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Munchausen Blogger Syndrome

Posted on | June 21, 2014 | 17 Comments

#YesAllWomen, anybody? The worst “mommy blogger,” ever:

A 26-year-old “mommy blogger” was arrested Tuesday and charged with murdering her 5-year-old son by poisoning him with salt.
According to the Washington Post, blogger Lacey Spears wove an intricate web of lies about herself and her son on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, and may have killed the boy to satisfy her need for attention and the support of strangers.
The Scottsville, Kentucky woman was indicted in White Plains, New York on second-degree charges of depraved murder and manslaughter in the Jan. 23 death of Garnett Paul Spears. . . .
Garnett, she said, was the son of a police officer named Blake who was killed in a tragic car accident. The Daily Mail claimed that the boy’s father was actually a garage door installer named Chris Hill who lives in Georgia.
In January, the boy was admitted to Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital in Valhalla, New York, when doctors noted that his sodium levels were shooting up in a way that was “metabolically impossible” for his body to do on its own. Assistant District Attorney Doreen Lloyd said in court on Tuesday that Lacey Spears would wait for hospital personnel to leave, then inject high doses of sodium into the Garnett’s gastric feeding tube. . . .
She is believed to suffer from Munchausen-by-proxy syndrome, a disorder in which a parent or other caregiver inflicts harm on a child to gain sympathy and support from people outside the family.

There is a place in Hell for her.

 

Category: Crime

Is the Mississippi GOP Corrupt?

Posted on | June 21, 2014 | 15 Comments

The dishonest effort to re-elect Thad Cochran hits a new low:

The “super PAC” supporting the senator . . . is paying African-American leaders, including Bishop Crudup, to help lift black turnout on Tuesday, said Pete Perry, a Republican strategist here who is working for the group.

Who is Pete Perry? Who is funding this pro-Cochran “super PAC”? Is there illegal coordination between the super PAC, the Cochran campaign and the state Republican Party? Most of all, exactly how much has Bishop Crudup been paid for his support?

Pete Da Tech Guy wants some answers to these questions — or, at least, he’d like to see professional journalists start asking them.

 

Category: Election, Mississippi, Republicans

‘No One Deserves to Be Violently Murdered and Set on Fire’

Posted on | June 20, 2014 | 16 Comments

Well, we can all agree on this, I’m pretty sure. But apparently there is someone in Florida who feels otherwise:

FORT MYERS — Fort Myers police are trying to find the killer of a transgender woman whose body was found burned behind a garbage bin Thursday.
Police on Friday identified the victim as Eddie James Owen, 31, but family members said Owen identified as a woman and went by the name Yazmin or Yaz’min Shancez.

(Warning: Pronoun confusion ahead.)

Fort Myers Police Lt. Jay Rodriguez said they have not determined a cause of death, and are not investigating the homicide as a hate crime.
“We have no indication at this time to say this was specifically done because it was a male living as a female or anything like that,” Rodriguez said. “If you really think about it, a hate crime is killing someone for a specific reason, being black, Hispanic, gay. We’re investigating as we would any other homicide.”

(Keep this in mind: Police don’t even know the cause of death yet. They haven’t identified a suspect or a motive.)

The body was found on a dead-end, private road near Fowler Street in an industrial part of the city. The victim’s father, Harvey Loggins, said his family left balloons and stuffed animals behind the Budget Truck Rental site Friday to bring some light to the crime scene, which was still bloody and charred when he first arrived after hearing the news.
“We didn’t hate him for what he was,” Loggins said of Shancez. “Still to this day I love him. I wish he was here right now.”

(The father of the victim uses male pronouns for his son, Eddie.)

The victim was identifying as a woman as early as 2004, according to a police report where officers spelled her alias as “Jasmine.” At the time, the 20-year-old was working as a self-employed hair stylist, according to records for a failure to appear on a charge of battery.
Ross Murray, a spokesman for GLAAD, an advocacy organization for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, said he didn’t know if Thursday’s killing was a hate crime, but said “no one deserves to be violently murdered and set on fire and put behind a Dumpster.”

(Again, there is no disagreement about this. We are against murdering people. We are against setting people on fire.)

In 2013, 13 of the 18 documented anti-LGBTQ homicides were transgender women and 89 percent of the victims were people of color, GLAAD reports.
“Transgender women, particularly transgender women of color, face the most violence against them,” Murray said.

(Hmmm. There are about 15,000 homicides annually in the United States. If there were “18 documented anti-LGBTQ homicides,” this would mean that about one-eighth of one percent — 0.12% — of U.S. homicides were motivated by “anti-LGBTQ” sentiment. There would have to be an 800% increase in anti-gay hate crimes for such murders to amount to even 1% of the total.)

FBI data shows Fort Myers had one hate crime, which was racially-based, in 2012, the most recent year of available data. Collier County also had one reported hate crime, which was based on sexual orientation, according to the FBI.
“I think that transgender people are still marginalized and stigmatized in our society,” Murray said. “We tend to talk about transgender people in a way that discounts their experience and makes them a butt of a joke or deviant or suspicious and doesn’t take (their) whole life into account.”

(Perhaps, but remember that so far police have provided no indication of the motive for this particular murder.)

In October 2012, a man who once rented a room from Shancez filed for a restraining order, saying Shancez had threatened him and his girlfriend. According to the petition, the man said Shancez yelled out a car window that the couple “will be laying in our death beds together” and threatened to file a false report that said the couple came to her house and beat her.
A judge denied the couple’s petitions, saying there was not enough evidence of repeat violence or stalking.

(Could this point toward a possible motive? Does it indicate that the victim maybe had a bad temper? Again, we have no indication of a motive for the murder, and this 2012 restraining order situation probably had nothing to do with it.)

The SWFL Equality Coalition is planning a vigil for Shancez at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday at Centennial Park in Fort Myers.

Well, OK, and maybe by Sunday the police will have a suspect in custody, so that maybe we will know something about the motive. At this point, however, we know nothing at all about the motive, and I object to the pre-emptive journalistic speculation that amounts to the newspaper hinting around that there could be a hate crime here, just because the victim was “transgender.”

Of course, maybe this was a hate crime, but we don’t know that. Does Fort Myers have a gang problem or a drug problem? Then why isn’t the newspaper dropping hints about that? Dope dealers and gang-bangers probably commit more than 0.12% of murders. Why isn’t the newspaper asking whether Yazmin was involved with drugs? Why doesn’t the story mention gang-related violence in Fort Myers?

There is no journalistic speculation that maybe Yazmin got ripped off on a meth deal by some local Crips, because it would be irresponsible to do so without any substantiation, and yet without any evidence of a hate motive for Yazmin’s murder, the reporter has to call up a national spokesman for GLAAD to declare that ““no one deserves to be violently murdered and set on fire and put behind a Dumpster” — as if Fort Myers newspaper readers needed such a lecture: “Hey, murder is a bad thing, you guys!”

Irresponsible journalism makes some people wish they could murder the media, set them on fire and put them behind a Dumpster.

For the record, I’m against that, too.

 

Category: Crime, Gays, Media Bias

Professor Ludlow Defends His Right to Have Sex With Grad Students

Posted on | June 20, 2014 | 31 Comments

If you’re a bald middle-aged guy with an Ivy League Ph.D., academic tenure is basically a license to have sex with college girls:

A Northwestern University professor has filed a Title IX federal lawsuit against school officials for gender discrimination, defamation, and invasion of privacy over their handling of what he insists are false sexual assault accusations.
Two different graduate students have accused Philosophy Professor Peter Ludlow of sexual offenses in recent years.
In February, a Medill School of Journalism student filed a Title IX lawsuit against Northwestern for not taking her seriously when she reported that Ludlow sexually assaulted her in 2012.
Ludlow also lists her as a defendant in his lawsuit, claiming these allegations are “flawed and one-sided,” according to an article in The Daily Northwestern, the school’s official student newspaper.
Ludlow’s suit also shows that the school had investigated him in March after a philosophy graduate student reported that he had had non-consensual sex with her.
He admits that he and the student had a “consensual sexual relationship” from October 2011 to January 2012.

So, Professor Ludlow admits he had sex with one grad student, but she says it was “non-consensual.” And as to the other student’s claims, well, isn’t it horribly unfair to assume that a 55-year-old professor is constantly on the prowl for collegiate poontang?

According to her complaint, the student originally accused Ludlow of getting her drunk, and then kissing and groping her while she blacked out. . . .
The student hoped he would be fired, or at least disciplined. Instead, she claims, Northwestern stood by ineffectually as Ludlow threatened defamation litigation. While she spiraled into depression and attempted suicide, Ludlow continued to work as a tenured professor with full privileges.

From the Daily Northwestern:

[Ludlow] is alleging that the graduate student, along with philosophy Prof. Jennifer Lackey and director of NU’s Sexual Harassment Prevention Office Joan Slavin, who are also named in the suit, defamed him in statements they made during a third-party investigation into the student’s allegations.
Ludlow said Slavin, Lackey and the student made false claims against him during the investigation. The University hired Patricia C. Bobb, an independent investigator, to look into the graduate student’s claims.
Ludlow’s suit says that Bobb found the claims of non-consensual sex unsubstantiated, but that she did find Ludlow had violated NU’s sexual harassment policy because he had “unequal power“ in his relationship with the graduate student. Ludlow contests this finding from Bobb’s report, according to his lawsuit.
Bobb’s report was then distributed within the University against Ludlow’s wishes, the suit says.

Bottom line: Ludlow says he’s a victim. Despite the “unequal power” clause, Northwestern’s policy doesn’t specifically prohibit professors from having sex with students. Why? Because the whole point of becoming a professor is to have sex with students.

Everybody who knows anything about academia understands this: Graduate students are basically college kids who don’t want to grow up and get a real job. So they stay in school and, while pursuing their advanced degrees, they work as “teaching assistants” and have sex with their students. It’s a piece of cake, because they are “mature” 20-somethings with off-campus apartments, and they’re teaching classes full of freshmen and sophomores who are impressed by talk about “working on my dissertation,” blah blah blah.

Then the grad student finally gets his Ph.D., lands a tenure-track job and just keeps on doing the same thing he was doing as a grad student — teaching classes and screwing students. Every year, there’s a fresh supply of new meat, and by the time he gets tenure, your typical professor has probably been through a dozen affairs with students. The problem is that old habits die hard, and as the professor approaches middle age, his romantic attentions are not usually reciprocated as enthusiastically as when he was a hip, young teaching assistant.

Oh, sure, there are always going to be some naive students who are grateful to have the professor “mentor” them, but by the time a professor is Peter Ludlow’s age, there is an unmistakably creepy aura of desperate lechery about this kind of “mentoring.”

Is it possible that Peter Ludlow is the target of a campus “rape culture” witch hunt fostered by feminists eager to claim a scalp? Sure.

Does this make Peter Ludlow a victim for whom I should have sympathy? No, he’s got a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Fuck him.

Besides which, Peter Ludlow is an Anonymous sympathizer who defended that criminal wackjob Barrett Brown. Fuck him.

 

Category: Education, Sex

Does That Mean That BHO’s Actual Birth Certificate Was An Attachment?

Posted on | June 20, 2014 | 32 Comments

by Smitty

For a warmup, via Insty, we have Paul Ryan skewering the smarmy IRS commissioner John Koskinen:
JK is all: “Yeah, yeah, we all know I’m bullet-proof. Get your piece and make room in line and for the next guy. Imma have a second bourbon after this for you, Ryan.”

The kicker is the Joe Crowley chaser (via Breitbart) where he tries to link anyone not buying the IRS line to those who think Obama was born in Kenya:

“Like those who continue to refuse to believe the birth certificate from the state of Hawaii is actually real, conspiracy theorists will continue to rattle sabers,” Crowley said. “But really dose anyone in this room want to be seen in that light.”

Now that the IRS is up to seven (7) [VII] hard drives full of email for employees connected with the case mysteriously deciding to imitate Obamas foreign policy at the same time, anyone stupid enough not to suspect some amount of conspiracy afoot is probably stupid enough to think Sarah Silverman is a nun. New York, go ahead and send Lady Gaga to Congress in place of Crowley. If our Congress is to be a joke, might as well toss in a little song & dance.


And no, this post is not an endorsement of Birtherism. The title is pure sarcasm directed at Crowley. Obama was a dope smoking twerp who grew up in Hawaii, and the IRS is, IMO, guilty of any accusation anyone cares to hurl, until they quit jacking about and deliver the evidence.

Category: Democrats, Scandal

Brett Kimberlin Annoys a Judge

Posted on | June 20, 2014 | 22 Comments

It’s been weeks since I’ve paid any attention to Brett Kimberlin’s ridiculous federal lawsuit, the one that my co-defendant John Hoge has described as Kimberlin v. the Universe, et al. The reason for this long silence is that there just hasn’t been any real news in the case. Judge Grimm issued a letter order that put a lid on the extraordinary number of filings made in the case, and the defendants are basically now waiting to learn (a) if Kimberlin’s motion to amend his complaint will be accepted or (b) whether the various motions to dismiss and objections to the amended complaint have sufficed to show that (c) the amended motion is futile and (d) the entire lawsuit should be dismissed. Meanwhile, the case has been handed over to a new judge, George J. Hazel, who has this week received two letters from the Perjuring Pro Se Pipsqueak.

The first letter asks for more time to effect service on several defendants, including Ali Akbar and Breitbart.com, despite the fact that Kimberlin was already granted an additional 60 days on April 28. Now, having failed to effect service for more than six weeks — and with just days remaining until the June 28 deadline — Kimberlin wants to move the goal posts, asking that the court ignore his failure. Instead, Kimberlin wants the court first to rule on his motion to amend and then extend the deadline 60 days past that ruling.

Some of my fellow defendants (or their lawyers) are sure to point out what’s wrong with this: If the court denies the motion to amend — as I hope and expect they will — the suit would then be ripe for dismissal, except for the fact that not all the defendants have been served, some eight months after Kimberlin first filed his complaint. That would be extended to at least 10 months if Kimberlin were granted the delay he now seeks. Those defendants who have already responded to Kimberlin’s suit (including those who have spent money to hire lawyers) can very well argue that such a delay would be unfair to them, leaving them in limbo because of Kimberlin’s failures.

Of course, if the court should grant Kimberlin’s motion to amend, this would re-start the clock for everybody — but I honestly don’t think that’s going to happen, because the arguments made in opposition to the amendment were very strong. Kimberlin’s original suit is so badly flawed, as a matter of law, that it’s a slam-dunk for dismissal, and his proposed amended complaint did not substantially improve the suit, while adding numerous new errors in the process. When these problems were pointed out by the defendants in their opposition motions, Kimberlin’s response was just a lot of arm-waving and a repetition of his claims that the defendants are Very Bad People Who Do Very Bad Things.

Kimberlin’s second letter to Judge Hazel is simply absurd: He invokes the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling rejecting the defendant’s appeal in the case of United States v. Osinger. The irrelevance of this to Kimberlin’s case is obvious to anyone.

Here is a brief summary of Osinger’s crime:

Osinger was prosecuted for cyberstalking under 18 U.S.C. § 2261A. Among the things he did was create a phony Facebook page for his ex-girlfriend and post grossly inappropriate photos. He sent emails to her boss, co-workers and family members about it. And not to be subtle, he sent her about 40 texts over two days to let her know how he was going to destroy her life.

This was a crime, not a civil tort. Neither I nor any of the 20 other defendants in Kimberlin’s suit have violated 18 U.S.C. § 2261A. None of us have been arrested or indicted for violating 18 U.S.C. § 2261A or any other federal criminal statute, and no one is investigating us for such a crime. In writing to Judge Hazel, however, Kimberlin says he alleges that the defendants in his suit have “engaged in . . . criminal conduct that is not protected by the First Amendment.”

And the point is . . . what?

Anybody can allege anything, but the federal government has not appointed Brett Kimberlin to prosecute criminals, and his claims that he has been a victim of felonies by the defendants reminds me of nothing so much as it does an old episode of The Andy Griffith Show in which Gomer Pyle runs around shouting “citizens arrest.”

The law doesn’t work that way. If Brett Kimberlin has been the victim of felonies perpetrated by the defendants — who include Erick Erickson, Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck, among others — where are the indictments? Why isn’t the FBI slapping the cuffs on these alleged Very Bad People Who Do Very Bad Things?

Answer: Because Brett Kimberlin is full of crap.

Is it a federal crime to call somebody “full of crap”? I’m not a lawyer, so I don’t know. Maybe you should hit my tip jar, just in case.





 

Category: The Kimberlin Files

Obama’s Jihad-Loving DHS Adviser

Posted on | June 20, 2014 | 23 Comments

Add @MohamedElibiary to the list of Obama administration scandals that the Democrat-Media Complex expect us to ignore. Ace of Spades was all over this story last night: “By the way, this ‘senior fellow’ at DHS is a Muslim Brotherhood booster. He called Mohammad Morsi, the now-deposed Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt, Egypt’s Nelson Mandela.” But al-Qaeda just captured Saddam’s old chemical weapons plant in Iraq, so there’s nothing to worry about.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Iraq, Islam, Terrorism

The Media’s President

Posted on | June 20, 2014 | 44 Comments

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail)

Da Tech Guy makes the obvious point: The reason the media aren’t going after the IRS scandal is because Barack Obama is their president. Not since JFK’s fictitious “Camelot” have the media invested so heavily in maintaining the image of a president, an image of competence and success that can be maintained only by ignoring all contrary evidence and pretending that all criticism of Obama is racist — RAAAAACIST!

This is more than just “liberal bias,” it’s outright dishonesty, made easier by the blind partisan hatred of Republicans that has become prevalent among journalists since the Bush era. Reporters and editors were convinced (and remain convinced) that George W. Bush (a) “stole” the 2000 election, and (b) lied about the Iraq war, which all Democrats believe was fought for bad motives — and Democrats outnumber Republicans in the press corps by a factor of at least 5-to-1.

Even if you set aside the usual liberal prejudices about Republicans — that they are greedy, hateful, sexist, racist homophobes who destroy the environment for profit — the Iraq war confirmed in the minds of the press corps what they already believed, that Republicans are dishonest warmongers. Thus, the media believe, it is not only a professional obligation but also a matter of civic duty that journalists do all they can to ensure no Republican is ever elected president again.

Among the multitudinous ramifications of this belief system is the despicable prejudice of James Fallows, a Democrat Party hack of the most shameless sort: “James Fallows of The Atlantic and Media Matters are on a crusade to silence Republicans from ever appearing or have their voices heard in the Media.” Joe Fein was trying to call attention to this problem on Twitter a few days ago, but Joe was so angry about it he couldn’t make his point clearly. I understand: The mere thought of James Fallows should make any honest man angry.

When I was in Mississippi to cover the GOP primary a couple weeks ago, I sat next to Molly Ball of the Atlantic. The association between Fallows and the Atlantic came to mind and I went off on a rant about that despicable fraud. Molly responded by assuring me that James Fallows is a very nice person and, alas, I didn’t have the presence of mind to invoke The Banality of Evil. Of course, the press corps is nowadays so crammed full of despicable frauds that it is perhaps unfair to single out Fallows, except that he has been practicing this fraudulence for so  many years and is in some sense typical of Our Moral Superiors™ — the elite-educated fools whose contempt for the common sense of ordinary Americans is so dangerous because it is entirely unconscious.

Whenever I think of James Fallows, I immediately think of The Vision of the Anointed, a book no liberal has ever read, because if they ever read it, they wouldn’t be liberals anymore. But I digress . . .

The decline of Obama’s approval ratings must disturb Fallows and his comrades among Our Moral Superiors™ — how can the American people be so ungrateful for the presidency that the media have so diligently sold them? Of course, Fallows could answer the question easily, by referencing his belief that the American people are profoundly stupid.

And if all other explanations fail: RAAAAACISM!

 

Category: Barack Obama, Democrats, Media Bias
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