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In The Mailbox: 04.05.19

Posted on | April 6, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Chicago’s New Black Lesbian Mayor Not “Left Enough”
EBL: Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s Family Ties To NXIVM Sex Cult
Twitchy: Left-Wing Socialist Hack Group Vote Vets Caught Smearing Fellow Vet, Fox News Contributor Pete Hegseth
Louder With Crowder: President Trump Trolls Joe Biden With Hilarious “Joe Biden Groping” Video
According To Hoyt: The Ancient Enemy
Vox Popoli: From Pulp To Puppies

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Ten Commandments & The Modern World
American Thinker: Where Are Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Real Loyalties?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Seattle’s Downhill Slide Friday
Babalu Blog: Democrats’ Squishiness On Maduro Has Venezuelan-Americans Flocking To The GOP, also, Cuba’s Sexual Tourists Are No Longer “Prince Charming”
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For April 5
Camp Of The Saints:
CDR Salamander: If We Won’t Reopen The Bronco Line
Da Tech Guy: Expect More “Biden” Stories About More Democrats, also, Lenten Reflections – The Light Of Truth
Don Surber: Romney Self-Owns
Dustbury: Hungry Hungry HIPAA
First Street Journal:
The Geller Report: Watch Linda Sarsour Whitewash Ilhan Omar’s Jew-Hatred, also, Farrakhan Claims To Be Jesus – “I Am The Messiah”
Hogewash: The Smurfs, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Silly Shazam (mostly) Charms Our Inner Child
Joe For America: Occasional Cortex Faces Huge Backlash After Using “Black Accent” At NAN Conference
JustOneMinute: The Walls Are Closing In On Trump Again!
Legal Insurrection: Seattle School Kids Possibly Exposed To AIDS, Other Diseases From Unsterile Dental Tools, also, Woman Loses Job After Ranting At Old Man In MAGA Hat
The PanAm Post: The Danger Of Ron Paul’s Support For Maduro, also, Electrical Crisis In Venezuela – Caracas Is Only The Tip of The Iceberg
Power Line: Ineffective Democrat Subpoenas, also, Reparations? Please!
Shot In The Dark: Tired Of Winning
STUMP: Congrats To The New Mayor Of Chicago, I Guess
he Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – The Limits Of Journalistic Investigation
This Ain’t Hell: Airman To Receive Silver Star After Raid With Ranger Regiment, also, Census Citizenship Question Nixed By Third Court
Victory Girls: Pelosi & House Dems Decide Lawsuit Is Only Way To Stop Border Security Funding
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit – A Roundup Of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Weasel Zippers: Harris Skips California Disaster Aid Vote To Campaign For President, also, ICE Raids Texas Technology Company, Jails 280 On Immigration Violations
Megan McArdle: Brexit Hasn’t Even Happened Yet, But Ireland’s Already Seeing Signs Of The Economic Toll
Mark Steyn: The Girliness Of Saving The Planet, also, Kipling Does Sci-Fi

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Another Public-Relations Debacle for Houston’s ‘Drag Queen Story Time’

Posted on | April 5, 2019 | Comments Off on Another Public-Relations Debacle for Houston’s ‘Drag Queen Story Time’

William Travis Dees as “Sister Jeff” (lower right).

“Drag Queen Story Time” at the Houston Public Library suffered a serious public-relations setback last month after it was revealed that one of the participants, “Tatiana Mala Nina,” who had been reading to children as part of the program, was in fact Albert Alfonso Garza, 32, a sex offender who had been convicted of molesting a child in 2008.

Albert Alfonso Garza performs in a Houston gay bar as ‘Tatiana Mala-Niña.’

“Drag Queen Story Time” was discontinued in the wake of that revelation, although library officials “said in a March 22 statement . . . that the program should be back in [the library] in the summer of 2019.”

Well, maybe, but on the other hand, maybe not. Because the same activist group that ID’d the sex offender Garza has now reported that another sex offender was involved in “Space City Sisters,” a drag group that turned out at the library to support the story-time event.

Mass Resistance Texas announced at a Thursday press conference in Houston that they had identified a “Space City Sisters” member known as “Sister Jeff” to be 30-year-old William Travis Dees, a/k/a “Liza Lott,” a/k/a “Elizabeth Anne Davidson.” In 2005, Dees was convicted as a juvenile of indecency with a child (evidently, boys age 6 and younger) and is registered as a high-risk sex offender. Video of the press conference:

 

Mass Resistance activist Tracy Shannon explains that it took months of investigation to determine that “Sister Jeff” a/k/a “Liz Davidson” is in fact the convicted sex offender Dees, who published an article last year describing “her” work as a transgender dominatrix.

William Dees a/k/a “Elizabeth Davidson,” transgender dominatix.

So the convicted sex offender/BDSM dominatrix was involved in a Houston public library activity for children, as proven by two photos posted online by the “Drag Queen Story Time” organizers:

 

 

Gosh, what a wholesome event for children! And remember that Houston Public Library officials say “Drag Queen Story Time” will return this summer! What kind of parents would bring their children to such an activity? And why aren’t city officials investigating the organizers? Isn’t it obvious that these people are dangerously crazy?

 

By the way, Kaeley Triller makes a point: If you were a sex offender trying to conceal your identity, wouldn’t declaring yourself transgender and getting a new name be helpful in that regard? Remember, it took months of investigation for Mass Resistance to identify “Sister Jeff” as William Dees, and who knows how many other convicted sex offenders might be using transgender identity to conceal their past?

P.S.: “Space City Sisters” tacitly confirms the Mass Resistance report, saying “one of our former members . . . resigned effective March 4th.”



 

Category: Education, Texas, The Transgender Cult

Burned by His Own Fire: Joe Biden Promoted Campus ‘Rape Culture’ Hysteria

Posted on | April 5, 2019 | Comments Off on Burned by His Own Fire: Joe Biden Promoted Campus ‘Rape Culture’ Hysteria

 

Ashe Schow reminds us that as vice president, Joe Biden was responsible for pushing the “affirmative consent” model:

While speaking to students at the University of New Hampshire in 2011, then-Vice President Joe Biden told men in the audience that “no matter what a girl does, no matter how she’s dressed, no matter how much she’s had to drink — it’s never, never, never, never, never OK to touch her without her consent.”

Biden never imagined that he would be forced to comply with the rules the Obama administration was imposing on college boys. The 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter led to the destruction of due-process protections, so that all male students were presumed guilty of rape the moment they set foot on campus. All it took was one accusation — from a drunken hook-up or an embittered ex-girlfriend — to have a male student expelled, and this regime had the effect of prohibiting heterosexual activity on U.S. campuses. Shifting the burden of proof to the accused, so that a male student was expected somehow to prove that he had obtained “affirmative consent” for everything that happened between himself and his partner, made any such activity impossible.

More than 100 lawsuits have been filed against universities by male students who say they were falsely accused and wrongly deprived of their constitutional rights under the rules implemented in the wake of the Obama administration’s “Dear Colleague” letter. If you’ve ever had the opportunity to speak to the accused students or their parents — as Ashe Schow and I have — you know how devastating that policy has been, and it’s wrong for Joe Biden’s defenders to complain now that this policy is being retroactively enforced against him. Tell that to the college boy who was expelled a few months before graduation because of unsubstantiated accusations by a girl he briefly dated his sophomore year.

Seven different women now say they were victims of Biden’s non-consensual groping, and the evidence against him is far more conclusive than in some of the campus cases with which I’m familiar. K.C. Johnson, who co-authored the must-read book The Campus Rape Frenzy, reminds us of why it is hypocritical for Democrats to defend Biden:

Biden responded with fury to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ ­attempts to create fairer procedures for adjudicating campus sexual assault claims. In a September 2017 conference call with victims’ rights activists, the former vice president derided DeVos’ supporters as “culturally Neanderthals.” . . .
Biden’s current situation recalls that of former Sen. Al Franken, who bitterly criticized DeVos’ ­Title IX policies, only to flail about in defending himself against allegations (mostly less serious than what Biden faces) of sexual misconduct. Ideologically boxed in, Franken couldn’t defend himself by challenging his accusers’ veracity, lest he appear to reject the party’s consensus about believing all complainants.
In an ideal world, Joe Biden would use his new experience as an ­accused party to champion fairer treatment across the board. More likely, he will fall back on a double standard, demanding that he receive the benefit of the doubt denied to others — especially students with far less power than he possesses.

Why did Biden think he could get away with groping women? Because he’s a Democrat, and expected liberal journalists to look the other way. Unfortunately for Joe, many of his would-be defenders in the media have been destroyed by their own #MeToo problems. Tom Brokaw, Charlie Rose, Tavis Smiley, Mark Halperin, Ryan Lizza, Matt Lauer — the list goes on and on, and what did Biden do to halt this anti-male witch-hunt before it became his turn to be burnt at the stake? Nothing.

Let Biden burn in the bonfire of feminist rage he did so much to kindle.

 


 

Category: Joe Biden

#GetWokeGoBroke Update: Gillette Now Pandering to Fat Feminist Market?

Posted on | April 4, 2019 | Comments Off on #GetWokeGoBroke Update: Gillette Now Pandering to Fat Feminist Market?

Anna O’Brien (@glitterandlazers on Instagram) is a 330-pound lesbian who, among other things, made headlines last year by posing in a bikini in Times Square and then complaining that men “sexualized” her. (Because she hates all men, being “sexualized” by them is a bad thing.)

Why would Gillette feature her on their Twitter feed, where the negative comments-to-likes ratio was so phenomenal? Recall that earlier this year, Gillette sparked controversy with an advertisement that used the accusation of “toxic masculinity” to insult men. It turned out the company had hired a feminist agency headed by an outspoken left-wing anti-Trumper, and the CEO of Gillette’s parent company, Proctor & Gamble, defended the ad by saying, “It started a conversation.”

Evidently, the people in the executive suites at major corporations have decided that pandering to the “social justice” mob is the smart thing to do in the Trump age. Better to insult males and associate your brand with 300-pound lesbians than to be suspected of GOP sympathies. It’s like NFL players engaging in anti-patriotic protests — Gillette has ceased to be about selling razors and is now about radical politics. Expressing their contempt toward ordinary Americans is more important to them than anything else, including profits. #GetWokeGoBroke.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

DNA Leads Police to Serial Rape Suspect

Posted on | April 4, 2019 | Comments Off on DNA Leads Police to Serial Rape Suspect

 

Twelve different victims:

Police arrested a South Carolina man on Tuesday who allegedly raped a dozen women and spent more than two decades on the loose.
Investigators said DNA evidence led to the arrest of 52-year-old Gregory Frye, who allegedly raped 12 women throughout Spartanburg County, South Carolina, which is about 90 miles north of Columbia.
The attacks occurred between 1995 and 2003 and investigators said the suspect targeted one of the women twice, according to the Spartanburg Police Department. The victims, described as white women between the ages of 14 and 51, were attacked in various apartment complexes in Spartanburg County, according to police. . . .
Officers said they zeroed in on the suspect last week while reviewing several cold cases.
The sheriff’s office and the Spartanburg City Police Department said investigators tried to approach the cases from a different perspective, focusing on new technologies and forensic evidence.
“Investigators from both agencies worked tirelessly reviewing all of the old cases, re-interviewing victims, identifying potential family members of possible suspects, collecting new DNA samples, and sending that evidence to the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) for analysis,” the department said in a statement. “We received notification from SLED last week that through their analysis, a suspect with a matching DNA profile had been identified.”
Frye was arrested on Tuesday on charges of burglary, kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct.

Feminists haven’t mentioned this story, for some reason.



 

Category: Violence Against Women

‘Seventeen Hours by Air’

Posted on | April 4, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘Seventeen Hours by Air’

 

In 2013, authorities in West Virginia served a search warrant on the residence of Kevin Burrows and discovered “thousands of child pornography images,” but the suspect could not be found. Burrows, then 62, “abandoned his employment and family after learning a warrant had been issued for his arrest” and officials said he might “have returned to Australia, where he was born.” It took years to find Burrows:

A 68-year-old Australian man wanted in Berkeley County, W.Va., since 2013 on child pornography charges was returned to the U.S. last week and is to be arraigned in federal court in Martinsburg on Thursday.
Kevin Burrows became a U.S. citizen and resided in Hedgesville, W.Va., before fleeing. He was returned from Australia by the U.S. Marshals Service Mountain State Fugitive Task Force and booked at the jail on March 29, according to the U.S. Marshals Service and jail records.
The Australian attorney general ordered his surrender to the U.S. on March 4, according to the U.S. Marshals task force. . . .
The Merimbula News reported that Burrows, of Millingandi, Australia, consented to extradition in a Feb. 23, 2018, appearance in Batemans Bay Local Court in New South Wales.
The newspaper said Burrows had been in custody since his arrest under a provisional warrant on Nov. 6, 2017, at a retirement village in the Far South Coast community, more than 350 miles from Melbourne.
Melbourne is more than 10,000 miles from Martinsburg.
J.C. Raffety, U.S. marshal for the Northern District of West Virginia, said Tuesday that Australia, “to date, is the farthest point from which the Northern District of West Virginia has ever returned a prisoner.”
“Seventeen hours by air,” Raffety said of the flight that deputy marshals took to reach the continent in the south Pacific Ocean.

Pursuing a child-pornography suspect more than 10,000 miles away serves to demonstrate how serious officials are about such crimes. In a press release, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell said that Burrows “now knows the arm of justice, extended by the extraordinary professionals at the U.S. Marshals Service, is more than ten thousand miles long.”

Why is it that suspects like Burrows always seem to have thousands of illegal images of children? Where do these images come from, and how do the suspects obtain them? You can read the story of how federal officials busted Roger Loughry in 2008 as part of an online bulletin board (BBS) called “The Cache” and get a clue. Much of the child pornography exchanged on that network was produced in Ukraine where, from the late 1990s until 2004, a Kiev-based modeling agency served as a front for an operation that victimized more than 1,500 girls ages 8 to 16. That Ukrainian operation was shut down under pressure from U.S. federal authorities during the Bush administration, and it has not escaped my notice that some people — including people with suspicious connections to Ukraine — have seemed to harbor a fanatical animus against Republicans ever since. But maybe that’s just a coincidence . . .



 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 04.04.19

Posted on | April 4, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #579
357 Magnum: Rosa Georgievna Shanina
EBL: Democrats, Be Careful What You Wish For
Twitchy: Byron York Sheds New Light On The Relationship Between Trump & Mueller, And It’s Not What The Democrats Were Expecting
Louder With Crowder: UK Installs Knife Surrender Bin To Curb Knife Crime – Criminals Steal All The Knives

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Order
American Power: Questions Of Violence Linger After Murder of Rapper Nipsey Hustle, also, Bernie Sanders Raised $18 Million In The First Six Weeks of His Campaign
American Thinker: Are The Dems About To Step In A Big Steaming Pile of Covfefe?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, also, Animal’s Daily Medieval Savages News
Babalu Blog: Venezuela Before & After Socialism, also,  Irina Vilarino Announces Run For Congress In FL-26
BattleSwarm: All Waco Bike Charges Dropped, also, Ben Shapiro On Joe Rogan
CDR Salamander: Keeping An Eye On The Long Game, Part LXXXII, also, So, The PLAN Is Studying The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal?
Da Tech Guy: The US Congress Is A Den Of Iniquity, also, Lenten Reflections – Locks & Passwords
Don Surber: Why John McCain Still Stinks, also, “Welcome To The World, Joe. Having A Good Time?”
Dustbury: For You, Mom
First Street Journal: Medicare For All?
The Geller Report: Ilhan Omar Working Behind The Scenes For Release Of Top Muslim Brotherhood Leader, also, The Case For Prosecuting Hillary, Obama, And Other Russiagate Co-Conspirators
Hogewash: Opposition Research & Joe Biden, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Liberal Comedy Central Celebrates Its Diversity, also, Enemies Inspiration Says Film’s Timing Is Perfect
Joe For America: Occasional Cortex Hit With Another FEC Complaint
JustOneMinute: I’ll Take the Crazy Old White Guy, also, Send Better Paranoia
Legal Insurrection: And Then There Were Seven – More Women Coming Forward With Complaints About Creepy Joe Biden, also, American Press More Concerned About Avocado Shortage Than Invasion of Illegals
Michelle Malkin: Nancy Pelosi’s Perv Problem
The PanAm Post: While Venezuelans Struggle For Survival, Maduro Threatens Guiado
Power Line: Why Should The Partisan SPLC Be Tax-Exempt? also, Estrada’s Revenge
Shot In The Dark: When Making Plans For The Next Three Nights
STUMP: Everything Old Is New Again – Universal Basic Income
The Political Hat: Scientific Reproducibility – Same Sex Marriage & The 2D Waifu, also, Whiteness – Racist Felt, Racist Lack of Reparations, Racist Lack Of White Privilege Acknowledgement
This Ain’t Hell: A Muslim Soldier Complains Her CSM Ordered Her To Remove Her Hijab, also, Scary Black Rifles
Victory Girls: Joe Biden’s Ukraine Problem Is The Real Scandal
Volokh Conspiracy: What Bucklew Doesn’t Say, also, Do You Wish The FBI Had Shut Down “Lock Her Up” As Hate Speech?
Weasel Zippers: Farrakhan Claims Jesus Didn’t Die On the Cross, Identifies The Messiah, also, Democrats Block Disaster Relief Bill Over Funds For Puerto Rico
Megan McArdle: The Irish Border is Illogical, Just Like Brexit
Mark Steyn: When Perfumed Hair Comes Undone, also, Lickspittles In Lockstep


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‘I’m Reluctant to Comment on Another Person’s Sexuality, But …’

Posted on | April 4, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘I’m Reluctant to Comment on Another Person’s Sexuality, But …’

 

That headline from the Washington Times reports a remarkable interview that Mayor Pete Buttigieg gave Kirsten Power, in which the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate said:

“I’m reluctant to comment on another person’s faith, but I would say it is hard to look at this president’s actions and believe that they’re the actions of somebody who believes in God. . . . I just don’t understand how you can be as worshipful of your own self as he is and be prepared to humble yourself before God. I’ve never seen him humble himself before anyone. And the exaltation of yourself, especially a self that’s about wealth and power, could not be more at odds with at least my understanding of the teachings of the Christian faith.”

Ann Althouse calls this “an interesting look at his idea of reluctance,” and indeed, such a comment contains many layers of irony. As true as it is that an egotistical celebration of “wealth and power” contradicts “the teachings of the Christian faith,” that faith has other teachings toward which the South Bend mayor has been rather less observant.

Turn with me, brothers and sisters, to the first chapter of the Apostle Paul’s epistle to the Romans, beginning with verse 18:

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.”

Paul goes on to describe the sins of pagan Rome under the reign of the Emperor Nero, saying that “even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind” (verse 28) an ungodly attitude which manifested itself in “vile affections” (verse 26).

This text describes how the idolatrous Romans “became vain in their imaginations” (verse 21) and with what consequences: “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools” (verse 22).

Now, it is not my purpose here to defend President Trump from his critics, for certainly he is capable of defending himself. Rather, I ask whether Mayor Buttigieg exemplifies that willingness “to humble yourself before God,” a failure for which he condemns the president.

Having often contemplated the text of Romans 1:18-32, and having studied also the biography of the Emperor Nero, it has often seemed to me that the Apostle Paul — who wrote that epistle while at Corinth, and thus almost certainly had no knowledge of the wickedness transpiring in the imperial court — must have written in the spirit of prophecy.

Of Nero’s hideous decadence, the historian Cassius Dio says: “He came to believe that anything that it was in his power to do was right, and gave heed to those whose words were inspired by fear or flattery, as if they were utterly sincere in what they said.” Among his many other depraved cruelties, Nero ordered his own mother murdered, divorced his first wife, Octavia, and then ordered her execution, and kicked to death his second wife while she was pregnant. After that, Nero became infatuated with a teenage boy named Sporus, had him castrated, and “used him in every way like a wife.” Anyone familiar with Romans 1:18-32 must see that the Apostle Paul’s catalog of “unrighteousness” manifested as “vile affections” could be read as a condemnation of Nero, and some have speculated that this may have inspired Paul’s subsequent execution.

How this is relevant to Buttigieg’s criticism of Trump, atheists are as free as any Christian to form their own opinion. It seems to me, at least, quite shocking that Buttigieg should claim authority to lecture others about “the teachings of the Christian faith,” and I think that most other Christians will share my astonishment at this. Furthermore, it is interesting that Kirsten Powers should be the amanuensis through which Buttigieg’s theological sermon is delivered. As Betsy Rothstein of the Daily Caller points out, Powers once dated Anthony Weiner and so her judgment about men and morality is rather suspect. Powers seems impressed with Buttigieg’s $7 million first-quarter fundraising total, but in fact Buttigieg and the other 2020 Democrat hopefuls are not doing very well by historic standards. At this point in 2008, the three top Democrats — Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards — had raised a combined $66 million, whereas the top four Democrats in this cycle — Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke and Buttigieg — have raised a combined total of less than $47 million.



 

Category: Democrats, Gays, Religion
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