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Nigerian Immigrant Could Face Death Penalty in ‘Sugar Baby’ Murder Case

Posted on | July 10, 2019 | Comments Off on Nigerian Immigrant Could Face Death Penalty in ‘Sugar Baby’ Murder Case

Ayoola Ajayi (left) is accused of murdering Mackenzie Lueck (right).

The Salt Lake Tribune:

The man accused of killing University of Utah student MacKenzie Lueck has been charged with aggravated murder and aggravated kidnapping days after police found her body in Logan Canyon.
Ayoola Ajayi, 31, faces four felony counts, including second-degree felony obstruction of justice and third-degree felony desecration of a body, in the high-profile case that has captivated the state and the nation since Lueck disappeared on June 17.
The charges, filed Wednesday by Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill, say Lueck died of blunt force trauma to her head. Gill said her body was found with her arms bound behind her back by a zip tie and rope. . . .
Ajayi had been booked into jail June 28 on suspicion of the same counts. The aggravated murder charge carries a potential death penalty if Ajayi is convicted.
“I can absolutely tell you that no deals have been made whatsoever,” Gill said at a news conference Wednesday, adding, “I think it would be premature to talk about the death penalty.” . . .Investigators have said that Lueck took a Lyft from the airport to Hatch Park in North Salt Lake in the early morning of June 17. She was picked up there by Ajayi, police said, and her phone stopped transmitting data at that point. A police search of Lueck’s phone showed he was the last person who communicated with her.
Gill declined to comment on the “prior history” between Lueck and Ajayi, or on “the nature or the contents” of texts between [Lueck and Ajayi] early on June 17. . . .
Cellphone records showed Ajayi was near Logan Canyon on June 25, Gill said. On July 3rd, police went to Logan Canyon to search for Lueck’s body and located a disturbed area of soil under trees. They discovered a charred human body and DNA testing returned a profile consistent with Lueck, he said.
“This was an area that was off the main road” in Logan Canyon, Gill said. “A wooded area.”
The canyon is two hours north of Salt Lake City. He did not comment on where he believes Lueck was killed. Ajayi attended Utah State University, which is located in Logan, near the canyon.

“No deals have been made” — the prosecutors believe they have enough evidence to convict Ajayi in a courtroom trial, so they have no motive to offer a plea bargain. We might suppose that Ajayi would have a better chance of avoiding the death penalty if he pleads guilty, and of course, this would spare the taxpayers the expense of a trial, but if the prosecution believes they’ve got an open-and-shut case, they’re not going to let Ajayi off with anything less than life without parole.

Notice that the prosecutor doesn’t want to get into the details on why this college girl agreed to meet Ajayi at a park at 3 a.m.  Mackenzie Lueck had apparently been meeting men through “sugar baby” sites and dating apps, and what were she and Ajayi texting about? Well, I doubt she agreed to get hogtied and beaten to death, and have her corpse burned and dumped in a remote canyon.  But that was Ajayi’s plan, allegedly.



 

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Category: Utah, Violence Against Women

In The Mailbox: 07.09.19

Posted on | July 9, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.09.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Meanwhile, In The People’s Republic Of California…
EBL:  Ross Perot, RIP, also, Cow Appreciation Day
Twitchy: Ian Millhiser Warns Of Biggest Mass Killing On American Soil Since Civil War…Or Was That The Tax Cuts?
Louder With Crowder: Mitch McConnell’s Response To Question About Slave-Owning Ancestors Is Beyond Savage

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Butt-Backwards U.S. Economy
American Greatness: Donald Trump’s 4th Of July Reality Show
American Thinker: The American Left’s Army Of Dupes
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Armed Lefties News
Babalu Blog: Socialism Or Death! Castro Regime Sells Rotten Meat To Pregnant Women, Diabetics
BattleSwarm: Taiwan To Buy 108 Abrams Tanks, also, Ross Perot Dead At 89
Camp of the Saints: A New, Increasingly Widespread Form Of Child Abuse
CDR Salamander: FREMM Bulks Up
Da Tech Guy: Antifa & The Media, also, Fighting For The Serf Turf
Don Surber: Obama Judge Sides With Big Pharma, also, Highlights Of The News
Dustbury: Possibly Triple Or Fourple
First Street Journal: The WaPo & NBC Bring Up The Trivial To Trash Mitch McConnell
The Geller Report: Top Ranking Member Of House Foreign Affairs Committee Calls For Ouster Of Ilhan Omar, also, Tommy Robinson To Seek Asylum In U.S., Says He’ll Be Murdered In U.K. Prison
Hogewash: They’re Not Going To Like Their New Rules, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Sinbad’s Big Regret – An Infamous “Celebrity” Show Stint
Joe For America: After Nike Caves To Kaepernick & Liberals Again, Another Company Steps Up Big Time
Legal Insurrection: Ilhan Omar Lies To High School Students About Racial Injustice, also, BET Founder Robert Johnson – Democratic Party Has Moved Too Far To The Left
The PanAm Post: The Global Order Ignores Venezuela Because It Presents An Inconvenient Truth
Power Line: Eric Felten – Insinuendo In The Mueller Report, also, Epstein Indictment Puts Spotlight Back On Acosta
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Takes Daily Dump On Maduro-Supporting Democrats
Shot In The Dark: An Intellectual 0-0 Tie
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – New Jersey DEATHMATCH!
The Political Hat: Ensuring The Right Of Every Free Adult
This Ain’t Hell: USAF Marathon Man, also, Why Legit Veterans Can Turn My Stomach & A Smugnorance Gives Me Gas
Victory Girls: Chuck Schumer Ties Sec. Acosta & Trump To Epstein
Volokh Conspiracy: How To Make Bar Exams Great Again
Weasel Zippers: Surveillance Shows 60 Teenagers Mobbing A Walgreens In Philly, also, Warren Says As President She’ll End Israel’s Occupation Of Gaza
Megan McArdle: Why The Debate About Equal Pay For U.S. Women’s Soccer Isn’t That Clear Cut
Mark Steyn: Come, Josephine, In My Flying Machine, also, Rip Van Woken In A Land Of Non-Binary Oreos

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Category: Linkagery

‘Canadian Humanitarian,’ IYKWIMAITYD

Posted on | July 9, 2019 | 1 Comment

Peter Dalglish (left) and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (right).

Hiding in plain sight:

A lauded Canadian humanitarian was sentenced to nine years in prison by a Nepali court for raping two young boys last year.
Peter Dalglish, who worked for decades as an advocate for children in impoverished corners of the world, was convicted in June of sexually assaulting the boys — aged 12 and 14 — last year in Kartike, a small Nepali village of rutted roads where he built a home.
It is unclear if the 62-year-old, who has maintained his innocence, plans to appeal the sentence, which was delivered in a district court and included a small cash payment to each of the victims’ families. . . .
International activists following Dalglish’s case said the ruling was just one step in addressing grave accusations of sexual abuse against children in Nepal, where thousands of nongovernmental organisations operate with limited oversight.
“Peter Dalglish’s sentencing is an alarm bell for the humanitarian community,” said Lori Handrahan, a veteran international aid worker and author, urging her colleagues “to tackle the pervasive problem of predators in our humanitarian workplace.”

More background on Daglish:

Dalglish . . . has spent decades working in Africa and Asia to combat child poverty.
In the late 1980s, he co-founded Street Kids International, a Canadian NGO focused on delivering programs to help improve the living conditions for vulnerable kids in developing countries.
More recently, Dalglish served as a senior adviser to the UN Habitat in Afghanistan, as well as worked with the World Health Organization and the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response in Liberia.
In December 2016, Dalglish was named a member of the Order of Canada for his humanitarian work.

How many “humanitarians” like Dalglish are also pedophiles? Isn’t the whole “international aid” racket the perfect vehicle for these perverts? Create a tax-exempt “charity” and fly off to some Third World country to “help the children,” and figure that none of the impoverished natives will make a fuss if your definition of “help” is somewhat flexible.

(Hat-tip: Lori Handrahan on Twitter.)



 

Category: Canada, Crime

MSNBC and CNN Are Trying to Spin the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Against Trump

Posted on | July 9, 2019 | 1 Comment

Everybody with access to a computer can discover that Bill Clinton took dozens of flights on billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet, nicknamed the “Lolita Express,” and yet viewers of the liberal cable channels are being treated to a warped version of the story in which Epstein is falsely depicted as Donald Trump’s best friend, and the real scandal involves Trump’s Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta.

This partisan spin is being replicated on broadcast network news, as Kristine Marsh of Newsbusters notes that ABC’s Good Morning America (hosted by former Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos) covered the latest Epstein charges without even mentioning Bill Clinton:

CBS and NBC, on the other hand, tried to connect Epstein to Trump. While NBC’s Stephanie Gosk gave a passing mention to both Clinton and Trump (without any mention of the “Lolita Express”), CBS This Morning’s Mola Lenghi spent more time on both Trump and Clinton, while emphasizing comments Trump made praising Epstein in 2002:

Epstein has had several high-profile friendships in the past. Bill Clinton reportedly rode on his jet more than a dozen times in the early 2000s. In a 2002 interview, then private citizen Donald Trump called Epstein ‘a terrific guy’ and ‘it’s even said he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them, are on the younger side.’

However, Lenghi didn’t mention that after Epstein had been convicted of assaulting an underage girl, Trump had barred him from Mar-a-Lago. 
All three networks didn’t mention either that Epstein was a major donor to Democrats for years, a fact that most certainly would’ve made the cut had he donated to Republicans.

“Democratic Party operatives with bylines,” as someone keeps saying.

As for the question of why Acosta, as a federal prosecutor in 2008, gave Epstein a “sweetheart deal” (a phrase repeated endlessly on MSNBC and CNN), this is explained by the fact that (a) Epstein is a wealthy man who could afford the best defense lawyers in the country, and (b) prosecutors generally prefer plea bargains to court trials, especially in cases like this one. Would you want to put Epstein’s former victims on the witness stand and expose them to cross-examination, with defense lawyers picking apart every detail of their testimony and every contradiction between what they said in court and what they’d previously told investigators?

Beyond any consideration of partisan politics or media bias, the aspersions being cast on Acosta for a lenient plea-bargain with Epstein are an appeal to ignorance, intended to inflame the indignation of people whose ideas of the criminal justice system are based on watching TV dramas like Law & Order: SVU and CSI Miami. In the real world, people who commit very serious crimes of violence — armed robbery, aggravated assault, rape — are allowed to plead guilty to lesser charges and often turned loose after only a year or two in jail. If you imagine that prosecutors had an slam-dunk case against Epstein and had nothing to lose by taking the caase to trial, you can make Acosta the villain in the story. Watching MSNBC this morning, viewers might be forgiven for suspecting that Acosta himself was banging teenage girls on Epstein’s private island, such is the presentation of the story. The focus on Acosta, however, is simply a way to divert attention from Bill Clinton’s notorious association with Epstein, and to turn this story into a Trump scandal.



 

Category: Media Bias, Scandal

In The Mailbox: 07.08.19

Posted on | July 8, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: Of Course Democrats Spy On Americans
Knowledge Buffet: Country Men, or, What Comes After Proud Boys
357 Magnum: A SWAT Raid For Housing Code Violations
EBL: Another Day, Another Asshat, also, Commodore Perry Sails Into Tokyo Bay, 1853
Twitchy: Lefty Gun Grabbers Flip Out On Dana Loesch For Accurately Framing Eric Swalwell’s Nuke Threat
Louder With Crowder: The Jig Is Up, AOC, You’re An Overdramatic Fraud! also, Pelosi Claims Trump Is Using Census To “Make America White Again”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: We Don’t Do Gay, also, Podcast #114 – The Bucket List Episode
American Greatness: Angry About Border Conditions? Blame Congress, also, The Cowardice Of The College Republicans
American Power: How The “Invisible Primary” May Choose The Dems’ 2020 Nominee, also, School Bus Driver Drives Bus Full Of Kids Through Raging Floodwaters
American Thinker: Welcome To The Democrat Freak Show, also, The Democrats’ Situational Racism
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: How The Press Became Castro’s Willing Accomplice, also, Duality At Duke – Castro Si, Robert E. Lee No
BattleSwarm:  Trump Says Immigration Raids Are Back On, also, Democratic Clown Car Update
Camp of the Saints: On The Will To Power & Democracy
CDR Salamander: Moran’s Defenestration
Da Tech Guy: Not Shaken, also, You Already Paid For The B-2 Fuel
Don Surber: What If They Are Right About Trump? also, Highlights Of The News
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Sometimes It’s Just This Easy
First Street Journal: Kamala Harris Emhoff’s Racial Pandering Has Led Her To Propose A Very Dangerous Policy
The Geller Report: Muslim Migrant Reaches Into German Mom’s Pram, Chokes Her Six-Month-Old Baby, also, International Union Of Muslims Scholars Head Says True Victims Of Today’s Jew-Hatred Are Islam & Muslims
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Talking About Something He Knows Nothing About
Hollywood In Toto: Hollywood’s Gay Activists Silent On Ngo Attack, also, Left Uses Threats & Violence To Stop Conservative Art
Joe For America: Dem Rep Escobar’s Staff Goes To Mexico To Teach Migrants How To Game The Asylum System, also, AZ Police Asked To Leave Starbucks After Customer Whines “I Don’t Feel Safe” – Starbucks Apologizes
JustOneMinute: Jeffrey Epstein Busted
Legal Insurrection: NY Gov Cuomo Signs Bill Of Attainder Allowing Congress Access To Trump’s NY State Tax Returns, also, Gibson’s Bakery Seeks Up To $13 Million In Attorney Fees From Oberlin
The PanAm Post: It’s Time For President Macri To Take On The Argentine Airline Unions
Power Line: Washington Post Shills For Antifa, also, Birds Of A Feather
Shark Tank: Rep. Brian Mast Assailed As “Traitor” By GOP Activists
Shot In The Dark: The Rev. Nancy Nord Bence – Lying Now, Lying Then, Lying Always
STUMP: Mortality With Meep – No, Retiring Later Doesn’t Make You Die Sooner – Or Later
The Political Hat: Venezuela – The Tyrants & The Tyrannized
This Ain’t Hell: Army Revives Antiques, also, Batter-Brained IHOP Can Kiss My Bucks Goodbye
Victory Girls: Pelosi Puts Her Foot Down On Occasional Cortex & Co., also, Police Scanner Sheds Light On Urban Cop Woes
Volokh Conspiracy: Texas v. U.S. – Why The Individual Mandate Is Still Unconstitutional
Weasel Zippers: USWNT Tosses Flag To Ground To Ham It Up For Cameras, Player Kelley O’Hara Rushes In To Retrieve It, also, Biracial Rapper Pulls Out Of Festival After She Learns White People To Be Charged $10 More Than Colored People
Mark Steyn: Champagne For Caesar, also, Contempt Is The New Tax Evasion

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Have I Ever Mentioned How Much Ace Hates Him Some Never-Trumpers?

Posted on | July 8, 2019 | Comments Off on Have I Ever Mentioned How Much Ace Hates Him Some Never-Trumpers?

In the sidebar, Ace keeps taking jabs like this one at Seth Mandel:

Local Soyboy Beta Cuck Shocked, Surprised to Learn That His Leftwing Twitter Friends Are Extremists Who Support Antifa
Noted author of Everything I Ever Needed To Learn I Learned in the First Term of the Younger Bush Administration
NPC SOFTWARE UPDATE NOTICE: You have not updated your NPC Software in sixteen years. We will schedule an automatic update to your NPC Software at 3:15 am tonight. Accept/Decline?
>>>DECLINE

You probably get that joke, but if not, I’ll explain that “NPC” stands for “Non Player Character,” a sort of preprogrammed feature in a videogame, and the reference to “sixteen years” takes us back to 2003, i.e., invading Iraq as part of the Global War on Terrorism, so what Ace is saying, basically, is that Mandel is stuck with an obsolete Bush-era model of “compassionate conservatism” that is inoperable in 2019.

Another sidebar jab:

Hey, who’s that retweeting Russian state TV propaganda….? Is that… Oh my stars and garters, it’s super TruCon and “functionally pro-life” nepot and grifter Jonah Goldberg
As John Lydon/Johnny Rotten asked, “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”
I wonder if the Jonah/Steve Hayes project will disclose their angel investors. I have a few guesses about who’d be on that list.
i wonder if the Cuckshed and Cuckshed Jr. will have any spats about poaching each other’s leftwing investors
Note that this Pretend Intellectual makes no effort at all to synthesize news of RUSSIAN state TV mocking Trump with his previous “PUTIN WANTED TRUMP” conspiracy theories. It doesn’t matter, I guess — as long as it’s negative stuff about Trump.
Here are my core unshakable beliefs — If you don’t like them, I have others.
I find Jonah Goldberg’s thinking flabby and lacking proper support, like his moobs. Ou, en francais, “son beetch-teets.”

Again, you probably get that, but if not, I’ll explain that the “Cuckshed” refers to The Bulwark, a site run by refugees from the Weekly Standard, and “Cuckshed Jr.” refers to a similar Never-Trump project with Goldberg and ex-Standard editor Stephen Hayes, who used to be a regular Fox News commentator back in the day, circa 2011, when the Mitt Romney presidential juggernaut was a thing. Why does Ace keep taking these jabs? My own instinct is just to ignore the Never-Trump crowd and let them slide into forgotten oblivion, but I think Ace might actually be smarter than me, playing three-dimensional chess, as it were.

Just a guess here, but what Ace might be thinking is that this whole constellation of washed-up former Fox News stars will eventually emerge in the fall of 2020 to campaign for whoever the Democrats nominate. They’ll be the faces of “Republicans for (Fill-in-the-Blank Democrat).” And so Ace is sagaciously monitoring them, reminding his readers that all these guys are a faithless crew of untrustworthy RINO quislings.

On the other hand, maybe there’s no 3D chess strategic insight involved and Ace just really hates their guts. Look how he sticks a few good shots at David French in the middle of a post about Starbucks. You’ve got to admit, this stuff is fun to read, whether it’s strategic or not.

Of all the stupid things I’ve ever done in life, the one mistake I never made was pissing off Ace so bad he started making fun of me. No wise man would ever want to become an object of his sarcasm. By the way, that’s how I “won” my showdown with LGF’s Charles Johnson back in 2009. CJ had been building up bad karma in the right-wing blogosphere for a while, and when he came after me, Ace finally let fire with the big guns. What Ace did to CJ was quite like what happened to Burnside at Fredericksburg, where Longstreet’s chief of artillery boasted, “General, we cover that ground now so well that we will comb it as with a fine-tooth comb. A chicken could not live on that field when we open on it.”

Some of you may wonder, “Who is this ‘Charles Johnson’ of whom he speaks?” Yes, it’s been a decade since The Race Detective was relevant, and that’s the point — our Never-Trump Republicans have marginalized themselves in such a way that they are probably doomed to the same fate. Ten years from now, most people will not even remember them.



 

Category: Ace of Spades

Tom Steyer: ‘Hey, What This Party Needs Is Its Own Lunatic Billionaire Candidate’

Posted on | July 8, 2019 | Comments Off on Tom Steyer: ‘Hey, What This Party Needs Is Its Own Lunatic Billionaire Candidate’

 

The Impeachment Drum Major throws his baton in the ring:

Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer is planning to launch his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, a report said Sunday.
The 62-year-old Steyer — who toyed with the idea of running in the past — held a private conference call lat week to tell people close to him that he was planning to run, according to Politico.
“He’s definitely focused on the [fact that the] economy is not as good as people are making it out to be,” a source told the newspaper.
“I think his heart’s in the right place. If he’s doing this, he’s got a reason behind it — He’s a very intelligent man.”
Steyer, a former hedge fund manager, founded the environmental advocacy nonprofit NextGen America.
He also founded a group, and spent millions, seeking to gain support for the impeachment of President Trump.

“Run All the Candidates,” as the professor keeps saying, and I’m not quite sure what Steyer thinks he’ll accomplish, except to teach Americans the meaning of words like “monomaniacal” and “idée fixe.” For years, Steyer has been pouring money into the coffers of organizations promoting homosexuality, environmentalism and open borders. So if you’re a Mexican lesbian concerned about global warming, Tom’s your guy. More recently, of course, Steyer’s been Patient Zero of the Trump Derangement Syndrome pandemic, spending vast sums to air TV ads demanding the president’s impeachment. What made him decide now that he needs to join the nearly two dozen Democratic candidates? Is it because there’s not enough zany Trump-haters on the debate stage?

Oh, but California Rep. Eric Swalwell, who advocated using nuclear weapons to disarm American gun owners, is dropping out of the race.

So, yeah, I guess they need more crazies on stage now.



 

Category: Democrats

Anti-American Women Win World Championship of Anti-American Sport

Posted on | July 8, 2019 | Comments Off on Anti-American Women Win World Championship of Anti-American Sport

 

If you don’t want to Make America Great Again, why should Americans cheer for you? If you are an American opposed to the freely elected government of your own country, our First Amendment protects your right as a citizen to engage in protest, but those who support the government cannot be required to endorse your protest.

How many celebrity athletes expressed Tea Party sentiments while Obama was president? Can anyone recall sports teams refusing to go to the White House after winning a championship during the Obama years? Perhaps you can think of a right-wing analog of Megan Rapinoe, but searching my memory, I don’t recall any Democrat president ever being openly insulted the way the U.S. women’s World Cup team has insulted President Trump. And if Rapinoe and her teammates imagine that soccer will become more popular because they have made their sport symbolic of an anti-American protest movement, my guess is that they will be learn otherwise. There has been a lot of noise about the disparity of income between men and women in professional soccer, but the fact is that in most of the world, this is a sport played primarily by men. Only in the United States, where real men play real football, is soccer regarded as a coed sport. One reason the U.S. women are so dominant in international competition is that in soccer-crazy countries like Brazil and Argentina, the sport is still regarded as too rough for girls to play. (And if you’ve seen how Brazilians and Argentines play the game, you understand why they routinely stomp the crap out of the U.S. men’s team.)

Honestly, I am pro-soccer. I think America is a big enough country that we can afford to have some of our best athletes pursue soccer without much loss to our dominance of other professional sports. Can you imagine what the U.S. men’s World Cup team would be like if soccer attracted the kind of athletes who compete in the NBA and NFL? We can afford to spare a few would-be linebackers or point guards to strenghten our soccer program, but that’s not going to happen if soccer cannot escape its unfortunate reputation as an un-American sport, and the protests by Rapinoe & Co. are making that reputation worse, not better.

Also — and I hate to point this out, but somebody’s got to do it — would it be possible to allow some heterosexual players on the U.S. women’s team, just for the sake of “diversity” and “inclusion”?



 

Category: Sports
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