DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: ‘White girls are filthy’: Wives of Asian men jailed for raping vulnerable British girls reveal why they blame the victims. “Since reports of a gang of Pakistani-British sexual predators in Rotherham first emerged in 2011, there has been a string of horrific cases: in Rochdale, Peterborough, Bristol, Aylesbury and at least 20 other towns across the country. Even now white girls, many from troubled homes, are being violated by men who profess to be good Muslims. Such are the explosive racial and religious implications that, to our shame, many refuse to face the problem. Look at what happened to Sarah Champion, Labour MP for Rotherham, who was sacked from the shadow front bench for saying just this. Or take the case of Amina Lone, a Muslim councillor from Birmingham, who rightly defended Champion but was then told she cannot stand for re-election.”

Tar. Feathers. Plus:

And from all the evidence, it is clear the men in question still blame the victims and feel no remorse. They are sexual psychotics.

Yet, painful as it is to say, it became clear, too, that the men are not alone in blaming the victims. I asked the women how they would feel if their children had been drugged and raped. They agreed it would break their hearts. But, Mariam said: ‘It can’t happen to our children because they are not in the streets. We look after them.’

Only Nusrat and Nila were prepared to condemn the abuse without reservation. The others, it seemed, privately blamed the girls and even their parents. It became clear they had a very confused sense of morality.

Nusrat fought back, saying: ‘You know our girls are raped by uncles, fathers, brothers and imams. My neighbour’s daughter had a baby when she was 12. It was her uncle. They blamed her. Sent her to Pakistan. We don’t see the truth.’

But later, at a separate meeting, I encountered Suju, the wife of another jailed groomer. She was afraid of him but she, too, thinks white girls are: ‘Filthy. How they dress. They have no shame, no fear of Allah.’

Cultural enrichment.

HAVE WE REACHED PEAK NYT WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT? Best part: “The couple dated at Princeton, but had met a few years earlier, in 2007, in North Haven, Me., when Ms. du Pont offered a ride to Mr. Sutherland and a friend, whom Ms. du Pont knew. The two men had just moored their sailboat and were preparing for a long row back to the dock, whereas she was piloting her family’s motorized tender. They took the ride.”

JOSH BLACKMAN & SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: The emoluments clauses litigation, part 5 — problems with the complaints in CREW v. Trump.

THAT’S A GOOD TRANSFORMATION: 2017’s 15 Best Instagram Girls Who Transformed From Skinny To Strong. I think they should have let Mark Rippetoe train them, though. And I’ll bet Rip agrees!

WHEN THE HUFFINGTON POST HARSHES YOUR NARRATIVE: U.S. MILITARY ON PUERTO RICO: “THE PROBLEM IS DISTRIBUTION.”

Col. Valle is a firsthand witness of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) response supporting FEMA in Puerto Rico, and as a Puerto Rican himself with family members living in the devastation, his passion for the people is second to none. “It’s just not true,” Col. Valle says of the major disconnect today between the perception of a lack of response from Washington verses what is really going on on the ground. “I have family here. My parents’ home is here. My uncles, aunts, cousins, are all here. As a Puerto Rican, I can tell you that the problem has nothing to do with the U.S. military, FEMA, or the DoD.” . . .

“The aid is getting to Puerto Rico. The problem is distribution. The federal government has sent us a lot of help; moving those supplies, in particular, fuel, is the issue right now,” says Col. Valle. Until power can be restored, generators are critical for hospitals and shelter facilities and more. But, and it’s a big but, they can’t get the fuel to run the generators.

They have the generators, water, food, medicine, and fuel on the ground, yet the supplies are not moving across the island as quickly as they’re needed.

“It’s a lack of drivers for the transport trucks, the 18 wheelers. Supplies we have. Trucks we have. There are ships full of supplies, backed up in the ports, waiting to have a vehicle to unload into. However, only 20% of the truck drivers show up to work. These are private citizens in Puerto Rico, paid by companies that are contracted by the government,” says Col. Valle.

Maybe the mayor of San Juan could work on that.

UPDATE: FEMA Chief Brock Long Says Puerto Rico Relief ‘Most Logistically Challenging Event’ U.S. Has Ever Seen.

WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? Study questions benefits of placenta eating by new mothers.

EVEN GERALDO IS HARSHING THE NARRATIVE:

“IT IS NOT A BENIGN DIAGNOSIS:” Microvascular Heart Disease. “While traditional coronary heart disease involves the buildup of plaque and resulting blockages in the large arteries that feed the heart muscle, microvascular heart disease affects the tiny branches or tributaries of these large vessels. Abnormalities in the endothelium, or inner lining, of these smaller vessels can cause spasms, resulting in pain and diminished blood flow to the heart.”

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YOU STAY CLASSY, NEW YORK TIMES: “Jared Kushner’s Entitlement Is New Jersey Born and Bred.”

As Kurt Schlichter likes to say, “The Left Hates You. Act Accordingly.”

By the way, bang job all around this past week at the Gray Lady. Kristoff is Instagramming North Korean propaganda, Krugman is claiming and later retracting that “Trumpie” brought cholera to Puerto Rico (while ignoring that “Progressive” darlings the UN actually did bring cholera to Haiti), and now the paper’s headline writers are smugly insulting its subscribers in its neighbor state. First class.

(Found via Karol Markowicz of the New York Post, who tweets, “Whoa, is the NYT trying to turn New Jersey into a red state or what?”)

ANN ALTHOUSE: The Effort To Katrina Trump Continues Apace.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Female County Probation Counselor Facing 15 Felony Sexual Assault Charges. “She is accused of having sex with two teenage boys who were incarcerated at a juvenile detention center while employed by the county. As a result, deputies took her into custody at her home in Santa Cruz.”

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MICHAEL WALSH: Now Wall Street Threatens the NFL’s Act.

Related: Ohio Congressman, a Candidate for Governor, Cancels $20k NFL Ad Buy in Response to Protests.

LEADERSHIP: San Juan Mayor Admits She Hasn’t Met With Federal Officials At Joint Field Office Over Hurricane Relief Efforts.

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TEXAS MONTHLY: “DID HOUSTON AUTHORITIES HIDE HARVEY PREDICTIONS FROM THE PUBLIC? Houston politicians may have misled the city’s residents about the ferocity of the storm. If they did lie, they did the right thing.”

Why are Democrat-run cities such cesspits of duplicity, and why have journalists increasingly been willing to defend both the lies of their fellow Democrats and their own deceptions? (And why do they act so surprised that the media culture they created ultimately resulted in Trump becoming president?)

GOOD: Study: MRIs safe for patients with pacemakers, defibrillators.

CRYING WOLF: SNL’s Michael Che calls Trump ‘bitch’ and a racial slur during triggered rant on PR.

Reminder: Saturday Night Live made its bones by going nuclear on the courtly and decent Gerald Ford – as one of its writers (who was then the spouse of its creator/producer Lorne Michaels, who still oversees the show) said when Ford’s press secretary was gullible enough to host an episode, “The president’s watching. let’s make him cringe and squirm.”

UPDATE: Jay Z Wears Colin Kaepernick Jersey on ‘Saturday Night Live.’

Related: Kaepernick donated $25,000 to group named after convicted cop killer and former Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur who broke out of jail and fled to Cuba.

Just NBC the radical chic!

NOT A FEATURE I EXPECTED: LG is releasing a mosquito-repellent phone, but it probably won’t work.

EXCEPT WITH T-SHIRT PRINTERS AND CNN, APPARENTLY: Fellow Puerto Rico Mayor Rips San Juan Mayor — ‘She’s Not Participating In Any Meetings.’

ITS ORIGIN AND PURPOSE, STILL A TOTAL MYSTERY: Two passengers are killed as attacker shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ slits a woman’s throat with a butcher’s knife and stabs another at Marseille station before soldiers shoot him dead.

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