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No, Donald Trump Won the Debate

Posted on | September 27, 2016 | Comments Off on No, Donald Trump Won the Debate

 

Liberals are calling Monday night’s debate a win for Hillary Clinton, as might be expected, and even producing snap polls claiming to support this claim as a fact, as might also be expected, I guess. However, the reality is that Donald Trump did not lose the debate, and thereby won.

What was Trump’s basic challenge going into the debate? That he was “not presidential,” without the necessary standing to challenge an experienced politician like Hillary. And yet there he was, side-by-side on stage with her, clearly unintimidated by her.

Did he score any knockout blows? No. Did he persuade any liberals? No. But no one could have reasonably expected such an outcome. Trump committed no great gaffes or blunders, he evaded moderator Lester Holt’s “gotcha” questions and, if at times Trump was “not presidential,” he was not so un-presidential as to disqualify himself in the eyes of any voter who prior to Monday night had considered voting for Trump.

Ross Douthat makes some apt criticism of Trump’s debate performance, but it’s not Harvard-educated pundits who are Trump’s core constituency. This is one of the basic problems with political punditry: Highly educated (and highly ideological) commentators have difficulty imagining how things look to the average voter in Ohio or Florida. Remember how the Bernie Sanders boom during the Democrat primaries caught much of the journalistic world by surprise, in much the same way that Trump’s success in the GOP primaries shocked professional pundits on the Right.

 


Category: Debates, Donald Trump, Election, Hillary Clinton

Not the Droids You’re Looking For

Posted on | September 27, 2016 | Comments Off on Not the Droids You’re Looking For

Move along:

The Turkish immigrant accused of gunning down five people at a Washington mall smirked at his first court appearance Monday even as reports revealed he had a blog with photo posts of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. . . . Authorities said they have not ruled out terrorism as a motive in the shooting at the Cascade Mall in Burlington.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

 

Category: Islam, Terrorism

In The Mailbox: 09.26.16

Posted on | September 26, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.26.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Arnold Palmer RIP
Twitchy: Brutal New Trump Ad Uses Hillary To Mock Hillary
Louder With Crowder: Corrupt Judge Rules to Keep Hillary E-Mails Hidden From Voters Until After Election


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Our Politicians’ Convenient Lies
American Power: Protest Thugs And The Real Evil In Charlotte
American Thinker: The Mark Of Soros – Charlotte, NC
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Ring Of Lies by Roni Dunevich
Da Tech Guy: John Ruberry – Why Trump Will Win Tonight’s Debate
Don Surber: “Mostly True” When Bernie Said It, “Mostly False” When Trump Says It
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries
Jammie Wearing Fools: Par For The Course – King Putt Remembers Arnold Palmer With A Photo Of Himself
Joe For America: Father Of The St. Cloud Mall Stabber Has Something To Say
JustOneMinute: Another Booth Review
Pamela Geller: Muslim Teacher Sues School Over 9/11 Film
Power Line: Glenn Kessler Indicates Why Moderators Shouldn’t “Fact Check”
Shark Tank: Trump Receives First Ever ICE Endorsement
Shot In The Dark: Shocked. Shocked, I Tell You
The Political Hat: News Of The Week
The Quinton Report: Leo Dymowski Runs For Circuit Judge
This Ain’t Hell: VA Chastised For Art Spending
Weasel Zippers: Democrat Calls Navajo Woman A “Token” Minority Used To Oppose Obama Policies
Megan McArdle: FDA’s Dangerous Deals With Reporters


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Rule 5 Sunday: Life Is Beautiful

Posted on | September 25, 2016 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that despite all the horrible things happening in the world, life here in America is beautiful. Great scenery, beautiful women (and handsome men), the ability to live comfortably without being wealthy and powerful…yeah, it could be a lot worse. This weekend the Life Is Beautiful music festival was here in Las Vegas, and while it may not have been the huge deal that Electric Daisy Carnival was, it appeared to be a pretty good time for a lot of folks here in Downtown Las Vegas. One of the featured acts last year was Lindsey Stirling, the violinist/dancer who’s become a superstar by ignoring conventional music wisdom (and Piers Morgan :v) while working in a variety of musical genres.

As usual, many of the following links are to pictures generally considered not safe for work (NSFW) and the management is not responsible for whatever happens if you lack discretion in the clicking.

Lindsey Stirling performing at the 2015 Life Is Beautiful festival

Lindsey Stirling performing at the 2015 Life Is Beautiful festival

Ninety Miles from Tyranny leads off this week with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns, followed by Goodstuff with Michelle Rodriguez doing candy and SCIENCE! Animal Magnetism contributes Rule Five Preference Cascade Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon this week.

EBL’s herd of heifers this week includes Turning Japanese (too much porn?), Oktoberfest 2016, Keely Smith, Sarah Vaughn, Julie London, Gennifer Flowers, and AT&T girl Milana Vayntrub.

A View from the Beach returns with Marion Cotillard – The “Other” Woman?, “Austin”, How Do You Get Bad Science?, Brain Dead Buffalo at Clinton.com?, Chasing the Bone…, Alas, No More Brangelina to Kick Around, and “Skateaway”

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Baylee Curran, his Vintage Babe is Anouk Aimee, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Guess. At Dustbury, it’s Dinah Washington and Juliet Prowse.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday is midnight on Saturday, Ocotber 1; deadline to submit links to the Wombat-socho
mailbox for the FMJRA is noon on Saturday – and thanks again to everyone who helped make last week’s Rule 5 Sunday post the top-linked post her on The Other McCain!


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FMJRA 2.0: Let The Music Do The Talking

Posted on | September 24, 2016 | 2 Comments

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Rule 5 Sunday: #RollTide
Regular Right Guy
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

Andrea Dworkin Accused Hillary Clinton of ‘Betraying Younger Women’
Regular Right Guy
The Political Hat
Batshit Crazy News
EBL@RedState

FMJRA 2.0: Every Picture Tells A Story
The Pirate’s Cove
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 09.19.16
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

Bombing Suspect Ahmad Rahami Captured After Shootout With Police
Batshit Crazy News

Islamic Terrorist Ahmad Rahami Traveled to Foreign Hotbed of Islamic Terrorism
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 09.20.16
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 09.21.16
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News
EBL@RedState

Transgender Cult Update
Batshit Crazy News
EBL@RedState

#Charlotte ‘RUN THEM DOWN’ Gets @Instapundit Suspended From @Twitter
The Lonely Conservative
Batshit Crazy News
EBL@RedState

In The Mailbox: 09.22.16
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

Yes, #BlackLivesMatter Is About Hate
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

Feminism, and the Failure Thereof
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 09.23.16
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (14)
  2.  Proof Positive (6)
  3.  A View from the Beach (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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Crazy People Are Dangerous (and @scaramouche2017 Is Deb Frisch)

Posted on | September 24, 2016 | 2 Comments

“WARNING: Debbie Frisch has criminal convictions for assault, stalking, harassment and threatening (while intoxicated) . . . If she grows threatening or tries to stalk you, contact San Diego Sheriff’s Department (858) 565-5200 (she now resides in their jurisdiction Encinitas / Olivenhain, California).”
— Teh Internets Are Forever, Debbie

When last we took notice of Deborah Frisch, Ph.D., the former psychology professor had been arrested again, shortly after her March 2015 release from jail in Eugene, Oregon, on charges of making a false police report. For those who don’t remember, Dr. Frisch is the moonbat whose online harassment of Protein Wisdom blogger Jeff Goldstein in 2006 got her fired from the University of Arizona. One of the terms of her 2015 conviction in Oregon was that Dr. Frisch “must complete a mental health evaluation,” and I’m sure we’d all love to see that report, if it ever becomes part of the public record.

Dr. Frisch has reportedly moved to San Diego County, California, in the past year, and I’d forgotten all about her until she decided to CC me on a series of weird emails she sent Friday, making false accusations against Instapundit and PJMedia. Why did she CC me? I don’t know, but considering that 12 other people were CC’d on Dr. Frisch’s email, and given the potentially injurious nature of her false claims, I felt obliged to reply, CCing to all, informing them of who Dr. Frisch is:

Why Doctor Frisch CC’d me on this message, I am not sure, but I reply to it (with BCCs to knowledgeable parties) to inform you that Doctor Frisch’s habit of stalking and harassing her “enemies” (as she imagines them) is a matter of public record. You may consult some of the links at this page — http://www.debfrisch.com/ — to get an idea of Doctor Frisch’s known pattern of behavior, which many observers have suggested is symptomatic of serious mental illness. While I am not qualified to make a professional diagnosis, it has long been my personal opinion that Doctor Frisch is deranged, demented, bonkers, wacky, off her rocker, and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. — RSM

Now you might suppose that, after I had thus undermined whatever credibility she might have had with the dozen CC’d recipients of her email, Dr. Frisch would have desisted from her harassment. Ah, but obviously you don’t know her kind of cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs craziness! The demented ex-professor replied with what I interpreted as a threat to make a false police report against me, and this is what I wrote in reply:

Doctor Frisch:
The wreck you have made of your life because of your paranoid pseudo-political vendettas is, as I say, a matter of public record. What inspired you to make this bizarre accusation against Professor Reynolds, et al., I do not know, and I am equally mystified as to why you would CC me on your correspondence. Were you to solicit my advice, I would tell you to stop hunting around for “enemies” to blame for your problems, which are entirely of your own making. The last time I had to give advice like this to someone, it was Barrett Brown, who subsequently flipped out, threatened an FBI agent in a YouTube video rant, and is now serving time in federal prison.
You will bring only further humiliation upon yourself, and quite possibly be subject to criminal prosecution, if you continue doing the kind of things that have caused you problems in the past.
— RSM

Notice what I did not say — at no point did I express any intent to take action against Dr. Frisch, and I have no such intention. However, it can be predicted that if Dr. Frisch continues this lunatic behavior, pretty soon someone will report her to California authorities, and put them in touch with authorities in Oregon (where Dr. Frisch’s probation doesn’t expire for another six months), and it’s going to be handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit for the kooky professor, IYKWIMAITYD.

Why is she posting this stuff on Twitter? I don’t know. Crazy is as crazy does. But if she doesn’t cease and desist from her craziness, Dr. Frisch may soon find herself visiting Metropolitan State Hospital.

 


Category: Neutral Objective Journalism

Never Take Advice From Feminists (The @FactoryGrrrl Edition)

Posted on | September 24, 2016 | 2 Comments

How many times do I have to explain why you should never take romantic advice from feminists? Feminism is a movement organized around the grievances of unhappy women. If a woman is happy and successful in her life, she doesn’t need feminism, and so everything that feminists write about love and sex should be viewed with extreme skepticism, as I’ve explained: “Unless your goal in life is to become a Crazy Cat Lady, there’s not much expertise to be had from feminists.” And really, is it so difficult to become a Crazy Cat Lady that you need expert advice to do it?

Zara Barrie (@FactoryGrrrl on Twitter) describes herself as “Senior Sex and Dating writer” for the sketchy website Elite Daily, as well as editor of the sketchy website’s Queer Culture section.

Did I mention that Elite Daily is sketchy? A 2013 profile of the website:

The founder, David Arabov, is alleged to be the son of Jacob Arabo, or Jacob the Jeweler, the Harry Winston of hip-hop. In 2007 Arabo was accused of money laundering and pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents and filing false documents with the federal government. . . .
To make matters even shadier, many of the stories . . . are written under pseudonyms.
Writers such as Preston Waters, Paul Hudson, Ashton Tyler, William Kent, and Eddie Cuffin are very real (I spoke to each of them). But their names aren’t.
Preston Waters is actually David Arabov himself; Paul Hudson is Paul Jurczyk; Eddie Cuffin is Edin Veljovic, Ashton Tyler is Max Grunner, and William Kent is Robert Saintlot. . . .
A number of these pen name writers believe there is no responsibility in telling the truth when it comes to their byline or bio, as long as the articles themselves are accurate.

See what I mean? For all we know, “Zara Barrie” is just a made-up name, and what kind of authority is she on “Sex and Dating”? How is she qualified as an expert whose advice other people should heed?

Such questions are never asked of the 21st-century advice blogger. Any feminist who can persuade a sketchy website to publish her advice is as “qualified” as any other feminist sex-advice blogger out there, which is to say they are all equally sketchy. Basically, the feminist advice racket presumes that the world is full of women so completely stupid they have to Google questions like, “What’s a vulva?”

Feminist sex-advice bloggers are convinced that they are the only ones who know anything about sex. The rest of us are utterly ignorant on the subject, which is why we need feminist sex-advice bloggers to lecture us about the “myths” and “stereotypes” we supposedly believe. And since we’re on the topic of myths and stereotypes . . .

“Straight men are completely and utterly clueless when it comes to women.”

That quote by Zara Barrie is from her October 2015 column, “Sex And Dating Tips For Men From A Lesbian,” which she followed up with a May 2016 column, “Sex And Dating Advice For Men From A Lesbian (Part 2).”

Notice that she did not say that “some” heterosexual men are clueless, nor that “most” heterosexual men are clueless, and so we must gather that all heterosexual men are not just “slightly” clueless nor are we “somewhat” clueless. No, merely by dint of being both male and heterosexual, we are “completely and utterly clueless.” No man in history has ever known anything at all “when it comes to women,” according to Zara Barrie, Lesbian Feminist Sex Blogger for a Sketchy Website.

Pause here, my friends, to consider the question of motive. Isn’t it true that feminists hate men? And shouldn’t we particularly presume that a lesbian feminist has an abiding contempt for males quite generally? Isn’t it safe to say that the mere thought of a penis fills her with feelings of dread and horror? Isn’t she opposed to heterosexuality, per se? So why would we assume that Zara Barrie, Lesbian Feminist Sex Blogger for a Sketchy Website, would do men any favors in terms of giving them useful advice? Zara Barrie never wants to have sex with a man, and doesn’t want any other woman to have sex with men, either. Like every other feminist, Zara Barrie is fanatically committed to the abolition of heterosexuality.

Am I generalizing too broadly here? Well, if Zara Barrie can declare that I am “completely and utterly clueless when it comes to women” without having ever met me, I don’t feel any need to mince words in describing her as The Enemy of All Heterosexuals Everywhere:

There are several times throughout the day that I quietly whisper to myself, “Thank god I don’t have to sleep with one of these vile creatures.” I will usually then turn to the straight woman to my left and ask “How the hell do you sleep with these vile creatures?” to which she will almost always shake her head, look me dead in the eye and reply, “I have no f*cking idea.”

Males are “vile creatures,” according to Zara Barrie, and every woman she knows shares her agreement that men are universally “vile.”

Except . . . no, actually she’s doing what PUAs call “negging.”

Zara Barrie is a classic example of Poor Little Rich Girl Syndrome. I was joking when I said “Zara Barrie” is a made-up name. Her father made his fortune in the perfume industry and her mother is a British-born former fashion model. At the 2013 Planned Parenthood Annual Dinner in Sarasota, “the always glamorous Lynn and Richard Barrie” were among the guests, and when Zara left for New York last year, the going-away party for the local “socialite” also made headlines in Sarasota.

What Zara Barrie is doing in denouncing heterosexual men as “vile creatures” who are “clueless” is conveying her disdain for her social inferiors. No man is good enough for her, and Zara Barrie wants to let every man know that she considers him contemptible — “negging.”

Oh, I hear you: “Wait, Stacy — don’t PUAs ‘neg’ women in order to undermine their self-esteem to make them easier to pick up?”

Exactly. And there’s always a backstory, you see. Let’s go back to teenage Zara at “a Jewish arts camp in the Berkshires”:

The summer of my fifteenth year, I was a fearlessly outspoken beanpole of a girl, skipping through the damp grass shoeless, as I kissed every cute punk boy beneath the sprawling, star-scattered New England sky without a semblance of regret.
But an entire lifetime happened between the precarious ages of 15 and 16. . . .
It’s been a year of toxic romance, the unpleasant loss of virginity, substance experimentation and unshakeable pressure to live up to the impossible media interpretation of what a 16-year-old girl is supposed to look like.
I hate the way I look. Seemingly overnight, my body has metamorphosed from being a string bean kid to a woman with hips and curves and breasts.
I don’t like it.

This is a familiar tale of adolescent woe, as Zara complains of “unwelcome lingering eyes grazing my breasts from men old enough to be my father; catcalls in the parking lot of CVS from bearded boys smoking cigarettes out the windows of diesel trucks; subtle yet uncomfortably seductive glances from my sister’s boyfriend the moment she leaves the room.” Her discomfort with her “hips and curves and breasts” leads to anorexia — a typical problem of Poor Little Rich Girls. Read more

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 09.23.16

Posted on | September 23, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Feminist Jody Allard Is A Terrible Person And A Bad Mother
Twitchy: “How Is That not Classified?” Apparently Hillary Had E-Mails To Obama On Her Private Server
Louder With Crowder: Netanyahu Calls UN A “Global Moral Farce”
A View From The Beach: To Die In Modesto


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Adam Piggott: Podcast #19 – The Advice To 18-Year-Old Me Episode
American Power: Glenn Reynolds “Planning On Quitting Twitter”
American Thinker: The Lie That Launched Black Lives Matter
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Rule Five Preference Cascade Friday
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Downfall By J.A. Jance
Da Tech Guy: I’m Blocking USA TODAY For One Month Till Instapundit’s Suspension Is Done
Don Surber: Did Trump Just Take Pennsylvania?
Dustbury: Quote Of The Week
Jammie Wearing Fools: Mostly Peaceful Protester Arrested For Murder During Charlotte Riots
Joe For America: Fourteen Clinton Non-Profits And Super PACs Caught Laundering Money
JustOneMinute: Debate Prep For Hillary, With Everything Omitted
Pamela Geller: Former CDU Politician – “Merkel Has Lost Contact With The Real World”
Power Line: Hillary Thinks The Third World Has A Right To Move To The U.S.
Shark Tank: Corrine Brown Plays The Race Card For Charges Against Her
Shot In The Dark: Fear The Walking Sheep
STUMP: Calpers Reactions – Let’s Hear From Everybody!
The Lonely Conservative: If Your Car Is Surrounded By A Rioting Gang Of Thugs, What Do You Do?
The Political Hat: California’s War On Cow Farts
This Ain’t Hell: “Thoroughly Vetting” Refugees? Hardly!
Weasel Zippers: E-Mail Shows Federal Immigration Bosses Pushing To Swear In New Citizens “Due To Election”
Megan McArdle: The Depression Was Great For The American Kitchen


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