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In The Mailbox: 01.13.17

Posted on | January 13, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.13.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Stay Puffy! Ashley Judd Claims Yellow Emojis Are Racist
Twitchy: Six Hilarious Joe Biden Memes From The Medal Of Freedom Ceremony
Louder With Crowder: Switzerland Denies Vegan Citizenship For Being Too Annoying
According To Hoyt: Don’t Poke The Writer
Monster Hunter Nation: Straight Outta Tombstone
Vox Popoli: A Bundle Of Holding


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Ski Lift Phone Etiquette
American Power: What Next For The Donkey Dunderheads After The Obama Collapse?
American Thinker: No More Hyphenated Americans
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Bad Decisions Friday
Bring The HEAT: World Of Warships – A Quickie
Da Tech Guy: Fausta – YouTube Closes Legal Insurrection’s Channel – It’s Back Up, But Expect More Of This
Don Surber: They Sing For Real Dictators, Not Trump
Dustbury: Hungrier In The Wintertime
Hogewash: More Left-Wing Shutuppery
Jammie Wearing Fools: Failed President Laments Losing “PR Battle” Despite Having 99% Of Media In His Pocket
Joe For America: Ted Cruz Pounces On Senate Democrats’ Hypocrisy
JustOneMinute: Fake News (Ongoing Layup Drill)
Power Line: Federal Judge Denounces EPA As Rogue Agency
Shot In The Dark: The Alt-Right’s Secret Weapon
STUMP: Self-Driving Cars – Won’t Anybody Think Of The Poor, Revenue-Hungry Governments?
The Geller Report: Anti-Trumpers Vow Inaugural Anarchy
The Jawa Report: Live From Jamaica – Shaykh Abdullah Faisal Preaches Support For Islamic State
The Political Hat: The Resistance – Because Once Again, Dissent Is Considered Patriotic
This Ain’t Hell: More Liberal Metrosexual Self-Emasculation
War Is Boring: What Does Rudy Giuliani Actually Know About Cybersecurity?
Weasel Zippers: Dem Rep John Lewis To Skip Trump Inauguration, Calls Him “Illegitimate President”, also, Cali Senator Kamala Harris Has No Idea What The CIA Does
Megan McArdle: Trump’s Strategy For Cutting Drug Prices Is DOA
Mark Steyn: Where No Debate Should Exist


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Why the Blame Game Doesn’t Work

Posted on | January 13, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

Dalrock had an excellent discussion of a “reflexive tendency to denigrate men” as responsible for the decline of marriage, an attitude he says “comes not from a sincere fear of a shortage of good men, but from a sense of extreme and everlasting abundance.” In other words, we have a natural tendency to believe that the future will be more or less contiguous with the past. Suppose you are the married, middle-class mother of a teenage or young adult woman, you are probably at least in your 40s, which means you were a teenager yourself during the 1980s or early ’90s. Whatever adolescent sturm und drang you went through circa 1985-1992, this did not prevent you from attracting a mate and forming a family. Therefore, you expect, your own daughter will ultimately do the same. So, however unimpressed you are with the general quality of your daughter’s male classmates and/or boyfriends at high school and college, you are likely to assume that, a la Snow White, some day her prince will come. From this assumption arises the “sense of extreme and everlasting abundance” of good men that Dalrock describes. When the reality fails to match your assumption — if all your daughter’s boyfriends are lazy, uncouth and selfish — you are then apt to blame these young men, or men in general, for the loneliness and misery your daughter experiences.

You can read the entirety of Dalrock’s discussion, but what caught my eye was the headline on Adam Piggott’s response:

Your daughter probably isn’t that special

Ooh, that’s cold, man. However, this is a possibility that parents may not consider amid a cultural climate of feminist “empowerment,” where teachers and the media constantly tell girls they can all be rocket scientists or senators or software company executives, and therefore need not concern themselves with finding a husband. Well, fine — believe that if you will, and after you’ve spent a couple hundred thousand bucks to send your daughter to an elite school where she majors in Gender Studies (not rocket science), don’t be surprised when she’s past 30, living in a tiny Brooklyn apartment with her bisexual “roommate” and her cats.

Feminist “empowerment” rhetoric inspires hubris among young women, who are taught in their Gender Studies classes that marriage is an oppressive institution imposed on women by heteropatriarchy.

 

Because 21st-century feminism is not only anti-male, but also anti-religion, anti-marriage, anti-motherhood and, ultimately, anti-heterosexual, the young women’s middle-class, middle-age mother is unlikely to realize how feminist hate propaganda affects both her daughter and the men who might otherwise become her daughter’s boyfriends. By relentlessly inciting young women’s distrust and contempt of males, 21st-century feminism makes it increasingly difficult for young men to develop attitudes of admiration toward their female peers. If he consistently encounters hostility from young women — an attitude feminists encourage in young women — the young man is apt to interpret this as evidence that all women hate him and are his enemies.

And why shouldn’t he believe this, when feminists like Jessica Valenti incite young women to take pleasure in male suffering, so that the “empowered” young woman never speaks to any male except to insult him with accusations of “misogyny” and “rape culture”?

 

Politics is, proverbially, a war of ideas, but Ideas Have Consequences, as Richard Weaver said, and the Democrat Party’s constant promotion of this kind of anti-male hate propaganda, as part of its doomed campaign to elect Hillary Clinton, has had social and cultural consequences.

If a woman’s political beliefs are based on the claim that all women are victims of male oppression (e.g., “These Discourses of Heterosexuality Which Particularly Oppress All of Us”), how does that affect her daily interactions with men? And if young people are being indoctrinated into feminist politics by our education institutions (e.g., “At Yale University, Special Snowflakes™ Are Traumatized by Republican Victory”), should anyone be surprised that young women are full of anti-male rage?

 

 

 

Considering how prevalent radical Third Wave feminism has become on university campuses, shouldn’t we expect young men to resent being the targets of such irrational hatred? How do we expect men to react to feminist rhetoric that treats males as demonized scapegoats?

Adam Piggot conveys his own resentment toward this attitude:

To put it simply, women behave as if there is an abundance of marriageable men while complaining that there are no good guys out there. Which is true?
I am of the opinion that there are many more men who are quietly getting on with earning their daily bread and going about their business in a dutiful way than is recognized. Of course, this attempted shaming tactic by women for men to “man up” by getting married is ridiculous. You don’t “man up” by doing what a woman wants you to do. Making a woman the center of your existence is a recipe for disaster. . . .
Times have changed. It’s not the 1950s anymore. For all you fathers out there with daughters getting itchy feet, I’ve got news for you. What makes you think that your precious little snowflake is at all deserving of a good man to marry her? It’s no longer a case of suitors lining up to display their good manners in an attempt to gain the approval of your little darling. The reason is because your little precious daughter is a dime a dozen.
You don’t find many young men suitable for your daughter? Don’t make me laugh. I look around and I don’t see very many young women who even come close to being suitable wife material. Maybe we should all consider the possibility that the reason that young people are not getting married in their previous numbers is not from a so-called dearth of suitable men — it’s due to there not being many suitable women out there. . . .

As a father of both sons and daughters, I don’t like Adam Piggott’s reaction any more than I like feminism’s anti-male rhetoric, even though I completely understand why he sees it the way he does.

The young man who has overcome disadvantages to make something of himself, as Piggott has done, does not enjoy being told that men are always the problem in relationships, and that all women are helpless victims. When we say that young women are not getting married because there is a shortage of “good men,” a bachelor like Adam Piggott is apt to roll his eyes in disbelief: Really? Have you taken a look at the freak show of irreparably broken women that 21st-century feminism has produced?

“I have dated seven members of the same fraternity, which is both objectively a bad idea and classic slut behavior. . . .
“I have herpes and thus I am a degenerate slut.”
— Ella Dawson, Sept. 24, 2016

“To destroy systems of injustice. So the most marginalized among us have their voices heard. For the people we love to be able to take up space. To end violence against women — down to the last microaggression. To celebrate difference. For every woman, everyone who experiences intersections of oppression, to be liberated. This is why we need feminism.”
— Hannah Rose McShane, March 2016

When I call attention to these cases of Feminist Derangement Syndrome, some readers may suppose that I actually enjoy seeing women reduce themselves to clichéd stereotypes of lunatic man-hating absurdity. The feminist who blames “patriarchal society” for her ill-fated career as a stripper and camgirl may not be an entirely innocent victim, but she is nevertheless the victim of a culture that has failed to teach young people the importance of moral virtue. There are such things as right and wrong, good and evil, and it is not only feminism, but also the toxic cultural poisons emitted by Hollywood, which cause young people to imagine they can pursue a life of wrong and evil without paying a price for their foolish decisions, their selfish attitudes, and their degenerate behavior.

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.
— Deuteronomy 30:19 (KJV)

Turn away from the right path, and you can “be sure you sin will find you out.” We cannot evade responsibility for our own weaknesses and failures by blaming others for the harmful consequences of our bad decisions.

Do I take pleasure in seeing feminists ruin their lives? Is it amusing to watch Ella Dawson make her name a synonym for “herpes”? Is it merely a joke that Rose McShane is psychologically incapable of any sentiment toward males except hatred and contempt? Of course not. It’s frightening and sad. These are young women whose parents once hoped that their little girls would grow up to be happy and successful, and what a horrible experience it must have been for those parents to witness their daughters transform into deranged hate-filled monsters. Feminism’s consequences are tragic, yet this needless destruction and misery is celebrated as “empowerment.” Does this mean mental illness is “power”? Sexually transmitted diseases are “power”? Loneliness and confusion are “power”?

Go read Ella Dawson’s recap of her experiences in 2016, where she’s congratulating herself on her own awesomeness and then, just to remind yourself of the pathetic reality of her wrecked life, go read her account of her mental illness. When you’re 24 and taking antidepressants just to be able to function, that’s not awesomeness, nor is it “empowerment.”

What is it then? It’s the natural result of the blame game. By telling young women that they are never responsible for their own problems, because they are oppressed victims of heteropatriarchy, feminism encourages them to believe in their own essential helplessness. By denigrating morality, feminism encourages young women to engage in behaviors that are unhealthy and emotionally damaging and, when the results are predictably catastrophic, feminism says: “Not your fault! Blame men!”

Accusatory finger-pointing doesn’t “empower” anyone. Vindictive rage against male scapegoats may help her feel better as a rationalization, a defense mechanism, but when she’s finished ranting about “intersections of oppression,” she is still trapped in the wreckage of her life.

“How’s your daughter, Mr. McShane?”
“Oh, she’s a man-hating lesbian Gender Studies major.”

“How’s your daughter, Mr. Dawson?”
“Oh, she’s a herpes-infected degenerate slut.”

What a tragedy it is for parents to raise daughters who deliberately bring such grief and shame to their families, and call it “empowerment.”

When parents bemoan the shortage of “good men” as an explanation for why their daughters are not married, they simply are not taking account of the poisonous effects of 21st-century feminism. Young men coming of age amid this epidemic of lunacy are not living in their parents’ world circa 1992, when a college boy could flirt with a girl and expect her either to flirt back, or else give him a brush-off. That kind of pas-de-deux of romantic play is dangerous on the 21st-century campus, where boys are accused of “harassment” merely for talking to girls. Given the pervasive mood of anti-male hostility that feminists have created, smart young guys — those “good men” who seem so scarce — minimize their risk. They are exceedingly cautious in their interactions with women. It’s not that guys fear rejection, but rather that they fear the potentially life-ruining repercussions of making the wrong move in a climate where more than 100 male students have filed lawsuits saying they were falsely accused of rape and denied due process in campus kangaroo courts.

Maybe your daughter isn’t a vindictive man-hating Gender Studies major, and maybe your daughter isn’t a herpes-infected slut, but amid this epidemic of feminist lunacy, how can a young guy be sure? What if he takes a chance and makes a move and — BOOM! — he finds he has stumbled into a minefield of psychotic craziness?

There are still good guys out there, but they’re very careful nowadays. And the bottom line is still the same: Winners win and losers lose.

Young people still fall in love and get married — it happens every day — and if your daughter can’t find a husband, maybe Adam Piggott’s right: “Your daughter probably isn’t that special.” She’s a dime a dozen, not even close to being suitable wife material. Feminists would congratulate her on being empowered, resisting the patriarchal institution of marriage. And she can enjoy her empowerment alone, or perhaps with a roommate, in a tiny apartment with her cats, and a cup full of “male tears.”



 

Category: Sex Trouble

Frank Zappa Salute To A No-Talent Rodeo Clown On The Occasion Of His Departure

Posted on | January 13, 2017 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

Powerline captures something key about #OccupyResoluteDeskLivesMatter:

Obama is a man from nowhere, a citizen of the world. So where will he live, post-presidency? Washington, D.C., of course–his only real home. He isn’t going anywhere.

This recalls some classic Frank Zappa from Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch (itself probably not a Nancy Pelosi fantasy):
Like every conscious American, I can’t help but feel relief that we have nearly passed Stompyfoot McPointyfinger, and that he’s not succeeded by another Soros meat puppet like Her Majesty. Whenever the Almighty calls that Bond villain to account, the world shall heave a sigh of relief. And I think we’ll come to understand what a pervasive Commie conspiracy these last decades have been.

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‘These Discourses of Heterosexuality Which Particularly Oppress All of Us’

Posted on | January 12, 2017 | 5 Comments

‘The Straight Mind’ author Monique Wittig.

When did feminism become completely insane? Some of us would argue that modern feminism was always crazy from its inception in the late 1960s as the so-called Women’s Liberation movement. However, it took decades for enough of these hate-filled anti-male lunatics to secure faculty tenure and compile their ideas into a body of theory which, promulgated as a cult ideology in university Women’s Studies programs, could substantially influence culture, law and politics.

A major source of feminist insanity in the past 25 years is Professor Judith Butler’s 1990 book, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, a jargon-filled work of postmodern theory. Despite being nearly unreadable — trust me, nobody ever read this book for fun — it is consistently a top seller in Amazon’s Women’s Studies category, because it is required reading in so many university classrooms. If by chance you do attempt to read it, however, you will discover that Professor Butler relies heavily on the work of French radical lesbian Monique Wittig (see pp. 25-28, 34-38 and 151-174 of Gender Trouble). We might argue that it is precisely because Professor Butler’s jargon is so opaque, and her sources relatively obscure to those outside the world of academic feminism, that Gender Trouble has become such a successful source of fashionable nonsense. No sane American familiar with the career and works of Monique Wittig would endorse her ideas, which were considered radical fringe extremism even in France. When her ideas were imported and recycled in pretentious academic jargon by Professor Butler, however, this French kook acquired an impressive authority within the Women’s Studies curriculum. Scarcely any professor can publish anything on the subject of gender and sexuality nowadays without citing Wittig or her sockpuppet Professor Butler. Therefore, if we wish to understand feminism in the 21st century, we must study Wittig.

A quick Google search finds that Wittig’s 1992 anthology, The Straight Mind and Other Essays, has been assigned reading at the University of Virginia (Feminist Ethics), the University of Alabama (Feminist Theory), the University of New Mexico (Queer Theory/Queer Lives), the University of Pittsburgh (Introduction to Feminist Theory), and Cornell (Women’s Studies Seminar), among many hundreds of other courses. Having demonstrated the vast influence of this French lesbian’s work, now let’s quote Wittig’s titular essay, “The Straight Mind” (p. 21):

In recent years in Paris, language as a phenomenon has dominated modern theoretical systems and the social sciences and has entered the political discussions of the lesbian and women’s liberation movements. This is because it relates to an important political field where what is at play is power, or more than that, a network of powers, since there is a multiplicity of languages that constantly act upon the social reality. The importance of language as such has only recently been perceived.

Thus she begins, and let’s note a few points:

  1. Wittig speaks of “recent years in Paris” — i.e., the 1970s, since this essay was originally a 1978 speech to the annual conference of the Modern Language Association;
  2. According to Wittig, lesbian liberation and women’s liberation are basically the same movement;
  3. Wittig asserts that language is a source of political power, which shapes “social reality”;
    and
  4. This political power wielded by language “has only recently been perceived.”

Of course, George Orwell clearly showed how the deliberate corruption of language is a source of power in totalitarian regimes, but Monique Wittig was pro-totalitarian, an enemy of capitalism and democracy, so perhaps she didn’t want to give Orwell credit. Having begun with the quote above, Wittig then spends three pages discussing semiology (Roland Barthes) and psychology (Jacques Lacan) before making this assertion (pp. 24-25):

The discourses which particularly oppress all of us, lesbians, women, and homosexual men, are those which take for granted that what founds society, any society, is heterosexuality. . . . These discourses of heterosexuality oppress us in the sense that they prevent us from speaking unless we speak in their terms. . . . These discourses deny us every possibility of creating our own categories. But their most ferocious action is the unrelenting tyranny that they exert upon our physical and mental selves.

So, we are told, “discourses . . . which take for granted” heterosexuality as the foundation of society “oppress” not only homosexuals, but also are an “unrelenting tyranny” that oppresses all women, whatever their sexual orientation. Three pages later, after discussing, inter alia, pornography, anthropology (Claude Levi-Strauss) and radical feminist Ti-Grace Atkinson’s “analysis of sexual intercourse as an institution,” Wittig then makes this assertion (p. 29):

“Man” and “woman” are political concepts of opposition . . . It is the class struggle between women and men which will abolish men and women. The concept of difference has nothing ontological about it. It is only the way that the masters [i.e., men] interpret a historical situation of dominance. The function of difference is to mask at every level the conflicts of interest, including ideological ones.

Wittig finally concludes (p. 32) that the entire concept of womanhood “has meaning only in heterosexual systems of thought and heterosexual economic systems. Lesbians are not women” (emphasis added).

All of these ideas, you see, Wittig simply asserts. Any skeptic must ask, why are the categories of “man” and “woman” political? Why is there a quasi-Marxist “class struggle” between men and women,” what does it mean to describe heterosexuality as an “economic system,” and what manner of “society” could exist without heterosexuality? All of these questions are left dangling in Wittig’s essay, and the shrewd observer understands why: Wittig’s purpose is to destroy “society” as it exists. Because her purpose is wholly destructive, Wittig feels herself under no obligation to describe a feasible alternative. Here she echoes (perhaps not unconsciously) the Communist ideologue Friedrich Engels’ invocation of a quote from Goethe’s Faust: “All that exists deserves to perish.”

Probably no professor of Women’s Studies has ever explained this to a college classroom full of naïve teenagers, but someone certainly should. No one was actually being “oppressed” by “discourses” when Wittig gave her MLA speech in 1978, and still less can anyone claim to be thus “oppressed” nearly four decades later. Wittig was simply rooting around for some basis to advocate destroying “society” with its “unrelenting tyranny,” etc. Wittig’s destructive purpose was utterly irresponsible, as she did not seem to consider the potential consequences of her anti-social radicalism. The wise reader realizes that heterosexuality is crucial to the preservation of our culture of liberty because, as Mark Steyn has so eloquently said: “The future belongs to those who show up for it.”

Whatever our “discourses” may be, in the present tense, no modern “society” exists in isolation. If we do not produce enough offspring to sustain our population (i.e., “replacement fertility,” an average 2.1 children per woman), then our society will first become dominated by the elderly (gerontocracy), and will eventually be overrun by younger immigrants from societies with higher birth rates. What has been happening lately in France? After last year’s Bastille Day attack that killed 86 people, Australian journalist Andrew Bolt wrote this:

Why have jihadist terrorists made France Europe’s bloodiest battlefield?
Simple answer: Because France let in the most Muslims.
This link between immigration policies and terrorism largely explains why the French are the greatest victims of Europe’s jihadists. . . .
No European Union country has a higher proportion of Muslims than France — up to 10 per cent of its population, or six million people, though statistics are vague, and vary. . . .
Another example: Belgium’s capital, Brussels, is Europe’s biggest Islamic city, with 300,000 Muslims, and has paid terribly for it.
It suffered mass murder by jihadists at its airport last March, its police have had two shootouts with terrorist networks, and an Islamist murdered four Jews at its Jewish museum. But it is France where the fiercest frontline runs in this war between Islam and the remnants of European Christendom.
France has the most Muslims, and that is why four people were killed, three of them children, in an Islamist attack on a Jewish day school in Toulouse four years ago.
That is why 20 people were murdered in Paris in last year’s Islamist attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a kosher supermarket. . . .
That is why 130 more people were murdered in Paris last November in an Islamic State assault on restaurants, a concert hall and a football stadium.

Paramedics treat a victim of the November 2015 attack in Paris.

You see, when Monique Wittig attacked heterosexuality as an “unrelenting tyranny,” she evidently did not take into account the simple math of differential fertility rates between the West and the Islamic world. Nor did Wittig show any understanding of an aging society’s need for young workers, which was the economic justification for France’s immigration policy. Neither do we have any reason to believe that, circa 1978, Wittig had reckoned with the “discourses” of radical Islam.

Europe’s Rape Epidemic:
Western Women Will Be Sacrificed
At The Altar Of Mass Migration
— Breitbart, Oct. 6, 2015

Muslim Male “Refugees” Are
Gang Raping Women in Europe
— Townhall, Jan. 7, 2016

Three Algerian teens charged
after woman lured to Eiffel Tower
via Facebook and gang-raped
— U.K. Mirror, Sept. 17, 2016

The destructive effects of feminism have consequences for women that most feminists evidently never considered. After all, feminists advocate the whole slaughter of children by the abortion industry. The typical Women’s Studies professor is childless and has no stake in the future, where the freedom and safety of other people’s daughters will likely be jeopardized by the consequences of her insane ideology.

Permit me to conclude by asking you to consider this: No university Women’s Studies department has ever been the target of Muslim terrorists, perhaps because our enemies know who their friends are.



 

 

Category: Education, France, Gays, Intellectuals, Islam, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 01.12.17

Posted on | January 12, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.12.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
First Street Journal: Most Economists Are Terribly, Terribly Worried About Donald Trump
EBL: WARNING – You Can Never Unsee This
Twitchy: HuffPo Journalist Takes Break From Trump Incest Jokes To Flaunt Her Ignorance
Louder With Crowder: NFL’s Ben Watson Says It’s Time For Men To Stand Up For Women Against Abortion


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Your Daughter Probably Isn’t That Special
American Power: Jim Acosta’s Butthurt
American Thinker: A Look Back At The First Disastrous “Two-State” Solution
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily News
Bring The HEAT: The Strange, Star-Crossed Career Of HMAS Melbourne
Da Tech Guy: MSM In Retreat, Braxton Braggs Of The Right Hardest Hit
Don Surber: Conservatives Punch Twitter Trolls Back Twice As Hard
Dustbury: More Mud Pie, Sir?
Fred On Everything: IQ – A Skeptic’s View
Hogewash: Quote Of the Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Feelgood Story Of The Day – Soros Lost Nearly $1 Billion In Weeks Following Trump Election
Joe For America: Denzel Washington Slams Liberal Media – “Stop The Bullsh!t”
Power Line: Time For Heads To Roll At The CIA, also, Tom Cotton Calls Out Cory Booker
Shark Tank: Sen. McCain Delivered Dossier With “Unverified Information” On Trump To FBI
Shot In The Dark: Sometimes A Great Notion
STUMP: Connecticut Pensions – Shuffling The Cards And Drawing To Ten High
The Geller Report: Trump Conducts Own Sting To Trap Intelligence Briefers – Says He Caught Them Leaking
The Jawa Report: Attention Twitter User @Ukhtid1, also, Religion Of Break The Cross
This Ain’t Hell: Navy Secretary To Upgrade Awards, also, Trump’s VA Pick – Dr. David Shulkin
War Is Boring: Pentagon Tests “Drone Swarm” Superweapon
Weasel Zippers: Guess What Slug Was In The Front Row Of Obama’s Farewell Speech?, also, Confirmed – Obama Administration Cooked Books On ISIS Intel
Megan McArdle: It’s Divorce Season


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Three Quick Thoughts

Posted on | January 12, 2017 | 1 Comment

My grandson will be here at 8 a.m., so I don’t know how much blogging I’ll get done Thursday, so here are three ideas to chew on:

1. The World Is Going Insane

Not only did Alabama lose the National Championship — how could that even be possible? — but the media’s anti-Trump jihad, which was never entirely rational, is getting crazier  as his inauguration draws near, and this is driving some people completely over the edge. CNN “reported” a story that might have been a 4chan hoax, and then CNN’s Jim Acosta started raving like a madman during Trump’s press conference. People who rely on the mainstream media are being fed a poisonous diet of Democrat propaganda based on a paranoid “Trump-is-Hitler” narrative, so that an respectable Republican senator, Jeff Sessions, gets treated like Eichmann merely because Trump appointed him to a Cabinet office. If veteran TV reporters and Democrat senators are coming unraveled because of this lunacy, can you even imagine what kind of insanity has gripped the dimwit 19-year-old Gender Studies majors who believe everything they read on Tumblr? Expect more incidents of bad craziness in the near future.

2. Never Do Online Dating — Ever

Speaking of Tumblr, some SJW feminist posted this: “Saying women have it easier in online dating is like being envious of someone whose fridge is filled with rotting food. Sure, they’ve probably got more meal options than you, but 90% of those options will make them puke.” Right — any halfway attractive woman can create a dating profile at Tinder or OKCupid and, in a matter of hours, attract lots of attention from the kind of dudes who use Tinder or OKCupid — i.e., desperate creeps. Last week, an NYPD captain infuriated feminists for what we deemed “dismissive” remarks about date rape. Beyond that controversy, however, were the facts. There had been an increase in reported rapes (13 in 2016, compared to 8 during the previous year) in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn. And among them were these two cases:

  • On May 6, a New Jersey woman who met a man on Tinder went back to his house where he raped her without a condom. She called 911 but later refused medical attention and didn’t want to go to the hospital and didn’t give a description of her attacker, police said.
  • On June 4, a woman who met up with someone through a dating website had drinks with the man and then went back to his condo where she was hoping to sleep, police said. He forced her to have oral sex with him and raped her, police said. The woman later flew back to California where she was from, police said.

Question: In terms of crime prevention, what can cops do about cases like these? And the answer is, basically nothing. If you meet somebody through a dating site, you’re spinning the roulette wheel, and the more you play, the greater your chance of ending up with a dangerous psycho. A Florida woman hooked up with a guy from Arkansas she met online, which resulted in him allegedly branding her and forcing her into prostitution. Parents should warn their teenage and young adult children to stay away from online dating sites. If you’re a girl, online dating is obviously dangerous. If you’re a guy, online dating is evidence that you’re a desperate creep. Avoid it. Period.

3. It Could Always Be Worse

You’re in America. As crazy as it is, America is still better than anyplace else in the world. Mexico, for example. The peso is at an all-time low, and investors are pulling out of Mexico, with fears of Trump’s trade policy being cited as the cause for concern. As bad as Mexico is, Venezuela is worse. Venezuela’s president closed the country’s border with Colombia this week to prevent Venezuelans from escaping the country’s economic crisis.  People want to get out of places like that and get into America, but why can’t we prevent criminal scum from overrunning our borders? In California,  an illegal immigrant from El Salvador is on the run from police who say he raped a 5-year-old girl there. As bad as California is — and I wouldn’t live in that West Coast insane asylum if you paid me — it’s still a lot better than El Salvador, or Mexico, or Venezuela.

Whether or not President Trump can “make America great again,” at least we can hope he’ll keep America from become a Third World sewer.

 

Category: Blogging

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: Florida Woman Branded, Forced into Prostitution

Posted on | January 11, 2017 | 2 Comments

In October, police in Ocala, Florida, arrested Ryan Poole on a domestic violence charge. Originally from Arkansas, Poole’s criminal record included drug possession. Poole had moved to Florida in 2015 after connecting with a woman online. He was arrested again last month:

A Marion County man is accused of forcing a woman into prostitution, promoting her on “sex websites” and taking all the money she was given during those encounters, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies said Ryan Poole, 32, exploited the female victim and forced her to perform acts of prostitution in Marion, Alachua, Orange, Hillsborough and Charlotte counties.
Detectives said Poole controlled the woman’s life for about a year.
“She was very much exploited and controlled in every way and he had that control over her,” said Lauren Lettelier, Marion County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson. “And she was forced to do these things and perform these sexual acts because of his direction.”
The investigation leading to the arrest took five months.
Detectives said Poole met his victim through a social media website.
According to Poole’s arrest affidavit, Poole “took control of all her money, sold her, branded her with a tattoo, and forced her to call him ‘daddy’”.
The victim told detectives, according to the affidavit, she would “crawl to him and kiss his feet… she did “everything” for the defendant including cooking, cleaning, and household chores… she felt she was “held hostage” at her house.”
Detectives said Poole threatened the victim with violence.
A second woman was also solicited to perform “online sexual activities,” but she parted ways with Poole and the victim after one session, according to a news release.

 

 

More details from the Ocala Star Banner:

She said Poole came from Little Rock, Arkansas, to the Ocala area and they met online. She said they exchanged messages and met in The Villages in late July 2015.
The woman, who has children, said that, at the time, she was married but living apart from her husband. She said she dated Poole and they lived together from August 2015 to August 2016.
Not long after moving in together, the victim said, Poole demanded that she give him all her money from her jobs, including prostitution.
The prostitution began when Poole suggested she work as an exotic dancer since she wasn’t making much money. She alleges Poole sold marijuana and cocaine and had women working for him in Arkansas.
She said she was forced to follow rules and routines and was not allowed to look anyone in the eye.
She said Poole read her excerpts on “white slavery,” which she described as a “a black man pimps a white woman.” She said she was forbidden from having black clientele because Poole told her they would try to take her.

For some reason, feminists haven’t noticed this crime. Jessica Valenti is too busy ranting about Donald Trump’s press conference . . .

 

Category: Crime, Racism

Manhunt for Markeith Loyd, Accused of Killing Female Police Officer in Orlando

Posted on | January 11, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

Police say he is armed and dangerous:

It has been two days since an Orlando police officer was shot dead, and while the community continues to grieve, hundreds of law enforcement officers are still searching for the suspected killer.
Orlando police spokeswoman Wanda Miglio said Wednesday morning that investigators were still looking for 41-year-old Markeith Loyd. She declined to give any other updates. . . .
Authorities have been trying to find Loyd since Dec. 13, when he’s accused of fatally shooting his pregnant ex-girlfriend at her home in Pine Hills, a high crime neighborhood just outside the city.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office reported Wednesday that it had spent hundreds of hours trying to find Loyd in the days following that shooting and before Monday, when Loyd is suspected of killing Orlando Master Sgt. Debra Clayton when she confronted him at a Wal-Mart. . . .
Chief John Mina has assured Orlando residents that investigators are working around the clock tracking down leads.
Authorities set up a command post at Orange County’s emergency operations center and have teams of detectives tracking down leads, he said Tuesday.
The FBI and Homeland Security also have also chipped in, partnering with local agencies to find Loyd.

The police sergeant Markeith Loyd is accused of murdering:

Olando police Master Sgt. Debra Clayton didn’t have to stay at her friend’s house for two days to take care of her after surgery.
She was not expected to spend countless hours volunteering with kids in the “dragon boat” program or at community forums calling for an end to the violence.
The 17-year Orlando police veteran, newlywed and mother of an adult son did not need to start a nonprofit for young women and girls who were victims of violence.
But she did, anyway.
“I didn’t know anyone with a bigger heart,” said friend Teresa Sokolovic, holding back tears. “She was an angel.”
Clayton, one of the first officers to respond to the Pulse shooting in June, was gunned down Monday morning near a Wal-Mart on John Young Parkway and Princeton Street while confronting 41-year-old Markeith Loyd, who is wanted for murder. . . .
Orlando police Chief John Mina hailed her as a hero.
“She gave her life protecting the community that she loved,” he said.

Believe it or not, three people have been arrested for allegedly helping the man suspected of killing this heroic cop:

Authorities said they have arrested a third person who may have been helping murder suspect Markeith Loyd evade arrest.
Jamesia Slaughter was being questioned around 7 p.m. Wednesday and her arrest was announced around 8:15 p.m. The news comes after Zarghee Mayan, 33, was arrested Tuesday night and Loyd’s niece, Lakensha Smith-Loyd, 27, was arrested Wednesday afternoon.
Mayan and Smith-Loyd were both charged with accessory after the fact to first-degree murder. Officials have not yet said what charges Slaughter will be facing.
Deputies said Mayan has seen Loyd multiple times since he fatally shot his pregnant ex-girlfriend, Sade Dixon, in Pine Hills on Dec. 13. In one of those encounters, the two hugged and Mayan realized Loyd was wearing a bulletproof vest.
Mayan gave Loyd money and food in the days after Dixon’s murder, according to an arrest affidavit. He also gave Smith-Loyd $200 to give to her uncle.

(Hat-tip: Donald Douglas at American Power.)

 

Category: Crime
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