Month: September 2018

Christine Blasey Ford has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her 36 years ago. There are tons of reasons to doubt her story: She doesn’t have any corroborating evidence, she waited until the eve of the confirmation vote to tell her story, her story is filled with inconsistencies, and she’s a registered democrat and liberal political activist. Believe or not there’s even more that puts her credibility in doubt, including that Kavanaugh’s mother was a judge that had foreclosed on Ford’s parent’s house.

Ford claims that in high school a drunk Brett Kavanaugh and his friend locked her in a room and held her down in an attempt to take her clothes off. Ford said she was worried Kavanaugh was going both rape and kill her. She said she was able to escape when the friend jumped on the bed and sent her tumbling out of the locked room into a bathroom. In her version of the story, she doesn’t know where this attempted assault took place, nor does she recall why she was there or how she got there. Also, for some reason she was wearing swimsuit under her clothes.

Her “evidence” for this is that she told her therapist about it 6 years ago and her husband backs her story up. She also took a polygraph that she says she passed. As Erick Erickson points out, there’s a ton of inconsistencies with all of this:

The lawyer claims Ford wanted anonymity. The Washington Post says she called a tip line.

It is worth nothing that Christine Ford’s first mention of Brett Kavanaugh came after the New York Times ran a story suggesting he could be on the Supreme Court if Mitt Romney were elected.

But beyond that, the story no longer adds up in real ways. Christine Ford’s lawyer claims Ms. Ford wanted anonymity and reached out to Dianne Feinstein privately. The Washington Post, however, reports that Ford first reached out to them via a tip line to tell her story.

Then, while still claiming to not want to come forward, Ford both lawyered up and got a polygraph.

She now claims she knew she would have to come forward because the media was working on stories and would expose her, but that comes full circle to her calling a tip line and outing herself.

Plus there’s this:

Likewise, we have the fact that her therapist described four assailants and Ford now claims that was an error on the therapists part. Though her therapist has detailed notes, she never writes down Kavanaugh’s name. We just have Ford’s husband claiming Ford named Kavanaugh at the time, but it was apparently not a detail significant enough for the therapist to record.

As if that weren’t enough, check this out from Town Hall columnist Kurt Schlichter:

I checked the Montgomery County docket. Brett Kavanaugh’s mother was the judge on a house foreclosure case that appears to be the accuser’s parents.

I don’t buy any of it.

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) September 17, 2018

Holy shit? Really? As if everything already wasn’t adding up, it looks like Ford picked Kavanaugh as her imaginary assailant because his mom foreclosed on her parents house. This is obviously an ideological fairy tale cooked up by a liberal activist who has a personal beef with the Kavanaugh family.

Maybe if Ford’s parents had been a little more financially responsible, she wouldn’t be trying to destroy the reputation of a good man. Then again, she is a democrat and this exactly the shitty kind of things they do.

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In addition to the street people leaving poop on the sidewalk, San Francisco has another serious crime problem that authorities have failed to address. Last week ABC 7 News reported that some city residents have had their cars broken into so many times they are now placing notes in the windows begging the thieves to move on to another car.

Fed up with having his vehicle broken into four times over a year and a half, Felix Kubin decided to express his frustration, writing on the rear windshield, “Thank you for letting this glass remain unbroken. We are a poor family with two kids. No values inside except diapers.”…

Kubin and his wife learned what would work the hard way. First break in, they lost $1,500 worth of sporting goods.

“I think maybe it’s my fault I left the car in such a place,” said Kubin.

Second break-in, they lost just a bag, but in a third break in at Golden Gate Park, much more.

“That time we was really upset because it was all my official papers,” said Kubin.

“My passport, social security, working permit, everything, it was my wallet, it was two phones,” he continued.

On the fourth break-in, the thieves realized there was only baby formula inside and didn’t take anything. That gave Kubin the idea to start writing the notes on his own car. And he’s not alone. Reporter Melanie Woodrow collected these images online:

Creativity contest! Okay it’s not really a contest BUT I do want to hear from you! Have you taken a pic of a note in or on a car like this? Please show me your best plea to SF car break in thieves! @SFCarBreakins @abc7newsbayarea pic.twitter.com/H8X1nppTyc

— Melanie Woodrow (@MelanieWoodrow) September 12, 2018

One reason the break-ins have become so common is that almost no one is ever arrested in these cases. Back in January, the San Francisco Chronicle reported there had been 81,000 reported break-ins over a period of seven years, but only 13 cases resulted in arrests:

Of the more than 81,000 online reports of auto break-ins that victims filed in San Francisco over the past seven years, a mere 13 cases resulted in arrests…

At an average of 85 auto break-ins a day in San Francisco, Police Chief Bill Scott has said it’s not practical for officers to show up and investigate every case, and there is often little evidence left at the scene to collect. Therefore, most incidents — 62 percent from 2011 to 2017 — were filed online. But just 13 of the 81,511 cases filed that way led to arrests, according to data provided by the San Francisco district attorney’s office.

Police still arrested 446 people for auto burglary from January to November of 2017, but only one suspect was linked to an online report, according to the D.A.’s data.

“It’s astonishing,” Kirk Schwyn said Thursday afternoon upon learning about the clearance rate while his truck’s window was repaired at Auto Glass Now on Bryant Street. “They sound overwhelmed. Either that or somebody has just given up.”

So, of course, if no one is being caught, the thieves are going to keep doing what they are doing. The Chronicle had another report in February of this year in which a brick mason described seeing over 100 break-ins while working on Lombard street. In fact, while he was telling the reporter his story, he and the reporter witnessed another break-in:

Just then, we saw a white Volkswagen sedan with a paper license plate drive by and turn south onto Hyde Street. It circled and drove by again. And then again…

As we talked, the Volkswagen drove by again and again, circling seven or eight times. Finally, it came to a stop next to a white Dodge Grand Caravan.

A man in a gray sweatshirt jumped out, quickly shattered the middle of three windows on the driver’s side, and reached in so far his waist was balanced on the door and his legs and feet were in the air. He emerged with a backpack and dashed back into the VW. It took just a few seconds.

The car sped off, again turning south on Hyde Street. This time it didn’t circle back around.

Plain-clothes officers, who’d been called by a neighbor, were too far away to do anything. The thieves got away, though a Chronicle photographer got photos of the thief in the act. The victim turned out to be a Chinese tourist who had lost $400 and his passport.

It turns out KPIX, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco ran a similar story earlier this month. Here’s their take on it:

Finally, Inside Edition did a sting just last week by placing bait items with GPS trackers in a car parked in San Francisco and then waiting for someone to steal them. It didn’t take long. And thanks to the GPS, the pair of thieves are confronted on camera. But stick around for the surprise ending. Things don’t quite work out as planned for the reporters.