The Other McCain

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In The Mailbox: 07.07.16

Posted on | July 7, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
90 Miles From Tyranny: Fighting The Progressive News Machine In Technology Blogs
Proof Positive: Trumpelstiltskin
Louder With Crowder: Let’s Hate Cops! All Facts Are Racist!
EBL: The Comey Circus Comes To Congress
Twitchy: Alan Grayson Whines As NRA Endorses Marco Rubio


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: David Horowitz – Why Trump Will Win In November
American Thinker: FBI Resignations – Where Are They?
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Jane Doe January by Emily Winslow
Da Tech Guy: The Unexpectedly Chronicles – Weigel Nails It
Don Surber: Why Hold Press Conferences?
Jammie Wearing Fools: Video – Trey Gowdy Shreds Hapless James Comey
Joe For America: Ten Slogans For Democrats, If They Were Honest
JustOneMinute: On The Lighter Side
Pamela Geller: Bill O’Reilly Wakes Up To Obama’s Muslim Problem – Eight Years Too Late
Shark Tank: Goss Runs For Congress, Will Face Bongino, Rooney In GOP Primary
Shot In The Dark: As We Wait, And Wait…
STUMP: Midyear 80% Funding Myth Update
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – US Training And You
The Lonely Conservative: Cruz To Speak At GOP Convention
The Political Hat: Oakland Declares War On Coal
This Ain’t Hell: Marines Want Fat Girls
Weasel Zippers: BREAKING – At Least Ten Cops Shot, Three Killed By Sniper At #BlackLivesMatter Protest In Dallas – Video – Two Shooters “Neutralized”, One In Standoff
Megan McArdle: Treat Rape Like Every Other Crime


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Category: Linkagery

REPORT: Dallas Police Officers Shot; UPDATE: Four Officers Reported Dead

Posted on | July 7, 2016 | 14 Comments

This news started breaking about a half-hour ago:

Two Dallas police officers have been shot in downtown Dallas, an officer at the scene tells NBC 5.
The extent of their injuries are not known.
The shootings took place as a rally and march in downtown was ending that showed solidarity for communities affected by officer-involved shootings this week in Louisiana and Minnesota.
Several hundred people gathered at Belo Garden Park in Dallas, and marched to the Old Red Courthouse near Main and Market streets, where the rally ended just before the shots rang out nearby at about 9 p.m. [10 p.m. ET]

UPDATE 11:20 p.m. ET: More details:

A witness told CBS11 that he heard multiple gunshots fire off and confirmed at least two police officers were shot.
“Whoever was shooting had an assault rifle — and I know guns. The shots were in rapid succession,” he said. . . .
Police searched for a suspect or suspects with rifles in a parking garage at Griffin and Lamar in downtown Dallas immediately after the shooting. . . .
A witness standing outside of Baylor Hospital in Dallas saw one of the wounded officers arrive at the ER.
“We were about two blocks away when we saw a cop car with a bullet hole in the door riding on its rims past us,” he said.

There are reports of dozens of shots fired. The protesters, apparently organized by the “Black Lives Matter” movement, scattered in panic.

UPDATE 11:30 p.m. ET: The initial report was that two officers were shot. Now at least four are reported shot, one fatally.

DART is Dallas Area Rapid Transit.

UPDATE 11:45 p.m. ET: The latest report is that a total of at least 10 officers were shot, three of whom are dead. Two snipers are reportedly responsible.

UPDATE 8:15 a.m. ET Friday: The report this morning is that 11 were shot, of whom four are dead. Three suspects are in custody, and one suspect reportedly committed suicide.

UPDATE 8:50 a.m. ET Friday: Five Reported Dead in ‘Military-Style’ Sniper Attack

 

Category: Crime

Who Cares About America’s Future?

Posted on | July 7, 2016 | 9 Comments

My share of the population is exactly one, and so is yours. However, I have six children, a son-in-law, two daughters-in-law and two grandchildren, so that my personal stake in the future is rather substantial. Brian Tashman, who writes for the left-wing site run by the perversely misnamed “People for the American Way” worked himself into a fear frenzy Thursday because Pat Buchanan wrote this sentence:

“White America has begun to die.”

What a hatefully hatey thing for a hater to say!

Except of course, it’s true, as Buchanan demonstrates:

America is already evolving into another country. Though the U.S. is projected to grow by 67 million people in 35 years, this growth will be wholly among Hispanics, Asians and African-Americans. In each of the past four years, non-Hispanic white Americans have registered more deaths than births.
Between July 2014 and July 2015, the Asian-American population grew by 3.4 percent, and the Hispanic population grew 2.2 percent. The black population was up 1.3 percent. But the white population grew by only 0.1 percent.

The numbers cited by Buchanan come from that notorious hate group, the Census Bureau, and the right-wing extremists at the United Nations.

It’s 2016. Facts are hate now, and no one can even mention white people except to denounce them for being white. The decadent intellectual elite (including Brian Tashman) are mostly white, but they are also Democrats, and because most white people in America vote for Republican, the intellectual elite now use “white” as a pejorative epithet.

The long-term consequences of the elite’s decadence, however, will not affect their children and grandchildren, because most of the intellectual elite don’t even have children. Intellectual elite women have abortions, not babies, and most intellectual elite men are gay. The decadent elite who are destroying America don’t care about what happens after America is gone. This is why liberal journalism is a sort of daily suicide note for Western civilization. The elite hate America. They hate you and they hate your children, too. This is why the elite are doing everything possible to ensure that the future of America is no future at all.

(Hat-tip: Memeorandum.)




 

Category: Racism

Why Won’t @ThomasArzi_ Stop?

Posted on | July 7, 2016 | 33 Comments

 

The response of Thomas Mix to my coverage Wednesday of his Florida lawsuit against Jeanette Runyon has been shocking. He has repeatedly made statements on his Twitter account that would appear to be threats to do me harm. His online conversations with “Nicole Bonnet” were sufficiently alarming that I wrote an email to Mr. Mix’s attorney Wednesday, informing him that his client’s behavior could have legal consequences. Yet this did not prevent Mr. Mix and “Nicole Bonnet” from falsely claiming that I was engaged in “stalking” and “harassment,” all because (a) I had reported on Mix’s lawsuit against Jeanette, and (b) I had then taken notice of Mix’s apparent threats toward me. This is insane.

This morning, however, Mix decided to take it up a notch — threatening to deprive me of income — which is a whole new ballgame. This raises the question, what is going on inside Thomas Mix’s mind? In August 2015, Examiner columnist Joe Newby reported on how Jeanette Runyon’s Facebook post supporting traditional marriage was deleted, and Newby’s column indicates that Jeanette believes Thomas Mix is responsible for this pattern of online harassment against her. Why?

This kind of scorched-earth mentality, pursuing obsessions with “enemies,” is arguably symptomatic of mental illness. More importantly, however, if Thomas Mix attempts to harm me by wrongful interference with my financial arrangements, he has crossed a line he should be advised not to cross, so I wrote yet another email to Mr. Mix’s attorney:

Dear Mr. Rooney:
After I sent you an email Wednesday, informing you that your client Thomas Mix had been making statements about me on Twitter that could be construed as threats, Mr. Mix not only failed to cease this pattern of menacing behavior, but has now made new threats that could possibly put him in legal jeopardy. As I explained to you in Wednesday’s email, I had ceased paying attention to the conflict involving your client and Jeanette Runyon after the controversy over the Kailyn Hunt case ended. However, when it came to my attention that Ms. Runyon was being sued by Mr. Mix over their online arguments surrounding the Hunt case, this struck me as newsworthy, per se, and relevant to recent news about online harassment.
However, it seems that Mr. Mix believes that no one should be able to report about his lawsuit against Ms. Runyon, a matter of public record which is newsworthy as a matter of public interest. Mr. Mix claims that it is “harassment” for me to report on the case, and seems to actually believe it is “harassment” even for me to mention his apparent threats against me. He has now even gone so far as to suggest that he will endeavor to deprive me of the advertising revenue on my blog, simply because I have used my blog to report about his lawsuit against Ms. Runyon, and about his evidently malicious statements toward me.
It should not be necessary, Mr. Rooney, for me to explain that this behavior by your client Mr. Mix could be construed as tortious, an attempt to deprive me of my First Amendment rights as a journalist. Furthermore, Mr. Mix’s apparent threats toward me could be viewed in a very unfavorable light — as evidence of malicious intent — in regard to the current litigation between your client and Ms. Runyon.
Keep in mind, Mr. Rooney, that I had no intention of doing any further reporting on Mr. Mix’s activities after my Wednesday morning article about his lawsuit against Ms. Runyon. It is only because of Mr. Mix’s arguably threatening statements, in the wake of that article, that I have continued writing about this. It is apparent, from examining Mr. Mix’s communications on Twitter, that he is being incited by the person using the account “Nicole Bonnet.” This behavior is highly suspicious — who is “Nicole Bonnet” and what is that person’s interest in this case? — and I believe that your client Mr. Mix is being influenced to behave in a manner contrary to his own best interest. As you are his attorney, however, it would seem that you have an obligation to advise him of the potential legal consequences of his activities.
To reiterate, sir, I have no personal interest in your client Mr. Mix, and took notice of him Wednesday only because of his lawsuit against Ms. Runyon. This might have been the end of it, had Mr. Mix not begun publishing statements that seemed to threaten me in response to my coverage of that case. In all that I have written, I have reported only the facts and shared my opinions. Never have I defamed Mr. Mix, nor is it my intention to harass him. Rather, it appears quite the opposite, that Mr. Mix is attempting to harass me.
Based upon what I have seen in the past two days, Mr. Rooney, it is my belief that your client Mr. Mix is suffering from serious psychiatric problems that impair his judgment. Mr. Mix appears to be in the throes of some sort of paranoid obsession that is leading him to pursue an insane vendetta against me, based on his delusional belief that I have done him some wrongful injury. Mr. Mix’s apparent fixation on me, and the evidence that he harbors some kind of revenge fantasy against me, is of course deeply troubling to me. However, your client is probably a greater danger to himself than he is to me or any of the various other “enemies” with whom he seems to be obsessed.
You did not reply to my email yesterday, but I hope to hear from you soon, as it continues to be my sincere desire ever to remain
Your most humble and obedient servant,
Robert Stacy McCain

Playing around on Twitter or Facebook is one thing. Trying to destroy a successful online publication that has generated tens of millions of page-views since 2008? Well, that’s just plain crazy, and it might also be against the law. Let’s hope Thomas Mix’s lawyer can talk sense to him.

UPDATE: Does anyone expect sane reactions from such people?

I’m a “stalker” and I’m “going down,” according to Thomas Mix, who is currently suing Jeanette Runyon over a Twitter flame-war dating to 2013. And notice that he has changed his Twitter handle yet again, evidently because it’s “harassment” for anyone to take notice of his online activity.




 

 

Category: Crime, Kaitlyn Hunt

In The Mailbox: 07.06.16

Posted on | July 6, 2016 | 19 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


It appears that Jeff has hung up his blogging jock for the duration, so I’m taking suggestions for a blog to replace Protein Wisdom in the list. Granted, nobody can really replace Jeff, but one grows weary of seeing the empty space on Feedly where his stuff used to be.


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: National Fried Chicken Day
Michelle Malkin: Iovi Et Bovi – The Teflon Hillary Standard
Twitchy: Ted Cruz has The Only Reasonable Response To The FBI’s Disgusting Miscarriage Of Justice


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Hillary Expanding College Plan To Offer “Free” Tuition To Millions
American Thinker: Why Comey Blinked
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – American Underdog By Dave Brat
Da Tech Guy: Fausta – The Day The FBI Kissed The Rule of Law Good-bye
Don Surber: A General For VP?
Jammie Wearing Fools: Top Clinton Aide Testifies Grandma Burned Her Daily Schedules While At State
Joe For America: GOP Rep. Justin Amash Says Propsed Gun Bill Violates 1st, 2nd, 5th And 6th Amendments
JustOneMinute: Big News Day And Aftermath
Pamela Geller: Muslim Migrant Rape Crisis Comes To America As “Refugees” Threaten Minneapolis Neighborhood
Shark Tank: Even After Spending Billions, VA Not Fixed (Breaking news from 1946? -ws)
Shot In The Dark: If There’s A Bubble In Education Administration…
STUMP: Please Help Russian Freedom Fighter Vladimir Bukovsky
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – The Palestinians Are Sick Bastards
The Lonely Conservative: Democrats Vote To Protect Sanctuary Cities And Repeat Offender Illegals
The Political Hat: Witch Degentrification
The Quinton Report: Cuban MLB Player Joining Army Reserve
This Ain’t Hell: Convicted Traitor Bradley Manning Attempts Suicide
Weasel Zippers: Ohio Professor Calls For Shooting Up NRA Headquarters, Ensuring “No Survivors”
Megan McArdle: Sorry, Republicans. Clinton’s E-Mails Won’t Take Her Down.


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Category: Linkagery

Should @Thomas_Arzi’s ‘Works of Darkness’ Be Hidden From the Light?

Posted on | July 6, 2016 | 21 Comments

“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.”
— Ephesians 5:11:13 (KJV)

Thomas Mix does not like it when people call attention to his Florida lawsuit against Jeanette Runyon, and after I wrote about that case this morning, he and a person using the name “Nicole Bonnet” began discussing their plans to bring harm to me. He has now changed his Twitter handle “due to stalking,” as if it is “stalking” for me to take notice of someone who is threatening me. Let the light shine.

Let anyone seek if they can find evidence that I was paying any attention at all to Thomas Mix prior to this morning. During the controversy over sex offender Kaitlyn Hunt, Mix’s obsessive activity as a “Free Kate” supporter came to my attention, and you can click here to see how Mix (at that time using the Twitter handle @Periabo) and “Nicole Bonnet” were threatening retaliation against various people in December 2013.

Simple question: Why?

The Kaitlyn Hunt case concluded in October 2013, and she was released from jail on probation two months later. As I said at the time, “Most of us would like to forget about this sordid episode and move on.” So the question arises, why did Thomas Mix and “Nicole Bonnet” continue making threats against various critics of the “Free Kate” movement? Why not just drop it and move on? And why did Mix sue Jeanette Runyon in December 2015, more than two years after Kaitlyn Hunt was sentenced?

Who is “stalking” whom? Thomas Mix’s lawsuit against Jeanette Runyon is a matter of public record. It is news of public interest. Is Thomas Mix attempting to intimidate me into not writing about it? Why?

Show me the “harassment,” ma’am, or shut your filthy lying mouth.

UPDATE: Thomas Mix changed his handle again.

 

He’s gone full Schmalfeldt! Never go full Schmalfeldt.

UPDATE II: Allegedly, these are photos of Thomas Mix:

 

Notice I said “allegedly,” because if that goofy-looking weirdo is not Thomas Mix, it might be defamation to say he did look like that.


Category: Crime, Kaitlyn Hunt

UPDATE: Why Would @NicoleBonnet1 and @_Lazarus___ Be Threatening Me?

Posted on | July 6, 2016 | 43 Comments

 

After I described Thomas Mix’s Florida lawsuit against Jeanette Runyon, suddenly Mix’s Twitter account (@_Lazarus___) began chattering away with @NicoleBonnet1 in a manner that some people might interpret as threatening and conspiring to harm me. Anyone may search the Twitter archives to discover how closely allied these two characters are.

Please, read what I wrote about the case this morning, and see if you can find any legitimate cause for Nicole Bonnet to threaten me, except that I brought attention to Thomas Mix’s lawsuit. What this tells me is that Thomas Mix does not want anyone to pay attention to his lawsuit. Why?

Well, I wrote an email to Mr. Mix’s attorney:

Dear Mr. Rooney:
This morning, I reported on your client Thomas Mix’s lawsuit against Jeanette Runyon. To the best of my knowledge, the conflict between them dates to 2013, when Mr. Mix was advocating on behalf of Kaitlyn Hunt in a sexual abuse case that attracted nationwide media attention. I was among the handful of writers who followed the Hunt case to its final conclusion, and I also reported on the “Free Kate” movement, with which your client Mr. Mix was apparently aligned. While I had not previously noticed the legal proceedings between your client and Ms. Runyon (as the Hunt story was over and done with, as far as I was concerned), when it was brought to my attention, I wrote about this lawsuit in the belief that it was both newsworthy, per se, and relevant to other recent news involving claims of online “harassment.” This afternoon (Wednesday, July 6), I became aware that your client’s response to my notice of his lawsuit was to make comments on his Twitter account that could be construed as threats to harm me, threats in which he appeared to conspire with a person who goes by the name “Nicole Bonnet” on Twitter.
Although it has been my lifelong habit to avoid litigation, it strikes me that your client’s apparent threats against me could be cited as evidence that his actions against Ms. Runyon are intended to stifle First Amendment rights to free expression. Your client’s lawsuit is a matter of public record, and I am free to discuss the facts of the case and to share my opinion. Having spent more than 30 years in the journalism business, I am absolutely certain that nothing I have written could be considered libelous. The truth is always a sound defense against any such claim, and I have written nothing false about your client. If it is the intention of your client to pursue legal action against me, let him do so forthwith, for I am confident that truth and justice will always prevail over malicious lies.
While I am not a lawyer, and therefore cannot advise you of your duty as an attorney, it certainly seems to me that Mr. Mix’s recent behavior, evidently threatening me merely for taking notice of his lawsuit, might not be viewed favorably by the courts. Furthermore, as your client Mr. Mix apparently harbors some malicious intention of personal revenge against me, it would seem within your duty as an attorney to advise him not to engage in any action that might expose him to future legal jeopardy.
Please reply at your earliest convenience to acknowledge receipt of this message, for it is my sincere hope ever to remain
Your most humble and obedient servant,
Robert Stacy McCain

We shall see if Mr. Mix wishes to draw further attention to himself.

 


Category: Crime, Kaitlyn Hunt

The @GretchenCarlson Lawsuit and the Problem of the ‘Boys Club’ Atmosphere

Posted on | July 6, 2016 | 8 Comments

 

As everyone should understand, filing employment discrimination lawsuits is not something I support. If you don’t like your job, quit. It’s a free country. Nobody can force you to work for a company that treats you unfairly. You have skills, your skills have value and, if your employer does not properly appreciate the value of your work, give your notice and leave. Unless you are willing to quit on the spot — “Take this job and shove it!” — you will always be vulnerable to unfair treatment. What happens, too often, is that people become so economically dependent on their employer that they essentially forfeit this trump card. If your boss thinks you can’t afford to quit, and that you can’t find similar opportunity elsewhere, you may be treated badly because of the assumption that you have no choice but to tolerate bad treatment.

Gretchen Carlson has filed a lawsuit against Fox News CEO Roger Ailes and the specifics of these allegations are quite shocking. Her lawsuit conveys a sense of what goes on behind the scenes at FNC, and adds to an existing perception of a “boys club” atmosphere at the network. You can go back and research what happened when FNC’s Geraldo Rivera said he wanted to spit on FNC contributor Michelle Malkin. The network’s executives did not do the right thing in that case — Rivera should have been fired — and eventually, Malkin ended her association with Fox, to the network’s detriment. And this was certainly not the only previous case where women complained about the FNC “boys club” problem.

Fox News has been innovative in developing female on-camera talent, but at the same time, the network has too often tolerated off-camera behavior that should not have been tolerated. You don’t have to fire people or issue formal reprimands in order to prevent the perception that female employees are being treated unfairly. Keep in mind that I do not believe in the concept of “worker’s rights.” Your right to quit should suffice, as far as I’m concerned, to safeguard your own interests in any fee-for-service arrangement. Sometimes, greasing the squeaky wheel is the best approach to handling complaints of unfairness, but on the other hand, sometimes complainers are just complainers. Effective managers must learn to tell the difference on a case-by-case basis.

Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to witness at close range the ways in which claims of “discrimination” arise. In too many cases, these complaints are just a shakedown: “Pay me what I want, or I’ll sue.”

It doesn’t matter what you think of Gretchen Carlson or Roger Ailes or Fox News, this lawsuit is evidence of a managerial failure. Good managers spot personnel problems long before they reach this stage, and intervene to prevent the kind of escalation to leads to litigation. The wise employee, however, should beware of the danger of becoming so dependent on an employer that your right to quit is effectively void.

(Hat-tip: Memeorandum. More at Hot Air, Red State and MediaGazer.)





 

Category: Fox News
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