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Rule 5 Sunday: Merry Christmas!

Posted on | December 24, 2017 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Merry Christmas to all our Loyal Readers here at The Other McCain! As usual, many of the following links are to pics generally considered NSFW, and we are most definitely not responsible for what happens if you fail to exercise discretion in the clicking. This week’s appetizer is a classic pinup by Bill Randall.

A Christmas dream…

Ninety Miles From Tyranny starts the unwrapping with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #111, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism brings us Rule Five Loony Brits Friday, the Saturday Gingermageddon, and a bonus shot of Christmas totty!

EBL’s holiday herd includes Hillary Rosen triggered by bacon, the Gothard Sisters, Jennifer Rubin, Christmas Boob Sweaters, Tina Becker, the Celtic Women, Winter Solstice, Postmodern Jukebox “Last Christmas”, Barbara Stanwyck, Postmodern Jukebox “The Christmas Song”, and Haley Reinhart & Casey Adams.

A View From The Beach has Jasmine Sanders, The “Golden Barbie”, Can a California Mastodon Remake the History of Men in America?, Another Frosty Friday!, Welcome to Winter, Soft Core Porn Actress Has Hysterics Over Tax Bill, Red-Head Super Heroes?, The Love Advent Calendar, Day 18, Gone Fishin’, #HimToo: If You Can’t Trust Your Porn Photographer, Who Can You Trust?, and The Weinstein Blacklist.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Cote de Pablo, his Vintage Babes are in the holiday spirit, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Victoria’s Secret. At Dustbury, it’s Kim Novak and Phoebe Tonkin.

Thanks to everyone for their luscious links!

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Category: Rule 5

Violence Against Women Update: Houston Mother Killed, Baby Kidnapped

Posted on | December 24, 2017 | Comments Off on Violence Against Women Update: Houston Mother Killed, Baby Kidnapped

 

Grim news for the holidays:

A Texas woman killed a mother and kidnapped her infant daughter in an attempt to cover up her own miscarriage, police say.
The murder and abduction triggered a nationwide Amber Alert for 6-week-old Shamali Flores, who was found unharmed Thursday.
Erika Miranda-Alvarez, 28, was arrested and charged with the killing of 33-year-old Carolina Flores, according to her arrest record.
Carolina Flores was found stabbed to death in an apartment complex in Houston Tuesday afternoon, according to police.
Flores’ infant daughter was nowhere to be found.
Flores had moved to the United States from Honduras five years ago for a better life, according to KPRC-TV. She had two other children, ages 7 and 17, the news station reported. . . .
Miranda-Alvarez, her boyfriend and baby Shamali were taken into custody early [Thursday] morning after witnesses reported suspicious activity at an apartment complex, police said. . . .
Investigators determined that Miranda-Alvarez was due to have a baby in January but had a miscarriage.
She reportedly hid the miscarriage from her boyfriend and continued to fake the pregnancy.
She had connected with Flores through her brother, police say. She killed her and kidnapped Shamali in hopes of passing her off as her own, according to police.

Feminists haven’t commented on this crime, for some reason.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)



 

 

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Category: Violence Against Women

FMJRA 2.0: The Man Who Built America

Posted on | December 23, 2017 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Wrapping Things Up
Animal Magnetism
Proof Positive
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Time Out
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

#LoveWins Update: Florida Lesbian Charged With Murdering Her Wife
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.18.17
Proof Positive

UPDATE: Karolina Giers Has Ended Her Online Fundraiser for Breast Amputation
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.19.17
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL

The ‘Rage’ of @JillFilipovic: Feminism as an Anti-Male Hate Movement
Welcome To My Playpen
EBL

DNA Tests Identify 817 Serial Rapists in One County: Can You Guess Which One?
EBL

Transphobic Violence Update
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.20.17
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL

Let Trinity College F***ing Die?
EBL

The Gorilla Is Correct
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.21.17
Proof Positive
EBL

Elite Consensus: How Transgenderism Became the New ‘Climate Change’
A View From The Beach
EBL

Friday Fiction: 100+ Word Challenge Christmas Edition
EBL

Hollywood’s Homo-Hypocrisy
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.22.17
Proof Positive
EBL


Top linkers this week:

  1. EBL (16)
  2. Proof Positive (6)
  3. A View From The Beach (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!



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Category: Rule 5

Pennsylvania Jihad

Posted on | December 23, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

Call it a hunch, but I don’t think he’s Amish:

Hours after three shootings resulted in a trooper shot and the suspect killed, police have released additional details about the shooter.
Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico identified the shooter as 51-year-old Ahmed Aminamin El-Mofty at a news conference late Friday night.
Though details about El-Mofty are being unraveled by investigators, Marsico said it “certainly appears that there’s no doubt” he was targeting police officers.
Marsico said El-Mofty initially fired “several shots” at a police car belonging to a Capitol Police officer at 4:10 p.m. in the area of 3rd and Walnut streets. One shot came “very close” to hitting the officer, but the officer was able to escape uninjured.
El-Mofty then fired several shots at a Pennsylvania State Police trooper about 30 minutes after the initial shooting.
“She was struck by one of those shots, but is doing well,” Marsico said, adding the trooper is expected to make a full recovery.
Marsico added the trooper was chased by El-Mofty to the Allison Hill section of the city to the area of 17th and Mulberry Streets, where he opened fire at officers with two handguns.
Officers returned fire, shooting and killing El-Mofty. . . .
El-Mofty also has ties to the Middle East, and traveled there recently, according to Marsico.
Marsico declined to comment on if Friday’s shootings were an act of terrorism, saying the motive was still under investigation.
“Obviously, we don’t want people to run wild in speculation,” he said.

Yeah, just a guy from the Middle East trying to kill cops in Pennsylvania. We wouldn’t want to “run wild in speculation,” right?

 

Category: Terrorism

In The Mailbox: 12.22.17

Posted on | December 22, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.22.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: A Tale Of Two Jihadis
Twitchy: This Amazing Thread On Being Pro-Life Is Just What You Need Heading Into Christmas
Louder With Crowder: President Trump Signs Tax Reform Into Law
City Journal: Orwell Is Alive And Well At HHS (h/t NeoWayland)
According To Hoyt: The Horror Of Cultural Stereotypes
Monster Hunter Nation: THE CHRISTMAS NOUN X – THE GHOSTS OF DIE HARDS PAST
Vox Popoli: Magic – The Convergence


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hot Links & Chicks – The Man-Flu Edition
American Power: President Trump Has Better Poll Numbers Than Meryl Streep
American Thinker: Stopping The Muslim Brotherhood’s Strategic Plan To Infiltrate America
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Loony Brits Friday
BattleSwarm: Linkswarm For December 22
Bring The HEAT: Merry Christmas (Slightly NSFW)
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Don’t Lose Heart (An Open Letter To Sister Toldjah), also, This Morning In Blogging – Bigger Than Iran-Contra
Don Surber: US Tax Cut Worries Germany, also, Jorge Ramos – Trump Broke Me
Dustbury: Status Thimbles
The Geller Report: Acid Attacks Make Parts Of London No-Go Zones, also, UK Muslim Taxi Driver Found With Huge Stash Of Weapons, $2 Million In Drugs
Hogewash: Blognet, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: US Preparing “Bloody Nose” Attack On Norks?
Joe For America: FBI Attorney, Comey Ally & Suspected Leaker James Baker Fired
JustOneMinute: The Christmas CR, also, Trouble In Their Blue Heaven
Legal Insurrection: What Will The 2018 DACA Bill Look Like? (Reader Poll), also, Anti-American UN Vote Gives Trump A Chance To Turn A Loss Into A Win
Power Line: The Deep Racism Of The Left, also, The Deep Malice Of Team Obama
Shark Tank: Rep. DeSantis Launches Investigation Into Obama Administration’s Hezbollah Deals
Shot In The Dark: So Very Very Weird
The Jawa Report: Jawa PSA – Closed For Baby Jesus Birthday
The Political Hat: Non-Transing The Child, also, Twelve Posts Of Christmas, Day 10
This Ain’t Hell: Guy Biggs, The Murderous Valor Thief, also, PFC Albert Atkins Comes Home
Weasel Zippers: A Deafening Media Silence On The Obama/Hezbollah Scandal, also, 92% Of Foreign Nationals In Federal Prisons Are Illegal Immigrants
Megan McArdle: What is Bitcoin Good For?
Mark Steyn: The Statistics We Weren’t Allowed To Know


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Category: Linkagery

Hollywood’s Homo-Hypocrisy

Posted on | December 22, 2017 | Comments Off on Hollywood’s Homo-Hypocrisy

Headline at Mediaite:

After Months of Attacking Roy Moore,
Hollywood Releases Film
Romanticizing Child Molestation

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? When I saw that headline, I immediately had a hunch and — surprise! surprise! — my hunch was correct:

As the year comes to a close, Hollywood releases its final batch of films, many of which will go on to earn plenty of Oscar nominations. One of them is Call Me By Your Name, a coming-of-age drama about a 17-year-old boy who develops a romantic relationship with a 24-year-old man. . . .

(Permit me to interrupt and ask what sort of “romantic relationship” is involved? Do they exchange meaningful glances, write poems for each other, take long walks in the moonlight? Or, as I rather suspect, is the “relationship” actually sexual? Because it’s not a crime to exchange meaningful glances or write poetry, you know. But never mind . . .)

The awards season is just beginning and already this film is receiving a ton of praise. It has an incredible score of 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, has been named by the LA Film Critics Association as the Best Picture of the Year and has already received three Golden Globe nominations including Best Drama.
The accolades are justified. Call Me By Your Name is actually one of the best films of the year. It’s emotional and thought-provoking and its stars Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer give outstanding performances. Despite how good the film is, however, it leaves you with an unsettling feeling because after all, it’s about child molestation.
It’s worth noting that the film does take place in Italy, where the age of consent is 14.

OK, enough. There are some U.S. states — including Utah and Maine, last time I checked — where the age of consent is 14, but we’re not going to see any Oscar-bait movies about “romantic relationships” with teenagers in those states, are we? No, not unless they’re gay.

Notice the absence of the word “gay” from this story? Yep, just did CTRL+F and the word “gay” doesn’t appear once in the article because, evidently, it’s not “gay” until you’re 18, and there is no such thing as a “gay pedophile,” according to the professional journalism community.

Anyway, gay or straight, 17 and 24 is not “child molestation,” and it’s insane to apply such a term to such a story. What seems to have happened, amid the current Sexual Harassment Apocalypse, is that everybody’s trying to outdo each other in their denunciations of misconduct, for fear that they’ll be condemned as a “rape apologist” if they don’t. We have entered a climate of hysteria that has made it impossible for people to make meaningful distinctions between various types of sexual misbehavior. The actor Matt Damon was castigated last week for trying to make a common-sense point about this issue:

“I do believe there’s a spectrum of behavior … You know, there’s a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right? Both of those behaviors need to be confronted and eradicated without question, but they shouldn’t be conflated.” . . .
“On this end of the continuum where you have rape and child molestation or whatever, you know, that’s prison. Right? And that’s what needs to happen. . . . That’s criminal behavior, and it needs to be dealt with that way. The other stuff is just kind of shameful and gross.”

While I’m not a big fan of Matt Damon, his point is correct. The current climate is such that people are being treated as if they were guilty of crimes the moment any allegation of “misconduct” is made, in many cases involving incidents that happened years ago, or even decades ago, without any complaint being made at the time.

Damon made particular reference to Al Franken in his controversial interview and certainly Franken has not been accused of rape, yet his behavior is being “conflated” with more grievous sexual offenses, as Damon said. And it’s this same tendency that leads the Mediate writer to use the loaded phrase “child molestation” to characterize a (gay) “coming-of-age drama” about a (gay) 17-year-old boy who has a (gay) “romantic relationship” with a (gay) 24-year-old man.

Can someone please appoint an official committee to determine, once and for all, exactly what moral and legal standards we should apply to sexual relationships — of every kind, in every time and place — so that we don’t have any confusion in the future? Because it seems that there was an extraordinarily lenient standard applied in 1998, when Bill Clinton was caught boinking a young intern, but that new and more stringent standards have since been developed. Which is not necessarily bad, but then we got into this #MeToo moment where people are having their careers destroyed for things they did in the 1990s that were certainly no worse than what Bill Clinton did in the 1990s. And if this new draconian standard is to be applied retroactively, the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame is going to be damned near empty, because how many famous rockers were boinking teenage groupies back in the day? (Answer: All of them.)

We get it, OK? The Sexual Revolution is over. “No more fun of any kind,” to quote Dean Vernon Wormer. We’re going back to the Eisenhower era, it seems, or maybe the Coolidge era, with a latter-day version of the Comstock Law to prevent anyone from even talking about sex. This is apparently what feminists require, and the only sex Americans will be allowed to have in the future is (a) gay sex or (b) robot sex. No more of that oppressive “heterosexuality” that flourished for a few decades in the late 20th-century, when some people actually believed that women wanted to have ses with men. Someday, we’ll tell our grandchildren about those dark decades of phallic tyranny, and they’ll be astonished by stories of college boys and girls hooking up at frat parties. (“Grandma, what’s a ‘fraternity’?” “Institutions of heteropatriarchal misogyny that were outlawed after Kamala Harris was elected president.”)

Hollywood will continue making celebratory “coming-of-age” stories about homosexuals, however, and these will be the only “romantic relationships” that are deemed award-worthy in the post-Weinstein era. The women in Hollywood are now so full of rage toward the men in Hollywood that no self-respecting actress would ever consent to appear in a heterosexual love scene. “The Pig Monster,” as Rose McGowan calls Weinstein, has more or less ruined the genre of cinematic romance.

 

Category: Hollywood

Friday Fiction: 100+ Word Challenge Christmas Edition

Posted on | December 22, 2017 | 1 Comment

by Smitty


Six points gird the star glowing, supernatural above, as the dusk bathes now the field.
A mystic symbol of love, and to Three Wise Men showing, the power of God to yield
a means as mild as a dove; that the world be reconciled to His justice from falling
to sin when serpent beguiled the mother of humans, Eve. This moment was their calling,
Destiny standing revealed, blessed with the joy of knowing. That the virgin could conceive,
a King be born in a humbling place, and not be richly raised, losing the need to believe.
Let us follow their doing, seeking the one who can save, and do that which can be praised.

via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

Elite Consensus: How Transgenderism Became the New ‘Climate Change’

Posted on | December 22, 2017 | 1 Comment

One of the books that really changed my life is Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy. If you’ve read it, you understand why I call it the best single-volume analysis of liberalism ever written. If you haven’t read it, why not?

Sowell makes the point that liberals think of themselves as “anointed,” endowed with superior wisdom and virtue, and thus authorized to impose their policy preferences on the rest of us. Ordinary common-sense people are deemed the “benighted,” whom liberals dismiss as ignorant, prejudiced, and irrationally attached to obsolete beliefs.

Once you’ve read The Vision of the Anointed, you will cease to feel guilty about disagreeing with liberals. One of the problems in American politics is that, because liberals control the commanding heights of culture — in academia, journalism, the entertainment industry, etc. — conservatives often suffer a sort of inferiority complex, awed by the enormous institutional prestige exercised by liberals. What we often encounter in the discussion of public-policy issues is that there is an elite consensus in favor of the liberal position. To disagree with this consensus puts you in the ranks of those dismissed as dimwit rubes — the “basket of deplorables,” as Hillary Clinton notoriously described Donald Trump’s supporters. The effect of the elite consensus is to make us feel that there is something disreputable about disagreeing with liberals.

Consider the case of “climate change.” Having spent vast sums to orchestrate an effort to put all the prestige of Science with a capital “S” behind the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), the Anointed then set out to silence all criticism of this theory. One of the results was a lawsuit filed by Penn State professor Michael Mann against columnist Mark Steyn. Mann was principal author of the so-called “hockey stick” graph which purported to show that global temperatures had dramatically increased, and which was used to promote a Chicken Little sky-is-falling “emergency” attitude about carbon emissions.

 

Steyn wrote a column in National Review that debunked the “hockey stick” graph with such devastating effect that the intelligent reader had to conclude either (a) Mann was laughably incompetent as a scientist, or (b) Mann was engaged in a deliberate fraud. Mann responded with a lawsuit against Steyn which has been clogging up the federal courts for six years. Steyn has published a book ‘A Disgrace to the Profession’: The World’s Scientists — in Their Own Words — on Michael E Mann, His Hockey Stick and Their Damage to Science. What the book reveals is that, contrary to what some people would have us believe, the alleged “consensus” about global warming is subject to scientific criticism, and that even scientists who believe the AGW theory don’t believe that skeptics and dissenters should be silenced. The very fact that some AGW theory proponents do wish to silence dissent, however, should cause us to be skeptical of the climate-change “consensus.”

After all, the climate-change gang would have no fear of open debate with their critics, if the evidence in support of AGW theory was so clear. Yet because they have been able to recruit the elites in academia, journalism and politics to support them, Mann and his comrades seem to believe that their critics are guilty of immorality. If you disagree with Mann, he considers you not just wrong or mistaken, but evil.

Having “won” the climate-change argument (at least in their own minds), the Anointed have grown bored with it and have moved on to new ideological crusades, including the cause of transgenderism. Let the reader think back five years or so, to the time of the 2012 presidential campaign, and ask: Did anyone in either party signify that transgender rights were at stake in the re-election of President Obama? Of course not. If Obama ever mentioned the word “transgender” in 2012, I overlooked it, and I covered that campaign from start to finish. Nor did Mitt Romney (or any of his rivals for the GOP nomination) argue that Obama’s re-election would be interpreted as a mandate for the imposition of a transgender rights regime in American public life. Yet here we are, in 2017, and transgenderism is making headlines every day, with an especial push to promote this to school children, and the loudest opposition to this agenda is from radical feminists. What happened?

Well, in 2013, the Supreme Court issued its Windsor decision, striking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, and in 2015, the court issued its Obergefell decision, mandating same-sex marriage in all 50 states. Having thus obtained “marriage equality” through judicial activism, the proponents of Sexual Anarchy needed a new crusade to rally their supporters (and raise money), and transgenderism was the ticket.

 

The emergence of the transgender issue caught many people by surprise, and no sooner had the issue become apparent than opponents of this agenda discovered that they were already facing an elite consensus. Little noticed, activists had been working for years to recruit support in academia and journalism for the transgender agenda, especially including “transition” for young children. The rhetoric of civil rights was deployed in favor of this agenda, so that if you disagreed or disapproved, you were a hateful bigot, analogous to Bull Connor siccing police dogs on unarmed protesters in Birmingham. Conservatives have long since become accustomed to such smear tactics from the Left — as Peter Brimelow remarked, the modern definition of racist is “someone who is winning an argument with a liberal” — but feminists have been shocked to find themselves accused of “hate” for opposing the transgender cult.

This week, Twitter imposed new rules targeting “hate” and, predictably, feminists critical of transgenderism are among the targets. One feminist, who describes herself as both a Ph.D. and a witch — ??? — pointed out that “gender identity” rhetoric is chiefly deployed by males who want to “identity” as women, and that actual women who oppose this are smeared as “bigots” and told to “shut up.” This, she says, is “Sexism 101.”

Excuse me, but no, ma’am. Sexism 101 would involve you making me a sandwich. That is to say, we traditionalists are not your enemies in the current controversy and your accusation of “sexism” is misguided. After all, a “sexist” believes that male-female differences are real, significant, and based in biology, not “socially constructed.” It is feminist theory which claims that such differences are an illusion, a product of the social construction of the gender binary within the heterosexual matrix, to summarize the argument of Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. You can accuse transgender activists of hijacking and misinterpreting feminist theory, if you wish, but you can’t blame us old-fashioned sexists for this. We tried to warn you. Even if we never imagined the current transgender insanity — “Rocky Horror Elementary School” — conservatives warned that the feminist attack on the traditional family would have dangerous consequences, and there is a certain ironic logic in how this has worked out in the post-Obergefell era.

Pardon me for mansplaining all this, but conservatives have been doing battle against this sort of elite consensus for many decades now, and if radical feminists are serious about fighting the transgender agenda, they would be wise to take our advice into consideration. Merry Christmas.



 

 

Category: The Transgender Cult
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