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Polls Show Trump Support Collapse as Campaign Heads to Final Debate

Posted on | October 19, 2016 | 1 Comment

 

A month ago, support for Donald Trump was within a one-point margin of Hillary Clinton in the Real Clear Politics average of national polls, but since early October, the advantage in the presidential campaign has clearly shifted toward the Democrat. Trump’s support peaked at 45% in the RCP average on Oct. 2, and has since sagged to 41.7% in the head-to-head match-up, while Clinton’s support has increased over the past month from 44.9% to 49.2%. In a four-way race, with Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein on the ballot, Clinton enjoys a 7.3-point lead (46.3%-39%) in the RCP average. Examining the Electoral College map, RCP’s average of state polls show that Clinton at this point would win 333-205, carrying every “swing” state except Ohio.

With the final debate scheduled tonight, headlines suggest Clinton’s current momentum could enable her to further increase her lead:

Clinton Has 9-Point Lead as
Comeback Obstacles Loom for Trump
— Bloomberg

Fox News Poll: Clinton tops Trump by 6 points
— Fox News

Poll: Clinton up 4 points
over Trump in Arizona
— Arizona Republic

With less than three weeks until Election Day on Nov. 8, can anything turn this campaign around? Or is as I said on Oct. 8, is it already over?

 

Category: Democrats, Donald Trump, Election, Polls

In The Mailbox: 10.18.16

Posted on | October 18, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Is A Big Wikileaks Drop Coming Just Before The Last Debate?
Twitchy: That’s Not Funny! Angry Woman Goes Beast Mode On Cloven-Hooved Hillary Clinton Statue
Louder With Crowder: Second Project Veritas Video Exposes Democrat Plans For MASSIVE Voter Fraud


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Hillary Clinton, Whatever It Takes – Rigging The Election
American Power: Hillary’s Hacked E-Mails Present Grim Picture of The Woman Who’s Supposed To Be Our Savior
American Thinker: Trump’s Invisible Shield
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily News
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Drone Threat by Mike Maden
Da Tech Guy: The Unexpectedly Chronicles – Yep, No Fraud Here
Don Surber: Clintons Freaking Over WikiLeaks
Dustbury: This Shall Not Pass
Jammie Wearing Fools: “Rigorous Vetting”? Iraqi Refugee Pleads Guilty To Attempting To Help ISIS By Bombing Houston Malls
Joe For America: Postal Worker Brags On Social Media About Destroying Trump Ballots
JustOneMinute: An Unusual Trifecta
Pamela Geller: Report Shows Two-Thirds Of “Child Refugees” Actually Adults
Power Line: FBI Report – Hillary So Arrogant, Her Own Security Couldn’t Stand Her
Shark Tank: Rubio Crushes Murphy In Senate Debate, Calls Him “Untrustworthy” And “Ineffective”
Shot In The Dark: For Your Reading About Reading Pleasure
STUMP: Please Help Claire Berlinski Cover Bukovsky
The Jawa Report: That One Time I Thought I Was Wrong
The Political Hat: Dutch Euthanasia Goes Looney Tunes
The Quinton Report: DNC Bus Dumps Raw Sewage Down Storm Drain
This Ain’t Hell: Gretchen Evans, The Embellishing Sergeant Major
Weasel Zippers: Democratic Operative In Veritas Voter Fraud Videos Visited White House Over 200 Times, also, Texas Investigating Allegations Of Voter Fraud In Tarrant County (Fort Worth)
Megan McArdle: The Slow, Painful Death Of The Media’s Cash Cow
Mark Steyn: How Does It Feeeellll?


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Category: Linkagery

Of ‘Myths’ and Common Sense

Posted on | October 18, 2016 | 1 Comment

One of the basic propaganda tactics of the Left is to identify a cherished traditional belief as “myth,” and use this as a means of suggesting that opponents of leftist ideology are ignorant and prejudiced. We see this, for example, when the Left attacks any patriotic interpretation of American history as based in “myth.” It is a myth, left-wing intellectuals tell us, that the Pilgrims came to America seeking religious freedom, just like it is a myth that industrial capitalism is beneficial to society, and also a myth that radical Islam is a threat to world peace. All of this is about convincing us to trust intellectuals and distrust our own common sense.

The traditional values we learned from our parents and our churches are false consciousness, the Left wants us to believe, and anyone who argues in defense of those values is a hateful bigot in thrall to discredited myths. Feminists often use this tactic, but they certainly have no monopoly on it. Pedophiles also frequently use the same type of argument, and the editor of “Pedophiles About Pedophilia” (!!!) has a nasty habit of dismissing all of his critics as stupid, ignorant, prejudiced, etc. So when “Ender Wiggin” (as he calls himself) invoked the expert authority of “the scientists who actually study sexuality” against one of his critics, the need to defend common sense was apparent:

Because you are personally obsessed with this particular subject, you have accumulated a pile of references to “expert” sources that you can cite in support of your peculiar claims, so as to justify yourself in dismissing all critics as “narrow-minded idiots.” This is a crude tactic of propaganda, which can be (and is) used by advocates of every bogus belief system you could name — Islamic jihadists, Holocaust deniers, “climate change” doomsayers, etc. Bad causes supported by bad people generally produce bad arguments like yours, and your errors of logic and rhetoric are symptomatic of your problem. . . .
Not only are you sexually obsessed with children, but you are obsessed with convincing others that your perverse appetites are harmless, and you don’t want anyone connecting the dots between (a) your weird arguments, and (b) you, the actual human being who is making these weird arguments. You wish to avoid personal responsibility, and this itself is likewise symptomatic.
Pedophiles love to play the victim; they are prone to rationalizing their deviant preferences; and they viciously lash out at anyone who tries to hold them accountable for their wrongdoing. A psychologist coined the term “DARVO” (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) to describe this pattern of behavior, which is quite typical among sex offenders. We do not need any “experts,” however, but only common sense, to realize that the sex offender operates on a basis of secrecy and deception. . . .

Read the whole thing at Medium.com. Trust your common sense, and beware of anyone who calls your common sense belief a “myth.”



 

Category: Crime, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 10.17.16

Posted on | October 17, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.17.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Paris 2016 – Scenes From The Apocalypse
Twitchy: James O’Keefe Exposes Hillary’s Brownshirts
Louder With Crowder: Top Ten WikiLeaks You Need To Know
The Volokh Conspiracy: Chris Cuomo Blathers About How Only The Media Can be Trusted With Wikileaks


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Pressure Is Building
American Power: Donald Trump’s Untried Ground Game In Ohio
American Thinker: It’s Not An Election, It’s A War
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye Blue Monday
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Crime Plus Music
Da Tech Guy: John Ruberry – Yes, WikiLeaks Did Hack John Podesta’s E-Mails
Don Surber: 3000 Miles. Five Hillary Signs
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries
Jammie Wearing Fools: NBC Insider – “Trump Was Leading In The Polls, So The Tape Was Leaked To Derail His Bid”
Joe For America: WikiLeaks Catches Media Red-handed Doing What We’ve Been Saying They Do For Years
JustOneMinute: Frack This!
Pamela Geller: WikiLeaks – John Podesta Laments San Bernadino Murderers Were Muslims
Power Line: Who’s Deplorable?
Shark Tank: Bill Clinton Sex Tape With Thirteen-Year-Old To Be Released
Shot In The Dark: Welcome To The New Samizdat
STUMP: On Failed Predictions – Throwing It All In The Bin
The Jawa Report: Crooked Hillary’s Crooked Campaign Is Crooked
The Political Hat: Science And Sexism, Or Why Feminist Science Isn’t
The Quinton Report:
This Ain’t Hell: General James Cartwright Charged In Release Of Classified Information, also, Army Colonel Haring Claims Marines’ Infantry Officer Requirements Unrealistic
Weasel Zippers: Bomb Threat At Arizona GOP HQ, also, Chicago Gets Serious About Sky-High Murder Rate By Banning Western Cowgirl Playset
Mark Steyn: Moderation And The Santa Clause


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The Big Lie: ‘Rape Culture,’ the UVA Hoax and the Democrat-Media Complex

Posted on | October 17, 2016 | 2 Comments

The dishonest journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely and her dishonest source, Jackie Coakley, are both expected to testify in the UVA rape hoax trial that began today in Charlottesville, Virginia:

A defamation lawsuit filed by a former University of Virginia dean against Rolling Stone magazine for its botched article about an alleged gang rape at the Charlottesville school is set for trial starting Monday.
Nicole Eramo was the associate dean of students who counseled “Jackie,” an otherwise unidentified student whose tale of sexual brutality in a fraternity house set off a nationwide firestorm when the magazine published the article in November 2014. Eramo is suing the magazine for almost $8 million, saying A Rape on Campus cast her as the “chief villain.”
Lawyers for Eramo have included Jackie on their witness list. . . .
Charlottesville police investigated and found no evidence of rape. The magazine commissioned the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism to study the way the article was handled. That 13,000-word report?—?4,000 words longer than the article itself?—?found a systematic failure by the magazine, starting with relying too heavily on a single source: Jackie. The report also said the magazine, not Jackie, was to blame for the botched piece.
The magazine issued an apology in December 2014 for its failures in reporting and editing. The story was fully retracted four months later.

More from BuzzFeed, the New York Times and Hot Air.

Meanwhile, I’ve shared my own perspective on what the case means:

Erdely’s quasi-religious faith in Jackie Coakley’s gang-rape story shows how many journalists have become True Believers, dedicated progressive activists whose “reporting” is actually political propaganda. Liberal journalists seek to promote narratives that advance the movement’s agenda, and in the case of Erdely’s Rolling Stone story, the narrative was that teenage girls on university campuses are raped routinely raped by “privileged” male students, and that university administrators are complicit in this “campus rape epidemic.” . . .
Highlighting the “campus rape epidemic” clearly served the Democrats’ political interests. It is therefore no coincidence that Emily Renda was directly involved with the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault that Obama created by executive order on Jan. 22, 2014. Renda spoke at a February 2014 University of Virginia event entitled “Sexual Misconduct Among College Students. Another speaker at that UVA event was Catherine Lhamon, Assistant Secretary in the federal Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), who served as the Education Department’s designee to the White House task force. Renda attended six meetings at the White House, including one held on Feb. 21, 2014, was conducted by Lynn Rosenthal, then the White House Advisor on Violence Against Women. The connection between Renda, Lhamon and the Obama administration’s campus rape task force is directly relevant to the case of Eramo v. Rolling Stone, et al., because (a) both Renda and Lhamon were sources quoted in Sabrina Erdely’s false story, and (b) it was Renda’s testimony that first called Erdely’s attention to Jackie Coakley’s false claim of gang-rape at the Pi Kappa Phi house. . . .

Read the whole thing at The Patriarch Tree.



 

Category: Crime, Education, Media Bias, Sex Trouble

MS-13 Gang Terrorizes Town in N.Y.

Posted on | October 17, 2016 | 3 Comments

 

The New York Times reports:

For nearly two decades, MS-13, a gang with roots in Los Angeles and El Salvador, has been terrorizing [Brentwood, N.Y.], the authorities say, especially its young people. Since 2009, its members have been accused of at least 14 murders, court and police records show.
Tensions simmer here because some residents say they believe an increase in Central American migrants to town has led to the increase in gang violence. According to 2014 census figures compiled by Queens College, Brentwood’s population is 68 percent Latino or Hispanic, with more than 17,000 residents claiming to be from El Salvador.
MS-13 was formed in Los Angeles in the 1980s by immigrants from El Salvador escaping civil war. The abbreviation stands for Mara Salvatrucha, which roughly translates to “Salvadoran street posse.”
The authorities say the gang has been in Suffolk County since around 1998, and is organized in cliques bearing names like the Brentwood Locos Salvatruchas. Leaders gather to discuss their lines of business — extortion, prostitution, robbery, drug dealing — and to authorize the killings of chavalas, or members of rival gangs like the Bloods and the Crips, court papers say.

Cameron Gray notes that the national media have largely ignored the epidemic of violence in Brentwood, once a tranquil Long Island suburb:

A wave of brutal murders of black and Hispanic teens has gripped the town, and those who live there fear for the lives of their children, as well as their own.
Over two weeks in September, authorities found the bodies of Nisa Mickens, 15, and her best friend, Kayla Cuevas, 16, as well as Oscar Acosta, 19, and Miguel Garcia-Moran, 15. All four deaths are said to be at the hands of Hispanic gangs, and most likely MS-13.

Teenage girls kidnapped and murdered:

BRENTWOOD, Long Island — A teenage girl was found dead Tuesday night and on Wednesday a second body was found matching the description of her missing friend who was allegedly abducted after the teen was beaten to death, police say.
Nisa Mickens, 15, was found dead Tuesday night on the side of Stahley Street, just outside of the gate of Loretta Park Elementary School, and a passing motorist called the sighting into 911. The victim had at least 10 significant injuries that led police to believe she had been beaten to death and may have been struck by a vehicle, investigators say.
Mickens and her friend, 16-year-old Kayla Cuevas, were walking in the area when Mickens’ family say they believe gang members tried to kidnap Cuevas. Investigators say Mickens appeared to try fighting off the kidnappers, but was killed, her body left alongside the road.

If these teenagers had been killed by white cops, instead of being killed by Salvadoran gangsters, CNN would be providing round-the-clock coverage of the nationwide race riots. But not all murders are created equal, and some dead teenagers simply don’t matter to the liberal media.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

 

Category: Crime, Immigration, Media Bias

Rule 5 Sunday: J Is For Joan Jett

Posted on | October 16, 2016 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Not going to deny it – while I have great lust in my heart for Debbie Harry, and appreciation for a number of other musically-inclined ladies, there is no doubt that the hardest-rocking woman since Elvis was the King is Joan Marie Larkin, better known as Joan Jett. I mean, what’s not to like about somebody who quit taking guitar lessons because her teacher kept trying to teach her folk songs? So this week’s appetizer is a shot of the Godmother of Punk in her early days with the Runaways.

As usual, this post is chock-full of links to pics generally described as Not Safe For Work. The management is not responsible for whatever horrible fates befall you should you be indiscreet with your clicking.

Joan Jett: the early years

Joan Jett: the early years

Ninety Miles from Tyranny leads off this week with Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Girls with Guns, followed by Goodstuff with Kelly Hu, Animal Magnetism with Rule Five 911 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, and The Last Tradition with Leah Francis and Gigi Hadid.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes Nancy O’Dell, Sexy Burkas (banned on Amazon), Talulah Riley, Kellyanne Conway punching back twice as hard, Tape Leaker Campbell Brown, Susannah York, Cassie Jaye and The Red Pill, and Vintage Hollywood Halloween.

A View from the Beach submits A Disney Princess, Caitlin O’Connor, What Does a 100 lb Catfish Eat?, From Russia With Love, Another Great Idea I Forgot to Patent, ‘Client 9’ Gets Girl in Trouble, Ariel Winter Flashes, Then Bashes, Monday Paint Job, Beltway Battle, and “When the Rain Begins to Fall” for our enjoyment this week.

At Soylent Siberia, it’s your weekly coffee creamer, a Fall Foliage Monday Motivationer, Tuesday Titillation’s Going Blind, Humpday In The Park With Georgia, Falconsword Fursday Close Shave, Latent Lingerie, and a Weekender in Red.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Daisy Lea, his Vintage Babe is Tina Louise, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Victoria’s Secret. At Dustbury, it’s Marina and the Diamonds with Harris Faulkner.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

Rock & Roll Is Now ‘Rape Culture’

Posted on | October 16, 2016 | Comments Off on Rock & Roll Is Now ‘Rape Culture’

 

A few years ago, I saw a story (I could find a link, but don’t want to bother right now) about how groups like Led Zeppelin more or less habitually had sex with teenage groupies back in the 1970s. Given the rock-n-roll outlaw attitude — a cultural leftover of the Sexual Revolution back in hippie days, “the Summer of Love” and all that — no one could dispute that many teenage girls were eager to say they had been with Jimmy Page or whatever other rock icon they could get backstage to meet.

Flash-forward to the 21st century, when most Baby Boomers like me are already grandparents, and our hindsight reflection on that era of drugs, sex and rock-and-roll is blurred by more than the after-effects of whatever hallucinogenic substances we ingested back in the day. There are feminists who would tell you that all those rock icons were sexual predators, and that all those teenage groupies were victims.

Whatever. Feminists now agree with every fundamentalist tent-revival preacher that rock-and-roll is evil, and it is a well-known fact that Jimmy Page sold his soul to Satan and — let’s just get right down to it, OK? — America has been going straight to Hell ever since Elvis Presley started singing that Wicked Negro Devil Music, inciting girls to ungodly carnal lust with all those savage jungle voodoo rhythms and gyrating dances.

So it seems 21st-century feminism has brought us full circle to Eisenhower-era prudery, except everybody’s gay now, and heterosexuality is now the dreaded menace to America’s Youth. Such were the thoughts that inspired my most recent Medium essay:

Talia Borodin, now 37, has decided that an incident that occurred when she was 20 was rape. Far be it from me to dispute her right to tell her own story, and to share her own beliefs. What troubles me about her story, and about the current feminist “rape culture” discourse in general, is that it essentially exempts women from responsibility for their own sexual behavior.
Ms. Borodin describes a situation in which she was alone with a “cute boy” and they “fool around.” He was wearing only boxer shorts, and Ms. Borodin was evidently naked. Despite her insistence — she “vocalized it many times” — that she only wanted to “fool around,” he attempted to have sexual intercourse with her. She yelled at him to stop and he stopped.
The question is what we are supposed to learn from Ms. Borodin’s story. What is the didactic purpose? And this is a question that applies to feminist “rape culture” discourse in general. Is the purpose (a) to help prevent rape, or (b) to demonize heterosexual males, per se? . . .

Please read the whole thing, and if this makes me an accessory to “rape culture,” you can blame it on those savage jungle voodoo rhythms.




 


Category: Sex Trouble
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