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‘Parents Would Be Wise to Monitor the Activity of Their Children Online’

Posted on | June 19, 2019 | 1 Comment

Kayden McIntosh (left), Denali Brehmer (center), Caleb Leyland (right).

So says U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder, announcing new indictments in the bizarre murder of a 19-year-old girl in Alaska:

A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted two of the defendants in the killing of Anchorage teenager Cynthia Hoffman on new child pornography charges.
The indictments represent the latest twist in a tangled case involving two young people whose online relationship, prosecutors say, crossed over into real-world murder plot that drew in five Anchorage teenagers and led to the killing of a young developmentally disabled woman.
“For all the good the internet can do, it can be a very dark place,” said Bryan Schroder, the U.S. Attorney in Alaska, at a press conference in Anchorage on Tuesday. “Parents would be wise to monitor the activity of their children online.”
Denali Brehmer, 18, now faces four federal child pornography charges in addition to state murder charges in the slaying of Cynthia Hoffman.
Darin Schilmiller, the 21-year-old Indiana man who prosecutors say offered Brehmer $9 million to “rape and murder someone in Alaska,” was also included in the indictment announced Tuesday.
He’d already been arrested on federal child pornography offenses last week. The new indictment includes five federal charges against Schilmiller, including conspiracy to produce child pornography, production of child pornography, receipt and distribution of child pornography and coercion and enticement of a minor. . . .
Prosecutors say the murder plot was a bizarre online “catfishing” scheme in which the rural Indiana 21-year-old posed as a millionaire named “Tyler” on the internet and recruited Brehmer to kill Hoffman.
Brehmer, in turn, involved four other Anchorage teenagers in the plan, promising them money, prosecutors say.
Hoffman was taken to the Thunderbird Falls trailhead in Chugiak where she was bound with duct tape, shot and left in the Eklutna River on June 2, according to charges. Authorities say Brehmer sent Schilmiller Snapchat images of Hoffman both before and after the killing.
Hoffman’s family has said she considered Brehmer to be her best friend.
Six people have been charged in her death: Schilmiller, Brehmer, 16-year-old gunman Kayden McIntosh, 19-year-old Caleb Leyland and two unnamed juveniles. . . .
Detectives found images of Brehmer sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl, which she then shared with Schilmiller, who was posing as “Tyler.”
Text message exchanges included in other criminal complaints in the case show the Indiana man asking Brehmer to “rape” the girl, who was said to be 14 but was actually 15. . . .
The indictments do not add detail to the narrative of the killing of Hoffman, or answer the many questions about the interactions between Schilmiller, a 21-year-old from rural Indiana who had a troubling history of befriending people online only to ask them for pictures of their children.

Hey, kids, be careful about people who claim to be millionaires on the Internet. Also, don’t rape and murder people. That’s not cool.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)



 

He Survived Two Tours of Afghanistan, But Then His Crazy Wife Killed Him

Posted on | June 19, 2019 | 2 Comments

Marriage can be more dangerous than war:

An Alabama woman is charged with fatally shooting her Army sergeant husband just days after he obtained an emergency protection of abuse order against her, alleging she was “very mentally ill” and unstable.
Brittnay Ryals Paonessa, 27, is accused of gunning down Brandyn Lloyd Paonessa on Thursday in the front yard of a home in Phenix City, WTVM reports.
Paramedics tried to save the father of four, but Brandyn, a 26-year-old infantryman at Fort Benning who was shot once in the chest, was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators recovered a shotgun from the home and have preserved the weapon as evidence, deputies said.
Court records obtained by the station in Alabama show that the soldier had taken steps to protect himself days prior to his alleged murder, filing for and obtaining an emergency protection from abuse order against his wife just three days earlier, on Monday.
Brandyn accused his wife of being “very mentally ill” and “very unstable,” claiming she had refused to get treatment at a rehab center. He also accused Brittnay of stalking him, as well as his family and friends, and trying to ruin his job as an infantryman after he joined the Army in September 2013.
Brandyn also accused his wife of driving a truck into the couple’s home “3 feet from our children,” according to the filing.
The couple, who had been married since 2013, had three children together and Brittnay has a child from a previous relationship, Al.com reports.
Fort Benning officials confirmed Brandyn’s death in a statement, saying he was assigned to Task Force 1-28, 3rd Infantry Division, and had two combat tours of duty in Afghanistan.

She was “very mentally ill,” allegedly. How many women in Alabama does that describe? Also, never marry a girl named “Brittnay.” If her mother is too stupid to spell Brittany correctly . . .  Well, it’s Alabama, I guess.



 

Trump Launches Re-Election Campaign With Monster Rally in Orlando

Posted on | June 19, 2019 | Comments Off on Trump Launches Re-Election Campaign With Monster Rally in Orlando

 

This guy is a political genius. A week ahead of the first televised Democrat debates, he stages a gigantic rally in a 20,000-seat Florida arena, with people lining up two days in advance. By doing this, on the four-year anniversary of his June 2015 escalator ride, Trump visibly demonstrates his continued popularity at a time when the media are claiming that polls show him trailing in his re-election race. A few highlights:

As soon as Trump took the stage in his signature red tie, the crowd seemed pleased to have waited. They greeted him with “USA” chants as he recalled the “movement” he started four years ago.
“It turned out to be more than just a great political campaign. It turned out to be a great political movement because of you,” the president said, echoing the same nationalist message that became a staple of his first presidential run. “It’s a movement made up of people … who believe that a nation must care for its own citizens first.” . . .
“Together we’re breaking the most sacred rule of Washington politics: We are keeping our promises to the American people,” he said. . . .
“They’ve been afflicted with an ideological sickness,” Trump said of Democrats, attracting deafening applause as he affirmed that “America is not a socialist country.”
“Republicans do not believe in socialism. We believe in freedom,” he added.
“The days of stealing American jobs and American companies, American ideas and wealth —those days are over,” Trump boldly declared.

Predictably, the media freaked out. CNN cut away from live coverage six minutes into the speech when the crowd started chanting “CNN sucks.”

 

Then, just as Trump was getting back on track and talking about how the election “was our chance to reclaim our government,” CNN fill-in anchor John Berman appeared.
“All right. We’ve been watching the President kick off his reelection bid. He’s been on stage for about six minutes. Within two minutes he did talk about the economy, but within four minutes it was attacks on the media,” he whined.
Berman then looked for a take from CNN political director David Chalian, who processed to lecture the President about wasting his opportunity to talk to the American people about his accomplishments:

But, is Donald Trump going to seize this moment to frame his argument to the American people as to why they should renew his contract for another four years, or is he just going to present us the Trump show, you know, and air his grievances and start the bashing of the free press.

“And he shows no desire whatsoever to try and actually seize this moment to do something different,” Chalian complained.

Having gone all-in on Hillary in 2016, when they earned the moniker “Clinton News Network,” CNN has been playing sore loser ever since. Guess what? Nobody likes a sore loser:

Fox News’ prime time lineup once again dominated its competition last week, besting both CNN and MSNBC combined, as CNN and MSNBC posted their lowest total day ratings of the year in a crucial demographic.
Fox News had the highest ratings on cable television for the week of June 10-16. Fox News’ prime time line up averaged nearly 2.3 million viewers and 315,000 in the critical 25-54 demographic, according to Nielsen Media Research. The network also averaged nearly 1.2 million total day viewers, including 187,000 in the 25-54 demographic. . . .
CNN was ninth in total day ratings and 14th in prime time ratings.
CNN averaged 519,000 in total day viewership, including just 173,000 in the ages 25-54 demographic, its lowest of the year. . . .
CNN’s ratings continue the network’s recent nose dive. Last week, the Home and Garden TV channel nearly doubled the 24 hour cable news network in prime time ratings, averaging 1,289,000 viewers compared to 762,000 viewers for CNN.

Twice as many people watch HGTV as watch CNN. And throwing on-air tantrums probably isn’t going to improve their ratings. Just sayin’ . . .



 

In The Mailbox: 06.18.19

Posted on | June 18, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.18.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Would You Hire Any Oberlin Alum?
EBL: Direct Your Anger Where It Belongs
Twitchy: The Young Turks’ Tweet About Alex Jones Is Just Flat-Out Wrong
Louder With Crowder: Occasional Cortex Claims America Is Running Actual Concentration Camps On The Southern Border

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: A Real Warrior Against Injustice, also, Podcast #112 – Should You Get Married & Have Children Episode
American Greatness: Hadrian’s Wisdom – America Needs A Wall, also, Trump Says ICE Will Begin The Process Of Removing Millions Of Illegals Next Week
American Thinker: Why Do Democrats Have a Secret List Of SCOTUS Nominees?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Ferocious Beasts News
Babalu Blog: Cuban Intelligence Playing An Intrinsic Role In Venezuela’s Demise
BattleSwarm: All Is Not Joy In F-35 Land
Camp Of The Saints: “Coming Out From Under Their Slime-Ridden, Bubonic Rocks”
CDR Salamander: Afghanistan? Really, China? Good Luck With That
Da Tech Guy: Why $33 Million Wasn’t Enough For Oberlin, also, Trump Takes Away And Gives
Don Surber: Hillary’s Henchmen Investigated, also, Highlights Of The News
Dustbury: Not The Best Part Of Town
First Street Journal: Wealthy Manhattan Apartment Dwellers Want Everyone To Live In Apartments
The Geller Report: Muslim Mob Burns Church After Arrest Of Imam In Niger, also, Paris Islamic Attacks Claim 131st Victim
Hogewash: A Straight News Story From The Babylon Bee
Hollywood In Toto: Culture War Vol. 1 – Conservatives’ Modest Goals, Defined
JustOneMinute: CNN, Scooped!
Legal Insurrection: UK Foreign Minister Defends Trump’s Tweetslam Of London’s Mayor Khan, also, New Denver Councilwoman Loves Her Some Communism
The PanAm Post: AMLO’s Budget Cuts Cripple Healthcare
Power Line: VDH Recommends, also, Who’s A Socialist?
Shark Tank: Sen. Rick Scott Slams Congressional “Pay Raise” Effort
Shot In The Dark: This Is Today’s DFL
STUMP: Taxing Tuesdays – I’m Sure NJ Suing The Feds Will Really Work
The Political Hat: Latest Idea From UK Police – Disarming Victims Of Domestic Violence
This Ain’t Hell: Oh, What A Tangled Web We Weave…, also, Eric Swalwell Wants To Ban Ownership Of Over 200 Rounds Of Ammo
Victory Girls: Occasional Cortex’s Concentration Camp Narrative
Volokh Conspiracy: The Court Swims In Political Seas
Weasel Zippers: Biden Suggests “Physical Revolution” To Deal With Republicans, also, McConnell Doesn’t Support Reparations; Noone Alive Was Responsible For Slavery
Megan McArdle: If You Question Whether Chinese People Really Want Democracy, Look At Hong Kong
Mark Steyn: The Man On The Escalator, also, From Social Platform To State Enforcer


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Rule 5 Tuesday: Halle Berry

Posted on | June 18, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Apologies for the late post – swapping hard drives on my desktop and reloading both the OS and all the software I’ve become used to took a lot longer than I expected. To make up for it, here’s Halle Berry at the NYC premiere of John Wick 3: Parabellum, which is a most excellent movie which not only had the usual gun-fu, knife-fu, sword-fu, kicking & punching & otherwise beating people to death, but also had HORSE FU. I shit you not, John Wick actually kills 2-3 guys with a horse. Also, it has Halle Berry, who is looking incredibly foxy for a lady in her early 50s.

Still hot after all these years.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #650, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Supermassive Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon. Bacon Time also chips in with Rule Five Concert Time.

EBL’s herd this week includes Rule Five Private Idaho, Mystery Star, Soylent Green Furniture, Karen Lloyd, Vintage Hong Kong, Kristin Poinar, Cynthia Thurlow, National Bourbon Day, Pamela Meyer, Franco Zeffirelli & Olivia Hussey, and Bloomsday.

A View From The Beach orders out: How About some Thai? – Sara MalakulWell, I Hear the Thai Team is Looking for a Few Good WomenNew Hope for Russiagate?Dummy with Boobs Promises to Save More WomenWhat’s Up With the Dominican Republic?VIMS Chicken Shit Study Clears Poultry Houses in Bay PollutionAnother Wet Shirt WednesdayChesapeake Bay Has the BluesThank Goodness, I’m SafeHere Ya Go and Morning Mirth.

Dustbury wraps it up for us this week with Cecily Strong and Gypsy Rose Lee.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Horny Teacher Sentenced to Prison

Posted on | June 18, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

America’s public education system is run by perverts. Consider the case of Oklahoma science teacher Hunter Day. In 2014, at age 19, she married Tyler Day, a 6-foot-tall athlete who played linebacker for the University of Central Oklahoma. Her husband became a coach at Yukon High School, where she was hired to teach science and molest teenage boys:

Deputies say that the investigation began after they received a complaint by parents who said that Day was having inappropriate contact with their son.
Authorities say the teen’s parents told investigators that they found text messages and nude photographs on their son’s cell phone.
Investigators say they determined that Day and the teenage boy had already had sex, and that they had made plans to meet at her home to have sex again . . .
Authorities with the sheriff’s office used the boy’s cell phone and pretended to be him while contacting Day. Investigators asked Day if the meeting was still on, and she allegedly said it was but added that he should hurry before her husband got home from work.
Day texted the teen’s cell phone that the “door’s unlocked as usual,” and investigators found Day sitting on the living room floor with the lights turned off and candles lit.

The boy was 15 years old at the time, and the obvious question is why would this young woman, a university graduate employed as a professional educator, whose husband is a blond-haired, blue-eyed muscular Adonis, be sexually interested in a 15-year-old boy? She’s sitting in the living room by candlelight and the “door’s unlocked as usual.”

You see enough stories like this and you begin to wonder if molesting teenagers is the only reason women become high-school teachers. However, the weirdest part of this story is that Hunter Day’s husband seems not to care that his wife cuckolded him with a sophomore. He hasn’t divorced her and, in fact, accompanied her to a hearing in April. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison last week.

My guess is she’ll be very popular in women’s prison, where she will have many opportunities to, uh, continue her educaation.



 

In The Mailbox: 06.17.19

Posted on | June 18, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Flag Burning Is Offensive, But It Is Free Speech
Twitchy: Oberlin College Administrators Were More Deeply Involved Than Previously Reported In Bakery Case
Louder With Crowder: Teen Vogue Comes Out In Defense Of Legalizing Sex Work, also, Dear Parents, Stop Whoring Your Kids To LGBTQ Perverts

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Boys Love War, also, If The Breakfast Club Was Made Today
American Greatness: When Normality Became Abnormal, also, Big Tech Companies Are Not Only Not Neutral, They’re A Monopoly
American Thinker: Conservatives Can Defeat Big Tech – Here’s How
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: “Latinx” Is Not A Word In Spanish And Hispanics Will Never Accept It As One
BattleSwarm: Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update, also, The Group Of Death And The Kiddie Table
Camp Of The Saints: Remember Bunker’s Hill!
CDR Salamander: Hong Kong – A Beautiful & Tragic Tribute To The British Empire
Da Tech Guy: After Five Months Of Pritzker The Illinois Exodus Will Continue, also, Open Service To The Principalities & Powers
Don Surber: A Party Run By Children, also, Drudge Report Is Sludge
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, When We Actually Had Home Economics
First Street Journal: More Reparations Nonsense
The Geller Report: Justice Department Closing In On John Brennan, also, Heavily Armed Muslim Marine Arrested While Trying To Enter Offutt AFB
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, First Amendment News
Hollywood In Toto: Why Three Woke Comedy Flops Won’t Stop Hollywood
Joe For America: USDA Employees Pitch Fit Over Relocation, Turn Backs On Secretary Perdue
JustOneMinute: Back To The Law Books
Legal Insurrection:  Record Number Of African Nationals Flood The Southern Border, also, Harvard Rescinds Acceptance of Conservative Kyle Kashuv
The PanAm Post: Historic Peruvian Unemployment Figures Amidst A Migrant Stampede, also, Bolsonaro & Guedes Fight To Reform Brazil’s Unsustainable Pension System
Power Line: Colorado Kids Pay Big Price For State’s Decision To Legalize Weed, also, “Obama Had To Know”
Shark Tank: Gov. DeSantis Signs Sanctuary Cities Ban Into Law
Shot In The Dark: Oberlin – Making The Rubble Bounce
The Political Hat: Media Normalization Of Prepubescent Drag
This Ain’t Hell: Eric Swalwell To Present His AR-15 Confiscation Plan, also, Big Mo Gets A Stamp
Victory Girls: Hong Kong Protests Continue
Volokh Conspiracy: Appellate Court Upholds Federal Hate Crimes Act Based On Commerce Clause
Weasel Zippers: Biden Says “The First Thing I Would Do Is Raise Taxes”, also, Mexico Increases Immigration Enforcement On Southern Border, Detains Four Semis Holding Almost 800 Migrants
Mark Steyn: Dodsworth, also, A Mancini-Mercer Medley

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LGBT Totalitarians Lose Again

Posted on | June 17, 2019 | 3 Comments

Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer want to force you to bake them a cake.

Do these two women look like they need more carbohydrates? Are they so starved for calories that their access to baked goods constitutes an emergency requiring government intervention? Alas, these two Democrats in Oregon took advantage of a law against “discrimination” that makes it mandatory for bakers to provide cakes for obese women who want to marry each other. The U.S. Supreme Court disagreed:

The Supreme Court on Monday tossed out a lower court ruling against two Oregon bakers who had refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.
The case involved Melissa and Aaron Klein of Oregon, who shut down their small bakery after a state agency fined them $135,000 for refusing to bake a wedding cake for two lesbians. The agency said the Kleins had violated the state’s public accommodation law.
The Kleins, though, cited their Christian beliefs as the reason they would not provide services for the gay couple. The case followed another from last year, in which Supreme Court justices ruled in favor of a Colorado baker.
The high court sent the Klein case back to a lower court “for further consideration in light of” their Colorado decision.
The Oregon case involved Rachel Bowman-Cryer, who went to the Sweet Cakes by Melissa in Gresham, Oregon, in January 2013 and inquired about a wedding cake. When Aaron Klein asked for the name of the groom, Bowman-Cryer said there wasn’t one. Klein told her the bakery does not bake cakes for gay weddings.
The Kleins were ordered to pay $135,000 to the couple for “discriminating against them in violation of a state public accommodations statute,” Fox News reported. The couple was forced to shut down their bakery.

This is the second time in a year the Supreme Court has ruled against the LGBT totalitarians. Last year, the court struck down a Colorado “civil rights” punishment against Masterpiece Cake Shop.

In the sidebar at AOSHQ, Oregon Muse comments:

I don’t understand why there never seems to be a judge in these cases that is willing to ask the obvious question “Hey, why can’t you just go to some other shop that will bake you your damn cake?”

This involves what I’ve called “The Compulsory Approval Doctrine.” LGBT radicals do not consider it sufficient that their basic rights of life, liberty and property should be protected, as the Constitution requires; they believe they are entitled to public approval of their sexual peculiarities, and that the force of government should be exerted to compel this approval: Dissent is “hate speech” and must be silenced.

Common courtesy once forbade the civilized person from making mention of what is called “sexuality,” and you can call me old-fashioned, but I lament how the Left’s identity-politics agenda has ruined our manners as much as (or arguably more than) it has ruined our morality. Homosexuality and transvestitism are not recent inventions, but public discussion of such behaviors was once more or less prohibited. Nowadays, everyone is expected to “come out” and publicly proclaim their carnal appetites, their fetishes and “gender” delusions, and we’re all expected to applaud them for their courage in “coming out.”

What have the Bowman-Cryers done to deserve our applause? You’re not allowed to ask such a question. Skepticism is also “hate speech,” and you’re likewise not permitted to speculate why these women are the way they are. To suggest that homosexuality can be explained from a perspective of developmental psychology — that deviant behavior might result from some causative factor in the circumstances of a person’s early childhood experience — contradicts the “born that way” narrative. We are therefore required to ignore any evidence that the homosexual’s preference might be, for example, a psychological reaction to family dysfunction. But consider this information:

They met when they were 19 and Laurel Bowman was on medical leave from the Navy. . . .
They had both grown up without a family. Rachel’s mom kicked her out at 14 for being a lesbian. Laurel had bounced from home to home after her father and brother died in a car accident when she was 3.
Laurel proposed after a year, but Rachel turned her down. Rachel hadn’t believed in marriage since her parents divorced when she was young. . . .
After her younger brother came out as gay, Rachel persuaded her mother to move with him to Portland.

What a completely random coincidence, said nobody ever.

Of course, there is no certain combination of circumstances that automatically lead to someone becoming homosexual, but as I’ve often said, there’s always a backstory. Back in the heyday of Freudian “talk therapy,” analysts often focused on their patients’ relationship with their parents as the best clues to the origin of their emotional problems, and there was extensive research about the correlations between certain disorders and various childhood factors. From this research emerged a number of observations about developmental patterns. For example, it was observed that the male homosexual was typically the son of a so-called “smother mother” household — “too much closeness to mother and a distant negative relationship with father.” We are no longer permitted to notice such patterns, apparently because any curiosity about the “why” of sexual deviance threatens the self-esteem of deviants.

So the fact that Rachel and her younger brother are both homosexuals, and that their parents divorced when they were young, is not something we can explore from the perspective of developmental psychology. Why? Because this might hurt their feelings. This quasi-therapeutic attitude of protecting the allegedly fragile self-esteem of Victims of Society is what justifies the Compulsory Approval Doctrine. We are supposed to believe that homosexuals are delicate creatures, emotional weaklings who are just one insult away from committing suicide, and therefore everyone must constantly applaud them for their courage.

Well, excuse me for not volunteering as an LGBT cheerleader, but it so happens that I know actual gay people, and in general they don’t seem to be suffering from a deficit of self-esteem. The real-life gay people I’ve actually known were not emotional basket cases, trapped in a slough of suicidal depression; quite the contrary, in fact. Exactly how this myth of gay victimhood became part of our cultural narrative is a subject worth studying, but my point is that this whole bake-me-a-cake business and the endless witch-hunt against “homophobia” is misguided, and contrary to First Amendment freedoms. If you have a right to say what you believe, how then can anyone compel you to say something you don’t believe? Certainly, in a free society, you cannot be forced to pretend that you approve of homosexuality if you don’t. As I say, old-fashioned courtesy would impose a polite silence in regard to such matters, but it’s difficult to remain silent while radical gay activists are attempting to shut down any business that does not endorse their agenda.

As for the Bowman-Cryers, I would suggest that they skip the cake altogether, and perhaps instead try a tasty salad with low-fat dressing.



 

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