‘The Wheels of Justice Turn Slowly, But Grind Exceedingly Fine’

Posted on | November 20, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘The Wheels of Justice Turn Slowly, But Grind Exceedingly Fine’

Travis Lee Stroud, a transgender novelist also known as “Meredith Russo,” was exposed in 2016 as the alleged perpetrator of abuse against his/“her” ex-wife, Jennifer Marie Russo. Yet this record of accusations against Travis/“Meredith” was ignored by the literary community, which is devoted to promoting the transgender agenda, especially to children.

Anna Slatz interviewed the author’s ex, Juniper Russo:

“Domestic violence is insidious and slow, like the proverbial boiling frog,” Stroud’s ex-wife, Juniper Russo, said. “It’s hard to say when it all started.”
Juniper Russo alleges she was subjected to a campaign of sexual and emotional abuse at the hands of her former partner, abuse she says was so severe that the marriage culminated in a divorce in early 2015.
“We met on OKCupid in 2011 and got married in 2013,” Russo said, claiming the physical abuse started shortly after the wedding. “We had a lot of shared interests at the time, and I was naive enough to think that shared interests are the foundation of a healthy relationship.”
Russo shared disturbing details of some of the alleged abuses she suffered during her marriage to Meredith Stroud.
“When my son was born in 2014, I had severe pre-eclampsia and injuries from giving birth. I had to have major reconstructive surgery. I was extremely weak and in severe pain,” Russo said.
“Meredith was extremely abusive to me during this time, calling me a ‘feeding station, not a parent’ because breastfeeding my son was one of the only things I could do, and because I was asking [Meredith] to help with things like diapers,” Russo also alleges.
During this same time, Juniper says Stroud would tell her to commit suicide. “[Meredith] kept mocking me when I was in pain, and told me I was so useless as a parent I should just kill myself.”
Russo says she was first forced to call the police in late 2014, “[Meredith] was having an outburst. I got scared and called 911. [Meredith] took the phone from me, and was heard trying to prevent me from calling for help.”
As a result, Stroud was booked on charges of interfering with an emergency call. . . .

Read the whole thing.

In The Mailbox: 11.20.19 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | November 20, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.20.19 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #810
.357 Magnum: The Breakdown of Order In Baltimore Continues
EBL: Rush Limbaugh Has “A Very, Very Careful Opinion” About LTC Vindman
Twitchy: Rep. Mark Meadows Defuses Three Of Five CNN Takeaways From Ambassador Sondland’s “Bombshell” Testiimony
Louder With Crowder: Trans Student Celebrates, Young Girl Cries As School Allows Trannies Into Girls’ Locker Room

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #125 – The OK Boomer Episode, also, Which Gay Slur Did Pattinson Use?
American Greatness: Vindman Is The Ranking Miles Gloriosus
American Thinker: President Trump Didn’t Impound So Much As One Dollar From Ukraine Aid
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Castro Dictatorship Enlists Children To Harass, Persecute Cuban Jewish Boy
BattleSwarm: Joe Rogan Interviews Matt Taibbi
Cafe Hayek: Homer Simpson Nods
CDR Salamander: Welcome To The Long Game, Folks
Da Tech Guy: Robert Spencer And Others Who Nail It, Under The Fedora
Don Surber: How Liberals Rank Minorities
First Street Journal: Patterico & The #NeverTrumpers
The Geller Report: Trump Was Right – Head Of Burisma Arrested In Ukraine, also, Kapo Wing Of Democrat Party Declares Trump Greatest Threat To American Jews
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Comet Crumbs
Hollywood In Toto: Journalist – Fred Rogers Worked Tirelessly On Being Kind
Joe For America: Bongino – 75% Of The Squad Being Investigated For Campaign Finance Violations
JustOneMinute: Buttigieg Coming Up Roses
Legal Insurrection: While You Were Watching Gordon Sondland, Trump Flipped The 11th Circuit, also, Leftist Mob At Binghamton U Shuts Down Speech By Economist Art Laffer
Michelle Malkin: Cancel Culture Hypocrites On The Left & Right
The PanAm Post: How Long Will The Coverup For Cuba Continue?
Power Line: So Long, Sacagawea, also, Today’s Liberal Media Fail
Shark Tank: Vilarino Slams Mucarsel-Powell Over Socialist Policies
Shot In The Dark: Mark This Down
STUMP: A New Plan To Deal With Multiemployer Pensions
The Political Hat: Same Coin, Different Sides – The Alt-Right & The Ctrl-Left
This Ain’t Hell: Sour Grapes, also, Moving On
Victory Girls: Sondland & The Quid Pro Quo That Wasn’t
Volokh Conspiracy: Yes, Nancy Pelosi Can Become President
Weasel Zippers: Illegal Arrested In Deadly Oregon Crash Flees To Mexico After Jail Doesn’t Honor ICE Detainer, also, ACLU Advises Us Men Can Have Periods, Get Pregnant
Megan McArdle:
Mark Steyn: The Cherry On Top, also, End Of The Peer Show

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In The Mailbox: 11.20.19 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | November 20, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
.357 Magnum: Boston Is Getting Rid Of Christmas
EBL: #FartGate – Rep. Swalwell Finally Does Something Worth Noticing
Twitchy: How Fake Is The AP’s Fake News About Ambassador Sondland?
Louder With Crowder: Sex Ed School’s “Gender Theory” Video Now Has A Transman To Confuse Kids

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Woke Club, also, Clear Your Land, Go To Jail
American Greatness: Pelosi Says It’s “Dangerous” To Let Voters Decide On Trump, also, Ilhan Omar Funnels Another $150,000 To alleged Lover’s Consulting Business
American Thinker: Trump Is 100% On His Game
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Futuristic News
Babalu Blog: Bolivian Authorities Suspect Cubans & Venezuelans Behind Plot To Assassinate Interim President
BattleSwarm: Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Cafe Hayek: Kota & Mahoney’s Very, Very Bad Idea
CDR Salamander: No Antiseptic War Via Technology – War Will Only Get Deadlier
Da Tech Guy: Gang Warfare, also, Bribery & The Constitution
Don Surber: Impeachment Is Must Miss TV
First Street Journal: The Good White Liberals Of NYC Love Them Some Segregated Neighborhoods & Schools
Fred On Everything: IQ, Do UQ? A Sojourn Among The True Believers
The Geller Report: Student Walkout triggered By Sight Of Chick-Fil-A Truck, also, Democrat Frontrunners Denounce Pro-Israel Policy, Support Islamic Jew-Hatred
Hogewash: “First The Sentence, Then The Evidence!”, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Dennis Miller On Charlie’s Angels Flop – We Don’t Want To Be Scolded
Joe For America: Feds Arrest Epstein’s Guards For Falsifying Logs
Legal Insurrection: Nunes’ Opening Statement – “Media Are Puppets For The Democratic Party”, also, Did Vindman Leak To The Whistleblower?
Michelle Malkin: America First – The Torch Is Being Passed
The PanAm Post: Lula’s Release From Prison Weakens Brazilian Institutions, also, Only Military Intervention Will End Maduro’s Dictatorship
Power Line: Chick-Fil-A Caves To The Left, also, Barr’s Preview
Shot In The Dark: Full Gaslight
STUMP: Why Does Elizabeth Warren Hate Public Pension Funds?
The Political Hat: The King Louie Club
This Ain’t Hell: Venkman Still Speaks, also, Mr. Rogers & The Sniper Story
Victory Girls: Chick-Fil-a Submits To Woke Mob (UPDATED)
Volokh Conspiracy: Impeachable Offenses Need Not Be Criminal Offenses
Weasel Zippers: Turkish President Erdogan – “Our God Commands Us To Be Violent Towards The Kuffar”, also, Schiff Steps In To Help Vindman Protect Whistleblower, Accidentally Exposes Another Lie
Mark Steyn: Iowa Hero, Carolina Zero, also, When The Flying Circus Has Flown

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In The Mailbox: 11.18.19

Posted on | November 18, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: A Restraining Order Is Just A Piece Of Paper
EBL: So How Was Kaepernick’s Workout? also, I Stand With Michelle Malkin
Twitchy: Chick-Fil-A Caves To LGBT Outrage Mob, Will Stop Donating To Salvation Army, Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Louder With Crowder: Jury Sides With Planned Parenthood In Civil Suit Against Undercover Pro-Life Activists, also, Congress Demands Answers From ABC On Spiked Epstein Story

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: My First Step To Being Deplatformed, also, Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Cowboy Music Edition
American Greatness: The Wages Of Trump Fixation, also, How To Shut Down The Democrats’ Alternative Universe
American Power: Jonah Goldberg Attacks Michelle Malkin, also, Progressive Anti-Semitism
American Thinker: The Department Of Defense Joins The Coup Cabal, also, The Bidens And Burisma
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Chile Expels 50 Foreigners For Rioting, Including 30 Cubans & Nine Venezuelans, also, Venezuela’s Socialist Dictatorship Signs Agreement With Iran
BattleSwarm: South Park Takes on Tranny Madness, also, There Is No Clown Car, Only Zuul
Cafe Hayek: Free The Market For Implantable Human Organs, also, Industrial Policy 2.0 Just As Bad As Industrial Policy 1.0
Camp of the Saints: Ideological Libertarians – The Terrible Simplifiers
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, No More Presidents, Please
Da Tech Guy: Democrat Women Think Nagging Will Win Them Votes, also, Profiles In Cowardice
Don Surber: Democrats Are Losing The Impeachment, also, Republicans Feeling Trumpy
First Street Journal: If You’ve Been Wondering Where I’ve Been, also, How Bad Is The Democrat Cavalcade Of Clowns?
Fred On Everything: Let’s Invade Mexico!
The Geller Report: Russian Media Predicts 2020 U.S. Election Will Lead To Civil War, also, CAIR Wants To Put 30 Jihadis Into Congress
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, A Cathedral Of Stellar Nativity
Hollywood In Toto: Feast Of The Seven Fishes Is Small-Town USA’s Overdue Closeup, also, Woke Broke Movies In 2019 – Does Hollywood Even Care?
Joe For America: Tax Filings Show Al Sharpton’s Charty Paid Him $1 Million, also, Pope Francis Suggests Adding “Ecological Sin” To Catechism
JustOneMinute: Taylor Testimony Damaging? also, Hmm…
Legal Insurrection: Anti-Regime Iranian Protests Set Major Cities Afire After Fuel Price Hike, also, Iowa Poll – Warren Drops After Medicare4All, Pete Buttigieg Jumps To Big Lead
Michelle Malkin: Meet The Treacherous American Students Last Lobby
The PanAm Post: There Was No Military Coup In Bolivia, also, Pinera Surrenders, Will Accept New Chilean Constitution
Power Line: FedEx Vs. The New York Times, also, Trump Reverses Decision On Vaping Ban
Shot In The Dark: Your Best Interests, Peasant
STUMP: Remember, Remember, The 9th Of November, also, Movember
The Political Hat: The Presumption of Illegality & The Dictatorship Of The Bureaucracy
This Ain’t Hell: Mayor Pete Hits Trump On Soldiers’ Pardons, also, Update On US Troops & Kurds In Syria
Victory Girls: Yovanovich Testified Obama Administration Was Worried About Hunter Biden & Burisma, also, ACLU Gives Christine Blasey Ford An Award For Lying
Volokh Conspiracy: Monroe County (NY) Proposes Ban On Intentionally Annoying Police, also, “Bad Writing Does Not Normally Warrant Sanctions, But We Draw The Line At Gibberish”
Weasel Zippers: House Now Investigating If Trump Lied To Mueller, also, Democrats Don’t Want Public To Kn
Megan McArdle: Here’s The Weird Thing About A Post-Christian Christendom
Mark Steyn: Ukraine Girl Doesn’t Knock Me Out, also, Cult Is As Cult Does

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AG William Barr Tells The Truth, and Liberals Are Losing Their Minds

Posted on | November 18, 2019 | 1 Comment

Mike LaChance at Legal Insurrection:

Attorney General William Barr gave a speech at the Federalist Society this weekend in which he called out Democrats and the so-called “resistance” for their constant obstruction of Trump. . . .
The speech has set off a bit of a firestorm on the left and the right for the frank manner in which Barr characterizes the left’s “dangerous” approach. . . .
From the Department of Justice website:

As I have said, the Framers fully expected intense pulling and hauling between the Congress and the President. Unfortunately, just in the past few years, we have seen these conflicts take on an entirely new character.
Immediately after President Trump won election, opponents inaugurated what they called “The Resistance,” and they rallied around an explicit strategy of using every tool and maneuver available to sabotage the functioning of his Administration. Now, “resistance” is the language used to describe insurgency against rule imposed by an occupying military power. It obviously connotes that the government is not legitimate. This is a very dangerous – indeed incendiary – notion to import into the politics of a democratic republic. What it means is that, instead of viewing themselves as the “loyal opposition,” as opposing parties have done in the past, they essentially see themselves as engaged in a war to cripple, by any means necessary, a duly elected government. . . .
The fact of the matter is that, in waging a scorched earth, no-holds-barred war of “Resistance” against this Administration, it is the Left that is engaged in the systematic shredding of norms and the undermining of the rule of law. This highlights a basic disadvantage that conservatives have always had in contesting the political issues of the day. It was adverted to by the old, curmudgeonly Federalist, Fisher Ames, in an essay during the early years of the Republic.
In any age, the so-called progressives treat politics as their religion. Their holy mission is to use the coercive power of the State to remake man and society in their own image, according to an abstract ideal of perfection. Whatever means they use are therefore justified because, by definition, they are a virtuous people pursing a deific end. They are willing to use any means necessary to gain momentary advantage in achieving their end, regardless of collateral consequences and the systemic implications. They never ask whether the actions they take could be justified as a general rule of conduct, equally applicable to all sides.

The Obama administration used a bogus “Russian collusion” conspiracy theory as a pretext to engage in illegal surveillance of the Trump campaign, and then tried to conceal their crimes by doubling-down on that narrative. The firing of James Comey at the FBI was then turned into an excuse for the Mueller investigation and, when that failed to provide any evidence of “collusion,” next Democrats turned to this “Ukrainegate” scam. If this fails, they’ll find something else.

All of this is simply a way for Democrats to portray the Trump presidency as illegitimate, as if the 62.9 million Americans who voted for Trump were of no account, because ORANGE MAN BAD!

Category: Constitution, Democrats

The Secret of Liberal ‘Success’

Posted on | November 18, 2019 | Comments Off on The Secret of Liberal ‘Success’

Readers will please excuse last week’s paucity of blog content, as I’ve gotten sucked into The Dreaded Research Vortex again, and at some point you have to commit to 48 hours’ worth of ideological spelunking in a 72-hour span. Add in a few hassles in so-called “real life,” including a trip to the Veteran’s Administration and some baby-sitting duty with a grandchild, and a few hours of nightmare-lashed sleep, you can blow most of a week rather easily this way. Fear not, however, because if I can ever pull this story together, it might be a new book — or maybe another reason for the Southern Poverty Law Center to use me as a “extremist” bogeyman to scare old liberals out of their money. But I digress . . .

The Great Impeachment Witch Hunt has continued, and you didn’t need me to point out the obvious flaws in Chairman Schiff’s show-trial proceedings, because there is always Ace of Spades. God bless that man, who can inform us and laugh out loud at the same time:

Schiff has made up New Rules — unilaterally — that the only Republicans permitted to ask questions are Devin Nunes and a staffer who I think is named Castor. A source says Castor is a good lawyer, but people are telling me he’s coming off as a real blank on TV.
And Schiff made up a rule saying that he would be one of the only twp people to question “Masha” Yavonovich, the former Obama-holdover ambassador to Ukraine fired by Trump.
Of course Trump is permitted to fire her; but the media and Democrats have decided — as they last decided during the Bush presidency, when they declared it was an abuse of office for Bush to fire all of Clinton’s US Attorneys — that Republicans must always retain the political appointees that a Democrat president has hired.
When Nunes moved to yield his time to Ellie Stafanovic, Adam Schiff and his Ten Inch Neck started banging the gavel to shut her up.

No fair-minded person fully informed about this situation would believe that President Trump had done anything wrong (or unconstitutional) in urging Ukraine’s newly-elected president to investigate corruption that appears linked to the “Russian collusion”/MuellerGate attack. Therefore, liberals seek to win by ensuring that the people are not fully informed, but instead are subjected to a nonstop stream of anti-Trump propaganda from CNN and other anti-Trump media outlets. Any fact that contradict the Democrat-dictated narrative are dismissed as “Fox News right-wing conspiracy-theory Republican talking points” or whatever.

At some point, however, the ability of the Democrat-Media Complex to generate a plausible alternative reality is strained beyond its power. Prissy puritanical Chairman Schiff makes a poor “face” for the Democrats, whose base is largely female and/or non-white (and not actually concerned much about U.S. foreign policy). It remains to be seen what will become of this witch-hunt, but the propaganda strategy behind it is obvious. It’s a smear — character assassination — intended to demonize the President, and erode his support.

Category: Donald Trump, Media Bias, Ukraine

Rule Five Sunday: Black Widow

Posted on | November 17, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Has it really been two weeks since the last Rule 5 Sunday? Ugh. Well, nothing for it but to

Indeed.

Yes! Candidate for this week’s appetizer was going to be Scarlett Johannson as Black Widow, but since she’s whining about having been shamelessly exploited for her luscious body as opposed to being shamelessly exploited for her amazing acting talents, I think we’ll cut out the middlewoman and bring the character direct to you, courtesy of comics artist extraordinary & champion Amish rake fighter Frank Cho.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: (last week) Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #797, and Girls With Guns; (this week) Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #804, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.