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Classic: Anti-Gun Pennsylvania Mayor Drunkenly Seeks Oral Sex — at Gunpoint

Posted on | April 5, 2013 | 34 Comments

James Schiliro, mayor of Marcus Hook, Pa., was one of the few Republican members of Michael Bloomberg’s “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” group. Now, however, Schiliro has been scrubbed from the group’s Web site. Gee, I wonder why?

The mayor of Marcus Hook was charged [March 21] with holding an acquaintance hostage during a drunken encounter at his home last month that allegedly ended with the mayor’s firing a gun into the floor.
During the encounter, Mayor James D. Schiliro repeatedly offered to perform a sex act with the 20-year-old male, according to police. . . .
Schiliro, 38, was arraigned Thursday before District Judge David R. Griffin, who set unsecured bail at $50,000. Schiliro was charged with recklessly endangering another person, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, furnishing alcohol to a minor, and official oppression. . . .
According to court records, on the night of Feb. 21 Schiliro sent a text message to the man, whom he had known for several years.
He later ordered a borough police officer to pick the man up in Trainer and take him to Schiliro’s home in a police vehicle. While there, the man said, he was given what he believed were three glasses of wine.
According to the man, Schiliro, who was intoxicated, asked repeatedly whether he could perform oral sex on him. . . .
According to court records, Schiliro waved three handguns during the encounter. At one point, he put a gun to his head and said “he didn’t want to live anymore,” according to court documents.

Remember, these are only allegations, and I especially caution against generalizing from this example to presume that all Republicans who support gun control are dangerous cocksuckers.

At least, not literally . . .

UPDATE: My apologies to New Jersey residents for mistakenly placing the Pennsylvania town in your state. Corrected.

UPDATE II: Welcome, Instapundit readers! And in the interests of bipartisan non-judgmentalism, I’ll quote this Reddit commenter:

But seriously, blowjobs at gunpoint are awesome.

Well . . . who are we to judge? It’s just an alternative lifestyle choice.

 

Category: Crime

Did SiteMeter Commit Suicide?
UPDATE: It’s Working Again, But Unfortunately, My Traffic Sucks

Posted on | April 5, 2013 | 26 Comments

As of right now, it’s dead. Donald Douglas at American Power and Doug Ross at Director Blue both report that the best, easiest-to-use traffic analytics site failed to renew its domain registration, an error that would require a special kind of stupidity.

Let’s all say a prayer that they can get it fixed, because without SiteMeter, I feel like I’m blogging blind.

People talk about other analytic software as being technologically superior, but here’s the thing: SiteMeter allowed sites to make their traffic data public in real-time. This permitted apples-to-apples comparisons between sites, which was especially helpful information for entry-level bloggers trying to figure out how to grow their traffic.

You could not only know what your own site traffic was at any time, but you could also see who had more or less traffic, and whose links were driving traffic to other sites. Some bloggers (foolishly, IMO) set their SiteMeters to private, as if they were embarrassed to reveal their traffic data, or as if they failed to understand the value of transparency. “No shame in my game” has always been my attitude, and I simply can’t understand why anyone would attempt to conceal their traffic data as if it were a proprietary trade secret.

Constantly checking SiteMeter is a deeply ingrained habit for many of us, an addiction classified as a symptom of Blogger Mood Disorder by Professor William Jacobson,  (See also “Site Meter Envy” and “Sitemeterenfreude.”)

There was a time when Technorati was also useful as an analytic tool for bloggers, but they “improved” it until they ruined it,  and if SiteMeter has now managed to commit online seppuku, this would represent a real loss to the blogging community.

UPDATE: Linked by Ed Driscoll and Charles G. Hill and now — without explanation — SiteMeter is working again, which is depressing, because my traffic sucks so far today.

Ignorance is truly bliss sometimes . . .

 

Category: American Power, Blogging, Doug Ross, Legal Insurrection

Teen Sex News: Federal Judge Orders ‘Morning After’ Pills for Underage Girls

Posted on | April 5, 2013 | 16 Comments

Poster for 1967 film, Teenage Mother

It is illegal to have sex with minors, but because perverts can’t help themselves, the federal government will now be their accomplice in getting rid of the evidence:

A federal judge ruled Friday that the government must make the most common morning-after pill available over the counter for all ages, instead of requiring a prescription for girls 16 and younger. . . .
Edward R. Korman of Federal District Court, ruled that the government’s refusal to lift restrictions on access to the pill was “arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable.”
Judge Korman ordered the F.D.A. to lift any age and sale restrictions on the pill, Plan B One-Step, and its generic versions, within 30 days.
“More than 12 years have passed since the citizen petition was filed and 8 years since this lawsuit commenced,” the judge wrote. “The F.D.A. has engaged in intolerable delays in processing the petition. Indeed, it could accurately be described as an administrative agency filibuster.”

Reuters quotes Nancy Northup, president of the abortion-lobby group, Center for Reproductive Rights: “Women all over the country will no longer face arbitrary delays and barriers just to get emergency contraception.” And by “women all over the country,” of course, she meant jailbait girls who don’t want their Moms to find out they’re screwing around.

In 2011, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius explained why the Obama administration did not approve non-prescription sales of Plan B to teenagers:

“The average age of the onset of menstruation for girls in the United States is 12.4 years. However, about ten percent of girls are physically capable of bearing children by 11.1 years of age. It is common knowledge that there are significant cognitive and behavioral differences between older adolescent girls and the youngest girls of reproductive age. If the application were approved, the product would be available, without prescription, for all girls of reproductive age.
“Because I do not believe enough data were presented to support the application to make Plan B One-Step available over the counter for all girls of reproductive age.”

What Sebelius did not say — but which everyone who has studied the matter knows — is that providing this drug to minors without parental permission would abet the criminal exploitation of girls. It’s the same issue with abortion for minors: In many cases, teenagers who become pregnant are in relationships with adult men; a trip to the abortion clinic is a way to eliminate the DNA-testable evidence of such crimes.

Steven Ertelt at LifeNews.com reports:

Jeanne Monahan, Director of Family Research Council’s Center for Human Dignity, told LifeNews after the [2011] decision: “A decision to make Plan B available for girls under the age of 17 without a prescription would not have been in the interest of young women’s health. Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was right to reject the FDA recommendation to make this potent drug available over the counter to young girls. In her own words, the research submitted to the FDA did not include data for all ages for which the drug would be used.”
“Additionally, young people have approximately half of the sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) nationwide, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The availability of Plan B over-the-counter for all ages would have bypassed necessary routine medical care for sexually active girls. And a study released in 2010 revealed that adolescent use of Plan B was correlated with an increase in unplanned pregnancies and a high STD rate,” she said.
“There is also the issue of sexual abuse and exploitation. The average age of a girl who is sexually trafficked in the U.S. is 13 to 14. There is a real danger that Plan B could be given to young women, especially sexually abused minors, under coercion or without their consent. Interaction with medical professionals is a major screening and defense mechanism for victims of sexual abuse,” she continued.

Obviously, the “pro-sex feminists” are all in favor of providing abortion-inducing drugs to middle-school girls: “Whoo hooo! Now this just makes common sense . . . . I think this deserves a 30-second dance party” — and that’s a direct quote, you misogynistic patriarchal anti-sex theocrats.

The Left views anything that undermines traditional morality as a good thing, even if the result is increased misery. Teenage sex? Good. Teenage abortion? Better. And nothing is more important to the Left than destroying marriage:

More American couples are now living together — and having children — without marriage, and most cohabiting couples break up without marrying, a new federal study finds.
Fifty-five percent of women have been in an unmarried cohabitation relationship with a man by the time they are 25 years old, according to “First Premarital Cohabitation in the United States: 2006–2010 National Survey of Family Growth” (click here to see the PDF document). The study by researchers Casey E. Copen, Kimberly Daniels and William D. Mosher was published Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics.
“Instead of marriage, people are moving into cohabitation as a first union,” Copen told USA Today. “It’s kind of a ubiquitous phenomenon now.” . . .
The study found that cohabitation was particularly common among women with less education, and among Hispanics. For women without a high-school diploma, 76 percent had cohabited by age 25, compared to 36 percent of women with a college degree.

Also, from the study, this interesting fact: “By age 18, 9% of women aged 15–44 in 2006–2010 had ever cohabited.” In other words, nearly one out of every 10 underaged girls in America is now shacking up.

And the liberals call this Progress.

UPDATE: As to where this kind of Progress is leading, Rusty Shackleford was shocked to discover that the age of consent in Mexico is 12: “Can that be true? It just seems so hard to believe.”

You can look it up for yourself.

 

Category: Abortion, Culture, Marriage, Sex

‘New Motherf–king Tone’ Update, and Also: New Commie Wonkette Editor

Posted on | April 5, 2013 | 24 Comments

Gay-rights activists are among the most hateful people in the world. Remember the Prop 8 reaction in 2008?

Taking to the streets in furious indignation, activists created an “enemies list” of those who had contributed to support the measure, targeting them for boycotts and protests.
The elderly co-owner of a Mexican restaurant, who had given $100 to support the referendum, was driven to tears as she confronted “60 members of Los Angeles’ LGBT community” who demanded an apology and an equal contribution to a proposed effort to repeal the referendum. . . .
One activist who helped compile the enemies list told Time magazine: “My goal was to make it socially unacceptable to give huge amounts of money to take away the rights of one particular group, a minority group.” Of course, the restaurant owner’s $100 contribution to the “Yes on 8” cause was not “huge,” but the principle is the same.
As the California activists spewed their fury — allegedly vandalizing Mormon temples, making terroristic threats toward Catholics, and hurling racial epithets at African-Americans (who voted 3-to-1 in favor of Prop 8, according to exit polls) — their vitriolic rage highlighted how the progressive rhetoric of “rights” undermines and destabilizes political consensus.

Homosexuality has gone from being “the love that dare not speak its name” to being “the political agenda that won’t shut up,” and its enthusiasts — 3.4 percent of the U.S. population, according to a Gallup poll last year — seem determined to make up in angry outrage what they lack in numbers. Tim Graham calls attention to one Daily Kos diarist’s self-righteous rant:

Do you not remember who you motherf–kers are? . . .
You no good low-rent gaggle of hateful self-serving bigot-for-hire whiny a– titty babies.
Entire election cycles were gleefully covered in slick wall-to-wall homophobia and hatred.
Remember that sh-t? Good. Now go f–k yourselves. Here. Here’s a ratty leather glove covered in rusty spikes. No. No. Here’s two. You can all go bend over and collectively fist each other in a frenzy until all the pain equals all the hate and the stupid you have given us for ages in spades. You all made your bones stoking and exploitating hate. . . .
Eat all your sh–t and feel some real f–-king shame.
Calling you ‘Bigots’ to your collective faces is just a really, really good f–king start.

Isn’t it time for Mary Katharine Ham to do a sequel to this video?

Some of you young people might not believe it, but there was a time when being gay was mostly about sex. Also, disco.

Then, during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, being gay became mostly about blaming Republicans for AIDS. Nowadays, being gay seems to be mostly about wishing violent death on Republicans.

How homosexuality changed from being a personal preference to being a political identity is deserving of an essay or even an entire book, but nobody’s offering to pay me to write either. Still I can’t help but wonder: Is hating Republicans really that much more fun than sex and disco?

Speaking of fun and hate, M. Joseph Sheppard is a blogger I’ve sometimes linked and vice-versa, and he cited me as an authority on the “Red Diaper” milieu that produced Obama’s top political advisor David Axelrod. There is a backstory: It seems that Wonkette got a new editor, Rebecca Schoenkopf, a self-declared “Commie,” and Sheppard was having some kind of tiff with the aforesaid Commie who — in “punching down” at her stubborn nemesis — threw in the accusation that Sheppard is “constantly citing white supremacist Robert Stacy McCain as some kind of moral authority.”

Sheppard brought this to my attention on Twitter, and when I checked over at Wonkette, I noticed they had moved on from punching down at Sheppard (and his “white supremacist” friend) to calling Michelle Malkin an “anchor baby.”

Because they’re all about racial equality, you see.

And then I immediately hit Joe Sheppard’s tip-jar for $20, and now recommend that everybody else do the same.

Anybody who pisses off a Commie that much deserves it.

 

Category: Gays

LIVE AT SIX: 04.05.13

Posted on | April 5, 2013 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
School Faces New Questions In Colorado Massacre

Murderous dirtbag and his attorney

Murderous dirtbag and his attorney

Did campus cops drop ball after his shrink said he posed threat?



Fukushima Reactor’s Cooling Plant Fails
EVERYBODY PANIC (no, don’t, really)


Hillary Signs Book Deal With Simon & Schuster
Memoir on SecState tenure to reap at least $500K advance



POLITICS
Senator Scott Brown (R-NH)? Maybe…

Former Senator Scott Brown watches a Pequot tribal drum ritual

Former Senator Scott Brown watches a Pequot tribal drum ritual

Former Massachusetts Senator doesn’t rule out challenge to Jeanne Shaheen

Alabama Legislature Votes To Pardon Scottsboro Boys

Poll: Majority Of Americans Favor Legalizing Pot; Also, Majority Don’t Understand How The Constitution Works


Obama Catches Bipartisan Flak For Kamala Harris Remark

Maryland Legislature Passes Tough Gun Control Law

Virginia Restaurant Offers Discount To Armed Patrons

Navy Embarrassed By Loss Of $300 Million Minesweeper

Senate GOP Staff Estimates Immigration Bill Could Cost Billions; Rubio Disagrees



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Up Slightly In Asia After Sharp Drop On US Jobless Claims, Supply Glut: NYMEX $93.44, Brent $106.50
Enron’s Skilling Could Get Early Release From Prison
HP Chairman Lane Steps Down, Two Directors Depart
“Loose Cannon” Yellen As Bernanke’s Successor Scares Bond Markets
Consumer Bureau Fines Mortgage Insurers $15 Million Over Alleged Kickbacks
Samsung Posts Near-Record 1Q Earnings On Galaxy Sales
Corzine Slammed In Freeh Report On MF Global Collapse
Treasuries Gain: 10-Year Yield Falls Below 1.8%
Jobless Claims At Four-Month High
Bank Of America’s New ATMs To Connect Customers With Live Tellers
T-Mobile Opens Pre-Orders For iPhone 5 At $99.99
Gartner: Microsoft Threatened As Smartphones And Tablets Rise
Hooray, The First Free DLC For “SimCity” Is…An Advertisement
Apple’s New Spaceship Campus $2 Billion Over Budget
Apple’s iMessage Encryption Trips Up Feds’ Surveillance
Google Fights US National Security Probe Data Demand
Five LinkedIn Tools Job Hunters Must Use
Google, Microsoft Turn Up Office Heat



SPORTS
Pac-12 Ref Coordinator Ed Rush Resigns Amid Probe

Pac-12 Commish Larry Scott: Rush'sactions "completely inapropriate"

Pac-12 Commish Larry Scott: Rush’s actions “completely inapropriate”

Allegedly offered refs inducements to toss or foul Arizona coach Sean Miller before the conference tourney

Caps Edge Islanders 2-1, Take Division Lead

Nuggets Rally After Gallinari Injury, Beat Mavericks 95-94

Pettitte, Rivera Salvage Win For Yanks Against BoSox

Jagr Scores In Boston Debut As Bruins Shut Out Devils 1-0

Thunder Win Battle Of West’s Bests, Top Spurs 100-88

Weak-Hitting Royals Win Behind Guthrie

Gaborik Already Paying Off For Columbus As Blue Jackets Beat Predators 3-1

Depleted Bulls Defeat Nyets 92-90

Twins Pound Tigers In 8-2 Victory

Nats Off To Clean Start With Sweep Of Marlins



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Film Critic Roger Ebert Dies, 70

Good night, sweet prince

Roger Ebert, 1943-2013, R.I.P.

“Roger Ebert loved movies. Except for those he hated.”
– Neil Steinberg
Dead of cancer after decade-long struggle

Christopher Abbott Leaves “Girls” After Suddenly Realizing It Sucks

Lindsay Lohan’s BFF Vikram Chatwal Busted For Drug Possession & Trafficking

Beyonce, Jay-Z Turn Heads In Cuba

Magic Johnson Opens Up About Gay Son EJ

Life Imitates Art: Lena Headley, Queen Cersei On “Game Of Thrones” Dead Broke With Less Than $5 In Bank

Jada Pinkett-Smith Addresses Open Marriage Rumors

Benedict Cumberbatch To Star In Del Toro’s “Crimson Peak”

Justin Lin Won’t Direct “Fast & Furious 7”

Iconic Hollywood Hotspot Sued Over Alleged Rapes



FOREIGNERS
Mumbai Building Collapse Leaves Dozens Dead
Anonymous Hacks Nork Social Media Accounts
Burma Religious Strife Spreads To Indonesia
U.S. Embassy Triggers Row With Egypt Over Jon Stewart Tweet Twitting Morsi
Group Claims South Sudan Gives Nonlethal Aid To Sudanese Rebels
And Now It’s A Crime To Hate The Sex Pistols
Philippines, US Open 29th Balikatan Joint Exercises
Egyptian Navy Seizes Ship Carrying Arms In Red Sea
Afghanistan Mission Ends For Kiwi Soldiers



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: I Told You So!
Michelle Malkin: The Open-Borders “Journalists” Who Banned “Illegal Immigrant”
Allahpundit: Democratic Gay Marriage Pool Update
Gateway Pundit: Shameless Liar Obama Claims Newtown Killer Used “Fully Automatic Weapon”
Power Line: Obama Doesn’t Know Anything About Guns Either
AmSpecBlog: New Connecticut Gun Laws In Depth, In Context
Weasel Zippers: Eric Holder Has Second Thoughts, Takes Pay Cut
Weekly Standard Blog: McAuliffe Tight-Lipped On Child Sodomy Case
NewsBusters: NYT Finds Another Republican For Gay Marriage…Ronald Reagan?
Via Meadia: Ahmadinejad – Media Darling?
Twitchy: Sad Obama Pines For Speaker Pelosi
Ed Morrissey: ADP March Jobs Report Shows 158K Growth In Private Sector
American Thinker: Obamacare Means Hiring Boom For “Navigators”
Mary Katherine Ham: Poll – Sequester Fallout Not Going Democrats’ Way
Protein Wisdom: Obama – “I Am Constrained By A System That Our Founders Put In Place”
Legal Insurrection: Five Signs Buzzfeed May Have Peaked
Riehl World News: Is The NRCC Poised To Copy Buzzfeed?
Lonely Conservative: Immigration Reform Could Cost $40 Billion A Year Just For Medicaid And Medicare


Deadline to submit links for the FMJRA is midnight tonight.


Category: Live at Five

Late Night Administrivia

Posted on | April 4, 2013 | 17 Comments

— by Wombat-socho

The death march to April 15 has begun, which means that instead of the previous 46 hour a week schedule I was working, I will be working 54 hours a week until the end of the tax season. Feel free to quote Han Solo on the subject of rewards to me. This is going to force some changes to my blogging around here…first of all, Live at Five will be shifted to Live At Six for the duration. I can’t seem to stay awake late enough to get it done while going to bed early enough to get a decent night’s sleep, and waking up early enough to do it isn’t working any more either. So, an hour’s delay. The FMJRA will still be posting on the nights of the 6th and 13th, and Rule Five Sunday will be back on the 7th with a Super Double-Coverage Illness Makeup Edition, featuring a contribution from the foremost scourge of the Unspeakable Armenian. There will be a return to normalcy on the 14th once the backlog from last week is cleared out.

After tax season is over, I’m taking a few days off to visit family and friends in Minnesota; regular linkagery will resume on Tuesday, April 23, God and Southwest Airlines permitting. In the meantime, aspiring guestbloggers and/or linkmonglers should submit resumes, writing samples, and full-length photographs (Speedos optional) along with your gruel and grog requirements to the proprietor, one R. Stacy McCain, no later than this Friday. Applicants are advised that due to the strictures of the Test Act of 1673, no PopishCatholic individuals can be accepted without an Act of Indemnity and/or a completed I-9 form*. Your cooperation is appreciated.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Yes, of course this is a joke. What is WRONG with you people?

Category: Blogging, FMJRA Award, Live at Five, Rule 5, Taxes

Unenforced Laws, Preventable Crimes: California Still Circling the Drain

Posted on | April 4, 2013 | 9 Comments

Law-abiding taxpaying citizens are fleeing California, an increasingly ungovernable bankrupt disaster, but hey, they’ve got a good-looking attorney general and Paul Krugman thinks the state is making a “comeback,” so why worry? Well, among other things, they can’t afford to keep criminals in prison:

He was released from custody in July 2012 because of a new law that transfers authority over some felons from state prisons to county jails and, on their release, from state parole to county probation departments. The law, also known as public safety realignment, was intended to reduce overcrowding in state prisons.

This criminal who got out of prison last July was picked up on a parole violation in January, but released less than a week later.

And now, as Paul Harvey would say, the rest of the story:

In the early-morning hours of March 27, a 10-year-old girl was kidnapped from her home near the Northridge campus of California State University. About 12 hours later, the redheaded girl was discovered walking barefoot in the parking lot of a shopping center near a Starbucks. Police say she was sexually molested after being abducted by two men with lengthy criminal records, one of whom — Tobias Dustin Summers, 32 — is still a fugitive at large.

Read the rest, and pay close attention to just how much crime these two perpetrators had previously committed:

Summers has convictions for receiving stolen property, grand theft, petty theft, possession of an explosive, and presenting false identification to police, according to records. In 2009, he was convicted of battery. Originally, he was also charged with annoying a child, but that charge was dismissed.
Between 2004 and 2012, Martinez was convicted of burglary, petty theft, grand theft, resisting a police officer, and unlawfully entering a property, according to records. In April 2012, he was convicted of making threats of death or great bodily injury.

When habitual offenders are turned loose because the state can’t afford to keep them in prison, bad things happen. Liberals tells us that the answer is passing more laws, but what about enforcing the laws on the books?

Every time some Democrat talks about the need to “keep guns out of the hands of criminals,” I want to scream at my TV: “How about getting the criminals off the street?” And when liberals start babbling about keeping children safe . . . well:

The complaint alleges that Summers broke into the home and used a knife to abduct the girl.

A 10-year-old girl gets kidnapped and raped by career criminals who should have been behind bars, but this crime doesn’t fit the liberal narrative, so don’t expect to see any Democrats or liberal pundits talking about it on MSNBC.

 

Category: California, Crime

‘Undocumented Workers’: Dating Underaged Girls Americans Won’t Date

Posted on | April 4, 2013 | 14 Comments

Say hello to Jose Zarata, 25, described by a sheriff’s deputy in Maricopa County, Arizona, as “a non-U.S. citizen who has been living in the country without proper authorization.”

Turns out there were other things Jose wanted to do “without proper authorization,” such as dating the 13-year-old daughter of Maria Saucedo. She said “no,” so Jose shot her in the chest.

The Associated Press won’t call Jose Zarata an “illegal immigrant,” nor will they mention that the age of consent is 12 in Mexico, so we have to turn to other sources:

John Hill of the group Stand With Arizona Against Illegal Immigration blamed the crime on “the sick culture of Mexico,” where the age of consent is 12, and said Mexico ”rarely prosecutes child rapes.”

“Family values don’t stop at the Rio Grande,” President Bush said, but maybe those values are somewhat difficult to translate.

UPDATE: “Do you think the illegal immigrant obtained his weapon legally?” 

 

 


Category: Arizona, Crime, Immigration, Mexico, Sex
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