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In The Mailbox: 04.27.17

Posted on | April 27, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.27.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
BattleSwarm: Chelsea Clinton Watch – “Please. God. Stop.”
EBL: Coastal Carolina Cheerleading Scandal
Twitchy: NYT Asks Conservatives, “What Did You Think Would Happen If You Wore That Miniskirt To Berkeley?”
Louder With Crowder: The View Encourages Caitlyn Jenner To Be “First Woman President”


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Europe Versus Australia
American Power: Far Left Could Help Marine Le Pen
American Thinker: Obama Bundler Judge Wrong On Sanctuary City Funding
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Canada Trade War News, Eh
Bring The HEAT: Gerald R. Ford Builders Trials
Da Tech Guy: The Only Right Answer Is To End The Department Of Education
Don Surber: I’m So Old, I Remember When The Repeal Was Dead
Dustbury: iShards
The Geller Report: Le Pen Surges Over Macron In Latest Poll
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Yale Grad Students Go On “Symbolic” Hunger Strike Where They’re Allowed To Eat
Joe For America: NYT – Proof AG Lynch Did Collude With Clinton
Power Line: Portlandia – City Of The Bankrupt, Petty, Vindictive Left
Shark Tank: Will Trump Allow Drilling Off Florida’s Eastern Coastline?
Shot In The Dark: Big Lake. Big Litter-Storm.
The Jawa Report: Total 100% Proof Allah Hates Islamic State, also, Sandcrawler PSA – Nork Nukes And You
The Political Hat: Critical Whiteness, Problematizing Whiteness, Invented Privileging Of Whiteness
This Ain’t Hell: Ex-Soldier Shoots Service Dog
War Is Boring: The Honeymoon Of The Generals
Weasel Zippers: New Book Says Obama Considered Being Gay As Young Man, also, Maxine Waters’ Latest Russia Conspiracy Theory
Megan McArdle: Trump Fixates On Canadian Softwood. You Shouldn’t.
Mark Steyn: Let’s Build The Wall And Get Canada To Pay For It, also, The White Death


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If Your Whole Campaign Was ‘We’re Gonna Build a Wall,’ You Better Build It

Posted on | April 27, 2017 | Comments Off on If Your Whole Campaign Was ‘We’re Gonna Build a Wall,’ You Better Build It

Ann Coulter takes the Republican Party to school:

What the Democrats want is for Trump to be stuck explaining why he didn’t build the wall.
Then it will be a bloodbath. Not only Trump, but also the entire GOP, is dead if he doesn’t build a wall. Republicans will be wiped out in the midterms, Democrats will have a 300-seat House majority, and Trump will have to come up with an excuse for why he’s not running for re-election.
The New York Times and MSNBC are not going to say, “We are so impressed with his growth in office, we’re going to drop all that nonsense about Russia and endorse the Republican ticket!”
No, at that point, Trump will be the worst of everything.
No one voted for Trump because of the “Access Hollywood” tape. They voted for him because of his issues; most prominently, his promise to build “a big beautiful wall.” And who’s going to pay for it? MEXICO!
You can’t say that at every campaign rally for 18 months and then not build a wall.
Do not imagine that a Trump double-cross on the wall will not destroy the Republican Party. Oh, we’ll get them back. No, you won’t. Trump wasn’t a distraction: He was the last chance to save the GOP.
Millions of Americans who hadn’t voted in 30 years came out in 2016 to vote for Trump. If he betrays them, they’ll say, “You see? I told you. They’re all crooks.”
No excuses will work. . . .

Read the whole thing. And build the freaking wall.

 

Category: Ann Coulter, Donald Trump, Immigration

Commie Homophobia in China

Posted on | April 26, 2017 | 1 Comment

LGBT activists recently got into an uproar about Chinese homophobes:

Basketball team members in China carried a banner saying “defend core socialist values” and “keep homosexuality far from campus” at a university [April 16], sparking outrage.
Ling Bing, the women’s basketball team coach at Huazhong University of Science and Technology of Central China, posted a photo of team members carrying the banner online, The New York Times reported [April 20].
“Protect traditional Chinese morals,” read the banner. “Defend core socialist values. Resist corrosion from decadent Western thoughts. Keep homosexuality far from campus.”
Upon receiving backlash for posting the picture, Ling noted what he perceived to be a “double standard” — gay students flaunt rainbow flags at graduation, but the banner held by his basketball team was deemed wrong, as reported by The New York Times.

What kind of crazy world are we living in, when the only people speaking in defense of “traditional morals” are Chinese Communists?

 

Category: China, Gays

In The Mailbox: 04.26.17

Posted on | April 26, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.26.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Self-Described “Feminist Mom” Freaks When Three-Year-Old Boy Acts Like A Boy
Michelle Malkin: Muddy Maxine Waters – What A Riot
Twitchy: Trump Tax Plan Takes Aim At High-Tax Blue States
Louder With Crowder: Ted Cruz Introduces “El Chapo Act” To Fund The Wall


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Mental Welfare Slavery
American Power: The Radical Left’s Massive Resistance
American Thinker: You Can’t Have It Both Ways
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Bring The HEAT: Green Acres
Da Tech Guy: Baldilocks – Dirty Deeds Done In North Dakota
Don Surber: Trump Debuts Tax Reform
Dustbury: Silver Standard
The Geller Report: Muslim Names Banned In China As Part Of New Counter-Terror Strategy
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Shocker – Suspect In Rape Of Nine-Year-Old Girl Had Already Been Deported
Joe For America: Trump Discovers Pentagon Paying $300 Million For “Ghost Soldiers” Under Obama
Power Line: U.N. Warns That Repealing Obamacare May Be Illegal
Shark Tank: Cutting “Tampon Tax” For Florida Women
Shot In The Dark: Rebooted Morality!
The Jawa Report: Islamic State Attack French Police, also, Mourn Not BamaPachyderm
The Political Hat: Venezuela Turning In A Widening Gyre
This Ain’t Hell: A Quick Note Of Thanks, also, Retired General Alles Named To Head Secret Service
War Is Boring: Russia’s Banged-Up Aircraft Carrier Prepares For Her Upgrade
Weasel Zippers: Judge Blocks President’s Move To Cut Funding For Sanctuary Cities, also, Turns Out Judge Was $200K Obama Bundler
Megan McArdle: No, The Handmaid’s Tale Is Not “Unexpectedly Timely”
Mark Steyn: Istanbul (Not Constantinople), also, Macron Bionics


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Because Sluts Should Be Ashamed

Posted on | April 26, 2017 | 2 Comments

Hannah Witton gives young women bad advice on YouTube.

Of the many bad ideas to emerge from feminism, few are as harmful as the attempt to de-stigmatize promiscuity. I say “attempt,” because the stigma will always remain, no matter how much rhetorical ammunition feminists unload at their target. Our basic sense of right and wrong tells us that screwing around — fornication, to use an old-fashioned word — is a bad idea, and is especially harmful to the interests of women. When you examine the anti-male rage of radical feminists, you find that most of their grievances can be traced to the emotional harms suffered by women in what is nowadays called “hook-up” culture. And these harms occur more frequently because so-called “pro-sex feminism” tells young women they can screw around without consequences. There is thus an internecine conflict between two feminist groups, the liberal “pro-sex” wing of the movement and those radicals who, in the 1980s, became known as “anti-sex” feminists. (This conflict was described, from a radical perspective, in the 1990 book Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism.) It is by no means unusual for a young woman to become a liberal feminist as a teenager excited about the “empowerment” of sexual “liberation,” only to shift to radical feminism after enduring the inevitable humiliations any young woman is apt to experience while chasing hedonistic thrills.

“You can sleep with hundreds and hundreds of people,
and as long as each encounter was special in its own way
— fun, consensual, full of mutual understanding
and respect — great, no problems there.”

When I encountered this remarkable claim in a video by British YouTube personality Hannah Witton, I was astonished. No intelligent person could really believe this, but “pro-sex” feminism involves a lot of allegedly clever young women (Ms. Witton is a mere 25) promoting such arrant nonsense to an Internet audience of teenage girls. This irresponsible advocacy of bad behavior contributes to the hypersexualized climate that is quite literally driving young women insane. The epidemic of mental illness among adolescent girls — depression, anxiety, eating disorders and even gender dysphoria — is a direct consequence of a perverse popular culture that shouts sex! sex! sex! at young people 24/7.

 

Experts in England are worried:

Now a new study shows a worrying rise in mental health problems among teenagers in the UK. According to the Department of Education, which spoke to 30,000 pupils aged 14-15, more than one in three teen girls suffer from anxiety or depression. It’s a rise of 10 per cent in the past decade, leading experts to call it a “slow-growing epidemic.”
Out of the girls surveyed, 37 per cent had three or more symptoms of psychological distress, for example feeling worthless or unable to concentrate, compared to 15 per cent of boys.

Of course, feminists are concerned about this, but how can feminism be the solution when feminism is so much of the problem? If the experts are serious about this mental-health “epidemic,” they need to address the problem of “pro-sex” propaganda from the likes of Hannah Witton:

Feminist rhetoric against “slut-shaming” requires a belief that promiscuity has no harmful consequences, either to the individuals involved or to society at large. Anyone who believes that is a fool. . . .
Ms. Witton has just published a book about sex — full of “anecdotes, confessions and revelations,” she promises — and any skeptical reader should ask, “What is the basis of her authority to dispense sex advice?” What makes Hannah Wilton any more knowledgeable about this subject than any other 25-year-old woman? In the Google Age, anyone can quickly access anything they really need to know on the subject of sex, so what sort of expertise can this young woman claim that would qualify her to lecture the rest of us? And if you’re offering advice on sex, shouldn’t success be a criteria? . . .

Read the whole thing at The Patriarch Tree.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 04.25.17

Posted on | April 25, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.25.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Who Leaked About Tomi Lahren’s Butt Pads?
Twitchy: Left-Wing Talking Head Chris Hayes Gets REKT For Ranting About “Right Wing Media” Covering Free Speech
Louder With Crowder: Disturbing LGBT Song Debuts On Bill Nye’s Show, Backfires Miserably


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: A Nation Of Bludgers, also, An ANZAC Poem
American Power: Michelle Malkin With Sean Hannity
American Thinker: Racist Obama Caused Democrats’ Downfall, Not Hillary
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily PC Run Amok News
Da Tech Guy: Pat Austin – Mitch Landrieu Begins His Campaign To Erase History In New Orleans
Don Surber: The Economy Is The Trump Re-Election Campaign
Dustbury: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butthurt
The Geller Report: Assemblyman Calls On Governor Cuomo To Rescind Commencement Speaker Invitation To Sarsour
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign
Jammie Wearing Fools: Why Is The So-Called American “Resistance” Silent About The Actual Resistance In Venezuela?
Joe For America: Not One Team In The NFL Wants Colin Kaepernick
JustOneMinute: Remain Calm And Xi On
Power Line: Times Editorial Board Accuses Justice Gorsuch Of Murder
Shark Tank: Governor Rick Scott To Sign Ridesharing Bill
Shot In The Dark: Good Guys 3, Criminals 0, “ELCA Engage” Bummed
The Jawa Report: Where’s Howie?, also, The Last Splodeydope!
The Political Hat: Progressive Science – Pansexual Wood Sprites And Sad Clowns
This Ain’t Hell: Your Opportunity To Smack Hollywood Right In The Kisser
War Is Boring: The CIA Created Fake Weed That Can’t Get You High
Weasel Zippers: Three Daesh Fighters Killed By Rampaging Wild Boars In Iraq, also, New York Times Editor Says Paper Won’t Use Term “Female Genital Mutilation” Because It’s “Culturally Loaded”
Megan McArdle: Berkeley Once Stood For Free Speech. Now It Rolls Over.
Mark Steyn: Aux Champs Elysees…, also, The Graduate


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Report: Police Investigating Eric Clanton in Berkeley ‘Anti-Fascist’ Attack

Posted on | April 25, 2017 | Comments Off on Report: Police Investigating Eric Clanton in Berkeley ‘Anti-Fascist’ Attack

Activists accuse Eric Clanton of attacking Trump supporters in Berkeley.

Last week, Diablo Valley College instructor Eric Clanton was accused of being the masked anarchist who used a heavy bicycle lock to smash the head of a Trump supporter at an April 15 Berkeley rally.

Now the Golden Gate Xpress, a student newspaper at San Francisco State University, has confirmed that Berkeley police are investigating Clanton, and the interim president of Diablo Community College has issued an email statement: “The adjunct faculty member that has been alleged to have committed this crime is NOT currently teaching at DVC.”

An editorial in the Diablo Valley College student newspaper complains:

National news networks from all the way from Florida to New York were calling DVC offices for an explanation or a confirmation of the internet witch-hunting allegations. . . .
4chan is notorious for their past as internet renegades who pride themselves as witch-hunting investigators hunting through the internet looking for clue to unravel internet anonymity. . . .
However, this style of investigating in the open also removes the private and personal aspect to an investigation.
What if the person being targeted had nothing to do with this event? Their reputation has been tarnished without any due process.
What happened to being innocent until proven guilty? Instead, one is guilty until proven innocent.

When did the Left suddenly discover this concern for due process? Too bad leftists weren’t worried about due process when feminist witch-hunters were destroying male students in what K.C. Johnson and Stuart Taylor have called The Campus Rape Frenzy. Oh, but the Obama administration and Democrats approved of denying students due process in those cases, whereas in the case of masked thugs committing violence against Trump supporters, Democrats find themselves on the other side of the “due process” argument. The inconsistency of the Left in such matters exposes the crude partisanship of their politics, which is based on a blind hatred of Republicans, and which justifies any means of advancing the Democrat Party agenda. One can defend due process (and abhor vigilantism) while at the same time recognizing that citizens attempting to identify a masked criminal are on the side of truth and justice.

Let everyone carefully examine the evidence that 4chan compiled about the Berkeley bike-lock attacker and decide for themselves whether Eric Clanton has been incorrectly identified as the suspect. Your opinion in this matter has no force in law, and therefore does not infringe Clanton’s legal rights from a due-process perspective. If it is true that Clanton’s “reputation has been tarnished” by 4chan’s activity, Clanton might undo this damage very easily by issuing a statement denying that he attended the April 15 rally where this criminal attack occurred.

Eric Clanton has not made such a denial.

What he has done instead is to delete much of his online presence in what some might interpret as an attempt to destroy evidence.

Suppose, as a hypothetical, that Eric Clanton is innocent. Are the police in Berkeley doing anything to identify, apprehend and prosecute the person responsible for violently attacking Trump supporters April 15? If an innocent man has been wrongly accused, it is up to the Berkeley police to absolve Eric Clanton by apprehending the real attacker.

In the meantime, Eric Clanton could defend his “tarnished” reputation merely by denying that he was in Berkeley on April 15. The fact that he has not denied being in Berkeley — when six days have passed since 4chan accused him of the bike-lock attack — is rather suspicious, isn’t it?

Again, the evidence compiled by 4chan is publicly available online for your examination, and you have a right to form your own opinion.



 

Category: Crime, Education

Tampa Teacher @LoraJane Hates Christians, Promotes LGBT in Class

Posted on | April 25, 2017 | 2 Comments

 

The state of Florida pays Lora Jane Riedas to promote atheism and homosexuality at Riverview High School. She also teaches math:

A teacher in Orlando, Florida is under fire for allegedly forcing students to take off their Christian cross necklaces, and for “promoting an LGBT agenda” in class.
The Tampa Bay Times reports the Liberty Counsel organization sent a letter to Hillsborough County Superintendent Jeff Eakins claiming that teacher Lora Jane Riedas “barred at least three students from wearing Christian crosses on necklaces in her classroom, claiming they are ‘gang symbols.’”
Riedas, a math teacher at Riverview High School, also engaged in gay rights political activism during class time, according to the complaint.
“Ms. Riedas clearly seeks opportunities to engage in GLSEN-directed classroom activism, which has called on teachers to use its ‘Educator Guide’ to promote GLSEN’s views about homosexuality and gender confusion on ‘Day of Silence,’ and to do so this Friday, April 21, 2017,” Liberty Counsel President Mat Staver wrote.

 

Did I mention she’s a Democrat? Because that’s what this is really about. Democrats hate Jesus, Democrats run the public schools and they want every kid in Florida to be an atheist homosexual Democrat. If you are a Florida parent who voted for Donald Trump, your tax dollars are paying for schools where Democrats teach your children to hate you.

How did this happen? Democrats control the university system (nearly all political donations by top professors go to Democrats) and a university degree is required to become a public school teacher. Because Democrats control teachers’ unions (which gave nearly $30 million to Democrats in 2016), they also control the hiring process in public schools, and are usually able to dominate local school board elections. Democrats use their control of the taxpayer-supported education system to promote the Democrat Party agenda, indoctrinating children with atheism and socialism, and encouraging sexual deviance among young people.

It is impossible to exaggerate how decadent the U.S. public school system has become. Liberty Counsel reports that Riedas’ lesbian partner, Riverview High chemistry teacher Valerie Chuchman, “dressed as a nun for school spirit week, complete with a ‘cross necklace’ made of skulls. She tweeted she has ‘a bad habit’ and the point is to be ‘creepy.'”

When the Democrats who control the school system talk about “diversity” and “inclusion,” this is a code for attacking Christianity.

In their letter to the superintendent of Hillsborough County schools, the Liberty Counsel lawyers cite two Supreme Court decisions:

The law is also clear that parents, not agents of the state, including Ms. Riedas, and certainly not GLSEN, have the right to direct the upbringing and associations of their children. The law presumes that parents possess what a child lacks in maturity, experience, and capacity for judgment required for making life’s difficult decisions, not activist school employees.  “The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children. . . The child is not the mere creature of the State;” Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510 (1925). (Emphasis added). “The history and culture of Western civilization reflect a strong tradition of parental concern for the nurture and upbringing of their children. This primary role of the parents in the upbringing of their children is now established beyond debate as an enduring American tradition.” Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972).

The public school system is anti-Christian and also anti-American. Why? Because the Democrat Party hates Christians and hates America.

 

Category: Democrats, Education, Florida, Gays
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