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Sound The Collision Alarm! Yet Another Lefty Switcheroo Is CBDR!

Posted on | October 28, 2013 | 35 Comments

by Smitty

For those not ‘in the know’, CBDR means “Constant Bearing, Decreasing Range”. Say that on the bridge of a ship underway, and you have everyone’s attention.

Robert Reich over at the Huffington Compost: “The Democrat’s Version of Health Insurance Would Have Been Cheaper, Simpler, and More Popular (So Why Did We Enact the Republican Version and Why Are They So Upset?)”

In February 1974, Republican President Richard Nixon proposed, in essence, today’s Affordable Care Act. Under Nixon’s plan all but the smallest employers would provide insurance to their workers or pay a penalty, an expanded Medicaid-type program would insure the poor, and subsidies would be provided to low-income individuals and small employers. Sound familiar?

As stabbed in the heart by none other than the Oldsmobile Admiral himself, Ted Kennedy, the Lyin’ of the Senate:

Nixon strongly believed that a national health insurance plan was crucial. In that 1974 State of the Union Address, he declared that “the time is at hand this year to bring comprehensive, high quality health care within the reach of every American”. Actually, this statement is not surprising considering Nixon’s personal history of poverty and family illness. (He lost two brothers to tuberculosis, the illnesses dealing a heavy blow to the family finances, and in fact proposed a national health insurance bill when he arrived in Congress in 1947.) Nixon sounds very much like Obama, when he said in 1974 that he did not want to see “other families of modest means…driven …to bankruptcy because of the inability to handle medical care problems of a catastrophic type”.
However, the “liberal” opposition, spearheaded by the lobbying of the then-powerful AFL-CIO and United Autowokers, proved too much for an administration spending significant energy on defending against the rising tide of the Watergate affair.
Kennedy did begin secret negotiations with the Nixon White House, but he fell prey to the pressures of the unions, as labor leaders wished for a single-payor system which they felt would be rather easily achieved once a Democrat was elected to the presidency in the face of the Watergate scandal. Many felt that Kennedy would be that Democrat, and therefore he had no business throwing a lifeline to the sinking Nixon administration.

But that’s old politics, and I only bring this up to show that Nixon was more Progressive than anything else, as well as help Reich make sure he doesn’t forget crucial details.

It’s also funny that, for a party that likes to pat itself on the back about being pragmatic, they totally blew the opportunity to get the capstone of FDR’s foul Second Bill of Rights in place while they could.

But the real, contemporary point here, Mr. Reich, is that ObamaCare IS a Democrat turd. How many Republican votes were for it? Zip, zero, nada, zilch. In either chamber of Congress.

The Democrats, and their little sycophants, own this. They were all prepared to bask in the glory, set up a permanent Democrat majority, and pulverize the Republican party. But ObamaCare is a river of lies, with headwaters in hell. It was falsely conceived, falsely legislated, falsely adjudicated, falsely reported, falsely coded, and, unexpectedly, enjoyed a false rollout. The nicest thing I have to say about ObamaCare is that albatross was an appropriate flavor choice:
But under no circumstances should the pure, 100% Democrat ownership of this debacle be allowed to slip from the public consciousness.

Category: Health Care

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.28.13

Posted on | October 28, 2013 | 10 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
Lou Reed, 1942-2013, RIP

Lou Reed playing in NYC, 2009

An outsider whose dark, lyrical visions made rock what it is.



Report: Obama Knew, Approved NSA Spying On Merkel
More fallout from the Snowden leaks


Explosions Kill Five At Narendra Modi Rally In Bihar
Six bombs, five dead and 83 wounded



POLITICS
NSA Denies Website Hacking, Blames System Error

Demonstrators march against NSA surveillance

Hacker group claims credit

One Year After Sandy, Hundreds Of Staten Island Homeowners Still Waiting To Rebuild, Return

Passions High As Hawaii Debates Gay Marriage

Bill Clinton Stumps For McAuliffe In Hampton

Cheney Criticizes Daughter’s Opponent In Senate Primary

Poll Shows DiBlasio Poised To Win by Historic Margin

Healthcare.gov Crashes Again, Verizon Subsidiary Blamed

GOP Groups Step Up Pressure On House To Pass Immigration Reform

Jindal Focusing On Upcoming Elections, Obamacare, Not White House Bid



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Prices Mixed In Cautious Asian Trade: NYMEX $97.71, Brent $107.20
Asian Markets Rebound, Following Wall Street Lead, Yen Softens
Aussie Markets Close At Five-Year High
Furloughed Federal Workers Must Repay Jobless Benefits
McDonald’s Squeezing Out Heinz Ketchup
Amazon Revenue Soars 24% In Third Quarter
Twitter Overtakes Facebook As Most Popular Social Network For Teens
LG Unveils Curved Smartphone In Race Against Samsung
Nokia Goes Big With Lumia Tablet, Smartphones
Comcast Offers HBO In Basic Cable Package
Firefox Plug-In Shows Who’s Tracking You



SPORTS
Gomes Blast Brings Boston The Win

The Bearded One is greeted by Ortiz and Pedroia after driving them in with his sixth-inning homer

4-2 victory over Cardinals evens World Series at two apiece; Red Sox could win it all in Fenway for the first time since 1918

Jeff Gordon Speeds To First Sprint Cup Win Of The Year

Rodgers Leads Packers Past Vikings In 44-31 Rout

Sharks Beat Sens 5-2

Manning Leads Broncos To Victory Over Redskins Despite Sprained Ankles

Oregon Edges FSU In BCS, Standings, Alabama Still #1 – ROLL TIDE!

Chiefs Hold On To Beat Browns, Remain Unbeaten

Dalton, Bengals Humiliate Jets 49-9

Patriots Rally In Second Half, Top Dolphins 27-17

Ducks Edge Blue Jackets 4-3

Report: Nationals To Hire Matt Williams As Manager



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Christina Ricci Marries Fiance James Heerdegen

All the Wednesday Addams fanboys heartbroken ;_;

All the details on the wedding

Olivia Wilde, Jason Sudeikis Expecting First Child

Marcia Wallace, Star Of “Bob Newhart Show” And “The Simpsons”, Dead At 70

Julianne Hough Goes Blackface For Halloween

David Beckham, Son Escape Injury In Auto Accident

“Sons Of Anarchy ” Actress Maggie Siff Pregnant


Liam Gallagher’s Baby Mama Fighting For Full Custody

Doutzen Kroes Feels Guilty About Being A Sexy Model

Boy George Snubs Fans Before Club Set

Rumors Abound After Huma-Wintour Lunch

Matt Harvey And GF Looking For A Home

The Unthinkable Happens: Leopard Skin Now Classy

Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell Don Lederhosen For Halloween Party



FOREIGNERS
66 Dead In Day of Carnage As 11 Car Bombs Rip Iraq
Three Killed, Many Injured As SUV Hits Tienanmen Square Crowd, Bursts Into Flames
Rocket Fired From Gaza Intecepted By Iron Dome
England, Wales Set For “Worst Storm In Years”
Chicoms Put Anti-Corruption Activists On Trial
Twenty Wedding Guests Killed By Roadside Bomb In Afghanistan
Fernandez’ Allies Thumped In Argentine Mid-Terms



BLOGS & STUFF
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Feminism, Marxism, and Permanent Revolution
Chicks On The Right: Helpful Tips From Kathleen Sebelius On The Obamacare Website
American Power: Leftist Media Mounts Coordinated Attack On Obama’s Claim To “Greater, More Competent Government”
American Thinker: Tying The Knot Under ObamaCare
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – Say, Where Is The Money Coming From?
Don Surber: St. Crispin’s Day Daily Scoreboard
Jammie Wearing Fools: Obama’s War On Women – ObamaCare Takes Away Womens’ Health Care Choices
JustOneMinute: Noonan On Obamacare
Pat Dollard: Unmarked Military Gunboats Patrolling Louisiana Canals?
Protein Wisdom: “More People In Three States Have Had Their Insurance Cancelled Under Obamacare Than Have Filed An Exchange Account In All 50”
Shot In The Dark: Watching The Astroturf Grow – Nuts And Bolts And More Nuts
The Jawa Report: Nigeria Slaughters Boko Haram
The Lonely Conservative: Democrats Want Smokers To Die Quickly
Megan McArdle: The Great Pension-Bonus Giveaway Fiasco


Category: Live at Five

Roger Shuler: Another Kook Succumbs to ‘Investigative Blogger Syndrome’

Posted on | October 27, 2013 | 64 Comments

Portrait of a Kook: Roger Shuler

“Shuler has not shown that any clearly established right has been violated. His only alleged evidence is a recorded phone call that he says supports the notion that he was terminated because of the political content of his blog. However, Shuler’s own transcript of the phone call shows only that his time spent researching content for his blog during working hours was a factor — and an ‘insignificant’ one, at that — in his termination. There is no evidence to suggest that the political content of his blog was a factor at all. Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the UAB defendants on this claim.”
— 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, July 3, 2012

“There is not a grain of truth to warrant the horrible defamation published by you regarding our client. Each has no factual basis. Your outrageous, despicable conduct will be addressed in another forum: the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama.”
— Bill Baxley to Roger Shuler, Aug. 16, 2013

Before I get around to explaining what kind of lunatic Roger Shuler is, let’s stipulate a few hypothetical possibilities: Maybe Rob Riley had an affair with Liberty Duke, maybe Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange had an affair with Jessica Medeiros Garrison, maybe U.S. Circuit Court Judge William Pryor once posed nude back in the 1980s.

Any one or all of those accusations made by Roger Shuler might be true, without changing the conclusion that Roger Shuler is a kook.

Alabama Blogger Jailed, Apparently For
Not Obeying Order to Stop Publishing
Certain Information about Politician
— Reason, Oct. 25, 2013

That headline bothers me, and not merely because there are too many disgruntled kooks like Roger Shuler filling up the Internet with terabytes of lunacy, harassing and smearing innocent people.

The fact that Ali Akbar was one of the subjects of Shuler’s smears is certainly highly relevant to my interest, but maybe you don’t like Ali and maybe you don’t give a damn about me, either. My job is to explain to you why this particular kook — a demented inhabitant of the paranoid fringe — is typical of a general problem that affects you, even if you’re not a Republican who has been smeared by this kook.

In 2008, Shuler got “dooced,” i.e., fired from his job because of his unauthorized blogging. This happens to people. Maybe it’s wrong that it happens, but it is not social injustice, and it’s certainly not grounds to claim that you’re the victim of a corrupt political conspiracy, even if your plight gains sympathetic coverage from your allies.

Alabama US Attorney denies any involvement
in university editor’s termination
— Raw Story, July 11, 2008

U. of Alabama at Birmingham Editor Says
He Was Fired Over His Political Blog
— Chronicle of Higher Education, July 14, 2008

OK, so you got fired for blogging, and you’ve got allies celebrating you as a martyr for First Amendment rights. But when push comes to shove — when you sue your former employer and are required to show actual evidence of your victimhood — you lose.

Because you are a loser.

Then you decide to double down on losing.

See, here’s the thing: Winners take responsibility for their failures.

This is not pleasant or agreeable. Nobody likes to admit to themselves that they screwed up, nor does anyone relish the moment when they look at their latest screw-up and recognize that it bears a strong resemblance to their previous screw-ups, so that there is an actual pattern to their failures, indicative of an intrinsic personality flaw from which they can never really hope to escape.

“Wherever you go, there you are,” as the old saying has it, and yet we all know people who never learn that lesson. They go through life repeating the same pattern of failure, and always externalize the blame, in order to protect their damaged egos from shame.

But why bring up Bill Schmalfeldt at this point? Well, it seems that (a) Schmalfeldt helped peddle the ridiculous Ali Akbar-Karl Rove gay affair libel that Roger Shuler promoted last year, (b) that Schmalfeldt is now promoting the “First Amendment martyr” narrative about Shuler’s arrest on contempt charges last week, and (c) there is a striking resemblance between the modus operandi of Schmalfeldt and Shuler.

Ali Akbar examines how these two kooks operate, claiming that they can do any damned thing they want to do, because journalism.

Shuler is not a journalist, he’s an ax-grinder, a guy who has a personal grievance that he disguises as a political crusade which, however sane it might have seemed when he began it, has turned into the ideé fixe of an obsessed fanatic. Roger Shuler has become a kook.

“Corrupt + Republican + Karl + Rove” — let the reader count how many posts by Shuler’s Legal Schnauzer blog have contained that particular combination of words. It’s a lot, including one on Sept. 14, 2008, with this provocative headline:

The Palin Doctrine: Lie, Steal, Cheat, Threaten

Scarcely two weeks had passed since Sarah Palin was announced as John McCain’s running mate, and Shuler denounced Palin as the epitome of corrupt evil of which he himself claimed to be a victim:

So there you have it, the Palin Doctrine: Lie, Steal, Cheat, Threaten. It’s a fascinating and evolving story on the national stage. But as I sit here in Shelby County, Alabama, and ponder what I’ve witnessed for the past eight years, I can’t help but think, “Despite what the pundits say, there is nothing fresh and new about Sarah Palin. If you have lived in Karl Rove’s Alabama, this kind of chicanery is old news.”

Perhaps the pattern is self-evident without my having to elaborate too much: Choose some pre-demonized political scapegoat, attribute to them malevolent action and malicious motive, compare them to those whom you allege have victimized you, and then use your own accusations as a pretext to justify further accusations against them.

Now, all you need to do is to add the magic ingredient: Describe what you are doing as “investigative journalism,” include a lot of noise about “corruption” that your more gullible readers can accept as an explanation of why these doers of foul deeds are getting away with it, and dismiss as irrelevant any facts or logic to the contrary.

You have now succumbed to Investigative Blogger Syndrome.

The most famous example of this paranoid kook motif is Barrett Brown, the former Anonymous spokesman who flipped out in September 2012, uploaded a bizarre YouTube rant about his plans to “destroy” an FBI agent, and is now in federal custody in Texas.

Here’s how I described Barrett Brown’s stock in trade:

Like the rituals of certain South Pacific islanders, the Cargo Cult Journalist hopes that his simulacrum of what he ignorantly imitates will magically bring the same result as the real thing. Cargo Cult Journalism is the kind of stuff we once encountered in smudgy mimeographed newsletters, “underground” newspaper tabloids, cheaply printed pamphlets and self-published books by crackpots who warn about conspiracies involving the Bavarian Illuminati, the Trilateral Commission and/or the Military-Industrial Complex. In the digital age, however, many people have trouble distinguishing between this kook-fringe imitation of “reporting” and genuine journalism, a distinction blurred by the increasingly shabby quality of product issued by respectable organs of the mainstream media.

There are reputable people who want you to believe Barrett Brown is a First Amendment hero and a political prisoner. Democrat Underground claims Shuler is a “political prisoner,” too. Did any of these people say a word of complaint when Brett Kimberlin had Aaron Worthing arrested last year? No, of course, they did not. And, in point of fact, Roger Shuler celebrated Kimberlin as a hero:

 In a delicious example of “turnabout is fair play,” Kimberlin has used right wingers’ tactics against them — causing the recent arrest of one thug, the outing of another as a criminal, and the transmission of a notice to others that they face possible legal action…
Key bloggers have written anonymously, but Kimberlin was able to determine their identities and bring legal action against them.

The man whom Shuler called a “thug,” Yale Law alumnus Aaron Walker, offers an erudite discussion of Shuler’s legal predicament:

No, Mr. Shuler, you were plainly playing cheerleader to an anti-freedom-of-expression thug. The most charitable interpretation is that you were such a partisan hack on this that you refused to see how you were cheerleading a clear violation of my First Amendment rights, that you were engaged in willful ignorance and cheering on a precedent that might be used against you in the future.
So part of me feels it is just deserts when I learned that recently you were ordered not to blog about something, that you were found to be in contempt of that order, that you were arrested as a result and when you allegedly resisted arrest, you were beaten to some degree because of it. I admit that part of me chuckled, reading back over your old post praising what Kimberlin had done to me.
But even Brett Kimberlin’s bootlickers have rights.

Roger Shuler, Shelby County Jail inmate No. 288928

Let’s pause to ask: Is there a moral equivalence between the reporting that I and others have done about Brett Kimberlin and the kind of Investigative Blogger Syndrome act that has landed Roger Shuler in the Shelby County Jail as Inmate No. 288928?

It’s a fair question, and there have been many times in the past 17 months that I’ve stopped, stepped back and asked myself whether I’ve gone down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. But the list of people who’ve endured the same pattern of harassment is long enough that, even if I were not a defendant in the federal RICO suit Kimberlin v. the Universe, et al., the story would still be newsworthy.

Crazy as hell, yes, but still newsworthy:

Like Kimberlin’s past acts of anti-free-speech thuggery, his tactics serve to remind people of the very facts he seeks to bury.
With the filing of this lawsuit, more people will learn that Brett Kimberlin was convicted for setting off numerous bombs, one of which blew off a man’s leg. More people will learn of his dishonest machinations to avoid paying a wrongful death judgment to the widow of the man whose leg Kimberlin blew off — a Vietnam veteran who survived the war, but could not survive the pain of the wounds Kimberlin inflicted. More people will learn that, when he set off those bombs in Speedway, police suspected him of complicity in the murder of a grandmother of a young preteen girl, with whom Kimberlin had had a relationship that many people (including the grandmother) considered inappropriate. . . .
Kimberlin’s actions are not rational — but then, “rational” is not a word you would typically use to describe a violent criminal sentenced to 50 years in prison for maiming a man with a bomb. . . .

And here’s the key difference: I didn’t pick a pre-demonized scapegoat. I didn’t claim that the story I’m covering proves corruption by Eric Holder or President Obama or some other conspiratorial combination of Democrats. Trust me when I say that there are plenty of people who can’t figure out why Kimberlin’s associate Neal Rauhauser hasn’t been arrested yet. And well do I recall some people last year telling me, “Stacy, you’ve got to show how this is connected to Obama.”

Except I can’t, and don’t pretend I can. To this day, most people have never heard of Brett Kimberlin and, even if it were demonstrated that there was a secret deal whereby the Justice Department agreed to look the other way while Kimberlin funded an elaborate scheme to destroy Andrew Breitbart and cripple conservative New Media, I seriously doubt this would ever be noticed by the New York Times.

No, I have no delusions of grandeur or fantasies of heroic vindication, which is what motivates ax-grinding kooks like Roger Shuler.

Maybe these differences are rather nuanced. Maybe this whole thing is too “meta” for most people to care about. But I’m not in the Shelby County Jail, and Roger Shuler is — because he’s a kook.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

 

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Category: Barrett Brown, Bill Schmalfeldt, Blogging, Conspiracy Theories, Journalism, Roger Shuler

Rule 5 Sunday: Maximum Acceleration

Posted on | October 27, 2013 | 29 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

We begin this week’s Rule 5 roundup by reminding the Loyal Readers (and occasional Go(Oglers),to swipe Soylent Green’s term) that many of the links below lead to pix of half-pretty girls half-dressed to show it and entirely pretty girls completely undressed to show it, both of which are liable to get you in hot water if clicked on where not appropriate. Consider yourself warned.

We bring this week with Randy’s Roundtable, who submits Helen Lindes for our consideration; Animal Magnetism is right behind with Rule 5 Friday and Solo Ginger Saturday, the usual Gingermageddon having fallen afoul of coding issues. Goodstuff serves up Vampira and other Halloween goodness along with an examination of Palin Madness Syndrome; Ninety Miles From Tyranny has Hot Pick of The Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Women With Weapons. Reaganite Resistance has some stunning news about Miss World, while Fishersville Mike enjoys Summer in Kansas City. Blackmailers Don’t Shoot doesn’t disappoint with Pretty Girls On A Thursday: Rock Around The Clock Edition, and First Street Journal returns with some Serbian Army ladies for your consideration.

EBL’s herd of noteworthy heifers this week includes The Flirts, Kate Upton, Carol Costello, an unfortunate cell phone user, Hayden Panettiere, Nell Stephenson, more vintage Halloween Rule 5, and Obamacare Rule 5.

Wine Women and Politics has TGIF Late Day Hotness, Red Hot, Playboy Playmate Val Keil, Hot Babe Friday, Some Like It Hot, and Thursday Bombshells.

Postaldog delivers with Sydney Leathers and Bree Olson, Madonna & Gabrielle Union, Salma Hayek, Chloe Bennett, Taylor Swift, Taylor Momsen, and Eliza Dushku.

Soylent Green has some morning coffee, Overnighty Berritt, Soylent Classic Miss Spassfabrik, Tuesday Titillation, Funiculi Funicula, Humpday Hawtness Jaslyn, Alien Linky Love, Falconsword Fursday Fantasm, Pre-Halloween Linky Love, Corset Corsage, T-GIF Friday, Evening Awesome Edwige, and Baby You Can Drive My Car.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe was Katie Vernola, and his vintage babe was Piper Laurie, Sex in Advertising was covered this week by Katherine Webb, and of course there’s the obligatory 49ers cheerleader. Dustbury offers Catherine Deneuve and Jessica Alba, Three Beers Later brings Jonathan Winters and Suzanne Somers; also, Colt Ford’s “No Trash In My Trailer”. At The Camp of the Saints, it’s Amber Campisi and the Rule 5 News.

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week included Marlina Moreno, Maria Melilo, Nicole Bahls, Rebecca de Mornay,Mei Yukimoto, Saki Hatsumi, Mika Kizaki, Mayuko Akimoto, and Tanja Reichert; also, Lingerie Friday, TGIF Babes, and Sexy Saturday.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 roundup is Saturday, November 2.


Category: Rule 5

The Drunk Sluts Rights Movement

Posted on | October 27, 2013 | 66 Comments

Back in August, when I covered “SlutWalk DC,” I observed:

Date rape is an apparently common campus crime that usually involves two drunk young people, one of whom has an erect penis, and the other of whom is unable to avert what the erect penis typically does.

Of course, feminists would denounce such a statement of fact as a misogynistic expression of “rape culture,” but facts are facts: Alcohol is a significant contributing factor in the incidence of date rape. Leslie Eastman at College Insurrection remarks, “Never let it be said that outraged campus feminists confuse themselves with common sense,” as she highlights a Washington Post column about a recent uproar:

The message of Emily Yoffe’s Slate article about binge drinking and sexual assault on college campuses was as important as it was obvious: The best step that young women can take to protect themselves is to stop drinking to excess.
Young women everywhere — not to mention their mothers — ought to be thanking Yoffe. Instead, she’s being pilloried.
A “rape denialism manifesto” full of “plain old victim-blaming,” Lori Adelman wrote on the feminist blog Feministing.com. Erin Gloria Ryan, on Jezebel.com, accused Yoffe of “admonishing women for not doing enough to stop their own rapes.”

Read the whole thing. This feminist nonsense is perfectly understandable once you recognize that the whole p0int of endless ranting about the evils of the oppressive patriarchy is to absolve women of responsibility for their own failures. So the coed who starts guzzling tequila at the ATO house and wakes up the next morning sore, sticky and naked, with only vague memories of how she got that way, is not merely a victim of drunken fratboys — and we all know what deviant beasts those ATOs are, right? — but also a victim of all men everywhere throughout the course of human history. Anyone who says otherwise is just a misogynistic slut-shaming bigot.

“One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that; no ordinary man could be such a fool,” said the sexist George Orwell.

 

Category: Crime, Education, Feminism, Intellectuals, Sex

Celebrity Psychopath Chris Brown Arrested on Felony Assault Charge

Posted on | October 27, 2013 | 44 Comments

The world’s most notorious R&B criminal terrorizes D.C.:

Chris Brown and a bodyguard were arrested Sunday morning and charged with felony assault, the Washington Metropolitan Police Department said.
The singer and bodyguard Christopher Hollosy were allegedly involved in an altercation with another man outside the W Hotel at 4:25 a.m., police said.
The two were taken into custody and were being held at the 2nd district police station, police said.
Brown, 24, is on probation in California for a felony domestic violence conviction involving his former girlfriend Rihanna. Any arrest could be considered a violation of that probation, which could result in jail time.

Internet tabloid TMZ reports:

“Two woman approached Brown in front of the W Hotel and asked to take a picture with him.  As the pic was about to be taken, 2 men rushed over to get in the photo.  We’re told Chris then said, “I’m not into this gay s**t, I’m into boxing,” and threw a punch at the alleged victim.  . . . The victim says he doesn’t understand why Brown would be “so homophobic” to hurl such a slur.

Maybe after Chris Brown gets out of jail, he can date Amanda Bynes, who is reportedly recovering from her psychotic meltdown.

How did Chris Brown become such a violent menace to society? We mentioned his sexually deviant childhood just the other day:

His parents divorced when he was seven, and before long he and his sister and mother were living with her new husband in a trailer park . . .
He lost his virginity when he was eight years old, to a local girl who was 14 or 15. . . . Brown grew up with a great gang of boy cousins, and they watched so much porn that he was raring to go.

This is America’s future. And we’re hopelessly doomed.

(Hat-tip: L.N. Smithee.)

 

Category: Celebrities, Crime

U.S. Army Counter-Intelligence Warns Fort Hood Troops Against Christians

Posted on | October 27, 2013 | 91 Comments

Obviously, we must beware of those Lutheran extremists:

Soldiers attending a pre-deployment briefing at Fort Hood say they were told that evangelical Christians and members of the Tea Party were a threat to the nation and that any soldier donating to those groups would be subjected to punishment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
A soldier who attended the Oct. 17th briefing told me the counter-intelligence agent in charge of the meeting spent nearly a half hour discussing how evangelical Christians and groups like the American Family Association were “tearing the country apart.”
Michael Berry, an attorney with the Liberty Institute, is advising the soldier and has launched an investigation into the incident.
“The American public should be outraged that the U.S. Army is teaching our troops that evangelical Christians and Tea Party members are enemies of America, and that they can be punished for supporting or participating in those groups,” said Berry, a former Marine Corps JAG officer.
“These statements about evangelicals being domestic enemies are a serious charge.” . . .
[W]hile a large portion of the briefing dealt with the threat evangelicals and the Tea Party pose to the nation, barely a word was said about Islamic extremism, the soldier said.
“Our community is still healing from the act of terrorism brought on by Nidal Hasan – who really is a terrorist,” the soldier said. “This is a slap in the face.“ . . .
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, tells me the Pentagon is pushing anti-Christian propaganda.
“On the very base that was the site of mass murder carried out by a radicalized Muslim soldier, it is astonishing that it is evangelical groups that are being identified as a ‘threat,’” he said. “Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel must immediately intervene to stop this march against the rights and freedom of our soldiers.”
The soldier said they were also told that the pro-life movement is another example of “radicalization.”
“They said that evangelical Christians protesting abortions are the mobilization stage and that leads to the bombing of abortion clinics,” he said, recalling the discussion.

The name of the Department of Defense official who gave this briefing should immediately be made public. This report from Fort Hood resembled an earlier report from Camp Shelby, Mississippi, where the American Family Association was also singled out:

Several dozen U.S. Army active duty and reserve troops were told last week that the American Family Association, a well-respected Christian ministry, should be classified as a domestic hate group because the group advocates for traditional family values.
The briefing was held at Camp Shelby in Mississippi and listed the AFA alongside domestic hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazis, the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam.

More at The Washington Times and Gateway Pundit.

In other words, now that Obama has ended “Don’t Ask, “Don’t Tell,” all opposition to the radical gay agenda is illegal “hate.” And never mind that, while Army intelligence officers are warning troops about targets from the SPLC’s anti-Christian hate map, it was the leftist pervert Bradley “Chelsea” Manning who betrayed his oath.

This evidence of misguided priorities and the politicization of military training has clear precedents. Recall the 2009 DHS warning about “Rightwing Extremism” — a warning clearly aimed at the Tea Party — and recall, also, how self-described “militia watchdog” Mark Pitcavage wrangled a $2 million “anti-terrorism training” grant from the Clinton-era Justice Department. These actions not only show how Democrat administrations seek to eliminate dissent by categorizing opposition as “hate” and “extremism,” but also show how real dangers are ignored while liberal activists, granted federal funding and federal authority, go chasing after “rightwing” bogeymen.

The $2 million squandered by the Clinton administration to have the idiot Pitcavage teach law enforcement about the supposed dangers of right-wing militias, after all, might better have been spent warning about the dangers of radical Muslims who (unbeknownst to Pitcavage) were in America and training for their 9/11 attack at the same time he was teaching cops to watch out for right-wingers.

If Democrats had any conscience, they would be ashamed of themselves, but they’re Democrats, and thus are incapable of shame.

 

Category: Military

Send Angels to Fort Bragg

Posted on | October 26, 2013 | 52 Comments

Our soldier son with Mrs. Other McCain in April at Fort Benning.

Well, I knew this day was coming, and now it begins.

He just turned 21 last month. Those of you who have paid attention know what this is about, but “OpSec,” etc. When he first told me about this, I thought he was crazy. Eh, we all know that’s hereditary. What kind of crazy does it take to volunteer for something like this?

So now, for three weeks, all we can do is pray.

 




 

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