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True, but it’s also an interesting insight into the weird priorities of modern liberalism. Instead of being enraged about a teenage boy being sexually exploited for the viewing pleasure of perverts, liberals were upset that the boy’s video performances — which are all over the Internet — led to him being “bullied” and suspended from school.

OK, fine. That story had a happy ending:

COCOA, Fla. — An 18-year-old high school senior at the center of a dispute over his appearance on a gay pornography website will return Wednesday to Cocoa High.
A Brevard Schools decision banning him from classes catapulted Robert Marucci into the international spotlight last week; however, the district Tuesday said the teen would be allowed to return to class.
“I’m just ready to return to school, like a normal day,” he said Tuesday.

A normal day? What does he consider “a normal day”?

The definition of “normal” seems very flexible nowadays. Is it “normal” for high school boys to engage in a six-way gay orgy with every sordid moment captured on video for commercial distribution?

Something else about the way the gay-friendly media reported this: It was all quite vague. You might ask, “Did he do . . . that?”

Yes. Yes, he did.

“But did he . . . was he, y’know . . .?”

Yes. Yes, indeed he was. Both ways.

Would you like to research what Robert Marucci did on camera?

No, you probably wouldn’t. Even the “review” sites are not something any normal person would ever want to visit. Nevertheless, it was possible to gather enough information for descriptions less vague than what the gay-friendly news sites offered.

Do you really want to click that link? It’s not too detailed. And I’m left to wonder why the liberal media — who would never dare suggest that there is anything wrong with being gay — is so mysteriously reticent to describe what “being gay” actually involves.

If you didn’t know better, you’d almost think they were ashamed of it.

But go ahead and click the link. Or not. “Lifestyle choices.”

Category: Gays

Does Christie Add Desirable Gravitas To The Republican Governor’s Association?

Posted on | January 21, 2014 | 15 Comments

by Smitty

It sure is the case that outgoing disgrace Bob McDonnell did not. The surprise $1B transportation bill a year ago still hasn’t been clearly explained, but it led into the ominous ethics cloud over McDonnell. That cloud was among the minor factors that hampered Ken Cuccinelli’s efforts last November. So Ken is an interesting person to have on Crossfire, to see how far under the bus Ken is willing/capable of tossing Chris Christie.

That turns out to be pretty far. “It makes sense for him to step aside.” Yes; yes, it does. Myra Adams at the Daily Beast:

As a long-time loyal Republican and political observer, I always have my antenna up about how the political crisis of the day/week/month is unfolding and if there will be any long-term implications for my party and our nation.
So it is through this lens that I ask the question, should New Jersey Governor Chris Christie step down as chairman of the Republican Governors Association (RGA)?
Over the weekend this question started to reverberate throughout the media pundit class. However, it is one about which the average voter could give a hoot—most likely because the average voter has no idea what the RGA is or even does.

I mostly notice the RGA as a source of great ads which heretofore has not seemed to suffer the Vichy GOP taint of the NRSC or NRCC.

Looking down the road, though, the RGA is the kind of place where we might hope for leadership to support the Convention of States. Can Mr. Bridge-over-troubled-water Christie be expected to do more than crush reform efforts? While his carpet bombings of union thugs are not without their amusements, Christie has never seemed more than a Ruling Class tool in the finest John McCain/Mitt Romney tradition, capable of delivering enough platitudes to win the GOP nomination, and then deliver a shocked face and a concession when, unexpectedly, the Democrat wins.

Conservatives are more hungry for reform than cheeseburgers, GOP. Put Scott Walker or Bobby Jindal in at the RGA, and turn up the heat on DC. That is, if the RGA is still worth more than a date with Wendy Davis.

Category: Chris Christie, New Jersey, Politics

Good News, Good News, Bad News

Posted on | January 21, 2014 | 21 Comments

First, the good news: Ezra Klein failed to hustle a multimillion-dollar deal with the Washington Post and will instead go do his own independent site. This is good because (a) Ezra won’t be getting any more of Jeff Bezos’ money and (b) some other chump will therefore pay money for Ezra to compete with the Post.

Second, more good news: Eugene Volokh’s blog is moving to the Washington Post. This is good news because (a) Volokh will now be getting Jeff Bezos’s money, and (b) fuck you, Ezra Klein.

However, all this good news is negated by the bad news that Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters has been diagnosed with cancer.

'We got your back!' Prayers pour in for NewsBusters' Noel Sheppard after cancer diagnosis http://t.co/2otpOMjhHA

— TwitchyTeam (@TwitchyTeam) January 21, 2014

@NoelSheppard Stay strong, Noel! Continued prayers for you & your family. Psalm 18:2 http://t.co/lr8PA4w8rO

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) January 21, 2014

This reminds me, of course, of how Andrew Breitbart died of a heart attack when he was 10 years younger than me, and Andrew never smoked cigarettes. Next time I complain about bad luck, somebody please remind me I’m a 54-year-old grandfather.

Every new day is grace.

Category: Journalism

Warner’s Political Scalp Won’t Cover Much, But VA Should Take It Anyway

Posted on | January 21, 2014 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

This new ad from Ed Gillespie shows he’s as serious as lung cancer about November:After five years of Obama’s running cluster-frack (you pick the issue, ObamaCare looming largest) it really is time for the voters to say ENOUGH to all of this Progressivism.

A rant:

The Democrats have weaponized the IRS to go after the Tea Parties. I say “forget” that. Just because they scored a mission kill on Tea Party leadership in 2012 is no reason to let that be the end of matters. I’d like to see the funding to stage large rallies move from the traditional 501c organizations, to more distributed, ad-hoc organizations. If we want another Tax Day Tea Party, we need to make it happen via KickStarter, or whatever. Are we really so whipped by this Progressive crap that we can’t protect liberty without a tax write-off? Really? Overthrow both the Progressives AND the godforsaken IRS, say I.

Under no circumstances should the blatantly un-American actions of the IRS be permitted to go unanswered. And let’s not wait on the GOP for relief, m’kay? While it’s worthwhile to support a GOP candidate over the odious Warner, the party as such may care more about its power than restoring liberty.

End of rant.

Category: Virginia

Gay Teen Porn Star Robert Marucci’s Mom Endorses the Florida Way of Life™ UPDATE: Brevard Lifts School Suspension

Posted on | January 21, 2014 | 101 Comments

To creepy old perverts who watch gay teen porn videos on the Internet, he was previously known only as “Noel,” but now the media have decided to make Robert Marucci and his mother famous:

Robert Marucci makes no apologies for performing in porn and considers his work like any other job. . . .
His mother, Melyssa Lieb, said she knew her son was working in adult films, adding that he took the roles to support her financially.
“I think he’s the most awesome person in the world,” she said. . . .
Lieb said the [Cocoa High School] principal told her, “He was expelled due to his explicit lifestyle career.”
“I think that it is Dr. [Stephanie] Soliven’s morals and her personal beliefs and I don’t think that this is anybody’s business except for my son’s,” said Lieb.

See? The 18-year-old porn star’s mother says he’s “the most awesome person in the world”! The Florida Way of Life™ is going worldwide!

And can you guess who is most excited about this?

Of course! #FeeKate supports gay teen porn pic.twitter.com/Hm9rsiQMxV The Florida Way of Life™ http://t.co/YEhENnAbaG @TabithaMartin50 #tcot

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) January 21, 2014

Did I mention Obama got 4,235,270 votes in Florida? Pretty sure I did.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

UPDATE: Just in case you were curious:

Marucci has appeared in several scenes on the bareback gay porn site [which I won’t name or link] . . . known for using clean-cut, all-American type boys in explicit condom-less sex. Appearing under the stage name “Noel,” Marucci, who doesn’t identify as gay, is seen in a film participating in a six-man bareback orgy.

So it was not “safe sex,” and the “clean-cut, all-American type” who did an orgy with five other guys “doesn’t identify as gay.”

It’s just The Florida Way of Life™!

UPDATE II: Brevard board supports barebacking teen:

The district denies that Robert Marucci was previously suspended because of his role in gay pornography and said the principal, who has taken a lot of heat because of the incident, called Marucci this morning. Brevard Schools spokeswoman Michelle Irwin said Principal Stephanie Soliven and Marucci reached an agreement and he would return to school on Wednesday. . . .
“It’s easy to become emotional about a situation when it looks like a student is being targeted for his lifestyle choices, that is not the case here,” Irwin said. . . .
“We would never suspend a student for his job or job-related activities,” Irwin, the district spokeswoman, told FLORIDA TODAY this morning.

See? Robert Marucci’s “lifestyle choices” won’t keep him out of Cocoa High School, because six-way gay bareback orgy videos are acceptable as “job-related activities” in Brevard County.

UPDATE III: In a comment below, “Art Deco” says Florida public records show that Marucci’s mother, Melyssa Lieb, 41, was only briefly married to the boy’s father, Robert L. Marucci, Jr., in 1996-97. If Markus’s online document research is correct, the porn star’s father had previously been divorced in 1994, and the teenager’s grandfather, Robert L. Marucci, Sr., was also twice divorced in 1978 and 1981. So that would be four divorces in less than 20 years for two generations of Marucci men.

Category: Education, Florida, Gays, Sex

Florida, the Crazy State: Brevard Students Rally to Defend Gay Teen Porn Star

Posted on | January 21, 2014 | 29 Comments

Nothing is more important to the citizens of Florida than the right of teenagers to have gay sex on camera for money:

A high school senior from Brevard County, Florida, was suspended last week for creating a “campus disturbance.” His crime? Starring in a gay porn video on [a Web site I won’t link].
“Noel,” an 18-year-old Cocoa High School senior, was “severely bullied” by several classmates after word spread of the video’s existence. Instead of doing something sensible, like punishing the bullies, administrators decided to suspend Noel for participating in a completely legal, non-school-related activity. The forced suspension then led to him failing classes, which prevents him from being able to graduate.

Florida high school senior “Noel” was paid to have gay sex on video.

See? The story here is not about teenagers getting paid to perform sodomy on video. No, this is about homophobic “bullying”:

Word of his suspension over the video soon spread through his school and a large group of Cocoa High School students rallied against Noel’s suspension on social media, changing their Facebook profile photo to a blue square with the slogan ‘Support [Noel’s real name].’
A large group of students reportedly skipped 7th period on Friday and gathered to stomp and shout his name in the school’s quad in protest.
A classmate posted a photo of the protest action to social media, writing ‘All these people be protesting and stomping and yelling [Noel’s real name] like there be an earthquake.’
The same day Noel posted to Facebook that he intended to challenge his suspension.
‘Coming back to Cocoa isn’t the best for me but bringing justice to the disciplinary system and discrimination of the administration has not slipped my mind either,’ he wrote.

The Florida Way of Life™ is at stake! Every Florida parent hopes their child can work in the state’s lucrative gay teen porn industry.

It is the job of Florida public schools to prepare kids to have sex on video for the pleasure of creepy old guys worldwide.

Did I mention Obama got 4,235,270 votes in Florida?

Hat tip: L.N. Smithee on Twitter.

UPDATE: We now know “Noel’s” real name: Gay Teen Porn Star Robert Marucci’s Mom Endorses the Florida Way of Life™.

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Category: Education, Florida, Gays, Sex

NYC Elementary School’s ‘Lunatic’ Principal Who Can’t Spell ‘Gratitude’

Posted on | January 21, 2014 | 24 Comments

E.C. Hackett at Blackmailers Don’t Shoot has been all over the case of Marcella Sills, principal of New York City’s P.S. 106 in Far Rockaway, Queens. Sills has a history of aggressive incompetence, yet the catastrophe that is P.S. 106 received an “A” grade under Mayor Bloomberg’s worthless system. Of course, the local hack politician — in this case, Queens Councilman Donovan Richards — offers excuses, trying to blame Hurricane Sandy for the problem. Now comes the news that complaints about Sills go all the way back to 2005:

Sills, 48, was a graduate of the [Department of Education’s] “Leadership Academy,” which trains principals, and had little teaching experience. Insiders said she lacked literacy skills, noting her invitation to a Nov. 23, 2005, holiday buffet “in honor of my gradutitude” to employees, including “security personel” and “custodially staff members.”

“Gradutitude”?

This is a woman whose annual pay — as best I can tell from the salary schedule posted by her union — is about $130,000 a year. And teachers have been complaining about her for years:

“You need to examine Ms. Sills’ inability to lead,” says a 2006 letter from a “concerned teacher” to top Department of Education officials, including Carmen Fariña — now the city’s newly installed chancellor — and then-Chancellor Joel Klein. “Teacher morale is at an all-time low.” . . .
The Post revealed last week that Sills for years has arrived hours late, and often failed to show, school sources said. Over the previous week, Sills missed all but one day.
The Far Rockaway school had no math or English textbooks for the rigorous new Common Core curriculum, no gym or art classes — kids watched movies instead — and no nurse’s office. Kindergartners sit in trailers that reeked of animal urine. . . .
A 2006 letter to Klein called Sills “vicious,” saying she “humiliated” children who were emotionally disturbed and punished school aides who complained about “unsafe, deplorable conditions” in the cafeteria. . . .
Sills ruled by threats and intimidation, ex-staffers complained. She “yells at a volume that resounds throughout the building, slams doors and uses foul language,” a 2006 letter to Condon claims.
That letter also accuses Sills of racism: “She has hired only black teachers and has targeted white teachers and a secretary.” Many left or were forced out.

Gosh, somebody ought to write a book about this problem.

Category: Education

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LIVE AT FIVE: 01.22.14

Florida Boys Gone Wild?

Does Christie Add Desirable Gravitas To The Republican Governor’s Association?

Good News, Good News, Bad News

Warner’s Political Scalp Won’t Cover Much, But VA Should Take It Anyway

Gay Teen Porn Star Robert Marucci’s Mom Endorses the Florida Way of Life™ UPDATE: Brevard Lifts School Suspension

Florida, the Crazy State: Brevard Students Rally to Defend Gay Teen Porn Star

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