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In The Mailbox: 11.13.17

Posted on | November 13, 2017 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Late Night With Rule 5 Monday will be up later this evening. Thanks for your patience.


OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #72
EBL: Judge Roy Fights Back
Twitchy: “No Woman Is Safe” – Why Hasn’t THIS Political Perv Been Blacklisted?
Louder With Crowder: George Takei Tries To Blame Sexual Assault Allegations On Russia. Yes, Really.


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: COTW – Affirmative Action Is Government Mandated Racism
American Power: Homeless People Cleared From Santa Ana River Trail, also, Ken Follett, The Pillars Of The Earth
American Thinker: Roy Moore Vs. The Swamp
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Clinton Corruption Update For November 12
BLACKFIVE: Thank You For Your Service
Bring The HEAT: The First Naval Battle For Guadalcanal, Nov. 11-12, 1942
CDR Salamander: OHP’s Second Life – The Sins Of The Past Haunt The Present And Weaken The Future
Da Tech Guy: Short Observation About The Two Hollywoods, also, My Narnia Question For The Conservative “Dump Roy Moore” Crowd
Don Surber: Trump’s Magical History Tour
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Geeks Bearing GIFs
The Geller Report: Muslim Stabs Multiple People In Mall Of America Attack, also, Karl Lagerfeld – “One Cannot…Kill Millions Of Jews So You Can Bring Millions Of Their Worst Enemies In Their Place”
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also also, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Jammie Wearing Fools: Green Beret Discovered SEALs’ Illicit Cash – Then He Was Killed
Joe For America: Woman Says WaPo Reporter Offered Thousands To Falsely Accuse Judge Roy Moore Of Abuse, also, Target To Close Stores In Ten States After 18-Month Struggle Due To Bathroom Uproar
JustOneMinute: Escalation On The Korean Peninsula
Legal Insurrection: Gloria Allred Holds Press Conference With Roy Moore Accuser, also, Don’t Count Hillary Out for 2020
Power Line: What Will Mitch McConnell Do About The Democrats’ Disgraceful Senate Blockade? also, Roy Moore For Senate?
Shark Tank: Does Marco Rubio Walk With The Washington “Wise” Or The “Fools”?
Shot In The Dark: Open Letter To Certain People Being Accused Of Certain Indiscretions [1]
STUMP: Public Pensions And Public Assets – Governments Shouldn’t Be Activist Investors
The Jawa Report: Veteran’s Day
The Political Hat: 100 Years Ago, America Entered The Great War, also, Woke Racial Segregation Comes To Canada
This Ain’t Hell: Oh, Shut Up, Bradley, also, Uniform Correction Turns Violent
Weasel Zippers: GQ Magazine Declares Kaepernick “Citizen Of The Year”, also, Sanctuary City Malibu Wants Church To Stop Feeding The Homeless
Megan McArdle: Surprise! Obamacare Enrollment Is Actually Rising
Mark Steyn: That Sinking Feeling, also, Till There Was You


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The Queer State of California

Posted on | November 13, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

News from the Left Coast:

The Palm Springs, Calif., City Council now has transgender and bisexual members — and is entirely LGBT or queer.
Lisa Middleton made history as the first openly trans candidate elected to a nonjudicial office in California (Victoria Kolakowski was elected an Alameda County Superior Court judge in 2010). She and Christy Holstege, a bi woman, won the two open seats on the City Council in a field of six candidates in Tuesday’s election. Their election means that the desert city’s council is 100 percent LGBT or queer, according to Equality California, with representation from across the spectrum of those identities.

This consolidation of LGBT power was celebrated by Equality California and the Victory Fund. The latter group spent more than $600 million during the 2012 election campaign. In politics, a highly organized (and well-funded) minority can always defeat the disorganized majority. This is why the preferences of lobbyists matter more in Washington than do the interests of average Americans. The success of the LGBT lobby in gaining complete control of Palm Springs government demonstrates this, and also demonstrates that demographics is destiny.

The media age of the population of Palm Springs is 51, substantially older than the U.S. median age of 37. Why is this? Well, Palm Springs attracts a lot of retirees, and has very few children. Those under age 15 are only 11% of Palm Springs residents, whereas nearly 20% of the U.S. population is under 15. If the residents of Palm Springs are having very few children, and the elderly residents don’t work, where will they find the workforce to provide all the services necessary to maintain this affluent community of nearly 50,000? Oh, yes — immigrants. Twenty-five percent of Palm Springs residents are Hispanic, and another 5 percent are Asian. Who do you think will be working behind the counter at the Petsmart store in Palm Springs when the rich white gay people go shopping for Christmas gifts for their cats? Who collects their garbage and hauls it to the landfill? What is the ethnicity of the housekeeping staff at the Palm Springs hospital where the white old folks go when they’re sick?

There is an obvious correlation between support for “gay rights” and advocacy of an open-borders immigration policy. Rich white liberals (gay or otherwise) tend to have few children if any, and are in favor of importing brown people to work in menial service jobs. The lesbian sociology professor flatters herself that she is supporting “diversity” as she buys her $3 Starbucks latte from the Salvadoran barista.

The Kakistocracy points out that white liberals often ride to power on brown horses, so to speak. Yet this is always a transient phenomenon, as eventually the riders will be tossed from their saddles. Herb Stein famously observed, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop,” and the kind of demographic trend exemplified by the election of an all-LGBT city council in Palm Springs is ultimately unsustainable.





 

Category: California, Gays

God and Man in the Information Age

Posted on | November 12, 2017 | 1 Comment

“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”
— Daniel 12:4 (KJV)

One of the basic proofs of the Bible’s truth is the accuracy of prophecy. As every Christian knows, Jesus was the Messiah foretold by Old Testament prophecy, His atoning sacrifice prefigured in the story of Genesis 22, where God requires Abraham to prove his obedience by the sacrifice of Isaac, only to spare the boy at the last minute. The ultimate significance of this was understood by Jesus, of course, in a way that the scribes and Pharisees did not. As Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, he came to fulfill the law of the Old Testament, not to destroy it (Matthew 5:17) and by delivering Him up to be crucified by the Roman authorities, the Jewish leaders unwittingly brought about that fulfillment.

Before His death, Jesus prophetically foretold the coming destruction of Herod’s Temple at Jerusalem, which was fulfilled in 70 A.D. His disciples responded to this prophecy by asking Him about the future. Jesus then warned them not to be deceived by false prophets and referring to the Second Coming said, “of that day and hour knoweth no man.”

Not even Jesus could predict to His disciples when the final Judgment Day would come, because this was known by “my Father only” (Matthew 24:36), yet speculation has flourished. Many have offered their own interpretations of the Apostle John’s Book of Revelation, which baffles every attempt to translate its mysterious symbolism into definite meaning. Especially since the the 1960s, various doomsday prophets (including dangerous cult leaders like Charles Manson and David Koresh) have claimed to possess the secret meaning of Revelation.

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Category: Celebrities, Hollywood, Politics, Religion, Scandal, Sex Trouble

FMJRA 2.0: See Red

Posted on | November 12, 2017 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: See Red

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Whatever Happened To…
Animal Magnetism
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL
Ninety Miles From Tyranny

TEXAS CHURCH MASSACRE: ‘Creepy’ Atheist Was Stopped by Armed Citizen
Today Politics News
Conservative Theory
Open Comments
Freedom Daily
EBL

Professor Explores How K-12 Education ‘Can Help Kids Turn Out Queer’
Welcome To My Playpen
The Daley Gator
Adam Piggott
A View From The Beach
EBL

The Sexual Harassment Apocalypse: More Accusations Against Kevin Spacey
A View From The Beach

Best. Headline. Ever?
A View From The Beach

FMJRA 2.0: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

MASSACRE: 26 Killed at Texas Church; Gunman ID’d as Devin Patrick Kelley
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.06.17
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL

Crazy People Are Dangerous
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.07.17
Proof Positive

Gillespie Defeated in Virginia as Huge Democrat Turnout Devastates GOP
The Pirate’s Cove
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.08.17
Proof Positive

REPORT: Charlie Sheen Raped 13-Year-Old Actor Corey Haim on Film Set in 1986
Adam Piggott
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.09.17
Proof Positive
EBL

Can Roy Moore Still Win?
EBL

The Catfish Sports Writer: ‘Ryan Schultz’ Is a Lesson in Social-Media Deception
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.10.2017
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers this week:

  1. EBL (12)
  2. (tied) A View From The Beach and Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!



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The Wages of #FakeNews?

Posted on | November 11, 2017 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

I find it difficult to believe that respectable news publications would buy stories.


No, wait: I don’t find it difficult at all.

Category: Uncategorized

A Little Due Process For Roy Moore

Posted on | November 11, 2017 | Comments Off on A Little Due Process For Roy Moore

by Smitty

The allegations of impropriety alleged in the WaPo against Roy Moore are a big deal. We can rehearse the power arrangements, the difficulties that victims face in pursuing justice against people in positions of power. But let’s throw in a word for due process.

Twice in my life I’ve had allegations levelled at me. Once, on active duty, I returned to a training installation where I’d previously had a girlfriend. Some months after I had departed on orders, I got a “Dear Smitty” letter. I’d left an item with her as an “do wait for me” token, and did retrieve it, along with a “Leave me alone” note. I also got a warning call from the police, informing me of her allegation that I was “stalking” her. I doubt that any reasonable observer of either gender (or any of the more recent ones) would in any way fault the substance of any of my conduct any toward her at any time. More likely, I would have drawn laughter. I also got to explain the entire embarrassing situation to my training command. It was somewhere between embarrassing and humiliating. Hopefully, her life has gone well in the decades since.

The other time, fresh off of active duty, a pregnant minority female on an IT project alleged in an email to HR that she had gone into labor and delivered her baby prematurely due to stress brought on by the harassment she received from me (the assistant project manager). Again, I don’t think that any reasonable jury would have found the slightest substantial (or even stylistic) quibble with our interaction. Nevertheless, our legal system is not about justice. I immediately sought a professional transition. Subsequently, I guess she did take the company to court. I’m not sure of the final details, but the company is pretty much a memory now. Hopefully her life is a good one and her family is healthy.

The point of those tales is that allegations are stressful, even when groundless. If there was a crime in Roy Moore’s past, it should be brought to light, and let the voters of Alabama judge whether this Judge merits a Senate seat. On the other hand, there is a non-zero possibility that, even though Roy Moore went to West Point and not UVA, the WaPo story is sheer hogwash of Rolling Stone proportions.

Were it true that the WaPo allegations against Roy Moore were unfounded, the unfounded allegations would be about as despicable as the crime Moore is alleged to have committed. I do hope Roy pursues legal relief from the WaPo if he is innocent.

Category: Uncategorized

In The Mailbox: 11.10.2017

Posted on | November 10, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.10.2017

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #71
EBL: A Terrible Supreme Court Decision – Wickard v. Filburn
Twitchy: Dems Aim For Roy Moore, Accidentally Put Bill Clinton Back In the Spotlight
Louder With Crowder: Sean Astin Weighs In – “I Believe Corey Feldman”
According To Hoyt: In The Name Of The Underclass
Monster Hunter Nation: MHI Savage Worlds RPG Kickstarter Update – Funded In Three Hours, also, Stretch Goal – Exclusive Challenge Coin Reveal & Pledge
Vox Popoli: The Fiend Roy Moore


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Infestation Edition
American Power: Thomas Ricks Reviews Victor Davis Hanson’s The Second World Wars, also, Joseph Wheelan, Midnight In The Pacific
American Thinker: WaPo Says Fake Hate Is Rare, And Other Fairy Tales
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Stupid Lyrics Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For November 10, also, Fat Leonard Probe Expands
Bring The HEAT: Marine Corps Birthday
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Lather, Rinse, Repeat, also, Steve Bannon Adds Context To The Roy Moore Story At Manchester Speech
Don Surber: China To Invest $84 Billion In West Virginia, also, Why Should We Believe The Washington Post?
Dustbury: Headed For 1 Terabolivar
The Geller Report: France Strips Le Pen of Parliamentary Immunity, Prosecution For Posting ISIS Videos To Follow
Hogewash: Blogsmoke, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Deported “Dreamer” Arrested Trying To Re-Enter U.S.
Joe For America: New GOP Tax Bill Slashes Subsidies For NFL
JustOneMinute: Does Roy Moore Have A Neighbor?
Legal Insurrection: Joe Biden Thinks He Was Most Qualified Person To Run In 2016, also, Lawsuit – BDS Engineered Takeover Of American Studies Association
Michelle Malkin:
Power Line: Thoughts From The Ammo Line, also, Chain Lightning
Shark Tank: Trump Continues Victory Lap Over Hillary, Democrats
Shot In The Dark: Catch And Release, also, And Here You Go
The Jawa Report: Hamza Bin-Laden’s Desperate Call To Revive Al-Qaeda’s Relevance, also, Jihad Jack Captured By Syrians
The Political Hat: Broken America
This Ain’t Hell: Veterans Day From Mike Royko, also, RIP John Hillerman
Weasel Zippers: Imam Says It’s Okay For Muslims To Eat Infidels, also, FBI Supervisor’s Gun Stolen From Hotel Room After Night Of Drinking With Strippers
Megan McArdle: Keep Your Dark Chocolate, And Your Unearned Sense Of Superiority
Mark Steyn: Snowflake Werewolves!


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The Catfish Sports Writer: ‘Ryan Schultz’ Is a Lesson in Social-Media Deception

Posted on | November 10, 2017 | Comments Off on The Catfish Sports Writer: ‘Ryan Schultz’ Is a Lesson in Social-Media Deception

 

“Ryan Schultz” was a sports writer for the digital age, in which anyone with a laptop can be anything they want to be on the Internet. According to his profile, Schultz was a married father of two children, working as a pharmacist and also writing about his love of baseball.

None of that was true, but nobody bothered to check Schultz’s credentials or else they would have noticed, inter alia, that the university Schultz claimed to have attended didn’t offer a pharmacology degree. This is a cautionary tale for the Social Media Generation:

For the last eight years, baseball fan-turned-writer Becca Schultz has presented herself online as Ryan Schultz, a false identity she assumed when she was 13 years old, duping and harassing women on Twitter along the way.
On Wednesday night, a woman named Erin tweeted a series of screenshots announcing that Schultz is not actually Ryan, a married father of two studying to become a pharmacist. Instead, Schultz is a 21-year-old college student in the Midwest, whose entire career as an aspiring baseball writer has been under a fraudulent byline.
Schultz began contributing to Baseball Prospectus’s local White Sox blog at the end of the 2016 season and wrote for BP South Side and BP Wrigleyville throughout the 2017 season. Additionally, Schultz wrote for the SB Nation sabermetrics site Beyond the Box Score throughout 2017.
People who knew Ryan Schultz online say that in retrospect, some of his behavior seemed odd, but no one expected that this moody White Sox fan from Missouri would actually be a teenage girl. . . .

You can read the rest of that and ask yourself, “Why would women let themselves get emotionally involved with this online persona?”

This is the aspect of the Ryan Schultz saga which deserves careful scrutiny, if we are to understand its larger significance. When we meet human beings in real life, we immediately assess them on a superficial basis — what they look like, their mannerisms of speech and behavior. Are they tall or short, fat or skinny, old or young, ugly or beautiful? And, arguably most important of all, are they male or female?

People who claim to believe that “gender” is “socially constructed” have obtained a cultural ascendancy in recent years in large measure because the Internet has become a playground for such make-believe, giving plausibility to the idea that men can be women and vice-versa. However, as critics of The Transgender Cult have pointed out, this belief is as phony as Ryan Schultz’s pharmacology degree.

Beyond that, however, the tale of Ryan Schultz shows that men and women are different in how they typically use the Internet. Why were so many women willing to interact with Schultz in a way that made them vulnerable to harassment and manipulation? Why did Becca Schultz believe she could get away with using her online persona in this way? Was she engaged in a “monkey-see, monkey-do” imitation of male behavior? Did she exploit her own knowledge of female psychology to create a male persona that would be especially appealing to a female audience? And didn’t her success in this endeavor prove something?

Sigmund Freud once famously asked, “What do women want?” And if you consider how easily Becca Schultz used her baseball-expert male persona to collect an online harem of female admirers, you find some answers to that question. Women want men who are successful, confident and — this is a crucial factor — desired by other women.

By making her baseball expert “Ryan” married with two children, Becca Schultz conveyed what PUAs called “pre-selection,” the advantage enjoyed by men who, by virtue of already having a wife or girlfriend, are validated as a desirable mate in the eyes of other women. Becca Schultz says she originally created “Ryan” with the idea that an adult male would be taken more seriously as a baseball writer than would a 13-year-old girl. But I don’t believe that explanation because (a) it is obvious that Schultz is a pathological liar, and (b) within a year of creating her online persona, she had gotten herself into an online “relationship” with a woman. In other words, Becca Schultz is a lesbian who decided to engage in a sort of virtual transgenderism because she wanted to attract women who would relate to her the way heterosexual women typically relate to men.

While your mind races ahead to the psychosexual insights this exposes, let’s quote some more of the Deadspin story about Becca/“Ryan”:

“I wanted to be a sportswriter,” she said, “but I was young and thought that the only way people would notice me is if I was the stereotypical guy. So I chose a name that was similar enough to mine, and I went with it. It was fine and probably would’ve been over a year or two later if I hadn’t ‘met’ Alex [a woman with whom “Ryan” developed an online relationship]. I was young and had no idea what to do, so I just acted like I thought a man would do. That slowly led me down a path to some things that I was very uncomfortable doing but didn’t even realize were happening. At the time I still probably had the valid excuse that I was young. But things started to get serious, and I had no clue how to dig myself out of the hole I was in.”

The pathological liar Becca Schultz would have us believe that it was just a coincidence that, while masquerading as a “stereotypical guy” online, she attracted the romantic interest of a college girl. Although the Deadspin article uses pseudonyms for most of Schultz’s victims, I’m going to guess that “Alex” was relatively good-looking — better-looking than any girl Becca Schultz would have been able to attract if she had pursued a lesbian relationship in real life. Think about that.

As I say, there are many psychosexual insights exposed by this story, but I’m sure the commenters will have their own thoughts to share, so I won’t bother to expound on my theoretical interpretation just now. Instead, I will remind readers how often I have warned against online dating:

Research indicates a male-female ratio of 3-to-1 on OKCupid, and women users say that 80% of the men on OKCupid are “below average” in looks. Of course, these men are also below average in intelligence, because in real life the male-female ratio is 1-to-1, so an average guy actually lowers his chances of success by dating online, where the odds are always against him. This is why there are no decent guys on OKCupid. If a guy was decent, he’d already have a girlfriend or, at least, he’d be sufficiently optimistic about finding a girlfriend in a real-life face-to-face encounter that he wouldn’t bother with OKCupid. Because the available pool of men in online dating is such a notorious swamp of inferior quality, only women who are truly desperate for companionship would sign up for OKCupid.

Finally, I’ll impart this bit of wisdom: Anything that seems too good to be true is probably neither true nor actually good.





 

Category: Sex Trouble
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