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In The Mailbox: 12.19.17

Posted on | December 19, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.19.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Tax Reform – It’s Happening!
Twitchy: “Stealing From The Poor” – Alyssa Milano Shares Her Deep Insights On The GOP Tax Bill
Louder With Crowder: Nikki Haley Tells UNSC Where To Stick Their Jerusalem Resolution
Free Thought Project: Since Handing Out Food To Homeless Is Illegal, Group Carries AR-15s To Hand Out Food (h/t NeoWayland)


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Since When Did Dying Become Passing?
American Power: Three Killed As Amtrak Train Derails Over I-5 In Washington, also, Melissa Del Bosque, Bloodlines
American Thinker: McCabe And Mr. Mueller
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Strategery News
BattleSwarm: Quick Impressions – Texas CD 3
BLACKFIVE: Carey Baldwin, Countdown
Bring The HEAT: So Long, Concrete Bob
Da Tech Guy: Women’s Issues, also, Dictionaries As Propaganda Tools
Don Surber: Real Americans Protest Higher Taxes
Dustbury: Kim Lives
The Geller Report: Muslim Convicted Of Plotting To Behead Pam Geller Gets 28 Years, also, Swedish Police – Rapes Are Worst In 35 Years
Hogewash: Year End Silliness, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Now, This Is Presidential Obstruction
Joe For America: Student Faced Prison After Rape Accusation – Then 40,000 Texts Got Released
JustOneMinute: Policy Overload, also, As If I Trust This Source
Legal Insurrection: AL Secretary of State Launches Voter Fraud Investigation, also, Jill Stein Campaign Being Investigated For Russia Collusion
Power Line: Regarding Darkest Hour, also, Mueller’s Little Surprise, Part IV
Shark Tank: Desperate Nelson Says He Needs Campaign Cash To Stop Tax Bill
Shot In The Dark: Is It a Double Standard, Or Two Half-Standards?
STUMP: Breaking The Twelve Days Of Christmas Cost Scandal Wide Open!
The Jawa Report: A Jawa Christmas Story Featuring Abu Hamza, America, And Baby Jesus
The Political Hat: Twelve Posts Of Christmas, Day 7
This Ain’t Hell: 2LT McCoy Saving The World, also, Ross Douthat – A War Trump Won
Weasel Zippers: German Jews Told To Hide Religious Symbols, also, Hillary Campaign, DNC Accused Of Corrupt Money Scheme In New FEC Complaint
Megan McArdle: The Current Sex Panic Harks Back To The Era Of Coddling Women
Mark Steyn: The Great Brain Drain


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

Posted on | December 19, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

Karolina Giers is a university student who for five years has run a Tumblr blog called “Can’t Control the Gay.” She had long identified as a lesbian, but in October, she posted a fundraising appeal for £9,000 (about $12,000) on GoFundMe in order to pay for “top surgery” (mastectomy):

I can’t stand looking like this and feeling like I‘m trapped in the wrong body. It’s unbearable. I can expect that my very homophobic parents will cut me off completely if they ever find out so I want to start collecting money now and just make sure that when I will live on my own and make my own money for food and a place to live in I will be finally able to transition and start living because what I’m doing now isn’t living it’s more like surviving and I think that life is about more than just surviving. I feel sick when I start thinking about the fact that I’ve already wasted 20 years of my life. Please help by donating even just 1 pound. It will mean the world to me.

This fundraiser caught my attention (“Karolina Giers Wants You to Give Her $12,000 to Get Her Breasts Amputated,” Oct. 10) because it seemed like a classic case of “rapid onset gender dysphoria,” in which adolescents suddenly become obsessed with transgenderism after weeks of browsing the subject online. Her assertion that she has “already wasted 20 years of my life” because she is “trapped in the wrong body,” along with the reference to her “very homophobic parents,” suggested she has problems that are unlikely to be solved by surgery and hormones. Her online fundraising effort was not a success — she ended it after raising only about $200 — so her fantasy of “transition” won’t be happening, at least not soon, and perhaps she’ll reconsider her options.

Meanwhile, however, she is freaking out:

 

Having belatedly discovered my October article about her fundraiser, Ms. Giers got all sorts of bad advice from her Tumblr followers, including some who suggested I could be sued for defamation simply because I had reported — factually and accurately — about her public activity.

A lot of people don’t seem to understand that blogging is publishing. Quoting what you write on your blog is not “harassment,” and it’s certainly not defamation. Especially if you are engaged in online arguments about controversial topics (e.g., transgenderism), you should expect criticism from people who disagree with you. Making a public appeal for $12,000 to pay for your mastectomy? Well, that’s newsworthy, considering how transgenderism has made headlines lately:

Lessons in transgender issues for all primary pupils
— London Times, Dec. 19

Transgender woman suing Allegheny County Jail
opens up about struggles, acceptance
— Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Dec. 17

Why CBC cancelled a BBC documentary
that activists claimed was ‘transphobic’
— National Post, Dec. 13

Here’s an item from the London Daily Mail you might have missed:

Adolescent boys who think they are girls are having their sperm frozen by the NHS before they undergo gender reassignment treatment so they can father children after they change sex. . . .
The health service is also storing the eggs of teenage girls who are taking male hormones so they can give birth after they become men.
These ‘services’ are being offered to boys as young as 12 and girls aged 16 and over. . . .
None of this comes cheap. Egg-freezing costs £4,000 for one cycle and around £300 a year for storage. The price of preserving sperm is around £400, plus £300 a year to keep it frozen. . . .
We keep being told that the NHS is in permanent financial crisis. Why should taxpayers have to foot the bill for crackpot transgender fertility treatments when some patients face an interminable wait for operations to alleviate painful, commonplace conditions, such as cataracts and hip replacements?

Transgenderism has become a matter of public policy. Trying to meet the demands of transgender activists is difficult, because no sooner has one concession been made than they come back with new demands. So when a blogger who has spent five years advertising herself as a lesbian suddenly announces she’s transgender, and publishes a request for donations to pay for her “top surgery,” this is newsworthy.

Crazy people never anticipate the consequences of their craziness. And this desperate appeal from Ms. Giers — “help me get rid of it please” — indicates her own bad judgment in failing to consider the consequences that might result from her public fundraising campaign. Some of her idiotic readers sent me emails accusing me of being a bad person, deficient in human sympathy. However, I do not consider it kindness to encourage fools in their folly, which is what The Transgender Cult does.

Democracy, it has been said, means that everyone has a right to go to Hell in the time and manner of their own choosing. Far be it from me to infringe anyone’s basic liberty in this regard. However, you cannot require me to approve of your foolish behavior, nor can you prohibit me from criticizing those who encourage such folly. It’s not illegal to quote those who claim “transition” is a panacea for their feelings of being “trapped in the wrong body.” As I said in October:

What Karolina Giers has been doing — cocooning within an online clique of weirdos — has in all likelihood exacerbated whatever problems she had when she first started her Tumblr blog five years ago. . . . Forgive me for being so blunt about this problem, but there’s obviously a reason for the “epidemic” of anxiety and depression among young women: THE INTERNET IS MAKING THEM CRAZY!
And guess what? A mastectomy won’t cure craziness.

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



 

Category: The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 12.18.17

Posted on | December 19, 2017 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Jennifer Rubin – A Case Of Terminal Trump Derangement Syndrome
Twitchy: Look Who’s Reportedly Caught Up In The Russia Investigation Now
Louder With Crowder: Ted Cruz Just Force Choked Mark Hamill On Net Neutrality
ZeroHedge: Judicial Watch Director Says “Forget Mueller…Do We Need To Shut Down The FBI?” (h/t NeoWayland)


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: COTW – The Joy of Meat, also, Bachelor Cooking – Roast Chicken
American Power: A.J. Baime, The Accidental President, also, Feminism, Heterophobia, And #MeToo
American Thinker: Comey Should Be Indicted, also, Midnight At The Democracy Dies In Darkness Cafe
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Obama Let Hezbollah Sell Cocaine In The U.S.
BLACKFIVE: Laura Griffin, Touch Of Red and Cover Of Night
Bring The HEAT: The Ardennes
CDR Salamander: Squeezing Australia, also, Year End Midrats Extravaganza!
Da Tech Guy: It’s The UN Versus The US Over Jerusalem. Guess Who Wins, also, Playacting
Don Surber: Another Trump Basher Fired, also, PolitiFact Is The Lie Of The Year
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, You’ve Presumably Had Your Meat
The Geller Report: 60 Minutes Claims 74% Of Terrorist Incidents Since 2007 Committed By Right Wing, Not Muslims, also, Hungarians Overwhelmingly Reject Soros Plan For Mass Migration To Europe
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also also, Meanwhile, Back At The Memory Hole…
Jammie Wearing Fools: CNBC Survey Says Economic Optimism Soaring, Boosting Trump’s Approval Rating
Joe For America: Judge Smacks Down California’s Attempt To Force Baker To Do Gay Wedding Cake, also, Reducing Antiquities Act Land Grabs
JustOneMinute: I Love A Mystery (But This Isn’t One), also, Chris Matthews Sexual Harassment?
Legal Insurrection: Four Democrat Senators Ask Franken To Reconsider Resignation, also, Trump Disappoints Liberals, Says He’s Not Firing Mueller
Michelle Malkin: Pyongyang On The Prairie, Part II
Power Line: At The WaPo, If It Misleads It Leads, also, Children Are Starving Under Socialism
Shark Tank: NYT Says Media Failed America Regarding Trump’s Defeat Of ISIS
Shot In The Dark: Car Neutrality, also, Cell Neutrality
STUMP: Sunday Ephemera – Some Taxes, Some Math, And CHRISTMAS!
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Jewish Snowmen Are Takfir, also, Where’s Dr. Rusty?
The Political Hat: Purging Western Civilization From European History, also, Twelve Posts Of Christmas – Day Four, Day Five, Day Six
This Ain’t Hell: SFPD Takes A “Bazooka” Off The Street, also, Sergeant LaDavid Johnson Fought To The End
Weasel Zippers: Minneapolis To Reduce Police Psych Testing After Screening Out Too Many Minorities, also, Obama Admin Blocked Prosecution Of Hezbollah For Terrorism, Human Slavery, Drug Trafficking To Protect Iran Deal
Megan McArdle: Consider The Consequences Of #BelieveAllWomen
Mark Steyn: I’ll Be Home For Christmas, also, Mueller Discredits Himself


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#LoveWins Update: Florida Lesbian Charged With Murdering Her Wife

Posted on | December 18, 2017 | 2 Comments

Police say Jessica Jaye Winkler murdered Rhiannon Layendecker.

Another victory for “marriage equality”:

An Englewood woman shot her wife to death during an argument early Saturday in their home and planned to bury the victim’s body in nearby Charlotte County, according to Sarasota County investigators.
Jessica Jaye Winkler, 48, is being charged with murder and tampering with evidence in the death of 51-year-old Rhiannon Layendecker, the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office announced Sunday afternoon.
The investigation began when Winkler called 911 at about 3:58 p.m. Saturday to report that she murdered her wife in their home located at 1429 Overbrook Road in Englewood, the sheriff’s office said.
Arriving deputies found the victim’s body wrapped in a blanket in the bed of her own pickup truck, the sheriff’s office said.
Detectives determined that Winkler murdered Layendecker during an argument in their home in the early morning hours of Saturday.
Winkler then attempted to dispose of Layendecker’s body and other evidence, the sheriff’s office said. . . .
Winkler was arrested on Saturday and remained in custody Sunday without bond at the Sarasota County Jail.

Somewhere, a Woman’s Studies professor is trying to think of a way to blame this act of violence against women on the patriarchy.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)

 

Category: Crime, Florida, Gays, Violence Against Women

Rule 5 Sunday: Wrapping Things Up

Posted on | December 17, 2017 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, here we are in the last week before Christmas, and hopefully you’ve gotten all your shopping done; if not, Amazon has some last-minute deals for your consideration. This week’s appetizer is Dita Von Teese, who has apparently just finished wrapping a very large present for her significant other.
Many of the following links are to pictures generally considered NSFW, and the management is not responsible for any detrimental effects you suffer because you failed to exercise discretion in the clicking.

Not your typical elf.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny starts us off with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #104, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Manly Arts Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL presents us with Virginia Mayo, Elizabeth Allen, Postmodern Jukebox “My Favorite Things”, The Shape Of Water, Sh0eOnHead, “Chanukah Honey”, More Postmodern Jukebox, Shyma Ahmed, Belle Jewel, Andrea Ramsey – Teach Democrat Women Not to Sexually Harass, Lisa Bloom, and Ashley Shroud.

A View From The Beach offers Another Brazilian – Raica Oliviero, Supermodel Misses Good Old Days of Sexual Harassment, #HerToo Hits the NFL, Our Egyptian “Allies”, Roger Ailes, Voice Coach?, #MeTooLate: Model Accuses Dead Star of Sexual Assault, #HerToo: Singer Accused of Rape, “Amazing Grace” and Hollywood Fire Continues.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Victoria Nolan, his Vintage Babe is Tracy Scoggins, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Victoria’s Secret. At Dustbury, it’s a solo but a biggie in honor of  Taylor Swift’s birthday.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious (and occasionally melodic) linkagery!

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FMJRA 2.0: Time Out

Posted on | December 16, 2017 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule Five Sunday: Snow Bunnies
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

The Hollywood Rape Machine
A View From The Beach
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Thousand Mile Stare
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

‘An Open Secret’: Bryan Singer and the Hollywood Gay Pedophile Scandal
The Dusty Thanes
EBL

The Racist Liberal Yankees of Boston
EBL

Socialist Tumblrina Witches
Welcome To My Playpen
Adam Piggott
EBL

BOMBING IN NEW YORK CITY
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.11.17
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.12.17
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 12.13.17
Proof Positive
EBL

Fat, Gay and Stupid
EBL

New Study: Middle Easterners 34 Times More Likely to Fake Hate Incidents
EBL

Tumblrina Hot Take
EBL

The Sexual Harassment Apocalypse
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.15.17
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL

Top linkers this week:

  1. EBL (14)
  2. (tied) A View From The Beach and Proof Positive (5 each)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

Heads up to Brazen Kafir – thanks for the links, but what you’re sending me is taking me to a 404 page on your blog.


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In The Mailbox: 12.15.17

Posted on | December 15, 2017 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box – Episode #105
A View From The Beach: Bring On The Warrior Monks
EBL: Attorney Lisa Bloom Pays Cash For Trump Dirt!
Twitchy: Ted Cruz Triggers EVERY Snowflake On Twitter With #NetNeutrality Tweet
Louder With Crowder: Narrative Buster – Female Democrat Accused Of Sexual Harassment
Oleg Atbashian: American Gyno-Stalinism On The Ruins Of Shagadelic Utopia (h/t Ace of Spades)
Washington Times: Half Of Americans Support Banning Nazi Speech On Campus, With Definition Of “Nazi” Expanding (h/t NeoWayland)
According To Hoyt: Let There Be Light
Monster Hunter Nation: Gray Rinehart, Walking On The Sea Of Clouds
Vox Popoli: The Sickness In The SFWA


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Inspiration Edition
American Power: Headless Chicken Leftists? also, Wilbur Smith, A Falcon Flies
American Thinker: There Is Nothing More Despicable Than A Democrat, also, Megyn Kelly Leads Renewed Targeting Of Trump
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Manly Arts Friday, also, Animal’s Daily New Finch News
BattleSwarm: Blake Farenthold Withdraws From Primary, also, LinkSwarm For 12/15
Bring The HEAT: Army Training, Sir!
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Will Israeli/Palestinian Peace Be Brokered By Saudi Arabia? also, Blood & Roses, also also, Cuba, Before You Airbnb
Don Surber: Gloria Allred’s Racket Revealed, also, Voters Care Not About Net Neutrality
Dustbury: Marginal Raunch
Fred On Everything: Firing The Pre-Pubertal Arquebus – A Sociological Treatise
The Geller Report: Minneapolis Prosecutor Says Justine Damond’s Murder Investigators Didn’t Do Their Jobs, also, Cologne To Distribute “Tolerance” Wristbands To Prevent New Year’s Eve Rapes
Hogewash: Blogsmoke, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also also, RICO 2 Retread LOLSuit Appeal News
Jammie Wearing Fools: Seattle Seahawks Thug Arrested, Calls Officers “N****r”, “B***h”, also, Another Shining Media Moment – NYDN Reporter Arrested After Drunken Episode At Hospital
Joe For America: Another Massive Democrat Scandal – Mass. State Senator Arrested On 113 Federal Charges, also, San Francisco SPCA Using Robots Against Homeless
JustOneMinute: Now For Something Completely Different
Legal Insurrection: Bernie Sanders Upset That Military No Longer Focused On Climate Change, also, High On Alabama Win, Democrats Target Ted Cruz
Power Line: Worst Column Of The Year? also, Is The Higher Ed Bubble Starting To Pop?
Shark Tank: DACA Immigration Reform Just Over The Political Horizon
Shot In The Dark: Like The World Needed Any More Stupid Social Media, also, A Terrible Year In Music Gets Worse
STUMP: Kentucky Pension Update – GIVE US A BUNCH OF MONEY
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Alfredo Sauce Is Bad, MKay? also, A Jawa Intermission
The Political Hat: The Ultimate In H8 – Milk, also, Happy Bill Of Rights Day! also also, Twelve Posts Of Christmas (Day 2 & Day 3)
This Ain’t Hell: Chicago Wants UN Peacekeepers, also, WaPo Awards Pelosi Three Pinocchios For CCW Tweet
Weasel Zippers: Daily Caller Reporter Says Congress “To Be Rocked” This Weekend, Predicts At Least Twelve Resignations, also, Philly Votes To Order Removal Of Stores’ Bulletproof Glass
Megan McArdle: The 14th Annual Kitchen Gift Guide
Mark Steyn: The Co-Dependents Of The “Independent” Counsel, also, Alone Again, Naturally


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The Sexual Harassment Apocalypse

Posted on | December 15, 2017 | 2 Comments

 

Remember “Mattress Girl”? In 2014, Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz became a feminist heroine for her performance-art project dramatizing what she claimed was rape, but what her ex-boyfriend Paul Nungesser said was a consensual hook-up. Neither the police nor university officials believed there was a case against Nungesser, but feminists insisted that anyone who doubted Sulkowicz’s claim was a “rape apologist.” At the time, the media applauded Sulkowicz and amplified the feminist chorus proclaiming their belief that “women never lie about rape,” so that the rights of due-process for male students could be disregarded as a matter of policy implemented by the Obama administration pursuant to the 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter.

Those of us who were skeptics in 2014 saw the danger of abandoning constitutional standards and centuries of Anglo-American common law in the name of “social justice.” What was obvious — to me, at least — was that the media publicity about an alleged “epidemic” of campus rape was part of a cynical propaganda operation to energize feminists in the lead-up to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.

 

Like having Beyoncé appear at the VMAs in front of a giant lighted “FEMINIST” sign, and creating a United Nations feminist platform for Harry Potter star Emma Watson, the campus rape “epidemic” hysteria of 2014 was about advancing a partisan political agenda. This quickly led to a debacle, when Rolling Stone‘s lurid article about a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity was exposed as a hoax. Too many conservatives reacted to that episode with a collective shrugging of shoulders: “Oh, well. That story’s over. Let’s move on to talking about Benghazi and e-mail servers and other serious news.”

Unfortunately, a society can’t just “move on” when every major media organization in the country has joined a shrewd propaganda campaign calculated to inspire anti-male prejudice among women by convincing them that they are, collectively, victims of “male privilege.”

 

The mobs of student feminists we saw on so many university campuses in 2014 did not materialize spontaneously. An organized national effort was clearly involved, and the Obama administration was part of that organizing effort, as were Democrats like Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. What was obvious to me was that the feminist rage generated by that effort could not be limited to college campus, nor would it end after the 2016 election. Once the Democrat Party had committed itself to exploiting the “gender gap” in politics, Pandora’s Box was opened, unleashing a spirit of vengeance that would have damaging consequences to our culture.

That spirit of vengeance has now overtaken PBS host Tavis Smiley:

Has the rush to “believe the women” created a witch hunt atmosphere that creates injustice on its own? Tavis Smiley, who just got fired from PBS over what he calls a “consensual relationship with a colleague years ago,” adamantly insists it has. In a Facebook post and video, the ousted talk-show host accuses PBS of leaking the allegation before ever addressing it with him, and of having made their minds up without hearing his side of the story.

This witch-hunt has “gone too far,” according to the noted liberal commentator, once his own career and reputation have been wrecked. But where was Tavis Smiley’s concern when the targets of feminist vengeance were college boys — many of them mere teenagers — who claimed they were falsely accused and railroaded in campus disciplinary hearings? At a conference in North Carolina last year, I had the opportunity to talk to the mother of a college boy who was expelled after his ex-girlfriend accused him of rape, and it was tragic tale to hear. The bitterness in her voice as she spoke of the ex-girlfriend as “that lying bitch” shocked me, even as I couldn’t resist my own doubts. After all, how could I know the accusation was false? We naturally presume that the smoke of such an accusation must indicate a fire of wrongdoing, and even if we are willing to interpret this kind of “he-said, she-said” incident as a misunderstanding, there is a permanent shadow of suspicion left hanging over any man accused of sexual misconduct. Read more

Category: Crime, Sex Trouble
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