In The Mailbox: 08.14.17

Posted on | August 14, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.14.17

Rule 5 Monday (possibly Late Night With Rule 5 Monday) will post later today.

OVER THE TRANSOM
First Street Journal: Politically Incorrect Denunciations
EBL: A Man For All Seasons – The Devil Speech
Twitchy: Bernie Sanders Deletes, Rephrases Tweet Blaming President Trump For Inspiring Violence
Louder With Crowder: Ted Cruz Pwns The New York Times
According To Hoyt: Fools To The Left Of Me, Clowns To The Right
Vox Popoli: Stupidity Is No Substitute For Strategy

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Richard Spencer Is Not A Leader
American Power: Is Charlottesville Really What’s Going On In America?, also, John Jakes North And South
American Thinker: Women Can(‘t) Do Everything Men Can Do
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Identity Politics And The Liberal Crackup
BLACKFIVE: Sandra Brown Seeing Red
Bring The HEAT: In Which Pierre Sprey Tries To Argue Against The F-35
Da Tech Guy: The Left Gets The Body They (And The Media) Have Sought For A Year, also, Report From Louisiana – Heads Are Rolling In New Orleans, also also, Refusing To Flash The Gang Sign
Don Surber: Trump May Get A 53rd Republican Senator, also, Accidentally Making Trump’s Case On North Korea
Dustbury: Strange Search-Engine Queries, also, Hydroplane Into Fame
The Geller Report: Sweden Tells Iranian Christian Woman Facing Deportation It’s “Her Problem She Decided To Become Christian”, also, Here’s What Happens Between Prayers In The Mosque
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: White Nationalists Being Outed On Twitter – One Lost His Job
Joe For America: NFL Now Bracing For Fallout From Marshawn Lynch Protest
JustOneMinute: Write It And Weep, also, Doubling Down On Crazy
Power Line: Let’s Not Forget How The North Korea Crisis Originated, also, Did The Charlottesville Police Stand Down?
Shark Tank: Trump Right About Calling Out “Many Sides” Of “hatred” And “Bigotry”
Shot In The Dark: Charlottesville Was The Goal All Along
STUMP: Cook County Soda Tax – Somebody Please Make It Stop
The Jawa Report: Can You Help Out A Fellow American?
The Political Hat: Progressive Privilege Of Privacy
This Ain’t Hell: Army Nurse Katie Blanchard Doused With Gasoline & Set Afire By Civilian Co-Worker, also, Army Colonel Awarded $8.4 Million In Blog Defamation Case
Weasel Zippers: Trump Refuses To Take Call From Maduro “Until Democracy Is Restored”, also, Gun-Grabber Shannon Watts Blames NRA, Gun Laws For Charlottesville Violence
Mark Steyn: Notably White Sweethearts, also, The Heil To Die On

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Category: Linkagery

#Charlottesville: The Left Unexpectedly Falls in Love With the Word ‘Terrorism’

Posted on | August 13, 2017 | 2 Comments

Did a cartoon frog inspire a terrorist attack?

When Micah Johnson assassinated five police officers in Dallas last year, the Left was eager to evade the most obvious explanation: This was a terrorist act inspired by a hate movement called Black Lives Matter.

Fast-forward 13 months, and a white guy named James Fields is accused of plowing his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of anti-Nazi counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. Now, the Left has decided that the word “terrorism” must be applied to this act of criminal violence, and that the chain of causation goes all the way to the White House.

The “Democrats with bylines” in the media are exploiting this atrocity to advance their partisan political narrative: Republicans are racists, and the only way that white people can disavow their blood guilt is to vote Democrat. (This is also, not coincidentally, the only way to avoid blame for homophobia, “rape culture” and global warming.) Nobody on the Left wants to mention the parallels between the July 2016 terrorist act in Dallas and the August 2017 terrorist act in Charlottesville, or to examine the discrepancies in how these events were reported by the major media, because to do so would expose the crudeness of the partisan propaganda that nowadays passes for “journalism.” Let anyone examine the media’s coverage of the Dallas shooting and see if they were as diligent in documenting Micah Johnson’s background as they have been in the case of James Fields and the atrocity in Charlottesville.

Because the media knew that Black Lives Matter was a Democrat Party propaganda operation, they went out of their way to suggest that the Dallas shooting was an aberration — the deed of a lone madman — whereas in Charlottesville, it is being suggested, James Fields was basically a drone, programmed by Republicans to kill black people. The more obvious conclusion is that James Fields was a dimwit loser:

Samantha Bloom, Mr. Fields’ mother, told a Blade reporter her son texted her Friday to say he had dropped his cat off at her Monclova Township apartment so he could go to an “alt-right” rally in Virginia.
“I told him to be careful,” Ms. Bloom said. “[And] if they’re going to rally to make sure he’s doing it peacefully.”
It didn’t appear that happened, she said tearfully.
She had returned from dinner Saturday evening unaware that her son was involved and had not yet been contacted by authorities.
He had told her about the rally last week, but didn’t offer details about its extremist nature.
“I thought it had something to do with Trump,” she said.
“I try to stay out of his political views,” she said. “I don’t get too involved.”
She said he had moved out of her apartment “five or six months ago” to his own Maumee apartment, but she declined to give the address. Ms. Bloom said they moved to northwest Ohio from Florence, Kentucky, about a year ago for her job.

As I pointed out Saturday night, it seems that James Field enlisted in the Army in 2015 and flunked out of basic training. Why is it that the appeal of “white supremacy” is always irresistible to inferior white people?

Whatever the political fallout from this story, I think we may safely conclude that James Fields was not the sharpest tool in the shed. The appropriate conservative response to such an incident is to remain calm and resist being drawn into the media’s blame-game narrative.

Let me get this straight..Obama was zero % responsible for Black Lives Matter riots but Trump is 100% responsible 4 Nazi's? #Charlottesville pic.twitter.com/CEBkRe4G8C

— rider writer (@HBwriterMike) August 12, 2017

If I was a 20-year-old guy with a Dodge Challenger, I'd be picking up girls, not ramming a crowd. https://t.co/kAze4NSI7U #Charlottesville

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) August 13, 2017

Category: Media Bias, Racism, Terrorism, Virginia

FMJRA 2.0: Sorcerer

Posted on | August 12, 2017 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

The Transgender Victimhood Narrative Encounters Inevitable Difficulties
Welcome To My Playpen
The Political Hat

Fat Feminists, Google Engineers and Why Didn’t Eric Bolling Listen to Me?
Welcome To My Playpen
A View From The Beach
Adam Piggott
EBL

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

In The Mailbox: 08.08.17
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Fake News: The Media Are Lying About James Damore’s Google ‘Manifesto’
Welcome To My Playpen
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.09.17
Proof Positive
EBL

SJWs Attacking Lesbian @ArielleScarcell for . . . Well, Being a Lesbian, Really
The DaleyGator
A View From The Beach
Adam Piggott
EBL

Google’s Free Speech* Code
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.10.17
Proof Positive
EBL

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
EBL

Dadsplaining for @cynthiablee: Women, Victimhood and the #Google Memo
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.11.17
Proof Positive
EBL

The #Charlottesville Madness

Posted on | August 12, 2017 | 1 Comment

At this point — it’s about 7:25 p.m. ET — police have still not identified the suspect who drove a car into a crowd protesting against a neo-Nazi gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia. We know that a 32-year-old woman was killed, and dozens more injured, but we don’t know who did it, and therefore we don’t know why it happened.

Caleb Howe at Red State has some disturbing video of the attack.

UPDATE: Now the suspect is identified:

Col Martin Kumer, the superintendent of Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail, told the Guardian that 20-year-old James Fields of Ohio had been arrested following the attack.
“He has been charged with second degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and failing to stop at an accident that resulted in a death,” Kumer said in an email.
Ohio state vehicle registration records show that a Dodge Challenger car with a licence plate matching the one used in the attack is registered to Fields at his address in Maumee.

So at least we know that much. Honestly, if I was a young man and had a nice car like, I’d be picking up girls, not ramming it into a crowd. But the world has gone crazy, and nothing makes sense anymore.

UPDATE II: Judging from this report, that Fields was in the Army less than four months in 2015, my guess is he washed out of basic training.

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 08.11.17

Posted on | August 11, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.11.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Warped
EBL: Bannon, McMaster, And Kelly
Twitchy: Patricia Arquette Tries To School Dana Loesch On 2nd Amendment, Fails Miserably
Louder With Crowder: Criminally Unfunny Chelsea Handler Calls For Military Coup Against Trump – But It Gets Better!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #52 – The Nice Guy Episode, also, Friday Links And Resident Hawtness
American Power: Google CEO Sundar Pichai Should Resign, also, Bryan Ward-Perkins, The Fall Of Rome
American Thinker: Russian Collusion In Democrat Inner Circle?
Animal Magnetism: Rule 5 Machine Gun Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For August 11
Bring The HEAT: New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Year’s DNC Hack
Da Tech Guy: The Fundamentals, also, Very Old Fruitcake
Don Surber: Palin Wins A Battle In Her War On The NYT
Dustbury: Forget Your Frickin’ Network
The Geller Report: Croatian Priest Explains “Islam Is Worse Evil Than Naziism”
Hogewash: Blognet, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Joe For America: Democrats Fighting Over Party’s Stance On Abortion – Is Pro-Life Side Winning?
JustOneMinute: Marketing Genius – Building An Invisible Wall
Power Line: More On The Leftist Judge Who Approved Mueller’s Grand Jury, also, Coming – Lilla-Livered Liberalism?
Shark Tank: The Most Asinine Argument For Abortion In The History Of Mankind, also, Rick Scott’s Bilingual Opposition To Venezuela’s Maduro Regime
Shot In The Dark: While We Wait For That “Tidal Wave Of Right Wing Terror”
STUMP: Editing The James Damore Google Diversity Memo – Improve The Summary And Focus (With GIFs!)
The Jawa Report: Where’s Dr. Rusty? At Last, Contact! Edition, also, Bombs Away!
The Political Hat: The Transgender Agenda
This Ain’t Hell: Montana Phony Coastie ID’d, also, China Warns On North Korea
Weasel Zippers: First Female SEAL Officer Candidate Quits After A Week, also, Newsweek Loses Shit Over Trump Women Wearing High Heels, also also Far Left’s New Idiotic Idea – Stop Economic Growth
Mark Steyn: Liberty & Immigration, also, Who’s The Crazy?

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Category: Linkagery

Dadsplaining for @cynthiablee: Women, Victimhood and the #Google Memo

Posted on | August 11, 2017 | 1 Comment

Dear Professor Lee:
Your article (“I’m a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you”) is very interesting and well-argued, and far be it from me to question your professional qualifications or your experiential authority. For a woman to say, “This is what it’s like for me as a woman in situation X” — whether the situation is childbirth or being catcalled on the streets — puts any man at a disadvantage, if he wishes to criticize whatever argument is based on such distinctly female experiences. In this sense, the feminist slogan “the personal is political” becomes a trump card in the deck, so that as soon as a woman throws it onto the table, a wise man walks away from the game. Perhaps you see why this problem is directly related to James Damore’s now-legendary Google memo.

Ceding that I know nothing of working conditions at Google or elsewhere in Silicon Valley, and most certainly cannot speak for the experiences of women in high-tech careers, nevertheless there are general points in your argument which need to be critically examined, e.g.:

It’s important to appreciate the background of endless skepticism that every woman in tech faces, and the resulting exhaustion we feel as the legitimacy of our presence is constantly questioned.

Notice my emphasis on your use of the word “feel” here. My own feelings have been hurt a thousand times in the course of my career, and I might complain of “exhaustion” at annoying patterns of behavior I’ve encountered in the workplace, and the bottom line is this: Nobody cares.

Although I have done a great many different jobs in my life, no one has ever hired me for the job of Director of Emotional Empathy. And while I have often worked in diverse environments, it was never my job to be Token White Male, hired to comply with an implicit quota.

Here again, Professor Lee, you can perceive the relevance of my point to the situation at Google, a company that recently won a court decision in a federal Labor Department investigation of the alleged “gender gap” in its personnel policies. Every male employee at Google must be aware that the company has been under pressure to prove that its policies are fair to women. The company has spent vast sums to hire lawyers to defend itself against the accusation of sexism, and must consider the potential of even greater costs for further litigation. Ergo, woe be unto any male employee at Google who doesn’t watch his step around The Woman Issue.

Let me now quote your argument more extensively, Professor Lee:

If, as the manifesto’s defenders claim, the population averages do not have anything to say about individual Googlers, who are all exceptional, then why is Google the subject of the manifesto’s arguments at all? What do averages have to do with hiring practices at a company that famously hires fewer than one percent of applicants? In the name of the rational empiricism and quantitative rigor that the manifesto holds so dear, shouldn’t we insist that it only cite studies that specifically speak to the tails of the distribution — to the actual pool of women Google draws from?
For example, we could look to the percentage of women majoring in computer science at highly selective colleges and universities. Women currently make up about 30 percent of the computer science majors at Stanford University, one key source of Google’s elite workforce. Harvey Mudd College, another elite program, has seen its numbers grow steadily for many years, and is currently at about 50 percent women in their computer science department.
Yet Google’s workforce is just 19 percent female. So even if we imagine for a moment that the manifesto is correct and there is some biological ceiling on the percentage of women who will be suited to work at Google — less than 50 percent of their workforce — isn’t it the case that Google, and tech generally, is almost certainly not yet hitting that ceiling?

Isn’t it obvious, Professor Lee, that statistics about the number of women currently enrolled in computer science programs do not tell us anything about previous discrimination in Google’s personnel policies? That is to say, when Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin (both male, incidentally) in 1998, they recruited employees from the pool of tech workers then available, most of whom were likewise male. There was no widespread K-12 educational crusade to teach STEM to girls in 1998 and so, as the Google workforce grew, the company necessarily acquired a disproportionate male-to-female ratio of employees. Even if the company had, five or 10 years ago, consciously begun recruiting female employees to remedy this “gender gap,” and even if its current policies were entirely gender-blind, there would still be a residual disproportion in numbers, inherited from those early days when the company was just Larry and Sergey hiring buddies they knew in Silicon Valley.

You see, Professor Lee, that we need not use anthropological arguments about male-female differences to understand this. It’s just common sense, supplemented with a bit of basic economics. And now, to counter your playing of The Gender Card — telling us how women in tech feel about male skepticism toward their qualifications — permit me to throw into this game The Dad Card. Raising children (and I’ve got six of them, ages 14 to 28) is an experience that is quite educational, and until you’ve accomplished this task successfully, you are deficient in certain knowledge that can be learned in no other way than by experience.

“It’s not fair!”

Every parent must learn how to deal with this childish complaint. You have made a decision, denying the child something he desires, or requiring him to do something he doesn’t want to do, and he responds by calling into question the justice of your parental authority.

Well, on what basis is a 5-year-old qualified to sit in judgment of the parent? If Mom says he can’t go swimming until he picks up all the Lego blocks on his bedroom floor, he must either comply with her decision or else forfeit his trip to the swimming pool. “It’s not fair!” he will complain, when the time arrives for the trip to the pool and Mom, finding the Legos still scattered on the floor, says he can’t go swimming with his friends.

The child will then predictably appeal to Dad, asking him to overrule Mom’s decision. This is when Dad gets the chance to teach the child an important lesson: “Who ever told you life was fair?”

You can go through life sulking, pouting and whining like a frustrated toddler, or you can grow up and become a responsible adult.

Everybody’s running around claiming to be a victim of social injustice — e.g., women are oppressed by “Eurocentric beauty standards” — which I consider to be evidence that parents have failed to do their basic job of teaching children to endure hardship without complaint.

If you sincerely believe your employer is treating you unfairly, quit. Go find another job somewhere else, but whatever you do, don’t sit around whining about your grievances, which will only have the effect of undermining the morale of your co-workers. Nor would I ever advise anyone to file a discrimination complaint against an employer, because this expands the problem by involving courts or regulatory bureaucrats in the company’s business, which always impairs productivity.

Unfortunately, Professor Lee, James Damore didn’t make these points in his Google memo, and so this unpleasant duty has fallen to me. Could I complain that it’s unfair that my time has been diverted to this task? Perhaps, but almost nobody cares about the value of my time.

Let the reader contemplate the value of the lesson I’ve attempted to teach this Stanford University professor. Ask yourself if any other commentator on the Google controversy has thought to make the points I’ve made. If you think my 1,300-word argument is valuable, you can share it with your friends by linking it on your Facebook page, or sending it by email or Twitter. And if you believe the two hours I’ve spent composing this argument have any value, then a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour would make it worth $14.50 — which you could pay me via PayPal.

Whatever you think is fair compensation, I would be most grateful, but if you decide not to hit the tip jar, don’t worry about me suing you for discrimination. The readers are my bosses in this fee-for-service arrangement, and I try to avoid complaining, because I’d prefer to keep the federal government from interfering in my workplace. What does freedom mean, if we can’t run our own lives without being threatened by whiny misfits who want to sue us because life is unfair? Grow up!

Fr. /v/
John Flynt is fearmongering, capitalizing on Google's self-victimhood after the #GoogleManifesto leak then drops #GamerGate.
Heh. pic.twitter.com/LnpVj0QrUu

— Hom-Ru-Beoulve (@rugliabeoulve2) August 11, 2017

WILL DARWINISM KILL FEMINISM? https://t.co/MCreraiF2c

h/t @BadgerPundit pic.twitter.com/Leb6nCA4Lv

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) August 11, 2017

Category: Economics, Sex Trouble

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | August 11, 2017 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

The knowledge that one has been hoodwinked: they took my cockandballs.
thinker
I sit on a step before a temple ruin. My flesh is become a metaphor for it.
A cautionary tale. One should reject every Progressive utterance.
There. Is. No. Corporate. Guilt. Not your country; not your civilization; not your gender.
Their nonsense caught me in college and lasted as long as the decadent drug debauch.
Liberated from manhood, I can only now reject being a victim, and dedicate my remaining heartbeats to opposing Progressive evil wherever it seeks to corrode and destroy that which is good, true, and lasting.
—
Picture via Darleen