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Fake Hate, Fake Victim

Posted on | September 19, 2018 | Comments Off on Fake Hate, Fake Victim

 

Fictitious crimes by imaginary racists:

A New York woman has been arrested after police say she made up a story claiming to be the victim of a hate crime.
Adwoa Lewis gave detectives a written statement on Friday, in which she said she was driving home in Long Island September 2 when four teens confronted her.
She claimed they yelled ‘Trump 2016!’ before telling the black 19-year-old she ‘didn’t belong here’.
Lewis said the following morning she found her tires had been slashed and there was a note that read ‘Go home’ on her car, which was parked in front of her home in Baldwin.
After an ‘extensive investigation’, Nassau County police determined there hadn’t actually been any confrontation between Lewis and the teens.
She later admitted to having written the note herself.
Lewis has been charged with making a false punishable written statement and was released on an appearance ticket, police said Saturday.
She is expected to appear in court on September 24.

The good news is, racism is so rare that the fear can only be maintained by inventing make-believe hate crimes. The bad news is, the would-be victims are suffering from delusions of persecution, probably caused by watching too much MSNBC.

 

Category: Crime

Late Night With In The Mailbox, 09.18.18

Posted on | September 19, 2018 | Comments Off on Late Night With In The Mailbox, 09.18.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Kill Brett, Part III
EBL: Keith Ellison – Assaulting Women? It’s OK When Democrats Do It!
Twitchy: Is This Why Dianne Feinstein’s Been So Cagey About Christine Blasey Ford?
Louder With Crowder: Keith Ellison’s Accuser – I’ve Been Smeared By My Own Party

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Stop Making Sense
American Power: The Smashing Pumpkins – “1979”
American Thinker: Judge Kavanaugh Meets His Anita Hill
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Recovered Memories News
BattleSwarm: Republican Pete Flores Pulls Out Victory In State SD19
CDR Salamander: Large Surface Combatant Act I – What Happened To CG(X)
Da Tech Guy: Bob Woodward & The Truth, also, Proper Saladry
Don Surber: Kavanaugh Cleared For Landing On SCOTUS
Dustbury: Quote Of The Week
First Street Journal: The Democrats’ Dirty Tricks
The Geller Report: Kavanaugh Accuser’s Lawyer Is Vice-Chair Of Soros-Funded Org Opposing Kavanaugh, also, 9 Month Jail Sentence For Facebook Posting In Sharia-Compliant Germany
Hogewash: On The Use Of Anonymity, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
JustOneMinute: Disingenuous Level Max
Legal Insurrection: New Q Poll Has Cruz Up 9 Over Beta O’Rourke, also, Kavanaugh Accuser’s Couples Therapy Record (Partially Leaked To WaPo) May Hold The Key
Michelle Malkin: Don’t Believe A Gender. Believe Evidence.
The PanAm Post: Cuba Is To Blame For The Mass Exodus From Nicaragua & Venezuela, Not The U.S.
Power Line: The Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Nails It, also, A Note On The Lingering Merrick Garland Canard
Shark Tank: Mast & Murphy Secure Funding To Hire Disabled Veterans
Shot In The Dark: I Seem To Have Recovered A Memory
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Republican Ideas For An Election Year
The Political Hat: Euthanasia In Belgium
This Ain’t Hell: FBI Says Kavanaugh Allegations Don’t Involve Any Potential Federal Crime, also, Enough Is Enough Already
Victory Girls: No, Senator Hirono, Men Should NOT Shut Up About Christine Blasey Ford
Volokh Conspiracy: The Unpopularity Of Free Speech In Public Schools
Weasel Zippers: Kavanaugh Accuser Refuses To Come To Monday Hearing, also, Deep State Unmasked – State Dept. Employee Blabs To Hidden Cam
Megan McArdle: The Kavanaugh Mess May Never Be Resolved Satisfactorily
Mark Steyn: Docksider Dregs Of Seersucker Society


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In The Mailbox: 09.17.18

Posted on | September 17, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: BOOM – Trump Releases FBI/DOJ Russian Investigation Texts
Twitchy: CNN “Legal Analyst” Burns Himself With Hot Take On Kavanaugh Hiring A Lawyer
Louder With Crowder: Democrat Senator Durbin Pontificates “Always Believe Rape Victims”, Juanita Brodderick Responds

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Sunday Movie Thread – The Hunt For Red October
American Power: Julia Salazar Post-Truth, also, The U.S. Financial Crisis Hit Ten Years Ago Today
American Thinker: Constitution Day
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: A Summary Of A Summary Of Two Summaries, also, Typhoon Mangkut Pounds China
CDR Salamander: Mali & Africa’s Past, Now, And Next
Da Tech Guy: Chisox 2018 Season Not As Horrible As Once Feared, also, Report From Louisiana  – ELA Teachers Told To Remove Novels From Classrooms
Don Surber: Kavanaugh Did Nothing Wrong
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Back Up That Train Once More
First Street Journal: Of Course Julia Salazar Is A Liar!
The Geller Report: Watch Hostile Muslim “Migrants” Massing On Bosnian/Croatian Border, also, Christian Girl Defenestrated After Refusing Muslim Trafficker’s Marriage Proposal
Hogewash: What’s Confusing Them Is The Nature Of His Game, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
JustOneMinute: Andrew Sullivan On Conservatism, also, The Kavanaugh Train Wreck
Legal Insurrection: FBI Couldn’t Find Trump/Russia Collusion, And Neither Could Bob Woodward, also, Maxine Waters Suggests “Knocking Off” Trump Then “Going After” Pence
The PanAm Post: Maduro Continues To Prop Up Cuban Regime With Oil While Venezuelans Starve
Power Line: Jeff Flake, Traitor, also, Richard Epstein Nails It
Shark Tank: Cruz & Rooney Team Up To Stop Chicom Technology Theft
Shot In The Dark: What Do You Want, A Cookie?
The Political Hat: Begun, The Meme Wars Have
This Ain’t Hell: Eight More Are Home, also, Study Finds Coasties Mostly Save Very Stupid People
Victory Girls: Orrin Hatch Goes Nuclear On Feinstein Over Kavanaugh
Volokh Conspiracy: Jeffrey Rosen On “Madison’s Nightmare”
Weasel Zippers: Joe Biden Downgrades Trump’s “Deplorables” To “Dregs Of Society”, also, Ted Cruz “Thanks” PETA After Group Offers “BBQ” Tofu At Campaign Event
Mark Steyn: Charleston/Carolina In The Morning, also, The Folding Stuff


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Category: Linkagery

Judge Kavanaugh Doubles Down: ‘This Is a Completely False Allegation’

Posted on | September 17, 2018 | Comments Off on Judge Kavanaugh Doubles Down: ‘This Is a Completely False Allegation’

He again categorically denies the accusation from Professor Ford:

On Monday, after Ford said she would be willing to testify publicly, the White House released an updated statement from Kavanaugh: “This is a completely false allegation. I have never done anything like what the accuser describes—to her or to anyone. Because this never happened, I had no idea who was making this accusation until she identified herself yesterday. I am willing to talk to the Senate Judiciary Committee in any way the Committee deems appropriate to refute this false allegation, from 36 years ago, and defend my integrity.”

So we’re going to DEFCON 1 here — full thermonuclear Senate hearings.

When first I heard of this accusation, it was vaguely and anonymously described as being the subject of a letter Sen. Dianne Feinstein had forwarded to the FBI. It seemed rather silly, a desperate Hail Mary pass by the Democrats. After further revelations, I was willing to stipulate that, even if the accusation was basically true, so what? If 17-year-old Brett Kavanaugh drank more booze than he could handle and did something embarrassing, that struck me as par for the course — a bad thing to do, certainly, but what do we expect from drunk 17-year-olds? Now, however, Kavanaugh has again denied the accusation. He’s not accusing Professor Ford of merely exaggerating, he’s saying he never did “anything like what the accuser describes” — she’s lying, in other words.

OK, I was prepared for a last-ditch defense — i.e., assuming it was basically true, but hyped up with melodrama for political effect — and instead, it appears that Judge Kavanaugh is confident in his innocence, certain he never did such a thing, no matter how drunk he was in 1982.

Brace yourself, folks. This is gonna be a wild ride.

 

Category: Supreme Court

Trauma Queen: What Do We Know About Christine Blasey Ford?

Posted on | September 17, 2018 | 2 Comments

 

Did you know that “trigger warnings” are actually harmful? The trendy academic practice of alerting students to “problematic” material “reinforce the fear and compound anxiety.”

This information is highly relevant, I believe, to the claims surrounding the 11th-hour hit job on Brett Kavanaugh. We are expected to believe that the accuser, Professor Christine Ford, suffered emotional damage because she was groped by Kavanaugh at a 1982 party when they were both teenagers. The “evidence” of this alleged trauma is her therapist’s notes from when she and her husband were in couples therapy in 2012.

Professor Jacobson at Legal Insurrection is skeptical:

If this is a “repressed memory” case, then it changes everything against the accuser’s veracity — repressed memory is of highly questionable admissibility and credibility.

Exactly. Why would 30 years elapse before the accuser mentioned this incident to anyone? Beyond that, does it comport with our common-sense understanding of human behavior to think that the alleged incident, even if it happened exactly as it is now being described in news accounts, would be so traumatic as to be relevant to whatever marital problems Christine Ford and her husband were experiencing in 1982?

David French at National Review begins his analysis of the story by hyperventilating about how “beyond the pale” and “egregious” the alleged behavior is, only to conclude:

People who were at the party may come forward with their own accounts. The news cycle is moving so fast that it seems almost absurd to speculate about the state of our knowledge even 24 hours from now, but if this is the core evidence supporting the (very serious) claim against Kavanaugh, it’s not sufficient to derail the nomination of a man with an otherwise sterling record of professional excellence and personal integrity.

In other words, according to French, the accusation is serious, but the evidence is insufficient. Well, OK, but the issue of seriousness is related to the issue of sufficiency. However “egregious” it is for a drunk teenage preppy to grope a girl at a house party, isn’t such misbehavior common enough under such circumstances as to be predictable and routine to those who hang around drunk teenage preppies? Are predictable and routine occurrences “traumatic”?

Having spent my adolescence in the company of dopeheads, hoodlums and rednecks, maybe I’ve got a high threshold for trauma. None of my erstwhile hoodlum buddies has ever been nominated for the Supreme Court, of course, but Lithia Springs (Ga.) High School isn’t Georgetown Prep. Still, if young Christine Blasey made a habit of hanging out with hard-drinking preppies during her teen years, I doubt that this alleged encounter with a drunk Kavanaugh would have been so unusual as to still be a source of emotional suffering three decades later.

What we are being told is that Brett Kavanaugh, although now a widely respected federal judge, was a dangerous drunk as a teenager.

To quote Andrew Breitbart: “And . . .?”

Breitbart was always brilliant at answering ad hominem attacks that way. Somebody accuses you of being a racist: “And . . .?”

What’s your point? How is this relevant to the policy debate?

Rather than getting down in the tall grass to argue about the credibility of Judge Kavanaugh’s accuser, we ought to think like Breitbart and reject the premise of the whole thing. Whether or not this alleged 1982 incident happened as described, how is it relevant to Judge Kavanaugh’s qualifications? This partisan hit-job is on a par with the way a 1976 DUI by George W. Bush resurfaced four days before Election Day in 2000.

Going back decades to dig up allegations from the distant past like this is not journalism, it’s character assassination and, in this case, the tactic involves a deliberate attempt to confuse us as to what the #MeToo crusade was supposed to be about. Harvey Weinstein, James Toback, Kevin Spacey — the allegation was not that these men had a one-time bad incident as drunk teenagers, but rather that they habitually and routinely engaged in predatory and abusive behavior as adults.

While the Democrats may have stockpiled other “bombshell” accusations to use against Judge Kavanaugh, so far no one has suggested that he had a pattern of sexual misconduct. He has categorically denied this accusation and many people have attested to his good character, so what are we to make of the accusation from Christine Blasey Ford?

It’s like how “trigger warnings,” which are supposed to protect the emotionally vulnerable from trauma, actually have the opposite effect, increasing students’ anxiety. Turns out, if you tell kids they’re going to experience “trauma” from reading about bad stuff, they might actually believe you, so that the prediction of trauma is self-fulfilling. Likewise, if you tell people their unhappiness as adults can be traced to traumatic experiences from their youth — which is what a lot of psychotherapists suggest — then you are inviting unhappy people to go digging around in their memories for some trauma to explain their current misery.

So in 2012, we are informed, an unhappy Christine Ford and her husband went to therapy together, and this story about Brett Kavanaugh (who was not named in the therapist’s notes, by the way) emerged as somehow explanatory of the problems affecting the Fords’ marriage. Isn’t that rather a far-fetched explanation? How does getting groped by a drunk preppy at a house party cause you marital problems 30 years later?

What was happening in 2012? Ask the right questions . . .



 

Category: Supreme Court

Rule 5 Sunday: Happy Birthday, Fan Bingbing,
Wherever You Are

Posted on | September 17, 2018 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Chinese actress Fan Bingbing is probably best known to American audiences from her role as Blink in X-Men: Days Of Future Passed, but she’s yuge in Red China and elsewhere in the world, being one of the highest-paid actresses and celebrities in the last four years and widely recognized as a fashion icon. Unfortunately, she’s been completely out of the public eye since July, which may be related to rumors that she’s under investigation for tax evasion. Here’s hoping it turns out all right for her.

From the Chinese edition of Maxim

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #377, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism is on the road again, but still made time to send in Rule 5 Why Socialism Fails Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL brings us Jewish girls for Rosh Hashanah, Shera Bechard, Mia Isabella, Florence is Coming!, Dori Myers, Florence Comes Ashore, Gemma Atkinson, and Maria Cucinotta.

A View From The Beach, also on the road, has Tatyana Brazhnyk, Free Swim Friday, Wet Shirt Thursday, Wednesday Morning In Indonesia, The Dating App For Internet Trolls, She Has A Way With Balls, and It’s Hard To Go Wrong With Kate Upton.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Jenny Slate, his Vintage Babe is Sally Todd, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Star Oil. At Dustbury, it’s Maria Bartiromo and Yuja Wang.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: A Day Late & A Dollar Short

Posted on | September 16, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who helped with my moving fund, either through GoFundMe or Paypal.

The Sad Lesson of a Former ‘Fame Whore’ (Or, Why Slut-Shaming Is a Good Thing)
357 Magnum
Whores & Ale
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Powers Of Two
The Pirate’s Cove
357 Magnum
EBL

Fame Whore Update: Relationship Expert Fails and Good-Bye, ‘Reasonable’ Man
357 Magnum
Dalrock
EBL

Who’s Crazy on Campus?
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Happy Birthday, Kelsey Chow!
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
Proof Positive
EBL

American History 101: No, Emma Lazarus Did Not Write the U.S. Constitution
EBL

Florida Woman Makes Headlines in Pretty Much the Way You’d Expect
EBL

Late Night With In The Mailbox: 09.10.18
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Late Night With In The Mailbox: 09.11.18
Proof Positive

Another ‘Red Pill’ Exit: Fools Rush In, But Wise Men Don’t Marry Crazy Women
Western Rifle Shooters
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.12.18
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Big Trouble at the ‘Tiffany’ Network: Another ‘Get Woke, Go Broke’ Lesson?
EBL

Late Night With In The Mailbox: 09.13.18
Proof Positive
EBL

Surprised? Obama’s ‘Gender Integration’ Agenda Is Wrecking the U.S. Military
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.14.18
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers this week:

  1. EBL (12)
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  3. 357 Magnum (5)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Memories Light the Corners of My Mind

Posted on | September 16, 2018 | 2 Comments

 

In the 24 hours since I last wrote about the Brett Kavanaugh nomination (“Democrats Pull the Sleaziest Smear in Their Long History of Sleazy Smears”), further details have emerged including (a) the name of the accuser and (b) the name of Kavanaugh’s prep-school buddy on the night of the alleged incident in 1982. According to the tale, the future Supreme Court nominee was with Mark Judge, now a conservative journalist, on the night that 17-year-old Kavanaugh allegedly . . . uh, molested then-15-year-old Christine Blasey, who is now Professor Christine Ford:

Speaking publicly for the first time, Ford said that one summer in the early 1980s, Kavanaugh and a friend — both “stumbling drunk,” Ford alleges — corralled her into a bedroom during a gathering of teenagers at a house in Montgomery County.
While his friend watched, she said, Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed on her back and groped her over her clothes, grinding his body against hers and clumsily attempting to pull off her one-piece bathing suit and the clothing she wore over it. When she tried to scream, she said, he put his hand over her mouth.
“I thought he might inadvertently kill me,” said Ford, now a 51-year-old research psychologist in northern California. “He was trying to attack me and remove my clothing.”

Well, what do you expect a “stumbling drunk” 17-year-old to do?

The hazards of mixing alcohol and teenagers were as well-known in 1982 as they are today. All kinds of bad things happen as a result of such a combination, and this tale, if true, certainly wouldn’t be the worst thing a drunk teenager ever did. This alleged incident was originally reported as “attempted rape,” although the details do not seem to justify such a description. Getting groped by a drunk preppie “clumsily” attempting to undress you would be unpleasant, but it’s probably not a felony. Professor Ford’s claim that this alleged incident inflicted permanent psychological trauma on her strikes me as dubious. At times in my youth I was the victim of rather serious violence and I’ve seen guns drawn in anger, which is an adrenaline-pumping experience, but trauma? No, I sleep peacefully at night, and I find it difficult to believe that Professor Ford has spent the past 36 years in a state of emotional suffering due to this alleged incident at a house party in the summer of 1982.

It is not necessary to say Professor Ford is lying to say that her claim should have no bearing on Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation. There are probably sitting justices on the Supreme Court who did bad things as drunk teenagers, but there was no #MeToo movement in 1994, so senators did not grill Stephen Breyer about his adolescent behavior which, for all we know, was much more shocking and sordid than groping a girl at a party. This whole business of reaching into the distant past to dig up dirt on one’s political enemies has gotten completely out of hand when a 53-year-old federal judge, against whom no other similar accusation has ever been made, can be required to answer for what he may or may not have done as a “stumbling drunk” 17-year-old. Brett Kavanaugh never drowned a campaign aide in an Oldsmobile, did he?

Excuse me for being cynical about Serious Journalists devoting themselves to reporting what sounds like a scene from a screenplay for Prep School Boys Gone Wild, as if it were the most important news in the world. If the American people’s opinion of our political class sinks any lower, the Senate might become even less popular than the media.

That’s all this is, really — a political hit-job, promoted by partisan propagandists engaged in character assassination.

Mike Cernovich says that Professor Ford is a “far left wing activist” who recently scrubbed her social-media accounts to delete evidence of her political radicalism. Chuck Schumer is using Professor Ford’s accusation as an excuse to delay the vote on Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation. My hunch, however, is that Mitch McConnell will ram this through come hell or high water, and won’t waste any time doing so.

UPDATE: In the time it took me to write this post, Sen. Jeff Flake has announced that he is “not comfortable” voting for Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Senator Flake, a Republican from Arizona, is comfortable with a lot of things most people wouldn’t find comfortable, if you catch my drift, but he can’t vote for Kavanaugh? How about we start asking around about what young Jeff Flake was doing when he was 17, huh?



 

Category: Senate, Supreme Court
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