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In The Mailbox: 03.27.18

Posted on | March 27, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.27.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: A Review – AMC’s The Terror
Twitchy: Chef Who Confronted Vegan Protesters With “Recently Murdered Deer” Being Hailed As Hero
Louder With Crowder: Parkland Survivor Admits To Bullying The Shooter, And She’s Not Sorry
BBC: Claudette Colvin, The Teenager Who Came Before Rosa Parks (h/t NeoWayland)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Do You Need To be Poor To Succeed?
American Power: Rep. Steve King’s Campaign Ties Gun Control Activist Emma Gonzalez To Communist Cuba
American Thinker: Leftists Are The Attackers, Not The Victims
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Predictable Mess News
BattleSwarm: Real Reform In Saudi Arabia?
BLACKFIVE: Lynn Blackburn, Beneath The Surface
CDR Salamander: Making Sense Of Natsec’s Madness With Phil Ewing
Da Tech Guy: The Church And Illegal Aliens, also, Justice Stevens Keeps It Real
Don Surber: Wrong About The Election, Wrong About Tariffs, also, Why Should Any Trump Supporter Write For USA Today?
Dustbury: Delete Your Browser
The Geller Report: Europe Told To Prepare For Another Wave Of Refugees, also, 10-Year-Old Muslim Migrant “Child Asylum Seeker” Threatens Classmates With Mass Murder
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Joe For America: Census Citizenship Question Sends California Over The Edge
JustOneMinute: Gun Control Made Simple
Legal Insurrection: Blumenthal, Wasserman-Schultz Draft Bullet Control Legislation, also, Pennsylvania Planned Parenthood Suggests Disney Create A Pro-Abortion, Trans, Illegal, Union Member Princess
Power Line: Study Shows Chicago Homicides Spiked Thanks To ACLU Police Decree, also, Microsoft Joins The Censors
Shot In The Dark: The Resistance
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – What if Trump Doesn’t Spend All The Money? Also, State Income Taxes
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler BOLO – Brittanya Fairman And Jeffery Lathrop
This Ain’t Hell: Drug Mule Veteran Deported, also, Seattle Man Arrested For Mailing Suspicious Packages To DC Military Institutions
Victory Girls: Yes, They Really Do Want To Take All Your Guns
Weasel Zippers: Informant Provided Info to FBI That Russia Was Helping Iran’s Nuke Program, also, Did Facebook’s “Favors” For The Obama Campaign Violate Federal Law?
Megan McArdle: The Left’s “Denmark Envy”
Mark Steyn: Stormy Weathered, also, The Federally Regulated Family Man


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Nickelodeon’s #MeToo Moment: Producer Dan Schneider Fired Amid Rumors

Posted on | March 27, 2018 | 2 Comments

Dan Schneider, alleged pervert.

Monday afternoon, Nickelodeon children’s TV network dumped producer Dan Schneider and, as Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva writes, “for years Schneider had been under a cloud of suspicion over the treatment of some younger stars of his shows”:

Among the things that have raised eyebrows are his tweeted photos of the toes of his young female stars. Additionally, there have been issues with bloated budgets and long production days on Schneider’s shows.
Schneider has had well documented temper issues for years. . . .

Schneider’s “temper issues” may be the least of his problems:

For 20 years, Dan Schneider was Nickelodeon’s golden goose. Their top showrunner and creator, Schneider launched the careers of Amanda Bynes, Ariana Grande, Jamie Lynn Spears, and many others. Despite his involvement in their early careers these young women seem to remain curiously silent on Mr. Schneider. When accepting his 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award from Nickelodeon, the stage was devoid of any of his former female stars, save for Victoria Justice who was still under contract at the time. . . .
[I]t was alleged by an anonymous source that Dan Schneider was known for hosting pool parties at his home. The guest lists for these parties frequently featured his young stars, who would attend without their parents according to the source. . . . Stories and rumors about regarding Dan Schneider and his lack of boundaries with his young stars, particularly Amanda Bynes and Jamie Lynn Spears. His foot fetish was also well-documented, with tons of feet references in his show and sexualizing of teens. He was also caught at one point using the official “Sam & Cat” Twitter account to solicit foot pictures from child fans. . . .
While covering Dan Schneider and Nickelodeon, ROTC Media was contacted by Gabe Hoffman, producer of Hollywood pedophile documentary “An Open Secret” with an on-the-record statement on Schneider.

“Schneider was choice number 2 to base “An Open Secret” on. Investigations had many named people who wanted to be off record….who were on sets for years and saw big changes in kid’s demeanor & body language.”
— Gabe Hoffman, Producer of An Open Secret

Amanda Bynes, during the heyday of her Nickelodeon career.

So, there was a “blind item” about Schneider at the blog Crazy Days and Nights that included an email that the blogger had received from “an actress ALL of you know who knows the producer as well as anyone”:

thank you for all of your ongoing support. i Don’t know how Any of these meN sleep at night, but if there’s one thing that i Do know Is that what’s Done In the dark, always comes to lighT! xoxo
Sorry, I thought it was clever 😀 unfortch I will obviously not be making any comment whatsoever (for obvious reasons) and unfortch I feel as though the only way that legitimate stories can make the headlines regarding ____ is if others publicly speak on his behavior. _____ was truly like a 2nd father to me. But things changed. After the 2nd incident, i don’t know if I will ever be able to have children or have the family of my dreams.

I’ve bolded the unusual capitalizations which spell out “DAN DID IT.”

The commenters immediately guessed that this is from Amanda Bynes, and they’ve got a pretty good track record at Crazy Days and Nights. Some commenters speculated that the “incident” which allegedly impaired the actress’s reproductive system was an abortion. In 2013, when she was 27, Amanda Bynes had a mental breakdown, and a judge ordered her committed to a psychiatric ward. A gossip site at the time quoted a source: “There are no drug problems involved, it’s all mental. She has deep anger and PTSD, which tripped a psychotic episode.”

PTSD — post-traumatic stress disorder. Hmmm.

@JohnDoe78359022 has compiled a series of items about Schneider from Crazy Days and Nights going back as far as 2008, and it’s devastating. In one 2012 comment, the sometime contributor known as “Himmmm” describes a “predator PoS who ruined the [teenage actress], knocked her up, paid for her abortion, and turned her into a disaster.”

That was before Amanda Bynes’ mental illness became a public scandal, and it’s taken more than five years for Nickelodeon to cut Schneider loose, for a very simple reason: Money. Schneider’s shows were among the most successful programming at Nickelodeon and, it has been alleged, Schneider was protected by Sumner Redstone, the elderly billionaire who controls the network’s parent company Viacom.

If we are to believe everything at Crazy Days and Nights — and I repeat, he’s got an impressive record of accuracy — we’re talking about pool parties for underage kids where a teenage Amanda Bynes was allegedly snorting coke. We’re talking about persistent rumors that Schneider is the father of Jamie Lynn Spears’ baby, millions of dollars for lawyers and hush money to keep it quiet, decadence and depravity to rival ancient Rome during the reign of the Emperor Commodus!

So far, however, these are merely allegations, rumors and speculation which mainstream journalists say they can’t report because sources in Hollywood are afraid to go on the record. This is reminiscent of the way rumors had dogged Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey for years before the #MeToo tsunami finally came crashing down on them. Now that Nickelodeon has parted ways with Schneider, however, it’s possible that some of these sources will start talking openly and, we might guess, fear of forthcoming revelations might have been the most significant factor in Nickelodeon’s decision to cut Schneider loose.

Permit me to quote myself:

Years ago, when I’d complain to Andrew Breitbart about the corruption in Washington, he’d always say, “No, Stacy — Hollywood is worse.” The people who produce America’s entertainment, Andrew would assure me, are very bad people. Obviously, Andrew was right.

Andrew had a habit of being right. Damn, I miss him.



 

 

Category: Crime, Hollywood, Scandal, Sex

Violence Against Women Update

Posted on | March 27, 2018 | Comments Off on Violence Against Women Update

 

DeKalb County, Georgia:

The suspect accused of fatally stabbing a 14-year-old girl and a man Sunday morning in a Decatur apartment has been arrested, DeKalb County authorities said Monday afternoon.
Authorities say Royce Stewart stabbed Shykia Ward-Reese and an unidentified male at the Trinity Walk Apartments, then stole a silver 2014 Ford Mustang convertible, Decatur police Sgt. John Bender confirmed in a statement.
The 36-year-old was arrested in downtown Decatur, not long after dumping the car during a chase with DeKalb sheriff’s deputies, spokeswoman Cynthia Williams said.
He faces multiple charges, including two counts of murder and one count of theft by taking a motor vehicle.
The search for Stewart prompted a lockdown at nearby Bethune Middle School, a DeKalb Schools spokesman confirmed.
This isn’t the first time Stewart has been wanted on murder charges, court records show.
In 2003, DeKalb police charged Stewart with murder in connection with the death of an 18-year-old at a birthday party, according to Channel 2 Action News.
Details about the incident were not immediately available Monday, but records indicate Stewart pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in 2004 and served five years in prison.

Feminists are ignoring this crime, for some reason.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)

 

Category: Violence Against Women

Who Is Murdering Whom?

Posted on | March 26, 2018 | Comments Off on Who Is Murdering Whom?

Newt Gingrich got his facts wrong in an appearance Sunday on Fox News:

There are five cities in America that have most of the killings in America, five cities. All five theoretically have gun control. All five cities are a disaster. By the way, those guns are almost all handguns.

This is false. There were 17,250 murders in the United States in 2016, of which only 1,568 (i.e., 9%) occurred in the top five cities: Chicago (765), St. Louis (188), Detroit (303), Washington, D.C. (138), and New Orleans (174). So it’s not true that “five cities . . . have most of the killings in America.” This false claim has been spread around the Internet, and probably originated as a misstatement of an actual truth:

Most homicides in U.S. occurred
in 5 percent of counties, says study
The homicide rate may be rising in some U.S. cities, but slayings are still a localized phenomenon, with most U.S. counties not seeing a single homicide in 2014.
The vast majority of homicides occurred in just 5 percent of counties . . . according to a new report released [in April 2017] by the Crime Prevention Research Center. . . .
About 70 percent of the counties, accounting for 20 percent of the U.S. population, had no more than one murder in 2014, with 54 percent of counties experiencing zero murders, the report found.
Meanwhile, 5 percent of the counties, which made up nearly half the population, accounted for more than two-thirds, with the highest numbers concentrated in areas around major cities like Chicago and Baltimore.

The main point of that study was that rural America is relatively free of violent crime, which is far more prevalent in urban areas.

If Gingrich got the facts wrong on Fox News, he was correct in his general point that cities with strict gun-control laws (which include Chicago and Washington, D.C.) are nonetheless very dangerous places. Why? Because crime is a people problem, and a propensity for criminal violence is not randomly distributed within the population. For decades, liberals promoted misleading claims about the “root causes of crime” — racism, poverty, etc. — that did not translate to effective policy for preventing crime, which is what most people actually care about.

By the 1990s, even Democrats had figured this out, so that Bill Clinton struck a tough-on-crime posture in his presidential campaigns, seeking to exorcise the ghosts of Mike Dukakis and Willie Horton that had haunted the Democrat Party. As a result of more effective policies, the U.S. homicide rate declined from 9.8 (per 100,000 population) in 1990 to 4.4 in 2014 — a 55% reduction in 24 years. Of course, there were non-policy factors involved in the decline of crime, including the advent of DNA testing and the widespread use of video surveillance cameras. However, the shift toward a tough-on-crime policy stance had a major impact, and the old liberal “root causes” arguments about crime were thereby proven wrong. Human behavior can be influenced by incentives, and effective law-enforcement provides negative incentives to criminal behavior.

The “Black Lives Matter” movement that was launched in 2014 can be viewed as an attempt to revive the discredited “root causes” mythology. By depicting criminals like Michael Brown as innocent victims of racist police, activists sought to exploit widespread public ignorance about the reality of crime and law enforcement in America. Heather Mac Donald exposed this reality in her book The War on Cops, pointing out that a police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by black man than the other way around (see “Putting Homicide in Perspective vs. the Media’s ‘Atrocity Narrative’ Propaganda,” Oct. 3, 2017). The racial aspect of violent crime is impossible to ignore. Black males, who constitute barely 6% of the U.S. population, are about 44% murder victims in the country, and are also about half of those arrested for murder. Effective policies to reduce violent crime in the United States will save black lives, but such efforts will also require locking up black criminals.

Which brings us back to the subject that got Gingrich tangled up on Fox News Sunday: The Parkland High School shooting and the resulting hysteria ginned by Democrats and their media allies (see “The Phony ‘Gun Violence Epidemic,’” March 25). There is no “epidemic” of school shootings, America’s children are safer in schools now than they were 25 years ago, and therefore demands for draconian gun-control laws are unjustified and misguided. The real crime problem, as Gingrich said, is in cities like Chicago, where 23 people have been shot to death so far this month and another 108 were shot and wounded. A total of 91 people have been shot to death in Chicago so far this year, despite the city’s gun-control laws. Crime is a people problem, and there are a lot of bad people in Chicago. By contrast, there are a lot more good people in Parkland, Florida, but there was this one bad kid with a gun.

Why should this anomalous event — a tragedy that could have been averted if the authorities had acted on all the tips they had about the shooter — be made the justification for a crusade to disarm the millions of law-abiding gun owners in America? Of course not, and if people knew the facts, they’d be mad as hell at the way the media have lied to them.



 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 03.26.18

Posted on | March 26, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.26.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Spring Cleaning
Twitchy: Michael Ian Black’s Latest Gun Control Rant Is An Absolute Trainwreck
Louder With Crowder: #MarchForOurLives Speaker Admits True Gun Control Plans

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Big Government Edition, also, Say Hello To The Alt-Shite
American Power: Robert Spencer, The History Of Jihad, also, Roseanne On Jimmy Kimmel
American Thinker: America Doesn’t Have A Gun Violence Epidemic. Democrat Cities Do.
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Greg Gutfeld On The Trump/Biden Rumble
BLACKFIVE: J. Todd Scott, High White Sun
Bring The HEAT: Saudi Air Defense Intercepting Ballistic Missiles From Yemen
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, Oh, Your Air Force Chief Of Staff Got Caught Lying To Your Defense Chief?
Da Tech Guy: Trashed World, also, The Congressional GOP Demonstrates How To Lose A Base Election
Don Surber: The Army May Build The Wall
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Simply Undeflatable
Fausta: Guatemala – The Bitkov Case
The Geller Report: Dutch Mayor Robbed In Her Own City’s Migrant Suburb, also, 85-Year-Old French Holocaust Survivor Raped, Stabbed, & Burned By Muslim Neighbor, also  also, Brigitte Bardot – “I Didn’t Fight Against A French Algeria To Accept An Algerian France
Hogewash: Don’t [Know] Much About History, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Joe For America: Why Gun Control Is A Very Bad Idea
JustOneMinute: A Hero In France
Legal Insurrection: The Stormy Daniels Story Is Not About Stormy Daniels, also, Chicoms Willing To Sit Down And Negotiate To Avoid A Trade War
Power Line: Trump Fought The Swamp, And The Swamp Won, also, Seven Reactions To The #MarchForOurLives
Shark Tank: Gun Violence Marches Co-Opted By Extremists
Shot In The Dark: Hogging The Limelight
STUMP: Around The Pension-O-Sphere – IL, CA, PR, And Shareholder Activism, also, Memory Monday – The Men Who Fought For Womens’ Votes, and Fourth Week In March 1918
The Jawa Report: Just A Car Loaded With Propane, No Biggie, also, Iraqi Immigrants Beat Young Muslima For Refusing Arranged Marriage
The Political Hat: The Imam’s Magic Pro-Child Rape Zipper
This Ain’t Hell: Read It And Weep, Gungrabbers, also, Remembering The Bataan March, also also, I’m A Combat Veteran, And Everyone Should Own An AR Rifle
Victory Girls: You Say You Want A Revolution, also, #FutureDavidHoggCareer As We See It
Weasel Zippers: Brown U Vows To Give Illegals Free Master’s Degree If DACA Repealed, also, Left Proclaims Porn Star Stormy Daniels “A Feminist Hero”
Megan McArdle: The Truth About Medical Bankruptcies
Mark Steyn: Nuts And Bolton, also, Chivalry & Suicide

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Dopehead Sex Fiends

Posted on | March 26, 2018 | Comments Off on Dopehead Sex Fiends

 

It was notorious among dopeheads, back in the day, that chicks always got free dope. At least, good-looking chicks did. Maybe ugly chicks paid for dope, but a good-looking chick? Never. In hindsight, we can understand the transactional nature of why chicks didn’t pay for dope, and say that they actually did pay for it, in services rendered, but it was the ’70s, man. There was no shortage of casual sex in the ’70s. AIDS hadn’t happened yet, herpes was still rare, and everybody was gettin’ it on. If the prevalent free-dope-for-chicks policy of that era could be viewed as a market exchange of goods and services, few dopeheads at the time bothered thinking about it. In the Golden Age of drugs, sex and rock-and-roll, dopeheads generally never bothered thinking at all.

That era ended long ago, but apparently some dopeheads never got the news. Last month, the board of directors of the National Cannabis Industry Association voted to remove Rob Kampia from the board:

“NCIA’s Board of Directors voted to remove Rob Kampia in accordance with our bylaws after an ethics committee review surfaced a pattern of behavior unbecoming of a board member,” Aaron Smith, executive director of the NCIA, wrote in an email to MJBizDaily. . . .
Former board member Kayvan Khalatbari had filed an ethics complaint with the NCIA regarding sexual misconduct allegations against Kampia. Kampia has denied those allegations.

Last December, Kampia left the Marijuana Policy Project:

Kampia’s departure from MPP comes as several sources tell Marijuana Moment that a major newspaper is working on a story about previously unreported allegations against the former executive director. It is unknown when that article will be published, but its existence has been an open secret in cannabis reform circles for weeks.

In 2010, Washington City Paper published a lengthy article about Kampia’s alleged habit of sleeping with employees at MPP, and the article included the detail that Kampia had a “purple Columbia Heights mansion with a rooftop hot tub.” Because what’s the point of having a purple mansion, if you don’t also have a rooftop hot tub, right? And if you’re the executive director of the dope lobby? Well, chicks never pay for dope.

Was it a scandal that Rob Kampia allegedly slept with a 19-year-old intern? He was the head of an organization devoted to legalizing dope, after all, and if a 19-year-old intern for such an organization didn’t understand what she was signing up for, whose fault is that?

In the aftermath of the 2010 revelations, Kampia announced he was taking a three-month medical leave from the Marijuana Policy Project, “to get therapy for his attitudes toward women.” He told the Washington Post‘s Reliable Sources column: “I just think I’m hypersexualized.”

He’s a dopehead sex fiend, just like we were warned about in those old anti-dope propaganda movies like Marihuana: Assassin of Youth.

Rob Kampia probably drinks gin and dances to jazz music, too.

It’s rather amusing to see officials of the dope lobby filing ethics complaints and talking about “sexual misconduct” by one of their associates, as if they were shocked — shocked! — to discover that the Devil’s Weed turns people into degenerate sex fiends.

All those old anti-dope movies were right. Trust me, I survived the ’70s. While I insist on my Miranda-warning right to remain silent — anything I say can and will be used against me in a court of law — nobody can convince me there is no such thing as a dopehead sex fiend. So please excuse my cynical laughter at the dope lobby, which suddenly developed concerns about “ethics” and “sexual misconduct” in the #MeToo era.

In other not-exactly-shocking news, Donald Trump banged a porn star.

Republican voters are shocked — shocked! — by this revelation, I’m sure.

 

Category: Scandal, Sex

Rule 5 Sunday: Nikki Nicole

Posted on | March 26, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

One of the ways social media has changed things is that models no longer have to blow a lot of money on having photos taken for portfolios, which they then have to lug around to agencies. Now they can post the pics online, which means that not only can agents more easily access them, but so can the public – opening up new money-making opportunities for aspiring models. William McCain brought one of those models, Nikki Nicole, to my attention, and she’s our appetizer for this week’s Rule 5 Sunday. You can see more of her at her Instagram, and support her work through her Patreon.

Up close and personal.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode 202, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism celebrates his return from Japan with Rule Five NRA Founding Friday and “another scrumptious Saturday Gingermageddon!” Word.

EBL’s heifers this week include St. Joseph’s Day Beauties, Priorities, The Beaches, Volleyball, Smooth, Haley Clauson, and some ladies exercising their Second Amendment rights.

A View From The Beach chips in with Baskin Champion, For Her Bad Taste in Music, Carla’s Hubby in the Dock,  #HerToo: Mindy Was Such a Good Sport, Weinstein Hanky Panky in New York Justice System, Former Fox News Babe Rising Star at State, “Fade Into You”, Silly Girl . . ., Ancient Humans Were Really Into Denisovans and Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Christina Ochoa, his Vintage Babe is Etchika Choureau, there’s some Sex in Advertising, and of course some Stormy Daniels. At Dustbury, it’s Nicole Trunfio and Zuhal Olcay.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Violence Against Muslim Teen in Texas

Posted on | March 25, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

In January, 16-year-old Maarib Al Hishmawi was reported missing in Bexar County, Texas. She was last seen leaving Taft High School in San Antonio. Was she a victim of right-wing anti-Muslim violence?

No, she was a victim of her parents:

She was located in mid-March when she was taken in by an organization that cared for her after she ran away, KSAT reported.
Authorities on Friday said Al Hishmawi’s parents — Abdulah Fahmi Al Hishmawi, 34, and Hamdiyah Saha Al Hishmawi, 33 — had allegedly beaten their daughter with a broomstick and poured hot cooking oil on her when she refused to marry a man in another city. The parents reportedly agreed to the arranged marriage in exchange for $20,000.
“This young lady, at various times over that time period was subjected to some pretty bad abuse because she didn’t want to be married to this person,” Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said on Friday, according to KSAT.
“Several times it was reported to us that this young lady was abused with hot cooking oil being thrown on her body. She was beat with broomsticks,” Salazar added. “At least one point, she was choked almost to the point of unconsciousness.”
The teenage girl and her five siblings, between the ages 5 and 15, were placed under Child Protective Services custody.
The parents face charges of continuous violence against a family member. They were taken into custody on Friday.
Police said the man who was arranged to be married to Al Hishmawi may also be charged in the case.

This is the kind of “violence against women” feminists will ignore.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)

 

Category: Violence Against Women
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