LIVE AT FIVE: 05.07.15

In February we reported that a female teacher had been fired from New Braunfels Christian Academy in the midst of a sex crime investigation involving accusations that she had molested a female student. Police at that time had not yet named the accused teacher. Now, however, she has been charged with multiple felonies:

A former math teacher at New Braunfels Christian Academy was arrested Wednesday months after allegations surfaced that she had ongoing inappropriate sexual relations with a former female student.
Heather Lynn Packwood, 25, turned herself into the Comal County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday, New Braunfels Police spokesman David Ferguson said Thursday.
The Bulverde resident was charged with improper relationship between educator and student, sexual performance of a child and sexual assault of a child, according to Comal County Jail records. She is currently being held in the jail on a $40,000 bond. . . .
The alleged offenses began around January 2012 when the teacher moved into the victim’s home, Christopherson said. The victim’s family tasked the teacher with taking care of their children while they were away and taking them to school.
The female teacher and the victim apparently shared a room, [New Braunfels Police Lt. Craig] Christopherson said in February.
It’s unclear how long the relations lasted. The former student told her family about the alleged abuse on Feb. 13, according to Christopherson.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.) While feminists dishonestly hype bogus statistics and phony stories to create the false impression that male college students are responsible for a campus “rape epidemic,” feminists refuse to acknowledge reports of sex crimes against girls committed by lesbian teachers, because the existence of such crimes contradicts feminism’s theory which (a) condemns all males as collaborators in the oppression of women, and (b) identifies traditional social norms, including “compulsory heterosexuality,” as institutional structures of patriarchal oppression. Once we recognize that the traditional family and its associated customs provide the best hope for human happiness — Haven in a Heartless World, as Christopher Lasch called it — we must reject feminism as a hateful and selfish ideology that destroys happiness.

It’s National Offend a Feminist Week. Be happy — because feminists hate happiness — and be thankful you’re not one of them.

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Category: Crime, Education, National Offend a Feminist Week, Sex Trouble, Texas

LIVE AT FIVESEVEN: 05.05.15

Posted on | May 5, 2015 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
Grandma Calls Wannabe Terrorist “A Good Boy”

Police officer stands near school bus used to evacuate attendees

Blames roommate Elton Simpson for actions
ISIS claims responsibility for attack

Carly Fiorina Throws Her Hat In The Ring
Former HP CEO formally enters race for GOP nomination

State Department Writes Off Americans In Yemen
Rescue mission deemed too risky

POLITICS
Justice Department Refused Funding For Baltimore Police Training

For want of $200k…

Money went to company that produced “Mister Rogers Neighborhood” for PBS

Top NY Lawmaker’s Arrest Throws State Assembly Into Disarray

Rand Paul Tweaks John McCain: “Some old guy”

Marine Commandant Chosen As Chairman Of JCS

House Veterans Committee Chair Blasts Secretary McDonald, Department’s “Rampant Lack Of Accountability”

SCOTUS Asks Solicitor General For Opinion On Interstate Pot Case

President Blasts Media Coverage Of Baltimore Riots

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Slips On Saudi Plan To Halt Yemen Bombing: WTI $58.87, Brent $66.40
EU Raises Eurozone Forecast Despite Bleaker Greek Outlook
Slower Economy Means Fed No Closer To Rate Hike
GE Links Up With Qualcomm, Apple On New Lighting Business Bet
Indian IT Companies Rise After Cognizant Posts Good Q1 Numbers
Dow Chemical To Cut Workforce By 3%
Windows Media Center Won’t Be Part Of Windows 10
DIY Computer Startup Kano Lands $15 Million
Sony Brings Game Streaming To PS3
Meerkat Dumps Twitter For Facebook
Apple Pressuring Music Labels To Drop Spotify’s Freemium Model

SPORTS
Capitals Shut Out Rangers, Take 2-1 Playoff Lead

Caps goalie Holtby blocks another shot by the Rangers

Beagle scores a rare goal to win

Red Sox Lose To Rays; Ramirez Loss Hurts Already Weak Offense

Whither The Spurs?

Rangers Stop Astros’ Streak With Sac Fly

Devils Hire Ray Shero As GM

Braves Fall To Phillies 5-2, And It Wasn’t Even That Close

Twins Hold Off A’s 8-7

Cubs Blow 5-Run Lead, Lose 10-9 To Cards

Escobar Goes 5-For-5 As Nats Rally Past Fish

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Amy Adams Gets Married After Seven-Year Engagement

Darren LeGallo and Amy Adams, husband and wife

Her 2015 movie schedule was empty, so why not?

Katie Couric Fled From Mayweather-Pacquiao Fight

See The Force Awakens Cast In Annie Leibovitz Pics

Rihanna Best Dressed Diva At Met’s Great Ball Of China

Chris Brown Named As Suspect In Vegas Brawl

“Django Unchained” Actress Ordered To Apologize To Police

Rachel Uchitel Leaving Door Open For Tiger – If He Grovels

Lauren Hill Cancels Israel Show

FOREIGNERS
Quake Hits Papua New guinea, No Damage Reported
UK Parties Plot For Coalition As Chancellor Warns Of Deeply Unstable Hung Parliament
National Front Founder Strikes Back At Daughter After Suspension From Party
Burundi Court Validates President’s Bid For Third Term
Boko Haram In Disarray After Nigerian Forces Advance
Netanyahu Promises New Approach To Help Ethiopian Jews
Italy Demands EU Partners Stump Up For Rescued Migrants
#GoHomeIndianMedia: Nepalis Slam Indian Media For Doing Indian Government PR
“No Room For Gays In Kenya,” Says Deputy President
Hello China! Modi Takes Diplomacy Directly To Weibo
Senegal Pledges 2100 Troops To Saudi-Led Yemen Coalition

BLOGS & STUFF
EBL: Blaming The Victim
Doug Powers: Bernie Sanders’ Challenging Vision for America – No Car In Every Garage
Twitchy: CNN’s Alisyn Camarota Gets Schooled By Pamela Geller
Shark Tank: Fidel Castro Outed As The Drug Dealer We Always Knew He Was
American Power: The Only Thing Better Than Dessert
American Thinker: The Obama Deceit Doctrine
BLACKFIVE: Iran Deal Ad – Why Are The Mullahs Laughing?
Conservatives4Palin: Weekly Standard Succumbs To Liberal Rhetoric On Governor Palin
Don Surber: CNN Likes Riots, Opposes Drawing Pictures
Jammie Wearing Fools: NYT Reporter Confused About This Whole “Free Speech” Thing
Joe For America: The Eric Sheppard Challenge Is An Ignorant Foot-Stomping For Attention
JustOneMinute: Politicizing The CIA
Pamela Geller: Texas Jihadi Identified, Was Previously Subject Of Terror Investigation
Protein Wisdom: Punch Back Twice As Hard
Shot In the Dark: Disappointment
STUMP: Obamacare Tax Watch – Drop After Tax Day Move
The Gateway Pundit: Texas Shooters’ Mosque Controlled By Muslim Brotherhood Front Group
The Lonely Conservative: And So It Begins
This Ain’t Hell: SFC Hobson-Shearwood Saving The World
Weasel Zippers: Obama Has No Comment On Garland – But It’s Time To Go On Letterman!
Megan McArdle: What The Clintons Haven’t Learned

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Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Monday: Lt. Commander Rand, RIP

Posted on | May 4, 2015 | 33 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The weekend got eaten by Game of Thrones, visiting with friends, and suchlike distractions, but here we are, finally, with another week of links celebrating attractive women. This week we note the passing of Grace Lee Whitney, who played the rather toothsome Yeoman Janice Rand on the original Star Trek series*, with a pic of her in that role.

A rare shot of Yeoman Rand with her hair down

As usual, many of the following links are to pics of women wearing few or no clothes, and depending on where you work, these may be considered NSFW. The management is not responsible for your inability to exercise discretion; if swelling persists for over four hours, close your browser, put your pants on, and go outside.

Goodstuff leads off this week by getting fidgety with Gidget, played by the young Sally Field back in the day. Ninety Miles from Tyranny follows with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls with Guns; First Street Journal also has Women with Weapons.

EBL’s herd of heifers this week includes “Food Babe” Vani Hari, Jayne Meadows, Brooke Baldwin, Beach Body Ready, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Women Eating Oysters, and Kathryn Grayson.

A View from the Beach checks in with Diora “Double D” Baird, Wombat’s Friday Feed, We’re No Better Than Neandertal Man (has cavegirl content), You Want Me to What?, Gitcher Motor Running, Air France Abides By Rule 5, Sexism in Science, Big Breasted Bimbo Blames Baltimore on Veterans, Some Red Meat For the Crowd, A $#!**y Story, Hannah and Her Horse and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”

At Soylent Siberia, it’s your morning coffee creamer, an evening awesome appetizer, Monday Motivationer’s Let’s Make A Deal, Afternooner Garden Nom Nom Nom Gnome, Tuesday Titillation Fascination, Overnighty Window Dressing, Humpday Hawtness Because Leanna, Overnighty Going Blind Blonde, Foamy Fursday Classic Dorothy Stratten, Film At 11 I Hope, Fursday Evening Awesome Peekaboo Fur, Corset Crumpets, T-GIF Friday Acid Flashback, Overnighty Reflections On Tonsured T**t, Weekender Hoi Sin, and Bath Night Soapy Sushi.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Sophia Bush, his vintage babe is Mary Murphy, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Brazilians And Brazilians Served! At Dustbury, it’s L’Wren Scott and Trisha Krisnan; at Loose Endz, it’s the Friday Night Nudes, while at Three Beers Later, it’s the Super Goggles and “That’s How They Do It In Dixie!”

*I am well aware that she ascended to higher rank over the course of several movies and Star Trek: Voyager. As Stephen den Beste used to say, Don’t Write Letters.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox is midnight on Saturday, May 9.

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Category: Rule 5

Feminists Chase ‘Avengers’ Director Off Twitter, Because … Gender Theory?

Posted on | May 4, 2015 | 113 Comments

Let me explain something up front: Hollywood blockbusters are not made by conforming to people’s pet political theories. The target audience is 12-year-olds who want to see a lot of explosions and chase scenes and stuff like that. Yet the bottom-line calculations of box-office profit mean nothing to feminists:

Avengers: Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon is officially off the grid, having quit Twitter today (May 4).
The filmmaker signed off from the social media service with two final messages to his 1.15 million followers. . . .
Whedon has been criticized by some Avengers fans and critics for using Scarlett Johansson’s international spy Black Widow in a typical ‘damsel in distress’ role in a few key scenes late in Age of Ultron.

OMG, a female character getting rescued by a male hero? Oh, we can’t have that kind of stuff in movies in 2015! We must critique the social construction of the gender binary within the heterosexual matrix!

No more studio executives and producers and directors — no, this capitalist structure of movie production must be replaced by a system that guarantees social justice! The era of white cis male heteropatriarchal movie-making is over! Henceforth, every script will be created by a committee of Women’s Studies majors under the supervision of Judith Butler, Sally Kohn and Anita Sarkeesian, and all characters must be either lesbian, genderqueer or oppressed minorities from the Third World, preferably disabled or, at least, neuroatypical.

Your next super-hero blockbuster will be about an undocumented Guatemalan paraplegic bisexual with a harelip and chronic depression.

And the 12-year-olds are going to like it, or else.

If feminism is the cause of your problem, the solution to your problem is not "more feminism." http://t.co/afi6QPqQ8W pic.twitter.com/yikYfDQ6JY

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) April 30, 2015

Category: Hollywood, Sex Trouble

TERROR IN TEXAS: Garland Gunman Elton Simpson Was Muslim Convert

Posted on | May 4, 2015 | 30 Comments

Sunday night’s terrorist attack on the American Freedom Defensive Initiative “Draw Mohammed” event in Texas was apparently committed by an Arizona man who converted to Islam:

The father of one of the suspected gunman in the Garland, Texas shooting told ABC News today that his son “made a bad choice.”
“We are Americans and we believe in America,” Dunston Simpson said. “What my son did reflects very badly on my family.”
Simpson’s son, Elton, was identified earlier today to ABC News by a senior FBI official as one of the suspects in Sunday’s failed attack on a Texas community center that was hosting an event displaying cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. Elton Simpson and another man were killed by a police officer after they opened fire on the officer and a security guard, local police said.
Today FBI agents and a bomb squad were at Simpson’s home in an apartment complex in north Phoenix conducting searches of the apartment. Officials believe Simpson is the person who sent out several Twitter messages prior to the attack on Sunday, in the last one using the hashtag #TexasAttack about half an hour before the shooting. Prior to that, the Twitter account holder had published messages sympathetic to Islamic terror groups such as ISIS.

Kristinn Taylor at Gateway Pundit has an excellent roundup, including this report from the Los Angeles Times:

Two social media accounts tweeted messages about the attack apparently before it happened.
A Twitter account titled “Shariah is Light” — bearing the image of extremist Islamic propagandist Anwar Awlaki, who was killed in an American drone strike in Yemen in 2011 — posted an allusion to the attack just minutes before it happened.
Before the shooting, the “Shariah is Light” account also tweeted a command to follow another account, titled “AbuHussainAlBritani,” which also tweeted before and after the attack. . . .
“The knives have been sharpened, soon we will come to your streets with death and slaughter!” tweeted the “AbuHussainAlBritani” account before the attack.
After the attack, the “AbuHussainAlBritani” account began tweeting praise of the Texas shooting, and linked the attack to the militant group Islamic State.
“Allahu Akbar!!!!! 2 of our brothers just opened fire at the … art exhibition in texas!” the account tweeted. “Kill Those That Insult The Prophet.”
“They Thought They Was Safe In Texas From The Soldiers of The Islamic State,” the account tweeted.
The accounts have since been suspended.

The second shooter has just been identified:

Law enforcement officials said Monday afternoon that the second shooter in the Texas attack was Nadir Soofi, 34, Simpson’s roommate.
FBI agents searched a Phoenix apartment Monday as part of the investigation into the shooting, which occurred Sunday evening in Garland, a city near Dallas.
The FBI had begun monitoring Simpson again recently. Authorities said Monday that they were still working to determine details about the two men and who may have instigated the plan. The FBI does not believe the shooting was directed by an international terrorist group, but is still investigating.

UPDATE: Today I’ve had my office TV on CNN all day and it was insulting to watch the network go out of its way to depict Pamela Geller as an irresponsible hatemonger. They had on two different guests (Mark Potok and Heidi Beirich) from the SPLC, as well as a professor who has written a book about “Islamophobia.” Noah Rothman at Hot Air discusses the liberal media’s smears against Geller and observes:

This isn’t the first time an organization listed as a “hate group” by the SPLC was attacked by gun-wielding maniacs, but you don’t see many media outlets looking into the climate of murderous violence inspired by this liberal advocacy group.

The SPLC is a dangerous totalitarian propaganda outfit.

The liberal media's spin on #Garland is their spin on everything: "How can we turn this into a narrative to help Democrats?" #tcot

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 4, 2015

CONTROVERSIAL (adj.) — pertaining to a person who tells the truth about something that liberals would rather believe lies about. #Garland

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 4, 2015

LA TIMES Dec. 7, 1941: Anti-Japanese Ships Sunk in Hawaii @davidjacksmith @AmPowerBlog @PamelaGeller @jihadwatchRS pic.twitter.com/kFvABdX0nW

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 4, 2015

Simple question: Which is the greater danger to the freedom and safety of American citizens — Islam or 'Islamaphobia'? #Garland

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 4, 2015

"Islamophobia" is a ridiculous fiction. It is not irrational to worry about violent fanatics who hate us. Call it "Islamorealism." #Garland

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 4, 2015

UPDATE II: More information about Nadir Soofi:

According to his Facebook page, Soofi spent a considerable amount of time with his little brother. He’s a graduate of the University of Utah and the International School of Islamabad in Pakistan. His page also shows multiple posts featuring Palestinian and anti-police propaganda. Frequently, he posts the phrase “Eid Mubarak” meaning celebration to the blessed. Soofi was the owner of Effinity Solutions, a carpet cleaning business in Phoenix. In July 2013, he called himself a “newbie to the carpet cleaning industry.”

Just another law-abiding adherent of the Religion of Peace.