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In The Mailbox: 02.13.19

Posted on | February 14, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #530
EBL: Come On, Mitch, Just Do It
Twitchy: President Trump Wants That $3.5 Billion In CA’s Cancelled Bullet Train Funding Back
Louder With Crowder: Hypocrite Alert – Occasional Cortex Prefers Airplanes To Trains, By A Lot

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Boomers Flooding Gyms In All-Out Effort To Avert Old Age
American Power: The Twitter Celebrity Takeover Of Politics
American Thinker: Four Ways Democrats Want To Ruin Your Life
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: California’s High Speed Rail Stops Pining For The Fjords
CDR Salamander: The Expected Pullback From 355, also, Do We Need To Shut Down Our Flag Officers Until We Figure Out What’s Going On?
Da Tech Guy: Non-Tweets Under The Fedora, also, Laugh Off The Green New Deal At Your Own Peril
Don Surber: Private Investigator Clears Covington Boys
Dustbury: All And Tsundere
First Street Journal: Some Very Lame Advice From The Washington Post
The Geller Report: Jihadi Rep Omar Attacks Trump’s Envoy To Venezuela In Libel-Fueled Tirade, also, US Charges Former Muslima AF Officer With Spying For Iran
Hogewash: California Mugged By Reality, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: How Brie Larson Can Really Impact Diversity
Joe For America: James Woods Goes Ballistic On Cory Booker, Dubs Him “Fartacus”
JustOneMinute: Owning The Libs By Voting On Their Proposals
Legal Insurrection: MN Jewish Leaders Tried An Intervention With Ilhan Omar Last Year, also, Sen. Markey (D-Mass) Claims McConnell Is Trying To “Sabotage” and “Silence” Green New Deal
Michelle Malkin: Lost, Buried, Burned – Oklahoma’s Rape Kit Scandal
The PanAm Post: Buenos Aires Mayor Continues Unpopular Persecution Of Uber, also, From Despair To Guaido
Power Line: Ilhan Omar In Action – A Sickening Disgrace, also, Hot Stove League Gives Way To Spring Training
Shark Tank: Senator Cruz Calls For “El Chapo” To Pay For The Wall
Shot In The Dark: Why Does Governor Walz Hate The Environment And Want Rural Minnesotans To Die Flaming Deaths?
STUMP: How To Lie With Budget Statistics, Pritzker & Hynes Edition, also, Geeking Out – Fixing Fullerton California’s Popular Annual Financial Report
The Political Hat: Euthanasia Epidemic In The Netherlands
This Ain’t Hell: He Has A Purple Heart, But The VA Won’t Call Him A Veteran, also, Should Deported Veterans Be Allowed To Come Back To America?
Victory Girls: Ilhan Omar’s Behavior Toward Elliott Abrams Was Despicable
Volokh Conspiracy: LA Demanding That City Contractors Reveal Ties To The NRA
Weasel Zippers: Occasional Cortex’s “Policy Guy” Deletes Tweet Saying Public Option Won’t Pay For Elders’ Hip Replacements, also, New Emails Reveal FBI Tried To Cut Deal With State Dept. To Minimize Hillary Email Scandal
Megan McArdle: Why The United States Will Never Have High-Speed Rail
Mark Steyn: The Windmills Of Your Mind, also, A Valensteyn Special


Category: Linkagery

‘I Gave You a Knife for a Reason’

Posted on | February 13, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘I Gave You a Knife for a Reason’

Julio Cesar-Ortega (left); Tyjanae Allen (center); Govenor Tate (right).

In November 2017, 18-year-old Tyjanae Allen and 19-year-old Govenor Tate “hatched a plan” to rob Julio Cesar-Ortega, 29, by offering that Allen would have sex with Cesar-Ortega for $200. He had $500 cash on him when he picked her up in his car near North 28th Avenue and Sprague Street in Omaha, Nebraska. Allen began texting Tate, who sent her a message: “Get that money. I gave you a knife for a reason.” When he realized she was planning to rob him, he threatened to drive her to the police station. Allen slashed Cesar-Ortega’s arm, severing an artery. The next morning, Cesar-Ortega’s body was found in his car in the parking lot of a police precinct. He had bled to death.

Today, Tyjanae Allen was sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison by Judge Russell Bowie. Tate still awaits trial on murder charges.

Professor Glenn Reynolds says the moral of this story is, “Teach women not to lie about sex and commit murder.” Well, perhaps, but I would offer another suggestion: “Stay away from whores.”

 

Category: Crime, Nebraska

Mitch the Ninja Turtle Will Force Democrats to Vote on Their Own Plan

Posted on | February 13, 2019 | Comments Off on Mitch the Ninja Turtle Will Force Democrats to Vote on Their Own Plan

 

Amateur hour in the House Democrat majority — the blundering overreach of freshman Rep. Alexandra Ocasio Cortez — gives Senate Republicans a chance to pounce and seize, so to speak:

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that the Senate would vote on the Green New Deal introduced last week by Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
“I’ve noted with great interest the Green New Deal, and we’re going to be voting on that in the Senate to give everybody an opportunity to go on record,” McConnell told reporters.
The proposal, which is not expected to pass the Republican-dominated upper chamber, could force some Democrats to make a politically awkward calculation.
Democratic liberals, including all of the senators currently running for president, have come out in support of the legislation, which calls for generating 100 percent of the nation’s power from renewable sources within 10 years. . . .
Democratic moderates have been less than enthusiastic about the proposal. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi derisively referred to the House version of the resolution as a “green dream,” while only 11 of the 47 senators who caucus with the Democrats have signed on as sponsors.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) The clumsy attempt by Democrats to distance themselves from the crazy “Green New Deal” FAQ that has now been removed from Ocasio-Cortez’s website showed how the party’s brash young socialist celebrity was Not Ready for Prime Time. Even so eminent a progressive as Jonathan Chait has admitted that the problem with the proposal was not a “botched” roll-out, as some Democrats have claimed, but simply that the plan is a bad idea. And now McConnell, shrewd tactician that he is, will force Senate Democrats to vote on this idea.

In 2020, Democrats will be defending Senate seats in Alabama, Colorado, Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Virginia. Does anyone suppose that “swing” voters in those states would vote for candidates who have endorsed Ocasio-Cortez’s wacky radical scheme?

Assuming that all 53 Republicans vote “no” on this idea, how many Senate Democrats does Mitch need to get to vote “no” in order to make the plan a loser by a 2-to-1 or 3-to-1 margin? Because no fewer than five senators expected to seek the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination — Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) — have endorsed the Ocasio-Cortez plan, what does this suggest the Democrat primary battle looming ahead? The televised debates will be a lunatic carnival of left-wing extremism, which will make it easy for President Trump and the Republicans to play the part of common-sense grown-ups in the upcoming campaign. Wanna buy some popcorn?



 

Category: Democrats, Global Warming, Mitch McConnell, Senate

In The Mailbox: 02.12.19

Posted on | February 13, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.12.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: National Cheddar Day
Twitchy: Sen. Markey (D-Mass) Say Mitch McConnell Is Trying To Sabotage The Green New Deal By Calling A Vote
Louder With Crowder: Vegan Cory Booker Wants You To Stop Eating Meat. No Wonder He’s Such A Miserable Troll.

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #102 – David Hiscox From XYZ Magazine, also, They Were The Most Worthless Of Times
American Power: Ilhan Omar Isn’t Really Sorry For Her Antisemitic Tropes
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Lever Gun News
BattleSwarm: Hard Education Truths From A Veteran Teacher
CDR Salamander: There Will Always Be Smugglers, There Will Always Be War, also, The USN’s Face Mission; Naval Presence, History & Present Use
Da Tech Guy: The Vengeful Tokenism Behind The Current Dr. Who Series, also, Bravo Sierra & Paying Attention
Don Surber: Obama Killed Steel; Trump Brought It Back
Dustbury: Thirst Come, Thirst Served
First Street Journal: Why Should Cities Spend Money To Make Shooting Up Safer For Drug Addicts?
The Geller Report: Linda Sarsour Raises Money For Muslim Who Raped, Killed 15-Year-Old, also, President Trump Calls On Antisemitic Dem Rep Omar To Resign
Hogewash: A Great Leap Backward (TM) Into Paperwork, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Hollywood Stars Mum On Northam, Fairfax, & Omar
Joe For America: CA Train To Nowhere – Gov Newsom Cancels $100 Billion Boondoggle
JustOneMinute: Smoking In The DA’s Room
Legal Insurrection: Senate Finds No Direct Evidence Of Trump-Russia Collusion, also, Democratic Strategists Sour On Potential Biden Candidacy
The PanAm Post: Colombia’s Duque Claims FARC Dissidence Backed By Venezuela, also, Mysterious Turkish Company Helps Maduro Extract Gold To Fund Corruption Networks
Power Line: The Trouble With Solar, also, The Apology This Time (6)
Shark Tank: HUD Provides FL More Funding To Fight Homelessness
Shot In The Dark: Democrats
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Let’s Soak The Rich…Hey, Where Are They Going? also, The Undeniable Corruption Of Chicago & Illinois, Part 4
The Political Hat: Big Brother The Nanny, also, Stop (Terrorist) Hammertime!
This Ain’t Hell: The Loss Of CPO Kent, also, Trump’s Picture On MRE?
Victory Girls: Trump Says “Antisemitism Has No Place In Congress”, Omar Should Resign
Volokh Conspiracy: What’s Wrong With Telling Women Not To Drink?
Weasel Zippers: Sen. Gillibrand (D-NY) Calls Eliminating All Private Health Plans “An Urgent Goal”, also, Stoners Enter Vacant Houston Home To Toke Up, Find a Tiger Inside
Megan McArdle: “We’re Nuts!” Isn’t A Great Pitch For A Green New Deal
Mark Steyn: The Identity Politics Minstrel Show, also, Saturday Night & The Morning After

Category: Linkagery

Meghan Murphy’s Lawsuit: Because Twitter Has Already Lost Its Credibility

Posted on | February 13, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

You don’t have to like Meghan Murphy to applaud her lawsuit against the corporate SJW totalitarians now running Twitter:

Canadian feminist writer Meghan Murphy is suing Twitter after she was banned for her tweets about transgender people.
Attorneys for Murphy on Monday filed suit in the Superior Court of California for the County of San Francisco, accusing Twitter of deceptive trade practices and breach of contract.
Twitter banned Murphy in November over a series of transgender-related tweets that included statements like “men aren’t women” and “How are transwomen not men?”
“Twitter’s repeated representations that it would uphold the free speech rights of its users and not censor user speech were material to the decision of millions of users, like Murphy, to join,” Murphy’s lawyers wrote in court documents reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Twitter would never have attracted the hundreds of millions of users it boasts today had Twitter let it be known that it would arbitrarily ban users who did not agree with the political and social views of its management or impose sweeping new policies banning the expression of widely-held viewpoints and perspectives on public issues,” the suit states.
“While it is appalling that Twitter would ban a journalist for asking legitimate questions about an incoherent ideology, such as gender identity, and for challenging legislation I believe is a massive threat to women’s rights, this is about more than just gender identity,” Murphy wrote in an email to TheDCNF.
“We cannot allow multi billion dollar corporations to dictate speech. Twitter is quite literally enforcing a 1984-style version of newspeak, wherein we may not speak or name material reality. The fact that it is so-called progressives, by and large, is appalling,” Murphy added.

The Wall Street Journal had the lawsuit story first. When Murphy was banned in November, I reported her story here:

Jonathan Yaniv is a notorious Canadian pervert who has filed 16 human rights complaints against women for refusing to wax his genitals. Yaniv claims to be transgender, using the name “Jessica.”
A week after the feminist blog Gender Trender exposed Yaniv’s history of describing pedophilic and voyeuristic behavior online, WordPress deleted the entire Gender Trender blog and announced a new policy that “deadnaming” (identifying someone by their birth name) is a terms-of-service violation. When people on Twitter began commenting about this egregious situation, Yaniv and/or other transgender activists got those accounts suspended and, apparently, Canadian feminist Meghan Murphy’s Twitter account has been permanently suspended and Twitter announced its own anti-“deadnaming” policy.

That a dangerously deranged pervert like Jonathan Yaniv would be able to get someone as prominent as Meghan Murphy (who runs Canada’s most popular feminist website) banned from Twitter tells you everything you need to know about who’s calling the shots at Twitter HQ. When my @rsmccain account got banned in February 2016, a lot of people were like, “Whoa! What did he do to deserve that?” And there was never an explanation. Wouldn’t you think that, if I was “participating in targeted abuse” sufficient to justify being permanently banned from Twitter, someone would have produced screencaps to show (a) who was targeted, (b) how they were abused, and (c) how I participated? But there was nothing like that, and nobody who followed my account had seen me do anything egregious prior to my account being suddenly shut down.

 

Oh, but I had called Anita Sarkeesian a “totalitarian ideologue” a week before I got banned. Probably just a coincidence:

Twitter had decided, in an election year, to surrender control of its platform to a crew of feminist social justice warriors (SJWs) designated the “Trust and Safety Council.” This secretive group of Soviet-style commissars included the notorious anti-male hatemonger Anita Sarkeesian, and soon Twitter began purging conservative accounts.

Anita Sarkeesian is a dishonest, selfish, hate-filled monster, and any corporation that would voluntarily associate itself with her could not be trusted to respect anyone’s freedom. Some people urged me to sue Twitter, but I recognized that (a) I would not be the ideal plaintiff, and (b) sooner or later, these Twitter purges would go too far.

Oops. Read Meghan Murphy’s complaint carefully:

Meghan Murphy Lawsuit Again… by on Scribd

 

What you’ll see is that Murphy has them dead to rights on the breach-of-contract claim. They promised freedom, now they’re anti-freedom, and if this lawsuit withstands a motion to dismiss, I expect Twitter to offer Murphy a multi-million-dollar settlement to avoid discovery. Once that happens, well, it’s gonna be Katy-bar-the-door on such lawsuits.

You go, girl! Burn it down — burn it all down!



 

Category: Sex Trouble

‘Social Justice’ Is for Homos

Posted on | February 12, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

Remember my post yesterday about Tumblr? How it’s a money-losing dumpster fire full of pornography and mentally ill LGBTQ activists? In the comments of that post, someone linked to Scott Alexander’s classic 2014 essay at Slate Star Codex called “The Toxoplasma of Rage,” which explains why Tumblr sucks so bad:

Tumblr’s interface doesn’t allow you to comment on other people’s posts, per se. Instead, it lets you reblog them with your own commentary added. So if you want to tell someone they’re an idiot, your only option is to reblog their entire post to all your friends with the message “you are an idiot” below it.
Whoever invented this system either didn’t understand memetics, or understood memetics much too well. . . .
I make fun of Tumblr social justice sometimes, but the problem isn’t with Tumblr social justice, it’s structural. Every community on Tumblr somehow gets enmeshed with the people most devoted to making that community miserable. . . .
Tumblr’s reblog policy makes it a hothouse for toxoplasma-style memes that spread via outrage. Following the ancient imperative of evolution, if memes spread by outrage they adapt to become as outrage-inducing as possible.

This was 2014, before Tumblr’s inherent stupidity-inducing qualities had made the platform a laughingstock. Five years ago, Tumblr was still considered a happening thing, especially because it was so popular with teenage girls, and social-justice madness was epidemic on Tumblr during the Ferguson #BlackLivesMatter excitement, Alexander explained:

If you’re not on Tumblr, you might have missed the “everyone who does not reblog the issue du jour is trash” wars. For a few weeks around the height of the Ferguson discussion, people constantly called out one another for not reblogging enough Ferguson-related material, or (Heavens forbid) saying they were sick of the amount of Ferguson material they were seeing.

This pressure-cooker of like-mindedness, with everyone seeking to one-up each other in demonstrating their commitment to #BlackLivesMatter, and denouncing anyone who didn’t show sufficient zeal for the sacred cause, did not appeal to healthy minds, especially teenagers.

A normal teenager doesn’t give a damn about politics. Even during times of societal crisis, the normal teenager can’t be bothered to care. When I was a freshman in high school, the Yom Kippur War produced the Arab Oil Boycott, and Watergate led to President Nixon resigning a few weeks before the start of my sophomore year. The next spring, Communists conquered Saigon, and the Khmer Rouge took over in Cambodia. And what was I doing during all this world-historic drama? Playing trombone in the marching band, trying to get to second base with a girl, smoking dope and listening to some awesome rock-and-roll. In other words, I was being a normal teenager, but we didn’t have online social-media then, so who knows what sort of mischief I might gotten into if there had been smart phones and wifi circa 1973-75? But even with the advent of all this technology, the vast majority of teenagers are still sufficiently normal that they are more or less indifferent to politics, just like I was back in the era of bell-bottom jeans, Led Zeppelin and $20-an-ounce weed.

If someone had tried to get us to care about politics when I was a teenager, we’d have called them a “homo,” which was a sort of generalized insult that wasn’t homophobic because the word “homophobia” hadn’t been invented yet. Circa 1974, “homo” (like “queer” and “faggot”) was just an insult slung around among a group of teenage friends, without any actual suspicion of homosexuality. Perhaps a sociology professor or a Gender Studies major would interpret the use of such slang insults as expressions of “toxic masculinity” or whatever, but of course all professors and Gender Studies majors are homos, by the standards of normal teenagers. When I was in high school, all the cool kids were completely cynical about politics and politicians, and considering that I attended high school during the presidencies of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, perhaps you can see why were were so cynical.

Also, we were stoned most of the time. Perhaps my adolescent association with dopehead hoodlums made me somewhat atypical, but there were a lot of teenagers who went through the 1970s in a state of altered consciousness. In high school, I sort of had one foot in the artsy nerd clique — marching band, choir, student theater, literary magazine, etc. — and the other foot in the long-haired rock-and-roll crowd. The prevalence of drug culture in the mid-1970s was such that some of the smartest kids in school also spent a good deal of time wasted on dope, including heavy stuff like LSD, PCP and mescaline. But I digress . . .

We most emphatically did not care about “social justice” when I was a teenager, and I suspect the vast majority of normal teenagers now don’t really care about that stuff, no matter how much Democrats get excited by the idea of young people being “social justice” enthusiasts. But the crew of #BlackLivesMatter maniacs on Tumblr in late 2014 calling each other out for being insufficiently “woke” were not normal teenagers. Scott Alexander quotes an SJW Tumblrina:

“If you’re uneducated, do not use that as an excuse. Do not say, ‘I’m not picking sides because I don’t know the full story’” because not picking a side is supporting Wilson. And by supporting him, you are on a racist side…Ignoring this situation will put you in deep shit, and it makes you racist. If you’re not racist, do not just say ‘but I’m not racist!!’ just get educated and reblog anything you can.”

 

That was posted in November 2014, after a grand jury investigation found that Officer Darren Wilson had acted in self-defense in shooting Michael Brown. The 6-foot-4, 292-pound Brown attempted to grab the officer’s pistol during a struggle that ensued when Wilson tried to arrest Brown, who was a suspect in a convenience store robbery. Round-the-clock cable TV coverage by CNN and MSNBC distorted the story in Ferguson to such an extent, however, that a false mythology of Brown as an innocent victim of racist police took hold in the minds of “social justice warriors” (SJWs) like the Tumblrina quoted above. This bogus narrative (“Hands up, don’t shoot”) led to violent riots in Ferguson.

 

A remarkable arrogance was required to denounce as “uneducated” anyone who didn’t take the side of the Ferguson rioters. The facts of this case, and the reality of race and crime in America, were examined by Heather Mac Donald in her 2016 book The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe. Considering that she got her B.A. from Yale and her J.D. from Stanford Law, Heather Mac Donald certainly cannot be called “uneducated.” Yet such is the climate created by the media’s social-justice propaganda that, unless you are sufficiently mature and well-informed to resist this kind of myth-making operation, you might easily believe that anyone who doesn’t share your belief is intellectually and/or morally inferior to you. So, who was this Tumblrina who declared, in November 2014, that anyone didn’t support the #BlackLivesMatter rioters in Ferguson was an “uneducated” racist?

Say hello to Abby, a 19-year-old lesbian who lives in New Jersey.

 

At the time she posted her Ferguson rant in November 2014, Abby was a high-school freshman, still a couple of months away from her 15th birthday. Abby was born on Jan. 20, a fact I know because she also had a sideblog about astrology, describing herself as a Capricorn/Aquarius cusp. So the person lecturing everybody on Tumblr on how “uneducated” they were was a ninth-grader who believes in primitive superstition about how the movements stars and planets control our earthy fortunes.

And also, perhaps not coincidentally, she’s a homo.

At the time of her ninth-grade rant about how everyone who disagreed with her was an “uneducated” racist, Abby still identified as bisexual. Having spent way too much time scrolling through her Tumblr blogging about her personal problems, I’ll spare you the details, except to say that Abby’s family seems to be so tolerant and progressive that, in order to obtain the customary adolescent thrill of teenage rebellion, she’d probably have to knife them in their sleep. Or vote Republican.

In 1975, Midge Decter wrote a book called Liberal Parents, Radical Children that explained how the extremists of the 1960s New Left originated in misguided permissive parenting styles that prevailed among who thought of themselves as “enlightened” in the Eisenhower era. (You can read Abby Schacter’s review of Decter’s book published on the occasion of its 40th anniversary in 2015.) Parents have to realize that children require structure and discipline, a system of rules and consequences, with no tolerance for disrespect or impudent resistance to parental authority. You cannot be an effective parent by trying to “be your child’s best friend”; this kind of absurd egalitarian approach to parenting produces spoiled, selfish brats. But I digress . . .

What sort of 14-year-old thinks of herself as qualified to lecture others about how “uneducated” they are for disagreeing with her? What is it that inspires teenagers to pronounce judgment on people they’ve never met, and about whom they know nothing? Well, consider that Abby mentions being in therapy, and her “coming out” as bisexual at age 15 didn’t seem to provoke any parental reaction, so that a year or so later, after deciding that boys were just too boring to merit her romantic interest, she declared herself a lesbian, and her parents actually invited Abby’s girlfriend to accompany them on their family vacation.

Without getting too deep into the etiology of homosexuality, permit me to observe that Abby is a familiar type — sexually precocious, she’d had both boyfriends and girlfriends before she was old enough to get a driver’s license and, while she’s reasonably attractive, she’s somewhat pudgy. Speculative discussion of why Abby (or anyone else) engages in homosexual behavior would be a waste of time, but what I wish to call to the reader’s attention is that Abby is a recognizable type, both in terms of her personal backstory and her physical appearance including (a) her purple-dyed undercut hairstyle and (b) her pierced nostril. When you factor in her Tumblr blogs devoted to (c) “social justice” politics and (d) astrology, Abby is a 21st-century stereotype.

There are a lot of things I could say about this observable pattern, but I’ll leave readers to draw their own conclusions, except to channel the voice of my teenage hoodlum buddies circa 1975, who almost certainly would have said, “Social justice is for homos.” Pass the bong.



 

Category: Gays, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 02.11.19

Posted on | February 12, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.11.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Democrats Omar & Tlaib – Jewish Tropes Are Fun To Tweet!
Twitchy: Matthew “Mansplainer” Dowd Has Some Really Bad Advice For The Ladies Running In 2020
Louder With Crowder: Chris Pratt Responds To Ellen Page’s Church-Shaming

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Time Warp Edition, also, You Went To College To Find Yourself, Now It’s Time To Pay Up
American Power: The Disaster Of Public Education, also, Extremist Democrats Boosting President Trump’s Re-Election Chances
American Thinker: Without Elitist Racialism, There’s Little Racism, also, Why The Radical Left (And Nobody Else) Touts Modern Monetary Theory
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Virginia Is For Lovers Friday, also, Goodbye Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Mike Rowe On Trump’s SOTU, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update

CDR Salamander: Behold The Fruit Of Thy Priorities, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Baseball Thoughts Under The Fedors On A Snowy Day, also, Experiment Fails Again
Don Surber: Trump Wins So Bigly Critics Don’t See It, also, Media Won’t Call Out Gay Black Actor On Hoax
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Back To The Forward Look
First Street Journal: Perhaps They’d Be Less Offended By “Learn To Pull Wire”?
Fred On Everything: John Bolton & His Codpiece Mustache – Examining The Freak Show
The Geller Report: California High School Hangs Nazi Flag In Classroom, also, Should NATO Help Sweden?
Hogewash: Looking Forward To A Great Leap Backward, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: “Deplorables Tour” Comics Punished For Trump Support, also, Lego Movie 2 Revels In Meta Gags (Between Woke Nods)
Joe For America: AG Kamala Harris Tried To Keep Convicts Locked Up Longer To Serve As Slave Labor Fighting Wildfires, also, Cory Booker Compares “Green New Deal” To Fighting Nazis
JustOneMinute: Green With…Laughter? also. Oh, THAT Green New Deal!
Legal Insurrection: CA Gov Newsom Recalls California Guard From The Border, also, Antifa Mobster Arrested For Assaulting Marines Was Go-To Democrat Activist
Michelle Malkin: End The “TPS” Farce – It’s Time For Ingrates To Go
The PanAm Post: Guaido – Intervention Is Justified To Guarantee Humanitarian Aid
Power Line: A Pedophile On The Reservation, also, Omar Goes Full Anti-Semite Again
Shark Tank: Defiant Democrats Refuse To Give Trump A Political Victory, also, Commerce Dept. To Withdraw From Agreement With Mexican Tomato Farmers
Shot In The Dark: NPR Bingo
STUMP: Chicago Mayoral Candidates – What Do They Say About Pensions? also, Mortality With Meep
The Jawa Report: Sasquatch! Total 100% Proof!
The Political Hat: Transing Labels – Gender Badges, Ally Badges, & Trans Puppets, also, Sheep/Human Hybrids Now Scientific Fact – Can Catgirls Be Far Behind?
This Ain’t Hell: Nathan Phillips To be Named In Lawsuit, also, God-Emperor Trump – Long Live The Great Orange Ape
Victory Girls: Rep. Omar Apologizes For Jew-Hatred, Promises To Make It Less Obvious
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit – A Summary Of Recent Federal Court Decisions, also, Judging Neomi Rao
Weasel Zippers: Despite Guns In Schools Debate, Participation In PA HS Rifle Teams Increasing, also, Mumps Confirmed In Detainees At Houston ICE Facility
Megan McArdle: We Need A Single Standard For Northam, Fairfax, And All The Others
Mark Steyn: Infanticide & Minstrelsy, also, A Party Of Woke Mammy Singers


Category: Linkagery

‘Stephanie Hayden’ Is a Man Named Anthony Halliday, and Must Be Stopped

Posted on | February 11, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘Stephanie Hayden’ Is a Man Named Anthony Halliday, and Must Be Stopped

Not a woman: Anthony Halliday (left) as ‘Stephanie Hayden’ (right).

Anthony Halliday changed his name to “Stephanie Hayden” and become a transgender activist in England who “regularly threatens gender identity disbelievers with civil or criminal lawsuits, or attempts to have them ousted from their careers.” Last year, Halliday/“Hayden” sued British comedy writer Graham Linehan for “deadnaming” (i.e., accurately identifying Halliday/“Hayden” as male, using his birth name). In December, I wrote about how dangerous Halliday/“Hayden” is:

Thanks to British laws on “gender recognition,” however, any criticism of transgender ideology is now treated as criminal “harassment,” and the law is being used to terrorize critics into silence. It’s like Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four being forced to say 2 + 2 = 5.
Americans should take notice of what is happening in England. If your state or local authorities attempt to impose transgender “equality” by law, your free-speech rights could soon be similarly infringed.

Over the weekend, I started getting a surge of traffic to that post, and discovered it was because Halliday/“Hayden” has made news again:

UK: Mother Arrested in Front of Children
for Calling Trans Activist a Man on Twitter
— Breitbart, Feb. 10

Mother Arrested, Spends Seven Hours
In Jail For Calling Transgender A Man
— Daily Caller, Feb. 10

Mom arrested, interrogated for disagreeing
with transgender about pronouns
— Lifesite News, Feb. 11

UK mom: I was arrested in front
of my kids, jailed for 7 hours after calling
transgender activist the ‘wrong’ gender
— The Blaze, Feb. 11

UK Mom Arrested for Calling
Transgender Activist a Man
— CBN News, Feb. 11

 

When the president’s son takes notice, you know it’s a big story:

A mother was arrested in front of her children and locked up for seven hours after referring to a transgender woman as a man online.
Three officers detained Kate Scottow at her home before quizzing her at a police station about an argument with an activist on Twitter over so-called ‘deadnaming’.
The 38-year-old, from Hitchin, Hertfordshire, had her photograph, DNA and fingerprints taken and remains under investigation.
More than two months after her arrest on December 1, she has had neither her mobile phone or laptop returned, which she says is hampering her studies for a Masters in forensic psychology.
Writing on online forum Mumsnet, Mrs Scottow — who has also been served with a court order that bans her from referring to her accuser as a man — claimed: ‘I was arrested in my home by three officers, with my autistic ten-year-old daughter and breastfed 20-month-old son present.
‘I was then detained for seven hours in a cell with no sanitary products (which I said I needed) before being interviewed then later released under investigation … I was arrested for harassment and malicious communications because I called someone out and misgendered them on Twitter.’
Confirming the arrest, Hertfordshire Police said: ‘We take all reports of malicious communication seriously.’s . . .
High Court papers obtained by The Mail on Sunday detail how Mrs Scottow is accused of a ‘campaign of targeted harassment’ against Miss Hayden, allegedly motivated by her ‘status as a transgender woman’.
The papers claim that, as a ‘toxic’ debate raged online over plans to allow people to ‘self-ID’ as another gender, Mrs Scottow tweeted ‘defamatory’ messages about Miss Hayden. . . .
Mrs Scottow denied harassing or defaming Miss Hayden and said she holds a ‘genuine and reasonable belief’ that a human ‘cannot practically speaking change sex’, but Deputy Judge Jason Coppel QC issued an interim injunction that bans her from posting any personal information about Miss Hayden on social media, ‘referencing her as a man’ or linking her to her ‘former male identity’.

Free speech is dead in England, and transgenders killed it. What was happening was a debate over public policy — the so-called “self-ID” proposal to allow people to legally change their gender at a whim — and Halliday/“Hayden” is an activist on one side of that debate. What Halliday/“Hayden” wishes to do, and what English police and courts evidently will assist him in doing, is to prevent any opponent from mentioning the highly relevant information that “Stephanie Hayden” is actually an obese man named Anthony Halliday.

Like I keep saying, people need to wake the hell up.




 

 

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