Pregnant Mother Arrested For Neglect January 31, 2009
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Here’s a candidate for the Mother of the Year award.
A Racine woman, pregnant with her fifth child, was arrested for neglecting her four other children.
RACINE — A 23-year-old Racine woman, pregnant with her fifth child, was charged Friday with child neglect after she allegedly left her four children home alone for several hours.
Sheena A. Montgomery of 1233 Racine St. was charged with four misdemeanor counts of child neglect and one count of resisting an officer.
According to reports from the Racine Police Department, officers were called to Magic Dollar, 1007 Washington Ave., around 3 p.m. after an employee called to report two small girls wandering around outside by themselves. Officers spoke with the girls, ages 4 and 5, who said they were hungry and didn’t know their address.
An employee of the store gave the children cheeseburgers. Reports said the girls told police they had not eaten breakfast or lunch, and that their mom leaves them home alone often. Police said the children and their clothing appeared unwashed.
The children were taken to the police department, and at 4 p.m. their mother, Montgomery, called looking for them. Reports said when she spoke to an officer on the phone, she said they had not eaten in three days.
Montgomery allegedly said she had left the girls, along with her 2-year-old son and a 1-year-old daughter, home alone at 2 p.m. while she went out in search of food.
When police were preparing to go to Montgomery’s residence to pick up the other two children so that all four children could be taken to the Racine County Human Services Department, Montgomery showed up at the front counter of the police department.
Reports said she had her hair done and was using a touch-screen style cell phone, but told officers she did not have any money for food. When police asked how she could afford her hair style and an expensive phone, Montgomery became angry.
Officers took Montgomery into custody for child neglect and resisting. Her four children were taken by the Human Services Department.
Let’s see. She’s 23 years old, already has four kids and is expecting her fifth. The girls are 4 and 5, and there is a 2 year old and a 1 year old. No mention of any father, er, baby daddy and she’s essentially nothing but a baby momma. Heck, that’s an insult to real mothers, who actually take care of their children. Even animals take better care of their young than this piece of human debris did.
Freshly done hair, freshly done nails, touch screen cell phone. All more important than feeding her kids. After all, it’s all about her. Same story as the kids who go to school with the latest urban ghetto fashions and $200 shoes but whatever passes for parents at home can’t actually feed them and expect taxpayers to give those kids breakfast and lunch.
Pathetic. Too bad she can’t be spayed like a dog or a cat.
Steele Prevails As RNC Chair January 30, 2009
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Now this is change we can believe in.
Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele was elected chairman of the Republican National Committee in a contentious, six-ballot election. Steele is the first black chairman of the RNC, a sign that the Republican Party has taken the back-to-back whuppins in the last two election cycles seriously.
The Republican National Committee has picked Michael Steele, a black man from a traditionally Democratic state, to be the new face of the party as the GOP forges a revival following a second consecutive electoral drubbing.
Steele, the former Maryland lieutenant governor, won the chairmanship Friday after six rounds of voting in which five candidates were competing. He becomes the first black chairman of the Republican Party just days after [Barack Hussein] Obama became the nation’s first black president.
Steele delivered a rousing speech after winning the race, pledging to re-establish the Republican presence in the northeast and win elections in regions across the country.
“It’s time for something completely different, and we’re gonna bring it to them,” he said. “Get ready baby. It’s time to turn it on.”
Steele said he would work to build the party to an unprecedented level and warned: “For those of you who wish to obstruct, get ready to get knocked down.”
Outgoing RNC chairman Mike Duncan, who presided over the last two electoral wipeouts dropped his bid for another term after the second ballot. Duncan, the inside-the-Beltway elitist who apologized for Chip Saltsman, another candidate for RNC chair, when Saltsman gave out copies of a Paul Shanklin parody CD with the song “Barack The Magic Negro” on it, is the face of what is wrong with the Republican Party, a clueless turd merchant with a yellow cowardly stripe down his back.
“Obviously the winds of change are blowing,” Duncan said as he withdrew from the race and got a standing ovation. The Kentucky Republican thanked former President George W. Bush and said of his two-year tenure: “It truly has been the highlight of my life.”
Good riddance. Don’t let the door hit you in the rear end on the way out.
Former state Sen. Cathy Stepp, blogging at RDW, says it very well:
Steele is a Conservative’s Conservative! He’s the former Lt. Gov of Maryland, and is the first African-American to be elected head of the RNC. Someone who is unapologetic for his strong family values and conservative principles.
He was elected for his beliefs, not his color. How refreshing.
Pajamas TV via Michelle Malkin has an interview with Steele here. More from Allahpundit at HotAir here Gateway Pundit is excited as well.
Here’s the Man of Steele’s acceptance speech:
Where The Votes Are January 28, 2009
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Martin Knight at RedState looks at where the votes are and why the Republicans haven’t won them in the past two election cycles. It’s not a pretty picture, and after reading it, it doesn’t look like they will be swinging back to the GOP any time soon.
Here’s a look at a profile of those voters:
Where the votes are is in the “middle” – that undefined muddled plurality of the electorate that is at best marginally informed, that only really pays attention to the “issues” in the last few weeks (when its actually too late) of the campaign, but that has been passively absorbing what they’ve been seeing in the news, on the headlines at the newspaper/magazine stand, in their favorite television shows, at the movies, in novels, etc.
Make no mistake; these folks mostly have no idea what is going on except at the most superficial level. They don’t know who their US Congressmen (i.e. Reps and Senators) are, their local representatives they also don’t know, and far too many don’t even know the name of their Governor. The idea therefore that they have the knowledge to have a “moderate” opinion on wasteful spending, eminent domain (as if they know what that means) enough to be “frustrated” or “concerned” about it doesn’t really comport well with reality.
They operate on perceptions and impressions and go to the polls on Election Day with that to inform their votes. They vote based on their impressions of the issues, of the candidates, of the policy proposals from what they see in the news and from what their more knowledgeable (or equally clueless) family, friends and neighbors tell them. Note that these are not unintelligent people, these include people with Masters and Ph.Ds in useful subjects like Engineering and Medicine (not idiotic nonsense like Transgender Studies), people who have lived admirable productive common-sense guided lives.
I’ve said this many times before; the problem is not a lack of intelligence, it’s a lack of knowledge and an opposition with the wherewithal (thanks to their dominance of the spheres of news media and entertainment) to fill the vacuum.
Hint: it’s not what the Drive By Media will say. In fact, the Drive By Media has played a critical role in perpetuating through media bias the inaccurate stereotypes of Republicans that have driven swing voters toward the Democrats.
Essentially, Knight writes that the framing seminars conducted by George Lakoff (“Rhymes With”) and the urging of Steven Spielberg for Hollywood to incorporate leftist political propaganda into movies and TV paid off royally.
The result?
A person that I know is so completely apolitical he probably can’t tell the difference between a Senator and a Representative, was spitting mad at Bush for “illegally” replacing US Attorneys who were “investigating his corporate friends at Enron.”
My response was; huh?
Knight’s conclusion bears examination:
What is happening here, and what the other side has recognized is that we’re in a battle for the narrative i.e. the “middle ground.” And we’re not even on the battlefield. The mistake we continue to make is assuming that there is a defined “middle” of the electorate that is in favor of specific defined “centrist”/”moderate” policies and/or approaches to address specific issues. No. The battle for the narrative is the battle to define where the “center” and what a “centrist”/”moderate” policy is; to establish what is reasonable and what is beyond the bounds of reason in voters’ minds.
The Left was successful over the past four years in cultivating, through the news, through pop-culture, through the posturings and false outrage of liberals and Democrats in and out of Congress, the idea that the Bush Administration’s decisions on … well, everything, were beyond the bounds of reason. And they’ve been at it for much longer that being a Republican is something you do not reveal in polite company.
If you want to know why Republican “moderates” seem to be such squishes, so apologetic about being Republicans, so quick to launch missiles at their own side and believe the worst about the Republican base while Democratic “moderates” seem to have no doubt that they’re on the side of the angels, a huge part of it is this.
Unfortunately, I doubt the upper echelons of the GOP would soon comprehend this … and it’s going to hurt us until they figure it out. I don’t know who said it; but I do know it bears the ring of truth that he who controls the past controls the future. Likewise he who controls public perception controls the present.
After 2004, too many of us became over-confident, convinced that the Press has lost its ability to influence the public, that they would soon “implode”. 2006 and 2008 (most especially) proved us dreadfully wrong.
I’ve encountered far too many people, most of them distressingly young and supposedly educated (the voters of the future), who believe, thanks to what they see on TV, what they read in their magazines and watch in movies, that Lincoln was a Democrat and that George Wallace was a Republican, that the Civil Rights Acts were passed over Republican opposition, that the “Southern Strategy” actually is still (or was ever) employed by the GOP.
There are people who believe that jailing women who have miscarriages (not just abortions) is part of the GOP platform, that Republicans want to make Christianity a condition of citizenship, that we want to imprison homosexuals and prohibit certain sexual acts in the privacy of people’s homes. I literally heard an African American woman with a year of college under her belt wail after the results came in on Election Night 2004 that Bush was going to make slavery legal again.
It’s so pervasive in American pop-culture that the GOP is a racist, sexist hate-fueled party that it is something I’ve heard from the mouths of people from the United Kingdom to South Africa, people who have never been to the United States. Worse, I’ve heard it from newly arrived immigrants hoping to become citizens to people just coming to study who have not yet spent one week in the United States.
This can’t be emphasized enough; the Republican Party is in serious trouble because of this failure to engage.
The Republican Party is perfectly content playing defense. And in politics like in football, your side rarely if ever scores while playing defense. The current state of the Go Along Get Along Gang in Washington implies that not only are Republicans in Congress perfectly content on playing defense, they even want to be little Me Too’ers and are like the pledges in Animal House are perfectly willing to assume the position and say, “Thank you, sir. May I have another?”
Of course, their unwillingness to stand up for anything right prevents them from protecting the taxpayers who very soon will be ordered to assume the position and have something completely different happen to them.
You Tubin’ January 24, 2009
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Some jazz for the weekend. Duke Ellington and “Take The A-Train.”
Common Council Calls For Special Election January 23, 2009
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The Racine Common Council endorsed a special election to replace Mayor McPervert, Gary Becker.
At Thursday’s Committee of the Whole meeting aldermen recommended holding a special election on June 2, with a May 5 primary.
The election would fill the seat that Gary Becker resigned Tuesday, a week after he was arrested on charges of child enticement, possession of child pornography and other related charges.
The aldermen made the decision after about an hour of debate, but it still needs to go to the City Council for final approval. That meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Feb. 3 at City Hall, 730 Washington Ave. Room 205.
The aldermen voted 10-4 for a June 2 election, with four aldermen voting against the recommendation. The dissenting aldermen were: 3rd District Alderman Michael Shields, 4th District Alderman Jim Kaplan, 7th District Alderman Ray DeHahn, and 14th District Alderman Ron Hart. As acting mayor, David Maack did not vote.
This was the correct decision. The council had the options of allowing Maack to continue to serve as acting mayor until Becker’s term expired in 2011 or appointing another acting mayor until that time or holding a special election.
The special election allows voters to choose their own city executive, and the field should be interesting to say the least. The list of candidates already includes current Common Council members Greg Helding and Jim Kaplan, former Common Council member Pete Karas and Jody Harding, and several others, including state Rep. Cory Mason, are considering a run.
As we noted earlier, we intend to seek out Q & As with all the candidates and give them space to state their positions in their own words.
Texas Pervert Charged January 23, 2009
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Here’s a look at Gary Becker’s potential future cellmate, a Texas man charged with sexually assaulting a 12 year old Racine girl.
Travis St. Martin, 21, of San Antonio, was charged with sexual assault of a child under 13. If convicted he could face up to 60 years in prison.
According to the criminal complaint, Racine police were called to the victim’s home around 9 a.m. on April 19, 2006 for a report of a missing child. Family members told officers that the girl had been gone since about 12:30 a.m. that morning.
While officers were there, the girl was walked home by her brother.
The 12-year-old told police she was with St. Martin, a family friend, who was at that time living at a home on Diane Avenue in Racine. She told police she had been with him all night, watching movies in the basement of his house.
Investigators also spoke with St. Martin, who denied having the girl at his home overnight.
A medical examination and forensic interview of the victim suggested she had been sexually assaulted. DNA evidence recovered from the girl’s sweatshirt belonged to St. Martin, reports said.
Another player for Drop The Soap in prison.
Heard an interesting conversation the other day about whether this type of sexual perversion — namely pedophilia and ephebophilia — is expanding and becoming more common or rather that we are just hearing more about it.
In a way, both are true. In the past, to get access to kids, a pervert actually had to be working in a field that gave the pervert physical access to kids. Now, all the pervert has to do is go online and the child pornography images are there. Plus, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that virtual images — images that are not of real children — aren’t child porn and as such as legal. The pervert gets access to Internet chat rooms and IMs, which in turn gets the pervert access to children much easier than prior to the days if the Internet.
The flip side of that is that while the pervert assumes anonymity, nothing could be further from the truth. As Becker learned, many of the chatters in these rooms are undercover cops or civilian volunteers posing as children and adolescents to catch those same perverts. Repeat: you are not anonymous just because you are on the Internet, sitting behind a computer screen and keyboard.
We also hear more about it as a result of the expanded media coverage. Simply put, there’s more media out there looking for more stories to write and stories like this are news. And if expanded coverage of such incidents raises public awareness and convinces some perverts it isn’t worth the risk of becoming the news, that’s fine with me.
