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Alabama Wins National Title 26-23

Posted on | January 9, 2018 | Comments Off on Alabama Wins National Title 26-23

 

Tonight I told my 19-year-old son Jeff, “You’ll tell your grandchildren about this game. You’ll tell them you watched this game with your Dad.”

It was insane. At halftime, Alabama trailed 13-0 at the half, and my older brother Kirby texted me: “It’s over.” I replied: “It’s bad.”

Our offense was anemic. Four times in the first half, Alabama was three-and-out. Another possession ended in a missed 40-year field goal try. Meanwhile, Georgia’s freshman quarterback Jake Fromm was looking like a future #1 NFL draft pick. We were doomed, but then . . . Tua.

I can’t spell his last name or pronounce it, but he won:

Tua Tagovailoa threw a 41-yard touchdown to DeVonta Smith to give No. 4 Alabama a 26-23 overtime victory against No. 3 Georgia to win the College Football Playoff national championship Monday night.
Tagovailoa entered the game at halftime, replacing a struggling Jalen Hurts, and threw three touchdown passes, including the game-ender to give the Crimson Tide its fifth national championship since 2009 under coach Nick Saban.
After Alabama kicker Andy Pappanastos missed a 37-yard field goal that would have won it for the Tide (13-1) in the final seconds of regulation, Georgia (13-2) took the lead with a 51-yard field goal from Rodrigo Blankenship in overtime.
Tagovailoa took a terrible sack on Alabama’s first play of overtime, losing 16 yards. On the next play he found Smith, another freshman, streaking down the sideline and hit him in stride for the national championship.
This game will be remembered for Saban’s decision to change quarterbacks trailing 13-0.
“I just thought we had to throw the ball, and I felt he could do it better, and he did,” Saban said.

That final touchdown — where Tua looked-off the safety and then hit Smith (also a freshman) — was a thing of beauty, and a joy forever.

This is right up there with “The Stop,” when Alabama linebacker Barry Krauss made the crucial hit that prevented a Penn State touchdown, to clinch the National Championship in the 1979 Sugar Bowl. I watched that game with my Dad, and so the Crimson Tide legacy continues.



 

Category: Alabama, Football

In The Mailbox: 01.08.18

Posted on | January 9, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.08.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: OPRAH 2020?
Twitchy: Yale Psych Professor Who Wanted @POTUS “Contained” Vanishes From Twitter
Louder With Crowder: Feel The Bern! This “Pay Your Fair Share” Cafe Proves Socialism Is The Worst
Business Insider: Author Of Explosive New Trump Book Says He Can’t Be Sure If All Parts Are True


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Australia’s Regulatory Nightmare In Two Pictures, also, Bachelor Cooking – Cooking With Bacon
American Power: Yvette Felarca Ordered To Pay $11,000 For Filing Fraudulent Restraining Order, also, John Putnam Demos, Entertaining Satan
American Thinker: The Clock Ticks For The Clinton Foundation
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Pat Condell On Britain’s Hate Speech Police, also, Liberals And Trump’s Twitter Traps
Bring The HEAT: RIP Capt. John Young
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, Maybe The Germans Are On To Something
Da Tech Guy: Democrat Candidates For IL Governor Resort To Scapegoating, also, Libyan Slave Markets And Jumping Into The Fire
Don Surber: Oprah’s Fake Cry Of Racism, also, The Left’s Gift To The Donald
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, The Sound Never Quite Dies
The Geller Report: Another Imam, This Time In NC, Calls For Slaughter Of The Jews, also, Polls Show 52% Want Merkel Off The Ballot In New Election
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also also Blogsmoke
Jammie Wearing Fools: We’re Still Better Off With Trump Than Clinton
Joe For America: Costco Manager Shows Just How Ridiculous New Seattle Sugar Tax Is
JustOneMinute: Resistance Madness, also, This Is NOT How Twitter Works
Legal Insurrection: Judge Drops Charges In Bundy Ranch Standoff Case, also, Democrats Holding Spending Bill Hostage Over DACA
Power Line: Blue States Search For Ways To Preserve Subsidies, also, German Energy Policy On The Rocks
Shark Tank: Miami Congressional Republicans Unhappy Over Trump’s Ending Salvadoran TPS
Shot In The Dark: The CIA’s Fiendish Plan To Kill Off Hipsters
STUMP: More Soda Tax Idiocy – This Time, It’s Seattle
The Jawa Report: John The Force Ghost McLaughlin
The Political Hat: The Socialist Dictatorship Of Venezuela Does What Socialist Dictatorships Do
This Ain’t Hell: SGT Kyle LaFlore Murdered On Leave, also, Jerry Van Dyke, RIP
Weasel Zippers: British SAS Soldier Beheads Jihadi With Shovel, Uses Terrorist’s Gun To Kill The Rest, also, Sabo Trolls Golden Globes With “We All Knew” Art
Mark Steyn: Darkest Hour, also, The Endless Night Of The Long Knives


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Category: Linkagery

The Destructive Regime of ‘Equality’

Posted on | January 8, 2018 | Comments Off on The Destructive Regime of ‘Equality’

For the past week, I’ve been reading Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror, a history of the darkest era in Stalin’s murderous dictatorship. We must never forget what bloody atrocities were committed in the name of “equality.” Darleen Click reports on Iceland’s feminist repetition of the history they have failed to learn:

Unless one has two people equally committed to performing their best, then the quality of the work done will devolve to the level of the worst worker. What is the incentive to be the best? Anyone who has worked in a union shop is familiar with this scenario. . . .
In the face of actual studies that show the wage gap is myth, this urgent push to ostensibly close it reveals a troubling desire to limit women’s choices and exert greater State control of all individuals. . . .

Thorgerdur Einarsdottir, a professor of gender studies at the University of Iceland, said the equal pay law was useful but was “no magic wand.”
“A law implementing a standardized job evaluation is not a solid fix to a problem this ambiguous,” she said. “The deeply rooted stereotypes that favor men and women for certain jobs and professions are the fundamental problem.”

Of course, the societal busybodies who wish to erase all sex differences are not above demanding either greater government interference in things like paid child care or even making the choice to be a stay-at-home mother illegal. . . .
As the Democratic National Committee put it in 2012, “We all belong to the Government.” And if the government decides the wage gap is more important than your bourgeoisie view of personal choice . . . well, stop being so deplorable.

Iceland is a democracy, not a dictatorship, but having your life controlled by the government — which is what happens when politicians impose laws that interfere with your ability to earn a living by destroying the efficiency of your workplace — is no more pleasant when it’s done by a legislature than when it’s done by a Soviet commissar. Really, what’s the point of having democracy, if the majority of voters are determined to pursue the same failed ideology that wrecked so many nations in the past century, from Russia on down to present-day Venezuela?

Socialism in the name of “gender equality” is no less wicked than socialism in the name of the “proletariat.” Both are incompatible with personal liberty, and harmful to the prosperity of society.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)



 

 

Category: Sex Trouble

Rule 5 Sunday: Jenna Jameson

Posted on | January 8, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

You have to give credit where credit is due. When somebody turns their life around to the extent that the former Jenna Marie Massoli has (the whole horrible tale is described in her autobiography) and becomes a fiery online advocate for conservatism, that somebody deserves praise. And so it is that today’s appetizer is Ms. Jameson with her twin sons and her husband Lior Bitton, for whom she converted to Sephardic Judaism.
As usual, most of the following links are to pics generally considered NSFW, and the management is not responsible for any [NSFW] consequences you suffer for failing to exercise discretion in your clicking, especially not [NSFW], [NSFW], or [NSFW], and definitely not [NSFW].

Lior, Jenna, and her twin boys by Tito Ortiz Jesse & Journey

Ninety Miles From Tyranny returns with Hot Pick of the Late Night, 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #125, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism starts the New Year with Rule 5 2018 Inventions Friday and Saturday Asian Invasion.

EBL presents Rose Bowl Rule 5, Polar Bear Plunge, Pentatonix “White Winter Hymnal”, Mira Sorvino, Twelve Women of Twelfth Night, The Mediaeval Baebes, “We Three Kings”, Anjelica Huston, Patti Smith, Gorilla TV, Chipped Nipples, Jacqueline Kent Cooke, and Loraine Elliott.

A View From The Beach offers That Girl from Mpumalanga, Natasha Barnard, Trump Celebrated New Years with Playboy, Stuff to Read on A Snowy Morning, Is There Nothing SJW Scientists Can’t Wreck?, Oregon, My Oregon, Actress Corrects Mistake, The Woman Who Ate Her Own Sister, Happy New Year! and Joy Called the Cops on Corey for the Butt Slap.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe was Lori Loughlin, his Vintage Babe was Dolores Reed, and Sex in Advertising says “Looks Good On A Harley!” At Dustbury, it’s Disha Patani and Brie Larson.

Thanks to everyone for the delightful linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

Ex-Professor Deborah Frisch Jailed Again

Posted on | January 7, 2018 | 1 Comment

Deborah Ellen Frisch, Ph.D., in custody in Deschutes County, Oregon.

When last we reported on notorious cyberstalker Deborah Frisch, the deranged former psychology professor had been arrested in Bend, Oregon, on fugitive warrants from Colorado. Frisch had failed to appear at a November court hearing on two felony charges related to her continued harassment of Jeff Goldstein. In 2006, Frisch made national headlines when she resigned from her position at the University of Arizona after using her school computer to post obscene threats to Goldstein and his family. Since then, she “has accumulated a fantastic record of legal troubles” including stalking charges in Oregon:

In April 2015, she was released from jail and then re-arrested on a new charge a few hours after her release when she made a false police report. By September 2016, she had moved to Southern California, where she was residing when she CC’d me (!!!) on an email making false accusations against various people, which caused me to predict “that if Dr. Frisch continues this lunatic behavior, pretty soon someone will report her to California authorities, and put them in touch with authorities in Oregon (where Dr. Frisch’s probation doesn’t expire for another six months), and it’s going to be handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit for the kooky professor, IYKWIMAITYD.”
That prophecy didn’t take too long to fulfill, although not in the exact way I’d predicted. In November 2016, authorities in Weld County, Colorado, issued a felony warrant against Dr. Frisch for stalking and threatening.

More than a year later, it seems, Frisch’s modus operandi is unchanged, but some people still haven’t figured this out. On Dec. 29, a judge in Deschutes County, Oregon, signed Frisch’s release from jail, despite the fact that Frisch was a fugitive being held on a no-bond warrant pending extradition to Colorado. Almost immediately, Frisch was back on Twitter, posting messages that Goldstein considered threatening to himself and his family. She posted messages aimed at Goldstein, his wife and the school their children attend. Goldstein was understandably shocked by the Oregon judge’s decision to release Frisch.

The judge’s incomprehensible ruling to free Frisch had interesting consequences. Frisch turned up at a Wednesday meeting of the Bend City Council, where she made a rambling tirade against local officials.

Finally, however, it seems Colorado officials convinced authorities in Oregon that they had been wrong to release Frisch, but when police showed up to arrest her Friday, she evidently caused such a scene that she was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. She will reportedly be arraigned at a court hearing Monday.

The question is, what can be done with Frisch, who clearly has a psychotic fixation on Goldstein and has been harassing him for 12 years? Frisch seems unable to restrain herself from this type of behavior. In November 2008, she was drunk when she assaulted an acquaintance in Eugene, Oregon, and in March 2009 was sentenced to probation, which Frisch repeatedly violated, resulting in further legal difficulties. In 2015, when the Eugene Register-Guard reported on Frisch’s conviction for making a false accusation against a police officer, they noted:

Court records show that Eugene police have been collecting potential evidence against Frisch for months. Various city officials received a total of 889 emails from Frisch between Sept. 26 and Feb. 5, officer Jed McGuire wrote in a search warrant affidavit.
The city diverted all of Frisch’s emails to a special folder and maintained them on a computer disk, McGuire wrote.

(That total of 889 emails means that, on average, Frisch deluged officials with 47 emails every week for 19 consecutive weeks.)

McGuire and several other officers — including the one Frisch had accused of sexually assaulting her — seized a computer, other electronic devices, a number of writings and marijuana from Frisch’s home while serving a warrant there on Feb. 17, according to an evidence sheet filed in court with the affidavit.
Frisch frequently sends group emails to government officials and others in the Eugene area. The messages often contain obscene language and vulgar allegations.

Frisch’s obsessive habit of harassing her chosen “enemies” via email and other online communications is not just a crime, but symptomatic of her personality disorder. At least twice, judges have ordered Frisch to undergo mental health evaluations, but her psychopathic criminal tendencies are evidently incurable. (Take a look at the Deb Frisch Timeline, if you don’t believe me.) What can be done to stop Frisch except putting her behind bars? As Jeff Goldstein said in his victim impact statement at her sentencing last April, Frisch’s justifies her persistent criminal behavior by claiming that she is a victim of injustice:

Such fantasies of persecution, coupled with the kind of malignant narcissism that, in her mind, justifies her behavior towards her victims, to me seems indicative of an unrepentant mind. More so, her latest incarnation as a self-proclaimed “justice advocate” — whose role it is to unmask what she believes to be some endemic iniquity in the legal system, using herself as the crowning example of such serial inequities — reinforces my belief that she’ll use her own warped sense of persecution to justify continued assaults on those she believes have aggrieved her. . . .
In closing, please allow me to say this: My wife and I do not believe for a moment that Ms Frisch will EVER stop what to her has become both a way of life and now, apparently, a supposedly righteous cause, in which we play the perpetual nemeses to her crusading heroine of “justice advocacy.” Ms Frisch’s unwarranted sense of her own superiority and rectitude, which she’s displayed more times than one to the Court in this case, practically compels her to harass, to terrorize, the threaten, to intimidate, to libel, and to extort. . . .
In 11 years, the only time we’ve experienced any relief is when Ms Frisch has been either incarcerated or subjected to harsh and enforceable sanctions that prevent her, always temporarily, from targeting us.

The Goldstein family can only be protected from this relentless criminal harassment if Frisch is sent to prison for a long, long time.

What is shocking is that Oregon media are ignoring Frisch’s latest arrest. The local newspaper in Bend, Oregon (541-383-0367, email [email protected]) has refused to report the story of how this notorious fugitive, a former university professor, came to be incarcerated in Deschutes County. Therefore, if you know anyone in the vicinity who can attend her scheduled Monday hearing, please help.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

UPDATE II: Oregon Judge Releases Deborah Frisch. This is clearly becoming a farce of judicial liberalism.

 

Category: Crime, Oregon

FMJRA 2.0: Stop The Rock

Posted on | January 7, 2018 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Monday: Linda Ronstadt
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
Proof Positive
EBL

‘Heinous Atrocity’: N.Y. Lesbian Couple, Two Children Brutally Murdered
EBL

TWO MEN CHARGED IN MURDER OF LESBIAN COUPLE, TWO CHILDREN
EBL

Death by SWATting: A Former Target’s Thoughts About a Deadly ‘Prank’
EBL

Cynthia Yockey Is a Real Woman Battling the Trans Cult, and She Needs Your Help
A Conservative Lesbian
EBL

Sheppard’s Long Night’s Journey
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: I Can’t Let Go
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.02.18
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.03.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.04.18
Proof Positive
EBL

Guy McPherson’s Climate-Change Doomsday Cult: ‘Near Term Extinction’
Pushing Rubber Downhill
RBL

In The Mailbox: 01.05.18
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers this week:

  1. EBL (12)
  2. Proof Positive (5)

Thanks to everyone for the linkagery!


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Category: FMJRA Award

‘The War on Whiteness’?

Posted on | January 6, 2018 | 1 Comment

While it’s a bad idea to encourage ethnic paranoia, a commenter at Steve Sailer’s site offers this interesting analysis:

The general position of liberal ideology is that as whites decrease as a proportion of the American populace — and presumably decrease in political heft — they will leave “whiteness” behind and essentially all become good postmodern cosmopolitans, embracing their new lack of power — all at a time where socioeconomic standards are declining for the majority of Americans who haven’t bridged the gap to the upper-middle class. In the particular example of 21st Century America, they seem to expect that they will scramble obeying the exhortations of the people who enthusiastically champion their decline while offering non-subtly veiled sympathy trolling at best, or more often mocking them as historical relics. All while our elite increasingly seem to embrace some new form of neo-feudalism replacing the nation-state and traditional yeoman freedom in America.

This may be an accurate description of elite liberal belief, insofar as liberals believe in anything more complicated than “Vote Democrat!”

In other words, it seems to me, the typical liberal is not so much an ideologue as he is a partisan Democrat. Looking at exit-poll data, he can see that a majority of white voters are Republican and therefore, in terms of policy, he supports anything that will reduce the white population.

Occam’s Razor dictates that we ought not seek an obscure or complex explanation when an obvious and simple one is at hand. At some point during the past half-century, Democrats became the anti-white party, not necessarily because of their beliefs, but because of their interests.

You may dispute this interpretation, but what is the alternative theory? Liberals will tell you that Republicans are “racist,” and that the only way to combat racism is — wait for it — “Vote Democrat!” You don’t have to be a hard-boiled cynic like me to suspect that this is just propaganda, no matter how sincerely the Democrat rank-and-file believe it. Members of the Communist Party might have been sincere in accepting every shift in the party line from Lenin to Stalin to Khrushchev to Gorbachev, but that didn’t mean that these shifts were justified by anything other than the whims of the Soviet dictatorship. For most of the 1930s, the CPUSA advocated a “Popular Front” alliance against fascism. This ended abruptly with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939 and, for the next 21 months, Communists denounced as “warmongers” anyone (including President Roosevelt) who favored aid to Hitler’s enemies. The party line shifted again in June 1941, when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, at which point Communists began denouncing as “fascists” anyone who opposed aid to Hitler’s enemies. Are the Democrats of today less cynical than Communists of old, in terms of their slavish devotion to the party line? It is entirely possible that liberal rhetoric against “racism” is mere partisanship, like CPUSA members saying whatever their Soviet masters told them to say, and the best way to defeat such people is to tell the truth about them: Democrats are liars, and never to be trusted.

Don’t succumb to ethnic paranoia. Don’t allow fear to control you. Don’t heed the voices of despair and hatred. Keep calm and focus on facts.



 

 

Category: Racism

Of Course: Islamic Terrorist’s Wife Knew About His Orlando Massacre Plans

Posted on | January 6, 2018 | Comments Off on Of Course: Islamic Terrorist’s Wife Knew About His Orlando Massacre Plans

Noor Salman (left) and her terrorist husband Omar Mateen (right).

This isn’t actually news — the blogger True Pundit broke the story in 2016 — but the detailed confirmation is nevertheless welcome:

The wife of Omar Mateen, who committed a massacre in the Pulse nightclub in 2016, reportedly told the FBI that she knew about his plot beforehand — and did nothing to stop it.
Noor Salman — whose husband gunned down 49 people in the club — told investigators that she “knew that her husband was going to attack the Pulse nightclub” when he left the house on the night of June 11 [2016], according to documents obtained by USA Today.
“My fears had come true and he did what he said he was going to do,” Salman said, according to the newspaper. “I was in denial and I could not believe that the father of my child was going to hurt other people.”
The wife also said she was warned repeatedly about the specific location and timing of the attack.
“How upset are people going to be when it gets attacked?” Mateen asked his wife at one point while they were driving by the club, according to her statement.
Salman also witnessed her husband browsing the Pulse website and declaring “this is my target.”
On the night before one of the most devastating mass shootings in US history, Salman said her husband loaded up on firearms and ammunition.
“This was the time that he was going to do something bad,” she said.
Before leaving the house Mateen told his wife, “This is the one day.”
Mateen opened fire at around 2 a.m. on June 12 in the Orlando night spot, killing 48 and wounding 58 others.

Mateen was inspired by ISIS. The Orlando Massacre was an act of Islamic terrorism. Omar Mateen — the child of Afghan immigrants — hated Americans and wanted to kill them all, and his wife — the child of Palestinian immigrants — did nothing to hinder his terrorist plot. Gosh, I wonder what possible policy changes we could make that might help prevent future terrorist attacks by Muslims who want to kill us all?



 

 

Category: Immigration, Islam, Terrorism
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