Nuclear Attack on D.C. “Inevitable” Claims Government Witness

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Rob Taylor

Here’s a time to stock up on canned goods and ammunition alert from The Washington Times:

A nuclear device detonated near the White House would kill roughly 100,000 people and flatten downtown federal buildings, while the radioactive plume from the explosion would likely spread toward the Capitol and into Southeast D.C., contaminating thousands more.

The blast from the 10-kiloton bomb â€” similar to the bomb dropped over Hiroshima during World War II â€” would kill up to one in 10 tourists visiting the Washington Monument and send shards of glass flying the length of the National Mall, in a scenario that has become increasingly likely to occur in a major U.S. city in recent years, panel members told a Senate committee yesterday.

“It’s inevitable,” said Cham E. Dallas, director of the Institute for Health Management and Mass Destruction Defense at the University of Georgia, who has charted the potential explosion’s effect in the District and testified before a hearing of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. “I think it’s wistful to think that it won’t happen by 20 years.

Read the rest, it includes a handy doomsday scenario map for the nation’s capital.

So According to this guy within the next 20 years Al-Qaeda, or maybe a group like the I.S.M., will nuke a U.S. city. Scary stuff. Washington is a good target but New York, L.A. or Seattle will all be just as devastating. Or any large city along a transportation hub, really. The difference is the politicians holding the hearing are in D.C. so they want plans in place to save their hides, but what are your areas plans if you get nuked?

Maybe now I’ll get off my ass and restart American Survival Blog.

Victimless Crime File: Pot Dealer Forces Two Year Old to Smoke Pot

Posted on April 15, 2008 by Rob Taylor

Melvin Blevin is an 18-year-old pot dealer from small town Ohio. About a month ago D.E.A. agents raided the little bastard’s home and found 2000 lbs of marijuana hidden in his walls. They must not have confiscated it all though because he had apparently had just enough left over to torture a toddler with:

PATASKALA, Ohio â€” Police on Monday said they obtained video showing a teenager forcing a 2-year-old girl to smoke marijuana from a pipe.

According to police, a clerk at a Columbus pawnshop discovered the video after Melvin Blevins sold his camcorder for cash, 10TV’s Maureen Kocot reported.

“They were going through the hard drive on the camera and came across the video images,” said Pataskala Police Chief Chris Forshey.

Blevins, 18, was arrested last month when drug enforcement agents raided his home and found more than 2,000 pounds of marijuana, Kocot reported.

Agents also recovered $4 million in cash and dozens of firearms.

Police said the video showed Blevins holding a pipe filled with marijuana to the 2-year-old’s lips. A short time later, the child is shown seated on the lap of a 16-year-old girl.

The next 18 seconds showed the girl coughing and trying to speak, Kocot reported.

“Get your water,” a voice said.

Forshey said the video was one of the most disturbing clips that he’s ever seen.

“You can tell that she’s inhaling some of it,” Forshey said. “You can tell that she doesn’t want to. So it’s a pretty disgusting video.”

When asked if she wanted more, the girl shook her head no, Kocot reported.

“No?” a voice asked. “You’re good?”

Court records obtained by 10TV News revealed that Blevins told investigators that it was him in the video. However, Blevins told detectives that he did not remember doing it, Kocot reported.

Blevins doesn’t remember torturing a baby, nor did he remember leaving the tape in the camcorder he pawned for quick cash. I guess all that stuff about pot affecting short term memory isn’t a plot by “The Man” to keep the magical weed out of your hands after all.

And why’s a man who had literally a ton of pot in his house so broke he needs to pawn his belongings? I guess besides being a degenerate Blevins just isn’t a very good businessman.

But smoking pot is a “victimless crime” right? Tell that to the little girl.

Speaking of potheads needing money, Canada’s socialized medical system is getting stiffed by users who “need” medical marijuana. At this point Canada’s owed a half a million bucks from 462 tokers. They’ve turned to collection agencies to try to recoup their losses:

OTTAWA – Medical marijuana users are on the hook for more than $500,000 in unpaid bills for government-certified weed, raising questions about the effectiveness of Health Canada’s troubled dope program.

Newly disclosed statistics show that Health Canada has sent final notices – and sometimes dispatched a collection agency as well – to 462 registered users since government marijuana first became available in 2003.

“Most of the 462 individuals who have received a letter regarding their accounts in arrears have had their shipment ceased,” department spokesman Paul Duchesne said in an e-mail.

The unpaid bills, totaling $554,255 as of Dec. 31, have tripled in value in the last two years and have resulted in some seriously ill citizens returning to the black market for their medication. The marijuana distribution service was specifically designed to give patients a legal alternative to street dope.

Officials have handed 29 overdue accounts to collection agencies who so far have been able to recoup just $2,000.

The statistics, acquired through the Access to Information Act and questions to Health Canada, suggest a deeply flawed program as the number of users in arrears has soared to about two-thirds of all 739 patients licensed to buy government dope.

What? Chronic pot smokers not paying their bills? I’ve never heard of such a thing?

The article also raises some questions (in my mind at least) as to the legitimacy of the program at all. Medical marijuana is supposed to be given to terminally ill patients or to combat the symptoms of serious illness. However the users in the story fit those categories loosely to say the least:

Mark Schollenberg, 42, of Stoney Creek, Ont., uses marijuana to control chronic pain from a series of workplace injuries. Unable to work and on disability, he initially used street marijuana but changed his mind.

“I thought instead of causing myself any problems, I should get a licence and do it legally,” he said in an interview.

With a doctor’s approval, Schollenberg got a licence and ordered his first batch of Health Canada dope last summer assuming Ottawa would cover the costs.

He was cut off in October, now owes $3,962.34 including interest, and is back on the street to purchase his “medicine.”

“I can’t even afford the black market,” he says of his five-gram-a-day requirement.

Wait, so basically this is a guy on disability because his back hurts (I’ve never seen that scam before) who needs five grams of pot a day? When I had surgery on my stomach for a hernia (in which my hack surgeon gutted me like a fish) I was given a week’s worth of Vicodin and pat on the back. When my prescription ran out I took Ibuprofen and smoked clove cigarettes until I didn’t feel like there was six inch gash in my belly.

But I guess Canadians are just a little more delicate than a big strapping tough guy like professional blogger Rob Taylor.

But certainly I’d feel some sympathy for an HIV positive man who needs pot for his ailment right? Wrong:

Jason Wilcox of Victoria currently owes Health Canada $6,770.06, a number that will increase with interest charges each month.

Wilcox, 37, has been HIV-positive since at least 1993, and needs 10 grams of marijuana daily for nausea, for severe pain in his foot and to help him sleep.

He says he became angry on learning that Health Canada charges users 1,500 per cent more than it pays Prairie Plant Systems for the dope.

“At that point, I refused to pay,” he said in an interview. “Also, not to mention that their product is crap.”

Maybe somebody should have told Jason that foot pain and trouble sleeping were in fact not symptoms of HIV or AIDS. They are the kind of psychosomatic milquetoastery that Canadian health care accepts as an excuse for any lazy hippie who wants to spend his days complaining about what they don’t have while not working and getting high on the tax payers’ dime.

But I suppose hard working Canadians on the hook for the drug use of grifters is also a victimless crime. Just like forcing a two-year-old to toke up. It’s all victimless unless you’re one of the many victims that legalization activists always seem to ignore.

h/t Trench

The Real Andrew Sullivan: Tiresome Anti-Semite

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Rob Taylor

Unlike many bloggers I’ve always found the antics of “excitable Andy” less amusing and more tiresome. Sullivan is a not so much a character as a caricature, a cartoonish web presence who can be counted on to hysterically denounce his so called fellow conservatives using radical leftist arguments, while all the while claiming the mantle of “true conservatism” for himself.

In a way, Sullivan is like Pat Buchanan. What both call conservatism is a combination self righteous moralizing and left-Libertarian anti-Americanism. The Christianized Stalinism that makes up Buchanan’s social conservatism is only slightly different from the armchair elitism of Sullivan. Both are deeply disdainful of the freedom of others to disagree with them and more so of the ability of others to put those opposing viewpoints in the public arena.

The knee jerk anti-Semitism both display is a sign of similar freedom hating mindsets. Sullivan’s most recent Buchananism comes in this piece critical of Bill Kristol, who had the temerity to to question Barack Obama:

But Kristol is doing something much more pernicious: he is saying that Obama is faking faith, that his very profession of faith is a “mask” that is slipping, and that Kristol is the person to determine whose faith is genuine and who is a fraud.

A non-Christian manipulator of Christianity is calling a Christian a liar about his own faith. That’s where they’ve gone to already. And it’s only the middle of April. What are they so scared of?

Ah. The pernicious Jew, who dares to question a Christian. What are “they” (Jews) so scared of anyway?

They manipulate Christians all the time. You know, behind the scenes in their secret cabals. The synagogues of Satan basically run this country, Sullivan is saying, and now they’ve turned their ritual daggers toward poor innocent Barack Obama preparing to uses his Christian blood for their Passover Matzah.

Sullivan’s comfort with the trappings of White Nationalist argument gives a glimpse into his twisted and poisoned soul. This is the real Andrew Sullivan, a tiresome anti-Semite whose bile is vomited forth on an American public slowly waking up to the fact that Sullivan is no more a conservative than David Duke is.

h/t Ace of Spades.

The Pauper to Princess Kidnapping Scandal

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Rob Taylor

A fly by night reality T.V. production company is being accused of luring young girls to a Central Florida house where they were held hostage according to local media. Dream House Productions is the company that created Pauper to Princess, a show that promises to turn poor, desperate young women into “princesses” that will be role models to young girls everywhere.

This dream come true reality show turned into a nightmare as the girls were locked away and terrorized by the shows “manager:”

APOPKA, Fla. — Police in Apopka raided a home being used for a Central Florida-based “princess” reality show after accusations the women participants were being held against their will.

“(The women) said their cell phones were taken away from them so they were not able to make any contact with their family or friends,” neighbor Lori Thompson said. “So, they said they were fearful and they were just trying to get out.”

The “Pauper to Princess” reality show was created with the apparent idea of taking eight young ladies and putting them inside a home to transform them into princesses.

Neighbors near the Apopka home said they called police after hearing that the girls were unable to leave.

“I’m going to use the word escape because both of the girls said they couldn’t leave the house,” another neighbor said.

Local 6 showed video of Marc Brilleman, a head manager of the show, being put into a police patrol car after being charged with false imprisonment.

Four women were seen leaving the home and standing outside after the house was opened.

“Marc Brilleman is crazy,” one of the women said.

A show participant, Alisha Waizmann, also offered a warning to women after leaving the house.

“Watch out for schemes,” Waizmann said.

“Was there anything sexual going on?” Local 6’s J.R. Stone said.

Local 6 also has a video report which shows the harried women leaving the scene as well as the news that Brilleman posted bond and was out of jail already.

Steve Huff dug into the background of Dream House Productions and discovered the outfit is an online porn company trying to cash in on the reality craze. Huff also has a pretty complete list of all the major players in Dream House and their involvement. The pornography revelations make Alisha Waizmann’s reluctance to answer questions as to whether there was anything sexual going on seem more sinister.

Dream House CEO Jim Johnson has stated to the media that the allegations are false:

Executive producer Jim Johnson denies the allegations. He says the women had been allowed to leave the house on recent weekends. He also said their cell phones were confiscated as part of the 13-week contract they signed.

Johnson said the women were taken to the opera, fashion shows and modeling and etiquette training.

Johnson says he doesn’t have a television deal yet to air the show.

I’ll bet there isn’t a television deal in the future either. We’re going to follow this story.

Update: Despite the protests of “Jackstar” Marc Brilleman doesn’t seem to have been a nice man, or an honest one. WDBO is reporting that the girls were led to believe that the show was already picked up by Fox. Jim Johnson is on record as saying that the show wasn’t picked up.

Brilleman and Johnson have said they’re going to sue the women.

The Orlando Sentinal has details of the events leading up to Brilleman’s arrest:

Lori Thompson, who lives across the street from the house the women stayed in, said she and other neighbors had been watching the house for weeks because when they regularly saw young women getting out of a van, they feared pornography was being filmed inside. A few weeks ago, she heard screams coming from the house and a neighbor called 911.

At about 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Thompson said, she saw a man taking belongings out of the yard and when she confronted him, he told her he was trying to help his friend get out of the house on April Lane in the Lake McCoy Forest subdivision. As Thompson was talking to the man, she noticed several women peeking over the gate on the side of the house. When the man drove away, one of the women ran out to the front of the house and told Thompson that she was trying to get out of the house.

As Thompson was talking to the woman, she said, Brilleman drove up to the house. When the woman saw him, Thompson said, she got scared and ran into the yard. According to the police report, as Brilleman walked into the house, the four women told him that they were leaving. He then stood in front of the door and locked it. Brilleman told them they could not leave because they were under contract. One of the women then pushed Brilleman out of the way, and all four ran out of the house. Brilleman, of Windermere, denied preventing the women from leaving, the report said.

Yeah Jackstar, sounds like a nice guy.

Update: More reports are coming out which show Dream House Production to be nothing but a group of slipshod degenerates who got in way over their heads:

The show’s Web site promised the winner would receive $50,000, the use of a BMW sedan for a year and a modeling contract.

“Our goal is to make these girls somebody. To help them grow physically, mentally and spiritually,” intones an adult male voice on a promotional trailer on the show’s Web site. “It is about changing our eight paupers’ lives so that they can change the world.”

Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation officials say the house on April Lane had been on their radar for months.

“We got a tip about four months ago that this was being peddled on the Internet as the X-Rated Dream House,” said MBI Commander Paul Zambouros. “It had Web cameras all over the house,” which could be viewed for a fee.

The site shut down almost as soon as MBI undercover agents subscribed to it, Zambouros said. Shortly after that, the production company decided to shoot the reality TV show.

Whatever was being filmed in the residence was violating city rules, according to Apopka police.

Dream House Productions apparently never approached Apopka City Hall, which routes all requests to film in the city through the Economic Development Commission of Mid Florida Inc.’s Motion Picture and Television divisions, said police Chief Chuck Vavrek.

The promised payments to the girls never came, which caused havoc in the lives of the desperately poor women they preyed upon:

Brittany Pranther, the show’s youngest contestant, thought a bit of good luck had graced her when she was chosen for the show. She was promised $500 a week during the 13 weeks of filming, she said.

Pranther, 19, wanted to win the prize money to help her disabled mother, Natalie, get better health care, she said. Her mother has suffered four strokes and two heart attacks in the past five years, leaving her unable to work.

Because Pranther and the other contestants were never paid the $500 a week she said they were promised in their contracts, she lost her car. Her mother’s eviction notice gave her until today to get out of her rented Orlando home.

[…]

Pranther said the contestants became wary of the show’s legitimacy in recent weeks after inadvertently discovering a sex tape on a memory card in one of the production company’s cameras. Until then, the women had attended modeling classes, etiquette training and worked out with a personal trainer at a Bally’s gym near Orlando. They even performed community service at the local Ronald McDonald House.

Sex tape? How’d that get there? Oh, right this was an on line porn company. They apparently were recycling their actors because the girls chaperone for Pauper to Princess, Tamika Jackson, was performing on the discovered tape having sex on the kitchen counter.

The girls were promised money the company didn’t have and were filming illegally because the Dream house coundn’t be bothered to pay the fee for a filming permit. This was worse than a scam.

But Pot Doesn’t Hurt Anyone! (Unless by “Hurt” You Mean Getting Molested)

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Rob Taylor

Megan Partin is like a lot of young women, she likes to smoke a little pot, have a few drinks and take pictures with her camera phone. Like many pot heads her judgment is often impaired which may have factored into the types of pictures police found on the Louisiana party girl’s phone:

GONZALES â€” A 19-year-old Gonzales woman was arrested on sex-related counts involving a boy under 7 years of age, Police Chief Bill Landry said Friday.

Megan N. Partin, 42157 Conifer Drive, was booked with possession of child pornography, indecent behavior with a juvenile, two counts of molestation of a juvenile and contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile, Landry said.

Partin initially was arrested March 11 and booked with possession of marijuana. But during that arrest, her cell phone camera confirmed drug use, Landry said.

Officers obtained a search warrant to examine the contents of the cell phone and discovered â€œexplicit videos involving the boy,â€ Landry said.

Another innocent pot smoker minding their own business. In the Dreamin’ Demon forums it was mentioned that it’s unusual behavior for a pretty young 19 year old to molest a young boy and film it. It’s almost as if there was something in her life altering her perceptions and subtly changing her ability to distinguish between right and wrong.

Partin has a MySpace in which she presents herself as a typical Hot Topic gangsta’, replete with blog posts about how she’s a “real bitch” which stand in stark contrast to the almost professional pictures of her in tasteful black and white or posing in her prom dress. Interspersed throughout are references to her drinking and drugging.

It seems like such a normal MySpace page for a normal young girl, typical of any teen. But Megan isn’t typical is she? Megan filmed herself sexually assaulting a boy under seven and kept the film on her phone, to watch repeatedly, perhaps to share with others. Why? What was she thinking?

I’d put forward that after a few weeks, or months or years, of drug use she wasn’t thinking anything. Megan is a recent graduate who seems to spend most of her time partying. She’s also troubled, to say the least, a woman who at 19 is already acting out the most depraved of acts on the most innocent of victims. What drives her we will probably never know, but we do know that she was the last person in the world who needed her inhibitions lowered.

She is clearly not the type of person who needs to smoke pot.

Megan Partin is a monster. I don’t now whether her pot smoking simply hastened her descent into this madness or if drug use brought to the fore some malignancy she would have otherwise suppressed. But what I do know is that there are very few nineteen year old girls filming themselves raping six year olds. Fewer still keep the videos on their cell phones.

The one we do know of likes her weed.