Modern Motherhood, Florida-Style

Posted on | January 17, 2021 | Comments Off on Modern Motherhood, Florida-Style

Headline from the Tampa Tribune:

Florida woman has abandoned three babies
at apartment complexes since 2016, police say

I include that headline so that Stephen Green doesn’t miss this story in his next “Florida Man Friday” roundup. The details:

Investigators have identified the biological mother of three newborns who’ve been found at apartment complexes in the Orlando area since 2016, police said.
Previous DNA testing had confirmed that the babies were siblings, and investigators connected with their mother through additional testing late last year, Orlando police Lt. Frank Chisari told reporters Wednesday morning.
The mother currently has several other children in her care, police said.
Investigators are working with the state attorney’s office to determine what charges may be brought against the woman, who police did not publicly identify.
Chisari added that the woman appeared to have abandoned the babies out of “pure desperation.”
The most recent baby was found in July 2019 with a note that said she left the baby because she feared the child’s father, news outlets reported.
The first baby was found in 2016, and the second was found in 2017.
Chisari declined to say whether the father has been identified.
“It seems like somebody who was just at the end of their rope,” Chisari told reporters.
He said the woman learned she was pregnant at a late stage during all three pregnancies, and kept it a secret before delivering the children in private.
“I guess she watched a lot of YouTube videos,” Chisari said, describing how the children were delivered discreetly, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

If she “currently has several other children in her care,” but “feared the child’s father” to such an extent that she has abandoned three babies, doesn’t this suggest a serious domestic violence situation?

There must be a fascinating story behind this, and you might expect that journalists would do the footwork necessary to get that backstory, rather than simply quoting what police said at a press conference. What factor could possibly explain this lack of journalistic curiosity?

Category: Crime, Florida

The Other Podcast Rides Again

Posted on | January 17, 2021 | Comments Off on The Other Podcast Rides Again

Saturday night on The Other Podcast, John Hoge, Dianna Deeley and I had a spirited discussion during our weekly review of the news.

If you miss an episode, check the Podbean archives here.

Category: The Other Podcast

FMJRA 2.0: Too Much Too Young

Posted on | January 16, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Too Much Too Young

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I always thought Britney Spears should do a cover of this song, but it fits a lot of the other young women broken by Hollywood and the music business as well.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Night Of The Digital Long Knives
Doc Boom
Animal Magnetism
EBL

Blondes (Still) Have More Fun
357 Magnum
EBL
A View From The Beach

Far Be It From Me to Repeat Salacious Gossip About RINO Backstabbers, But…
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Broken Whiskey Glass
EBL
A View From The Beach

Rule 5 Sunday: Rep. Lauren Boebert
Harsh Brutus
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
EBL
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 01.11.21
357 Magnum
EBL
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

Can I Get a ‘Roll Tide,’ Please?
Bacon Time
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.12.21
357 Magnum
EBL
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

Georgia Bank Executive Commits Suicide After Being Charged in Capitol Riot
Laughing Wolf
Harsh Brutus
357 Magnum
EBL

To Say the Least…
EBL
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 01.13.21
357 Magnum
EBL
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 01.14.21
357 Magnum
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Proof Positive

The Media’s Gaslighting Intensifies: Trump Voters Are ‘Terrorists’?
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EBL
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 01.15.21
357 Magnum
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Democrats and the Media (But I Repeat Myself) Are Trying to Destroy America

Posted on | January 16, 2021 | Comments Off on Democrats and the Media (But I Repeat Myself) Are Trying to Destroy America

Yesterday, Ace of Spades linked to an essay that included this:

Starting in the second decade of the 1900s, certain Communists began seeing in modernism a potential advertisement for the values of a mass society of industrial workers laboring under the direction of a small group of engineers. In other words, this aesthetic — which whole swaths of the Western world were already in the process of quickly adopting — could also be the perfect delivery mechanism for their political ideology. One hundred years later, we find ourselves in the middle of a similar cultural and political struggle.

You can read the rest of that by Alana Newhouse, who examines how an ideal of “flatness” — conformity, homogeneity, the destruction of individualism and the end of actual diversity — has been advanced by Internet technology. We must now endorse whatever beliefs the Party requires, or be destroyed. Dissent against the Party is treason. We are all Winston Smith in Room 101, expected to agree that 2+2=5, if that’s what the Party decides. This is about power, and those who wield power on behalf of the Party — the 20-something SJWs in charge of “fact checks” for the media, and “safety” for social-media platforms — will target you as an enemy if you question their authority to decide what is true.

This is why the phrase “white supremacy” is being slung around so promiscuously by Democrats and their media allies, as if anyone who didn’t vote for Joe Biden is a violent neo-Nazi skinhead:

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Friday on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” that she could not stay in the secure location with Republican members of Congress during the Capitol Hill riots because they sympathize with white supremacist cause.
Maddow said, “Let’s talk about that in terms of members of Congress and congressional staff as well. You are saying that you didn’t feel safe going to that extraction point because you believe, knowing them, that there were members of Congress you didn’t trust not to betray your location and put you in danger in that way. Can you talk a bit more about that, why you believed that, if what you believed about that, what you know about that is something that should be part of the investigation? Or is it part of the investigation that’s been announced into whether members of Congress are complicit here?”

(Note well that Maddow and Ocasio-Cortez are tag-teaming here. Without any actual evidence, Maddow asks Ocasio-Cortez about “whether members of Congress are complicit” in the Jan. 6 riot.)

Ocasio-Cortez said, “I can’t speak as to what is currently under investigation specifically or not, but there are members of Congress that have made public comments. Comments like that Muslim Americans should not hold public office. They’ve made public comments that are quite closely aligned with the beliefs of white supremacists and white supremacist sympathizer organizations. These are all public record. And, you know, people of color are not safe around any individual who, frankly, sympathizes with a white supremacist cause. And it doesn’t matter if you’ve been elected to Congress or not. It is a complete abdication of any responsibility that we all have to protect and defend and be there for each other as human beings and certainly as Americans. So it wasn’t safe. And the implications of that are quite dire. To not be in a secure location because being in the insecure location seems like a safer bet than being in a secure location. I mean, it’s pretty scary. I can also say I was not the only member of Congress that felt that way. You know, not every member was in that secure room.”

AOC said “white supremacist” three times in about 10 seconds. If you are one of the 74 million Americans who voted to reelect President Trump, AOC is calling you a “white supremacist.” By this, she means, you are a potential terrorist. Every Republican voter should be fired from their job and sent to prison — that is what AOC and Democrats have in mind.

There will be no liberty — no First Amendment protection of free speech, no right to dissent — in the one-party regime that Democrats are preparing to implement. Joe Biden and the Democrats have in mind nothing less than the destruction of America as we know it.

Category: Congress, Democrats, Racism

John Weaver: ‘The Truth Is I’m Gay’

Posted on | January 16, 2021 | Comments Off on John Weaver: ‘The Truth Is I’m Gay’

Sunday, I blogged about the accusation that John Weaver, the former top campaign aide to John McCain and co-founder of the anti-Trump “Lincoln Project,” had been sexually harassing young men. Now he has been forced out of the Lincoln Project:

Lincoln Project cofounder John Weaver is no longer affiliated with the Democratic Super PAC after admitting — in the classic tradition of the Friday evening news dump — to having “inappropriate” sexual conversations with young men.
“The truth is that I’m gay,” Weaver told former Washington Free Beacon journalist Lachlan Markay in a prewritten statement. “And that I have a wife and two kids who I love. My inability to reconcile those two truths has led to this agonizing place.”
Weaver reportedly took a medical leave of absence from the Lincoln Project over the summer, and will not be returning to the controversial Super PAC.
Over the past few days, dozens of young men have come forward with accusations that Weaver engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct, including text messages and phone conversations, as well as “grooming” them by promising lucrative career opportunities in exchange for sex. The allegations were broght to light through the reporting of journalists Ryan Girdusky and Scott Stedman.
Weaver admitted to making the young men “uncomfortable through my messages that I viewed as consensual mutual conversations,” which included at least one instance in which Weaver allegedly emailed an unsolicited photo of his penis. However, he appeared to suggest the men accusing him of grooming them, or offering favors in exchange for sex, are lying, perhaps for nefarious reasons.
“While I am taking full responsibility for the inappropriate messages and conversations,” Weaver wrote in the statement, “I want to state clearly that the other smears being leveled at me … are categorically false and outrageous.” The emergence of the allegations, Weaver suggested, was facilitated by political critics of the Lincoln Project.

Wait — “dozens of young men”? This implies a number in the 25-30 range, at least. Your homosexuality is not really secret, if you’re engaged in such large-scale solicitation. It’s what’s called an “open secret,” like Kevin Spacey — everybody knew he was gay, but pretended they didn’t know, or at least didn’t make an issue of it. But notice how Weaver operated, offering “lucrative career opportunities” to young men. We may suspect he effectively blacklisted any young man who rejected his advances. Certainly, anyone who told the truth about Weaver would have feared career damage. So if a young man wanted to work in GOP consulting, he either submitted to Weaver’s advances or at least kept his mouth shut about the “open secret.” Politics is a sordid business, and John Weaver is the tip of an iceberg of political perversion.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

Category: Republicans

In The Mailbox: 01.15.21

Posted on | January 16, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.15.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

My favorite death goddess.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: I Thought “If You Give Them What They Want…”
EBL: Liz Cheney Goes For A Ride
Twitchy: Sorry Haters! The NRA Isn’t Insolvent, And It’s Not Going Out Of Business
Louder With Crowder: Video Allegedly Shows Jack Dorsey Calling For More Censorship On Twitter
Vox Popoli: CNN Stormed The Capitol, also, The Mysterious Collapse Of Governments
Newt Gingrich: There Will Be No GOP Civil War
According To Hoyt: How To Read The News In Totalitarianism

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Collective Guilt & The New Witch Hunt
American Greatness: Democrats Cling Desperately To Trump Hatred, also, Justice Department Walks Back “Capture & Assassinate” Allegations
American Power: The Senate’s Impending Impeachment Fiasco
American Thinker: Joe Biden’s Weird Version Of Goebbels’ Big Lie, also, Cancel Us At Your Own Risk
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Second Amendment Friday
Babalu Blog: Major News Outlets Refuse To Mention Occasional Cortex’s Call For Cuba-Style Press Censorship In The U.S.
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For January 15
Behind The Black: Another Professor Arrested for Hiding Red China Ties, also, SpaceX Replacing Two Engines On Starship Prototype #9
Cafe Hayek: William R. Allen, 1924-2021
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: A Sad Tale
Don Surber: Winning Made Them Angrier
First Street Journal: Gov. Beshear Keeps Playing Politics With COVID, also, But I Thought It Was Absolutely Essential To Get President Trump Out Of Office ASAP?
The Geller Report: Wyoming Republican Party Condemns Liz Cheney, also, CNN Colluded With Antifa/BLM Leaders To Incite Capitol Invasion
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Insurrectionist Arrested
Hollywood In Toto: One Night In Miami Captures Race Relations Then, Not Now, also, Joe Rogan Makes Total Sense (Again) On Big Tech Censorship
The Lid: “Foreign Submarine” (USS Georgia?) Sneaks Up On Iranian Military Exercise
Legal Insurrection: Mexican President Launches International Campaign Against Big Tech Censorship, also, Retired Chicago Firefighter Falsely Accused Of Capitol Riot Murder By Social Media Trolls
Michelle Malkin: Amnesia Of The Anarcho-Tyrannists
Nebraska Energy Observer: Governing A Free People
Power Line: Did The Democrats Steal The Presidential Election? also, California’s Continuing Collapse
Shark Tank: Double Standard? House Democrats Seen Maskless During Capitol Riot
Shot In The Dark: Berg’s Seventh Law Is A Sledgehammer, also, It’s Reform Time
The Political Hat: The Woke Indoctrination Of Eight-Year-Olds
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Stupid Criminals
Transterrestrial Musings: Another Hypersonic Startup, also, Those Three Static Firings
Victory Girls: Twitter Allows Red Chinese Propaganda To Remain
Volokh Conspiracy: Refusal To Vaccinate Kids Can Count Against Parent In Custody Battle
Weasel Zippers: Democrat Appears On Fox To Denounce Trump For Insurrection, Has Mao Portrait Above Fireplace, also, PA Lt. Gov. Says 1st Amendment Doesn’t Protect Your Right To Say The Election Was Rigged
The Federalist: Far-Left Agitator John Sullivan Posed As Cameraman At Capitol Riot To Stir Up Violence, also, Portland City Council Demands Reparations From Congress
Mark Steyn: The Culling Of Words

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Category: Legal Insurrection

The Media’s Gaslighting Intensifies: Trump Voters Are ‘Terrorists’?

Posted on | January 15, 2021 | Comments Off on The Media’s Gaslighting Intensifies: Trump Voters Are ‘Terrorists’?

A Chicago Tribune columnist calls Trump supporters “domestic terrorists” and the media is now flatly stating as fact that what happened last week at the Capitol was an “insurrection,” an attempted “coup,” an “attack on our democracy.” These claims are accompanied by frequent assertions that “white supremacists” were responsible.

Calling it a “riot” is one thing — what else to call it when a crowd gets out of control and storms a police barricade? — but it is apparent that most of the people involved we simply caught up in an emotional moment. One of those charged in the Capitol riot is a criminal defense attorney from Americus, Georgia, who says what happened was “civil disobedience.” Well, OK, but MLK famously wrote that letter from the Birmingham jail — “civil disobedience” has legal consequences. If your career aspirations include being author of “Letter From Leavenworth Prison,” then go ahead and ignore federal law, sir. (He’s a University of Georgia alumnus.)

What the media is doing, however, has little or nothing to do with prosecuting people who broke the law (allegedly, as they are to be presumed innocent until proven guilty, even though we can all see the photo/video evidence they posted to their social media accounts). Instead, what we are seeing is a conflation of three separate groups:

The people who fomented the Capitol riot;
People who attended President Trump’s rally speech;
and
The 74 million people who voted to re-elect President Trump.

As I say, the folks arrested at the Capitol will get their day in court. If there was any kind of conspiracy involved in that incident, the people responsible will be brought to justice. But the number of people involved in the Capitol riot were a tiny fraction of the 200,000 or so who came to Washington last week for the “Stop the Steal”/”Save America” rally. It is being stated as a matter of fact — by members of the media, as well as Democrats in Congress — that everybody who voted to reelect Trump is a “white supremacist” complicit in a plot to overthrow the government.

Well, here’s a question: Where were these people allegedly concerned about sedition, when it was Democrats trying to invalidate Trump’s election on the basis of a phony “Russian collusion” hoax?

If people on the terrorist watch list showed up in DC and stormed the Capitol those folks weren’t “incited” by Trump. They were already terrorists. https://t.co/EhO3WqDLl3

— Chris Barron ?? (@ChrisRBarron) January 14, 2021