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‘The Lizard People Are Real!’

Posted on | December 7, 2017 | 1 Comment

He was high on morphine and methamphetamine, and he had a .357 pistol and an AK-47 with four extra magazines, with a total of 172 rounds of ammunition. When police showed up, he told them: “The meth doesn’t make me crazy, man . . . The lizard people are real!” He said his family was being held hostage by the “alpha dragon,” and that President Trump had called to warn him about the lizard people. He was sent to a mental institution for evaluation. (Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

 

Meanwhile, an editor at Feministing says they’ll be forced to shut down if readers don’t help. By contributing $5 a month, Julianna Britto Schwartz promised, readers will get “that warm fuzzy feeling that comes with knowing that your dollars are supporting young women who are sticking it to the capitalist, white supremacist heteropatriarchy.”

Is the “heteropatriarchy” more real than the lizard people? Probably not, but maybe the editors of Feministing should stockpile AK-47 ammunition just in case. “It’s not the meth, man.”

 

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$400 in 24 Hours (UPDATE: Thanks!)

Posted on | December 7, 2017 | 1 Comment

Not much time to explain this, but I’m rattling the tip jar today because I need $400 by Friday morning. My youngest daughter has a school trip coming up and I promised my wife I’d raise the $200 needed by Friday. Then the cable company — our Internet service provider — demanded more than $200 for that bill, and of course that’s also due Friday. As a pioneer of online crowdfunding, who managed to cover the entire 2012 presidential campaign thanks to tip-jar hitters, I had no problem assuring my wife: “Don’t worry. We got this.”

So if 50 readers gave $8 each, or if 25 readers gave $16 each, this would do the trick, but if 10 readers gave $40 each, that would be cool, too. Whatever you can spare would be appreciated, because it’s still true that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

Thanks in advance, and Merry Christmas!



 

UPDATE: Wow! You guys surprised me! It didn’t take even 12 hours to exceed the goal. Today I went and worked with my son Jim on a roofing job, and when I checked the PayPal on my phone, I was shocked by the generosity of readers. And seeing that my friend Pete Da Tech Guy got laid off from his job, I hit his tip jar. Hope you guys will, too.

 

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In The Mailbox: 12.06.17

Posted on | December 7, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.06.17

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OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #95
EBL: Senator Al Franken Expected To Resign Tomorrow
Twitchy: Anti-Gunners’ Hilarious Reactions To Passage Of Concealed Carry Reciprocity
Louder With Crowder: Chris Pratt Fills In For Jimmy Kimmel, Classes Up The Joint, also, Queen Bey Tries & Fails To Make Kaepermick Cool Again
Fast Company: Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Warns Against “#MeToo” Backlash Against Women At Work (h/t NeoWayland)


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #66 – The Tonic Masculinity Episode
American Power: The Tax Reform Bill Is Killing And Raping Americans, also, SoCal Wildfires
American Thinker: The Gay Marriage Ruling Supports The Baker
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Democratic Dirtbag Update
Bring The HEAT: World Of Warships – Alabama Kraken Loss
CDR Salamander: How Do You Feed Your Rage And Shame?
Da Tech Guy: Waking To A Christmas Layoff, also, A Gutsy Person Takes On “Gender Identity” Politics
Don Surber: Trump Is Bringing Mueller Down
Dustbury: Live At The 38th
The Geller Report: Australian Muslim Who Mutilated & Murdered Wife In Front Of Kids Tells Cops That’s “Normal Behavior” In The Middle East, also, Hamas Says Trump Has “Opened The Gates Of Hell”, Calls For “Day of Rage”
Hogewash: I’m Not Making This Up, You Know, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Yet Another Alleged Franken Victim Comes Forward
Joe For America: Democrat Just Tried To Impeach President Trump; It Went Even Worse Than You Can Imagine
JustOneMinute: Curb Your Enthusiasm
Legal Insurrection: Trump – “Today We Finally Recognize The Obvious, Jerusalem Is Israel’s Capitol”, also, Gillibrand Finally Calls For Franken’s Resignation
Michelle Malkin: Pyongyang On The Prairie, Part I
Power Line: The Government Shutdown Fraud, also, What Should Be Done About Mueller’s Biased Staff?
Shark Tank: DACA Activists Storm Marco Rubio’s Office
Shot In The Dark: They Tried To Make Him Go To Reputation Rehab, He Said “Yes, Yes, Yes”
STUMP: More Divestment Follies
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Play Stupid Games, also, Zionist R Zionist
The Political Hat: The Sinicization Of Neocolonialism
This Ain’t Hell: Sharior Rahman, Air Force Chaplain & Shoplifter, also, Navajo Code Talker George B. Willie Sr. Passes
Weasel Zippers: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Signs Five-Year Contract Extension, also, CFPB Employees Form Harry Potter Style Resistance To Trump
Megan McArdle: Brexit Or No Brexit, The Irish Border Won’t Disappear
Mark Steyn: Problematic Positionality


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In The Mailbox: 12.05.17

Posted on | December 5, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.05.17

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OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Begotten, Not Made?
Twitchy: New Info From Judicial Watch Suggests Mueller Probe Could Be Compromised
Louder With Crowder: Tom Hanks Claims “Fake News” Is A Right-Wing Conspiracy


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Australian Property Bubble – You Don’t Save Money By Spending It
American Power: End Of Apartheid In South Africa?
American Thinker: Mueller’s FBI Will Never Recover Its Good Name
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Marginal Literacy News
BattleSwarm: Texas Republicans Behaving Badly
BLACKFIVE: Book Review & Q/A – Mindhunter
Bring The HEAT: World Of Warships – Grump The Carrier Killer
CDR Salamander: A Year In, Everyone Sobers Up
Da Tech Guy: A Different Kind Of Coming Out And Why Many Won’t Do It, also, The Neverending Tantrum
Don Surber: 92% Of The Deported Are Criminals
Dustbury: Now Playing
Fred On Everything:
The Geller Report: Migrants Riot At Paris Train Station, also, African States Say They’ll Follow Trump, Move Embassies To Jerusalem
Hogewash: LOLSuit VIII News, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: New Accuser Says Conyers Groped Her In Church
Joe For America: Jane Fonda Praises Kaepernick At ACLU Gala
JustOneMinute: Cake-Baking Overload
Legal Insurrection: Pelosi – Republican Tax Reform Is “The End Of The World”, “Armageddon”, also, Conyers “Retiring Today”, Endorses Son To Replace Him
Power Line: An Encouraging Oral Argument In The Colorado Cake Case, also, Trump’s Views On Jerusalem Horrify The Press
Shot In The Dark: This Is What $1.4 Billion Of Government Work Gets You
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA: STFU, also, Abundance of Caution Abundant
The Political Hat: The New Feudalism of The Enlightened Technocratic Overlords
This Ain’t Hell: MSGT Hector Trujillo Saving The World, also, SAS May Alter Peformance Standard To Accommodate Women
Weasel Zippers: Pelosi Tells California Republicans Who Supported Tax Bill “You Don’t Belong Here”, also, Top Clinton Aides Faced No Charges After Lying To FBI
Megan McArdle: Our Broken Politics Only Encourages Deficit Busting
Mark Steyn: Repealing The Executive Branch, also, The Girl In The Swimming Pool


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2017: Everybody’s a Rapist Now

Posted on | December 5, 2017 | 1 Comment

Pop singer Melanie Martinez is a lesbian rapist, allegedly. Former star of That ’70s Show, actor Danny Masterson is a heterosexual rapist, allegedly. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) today announced his retirement from Congress after he was accused of sexual harassment. Peter Martins, leader of the New York City Ballet, is being investigated for sexual harassment. Meanwhile in Alabama, polls indicate Roy Moore is in a dead-heat for next week’s Senate election. If everybody’s a rapist, after all, why should Alabama voters care about those accusations?

It’s a weird world we’ve entered. Feminists were angry that Trump beat Hillary, and their rage got turned into a crusade against sexual harassment. But most of the big names exposed as predators were liberals, and the general result seems to be more winning for Republicans. Are you guys tired of all this winning yet? Me neither.



 

Category: Scandal

In The Mailbox: 12.04.17

Posted on | December 4, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.04.17

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OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #94
EBL: Sticking That Baton Where It Doesn’t Belong
Twitchy: Eric Holder Gets Laughed Off The Twitter Stage During Lecture On “Integrity And Honesty”
Louder With Crowder: Sanctuary City Success! Illegal Alien Rapist Was Deported 20 Times
Reason Hit & Run: Wyoming Cops Steal $91,800 From Musician, Claiming He Gave It To Them (h/t NeoWayland)


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: How To Make Relationships Work
American Power: Michelle Malkin Slams Kate Steinle Verdict, also, Terry Brooks, The Sword Of Shannara
American Thinker: Another Hillary Mole, also, Making The Clintons Pay
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Trump Vs. Talking Heads – “Once In A Lifetime”
BLACKFIVE: Rhys Bowen, The Ghost of Christmas Past
Bring The HEAT: Honorably Discharged Vets Can Now Shop Online At AAFES
CDR Salamander: Global Naval Power As 2020 Approaches, With Eric Wertheim
Da Tech Guy: Winner Takes All From My Porch, also, But What Did Google Tell You To Think?
Don Surber: Trump May Have Ended Norks’ Nuke Program
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, The Next Step In Media Hatred
The Geller Report: Victims, Family Members Of Berlin Christmas Market Jihad Attack Blast Merkel, also, SCOTUS Allows Full Travel Ban
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Joe For America: Sorry Michelle! Trump Brings Chocolate Milk Back To Schools
JustOneMinute: Hey Dude, Where’s My Stolen Election Collusion?
Legal Insurrection: Politico – Hey, Wouldn’t Chelsea Clinton Make A Great Senator? also, The Sense That Roy Moore Is Headed For Victory
Power Line: FBI Stonewalls Corruption Probe, also, Deep Meaning Of The Mueller Probe (1) and (2)
Shark Tank: Nelson Continues “Climate Change” Fundraising Efforts Against Rick Scott
Shot In The Dark: Lie First, Lie Always – Slopping The Gun-Grabber Trough With Intellectual Silage (Part 1 of 7)
STUMP: Pour One Out For The Cook County Soda Tax
The Jawa Report: Phhhhtt, Phhhhtt, also, Meanwhile In Yemen
The Political Hat: Venezuela’s Socialist “Success Story”
This Ain’t Hell: Tony Flaherty Sues Mates To Alter History, also, Ventura v. Kyle Settled?
Weasel Zippers: Obama Says Muslims Must Be “Cherished And Nurtured”, also, Corrine Brown Gets Five Years In Charity Fraud Case
Megan McArdle: Babies Or Board Rooms? Tax Bill Tests Republican Loyalties
Mark Steyn: Comedy And Tragedy, also, A Land Of Mini-Coups


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Yes, $100 a Month Is ‘Real Money’

Posted on | December 4, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

Partisanship can make you blind to reality. Because I am a conservative and generally support Republicans, it would be easy for me to ignore any faults with the tax reform bill the GOP-controlled Senate passed over the weekend. Yet I am skeptical enough to believe that, as a matter of economic policy, the bill is neither (a) the brilliant Reaganesque triumph its supporters claim, nor (b) the unmitigated disaster its Democrat opponents claim. Probably both sides are mistaken to some degree. My hunch is that the tax bill is overall a good thing, just not as good as the GOP would have us believe. This is only a hunch, however, because I don’t bother getting down into the messy mathematical details of a mere legislative proposal; what the Senate passed will not be the actual law, as the House has yet to pass its own bill, and the two versions of tax reform must be reconciled before anything can be enacted as law.

This sort of common-sense attitude toward public policy is non-existent on the Left. They’ve gone into a full-on panic over this bill, denouncing it in hysterical terms. On Friday, Alyssa Milano tweeted a link to C-SPAN coverage of the Senate debate on the tax bill, and one of her followers went ballistic over a statement by South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott:

watching…..Senator Tim Scott “$100 a month is real money” to struggling families ? Is he F**KING kidding ? HOW MUCH does $100 buy in this day ? Costs me $50 to fill my f**king gas tank FFS

This was then amplified by TV director Melissa Jo Peltier:

 

Peltier, incidentally, is a New England native who graduated from prestigious Pomona College ($67,225 a year for tuition, room and board) whereas Tim Scott graduated from a Baptist school, Charleston Southern University ($34,740 a year). Peltier challenging Scott’s qualifications to speak about the economic reality of poverty? Not smart:

 

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

The reality is this: Low-income families already pay zero federal income taxes, and the $100 a month they’ll get through the GOP Senate plan comes from an increase in existing tax credits, which are in effect an income subsidy from the government. So the Republicans are literally proposing that taxpayers give $1,200 a year to poor families, and Democrats are denouncing this free-money-for-the-poor plan. Why?

Because the GOP also wants to lower taxes on corporations — necessary because U.S. businesses currently pay higher corporate tax rates than their foreign competitors — and Democrats are agaInst anything that is good for businesses. Corporations are bad, according to Democrats who oppose any policy that would stimulate private-sector economic growth. Liberals always assume they are best qualified to decide what’s good for poor people, without regard to actual facts.

Ronald Reagan, who knew hard times growing up in small-town Illinois, once said: “I believe the best possible social program is a job.” Reagan also observed that liberal economic ideas are rooted in a misguided attitude that incites envy of the rich: “We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one.”

Liberals are devoted to a concept of “equality” that leads them to believe that the best way to help the poor is by punishing the rich. The great irony is that so many liberals are quite rich themselves, while many conservatives — Tim Scott among them — are more directly familiar with poverty, and reject the attitude of self-pitying helplessness that is the basis of the Democrat Party’s economics of envy.

Of course, liberals consider themselves to have a monopoly on “caring”:

 

How ironic that Melissa Jo Peltier invokes God as her authority. If any Republican ever did this, he would be denounced as a theocrat, a threat to separation of church and state, imposing his morality on others.

By the way, I’m not exactly getting rich as a blogger, and I hope you’ll remember the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

Thank you. Merry Christmas, and may God bless you all.



 

 

Category: Democrats, Republicans, Taxes

Rule 5 Sunday: All You Need Is Kill

Posted on | December 3, 2017 | 3 Comments

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This was, of course, the title of the manga and light novel that became the most excellent combat SF movie Edge of Tomorrow, starring Tom Cruise as the cowardly protagonist Major William Cage and this week’s appetizer, Emily Blunt, as the heroine Sgt. Rita Vrataski. The movie is that rare thing, a film that’s actually better than the source book, so don’t bother with either the manga or the short novel, just kick back and enjoy Cruise’s version of the Coyote & Roadrunner cartoons. There’s supposed to be a sequel in the works, and I’m looking forward to it.
As usual, many of the following links are to pics generally considered NSFW. The management is not responsible for any unpleasant consequences arising from your failure to exercise discretion in the clicking.

Recruiting poster from the movie.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #90, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

EBL’s herd this week includes “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”, Priscilla Presley, Pocahontas, FLOTUS and her White House decorations, Monkey Business, Mary Chapin Carpenter & Lucinda Williams, “We Three Kings” with BC Jean, and Meghan Markel.

A View From The Beach offers Via the Wayback Machine – Kristy Hume, Well, Duh!, Amber Tamblyn OK with Racist Hubby, Dancing Into Thursday, Bonfire of the Vain: #HimToo Campaign Claims Five Scalps in One Day, Good Show, Harry!, Perils of Pop Stardom, Trump Admin Flounders on Flounder Regs,  When Branson Goes Boating, and Well, I’m Convinced.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Elizabeth Berkley, his Vintage Babe is Laura Devon, Sex in Advertising is covered by Agent Provocateur, plus there’s the NFL/Niners Schadenfreude Report! At Dustbury, it’s Serinda Swan and Ann Curry.

Deadline for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday is noon on December 10. Thanks to everyone for the lovely links!


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