California: Sanctuary State For Prostitutes

California SB 1322 was signed into law three months ago but it is still generating controversy. It's not exactly true that the bill legalizes child prostitution, but it does make prostitution laws "inapplicable to a child under 18 years of age." I don't think this is a wise move, but others do.

It's amazing to me how many people are pro underage kids being arrested for prostitution that they were most likely forced into

— Matt Jarbo (@mundanematt) December 31, 2016

Are most minors engaging in prostitution doing so against their will? This seems impossible to fact-check. But it does prop up this weird moral panic about sex trafficking.

What Matt Jarbo fails to concede is that if you cannot arrest a minor, then you take all prosecutorial discretion out of the toolbox. If you can't arrest, then you can't question, detain, or charge. How can the courts pressure a minor to reveal the name of their trafficker? The answer is, they can't. All police can do is take the minor into protective custody and turn them over to a social worker.

Once again, it amazes me how many people are ok with branding Child prostitutes with a Scarlet P for being a victim.

— Matt Jarbo (@mundanematt) December 31, 2016

It amazes me how many people don't realize that the arrest and conviction records of minors can be expunged.

To insist that someone wants to brand minors with a Scarlet P because they are a victim is a straw man. But I wonder how many minors who engage in prostitution are forced to? Someone as young as fourteen can win their emancipation in California. They are still under the age of consent, but they do possess plenty of agency.

When Traci Lords was fifteen years old, she posed nude in magazines like Juggs and Club. Her mother's boyfriend, "Roger Hayes," drove her to the World Modeling Talent Agency and posed as her stepfather. "Roger Hayes" almost certainly committed the crime of sex trafficking as we understand it, but he didn't force her to pose or do pornography soon after. Her young life to that point was filled with abuse and her sex work became a way for her to act out if not express her particular agency.

And I think this is how most examples of underage prostitution actually play out. Lawmakers would have you believe that girls are being packed like sardines in shipping containers and then forced to perform lurid sex acts in virtual prisons with guns at their head or that of a family member.

California as a state already operates as a sanctuary for millions of illegal immigrants. This makes California a sanctuary state for underage prostitutes, and will effectively subsidize the practice.

The Solution Is More Immigration

You always hear that "Demography is Destiny." It boils down to despair that rich countries experience low birth rates, and poor countries experience high birth rates. The globalist mind-set thinks, oh, if only we could bring them together!

It's disconcerting that this school of thought invariably expresses in members of my own tribe. It's a stereotype that gets harder and harder to defend, and is utterly un-self-aware. We Jews have been kicked out of every decent country because we have made ourselves unwelcome to our hosts. But let's insist that every other country be pressured to import people, in the name of a continually rising gross domestic product.

Case in point is this zaftig Alanna Schubach, who wrote an article a while back that attempts to "make the case for a more multicultural Japan."

The subtitle is laugh out loud ridiculous, The aging nation must consider its future. Banning hate speech would be a crucial first step. Putting people in jail for wrongthink doesn't protect the target of the speech. It only increases resentment.

But it's a necessary first step to remove any national identity. German schoolchildren have been shamed for three generations and it set the stage for their country's Islamic invasion. Their speech codes helped make Germans ethno-masochists.

Why does Schubach think she knows what's best for the Japanese people? She "taught English at a public high school for three years" in Fukuoka. She describes how Japanese people have "an-group understanding that can look almost like telepathy to outsiders." Such arrogance for her to assume that she understands what they need better than they do!

Schubach asserts that Japanese insularity can be "corrosive, particularly in times of crisis." She uses as example an anecdote about how "an official in charge of the cleanup of contamination around the damaged Fukushima nuclear plants, turned away foreign companies that offered to lend their expertise."

It may have been preferable that Japan accept foreign expertise, but perhaps it is more important that everyone involved is accountable to Japanese institutions.

But the main argument Schubach uses to justify her imposed multiculturalism is that it's the only way to "avoid drastic economic downscaling."

Why is it so hard to accept that countries have life cycles in which they grow and flourish and others in which they stagnate? Is Shubach aware that the reason our tribe has existed for thousands of years is because of the "racism" she condemns?

Whether Japan imports a permanent underclass isn't up to Shubach, fortunately. If Japan contracts, at least it will still be Japanese.

Nobody Is Better Than Obama

President Barack Hussein Obama has been named by Gallup as the most admired man in America. Twenty-two percent of those polled named him, when they were asked the question, "What man that you have heard or read about, living today in any part of the world, do you admire most?"

Obama beat Donald Trump by seven percentage points, but lost to "nobody/no opinion" by one.

Nobody is better than Barack Hussein Obama.

This poll is another way of asking someone if they know who the current President is. Gallup says that "in the 70 times Gallup has asked the question, the president has won 58 times."

Nevertheless, it's a poll eagerly touted by the legacy media as proof of the President's popularity. Obama seems unaware that there is a feedback loop between him and the media, and it leads him to proclaim that he would have won a third term. This is unprovable rhetoric aimed at buttressing his record.

Ronald Reagan could have won a third term. His vice president did. Obama's hand-picked successor failed. So whether you believe Obama would have won again depends whether or not you "admire" him.

Hell, if you adhere to the root meaning of the word, then I, too, "admire" him. The word has come to mean "look up to" or "appreciate," but the origin of the word "admire" is from 16th century Latin "admirari, from ad- ‘at’ + mirari 'wonder.'" In other words, to be astonished at.

He does make you wonder.

If you think about the President as America's chief executive officer, this is the period of time where he should be training his successor. How's that working out?

He personally directed that a UN resolution be introduced that would declare that Jewish "settlements" including East Jerusalem, have "no legal validity." Happy Hanukkah!

But that's old news. Today, he is expected to announce sanctions on Russian officials for hacking. Why don't you just start a war if you want a third term so bad?

Remember that the CIA, the agency that alleged Russian hacking, has refused to brief Congress on the allegation.

Well, at least the battle for Mosul hasn't turned into a quagmire that will cost more American lives.

Obama, please just peddle the fuck out already, and get out of the way of the men who will clean up your shit.

Having A Daughter Went From A Dilemma To A Valuable Life Lesson

I've always been a meninist. I'm lucky. My father, Jack Caro, is a meninist, as is my grandfather, and both always have been. It's something I've never questioned and always felt confident and belligerent about. Just ask me about it at a dinner party (I fucking dare you).

Fatherhood has been quite a confronting experience for my male activism so far, and I'm sure it will continue to be. Ever since discovering "my better half" was pregnant, it's been a process of adjusting and reconciling my ideology with my crushing disappointment, because I discovered that our baby, our most-beloved Winnifred, would be a girl.

I had never wanted a daughter. I wanted sons, probably because I am one of two sons and six grandsons, (we were fraulein-rein). This all fit in with my meninism. It was more comfortable to me. But when the sonographer pointed out that my child sadly did not have a penis in our 19-week scan, it was clear that I was going to raise a daughter.

I had to mourn the life I thought I was supposed to have, and I had to come to terms with having a relationship with a daughter.

In this matriarchal world, this world where even the best women are cosseted and benefit from casual sexism, how will I raise a daughter who respects me the way a son would? Who sees men as just like her? As just human beings?

I look at my gorgeous baby girl and my love for her swells my heart, but makes we worry whether I, as her father, will be able to counter the devaluing of men that is obviously so prevalent in our world.

People are constantly telling me "girls are easier" to raise (casual and ingrained sexism, anyone?), but I think they are much harder. How do you raise a white, middle-class girl not to think her own experience is the default experience of the world?

Raising a girl who maintains the status quo sure would be easy, but I refuse to be satisfied with that. I will raise a meninist girl. Just like her mother before her, but even better. I will point sexism out to her at every turn, and she will never get away with it without being called out. I will show her that boys are just people like her and that products and art targeted at them are no less valuable or enjoyable. She will be immersed in meninism by a family who models it in their everyday life.

Having a daughter is no excuse for not continuing to practice my "game." I still go to PUA meetings and practice my skills from time to time. Just to stay sharp. My wife is perfectly fine with this. She has always had this vague "dread" that I would end this relationship at any time, for any reason.

Skillz.

A Neurotic Jew and A Cynical Gentile Walk Into A Bar

Anthony Bourdain, host of CNN's Parts Unknown, was interviewed by Helen Rosner for Eater dot com. The stunning takeaway from the interview is his refusal to eat in Trump's DC restaurant. This is a cultural kill shot. It will be construed as Bourdain saying he wouldn't even break bread with Trump, were he invited to do so.

Bourdain's comment is a reply to Rosner's question, "So what do you make of Alessandro Borgognone bringing Sushi Nakazawa into the Trump DC hotel?"

Bourdain replied, "I will never eat in his restaurant. I have utter contempt for him, utter and complete contempt."

"I don’t look good in a brown shirt."

The way the news media is framing this, is that Bourdain "pledges to boycott Trump's DC restaurant." Bourdain has tried to clarify, saying he's "not boycotting anything. I choose to not patronize chefs who tacitly support deporting half the people they've ever worked with." Damage control. Maybe he should have passed on the interview with the nosy yenta.

Rosner's interview with Bourdain is filled his fretful "observations."

"People rise up and kill their neighbors all the time. People they’ve lived with their whole lives, yesterday they were fine, today they’re the enemy. You’ve seen it in Yugoslavia, you’ve seen it in Borneo. Now you’re seeing it here." What are we seeing here, exactly? Not Yugoslavia-level ethnic violence, that's for sure. More like projection.

"This is a country founded in violence," Bourdain says. What country wasn't founded in violence?

I can't help but "noticing" that Rosner is Jewish, and she confirms that most Jewish stereotype, that we are all neurotic. These are some of her questions.

"As this far-right political wave is engulfing the world, do you think this list, the lineup of places where the cost of you visiting is too high, is going to grow?" Engulfing the world. Panicky little zaftig.

"Your daughter is nine, which means she’s coming of age probably right when the shit hits its peak."

"Do you have a point in your day where you’re on your third cup of coffee and you’re like "Oh, that’s right, we’re on the path to fascism"? It's always 1938 to these worry-warts.

Bourdain replied, "No, I’m not that panicky about it."

Rosner turned to the Trump cabinet, with her statement and follow-up question, "Rex Tillerson is the most evil name. It’s straight out of DC Comics. Do you think they know they’re evil?"

I came away from reading the interview with only mildly less respect for Bourdain, who at least comes by his cynicism honestly. He does lose a few points for his remark about Oman. "If I can convince a few people to go to a country like Oman, which has a completely non-sectarian version of Islam, which is incredibly tolerant and super cool..."

Oman is Ibadi, which is a Sunni sect. Maybe he doesn't understand what the word "sect" means. Or perhaps any country that doesn't send waves of suicide bombers to the West is "super cool."

Nevertheless, he does understand reaction. "I lived through the ‘60s. There ain’t gonna be no revolution."

And little Bolshevik Rosner never disappoints. "It laid the groundwork for a revolution, though."

I Don't Have To Pretend To Be A Boy

National Geographic magazine used to stoke the imagination by featuring vivid portraits of far-away places. Skimming through the pages would yield lush pictorial masterpieces drawn from the hand of the Creator. The Faroe Islands lie in the Norwegian Sea between Iceland and the British Isles. After viewing a depiction of this windswept archipelago, perhaps you will book your own voyage of discovery.

The Society didn't just photograph landscapes. Sharbat Gula was twelve years old when she was captured by journalist Steve McCurry in 1984. McCurry's Afghan Girl is one of the iconic photographs of the 20th century.

And the Society didn't confine its subjects to our earthly realm. They have followed scientific missions that ranged millions of miles away, bringing us images of both distant galaxies and vintage NASA photos from the Golden Age of space.

The Society was founded in 1888, and brings to mind the centuries of exploration that included the East India Company and culminated in Darwin's On The Origin Of The Species.

There is even an old joke, now lost to modernity, about the voyage of discovery countless young boys undertook within the pages of the magazine. Before pornography became available on VR goggles and a billion smart phones, the mysteries of female anatomy revealed themselves in photographic essays of African tribeswomen.

Today a child is going to be exposed not to an Algerian cafe dancer, as seen in this 99-year old photograph. Today's child will be presented with Avery Jackson, a nine-year-old boy who believes he is actually a girl. Jackson told his mother so when he was four years old.

The National Geographic Society's focus seems to have been directed inward. All of our remote realms have been discovered and have become mundane, so they turn to our inner turmoils. What is really going on here?

The first thing you notice is that the cover photo is lurid and sexualized. Jackson's right hand is in his crotch, as if to draw attention to that area. He is dressed all in pink, and has pink streaks in his hair. When I first saw the cover photo, the word "lascivious" immediately sprang to mind. The intent in the staging was clear; to turn Jackson into a sexual object, a person to be lusted after.

Why does the National Geographic Society want to present sexualized children? Don't be fooled by the large type claiming GENDER REVOLUTION. It's sex. And it's mainstreaming pedophilia. Perhaps those who advertise in the magazine should be asked whether they support the sexual depiction of children.

Smut Shaming

Libertarian John Stossel interviewed a porn "actress" named Belle Knox for a segment that helped defend her life choices. He titled it, Porn Myths.

Belle Knox is her "stage" name. Her real name is Miriam Weeks, and she has her own Wikipedia page. You know you've made it when you have appeared in three dozen skin flicks and have your own Wikipedia page.

Knox claims she googled "how to be a porn star," as a way to pay for her tuition at Duke University. The estimated yearly cost to attend Duke is more than $70,000.

Knox based her "stage" name in part on Amanda Knox and in part on Belle from Beauty And The Beast. What Disney fairy-tale princess is based on a young woman having sex with her grandmother?

Early in the interview, Stossel asks a very good question, "How do you feel about little kids watching you? The computer is accessible to everybody, sometimes." Knox takes in a breath as if to answer, but pauses for several long seconds. She purses her lips and her eyes scan something off to her right.

Her eyes weren't scanning something on-set that distracted her. She was processing. She was mentally flipping through images that made the association between "child" and "computer" real in her mind. Perhaps she was imagining her niece or nephew sitting at the family computer and watching her "performances." She finally answers, "Sorry, can I think about that question a little bit longer?"

What she really wants is to just not think about that question, at all, ever.

One of Stossel's follow-up questions was whether Knox is a feminist or a sex slave. Since Knox, or rather Weeks, is campus coordinator for Students for Liberty, and is on the board of directors for the Sex Workers Outreach Project, we know how she is going to answer this. She is going to use rationalizations to intellectualize her feelings and excuse her behavior.

Stossel, ever the good libertarian, doesn't even ask her the biggest question, the question "why." He tees her up by saying "you are choosing to do this because you didn't want to hit your parents up for Duke's ridiculous tuition."

I didn't want to hit mine up, either, because my sister was also in college, and my younger brother was right behind us. So I got a job in the cafeteria, and worked summers in Alaska. Having sex with my grandmother never crossed my mind.

Yet it did cross hers. She could have made similar money with a few rounds of egg donation. But she "chose" porn. And she admits that she has "the mind and the emotional baggage of somebody much, much older than me." If Stossel wanted to ask what everybody was thinking, he would query whether she had ever experienced childhood sexual abuse.

Libertarians value freedom but they always have to cherry-pick their arguments like this. Knox is the unicorn, the immaculate porn star who has perfect agency. So the idea that they have ever been victimized has to be quickly dismissed. And any suggestion that porn is an industry that also cherry-picks young girls and consumes them isn't even considered.

In this way, Libertarians are to politics what pornography apologists are to culture. Libertarians paper over the restraint and responsibility that make liberty possible. And the pornography industry sanitizes their product by calling it "adult entertainment."

They used to call pornography, "smut," from the German schmutzen, or smudge, a word which carries the connotation "to defile, corrupt, make obscene." Knox is a broken and used-up girl whose only usefulness going forward is spouting nonsensical statements like "we don't have enough open and honest conversations about sex."

You first.

Karma Is A Trump

Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is demanding a congressional investigation into Russian "meddling" in the Presidential election.

It's worth remembering that for the last four years, any curiosity about what happened in Benghazi has been ridiculed as paranoid and delusional. By members of Schumer's own party. They reap what they sow.

Congressional Democrats have rung the conspiracy klaxxon so often, nobody is listening anymore.

"Russia hacked the election to help Trump" is now congealing into conventional wisdom, even though there is ***still no evidence for this***

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) December 10, 2016

I retweeted Michael Tracey here just for his usage of the word "congeal" in this context. Tracey is correct. What we know to be true is that Wikileaks hacked emails. Perhaps Wikileaks published this on behalf of the Russians, perhaps not. They deny it. But let's say it's true.

That doesn't mean Russia "hacked the election." That would require interference in tabulation. How we got from point A to point B is media speculation being broadcast as fact.

The same media that said Trump couldn't win should not be trusted on anything.

Americans have moved on, and have turned their attention to their families. There is a hard-core element that will never admit defeat, and they are all in academia, so they won't be rocking the boat too hard.

The only portion of the electorate with any energy is the millennials, and they get all their news from Samantha Bee, John Oliver, or Trevor Noah. It's all sugary infotainment; anger leavened with so much snark that it all becomes a big joke. Plus they're all stoned anyway.

America Reverts

The New York Times' Irin Carmon current article, What Women Really Think of Men, features an interesting phrase.

"The country prepares to revert to white male rule," Carmon writes.

"America reverts" carries more of a connotation of regression than the word "returns" would. Carmon's knitted brow and word usage convey a sense of fear. Perhaps she thinks Barack Obama isn't white or male.

America reverts. It sounds like "reverse." America has thrown the ship of state into reverse. The implicit evocation is a reactionary impulse that contradict Obama's belief that his only his ideas are aligned with the right side of history.

The word, "revert," has its roots in the Latin word, "revertere," to turn back. And Trump's victory does represent a yearning to turn back to things we could be grateful for, like men who were expected to provide for and protect their family. When women were expected to stay home and raise children and not agitate for a job with paid maternity leave.

Another meaning of the word, "revert," is to come into the faith of Islam. Muslims believe that we all met God before we were born, and accepting Islam is just returning to him.

Other early usages of the word "revert" includes, to "recover consciousness." That is probably impossible, as America has allowed a tree of knowledge to bloom on every street. This tree bears poisonous fruit, and destroys all who consume of it.

The poisonous fruit blooms from a tree known as feminism, and it could only have taken root in the soil of liberty.

Pussy Inflation

If you google the name Nick Loeb, the first result is titled, "What’s Sofia Vergara doing with this guy?" At the time the article was written, Sofia Vergara was already forty-one years old.

She still looks attractive enough on television, but her beauty is fading fast. The Post insists that she could "have her pick of the world’s most eligible bachelors," like "a towering NBA star." She does have a higher net worth than Loeb. The higher status a woman has, the harder it is for her to marry up and be happy. Even without her elevated status, the woman is always portrayed as "settling."

Yet Vergara is a peasant compared to Loeb, the son of a diplomat who is also related to the both the Bronfman and Lehman fortunes. Vergara's father was a cattle rancher, no disrespect intended.

Sofia Vergara has made it to the top, so everything she does is amplified. Right now she is being sued by the embryos that her and Loeb created a few years ago. Loeb and Vergara signed a contract stating that the embryos would be destroyed if one or the other party died.

Did it not occur to them that they might separate in life?

This case interests me for two reasons: paternal rights and fetal rights. Abortion activists ought to watch this case very closely, because of the precedent. You can leave your estate to an unborn child, so the unborn do have legal and civil rights.

All the attempts to legislate person-hood upon the unborn are moot if "Emma" and "Isabella" are given standing in a civil court.

During Tim Conway, Jr.'s radio show yesterday, Conway stated that "something wasn't right" about this case. The thing he was concerned about was that Loeb was using these embryos to make a claim towards child support.

Let's say the roles were reversed. Let's say the woman was concerned that the man would destroy the embryos. That the woman was concerned she would lose her chance to bring her genetic offspring into the world. If Conway said that she was a stereotypical gold-digger trying to line up child support, he would be ridiculed as sexist.

But notice how easy is it to assume that Loeb is insincere.

There is legal precedent for custody of embryos, and it was settled nearly thirty years ago in favor of the husband, who wanted to destroy the embryos. Does this precedent imply the parent who doesn't wish to procreate has the stronger case?

Stephanie Caballero, a lawyer quoted in the Daily Beast article, says that "There’s a very strong public policy throughout the country that you do not force someone to be a parent against their will."

Unless they are men.

The Kid In The Ghost Ship

This is Nick Gomez-Hall, who died in the Oakland warehouse fire on Friday night. He was twenty-five years old. I didn't know him, but he was from Coronado, so plenty of my neighbors probably did.

Dying in a fire must be one of the most agonizing ways to die. Imagine being trapped in a burning building with all your exits blocked or obscured, as the smoke and flames grow.

Then realize that this fire never should have happened, and Nick should be alive today. The "Ghost Ship" had a history of code violations and complaints. The fire marshal received a complaint in 2014. The city of Oakland issued a "blight notice" citation two weeks ago.

Nevertheless, the city may be on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars in liability. City Councilman Noel Gallo lives a block away from the building, and knew the owners. Gallo said that "we need to enforce the rules. This is not the first and maybe not the last."

You, Noel. You need to enforce the rules. You are the "we" that failed to do their job.

This is evocative of another young life cut short because the people entrusted with her safety were unwilling to do so. Kate Steinle was shot to death across the bay because San Francisco city fathers have made theirs a sanctuary city.

In that sense, the "Ghost Ship" was a sanctuary warehouse, exempt from existing law.

I don't understand why Noel Gallo hasn't been dragged out of his house and tarred and feathered. Or at least made to explain which imperative conflicted with his duty.

My feeling is that Gallo is unwilling to accommodate growth, or curb it. To him, the assessed value of properties in his district keeps rising, so his tax base continues to grow. His home appreciates as well. New construction permits are subject to endless red tape and environmental reviews, so they learn to look the other way at code violations.

Illegal immigrants are seen as another way to add to aggregate demand, and they are viewed as a net positive.

Indeed, the State of California is moving to further protect illegal immigrants, Kate Steinle be damned. The Democratic-controlled legislature introduced two bills to protect illegal immigrants from deportation. One would set up a fund to pay for lawyers for immigrants facing deportation. Another would train criminal defense attorneys in immigration law."

Maybe the reason we still protect illegal immigrants is because they invariably commit crimes in which there is only one victim at a time. I guess it will take an illegal immigrant committing mass murder to get city councils and state senators to listen to their constituents.