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Democrat Fundraiser Sentenced to Probation in Weird Stalking Case

Posted on | August 27, 2013 | 39 Comments

Nadia Cavner is a wealthy Missouri financial adviser who raised more than $100,000 for President Obama’s 2008 campaign and contributed $8,000 for Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill.

Nadia Cavner is also the Crazy Mom From Hell:

Prosecutor Brian Coleman read a list of allegations during Friday’s court hearing. Coleman said Cavner’s daughter had a boyfriend when she attended Emory University in Atlanta, but they broke up and he moved to Memphis.
The man, identified only as P.M., then began dating someone else in Memphis, Coleman said.
From July 2011 to November 2011, Cavner harassed P.M. in efforts to get him to break up with his new girlfriend. Cavner had an employee send the ex-boyfriend an anonymous letter questioning his judgment for breaking up with her daughter.
Attempts at intimidation escalated when she asked private investigators to follow and conduct surveillance on the couple. The ex-boyfriend also received demeaning voicemails and a harassing letter in his mailbox at the University of Memphis, which he attended. . . .
Cavner then discussed the possibility of someone becoming violent with the ex-boyfriend, but not to the point of killing him.
“You know, break an arm or two,” Cavner is accused of saying.
Cavner also discussed a drive-by shooting to scare the couple. The drive-by would have been blamed on gang members, Coleman said.
Investigators eventually contacted the FBI. Prosecutors said Cavner spent $26,000 to harass her daughter’s ex-boyfriend. . . .

Moral of the Story: Never date a Democrat’s daughter. They’re crazy.

 


Category: Crime, Democrats, Missouri

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.27.13

Posted on | August 27, 2013 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Kerry: Use of Chemical Weapons In Syria “A Moral Obscenity”

Secretary Kerry on the case!

Talk, talk, talk…it’s only talk!

Bo Xilai Reveals Wife’s Affair With Deputy As Trial Ends
Prosecutors call for “no leniency”

Yosemite Fire Levels Berkeley Summer Camp
Giant fire threatens San Francisco reservoir, three towns



POLITICS
Debt Ceiling Looms, Treasury Secretary Claims

SecTreas Jack Lew: “Oh no! Not buying the BS! Plan B!”

Implores Congress to act quickly

Zimmerman Lawyer Asks Florida To Cover Up To $300K In Legal Bills

Missouri Legislature Meets To Consider Overriding Gov. Nixon’s Veto Of Tax Cut Bill

Feds To Restore Cuts In Mineral Payments To States

New Mexico Judge OKs Gay Marriages

Conservative Group Pressures McConnell On Obamacare Funding

Boys To Be Tried As Adults In Beating Death Of WWII Veteran

Critics Pan Pork In Immigration Bill  – $1.5 Billion “Youth Jobs Fund” Cited

Chicago Loses Court Challenge To Vacant Building Registry

Veterans Administration Workers Reap Bonuses Despite Claims Backlog



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Strong Dollar Offsets Syrian Jitters As Oil Posts Slight Decline: NYMEX $106.19, Brent $111.09
Ackman’s Pershing Capital Sells Stake In J.C. Penney For $504 Million
Billabong Brand Declared Worthless After Company Posts Huge Loss
McDonald’s Menu Overhaul To Include Wings
Bankrupt American Airlines Posts Record Monthly Profit
Argentina Defies Court Ruling With New Debt Swap Plan
With Ballmer Retiring, Tech World Awaits White Smoke From Redmond
Apple, Google Remove Some Technology Restrictions On Iran
Facebook rolls Out Shared Photo Albums
Come And Get It: Feedly Pro Hits General Availability
Google Chromecast Update Blocks Local Media Streaming App
PRC Server Jammed In Largest Mainland Hacker Attack



SPORTS
Dickey Looks Forward To 2014 After Jays Beat Yankees

Knuckleballer notches 10th win of season

No joy for Yankees from Jeter’s return as Jays snap skid

Powered By Pierzynski: Rangers Blast Mariners 8-3

A’s Hold On For 8-6 Win Against Tigers


Mets’ Harvey Has Torn UCL, Done For Year

Twins’ Mauer To Remain On DL With Concussion

Royals Rout Rays 11-1 In Makeup of May Game

Dual Dingers In 9th Launch Astros Past Pale Hose 10-8

Craig’s Grand Slam Carries Card Past Reds And Into NL Central Lead



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Ciara: The Hip-Hop Star Gets Down And Girly

Cover girl Ciara

The Meryl Streep of hip-hop?

Miley Cyrus Team “Freaking Out”, Robin Thicke “Bummed” After VMAs

Brooke Shields: Cyrus’ VMA Act “A Bit Desperate”

Parents Television Council Blasts MTV’s VMAs For “Serving Sex To Teens”

Taylor Swift To One Direction: Shut The F- Up!


Justin Timberlake’s ‘N Sync Bandmates “Upset” He Scaled Back Songs For Reunion

Tina Fey, Amy Poehler Approached To Return As Golden Globe Hostesses

Vin Diesel Receives Star On Hollywood Walk Of Fame

Fat Joe Turns Himself In To Prison For Tax Evasion

“12 Monkeys” Drama Gets Pilot Order At Syfy

Rihanna To Play Josephine Baker In Upcoming Biopic



FOREIGNERS
UN Inspectors Renew Syrian Chemical Attack Probe
UN: NSA Hacked Internal Communications
Brazilian Foreign Minister Resigns Over Bolivian Politician’s Escape
Chicoms: PRC-Japan Summit Unlikely
Russian Lawmaker Proposes Ban On Gay Blood Donations



BLOGS & STUFF
The Right Scoop: Zombie Doctrine, Tactics, And The Liberty Amendments
Michelle Malkin: SSG Ty Carter Receives The Medal Of Honor
Twitchy: Iowahawk Offers Spot-On Takes On Miley Cyrus, Twerking, VMAs (Bonus Evolution Pic)
American Power: Rep. Raul Labrador Slams Left’s “Message Of Despair” On Race
American Thinker: MLK III Disgraces His Father
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – All About Navigators Part 2
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, August 26
Jammie Wearing Fools: Despite Death Threats, Famed Rodeo Clown To Perform Again In Missouri
JustOneMinute: Drifting Toward The Exits
Rush Limbaugh: Democrats Tell Me Privately That They Would Love To Oppose Obama But Are Afraid To Speak Out
Pat Dollard: Oprah’s “Butler” Ticket Sales Plummet
Protein Wisdom: Colorado Democrats Reject Recall Elections
Shot In The Dark: Line Of The Day
The Jawa Report: Snake Plissken’s Plan For Syria
Megan McArdle: Why Do Education And Health Care Cost So Much?


Category: Live at Five

‘And It Just Blew Up’

Posted on | August 26, 2013 | 196 Comments

Heteropatriarchal slut-shaming? Hell, I thought I was just making fun of a celebrity, until @Andria_XX enlightened me, and she had no idea what hit her when her Twitter timeline blew up with reactions to her Master’s degree in Gender Studies mini-lecture.

So now it’s “cyberbullying” and “rage tourism” of which I’m accused.

Let’s explain to @Andria_XX what happened: Sooper Mexican was searching Twitter for reactions to the Miley Cyrus VMA performance, and found that “heteropatriarchal” comment and Zilla Tweeted it to my attention. I had been working on something else, but once I saw that, I said, “This other thing can wait,” and did a Miley Cyrus post to highlight that ludicrous jargon: “heteropatriarchal.”

That’s not a word normal people use, which is why the question occurred to me, “Who is this person?” And . . . Gender Studies.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

OK, so @Andria_XX had fewer than 200 followers and had never in her life gotten as much Twitter attention as she got this morning.

It’s like when I got Tweeted by Alyssa Milano or William Shatner — except not in a good way — so she freaked out.

But she wasn’t being cyberbullied or stalked, she just happened to be the person who had the Stupidest Twitter Comment of the Day.

Did I mention that @Andria_XX is Canadian? No, but she did:

Actually in Canada, which again is where I live, you can be criminally charged for twitter harassment.

Very well, then. I do a blog post about you. You do a blog post about me. Who is harassing whom, @Andria_XX?

 

Category: Feminism, How This Here Internet Thingy Works

#FreeKate Mom Defining Deviancy Down

Posted on | August 26, 2013 | 107 Comments

A few weeks ago, I used “The New Abnormal” as the title of an American Spectator column about Sydney Leathers and the Anthony Weiner scandal, and it’s also fairly apt for this example:

“My issue is this. These people are making Kate look like some pervert, some deviant because this happens to be girl/girl. People can deny that all they want, but its the truth. A senior boy would get a pat on the back for dating a freshman girl, it happens ALL the time, its happening at Sebastian High school and every other high school TODAY! . . .”

(Maybe it’s happening to your kids, Kelley, or to the kids of the other scummy no-account trash you seem to associate with, but it’s not happening to my kids, and if I found out it was happening to my kids, somebody would be in big trouble. Excuse me for interrupting. Now I’ll let you keep digging that hole for yourself.)

“Freshman girls, date, go to the prom, have relations with senior boys all the time . . .”

(Now that you bring up this subject, what about the claim that you let Kate’s sister Emily date a 20-year-old when she was only 14? Do you consider that perfectly normal, too?)

“. . . no one calls the boys perverts or deviants. They are making it some sick twisted, and dirty because its a lesbian relationship. BUt its NOT. Its kids, being kids. . . . .”

(You really should proofread your Facebook messages, Kelley. Or were you writing this while drunk?)

“Its 2013, kids are sexting in middle school. . . .”

(And you know this . . . how?)

“Do i like it, or approve NO but it doesn’t make these kids deviants or sex offender come on!! . . .”

(Ungrammatical sentence full of errors come on!!)

“This is a HORRIBLE situation and parents better be praying and getting on board to change these laws because any of you, could be next!!”

Kelley Hunt Smith never mastered basic grammar, and we can’t expect her to employ logic in her arguments, but the combination of bad writing, bad logic and bad morals is frightening.

Even if she believes her own childish “everybody’s doing it” argument, does she expect responsible adults to be persuaded by it?

But does Kelley Hunt Smith actually know any responsible adults?

If her kids were arrested for robbing a liquor store, Kelley Hunt Smith would be arguing, “Well, everybody’s robbing stores nowadays.”

She’s right about one thing, though: Parents “better be praying” — that their kids never get mixed up with skanky trash like Kelley’s kids.

UPDATE: This summarizes my attitude pretty well:

 

Category: Kaitlyn Hunt

In Case You Missed It, @MileyCyrus Got Super-Skanky on the VMAs Last Night

Posted on | August 26, 2013 | 217 Comments

Of course, I didn’t watch MTV’s Video Music Awards, but the morning news shows were running . . . er, highlights of her performance, from which I gather that the name of her latest hit song is, “Do Me in the Butt, Total Stranger, Because I Need Money to Get Me Some Meth.”

OK, I’m hat-tipping Ace of Spades for that joke, because that’s what Ace would have said circa 2006, before he got all “respectable” and stuff. The inspiration lives on. Anyway . . .

How skanky was Miley Cyrus last night? Mika Brzezinksi felt the need to condemn it as “disturbing,” because Mika would never let a total stranger do her in the butt, not even if she needed some meth.

Mika’s not working on a Masters degree in Gender Studies, however, and doesn’t understand how 21st-century pro-sex feminism regards this whole “do me in the butt” thing as empowerment.

Da Tech Guy has some relevant thoughts, none of which involve the phrase “do me in the butt,” for which I’m sure you’re grateful.

UPDATE: Can I pick ’em, or what?

Apparently, linking to the “about” page on @Andria_XX‘s blog constitutes harassment. The real problem, however, is that when you’re living inside an intellectual cocoon — and if a graduate program in Gender Studies doesn’t fit that description, what does? — you’re not accustomed to being directly criticized, let alone ridiculed as a nincompoop, and you may actually forget that the secondhand radical ideology you’re being spoon-fed is controversial out in the real world.

UPDATE II: Aannnnddd she just switched her account to protected status, an experience which I’m sure she’ll blame on the patriarchy.

UPDATE III: Blame where blame is due:

Hats off to SooperMexican, who spotted Andria’s Tweet, and to Zilla Stevenson who realized I needed to see it, and I think there was An Army of Heteropatriarchal Davids who spontaneously decided that Andria deserved Dumbest Person on Twitter recognition.

 

Category: Celebrities, Feminism

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.26.13

Posted on | August 26, 2013 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Karzai Arrives In Pakistan For Talks On Taliban

Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrives in Islamabad

Karzai, US seeking Pakistani help in getting Taliban to negotiating table

Guilty Verdict Still Expected As Bo Xilai Trial Ends
Former Party boss’ refusal to admit guilt nixes chances for leniency

Russia Warns Against US Intervention In Syria
FM Lavrov tells Kerry statements expressing readiness to intervene “extremely alarming”



POLITICS
GOP Shapes Its Strategy For Fall Budget Fights

House Speaker John Boehner

Leadership pushing for continued resolutions, wants to avoid government shutdown

Justice Department Sues Louisiana Over School Vouchers


Thompson Within Striking Distance For NYC Mayor

March On Washington’s 50th Anniversary Draws Tens Of Thousands

Sentencing Phase Of Fort Hood Shooter’s Trial Begins Today

NY Attorney General Sues Trump University

Powell Finds Zimmerman Verdict “Questionable”, Wants Obama To Talk More About Race

Oberlin Student Claims Anti-Islamic Fliers, Racist Cards ” A Joke”



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Jumps As US Housing Data Disappoint: NYMEX $106.78, Brent $111.13
Asia Stocks Rise As Fed Jitters Diminish
Muriel Siebert, First Woman Member Of NYSE, Dies At 80
Amgen Buying Drugmaker Onyx for $10.4 Billion
PRC Claims Economy Stabilizing After Long Slowdown
Signs Of “A Slow Recovery” In The Eurozone
Amazon’s Web Service Problems Wobble Airbnb, Vine
DOJ Wiggles On Apple E-Book Remedies But Not Oversight
Microsoft Releases Windows 8.1 To Manufacturers
The Pavlov Poke Shocks You When You Use Facebook Too Much
Tom Clancy’s “Splinter Cell:Blacklist”…Spy Harder



SPORTS
ESPN Analyst John Kruk Falls Ill At Dodgers Stadium

For once, not drinking enough

Former Phillie taken out on stretcher after becoming dehydrated

Peavy Goes The Distance As BoSox Blow Out Dodgers 8-1

O’s Rout A’s 10-3, Draw Within Two Of Wild Card Lead


Jays Rally Late, Edge Astros 2-1, Snap 7-Game Skid

Halladay Holds Off Snakes In Return As Phillies Win 9-5

Giants Blank Pirates 4-0

Yankees Top Rays 3-2 In 11, Avoid Sweep

Shaky Nats Defense Hands Win To Slumping Royals



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Katy Perry “Roar”s Under Brooklyn Bridge

Taking it to the river

Does first live performance of new hit to close MTV VMAs

 Music Producer Dr. Luke Joins “American Idol” As Third Judge

Taylor Armstrong Engaged To John Bluher

Duke Of York Finds Love Again…With His Ex, The Duchess Of York

Linda Ronstadt Has Parkinson’s Disease, Can’t Sing Any More

Lindsay Lohan: Danny McBride Wants You!

Chris Brown – Repping The Bloods In Hawaii

Unspeakable Armenian’s Sis Kicks Hubby Lamar Odom Out For Being Hardcore Druggie

Apollo Benefit Rocks & Rolls

Al Pacino Helped By Therapy, Dad

HBO Exec Turns Ambassador

Dr. Oz, Meet Dr. Ruth

Paula Deen Dropped From Cooking Expo Ads Even Though She’s Headlining

White Castle Offers Liam Hemsworth  $20K For Charity After Burger Puke Story



FOREIGNERS
Britain, Turkey Say Syria Action Possible Even Without UN
As Violence Worsens, Iraq Turns Again To Sunni Tribes
China’s Billionaire Blogger Detained On Sex Charges
Palestinians Killed In Israeli Raid On Refugee Camp
At Least Five Dead, 18 Injured In Mexican Train Crash
Mugabe Rants Against West, Gays At Inauguration
Zurich Begins Experiment With Drive-In “Sex Boxes”
Thousands Turn Out To Protest Philippines Corruption
Mandela Still Not Dead



BLOGS & STUFF
American Power: Leftists Looking To Galvanize New Generation Of Cultists
American Thinker: Is There Anything About Race We Can Agree On?
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Nice Deal – Jesse jackson Jr. Gets Disability Payments, Congressional Pension In Prison
Don Surber: Weekend Scoreboard, August 23-25
Jammie Wearing Fools: Shocker – Delbert Belton’s Teenage Killers Have History of Violent Crime
JustOneMinute: Fifty Shades Of Red
Pat Dollard: Egyptians Reject MuBros’ Scapegoating Of Christians, Support Military
Protein Wisdom: Establishment Repubs Promise To Fight Next Battle If Only The Visigothic Hobbits Back Off This One
Shot In The Dark: We Keep Warning You
The jawa Report: Wait, An Imam Aided The Taliban? That’s Unpossible!
Chicks On The Right: Doesn’t This Make You Feel So Safe?
Megan McArdle: Return Of The Nazi Hunters


Category: Live at Five

Hunt Family Values: #FreeKate’s Underage Sister ‘Went Out and Drank’?

Posted on | August 25, 2013 | 80 Comments

This March 17 Twitter message sent by Kaitlyn Hunt’s little sister is something that was called to my attention nearly three months ago. At the same time I received a copy of the message in which the sister, 16, boasted about her mother, Kelley Hunt Smith, being a “f–king badass.” As I wrote on May 30:

 I had to think whether it was fair to post this. After all, Emily is a minor and not really competent to . . . Oh, wait.

At the heart of the “Free Kate” argument is the claim that Kaitlyn’s 14-year-old victim was competent to consent to sex with an adult, and if one buys that argument — in effect invalidating the legal age of consent — then who is to say that Kaitlyn’s sister’s public boasts about her going out to drink are off-limits? In fact, one Hunt family acquaintance claims that nothing has been off limits for these girls:

[Kelley Hunt Smith] has always allowed her daughters to do as they please. I know for a fact that the 2nd oldest dated a 20 year old when she was only 14! The mother would allow these things. The girls [were allowed] to have boys over for parties, that would turn into a sleepover, where there would be drug and alcohol use. This was a few years ago, but the kids at that time ranged from 13-15.

Hmmm. Permitting her minor daughters to have sleepovers with boys “where there would be drug and alcohol use“?

And then, in March 2013 — a month after Kaitlyn was arrested on felony charges of having sex with a 14-year-old — the younger sister is bragging on social media that she’s about to go out drinking?

Do you see where this might be relevant to the case, especially when the mother who allegedly permitted this behavior, Kelley Hunt Smith, was the original character witness for Kaitlyn Hunt, writing a 1,500-word Facebook post to praise Kaitlyn as “exemplary . . . wonderful . . . she truly is the model student and child”?

Considering the description of Kaitlyn’s behavior, and considering what has been said about Kelley Hunt Smith’s parenting, don’t these dots form a pattern? Also, remember that two-on-one beatdown?

“Beat her f**king ass, Emily! Beat her ass! Get that bitch!”

Twin terrors of the Treasure Coast, the Hunt sisters beat up a girl at the beach — an assault on a juvenile captured on video by a Sebastian River High School classmate who said of Kaitlyn:

“She is known as a whore throughout the school . . .
my whole school knows she’s not a good person.”

Kaitlyn Hunt’s character as “the model student and child” was central to Kelley Hunt Smith’s May 17 Facebook post that began the “Free Kate” movement. But who is Kelley Hunt Smith to judge anyone’s character, considering what hooligans she has raised? And remember what prosecutors said in their petition to revoke Kaitlyn’s bond?

In addition to the contact by the defendant, the state is in possession of text messages from the defendant’s mother, Kelley Hunt Smith, sent to the child victim on March 26, 2013. These messages were sent after the court issued the “no contact” order. . . . In the messages, the defendant’s mother tampered with the child victim. She solicited the child victim to obstruct the judicial process, instructing her to destroy the evidence of unlawful contact. Specifically, Kelly Hunt Smith texted the child victim, “Destroy EVERYTHING . . . My # is 512-924-4145 my email is [email protected] PLEASE destroy everything and make sure NO ONE finds out you’ve spoken to Kate at all.”

Oops. When this was presented to the court last week, Judge Robert Pegg declared that the “evidence is overwhelming” Kaitlyn violated the no-contact order and sent her to jail, with a new felony charge against her for her own communications with the minor victim:

Hunt sent more than 20,000 text messages to the younger girl after the no-contact order was issued, and also sent the victim “lewd” photos and an explicit video of herself “masturbating by rubbing her vagina with her fingers while moaning.”

Yeah, that’s a felony in Florida, and her mother allegedly also “tampered with the child victim . . . to obstruct the judicial process,” so that Kelley Hunt Smith is now also in jeopardy of felony charges.

No more plea bargain for Kaitlyn, and her mother’s whining that Kaitlyn’s in real jail with real criminals. Kaitlyn’s father Steven Hunt is a disgraced ex-cop who once “pressured a victim not to file a battery charge,” and now it seems the Hunt gang wants to shut down this blog.

Maybe this makes the behavior of @MLE_Bitchess kind of relevant.

You stay classy, Hunt family . . .




 

Category: Kaitlyn Hunt

Potius Mori Quam Foedari

Posted on | August 25, 2013 | 50 Comments

Loosely translated, “Death before dishonor.”

Brand-new blogger Brad the Bastard paid me this high compliment:

When Stacy dies his wife should save herself some money and put just one word on his tombstone — RELENTLESS.

Did anyone think that when I caught the whiff of bovine excrement around the “Free Kate” narrative, and realized those trashy grifters were trying to use gay rights to undermine age-of-consent laws, that I was going to stop fighting before the foe was vanquished?

Hell to the no.

A principle was at stake. Liars should never triumph over the honest, nor should the virtuous fear the evildoer, and whatever you think about lesbianism or teen sex, a respect for the rule of law is all that stands between us and the utmost savagery.

Having chosen this fight, it would have been dishonorable for me to have given up the fight, knowing how the Hunt family had lied and demonized those who stood on the side of law and decency.

“To live for the moment is the prevailing passion — to live for yourself, not for your predecessors or posterity. We are fast losing the sense of historical continuity, the sense of belonging to a succession of generations originating in the past and stretching into the future.”
— Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism

Too often nowadays, we lose sight of our heritage and forget how our ancestors prevailed under circumstances far more daunting than anything we are likely to face today. The descendants of patriots and pioneers ought never forget how God preserved their ancestors in the struggle. We should strive to emulate that antique courage, to deserve the good name they have bequeathed us, and to pass along this invaluable patrimony that is ours by inheritance.

Each of us, as Americans, are heirs to this tradition, of the men who crossed the Delaware and marched in the snow that bitter December night to surprise the Hessian troops at Trenton. Likewise every patriot gets choked up with pride to think how, in another bitter December, the commander of those G.I.s surrounded at Bastogne received the German demand for surrender and replied with one word: “Nuts.”

Knowing what miracles were wrought in our history to deliver to us this republic, are we to be cheated of our rightful inheritance by thugs and liars and their dishonest enablers in the intellectual elite?

Hell to the no.

Courage is contagious. Stand up and fight, and if you can withstand the enemy’s ferocious attacks, other good and decent people will be inspired by your example and rally to your standard.

Most of all, make up your mind at the outset of the fight:

Success in any endeavor starts with the resolute determination to succeed. No matter how formidable the competition, hold your head up high. They’re no better than you, and victory begins with the decision to rule out the possibility of defeat. “Can’t never could.”

Hit ’em as hard as you can, and keep hitting until you win.

Death before dishonor!

 

Category: Culture, History, Kaitlyn Hunt
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