Sunday, July 6, 2014

'There are many things which are widely recognized as offensive which are not crimes, yet the aggregation of feminist pet peeves into a collective category called “rape culture” permits a sort of rhetorical abracadabra where everything leads to a discussion of rape...'

Another great piece on unhinged leftists and the lies of "rape culture."

See, "The Dorchester Doofus."

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#Murrieta Tinderbox! Feds to Deploy Riot Police Against Patriots Protesting Obama's Illegal Alien Invasion!

I was out visiting friends in Temecula yesterday. I drove over to the Murrieta Border Patrol station around 4:00pm. The big July 4th protests had cooled off but there was a heavy police presence on the ground. The cops had blocked off access roads to the alien processing facility. The few protesters on hand were to separated into roped off demonstration areas.

Jeremy Oliver, a conservative activist from Temecula, was on the phone with Breitbart correspondents as I arrived near the police stronghold out front. I spoke with him for a few minutes. He told me that tomorrow could see a major confrontation on the ground. Word is that federal marshals and riot police will be on hand to guarantee the shipment of additional aliens from the San Ysidro station. It's a tinderbox waiting to explode. More illegals have been brought in over the weekend ("Second Batch of Diseased Alien Migrants Lands in San Diego — #BorderInvasion.")

So, now here comes the new report from Kristin Tate, at Breitbart Texas, "SOURCE: FEDS TO BRING IN RIOT SQUAD AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION PROTESTERS":
HOUSTON, Texas--As illegal immigrants continue to spill across the U.S.-Mexico border, federal authorities are attempting to relocate the migrants from South Texas to housing facilities in states across the nation. One such facility is located in Murrieta, California, where a large group of protesters recently blocked a bus full of migrants from arriving. The protesters remain there, adamant that illegal immigrants don't get dumped in their town. But soon the concerned citizens may be forced to step down--Breitbart Texas has learned that federal agents plan to arrive in Murrieta on Monday with riot gear to ensure that another busload makes it to the housing facility.

Jeremy Oliver, a resident of Temecula, California--a town that neighbors Murrieta--told Breitbart Texas that local police officers warned the protesters that "it's going to get ugly."

Oliver said, "The feds are pissed that they haven't been able to use this facility. Officers out there warned people that federal agents will be in Murrieta on Monday--they are going to get the next bus through no matter what. Riot gear and shields will be used to push the crowd back."

John Henry, a Murrieta resident since 1991, was told the same thing by local officers. "We're being told that federal Marshals or ICE will be here in the next few days and that they are bringing riot gear," Henry said.

"They're apparently going to be blocking off the street with concrete blockades so that no vehicles can get through. The River County Sheriff's Department showed up last night and brought huge watch tower that shoots up into the air 35 feet."
More.

I tweeted from Murrieta yesterday. Quiet scene, with protesters roped off and police standing watch over the facility. It's definitely tense, though. The huge police presence portends a showdown. I'll have more original reporting as things develop:



That's Jeremy Oliver, in cargo shorts and black cap, speaking to the pro-immigration protesters:



Here's the scene at the patriot's command post. As the protests swelled last Friday, police blocked the entrance at Madison and Fig streets, the south side of the processing center:



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Democrats Won't Seal Border as Traffickers Exploit Left's Permiso System of Backdoor Amnesty

So, I've been getting a kick out of this exchange with Professor Martinez, who teaches women's and gender studies at the University of Missouri–Columbia. See, "Wave of Unaccompanied Alien Children Swamps the United States — #BorderInvasion." (Also, on Hatesac's trolling, lol, "Stalking Hate-Troll Repsac3: Still Stalking. Still Hatin'. Still Trolling.")

And then I crack open this morning's Los Angeles Times and the paper reports data on illegal alien children deportations based on numbers obtained through a freedom of information request. Not only are deportations way down, but most alien migrants end up staying in the United States for years while their cases work through the system. In other words, just as I argued yesterday, illegal alien migrants aren't sent back home, and thus those so-called "rumors" of immigration "permisos" drawing migrants north are largely true. This of course harshly debunks the leftist lies of the past couple of days. Facts are hard for idiot progs. Indeed, when faced with the facts, Professor Martinez cravenly blocked me on Twitter rather than deal with her literally criminal support for the Democrats' open-borders lawlessness.

At the Los Angeles Times, "Deportation data won't dispel rumors drawing migrant minors to U.S.":
President Obama and his aides have repeatedly sought to dispel the rumors driving thousands of children and teens from Central America to cross the U.S. border each month with the expectation they will be given a permiso and allowed to stay.

But under the Obama administration, those reports have proved increasingly true.

The number of immigrants under 18 who were deported or turned away at ports of entry fell from 8,143 in 2008, the last year of the George W. Bush administration, to 1,669 last year, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data released under a Freedom of Information Act request.

Similarly, about 600 minors were ordered deported each year from nonborder states a decade ago. Ninety-five were deported last year, records show, even as a flood of unaccompanied minors from Central America — five times more than two years earlier — began pouring across the Southwest border.
Human traffickers are exploiting a 2008 law that allows lengthy legal proceedings for Central American migrants. President Obama would like to tighten the law, but congressional Democrats have rebuked the White House, holding out instead for massive "comprehensive" illegal alien amnesty:

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A mounting backlog in immigration courts since then has allowed most Central American minors to stay for years while their cases wend their way through the legal system. Once they are assigned to social workers, as the law requires, the overwhelming majority are sent to live with their parents or relatives in the United States, officials said.

Organized crime groups in Central America have exploited the slow U.S. legal process and the compassion shown to children in apparent crisis, according to David Leopold, an immigration attorney in Cleveland.

He said smugglers, who may charge a family up to $12,000 to deliver a child to the border, often tell them exactly what to say to American officials.

"The cartels have figured out where the hole is," he said. About 60 criminal investigators have been sent to San Antonio and Houston to try to infiltrate these networks and prosecute the smugglers who bring the children into the United States, officials said.

Obama last week asked Congress to change the 2008 law to give the head of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, greater discretion to send children back to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras more quickly. 

But Obama is likely to face stiff opposition from fellow Democrats, who have vowed to block narrow changes to immigration laws. Senate Democrats overwhelmingly backed a comprehensive immigration bill last summer only to see the measure die in the GOP-led House.

"He can't get it passed," a senior Democratic staffer in the Senate said of Obama's request.

As it now stands, the 2008 law guarantees unaccompanied minors from those countries access to a federal asylum officer and a chance to tell a U.S. judge that they were victims of a crime or face abuse or sexual trafficking if they are sent home. If the claim is deemed credible, judges may grant a waiver from immediate deportation.

"Word of mouth gets back, and now people are calling and saying, 'This is what I said'" in court, said a senior U.S. law enforcement official, who was not authorized to speak on the record. "Whether it is true or not, the perception is that they are successfully entering the United States.... That is what is driving up the landings."

The increase has been dramatic. For most of the last decade, U.S. agents apprehended fewer than 4,000 ‎unaccompanied children from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras each year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures. ‎

The total jumped to 10,146 in fiscal year 2012. It doubled to 20,805 last fiscal year. It nearly doubled again, to 39,133, between last October and June 15 this year...
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Stalking Hate-Troll Repsac3: Still Stalking. Still Hatin'. Still Trolling

Truly bizarre.

It's been since January since anyone's paid attention to Walter James Casper III, who Robert Stacy McCain eviscerated at the time, "Portrait of a Stalker Troll: @Repsac3, Also Known as Walter James Casper III."

And no one would now be paying the hate-addled racist any attention, except of course Casper's been trolling my Twitter convos like the creepy-ass racist cracker he is. What a genuinely sick bastard. Truly clinical.

Recall yesterday I had a couple of long exchanges with Professor Rebecca Martínez, blogged here: "Wave of Unaccompanied Alien Children Swamps the United States — #BorderInvasion." So I was just reviewing things, and I see that the stalking racist asshat Repsac was jumping into my conversation with Professor Martínez, with links and lame rebuttals to points I'd made. I know. I know. The lady was struggling as it is, but man, that is some creepy shit. Like a child who has no friends on the playground, who gets his butt kicked repeatedly, and bleats waahh waahh waahh when his stalk-obsession is getting just too much attention.

As Robert wrote in January:
The conflict between Casper and Professor Douglas is not about politics, nor is it about Professor Douglas.

That is to say, Casper’s espousal of left-wing political ideas is not the reason for his behavior, but simply a pretext, and if he weren’t harassing Professor Douglas, he’d be harassing some other target, selected more or less at random. There is, of course, a specific history to the conflict between them, but it is ultimately irrelevant. There are plenty of people every bit as left-wing as Casper who are not obsessive stalkers, and there are other conservative bloggers who might just as easily become targets for stalking, if ever they attracted the attention of such a grotesquely deformed personality as Casper. Walter James Casper III has spent years smearing and harassing Professor Douglas, trying to get him fired from his job. This could (and in fact, often does) happen to any blogger who has a day job.

To get an idea of the pathetic nature of Casper’s obsession, he has devoted an entire blog, called “American Nihilist,” to his anti-Douglas jihad. In the past six months, that stalker site has attracted an average of about 15 visitors a day. By contrast, Professor Douglas’s blog has averaged nearly 2,000 visitors daily.
Pathetic. Pathological too.

Tania Gail warned me years ago that Repsac was stalking her all over the Internet, and she was going to kick his ass if he got in her face. Because Reppy's a cowardly Internet troll who's been repudiated relentlessly for years. He's gonna come to a hard end one of these days. People have his number. He needs to back the f-k off.

Here's the hate-freak troll stalking my Twitter convo:



Interestingly, this Rebecca woman is just like racist Repsac3 --- closed-minded, conspiratorial and rabidly partisan to the exclusion of decency, morality and simple logic. My friend Plaidy on Twitter basically rolled her eyes at this sad little woman:



Yeah, people like this never do get it. (It'd be sad if they weren't truly terrible, terrible losers.) That's why racist Repsac trolls and stalks my every comment online. He gets some sick perversity turn-on by tweeting inane responses to people I'm engaging online. Demonic fatal attraction man. F-ker better watch it. Folks got his number, you know, boom! one of these days or something.



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Saturday, July 5, 2014

Wave of Unaccompanied Alien Children Swamps the United States — #BorderInvasion

Earlier today, Professor Rebecca Martínez refused to believe that 90 percent of illegal alien migrants --- those illegals of the current border crisis --- end up staying in the United States. The 90 percent figure is widely cited, referring either to those who are allowed to stay legally in the country or those who fail to show up to their deportation hearings. According to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, for example, "90 percent of mostly teenage immigrants who entered the country illegally will not show up to their immigration court hearings, and that approximately 135,000 of them will go missing." (Via U.S. News and World Report.)

Folks can read the good professor's timeline for all the tweets, here and here.

But by the time I tweeted this piece from the Economist, Professor Martínez was doing a fabulous Tara Dublin reprise. See, "Migration to the United States: Under-age and on the move":

Whereas the United States is allowed rapidly to send illegal Mexican child migrants back across the border, it is required to treat those from Central America differently. Under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorisation Act of 2008, moreover, border agents cannot hold children for more than 72 hours. They must be given a court hearing before they are either deported or allowed to stay. Since there are around 5,000 immigration cases pending for every qualified judge, that can take years. While the child migrants wait, around 90% go to stay with a relative already in the United States, says the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a think-tank.

They may start school, make friends and perhaps learn to swing a baseball bat. Those who don’t have family in the United States are cared for by foster families or put into residential facilities, which are already full. In Lawrenceville, a 1,400-strong town in Virginia, the federal government is trying to convert a disused university campus into accommodation for 500 children.

The customers at Crazy Joe’s, a beer garden in the Texan border town of Mission, have seen the changes in migration close up. In previous years, migrants and smugglers were usually young men with backpacks, darting through the brush to the safety of a waiting car. “Those ones hide, and they run,” says Sarah Garcia, the owner. The new ones do the opposite. For the past three weeks, migrants have been turning up at Crazy Joe’s every other day. None of them was trying to avoid being spotted. A group of boys, all claiming to be 16 or 17 years old, asked Ms Garcia for directions to Austin, to Virginia, to New York. A family with a baby accepted some ibuprofen and nappies. Most of the new arrivals, Ms Garcia says, want her to call the Border Patrol.

People-smugglers have changed their behaviour, too. They used to charge $3,000 per adult for three attempts at crossing. As the chances of getting an adult across have fallen because of tighter controls, the odds of getting a child in (for the same $3,000 payment) have stayed the same. In some cases children have floated across the Rio Grande on rafts in full view of agents on the banks, says Doris Meissner of MPI.
RTWT.

It's a great piece, authoritative. But apparently not good enough for Professor Martínez, because there's no link to "research," or something.

Actually, the woman's an idiot who refuses to even process information that violates her Marxian collectivist, radical feminist women's studies postmodern ontology. In other words, she's a typical brain-dead academic leftist.

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Second Batch of Diseased Alien Migrants Lands in San Diego — #BorderInvasion

No big breaking news on the Murrieta immigration front, although yesterday another load of diseased migrants shipped to San Ysidro.

At the Los Angeles Times, "Immigrants arrive in San Diego by plane, are taken to San Ysidro."



Plus, "Murrieta immigrant detainee protests keep growing."

I'll be monitoring developments throughout the day and should have some original reporting. Check back...

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Palestinian Teenager Was Burned Alive, Official Says

From Jodi Rudoren, at the New York Times:

JERUSALEM — An autopsy of the Palestinian teenager who was snatched from an East Jerusalem street and slain on Wednesday found soot in his lungs that suggests he was burned alive, according to a senior Palestinian official briefed on the preliminary results.

The autopsy showed that the teenager, Muhammad Hussein Abu Khdeir, 16, who was buried as a martyr on Friday in a funeral that drew thousands, had a head injury and burns over 90 percent of his body, the Palestinian attorney general, Mohammed al-A’wewy, wrote on his agency’s official website.

The Israeli police are still investigating the attack and have not named any suspects in what is widely seen as an act of revenge by Jews for the abduction and murder last month of three Israeli teenagers in the occupied West Bank...
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Spectacular Mike Trout Game-Winning Home Run in #Angels 7-6 Win Over Astros

The Los Angeles Times reports, "Angels again hit bull's-eye against lefties in 7-6 win over Astros."

A fabulous game. Recall that I took my family out to Anaheim Stadium last year for July 4th, and it was fantastic.

Last night Mike Trout seemed as if he was in a drought, but he came up to the plate with the scored tied 6-6 in the bottom of the 9th, and I said to my oldest son, "He's a great hitter." And boy, he smacked the third pitch for a brutal line drive right over the left field fence. Man, the entire stadium was rockin':





I tweeted from the game, a family selfie:


More baseball blogging tomorrow. This is the most fun we've had on 4th of July in years. We're hoping to make it a family tradition of Independence Day baseball.

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TYRANNY! Patriots Arrested at #Murrieta Illegal Alien Dumping Station — SecureTheBorder

Liberty Unyielding has been on top of this story, "Developing in Murrieta: Americans arrested to make way for illegal immigrants *Update*," and "More arrests at Murrieta protest; feds silent on buses; buses diverted again?"

And see the Los Angeles Daily News, "Protester arrested outside Border Patrol station in Murrieta":

MURRIETA- At least one protester was arrested today outside the Border Patrol station in Murrieta, as tensions rose among protesters from both sides of the immigration issue.

The protester was seen calmly walking towards a police squad car, as demonstrators both opposing and supporting the federal government’s recent migrant policies lined a rural road and shouted at each other.

CBS2 identified the arrested protestor as Larry Spencer, and said police told them he was charged with delaying a police officer. “It’s a free speech issue,” Spencer told the station, as he vowed “I am not going anywhere.”
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Friday, July 4, 2014

Brook Wilensky-Lanford Has No Clue of the Religious Basis of America's Founding

I just saw this piece, at the New Republic, at Memeorandum, "The Dangerous Lies We Tell About America's Founding" (and here). The author is Brook Wilensky-Lanford, who is the editor of a religious-hate magazine, Killing the Buddha.

She's young, as you can see at her Twitter feed.

Her New Republic piece deserves a thorough fisking, one that deploys authoritative academic texts especially, although I've fleshed out a preliminary rebuttal in a series of tweets. This woman is someone who's latched onto some fringe theories to bolster some pretty out-there claims about the nation's founders and the sacred ideals that gird America's democratic order:



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#Murrieta 4th of July Update — #SecureTheBorder

Following-up from earlier, "VIDEO UPDATE: #Murrieta Showdown as Patriots Resist Obama's Criminal Illegal Alien Dumping — #SecureTheBorder."



I'll have more tonight...

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VIDEO UPDATE: #Murrieta Showdown as Patriots Resist Obama's Criminal Illegal Alien Dumping — #SecureTheBorder

Following-up from earlier, "July 4th Protest! #Murrieta Patriots Repel Obama-Backed Illegal Alien Onslaught!"

Now from Jake Tapper and Kyung Lah (speaking to Brooke Baldwin) at CNN:



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VIDEO: California Highway Patrolman Beats Black Woman on Roadside

Via CBS News:

Also at the Los Angeles Times, "Motorist video shows violent encounter between CHP officer, woman."

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Domestic Goddess Christine McConnell

OMG this lady is the best.

I saw the BuzzFeed piece, "This Woman Looks Like a Pinup But Bakes Like Tim Burton." (Via Instapundit.)

But don't miss this at London's Daily Mail. The lady's a riot: "Not so sweet after all...Domestic goddess becomes viral sensation with her terrifying cakes that look like they come straight from a horror flick."
"The date went well for a while until Jason decided to peek under McConnell's bikini..."

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July 4th Protest! #Murrieta Patriots Repel Obama-Backed Illegal Alien Onslaught!

More national news coverage of the Murrieta patriot uprising, "The Town Where Immigrants Hit a Human Wall."

And here's the local coverage of today's patriotic uprising in Murrieta:





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When Unaccompanied Alien Minors Are Really Baby #Democrats

From Diana West:
There is one thing we can predict about the tens of thousands of "minor aliens" crashing our southern border. If permitted to stay in this country and gain citizenship, at least 8 in 10 of them will grow up to be Big Government Democrats. They will likely believe that the U.S. government isn't big enough, and doesn't offer enough tax-payer-funded services.
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Happy 4th of July!

Heh, one of the reasons I love the 4th is because I get to post this fabulous photo of Angie Harmon every year!

Here's the original post, from 2009, "Angie Harmon: 'I Disagree With Obama'."

Speaking of Obama, here's a related piece, at USA Today, "Presidents promote patriotism on July 4."

Angie Harmon
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Israel-Hating Jew Max Blumenthal Blames Benjamin Netanyahu for Murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir: 'His Incitement Has Led Directly' to Death of 'Palestinian Boy...'

Max Blumenthal has long equated Israel with Nazi Germany, and his Israel-bashing book is so rabidly hate-filled it "makes even anti-Zionists blush."

Here's his interview with hard-left Russia Today host Abby Martin. Blumenthal decries alleged Israeli "racist hate-crimes" against Palestinians "in revenge attacks incited by Netanyahu." It's really conspiratorial, inflammatory stuff, man:


Blumenthal also goes on to denounce Jodi Rudoren and Isabel Kershner of the New York Times for "whitewashing" Israeli government complicity in the "real sources of this crisis." Just wow.

Here's the piece he's referring to, "Arab Boy’s Death Escalates Clash Over Abductions."

Hateful. Seriously, he just keeps ratcheting up the BDS-style demonizations as he goes along. He's practically frothing at the mouth.

UPDATE: Linked at the Other McCain, "Max Blumenthal Claims That Netanyahu ‘Stage-Managed’ Kidnapped Teens Crisis." Thanks!
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Hurricane Arthur Hits East Coast

At the Raleigh News and Observer, "Wary NC coast braces as Category 2 Hurricane Arthur makes landfall."

And at the Boston Globe, "Hurricane Arthur reaches N.C. shore."



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Video of Mohammed Abu Khdeir Abduction

Via Telegraph UK:


Video obtained by The Telegraph shows the moment 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir was bundled into a car in Jerusalem - only to be found dead hours later.

Dramatic new footage has emerged that may show the moment when an Arab youth was abducted from the streets of an East Jerusalem neighbourhood before later being found murdered.

The 10-minute video, shot from a CCTV security camera, shows 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir being approached by two men and then forcibly pushed into a car, relatives believe.

While images in the film are indistinct, the Abu Khdeir family say they provide vital evidence of his abduction before his body was found burned in a Jerusalem forest in what they believe was a revenge killing by Right-wing Israelis in retribution for the abduction and murder of three Jewish teenagers, suspected to be the work of Palestinian militants.

The video - shot from a camera inside a shop across the street from where Mohammed is believed to have been sitting - shows what appears to be a light coloured car drive past a row of shops in the Shuafat neigbourhood.

Although his outline is hard to determine in the video, the teenager's relatives say he is sitting on the steps outside one shop...
RELATED: At Elder of Ziyon, "We don't know anything. But here's what we do know. (update.)"

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