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In The Mailbox: Pi Day 2018

Posted on | March 14, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: Pi Day 2018

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Stephen Hawking RIP
Twitchy: Federal Judge Has More Bad News For Family Of Ahmed “Clock Boy” Mohamed
Louder With Crowder: Twitter Suspends Steven Crowder For Violating “Hateful Conduct” Terms
Reason: Girl Scouts Are Writing Anti-Smoking Legislation In Colorado (h/t NeoWayland)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Greasy Pole Podcast #2 – Red Bow Ties For Gun Control Episode
American Power: Lauren Southern Banned From UK, also, Democrat Conor Lamb Apparent Winner In PA-18
American Thinker: James Clapper, Deep State Point Man
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: SecS Rex Exed
CDR Salamander: USCG’s Quiet Upgrade
Da Tech Guy: Voices Of CPAC 2018 – Kurt Schlichter, also, 30 Tips To Stay Married For 30 – Live Modestly
Don Surber: “Why Are We Still Talking About The Campaign?”
Dustbury: Surplus Population
Fausta: Argentine Navy Rescues U.S. Scientists
The Geller Report: Stephen Hawking, Who Relied On Israeli Technology While Denouncing Israel, Is Dead, also, Muslim Serving 25 Years For Terror Plot Slits Warden’s Throat
Hogewash: Qapla’! also, Qapla’ Again! also, Another First Amendment Lawsuit
Joe For America: How Low Will The Left Go? Using Kids To Promote Their Agenda
JustOneMinute: On To Pennsylvania!
Legal Insurrection: Democrats & Former Aides Not Pleased With Hillary’s Recent Comments, also, Joy Behar Issues Public Apology Over Public Insult To Christians
Michelle Malkin: Look Homeward, “Change Agents”
Power Line: Democrats Double Down On Fake, also, The Sad Case Of Larry Tribe
Shark Tank: DeSantis Comments On Russian “Collusion”
Shot In The Dark: They Warned Us…
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Entropy Still Acting On Stephen Hawking, also, Mega Space Force!
The Political Hat: The New Social Justice Woke Term, -Misia, also, Happy Pi Day!
This Ain’t Hell: Cherokee Genealogist Says No Available Data Supports Fauxcahontas’ Claim, also, “Teacher Accidentally Fires Gun, Injures Student During Safety Lesson”
Victory Girls: Fly The Unfriendly Skies Of United
Weasel Zippers: GOP Chair Says Coerced Student Walkout In Chicago is Political Indoctrination, also, Schiff Wants 30 More Witnesses Called For Russian Collusion Investigation
Mark Steyn: Life In The Rear-View Mirror, also, Running Towards Gunfire


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In The Mailbox: 03.13.18

Posted on | March 14, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.13.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The Ninety Miles Mystery Box, Episode #194
EBL: Lauren Southern
Twitchy: Blue Check Abortion Doctor’s Depraved Level Of Pride In Her Work Will Make You Gag
Louder With Crowder: UT Arlington Lecturer Attacks Crowder Ahead Of SMU Event
Earther: Can We Make Sure Geoengineering Doesn’t Backfire?


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Some Vintage White Nile Whitewater
American Power: Trump Fires Tillerson, also, Kate Upton For Yamanay
American Thinker: The Ongoing Plight Of Christians
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Big Cougar News
BattleSwarm: On The Dustup Between President Trump And Maxine Waters – A Modest Proposal
BLACKFIVE: Kimmery Martin, The Queen Of Hearts
CDR Salamander: Slovene Psychoanalytic Philosophy Vs. The Chinese Porcupine’s Quills
Da Tech Guy: The Corruption of College Sports, also, National Geographic Signals Virtue
Don Surber: U.S. Press Completely Missed Trump’s Middle East Peace Process
Dustbury: I Live With Dust On My Fan
The Geller Report: Canadian Government Issues Womens’ Day Image of Hijabi, also, Lauren Southern Banned From UK For Poster Critical Of Islam
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, School Shooter Control
Joe For America: School Walkout Over “Gun Violence” Managed By Racist, Sexist Hate Group
JustOneMinute: The Desolation of Smug
Legal Insurrection: Gallup Poll Shows Americans’ Support For Israel At All-time High, also, 5th Circuit Reinstates Texas’ Anti-Sanctuary City Law
Power Line: Hating Whitey At Stanford, also, How The Democrats Will Respond To Pompeo & Haspel Nominations
Shark Tank: Hillary Blames Loss On “Pressure” From Men
Shot In The Dark: Orwell Was A Pollyanna
STUMP: Mornings With Meep, also, Taxing Tueday
The Jawa Report: Caption This – Hillary Spreads Edition
The Political Hat: What Have You Ever Conserved?
This Ain’t Hell: An Illegal Immigrant With An AR-15, also, AAFES Brings Back Magazine Sales
Victory Girls: Nikki Haley Lays Down Syria Marker At UN
Weasel Zippers: Revealed – Obama Campaign Hired GPS Fusion To Investigate Romney, also, College Student Kicked Out Of Class For Telling Professor There’s Only Two Genders
Megan McArdle: Toys R Us Still Sells A Lot Of Toys. Here’s Why It’s Going Under
Mark Steyn: Speakers Cornered, also, Degrees Of Unpresidentiality


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Transgender Totalitarianism

Posted on | March 13, 2018 | 4 Comments

 

In England, no one is permitted to disapprove of castrating children:

Police in England interrogated a stay-at-home mom for tweeting her disapproval of sex reassignment surgery for a minor, a move some say indicates alarming governmental censorship of free speech, especially speech related to transgenderism.
Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, a self-described feminist and mother of four, was contacted by police in early February because Susie Green, CEO of Mermaids, a U.K.-based charity that supports transgender persons, had reported her to them in July. Twitter supplied Keen-Minshull’s details to the police and the officer told her she was a “test case” in a new “human rights” fight they were undertaking.
This “test case” came as a result of comments Keen-Minshull made on social media. Specifically at issue were tweets critical of transgenderism, postings where she referenced how Green had taken her son to Thailand to have his genitals removed when he was 16. He was reportedly the youngest person in the world to undergo sex reassignment surgery. Green’s son is said to have been prescribed puberty blockers by a doctor in Boston at age 12, and Jackie Green — who was born Jack — told the Daily Mail in 2012 that he has always been and never doubted he was a girl.
“It’s just that my body didn’t match because, as far as I’m concerned, I had a birth defect,” he said. . . .
Keen-Minshull was summarily forwarded a disclosure containing eight of her tweets spanning from October 2016 to August 2017, six of which mentioned the Mermaids charity. Susie Green’s major complaint was that Keen-Mishull had referred to “castration” in tweets about her son, something that occurs in sex reassignment surgery.

There you have it, ladies and gentlemen — it is now a “human rights” violation to call things by their right names. Facts are “hate.”

Also, Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

ADDENDUM: Here is an interesting discussion:

Type 1 Propaganda is the “Big Lie” of the Soviet Union or Orwell’s 1984. The nature of the “Big Lie” is that the lie should be so big and so obvious that no sane person could believe it. . . .
As a loyalty test, the “Big Lie” is meant to distinguish those who will lie from those who will not lie for the authorities. As a form of propaganda, the loyalties of the targets are already known: they are enemies. Instead, the lie is a form of psychological torture meant to degrade and demean members of the opposition.

(Hat-tip: @est1608 on Twitter.) We have to think about motives when we encounter propaganda in service of totalitarian ideologies. What purpose is served? What is the long-term goal? Who benefits? It doesn’t necessarily matter how you answer such questions. Much of this is mysterious and confusing, and honest people can disagree. What is important is a skeptical posture toward these allegedly unquestionable truths. The very fact that the cultural elite is intent on forcing you to accept certain beliefs should be sufficient to inspire you to question whatever it is they wish to make you believe. People who employ such dishonest propaganda tactics, and who resort to terroristic methods to silence their critics, are never to be trusted.



 

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Category: The Transgender Cult

Hillary’s Worldwide Blame-America Tour

Posted on | March 13, 2018 | Comments Off on Hillary’s Worldwide Blame-America Tour

 

People who refuse to accept responsibility for failure always require scapegoats to bear the blame. Hillary Clinton lost the election and, because this cannot be her fault — she is always blameless — she must rationalize defeat by heaping scorn on those who voted against her:

If you look at the map of the United States, there is all that red in the middle where Trump won. I won in the coasts, I win, you know, Illinois, Minnesota, places like that. But what the map doesn’t show you is that I won the places that represent two thirds of America’s gross domestic product. So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward, and his whole campaign, “make America great again,” was looking backwards. You know, “You didn’t like black people getting rights, you don’t like women getting jobs, you don’t want to see that Indian American succeeding more than you are. Whatever your problem is, I’m going to solve it.”

 

Bitter much, ma’am? Allahpundit points out that, during the same event in Mumbai, India, Hillary also recycled a claim she’s made before, namely that married women voted against her because of . . . well, patriarchy: “Part of that is an identification with the Republican Party, and a sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should.”

 

This is not an explanation, it’s an excuse. It is a refusal to accept failure, a selfish rationalization that allows Hillary (and other Democrats) to avoid admitting that their policy agenda isn’t popular. By the way, their policies weren’t popular during the eight years of Obama’s presidency, either; the difference was that Obama had a personal charisma that Hillary Clinton doesn’t have. Obama defeated John McCain and Mitt Romney largely on the basis of his own charisma, and also as a result of Bush-era GOP policy failures. What was Hillary’s selling point in 2016? First, that she was an experienced politician and, second, that she would continue the general direction of Obama-era policy. Trump offered voters an alternative, one untainted by association with Bush-style Republicanism, and this was enough to shift the balance in several states (including Pennsylvania and Michigan) long considered “safe” for Democrats.

In a way, however, Hillary is right. She was popular among voters in places that were “optimistic” and “moving forward” as a result of Obama-era policies intended to benefit certain people in certain places — which isn’t necessarily an argument in favor of those policies, especially if you did not benefit yourself. What did Hillary offer to working-class voters in Pennsylvania and Michigan, except a continuation of the same liberal policies that had resulted in their economic and social marginalization? For decades, going back at least as far as the early 1990s, these voters have felt neglected by the political elite, and they do not like being told that their problems are due to their being “backwards” and prejudiced.

If you habitually insult people — which is what Democrats have been doing to white voters in “all that red in the middle” for many years now — you should not be surprised when they vote against you. Elections have consequences, and Trump’s success in breaking the bipartisan elite’s stranglehold on federal policy could produce a decisive shift in American politics. If he fails, however, would it be fair for him to blame Democrat voters? Wouldn’t we laugh in scorn if Trump made such excuses?

Winners don’t need excuses. Victory is its own justification. Whatever criticism you might have of Nick Saban’s coaching strategies, you can’t deny that Alabama won the national championship, and whatever you say about Trump, he is the president, isn’t he?

Hillary travels to Mumbai, disparaging Trump voters — “all that red in the middle” of America — to the delight of her international audience. Let’s hope American voters never forget that insult.



 

Category: Hillary Clinton

Late Night With Rule 5 Monday: Champagne Season

Posted on | March 13, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Young people these days aren’t big on gambling in casinos, but they do like hanging out at the pool, listening to DJs play EDM, and getting wasted, and so most of the major casinos here on the Strip have “beach clubs” which give the kids the opportunity to do all these things. One of the largest beach clubs is the MGM’s Wet Republic, which features world-class DJs along with the cute girls and hideously expensive drinks, and they’re kicking off the year with “Champagne Season”.

(pic from youredm.com)

Yep. It’s Vegas.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode 188, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns; Animal Magnetism contributes Rule Five Gunsplaining Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd this week includes Krysten Ritter, Olivia De Havilland, National Oreo Day, How Long Till You Notice?, Abbie Cornish, Belorussian Honey Trap, Stormy Daniels, Star Wars Star Struck, International Womens’ Day, and  What’s Really Behind The Trump/Kim Summit.

A View From The Beach brings us Lisa Marie Jaftha, Oil Company Lawsuit Goes Horribly Wrong, It’s International Women’s Day . . ., A Rousing Dose of Morning Russiagate, For Whom the Clock Tolls . . ., So You Want to Be an Internet Star?, Triple Threat – Elise Trouw, In the Know? Vote Silvio! and One Way to Increase Voter Turnout.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Bojana Novakovic, his Vintage Babe is Catherine Moylan, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Victoria’s Secret. At Dustbury, it’s Senta Berger and Barbara Corcoran.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Category: Rule 5

Are ‘Commitment-Phobic Men’ to Blame for England’s Declining Fertility?

Posted on | March 13, 2018 | Comments Off on Are ‘Commitment-Phobic Men’ to Blame for England’s Declining Fertility?

 

Earlier this month, the British Fertility Education Initiative (FEI) advised that sex education in schools overemphasizes contraception and fails to warn about the risks of delayed childbearing. The median age at first birth in the United Kingdom is now 30. “Fertility delayed is fertility denied,” as demographers say, and approximately one-fifth of British women are doomed never to become mothers:

The rising age of women having children is a cause of concern, the group of academics and experts said, and the pain of involuntary childlessness should not be underestimated.

This isn’t just a personal problem. In societies where birth rates decline below “replacement level” (an average of 2.1 births per woman, the rate necessary to maintain population stability), there will eventually be too many retirees dependent on government pension programs with too few workers to pay the taxes needed to support these programs. In 1999, officials in the European Union sounded  the alarm about this trend, and Jim Sedlak of the American Life League warned that the U.S. could soon face similar problems:

“The ‘success’ of the population controllers in Europe is now taking its toll,” said Sedlak. “The average number of babies per woman has fallen from 1.95 to 1.65, and there is no end in sight.”
“In order to turn things around, four things are necessary,” Sedlak said. “First, the world has to understand that there is not an overpopulation problem, but a problem of too few children. Second, everyone in our society must accept large families and stop using peer pressure to convince people not to have more children. Third, governments and rich philanthropists must stop giving money to population control programs. Finally, young people getting married have to be thinking of having four or more children.”
“We have one generation to turn things around,” Sedlak said. “After that, it may be too late.”

Raising awareness of the danger of demographic decline is difficult, because the liberal elite are so committed to promoting propaganda myths about the (wholly imaginary) dangers of “overpopulation.” From the standpoint of the population-control crowd, declining fertility is good news, and what about the extreme Left? If this trend produces social and economic crises, a sort of demographic Cloward-Piven strategy could be exploited to produce radical political change. Thus, many influential forces in society have a motive to obstruct understanding of fertility-related issues, and there is widespread confusion about the causes and effects of current trends. Mary Wakefield isn’t helping this:

I have several female friends in their early thirties who’ve wanted a baby for a while. Ninety-five per cent of girls do, says the FEI. The trouble for them hasn’t been the cost of childcare or a demanding career. The trouble has been finding a man who’s even halfway keen to settle down.
All my pals looking for Mr Right report identical patterns of behaviour. Dating is now all online. So they scroll through endless profiles and eventually make contact with a promising guy. Cue weeks of pointless text-ing followed eventually by an actual date. The evening often goes well. There might be a snog, more texting and another date arranged. After that: nothing. The promising man, who’s caught wind of a woman with family plans, submerges back into the internet to scroll through the options again. . . .
If online dating turns more men into commitment-phobes, I don’t see why anyone should be surprised. It’s women for the most part who feel the urge to nest and breed — as we all once quite freely acknowledged before gender became a choice. Most men don’t feel the same need to play house. It took the threat of public shame, fear of God and the censorious tutting of mutual friends to chivy a man towards family life. Online, dating strangers, who’s to see or care? . . .

You can read the whole thing, but it doesn’t get better. It doesn’t seem to occur to Ms. Wakefield to wonder why so many of her female acquaintances waited until they were in their early 30s to get serious about trying to find a mate. What were these women doing when they were ages 18-24? Because those are, in fact, the biological prime years, when a woman has the optimal chance to attract a male partner.

What happened to Ms. Wakefield’s friends, I would imagine, is that they squandered their youth in a series of dead-end relationships, negotiating from a position of weakness despite the inherent advantages a young woman naturally has in the mating market. The simplest way to express this is to say that, in the economics of sex, men represent the demand side of the equation, and women are the supply. This perspective dictates certain strategic considerations, the kind of old-fashioned common-sense stuff your grand-grandmother understood, but which seems to have been forgotten by so many allegedly “empowered” young women.

Blaming men for the dismal prospects of the 30-something single woman is erroneous, because any woman who is still single past the age of 30 must have already made many strategic errors, otherwise she would have been married long before. Unfortunately, riding the carousel tends to inflate a young woman’s sense of her own attractiveness. She’s getting plenty of offers when she’s 21, why should she fear for the future? By the time she realizes her sexual market value is declining, she has already missed her best chance at that fairy-tale happily-ever-after ending.

Youth is a precious resource, and ought not to be wasted. Teach young people — men and women alike — to be marriage-minded from the start. Certainly my kids have been equipped with the knowledge that marriage, not mere “dating,” is the desired goal, which is why I’ve already got four grandchildren, although none of my kids are yet 30. Such outcomes are still possible, if children are correctly instructed, and it is toward the proper instruction of youth that we ought to turn our attention, rather than wringing our hands over the pathetic plight of the 30-something singles who’ve already passed their sell-by date.

 

Category: Marriage

In The Mailbox: 03.12.18

Posted on | March 12, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.12.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Olivia Cooke
Twitchy: Wait, There’s More! Hillary Wasn’t Done Trashing Trump Voters!
Louder With Crowder: Parkland Student Produces Armbands To Advocate For Gun Control
Quillette: The Psychology Of Progressive Hostility (h/t NeoWayland)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Heads She Wins Tails You Lose, also, There’s No Such Thing As Free Trade
American Power: Helen Smith, Men On Strike, also, Naomi Schaefer Riley, Be The Parent Please
American Thinker: It’s Time For Juan Williams To Go
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Advice To California Refugees
BLACKFIVE: Phillip Margolin, The Third Victim
Bring The HEAT: X-15!
CDR Salamander: Saturday Movie Stop – Operation Red Sea, also, Midrats March Madness
Da Tech Guy: These Are Some Really Strange Bedfellows, also, Illinois Bicentennial – The Fourteen Worst Leaders From The Land of Lincoln
Don Surber: The Easily Conned National Review
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Sue Storm Orders A Snack
Fred On Everything: A Gringo Loose In Cuba
The Geller Report: FBI Insiders Blow Whistle On Vegas Shooter Case And ISIS Link, also, Hungary Ready To Fight UN Mass Migration Plan
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also, Smugness, Civility, & The Revolution, also also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Joe For America: Arnold Schwartzenegger To Sue Oil Companies For First Degree Murder of The World
JustOneMinute: Go Ahead. Make My Day.
Legal Insurrection: Confirmed – Hillary Is Still Bitter, Tone-Deaf, Unwell, & Hates The Deplorables, also, Shortest Senate Race Ever – Beto O’Rourke Says AR-15s Shouldn’t Be Sold To Public
Power Line: House Intel Committee Concludes No Collusion, also, The Obama Department Of Labor In Its Tenth Year, also also, The Obama Comfort Doll Isn’t Even The Worst Of It
Shark Tank: DeSantis Believes New Florida Gun Law Will Be “Shot Down”
Shot In The Dark: Expect A Surge In The News About The “Alt-Right”
STUMP: Around The Pension-O-Sphere – Public Unions, Illinois, Connecticut, Kentucky, & More! also, Memory Monday – Pandemic Model, Quarantine Politics, & The Second Week of March 1918
The Jawa Report: TIE Fighters! 100% Proof!
The Political Hat: Republicans Should Be Terrified, also, A Paragon of Modern Academia
This Ain’t Hell: Hasta Muerte Coffee, Where Cops Aren’t Welcome, also, Lower Michigan May Be Impact Site For Falling Chinese Space Station
Victory Girls: Fauxcahontas Nixes 2020 Run And That DNA Test, Too
Weasel Zippers: Former NYT Executive Editor Keeps Obama Therapy Doll In Her Purse, also, President Trump Pardons Kristian Saucier
Megan McArdle: The Moral Hazard Of Naloxone In The Opioid Crisis
Mark Steyn: Loopy Lou, also, Hammer And Tongues


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Two Killed by Bombs in Austin

Posted on | March 12, 2018 | Comments Off on Two Killed by Bombs in Austin

Obviously, Texas needs stricter bomb-control laws:

A pair of package explosions that left two people dead in Austin, Texas, over the past 10 days share similarities and authorities suspect they are connected, police said.
The latest incident occurred Monday morning; the other on March 2. In both instances, a resident retrieved a package that blew up when it was opened.
Both packages were not delivered via any mail services and both homes are those of African Americans. A 17-year-old boy died Monday and a woman was transported with non-life-threatening injuries. Another male died from his injuries in the March 2 explosion.
Authorities are looking into whether the incidents could be hate crimes, but as of now there is no evidence the victims were targeted because of their race, says the official.

It’s always best to avoid speculation about motives until police have identified a suspect. There have been cases in the past where criminals have used bombs to distract police from their other crimes.

 

Category: Crime, Texas
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