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Canadian Muslim Arrested in Somalia After Reportedly Beheading His 4 Sons

Posted on | October 3, 2013 | 41 Comments

Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugged had this story, citing the Blazing Cat Fur blog and, to be honest, my reaction was, “You’re kidding me.”

Surely, this had to be some kind of right-wing Islamophobic urban legend spread by irresponsible Internet gossip-mongers. Because I constantly watch the news — my TV is tuned to MSNBC at this very moment — and if this really happened, you would think maybe the news would mention such an atrocious act of terroristic violence. But I checked around and discovered that this is actually true:

The mother of four young boys who were allegedly beheaded by their Somali-Canadian father says she doesn’t know of any motive for the killings.
Police in Somalia arrested Omar Hassan, 60, after the children, aged 11, 9, 7 and 6, were killed Monday, Qadro Addawe told The Canadian Press.
The alleged slayings happened in the central town of Beledweyne, about 330 kilometres north of the capital Mogadishu.
Speaking from Mogadishu, Addawe said Hassan was a taxi driver in Calgary and had returned home a few months ago.
She said the children had never been to Canada, but had Canadian citizenship through her estranged husband, who had migrated to Canada 30 years ago.
“They were born in Kenya, but they were Canadian because the father was Canadian,” she said.
A regional police commissioner told Agence France-Presse Wednesday that the children’s bodies were found near a village and have been buried.
The news service quoted Col. Isak Ali Abdulle as saying: “The man handed himself in and is in custody now. I think he is not mentally fit but we are questioning him.”

Children beheaded by their father? Just another random coincidence.

In related news, a Democrat finally used the word “jihad.”

But he wasn’t talking about Omar Hassan.

 

 


Category: Atlas Shrugs, Canada, Crime, Islam, Somalia

Mark Levin Threatens March on D.C.

Posted on | October 3, 2013 | 37 Comments

The Obama administration’s disgraceful stunt, putting up barricades around the World War II Memorial and having its SEIU goons hire protesters at $15 an hour to harass veterans, has inflamed sentiment against the Democrat propaganda campaign. (The mainstream media are endeavoring to ignore the facts, being too busy promoting Democrat propaganda to report the news.) Ace of Spades is livid:

Hey Barack Obama — you didn’t f–king build that. Someone else did, and someone else is paying for its upkeep.

Also livid with rage, Mark Levin:

I want to say this loud and clear to the people on Capitol Hill who are listening, to this administration. You lay one damn hand on one of those World War II vets at that memorial and I’ll bring half a million people to that damn memorial! You got that?!”

Audio via The Right Scoop:

The permitting process would, I suspect, require at least a month.

OK, so how about Monday, November 11?

UPDATE: This sentiment was pretty popular:

 


Category: Barack Obama, Budget, Mark Levin

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 10.03.13

Posted on | October 3, 2013 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Tom Clancy Dies, 66

Tom Clancy, 1947-2013 RIP

Author of Hunt For Red October and Rainbow Six, other best-selling novels; founder of computer game maker Red Storm Entertainment dies in Baltimore hospital


Iran’s Cyberwar Commander Assassinated
Found dead in the woods near Tehran with two bullets in his heart

UNSC Urges Immediate Humanitarian Access To Syria
More than two million have fled the country



POLITICS
White House Talks Fail To End Shutdown Gridlock

“I am exasperated because this is totally unnecessary! All I ask is for the GOP to kneel!”

Boehner leaves talks complaining that the Democrats will not negotiate; Democrats predictably blame everything on GOP

FBI Raids, Shutters Infamous Online Drug Trade Site

DIRNSA’s Admission Of Misleading Numbers Adds To Obama Administration’s Blunders

Federal Judge Orders Monitor For Sheriff Joe

STAR Test Dumped; Gov. Brown Ignores Federal Threats, Signs Order For New School Exams

Reid: Help Kids With Cancer? Why Would We Want To Do That?

Montana Democrats Get A Senate Candidate As Lt. Gov. John Walsh Decides To Run

ObamaCare Regulation On Digital Patient Records Raises Security Concerns



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Spikes On Gulf Coast Pipeline News, Slips In Asian Trade: NYMEX $103.69, Brent $108.92
US companies Add 166K Jobs In September As “Sluggish Recovery” Continues
Burlington Stores IPO Has Strong Debut
US Retail Group Expects Slightly Brighter Holiday Sales
Partial Victory For BP In Lawsuit Over Settlement
Draghi Warns Banks Long-Term Loans Can’t Replace Capital
Bing Adds Pinterest Collections To Image Search
Dell Gives Up On Windows RT
Facebook, Cisco Target Local Businesses With Free Wifi For Check-Ins
Target Follows Walmart With Launch Of Prepaid Mobile Service
“Grand Theft Auto Online” Launches



SPORTS
Road Warrior Rays Advance To ALDS

Fernando Rodney celebrates the Rays’ victory over the Tribe

Tampa Bay’s pitching, defense unfazed by hostile Cleveland crowd, stifles Tribe 4-0

Alabama Safety Clinton-Dix Gets Indefinite Suspension For Violating Team Rules

Service Academy Games To Continue

Book Claims NFL Crusaded Against Science

Penguins Goalie Vokoun Out 3-6 Months With Clot

AFN Goes Dark, Troops Overseas Denied MLB, NFL TV

Penske Inks Keselowski Through 2017

Red Wings Make Eastern Conference Debut With Win Against Sabres

Bolland Scores Two, Lifts Leafs Over Flyers

Avs Rout Ducks In Roy’s Coaching Debut

Nationals Coaches Wait In Limbo As Club Searches For New Manager



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Harper’s Bazaar November Cover Girl Is Jennifer Lawrence

But is it really art?

Bazaar Art magazine debuts



Coroner’s Report On Cory Monteith: Shooting Heroin, Slamming Booze Before Death


Amanda Bynes’ Mom Breaks Her Silence


Mia Farrow, Eight Of Her Children Speak Out About Their Lives


Vanessa Simmons On Pregnancy: “I Was So Nervous Telling My Dad!”

Empire Readers Vote Beendict Cumberbatch, Emma Watson Sexiest Stars On Earth

Sinead O’Connor’s Open Letter To Miley Cyrus

Lacey Chabert Is Maxim’s November Cover Girl

FX’s “Wilfred” To End After Fourth Season

Daniel Radcliffe’s Next Trick Is To Make Harry Potter Disappear

Casey Kasem’s Family Feud: Wife Won’t Let Family, Friends See Him?

George Clooney Hooking Up With “Croatian Sensation” Monika Jakisic After Stacey Keibler Split

Sinatra-Farrow “Love Child” Laughs Off Rumors

Melissa McCarthy To Star In “Female Bond Role”

Stagehand Strike Scraps Opening Night At Carnegie Hall



FOREIGNERS
Dozens Of Migrants Dead After Boat Sinks Near Lampedusa
Leader Of Greece’s Far-Right Golden Dawn Party Jailed Before Trial
15 Dead As Suicide Bomber Attacks Pakistani Anti-Taliban Militia Leader
US, Japan Agree To Revise Security Treaty For First Time In 16 Years
Mob Attacks Russian Embassy In Libya
PRC’s Xi Sidesteps Southeast Asia Pressure Over South China Sea Disputes
US: Burma Must Do More To Curb Anti-Muslim Violence
General VK Singh Says Government Keeping Army Restrained On Pakistan Issue
Gambia To Pull Out Of British Commonwealth



BLOGS & STUFF
Aewl’s Abode: Shutdown Day 1…And Day 2
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Government Shutdown Day Two – It Can’t Kill Me, Lord, And It Can’t Kill Me
Michelle Malkin: Seedco – ObamaCare’s Fraud-Stained Navigators
Twitchy: Barry-cades Confirmed – Park Service Says Obama Administration Ordered Closure Of WW2 Memorial
Chicks On The Right: Why Would Democrats Want To Help A Kid With Cancer?
American Power: State Governments Reduced To Lying About ObamaCare Rollout
American Thinker: Death Panels And The WW2 Veterans
The Necropolitan Sentinel: ObamaCare Watch – How Do You Destroy Us? Let Me Count The Ways
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, October 2
Jammie Wearing Fools: Florida ObamaCare Navigator Says Rollout Is “Dead As A Doornail. It’s A Mess.”
JustOneMinute: The Great And Powerful Obama
Pat Dollard: Failed Program – Day Two Of ObamaCare Worse Than The First
Protein Wisdom: “We Will March On Washington Against Your Tyranny. You Have Been Warned.”
Shot In The Dark: Tear Down This Wall
The Jawa Report: When You Dig Yourself Into A Hole, Don’t Make It Worse
The Lonely Conservative: Soviet Propaganda – Any Of This Sound Familiar?
Megan McArdle: Untangling ObamaCare’s Web Glitches

Category: Live at Five

The Bill Schmalfeldt School of ‘Ethics’

Posted on | October 2, 2013 | 63 Comments

After his Monday meltdown, we might have hoped Bill Schmalfeldt would spend a day or two recuperating, but such hopes were inevitably disappointed. Instead, the deranged cyberstalker spent Tuesday and Wednesday ranting about how John Hoge’s “STALKING AND HARASSMENT” and “FALSE CHARGES” were driving him to an early grave. Because, you see, Bill Schmalfeldt is a pitiful helpless victim.

In between ranting about Hoge, Schmalfeldt also repeatedly sent Twitter messages to Ken White of Popehat (I counted 43 such messages in about 24 hours), who responded by reminding Schmalfeldt of his well-documented history of vicious harassment:

This refers to a threatening Facebook message that Bill Schmalfeldt sent to a Wisconsin woman in 2011:

“Now . . . you’re going to wind up being the Monica Lewinsky for Jeremy’s Bill Clinton unless you start telling the truth and start telling it quick. I’m done fucking around, and I am not going away. You’ve already had “the media’s” interest in this case explained to you. Now, do you wanna play dumb and lose your kids? Or do you wanna play smart and keep what you got? I am not making any threats. I am just trying to help you avoid a shit storm for some giggling fuck who doesn’t give a rat’s ass about you. Do you really want to be dragged through the mud for THIS giggling shitwit. I’ll wait to hear from you. But I send what I have … EVERYTHING … to the Wisconsin Media tomorrow.”

Is that “a trick of investigative reporting,” or is that harassment and attempted extortion? Do investigative journalists routinely threaten potential sources with harm to their children? John Hoge answers that question with an emphatic “no.” But criticizing the helpless victim Bill Schmalfeldt, is not journalism:

What I linked there was Bill Schmalfeldt’s rather notorious December 2012 article attacking Patrick “Patterico” Frey and Ken White, which you can read for yourself. OK, so why was Schmalfeldt attacking Frey and White? Because Frey was the defendant in a nuisance lawsuit which Neal Rauhauser had encouraged Nadia Naffe to file, and White was one of Frey’s defense attorney:

Bolstering my conclusion that this was a politically motivated attack were the admissions by Neal Rauhauser (the hatchet-man associate of Brett Kimberlin) that he had arranged counsel for Naffe. Rauhauser proudly trumpeted his silly but telling hope that the lawsuit would accomplish his (and Kimberlin’s) long-held goal of costing me my job.

Why would Bill Schmalfeldt be publishing personal contact information of the defendant in a lawsuit and one of his lawyers?

What had Frey or White done to deserve such treatment from Schmalfeldt? One might suspect that Schmalfeldt was acting in concert with Neal Rauhauser and Brett Kimberlin to help them accomplish their “long-held goal” of getting Frey fired from his day job.

One might suspect this — it would be a common-sense surmise of the available evidence — but it’s impossible to say for certain what Bill Schmalfeldt’s motive was, because Bill Schmalfeldt is both crazy and dishonest. Attributing rational motives to a madman is always risky, and nobody can accept the word of a proven liar. But, according to the Bill Schmalfeldt School of Journalism Ethics, a mere suspicion justifies all manner of “investigative reporting” tricks, such as the threats Schmalfeldt made against a man named Doug:

All Doug had done was to “like” a Facebook page that contained negative comments about Bill Schmalfeldt. Therefore, Schmalfeldt threatened Doug that he would “dig deeper into your background and find out what there is to find about you,” unless Doug would agree to “tell me everything you know about [a certain person’s] relationship with the [Knot My Wisconsin blog]. Is [the person] Jerry Fletcher? WHO is Jerry Fletcher? I want it all Doug.”

You see the typical deadline — “5 pm today, October 26, Eastern Time” — attached to the angry demand that Doug must supply the requested information, or else Bill Schmalfeldt would publish (presumably derogatory) information about Doug.

Go ask any professional journalist in America if they have ever used this type of tactic, especially in pursuit of so trivial a goal as discovering the identity of someone associated with a blog. Who is Jerry Fletcher? Why on earth would anybody care?

Perhaps Bill Schmalfeldt can explain all this. But I doubt anyone will take his explanation seriously, because Bill Schmalfeldt is crazy.

 

Category: Bill Schmalfeldt

A: Article 1, Section 7, Clause 1
Q: What’s Stuck In An Uncomfortable Location Of Harry Reid’s Anatomy?

Posted on | October 2, 2013 | 60 Comments

by Smitty

0:49 What right do they have to pick and choose what part of government’s going to be funded?

And the Constitution says:

All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.

So if the House, which has remained oddly stuck in size since 1910, and thus may not represent the people with optimal fidelity, originates a bill, it’s kind of odd that the Dim Bulb from Vegas not know from whence that right originates.

And then Reid goes on to obsess about the obsession with ObamaCare. Here, the House reflects the hatred of the Unaffordable Careless Act with all due disrespect for its idiotic origins, foul drafting, brass-knuckle passage, moronic jurisprudence, banana republic exceptions, irresponsible roll-out, and predictable economic doom to follow.

Screw you, Reid, and the casinos that kept your undead cadaver cluttering our Senate.

Category: Nevada

Kaitlyn Hunt’s Mother on Plea Deal: ‘It’s Not Right, It’s Not Fair and It’s Not Just’

Posted on | October 2, 2013 | 104 Comments

We scarcely need wonder where the criminal pervert gets her lawless irresponsible attitude, eh? Kelley Hunt Smith on Facebook:

Tomorrow at 11am Kate will accept the State’s plea offer that was given this week. It’s been a long, painful 8 months but after much prayer and counsel Kate has decided to take the plea offer. It’s not right, it’s not fair and it’s not just but gives her her life back, which is all she wants. . . . We won’t stop! We will also continue to fight for equal rights for LGBT’s, and gather support for LGBT teens. Kate may have somewhat lost this battle but she will never lose the war!!!!

Her daughter is accepting this deal, which is really rather lenient considering all the aggravating circumstances, but Kelley Hunt Smith continues ranting about the wrongness, unfairness and injustice of the prosecution. What a pathetic excuse for an adult . . .

(Hat-tip: Jeanette Runyon on Twitter.)

 

Category: Kaitlyn Hunt

The Death of a Freak: Euthanasia for Belgium’s Botched Sex-Change ‘Monster’

Posted on | October 2, 2013 | 66 Comments

What depths of self-hatred could lead someone to this?

Nathan, born Nancy, Verhelst, 44, was given legal euthanasia, most likely by lethal injection, on the grounds of “unbearable psychological suffering” on Monday afternoon. . . .
“I was the girl that nobody wanted,” Mr Verhelst told Het Laatste Nieuws newspaper in the hours before her death. . . .
Mr Verhelst had hormone therapy in 2009, followed by a mastectomy and surgery to construct a penis in 2012. But “none of these operations worked as desired”.
“I was ready to celebrate my new birth,” he told the newspaper. “But when I looked in the mirror, I was disgusted with myself. My new breasts did not match my expectations and my new penis had symptoms of rejection. I do not want to be… a monster.”
The case will revive Belgium’s debate over medical euthanasia as statistics show a steep year on year increase in the number of patients killed by doctors after a request to die.

The distance between one’s desires and one’s reality can most easily be shortened by accepting reality. The alternative of pursuing hopelessly unrealistic desires is likely to end unhappily.

(Via Mememorandum, which has further blog commentary by Moonbattery, Weasel Zippers and VodkaPundit.)

 

Category: Belgium, Gays, Science, Sex

Accused Sex Offender Kaitlyn Hunt ‘Expected to Accept’ Plea Deal: CNN

Posted on | October 2, 2013 | 42 Comments

Last night I reported the latest offer from prosecutors, but now CNN adds this important detail in the Kaitlyn Hunt saga:

Hunt’s attorney was involved in crafting the deal, Workman said, and Hunt is expected to accept the plea agreement.
She had refused at least two other deals.
“I believe this is a fair and balanced offer that protects the victim while giving Ms. Hunt the ability to avoid the most severe consequences of her crimes by demonstrating that no further punishment is necessary,” Workman said.

So, nearly five months into this ugly public spectacle — which could have been avoided entirely, if only Kaitlyn Hunt had been willing to accept the original plea bargain — we now may be within sight of the end.

It was only because of the Hunt family’s hope of making their daughter the Jailbait Lesbian Poster Girl, a heroic martyr for gay rights, that anybody outside Indian River Count ever heard of this tawdry little mess, which ordinarily would have ended with a three-paragraph item in the local newspaper’s courts-and-cops column.

UPDATE: Palm Beach CBS affiliate WPEC-TV reports that Kaitlyn Hunt has in fact accepted the plea deal, although we do not yet have any statement from Hunt’s attorney confirming this. Thanks to @NASCARNAC for this tip. It’s amazing how Twitter has enabled me to stay on top of this story for the past four-and-a-half months, and there are a lot of people due hat-tips for helping with the coverage.

UPDATE II: Kaitlyn Hunt’s Mother on Plea Deal: ‘It’s Not Right, It’s Not Fair and It’s Not Just’

 

Category: Kaitlyn Hunt
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