In The Mailbox: 12.15.21

Things were a tad exciting here in Tonopah last night; we had high winds and the power kept flickering off & on along with the Internet, so instead of putting myself through a bunch of frustration I punted until today. It’s snowing heavily, but the power is steady.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Don’t Bring A Knife To A Gunfight
EBL: RIP Anne Rice
Twitchy: David Frum Very Angry Tucker Carlson Called Him “Evil” For Wanting The Unjabbed To Suffer, also, Rep. Cori Bush Preemptively Blames Sleepy Joe & Moderate Dems For Defeat In 2022
Louder With Crowder: Hero Drives BBQ Rig To Kentucky, Sets Up In The Middle Of Tornado Damage, & Just Starts Feeding People
Vox Popoli: The One They Serve, Bait-Mute-Block, and Imagine My Surprise
Gab News: Joe Rogan Gets On Gab

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Adam Piggott: “I Will Draw All Men To Myself” – Jn. 12:32
American Conservative: Is Wokeness Almost Over? also, SCOTUS Sotomayor Problem
American Greatness: Cracked Icons, also, Reject John Brown – Embrace Abe Lincoln
American Power: Fauci Strikes Again, also, Grim Scale Of Destruction In Kentucky
American Thinker: The Great Reset Crowd’s Overreach Will Come Back To Bite Them, also, We Have Very Little Time To Act To Save American Elections
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Now They Can Really Construct Socialism, Chilean Presidential Candidate Threatens Heavy Sanctions On Cuba & Venezuela, and Official Press Invents Storm To Explain Loss Of Shrimp At Tunas de Zaza
Baldilocks: Missionary
BattleSwarm: A Triple Shot Of Joe Rogan, also, Why Does CNN Exist?
Behind The Black: FAA To Discontinue Astronaut Wing Program For Passengers, Mexico Signs Artemis Accords, and New Shepard Completes Another Suborbital Flight
Cafe Hayek: Do Pro-Lockdowners Accost Neil Ferguson With This Same Question?, also, Mindless & Mortifying COVID Theater
CDR Salamander: Making The Case For Maritime Power With Adm. Jamie Foggo (USN, Ret.)
Da Tech Guy: The Biggest Messaging Problem For Democrats, Cause & Effect Still Lives & Other Matters Under The Fedora, and Report From Louisiana – All Politics Are Local
Don Surber: Justice Roberts Has The Sadz, The War On Rudolph, and Biden Makes The Shipping Crisis Worse
First Street Journal: Lexington Breaks The Record!
Gates Of Vienna: A Plagiarist As Minister Of Defense, Immigrants Are “Future Voting Cattle & Profiteers”, and Jair Bolsonaro – “We Shall Respect Each Person’s Rights”
The Geller Report: Soros Bankrolls Dark Money Hub For Extremist Police Defunding Groups, Facebook Finally Admits Its “Fact Checks” Are Just Opinion, and Israel’s Beauty On Full Display As India Takes Miss Universe Crown
Hogewash: Fiat Penuria, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, and Dione
Hollywood In Toto: How West Side Story Caught Up With Modern Times, The Best TV Shows Of 2021 – And One To Avoid At All Costs, and Being the Ricardos Gets Shown Up By The Second Bananas
The Lid: Climate Change Theorists Exploit Deadly Tornados To Sell Their Unproven Hypothesis
Legal Insurrection: Talk By Conservative Journalist At Princeton Held In Secret Location, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) Hates Dark Money Except When It Goes To Democrats Like Sheldon Whitehouse, and R.I. Schools Are Failing But Progressive Coalition Wants $2.5 Billion To “Decarbonize” Education
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, Third Sunday Of Advent – Gaudete Sunday
Outkick: ‘Bama’s Bryce Young Wins Heisman In Landslide, Titleist Tells Golfers What They Can’t Put On Their Balls, and Why Mike Leach Is So Right About NCAA Transfer Portal
Power Line: DeSantis Strikes Back, A Modest Proposal For The Penn Womens’ Swim Team, and Talking Back To Fauxcahontas
Shark Tank: Brian Mast Counters Ilhan Omar’s “Islamophobia” Bill
Shot In The Dark: The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves, Berg’s 7th & 20th Laws Never Need To Fabricate Any Truths, and It’s Not Us. It’s You.
The Political Hat: The Rise Of The New Communist Menace, Redux, also, The Twelve Posts Of Christmas, Day 1
This Ain’t Hell: Stupid People Of The Week, A Little Rebellion Now & Then, and Army Sergeant Indicted For Murder Pleads Self-Defense
Transterrestrial Musings: A New Record, Senolytics Breakthrough, and Seeing The Potential
Victory Girls: Peggy Noonan Tells Kamala to “Get Serious”, also, Elon Musk Named TIME‘s Person Of The Year, Left Sets Hair On Fire
Volokh Conspiracy: Justice Sotomayor’s Flawed History Promoting The Myth Of Judicial Supremacy
Weasel Zippers: Media Begins Trying To Rehab Biden Presidency, Electronic Arts Suspends Kyle Rittenhouse For Using His Real Name, and Putin Adds 10,000 More Troops To Ukraine Border After Phone Call With Biden
The Federalist: Why Did The IRS Audit Donald Trump But Not Joe Biden?, Defending Pedophilia Is The Logical Conclusion Of Queer Theory, and How The Moms & Dads Of Loudoun County Took Back Virginia
Mark Steyn: You Have To Be Crazy – Carole Lombard & True Confessions, also, The Anticipation of Pleasure

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Mystery Surrounds Perpetrator of ‘Deplorable Acts of Anti-Black Hatred’

Posted on | December 13, 2021 | Comments Off on Mystery Surrounds Perpetrator of ‘Deplorable Acts of Anti-Black Hatred’

In September, the Chief Diversity at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Dr. Nefertiti Walker, sent a campus-wide email warning of a “disturbing increase in anti-Black racist incidents,” saying the content of the messages was “vile” and “violently offensive”:

Over the course of several weeks dating back to late August, Black student groups at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have received offensive, blatantly racist emails and online messages.
In their inboxes, Black UMass students have been told by an anonymous person or group that they did not arrive at the commonwealth’s flagship campus on merit, that they are of substandard intelligence, and that they should consider sterilization.
The messages, at least one of which was signed “UMass Coalition for a Better Society,” have been sent to multiple Black student organizations in the first month of school.

Copies of the messages circulated on social media:

This could be the person we sit next to in class everyday. I hate it here pic.twitter.com/tMguG7a0AT

— ??? (@AtaliaCarrignan) September 24, 2021

University President Marty Meehan vowed swift action:

“The blatantly racist e-mails recently sent to Black student organizations at UMass Amherst and other deplorable acts of anti-Black hatred are appalling and disgusting,” Meehan said in a statement. “While UMass Amherst is still trying to identify the source of these messages, we do know that the messages in no way reflect the true character of the UMass community and we have zero tolerance for such behavior.”
UMass IT and campus police are investigating the identity of the email sender.
“My team in the Office of the President is working with UMass Amherst to investigate and to identify the individuals and/or organizations responsible for these hate-ridden messages, and hold them accountable wherever they are,” Meehan said. “As the campus aggressively pursues the source of these vile messages, we must all join in active support of our students, and re-double our commitment to providing a safe, welcoming community for all students.”

The university doubled-down on the investigation:

UMass Amherst Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy announced that the campus will launch a full-scale investigation into the source of the emails and that the university has secured the services of Stroz Friedberg Digital Forensics, a leading national firm in cyber security.
“While we are mindful of the challenges in determining the source of anonymous emails such as these, we are confident that Stroz Friedberg, with its extensive expertise and technical capacity, will methodically follow every lead in pursuit of the contemptible individual or individuals responsible,” Subbaswamy said in a message to the campus community. . . .
“When the perpetrator of any of these acts is identified, the full weight of the university’s disciplinary and legal apparatus will be brought to bear,” Subbaswamy said in the campus message.

That was September, and now it’s December and yet, despite the services of “a leading national firm in cyber security,” UMass still has not identified the “contemptible” perpetrators, a mystery that inspires Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr’s sarcasm:

Like O.J., they pledge to spend eternity chasing down the real killers. But so far, apparently, not a single MAGA hat or Let’s Go Brandon! T-shirt has turned up at the scene of the crime. Not even a discarded pay stub from a real job.
The snowflakes of Amherst are, as you might expect, baffled.
It’s certainly discouraging, isn’t it, how few of these campus white supremacists are ever brought to justice. In fact, usually they’re never even found. They seldom leave behind a single clue.

Yes, white supremacists are fiendish criminal masterminds, like those Chicago guys in MAGA hats who attacked Jussie Smollett and got away with it because . . . well, white supremacy.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

Category: Crime, Massachusetts, Racism

Rule 5 Sunday: Polyana Viana

Posted on | December 12, 2021 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Polyana Viana

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I have been browsing RedState on the regular of late, which is probably not good for my blood pressure, but it’s not all about politics. ~~Just mostly~~. Anyhow, in one of the posts there was a link to a story about a UFC fighter in Brazil who surprised a would-be mugger by beating the crap out of him and putting him in a headlock until the police showed up. Not all that remarkable, except the fighter was female straw-weight contender Polyana Viana, who is the first legitimate cutie I’ve seen in the UFC since Ronda Rousey hung it up.
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A View From The Beach: Paola Righetti, Crabs In Trouble Again, Climate Change Not To Blame, Fish Pic Friday – Mia Diaz, Electric Cars Causing Decline of the Rain Forest, Maryland, My Maryland, Thursday Tanlines, The Wednesday Wetness, I Fail To See the Problem, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Oregon, My Oregon and Palm Sunday

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A Blast From the Past

Posted on | December 12, 2021 | Comments Off on A Blast From the Past

“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)

“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

How long has it been since I even thought about Kaitlyn Hunt? You remember her? The teenage Florida lesbian who briefly became a liberal media cause célèbre after she was arrested in 2013 for having sex with a 14-year-old girl? The media bought into a #FreeKate narrative — promoted by Hunt’s parents — that she was a victim of homophobia, but Florida’s age of consent law was very clear and plenty of heterosexuals had been prosecuted for sex with minors. Furthermore, as more facts about the case came to light, it became evident that this allegedly innocent “romance” (as some in the media tried to paint it) was rather sordid, including meeting up for sex in the school restroom. The victim’s parents had tried to get Hunt to leave their daughter alone, but Hunt was obsessed with the girl. The #FreeKate movement, such as it was, relied on misrepresentations of the case made by Kaitlyn Hunt’s father:

In the online petition, which garnered more than 300,00 signatures, Steve Hunt described his daughter’s involvement with the 14-year-old as an innocent “high school romance,” and did not mention an incident in January where the younger girl ran away from home to have sex with his Kaitlyn. The parents of the 14-year-old told a local TV station that they feared their daughter had been abducted, but later learned she had been picked up by Kaitlyn and taken to the Hunt family’s home for a night of sex. The younger girl’s parents said they twice asked Kaitlyn to leave their daughter alone, and only in February reported the case to authorities.
When more facts about the case became public — the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office released the arrest affidavit on May 20 — some of Hunt’s original supporters repudiated the “Free Kate” campaign. On May 23, Joan McCarter of the progressive Daily Kos site said that “the initial dishonesty of Hunt’s parents” made the story “problematic,” and deactivated a Daily Kos petition on Hunt’s behalf.

People who bought into the false narrative failed to understand what was actually at stake in the case, i.e., that Hunt’s supporters were essentially trying to render age-of-consent laws null and void. Ninety-nine times out of 100, cases of statutory rape are settled by a plea bargain, because prosecutors don’t want to go to trial and have to put the victim on the witness stand. Kaitlyn Hunt was offered a plea bargain but rejected it, because her parents didn’t think she should have to plead guilty to a felony. The #FreeKate crusade was an attempt to use political pressure to force prosecutors into dropping the case, which they refused to do.

This 2013 case exasperated me because so many people refused to acknowledge the danger inherent in making Kaitlyn Hunt into a sort of “civil rights” hero — the Rosa Parks of jailbait dildo sex — as if it were some kind of injustice to enforce age-of-consent laws. In the end, the #FreeKate movement collapsed in failure after prosecutors discovered that Hunt had violated her bail terms by surreptitiously communicating with her victim (including sending her masturbation “selfie” videos) and Hunt eventually accepted the plea deal. So the whole obscene carnival of publicity which, as I said at the time, had turned Kaitlyn Hunt into the World’s Most Famous Sex Offender™ was utterly futile.

My habit of working in “file it and forget it” mode — it’s just another story I covered, forgotten as soon as it ended — means that I don’t keep track of what happens to people after they’ve finished their 15 minutes of fame (or infamy, as may be the case). In 2014, Kaitlyn Hunt announced her engagement to an older woman (Latasha Thomas), followed a year later by the birth of a baby son (Kingston) and in 2017, there was an item reporting that she had completed her probation, but since then she’s disappeared. Meanwhile, however . . .

Whatever happened to the victim in that case? Well, a longtime friend of the blog reports that the victim’s mother posted to Facebook bragging about her daughter. After graduating from Cornell University (!!!), she is now district manager for a tech company while working to complete her MBA from Florida International University. “God has His arms around you,” the mother wrote in a birthday greeting to her daughter. “Continue to keep Him first and there’s no limit to what you can accomplish.”

“But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.”
— Genesis 50:20 (KJV)

Never doubt that God answers prayers. Selah.

Category: Kaitlyn Hunt

FMJRA 2.0: Sedan Delivery

Posted on | December 12, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Sedan Delivery

— compiled by Wombat-socho

SOTD
Not a good week for the Senators – took two from the Cardinals at home, but then lost three straight to the Indians at the Mistake On The Lake. The worst part was having Stottlemyre and Siebert go 7 for 8 between them in the last two games; since most of my baseball fan experience has been with the American League since the 1990s, this business of pitchers hitting strikes me as Wrong and Unnatural. Mr. Williams is not available for comment; the last time I saw him he was snarling something about sportswriters and hot water.
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In The Mailbox: 12.09.21
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But They Told Me This ‘Elite Pedophile’ Stuff Was a Conspiracy Theory

Posted on | December 11, 2021 | Comments Off on But They Told Me This ‘Elite Pedophile’ Stuff Was a Conspiracy Theory

Only right-wing extremists believe this could be real:

A veteran CNN producer who worked “shoulder to shoulder” with now disgraced ex-anchor Chris Cuomo has been indicted on charges of luring young girls to his Vermont ski house for “sexual subservience” training.
John Griffin, of Stamford, CT, allegedly used messaging apps to befriend and persuade moms of young girls, telling them “a woman is a woman regardless of her age,” and that he should be the one to “train” their daughters sexually, according to the indictment from the US Attorney of Vermont.
Griffin, 44, allegedly got at least one mom of two daughters to bring the girl to his Ludlow ski getaway, in June 2020.
It was the mom’s responsibility to see that her older daughter, just 13, was “trained properly,” Griffin told her, according to the indictment.
Griffin, a father himself, sent the woman $3,000 for plane tickets so they could fly from Nevada to Boston’s Logan Airport, where he picked them up in his Tesla for the ride to Ludlow, according to court papers.
It was there that “the daughter was directed to engage in, and did engage in, unlawful sexual activity,” authorities alleged.
Griffin attempted to entice two other children over the internet into sexual activity, according to the indictment, which said he favored apps like Kik and Google Hangout for the alleged misdeeds. In April 2020, Griffin allegedly suggested a “virtual training session” over a video chat, that would include him instructing a mother and her 14-year-old daughter to remove their clothing and touch each other.
In June 2020, Griffin told another mom of a 16-year-old girl that she take a “little mother-daughter trip” to Griffin’s Ludlow ski house for sexual training involving the child, according to the indictment.

If convicted, Griffin faces a mandatory 10-year prison sentence — that’s the minimum, and he could be imprisoned for life.

While I don’t think this vindicates QAnon, Griffin was very much “elite,” as he attended the prestigious Hackley School and Princeton University. You got to figure he came from a wealthy family, because how else does he afford a Tesla, a Mercedes and a ski lodge? Difficult to believe he could afford all that on a producer’s salary, but maybe CNN’s just shoveling out crazy amounts of cash despite the fact that their ratings are lower than Spongebob Squarepants. Between this creep and the notorious wanker Jeffrey Toobin, you’ve got to wonder, does CNN ever hire anyone who’s not a pervert? Garbage people working at a garbage network.

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Category: CNN, Crime

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