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Alabama vs. Oklahoma Tonight

Posted on | December 29, 2018 | Comments Off on Alabama vs. Oklahoma Tonight

 

Did you know that tonight’s national championship semifinal between Alabama and Oklahoma will match the two best quarterbacks in the country?

Seldom do a Heisman winner and his runner-up meet after the winner is crowned. Even given that rarity, this may be the best postseason clash of college quarterbacks we’ve ever seen. Both are coming off of historic regular seasons, with each in line to trump the record for Total Quarterback Rating, which ESPN has tracked since 2004 and is measured on a scale of 0 to 100. . . .
“Kyler Murray has accomplished more in one season and had more impact on the Sooners’ tradition in one season than any other player in our history,” former Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer told The Athletic. “He’s broke all the damn records.” . . .
At the same time, [Tua] Tagovailoa has been the figurehead of the Tide’s offensive ascension since replacing Jalen Hurts in last season’s national championship game. Saban has been in Tuscaloosa since 2007, and this year’s offense has been his best in terms of, well, everything.

Alabama has produced an average of 527.6 yards and 43.9 points per game. The big question tonight is Tagovailoa’s ankle:

Alabama sophomore quarterback Tua Tagovailoa said his injured left ankle, which required a minor surgical procedure to repair four weeks ago, is at about “80 to 85 percent” as the top-ranked Crimson Tide prepares for Saturday’s Orange Bowl national semifinal against No. 4 Oklahoma.
The sophomore provided the update Wednesday at the first media availability for the Crimson Tide since arriving in South Florida. He said he was continuing to undergo rehabilitation in hopes of recovering fully from the injury he sustained against Georgia in the SEC championship game. . . .
“Tua’s been able to practice and get all the reps that he’s needed to get,” Alabama head coach Nick Saban said Monday. “It’ll be interesting to see after having a few days off, with the additional rehab, how that impacts his ability to get closer to 100 percent.”

Playing against the Heisman Trophy winner less than a month after ankle surgery? No big deal. Just another game. Roll Tide.

My son bought me a new HDTV for Christmas, so I’ll be here watching the game after tonight’s episode of The Other Podcast.



 

Category: Alabama, Football, Oklahoma

Too Tall or Too Black? ‘Intersectionality’ in Missouri Harassment Lawsuit

Posted on | December 28, 2018 | 1 Comment

Jeremy Rowles (left) was accused of harassment by Annalise Breaux (right).

The increasingly weird world of Title IX enforcement:

An official at Mizzou indicated during a deposition that a male student who was physically larger than the female student he asked out may have violated the school’s Title IX policy because his physical size gave him “power over her.” . . .
When a Mizzou official was questioned regarding a case where a black male Ph.D. candidate at the school asked out a white female fitness trainer, she bizarrely suggested that the fact that the male student was larger than the female student gave him “power over her” and violated school policy. . . .
The male student, whom The Daily Wire will refer to as John Doe, asked out the female fitness instructor, who will be identified as Jane Roe. She said she was busy but discussed with him possibly going out later that month. Two days later, she told him to “stop making romantic advances toward her,” according to John’s lawsuit against Mizzou. Despite not wanting to date him, Jane asked John to keep taking her to dance classes.
John did this, and later asked Jane to recommend some YouTube videos to help him improve his dancing. She suggested private lessons but told him she didn’t teach privately. She then, according to John’s lawsuit, avoided him for the next week.
On October 14, 2016, John wrote Jane a three-page letter “apologizing for being awkward around her, expressing sincere feelings for her, and asking [her] what if anything she wanted from Plaintiff,” his lawsuit said.
Cathy Scroggs, who was Mizzou’s Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs when the incident involving John and Jane occurred, was asked during a recent deposition if the accusation against John satisfied the school’s policy for sexual misconduct regarding one having “power or authority” over another. Scroggs responded, “I think he was perceived as having power over her.”
She was further questioned as to the “nature of [John’s] power over her.” The interviewer asked if it was just John’s “size” that contributed to that “power.”
Scroggs responded: “His physical size.” . . .

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.) I’m not sure why Ashe Schow used these “John Doe/Jane Roe” pseudonyms in her article, since the names of Jeremy Rowles and Annalise Breaux are matters of public record, included in the court document that adds interesting details:

Plaintiff Jeremy Rowles (“Rowles”) is an African-American man and a former Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Missouri (“University”). In the fall of 2015, he first encountered Annalise Breaux (“Breaux”) at the Kaldi’s Coffee House where she worked. His order did not come out right, so Breaux apologized to him and gave him a token for a free drink.
The following spring, Breaux began teaching dance fitness classes and the University’s Student Recreation Center (“Rec. Center”). Rowles started attending Breaux’ dance classes, after which their interactions became more personal, and the two spoke to one another more often. Breaux thought Rowles was friendly, and she did not interpret his behavior or comments as flirtatious because she thought he was gay.
Then, on April 12, 2016, Rowles asked Breaux out on a date after their dance class. Breaux felt extremely uncomfortable and told him she was “too busy this week.” Over the next week, Rowles sent Breaux several Facebook messages, which became more frequent and increasingly romantic in nature.

Well, this is practically a romantic comedy script: Boy meets coffee shop barista, she gets his order wrong, he enrolls in her dance class and tries to flirt with her but — plot twist! — she thinks he’s gay! Then the boy asks the girl on a date and sends her “romantic” Facebook messages and, next thing you know, girl accuses boy of harassment. However, he’s African-American so he might be a victim of racial discrimination, which in the modern calculus of “social justice” could be enough to cancel out his “male privilege,” and Act Three is the courtroom drama where the campus Title IX enforcer is asked to explain the rules — a scene sure to become a comedy classic. In the Hollywood version, the story would end with a wedding scene between them, as the girl’s racist relatives admit that “love conquers all.” Also, maybe the guy’s best friend (who is secretly gay and had a crush on him) finally comes out of the closet.

What has happened — we aren’t supposed to notice this, let alone lament it — is that we have abandoned the social norms by which courtship was once regulated. In the 21st century, we are expected to celebrate as “progress” the destruction of these norms, because American society circa 1950 was controlled by the prejudicial forces of racism, sexism and homophobia. Thus, in the name of “progress,” “diversity,” “inclusion” and “social justice,” young people find themselves attempting to negotiate relationships in a Hobbesian nightmare (“Bellum omnium contra omnes”) of social anarchy, where the rules are uncertain and you never know if you’ve broken the rules until somebody sues you, gets you fired from your job or calls the police. You’ll be condemned as a bigot if you express concern about the dangers of this social anarchy.

In a sense, both Jeremy Rowles and Annalise Breaux are victims of “progress.” The ideological crusade for “social justice” is justified in the name of protecting us from oppression, but what happens to those who find themselves accused of being oppressors? You see that the Title IX regime on university campuses, allegedly intended to protect women’s right to “equality” in higher education, has a way of turning student romance into a political battlefield. In the old days, a college girl who was the object of unwanted “romantic advances” would have enlisted the assistance of a male protector — her boyfriend, perhaps, or her brother — who would have warned the rejected suitor to leave her alone, or else. This sort of old-fashioned enforcement of social norms, of course, is nowadays prohibited by the same ideological regime that subjected Jeremy Rowles to the Kafka-esque ordeal of a “harassment” complaint. But while no young man would enjoy being threatened with a punch in the nose, I don’t think being targeted by the Title IX enforcement machinery is an improvement over the old-fashioned way.



 

Category: Education, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 12.27.18

Posted on | December 27, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Sandra Bullock In Bird Box
Twitchy: USAF Europe Says Airmen Holding MAGA Hats Did Nothing Wrong; Media Hardest Hit
Louder With Crowder: Chris Pratt Tries To Help California Police Find Cop Killer, Leftists Attack

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Exercise In Futility News
BattleSwarm: The $2 Million Park Bathroom
CDR Salamander: Poland Speaks Its Truth
Da Tech Guy:  The Democrat Divas, also, Non-Tweets Under The Fedora For December 27
Don Surber: Orange Man Bad To Red China, also, In DC, A Single Day Is A “Prolonged Shutdown”
Dustbury: The Stockings Were Hung With Care
The Geller Report: Muslim Congresswoman Tlaib To be Sworn In On Jefferson’s Koran, also, Austrian Church Attacked, 15 Injured, Monks Taken Hostage By “Foreigners”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Don’t Know Much About History
Hollywood In Toto: Five Reasons Actors Virtue Signal For PC Approval
Joe For America: CA State Senators Vote 28-8 To Exempt Themselves From New Gun Laws
JustOneMinute: Meanwhile Back In Iraq
Legal Insurrection: CNN Rats Out Troops For Having Trump Sign MAGA Hats, also, Poll Shows Rising Democrat Stars Generate Little Enthusiasm
The PanAm Post: Despite The Death Of “Guacho”, FARC Violence In Colombia Continues
Power Line: Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been A Member Of The Knights Of Columbus? also, Apocalypse Not
Shark Tank: Senator Rubio Fights To Protect Global “Quality Basic Education” For Young Girls
Shot In The Dark: Fakes Like Us
This Ain’t Hell: Acting SecDef Starts January 1, also, Criticized For Not Visiting Troops – Criticized For Visiting Troops
Victory Girls: Rep. Ilhan Omar & The New Progressive Caucus Take Over The House
Volokh Conspiracy: Do Some Courts Underenforce The Second Amendment?
Weasel Zippers: U.S. Catholic Magazine Asks If We Should Stop Referring To God With Male Pronouns, also, Alabama AG Looking Into Democrats’ “Russian Bot” Influence Operation During Senate Election
Megan McArdle: The Biggest Problem With The Criminal Justice Reform Bill
Mark Steyn: Lone But Motley, also, Intersectiophobia Alert


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Trump Goes to Iraq, #FakeNews Media Embarrass Themselves

Posted on | December 27, 2018 | Comments Off on Trump Goes to Iraq, #FakeNews Media Embarrass Themselves

 

After the #FakeNews media and #NeverTrump ex-Republicans had gone all-in on President Trump’s supposedly historic lack of patriotism, it was discovered that the Commander-in-Chief had been secretly in transit to Iraq even while these headlines and tweets were being written:

President Donald Trump made a surprise trip to Iraq on Wednesday to visit the troops over Christmas, praising them for fighting terrorism.
The president spoke to about 100 special operations troops who were engaged in combat with the Islamic State in both Iraq and Syria.
“If we see something happening with ISIS that we don’t like, we can hit them so fast and so hard they really won’t know what the hell happened,” he said to White House reporters who traveled with him.”We’ve knocked them out. We’ve knocked them silly.” . . .
He also defended his decision to withdraw troops from Syria in a discussion with the media who traveled with him.
“The United States cannot continue to be the policeman of the world,” he said. “It’s not fair when the burden is all on us, the United States.”

 

Once the media got over their embarrassment of having been proved wrong (again), the Usual Suspects then began claiming that it was “inappropriate” for the president to sign “Make America Great Again” hats for the troops. They’re all anti-Trump, all the time, 24/7.



 

Category: Donald Trump, Media Bias, Military

In The Mailbox: 12.26.18

Posted on | December 27, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.26.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

From our temporary virtual office among the gooney birds of Midway Island, where it’s still Boxing Day for about ten more minutes…

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: President Trump – Don’t Abandon Our Kurdish Allies In Syria
Twitchy: Brit Hume Dumps Ice-Cold Water On Soledad O’Brien’s “Genius Take” On Trump’s Iraq Visit
Louder With Crowder: The UK Is Now Teaching Boys That They Can Menstruate

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Holidays, also, Merry Christmas 2018
American Power: Twitter Now Enforcing Pakistani Law, also, Modern Parenting
American Thinker: Are The Investigations The Coverup? also, The Democrats’ Anti-Catholic Bigotry
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Cops Behaving Badly
Camp Of The Saints:
CDR Salamander: The Demographics Of Naval Supremacy
Da Tech Guy: Begotten, also, The Second Day of Christmas – St. Stephen’s Martyrdom
Don Surber: Day 4 Of No Government, also, Obama Created ISIS, Trump Destroyed It
Dustbury: Now Go Over There & Lie Down, also, This Will Not End Well
First Street Journal:
The Geller Report: Liverpool Muslim Star Saleh May Quit If Israeli Joins Team, also, Mastermind of Morocco Backpacker Beheadings, 18 Others In Custody 
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, On Retirement
Hollywood In Toto: Nine Huge Liberal TV & Movie Flops In 2018
Joe For America: Las Vegas Girl Walk Stays In Vegas (Millions Of Hits & Counting!), also, Teacher Writes Eye-Opening Resignation Letter
JustOneMinute: The Grinch Who Tweeted Away Christmas
Legal Insurrection: Trump Surprises Troops In Iraq, also, Dashing Resistance Hopes, Dow Surges To Record One-Day Gain
The PanAm Post: Christianity, Capitalism, & Democracy – The Road To Propserity
Power Line: Jamal Khashoggi’s Fake Op-Eds, also, Three Million Venezuelans Flee Socialism
Shark Tank: Occasional Cortex Loves Big Labor, Hates Corporate America
Shot In The Dark: “What’s The Difference Between The GOP And Democrats?”
This Ain’t Hell: Trump Keeps Up Drumbeat For Border Wall, also, The Russians Now Have A Hypersonic Missile
Victory Girls: POTUS & FLOTUS Surprise Troops In Iraq For Christmas
Volokh Conspiracy: Progress In The Struggle Against Exclusionary Zoning
Weasel Zippers: 18-Year-Old Illegal From Jamaica Charged With Murder Of  12-Year-Old Connecticut Boy, also, No, Trump Didn’t Destroy Child’s Faith In Santa; Parents Say Stop Politicizing It
Megan McArdle: Trump Has Always Been Erratic & Impulsive, Why Is Wall Street Surprised Now?
Mark Steyn: Steyn Goes Full Humbug, also, Happy Christmas Bank Holiday Thursday!


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[AykroydVoice] Jonah, You Ignorant (Something Like ‘Unrecoverable Twit’) [/AykroydVoice]

Posted on | December 26, 2018 | Comments Off on [AykroydVoice] Jonah, You Ignorant (Something Like ‘Unrecoverable Twit’) [/AykroydVoice]

by Smitty

In defense of Goldberg, he’s writing for the LA Times, so the readers want to hear Yet Another Trump-is-the-wurst Spleen Dump. “The Trump presidency will end poorly because character is destiny.“

Step back and face the broader problem, Jonah: our government seems to stagger from crisis to crisis, with everything hinging on just one hero/villain, is THE issue.

We’ve seen it in the last week, where suddenly Mattis became the lone dude holding everything together.

OH. SHUT. UP.
Donald Trump is not cuckoo for cocoa-puffs. Pretty much every character assessment of him thus far has been R. O. N. N. G. G. Ronngg! Maddening and mercurial he may be; and perhaps NOT the purported 7-dimensional chess genius of his fanbois: but he’s playing the game his way.
He seems to be thriving in the conflict. Maybe just shutting up and letting him go would be the best way to get him to implode. That is the goal, correct? Is it not the case that the will of the voters only matters when congruent with the will of our Progressive Overlords?
Why don’t we focus on trimming the executive? Has anybody noticed that the actual, documented Constitutional components of the government are at least viewed as legitimate, if not loved? Aren’t the real bones we have to pick the ones coming from the scope creep of the last century?
Time for a Convention of States. If we are actually bothered by Trump, why not make a substantive change? Or, maybe we just want something to whine about in the newspaper column.

Category: Uncategorized

The @emrazz Thread: Feminist Dreams of Eliminating All Male Life on Earth

Posted on | December 26, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

It seems likely that soon — perhaps within 72 hours — the crew at 4chan will have outed and doxxed “Feminist Next Door” (@emrazz), who will then have a conniption about this “harassment.” But you see she engages in behavior that is typical of feminists: They insult men categorically, and then claim victimhood when men respond with anger.

 

It should be obvious that “not all men” is never a proper reply to feminist insults. The way to deal with this kind of anti-male hate rhetoric is not to get up in her face on Twitter, spewing out whatever comes to mind, but rather to point out the rhetorical error. She asks her female followers to imagine the blessings of a male-free world as if males as a category are universally dangerous to women (yes, all women). This assertion is clearly false, as even she admits in another context:

 

Were we to stipulate, arguendo, that this “1-in-5” statistic is accurate, this would mean that 80% of U.S. women are never raped. Thus, despite the pervasive menace of “toxic masculinity,” “rape culture,” etc., the vast majority of American women live in comparative safety. Well, then, who are the victims, and who are the perpetrators, of rape and other forms of violence against women? That is to say: Who is raping whom?

Rape doesn’t happen randomly, as can be demonstrated by statistics provided by RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network), the largest U.S. anti-sexual violence organization. For example, females ages 16-19 are 4 times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault, and more than two-thirds of victims (69%) are between the ages of 12 and 34. Nor are the perpetrators of sexual violence randomly distributed in the population. More than half of all accused rapists have at least one prior criminal conviction, and nearly 40% have two or more convictions. Furthermore, according to RAINN, 27% of rapists are black, which is nearly twice their percentage of the overall U.S. population (14%). Feminist rhetoric about “violence against women” doesn’t acknowledge these realities, preferring to stigmatize males categorically. Merely to be male is to be complicit in “rape culture,” according to feminists who commonly assert that all women are equally vulnerable to what @emrazz calls “targeted violence.”

Because the vast majority of men are not rapists, they are offended by feminist rhetoric that implies they represent a threat to women. And because the vast majority of women are never victims of sexual assault, men perceive that feminists are promoting irrational anti-male prejudice — seeking to inspire a paranoid fear and hatred of men.

Feminists who demonize males, per se (as @emrazz does), are engaged in what would be called “hate speech” if it were directed against immigrants, racial minorities or homosexuals, and yet feminism denies that men have any right to object to this demonizing rhetoric. When men attempt to address the problem of sexual violence in a rational way (e.g., risk reduction), feminists will accuse them of “victim-blaming.” We know, for example, that female college students are most vulnerable to sexual assault in situations involving alcohol consumption. Because the legal drinking age in the U.S. is 21, and most college students are younger than 21, colleges might reduce the incidence of rape on campus simply by cracking down on underage drinking. To suggest such a practical solution, however, is to engage in “victim-blaming,” according to feminists, who are clearly more interested in stigmatizing male students (all of them, collectively) as rapists than in preventing rape.

Using deceptive rhetoric to demonize all men — imagining a world without males as a feminist ideal — will predictably provoke many men to make angry responses, some of which will be obscene, and these responses will then be cited by feminists as proof that men “just don’t get it.” This is a sort of game feminists like to play, and they don’t seem to understand that this is dishonest and unfair. But if they cared about honesty and fairness, they wouldn’t be feminists, would they?

Now, I have predicted that @emrazz will be doxxed as a result of her insulting rhetoric and I should hasten to add I am against doxxing. But I point out this likelihood in order to prepare you to see her doxxing cited by feminists as evidence that Twitter needs to do more to silence the opponents of feminism. The banishments will continue until feminists and other SJWs exercise totalitarian control of all social media.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

Worst Santa Ever

Posted on | December 26, 2018 | Comments Off on Worst Santa Ever

 

Elwyn Crocker Sr., 50, once worked as Santa Claus at the local Wal-Mart in Effingham County, Georgia, but that’s not why he’s in the news this holiday season. The bodies of two of his children, Elwyn Crocker Jr. and Mary Crocker, were found buried in the backyard of his home:

As expected by authorities, autopsies have confirmed the identities of two children found buried in their family’s backyard in Effingham County, though many questions remain about the deaths, coroner David Exley said Monday.
“The cause and manner of death is still pending,” he said, adding it could take weeks.
The trouble, he said, is partly that Mary Crocker and Elwyn Crocker Jr. had been buried so long ago — Mary for perhaps a few months, Elwyn for maybe as long as two years. The remains of the siblings, who were both 14 years old when they were last seen but hadn’t been reported missing, were discovered Thursday in the rural town of Guyton by the Effingham Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies went to the house after a tipster called 911 to express concern regarding the whereabouts of the girl. An interview with the father, Elwyn Crocker Sr., revealed information that sent deputies to check the backyard for the bodies.
The father, who turns 50 on Christmas and until recently played Santa at a nearby Walmart in Rincon, has been charged with child cruelty and concealing a death. The same charges have also been filed against his wife, Candice Crocker, 33, her mother, Kim Wright, 50, and Wright’s boyfriend, Roy Anthony Prater, 55. All lived in the home and could face additional charges, authorities have said. They remain in the county jail without bond.

Left to right: Candice Crocker, Roy Prater, Kim Wright.

What a classy looking crew they are, huh?

Of course, they’re all presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, but if ugly was a crime . . . Well, I rest my case, your honor.



 

Category: Crime, Georgia
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