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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

Idaho Judge Blames Internet for Rape, Feminists Blame Judge for ‘Rape Culture’

Posted on | February 8, 2017 | Comments Off on Idaho Judge Blames Internet for Rape, Feminists Blame Judge for ‘Rape Culture’

Background: Cody Herrera was 17 when he met a girl who was 14 in November 2014. The girl’s mother found out and warned Herrera to leave her daughter alone, but he continued to pursue her through online communications. In March 2015, the girl let Herrera sneak into her bedroom “ostensibly to watch a movie with her. He began to fondle the girl. She asked him to stop. He then raped her without wearing a condom.” Prosecutors in the case presented evidence that Herrera, now 19, “has fantasized about a 13-year-old girl, watched pornography portraying rape and has had 34 sexual partners.” The judge made national headlines by making celibacy a condition of Herrera’s probation. The Guardian obtained a transcript of Judge Randy Stoker’s remarks at the sentencing hearing and now the case has caused new controversy:

Stoker delivered what amounts to a sermon on modern-day morality in which he connected the 14-year-old victim’s rape to “the social media system”. . . .
Modern-day technology, he added, was at fault.
“I have seen dozens, if not hundreds of sex cases since I’ve been on this bench,” the jurist said. “Our society has come to a point of, I don’t even know how to explain it, you know? I am 66 years of age. When I was 19 years of age, the sexual proclivities of young people wasn’t anything, anything like I see today.
“I think it is a direct consequence of the social media system that we have in this country,” Stoker continued. “I can’t tell you how many times I have seen these cases: ‘How did this happen?’ ‘Well, I met somebody on social media.’”
Stoker conceded that Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram and other sites might not be the direct cause of all the sexual assault cases he has presided over in the deeply conservative Gem State. But he said “the vast majority” of such cases originate online.
“I can’t change that,” he said. “If I had my way, I would eliminate the internet, and we’d all have better lives. But I can’t do that either. It also says something about, I guess, the level of morality in this country. I can’t change morality. People are going to do what they’re going to do.”

This happened in Twin Falls, Idaho, population 45,981. How does a boy in a town that size acquire 34 sexual partners before age 19? Are we talking about teenagers in southern Idaho, or shameless hedonists in San Francisco’s Castro District circa 1979? Didn’t Herrera use social media like Facebook in his promiscuous pursuits? If teenagers are using the Internet to facilitate hook-ups, and if a rape occurs during one of these adolescent rendezvous, and if it turns out the teenage rapist was watching violent porn on the Internet, is the judge sentencing the rapist not allowed to mention this? Like the judge said, he’s seen many cases like this: “‘How did this happen?’ ‘Well, I met somebody on social media.’”

Well, feminist Melissa McEwan doesn’t care about any of that. She has declared that Judge Stoker’s remarks are “rape culture.”

To feminists, of course, everything is “rape culture.” For example, Melissa McEwan’s plumber is “rape culture,” and the election was “rape culture,” and if there is anything that Melissa McEwan dislikes that isn’t “rape culture,” no one can guess what it is.

 

Category: Crime, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 02.08.17

Posted on | February 8, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.08.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
First street Journal: I’d Bet That This Describes The Protesters In The U.S. As Well
EBL: Christie Brinkley
Michelle Malkin: Hillary’s “The Future Is Female” Femme-A-Goguery
Twitchy: Stuart Varney Blasts Elizabeth Warren’s Hypocrisy
Louder With Crowder: Ted Cruz Uses Actual Numbers, Completely Destroys Bernie Sanders


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Dear Climate Alarmists – We Will Neither Forget Nor Forgive
American Power: Kate Upton’s “Extravagant Demands” May Have Cost Her This Year’s SI Swimsuit Issue Cover
American Thinker: Liberals Now Getting A Taste Of How The Obama Years Felt For Conservatives
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Bring The HEAT: Frakking
Da Tech Guy: Baldilocks – You Will Be Made To Love And To Trump Hate
Don Surber: Senate Votes To Shut Up Fauxcahontas
Dustbury: Captain Obvious Has A Sister
Fred On Everything:
Hogewash: No, Our Accounting has Just Become More Selective
Jammie Wearing Fools: California College Prohibits Recording Lectures After Professor’s Unhinged Anti-Trump Rant
Joe For America: Hordes Of Muslim Refugees Spreading Deadly Disease In This U.S. City
Power Line: Keith Ellison’s Back Pages
Shark Tank: Jeb Bush Slams DeVos Critics
Shot In The Dark: Brownshirt Youth
STUMP: Credit Rating Agencies Rumble Over Chicago
The Geller Report: Ohio State University Teaches How Muslims Helped Build America
The Jawa Report: Today’s Forecast
The Political Hat: The Modern Mamluks Of America
This Ain’t Hell: Doublethink Defense For The DNC
War Is Boring: The Air Force Could Still be Flying F-16s In 2050
Weasel Zippers: Justice Ginsburg Says She Backs Abolition Of The Electoral College, Promptly Falls Back Asleep
Megan McArdle: Obamacare Exchanges Were In Big Trouble Before Trump


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Category: Linkagery

Transgender ‘Social Contagion’

Posted on | February 8, 2017 | 2 Comments

 

Rivka Edelman at The Federalist:

In response to the uptick of trans mania, a group of four mothers and one father met at a suburban Starbucks to compare notes on ways to help their children challenge the gender ideology pushed in the media and in the schools.
One mother said these meetings are taking place across the country. Parents are upset. “And it not’s what people think. Day in and day out, that stuff causes people to question their own judgement,” another mother said.
We agreed that most people know how propaganda works in the abstract. Recently many are realizing it is no small thing to force people to accept, repeat out loud, and refer to false facts and absurdities daily.
“It has a psychological effect. It erodes their (children’s) confidence and makes them question themselves,” said one of the parents.
That’s the point. It’s not recommended for raising healthy children. The trendiness leads to some social contagion, which troubles most parents. . . .

Read the whole thing. If you’ve raised children, you know how difficult it is to protect them from media influences and peer pressure.

OK, so what happens when activists seize control of the education establishment and begin exploiting children’s psychological vulnerability? And what if the pro-LGBT indoctrination program (which the schools disguise as “anti-bullying” curriculum) is reinforced my television programming, including shows on PBS, Nickelodeon, Disney, MTV, etc., aimed at audiences of children from toddlers to teenagers?

What if dozens of academic researchers, including Ph.D.’s in psychology and sociology, are part of a government-funded push to encourage homosexuality and “gender non-conforming” behavior among kids? Well, if this were the case, what results could we expect to see?

Answer: Exactly the results that Rivka Edelman is describing.

It is not a paranoid conspiracy theory to suggest that the actual outcomes of institutional processes are intentional. Yet the public education system has developed a clever method of avoiding responsibility: Schools generally claim credit for the success of their students, but blame parents for undesirable outcomes. The valedictorian who goes to Harvard? “Thank a teacher,” as the bumper sticker says, but the drug-addicted dropout? No, blame Mom and Dad for that result. If the taxpayer-funded education system is to be held accountable, citizens cannot permit school bureaucrats get away with this trick. Therefore, if a substantial number of school children begin engaging in bizarre behavior — and transgenderism is certainly bizarre — we must ask, “How is this behavior being promoted and encouraged by the schools?”

The answer may be as simple as this: Schools promote feminist concepts of “gender equality,” an androgynous ideology that is controlling the curriculum, teaching methods and school policies. Teachers discourage girls from acting girlish and punish boys for being boyish.

“Gender is a hierarchical system which maintains the subordination of females as a class to males through force. Gender is a material system of power which uses violence and psychological coercion to exploit female labor, sex, reproduction, emotional support, etc., for the benefit of males. Gender is not natural or voluntary, since a person is not naturally subordinate and no one chooses to be subordinated.”
— Rachel Ivey, 2013

“Feminism involves the implicit claim that the prevailing conditions under which women live are unjust and must be changed.”
— Carol R. McCann and Seung-Kyung Kim, Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives (2003)

“The patriarchal construction of the difference between masculinity and femininity is the political difference between freedom and subjection.”
— Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract (1988)

“The patriarchal system is preserved, via marriage and the family, through the sexual division of labor and society.”
— Zillah Eisenstein, Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism (1979)

Our education system has been hijacked by radical ideology. The success of the feminist project requires the destruction of marriage, religion, capitalism and any other “prevailing conditions” which may involve “the difference between masculinity and femininity.”

Feminists deny that there are naturally any meaningful differences between men and women. It is only the “patriarchal system” of male oppression, by which women are exploited through “violence and psychological coercion,” that makes men and women different, according to feminist theory. Over the past four decades, this radical ideology has become entrenched in academia through departments of Women’s Studies at more than 700  colleges and universities in the United States.

 

Feminist gender theory — the social construction of the gender binary within the heterosexual matrix — has trickled down from elite university campuses into public school classrooms. In an article last year, I described the consequences of this feminist “success”:

Only if you view the world through the warped lenses of a crypto-Marxist ideology is it possible to see male-female differences as a “system of power” characterized by “violence and psychological coercion.” Yet this bizarre worldview is what inspires the feminist T-shirt slogan “Raise Boys and Girls the Same Way,” which presumes that a gender-free androgynous childhood will eliminate inequality (“the subordination of women as a class”) by eliminating differences between men and women.
Actually, what gender-free childhood will produce is failure.

The “social contagion” of transgenderism described by Rivka Edelman is being encouraged by public school teachers and administrators. Why do you think liberals hate Betsy DeVos so much? Do you think Trump’s new Secretary of Education might put a stop to this? Let’s hope so.




 

 

Category: Education, Gays, Sex Trouble
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