The Other McCain

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Angelo Colon-Ortiz Charged in Case of Murdered 27-Year-Old Vanessa Marcotte

Posted on | April 18, 2017 | Comments Off on Angelo Colon-Ortiz Charged in Case of Murdered 27-Year-Old Vanessa Marcotte

Angelo Colon-Ortiz (left) and Vanessa Marcotte (right).

Vanessa Marcotte, 27, was jogging near her mother’s Massachusetts home in August 2016 when she disappeared. The young Google sales manager’s body was found. Police say she was murdered and sexually assaulted. She fought her killer, leaving DNA evidence on her hands. Laboratory analysis of the DNA indicated that her attacker was a Hispanic male. That information, as well as eyewitness reports of a vehicle seen in the vicinity at the time of Marcotte’s killing, eventually led police to Angelo Colon-Ortiz. A married 31-year-old Federal Express employee, Colon-Ortiz had only recently moved to Massachusetts from his native Puerto Rico.

Colon-Ortiz was arrested Saturday and arraigned this morning on charges of aggravated assault, aggravated assault and battery and assault with intent to rape. He is being held on $10 million bond. Officials say that they later expect to charge Colon-Ortiz with murder.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, but feminists haven’t mentioned the arrest of Angelo Colon-Ortiz, for some reason.

 

Category: Crime, Massachusetts

Child Pornography Arrest Exposes Australian TV Reporter’s Sordid Gay Life

Posted on | April 18, 2017 | Comments Off on Child Pornography Arrest Exposes Australian TV Reporter’s Sordid Gay Life

 

Ben McCormack was a famous Australian TV personality, a reporter for the Channel 9 tabloid news program A Current Affair. Earlier this month, however, police in Sydney arrested McCormack on child pornography charges, and his acquaintances have divulged that the popular journalist had a habit of chasing after “baby-faced” young men.

Reporters found his profile on the gay-dating app Grindr that showed McCormack, 42, specifically sought “young slim smooth” partners: “Short is hot.” McCormack’s co-workers knew of his preferences:

‘He’s always on Grindr and having dates with young-looking men,’ a colleague, who did not want to be named, told News Corp.
‘He would often show photos of guys he was seeing and they would always be baby-faced teens but a legal age.’ . . .
Daily Mail Australia revealed he directed a risque short film in the early 2000s where father-son incest in a gay bathhouse was a key plot line.

Despite his open homosexuality and his known preference for very young partners, some of McCormack’s journalistic colleagues were surprised by his arrest for allegedly transmitting child pornography:

Tracy Grimshaw prides herself on protecting the vulnerable, so it’s little wonder she’s shaken to the core after the Sex Crimes Squad raided ACA’s headquarters and arrested her long-time colleague Ben McCormack.
“This has been the worst week of my life,” she told close friends, who say she’s so devastated at the betrayal of someone she felt she knew, she can’t even bear to say his name.
“She won’t talk to anyone about it. This really is her worst nightmare.”
“To have someone she worked with and trusted for years arrested for child porn… she’s been staying at home, only leaving to do the show.” . . .
“She’s crusaded against paedophiles all her life, and Ben was the reporter who covered the child molestation case of [former Hey Dad..! star] Robert Hughes. It couldn’t get any worse.”

For those who don’t know, Robert Hughes is an actor who starred in a popular Australian TV situation comedy in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Subsequently, he was accused of having molested four different underage girls, including actress Sarah Monahan, who had played his daughter on TV. McCormack tracked down Hughes in Singapore for an exclusive interview in 2010. Hughes was later extradited to Australia to face charges and in 2014, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

After McCormack was arrested April 6 for child pornography charges, he was also suspended from a beach lifeguard association where he had volunteered training young boys in lifeguard classes.

 

Category: Australia, Crime, Gays

Our Moral Superiors™

Posted on | April 17, 2017 | 1 Comment

One of the biases of the intellectual elite is their self-serving belief that college education is synonymous with moral superiority. To be an “educated” person is to be a better person, according to the elite, and therefore the more prestigious the school you attended — Obama at Columbia and Harvard Law, Hillary at Wellesley and Yale Law, etc. — the more you are qualified to pass judgment on those inferior slobs beneath you. This kind of credential-based snobbery allows rich kids (whose parents can afford $70,496 a year to send them to an “elite” school like Northwestern) to believe that the rest of us are obligated to listen in hushed reverence while they lecture us about what ignorant bigots we are.

Speaking of Northwestern University, a couple of months ago, feminists at the elite school worked themselves into what Michelle Malkin calls a “Category-5 frenzy over sexual assault allegations” at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. The problem was there was no evidence, and the whole thing appears to have been nothing but a hoax “based on anonymous phone calls,” Malkin explained:

When one brave student senator, who is an SAE fraternity member, stood up for the “rights of the accused” during debate over a resolution to condemn the “pervasive culture of sexual misconduct” on campus, he was chastised for his “privilege” and castigated for “victim-blaming.” . . .
After a “prompt and thorough” investigation, [the university’s Vice President for Student Affairs] Patricia Telles-Irvin revealed [in March], “(n)o disciplinary action or further investigative action related to the reports of sexual misconduct will be taken at this time.”

Remember, these people are Our Moral Superiors™ despite the gullibility that inspires them to hysterical witch-hunts over non-existent rapes. And incidents like this require us to believe that either:

A. Male students at our nation’s most elite educational institutions are complicit in a “pervasive culture of sexual misconduct”;
or
B. Feminists at our nation’s most elite educational institutions are a bunch of dishonest liars and credulous fools.

Neither explanation reflects well on Our Moral Superiors™.

Meanwhile, at $64,870-a-year Pomona College, three black students — Dray Denson, Avery Jonas and Shanaya Stephenson — wrote an open letter condemning the discovery of truth as an educational goal:

This construction is a myth and white supremacy, imperialism, colonization, capitalism, and the United States of America are all of its progeny. The idea that the truth is an entity for which we must search, in matters that endanger our abilities to exist in open spaces, is an attempt to silence oppressed peoples. … The idea that we must subject ourselves routinely to the hate speech of fascists who want for us not to exist plays on the same Eurocentric constructs that believed Black people to be impervious to pain and apathetic to the brutal and violent conditions of white supremacy.

Well, there you have it — there is no such thing as truth, and the belief that education is about searching for truth is white supremacy.

It takes big money to become one Our Moral Superiors™ and these kids at elite private Pomona College are obviously so much better than you and your kids, with your crappy state-school diplomas and your ignorant racist belief that “truth is an entity for which we must search.” You’re obviously trying to “silence oppressed peoples” whose parents pay $64,870 a year for them to go to college in sunny Southern California.

Oppression is becoming so expensive, only rich kids can afford it.



 

Category: Education

Patriarchy Means Paying the Bills

Posted on | April 17, 2017 | Comments Off on Patriarchy Means Paying the Bills

My son Jim taking an Easter afternoon hike with his two sons.

Friday, I worked from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. with my 24-year-old son who does home-improvement contracting jobs with a side business mowing lawns. It was the latter enterprise where I’d volunteered to help, which meant riding around on a zero-turn lawnmower at six different locations. Let me tell you that doing a big lawn on a high-powered zero-turn mower is huge fun, compared to sitting in front of a computer yakking about politics. My wife has been nagging me about . . . uh, I mean, encouraging me to get out of the house more often, so with spring and the beginning of lawn-mowing season, I volunteered to help my son with his business. After we’d knocked out a half-dozen lawn jobs, then my son had to finish up a roofing job which required his specialized skills, so that my share of the work was mainly handing him tools and stuff for four hours. It was dark by the time that job was finished, then we went to dinner at Bennigan’s.

All in all, it was a fine day of honest work for honest money and also educational. Most of the work my son does is on “flips” — investors buy a house that’s been foreclosed then hire contractors to do improvements to the property so that it can be re-sold at a profit. You might be surprised at how many really nice houses end up in foreclosure. Certainly I was amazed to see these big homes in fine neighborhoods where, for some reason, the former owners stopped paying their mortgages and also, usually, let the property get into a deplorably run-down condition. Did the owners get hooked on meth? Was there a divorce? Mental illness? There’s time to wonder about things like that while you’re thundering across a gigantic lawn on a $6,000 mower.

One of the reasons I get so annoyed at people like Sarah Silverman claiming Donald Trump is an “emotional child” and a “superficial bully” is their apparent assumption that Trump’s success in the business world was easy. Whatever his flaws as a human being and his shortcomings as a political leader, it should be obvious that you don’t become a billionaire real-estate tycoon by being lazy or stupid. Trump had been working nearly a decade in his father’s real-estate business when, in 1978, he negotiated a deal to renovate the run-down Commodore Hotel which re-opened as the Grand Hyatt, and by 1983, he had completed his first skyscraper project, the Trump Tower. It was these successful development projects that made Trump something of celebrity in New York, and led to his book contract for The Art of the Deal. Trump started building his real-estate empire before Sarah Silverman was even born, and he was negotiating multimillion-dollar deals while she was still in elementary school. How is she qualified to criticize him?

Watching my son work Friday — that roofing job was a masterpiece of craftsmanship, I tell you — and seeing also how many excellent properties end up in foreclosure, I had occasion to reflect on the way some people always resent success. Plenty of business ventures fail, and lots of people who once lived in big houses somehow lose their homes to foreclosure, so when people actually succeed, they ought to be admired for their achievement, rather than becoming the objects of envious mockery.

Honest work for honest money is derided by the Left, which cares only about protests and other such destructive forms of “activism.” All these anarchist rioters in Berkeley — when have any of them done an honest day’s work, huh? Or how about the Michigan professor claiming “the English language is sexist”? What does she get paid to teach this nonsense, and why are Michigan taxpayers expected to foot the bill?

“Social justice” is nothing but a racket, a scam, a dishonest hustle. Consider what happens when someone turns feminism into a business:

On her LinkedIn profile, Chelsea Leibow calls herself a “Patriarchy-Smashing PR Priestess.” In a complaint filed last month with New York’s Human Rights Commission, however, Ms. Leibow calls herself a victim of sexual harassment. According to Ms. Leibow, while she was employed by the Manhattan-based firm Thinx, her boss “groped female underlings’ breasts, pranced around the office naked, and video-chatted workers from the toilet.”
The alleged perpetrator of these offenses was not the “patriarchy,” but rather Thinx CEO Miki Agrawal, a self-declared feminist whose company specialized in marketing blood-absorbing underwear for menstruating women. . . .

Read the whole thing at The Patriarch Tree. Given a choice between working for a feminist and mowing lawns, I know which one I’d choose.



 

Category: Family, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 04.17.17

Posted on | April 17, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.17.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Just Another Day At Google
Twitchy: And The Award For Dumbest, Most Racist Tweet Of 2017 (So Far) Goes To…Talcum X
Louder With Crowder: NYPD Helps ICE Catch Illegals While Liberals Rage


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Canberra – Your First World Holiday Destination
American Power: Trump Supporters Crush “Antifascists” In Berkeley
American Thinker: In Her Majesty’s Disservice
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BLACKFIVE: Alan Jacobson, The Darkness of Evil
Bring The HEAT: Fifty Years Ago Today – One Out From History
Da Tech Guy: Pat Austin – Mayor Landrieu’s Plot To Pull Down Monuments In The Dead Of Night Exposed
Don Surber: Why Trump Supporters Won’t Abandon Him
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries
The Geller Report: Berkeley Police Sit In Squad Car, Watching As Trump Supporters Attacked
Hogewash: Two Million Stars For Five Million Years
Jammie Wearing Fools: Police Cast Wide Net In Search For Cleveland Facebook Killing Suspect
Joe For America: US Preparing For Pre-Emptive Strike To Prevent Nork Nuke Detonation?
JustOneMinute: Chatting With Fish About Water
Power Line: Donald Trump Asks A Good Question
Shark Tank: Nork Missile Launch Fails
Shot In The Dark: Lie First, Lie always – When The DFL Does Polling, The Truth Dies A Little
The Jawa Report: Sharia Doc Arrested In Detroit, also, Jeff Halm Declared Sith Lord
The Lonely Conservative: My Witness
The Political Hat: Progressive Logic – How Racial Exclusion Begets Diversity
This Ain’t Hell: Geoff Millard – Valor Thief With Antifa In Berkeley
War Is Boring: Pacifist Military Trainer Says Kurdistan Should Be Like Israel
Weasel Zippers: Chicago Rings In Easter With At Least 34 Shot So Far, also, NBC Baseball Writer Outraged By “Political” American Flags At Sporting Events
Mark Steyn: The Incoming Roar, also, The War That Made The World We Live In


Today’s Digital Deals
H&R Block Tax Software With Refund Bonus Offer

Category: Linkagery

FMJRA 2.0: Not Long Before The End

Posted on | April 17, 2017 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Not Long Before The End

— compiled by Wombat-socho

We are two days away from the end of tax season, and Lord, am I tired. Came back from Minnesota last Tuesday, went back to the tax mines on Wednesday, and with few exceptions I have done nothing but eat, sleep, excrete, and sit in my cube at work waiting for clients to show up and/or send me their stuff. So please pardon my lateness; these last few days I have been getting home, eating dinner, and then crashing – and that’s about it.

‘Hate’ as a Synonym for ‘Republican’
Watcher of Weasels
The Daley Gator
The Political Hat
A View From The Beach
EBL

Woman Explodes in Rant Against Kissing Couple, Achieves Unwanted Fame
EBL

Shortly Before The Detour
A View From The Beach

University Teacher @LarsMaischak Advocates Death for President Trump
The Political Hat
A View From The Beach
EBL

Obama Administration Let Illegal Alien Stay; Now the Girl He Raped Is Dead
The Pirate’s Cove
The Daley Gator
A View From The Beach
EBL

Muslims Murder Christians in Egypt
EBL

Fired for ‘Work Place Violence,’ Florida Man Does Exactly What You’d Expect
EBL

Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Conservative Atlas
Lunacy Is Contagious
EBL

Anti-Christian Terrorist Threatens Churches; Police Manhunt for Fugitive
EBL

Student Commits Suicide After LGBT Activists Use Title IX to Punish Him
EBL

Rolling Stone Settles With UVA Dean in Rape Hoax Defamation Lawsuit
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.12.17
Proof Positive
EBL

Dear @EmmaWatson: You Are the ‘Goodwill Ambassador’ for a Rape Culture
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.13.17
Proof Positive
EBL

Totalitarian Mobs Continue to Silence Dissent on University Campuses
A View From The Beach
EBL

Choate Hall Is Decadent and Depraved
EBL

Crazy Is as Crazy Does: ‘Illuminati’ Arrested for Disorderly Conduct in Florida
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.14.2017
Proof Positive
EBL

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
EBL

Top linkers this week:

  1.  EBL (20)
  2.  A View From The Beach (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


Category: FMJRA Award

Remember, @SarahKSilverman Speaks Officially for the Democrat Party

Posted on | April 16, 2017 | 3 Comments

“Hillary is our Democratic nominee, and I will proudly vote for her. It’s so inspiring.”
— Sarah Silverman, July 25, 2016

Sarah Silverman is a Democrat. She spoke from the main stage at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, and may therefore be regarded as an official spokeswoman for the Democrat Party. It is important to keep this in mind when we consider what Ms. Silverman says:

Sarah Silverman joined in the anti-Donald Trump “Tax March” protest in New York City Saturday, where she demanded the president release his tax returns in a fiery speech.
“Show us your f*cking taxes, you emotional child,” the 46-year-old comedian and liberal addressed the president in comments delivered to the protesters.
“You like being a superficial bully? Here’s one for you: you are a three at best,” Silverman added, apparently referring to Trump’s appearance.

Yes, the President of the United States is an “emotional child” and a “superficial bully,” according to official Democrat Party spokeswoman Sarah Silverman, who has never held any job that involves adult responsibility. She has made a show-business career out of her own self-indulgent brand of “humor,” and has an estimated net worth of $3.5 million. This qualifies her to denounce Donald Trump, who made his own fortune in the demanding and competitive world of real-estate development. Maybe you don’t like Donald Trump. Perhaps you consider making wisecracks on TV to be a more socially valuable enterprise than building skyscrapers, but are Hollywood entertainers really the people best qualified to lecture us about superficiality and emotional maturity? Can you cite any particular personal achievement that would make Sarah Silverman a moral authority in such matters?

 

Yes, that’s official Democrat Party spokeswoman Sarah Silverman at Saturday’s protest, brandishing a sign which proclaims that the President of the United States “eats farts 4 dinner.” These are the utterances of someone who calls the President an “emotional child.” And you may recall some of Ms. Silverman’s previous official policy statements.

 

Yes, in February, Sarah Silverman demanded that the U.S. military “join the resistance” to “overthrow” our democratically elected government.

Why is it that elected Democrats are never asked to comment on what their official spokeswoman Sarah Silverman says? Contrast how the Democrats get a free pass with how reporters demand that Republicans respond every time Rush Limbaugh says something “controversial.” This is another example of the media’s partisan double-standard.

(Via Memeorandum.)



 

Category: Celebrities, Democrats

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | April 14, 2017 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty

Looked like his car pulling up, headlights affording the room a sunburst before they grew more interested in the driveway.
She took a drag on her “medicinal” cigarette holder, pulling the smoke into her lungs deeply, glad for the source of calmness.
The motor stopped. The car door slammed. The gravel proclaimed each proud step toward the dark porch. The keyhole announced its violation, and the door opened on smooth hinges.
“Jasmine!?!?”
Her cue to cock the little .38 revolver that was all she had to say to him.
He burst into the study.
“There you are, you–”
She finalized him.

—
Thanks, Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction
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