this crusade to prohibit online criticism, back during the 2014-2015 “GamerGate” controversy. Now we see the LGBT community imitating their bad example — which has boomeranged back on feminists, ironically, as many have been punished for criticizing transgender activists.



 

Category: Video

In The Mailbox: 06.06.19

Posted on | June 6, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.06.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: A Good Guy With a Gun – The Situation The Left Says Never Happens
EBL: Last Living Memories Of D-Day
Twitchy: Ilhan Omar Ordered To Pay $4000 In Reimbursements & Fines – But Wait, There’s More!
Louder With Crowder: VICE Canada Promotes Child Drag Queens, also, The #VoxAdpocalypse Is Coming For You!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Big Trouble In Token Ceremony, also, No Place For Men
American Greatness: Why Are Democrats Obstructing Justice? also, My Father’s D-Day Memories
American Power: President Trump’s Comments On D-Day 75th Anniversary
American Thinker: Wreck The Electoral College, Destroy The Country
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Climate Hypocrite News, also, June 6, 1944
Babalu Blog: What Are Cuba, Iran, & Russia Doing In Venezuela? also, Yes, It Matters What Bernie Sanders used To Say About Socialism
BattleSwarm: The Logistics Of D-Day
CDR Salamander: D-Day, 75 Years On
Da Tech Guy: What’s On My Mind, also, Why So Many In The University Left NEED D-Day Forgotten
Don Surber: Why Democrats Went Silent On Climate Change, also, Mexico Freezes Human Traffickers’ Accounts
Dustbury: What Is The Reason For This?
The Geller Report: Dearborn MI Islamic Rally Calls For Genocide Of The Jews, also, Over 1 Million Illegal Immigrants In 2019?
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Scorched Earth
Hollywood In Toto: Critic Slams Secret Life 2 For Praising Marriage, Masculinity
JustOneMinute: The Longest Day
Legal Insurrection: DeBlasio Blasted For Calling Antisemitism A “Right Wing Movement”, also, Veteran John James Announces Another Run For Senate In Michigan
Michelle Malkin: Revoke Ilhan Omar’s Marriage Fraud Immunity Card
The PanAm Post: Venezuelan Gold Has Vanished Under Maduro – Another 20 Tons Lost
Power Line: Nuns Still On The Run, also, Who’s Anti-Science?
Shot In The Dark: Unsafe Space, also, Ripple Effect
The Political Hat: Sex & Gender – Admitting Biological Reality, Sex-Based Inequality of Transpersons, “F**ck Science”
This Ain’t Hell: Honoring D-Day, also, World War II From Space [Video]
Victory Girls: Speaker Pelosi Wants President Trump In Prison
Volokh Conspiracy: Forty Years In America
Weasel Zippers: Democrats Have Removed “So Help Me God” From House Committee Oaths, also, Clown Car Occupant Seth Moulton Compares Supporting Taxpayer Funded Abortions To Paying U.S. Troops
Mark Steyn: June 6 1944

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In The Mailbox: 06.05.19

Posted on | June 6, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: What Happened To The Aral Sea?
Twitchy: Rep. Louie Gohmert Leaves Actress/Abortion Activist Busy Phillips Speechless With This Question
Louder With Crowder: Steven Crowder Talks YouTube Demonetization & Next Steps

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Chinese Navy Surveys Future Overseas Base
American Greatness: Mass Immigration And The Subversive Libertarian Right
American Power: Liel Leibovitz On The Ahmari/French Conservatism Debate
American Thinker: Jihad’s Infiltration Of The Movies
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Agony! CNN Laments Last Cruise Ship To Leave For Cuba, also, We Remember President Reagan (1911-2004)
BattleSwarm: Grappling With Modi’s India
CDR Salamander: Not Just An Australian Own Goal – They Just Gave The Field To China
Da Tech Guy: A Theology Lesson For Melissa Hunter And Adult Wednesday Addams Via Screwtape
Don Surber: Mexico Tariff Reveals The Enemy Within
Dustbury: Darkened Cloud
The Geller Report: Toronto Muslim Says Executing Gays Is Sharia Law And It’s Coming To Canada, also, Denmark Finally Admits They Have a Big Problem With Criminal Migrants
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Quote Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Theaters Silent On FBI Lovebirds Threat & Cancellation
JustOneMinute: Say It Ain’t So, Joe
Legal Insurrection: Harsh Critic Of Senator Warren Elected Chief Of Cherokee Nation, also, Hoyer Acknowledges Strong Economy As Dems Push For Congressional Raise
The PanAm Post: 30 Years After Tienanmen, Socialist Tanks Still Crushing Protestors, also, Chavista Socialism Closed More Than 12,000 Companies In Venezuela
Power Line: Why Didn’t Obama Try To Stop Russian “Meddling”? also, Judge Sullivan Stands Down
Shark Tank: House Democrats Want Miami Detention Center Closed
Shot In The Dark: The Gipper Meets The Boss
The Political Hat: Stopping Spoon-Related Violence In The UK
This Ain’t Hell: Jim “Peewee” Martin Takes One More Jump Into Normandy, also, Colonel Described As Toxic Leader Swipes Another’s Flight Hours
Victory Girls: Biden Plagiarism Is Repeating History
Volokh Conspiracy: Perils Of “Democratic Socialism”
Weasel Zippers: Trump Bans Government Scientists From Using Aborted Fetal Tissue In Research, also, Sanders Defends Socialism On The Daily Show, Dismisses USSR & Venezuela As “Not Real Socialism”
Mark Steyn: Wanting Out Of The Groupthink, also, Return Of The Biovator

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A Hate Crime in Tennessee

Posted on | June 5, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

Bailey Cantrell is a lesbian.

L-E-S-B-I-A-N

In case you don’t know what that word means, it is a synonym for “no.” If you are a guy trying to pick up girls, and a girl tells you she is a lesbian, that is the most emphatic “no” possible, as I have explained previously.

Common courtesy — the basis of civilized society — requires that men must accept romantic rejection with gracious equanimity. If a man attempts to engage a woman’s interest and she indicates by word or gesture that she does not reciprocate his feelings, he should apologize for his presumption and move along. She owes him no explanation, and it is rude for him to ask for an explanation or otherwise to make himself a nuisance by his continued unwanted presence. When a woman tells a man “no,” what she wants is for him to go away and leave her alone.

We need not justify such courtesy as a matter of chivalrous deference, when it can be better understood as a matter of male self-interest. A man who persists in a romantic pursuit that is hopeless is wasting his time and impairing his reputation. Such behavior — pestering a girl with unwanted attention — is evidence of poor judgment. Only a fool would need to be told “no” more than once. Guys, understand this: Women talk. When word gets around that you have made a nuisance of yourself by bothering a girl who has made clear her lack of interest, you will soon find that you are persona non grata with all her friends, completely ostracized.

If a man has any sense of his own personal dignity, of course, he will naturally feel insulted by her rejection. By approaching her and expressing his interest, he was acting on the belief that he was a worthy suitor, and that she would be grateful for his attention to her. By rejecting him, not only does she implicitly pronounce him unworthy — inferior, and therefore undesirable as a romantic companion — but she also exposes him as a fool, for he had so overestimated himself as to imagine she would welcome his attention. It takes tremendous psychological strength for a man to cope with this kind of insult, but without such mental toughness, it would be impossible for him ever to approach any woman, because there is always the risk of rejection. After some years of experience, I think most men reach the same resolve that I long ago made about such matters: She will never get a second chance to tell me “no.”

Sweetheart, I may be stupid, but I’m not too dumb to take a hint. If a woman told me “no” once, she could be sure I wouldn’t ask twice. It is the height of arrogance for a woman to expect a man to continue the pursuit after she’s turned him down once, as if she were the only woman in the world and he had no other options. Sometimes, I’d encounter a woman who thought she could play games like this, expecting me to keep chasing her after she said “no,” and such women seemed to have their feelings hurt when I refused to play along. If you want to play games, go play somewhere else, but you can’t play with me — that was my attitude back in the day, at any rate, but I digress . . .

 

Bailey Cantrell is a lesbian, as I say, and last year she had the misfortune of meeting a fool who didn’t know how to take “no” for an answer:

According to a report from Metro Nashville Police, a man approached Cantrell while she was on the phone and asked for her phone number. Cantrell rebuffed his advances twice. The third time, she told the man she would not be interested in exchanging numbers because she identifies as a lesbian.
That’s when the man launched himself onto the hood of her car, kicked in her windshield and proceeded to drag her to the ground.
“I said I’m gay, so I’m just not interested, and that triggered him,” Cantrell said. “I do believe it was a hate crime.”
Police responded to the gas station, located at 2804 West End Avenue, shortly after the incident occurred at 12:30 a.m. on July 28. Two officers took the report, but were not able to locate the subject.
Witnesses on the scene said the man is new to the Nashville area and stays at the Rescue Mission.

Bailey Cantrell’s story was featured on Inside Edition:

“This man approached me and was asking for my phone number and, you know, calling me all these names,” Cantrell told WTVF-TV. . . .
Surveillance video from the gas station captured the man jumping onto the hood of Cantrell’s car and stomping in her windshield.
Cantrell put her car into reverse, but the man followed, continuing to attack her vehicle.
She said she tried to drive away, but couldn’t see where she was driving because of the damage.
“The only thing I was thinking while that was going on was that he might have a weapon; he might have a knife, he might have a gun, I don’t know,” Cantrell said.
Eventually, she panicked and got out of her car.
“I only reversed to knock him over, make him fall, but that didn’t work so when I got out I was getting out to grab my phone and call 911,” she said. “Also there was glass in my eye from where all that glass had hit us and I felt like I just needed to get out of the car.”
That’s when the man focused his rage on her.
Surveillance footage showed the suspect rushing toward Cantrell, grabbing her and dragging her away from the car. Cantrell managed to free herself from his grasp and the police were eventually called.
Cantrell lived minutes away from the gas station, but has chosen to move back into her parents’ home in Hendersonville, where she feels safer.
Nashville Metro Police are reportedly investigating the incident, but no arrests have been made. Cantrell said she hopes he’s caught soon.
“Since he did this and got away with it, he doesn’t have any repercussions,” she said. “He’s going to think, ‘Oh, if this girl rejected me, I can just do this to her and it’s going to be totally fine. I didn’t get caught last time.'”

Now, as Ms. Cantrell has called this a “hate crime,” why didn’t Nashville police make the investigation a top priority? Watch the video and see if you can’t guess why they never caught the perp:

 

Probably not a Trump voter, if you catch my drift. Just another case of violence against women that feminists won’t notice, for some reason.



 

Category: Racism, Tennessee, Violence Against Women
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