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Christie Re-Elected in NJ Landslide; McAuliffe Squeaks Past in Virginia

Posted on | November 5, 2013 | 34 Comments

The Big Man from Jersey won big — everybody knew that was coming — but the surprise of the night was how strong Republican Ken Cuccinelli finished in the Virginia governor’s race. Experts had predicted Democrat Terry McAuliffe to win by 7 points, but as the results came in, Cuccinelli was ahead most of the night. It was not until past 9:30 p.m., with about 90% of precincts reporting, the the Northern Virginia/Richmond vote helped put the Democrat in the lead. As of 10 p.m., it was McAuliffe 47% to Cuccinelli’s 46% — a margin of about 25,000 votes.

A narrow loss for the Republican in Virginia is bad news, of course, but it is far from the massive blowout defeat that the media was prepared to blame on the Tea Party. Cuccinelli clearly gained a lot of ground in the final week of the campaign, as the ObamaCare failure became evident. Because opposition to ObamaCare has been a touchstone of the Tea Party movement all along, the result in Virginia, while disappointing, actually bodes well for the GOP going forward.

 


Category: Election, New Jersey, Virginia

Police Seek Drug Trafficking Network Inside New Mexico Man’s Rectum

Posted on | November 5, 2013 | 110 Comments

A guy named David Eckert of Deming, New Mexico, was suspected of concealing an entire drug cartel in his colon. Or maybe he just ran a stop sign and some cops with nothing better to do decided they had probable cause to get all up into David Eckert’s ass:

Eckert’s attorney, Shannon Kennedy, said in an interview with KOB that after law enforcement asked him to step out of the vehicle, he appeared to be clenching his buttocks. Law enforcement thought that was probable cause to suspect that Eckert was hiding narcotics in his anal cavity. While officers detained Eckert, they secured a search warrant from a judge that allowed for an anal cavity search. . . .
Eckert was subjected to repeated and humiliating forced medical procedures. A review of Eckert’s medical records, which he released to KOB, and details in the lawsuit show the following happened:
1. Eckert’s abdominal area was x-rayed; no narcotics were found.
2. Doctors then performed an exam of Eckert’s anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.
3. Doctors performed a second exam of Eckert’s anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.
4. Doctors penetrated Eckert’s anus to insert an enema. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
5. Doctors penetrated Eckert’s anus to insert an enema a second time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
6. Doctors penetrated Eckert’s anus to insert an enema a third time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
7. Doctors then x-rayed Eckert again; no narcotics were found.
8. Doctors prepared Eckert for surgery, sedated him, and then performed a colonoscopy where a scope with a camera was inserted into Eckert’s anus, rectum, colon, and large intestines. No narcotics were found.

All because “he appeared to be clenching his buttocks.” Like he was hiding Pablo Escobar and the Cali cartel in his butt or something.

 

Category: Crime

‘Hating Breitbart’ for Christmas

Posted on | November 5, 2013 | 30 Comments

We’re about three weeks away from Black Friday, the official start of the holiday shopping season. You can help support the blog by shopping for specials via our Amazon.com links, and I’d like to encourage you to consider giving an excellent gift, the DVD of Andrew Marcus’s awesome documentary, Hating Breitbart.

 

 

If you haven’t seen this movie yet, you simply must, and if you have seen it, you’ll want to share it. I think Hating Breitbart would be especially instructive for a high school or college student on your Christmas list. There is some strong language (which is cut or bleeped in the PG-13 version), but there is also an inspirational message about how an individual can make a difference in the fight for freedom.

 

Category: Amazon, Andrew Breitbart

Teacher Calls Parent ‘Neo-Nazi’ for Criticizing Eighth-Grade Project

Posted on | November 5, 2013 | 97 Comments

A Pennsylvania father objected when his daughter’s middle-school history teacher assigned a project about a New York Times article blaming Republicans for the government shutdown. His complaint apparently made him the target of an orchestrated response by faculty at Camp Hill Middle School, and an English teacher named Cydnee Cohen left a voicemail message for one of the parent’s Facebook friends:

“We’re having some problems with a parent in our school district and on his page you are one of his friends…but I would like to know, some of it seems like he is a neo-nazi…call me…”

Bonus absurdity: The allegedly “neo-Nazi” parent, Josh Barry, is Jewish. Cohen is president of the local teachers union. Barry told the Daily Caller, “Her method is to go after the concerned parent and discredit and slander them.” He called it “big-time union thuggery on display.”

What’s happening here? Well, for one thing, we have further confirmation of what every intelligent American already knew: Public schools are staffed by Democrats, who not only vote Democrat and contribute money to Democrats through their unions, but consider it their professional duty to teach children to be Democrats, too.

But what about Cohen’s tactics? What’s up with that?

What Cohen was doing is consistent with a method of consensus building known as the “Delphi technique.” Originally developed as a way of organized discussion among experts, this method has been adapted and taught to school administrators. It is used to quell criticism of school policy by isolating and marginalizing critics, while creating the appearance of consensus in support of the policy.

Here’s what happens: You, the concerned parent, raise a question about some element of the curriculum or pedagogy. You contact the teacher who will then tell you there’s nothing to worry about, and that you’re the only parent who has complained. (Isolation.)

Suppose you’re not satisfied with the teacher’s answer, so you arrange a meeting with the principal. By the time you get that meeting, the teacher has already briefed the principal, so that he has a prepared defense of whatever it is you’re complaining about. The principal’s goal for the meeting is to placate you by convincing you that you are over-reacting because, after all, you’re the only parent who has complained.

It’s at this point that you start feeling like you’re in the Monty Python sketch, trying to get a refund for your dead parrot and being told by the pet shop owner that the Norwegian Blue is “pining for the fjords.”

You will encounter variations of this tactic no matter how far up the chain of command you take your complaint — the superintendent’s office, the PTA, the school board, etc. — and no matter what it is that you are complaining about. If you persist in your criticism, you will be labeled a troublemaker, an extremist, a kook, because the bureaucratic imperative is to marginalize critics, so that the bureaucracy can operate without scrutiny or opposition. (About 10 years ago, a slightly eccentric lady named B.K. Eakman published a book about this, How to Counter Group Manipulation Tactics: The Techniques of Unethical Consensus-Building Unmasked, which you might wish to examine.)

What every concerned parent eventually learns is this: The American public education system is profoundly undemocratic. The system is organized for the benefit of those who run the system. It’s not about teaching kids, it’s about providing lifetime employment, generous benefits and extraordinary political influence for education majors.

Keep this in mind: Whatever it is you’re complaining about — whatever specific grievance you have with the system — is merely a symptom of the disease. The problems of public education are not episodic, but systemic in nature. Public schools are not about teaching facts and skills, but rather are about teaching attitudes and beliefs, and the most important lesson they teach your kids is that you, the parent, are an ignorant idiot who should be ignored. No matter how many degrees you have, no matter how competent and skilled you are in your own profession, if your opinion about what constitutes an appropriate education differs from what the education system wants to provide, you will find you are regarded as inferior to the credentialed “experts” whose job is to undermine your authority as a parent.

You are only a “good” parent if you agree with the experts.  You can have no autonomous influence over your child’s education, because your child exists only for the benefit of the system.

“In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.”
— William F. Buckley Jr., Up From Liberalism (1959)

Why aren’t you homeschooling your children yet?

 

 


Category: Culture, Education

President Blame-Shifter Wants to ‘Pivot’ Away From ObamaCare Debacle Story

Posted on | November 5, 2013 | 58 Comments

Yeah, that story is so . . . October.

Here we go: President readying for another
pivot — far away from Obamacare
— Twitchy

Shock: Obama, Biden Stop Mentioning Obamacare
in Speeches; Obama Hopes to, Get This,
Pivot to a Different Subject
— Ace of Spades

New White House ObamaCare strategy: Let’s
talk about something other than ObamaCare
— AllahPundit, Hot Air

You know what this reminds me of? President Clinton claiming that the Lewinsky scandal was distracting him from “doing the work the American people sent me here to do,” as if sodomizing interns was not a distraction. The Wall Street Journal:

Problems with the government’s health-care website are forcing President Barack Obama to redraw his plans for the rest of the year as he looks for ways to regain political momentum.
Scrapping a planned push to drive people to the balky website, the White House is organizing a flurry of events on the economy and immigration, as well as health care, a senior administration official said. . . .
The president’s senior aides had at one time planned for him to be holding events aimed at encouraging Americans to shop for insurance on the new federal health-care website, with stops in places with high numbers of uninsured people.But the problems plaguing the site have forced them to shift strategies.

It’s amazing how the media cooperates in these administration propaganda campaigns: “Senior aides” tell reporters what the White House message strategy is and the reporters then help push the White House message. Then the media report the story of how successful the White House message strategy was — as if they were covering something other than their own coverage. It’s a Mobius loop of bullshit.

 


Category: Barack Obama, Health Care, Media Bias

Things I Have Not Done

Posted on | November 5, 2013 | 30 Comments

I have not defamed Brett Kimberlin. I have not maliciously prosecuted Brett Kimberlin. I have not harassed Brett Kimberlin. I have not stalked Brett Kimberlin. I have not invaded Brett Kimberlin’s privacy. Nor have I conspired to do any of these things to Brett Kimberlin.

What I have done is to tell the truth about Brett Kimberlin. Insofar as the perjuring bomber does not like anyone telling the truth about him, this may have resulted in “emotional distress,” but the infamous criminal’s absurd $1 million lawsuit is doomed to fail anyway.

“These people are so intentionally and profoundly dishonest,” someone said in regard to Bill Schmalfeldt specifically, and more generally in regard to the collective known as “Team Kimberlin.”

Today, the judge in the case granted Brett Kimberlin’s motion to compel Google to supply the identity of the anonymous blogger Kimberlin Unmasked and you would have thought, witnessing the online reaction of Schmalfeldt and his Team Kimberlin comrades, that this was Game, Set and Match of the lawsuit. Ever since Kimberlin sued, his foolish admirers have been claiming that everything the vicious liar says is a proven fact and that he is certain to prevail, and that anything the defendants say about the suit is just adding to the damages.

This is all a mere continuation of Brett Kimberlin’s attempts to intimidate the innocent. I am not intimidated in the least.

“Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief. . . . Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked . . . For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?”
— Proverbs 24: 1-2, 19-22 (KJV)

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Category: The Kimberlin Files

Teachers Arrested for Child Pornography

Posted on | November 4, 2013 | 78 Comments

Sunday, after reporting the arrest of a youth football coach for allegedly raping an 11-year-old cheerleader, I did a Google News search and quickly compiled a list of five other recent cases where cheerleaders were molested by coaches. My young friend Christine Rousselle objected that I was unfairly tainting an entire profession for the acts of a few bad apples. OK, then, let’s do the same thing by the same method, but using different search terms. St. Charles, Ill.:

School officials in St. Charles are moving to fire a Sycamore man arrested this week on charges of possessing and distributing child pornography.
Jerome McCauley, 45, was charged Monday after police searched his home in the 300 block of Grant Street in Sycamore. Court records show he acknowledged having between 1,000 and 1,500 images and five to 10 videos of child pornography, some showing 12-year-old girls.
St. Charles School District 303 soon will begin the dismissal process, Superintendent Don Schlomann said. McCauley is a 19-year employee with District 303, who taught seventh-graders and coached volleyball at Wredling Middle School. He was placed on leave after his arrest.

Marblehead, Mass.:

A Marblehead High School physics teacher has been placed on leave after he was charged in Rhode Island this week following an investigation into child pornography.
William Morgan, 30, of 18 Maverick St., Marblehead, was arraigned Thursday in a district court in Warwick on charges of possessing child pornography and transfer of child pornography, state police in that state announced.
The case was the result of an undercover investigation by Rhode Island state police, the United States Marshals and the Secret Service. Morgan was one of 11 men arrested.

Wilmington, Del.:

A University of Delaware elementary education student, who served as a student teacher in Middletown and Townsend, faces more than two dozen child porn charges.
Bradford Holstein, Jr. was arrested after a search of his Newark home on Thursday.
Police and members of the Child Predator Task Force confiscated four computers and several digital storage devices, on which they found multiple video files of child porn.

Marion, Ky.:

After an investigation by Kentucky State Police, a Crittenden County High School teacher is facing a number of sex offense charges including possession of child pornography.
In late August, Kentucky State Police say they received an anonymous tip regarding an inappropriate relationship between Blair Winders and a female high school student. . . .
Blair Winders, 37, of Marion was charged with the following:
• Sexual abuse 1st degree
• Use of a minor under 18 in a sexual performance
• Prohibited use of an electronic communication system to procure a minor regarding sexual activity
• Possession of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor (51 counts)
• Distribution of obscene matter to a minor 1st offense
• Tampering with physical evidence
Winders was booked into the Crittenden County Detention Center.

Erie, Pa.:

A suspended northwestern Pennsylvania high school teacher awaiting trial on state court charges that he molested a boy for several years has now been charged for a second time this year with producing and possessing child pornography.
The latest charges filed by federal prosecutors in Erie allege David Montgomery, 43, of Erie, enticed two boys — described in court documents as one born in 1995 and the other in 2002 — to commit sexual acts so he could make photos or videos.
The charges involving the 1995 boy stem from at least eight incidents between July 2005 and July 2010, while Montgomery made pornography featuring the other boy once in August 2010, according to court documents.
The new charges, first reported by the Erie Times-News on Wednesday, grew out of a search of Montgomery’s residence in April that occurred after a now-18-year-old man claimed that Montgomery molested him repeatedly from age 8 to 15.

Bangor, Maine:

Patrik Ian Arsenault, 27, pleaded not guilty Friday in U.S. District Court to three counts of sexual exploitation of a male minor child and one count each of transportation of child pornography, receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography.
Arsenault had been a teacher in a regional autism program Wayne Elementary School and was supposed to start at W.G. Mallett Elementary School in Farmington in the upcoming school year as a special education teacher in kindergarten through grade three, according to a previous published report. . . .
Arsenault was arrested at his home in August by Maine State Police and agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. . . .
Kennebec County District Attorney Maeghan Maloney told the Bangor Daily News in August that the incidents involving the boys allegedly occurred in Belgrade between June 15 and July 30. They are the children of someone Arsenault knows and have mental disabilities, she said.
“It’s really upsetting that he not only created the child pornography, but also distributed it on the Web,” the prosecutor said. “It hurts the victims every time it’s viewed by another person.”

Niagara Falls, N.Y.:

Deborah Lee Updegrove Tipton, 45, a former Lockport resident and a Niagara County Community College and SUNY Brockport graduate who became a teacher in Asheville, N. C.,, is appealing her child pornography sentence on the grounds that it is excessive.
Tipton was sentenced last month to 18 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges related to child pornography. Her appeal was filed on Oct. 2 with the United States Court of Appeals.
The original case against Tipton stemmed from charges that she filmed videos of a nude 12-year-old girl and sent them via the internet to her boyfriend, Chadwick Hamby, of Hendersonville, N. C.,the former principal of the school where Tipton worked.
According to reports, Hamby, who seemed to be drifting from his seven year, adulterous relationship with Tipton, enjoyed sexual fantasies concerning animals and children.
Tipton, desperate to keep Hamby’s interest, according to testimony by an FBI special agent, introduced a then 11-year-old child into the couple’s chat room talks, and later created pornographic videos of a girl, nude in a shower, that featured her genitals.

That’s just a sample of stories — all from the past week — found by doing a Google News search on “teacher + child + pornography,” the same way a Google News search on “coach + cheerleader + rape” found multiple articles from recent months.

My apologies if this method of aggregation may create unfair suspicion, but the world is full of freaky creepazoids nowadays, and there are certainly ample grounds for suspicion, fair or not.

 

Category: Crime, Education, Sex

‘Silence of the Conservative Lambs’

Posted on | November 4, 2013 | 32 Comments

Baron Bodissey at Gates of Vienna employs that evocative phrase for the unwillingness of many people to weigh in on the controversy surrounding Diana West’s American Betrayal. He has written a quite literary and erudite examination of the problem, tending toward a conclusion that I am reluctant to endorse, i.e.: Are exaggerated fears of anti-Semitism at the root of this ugly uproar?

It is a shocking thing to consider whether ethnic sensitivities that polite people hesitate even to acknowledge could be behind all this. This is a retrograde step toward the dueling paranoias of the Cold War: On the one hand, anti-Communists feared there was a cover-up of Soviet infiltration, in which powerful establishment forces were unwilling to confront the extent of subversion, while on the other hand, there were those who feared that anti-Communists were secretly anti-Semites who hated Reds as a socially acceptable proxy for hating Jews. Baron Bodissey suggests we might be reverting to that era:

Can there be a fear that a full and open discussion of the number of Jews among communist infiltrators would awaken latent anti-Jewish sentiments?
And is this fear strong enough to mobilize major Jewish donors against American Betrayal?

You can read the whole thing and make up your own mind. As I say, I am reluctant to endorse this conclusion, because Occam’s Razor suggests such a motive is unnecessary. There are simpler explanations for the conflict — including issues of personal temperament, professional rivalries, and honest differences of opinion — without touching on the subject of anti-Semitism (or the fear thereof). And I would not even have mentioned Baron Bodissey’s comment, were it not for the stark irrationality of the reaction toward Diana West’s book.

When we behold irrational behavior, we must suspect an irrational motive, and if there were fears that somehow American Betrayal would inspire anti-Semitism, fears that no one wanted to express in so many words . . . Well, I’ve heard crazier theories.

Let’s hope everyone calms down and this unfortunate feud can be forgotten, because there’s too much craziness in the world already.

 

 

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