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Murder Charge Expected; Authorities Confirm Aniah Blanchard’s Remains

Posted on | November 27, 2019 | Comments Off on Murder Charge Expected; Authorities Confirm Aniah Blanchard’s Remains

Ibraheem Yazeed, 29 (left) is suspected of murdering Aniah Blanchard, 19 (right).

She disappeared Oct. 23:

Authorities have positively identified the remains found in rural Macon County as those of Aniah Blanchard.
“It is with heavy hearts that we announce that the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences has positively identified the remains as those of Aniah Haley Blanchard,’’ according to an Auburn Police press release.
“At this point, the case will move forward as a homicide investigation, and additional charges are forthcoming.” . . .
Human remains were found Monday during a search in the 38,000 block of County Road 2 in Shorter, Alabama. . . .
“That would have been the worst scenario, is that we were not be able to find and give the answers to this family,” said Auburn Police Chief Paul Register Wednesday afternoon. “We have spoken to the family. Obviously, they are heartbroken but at least they can now begin to deal with this and move forward.”
Officials are still waiting to learn the cause and manner of her death, said District Attorney Brandon Hughes.
Once that happens, Hughes said he and Register would discuss what additional charges might be filed in the case. Hughes said he will not comment on a possible time frame in which upgraded charges could be filed.
The announcement of the identification came exactly five weeks after Blanchard was last seen alive. Her disappearance sparked an outpouring of concern and support.
“I am heartbroken for the family of Aniah Blanchard,” Governor Kay Ivey said after Blanchard’s body was identified. . . .
Three people have been arrested in connection with Blanchard’s disappearance.
Ibraheem Yazeed, 29, and Antwain “Squirmy” Fisher, 35, are charged with first-degree kidnapping. Yazeed is being held in the Lee County Jail without bond. Fisher remains held on $50,000 bond. Authorities said Fisher “provided material assistance to Yazeed by providing transportation to Yazeed, and disposing of evidence,’’ according to court records.
David Lee Johnson Sr., 63, is charged with hindering prosecution. Authorities say he knew his son allegedly drove Yazeed to Florida, but instead told investigators Yazeed left his home with an unidentified woman. Johnson has been released on bond.
The Southern Union College student from Homewood was officially reported missing Thursday, Oct. 24. She last communicated with a friend late on the night of Oct. 23. Police said her vehicle was seen in the early-morning hours of Oct. 24 along South College Street.
Police recovered the teen’s black 2017 Honda CRV from an apartment complex on the 6100 block of Boardwalk Boulevard in Montgomery around 6:15 p.m. the following evening, which was Friday. A citizen reported the vehicle to police.
Charging documents against Yazeed state that blood evidence was discovered in the passenger’s compartment of the vehicle and was “indicative of someone suffering a life-threatening injury.” The evidence was submitted to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences and confirmed to be that of Blanchard.
Video evidence from the convenience store at 1599 South College Street placed both Blanchard and Yazeed at the store during the same time. “This was the last time she was seen,” Mixon wrote. A witness later identified Yazeed as the individual.
Yazeed has a history of arrests for violent crimes.

So far, not a single prominent feminist has commented on this case of “violence against women.” Their silence is so . . . mysterious.

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Category: Alabama, Violence Against Women

Administrivia

Posted on | November 27, 2019 | 1 Comment

— by Wombat-socho


As referenced in the wretchedly delayed Rule 5 post, supra, I was laid low by some vile virus for most of the week, and am only today well enough to get out and Do Stuff, but otherwise things are moving along toward the ultimate goal of getting me out of transitional housing and into a place of my own again, preferably a place that has the intertubes so I don’t have to head down to the local library or *shudder* Starbucks to get the necessary blogging done. I turned in my paperwork for VA disability pay today, and should hear back on that in 120 days – probably less, since I’m currently homeless according to the VA and I had copies of my active duty medical records. As for Social Security, all I know is that they haven’t rejected my claim based on what the state adjudicator had to say, so all I can do is work on preseason training for tax season, check in at various classes I need to attend at the transitional housing, and cultivate patience.

All this is by way of saying that blogging and/or linkagery is likely to be sporadic for the next few months, but I shall do the best I can. Your patience is appreciated.

I appreciate the donations people have made and the things they’ve bought through my Amazon links, to which we must now add Bob’s book, which Stacy has reviewed elsewhere. Buy two, so you can inflict the spare copy on your children, or a likely-looking neighborhood urchin, or your local library. If you prefer some lighter reading for the holidays, I have some SF short stories, or perhaps a droll account of my military misadventures. Thanks to everyone for their support.


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Category: United States

In The Mailbox: 11.27.19

Posted on | November 27, 2019 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ammo.com: Thanksgiving: The Forgotten History of America’s Thanksgiving and What It Commemorates
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #817
EBL: A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, also, Elizabeth Warren’s Support Is Collapsing
Twitchy: The Atlantic Suggests Meeting Your Imperfect Trump-Supporting Relatives At Their Level This Thanksgiving
Louder With Crowder: Some Liberals Now Saying Santa Claus Should Be Female Or Gender-Neutral. We Need A New Plague.
Vox Popoli: Don’t Support Those Who Hate You

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Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Secret Source Edition, also, Podcast #126 – The Maserati Episode
American Greatness: Federal Judge Blocks Trump Rule Requiring Immigrants To Pay For Their Own Healthcare, also, The Indispensable Tucker Carlson
American Power: How Republicans Won Phase One Of Impeachment, also, Rain & Snow For Thanksgiving
American Thinker: The Climate Con, also, President Trump Is Scoring With Black Voters, And Democrats Are Terrified
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Thanksgiving, 20 Years Ago – A Little Cuban Boy Floating Alone In The Florida Straits Is Rescued, also, Chile’s Pinochet Ranks Rather High Compared To His Contemporaries
Baldilocks: California Transformed, Part I
BattleSwarm: Dispatches From A Non-Genocide, also, How Boeing Lost Its Bearings
Cafe Hayek: And I Can Fly By Twirling My Tongue, also, Busting The Myth Of Libertarian Atomism
Camp of the Saints: Bring Me The Head Of Donald Trump & The Killer Elite
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, Where Would We Bury All The Bodies?
Da Tech Guy: Welcome To The Age Of Criminals, also, The Pentagon’s Vast All-Wing Conspiracy – Plunder
Don Surber: Schwab Inc. Leaving San Fran For Texas, also, NYT Says 7% Of Hillary Voters Now Support Trump
First Street Journal: Wasn’t Much of A Sacrifice
Fred On Everything: A User’s Guide To The Supervision Of Morning
The Geller Report: Shocking UK CCTV Footage Of Muslim Terrorist Stabbing Train Commuters, also, Over 100,000 DCA Applicants Arrested For Murder, Rape, & DUI
Hogewash: Shameless Commerce, also, Slow Blogging
Hollywood In Toto: Reality Is Proving No Safe Spaces Point, And It’s Frightening, also, Everything Wrong With Borat’s Fake News Screed
Joe For America: Shocking Court Testimony Accuses Rep. Omar Of Selling Intel To Qatar, also, Obama Throws Biden Under The Bus
JustOneMinute: Not The Bombshell I Was Waiting For, also, Trench Warfare
Legal Insurrection: Elizabeth Warren – Peaked Too Soon, Or Just A Bad Candidate? also, The Reported Violent Racist Physical Assault You Probably Never Heard About
Michelle Malkin: Fight For The Freedom To Question Vaccines
The PanAm Post: Bolivia’s Five Lessons For Mexico & Latin America, also, Corruption Ideology Threatens To Infiltrate OAS
Power Line: Has Nuclear’s Time Come? also, Are House Democrats Getting Cold Feet?
Shot In The Dark: Tear Down This Wall, also, It Could Happen Is Happening Here
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – Resolved That Government Is Not The Solution, It Is The Problem, also, All Your Data Are Belong To Us (Us Being Google)
This Ain’t Hell: Fake SEAL Charged With Defrauding VA Of Over $300K, also, Schlitt For Brains
Victory Girls: Daily Show Stunt Shows Black Community Divide, also, Minor League Baseball Doesn’t Need Bernie Sanders
Volokh Conspiracy: Hamilton On Impeachment, also, The Bolton Subpoena
Weasel Zippers: Man Finds Out It’s A Bad Idea To Punch A Cop, also, Bloomberg Flashback – Taxing The Poor Is A Good Thing
Megan McArdle: How Can Republicans Defend Trump? Because Of The Clintons, also, My Uber Driver Reminded Me Of how Thanksgiving Brings Us Together. So I’m Tabling The Politics.
Mark Steyn: Grapefruit Of Wrath, also, Good Sports

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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Wednesday: Busy In The Kitchen

Posted on | November 27, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Oh, the embarrassment. Laid low for most of this past week by a strain of flu that this season’s shot didn’t block. Well, better late than never, and since most of us have our minds on cooking (or eating, at least) it seemed appropriate to introduce a playful chef from the mobile game Fate/Grand Order, Tamamo Cat. Here we see her wielding her chosen weapons in the kitchen.

A saucy catgirl; quite a cutup!

Ninety Miles From Tyranny opens up with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Boxes #810 & #811, and Morning Mistress. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five On The Other Foot Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL brings us Car Models, Michelle Malkin, Kathy Scruggs, Hunter Biden’s Baby Mama, Vintage Women & Race Cars, Dolly Parton, Vintage Thanksgiving, and Fibonacci Day.

A View From The Beach has From Jolly Old England, Camilla Luddington,  Like They Don’t Have Bigger Problems, What, No More Red Apples?, Another Water Bottle Wednesday, Get Woke, Go Broke, Monday Morning Russiagate, Some Warm Milk for Monday Morning, Perhaps She Should Try Venezuela, and Scooter Won’t Let Me Sing, Sang Taylor Hatefully.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe of the Week is Brigitte Bardot, Bacon Time has Rule 5 Impeachment Exit Strategy, and at Nitzakhon (The Redpilled Jew) it’s Women Waiting In The Hotel Room.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

Hereditary Genius

Posted on | November 27, 2019 | Comments Off on Hereditary Genius

 

 

These two portraits, of my 19-year-old son Emerson and my 17-year-old daughter Reagan, were taken Tuesday by my brother Kirby McCain. If you’ll click on the images you can see the photos full-size. Emerson is home for Thanksgiving from college, where he is a member of the acrobatics team and also president of the freshman class. Reagan, now a junior at her Christian school, is president of the student assembly, was awarded most valuable midfielder on the girl’s soccer team, and has recently been inducted into the National Honor Society. So our two youngest are not merely good-looking kids, but actually good kids.

In 1869, Sir Francis Galton published Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences. the first attempt to examine scientifically the role of ancestry in human intelligence. A cousin of Charles Darwin, Galton believed he could show that “genius,” as he called it, was largely a matter of heredity, thus favoring nature over nurture in explaining the development of extraordinary ability. Galton’s book was the original seed of a controversy that has raged ever since, with opponents seeking to discredit the idea of natural (hereditary) ability in favor of an environmental (nurture) explanation of human differences.

Of course, Charles Murray (co-author of The Bell Curve) is nowadays considered a Thought Criminal for daring to cite evidence in favor of the hereditary propositions first made by Galton, and it is strange to me, as a conservative Christian, to see mobs of militant atheists protesting campus appearances by Murray, who is accused of “racism” for applying to human life the evolutionary theories of Darwinism. What explains the Left’s rage against the idea of inherited ability? First, and most obviously, we are cursed by the Shadow of Hitler’s Ghost. The Nazi regime, with its fanatical belief in Aryan superiority and its sinister hatred of Jews, imprinted a perhaps indelible stain on what is sometimes called “eugenics.” Since World War II, any discussion of human heredity is likely to be denounced as a “neo-Nazi pseudo-science” if the discussion tends toward the view that variations in ability can be explained by genetics. Yet if Charles Murray has advocated any sort of Third Reich-style government coercion, I must have missed it (in fact, Murray calls himself a libertarian), but the way the Left has smeared him, you might be forgiven for thinking Murray was a latter-day Adolf Eichmann.

The second reason why Murray is so demonized, however, is that The Bell Curve is an implicit criticism of a modern liberal worldview that I have called The Contraceptive Culture. Our educational elite have diligently propagated this worldview, in which sex is radically separated from its natural function, i.e., reproduction. The feminist devotion to “choice” and the Planned Parenthood-sponsored celebrations of “safe sex” amount to a curriculum of voluntary sterility, teaching young people to view sex strictly as hedonistic pleasure-seeking, and to develop a contemptuous attitude toward sex in its biological purpose of procreation.

Few Americans have noticed how the promotion of so-called “safe sex” has suffused our culture with an anti-natal ideology. Whereas previous generations thought of pregnancy as a natural (and generally desirable) consequence of sexual intercourse, younger Americans have been indoctrinated to believe that pregnancy is a rare and catastrophic event. While the disciples of “pro-sex” feminism encourage rampant promiscuity, and the LGBTQ lobby advocates the avoidance of heterosexuality, it has become unsual (and unpopular) to encourage young people to think of sex in terms of making babies. The “safe sex” ideology is anti-marriage, anti-motherhood and anti-family. Therefore, Murray’s writings (not only in The Bell Curve, but also in his 1984 classic Losing Ground and his forthcoming book Human Diversity) are decidedly in contradiction of what “educated” young people are supposed to believe about sexual behavior. No college student today is supposed to consider their inherited traits as a biological legacy bequeathed to them by generations of their ancestors, nor is it permissible for them to contemplate their sexual behavior in its procreative possibilities as a gift to future generations. And so angry mobs of “progressive” students turn out to disrupt any event which brings Charles Murray to the university campus, because his work calls attention to biological realities that students have been taught to ignore. But I digress . . .

As a father, I take pride in my children’s outstanding qualities, seeing in them a reflection of myself. If I have accomplished nothing else in my life, certainly I have done OK in the procreation department, with six fine children and four grandchildren, with our fifth grandchild (our oldest daughter’s second child) due to be born any day now. And the excellent portraits of our two youngest children, taken by their Uncle Kirby, show both his photography skill and their remarkable good looks.

Since October, Kirby has been living with us, getting medical treatment for his high blood pressure, which resulted in the suspension of his DOT certification as a long-haul trucker. Today, Kirby has an appointment at the Veteran’s Administration hospital, and I hope readers who have enjoyed this tale of Hereditary Genius will be kind enough to send Kirby money via PayPal. Whatever you can give — $5, $10, $20 — would be appreciated. He’s also got a GoFundMe account, if you would rather contribute that way. Thanks in advance, and may God bless you.




 

Category: Family

The Present Crisis

Posted on | November 26, 2019 | Comments Off on The Present Crisis

 

“The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards. And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors: They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence.
“It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle; or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”
— Sam Adams, 1771

That warning from one of our nation’s greatest Patriot forefathers is quoted in the final chapter of my good friend Robert Belvedere’s new book, On the Causes and Effects of the Present Crisis in America.

Bob was kind enough to send me not one, but two copies — one for my brother Kirby — and I must say that I am impressed. The Present Crisis is a valuable book in that it looks beyond the day-to-day partisan conflicts that consume so much of our attention, bringing into view the deeper and more fundamental roots of our social disorder. The author writes in a deliberately old-fashioned style, recalling the 18th-century English prose of our Founding Fathers such as Sam Adams. The failure of our education system to teach America’s young people their own history is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that almost no one under 40 today knows anything about Sam Adams except as a popular brand of beer.

It could be argued that no one man was more responsible for inspiring our War of Independence than Sam Adams, whom Winston Churchill (in his History of the English Speaking Peoples) identifies as the foremost of American radicals during the years when our colonial ancestors began to resent the British Crown’s encroachment of their liberties. The case that Adams made (unfortunately one little appreciated by our ignorant youth) is that the rights which Americans were willing to fight and die for were not intellectual abstractions, but rather an inheritance their English forebears had bequeathed to them, rights won “with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood.” It is this “fair Inheritance” which recent generations have voluntarily forfeited in pursuit of theoretical notions of “equality” and “social justice.” But I digress . . .

Bob Belvedere’s book is one that I’m sure our readers will want to buy, perhaps as a gift for a young person who needs to cure their ignorance.




 

Category: Books, History

Authorities: Remains of Aniah Blanchard Found; Two More Suspects Charged

Posted on | November 25, 2019 | 1 Comment

Aniah Blanchard (front center) with her family.

We reported earlier this month on the disappearance of Aniah Blanchard, a 19-year-old college student who was reportedly abducted in Auburn, Alabama, on Oct. 23. Blanchard is the step-daughter of UFC fighter Walt Harris, and on Nov. 7, police arrested suspect Ibraheem Yazeed, 29, who had fled to Pensacola, Florida. As I reported on Nov. 9 (“Why Wasn’t Ibraheem Yazid in Jail?”), the suspect had a lengthy record of violent crime and yet had been released on bail after a near-fatal attack on an elderly man in January. On the night she went missing, Aniah reportedly told a friend that she was going to meet a guy she had connected with via a dating app, and now police say they have recovered her remains about 30 miles from where she disappeared:

Human remains believed to be those of a missing Alabama college student were found today in Macon County, officials said.
“I can confirm that human remains have been found in Macon County and we have good reason to believe they are that of Aniah Blanchard,” Lee County District Attorney Brandon Hughes said.
Hughes also confirmed that a man named David Johnson Jr. was arrested in Montgomery on a charge of hindering prosecution. He is being held on $7,500 bond at the Montgomery County Jail.
“During the course of the ongoing investigation into the disappearance of Aniah Blanchard, investigators obtained information regarding the possible location of a body,” a statement from Auburn police read.
“On November 25, 2019, at approximately 10:45 a.m., Auburn Police, along with members of the Task Force, Lee County DA’s Office, U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force, ALEA and Montgomery County Sheriff Office, responded to a wooded area in the 38,000 block of County Road 2 in Shorter, Alabama.
“After a brief search by Investigators they located what appeared to be human remains several feet into the woodline. A complete investigation is underway by ALEA and Auburn Police to determine the identity and how the victim came to be at that location. The examination will explore if the remains are those of Aniah Blanchard who went missing on October 24, 2019.
“The case remains under investigation by the Auburn Police Division.”
Macon County Sheriff Andre Brunson said the remains were found in a rural area near New Hope Baptist Church. . . .
Also today, a suspect in the kidnapping of Blanchard, Antwain “Squirmy” Fisher, 35, had his first appearance in court.
Fisher is accused of helping Ibraheem Yazeed, 29, kidnap Blanchard by providing “material assistance to Yazeed by providing transportation to Yazeed, and disposing of evidence,’’ according to court records made public Monday. . . .
According to an affidavit by Auburn police Det. Josh Mixon, Blanchard was last seen by a family member the evening of Oct. 23 at a residence in the 1000 block of Alan Avenue in Auburn. . . .
Charging documents against Yazeed state that blood evidence was discovered in the passenger’s compartment of the vehicle and was “indicative of someone suffering a life-threatening injury.” The evidence was submitted to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences and confirmed to be that of Blanchard.
Video evidence from the convenience store at 1599 South College Street placed both Blanchard and Yazeed at the store during the same time. “This was the last time she was seen,” Mixon wrote. A witness later identified Yazeed as the individual.

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Category: Alabama, Violence Against Women

Is This the Kanye Factor?

Posted on | November 25, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Let’s not over-interpret these numbers:

A pair of recent polls show that 34 percent of black likely voters approve of President Donald Trump’s presidency, a stunning development that could have a massive impact on his re-election campaign in 2020.
A Rasmussen poll released Friday showed black likely voter approval of Trump at 34 percent. An Emerson Poll showed 34.5 percent approval by the same demographic.
“Boom,” wrote black author and Trump supporter Deneen Borelli on Twitter, calling the results “Democrats worst nightmare.”
The Trump campaign celebrated the news.
“It might shock Democrats that support for President Trump is rising with Black Americans but it shouldn’t,” Trump campaign Principal Deputy Communications Director Erin Perrine said to Breitbart News. “Blacks are more prosperous than ever because of President Trump with record-low unemployment and rising paychecks.”
The polling bump only bolstered the Trump campaign’s decision to launch a “Black Voices for Trump” political coalition in November.
“We’re going to campaign for every last African American vote in 2020,” Trump said in a speech, launching the group with black supporters in Atlanta, Georgia.
Perrine said the news would energize the coalition going into the president’s re-election effort for 2020.
“The Black Voices for Trump coalition will help get the facts and truth out there about the strength of America for Blacks under President Trump,” she said.

The Trump campaign has made a commitment to winning over black voters in 2020, an effort unprecedented in recent Republican campaign history, and we must keep in mind that it is not necessary for Trump to win a majority of black votes to have a huge impact. For decades, the GOP has suffered from an image problem on race issues, and too many Republican consultants have been averse to making a real effort to fix that problem. In district after district, state after state, election after election, Democrats just assumed that they would win 90-95% of the black vote, which enabled them to win offices in close elections where a majority of white voters went for the Republican candidate. If Trump can get to double digits — 12%-15% — with black voters in 2020, that would probably doom the Democrats in states like Florida and North Carolina. And having stronger black support will also help Trump with the kind of suburban white women who don’t want to be perceived as “racist” for voting Republican. Polls show increasing opposition to the Democrats’ impeachment witch-hunt, and it’s entirely possible — I mean, a long shot, but you can’t rule it out — that Trump could win a 1972-style landslide.

Keep in mind you have four white people — Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg — currently leading the polls among Democratic presidential candidates. The only black candidate with a chance, Kamala Harris, is at 4% nationally and has gone “all-in” on winning the Iowa caucuses. But three of the four most recent Iowa polls show Buttigieg leading, while Harris is in sixth place in the RCP average of Iowa polls. In other words, Iowa Democrats support the gay white mayor over the black female Senator, and do you think this makes black Democrats happy? You ain’t been paying attention to social media, then, because they’re angry as hell. Black Democrats hate Buttigieg.

Maybe it’s just a coincidence that Kanye West, said to be a Trump supporter, released an album entitled “Follow God” that zoomed to the top of the charts. I mean, Democrats might be getting ready to nominate this gay white guy, and here the multi-platinum black rapper who (allegedly) supports Trump is throwing down some Jesus on the people?

All we can do is pray. And maybe you could hit my tip jar?





 

Category: Donald Trump, Polls
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