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In The Mailbox: 05.23.17

Posted on | May 23, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.23.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
BattleSwarm: 22 Dead In Manchester Jihad Attack
EBL: Roger Moore RIP
Twitchy: Cosmo Highlights Muslim Taxi Driver Who Gave Free Rides Home From Terror Site. Just One Problem.
Louder With Crowder: ISIS Claims Credit for Manchester Attack While Leftists Worry About Islamophobia


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Stop Relying On Your Fake Disabilities, Morons
American Power: Max Boot, The Perpetually Unhappy Camper
American Thinker: Philly Figures It Out – White Racism Causes Black Crime
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Broke Californey News
BLACKFIVE: Mark Sullivan, Beneath A Scarlet Sky
Bring The HEAT: And Now, Manchester
Da Tech Guy: Christopher Harper – Media Myths And Vietnam
Don Surber: CNN’s Imaginary “Ivanka Fund”
Dustbury: Let’s Not Call Her “Catgirl”
The Geller Report: Manchester Bombing Suspect Identified As Muslim “Known Wolf” Salman Abedi
Hogewash: LOLsuit VIII News, also, Prevarication Du Jour
Jammie Wearing Fools: Citing “Privacy” Concerns, Twitter Didn’t Flag Pro-ISIS Tweet Four Hours Prior To Manchester Attack
Joe For America: Alabama Lawmakers Pass Measure To Protect Confederate Memorials
JustOneMinute: Tough Week For China
Power Line: CNN’s Political Hit Job On Sheriff Clarke
Shark Tank: Trump Denounces Suicide Attack In England
Shot In The Dark: In Case There Was Any Doubt…
STUMP: Mortality Monday – All About Traffic Deaths, also, Around The Pension-O-Sphere – California, Chicago, And Valuation!
The Jawa Report: A Jawa Prayer, also, Attention Twitter Luser AmetAme96547292
The Political Hat: U.S. Senate – No Dogs Or White People Allowed, also, Europe’s Magical Migrant Fairy
This Ain’t Hell: Is Trump Correct In Calling The Media Biased? Survey Says…, also, Average NCO, Stealing Valor, And The GI Film Festival
War Is Boring: Despair And Broken Bodies – The Real Cost Of Trump’s Saudi Arms Deal
Weasel Zippers: White House Has Reportedly Identified Three Leakers, also, CBS Contributor Mocks Manchester Bombing – “The Last Time I Was At An Ariana Grande Concert, I Almost Died”
Megan McArdle: Rule Of Law Actually Applies To Democrats, Too
Mark Steyn: The Unchanging Of The Guard, also, “Dangerous Woman” Meets Dangerous Man


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ISLAMIC TERROR: Salman Abedi Identified as Manchester Suicide Bomber

Posted on | May 23, 2017 | 2 Comments

The London Telegraph reports:

The suicide bomber who killed 22 people and injured dozens more at the Manchester Arena has been named as 22-year-old Salman Abedi.
Born in Manchester in 1994, the second youngest of four children his parents were Libyan refugees who came to the UK to escape the Gaddafi regime.
His parents were both born in Libya but appear to have emigrated to London before moving to the Fallowfield area of south Manchester where they have lived for at least ten years.
They had three sons in total and a daughter, who is now 18-years-old.
Abedi grew up in the Whalley Range area, just yards from the local girl’s high school, which hit the headlines in 2015 when twins and grade A pupils, Zahra and Salma Halane, who were both aspiring medical students, left their homes and moved to [ISIS] controlled Syria.

(Via Memeorandum.)

UPDATE: The BBC reports:

Twenty-two people, including an eight-year-old girl, were killed and 59 injured when a suicide bomber attacked concertgoers at Manchester Arena.
A man set off a bomb in the foyer at 22:33 BST on Monday, at the end of a concert by Ariana Grande. . . .
Three victims have been named so far, the latest being 28-year-old John Atkinson from Bury, Greater Manchester.
Eight-year-old Saffie Rose Roussos was a pupil at Tarleton Primary School, in Lancashire.
Her head teacher, Chris Upton, said she had been “simply a beautiful little girl in every aspect of the word” and was “loved by everyone”.
Student Georgina Callander, believed to have been 18, has also been named as among the dead.
She had been studying health and social care at Runshaw College in Leyland, Lancashire.

UPDATE II: The London Daily Mail reports:

Neighbours of British-born Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi have revealed the Manchester United fan’s ‘strange behaviour’ in the weeks before he slaughtered 22 people.
The 22-year-old Manchester-born attacker was heard ‘chanting Islamic prayers loudly in the street’ outside his home in the south of the city. . . .
ISIS this morning claimed responsibility and threatened further attacks, saying ‘one of the caliphate’s soldiers placed bombs within a gathering of the Crusaders’.
Police are trying to determine whether Abedi, a Manchester United fan who appears to have been radicalised within the last couple of years, acted alone or was part of a wider terror cell. . . .
One neighbour claimed they heard Abedi chanting Islamic prayers at the home just weeks before the concert hall atrocity. . . .
Lina Ahmed, 21, told MailOnline: ‘They are a Libyan family and they have been acting strangely.
‘A couple of months ago he [Salman] was chanting the first kalma [Islamic prayer] really loudly in the street. He was chanting in Arabic.
‘He was saying ‘There is only one God and the prophet Mohammed is his messenger’.’

PREVIOUSLY: TERROR ATTACK: Children Among 22 Dead in Suicide Bombing at U.K. Concert

 

Category: Great Britain, Islam, Terrorism

Baptists Should Support The Gospel, Not Mosques. Period. Full Stop. EOF.

Posted on | May 23, 2017 | Comments Off on Baptists Should Support The Gospel, Not Mosques. Period. Full Stop. EOF.

by Smitty

Another day, another dubious proposition: Why Baptists Should Support Muslims’ Right to Build Mosques.

Had the occasion this morning to overhear people trying to puzzle out what all the fuss surrounding the Wailing Wall, in the news due to President Trump’s visit. The Old Testament is essential to understanding the Middle East, even if it’s more a source of talking points than inspiration for the regional leadership. I offered the group a quick sketch, then felt awkward for having “outed myself as a Bible geek”. But it helps bring home the point: Baptists, as such, are focused on the Word.

Mohammed, Islam, et cetera, are of a tangential, comparative-religion interest (at best) in a Baptist context. When you follow “the Way, the Truth, and the Light”, all other considerations are pure Sweet Brown. Baptists, in the spiritual sense of what it means to follow Christ, shouldn’t spare a moment for any alternatives not captured in the New Testament.

On a less reactionary note, there is the Bill of Rights. Because we really don’t want a theocracy (Jesus having personally given politics the Full Sherman Plus), we expect our leaders to have a confession of some sort, but not preach it on the stump, much less force anyone to toe a line about baptism, the Lord’s Supper, etc. We have an intellectual (i.e. not spiritual) set of restraints on the Federal Government that apply well individually, too. We can evangelize non-verbally through positive acts, and verbally when the time is right.

As an American, I am free to avoid caring about groups of people building on private property, whether or not I join in the activity. If it’s a Mosque, so be it. Just so long as local zoning details are attended to. For a casual study of Islam as a religion, as a Baptist, the whole thing appears incoherent, and I pray that the Holy Spirit touch the hearts of Muslims everywhere and liberate them.

The hypocrisy of those who criticize interfaith alliances for common purposes, like the alliance in the New Jersey mosque case, is that while they accuse such coalitions of putting politics before God, their underlying motive is to use the government to bolster and secure the faith of their choice. In reality, they are dishonoring the Baptist tradition of religious liberty established by those before them.

There is no hypocrisy in supporting the Truth to the exclusion of the alternatives. There is vast concern that these various interfaith coalitions are nothing but a distraction from the Great Commission. Let us all compare our local church to the letters to the seven churches in Asia at the opening of The Revelation, and adjust accordingly. Are we tomcatting around on our first love? I’ll fall short of judging.

Again: make a Bill of Rights argument, not a religious one. I can’t follow Cline, as a Baptist. Faith and politics are orthogonal. Faith is of the Spirit; politics is just a pile of rotting flesh. Cline conflates the two at his peril.

Category: Islam, Religion

TERROR ATTACK: Children Among 22 Dead in Suicide Bombing at U.K. Concert

Posted on | May 22, 2017 | 2 Comments

 

Four hours after a bomb blast ripped through the crowd at an Arianna Grande concert in Manchester, England, 19 people are reportedly dead and at least 50 injured. Police still have not speculated on a motive, but the pop singer attracts a very young female audience, and there are reports that children as young as 6 may be among the victims.

UPDATE: The death toll in the Manchester bombing has risen to 22, with 59 injured. Children are among the victims of the attack.

UPDATE II: ISIS has claimed responsibility for Monday’s bombing, and police in Manchester have reportedly arrested a 23-year-old man in connection with the attack.

UPDATE III: Police in Manchester have identified the suicide bomber as Salman Abedi, the 22-year-old son of Libyan immigrants.

 

Category: Great Britain, Islam, Terrorism

In The Mailbox: 05.22.17

Posted on | May 22, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.22.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Some administrivia: I’ll be in Baltimore over the Memorial Day Weekend, nominally to attend Balticon but actually to hang out with friends*. There will most likely be no In The Mailbox post on Friday, but there will be an FMJRA, and Rule 5 Sunday. Next Monday, of course, is Memorial Day, so no linkagery, but I may post on Tuesday while waiting for a flight back to Las Vegas. Thanks for your support and continued readership.


OVER THE TRANSOM
BattleSwarm: Texas Vs. California Update
EBL: Armed Muslim Brothers Arrested In Minnesota, Media Mostly Ignores It
Twitchy: Katie Pavlich Dismantles “Republican” Ana Navarro And Her BS Tweet About Ivanka
Louder With Crowder: After Fan Pushback, Last Man Standing May Not Stay Canceled


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Truth Of The Alt-Right
American Power: Idiot Leftist Trying To Save The Internet
American Thinker: The Real Constitutional Crisis Is The Appointment Of Special Counsel Mueller
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BLACKFIVE: Walt Gragg, The Red Line
Bring The HEAT: World of Warships – Hits And Cits
Da Tech Guy: John Ruberry – The Great American Pension Swindle
Don Surber: Mike Cernovich Fixes Trump’s Media Problems
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Word Salad With No Dressing
The Geller Report: Lawyer Argues Female Genital Mutilation Is An Islamic Religious Right
Hogewash: Leadership On Impeachment
Jammie Wearing Fools: “Resistance” Leader Now Begging Trump For Help
Joe For America: Clock Boy And Family Lose In Court Again
JustOneMinute: Get Rid Of Those Rear View Mirrors
Power Line: Who Are The Craziest Democrats Of All?
Shark Tank: Another First For President Trump
Shot In The Dark: Some Culture I May Just Appropriate
STUMP: Stupid Pension Tricks – Let’s Use Lottery Money!
The Jawa Report: Dearest Recep Tayyip Erdogan – GFY, also, Dueling Jew Haters
The Political Hat: The Sin Of Animus
This Ain’t Hell: Jefferson Taylor, Blue Falcon, also, 2LT Richard Collins Murdered
War Is Boring: Saudi Arabia Can’t Win Its Own Battles
Weasel Zippers: Fauxcahontas Challenged By Real Indian To Prove She Has Indian Ancestry, also, Over 500 Illegal Alien Sex Offenders Released In 2015 After Nations Of Origin Refuse To Take Them Back
Megan McArdle: What A Conservative Sees From Inside Trump’s Washington
Mark Steyn: When Judges Legislate And Legislators Judge, also, “The Real Enemy”


*Because the programming schedule is full of SJW suck and fail.


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Rule 5 Sunday – The Heat Is On

Posted on | May 21, 2017 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The temperature hit 100 today here in Las Vegas, at least according to the thermometer in my car, and yet so far I haven’t seen any ladies dolled up (or stripped down) for the clubs in electrical tape. I guess that trend hasn’t made it here from New York, and frankly, I’m just as happy. This week’s appetizer is a pair of local party girls dressed to cover everything and conceal nothing.
As usual, the following links are mostly to pics generally considered NSFW, and the management is not responsible for any ills befalling you because you failed to exercise discretion in your clicking.

Lovelies in latex.

First up this week is Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Goodstuff is right behind with Laetitia Casta, SCIENCE!, and plenty of sizzling hot chickadees. Animal Magnetism, meanwhile, reports in from Silicon Valley (not to be confused with Silicone Valley outside of LA) with Rule Five Labour Lunacy Friday and another scorching Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd this week includes Emily Browning, Annie Get Your Gun, Gail Davis, the aforementioned Shocking Fashion Trend, Starburst Wrapper Dresses, Democrats Out Of Control, and Paola Nunez.

A View From The Beach is back with Calabasas Cutie Kyra Santoro, Fish Pic Friday – Snookered!, Let’s See the Tape!, If Chesapeake Bay Crabs are Doing So Well . . ., And On to the Amalfi Coast, and Another Day, Another Wine Tasting.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Ashley Scott, his Vintage Babe is Annette Andre, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Denim X. At Dustbury, it’s Son Na Eun and Jane Greer.

Thanks to everyone for all their linkagery!

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FMJRA 2.0: Tequila Sunrise

Posted on | May 20, 2017 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Down Home At Stoney’s
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: On The Road Again
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

Happy “Can’t Be Happy” Day, Feminiskis
EBL

From Happy Hippies to Angry Dykes
EBL

In The Mailbox: 05.15.17
Proof Positive
EBL

A Cautionary Point About 2018
EBL

In The Mailbox: 05.16.17
Proof Positive

Emergency Memo to the Trump White House: You Need to Hire Bill Sammon
EBL

In The Mailbox: 05.17.17
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Turks vs. Kurds in D.C.
EBL

Bettors Siding With The Media
EBL

In The Mailbox: 05.18.17
BattleSwarm
Proof Positive
EBL

BREAKING: Critical Legal Theorists Seek 8A Theory Supporting Crucifixion
EBL

In The Mailbox: 05.19.17
Proof Positive
EBL

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
EBL

‘Male Feminist’ Accused of Murdering Polyamorous Atheist Girlfriend
EBL

Top linkers this week:

  1.  EBL (13)
  2.  Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for all your linkagery!

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‘Male Feminist’ Accused of Murdering Polyamorous Atheist Girlfriend

Posted on | May 19, 2017 | 2 Comments

Accused murderer Aleksandr Kolpakov (left) and victim Heather Anable (right).

The Denver Post reports:

Mesa County’s coroner has identified the 31-year-old woman shot dead in Clifton Saturday night. Aleksandr Kolpakov is being held on a murder charge in connection with the case.
Heather Anable died of gunshot wounds to her neck and chest, authorities say. Her death has been ruled a homicide.
“The family has asked our office to relay a message to the media to please respect their privacy in their time of grief,” the Mesa County Coroner’s Office said in a news release.
Kolpakov, a 29-year-old of Clifton, is being held at the county’s jail on suspicion of second-degree murder.
The shooting happened about 9:30 p.m. Saturday on the 3200 block of 1/2 Lombardy Lane where deputies, called out on reports of several gunshots, found the woman dead outside of a home. Kolpakov was taken into custody.
“When deputies arrived they found a deceased adult female outside the residence,” the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. “An adult male suspect was taken into custody at the same location and he was transported to St. Mary’s Hospital for an evaluation.”
Mesa County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Henry Stoffel said over the weekend that an investigation is ongoing, but the department is not looking for any other suspects.
Details in the slaying, including what allegedly motivated the shooting, have not been released.
“It’s been sealed,” said Megan Terlecky, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office, referencing court documents in the case.

While authorities in Colorado would not discuss the motive, both the victim and the suspect had substantial presences in the online atheist community, and Kolpakov was particularly notorious:

The Colorado-based YouTuber, who published numerous rants against critics of feminism, and long-winded response videos towards YouTubers on the other side of the political spectrum, always stood beneath the shadow of more prominent male feminists in the community.
At one point, he even shared his two cents on the GamerGate controversy in 2015 to denounce gamers for “misogyny,” but the series of tweets, like most of his videos, failed to pick up steam.

OK, so why did this male feminist allegedly shoot his girlfriend?

Heather Anable was a feminist YouTuber who was murdered by her lover and fellow YouTuber Aleksandr Kolpakov (AKA SkepticFeminist). Aleksandr, who according to my sources may have been a veteran who suffered from PTSD, was doing shrooms [psilocybin mushrooms, a powerful hallucinogenic drug] with Heather on Saturday night, when he became obsessed with the notion that Heather was trying to kill him and that she had poisoned him. Feminist Laura Athena, another member of Aleksander’s polyamorous harem, was apparently skyping with Heather and Aleksandr during their mushroom trip, when Aleksander started freaking out and making bizarre accusations against Heather. Both girls attempted to calm Aleksandr down, but he was inconsolable with fear and rage. At around 9:30 PM, the skype call dropped. Shortly thereafter, Aleksandr shot Heather Anable multiple times in the neck and chest. With fresh bullet wounds, she fled from her apartment, still scrambling to escape — but she didn’t make it far. She collapsed in the parking lot and died scared and alone there, bleeding on the cement.

So the atheist feminist had a “polyamorous harem,” according to Thomas Kirk, but had a bad trip on psilocybin, freaked out in a paranoid rage, and shot his girlfriend to death — allegedly, I hasten to add. That’s an unofficial secondhand version of the story, and authorities in Colorado have neither confirmed nor denied Thomas Kirk’s tale.

Generally speaking, firearms and hallucinogenic drugs are a dangerous combination. Adding feminism, atheism and polyamory to the combination probably doesn’t make it safer. Some people just have to learn these lessons the hard way. Be safe out there, kids. Just say “no.”



 

Category: Crime, Sex Trouble
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