The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

“I Said: ‘Cut Back On The Tariffs. Your Economies May Do Better Than Keith Richards Trying To Sell Face Cream.'”

Posted on | June 10, 2018 | Comments Off on “I Said: ‘Cut Back On The Tariffs. Your Economies May Do Better Than Keith Richards Trying To Sell Face Cream.'”

by Smitty

Category: Uncategorized

Another Reason to Avoid Massachusetts

Posted on | June 10, 2018 | 2 Comments

 

Nobody wants to live in Massachusetts. which has the lowest total fertility rates (1.54 average lifetime births per woman) in the United States. The total fertility rate in Tennessee is 1.82, almost 20% higher than Massachusetts. This has political consequences, as Massachusetts has watched its number of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives decline significantly in the past several decades. When John Kennedy was elected President in 1960, Massachusetts was the 10th most populous U.S. state, and had 14 seats in the House. Today, Massachusetts is the 14th most populous state and has only nine seats in the House, the same as Tennessee, which ranks 17th in population. Because the Massachusetts delegation is all-Democrat, the feeble birth rate in the state is a factor in the declining fortunes of the Democrat Party. Massachusetts is aborting itself into political irrelevance, but doesn’t seem to understand this.

They have superior institutions of higher learning in Massachusetts, such as Northeastern University, a private school where the annual cost of attendance is $65,737 including room and board. What are parents paying so much for their children to learn at Northeeastern? Well, they have a department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, which offers such courses as “Gender, Social Justice, and Transnational Activism” (WMNS 3100) and “Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression in Practice and Policy” (WMNS 2800). Among the top-notch feminist scholars at Northeastern is Professor Suzanna Danuta Walters.

 

Dr. Suzanna Danuta Walters’ work centers on questions of gender, feminist theory and politics, sexuality, and popular culture and she is a frequent commentator on these issues for the media. Her most recent book, The Tolerance Trap: How God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality (NYU Press), explores how notions of tolerance limit the possibilities for real liberation and deep social belonging. This book has been the subject of numerous radio and press interviews and discussions . . . Walters’ previous book, All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America (University of Chicago Press, 2001), examined the explosion of gay visibility in culture and politics over the past 15 years and raised pressing questions concerning the politics of visibility around sexual identity. The book was a finalist for several literary awards (including the Lambda Literary Award). Her other works include books on feminist cultural theory (Material Girls: Making Sense of Feminist Cultural Theory), mothers and daughters in popular culture (Lives Together/Worlds Apart: Mothers and Daughters in Popular Culture) and numerous articles and book chapters on feminist theory, queer theory and LGBT studies, and popular culture. She is currently working on a book examining the state of both feminist theory and politics in an era of “call-out feminism” and intense social media attention.

Professor Walters will teach your kids about “gender, feminist theory and politics, sexuality, and popular culture,” for $65,737 a year. However, you can read the work of Professor Walters for free:

Why can’t we hate men?

That’s the headline on a column that Professor Walters wrote for the Washington Post. Permit me to quote her concluding paragraph:

So men, if you really are #WithUs and would like us to not hate you for all the millennia of woe you have produced and benefited from, start with this: Lean out so we can actually just stand up without being beaten down. Pledge to vote for feminist women only. Don’t run for office. Don’t be in charge of anything. Step away from the power. We got this. And please know that your crocodile tears won’t be wiped away by us anymore. We have every right to hate you. You have done us wrong. #BecausePatriarchy. It is long past time to play hard for Team Feminism. And win.

This inspired me to look around my home office here in the basement and ask: Where are the benefits of “all the millennia of woe” I’ve produced? Where is this power I should “step away from”? Certainly, I can’t afford $65,737 a year to send my kid to Northeastern University, and it’s unlikely that the Washington Post would ever publish anything I wrote about “gender, feminist theory and politics, sexuality, and popular culture.” On the other hand, I would never want my byline to appear in that thoroughly dishonest newspaper, nor would I want my children to go anywhere near Northeastern University.

Professor Walters is a liar. Northeastern University, like the Washington Post, is an institution devoted to satanic wickedness. No honest person would be associated with such manifestations of evil, and Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It.

There are many reasons to avoid Massachusetts. Now you have one more.



 

 

Category: Abortion, Education, Massachusetts, Sex Trouble

FMJRA 2.0: Lost In America

Posted on | June 10, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Overall Beauty
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

‘Dickie Rebellion’ Gets Fired
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Letters From Home
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

NY Times: ‘Motherhood Is Hitler’
A View From The Beach
EBL

Florida Child Pornography Suspect Resists Arrest, Which Proves to Be a Bad Decision
EBL

A Narrow Victory for Liberty
EBL

Not Exactly News: Democrats Are Lying
EBL

‘Gender,’ Nature and Sexual Economics
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.04.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

The Democrat Football League
EBL

‘Doxxing’ and Secondary Boycotts
Rotten Chestnuts
Proof Positive
EBL

On Courtesy and ‘Gender Equality’
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.05.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Melinda Gates, SJW
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.06.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 06.07.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

TV Shows I Never Watched
EBL

NY Times Reporter and Senate Staffer Caught in Sex-for-Leaks Scandal
357 Magnum
American Digest
A View From The Beach
EBL

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
EBL

Another Dead Cishet White Male
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.08.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers this week:

  1. EBL (20)
  2. A View From The Beach (10)
  3. Proof Positive (7)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!


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In The Mailbox: 06.08.18

Posted on | June 8, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.08.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Deadline to submit links for the FMJRA is Saturday at noon; links for Rule 5 Friday are due by midnight on Saturday. All times Pacific. Remember that links to posts before last Saturday and after today don’t count, though I’ll probably hold over the June 9 links until next week’s FMJRA.


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Anthony Bourdain, RIP
Twitchy: Daily Caller Scoop On Ali Watkins & James Wolfe Could Spell Big Trouble For Buzzfeed
Louder With Crowder: Transwomen Win Girls’ Track Meet – The Looks On The Girls’ Faces Say It All
According To Hoyt: Awards, Money, And Writing, Oh My
Monster Hunter Nation: Sign David Weber’s Petition In Support Of Free Speech At Cons
Vox Popoli: DC To Marvel – “Hold My Beer”


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Links & Chicks – The Douchebag Planet Edition
American Power: Charles Krauthammer, Things That Matter
American Thinker: Tommy Robinson “Disappears” – Free Speech In England Is Dead
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Government Theft Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For June 8
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: The Obvious Question On The Philly Teacher Case
Don Surber: Suddenly The Media Cares About Privacy
Dustbury: Close-In Orbit
First Street Journal: The Silliness Of The Libertarian Party
The Geller Report: Austria Plans To Shut Down Mosques, Expel Foreign-Funded Imams, also, France To Set Free 50 Convicted Terrorists, 450 Radicalized Prisoners Next Year
Hogewash: Blognet, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Legal Insurrection: Charles Krauthammer Shares Dire Prognosis, also, Former Co-Workers Allege Joy Reid Threatened Violence, Was Homophobic
Power Line: Charles Krauthammer – My Fight Is Over, also, Thoughts From The Ammo Line
Shark Tank: Marco Rubio, The Amigo’s Amigo
Shot In The Dark: Toxic Feminization
STUMP: Social Security & Medicare Trust Funds – What’s Real?
The Jawa Report: Iran Confesses Its Facilitation Of Al-Qaeda
The Political Hat: UK Labour Party Suspends Member For Pointing Out Party’s Insane Transgender Policy
This Ain’t Hell: Guard Lieutenant Claims He Was Ordered To Drive M577 Through Richmond, also, Former Sailor Pardoned By Trump Says He’s Suing Comey & Obama
Victory Girls: The Death of Anthony Bourdain, And Thoughts On Mental Health
Volokh Conspiracy: DOJ Rejects Salvadoran Woman’s Asylum Application For Providing “Material Support” To Terrorists – As A Slave Laborer
Weasel Zippers: Country Time To Pay Fines When Bureaucrats Target Kids’ Lemonade Stands, also, Gay Democrat Aims To “Piss Off” President Who Supports Gay Marriage By Kissing Husband In Campaign Ad
Mark Steyn: Trailer Trash Sexbots


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Another Dead Cishet White Male

Posted on | June 8, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

If you are a heterosexual white man, feminists want you to die. So you can be sure that Jessica Valenti, Amanda Marcotte, Jaclyn Friedman and all their man-hating supporters are cheerfully celebrating the suicide of CNN’s celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain:

Chef Anthony Bourdain was found dead in his hotel room in Paris, by a close friend. CNN has reported that the cause of death was suicide. He was 61 years old. . . .
The announcement of Bourdain’s death, so soon after the suicide of Kate Spade, follows a report from the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) that the U.S. Suicide Rate has increased over the past twenty years. According to the study, not only have the rates of suicide “increased in nearly every state over the past two decades” but in half of those states, the rates have gone up “more than 30 percent.”
Suicide has accounted for 45,000 deaths in 2016, according to the CDC, which is what prompted the CDC division in Atlanta to investigate the rates of suicide from 1999 to 2016. . . .

Consider this: From 1992 to 2012, Democrats won four of six presidential elections, controlling the White House for 16 out of 24 years, interrupted only by the eight-year tenure of G.W. Bush. If many people now feel that life in America is not worth living, maybe there’s a reason why. It’s not just a matter of who wins or loses elections, or which party possesses the governing majority. What has happened is that the remorseless expansion of the bureaucratic Welfare State slowly drains meaning and purpose from the private lives of individuals. An idolatry of power takes hold in the public mind, so that government replaces God as the source of moral value, and the individual is diminished to insignificance.

Does any of this explain the suicide of any particular person? Probably not, but there is a social trend, you see, that can be traced by many different metrics — more divorces and fewer babies, increasing numbers of fatherless households, drug addiction, sexually transmitted diseases, etc. — indicating a downward slide into decadence and depravity.

We do not know why Anthony Bourdain hanged himself at the luxurious Le Chambard hotel, while so many other people without fame and fortune choose every day to keep living amid poverty and obscurity, struggling to survive against the odds. What inspired Bourdain’s despair?

While accepting the Peabody award in 2013, Bourdain described how he approached his work.
“We ask very simple questions: What makes you happy? What do you eat? What do you like to cook? And everywhere in the world we go and ask these very simple questions,” he said, “we tend to get some really astonishing answers.”
Bourdain was twice divorced. He was married to Ottavia Busia from 2007 to 2016 and Nancy Putkoski from 1985 to 2005.
He leaves behind one daughter, Ariane, whom he had with Busia.
The celebrity chef was dating Italian actress Asia Argento — who has accused movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault and has since become one of his most vocal victims.
Bourdain recently gushed over Argento’s explosive speech about Weinstein and sexual harassment in the film industry at Cannes Film Festival, according to Vulture.
“It was absolutely fearless to walk right into the lion’s den and say what she said, the way she said it. It was an incredibly powerful moment, I thought,” he said. “I am honored to know someone who has the strength and fearlessness to do something like that.”

“What makes you happy?” Bourdain asked, but apparently nothing ever truly made him happy. He had everything, but it was not enough.

He was a heterosexual white man — a possessor of “privilege” — and his death will no doubt bring happiness to the wicked hearts of feminists.

There is something about being hated by bad people that should give us hope, and inspire our determination to survive just one more day. When evil people quite literally want you dead (and that’s what feminism’s anti-male agenda is about) every day you keep living is a victory.

Y’know, if you can just hang on until Nov. 6, it’s possible Donald Trump and the Republicans can turn back the “red wave” in the mid-terms. This would break the hearts of every feminist who wants Nancy Pelosi to take back the Speaker’s gavel so Democrats can impeach the President.

Consider that in late December, Democrats held a 13-point edge (49.1% to 36.1%) in the so-called “generic” congressional ballot. By June 1, that advantage had faded to barely 3 points (43.0% to 39.8%), and the economic news lately is so good as to defy all expectations. There is every reason to hope that the evening of Nov. 6 will be a crushing disappointment to Jessica Valenti and her hateful allies, and don’t you want to live to see them crying the tears of unfathomable sadness?

Your satanic enemies want you dead. Therefore defy the Devil, and live.

 

Category: Celebrities, Sex Trouble

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | June 8, 2018 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

He looked at the youthful photo his sister had taken.
He recalled staring into the lamp at dusk, prayerfully pondering Providence.

* * *
The recruiter had come swiftly, taking him off to join the military.
War; carnage; promotion followed.
Decades later, nominally the same but radically altered, he stood in that field, peering back at his youthful self.
“You’ve acquitted yourself well,” the rock did not say.
“Striving for the good,
mercy where you should,
peace where you could,
strength where evil stood.
Now you know that rarest thing for a warrior: rest.”
Long after his memory passed, that rock would remain.

via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

NY Times Reporter and Senate Staffer Caught in Sex-for-Leaks Scandal

Posted on | June 8, 2018 | 3 Comments

Ali Watkins worked for Politico before joining the New York Times.

The former security director for the Senate Intelligence Committee has been arrested after lying to the FBI about illegally leaking classified information to a young reporter he dated for three years. The arrest exposed James A. Wolfe as the source of multiple leaks of sensitive national security information — including details of the investigation of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page — to New York Times reporter Ali Watkins. Wolfe, 57, had been in a sexual relationship with Watkins, a 2014 Temple University graduate who previously worked for BuzzFeed and Politico before joining the Times late last year.

And after writing that lead paragraph in the Official Neutral Objective Journalism Style, now permit me to add: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Don’t ever lecture me about “journalism ethics,” you bastards.

All that “full disclosure” business about “conflicts of interest”? Trying to guilt-trip an honest man about a few free beers with Republican operatives who just happened to be useful sources? Not me, baby. I was never ashamed of smoking cigarettes with Herman Cain’s campaign director Mark Block or having beers and pizza with Rick Santorum and his finance director the weekend before the Iowa caucuses. You do whatever it takes to get the story, and there’s no shame in that. The whole point of Gonzo is to be more or less blatant about your biases, as if any reader of Hunter S. Thompson could be mistaken about his opinion of Hubert Humphrey, “a treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current.”

So, no “ethics” lectures from you thieving bastards at the New York Times, or Politico, or BuzzFeed, or whoever is currently employing Dave Weigel and his various friends in Neutral Objective Journalism. Look, Dave’s a friend of mine, and I would never burn a friend. Good relationships are based on reciprocity and trust, and I owe Dave a few favors, so I would certainly never do anything to hurt my friend Dave.

Never mind all that. Veiled threats were never my style, but I know a thing or two about the behavioral patterns of herd animals, and the universal contempt for Our President among the left-wing hacks of the D.C. press corps is hardly a secret, unlike the classified information that James Wolfe was handing over to Ali Watkins in exchange for sucking his middle-aged penis. Heckuva job there, Miss Watkins.

You do whatever it takes to get the story, but none of my sources ever expected that from me, at least not in a literal sense. Yeah, I’ve written a few paragraphs of journalistic fellatio in my time, providing favorable coverage in an effort to butter up a source, but that’s the minor currency of informational commerce in Washington, D.C.

All I ever wanted out of this miserable racket was an appointment as the first U.S. ambassador to Vanuatu, an honorable ambition. A six-figure salary from the American taxpayers as a reward for my long years toiling in the field of Neutral Objective Journalism, and why should this diplomatic post in the South Pacific go to some deep-pocket GOP campaign donor, huh? Why not give it to the man with the keen political insight that enabled him to see that, once Herman Cain got taken out by his enemies, the man to beat as the “Anyone But Mitt” candidate was a former Pennsylvania Senator then languishing at sixth place in the polls? The Santorum Surge in late 2011 didn’t just happen by coincidence, my friends. No, there was a telephone conversation, where Santorum was in the Fort Worth airport between flights, and he promised me that gig in Vanuatu. If he tells you he didn’t, he’s lying, and my close personal friend Rick is a pious Catholic, so he would never lie. Whether he actually would have delivered me that coveted ambassadorship, had he won the White House in 2012, is another question altogether. But I digress . . .

My old friend Hogan Gidley‘s working at the White House now, and he’s not the only one of my buddies who’s moved up the political food chain since I left the campaign trail after the 2012 catastrophe. Now that I’ve finally got my driver’s license back, I could conceivably return to that miserable swamp in D.C. to do some shoe-leather work, maybe reporting on how this Wolfe-Watkins connection exposes the collusion, you might say, between the “fake news” media and the corrupt “Deep State.”

All I need now is a vehicle. Just a couple thousand dollars in the tip jar ought to be enough to get my hands on an old secondhand car.

Let me make a few phone calls, and we’ll see what happens. Just crowdfund me — $5 or $10, whatever you can afford — and in a week or two, I might take my old fedora off the rack and hit the road. Selah.



 

 

Category: Fear. Loathing., Media Bias, Neutral Objective Journalism, New York Times, Shoe Leather Fund, Vanuatu

TV Shows I Never Watched

Posted on | June 7, 2018 | Comments Off on TV Shows I Never Watched

 

Feminists have an annoying habit of identifying some sort of misogynist behavior or attitude then attributing this to “society” or “culture” as a very general condemnation of “patriarchy.” An example of this is a new article about the so-called “incel” movement by feminist Sady Doyle. The article is actually an interesting history of how frustrated losers came to identify as “involuntary celibates” and developed a deranged belief system by which they justify terroristic violence.

There is a lot about this article that annoys me, however, particularly when Doyle makes reference to a couple of TV shows I never watched:

VH1’s The Pickup Artist aired for only two seasons, in 2007 and 2008. Yet it may turn out to be one of the defining pop culture products of the decade, both for what it contained — Ed Hardy! Reality competitions! Guyliner! — and for what it conveniently left out. The show featured a house full of “lovable losers,” described on screen with captions like “Scott, 26: Awkward and uneasy,” who were forced to admit on camera that they were virgins before submitting themselves to the sexual tutelage of the self-proclaimed “world’s greatest pickup artist,” Mystery.
Mystery, born Erik von Markovik, was the lead character in Neil Strauss’ bestselling 2005 PUA guide, The Game. . . .

When was the last time I watched VH-1? Honestly, I can’t remember, but it was a long time ago. Maybe the 1990s. Anyway . . .

Late-’00s papers and magazines were filled with bemused PUA coverage by male reporters. “Sure, seductionism makes me glad I don’t have a daughter running around out there,” concludes one 2007 Boston Magazine write-up. “But, ultimately, [these] lessons aren’t any nuttier than those of more culturally accepted ‘gurus.’” The New York Times not only published Strauss’ early writings on the PUA culture; it also sent one of its reporters to a club with a pickup student.
The fad even made its mark on sitcom history: How I Met Your Mother included, as part of its core ensemble, a pickup artist named Barney Stinson, played by Neil Patrick Harris. Like Mystery, Barney ran a blog, invented convoluted dating lingo, and performed magic tricks. Several of the character’s tics and catchphrases — referring to male friends as “wingmen,” shoving them in front of random women with a “haaaaaave you met [X]?” — came directly from the pages of The Game.
The PUA lifestyle had been normalized, seen not as anti-feminist extremism, but as a slightly more baroque version of standard frat-boy obnoxiousness. This was a mistake that would cost lives.

Whoa! This is an Evel Knievel-level leap of logic. Is there any evidence that, e.g., Elliot Rodger or Alek Minassian ever read anything that Neil Strauss ever wrote? Were these killers readers of Boston Magazine or the New York Times? Were they fans of How I Met Your Mother?

I’m pretty sure I’ve never watched more than five consecutive minutes of How I Met Your Mother. I don’t enjoy most sitcoms, and that one in particular never interested me. Seinfeld was awesome, and I occasionally catch an episode of The Big Bang Theory, but in general, I can’t stand TV “comedy” from the past three decades. It’s too predictable.

By the way, use of the word “wingman” as describing a buddy who assists in a pick-up attempt, was not originated by Neil Strauss. Credit for popularizing “wingman” in this context goes to Top Gun (1986), deriving from the language of fighter pilots, “Maverick” and “Ice Man.” But the basic tactic involved was understood among guys long before that movie was made. It’s just a simple application of social psychology, and isn’t any kind of nefarious patriarchal plot against women, unless you consider it wrong for guys to try to increase their chances of getting laid.

Guys getting laid is what feminists are actually against, but they never want to admit this. Feminists are anti-heterosexual, at least insofar as heterosexuality makes men happy, as I remarked Tuesday: “Feminism is about eliminating from human existence every source of male happiness — find something men like, condemn it as ‘oppressive,’ and destroy it.”

Anything a man does is bad, and everything a man says is wrong — this is the essential philosophy of feminism, in plain English. To conceal their malicious purposes, however, feminists have created a specialized jargon used to discredit all opposition to their totalitarian anti-male hate movement. It is misogyny for a male to defend his own personal interests against feminist attacks, and it is harassment for him to criticize a feminist. Having silenced all opposition to their agenda in academia, young feminists emerge from university campuses to the shocking discovery that most people in what is quaintly called “real life” do not agree with feminism’s radical anti-male/anti-heterosexual ideology.

Meanwhile, of course, there are these “incels.” Losers and weirdos who can’t get laid, who spend their time huddling online with other losers and weirdos who can’t get laid, and every once in a while, one of them goes on a rampage and murders people. Feminists want us to believe TV sitcoms and the New York Times are somehow to blame for this, because they helped popularize ideas about how guys can get laid.

It is by no means self-evident that feminists actually have anything to do with why “incels” can’t get laid. I mean, autistic freaks would have difficulty getting laid under any circumstances, and their typical mode of retaliation — random rampages targeting strangers who aren’t part of the problem — is a total loser move, naturally. Could I suggest better ways for the “incels” to fight back? Yes, but if were to publish a “Loser’s Guide to Effective Anti-Feminist Terrorism,” I’d be blamed if one of these doomed geeks actually followed my advice. So never mind that idea.

No, go ahead you unf–kable nerds — continue wasting your lives plotting revenge against the world with random rampages, tedious “manifestos” and spastic gestures on social media. The feminists will keep blaming TV shows I never watched and blogs I never read, and the world will continue descending into a Hobbesian war of all against all.



 

Category: Sex Trouble
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