Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | March 30, 2018 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty

He leaned back against the tree with his sister and just laughed.
Nearby, the neighbor kids had gathered the November leaves from the lawn into a vast heap below the old oak. They were taking turns on the rope swing, carefully gauging the release, to fly through the air and land in the leaves on a lovely Long Island Wednesday afternoon.
Glancing left, he saw his aunt with the camera, and he smiled for the picture: “Aunt Sam, can I have a turn with the others?”
He was too young to notice the puffy panda eyes on Samantha Power. “Sure.”

via Darleen, thinking of this.

Category: Friday Fiction

Crazy People Are Dangerous: The Strange Case of ‘Gwynevere River Song’

Posted on | March 30, 2018 | 1 Comment

Jackson Mosher, a/k/a ‘Gwynevere River Song.’

“This is what motivates me — to normalize our struggle. It is unnecessary for us to feel like outcasts, because we are not. Science dictates this, and no misconception held by a member of society, even society itself, can change that. We are natural. We have always existed, and we will continue to always exist. You are not alone. We are not alone.”
— “Gwynevere River Song,” Aug. 26, 2015

Jackson Mosher was crazy. An only child, Jackson claimed to have been diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and had first seen a therapist after his parents divorced when he was 7. By his own admission, he had “sociopathic tendencies” and, by age 16, he “began threatening suicide,” culminating in “an incident [that] caused the police to be called to my place of residence, and they gave me an ultimatum. I had to see a therapist or be transported to a hospital for the mentally ill.” It would be beyond the scope of my skills or interest to analyze in detail the etiology and nature of Jackson Mosher’s psychiatric problems. You can read a 4,000-word blog post he published in March 2017, “The ‘Fag’ Next Door,” and draw your own conclusions.

Despite his mental illness, Mosher graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in radiation physics in 2015, but was apparently unable to find professional employment. It was while at Austin that Mosher began pursuing his transgender fantasies in real life, starting on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in May 2015, calling himself “Gwynevere River Song” and identifying as a bisexual “femandrogyne.” In February 2016, “Gwynevere” began producing YouTube videos. “Hello, my little witchlings,” was the greeting with which Mosher/”Gwynevere” opened his/“her” first video, asserting that transgenderism is biological in origin. In one of the creepier YouTube offerings by Mosher/”Gwynevere,” he/“she” discussed his/“her” experience of orgasms before and after HRT.

That video was uploaded to YouTube less than two weeks before the 2016 election, which seems to have traumatized Mosher/”Gwynevere.”

After Trump was elected. Mosher/”Gwynevere” stopped uploading videos, which had never garnered many views. The last post at his/“her” blog, published Aug. 7, 2017, was titled “Stranger Things Have Happened” and began with a rationalization of his/“her” atheism:

I have never worked harder at anything in my life than trying to reconcile [the Bible with] physics and mathematics . . . During that time spent developing a deeper understanding of the universe and how it works, I began to realize that the laws and their mathematical models were all that the cosmos required to create life. No creator was necessary. . . . I lost my religion; this gave way to a greater appreciation for the intricacies of Nature, and I began to reject the notion altogether that there could be a Creator or the Abrahamic “God.”

That post turned into a disjointed 7,900-word ramble about Mosher/”Gwynevere’s” experiences of hallucinations and psychiatric hospitalization, concluding with this weirdly opaque passage:

Every detail is lost in the cascade of coincidences which have befallen me lately. If I could describe it all, every facet of it, completely perfectly I would sound even more suspicious than I do now.
My tarot card is the Six of Cups.
My stone is Labradorite.
I did not choose these things, they chose me.
I have no mouth, but I must scream.
I have no mouth, but I must scream.
I have no mouth, but I must scream.

Tarot? How does one go from physics and mathematics to tarot cards? And why was he/“she” concerned about sounding “suspicious”?

Never Bring a Knife to a Gunfight

The possibility that Mosher/”Gwynevere” could be dangerous was apparent to radical feminist Cathy Brennan, who had been threatened by Mosher/”Gwynevere” in a February 2017 Facebook exchange. Like many other transgender activists, Mosher/”Gwynevere” hated “TERFs” (trans-exclusive radical feminists), but it turned out that Mosher/”Gwynevere” hated someone else even more — his/“her” father, Robert Mosher.

On a Saturday afternoon — Aug. 12, 2017, five days after his/“her” last blog post — Mosher/”Gwynevere” showed up at the home of his/“her” father on Waterford Crossing in Waxahachie, Texas. Mosher/”Gwynevere” was armed with a knife, and an altercation ensued in which “Gwynevere” stabbed his/“her” father multiple times. This was a fatal error. Never bring a knife to a gunfight, as they say in Texas.

“Gwynevere River Song” was shot dead by his/“her” father, who was hospitalized for his injuries. Several media outlets counted the death of “Gwynevere River Song” as an anti-transgender hate crime, and called it “murder,” but in fact it was self-defense — a justifiable homicide — and no charges were filed against Robert Mosher.

It must be noted that “Gwynevere River Song” claimed on his/“her” blog to have been a victim of childhood abuse by his/“her” father. However, given his/“her” admission of “sociopathic tendencies” and the generally deranged content of “Gwynevere’s” online output — “Hello, my little witchlings!” — this is dubious testimony.

As I say, readers may draw their own conclusions, but there is no use speculating about why “Gwynevere River Song” was crazy. Rather, it is the fact of his/“her” craziness which deserves our attention. Over and over, I’ve repeated here that crazy people are dangerous, and it is dangerous to ignore the kind of warning signs that were apparent in the behavior of “Gwynevere River Song.” In June 2015, Tyrelle Shaw committed suicide after being identified as the suspect in a series of attacks on women in Manhattan, prompting me to remark:

How many times do I have to explain this? You let enough kooks run around loose — as has been the policy in this country since we de-institutionalized the mentally ill in the 1970s — and people adjust their expectations. People become accustomed to encountering weirdos, freaks and lunatics, jabbering madness to themselves on street corners or posting deranged nonsense on Tumblr blogs. You’re not even supposed to notice there is anything strange about these wild-eyed nutjobs roaming around with facial piercings, tattoos and purple hair. . . .
Well, you can’t call them “crazy” anymore, because then you’re stigmatizing the mentally ill, and stigma is bad.

The fear of stigmatizing people like “Gwynevere River Song” — it’s transphobia to call them “crazy” — prevents us from noticing that transgenderism is often associated with a constellation of other mental illnesses, and you can’t cure crazy with hormone therapy.

As I wrote Wednesday, “We do a disservice to the mentally ill when we act as if their delusions deserve to be taken seriously, except as symptoms of their psychiatric pathology.” Requiring sane people to cooperate with the delusional fantasies of a mentally ill “femandrogyne,” and punishing non-cooperation as “hate,” is not social justice, it’s madness.

Our society is descending into insanity because a misguided concern for the “rights” of crazy people has replaced common-sense concern for the safety of sane and law-abiding citizens. Consider the price paid in blood for the failure to incarcerate the Parkland shooter, a mentally ill teenager with a lengthy history of dangerous behavior. However, the same liberals who condemn anyone who stigmatizes mental illness are quick to offer a “solution” to this problem: Disarm the sane people!

The ‘Monkey See, Monkey Do’ Factor

In a free society, individuals have the liberty to live as they wish, and if someone has a fantasy of living as a “femandrogyne,” they are free to pursue that fantasy. Yet their liberty to live as they wish cannot exempt them from criticism. Such an exemption would infringe the free speech rights of anyone who might tell them, “Hey, maybe this ‘femandrogyne’ thing isn’t a good idea, especially in Waxahachie, Texas.”

There is a “monkey see, monkey do” factor at work in the transgender cult. Critics speak of “social contagion” and rapid onset gender dysphoria, as emotionally vulnerable young people turn to online social media in search of answers to their problems. For confused and unhappy teenagers with seemingly intractable problems, the fantasy of escaping by changing their identity may appear to be an ideal solution, and the proliferation of online transgender activists, producing YouTube videos celebrating their “transition,” provides such vulnerable youth with models for their own transgender “journey.”

Never is heard a discouraging word within the echo chambers of the transgender cult. All problems that may be experienced in the “journey” are blamed on the prejudices of “haters” in an oppressive society. Within the cult echo chamber, it is never permissible to suggest that perhaps “society” is not the problem, or to focus instead on the psychological maladjustment of the individual pursuing the transgender fantasy. Parents who have seen their adolescent children captured by the transgender cult tell alarming tales of seemingly happy and well-adjusted young people who suddenly become obsessed with changing their identity, demand access to “treatment” and expect to be addressed with pronouns of the opposite sex. This obsession can develop quite swiftly, sometimes in just a few weeks, as teenagers binge-watch “transition” videos and communicate with activists in online social media.

Synthetic hormones and sex-change surgery, however, can never cure the underlying psychiatric problems of people like “Gwynevere River Song.” When someone tells us that they have been diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, and describes their “sociopathic tendencies,” should we believe their claims to have been “born in the wrong body”?

Zachary Antolak, a/k/a ‘Zinnia Jones,’ a/k/a ‘Satana Kennedy.’

Should we grant the authority of expertise to such people as Zachary Antolak (a/k/a “Zinnia Jones,” a/k/a “Satana Kennedy”), listening in respectful silence while they lecture us about the evils of transphobia?

“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”
— Romans 1:22 (KJV)

In his/“her” final blog post, “Gwynevere River Song” claimed to have read completely through the Bible four times in a futile attempt to reconcile Christian belief with science. A careful reading of the first chapter of Romans, however, ought to be sufficient warning against the “ungodliness and unrighteousness” that leads to “a reprobate mind.”

Only if we keep in mind that the “fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Psalm 9:10), and heed the warning against “science falsely so called” (Timothy 6:20), may we hope to escape the “wrath of God” (Romans 1:18) prophesied against those who deny God and become “vain in their imaginations” (Romans 1:21). Some biblical scholars say that the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Roman church was meant to condemn the pagan depravity prevalent in the court of the Emperor Nero, and that it was this view that resulted in Paul’s execution. Whether or not we accept that interpretation, we may study the wickedness of Nero, examine Paul’s explanation for such vile decadence, and consider the possibility that Paul was exactly right about why Nero became so infamously evil.

In August 2015, “Gwynevere River Song” created the blog Rainbow Veinz to “to shake up society and remove prejudice wherever it may be”:

By sharing content and informed opinions, we hope to increase the resilience of the LGBTQIA+ community so that we may all stand as one and bring about a new era of understanding, love, and support to every sentient being on this planet. Above all else, show everyone that intolerance will no longer be allowed. Misconceptions, disinformation, and hatred does not need to be given a voice or a place in this world, and it must be silenced by any means necessary.

Anyone who disagreed with “Gwynevere River Song” was accused of “prejudice . . . intolerance . . . hated,” which “will no longer be allowed” and “must be silenced by any means necessary.” Less than two years after he/“she” posted that radical declaration, “Gwynevere” was dead, shot to death by his/“her” own father in Waxahachie, Texas.

Having declared his/“her” desire “to normalize our struggle,” claiming that “science” justifies transgenderism against society’s “misconceptions,” was perhaps not so much a political statement by “Gwynevere River Song,” but rather a symptom of his/“her” disease.

A Matter of Public Policy

As I have said, it is not my intention to analyze the etiology and nature of Jackson Mosher’s psychiatric problems, but rather to allow readers to examine the evidence and reach their own conclusions.

What I hope is to encourage readers to resist the bullying tactics of deranged radicals who seek to silence us “by any means necessary.” And if you’re a citizen of Texas, permit me to call to your attention the claim by “Gwynevere River Song” that it was a counselor at the University of Texas who advised him to become “her”:

That August [2014], I met with a counselor at my university, the sweetest one that I have met so far, and began discussing things with them. They told me some new things — previous counselors had misdiagnosed me, PTSD better characterized the majority of how I felt — and some old things — that I did have gender dysphoria and I did need to seek treatment. They offered to help me call somewhere, but the prospect of having to pay without insurance frightened me, and I told them I would handle it on my own. This was a poor choice on my part, because my dysphoria often manifests as social anxiety. So, calling around to places is often delayed — sometimes indefinitely. After the five sessions were up with that counselor, I was on my own. The pressure of finding help mounted, and was only temporarily assuaged when I found several individuals willing to help on my insurance plan, but quickly came back when I felt as though I might be blocked from getting the exact treatment I felt I needed. My insurance was not my own, and family issues began to deflate my options.

“Treatment” is not free, and the process of “gender transition” has the effect of making someone a permanent patient, forever in need of prescriptions for synthetic hormones, to say nothing of the possibility of various side-effects of such “treatment.” When a university counselor advises a mentally ill student to pursue transgender “treatment,” this can set in motion a chain of events leading to disaster. Even if the transgender patient is deemed a “success,” however, there is still the matter of how to pay for their “treatment,” and the demand that the cost to be borne by others (e.g., through higher insurance premiums) makes this a matter of public policy. Your right to become a “femandrogyne” does not impose an obligation on taxpayers to foot the bill.

Pandora’s box has been opened, and chaos has been unleashed, so that a university counselor in Texas (“the sweetest one that I have met so far”) is permitted to tell the mentally ill Jackson Mosher that all his previous therapists have “misdiagnosed” his psychiatric problems. Three years later, Jackson Mosher was “Gwynevere River Song,” and slashing at his/“her” father with a knife before being shot to death.

These lunatics now presume to lecture us about our “prejudice,” and seek to silence us “by any means necessary.” Perhaps I don’t have the proper training and credentials to diagnose and analyze such cases, but it takes only common sense to know that crazy people are dangerous.

Like I keep saying, people need to wake the hell up.

(Hat-tip: @KaeleyT on Twitter.)

Category: Crime, Texas, The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 03.30.18

Posted on | March 30, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.30.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

And now, a few words from the patron saint of accountants.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #211
EBL: Johan van Hulst, RIP
Twitchy: The War On Laura Ingraham Claims Some Additional Casualties
Louder With Crowder: Ben Shapiro Weighs In On Ingraham/Hogg Feud
CNN: Parents In Utah Can’t Be Prosecuted For “Free Range” Kids Any More (h/t NeoWayland)
According To Hoyt: The Art Of Martha
Vox Popoli: She Should Have Read SJWs Always Lie

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks And Links – Not My Pope Edition
American Thinker: K-12 – Illiterate New World
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Census Counts Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For March 30
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Shooting Arrows Over The Horizon, also, A Quick Comment On The “No Hell” Business
Don Surber: Special Counsel Investigating The FBI
Dustbury: Just Around The Corner
The Geller Report: German Headmaster Tells Mom of Girl Bullied By Muslims To Cover Child With Hijab, also, MP’s Son Shot Dead in Sadiq Khan’s Gun Free London – 10 Dead In 12 Days
Hogewash: Andromeda In UV, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Joe For America: Holy Cross College Prof Claims Jesus Was A “Drag King” With “Queer Desires”
Legal Insurrection: Pulse Nightclub Shooter’s Wife Acquitted Of Assisting Husband, also, San Diego County Poised To Join “Sanctuary State” Lawsuit
Power Line: Good News! Hillary’s Still Talking! also, Make The Democrats Pay For Stalling Trump’s Nominees
Shark Tank: Congress’ Most Catholic Member Takes A Break From Social Media
Shot In The Dark: The Back Door
STUMP: Around The Pension-O-Sphere – Fiscal Reporting Bootcamp, Transparency, Divestment Hero, And More
The Jawa Report: Zawahiri Launches Islamic Plot To Rule The World CCLXI From Abbotabad Prison, also, The Best Friday
This Ain’t Hell: Cop-Killer Killed, also, Cadet Jack Bell Saving The World
Victory Girls: Congresswomen Elizabeth Esty Covers Up For Sexually Abusive Chief Of Staff
Weasel Zippers: Hillary Clinton Snaps At Critics, also, Kyle Kashuv Crushes David Hogg’s Hypocrisy With Single Tweet
Megan McArdle: Should Paying Even A Paltry Ransom To Hackers be A Federal Crime?
Mark Steyn: The Glass Ceiling That Wasn’t

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In The Mailbox: 03.29.18

Posted on | March 29, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.29.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It Often Rhymes
Twitchy: Kyle Kashuv Drops Mic On David Hogg For Playing “Children” Card
Louder With Crowder: Parkland Activists – You Admit To Bullying The Shooter, But Have The Gall To Blame Guns And The NRA?
Reason: Young Anti-Gun Demagogues Copy Their Elders (h/t NeoWayland)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Enough With The Big Crying Act Already
American Power: “Trumpism” And The GOP
American Thinker: How Do You Really Feel About David Hogg & Emma Gonzalez?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Royal Failure News
BattleSwarm: Waco Biker Trials Update
Bring The HEAT: Here’s An Older Video Delta Force Used On Their Recruiting Drives
CDR Salamander: An NWTI For All My Friends
Da Tech Guy: A Pause For A Priority, also, The Roseanne Poll Is Bad News For The Democrat Media Left
Don Surber: Why Trump Called Kim Jong Un “Rocket Man”
Dustbury: Please Don’t Clap
Fred On Everything: In Which Embattled Manhood Rassles A Carburetor
The Geller Report: State Of Emergency Declared In Germany As Migrants Battle Police With Machetes, also, Thirteen Year Old UK Rape Victim Says Social Worker Laughed When She Was Told Teen Was Being Prostituted My Muslims
Hogewash: Justice Stevens vs. The Bill Of Rights, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Joe For America: Texas Showdown – Olmos Park Police Rebel Against State Open Carry Law, Arrest Citizens
JustOneMinute: Time’s Up On Wall Street
Legal Insurrection: March For Our Lives Narrative Continues To Unravel – Only 10% Teens, also, Laura Ingraham Advertisers Cave To Pressure After She Tweeted That David Hogg “Whines”
Power Line: The Democratic Party Collusion Story Gets Worse, also, Congress Defunds AFFH
Shark Tank: Nelson Insists VA Won’t Be Privatized
Shot In The Dark: Unexpected
STUMP: New Jersey’s Pension Non-Solution – Give Fund Management To The Unions
The Political Hat: Make Believe – LGBTQ Etc. Acronyms, Sexual Dimorphism, & Safe Spaces
This Ain’t Hell: Shulkin Out Jackson In, also, Today Is Vietnam Veterans Day
Victory Girls: Five Reasons Why Baseball Matters In America
Weasel Zippers: Donations Pour In For HS Rifle Team After School Board Rejects NRA “Blood Money”, also, 380 Sheriffs In 40 States Demand Congress Build Trump’s Wall, End Illegal Immigration
Megan McArdle: Repealing The Second Amendment Would Be Incredibly Difficult
Mark Steyn: Looting The Future, also, Stormwatch Update

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Keep an Eye on Hungary’s Election

Posted on | March 29, 2018 | 2 Comments

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his nationalist Fidesz party have made opposition to unrestricted immigration the centerpiece of their policy and, in the campaign leading up to the April 8 election, Fidesz has targeted the sinister influence of George Soros.

Hungary’s population of 10 million has bitter historic memories of being dominated by foreigners. Immediately following World War I, after the nation gained its independence from Austria, Hungary suffered under the Soviet-backed Communist dictatorship of the notorious Bela Kun, who was determined to liquidate all opposition. One of Kun’s Bolshevik commissars, Tibor Szamuely, declared in a speech: “We will exterminate the entire bourgeoisie if we have to!” Instead, the Bolshevik regime lasted only five months. Kun was overthrown and ended up in Russia, where he eventually was executed in Stalin’s purge. During World War II, Hungary was allied with Germany, and subsequently conquered by the Red Army, which imposed a Communist regime that remained in power until 1989.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Hungary has struggled to recover from the economic, social and political legacy of Communist rule. The resurgence of Hungarian nationalism was aggravated by the 2015 refugee crisis, when Germany declared it would welcome those fleeing the war in Syria, producing a flood of immigrants whose route northward from Turkey and the Adriatic coast led them to the Hungarian border. What solution did Orban’s government find? “Build a wall!”

This put Hungary at odds with the pro-refugee European Union policy, and Orban’s government has targeted Soros’ influence on the EU:

The ruling Fidesz party’s vice chairman said Soros was engaged in a “frontal assault” against Hungary.
“What Soros writes about immigration, in general, is a pro-immigration stance that is open about its disdain for the nation state,” Gergely Gulyas told a news conference. “Decisions made in Brussels echo that in the field of immigration policy.”
“Days before a recent immigration decision in the European Parliament Soros was meeting with the rapporteur on the subject as well as five different EU commissioners. I am not a conspiracy theorist but this holds some clues.”

The anti-Soros billboards in Hungary, and the rhetoric of Orban and his party, have been criticized as veiled anti-Semitism — an ironic accusation, considering that Soros has admitted being a Nazi collaborator during World War II. It is important, however, to understand the separate factors operating in Hungarian politics.

Are there anti-Semites in Hungary? No doubt. Do some of these anti-Semites support Orban? Certainly. Does this mean that Orban’s re-election is dependent on anti-Semitism? Not at all. Whatever the percentage of Hungarian voters who are anti-Semites, such a faction is not enough to swing the election, whereas opposition to a demographic inundation by Muslim immigrants is the central appeal of the Fidesz Party’s campaign. Focusing attention on Soros is a way of giving a human face to the various international forces (including the EU bureaucracy in Brussels) which are promoting an open-borders regime in Europe.

Orban and his party have effectively presented Hungary’s electorate with a choice, as Orban said in a recent visit to the city of Miskolc:

If Miskolc is not to be a place of “ghettos and no-go zones”, said Orbán on a campaign visit to the city earlier this month, it is necessary to vote for his party, Fidesz.
“There are two paths ahead for Hungary to choose from,” said Orbán. “We will either have a national government, in which case we will not become an immigrant country, or the people of George Soros form a government and Hungary will become an immigrant country.”

This rhetoric about “the people of George Soros” may be troubling, but keep in mind that Orban has rivals even further right:

Jobbik, a far-right party that has recently moved its messaging further to the centre and is placed second in most polls, is campaigning on corruption but is also attacking Orbán for being not harsh enough on migrants.

It says something about the situation that the nationalist Orban’s greatest challenge is from ultra-nationalists. Like many other former Soviet satellite states (including Poland), Hungary is shaped by bitter memories of foreign domination, and still suffers after-effects of its Communist past. In a remarkable interview, one of Hungary’s leading Protestant clergymen, Rev. Sándor Németh, explained the crisis:

I am confident that the system change, the failure of the eastern-type of communism, brought an end to the ideological state. But Marxism is again banging on our door. Cultural Marxism has become a replacement for religion. . . . This is what today’s misleading lores are based on, from gender ideology to the policies of putting migration on a pedestal. There is alternative reality, one that is referred to as the deep state. Even today, the elite which are above the nations see this as an ideology worth following. . . .
Especially since 2015, they do not want to accept that the people have a different worldview than their own. This is why Christianity has become the most singled-out and persecuted religion today. The trend started in America. At the turn of the millennium, the liberals were afraid that the election of the younger Bush would bring a conservative wave, so they started or strengthened the militant liberal movements that we see today. Under Obama’s presidency, it could clearly be felt that the Christians were being targeted. They often sought to destroy the representatives of Christianity morally and materially. This is what ended with the Trump presidency, but in Europe, for the time being, the old winds still blow.

Read the whole thing. Rev. Németh’s analysis is perceptive, and can help American conservatives understand why this election in far-off Hungary could have consequences here. We are fighting against the agenda of Cultural Marxism, “a replacement for religion” which has become the worldview of “the elite which are above the nations.”

Category: Hungary, Immigration

‘Florida Woman,’ a Recurring Headline

Posted on | March 28, 2018 | Comments Off on ‘Florida Woman,’ a Recurring Headline

It seems that every weird story is datelined from Florida:

A woman in Leesburg, Fla., was arrested on incest charges on Friday after genetic tests performed on her baby revealed that her brother was the father, deputies said.
According to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, Pauline Martin, 33, gave birth to her baby on Nov. 21 and the child suffered severe medical complications hours after its birth.
The infant was transferred to another hospital and genetic testing was done, which showed that the child’s father was “a close relative,” the arrest report states.
Deputies and officials with the Florida Department of Children and Families started an investigation when neither parent filled out proper Medicaid paperwork for the child, filed for a birth certificate, or moved the baby into a home for “medically complex children,” the arrest report states.
Martin did not finish the paperwork until February, according to the report. She told deputies that she moved to Florida about three years ago with her brother and that they lived together as a couple. She also said she has a 12-year-old daughter with another man.
Deputies later interviewed Martin at a McDonald’s, where she worked. She told deputies that she had a “romantic and sexual relationship” with her brother for about five years but was going to end the relationship “because she knew it was wrong” and that she was seeing another man, the report states.
Martin also admitted to deputies that her brother was the father of the child, that she had “sexual relations” with him the night before, and that her brother knew he was the father, according to the report.
Once deputies found probable cause to arrest Martin, she tried to flee toward the back of the restaurant. Deputies contained Martin at the door and put her into the patrol vehicle, where she spit, cursed, and tried to kick detectives, according to the report.
Martin was taken to the Lake County Jail and released on March 24 after posting a $3,000 bond, according to court records. She has another court hearing scheduled for April 16.
According to the Orlando Sentinel, deputies are trying to contact the brother but have not found him.

The baby’s father and mother are also the baby’s uncle and aunt, and therefore the family tree doesn’t fork. Because, hey, it’s Florida.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)

Category: Crime, Florida

Have We Reached Peak SJW Yet?

Posted on | March 28, 2018 | 4 Comments

“Everybody with two eyes and a brain could see Zoe Quinn was crazy. Why did Eron Gjoni want to date that tattoo-covered, facial-pierced, mentally ill ex-stripper whose real name is Chelsea Van Valkenburg? I don’t know, but he did, and the consequences were world-historic.”
— “Crazy Woman Who Caused #GamerGate Announces She’s No Longer Female,” Jan. 14, 2017

The term “social justice warrior” (SJW) was coined nearly 10 years ago by Will Shetterly. The son of civil-rights activists who were threatened by the Klan during his childhood, Shetterly became an award-winning science-fiction writer. It was in the context of his writing career that he encountered the indignant Internet mobs of virtue-signallers and identity-politics activists who inspired the epithet. By the time the #GamerGate controversy arose in August 2014, “SJW” was a popular label for this increasingly familiar type, and Shetterly’s coinage was made famous by Vox Day in the title of a 2015 book, SJWs Always Lie.

Like Shetterly, Vox Day is a science-fiction writer, and shares similar experiences of how Cultural Marxism (“political correctness”) has distorted the sci-fi world, particularly in terms of criticism and awards, influencing decisions of major publishing houses as to which authors to publish and promote. Publishers have become sensitive to online “fandom” mobs, in which the loudest voices tend to be militant SJWs. In his 2014 book How to Make a Social Justice Warrior, Shetterly traces the SJW worldview back to critical race theory — “a philosophical framework with roots in Marxist thought,” per the Wikipedia biography of Derrick Bell — and “intersectionality,” a feminist concept promoted by Bell’s protégé, Kimberle Williams Crenshaw. Shetterly remarks:

If you wonder why most of the people I mention are women, it’s because the most prominent social justice warriors are female. The men rarely add anything original to a conversation, perhaps because they don’t dare say anything that might jeopardize their male ally status.

Canadian SJW ‘Big Red’ (a/k/a Chanty Binx).

SJWs compete in what I’ve called the Victimhood Derby, as illustrated by the conflict between radical feminists and transgender activists:

By the time a feminist reaches the radical point at which normal sexual intercourse is regarded as inherently oppressive, she has already marched a good distance down the Crazyville Road. Sane, normal people become the Enemy and, in order to maintain her delusions, the feminist seeks out the company of her fellow radicals, who share and confirm these extreme beliefs.

Part of what has made the transgender cult so obnoxious to so many people is that postmodern gender theory promotes self-created victimhood, a counterfeit of genuine oppression which, as those familiar with Gresham’s Law understand, leads to a devaluation of victimhood. If a member of the most “privileged” group (white heterosexual males) can gain victim status merely by calling himself “her” (or “they” or “ze”), and identifying as a nonbinary genderqueer translesbian, what does this tell us about the validity of the “social justice” worldview?

Zachary Antolak, a/k/a ‘Zinnia Jones,’ a/k/a ‘Satana Kennedy.’

Zachary Antolak was just a nerdy atheist when he started making YouTube videos in 2008, but has since become both a transgender “expert” (albeit with no known credentials) under the pseudonym “Zinnia Jones,” while also selling pornographic videos as “Satana Kennedy.” (Warning: Do not Google that; you can never unsee it). How could such a psychiatric basket case be regarded as anything except a laughingstock? Yet within postmodern 21st-century “intersectional” feminism, Antolak/“Jones” is taken seriously and applauded as a courageous crusader for “social justice.” It is impermissible to criticize or disagree with weirdos like Antolak/“Jones,” and radical feminists have found themselves “de-platformed” for daring to oppose the transgender cult.

Speaking of “science,” last month an anonymous question was posed in the “Evolution” section of the Internet site Quora.com:

“I got into an argument with my friend because
I reject evolution because it’s heteronormative.
Are scientists going to make evolution more inclusive
or will they replace it with something else?”

Permit me to speak on behalf of the Sane Community in declaring that the person asking this question is deranged, demented, delusional, bonkers, wacky, off her rocker, and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

In short, she is crazy, and it is a waste of time to offer rational arguments in reply to craziness. We do a disservice to the mentally ill when we act as if their delusions deserve to be taken seriously, except as symptoms of their psychiatric pathology, yet this questioner on Quora received a serious reply from Anna Hardin, who recently received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Minnesota:

Because science is just a set of methods we use to observe and report what is happening around us, scientists will not replace the theory of evolution unless another theory that better explains the change we observe in living things is better supported by the evidence. Evolution is well supported and has been for almost 200 years of scientific research, so it is unlikely that a better theory can be discovered.
To the point of heteronormativity, only the evolution of sexually reproducing organisms is heteronormative and only insofar as it requires sexual reproduction. On the other hand, the ways that scientists describe evolution is often very heteronormative, and some confuse sex and gender or ignore variation in sexual behaviors. Other scientists are working to change the ways that we talk about evolution so that it is less anthropocentric and less heteronormative. Heteronormativity is no reason to reject evolution, but it should motivate us to find better ways to discuss evolution and variation that are less biased.

Yeah, I guess so, but shouldn’t an anthropologist point out the basic problem with the jargon term “heteronormativity”? In point of fact, heterosexuality is not only normal, but necessary to reproduction of the species. The development of modern contraceptives and so-called assisted reproductive technology (e.g., in vitro fertilization) has given rise to a counterfactual belief system which ignores the reality that, even in 2018, the vast majority of human births (probably 99% or more) occur the old-fashioned way. It is only in the most affluent nations that even a single-digit minority of people avail themselves of IVF and other such methodologies, which are quite expensive and require the involvement of highly-trained medical technicians, whereas making babies with good old-fashioned heterosexual intercourse is free and so simple that untutored teenagers are capable of doing it.

This is why, for example, the total fertility rate (average lifetime births per woman) is 6.49 in Niger, compared to 1.54 in Rhode Island. The per capita income in Rhode Island is $30,830, more than 25 times the per capita income in Niger ($1,200). While wealthy Rhode Islander women have access to advanced fertility treatments, the poor women of Niger have four times as many actual children. Extrapolating this comparison on a worldwide basis, it is easy to see why the lives of future generations will almost certainly be as “heteronormative” as always. Decadent youth complaining about “heteronormativity” will likely have few if any children; meanwhile, the vast majority of the world’s children will be born to people who can’t afford the luxury of whining on Internet forums about how oppressed they are by abstract concepts.

Feminist Tumblr: "The Nuclear Family is the Factory of Gender." https://t.co/XnvEulVdAN pic.twitter.com/CzpnWpDQJ2

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) March 28, 2018

SJWs may demand that scientists “make evolution more inclusive,” but without regard for scientific theory, the scientific fact is that the process of natural selection can never be “inclusive.” Human beings are in a competition for survival, not only as a species, but also as individuals. Any human who does not reproduce is a failure, from a Darwinian perspective, because the genes of such people will not be replicated in future generations. Non-reproductive humans — the Darwinian failures — are only useful to the species insofar as they can, during their lifetimes, contribute something to the overall survivability of the breeding population. Consideration of such scientific realities, when combined with the philosophical influences of Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler, et al., had catastrophic consequences for 20th-century Europe. The genocidal atrocities of totalitarian regimes (Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Menghistu) had their origins in atheistic ideologies that claimed to be “scientific,” but which wrought unprecedented suffering. We may say of these ideologues what the Apostle Paul said of the pagan Romans: “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”

A sort of mass hysteria — an epidemic of insanity — seems to have taken hold among the college-educated elite in our society, and this SJW madness is, as Will Shetterly observes, most prevalent among women. This was evident at last weekend’s anti-gun march.

Insane woman accidentally explains why Donald Trump is President. pic.twitter.com/ttrOlxEXfk

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) March 27, 2018

SJWs are eager to make sure mental illness is not blamed, for obvious reasons. pic.twitter.com/z13zizHxRw

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) March 27, 2018

Feminist SJWs are eager to protect the mentally ill from criticism, because no entirely sane person is a feminist SJW. These demented women attack the marriage-based “nuclear family” because there are no men who would want to marry them or have children with them. They have completely isolated themselves from the functional mainstream of normal American society and yet, because the Democrat Party has embraced these lunatics as part of their core constituency, their delusional grievances are treated as legitimate by the liberal media.

We have probably not yet reached “peak SJW.” There is no ultimate limit to their insane depravity, but this tidal wave of SJW madness may eventually begin to recede, if the Democrats lose enough elections. If the healthy segments of our society — those whom Kurt Schlichter calls “Normal Americans” — can maintain a governing majority for another few years, SJWs will burn themselves out in despondency and rage.