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Late Night With In The Mailbox: 01.17.17

Posted on | January 18, 2017 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Harry Reid’s Legacy
EBL: Making Decimation Great Again
Twitchy: Protest Group Scales Back Plans To Block DC Traffic After Project Veritas Releases Undercover Videos
Louder With Crowder: CNN Tries To Force MLK III To Disavow Trump – He Refuses


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Obama Commutes Sentences of Bradley Manning and Puerto Rican Terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera
American Thinker: The Left Is Thoroughly Bamboozled
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily News
BLACKFIVE: Small Admissions by Amy Poeppel
Bring The HEAT: Desert Storm
Da Tech Guy: Baldilocks – Marc Lamont Hill Shows Us His Wits
Don Surber: Bill Gates Made No One Poor
Dustbury: Why There Will Be No TrumpCare
Hogewash: I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Jammie Wearing Fools: RIP Gene Cernan, Last Man On The Moon
Joe For America: Bikers For Trump To Build “Wall of Meat” To Block Anti-Trump Rioters
Power Line: Return Of The Leftover Left
Shark Tank: Republicans Expedite Obamacare Repeal, Democrats Plan Protests
Shot In The Dark: Fake Economic News
STUMP: Kentucky – A Flurry Of Anti-Union Legislation As Republicans Take Control
The Geller Report: Left Wing Paying People Huge Amounts To Protest Trump
The Lonely Conservative: Gravity, Black Holes, And Washington DC
The Political Hat: Abortion Wrongthink Verboten
This Ain’t Hell: About Jonn
War Is Boring: Russian Paratroopers Could Totally Mess Up The Baltic States
Weasel Zippers: Guns Found Stashed At Several Locations Along Potomac In DC, also, Maxine Waters Struggles To Explain Why Trump Should Be Impeached
Megan McArdle: The Myth Of The Medical Bankruptcy
Mark Steyn: Tribulations, But No Trials


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The #WomensMarch on Washington: Like ‘Seinfeld,’ It’s a Show About Nothing

Posted on | January 17, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

The organizers of Saturday’s Women’s March on Washington are Democrats who are protesting that a Republican won the election. Period.

However, admitting their crudely partisan motives would sort of undercut their claim to speak on behalf of all women (e.g., a majority of white women voted for Trump) and they have had difficulty explaining what their march is actually about. The person who skewers them most effectively, I must say, is Canadian radical feminist Meghan Murphy:

Since the March was announced, many feminists have wanted to know more: What is the purpose of the March? Is there an agenda? It is called a “Women’s March,” but is it for women only? (No.) Is the March “anti-Trump? (No.) Or even a protest? (Also no.) For a short while, though enthusiastic, many wondered how and if organizers would even be able to pull it off. But a permit was issued and the event is not only going to happen this Saturday, but is expected to be one of America’s biggest demonstrations.
But claims that the March is a radical one don’t exactly mesh with the message put forth by organizers.
“It’s an affirmative message to the new administration that ‘women’s rights are human rights,’” Vox reported, adding that “the event is being promoted as a ‘march’ or a ‘rally,’ but emphatically not a ‘protest.’”
Organizers’ insistence that the March doesn’t protest anything in particular could be interpreted as an effort to bring together as many people as possible. . . .
It’s odd to call something a “Women’s March” when it’s not really just for women, but the problems with the event extend far beyond that. Saying a thing is “woman-centered” is one thing, but actually centering women is another. The Women’s March, in their efforts to be “as inclusive as possible” have avoided naming the problem, leaving feminists to wonder how exactly the problem will be addressed, if we can’t even speak it out loud.

According to Ms. Murphy, the problem is simply men or, rather, “male violence,” but this just tips you off to the fact that Ms. Murphy is Canadian, because if she was American — and prone to dig around a bit in federal crime statistics — she’d realize why a bunch of Democrat protesters don’t want to get too specific about this problem. To put it bluntly, “male violence” in the United States is disproportionately caused by men who vote Democrat. Or at least, they probably would vote Democrat, if they weren’t so busy killing each other over drug turf in places like Chicago, where 10 people were gunned down over the MLK holiday weekend. Well, “intersectionality,” as the feminists say, but it’s not Trump voters who are terrorizing the streets of Chicago and — call it a hunch — I’m pretty sure this guy isn’t a Republican, either:

A Worcester, Massachusetts man faced a judge for human trafficking and rape charges after police say he paid $5,000 to smuggle a 14-year-old girl into the country, held her captive and sexually assaulted her.
Twenty-two-year-old Luis Santos was ordered to be held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing by a judge on Tuesday following his arrest last week.
Police say the girl apparently began talking with Santos on Facebook from El Salvador. She arrived in Worcester last month.
Police say she was forced to live in Santos’ apartment and share his bed. The girl accused Santos of touching her on multiple occasions.
Police say she was locked in a room and wasn’t allowed to use a phone or attend school most of the time.

Meanwhile, a “Black Lives Matter” protester is under arrest:

 

Javier Tra Dunn, 25, 4362 Hollywood St., was charged by an East Baton Rouge Parish grand jury Thursday with two counts of aggravated rape and one count of first-degree rape.
The indictment, filed into the court record Friday, accuses Dunn of raping the same alleged victim during three different time periods, beginning in 2012 when she was 5 and ending in late June when she was 9.
Dunn was arrested July 10 near Baton Rouge police headquarters on Goodwood Boulevard in July while protesting the fatal July 5 police shooting of Sterling. He was booked on counts of obstruction of a highway and resisting arrest.

Elsewhere in Louisiana:

 

A Shreveport man accused of raping a 5-year-old girl has been arrested.
The Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office says 20-year-old Jaquayveon Malik McGee was arrested Tuesday on a charge of first-degree rape. Bond was set at $75,000. It was unknown if he’s represented by an attorney.
Sheriff Steve Prator, in a news release Friday, said McGee’s arrest followed an investigation by Detective Larry Pierce into an incident that allegedly occurred Dec. 30 at the victim’s home in north Caddo Parish.
A family member of the child learned of the alleged sexual assault, took the child to a local hospital and reported the matter to the sheriff’s office.

Meanwhile, in California:

 

A man wanted for kidnapping, raping, and selling a 12-year-old Watsonville girl into prostitution was captured in Mexico.
In October, William Ortiz Ruiz took the girl to a motel in Watsonville, raped her, and then sold her as a prostitute, according to police.
Ruiz forced the girl to stay at the motel under threats of violence, Watsonville police said.
Mexican authorities and FBI agents found and arrested 21-year-old Ruiz in San Bartolomé Coro, Michoacán, Mexico last week.

Probably not a Trump voter.

Maybe because she’s from Canada, this isn’t obvious to Meghan Murphy, but here in America, there’s an awful lot of “male violence” Democrats never complain about, because Democrats are committing most of it.



 

 

Category: Crime, Sex Trouble

Shameless Lesbian Misquotes Bannon

Posted on | January 17, 2017 | 1 Comment

In a 2011 radio interview, when Steve Bannon was promoting his documentary Fire From the Heartland: The Awakening of the Conservative Woman, he pointed out that women like Sarah Palin exemplified a type of “women’s liberation” feminists never imagined:

“That, in fact, the women that would lead this country would be pro-family, they would have husbands, they would love their children. They wouldn’t be a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools up in New England. That drives the left insane and that’s why they hate these women.”

After Bannon joined the Trump campaign, his 2011 remark was spun into an expression of ignorant bigotry, which obviously it is not. The radical feminist movement indeed included a lot of lesbians from the elite “Seven Sisters” schools, e.g., Mount Holyoke College alumnae Joan Biren (Class of ’66) and Ginny Berson (Class of ’67), both founding members of the Furies collective. As a matter of fact, by the early 1990s, the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, was believed to have the highest per-capita concentration of lesbians in America, in part because it was home to Smith College, a Seven Sisters school, and only 15 miles from Mount Holyoke.  There certainly was a historical basis for Bannon’s description of New England “dykes” as prominent in radical feminism, but the distortions created by the liberal spin machine have a way of leaving a stain behind. And so “shameless lesbian” Jocelyn MacDonald, after quoting Andrea Dworkin, took this cheap shot at Bannon:

This is precisely why Steve Bannon, the neo-Nazi altar boy of our newly elected president, ridiculed women like Hillary Clinton — powerful, self-determining women — as a “bunch of dykes.”

That is such a complete misreading of what Bannon actually said as to be an almost 180-degree reversal of what he said. First, Bannon was praising the “powerful, self-determining women” of the conservative movement. Secondly, Bannon obviously wasn’t referring to Hillary Clinton in that 2011 interview. Although she attended a Seven Sisters school (Wellesley), Clinton had made her marriage to Bill Clinton the vehicle of her own ambition, and was perhaps in some sense less “self-determining” than Sarah Palin. The smear of Bannon as a “neo-Nazi” is just gratuitous character assassination, but the main point — which Jocelyn MacDonald for some reason wishes to ignore — is the extent to which “a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools” actually were influential in the feminist movement. It is remarkable that nothing makes feminists angrier than when someone tells the truth about feminism.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

Academics Protest Trump With Public Reading of French Homosexual’s Book

Posted on | January 17, 2017 | 1 Comment

This makes perfect sense at a certain level:

Many groups of scholars and writers are planning teach-ins or readings for Friday, the day Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated as president of the United States. Others are organizing teach-ins to focus on Trump’s policies.
Some anthropologists are taking a different approach. They are planning events that day in which people — together at locations across the country or virtually connected — will read and discuss a lecture presented by Michel Foucault, the late philosopher, as part of a series he gave at the Collège de France. The lectures have been published as a book, Society Must Be Defended. . . .
“This lecture strikes us as very good to think with at this present point: it demands we simultaneously consider the interplay of sovereign power, discipline, biopolitics and concepts of security, and race. In light of the current sociopolitical situation where the reaction to activism against persistent racism has been to more overtly perpetuate racism as political discourse, we need to remember and rethink the role of racism as central to, rather than incidental to, the political and economic activities of the state,” wrote the two scholars who organized the effort in a blog post at Savage Minds. The scholars are Paige West, the Claire Tow Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College and Columbia University, and JC Salyer, term professor of practice at Barnard.

Foucault was a gay French philosopher who died of AIDS in 1984. His postmodern (or poststructural) philosophy was typical of the French Left in the decadent political and intellectual aftermath of World War II. The Communist Party was so powerful in France that, when the Kremlin wished to signal a change in the party line in 1945, the chosen messenger was Jacques Duclos, the Stalinist leader of the French Communist Party. It was the infamous “Duclos letter” that spelled the doom of CPUSA Chairman Earl Browder (who had sought to maintain the old Popular Front line) and ushered in the anti-American stance of Cold War Communism. The extraordinary influence of Communism in post-WWII France helps to explain why French intellectuals like Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were so consistently anti-American, a tradition to which Foucault was an heir, and which made him a darling of American academics, whose hatred of America is their intellectual raison d’etre.

Michel Foucault and his 1976 book, ‘The History of Sexuality.’

Foucault is perhaps best known to American students for The History of Sexuality which is one of the main sources cited by Professor Judith Butler in her book Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (see pp. 23-24, 31-33, 124-127). Foucault’s idea of sexuality as regulated by “discourses” of power in turn influenced another of Professor Butler’s main sources, radical lesbian Monique Wittig (see “These Discourses of Heterosexuality Which Particularly Oppress All of Us”). The prevalence of Third Wave feminist “gender theory” in American universities has given Foucault a sort of academic immortality, and it is therefore a cliché that these Barnard College professors would choose this French homosexual as their Inauguration Day protest reading.

You may ask, “Who are these professors at Barnard?” Professor West is an anthropologist whose specialty is the natives of Papua New Guinea, while her colleague John C. Salyer is a staff attorney for the Arab American Family Support Center. Two years ago, West and Salyer gave a “Distinguished Lecture” at the American Museum of Natural History about — wait for it — the anthropology of climate change.

What are we to make of the claim by West and Salyer that “the reaction to activism against persistent racism has been to more overtly perpetuate racism as political discourse”? Are they talking about the “Black Lives Matter” movement, which provoked riots and murders of police? Are they perhaps talking about the Islamic terrorist attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, or the terrorist attacks in France and Germany? Do Americans “perpetuate racism as political discourse” simply by stating the self-evident fact that radical Muslims want to kill us all? Are we not permitted to say or do anything in defense of our own lives? And since we’re asking questions that these Barnard professors have never asked, let’s ask this: Why do parents pay $50,394 annual tuition for their daughters to attend Barnard College? Is it mainly because Barnard tuition is cheaper than having their daughters committed to an insane asylum?

(Via Memeorandum.)



 

Category: Education, Intellectuals

How Leftists ‘Think’

Posted on | January 16, 2017 | 2 Comments

Among the dishonest tactics of rhetoric routinely employed by the Left is the False Analogy, “Trump is Hitler” being the latest variation. Scarcely a year ago, the esteemed voices of liberal media were assuring us that Donald Trump was a bumbling idiot who could not possibly win the Republican nomination. Once he did win it, however, the same esteemed voices assured us that the bumbling idiot Trump was doomed to be defeated by the Glorious Leader of the Democratic People’s Party. As soon as this prediction was proven false, and Trump was elected president, the esteemed voices of liberal media hit the panic button: “TRUMP IS HITLER! FASCISM IS ON THE MARCH!”

In what sense is Donald Trump comparable to Hitler? Or why is Trump — who was supposed to be such an incompetent dimwit that he couldn’t be taken seriously — now suddenly analogous to the totalitarian who rose to power in Germany after he spent 12 years turning the once-obscure Nazi Party into a disciplined instrument of his will? Trump has not organized a mass movement with Stormtroopers and goosestep marches, he has merely run a winning campaign for a president, being elected to chief executive of a constitutional republic. Only because the Left has been so eager to expand the power of the federal government, and has spent the past eight years building a Cult of Personality around President Obama, whom liberals praised for his habit of governing by executive orders, can Trump’s presidency be imagined as anything like a dictatorship.

It is simple work to point out how Trump is nothing like Hitler, and therefore no serious person could believe such a thing, but this does not prevent liberals from suggesting it, and why? Because the bogus Trump-is-Hitler analogy helps inspire fear of the Republican president.

The circularity of liberal logic makes it fun trying to distill their arguments to the form of a syllogism. Who can’t spot the error in this?

Premise A: Vote Democrat because
Premise B: Trump is Hitler;

and therefore

Conclusion: Vote Democrat!

At some level, liberal ideology is simply partisan prejudice, and any expectation of logical coherence is doomed to be disappointed, as liberals will defend anything Democrats do while condemning Republicans for doing the same thing. It isn’t even necessary for a Republican to do anything in order for liberals to condemn him; the mere fact of his being a Republican means that whatever he does is wrong, ergo, vote Democrat!

Donald Trump has not even taken office yet, and has therefore committed no official act as president for which he can be condemned, but liberals aren’t letting that get in their way, are they? Because it is so easy to show what’s wrong with the Left’s modus operandi, the Left seeks to avoid any situation where they might be find themselves compelled to defend their claims against informed criticism. Their preferred venues are academia (where leftists get paid to lecture ignorant teenagers) and the broadcast media, where the message is controlled by editors and producers whose job is to make every story conform to the approved political narrative.

We are not supposed to notice this, just like we aren’t supposed to notice the word games involved. Try to pin down the Left, and you’ll find them doing a variation on the “clown nose on/clown nose off” trick, by which they avoid responsibility for their own ideas:

So the tautology

  • “as we can only think in words, we think in words”

becomes, clown nose on,

  • “as we can only think in words, words mediate our interaction with reality”

which with the addition of some baggy pants, floppy shoes, and a seltzer horn, becomes

  • “as words mediate our interaction with reality, words create our reality.”

which of course is logically equivalent to

  • “reality itself is nothing but words.”

And boom, you’re a Social Justice Warrior.

You should read the whole thing at Rotten Chestnuts.

 

Category: Intellectuals

In The Mailbox: 01.16.17

Posted on | January 16, 2017 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Elections Have Consequences – Clinton Global Initiative Shutting Down
Twitchy: Ben Shapiro Blasts Joss Whedon And His Vile Tweet About Paul Ryan
Louder With Crowder: High School Receives Hateful “KKK” Tweets – Sent By A Black Teen?


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Snow In Venice
American Power: Watch For The Left To Become Even More Ruthless
American Thinker: The Trump Dossier Puts The Deep State In Deep Sh!t
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye Blue Monday
BLACKFIVE: Duplicity by Ingrid Thoft
Bring The HEAT: Jets Fly Over Portland To Thank Life-Saving Pararescuers
Da Tech Guy: Why The MSM Fears Trump, Year 2 – Local Stories Vs. National Ones
Don Surber: Number Of People Who Will Lose Health Care Upon ACA Repeal Is Zero
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, The Last Big Top
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Joe For America: Celebs Sing “I Will Survive” In Awkward Anti-Trump Video That Immediately Backfires
JustOneMinute: Asymmetric Unintelligence
Power Line: Trump Hits Back At John Lewis, also, Democratic Bullies Try To Scuttle Trump’s Inauguration
Shark Tank: Florida Speaker Corcoran Loads His Six-Shooters
Shot In The Dark: Yesterday’s Felony…
STUMP: Connecticut – Day of Action For Higher Education!
The Geller Report: Muslim Wife Of Orlando Mass Murderer Finally Captured
The Lonely Conservative: Fake News Is Old News In The Drive-By Media
The Political Hat: Obama Awards Himself A Participation Trophy
This Ain’t Hell: MGEN John Rossi’s Suicide, also, The Closet Monsters
War Is Boring: Erik Prince’s Mercenaries Are Bombing Libya
Weasel Zippers: Harry Reid Aide Questions What Valerie Jarrett Did At The White House, also, Samantha Power Warns Against Cutting U.S. Funding of UN
Mark Steyn: This Masquerade


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FBI Arrests Wife of Orlando Killer

Posted on | January 16, 2017 | Comments Off on FBI Arrests Wife of Orlando Killer

Mike Arroyo of Fox News reports:

The FBI on Monday arrested the wife of the gunman in the Pulse Nightclub massacre on charges connected to the shooting rampage, investigators confirmed to Fox News.
The June 2016 shooting, seen as the deadliest in modern U.S. history, killed 49 people and wounded dozens more. Police shot and killed gunman Omar Mateen after a three-hour standoff, during which he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terror group.
The charges against his wife, 30-year-old Noor Salman, included aiding and abetting his attempts to support ISIS, as well as obstruction of justice. . . .
In April 2016, Mateen and Salman took their 3-year-old son to Walt Disney World, but their behavior reportedly was alarming enough for Disney officials to have contacted the FBI to alert them that Mateen and Salman appeared to be scouting the theme park as a venue for a potential attack. . . .
During the attack that began around 2:00 a.m. on June 12, Mateen placed 16 calls, an FBI source told FoxNews.com, and communicated by SMS, a texting service.
At least three calls were to 911 and one was to a local news service, during which he pledged his allegiance to ISIS and expressed support for the Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
He texted Salman during his shooting rampage, made posts to his Facebook account proclaiming his allegiance to ISIS and pledging more attacks, and according to an FBI source, used the social media platform Snapchat to communicate with at least one other person.

(Via Memeorandum.) There can be no doubt that the attack in Orlando was an act of Islamic terrorism. It was not, as feminist Amanda Marcotte tried to claim, a crime of “toxic masculinity,” and yet Democrats tried to use the Orlando attack to demonize Christians and Republicans.

 

Category: Islam, Terrorism

Astrology and ‘Heteropatriarchy’: Two Things That Don’t Explain Your Problems

Posted on | January 16, 2017 | 3 Comments

 

“Mercury in retrograde” — as soon as you hear someone offer this as an explanation for something, back away slowly and quietly. You’re dealing with a dangerous kook, and sudden movements might set them off.

“Mercury in retrograde” is a dye-marker of belief in astrology, and you don’t want to be in the proximity of anyone foolish enough to believe such ridiculous nonsense. Belief in astrology is like theosophy or voodoo or Keynesian economics — a hallmark of poor judgment. Bad things happen when you start hanging around losers like that. Avoid them.

Go take a look at the Twitter search results for “Mercury retrograde” and you will notice that it’s almost entirely women. You can explain that however you wish, but doesn’t the unusual prevalence of belief in astrology among women also tell us something about feminism?

 

Like astrology, feminism is a quasi-religious belief system that tells people that their problems are caused by circumstances beyond their control. It’s not her fault she didn’t get hired for that job, feminism tells the young women — she’s a victim of sexist discrimination. The college girl got drunk at a frat party and did things she regrets? That’s certainly not her fault, feminism tells her — she’s a victim of “rape culture.”

Or maybe Mercury was in retrograde.

Feminism offers a ready-made excuse for anything a woman might be unhappy about, so the feminist movement attracts a lot of unhappy women who need excuses for what’s wrong with their lives. Read more

Category: Education, Religion, Sex Trouble
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