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Hunter Biden Settles Child-Support Arrangement With Arkansas Stripper

Posted on | January 28, 2020 | Comments Off on Hunter Biden Settles Child-Support Arrangement With Arkansas Stripper

 

We have previously discussed Lunden Alexis Roberts, the 29-year-old Arkansas woman who worked (under the stage name “Dallas”) at a D.C. strip club, where she met Joe Biden’s son, who fathered a bastard child with her. Now comes the news that Hunter Biden, 49, has agreed to pay his baby mama child support retroactive to November 2018, with monthly payments thereafter, and also to pay her court costs and attorneys’ fees. The amount of the settlement is undisclosed, but it is almost certainly a few hundred thousands dollars, lump sum, and three or four thousand a month thereafter. You might suppose that this would be considered big news, coming as it does during the impeachment trial of President Trump, whose alleged “high crimes and misdemeanors” were related to his desire to have Ukraine investigate Hunter Biden’s corrupt deal with the natural gas firm Burisma.

Here is one tiny snippet of the story:

Biden, who is a lawyer, originally denied having sex with Roberts.
But a DNA showed that the child was almost certainly his, and he stopped contesting paternity in the case.

So . . . Biden lied. He did not merely lie, but he lied to a court, and what happens to lawyers who lie in court? Isn’t disbarment appropriate? Perhaps there is some loophole for lying about sex, but whatever the case may be in terms of legal ethics, it is now established as a fact that you can never trust a Biden to tell the truth. Dishonesty is a hereditary trait, and yet every “mainstream” (i.e., liberal) news organization thinks we should just accept Joe Biden’s word that Hunter didn’t do anything wrong in accepting an $83,000-a-month “job” with Burisma:

A defense attorney for President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial slammed Hunter Biden’s employment with Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings, saying the former vice president’s son lacked the experience necessary to land the job and its salary.
“Hunter Biden is paid over $83,000 a month, while the average American family of four during that time, each year, made less than $54,000, and that’s according to U.S. Census Bureau during that time,” said Pam Bondi.
Bondi, 54, submitted a list of articles she said shows Biden did not have the background required to sit on the board of Burisma. She suggested it was his connection to his father that helped secure the lucrative gig and shield him from legal and congressional inquiries.
“When speaking with ABC News about his qualifications to be on Burisma’s board, Hunter Biden didn’t point to any of the usual qualifications of a board member,” she said. “Hunter Biden had no experience in natural gas, no experience in the energy sector, no experience with Ukrainian regulatory affairs. As far as we know, he doesn’t speak Ukrainian.”
She added, “So, naturally, the media has asked questions about his board membership. Why was Hunter Biden on this board?”

But there’s no corruption worth investigating when Democrats do it. Just the cocaine-addicted son of the former vice president, impregnating strippers while on the payroll of Ukrainian kleptocrats — you’re promoting a “right-wing conspiracy theory” if you want to investigate.


 

Category: Corruption, Joe Biden, Ukraine

In The Mailbox: 01.27.20

Posted on | January 27, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: So What Happens When Engineers Get It Wrong?
Ammo.com: The Oregon Standoff
EBL: Kobe & Gianna Bryant, RIP
Twitchy: Mollie Hemingway, Sean Davis Notice What ISN’T In John Bolton & Publisher’s “Oddly Limited Statement” About NYT Story
Louder With Crowder: Wuhan Whistleblower Indicates Coronavirus Is Much Worse Than We Think

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #132 – The Intelligent Women Episode
American Conservative: “Impossible Whopper” Shouldn’t Replace Your Hamburger
American Greatness: The Grubby Corruption Of Our Power Elite, also, Pete Buttigieg Tells Pro-Life Democrat She Doesn’t Belong In The Democrat Party
American Power: Joe Rogan Endorses Bernie Sanders, Chaos Ensues
American Thinker: The Deep State Tapestry Of Deceit Is Beginning To Unravel
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Spain’s Socialists Working With Castro Regime To Destroy Democracy In Latin America
BattleSwarm: Coronavirus Pandemic Update, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Cafe Hayek: Proponents Of Industrial Policy & Protectionism Know No Economics
CDR Salamander: Watching The Surface Force With David Larter – On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: House Democrats Are Trying To Californicate The Country, also, Illinois Red-Light Camera Probe Provides Convincing Evidence Why They Should Be Banned
Don Surber: The Lightness Of Being Peggy Noonan, also, Writing Off Gun Owners
First Street Journal: How The Media Are Ignoring The Truth
Fred On Everything: Sexbots, Robots, Neural Networks, Weird Oriental Games, & The Spores Of Skynet
The Geller Report: Young Muslim Boy Executes Nigerian Christian In Horrifying Video, also, Ilhan Omar Now Being Investigated By FBI For Marrying Her Brother
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, A First Class Villain?
Hollywood In Toto: Critics Go Ga Ga Over Taylor Swift’s Miss Americana, also, Why Joe Rogan Must Fight Cancel Culture Smears
Joe For America: Motion Drafted To Subpoena Schiff, The “Whistleblower”, & The Bidens 
JustOneMinute: Meanwhile, Back In Australia
Legal Insurrection: Democrats “Kavanaughing” Impeachment Trial As Predicted, also, SCOTUS Approves Trump’s “Public Charge” Immigration Rule
Power Line: Terroristic Threats By Omar’s Enforcer, also, Liberalism Causes Achievement Gaps
Shark Tank: DeSantis To Administer Civics Test Similar To Citizenship Test
Shot In The Dark: Pretty Much Any/Every Day On Twitter
STUMP: Retirement Crisis Solution – Kill The Elderly
The Political Hat: Biology Fail
This Ain’t Hell: USAF Captain Convicted On Drug Charges Skips Sentencing Hearing, Kills Himself, also, Fake SEAL Gets Sentenced
Victory Girls: I Was Wrong – They Want War
Volokh Conspiracy: The Montana Blaine Amendment Case
Weasel Zippers: So That’s Why Schiff Won’t Release The Transcript Of The 18th Witness, also, Cindy McCain Admits “We All Knew” About Epstein
Mark Steyn: Impeachment Non-Watch, also, Rope

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The Basketball World Mourns ‘Mamba’

Posted on | January 27, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

It’s been years since I paid attention to the NBA, or to basketball generally. When I was a sports editor in the 1980s, of course, I followed the game, but in my mind, the Golden Age of Basketball was when Larry Bird’s Celtics battled Magic Johnson’s Lakers back in the 1980s. Still, when the news flashed Sunday that Kobe Bryant had been killed in a helicopter crash, I knew that this was a great tragedy.

The son of a former NBA player (his dad played with Dr. J), Bryant was a high-school sensation who turned down college scholarships to go directly into the NBA, and became the youngest player ever to play in a professional game. His second season with the Lakers, he became the youngest All-Star in league history, and his third season — when he was still only 20 years old — “marked Bryant’s emergence as a premier guard in the league.” Imagine being a two-time NBA All-Star before your peers have reached their senior year in college, and yet Bryant was only beginning to astonish the basketball world. In the next three seasons, the Lakers won three consecutive NBA championships, with Shaquille O’Neal and Bryant forming an indomitable scoring duo in the historic “three-peat.” Later, in 2009-2010, Bryant again led the Lakers to back-to-back titles. How many players have ever had five NBA championship rings? Nicknamed “Mamba” by fans, Kobe retired after the 2016 season with a career scoring average of 25 points per game over 20 seasons, having led the league in scoring twice and played in 12 All-Star games.

 

Bryant was married nearly 20 years to his wife Vanessa, whom he first met in 1999, and they had four daughters; the oldest — Gigi, 13 — was killed in Sunday’s helicopter crash with her father. Fans built a makeshift shrine to their hero outside the Staples Center arena in L.A.

While fans were mourning, and as President Trump was paying tribute to the NBA legend, a writer for the Washington Post had other ideas:

A Washington Post journalist has been suspended by the newspaper after she tweeted a link on Sunday to a years-old story about the Kobe Bryant rape case just hours after the basketball legend and his daughter were killed in a helicopter crash.
Felicia Sonmez, who covers national politics for the Post, took to Twitter shortly after the world learned of Bryant’s death along with eight others aboard his private helicopter which crashed outside of Los Angeles.
She posted a link to an April 2016 story from the news site The Daily Beast which carried the headline: ‘Kobe Bryant’s Disturbing Rape Case: The DNA Evidence, the Accuser’s Story, and the Half-Confession.’ . . .
Sonmez deleted the tweets due to the overwhelming backlash, but others on Twitter screengrabbed the posts and responded with disgust.

 

She got the ratio from hell — more than 20,000 negative reactions — on Twitter, and continued digging until she nearly lost her job. I’m sure she’ll be reinstated after her suspension, but what shall we say about this? I remember that 2003 case, and my attitude at the time was that when an NBA player invites a woman to his hotel room, she should know what her acceptance of the invitation implies. I mean, c’mon — when NBA players leave the arena after a game, they are thronged by women desperate to be their companions for the night, and Kobe was an All-Star who had just won three consecutive championships. The fact that Kobe was married, of course, should have restrained his advances, but many high-status married men (famously including former President Bill Clinton) seem to regard their marital vows as non-binding.

The story linked by the Washington Post reporter includes details that highlight the way these “he-said/she-said” incidents so often develop: Kobe was obviously a man who had seldom been rejected. She kissed him and, well, where did she expect this to lead? She’s a 19-year-old Colorado hotel clerk, and he’s a multimillionaire athletic superstar, and certainly we can imagine that Kobe thought any display of reluctance on her part was just “playing hard to get.” Also, we must factor into this equation the matter of race: His accuser was white, and while she evidently was not a racist (she told police she was initially “excited” when she learned the NBA star was staying at the hotel, and apparently didn’t mind kissing him), but what did Kobe think? Did the NBA superstar imagine that this teenage hotel clerk was rejecting his advances merely because he was black? I don’t mean to defend Kobe insofar as what happened was clearly wrong (as he himself later admitted), but rather to explain How Things Really Are, as opposed to How Some People Wish Things Were.

It’s all fine and good to avow “color-blindness,” and to denounce as racism — there are five A’s in “RAAAAACIST!” — any deviation from such an ideal, but not everyone thinks that way. Even people who disavow racism will often behave in ways that are race-conscious. This is true of people of every race, and if Kobe felt he was being disrespected because a white woman spurned his romantic advances, he would certainly not be the first black man to feel that way. What we need, as a society, is more license to discuss our feelings on such subjects without fear of being swarmed by a mob of Social Justice Warriors if we deviate from whatever the official “progressive” attitude is supposed to be.

Live long enough, and you’ll see liberals do a 180-degree turn on many issues, and the way Kobe was treated in the aftermath of that 2003 rape accusation is certainly such a case. Once upon a time, liberals would have defended a black man accused in any similar circumstance, but nowadays the feminists have decided that lynch mobs are “progressive” and defending due process of law makes you a right-wing extremist. Liberals have also done a 180-degree turn on free speech. I’m old enough to remember when liberals adamantly defended all manner of things — including Communist professors and federal grants for pornographic art — on First Amendment grounds. Today’s progressives, however, act like the Thought Police, vigilantly on the lookout for any evidence of racism, sexism or homophobia. Even I, who laugh at being hate-listed by the SPLC, must carefully weigh my words when writing about these issues, lest I offend some of my conservative friends who are eager to avoid any guilt-by-association with a Thought Criminal.

We should remember Kobe Bryant for what he accomplished as one of the greatest basketball players in the history of the game. I loathe the tendency to inject politics into every aspect of our lives, and if Felicia Sonmez learns anything from her experience, let us hope she learns that sports fans don’t want her “woke” attitude anywhere near their games.

Hey, Felicia: Why do you think we elected Donald Trump, anyway?


 

Category: Racism, Sports

Rule 5 Sunday: Ayako Kawasumi

Posted on | January 26, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Much like David Weber’s Honor Harrington novels, which have expanded in size and number to the point where I despair of ever catching up on all the damn books, the Fate/Stay Night franchise of games, manga, and anime has exploded all over the place and mutated in several directions, many of which aren’t available in English. Still, one can appreciate the art and the voice actresses involved in the series, most notably Ayako Kawasumi, who provides the voice for Saber, the face of the franchise. Kawasumi is a veteran voice actress, with an extensive list of credits in classic anime such as Angelic Layer, Mahoromatic, the ./Hack series, and Ai Yori Aoshi. Here she is posing as Saber, and I’ve included the actual Saber for comparison. And cuteness.

Kawasumi-san as Saber.

Saber in full fig

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #874, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Second Secession Friday and the return of the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s heifers this week include Wisconsin Cheese Babes, #TargetTori, Black Guns Matter, Coronavirus, Tulsi Vs. Hillary, Norma Gale, Bonnie McKee, Michelle Lewis, Lonia Haeger, and Corona Outbreak.

A View From The Beach presents Beach Bunny – Kara del Toro, Fish Pic Friday – Marissa Everhart, Tattoo Thursday, EPA Weighs in on Bay Striper Regs, Another Wet Shirt Wednesday, Hail to Thee Our Alma Mater – OSU Girl Goes All Pro, Skynet Just Giggled, A Muddy Monday Morning and Palm Sunday.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe of the Week is Janet Leigh. Don’t shower alone!

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: I’ve Got The Brains, You’ve Got The Looks

Posted on | January 26, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Governor Northam Couldn’t Be Setting Up A “Reichstag Fire” Event, Could He?
Bacon Time
The Political Hat
Dark Brightness
A View From The Beach
EBL

Rule 5 Monday: Stacey Dash
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

You Heard It Here First, Folks
EBL

Stoners and Stalinists: Sanders Campaign Staff Is Exactly What You’d Expect
EBL

In The Mailbox: Sunday Leftovers Edition
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Disintegration
A View From The Beach
EBL

Is Noah Berlatsky a Pedophile?
EBL

Be Careful in Richmond, Please
Dark Brightness
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.20.20
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

A Mass Shooting CNN Won’t Notice
357 Magnum
Bacon Time
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.21.20
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Another Crisis for the Wombat?
A View From The Beach
EBL

Impeachment Circus Update
Dark Brightness
A View From The Beach
EBL

Eric Ciaramella Is the ‘Whistleblower’ and Other Things You’re Not Allowed to Say
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

I AM NOT WORTHY
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.22.20
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL

McCain Killed in Shootout
357 Magnum
EBL

Jonathan ‘Jessica’ Yaniv in Jail?
Wizbang Blog
EBL

Hint: They’re Not ‘Supreme’
Dark Brightness
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.23.20
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Why Does @Victoria_Spratt Hate Men?
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.24.20
357 Magnum
A View from The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending January 24:

  1.  EBL (22)
  2.  A View From The Beach (12)
  3.  357 Magnum (9)
  4.  Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the linkagery!

 

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Category: FMJRA Award

White Guilt at 28°F: $50,176 a Year

Posted on | January 26, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

Let’s begin with the obvious question: If you wanted to send your children to a not-very-prestigious private liberal arts college, why would you choose to send them to one in Moorhead, Minnesota? Concordia College doesn’t even make the top 100 list at U.S. News, and the annual cost of attendance is $50,176 including room and board. Supposing that you are an affluent parent with a kid too dumb to get into Duke or Dartmouth, but you still want to blow $200,000 on your child’s college education, why send them to a campus in Minnesota where the high temperature today will be 28°F? Aren’t there better bargains?

 

Consider, for example, Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) where, even with out-of-state tuition, the annual cost is $31,280 including room and board, and your child could spend their leisure hours under the palm trees on the beach at Sanibel. Even in late January, the high temperatures in Fort Myers are about 70°F, and I can’t imagine that a degree from Concordia has so much more prestige than an FGCU diploma that you’d spend an extra $80,000 to send your kid to frosty Minnesota where they can be lectured about their “white privilege”:

For this past Monday’s Martin Luther King Day, Minnesota’s Concordia College offered a racially segregated seminar titled “How to Embrace Your Inner Racist: A Session for White People.”
One of many “concurrent sessions” offered throughout the day, Professor Ahmed Afzaal’s “Inner Racist” discussion noted that participants would be able to “recognize and acknowledge that there is a nasty little racist inside them, and to do so without becoming angry or defensive.”
In addition, attendees would then “describe the skills of psychological flexibility that they must develop in order to make authentic choices in defiance of their racist tendencies.”
While the workshop included a special note that it was for whites only, the school wouldn’t stop “people of color from attending.” Nevertheless, non-whites needed to be aware “that their presence in the room [was] likely to interfere with the effectiveness of the session.”
Afzaal is a professor of religion at Concordia.
According to the college’s “MLK Day 2020 Theme” page,

they [sic] year 2020 marks the 401st anniversary of slavery in the US. On this day, we ask that you reflect on the progress that has and has not been made in eliminating racial and economic injustices in the U.S. We ask that we be intentional in examining 1) the social systems of race and economics, 2) the role that whiteness plays in keeping us stuck in the space of “negative peace”, and 3) the role that white moderates/Dreamers play in being “obstacles to change.”

Keynote speakers for Monday’s celebration included Ijeoma Oluo, whose writings calling for white people to “find themselves” were part of a 2018 Humboldt State racial identity workshop. Also featured was Janaya Khan, a black, queer, gender-nonconforming activist [and] staunch Afrofuturist and social-justice educator.”
In addition, a “Tunnel of Oppression” was available on January 20 and 24 which “call[ed] attention to the unarmed black and brown lives lost to police violence.” It also “highlight[ed] information about each life lost, as a way to emphasize the impact of police violence.”

Really? Does your child need this? Does anyone need this? How much of a fool do you have to be to pay more than $50,000 a year so your kid can experience the “Tunnel of Oppression” and be taught to “recognize and acknowledge that there is a nasty little racist inside them”? And you’re subjecting them to this in Moorhead, Minnesota? Nah, man — send your kids to Florida and let ’em be nasty little racists under the palm trees.

Bonus: Florida Gulf Coast University is in Lee County.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)


 

Category: Education, Racism

How Desperate Do You Have to Be?

Posted on | January 26, 2020 | Comments Off on How Desperate Do You Have to Be?

 

Even if you could get laid this way, would it be worth it?

People on OKCupid are swiping right on climate action — or something? I’ve never used a dating app.
But I do know the company has filters so you can get rid of climate deniers when you’re searching for someone, whether it’s The One or a one-night stand. In a viral tweet earlier this week, the company highlighted the feature. And it turns out a lot of people use it. Not only that, climate is becoming an increasingly popular mention in profiles, a trend that reflects broader changes in society.
In data shared with Earther, the company said there’s been a 240 percent increase in mentions of environmental terms on people’s profiles like “climate change,” “environment,” “global warming,” “Greta Thunberg” and “recycle.”
An overwhelming majority of OKCupid users also care about the climate crisis. Ninety-seven percent of them believe climate change is real, and 82 percent say they’re concerned about it. More 90 percent of users also said they’d take action to correct something they do after discovering it’s bad for the environment.

How many times do I have to repeat this? Online dating is for losers. If you’re so desperate for companionship that you’re using OKCupid, you need to contemplate how you life went wrong, reconsider your lifestyle choices, and perhaps seek professional counseling. Six weeks in a rehab center, maybe, where you go to workshops with titles like, “Stop Staring at Your Smartphone and Talk to Human Beings Occasionally, You Dork.”

Think about the type of people for whom “caring about the climate crisis” is a major life priority. Do you want to have sex with those people? If so, why? To settle a grudge, perhaps. What kind of pervert are you, having erotic fantasies about Greta Thunberg? But to continue:

“Since your match percentage with someone shows how compatible you two are, if you are a climate change activist and they think climate change is fake news, your match percentage is going to decrease,” Michael Kaye, OKCupid’s Global Communication Manager, told Earther in an email. Since most people on the platform aren’t climate deniers, that means vocally caring about the climate crisis is helping people get laid. . . .
“In my experience, people are finding that it’s really difficult to have an intimate relationship unless there’s a really deep alignment on how we’re relating to the issue,” [said] Renee Lertzman, a psychologist who specializes in the melancholic psychological responses to environmental crises . . .
“I’ve talked to a number of people who are experiencing a number of relational difficulties because of the way they respond to these issues,” she said. “People may be struggling with a lot of depression, with anxiety, with agitation, and their partner may not be equipped to handle it and might not relate to having that kind of response.”

Right — nothing like a hook-up with someone who has been overwhelmed with existential gloom ever since their seventh-grade teacher made them watch Earth in the Balance in science class. Do you need that kind of negativity in your life? If the entire planet is doomed — hopelessly and irretrievably doomed by CO2 emissions — why bother dating at all? Just reduce your carbon footprint by jumping off a bridge.

Climate-change cultists claim to worship at the altar of Science, but either they skipped the “survival of the fittest” chapter of Darwinian evolution, or else they think this principle only applied in prehistoric times.

Question: The purpose of dating is . . .?

Answer: To find a mate.

Question: The purpose of mating is . . .?

Answer: To reproduce.

Ergo, the process of mate selection (which is what dating actually is, or should be) is about evaluating potential partners in terms of their overall fitness as a future parent. What traits do you consider desirable, not just physically, but also in terms of personality? If you want your children to be, for example, tall and blue-eyed, then you would screen out the short brown-eyed people as potential partners. And if you want you children to be optimistic and cheerful, you screen out the people who are gloomy and pessimistic. This is why dating climate-change activists is a waste of time, because they are committed to an ideology of despair that views human existence, per se, as a threat to the planet.

This is what most young environmentalists simply don’t know about their own movement. It originated from the same cabal of wealthy misanthropes whose neo-Malthusian obsessions brought us eugenics and The Population Bomb: The idea that there are too many people on the planet, and that the wrong people — brown people — are having “too many” children. “Climate change” is really a euphemism for lebensraum.

So that’s two reasons not to date climate-change fanatics:

  1. They subscribe to a pessimistic and depressing worldview;
    and
  2. They are the kind of fools who are easily deceived by propaganda.

Avoid such people. Do not even bother arguing with them, because it’s a waste of time to try to deprive fools of their folly. They are like Pleistocene mammoths, destined to perish in the La Brea Tar Pits.


 

Category: Global Warming

‘Living the Dream’ With @_32baby.k9_

Posted on | January 25, 2020 | Comments Off on ‘Living the Dream’ With @_32baby.k9_

 

Last weekend’s celebration of Martin Luther King Day in San Antonio, Texas, featured a hiphop concert in the city’s River Walk district:

The 19-year-old accused of shooting and killing two men and injuring five others at a River Walk-area bar on Sunday appears to have been scheduled to perform at the music event where the incident took place.
An Instagram account belonging to suspect Kiernan Williams contains a photo of the flyer for “Living the Dream,” the music event hosted at Ventura Sunday night. Williams’ stage name “32Baby K9” is included on the promotional graphic. He touted the event on his Instagram account as his second show and asked his supporters to ask him for discounts on admission.
Robert Jay Martinez, 20, and Alejandro Robles, 25, were killed at the event. A woman, 46, and four male victims ranging in age from 16 to 19, are expected to survive their injuries, police said.
Williams will face two counts of capital murder and other charges, Police Chief William McManus said.
Williams was arrested Monday afternoon. After being interviewed by police, he told a scrum of reporters and cameras to “follow” him on Instagram. He also admitted to shooting the two, but he did not know them. He said the disagreement started because one of the victims was upset that Williams “bumped” into him.
“He told me because I bumped into him he was going to kill me,” Williams said while being escorted to a police vehicle in handcuffs.

 

You see that the “Dream” in the title of this event was a reference to MLK’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, but I don’t recall anything about shooting a couple of Mexicans in the club in that speech. Kiernan (a/k/a “32babyK9”) claims that he was acting in self-defense:

Witnesses on scene said the shooter, later identified as 19-year-old Kiernan Christopher Williams, got into a verbal and physical confrontation with 20-year-old Robert Jay Martinez III during a concert at Ventura Bar, according to an arrest affidavit.
One witness said they had turned away from the argument when they heard the gunfire erupt, the affidavit said. Another witness said they saw Williams intentionally shoot Martinez, the document continued.
Williams then continued to fire his weapon into the crowded venue, hitting six other people, police said.
Martinez died on scene with a gunshot wound to the chest. The second victim, 25-year-old Alejandro Robles, was shot once in the back and later died at the hospital. . . .
Witnesses were able to identify Williams from a photo lineup, the affidavit said. He was arrested Monday near the 100 block of S. Zarzamora Street.
After his arrest, Williams told reporters he acted in self-defense as he was put into the back of a police vehicle.

How is it “self-defense” when you shoot seven people, including a 46-year-old woman? Even if it could be shown that Williams had reasonable grounds to believe Martinez was a threat, he’s still got to explain why he kept firing more or less randomly into the crowd. But my hunch is “32babyK9” hasn’t spent a lot of time studying Texas law, so he’s probably going to be “living the dream” in prison the rest of his life.


 

Category: Crime, Racism, Texas
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