‘No One Could Have Predicted This Tragedy’ (But It Was Predictable)

Posted on | April 25, 2019 | 2 Comments

Say hello to Robin Steinberg, a feminist lawyer and “social justice advocate” who founded a non-profit that helps criminals get out of jail:

“The Bail Project is an unprecedented effort to combat mass incarceration at the front end of the system,” according to the group’s website. “We pay bail for people in need, reuniting families and restoring the presumption of innocence.”
The Bail Project is comprised of “passionate advocates” known as “Bail Disruptors and Client Advocates…many of whom have experienced the bail system firsthand,” according to the website.
“We believe that paying bail for someone in need is an act of resistance against a system that criminalizes race and poverty and an act of solidarity with local communities and movements for decarceration,” the page read.

Now, say hello to Samuel Scott, beneficiary of this “social justice”:

Just hours after a nonprofit group posted bail for a man accused of assaulting his wife, the suspect went to the woman’s home and brutally murdered her, according to prosecutors.
Samuel Lee Scott, 54, was arrested for domestic abuse on April 5, after he allegedly beat 54-year-old Marcia Johnson, injuring her cheekbone and ear, the Associated Press reported.
Scott also allegedly told Johnson that the “might as well finished what [he] started since [she] was going to contact the police,” the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office wrote in a probable cause statement.
On April 9, the court granted Johnson’s request for an order of protection, and he was notified that he was prohibited from going to her residence or within 300 feet of her, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Later the same day, the St. Louis Bail Project posted Scott’s $5,000 bail. . . .
Within hours after The Bail Project enabled Scott’s release, he made his way over to Johnson’s home, arriving there at approximately 7:45 p.m., the Associated Press reported.
He proceeded to violently assault her, then left her bloodied body lying inside her home, prosecutors said.
A friend found Johnson at approximately 11 p.m., and rushed her to a hospital.
“[She] was unconscious, had a broken eye socket, several broken ribs, and was bruised from head to toe,” according to court documents.
A family member said that the attack also left Johnson with “brain damage,” KTVI reported.
The battered woman died of the blunt force trauma injuries five days later. . . .
The Bail Project Executive Director Robin Steinberg said the group was “deeply saddened” by Johnson’s murder, but said that they were in no way responsible for what had occurred.
“No one could have predicted this tragedy,” Steinberg claimed, according to the Associated Press.

Really? “No one” could have predicted it? You could have asked me, or any other adult with the sense God gave a mule, and we’d have predicted it. You start turning criminals loose, bad things happen. But this is just more “violence against women” feminists will ignore, for some reason . . .

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

Category: Violence Against Women

In The Mailbox: 04.25.19

Posted on | April 25, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.25.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Calling 911 – Never Underestimate The Power Of Stupid
EBL: Joe Biden 2020
Twitchy: Girl Who Wants To Become A Meme Becomes A Meme With Her Ambiguous Selfie/Question Combo
Louder With Crowder: Why Slavery Reparations Will Never Happen

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Girls, Your Sexual Market Value Is Much Lower Than You Think
American Greatness: 25 Questions For Robert Mueller
American Power: How Trump Can Win Reelection
American Thinker: Propaganda, Trust, And The Media
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Semi-Auto News
Babalu Blog: 1986 Bernie Sanders Loved Fidel, Sandinistas, Hated U.S. – Is 2020 Bernie Any Different?
BattleSwarm: Former Williamson County DA Jana Duty Found Dead
CDR Salamander: We Have To Sell A Larger Navy
Da Tech Guy: Imagine If Charlize Theron’s Son Thought He Was Trump, also, Earth Day – A Progressive Holy Day Overflowing With Propaganda
Don Surber: “The Mark Of Impeachment”
Dustbury: Buy This Man A Beer
First Street Journal: The Sourest Of Grapes!
The Geller Report: Paris Jewish Couple Brutally Beaten By Muslim Gang In Their Own Home, also, Editor Of Architectural Review Suggests Islamic Minaret Should Replace Notre Dame Spire
Hogewash: The TL:DR On The Mueller Report, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Left Won’t Cede Pop Culture Without A (Nasty) Fight
Joe For America: High School Principal Makes A New Dress Code – For Parents!
JustOneMinute: Lots Of News
Legal Insurrection: Dear Elizabeth Warren – No, I’m Not Paying Other Peoples’ Student Loans For Them, also, Don’t Rule Out Michelle Obama As Dems’ Hail Mary Pass To Avert Sanders Apocalypse
The PanAm Post: Ecuador Plans To Remove Socialist Indoctrination From School Textbooks
Power Line: Elijah Cummings Won’t Let Witness Have Lawyer, also, Poll Says Government & Immigration Worry Americans Most
Shot In The Dark: For The Media
The Political Hat: South African Land Grab – Just Kidding, Actually Not Kidding, & Seriously Not Yours Any More
This Ain’t Hell: Bigger Retirement Plan Needed To Maintain Officer Experience Levels, also, Such A Jerk
Victory Girls: Baltimore’s Mayor Pugh Has A Very Bad Day
Volokh Conspiracy: MA Judge Indicted For Helping Illegal Alien Avoid ICE Arrest
Weasel Zippers: FBI, IRS Raid Baltimore City Hall, Mayor Pugh’s Home, Four Other Locations, also, Biden Claims He Asked Obama Not To Endorse Him
Megan McArdle: Meet Your New Woke Inquisitors, Same As The Old Ones
Mark Steyn: Tiger Hunting In Sri Lanka

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Category: Linkagery

Are You Ready for … JOE-MANIA?

Posted on | April 25, 2019 | Comments Off on Are You Ready for … JOE-MANIA?

Try to control your excitement, America. Yes, he’s already run unsuccessfully for President twice — if you’re under 30, you weren’t even born the first time he lost — but this time Joe Biden is ready to win it all, baby. His platform for 2020? ORANGE MAN BAD!

Former Vice President Joe Biden announced his 2020 campaign in a video on Thursday, warning about the rise of white nationalism under President Donald Trump.
The candidate featured lengthy footage of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, calling it a “defining moment” in the country’s history.
“It was there on August of 2017 we saw Klansman, and white supremacists and neo-Nazis come out in the open, their crazed faces illuminated by torches, veins bulging, and baring the fangs of racism,” Biden said.
He praised the “courageous Americans” who clashed with the group of protestors creating violence in the city.
“That’s when we heard the president of the United States that stunned the world and shocked the conscience of this nation,” Biden said, repeating the hoax that the president called neo-Nazis “very fine people.”
He scolded the president for equivocating between “those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it.”
“At that moment, I knew that the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime,” Biden said, announcing his run for president.

The problem with this narrative is, it’s not true. The people “spreading hate” in Charlottesville were a comparative handful of extremists, whose takeover of what had been intended as a peaceful demonstration produced a wild mob scene in which a young fanatic drove his car into the crowd. President Trump did not say that the neo-Nazi nutjobs were “very fine people,” but this distortion has been repeated so often on MSNBC, CNN, etc., that it has entered the world of liberal mythology, like the belief that Ronald Reagan was to blame for the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. Nevertheless, here is 76-year-old Biden — who was elected and re-elected in the 1970s on a platform of opposition to school integration — pretending to be the conscience of the nation vis-a-vis racism.

Of course, the “social justice” mob on the Left isn’t going to let Joe off the hook for that, or for the rest of his extensive political record.

Joe Biden is out-of-touch with the center of energy in the Democratic Party today. pic.twitter.com/CC1RcNIhqU

— Justice Democrats (@justicedems) April 25, 2019

Biden enters the race with 29% support in the Real Clear Politics average of national polls, and my money says it’s all downhill for him from here. The Democrats have gone so far left now, Kamala Harris is considered a moderate candidate in what I’ve called the “clown car” primary. It’s absurd to think that Biden can overcome his gaffe-prone habits, or that the radical grassroots in the early primary states will suddenly develop a fondness for the geriatric white guy. Daniel McCarthy writes:

Joe Biden’s inevitable 2020 presidential candidacy is a strange, strange thing. Biden has longed to be president all his political life: he first ran in 1988; he ran again 20 years later. Now we’re more than a decade past his last grab for power, and Biden, as he nears 80, thinks his day has come once more.
What are voters supposed to think is different this time? If Biden wasn’t good enough in 1988 or 2008, why should Democrats accept him as the best they can do in 2020? . . .
Do the voters who rejected experience and devotion to long-term status quo in 2008 and 2016 really want to embrace those things now? Signs point to ‘no.’ . . .
Biden has none of Obama’s charm or historic significance; just the opposite. And the Obama record without Obama is a pitiful thing.

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)

Category: Election, Joe Biden

Violence Against Women Update

Posted on | April 25, 2019 | Comments Off on Violence Against Women Update

An elderly pro-life woman in Kentucky was doing “sidewalk counseling” outside a Louisville abortion clinic when she was assaulted, suffering a broken leg and other injuries:

Kentucky police are investigating an alleged assault on an older pro-life woman who was hospitalized after being pushed to the ground outside the state’s last abortion facility.
A surveillance video of outside EMW Women’s Surgical Center in Louisville also provides new evidence of the April 13 incident, WLKY News reports.
Louisville Metro Police told the local news that they are investigating the incident that left pro-life sidewalk counselor Donna Durning with a broken leg and head injuries.
According to a Facebook post about the incident, Durning has been a pro-life sidewalk counselor for 23 years and, on April 13, she was assaulted outside the EMW abortion facility in Louisville.
The surveillance video confirms what Durning and other pro-lifers said: A young woman exited the abortion facility and, as Durning approached her and attempted to give her literature with information about abortion alternatives, the woman grabbed her and pushed her to the ground.
“I had a little card from Little Way Crisis pregnancy center, and I just offered it to her. And I said, ‘Honey, if you need to talk to anybody, there’s a number on here,’” Durning told the local news.
On the video, viewers can hear someone scream after Durning was pushed to the ground. The woman quickly gets in her car and drives away, as another sidewalk counselor walks to the vehicle, supposedly to write down the license plate number.
“Police officers were across the street at the time and came over as soon as they saw the attack. They took the abortion facility’s surveillance tapes. Witnesses wrote down the license plate number of the car Durning’s attacker left in,” according to LiveAction.

WLKY quotes Durning: “I saw a lot of hatred in her face and, I’m not exaggerating, I saw the face of Satan in her eyes.”

Category: Abortion, Violence Against Women

Transgender Madness Takes Its Toll: ‘Family Violence’ If Parents Disagree

Posted on | April 25, 2019 | 1 Comment

How crazy is Canada? A seventh-grade girl in Delta, British Columbia, “came out” as transgender with the encouragement of a school counselor:

When Maxine [not her real name] was 13 years old, Dr. Brenden Hursh and his colleagues at BC Children’s Hospital decided that Maxine should begin taking testosterone injections in order to develop a more masculine appearance.
Although Maxine’s mother was ultimately willing to support hormone injections, her father Clark [not his real name] was concerned about the permanent ramifications of cross-sex hormones. Suspecting that his daughter’s mental health issues might be more the cause than the effect of her gender dysphoria, he ultimately decided that it would be better for her to wait until she was older before she embarked on any irreversible course of treatment.
At that point, Hursh informed Clark that he would begin testosterone injections on the basis of Maxine’s consent alone, claiming that he had a right to do so under the BC Infants Act. Clark promptly sought an injunction to prevent this. On Wednesday, however, a judge deemed Maxine “exclusively entitled to consent to medical treatment for gender dysphoria,” regardless of the opinions of either of her parents.

You might think that would be as crazy as it could get, but it’s Canada, so now the craziness has gone completely off the scale:

Last week, Justice Francesca Marzari of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada, declared a father guilty of “family violence” against his 14-year-old daughter on the sole basis that he had engaged in “expressions of rejection of [her] gender identity.” These “expressions” revolved entirely around his polite refusal to refer to his daughter as a boy in private, and his steady choice to affirm that she is a girl in public.
As previously reported, the BC Supreme Court ordered in February that 14-year-old Maxine* receive testosterone injections without parental consent. Accordingly, Maxine began regular injections at British Columbia (BC) Children’s Hospital over the course of the last two months.
Hoping to raise awareness of his case, Clark gave a number of interviews to media outlets, including The Federalist. In these interviews, he repeatedly referred to his daughter as a girl, stating to The Federalist that “she is a girl. Her DNA will not change through all these experiments that they do.”
While many might take this to be an honest statement of biological fact, Marzari quoted it as a prime example of Clark’s “family violence of a public denial of [Maxine’s] gender identity.” Marzari convicted Clark of this violence, and issued a “protection order” preventing him from speaking to journalists or the public about his case.

By the way, as I’ve often said, there’s always a backstory in such cases. Transgenderism does not occur randomly. You will never encounter such a case that cannot be explained as a result of social influence or disturbances in the child’s family life, and so it is in this case:

Clark and [his wife] Sarah separated in 2013. Their separation and subsequent divorce seems to have been a relatively peaceful one — their agreement involved a high level of mutual cooperation and custody time shared equally between mother and father. But Clark believes that the parental split still hit Maxine pretty hard. Not yet 10 years old at the time, Maxine began to make some poor choices of friendship at school. Her difficulties escalated as she began adolescence, and by grade six her school was frequently reporting her to her parents for misbehavior. In grade seven, at around the same time that Maxine began experimenting with her gender identity, she developed an infatuation with her first male teacher. When Maxine was forced by the school to stop writing this teacher love notes, she sunk into a period of depression and self-imposed isolation, during which she declared herself a lesbian and spent copious amounts of time secluded in her room with the lights off and the shades down, limiting her social interaction to online chat rooms.
In grade eight, while she was being affirmed in her transgender identity, Maxine had a second infatuation, this time with a male P.E. teacher. Her advances were, of course, not requited, and she was removed from that teacher’s class. Nevertheless, she continued to stalk him around school, and engaged in a suicide attempt which she attributed to being rejected by her teacher.

This child exhibited extreme emotional disturbance in the wake of her parents’ divorce and, as previously mentioned, was encouraged in her transgender identification by a school counselor. The public education system has become part of the Transgender Industrial Complex and, as this case proves, the courts are also complicit in this madness.

We’re experiencing a shortage of millstones, it would seem

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Category: Canada, The Transgender Cult

What Mueller Did With Our Money

Posted on | April 25, 2019 | Comments Off on What Mueller Did With Our Money

My podcasting partner John Hoge calls attention to this summary of the Mueller investigation by Victor Davis Hanson:

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s two-year, $30 million, 448-page report did not find collusion between Donald Trump and Russia.
Despite compiling private allegations of loud and obnoxious Trump behavior, Mueller also concluded that there was not any actionable case of obstruction of justice by the president. . . .
Yet Mueller’s team went down every blind alley relating to its investigation — except where Obama-era officials were likely culpable for relevant unethical or illegal behavior. . . .
The problem with the Muller investigation, and with former intelligence officials such as Brennan, Clapper, Comey and McCabe, is pious hypocrisy. Those who have lectured America on Trump’s unproven crimes have written books and appeared on TV to publicize their own superior virtue. Yet they themselves have engaged in all sorts of unethical and illegal behavior.

Without regard to Mueller’s failure to find any evidence of the fictitious “Russian collusion,” Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) are acting as if obstruction of justice is a proven fact, raising the question of how an innocent man’s effort to prove his innocence can obstruct justice. If you’re not a witch, and yet you’ve become the target of a witch-hunt, is it wrong to try to stop the witch-hunt? You’re never going to see anyone make that point on CNN, but then again, unless you’re stuck in airport, you’ll probably never see CNN at all.

Category: MuellerGate

Nerd Prom Drama Queens: Employees of Minor Cable Network Are Pouting

Posted on | April 24, 2019 | Comments Off on Nerd Prom Drama Queens: Employees of Minor Cable Network Are Pouting

You may have never heard of this thing called “CNN,” an obscure cable TV network with lower ratings than the Food Network. Anyway, Jake Tapper and Brian Stelter are employees of CNN, and they are unhappy because the President of the United States doesn’t like their annual party:

The White House has ordered Trump administration officials to boycott the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, according to a senior administration official.
The order was issued Tuesday morning by White House Cabinet Secretary Bill McGinley, who announced that all Trump administration officials are being ordered to boycott the dinner, scheduled for Saturday night.
An administration official adds that the order came from Trump personally, though staffers have been trying to talk him out of it.
The move marks yet another deterioration in relations between the White House press office and the press corps, though President Donald Trump had announced earlier this month that he would be skipping the annual dinner for the third year in a row. The President will instead hold a campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, the same evening. . . .
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders also previously told CNN she would not be attending the dinner, instead traveling to the Trump rally with the President.
Sanders had attended the two previous dinners under the Trump administration. Last year, she was infamously roasted by comedian Michelle Wolf while sitting at the head table on stage.
Afterward, while commentators debated whether the performance was too mean-spirited, Trump said Wolf “bombed” and set her up as a symbol of Hollywood elitism, someone for his base to oppose.

Last year’s so-called “roast” was (a) grossly insulting and (b) not funny. Anyway, Ace of Spades points out that Tapper and Stelter falsely claim the purpose of the White House Corresponsdents’ Association dinner (a/k/a “nerd prom”) is to raise money for journalism scholarships. In fact, the percentage of proceeds going to fund scholarships has declined sharply, from nearly 60 percent in 2009 to less than 13 percent in 2016. So the lying liars at CNN are, you guessed it, lying again.