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In The Mailbox: 01.25.17

Posted on | January 25, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.25.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
BattleSwarm: Ted Cruz Makes Deadspin His Bitch
EBL: Jenna Jameson’s Awesome Slam Of Bill Maher
Michelle Malkin: Ultrasound – The Anti-Science Left’s Bugaboo
Twitchy: Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) Sends Heads To Desks By Declaring This Federal Spending a “Human Rights Issue”
Louder With Crowder: Live Action Exposes Planned Parenthood’s Lies About Prenatal Care


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: America’s Second Civil War
American Thinker: America, At Last The Land Of Can-Do
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Bring The HEAT: Why Is It Taking The Air Force So Long to Jump On The Light Attack Bandwagon?
Da Tech Guy: The Illegal Immigrant Vote – Another Trump Trap For The MSM
Don Surber: President Trump Just Forced The Press To Cover The March For Life, also, Fighting The Fourth Branch Of Government
Dustbury: Rolled Back Into The Parking Lot
Hogewash: Defamation Du Jour
Jammie Wearing Fools: Dopey Swedish Pol Resigns After Asking If Someone Could Shoot Trump
Joe For America: Islamic Leader Warns That If U.S. Moves Embassy To Jerusalem, It’s War
JustOneMinute: Building The Wall
Power Line: The Myth of Obama’s Popularity, also, How Green Was My Tesla
Shark Tank: Gov. Scott Challenges Speaker Corcoran Over “Corporate Welfare”
Shot In The Dark: When Narratives Collapse
The Geller Report: Trump To Sign Executive Orders Restricting Migration From Muslim Nations, also, Trump Halts Obama’s Last-Minute $221 Million Gift To Palestinians
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – BOLO Red Panda
The Political Hat: In Canada, Free Healthcare May Soon Mean Morally Acceptable Organ Harvesting – From The Living
This Ain’t Hell: We Need More Airborne Rangers In Congress, also, Someone Escaped Norkiland?
War Is Boring: We’re Worried About The Nominee For Air Force Secretary
Weasel Zippers: Just Days Into The Trump Administration, Corrupt Employees Already Being Fired At The VA, also, Ted Cruz Introduces Bill To Allow States To Reject Refugees
Megan McArdle: Aetna Threatened Obamacare, But Didn’t Start The Fight
Mark Steyn: Wrong And Wronger


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The Huge Wall™ of America

Posted on | January 25, 2017 | Comments Off on The Huge Wall™ of America

 

Did I ever tell you my youngest daughter is a genius? All my kids are smart, but Reagan is 99th percentile smart, and last month she was talking about The Huge Wall™ of America. China has its Great Wall, but President Trump is going to build a Huge Wall™ and, considering his successful career in real-estate development, shouldn’t we expect this project on the Mexican border to be a huge success? My daughter Reagan expressed the idea that the new border wall could be a major tourist attraction, and why not? There could be shopping (The Huge Wall Mall) and resort hotels (The Trump Wall Casino) and all sorts of commercial development along the border. Restaurants, playgrounds for the kids, water parks and roller coasters — like Disney World, except huge.

The New York Times reports:

President Trump on Wednesday will order the construction of a Mexican border wall — the first in a series of actions this week to crack down on immigrants and bolster national security, including slashing the number of refugees who can resettle in the United States and blocking Syrians and others from “terror prone” nations from entering, at least temporarily…
“Big day planned on NATIONAL SECURITY tomorrow,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter on Tuesday night. “Among many other things, we will build the wall!”
Mr. Trump will sign the executive order for the wall during an appearance at the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday, as Mexico’s foreign minister, Luis Videgaray, arrives in Washington to prepare for the visit of President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico.

The secret to making this project work, as my genius daughter perceived, is capitalism. Democrats spent eight years talking about “infrastructure investments” during the Obama administration, but President Trump is actually going to do it. The Huge Wall™ of America is going to be the biggest federal infrastructure project in American history. It’s going to make the Hoover Dam look like a kid’s Lego toy set by comparison. By unleashing the power of free enterprise along the southwestern border — retirement communities! golf courses! multiplex cinemas! — The Huge Wall™ of America will generate enormous new tax revenues.

Think about the I-10 corridor from Texas to California — miles and miles of empty scrub land, full of coyotes, rattlesnakes and jackrabbits. Yes, and 50 years ago, the area of central Florida that is now Disney World was nothing but swamps, cattle farms and citrus groves. Under the Trump administration, which has already shown a cheerful willingness to ignore radical environmentalist dingbats, the federal government could build all kinds of dams and reservoirs and irrigation projects to turn the southwestern desert into an oasis. NASCAR tracks and football stadiums! Concert venues and skyscrapers! Nuclear power plants! If the Arab sheikhs could turn Dubai into an international resort destination, why can’t we make The Huge Wall™ of America even more spectacular?

Texas, New Mexico, Arizona — there’s six Senate votes and 43 in the House right there, not even counting California, so the political incentives are obvious enough. What we really need, though, is to get Wall Street to see the possibilities. Once the real-estate speculators get a whiff of the enormous profits to be made by investing in land near the The Huge Wall™ of America, this thing could take off like a rocket. And when it does, remember it was my 14-year-old genius daughter who foresaw it.

Don’t just dream big, America — dream huge.



 

Category: Donald Trump

Great Again: Dow Hits Record High

Posted on | January 25, 2017 | 2 Comments

Thank you, Mister President:

Dow 20,000 is finally here.
After weeks of close calls, the Dow made history on Wednesday by blowing past that key level for the first time ever.
The historic milestone leaves the Dow up a stunning 1,667 points since President Donald Trump’s victory in November. The achievement is evidence of how optimistic investors have become about the prospects for the U.S. economy.
“The stock market has given him this extraordinary vote of approval. Happy days are here again,” said Ed Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research.
Wall Street is clearly betting that Trump’s plans to slash taxes, ramp up infrastructure spending and cut regulation will make the American economy grow faster.

(Via Memeorandum.)

 

Category: Economics

Teacher Sex Scandal Blackmail

Posted on | January 25, 2017 | 2 Comments

Texas teacher Thao Doan allegedly paid $28,000 to her victim, his mother says.

A bizarre school sex scandal in Texas includes claims of blackmail:

Dallas ISD police say a middle school teacher was being blackmailed by a teenage student she was sleeping with.
Court documents show Thao “Sandy” Doan paid about $28,000 to the student after he threatened to tell police.
Doan taught math at Raul Quintanilla Senior Middle School in West Oak Cliff. She was arrested last Friday.
The mother of the teen says she tracked the source of some suspicious text messages to a teacher, who she had met many times at school events and who taught her son math when he was in the eighth grade last year.
The mom reported the texts to the school, which called Dallas ISD police and removed the teacher from class the same day.
Nidia wanted to speak about her son as long as FOX4 didn’t use her last name.
“This really changed my son,” she said. “This really turned my son into another person that he wasn’t.”
Nidia says text messages, also quoted in court documents, tipped her off to her son’s alleged blackmail of a teacher. She’d later learn the teacher is accused of having sex with her son when he was 14 years old.
“At times, he started getting into drugs, drinking, leaving the house. And he would probably get money and just leave the whole weekend,” Nidia said. . . .
A search warrant affidavit added Doan confirmed the student received an image of her exposing her breasts and that the two engaged in explicit texting. She also told police she began receiving demands for cash in exchange for the student’s silence beginning last New Year’s Day.
Police say Doan withdrew money from her bank and took out payday loans to the tune of an estimated $28,000.

America’s public education system is a criminal enterprise.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)

 

Category: Crime, Education, Texas

Petroleum Is Good, Liberals Are Crazy

Posted on | January 24, 2017 | 2 Comments

For eight years, President Obama did everything in his power to punish the people who produce the fuel that makes capitalism work. It took Donald Trump just two days to turn that around:

Trump signed executive orders that will make it easier for TransCanada to construct the Keystone XL pipeline and for Energy Transfer Partners to build the final uncompleted portion of the Dakota Access pipeline.
The Keystone XL would bring oil from Alberta, Canada, to Nebraska, where it would connect to an existing pipeline to bring the crude to Illinois. Former President Barack Obama refused to approve the cross-border project, saying the environmental review was not adequate in light of its route through the Sandhills ecosystem in Nebraska. . . .
Obama also backed a delay to completion of the Dakota Access pipeline, which would bring oil from North Dakota to Illinois. . . .
In December, the Army Corp of Engineers said it would deny Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners the easement it needs to complete the final stretch of the $3.7 billion Dakota Access pipeline. Jo-Ellen Darcy, United States assistant secretary of the Army for civil works, said the best path forward was to explore alternative routes for the pipeline, something Energy Transfer Partners says it will not do.
Tribe members and protesters have been camped out for months in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, in opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline.

Americans love petroleum. We love the internal combustion engine. We love fast cars and big trucks. Environmental activists . . . not so much.

Q. How many hippies does it take to pave five miles of highway?
A. Only one, if you spread him real thin.

Dirty hippies don’t like Donald Trump for some reason.

 

Category: Donald Trump, Environmentalism

Because Sluts Should Be Ashamed

Posted on | January 24, 2017 | 1 Comment

Great minds think alike and, at the very moment I was tsk-tsking over Meghan Murphy’s sad fate, Zaklog the Great was posting this video:

 

Now, one of my pet peeves is video bloggers (“vloggers”) who post splendid rants but fail to provide transcripts for those us who would like to be able to quote what they say. As if he could read my mind, Zaklog the Great had a transcript ready when I asked for one:

I’d like to talk a little bit today about slut-shaming. There’s a real problem with it these days. We simply do not have nearly enough.
Let’s spell out exactly what the phrase “slut-shaming” means, shall we? It means criticizing a woman for promiscuous sexual behavior. Why, exactly, is this bad? Oh . . . I see. It’s unfair! Men do not get treated the same. Well, you’re kind of right. Men are not held to account for our sexual behavior nearly enough. This is unfair. I don’t know if I would say unjust because “fair” is a loose word, easy to sling around. “Just” . . . is a bit more hard-edged, however.
But, if you have an important rule that is not being enforced even-handedly, the sane decision is not to abolish the rule for everyone, but to enforce the rule for those who have been getting off light. We need more slut-shaming for men.
But don’t get me wrong. This is not just about men. There is also a dreadful dearth of slut-shaming for women these days.
You may object, however, that these rules against sexual promiscuity are not important, that, in fact, they are silly, and outdated, and passé. To that, I have a few replies. First, how’s that gonorrhea infection treating you? Did they get to it before it rendered you permanently sterile? Second, yes, these rules are important, and even more so for women than for men.
You see, and I know this is unfair, women tend to bear the consequences of irresponsible sexual behavior more heavily than men do. First, we have to establish some basic facts. Sex, you see, is how we get more people, who, in common practice, start out as babies. Now, there are all kinds of fantastic things that can be said about babies, but two drawbacks cannot be debated: Babies are expensive and babies are time-consuming.
Why do I bring this up? Well, if two people are having casual sex and a baby results, who generally ends up responsible for it? That’s right, the woman. Even if she manages to get child support from the father, which is a doubtful proposition in that situation, that is still a large burden for one person.
So, in purely practical terms, women tend to bear more of the costs of promiscuous sex. But that’s not all. You see, and I hate to break this to those of you who’ve been listening to feminists, but women and men are not the same. Women and men do not react to sexual intimacy the same way. And years of playing genital-tag leave different marks on women than they do on men.
There was a study a few years ago that showed that the odds of a woman being happy in her marriage go down as her number of lifetime sexual partners goes up. It also showed no such pattern among men. Is this unfair? Yes. It’s also reality. Sorry.
You put these two important facts together and it looks like enforcing societal rules against sexual promiscuity is even more important for women than for men. These rules protect women far more than they do men.
Now, societies have basically two options for enforcing their various rules: ostracism or force, mockery or the barrel of a gun. I, personally, think ostracism would be by far the preferable option here. Perhaps you disagree.
So yeah. Slut-shaming. We could really use more. Now go out and do your part!

Exactly right. Why does shame exist, anyway? Because if people were not shamed for doing bad things, they might do bad things all the time, like posting video rants and not providing a transcript. Shame on vloggers who do that — and praise to Zaklog the Great!

 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 01.24.17

Posted on | January 24, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.24.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Obama State Dept. Flunky Marie Harf Hired By…Fox News?
Twitchy: Senior Secret Service Officer In Hot Water Over Facebook Post
Louder With Crowder: Hypocrisy Exposed! Crowder Crashes #WomensMarch As Undercover Transgender!


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Is It Okay To Punch A Nazi?
American Thinker: Chronicles Of Self-Destruction
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s First Full Presidential Day Work News
Bring The HEAT: The Strange Case Of Lieutenant Commander Lin
Da Tech Guy: Baldilocks – Post-Inauguration Short Takes, also, John Ruberry – Why Is Chicago So Corrupt?
Don Surber: “Citizens Impeachment! Citizens Impeachment” /Gomer Pyle, also, West Virginia Almost Abortion Free
Dustbury: I Think She Wears A Small
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign
Jammie Wearing Fools: Failing NY Tabloid Attacks Tom Brady For Friendship With Donald Trump
Joe For America: No More Spanish! White House Announces English-Only Website
JustOneMinute: Waves In The Pacific
Power Line: Burn, Baby, Burn?, also, Governor Dayton Collapses
Shark Tank: Obama’s Last-Minute Gift Of $221 Million To The Palestinian Authority
Shot In The Dark: Dear “Feminist” Bobblehead
STUMP: Actuaries On Social Security – Schobel On Reforms, Myers On History, And Foster On Medicare/ACA
The Geller Report: Anti-Trump Protester Lights Girl’s Hair On Fire (Video), also, HuffPo Attacks Trump For Vow To Fight “Radical Islamic Terrorism”
The Jawa Report: Banned From YouTube – Boobies, Not Banned From JihadTube – Death To America
The Political Hat: Tweens And Sharia Law
This Ain’t Hell: Veronica Dale Hahn Stole $400K From VA, also, Old Enough To Know Better
War Is Boring: A Professor Claimed Video Games Make People Better Shooters – Then His Study Got Retracted
Weasel Zippers: Sharia Supporting Womens’ March Organizer Encourages Lawbreaking By Creating Sanctuaries For Illegals, also, Trump Asks FBI Director Comey To Stay On
Megan McArdle: The Democrats’ Rise Is Far From Inevitable
Mark Steyn: When The March Is Over


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Hook-Up Culture: ‘Since I Started Having Sex With Men, Back in, Like, 1997’

Posted on | January 24, 2017 | 4 Comments

“Hookup culture has been alive and kicking since I started having sex with men back in, like, 1997. And I didn’t even have a Hotmail account then.”
— Meghan Murphy, Aug. 10, 2015

Did you ever hear of the “Three-Date Rule”? When I was a teenage hoodlum, the cynical view was that if you weren’t, uh, becoming intimate by the third date, you were wasting your time. Back in the Disco Age — before AIDS, and before MADD had forced the national drinking age up to 21 — there was no shortage of casual female companionship, so why should a guy bother with all that ridiculous slow-motion “relationship” stuff? If you’ve seen Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High, you get some idea of what a reckless time that was.

 

Many of my readers, of course, are themselves old enough to have direct memories of that era and they can tell their own tales of how it was when, as Bob Seger sang, we were all workin’ on our night moves.

Really, there ought to be a T-shirt, “I Survived the ’70s,” and it’s easy to pretend that was all harmless fun, but there were too many who didn’t survive, or who sustained such damage as to permanently wreck their lives. Looking back, I’m reminded of what General Sherman told an audience in Ohio about 15 years after the Civil War: “There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.”

Having learned my lessons the hard way, I was eager to make sure my kids didn’t repeat my mistakes. There is nothing to be learned, nor anything to be proven, by a repetition of the errors of the past. Movies may make the ’70s look like “all glory,” but it was all hell. This brings me back around to the old Three-Date Rule. Once you discarded all constraints of morality or social respectability, as teenage hoodlums do, what was all that “relationship” stuff about anyway? The whole point of a devil-may-care Bad Boy attitude was to convey a message: “Hey, you wanna party?”

This was a yes-or-no question, you see. No need to play games. Better to be up-front and direct about it, instead of wasting time. Oh, sure, there was necessarily some aspect of romance involved, but we knew we were all just a bunch of young sinners, and why pretend otherwise?

Who was it that told me about the Three-Date Rule? I’ve forgotten, and it doesn’t matter, because it was just standard operating procedure. No teenage hoodlum was going to waste weeks or months going through a lot of slow-motion romance when there were so many disco dollies who were ready to get down, get down, get down tonight, baby.

Baby, baby, let’s get together.
Honey, honey, me and you.
And do the things, oh, do the things
That we like to do.
Oh, do a little dance, make a little love,
Get down tonight, get down tonight.
Do a little dance, make a little love,
Get down tonight, get down tonight.

So much for the 1970s, then, and all of that was preamble to discussing Canadian feminist Meghan Murphy’s column about online dating:

Now, speaking only from personal experience, I am not a fan of online dating. When I was single a couple of years ago, everyone was on OkCupid and told me I had to do it because that’s just how people dated nowadays. I tried it for maybe a month, found it super annoying and time-consuming, realized there was no way in hell I was going to go on a date with some stranger from the internet, and went back to my regular life meeting men through friends of friends, at parties, bars, and in my neighbourhood, and lived to tell the tale. . . .
I do not believe either that “hookup culture” is new, directly connected to online dating, or that it has caused The Young People to eschew commitment and relationships completely.
In fact, I think all the hookup culture fearmongering is part of the problem, in that it convinces women they will be SINGLE FOREVER DUN DUN DUNNNN because today’s modern man just wants to f–k and has no interest in committed relationships. Hookup culture has been alive and kicking since I started having sex with men back in, like, 1997. And I didn’t even have a Hotmail account then. Hooking up was just what you did on the weekend and, quite honestly, as a young woman, I really didn’t care about being in a relationship. It wasn’t a priority for me at all. I’ve been both single and in relationships, on and off, for all of my adult life and there is very little that has changed since I was 17.

Read the rest of that if you want, but I just want to make three points:

  1. Online dating is for losers, as I’ve said before;
  2. Not only has the game not changed since 1997, but it has’t really changed since 1977, because sin is still sin;
    and
  3. If you’re still “dating” when you’re 35, you have lost the game.

Point #3 is where we confront the sad truth about Meghan Murphy’s “feminism.” Is she being honest when she says she “really didn’t care about being in a relationship” when she was young? Did she never have any romantic dreams of a happily-ever-after ending? Wedding bells, etc.? If so, she was a very unusual young woman, even by feminist standards.

Even the most cynical Bad Boy has to recognize that his hedonism is not harmless recreation. Bad Girls have their romantic dreams, too, and there is a limit to how many heartbreaks anyone can endure.

Smart girls never play that game. One useful term popularized by the pickup artist (PUA) community is sexual market value (SMV) and the smart girl realizes she doesn’t increase her SMV by, uh, becoming intimate on a casual basis. Furthermore, the smart girl recognizes that youth is a crucial factor in her SMV. There’s no point complaining about unfair double-standards here. We are describing how things are in real life, rather than theorizing an alternative universe of “social justice.” So when we read about Meghan Murphy in her mid-30s “meeting men through friends of friends, at parties, bars, and in my neighbourhood,” we are apt to shake our heads in pity. Oh, “as a young woman, I really didn’t care about being in a relationship,” she says, but what does she have now? Nothing but fading memories of her youth, looking toward a future that probably involves a tiny apartment and lots of cats.

It’s a death trap.
It’s a suicide rap.
We gotta get out while we’re young,
`Cause tramps like us,
Baby, we were born to run.

Yeah, smart girls never get into that game, but if somehow they do, they’re smart enough to get our while they’re young. Sing it, Bruce.

 

Say what you will, kids — the music was just better back then.



 

Category: Sex Trouble
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