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Police Charge Ohio Democrat With Faking His Own Kidnapping

Posted on | March 4, 2015 | 32 Comments

Some media are calling Adam Hoover a “gay rights activist,” which is really just a clever way of saying “Ohio Democrat”:

A suburban Cincinnati gay rights activist was charged with a misdemeanor early Tuesday after police say he falsely claimed online that he was kidnapped and thrown in the trunk of his car, NBC affiliate WLWT reported. In a post on Facebook and Twitter just before 12:30 a.m. ET, Adam Hoover alerted his friends and followers that he was in danger. He said he was using social media instead of dialing 911 because he didn’t want to be heard.
“Please help me I’m in the trunk of my ford escort red 2000 gbh 2812,” the 20-year-old wrote. “They said they are going to kill my family please call 911 I don’t want them to hear me.” He included his mother’s phone number and his family’s address. “Please please call. I don’t want to die,” he added.
The plea for help spread quickly on social media and sparked an immediate search in the Cincinnati area. But after investigating, Green Township police and the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office believe the kidnapping was a hoax. Authorities discovered Hoover’s car abandoned on a highway near the Ohio-Indiana border, WLWT reported. He was seen coming out of a nearby home with police and was unharmed, according to the station. Police didn’t immediately release a motive for why Hoover allegedly faked his own abduction

Hillary Clinton supporters don’t need a motive to lie. They’re Democrats. It’s who they are. it’s what they do.

 

Category: Crime, Democrats, Gays, Hillary Clinton, Ohio

Not Making This Up

Posted on | March 4, 2015 | 16 Comments

Child killer Polly Chowdhury (left) and her lesbian lover Kiki Muddar (right)

A crime story that has everything:

A Muslim lesbian was today found guilty of torturing her eight-year-old daughter to death with the help of her vampire-obsessed lover.
Polly Chowdhury, 35, became convinced Ayesha Ali was ‘possessed’ and that she needed to be ‘punished’ because of a fantasy world created on Facebook by her twisted girlfriend.
Chowdhury was ‘groomed’ by 43-year-old Kiki Muddar, who invented 15 fictional characters, including a Muslim spirit called Skyman and a paranormal lover called ‘Jimmy’, to control her partner.
She had seduced neighbour Chowdhury and split up her marriage, before sending thousands of messages from alter egos to convince her lover to play out sexual fantasies and torture Ayesha.
Muddar was also obsessed with vampires and Ayesha’s mother agreed to bite her daughter’s back as part of the depraved attacks that led to her death in Chadwell Heath, Essex, in August 2013. . . .
Afsal Ali described his former spouse as ‘the perfect mother’ who had a ‘good heart’ and ‘put other people before herself’.
Muddar would cause arguments in the family home and his wife became ‘completely unrecognisable.’
Soon no family decisions could be made without Chowdury consulting Muddar, who had become her love.
‘It was like she was possessed,’ her husband said.

Somewhere, a Women’s Studies major is trying to figure out how to blame this crime on the heteronormative patriarchy.

 

Category: Crime, Gays, Islam

The Motives of Moody Loners

Posted on | March 4, 2015 | 20 Comments

Last month’s shooting in Chapel Hill, N.C., sparked a raging online argument over whether it was (a) an anti-Muslim hate crime or (b) a dispute over a parking space. The insistence that the motive for the crime was either one or the other omits the possibility that it was (c) both or (d) neither. The victims — Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, her sister Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, and the older sister’s husband Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23 — were all Muslims. The shooter, Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, expressed his enthusiasms online:

On his Facebook page, Craig Hicks had a huge and revealing list of “Likes” that shows him much more preoccupied with Christianity than with Islam. He does post a chart likening “Radical Christians” to “Radical Muslims,” but that is about the extent of his mentioning of Islam at all. He likes the atheists Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Bill Maher, all of whom have criticized Islam, but his page includes none of their statements about Islam. He likes many anti-Christian groups but no groups that are critical of Islam, and he even likes a group praising Obama for supporting the Ground Zero Mosque.

On Facebook, Hicks criticized Rick Santorum and supported the Southern Poverty Law Center so that, as Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch said, “Hicks is hardly the right-wing anti-Muslim Islamophobic redneck” liberals imagined. Jonathan Katz of the New York Times has commendably done more reporting:

A motive for the shooting may never be known. But interviews with more than a dozen of the victims’ friends and family members, lawyers, police officers and others make two central points: Before the shootings, the students took concerted steps to appease a menacing neighbor, and none were parked that day in a way that would have set off an incident involving their cars.
If those accounts do not prove what kind of malice was in Mr. Hicks’s heart, the details that emerge indicate that whatever happened almost certainly was not a simple dispute over parking. . . .
The contrast between the paunchy, balding Mr. Hicks and the rest of the [condominium] complex’s residents was stark. Many were aspiring professionals and academics at a premier public university. Mr. Hicks was unemployed, taking night classes at a community college in hopes of becoming a paralegal. He spent long hours in his apartment with a collection of at least a dozen guns, including four pistols and a Bushmaster AR-15. Mrs. Hicks told her lawyer that Mr. Hicks would stare out the second-floor window, obsessing over neighbors’ parties, patterns and parking. . . .
The neighbors’ relationship became testier when Ms. Abu-Salha started spending time at the apartment after the engagement, said Mr. Barakat’s former roommate, Imad Ahmad. In October, Mr. Hicks came knocking while they were cleaning up from a dinner party where they had played the board game Risk. He growled that they had woken up his wife, lifting his shirt to reveal a holstered gun. The students did not call the police, but there was little the authorities could have done if they had. Mr. Hicks had a concealed-carry permit. . . .
On Feb. 5, Mr. Hicks got more bad news: A judge had ordered a March 19 hearing over $14,189.54 in unpaid child support to his first wife, according to court records. . . .
He was undeniably obsessed with parking. Each unit got permits for up to two cars, but only one assigned spot. Building 20 had 13 spaces. Mr. Barakat and Ms. Abu-Salha were assigned space 20B. The next, 20C, belonged to Mrs. Hicks. Five spaces in the middle were unassigned and could be used for extra cars. Drivers also regularly parked on the side street.
The housing association allowed residents to have improperly parked cars towed. But Mr. Hicks abused this power until the housing association asked him to stop, his wife’s lawyer said. According to a police search warrant, he kept “pictures and detailed notes on parking activity” on his computer. . . .

You can read the whole thing, but it seems to me the conclusion is obvious: No, this “was not a simple dispute over parking,” but neither was it what we usually think of as a “hate crime.”

This was a classic Moody Loner crime. Every so often in a nation of more than 300 million people, these things happen. There are lots of disgruntled kooks out there, and it is usually not easy to predict when of them is about to commit a heinous act of violence.

About 10% of Americans are afflicted with mood disorders (depression or bipolar disorder), 18% have anxiety disorder, 10% have personality disorders and 7% have substance abuse problems. There’s some overlap between these categories, so that about 25% of Americans suffer some form of mental illness, and we can’t afford to lock all of them into lunatic asylums. It’s only after one of these Moody Loner types commits an atrocity that people (many of whom are themselves not entirely sane) jump to conclusions about the killer’s motives. In the Internet Age, tribal instinct expresses itself in a mob mentality where liberals try to pin the blame on right-wingers and vice-versa, but as the case of Craig Hicks shows, craziness is not so neatly partisan.

Have we seen this before? Sure, lots of times.

Elliot Rodger’s Isla Vista murder spree became a cultural Rashomon last year, with feminists insisting that the Creepy Little Weirdo proved something about violent misogyny. Perhaps so, but it mainly proved something about Creepy Little Weirdos. Last June, I quoted  Daphne Patai’s 1998 book Heterophobia:

The sociologist Joel Best, in explaining how a social problem comes to prominence through the work of individuals who expand its definition and find ever more instances of it, labels this procedure the “just another example of X strategy” — where  “X” is the problem that is being dramatized. Thus, he contends, the “domain” of the identified problem “expands,” as greater and greater claims are made for the problem’s pervasiveness.

In other words, when academics or journalists develop a sensitivity to something identified as a social problem — whether it’s “Islamophobia” or “rape culture” — they are always looking for examples of that problem. And this is where the overwhelming liberal bias of academia and media becomes a social problem of its own. Studies have shown that Democrats outnumber Republican at least 4-to-1 in newsrooms and university faculties, and this lopsided partisanship (which is certainly not accidental) yields compound interest over time.

Liberal hegemony in these influential institutions discourages conservatives from pursuing careers in academia or journalism, so that liberals within those institutions usually come to believe that All The Smart People agree with them.

If every textbook is edited by a liberal, if all newspapers are edited by liberals, if every major TV network news broadcast is produced by liberals, there is no reason for any liberal ever to doubt the correctness of his worldview. Therefore, the pet obsessions of liberals — e.g., the concern that Muslims are at risk of “Islamophobia” — take on the air of reality, so that liberal beliefs seem justified, no matter what the data actually show. Yet however great the harms produced by Islamophobia, the grand total of deaths in anti-Muslim hate crimes is much less than the death toll from Islamic terrorism. Americans’ fear of Islamic terrorism is far more rational than liberals’ fear of “Islamophobia.”

It is only because of liberal bias that people become so obsessed with the motives of crimes committed by Moody Loners like Craig Hicks or Creepy Little Weirdos like Elliot Rodger.

Dangerous kooks are usually just dangerous kooks whose “political” beliefs do not intersect with the political categories of non-kooks. Conservatives know, however, that,if any crime seems to confirm the liberal worldview, the media will rush to publicize the “right-wing” motive of the criminal — and will then mysteriously lose interest in the motive if evidence proves otherwise, as it so often does.

Remember the Tucson Massacre of 2011: Because the shooting targeted a Democrat congresswoman, it was instantly assumed by the media that Jared Loughner must be a right-winger. It turned out, however, that Loughner was a psychotic who had become obsessed with a left-wing 9/11 “Truther” video called Zeitgeist. Because I spent several days researching the Zeitgeist phenomenon in the wake of the Tucson Massacre, I can assure you that this would have been a fascinating subject for the New York Times or one of the major networks to do an in-depth report about. However, once it became clear that Loughner was not a right-winger, liberals instantly lost interest in his motive and there was never any real media follow-up on Loughner’s Zeitgeist obsession.

It is good that Jonathan Katz has devoted time to reporting on Craig Hicks’ motives, but a careful reader will notice that Katz isn’t very curious about the possible connection between Hicks’ avowed atheism and Hicks’ general anti-social attitude. Of course, this connection may be entirely random, and I don’t mean to suggest that we could be facing a wave of mass murders committed by deranged atheists. Yet when Matthew Shepard was murdered in 1998, the media wasted no time in generalizing that crime into a crusade against “homophobia,” despite the lack of evidence that Shepard’s killers were homophobes.

There are many fascinating phenomena in our society that are ignored by the media because these phenomena contradict the liberal worldview, fake rape accusations and fake “hate” incidents, for example. Liberals are often eager to jump on certain stories — e.g., the University of Virginia “gang rape” hoax — but lose interest in the story once the fakery is exposed, never bothering to explore what motivates such hoaxes.

In-depth reporting on lesbian sex offenders? No, the New York Times will never study their motives. All criminals are created equal, but some criminals are more equal than others.

 

Category: Crime, Islam, Journalism, Media Bias, New York Times, Terrorism

That Carlin Bit About ‘Just Cleaning His Gun When It Suddenly Went Off. . .’

Posted on | March 4, 2015 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

Emphasis mine:

Hillary Clinton’s exclusive use of a personal email account to conduct official business as secretary of State caused seems to have stayed within the law, experts say.
“What she did was not technically illegal,” said Patrice McDermott, a former National Archives staffer and the head of the Open The Government coalition, a transparency group.
However, “it was highly inappropriate and it was inappropriate for the State Department to let this happen,” she said.
The New York Times on Monday reported that Clinton did not use an official government email account while serving in Obama’s Cabinet, nor did she back up the messages to a government server.

Here it is:

A man in Texas was arrested today for shooting and killing: his wife, son, two daughters, his mother and father, all four of his grandparents, his dog, his mailman, three neighbors, and a woman who works at the filling station. He claims he was just cleaning his gun when it suddenly went off.

I mean, the woman reduced the office of Secretary of State to a global fleecing operation. She gets an Ambassador killed on her watch, and has the cast iron gall to wonder in front of Congress, on the record,

Why would this creature condescend to conform to any sort of rules pertaining to carrying out her duties? And what can the GOP do in response? Not a godforsaken thing. In this case, “not technically illegal” means “don’t even bother seeking justice”.  Omitted from The Hill article above is the fact that the only reason Her Majesty’s dirty laundry is under discussion is due to The Smoking Gun.

It seems relatively safe to assert that anything Her Majesty touches is criminal from the outset. But get used to it, because, after the recent DHS funding vote, it also seems kinda likely that the Vichy GOP may be among her supporters.

Category: Hillary Clinton

Two California Teachers Charged in Beach Sex Party With Five Teenage Boys

Posted on | March 3, 2015 | 48 Comments

Alcohol, blowjobs and cocaine — the California ABCs:

Two teachers who were arrested in January for allegedly having a beach sex party with five male students have been hit with new charges – including that they supplied cocaine to the minors.
Melody Lippert, 38, and Michelle Ghirelli, 30, from the Los Angeles suburb of Covina, were both originally only charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor over allegations that they gave booze to the students.
On Monday, prosecutors hit them with a slew of new, much more serious, charges, KTLA-TV reports.
Lippert, who allegedly organized the trip, was charged with unlawful sexual intercourse and furnishing a controlled substance to a minor, both felonies.
Ghirelli now faces charges of unlawful sexual intercourse, furnishing a controlled substance to a minor and oral copulation of a minor, all of which are also felonies.

Teach women not to rape!

 

Category: Crime, Education, Sex

Bibi Speaks, Pelosi Weeps

Posted on | March 3, 2015 | 21 Comments

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to a joint session of the U.S. Congress today, over the objections of Democrats who said . . . Well, what, exactly? The basis of their objection was something like, “The Republicans didn’t ask nice and Bibi’s just two weeks away from re-election.” And I’m like, “So?” It is no secret the Obama administration is actively backing Netanyahu’s opposition in the Israeli elections, but this weird entanglement between our politicians (Left and Right) with their politicians is just a logical consequence of the Obama Age.

Welcome to kabuki democracy or, as Ace of Spades calls it, Failure Theater. We have elections, but the people we elect don’t seem to realize they are supposed to represent us. Instead, it seems that all the really important decisions have been made in advance. It’s as if there were a secret cabal of billionaires, gathered in an Aspen chalet, who reach a consensus on an issue — a nuclear deal with Iran or a mini-amnesty tucked into the DHS budget — and then send out orders to their minions in the media and other key institutions: “Make this happen.”

Everybody then pretends that the outcome (which is always exactly what the cabal ordered) was arrived at through the normal governing process. There’s a wink-and-a-nod among the insiders, but cynical observers suspect that what we’re watching on the TV news is a scripted charade. Nancy Pelosi issues a statement, and then emerges before the cameras for her performance:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) hammered Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday, saying the Israeli prime minister’s speech to Congress was an “insult” to the country.
“The unbreakable bonds between the United States and Israel are rooted in our shared values, our common ideals and mutual interests,” Pelosi said in a statement just after the speech.
“That is why, as one who values the U.S.-Israel relationship, and loves Israel, I was near tears throughout the Prime Minister’s speech — saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States as part of the P5 +1 nations, and saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran and our broader commitment to preventing nuclear proliferation.” . . .
Pelosi made a point of declining to join several of the standing ovations during Netanyahu’s speech and often took longer than other lawmakers to rise from her seat. She also kept commenting to her seat-mate, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), using forceful gestures.

“Forceful gestures”! Yeah, I got your gesture right here, Nancy.

Allahpundit has a long memory:

Here’s how seriously you should take her alleged outrage over Netanyahu’s “Bibi knows best” attitude. Back in 2007, while George W. Bush was warning people that Bashar Assad might not be the cuddly would-be “reformer” that Democrats like Hillary Clinton were convinced he was, one prominent liberal flew all the way to Damascus to sit down with Assad and pose for photos. Bush wanted to isolate him; the Democrat in question, convinced that she and her party knew best, had other ideas. Guess who.

Chickens coming home to roost much? Obama also had some things to say about Netanyahu’s speech to Congress.

No comment from the cabal of Aspen billionaires.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Israel, Nancy Pelosi

In The Mailbox, 03.02.15

Posted on | March 3, 2015 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Hopefully back on schedule this week; also going to try and crank out a long-overdue book post for Thursday.


OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Look! Down In The Polls! It’s A Duck, And It’s Lame!
EBL: What Do These Two Posts Have In Common?
Doug Powers: What Do You Know, They Found Those Lois Lerner E-Mails The IRS Commish Said No Longer Existed
Twitchy: Michelle Malkin Compiles History Of Administration’s “Unorthodox” E-Mail Methods
Monster Hunter Nation: Book Bomb Update, More Free Stories, And Sad Puppies Slate Update


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Why Do Leftists Hate Asian-Americans?
American Thinker: Bibi’s Truth – Forty Years Of Liberal Betrayal
BLACKFIVE: Jordan Allies With The Tribes
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Jezebel Is Politics For Drooling Morons
Conservatives4Palin: Scott Walker Drives Media To Madness
Don Surber: Rolling Stone Tries To UVa Scott Walker
Jammie Wearing Fools: Code Pink Clowns Protest Netanyahu In DC, Raise Hezbollah Flag
Joe For America: Muslim Brotherhood’s US Nonprofit Tentacles – Hiding In Plain (IRS) Sight
JustOneMinute: Geez, Was The Senate Democrats’ Torture Report Politicized?
Pamela Geller: Black Pastors Tell Congressional Black Caucus Decision To Skip Bibi Speech “Slap In Face To Israel And God” (Video)
Protein Wisdom: When Vagina Warriors Attack
Shot In The Dark: Trulbert! Part XXIX – The Scent Of Walleye
STUMP: Obamacare Tax Watch – Other Commenters
The Gateway Pundit: Saudi Columnist Says Netanyahu Is Right To Address Congress; Says Obama “One Of Worst US Presidents”
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Jihadi Princess (@princessISback4) Is Back
The Lonely Conservative: Finally Made It Back From #CPAC15
This Ain’t Hell: Tulsi Gabbard Challenges The White House
Weasel Zippers: Judge Tells EPA To Stop Discriminating Against Conservatives, Accuses Agency Of Lying To Court
Megan McArdle: War Is Easy For A Candidate
Mark Steyn: The War On Free Speech, Day In, Day Out


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Category: Linkagery

Answer: Her Majesty Hath Decreed Him ‘Jebalicious’ To Her Chamber Pot Media

Posted on | March 2, 2015 | 28 Comments

by Smitty

Question: Why does the MSM so love Jeb Bush?

. . .newspapers failed to see the big picture: At a conference [CPAC] that brings together conservative leaders from around the country, Mr. Bush was soundly booed and heckled. A packed room booed his stance on immigration — he called for “a path to legal status” for illegal aliens — and derided his support of Common Core as the soon-to-be candidate said the program does not amount to a federal takeover of education.

Even though Mr. Bush — as awkward as his brother when delivering speeches from teleprompters — had opted for a simple Q&A with a “friendly” moderator, Fox News’ Sean Hannity, there were plenty of disastrous moments, like when he was asked about his support, as governor, for offering drivers’ licenses to illegal aliens, which drew more boos.

It is blatantly obvious to even the most casual observer that, if you’re conservative and your name doesn’t rhyme with “trove” or “Hindu Kush”, your interest in Jeb hovers around that of contracting ebola.

But who else is keen? Why, Hillary, getting her grandma on there at her Georgetown estate. What better way to party like it’s 1992 than trick the GOP into nominating Jeb?

  • The narrative repositions Obama as “More of Same (Bush)” vice “Hope and Change”
  • Her Majesty, the victim of masculine oppression, barely held back the coming Russian night, and could have succeeded, if not for those meddling White House kids. Just look at how pear shaped things have gone since she left?
  • The American voters have a chance to un-soil themselves, after so disrespectfully rejecting HillaryCare in the ’90s. You got what you deserved in ObamaCare, ungrateful peasants, but now the wise and forgiving Hillary gonna wipe a boo-boo.

Fine print:

And if you godforsaken little Vast Right Wing Conspirators manage to thwart Her Majesty again, then the very Tribulation itself shall have been a trip to Disney World compared to her wrath. So you’d better tell that Cheese Head governor twerp to lay by his dish and let Jeb join Dole, McCain, and Romney in the Concession Speech Chorus, m’kay?

via Hot Air headlines

Category: Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush
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