In The Mailbox: 5.02.17

Posted on | May 2, 2017 | 1 Comment

OVER THE TRANSOM
BattleSwarm: Texas Shooting/Stabbing Followups
EBL: About That Spending Bill “Compromise”
Twitchy: James Woods And Others Pile On Colbert For Trump/Putin Gay Sex Joke
Louder With Crowder: Ann Coulter Schools ABC On Free Speech, First Amendment

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: A Privilege Of Birth
American Power: Democrats Know Why Clinton Lost
American Thinker: The Democrats And Dystopian Debt
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Tax Cuts For The Rich News
Da Tech Guy: The Expectations Game Versus The Excuse Game
Don Surber: Wall Street Bribes To Democratic Women 43% Smaller Than Men’s
Dustbury: The One With The Ever-Widening Hole In It
The Geller Report: Muslim Migrant Jailed For Hour-Long Hammer Attack On Wife He Used For Visa – Because Dinner Was Late
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: FBI Translator Reportedly Married Daesh Terrorist She Was Supposed To Investigate
Joe For America: Climate Change Alarmists Forced To Postpone Rally Due To Snowstorm
JustOneMinute: The Power Of Positive Pessimism
Power Line: Linda Cohn Says Political Slant Has Hurt ESPN
Shark Tank: Putnam’s Hat In Ring For Florida Governor
Shot In The Dark: There Will Come A Day When Berg’s Seventh Law Is Required Reading In All Classrooms
STUMP: Mortality Monday – Pension Plan Mortality
The Jawa Report: Cat-O-Phobia Strikes Oregon!, also, Attention Twitter Luser @ayla_a530643
The Political Hat: Gender Lysenkoism
This Ain’t Hell: Brooke AMC Closes Unsterile Operating Rooms, also, VA Fires Toby Matthew
War Is Boring: The Korean War’s Brutality Turned The Stomach’s of America’s Most Hardened Soldiers
Weasel Zippers: Paris May Day Rioters Set Police On Fire, also, His Name Is Daniel Llorente – Cuban Interrupts Havana’s May Day Parade By Waving American Flag
Megan McArdle: Why People Care About The Estate Tax
Mark Steyn: The Wrong People Do The Right Thing

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Category: Linkagery

Surprised? Feminists Who Hate Babies Declare Breast-Feeding Is Not ‘Natural’

Posted on | May 1, 2017 | 2 Comments

“I don’t particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding . . . time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness. . . . Nothing will make me want a baby. . . . This is why, if my birth control fails, I am totally having an abortion.”
— Amanda Marcotte, March 2014

Feminists condemn motherhood as oppression, imposed on women through male violence enforcing heteropatriarchy. All feminists hate babies, and support abortion to kill as many babies as possible, because the road to feminism’s idea of “equality” is paved with dead babies.

Once you understand that feminism is a death cult — like Heaven’s Gate or Jonestown — you cease to be surprised by the insane arguments made by the deranged adherents of this lunatic movement. Insofar as insanity is not a cause of feminism, it’s always a predictable result:

It’s “ethically inappropriate” for government and medical organizations to describe breastfeeding as “natural” because the term enforces rigid notions about gender roles, claims a new study in Pediatrics.
“Coupling nature with motherhood… can inadvertently support biologically deterministic arguments about the roles of men and women in the family (for example, that women should be the primary caretaker,” the study says.
The study notes that in recent years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the World Health Organization, and several state departments of health have all promoted breastfeeding over bottle-feeding, using the term “natural.”
“Referencing the ‘natural’ in breastfeeding promotion… may inadvertently endorse a set of values about family life and gender roles, which would be ethically inappropriate,” the study says.
Unless such public-service announcements “make transparent the ‘values and beliefs that underlie them,’” they should quit describing breastfeeding as “natural.”
But the study’s authors, Jessica Martucci and Anne Barnhill, clearly have in mind an alternative set of “values and beliefs,” about which which they are not transparent.
It’s unclear whether they’re worried about how traditional female gender roles may limit women’s progress in the workforce, or whether this is part of the discussion about whether conventional views about motherhood exclude transgender people. Or perhaps this is just another example of how the progressive obsession with gender and sexuality has permeated all fields of academic study.

Anne Barnhill (left) and Jessica Martucci (right).

By the way, neither Martucci nor Barnhill have medical degrees. Barnhill is a Princeton alumna with a Ph.D. in philosophy from NYU, while Martucci is an Oberlin alumna who got her Ph.D. in “History and Sociology of Science” from Penn in 2011. Like all feminists, Barnhill and Martucci hate Jesus, America, capitalism and heterosexuality — not necessarily in that order — but more than anything else, they hate babies. They are death-cult fanatics who want you to kill your babies. Once your baby is dead, “biologically deterministic arguments” about breast-feeding and “gender roles” don’t matter, because dead babies don’t have to be fed. This is the conclusion toward which feminist theory logically leads.

(Hat-tips: Tom Knighton at PJ Media and Stephen Green at Instapundit.)

Category: Education, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 05.01.17

Posted on | May 1, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.01.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
BattleSwarm: Remembering Victims of Communism Day
EBL: So How Did The White House Correspondents’ Dinner Go This Year?
Twitchy: Canadians Sing “The Star Spangled Banner” When Mic Dies Before Stanley Cup Game In Edmonton
Louder With Crowder: College Students Hate Trump’s First 100 Days – Except They’re Really Obama’s

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Patriarchy Is The Biggest Lie Of All
American Power: Alvin Josephy Jr., Now That The Buffalo’s Gone, also, A New Political Reality For France
American Thinker: Can Islam Ever Be Reformed?, also, Trump Trolling The Media, Winning The Narrative
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BLACKFIVE: Ace Atkins, Little White Lies
Da Tech Guy: John Ruberry – Deep Corruption Hiring Scandal Reveals Stench Of Illinois Government
Don Surber: The Press Does Not Defend Free Speech, also, How The Handmaid’s Tale Can Come To Pass
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Spurn The Hideous
Fred On Everything:
The Geller Report: MN Rep Mary Franson Introduces Bill to Punish Parents For Female Genital Mutilation, also, SecState Tillerson Cuts 2300 Jobs From Bloated State Department
Hogewash: Meanwhile, Back In Westminster…, also, Hubblecast 100
Joe For America: Top Conservatives Planning New Network To Replace Fox, also, Japanese Destroyer Escorts Join USS Carl Vinson In Show Of Force
JustOneMinute: An Epic Obit
Power Line: Eco-Terrorism In Alabama?, also, A Liberal Bubble? Yes, Bee Smug Indeed
Shark Tank: Ros-Lehtinen Shuffles Out Of Politics
Shot In The Dark: Never Again?, also, If I Were A Betting Man…
STUMP: Catch-Up Week – Puerto Rico On The Brink (Again)
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – The Penalty For Blaspheming Kate Upton Is Death, also, Ayatollah Khamenei Skirts Twitter Suspension
The Political Hat: Victims Of Communism Day 2017
This Ain’t Hell: The Lady Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks, also, Springsteen Admits He Was A Stone Cold Draft Dodger
War Is Boring: The U.S. Military Moves Deeper Into Africa
Weasel Zippers: FBI Investigating Bernie Sanders’ Wife Over Shady Land Deal, also, Colorado Anti-Fracking Activist Who Called For Blowing Up Wells, “Eliminating” Energy Workers Now Asking For Protection
Mark Steyn: The Age Of The Nuclear Basket Case, also, The Thirty Years War

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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Sunday: Formal Affairs

Posted on | April 30, 2017 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

We’re not quite into prom season yet (I think) but in contrast to Niven & Pournelle’s caustic description of science fiction conventions with “half-pretty girls half-dressed to show it”, it’s not a bad thing to remember high school proms, Homecoming dances, and -if you attended one of those high schools with a JROTC unit- military balls, where attractive girls didn’t let it all hang out and were, I dare say, even more attractive because they didn’t. We’ve used Gil Elvgren’s pinup art here before, but this week we’ve got something different from the old master.
As usual, many of the following links are to pics generally considered NSFW, and if you lack sufficient discretion to be clicking on those links when you oughtn’t, well, it’s Not Our Problem.

A “Dream Date”, indeed!

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns, followed by Goodstuff’s 290th megazine and Helly Von Valentine, and also Animal Magnetism with Rule 5 Civilization Collapse Friday and of course the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd this week includes Kate Upton, Joan of Arc, Kathryn Hufschmid, Heather Nauert, Tomi Lahren, Ella Fitzgerald, Feminist Mom, National Geographic’s Genius, Coastal Carolina Cheerleaders, Prehistoric California Rule 5 (has cavegirl content), Rule 5 FYRE Festival Fraud, and Anna May Wong.

A View From The Beach chips in with Another Brazilian – Izabel Goulart, Fish Pic Friday- Mahi-Mahi, Zombie Obamacare Schadenfreude, Progress in Human History, Why Isn’t This “Cultural Appropriation”?, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”, RIP Joanie – Erin Moran and “Enter Sandman”.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Jaime Murray, his Vintage Babe is Angel Tompkins, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Curves In Bikinis. At Dustbury, it’s Christine Lagarde and Kirsten Dunst.

Thanks to everybody for their linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

New Jersey Computer Whiz Kid Discovers That Real Life Isn’t Like Web Design

Posted on | April 30, 2017 | 1 Comment

Billy McFarland, allegedly a genius.

You’re young. You’re smart. You do computer code. You attended a private university where the tuition is $51,960 a year, but dropped out your freshman year to start your own web company.

You like rap music and made friends with a popular rapper, so you get this genius idea: Let’s have a giant music festival in the Bahamas!

Total disaster ensues, because you don’t know the first damned thing about how to organize a music festival, especially when you promised to provide luxury amenities for people on a tropical island:

A luxury festival on a private beach on Great Exuma, the Bahamas, has descended into chaos with reports of festival goers trying to leave the site being locked in the airport.
The three-day Fyre Festival, co-organised by Ja Rule and tech entrepreneur Billy McFarland’s Fyre Media company, was promoted via Instagram by a host of supermodels, including Hailey Baldwin and Bella Hadid. . . .
Tickets to the luxury event included a return flight from Miami on a custom, VIP-configured Boeing 737 and guests were to stay in eco-friendly geodesic domes.
Planned activities include morning yoga and meditation on the beach, as well as fitness classes. Pusha T, Tyga, Major Lazer, Disclosure (DJ set), and Blink 182 were all booked to headline at the event.
But Fyre Festival, which was due to start on Friday, has been deemed a “disaster” and a “scam” via social media, with images from the site not matching the luxury that customers were promised. . . .

This “luxury” event turned out to be a wretched tent city with inadequate toilet facilities, more like a refugee camp than the kind of place you’d expect to find international supermodels hanging out. How bad was it? Promises of gourmet meals prepared by a famous chef turned out to be a cheese sandwich in a styrofoam container.

Now the would-be festival promoter has issued a lame press release full of self-justifying excuses, promising how huge and awesome the event is going to be “next year.” Except I’ve got a sneaky suspicion there isn’t going to be a “next year,” because boy genius Billy McFarland is likely to be bankrupt and maybe on his way to jail by then.

Don’t expect Bella Hadid to visit you in jail, Billy.

Category: Celebrities

Media Trolled? Liberal Reporter Claims ‘OK’ Gesture Is ‘White Power’ Signal

Posted on | April 30, 2017 | Comments Off on Media Trolled? Liberal Reporter Claims ‘OK’ Gesture Is ‘White Power’ Signal

A couple of White House reporters posted Twitter photos of themselves at the briefing room podium making the “OK” sign, and a liberal journalist wrote an entire story claiming that this common gesture is a secret “white power” signal. Apparently, this claim originated with Reddit pranksters who, in February, explained that “our goal is to convince people on twitter that the ‘ok’ hand sign has been co-opted by neo-nazis.” They dubbed their hoax “Operation O-KKK” and, it would appear, within two months had fooled liberal journalists into believing it.

(Hat-tip: Gateway Pundit via Memeorandum.)

Category: Media Bias