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In The Mailbox: 10.05.18

Posted on | October 5, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.05.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

If I had any brains, I’d be continuing to pack and throw things in the garbage, but…here we are.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Schrodinger’s Kavanaugh
Twitchy: Sen. Murkowski Will Change Her Vote On Kavanaugh Tomorrow (For A Good Reason)
Louder With Crowder: Episode #398 – Kavanaugh & Rape Culture Hysteria With Ted Cruz
According To Hoyt: Almost The End of The World
Monster Hunter Nation: My Russian Bot Review Of The Last Jedi
Vox Popoli: Why Kindle Unlimited Is Killing E-Books
Small Dead Animals: Three Academics Expose Corruption In Grievance Studies (h/t Zendo Deb @357 Magnum)
Bayou Renaissance Man: Doofus Of The Day (h/t Loyal Reader R.H.)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Thinker: Mob Rule Comes To America
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Service Rifle Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For October 5
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday, Part Deux, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Round 1 – Manchin Yes, Murkowski No
Don Surber: The Story Of The Year, also, Kavanaugh Vote Will Re-Elect Manchin
Dustbury: And Then There Were (Almost) None
First Street Journal: Good News!
The Geller Report: Vile Antisemite Linda Sarsour Says Sen. Gillibrand “Works For Us On The Inside”, also, UW-Madison Muslim Student Stirs Outrage Over Terrorism Class Because It Mentions Jihad
Hogewash: Taking The Long Term View, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
JustOneMinute: Kavanaugh Cloture Passes
Legal Insurrection: Sarah Palin Tweets “Hey Lisa Murkowski – I Can See 2022 From My House,” also, Sen. Collins Is A Yes On Kavanaugh
The PanAm Post: Tyrannophilia – The Love Of Tyrants, also, Is Jair Bolsonaro The Lesser of Two Evils?
Power Line: How Far Will Democratic Party Violence Go? also, Trump Comes To Rochester
Shark Tank: October’s “Red Wave” Is Not What You Think
Shot In The Dark: Snatching Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory, also, The Seventh Seal
The Political Hat: Of Bath Salts & Presidential Campaigns
This Ain’t Hell: Friday Morning Feelgood Stories, also, Doxxing Boy Update
Victory Girls: A Nation Of Twelve Angry Men – Reasonable Doubt For Everyone But Judge Kavanaugh
Volokh Conspiracy: California’s Unconstitutional Gender Quotas For Corporate Boards
Weasel Zippers: Best Thing Ever – Feinstein After She Read Part Of FBI Report, also, #MAGA – U.S. Unemployment Hits 49-Year Low
Megan McArdle: There’s No Cleaning Up The Kavanaugh Mess
Mark Steyn: “We’ve All Had Our Whack”


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Category: Linkagery

BREAKING: Anti-Male Georgetown University Professor Now on Leave

Posted on | October 5, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

The fight over the Kavanaugh nomination produces more good news:

An anti-Trump professor, Dr. Carol Christine Fair, is no longer teaching classes at Georgetown University following calls for the outspoken liberal educator to be fired.
Fair stirred up controversy on Twitter when she wished miserable deaths upon Republican senators supporting Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
“Look at [this] chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist’s arrogated entitlement,” she wrote. “All of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps. Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? Yes.”
Her account was de-verified and temporarily suspended Tuesday for violating Twitter’s rules, but until Friday, the university had taken no action against the controversial professor.
A Georgetown spokesperson told Fox News Fair is no longer teaching students, but will be traveling internationally for university research.
Joel Hellman, dean of the School of Foreign Services (SFS) where Fair is a distinguished associate professor, made the statement Friday afternoon pointing to the importance of a bias-free classroom where students can learn.
“To prevent further disruption to her students and out of an abundance of caution for the security of our community, we have mutually agreed for Professor Fair to go on research leave effective immediately,” Hellman wrote in a statement to the SFS community. “Professor Fair will accelerate previously scheduled international research travel.” . . .
“We can and do strongly condemn the use of violent imagery, profanity, and insensitive labeling of individuals based on gender, ethnicity or political affiliation in any form of discourse,” Hellman said. . . .
Days before, Fair went on a Twitter tirade against Kavanaugh, calling the embattled nominee a “rapist” and “perjurer.” She described the GOP as a “f—ing death cult” and “filthy swine.”

 

It’s impossible to exaggerate how much feminists hate men. Now if every feminist professor in academia would just emulate Professor Fair and say what she really thinks, we could get them all fired.

Oh, speaking of good news, Saturday will be my 59th birthday.

The best way to wish me a happy birthday, of course, is to remember the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

UPDATE: It doesn’t get much better than this:

“What is best in life? To crush your enemies. See them driven before you. And to hear the lamentations of their women.”



 

 

Category: Education, Sex Trouble

Truth Triumphs Over Lies: Collins, Flake, Manchin Will Vote ‘Yes’ on Kavanaugh

Posted on | October 5, 2018 | Comments Off on Truth Triumphs Over Lies: Collins, Flake, Manchin Will Vote ‘Yes’ on Kavanaugh

 

Cue the sad trombone for the #Resistance mob. Barring unforeseen developments, it now appears that the Senate will confirm Brett Kavanaugh as the next associate justice of the Supreme Court:

Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh is heading to confirmation to the Supreme Court this weekend after two key undecided senators — Susan Collins of Maine and Joe Manchin III of West Virginia — announced Friday that they would support his elevation to the high court, ending the most divisive confirmation fight in decades.
Ms. Collins’ lengthy speech on the Senate floor dwelled as much on Judge Kavanaugh’s judicial record as on the sexual misconduct charges that have consumed his nomination. She did conclude, “We will be ill-served in the long run if we abandon the presumption of innocence.” . . .
Mr. Manchin, a Democrat, immediately followed with a statement proclaiming his support.
“I have reservations about this vote given the serious accusations against Judge Kavanaugh and the temperament he displayed in the hearing,” he wrote. “And my heart goes out to anyone who has experienced any type of sexual assault in their life. However, based on all of the information I have available to me, including the recently completed F.B.I. report, I have found Judge Kavanaugh to be a qualified jurist.” . . .
With the Senate and the nation bitterly divided, Judge Kavanaugh’s future came to rest with four undecided senators: three Republicans — Jeff Flake of Arizona, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Ms. Collins — and one Democrat, Joe Manchin III of West Virginia. But one by one, they let their positions be known.
Mr. Flake said Friday that he would vote for Judge Kavanaugh “unless something big changes.”

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)

UPDATE: In the speech announcing her intention to vote “yes,” Sen. Collins took direct aim at Michael Avenatti’s client Julie Swetnick:

The presumption of innocence is relevant to the advice and consent function when an accusation departs from a nominee’s otherwise exemplary record. I worry that departing from this presumption could lead to a lack of public faith in the judiciary and would be hugely damaging to the confirmation process moving forward. Some of the allegations levied against Judge Kavanaugh illustrate why the presumption of innocence is so important. I am thinking in particular not of the allegations raised by Professor Ford, but of the allegation that, when he was a teenager, Judge Kavanaugh drugged multiple girls and used their weakened state to facilitate gang rape. This outlandish allegation was put forth without any credible supporting evidence and simply parroted public statements of others. That such an allegation can find its way into the Supreme Court confirmation process is a stark reminder about why the presumption of innocence is so ingrained in our American consciousness.

Avenatti immediately lost his fecal continence on Twitter.


 

Category: Senate, Supreme Court

She Is Not Even a Good Liar

Posted on | October 5, 2018 | 1 Comment

Further evidence of Christine Blasey Ford’s dishonesty — as if we needed further evidence — includes her story that the reason she first discussed Judge Kavanaugh with her husband was that, while remodeling their home in 2012, she wanted to add an extra front door because of her trauma-induced claustrophobia. We know that this claustrophobia excuse is false, because her ex-boyfriend Brian Merrick has contradicted her. Steve Sailer explains that the real reason the Fords wanted a second front door was so that they could rent out a room in the skyrocketing Palo Alto real-estate market. Furthermore, if Professor Ford didn’t mention her youthful acquaintance with Judge Kavanaugh to her husband until 2012, there was an obvious reason: It was a presidential election year, and Judge Kavanaugh was mentioned as being high on the list of possible Supreme Court nominees if a Republican were elected. As early as December 2011, the Huffington Post declared: “Judge Brett Kavanaugh is almost invariably the first name Supreme Court watchers volunteer as the next conservative justice.” In March 2012, Judge Kavanaugh was profiled by Jeffrey Toobin in the New Yorker. It has been often remarked that Professor Ford refused to turn over to the Judiciary Committee the notes from the 2012 therapy session which were cited by the Washington Post as corroborating her story. So her account of the origins of her recovered memory are suspicious and, when we consider that she coached her friend Monica McLean how to pass a polygraph, then lied about this during her testimony to the committee, we have every reason to believe that Professor Ford is a liar — but not a very good liar.

The cloture motion on Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination just passed the Senate, with Sens. Collins, Flake and Manchin all voting “yes.” If they are also “yes” in the final vote for confirmation, by Monday, we will be speaking of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

UPDATE: Bipartisan vote-swapping:

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh advanced in the Senate Friday by a 51-49 margin, prevailing on a critical procedural measure and setting up a final confirmation vote likely on Saturday.
Two senators broke with their parties to produce the result, as Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska) voted against ending debate and proceeding to the final vote, and Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) voted in favor.
“I believe we are dealing with issues that are bigger than a nominee,” Ms. Murkowski said, adding that her vote had been the “most difficult” decision she has ever had to make. “I believe he is a good man,” Ms. Murkowski told reporters, but “in my view, he’s not the best man for the court at this time.”

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)

Permit me to add another point to the vast body of evidence indicating that Christine Blasey Ford is a liar: Her inclusion of Mark Gavreau Judge as a participant in the alleged attack on her. Second only to Kavanaugh, his friend Judge is the most prominent Georgetown Prep alumnus of his generation. Significantly, Judge wrote not one, but two memoirs that related his adolescent alcoholism: Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk (1997) and God and Man at Georgetown Prep: How I Became a Catholic Despite 20 Years of Catholic Schooling (2005). If you were going to accuse Brett Kavanaugh of engaging in offensive drunken activity as a teenager, how convenient it would be for you that his prep-school buddy had written two books about it, including one which included the thinly-veiled pseudonym “Bart O’Kavanaugh.”

Judge describes his own blackout-drunk escapades, including the morning-after fear that he might have done something terrible during his condition of extreme intoxication. Does anyone think it was a coincidence that Professor Ford included Judge in her tale? Fortunately for Judge Kavanaugh, he kept a calendar of his social life in high school, and Professor Ford’s story could not be reconciled with the dates in that calendar, there were other key factual inconsistencies, and every witness she named (including her friend Leland Keyser) denied any knowledge of the house party she described. It’s a terrible thing that, 36 years after an alleged incident, a man should be required to disprove such an allegation, and it seems to us cruel to call his accuser a liar, but if Brett Kavanaugh is innocent, Christian Blasey Ford is guilty of perjury.



 

Category: Supreme Court

FBI: Kavanaugh Accuser’s Friends Pressured Witness Who Contradicted Her

Posted on | October 5, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

Further evidence that this was a dishonest partisan hit-job:

A friend of Christine Blasey Ford told FBI investigators that she felt pressured by Dr. Ford’s allies to revisit her initial statement that she knew nothing about an alleged sexual assault by a teenage Brett Kavanaugh, which she later updated to say that she believed but couldn’t corroborate Dr. Ford’s account, according to people familiar with the matter.
Leland Keyser, who Dr. Ford has said was present at the gathering where she was allegedly assaulted in the 1980s, told investigators that Monica McLean, a retired Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and a friend of Dr. Ford’s, had urged her to clarify her statement, the people said.
The statement to the FBI offers a glimpse into how Dr. Ford’s allies were working behind the scenes to lobby old classmates to bolster their versions of the alleged incident, as were Judge Kavanaugh’s.
Judge Kavanaugh, whose Supreme Court nomination will be debated in the Senate Friday, has denied the allegations of sexual misconduct.
On Thursday, a day after sending to the White House the report on its investigation into the allegations against Judge Kavanaugh, the FBI sent the White House and Senate an additional package of information that included text messages from Ms. McLean to Ms. Keyser, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Ms. McLean’s lawyer, David Laufman, said in a statement: “Any notion or claim that Ms. McLean pressured Leland Keyser to alter Ms. Keyser’s account of what she recalled concerning the alleged incident between Dr. Ford and Brett Kavanaugh is absolutely false.” . . .
A person close to the former classmates said it was her understanding that mutual friends of Dr. Ford and Ms. Keyser, including Ms. McLean, had contacted Ms. Keyser after her initial statement to warn her that her statement was being used by Republicans to rebut the allegation against Judge Kavanaugh. . . .
This is Ms. McLean’s second appearance in the weekslong drama around Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination. On Wednesday, she issued a statement rejecting an assertion that Dr. Ford had coached her on how to take a polygraph test. The assertion was made by a former boyfriend of Dr. Ford in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Christine Blasey Ford is a liar. If it can be proven she lied under oath, she should be prosecuted for perjury.



 

Category: Supreme Court

‘Male Feminist’ Kicks Catholic Woman

Posted on | October 5, 2018 | Comments Off on ‘Male Feminist’ Kicks Catholic Woman

 

A man has been fired from his job at a Toronto hair salon after he delivered a roundhouse kick to a woman at a pro-life protest event:

On September 30th at 2:31 PM during Campaign Life Coalition’s peaceful demonstration, pro-life leader Marie-Claire Bissonnette, was roundhouse-kicked in the shoulder by an abortion proponent.
The Human Defense Initiative has identified the assailant as Jordan Hunt, a hairdresser in Toronto, Canada.
During the event, Hunt vandalized multiple pro-life signs. He then sought support and recognition for his handiwork from an abortion activist standing nearby, at which point Bissonette began filming the encounter.
Bissonette made it clear she was filming the protester and informed him he had just destroyed private property, at which point he became belligerent and began questioning Bissonette on her opinions of pregnancy due to rape. When she began to answer, the protester wound up and roundhouse kicked her, causing the phone to drop. In the background, cries for someone to call the police could be heard along with the protesters insistence he was aiming for the phone.

 

Hunt has a previous history of attacking pro-life activists. Ms. Biossonnette, who has filed charges with police, shares her experience:

Life Chain is an annual event which consists of thousands of pro-life women, men and children standing on over 200 street corners across Canada holding signs that read, “Abortion Hurts Women”, “Abortion Kills Children,” “Adoption, the Loving Option”, “Life, We Stand On Guard For Thee”, and “Pregnant and need help? Call (local pregnancy help centre phone number)”. This is an explicitly peaceful and silent protest. Participants are not allowed to begin conversations with passersby, nor are they allowed to display any aggressive behaviour at any point. No abortion victim photography is permitted.
My task for this year’s Life Chain, which took place on Sunday, 30 September, was to manage the corner of Bloor and Keele, to hand out signs, and to take a headcount. Seventy-six sign-holders were present on that corner from 2:00-3:00 pm. One pro-abortion woman, probably in her late twenties, stood amongst us holding a sign that read, “My body, my choice, my right”. She was the only counter-protester present throughout, and she peacefully shared the corner with the rest of us. 
At around 2:30, I was assaulted.
A man in his late twenties to early thirties observed the demonstration and, taking out two markers, one red and one blue, he managed to deface two of our signs. After I warned people to shield their signs, he then proceeded to run up behind five of the participants (including a ten-year-old girl) and scribble with his markers on their backs, ruining their clothing.
After these acts of vandalism, he approached the pro-abortion demonstrator, evidently in order to seek her approval, which she appeared to deny him by discouraging his tactics. At this point I took out my cell phone and began to record him, telling him that what he did was destruction of private property and it was against the law. He asked me whether a sixteen-year-old girl who gets pregnant after being raped should keep her baby. I attempted to explain that her baby should be treated no differently than a three-year-old child who may have been conceived by rape.

You can read the whole thing.

Did you notice the satanic pentagram on his necklace? Yeah.



 

Category: Abortion, Canada, Crime

Democrats Desperate to Stop Kavanaugh Nomination Resort to … Witchcraft

Posted on | October 4, 2018 | 6 Comments

 

Friday at midnight, a group of witches will cast a “binding spell” against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, following a ritual devised for this occasion by a Baltimore-based wizard. Michael M. Hughes is author of Magic for the Resistance: Rituals and Spells for Change, and leads a Facebook group for “resistance witches and magicians.”

Wednesday, Hughes published instructions for an “Emergency Ritual” intended to prevent the confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh, whom Hughes calls a “lying, entitled, arrogant, rapey piece of garbage.” Those participating in the ritual are directed to use two candles, a tarot card and other implements, while reciting various magical incantations, e.g.:

I light this candle to honor Christine Blasey Ford, Deborah Ramirez, Julie Swetnick, and all women who have been harmed by Brett Michael Kavanaugh

. . . and:

I bind you, Brett Michael Kavanaugh
I bind your groping, grasping hands
I bind your leering eyes
I bind your lying mouth . . .
I bind your genitals, that they may fail to bring you pleasure at another’s expense . . .
You are powerless over any woman you have abused
Your foul deeds have bound you
To their consequences
And as the elements expose
What lies hidden beneath the soil
So you wicked behavior
Shall be exposed to all

In terms of preventing Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation, we can expect this spell to be at least as effective as Michael Avenatti’s client.

Remember: Democrats are the Party of Science™ . . .



 

Category: Democrats, Supreme Court

FBI Ends Investigation; Kavanaugh Vote Scheduled; Democrats Are Still Lying

Posted on | October 4, 2018 | Comments Off on FBI Ends Investigation; Kavanaugh Vote Scheduled; Democrats Are Still Lying

“I actually believe that Dr. Ford fabricated her testimony. I think she’s delusional. . . . There could be no corroboration, because nothing ever happened.”
— Joe DiGenova, on Hannity, Oct. 3, 2018

We are within sight of the end of this three-week nightmare, which began Sept. 13 when Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein went public with the false sexual assault accusation against Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

Joe DiGenova was the only person on Fox News willing to say what we now know — it was all a lie, from start to finish. Judge Kavanaugh is not, and never was, a sexual predator, and Christine Blasey Ford’s story was never “credible,” no matter how many Democratic senators or media talking-heads repeated that word to describe her. The news roundup:

The prospects for Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation now rest on four swing senators who are carefully reviewing the FBI background report on sexual assault allegations against the Supreme Court nominee, as GOP leaders close ranks behind the embattled judge and one previously undecided Democrat comes out in opposition.
North Dakota Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, after staying on the fence for weeks, announced Thursday she will vote against Kavanaugh, citing in part his conduct at last week’s fiery Hill hearing. . . .
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who has stayed mum on her Kavanaugh stance, said Thursday that the bureau’s supplemental background probe “appears to be a very thorough investigation.” On Thursday afternoon, she remained in the Capitol building’s Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) reading the FBI’s report for more than an hour and a half. Senators are taking turns poring over the documents in the SCIF.
And Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who originally requested the FBI re-open its investigation into the claims leveled against Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey Ford, agreed with Collins’ assessment.
“No new corroborative information came out of it,” Flake said. “Thus far, we’ve see no new credible corroboration — no new corroboration at all.” . . .
But senior GOP senators rallied around Kavanaugh at a press conference Thursday afternoon, vowing to press ahead with a series of votes starting Friday and blasting Democrats for their handling of the process.
“There are two things we know for sure. One thing is the FBI report did not corroborate any of the allegations against Judge Kavanaugh. Second … is there is no way anything we did would satisfy the Democrats. They’ve always got a reason why the goalpost needs to be moved further down the field,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said. . . .
Setting the stage, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, declared earlier Thursday that nothing in the FBI document changed his mind, and that it was time to vote to confirm Kavanaugh.
“I’ve now received a committee staff briefing on the FBI’s supplement to Judge Kavanaugh’s background investigation file,” Grassley said Thursday. “There’s nothing in it that we didn’t already know. These uncorroborated accusations have been unequivocally and repeatedly rejected by Judge Kavanaugh, and neither the Judiciary Committee nor the FBI could locate any third parties who can attest to any of the allegations.
“It’s time to vote,” Grassley added. “I’ll be voting to confirm Judge Kavanaugh.”

Chuck Schumer is still lying, but that’s not really news, is it?

During a press conference on Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that fears that the FBI would be limited from getting all the facts in its investigation of Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh “have been realized.”
Schumer said, “[W]e had many fears that this was a very limited process that would constrain the FBI from getting all the facts. Having received a thorough briefing on the documents, those fears have been realized.” . . .
Schumer added that he believes the White House “greatly constrained the investigation from the get-go.”

Let me tell you something: Chuck Schumer knows it was all a lie. He is one of the most dishonest people on the planet, and it is only the Senate custom of “collegiality” that prevents his Republican colleagues from denouncing him as the habitual liar he actually is. Thanks to Schumer and Feinstein, we have spent three weeks on a snipe hunt, seeking corroboration of a story that could not possibly be corroborated, because it never happened. Judge Kavanaugh’s good name has been trashed by Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) simply because Chuck Schumer hoped to turn this nomination into a weapon to help Democrats win the Senate in November. What was learned from the investigation Democrats demanded? Well, we learned that “Devil’s Triangle” is indeed a drinking game and “boof” is indeed a slang term for flatulence.

Extra police have been deployed at the Capitol to protect Republican Senators from the Soros-funded anti-Kavanaugh protest mobs. What else? The official Twitter account of the Senate Judiciary Committee had some blunt truth for Sen. Feinstein:

Nothing that the FBI did, and no concession Republicans might have offered, would have been sufficient to please the Democrats. This was all about stalling and smearing and propaganda — a disgrace to the Senate, but let’s not talk about disgraces to the Senate, eh? That calls to mind Ted Kennedy, and Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.



 

Category: Senate, Supreme Court
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