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‘Little Old Liberal White Ladies’

Posted on | November 27, 2016 | 3 Comments

Kevin Williamson hits it brutally hard:

The Democratic party is an odd apparatus in which most of the power is held by sanctimonious little old liberal white ladies with graduate degrees and very high incomes — Hillary Rodham Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Randi Weingarten — while the manpower, the vote-power, and the money-power (often in the form of union dues) comes from a disproportionately young and non-white base made up of people who, if they are doing well, might earn one-tenth of the half-million dollars a year Weingarten was paid as the boss of the teachers’ union. . . .
The Democratic base is not made up of little old liberal white ladies with seven-, eight-, and nine-figure bank balances, but the party’s leadership is.

(Via Memeorandum.)

 

Category: Democrats

FMJRA 2.0: After Black Friday

Posted on | November 26, 2016 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Getting Ready for Thanksgiving
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles from Tyranny
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
EBL@RedState

Gay Marxists Hate Donald Trump
ThoughtOffense
EBL@RedState

FMJRA 2.0: The Stars And Stripes Forever
The Pirate’s Cove
A View from the Beach
EBL@RedState

Step One: FAIL
Inconceivable!
EBL@RedState

You Did It! Thank You!
EBL@RedState

In The Mailbox: 11.21.16
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
EBL@RedState

In The Mailbox: 11.22.16
Regular Right Guy
Proof Positive
EBL@RedState

Politico ‘Journalist’ Resigns After Doxing Trump Supporter Richard Spencer
Regular Right Guy
EBL@RedState

‘F–k Your Fascist Beauty Standards’
EBL@RedState

Women’s Studies Professor Accuses Trump Supporters of ‘Terrorism’
EBL@RedState

In The Mailbox: 11.23.16
Proof Positive
EBL@RedState

Welcome to Trump Territory
EBL@RedState

It was a short week, and perhaps inevitably, a lot of people came up short of the cutoff for the Top Linkers post. EBL would have led the list as usual,  with twelve. Still, thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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Personal Or Ethnic, Slobodan Miloševic Clearly Understood Hygeine #TrudeauEulogies

Posted on | November 26, 2016 | 2 Comments

by Smitty

Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau beclowned himself today, and the Twitterati afforded him all the mercy that Fidel did Cuba:

Trudeau acknowledged the late president was a “controversial figure,” but remembered him as a “larger-than-life leader,” who made significant improvements to Cuba’s education and health-care systems.

“A legendary revolutionary and orator, Mr. Castro made significant improvements to the education and health care of his island nation,” Trudeau said.

“I know my father was very proud to call him a friend,” he added.

Category: Uncategorized

‘Girl Power’ and Honor in Pakistan: The Unsurprising Death of Qandeel Baloch

Posted on | November 26, 2016 | 2 Comments

“I am a social media sensation, I am a fashion icon. . . . I’m a girl power. So many girls tell me I’m a girl power, and yes, I am.”
— Qandeel Baloch, July 14, 2016

Fame is a dangerous commodity, and shockingly cheap in the Internet age of DIY social media, where young people can become minor “celebrities” on the basis of YouTube videos and Instagram accounts.

Qandeel Baloch (neé Fouzia Azeem) became known as “Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian.” She “shot to fame for her provocative selfies and videos in the conservative Muslim country,” as the Guardian reported in July after the 26-year-old was murdered by her own brother, Muhammad Waseem. Her mother said that Waseem “killed my daughter after being taunted by his friends. They would infuriate him and tell him she is bringing you dishonour.” Qandeel was from a poor family, and claimed her family forced her into an unwanted marriage to “an uneducated man” at 17:

I said, ‘No, I don’t want to spend my life this way’. I was not made for this. It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
But then they married me off when I was 17, 18. I was not happy and never accepted him as my husband.
What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. . . .
I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind.
How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child. Otherwise I wouldn’t have spent even one month with him. . . .
The kind of torture he has inflicted on me, you can’t even imagine. Why? Because I was cute, I was young. He was older than me. He didn’t trust me. I don’t know why. I couldn’t connect with him on an intellectual level. Our ideas were very different.
Then I had a child, so I sacrificed. I spent a year and a half with him. After the child, I told him I want to study. I want to complete my education, I want to get a job, I want to stand on my own two feet. But he never agreed. . . .
My family never supported me. I would say I don’t want to live with him, but they didn’t support me.
That man tried to throw acid on me. He said ‘I’ll burn your face because you’re so beautiful’. And today the media isn’t giving me any credit for speaking about empowerment of women, girl power.

The brutal violence suffered by women in Pakistan includes attacks where women are disfigured by having acid thrown on their faces:

According to New York Times reporter Nicholas D. Kristof, acid attacks are at an all-time high in Pakistan and increasing every year. The Pakistani attacks he describes are typically the work of husbands against their wives who have “dishonored them.” . . . According to a New York Times article, in 2011 there were 150 acid attacks in Pakistan, up from 65 in 2010. However, estimates by the Human Rights Watch and the HRCP cite the number of acid attack victims to be as high 400-750 per year.

“Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide,” Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch says, noting that Islamic law sanctions such murders: “Until the encouragement Islamic law gives to honor killing is acknowledged and confronted, more women will suffer.” In a 2010 article for Middle East Quarterly, Phyllis Chesler reported that 58 percent of honor-killing victims were murdered for being “too Western” — an accusation that can mean “being seen as too independent, not subservient enough, refusing to wear varieties of Islamic clothing,” dating a non-Muslim or “wanting to choose one’s own husband.” In the West, female celebrities engage in provocative behavior and men are accused of “misogyny” for criticizing them, but any woman in an Islamic nation who attempts to emulate such behavior risks consequences far more serious than sexist jokes. Qandeel Baloch had 43,000 Twitter followers and more than 700,000 on Facebook, the BBC reported, and used her social-media presence to spark outrage. In June, she posted selfies posing with an Islamic cleric, Mufti Abdul Qavi, and told Pakistan Today the conservative Muslim scholar was “hopelessly in love” with her. That publicity stunt may have led to her murder three weeks later:

Waseem said he killed his sister due to her social media activities, which included a series of risque video posts with the prominent cleric, Mufti Qavi.
Qavi was suspended from the Ruet-e-Hilal Committee in the controversy following the video posts.
Speaking to Geo News today, Qandeel’s mother accused Mufti Qavi, her daughter’s former husband Ashiq Hussain, and a man name Shahid of being involved in the murder.
She claimed her son Waseem carried out the murder on the advice of Mufti Qavi, and that the cleric “provoked” him into killing Qandeel. She claimed Waseem was also in contact with Qandeel’s former husband Ashiq Hussain.

Pakistani blogger Ahmed Ali reacted to her death:

Rebellious. Irreverent. She was a jester figure in the court of public approval and approbation, staking out a claim in territory not meant for respectable, shareef women. . . .
Hers will be spun by our conservative media into a cautionary tale of risk/risque assessment: a prudential, risk-averse guide listing things not to do if you want to stay alive as a (Muslim) woman. So we return to a caricature of that age old weighty question of the trade off between liberty and security. Apologists will say she was her own biggest security risk, conveniently ignoring that nothing she did, and no sort of expression anyone undertakes, should ever warrant concern for one’s fundamental safety. It is the year 2016. . . .
Always that askance aslant consideration of the woman’s background; tacit suggestions of her own complicity in inviting death by asphyxiation. Many in our press are obituarizing Qandeel as a woman who shouldn’t have been killed despite her ways. Aw. Thanks. That’s kind. Charitable. Just what her brutalized body and soul need right now. . . .
The news is on right now and they’re constantly saying: ‘Ghairat ke naam qatal kur diya’ (‘they killed her in the name of honour’). It’s being repeated over and over. . . . By constantly repeating the motive of notional honour, you’re reinforcing that honour and ratifying it; you are ceding it further ideological ground. This is the net reverberative effect, at least. It has become a national soundbite. . . .

You can read the whole thing. The kind of violent terrorism by which Islamic law is enforced — and especially what that violence means for women in  Islamic countries — is something Western feminists do not want to recognize as a legitimate concern in politics and policy. You are an “Islamophobe,” feminists screech, if you call attention to the honor killings, clitoridectomies and other methods by which Islam oppresses women, not accidentally, but deliberately and with at least tacit sanction of Muslim religious leaders. That this brutality can and does come to the West via immigration is attested by the Pakistani “rape gangs” in England, as well as the sexual attacks that have terrorized women in Germany.

Being a critic of both feminism and Islam, and certainly not a fan of the narcissistic “selfie culture” that Qandeel Baloch represented, I perceive an irrepressible conflict between these contending forces. The Christian, the conservative and the libertarian — we each have different perspectives on the challenge to the West presented by Islamic culture and sharia law. The Christian, like the Muslim, deplores the gratuitous exploitation of sexuality that Qandeel Baloch symbolized. The conservative views “girl power” as a decadent expression of egotistical selfishness. The libertarian defends the exercise of free expression, including the right to criticize expression we do not like. It is our liberty, more than anything else, which radical Islam threatens. And women have a greater reason to fear Islam, for it is their liberty which Islam would most curtail.

We cannot defend our liberty by silencing critics of Islam — or by silencing critics of feminism, or by silencing criticism of celebrities. As I keep saying, however, Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It, and by trying to limit freedom of expression feminists are the unwitting allies of radical Islam. The “progressive” allies of feminism are not going to protect American women from radical Islam. One reason so many women voted for Donald Trump is because they understood that Hillary Clinton — who left four Americans to die in Benghazi — was not the kind of leader who was determined to defend our nation against the terrorist menace that is growing ever more deadly:

Two Pakistani men have been accused of cutting their 40-year-old sister’s eyes out “with a sharp knife” and chopping off her feet, marking the latest high-profile “honor” killing in the Muslim-majority country where such murders are on the rise and many go unreported. . . .
Pakistan’s independent Human Rights Commission has revealed that “honor” killings of women have increased by nearly 20 percent in the last few years, from 869 in 2013 to 1,096 last year, adding that most of the victims were shot but also attacked with acid.

In a country where this kind of violence is routine, the murder of Qandeel Baloch may have been shocking, but it wasn’t really surprising.



 

Category: Islam, Pakistan, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: Special Weakened Edition

Posted on | November 26, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: Special Weakened Edition

— compiled by Wombat-socho


This was originally supposed to post last night, but I overslept, so you get it today. The FMJRA will post at its usual time this evening.


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Florence Henderson, RIP, also, Jill Stein – Send A Dollar In A Letter, And You’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better
Twitchy: “There Was A Time POTUS Did This” – Gary Sinise Visits The Troops In Afghanistan On Thanksgiving
Louder With Crowder: The Young Turks Post-Election Meltdown!


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #27 – The Red Pill Parenting Episode
American Power: Post-Thanksgiving Cartoon Roundup
American Thinker: Bookends To A Disastrous Presidency, also, The Pathological Intolerance Of The Left
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Darwin Award Selfie
Da Tech Guy: Why Democrats Are Losing In The Heartland – Thanksgiving Talking Points
Don Surber: President Trump Makes Black Friday Great Again, also, Quotes of the Day
Dustbury: Meanwhile, In The Third World
Fred On Everything: Uniquely Talented – Only The Democrats Could Have Lost To Trump
Joe For America: American Psychiatric Association Says It’s “Natural And Normal” To Be Aroused By Childen
JustOneMinute: A Brutal Month For The Left
Pamela Geller: Tsunami Of Rapes Engulfs German Migrant Centers
Power Line: Trump’s Appointments Continue to Impress
Shark Tank: Democrats Continue Targeting Trump’s “Backwards Agenda”
Shot In The Dark: What A Difference Eight Years Makes
The Jawa Report: Things That Are Awesome! @jack Pwned On His Own Platform, also, Sandcrawler Closed – RIP Mrs. Brady
The Lonely Conservative: Happy Thanksgiving Post-Turkey Coma!
The Political Hat: Mother Nature Is A Cis-Normative H8r
This Ain’t Hell: Marines To Try Silenced Infantry Battalion, also, Commander Sarah DeGroot Resigns
Weasel Zippers: Pipeline Protester’s Injuries Caused By “Criminal Activity”, Not Police, also, Press Largely Ignoring Recent Awesome Fossil Fuel-Related News
Mark Steyn: If You’ve Got It, Flaunt It


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Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro Just Became the Only Kind of Good Communist

Posted on | November 26, 2016 | 2 Comments

 

The dead kind:

Fidel Castro, who towered over his Caribbean island for nearly five decades, a shaggy-bearded figure in combat fatigues whose long shadow spread across Latin America and the world, is dead at age 90. His brother Raul announced the death late Friday night.
Millions cheered Fidel Castro on the day he entered Havana. Millions more fled the communist dictator’s repressive police state, leaving behind their possessions, their families, the island they loved and often their very lives. . . .
Few fired the hearts of the world’s restless youth as Castro did when he was young, and few seemed so irrelevant as Castro when he was old — the last Communist, railing on the empty, decrepit street corner that Cuba became under his rule.

Castro turned a tropical island paradise into an impoverished desolation. He sponsored subversion and terrorism worldwide, sending Cuban troops to fight to establish a Communist regime in Angola and encouraging Communist revolutions throughout Latin America. He was an immensely evil man, who devoted his life to spreading evil everywhere.

 

Category: Cuba

Welcome to Trump Territory

Posted on | November 24, 2016 | Comments Off on Welcome to Trump Territory

 

SOMEWHERE IN FLORIDA
Donald Trump got 61% of the vote in this county, winning it by a margin of 40,000 votes. Considering that Trump’s statewide margin in Florida was only 120,000 votes, that means he got a third of his win right here.

We can explain this in four words: Rich, old, white people.

This county is nearly 90% white, about 30% of the population is 65 or older, and the median value of homes is over a quarter-million dollars. About a third of the residents have a bachelor’s degree or more.

For all the talk about the economic woes of the white working class, which supposedly explains how Trump won the “Rust Belt” states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin, the fact is that middle- and upper-class voters, and especially older white folks with money, were the core of Trump’s 62 million voters. This was clearly evident in the Florida exit polls, where Trump got 57% of voters 65 and older, and 56% of those with incomes of $100,000 or more.

While progressives are trying to frighten people with the “Alt-Right” bogeyman, there are no neo-Nazis marching down the palm-tree-lined streets here. Trump won Florida by getting the votes of the same kind of people who always Republican — not angry skinheads, just regular middle-class people and, of course, old white folks with money.

There are a lot of old white folks with money in Florida, and thousands more of them move here every year. This county’s population is growing at about a 2% annual rate, and if you think about it, who retires to a Florida resort community? People with money, that’s who. OK, so go back about 20 years, to when today’s newly retired Floridians were in their 40s, what was happening? Republicans in 1994 took control of Congress for the first time in 40 years, and Newt Gingrich was leading the conservative opposition to Bill Clinton’s policy agenda.

Today’s 65- or 70-year-old Republican voter doesn’t mind a bit of bombast and, in a binary choice between Hillary and Trump, the choice for Trump wasn’t difficult, even if it wasn’t enthusiastic. This isn’t to say that Trump won only because of a “least bad option” rationale. Trump’s promise to fix the immigration problem — “Build a wall” — gained him strong support from many people who have tired of the weakness of Republicans who supported the “Gang of Eight” amnesty measure.

My point is that Donald Trump’s election is not evidence of any new “extremist” tendency among Republican voters. Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) have engaged in a ludicrous fear-mongering crusade intended to convince people that Trump’s election is a foreboding omen of incipient fascism, where roaming squads of Republican storm troopers will soon be rounding up Jews and homosexuals. Yet there is no rational basis for such political paranoia. The voters who elected Trump are not neo-Nazis. Most of them are the same people who would have voted Republican no matter who had won the GOP nomination, and they expect President Trump to implement a conservative policy agenda which, although it might not please Gender Studies majors or #BlackLivesMatter activists, is unlikely to justify the “Dark Nightmare of Neo-Fascism” persecution fantasies of the radical Left.

Somebody needs to tell these young kids the truth, i.e., your Republican grandma is not a Nazi, and Trump is not Hitler. Also, while we’re speaking truth, capitalism works and socialism fails, and maybe if you kids would stop moping and whining about how “oppressed” you are, you could get a real job, save your money, and 40 or 50 years from now, you’ll be living in sunny Florida, rich enough to vote  Republican.

 

Category: Election

In The Mailbox: 11.23.16

Posted on | November 23, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.23.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Reason To Be Thankful – Betsy DeVos As Education Secretary
Michelle Malkin: The Return Of Assassination Fascination
Twitchy: More Trouble In Paradise? Why Are All These Dems Pissed At Donna Brazile?
Louder With Crowder: Jimmy Kimmel Relentlessly Mocks PC Thanksgiving


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Science Proves That Only Unintelligent People Are Activists
American Power: Trump Disavows The Alt-Right
American Thinker: How To Blast Away The Left’s Attacks On Manliness
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Chaos by Patricia Cornwell
Da Tech Guy: Twitter Didn’t Know Jack
Don Surber: A Humbling Review Of Trump The Press, also, Tweet Of The Day
Dustbury: The Way We Weren’t
Jammie Wearing Fools: Trump Chooses Gov. Haley For UN Ambassador
Joe For America: Trump Wants Ben Carson For HUD
JustOneMinute: On The Troll Patrol
Pamela Geller: Trump’s NSA Pick Says “Islamism Is A Vicious Cancer…It Has To Be Excised”
Power Line: Spice Wars, also, Liberals Are Losing Their Minds
Shark Tank: If You Want Your Guns On Base, You Can Bring Your Guns On Base
Shot In The Dark: Let Me Set You Straight, Snowflake
STUMP: Trump The Press – The Saga Of How the Pundits Got It Wrong And The Beginning Of A Possible Series
The Jawa Report: Jawa Reading List – Report On African Taliban Media Network, also, Refugees? What Refugees?
The Political Hat: Happy Thanksgiving For 2016!
The Quinton Report: George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
This Ain’t Hell: Wednesday Morning Feelgood Stories, also, Michael John Fox – Phony Navy SEAL
Weasel Zippers: NYT Public Editor Admits Paper’s Coverage Was Biased Against Trump, also, Keith Ellison Cancels NYT Interview When He Finds he’ll be Asked About Louis Farrakhan
Megan McArdle: This Year, Give Thanks For The Kindness Of Strangers
Mark Steyn: Losers On The Left


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