The Other McCain

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

Portland Antifa Terrorist Has Previously Been Arrested for Similar Crime

Posted on | July 1, 2019 | Comments Off on Portland Antifa Terrorist Has Previously Been Arrested for Similar Crime

According to Gateway Pundit, Joseph Christian Evans has been identified as the Antifa terrorist who used a metal pipe to attack Adam Kelly during a weekend protest, leaving Kelly with severe scalp lacerations. Evans had previously been arrested “on charges of recklessly endangering another person and unlawful use of a weapon” at a protest last August: “Why isn’t Joseph Christian Evans in prison?” Of course, it’s because Portland is a Democrat-controlled city whose mayor supports terroristic violence against law-abiding citizens exercising their First Amendment rights.

Meanwhile, Portland Police have asked for the public’s help in identifying other Antifa terrorists, but really, what’s the point if they’re just going to turn them loose on the streets to commit more violence?

Bonus: Ace of Spades calls Jonah Goldberg a “fat, sweaty failure” for his weak response to Antifa terrorism.



 

Category: Crime, Oregon, Terrorism

LGBT Ideology as Pathological Narcissism

Posted on | July 1, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

Now that “Pride Month” is over, perhaps it’s again safe to say that homosexuality is not a virtue. That’s what “gay pride” is really about — gay people asserting that they are superior to straights, and expecting the rest of us to applaud their courage in being proudly gay. Those who refuse to celebrate homosexuality are among the “deplorables” because we are not “inclusive,” but a devotion to Inclusion and Diversity as the highest moral ideals must inevitably lead to conflict, and the inclusion of “T” in the Rainbow Acronym Coalition has proven to be problematic, as the Gender Studies majors might say. Making sexual behavior the basis of a political movement, as part of the general Democrat Party program of organizing support by identity-politics categories, has always generated a certain amount of controversy, but for many years liberal journalists were able to suppress such controversies by portraying critics of the LGBT community as evil right-wing bigots who should be ignored.

The Gods of the Copybook Headings haven’t gone out of business, however, and it was therefore predictable that many people who are entirely sympathetic to the cause of gay rights — including no small number of homosexuals — would become disillusioned by what happened once their ideology was imposed on society by the force of law. The Internet has provided the mechanism whereby people can express dissenting views that the mainstream media would prefer to ignore, which is why we know that lesbian feminists are particularly enraged by the “activism” of transgender militants, many of whom are heterosexual males pursuing sick fantasies inspired by pornography. Lesbians obviously have no interest in associating with men indulging a perverse fetish, but when they voiced their objection to the “inclusion” of such men, these lesbians found themselves demonized as “TERFs” (trans exclusive radical feminists). And this demonization was coming from within the gay community and their “progressive” allies!

Well, who could have predicted this, other than everyone familiar with the history of the radical Left? The Reign of Terror in France ended with Robespierre himself going to the guillotine, you know, and Trotsky, who led the Red Army to victory, was assassinated by Stalin’s henchman. So when members of the gay community found themselves being vilified for their sexual preference — i.e., women attracted to women, who refuse to date men pretending to be women — this was deeply ironic, but it shouldn’t have been particularly surprising. Nevertheless, even those of us who understood there was no real limit to the madness of the Left were shocked by the fanaticism of the transgender radicals who brandished baseball bats as a threat to “TERFs.”

 

Here we encounter Third Wave feminist theory (the gender binary is socially constructed by the heterosexual matrix, to summarize Judith Butler’s influential 1990 book Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity) rotating full-circle to destroy the definition of “woman” and, in the process, destroying the meaning of homosexuality. If a man can “identify” as a woman, and then declare himself/“herself” to be a lesbian, how is it possible for any Third Wave feminist to say no? Thus we reach the absurdity of Justin “Riley” Dennis — a man over six feet tall, pretending to be a woman — denouncing anyone’s refusal to have sex with him/“her” as “discriminatory.”

 

Under the new “progressive” dictatorship of our transgender overlords, it is your duty to date Riley Dennis, if he/“she” finds you attractive. His/“her” use of civil-rights rhetoric is not accidental, of course. If disapproval of LGBT behavior is a form of “hate” akin to racism, then your refusal to engage in sexual activity with a member of the LGBT community is an expression of prejudice, because you are denying them their “right” to any partner they may prefer. Of course, this ideology condemns all heterosexual men who aren’t interested in dating “women” with penises, but it also results in lesbians being attacked for preferring actual women to make-believe erzatz substitutes like Riley. Meanwhile, transgender ideology is deployed to persuade unhappy young women that their difficulty in finding happiness means that they are actually men, a problem that can be solved by injecting themselves with testosterone and getting their breasts amputated, like Amanda “Miles” McKenna.

Amanda McKenna in 2014 (left); ‘Miles’ McKenna after surgery and hormones (right).

If Amanda felt like a miserable failure as a woman, what makes her think she’ll be happy and successful as a synthetic imitation of a man? However, because LGBT ideology is based on a belief in superiority, Amanda/“Miles” believes she/“he” is actually a better man than any genetic male could ever hope to be, and any woman who wouldn’t want to date “Miles” is therefore guilty of the hateful prejudice of transphobia.

Heterosexuality is wrong and normal people are inferior — that’s the underlying belief expressed by the rhetoric of LGBT “pride.”

However sympathetic you might be toward the unfortunate victims of this belief system, you cannot ignore the destructive impact that the ideology of gay supremacy has inflicted on innocent people who had the misfortune of becoming collateral damage in the LGBT revolution. Rod Dreher calls attention to Christine Benvenuto, who married a man named Jay Ladin who, after more than 20 years of marriage and three children, decided that he was actually a woman named “Joy”:

It was hard to understand the sudden dramatic change in a state of being he now claimed was lifelong. I tried to convince Tom that he was not a woman. When that failed, I tried to convince him that, for our children’s sake, he could believe he was a woman and still choose to live as a man.
For his part, Tom’s perspective was that if I loved him, I would accept that a transsexual has to do what a transsexual has to do – and sacrifice my own identity accordingly. When he wasn’t telling me that the person I thought I had known had never existed at all, he’d say it was a sign of my limitations that I couldn’t grasp the idea of same person, different package.
“After all,” he said blithely, “the changes I’m making are pretty superficial.”
“If they’re so superficial, why do you have to turn all our lives upside down for them?”
He didn’t seem the same. He didn’t act the same. His values seemed to change along with his personality. . . .
All at once there was the pathos of witnessing a middle-aged man – the husband I loved and had admired – taking pleasure in gazing at the woman he evidently saw when he looked at himself in the mirror. His satisfaction with himself. His in-my-face “I’m going to do this and you have no choice but to accept it” attitude towards me. . . .
From his cheerleaders I learned that in the new political correctness, female solidarity is out. A man in a dress is in. Among women who consider themselves feminists, a man who declares himself a transsexual trumps another woman any day. One of Tom’s supporters would eventually sum up this perspective most explicitly: “He’s a transsexual. Anything he does is what he needs to do.”

This excerpt of Benvenuto’s 2012 book, Sex Changes: A Memoir of Marriage, Gender, and Moving On, highlights the unmistakable element of narcissism in transgender behavior. Cynthia Yockey has discussed this phenomenon in the context of autogynephilia, a psychiatric disorder in which a man “falls in love” with the image of himself as a woman. How does this happen? From perverted fantasies, usually beginning around puberty, when the boy dresses up in women’s clothes (typically “borrowed” from his sister or mother), becomes aroused by the reflected image of his “female” self in the mirror, and masturbates to orgasm as this imaginary persona. This is a self-inflicted mental illness, and it is insulting to demand that we celebrate such deviant behavior.

Pathological narcissism is not “courage,” and should not be applauded.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)



 

Category: The Transgender Cult

Rule 5 Sunday: Cheryl Ann Tweedy

Posted on | July 1, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I seem to getting into a rut of British pop stars, but as long as they’re good looking, who cares, right? This week, it’s Cheryl An Tweedy, also known as Cheryl Cole, who debuted as a member of reality-TV girl group Girls Aloud in 2002 before going solo in 2009. She’s been a judge and mentor on both the UK and US versions of The X Factor, and has also done modeling; she’s been on the cover of Elle and Harper’s Bazaar as well as fronting for cosmetics giant L’Oreal from 2009-2018. Here she is looking stylish in a leather jacket.

Dangerous curves?

Leading off on this hot summer night, it’s Ninety Miles From Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #664, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Tech Obsession Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon. Bacon Time adds Rule 5 Fifties Flashback (NSFW).

EBL gets her kicks with Hope Hicks, Maude Apatow, Irina Demick, Copenhagen, Tulsi Gabbard, Marianne Williamson, Kamala Harris, Ivanka Trump, and Shaila Kapoor.

A View From The Beach delivers with Blood and Treasure – Sophia Pernas, The FinalStraw, Really, Fish Pic Friday, D.C. Dolphins Get Names, It Must Be Tanlines Thursday Again, MDDNR Issues Warnings on Summer Striper Handling, Maybe I’m Not Drinking Enough Coffee?, Circular Study Finds Oyster Restoration Good for Fish, Crabs, Some Hot and Sticky Russiagate, Tuesday Morning Wake Up, Is Somebody Farting on Mars?, “Baltimore Skyline”, Russiagate: The Third Dossier or the Third Scope Memo?, People Are Still Eating What They Like, and Scrounging Around for More Russiagate.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe this week is Elizabeth Taylor, and at Dustbury, it’s Eva Longoria and Stacy Keibler.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

Visit Amazon’s Intimate Apparel Shop
Shop Sex & Sensuality Gifts
Save On Sexual Wellness Products

Category: Rule 5

Democrats May Be Better Off Leaving Their Faith Unstated

Posted on | June 30, 2019 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

“We Americans have always been a religious people, a member of my staff tells me.”–Kristen Wiig as Nancy Pelosi, 11Nov2006 (at 1:57)

Chris Coons has a fascinating piece up at The Atlantic:

First, it hides away the deep, passionate, and formative faith backgrounds of so many Democrats who are seeking or serving in office. At our weekly Senate prayer breakfasts, for example, I’m consistently inspired and moved by the words of my colleagues whose faith is fundamental to their life and their work, but who rarely talk about it publicly.

Faith is a singular, internal thing. By way of reference, I’m of the Baptist ilk, not that that label matters fig #1.
Politics are plural, and external. We want to know that our leaders have some sort of moral compass, without fretting too heavily about the brand. I’ve voted for a Mormon, for all I don’t subscribe to their Christology.
Even though the closest thing to a moral code we can find in politics is the Bill of Rights we badly want to know that our leaders are aware that there is some level of supernatural accountability for their megalomania. Hopefully it will keep them in check.
Now, when a political figure ventures into a Christian context, it seems fair to engage at that level. Coons quotes Sherrod Brown as saying (emphasis mine):

“Let me dig a bit deeper to explain how I see the world and the sisterhood and brotherhood of humanity. At gatherings like this, we Democrats seldom talk about our faith … Here’s what Jesus said: ‘When I was hungry, you fed me. When I was thirsty, you gave me drink. When I was a stranger, you welcomed me. What you did for those who seemed less important, you did for me.’ Let our country—our nation’s citizens, our Democratic Party, my fellow elected officials all over the country—let them all cast their eyes toward the heartland, to the industrial Midwest, to our Great Lakes state. Let them hear what we say. Let them see what we do.” ?

First, that whole “sister/brotherhood of man” claptrap is nowhere in the Gospel. There are some calling themselves Christian who exhibit Universalist tendencies. Let us commend to them a closer reading of the Word as written.
But more importantly, the whole “we do” thing is a subtler tweaking of the New Testament. James tells us that faith and works are as tightly bound as velocity and position in a motion problem. But those works are our personal, no-kidding acts for tangible people, not the “we gave at the office” evasion of someone loving their neighbor by government proxy. If we could legislated salvation, the Pharisees would have won, and the crucifixion was just an especially bad visit to Portland.
We need to be very careful how we use Scripture in a political context, and less is certainly more:

Mat 7:21-23
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Category: Uncategorized

‘Godless Commies!’

Posted on | June 30, 2019 | 2 Comments

 

Ed Driscoll last week called attention to an essay by Harry Stein about the continuing relevance of Eugene Lyons’s 1941 book The Red Decade because of its eerie parallels to the Stalinist tendencies of the 21st-century Left. A complete and cynical dishonesty was one of the hallmarks of Stalin-era Communism, as the Soviet regime engaged in grossly false propaganda to defend its power and conceal its bloody crimes.

One of the reasons younger people — and by “younger,” I mean, under 40 — are so vulnerable to leftist “progressive” propaganda is because they aren’t old enough to remember the Cold War. Today’s 35-year-old was in kindergarten when the Berlin Wall fell, and thus has no personal memory of what it was like to live during the decades when we were faced with the possibility of annihilation by Soviet aggression. The permanent sense of terror inspired by the menace of Communism, a godless creed of murderous hatred, was so deeply embedded into American culture during my youth that my children (the oldest of which was born some six months before the fall of the Berlin Wall) can scarcely understand what it was like. When my oldest was a teenager, I was driving her and her friend to a Christian music festival and, to pass the time, began talking about politics and history. I tried to explain to them how, growing up in a Baptist church in Georgia, I was horrified by stories of how Christians were persecuted in the Soviet Union, in Red China and wherever else Communist regimes came to power. The worldview of Communism — “historical materialism,” or “dialectical materialism” — was based explicitly in atheism, and Communists everywhere were determined to destroy Christianity. Imagine what it would be like to live in a dictatorship where you could go to prison for possessing a Bible!

“Godless commies!” I yelled, as we rolled along the highway, and the vehemence of my expression rather startled my daughter and her friend.

To deny the existence of God is, as Nietzsche foresaw, to deny that there is any eternal law. The categories of “good” and “evil” are meaningless to the atheist, so that the most basic of moral maxims — “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not kill,” etc. — meant nothing to the godless Commies, whose only ideas of right and wrong were summarized by Lenin’s frightening question: “Who? Whom?” Anything that advanced the “dictatorship of the proletariat” was justified, including deliberate deceit and cold-blooded murder, so that the Communists claimed unquestioned authority to lie, steal and kill on behalf of their revolution, and none of their victims had any claim to justice.

Eugene Lyons’s book The Red Decade has a subtitle: “The Stalinist Penetration Of America.” And this was perhaps the most frightening aspect of the Communist menace, that there were many thousands of Americans who supported that wicked ideology, including so-called “fellow travelers” who worked to undermine our resistance to Communism. Not only had Soviet spies and agents of influence found their way into positions within our government, but pro-Soviet subversives were also employed in academia, in Hollywood, and in journalism, promoting deadly Marxist-Leninist ideas. Because their ideology justified deception, Communists were dishonest about who they were, what they did and what they believed. The Rosenbergs, for example, denied being either members of the Communist Party or Soviet spies, and instead falsely claimed to be victims of anti-Semitism, thus defaming those who investigated and prosecuted them for their crimes. These lies were then promoted by pro-Soviet propagandists in the media who lied about their own Communist sympathies, pretending instead to be “liberals” concerned with “civil rights.” The fact that there were no “civil rights” under Soviet rule — anyone could be arrested and executed at the whim of Beria’s secret police — exposed the hypocrisy of “liberal” apologists for Communism who, of course, made a great show of pretending that they weren’t actually Stalinist stooges, instead blaming anti-Communist “hysteria” for any suspicion directed against them.

The habitual dishonesty of Communists contributed to a climate of paranoia. When eminent public officials like Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White were exposed as part of the Communist conspiracy against our country, having long concealed their betrayal, this raised the obvious question of how many more secret Communists might still be hidden within the government. And when these Communist agents proclaimed their innocence, and “liberal” journalists argued in their defense, despite all evidence of their guilt, this raised the question of whether any liberal could be trusted to honestly protect the national interest.

Bob Belvedere at The Camp of the Saints explores Harry Stein’s essay, making several useful points, including the fact that the education system is now controlled by socialists who indoctrinate children with crypto-Marxist ideology, teaching them to hate God and to hate America, too.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!


 

Category: Education, History

FMJRA 2.0: Even Better Than The Real Thing

Posted on | June 29, 2019 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Even Better Than The Real Thing

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

The Worst #MeToo Smear Yet
Dark Brightness
Cynical Anarcho-Capitalist Society
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

The Fake Ukrainian Ledger Angle: How the Media Colluded With the ‘Deep State’
A View From The Beach
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Space Age Love Song
A View From The Beach
EBL

Cody’s Excellent Fourth of July Plan
EBL

Ding! Dong! The Witch Is Dead: The Broke Wokeness of Anita Sarkeesian
Dark Brightness
357 Magnum
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.24.19
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

New Left-Wing Website Is Doomed
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.25.19
Proof Positive
EBL

Stalinist Regime at Google Is Still Lying
Dark Brightness
EBL

First Round of Democrat Presidential Debates Tonight at 9 p.m. ET on MSNBC
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.26.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

DNC Debate Night I: The Aftermath
A View From The Beach
EBL

Missing College Girl Mackenzie Lueck Was a Social-Media ‘Sugar Baby’ Whore
357 Magnum
Pushing Rubber Downhill
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.27.19
Proof Positive
EBL

More ‘Red Pill’ Thoughts
Pushing Rubber Downhill
A View From The Beach
EBL

Democrat Debate Post-Mortem: MSNBC’s Obvious Bias and the ‘Beautiful Lunatic’
A View From The Beach
EBL

UPDATE: Mackenzie Lueck Is Dead; Police Charge Ayoola Ajayi With Murder
A View From The Beach
EBL

Google’s LGBTQ+ Totalitarians
Dark Brightness
EBL

Kirby Was Right (Again)
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.28.19
EBL
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending June 28:

  1.  EBL (19)
  2.  A View From The Beach (10)
  3.  Proof Positive (6)

Honorable mention to Dark Brightness!


Amazon Warehouse Deals

Try Amazon Music Unlimited Free Trial
Try Amazon Home Services
Kindle Unlimited Membership Plans

Category: FMJRA Award

In The Mailbox: 06.28.19

Posted on | June 29, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Remember that FMJRA links are due tomorrow at noon and Rule 5 Sunday links by midnight.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Reality Intrudes All The Way To Massachusetts
Bacon Time: Doddering Old Fool Mumbles Incoherently
EBL: Marianne Williamson
Twitchy: Sean Spicier’s #DemDebates2 Tweets His Most Triggering Yet
Louder With Crowder: The Democrats Love Losers And Need People To Stay Losers
According To Hoyt: Thoughts From The Road
Vox Popoli: Another Reason For Cancelling Student Loan Debt

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Persecute A Christian Edition
American Greatness: How Romney And The Anti-Trump GOP Fueled The Border Crisis
American Power: Democrats Move Left – Frankly, It’s Just All Out In The Open Now
American Thinker: Julian Castro Pounds The Table, Demands Abortion For Men Too
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Tech Obsession Friday
Babalu Blog: De Blasio Claims Ignorance, Apologizes For Che Quote  – Forgets We Know He Honeymooned In Havana
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For June 28
Camp Of The Saints: “Not Freedom’s Shade” – Maybe There Is Hope?
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Sound & Darkness, also, Pintastic NE 2019 Early Videos
Don Surber: How We Blew A $700 Quintillion Opportunity
Dustbury: Does He Feel Lucky?
First Street Journal:
The Geller Report: Muslims Slaughter 95 Christians In Mali Village, also, Facebook Removed From S&P List Of Ethical Companies
Hogewash: Hot Take On The A-Card Debate, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day (featuring Johnny Atsign!)
Hollywood In Toto: The Worst Movies Of 2019 List – Six Months Early!
JustOneMinute: It May Not Be Smart Money But It’s Early Money
Legal Insurrection: Winner Of #DemDebate Night Two – Illegal Immigrants, also, German Intel Service Says Number Of Islamists In Germany At Record High
Michelle Malkin: “GOD IS LOVE”, “BUILD THE WALL”, “WALK AWAY” and “CHOOSE LIFE” Knitted Hats All Banned On Ravelry
The PanAm Post: Prisoners As Soldiers – Venezuelan Minister Of Prisons Creates Her Own Army
Power Line: Is Kamala Harris Lying About Her Berkeley Days? also, AP Correction – The Democrats Were Segregationists
Shark Tank: Rubio Moves To Protect SCOTUS From Court-Packing
Shot In The Dark: All The Wrong Reasons
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, PA To Seal Criminal Records Today
Victory Girls: Democrat Candidates Unanimously Agree Illegals Should Get Free Healthcare
Volokh Conspiracy: Enumerated Powers & The Census Case
Weasel Zippers: New Study Finds 2/3rds Of Hate Crimes Are Hoaxes, also, All Seven Dem Senators Running For President Absent From Border Relief Funding Vote
Megan McArdle: Why Mention Failed Obamacare When Democrats Can Debate Shiny New Medicare For All?
Mark Steyn: A Titan Has Fallen

Amazon Warehouse Deals

Category: Linkagery

Kirby Was Right (Again)

Posted on | June 28, 2019 | Comments Off on Kirby Was Right (Again)

When I spoke to my brother Kirby about the arrest of Ayoola ‘AJ’ Ajayi in the murder of Mackenzie Lueck, he said: “Something tells me this wasn’t this guy’s first time at the rodeo” — he must have had some prior criminal history. And, as usual, Kirby’s hunch was right. Ajayi was investigated as a rape suspect five years ago:

“Ayoola Adisa Ajayi (DOB 4/22/1988), who is in custody as a suspect of the Salt Lake City Police Department in relation to the disappearance of MacKenzie Lueck, lived in North Logan, Utah from 2013-2015, according to our local police records. In 2014, North Park Police Department investigated a Sex Offense/Rape complaint with Mr. Ajayi listed as the suspect. The adult female victim in this incident did not wish to pursue charges in the matter.”

He skated on that charge, but predators seldom stop at one victim. Considering that he asked a contractor to build a sound-proof “secret” room at his house, Ajayi’s arrest in the Lueck case may have prevented him from becoming a serial killer. Ajayi is a native of Nigeria, although it’s unknown when he emigrated to the United States, but it was before 2011: “Ajayi and his ex-wife married in 2011 in Texas, and they separated in 2017; their divorce was finalized in January, according to court records.” What do you think are the chances that DNA will link Ajayi to other unsolved crimes? I trust Kirby’s hunch on this.

UPDATE: The murder of Mackenzie Lueck comes eight months after the murder of another University of Utah student:

Lauren McCluskey was returning from class Oct. 22 when she was shot to death on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City. McCluskey was a 21-year-old senior from Pullman, Washington, who was a member of the university’s track team. She was on her cellphone talking to her mother at the time of her fatal shooting, and her mother heard Lauren scream, “No! No! No!” The killer was Lauren’s ex-boyfriend, a man she had met less than two months earlier. On Sept. 2, the first week of her senior year at the university, Lauren went to the London Belle, a Salt Lake City bar, where she met Melvin Shawn Rowland, who was working as a bouncer at the bar. However, Rowland didn’t tell her his real name. He also didn’t tell her his real age — 37 — nor did he tell his new girlfriend that he was a registered sex offender who had spent nearly a decade in prison after being “convicted of attempted forcible sex abuse and enticing a minor over the internet in 2004.”

Just another random coincidence, I guess.

UPDATE II: If readers think my assessment of this situation was unnecessarily harsh, you might consider the reactions at Kiwi Farms, where anonymity protects brutally honest appraisals, e.g.:

“Stupid, stupid girl. She didn’t deserve to be murdered, but damn it, you’d think people could do basic f–king risk analysis when they’re past their teen years.”

and:

“It’s almost like sex for money is dangerous or something, here in the real world or even online. Lol, like it or not you’re actually taking just as big a chance selling your a– online as you would be selling it down at the highway truckstop.”

See, most people actually get it. It’s not as if common sense has ceased to exist, it’s just that in the current climate of journalism, academia and politics, expressions of common sense are strictly forbidden. People actually know things that they are not allowed to say, and this enforced silence serves to protect young people from learning the harsh truths about human existence and “basic f–king risk analysis.” By thus prohibiting the expression of common sense, we guarantee that victims keep piling up like cordword, led like lambs to the slaughter, sacrificed to the idols of Diversity and Inclusion.


 

Category: Crime
« go back — keep looking »