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In The Mailbox: 05.25.18

Posted on | May 25, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.25.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Oklahoma City – Good Guy With Gun Stops Shooter
Twitchy: Real Simple Is In The Lead For Worst Memorial Day Ad Of All Time
Louder With Crowder: Tommy Robinson Arrested, Jailed For Reporting On Muslim Rapists’ Trial
According To Hoyt: When Your Eyes Or Ears Lie To You
Monster Hunter Nation: Origins Debacle Update
Vox Popoli: The Bullfeathers Party

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit, also, The “Generic Ballot” Is Overrated
American Thinker: Is 100% Renewable Energy Possible?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Oncological Friday
BattleSwarm: Scumbag Update – Dem State Rep Reynolds Finally Going To Jail, also, LinkSwarm For May 25
BLACKFIVE: Interview About 80 Years of Superman
Da Tech Guy: Sure, I’ll Give You Back That Summit, Kim…For The USS Pueblo
Don Surber: Death Threats Against EPA Administrator Force Doubling Of Security
Dustbury: People Of The Roof
The Geller Report: Murder Surges 44% In Sadiq Khan’s London, also, Muslim NDP Candidate Caught Praising Hitler Online
Hogewash: Programming Announcement, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Joe For America: Honest, Hard-Working Rank & File FBI Agents Desperate To Testify Against Comey
JustOneMinute: Off Again On Again
Legal Insurrection: California May Offer Free Healthcare To Illegal Immigrants, also, Collusion – NeverTrump Republicans Coordinate Electoral Efforts With Democrats
Power Line: On Mueller’s Appointment, also, Leftist Fraud All The Way Down
Shark Tank: Murphy Bill Offers Lifetime Lobbying Ban For Former Congress Members
Shot In The Dark: The High Cost of “Woke”
The Political Hat: Oregon County To Punish Insufficiently Correct Recycling
This Ain’t Hell: Rachel Dolezal Facing Felony Charges, also, Memorial Day Melancholy – An Annual Repost
Victory Girls: Trump Says He & Norks Are Talking Again, Leftists Hardest Hit
Volokh Conspiracy: Give Susette Kelo Her Land Back
Weasel Zippers: Pizzeria Chain Offers Job To 30-Year-Old Snowflake Evicted By Parents, also, Three Arrested For Signature Voter Fraud On LA’s Skid Row
Mark Steyn: Coming Soon – The Tajik Investigation, also, The Mahdi And The Eloi


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Feminism’s African Abortion Agenda

Posted on | May 25, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

If any white man were to say, “Women in Nigeria are having too many babies,” he could expect to be accused of racism. On the other hand, if you were to express concern that the high fertility rate in Nigeria (5.5 lifetime births per woman) is a major obstacle to “sustainable development,” you could expect to be called an expert:

Health watchers say although Nigeria has made bold efforts to achieve rapid economic development over the past four decades, among other factors, rapid population growth has affected the quality of life and made achievement of socio-economic development goals difficult.
While launching the roadmap on harnessing demographic dividend in the youth population, the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, expressed worry about the Nigeria’s fertility rate, saying with the youthful age structure of about half of the population under 35 years, the implication of such demographic realities for the country’s development may have consequences too grave to be ignored.
Experts estimate that the window of opportunity for demographic dividend occurs when the age of the young population and the older population is between 26 and 41 years.
Findings show that countries with higher fertility rate are unlikely to achieve desired levels of development across multiple sectors. But with a change in maturing age structure opens a window of opportunity across four sectors — health, education, economic and political.
In a research carried out by Dr Richard Cincotta, a political demographer associated with Stimson Center and Wilson Center in Washington DC on how Age Structure Change Can Benefit Development with statistical analysis using data from over 100 countries for a period of over four decades, it was found that countries with very youthful populations almost never attain high thresholds of development. Nigeria falls among these countries.
The research specifically found that Nigeria has only 1 percent chance of achieving the Sustainable Development Goal, SDG, target of reducing under-5 mortality to less than 25 deaths per 1,000 live births.
But experts say if the country invests more in reproductive health particularly family planning in areas with poor health indicators, then fertility levels may begin to decline more significantly, and children will be more likely to achieve better basic levels of health.

Far be it from me, of course, to tell Nigerian women that they are having too many babies, but this is just what “experts” are saying with their talk about the need for “family planning” in order to reduce Nigeria’s fertility rate to meet the “Sustainable Development Goal,” and warning of “consequences too grave to be ignored” unless this goal is achieved.

 

It so happens that my wife and I have six children, so that our personal fertility rate is even higher than Nigeria’s. If any expert tried to lecture me that our children are an obstacle to his “Sustainable Development Goal,” I’d tell him to go to hell and to take his goal with him.

Ah, but these cunning Malthusian “experts” have recruited feminists to assist them in their crypto-racist “family planning” projects.

 

You see, it’s about women’s rights and reproductive health:

Melinda Gates announced [in July 2017] at The Global Family Planning Summit in London, that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will increase its funding for family planning by 60%, providing an extra $375 [million] over the next four years. About $250 [million] of this money will be used to fund services for teenagers.
Her move is a welcome initiative following President Donald Trump’s reinstatement earlier this year of the ‘the global gag rule’ which prohibits U.S. funding to international NGOs if they advise on or provide abortion services as part of their wider family planning and contraception services. In May this year, Trump also decided not allocate any funding for international family planning in his proposed budget.
At the summit in London, Gates spoke openly of the recent moves by the US: ‘This is a difficult political climate for family planning,’ she said. ‘I’m deeply troubled, as I’m sure you are, by the Trump administration’s proposed budget cuts.’ . . .
[C]utting these funds will leave a huge hole in the money available. In real terms this means less money to fund family planning services that give women control over when and if they have children. It means huge cuts to basic contraception services for over-populated communities across the world who cannot afford larger families, a lack of abortion services for rape victims of war and abuse, and more women than ever dropping out of education to look after children. . . .
[T]he Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is joining forces with the UK’s Department for International Development, and the UN Population Fund to provide modern, voluntary family planning to women in the world’s poorest countries across Africa and Asia. The UK has pledged to provide an average of £225 million per year until 2022.

Billionaires (and their wives) believe women in Nigeria (and other of “the world’s poorest countries across Africa and Asia”) are having too many babies. If they can’t get “family planning” money from American taxpayers, they’ll just throw another $375 million at it. Never mind, of course, what that kind of money might accomplish if it were spent to help poor Americans in, say, Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago or St. Louis.

No, no — “We must stop those Nigerians from having so many babies,” is the essence of Mrs. Gates’s thinking. She is “deeply troubled” about the babies who won’t get aborted because of President Trump’s policies. Population-control fanatics like Mrs. Gates think of themselves as humanitarian philanthropists, even though the policies they advocate would more accurately be described as anti-human and misanthropic.

P.J. O’Rourke once described the mentality of the “overpopulation” crisis types as “Way Too Many of You, Just Enough of Me”:

Going around the poor parts of the world shoving birth-control pills down people’s throats, hustling them into abortion clinics, and giving them prizes for getting sterilized is to assume that those people don’t want babies as much as we do, that they won’t like those babies as well as we like ours, and that little brown and yellow babies aren’t as good as the adorable, pink rich kind. . . .
Fretting about over-population is a perfectly guilt-free — indeed, sanctimonious — way for “progressives” to be racists.

Defenders of the “Global Family Planning” agenda would, no doubt, claim that they are only trying to improve the lives of Africans by spending money to make sure there are fewer African lives to improve: “Abort your babies, because the experts say it’s good for you!”

You’ll excuse my skepticism toward Mrs. Gates’ allegedly feminist concern for the “reproductive health” of African women, but I’m a white man, and if I endorsed this agenda, I might be accused of racism.



 

 

Category: Abortion, Contraceptive Culture, Nigeria, Racism

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | May 25, 2018 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty

He turned with his camera and snapped the picture. Previewing it on the screen, he saw that she’d brought the Looney Tunes float, swallowed, and managed a teary chuckle at her triumph.

Their last trip to Chincoteague had been seven years ago, when their son Brian was a laughing toddler, full of joy, innocent.

Brian’s leukemia had devastated them both. He thought at points that Brian might take his mother with him to Heaven during dark days last Winter.

Their eyes met. She dropped the float on the sand, Brian’s presence radiating.

“Can we try again?” one of them asked.

via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

In The Mailbox: 05.24.18

Posted on | May 24, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: President Trump Calls Off North Korea Summit
Twitchy: Eric Garland’s Hot Take On President’s Pardon Of Jack Johnson Is A Hall of Famer
Louder With Crowder: ICE Director Blasts Democrat – “I’m Just Enforcing Laws You All Enacted”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: America’s Racial Power Imbalance
American Power: Philip Roth Still Has Plenty To Say
American Thinker: Progressives On The Brink, also, K-12, History Of The Conspiracy Against Reading
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Stupid Idea News
BattleSwarm: Random Tweet – Trump Derangement Syndrome Edition
BLACKFIVE: Corey Mead, The Lost Pilots
CDR Salamander: Why Is Lucy Holding A TLAM?, also, Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: NFL Players & Sports Media Put The Final Nail In The Coffin For 2018 Dems
Don Surber: Morgan Freeman Feels The Trump Effect
Dustbury: Having Gone Around
The Geller Report: Swedish Police Forecast Lots of Rape This Summer, Warn Women Not To Go Out Late, also, “Palestinians” Say Americans Now Legitimate Targets
Hogewash: Gilmore v. Jones et al LOLsuit News, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Joe For America: How Do You Feel About The NFL Now?
JustOneMinute: Nobel Peace Prize On Hold
Legal Insurrection: Trump Cancels North Korea Summit Due To “Open Hostility”, also, French To Evict Illegal Paris Migrant Camps
Power Line: Not Dark Yet, also, James Clapper Lies Again
Shark Tank: John Ward Says Puerto Rican Refugees Shouldn’t Vote In Florida
Shot In The Dark: I’m Gonna Tear Your Echo Chamber Down
STUMP: California Crazy – Governance & Management Problems At Calpers
The Political Hat: The Queer Standard – Tumblrizing Gender Dysphoria, Transphobic Genital Preferences, Raping Traditional Marriage
This Ain’t Hell: Retired Master Chief, Special Warfare Operator Britt Slabinski Awarded Medal Of Honor, also, LTC Erin Weatherly, C/MSGT James Clark Canned
Victory Girls: North Korea Signals Willingness To Reopen Summit
Volokh Conspiracy: Tavis Smiley Libel Claims Against PBS Thrown Out, also, The Trump Twitter Declaratory Judgment
Weasel Zippers: Trump Ready To Board Marine One, But Runs To Thank Police Who Want To Meet Him, also, Holder Urges FBI, Justice To Unconstitutionally Defy President Trump
Mark Steyn: The Land of The Middle-Aged Child


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Latest #MeToo Target: Morgan Freeman

Posted on | May 24, 2018 | Comments Off on Latest #MeToo Target: Morgan Freeman

 

What? You thought Oscar-winning elderly black men were exempt?

A young production assistant thought she had landed the job of her dreams when, in the summer of 2015, she started work on “Going In Style,” a bank heist comedy starring Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin.
But the job quickly devolved into several months of harassment, she told CNN. She alleges that Freeman subjected her to unwanted touching and comments about her figure and clothing on a near-daily basis. Freeman would rest his hand on her lower back or rub her lower back, she said.
In one incident, she said, Freeman “kept trying to lift up my skirt and asking if I was wearing underwear.” He never successfully lifted her skirt, she said — he would touch it and try to lift it, she would move away, and then he’d try again. Eventually, she said, “Alan [Arkin] made a comment telling him to stop. Morgan got freaked out and didn’t know what to say.”
Freeman’s alleged inappropriate behavior was not limited to that one movie set, according to other sources who spoke to CNN. A woman who was a senior member of the production staff of the movie “Now You See Me” in 2012 told CNN that Freeman sexually harassed her and her female assistant on numerous occasions by making comments about their bodies. . . .
At 80 years old, Freeman is one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, with a movie career that spans nearly five decades. His starring roles in movies like “Driving Miss Daisy” and “Shawshank Redemption” in the late 1980s and early 1990s made him a household name. He won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for 2004’s “Million Dollar Baby,” and has earned four other Oscar nominations. . . .
In all, 16 people spoke to CNN about Freeman as part of this investigation, eight of whom said they were victims of what some called harassment and others called inappropriate behavior by Freeman. Eight said they witnessed Freeman’s alleged conduct.

Well, he didn’t drug them and rape them, as far as we know, nor has anyone (yet) alleged that Freeman masturbated in front of women, but there is no scale of wrongdoing in the Sexual Harassment Apocalypse — no standards of evidence, no due-process, no statute of limitations. Just one allegation by one accuser would be enough to destroy any man’s reputation and livelihood. Eight women? Sorry, Mr. Freeman.

Your career is over. How’s that #Resistance workin’ out for ya?



 

Category: Celebrities, Hollywood

Clapper & the Invisible Spies of Happiness

Posted on | May 24, 2018 | Comments Off on Clapper & the Invisible Spies of Happiness

by Smitty

The embed below is due to fronpagemag.com:


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Memorial Day Weekend in Chicago

Posted on | May 24, 2018 | 2 Comments

 

If you want to get shot to death, Chicago is the place to be. So far this year, 157 people have been shot to death in Chicago, and another 810 people were wounded. Violence escalates during the summer, and Memorial Day weekend has been a bloodbath in recent years. In 2016, there were 69 shootings during the three-day weekend:

In all, 27 of the 69 people hit by gunfire over the weekend were shot in or near the Harrison District, one of the city’s most violent and one of the most heavily patrolled by police.
So many people were shot there that Deputy Superintendent John Escalante promised Sunday to beef up patrols. Nine more people were shot there by early Tuesday.

About half of the deadly violence in Chicago occurs in three West Side police districts: Harrison, Austin and Ogden:

The Chicago Police Department plans to deploy more than 1,000 extra officers to contain violence over the weekend and, as in years past, hundreds of them will be sent to the West Side. . . .
The West Side has long been plagued by violence fed by feuding gangs and an infamous open-air drug market. But residents in communities like North Lawndale also point to high unemployment among young people, lack of education and turf battles that started with their fathers or grandfathers.
A recent report from the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago found that the percentage of black men ages 20-24 who weren’t working or in school had dropped between 2014 and 2016. But the overall percentage remained high at 37 percent.

Unemployment and “lack of education”? Are there no jobs for young people in Chicago? Are there no public schools? The city is controlled by the Democrat Party. Obama’s former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is the city’s mayor. In the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton got 74% of the vote in Cook County, and a much higher percentage in the West Side neighborhoods where violent crime is a way of life (and death). Trusting Democrats to find a solution to Chicago’s problems might not be a good idea, considering the likelihood that Democrats (and the liberal policies they enact) are a fundamental cause of these problems.

 

Category: Chicago, Crime

In The Mailbox: 05.23.18

Posted on | May 23, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.23.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Since Megan McArdle’s column has gone behind the WaPoo paywall, we’re replacing her with the Volokh Conspiracy, which has left the Post for Reason.com.


OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #264
EBL: RIP Philip Roth
Twitchy: Texas Trooper Falsely Accused Of Rape By Talcum X Cleared By Bodycam Footage
Louder With Crowder: MSNBC Reporter Tries, Fails To Get Anti-Gun Soundbite From Santa Fe Students


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Delusional Conservative Media
American Power: Jordan Peterson And The Failure Of The Left, also, Faith Goldy Attacked By Antifa
American Thinker: The Biggest Threat To America’s Future Is The Media, also, Islamizing The Schools – The Case Of West Virginia
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: White Concedes Dem Gov Race To Valdez, also, Other Texas Primary Runoff Results
CDR Salamander: The Syrian Civil War – The Difference A Year Makes
Da Tech Guy: Thoughts On The President’s Title X Proposal, also, Cause And Effect – Matt Light And The End Of Kneeling Protests In The NFL
Don Surber: 35,000 More Jobs – Obama Hardest Hit
Dustbury: Never Mock Whole Foods Again
The Geller Report: Islamic Group Sabotages Canadian Beaches, also, British Mosque Teacher Urged Students To Attack Prince Charles, Poison Ice Cream
Hogewash: More About TRAPPIST-1, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of the Day
Joe For America: Bloomberg Wants To Control Poor People Through Taxes
JustOneMinute: Trump Collusion
Legal Insurrection: Amazon Demonetizes Conservative Website (Us), also, NFL Teams To Be Fined If Players Kneel On Field During National Anthem
Michelle Malkin: Crapweasel Of The Week – Educrat Arne Duncan
Power Line: James Comey In Panic Mode, also, Uranium Mining And States’ Rights
Shark Tank: DeSantis, Gaetz Call For Second Special Counsel To Investigate FBI, Justice Dept.
Shot In The Dark: The Rightful Owners
The Political Hat: UK Sentencing Council – Six Years In Jail For Wrongthink
This Ain’t Hell: RIP Clint Walker, also, Michael Rotondo – When It’s Time To Go
Victory Girls: Listen, Comrade, The DNC Knows Best
Volokh Conspiracy: Judge Rules Blocking Twitter Users From @realDonaldTrump Violates 1st Amendment
Weasel Zippers: Cuomo Issues Pardons Officially Giving Parolees Full Voting Rights, Even For Cop Killer, also, FBI Agents Request Congressional Subpoenas So They Can Reveal Bureau’s Dirt
Mark Steyn: Tinker, Tailer, Clapper, Carter, Downer, Halper, Spy


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