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In The Mailbox: 10.03.17

Posted on | October 4, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.03.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Thanks to everyone that ordered stuff through my Amazon links in September!


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: How Many Reasons Are There For Why Hillary Clinton Lost?
Twitchy: Kurt Eichenwald Comes Unglued Over Dana Loesch, NRA
Louder With Crowder: Tom Petty’s Daughter Absolutely Destroys Rolling Stone
The Zelman Partisans: Mandalay Misconceptions (h/t Loyal Reader NeoWayland)


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Grand Designs Is Not A Show About Architecture
American Power: The Left And The Las Vegas Massacre – Blood On The Strip
American Thinker: The Left Pulls The Trigger
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Las Vegas News
BattleSwarm: Las Vegas Shooting Followup
CDR Salamander: The Great Green Vanity Project
Da Tech Guy: Strangest Fruit, also, The American Crime Spree
Don Surber: Purge ‘Em
Dustbury: Spiritual Beggars
The Geller Report: YouTube, Facebook Remove Video Of Las Vegas Shooter At Anti-Trump Event
Hogewash: Worshiping Artificial Intelligence, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Trump’s Right – His Media Coverage Is Mostly Negative
Joe For America: Where Did San Juan’s Mayor Get Her Custom-Made “Help Us, We’re Dying” T-shirt?
JustOneMinute: Are You Ready For Some Baseball?
Legal Insurrection: Paper Towel Giveaways & Invisible Airplanes – Trump’s Puerto Rico Visit As Colorful As You’d Expect
Power Line: DOD Drops SPLC From Extremism Training Materials, also, “Negawatts” Turn Out To Be Nugatory
Shot In The Dark: Heartbroken
STUMP: Tempest In A Teacup – The Problem With Illinois Is Not Complicated Math
The Jawa Report: Wow
The Political Hat: The Real Institutional Bias
This Ain’t Hell: No Man Left Behind – Operation Gothic Serpent, 24 Years Later, also, Tom Petty, RIP
Weasel Zippers: Pic Of The Day – This is Jonathan Smith. He’s A Hero, also, Outrage As Golliwog Doll Wins “Judges’ Choice Award” At Royal Adelaide Show
Megan McArdle: Save For Retirement Before You Even Think About Your Kids’ College Fund
Mark Steyn: The Empty Paddock, also, The Jazz Singer


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Category: Linkagery

Putting Homicide in Perspective vs. the Media’s ‘Atrocity Narrative’ Propaganda

Posted on | October 3, 2017 | 2 Comments

 

More than 16,000 Americans died by homicide in 2016, according to the FBI, and this was a significant increase from the previous year:

The US homicide rate increased by nearly 8% last year, driving an increase of violent crime in the country for the second year in a row, according to new data released by the FBI on Monday.
Between 2014 and 2016, the nationwide homicide rate has increased more than 20%, and the 3.4% increase in the US violent crime rate from 2015 to 2016 was the largest single-year increase in 25 years, the Justice Department said.

A major factor in this increase was the anti-police rhetoric of the Black Lives Matter movement, and most of the additional victims were black:

Nearly 900 additional blacks were killed in 2016 compared with 2015, bringing the black homicide victim total to 7,881. Those 7,881 “black bodies,” in the parlance of Ta-Nehisi Coates, are 1,305 more than the number of white victims (which in this case includes most Hispanics) for the same period, though blacks are only 13 percent of the nation’s population. . . .
Who is killing these black victims? Not whites, and not the police, but other blacks.
In 2016, the police fatally shot 233 blacks, the vast majority armed and dangerous, according to the Washington Post. The paper categorized only 16 black male victims of police shootings as “unarmed.” That classification masks assaults against officers and violent resistance to arrest.
Contrary to the Black Lives Matter narrative, the police have much more to fear from black males than black males have to fear from the police. In 2015, a police officer was 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male was to be killed by a police officer.
Black males have made up 42 percent of all cop-killers over the last decade, though they are only 6 percent of the population. That 18.5 ratio undoubtedly worsened in 2016, in light of the 53 percent increase in gun murders of officers — committed vastly and disproportionately by black males.

In the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, MSNBC is talking about gun control and Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King is talking about the gunman’s alleged “white privilege.” Yes, Stephen Paddock was white, and most perpetrators of U.S. mass shootings are white, but this no more justifies King’s anti-white rhetoric than the murder rate in Chicago (or Baltimore, or Detroit, etc.) would justify anti-black rhetoric. Nor does a lunatic gunman’s crime justify anti-gun rhetoric.

There are an estimated 55 million gun owners in United States, and gun owners are overwhelmingly law-abiding citizens. The Second Amendment is an ironclad guarantee of our rights to own firearms, and every time politicians threaten to infringe that right, it prompts Americans to buy more guns. President Obama was the greatest gun salesman in history, in that respect. Every time there was a mass shooting during Obama’s presidency, reviving calls for gun control from politicians and the media, the result would be a stampede of people rushing to stores to stock up on guns and ammunition. By 2012, annual sales of ammunition had roughly doubled from the year before Obama’s election, and there were repeatedly shortages of ammunition, which exacerbated paranoid fears about government attempts to disarm Americans.

Even as a write this, Tom Brokaw is on MSNBC blabbering ignorantly about gun owners converting semi-automatic weapons to machine guns, which is reportedly how Stephen Braddock obtained fully automatic weapons, but which has nothing to do with the overall murder rate.

What causes gun violence in America? Liberalism and ignorance, but I repeat myself. In a sane country, lunatics would be locked up in mental institutions, but liberals insisted on the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill back in the 1970s, so we have turned the kooks loose, and who knows when the next nutjob is going to commit a massacre? Yet the fact is that mass shootings are rare incidents, in no way typical of homicide in America. The killing of 59 people in Las Vegas shocks us, but the fact is that 45 people are murdered every day in America. Most murder victims are killed by people they know, and about half of those murders are black-on-black crimes. So whatever you say about the Las Vegas massacre, it is not typical, and it is irresponsible to argue that such anomalous events should be the basis of making laws and policies.

This is what I’ve called the “atrocity narrative” method of propaganda. Find some particularly heinous type of crime, which is actually rare, then call attention to it as a trend — a “growing problem,” an “epidemic”!

People having sex with dogs, for example. If the producers at CNN decided to report every time someone in America was arrested on bestiality charges, we’d probably have a federal dog-sex prevention task force by now. Or what about the “growing problem” of lesbian teachers molesting schoolgirls? Camryn Zellinger and Mary Jahn in California, Kendall Lucas in Texas, Nina Scott in Pennsylvania, Laura Garrigus in North Carolina, Kimberly Naquin in Louisiana — it’s an epidemic!

The “atrocity narrative” method of propaganda relies on two things:

  1. A deliberate selectivity in media coverage;
    and
  2. The Law of Large Numbers.

In a nation of more than 320 million people, incidents that are statistically rare (i.e., less than 1% frequency) will occur quite commonly. For example, there are about 250 million adults (18 and older) in America and, if lesbians are 2% of the population, that means there are 5 million lesbians. If only 1% of those lesbians are pedophiles, that means there are 50,000 lesbian pedophiles in America. Well, if some national news organization decided to carefully scrutinize reports from around the country, compiling a list of every case in which a woman is arrested for molesting a girl, how easily could a daily drumbeat of media coverage generate a climate of paranoid witch-hunt hysteria?

Keep in mind, as you contemplate this hypothetical, that an irresponsible tabloid editor could gin up such a frenzy despite the fact that (a) far more than 90% of women are heterosexual, and (b) only a tiny minority of lesbians are pedophiles. Yet it would still be possible to generate lurid headlines on an almost daily basis, thus making these highly anomalous crimes seem as if they were commonplace. And this is exactly how CNN turned Black Lives Matter into a national crusade.

As Heather Mac Donald points out, a police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by black man than the other way around and yet, beginning with the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, CNN collaborated with Black Lives Matters activists to present the public with a mirror-reverse image of reality — bogus anti-police propaganda.

It’s the same story with the anti-gun propaganda the media are promoting in the wake of the Las Vegas massacre. Yes, there are dangerous nuts with guns in America, in the same way that there are racist police in America. However, there are also lesbian teachers molesting girls in America, and people having sex with dogs in America. Thank God, these are anomalous crimes and not typical, but the media seizes upon certain rare incidents to promote a political agenda.

Ignorance and liberalism are a bad combination, and the way to fight it by insisting that the media report all the facts. Meanwhile . . .

 

Why aren’t the networks covering this “growing problem”? For the same reason they don’t mention that 57 people were shot to death in Chicago last month — because some facts don’t fit their political agenda.



 

 

Category: Crime, Media Bias

Late Night With Rule 5 Monday:
Coffee, Please

Posted on | October 3, 2017 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Busy, busy weekend here in Sin City, even before some vile humanoid decided to use the Highway 91 country music festival for target practice Sunday night. What better drink for late-night driving than coffee, and what better place to get it than a coffee shop with bikini baristas? Strangely enough, there’s only one of those here in Las Vegas, and Cowgirls Espresso isn’t open when I need them most…but that’s no reason to ignore one of their staffers when picking this week’s appetizer.
As usual, most of the following links are to pics generally considered NSFW, and the management is not responsible for any unfortunate consequences you may suffer by failing to be discreet in your clicking.

Lucky, a barista at Cowgirls Espresso.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off this week with FOUR, count them, FOUR posts: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #27, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns, followed by Animal Magnetism’s Rule Five Tax Relief Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes Megyn Kelly, Jonna Jinton, various female Cataloonies, Hugh Hefner RIP, Iraqi Kurds voting for independence, Melania Trump and the Chidey Librarian, some cop killer from the 1960s, Claire Abbot, and Carol Merrill.

A View From The Beach offers Lindsay Ellingson, Fish Pic Friday – Weird Stuff, RIP: Hef, Save the Jeep!, “Pass That Bottle”, Reason #5716 That Trump Was Elected, Always Check Their References, Not That There Was Ever Any Question, But . . . and What Rhymes with Witch?

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Teresa Palmer, his Vintage Babe is Elsa Lanchester, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Stuart Weitzman. At Dustbury, it’s Sheri Moon Zombie and Madison Beer.

Thanks to everyone for the links!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: This Space Deliberately Left Blank

Posted on | October 3, 2017 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: This Space Deliberately Left Blank

— compiled by Wombat-socho

News Flash: Boys and Girls Are Different
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Silent Running
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: A Different Demi
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
EBL

Thank You, ‘Far-Right’ Lesbian!
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.25.17
Proof Positive

A Cover-Up in Connecticut?
EBL

Feminist Group Offers $5,000 Grants to Promote Anti-Male Hatred on Campus
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.26.17
Proof Positive
EBL

The Incorruptible Roy Moore Wins
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.27.17
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.28.17
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.29.17
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers this week:

  1. EBL (11)
  2. Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery.


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Category: FMJRA Award

In The Mailbox: 10.02.17

Posted on | October 2, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.02.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


The FMJRA and Rule 5 Monday will be posted later tonight. Apologies for the delay.


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Don Malarkey, RIP
Twitchy: PuffHo Makes Walking Around Las Vegas With A Machine Gun Sound Like A Breeze
Louder With Crowder: NBA Commissioner Takes A Stand, Bans Kneeling During Anthem


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Cross-Dressing Lunatics Are Running The Asylum
American Power: No, Trump Didn’t Botch The Puerto Rico Crisis, also, Niven & Pournelle, The Mote In God’s Eye
American Thinker: Everything (That’s Not Racism) Is Sexism
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Over 50 Dead From Shooter In Las Vegas
BLACKFIVE: Katharine Ashe, The Duke
Bring The HEAT: Prayer
CDR Salamander: Puerto Rico, From The Outside In
Da Tech Guy: Crook County Illinois “Soda Tax” Fueling “Free” Health Care, Pensions, also, How People Respond To Others When Self Is The Focus
Don Surber: How Trump Beat The NFL
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Groundwork Being Laid
Fred On Everything: A Vet Remembers – A Bad Mood, A Six-pack, And A Typewriter
The Geller Report: Footage Of Vegas Shooter At Anti-Trump Protest
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also, Hoge Vs. Kimberlin Et Al. News
Jammie Wearing Fools: Vile CBS News Exec Fired After Las Vegas Comments
Joe For America: Antifa Planning Civil War To Overthrow Government On November 4?
JustOneMinute: Horror In Las Vegas
Legal Insurrection: Tom Petty Fighting For His Life
Power Line: Edmonton Terrorist Is Somali Refugee, also, Democrats Struggle To Survive In Iowa
Shark Tank: “The Future Of Marijuana” Lights Up In Florida
Shot In The Dark: As The North Loop Burns
STUMP: Meep Media – Give Me Brain Candy
The Jawa Report: OJ Released
The Political Hat: On The Las Vegas Massacre
This Ain’t Hell: Aid To Puerto Rico, also, Hate Crimes At The Air Force Academy?
Weasel Zippers: Hillary Comments On Vegas Shooting, also, Geraldo Rivera Calls BS On San Juan Mayor’s Flase Trump Blame. “I’m Here. Who Is Dying?”
Mark Steyn: The Cat In The Racist Hat, also, Slaughter On The Strip


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CBS Executive Fired After Saying No Sympathy for Victims in Las Vegas

Posted on | October 2, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

She’s a Columbia University Law School alumna:

CBS fired a legal executive Monday after she wrote on Facebook that she was not “sympathetic” to the victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas.
“I’m actually not even sympathetic [because] country music fans often are Republican gun toters,” former executive Hayley Geftman-Gold wrote.
At least 59 people were killed and more than 520 were injured after a gunman opened fire at a country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday night.
“This individual, who was with us for approximately one year, violated the standards of our company and is no longer an employee of CBS,” the network said in a statement Monday.
“Her views as expressed on social media are deeply unacceptable to all of us at CBS. Our hearts go out to the victims in Las Vegas and their families,” the network wrote.

The Daily Caller broke the story of Geftman-Gold’s comments.

Meanwhile, we still do not know the motive of the Las Vegas shooter, Stephen Paddock. It is known that Paddock was a gambler who had “made several large gambling transactions in recent weeks”:

On several occasions, Stephen Paddock gambled more than $10,000 per day — and in some cases more than than $20,000 and $30,000 a day — at Las Vegas casinos, according to an NBC News source who read the suspect’s Multiple Currency Transaction Reports (CTR) and a casino gaming executive.

Although there is an army of Internet sleuths trying to find clues to Paddock’s motive, I have seen nothing definitive so far. Of course, this hasn’t stopped idiots from speculating and expressing stupid opinions.

If you don’t know who Charles Clymer is, search the Twitter hashtag #StopClymer. About three years ago, Clymer emerged as a leading “male feminist,” but it turned out he was just another abusive “progressive” a–hole. So then he announced he was “genderqueer” and demanded to be addressed with the pronouns “they/them.” That this selfish creep decided to exploit a tragedy for politics isn’t really surprising.

 

Category: Crime, Nevada

Mass Shooting in Las Vegas

Posted on | October 2, 2017 | 1 Comment

Police in Las Vegas have identified 64-year-old Stephen Paddock as the perpetrator of what the Associated Press is calling the deadliest mass shooting in American history. Police say Paddock, from Mesquite, Nev., opened fire on the crowd at a country music festival:

A gunman perched high on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas Strip casino unleashed a shower of bullets down on an outdoor country music festival below, killing at least 50 people and wounding more than 200 as tens of thousands of frantic concert-goers screamed and ran for their lives, officials said Monday. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Country music star Jason Aldean was performing Sunday night at the end of the three-day Route 91 Harvest Festival when the gunman opened fire across the street from inside the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino. SWAT teams quickly descended on the concert and the casino, and officers used explosives to get into the hotel room where the suspect was inside, authorities said. The gunman died at the scene and was identified by Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo as Stephen Paddock, 64. A motive was not immediately known. . . .
In addition to Paddock, police said they located a woman who may have been his roommate — Marilou Danley, 62. Lombardo said they believe this was a “lone wolf” attack.

Until we have definite information about Paddock’s motive, it is futile to speculate, but why target a country music festival? Recall that when the Pulse nightclub shooting happened in Orlando, many people rushed to claim that “homophobia” was the motive, before it was discovered that the gunman was a Muslim inspired by ISIS. If a shooting at a gay nightclub is immediately presumed to be inspired by homophobia, what should we presume about a shooting at a Jason Aldean concert?

Not that I’m presuming anything, you understand, but I’m just reminding you of how liberals jump to conclusions about such things.

 

Category: Crime

Transgender Social Contagion Reminds School Counselor of Salem in 1692

Posted on | October 1, 2017 | 5 Comments

We have previously discussed the “social contagion” by which so-called “rapid onset” transgenderism appears to be spreading among young people. And it is obvious that the education system is part of the problem. The feminist blog 4th Wave Now, which has become a clearinghouse for women concerned about this issue, recently got this comment:

When traveling for business recently, I sat next to a school counselor on the plane, and as we chatted about this and that, I gently raised this topic. She said something very interesting. She said that at her school, it has been nothing less than something straight out of the pages of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” — and eerily so. Much like the mass hysteria in the 1600s of Salem girls overcome with fits and trances as they thought themselves possessed and plagued by “witchcraft,” so the sudden-onset trans phenomenon has swept through her high school. She said that you can see the patterns ripple across friend groups, and teens who never experienced “symptoms” before, are suddenly at 15 and 16, making trans declarations and then reconstructing stories of their lives that assert that the “wrong body” trouble was present in them all along, lurking but unrecognized. She expressed deep concern about finding some way to mitigate or dampen what she called this “emotional contagion” because the only option the school is given is affirmation without question. And all the books the parents are reading are saying “affirm or die,” so if you raise a peep about any other kind of possibility of exploring alternatives to medical transition, you are threatened with the potential liability of having caused a suicide. She actually welled up in tears at one point as she spoke about her sense of helplessness at watching this spin out of control. Is this a return to the dynamics of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Salem witch trials? Or, has this kind of suggestibility been with us all along and teens are especially susceptible? The outbreak of fits related to “witchcraft” was a case of what some have called “social terror as communal contagion.” How might the forces of suggestibility be at work now? And is there any way to diffuse them? What kind of “Crucible” are we now going through and what will be the lasting impacts on these teens’ lives as they grow up? What play would Arthur Miller be composing today about the teen trans trend?

Exactly! If you know anything about psychology, you know that suggestibility varies greatly between individuals. Some people are easily persuaded by any clever pitch, and others are not. However, young people are quite generally vulnerable to suggestion, and the idea of transgenderism as a panacea for certain adolescent social problems is being pitched constantly online in blogs and YouTube videos that serve to glamorize this cult. The comparison to the Salem Witch Trials is apt.

 

Category: Education, The Transgender Cult
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