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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Is Noah Berlatsky a Pedophile?

Posted on | January 19, 2020 | Comments Off on Is Noah Berlatsky a Pedophile?

 

 

“Fascists love to use accusations of pedophilia as a way to invalidate and destroy enemies.”
— Noah Berlatsky, Sept. 6, 2019

Look, I’m not making any accusations here, and far be it from me, an award-winning journalist, to engage in irresponsible speculation. There is no actual evidence that Noah Berlatsky is a pedophile, as far as I know, and it would be reckless to attempt to infer anything about his sexual preference based merely on a few messages on Twitter, taken out of context. Rather, if anyone seriously suspected Berlatsky of pedophilia — which, as I say, there’s no specific reason they should suspect this — it might be more productive to consider his overall oeuvre of work, including his oft-noted status as a so-called “male feminist.”

If you get my drift. Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink.

My point is not to question whether it would be safe to let your children have a sleepover with “Uncle Noah,” but rather to demonstrate that it is wrong for journalists to engage in character assassination merely because they happen to disagree with someone’s politics. Yet this is exactly what Noah Berlatsky has done to Trump supporters:

 

Trump voters motivated by racism may be
violating the Constitution. Can they be stopped?

As insulting as that headline is, the article’s first paragraph is worse:

If the Trump era has taught us anything, it’s that large numbers of white people in the United States are motivated at least in part by racism in the voting booth. Donald Trump ran an openly racist campaign for president, calling Mexicans rapists and criminals, regularly retweeting white supremacists and at least initially balking at repudiating former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Trump made it clear in his campaign that “Make America Great Again” meant that America was greater when white people’s power was more sweeping and more secure. White voters approved of that message by a whopping 58 percent to 37 percent.

That’s 102 words, in case you weren’t counting, and notice:

“. . . white people . . . racism . . . openly racist . . . white supremacists . . . white people’s power . . . White voters . . .”

Berlatsky begins with a premise that he does not ever bother to state, namely that the election of President Trump was wrong, and that anyone who voted for Trump is a bad person. Berlatsky believes that all 62.9 million Americans who voted for Trump did so out of ignorance or malice, or perhaps a combination of ignorance and malice. Either way, all good people voted for Hillary Clinton, according to Berlatsky, and so the only questions worth asking about Trump voters are:

  1. What kind of evil are they?
    and
  2. How can we stop them from electing Trump again in November?

The rest of Berlatsky’s article is one of those through-the-looking-glass, down-the-rabbit-hole journeys into “progressive” madness that is difficult to describe. Ir would be easier to transcribe the gibberish of a dope fiend in the midst of a psilocybin freakout.

Berlatsky not only contends that it is racist to vote Republican, but seems to believe that Democrats have a right to win every election, so therefore it is unconstitutional to vote Republican. The entire article is a vile act of deliberate defamation, and NBC News should be apologizing for having published it. As for Berlatsky himself, his byline is a disgrace to any organization that publishes his hateful slander and, while I repeat that I have no actual evidence that he’s a pedophile, I certainly wouldn’t trust him near my children. Would you trust him with your children?

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)



 

Category: Progressivism

FMJRA 2.0: Disintegration

Posted on | January 19, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule Five Sunday: Texans Cheerleaders
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
Animal Magnetism
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL

A Dark Day for Democracy
A View From The Beach
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: It’s No Game
A View From The Beach
EBL

Warren Fades; Democrats Worried UPDATE: Cory Booker Drops Out
357 Magnum
EBL

Soros-Funded Crime Spree Continues
357 Magnum
Whores & Ale
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.13.20
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL

‘Threatened Species’
Dark Brightness
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.14.20
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL

Crazy People Are Dangerous: Canadian Tranny ‘Jessica’ Yaniv Attacks Reporter
Living In Anglo-America
EBL

The Duchess of Sussex Is a Nasty Whore, and Prince Harry Is a Hopeless Fool
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.15.20
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL

Florida: The Pervert State
EBL

Elizabeth Warren’s Media Helpers Try to Revive Her Campaign at Bernie’s Expense
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.17.20
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL

Our Moral Superiors
Dark Brightness
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.18.20
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending January 17:

  1.  EBL (18)
  2.  A View From The Beach (8)
  3.  Proof Positive (6)

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In The Mailbox: Sunday Leftovers Edition

Posted on | January 19, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Certain technical difficulties having resolved themselves, I should be able to include peoples’ links in the daily linkagery from now on. Here’s some stuff people sent me this past week that I wasn’t able to access until now.

357 Magnum: NYC’s Recipe For More Crime, also, The I-35W Bridge Collapse of 2007
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #866

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Governor Northam Couldn’t Be Setting Up A “Reichstag Fire” Event, Could He?

Posted on | January 18, 2020 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

Via @deplorable_s on Twitter and Tom DeWeese on FaceBook we have this tidbit:

The whole Charlottesville disaster was bad enough, and Stacy covered it here and here. Given the Left’s need to control the conversation coupled with the pending implosion of the impeachment disaster, makes the Democrats more of a rabid, injured, cornered animal than usual. The following clip of the Democrat event planners captures it all:

Unfortunately, for the authoritarian Left, there are real-world consequences for false-flag events like this or the Reichstag Fire. And I don’t just mean property damage.

There is a SWExit offer in place for Virginia counties who are as interested in an authoritarian nitwit in Richmond now as the Appalachian counties were in 1861. Northam looks a slightly younger Joe Biden in terms of being in office without much of a clue.

The Virginia Senate just passed a set of unpopular gun control laws, despite the substantial negative feedback at the county level. Stupid, futile gestures indeed. And now, peaceful, patriotic protest in the capitol is threatened by Lefty violence and a judiciary that support’s Northam’s infringement of Constitutional rights.

It would be unfortunate if busloads of Antifa weenies tried to cause trouble and tragedy ensued. While the country could hypothetically view the eternal absence of Antifa as an improvement, that’s really just an extension of the “This is why we can’t have nice things” argument.

The real problem here is due to Virginia conservatives not convincing enough voters to oust the Democrats at the ballot box.

Which brings us full circle to the impeachment fracas. This Virginia sideshow God willing, will only prove a footnote in the overall collapse of the Left’s effort to “fundamentally transform the United States of America”. Down with the Democrats, down with Antifa, down with the media.

UPDATE:

UPDATE II:
More intriguing detail at The Last Refuge.

UPDATE III:
Cam Edwards has some calming details. So, while the actual idiocy has been both watered down and remains unsigned into law, the Left is content to settle for incremental excremental transformation of society.

Category: Democrats, Virginia

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

Posted on | January 18, 2020 | Comments Off on Stoners and Stalinists: Sanders Campaign Staff Is Exactly What You’d Expect

 

Earlier this week, James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released undercover video in which Kyle Jurek, a field organizer for the Bernie Sanders campaign in Iowa, advocated “re-education” camps for “MAGA people” and defended Stalin’s gulag prison camps in the Soviet Union. In a follow-up video, Jurek described himself as an “anarcho-Communist” and declared that many other Sanders staffers share his far-left extremist views. Jurek’s habit of dropping f-bombs makes the videos nearly unlistenable — “bleep! bleep! bleep!” — and now we have the latest update from Deb Heine at American Greatness:

In the latest Project Veritas sting video, Kyle Jurek, the self-proclaimed anarcho-communist Soviet Gulag fan who is a field organizer for the Bernie Sanders Campaign in Iowa, admits that he was recently arrested for “weed” after knocking on doors for the campaign. Jurek told the Veritas reporter that the Sanders Iowa field director quickly bailed him out.
Anonymous tipsters from within the Sanders Campaign in Iowa have since told Project Veritas that they are concerned about Jurek’s behavior and fear that he could be a threat to the president.
As American Greatness reported on Tuesday, Jurek was arrested on January 7 in Saylor Township, Iowa, for operating while intoxicated (second offense), possession of drug paraphernalia, failure to provide proof of financial liability, and violation of probation.
Project Veritas founder and president James O’Keefe wonders if the bail money came from Sanders’ campaign coiffures.
Jurek was caught on camera describing his arrest to the Project Veritas undercover journalist.
“I got busted for weed by the f*cking police,” he said, adding that he was still going through “that process.”
“Went to f*cking jail. The whole G*d-damned thing. F*cking right after we got done knocking on doors one night in Urbandale,” he continued.
Jurek said that as he was heading out to buy some more “weed,” the police stopped him.
“Like the cop met me at the intersection and I went through and he turned and f*cking pulled me over. And then like immediately he’s like, ‘why does it smell like weed?
Jurek indicated that he answered, “I don’t know, I don’t know what you’re talking about. And uhhh, [he] f*cking pulled me out of the car, searched my car, found my weed, found my grinder, found my bowl, found my kief, took me to jail.
Jurek said he was there for four to five hours before he was bailed out.
He said he made his first phone call to fellow field organizer Danielle (Hirano).
“Then Luke answered the phone, Luke’s one of the RFD (Regional Field Director), he’s the RFD for, like, West Des Moines area,” Jurek explained. “Luke answered, he’s like, ‘don’t say another word,’ he’s like ‘we already processed you bail. Just sit tight.’” . . .
O’Keefe reports that since their reports were published, Project Veritas has received several anonymous tips from people who know Jurek.
One from a campaign staffer, who says Sanders Iowa State Director Misty Rebik knew of Jurek’s radicalism and should have never hired him.
Even more disturbing is a tip from people who know Jurek personally. They say Jurek is dangerous and becoming more radicalized. They worry he might try to assassinate President Trump.

Crazy People Are Dangerous, and if you think Bernie Sanders is going to be elected president, maybe you should consult a therapist.



 

Category: Bernie Sanders, Iowa

You Heard It Here First, Folks

Posted on | January 18, 2020 | Comments Off on You Heard It Here First, Folks

 

Online dating is for losers and, also, psycho killers:

FBI agents are issuing a warning about dating apps following the murder of a man who was found naked, mutilated and hanging from his ankles in a secret room of a Michigan basement after meeting someone on Grindr.
Kevin Bacon, 25, of Swartz Creek, was mutilated and killed by a man he met on the popular dating app, according to police.
Following Bacon’s murder, FBI agents have an urgent warning about who people are connecting with online. . . .
Michael Glennon, a special agent with the FBI in Detroit, issued a warning about who people talk to online.
“Meet in public,” Glennon said. “I think that’s an important key. Second to that, let somebody know where you’re going and who you’re with, and give them that person’s contact information.” . . .
FBI officials said about one in 10 profiles on dating sites are fake.

This murder in Michigan was particularly gruesome:

The victim Kevin Bacon (left) and accused cannibal Mark Latunski (right).

Months before the killing, police say, the man’s Grindr dates had fled his basement bondage sessions in partially clothed terror.
One hopped a fence in the middle of an October night to call 911, telling officers of leather ankle straps and a chain used to restrain him. In November, a man ran from Mark Latunski’s house wearing only a leather kilt — chased by Latunski, who told authorities that he just wanted his $300 piece of clothing back.
Both men declined to press charges against Latunski, police said. They said that their sexual activities with him were consensual and that they had simply gotten spooked at the home in a small Michigan township.
Then, late last month, police say they descended into 50-year-old Latunski’s basement about 30 miles from Lansing to discover another match from the same dating app — dead, naked and strung up by the ankles in a hidden room.
The crimes to which Latunski confessed on the spot were gruesome, police say. The defendant explained how he had stabbed 25-year-old Kevin Bacon in the back, suspended him from the ceiling rafters with rope and then slit his throat. In a final act of gore, police say, Latunski cut off Bacon’s testicles and cooked them for consumption.
Latunski has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and disinterment and mutilation of a body. His attorney, who has not responded to inquiries from The Washington Post, is seeking an insanity defense and has described a litany of past mental health issues, according to court records.
Authorities are combing through the defendant’s history on Grindr and urging people to use caution with dating apps known for linking strangers in casual hookups. But David Kaiser, a first lieutenant with the Michigan State Police, says there is little they could have done to apprehend Latunski after his other hookups’ frightened exits. Police are worried that others involved in bondage activities at the house may be reluctant to come forward.
“He obviously got into something he wasn’t prepared for,” his father, Karl Bacon, told a local news station after court documents revealed the grisly particulars of his son’s death. “We all make mistakes. It’s gut-wrenching to hear the details, and we’re just beside ourselves.”
He told WILX that the revelations showed a “dark side” that Kevin Bacon’s loved ones did not know. Family members have described a top student and a talented hairstylist with a hummingbird tattoo in honor of his grandmother.
“He loved and cherished everyone he touched,” Karl Bacon added.

“We all make mistakes”? True, technically, but few of us make the kind of mistakes that result in our being hoisted from the ceiling rafters in the basement rape dungeon of a psychotic homosexual cannibal.

But you see, we can’t criticize the dead man’s decision-making process, because that would be “blaming the victim.” Like when a freshman girl gets drunk at a college party and goes back to the dorm room of a varsity linebacker. The next morning, she’s going to be sore and sticky and have only the vaguest memories of what happened — did his roommates take turns with her? — but it’s going to be difficult to convict anybody of rape in such a “he-said, she-said” situation. So they’re going to handle the case as a campus disciplinary procedure and expel the football player and you are a bad person if you suggest maybe this girl should have known better than to guzzle vodka and hook up with 275 pounds of NCAA prime beef.

“We all make mistakes,” says the father of the gay hairdresser who was hooking up with total strangers on a gay dating app and — “Oops!” — ended up dead, with no testicles. Just a random coincidence, a mishap, an unfortunate faux pas that could have happened to anybody.

The dead man was such a sweetheart — “He loved and cherished everyone he touched” — as if being nice and courteous means that you can’t also be depraved and decadent. It reminds me of Mackenzie Lueck, the small-town Mormon girl from Utah, much beloved by her sorority sisters at the university, but who nonetheless went for a 3 a.m. rendezvous with a Nigerian guy she only knew from the Internet. Her body was burned and dumped in the desert, and nobody wants to talk about the evidence that she was hustling extra cash as a “sugar baby.”

ONLINE DATING IS FOR LOSERS!

How many times do I have to repeat myself? Now that the FBI is endorsing my advice, maybe people will start paying attention.



 

Category: Crime, Gays, Michigan

In The Mailbox: 01.18.20

Posted on | January 17, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho

Work schedules and my health being what they are, I have been unable to use any of the links people sent me this week. I’ll probably do a link roundup this weekend (as in Sunday) along with the FMJRA and Rule 5 Sunday.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Free Trade Trends – Will Booth Babes Be Back In 2020?
Twitchy: Ted Cruz Uses Chris Cuomo’s Own Words To Prove CNN Absolutely Is Filled With Liberal Hacks
Louder With Crowder: UFC’s Cowboy Cerrone Unloads On PETA – “You’re F****ed Up!”
According To Hoyt: Farewell, Mike Resnick
Monster Hunter Nation: Out Today – Gunpowder & Embers
Vox Popoli: The Descent Into Barbarism, also, The Scholar Of Middle Earth

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Media Skewers “Sexist” Sanders For Refusing To Bend The Knee
American Greatness: Mexico Vows To Block Honduran Migrant Caravan Headed For U.S., also, MN “Teacher Of The Year” Kneels During Anthem At College Football Championship
American Power: Identity Politics Remains A Political Loser
American Thinker: The Fascist Roots Behind Today’s Justification Of Political Violence
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Fleecing The Rubes Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s Bankrupt Regime Unable To Buy Cooking Gas, Blames U.S., also, On First Anniversary Of Bogota Bombing, Colombia To Formally Charge ELN Terrorists Hiding In Cuba
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For January 17
Cafe Hayek: Were Adam Smith & Hayek Mistaken?
Camp Of The Saints: Federalist Vs. Anti-Federalist? The Wrong Question
CDR Salamander: From DDG-1000 To CA-154? also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: The Left/Media’s Fear – An Army Of Jureks
Don Surber: Cavuto Owes Trump An Apology
First Street Journal: A Laughable Idea
The Geller Report: Jihadis Slaughter Three Christian Teachers In Kenya, also, Hundreds Of Thousands Of Germans Flee Country In Response To Muslim Hijra
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, I Was Gonna Write Something…
Hollywood In Toto: Did Chappelle, Gervais, & Seinfeld Cancel Cancel Culture? also,  Troop Zero Makes The Most Of Its Merry Misfits
JustOneMinute: Hacking Our Way To The Mainstream, also, How Did THIS Make The Times?
Legal Insurrection: Illegal Alien Raped & Killed 92-Year-Old After NYPD Ignored ICE Detainer, also, Joe Scarborough Promises Bleak Future For Children & Grandchildren Of Trump Defenders
The PanAm Post: The Wisdom Of The Electoral College
Power Line: Trump Moves To Protect Religious Freedom In Schools, also, A New Theory About Bloomberg’s Grand Strategy
Shark Tank: Stephanie Murphy Takes Hits For Endorsing Bloomberg
Shot In The Dark: Gleiwitz, Virginia
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – Capital Punishment
This Ain’t Hell: Virginia Gun Rights Rally Update, also, Top Military Media Outlet Puts A 28-Year-Old Trump Hater In Charge
Victory Girls: James Comey & His Leaks
Volokh Conspiracy: Four Observations Concerning The GAO Decision
Weasel Zippers: Top Democrat Senator Warns FBI Against Giving GOP Records From Ex-DNC Consultant, also, Taxpayer-Funded Planned Parenthood To Spend $45 Million To Elect Democrats In 2020
Mark Steyn: Live Around The Planet

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Category: Linkagery

Our Moral Superiors

Posted on | January 17, 2020 | 2 Comments

The Bain-Chekal family in 2008.

As everyone knows, the academic elite are not only intellectually superior to the rest of us, but they also constitute a quasi-religious caste, a secular priesthood whose credentials qualify them to dictate the answers to our society’s moral questions. In 2004, the University of California at Berkeley published an article celebrating faculty and staff whose enthusiasm for “civil rights” led them to take advantage of San Francisco’s pioneering recognition of same-sex marriage:

Jon Bain-Chekal, who works as an organizational consultant for the Center for Organizational Effectiveness, said that the decision to say ‘I do’ to his partner of ten years, Mark Chekal-Bain, was “a nice personal confirmation.” The two, both Cal alumni, had already exchanged vows in a ceremony with family and friends in 1999. They also registered as domestic partners with the City of Berkeley the previous year, and with the state when that option became available.

Four years later, Bain-Chekal was again featured in UC-Berkeley News, and this time he and his partner of 14 years were pictured with their recently adopted young son. Bain-Chekal was quoted about the need for “more progressive parental-leave policies that don’t focus on the 1950s version of family.” Well, a dozen years later, Bain-Chekal has against made news — not in a good way:

A Berkeley man who oversees UC Berkeley’s operating budget was arrested Thursday morning in connection with a child pornography investigation by the Berkeley Police Department, according to authorities and records online.
Jon Bain-Chekal, 49, was arrested at 8:45 a.m. on suspicion of possession of child pornography, a misdemeanor, according to jail records online.
Berkeley Police spokesman Officer Byron White said BPD’s investigation began with a tip from Internet Crimes Against Children and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Those agencies “received a Cyber tip regarding child pornography from an online account. The account was created and accessed from Jon Bain-Chekal’s residence and work.”
According to BPD, “a search warrant on the online account revealed additional images of child pornography.” On Thursday, police served search warrants at Bain-Chekal’s home and work, BPD said: “Images of child pornography were recovered from a laptop during the search warrant.”
Police said Bain-Chekal admitted, during an interview, that he had viewed and possessed child pornography. He was cited and released from jail Thursday.
White said BPD confiscated devices Thursday “that still need to be forensically searched.” He said charges could potentially be added later and that the misdemeanor charge could potentially change. White declined to say how many pornographic images or potential victims authorities have identified in connection with the case so far.
According to his listing in UC Berkeley’s online campus directory, Bain-Chekal is the director of the UC Berkeley Operating Budget and works at University Hall. On the university’s webpage for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Bain-Chekal is listed as the executive director of the Financial Planning and Analysis team, which “manages the Budget Process; Central Resource Management; Financial Planning, Reporting, & Analysis; Financial Systems Management; and VC Administration Finance Management.”

Well, let’s not jump to any conclusions, nor should we make this case the basis for any generalizations about “civil rights” enthusiasts because, after all, Bain-Chekal is entitled to a trial by a jury of his peers, and who knows what a jury in Berkeley might decide. Despite the alleged evidence and Bain-Chekal’s alleged confession, he nevertheless might be acquitted, or the charges could be reduced to something trivial. Certainly we know authorities in Berkeley, California, would not wish to unnecessarily inconvenience an employee of the university who is so well-known as an advocate of “progressive” family policies.

Excuse me, my tongue seems to be stuck in my cheek, and my eyes have rolled completely out of my head. Sarcasm can be painful.



 

Category: California, Crime, Education, Gays
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