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Indecent Liberties: Police Say Teacher Showed Her Nude Selfies to Teen Girls

Posted on | June 20, 2015 | 47 Comments

Melissa Waters Kidd, 34.

Parents in Newport News were shocked last month when it was reported that a teacher at Woodside High School was under investigation:

A search warrant filed in the case indicated three students told police the 34-year-old teacher showed them before-and-after photos of her breast augmentation. The photos were on the teacher’s phone. One student said the teacher also shared photos of her genitals.
“To me that’s pornographic, it’s not okay. It’s not okay,” Woodside High School mom Angela Leslie said. “I hope it’s not true.”

The teacher, who had been put on administrative leave in March and resigned in April, was finally charged on Thursday:

former Woodside High School teacher was arrested and charged with three counts of taking indecent liberties with a child, according to a statement from the Newport News Police Department.
Melissa Waters Kidd, 34, of the 100 block of Raptor Boulevard in Hampton, was arrested June 18. She was placed in the custody of the Newport News City Jail.
The two female victims were 16 and 17 years old at the time the offenses occurred, according to the police.

(Hat-tip: Michael Ryan on Twitter.)

In England, meanwhile, a lesbian teacher at an elite school who had sex with one of her students did not even face criminal charges:

A games coach at a top boarding school has been banned from teaching after she had lesbian sex with one of her 15-year-old pupils at her parent’s house.
Lauren Chandler, 24, who was also a teacher and residential house tutor at the private £7,400-a-term Dover College, Kent, began the inappropriate relationship in October 2012.
The pair exchanged inappropriate and flirtatious messages and pictures referring to each other as ‘babe’ and ‘beautiful’ with repeated use of ‘heart’ symbols.
Chandler then invited the girl, referred to as Pupil A, to stay at her parents’ house over the half-term holiday, the National College for Teaching and Leadership heard.
A professional conduct panel found Chandler had slept with the girl and engaged in two-way sexual touching. . . .
“Criminal investigations did not proceed due to Pupil A’s refusal, with the support of her parents, to take matters further.”
But Chandler was banned Britain’s classrooms for life after the panel found her conduct was “sexually motivated”.
Department for Education official Paul Heathcote said: “Miss Chandler has abused her position of trust by causing her relationship with Pupil A to develop beyond proper professional boundaries.
“She has committed serious sexual misconduct with a child and her actions were both deliberate and repeated.
“She has not demonstrated any remorse or insight into her behaviour having not engaged with this process in any significant way.
“I agree with the panel’s recommendation that prohibition is an appropriate and proportionate sanction.”

(Hat-tip: Melvin Vines on Twitter.)

COMPLETELY RANDOM COINCIDENCES:

It’s almost as if there’s a pattern here or something.

“Feminism means equality, and radical ideologues
aim to make women equally deviant,
equally perverse, equally abnormal, so that
women can equally molest young girls and boys.”

Few feminists have children of their own, because they hate children.

“I don’t particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding . . . time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness. . . . I don’t want a baby. . . . Nothing will make me want a baby. . . . This is why, if my birth control fails, I am totally having an abortion.”
— Amanda Marcotte, March 14, 2014

This is why feminists are obsessed with other people’s children. Will your children become casualties in their War Against Human Nature?





 

Category: Crime, Education, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: Saturday Morning Edition

Posted on | June 20, 2015 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: If It Quacks Like A Duck – Hillary 2016
Doug Powers: Friday Idiocy Dump – Obama Claims EPA’s New Truck Emission Regs Will Make Shipping Things Totally Cheaper
Twitchy: The Next Catastrophic Effect Of Global Warming? Pleasant Temperatures And Increased Attendance At National Parks
A View from the Beach: They Say A Bad Day Fishing…


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Indira Esparza, Illegal Immigrant Student, Unfurls Mexican Flag At UC San Diego Graduation Ceremony
American Thinker: Has The Left Reached Its Jump The Shark Moment?
Conservatives4Palin: Why Exempt The Media From Campaign Finance Laws?
Don Surber: Shucks, No Preident Fauxcahontas
Jammie Wearing Fools: Military Clearance OPM Breach “Absolute Calamity”
Joe For America: Martin Dempsey, CJCS – Obama’s Boy To The Core
JustOneMinute: The Victims In Charleston, Remembered
Pamela Geller: UK Muslims Used Threats, Rape, Control And Violence To Force Women Into Sex Slavery
Protein Wisdom: I Am Lobo. I Hunt Alone.
Shot In The Dark: Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste
STUMP: Women And STEM Academia Fix – Be Professional
The Gateway Pundit: Mexico Deports More Central Americans Than The US – Obama Puts Them In Resorts And Pays For Their Zumba Classes
The Jawa Report: New $10 Bill Prototype
The Lonely Conservative: School Nutritionists Says New Regs Send Kids To Fast Food Joints For Lunch
This Ain’t Hell: Colonel David Hodne Bans Badges, Combat Patches
Weasel Zippers: Professional Race Agitators Including Deray McKesson Try To Claim Conspiracy In Charleston
Megan McArdle: It’s Not Just Another Data Breach. It’s Outrageous.
Mark Steyn: The Moronization Of The Republic


The Essential Hayek (Free!)

Category: Linkagery

Dylann Roof: A Ninth-Grade Dropout Who Was Playing Too Many Video Games

Posted on | June 19, 2015 | 130 Comments

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air says, “any argument starting off with ‘We don’t have all the facts’ is one that should probably remain unspoken.” That applies to bloggers as much as it does to the President of the United States, and yet it seems people want to score points off the Charleston massacre, rather than to discover why this actually happened.

The why will necessarily involve the who. Let’s understand that “hate” is not an amorphous thing floating around in the air. Hate must have a home in human minds, and so the particular human who pulled the trigger — Dylann Roof — should be the focus of our attention.

Not gun control. Not any other “issue” we may want to push.

Remember the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School? When that happened, I was working at The Washington Times and interviewed retired Army Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, a former West Point psychology professor who is author of On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society (1995) and co-author of Stop Teaching Our Kids To Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie & Video Game Violence (1999). Col. Grossman is an internationally recognized expert on the psychology of killing and, in 1999, he pointed to the phenomenon of “first-person shooter” games as a known factor in the atrocity committed by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. This wasn’t speculation. It was a matter of fact that the Columbine killers were aficionados of these games, and the predictable reaction whenever someone points to this factor is, “Yes, but lots of kids play those games and don’t become mass murderers.”

Exactly. But you realize the same argument — “X cannot be the decisive influence, because lots of people are exposed to X” — can be used against any “cultural” explanation of behavior. Charles Manson was a hippie guru whose cult followers did a lot of drugs, listened to Beatles records and committed mass murder, but most hippies who did drugs and listened to Beatles records were neither cult members nor mass murderers. So what lessons could we, as a society, have derived from the notorious “Helter Skelter” killings? Most people at the time recognized the Tate-Lobianca murders as conclusive proof that the whole 1960s peace-and-love tune-in-turn-on-drop-out mythology of hippie culture was a lie. Manson collected his followers from among the broken flotsam and jetsam of castoff kids and runaways who flooded into San Francisco during the late 1960s. It was the Law of Large Numbers, really. When millions of kids climbed aboard that kind of bandwagon — rejecting parental authority to pursue a lifestyle of drugs, sex and rock-and-roll — it was inevitable that very bad things would happen to some of them.

You see that the example of the Charles Manson cult is not one chosen at random in this case, because Manson’s “Helter Skelter” fantasy was to incite an apocalyptic race war in America, and Dylann Roof’s murders had the same motive. Also, Dylann Roof had a drug problem. For that matter, Dylann Roof even had a Beatle haircut. Whether or not he was listening to the White Album backwards, we don’t know.

Please excuse my habitual sarcasm, but if you’re following the liberal media coverage of the Charleston shootings, you keep seeing allegedly intelligent people making a few simple-minded connections that may not actually have much to do with Dylann Roof’s crimes. “It’s the guns! It’s the racism! This happened in South Carolina! OMG! They fly the Confederate flag there!” All of this is obviously true, but exactly how much of this is really relevant? There are about 3 million white people in South Carolina, many of whom are racists and gun owners, but they didn’t kill people in Charleston, nor do they condone hateful violence.

As always, the liberal biases of the media lead them into a hasty pell-mell rush to assign collective political blame for a high-profile crime, a bias that fosters false beliefs which in turn have the effect of psychologically disarming society. We cannot prevent crime if we don’t understand crime, and understanding crime requires us to focus on the individuals who commit crime. Yes, the hippie culture of the 1960s was dangerous. And yes, we may say that South Carolina is a particularly “racist” environment. However, most hippies were not mass murderers, nor are most South Carolinians, and the attempt to defame white people in South Carolina by assigning collective blame to them — which is what the liberal media are so obviously doing — is the exact opposite of what responsible journalism is about. Let’s focus on the criminal:

According to classmates, Roof is a frequent abuser of prescription drugs.
Court records from Lexington, [South] Carolina — where he has been living in a trailer park — reveal he was arrested twice this year on charges of trespassing and drug possession. . . .
Roof used to skateboard in a Lexington suburb in South Carolina when he was younger and had long hair then.
Childhood friend Joey Meek had seen him as recently as Tuesday, said Meek’s mother, Kimberly Konzny. . . .
‘I don’t know what was going through his head,’ Konzny said. ‘He was a really sweet kid. He was quiet. He only had a few friends.’Joey Meek alerted the FBI after he and his mother instantly recognized Roof in a surveillance camera image that was widely circulated after the shooting.
In the image, Roof had the same stained sweatshirt he wore while playing Xbox video games in their home recently, Konzny said. It was stained because he had worked at a landscaping and pest control business, she said.
Roof attended ninth grade at White Knoll High during the 2008-09 school year and went there for the first half of the following academic year, district spokeswoman Mary Beth Hill said. The school system gave no reason for Roof’s departure and said it had no record of him attending any other schools in the district.
According to CBS News, school records show that between fourth and ninth grade, Roof attended six different schools, and repeated the ninth grade.

He dropped out of school after ninth grade. His parents were divorced, and his father and stepmother also reportedly had divorced. According to the Wall Street Journal, Dylann’s father had been pressuring him to stop playing video games constantly, and to find steady employment. His grandfather is reportedly a lawyer. His father is a contractor. There are some very interesting clues in this Mother Jones story:

Ken Mathews, an attorney who has been representing Roof in an ongoing drug-possession case, was, he says, “very shocked” to hear about what Roof had allegedly done. He tells Mother Jones, “The dealings I had with him, he was just a normal kid.”
Mathews, a Columbia, South Carolina, attorney, notes that so far in the drug case he has had “very limited dealings” with Roof. He says he saw “nothing that would indicate that [Roof] would take this type of action.” . . .
Mathews has known the Roof family for years, dating back to a custody dispute between Dylann’s father Ben and mother Amy over visitation rights concerning Dylann. . . .

So his family life was disrupted, he was shuttled from one school to another from the time he was nine or 10 years old, he dropped out of school as a teenager, became a drug-addicted loser living in a trailer park, constantly playing video games and, also, Dylann Roof was a racist who sewed Rhodesian flag patches on his jacket and had a Confederate flag tag on his car. OK, then, compare and contrast Dylann Roof to Colin Ferguson, who killed 6 people and wounded 19 others in the 1993 Long Island railroad massacre. Colin Ferguson was a crazy black racist who hated white people:

Ferguson spoke out against coexistence with whites and routinely made calls for retributive revolution. Ferguson regularly accused others around him of racism. During one occasion, Ferguson complained that a white woman in the library shouted racial epithets at him after he asked her about a class assignment. An investigation concluded the incident never occurred. Later, Ferguson attended a symposium by a faculty member discussing her experiences in South Africa. Ferguson interrupted the professor by shouting, “We should be talking about the revolution in South Africa and how to get rid of the white people” and “Kill everybody white!” When students and teachers tried to quiet him, Ferguson started threatening them, repeatedly saying, “The black revolution will get you.”

Colin Ferguson was dangerously crazy, but there are so many crazy people running around loose in America — because you have a “right” to be crazy here — that whenever something like this happens, there is invariably a media narrative about “warning signs” that this particular crazy person was unusually crazy and somebody should have done something about it. The other common media narratives involve guns (because liberals hate guns) and culture (because liberals hate our culture). There seems to be an unwritten rule in liberal media that if a particular crime can be interpreted as indicting America as racist, sexist or homophobic, this crime must instantly become The Most Important News Story of the Week. Liberal journalists salivate like Pavlov’s dog at the prospect of a Matthew Shepard-type hate crime, which can become the topic of a National Conversation About [Whatever], even if details of the case ultimately don’t prove what liberals say the story proves.

Jared Loughner was supposed to be a deranged Tea Party supporter, but when it turned out he was a psychotic obsessed with the 9/11 Truther conspiracy video Zeitgeist, the liberal media immediately lost all interest in Loughner’s motive. If a killer turns out to be just a nutjob, his crime cannot be made the topic of a National Conversation, and if it turns out that the criminal’s background, identity or motive are quite the opposite of the desired liberal narrative, this is Just a Local News Story of no larger national consequence.

My cynical sarcasm about these stories is always intended to highlight the media bias involved, and I do not mean to make light of the actual event. There were about 14,000 murders committed in the United States in 2013, according to the Justice Department. That’s about 38 murders a day or 270 a week. Over the course of a year, the national media will take a sustained interest in a comparative handful of these crimes. Not all murders are created equal, according to the media, and so we find them picking and choosing cases as nationally significant according to criteria that are quite often clearly political. The Creepy Little Weirdo who committed the 2014 Isla Vista massacre in Santa Barbara was a misogynist who left behind a manifesto explaining his resentments against women, and so there was a National Conversation to be had, with feminists lecturing us about What This Means.

Well, here we go again, with an obvious hate crime, and so now the liberal media are going to subject us to lectures about racism, and we shall have a National Conversation which will not mention, for example, that 12 people were killed and 43 wounded in shootings in Chicago over Memorial Day weekend. And we can be almost certain that another dozen people will be killed in Chicago during the Fourth of July weekend coming up. There have been 175 people shot to death in Chicago so far this year, and nearly a thousand others wounded.

Today, June 19, is the 170th day of the year, and already 1,163 people have been shot (175 killed, 988 wounded) in Chicago this year, so by simple math we learn that in the previous 169 days of 2015, there were an average of 6.9 people shot daily in Chicago. That’s 48 shooting victims per week, of whom 7 were killed. Despite this astonishing level of deadly violence in Chicago, however, I can guarantee you that there are people today in Chicago who are watching CNN and shaking their heads about Dylann Root’s hate crime in South Carolina. And some of those people in Chicago (probably about 30 of them) are going to be shot to death in Chicago within the next month. Of course, not every murder in Chicago involves gunfire. People are killed by strangulation, blunt force trauma and other causes, so that there have been more than 200 homicides in Chicago so far this year, and it seems altogether likely that the total number of homicides Chicago this year will exceed 400.

Who is committing all those murders in Chicago? Maybe some crazy dopeheads who dropped out of high school. Just sayin’ . . .





 

Category: Crime, Media Bias, Racism, Terrorism

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | June 19, 2015 | 9 Comments

by Smitty

The last tear, there on the feather. Photograph. Immortalized. Framed. Hung on the wall. You can’t un-happen history, nor do you want the facts to fade. Get stuffed, Santayana: there will be no re-runs of this sorrow.
That emotional prison of abuse? The key of forgiveness has thrown the door open, and you’re now at liberty to go forth and conquer. The dark, evil prison warden who hoped your hatred and humiliation will melt your joy, and turn you into one of them, has lost.
The cycle of cruelty is broken. Life prevails over death. Time to leave this necropolis.

via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

Feminist @Clementine_Ford: ‘I Admit It. Really, I Hate Men. Now Give Me Money.’

Posted on | June 18, 2015 | 62 Comments

The headline is scarcely an exaggeration of her plea:

My name is Clementine Ford and I’m a writer, speaker and professionally angry person living in Melbourne. I write about feminism, violence against women, misogyny and pop culture. In my writing, I try to challenge the habits of complacency and apology that have formed part of the ever replicating backlash over the last decade. I’m not interested in placating men about their intentions or feminist credentials. I won’t hand out cookies and rewards, and I advise other women to adopt a similar stance. . . .
Like most feminists, I have often been told that I hate men. I’m no longer interested in denying that claim. People will convince themselves of whatever they like in order to avoid making changes to their own lives, and it’s beneath all of us to waste precious time and energy trying to convince naysayers that feminism is a nice, non threatening movement that won’t impact their lives in any way. It will. That’s the point — to substantially alter the structures of power and privilege that favour certain groups over others and perpetuate inequality and oppression. I’m not afraid of acknowledging that, and summarily ignoring the taunts of people who find this threatening.
I don’t speak or write about feminism in order to convince men or sway them to my point of view. I do it because I want to let other women know that it’s okay to speak up and to be angry and to tell the truth about their lives. Also, women are fucking funny and rad and I want to hear more from them and less from men.

So she’s running an online fundraising drive. Whereas I’m just a blogger who wrote the book that explains what this is about — Sex Trouble: Radical Feminism and the War Against Human Nature.

Also, can also hit the freaking tip jar.

(Hat-tip: Claire Lehmann on Twitter.)





 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 06.18.15

Posted on | June 18, 2015 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.18.15

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: #Quinninnippippiiiacippiac!
Doug Powers: If The OPM Was Managing A Bank, They’d Outscource Security To John Dillinger
Twitchy: Obama Talks Gun Control During Charleston Shooting Statement
Bill Whittle: Death By Dynasties


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Treasury Department To Remove Hamilton From $10 Bill
American Thinker: Gender, Race And Reality
Conservatives4Palin: IRS Finds 6400 Lois Lerner E-Mails But Won’t Hand Them Over
Don Surber: Elvis Forever
Jammie Wearing Fools: NBC Rushes To Hate Group SPLC To Exploit Charleston Shooting
Joe For America: Remember The Obamacare Website? It’s Still Not Finished. Your Money And Personal Info Are At Risk.
JustOneMinute: Obama’s “Plan” For Iraq Blasted In NYT Guest Piece
Pam Geller: Lawyer For Muslima Who Murdered American Mom In Abu Dhabi Mall Says Non-Muslim Witnesses Should Be Disregarded
Protein Wisdom: Rachel Dolezal And The Question We All Wanted To Ask
Shot In The Dark: John Edwards Was Only 2/3 Right
STUMP: Kentucky Pension Blues – What’s Up With ERS?
The Gateway Pundit: Rand Paul – “Drive A Stake Through The Heart Of The IRS”
The Jawa Report: Ding Dong! Jihadi Witnesses!
The Lonely Conservative: CFPB Provides Slush Fund For Left-Wing Groups
This Ain’t Hell: ISIS Supporter Attacks Federal Officers In NYC
Weasel Zippers: As Night Follows Day, Sharpton On His Way To Charleston
Megan McArdle: Don’t Dismiss Greece’s Baser Instincts
Mark Steyn: Tweet Of Clay


Trulbert!: A Comic Novella About the End of the World As We Know It

Category: Linkagery

In The Mailbox: 06.17.15

Posted on | June 17, 2015 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


I am remiss in failing to note in this past weekend’s FMJRA that last week the Watchers’ Council voted Stacy’s post ‘Mattress Girl’ Emma Sulkowicz Releases Crappy Porn Video With French Title second place in their non-council posts for the week. Thanks to Don Surber for the nomination!


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Barack Obama Getting In The Magna Carta Spirit
Michelle Malkin: Every Breath She Takes
(Please pray for Michelle and her daughter. -WS)
Twitchy: “Ineptocracy” Jim Geraghty Points Out Most Telling Part Of OPM Director’s Testimony
Victor Davis Hanson: Building The New Dark Age Mind (Thanks to Loyal Reader Brian E)


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: France’s National Front Announces New “Far Right” Coalition In European Parliament
American Thinker: Obama And The Black Intellectualoids
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Making The Case By Kimberly Guilfoyle
Conservatives4Palin: Gov. Palin – “Trump Should Know He’s Doing Something Right” (Updated With Trump’s Response)
Don Surber: Rachel Dolezal, Poster Girl For White Liberalism
Jammie Wearing Fools: Di Blasio’s Rent-Regulation Scare Tactics All A Hoax
Joe For America: Obama Is Moving Ahead With Amnesty
JustOneMinute: Paging John Kerry, There’s A Call On Line One
Pamela Geller: “I Don’t Want To Die, But I Will Not Live As A Slave”
Protein Wisdom: Scientist Tim Hunt Subjected To Room 101
Shot In The Dark: Dear Entire Twin Cities Media
STUMP: 80 Percent Funding Hall Of Shame, May Roundup
The Gateway Pundit: Trump On Hillary – “I Was Watching Her Talk About Income Inequality – Have You Looked At Her Donor List?”
The Jawa Report: Found! Lee Siegel’s Soul Mate!
The Lonely Conservative: Democrats Will Shut Down Government If They Don’t Get Their Way On Spending
This Ain’t Hell: Rangers’ Chaplain In Trouble
Weasel Zippers: Moonbat Democrat Rep Keith Ellison Touts Professional Race Agitator Deray McKesson
Megan McArdle: What To Expect When You’re Expecting A Pension
Mark Steyn: The New Minstrelsy


Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth

Category: Linkagery

We Can Haz #PartyLikeIts1992?

Posted on | June 17, 2015 | 27 Comments

Smitty

I was doing some gags in the wee hours on Twitter, as one does when the one-year old has a 2AM wake-up:

and, finally:

Now, I am sworn not to vote for Jeb, but this bit did give pause (h/t DaTechGuy):

Pete asks:

What is to stop Donald Trump if denied the GOP nomination, if denied the speaking spot he wants at the convention, if he develops a grudge against the eventual GOP nominee or if he wants to just feed his ego, from going the Ross Perot route running as a 3rd party candidate and dividing the vote to give Hillary the White House?

Let’s just stipulate that we’ve substantially collapsed into an aristocracy. We’re watching a mostly boring and puritanical version of Game of Thrones here. Clinton, Bush, and Trump are all hedged to score a fat pile of cash, irrespective of outcome. But the cash is more about keeping score at that level than it is, say, servicing the mortgage.

I guess, at that altitude, noise like this boils down to entertainment for His Donaldness. Did I mention that I’m not voting for Jeb?

Category: Republicans
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