In The Mailbox: 05.11.17
Posted on | May 11, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.11.17
— compiled by Wombat-socho
OVER THE TRANSOM
BattleSwarm: ComeyComeyComeyComeyChameleon
Proof Positive: Th-th-th-th-That’s All Folks!
EBL: Asshat And Hypocrite-Brit John Oliver
Twitchy: Michelle Malkin Hammers Sanctuary City Cheerleaders With Maddening Reality
Louder With Crowder: ABC Cancels Successful, Conservative Last Man Standing Despite Good Ratings
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Cost-Benefit Analysis On Vaccinations
American Power: Eric Hinderaker, At The Edge Of Empire
American Thinker: Comey Fired – Now Indict Hillary
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Testicle Transplant News
Bring The HEAT: It’s A Reason, Not An Excuse
Da Tech Guy: Pavlov’s Dog Answers Bell, Colbert And Stewart Hardest Hit
Don Surber: Garrison Keillor’s Stark Admission
Dustbury: We Are But Empty Vessels
Fred On Everything: Sally Cone Hits The Dating Scene
The Geller Report: Poland Refuses Migrants, Terror Map Shows Shocking Results
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: The “Resistance” Tells GOP Congressman “This Is How We’re Going To Kill Your Wife”
Joe For America: Harvard University Welcomes Segregation With “Blacks Only” Graduation Ceremony
Power Line: The AP Goes Around The Bend On Comey
Shark Tank: Trump Highlights Democrats’ Hypocrisy On Comey Firing
Shot In The Dark: For The Millennial In Your Life
STUMP: “Rights” Vs. Reality – When Will They Ever Learn
The Jawa Report: At Last, Trump To Arm Kurds!, also, That Other FBI Director Firing
The Political Hat: A Venerable Privilege
This Ain’t Hell: Maxine Waters, As Clear As Mud
War Is Boring: Foreign Soldiers Built The French Army
Weasel Zippers: NYC Bomber Claims Cops Shot Him Too Many Times, Wants Reduced Sentence For Pain & Suffering, also, Bangladesh PM Says Hillary Pressured Her To Help Clinton Foundation Donor
Megan McArdle: Trump Confirms His Autocratic Instincts, And His Ineptitude
Mark Steyn: Tomorrow By The Numbers
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Feminist Web Site Endangered by Systemic Oppression and a Lack of Cash
Posted on | May 11, 2017 | Comments Off on Feminist Web Site Endangered by Systemic Oppression and a Lack of Cash
But mainly, it’s the lack of cash:
Over the last five years, the Everyday Feminism team has built an incredible network of intersectional feminists. In 2016 alone, we had more than 40 million viewers in over 140 countries.
We offer an unique, educational, inside-out approach to fighting everyday oppression. And with the Trump administration in the White House, and the political climate as dangerous as it is, we know our work is especially critical now.
We’re facing scary financial trouble that’s threatening to put a halt to our work — maybe even as soon as the end of May.
We’ve realized that we’re just not going to be able to continue without some support from our community.
We’re not the only site struggling like this, and there’s a reason for that. It’s quite a challenge, to say the least, to create independent, intersectional feminist media in a financially sustainable way, especially in a world that doesn’t value what we do.
Before discussing the kind of “independent, intersectional feminist media” being created by “the Everyday Feminism team,” let’s ask:
- How have they managed to keep their site going since 2012?
and - Why has the cash-crunch hit their site now?
There are no advertisements on Everyday Feminism, and I once spent several fruitless hours looking through their site to try to locate information about their funding. Is it a 501(c)3? Is there some major foundation giving them grants? Did somebody win the Powerball? Your guess is as good as mine, but my hunch is that the founders of Everyday Feminism must have had a connection to a deep-pockets liberal donor who didn’t mind cutting a check every year for, say, a quarter-million bucks in order to promote a certain kind of feminism.
And that kind feminism is decidedly queer. What? You think “queer” is a slur? No, it’s commonly used in Everyday Feminism headlines:
I Know I’m Queer — Now What?
— Erin Tatum, Aug. 27, 2014
3 Ways to Stand Up to Toxic Messages
and Accept Yourself as a Queer Person
— Jarune Uwujaren, Dec. 15, 2014
How Stereotypes About What Queer Women
Look Like Erases Femmes
— Joy Young, Jan. 9, 2015
11 Common Assumptions About
Being a Queer Femme — Debunked
— Rhea Ewing, Feb. 10, 2016
5 Ways to Maintain Your Queer Identity
in a Relationship People Read as Straight
— Miri Mogilevsky, March 29, 2016
7 Practical Ways Straight Parent
Can Support Their Queer Children
— Sian Ferguson, Aug. 29, 2016
3 Reasons We Need to Be Critical
of Sex Positivity in Queer Spaces
— Caleb Luna, Oct. 11, 2016
Those are just a few of the dozens of queer headlines at Everyday Feminism, a site that is “inclusive” of everything except heterosexuality. Everyday Feminism’s managing editor, Melissa Fabello, is a self-described “queer woman” who has a degree in Human Sexuality, and who is also infected with HPV, a sexually transmitted disease.
“Right now, today, as of writing this, I identify as queer. But I didn’t always. And no, I’m not referring to that awkward, uncomfortable time in my life where I knew that something felt ‘off,’ but I couldn’t quite place it, and so I paraded around in the charade of ‘straight.’ I mean that a few years ago, I identified as homoflexible. And before that, a lesbian. And even before that, bisexual.”
— Melissa Fabello
Everyday Feminism is a site that consistently conveys the message that heterosexuality is wrong, almost as wrong as voting Republican.
This is what “intersectional feminism” means in 21st-century America:
- Identify as queer;
and - Vote Democrat!
Well, that message got 40 million page-views at Everyday Feminism last year, but it wasn’t enough to elect Hillary Clinton. In fact, if you were the kind of deep-pockets Democrat donor who might have been cutting checks to fund Everyday Feminism, maybe you woke up one day last November and wondered why all those blue-collar voters in Pennsylvania and Michigan voted for Donald Trump. And possibly, it could have occurred to you that maybe promoting queer feminism as the agenda of the Democrat Party wasn’t really such a clever idea after all.
“We have no money!” Melissa Fabello pleads on Twitter. She doesn’t understand why her anti-male hate propaganda site isn’t profitable. Did I mention how much Melissa Fabello hates white heterosexual men?
Feminism is a hate movement, and Melissa Fabello and her colleagues at Everyday Feminism have spent five years demonstrating why no sane or honest person would associate themselves with feminism.
David Thompson is so overwrought with grief about the financial crisis at Everyday Feminism that he shares some of their, uh, greatest hits, my favorite of which is from radical queer witch Kris Nelson:
As a follower of Diana; as a worshipper of the sun, the moon, and the earth; and as a witch, it is my responsibility to engage in radical politics. . . .
As a witch and a radical, I see the revolutionary potential in knowing the healing qualities of items that are much more accessible than a lot of modern medications… This is especially salient in a world that inflicts so much emotional damage through systemic oppression. . . .
As a non-binary trans person who rejects marriage, nuclear family structure, division of community, and Christian imperialism, I identify with “witch” as an outsider.
This lunatic gibberish was published by Everyday Feminism, where “intersectional” is a synonym for crazy. What’s scary is how close these kooks came to electing Hillary Clinton president. Yeah, that was the political goal of Everyday Feminism, a site that was launched in June 2012 and which just coincidentally now finds itself in a cash crunch.
Strange how these coincidences happen . . .
ADDENDUM: Adding to the curiosity about Everyday Feminism’s finances, their fundraising appeal lists an address in Tallahassee, Florida, to which checks can be mailed. That address (75 N. Woodward Ave) is the Student Mail Center at Florida State University. So it seems whoever is in charge of the money at Everyday Feminism is an FSU student.
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In The Mailbox: 05.10.17
Posted on | May 10, 2017 | 1 Comment
— compiled by Wombat-socho
OVER THE TRANSOM
BattleSwarm: Venezuela Boils
EBL: Hypocrisy, Hysteria, And Histrionics Over Comey Firing
Michelle Malkin: Can Cops Get A Fair Trial In America?
Twitchy: Audience Reaction To Comey Firing NOT What Colbert Wanted
Louder With Crowder: Maryland’s Legal Immigrants OPPOSE Sanctuary Cities, Democrats Shocked!
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. To Run For Congress
American Thinker: New Obama Bio Not Just Exhausting, It’s Insulting
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Da Tech Guy: Fausta – NYC To Honor Convicted Terrorist As “National Freedom Hero”
Don Surber: Canning Comey Is America’s Rorschach Test
Dustbury: Healthier Meth!
The Geller Report: Czech Girl Scout Says “If I Get Raped By Migrants, I’ll Get Over It”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Democrats React Calmly To Firing Of Guy They Wanted Fired – “A Dark And Dangerous Moment In History”
Joe For America: Miley Cyrus Says “Hip Hop Is Too Sexual. I Want To Produce More Wholesome Music.”
JustOneMinute: The Unions Come To Campus – Stand Back!
Power Line: 15% Of Terror Investigations Are Of Refugees
Shark Tank: Lt. Gov. Lopez-Cantera To Run For Ros-Lehtinen’s Congressional Seat?
Shot In The Dark: “I Hate You,” She Explained
STUMP: Catch-Up Week – Dallas And Houston Doings, Still A-Roar
The Jawa Report: Opening! Great Opportunity! Travel, Good Pay, Great Benefits!, also, Interfaith Conference Muslim Informs Infidels They Have A Choice – Convert Or Die
The Political Hat: Is There Any City City In England NOT Infested With Rape Gangs?
This Ain’t Hell: Trump Calls Out Valor Thief Blumenthal
War Is Boring: The American Way Of War Is A Budget Breaker, also, Chicago’s Gang Wars Have Become Battles Of Attrition
Weasel Zippers: Anti-Gun Ghouls Use Bob Owens’ Suicide As Political Prop, also, Kaepernick May Quit Football, Do Social Justice Work Full Time
Megan McArdle: France Has A Leader, But Not An Opposition Yet
Mark Steyn: Posse Comey Tantrum
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Bob Owens, R.I.P.
Posted on | May 9, 2017 | Comments Off on Bob Owens, R.I.P.
Yesterday I saw on Instapundit the news that Bob Owens, editor of the Bearing Arms site, had died. I remember Bob from his days as an independent blogger at Confederate Yankee, back in the paleo-blogging era, before giant media organizations zoomed in to scoop up all the traffic. News of his death — he was only 46 — was disturbing, and I figured it must have been a heart attack. However, the Washington Post reports that Bob apparently committed suicide, after posting a message to Facebook in which he called himself a “coward, and selfish son of a b–ch.” What happened? We may never know, although his friend Katie Pavlich writes that Bob “recently landed a book deal,” and perhaps the extra burden of that project on top of his other work overwhelmed him. As I’ve sometimes remarked, a deadline for a non-fiction book is a crisis that probably can’t be imagined by anyone who hasn’t endured it. He was already working as an editor and as a firearms trainer. Was this book contract too much? I make that suggestion, not knowing what might have been troubling Bob Owens, but knowing how easily depression can snowball for any writer if your productivity starts lagging.
People have become too comfortable in recent years speaking of depression as a clinical disorder, an incurable disease whereby as soon as you’re diagnosed as afflicted with it, you will require professional treatment the rest of your life. This medicalized view of depression is, not coincidentally, a bonanza for the pharmaceutical industry and providers of psychiatric care. And while I don’t want to start an argument with the mental health profession, I think that in general our society is over-diagnosed. You see this problem very clearly in the world of feminist Tumblr, which is full of young women claiming to be victims of depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, even PTSD, like they just got back from the Battle of Khe Sanh or something. Reading their endless whining, you want to reach through the computer screen, slap their faces and scream: “You are not a victim! You’re a pathetic spoiled brat with a bad haircut! Log off the Internet, go get a job and stop blaming the patriarchy for all your problems! Also, maybe you could stand to lose 20 or 30 pounds, just sayin’ . . .”
Anyway, if having a diagnosed mental illness makes you a victim of oppression, I’m sure anyone who knows me could confirm that I’m crazy, but what I’ve tried to do is to monetize my insanity, turning craziness into a career skill. And “depression”? Well, I don’t know that you need a diagnosis if you write for a living. Writers are inherently prone to depression, simply because it’s such a solitary endeavor. Whatever else is involved in the job, ultimately it comes down to sitting alone in front of a computer screen for hours every day. Even if you’re going out to do on-the-scene reporting, when it’s time to turn your notes into a story, you’re still going to spend three or four hours at the keyboard banging it out. Anybody who’s ever been around me when I’m writing on deadline — filing from a convention or a debate or a campaign rally — knows what a horrible monster I can become under those conditions.
All of this discussion of the psychological stress inherent to writing for a living, however, may be entirely irrelevant to Bob Owens’ suicide. We don’t have any explanation for what may have been bothering him, and in the absence of facts, we should not speculate. We have lost a valued comrade, and Bob leaves behind a widow and two daughters, ages 9 and 17. There’s a Go Fund Me page where you can contribute to help, so please go hit the tip jar for old Bob. I already did. R.I.P., Confederate Yankee!
Bob Owens Family & College Fund https://t.co/RI6aFlKIny
— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) May 10, 2017
Liberal Paranoia in the Trump Age
Posted on | May 9, 2017 | 1 Comment
Ever since Hillary lost the election, Democrats have been stoking the fires of fear, hatred and suspicion among their liberal voter base. This fear-mongering is an attempt to overcome the demoralization Democrats face after last November’s unexpected defeat. However, the anti-Trump propaganda campaign relies on a misguided demonization of Republicans as “fascists,” perpetrators of hate crimes and other atrocities. Because this narrative is essentially false, the Democrats are quite literally driving many of their supporters crazy, filling their minds with preposterous paranoid conspiracy theories that have no basis in reality.
Shortly after Election Day, someone vandalized an Episcopal church in the tiny crossroads hamlet of Beanblossom, Indiana, in rural Brown County, population 15,242, about an hour south of Indianapolis. The vandals painted “Heil Trump” and “Fag Church” on the church. Given the Episcopal denomination’s drift into liberalism, and the fact that Brown County went more than 2-to-1 for Trump (who got 63% of the county’s vote to Hillary’s 31%), this “Fag Church” attack seemed entirely plausible to liberals who claimed America was besieged by a wave of Trump-inspired hate crimes. “The Southern Poverty Law Center counted 867 cases of hateful harassment or intimidation in the United States in the 10 days after the November 8 election,” CNN reported at the time:
On Sunday morning, the Rev. Kelsey Hutto got the news that vandals had painted “Heil Trump,” an anti-gay slur and a swastika on the side of her church, Saint David’s Episcopal in Beanblossom, Indiana.
She told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota . . . that she was at first sad, but believes that the church was targeted because it has always been inclusive to everyone. So, she said, she is taking comfort that whoever did this actually did this for the right reason, because the church has always been welcoming to everyone.
“Doing the right thing is not always the popular thing.” . . .
The Brown County Sheriff’s Department tells CNN it is investigating the incident. Investigators don’t currently have any suspects or leads, but they have shared their report with the state police department and are hoping someone in the community will come forward with information if they have it.
Earlier this month, police apprehended the culprit, George Nathaniel Stang, a 26-year-old homosexual who plays organ at the church:
Stang told everyone he discovered the graffiti when he arrived for Sunday morning services. . . .
According to court records, when confronted with the evidence, the 26-year-old gay man confessed.
Investigators say Stang admitted to painting the “Heil Trump” and “Fag Church” graffiti himself because he wanted to “mobilize a movement after being disappointed in and fearful of the outcome of the national election.” He insisted his actions were not motivated by anti-Christian or anti-gay sentiments. . . .
Brown County Prosecutor Ted Adams talked about Stang’s alleged motive.
“He explained that one of the reasons he had done it was because of fear. He was concerned about the results of the election,” Adams said.
In a three-page, handwritten statement, Stang, according to court records, wanted to “mobilize a movement.”
“I suppose I wanted to give local people a reason to fight for good, even if it was a false flag,” he wrote. “To be clear my actions were not motivated by hate for the church or its congregation. I of course realize now, this was NOT the way to go about inspiring activism.”
To give people “a reason to fight for good,” you try to “mobilize a movement” by perpetrating a crime you blame on your political opponents. Can you say “Reichstag fire,” boys and girls?
For all the talk of Trump being a neo-fascist, Democrats seem to be the ones resorting to Nazi-style propaganda tactics in America lately. The media are contributing to this paranoia, as even liberal Chris Cillizza laments in citing multiple recent examples in which “liberals, fueled by Twitter outrage, jumped to conclusions that portrayed Trump and other Republicans in the poorest possible light. And, on each occasion, the fuller story either totally or mostly rebutted the version of the story the left had seized on. . . . Democrats run the risk of appearing like the boy who cried wolf.” As Stephen Green comments at Instapundit, this “panic-mongering” is “about keeping the base riled up” until the next election.
The problem is that this requires constant hyping of anti-Republican paranoia and, as the case of the Beanblossom hate hoax shows, many Democrat voters are already so emotionally unstable as to be dangerous.
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In The Mailbox: 05.09.17
Posted on | May 9, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.09.17
— compiled by Wombat-socho
OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Democrat Mayor Ed Murray, Accused Of Molesting Boys, Not Running For Re-Election
Twitchy: Obama Lectures America On Food Waste, Eating Meat – Gets Fact-checked By Former Chef
Louder With Crowder: FBI Discovers ISIS Supporter Planning Terrorist Attack In NYC
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Lottery Odds Of Marriage For Men
American Power: Pepe The Frog Is Dead (He lives forever in our memes. – WS)
American Thinker: The Real Reason WaPo Republicans Hate Donald Trump
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Icons Of Rock News
Bring The HEAT: ZERO
Da Tech Guy: France Rejects First Woman President – Where Is The MSM Outrage?
Don Surber: We Will Feed, Clothe, And Bathe Our Conquerors
Dustbury: Four’s A Crowd
The Geller Report: Double Murder Suspect Gets 364-Day Sentence So Judge Can Save Him From Deportation
Hogewash: I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Jammie Wearing Fools: Classy! OFA Goon Laughs At GOP Congressman Telling Story Of Wife’s Cancer
Joe For America: At Corruption Trial, Dem Rep Corrine Brown Found To Have Spent Charity’s Money On Daughter’s $750 Birthday Cake
JustOneMinute: The Comey Letter – It Sunk Her, It Sunk Her Not
Power Line: On The Judiciary, The AP Parrots The DNC
Shark Tank: Governor Scott Likely To Veto $82.4 Billion Budget
Shot In The Dark: Paging The 14th Amendment…?
STUMP: Literal Suicide And Media
The Jawa Report: Blogosphere Co-Founder Bob Owens Takes Own Life, also, Lebanese Bring Cultural Enrichment To Australia
The Political Hat: Left Wing Cuck Squad And The Giant Spiders
This Ain’t Hell: And In The WTF Department, also, Heather Wilson Conformed As AF Secretary
War Is Boring: Russia Sends One Of Its Four AWACS Planes To Syria
Weasel Zippers: UW-Madison Student Government Chair – “All White People Are Racist”, also, California May End Ban On Communists In Government Jobs
Megan McArdle: In France, The “Can’t Lose” Candidate Pays A Price
Mark Steyn: The Midnight Train
In The Mailbox: 05.08.17
Posted on | May 8, 2017 | 1 Comment
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OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Guardians Of The Galaxy, Vol.2 – A Review, Sort Of
EBL: Victory In Europe May 8 1945 – Wait, Who Won?
Twitchy: Daily Beast Tracks Down More “Stolen” Judicial Seats And Fingers Culprit
Louder With Crowder: Texas Mom Trolls Home Intruder With Security Cam Footage And A Shotgun
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Yoga Is Not Exercise
American Power: Macron Defeats Le Pen
American Thinker: The Venezuelan Crisis Is Due To Economic Ignorance
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Da Tech Guy: John Ruberry – Puerto Rico’s Dire Warning For Blue States
Don Surber: Obama Spokeswoman Dumps On Hillary
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Not Available On LP
The Geller Report: Devout Muslims Who Shot & Killed State Trooper Quoted Koran During Attack
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also, Hoge v. Kimberlin et al News
Jammie Wearing Fools: In Chicagoland, Ten Shot Dead & Two Wounded At Memorial For Earlier Shooting
Joe For America: Ashley Judd Wants To Live In Middle East Where Women “Have More Rights”
JustOneMinute: Vive La France!
Power Line: Socialism, The 21st Century Diet Plan, also, Obama Biographer Says “The Vessel Was Hollow To The Core”
Shark Tank: DeSantis Considering Run For Governor
Shot In The Dark: The Strib – Fake News Opinion
STUMP: More Puerto Rico – Roundup Of Current Commentary & Followups
The Jawa Report: Meanwhile In Somalia, also, Attention Twitter Luser @abofatmah08577
The Political Hat: Venezuela’s Socialist Utopia – Chaos And A Coming Constitutional Coup
This Ain’t Hell: Mattis Stops Military Academy Graduates From Immediately Turning Pro, also, Dog Killer Marinna Robbins Offs Herself
War Is Boring: The Real Reason The World Should Pay Attention To China’s Carrier Fleet
Weasel Zippers: Defying Top NJ Judge, ICE continues Courthouse Arrests, also, Obama Demands Congress Show “Courage” and Not Repeal Obamacare
Megan McArdle: Le Pen’s Voters, Like Trump’s, Should Be Taken Seriously
Mark Steyn: “Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)”?, also, Leading By Example
Rule 5 Sunday: Cinco De Mayo
Posted on | May 7, 2017 | 2 Comments
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Another Sunday, another opportunity to take a break from politics* and enjoy some attractive young ladies. This week, the over-hyped 5th of May, which much like the Feast of St. Patrick is celebrated to a greater extent (and more drunkenly) than in its home country of Mexico. Historical details here, for those interested. Appropriately enough, we have as our appetizer this week a patriotic young Mexican lass clad in patriotic garb.
As usual, most of the following links are to pictures generally considered NSFW, and the management is not responsible for any damages incurred by readers who fail to click at an appropriate time and place. All fat content in this post is assumed to be 100% cage-free, natural, organic, free-range and pesticide-free unless labeled otherwise.
EBL’s herd includes Goat Yoga, May Day May-hem, Brigitte Bardot, Delta Airlines, Women Drinking Tequila, Derby Day, and Bruce Mozert’s Underwater Women.
Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Emily Berrington, his Vintage Babe is Barbara Windsor, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Christina Hendricks. At Dustbury, it’s Mary-Kate Olsen and Jenny Scordamaglia.
Thanks to everyone for all their linkagery!
*And, of course, from the vile state of popular culture.
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