Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has launched a new blog dedicated to providing some transparency to the going-ons in Washington. It’s called Majority Tracker and should be an important tool for citizens to try to keep track of the current crop of politicians who are spending money faster than anyone can keep track of it. Here’s her video announcement:
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If this didn’t involve the brutal slaying of a defenseless elderly man it’d be the greatest headline ever. But this isn’t a half-baked episode of Law and Order, this is American Gothic, Ohio style.
 CHARDON, Ohio – Prosecutors say she “exercised” her husband to death in their apartment pool. Last Thursday, a transgender woman from Geauga County pled guilty to reckless homicide.
Newly released surveillance video from the Middlefield Village Apartment Complex shows 41-year-old Chris Mason (aka Christine Newton-John (!?!)) holding her elderly husband’s head under water and forcing him to swim in the deep end. Police counted at least 43 separate occasions when the wife prevented her husband James Mason from leaving the water.
In June 2008, 73 year-old James Mason suffered a heart attack in the pool after spending nearly two hours swimming with his wife.
“It doesnt appear to be exercise. This is a man being dragged around and pushed in the water, taken out to the deep end. That’s still really traumatic for somebody who’s afraid of water,” says Middlefield Police Chief Joseph Stehlik.
Wow. The worst part is that Chris/Christine’s mother was sitting there watching the murder the whole time. Christine then wanted to sue the apartment complex where the pool was located even though she knew there were cameras there.
Here’s video:
Some douchebag went and found this old post where I criticize the seditious and traitorous Ku Klux Klan, which began life as the militant wing of the Democratic Party, in this instance because one of their chapters killed a woman who they were supposed to be initiating in a Lovecraftian S&M blood orgy.
I awoke this morning to find that “the grand wizard” (82.16.177.141) who like all trolls has a Hotmail address, left this comment for me:
i am a member of the kkk if you dont want to die then leave this site and never post a comment on it. if you do we wil hunt you all down and kil you. i have aready kiled one person so ets hope we dont make it 2!!!
Now I get a lot of threats by leftists, “witches” Klanners, Muslims and the whole spectrum of miscreants I blog about, but most are at least thinly veiled. In those cases when I ask “Is that a threat?” most backpedal, due to their low testosterone and knowledge that I gladly report death threats to authorities. This one irks me because the person here isn’t even savvy enough to understand that I’m not going to be intimidated by some guy who wears a white dress to parties where mostly men hold hands around the romantic lighting of a burning cross. I was simply going to pass this along to the F.B.I. but first let me assure “the grand wizard” and all his fellow death threat issuing Klanners, Muslims, Anarchists etc that, to perhaps date myself with this particular metaphor, I don’t sweat you.
Before you waste time issuing another threat you could never follow up on yourself, let me clarify the Rob Taylor position on people who use threats of violence to try to have material removed from this blog:
1) You don’t have the grapes– Sorry losers but if you were tough guys you wouldn’t be lurking on the Internet anonymously crying about what I said about you.
2) You can’t take me-Let me guess, you’re a slightly overweight near-sighted near-do-well who just slapped a brand new “assault rifle” stock on his 10-22 and now you’re feeling frisky. Save yourself the pain and stick to paintball kid because gunstore cowboys all end up the same way.
3) I’ll never remove anything from this blog– Ask Tom Madison. Unless you can prove something here is verifiably not true it stays, and the fact that the Ku Klux Klan is full of filthy degenerates who engage in sado-masochistic orgies when they aren’t applauding people killing their wives is a verifiable fact.
4) I’m dropping dime on you-Say what you will but I enjoy calling the cops on people. Love it in fact. Expect a visit from Law Enforcement soon, and if asked I’ll of course press charges.
So I hope that clears things up for future death threat posters. I know this kind of administrata is boring for the rest of my readers but I think clarity in these matters saves everyone a great deal of unnecessary pain in the long run.
Stopping by one of Trench’s 75 crime blog sites I found this wonderful story on Parents Behaving Badly which features prostitution, child porn, incest and a 26-year-old woman with “Daddy’s Girl” tattooed on her butt. I was thinking of going out for a lunch with my wife, but now I’m just going to rock back and forth in the corner while muttering “My god, my god” all day. Thanks Trench!
From the News-Journal Online:
A video depicting what authorities say is a father and daughter having sexual intercourse in front of a child believed to be their son has led to additional charges against the pair, court documents show.
Alton Everett Smith, 46, and his daughter Kristilyn Smith, 26, who according to court records has a tattoo on one of her buttocks that reads “Daddy’s Girl,” were already facing incest and other charges in Flagler County. On Monday, Holly Hill police added another charge of incest against each one. Holly Hill police also charged each one with lewd and lascivious exhibition in the presence of a minor under 16.
That minor is believed to be the son of Alton and Kristilyn Smith, officials said.
The case started in December with a Palm Coast prostitution investigation, which led investigators to what they said was a cache of child porn and the disturbing discovery of incest. Defense attorneys have denied the father and daughter had sex.
Alton Smith remained Tuesday in the Flagler County jail, where he’s being held on $950,000 bail on 37 counts of possession of child pornography and the earlier incest charge. The child is in state custody.
Kristilyn Smith was freed Tuesday from the Volusia County Branch Jail after posting $20,000 bail on the two new charges. She was already free from the Flagler County jail on $10,000 bail on the initial incest charge.
The video in the latest charges begins with Alton Smith wearing only an orange T-shirt as he walks into a wood-paneled room containing a daybed and a pink comforter. “Mr. Smith appears to be masturbating as he walks in and out of the camera view,” according to the affidavit. Kristilyn Smith enters the camera’s view a few seconds later. Shortly after, the father and daughter begin having sexual intercourse, the affidavit states.
The child, whom investigators guessed was between 4 and 7 years old, runs in and out of the camera’s view, jumping and running in circles “as his parents engage in sexual intercourse,” the affidavit states.
I threw up a little while cut and pasting that block quote. I’m done for the day. I’m going to back to bed.
One step away from prohibition though Democrats seem not to notice. The idea is to generate money to pay for drug and alcohol treatment which Oregon claims is costing them billions of dollars. Since A.A. is free and the only alcohol treatment program proven to work this sounds a little bogus to me. It’s more likely that Oregon’s, shall we say, libertarian views on teen drug use has caught up with them in a big way as their hospitals fill up with 20-something junkies of various stripes whose hippy parents assumed they’d outgrow getting high and were shocked to discover their precious little ones blowing people for dimebags. Of course, N.A. is also free and successful but some politically connected quack has a treatment center to build so don’t plan on drinking in Oregon on your next trip.
From KGW.com:
PORTLAND, Ore. — Five Oregon state lawmakers want to impose a hefty tax on beer and have introduced a bill that brewers say would cripple them.
Four Portland legislators joined a Springfield senator to introduce Oregon House Bill 2461, which would impose a $49.61 tax on each barrel of beer produced by Oregon brewers.
The tax would raise revenue for the state at a time when budgets are running in the red. Specifically, the bill says it would fund prevention, treatment and recovery programs for those addicted to alcohol and other substances.
It also defends the tax by claiming alcoholism and “untreated substance abuse†costs the state $4.15 billion in “lost earnings†as well as more than $8 million for health care and nearly $1 billion in law enforcement-related expenditures.
HB 2641 claims Oregon ranks 49th among states in its malt beverage taxation rate, which has not been raised in 32 years.
Brewers say it’s that low tax that makes Oregon such an attractive business climate for crafting beers, though. The state’s brewery guild claims it would also amount to the single largest beer tax hike in the nation’s history.
Laurelwood Public House & Brewing Co. owner Mike De Kalb said the tax may sound like a good idea in this economic climate, but that in reality it would cost more Oregonians their jobs and would only amount to about $140 million in new tax revenue for the state.
Meanwhile, it would cost beer drinkers about $315 million as breweries are forced to pass along the tax increase.
“We’re a family-owned, local Portland business. We don’t want to see something cost taxpayers more than the revenue it would bring in,†De Kalb said. “If that tax is passed it would mean consumers would pay $315 million more (in 2009) to buy the same amount of beer they bought in 2008. A pint of beer would go from $4.50 to $6.â€
De Kalb said Oregon would potentially lose its prominence as a craft-brew destination and that some small breweries could potentially go out of business.
Who will fund all this treatment for alcohol and “other substances” (which I assume is a euphemism for meth and heroin, both of which have become increasingly popular among young people) when these breweries go bust under these taxes? The same people who will pay the unemployment benefits of all those out of work Oregonians of course, you.
Frankly I don’t have much sympathy. Beer tastes like piss and people should outgrow the need to get a buzz around high school. Anyone who tells you they enjoy the taste of beer is a liar. These same people, however, are always O.K. with taxing cigarettes heavily even though no one beats the crap out of their wives after one too many Marlboros or crashes into a minivan full of kids because they smoked too many Kools. Cigarettes’ cancer causing chemicals are present in car exhaust so people should really calm down on that whole second hand smoke kick unless they’re willing to ban cars too. Maybe they should have spoken up sooner, like when “big tobacco”was taking it on the chin.
Unfortunately, cigarettes tend to be an intrinsic part of addiction recovery. Ask any addict how they got of the drugs/sauce and they’ll tell you about many lonely nights avoiding their old haunts while chain smoking until the desire to use subsides. I’m not saying smoking is good for you, and for the record I quit about five years ago, but sin taxes are a slippery slope with many unintended consequences, like forcing addicts trying to get clean to leave their N.A. meetings to grab a smoke instead of spending the full time getting the support they need.
And when the government curtails smoking enough through social engineering they’ll go after the next “sin” which is beer. Then it’ll be pornography (like Paterson’s new plan to tax web porn in NYC) and then it’ll be my sweet Italian sausage and fried egg sandwich I ate this morning for breakfast.
These tax measures are ultimately self-defeating as Democrats seek to use them to fund programs that need increasing amounts of revenue but the taxes drive demand down as more people decide a six pack is too expensive. Revenues drop as a bloated government moves onto its next victim to drain dry for misguided and useless programs whose sole purpose is to keep some well connected charlatan’s “wellness programs” open.
I guess that’s the change we’ve all been waiting for.