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FBI + IRS = S-C-A-N-D-A-L

Posted on | June 9, 2014 | 54 Comments

Ho-hum — another day, another Nixonian revelation:

The Internal Revenue Service may have been caught violating federal tax law: In October 2010, the agency sent a database on 501(c)(4) social-welfare groups containing confidential taxpayer information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to documents obtained by a House panel.
The information was transmitted in advance of former IRS official Lois Lerner’s meeting the same month with Justice Department officials about the possibility of using campaign-finance laws to prosecute certain nonprofit groups. E-mails between Lerner and Richard Pilger, the director of the Justice Department’s election-crimes branch, obtained through a subpoena to Attorney General Eric Holder, show Lerner asking about the format in which the FBI preferred the data to be sent.
“This revelation that the IRS sent 1.1 million pages of nonprofit tax-return data — including confidential taxpayer information — to the FBI confirms suspicions that the IRS worked with the Justice Department to facilitate the potential investigation of nonprofit groups engaged in lawful political speech,” Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa, a California Republican, and subcommittee chairman Jim Jordan wrote in a letter to IRS commissioner John Koskinen. . . .

(Via Memeorandum.)

 

Category: Scandal

Craigslist Rapist Arrested

Posted on | June 9, 2014 | 24 Comments

Remember the “Craigslist Killer,” Philip Markoff, who was charged with killing a woman he met through a Craigslist ad and was suspected of having robbed two other women? More recently, a 19-year-old Pennsylvania woman, Miranda Barbour, has been called a “Craigslist killer” after police say she murdered a man.

Just in case Craigslist did not already have a scary enough reputation, however, we now have the Craigslist Rapist:

Upper Darby police have arrested a man on rape and human-trafficking charges, after he allegedly assaulted a woman who answered a job posting on Craigslist.
A 18-year-old woman says when she was hired by an Upper Darby man through a Craigslist ad, she was told it was for a home health aide but when she went to the man’s apartment to fill out paperwork, she found out that application was for an escort service.
She declined, and she tells police that’s when the man raped her.
Upper Darby Police arrested 42-year-old Kevin Cornish of Ferne Boulevard, on charges of rape, kidnapping, and human trafficking.
When they searched his apartment, Upper Darby police superintendent Michael Chitwood says they found about 50 other applications for the so-called escort service:
“Basically it’s a prostitution ring is what it is, just based on what’s contained in the application.”

Bottom line: Beware of people you meet online. I mean, for crying out loud, they might be a blogger or something.

 

Category: Crime

Like Margaret Thatcher Said

Posted on | June 9, 2014 | 22 Comments

“The problem with socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.” Venezuela is learning that lesson the hard way.

 

Category: Economics, Venezuela

Virginia GOP Pulls a Fast One

Posted on | June 9, 2014 | 38 Comments

A Democrat member of the Virginia state Senate has announced he will resign, a move that will likely prevent newly elected Democrat Gov. Terry McAuliffe from imposing ObamaCare on the state — and this appears to have been arranged by Virginia Republicans in a thoroughly Machiavellian maneuver that will give GOP control of the state Senate.

 

Category: Virginia

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.09.14

Posted on | June 9, 2014 | 18 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Egypt’s New President Vows To “Correct Mistakes Of The Past”

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi

Egypt “will witness a total rise on both internal and external fronts, to compensate what we have missed and correct the mistakes of the past…”



23 Dead After Jihadi Attack On Karachi Airport
Aside from the terrorists, most of the dead were airport security, a few workers

Administration Officials Claim Bergdahl Was Tortured
Told doctors and debriefers he was kept in a cage for extended periods



POLITICS
Ed Gillespie Wins GOP Nomination To Face Mark Warner For Virginia Senate Seat

Former RNC chair, adviser to Romney campaign

Beats out three little-known opponents

Sen. Feinstein Questions WH Statements On Bergdahl’s Health, Death Threats

Senator’s Resignation Leaves Virginia Democrats Scrambling

Justice Department, Americorps Join To Provide Legal Assistance For Underage Illegals

Gov. Brewer: Feds Say No End In Sight For “Dumping” Of Illegals In Arizona



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Rises As PRC Exports Gain Steam: NYMEX $102.77, Brent $108.68
Japan GDP Revised Higher On Capital Spending Surge
Tyson Reportedly Wins Bidding For Hillshire Farms
Kraft Hikes Maxwell House, Yuban Prices 10%
Asian Shares Rally On Upbeat Data
US Gains 217K Non-Farm Jobs, But Official Unemployment Still 6.3%
Apple Maps Are Still Lost
Sony Overtakes Nintendo In Console Sales
Google Mobile Search Ad Dominance Threatened By Apps
Softbank Enters Robotic Market With Emotional Humanoid
Did Apple Merely Put Beats Out Of Its Misery?
Watching Big Brother



SPORTS
LeBron Mans Up, Leads Heat To Win In Game 2

35 points, ten rebounds

Miami edges San Antonio 98-96


Dale Earnhardt Jr. Steals Win At Pocono From Keselowski

Frustrated O’s Blown Out By A’s 11-1


Hernandez K’s Career-High 15, M’s Beat Rays With Five-Run 9th

Giants Complete Sweep Of Mets With 6-4 Win

Two Grand Slams Highlight Astros’ 14-5 Rout Of Twins

Shields, Royals Nip Slumping Yankees

Jordan Zimmerman 2-Hits Padres, Nats Win 6-0



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
L’Wren Scott’s Sister Rips Mick Jagger For Not Being Loyal To Dead Ex-GF

Mick and a gal pal on his hotel balcony in Zurich

It makes no sense to me either


Intruder Breaks Into Sandra Bullock’s Home While She Was There

Jennifer Lopez, Casper Smart Split


Justin Bieber Baptized In NYC Bathtub?

Tracy Morgan In Critical Condition After Six-Car Pileup On NJ Turnpike

Emily Maynard Marries Tyler Johnson

Melanie Griffith Divorcing Antonio Banderas

Casey Kasem Alert But In Critical Condition



FOREIGNERS
Pope Francis Hosts Evening Of Prayers With Israeli, Palestinian Leaders
Jihadis Target Kurds Amid Surge In Sectarian Killings
King Juan Carlos: “I Don’t Want My Son To Grow Old Waiting Like Prince Charles”
Three Men Escape From Canadian Prison Using Helicopter
The South China Sea: What Happens Now?
Kosovo’s Thaci Claims Victory In Election
Red China Reaches Out To Modi Government On Trade
Israeli Finance Minister Threatens To Quit Over West Bank Settlements
Jihadis Kill 23 Shia Pilgrims In Baluchistan
Thai Junta Pushes “Happiness” Project



BLOGS & STUFF
Doug Powers: Newest Spin – Maybe Bergdahl’s Platoon Was Full Of Psychopaths
Twitchy: Wil Wheaton Fails At Making A Joke About Republicans In The ER
American Power: Taliban Supreme Council Offers To Send 400 Battle-Hardened Peacekeepers To Chicago
American Thinker: The Obama Doctrine
BLACKFIVE: Retired LTC Tom Slear Raises The Bar On Blue Falconing
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Arguing With Social Justice Warriors Is Pointless
Conservatives4Palin: MS Senate – Good Old Boys Bromance Video Starring Thad Cochran And Harry Reid
Jammie Wearing Fools: NYT – Bergdahl’s Unit Is Responsible For His Desertion Or Something
Joe For America: Rand Paul Has Great Idea To Get Marine From Mexico
JustOneMinute: Bikram B-Ball
Pat Dollard: Obama Won’t Allow Bergdahl To Talk To Anyone Until He Agrees To Tell The Story Obama Wants Him To Tell
Protein Wisdom: The Clerisy – You Will Submit Or Else
Shot In The Dark: I Went To Rochester, And All I Got Was A Hotel Bill
The Jawa Report: France Commemorates D-Day With Slo-Mo Interpretive Dance
The Lonely Conservative: Cantor Really Wants To Make A Deal With Obama On Immigration
This Ain’t Hell: A “Black Heart” Medal For Bergdahl’s No-Show Officers
Weasel Zippers: Hillary Says She May Not Testify If Subpoenaed By Benghazi Committee


Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Sunday: The Fremont Street Experience

Posted on | June 8, 2014 | 22 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Dancers at the Golden Gate Casino’s street bar. Yup. It’s Vegas.



As the Loyal Readers are aware, I spent half of last week on a fact-finding/apartment-hunting visit to Las Vegas, sometimes referred to as Sin City, and for those of you who haven’t been there, I can assure you that the shuttle bus downtown from McCarran International takes you past a number of billboards for various casinos and strip clubs that would not be out of place in a Rule 5 Sunday post. Then of course, there’s the whole Fremont Street Experience, which occasionally verges on NSFW when it isn’t simply WTF? Speaking of which, this week as in every week, we feature links to pictures of (mostly) women (mostly) underdressed to exhibit their charms, except for those that are completely undressed. Please use discretion when clicking the links; the management is not responsible for the actions of irate wives, girlfriends, etc.

The Pagan Temple debuts with Maria Brink, followed by Rotten to the Core with Kate Upton and Karen Gillan, Malice McMunn shaking the tip jar for Valley of the Shadow, and Maria Sharapova at Randy’s Roundtable. Animal Magnetism has Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, of course. Ninety Miles from Tyranny has Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Girls with Guns; Laughing Conservative offers Petra Cubanova, Blackmailers Don’t Shoot informs us Farrah Abraham Insists That She’s Not a Porn Star, and in honor of D-Day, First Street Journal covers The Women of Normandy.

EBL’s thundering herd this week is led by a Game of Thrones link, followed by a Thomas Dolby shoutout, Nathalie Emmanuel, Molly Ball, Justine Harman, Alyssa Milano, and the “nurses” at the Heart Attack Grill, although the last one’s a ringer and some of the rest look like they were taken at the original Scottsdale location.

Soylent Refuge chips in with Sunday Coffee Creamer Jessi, Ice Cream Sunday, Overnighty Snoochathon, Monday Motivationer Helga, Tuesday Titillation Because Gisele, Evening Awesome Truth In Advertising, Humpday Hawtness Amelia, One for Mike at Ninety Miles From Tyranny, Overnighty Kayden, Falconsword Fursday Classic Peggy, Why I Volunteered To Bang Erasers, Corset Concerto, T-GIF Friday, Happy Hour Hawtness, Weekender Blair, and Bath Night Katie.

At A View From The Beach, it’s Tia Carrere, Femen Puts Voodoo on Putin, We Have Met The Enemy, and She is Us (cavegirls), Miss the Mammoths? (more cavegirls), Grace Potter, MD wind power update, Fresh Bait, “Far Beyond the Sun”, and The Vikings of Cheboygan?

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Amal Alamuddin, his vintage babe is Toby Wing, and of course there’s Sex In Advertising along with Women of PETA XXXIX. At Dustbury, it’s Gwendoline Christie and Blake Lively.


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery, especially those of you who linked back to last week’s post and made us number one in the FMJRA again!
Deadline to submit links for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday is midnight Saturday, June 14.


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Category: Rule 5

#RapeCulture Liberal Logic™

Posted on | June 8, 2014 | 45 Comments

Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit today published a commentary on a story that seemed familiar, so I double-checked. Amanda Kijera’s account of being raped in Haiti was originally published at the progressive blog Alternet in April 2010, but has apparently been deleted since then. However, its authenticity can be verified from other contemporaneous sources, e.g., Democrat Underground:

Two weeks ago, on a Monday morning, I started to write what I thought was a very clever editorial about violence against women in Haiti. The case, I believed, was being overstated by women’s organizations in need of additional resources. Ever committed to preserving the dignity of Black men in a world which constantly stereotypes them as violent savages, I viewed this writing as yet one more opportunity to fight “the man” on behalf of my brothers. That night, before I could finish the piece, I was held on a rooftop in Haiti and raped repeatedly by one of the very men who I had spent the bulk of my life advocating for.
It hurt. The experience was almost more than I could bear. I begged him to stop. Afraid he would kill me, I pleaded with him to honor my commitment to Haiti, to him as a brother in the mutual struggle for an end to our common oppression, but to no avail. He didn’t care that I was a Malcolm X scholar. He told me to shut up, and then slapped me in the face. Overpowered, I gave up fighting halfway through the night.

A “brother in the mutual struggle for an end to our common oppression”? How much time do you have to spend inside the progressive bubble before you start thinking this kind of rhetoric will make a difference to a man who is raping you? However, in the liberal mind, whenever facts contradict your theory, you must defend the theory by ignoring or “deconstructing” the facts, so Kijera continued:

Women are not the source of their oppression; oppressive policies and the as-yet unaddressed white patriarchy which still dominates the global stage are. Because women–and particularly women of color–are forced to bear the brunt of the Black male response to the Black male plight, the international community and those nations who have benefitted from the oppression of colonized peoples have a responsibility to provide women with the protection that they need.

So, having been raped by a black man, the white feminist instead is ultimately a secondhand victim of the “white patriarchy.”

“One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that; no ordinary man could be such a fool.” — George Orwell, 1945

 

Category: Feminism, Haiti, Sex

Demi Lovato Is Gay?

Posted on | June 8, 2014 | 29 Comments

Probably not. The ex-Disney starlet’s announcement of her appearance at the Los Angeles Gay Pride parade was deliberately ambiguous.

The last time I noticed Demi Lovato was in 2010, when she was in “starlet meltdown” mode — reports of drug abuse, rumors of a sex video, a trip to rehab — all of which was reportedly a consequence of being dumped by her one-time boyfriend Joe Jonas of the then-popular singing group the Jonas Brothers. Demi was only 18 at the time, but she has managed to recover and establish something like an actual career, appearing as a judge on a talent show (The X Factor) and doing an acting appearance on Glee, where she played somebody’s lesbian girlfriend.

However, a careful reading of Lovato’s press release shows that she describes herself as “an active advocate of the LGBT community” and, while there was at least one vague rumor of a lesbian affair last year, Lovato did not confirm that rumor and has never described herself as gay. More than likely, she’s just using “the LGBT community” as a marketing base, knowing how influential gays are in the music and entertainment industry.

And good for her, y’know? I mean, whatever’s good for her career is good for her career, and certainly it’s better that Demi is working than for her to be sitting around in a depressed stupor, getting coked up and contemplating suicide. She has escaped the kind of downward spiral effect that has destroyed others — e.g., Lindsay Lohan’s career is over, although she continues desperately clinging to a  pathetic “famous for being famous” celebrity.

All of which is to explain why Demi Lovato’s “active advocate” status is unlikely to result in her doing an Ellen Page and coming out as a celebrity lesbian. Demi is famous enough that if she were actually gay, we’d know it by now, rather than having just one unconfirmed rumor (which was floated around at just about the time she appeared on Glee, coincidentally or not). Demi Lovato seems to be a certain familiar type of straight girl, emotionally damaged and unable to find a guy who loves her the way (she thinks) she deserves to be loved.

Girls like Demi sometimes do drift into a sort of “lesbian by default” limbo, like college girls who are LUGs (Lesbians Until Graduation) as a way of avoiding hurtful relationships with immature guys. They can’t cope with rejection, and hanging around gays prevents them from having to deal with that possibility. No guys are waving diamond rings at them and promising Happily Ever After, so they are Princesses Without a Prince, which is sad, but it’s not really anybody’s fault.

Is it Joe Jonas’s fault that Demi Lovato was such a pushover? Is it Joe’s fault that Demi fell in love with him and was too dumb to realize she was just another notch on his belt? C’mon — exactly how many notches does Joe Jonas have on his belt? 50? 100? 200? How was Demi Lovato different from any of those other girls he used and discarded?

Did she think she was “special”? And was it a shattering blow to her ego to discover that she wasn’t special? Whose fault was that?

Anyway, Demi Lovato has recovered from her Troubled Starlet phase, and is now going through her Maybe I’m Gay phase, so it’s possible she may eventually confront her basic problem — the damaged human being she sees in the mirror every day — and become a reasonably well-adjusted adult some day. Or not.

Demi is only 21, so it would be premature to predict how the story ends for her. There are a lot of damaged young people like her wandering around out there, people who aren’t famous and rich, and who never even had a chance to get dumped by Joe Jonas.

Maybe they’re really the lucky ones . . .

 

Category: Celebrities, Gays
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