In The Mailbox: 03.20.17

Posted on | March 20, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.20.17

OVER THE TRANSOM
First Street Journal: Why The Enforcement Of Immigration Laws Should Please The Left
Proof Positive: Democrat Deja Vu On Obamacare
BattleSwarm Blog: Texas Bathroom Bill Advances
EBL: St. Joseph’s Day Pasta – Lasagnette del San Giuseppe
Twitchy: Did Al Franken Admit To Being Constitutionally Illiterate At Gorsuch Hearing?
Louder With Crowder: California Chief Justice Demands ICE Stop Busting Illegals At Courthouses – Where Laws Are Enforced

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Change Is Not Necessarily Progress, also, #FakeAustralians
American Power: Police Hassle Tony Robinson At London “Anti-Racism” March
American Thinker: What African Airports Taught Me About Obamacare
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BLACKFIVE: Betty Webb’s Desert Vengeance
Bring The HEAT: The Near-Extinction Of The British Dreadnoughts
Da Tech Guy: John Ruberry – This Blog Post Was Not Brought To You By The National Endowment For The Arts
Don Surber: #NeverTrumper Suddenly Realizes She’s Siding With An Anti-Semite, also, Shuttering 80 Agencies
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Bound To The Blog
The Geller Report: More Judicial Tyranny – Maryland Judge May Order Trump To Double 50K Refugee Limit
Hogewash: Go Ahead. Make My Day.
Jammie Wearing Fools: Two Immigrants Who Raped 14-Year-Old Girl In High School Bathroom Arrived In America Just Months Ago From El Salvador, Guatemala
Joe For America: Trump To Sign Law Increasing Drug Tests For Unemployed Seeking Benefits
JustOneMinute: Here We Go Again
Power Line: With Merkel’s Visit, Trump Wins Again
Shark Tank: Alleged Wiretapping Of Trump Could Be More Extensive
Shot In The Dark: Breslin
The Jawa Report: Where’s Rusty? Man Dies From Too Much Porn
The Political Hat: Time Crystals, also, Socialism And Bread Shortages – Venezuela Edition
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Thief Blumenthal Wants To Filibuster Gorsuch Nomination, also, NFL Teams Taking A Knee On Kaepernick
War Is Boring: The Biggest Tank Battle In History Wasn’t At Kursk
Weasel Zippers: Starbucks CEO Steps Down After His Anti-Trump Vow To Hire 10,000 Refugees Backfires, also, Gowdy Presses Comey On Intel Leaks
Megan McArdle: Trump’s Budget Asks The Right Questions For Conservatives
Mark Steyn: When The Twain Meet…

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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Sunday: The Original Dragon Lady

Posted on | March 19, 2017 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Many many moons ago, there was a popular comic strip by the name of Terry & The Pirates, which was an action strip by Milton Caniff about the adventures of a young man and his pals in the Far East. One of their antagonists, the beautiful but cold “Dragon Lady”, was inspired by Chinese actress Anna May Wong, here seen in a still from the movie Shanghai Express with Marlene Dietrich. Not to be confused with Tiger Moms.
Insert standard disclaimer here. If you don’t know it, or can’t recall it, please see last week’s post. Yes, I’m lazy.

Anna May Wong and Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express.

Ninety Miles from Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick Of The Late Night, Morning Mistress – Going Up…, and Girls With Guns, followed by Goodstuff with juicy gossip, conspiracy theories, and Senta Berger. Animal Magnetism has Rule Five Energy Finds Friday and a steampunky Saturday Gingermageddon for your edification.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes Scarlett Johansson and her pug, Ghost In The Shell, Stella Is Coming, a semi-nude bullfighting protest, The Unfunny Amy Schumer, and Leprechauns.

A View From The Beach offers The Russian is Coming – Vita Sidorinka, Happy Saint P?tricius Day, Friday! Wahoo!, MD House Passes Ray Ban, “Breathe”, Chicks Trolling on Tinder, Watson Boobs Bared, For Feminism!, Padma, ACLU Plot Anti-Trump Resistance and “Knocking on Heaven’s Door”

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Ashley Moore, his Vintage Babe is Myrna Dell, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Calvin Klein. At Dustbury, it’s Christina Grimmie and Kana Nishino.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Revelation

Posted on | March 18, 2017 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Whitewashing The Cyborg
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Assault On Meat Mountain
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

Five Charged in Nevada Gang Rape of Mentally Impaired 14-Year-Old Girl
EBL

First-Person Plural Pronouns: Steve King and the Problems of ‘Our Civilization’
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.13.17
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

Iranian Immigrant Raped in Houston
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.14.17
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Minnesota Has Abolished Gender
EBL

Homeless Man With HIV Rapes Woman
EBL

Convicted Sex Offender Kidnaps, Robs and Rapes Woman at Cleveland Art School
EBL

Lesbian Dance Teachers Sentenced to Prison for Repeatedly Molesting Girls
EBL

Rachel @Maddow’s Big Nothing Story: Fear and Loathing on MSNBC
EBL

Violence Against Women: FBI Investigating Georgia Sex-Slavery Case
EBL

Brett Kimberlin Re-Surfaces in Connection With ‘Fake News’ Anti-Trump Forgery
BattleSwarm Blog
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.16.17
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.17.17
Proof Positive

The Patriarchy Is Paying to Smash Itself
EBL

Comic Genius @AceOfSpadesHQ: Funnier Than @AmySchumer (and Not as Fat)
Proof Positive

Chuck Berry, R.I.P.

Posted on | March 18, 2017 | 1 Comment

Generations of teenage boys in garages everywhere learned to play the classics by the man who arguably invented rock-and-roll, who died this weekend at age 90: The New York Times obituary is a piece of crap, evidently written by a pretentious fool who never played a guitar, so that I’ll have to say that what Chuck Berry did was to recognize the mainstream commercial potential of what was known in the 1950s as rhythm and blues. Berry was also familiar with the idiom of country-and-western music, and shrewdly recognized that there was money to be made with upbeat rhythmic songs about cars and girls and dancing. Chuck Berry was a clever songwriter and an engaging performer. His lyrics were humorous, his guitar skills were excellent, and he was a natural-born showman. Here’s a video of him playing his 1958 smash hit, “Sweet Little Sixteen”:

They’re really rockin’ Boston,
In Pittsburgh, P.A.,
Deep in the heart of Texas
And ’round the Frisco Bay,
All over St. Louis
And down in New Orleans,
All the cats want to dance with
Sweet little sixteen.

The Chuck Berry song that every teenage guitarist knew back when I was banging around in garage bands was “Johnny B. Goode”:

Deep down Louisiana close to New Orleans,
Way back up in the woods among the evergreens,
There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood,
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode,
Who never ever learned to read or write so well,
But he could play the guitar just like a ringing a bell.

If you didn’t click and watch that video, friends, you missed a real show. Chuck Berry was arguably the most influential guitarist in rock history. There never would have been a Jimmy Page or an Eric Clapton if there had not first been Chuck Berry, and of course, The Beatles were huge fans. “If you had to give rock ‘n’ roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry.” John Lennon once said. The Beattles memorably covered Berry’s hit “Roll Over Beethoven,” with George Harrison singing lead:

I’m gonna write a little letter,
Gonna mail it to my local DJ.
It’s a rockin’ rhythm record
I want my jockey to play.
Roll over Beethoven, I gotta hear it again today.

He was an American original who made history with his guitar, playing that crazy beat that made all the kids dance. Chuck Berry, R.I.P.

Hail, hail rock’n’roll!
Deliver me from the days of old.
Long live rock’n’roll!
The beat of the drum is loud and bold.
Rock rock rock’n’roll!
The feelin’ is there body and soul.

Category: History, Music

Comic Genius @AceOfSpadesHQ: Funnier Than @AmySchumer (and Not as Fat)

Posted on | March 17, 2017 | Comments Off on Comic Genius @AceOfSpadesHQ: Funnier Than @AmySchumer (and Not as Fat)

You probably forgot that Vogue put Amy Schumer on its cover in July 2016, which was one of those many signs that the entire media establishment — fashion magazines included — had gone all-in on the Hillary Clinton presidential bandwagon. This massive propaganda blitz on behalf of the Feminist™ brand began cranking up in early 2014. By the summer of 2016 the fever was raging like Ella Dawson’s herpes infection. Striving to create a sense of historic destiny on behalf of the First Woman President, it became the habit of journalists interviewing female celebrities to solicit their opinions on feminism. “Are you a feminism? What does feminism mean to you?” Well, why did it matter?

Someone should go back and scrutinize how many sitcom starlets and pop singer barely out of their teens were solicited for their opinions on feminism between, say, June 2014 and November 2016. It was like the HUAC hearings from 1951 or something: “Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the feminist movement?” All of this hype for the Feminist™ brand was transparently a media effort to help Hillary overcome the negative perceptions of her as the ultimate example of what everybody hates about feminists — angry, vindictive, selfish, etc.

The editors at Vogue made Amy Schumer their cover girl in July 2016 not because she was glamorous or widely admired, but because she is deliberately and defiantly obnoxious. This is how you fight the patriarchy, see? Be rude, crude and chubby because . . . empowerment!

Likability has become something of a dirty word for modern-day feminists, as if a woman’s daily routine should include being eternally vigilant about whether she presents as pleasant and appealing. Amy Schumer is not the least bit concerned with being likable, which, oddly enough, has made millions love her — although she does have more than her fair share of haters and trolls, she says, mostly men who “don’t like my disgusting feminism. The feedback that reaches me is so equal in appreciation and outrage that it doesn’t feel overwhelming in either direction.” . . .
In her act, she jokes about how if you’re a woman in Hollywood who weighs more than 140 pounds, it, “like, hurts people’s eyes.” Women’s being judged on how they present themselves alone is one of those issues that have endeared her to Hillary Clinton. Schumer is with her: an unequivocal supporter. (“She does all this f–king work,” she says, “and she’s just trying to do good, and people are like, Pearls? To that event?”) Indeed, Schumer seems to have fully embraced the idea that she can be an activist and still be funny. . . .

Remember, this is in Vogue magazine, a publication that earns revenue by selling advertising to vendors of cosmetics, clothing, jewelry and other female-specific products. When did partisan politics and radical ideology become fodder for fashion magazines? But I digress . . .

Ace of Spades has got jokes like Ella Dawson has herpes lesions, and insofar as I have a blogging hero, Ace is it. Ten years ago, when I was trapped in a desk job at The Washington Times, I’d read AOSHQ and say to myself, “That’s the life!” Perhaps a diligent researcher at the SPLC could dig around in Ace’s comments circa 2007 and find me commenting as “Chuck Norris’s Left Testicle” or something like that. Ace and his merry band of morons were having fun, while I was stuck editing wire-service reports and arguing with our Capitol Hill reporters over the wording of articles about long-since-forgotten congressional controversies. When I finally got my chance to eject from print journalism in early 2008, I swiftly made the transition to blogger and discovered . . . uh, well, it is genuinely fun at times, but ain’t nobody getting rich at it, or else Glenn Reynolds would have quit his day job as a university professor by now. However, I have no cause to complain, and thus have many reasons to be grateful to Ace of Spades for his inspiration. Not to get too meta here, but Ace has an idiosyncratic style — it’s his personality that is the selling-point. Everybody’s got an opinion on politics, and so it is a mistake to think that the secret of success in political blogging is to have The Correct Opinion, to imagine yourself to be a sort of official arbiter of political righteousness, and to expect people to sit still while you tutor them.

What Ace does . . . well, I’m already past the 700-word mark now, so I won’t bore you with trying to explain what he does, except to say that he’s extraordinarily good at doing it, which is why he’s been doing it successfully for nearly 15 years now. And at least half my blog shtick was stolen from Ace, including the idea that you can get away with writing really long blog posts. All the so-called “experts” tell you that there is an ideal length of a blog post — 300 or 400 words — and that it’s bad business to write long stuff, but some of the best stuff Ace has done over the years has been extended riffs, and why not? If you’re really cranking, if the good stuff is just pouring out effortlessly, just keep going until the thing reaches its own natural stopping point. Speaking of which .. . .

Amy Schumer blames “alt-right trolls” for the bad reviews of her latest comedy special on Netflix. Never mind that critics at such mainstream publications as Newsday and the Los Angeles Times also panned Schumer’s show — no, it’s those dastardly Trump-loving “trolls” who are to blame for her flop! Ace points out that Schumer has also been accused of stealing other comics’ material. Ace kind of goes easy on Schumer, admitting that he himself may have accidentally “stolen” a joke from an old David Spade SNL routine: “I didn’t write this joke. I just remembered it, without realizing it was a memory rather than an invention.”

Happens to the best of us, I guess, but Ace’s best is still awesome, like this brutal takedown of Evan McMullin’s latest venture, which is even funnier if you know the people it’s aimed at. But what Ace is most proud of these days is his GAINZ. He’s gotten into some kind of diet/exercise health kick that he blogs about regularly. When I was at CPAC, I ran into Ace’s girlfriend and asked, “Is Ace here?” She said he wasn’t — Ace was never much for big crowd scenes — and I said I was disappointed.

“I wanted to see him now that he’s made all these GAINZ, but I’m afraid I might not recognize him, all pumped up like Hans and Franz.”

She assured me that Ace won’t be competing for the Mr. Olympia title, but she is very proud that he’s getting healthy, rather than turning into a bloated blimp of a washed-up joke-thief like Amy Schumer.

Gotta keep Ace healthy, so he can live long enough to write the obituary when Amy Schumer chokes to death on a slice of pizza.

Category: Ace of Spades, Celebrities

The Patriarchy Is Paying to Smash Itself

Posted on | March 17, 2017 | 1 Comment

Darcy Vescio (left) and Brianna Davey (right) of the Carlton Blues.

Who pays for feminism? (Hint: Not them.) The agenda of “equality” requires redistribution of resources, transferring wealth from males to females, which is what liberal social welfare states have been doing as a matter of public policy for many decades now. Here in the United States, the federal government’s Title IX has deliberately imposed a disadvantage on male students in order to create “equality” for female students. Jonah Goldberg’s wife, Jessica Gavora, wrote an excellent book called Tilting the Playing Field: Schools, Sports, Sex and Title IX which explains how men’s athletic teams in non-revenue sports (track, wrestling, golf, etc.) were destroyed to impose “equality” as interpreted by federal law.

To summarize briefly what’s wrong with Title IX, everything. More recently, the federal law has been made an excuse to deny due-process right to students accused of sexual assault and, as Ms. Gavora herself has noted, even to suppress First Amendment rights on campus.

What must be understood is that feminism’s destructive machinery is driven by the power of extortion. The potential threat of a “discrimination” charge is never far from the minds of university administrators or corporate managers. All that is necessary to ruin an executive’s day is for a female employee to claim that she’s been treated unfairly. A young man who plans to make his career in the white-collar workforce must learn never to do or say anything that any of his female co-workers might find offensive. Woe be unto him if, by any chance, he accidentally gives ammunition to the disgruntled woman looking to file a lawsuit or an EEOC complaint. Ask around among managers and corporate attorneys about how little it takes to get sued nowadays, and how often employers find themselves compelled to pay the kind of settlement known as “go-away money.” Tort lawyers are Satan’s disciples.

Feminists learned this extortion racket from soi-disant “civil rights” racketeers like Jesse Jackson, who specialized in using accusations of racism to squeeze money out of major corporations. (Kenneth Timmerman’s book Shakedown was an in-depth exposé of Jackson’s corrupt hustle.) Corporations don’t want to get dragged into court or suffer damage to their reputations, so when a charge of “discrimination” arises, the accusers are inviting the accused to a negotiation: “We can arrange to make your problem go away, for the right price.” Which brings us, roundabout, to discuss a situation in Australia.

The other day, during my research on feminism, I happened upon an odd item: A young female Australian athlete posted to Instagram a boast about how she and her teammates were “gonna smash the patriarchy.” This boast was seized upon by a fan who turned it into a T-shirt slogan.

Curious as to what this was about, I started Googling and pretty quickly discovered a rather remarkable story about feminism Down Under:

Under pressure from feminists, the Australian Football League (AFL) last year agreed to subsidize a league for women, to be known as AFLW. There had previously been amateur women’s teams playing this unique Australian hybrid sport, but no professional teams. The reason was simply that there weren’t enough spectators or corporate sponsors to pay the bills. . . .
If there had been an enormous market demand for women’s football in Australia, economists might predict that some shrewd capitalist would have organized a women’s professional league and cashed in by selling tickets to fans and reaping revenue from advertisers, broadcasters and corporate sponsorship. Because that did not happen, we may conclude that market demand is insufficient to justify the AFLW, which is why the women’s league is being subsidized with money earned by the profit-making men’s league. . . .

Read the whole thing at The Patriarch Tree on Medium. Feminists are destroying our civilization, and making men pay them to do it.

UPDATE: You might want to read Mark Webster’s article at Return of Kings, “How Social Justice Warriors Ruined Australian Football”:

The AFL is a microcosm of Australia, which has become a seething pit of self-loathing and political correctness. A truly masculine activity like Australian Football was the final frontier for SJWs, who are thrilled that so many people in Australia now seem to hate themselves and play the victim card as much as they do. What the f–k happened? . . .

Social justice warriors ruin everything.