The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Dear @MeghanEMurphy …

Posted on | April 17, 2018 | Comments Off on Dear @MeghanEMurphy …

 

Burn it down.

That’s the mantra that a lot of conservatives started repeating a few years ago. Many of my friends on the Right had become sick and tired of a Republican Party that didn’t seem to give a damn about the people who vote Republican — or people who would vote Republican, if they thought it might make a difference in their lives. Ridding the GOP of the ghost of Bushism — that’s what the Trump campaign was really about, I think, and if Trump was a blunt instrument for that purpose, he has certainly been quite effective, as you might have noticed from the shrieking headlines decrying him as a “threat to our democracy.”

Burn it down — “our democracy” isn’t working, except for the benefit of the decadent elite who control it. Go do some research into the sources of donations to the Clinton Foundation, and ask yourself: “Was Hillary’s campaign really about feminism? Or was it about . . . Hillary?”

Your recent tirade against feminism’s “allies” on the Left deserves praise. Despite my opposition to radical feminism, it is at least more honest than postmodern Third Wave “pro-sex” genderqueer nonsense, the kind of idiocy that Everyday Feminism has made notorious. And if Zachary Antolak, a/k/a “Zinnia Jones,” a/k/a “Satana Kennedy” is a feminist, then what is feminism but a psychiatric disorder?

 

Is that a movement any sane person would want to be part of? However crazy radical feminists might be, at least they agree that “woman” defines an objective biological reality, rather than a subjective “identity.” The Orwellian word-games of Zinnia Jones and the transgender cult are an invitation to participate in a delusion, and sane people are accused of “hate” if we do not cooperate with their imperative demands.

When a 61-year-old woman is attacked by a 26-year-old man who calls himself “Tara,” whose comrades blame the victim for the attack, we have clearly reached a point where the lunatics are running the asylum.

How is the “capitalist imperialist white supremacist cisheteronormative patriarchy” responsible for transgender activists beating up old ladies? Or how is the right wing to blame for the depredations perpetrated by Hollywood liberals like Harvey Weinstein? Third Wave “intersectionality” theory is inadequate to the task of explaining such problems, and yet the dumbed-down ideology of 21st-century “feminism” insists that whenever anything bad happens to a woman, the Republican Party is to blame.

You, Ms. Murphy, seem to have seen through your “allies” on the Left. This may not necessarily cause you to develop any fondness for the Right, but at least you have realized that the Left does not have a monopoly on moral virtue, and that’s an important truth. Hold onto that tightly, and you might yet eventually acquire such a large supply of truth that someday, when one of your lefty allies calls you a “right-wing troll,” you’ll say: “Why not? I might as well become one. F–k you, lefties!”

Burn it down, Ms. Murphy. Burn it all down.



 

 

Category: Canada, Sex Trouble, The Transgender Cult

Californication, Continued

Posted on | April 16, 2018 | 1 Comment

The latest news from the Crazy State:

California has rejected terms of the federal government’s initial plans for sending National Guard troops to the border because the work is considered too closely tied to immigration, two U.S. officials told The Associated Press.
Gov. Jerry Brown elicited rare and effusive praise from President Donald Trump last week for pledging 400 troops to the Guard’s third large-scale border mission since 2006. But the Democratic governor conditioned his commitment on troops having nothing to do with immigration enforcement, even in a supporting role.
Brown’s announcement last week did not address what specific jobs the California Guard would and would not do and how state officials would distinguish work related to immigration from other aspects of border enforcement, such as fighting criminal gangs and drug and gun smuggling.
Brown’s offer of troops for the mission that Trump wants up to 4,000 troops to perform is still in place. But state authorities told federal officials late last week that the California Guard will not perform tasks in an initial rollout planned for all four border states, according to officials with knowledge of the talks who spoke condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.

Meanwhile:

California Republicans are mounting a campaign to motivate voters against a very unpopular gas tax increase Democrats passed in 2017.
Republican Reps. Kevin McCarthy and Mimi Walters of California . . . want to put a measure on the ballot that repeals the increase. They believe the campaign could increase voter turnout and staunch a blue wave in the state.
“We pay one of the highest gasoline taxes in the nation,” Walters told reporters Saturday, according to The Hill. “By the time you get to 2021, we’re going to be paying $2 a gallon for gasoline just in taxes, and we can’t do that for working families who have to travel for their job.”
The law, passed April 6, imposes a 12 cents per gallon (cpg) hike on citizens and raises the tax on diesel fuel by 20 cpg. It also implements an additional charge to annual vehicle license fees ranging from $25 to $175 depending on the car’s value.

Higher taxes and refusing to defend the border — California is the epitome of the Democrat Party’s agenda. Does America want that?

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

 

Category: California

Rule 5 Sunday: Not Your Normal Graduation Picture

Posted on | April 16, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Earlier this week, University of Tennessee coed Brenna Spencer set off a furor online by posing for this pic and posting it to Twitter, thus:

The Tweet predictably triggered many of the usual suspects, and to her credit, Miss Spencer didn’t back up, not one millimeter. Good on her. More suitable for Rule 5, however, is this swimsuit pic.

Brenna Spencer hits the beach.

Owing to convention/family drama last weekend, and the impending end of tax season this past week (filing deadline is Tuesday, in case you somehow forgot) I was unable to post last week’s Rule 5 Sunday in a timely manner, so you get a post-convention double scoop of luscious linkagery.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny had Hot Pick of the Late Night (last week), The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #216, Morning Mistress (last week), The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #223, and Girls With Guns (last week). Animal Magnetism sent Rule Five Off-Road Friday, last week’s Saturday Gingermageddon, Rule Five Immigration Ideology Friday, and an extra helping of the Saturday Gingermageddon. Trashtown debuts with Retro Space Babes From Roswell.

EBL’s double-strength herd includes Debra Paget, Miss Geraldo Regrets, Osho’s Sannyasins, Lady Bird, Pole Dancing In Slo-Mo, Chappaquiddick, Gemma Arterton, Spring Break Flip, Free Diving, Blondie, Hungarians, Scarlett’s Talents, Stormy Mueller Monday, Handy, Charlie Rose & The Ladies, Molly Ringwald, National Grilled Cheese Day, Fishing Friday, and The Phantom Thread.

At A View From The Beach, we had The Reformed Lesbian Anne Heche, Physicist Meets Vampires, Crazy People are Dangerous, We Have to Kill the Rockfish to Save Them, Betrayed by the Cat, “Ready to Go”, Where Do the Bunnies All Go After Easter? Happy Easter! Daniela Hantuchová, Wet T-Shirt Friday, His Facebook Must Be Better Than Mine, Grab ‘Em By the Pussy Pants,  Organic Farming No Panacea, “Sedona”, The FBI in Fantasy Land, Femen Takes on the Coz, Women Have Women Friends! Who Knew?, The Morning Stretch and But They Know Enough to Snort Condoms, Eat Tide Pods and Ban Guns.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babes were  Naya Rivera and  Eva LaRue, his Vintage Babes were Dolores Faith and Pascale Petit, while Sex in Advertising was covered by Kate Beckinsale and Victoria’s Secret. At Dustbury, it’s Paris Jackson, Kenya Moore, Mandy Moore, and Julie Christie.

Thanks to everyone for your linkagery and your patience.
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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: A Fortnight Late And A Few Hundred Farthings Short

Posted on | April 15, 2018 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: A Fortnight Late And A Few Hundred Farthings Short

— compiled by Wombat-socho

RIP R. Lee Ermey, whose character Gunny Hartman from Full Metal Jacket gave these posts their name.

The #BlackLivesMatter Angle in Lesbian Couple’s Murder-Suicide Mystery
Inoperable Terran
American Digest
Countenance Blog
A View From The Beach
EBL

Podcasting Tonight: Californication!
EBL

The Compulsory Approval Doctrine
EBL

SHOCK: Texas Subsidized Lesbian Couple’s Adoption of Children They Killed
Western Rifle Shooters
EBL

TRIUMPH: Orban Wins Big in Hungary
Steven M. Collins
Western Rifle Shooters
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.10.18
Proof Positive
EBL

Zuckerberg and the Trump Exception
EBL

K-12 Implosion Update
EBL

Get Woke, Go Broke: #MeToo Movement Seeks to Destroy Black Texas Professor
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.11.18
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL

Weird Beyond Words: An Online Transgender Blackmail Conspiracy?
EBL

Poor Wee Paul Ryan
EBL

‘Sperm Costs Too Damn Much’
The Daley Gator
Moonbattery
Rotten Chestnuts
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.13.18
Proof Positive
EBL

Self-Destruction or Self-Defense?
EBL

Another ‘Hate Crime’ Hoax
The Pirate’s Cove
EBL

U.S. Strikes Syria
EBL

For the first time in a long time, we have a most-linked post that isn’t a Rule 5 post! Things will probably be back to normal next week.


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Category: FMJRA Award

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | April 14, 2018 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

How many times do I have to explain this?

A nationally known gay rights attorney and green activist set himself on fire and burned to death in Prospect Park early Saturday in a bizarre ecological protest suicide.
The charred remains of David Buckel, 60, were discovered shortly after sunrise when firefighters responded to a report of a fire in the southwest corner of the sprawling Brooklyn park, police sources said.
A suicide note indicated Buckel used “fossil fuel” in the gruesome suicide as a metaphor for the self-destruction of the planet.
“My name is David Buckel and I just killed myself by fire as a protest suicide,” read a hand-written message left at the scene. “I apologize to you for the mess.”
Buckel, who lived near the park, was a renowned lawyer and activist who worked with the Marriage Project for the gay civil rights group Lambda Legal.
He was also a well-known ecological activist, working with the NYC Compost Project, funded by the city Sanitation Department and based at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
He stapled his business card to the note and left behind a longer, neatly typed explanation of his self-immolation.
“My early death by fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to ourselves,” he wrote. “A lifetime of service may best be preserved by giving a life … Honorable purpose in life invites honorable purchase in death.
“I hope it is an honorable death that might serve others.”

Well, at least he didn’t drive off a cliff with six black children.

 

Category: Global Warming

The Not-So-Secrets of Success

Posted on | April 14, 2018 | Comments Off on The Not-So-Secrets of Success

About five years ago — somewhere between the second Anthony Weiner scandal and the time the Kaitlyn Hunt saga made national headlines — I began to realize that our civilization was unraveling because parents were failing to give kids common-sense advice. Many young people (and not a small number of adults) were making bad decisions that predictably led to catastrophic results, because grown-ups had failed to warn them.

If you hope to succeed in life, you must first survive. You should avoid things that could lead to sudden death. Also, try to stay out of prison, and don’t do anything disgraceful. You don’t want the kind of “fame” obtained by Sydney Leathers or Miriam Weeks a/k/a “Belle Knox.”

“Don’t be a weirdo,” I began warning my kids, after my research led me into the bizarre nightmare of insanity that is Feminist Tumblr.

 

What’s genuinely troubling about weirdos like Zachary Antolak (a/k/a “Zinnia Jones,” a/k/a “Satana Kennedy”) is the thought that, once upon a time, the Antolak family welcomed the birth of a baby boy, hoping — as parents naturally do — that he would grow up to be a responsible and respectable adult, someone who would bring honor to their family.

What about Ella Dawson, the feminist who made her name a synonym for “herpes slut”? Do you think that, on the day she was born, her parents said, “By the time she’s 25, our baby girl will gain worldwide fame for being infected with a sexually transmitted disease”? No, of course not, and what about the parents of Elliot Rodger? Do you think they hoped their son would grow up to become a mass murderer?

 

“Hey, kids, don’t be a homicidal maniac,” is the kind of parental advice that should be unnecessary, but we’re living in a world gone mad, and so I find myself saying things like that to my kids.

Every day, the headlines bring us tidings of some new atrocity, or SJW kooks seizing control of a previously respectable institution: “College hosts no-whites-allowed pool party” or “Professor Is Denied Tenure, Opens Fire in University Faculty Meeting, 3 Dead.” Why is this happening? Because parents are neglecting to warn kids against things that should obviously be avoided. Whereas kids are getting lots of so-called “positive” advice — floss regularly, eat your vegetables, stay hydrated, etc. — they aren’t getting the kind of negative advice they need in the 21st century. Like, don’t shoot people at the faculty meeting. You might suppose that someone with a Ph.D. in neurobiology from Harvard wouldn’t need to be told that, but apparently she never was.

With this in mind, here is a short (and by no means exhaustive) list of things that parents should warn their children to avoid:

  • Communism
  • Heroin
  • Pornography
  • Canada
  • Canadian pornography
  • Herpes
  • Feminists
  • Feminists with herpes
  • Facial piercing
  • Tattoos
  • Anyone with an anime character as their Internet avatar
  • “Sexting”
  • Internet dating apps
  • Syphilis
  • Conspiracy theories
  • “Charismatic” cult leaders
  • Gender Studies majors
  • Chlamydia
  • Rape
  • Al Gore
  • “Social justice”
  • Gonorrhea
  • Murder
  • Anyone who has ever worked at Disney or Nickelodeon

As I say, this list is not exhaustive, but you’d be surprised at how many young people have ruined their lives by failing to avoid these dangers. And remember, kids: You have the right to free speech, but you also have the right to remain silent. Mind your posture, don’t mumble, be courteous, and don’t hang around losers who drag you down.



 

 

Category: Family

U.S. Strikes Syria

Posted on | April 13, 2018 | Comments Off on U.S. Strikes Syria

Mess with the bull, you get the horns:

President Donald Trump announced Friday night that he ordered the U.S. military to conduct precision missile strikes in conjunction with French and British allies against the Syrian government.
The order marked a dramatic reversal for Trump, who, as recently as last week, had been saying that he wanted the U.S. to withdraw its forces from Syria.
During Friday’s speech, Trump noted that the strike was underway and did not give further details of the targets or the military assets used.
Trump used the address to also directly call out Russia and Iran, which back the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
“To Iran and to Russia, I ask: What kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women and children?” Trump said. “Hopefully someday we will get along with Russia, and maybe even Iran. But maybe not.”
Reuters and the Associated Press reported that several explosions have already occurred in the Syrian capital of Damascus. Reuters, citing sources, added that a scientific research facility was hit.
“This is not about intervening in a civil war. It is not about regime change. It is about a limited and targeted strike that does not further escalate tensions in the region and that does everything possible to prevent civilian casualties,” British Prime Minister Theresa May said in a statement.
“And while this action is specifically about deterring the Syrian Regime, it will also send a clear signal to anyone else who believes they can use chemical weapons with impunity,” May added.

I spent all day working on an article about something else, took a break and went to dinner with my brother and, on the way back, he got a text message from a friend: “It’s raining cruise missiles in Syria.” Everything else becomes trivial when war happens. The question of what Russia and Iran will do — is this Armageddon, or not? — looms large, and you know I’ve got a son on the point of the spear, if worse comes to worse.

Friday the 13th — an inauspicious day to start World War III.

UPDATE: A bit from CNN:

Details are usually sketchy when military action is underway and “live” news reports are often wrong. Let’s be patient and wait for facts.

UPDATE II: Trump asks for prayers:

My mother-in-law is a praying woman, and prays for him every night.

UPDATE III: “Mad Dog” Mattis just ended a briefing:

So, this attack was “precise,” targeting Syria’s chemical weapons capacities, and now we’ll wait and see what the reaction is.

UPDATE IV: A bit more from Mattis:

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has a good round-up of the news.

 

Category: Military, Syria

Outtakes From A Leadership Book By Some Guy Whom Troops Would Only Follow Out Of Morbid Curiosity

Posted on | April 13, 2018 | Comments Off on Outtakes From A Leadership Book By Some Guy Whom Troops Would Only Follow Out Of Morbid Curiosity

by Smitty

(That’s a myocardial infarction, of course.)

Category: Uncategorized
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