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New Documents Expose More #FreeKate Lies, Also: ‘Her Issues With Her Dad’?

Posted on | November 25, 2013 | 76 Comments

Featured on the Today show, May 23

BOOM:

Accusations that Florida sex offender Kaitlyn Hunt was prosecuted because of anti-gay bias by the parents of her underage partner were denied by officials at the school that both girls attended, according to documents obtained from the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office. In fact, Hunt’s mother — who made the accusations of homophobia — herself expressed disapproval of her daughter’s lesbian affair . . .

Read the whole thing at Viral Read, the latest product of Jeanette Runyon’s FOIA request for documents in the case. Matt Ross at Conservative Hideout has more exclusive material, including this weirdness from Kaitlyn’s mother, Kelley Hunt Smith:

I told Kate I didn’t approve. I told her I didn’t feel like she was gay, and I felt like she needed to go talk to a counselor about her issues with her Dad . . .

Uh, “issues with her dad”?

 


Category: Crime, Florida, Gays, Kaitlyn Hunt, Sex

Did Yale Get SWATted?

Posted on | November 25, 2013 | 37 Comments

This strikes me as profoundly suspicious:

Police in New Haven, Connecticut, said they were searching Yale University for a gunman on Monday after an anonymous caller claimed his roommate was headed to the Ivy League school’s campus intending to shoot people.
No one was injured and no shots were fired, said New Haven Police Department spokesman David Hartman, who noted that witnesses reported seeing a man on the campus with a “long gun,” or rifle of some kind.
The department received an 911 call at 9:30 a.m. from a man on a pay phone near Yale’s campus, who stated that his roommate was en route to the Yale University campus “with the intention of shooting people,” Hartman told reporters.
“We have not yet identified that caller,” Hartman said. “He did not identify himself when asked, he did not remain on the 911 line when asked.”

OK, so you have anonymous report of a deranged gunman, but when the police show up — no gunman. 

Has anyone seen Neal Rauhauser around New Haven? Just sayin . . .

 

Category: Crime

How Do You Say ‘LOL’ in Spanish?

Posted on | November 25, 2013 | 43 Comments

Last week, supporters of “immigration reform” (amnesty) held a series of protests in Washington, and even the liberal American Prospect could not conceal what a pathetic failure it was:

[O]rganizers from the Southern Border Communities Coalition, which sponsored the event, had laid out rows of tables covered in white cloth and adorned with banners decrying the militarization of the border — “Keep Families Together,” “Bridges Not Border Walls.” A few hundred yards away, several large tents contained the “Fast for Families,” where a core group of four activists has been abstaining from food since Tuesday to protest Congress’s inaction on immigration reform. With the wind blowing ripples across the Capitol reflecting pool, the air was cold, the mood somber. After the event, a handful of journalists,  a small corps that still managed to outnumber the activists, mulled about the dry grass, but the scene was mostly empty.

More reporters than activists? This has inspired my suggestion for a bipartisan comprehensive reform plan: For every illegal alien we give amnesty, let’s deport one liberal journalist. The number of immigrants who get to stay would be limited to equal the number of media liberals who volunteer to leave. This is a win-win.

 

Category: Immigration

Blood, Horror, And Other Things I Found At The Library

Posted on | November 25, 2013 | 22 Comments

— Wombat-socho


Unusually, we don’t have any leftover recommendations from the comments the last book post two weeks ago, although for those of you who missed it, there’s some words from Tom Kratman in the comments. Worth looking at.


Going to start off with something from the Damning With Faint Praise file. Scrapyard Ship by Mark Wayne McGinnis came to me free through the Amazon Prime Lending Library program, and after getting a few chapters into it I have to say it’s worth about what I paid for it. As noted by some of the commenters on Amazon, McGinnis doesn’t seem to know much about the military except what he’s seen on TV, thinks you can land a 200-yard-long starship in the courtyard of the Pentagon, and has a real problem with consistency. Yes, this is a fast-paced adventure with Earth’s bravest and toughest soldiers – er, SEALs – off to save the galaxy from the insectile alien hordes, but what might have worked as a movie (preferably with an actual military adviser to clean out some of the obvious BS) fails as a novel, at least if you have any actual exposure to (or knowledge about) the military. Not recommended.


Speaking of Tom Kratman, I mentioned Come And Take Them in passing last time, but it deserves a bit more attention. I downloaded it earlier this month when it became available for the Kindle (and I had a few bucks to spare for it) and it is definitely a suitable addition to the Carrera novels which began with A Desert Called Peace. It is uncompromisingly bloody and brutal, and as a bonus, shows us Carrera’s opposition from inside their own heads as well. Some of the scenes will be familiar from The Amazon Legion since they deal with the same events but from a different POV. Recommended; if this is the sort of thing that you like, then you’ll certainly like this.


Also, since I’ve been playing a lot of Total War: Rome, I felt compelled to download a copy of David Drake’s Ranks of Bronze, which is a coming of age story built around the notion that one of Crassus’ lost legions was sold as slaves to aliens. Which brings us around to the stuff I actually checked out of the local library, since one of those books was Drake’s anthology Other Times Than Peace, which, contra Amazon, is not actually a Hammer’s Slammers anthology but a collection of several Drake stories from all kinds of places, including the Foreign Legions anthology (how’s that for recursion?) which is essentially the sequel to Ranks of Bronze that Drake himself didn’t think could be written. All good reading, and the influence of Drake’s background as a classics major from the University of Iowa is very evident in all three books.


On a related topic, Jack Campbell made a name for himself in the combat SF field under the name John Hemry with Stark’s War and its sequels. He has since moved on to greater renown as the author of The Lost Fleet, a series of books about two human civilizations (the Alliance and the Syndicate) locked in a century-long interstellar war. Long-lost Alliance hero, Black Jack Geary, is found in a survival pod decades after his presumed death, and succeeds to fleet command after an act of Syndic treachery kills the admiral in command. Geary has to contend with his own legend, a decay in fleet discipline, tactics and training, and scheming subordinates along with a desperate supply situation as he tries to bring the fleet home from deep in Syndicate territory. Unfortunately for me, I started with the second book, Fearless, in which his task is complicated by another legend, Captain “Fighting” Falco, lately rescued with POWs from a Syndic labor camp. Unlike Geary, Falco has political ambitions, and is willing to split the fleet to pursue them. This is a tense thriller of a space opera, which in different ways reminds me of Keith Laumer’s The Glory Game for its tight descriptions of space combat and also of the Bolo shared-world anthology Last Stand, which describes the horrific Last War; the haunting descriptions of things lost by the Alliance in the course of its long war against the Syndicate Worlds is very reminiscent of that fictional war. Campbell writes a gripping tale, and I can’t recommend it enough.


Now, before I start in on the next book, I want to say that when it comes to horror, my tastes are very narrow and tend to the Lovecraftian as opposed to traditional works such as Dracula. The entire zombie craze of the last couple of years interests me not at all, either as entertainment or as an analogy to our current cultural/political mess. Still…I do like me some John Ringo, even if I haven’t read all his stuff, and the snippets he posted on Facebook of Under a Graveyard Sky sure looked interesting…so when I saw it at the local library, I had to pick it up. Turned out it was well worth it. Unlike the pneumonic plague that devastates the world in Ringo’s The Last Centurion, the plague that turns most of humanity into zombies here is man-made, and while a vaccine can be made, it seems there aren’t nearly enough monkeys to go around. So the Smith family leaves New York in their sailboat, only to find that there’s a lot of zombies at sea as well – and people that need help. So the Smiths and some of the folks they rescue become Wolf’s Floating Circus, a band of seafaring freebooters hoping to save what – and who – they can, while putting down every zombie they can find afloat. Because you can’t save the survivors if the zombies are still around. Parts of the novel are extremely creepy if not downright horrific, arguably worse than anything in Ringo’s Posleen War novels, and that includes Watch on the Rhine. Other parts (such as the last concert in New York City), you won’t know whether to laugh or cry. If you’re a fan of John Ringo, you probably already have this, but if not, you should definitely get it. For Trixie, if nothing else.


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Category: Books

Do Democrats Think They Can Spin Their Way Out of the ObamaCare Catastrophe?

Posted on | November 25, 2013 | 47 Comments

One of the things you may have noticed in the past couple of weeks is that some liberal pundits are claiming that ObamaCare is essentially a public relations problem: The program is just wonderful, but there have been some P.R. problems with the rollout.

Democrats need to learn that denial is not the name of a river in Egypt:

Democratic leaders claim the bungled launch of Obamacare is just the latest news sensation — a media-stirred tempest that looks in the heat of the moment like it could upend the midterm election, but ends up fizzling well before voters head to the polls.
Some party strategists say they’re in denial.
And that perceived gap between party spin and facts on the ground is fueling worries that the White House and Democratic higher-ups aren’t taking the possible electoral blowback seriously enough or doing enough to shield their candidates. Democratic contenders in the toughest races are distinctly less convinced that Obamacare will fade as an election-year issue — and they can’t afford to just cross their fingers that things get ironed out or that Republicans revert to political hara-kiri.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said at a forum hosted by BuzzFeed recently that the rollout won’t “hurt us in 2014,” adding that “we’re proud” of the law. Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in a recent appearance on CNN, went so far as to assert that Obamacare would be “an advantage” for Democratic candidates next year.
“Democrats will run on the Affordable Care Act and win,” she has also told reporters.
The White House, meanwhile, has come across as equally dismissive of Obamacare’s consequences for 2014.

Anyone who doubts the devastating impact of ObamaCare’s failure need look no further than NY-23 where Democrat Martha Robertson is trying to run away from her previous support of the policy. This is a “purple” district that, on paper, should be competitive for Democrats, but Robertson’s campaign is in complete meltdown mode. And speaking of complete meltdown . . .

We are starting to see a broad polling trend for Barack Obama, and it should have the White House worried — but maybe Obama’s fellow Democrats in Congress even more.  The latest CNN poll confirms what the Washington Post/ABC poll first noticed, and what the CBS poll corroborated — Obama’s approval decline involves more than just his performance.  The Americans public is souring on Obama as a person and as a brand, and that spells real trouble for his agenda . . . .

There are limits to what media spin can accomplish, and trying to tell people who lost their insurance that this is good news, that the president had a good reason to lie to them — that won’t sell.

 


Category: Barack Obama, Health Care

‘Dark Money’! ‘Corporate Interests’! The Left’s Wisconsin Conspiracy Theory

Posted on | November 25, 2013 | 76 Comments

Lisa Graves is a Democrat Party hack who apparently believes it should be illegal to be a conservative, and who thinks that cooperation between conservatives is therefore a criminal conspiracy. Graves used to work for Democrat Sen. Patrick Leahy and the ACLU, but since 2009 has worked for the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), a left-wing Wisconsin outfit whose funders include George Soros:

The website www.Banksterusa.org, for example, claims it wants “to be your go-to site for updates on the financial services re-regulation fight in Congress and for progressive net-roots campaigning against the big boys on Wall Street.” . . .
BanksterUSA.org is “part of the Center for Media and Democracy,” funded to the tune of $200,000 by the Open Society Institute, the charity arm of lefty investor George Soros.

While taking money from Soros — a billionaire international financier — Graves and the CMD claim that money is a corrupting influence in politics if that money goes to conservatives: The Wisconsin Club for Growth is “at the center of a tangled web of dark money“!

This bizarre paranoid nonsense is all part of a dishonest smear against supporters of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who defeated a well-funded recall attempt by Democrats and their Big Labor allies in 2012.

A special prosecutor, evidently connected to the Democrat district attorney of Milwaukee County, has begun issuing subpoenas to conservative groups in an investigative fishing expedition that “suggest the government may be pursuing a theory of illegal campaign coordination by independent groups during the recall elections,” according to a Wall Street Journal report last week.

Walker’s name has been mentioned as a 2016 GOP presidential candidate. He is up for re-election as governor next year. How convenient, then, that Lisa Graves and her Soros-funded CMD are promoting this smear against Walker. M.D. Kittle reports:

If Madison’s Center for Media and Democracy has its way, government investigators armed with subpoenas may soon raid the homes and offices of conservatives across the country in a national campaign that began right here, in the Democrat-controlled Milwaukee County District Attorney’s office.
Beginning with a press conference last week and promising a yearlong coordinated effort, CMD has spent several days speculating on the links between free-market political organizations. Any kind of cooperation among those groups to elect a conservative – for example, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker – is evidence of wrongdoing, CMD suggests in a rambling post on its website. . . .
Multiple sources tell Wisconsin Reporter that CMD’s claim is the basis of the Milwaukee DA’s investigation into about 100 people representing some 29 conservative and libertarian groups.
Despite CMD’s assertions, there’s no law barring cooperation among political groups. That fact may derail the Milwaukee DA’s probe, now headed by special prosecutor Francis Schmitz.
It was left to a reporter to make that point during last week’s CMD conference call.
“Why should we be surprised conservative-funded groups are funding conservative causes?” the reporter asked. Doesn’t the same thing occur on the left?
The answer, according to CMD executive director Lisa Graves: Yes, but the left is morally superior in its motives.
“The question of conservative funders versus liberal funders, I think, is a matter of false equivalency,” Graves responded. “Quite frankly a number of these (corporate donors) like Koch Industries … they’re advancing not just an ideological agenda but an agenda that helps advance the bottom line of their corporate interests. That’s quite a distinct difference from some of the funders in the progressive universe.”
At the heart of CMD’s campaign is the suggestion that conservative political groups cannot legally work together. Liberal groups? That seems to be okay.

Read the whole thing at Watchdog.org. Where do people get the idea that “corporate interests” are evil in a way that liberal interests (including the interests of George Soros) are not?

Idiots like Lisa Graves need to use a better quality of tinfoil in their hats. You can’t stop CIA brain-control waves with cheap tinfoil.

 

Category: Conspiracy Theories, Wisconsin

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.25.13

Posted on | November 25, 2013 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Obama Calls Netanyahu After Israeli PM Slams Iran Nuke Deal

“Peaceful purposes”. Yeah, suuuuuure.

Vows to work with Israel on comprehensive solution
Kerry: “No Daylight” Between Israel, US On Iran Goals
Bipartisan Congressional call for more sanctions

Big Texas Storm Threatens Thanksgiving Travel
300 flights canceled in DFW Sunday



POLITICS
Obama Mixes Fundraising With Immigration Message

The President looks at Mount Rainier with adviser Valerie Jarrett

Calls GOP “an impediment” at Seattle fundraiser


Defense Spending Bill Caught In Congressional Gridlock

California Lawmakers Seek To Ban Imitation Firearms


Zuckerberg Terms Immigration “Biggest Civil Rights Issue Of Our Time”

Enroll America Under Fire Again As Video Reveals Involvement In Partisan Politics

Congressmen Question Ban On Service Members Related To Illegals

In Iowa, Hopes Are High To Win Senate Seat As Harkin Retires

Further Tweaks To Obamacare Spur GOP Call To Start Over



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Falls Slightly On Iran Nuke Deal: NYMEX $94.00, Brent $108.57
Americans Unwilling To Spend On Holidays Without Deals
Macy’s Joins Walmart, Will Open On Thanksgiving
Cable Stocks Surge On Takeover Chatter
Gamblers Optimistic On NJ Online Betting
Apple Supplier Foxconn To Invest Millions In Pennsylvania
Apple Buys Kinect Maker PrimeSense
Samsung Announces Galaxy Grand II With 5.25″ Screen
NSA Malware Infected Over 50K Networks Worldwide
Motorola Looks To 3D Printing For User-Customizable Smartphones
Husband & Wife Become Unlikely Twitch Stars Using Just Their PS4



SPORTS
Brady Leads Epic Comeback As Pats Defeat Broncos In Overtime

Three TDs in third quarter to erase 24-point deficit

New England recovers from horrible first half, wins 34-31


Dan Haren’s A Dodger Now

Henry & Gasol Lead Lakers Past Kings


Red Wings Inflict Fourth Straight Loss On
Sabres

Chargers Hand Chiefs Second Loss

Hurricanes Beat Sens 4-1

Does A Run At David Price Make Sense For The Nationals?



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Katy Perry Gorgeous & Glam At American Music Awards

Taking it to Japan

Opens show with performance of new single “Unconditionally”

Miley Cyrus Keeps It Classy At The AMAs

Mark Wahlberg Wanted To Produce “Fifty Shades Of Grey”


Mick Jagger To Become Great-Grandpa

Lamar Odom – I Was Drunk, Not High

“Once Upon A Time” Casts “Covert Affairs” Star In Guest Role

Brooke Hogan Calls Off Her Engagement

Yemen Wedding “Gangnam Style” Ends When Dancer Accidentally Shoots AK-47

Diablo Cody, Oprah Winfrey Team For HBO Comedy “Moody Bitches”



FOREIGNERS
Kuroda Terms BOJ’s 2% Inflation Target “Ambitious”
Swiss Voters Reject Measure To Limit Executive Pay
EU Climate Chief Says UN Talks Hinge On 2015 Deal
Demonstrators Fill The Streets Of Bangkok
PRC Protests US, Japan Criticism Of East China Sea Air Defense Zone
Egypt’s President Issues Law Restricting Protests
Close Vote Raises Tensions In Honduras
Vatican Displays Relics Of St. Peter For The First Time



BLOGS & STUFF
Dead Republican Party: The Caliphate Just Became A Reality
First Street Journal: From Around The Blogroll
American Power: “Historic Mistake” – Netanyahu Blasts Obama’s Appeasement Of Iran
American Thinker: The Presidential Degradation Of The Medal Of Freedom
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: This Crazy Week, Undaunted Edition
The Necropolitan Sentinel – Obamacare Watch – No, The Fix Isn’t In
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, Pre-Thanksgiving Christmas Sale Weekend Edition
Jammie Wearing Fools: Great – CGI Admitted To 30 Obamacare Website Faults On Day Of Launch
JustOneMinute: If I Were An Enterprising RNC Attack Dog
Pat Dollard: Saudi Prince Says Arab/Israeli Alliance “Has No Confidence In Obama Doing The Right Thing” With Regard To Iran
Protein Wisdom: The “Victory Through Breeding” Program
Shot In The Dark: Question For Madly-Spinning Democrats
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – You’re Screwed
The Lonely Conservative: NYT Admits Obamacare Is Redistribution, But Doesn’t Want You To Call It That
Megan McArdle: Democrats Give Up 2014 With The Filibuster


Category: Live at Five

Documents Prove Kaitlyn Hunt Lied; Knew Sex With 14-Year-Old Was Illegal

Posted on | November 24, 2013 | 141 Comments

BOOM:

Florida sex offender Kaitlyn Hunt, whose case became a cause for many gay rights activists this year, was aware that her affair with a 14-year-old was illegal, documents obtained from the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office show.
“Yes, I know I’m 18 and can get in trouble,” Hunt said in an online conversation more than a month before her February arrest, “but I understand the consequences and I know what I got myself into when I entered the relationship with [the underage girl].”
Hunt, who last month pleaded no contest to multiple felony charges in the case, has claimed in media interviews that she did not realize her involvement with the minor was a crime in Florida, where the legal age of consent is 16. “I wouldn’t have continued, if I really knew what the laws were and if I knew what I was getting myself into,” Hunt told ABC’s Matt Gutman in an interview broadcast on the network’s 20/20 program. . . .

Read the whole thing at Viral Read. The documents in the case were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by Jeanette Runyon and were published by Matt Ross at Conservative Hideout. There are more documents, so stay tuned in coming days.

 

Category: Crime, Kaitlyn Hunt, Sex
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