In The Mailbox: 02.02.18

Three in four Americans who tuned in to President Trump’s State of the Union address tonight approved of the speech he gave. Just a quarter disapproved.
Eight in 10 Americans who watched tonight felt that the president was trying to unite the country, rather than divide it. Two-thirds said the speech made them feel proud, though just a third said it made them feel safer. Fewer said the speech made them feel angry or scared. . . .
Nine in 10 Republicans said the speech made them feel proud, while just over half of Democrats said it made them feel angry. Independents who watched the speech — nearly half of whom counted themselves the President’s supporters — tended to approve of the speech, and said it made them feel proud.

John Sexton at Hot Air writes:

The line of the night came at the end of Trump’s defense of an America First approach. After introducing two families whose teen daughters were killed by MS-13 gang members, Trump said he was proud America was a leader in helping people in need around the world but added, “As President of the United States my highest loyalty, my greatest compassion, my constant concern is for America’s children, America’s struggling workers, and America’s forgotten communities.” He continued, “I want our youth to grow up to achieve great things. I want our poor to have their chance to rise. So tonight I am extending an open hand to work with members of both parties, Democrats and Republicans, to protect our citizens of every background, color, religion, and creed.
“My duty and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber is to defend Americans, to protect their safety, their families, their communities, and their right to the American dream because Americans are dreamers too.”

Americans are dreamers, but Democrats were having their worst nightmare. Nancy Pelosi spent the night glum-faced, evidently fidgeting with her dentures, and one Democrat, Rep. Luis Gutierrez, walked out of the speech when Republicans began chanting, “USA! USA! USA!”

Chant of “U.S.A.” causes Democrat Luis Gutierrez to leave the #SOTU. If it offends him so much perhaps he shouldn’t come back to work tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/EMSxDZykIi

— ForAmerica (@ForAmerica) January 31, 2018

The official Democrat response to Trump’s speech was given by Joe Kennedy III, whose personal wealth is estimated at more than $15 million, complaining about economic inequality and “privilege.” Also, he threw in a #MeToo reference — without any sense of irony.

Maybe a guy from the family that left Mary Jo Kopechne to drown and lobotomized Rosemary Kennedy isn't the best image for #MeToo.

— David Steinberg (@DavidSPJM) January 31, 2018

LOL, a Kennedy complaining about wealth inequality and attacking "power or privilege."

— Instapundit.com (@instapundit) January 31, 2018

Democrats are off-balance and out of touch. The voters they lost in 2016 — the ones who got nothing from eight years of Obama, and would have gotten nothing from Hillary — aren’t going to be persuaded by class warfare and identity politics arguments to vote Democrat again. If the Republican Party establishment will wake up, and stop trying to “distance” itself from President Trump, his popular policy agenda offers the GOP a chance to build a governing majority.

Democrats: The party of youthful energy and enthusiasm! #SOTU https://t.co/vqSknCcQei

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) January 31, 2018

BREAKING !! 2 SCOOPS !!@CNN OFFICIALLY ON SUICIDE WATCH ……….

#StateofOurUnion #SOTU pic.twitter.com/tL1Wn5Pjjy

— ??#ReleaseTheMemo?? (@StockMonsterVIP) January 31, 2018

UPDATE: Da Tech Guy describes the contrast: “90 minutes of optimism from Donald Trump” followed by “pessimism pessimism pessimism from Joe Kennedy.” He also noticed that CNN wasted no time in returning to its “Russian collusion” conspiracy theories.

Category: Democrats, Donald Trump

Illegal Future Democrats

Posted on | January 30, 2018 | 1 Comment

A few headlines from Breitbart.com:

Democrats Bringing More Than Two Dozen
Illegal Aliens to Trump’s SOTU

Rep. Paul Gosar: I’ve Asked Capitol Police,
Jeff Sessions to Arrest ‘Any Illegal Aliens’
Attending Trump’s SOTU

New York Times: Immigrants Are
Superior to Americans and Their Kids

‘Dreamers’ Arrested for Human Smuggling —
Twice in Two Days

11 Democrats to Boycott Trump’s
State of the Union Address — 49 Fewer
than Snubbed Inauguration

Maybe you have opinions about some of this stuff . . .

Category: Democrats, Immigration

In The Mailbox: 01.30.18

Posted on | January 30, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.30.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Jamiel Shaw – Murdered By A DREAMer
Twitchy: “He Does Not Speak For Us Or For Science” – 500 Actual Women Scientists Rake Bill Nye For Attending SOTU
Louder With Crowder: Rep. Gosar Calls For Illegals To Be Arrested At SOTU
City Journal: Minnesota, Plundered By Vikings (h/t NeoWayland)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Physical Manifestation Of The Hot/Crazy Matrix
American Power: Laura Dunn
American Thinker: Rosenstein – Agent Of The Deep State Coup
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily There They Go Again News
BattleSwarm: Abandoning The Palestinian Delusion
BLACKFIVE: Book Review & Author Q/A – Nick Petrie, Light It Up
Bring The HEAT: Because Hillary Was Supposed To Win
CDR Salamander: Sealift, Logistics, & MSC On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: Report From Louisiana – Oscar Movie Marathon, also, Tebow To MLB This Year, Or The XFL In 2020?
Don Surber: Our Constitutional Crisis
Dustbury: Fark Blurb Of The Week
The Geller Report: Sweden Murder Spree – Migrants Shoot Man, Stab Trial Witness & Wife To Death, also, Minnesota Gubernatorial Candidate Under Fire For Calling Islam “Antithesis Of The Constution”
Hogewash: Yours Truly Johnny Atsign, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Weird Irony – Obese Woman Reads Passage From Fiction Book About Trump Eating McDonald’s
Joe For America: Yoga Is Now Racist – Contributes To White Supremacy And Endangers The Environment
JustOneMinute: Get Woke, Go Broke
Legal Insurrection: California May Declare Coffee A “Cancer Risk”, also, Sen. Menendez’ Ongoing Corruption Trial Has Dems Scrambling For A Plan B
Michelle Malkin: SOTU Live On CRTV
Power Line: Full of Schiff On Dem Memo, also, Explosive House Memo To Be Released As McCabe Leaves FBI
Shark Tank: “Sanctuary City” Ban Up For Vote In Florida Legislature
Shot In The Dark: I Suppose It’s Better Than “Beaten Down Passive-Aggressive Lemmings”
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Let A Hundred Excellence Funds Bloom
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler Predictions!
This Ain’t Hell: Loudmouth Teacher Greg Salcido On Admin Leave, also, Park Service Asks That You Not Leave Cremains At The Wall
Victory Girls: It’s Official – The Grammy Awards Ratings Went Into The Toilet
Megan McArdle: Sorry, Blue States – You Can’t Fix The Tax Bill
Mark Steyn: Desperately Seeking Completion, also, The Long Goodbye

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Laura Dunn Is an Evil Liar

Posted on | January 29, 2018 | Comments Off on Laura Dunn Is an Evil Liar

When she was a freshman at the University of Wisconsin in 2004, Laura Dunn got drunk and had a ménage à trois with two guys. More than a year later, she decided she was a rape victim and filed a complaint with the university, and also reported the alleged rape to the campus police:

The investigation did not go well for Dunn. Because she reported the assault nearly a year-and-a-half after the event, one of the men had already graduated. The other insisted the encounter had been consensual, and since there were no witnesses or evidence, both the police and the university dropped the case. . . .
[Dunn] filed a Title IX sexual discrimination complaint with the [federal Education Department’s] Office for Civil Rights. Dunn accused the University of Wisconsin of multiple violations, including subjecting her to a hostile environment and failing to provide a “prompt and equitable resolution” of her case.
But in 2008, four years after the original incident, she received an 18-page letter from the Department of Education with the verdict: “Based on its investigation, OCR determined that there is insufficient evidence to substantiate the allegations made in the complaint.”

If you haven’t yet read Christina Hoff Sommers’ account of this case, read the whole thing now, because it is central to understanding why and how the Obama administration effectively abolished due-process protections for university students accused of sexual misconduct. Dunn’s story was featured in a 2010 National Public Radio report that portrayed her as a trustworthy and sympathetic victim. The NPR story inspired the infamous 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter to U.S. universities that was interpreted as a mandate to impose extreme policies that in effect denied due-process to accused students, so that any accusation of sexual misconduct was treated as tantamount to proof of guilt.

All because Laura Dunn was a drunk teenage slut. Excuse me if I seem a bit judgmental, but didn’t I just tell you to read the whole story?

Dunn agreed to make her records public as a condition of being a part of the NPR/CPI investigation. The 18-page letter (PDF) she received from the OCR is publicly available. It gives a detailed summary of notes taken by University of Wisconsin deans as well as the local police detective. As freelance reporter Derek Rose has pointed out, it tells a very different story from the one we heard from [Joseph] Shapiro on NPR’s Morning Edition or from the [Center for Public Integrity] report.
To wit: When Dunn first spoke to the dean (15 months after the alleged rape), she said that “a portion of the sexual encounter was consensual.” (p.5) A few days later when she spoke to a campus police detective, Dunn said twice that she did not remember being raped by one of the men (the one still on campus). She found out about it only when the men told her what happened the next day (p.6). She also told the detective that in the months after the alleged rape that she went — twice — to one of the men’s residence, where they engaged in consensual “physical contact.”
On one of these occasions both of the alleged assailants were at the apartment and they all watched television together. (p.6) None of these details were mentioned in the NPR/CPI report.

Simple question: How can Laura Dunn know she was raped if, the morning after, she couldn’t even remember what happened? This is where it is necessary to explain the difference between “passed-out” drunk and “blackout” drunk. If you get so drunk you pass out, and someone sexually molests you while your are unconscious, obviously that’s a crime. But that’s different from “blackout” drunk, a term describes how alcohols impairs your memory of what you did when you were extremely drunk. Anyone who has ever gotten extremely drunk is familiar with this phenomenon. Thursday night, a college boy goes to a frat party, gets totally hammered and wakes up Friday morning in some random girl’s bed, not knowing where he is or how he got there. His memory of Thursday night is a blur, and he may not even remember the name of the girl he’s with. As to whatever sexual activity they engaged in, this is likewise lost in the alcoholic blur, and this kind of “blackout” drunk sex happens routinely on college campuses.

Or at least, that’s how it used to happen, back when feminism meant that women were believed to be responsible for their own sexual behavior, rather than being helpless victims of “heteropatriarchy.” Nowadays, when a college boy and a college girl get drunk and hook up, this is automatically considered sexual assault, because being drunk negates consent. The drunk girl is a victim, and the drunk boy is a rapist — even if both of them were so drunk they barely remember anything.

This is a problem inherent to so many “he-said/she-said” incidents on campus that result in sexual assault complaints. It is hardly controversial to say drunk teenagers behave irresponsibly, but the effect of policies implemented pursuant to the “Dear Colleague” letter is to say that drunk teenage girls have no responsibility for their behavior, while drunk teenage boys bear 100% responsibility. All it takes is for the girl to experience morning-after regret — even if it’s more than a year later — and the male student finds himself caught in the machinery of campus disciplinary proceedings where he is deprived of the due-process protections that any common criminal would have in a court of law.

Under the Trump administration, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has repudiated the “Dear Colleague” letter and acted to restore some semblance of fairness in the treatment of sexual misconduct claims, and guess what? Laura Dunn has filed a federal lawsuit objecting to this:

Laura Dunn, a victim of sexual assault while at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is taking a strong stand to protect students who come forward to report their own experiences of sexual misconduct on campus.
Dunn went on to earn a law degree and create SurvJustice, a nonprofit that has helped scores of college women report sexual assaults. She also worked with Vice President Joe Biden to craft laws and guidance for universities that protected victims and improved campus sexual assault investigations. . . .
On Thursday, Dunn’s SurvJustice and two other women’s rights organizations filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the Department of Education and Candice Jackson, acting assistant secretary for civil rights.
The suit, according to the plaintiffs, is an attempt to strike down the Trump administration’s unconstitutional Title IX policy harming student survivors of sexual violence and harassment. . . .

You can read the whole thing, if you can stomach the shameless bias. First of all, contrary to what this article says, every investigation of Dunn’s complaint has failed to find evidence that she was ever “a victim of sexual assault.” Second, there is nothing “unconstitutional” about the Trump administration’s policy, nor is there any reason to believe that this policy is “harming student survivors.” Most importantly, notice that this lawsuit is being filed in the Northern District of California, where nearly all the judges are liberals appointed during the Clinton or Obama administrations, and where any appeal of their ruling will go to the ultra-liberal 9th Circuit. What the plaintiffs are clearly seeking is for the district court to issue an injunction to block DeVos’s authority, with no hope to reverse this without taking the case all the way to the Supreme Court, a process that could take years. Why? Because drunk sluts now believe they have a “right” to punish any guy they hook up with when they’re drunk. This punitive regime is necessary for women like Laura Dunn, enabling their belief that they’re victims of “heteropatriarchy,” instead of having to accept the ugly truth about their own immoral behavior.

Category: Crime, Education, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 01.29.18

Posted on | January 29, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.29.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Sabo Strikes Again At The Grammys, also, 12 Strong – A Movie Review
Twitchy: Actor Don Cheadle Slammed For Sexist Swipe At Nikki Haley
Louder With Crowder: Political Stunts At Grammys Backfire Bigly, Ratings Tank Hard
Architectural Digest: Amazon’s Alexa Now A Feminist

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
American Power: The Hateful Ideology And Rhetoric Of Homosexual Rights, also, Indian Slavery
American Thinker: Obama, Leader Of The Deep State Coup
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Enough Freaking Out Over Trump’s DACA Proposal, also, Jordan Peterson Interview Take Two
BLACKFIVE: Ward Larsen, Cutting Edge
Bring The HEAT: Aerial Delivery Of Naval Mines
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Leaving Behind Our Shore Line In Space, also, The Black And The White SOTU Rebuttals
Don Surber: Trump’s Plan To Scuttle DACA, also, Millionaires Plan People’s State Of The Union Speech
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Man’s Inhumanity To Dog
The Geller Report: Shocking! One In Eight Swedish Women Will Be Raped, also, The Urgent Case For Antitrust Legislation Against Facebook & Google
Hogewash: Another One Bites The Dust, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Major Campaign Donor Secretly Pleads Guilty To Bribing Mayor DiBlasio, also, Crumbs! Dimwit Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Says “I’m Not Sure $1000 Goes Very Far For Anyone”
Joe For America: California HS Teacher Disparages Military – “The Lowest of The Low”
JustOneMinute: Breakthrough Health Advice
Legal Insurrection: Nikki Haley Is All Of Us – Says Artists Reading Fire & Fury Killed The Grammys, also, FBI Deputy Director McCabe On Leave Until Retirement In March
Power Line: Are The Democrats Fighting A Civil War? also, Disinformation Democrat Style
Shark Tank: Democrats Fail Immigrants With Their “Rent-A-Rican” and “Papaya Politics”
Shot In The Dark: Culture Police Blotter
STUMP: Memory Monday – Last Week of January 1918
The Jawa Report: Attention Twitter Luser @khadim3322102
The Political Hat: Euthanasia Is Built On A Lie
This Ain’t Hell: Peter Maass Says It’s Time To Wage War Against War Movies That Glorify Outdated Models Of Masculinity, also, Manning For Senate – #WeGotThis
Victory Girls: You Can Have My Meat When You Pry It From My Cold Dead Hands, also, Are Fitness Apps Highlighting US Bases?
Megan McArdle: Ode To A Washing Machine
Mark Steyn: Lurid Grooviness, also, The Grammy Hall of Lame

Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Monday: Winter Pinups

Posted on | January 29, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

It’s been a pretty rough winter for most of the country; why, even here in Las Vegas the temperatures have gotten close to freezing a couple of times this past month. Seems appropriate then, to indulge in a little artistic liberty with Gil Elvgren, who brings us a girl and her penguins.
Insert the standard disclaimer here; I’m in a bit of a rush this morning.

A girl and her penguins out enjoying the cold.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #146, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism presents Rule Five Video Game Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes Squirrel (Girl) Appreciation Day, Abby “Grace” Nierman, Long Red Hair, Friday Rule 5, Happy Australia Day, National Chocolate Cake Day, Hillary Hypocrisy, Nicole Eggert, and Sabo Strikes Again At The Grammys.

A View From The Beach brings us Kerry-Lee Cousins, Is Sea Level Rise Turning Sewage into Beer?, It Takes All Kinds …, #FightFor$15: WSU SJW Scabs Charge Below Scale for Whinging About Halloween Costumes, She’ll Never Work in Hollywood Again, “Talking Body”, Tramps On a Train and #NotHerToo: Brigit Bardot Skeptical

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Patricia De León, his Vintage Babe is Goldie Hawn, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Valisere. At Dustbury, it’s Garfunkel and Oates, otherwise known as Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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