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Lesbian Fitness Guru Faces Felony Charges After Driving Incident

Posted on | March 30, 2017 | Comments Off on Lesbian Fitness Guru Faces Felony Charges After Driving Incident

 

Ten years ago, Jackie Warner was an L.A. celebrity, the star of Workout, a reality show on the Bravo cable TV network. For three seasons, the show featured Warner and her clients at her Sky Sport and Spa in Beverly Hills. A self-made millionaire, Warner is the author of the books This Is Why You’re Fat (And How to Get Thin Forever) and 10 Pounds in 10 Days: The Secret Celebrity Program for Losing Weight Fast.

Being a reality TV star, however, didn’t quite suit Warner’s temperament. The producers made Warner’s lesbian relationships a focus of the show, and she had three different girlfriends — Mimi Saraiva, Rebecca Cardon and Brianna Stockton — during the course of three seasons. And then there was the incident when Warner was caught on camera making negative comments about a client’s breast implants. As it turned out, the client was a “well-known fitness model and breast cancer survivor.” Warner says she “didn’t like doing the type of TV that I was doing which made me uncomfortable and uneasy,” so she left the Workout series and eventually sold her gym. She went into a downward spiral:

“To be honest, I felt a bit lost and started partying a lot. It felt like I was taking a few steps backward in life and I started making bad decisions.” . . .
Jackie realized she needed to accept responsibility for her actions and devise a plan to pull herself out of her misery. “I quit drinking for a year and I quit dating for a year,” she continues, adding that she prayed for guidance every morning and night and cut “almost everyone” out of her life including friends, business partners, managers, lawyers.

Two years ago, Warner was planning a comeback with a new book, but evidently that didn’t work out so well, and now there’s this news:

The former Bravo fitness star crashed her car into a pole in West Hollywood, CA Feb. 24, after allegedly “sleep driving.” She nearly ran over an LA County Sheriff’s Deputy when she allegedly threw her car in reverse and tried to leave the scene. . . .
The former star of Work Out went to lunch earlier in the day, drank one martini and took an Uber home, sources close to Jackie told TMZ. She then claims to have taken the sleep aid Ambien and says that the next thing she knew, she woke up in the hospital with no memory of the accident. According to TMZ, she wasn’t wearing pants — just underwear — when she was arrested around 5:45 pm. The former owner of Sky Sport and Spa in Beverly Hills was charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon for nearly mowing down the deputy. Her blood alcohol level was measured at .08, exactly the CA legal limit, so she hasn’t been hit with DUI charges just yet.

 

You were driving without pants, with a .08 blood-alcohol content in the middle of the afternoon, you nearly killed a deputy and were taken into custody at gunpoint? Could be trouble, but don’t worry, the “Ambien defense” will save you. You’re a former reality-TV star and a lesbian. There’s no way a California court is going to convict you of a felony.



 

Category: Celebrities, Gays

In The Mailbox: 03.30.17

Posted on | March 30, 2017 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Lies, Damned Lies, and Juan Williams
EBL: Kemberlee Kaye At Legal Insurrection Asks Does Chuck Schumer Have An Anger Management Problem?
Twitchy: Dana Loesch Levels Geraldo In Just Two Tweets After He Accuses Freedom Caucus Of Treason
Louder With Crowder: Nikki Haley Lowers The Boom – “UN’s Days Of Israel Bashing Are Over”


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Face Of Gay Militancy
American Power: Susan Sleeper-Smith, Why You Can’t Teach United States History Without American Indians
American Thinker: White SJW Dies At Hands Of Black Killer
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Pacific Theater News
Bring The HEAT: An Old Salt Picks His Four Favorite American Admirals
Da Tech Guy: J.D. Rucker – Focus On The Enemy, Mr. President
Don Surber: We Will Still Trump Obamacare
Dustbury: One Weird Trick For Winning A Lawsuit
Fred On Everything: Social Justice Warriors And Bubonic Plague – Is There A Difference?
The Geller Report: Useful Idiot Alicia Keyes Dons Bosomy Burka, Sparking Outrage – “Glamorizing The Veil”
Hogewash: Unsettled Science, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Joe For America: 10-Time Pro Bowler Attacked For Speaking The Truth About Colin Kaepernick
JustOneMinute: Repeal Of FCC Rule A Disaster! Or Is It?
Power Line: The World’s Greatest Humanitarian Crisis Arrives Just In Time
Shark Tank: Trump Brushes Off “Winter White House” Security, Travel Costs
Shot In The Dark: Open Letter To The Entire Twin Cities News Media
STUMP: Pensions At The Supreme Court – Church Plans
The Jawa Report: Apparent Attack On Capitol Hill (Update – Disturbed Person Is Disturbed), also, Sandcrawler PSA – ISIS Fighters In Raqqa Are Now Martyrs For Islam, But Only In Arabic
The Lonely Conservative:
The Political Hat: Fauxachontas In Spaaaace!!!, also, Milk – It Does A White Supremacy Good?
This Ain’t Hell: State Department Employee Charged
War Is Boring: Russia Has A Ton Of Problems In Syria, But Israeli Air Strikes Aren’t One Of Them
Weasel Zippers: Transgenders Now Oppressed Because Pussy Hats “Equate Womanhood With Having A Vagina”, also, Muslim Prof Insists Jesus Wasn’t Crucified; Christian Student Suspended For Disagreeing
Mark Steyn: The Mass Murderer Who Couldn’t Make The Papers, also, A Particular Place


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Category: Linkagery

California Prosecutes Pro-Lifers

Posted on | March 30, 2017 | 1 Comment

John Ziegler at Mediaite:

Conservatives are outraged today that two “pro-life” activists have now been charged in California with 15 felonies in connection with their sting operation on Planned Parenthood. There is good reason to be incensed at the arbitrary/dubious enforcement of the law and the overtly politically-motivated over-charging of two people who seem to be, at least morally, on the “good” side here (recording private conversations vs. apparently trying to sell human body parts).
After all, California is obviously an extremely “pro-choice” state and the attorney general is a very liberal Democrat. Similar charges in Texas (not so liberal) didn’t stick, so it certainly appears as if pure politics has played a significant role in how this case has been handled by the legal system.
But there is another very important element of why California felt comfortable pursuing this case with such extreme vigor. That is their total confidence that the mainstream news media will support, or at least not push back against, them on this story. . . .

Read the whole thing. (Hat-tip: Hot Air.)

 

Category: Abortion, California

‘Diversity’ Requirement for College Faculty Enables Political Discrimination

Posted on | March 30, 2017 | Comments Off on ‘Diversity’ Requirement for College Faculty Enables Political Discrimination

It should be obvious to anyone who has paid attention to academia that conservatives are not welcome on our nation’s university campuses, either as students or as faculty. America’s higher education system is controlled by partisan Democrats, and Republicans are not eligible for employment. Nearly 100% of campaign contributions from liberal arts faculty go to Democrats. At Cornell University, for example, 97% of contributions from faculty went to Democrats. At Georgetown University, 96% of faculty donations went to Democrats. To maintain this ideological conformity, applicants for employment at many universities are now required to submit a “diversity statement,” George Leef explains:

The diversity statement has a purpose. That purpose, writes the paper’s author, Professor Bruce Gilley of Portland State University, is to weed out non-leftist scholars.
At many universities, he explains, there is an unspoken ideology that “emphasizes group identity, an assumption of group victimization, and a claim for group based entitlements.” On the other hand, “Classical liberal approaches that emphasize the pluralism of a free society, the universalism of human experience, and the importance of equality before the law have been regarded as invalid.”
Scholars who don’t demonstrate enough zeal for the former or any sympathy for the latter are put under a great disadvantage. The ideological purists who often dominate in hiring and promotion decisions don’t want dissidents in their schools if they can be kept out.

You can read the whole thing. It is worth recalling that the modern conservative movement in America more or less began in 1951 when a recent Yale University graduate named William F. Buckley Jr. published God and Man at Yale, an exposé of the liberal biases that were evident at what was then considered to be a conservative institution. Buckley’s book is still worth reading today, because the problem he identified — America’s intellectual elite had ceased to believe in the American value system — has proven to be so insoluble. There are now more Marxists on the Yale faculty than there are Christians. Indeed, there are probably more Marxists at Yale than in Pyongyang. And when was the last time Yale hired a Republican professor? The question therefore arises, why should Republican parents pay exorbitant tuition to send their children to universities that function as Democrat Party indoctrination centers?

(Hat-tip: George Piper at The College Fix.)



 

 

Category: Education

‘Equality,’ Florida-Style: Lesbian Arrested for Attacking Her Husband With Bleach

Posted on | March 29, 2017 | Comments Off on ‘Equality,’ Florida-Style: Lesbian Arrested for Attacking Her Husband With Bleach

Lakeisha Regina LeGrand was arrested earlier this month.

History offers many examples of intellectuals dreaming up innovative schemes for “progress” which, as inspiring as they may seem to their advocates in the academic elite, don’t work out so well when applied in real life with real people. Just invoke the magic word “equality” and rational discussion ceases, because how can anyone be against “equality”? We are expected to ignore the fact that never in human history has anything like “equality” actually existed, and attempts to impose “equality” through government force have resulted in disaster in the former Soviet Union, Communist China, Cambodia, and elsewhere.

What did Ivy League professors imagine “equality” would mean in terms of marriage and families? Or what did Justice Anthony Kennedy (Harvard Law, Class of 1961) think would be the consequences of Obergefell?

Let’s take a look at how “equality” is working out in Orlando:

A 31-year-old Orlando woman was arrested Sunday on suspicion of splashing bleach in her husband’s face after they got into an argument about a woman whom she recently began dating.
Lakeisha Regina LeGrand was arrested on a charge of aggravated battery/permanent disfigurement.
According to an Orange County Sheriff’s Office arrest affidavit, LeGrand and her husband have been married for eight years, have four children together and live together in the same home.
Deputies said the couple got into an argument Saturday because LeGrand’s husband does not like the woman whom LeGrand is dating and he does not want the woman around their children. He said LeGrand “recently discovered that she is gay,” and it has caused stress on their relationship. . . .

(She “discovered” she’s gay, like it’s a scientific breakthrough.)

LeGrand’s husband asked her to keep the woman away from their children, and LeGrand took the children and left the home, deputies said. Her husband said he also left and returned home Sunday.
He said the children told him that they were left alone with LeGrand’s girlfriend, and he confronted her when she returned home, the affidavit said. She told him to “go back to where he came from” and he began to yell and throw boxes, deputies said.
LeGrand asked one of her children to get some bleach, but the child refused, so LeGrand grabbed a bottle from a closet, unscrewed the lid and splashed it on her husband’s face, according to the affidavit.

“Equality!” “Progress!” “Social justice!” These fine phrases are so inspiring to the intellectual elite, but what do they mean in real life for ordinary people who didn’t go to Harvard Law School?



 

Category: Florida, Gays, Marriage

In The Mailbox: 03.29.17

Posted on | March 29, 2017 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Breaking News! Donald Trump May Use Russian Dressing!
Michelle Malkin: Benjamin Crump – TV’s Rising Fake News Star
Twitchy: Did Former Obama Appointee Evelyn Farkas Just Admit Trump’s Staff Was Spied On?
Louder With Crowder: EVIL – Abortion Doctor Laughs While Describing Ripping Baby From The Womb


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Three Essential Red Pill Journeys
American Power: Ford Investing $1.2 Billion In U.S. Plants As Trump Touts Jobs – #MAGA!
American Thinker: Oh, How The Mighty Have Fallen
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Da Tech Guy: Baldilocks – BOHICA For Him, But Not For Them
Don Surber: Trump Realizes CO2 Is A Nutrient
Dustbury: You Came Here For An Argument
The Geller Report: Muslim Public HS Principal Keeps Catholic Students Off Admissions List
Hogewash: Location, Location, Location
Jammie Wearing Fools: California Criminally Charges Undercover Reporters Who Exposed Planned Parenthood’s Baby Body Parts Sales. Where’s The Outrage?
Joe For America: Texas Governor Abbott Ready To Hit Back Against Sanctuary Cities
JustOneMinute: Defensive Driving
Power Line: Leaked DHS Document Is Another Democratic Party Scandal, also, Why Is The DNC “Embattled”?
Shark Tank: Pro-Planned Parenthood Attorney General Exacts Revenge On Pro-Life Activists
Shot In The Dark: “There’s No Use In Self-Defense”
STUMP: CALPERS Myths v. Facts – The Page Is Gone, But The Internet Is Forever
The Jawa Report: Three Refugees Arrested, Lied On Visa Applications About Roy Hallum’s Kidnapper, also, Sandcrawler PSA – There Are No Good Or Bad Muslims, Just Muslims
The Political Hat: Rivers Are People Too, also, Shut Up, The EU Parliament Explained
This Ain’t Hell: Beware “War Store”, also, Alexander Vanderheide Admits Malfeasance
War Is Boring: South Sudan is Dying
Weasel Zippers: California’s Chief Justice Claims Enforcing Immigration Law Goes Against The Rule Of Law, also, Massachusetts Sheriff Calls For Arrest Of Sanctuary City Leaders
Megan McArdle: We Don’t Know Whether Obamacare Was A Net Gain
Mark Steyn: The Safe Harbour?, also, The Potemkin Treasury


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Category: Linkagery

Feminist @HannahSmothers_ Confirms the Worst Stereotypes of Feminism

Posted on | March 29, 2017 | 2 Comments

Hannah Smothers writes for Cosmopolitan.

Never take advice from feminists. How many times do I have to explain this? If a young woman’s goal in life is to become a crazy cat lady, she doesn’t need anyone’s advice to accomplish that goal, and if she wants to be anything else . . . Well, feminism can’t help her.

In a tiny Brooklyn apartment, a 2015 University of Texas graduate named Hannah Smothers is well on her way to becoming a crazy cat lady, but meanwhile she’s “Sex & Relationships Editor at Cosmopolitan.com.” To give you an idea of what an expert Ms. Smothers is about relationships, she got dumped by her boyfriend two weeks before Valentine’s Day, and turned this into a column about being her own Valentine.

 

“Romantic dinner for one” — whether or not she owns a cat, she’s otherwise making rapid progress toward her career goal, IYKWIMAITYD.

Why did her boyfriend dump her? She doesn’t explain this, but I’ll bet $20 that if you asked her ex-boyfriend, his answer would include the word “crazy.” The symptoms of Ms. Smothers’ insanity are obvious. After all, no psychologically healthy person would leave the great state of Texas and move to a tiny apartment in Brooklyn. Beyond that, however, Ms. Smothers exhibits a morbid obsession with killing babies. She is a bloodthirsty pro-abortion fanatic, for whom maintaining federal funding for Planned Parenthood is a sacred crusade. Advocates of infanticide are not nice people, and the feminist movement’s pro-abortion agenda attracts heartless monsters who consider baby-killing a “right.”

Hannah Smothers last year met her feminist idol, Gloria Steinem.

Hannah Smothers has the three crucial traits of a feminist — the craziness, the cruelty and don’t forget, the dishonesty.

A feminist must always engage in semantic games intended to conceal reality, to hide away evidence that she is the source of her own problems. What’s the difference between (a) feminists claiming that women are oppressed by “patriarchy” and (b) neo-Nazis blaming their problems on Jews? Nothing really. Both are paranoid conspiracy theories that function as explanations of failure. You lost your job because the factory shut down? Blame the greedy Jews! You’re spending Valentine’s Day alone because your boyfriend dumped you? Blame the patriarchy!

 

Yes, that’s the headline on a Hannah Smothers column: “16 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Ever Gave a Blow Job,” and I’m sure the Pulitzer Prize committee will be impressed with this quality journalism.

Am I the only one who’s noticed the extent to which “feminism” has become merely a pretext for women to write about their sex lives? But you also notice that we never hear the other side of the story, do we?

16 Reasons Why You Should Never Let
Hannah Smothers Give You a Blowjob
by Hannah’s Ex-Boyfriend

The ex-boyfriends of feminists are conspicuously silent. No guy has ever written a tell-all essay, e.g., “I Banged Amanda Marcotte,” because such an admission would permanently damage his reputation.

 

Yes, that’s the headline on yet another Hannah Smothers column which, for some reason, the Pulitzer Prize committee overlooked last year.

Her journalism professors at the University of Texas must be proud of Ms. Smothers’ career achievement in writing about oral sex and queefing, but what brought her to my attention this week — thanks to Spacebunny on Gab — was this headline:

Why Guys Get Turned on When You Orgasm
— and Why That’s a Bad Thing

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. Ms. Smothers has managed to find, somewhere in her feminist theory, a reason to be anti-orgasm.

Regardless of the specifics that led Ms. Smothers to her conclusion, this was an inevitable destination, inherent in feminist theory. As I said last year in reference to Anita Sarkeesian, a primary goal of feminism is to abolish male happiness. Feminists believe anything that makes men happy must be wrong. Therefore, they must find something that makes men happy, and ruin it — this is what Sarkeesian wants to do to the videogame industry, and it’s what Ms. Smothers wants to do to sex.

 

Feminism is an essentially negative ideology, destructive in its purposes. Unable to find happiness or success in their own lives, feminists blame men — the patriarchy — for their misery and failure, a rationalization that justifies their vindictive cruelty toward males. As might be expected, her hateful anti-male attitude does not make the feminist popular with men, and this is related to a phenomenon that Vox Day has observed: “SJWs always double down.” Feminism is a fool’s errand, the pursuit of “equality” through the destruction of everything wholesome and decent in society. As such, it does not attract the support of wise and virtuous women. When fools fail at whatever they attempt, their double-down reaction is predictable: The solution is more feminism!

This is why feminists interpret male hostility as evidence of success. The more men hate her, the more she knows she is on the path that leads to the promised utopia of equality. Feminism tells her that any man who disagrees with her is a misogynist — he hates women — and this implies, as its logical obverse, that the feminist can never be wrong about anything because (a) male opinions are always invalid, and (b) any woman who criticizes her is obviously deficient in feminist consciousness.

You see this in what we might call The Strong Woman Fallacy. Nothing is more predictable than that women who embrace an anti-male ideology will have difficulty forming successful romantic relationships with men, and yet their ideology gives feminists a self-justifying explanation: “My boyfriend broke up with me because men are intimidated by a strong woman.” No, ma’am, he broke up with you because you’re a deranged bitch, but you don’t want to deal with the truth, do you?

There is no failure that can’t be blamed on patriarchy. If her columns on queefing and oral sex don’t win her a Pulitzer? Yeah — patriarchy!



 

Category: Sex Trouble

L.A. Mayor Vows Nullification to Defend City’s Sanctuary Policy for Illegal Aliens

Posted on | March 28, 2017 | 1 Comment

What would John C. Calhoun say?

Responding to the latest warnings by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions that Department of Justice funds will be withheld from sanctuary cities, Mayor Eric Garcetti said Monday he will fight efforts by the Trump administration to take away federal funding needed for law enforcement in Los Angeles.
Garcetti said that such actions would be unconstitutional, adding that the city’s policies are “designed to keep our residents safe.”
“Slashing funds for first-responders, for our port and airport, for counterterrorism, crime-fighting and community-building serves no one — not this city, not the federal government, not the American people,” he said. “We will fight to protect the safety and dignity of all Angelenos, and we will work closely with our representatives in Congress to make sure that Los Angeles does not go without federal resources that help protect millions of people every day.”
Among the Justice Department grants received by the city of Los Angeles in recent years include $1.8?million from the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program, which goes to the city’s initiative for reducing criminal gang activity.
The city also was awarded $1 million last year from the Justice Department to be put toward a $69 million program to equip all police officers in the field with body cameras. . . .

Question: If the “safety and dignity” of Los Angeles residents would be so imperiled by “slashing funds” from Washington, isn’t this helpless condition of federal dependency the underlying source of their problem?

Jazz Shaw at Hot Air notes how the money connects to the panic:

The fastest and most frantic response [to Sessions’ warning] came from California. That’s not surprising since they have a large cluster of sanctuary cities and get a massive amount of that grant money. . . .
I’m just working off the back of the napkin here, but I seem to recall seeing some figures indicating that California receives more than $135M in law enforcement grants annually. New York City gets about half that much all by itself. In fact, when you add up all the sanctuary cities and all the law enforcement grant money they take in, the total comes up to just about $10.4B.

Roughly $10 billion of federal taxpayer money a year goes to subsidize law enforcement in cities that refuse to enforce U.S. immigration law. There’s a word for this policy, and that word is, insane.



 

Category: California, Immigration
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