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Happy Birthday to My Sexy Wife

Posted on | January 11, 2014 | 32 Comments

Everyone knows that my beautiful wife was the original inspiration for Rule 5 (“Everybody Loves a Pretty Girl”) and because today is her birthday — she just turned 29, again — it’s a good time to remember the Five Most Important Words in the English Language.

“Hit the freaking tip jar!”





 

Category: Rule 5

Joblessness at Record Levels; So Why Does @BDayspring Still Have a Job?

Posted on | January 10, 2014 | 32 Comments

People Not In Labor Force Soar
To Record 91.8 Million; Participation
Rate Plunges To 1978 Levels
— Zero Hedge

U.S. job growth weakest in three years
— Reuters

With such grim economic news in the headlines, you might think that Brad Dayspring, communications director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, would try to avoid doing things as monumentally stupid as lying about Mark Levin:

Brad Dayspring, the communications director Levin described as an “idiot” and NRSC “hit man,” had earlier tweeted, “Fishy: Senate Conservatives Fund spent hundreds of thousands of donor dollars to make Mark Levin’s book a bestseller.” Dayspring’s assertion was completely false because he was referring to a paperback version of a book, published five years ago, that the Senate Conservatives Fund was merely offering to the group’s donors.
As Levin noted in a Facebook post in response to Dayspring’s smears, Liberty and Tyranny “is nearly 5 years old, sold nearly 1.3 million copies, and was on the New York Times best-seller list for half a year during 2009,” and “the Senate Conservative Fund (SCF) has been using the paperback version of the book in recent months to encourage donations in support of conservative candidates.” . . .
“Mitch McConnell’s National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) hit man, some idiot named Brad Dayspring, does not intimidate me and will not silence me with his sleazy inside-the-beltway tactics,” Levin wrote. “In fact, I am more fired up than ever.” . . .
“My opposition to McConnell’s re-election is underscored by pathetic behavior like this,” he continued. “Conservatives should not give a dime to the NRSC, money which is used to pay the salaries of these hit men and empower McConnell, et al.”

This circular firing squad behavior is profoundly discouraging, and is entirely the fault of the Senate GOP leadership.

My position on such matters has always been quite clear: The national party committees — NRSC, NRCC, RNC — should stay the hell out of contested primaries, period. If an incumbent Republican has a primary challenger, that’s his problem, and of no concern to the national committee, whose funds (and personnel) should be focused completely on defeating Democrats.

Deviation from that rule is tantamount to the national leadership controlling the party from the top down, which has the effect of discouraging grassroots involvement. And there is no good reason to believe that Senate GOP leaders know what they hell they’re doing when it comes to picking winners and losers in primaries. This problem with the NRSCC goes back at least to May 2009:

We were standing outside the Continental Lounge in Rosslyn, Va., while the young Republican operative explained it to me.
“All they care about is getting their chairmanships back, and they don’t care how they get there,” said the operative. “They don’t want to spend any money, so they were looking for a self-funder.”
“They” are Republican senators, and what my friend was explaining was the otherwise inexplicable decision of the National Republican Senatorial Committee to endorse Charlie Crist in the Florida Senate race — 15 months before the primary!

The NRSC’s meddling in the Florida GOP primary was a typical Establishment move, and resulted in the typical failure. I’ve tried to ignore the NRSC’s clueless blundering in recent months, but it’s 2014 now, the primaries are rapidly approaching, and if GOP geniuses like Brad Dayspring think they’re going to help their cause by picking a fight with Mark Levin, they’d better think again.

You Can Click Here and Donate to the
SENATE CONSERVATIVE FUND

You Can Click Here and Donate to
MATT BEVIN FOR U.S. SENATE

 And when you’re finished doing that, you could post a link to this item on your Facebook page or send it out via Twitter or e-mail.

If you haven’t been raising hell, now would be a good time to start.

 


Category: Election, Mark Levin, Mitch McConnell, Republicans, Senate

Radical Despair

Posted on | January 10, 2014 | 56 Comments

My young Nietzschean friend Richard Spencer was at Duke University during the lacrosse debacle, and it is therefore easy to understand why he long ago abandoned hope in Politics As We Know It.

Spencer founded the Alternative Right in 2010, and there are a few other familiar names — Vox Day, Steve Sailer, John Derbyshire — in a chart illustrating the “Dark Enlightenment” movement in a recent trend-feature article by Matt Sigl:

Blossoming on the Internet like a fetid rose, a mysterious new political movement has generated a serious and not un-terrifying critique of modern society. Its members are loud and growing in number, and they demand nothing less than the elimination of the democratic system. Mostly white, male and angry, they lie in wait for the imminent collapse of civilization.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Dark Enlightenment. The Empire is striking back. . . .

Don’t be so tediously alarmist, Matt. The best descriptor of this “Dark Enlightenment” movement might be neo-paleoconservative, with an edge of philosophical radicalism among those who have forsaken hope of reversing modern decadence. They are mostly Young Paleocons of one sort or another. As radical as their ideas may be, they are intellectuals, not advocates of violence. Social criticism is ultimately just social criticism, and if the “Dark Enlightenment” perspective seems unmoored by any inclination to defer to popular opinion or political correctness, this is because it exists outside politics.

If your idea of politics begins and ends with the Official Conservative Movement, if you are gripped with concern about Chris Christie and the Great Bridge Controversy, this “Dark Enlightenment” thing is going to be entirely alien to your worldview.

Basically, they begin with the premise that we’re doomed, and proceed thence to contemplate the consequences of doom:

According to [Nick] Land and Moldbug [the alias of Curtis Yarvin], the Cathedral is a complex ideology network built atop the university system, the media (run and operated by graduates of the former) and employees of the bureaucracy, all of whom grow ever more dependent on the perpetuation of the Cathedral. The leveling mechanisms of democracy — with its race-to-the-bottom vote begging (buying) and illusions of social empowerment — remove any possibility of inventive political solutions, or, eventually, rational analysis. Inside the Cathedral, any questioning of democracy’s legitimacy is sacrilege. Before long, apostates will find penance by buying indulgences (like, say, Obamacare), whether they like it or not.

What this mainly is, of course, is James Burnham’s critique of the managerial elite, with a good bit of Richard Weaver and Oswald Spengler thrown in for good measure. And then there’s this:

Human biodiversity is the rejection of the “blank state” of human nature. Creepily obsessed with statistics that demonstrate IQ differences between the races, the darkly enlightened see social hierarchies as determined not by culture or opportunity but by the cold, hard destiny embedded in DNA. . . .
Cue the adherents of The Bell Curve, eugenics enthusiasts, believers in white supremacy and sympathizers of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. In the Dark Enlightenment, we seem to have stumbled across a place where pseudo-intellectually grounded racism is flourishing in a way it hasn’t since before World War II.

Meh. Again with the alarmism, Matt? It’s important to remind the reader that as radical as these people are in their ideas, there is nothing like an actual political movement involved. There is no legion of brownshirts marching to overthrow democracy and replace it with the Charismatic Leader’s blood-and-soil regime.

What we are looking at is a lot of bright young men who contemplate the cultural status quo and reject it as unworthy. They are temperamentally averse to compromise, and thus ill-suited for the game of politics. As such, they are marginalized, existing within an obscure fringe that neither influences nor intersects with Politics As We Know It.

They are deliberately aloof, and who can blame them? If being “political” in 2014 means caring about Fat Boy’s Bridge Scandal, then I guess I’m pretty apolitical, too.

Mortimer e-mailed me Sigl’s article and I don’t know if this is the reaction he expected. While I certainly understand the fundamental pessimism — you’d have to be a blind fool to be an optimist nowadays — my preference is for human-sized solutions. Instead of trying to reorganize the cosmos, just do your best to fix what is within reach, and let the universe take care of itself.

 


Category: Culture

Thank You, Lena Dunham

Posted on | January 10, 2014 | 46 Comments

by Smitty

Via Drudge comes this outburst of brilliance, emphasis mine, in response to the question “I don’t get the purpose of all the nudity on the show. . .”:

In the moment, Dunham herself spoke clearly about her position on the nudity [in Girls], saying it is “a realistic expression of what it’s like to be alive. But I totally get it. If you’re not into me, that’s your problem and you’re going to have to work that out with professionals,” she retorted. And later, fellow EP Jenni Konner interrupted her response to another question to add, “I literally was spacing out because I’m in such a rage spiral about that guy,” she said pointing to the question-asker. “I was just looking at him looking at him and going into this rage [over] this idea that you would talk to a woman like that and accuse a woman of showing her body too much. The idea it just makes me sort of sick.”

Maybe I’m too dead to figure out if I’ve got HBO amidst the 14k channels of dreck on the TV to choose from*. Were I to have an outburst of un-death, perhaps Lena could instruct me on this ‘life’ thingy, could I but find it in the cable bundle.  ‘Life’ appears to involve having more ink than a copy of the New York Times, or something**.  The wife and I found A&E for a couple of pleasant Duck Dynasty episodes the other weekend.  Relaxing.

But now, who are these ‘professionals’, and what’s all that powdered sugar around their noses? They must love them some Dunkin’ Donuts. Would my wife approve of the workout? I’ll venture a ‘no’ on that.

Lena, Lena, Lena: your show is pure vanity, in the truest Ecclesiastes sense of the word. While falling short of waxing moralistic, can we just get to some honesty about your cheap show? It’s a cheap show, cheaply exposing  cheap flesh for a cheap audience. You’ve got more “cheap” than an aviary. Be honest about that. Just admit “Yeah, I’m getting my nudist on for the eyeballs.” I’m not saying it makes you any more or less evil than anyone else. I’m saying that your insistence that flashing boobies is some kind of “expression of what it’s like to be alive” is a risible pile of bollocks.

I suppose you could probably do a meta-comedy about a semi-nudist bimbo actress who pretentiously refers to her dirty diaper of a show as some kind of highbrow art. That kind of elevated slop (done correctly) is what makes this French & Saunders musical sketch so funny:

Maybe the bimbo in your hypothetical show goes to an acting school, develops some no-kidding skill, keeps her clothes on, and carries a show on merit, as opposed to skin. An absolutely freakish thought, I know. Probably easier to stick to the more childish stuff.

*To paraphrase Roger Waters.
**Confession: I do have a tattoo. Left scapula. Youthful indiscretion.

Category: Culture

Elegant Reporting in Appalachia

Posted on | January 10, 2014 | 29 Comments

Kevin D. Williamson of National Review traveled to Appalachia — his dateline is Owsley County, Ky. — to write about the kind of poverty no liberal ever describes as “social injustice”:

If the people here weren’t 98.5 percent white, we’d call it a reservation.

Williamson’s article is not merely good reporting, but it is also mighty fine writing. There is too little of this kind of work by conservative journalists. The quick stuff that gets Drudge hits and “moves the needle” politics-wise is the commodity most in demand, along with ponderous punditry and nerdy policy-wonk stuff. We get much less really high-quality writing on the Right because, when you get down to it, there simply is no incentive for it. The Koch brothers aren’t making grants for this kind of stuff:

Like its black urban counterparts, the Big White Ghetto suffers from a whole trainload of social problems, but the most significant among them may be adverse selection: Those who have the required work skills, the academic ability, or the simple desperate native enterprising grit to do so get the hell out as fast as they can, and they have been doing that for decades. As they go, businesses disappear, institutions fall into decline, social networks erode, and there is little or nothing left over for those who remain. It’s a classic economic death spiral: The quality of the available jobs is not enough to keep good workers, and the quality of the available workers is not enough to attract good jobs. These little towns located at remote wide spots in helical mountain roads are hard enough to get to if you have a good reason to be here. If you don’t have a good reason, you aren’t going to think of one.

This is a highly readable way of explaining a highly relevant point that occurs to any intelligent observer who has visited the forlorn and forgotten towns of the American heartland. Entire regions of this country have been undergoing a quiet demographic decline for five decades. Part of the problem — although no one ever dares mention it — is that the advent of the Pill, and with it the onset of the Contraceptive Culture, has deprived small towns and rural farms of their traditional source of vitality. It was always true that the ambitious and aspiring offspring of the heartland were attracted to the big cities. Prior to the 1960s, however, the folks left behind continued to breed large families and thus replenish the basic stock of human resources. And before the arrival of television, the people of the heartland also preserved their own distinct culture, the loss of which Williamson obliquely observes:

Appalachian places have evocative and unsentimental names denoting deep roots: Little Barren River, Coal Pit Road. The name “Cumberland” blankets Appalachian geography — the Cumberland Mountains, the Cumberland River, several Cumberland counties — in tribute to the Duke of Cumberland, who along with the Ulster Scots ancestors of the Appalachian settlers crushed the Young Pretender at the Battle of Culloden.

Culloden! Damn, how many school children in Appalachia know anything at all about Culloden, or even realize that their ancestors were those stout-hearted people, the Scots-Irish?

Politically correct noise about “multiculturalism” has been nothing but an excuse for pandering to politically preferred minorities. Descendants of the Ulster Scots — and for that matter, the descendants of German immigrants — are never given the kind of ethnic cheerleading that our allegedly “diverse” curricula reserve exclusively for non-whites. This was something I noticed nearly 20 years ago when, after researching the National Standards for U.S. History, I remarked that academics proposed to teach Georgia’s children everything about the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire and nothing about the Battle of Chickamauga.

Stripped of any understanding of their own cultural heritage, poor whites are doubly impoverished, and a sort of decadent shame takes hold of them, the moral analogue of the “economic death spiral” Williamson observes in Appalachia. What too often emerges to take the place of an intelligent and decent pride is an ignorant and utterly indecent hate.

This is something I also noticed 20 years ago as a newspaper reporter in north Georgia. If our academic superiors think they will eradicate racism through “enlightened” education, they haven’t paid much attention to the attitudes of young people, many of whom harbor an intensity of racial resentment that would astonish their departed forebears.

What is being lost, really, is the sensibility of bourgeois virtue, and Kevin Williamson captures that decline with lively eloquence:

“Well, you try paying that much for a case of pop,” says the irritated proprietor of a nearby café, who is curt with whoever is on the other end of the telephone but greets customers with the perfect manners that small-town restaurateurs reliably develop. I don’t think much of that overheard remark at the time, but it turns out that the local economy runs on black-market soda the way Baghdad ran on contraband crude during the days of sanctions.
It works like this: Once a month, the debit-card accounts of those receiving what we still call food stamps are credited with a few hundred dollars — about $500 for a family of four, on average — which are immediately converted into a unit of exchange, in this case cases of soda. On the day when accounts are credited, local establishments accepting EBT cards — and all across the Big White Ghetto, “We Accept Food Stamps” is the new E pluribus unum — are swamped with locals using their public benefits to buy cases and cases– reports put the number at 30 to 40 cases for some buyers — of soda. Those cases of soda then either go on to another retailer, who buys them at 50 cents on the dollar, in effect laundering those $500 in monthly benefits into $250 in cash — a considerably worse rate than your typical organized-crime money launderer offers — or else they go into the local black-market economy, where they can be used as currency in such ventures as the dealing of unauthorized prescription painkillers — by “pillbillies,” as they are known at the sympathetic establishments in Florida that do so much business with Kentucky and West Virginia that the relevant interstate bus service is nicknamed the “OxyContin Express.” A woman who is intimately familiar with the local drug economy suggests that the exchange rate between sexual favors and cases of pop — some dealers will accept either — is about 1:1, meaning that the value of a woman in the local prescription-drug economy is about $12.99 at Walmart prices. . . .

Fascinating stuff, brilliantly written — read the whole thing.

 

Category: Culture, History, Journalism

The @Maddow Method: MSNBC’s Televised Left-Wing Blog Show

Posted on | January 10, 2014 | 12 Comments

Let’s check the transcript, shall we?

. . . this Koch brothers-affiliated group . . .
. . . these Koch brothers-affiliated state groups . . .
. . . the Koch brothers-connected Florida group . . .
That’s the Koch brothers group . . .
The same Koch brothers group . . .
. . . this Koch brothers-affiliated group . . .
. . . the Koch brothers-affiliated group . . .

Having repeated seven times during this seven-minute segment that the Florida Foundation for Government Accountability (FFGA) is a “Koch brothers group,” Rachel Maddow must be pretty certain about this connection, right? I mean, that’s the main point of the segment, so it must thoroughly documented, right? Wrong:

Given that Koch has zero relationship with FFGA, Maddow based her claims on the fact that Koch has donated risibly small amounts — $40,000 over eight years — to the State Policy Network, and FFGA, which advocated for the Florida law, is a member of the State Policy Network. . . .
So Rachel Maddow’s entire segment was one big lie. Her central premise, that the Florida welfare statute was an initiative of the Koch brothers, was false, and she knew it. She made the whole thing up to fool the low-IQ viewers who form MSNBC’s base.

The actual policy issue at hand — mandatory drug-testing for welfare recipients — might be interesting in its own right, but that’s not enough to qualify it for a seven-minute segment on Maddow’s prime-time show. No, the point of the segment was that the evil right-wing billionaire Koch brothers were responsible for this policy. Except they’re not. However, this idea of a ginormous nationwide conspiracy funded by the Kochs is all the rage among left-wing bloggers and so that’s the story — a lie.

Live long enough, and you’ll notice that the left-wing bogeymen change from time to time. In the 1990s, it was the Religious Right, and then it was Halliburton and next it was Karl Rove and now it’s the Koch Brothers. But the Left always has to have such a bogeyman, and there is a premium on “investigative journalism” that connects (or, at least, appears to connect) the various dots of the conspiracy.

And what you find is that left-wing blogs like Think Progress are now providing this “investigative” function, which then gets regurgitated by liberal news organizations that show zero skepticism toward any claim that makes Republicans look bad.

Ace exposes Maddow’s “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” act:

Many large corporations donate to the State Policy Network — companies like Verizon.
Among the companies that donate to the State Policy Network, and therefore are champions of drug testing for people on welfare? MSNBC’s parent company Comcast.
So Rachel Maddow’s report could just have easily have been “MSNBC Leads Charge for Drug Tests for People on Welfare.”

In other words, if the only dots you’re trying to connect are Koch brothers dots, you must first resolve to ignore all other dots. And if the only viewers you care about are Democrats who seek televised left-wing blogging, you’re not going to get many viewers.

It’s not good TV.

With 616,000 viewers at 9 p.m. ET, Maddow was MSNBC’s fourth-highest rated program Monday. The network’s highest-rated show Monday was Hardball with Chris Matthews at 7 p.m. ET, which got 782,000 viewers. Maddow’s ratings are suffering in large measure because MSNBC executives got the bright idea to put another televised blog show, All In With Chris Hayes, into the premium 8 p.m. ET slot. Hayes got an anemic 600,000 viewers Monday, less than Matthews, less than Maddow, and also less than MSNBC’s 5 p.m. Ed Schultz show (629,000) and 6 p.m. Al Sharpton show (667,000). Let’s face it: If your ratings are lower than Al Sharpton’s, your show must really suck.

The Washington Post‘s Erik Wemple has more on Maddow’s Koch lies. See also Legal Insurrection, Just One Minute and Gateway Pundit.

 

Category: MSNBC

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.10.14

Posted on | January 10, 2014 | 10 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Indian Diplomat Indicted

Former Deputy Consul Devyani Khobragade

Confusion as to diplomat’s whereabouts after visa fraud charges brought; did she return to India or stay in Manhattan?

West Virginia Declares Emergency After Chemical Spill
100,000 West Virginians warned not to use tap water

Christie Fires Aide After NJ Bridge Scandal
Prosecutor launching probe



POLITICS
Obama Announces “Promise Zones” To Tackle Poverty

“I will work with anybody…” Except Republicans, of course.

Even the Socialists are calling this phony

President Spins Revolving Door Again, Names Lobbyist To Energy Post

Insane Clown Posse Sues FBI

Obama Donor Leading DOJ Investigation Of IRS

Nancy Pelosi: Don’t Call It Obamacare

Embarrassing Air Force Revelation Caps Hagel Tour

Reid’s Tactics Bear Bitter Fruit As Jobless Benefits Expansion Stalls In Senate

Swearing Toddler In “Thug Cycle” Video Taken Into Protective Custody By Omaha Police



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Rebounds From Eight-Month Low On Bargain Hunting, South Sudan War: NYMEX $92.40, Brent $106.68
Stocks End Mixed As Retailers Give Weaker Outlook
Asian Markets Mixed On PRC Trade Data
New Mortgage Rules Aim To Prevent Risky Loans
Sears Declines After Posting 4Q Loss
Weekly Jobless Benefit Claims Drop To 330K
Google Linking Of GMail To Social Network Raises Concerns
Speakers Boycott RSA Conference Over NSA Links
GoPro To Launch Extreme Sports Network On XBox Network
Futuristic “Smart Homes” Not So Far Away, But Do We Want Them?
WWE Lays Smackdown On CES, Announces Creation Of Netflix-Like WWE Network



SPORTS

Dan Le Batard Loses Hall Of Fame Vote After Deadspin Controversy

Short-Handed Knicks Bump Off The Heat

Williams Leads Kings Past Bruins

Jay Gruden Hired As Redskins Coach

Kwan: Gold Lives Up To Her Name With Strong Short Program

Original Nat Jamey Carroll Returns To Washington



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Work Slows On Lindsay Lohan’s Reality Show

“Difficult to work with”?

Hassles pile up

Tupac Shakur Musical Sets Broadway Plans

Gerard Butler In Talks For “Point Break” Remake

Alexa Vega’s Romantic Mexico Wedding

Bruce Willis Set For Brazil Hostage Movie “Captive”

Zoe Saldana To Star In NBC Miniseries “Rosemary’s Baby”

Emma Watson Falls For Star Rugby Player


McCartney, Ozzy, Elton John And Rod Stewart Miss Out On Nominations As Bowie Scoops Two

Kate Upton Gets Photographed In Space

“12 Years A Slave” Star New Darling Of The Fashion World

Farrah Abraham Admits “My Sex Tape Ruined My Life”



FOREIGNERS
Draghi Denies Eurozone Sinking Into Japanese Deflation
Monica Spear Slaying: Stolen Camera Led To Seven Arrests
South Sudan: Government Forces Close In On Bantiu
Karzai Not Expected To Meet US Deadline On Security Deal
US Condemns “Provocative” PRC Edict On South China Sea Fisheries
Pakistan’s Top Anti-Terror Cop Killed By Car Bomb
Tunisian PM Quits Amid Mounting Unrest
Deadlocked Bangladesh Swears In Contested Parliament
Population Swap Idea Angers Israel’s Arab Minority



BLOGS & STUFF
Proof Positive: Chris Christie Says “If You Like Your Traffic Gridlock, You Can Keep Your Traffic Gridlock”
First Street Journal: John Kerry And The Middle East Peace Process
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Common Core And Google’s Bottom Line
Doug Powers: More Heads Have Rolled Over “Bridgegate” Than Benghazi, The IRS Scandal, And The Botched Obamacare Rollout Combined
Twitchy: MSNBC Launching Version Of “The Five”? Larry Elder Has The Photo “Scoop”
Ed Morrissey: Jefferson And The Nuns
American Power: Atlas 2.0 – Pamela Geller’s New Digs
American Thinker: The Holder Effect
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, January 9
Jammie Wearing Fools: Missing Teen Caleb Jacoby, Son Of Boston Globe Columnist, Found Safe In New York
JustOneMinute: Rachel Maddow Versus The Facts
Pat Dollard: Democrats Blame Big Business For Botched Obamacare Rollout
Protein Wisdom: Another One Of Those Republicans We Had To Elect To Win Back Power Sends Money To Democrat’s Campaign
Shot In The Dark: Why’s Johnny So Depressed?
The Jawa Report: Jihad Jamie Gets Eight Years
The Lonely Conservative: Obama Fired Contractor Who Refused To Fake Number Of Jobs Lost Due To Policies
This Ain’t Hell: Gates Approved, Then Rescinded, Peralta’s Medal Of Honor
Megan McArdle: Marriage Makes You Rich And Stupid


Deadline to submit links for this weekend’s FMJRA is tomorrow at noon.
DO IT.


Category: Live at Five

Unspeakable Depravity: Woman Helped Her Husband Rape 15-Year-Old Girl

Posted on | January 9, 2014 | 20 Comments

Misty Machinshok couldn’t get pregnant, so . . .

Police say Misty Machinshok didn’t merely know her husband was raping a teen girl.
She helped him concoct a plan to do it and coached her through her first time in an attempt to get her pregnant – because Mrs. Machinshok herself can’t have children, court documents allege.
When the baby was born, the Machinshoks planned to adopt it for their own, police said.
Police on Tuesday charged Mrs. Machinshok, 32, of 154 Park Ave., with multiple counts of conspiracy to commit rape, sexual assault, indecent assault, endangering the welfare of a minor and corruption of minors.
Her husband, Gary L. Machinshok, 28, of the same address, was arrested in October on charges alleging he repeatedly forced a 15-year-old girl to have sex with him, calling her into his room and forcing himself on her as her siblings slept and while her mother was out for the night.
The girl told police Mr. Machinshok threatened to sexually assault her younger sister if she didn’t comply, court documents allege.
In November, police charged Mr. Machinshok with fondling a 12-year-old while they lay on a couch. He was also accused of walking into the bathroom while the girl was showering and trying to open the curtains, as well as frequently walking around the house naked.
The charges filed Tuesday, however, represent the first time Mrs. Machinshok has been accused of participating in her husband’s activities.
The 15-year-old girl later told police that Mrs. Machinshok was not only aware Mr. Machinshok had been raping her, but that she was present the first time it happened.
“She said that (Mrs. Machinshok) assisted her and told her what to do, and also watched as Gary Machinshok had sex with her,” according to the police affidavit, filed in court by Wilkes-Barre police Detective Ronald Foy.

Just a woman helping her pervert husband rape a 15-year-old girl. Nothing to see here. Move along.

 

Category: Crime, Sex
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