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Is Obstruction of Justice, Like Dildo Sex With 14-Year-Olds, ‘Healthy and Normal’?

Posted on | August 19, 2013 | 50 Comments

Kaitlyn Hunt’s family says she’s a victim of homophobia.

“They are teenagers in high school experimenting with their sexuality, all teens do it in one form or another. They are teens, it’s healthy and normal.”
— Kelley Hunt Smith (Kaitlyn Hunt’s mother), May 17

“The facts as we understand them suggest that the state is prosecuting Kaitlyn for engaging in behavior that is both fairly innocuous and extremely common.”
— American Civil Liberties Union, May 21

“F–k you. . . . You’re stupid. . . . You snitched on me. God only knows what you’ll do when pressured in court.”
— Kaitlyn Hunt, May 21

“The state is further in possession of lewd and lascivious videos the defendant sent the child victim. At least one video explicitly depicts the defendant masturbating by rubbing her vagina with her fingers while moaning.”
— Christopher Taylor, Assistant State Attorney, Aug. 15

If it’s so “healthy and normal” to have sex with a 14-year-old, if this is “fairly innocuous and extremely common,” you might think everybody would support Kaitlyn Hunt. But back when this case first made headlines, when the Hunt family had convinced people that Kaitlyn was a victim of “hate and bigotry,” there was a deliberate effort to avoid the actual facts in the case. There were aggravating circumstances involved, and once people became aware of these facts, no sane person could embrace the “gay victimhood” narrative that had originally made the “Free Kate” movement such a popular cause. Does anyone else remember how her supporters hated the facts?

Once you knew the facts, you recognized that the “Free Kate” argument was constructed entirely of rationalizations and evasions — minimizing, justifying, blame-shifting — and, if all those evasions failed, claiming that it is OK, because everybody does it:

Hunt’s parents believe their daughter is being singled out because she’s in a lesbian relationship.
“I could ramble off 10, 20 other relationship(s) right now at the same high school that are freshman and senior; 14 and 18; and they’re not being prosecuted,” Hunt-Smith said.

This is just dishonest. She claims to know about “relationships” that aren’t being prosecuted, but are 14-year-olds in Indian River County routinely screwing around with adults? Is this community such a pit of moral depravity that parents of high-school freshmen do not object to their 14-year-olds doing this? Give me a break.

These aren’t arguments. These are excuses.

And so now the scofflaw hoodlums are cornered like rats:

A plea bargain offered to accused sex offender Kaitlyn Hunt has been withdrawn after Florida prosecutors say the 19-year-old lesbian violated a judge’s order not to have contact with her underage victim. WPEC-TV reported that Hunt could be arrested today, and that the 19-year-old former cheerleader’s mother Kelley Hunt Smith may also face charges in connection with the case.
Hunt was a senior at Sebastian River High School when she was arrested in February on charges that she had sex with a 14-year-old freshman girl who was a basketball teammate. Hunt was charged with two felonies; the age of consent in Florida is 16. Last week, state attorney Bruce Colton’s office filed a complaint that Hunt, who has been free on $5,000 bond awaiting trial, violated the no-contact order that was a condition of her pretrial release. . . .
A hearing on the prosecutor’s complaint has been scheduled for Tuesday, but Scott T. Smith of Palm Beach CBS affiliate WPEC-TV reported Monday “Hunt faces being returned to jail as soon as today, and her mom may also face charges.” . . .
Violating the no-contact order could mean that not only will Hunt have to wait in jail until her case goes to trial, but she and her mother could also face charges of contempt of court and obstruction of justice. . . .

Read the whole thing at ViralRead, because they still hate the facts.

 

Category: Crime, Florida, Kaitlyn Hunt, Sex

Rule 5 Monday

Posted on | August 19, 2013 | 25 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

So sick over the weekend, I still can’t believe I got the FMJRA done on time. Anyway, insert the standard disclaimer here, and we’re off…

Randy’s Roundtable leads off this week with Amanda Barten, Blackmailers Don’t Shoot’s Pretty Girls On A Thursday is all about the Girls of Summer, and Laughing conservative submits the statuesque Ivana Milicevic. Animal Magnetism contributes Rule Five Friday and Country Girl Saturday, and Fishersville Mike has some Fox Sports Rule 5. Goodstuff makes his Rule 5 debut with some Sea Stories, lavishly illustrated. Reaganite Republican offers Adriana Lima, and 90 Miles from Tyranny brings Hot Pick of the Late Night, Girls With Guns, and Late Night Ladies. Hoverbored also debuts this week with the Instagram stylings of Jeanette McCurdy, and First Street Journal has female soldiers Working On Saturday (Again).

EBL’s herd of heifers this week includes the late Eydie Gorme and Paulina Gretzky; as for A View From The Beach, he’s on the road, but submitted Daniela Pestova and assorted beach babes. Also, Kate Upton!

Wine Women And Politics this week wishes us a good weekend; also, former Miss World Rosanna Dawson, TGIF Babes, and Chantel Hanse.

Postaldog goes Page Six this week with Stacey Dash, Lucy Collett, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, and Lake Bell.

Soylent Green commands: set the Snoochinator to 1981! The Monday Motivationer has been preempted by Ukraine Girls, followed by Overnighty Misa, Tuesday Titillation with Global Warming, An Evening Dip, Vintage Humpday Hawtness Cassandra, Cindi Wood, Falconsword Fursday Linky Love, Evening Awesome Malena, Corsetation Vibration, Ecuador’s Eco-Extortion Fails, T-GIF Friday Edelweiss, Overnighty Lacy Spice, AM Awesome Amanda, Complimentary Cameltoe, Bath Night With Mya, and Overnighty Ashley.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Archie Panjabi, his Vintage Babe is Fanne Foxe, and Sex In Advertising this week features Jenny McCarthy. Dustbury contributes Karen Black and Rachel Hurd-Wood, while at The Camp of the Saints it’s Jelena Jensen.

The DaleyGator has embarked on a project to list the 100 Hottest Women in his lifetime, and the first four are Bonnie McKee, Carmen Electra, Barbara Eden, and Stacey Dash.  Other Daleybabes this week included Nikita Esco, Sakura Sato, Britton Hart, Rachel McDonald, Becky Lamb, Sandra Dubnickova, Nerissa Irving, Karissa Lee Staples, Chantel Janzen, Chantel Hanse, Taraji P. Henson, Alexis Ren, Evelyn Sharma, and Rina Nagai with some Rule 5 linkagery.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s rule 5 roundup is Saturday, August 24.


 

Category: Rule 5

But Their Football Team Still Sucks

Posted on | August 19, 2013 | 41 Comments

And their women are still ugly:

Auburn University has the most conservative student body of any college in the nation, according to the Princeton Review’s annual rankings, released [Aug. 5].
In contrast, Bennington College in Vermont, is the nation’s most liberal school, according to the study.
Rounding out the top ten most conservative schools for 2013 is Texas A&M, Grove City College, Hillsdale College, College of the Ozarks, University of Dallas, Thomas Aquinas College, The United States Military Academy (West Point), Hampden-Sydney College, and the United States Naval Academy (Annapolis).
The most liberal student bodies, according to Princeton Review, are Sarah Lawrence College (NY), Warren Wilson College, Bard College, Marlboro College, New College of Florida, Macaelester College, College of the Atlantic, Vassar College, and Skidmore College.

The most important thing — Princeton Review probably didn’t mention this — is that ‘Bama could easily beat any of them. Maybe Texas A&M could give us a good game, but that’s about it. ROLL TIDE!

 

 

Category: Education, Football

Conrad Black’s FDR Idolatry

Posted on | August 19, 2013 | 58 Comments

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins

My parents were New Deal Democrats, but I grew up at a time and in a place when Republicans were extraordinarily rare. I’ve often said I never actually met a Republican until I went to college and, now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t until my junior year. It wasn’t until I was in my mid-30s that I became an ex-Democrat, and so I completely understand the quasi-religious reverence that Democrats have for FDR, Harry Truman and JFK. What puzzles me nowadays is that some conservatives seem to share that attitude.

National Review has published a column by Conrad Black which calls Diana West’s new book American Betrayal a “farrago of lies,” and I just don’t know what to say, except that (a) Black doesn’t seem to have read West’s book, and (b) is therefore attacking the straw man version of West’s argument, as presented by Ron Radosh.

As I said last week, the attacks by Radosh and David Horowitz have made it impossible “to view [American Betrayal] in an unprejudiced light,” and I fear that the resulting controversy will turn into one of those festering wounds akin to the attacks on Mel Bradford that prevented Bradford, a brilliant scholar, from becoming head of the National Endowment for the Humanities under Reagan. The whole neocon/paleocon feud can be traced to that episode and, however real the substance of the ideological dispute, it’s the vicious tactics I lament.

What you find, if you examine the history of that quarrel, is that the neocons (and by this term, I especially mean those associated with the Claremont Institute) seem to crave the authority of Platonic archons, to promulgate and defend “noble lies” about American history, to decide who are the heroes and who are the villains, so that in the place of actual history, we have instead a political myth.

Feuds over 19th-century history that attached the stigma of “controversial” to Bradford’s name are, it seems, now being replicated in regard to 20th-century history, with Roosevelt replacing Lincoln as the sanctified figure who cannot be examined critically. And just as criticizing Lincoln resulted in Bradford being stigmatized as “pro-slavery” (a ridiculous accusation to make in 1981), so now FDR’s critics are faced with the not-too-subtle insinuation that they are pro-Nazi.

Are the choices really so stark? Must we only praise FDR, or else be suspected of being Hitler sympathizers? Or was Lincoln’s statesmanship so unquestionably wise that no one may criticize “Honest Abe” without being accused of “white supremacy”?

Is it any accident, really, that both of these myths involve wartime leaders whose influence tended toward the centralization of power in Washington and development of the “Imperial Presidency”?

Yet both FDR and Lincoln were, in their own time, extraordinarily controversial figures. Once you clear away the gauzy myths that hagiographers have erected around them and examine the contemporary record — especially including the criticisms made by their political opponents — the men are perhaps not really less admirable, but their actions are seen as choices subject to second-guessing, and their philosophies of government lose much of their glow.

A preference for beautiful myth over ugly fact is a dangerous thing, and I wish people would stop to think that someday in the future, these mythmakers will be worshiping at the altar of Obama.

The controversies of our own era will eventually be reduced to a couple of pages in the high-school history textbook and, having lived through a half-century of history myself, I shudder at the thought. Already, one sees liberals trying to portray the shift of the Democrat “Solid South” toward the GOP as motivated entirely by racism when, in fact, it was controversies over Cold War foreign policy that did the most to undermine Democratic hegemony in the South, which has always been the most warlike region of America (and which was always the most fiercely anti-Communist).

The Radosh/Horowitz assault on Diana West’s American Betrayal took me by surprise because I’ve known Diana West for many years, and know she is no Buchananite paleoconservative. She is a regular Reaganite Republican, and certainly cannot be tarred with the brush of anti-Semitism that has been applied to Pat Buchanan.

It strikes me, however, that West’s critique of FDR’s foreign policy as too pro-Soviet, which would require conservatives to re-examine the standard history of World War II, might be viewed as “lending aid and comfort” to the paleoconservative enemy. That is to say, while West herself is a mainstream “movement conservative,” her undermining of the Rooseveltian mythos may pose the threat of redeeming the Robert Taft-style Old Right isolationism. So if you question FDR’s fundamental righteousness, you are a conspiracy theorist, and quite possibly (by implication) pro-Nazi.

Baron Bodissey at Gates of Vienna offered a lengthy examination of the controversy Sunday, linking Dr. Andrew Bostom’s rebuttal to Conrad Black’s National Review article. I remain Diana West’s ally in this fight because whatever errors she may have made, from the standpoint of professional historians, she is asking important questions and calling attention to facts that have been too long ignored by those who prefer convenient myth to historical truth.

 

 

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Category: Books, History

Dog and Man at Yale: Hugo Schwyzer Is Merely a Symptom, Not the Disease

Posted on | August 19, 2013 | 33 Comments

Did you know some Yale University students have had sex with animals? Three percent of Yale students in a “sensitivity training” workshop reported they had engaged in bestiality, so it’s taken us about 60 years to go from God and Man at Yale to Dog and Man at Yale.

This was one of the weird little facts I uncovered while trying to answer the question: How did Hugo Schwyzer get away with it so long?

Hugo Schwyzer is insane and is also a college professor, and one imagines his employer using this in a promotional campaign: “Pasadena City College: You Don’t Have to Be Crazy to Teach Here, But It Helps!”
Professor Schwyzer’s madness suddenly burst forth as headline news this month after he first announced that he was quitting the Internet and told L.A. Weekly he had suffered a “mental breakdown.” But then the professor went on Twitter and began spewing out a series of bizarre confessions, admitting that he was off his medication. His weird online meltdown inspired concerns for Professor Schwyzer’s safety and he was hospitalized again. He told the Daily Beast that he had been to the psychiatric ward three times in the past month and had suicidal thoughts. He told a Daily Caller reporter that he had made a “serious” suicide attempt.
As spectacular as his manic disintegration was, there had been clear warning signs for years that Professor Schwyzer was a sex-crazed lunatic. However, the red flags of mental illness were evidently ignored by the administration of Pasadena City College (PCC) and Professor Schwyzer’s peers, perhaps because sex-crazed lunatics have become so commonplace in 21st-century academia. . . .

Read the whole thing at The American Spectator.

UPDATE: Did you hear about the University of Georgia professor who had sex with a student during a trip to Costa Rica?

The sex was consensual, the committee concluded, though both parties “were under the influence of alcohol and/or potentially behavior-altering medication,” according to their May 2 report to Adams.

What’s amazing about this story is not that Georgia taxpayers spent money to send a professor to the tropics for a drunken sex romp with a coed. No, what’s amazing is that the professor lost his tenure over this incident. “Academic freedom” is under siege!

 

Category: American Spectator, Education, Sex

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.19.13

Posted on | August 19, 2013 | 10 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Congress Split On Cutting Aid To Egypt

Rep. Keith Ellison, D-MN; wants aid cut off to Egyptian junta

Democrats, GOP split on whether to continue military, other aid


“Freedom From Filner” Rally, Petitions Signal Recall Kickoff
Several events in city kick off drive to oust accused San Diego mayor


Death Toll Hits 52 In Philippines Ferry Disaster
Passenger ferry struck by cargo ship sinks off Cebu City



POLITICS
NYPD Facing Two New Watchdogs

NYPD Commish Ray Kelly

City plans to appeal judge’s order for body cameras; council to vote on inspector general

Trail Of Stuxnet Leak Leads To White House

Boston Gathering Exposes Rifts In GOP Despite Priebus’ Best Efforts

Hundreds Of Illegals Busted In Phoenix As Immigration Debate Continues

Feds: More Americans Selling Food Stamps For Cash

Illinois Governor Signs Law Expanding Background Checks

California Lawmaker Pulls Son From Class Over Transgender Law

House Committee Accuses Treasury Of Withholding ObamaCare Documents

Christie Eases Access To Medical Marijuana For Sick Kids

Lawsuit Challenging ObamaCare Subsidies Allowed To Proceed

Former NH Senator Bob Smith Considering 2014 Run

Obama To Meet With Regulators On Wall Street Reform Law



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Trades Slightly Lower In Subdued Trading: NYMEX $107.28, Brent $110.25
Dollar Struggles To Regain Traction, Fed Minutes In Focus
Japan Trade Deficit Worsens On Back Of Weak Yen
Thailand Cuts Growth Outlook As Economy Enters Recession
Trader Joe’s Sues Canadian Reseller
Austrian OMV Buys Key Norwegian Oil Fields For Reported $2.65 Billion
Hacker Posts Facebook Bug Report on Zuckerberg’s Wall
Microsoft Loses $900 Million On Surface Tablets, Doubles Down
Can NextGen Phones Deliver NextGen Security?
Samsung Preps Galaxy Smartwatch
B&N Cuts Price Of Nook SimpleTouch GlowLight To $99



SPORTS
Joey Logano Wins Pure Michigan 400, Makes Run At Chase

Joey Logano celebrates his win

First win of the season for Logano

A-Rod Welcomed To Boston With HBP, Yanks Rally To Win 9-6

NCAA Rules Former Marine Marine Ineligible For Playing Rec League Football

Cabrera’s 40th Dinger Leads Scherzer, Tigers Past Royals, 6-3

Kirk Gibson Has Words For “Cheater” Braun

Celebratory Kiss Or Political Statement?

Fish Edge Giants 6-5

Davis Slams #45, O’s Rout Rockies 7-2

Snakes Take Bucs In 16, 4-2

White Sox Top Twins 5-2

M’s Edge Rangers 4-3

Astros Rally Past Angels On Dominguez Dinger, Win 7-5

Mientkiewicz Sparks “Body-Slamming” Brawl As Minor League Manager

Mitch Williams Rips Phillies Front Office For Firing Charlie Manuel

With Luck, Colts WR Feels “We Can’t Be Stopped”

Doc Says Barkevious Mingo’s Injury Could Have Been Fatal

Lack Of Offense Dooms Nats Again In 2-1 Loss To Braves



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Jennifer Lopez Returning To “American Idol” For Season 13

J-Lo

Previously judge in 2011, 2012

Lady Gaga Slams “Stalker” Perez Hilton In Twitter Row: “You Are Sick”

Justin Bieber’s Mom: “It Is Hard Letting Go”

Lisa Robin Kelly’s Death Still A Mystery

Toni Braxton Wardrobe Malfunction At Concert (Video)

Katie Couric Responds To Unspeakable Armenian: “I Didn’t Mean To Hurt Her Feelings”

Shailene Woodley Cuts Off Hair, Goes Blonde

Tina Fey-Matt Hubbard Comedy Lands At Fox With Series Commitment

Chris Brown Sentenced To 1000 More Hours of Community Service

“Criminal Minds” Star Thomas Gibson Catfished

“Duck Dynasty” Star Jase Thompson Kicked Out Of NYC Hotel After Being Mistaken For Homeless Man

Studio 54’s Back

Porn Star Does PR



FOREIGNERS
Jihadis Kill 24 Egyptian Police In Sinai
Pistorius Back In Court To Be Charged With Murder
Mexico Gulf Cartel Leader Captured
35 Killed In Bihar Express Accident; Locals Riot, Burn Trains
Chicom Forensic Scientist Quits As Bo Xilai Trial Announced
Greenwald’s Boyfriend Detained At Heathrow For Nine Hours
Israel Urges West To Back Egyptian Junta
Norks Agree To Family Reunions With ROK
Abe Plans To Craft National Security Plan By Year’s End
Floods Shut Down Manila
Floods In Northeast PRC Kill 25
Merkel Open To Second Grand Coalition With SPD



BLOGS & STUFF
Leather Penguin: The Bell Tolls For WABC
Pat Dollard: EU To “Urgently Review” Egypt Ties Unless MuBros Allowed To Run Buckwild
American Thinker: No Country For Fat Men
American Power: K-Mart Back To School Ad Attacked As Racist
Jammie Wearing Fools: “Literally all hell seems to be breaking loose and President Obama is in Martha’s Vineyard having a gay old time, riding his bike, partying it up”
JustOneMinute: Back In Cairo
The Necropolitan Sentinel: A Message For Bob Beckel
Don Surber: Thank You, Professor Jacobson
Jawa Report: Oh Snap – Zawahiri’s brother Arrested In Egypt
Weasel Zippers: For Some Reason, Scott Brown Considering A Run For President
NRO Corner: Rand Paul – ‘I Don’t Think Shutting Down the Government Is a Good Idea’
Washington Free Beacon: Rep. Peter King Rips Rand Paul’s NSA Criticism
Jihad Watch: Attorney For Ft. Hood Shooter’s Victims Accuses Army, Administration Of Twisting Rules To Avoid Admitting Hasan is A Jihadist
Ed Driscoll: Two TIME Magazines In One!
Israel Matzav: Massive Exodus Of Syrians Fleeing into Kurdistan To Escape Al Qaeda
Protein Wisdom: WaPo Quest Columnist Brenda Howard On How Tough It Is To Be A Trayvon Martin Supporter Among Moral Inferiors
Power Line: Dowd’s Stopped Clock Gets It Right


Category: Live at Five

Twitter: Foreign Policy Clarity

Posted on | August 18, 2013 | 18 Comments

by Smitty

 

The argument in favor of U.S. hegemony since WWII has been “Well, who else do you trust?”

60 years on, well into the Information Age, it’s no longer clear we trust ourselves: to manage information; to budget; to tell the difference between the Good Guys and the Bad Guys.

While I’m on Chapter Four of the new Mark Levin book (which read), part of the come-to-Beevis moment our country needs is a foreign policy review. It’s hard to be the land of individual liberty AND the land of “form up and march”.

As a veteran, I’m perfectly comfortable with the notion that the best defense is a good offense. Also, post-Bretton Woods and the National Security Act of 1947, the U.S. had the ball for protecting the West against the Soviets, in exchange for the privilege of being the world reserve currency.

So, what? The Soviets are gone, the Godless Commies having seeded our rodeos and oval office with clowns, and our military is moving in the direction of incoherence.

Irrespective of consequences, I’d take the position that, if we can’t pull our own heads out of that sunless location, we can’t be much use to anyone else. Keep the Navy/Marine Corps team for traditional sea control, disaster relief, and “gentle reminders”. However, let’s just consider that, 20 years after the U.S.S.R. wheezed its last, the Iraq/Afghanistan-style power projection thing is substantially done.

Hegemony was a powerful drug. And we can support groups of allies standing up against, say, China. Fight their wars, though? Not without the thought given a proper Declaration of War, the last of which was in WWII.

Category: Foreigners

Florida: The Rape State

Posted on | August 18, 2013 | 61 Comments

Why does accused sex offender Kaitlyn Hunt think she has a “right” to have sex with 14-year-olds? Perhaps because she lives in Florida, where some officials seem to think enforcing the law is optional, and dangerous sex offenders are released to rape again:

594 sex offenders were convicted of new sex crimes after being reviewed under the Jimmy Ryce law since it took effect in 1999. . . .
For every sex offender the state has committed under the 14-year-old Ryce law, two others have been released — only to be arrested again for a sex crime.
From South Florida to the Panhandle, these men have cut a fresh trail of pain, molesting more than 460 children, raping 121 women, and killing 14.
Many offenders attacked again only days after Florida let them go. Six found new victims the same day they walked out the prison gates. . . .
[T]he head of the agency that screens sex offenders said she would investigate what changes should be made.
Esther Jacobo said the Department of Children & Families would analyze a sample of reoffenders the newspaper identified to determine what went wrong as it reviews the program from top to bottom.
“The only thing I can hope is that we come up with something better so that we get a larger percentage of these guys not to hurt people anymore,” said Jacobo, the agency’s interim secretary. “The biggest wish would be that we could stop it all. I’m not naive enough to think that that’s going to happen, but I think we can do better.”
Some changes already are under way. The department has convened a team of mental health experts to review how Florida identifies sex predators. And, on a single day in June, the agency suddenly recommended continued confinement for 19 sex offenders — as many as it had in all of 2012.
Those actions came too late to protect 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle.
This summer, Jacksonville mourned the little girl who was abducted from a Walmart, raped and strangled, her 60-pound body dumped behind a church.
Her accused killer: A registered sex offender freed three weeks earlier.

You can read the whole thing. On average, once every nine days — 42 times a year, for the past 14 years — Florida has released a convicted sex offender who will commit another sex crime.

 

Category: Crime, Florida, Sex
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