Rapist granted joint-custody rights? Someone else is going to have to figure this out

proud (and POSSESSIVE) papa christopher mirasolo

Rapes a 12-year-old, holds her captive for two days, now a Michigan judge grants him joint-custody.

The victim, who is now 21, claims that Mirasolo forcibly raped and threatened to kill her nine years ago. The now 27-year-old was 18 when the attack allegedly happened in September 2008.

Kiesling said that the victim was with her 13-year-old sister and another friend when they snuck out of their home one night to meet up with a boy and his older friend. 

That older friend was Mirasolo, and he asked them if they wanted to go for a ride. 

Thinking they would go to a McDonalds or somewhere similar they got in, but Mirasolo allegedly took their phones and threw them out before driving them to Detroit to steal gas and then back to Sanilac County.

There he allegedly kept them captive for two days in an empty house before finally releasing the 13-year-old in a park. She said he threatened to kill them if they told anyone what had happened. 

A month later the 12-year-old realized she was pregnant and Mirasolo was arrested. 

'She (the victim) and her family was told first-time sex offenders weren't sent to prison because people come out worse after they go there,' [attorney] Kiessling told the News. 

'Nothing has been right about this since it was originally investigated. He was never properly charged and should be sitting behind bars somewhere, but the system is victimizing my client, who was a child herself when this all happened.' 

Though the assault could have carried a life sentence or one no less than 25 years, Mirasolo was given a plea for attempted third-degree criminal sexual conduct and sentenced to a year in prison. 

He didn't serve the full year, though, and was let out after six months to care for his sick mother. 

Judge Gregory S Ross made the decision to grant Mirasolo custody, and then disclosed the victim's address to him and ordered her to add his name to the child's birth certificate. 

All of that was done without the victim's consent or a hearing, Kiessling claims. 

Kiessling said that the victim was told she is not allowed to move 100 miles from her current address 'without court consent'.

Since when does an insignificant citizen's letter to a Republican merit front page coverage in Greenwich Time?

Greenwich Time's sole political "reporter"

Since GT hired Ken Borsuck, a committed Democrat who attends local Democrats' political rallies as a fellow-member while also purporting to report on them as a disinterested reporter.

First, here's the paper's caption for the citizen's picture: "Dita Bhargava, the Democratic candidate for State Representative for the 151st District, at the Greenwich Time, Greenwich, Conn., Friday, Oct. 14, 2016." That implies that the lady has some kind of active political career going, but no. You have to read all the way down to the final paragraph of Borsch's breaking news to learn the actual status of his friend and political ally:

Bhargava ran unsuccessfully for the state Legislature in 2016, challenging incumbent state Rep. Fred Camillo, R-151st. In January, Bhargava was named vice chairman of the state Democratic Party. She resigned in August to begin exploring a run for state office.

In other words, Miss Bhagavad-gita is just an ordinary citizen like the rest of us; there's nothing newsworthy in her writing a letter to the editor of the local rag, but Democrat operative Borsuck, in collusion with the editor of that paper, if there is one, has moved her letter from the editorial to the front page.

Of course, all of Borsucks" content has been similarly shifted, so no surprise here, but it's still sad to see such an utter abandonment of journalism standards.

No further comment necessary

Excellent article on domestic abuse in, of all places, Greenwich Time

Cop friends have told me that responding to domestic "disputes" is one of the more dreaded duties, and I think that's true nationwide, as well: often there's alcohol involved, and violence can explode, from one party or the other, or even both, and some of the scenes are absolutely heart-breaking. Today's GT article captures some of that, in a non-hysterical, factual, way, and even includes a case of female-on-male violence, because this is not a crime restricted to boozy men in wife-beater Tees going after their women. Neither, the article points out, is it something limited to  our lower-income neighborhoods in Byram. In fact, as the article makes clear and my cop friends will attest, some of the worst cases occur in the back country.

This subject is very much not a left wing, tree-hugger issue, and the Greenwich Time doesn't cast it that way. Nice job.

One aside: I told my daughters, probably too often, when they were beginning to date, that they should never, ever give a boy a "second chance" if he struck them. Someone willing to exceed the boundaries of decency like that was revealing a character flaw so deep, and so irredeemable, that they should never trust him again, regardless of whatever excuse he gave, or what he promised.

Years on, one of my kids said she'd remembered what I'd preached and walked from a relationship after just such an incident, when he slapped her. The "boy" was picked up by one of my daughter's friends, and he proceeded to beat that friend, very badly. Since my girls rarely took my advice back then (wisely, I''' admit), I'm glad that lecture stuck. 

Profiles in courage: young black woman reports "noose" in dorm

Run away, it's a macro-aggression! (And I'm fit to be tied)

Fortunately, she was able to retreat to a safe space and cuddle a puppy until police identified the scary object as a misplaced shoelace.

The president of Michigan State University, Lou Anna Simon, rapidly released a statement denouncing nooses and describing the shoelace hanging on a dorm door in Holden Hall as “a racial incident.”

“A student reported a noose was hung outside of her room,” Simon’s statement said. “I want to recognize the courage it took for the student to report this incident.”

“This type of behavior is not tolerated on our campus,” [Simon] also said. “No Spartan should ever feel targeted based on their race, or other ways in which they identify. A noose is a symbol of intimidation and threat that has a horrendous history in America.”

By Wednesday afternoon, campus police managed to locate a shoelace which matched the “noose.” The police found it outside the dormitory.

The campus cops even managed to track down the student who had lost the shoelaces.

A Michigan State spokesman, Jason Cody, then suggested that the shoelaces were somehow specially packaged to look like “a noose.”

“The matching packaged leather shoelace was found outside of the residence hall,” Cody said in an updated statement. “Officers located and spoke to the student who lost both of the shoelaces, which are packaged in a way that someone could perceive them to look similar to a noose.”

The student who lost the shoelaces lives on the same floor as the student who called in the noose threat.

“Also, the original shoelace found inside the residence hall was not directed at any individual,” Cody said reassuringly. “It originally was seen on hallway floor and later on a stairwell door handle, where officers believe someone put it after picking it up.”

The fact that a single taxpayer dollar is being spent on this Amazon pitch makes the blood boil

"The remains of Father Panik village, one of the most famous drug spots in the Northeastern United States. The housing project was torn down and its residents relocated in an attempt to stop drug traffic. In the mid-1990s"

Connecticut state and municipal employees are collaborating to pitch for Amazon's new headquarters. Proposed cities: Hartford, Danbury, Bridgeport (!) and Stamford.

Not a single one of those cities, or Connecticut itself, for that matter, is in the running, or ever will be, and the politicians involved know that. Better they send those assigned to the task of drawing up such futile campaigns to picking up litter off the streets — we'd be getting something for the money, at least.

Do you really want a "smart house"?

That wasn't my Swanson Dinner!

From FWIW's Home Monitor correspondent, this:

Voice from baby monitor suggests that mother "suck my dick".

This is the chilling moment a woman realized her web camera was spying on her when it turned to look at her and said, “Bonjour, madame.”

Several warnings have been issued on internet-connected cameras that can be remotely hacked by pervs and used to spy on people.

Now one woman in the Netherlands has learned just how intrusive these gadgets can be ....

Rilana Hamer, who recently graduated from college and works at a financial services firm, thought the webcam would be a good way to keep an eye on her puppy while she was at work.

But it turned out she was the one being monitored.

Hamer was with a pal [sic] when she noticed the rotating camera swivel to look at her from across the room.

“I moved to the left and right and the camera came with me.”

Hamer whipped out her smartphone to film it, and the chilling clip she recorded appears to show a mumbled voice having a conversation with a terrified Hamer, who screams, “Get out of my house.”

It continues to swivel, before uttering “Suck my d—.”

“My privacy, my house, my personal stuff and myself… I’m scared.. terrified,” wrote Hamer.

“I’m being watched, but for how long? What did that person see from me?”

Hundreds of thousands of unsecured personal cameras are available to watch online, in real time, thanks to sick websites that allow voyeurs to snoop on the general public.

The websites allow pervy peepers to peer through thousands of cameras placed in British car parks, offices and communal corridors as well as bedrooms and waiting rooms around the world.

The problem is so widespread, even Mark Zuckerberg and Pope Francis have placed stickers over their smartphone cameras to stop someone watching them.

All this "Internet of Things" stuff comes with a problem: the manufacturers of "smart" refrigerators, TV's, sex toys, whatever, have no security against hackers whatsoever, and certainly no way to download new programming to combat hackers when they're discovered. Got one of those "Next" thermostats? Prepare to find your pipes frozen and your house's temperature set at zero degrees when you return from St. Barts (oops! No more St.Barts; the Seychelles, perhaps). Whatever you do, don't keep a computer on when you and the tennis pro are  training in the bedroom.

It took 4 1/2 years and three brokers, but these owners finally found someone to overpay for their Conyers Farm house

50 Guards Road has sold for $4.5 million. It started at $8, back in 2013; owners paid $5.750 in 2000 (and before that, it sold for $5.2 in 1998 — $7.83 in current dollars).

Add a Chick-Fil—A, a Whole Foods, and a gas station, and Conyers might be viable yet. For now, it's the new Sherwood Farms.

Should sheer stupidity and historical ignorance warrant execution? Probably not, but there's certainly no reason to listen to this idiot.

Kenyon Martin, Minister of Cultural Appropriation 

Basketball player Kenyon Martin calls out Jeremy Lin for "cultural appropriation" because of Lin's wearing dreadlocks. Lin points out that Martin has Chinese characters tattooed on his arm.

I have no idea what part of Africa the partially-white Mr. Kenyon's black ancestors may have come from, but I doubt they were Egyptian, a different culture, and certainly he's not Indian, Greek, Minoan, Roman, or Celtic, all cultures whose members wore dreadlocks long before African-Americans appropriated the style in the 70s.

Kenyon, by the way, made millions by playing basketball, a game invented by a white man in Springfield, Massachusetts, and published his complaint against Lin via cellphone, a device very much not invented by an African.

Not that he shows any ability or inclination to read, but here's a brief article one of Kenyon's friends might read to him:

The history of dreadlocks is varied and differs depending on who you ask. This, then, is a summary and compilation of all the different accounts we have been able to locate.

One account claims that dreadlocks originated in India (unlike most who cite Egypt as their birth place) with the dreadlocked diety Shiva and his followers. It is likelythat this is the spirituality origin of dreadlocks in Indian culture. However, the first archeological proof of people wearing dreadlocks came from Egypt where mummies have been recovered with their dreadlocks still in tact.

Regardless of their origin, dreadlocks have been worn by nearly every culture at some point in time or another. Roman accounts stated that the Celts wore their hair ‘like snakes’. The Germanic tribes and Vikings were also known to wear their hair in dreadlocks. Dreadlocks have been worn by the monks of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Nazarites of Judiasm, Qalandri’s Sufi’s, the Sadhu’s of Hinduism, and the Dervishes of Islam, and many more! 

Harvey channels Hillary: "Vast, right-wing conspiracy" out to get the famed Democrat fund raiser. Er, that would be The New York Times. Really?

Weinstein discovers a starlet, but he's lured into sin by the little vixon and her co-conspirators

Give Harvey this: when the conspiracy to "get him" includes the NYT and the New Yorker, that is indeed vast. So vast, it encompasses the entire world (except Hollywood and the Democratic Party).

And that conspiracy includes liberal activist Ashley Judd:

Judd went on the record that 20 years ago, Weinstein invited her to the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel for what Judd thought would be a professional breakfast meeting.

Judd said she was shocked when Weinstein sent her up to his room instead. Judd said Weinstein appeared in a bathrobe, offered her a massage, and asked her if she wanted to watch him take a shower. 

Judd said she remembered thinking: “How do I get out of the room as fast as possible without alienating Harvey Weinstein?” 

In 2015, Judd told the story to Variety without revealing the name of the person: 

"I was sexually harassed by one of our industry’s most famous, admired-slash-rivaled bosses ... He was very stealth and expert about it. He groomed me, which is a technical term – Oh, come meet at the hotel for something to eat. Fine, I show up. Oh, he’s actually in his room. I’m like, Are you kidding me? I just worked all night. I'm just going to order cereal. It went on in these stages. It was so disgusting. He physically lured me by saying, 'Oh, help me pick out what I’m going to wear.' There was a lot that happened between the point of entry and the bargaining. There was this whole process of bargaining—'Come do this, come do this, come do this.' And I would say, 'No, no, no.'"

In an exclusive interview with FWIW, Ms. Clinton defended one of her largest [sic] fund raiser and bundler: 

"Harvey has it exactly right,", said Clinton. "It's just what happened to Bill, when that bit of trailer trash was put up by Reagan and Eisenhower and Kennedy — yes, even Kennedy — to claim she'd been raped, and that Lewinski cunt came out with her blow job story. Lies, all lies. Lies, I tell you! And when I win back the presidency the ws stolen from me, I sure as hell am going to be doing something about it.

"Harvey and Bill weren't demeaning women, they were empowering them! They're both hard men, yes, but sometimes it takes a hard man to make a tender chicken realize her potential, and recognize the opportunity being offered them.

"No, she added, I'm not returning Harvey's contributions, because he's a champion pf women's rights, like I am, and I know he'd want it that way: so do I."