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Democrat Ex-Sen. David Boren Accused of Being Creepy Old Gay Closet Case

Posted on | April 1, 2019 | Comments Off on Democrat Ex-Sen. David Boren Accused of Being Creepy Old Gay Closet Case

 

The accusation:

A former University of Oklahoma student alleges he was touched and kissed inappropriately by former university President David Boren on several occasions almost a decade ago when the man worked as a teaching aide for the onetime governor and senator.
The allegations by Jess Eddy, now 29, appear to be at the center of an investigation being conducted for the university by Jones Day, one of the world’s largest law firms, into whether Boren sexually harassed male subordinates. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has also opened an investigation.
Boren, now 77, has denied any inappropriate conduct in statements released by his attorneys, who have confirmed the Jones Day investigation. Boren was a Democratic governor in the 1970s before serving in the U.S. Senate for more than 15 years. He was OU president from 1994 until stepping down last year and has been married to his second wife for more than 40 years. . . .
Eddy said he came to know Boren after taking a political science course the president taught. Boren asked him to be his teaching aide the following semester, in the fall of 2010, when Eddy was 21.
That fall, he said, he accompanied Boren on a weekend fundraising-and-recruiting trip to Houston, where he flew on a private jet with Boren and attended a dinner with donors. He said he and Boren ended up in Boren’s hotel room, where the two of them drank alcohol and Boren made an unwanted sexual advance and touched him inappropriately before he left the room.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) To accuse an old man of making an “unwanted sexual advance” is redundant, because any sexual advance made by an old man is “unwanted.” The number of people — male or female — who want to have sex with David Boren is exactly zero. Certainly there was no reason for him to imagine that his sexual advances toward a 21-year-old college boy would be welcome. Rumors about Boren’s sexuality have circulated for decades; during his 1978 Senate campaign, he quite literally swore on a Bible that he was not gay. This latest accusation is perhaps not completely surprising, and the question is whether it will trigger a #MeToo avalanche of accusations by other men with whom Boren has been intimate, “unwanted” or otherwise. And I suppose some people will blame this situation on “homophobia,” arguing that if it weren’t for the repressive and intolerant forces of hate, David Boren never would have been forced to conceal his attraction to men, blah blah blah.

Except that’s actually irrelevant. Society never forced Joe Biden to conceal his heterosexuality, and yet Biden is now having a #MeToo moment because he was too stupid to realize that the number of women who want to be groped by an old politician is exactly zero. And having seen photos of David Boren in the 1970s, I’m not sure that anyone — male or female — ever found him sexually attractive. Maybe when Boren was in his 20s or 30s, he could have scored with a college guy, but probably not. However, if he did, it would have been easy for Boren to keep it secret, because no guy would ever want to admit that publicly.

Anyway, the point is, whether you’re gay or straight, at some point you’ll be so old nobody even wants to think about your sexuality. The mental image of being groped by a creep like David Boren? Yuck.



 

Category: Democrats, Gays, Oklahoma, Scandal

Operation ‘Unplanned’ Maintenance

Posted on | April 1, 2019 | Comments Off on Operation ‘Unplanned’ Maintenance

by Smitty

Conservative Twitter was aflame on Sunday with people wondering why the follower count for UnplannedMovie was all over the place. Quick notes:

  • I do Amazon Web Services work by day
  • I ain’t an apologist for @jack
  • I have no insight into the specifics of Twitter’s architecture.

My points:

  • Old-style relational databases strove for a single point of truth. To scale globally, the first thing one does is relax that. So, even though there is one URL for the @UnplannedMovie account, you aren’t guaranteed to be looking at the same data.
  • This reality of NoSQL storage is exacerbated by everyone and their sibling querying at the same time for the same data, and also following that account. When you do a cloud system, you employ rules to throw more resources at fresh demand.
  • I daresay that conservative twitter just offered a fantastic stress test of Twitter’s infrastructure. While they to events and hashtags all the time, I’m unaware of another case where they’ve thrown account following into the mix.

This is all probably too generous. We’d like to think that conservatives are a force to be reckoned with. But it’s not likely that the follow frequency was ever that significant. Again, I have no insights into what’s really afoot.

That said, let’s all just take a deep breath and understand that Unplanned got some great free advertising out of all that. Plan an informal event for your church to go support these kinds of movies.

 

Category: Abortion

FMJRA 2.0: Frozen Ones

Posted on | March 31, 2019 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Frozen Ones

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Who’s Heading to the Cornbread Festival?
Victory Girls
EBL

Saturday Scenes from South Carolina
EBL

A Sunday Blessing in South Carolina
EBL
Fishersville Mike

FMJRA 2.0: Third Stone From The Sun
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Katharine McPhee
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
EBL
Proof Positive

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Final Wisdom and a Failed Coup
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.25.19
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

SPLC Meltdown Continues
EBL

‘Creepy Porn Lawyer’ Michael Avenatti Arrested by Feds in Extortion Scheme
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.26.19
EBL
Proof Positive

Jim, Jim and John Get Zany Mail
EBL

Texts Show Michelle Obama Aide Intervened in Jussie Smollett Case
The Pirate’s Cove
EBL

Never Date a Kardashian
EBL

‘A Painful Gut Punch’ for MSNBC
EBL
Pushing Rubber Downhill

A War Against Human Nature
First Street Journal
EBL

“I seen my duty, and I done it.”
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.27.19
EBL
Proof Positive

Tucker Carlson: CNN Dutifully Follows ‘Marching Orders’ From Nancy Pelosi
EBL
Pushing Rubber Downhill

Lindy West’s Big Fat Plagiarism Scandal
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.28.19
EBL
Proof Positive

Joe Biden and White Self-Hatred
EBL

‘Henry Greenberg’ and the Deep State Conspiracy Against Donald Trump
EBL

Face-Eating Cannibal Killer
EBL

The Dutch Trump Is Awesome
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.29.19
EBL
Proof Positive

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Honorable mention to 357 Magnum, Pushing Rubber Downhill, The Pirate’s Cove, and everybody else who linked us this week!

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Border Crisis at ‘Breaking Point’ in Texas

Posted on | March 31, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Democrats are against doing anything to address this emergency:

Under a bridge connecting the U.S. with Mexico, dozens of migrant families cram into a makeshift camp set up by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The families are there because permanent processing facilities have run out of room.
Seven hundred miles east, busload after busload of weary, bedraggled migrants crowd into the Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas. Organizers there are used to handling 200 to 300 migrants a day. Lately, the migrants have been arriving at a clip of around 800 a day, overflowing the respite center and straining city resources.
“It’s staggering,” McAllen City Manager Roy Rodriguez said. “Really, we’ve never seen anything like this before.”
Along the Texas border with Mexico — from El Paso to Eagle Pass to the Rio Grande Valley — masses of migrants have been crossing the border in unprecedented numbers, overwhelming federal holding facilities and sending local leaders and volunteers scrambling to deal with the relentless waves of people.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said Wednesday during a visit to El Paso that the border had hit its “breaking point” and urged Congress to come up with legislative solutions to the problem.
Border Patrol officials were on pace in March for more than 100,000 apprehensions and encounters with migrants — the highest monthly tally in over a decade, he said.

Democrats have embraced an anti-American ideology on immigration, taking the side of foreign law-breakers against U.S. law enforcement.



 

Category: Democrats, Immigration, Texas

Guatemalan Immigrant Kept 33 Illegal Aliens in Her Illinois Home

Posted on | March 31, 2019 | Comments Off on Guatemalan Immigrant Kept 33 Illegal Aliens in Her Illinois Home

 

It was tantamount to slavery:

A woman has been arrested and accused of keeping 33 immigrants in her Illinois home, allegedly forcing them to work and pay her hundreds of dollars for rent, childcare and transportation, in addition to the thousands of dollars she said they owed her because she helped them get into the United States, federal court documents state.
FBI investigators raided the home of Concepcion Malinek, 49, of Cicero, Illinois, this week and discovered 19 adults and 14 children living in her home, according to a criminal complaint prepared by an FBI agent. All of them are believed to be Guatemalan citizens.
She faces two counts of forced labor.
Malinek allegedly threatened the migrants with “immigration consequences,” the complaint says, if they shared what was going on inside the house with anyone else. The legal status of the immigrants was unclear.
A judge on Thursday ordered that Malinek remain in custody without bond until her trial, according to the court docket. She’s currently being held at the Kendall County Public Safety Center in Yorkville, Illinois.
Malinek is a dual citizen of both the US and Guatemala, according to Department of Justice spokesman Joseph Fitzpatrick. She faces a maximum of 40 years in prison — 20 for each count.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)

 

Category: Crime, Illinois, Immigration

‘Creepy Uncle Joe’ Gets Busted by #MeToo (Hint: She’s a Bernie Supporter)

Posted on | March 30, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘Creepy Uncle Joe’ Gets Busted by #MeToo (Hint: She’s a Bernie Supporter)

 

After years of inappropriate public contact with women and girls, Joe Biden has finally been called out by a fellow Democrat:

Lucy Flores, a former Nevada Assemblywoman and 2014 Democratic nominee for Lt. Governor has accused former Vice President Joe Biden of inappropriately touching her in 2014.
In a riveting piece published today at The Cut, Flores detailed what she says happened to her during a campaign rally just a few days before the election in 2014:

I found my way to the holding room for the speakers, where everyone was chatting, taking photos, and getting ready to speak to the hundreds of voters in the audience. Just before the speeches, we were ushered to the side of the stage where we were lined up by order of introduction. As I was taking deep breaths and preparing myself to make my case to the crowd, I felt two hands on my shoulders. I froze. “Why is the vice-president of the United States touching me?”
I felt him get closer to me from behind. He leaned further in and inhaled my hair. I was mortified. I thought to myself, “I didn’t wash my hair today and the vice-president of the United States is smelling it. And also, what in the actual f*ck? Why is the vice-president of the United States smelling my hair?” He proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head.

Greg at Twitchy makes an important point:

We should mention, however, that Lucy Flores, is a huge backer of Bernie Sanders. Shouldn’t that have made it into the article, at the very least as an editor’s note? She bragged in 2016 of Sanders picking her to be on the board of Our Revolution, a 501(c)(4) that bills itself as “The next step for Bernie Sanders’ movement is Our Revolution, which will fight to transform America and advance the progressive agenda that we believe in”

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

Of course, the obvious political motive of Biden’s accuser does not mean that his “Creepy Uncle Joe” act isn’t genuinely offensive. But why is it that this behavior, which conservatives have been pointing out for years, seemed to go unnoticed by Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) until a fellow Democrat called out Biden? Doesn’t this prove the extent to which the feminist movement is simply a propaganda operation subservient to the partisan interests of Democrats?



 

Category: Joe Biden, Scandal, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 03.29.19

Posted on | March 30, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Got links? FMJRA links are due tomorrow at noon; Rule 5 links by midnight.


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: The Alaska Purchase
Twitchy: Federal Judge In CA Rules State’s 10-Round Limit On Magazines Unconstitutional – AG Becerra, Mother Jones Hardest Hit
Louder With Crowder: Celebrities Pledge To Boycott GA Over Pro-Life Bill
According To Hoyt: Envy & The Crab Bucket – A Blast From The Past
Vox Popoli: Demolishing The Atheist Myths

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Thinker: The Democrat Leninist Revolution Is Here
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Schadenfreudelicious Friday
Babalu Blog: Google Signs Deal With Castro To bring faster Internet To Cuba (Sort Of), also, Cardinal Mindszenty, Anti-Communist Hero
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For March 29
Camp Of The Saints:
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday – Andrew W. Marshall
Da Tech Guy: Lenten Reflections – The Trap of Facts, also, Opening Day Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Was Mueller Taxpayer Funded Oppo Research?
Dustbury: You Can’t Do This With Velcro
First Street Journal:
Fred On Everything:
The Geller Report: Muslim “Refugee” In Hungary Found To Have Beheaded 20 People For ISIS, also, Obama Tells Genocidal Jew-Hater Tlaib “I’m Proud Of You”
Hogewash: Don’t Know Much About History, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day (With Vintage Johnny Atsign!)
Hollywood In Toto: Is Unplanned The Movie Hollywood Fears Most?
Joe For America: Democrat Pols Dump POW/MIA Flags For Pride Flags Outside Their DC Offices
JustOneMinute: Brexit Remains On The Drawing Board
Legal Insurrection: Rahm Emanuel Blames Trump For Smollett Hate Crime Hoax, also, Stacey Abrams Rejects Biden’s Offer Of VP Slot – “I’m Just As Capable Of Becoming President”
The PanAm Post: Bolsonaro Battles To Privatize Major Electric Utility Electrobras
Power Line: Long Overdue Action On EMP, also, A Primer On “Ventriloquist Journalism”
Shot In The Dark: Their Own Slimy Petard
STUMP: NYC Shenanigans – Slush Funds Ain’t What They Used To Be
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – The World Of LSD
This Ain’t Hell: Today Is Vietnam War Veterans Day, also, Should Schiff Resign?
Victory Girls: Border Breaking Point – Homeland Security Asks To Deport Unaccompanied Migrant Children
Volokh Conspiracy: District Court Permanently Enjoins CA Magazine Confiscation Law
Weasel Zippers: Occasional Cortex Convinced “Far-Right” Conspiracy Is Ruining Her, also, Democrats’ Offices Swap POW/MIA Flags For Transgender Pride Flags On Vietnam War Veterans Day
Megan McArdle: Leave V. Remain Caricatures Have Only Added To Brexit’s Messiness
Mark Steyn: A New Theme Tune For CNN


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Category: Linkagery

The Dutch Trump Is Awesome

Posted on | March 29, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Nowadays, whenever you see the media label a politician “far-right,” you figure he must be awesome, and this rule appears to be valid in the case of Thierry Baudet, a Dutch politician who is being compared to Donald Trump after his Forum for Democracy (FvD) party won provincial elections. This makes Baudet’s party a potential threat to Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s liberal VVD party. Baudet is anti-EU, anti-immigration and a climate-change skeptic. He speaks brutal truth:

Thanks to a sophisticated social media operation and regular appearances on popular TV talks shows, Baudet and his party have managed to reach a large audience.
Two days before the election, the campaign shifted focus to migration after a Turkish-born man was arrested following a shooting in Utrecht in which three people were killed. Baudet was swift in his response, blaming the government’s migration policy for the attack just hours after the shooting. At the time of his remarks, all other parties had suspended campaigning in memory of those who lost their lives.
“We are being destroyed by the people who are supposed to be protecting us,” Baudet told supporters after his election win. “Successive Rutte governments have left our borders wide open, letting in hundreds of thousands of people with cultures completely different to ours.”

This is simply a fact, a truth that nobody is supposed to mention because it’s now “far-right” to speak the truth — including the truth about women:

In an interview in 2017, Baudet said “women generally excel less in a lot of occupations and have fewer ambitions,” adding that they are “often also more interested in just more family-like things.” Three years earlier, he wrote in an op-ed that women “do not want you to respect their no, to respect their resistance. The reality is that women want to be overwhelmed, dominated, yes; want to be overpowered.”

To employ a marketplace analogy, when it comes to sex, women are the supply and men are the demand and, in negotiating the transaction, the woman does not wish to seem too eager to close the deal. Her show of reluctance is an attempt to bid up the price, as it were, but courtesy requires men to pretend we don’t understand this. Nor are men allowed (at least publicly) to discuss strategy vis-a-vis female sexuality. Women are insulted by the suggestion that any man could be sufficiently shrewd to understand the psychology of sex well enough to win the game. Knowing this, of course, the shrewd player learns to act as if he’s not really playing, but rather just spontaneously doing what comes natural — a method actor, so to speak, cast in the role of the lovable brute.

Baudet bluntly analyzes the “nice guy” problem:

Aardige jongens halen het slechtste in jonge vrouwen naar boven. In weerwil van het dominante discours over het ‘zwakke’ geslacht is geen diersoort zo wreed als de jonge vrouw. Misschien is het evolutionair te verklaren – dat vrouwen een sterke spermadonor zoeken voor de voortplanting; dat het voortbestaan van de soort van een dergelijk afweermechanisme afhankelijk is.

Translation:

Nice guys bring out the worst in young women. In spite of the dominant discourse on the ‘weak’ sex, no animal species is as cruel as the young woman. Perhaps it can be explained evolutionally — that women seek a strong sperm donor for reproduction; that the survival of the species depends on such a defense mechanism.

Well, is he wrong about this? Women are generally unaware of their own cruelty. Having it within her power to make a boy spectacularly happy — ecstatic, euphoric, giddy with happiness — the teenage girl instead finds it more advantageous to deny him that pleasure and, to the adult who understands this as a matter of incentives, the romantic cat-and-mouse game is amusing to watch. Having both sons and daughters, I see both sides of the struggle. It’s rather too easy for a grown man to forget the misery a girl can inflict on a lovestruck boy, and it’s even possible to be deceived by feminist nonsense about women’s perpetual victimhood.

Life ultimately sorts people out as winners or losers, and while female losers have an entire political movement devoted to their grievances, the plight of the male loser is mocked to scorn. God forbid anyone should give a young man advice on how to win, which was the controversy Thierry Baudet was addressing in that 2014 column about the furor surrounding Swiss pickup artist Julien Blanc.

Anyway, this guy Baudet might soon become somebody important, and it’s nice to see that truth still counts for something in politics.
 

Category: Netherlands
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