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

Posted on | June 4, 2018 | Comments Off on Florida Child Pornography Suspect Resists Arrest, Which Proves to Be a Bad Decision

 

The sheriff’s department in Polk County, Florida, was investigating a child pornography case, which brought deputies Christine Smith and Trent Medley to a residence in Dundee, where Andres Estrada, 21, lived with his family, according to Sheriff Grady Judd:

During an undercover child porn investigation, the Sheriff’s Office received information that porn had been downloaded to a device at the Eighth Street address. The officers went to the home about 10:30 a.m. and found Estrada there with his brother, Claudio Estrada, 18.
Both brothers were cooperative with the deputies, voluntarily surrendering a laptop and cellphones. Andres Estrada voluntarily unlocked his phone.
When one deputy found a child porn image on Andres Estrada’s phone, he dropped his head as if to acknowledge it. Medley told Smith to “read him his rights” and walked outside.
“The investigation was going very well at this point,” Judd said.
But Estrada turned violent as Smith was making the arrest, yelling, “You’re not going to do this to me.” He lunged at the deputy, and they landed on the floor with Estrada on top, beating Smith about the head.
“He outweighed her by 100 pounds, and he was viciously beating her,” the sheriff said. “It was a violent, vicious fight.”
When Medley heard his partner screaming for help, he rushed back inside the home. He saw Claudio Estrada trying to break up the fight.
Medley fired at least three shots when he observed Andres Estrada reaching for Smith’s gun and ignoring his commands to get off her. Judd could not say where the bullets struck Estrada. . . .
Andres Estrada had no criminal record, but there were three incidents in which he was detained under Florida’s Baker Act, which allows for the involuntarily detention of persons for mental health problems, particularly if they appear to pose a danger to themselves or others.

The deceased suspect was crazy, and Crazy People Are Dangerous.

 

Category: Crime

Rule 5 Sunday: Overall Beauty

Posted on | June 3, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The appetizer for this week was going to be blue jeans, but it turned out to be difficult to find a pic of attractive young women in jeans that wasn’t NSFW (as in, exposed boobs) or that didn’t overemphasize the woman’s butt. So, in accordance with the notion that one should go large or go home, I looked for women in overalls, and lo – today’s appetizer.

Not outstanding in her field, but pretty fine regardless.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box #272, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns; Animal Magnetism follows up with Rule Five Progressive Utopia Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

A View From The Beach may complain about lack of inspiration, but nonetheless delivers: Burn Notice’s Gabrielle Anwar, Red Sonja, Once More Into the Breach, Another Wet T-Shirt Thursday, Lesbian Wife Beater Free After Testosterone Defense, “I Wanna Get Me A Gun”, A Ragout of Russiagate, Post-Memorial Day Swimsuit Post, Swimming into Monday Morning and  “Call on Me”.

EBL brings in the 5:17 To Paris, Cultural Appropriation, Brownie Husband, Jessica Alba, Shakira, Gum Shower, and Lollipop.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Lori Loughlin, his Vintage Babe is Patricia Morison, and Sex in Advertising this week is all about vintage swimsuits. At Dustbury, it’s Riley Keough and Tatum O’Neal.


Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!


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NY Times: ‘Motherhood Is Hitler’

Posted on | June 3, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

The New York Times has a distinctly weird article, written by a British graduate student, smearing traditional stay-at-home mothers with the taint of “white supremacy.” The writer is able to find actual examples of neo-Nazi racialism in the online “tradwives” community, but it is always possible to find examples of anything on the Internet, e.g., Catholic schoolgirls who grow up to be blue-haired “nonbinary queers.”

Why this article? Why now? The author of the NY Times piece, Annie Kelly, published an article last year exploiting fears of the “alt-right”:

Alt-right extremism is a consequence of mainstream neo-conservative discourse on liberalism, manhood and national security post-9/11. Its success is measured by its ability to project an updated rhetoric of anti-left antagonism into the window of acceptable political discourse.
After the 2016 presidential election, as the US media scrambled for ways to understand the sources of Trump’s support, there was a dramatic proliferation on news sites of profiles of figures from the alt-right such as Milo Yiannopolous and Richard Spencer – many of them alarmingly deferential in tone. Almost immediately, however, there was an understandable backlash from liberal commentators and activists, urging journalists to stop using the euphemistic ‘alt-right’ moniker and to instead refer to the loosely defined digital subculture to which the label was attached as ‘neo-Nazi’.

So, we may conclude, it is the election of Trump that inspired this paranoid witch-hunt for “white supremacy” among mommy bloggers.

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

The problem is not just that liberals are smearing their opponents as Nazis; that’s been going on for decades. The larger problem is that, as the “progressive” Left becomes more extreme and less tolerant of opposition, it provides opportunities for actual neo-Nazis. After all, if mainstream conservatives are being smeared as racists, if Christians are being sued for refusing to participate in same-sex weddings, if James Damore can be fired for criticizing Google’s “diversity” policies — in sum, if any expression of opposition to the Left is punished and silenced — why not just say, “F–k it” and go full-on Nazi? This is not a hypothetical danger, because I’ve personally witnessed intelligent people go down that road.

The first time I met Richard Spencer in 2007, we were both panelists at a forum discussing the Duke lacrosse rape hoax. Spencer was at that time a graduate student at Duke, and spoke about the climate on campus, whereas I was there to address the biased media coverage of the case. Spencer did not strike me as an “extremist” of any kind, although he was quite serious in his dismay at the attitudes exhibited by Duke faculty and students and, like a lot of other thoughtful young conservatives at the time, he was disgusted by the Bush administration’s failures.

Was it inevitable that Spencer would become a “Fourteen Words” type? I don’t know, but I would hope that his example might alert mainstream conservatives to a real danger in the 21st century.

If the Republican Party (and mainstream conservatives in other countries) cannot make effective arguments and enact effective policies to address the kind of social problems that give rise to neo-Nazism, many young people may give up on traditional politics and drift off into that shadowy fringe where voices whisper: “Blame the Jews!”

Say what you will about Richard Spencer, he is not stupid.

Duke graduate student Richard Bertrand Spencer has penned perhaps the single most perceptive commentary on the Group of 88’s intellectual origins. Spencer, a Ph.D. candidate in European intellectual history, explores “the ‘foundational myths’ that underlie the Group’s response and give meaning to its claims,” and in the process helps explain why the lacrosse case “has left serious people with a sense that something has gone terribly wrong with Duke’s academic culture.”

That was Professor K.C. Johnson writing in March 2007. If Spencer was capable of writing “the single most perceptive commentary” on the Duke lacrosse rape hoax, what should we deduce about his drift into disreputable extremism? Doesn’t this reflect badly on mainstream conservatives of the GOP, who have failed to do anything to remedy the increasingly intolerant hegemony of the Left in academia? If the Republican Party is willing to remain silent while our nation’s universities are surrendered to what Professor Johnson called “Intellectual Thuggery,” isn’t it likely that many more thoughtful young people will follow Richard Spencer’s lead, abandoning mainstream politics and drifting into the shadowy fringe?

We have reached the crisis years of the Trump era because soi-disant “mainstream” Republicans considered it disreputable to involve themselves with the kind of Culture War issues raised by the Duke lacrosse case. Why did working-class white voters in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan respond to Trump’s appeal? Isn’t it in large part because Trump was willing to call out the “fake news” media that has ignored or misreported the problems affecting the lives of those people? Isn’t it obvious that the establishment media has become part of the same degenerate intelligentsia as the faculty of Duke University? And don’t you think that, if conservatives fail to take this seriously, their failure will cause more and more people to heed those whispers from the fringe?

“Blame the Jews!”

In all seriousness, this is beginning to frighten me. Not long ago, I clicked onto a YouTube livestream hosted by a blogger I’ve been following since the 2014 #GamerGate controversy, and was disturbed to hear the participants mention “the JQ” — shorthand for “the Jewish question.”

Were they serious about this? Was this just “bad boy” posturing? Were they merely signifying their contempt for political correctness? I’m not sure, because I stopped listening to that livestream and didn’t bother to investigate the participants. What does it mean, however, when young men think it’s harmless to play games with anti-Semitism?

What’s perhaps most remarkable about this is that Jewish conservatives have been among those who have fought hardest and longest to address the very issues that concern the alt-right. If “tradwives” are concerned about demographic trends that threaten “the existence of our people,” they might be surprised to discover, for example, that the first notable author to examine these issues was Ben Watternberg, in his 1987 book The Birth Dearth: What Happens When People in Free Countries Don’t Have Enough Babies? Wattenberg, who is perhaps the textbook definition of a “neoconservative” (i.e., a former Scoop Jackson Democrat), followed up that landmark book in 2004 with Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future. Even if you go drifting towards “Fourteen Words” extremism, you see, there are Jews who share your concerns, and this is true in every aspect of the Culture War. Some of the most vocal and most persuasive early critics of modern feminism, for example, were Midge Decter (The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women’s Liberation, 1972) and Steven Goldberg (The Inevitability of Patriarchy, 1973).

The German socialist August Bebel once said that anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools, but it’s also the conservatism of fools.

So here comes the New York Times with “Motherhood is Hitler” — using a handful of Internet extremists to smear all defenders of the traditional family as Nazis — but what else are we to expect? This should be interpreted as evidence of desperation and despair on the Left.

The defeat of Hillary Clinton in 2016, and the subsequent policy successes of the Trump administration, have caused a panic in the degenerate intelligentsia. Leftists in academia and the media have taken off the mask, revealing themselves as totalitarians, who do not recognize the legitimacy of any opposition to the “progressive” agenda.

What the Left would like to do is to delegitimize every possible source of opposition to their cultural hegemony. One way to do this, of course, is to attach a stigma of Nazism or “white supremacy” to anyone who rejects what Thomas Sowell has called The Vision of the Anointed. Conservatives must resist this effort, by refusing to play by the rules that the Left wants to impose on political discourse. If the Left is able to dictate the rules, they guarantee that they will win the game. They know that there actually are neo-Nazis over there in the shadows, but we know this, too. Knowing that the Left will always use this kind of guilt-by-association smear against us, conservatives should prepare in advance to deal with these attacks. Don’t let yourself get caught in a situation where you panic, become defensive, and discredit yourself with absurd apologies.

It’s 2018. Everybody is now “literally Hitler.” And if everybody is Hitler, then nobody is Hitler. Therefore, relax. You haven’t lost your mind. The world has gone crazy, and sanity is now a hate crime.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! A good time as any to remind you that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

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Category: Contraceptive Culture, Family, Intellectuals, Media Bias, Racism

FMJRA 2.0: Letters From Home

Posted on | June 2, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Soros Foundation Spends Millions Annually to Support Transgender Agenda
The Political Hat
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Before They Make Me Run
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach

Rule 5 Sunday: Eponymous Shorts
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

Mentally Ill Maryland Democrat Senate Candidate Makes Suicide Threat
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 05.29.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 05.30.18
Proof Positive

Why Freedom of Speech Matters (And Why ‘Hate Speech’ Is Protected, Too)
Nebraska Energy Observer
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 05.31.18
Proof Positive

TERF Wars: ‘Madness Takes Its Toll’
The Pirate’s Cove

In The Mailbox: 06.01.18
Proof Positive

Top linkers this week:

A View From The Beach & Proof Positive, tied at 5

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!



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‘Dickie Rebellion’ Gets Fired

Posted on | June 2, 2018 | 2 Comments

Readers will please excuse the lack of blog content since Friday, but I found myself staring into the abyss — the utter desolation of all hope for the future of humanity, evidence that our society has descended so far into decadence and depravity that recovery is perhaps impossible.

 

The Grey Fox is a gay bar in St. Louis, and one of the producers of the club’s entertainment is a “drag king” (i.e., a female who performs in male persona) who goes by the stage name “Dickie Rebellion.” Tuesday night, there was an altercation outside the Grey Fox which is being investigated by St. Louis police. Apparently, a crew of “nonbinary queers” assaulted a 24-year-old lesbian feminist, calling her a “TERF bitch” because she had “misgendered” one of them. There is an account of this incident at Gender Trender blog, but a source tells me that account includes several errors of fact. While I was trying to piece together enough details to write a news article about this, however, my research turned up some information that left me shocked and demoralized.

 

“Dickie Rebellion” is, in fact, Natalie Elaine Welage (pictured above at right, with her girlfriend Katy). Ms. Welage’s biography is remarkable. She is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio. As a child, she was a ballerina whose dance performances included The Nutcracker and also an appearance at the 2012 Orange Bowl halftime. She attended a Catholic girls’ school, St. Ursula Academy, where she graduated with honors in 2012 and then enrolled at St. Louis University, a private Catholic school where the annual cost of attendance is $53,132, including room and board.

 

How does a young woman with that kind of education end up, two years after getting her bachelor’s degree, as a blue-haired “nonbinary queer” doing drag shows at a gay bar? How did her life go so horribly wrong?

Oh, but it’s even worse than that. In addition to working nights as “Dickie Rebellion” in drag shows, Ms. Welage had a day job, as a marketing coordinator for a mortage company. After Tuesday night’s incident, Ms. Welage took to Twitter boasting about the “TERF” beatdown.

 

Those are just a couple of screenshots from Ms. Welage’s now-deleted account. You see, the lesbian feminist “TERF bitch” who got beat up has a Tumblr blog and lots of friends, who raced into action to identify her assailants, make copies of their Twitter conversations about the incident, and several of them contacted Ms. Welage’s employer.

 

It seems that Ms. Welage violated company policy, which is why as of Thursday, she is an ex-employee of the mortage company. Beyond that, her reputation is irreparably damaged, and it is likely that the former Catholic schoolgirl will have serious difficulty in her future career. Not to mention, of course, that her girlfriend Katy (allegedly one of the ringleaders of the attack) could be subject to prosecution for assault.

Where did Natalie Welage go wrong? How has her life descended into a catastrophic tragedy of despair and shame? Researching this story, I came across two possible clues:

  1. She minored in Gender Studies; and
  2. She’s registered to vote as a Democrat.

Parents, wake up! Don’t let this happen to your kids!

Steer your children away from the road to ruin of nonbinary queerdom. Just say “no” to Gender Studies and the Democrat Party!



 

 

Category: Sex Trouble, The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 06.01.18

Posted on | June 2, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.01.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in May!


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Why Hasn’t Scott Israel Been Fired?
Twitchy: “Little Rocket Man” Sends Comically Large Letter To White House
Louder With Crowder: John Goodman On Roseanne Cancellation – “I Wasn’t Winning An Emmy Anyway”
According To Hoyt: Coherence Evades Me
Monster Hunter Nation: Origins Sent Out Another Message About Me
Vox Popoli:Everyone Always Knows

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Thinker: Does Gun Control Lead To Genocide? also, Is “Sex Work” Pro-Woman?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Progressive Utopia Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For June 1
BLACKFIVE: Clive Cussler & Robin Burcell, The Gray Ghost
CDR Salamander: The Drone Economy Of Scale, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Why The Samantha Bee Thing Is Worse Than Roseanne In Three Sentences
Don Surber: “My God, I Thought. What Have We Become?”
Dustbury: To The Manner Born
The Geller Report: Valerie Jarrett Must Explain Her Clinton Foundation Coverups, also, Swedish Church Collects Money For Mosque Construction
Hogewash: Blogsmoke, also, National Doughnut Day, also also Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
JustOneMinute: The MAGA Jobs Report
Legal Insurrection: May Jobs Report – Unemployment hits 18-Year Low At 3.8%, also, Things Keep Getting Worse For MSNBC’s Joy Reid
Power Line: The Curious Case Of Mr. Downer, also, The Smearing Of Fred Fleitz
Shark Tank: President Trump’s “Yuge” America First Agenda
Shot In The Dark: Berg’s Seventh Law In The Headlines
STUMP: Around The Pension-O-Sphere
This Ain’t Hell: Samantha Bee Is The Feckless C***t Here, also, Assad Wants American Troops Out Of Syria, Threatens To Attack
Victory Girls: An Ex-Con Pedophile Is Running For Congress – You Can Thank Terry McAuliffe!
Volokh Conspiracy: Manning Loses Wikileaks First Amendment Appeal
Weasel Zippers: NY AG – Let’s Prosecute People Twice For The Same Crime, also, Susan Rice’s Son Is An Outspoken Pro-Trump Republican At Stanford
Mark Steyn: The Holmes Front


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TERF Wars: ‘Madness Takes Its Toll’

Posted on | June 1, 2018 | 4 Comments

 

The problem with explaining what’s going on with the transgender movement is this: When you try to explain craziness, you sound crazy. People look at you like you’ve lost your mind, because no sane person can imagine the arguments being made by these deranged activists.

Lesbian feminists are being attacked as “TERFs” (trans exclusive radical feminists) because they don’t want to date men in dresses, nor do they want to cede control of the feminist movement to men in dresses. Transgender activists are insulting lesbians as “vagina fetishists.”

 

“SJWs Always Project,” as Vox Day says, and who are the real “fetishists” here? Isn’t it the men playing make-believe as “women”? And isn’t the stark irrationality of their arguments symptomatic of their profound mental illness? Should sane people let these lunatics boss us around, accusing us of “hate” if we disagree with them?

Transgender ideology is a mirror-reverse of reality, an inversion of social norms, a direct attack on the moral order of civilization. It is an attempt by mentally defective men to obtain by deception both the courteous deference due to women in traditional culture, and the political authority which feminism seeks for women. The traditionalist and the feminist alike would object to men engaging in such public bullying toward women, yet by claiming to be “women,” transgender activists engage in this bullying behavior and call it “social justice.”

What was the point, after all, of liberal outrage over Donald Trump’s “grab ’em by the p–sy” comments, if liberals are going to demand that women submit to insults from transgender activists?

By the way, a conservative need not endorse homosexuality to believe that lesbians should not be insulted as “TERFs,” etc. What is at issue here is a matter of basic liberty. The First Amendment, which guarantees both freedom of speech and freedom of religion, likewise safeguards the principle of freedom of association. In guaranteeing “the right of the people peaceably to assemble,” our Constitution expresses this principle. A woman who chooses to avoid intimacy with men is exercising her basic liberty and, while we might lament her choice, the friends of liberty cannot in good conscience compel her to do otherwise. Forcing citizens to associate with others against their will is not “social justice.”

The Christian is as free to eschew association with non-believers as the homosexual is free to eschew the companionship of the opposite sex. For decades now, the Left has accused Christian conservatives of seeking to “impose their morality” on others. But what is it that transgender activists are attempting to do now? Aren’t they attempting to compel others to do their bidding, and to silence their critics?

It’s astounding.
Time is fleeting.
Madness takes its toll.

Those lyrics from The Rocky Horror Picture Show keep coming to mind as I contemplate the increasingly bizarre conflicts over “gender” and “sexuality” in 21st-century America. It is truly astounding to find myself defending lesbian feminists against transgender totalitarians.

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



 

 

Category: The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 05.31.18

Posted on | June 1, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.31.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
First Street Journal: Is The C Word The Equivalent Of The N Word?
EBL: An Important Announcement From Starbucks
Twitchy: Tammy Bruce Levels Sally Fields’ Tweet That Unwittingly Speaks Volumes About Hollywood
Louder With Crowder: Ted Cruz Calls Out Jimmy Kimmel, Challenges Him To Basketball

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Pat Conroy, Beach Music, also, Democrats’ Double Standard On Celebrities In The White House
American Thinker: The Permanent Adolescence Of The American Left
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Knife Control News
BattleSwarm: Hey, Did You Notice That Israel/Hamas War?
BLACKFIVE: Carole Avriett, Coffin Corner Boys
CDR Salamander: Three Days Of The FREMM
Da Tech Guy: Twelve Years Ago Today At Instapundit, I Became A Villain To The Left
Don Surber: Obama Worked To Undermine Trump After The Election
Dustbury: My Phone Is Dumb
The Geller Report: Greeks Afraid To Leave Their Homes Due To Violent Muslim Migrants, also,  Jihad In The Netherlands
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Joe For America: California Punishing Hospitals That Provide Too Much Care
Legal Insurrection: Samantha Bee Calls Ivanka A “Feckless C*nt* On Her TBS Show, Apologizes Under Fire, also, All The President’s Pardons
Michelle Malkin: Stop One To Stop False Accusations – Exposure
Power Line: Global Establishment Closes Ranks Against Tommy Robinson, also, Cindy McCain To Succeed Her Husband In The Senate?
Shark Tank: DeSantis Backs Trump On “Spy” Assumption
Shot In The Dark: The Juggernaut Strikes
STUMP:  Pew Pensions Report
The Political Hat: Thought Police Arrest Autistic Student For Crime Of Imaginary Gun Possession
This Ain’t Hell: Veterans Join Together For Gun Control, also, Taliban Fighters Wore U.S. Uniforms In Kabul Attack
Victory Girls: CNN Guest Says If You Voted For Trump, You’re Racist
Volokh Conspiracy: Liberty Comes To Liberty HS – “Trump Border Wall” T-Shirt Allowed
Weasel Zippers: Watchdog Group Discovers Hidden Iranian Missile Base, also, This Strike Could Bring Down Iran’s Mullahs, But Mainstream Media Ignore It
Mark Steyn: Where The Bee Sucks


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