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Mystery After Lesbian Couple’s Apparent Suicidal Plunge Off California Cliff

Posted on | April 3, 2018 | 3 Comments

The Hart family at a 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign rally.

A lesbian couple, Jennifer and Sarah Hart, adopted six black children. One of those children, Devonte Hart, became briefly famous in 2014 after a photo of him tearfully hugging a white policeman at a “Black Lives Matter” protest rally in Portland, Oregon, went viral. Police now fear Devonte is dead, along with his five siblings, after the Hart family’s SUV drove off a cliff into the Pacific Ocean in northern California:

The SUV that authorities said was carrying a family of eight — two parents and six adopted children — was traveling at 90 mph before it plunged off a California cliff last week, according to court documents obtained by a local TV station.
Fox affiliate KPTV in Oregon reported that the SUV’s speedometer was “pinned” at that speed, indicating that the vehicle remained in motion after it fell and just before it hit the rocks 100 feet below on the Pacific Coast Highway. Investigators also did not find any marks showing that the vehicle either accelerated or slowed down before it reached the cliff, or any evidence that it crashed into the embankment as it “traversed towards the tidal zone below,” according the documents cited by KPTV.
The crash, which killed a family that had once captured the world’s attention, has left troubling questions. Killed are the two mothers, Jennifer Jean Hart and Sarah Margaret Hart, both 38, and at least three of their adopted children. The other three remain missing.
The TV report provides a glimpse into what may have preceded the Monday afternoon crash at the ocean overlook near Westport, California, a small community about 180 miles north of San Francisco. Child services officials in Washington state, where the family lived, also have confirmed that they had begun investigating the Harts over “alleged abuse or neglect” days earlier.

The Hart family’s SUV plunged off an oceanside cliff in California.

More from the Los Angeles Times:

The search for three missing siblings feared dead after their family’s SUV plunged down a cliff into the sea last week has been delayed by rough conditions on the California coast.
Strong currents, frigid water and rough waves have prevented Mendocino County Sheriff’s divers and rescuers from looking for the missing Hart children, Lt. Shannon Barney said Monday. . . .
The children are Devonte Hart, 15, who was briefly famous for a powerful 2014 photograph of the teen tearfully hugging a police sergeant in Oregon at a protest amid unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and his sisters Hannah and Sierra Hart, 16 and 12, respectively.
Authorities said they believe the three were in the car with their siblings, Markis, 19, Jeremiah, 14, and Abigail, 14, and their parents, Jennifer and Sarah Hart, both 38, when their GMC Yukon dropped 100 feet onto the rocky Mendocino County shore off Highway 1 near Juan Creek.
The fatal plunge appears to have been intentional based on the lack of skid marks and the fact that the vehicle was at a full stop before accelerating off the cliff, the California Highway Patrol said Monday. . . .
Three of the children’s bodies were found outside the vehicle. The parents’ bodies were found inside. Investigators believe the three missing siblings were also in the crash based on interviews with Hart family and friends. . . .
There were no skid marks or brake marks, and the couple’s children had recently been identified by child welfare authorities as possible victims of abuse and neglect.

Originally from Minnesota, the couple moved to the Portland suburb of West Linn, Oregon, and moved to Washington State last year:

A search warrant was served at the home of Jennifer Jean Hart and Sarah Margaret Hart on Thursday.
A search warrant affidavit was granted in Clark County in connection with this investigation for items including travel itinerary, bank records, cell phone records, credit card billing statements, bank receipts, notes, journals and possible suicide notes.
No details have been released about the results of the search at the couple’s home. The couple purchased the home in May 2017 and previously lived in West Linn. . . .
Neighbors in Woodland told FOX 12 this week they contacted Child Protective Services when one of the children, 15-year-old Devonte Hart, came to their home begging for food for himself and his siblings.
The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services released a statement Wednesday confirming a case was opened regarding the family last Friday, as “the now-deceased children were identified as potential victims of alleged abuse or neglect.”

KWG-TV reports:

Authorities in Oregon, Washington and Minnesota all received reports of child welfare concerns involving the Hart family prior to the family’s fatal crash on the California coast, records and interviews show. . . .
Over the past decade, the family has lived in Alexandria, Minnesota; West Linn, Oregon; and Woodland, Washington. Friends say the family was loving but records show several allegations of abuse or neglect.
One of the Hart’s daughters Abigail, then 6 years old, told her teacher [in 2010] that she had “owies” on her tummy and back, according to a complaint filed in Minnesota. The teacher said she saw bruises on her stomach and back. Abigail then told her teacher, “mom hit me.”
During an interview with detectives, Sarah Hart admitted to spanking her daughter and she said she let her anger get out of control, according to the complaint.
Jennifer Hart told investigators she knew that Sarah spanked her daughter.
Sarah Hart pleaded guilty to domestic assault and was sentenced to 90 days in jail but wasn’t required to serve time due to terms of her probation.

So one of the parents had a criminal conviction for abuse eight years ago, and the family was also investigated by Washington State authorities in 2013, yet they were idealized by local liberals:

“Jen and Sarah were the kinds of parents this world desperately needs,” said Portland photographer Zippy Lomax, who had known the family since 2012. “They loved their kids more than anything else.”
The Hart family was a regular at Oregon festivals and shows, Lomax said, including the Beloved festival in Tidewater. They also joined presidential candidate Bernie Sanders onstage during a 2016 rally in Vancouver. . . .
Court records and recent neighbors, however, portray a family that was at times strained.
The Harts and their children left their home Friday shortly after no one answered the door for a visit by the authorities, according to neighbors and the Clark County Sheriff’s Office.
Bruce and Dana DeKalb, who lived next door, said they rarely spoke with the family, which about 10 months ago moved to the remote wooded area in northern Clark County.
Dana DeKalb said Devonte had come to their home a dozen times to ask for food, saying his parents had withheld it as a form of punishment. The teen would ask the couple to leave the food by the fence they shared so his parents wouldn’t know, she said. . . .
Bill Groener, who lived next door to the family in West Linn, said they kept to themselves and the kids mostly stayed indoors – even in good weather. Groener said the only contact he had with the family is when they went out to get the mail.
“Something,” Groener said, “just didn’t seem right.”

Will the “Black Lives Matter” movement have anything to say about this?

 

Category: California, Crime, Gays, Oregon, Washington State

‘Our Country Is Being Stolen!’

Posted on | April 3, 2018 | Comments Off on ‘Our Country Is Being Stolen!’

Responding to accounts of an “army” of Central American migrants marching through Mexico toward the U.S. border, President Trump went on a Twitter rant Monday morning:

Mexico has the absolute power not to let these large “Caravans” of people enter their country. They must stop them at their Northern Border, which they can do because their border laws work, not allow them to pass through into our country, which has no effective border laws…..
…Congress must immediately pass Border Legislation, use Nuclear Option if necessary, to stop the massive inflow of Drugs and People. Border Patrol Agents (and ICE) are GREAT, but the weak Dem laws don’t allow them to do their job. Act now Congress, our country is being stolen!
DACA is dead because the Democrats didn’t care or act, and now everyone wants to get onto the DACA bandwagon… No longer works. Must build Wall and secure our borders with proper Border legislation. Democrats want No Borders, hence drugs and crime!

Liberal media reacted by asserting that the phrase “our country” is racist, and pointing out that DACA doesn’t apply to new immigrants.

 

Category: Donald Trump, Immigration

In The Mailbox: 04.02.18

Posted on | April 2, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.02.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Risk Assessment And The Modern Liberal
EBL: Miss Geraldo Regrets He’s Unable To Lunch Today
Twitchy: Kurt “Tentacle Porn” Eichenwald Writes Bizarre Manifesto Claiming He’s The Real Victim On Twitter
Louder With Crowder: Another Parkland Survivor Calls David Hogg “Nasty & Vile”
Fox: Students At Florida High School Stage Walkout In Support Of Second Amendment (h/t NeoWayland)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Poland For The Poles, also, Cricket – A Clash Of Cultures
American Power: How A Generation Lost Its Common Culture, also, Katie Hopkins Rude – Available Now On Kindle!
American Thinker: Boss Hogg And His Instagram Angle
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: “This Is Extremely Dangerous To Our Democracy”
BLACKFIVE: Jamey Bradbury, The Wild Inside
Bring The HEAT: The Air Commandos
CDR Salamander: In Syria, Both The USA And Russia Can Win
Da Tech Guy: Cultivating The Roseanne Vote, also, Crooked Love
Don Surber: Oh No! 1% Of Our Economy Is In Danger!
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Fark Blurb Of The Week
Fausta: Sunday Palate Cleanser – Bach Easter Oratorio
The Geller Report: 44 Dems Including DWS Exempted Muslim Spy Ring From Background Checks, also, Bernie Sanders Condemns Israel For Defending Itself Against Hamas Terrorists
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also also, Moar Podcasting
Joe For America: California Cafe Owners Face Eviction For Playing Christian Music
JustOneMinute: Legal And Illegal
Legal Insurrection: Fox News Supports Laura Ingraham Against “Agenda-Driven Intimidation Efforts”, also, Supremes Reverse 9th Circus, Rule For Policeman In Excessive Force Case
Michelle Malkin: “He Is Not Here, For He Has Risen, Just As He Said”
Power Line: Trump Now More Popular Than Obama, also, Reminder – The Left Hates Our Civilization
Shark Tank: “Resign To Run” Claims Commissioner Barreiro
Shot In The Dark: This Is Not The Rally You Want
STUMP: Memory Monday – 5th Week Of March 1918 – BUY BONDS BUY BONDS BUY BONDS
The Jawa Report: Exposed! Captain Kirk Is Like A Total Russian Spy!
The Political Hat: Venezuela Poised To Explode As Pressure Continues To Build
This Ain’t Hell: Navy Divers Parhiala & McLeod Saving The World, also, Army Leaders Want Tougher Basic Training
Victory Girls: After ISIS Destroyed, The Christians Return
Weasel Zippers: Gun-Controlled London’s Murder Rate Surpasses New York’s, also, Chappaquiddick Is A Brutally Honest Movie
Megan McArdle: What’s Not To Love About Trader Joe’s?
Mark Steyn: The Dog Days Of Free Speech, also, Diversity Unto Death – Literally


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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Sunday: Lieutenant Dish

Posted on | April 2, 2018 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Growing up as an Air force brat, I’ve always been fond of women in uniform, and Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H had plenty of those – Sally Kellerman as chief nurse “Hot Lips” Houlihan, Tamara Horrocks as Capt. “Knocko” McCarthy, but most of all, JoAnn Pflug as Lieutenant Maria “Dish” Schneider, who saves the suicidal dentist Capt. Waldowski, the “Painless Pole”. Here we have Lt. Dish detecting a heart flutter in Capt. John McIntyre.

A more typical Rule 5 pose.

Leading off this week, it’s Ninety Miles From Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #209, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism this week has Rule Five Census Counts Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes St. Patrick’s Day Rule 5, The Terror, Flipping Over Spring Break, Arianna Huffington Tantric Sex Cult Rule 5, The Case Against Siblings, Historic Women With Guns, Fiordland, Intentional? and Rugby Girls.

A View From The Beach sends us Another Young Lady from Perth – Georgia Gibbs, Judge: Coffee Causes Cancer in California,  Don’t Like Tests? Don’t Go to the University!, Gathering Russiagate, #HerToo! “No, Stacy — Hollywood is worse”, Umm, No Thanks!, “Hey Now!”, Why the Four’easter? and Palm Sunday.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Danica McKellar, his Vintage Babe is Denise Darcel, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Victoria’s Secret. At Dustbury, it’s Shweta Bhardwaj and Amyra Dastur.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Category: Rule 5

Education or Indoctrination?

Posted on | April 1, 2018 | Comments Off on Education or Indoctrination?

“There have been many examples in history of rich and powerful states which have been corrupted from within, enfeebled and deceived until they were unable to resist aggression.”
— Sen. Joseph McCarthy, June 14, 1951

Diana West is the author of American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character, and a student of Cold War history. Friday on Twitter, she called attention to this passage from Chapter 10 of Louis Budenz’s 1954 book The Techniques of Communism:

As early as 1924, in lectures delivered at the Sverdlov University in Moscow, Stalin specified “cultural and educational organizations” as valuable allies in the Communist battle for world dictatorship. These Stalin lectures are now the famous Foundations of Leninism, published and studied widely by the Communists. It was in 1933, however, that extensive infiltration began in the schools and colleges of this country — encouraged by American recognition of Soviet Russia, and stimulated by the Open Letter to the Party. The Trojan horse policy of the People’s Front, which had been initiated at the Seventh World Congress of the Communist International in 1935, gave added impetus to this activity. By May, 1937, the conspiracy considered that enough progress had been made in the schools and colleges to justify a special article of directives in that month’s issue of The Communist, then the official theoretical organ of the Party. This article, “The Schools and the People’s Front,” laid it down as a necessity that “Marxist-Leninist analysis must be injected into every class.” In order that this might be accomplished successfully, “the Party must take careful steps to see that all teacher comrades are given thorough education in the teachings of Marxism-Leninism.” It was stressed that “Communist teachers are faced with a tremendous social responsibility.” They must affect the children’s thinking, and they must mobilize other teachers. But all of this was to be done from the work in the classroom to the agitation among other teachers — “without exposing themselves.”

The article cited by Budenz was written by by Richard Frank of the Young Communist League, and is available online in PDF (though incorrectly dated to 1957). It is important to note Budenz’s authority in describing Communist methods. In 1935, Budenz joined the Communist Party USA and subsequently became managing editor of The Daily Worker. In 1945, however, he left the party and became an anti-Communist. What he said about the CPUSA’s strategy of subverting public education was based on direct knowledge gained during a decade as a party insider.

Why does this matter? Well, start by asking yourself this: Why have you never heard of Louis Budenz before? Why haven’t you read his book? Why is the testimony of other ex-Communists — e.g., Elizabeth Bentley — never mentioned in the history textbooks assigned in public schools? If there was a Communist conspiracy to control our public education system, isn’t this exactly the kind of knowledge they would suppress?

Under the control of the Left, our public education system produces mass murderers like Nikolas Cruz and fanatics like David Hogg.

Gosh, it’s almost as if it’s the result of “a conspiracy on a scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man.”




 

Category: History

Police: Transgender Prostitute Murdered in Louisiana Motel by Tattooed Ex-Convict

Posted on | April 1, 2018 | Comments Off on Police: Transgender Prostitute Murdered in Louisiana Motel by Tattooed Ex-Convict

Police say Darrell ‘Amia Tyrae’ Berryman (left) was shot by Dedrick Butler (right).

WBRZ-TV reports:

Police have arrested a man accused of shooting and killing a transgender prostitute at a Baton Rouge motel earlier this week.
According to the Baton Rouge Police Department, the shooting happened shortly after 1 a.m. at the Shades Motel on Airline Highway. There, police found 28-year-old Darrel Berryman dead from a gunshot. In the arrest records, police say Berryman was a “transvestite” working as a prostitute out of the motel room.
Through witness accounts and surveillance video, investigators learned that the suspected shooter, 22-year-old Dedrick Butler, had entered Berryman’s motel room just after 1 a.m. Monday. Police say a friend of Berryman then arrived at the motel but hid after he heard a gunshot come from inside the room. Butler was then seen on surveillance video, leaving the room and taking off in his vehicle.
While investigating the victim’s phone, police found recent messages from Butler. Officers were then able to track down Butler’s vehicle and take him into custody.
During questioning, Butler admitted to going into the motel room armed with a gun at the time of the shooting. However, he denies that he’s the one who shot Berryman.
Butler was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on charges of second-degree murder, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possessing a weapon with an obliterated serial number.

Was this an attempted robbery? Prostituting at cheap motels is dangerous, and this doesn’t seem like a “hate crime,” and yet . . .

Transgender Woman Shot Dead in Motel Is 7th
Killed in U.S. This Year, Rights Advocates Say
. . . Between 25 to 28 transgender people were reported killed in the United States last year, the highest number in at least a decade, according to a report by the Human Rights Campaign and the Trans People of Color Coalition. The violence disproportionately affects transgender women of color. . . .
NeVaa White, a friend, told Mic that Ms. Tyrae had been out since at least 2009, and had a close community of friends. “She made family with her peers in the L.G.B.T. community of Baton Rouge,” Ms. White said, adding that Ms. Tyrae didn’t have an easy life, and that she “was taken away in the very manner she feared.”
Statistics on homicides of transgender people are difficult to compile and are not officially available because the federal government does not collect data based on gender identity. In addition, transgender homicide victims are often identified by the police using the names and genders they were assigned at birth, a practice known as misgendering.

Was “Ms. Tyrae” killed by “misgendering” or by bullet wounds? Pretty sure it was the latter, and there’s no apparent political angle to this crime, but in the Trump era, the New York Times cannot pass up an opportunity to imply that “hate” was somehow to blame.

 

Category: Crime, Louisiana, The Transgender Cult

FMJRA 2.0: And Now A Few Words From The Evolution Control Committee

Posted on | April 1, 2018 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

SOTD
The somewhat more humorous anime version

Rule 5 Sunday: Nikki Nicole
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From the Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

The ‘Controversial’ Kevin Williamson
Proof Positive
EBL

Nickelodeon’s #MeToo Moment: Producer Dan Schneider Fired Amid Rumors
The Political Hat
A View From The Beach
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Voices Carry
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From the Beach

The Phony ‘Gun Violence Epidemic’
Trashtown
A View From The Beach
EBL

Violence Against Muslim Teen in Texas
EBL

Dopehead Sex Fiends
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.26.18
Proof Positive

Who Is Murdering Whom?
Proof Positive
EBL

Violence Against Women Update
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.27.18
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.28.18
Proof Positive

Have We Reached Peak SJW Yet?
The Daley Gator
Trashtown
A View From The Beach
EBL

Keep an Eye on Hungary’s Election
The Political Hat

In The Mailbox: 03.29.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 03.30.18
Proof Positive

Crazy People Are Dangerous: The Strange Case of ‘Gwynevere River Song’
EBL

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
EBL

Top linkers this week:

  1. EBL (15)
  2. Proof Positive (8)
  3. A View From The Beach (6)


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Category: FMJRA Award

Derek Weida Doesn’t Grasp That David Hogg May Not Grasp That The 2A’s Not The Issue

Posted on | March 31, 2018 | Comments Off on Derek Weida Doesn’t Grasp That David Hogg May Not Grasp That The 2A’s Not The Issue

by Smitty

Derek is a wounded warrior, trying to cast a Spell of Reflection on the young cameraphile:

I’m actually kinda with the anti-gun folk. There’s no need BUT! I’ve learned that the way I live and the things I believe have nothing to do with how others want to live or what they want to believe. I’m a well regulated idealist. ? The people you’re arguing against… It’s not even about the gun. It’s about the freedom and the right… And you can’t win an argument against that, nor should you (In most cases).

I don’t doubt that there are some sincere, idealistic gungrabbers in the lot. Hogg may be one of them. I submit that, given his recent attacks on Laura Ingraham, whatever idealism propelled him initially, he’s gone Full Commie.
Thus, it seems that Hogg has joined the ranks of those who aspire to demolish the original country founded with the individual citizen as the starting point, not some hegemon and clique of strongmen.
I salute those still endeavoring to engage with these benighted twits. Hopefully we can avoid becoming real enemies, but I doubt it’s possible to be friends with someone who:
a) not only holds ideas at variance with the Constitution, but
b) seeks overthrow of the Constitution not through the stated change process, but through disgusting, passive-aggressive, legalistic fine print means.
The Second Amendment is the most visible front in the assault, but the whole Bill of Rights is under siege by the Left. We give Democrats power again at our peril.
Cindy Sheehan could not be reached for comment. Chiefly due to disinterest.

via FB via The Daily Caller

Category: Culture, Democrats
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