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The Fake ‘Hate’ Epidemic

Posted on | April 2, 2019 | Comments Off on The Fake ‘Hate’ Epidemic

 

Political paranoia:

Portland, Oregon, is a deep-blue city in a deep-blue state — in 2016, Hillary Clinton got 73% of the vote in Multnomah County, carrying Oregon by an 11-point margin — and therefore would seem to be an unlikely place to find anti-LGBT violence. So when activists in Portland claimed they had been the targets of hate crimes in February, Andy Ngo was skeptical. A transgender activist’s claim to have been attacked by assailants wielding a baseball bat? Portland’s anti-bias crime unit dropped the investigation for lack of evidence. When “a self-described fat-queer activist” claimed on Facebook that her girlfriend “was attacked by ‘two young white men’ in a maroon SUV”? Portland police don’t even have a record of a report for such an incident, according to Ngo. The good news, then, is that Portland’s LGBT community has no reason to fear they’re being targeted by an epidemic of hate crimes, but the bad news is, some activists are apparently willing to invent such incidents to support the Left’s narrative that President Trump’s election has unleashed the forces of “hate.”
In the wake of Jussie Smollett’s hoax in Chicago — another deep-blue stronghold where Trump-inspired violence would seem unlikely — Americans are increasingly suspicious toward similar claims. . . .

Read the rest of my column at The American Spectator.



 

Category: Crime, Gays, Oregon, Racism

Got It Covered Like Jimmy’s Hat

Posted on | April 1, 2019 | Comments Off on Got It Covered Like Jimmy’s Hat

by Smitty

Category: Uncategorized

Violence Against Women Update

Posted on | April 1, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

A story feminists are ignoring for some reason:

The man accused of kidnapping and murdering a woman who got into his car thinking it was her Uber ride had activated the child locks in his backseat so the doors could be opened only from the outside, police in South Carolina revealed.
Nathaniel David Rowland , 24, was charged Saturday in the death of 21-year-old Samantha Josephson, a University of South Carolina student from Robbinsville, New Jersey. Rowland decided not to appear at a hearing in Richland County jail Sunday.
Rowland is charged with kidnapping and murder, Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook said. . . .
Investigators would not say what they thought Rowland did to Josephson from the time she got into his black Chevrolet Impala in Columbia’s Five Points entertainment district around 1:30 a.m. Friday until her body was dumped in woods off a dirt road in Clarendon County about 65 miles away.
Josephson had numerous wounds to her head, neck, face, upper body, leg and foot, according to arrest warrants released Sunday by the State Law Enforcement Division. Holbrook also said investigators found her blood in Rowland’s vehicle. . . .
Josephson’s blood was found in the trunk and inside Rowland’s car along with her phone, bleach, window cleaner and cleaning wipes, Holbrook said.
“This was a bad scene,” the police chief said at a news conference late Saturday.
Hunters found Josephson’s body Friday afternoon just hours after it was dumped, despite being left in an area that was “very difficult to get to unless you knew how to get there,” Holbrook said.
Rowland recently has lived in the area, he said.
The night after Josephson was kidnapped, a Columbia police officer noticed a black Chevrolet Impala about two blocks from the Five Points bars where Josephson was kidnapped.
The driver ran, but was arrested after a short chase, Holbrook said.

I actually spent some time this evening checking feminist web sites and scrolling down the Twitter feeds of various feminist writers, and guess what? None of them has said a word about the kidnapping and murder of Samantha Josephson. You’d think they’d mention this kind of violence against women, but they don’t, for some reason.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)



 

Category: Violence Against Women

In The Mailbox: 04.01.19

Posted on | April 1, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


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American Thinker: Democrats, The Media, & The Big Lie
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Socialism, The Delusional Fantasy That Always Ends In A Nightmare, also, For The Next Time Someone Tells You “You Don’t Look Cuban”
BattleSwarm: Democratic Operatives With Bylines, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Camp Of The Saints:
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Da Tech Guy: Not Russia & Not Trump, also, How Kim Foxx Happened
Don Surber: Reporters Fear Retribution. They Should.
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, And The Wild Waters Flow
First Street Journal:  What Really Happened To The Planet Krypton
The Geller Report: Ilhan Omar Facing Campaign Finance Violation Probe, also, Netanyahu Says Soros Behind Likud Libel
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of the Day, also, The Unravelling
Hollywood In Toto: Unplanned Perfectly Captures Culture War Fight
Joe For America: Socialist Beta O’Rourke Pledges To “Break Apart” American Wealth & Power
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Power Line: Occasional Cortex’s History Lesson, also, Facebook Calls For Censorship
Shot In The Dark: Just Can’t Win
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Volokh Conspiracy: Feldman & Siegel On Court-Packing
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Don’t Say Nobody Tried to Warn You

Posted on | April 1, 2019 | Comments Off on Don’t Say Nobody Tried to Warn You

 

Gosh, who could have possibly foreseen this?

Students at Hofstra University protested a statue of Thomas Jefferson on Friday at the second annual event, titled “Jefferson Has Gotta Go!”
The statue has been the center of controversy on the campus and has been defaced with “DECOLONIZE” and “Black Lives Matter” signs and stickers. According to a media advisory sent by the Jefferson Has Gotta Go (JGG) campaign, the protest was held outside Hofstra Breslin Hall at the statue. Organizers included “students of Hofstra University, staff from Planned Parenthood of Nassau County, and supporters of Hempstead community.”
The group gathered on campus to “expose the culture of bias and discrimination,” as stated in the media advisory, and to demand “the statue of Thomas Jefferson is removed.”
Hofstra College Democrats “want the statue to be removed and [we] stand with the Jefferson Has Gotta Go Campaign,” the group’s president, Brynne Levine, told Campus Reform.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) The idea that Democrats would be protesting a statue of the founder of their party is perhaps rather astonishing, but a near-total ignorance of history has become so common among college students that we now expect such idiotic gestures on campus.

There are many ironies involved in this, including my memory of how absurd it seemed 25 years ago when certain neo-Confederate friends warned that if efforts to erase public tributes to the Confederacy succeeded, they would be followed, in due time, by attacks upon monuments to the Founding Fathers.  Certainly, I could not imagine the memories of Washington, Jefferson, et al., would face eradication in my own lifetime, and yet this radicalism has proceeded so far and so fast that even the celebration of Columbus Day has become controversial.

What my prophetic friends perceived — a fact I was reluctant to acknowledge for many years — was that radicalism has no feasible limit. The radical is ultimately totalitarian in his ambition, and any attempt to placate the radical is therefore impossible. This is the true lesson of Munich, after all. Neville Chamberlain made the mistake in September 1938 of thinking that ceding the Sudetenland to Hitler would bring “peace for our time” In March 1939, however, Hitler seized the rest of Czechoslovakia and, in September 1939, Hitler invaded Poland, beginning World War II. Appeasement was always an illusion; Hitler exploited pacifist sentiment in the West, promising “peace” while rapidly building his military until he was strong enough to risk open war, and this is how it always is with totalitarians, a category that includes our soi-disant “progressives.” The Left now makes demands that would have seemed preposterous 25 or 30 years ago, but where is the evidence that anyone is seriously determined to say “no” to such demands? Why shouldn’t the Left keep ratcheting up their demands, given how they have already been granted nearly everything they ever could have hoped for?

You can never appease such people! Give them everything they demand today, and tomorrow they’ll be back with a new list of demands.

When the agitation against the Confederate symbol in the Georgia state flag began ramping up in the early 1990s, a lot of people — including many conservatives — shrugged off this controversy as insignificant, and would not listen to those who warned that this agitation was indicative of a dangerous radicalism. Why this complacency? Well, those people had lived through the great ascendancy of conservatism in U.S. politics. Beginning with Goldwater in 1964, they had seen the steady build-up of the Right until, in 1980, Reagan won the White House, a victory followed by a series of triumphs, culminating in the collapse of the Soviet Union. Having witnessed this tremendous success, most conservatives circa 1991 were understandably optimistic about their movement’s future, and could not imagine how the Left might so revive itself and gain power as has been the case in recent decades. This optimism among movement conservatives begat overconfidence, which was why those prophets who warned of danger emerging on the Left were viewed as “extremists” by many respectable Republican types. Almost no one would listen to those who explained that the fight over Confederate symbols was just one element of a much broader campaign of Cultural Marxism, and is anyone surprised that now we see radical students assaulting a monument to the author of the Declaration of Independence? Well, I for one am not the least bit surprised, and I only wish more of my conservative friends had paid attention to what those neo-Confederate “extremists” were trying to explain 25 years ago. And thinking back to what they were saying then, I have every reason to believe that the radical Left will only become more militant in years to come. Be afraid. Be very afraid.



 

Category: Education, History, Racism

Rule 5 Monday: Tania Mallet, RIP

Posted on | April 1, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Tania Mallet, Helen Mirren’s cousin, played Tilly Masterson in Goldfinger, and had been considered for the role of Tatiana Romanova in From Russia With Love. Ironically, despite her Russian ancestry, she lost out due to her heavy English accent, and Italian actress Daniela Bianchi got the role – whereupon Bianchi’s voice parts were dubbed. Mallet was unhappy with the pay she received and the onerous restrictions on her personal life, and went back to modeling, where the money was a lot better and nobody cared what she did in her off hours.

Goodbye to another Bond Girl.

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Democrat Ex-Sen. David Boren Accused of Being Creepy Old Gay Closet Case

Posted on | April 1, 2019 | Comments Off on Democrat Ex-Sen. David Boren Accused of Being Creepy Old Gay Closet Case

 

The accusation:

A former University of Oklahoma student alleges he was touched and kissed inappropriately by former university President David Boren on several occasions almost a decade ago when the man worked as a teaching aide for the onetime governor and senator.
The allegations by Jess Eddy, now 29, appear to be at the center of an investigation being conducted for the university by Jones Day, one of the world’s largest law firms, into whether Boren sexually harassed male subordinates. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has also opened an investigation.
Boren, now 77, has denied any inappropriate conduct in statements released by his attorneys, who have confirmed the Jones Day investigation. Boren was a Democratic governor in the 1970s before serving in the U.S. Senate for more than 15 years. He was OU president from 1994 until stepping down last year and has been married to his second wife for more than 40 years. . . .
Eddy said he came to know Boren after taking a political science course the president taught. Boren asked him to be his teaching aide the following semester, in the fall of 2010, when Eddy was 21.
That fall, he said, he accompanied Boren on a weekend fundraising-and-recruiting trip to Houston, where he flew on a private jet with Boren and attended a dinner with donors. He said he and Boren ended up in Boren’s hotel room, where the two of them drank alcohol and Boren made an unwanted sexual advance and touched him inappropriately before he left the room.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) To accuse an old man of making an “unwanted sexual advance” is redundant, because any sexual advance made by an old man is “unwanted.” The number of people — male or female — who want to have sex with David Boren is exactly zero. Certainly there was no reason for him to imagine that his sexual advances toward a 21-year-old college boy would be welcome. Rumors about Boren’s sexuality have circulated for decades; during his 1978 Senate campaign, he quite literally swore on a Bible that he was not gay. This latest accusation is perhaps not completely surprising, and the question is whether it will trigger a #MeToo avalanche of accusations by other men with whom Boren has been intimate, “unwanted” or otherwise. And I suppose some people will blame this situation on “homophobia,” arguing that if it weren’t for the repressive and intolerant forces of hate, David Boren never would have been forced to conceal his attraction to men, blah blah blah.

Except that’s actually irrelevant. Society never forced Joe Biden to conceal his heterosexuality, and yet Biden is now having a #MeToo moment because he was too stupid to realize that the number of women who want to be groped by an old politician is exactly zero. And having seen photos of David Boren in the 1970s, I’m not sure that anyone — male or female — ever found him sexually attractive. Maybe when Boren was in his 20s or 30s, he could have scored with a college guy, but probably not. However, if he did, it would have been easy for Boren to keep it secret, because no guy would ever want to admit that publicly.

Anyway, the point is, whether you’re gay or straight, at some point you’ll be so old nobody even wants to think about your sexuality. The mental image of being groped by a creep like David Boren? Yuck.



 

Category: Democrats, Gays, Oklahoma, Scandal

Operation ‘Unplanned’ Maintenance

Posted on | April 1, 2019 | Comments Off on Operation ‘Unplanned’ Maintenance

by Smitty

Conservative Twitter was aflame on Sunday with people wondering why the follower count for UnplannedMovie was all over the place. Quick notes:

  • I do Amazon Web Services work by day
  • I ain’t an apologist for @jack
  • I have no insight into the specifics of Twitter’s architecture.

My points:

  • Old-style relational databases strove for a single point of truth. To scale globally, the first thing one does is relax that. So, even though there is one URL for the @UnplannedMovie account, you aren’t guaranteed to be looking at the same data.
  • This reality of NoSQL storage is exacerbated by everyone and their sibling querying at the same time for the same data, and also following that account. When you do a cloud system, you employ rules to throw more resources at fresh demand.
  • I daresay that conservative twitter just offered a fantastic stress test of Twitter’s infrastructure. While they to events and hashtags all the time, I’m unaware of another case where they’ve thrown account following into the mix.

This is all probably too generous. We’d like to think that conservatives are a force to be reckoned with. But it’s not likely that the follow frequency was ever that significant. Again, I have no insights into what’s really afoot.

That said, let’s all just take a deep breath and understand that Unplanned got some great free advertising out of all that. Plan an informal event for your church to go support these kinds of movies.

 

Category: Abortion
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