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Virginia Democrat Won’t Answer Questions About His Sleepover With Teen

Posted on | August 29, 2013 | 58 Comments

If you’re an unmarried politician who gets caught with a 17-year-old girl spending the night at your house, you’d better have a plausible excuse ready when reporters ask you about the police investigation, or else you’re instantly guilty in court of public opinion:

Del. Joe Morrissey, teen at
center of police investigation
— Jon Burkett, Mike Bergazzi and Scott Wise, WTVR-TV

56-yr old Virginia Democrat Del. now under
investigation for having a 17-yr old
teenage girl over his house for a sleepover
— Eric Dondero, Libertarian Republican

Henrico police investigating
Morrissey’s ties to teen girl
— Bill McElway, Richmond Times-Dispatch

Joe Morrissey under investigation
for contact with teen
— Suzanne Kennedy, WJLA-TV

Of course, Joe Morrissey is a Democrat, and voters who elect Democrats obviously don’t care if they’re putting perverts in office — at least as long as the perverts don’t get caught:

Why would a 17-year-old girl’s father be concerned about her spending the night at Morrissey’s house? Perhaps because the 56-year-old Democrat seems somewhat notorious as a sexually adventurous bachelor. He has never married, but Morrissey has admitted fathering three children out of wedlock.

Read the whole thing at ViralRead.

But this isn’t really a “scandal.” Unless Joe Morrissey goes to prison, Democrats will keep electing him, and even if he did go to prison, Democrats would just vote for some other criminal pervert.

 


Category: Crime, Democrats, Scandal, Sex, Uncategorized, Virginia

NYT Cranks The Judas Priest

Posted on | August 29, 2013 | 29 Comments

by Smitty

Could be the most unintentionally funny headline of the year: “Bomb Syria, Even if It Is Illegal”

There are moral reasons for disregarding the law, and I believe the Obama administration should intervene in Syria. But it should not pretend that there is a legal justification in existing law. Secretary of State John Kerry seemed to do just that on Monday, when he said of the use of chemical weapons, “This international norm cannot be violated without consequences.” His use of the word “norm,” instead of “law,” is telling.
Syria is a party to neither the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972 nor the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993, and even if it were, the treaties rely on the United Nations Security Council to enforce them — a major flaw. Syria is a party to the Geneva Protocol, a 1925 treaty that bans the use of toxic gases in wars. But this treaty was designed after World War I with international war in mind, not internal conflicts.

‘Rodeo clown’ is the new cowboy, no? After around 6 years of anti-Bush Adventurism arguments (and the bulk of a year spent in Afghanistan helping carry out one of Obama’s rare promises kept) the skepticism has kind of settled in. Also, one cannot possibly fathom what strategic interest the U.S. even has in the Levant. Maybe standing by our ally, Israel. It is a cheery thing to see the occasional greeting on YouTube from Bibi Netanyahu. But is the refreshment of hearing from an actual leader of the non-rodeo-clown variety of sufficient value to justify throwing blood and treasure at Damascus?

Of course ethics, not only laws, should guide policy decisions. Since the Rwandan genocide and the Balkan mass killings of the 1990s, a movement has emerged in support of adding humanitarian intervention as a third category of lawful war, under the concept of the “responsibility to protect.” It is widely accepted by the United Nations and most governments. It is not, however, in the charter, and it lacks the force of law.

Morality, or ethics? I’d argue, against the dictionary, that the two are not synonymous. There really isn’t any moral case in favor of disregarding law. Law is a human product, and therefore may be incomplete, or out of sync with the times. There could be ethical reasons for disregarding a law. I wish the author, Hurd, had provided a link to this famous movement, though. Maybe the “humanitarian intervention” community could help us track down the elusive anti-war movement that flourishes during Republican administrations, whenever those corporatists are out to drive up profits. Perhaps the anti-war movement is cryogenically suspended in Jane Fonda’s basement.
I’ve got to emphasize this closing bit:

Since Russia and China won’t help, Mr. Obama and allied leaders should declare that international law has evolved and that they don’t need Security Council approval to intervene in Syria.
This would be popular in many quarters, and I believe it’s the right thing to do. But if the American government accepts that the rule of law is the foundation of civilized society, it must be clear that this represents a new legal path.

Anybody who thinks that Russia isn’t fomenting unrest to drive up oil prices is clueless. President Rodeo Clown should know that peace, prosperity, and a Keystone XL pipeline are the best ways to stick it to the Russian bear. At least in DC, no one uses the phrase “it’s the right thing to do” without a disdainful eye roll. In DC it means: sure, we’re jacked up to high heaven, but isn’t everything else, too?

via Insty

Assad aside:
Rush’s brother David considered afflicting the Syrians with ObamaCare,

Category: Barack Obama, Syria

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.29.13

Posted on | August 29, 2013 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Syria Resolution Authorizing Military Force Fails In Security Council

Antiwar protesters in London

Permanent members can’t agree on British resolution
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Fort Hood Shooter Gets Death Sentence
Interminable appeals to follow


NYC’s Mayor Bloomberg Donates $350K To Fight Colorado Recalls
Two Colorado Democrats fighting recalls after voting for gun restrictions



POLITICS
California Lawmakers Threaten Boy Scouts Tax-Exempt Status Over Gays

Gay Scout, supporters deliver petition to BSA headquarters in Dallas

Bill would strip tax exemption from groups discriminating against LGBT members


Missouri Poised To Nullify Federal Gun Laws


Pennsylvania Officials: Gay Marriage Licenses Issued By County Invalid

GOP Mayoral Contenders Weigh In On NYPD Stop And Frisk Policy

Montana Judge Ripped For Light Sentence, Comments  In Rape Case Involving Ex-Teacher

Democrat Bill Would Trigger Huge New Taxes On Guns, Ammo

Conservatives Accuse Obama Of Court Packing

Regulators Relax Proposed Mortgage Rule



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Retreats From Two-Year High On Growing US Inventories: NYMEX $109.38, Brent $115.85
Yen Steady Against Dollar, Markets Still Anxious About Syria
Airline Merger Fight Begins With Trial Date Tug-Of-War
Rupee Tumbles To Record Low; Sensex Closes Up 28
Qantas Jumps Most Since 2006 After Paring Long-Haul Loss
Vodafone Shares Surge On Verizon Wireless Talks
Nintendo Announces New 2DS Console, Wii U Price Drop
Sergey Brin Love Quadrangle Blamed For Google Exec’s Sudden Departure
Twitter Tweaks Mobile Site, Apps To Make Conversations Easier
Miniature Human Brain Grown In Laboratory
Google + Hangouts Upgrading To HD
Humble Bundle Brings The Laughs With New Pay What You Want Comedy Collection



SPORTS
Byrd Pounds It In Pirates Debut, Brewers Pillaged 7-1

OHHHHH YEAHHHHH!

Gorzelanny’s future with Brewers questionable after terrible outing

Puig Drama Continues As Dodgers Blank Cubs 4-0

No Evidence Manziel Took Cash For Autographs, Penalized Anyway

Archer Impressive As Rays Beat Angels 4-1, Snap Skid

Yanks’ Fleeting Playoff Hopes Dim after 7-2 Crushing At Hands of Jays

Moss Clubs Double Dingers, 6 RBI As A’s Skin Tigers 14-4

Bosox Edge Birds 4-3

Jay Bruce Leads Reds’ 10-0 Rout Of Cardinals

Sale Ks 12 As Pale Hose Beat Astros 6-1

Nationals Outlast Rain, Marlins For 4-3 Win



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Lisa Kudrow Joins ABC Drama “Scandal”

Coming back in front of the camera

Signed for recurring role

Liam Hemsworth Mortified By GF Miley’s Raunchy VMA Performance

Kris Jenner’s Talk Show Axed

Lamar Odom Not The Only Druggie In The NBA

Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones Separate

Ex-Scientologist Leah Remini To Compete On “Dancing With The Stars”

Is The Co$ Still Watching Katie Holmes?

Jamie-Lynn Sigler: It’s A Boy!

Paris Hilton Signs Huge DJ Contract

“Queen Latifah Show” Lines Up All-Star Guest List

Alexander Skarsgard Leads Drunken Chant At Swedish Soccer Match



FOREIGNERS
Fifteen Afghan Police Killed In Taliban Ambush
Indian Mujahideen Founder Yasim Bhatkal Arrested
UN Aid Program In Syria Firmly Linked To Assad Regime
Baghdad Bombs Kill 86 As Sectarian Violence Spreads
Colombia Ready To Talk With ELN Rebels
Israel Calls Up Reserves As Syria Attack Looms
US To Sell Apache Attack Helos To Indonesia In $500 Million Deal
Schaeuble Says Spain Exports Show Merkel Formula Working
Bookie Declares Opposition Win In Aussie Election



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Twitchy: “Shut Up White Bitch” – Stacey Dash Quotes MLK Jr., Gets Attacked For “Calling Blacks Negro”
American Power: A Better Way To honor Dr. King’s Dream
American Thinker: The Marketing Of Porn To Children Via Sweet Young Things
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – All About Privilege
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, August 28
Jammie Wearing Fools: The Historic Incompetence of The Obama Administration
JustOneMinute: Hold The Presses, Or, Everything Old Is New Again
Pat Dollard: CNN Guest Doesn’t Understand Why Black Senator Should Have Been Invited To MLK Anniversary
Protein Wisdom: This Is What A Faculty Lounge Presidency Looks Like
Shot In The Dark: Growing Pains
Jawa Report: Iraqi Muslims Kill 50+ Other Iraqi Muslims For Being The Wrong Kind Of Muslim
Megan McArdle: Costco’s Second-Class Citizens


Category: Live at Five

HuffPo’s Hateful Haitian Pascal Robert (@probert06) Grossly Insults Dana Loesch

Posted on | August 28, 2013 | 97 Comments

Earlier today I mentioned DHS employee/hatemonger Ayo Kimathi, who described himself as “Haitianist,” to which a few readers responded, “Huh?” A simple translation would be “Kill Whitey”:

We Haitianists invite all PanAfrikans, Black Nationalists, Black Progressives, and other anti-white, noble-minded Black people to join us in celebrating our Afrikan New Year in August of each year. From this day forward, August will officially be “Nat Turner Month” for WOH and it will mark our Afrikan New Year.

Have I got your attention now? Let us examine the rather more articulate racialism of Huffington Post contributor Pascal Robert:

As long as the oppressed group views its oppressor as the fountain from which all approval and validation comes, there can never be any true achievement of justice based on eliminating the authority of the oppressor in that power relationship. . . .
Status quo forces of oppression do not concede rights and political viability to those they oppress because token symbols of achievement and demonstrative humanity have been shown by those on the margins. The oppressor simply keeps dangling the carrot, moving it farther and farther down the road, as you continue to do every seemingly morally upright thing he demands to achieve that coveted “equality.” .  . .

You are “the oppressor,” whitey, and in case you haven’t figured it out yet, Pacal Robert is not a reform-oriented liberal Democrat. He is a radically anti-American black nationalist whose allegiance is to Haiti (from which his parents immigrated here) and who blames Haiti’s problems on “constant U.S. intervention and destabilization.”

Pascal Robert is not a “liberal.” He is not merely “prejudiced.” He has an elaborate anti-white ideology, which explains his absolutely shocking Twitter campaign against Dana Loesch:


Several of Dana’s friends on Twitter misunderstood this, calling Robert a “liberal” or “progressive,” but he is neither: He is a racialist who hates America because he hates white people.

Why do you think the background image on his Twitter page is a painting of the 1791 Haitian uprising, showing whites decapitated?

Honestly, it is way past time for Americans to acknowledge the extent to which what often passes for “liberalism” is nothing of the sort.

This is simply hate, and Huffington Post is publishing it.

 

Category: Racism

LOL: @LaurelRConrad Smacks Liberal HuffPo Commenters With the Truth

Posted on | August 28, 2013 | 20 Comments

You remember the Oberlin racism hoax (“Another God-Hating Anti-American Democrat Exposed as a Criminal Liar“) in which the perpetrator of that high-profile pseudo-hate-crime was revealed as an Obama supporter who hates God and hates America.

Of course, all Democrats do, but I digress . . .

Laurel Conrad reports the comic denouement:

After the hoax was exposed, the Huffington Post ran an article by the Associated Press, “Oberlin Racism Hoax.”
However, the AP article left out one critical piece of information, that the hoax was perpetrated by a liberal. We could not have set a better trap if we had tried. . . .

Read the whole thing at Legal Insurrection. She’s a senior at Cornell University and has fewer than 100 Twitter followers. Fix that, eh?

 

Category: Crime, Democrats, Education

Well, I Shouldn’t Disappoint Pete

Posted on | August 28, 2013 | 27 Comments

Da Tech Guy is disappointed that I didn’t take up his earlier challenge to address the fakeness of the 1973 Billy Jean King/Bobby Riggs “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match, but as I said, I recognized it as hype at the time. Although I didn’t know the fix was in — because Bobby Riggs owed $100,000 to the mob — I was 13 at the time and sophisticated enough to see it for the silly hype-fest it was. Even if King’s victory had been legitimate, what was proven by having a female athlete in her prime beat a 55-year-old man at a non-contact sport?

Pretty sure my remark at the time was, “Let her try football.”

Did I ever mention I was a small-town sports editor for years?

Covered some truly excellent female athletes, including state champion sprinter Shea Thurman and basketball standout Tammy Starr, but it would have been absurd to have expected either of them to compete against championship male athletes. Thurman could outrun all but the fastest boys in Gordon County, but her time in the 100-meter dash was still two seconds off the top boys’ times. Yet Sonny Bunch was shocked to realize he’d been bamboozled by the Riggs-King scam:

I hadn’t realized that Riggs trounced — just absolutely crushed, in straight sets, giving up only three games over two sets — Margaret Court, then the most dominant women’s player in the world, just a few months before playing King.

Ding. Ding. Ding.

It’s another example of The Story Too Good to Be True, a stock item in the dishonest repertoire of liberal journalism.

The Cult of Equality has always been a lie, a March to Nowhere, and my opposition to it is not an expression of “misogyny” or any of the other political pejoratives that radical egalitarians use to silence their critics. It is simply a common-sense recognition of reality.

“Believe me, Sir, those who attempt to level, never equalise. In all societies, consisting of various descriptions of citizens, some description must be uppermost. The levellers therefore only change and pervert the natural order of things; they load the edifice of society, by setting up in the air what the solidity of the structure requires to be on the ground.”
— Edmund Burke, 1790

More than two centuries have passed since Burke described the falsehood inherent in the Cult of Equality, but radicals have never ceased to “pervert the natural order of things,” spreading misery and calling it Progress, and the madness continues to this very day.

So my apologies to Pete for neglecting his challenge, but the thing is, if these fools won’t heed the wisdom of Edmund Burke, why should I expect them to listen to me?

We should never accuse feminists of mere ignorance.

They know the truth. They just hate the truth.

 

 

Category: Feminism, Sports

Haters Who Hate Hate: DHS Employs Deranged Race Warrior Ayo Kimathi

Posted on | August 28, 2013 | 48 Comments

Ayo Kimathi has been placed on paid leave from his job at the federal Department of Homeland Security, but John Sexton at Breitbart.com points out that Kimathi now claims “his supervisors were aware of his outside activities since December 2010.”

John embeds the bizarre YouTube video and in checking it out — sample quote: “We, hate our enemies because we love ourselves” — I noticed this: “The spirit of Nat Turner has returned!”

Yeah. And people call me an extremist . . .

UPDATE: When this story first made headlines last week, I shrugged, but check out his “War on the Horizon” rant:

War on the Horizon (WOH) is a Haitianist organization created for the purpose of preparing Black people worldwide for an unavoidable, inevitable clash with the white race. whites around the world are absolutely determined to exterminate Afrikan people in all corners of the Earth.
As a result of this reality, WOH has dedicated our time and expertise to properly educating Black people to prepare for Racial Warfare. This includes intellectual, spiritual, psychological, and physical preparation for a global clash that will mean the end of white rule on this planet or the end of the Black Race as we know it. . . .
Afrikan people are an international racial family who share a common: homeland (Afrika), Racial origin, culture, destiny, and a bitter enemy — the white race. We are challenged by our common destiny to eradicate the system of racism white supremacy and its benefactors in order to establish righteous Black Dominion over Planet Earth.
We are mandated by our Creator to return to our proper status as rulers of this world. It is within the full rights and responsibility of every member of the Black world family to see to it that this ultimate goal is achieved so that we may once again restore peace and prosperity to Planet Earth under the divine and just leadership of God’s first people — The Black man, woman, and child of Afrika.

“Haitianist”? This is an interesting adjective.

UPDATE II: Realizing that somebody like Ayo Kimathi could be employed at DHS for years gives you a new and different perspective on the negligence toward the Fort Hood shooter:

“A US Army major is writing to this imam and essentially asking for religious sanction to kill American soldiers,” said attorney Reed Rubinstein, who represents a group of victims who are suing the federal government. “And the FBI’s Washington field office doesn’t even interview the man or make a phone call to his superiors. It’s utterly incomprehensible.”

It’s only “incomprehensible” if you fail to realize how, in the regime of “multiculturalism” and “diversity,” all hate is not created equal.

Some people have a right to hate. Some hate actually calls itself “social justice” and “tolerance.” And also, “Hope and Change.”

They “savagely beat her while calling her racial slurs”? Maybe Ayo Kimathi is right about a race war. Maybe it has already begun.

UPDATE III: What I can’t understand is why black nationalist race warriors never hate the white people who deserve to be hated.

 

Category: Racism

Internet Douchebag Patrol: Commie Scum and Other Satanic Creatures From Hell

Posted on | August 28, 2013 | 60 Comments

“Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon. . . . He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don’t listen to him. Remember that — do not listen.”
— The Exorcist (1973)

“Facts and logic that contradict their arguments are dismissed as somehow tainted because they don’t come from reliable (i.e., leftist) sources, whereas any specimen of counter-factual lunacy is acceptable to them, so long as it supports their anti-social worldview. There is therefore no point in trying to reason with such fools.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, May 4

How did I get into this gig? Keeping watch on the Internet for outbreaks of douchebaggery was not a career I ever deliberately chose, but it seems to have become a sort of calling — a ministry — and it has gotten so that nowadays the douchebags seek me out, evidently craving my denunciation as a rite of passage. OK, whatever.

Why did Burkely Hermann do that? I don’t know, but if he thought I’d just shrug it off, he thought wrong:

What Part of ‘Fuck You, Commie Scum’ Is
So Hard for @BurkelyH to Understand?

You can read the whole thing, but that was just another day at the office for me. You are never going to persuade these people that they are wrong. If they were interested in facts or amenable to reason, they wouldn’t be Commie scum, would they? So instead the points to be proven are (a) they don’t know what the hell they are talking about, and (b) anyone who shares their worldview is an idiot, too.

So today I was scrolling through my neglected e-mail:

From: Ross Pannebecker <[email protected]>
To: Robert McCain <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 1:19 PM
Subject: What Part of ‘Fuck You, Commie Scum’ Is So Hard for @BurkelyH to Understand?
Dear Mr. McCain,
Why have you not responded to my previous email? Is it because you feel bad that you called a mentally disabled kid a “sociopathic cop-killer?” Is it because you feel some inkling of remorse deep down in your withered heart? I thought you conservatives were supposed to be the “party of morals;” pray tell, what is moral about making fun of autistic children?
How pathetic are you that, when someone you don’t know on the internet calls you out, you dedicate an entire article on your website to bashing them? This is not journalism. In the first part of your article, you write “Well, who is Berkley Hermann and why should anyone care?” My question to you, Mr. McCain, is “why do YOU care?”
I find it ironic that I, a person of the age of Mr. Hermann, can write something more civilized than you, someone who apparently graduated college in the mid-1990s, when Mr. Hermann and I were being born. You are a poor excuse for a journalist, and I hope you will have the decency and sense to write back, unless of course you are the coward you appear to be.
Have a nice day,
Ross Pannebecker

To that email I replied:

I miss a lot of e-mail, as my inbox overfloweth.
If you were a regular reader, you might understand my general habit: Some douchebag wanders into my field of online vision, and I pile onto the douchebag with all the rhetorical force I can muster. This is kind of a random process.
As to this specific instance, Howard Zinn was a Commie and Mumia is a cop-killer. These are just facts.
I called Hermann a cop-hater, not a cop-killer.
Is he indeed “mentally disabled” and afflicted with autism? Of this I was unaware. But if he wants to chastise me on Twitter and defend a Communist like Zinn, he can expect no favoritism, nor do you do him any favors by claiming victimhood on his behalf.
–RSM
P.S.: I graduated from college in 1983. My oldest child is 24.

And to this, Ross replied:

So everyone who disagrees with you is a “douchebag?” Please inform me how that is condusive to level-headed political discussion. Please tell me how that does anybody any favors. You are a grown man and I would think that, in a professional setting such as your website, you would have the discretion to not throw around vulgar language willy-nilly. It makes you sound uneducated and immature, and hardly at all like a respectable journalist.
I am not claiming Mr. Hermann is a victim. He is fully aware of what he is doing. I am simply pointing out that it speaks volumes about your character that when confronted by a stranger on the internet, you think it is appropriate to spew obscenities at those you disagree with. People who do not share your views (such as myself) are not “trolls,” and to dismiss them as such cuts any chance of political discourse down to nil, thereby making you, Mr. McCain, part of the problem.
In short, try to respect your political opponents. Being a communist does not make you a bad person, any more than being a capitalist does. I would you think you would already know that, but, hey, the world is full of surprises.
Have a nice day,
Ross Pannebecker
P.S. the fact that you are ten years older than I thought you were only makes your actions more embarrassing and misguided.

Is this rich, or what? I must “respect . . . political opponents,” even young fools who jump into my Twitter feed to abuse me, even amoral monsters who admire Communists and cop-killers. “Being a communist does not make you a bad person,” says young Ross, evidently indifferent to the atrocities perpetrated by Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Pol Pot and their various comrades in the Marxist revolutionary cause.

A Communist is the enemy of all mankind, an idolator of evil, the acolyte of a mass-murder cult. Never condescend to “debate” such creatures. No wise man debates a rabid dog.

A civilized person has no obligation of “decency” to a disrespectful punk who insults him as a “coward.” I now lament having wasted time responding privately to Ross Pannebecker, who has identified himself clearly as an enthusiastic apologist for evil.

P.S.: You misspelled “conducive.”

 

 


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