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In The Mailbox: 05.08.18

Posted on | May 8, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.08.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
First Street Journal: Another Democrat Bites The Dust
EBL: Teach Democrats Not To Hit Women
Twitchy: Iranian President Rouhani Confirms The Iran Deal Was A Sham
Louder With Crowder: NHS Recommends Amputation Instead Of Treatment For Girl’s Leg, also, Mike Rowe Challenges Progressive To Defend His Agenda

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Gym As Metaphor – You Never Arrive, also, The N***a Word
American Power: NRA Darling Sensation “Alpha Addy”
American Thinker: Why The Media Are Mum About Comedy Central’s 2011 Trump Roast
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Doubling Down On Stupid News
BattleSwarm: Roundup Of 2018 NRA Show Notes
BLACKFIVE: Someone You Should Know – Five Men Earned The Medal Of Honor On May 8
Bring The HEAT: Retired Master Chief Britt Slabinski To Receive Medal Of Honor
CDR Salamander: The Overhead & Support For The Syria Strike
Da Tech Guy: Dirty Windows, also, The #NeverTrump Question That Schneiderman’s Resignation Brings To Mind
Don Surber: How The NRA Hiring LTC North Helps Trump, also, Thanks To Voters, It’s Not Blankenship
Dustbury: The Revolving Door Will Not Be Slowed
The Geller Report: Iran Threatens Brutal Reprisals As US Exits Nuke Deal, also, Iranians Begin “Say No To Islam” Campaign
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of the Day
Joe For America: Alyssa Milano Attends Anti-Gun Rally Armed To The Teeth
JustOneMinute: Enforcing The Law? Nooooo! also, Low-Carb Diets Reduce Insulin & Sugar Swings?
Legal Insurrection: Trump Announces US Will Withdraw From Iran Nuke Deal, also, Presidential Nemesis Wannabe Schneiderman Resigns NY AG Post After Accusations Of Abusing Women
Power Line: It Couldn’t Happen To A Nicer Guy, also, Arizona Enacts Effective College Free Speech Legislation
Shark Tank: Hillary Pushes For More Campaign Finance Reform
Shot In The Dark: Resilience
STUMP: Memory Monday – First Week Of May 1918, also, Taxing Tuesday – Highly Taxed People Running Away
The Political Hat: California Poised To Impose Direct Foreign Domination On Americans
This Ain’t Hell: Arkansas Vet Begins Hunger Strike, also, LTJG Coppock Pleads Guilty On Fitzgerald Collision
Victory Girls: Schneiderman’s Abuse Victim Told To Shut Up Because Democrats Need Him
Weasel Zippers: WH Reporter April Ryan Claims “Melania Not Culturally American”, also, Soros Drops $1.5 Million In San Diego For Far-Left DA Candidate
Mark Steyn: Happy Birthday To You, also, Sketch Comedy And Sketchier Cases


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Obama’s Legacy Is Still Kicking

Posted on | May 8, 2018 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

As I stand adjacent the crater
Of “Obama’s legacy”, who’s the debater,
Saying that No-Talent Rodeo Clown
Sought to bring us ought but down?

Call him “idealist”; call him “naive”;
Call him “brilliant”: did he deceive?
Or was he as honest as they get:
Postmodernists against the simple truth bet.

Who say “It is all just so much baloney.
Fake it until you are no longer phony.”
Falsehood is a tactical call,
A lying Lucy teeing a ball.

And Charlie, be he white or Brown,
Simpleton running, bearing down,
Kicks and misses, cratering, then,
Strategically blaming others again.

‘Too Valuable’

Posted on | May 8, 2018 | 1 Comment

Eric Schneiderman (right) poses with other sleazy Democrats.

Another “progressive” Democrat is exposed as a vile scumbag:

New York State attorney general Eric Schneiderman has resigned, just hours after it was reported that he had been accused of violent assaults on women he had dated. These allegations, which include threats that Schneiderman made to stalk and kill the women if they told on him, came as a shock — except to anyone who has followed his career in politics. Schneiderman’s louche ethics have been well known. You didn’t need an “in” at Albany watering holes; just reading the newspapers would have told you plenty.
In 2010, when Schneiderman first ran for statewide office, he was involved in a hit-and-run accident. Then a state senator, he claimed to have been a passenger in his own car when his 22-year-old staffer Rachel Kagan — niece of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan — smashed into a parked car and drove away, after causing $3,000 worth of damage. A passerby witnessed the crash and wrote down Schneiderman’s license plate. Schneiderman later told the owner of the parked car that he “disciplined the staffer,” and offered to pay for the damage, though his office insisted that it was “outrageous” to call the incident a hit-and-run.
Schneiderman later had a brush with trouble regarding his close relations with prominent Hasidic businessman Moshe Stern, the federal government’s chief informant in a major 2013 corruption case involving former state senate president Malcolm Smith. . . .
In 2014, when Schneiderman ran for reelection, Randy Credico, a comedian and New York City gadfly who perennially runs for local office on the issue of drug legalization, alleged that he had sniffed cocaine with Schneiderman, then a state senator, in the back of a bar. Schneiderman denied it, admitting to having used marijuana and cocaine up until 1998, but Credico insisted that Schneiderman was doing “bumps” of white powder with him and a group of others. Given the reports from women he dated and beat that Schneiderman was a raging alcoholic who would routinely bring a bottle of scotch to bed, Credico’s story sounds more credible.
Plenty of hints existed, then, that Schneiderman’s public image was not the whole story. And there were rumors about his private life, too, as suggested by President Trump’s 2013 tweet, “Weiner is gone, Spitzer is gone—next will be lightweight A.G. Eric Schneiderman. Is he a crook? Wait and see, worse than Spitzer or Weiner.”
But Schneiderman was such an exemplar of a progressive-activist hero — suing Exxon, working in concert with Robert Mueller to obtain pardon-proof convictions against Trump associates, speaking at the Women’s March — that people who probably knew better looked away from evidence of his wrongdoing. Even the closest friends of one of Schneiderman’s victims encouraged her not to speak out, “arguing that Schneiderman was too valuable a politician for the Democrats to lose.”

(Hat-tip: Instapundit on Twitter.)

 

In The Mailbox: 05.07.18

Posted on | May 7, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.07.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Reanimated Brains – What Could Go Wrong?
Twitchy: Kanye Gave Ta-Nehisi Coates A Raging Case Of Verbal Diarrhea & Racism
Louder With Crowder: Alyssa Milano Shares “NoRA” Gun Violence “Bill Of Rights”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Late, Late Edition, also, The Likelihood Is That You Are Not Red-Pilled
American Power: Chloe Sevigny On Why She Didn’t Join In #MeToo, also, Political Scientist Ned Lebow Won’t Apologize For Lingerie Joke
American Thinker: Judge Ellis Wants To See Mueller’s Fishing License
Animal Magnetism: Dad (1923-2018)
BattleSwarm: Waco Biker Trials Update – More Dismissals, also, Did Kerry Tell The Palestinians Not To Make Peace?
Bring The HEAT: AGM-69 Short Range Attack Missile
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, STEM And The Education Of A Navy Leader – On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: Bringing Back Second Fleet…And Maybe Some Real Training, also, Will 2018 Be The Year Of Glamor Shots For The Democrats?
Don Surber: Blankenship May Be Up 16, also, Media Lies Are The Real Scandal
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, A Goddess For Our Times
The Geller Report: San Diego Area School Has Mural With Trump’s Head On A Spear, also, Facebook Accused Of Introducing Jihadis To Each Other
Hogewash: Blogsmoke, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Joe For America: “March For Our Rights” Nationwide Rally Led by Legal Immigrant, also, Stacy’s Crazy Cousin John Not Going Out Gracefully
JustOneMinute: Like They Can Help Themselves, also, Resistance Journalism, Kerry The Shadow Secretary, And The Logan Act
Legal Insurrection: McCain Regrets Choosing Palin As Running Mate, also, Retired LTC Oliver North Taking Over As NRA President
Power Line: Mysteries Of The Probe (1) and (2), also, Admiral Cuomo Prepares For War
Shark Tank: Nelson Makes Puerto Rico His Second Home, also, Gubernatorial Candidates Weigh In On D’Souza Controversy
Shot In The Dark: Things That Keep Democrats Up At Night, also, “Great Job, Rahm”
STUMP: Mornings With Meep – A Modest Proposal For Social Security
The Political Hat: Dear Comrade Bernie, The Hunger Games Is Not A How-To Guide
This Ain’t Hell: AP Goes All In For Manning, also, Dan Helmer, Gun Show Loophole Liar
Victory Girls: The Maverick In Winter
Weasel Zippers: Jihadi Work Accident – 11 Killed When Bomb Detonates Prematurely In Mosque, also, Illinois Counties Declare “Sanctuary Status” For Gun Owners
Mark Steyn: Scouts’ Honor, also, The Matter Of Size


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Notorious Transgender Activist Compares Feminist Critics to Drug Addicts

Posted on | May 7, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

Feminist critics of transgenderism are “dogmatic” and debating them is “pointless,” according to Char Vortryss, a member of a controversial group that will hold a panel Saturday at the San Francisco Public Library.

“Until you come to understand that your dogma is harmful [and] decide to find another way, ‘debate’ is pointless,” Vortryss said in a Twitter thread. “It’s like with an addict. Interventions don’t work. You gotta find your own bottom, decide on your own that you’ve had enough [and] want to change for the better. Until then, all we can do is protect ourselves from the harm you’re trying to cause.”

A male-to-female transgender also known as “Char the Butcher,” Vortryss became notorious for having the slogan “Die Cis Scum” tattooed on his/“her” arm, posing with a baseball bat in a photo that was perceived by many as a threat to feminist critics of transgenderism.

 

“Cis” is the antonym of “trans.” Disparaging biological women as “cis scum” was part of a long-running conflict between transgender activists and critics they call “TERFs” (trans-exclusive radical feminists).

Last month, the San Francisco Public Library announced that it had made changes to an exhibit by Vortryss’s group, the Degenderettes, after complaints from patrons about “artwork that could be interpreted as promoting violence.” Among the exhibits in the Degenderettes display was a blood-stained T-shirt with the slogan, “I punch TERFs.”

The Degenderettes library exhibit (above) included a T-shirt by Mya Byrne (below).

 

The feminist blog Gender Trender pointed out that the shirt displayed in the library exhibit had been worn at the San Francisco Pride Parade by Degenderettes member, 40-year-old “Mya Byrne.” A folk singer formerly known as Jeremiah Birnbaum, Byrne was criticized in 2015 for “misogyny” after publishing a poem about the adolescent experience of masturbating while wearing his/“her” sister’s underwear.

Warning against “a crazy-ass woman-hating subculture of straight men who identify as transwomen and . . . call themselves TransDykes,” the Gender Trender blog condemned Byrne as part of a movement of “deranged” heterosexual men who advocate “violence against women.”

 

Char Vortryss is the transgender alias of 34-year-old Clinton James Crawford, who in February 2017 was one of three people granted petitions by a San Francisco judge “to change their gender to ‘non-binary’ — meaning they are legally neither male nor female” according to California courts. Vortryss’s spouse Xin Farrish is also “non-binary.” Vortryss concluded his/“her” Twitter thread by announcing a panel the Degenderettes will host Saturday at the San Francisco library.

 

Vortryss linked a Facebook announcement that included this:

Furthermore, the exhibition of art created by the Degenderettes at the Hormel Center has been subject to a misinformation campaign run by trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) and far-right extremists. Pieces of the exhibit have been decontextualized and misrepresented in order to draw negative attention to both the Degenderettes and the San Francisco Public Library. The talk-back will feature moderation and steps will be taken to ensure the safety of attendees, but it is important for us to note that there may be greater attention on the event due to the above.

 

Transgender activists have done more that merely threaten their feminist critics with violence. Last year, 60-year-old Maria Maria MacLachlan was attacked by a transgender activist in London’s Hyde Park, an incident that made international headlines. More recently, British police have investigated “hate speech” accusations against feminists, including long-time lesbian activist Linda Bellos, who was “interviewed under caution” last month for remarks she made at a November event.



 

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Rule 5 Sunday: Crash Test Girl

Posted on | May 6, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Fans of the Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters show are well acquainted with Kari Byron, easily the most attractive member of the show’s “B Team”. The rest of us probably have only heard of the show because it had Kari in it. At any rate, she’s got a book out now, Crash Test Girl, in which she maintains that not only do scientific questions yield to the scientific method but so can your life questions. Here we see Ms. Byron tastefully attired in an R2D2 dress.

I’m pretty sure this is the droid I’m looking for.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny brings us Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #244, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns; meanwhile, Animal Magnetism goes into the swamp for Rule Five CDC Lies By Omission Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd this week includes Sarah Edmondson, Cultural Appropriation Rule 5, Linda Vester, Westworld Season 2, OMG Please No, Mercedes Schlapp, Sophia Hutchins, Split, Jojo Fletcher, Stretch, May The 4th Be With You, Vintage Hollywood Cinco De Mayo, and Derby Day Rule 5.

A View From The Beach gives us Amanda PeetPaging Dr. Frankenstein!, The Revolving Door of Russiagate, “Stacy’s Mom”, First World Problems, More Random Russiagate, In New York, Pussy Grabs You, America is Ready for Sexbots, Soulless Ginger Attempts Humor, Fails, Wind Farms Foul Weather Forecasts, and I’m Not Sure This is Sound Science, But Why Take Chances?

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Olga Kurylenko, his Vintage Babe is Nancy Kovack, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Griffin. At Dustbury, it’s it’s Marilyn Milian and Adele.


Thanks to everyone for their luscious linkagery!


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FMJRA 2.0: Mexican Radio

Posted on | May 5, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Bikini Barrel Racing?
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

The Rhetoric of ‘Social Justice’
A View From The Beach
EBL

The Other Podcast: Episode 10
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Exactly What You Wanted
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.30.18
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 05.01.18
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Yes, America, Erynn Brook Hates You
EBL
Pushing Rubber Downhill

In The Mailbox: 05.02.18
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

‘Preying on Vulnerable Teenagers’?
EBL

What the Democrat Party Wants to Teach America’s Children About ‘Gender’
EBL

‘Big Brother’ Gets a Sex-Change
EBL
Pushing Rubber Downhill

In The Mailbox: 05.03.18
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Some Advice for You ‘Incel’ Losers
EBL
Pushing Rubber Downhill

In The Mailbox: 05.04.18
EBL
Proof Positive

Top linkers this week:

  1. EBL (14)
  2. (tied) A View From The Beach & Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the linkagery!


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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Predator

Posted on | May 5, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

Nice career you had for a while there, Professor Diaz:

Author Junot Díaz has withdrawn from a writers’ festival in Australia after fellow writers accused him of past sexual misconduct and misogyny, organizers said Saturday, adding that a moment of reckoning had arrived for the Pulitzer Prize winner.
Díaz was confronted Friday in a Q&A session at the Sydney Writers’ Festival by author Zinzi Clemmons. She asked Díaz about his recent New Yorker essay detailing his sexual assault as an 8-year-old boy and then asked him why he had put her in a vulnerable position when she was a student six years ago.
Clemmons . . . later tweeted that when she was a 26-year-old graduate student, Díaz cornered her and forcibly kissed her after she invited him to speak at a workshop.
Subsequently, writers Carmen Maria Machado and Monica Byrne tweeted they had also been subjected to inappropriate and aggressive behavior from Díaz. . . .
Clemmons told The Associated Press she believed she was far from being the only woman “exploited” by Díaz, a creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and said she could not bear to think of the others.
“Junot Díaz has made his behavior the burden of young women — particularly women of color — for far too long, enabled by his team and the institutions that employ him,” Clemmons wrote in a statement to the AP. . . . .

Yeah, I’m totally shocked that a “progressive” advocate of “social justice” has been exposed as a sexual predator, for the millionth time.

(Hat-tip: Donald Douglas on Twitter.)

 

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