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In The Mailbox: 06.26.17

Posted on | June 26, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.26.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: The FBI Is A Hyper-Politicized Branch Of The Democrat Party
Twitchy: CNN Journos Resign over Sketchy Trump-Russia Story
Louder With Crowder: Red-Pilled Laci Green Asks “Are There Only TWO Genders?” Tolerant Feminists Attack!


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Is Stephen Hawking Now Dead And Played By An Actor?
American Power: Katie Hopkins – “You Are Frankenstein. I Am Your Monster.”, also, Noel Monk & Joe Layden, Runnin’ With The Devil
American Thinker: The DNC Scams The Suckers And Contradicts The Feds On “Hacking”
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: SCOTUS Lifts Stay On Trump Travel Ban
Bring The HEAT: Megafood
Da Tech Guy: John Ruberry – Pride Parade? Chicago Needs A Shame Parade
Don Surber: Urine Trouble, Washington
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Bently Is Driven
The Geller Report: 2017 Ramadan Bloodiest In Modern History
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also, Hoge v. Kimberlin et al News
Jammie Wearing Fools: Liberal Climate of Hate Update – Professor Who Trashed Otto Warmbier Fired By University of Delaware
Joe For America: Nancy Pelosi Gets Irritated When CBS Plays Clips Of Dems Calling For Her To Go
JustOneMinute: Spy Versus Spy
Power Line: Democrats & FBI Collaborated On Trump Smear, also, Seattle Discovers Gravity Is Not Socially Constructed
Shark Tank: Javier Manjarres Explores Congressional Run
Shot In The Dark: Watching The Defectives
STUMP: Public Pensions – Why It’s Important To Keep Watching
The Jawa Report: Iran Just Wants Destruction Of Israel
The Political Hat: In Praise Of Moloch
This Ain’t Hell: Pentagon Seeks Delay In Transgender Recruiting Policy, also, VA Choice Running Out Of Money
Weasel Zippers: Chicago “Dyke March” Bans Jewish Pride Flags, also, President Trump Forgoes “Traditional” White House Iftar Dinner Marking End Of Ramadan
Megan McArdle: Seattle’s Painful Lesson On The Road To A $15 Minimum Wage
Mark Steyn: Les Invasions Barbares, also, To Sir, With Love


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Emergency Tip-Jar Appeal

Posted on | June 26, 2017 | 1 Comment

Going gonzo on the campaign trail in Iowa, January 2012.

Y’know, sometimes, I can almost sympathize with the socialist Bernie Sanders/Occupy Wall Street crowd — almost, I say, because it is morally wrong to scapegoat “the rich” (however one defines that term) for the problems of the poor which, at the present moment, is defined as . . . me.

To skip ahead to the bottom line, I need $300 today, and have every reason to hope that the tip-jar hitters will come through, as always.

Reader-supported journalism — a fee-for-service arrangement between the reader and writer — is an honest sort of capitalist transaction, and if it requires me occasionally to rattle the tip jar like an epileptic on meth, this is a small price to pay for editorial independence. Read more

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Rule 5 Sunday: Guns In The Desert

Posted on | June 25, 2017 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Two things which immediately attract your attention when you arrive in Las Vegas are the huge quantity of good-looking women and the ubiquity of gun culture – billboards promoting gun shows, gun ranges, and the opportunity to fire fully automatic weapons are everywhere in Sin City. Today’s appetizer, local model Peyton Hunton, combines the two with this desert shot recently featured on Twitter by @Girls_With_Guns.
As usual, most of the following links are to pics generally considered NSFW. The management is not responsible for any unfortunate consequences arising from your failure to exercise discretion when clicking.

Not a typical Las Vegas girl.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns, followed by Goodstuff with Beverly D’Angelo and planetary science! We also heard from Animal Magnetism with Rule 5 I, Claudius Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd of mutant heifers this week includes Debbie Harry, Alyssa Milano, Centipede Woman, and Rebecca Burger.

At A View From The Beach, it’s A Big Plus for Lauren Mellor, Some Killer Whipped Cream, Fish Pic Friday – Jack Crevalle, It’s Tanlines Thursday Again!, Whatever You Say, Officer!, High Court Rules for the Redskins, Monday in Mexico, Midnite Music – “Flashlight”, and Potomac Adjusts to Life with Snakeheads.

American Power returns after a long absence with Lily Collins, Caroline Wozniacki, Nina Daniele, Sara Jean Underwood, Emily Ratajkowski, and Jennifer De La Cruz.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Riki Lindhome, his Vintage Babe is Donna Reed, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Guess. At Dustbury, it’s Sadie Frost and Solange Knowles.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

Look for the ‘Hate’ Label (or, Why Everybody’s a ‘Far-Right’ Extremist Now)

Posted on | June 25, 2017 | 2 Comments

 

Who is Kevin Panetta? He is the writer behind a comic book called Zodiac Starforce, which looks a lot like a ripoff of Sailor Moon, but that’s irrelevant to his role as a volunteer with the Thought Police. Panetta got more than 45,000 retweets and more than 80,000 likes for his assertion that disagreeing with SJWs is “just hate.” Notice his all-inclusive laundry list of Thought Crimes which, he declares, are not “political views” and therefore need to be silenced. Now ask, “What do these words mean?”

What is “racism,” and how is it to be distinguished from “white supremacy”? Or what is “sexism”? Is it “islamophobia” to point out that Islamic doctrine is both sexist and homophobic? And considering the conflict between transgender activists and feminists (e.g., Julie Bindel and Meghan Murphy), how do we unravel the separate strands of “just hate” to distinguish between “sexism,” “homophobia” and “transphobia”?

Is it even permissible to ask such questions? Are we allowed to question the SJW Thought Police about the definitions of “just hate” or (as I rather suspect) will we be condemned as guilty merely for questioning their authority to define these terms to suit their own purposes?

George Orwell wrote in Politics and the English Language:

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning. Words like romantic, plastic, values, human, dead, sentimental, natural, vitality, as used in art criticism, are strictly meaningless, in the sense that they not only do not point to any discoverable object, but are hardly ever expected to do so by the reader. . . . Many political words are similarly abused. The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’. The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

Allowing an explosive term like “white supremacy” to be redefined in such a way that anyone who criticized, e.g., the Black Lives Matter protests could be accused of it, is a very dangerous practice.

The progressive Left is using “hate” labels to prohibit rational argument about important issues of public policy. Go read Ryan Anderson’s critique of the transgender agenda, for example, and then tell me that his argument is “just hate.” SJWs are liars, trying to silence the truth.

Ryan Broderick’s Buzzfeed headline about “far-right activists” on YouTube focuses in the lead on Lauren Southern, a 22-year-old who is described by Broderick as “part of a sprawling new universe of far-right internet personalities who have aligned themselves with a ‘new right’ or ‘alt-right’ or ‘new far-right’ political youth movement.” Broderick’s article uses some not-very-subtle guilt-by-association to link Lauren Southern to personalities like Richard Spencer with whom she has no known association. Southern gained Internet fame a couple of years ago for declaring that the feminist movement doesn’t speak for her. She has since spoken out against unrestricted immigration, but is it necessarily “far-right” to oppose open-borders policies? Aren’t there legitimate social and economic issues involved in immigration policy that justify such opposition? Never mind such questions, Broderick declares Lauren Southern “dangerous,” more or less implying she’s a neo-Nazi, and at the end of his article, includes this paragraph:

Despite all of this, Southern still believes approaching far-right activism as a social media influencer is the way to go. She’s excited about recent controversies, like YouTube and Disney’s Maker Studios dropping video game YouTuber PewDiePie over anti-Semitic jokes, YouTube comedian JonTron doing interviews with Breitbart and far-right YouTuber Sargon of Akkad, or sexual education vlogger Laci Green making videos playing with alt-right themes. To Southern, these are signs that she’s on the right side of things.

You see the ransom-note method of links-and-ties Broderick is employing here. Lauren Southern is “alt-right” and is therefore “linked” to every other person who can be labeled “alt-right,” so that when Laci Green begins to have second thoughts about her SJW allegiances, this is portrayed as signifying that she is linked, for example, to the Etayyim Brothers whose shtick was to “take a camera into predominantly black communities in Brooklyn and antagonize residents.” This is a complete non sequitur, which Broderick throws into his article as part of his sloppy guilt-by-association smear. There is no reason to believe Laci Green would ever do such a thing, nor do we have any reason to think of the Etayyim Brothers as part of an “alt-right” to which Green (or Lauren Southern) belongs. But of course, Broderick is a hypocrite, throwing stones from a glass house, because a few years ago, as Ian Miles Cheong points out, Broderick produced YouTube videos in which “the BuzzFeed writer wore a Nazi uniform while brandishing a swastika on his arm alongside a man dressed as a Jewish prisoner.”

Well, nobody has ever accused Laci Green or Lauren Southern of brandishing swastikas in their videos, so maybe this “far-right” thing isn’t as dangerous as Buzzfeed would have us believe. However, by using the term “far-right” so haphazardly as to include anyone who doesn’t vote Democrat, left-wingers like Ryan Broderick are actually arguing for censorship. Lauren Southern is “dangerous” and she is “going to get people hurt,” Buzzfeed readers are led to believe, and isn’t Broderick suggesting that YouTube suppress her “far-right” videos? Isn’t he arguing that crowdfunding platforms like Patreon and GoFundMe should exclude anyone labeled “far-right” by the Thought Police? Banishing their opponents from online discourse, depriving conservatives of access to platforms like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, is very much a part of the SJW agenda, and they’re doing this the same way the Left has abolished free speech on campus, by making “hate” a synonym for “Republican”:

Anything that is not liberal is labeled “hate,” and anything which is not about promoting the Democrat Party is “right-wing” or “far right.” Any appearance on a college campus by anyone associated with conservative or Republican (i.e., “far right”) political ideas is funded by “right-wing billionaires,” and this “hate” is “putting students in danger.”
The Left deliberately encourages this simple-minded intolerance, demonizing their political opponents, even while they accuse Republicans of “extremism,” “hate” and being “ideologically driven.”

Because I have been exposing left-wing totalitarianism for years (and have, of course, been labeled a “white supremacist,” etc., for doing so), I am glad to see others finally becoming aware of the Thought Police tactics the Left employs to suppress online dissent. We’re all “far-right” now. Readers are invited to hit the freaking tip jar, while it’s still legal.



 

 

Category: Culture, Democrats, Politics, Racism

FMJRA 2.0: Cords

Posted on | June 24, 2017 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Tuesday: EDC Girls
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL
Ninety Miles From Tyranny

FMJRA 2.0: EDC 2017 – All EDM, All The Time
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

Terrorism, Et Cetera
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.19.17
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.20.17
Proof Positive
EBL

GA-6: ‘The Big Short’ and the Establishment Media Bubble
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.21.17
Proof Positive
EBL

‘Lone Wolf’ Shouts ‘Allahu Akbar’ Before Stabbing Police Officer in Flint Airport
EBL

Feminist Professor: ‘Trumpism’ Is About ‘Discourses of Masculinized Dominance’
EBL

Further Thoughts on ‘The Big Short’
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.22.17
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.23.17
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach

Top linkers this week:

  1. EBL (11)
  2. Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

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In The Mailbox: 06.23.17

Posted on | June 23, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.23.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: McConnellCare Is Coming?
Twitchy: Jenna Jameson Blasts Pro-Aborts After Tweeting To Defund Planned Parenthood
Louder With Crowder: LWC #189 – Everyone’s Wrong On Healthcare, With Mark Levin
According To Hoyt: Usaians
Vox Popoli: Portrait Of A Bad Shoot


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: First From Europe – The Friday Links & Hawt Chicks Thread
American Power: Left-Wing Politics Will be The Demise Of Democrats, also, Out In Paper – J. Kael Weston, The Mirror Test
American Thinker: Mueller Adopts Stalinist Tactics
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five I, Claudius Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For June 23
BLACKFIVE: Today In U.S. Military History
Da Tech Guy: Health Law Uncertainties Starting To Hurt Millions
Don Surber: CNN, MSNBC Boycott Trump, Hilarity Ensues
Dustbury: As Dry As We Wanna Be
The Geller Report: Germany Admits 75% Of Refugees Will Be On The Dole For Life
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Joe For America: Texas Pastors Reject LGBT Curriculum – “This Is Houston, Not San Francisco”
JustOneMinute: Health Care That’s Always A Scare
Power Line: Free Speech? Not In Minneapolis!, also, Democrat Inspired By Hodgkinson Threatens Assassination
Shark Tank: Crist, Cruz, Oppose New Senate Healthcare Bill
Shot In The Dark: I Don’t Think That Word Means What They Think It Means
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Taunting Secret Service A Very, Very Bad Idea
The Political Hat: Decolonizing The Scalp
This Ain’t Hell: BGEN Wayne Grigsby Busted For Inappropriate Relationship, also, Elizabeth Honig Admits To Defrauding The VA
Weasel Zippers: Wasserman-Schultz Accuses Jeh Johnson Of Lying About DNC Servers, also, Grassley Says Schumer Knew Trump Wasn’t Under Investigation, Lied About It Anyway
Megan McArdle: GOP Healthcare Bill Boils Down To…More Obamacare
Mark Steyn: A Tale Of Two Johnsons


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The Catastrophe at Evergreen State

Posted on | June 23, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

A state college has surrendered to the totalitarian mob:

Students at Evergreen State College are doubling down on their effort to silence speech that, in their view, endangers the lives of “black, trans, fems, and [other] students on this campus.”
The students, some of whom have actively demanded the ousting of biology professor Bret Weinstein after he questioned the propriety of asking white students and faculty to leave campus for a “Day of Absence,” accused the educator of “validating” white supremacists and Nazis.
“Although Bret has not personally said, you know, ‘go out and attack the students,’ that has been the result of his actions,” Hadley, a student at the college, proclaimed in an interview with Vice News. “He has incited white supremacists and he has validated white supremacists and Nazis in our community and in the nation. And I don’t think that should be protected by free speech.” . . .
“So at this point, we would like Bret to be fired. But that isn’t happening…I don’t care what happens to Bret anymore,” Hadley declared. “He can go and be racist and be a piece of sh– wherever he wants to do that. Hopefully, long-term, we can just weed out people like Bret.”

As has been pointed out, Professor Weinstein “supported Bernie Sanders, admiringly retweets Glenn Greenwald and was an outspoken supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement” and calls himself “deeply progressive,” but that’s not enough for the thugs at Evergreen.

 

Watching that 7-minute video report by Michael Moynihan, you get a very clear idea of what kind of “students” are now effectively running Evergreen College in the absence of real leadership by the college’s administration and faculty. “Social justice” is the province of a bunch of spoiled-rotten brats with the emotional maturity of 4-year-olds.

Enrollment at Evergreen has been sagging in recent years because of the school’s left-wing reputation. The environment on the campus in Olympia is perceived as “too weird and freaky for people who want a normal education,” one student said in 2014. Certainly the anti-Weinstein protests have done nothing to repair Evergreen’s bad reputation, and it is likely enrollment will decline even further. Can any parent imagine sending their child to such a lunatic asylum? If the object of a college education is to prepare students for careers, what sort of careers are Evergreen students being prepared for? Do you think major corporations are eager to hire young people who are in the habit of slinging accusations of “white supremacy” at anyone who disagrees with them?

As Professor William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection points out, liberals are arguing that “Weinstein should have just kept his mouth shut and suffered in silence.” Why is this faculty silence necessary? Because when the general public becomes aware of the totalitarian climate on college campuses, they don’t like it, and public reaction has a negative impact on enrollment and budgets:

Enrollment on the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus is expected to decline more than 7 percent in the fall and budget cuts will require the elimination of up to 400 jobs, interim Chancellor Garnett Stokes said [May 15] at a budget forum.
The enrollment decline estimate is the first provided by MU officials for overall fall numbers. The university has already said it expects first-time freshman enrollment to decline by almost 18 percent.
For the school year that ended last week, enrollment at MU was 33,266, down 6.1 percent from the previous year’s record. If Stokes’ projection of a 7.4 percent decline is accurate, enrollment in the fall will be about 30,800, the lowest in nine years. . . .
Overall, the university is planning to cut 12 percent from the academic and administrative operations budget, or about $55 million. . . .

Why is this happening? Why has enrollment declined at the University of Missouri? Because in 2015, the faculty and administration allowed the campus to be taken over by Black Lives Matter protesters. The University of Missouri became a national symbol of this anti-white hate movement and threats from the angry black mobs “left many students, faculty, and parents feeling fearful of violence and concerned about their safety.”

We might reasonably expect enrollment at Evergreen State to decline sharply in the fall, and the impact on the school’s budget will probably be quite shocking to radical students who think they can intimidate anyone who disagrees with them. The progressive thug mob at Evergreen State needs to be reminded that parents have a choice about what kind of education they provide their children, and you can’t expect parents to pay money to send their kids to a lunatic asylum like Evergreen State.



 

Category: Education, Racism

Deranged Feminist Attacks Church, Police, ‘Patriarchy’ in Florida

Posted on | June 23, 2017 | Comments Off on Deranged Feminist Attacks Church, Police, ‘Patriarchy’ in Florida

Barbara J. Phillips was arrested in Gainesville.

A mentally ill homeless woman in Florida is accused of vandalizing a policeman’s patrol car and smearing feces on a church where she left the walls defaced with nonsensical writings against “patriarchy.”

Barbara J. Phillips, 40, was charged with charged with stalking, criminal mischief and damaging church property, the Gainesville Sun reported June 19. An arrest report listed Phillips as homeless and said she “appears to be suffering from some mental health problems”:

On June 13, a Gainesville Police Department officer reported his patrol car had a broken passenger mirror and a flat tire, after nails had been placed around the car overnight. His air-conditioning unit was broken and a welcome post from his yard flung into the street, the report said.
About the same time, St. Andrews Church’s leader and his wife reported two similar acts of vandalism, including their power being turned off and nails — that appeared to match the ones placed near the officer’s car — being placed around one of their cars, according to the Alachua County sheriff’s office.
On June 12, two people arrived at the church at 2715 NW 39th Ave., and found feces in front of its front door and smeared on door handles, what appeared to be glue dripping from keyholes, and a number of windows, all cracked in the bottom left corner. They initially saw a gray Prius, later determined to belong to Phillips, in front of the church, driven away as they arrived.
The air-conditioning unit had been tampered with, and nonsensical writings were made in permanent marker on church pillars and doors, which the report described as “rants” about “patriarchy,” “misogyny and sexism” and “bad spirits toward me.”
Phillips . . . had attended some church gatherings at the home of Rev. Ronald Kuykendall, who leads St. Andrew’s Church, he told police.
Phillips told police she believes the reverend had been “attacking her mind” via “the spirit realm,” the report said.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)

 

Category: Crime, Florida, Sex Trouble
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