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Rule 5 Monday: The Next Queen Of Westeros?

Posted on | May 6, 2019 | 1 Comment

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Well, there’s only a few episodes of the hit series Game of Thrones left, and speculation over how the show’s going to wrap up is rife – all the more so since the show has outpaced its source, George R.R. Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire since Season Six. For a while, it looked like Daenerys Targaryen might reclaim the Iron Throne that once was her grandfather’s, then her nephew Aeron (formerly known as Jon Snow) looked like he might have a shot, but now people are thinking that Sansa Stark, having undergone the harsh tutelage of Pai MeiCersei Lannister, Littlefinger, and Ramsay Bolton, may in fact take revenge for her father’s murder by taking the Iron Throne away from Cersei. That’s what we watch the show to find out. In the meantime, enjoy this pic of Sophie Turner, the actress who plays Sansa Stark, from a photoshoot for Nylon in 2016.

Sophie Turner, looking better as a redhead.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny begins the procession of pulchritude with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #608, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Wealth Tax Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL presents the Black Widow, Audrey Hepburn, Angelababy, Margaery Tyrell, May The 4th Be With You, the Kentucky Derby, and Cinco de Mayo.

A View From The Beach lands The Sisters Mulheron, Maryland Answers Virginia’s Striped Bass Ban, Rack ‘Em Up!, It’s Practically Un-American, ASMFC Promises Striped Bass Fishing Crackdown, Dang Cats!,  Gone Fishing, College Professor Claims Climate Change Causes Sex With Aliens and Who Says They Don’t Teach Anything Useful at the Universities Anymore?

Proof Positive’s Friday Night babe is Dianna Agron, and at Dustbury, it’s Ruth Chatterton and Natalie Dormer.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!


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Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Totalitarians Try to Suppress Dissent

Posted on | May 6, 2019 | 3 Comments

Morning shift at the National Affairs Desk.

LAKELAND, Florida
Just as I finished my breakfast here at Burger King and was checking around the ‘net, Professor Glenn Reynolds called attention to the latest outrage from the Thought Police at Google: The Claremont Institute has been banned for “wrongthink,” as Ryan Williams explains:

What Google is really doing (like Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms) is policing the terms of American political debate to advance acceptable establishment ideology. In First Amendment parlance, Google is in the viewpoint discrimination business, and its target is heresies like ours against the prevailing orthodoxies of our time.

Indeed. Google, like the mainstream media establishment, has decided that President Trump’s election proves that freedom of speech is dangerous, and so anything that might conceivably prevent the election of a Democrat in 2020 must be suppressed as some form of “hate speech.” Remember that Google “blacklisted” The American Spectator last month, and of course I got banned from Twitter in 2016, so this increasingly totalitarian regime of online Thought Police affects me directly. As I have explained (“How Disagreement Became ‘Hate’,” March 18), the tactic of labeling conservatives as proponents of “hate” is being used by the Left in an effort to shift the Overton Window leftward.

Why was it, after all, that the 21 Convention’s location in Orlando had to be treated as top secret? The blacklisters and boycotters and Antifa goon squads might unleash their usual harassment tactics while claiming this was necessary and justified to suppress “hate speech.” What was going on at this conference that might possibly be so dangerous?

After three nights and two days at the event, having talked casually with dozens of the speakers and attendees, I still can’t imagine what harm could result from guys sitting around talking about guy stuff, but of course, the Thought Police have other ideas. My report on the event:

President Donald Trump “represents the return of the patriarchy,” popular fitness entrepreneur Elliott Hulse declared at this weekend’s 21 Convention, a gathering of so-called “red pill” men dedicated to revitalizing masculine influence in society. A muscular New York native and father of four with nearly 800,000 YouTube subscribers, Hulse gave an impassioned presentation entitled “Defending Marriage in a Degenerate Culture.” Marriage and fatherhood were the focus of this, the 16th such conference organized by Anthony Johnson’s 21 Studios, billed as “The World’s Ultimate Event for Fathers.”
While most of these guys are Trump supporters, the “red pill” is not about politics in the usual sense. The phrase, borrowed from the 1999 film The Matrix, refers to seeing through socially accepted illusions to understand the brutal truths of human nature. A major popularizer of this concept as applied to male-female relationships is Rollo Tomassi, author of the 2013 book The Rational Male and its sequels. Tomassi was introduced at the 21 Convention as the “godfather” of the red-pill community. “A lot of men are finding the red pill because they’re looking for answers,” Tomassi said during an on-stage discussion with popular Tulsa radio talk-show host Pat Campbell. Often the experience of divorce or the break-up of a romantic relationship leads men to discovering the online community known as the “manosphere,” where Tomassi’s books about “intersexual dynamics” are widely read. Campbell says he’s heard from men who say their lives were quite literally saved by reading The Rational Male. “They were ready to end it all, zero out,” Campbell told me, describing men — typically in their 40s — who were devastated by divorce. . . .

Read the rest of my column at The American Spectator.

Breakfast is over, and I’m heading north on I-75.



 

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FMJRA 2.0: I Want To Be Straight

Posted on | May 5, 2019 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: I Want To Be Straight

— compiled by Wombat-socho

SOTD

Rule 5 Monday: #GetWokeGoBroke Edition
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
Proof Positive
EBL

Public Beheadings in Saudi Arabia
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Man, I’m Tired Of Paying Them Dues
A View From The Beach
EBL

Teenage Jew-Hater Kills 1, Wounds 3 in California Synagogue Shooting
EBL

Fat Queer Feminist: Diets Are Hitler and Also Rape Culture or Something
Dark Brightness
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.29.19
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

Learning the Lessons of History
EBL

Insta-Whores
Dalrock
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.30.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Know-Nothings, Old and New
EBL

The Socialist Catastrophe in Venezuela
Dark Brightness
A View From The Beach
EBL

CNN’s Ratings Fall Even Further
EBL

In The Mailbox: 05.01.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Barr Testifies, Democrats Attack
EBL

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: 1,071 Miles to Orlando — How About $30?
Dalrock
Dark Brightness
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Crazy People Are Dangerous
EBL

In The Mailbox: 05.03.19 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 05.03.19 (Evening Edition)
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending May 3:

  1.  EBL (18)
  2.  A View From The Beach (7)
  3.  Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for the links!

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Intersectional History

Posted on | May 5, 2019 | Comments Off on Intersectional History

 

On my drive down here to Florida, I realized I’d be passing through Valdosta, where a long-time reader just moved, and so I stopped by, and was pleased to discover that her beautiful home is at the intersection of Toombs and Gordon streets. Students of Georgia history will smile at this serendipity, but for the rest of you, I’ll tell you that, among other accomplishments, Robert Toombs commanded the troops on the west bank of Antietam Creek overlooking Burnside’s Bridge, while John B. Gordon was wounded four times in the same battle.

Saturday night, on The Other Podcast with John Hoge, our long-time reader expressed concern that I’d vanished because I hadn’t updated the blog, but trying to cover this conference has kept me busy. Listen to the podcast and you’ll hear a lot more on this subject.

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In The Mailbox: 05.03.19 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | May 4, 2019 | 2 Comments

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OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Coming To A City Near You – Seattle Is Dying
Twitchy: Donald Trump Calls Out Facebook & Twitter For Banning Conservatives, Name-Checks James Woods
Louder With Crowder: Paul Joseph Watson Responds To Social Media Banishment
According To Hoyt: Bad Trip
Monster Hunter Nation: Monster Hunter: Guardian EArc Out Now!
Vox Popoli: Attacking American History, also, Milo, Alex Jones, PJW Banned By Facebook

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Real Thing Edition
American Greatness: Clinton Projection Syndrome, also, Mogadishu Comes To Minneapolis
American Power: Great Mitch McConnell “Medicare Scare” Video
American Thinker: William Barr In The Crosshairs
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Wealth Tax Friday
Babalu Blog: Exxon Files Suit For Cuba Property Stolen By Castro Regime, also, EU Vows To Defend Cuban Property Thieves
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For May 3
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Five Quick Thoughts Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Netflix Releases Details Of $65 Million Obama Bribe, also, Bill Barr – More Trump Than Trump?
Dustbury: Medically-Approved Dangle
First Street Journal: A Very Bad Idea Is Being Considered
The Geller Report: Muslim-American Society In Philadelphia Indoctrinating Kids To Be Terrorists, also, Poynter Forced To Scrap “Unreliable News” List Targeting Conservatives
Hogewash: Hubble Zooms Out, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Star Power Saves Long Shot From Liberal Talking Points
Joe For America: NYT Confirms Joe Biden Extorted Ukraine For Son Hunter’s Cushy Job
JustOneMinute: It’s The Economy, Stupid
Legal Insurrection: Transgender Weightlifter Breaks Several Womens’ Records, also, “Burning Man” Event Might Be Snuffed Out By Permitting Rules
The PanAm Post: Maduro Loyalist Thugs Decapitate Enemies ISIS-Style, also, Top Ten Useful Idiots For Venezuela’s Socialist Revolution
Power Line: For Fear Of William Barr, also, The Boom Continues
Shot In The Dark: Big Personal Data
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – The Problem With Illegal Aliens
This Ain’t Hell: Pentagon Ending Training Program For Afghan Pilots – Nearly 40% Go AWOL In US, also, Army Investigating Soldier’s Alleged Leadership Of Neo-Nazi Terror Group
Victory Girls: Baltimore Mayor Pugh Resigns
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit – A Roundup Of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Weasel Zippers: Planned Parenthood Dances & Chants About Their Abortions In “Fetus Graveyard”, also, Washington Post Labels Farrakhan “Far Right” Leader
Megan McArdle: Sorry Bernie, Most Americans Like Their Health Insurance The Way It Is
Mark Steyn: “This Isn’t Funny Any More”, also, Some Bestial Taint


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In The Mailbox: 05.03.19 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | May 3, 2019 | 1 Comment

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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: NYT – Everything Is Trump’s Fault
EBL: Obama Blamed Hillary For 2016 Loss Due To Her “Soulless Campaign”
Twitchy: Ukraine Embassy Claims DNC Op Reached Out For “Dirt On Trump” In 2016
Louder With Crowder: Facebook & Instagram Ban Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars, Laura Loomer, & More

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: How To Correctly Vote In The Australian Elections
American Greatness: Leaky Bob Is Desperate To Slow The Reckoning, also, Has The Intel Community Become A Danger To The Republic?
American Power: Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, Others
American Thinker: Ignorance, Fear, And LGBTQ
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Mexican Standoff News
Babalu Blog: The Fall of Venezuela’s Socialist Dictatorship Could Mean The Fall Of Cuba’s Regime As Well
BattleSwarm: Scientology, Measles, & The Sea Org
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: The Instagram Guide To Being A Beautiful Woman Alone In Your 40s, also, The 2020 Election – Individualism vs. Collectivism
Don Surber: Covington Kid Sues NBC For $275 Million
Dustbury: Direly Straitlaced
First Street Journal: Feminist Professor Doesn’t Believe Woman Can Compete Equally With Men
The Geller Report: Gaza Muslim Activist Maryam Abu Moussa Has Some Nasty Things To Say About Jews & Trump, also, Your Tax Dollars At Work – $41 Million For Jihad
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Democrats Vs. Barr
Hollywood In Toto: Roseanne’s Son Shreds Disney Over Huge Double Standard
Joe For America: FISA Court Judge Says Obama’s FBI Lied To Them And Were Spying Illegally FOUR YEARS Before The Election
JustOneMinute: Just Don’t Call It “Spying”
Legal Insurrection: Schumer Strikes Out Again – Joaquin Castro Won’t Challenge Cornyn, also, DePaul U Faculty Condemns Prof For Supporting Israel
The PanAm Post: Democratic Politicians Promote Disinformation In Venezuela
Power Line: Loose Ends, also, Omar Blames America First
Shot In The Dark: Eggs For The Omelet
The Jawa Report: RIP Peter Mayhew AKA Chewie
The Political Hat: Gender Madness – Coerced Speech, Illegal Speech, & “Family Violence” Speech
This Ain’t Hell: When You Look Up To Reverend Al…, also, There Is Not Enough Whiskey In The World
Victory Girls: “Hi Honey!” Nellie Ohr’s E-Mails Prove She Lied About Steele Dossier
Volokh Conspiracy: Hate Speech On Social Media
Weasel Zippers: Media Spins Mueller Letter One Last Time, Sen. Grassley Drops The Mic On Them, also, High School Mulls Removing George Washington Murals Because They “Traumatize Students”
Mark Steyn: A Tide In The Affairs Of Men


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Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | May 3, 2019 | Comments Off on Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Crazy People Are Dangerous

Working the free wifi at Krystal here on U.S. 441.

MADISON, Georgia
After 10 hours on the road, I got five hours of sleep Thursday night on the sofa at my brother’s house in Barrow County, the headed south to avoid Atlanta-area traffic, so that my route via Macon will get me to Orlando in another six hours. One of the things about these long road trips is you miss a lot of news and, while I was driving and listening to country music on the radio, there was some serious craziness:

Federal and local law enforcement officials arrested a Washington state man on Wednesday after he allegedly threatened Jewish conservative commentator Ben Shapiro.
The Kent Police Department helped the FBI arrest a 27-year-old Kent man during a traffic stop, local media reported. He faces charges related to making serious threats against Mr. Shapiro, who is founder and editor of conservative news outlet The Daily Wire.
The suspect made “extremely serious” threats against Shapiro and his family, according to a TMZ report, which Mr. Shapiro later confirmed.

 

More details on the suspect:

Chase Bliss Colasurdo is a 27-year-old from Kent, Washington, who was arrested and charged with transmitting interstate death threats against President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, his son Donald Trump Jr., and right wing media journalist, Ben Shapiro on May 1.
In the 7-page felony complaint, prosecutors say the FBI first began investigating Colasurdo after a “concerned citizen” was alarmed by his extremely anti-semitic posts on social media. In addition to his thousands of disturbing and erratic Instagram posts over the past few months, investigators found he sent an email on February 26, to five different news outlets writing “I’m going to personally execute White House Senior Advisor J.K. for his countless treasonous crimes,” court documents show.
The following day on Instagram, Colasurdo, an amateur MMA fighter, posted a photo of himself with what appears to be a black handgun and wrote in the caption section, “I made a death threat to J.K. yesterday, and I have not been arrested yet. Almost like I have special forces murdering anyone trying to f–k with me or something… By the way, I do still plan on personally executing him, ideally.”

(He was doing this in February, and just now got arrested?)

There are many violent threats on his Instagram page, and toward such a wide array of public figures, but his account remains active, despite seemingly being against rules set by Instagram’s parent company, Facebook. Federal authorities also said that numerous weapons and ammunition were found during a search of his home. . . .
With more than 3,000 Instagram posts dedicated to the praise of Nazis or hate speech against Jewish people, there are few selfies peppered into his account in which he complains about still being single, and having no girlfriend. . . .

(“Hey, why don’t girls swipe right on a Nazi psycho?”)

When federal agents dug into Colasurdo’s emails, they said they found he had made purchases of body armor, a bulletproof baseball cap, rifle armor and 300 rounds of 9mm ammunition. . . .
The 27-year-old also owned a framed portrait of Adolph Hitler, a Nazi flag, and anti-Semitic books like The Protocols of Learned Elders of Zion, according to court documents. . . .
Colasurdo appears to be suffering from mental health issues, and he’s been arrested on assault charges twice before. In 2015, he was arrested after police said he caused a disturbance at AMC Kickboxing in Kirkland, Washington, in which he was charged with assaulting the owner of the business. At the time, he told officers he had smoked methamphetamine and marijuana, and drank alcohol prior to the assault. As the court documents show, he was then transported to a mental health facility where he then attempted to grab a police officer’s gun, and needed to be “handcuffed to the bedrail,” according to court documents.
During an interview with federal agents last month, he claimed that he never planned to hurt anyone and that he was previously diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia after the 2015 assault arrest landed him in King County Mental Health Court, court documents show.

People say its wrong to “stigmatize” mental illness, but when you’re a Nazi psycho with a history of violence? Yeah, you earned your stigma.

Speaking of earning, thanks to everybody who hit the tip-jar yesterday to fund this road-trip. By my estimate, I’ll complete the final 427 miles to Orlando by 1:30 p.m., if I leave now, so there’s just time to remind you that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

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Memo From the National Affairs Desk: 1,071 Miles to Orlando — How About $30?

Posted on | May 2, 2019 | 3 Comments

 

Billed as “The World’s Ultimate Event for Fathers,” the 21 Convention in Orlando begins Friday, and I’m leaving this morning to drive there in a rental car — 1,071 miles one-way, 2,142 round-trip. So far as I know, I’m one of only two journalists — along with Mike Cernovich — invited to cover this “red pill” manosphere gathering.

My wife and I recently celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary, and if readers would like to make a $30 hit to the tip jar, that would go a long way to ease Mrs. McCain’s concerns about the family budget.

If there is any “red pill” secret to a successful marriage, it can be summarized rather simply: Get yourself a good wife.

 

 

 

 

“Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. . . . Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.”
— Proverbs 31:10-12, 30 (KJV)

Because I believe in the power of intercessory prayer, I’ve always felt that my Grandmother Kirby’s prayers on my behalf may have had something to do with my good fortune in finding a God-fearing wife. Secular readers will dismiss this as superstition, I suppose, but how else to explain the miracle whereby I not only married this wonderful woman, but have stayed married to her for three decades? Other men, perhaps much better men than me, have fared far worse in their marriages, and as I am basically Calvinist in my theology, I must interpret the blessing bestowed on me as evidence of unmerited grace — not what I have deserved, but what it has pleased God to grant me, making manifest His mercy.

Readers may ponder this mystery, while I call attention to a reaction to Tuesday’s blog post, “Insta-Whores,” in which I talked about how social media is enabling prostitution. This prompted some commentary from “red-pill” blogger Dalrock:

But this also raises the question of what we expect young (and not so young) women to do while they delay marriage. Nearly all people are troubled by the idea of a woman marrying at 18, 19, or even in her early 20s, and most would be troubled to learn that she did so without having sex with other men first. How can she be ready to marry if she lacks “life experience”? . . .
But again, what do we really expect young women to do in the interim, as the median age of first marriage continues to advance?  In theory they are supposed to be looking for their soulmate, but while busily sampling their options are also not supposed to find him too soon.

You can read the whole thing, and Dalrock’s point is correct. Most Americans do expect their daughters to delay marriage and, consequentially, they at least tacitly endorse pre-marital sex (fornication). Even many self-professed Christians have adopted this attitude, deeming college education and a professional career (the usual reasons for postponing marriage) more valuable than virtue.

Having contemplated this problem, I have no one-size-fits-all solution to offer, except to say that we need to change our expectations, and warn our children against this amoral and materialistic view.

Sin happens — we cannot change human nature — but: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.” This is what’s happening in our upside-down culture, where fornication flourishes, marriage is declining, and abortion is celebrated as a “right.” Whether these subjects will be addressed this weekend in Orlando, I don’t know, but I do look forward to interviewing the “red pill” guys who are at least trying to find common-sense (i.e., non-feminist) answers to these problems.

Well, I’m running late to pick up that rental car, so there’s only time to remind you of the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

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