Yes — Felicia Sonmez certainly believed a white man was at fault when she engaged in her own pathetic metoo saga a couple of years ago. Perhaps karma is indeed real.

If the incident was treated as a crime at the time and an arrest was made, I don’t think it falls into the category of #metoo.

#MeToo contains the implication that the sexual violation was not taken seriously and the woman was confused about whether she had the right to complain or whether her complaints would be acted upon. There’s the idea that the particular behavior was not overly frowned upon by people in the environment in question.

Kobe was rather a garden variety accused felon and sex offender, whose victim decided not to go public.

Some sex offenders are more equal than others.

Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Let them turn on each other.

Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Let them turn on each other.

When the good white girl learned to hate.

Felicia Sonmez made a fatal intersectionality calculation error.
She assumed that Black Male plus Female Rape Accusation equals #MeToo Moral Outrage.
The correct calculation is Black Male plus Female Rape Accusation plus Black Sports Celebrity Status equals “You’re Fired, Racist!”

Going strong: twitter.com/search?q=feliciasonmez%20racist&src=typed_query&f=live

https://twitter.com/SassyMamainLA/status/1221563307267481600

The WaPo is just suspending their national political reporter (with pay I presume).
That’s all?
No, she needs to suffer…Really suffer.
Make her attend and cover the Senate trial.

A literal “Bye Felicia.”

Kobe was rather a garden variety accused felon and sex offender, whose victim decided not to go public.

I think the victim took a 4 million dollar bribe to drop her criminal complaint.

O/T, but there is an amusing (and possibly ominous) increase in media stories about billionaire investors commenting on the upcoming election and a possible US stockmarket crash.

George Soros has, not surprisingly, predicted that the S&P 500 will crash before October, and may well be planning some audacious short sell or Forex scheme to help bring that about. However, David Rubenstein (apparently in command of $222 billion in equity funds) says there won’t a collapse this year, and the Trumpster is actually doing an okay job.

The irony is, if she had tweeted the link two days ago, OR, if Bryant had not suddenly died, she’d not only be still working at the Post, but the MeToo movement might start up again with new legs, this time turning the Eye of Sauron on famous athletes who are perceived to get away with things like this all the time. Perhaps she thought that since Bryant was retired from the NBA, he’d be an easier target.

Was just bad timing on the reporters part. Most likely she was going to tweet the link on Sunday anyway, (Sunday traditionally being a major day that older demographics still read newspapers) and Bryant just happened to have the bad luck to die on the same day in a tragic accident.

Kobe admitted he had sex with the girl,but said it was consensual.
I wonder if “It was consensual,”are the first words black males learn to say?

Yolanda Machado.

She has a name that sounds like a drink w/an umbrella in it.
https://www.thewrap.com/author/yolandamachado/

https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8b3883d4aa9e8fd28af893723b0dfe95?s=400&d=wp_user_avatar&r=g

Kobe said it was reparations sex.

Here's the obituary for Kobe Bryant by @TheSteinLine https://t.co/wrrb40SAHs

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 27, 2020

He admitted to causing all the bruising on her neck because choking was “his thing” and the stains on his shirt were her blood… Then again, she stayed late after her hotel shift was over because she wanted to meet him so badly, went up to his room and admitted to consensually making out with him for five minutes, and she went in for her rape test with another guy’s semen and blonde pubes on her panties, indicating that she banged another dude after she was “raped” by Kobe. I think the judge was right to toss the case. That doesn’t mean he’s innocent. Or guilty.

Probably the second phrase they learn after “She had it coming.”

Yes — Felicia Sonmez certainly believed a white man was at fault when she engaged in her own pathetic metoo saga a couple of years ago. Perhaps karma is indeed real.

Yes, huge backstory here.

https://www.cjr.org/criticism/felicia-sonmez-metoo.php

https://reason.com/2019/08/23/im-radioactive/

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-beijing-accusation-20180515-story.html

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/05/15/second-allegation-sexual-misconduct-la-times-beijing-bureau-chief-jon-kaiman-surfaces/

A little too much for me to dive into and figure out. All I know is that I’ve never heard of Sonmez, but Emily Yoffe I trust.

George Soros also predicted

– Another financial crisis in 2018:

https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/29/investing/george-soros-financial-crisis/index.html

– A crash in 2016: https://www.profitconfidential.com/stock-market/george-soros-has-a-dire-warning-for-investors/

– A global economic collapse in 2011:

And so on.

The WaPo is just suspending their national political reporter (with pay I presume).
That’s all?

You call that suspension? I’ll show you suspension:

Unsure if you should be posting these graphics.
Wokistocracy is always looking for ideas you know.

The Boolean operator ‘Black’ negates all other Totem Pole logic gates, alas, even the operator ‘Women’.

The mystery is why people who make their living from playing the Totem Pole – which, incidentally, isn’t too far removed from its near namesake ‘playing the pink oboe’ – are unable to see the bleeding obvious.

Soros doesn’t manage money any longer. Gave most of his fortune to his foundation which doesn’t speculate. Family office run by his son has about 7 billion in assets it seems which is trivial.

Rubenstein, along with his two partners, is also largely non executive now, and the sum you mention are funds raised for private equity acquisitions and not involved in short positions in financial markets.

Somehow, I know that white men are at fault.

White girl, so close enough. Jersey girl, so no harm, no foul.

She won 4 million in civil court after he engaged in horrendous smearing to win in criminal court.

Either way, no sympathy for him. Engaging in sexual activity with strangers is an inherently dangerous activity. If you take a stranger to a hotel room/car/whatever, and wind up robbed/beaten/accused of rape, then that’s entirely your own fault.

white girls are OBSSESSED with Black Men and will then turn on them when caught by their white male authority figures. Anyone who has Black friends will know of the sexual fascination and hunger that white females have with Black Men.

The truth is that there was no rape. In fact the girl forced herself on Mr. Bryant as usual.

The reporter is a horror d human being. A man and his child are dead. Let the family mourn. Do t use the the lies of a privilege white male adjacent selfish person tograndstand

Circular firing squads ramping up. 2020 is going to be lit.

She won 4 million in civil court after he engaged in horrendous smearing to win in criminal court.

This statement isn’t true in any way.

Mickey Winton = Come, Tiny (wink).

Yes, I too tend to believe Emily Yoffe.

As for Felicia, she reminds me of that episode of Seinfeld where Jerry thinks his girlfriend is good looking, but all of his friends think she is ugly. In her Twitter picture she looks really cute, and she is 35. However, there are other pictures of her where she looks not-so-cute.

It turns out that Felicia is indeed from Hackensack, New Jersey. As Dave Pinsen can tell you, Hackensack is full of black guys who don’t seem to have too much to do in the middle of the afternoon, although it does have its share of expensive high rises. I wonder if Felicia is a graduate of Hackensack High School, as there are a plethora of private and charter high schools in the area.

Sailer writes “Somehow, I know that white men are at fault.”

In this particular case, using Sailer’s Intersectional Pokemon Points calculator, a more likely explanation is that white women are at fault. That is an allowable conclusion, since they have lower points than black men, and the rape victim was a white woman.

That’s called “self-destructive testing of wrongthink”.

Twitter Shriekers and the Army of Retards powering Jake’s Shitshow are elements that inform real-world decisions? Not a SciFi short story from the era of pre-AOL-gets-on-the-Internet times. It’s 2020 out there, and you better wait out the mental sickness by staying inside.

More interesting, from Scott Aaronson’s mostly excellent blog:

An alternative argument for why women leave STEM: Guest post by Karen Morenz

The blog author writes [remarks mine]:

Briefly: anyone with a brain and a soul wants there to be many more women in STEM [is that so?]. Karen outlines a realistic way to achieve this shared goal. Crucially, Karen’s way is not about shaming male STEM nerds for their deep-seated misogyny, their arrogant mansplaining, or their gross, creepy, predatory sexual desires [my dear friend, I do hope this is sarcasm?]. Yes, you can go the shaming route (God knows it’s being tried). If you do, you’ll probably snare many guys who really do deserve to be shamed as creeps or misogynists, along with many more who don’t. Yet for all your efforts, Karen predicts, you’ll no more solve the original problem of too few women in STEM, than arresting [a nice euphemism, surely?] the kulaks solved the problem of lifting the masses out of poverty. [the goal was not to “lift the masses out of poverty”, but I digress]

For you still won’t have made a dent in the real issue: namely that, the way we’ve set things up, pursuing an academic STEM career demands fanatical devotion, to the exclusion of nearly everything else in life, between the ages of roughly 18 and 35 [and after]. And as long as that’s true, Karen says, the majority of talented women are going to look at academic STEM, in light of all the other great options available to them, and say “no thanks.” Solving this problem might look like more money for maternity leave and childcare. It might also look like re-imagining the academic career trajectory itself, to make it easier to rejoin it after five or ten years away. Way back in 2006, I tried to make this point in a blog post called Nerdify the world, and the women will follow. I’m grateful to Karen for making it more cogently than I did.

That’s a bit of reading there.

Let me just say that the sport of academe, as in military confrontation, is to put all resources on the line (fair and unfair, if you can get away with it) to get ahead of the competition. It’s the nature of the game matrix. So I have no high hopes for a relaxed attitude allowing more women in STEM.

Here is a nice summary on the rape that also bemoans with examples how athletes, tended to be black, get an amazing pass for rape, murder, manslaughter and wife beating but that saying something ‘racist’ leads to career termination.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kobe-bryants-rape-charge-i-885653

As others noted, it’s weird that there is little mention of his daughter or even showing of her picture. They’re also now going on about the other basketball coach but no mention of his daughter either.

I also like how a guy who beat a rape rap purely based on being a celebrity chose ‘Mamba magic’ as his slogan.

The fact remains, though, that he engaged in high risk sexual activity, and everything that happened was entirely his own fault.

The rape case is actually quite compelling. The girl suffered serious tearing inside her vagina consistent with rape, she was bleeding. She was also had evidence of bruising on the back of her neck. Bryants own story states that he stopped when she asked him, not that she never asked him to stop. The very first thing she did when she left his room was go to another member of staff and tell them he raped her.

Oh, naker please…

Tweet this, I dare ya

Not sure about the victim, that was an NDA. But Kobe DID buy his wife a ring, a huge diamond, cost him at the time over 4 million. Tell me THAT wasn’t payoff. No matter how ya slice it, he raped. Virginia has a Black AG name of Jackson has THREE women with criminal rape complaints that get no action from Virginia law enforcement. Be a politician, be a sports figure (Black) with plenty of dough, no reason not to rape a chick if she gets reluctant, there’s no penalty for Christ’s sake. Especially if it’s a white chick.

Mr. Bryant’s ability to throw a ball through a metal hoop has enriched my life in countless ways. As in, I can’t think of any ways to count.

The Yankee WASP made the Negro Numinous as the central feature in its waging culture war against non-WASP whites.

We’ve seen this destruction of whites who dared tell even little bits of truth before, and we will keep seeing it.

White woman feelings, to be honest, have always been indulged by White men in a way that no other race does.

It’s amusing, because many White women want to keep playing the victim card but it doesn’t look like POC will let them. At least not the Black ones.

Be a politician, be a sports figure (Black) with plenty of dough, no reason not to rape a chick if she gets reluctant, there’s no penalty for Christ’s sake.

No reason not to kill her either, as Teddy and the Juice proved.

More specifically than white men, it was Donald Trump’s fault.

I’m sorry, am I the only one enjoying the war between Woke White Women with tears vs POC?

Yeah, it was $2.5 million. Still, a nice payday, though not close to the $4 million ring the wife got to shut her up.

The Bryant creature was a rapist.

His victim deserved to be raped.

These two are not mutually exclusive facts.

I’m glad he is dead; I hope he experienced abject terror as the machine careened to earth.

Dumb girl disnt realize that under intersectionality black man beats white woman

The journalist Ariel Zilber is Israeli. Steve links to him quite a bit. I wonder when he’s going to do a profile on him like he did about the journalist from Detroit who became and Israeli citizen.

Mr. Bryant’s ability to throw a ball through a metal hoop has enriched my life in countless ways. As in, I can’t think of any ways to count.

It was only young when I first learned to count. It was odd, even then.

The accuser admitted to having sex with another dude (whom she also had just met) less than 24 hours after voluntarily going up to Kobe’s hotel room. Instead of being relevant to Kobe’s defense, you call that a ‘horrendous smearing’? Hilarious.

Basically, you’re just an SJW moron without a home. You might try VOX.

i think a big part of black intersectional status is that blacks are highly tribal and will attack non-blacks who attack a fellow black. So intersectionality is actually reinforced by whoever can get the biggest mob of people to attack someone. that’s why blacks will always be more intersectional than the gays or trans shims, they can summon a larger and angrier mob.

Virginia has a black lieutenant governor, with the very old-line Virginia name of Justin Fairfax. Fairfax has been accused of rape by two black female professionals. Despite widespread calls for him to resign, he has hung tough.

Fairfax’s resistance had allowed Virginia governor Ralph Northam, a white medical doctor, to weather his own black-face scandal because if Northam resigned, accused rapist Fairfax would become governor.

Virginia’s attorney general is Mark Herring, a white lawyer, who preemptively admitted his own history of black face, presumably because he feared pictures would surface in the wake of the Northam case.

All three have remained in office. Guess the party.

dems r real racists!

For good measure, maybe they should fire ARIEL ZILBER and all other journalists who report this outrage. After all, reporting that someone mentioned Kobe’s rape case is as good as reporting it yourself.

Under intersectionality, a black man has more pokemon points than a white woman. But this reporter seems unaware of that

I think most basketball fans would put Patrick Ewing on the best center list. He would be more toward the Moses Malone end of the IQ spectrum than the David Robinson end. Ewing is not having much success as Georgetown’s head coach now.

Have just read the Reason dot com link above about Somnez’s last rodeo and wow, there’s no reason to let her off this hook (let alone laud for Twitter courage). It would be socially useful to attach this to her running Google c.v.– what Tom Wolfe called “the Great Relearning” in another context. Before broadband koffee klatsch the worst personality defects of toxic journalists at least only harmed their coworkers & families

There is a connection between Felicia and Steve. Felicia’s mother went back to college as an adult student and graduated with a degree in social work in 2017 at the age of 60. Her college? William Paterson, where Steve competed in College Bowl in 1979, when Felicia’s mother was 22.

OT:

The FAA airman database is a publicly accessible fountain of fascination. It’s fun to play with to as who is in there and for what.

Kelly Flinn, the sex mad bomber pilot who got cashiered, apparently is still an active airline pilot. From her listed ratings some one with air carrier knowledge could probably guess she works for one of two employers, but I’ll not detail that. She deserves her privacy now.

Dick Dale is in there, under Richard Anthony Monsour. He died less than a year ago.

I know people who have been dead for thirty years who are still listed, but certain celebrities known to have had valid pilot’s licenses, like Veronica Lake, are not. I guess if the license was issued far back enough and never appended with a current medical, it was never in the database. L Ron Hubbard is not either.

Ghislaine Noelle Maxwell, private pilot rotorcraft helicopter. Noelle? Along with Christopher and Natalie, Noel or derivations thereof are considered Specifically Not Jewish. Maybe because her mother was a shiksa, she is halachically not a Jewess and she is compensating by working for Mossad. She could just convert, which for a woman involves no knife work. Interesting.

Julee Cruise claims to be a pilot, but is not in there. Cruise is her birth surname and her DOB is 12/1/1956, no records under Cruise, or her husband’s surname.

Tina Louise is said to be a rated helo pilot but is not in there, at least not under “Louise”. I didn’t find out birth or married surnames.

Affluent white women are really angry that men accused of rape aren’t just gibbeted in public.

Carey Mulligan plays a campus rape victim. The Haven Monaghan who raped her is let off scot free because of course no one believes women making rape accusations on college campuses. Mulliganmthen goes on,a recent spree against men. It’s written and directed by the chubby actress who plays Camilla Parker Bowles on The Crown.

I honestly can’t tell if the esteemed “Mickey Winton” is Tiny Duck or Whiskey.

The syntax and misspellings are certainly Tiny Duck-ish, but the cucking is definitely Whiskey-ish…

The imagined conjoining of the two is mind-blowing. Imagine being stuck in an elevator together with those two for a few hours! I’d have to chew through the elevator door.

Sounds like the solution to getting more women into STEM fields is to make it much easier at every juncture, and to offer women cash bonuses for taking time off, letting them work part-time but with full-time pay and benefits; and to give them special benefits and dispensations unavailable to men.

In other words, pretty much the same deal they’re getting in virtually every other field.

America is doomed.

Want to know what Kobe Bryant meant to LA? My neighbor who loves playing basketball has been out here like this for a good 20 minutes with his Lakers basketball. #RIPMAMBA pic.twitter.com/pdvm0LEk4U

— Jamie Hernandez (@jamiebhernandez) January 26, 2020

Although I’ve always strongly disapproved of undisclosed extra-marital sexual relations, the price of tolerance for me would probably come in well under $4 million.

That said, if the ring was $4 million retail, everyone involved might have been shafted. Except for the diamond dealer of course.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/12/24/nba-ratings-decline-explanation-espn-tnt-abc-adam-silver/%3foutputType=amp

Steve posted a link few yrs back about NBA ratings being in trouble….thought this was interesting…..i don’t watch the NBA any more.

Either way, no sympathy for him. Engaging in sexual activity with strangers is an inherently dangerous activity. If you take a stranger to a hotel room/car/whatever, and wind up robbed/beaten/accused of rape, then that’s entirely your own fault.

On the other hand, engaging in sexual activity with non-strangers is also an inherently dangerous activity. Women are beaten, murdered and raped by men they’re in sexual relationships with, they get “accidentally pregnant” from time to time, they accuse men who aren’t strangers of rape, and women can extract wealth and labor from non-strangers with whom they’ve been in sexual relationships. This seems fairly “inherently dangerous” to me.

Perhaps the only way to prevent any and all danger from other people is to live as a cloistered monk on a desolate mountaintop.

Felicia generally looks pretty good, in a Beckyesque way (one reason she’s facing plenty of abuse here). But there’s a couple of shots where she could be Chelsea Clinton’s sister.

There is NOTHING grosser to Latino or white dudes than latina or white mudsharks….and the STI microbiological lab they carry in their private area….

Somebody should warn Yolanda before her Latino relatives blacklist her as nasty.

I have a cousin who got herpes from his ex wife. My mother refuses to let him use her bathroom.

The rape case is actually quite compelling.

I remember it. An accusation of rape, and then a tsunami of outraged basketball fans howling that she should keep her mouth shut! This was Kobe! Who the f’ did this little bitch think she was?! She should feel honored that Kobe! raped her. How many other little no-body girls get raped by Kobe?!

It was sickening to listen to all these white men I know, basketball fans, defending Kobe and calling her a lying gold-digger- without a shred of evidence. ‘She went to his room’, ‘what the f’ did she expect?! Blah, blah..

The evidence indicated that she was brutally raped, as you mention. And that she went to the authorities.

And then the pile-on. It wasn’t enough that she was raped by a basketball player, then she got raped by the media and sport fans of America.

From what I remember about the case, she finally said she wouldn’t press charges (either criminal or civil), so long as he admitted what he did, so that the media and sports fans would st0p demonizing her. So Kobe admitted publically that ‘It wasn’t consensual”, and they both moved on.

But I’ll never forget the way sports fans (black and white men) reacted to a young woman being brutally raped, so long as it was a (black) sports ‘hero’ that did it.

‘F that bitch’ was their attitude, and I remember remembering why I was never a sports fan.

If they could teach a gorilla play football, and to be gentle with the other players, and not break their bones and rip their arms from their sockets, the gorilla could make a touchdown almost ever time you gave him the ball.

‘Toby’ the gorilla would soon become a sensation, and male sports fans would be dressing their daughters in jungle attire to try to get Toby’s attention.

Were you introduced to this blog by Tiny or Whiskey?

While some folks here may be experts at “woke math” and “woke logic”, it is still a new and arcane art form.

As with all new arts and sciences, the rules seem to change hourly and the battle over who qualifies as experts is subject to the fog of war–this adds to the confusion.

The only way to win is not to play….at least until they publish the official “textbook” that explains the logic proofs and has “approved” mathematical formulas.

In the CJR article Sonmez is going on about how a #metoo-er’s work is never done and how hard it is to be in the public eye, and then now that she finally was back to a certain degree of anonymity, she had to do that tweet. I guess she wanted more attention.

Also in that article the sublimely reasonable Caitlin Flanagan, who’s written some wonderfully perceptive stuff for the Atlantic, is quoted as calling Sonmez the hellcat of all hellcats, using hurt feelings to justify sexual assault allegations, and agreeing with characterizations of Sonmez as hysterical, irrational, and punitive.

So Emily Yoffe and Caitlin Flanagan both think she’s nuts. That’s good enough for me.

Timeout from the impeachment farce for an orgy of obscene Negro Worship in the JooMedia for a beloved heroic departed JungleBaller. The groupie testified in court she declined to take it up the butt, but the beloved negro hero JungleBaller used force to do her backdoor anyways against her will. It’s called rape.

Kobe was a 3-digit IQ guy

This is pretty funny as praise.

Family office run by his son has about 7 billion in assets it seems which is trivial.

Eh, that money could be parked at 3% per year, which is a return of $210m before taxes, which that return is probably shielded from.

$210m is more than enough to buy off a ton of DA elections with plenty left over to grow the main stash.

Felicia Sonmez made a fatal intersectionality calculation error.
She assumed that Black Male plus Female Rape Accusation equals #MeToo Moral Outrage.

Agree on the intersectionality error. But your 2nd sentence needs enhancement for clarity on her error:

“She assumed that Black Male plus White Female Rape Accusation equals #MeToo Moral Outrage.”

That’s the issue. Sonmez is talking about some tedious blond Becky who stupidly trusted a black man to behave like a white man and then objects to finding an unwanted black penis inside her. A white woman objecting to a black penis inside her is racist.

If this had been say a muslim woman or a black woman making the rape accusation, Sonmez dragging it up now wouldn’t be grounds for suspension. But highlighting an accusation from a blond Becky? C’mon!

It’s pretty interesting. I remember how Kobe was viewed by the black community before the rape allegation. He was considered a bit of an Oreo. Growing up in Italy, having an interest in foreign languages, in soccer, speaking a bit too white for some people’s tastes. Nah, that ain’t keepin’ it real. But after the rape case, suddenly the black community loved him. He had violated a white chick and beaten prison. Sales of his jersey soared–he went from 5th to 1st. Suddenly every low IQ chud had to have an 8 or 24 on his back.

These are the same people harassing this reporter.

Wow, 2003! That was a long time ago!

I wonder what happened with, what was it his girlfriend/his fiancee? The one that he had to buy a big diamond ring for, to make up for the embarrassing rape allegations. Was it a good investment? Did he have a passel of children with her?

Somehow, I know that white men are at fault.

Well, technically yes. The chopper pilot was a white guy.

BTW, while looking this stuff up, just to confirm the guy was white (hadn’t read lick one on the web about it, as I explained in my comment under your previous post), I came across the usual bullshit that you get when people who don’t know about a field of endeavor write about it.

The article said that Mr. Zobayan, was told “he was flying too low”. Bull! It’s not any ATC controller’s job to tell a helicopter pilot that, unless he was on some specific approach or route. He said “you are flying too low for flight following”. That’s a completely different statement, meaning that he couldn’t be kept in radar coverage. That’s not a safety thing in particular.

Scud-running in an airplane is dangerous, as Mr. McG could tell you. In a helicopter, one can slow way down at least, hell, all the way, in fact. to allow more time to get one’s bearings and find a way to extract oneself from a bad situation. I don’t know if that flight was on an instrument clearance (no, you do NOT have to be on radar to be on one), but, especially if he wasn’t, that busy airspace makes the option of climbing a problem – either bust into airspace and get a violation or pick your way down low. With GPS now, it’s nothing like it was when it was all based on pilotage and dead reckoning.

As Mom’s are prone to say now (from some TV guru) “Ara made some bad choices.”

UPDATE: A person who works at the Washington Post says @feliciasonmez was NOT suspended for linking to the Daily Beast story on Twitter. Her suspension was related to a follow up tweet that contained a screen shot of her work email inbox, which revealed full names of emailers.

— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) January 27, 2020

"Her managers don’t care about the Daily Beast tweet," a Washington Post employee told me. "But there’s a concern that the screen shot (of her email inbox) might create some legal issues and could violate Twitter’s terms (of service)." https://t.co/66EyVcPsex https://t.co/9JjJnC0uno

— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) January 27, 2020

Washington Post reporter suspended after tweeting screen shot of inbox showing full names of emailers who criticized her for Kobe Bryant tweets https://t.co/66EyVcPsex

— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) January 27, 2020

And another thing before I wrote a post on my own blog later in the day about it – I have one finger pointed right at commenter ScarletNumber and the other 3 pointing all over the freakin’ place: Nine people being killed is a sad thing. However, just last month a Pilatus PC-12 crashed on initial climb-off of Chamberlain, S. Dakota airport with 9 people killed and the other 3 injured. Shit happens. (In that PC-12 crash, it sounds like the plane had ice on it from freezing rain the day prior – big mistake to take off with the wings not clean.)

What’s the difference? Is it that this one yesterday involved a basketball player that’s been in the news the last 5 years? Is that because people spend so much time keeping up with this stuff that the TV channels feel justified in making this into a week-long 24-hour infotainment fest? Who supports all that? Oh, yeah, people that spend hours of the day watching the idiot plate. If you pay for cable, you’re supporting them monetarily.

It was a big family that mostly died in that Platypus that crashed last month, and I’d hazard a guess that they were much more productive members of American society than some sportsball guy.

Why, oh why, can’t they all get cancelled?

Literally named Felicia.
This event will never completely shake the suspicion that it was confected, even though the riskiness of helicopter travel perfectly explains it.

“No, she needs to suffer…Really suffer.
Make her attend and cover the Senate trial.”

I’m sorry, the Eighth Amendment prohibits “Cruel and Unusual Punishment”.

I’m halfway sympathetic to Bryant (groupies* and all that). And looking up this Felicia’s bio on the Post website, I’m not exactly sympathetic to her (or the Post, for that matter). She certainly ticks all the boxes. Most of her recent work seems to be anti-Trump. And I didn’t realize she had her own story.

But still, I’m reminded of the line (Gertrude Himmelfarb, I think) that “race trumps gender.” “Race,” of course, includes “Muslim.” Of course, now race trumps *fake* gender *and* gender, and fake gender trumps gender. This poor Felicia, of course, doesn’t know that, for obvious reasons.

These people can’t destroy themselves quick enough.

*There’s a great line in Tom Wolfe’s “A Man In Full,” in which Fareek Fanon, a black player on Georgia Tech’s football team, is accused of raping (or trying to rape- the story is never really clarified, which is part of the point) the white daughter of a prominent citizen. To defend him, his team tries to enlist the book’s main character, Charlie Croker, a wealthy good ol’ boy who himself played football for Tech forty years earlier. As part of his defense, the white coach, using of course all the PC language we’d expect, says, “But just like there were in your day, there are groupies! And they’re all over you- white groupies, black groupies, Spanish groupies, Asian groupies…isn’t that right, Fareek?”

Fareek, who is none too bright and not really paying attention, replies, “I dunno. I never saw no Asian groupies.”

Wolfe, rest his soul, was a genius, especially in describing race.

“but Emily Yoffe I trust”

Any relation to Jula Ioffe? I wouldn’t trust Julia to tell me the time.

I must say it does sound as if Ms Somnez rather piled-on once the initial account came out. So I have not a huge amount of sympathy when she falls on the sword she sharpened.

“Sarve un dom well raight, I say!”

I don’t care about black sports stars — and don’t have much use for celebrity worship.

But posting the link was in poor taste. Maybe if it was getting on for a week and the eulogizin’ n’ stuff was going on and on and on, but right off?

The guy just died. Short of him being the Green River Killer, if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.

No biggy I know engineering graduates who think Lincoln owned slaves.

‘White woman feelings, to be honest, have always been indulged by White men in a way that no other race does.

‘It’s amusing, because many White women want to keep playing the victim card but it doesn’t look like POC will let them. At least not the Black ones.’

Women of Whiteness White women are probably also the most resented group.

Men of color Colored men resent the fact that they can’t have them, and colored women resent the fact that they can’t be them.

Make her attend and cover the Senate trial.

That’s actually her work at the Post. Weird thing in the age of Feminist Journalism, every political article on the Hill has three reporters’ names, always women, from the names you can discern a White, a Black, throw in a Jew or Hispanic for the third. Three-Name By-Lines. Somnez doesn’t write independently of on anything. All the print forums say she’s a real Hellcat as regards sexual harassment, too, another reason to get her out of there. She gave them the perfect excuse.

She criticized Black Jesus Kobe. She’s through. The ultimate Becky.

Hey Steve Sailer, is Sonmez a Becky of sorts? Fair take?

Who the f*ck uses their real names/emails when contacting these miscreants? They deserve to be cancelled.

The author should have consulted her pokemon points manual before writing that. The OJ trial showed race trumps gender. [and, speaking well of the recently deceased is a decent thing to do]

Her actual error was manifesting a capacity for tastelessness that most of us shoot for only in vain. The man and his daughter just died. Not the time to pretend the shabbiest thing he’d ever done was the most salient thing he’d ever done. Not really the time to offer an inventory of his life at all. At least wait for him to be buried.

Or maybe the woman’s a grifter lying her tuchus off. There’s a reason the prosecutor abandoned the case.

He was guilty of adultery, sexual deviance, and general licentiousness. There’s no reason to believe his accuser or Felicia Whatsherface has a categorical objection to any of these things (as opposed to manifestations of these things which call their own self-concept into question, to which the reaction is ‘he took advantage of me’)

I can hardly wait until the MLK FBI files are released in 2027. My guess is that if they do get released, there will be a similar suppression to make sure their are no flies on his legacy. This is a dress rehearsal.

Her actual error was manifesting a capacity for tastelessness that most of us shoot for only in vain.

Her head was probably swollen after she was rewarded with the position at the WP following her #MeToo, “ordeal.”

Thus, she decided to fly too close to the intersectional sun.

Bye, Felicia!

And, the Virginia duplicitous Democrats just inadvertently, chummed the waters with their gun confiscation nonsense! – not to mention their phony worries about riots; disappointment that the Deplorables behaved must have caused serious consternation!

Black faces and rape cases will tar and feather Democrats/Progressives in due time. They’re going to need a bigger boat. People, especially socialists…well, sociopaths, liars, snobs always overreach. Just look at Clinton baiting Tulsi and getting bit on that large ass. It is backfire season, for sure. It’s sort of enjoyable to watch the destruction.

Felicia Sonmez certainly believed a white man was at fault when she engaged in her own pathetic metoo saga a couple of years ago

Well… “Jon Kaiman” sure sounds like a name that is far more common among “Fellow White Men” than among White men…

The Yankee WASP made the Negro Numinous as the central feature in its waging culture war against non-WASP whites.

Oh please.

That’s why this negro thing reached is just reaching it’s peak insanity now, when the WASPs after all those years in the wilderness are finally in charge of America.

NYT got away with doing it to Wyche a couple weeks ago. She was just off on the totem pole.

She mistook Kobe for an arriviste like Ray Rice. Kobe was to the manor born.

All I know is that I’ve never heard of Sonmez, but Emily Yoffe I trust.

Exactly. If there’s anyone you can definitely trust, it’s a yenta advice columnist. Especially when she’s engaged in a spirited ethnonarcissistic defense of a Fellow White Person like Jon Kaiman…

Excellent point.

Evidently Kobe Bryant was a practicing Catholic who attempted to work through the moral and spiritual implications of that incident:

https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/kobe-bryant

Kobe Bryant was a thoughtful man at this point in his life, active in social service charities with his wife and a dedicated father. Taking cheap shots at him now for culture war reasons is pointless.

Steve, O/T but meet the newest “next big thing” Latina who is really white…hilarious. I mean, she is sooooo ethnic, I totally would know, as would anyone, that she is a person of color, Latina, Hispanic…exotic “otherness”…It’s very obvious.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/meet-latina-hoping-do-texas-what-beto-o-rourke-failed-n1119961

Gota laugh at her reference to “Anglo” in light of the fact that she admits her father is of Irish heritage. The same people who get angry if you confuse a Mexican and a Salvadoran have no problems conflating the Celtic people with the Germanic Anglo (Saxons) of whom they have been at war or odds with for hundreds of years, in Ireland and Scotland.

smh.

I assume you think that Reconstruction never happened. Or that it and Abolitionism were invented by Irish or Polish Catholics. Or maybe the redneck Scots-Iirsh invented it, alongside Irish Catholics, so they could harm the Boston Brahmins.

The Negro was made Numinous by Yankee WASPs in the 19th century. The purpose was to use people they felt could never harm them as weapons against whites they hated or feared. The game has ebbed and flowed. Today it is at a peak. And that peak still is not about tearing down statues of pure blood New England Anglo-Saxon Puritans or their pure blood Anglo-Saxon Unitarian and Universalist descendants. That peak never has been and never will be about tearing down that quintessential WASP heresy Quakerism.

“Evidently Kobe Bryant was a practicing Catholic who attempted to work through the moral and spiritual implications of that incident:”

That sounds like something Pope Francis would say when a filthy rich man has brutally raped and refused to acknowledge it, allowing those who speak for him to sing his innocence and charge those who doubt his innocence with racism.

The Yankee WASP made the Negro Numinous as the central feature in its waging culture war against non-WASP whites.

The “Yankee WASP” didn’t come up with minstrel shows, coon tunes, ragtime, jazz, rock-and-roll, R&B, blue-eyed soul, and whatever’s coming out next week. I challenge you to name a single Yankee WASP rock star. In 65 years of the genre.

Basketball and football were indeed invented in Massachusetts, but by Canadians, not the locals. Nobody forced the Southland to take these up– there were always field hockey, cricket, rugby, or polo. Or invent your own.*

Instead, they chose a stream where the old color line was serving as a dam. Which broke.

*Now there’s a novel idea. What sports have been invented in Dixie, other than stock-car racing, by moonshiners?

Yes, but @altright was mentioning market moving sums needed to tank the indexes. Thats not the case for soros, or really anyone else anymore. Apple alone is worth 1300 billion dollars.

You can be certain his family office is earning more than 3% a year, although it way underperforms the market as with most hedge funds.

Oh, sure. But the fact remains that the men who get all teary about women being meeeeeaaaan to them have no issue with telling women facing risk that they shouldn’t get into the situations in the first place. Fine, but it works both ways.

(BTW, you sound like an SJW. Maybe look into that.)

Perhaps the only way to prevent any and all danger from other people is to live as a cloistered monk on a desolate mountaintop.

And that’s the problem. If you regard telling men that sex with strangers is dangerous, then you need to take a vow to stay silent the next time a woman hooks up with a stranger and gets hurt.

Encouraging news in another story at your link:

In 5-4 ruling, Supreme Court allows Trump plan to deny green cards to those who may need gov’t aid

Felicia and that chick with MSNBC who mangled her words to (very vaguely) sound like she was using the “N word” are getting a lesson in the intersectional/woke pecking order.

We all know of the horror faced by German women during the onslaught of the Red Army in 1945. One response was to cling to Red Army officers for protection from the lower ranking Mongolians. They also threw their own men, what was left of them, under the bus because these men were now losers. It was all about survival. I suppose Stockholm Syndrome and the behavior of Patty Hearst is similar: She went from kidnapping victim to enthusiastic participant in the SLA.

These gals saw the weak and emasculated nature of so many white men and cast their lot with the Colored Team. Now Becky is getting a lesson in just how much these women of color despise them.

The Negro was made Numinous…

…by descendants of the folks who first allowed them in the country in 1619– when “Yankees” were still in lilywhite Holland.

God put them there. Men who thought themselves smarter than God put them here.

their pure blood Anglo-Saxon

You seem to have a problem with “pure blood”. Relax. Yours probably isn’t.

Or that it and Abolitionism were invented by Irish or Polish Catholics.

Abolition was the baby of Englishmen– in England. New England was a branch office, at best. The American Colonization Society was more popular, but was stymied by crackers.

Reconstruction was the foolish attempt to reattach a severed cancerous limb. One of the great follies of history. The free states were 98% white. They had a chance to stay that way.

https://www.vox.com/2019/9/19/20873224/bernie-sanders-housing-for-all

OT: Bernie has some interesting views on rent control. However his central thesis fails to notice the dramatic recent decline in the construction laborer workforce….which really is the reason housing costs are going up….

He also points out quasi race related NIMBY type zoning laws….which ironically if you open them up to new public housing construction you’d probably hose California worse than any other state.

They say that like in Vancouver…..hot money from China and Asia is propping up the housing markets in places like L.A., Bay Area, San Diego, Seattle etc….watch that hot money evaporate if Quanisha and Tre’tavius move in 2 blocks from Chin or Patels OC condo high rise.

Property values could plummet and places like Sydney and New Zealand will only get hotter….

The big issue w the American real estate construction market though is a lack of labor. Those older black and white laborers who were forcibly retired in the 2000s by the Latino scab laborers have all now either died, retired or moved on to other trades. What latinos that didnt make their cash & go back home now charge more for their once cut rate but still fly by night cheap construction services….

>inarticulate black sportsball hero’s wretched last name is Fanon
heh, I understood that reference.

Yes, but at least one of my WASP cousin’s statues is in danger of being, if not torn down, at least removed: Senator John James Ingalls of Kansas.

Kansas was founded as a free state, and was populated by New England anti-slavers of the most fanatical sort. Ingall’s predecessor, Senator Samuel Clarke Pomeroy (also a close relation) was suitably anti-slavery but soon took to thinking more of his pocket book than his Yankee soul. He was accused of bribery, and did not find himself re-elected to the Senate. He stayed on in Washington DC however and allowed his contacts to make him ever richer.

Ingalls did so well that he ended up with a statue in the Capitol under the dome. Fast forward a century and he now finds himself in danger of removal as a dead white male. The talked of replacement? Amelia Earhart.

Hasn’t happened yet though. Perhaps the replacers have noticed that she too was white.

No. Puritan-descended Anglos waged the war on genuine moral universalist grounds. The numinous negro is just another in a long line of their sacralized types.

Another ethny has tarted and turboed it up and is using it to displace whites generally and, in particular, those same Yankee elite schmucks. Your take is–forgive me–timid and a little chickenshit.

Kevin MacDonald’s latest book is very good on the subject.

The chopper pilot was a white guy.

From his name he sounds Armenian, and as far as I know Armenians are classified as nonwhite in California.

The “Yankee WASP” didn’t come up with minstrel shows

No? Who did?

The earliest minstrel performer I can come up with was Thomas Dartmouth Rice:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_D._Rice

He appears to have been what we now call WASP.

For some reason that reminded me of the Idiocracy line — “My ex-wife was a ‘tard. She’s a pilot now.”

Felicia Sonmez made a fatal intersectionality calculation error.

She was speeding through a dangerous intersectionality but forgot to keep checking her privilege-o-meter for redlining (authorities think it was 4000 FDR’s at time of impact). Hopefully this will be a warning to others not to buy vehicles with the problematic invisible trunkspace option and pay a bit extra on the 4 gender cis-spension.

He also points out quasi race related NIMBY type zoning laws…

Attacking common sense zoning ordinances is the new front in forcing YT to integrate. This is just an extension of Obama’s housing policy including using Section 8 for block busting. This particular old Jewish Communist is just following Party policy, that’s all.

If you don’t want a 5 story apartment complex full of Section 8 dropped into your neighborhood U R rayciss, and your zoning won’t save you from the authoriteh of diversiteh.

STEM.

You mean so people of whatever make can rape the universe.

Oh, good.

Regarding the folly of the various Reconstructions, the third of which y’all outside poor, benighted Dixie are now, to my considerable amusement, experiencing along with us, the perpetually guilty, I must agree.

That said, while I can conceive of some of those of the North allowing their errant cousins to go free, you must surely realize that the overwhelming majority would never allow it, being against their deeply atavistic truest nature to ever allow anyone, in any place and at any time, to live in a manner other than the one they themselves prescribe at a given moment. With the South prostrate at its feet, the central government could have repatriated the vast majority of Africans, but chose not to, deciding instead to transform for some decades the recently murdered republic into a largely one party state, with the emancipated slaves playing for the Republican party the part now played for the Donks by those lovely folks presently immivading us. Or, God forbid, some manner of antebellum compensated emancipation, with the attendant lack of casus belli thus depriving God’s Elect of the manifold joys of swinging that terrible swift sword, not to mention the rather more mundane, though far more common, carrying away of the family plate and molestation of the help.

Having toiled decades in a largely New England dominated industry, I believe I can state without fear of honest disagreement, that there has not yet been a situation in which the intervention of New Englanders has not immeasurably worsened things for all and sundry. It’s a superpower!

Mr. Evans agrees:

Oh! I didn’t think of that.

Latest news is that the helicopter crashed into a hill at over 100 MPH. I envision Kobe yelling at the pilot to hurry up and get there.

Mr. Bryant was known for two things: basketball and alleged rape. And what Woke Journalist who doesn’t also happen to be a sports journalist cares about basketball? Not counting when some owner is caught on tape !among a slavery joke or a team starts more than two white players.

As black feminists who supported OJ even though they knew he was a double murderer explained to their white sisters: Race trumps gender.

I would add, but not for white feminists.

Not considering people of color communities (communities of color) has always been one of my blind spots. I’m also on the fence about black lives mattering.

According to the CJR column/op-ed it got somehow more traumatic for Somnez after Caitlin Flanagan went on a radio show & put her on blast. The CJR editorialist’s view seems to be that no one can legitimately gainsay a MeToo reporterette, while stopping short of advocating Stasi priority response against anyone with temerity to do so. How long can Mary Tyler Moore-style journalism last when the cancer of female office politics is this advanced? They say STEM is incompatible with neo-corporate HR manner-minding but that goes doubly so for the chatty/interpersonal professions

Meanwhile the battalions of St. Jock seem to be flagging in the past few hours of Trending-War. I wager the WaPo brass is gonna be groveling by this time tomorrow

The earliest minstrel performer I can come up with was Thomas Dartmouth Rice:

He appears to have been what we now call WASP.

Hardly makes him a Yankee. Even if he was, his family would have been a misfit, renegade one, kind of like Obama’s (rare) Yankee ancestor Jonathan Singletary/Dunham.

From a more thorough biographies than Wikipedia’s:

The performer who made Jim Crow Jim Crow was a Caucasian. Born in 1808, Thomas Dartmouth Rice, a furniture maker’s son, grew up in lower Manhattan near the East River docks. In his racially mixed working-class neighborhood, young Rice likely would have attended traveling shows that were staged in the saloons which in that era often doubled as theaters in New York and around the country.

https://www.historynet.com/as-american-as-jim-crow.htm

Father: John Rice (sailor)

https://www.nndb.com/people/275/000203663/

…he frequently told stories of George Washington, who he claimed had been a friend of his father.

https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Thomas_D._Rice

Society strongly stereotypes white men as the main perps of sex crimes, most whites don’t see black and other non-white rapists as such a big deal and don’t see their crimes in the same context as they would regard a white man committing the same crimes.

If a white celebrity had been accused of the same thing he would have probably gone to prison for a long time and would be regarded as scum of the earth by the public and would certainly never work again, whereas if it’s a black man people just dismiss it as not really a big deal.

OK, fine but I don’t know what you mean by saying that Yankee WASP’s didn’t come up with minstrel shows. Who did?

I find the term “WASP” odd considering most Anglo-Saxons are not Protestants, they are traditionally Anglicans which is basically Catholicism without the Pope, not Protestant. The only real Protestant church in Britain is the Church of Scotland and they would certainly not regard the Church of England as a fellow Protestant church.

Nakers!

Don’t blame me, I didn’t make it up!

STEM.
You mean so people of whatever make can rape the universe.
Oh, good.

Lol.

The appropriate way for the news to cover this would be to do a 5 minute blurb on his life and then go back to the regularly scheduled programming with the occasional news update. Instead, from what I saw, it was nonstop Kobe all day. You run out of things to say about someone, even someone important, but when you get down to it, the only thing Kobe could do is shoot a basketball.

And you forgot her guinea pig column, where she became a nudist and do on. I know her full history. But her Title IV stuff convinced me she is a fearless reporter. Those are well reported out, investigative, and involved lots of interviews. The one where she tracked down the ditzy woman behind the nutty theory of toxic immobility is gold. She took so much shit on Twitter for these pieces.

The earliest minstrel performer I can come up with was Thomas Dartmouth Rice:

He appears to have been what we now call WASP.

Exactly. What’s not so well known is that this traditional WASP dominance of minstrelsy continued into the post-War Between the States period, and that the cultural hegemony of so-called White minstrel supremacy continued well into the 1900s.

As the renowned WASP historian Dr. Jeffrey Melnick

has famously noted, WASPs of that era played “a major role in the manufacture of the racial stereotypes on which American popular culture depended.”
Blackface and a singing style pioneered by WASPs known as “coon shouting” were mainstays of WASP entertainment in the latter part of the 19th century and into the early decades of the 20th century, with their most popular performers, like Eddie Cantor, Sophie Tucker, Al Jolson, Irving Berlin, George Burns, and Florenz Ziegfeld, using Black-race mockery as a dominant theme.

And of course, this WASP stranglehold on minstrelsy extended into film as well. Who could forget the archetypal epic of the WASP experience in America, The Jazz Singer, featuring notorious WASP Al Y̶o̶e̶l̶s̶o̶n̶ Jolson as the protagonist, a character with the characteristically-WASPish name “Jakie Rabinowitz.” The movie was produced, of course, by Darryl “Uber-WASP” Zanuck, with a score written by Louis Silvers (surnames based on precious metals and gems are a longstanding WASP tradition). It was directed by Alan Crosland (yet another WASP), with a screenplay written by Alfred A. Cohn (whose surname appears to indicate that he traces his lineage to the traditional Druid priestly caste of ancient WASPland)…

Ghislaine Noelle Maxwell, private pilot rotorcraft helicopter. Noelle? Along with Christopher and Natalie, Noel or derivations thereof are considered Specifically Not Jewish.

Natalie “specifically not Jewish”? More than 3% of the Natalies in this country are Jewish. A full 50% of the Noels I have known (n =2) are Jewish.

There was so much blood his underwear shirt and pants were smeared with her blood.

Society strongly stereotypes white men as the main perps of sex crimes, most whites don’t see black and other non-white rapists as such a big deal and don’t see their crimes in the same context as they would regard a white man committing the same crimes.

Ridiculous. Most whites think of blacks as vastly overrepresented in sex crimes though not having anything close to a monopoly.

Another misogynist women hating POS man of UNZ who can’t get laid and chooses to display his sexual and mental health problems on this site.

Every demographic in the world hates White women and is jealous because we’re the most beautiful, highest earning and have the best men (White) in the world.

Some of the misogynist women hating men of UNZ must be mud men who hate us because they can’t have us. Or else the misogynist women haters of UNZ are ugly obese black women.

Whatever you are, Richard Taylor, you are a piece of shit. You’re so ugly creepy and disgusting no White women will have you. That’s your personal problem Why post your personal problems on this site?

Word must have spread amongst the ugly creep misogynist women haters community that UNZ is a forum for their views. So be it.

I was a probation officer for 27 years. For most of that time I had the rape case load. There may have been a White convicted rapist among them.

But I cannot remember one rapist that was not black. County had about half a million population 10/11 percent black. This means the 5% black men committed all the rapes.

The fact that this interpretation of black letter law was 5-4 is a huge tell that our current system of governance where high mandarins call the shots is deeply unstable, but you should already know that.

I find the term “WASP” odd considering most Anglo-Saxons are not Protestants, they are traditionally Anglicans which is basically Catholicism without the Pope, not Protestant.

Naw, they’re just trying to have their cake and eat it too

…the Elizabethan Settlement charted a course enabling the English church to describe itself as both catholic and reformed:

catholic in that it views itself as a part of the universal church of Jesus Christ in unbroken continuity with the early apostolic church. This is expressed in its emphasis on the teachings of the early Church Fathers, as formalised in the Apostles’, Nicene, and Athanasian creeds.

reformed in that it has been shaped by some of the doctrinal principles of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation, in particular in the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion and the Book of Common Prayer.[10]

See also:

The Church of England declared its independence from the Catholic Church at the time of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement.[81] Many of the new Anglican formularies of the mid-16th century corresponded closely to those of contemporary Reformed [i.e Protestant] tradition. These reforms were understood by one of those most responsible for them, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, as navigating a middle way between two of the emerging Protestant traditions, namely Lutheranism and Calvinism

And this.

Henry VIII just wanted an annulment, and didn’t really intend to change the church much otherwise, but his theologians? Different story.

Note the small “c” in the first quote. Sure, the Church of England is “catholic” in the sense that it sees itself as “universal” — but the Catholic and Orthodox churches are “episcopal” in a similar sense… because they have bishops.

To be fair, the narratives on the far right can also get muddled and contradictory on these sorts of cases. The heuristic seems to be that #metoo is BS … unless the guy is Black or Jewish. There is a similar confusion with how to repond to Kobe’s death. Is it okay to lament the passing of a talented athlete, or must we remain aloof since he was Black and “sportsball” is part of the kosher plot of mass media distraction?

Kobe was a 3-digit IQ guy

He was reported to have gotten a 1080 SAT score, I believe shortly after the test reform that went into effect in April 1995. (He turned 17 in Aug. 1995.)

A post-April-’95 SAT score of 1080, per PumpkinPerson’s SAT-to-IQ conversion table, is IQ 108.

Given that the SAT is not a precise IQ test, given its good but not perfect correlation, and given that some people test well (Ivy Leaguers’ measured IQs are usually at least a standard deviation above their stratospheric SAT scores would predict; i.e., they test well), we can still put a reasonable lower-bound on K.Bryant’s IQ in the low-100s.

I find the term “WASP” odd considering most Anglo-Saxons are not Protestants, they are traditionally Anglicans which is basically Catholicism without the Pope,

They are a sect which rejects the Church. Nor are they schismatics like the Orthodox and non-Chalcedonian bodies, because their holy orders are invalid. They are a liturgical body, as are the Lutherans and ‘Old Catholics’. They remain, nevertheless a protestant liturgical body.

As Gordon Ramsay mutters when a hack botches things in a way that makes him, as a professional chef, wince: “Oh dear oh dear oh dear.”

Please indulge me in some wincing on behalf of lawyers everywhere.

Your account makes no sense. A public statement that the sexual intercourse “was not consensual” is an admission against one’s own interest (and therefore admissible hearsay) and a confession of guilt.

It’s staggering how many otherwise sensible people seem to believe this or that victim does or does not “press charges” and thereby determines whether a prosecution proceeds. Sure, in practical terms, cases wherein the victim’s testimony is required for any hope of a conviction, a victim’s refusal to cooperate with prosecutors all but ensures a hopeless effort, so the prosecutors won’t waste time on that effort (i.e., they won’t “press charges”) and this is the origin of the concept and its misunderstood place in the popular mind.

Prosecutors – not victims, witnesses, or anyone else – decide whether or not to prosecute suspects. And if they deem the crime serious enough (and most prosecutors consider rape pretty damned serious, because not considering it serious is no way to get re-elected), and if sufficient evidence exists – like the victim’s blood all over the suspect, the suspect’s semen in the victim’s orifices, injuries to the victim’s genitalia a physician can expertly testify are consistent with rape and almost always only occur during rapes, and the suspect’s public confession to having committed the crime – a case becomes much more likely to be brought and even to lead to conviction, even with the admittedly strong handicap of an uncooperative, critical witness (here, the victim).

For these reasons I am very skeptical the guy actually publicly admitted the sex was not consensual. (Though I believe it entirely likely he effectively convinced the victim, or, rather, his lawyers did, that if she recanted and refused to cooperate with any prosecution she would be made a very rich woman in any civil action she chose to file, and that that offer – or some very similar arrangement – was honoured by both parties.)

(I’ll be right back.)

And lo! two minutes’ research confirms what actually happened is that the prosecutors had no hope because no confession was made; they needed the victim to testify to have any chance of a conviction:

The victim has informed us, after much of her own labored deliberation, that she does not want to proceed with this trial,” Mr. Hurlbert said. “For this reason, and this reason only, the case is being dismissed.”

Here is what the rapist actually did say (emphasis mine) – which exactly supports my analysis.

Although I truly believe this encounter between us was consensual, I recognize now that she did not and does not view this incident the same way I did,” he said in a statement read in court by his lawyer Pamela Mackey. “After months of reviewing discovery, listening to her attorney, and even her testimony in person, I now understand how she feels that she did not consent to this encounter. I issue this statement today fully aware that while one part of this case ends today, another remains. I understand that the civil case against me will go forward.”

The word WASP was created about 100 years ago by Russian and polish Jewish communist immigrants. Just 20 years out of the ghetto sheltls of E Europe, they were totally ignorant of either the goyim or different Christian denominations

The word was created as pejorative insult against old stock White Americans The communist Jews hoped to set British descended Protestants against German Hungarian Scots Scandinavian Protestants and Catholics against Protestants.

I understand what you mean that the CofE is a Catholic Church not in communion with the Pope. But it’s a complicated, arcane convoluted concept. Most think the simple sensible way; in communion with and under the jurisdiction of Rome and the Pope Catholic

Not in communion with Rome and under the jurisdiction of the Pope, Protestant. No Pope not Catholic . Therefore the CofE isn’t Catholic

Jewish communists also think all blue eyed Americans are WASPs German Hungarian Scandinavian Irish Scots Austrian Swiss all N European Americans are Anglo Saxons.

Strange that the highest IQ ( lol) demographic in the world can be so ignorant about the goyim cattle.

I tend to agree with you. The rape case was about 20 years ago. There’s been no other scandals. 9 people died. No reason to bring up an old scandal.

I was with about 25 family members. Just one person mentioned it. A 15 yr old who follows news on the internet and just told me and her brother. Brother said not a word. No TV hook ups in any of our houses. Just internet and Netflix Hulu etc. I don’t think of the men know or care.

So not everyone in the country is obsessed with a guy tall enough to dump a ball through a ring 4 inches above his head. Of course we are non conformists, dissidents outliers.

It’s not something I worry about, but how can the Church of England be universal when it calls itself Church of England?

They [Anglicans] are a sect which rejects the Church

[Troll].

They remain, nevertheless a protestant liturgical body.

The Church of England is definitely in the Protestant family for all sorts of reasons.

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This subthread was started by a possible troll, or ignorant person, who said:

most Anglo-Saxons are not Protestants, they are traditionally Anglicans

I hope this person is not an American because this is embarrassingly ignorant if it was meant by an American (or by someone who claims familiarity with America; say a Hindu immigrant in New Jersey or the like) in reference to the US context (where ‘WASP’ was coined and applies).

Not in communion with Rome and under the jurisdiction of the Pope, Protestant.

Nonsense; by these criteria the Eastern Orthodox, Coptic, Syrian Rite, and other such churches not under the Roman Pope’s authority are “Protestant.” Since many of them are as old or older than the church in Rome, what or whom are they protesting against, then…?

I don’t get the problem. If he’s a rapist, he’s a rapist, and that can be said at any time, even when he’s dead.

Hey, do you think when Michael Richards dies, they’ll omit mentioning a certain episode? Out of good taste? Heh.

It’s a religious reflex. Not so much “respect the dead” as “don’t take the Lord’s name in vain, especially during Christmas”.

How can the Roman Catholic Church be catholic when it calls itself the Roman Catholic Church?

Why do we drive on parkways and park in driveways?

Life is mysterious….

‘… were mainstays of WASP entertainment in the latter part of the 19th century and into the early decades of the 20th century, with their most popular performers, like Eddie Cantor, Sophie Tucker, Al Jolson, Irving Berlin, George Burns, and Florenz Ziegfeld, using Black-race mockery as a dominant theme…’

WASP? At least two of those names you just listed belonged to Jews.

Pshaw! The real mainstay of “W*A*S*P Entertainment” was Blackie Lawless!

(Even if he is starting to look a bit like your gran!)

Only if you’re unfamiliar with this blog. He noticeably stood out amongst his nba peers in this regard. He honestly seemed to despise them for their stupidity and sheltered (in the ghetto) outlook on life compared to his. Thus, you get quotes like the one in the article.

Other guys like Robinson, Duncan, Shane Battier, and Nash who we’re smart (for athletes, at least) didn’t seem to outwardly show Kobe’s disdain for their teammates, but they also didn’t associate with them much. The exception might be the understated Duncan who had mostly Euro teammates by the end of his career.

“whereas if it’s a black man people just dismiss it as not really a big deal.”

#321, you could be right for many cases, but one black man did just get 25 years:

“NICKI MINAJ’S BROTHER GETS 25 TO LIFE FOR CHILD RAPE”

His victim was his 11 yr old stepdaughter.

If ivy leaguers “test well” you would expect their SAT scores to reflect a higher IQ than what they would get on a straight IQ test.

The word WASP was created about 100 years ago by Russian and polish Jewish communist immigrants.

Which one?

It calls itself the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. “Roman” would be the rite. There is also the Byzantine rite, the West Syrian rite, the Alexandrian rite, the East Syrian rite, and the Armenian rite. About 97% of adherents are of the Roman rite, 3% of one of the Eastern rites.

Yankee WASPs are not leading the attack on whites, nor are they exempt from its effects. They fought for immigration restriction in 1924, and the thing that has changed since then is that they have lost 90% of their power to a genuinely hostile competing group..

Her actual error was manifesting a capacity for tastelessness that most of us shoot for only in vain. The man and his daughter just died. Not the time to pretend the shabbiest thing he’d ever done was the most salient thing he’d ever done

You couldn’t be more wrong. When he is receiving tasteless over-the-top veneration that ignores this important fact, one has a duty to balance things out.

Edit: it turns out four of the five are Jewish.

What are you talking about? You linked to an article about Margo Howard, who is the daughter of Ann Landers and the ex-wife of the late Ken Howard. Emily Yoffe is a different person, although both wrote under the name Dear Prudence at one time.

And here I was thinking that those would be great to use on the Wokesters when our day comes.

Who cares? Instead of using up all your [Troll]s in one place, Scarlet, why don’t you explain why you think this Kobe Bryant story is so damn important. Explain why I should give a rat’s ass. You may convince me to go sign up for Cable TV .. hahaha
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hahaahaaaa!

If ivy leaguers “test well” you would expect their SAT scores to reflect a higher IQ than what they would get on a straight IQ test.

Yes, exactly right. Sorry. It should have read:

Ivy Leaguers’ measured IQs are usually at least a standard deviation BELOW their stratospheric SAT scores would predict

In one study of this kind, they gave formal IQ tests to Harvard students in the 1980s and the mean IQ was 122, but the mean SAT scores of the same set of people were in a sky-high percentile equating to an IQ of 143 by straight-conversion.

The SAT overpredicted the Harvard students’ IQs by 1.4 standard deviations.

This applies to most sky-high SAT scores. Within the Black student pool, Kobe’s 1080 is also very good, so maybe he tested above his ability; but even so, the chance his true IQ would be over 100 seems just about certain.

Read his entire post again, and maybe you’ll get the joke.

When he is receiving tasteless over-the-top veneration that ignores this important fact, one has a duty to balance things out.

One has such a duty only in the mind of assholes. That aside, what’s been the effect of her ‘evening things out’? She didn’t change anyone’s mind about Bryant, she just made herself look like a vicious ass. Rhetorical talent. Great stuff she hasn’t got.

Julee Cruise is a pretty fascinating case. She has that “sexy alien” appearance (or did in her youth-she’s been an underground star for maybe thirty years), sort of Marilynesque, but where MM had that long face in pictures it was because she’d mastered the art of having her jaw open with her lips closed. Cruise has that triangular jaw shape and big head tapering down naturally.

As a singer, she’s the opposite of the “BJ Backjaw” phenomenon, with jawlines that come down in bck and the bottom of the jaw levels out. She does not have much power or depth, having an ethereal light voice, but effective tone production: she effectively does what he does, but is not very versatile.

I suspect she is bullshitting about her flying experience:

I read somewhere that you’re also a pilot. When did you get into that?

I’ve been flying since I was 16. It’s easy once you’ve studied clouds, the atmosphere, and what to do just in case. I’m a good pilot in situations that are really dangerous. I like those; I like to drive 120 miles an hour.

My dad used to take us up to the Arctic Circle in his plane when I was little. He died when he was 51. That night he passed, I flew by myself up to Minneapolis in my Piper Cub that Dad gave me. We have our own great graveyard there… But I’m not gonna get buried. I’m going to have my ashes mixed in with my dogs. They’re gonna spread my ashes across Arizona, and Arizona is going to turn blue. It’s not gonna be a red state anymore.

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/julee-cruise-is-not-to-be-messed-with-interview/

A couple of tells here, but I don’t want to give them away.

You linked to an article about Margo Howard, who is the daughter of Ann Landers

And a cobbler’s child with no shoes. She’s on her 4th marriage (if he’s still around), writing under a byline derived from her 3d marriage. He only sibling was the issue of her father’s 2d marriage and is about 35 years her junior. She had four maternal-side cousins. One died in 1955; MH might have been on speaking terms with one of the three remaining in the years after her mother died.

‘Read his entire post again, and maybe you’ll get the joke.’

Yeah. I eventually caught on, but by then it was too late to delete my posts.

Jewish communists also think all blue eyed Americans are WASPs German Hungarian Scandinavian Irish Scots Austrian Swiss all N European Americans are Anglo Saxons.

Well, plenty of Germans are Saxons. There are three German states that bear the name: Sachsen, Niedersachsen, and Sachsen Anhalt.

How can the Roman Catholic Church be catholic when it calls itself the Roman Catholic Church?

Does it call itself the Roman Catholic Church?

I thought they called it the Holy Catholic Church.

anyway

Others do consider themselves Catholic in the sense of the Nicene Creed. The Church is the people in it, that is, the believers. The church is not just the priests and administrators. The priests etc. are the servants of the Word and the Church (the believers).

Star Trek has an interesting relationship with real aviation. Gene (Eugene W.) Roddenberry was a working airline pilot after WWII, and there are a few Roddenberrys in there, but Nimoy and Shatner are surnames with only one entry each, for Leonard and William.

https://amsrvs.registry.faa.gov/airmeninquiry/

Last Name: nimoy

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Total names found is 1 based on the search criteria provided above.
LEONARD NIMOY
Personal Information

LEONARD NIMOY

Airman opted-out of releasing address
Medical Information:
Medical Class: Third Medical Date: 12/1980
MUST WEAR CORRECTIVE LENSES.
BasicMed Course Date: None BasicMed CMEC Date: None
Certificates
PRIVATE PILOT

Certificates Description
Certificate: PRIVATE PILOT
Date of Issue: 9/21/1972

Ratings:
PRIVATE PILOT
AIRPLANE SINGLE ENGINE LAND
INSTRUMENT AIRPLANE

I’m throwing this out as an example because he’s dead, so no privacy concerns here.

Entertainers are hard to track because they may be licensed under their real or SAG/Equity names and if female under a maiden or any married name. Last name and DOB seem to be the most effective, if known.

Hectoring scold who will achieve nothing of significance in life relishes in the destruction of a man who stepped out of line

Embodiment of the Longhouse https://t.co/5EdTqheNmS

— Doctor-Baron 17cShyteposter, DDS (@17cShyteposter) September 16, 2019

Actually it kinda does for white feminists as well. Seldom do you see the white feminist leadership go to bat for black women. That’s been one of the chief complaints made by black women, namely, that the women’s movement, feminism, has been largely an all white (or mostly white) movement. In that case, black women might as well support a man who’s at least from among their own.

Technically speaking that’s inaccurate. The Catholic Church primarily refers to the clergy, and leadership. Historically there is a clergy laity distinction. The laity are way at the bottom of the totem pole in influence, in importance, etc. Theres a reason why most of the officially canonized saints are from the clergy. Because being a part of the clergy is more than just a calling: it is a sacrament (Holy Orders). Being a member of the laity confers no grace to anyone. Only a member of the clergy can consecrate the Host, the most important part of Mass, and the centerpiece of being a Catholic.

Well, a Cub’s maximum speed is 76 knots (that’s only 87 miles per hour, for you landlubbers), but maybe she was flying (“driving?!”) her preferred 104 knots in some other bird?

Likewise unless he was pretty loaded (was he?) her old man probably could not afford a bird with the range needed to make casual excursions to the Arctic Circle and back to the contiguous F.U.S.A. Likewise, that cited interview suggests she lived in New York, and unless she stopped several times to refuel, she did not fly a Cub from New York to Minnesota the night her old man died. (But again, may the trip was made in another bird of hers? I never heard of this woman until now, so I’ve no idea how wealthy she is or was.)

You conveniently forget that Kobe and his wife were separated from 2011-13. He was also known as a flagrant adulterer. At least Michael Jordan had the decency to get a divorce from his first wife.

I think you meant to reply to the comment I was replying to, not to mine.

Another misogynist women hating POS man of UNZ who can’t get laid and chooses to display his sexual and mental health problems on this site.

Likewise unless he was pretty loaded (was he?)

Apparently the Cruises of Creston, Iowa were loaded af. I think she might have been talking of flying from Iowa to Minnesota, not from New York. Apparently she was a teenage virtuoso brass player and the family cosseted her pretty well.

Still, I think she is bullshitting.

Her mother’s obit gives some details:

https://www.pearsonfuneralhomes.com/obituary/wilma-l-cruise/

Wilma L. Cruise
October 28, 1925 – January 18, 2006

Wilma L. Cruise was born to Irene B. (Rakow) and Delbert L. Hill on October 28, 1925, in Orchard, Nebraska. Wilma entered eternal rest on January 18, 2006, at Creston Nursing and Rehab in Creston, Iowa at the age of eighty years, two months, and twenty-three days.

Wilma graduated from O’Neill High School with the class of 1943. She attended Omaha Business School for one year. On September 10, 1944, Wilma married Dr. John W. Cruise, DDS at St. Cecilia’s Cathedral, Omaha, Nebraska.

After her marriage, Wilma moved to St. Louis, MO, where her husband completed dental school. They moved to Creston in 1949. Wilma was a homemaker and bookkeeper for her husband’s dental office.

Wilma was a member of the Altar Society; Catholic Daughters of America; and the Crestmoor Golf Club.

Left to mourn Wilma’s passing are her children: Tony Cruise (wife Kay), Omaha, NE; Kate Coen (husband Mike), Creston; Mick Cruise, Dubuque; Julee Cruise (husband Edward Grinnan), New York, NY; her sister: Twila Wurtz, Sioux City, IA; Five Grandchildren: Jennifer Coen; Brian (wife Katie) Coen; John Coen (fiancee Jacque Berens); Michelle (husband Kevin) Lee; Jean Cruise; Four Great-Grandchildren: John Rourke, Benjamin Lee, James Lee, and Jack Coen; Nephews: Steve Mattas, Kentucky; Dave Mattas, Omaha, NE; Larry Wurtz, Minnesota; and Nieces: Maureen Mattas, Lincoln, NE; Molly Nancy, Lincoln, NE; Diane (husband Robert) Carley, Omaha, NE.

Preceding Wilma in death were her parents; Husband, Jack in 1980; Grand-daughter: Jill Marie Coen in 1986; and nephews: Dwayne, John, and Marty Mattas.

Mother’s mother was a Rakow, which if consistent with other surnames ending in -ow (Aronow, Manilow, Dolginow) means ((you know)). Although the Cruises were apparently quite Catholic, matrilineal is matrilineal.

TBH, this is a hell of a lot better than most rape victims get. It’s a hard crime to prove and a nasty kind of trial.

She should have stuck with just calling him an austere religious scholar.

“I believe it entirely likely he effectively convinced the victim, or, rather, his lawyers did, that if she recanted and refused to cooperate with any prosecution she would be made a very rich woman in any civil action she chose to file, and that that offer – or some very similar arrangement – was honoured by both parties.”

There’d be a corollary to that, probably not explicitly stated but understood – “should you choose to prosecute, your personal life will be up for grabs, your friends and family will be harassed, ex-lovers will be rewarded for their testimony, you’ll be monstered in court by a succession of lawyers, you’ll become notorious and probably unemployable, though you might get a few offers for porn work. Think it over.”

That was his wife. 4 karat, 8 million cash IIRC.

You conveniently forget that Kobe and his wife were separated from 2011-13. He was also known as a flagrant adulterer. At least Michael Jordan had the decency to get a divorce from his first wife.

I’m not excusing Kobe Bryant’s prior behavior. Kobe Bryant didn’t excuse his prior behavior.

That was 7 years ago. Since then, an admittedly imperfect Kobe Bryant apparently led a decent life as a husband, father and someone who back to his community.

What more should he have done? Or was he entitled to no forgiveness?

My understanding is that she consented to “sex” generally but not the particular type of sex Kobe had in mind. In other words, Kobe thought consent for one orifice applied to all.

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Yes, Margo’s current marriage is still active at 18 years. I find it interesting that she kept the name of her WASP husband and the other three were Jewish. And yes, the relationship between Dear Abby, Ann Landers, and their families is quite ironic.

Sonmez was roasted for a post hours after Kobe Bryant died in helicopter crash.

Interesting choice of words, given that Kobe was roasted in the crash.

Is Woke Logic somewhere between Fuzzy Logic and Nappy Logic? Just axin.

We were talking about who created the blackface minstrel show, not blackface vaudeville. That was my question. Can you answer it?

It’s never been a secret that Jews were prominent performers in blackface vaudeville.

https://www.jweekly.com/1998/10/02/berkeley-professor-unmasks-jewish-stars-in-blackface-study/

Note the date.

But thanks for your research. That must have taken lots of your time. Did you know that time is measured by opportunity cost? What’s yours, a buck an hour?

That must hurt.

The laity are way at the bottom of the totem pole in influence, in importance, etc.

Ha ha ha. Contemporary parish priests have an aversion to locking horns with the music director and the DRE. So, you’re music, 85% of the time, is cr!p distributed by Oregon Catholic Press that sounds like leftover score music from Hallmark Channel productions. And your catechesis is unstructured gitchy goo. Catholic parishes are populated with all kinds of people, but they’re run according to what will appeal to the audience of the Hallmark Channel. The fathers in the parish sit on the building committee, run the raffles, collect money for the Knights of Columbus, and otherwise keep their mouths shut.

https://www.koat.com/article/albuquerque-twins-named-after-basketball-legend-kobe-bryant/30683646

Missed this from the police report, he implicates Shaq in raping multiple women.

“Although I truly believe this encounter between us was consensual, I recognize now that she did not and does not view this incident the same way I did. After months of reviewing discovery, listening to her attorney, and even her testimony in person, I now understand how she feels that she did not consent to this encounter.” – Kobe Bryant

“The officers then asked Bryant, “Did you ever ask her if you wanted, if you could cum in her face?” “Yes,” Bryant replied, adding, “That’s when she said no. That’s when she said no. That’s when she said no.” – Kobe Bryant

At one point, when police described the accuser as “attractive,” Bryant corrected them. “She wasn’t that attractive,” said Bryant. Then, when officers asked him about “finishing,” he replied, “I didn’t finish a fucking thing,” adding, “I jerked off when she left.” – Kobe Bryant

According to the police report, while he was being questioned by the officers about the alleged sexual assault, Bryant said, “I should have done what Shaq does,” adding, “Shaq gives them money or buys them cars, he has already spent one million dollars.” The report added, “Kobe stated that Shaq does this to keep the girls quiet.” – The Filth talking about Kobe Bryant

“[The nurse] stated that there were several lacerations to the victim’s posterior fourchette or vaginal area, and two of those lacerations were approximately one centimeter in length,” testified Det. Winters. “And there were many, I believe, 2 millimeter lacerations. Too many to count… [The nurse] stated that the injuries were consistent with penetrating genital trauma. That it’s not consistent with consensual sex.” – The Filth about Kobe Bryant

From what I remember about the case, she finally said she wouldn’t press charges (either criminal or civil)

You remember wrong. The criminal case was dropped but the civil case was settled. The amount is confidential but for a case like this it would have been at least a couple of million. Not bad for 1 roll in the hay for a woman who usually gave it away for free and for Kobe a bargain compared to the alternative.

Shaq is a smart man. Before the girl lawyers up, a car is enough. She is forever grateful and speaks kindly of your incredible generosity.

Afterward, it will cost you millions. Kobe was scoffing at Shaq spending a cumulative million on who knows how many girls. This one girl cost him many millions and could have send him to jail and/or ended his career.

EXCEPT…for the most important thing, which is consecration of the Host. That is the ball game. The Super Bowl, 7th Game of WS. And that will always be controlled by the clergy, period. You only have a Mass if the Host is consecrated, which can only be done by a priest (member of the clergy and not by ordinary folks).

What kind of car? Depends. We talking about a Yugo? Or a Rolls?

Now that Kobe’s dead, there’s nothing to prevent the woman (now in her mid 30’s) from writing a book, her story about the incident and what went down that night. Nothing that lawyers can do. He’s dead, and she has a right to tell her story, should anyone want to publish it. If Stormy Daniels can get a book deal, then so can this woman.

And with him being gone, why wouldn’t they? Now’s the best time to write that book and get it published as there is an audience for what went down that night in CO.

Getting killed taking your 13 year old daughter to her basketball game is a pretty respectable way to go.

Yep. And haters gotta hate…

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Hours before he died Sunday, basketball superstar Kobe Bryant attended Mass at Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church in Newport Beach, California. His parish is now praying for his soul.

https://bit.ly/2RVQbUN

Are the death threats on line crimes? Shouldn’t that be the story here?

What could he do? Instead of pressuring his victim to drop the charge, he could have confessed his crime, pled guilty, and accepted his punishment. Then he might deserve forgiveness.

Thanks, I forgot he was already married to her.

No pre-nup, so I guess it was a good investment. Four children.

though not having anything close to a monopoly

When it comes to raping black women ( and being raped by white men seems to be an obsession of black women along with having their hair touched – most blacks are convinced that their white blood is the product of rape by massa) they pretty much do. The # of black women raped by white men is a statistical zero according to the FBI crime stats but you would never know that from reading the mass media or watching TV crime shows. On Law & Order SVU, how often is the rapist black and the victim white vs. vice versa?

The whole Kobe Bryant crime profile/modus operandi was a very interesting one to me…

First, of all the victim was about the same age as his wife since he started dating his wife while she was still in high school.

Second, I don’t know what the victim actually looked like, but she could have been the same type as his wife.

Third, he had a daughter who was heavily involved in basketball and just getting ready to enter high school. Where he was presumably going to become a coach for her high school team.

We don’t know where this might have ended down the road. We could have been looking at another Bill Cosby/Michael Jackson/Harvey Weinstein type of situation 20 years hence if he had been allowed to become a coach for girls in high school basketball after being accused of raping a young woman close in age to a high schooler.

Maybe I’ve just seen too many crime stories on TV, I don’t know.

Beats Nelson Rockefeller. Still, I’d say driving to the game like an ordinary mortal and NOT getting killed (and taking your child with you) would have been even better.

What could he do? Instead of pressuring his victim to drop the charge, he could have confessed his crime, pled guilty, and accepted his punishment. Then he might deserve forgiveness.

He could have, but he had his spiritual epiphany long after the water had passed under that bridge.

Kobe Bryant made an originally imperfect deal with his victim. But years after that deal had been struck, he acknowledged his fault, apparently with genuine contrition, she went on with her life and he went on with his as a person of matured integrity.

At that point what more could he have done differently?

What more should he have done? He should have served a prison sentence.

On Law & Order SVU, how often is the rapist black and the victim white vs. vice versa?

The signature of the Law & Order franchise is that the perp is invariably bourgeois or patrician. Can be male or female. Anyone from a pudgy office supervisor in glasses to Mrs. Blueblood Loaded, patron of the arts, will do. Not sure all white, but that was my impression.

Boy, you really believe everything you’re told and read. Swallow it hook, line and sinker. Like, this is the 1950’s, and..I HATE ’50’s talking points. This is 2020. This the reality we have to deal with, not Leave it to Beaver.

He had a great talent that in the capitalist system took him very far, and for a HS graduate, that’s pretty good for winning the Lottery of Life. So he had a little rape [allegedly] problem, so what?

Here’s a scripture you might not remember: The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. So for a good 25+ yrs he was given, and now on Sunday it was taken away.

Wow, AD – this is, by your standards, strangely impassioned & incoherent.

Is this really you?

Except that the rape kit proved that the deed was done within past 24 hrs, and she had only been with Kobe in that time frame. Oops.

Perhaps the truth is a bit (but not by much) more complex. She knew who he was, wanted to meet him, and perhaps wanted to make out with him, but not necessarily have sex with him within ten minutes of meeting him. So he took her eagerness of meeting him to mean she wanted it, and that’s where he made the mega million dollar mistake.

So, perhaps now with him dead, she can write a book and tell her side of the story. If you say “Why should we believe her?” Well, why should we have ever believed Kobe’s side either? Therefore, let’s hear her side in book form, and then decide between the two versions where the accuracy lies about what occurred on that fateful night in CO.

The statute of limitations is an affirmative defense, which means that it can be waived. At any point before he died, Bryant could have waived it.

That’s a reflection of black feminist’s irrationality, not reality. White feminists bend over backwards in deference to black women. At least that’s my perception.

Some years ago I watched every Law & Order episode (the regular series) for a year. Every suspect-defendant was white. And usually “bourgeois or patrician.” In maybe one or two cases there was an initial nonwhite suspect, but in the end the main suspect and guilty perpetrator was white.