Lazy Pot Smokers Outraged at New Rules That Deny Unemployment to People Fired for Misconduct
Some moron, who coincidentally hated my post about K2 being bad for you, sent this to me claiming it was proof of my fascism. I’ll point out that I actually don’t make unemployment benefit policy in South Carolina, but if I did I’d make this rule because it just makes sense. Why should I pay tax money into a system that supports some pot smoker who got himself fired because he sucks? Why should taxpayers be on the hook for your dime bags and World of Warcraft accounts? I applaud this new policy and hope the lazy stoners who get their benefits cut starve in the streets:
Bad Cop’s Bad Scheme to Make Money Ends Badly
Apparently the now former police chief of West Pelzer, South Carolina had a novel way to make money. He illegally siezed people’s weapons and pawned them. It’s the perfect crime, right? It’s not like we red staters would care if our 2nd Amendment rights are being violated, right?
Video courtesy WSPA:
Alex Knepper of NewsReal Blog: Rape Fetishist And A Degenerate’s Best Friend
Alex Knepper has inexplicably become something of a cause célèbre on the right. He’s widely considered to be some sort of provocateur, targeting the excess of feminism, and was widely defended by the right when he wrote a misogynistic screed about date rape in a college newspaper. This was largely a knee-jerk reaction to Knepper claiming to be a righty being “attacked” by out of control college feminists.
Which was untrue. Knepper, in essence, claimed date rape was lie, that if a woman was raped by someone she was drinking with she was not only to blame but she wasn’t even a victim.
But rehashing that nonsense isn’t necessary. NewsReal Blog and the Frum Forum both employ Knepper as a content producer, and his association with the latter should have been enough to cause the right to scrutinize Knepper more closely. While I don’t read the Frum Forum myself (he’s a cut rate Kathleen Parker at best), I do follow Newsreal Blog because my wife is NewsReal’s own Jenn Q. Public. She had a powerful piece up on Newsreal not long after that controversy which was a response to yet another “provocation” by Knepper where he lambasted rape survivors for “debasing” the term survivor.
Knepper’s reaction was this piece of pro-rape agi-prop that should have ended the debate as to whether Knepper hated women once and for all. Read this and weep at what cretins like David Frum and whoever handles Knepper at NewsReal thinks is intellectual debate. Here’s Knepper’s response to arguments that women die at the hands of rapists all the time making the term survivor is legitimate:
Characteristic to plane crashes, car crashes, house fires, cancer, and other things that people die from: people die from them. David’s example, Ted Bundy, illustrates my point: he was not only a rapist, but a murderer. We would say that someone survived Bundy’s brand of aggression because he was a killer. But it is impossible not to survive a non-lethal act. Women die at the hands of rapists, but the rape is coincidental to the fact that they could have died. Women die at the hands of vegetarians, zookeepers, and Deadheads, too — but when evaluating whether one “survived” an act, we have to look at whether they may not have come out alive. All else being held equal, rape is not that kind of experience: it is simply not looking at death in the eye. It is undoubtedly a horrific experience, of course — but it is a particular kind of horror: one of violation, of total loss of physical and sexual control. It is manifestly different than, say, a house fire, or suffering in a concentration camp.
If it sounds a little to you like there’s a disturbing pattern developing you’re correct. Knepper, who is openly gay, tends to write pieces about women’s sexual victimization which fetishize male dominance over a submissive partner while painting women as hysterical, malicious partners in their own abuse, all too eager to be raped so that they can lord their victimization over others. Rape isn’t a “loss of physical and sexual control,” it is a brutal assault by a sadist whose sexual gratification is achieved through pain, degradation and humiliation. Knepper’s definition of rape is more like a visit to a bondage club in the meat packing district than a crime.
Knepper suffers from what I like to call the Tennessee Williams Syndrome. That’s where an author’s own antipathy toward women in general (and in his case feminists in particular) causes him to characterize women as two dimensional objects that simply cause problems, and fetishize their abuse by men. Knepper and I got into it on that piece in the comments and David Swindle, who runs the site, threatened to ban me for hurting poor Alex’s feelings.
The feelings of people who have been raped were never considered.
I don’t blog politics anymore unless it relates in some way to crime, so I have been ignoring Knepper’s rantings. However someone sent me his most recent piece where he responds to the recent Supreme Court ruling on civil commitments of sex offenders. Unsurprisingly, Knepper is against it. Also unsurprisingly, he’s completely sympathetic to rapists and child molesters:
Our post-Cold War bogeyman is the child molester. He manifests himself in the daily scare segment on the Today Show; in macabre, hyperbolic convolutions by Oprah, and in NBC’s (in)famous To Catch a Predator. He is a sociopath, he is mentally disturbed, and he is about to break into your house, rape your child, and bury her alive in a shallow grave. And worst of all: he is the mass-man — he lives among us.
Recent scholarship — mostly by women, men are petrified by the stigma surrounding sexual controversies — has started shooting holes into this TV-ready outrage, perpetuated by demagogues like Bill O’Reilly and Nancy Grace. Women like Vanessa Place and Susan Clancy have bravely stood up against the mob to demand that common sense be restored to its rightful place. More recently, one of the lynch mob’s leaders, Martha Coakley — who, in an attempt to look “tough on crime,” kept a man falsely accused of “Satanic child rape” in prison — was denied access to the halls of the Senate. But these are drops in an ocean of manufactured outrage. On the whole, the mob has seized control of our discourse.
The result of this moral panic is that sex offenders of any kind — whether a stranger-rapist, child molester, someone who was peeking at kiddie porn, or even someone who had sex with a fourteen-year-old at the age of nineteen — are being denied their basic civil rights and liberties. Laws restricting the right of sex offenders to buy homes — since some neighboring homes will have children, after all! — have become so draconian in the city of Miami that they are forced to live under bridges after being released from prison. But which politician will speak up for sex offenders? Except to say that our laws aren’t “tough enough,” of course.
Oh, the poor rapist/child molester. Why can’t we look past his brutal sodomy of a 9-year-old and give him a break? As an aside, I will point out that given that Knepper is in college, his 19- and 14-year-old thing at the end there raises my eyebrow. I’ll point out as well that some douche in college looking to nail a high school freshman deserves to be on the registry.
But beyond that, we see yet again Knepper fetishizing rapists. Now they’re oppressed and misunderstood. Next I suppose they’ll be a sexual minority and Knepper will insist we call rapists “rough-sex-o-sexuals” and claim child rape is part of “youth liberation” the way NAMBLA did all those years ago.
If this all sounds familiar it’s because literally everything Alex Knepper has written comes directly from the online pro-sex offender movement. What’s that? Never heard of them? You have actually. Whenever you see some weirdo in the comments of a news story about a rape or child molestation claiming that women lie all the time or sex offenders have low recidivism rates (both lies by the way), you’ve run across the “pedo militia” run by groups like SOSEN and ROAR for Freedom.
Both of these groups are “activist” groups formed online for the sole purpose of promoting the view that sex offenders are being unfairly persecuted. Both are also groups comprised almost entirely of registered sex offenders. The few people who aren’t RSOs are the wives and girlfriends of RSOs, some of whom allowed their husbands and boyfriends to molest their own children and many, like Knepper, fetishize abusers and attack victims. Here’s a quote from the former CEO of SOSEN Shirly Lowrey about Jessica Lundsford’s rape and murder:
Jessica was not tortured and her death comes across more as an assisted suicide than a murder. There were no drugs or alcohol in her system and only her wrists were bound. She had not strained to try and free her arms. She could have easily kicked through the plastic bags but she did not. There were no tears, rips or even stretch marks. It looks as if she stepped into the bags of her own accord, squatted down and waited for death. There was no hand stretching upward as if asking foe [sic] help.
Depraved? Certainly. More depraved than Knepper’s assertions that drunk women can’t be raped or that rape victims are “debasing” the term survivor? I don’t think so. In fact, the sentiments sound quite similar to me.
Everything Knepper just vomited out in his lament about the plight of the child rapists in this country has been written before. You can find it on pro-child rape forums like Boychat and Girlchat. On pro-child rape propaganda sites like Newgon. And from the writings of sex offenders and their advocates themselves. How is it that Knepper’s words and theories on sexual abuse so closely mirror that of the most depraved amongst us?
But more to the point, how is it that NewsReal blog continues to accept this madness? Alex Knepper, perhaps unwittingly, is propagandizing for the most evil movement in our country today. The “sex offender law reform” groups have been proven time and again to be nothing but pro-child rape, pro-sex-crime cults where individuals are enabled and encouraged to re-offend. Blogs like Absolute Zero United cover this extensively and anyone wanting to see how widespread and active this movement is should go there and prepare to be shocked.
There’s a phrase that (rightfully perhaps) has fallen out of favor but I always liked the sound of it when I read it in some dusty tome. Synagogue of Satan. The pro-sex offender movement is most aptly described that way: a synagogue of Satan spreading their filth and perfidy in an attempt to corrupt the very moral fabric of society. NewsReal Blog, with its focus on Islamism, radical leftism, and all the other “isms” that are seen by we on the right as tearing away at the fabric of society is the last place one would expect to find a safe harbor for the basest immorality, the idea that rape is essentially harmless and our concern should be for rapists rather than rape victims. Why would any decent person publish this?
Why would they allow, and indeed in some cases demand, that these horrible ideas (which if adopted by people will lead to even more horrible acts) to be sheltered from the scorn and derision they deserve?
It’s easy to get lost in Knepper’s rape fetishism and forget that the real problem with his writings is that he’s acting on behalf of degenerates as a preemptive apologist for their criminality. Knepper’s works are designed to minimize rape and molestation and create support for rapists and molesters. He is indeed, outside of groups like SOSEN, a degenerate’s best friend. Don’t think they don’t recognize this, and they are some of his most ardent supporters.
Which just shows that you can judge people by the company they keep. So why are we keeping company with Alex Knepper?
Update: Victory! Newsreal seems has taken Knepper’s new piece down. Now let’s hope they stop letting him post this drivel.
Good News! SLED Investigation Finds Philandering Not a Crime
Of course most people learned this lesson when Clinton was impeached, but bless their hearts for trying here in South Carolina. Pretty good governor/pretty lousy husband Mark Sanford was let off the hook at the conclusion an investigation which was apparently designed to see if they could criminalize politicians wasting taxpayer money if said politician had sex with someone while doing so:
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s attorney general said he will not criminally prosecute Gov. Mark Sanford for travel and campaign reimbursements that drew civil charges and the largest ethics fine in state history.
McMaster on Monday said that the governor’s use of pricey airline tickets, travel to personal and political events on state aircraft, and questionable campaign reimbursements had not risen to a criminal level.
“While I’ve acknowledged repeatedly my own moral failing in this matter, we feel confirmed in our consistent belief that this administration has always been a stalwart defender of the taxpayer,” Sanford said in a statement. “SLED’s findings, the House Committee’s dismissal of 32 of 37 ethics allegations, and the Attorney General’s decision today reaffirm this long-held belief.”
The other politicians who continue to waste our money on lavish trips, tax payer funded cars, and the various other “perks” of office remain unindicted.
Speaking of criminals who belong in jail but got off easy, in a display of hypocrisy so rank it nearly choked me to death, Will Folks of FITSNews has expressed his extreme displeasure at Sanford being “given a free pass” by Henry McMaster who was running the investigation. Who’s Will Folks, some of you might ask? Well he once worked for Sanford, starting out as a campaign worker and later went on to embarrass Sanford several times while working for him.
Sanford stood by this douche until Folks roughed up his fiancée, a woman named Ashley Joy Smith. Just a couple of months after that assault Folks found his ex at a bar called The Black Porch and flipped out on her so bad that an arrest warrant was issued for him. You can read an archived news article about those incidents here courtesy Brad Warthen’s Blog. Sanford dropped him like the sack of dung he was (Mark may be a cad, but he’s an old fashioned cad) and Folks has, according to the muscadine vine, held a grudge ever since. Apparently he seems to believe that people made too big a deal of his abuse and insanity.
Is it necessary to point out that people who beat the crap out of their old ladies then go berserk in public but didn’t end up on the wrong end of a 10 year bid in the joint are living in a glass house when when it comes to complaining about “so-called investigations” into wrong doing?
EPA and Sammy Fretwell of The State Playing South Carolina for Suckers
Lisa P. Jackson, the new head of the Enviromental Protection Agency, sat down with Sammy Fretwell of The State and pretended that the EPA’s new “climate change” regulations would only “go after the big boys” and have no effect on anyone in South Carolina except that pesky millionaire in the top hat and monocle who’s secretly planning to profit from global warming by investing heavily in sun screen. Everyone hates that guy, so if the EPA lays some hefty fines on him and destroys his business no one will care and the air will magically become cleaner, so it’s a class war win-win, right?
Sammy Fretwell lapped up this asinine, Orwellian twisting of reality like any so-called journalist these days, noting that “many scientists” agree that evil corporations release greenhouse gases that destroy the environment. Like so many journalists who have the intellectual curiosity, integrity, and common sense beaten out of them with copies Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals it never occurs to Fretwell to pose the three basic questions about “global warming” that anyone with half a brain should ask:
1) Since by “greenhouse gasses” we generally mean CO2 (which plants need to grow and produce oxygen), doesn’t a program designed to significantly reduce CO2 in the atmosphere run the risk of hurting crop production in the long run?
2) Since global warming would literally create millions of acres of new farmable land in places like Greenland and Canada at a time when we are having a hard time producing enough food, wouldn’t we want the earth to warm up?
3) Why are NASA models showing a significant cooling trend and an increase in glacial ice formation?
But that’s too much to ask. How could a “journalist” be expected to take a break from tongue bathing a technocrat to do a little research or critical thinking? But even if Fretwell and Jackson didn’t want to bother dealing with the more esoteric questions about climate change (like, is it even real since even Phil Jones admits there has been no global warming since 1995?) and instead just wanted to promote their Green Revolution I am still shocked that they would work together in corporatist harmony to spread such a blatantly obvious lie. Either these two think you’re stupid, or neither one of them understands how the world works:
In an exclusive interview with The State newspaper, Jackson said her agency will focus the nation’s first greenhouse gas regulations on large industries that produce about 80 percent of the pollution linked to global warming. She labeled as unfounded reports in South Carolina that the rules would apply to businesses like restaurants and apartment complexes.
“Not while I’m head of the EPA,” Jackson said before an environmental justice conference in Columbia. “I don’t know where that comes from, except that people are rightly afraid of stuff they don’t understand.”
But Jackson said “it doesn’t make sense” that the EPA would place the burden on small businesses.
“You go after the big folks. You don’t start with the little ones,” she said. “It wouldn’t be in anybody’s interests.“
Okay. There’s a lot wrong with this statement but let’s take just the most important one. Going back to our evil millionaire frantically putting in orders for every bit of sunscreen stock he can find, how did he make all his money anyway? Obviously by producing something that people consume.
Let’s call it electricity.
But it could also be food, bottled water, gasoline, building materials like concrete or wood, cars, computers, glass, clothing items, or hundreds of other things, but for our purposes let’s just work with power.
When the EPA “goes after” this millionaire, what happens? Either through fines or compliance fees and expenses (most likely both) our millionaire begins to lose money as producing electricity becomes more expensive. Since our millionaire doesn’t run his evil pollution factory (where our electricity is generated) by himself, this loss of money hits dozens if not hundreds of workers who use the salary they make to support dozens of other businesses. In fact, the workers at this electrical plant are some of the few workers in America who actually produce something because more than 60 percent of our economy is consumerism. In other words, most economic activity in America is based on people buying products, not making and selling products which makes our few producers extremely important to our economic survival as a country.
But I digress. Even with layoffs our millionaire is still spending more to make electricity, so what happens next? That’s easy, he charges more for it. And that is the part of the story where Sammy and Lisa hoped you wouldn’t get to, where burdens on large businesses that produce goods that almost everyone needs end up raising the prices on those goods.
But now some of you are saying, “But we want him to go out of business so we can have clean energy!” while shaking a Whole Foods bag filled with fair trade fruits angrily at me. Really? How’s that “clean energy” working out in Minnesota?
Last year, about a dozen Minnesota communities dreamed of clean, green energy: spinning windmills powering hundreds of homes.
Now, months after the deadline, the windmills stand largely immobile, and communities are still waiting for the power to flow.
Eleven cities, including North St. Paul and Anoka, are participating in the wind turbine project, each getting a 115-foot windmill via the Minnesota Municipal Power Association, or MMPA.
The turbines were to be fully operational by Nov. 7. To date, the number is zero.
One reason offered this week at a North St. Paul City Council meeting: hydraulic fluid and lubricating oil in the turbines’ gear boxes.
In cold weather, the fluid turns gel-like and doesn’t flow, said Derick Dahlen, president of Avant Energy, which manages the MMPA.
That can be particularly problematic if the turbines are already at a standstill.
And since “huge amounts of fossil fuels” are needed to make solar panels in a process that leaves behind tons of toxic waste (that companies will be on the hook for to clean up) I don’t see how we’re going to find a way to keep energy prices down.
Of course, maybe if there was a professional reporter who had access to an EPA official I would see exactly how small businesses, who will be looking at higher prices for power, gas, and materials as the best case scenario laid out by the EPA, will be able to avoid being hurt by these regulations. But instead, we have Sammy Fretwell taking dictation from the office of a political appointee who herself cobbled together a series of class warfare-lite platitudes designed to appeal to college co-eds and those creepy baby boomers who hang around Coffee Underground.
On many levels they are playing South Carolina for suckers. The EPA hopes you can be placated long enough for them to put in regulations that will further degrade your purchasing power at the behest of “environmental justice” special interest groups most of which happen to be funded by the Tides Foundation (which coincidentally gives a lot of money to Democrats), and Sammy Fretwell hopes none of you will care that no one is looking out for South Carolinians or asking the hard questions of government officials who are making decisions that will directly affect your life.
So maybe it’s time we all demanded to know exactly how the EPA intends to ensure that their new regulations won’t hurt South Carolina if the regulations’ intended targets produce the things we use everyday and in many cases can’t do without.