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In The Mailbox: 10.09.18

Posted on | October 9, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.09.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Strange Hybrid Fruits
Twitchy: The New Talking Points Are Out – Republicans Seizing On Those Angry Mobs We All Saw
Louder With Crowder: Watch Hillary Clinton Lecture Republicans On Lacking Civility

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: How To Get Things Done
American Power: Mitch McConnell – I Never Thought Of Quitting, also, Happy Columbus Day
American Thinker: The Democrats’ Moral Confusion
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Road Rage News
BattleSwarm: Kavanaugh, The Aftermath
CDR Salamander: American Aircraft On Royal Navy Carriers. It’s A Thing.
Da Tech Guy: Hysterical Females Are Deadly, also, Fake News & The Academy
Don Surber: Bitter Old Rich White Man Angry Over Loss Of Political Power
Dustbury: Still Not Dead Yet
First Street Journal: A Proactive Bishop
The Geller Report: Islam & Freedom Cannot Coexist, also, German Father Charged For Protecting Daughter Against Migrant Rape
Hogewash: Two Views Into The Lagoon, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Legal Insurrection: Hillary Says Civility Not Possible Until Democrats Back In Control, also, Nikki Haley Resigns As UN Ambassador Effective 12/31, Will Campaign For Trump In 2020
The PanAm Post: Venezuela – One Of The Worst Cases Of Hyperinflation In History
Power Line: The K Smear & The Schumer Connection, also, Nikki Haley Resigns
Shark Tank: Trump Pushes Red Wave, But Not All Republicans Are Worthy
Shot In The Dark: October – But No Surprise
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Shenanigans! Illegality! Something!
The Political Hat: Normalizing Organ Harvesting As A Form Of Euthanasia
This Ain’t Hell: Army Vet Patrick Shields Stops Shooter At High School Game, also, Doxxing Boy Denied Bail
Victory Girls: Lisa Murkowski Facing Alaska GOP Backlash After Kavanaugh Vote
Weasel Zippers: Bernie Sanders Touts New World Order That Promotes Shared Misery Over State Sovreignty, also, Teaching Assistant Placed On Leave Following “Kill Kavanaugh” Tweet, FBI Investigating
Megan McArdle: It’s Anti-Woman To Judge Susan Collins Solely As A Woman
Mark Steyn: Darkest Hour Of The Eternal Present, also, Swingin’ Supremacists


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Anti-Male Georgetown Professor Uses Tumblr Blog to ‘Dox’ Her Critics

Posted on | October 9, 2018 | Comments Off on Anti-Male Georgetown Professor Uses Tumblr Blog to ‘Dox’ Her Critics

 

We have covered Georgetown Professor Christine Fair in the past:

Unhinged by Hate: Georgetown Professor
Harasses Trump Voter @AsraNomani
— Dec. 28, 2016

BREAKING: Anti-Male Georgetown
University Professor Now on Leave
— Oct. 5, 2018

Professor Fair is a textbook example of Herbert Marcuse‘s 1965 “progressive tolerance” (i.e., intolerance to conservatism) in action. Because the Left considers opposition to its ideology to be evil, leftists like Professor Fair believe they are justified in fighting their opponents “by any means necessary.” The Left recognizes no law or social norms that restrain them in attacking their chosen enemies.

PJMedia’s Toni Airaksinen reports the latest:

The Georgetown University professor who called for the “miserable deaths” of GOP senators admitted Thursday to PJ Media that she runs a “doxxing” blog where she posts the names, phone numbers, and addresses of people who send her rude emails.
The blog — “Sh*tMenSay” on Tumblr — was launched by Professor Christine Fair in January 2017. First, she began by posting screenshots of the “hate mail” she was sent by Facebook and email, typically only including names and people’s email addresses.
But as early as May 2017, Fair changed course. Instead of simply screenshotting the person’s email or Facebook message, Fair appears to have subscribed to a service that would help her figure out where these people exactly live.
PJ Media reviewed hundreds of posts (yes, hundreds) on “ShitMenSay” and identified 11 accounts of full-on doxxing, for which home addresses, phone numbers, photos, aliases, and occasionally work phone numbers and other family members were made public.
“When will these male trolls learn?” she wrote on September 28.
“I do research for a living. Locating their residences (these folks live in a town in [redacted] near an elementary school on [redacted] St.), their wives, employers, etc. is mental sport for me,” wrote Fair in one doxxing post.
“I will be notifying his current and past employer as well as his wife,” she wrote on a separate doxxing post. (PJ Media is not linking or screenshotting any of these posts due to privacy concerns for the victims of her blog.)
While Fair justifies her doxxing by calling it “accountability” for “harassment,” the emails that she received are garden-variety hate mail, and wouldn’t in any case rise to an illegal level of harassment. . . .

You can read the whole thing at PJMedia.

Let me say that I am against “hate mail,” whoever does it, on whatever side, and I am against “harassment” generally. On those occasions when I feel a need to express my indignation to someone via email, my language tends to be very formal, like a gentleman taking notice of an offense to his honor and challenging the offender to “pistols at dawn.” When a Southerner makes a point of calling you “sir” (“Pardon me, sir, if I have mistaken your intent in impugning my integrity …”) you know you’ve pissed him off bad. Furthermore, when you are communicating to a journalist or academic or anyone else who considers themselves an “intellectual,” it is important to avoid crude insults, sloppy grammar or misspellings. You don’t want to communicate in such a way as to confirm their opinion of you as an ignorant bigot. Remember: Always take the high road when responding to deranged totalitarian moonbats.

“What is best in life? To crush your enemies. See them driven before you. And to hear the lamentations of their women.”



 

 

Category: Education

In The Mailbox: 10.08.18

Posted on | October 8, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.08.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Lady Mormont Calls Out Those Who Didn’t Support Brett Kavanuagh
Twitchy: Democrat Phil Bredesen May Have Just Erased Whatever Boost He Got From Taylor Swift
Louder With Crowder: Democrats Dismiss Keith Ellison Accusations For Lack Of Evidence

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Apparently Milo Is Going To Save Australia, also, Muh Gross Domestic Products!
American Power: U.S. Has Highest Share Of Foreign-Born Since 1910, also, Crux Of A Cold Civil War
American Thinker: Four Reasons Why “Climate Change” Is A Flat-Out Hoax
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: “We Ain’t Cray Cray Like Y’All!”
CDR Salamander: Russia’s Red Banner Year – On Midrats, also, Zumwalt – The Stillborn Transformation
Da Tech Guy: Yes, Money Drove The Anti-Kavanaugh Mob, also, Report From Louisiana – A Little Good News?
Don Surber: The Numbing Dumbness Of DC Reporters, also, How We Knew They Were Fake Republican Women
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Doc Octane Plots Against Us
First Street Journal: The WaPo Gives Space To A Conservative, But…
The Geller Report: Deadly Limo Owner Shaheed Hussain Was Arrested For Murder In Pakistan, also, “London Is More Islamic Than Many Muslim Countries Put Together”
Hogewash: BK v.BK, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
JustOneMinute: Happy Colonialist Oppression Day
Legal Insurrection: Hillary & Bill Announce National Tour, also, New Poll Has Ted Cruz Up By 5 With Undecideds Moving Toward Him
The PanAm Post: Nicaraguan Universities Expelling Students For Protesting The Ortega Regime
Power Line: Hitler Learns The Democrats Have Failed To Block Kavanaugh, also, Minnesota Teacher – Let’s Murder Kavanaugh!
Shark Tank: Broward GOP Continues To Fail, Endorses Democrat Over Republican
Shot In The Dark: The Voice Of Minnesota!
STUMP: CALPERS Quickie – President Pushed Off The Board Due To ESG Over Pension Security
The Jawa Report: Blog Sabbath Caption Contest – Ultraloser Edition
The Political Hat: Public Schooling, Indoctrination, & Totalitarianism
This Ain’t Hell: Another Seven MIA Accounted For, also, 1LT Katie Blanchard Seeks $3.5 Million
Victory Girls: Trump On Kavanaugh Protesters – Don’t Give Power To A Left-Wing Mob
Volokh Conspiracy: Yet Another Federal Court Rules Against The Administration On A Sanctuary Cities Case
Weasel Zippers: Wells Fargo Bucks Corporate Gun Control Trend, Issues $40 Million Line Of Credit To Ruger, also, Felonia Von Pantsuit Says Kavanaugh Could Bring Back Slavery
Mark Steyn: Gosnell, also, Taking A Mile So They’ll Move An Inch


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The Last Kavanaugh Post, Ever

Posted on | October 8, 2018 | Comments Off on The Last Kavanaugh Post, Ever

 

Since my first post on the subject (“Democrats Pull the Sleaziest Smear in Their Long History of Sleazy Smears,” Sept. 15), I’ve written dozens of posts about the Kavanaugh confirmation circus, and I’m sure you’re as weary of the subject as I am. Neverthless, once the confirmation went through, I felt a need to eulogize this fit of political insanity:

Deranged and desperate, driven mad by President Trump’s successes, Democrats disgraced themselves in defeat as their dishonest smears failed to stop Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation as the 114th justice of the Supreme Court. As the nomination process culminated in a 50-48 Senate vote, Americans witnessed the stark insanity of howling mobs the Democrats unleashed on Capitol Hill.
The Senate vote was repeatedly interrupted by outbursts of screeching from protesters. J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department official, was in the gallery and was disturbed by one female protester’s insane screams: “She was like a feminist automaton: ‘I will not consent, I will not consent.’ Capitol Police… dragged her out the doors and down the hallway. I have visited hospitals for the seriously mentally ill, and the shrieks from this woman were as odd and unearthly as anything I ever heard inside a mental hospital.”
Democrats own this insanity. They are responsible for the madness unleashed by the tactics with which they sought to derail the Kavanaugh nomination. It is difficult to imagine that voters in next month’s midterm elections will reward Democrats for such embarrassing behavior. . . .

Read the rest of my latest American Spectator column.



 

Category: Supreme Court

Those Karlie Kloss Rumors Were True?

Posted on | October 8, 2018 | Comments Off on Those Karlie Kloss Rumors Were True?

Taylor Swift comes out as a Democrat, and Vox Day suggests this proves the rumors about her, uh, sexual fluidity. Video, or it didn’t happen.

Category: Celebrities

Author of Smear Against Conservative Journalists Exposed as Foreign Agent

Posted on | October 8, 2018 | Comments Off on Author of Smear Against Conservative Journalists Exposed as Foreign Agent

Molly McKew is an ‘information warfare expert.’

Before getting to the news, let me explain the background: The Left’s “Russian collusion” narrative (i.e., that Trump is a Kremlin puppet) has had dangerous consequences. Every geopolitical enemy of Russia — including China and such former Warsaw Pact countries as Ukraine — has made this conspiracy theory the basis of their own efforts to “meddle” in American politics, so that anti-GOP propaganda is being funded by foreigners who think that electing Democrats will help them stop Putin. Does this make any sense? It doesn’t matter. Crazy as it sounds, this explains a bizarre story that ran last week at the website of Wired magazine, which accused a bunch of conservatives — everybody from Jack Posobiec to Tucker Carlson — of being “information terrorists,” using “assymetric tools” to wage “cognitive warfare.” 

Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit, one of those identified as an “information terrorist” in that weird story, points out that the author of that article, Molly McKew, is a registered agent of the government of the former Soviet republic of Georgia. So here we have the hired agent of a foreign government smearing patriotic Americans like Jim Hoft — a guy I’ve known personally for more than 10 years — as “terrorists”! It’s crazy.



 

Category: Foreigners

Rule 5 Sunday: Brennschluss

Posted on | October 7, 2018 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

She looks like I feel right now.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box #398, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Service Rifle Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: National Taco Day, Sarah Vaughn “Witchcraft”, Marie Claire Bissonette, Susan Collins, Tippi Hedren & The Vietnamese Nail Ladies, Olga Kurylenko, and Jordana Spiro.

A View From The Beach: A Taste of the Bizarre – Rebekah Underhill, Democrats Employ the Black Arts Against Kavanaugh, “Psychotic Reaction”, Chinese Cutie Condemned for Cheating on Taxes, Just Another Wet Shirt Wednesday, Invasive Species Fight Climate Change!, Beware of “Winter Pussy”, What Were Kids Thinking Back in 1982? and LiLo Smacked Down in Kidnapping Attempt.

Proof Positive: Gina Bellman, Kristin Scott Thomas, The Redhead, Women Of PETA LXVIII, Rebecca Ferguson, Dream Angels, and Audrey Long

Dustbury: Brandy Norwood and Millie Small.

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ConFFFFFirmed!

Posted on | October 7, 2018 | 5 Comments

Brett Kavanaugh is sworn in by Chief Justice Roberts.

Saturday was my birthday and I got some great gifts: Auburn lost to Mississippi State, and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in after the Senate voted 50-48 to confirm his nomination:

Judge Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in as the 114th Supreme Court justice late Saturday, just hours after the Senate voted to approve President Trump’s nominee to the nation’s highest court after a rancorous confirmation battle.
Kavanaugh was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts in a private ceremony, accompanied by his wife and children. The ceremonial swearing in is expected to happen on Monday evening at the White House. It means that now-Justice Kavanaugh will begin hearing cases before the court on Tuesday.
The Senate voted 50-48 to confirm Kavanaugh, mostly along party lines, after a weeklong FBI probe helped settle concerns among most wavering senators about the sexual assault allegations that nearly derailed his nomination and led to a dramatic second hearing. Saturday’s roll call marked the tightest successful Supreme Court confirmation vote in over 100 years, closer than even that of Clarence Thomas who similarly faced sexual misconduct allegations.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., was the sole Democrat to vote “yes.” Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, was a “no,” but voted “present” as a courtesy to Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., who was attending his daughter’s wedding in Montana.
Democrats reacted to the vote by urging supporters to turn out to the polls in November for the midterms.
“The American people are raising their voices to a deafening roar today. We will not stop marching, we will not stop fighting, and we will vote on Election Day for leaders who share our values,” Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez said in a statement. . . .
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., brushed off criticism from Democrats and said it was “a good day for America and an important day for the Senate.”
“We stood up for the presumption of innocence, we refused to be intimidated by the mob of people coming after Republican members at their homes and hallways,” he said.
At a rally in Topeka, Kansas, President Trump hailed the confirmation as a “tremendous victory” and slammed Democrats for their treatment of Kavanaugh during the contentious confirmation hearing.
“What he and his family endured at the hands of Democrats is unthinkable. In their quest for power, the radical Democrats have turned into an angry mob, you saw that today with the screaming and shouting,” he said, referring to protests outside the Senate and Supreme Court earlier in the day.

Did I mention Auburn lost? That Mississippi State quarterback was something else — 6-foot-5, 230 pounds, Nick Fitzgerald ran for nearly 200 yards, and really made Auburn look bad, but I guess I should get back to recapping the Supreme Court nomination.

Here’s some whining from a Vox-dot-com writer:

Forty-nine Senate Republicans and one Democrat just confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the United State Supreme Court. No allegations, no protesters, no public opinion poll showing Brett Kavanaugh is the most unpopular person to be elevated to the nation’s highest court in recent history was going to stop them. . . .
The Senate has answered definitively: We do not believe her, not really, and we don’t care that the public does.
This is the governing ideology of the Republican Party: We don’t care what anybody else thinks. We have the power. We have the will. We have the votes. We’ll do what we want.
In politics, there’s winning the argument, and there’s winning the vote. Republicans lost the argument, but they ultimately had the votes.

Guess what? Republicans are almost certainly going to have more Senate votes after Nov. 6. Heidi Heitkamp is toast in North Dakota, Joe Donnelly in Indiana has given Republican voters more reason to hate him, as has Claire McCaskill in Missouri, the two most recent polls show Florida a dead heat, Montana is within the margin of error, and even Bob Menendez could lose in New Jersey. At this point, a 55- or 56-seat Senate majority seems the most likely outcome of the midterm elections, and there’s almost no chance that Chuck Schumer will be holding the gavel anytime soon. Republican voters have been united and energized by the Kavanaugh fight, which exposed the desperate lengths to which Democrats were willing to go to obtain power. Heck, at one point, they even resorted to witchcraft in their desperation.

 

Democrats have already identified the scapegoat for their failure:

Attorney Michael Avenatti stymied Democrats’ attempts to derail confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Democratic senators and aides told CNN.
“Democrats and the country would have been better off if Mr. Avenatti spent his time on his Iowa vanity project rather than meddling in Supreme Court fights,” a top Democratic Senate aide told CNN ahead of Saturday’s vote to confirm Kavanaugh.
“His involvement set us back, absolutely,” said the aide, referring to Avenatti’s fledgling 2020 presidential campaign.
Avenatti, who represents porn star Stormy Daniels, entered the Kavanaugh foray as an attorney for Julie Swetnick, a Washington, D.C. woman who claimed that Kavanaugh was present at house parties in the early 1980s were girls were gang raped.
Avenatti pushed Swetnick’s case at his cable TV mainstays, CNN and MSNBC, but ultimately failed to produce the witnesses he claimed would come forward to support his client’s case. . . .
While Kavanaugh appeared on the ropes after Ford’s story emerged, conservatives rallied around him in response to the Swetnick allegations.
Asked about Avenatti’s involvement in the Kavanaugh case, Sen. Gary Peters, a Michigan Democrat, suggested that the attorney distracted from Democrats’ mission to derail Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
“Well you know at some point there were a lot of folks coming forward making all sorts of accusations,” Peters told CNN. “It turns it into a circus atmosphere and certainly that’s not where we should be.”

 

Democrats and their media allies have no one but themselves to blame for Avenatti’s opportunistic showboating. Bad causes attract bad people, and the smear campaign against Kavanaugh was a perfect example of this principle. “Boy, ya’ll want power,” as Lindsey Graham told Democrats during the confirmation. “I hope to God you never get it.”

“The left has given up trying to persuade people of their point of view,” Mike LaChance of Legal Insurrection said on Twitter. “All they offer is rage and hostility to those who don’t agree with them.”

 

Donald Trump’s instincts were again proven correct:

The president commented on the narrow Senate confirmation vote to confirm Kavanaugh during his trip aboard Air Force One to Kansas. A handful of leftist women protesters were dragged out of the Senate chamber during the vote, shrieking as Senators moved forward with the confirmation.
“When you hear those screamers in Congress today, the screaming, you see how orchestrated it is, how phony it is,” Trump said, referring to the protesters. “They practice it together and they do it with the Democrats.”
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders confirmed that Trump called Kavanaugh at the end of the Senate vote. He was sworn into office later Saturday evening.
Trump asserted that many women were concerned with the Kavanaugh proceedings were worried about men in their lives.
“[T]hey’re thinking of their sons, they’re thinking of their husbands and their brothers, their uncles, and others,” Trump said. “And women are I think extremely happy.”
Trump said that many women were in some ways more upset than men by the uncorroborated accusations by Christine Ford.
“Women were outraged at what happened to Brett Kavanaugh, outraged, and I think that’s a total misnomer because the women, I feel, were in many ways stronger than the men in his favor,” Trump said.
When reporters asked if he believed that Ford misidentified an attack from Kavanaugh over 30 years ago, Trump replied, “100 percent.”

Christian Adams describes the deranged mob scene at the Capitol:

I was in the Senate gallery this afternoon when Justice Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed. You would have thought I was at an exorcism in an insane asylum.
Perhaps you were watching on television and heard the disruptions, though you certainly didn’t see them. The attenuated audio probably didn’t catch the frightening, incoherent shrieking – including the lingering screaming and howling as they were being dragged down the hallways outside the gallery.
If there was any doubt that the opposition to Kavanaugh was unhinged, uncivil, disruptive, rude, and borderline nuts, my experience in the gallery made it clear. . . .
“Mob rule is necessary,” one shrieking woman shouted before security personnel could settle her down.
At least she was honest. It did not appear that Capitol Police removed her for her crime, unfortunately. That would soon change.
Another crazed woman later screamed, “I will not consent, I will not consent, I will not consent, I will not consent.” She was like a feminist automaton: “I will not consent, I will not consent.” Capitol Police were less forgiving and dragged her out the doors and down the hallway.
I have visited hospitals for the seriously mentally ill, and the shrieks from this woman were as odd and unearthly as anything I ever heard inside a mental hospital.

Once the party of the working man, Democrats have become the party of the screaming woman. Trump has literally driven them insane.

(Hat-tip: Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit.)

It’s hard to think of a better way to celebrate my birthday than to watch demented Democrats shrieking in helpless rage as a Senate Republican majority rams a conservative Supreme Court justice down their throats, except the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

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