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Demonic Forces on the Rise?

Posted on | October 2, 2019 | 1 Comment

Evil spirits are at work in the world:

According to a 2018 gathering of exorcists at the Pontifical University of Regina Apostolorum in Rome, the number of requests for exorcisms has tripled over the past decade to about 500,000.
While exorcisms are considered the preserve of the Roman Catholic Church, in recent times there has been a growing interest in Protestant circles over the practice.
In May, the Roman Catholic Church announced that they were opening up their annual exorcism course at the Pontifical University to major Christian denominations, in response to a reported rise in demonic possessions.

How else to explain Adam Schiff?



 

Category: Religion

In The Mailbox: 10.01.19

Posted on | October 1, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who hit my Amazon links in September. Y’all bought a lot of cool stuff!

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Even In An Upscale Neighborhood, Bad Things Happen
EBL: The Cowardly, Craven Chimera #NeverTrumpers
Twitchy: Aaron Calvin Got Fired, But He Still Has Straight White Privilege
Louder With Crowder: Montage Of News Reporting On Fake Hate Hoax Illustrates Fake News Epidemic

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #121 – The Groovy Tunes Episode
American Greatness: Bring On The Biggest Nothingburger Of Them All
American Power: Teaching That America Is Hopelessly Racist
American Thinker: Nobody Noticed When Clinton & Obama Abused Whistleblowers
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Nutty Bolshevik News
Babalu Blog: British Tourists Held Hostage In Cuba Tell Tales Of Woe
BattleSwarm: Bill Maher Slams White Guilt, also, Why Nancy Pelosi Is Screwed
Camp of the Saints: If Hillary Runs, The Left Will Biden Her
Cafe Hayek: Trump Contorted
CDR Salamander: Keeping An Eye On The Long Game, Part LXXXIV
Da Tech Guy: This Is The Part Where We Throw Our Heads Back & Laugh, also, a Thank You To Bill Clinton
Don Surber: Make Them Pay For Impeachment
First Street Journal: Christine Blasey Ford Was Unavailable For Comment
The Geller Report: Texas Double Honor Killing, also, Video Girl Unchained
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Dropping The Chalupa
Hollywood In Toto: Here’s How You Can Help HiT Fight For Red State USA
JustOneMinute: Guyger Guilty In “Wrong Apartment” Shooting
Legal Insurrection: Racial Attack Used By Media To Smear Mike Pence’s Wife A Hoax, also, Photo Shows Joe & Hunter Biden Golfing With Ukraine Gas Company Execs In 2014
The PanAm Post: Trump Punishes Castro For Helping Maduro, also, Bolsonaro At The UN – Globalization Yes, Globalism No
Power Line: This Week In Crazy, also, Racial Discrimination Forever, Harvard Edition
Shark Tank: Bovo Running For Miami-Dade Mayor, Sets Up Matchup With Pinelas
Shot In The Dark: Everybody’s Canceled
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Novel Concept To Politicians, Nunya
The Political Hat: Poe’s Law, Swedish Antichrist Edition
This Ain’t Hell: Sam Seiler, Phony SEAL, also, Fight On, Trump
Victory Girls: Antifa – Don’t Blame Us For Bullying An Elderly Woman & Calling Her A Nazi!
Volokh Conspiracy: Why The 70th Anniversary Of The PRC Should Be A Day Of Mourning
Weasel Zippers: Zuckerberg Says A Warren Presidency Would Be An Existential Threat To Facebook, also, Fairfax County Police Officer Suspended For Cooperating With ICE
Megan McArdle: Please Don’t Make It Too Hard for Republicans To Gate On The Impeachment Train
Mark Steyn: I Thought About You, also, More In Anger Than In Sorrow

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‘Sexually Explicit Text Messages’

Posted on | October 1, 2019 | 3 Comments

Six years ago, when former Rep. Anthony Weiner was caught for the second time in a “sexting” scandal, I read my teenage son the Riot Act. “Never put anything in a text message you wouldn’t want to see on the front page of the New York Times!” I shouted at my son, then only 14.

As parents, we have a responsibility to warn our children about the dangers of communication technology, and I’m happy to say that so far — knock on wood — none of my kids have been implicated in any such scandals. You simply can’t be too careful about these things, when people are losing their jobs over social-media posts from years ago.

“Cancel culture” isn’t the only danger, however. A tragic story from Tennessee highlights the potential danger of text-messaging:

A Tennessee teenager took his own life after being outed as bisexual by classmates who bullied him, according to his family.
Channing Smith, a 16-year-old student at Coffee County Central High School in Manchester, Tennessee, died by suicide last week, leaving his family looking for answers. The family said it reached out to the teen’s friends, classmates and social media connections and found out the shocking truth.
The teen had sent sexually explicit text messages to another boy shortly before his death. The recipient shared screenshots of the private messages with a female classmate, who released them on social media, according to his family.
Smith was not out at the time and the exposed messages led to incessant cyberbullying, the family said. He allegedly told a classmate about his plans to end his life due to the bullying, but she did not report the threats.

The kid’s family has turned this into a story about “hate” (“Being gay shouldn’t be a death sentence”) but if you don’t want to be “outed,” maybe don’t be sending “sexually explicit text messages”?

Really, would it have been any better if the kid had been sending heterosexual explicit messages? That could have led to accusations of “harassment” that might have been just as damaging. There is simply nothing good that can result from talking dirty on text messages. Before cell phones, before social media, before the Internet, there was a lot of stuff people got away with because of plausible deniability.

“So-and-so said you did this.” Yeah? Well, good luck proving it, officer. I have the right to have my attorney present during questioning, and otherwise, I have nothing to say to you. Simply by exercising your Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, a clever hoodlum could beat the rap on a lot of stuff, but nowadays? These stupid kids are always texting everything or blasting it out on social media, and they don’t seem to realize they’re creating evidence against themselves.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about grand larceny or sex — if it’s not something you want the whole world to know, you really shouldn’t be putting it in a text message, or an email, or any other form of communication that creates a permanent digital record.

By the way, the son I warned so strongly during the Anthony Weiner scandal? He deleted his Facebook account and has never been on Twitter.

Smart kids should consider emulating my son’s example.



 

Category: Gays

Racist Attack on Child Makes National News, Turns Out to Be a Hoax

Posted on | October 1, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Gosh, I wonder why this story was considered so newsworthy?

An alleged anti-black hate incident at a Washington, D.C.-area middle school that media outlets tried to link to Vice President Mike Pence’s wife was a hoax, the school said Monday.
Amari Allen, 12, accused three white classmates earlier in September of pinning her down and cutting off her dreadlocks during an attack at Immanuel Christian School, a private school in Springfield, Virginia.
“They said my hair was nappy and I was ugly,” Allen, a sixth-grader, told NBC Washington in an emotional interview.
The story received national attention not just because of the attack, but also because the school has a high-profile faculty member: Karen Pence.
The second lady teaches art at the school two days a week.
NBC News and other outlets highlighted Pence’s job at Immanuel, which has come under the spotlight because the school adheres to traditional Christian teachings and reserves the right to expel gay and transgender students.

Video montage of how the media covered the story when it broke:

 

Do you suppose that the media will devote as much coverage to the exposure that Amari Allen lied about the whole thing? I think not.

Here is a list of 60 “hate crime” hoaxes since 2001.



 

Category: Crime, Media Bias, Racism

The Question the Democrats Don’t Want You to Ask: Who Is Alexandra Chalupa?

Posted on | October 1, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Bombshell news from The Washington Times:

Two top Republican senators on Monday asked the Justice Department to investigate claims that Democrats worked with Ukrainian officials to dig up dirt on President Trump ahead of the 2016 election.
GOP Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Charles E. Grassley of Iowa sent a letter to Attorney General William P. Barr asking for more information about whether Ukrainian officials sought to undermine Mr. Trump’s campaign. They also want to know more about 2020 Democratic presidential front-runner, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s interactions with Ukrainian officials.
“Ukrainian efforts abetted by a U.S. political party to interfere in the 2016 election should not be ignored,” the senators wrote. “Such allegations of corruption deserve due scrutiny, and the American people have a right to know when foreign forces attempted to undermine our Democrat processes.”
The letter comes just days after the Justice Department revealed U.S. Attorney John Durham is investigating whether Ukraine was involved in any efforts to meddle in the 2016 election.

From the Grassley-Johnson letter:

At the center of this plan was Alexandra Chalupa, described by reports as a Ukrainian-American operative “who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee” and who reportedly met with Ukrainian officials during the presidential election for the express purpose of exposing alleged ties between then-candidate Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, and Russia. Politico also reported on a Financial Times story that quoted a Ukrainian legislator, Serhiy Leschenko, as saying that Trump’s candidacy caused “Kiev’s wider political leadership to do something they would never have attempted before: intervene, however indirectly, in a U.S. election.”
The July 20, 2017 letter further noted that the Democratic National Committee encouraged Chalupa to work with Ukrainian embassy staff to “arrange an interview in which Poroshenko [the president of Ukraine] might discuss Manafort’s ties to Yanukovych.” In March 2016, Chalupa met with Valeriy Chaly, Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S., and Oksana Shulyar, a top aid to the Ukrainian ambassador, to share her alleged concerns about Manafort. Reports state that the purpose of that initial meeting was to “organize a June reception at the embassy to promote Ukraine.” However, another Ukrainian embassy official, Andrii Telizhenko, told Politico that Shulyar instructed him to assist Chalupa with research to connect Trump, Manafort, and the Russians. He reportedly said, “[t]hey were coordinating an investigation with the Hillary team on Paul Manafort with Alexandra Chalupa” and that “Oksana [Shulyar] was keeping it all quiet…the embassy worked very closely with” Chalupa. In a May 2019 article, Telizhenko was quoted as saying,

[Chalupa] said the DNC wanted to collect evidence that Trump, his organization and Manafort were Russian assets, working to hurt the U.S. and working with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin against the U.S. interests. She indicated if we could find the evidence they would introduce it in Congress in September and try to build a case that Trump should be removed from the ballot, from the election.

Reportedly, Telizhenko was instructed by the Ukrainian government to meet with an American journalist about Paul Manafort’s ties to Ukraine. In addition, in May 2016, Chalupa emailed a DNC official stating that she met with 68 Ukrainian investigative journalists about Manafort and that there would be “[a] lot more coming down the pipe.”

Here is a complicated but useful summary of Chalupa’s involvement, including her connection to infamous bomber Brett Kimberlin.

In June 2018, Lee Stranahan briefed me on this story:

Alexandra Chalupa was a DNC staffer who left that job in summer 2016 to focus full-time on the Trump/Russia angle. Her association with Kimberlin was reported in 2017. Yet until Lee started poking around, no one seems to have caught the significance of her Facebook post, in which she asserted that “The Protectors” (apparently an online front for Kimberlin’s tax-exempt Justice Through Music Project, and likely involving Neal Rauhauser) had “teamed up” with federal agencies to encourage investigation of the phony Russian “collusion” narrative. Such a connection, if proven, would almost certainly be of interest to current DOJ officials trying to get to the bottom of so-called “Deep State” efforts by federal employees to sabotage the Trump administration.

Glenn Reynolds: “We need to get to the bottom of this — and the fear that we will is why the Democrats and their press enablers are getting so crazy.” After her name was mentioned by Rep. Devin Nunes last week, Alexandra Chalupa had a meltdown on Twitter. Stay tuned . . .



 

Category: Corruption, Democrats, Ukraine

In The Mailbox: 09.30.19

Posted on | September 30, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The folks at Ammo.com, in addition to sending along the article below, asked me to mention their Resistance Library, whose aim is to arm their customers philosophically as well as physically. There’s some interesting reading in it. Worth checking out.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: Forgive Me For I Have Sinned
357 Magnum: Quote Of The Day
Ammo.com: Food Is Freedom – How Washington’s Food Subsidies Have Made You Fat & Sick
EBL: Happy Birthday Hoover Dam
Twitchy: Intel Officials Alarmed That AG Barr Taking Direct Role In Investigating “Conspiracy Theories”
Louder With Crowder: Girl Who Claimed Three White Boys Attacked Her Admits She Was Making It All Up

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Importance Of Sleep And Relaxation
American Greatness: Impeachment Coup Analytics, also, Biden Campaign Pressures Media To Stop Booking Giuliani
American Power: What John Durham Has Found May Be Very Different From What The Democrats Are Looking For
American Thinker: Adam Schiff’s Impeachment Fun Playhouse, also, The Cynical Plot Behind Global Warming Hysteria
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Socialism In Action – Monthly Food Ration Distributed By Castro Regime Only Provides 10 Days’ Food
BattleSwarm: Will Hurd Running For President? Nope. also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Camp of the Saints: Review – Ken Burns’ #CountryMusic PBS Part II
Cafe Hayek: Economic Ignorance 101, also, Optimal Schmoptimal
CDR Salamander: If No More 355, How Can USCG Be More Help?
Da Tech Guy: Feds Setting Up Massive Corruption Net In Chicagoland, also, The End Is Nigh
Don Surber: Echo Chamber Madness, also, Highlights Of The News
First Street Journal: Maybe They Ought To Consider Men Who Actually Work For A Living
The Geller Report: 40% Of German Welfare Recipients Are Muslim Migrants, also, African Jihadis Execute Two Christian Aid Workers
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Two Words For Democrats Advocating Impeachment
Hollywood In Toto: Only Conservative Media Call Out Hollywood Eco-Hypocrites, also, DVD Autopsy – The Banana Splits Movie
Joe For America: Rolling Thunder Chief Predicts If Trump Impeached, Bikers Will Descend On DC, also, Citizen Confronts Adam Schiff At Airport About Lying To Congress
JustOneMinute: Prior To The Invention Of “Jobs Created Or Saved”
Legal Insurrection: “Resistance By Whistleblower” Was Part Of The Anti-Trump Plan From The Start, also, State Department Intensifies Investigation Into Hillary’s E-Mail Server Practices
The PanAm Post: Evo Morales Blames The Rich For Environmental Damage As His Fortune Triples
Power Line: NYC Bans Wrongthink, also, Adam Schiff As The Voice Of Reason?
Shark Tank: FL State Rep Cindy Polo’s “Hateful & Divisive” Ideology
Shot In The Dark: Running Out Of Options
STUMP: Divestment & ESG Follies – The Case For Divestment In Public Pension Plans
The Political Hat: News Of The Week
This Ain’t Hell: De Blasio Is Back In Town, Unfortunately, also, VA To Share Veterans’ Information Without Their Consent
Victory Girls: Karen Pence Blamed For Attack – Which Was A Hoax
Volokh Conspiracy: “Stairway To Heaven” & The Scope Of Musical Copyright
Weasel Zippers: Antifa Harass, Scream In Face Of Elderly Woman In Walker, also, Rudy Reads Ukrainian Prosecutor Affidavit To ABC – Confirms Prosecutor Was Investigating Burisma, Removed By Biden pressure
Mark Steyn: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, also, Blackface Narcissus

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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Sunday: Summertime Girls

Posted on | September 30, 2019 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I guess most of the country’s moved on to autumn, what with Labor Day being almost a month in the past, football season underway, and friends in states next to Canada already being vexed with snow, but here in Sin City it’s still warm enough to hit the beaches, and where there are beaches there must be lifeguards, hopefully as pretty as Angelica Bridges, seen here reprising her role in Baywatch for a 2016 photoshoot.

All this and brains too. Note that Ms. Bridges wisely encourages healthy hydration!

Ninety Miles From Tyranny dives in with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #755, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Oblivious Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s heifers this week include June Carter, Connie Smith, Kate Phillips, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Dolly, & Loretta Lynn, “You Ain’t Woman Enough”, and Jeannie C. Riley.

A View From The Beach reels in Carnival Row Cuties, Fish Pic Friday – Bow Babes, Iman Don’t Wanna Live Like a Refugee,  More Wednesday Water Bottles, “Fever”, Striped Bass vs Red Drum, A Long Ride, Just Another Palm Sunday and Whence “Fake News”?

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe is Angie Dickinson, and at Bacon Time, it’s Rule Five Eddie Money RIP.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

 

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Category: Rule 5

‘Shared Values’ = $195 Million

Posted on | September 29, 2019 | 1 Comment

In order to “remove arbitrary barriers in our community, and provide leadership that is reflective of our shared values,” the city of Portland, Oregon, will spend $195 million to remove urinals from restrooms in a municipally-owned office building. That’s right — if guys want to take a leak, they can pee in a stall in the new gender-neutral toilets. And to repeat, this will cost Portland taxpayers $195,000,000.

Do you suppose that women will be happy with this result? Because knowing what I know about men, women and toilets, I think not. Most women would prefer never to have to use a public restroom, but if they must do so, they want that restroom to be very clean. And this condition will be hard to obtain in gender-neutral public facilities with no urinals.

And did I mention they’re spending $195,000,000 to do this? Because you extrapolate that to account for every public toilet in America, and the cost of gender-neutral restrooms nationwide won’t be cheap. But it will enable government bureaucrats to lecture us about “our shared values.”

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)



 

Category: The Transgender Cult
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