Chad Allan & the Expressions

Posted on | February 2, 2019 | Comments Off on Chad Allan & the Expressions

Chad Allan and his groovy band, circa 1964.

My mind works in mysterious ways and I’ve forgotten why I started the research that led me down a rabbit hole into an obscure tale from Canadian musical history. In 1958, a singer named Allan Kowbel formed a band in Winnipeg originally called Allan and the Silvertones. By 1962, Kowbel had adopted the stage name “Chad Allan” and his band was called the Reflections. They recorded a few records, but with little commercial success. Then in 1965 a U.S. group called the Reflections had a hit, which caused the band from Winnipeg to change its name to Chad Allan and the Expressions. It was under this name that they recorded what was to be their only hit, a cover of a 1960 record by British rocker Johnny Kidd, “Shakin’ All Over.” But the reason you’ve never heard of Chad Allan and the Expressions is because their record company got an idea for a publicity stunt to promote the single. They sent out promotional copies labeled only “Guess Who?” a trick that caused some DJs to think this was actually the band’s name. And after some confusion, Chad Allan’s group officially adopted The Guess Who as their name.

A 1965 ad promoting “Shakin’ All Over” by “Guess Who?”

Unfortunately for Chad Allan and his newly renamed band, rock music was now progressing rapidly. By 1965, the Beatles were producing far more sophisticated music — “Help!” and “Day Tripper” and “Yesterday” — and while Allan’s sound might have been quite popular a year earlier, it was now becoming passé. Although “Shakin’ All Over” made it to No. 1 on the Canadian charts, it peaked at No. 22 in the U.S.

In 1966, Burton Cummings replaced Chad Allan as the lead singer for The Guess Who, who got a gig as house band on a weekly Canadian TV teen-music show, Let’s Go, that lasted two seasons. In 1969, the group had three Top Ten hits with “These Eyes,” “Laughing” and “No Time,” which was followed in 1970 by their all-time biggest hit, “American Woman,” which made it all the way to No. 1. This success was short-lived, however. Guitarist Randy Bachman developed health problems and Cummings developed an ego problem, and The Guess Who never recovered.

After he left the band, Bachman would later recall, he was labelled “a lunatic and a loser” and “nobody wanted to work with me,” except his old buddy Chad Allan, with whom he created a new group, Brave Belt, that recorded a couple of albums. Bachman recruited bassist/singer Fred Turner to join and, by the time their third album was released, Chad Allan was gone, and the band was now called Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Perhaps you’ve heard of them.

By 1974, Bachman-Turner Overdrive was No. 1 on the charts with “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet,” and also the Top 10 “Takin’ Care of Business.”

So, while you’ve probably never heard of Chad Allan, he somehow managed to be present at the creation of two groups — The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive — that each later made it to No. 1 without him. Amazing the things you can learn on the Internet . . .

Category: History, Music

Married Homosexual Couple Accused of ‘Bareback’ Raping Man in Texas

Posted on | February 2, 2019 | Comments Off on Married Homosexual Couple Accused of ‘Bareback’ Raping Man in Texas

Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Scott Walters (left) and David Daniels (right).

Recall that it was a Texas law against sodomy that was at issue in the crucial 2003 Supreme Court 5-4 ruling that struck down such laws, a decision which Antonin Scalia at that time accurately predicted would lead to striking down laws against same-same marriage, which it did 12 years later. In 2014, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — who was in the Lawrence v. Texas majority — officiated at the ceremony in D.C. where opera singer David Daniels married conductor Scott Walters.

Tuesday night, the couple were arrested in Michigan for extradition to Texas on charges that they raped a man in Houston in 2010:

A famous opera singer and his husband have been arrested on suspicion of raping a young singer who claims he was left bleeding from the rectum after blacking out at an after-show party with the pair in Texas, in 2010.
David Daniels, 52, and his conductor husband Scott Walters, 37, were arrested in Michigan, where they live, on Tuesday night.
They are being held in county jail and are awaiting extradition to Houston where they are accused of raping Samuel Schultz after a performance in 2010.
Schultz came forward last August with his allegations, waiving his anonymity as the possible victim of a sex crime to describe how the couple allegedly preyed on him.
He reported his claims to the Houston Police Department at the same time.
In his complaint, Schultz, who was 23 at the time, described how he rarely drinks but accepted a drink from Daniels once they got back to the home the couple was staying in.
He said he ‘blacked out’ afterwards and came to the next day when he found himself in severe pain, alone in the house.
‘I was sore and I didn’t know why.
‘I made my way to the bathroom to figure out why I hurt. I was bleeding from my rectum.
‘I became numb. I was paralyzed with fear. What had happened?
‘How could I escape? How would I get out? Where were my clothes?’ ‘ he wrote.
Daniels and Walters were out at breakfast at the time but when they returned, he claims Daniels told him they had had unprotected sex.
”I remember David saying, “Don’t worry about the BB thing, I’m totally negative.”
‘BB in this case meant bareback, otherwise known as raping me without a condom,’ Schultz wrote.
He said he decided to report the pair to police after eight years because he was emboldened by the #MeToo movement.

Scott Walters (left) and David Daniels (right) were arrested in Michigan.

Did I mention that one of the accused rapists has faculty tenure?

Daniels is also a tenured professor at the University of Michigan, where he has been teaching since 2015. University spokeswoman Kim Broekhuizen confirms to PEOPLE Daniels has been on paid leave and off campus since August 2018.
“We will continue to closely monitor the situation as we determine the appropriate next steps,” Broekhuizen said in a statement.
The UM Board of Regents voted to give Daniels approval for tenure in May 2018, less than two months following an anonymous complaint against him.
In March 2018, Daniels was accused of sexual misconduct by a student who claimed the professor offered to pay him for sex over Grindr, according to MLive. Pittsfield police investigated the matter but found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
Daniels is also named in an October 2018 federal civil lawsuit filed by former University of Michigan student Andrew Lipian, who claims he was sexually assaulted after being given bourbon and tricked into taking sleep medication, according to NYT.

The homosexual elite are different than you and me. They teach at universities, and Supreme Court justices officiate their weddings.

Category: Crime, Gays, Michigan, Supreme Court, Texas

In The Mailbox: 02.01.19

Posted on | February 2, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Who Is Jussie Smollett And Why Exactly Should I Care?
EBL: Punxsutawney Phil, We Have A Message For You
Twitchy: Top Ten Ralph Northam Burns In The Wake of His Blackface/Klan/Coonman Photos
Louder With Crowder: Ashton Kutcher Shares Powerful Pro-Life Video – Are We About To See A Cultural Shift?
According To Hoyt: You Are Not Psychic
Monster Hunter Nation: To The Book Community – Go Fuck Yourself (An Anti-Apology)
Vox Popoli: Amazon Takes Down Castalia House, also, Reinstated

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Deplatforming Edition
American Power: New Arrests In Southern California Birth Tourism Industry, also, Voters Want Political Moderation?
American Thinker: Notice How Democrats Are Never Indicted?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Living Dead Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For February 1
CDR Salamander: So The French Are Lapping Us In Frigates – Again? also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Non-Tweets Under The Fedora For February 1, also, Democrats Will tolerate Infanticide But Not The Stupidity Of Youth
Don Surber: Red China’s Economy Collapses, also, Northam Story Shows We Don’t Need The Media
Dustbury: Toil, Interrupted
First Street Journal: Matt Bevin Is Right
The Geller Report: Khan’s London – No Prison Time For Teen Who Left Former Ambassador With Horrific Injuries, also, Jew-Hating Jihad Caucus Demands Full Cutoff Of Funding For Homeland Security
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day plus Encore, also, Seize Is The New Pounce
Hollywood In Toto: Mike CErnovch’s Hoaxed Torches Media Bias
Joe For America: Antifa Member Shot By Police In School After Drawing Down On Cops
JustOneMinute: So Was The Governor Of Virginia In Blackface Or The KKK Robes?
Legal Insurrection: Sen. Booker Running For President In 2020, also, MSM Continuing To Ignore Growing Attacks On Brooklyn Jews
The PanAm Post: Venezuela, Don’t Be Intimidated By Russia – Dictators Always Fall In The End
Power Line: The Democrats’ Death Cult, also, McClatchy Circling The Drain?
Shark Tank: FL House Speaker Oliva Not Convinced On Medical Pot
Shot In The Dark: A Conservative Is A Liberal Who’s Been Mugged
STUMP: The Undeniable Corruption Of Chicago & Illinois, Part II
The Political Hat: Nonconsensual Puberty
This Ain’t Hell: Man Who Reportedly Swindled Veterans Out Of Retirement & Disability Pay For Seven Years Fined, also, So Just When Were “Vietnam Times”, Anyway?
Victory Girls: But Russia! CNN Reports Don Jr.’s Mysterious Trump Tower Calls Weren’t To Dad
Volokh Conspiracy: Northam Shouldn’t Resign Over Blackface/KKK Photo
Weasel Zippers: Undocumented Pharmacist At Bay Area Walgreens Filled Over 700,000 Prescriptions, also, Fauxcahontas ApologizesTo Cherokee Nation
Megan McArdle: What The Push For Legal-Until-Birth Abortion Tells Us About The Abortion Debate
Mark Steyn: The Age Of The Woke Billionaire, also, Vortex Of Fear

Amazon Warehouse – Post-Holiday Event

Category: Linkagery

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | February 1, 2019 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty

The Association was composed of off-the-net greasepits and cars that people could still “work” on.

He’d fetch the strongbox cached securely within the engine compartment, extract the optical media, mount it on the creaky old laptop (running some Slackware release that hadn’t been updated or rebooted in a decade–up the network!) and un-tar the files.

He’d rely on a deck of one-time pads for decrypting the instructions.

. . .weeks later. . .

The plan’s masterful dots appeared randomly, yet managed to connect. The altercation was minor, yet DeepFakes gradually turned it into a full-on global economic meltdown.

Their machine learning foresaw naught.
—
via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

Virginia Democrat Governor Posed in KKK/Blackface Yearbook Photo

Posted on | February 1, 2019 | Comments Off on Virginia Democrat Governor Posed in KKK/Blackface Yearbook Photo

Well, this is certainly embarrassing:

A photo from Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook shows him and another person in racist costumes — one wearing blackface and one a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood, though it was not clear which person was the future governor.
The photo, which The Virginian-Pilot obtained a copy of Friday from the Eastern Virginia Medical School library, comes from the 1984 yearbook, the year Northam graduated.
On the half-page set aside for Northam, there is a headshot of him in a jacket and tie, a photo of him in a cowboy hat and boots and a third of him sitting casually on the ground, leaning against a convertible.
The fourth photo on the half-page has two people, one wearing white Ku Klux Klan robes and a hood, the other with his face painted black. The person with the black face is also wearing a white hat, black jacket, white shirt with a bow tie and plaid pants. Both are holding canned drinks.
In a statement Friday evening, Northam, a Democrat, confirmed he appears in the photo “in a costume that is clearly racist and offensive,” but did not specify which person is him.
“I am deeply sorry for the decision I made to appear as I did in this photo and for the hurt that decision caused then and now,” Northam said. “This behavior is not in keeping with who I am today and the values I have fought for throughout my career in the military, in medicine and in public service. But I want to be clear, I understand how this decision shakes Virginians’ faith in that commitment. I recognize that it will take time and serious effort to heal the damage this conduct has caused. I am ready to do that important work. The first step is to offer my sincerest apology and to state my absolute commitment to living up to the expectations Virginians set for me when they elected me to be their governor.”

Ace has discovered that at VMI, Northam’s nickname was “Coonman.”

Credit for the original scoop goes to Patrick Howley at Big League Politics. Everybody’s piling on now.

Top: @GovernorVA during his acceptance speech:

"Virginia has told us to end the divisiveness, that we will not condone hatred and bigotry and to end the politics that have torn this country apart."

Bottom: @GovernorVA in his yearbook featuring black face and the KKK.

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— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) February 1, 2019

Ralph Northam will now be kept comfortable while a discussion ensues.

— Charles Fain Lehman (@CharlesFLehman) February 1, 2019

Category: Democrats, Virginia

‘Persons of Interest’

Posted on | February 1, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘Persons of Interest’

Obviously they must be Republicans:

The two persons of interest in the alleged attack on Empire star Jussie Smollett are only seen on the opposite side of the street in the surveillance footage reviewed by Chicago police, according to a local reporter.
On Wednesday, the Chicago Police Department released screenshots of two persons of interest in the alleged attack on Smollett. The Empire star told police he was returning from a fast food restaurant at around 2 a.m. when two men began hurling racial and homophobic slurs (Smollett is gay and black).
During the alleged attack, Smollett says a rope was put around his neck, bleach was poured on him, and one of his attackers yelled, “This is MAGA country,” referring to President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.

We’re all suspects now:

Are you a “far-right extremist”? There’s a simple test to find out. If you doubt that homophobic Trump supporters are prowling the streets of Chicago looking to beat up gay TV stars, you’re a “far-right extremist,” according to Alex Henderson of AlterNet. Henderson declared that “some extremists on the far right” — including syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin — are responsible for suspicions that actor Jussie Smollett was not attacked by Republicans in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. Only an “extremist” could doubt Smollett’s story, according to Henderson, although Chicago police have so far been unable to verify it. As Patrick Poole of PJMedia observed Thursday, “the ongoing investigation into the alleged hate crime… has raised more questions than it has answered.” While the area near where Smollett claims to have been attacked is “heavily monitored,” Poole noted, police who “have reviewed hundreds of hours of surveillance video” couldn’t find any that showed the alleged attack. But Patrick Poole is probably an “extremist” by Henderson’s standards, and maybe the Chicago cops are, too.
Getting labeled “far right” is astonishingly easy in the Trump era, when Democrats and their media allies would have us believe that the White House is occupied by the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler and that the nearly 63 million Americans who elected him are “white nationalists” or “alt-right” or some other scary term. If you vote Republican, you don’t actually have to do anything to be accused of crypto-Nazi sentiments by the purveyors of progressive paranoia. Merely express support for the president’s agenda (or opposition to the Democrats’ agenda) and you’re a latter-day Eichmann. . . .

Read the rest of my latest American Spectator column.

Category: Uncategorized

Contraception by Zoning

Posted on | February 1, 2019 | Comments Off on Contraception by Zoning

If you’ve got a large family, you know why my family prefers to live as far as possible from a major city. But if you need a further clue, consider this article about zoning policy:

At the end of last year, the Philadelphia City Planning Commission weighed a proposed zoning change that would effectively ban new day-care centers — along with tire stores and car repair shops — in a large chunk of northwest Philadelphia. The bill swiftly encountered fierce resistance, and it now appears dead. But the effort to block additional child-care facilities with a zoning overlay hints at a broader relationship between city planning and the cost of raising children. A growing body of research indicates that restrictive zoning — which often blocks the services and housing that families need—may help to explain why family sizes are shrinking in the United States.
The U.S. birth rate recently sunk to a 30-year low, a trend that’s been blamed on everything from economic anxieties and climate change to the rise of smartphones and the Millennial “sex recession.” Perhaps we should also lay some of the responsibility at the feet of city planning.
As bizarre as an anti-day-care bill may seem, the fear of more children coming into a community is a mainstay at new housing proposal hearings. Particularly in high-cost suburbs along the coasts, the mere inclusion of three-bedroom apartments — the kind of units young families need — can get a project in hot water with elected officials. While the justifications for blocking this kind of housing vary from preserving rural character to preventing (real or imagined) school overcrowding, the result is that more and more municipalities are adopting policies designed to keep out children and the families who care for them.
In the New York suburb of Garwood, New Jersey, city officials adopted a master plan earlier in 2018 that places a total prohibition on units with three or more bedrooms. In Nutley, New Jersey, another New York suburb, a July zoning fight came with assurances that three-bedroom units—and the children that come with them — weren’t part of the plan. In the Garden State more broadly, municipalities increasingly meet their state-mandated fair-share affordable housing requirements by building only senior housing. Affordable housing proposals that include three-bedroom units are rejected out of hand, leaving working families with few options.

You can read the rest. Let me say that I am against “affordable housing” mandates, which are another harmful utopian regulatory scheme. If New Jersey has enacted a state law that disrupts the normal mechanism of supply and demand in the housing market, that’s the root of their problem, but good luck getting the Democrats who run the state legislature to understand that. And let’s not overlook the issue of racism involved here: The kind of nice suburban liberal who supports restrictive zoning laws is a hypocrite who is all in favor of “inclusion” and “diversity,” so long as it doesn’t his neighborhood and guess what kind of family typically needs a three-bedroom apartment?

Yep — Mexicans, or some other “people of color” that the nice suburban liberal doesn’t want living in his neighborhood.

Families like mine — a white couple with six kids — are rare enough nowadays that most people think we’re non-existent, and certainly the people who support zoning restrictions that ban three-bedroom apartments don’t do this because they fear an influx of white Christian families. No, they don’t want Mexicans (or Puerto Ricans or Dominicans or whatever) moving into their communities, and zoning is the NIMBY (not in my back yard) method of preventing the liberal agenda they otherwise support from actually affecting them directly.

Category: Economics