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FMJRA 2.0: Systems Of Romance

Posted on | June 1, 2019 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Systems Of Romance

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TIL that the pingback report for the website only goes back one week. Ah, well.
Thanks to everyone who used my Amazon links in May!

The MuellerGate Cover-Up Is Unraveling
A View From The Beach
EBL

Bart Starr, R.I.P.
EBL

History and the High Price of Forgetting
357 Magnum
EBL

Typical Democrat Voter Update
EBL

Which Lunatics Are Running the Asylum?
Dark Brightness
A View From The Beach
EBL

Good-Bye, Bob
A View From The Beach
EBL

Marianne Williamson Hits Key Polling Threshold in Qualifying for DNC Debates
EBL

In The Mailbox: 05.29.19
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Bill De Blasio or a Ham Sandwich?
EBL

The Red Pill and ‘Opposite George’
EBL

In The Mailbox: 05.30.19
Proof Positive
EBL

Crazy People Are Dangerous
Dark Brightness
EBL

Disgraced FBI Agent Peter Strzok Didn’t Tell Trump Campaign About Investigation
EBL

How Much Do I Love Bill Barr? 
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 05.31.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending May 31:

  1.  EBL (15)
  2.  A View From The Beach (6)

Thanks to everyone for the linkagery!


Category: FMJRA Award

In The Mailbox: 05.31.19

Posted on | May 31, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Super Sexy Bill Barr
Twitchy: No Big Deal, Just Protesters Setting Fire To The U.S. Embassy In Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Louder With Crowder: Charlamagne Tha God Compares Fauxcahontas To Rachel Dolezal Right To Her Face, also, Vox Actively Trying To Get “Louder With Crowder” Banned From YouTube
According To Hoyt: Art & Revolution
Monster Hunter Nation: A Plug For Combat Frame XSeed by Brian Niemeier
Vox Popoli: The Terminal Phase

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Folly of Hemingway, also, Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Haiku Edition
American Greatness: Barr Says “Small Group At The Top” Directed Investigation Into “Bogus” Collusion, also, Let’s See If Disney & Netflix Really Mean It
American Thinker: Clean Energy Has Questions To Answer
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Tanker Friday
Babalu Blog: Mexican President Vilifies Trump
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For May 31
CDR Salamander: LCS Nasty Backwash Gets Poured Down The FFG(X) Drain, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Thoughts Under The Fedora About Age & The Future
Don Surber: Trump Got Mexico’s Attention
Dustbury: There Was A Fungus Among Us
First Street Journal: The Washington Post And “Shutuppery”
The Geller Report: Looks Like CNN Can’t Make Payroll, also,  Muslim Doctor Arrested In Sri Lanka For Performing 4000 Involuntary Sterilizations On Non-Muslim Mothers
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: Agreeable Rocketman Misses John’s Signature Spark
JustOneMinute: Those Annoying Democratic Governors
Legal Insurrection: Not Satire – Hillary Clinton To Serve As Keynote Speaker At Cybersecurity Summit, also, NYU Journalism Course On “The Far Right” Cancelled After Only Two Students Sign Up
The PanAm Post: Does Uncle Sam Want To Take Over Venezuela? also, Newborn Babies The First Victims Of AMLO’s Populism
Power Line: Barr Speaks, also, Boycott This!
Shot In The Dark: Orgy Of Penitence
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – The Rising Tide Of Islam
This Ain’t Hell: Four Get Jail For Charity Scam Targeting Veterans, also, Last Surviving WW2 Mohawk Code Talker Dies
Victory Girls: Hollywood Goes Full Hypocrite On Abortion
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit
Weasel Zippers: Watch Obama Bash America, Lie About Guns In The U.S. While Speaking In Brazil, also, DOJ Preparing Anti-Trust Probe Of Google
Megan McArdle: Yes, Women’s Reproductive Health Is About Access – To Effective Antibiotics
Mark Steyn: A Jury Of Prosecutors, also, Once More Unto The Breach

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Category: Linkagery

How Much Do I Love Bill Barr?

Posted on | May 31, 2019 | Comments Off on How Much Do I Love Bill Barr?

Let me put it this way: Although I strongly disapprove of homosexuality, our Attorney General makes me feel like a Log Cabin Republican, because gosh, I just love this guy that much. If loving Bill Barr is wrong, I don’t want to be right. The reason for my deep man-crush, of course, is the interview The Love-God of Justice™ did with Jan Crawford of CBS News. How good is it? Obscenely good. Pornographically good. So good, you’ll feel guilty for how much you enjoy it. Ace of Spades provides an annotated transcript, which should be narrated by Barry White with the Love Unlimited Orchestra doing the background music.

™

 

Category: MuellerGate

Disgraced FBI Agent Peter Strzok Didn’t Tell Trump Campaign About Investigation

Posted on | May 31, 2019 | Comments Off on Disgraced FBI Agent Peter Strzok Didn’t Tell Trump Campaign About Investigation

 

Catherine Herridge of Fox News reports:

A mid-August 2016 counterintelligence briefing for the Trump campaign did not specifically warn officials about Russian outreach to the Trump team, nor did it warn that two campaign aides, Mike Flynn and George Papadopoulos, were already under FBI investigation, Fox News has learned.
The new details about the so-called “defensive briefing” have emerged from congressional letters, text messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and lawyer Lisa Page, and sources familiar with the matter. Such briefings are designed to warn the candidate and his team about national security threats.
“There was a defensive briefing of candidate Trump on Aug. 17 of 2016,” Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said Thursday on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.” “And I can tell you what he wasn’t told: He wasn’t warned about a Russia investigation that Peter Strzok had opened 18 days earlier.”
Strzok, who was later removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigative team for sending anti-Trump texts, was a central coordinator for the FBI on the defensive briefing, which included multiple agencies. Three weeks earlier, Strzok opened an FBI counterintelligence investigation into campaign aide George Papadopoulos.

(Hat-tip: Jeff Dunetz.)

People who get their news from CNN and MSNBC have no idea about any of the shady stuff relating to the origins of the “Russia collusion” hoax. Fox is the only network that is covering this story, and the average Democrat doesn’t have any inkling of what was going on with the Steele dossier and the various ways that people like Carter Page, Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos were targeted by what looks very much like entrapment — an effort to manufacture the appearance of “collusion” in order to justify surveillance of the Trump campaign. U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement officials at the highest levels must have approved this operation, and therefore the real scandal is not what Trump did, but rather what the Obama administration did. CNN and MSNBC are attempting to conceal this scandal from their viewers, and thus damaging their own credibility as news organizations.



 

Category: MuellerGate

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | May 31, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

A man who lit himself on fire in front of the White House this week has died, and has been identified as Arnav Gupta, 33. While his motive is unknown, TMZ reports that D.C. police sources say they believe Gupta was under the influence of drugs, including PCP. Gupta grew up in the affluent D.C. suburb of Bethesda, Maryland, and attended elite schools, graduating from Landon School for boys in 2004 and Boston University in 2008. When your parents can afford to send you to Landon (tuition $43,560 a year) and BU ($69,668 a year, including room and board), they probably expect you to accomplish great things in life, and it doesn’t seem as if Arnav Gupta was accomplishing much of anything.

Heavy-dot-com reports that Gupta worked a couple of years after college as a coach at Landon School, and recently self-published a rather deranged poem called “Memoirs of a Shadow President.” According to his LinkedIn profile, Gupta had worked five years in “property management” which, if I had to guess, was related to his parents’ business. In short, he was an over-educated loser, a bum, a slacker, a disappointment to his family, and setting himself on fire in front of the White House was an act of desperate madness. Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 05.30.19

Posted on | May 30, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: It’s The NSA’s Fault Baltimore Didn’t Patch Their Systems
EBL: Why Can’t I Have An Emotional Support Komodo Dragon?
Twitchy: Chicago Police Release Hundreds Of Pages of Electronic Files On Smollett Case
Louder With Crowder: Disney CEO Threatens To Pull Out Of Georgia Over Abortion Ban

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Don’t Be Fooled Just Because Trump Makes It Look Easy, also, Foreign Agitators In The UK Elections
American Greatness: Another Mueller-Comey One-Two Punch, also, Trump Has Become The Democrats’ Great White Whale
American Power: The Left’s Empathy Deficit Came Home To Roost – In Australia
American Thinker: Trump Finally Has The Wind At His Back
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Robocall News
Babalu Blog: Cuban-American Senator Ted Cruz Slams Rep. Ilhan Omar For Tweet Implying Hispanic Immigrants Are Uneducated, also, Pope Francis Angrily Refuses To Meet With Catholic Italian Deputy PM Salvini, Slobbers All Over Mass-Murdering Communist Castros
BattleSwarm: EU Election Results, also, Beto Puts Down The Bong
CDR Salamander: Switching From Steam To EMALS – And Back To Steam? also, Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: I Just Came From The 8 AM Ascension Thursday Mass, also, The Ultimate In Hypocrisy
Don Surber: What The Trump Coalition Is
Dustbury: Yagity Yak
First Street Journal: For The Reparationists, Two Wrongs Somehow Do Make A Right
The Geller Report: No Jail For Honolulu Cop Who Molested 5-Year-Old Girl For Years, also, John Cleese – “London Isn’t A British City Any More”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, The Oyster Nebula
Hollywood In Toto: Four Awkward PC Updates That Hurt Disney’s New Aladdin
JustOneMinute: Collusion Never Dies!
Legal Insurrection: Iran-Based Social Media Campaign Impersonated GOP Congressional Candidates, Influenced U.S. Media, also, U. Colorado Denver Offers “Problematizing Whiteness” Course
The PanAm Post: Millions Of Brazilians March For Bolsonaro And Against Statism, also, The Alliance That Is Obstructing The Return Of Democracy To Venezuela
Power Line: Michelle Malkin On The Curious Case Of Ilhan Omar, also, Mueller Clarifies
Shot In The Dark: Touched By The Concern
This Ain’t Hell: Marine Vet Sucker Punched, also, Estonia Is Getting New Guns
Victory Girls: Cybersecurity Expert Hillary Clinton To Keynote Summit
Volokh Conspiracy: Dangers Of A World Where “Almost Anyone Can Be Arrested For Something”
Weasel Zippers: Reporter Claims USS John McCain‘s Name Covered During Trump Visit, Navy Debunks It, also, Navy Sailors Photographed Wearing MAGA-Inspired Patches Causes Media Meltdown
Megan McArdle: EU Elections Don’t Matter Much, But The Anger Behind This One Will
Mark Steyn: A Ghillie & A Munshi, also, The Criminalization of The Other Guy’s Politics


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Category: Linkagery

The Red Pill and ‘Opposite George’

Posted on | May 30, 2019 | Comments Off on The Red Pill and ‘Opposite George’

You may recall one of the funniest episodes of Seinfeld:

George remarks to Jerry in Monk’s Café that every decision that he has ever made has been wrong, and that his life is the exact opposite of what it should be. Jerry convinces him that “if every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.” George experiments with doing the complete opposite of what he would do normally.

This is one of the things to keep in mind when discussing “Red Pill” philosophy. According to Rollo Tomassi and other students of intersexual dynamics, many of the “Blue Pill” beliefs men are taught about female behavior are so wrong that men might as well do like George Costanza and do the opposite of what we are taught.

Think about the assumptions guys are prone to make about women, based on superficial characteristics. Men are easily impressed by beauty, but I like to quote an old Johnny Rivers lyric:

Beware of pretty faces that you find.
A pretty face can hide an evil mind.

If a pretty girl wishes to deceive a guy, he’s unlikely to wise up to her deception until it’s too late. Therefore, it would behoove the young bachelor to be suspicious of any unusually attractive woman he meets. Here’s the thing: One would expect, in the normal course of human events, that the most attractive women would be off the market, so to speak, at a relatively young age, yet here she is flirting with you.

If she’s good-looking and still single, why is she single?

There must be a backstory to explain why such an attractive woman hasn’t gotten herself a man already. Something must have gone wrong.

Here’s where the “Opposite George” mentality could prove advantageous. The unusually attractive woman expects guys to make a move on her, but if you can focus your mind on a realistic assessment — she must have done something wrong, or else she wouldn’t still be single — you will adopt an attitude of cautious skepticism toward her. And another “Opposite George” insight: Be honest about the reasons for your caution.

Think about it. She’s already heard every clever pickup line in the book, so instead you just speak to her honestly. You’ve got nothing to hide — obviously, she knows you find her attractive — and you’ve probably got nothing to lose, because the chances are she’s got emotional problems that explain why all her previous relationships failed. Hooking up with her would only entangle you in her psychodrama, so if being honest means you don’t score with her, you haven’t really lost anything. In fact, ignoring her would probably be the smartest move you could make, but if you’re going to take a chance, make sure you get her backstory first.

Avoid being predictable. Think about how to be different — how to set yourself apart from other guys. Don’t be an average chump, easily deceived by any pretty girl he meets. Remember: If something seems too good to be true, it’s probably not true, nor is it actually good.

Try the Red Pill. You could be more like “Opposite George.”



 

Category: The Red Pill

Bill De Blasio or a Ham Sandwich?

Posted on | May 30, 2019 | Comments Off on Bill De Blasio or a Ham Sandwich?

 

Which one has a better chance of being elected president? The New York mayor’s poll numbers are zero, and meanwhile, this morning I received an email press release from the #Ham2020 campaign:

Ham Sandwich Officially Launches Presidential Campaign
27th or 28th? Candidate for the U.S Presidency!
With a single Instagram post this friggin delicious Sandwich running for president has more support and followers than some presidential candidates. Not to say names, but, Bill *cough” De Blasio and others. (Seriously!)
Check the HAM out.
https://www.instagram.com/presidente.ham/
Team HAM 2020

Just reporting the facts here, folks. Perhaps the candidate will promise to cut back on, uh, pork-barrel spending in D.C.?



 

Category: Election
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