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Detroit Criminals Took Over Motel for Prostitution and Drug Dealing

Posted on | February 9, 2017 | 1 Comment

Bryant Daugherty (left) and Michael Randol (right).

Criminals took over a motel in Detroit, using it for their prostitution and drug-dealing operations, police say. Bryant Daugherty, 45, and Michael Randol, 41, were two of the criminals arrested when a task force of more than 200 law-enforcement agents raided the Victory Inn last month. Daugherty and Randol each have eight previous convictions:

“Mr. Daugherty is almost an archetype of an armed career criminal,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jerome Gorgon said during a court hearing. “His job — his career — has been a drug dealer.”

The Jan. 12 raid culminated a three-month investigation of a criminal operation in which prostitutes “were forced to live in inhumane conditions and have sex with customers in motel rooms” rented at a rate of $35 for three hours. In their raid on the 42-room motel, near Interstate 94, agents found one room “carpeted, wall to wall, with used hypodermic needles.” Fourteen prostitutes were rescued during the raid, but police are still looking for several men involved in the gang, including the reputed ringleader, known by the nickname “Tone”:

Investigators later identified “Tone” as a 48-year-old serial felon with 12 aliases whose rap sheet spans almost 30 years, including convictions for assault with a dangerous weapon, drugs and second-degree murder.

Why weren’t these lifelong criminals in prison? Does Michigan have a catch-and-release policy for pimps and drug dealers? How serious a criminal record is necessary to get somebody locked away for 15 or 20 years? How many guys are running around on the streets of Detroit with six, eight, 10, 12 convictions on their records? How many violent thieves, pimps, and dope dealers does it take to turn a city into Hell on Earth?

Two weeks after the raid, a judge ordered the motel closed:

A judge Friday shuttered a motel raided by federal agents, calling it a public nuisance plagued by prostitution, human trafficking, drugs and violent crime.
Wayne County Circuit Judge Robert Colombo Jr. ordered Victory Inn on Michigan Avenue east of Wyoming closed for one year and said it was impossible ownership was unaware of widespread criminal activity. The judge also ordered the furniture and fixtures be removed from the two-story, 42-room business. . . .
In 2016, the Detroit Police Department made 115 runs to the motel, which was the site of two shootings, several aggravated assaults and two homicides linked to motel guests. . . .
“This building is a nuisance,” city lawyer Charles Raimi told the judge. “In view of the notorious, the rampant, flagrant criminal activity, the only remedy is to close this building.”

Was the building a nuisance? No, the criminals were the real nuisance.

Some people are just bad people. It shouldn’t take eight convictions before somebody’s put away for good. Down in Texas, you get convicted of a third felony, and you’re going to do 15 or 25 years to life in prison. Doesn’t this nightmare motel full of prostitutes and drug needles suggest that maybe Michigan should pass a “three strikes” law? Read more

Category: Crime, Michigan

Appeals Panel Upholds Judge’s Ruling to Block President’s Immigration Order

Posted on | February 9, 2017 | Comments Off on Appeals Panel Upholds Judge’s Ruling to Block President’s Immigration Order

The Los Angeles Times:

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled to continue blocking enforcement of President Trump ’s travel ban. The unanimous decision means that a stay preventing a ban on on immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries remains in place, at least for now. The ruling came after the three-judge panel heard arguments this week from the Justice Department and Washington state.

John Sexton at Hot Air:

Trump issued the executive order creating a temporary ban on citizens from Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Iran, Sudan and Yemen entering the United States on January 27th. There were immediate protests at airports where people from these countries were being detained. Numerous lawsuits were filed including one by the attorney general for the state of Washington. That lawsuit was later joined by the state of Minnesota.

Appearing on Fox News, Marc Thiessen predicted that liberals are going to engage in “obstruction by litigation,” filing lawsuit after lawsuit to impede the Trump administration’s policies at every step.

 

Category: Constitution, Immigration

Rival @GetOnGab Has Twitter Shaking

Posted on | February 9, 2017 | 3 Comments

 

Gab (gab.ai) is the free-speech alternative platform that has thrived because of Twitter’s SJW-led censorship policy which has driven away users. Now, it seems, Twitter is worried about the competition:

Twitter has suspended the account of their free speech-based competitor Gab, despite the fact that the account had deleted all of its tweets following President Trump’s inauguration. . . .
“In total, there are no more than a handful of companies in one of the most progressively biased cities in America owning, controlling, and influencing what billions of people see, talk about, and communicate with,” Gab founder and CEO Andrew Torba told Breitbart Tech. “Their monopoly and sheer power over communication, information, news, and personal data is unlike anything in history; and their bias and agenda could not be more unified or clear.”
Gab was founded by Torba following Twitter’s suspensions of conservative and libertarian accounts and has attracted nearly 150,000 disenfranchised users, including Breitbart Senior Editor MILO.
Since the platform’s conception, Torba has been banned from a Silicon Valley startup group, suspended from Facebook, and had his Gab features copied by Twitter. Apple’s App Store have also banned the app twice . . .
“The response to Gab from around the world has been nothing short of incredible,” said Torba to Breitbart Tech last year. “This is a movement, and something that the community is driving forward,” he explained.
“Folks are deleting their Twitter and Facebook accounts… They are waking up to the lies and censorship of Big Social,” he continued. “We will continue to build a product built by the people, for the people. We will continue to put people first and promote free speech for all.”

The good news:

Also, good news: You can follow @rsmccain if you join Gab. Even better news? Nobody’s stopping you from hitting the tip jar. Just sayin’ . . .



 

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

 

Category: Journalism

Man Says Wrong Thing to Girlfriend, Resulting in Police Standoff

Posted on | February 9, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

New Hampshire:

A police standoff began in Merrimack after a boyfriend told his girlfriend that the spaghetti dinner she made was “OK,” according to police paperwork.
Police responded to Webster Green Condominium Complex for a domestic disturbance Saturday at about 2:35 p.m. Officers met with a resident of the complex who said that his girlfriend, Jodi Ecklund, was in the apartment and damaging property.
The boyfriend told police that Ecklund had made him a spaghetti dinner and asked him how it was. He replied with “OK,” and said Ecklund then went “bipolar” on him.
Ecklund allegedly assaulted the boyfriend by punching him in the face, punching him in the arm and scratching his hand. He left the apartment and heard Ecklund lock the door, according to court documents.
Two firearms — a Glock 9mm and a M4 rifle — were in the apartment, the boyfriend told police.
Officers approached the apartment door and heard Ecklund screaming yelling, telling them to get the (expletive) out of there, court documents read. She then told police that she would kill them if they entered the apartment and would harm herself, confirming there were guns inside.
Ecklund began to barricade herself in the apartment. Officers said they attempted to gain access in, and while doing so Ecklund told them they could come in now that she had the safety off.
The report said she threw out property belonging to the boyfriend into the parking lot during the incident, police said. A speaker was also thrown out, damaging a window to a different residence.
Ecklund faces two counts of criminal mischief, two counts of criminal threatening and two counts of reckless conduct — all felonies. She also faces three misdemeanor counts of domestic violence.

The good news is, your psycho ex-girlfriend’s going to prison.

The bad news is, now you’ll have to make your own spaghetti.

(Hat-tip: Don Surber on Twitter.)

 

Category: Crime

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | February 9, 2017 | 1 Comment

In 1978, a Pennsylvania court granted Thomas Wyda a name change to Tammy Lynn Wyda. Wyda castrated himself and subsequently underwent sex-change surgery. Wyda was married twice, and in 2002 went to prison after his/”her” husband died from a botched castration:

She was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and related counts in December 2001 in the death of her husband, James Felbaum, 40, and was sentenced to 5-1/2 to 11 years in prison. She cut off her husband’s testicles in a makeshift surgical laboratory in the couple’s filthy, unheated mobile home in Marion Township, Butler County, according to trial testimony. . . .
She was sentenced in April 2008 to 21 to 60 months in jail followed by two years of probation on terroristic threats and aggravated harassment by a prisoner while she was incarcerated in her husband’s death. She pleaded guilty to writing threatening letters to a Butler County assistant district attorney, two judges and others in October 2006.

After being released from prison in 2012, the “Mrs. Felbaum” claimed to be innocent in an interview with TV reporter Rick Earle:

“I loved him. I still do,” said Felbaum.
“Did you have anything to do with his death?” asked Earle.
“No, I did not have anything to do with his death. My husband died from complications of a drug overdose, not complications of any surgery. I did not kill my husband. My husband was not laying there bleeding. You know it’s not something you die from. It’s a minor surgery.
Felbaum said her husband began the surgery because he didn’t want testosterone. When he ran into problems, she stepped in. Felbaum said she had performed the surgery once before on her first husband.
Felbaum claimed James was fine after the operation. She told Earle he overdosed on oxycotin.

So, “Mrs. Felbaum” has castrated at least three men, including himself/“herself,” and both of his/“her” husbands. This week, the castration-crazy transgender widow was arrested again:

A transgender woman who spent time behind bars for a botched castration that led to the death of her sixth husband was arrested this week after she allegedly threatened to shoot a Westmoreland County, Pa., judge, according to news reports and police.
Tammy L. Felbaum, 58, of Seward, in southwestern Pennsylvania, entered the Westmoreland County Courthouse on Monday morning, placed her purse on the baggage X-ray equipment, then made comments that “she had guns and an Uzi and a rocket launcher in her purse,” County Park Police Chief Kirk Nolan said Wednesday.
As she walked through the scanner, she told another officer, “I came here to shoot a judge,” Nolan said.
He said officers searched her purse and did not find any weapons. Felbaum told police she was only kidding about her threats, Nolan said. He said she did not name a specific judge.
Felbaum nonetheless was charged with terroristic threats and disorderly conduct. She was being held Wednesday at the Westmoreland County Prison on $100,000 bail.

Given his/“her” record, Tammy Felbaum shouldn’t be threatening judges. He/“she” should be running the Democratic National Committee. He/“she” can’t possibly do worse than Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

(Hat-tip: Memeorandum.)

 

Category: Crime

Since @Jack Put SJWs in Charge, @Twitter Has Lost $457 Million

Posted on | February 9, 2017 | 3 Comments

 

A year ago, my @rsmccain account was banned from Twitter because I had been criticizing feminists. I’d been on Twitter since 2009 and my account had tens of thousands of followers, but the claim that I was “participating in targeted abuse” was offered to justify my banishment, even though Twitter never said what the alleged “abuse” was, who had been “targeted,” or how I had been “participating.” This act of censorship exposed how Twitter had decided, in an election year, to surrender control of its platform to a crew of feminist social justice warriors (SJWs) designated the “Trust and Safety Council.” This secretive group of Soviet-style commissars included the notorious anti-male hatemonger Anita Sarkeesian, and soon Twitter began purging conservative accounts.

When my @rsmccain account was banned during this SJW-led purge, the #FreeStacy hashtag went viral, but Twitter executives (including CEO Jack Dorsey) refused to address the reality — I was among the perceived “enemies” of Hillary Clinton who were being banned from Twitter during a presidential election year. Jack Dorsey had made his company part of the Democrat Party’s campaign team and four months later, when Twitter banned popular commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, the partisan nature of “Trust and Safety” became transparent.

Banning conservatives from Twitter was Dorsey’s contribution-in-kind to the Democrats, but beyond the failure to elect Clinton, how did this political venture work out for Twitter stockholders?

Twitter shares sank Thursday after the social media company reported quarterly revenue that missed Wall Street’s expectations and issued guidance that fell far short of estimates. . . .
“While revenue growth continues to lag audience growth, we are applying the same focused approach that drove audience growth to our revenue product portfolio, focusing on our strengths and the real-time nature of our service. This will take time, but we’re moving fast to show results,” CEO Jack Dorsey said in a statement.

How badly does Twitter’s pro-Democrat SJW business model suck?

The social network’s active user base has been stalled around the 300 million mark for about two years, while younger rivals like Instagram pass it. Facebook (FB, Tech30), once thought to be the closest comparison for Twitter, is now approaching two billion monthly active users.
In an attempt to boost its bottom line, Twitter has gone through two rounds of layoffs since Dorsey returned as CEO in 2015.

Twitter is laying off staff and, also, banning popular users to appease feminist SJWs, while burning through investors’ money:

Twitter continues to be a loss-making company, reporting a net loss of $167 million in the quarter and a net loss of $457 million for the full financial year.

Holy crap! Losing nearly a half-a-billion dollars in one year? That’s $50,000 an hour, 24/7 — $8.8 million in losses every week.

Maybe they should #FreeStacy and #FreeMilo and get rid of the “Trust and Safety Council” that has made Twitter such a disaster.



 

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

 

 

Category: Economics

In The Mailbox: 02.09.17

Posted on | February 9, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.09.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Democrat Dick Blumenthal Living Down To His Name And Reputations
Twitchy: Like Mother, Like Daughter? Chelsea Clinton Tweeting Out Fake News “Like It’s Her Job”
Louder With Crowder: Senator Tim Scott Shames Racist Liberals On The Senate Floor


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Gosnell Abortion Bestseller Confirms NYT’s Dishonest Bias
American Power: Santa Ana Votes To Condemn Trump’s Executive Actions On Immigrants, Sanctuary Cities
American Thinker: How Deep Was The Obama-Iran Relationship?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Hagfish Slime News
Da Tech Guy: 39-52% Toward CPAC Goal (Update – 47-59%)
Don Surber: Nate Silver Still Doesn’t Get Why He Blew 2016
Dustbury: The Ties That Unbind
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: MLK Niece Accuses Shrieking Liz Warren of Playing The Race Card In Deranged Attacks On Jeff Sessions
Joe For America: Obama’s Spy Network Operating Inside U.S. Capitol BUSTED – Linked To SEAL’s Death
JustOneMinute: Bracing For The Blizzard
Power Line: I’m So Old, I Remember When Liberals Opposed Military Coups
Shark Tank: Former Rep. Brown’s Aide Pleads Guilty, May Testify Against Her
Shot In The Dark: God Is Here At Chili’s
STUMP: Connecticut – Budget Day, Pistol Permit Fees, And Pushing Off Pensions Payments
The Geller Report: NJ Parents Protest Middle School Class Promoting Islam
The Political Hat: Punishment For Incorrect Costumes, Punishment For Incorrect Viewpoints, Punishment For Incorrect Thoughts
This Ain’t Hell: Trump Remembers Senator Blumenthal’s Stolen Valor
War Is Boring: Is The UAE America’s Best Friend In The Middle East?
Weasel Zippers: State Department Whistleblower – I’ve Seen Firsthand The Fraud And Abuse In Our Refugee Program, also, Publisher Of Leftist Rag The Nation Calls John McCain “Armchair Warrior”
Megan McArdle: Marriage As A Cause Of Stability, Not Just An Effect


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Category: Linkagery

Senate Confirms Jeff Sessions 52-47, and Also Condemns Fake ‘Cherokee’ Woman

Posted on | February 8, 2017 | Comments Off on Senate Confirms Jeff Sessions 52-47, and Also Condemns Fake ‘Cherokee’ Woman

The confirmation of former Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions was also the launch of Elizabeth Warren’s 2016 presidential campaign:

The Senate voted Wednesday night to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as attorney general, capping a vicious debate that left Democrats and Republicans alike seething at times.
No Republicans went against Sessions in the 52-47 vote. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) was the only Democrat to back Sessions.
While Republicans broke out into applause after the vote closed, Democrats largely stood silently. A handful of Democratic senators — including Manchin, Sen. Joe Donnelly (W.Va.) and Robert Menendez (N.J.) — went over and shook Sessions’s hand after the vote. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), who didn’t support Sessions, hugged him on the Senate floor.
The fight over Sessions escalated this week, when Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) read a letter that Coretta Scott King had written in 1986 that accused Sessions, a U.S. attorney at the time, of using the power of his office to prevent blacks from voting.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) objected to Warren’s speech, saying she had impugned another member of the Senate. In a 49-43 vote, the Senate agreed, preventing Warren from speaking on the Senate floor on Wednesday.
Democrats accused McConnell of silencing a woman on the floor, and Warren went on a media blitz against the Republican senators and Sessions.

The phony smear against Sessions was perpetrated by the most phony member of the Senate, who falsely claimed Cherokee ancestry:

Warren has only claimed to be 1/32 Native American — which has been debunked — and even if she actually was, Warren does not have any ancestors listed on Cherokee tribe rolls that are necessary to become an official member of Cherokee Nation.

To quote the President of the United States: “She’s got about as much Indian blood as I have. Her whole life was based on a fraud. She got into Harvard and all that because she said she was a minority.”

Professor William Jacobson has thoroughly exposed Warren, whose tribal name, Fauxcahontas, means, “Lying white woman.” She tried to “prove” her non-existent Cherokee ancestry by contributing two “family” recipes for crab dishes to a 1984 cookbook called Pow Wow Chow but (a) crabs are not part of traditional Cherokee tribal cuisine, and (b) Warren’s recipes were plagiarized from a 1979 New York Times article.

 

Category: Democrats, Senate
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