The Other McCain

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Did I Forget to Mention #RollTide?

Posted on | January 1, 2016 | 29 Comments

Alabama’s Tim Williams sacks Michigan State quarterback Connor Cook.

Thursday afternoon, my son Jefferson and I were watching #1 Clemson beat #4 Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl, and we began to discuss the upcoming Cotton Bowl game between #2 Alabama and #3 Michigan State. My father graduated at Tuscaloosa in the Class of 1951, and I was raised on ‘Bama football during the era when the Crimson Tide was coached by the immortal Bear Bryant. One of my earliest football memories is watching the Green Bay Packers in the famous 1967 “Ice Bowl” NFL championship game and. when Bart Starr scored the winning touchdown, my dad saying, “That’s Bart Starr! He’s a ‘Bama boy!” Then, of course, there was Joe Namath’s famous “guarantee” victory in Super Bowl III — another ‘Bama boy. Dad used to get tickets to the games, and I spent many Saturdays at Legion Field in Birmingham cheering the Tide.

Somehow, the ‘Bama games I attended that particularly stand out in memory are the defeats. In 1981, Georgia Tech beat us 24-21 — a real heartbreaker. Alabama and Tech used to be bitter rivals (mentioned in the ‘Bama fight song), but in the ’60s, Tech left the SEC and there was a 15-year interval before the rivalry was renewed. The 1981 game was a sellout and Dad couldn’t get tickets from ‘Bama, so we got them through our cousin Dan Post, a Tech alumnus. This meant we were seated in the middle of a bunch of Yellow Jacket fans, which made for an uncomfortable afternoon, especially because Robert Lavette ran all over us for two touchdowns. The other ‘Bama defeat that stands out in memory was the 1988 Hall of Fame Bowl in Tampa against Michigan. Dad got four tickets, so me, my two brothers and my brother’s wife went. Alabama fell behind 14-3 at halftime, and the Tide made a strong comeback , going ahead 24-21 on a Bobby Humphrey TD with less than four minutes left to play, but ended up losing 28-24. What I can never forget about that game was the Michigan fight song. It seemed like the Michigan band played that damned song every time their team so much as completed a pass. There is perhaps no experience in football more agonizing than to be playing Michigan, and losing, and having to hear their band blast out “Hail to the Victors” over and over and over.

Being born and bred ‘Bama, so to speak, I’ve raised my sons to be Crimson Tide fans, and shared with them the family lore. Dad used to say it was hard to be an Alabama fan because everybody wants to beat ‘Bama. There is never an easy week for Alabama, because every team on their schedule, no matter how lowly, is going to go all-out in hopes of upsetting the mighty Tide. Alabama has won 15 national championships and had 10 undefeated seasons, and expectations are always so high in Tuscaloosa that to lose even one game just ruins the whole year. Every Saturday, the Tide takes the field against an opponent totally fired up and dreaming of an upset, and this year ‘Bama lost to Ole Miss 43-37 in a game marred by five turnovers. It was an agonizing game for a Tide fan to watch and, because Ole Miss is an SEC West opponent, the consequences of that defeat were potentially devastating for Alabama’s hopes of a conference championship. That loss meant that, in order for the Crimson Tide to make it to the SEC title game, they would have to win the rest of their conference games and Ole Miss would have to lose twice to SEC opponents. And what were the odds of that?

Well, miracles happened. Ole Miss lost to Florida 38-10, and then in November, they lost a wild 53-52 overtime game to Arkansas, the same day Alabama beat LSU 30-16. What had seemed impossible just six weeks earlier had become a reality — Alabama controlled its own destiny, with a shot at the SEC title and, perhaps, even the National Championship. Ranked as low as #13 after the loss to Ole Miss, the Crimson Tide rose to #4 after beating LSU. Finishing the regular season strong with a 29-13 win over Auburn, and beating Florida 29-15 in the SEC Championship game, the Crimson Tide then saw junior running back Derrick Henry win the Heisman Trophy, and faced Michigan State in the BCS semifinal on New Year’s Eve.

So there we were Thursday afternoon in the McCain family living room, watching Clemson play Oklahoma. I was on the sofa, holding my 4-month-old grandson Alexander,. My 17-year-old son Jefferson was cuddled up on the love seat with his girlfriend Jade, and we started talking about a Clemson-Alabama matchup for the national title.

“Well, Michigan State’s gonna be tough,” I said, mentioning that the Spartans had defeated Ohio State, last year’s national champion.

To this my son replied, quite astutely, that Coach Nick Saban is college football’s most cunning analyst of game videos and he had had three weeks to watch video of Michigan State.

“True — if they’ve got a weakness, Saban will find it,” I said, but with memories of that error-plagued Ole Miss game haunting me, I added, “Bama has got to execute. No fumbles, no dropped passes, no missed tackles, no penalties.”

Clemson had trailed Oklahoma 17-16 at halftime, but in the second half, the Tigers took control, winning decisively 37-17. Watching this impressive performance by the undefeated No. 1 team, I said to Jefferson, “Clemson’s tough, but I think ‘Bama matches up pretty good with them, if we can just win tonight. What would be good, though” — and here I expressed a fond hope — “is if we can just dominate Michigan State. Beat the hell out of them and send a message to Clemson.”

THIRTY-EIGHT TO ZERO, BABY!

Alabama’s Jake Coker had his best game ever Thursday.

What was brilliant was that Saban, knowing how Michigan State would be set up to stop Derrick Henry, had Jake Coker use play-action passes to pick apart the Spartans’ secondary. Coker was 25 for 30, throwing for 286 yards and two touchdowns. Even though Michigan State held Henry to under 100 yards, he still scored two touchdowns. While the Crimson Tide racked up more than 400 yards of total offense, however, it was Alabama’s defense that was most impressive, holding Michigan State to only 29 rushing yards, and ‘Bama absolutely humiliated the Spartans’ quarterback. As ESPN’s Ivan Maisel said, the Tide defense “sacked Michigan State quarterback Connor Cook four times, intercepted him twice, and never gave him a chance to breathe.” The crucial play of the game came late in the first half. The Tide had taken a 10-0 lead, but Cook took the Spartans down to the ‘Bama 12 yard-line. A touchdown, or even a field goal, would have given Michigan State a boost in morale before halftime, but with 15 seconds left, Alabama’s Cyrus Jones intercepted Cook’s pass, and that seemed to destroy whatever hope the Spartans had left. Jones, incidentally, added a 57-yard punt return for a touchdown in the second half, a bit of icing on the cake of exactly what I had hoped for — a totally dominating Alabama performance. With their shutout of Michigan State, the Crimson Tide sent a clear message to Clemson: “Watch out. We’re coming to beat you.”

Alabama’s Cyrus Jones returns a punt for a touchdown.

Can Alabama do it? Of course they can, if they execute, concentrate, and avoid mistakes. Mental focus is the difference between giving up 43 points to Ole Miss and shutting out Michigan State. Championship football isn’t just about strength and speed — every man on the field is strong and fast — it’s about execution. What causes defeat is fumbles, dropped passes and missed tackles. Throwing an interception is bad, but you just factor that into the risks of the passing game. You throw enough passes, you’re gonna get intercepted every so often, but there is no excuse for a fumble. My father used to erupt in rage — “He was carrying the ball like a loaf of bread!” — whenever an Alabama player would fumble, and a dropped pass would always make Dad cuss. He played end in high school, and he had a zero-tolerance attitude toward dropped passes. “If you can get your hand on the ball, you ought to catch it,” was the sum total of his view on the subject. Likewise, Dad couldn’t stand to see a missed tackle. Proper tackling technique is just basic football, and for a player on scholarship at the University of Alabama to fail at such a basic task — well, this was simply unacceptable.

All the strength, speed and talent in the world won’t win a football game if players make those kind of mistakes, which are the result of mental lapses, a failure to concentrate. At the highest level of competition, the winning team is the one that avoids mistakes, and takes advantage of the opponent’s mistakes. You can get away with sloppy plays against a weak team (and honestly, Alabama got away with a few mistakes against Michigan State) but championship football requires nearly perfect execution, play after play. Watching Clemson beat Oklahoma, it was easy to see why the Tigers are undefeated. If the Crimson Tide doesn’t play their very best game Jan. 11 against Clemson . . .

Well, I prefer not to think about that possibility. Instead I hope Alabama gives an all-out effort from the opening kickoff to the last whistle. If they play their best, the Crimson Tide can beat anybody, and that probably explains why I always remember the games that ‘Bama lost.

They lose so rarely, after all.




 

Category: Alabama, Football

Real Feminists Support Bernie Sanders

Posted on | January 1, 2016 | 27 Comments

 

One of the things I notice while searching feminist Tumblr accounts is the high level of support for Bernie Sanders. This wouldn’t seem to make sense — shouldn’t feminists support Hillary Clinton? But feminism is a left-wing movement and Sanders is an unapologetic socialist, plus Hillary Clinton has a history of defending “rape culture”:

Hillary Clinton claims to be pro-women, yet has actively worked to ruin lives of so many of them. She’s running on a “feminist platform” — she’s even dared to say that sexual-assault survivors have a “right to be believed” — despite the fact that what she did to the women who accused Bill went far beyond not believing them. She attacked them. When allegations of sexual misconduct emerged during Bill’s 1992 presidential run, she’s reported to have said “Who is going to find out? These women are trash. Nobody’s going to believe them.” Multiple people also report that she called the women “sluts” and “whores” — you know, for daring to be raped. A private investigator named Ivan Duda claims that, after Bill lost his second governor’s race, Hillary told him: “I want you to get rid of all these b****** he’s seeing . . . I want you to give me the names and addresses and phone numbers, and we can get them under control.”

That’s from Katherine Timpf at National Review, who is definitely not a socialist for Sanders. And I’m neither a socialist nor a feminist, so I certainly can’t advise socialist feminists whom to support. But it is newsworthy, I think, that the Democrats are the party of socialists and feminists. And also, rapists.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

 

Category: Bill Clinton, Democrats, Election, Feminism, Hillary Clinton

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | January 1, 2016 | 4 Comments

by Smitty

Looked left, down the street, toward the cathedral, as I paused before crossing at the corner.

Some common woman vigorously attacked road debris (glass? New Years revelers?) with a broom, keeping the street tidy in front of what I recalled was a cafe.

The acoustics were right, and I thought I heard her singing a jaunty song as she worked.

Like the dustpan in her bucket it hit me: standing here in bespoke suit, Mephistos, and shades, I was the object of pity, not her. One of us had joy in life. It wasn’t me.

Should I buy her cafe?

via Darleen

 

Category: Friday Fiction

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.31.15

Posted on | December 31, 2015 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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TOP NEWS
FLOODING THREATENS I-55 NEAR ST. LOUIS

Homes in West Alton, Missouri, surrounded by floodwaters

Officials prepare for possible shutdown amid historic flooding


Donald Trump On The 2016 Race: It’s War
Assails former President Clinton over infidelities, alleged sexual misconduct


Enrique Marquez Indicted By Grand Jury
Accused of false statements on weapon purchase forms, helping plan terror attacks



POLITICS
MAN CHARGED WITH HOUSTON MOSQUE FIRE CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN DEVOUT ATTENDEE

Gary Moore, arrested Wednesday, is charged with first-degree arson

Imam claims to be unfamiliar with Moore, who attended services at the mosque earlier on the day of the fire

Push For Article V Convention Energized By Rubio Backing

Obama Sets Record For New Rules In 2015

Cruz Campaign Raises $20 Million In 4th Quarter

Bush Campaign Redeploys Majority Of Staff To Early Primary States


Ailes, Drudge, And Limbaugh Among Most Influential People In Political News Media

CAIR Passes Off Bacon Prank As Hate Crime; FBI Offers $5000 Reward For Information

Rep. Trey Gowdy Endorses Marco Rubio



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Ends 2015 On Downbeat Note: Brent $36.60, WTI $36.70
Puerto Rico Avoids Loan Default By Dipping Into Cash Reserves
Largest Container Ship In The World Unloads At Port Of Los Angeles
The World Economy’s Winners And Losers, 2015 Edition
Pending U.S. Home Sales Drop Again In November
Asian Markets Flat On Final Trading Day Of 2015
AT&T Ending Most Two-Year Phone Contracts On January 8
Facebook’s Controversial Free Basics Program Shuts Down In Egypt
Microsoft Will Warn E-mail Users About Suspected Attacks By Government Hackers
Debian Founder Ian Murdock Dies At 42 In Unclear Circumstances
India’s Mobile Phone User Base Rises Above 1 Billion



SPORTS
ESPN Hoping For Big Numbers From New Year’s Eve College Football Playoffs

ESPN’s College Gameday crew in Fargo, Sept. 13

Sports network hopes to take over NYE the way the NFL owns Thanksgiving and the NBA wants to own Christmas

Leafs Edge Pens 3-2 In Shootout

Kobe Bryant’s Double Double Downs Celtics In His Boston Finale

Stinking Badgers Edge USC In Holiday Bowl 23-21

Magic Top Nyets, 100-93

Caps Pound Sabres Late For 5-2 Win

Nats Still Looking For OF/CF – The Return Of Denard Span?



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
MARRIAGE NOT A HIGH PRIORITY FOR HILARY DUFF

Redbook’s February cover girl is ready to be a single mom again, maybe

“It’s hard to say that you really can have it all … You’re missing out on something, either on the career or on the family. When I’m really busy with work, I feel extremely guilty,”

Bill Cosby Arrested For Sexual Assault, Free On $1 Million Bail



Dave Grohl Inks Up To Honor Lemmy Kilmister

Girls Under Ten Having Sex Found In Mark Salling’s Computer

Nicki Minaj Goes Bowling With Brother Accused Of Rape

Gwen And Blake Expecting A Baby?

Bruce Jenner Settles Lawsuit From Fatal Crash

Leonardo DiCaprio Reveals Why He Didn’t Take The Role Of Anakin Skywalker

Goldie Hawn On Life In NYC At 19



FOREIGNERS
Daesh Bomb Attacks Kill 16 In Kurdish-Controlled Syrian City
Brussels Cancels NYE Festivities Over Terror Threat
UN Refugee Agency Says Over One Million Migrants Took Sea Route To Europe
Heavy Rains, Strong Winds Continue To Pound Ulster, Scotland
UK Terrorist Couple Wannabees Given Life Sentences For 7/7 Anniversary Bomb Plot
Power To Name Polish State Media Chiefs Passes To Ruling Party
Freakish Weather Around The World – It’s Warmer At The North Pole Than In Chicago
Nigerian President Willing To Negotiate With Boko Haram For Chibok Girls
Freed Afghan Village Reveals Key To Taliban Success
Merkel Warns Germans Against Refugee Hate In New Year’s Speech



BLOGS & STUFF
EBL: #HillaryClintonHealthProblems
Louder With Crowder: 2015 – The Year Liberalism Imploded
The Political Hat: And Public Schools Are His Prophet
Michelle Malkin: Cruz/Sessions Bill Would Stop Sneaky Obama Sabotage Of Skilled U.S. Workers
Twitchy: Obama Family Rings Up Estimated $70 Million In Vacation Expenses

American Power: Voters Seek Vengeance Against Obama’s “Fundamental Transformation Of America”
American Thinker: The Obamacare Wolf, Scratching At Your Door
BLACKFIVE: A National Shame
Conservatives4Palin: The Worst Of MSNBC, 2015
Don Surber: That 90s Campaign!
Jammie Wearing Fools: Of Course – Fight Breaks Out At Newark Anti-Violence Rally
Joe For America: Pesky Facts About Hate Crimes And The Religion Of Peace
JustOneMinute: Trump Plays The “Bill’s A Predator” Card
Pamela Geller: German Anti-Islamization Group’s Anthem Dethrones Adele From Top Spot On Music Charts
Protein Wisdom: Houston Mosque Set On Fire By…Wait For It…Muslim Attendee
Shot In The Dark: The “Honesty” Cult
The Gateway Pundit: Bakery’s Bank Accounts Seized For Refusing To Bake Gay Wedding Cake
The Jawa Report: Extreme “Right Wing Fundamentalists” Ostracize Feminist For Breastfeeding In Public
The Lonely Conservative: Eighteen Things That Became Racist In 2015
This Ain’t Hell: Three Marines Saving The World Near Detroit
Weasel Zippers: Biggest Paper In Germany Reports Government-Ordered Cover-up Of Migrant Crime, 1.1 Million Refugees Taken In
Megan McArdle: Sanders’ And Clinton’s Fake Middle Class
Mark Steyn: Societal Stockholm Syndrome


I’m going to be out tomorrow night getting hammered and have similar plans for New Year’s Day, so Live at Five will be on hiatus until Monday.
Happy New Year!


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Feminism: Death Cult Chaos

Posted on | December 30, 2015 | 150 Comments

 

“Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It” — this is a truth that cannot be repeated often enough as we watch the Democrat-Media Complex mobilize all its resources to elect Hillary Clinton president. Monday night I found myself assailed on Twitter by Clintonistas who resented my characterization of feminism as a totalitarian ideology as rigid and intolerant as the neo-Stalinism of the North Korean regime. The one thing Democrats cannot tolerate is the truth, and suppressing the truth about feminism — a movement that is not about “equality,” but instead is about power — is therefore necessary to Democrat success in the 2016 election campaign. If the truth is known, Democrats lose. Meanwhile, in England . . .

A student has spoken out about the challenges of identifying as neither male or female and also being attracted to both genders.
Speaking with the Liverpool Echo, Amy Toon – who studies modern history and politics at the University of Liverpool – described a feeling of relief at being able to self-identify as being non-binary and pansexual after years of being in the unknown.
However, despite being generally treated with respect, Amy told the site being referred to as “a girl” is upsetting and that many people think gay marriage is enough, but insisted the opposite. Amy also added how the option of hormone replacement would mean having to wait for up to five years, and said: “You have to live for quite a while being very unhappy with who you are.” . . .
Amy, originally from Leeds, described having to sign on as being female, however, services like the NHS provide the option of ‘Mx’ instead of the usual ‘Miss/Mr/Mrs’, and also told the news site “they/them” is a preferable way of being addressed, whereas others may opt for “ze, hir, hirs, and xe, xem, or xyr.”
Even though Amy has received support since self-identifying with both groups, the undergraduate highlighted feelings of anxiety and depression when being called a “girl” and added how students at the university “can be really transphobic.” Amy added: “They make stupid statements and our LGBT posters were torn down.” . . .

Amy Toon is a victim of society, oppressed by pronouns. How dare you call a girl a “girl,” you heteronormative transphobic bigot?

As easy as it is to laugh at such products of feminist ideology, we must not overlook the tragic dimension — what if it were your daughter who had been brainwashed by the transgender cult? — and the disastrous social consequences. A couple of weeks ago, I interviewed a parent whose child had been captured by this movement. It was a story familiar to anyone who has paid attention to this trend: A tomboyish daughter, a good student, generally well-behaved but somewhat socially awkward, quite suddenly becomes hostile and defiant, announces that she is “he,” denounces her parents as bigots for questioning the decision to “transition,” and pursues a new persona based on an extreme alienation from her female identity. Only after this dramatic and heartbreaking departure — their daughter not merely renouncing her identity, but rejecting her family — did the parents discover the precipitating cause. Their daughter, trying to cope with an adolescent identity crisis, had gone exploring the corners of the Internet where advocates of transgenderism celebrate “transition” as a miraculous cure for every confused teenager’s problem. These FtM (female-to-male) transgender blogs feature photos and videos showing the effects of testosterone injections and weightlifting in developing a masculinized physique, and the results of “top” surgery (i.e., mastectomy) by which tomboys turn themselves into simulations of men. Inside the transgender cult’s online echo chamber, the teenager encounters a very one-sided message.

“Propaganda” is not too strong a word to describe the transgender cult’s carefully calculated campaign to convert the confusion of an adolescent crisis into the certainty of “transition” into a new identity. Much like a porngraphy addict, the vulnerable teenager who is at first merely curious about transgenderism may quickly become obsessed, and parents whose children fall prey to the transgender cult often report that their teenager went from normal to weirdo to fanatic in a matter of months.

Laughter is not the appropriate response to these tragedies, and it is not just Christian conservatives who are raising concerns about the transgender cult’s recruitment campaign. Radical feminists have been warning about this trend for years. The blog 4th Wave Now was started by a feminist who watched in horror as her daughter was captured by the transgender cult. Understand that the feminist mom responsible for 4th Wave Now enthusiastically approved of her daughter’s lesbianism; it was when the teenage lesbian rejected female identity that her mother became alarmed. Feminist gender theory — the social construction of the gender binary within the heterosexual matrix — denies that there is any such thing as “human nature,” and feminists condemn heterosexuality as “the ideology of male supremacy.” Teaching girls to hate and fear men is what feminist motherhood is all about, so when their daughters want to become men — identifying with the hated male oppressor — we understand why feminists panic. Instead of smashing patriarchy, their daughters want to be the patriarchy.

 

The feminist crusade to destroy civilization in the name of “equality” has produced many ironic results, and we may be tempted to laugh when the debris of this destructive project lands on the doorsteps of man-hating fanatics who have fomented this War Against Human Nature. Yes, we can ridicule freaks like Tobias “Tobi” Hill-Meyer, whose career as a transgender pornographer brought shame on his/”her” lesbian feminist mother(s). However, the expanding cultural influence of radical feminism — promoted for decades in university Women’s Studies classrooms, and now increasingly extended to the public school curriculum — is aimed at all children, and every parent concerned for the future must pay attention. “The Queering of Feminism” means that “equality” requires the destruction of morality. All critical dissent must be suppressed while government schools indoctrinate children in the movement’s anti-male/anti-heterosexual ideology. Wellesley College Professor Julie Matthaei credits feminism with exposing “the oppressiveness of traditional heterosexuality” in a movement that “advocated lesbianism as an option for women.” By demonizing males and stigmatizing heterosexuality in this way, feminism seeks to create equality, but what it actually creates is decadence and chaos.

Meanwhile, in England . . .

The number of primary school-aged children, some as young as four, beginning to “transition” their gender is rising rapidly in the UK. The popularity of the fad appears to be clustered, with children copying others in the same schools.
Up to 80 primary school-aged children a year are now seeking help towards potentially changing their gender, the chair of Mermaids, a charity which lobbies for families who believe their children and teenagers are transgendered, has revealed.
Speaking to the Telegraph, Susie Green said that, in some cases, British children as young as four are already in the process of “transitioning” to another sex.
She also described how her organisation has observed a cluster effect across the country, with children following one and another in the same school; a school where there might be a teacher who promotes transgender ideology.
Her anecdotal evidence correlates with the results of a study by Mark Zucker at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada, which found that transgenderism was more prominent and persistent among children when promoted by adults.
Researchers observed that children who saw therapists and others in authority who assume that they belong to the opposite sex can actually become more distressed, exacerbating their “gender dysphoric identity.”

Ask yourself, why is this trend so noticeable in England? One reason may be the 2010 Equality Act which effectively criminalizes criticism of the LGBT agenda. By making “sexual orientation” a protected category, this law not only requires schools to hire gay teachers, but makes it hazardous for anyone to express disapproval of homosexuality. LGBT advocacy in British schools is now ubiquitous and exempt from criticism, as is the case in many American school systems, where such advocacy often takes the form of “anti-bullying” programs. Is it any wonder, really, that many young people are so deeply confused about their sexuality?

Many parents are clueless about what is being taught in their children’s schools, but when we see transgender children in elementary school and LGBT clubs in high schools, it becomes obvious that the education system itself is dedicated to promoting this ideology. However, at the same time, the feminist fanatics who created the phony “rape epidemic” hysteria on college campuses are now promoting “consent education” in K-12 schools — to make sure that all students are warned that males are dangerous and heterosexuality is “rape culture.”

Feminism is a Death Cult, whose only goal is destruction — destroying religion, family, liberty, morality and, ultimately, human life itself.




 

Category: Sex Trouble

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.30.15

Posted on | December 30, 2015 | 5 Comments

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TOP NEWS
MISSOURI ASKS RIVERBANK RESIDENTS TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND AS FLOODING CONTINUES

Death toll rises to 13 as of Tuesday, up from six over the weekend

State is on track to break records set in 1993, when 800 levees were breached

Carrier Harry S. Truman Has Close Call With Iranian Rockets
Live fire exercise with unguided rockets conducted within 1500 yards by Iranian Navy

Norks’ Top Official In Charge Of ROK Relations Dies In Car Crash
Kim Yang Gon’s death may further impair relations between the Koreas



POLITICS
TEXAS ASKS SUPREME COURT NOT TO REVIEW ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION CASE

Illegals seek help from Mexican Consulate in preparing deportation deferment paperwork

Texas AG says Obama’s DAPA program illegal and unconstitutional; injunction recently upheld by 5th Circuit

Former NY Governor Pataki Drops Out Of GOP Race

Kasich: Tamir Rice Protesters Need To Be Heard


O’Malley’s Iowa Event Draws One Voter

SeaWorld Sues California Commission Over Orca Breeding Ban

NH Union-Leader Publisher: Trump Will Be Soundly Beaten For Nomination

Homeland Security Push Could Make Some IDs Invalid For Flying



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Slumps Towards $37 As Weak Outlook Prevails: Brent $37.46, WTI $37.22
Asian Stocks Erase Gains As Oil Rally Fizzles
Home Prices In Twenty U.S. Cities Rose In November
Buffett Subsidiary Faces Renewed Misconduct Claims
Whole Foods Pays $500K To Settle Pricing Dispute
DuPont To Cut 1700 Jobs In January
Twitter Hires New VP Of Diversity & Inclusion From Apple
Samsung Smart TVs To Be Internet Of Things Compatible In 2016
LG, Samsung Reportedly To Supply Screens For Apple
Google’s Issues In The Fast-Growing Indian Market



SPORTS
CHIP KELLY FIRED BY EAGLES

Former Ducks coach hoist by his own petard

Eagles missed playoffs for second straight year; Kelly’s player moves a disaster

Clemson Sends Three Home From Orange Bowl For Failing Drug Tests

Bruins Offense Ignites To Crush Sens 7-3

Thunder Tops Bucks 131-123

Islanders Run Wild On Leafs, 6-3

James Scores 34, Leads Cavs Over Nuggets

Blue Jackets Whip Stars, 6-3

Ex-Yankee 2B Stephen Drew Signs With Nats



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
ELODIE YUNG HEATS UP DAREDEVIL‘S SEASON 2 AS ELEKTRA

Last seen in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Also coming to the Netflix series – the Punisher.


Glee Star Mark Salling Arrested For Child Porn

Guns N’ Roses To Reunite For Coachella, Possible Stadium Tour


Dave Grohl Spins Tunes On Date Night

Jeremy Renner Finalizes Divorce, Will Pay $13K+/Month In Child Support

Stars Support Charity At Russell Simmons’ Party

Rocco Says Madonna Treated Him As A Trophy, Not A Son

What New Year’s Eve In NYC Was Like In The 1950s



FOREIGNERS
Daesh Suffers Double Blow With Fall Of Ramadi, Loss Of Leaders To Air Strikes
Thousands In Scotland Without Power As Storm Strikes
Voters In Central African Republic Hoping For Stability
Accord Over Cubans Stranded In Costa Rica Sparks Fear Of Illegal Migrant Wave
Eight Survivors Found Five Days After Chinese Mine Collapse
Burkina Faso’s First New President In Decades Sworn In
Al-Qaeda Training Camps Reappearing In Afghanistan?
NSA Spying On Netanyahu Also Snooped On Members Of Congress
Red China, Taiwan Inaugurate Hotline As Relations Improve
Russia Names Chechen As Mastermind Behind Nemtsov Assassination; Cover-up Suspected



BLOGS & STUFF
EBL: Nature Vs. Nurture
American Irony: Fourteen New Year’s Resolutions For Liberals
Proof Positive: In Defense Of Samuel L. Jackson
Doug Powers: Obama To Spend 2016 Wrapping Up Legacy As “The Irony President”
Twitchy: Baltimore Leads 2015 With Highest Murder Rate Per Capita; 23 Were Children

American Power: Radical Founder Of Femen Brazil Renounces Feminism, Declares Herself Pro-Life, And Apologizes To Christians
American Thinker: Clinton’s Bimbo Eruptions Vs. Trump’s “Sexism”
Conservatives4Palin: The Democrats’ Theme For 2016 Is Totalitarianism
Don Surber: Pundit Of The Year – Dilbert Creator Scott Adams
Jammie Wearing Fools: Belgian Cops, Soldiers Threw Orgies While Terror Suspects Were On The Run
Joe For America: Planned Parenthood Says HIV-Infected Have No Obligation To Tell Their Sex Partners
Pamela Geller: Mob Rips Apart Woman Falsely Accused Of Burning Koran
Shot In The Dark: Some Good News
The Gateway Pundit: Breaking Poll – 40% Of Blacks Back Trump, 45% Of Hispanics
The Jawa Report: Good Gun Control Dead End Edition
The Lonely Conservative: Video – 2015, The Year Students Went Completely Insane
This Ain’t Hell: Air Force Academy Ignores Mikey And The MRFF
Weasel Zippers: Trump Corrects NBC Host – Clinton Affair With Monica Lewinsky Not “Alleged”
Megan McArdle: The Force Awakens Has A Perfection Problem
Mark Steyn: A Tale Of Two Bills


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Category: Live at Five

This Blog Gives Her Majesty 90 Days In Office #HillaryClintonHealthConspiracies

Posted on | December 29, 2015 | 111 Comments

by Smitty

Via Instapundit and Don Surber: Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, thinks Her Majesty is hiding a serious health concern, but is setting up Donald Trump.
Let me lay out a few thoughts.

  1. Her Majesty and BHO are bound by Benghazi, though 13 Hours might change that situation.
  2. BHO is concerned about his “legacy” (I’ll wait while you vomit).
  3. Her Majesty only really cares about being sworn in as POTUS. Past the pomp & circumstance, actually carrying out the office could prove a Royal Bore.
  4. She actually has enough health issues to make a full administration  problematic.

So:

  • She ran interference for BHO over Benghazi in 2012, when the truth kryptonite would have wilted Superwimp.
  • BHO runs legal interference, stifling any proper Benghazi inquiry for her campaing, with the proviso that she permit him to name the VP (Corey Booker? Deval Patrick), who is really going to be the President anyway.
  • Her majesty enjoys the first 100 days of honeymoon, so that she doesn’t look as bad as William Henry Harrison.
    Then she retires for medical reasons, securing the Obama legacy.

Note that this is a Trump-free conspiracy theory. I still maintain that he is a mercenary, building up a large voter base to sell to whoever is writing the fattest check. If Hillary, he goes independent, or takes the GOP nomination and his speeches start giving it the Full Tarantino until the GOP implodes entirely.

If he stays GOP, he can either try to convince enough conservatives that he has a statesman bone somewhere under his ridiculous hairstyle, or just sell his endorsement to another candidate with something like a plausible political style.

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Posted on | December 29, 2015 | 6 Comments

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