The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

A: Article 1, Section 7, Clause 1
Q: What’s Stuck In An Uncomfortable Location Of Harry Reid’s Anatomy?

Posted on | October 2, 2013 | 60 Comments

by Smitty

0:49 What right do they have to pick and choose what part of government’s going to be funded?

And the Constitution says:

All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.

So if the House, which has remained oddly stuck in size since 1910, and thus may not represent the people with optimal fidelity, originates a bill, it’s kind of odd that the Dim Bulb from Vegas not know from whence that right originates.

And then Reid goes on to obsess about the obsession with ObamaCare. Here, the House reflects the hatred of the Unaffordable Careless Act with all due disrespect for its idiotic origins, foul drafting, brass-knuckle passage, moronic jurisprudence, banana republic exceptions, irresponsible roll-out, and predictable economic doom to follow.

Screw you, Reid, and the casinos that kept your undead cadaver cluttering our Senate.

Category: Nevada

Kaitlyn Hunt’s Mother on Plea Deal: ‘It’s Not Right, It’s Not Fair and It’s Not Just’

Posted on | October 2, 2013 | 104 Comments

We scarcely need wonder where the criminal pervert gets her lawless irresponsible attitude, eh? Kelley Hunt Smith on Facebook:

Tomorrow at 11am Kate will accept the State’s plea offer that was given this week. It’s been a long, painful 8 months but after much prayer and counsel Kate has decided to take the plea offer. It’s not right, it’s not fair and it’s not just but gives her her life back, which is all she wants. . . . We won’t stop! We will also continue to fight for equal rights for LGBT’s, and gather support for LGBT teens. Kate may have somewhat lost this battle but she will never lose the war!!!!

Her daughter is accepting this deal, which is really rather lenient considering all the aggravating circumstances, but Kelley Hunt Smith continues ranting about the wrongness, unfairness and injustice of the prosecution. What a pathetic excuse for an adult . . .

(Hat-tip: Jeanette Runyon on Twitter.)

 

Category: Kaitlyn Hunt

The Death of a Freak: Euthanasia for Belgium’s Botched Sex-Change ‘Monster’

Posted on | October 2, 2013 | 66 Comments

What depths of self-hatred could lead someone to this?

Nathan, born Nancy, Verhelst, 44, was given legal euthanasia, most likely by lethal injection, on the grounds of “unbearable psychological suffering” on Monday afternoon. . . .
“I was the girl that nobody wanted,” Mr Verhelst told Het Laatste Nieuws newspaper in the hours before her death. . . .
Mr Verhelst had hormone therapy in 2009, followed by a mastectomy and surgery to construct a penis in 2012. But “none of these operations worked as desired”.
“I was ready to celebrate my new birth,” he told the newspaper. “But when I looked in the mirror, I was disgusted with myself. My new breasts did not match my expectations and my new penis had symptoms of rejection. I do not want to be… a monster.”
The case will revive Belgium’s debate over medical euthanasia as statistics show a steep year on year increase in the number of patients killed by doctors after a request to die.

The distance between one’s desires and one’s reality can most easily be shortened by accepting reality. The alternative of pursuing hopelessly unrealistic desires is likely to end unhappily.

(Via Mememorandum, which has further blog commentary by Moonbattery, Weasel Zippers and VodkaPundit.)

 

Category: Belgium, Gays, Science, Sex

Accused Sex Offender Kaitlyn Hunt ‘Expected to Accept’ Plea Deal: CNN

Posted on | October 2, 2013 | 42 Comments

Last night I reported the latest offer from prosecutors, but now CNN adds this important detail in the Kaitlyn Hunt saga:

Hunt’s attorney was involved in crafting the deal, Workman said, and Hunt is expected to accept the plea agreement.
She had refused at least two other deals.
“I believe this is a fair and balanced offer that protects the victim while giving Ms. Hunt the ability to avoid the most severe consequences of her crimes by demonstrating that no further punishment is necessary,” Workman said.

So, nearly five months into this ugly public spectacle — which could have been avoided entirely, if only Kaitlyn Hunt had been willing to accept the original plea bargain — we now may be within sight of the end.

It was only because of the Hunt family’s hope of making their daughter the Jailbait Lesbian Poster Girl, a heroic martyr for gay rights, that anybody outside Indian River Count ever heard of this tawdry little mess, which ordinarily would have ended with a three-paragraph item in the local newspaper’s courts-and-cops column.

UPDATE: Palm Beach CBS affiliate WPEC-TV reports that Kaitlyn Hunt has in fact accepted the plea deal, although we do not yet have any statement from Hunt’s attorney confirming this. Thanks to @NASCARNAC for this tip. It’s amazing how Twitter has enabled me to stay on top of this story for the past four-and-a-half months, and there are a lot of people due hat-tips for helping with the coverage.

UPDATE II: Kaitlyn Hunt’s Mother on Plea Deal: ‘It’s Not Right, It’s Not Fair and It’s Not Just’

 

Category: Kaitlyn Hunt

Gay Campus Group Hosts ‘Porn and Pizza’ Event at University of South Carolina

Posted on | October 2, 2013 | 18 Comments

“Gay agenda”? Who said there’s a “gay agenda”?

The Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Straight Alliance (BGLSA) held a “Porn and Pizza” event Tuesday evening at the University of South Carolina (USC).
According to a campus publication the Daily Gamecock, the event included a pizza dinner followed by viewing and analysis of both gay and straight pornography.
“If anyone is frightened by that title, the back door is still open,” BGLSA President Mason Branham told event attendees.
“Let the puns begin,” she added. . . .
According to a Facebook post advertising the event on September 30, the the event was also centered on sexual health. . . .
After the event, the group posted another status on Facebook which called the event an “utter success” and thanked everyone “for being extremely mature.”

Once could scarcely find a better example what 21st-century higher education is all about: Gay porn parties to promote “sexual health.”

 

Category: Education, Gays, Sex

Meg Lanker, Feminist Who Threatened to ‘Hate-F*ck’ Herself, Cops a Plea Bargain

Posted on | October 2, 2013 | 49 Comments

Who can forget the terror that gripped the University of Wyoming campus in spring after this ominous Facebook threat:

“I want to hatef–k Meg Lanker Simons so hard. That chick that runs her liberal mouth all the time and doesn’t care who knows it. I think its hot and it makes me angry. One night with me and shes gonna be a good Republican b–ch.”

A wave of horrified panic swept through Laramie:

The victim of this Facebook threat cited it as “an example of rape culture,” and who could doubt she was an object of twisted GOP lust?
All over campus, plus-sized Women’s Studies majors hid themselves behind dead-bolted doors, while University of Wyoming officials launched an investigation to find the hateful misogynist responsible for this crime.

Except, of course, not really:

Police: Student Faked Rape
Threat Against Herself

Because she is a liar, the obviously guilty hoaxer initially pleaded not guilty, but now admits that she lied about her lying lies:

A jury trial scheduled for next week in Second Judicial Circuit Court concerning an alleged social media hoax at the University of Wyoming has been vacated. . . .
Former University of Wyoming student Meghan Lanker-Simons, now attending law school in a western state, is charged in Circuit Court with interfering with a peace officer, a misdemeanor. She pleaded not guilty to the charge earlier in the case.
However, according to a court document, she now intends to change her plea pursuant to an agreement with the state.
Merseal and Lanker-Simons’ defense attorney, Vaughn Neubauer, appeared in Circuit Court for a motion hearing with Judge Randal R. Arp, who appeared via telephone.
Neubauer said his client intends to change her plea to no contest. . . .
In exchange for Lanker-Simons’ plea, Neubauer said the state agrees to recommend the defendant receive a “minimal” fine and no jail time.
He said his client is likely to waive her appearance for the plea hearing and sentencing.

So, a Democrat who deliberately perpetrated a hoax to smear Republicans is (a) attending law school, and (b) will receive a “minimal” fine, which is nevertheless far more punishment than most Democrats ever receive for their habitual dishonesty.

UPDATE: A reader e-mails this comment:

I don’t know if she’ll take the bar exam but they do ask all kinds of crazy questions on the application and do a background check. You have to provide addresses and places of employment for the last 10 years, answer a bunch of questions about criminal activity and ours had a final question that was basically “any other naughty thing we didn’t think of?” Character is an issue and, depending on the state in which she applies to sit for the bar, this may be considered a character issue that would eliminate her from the bar.
I know a couple of people who weren’t admittable; one guy, who was going to take the bar in CT, was denied as he was way behind on child support and when he sent his application in, they said not even to think it. The other guy was a gynecologist who had lost his MD license over abusing patients and was quite interesting as his was the moot court case when he was in law school.
If I recall correctly, Meg had other crimes in her past so may make sitting for the bar a moot point for herself, assuming she graduates.

Yes, as we reported in May:

“Meg Lanker-Simons” is the alias of a dangerously crazy criminal formerly known as Meghan Michelena, who in 2006 pleaded guilty to aggravated assault after getting fired from a Wyoming radio station . . .
Lanker-Simons walked into an Albany County radio station she’d been fired from with a Glock 22 .40 caliber handgun.
She confronted a man who had decided to terminate her, the affidavit reports. The man also told her, the court documents state, that she would not be rehired.
Lanker-Simons “pulled a semi-automatic pistol from her purse, waved the firearm around and pointed (the) firearm at (the man),” according to the affidavit.

With that kind of record, she might become a Harvard Law professor.

 

Category: Crime, Education, Feminism

Andrew Sullivan’s Psychiatric Evaluation

Posted on | October 2, 2013 | 40 Comments

Ann Althouse calls attention to the latest scientific research by that eminent British physician, Dr. Andrew Sullivan, OB-GYN:

“I regard this development as one of the more insidious and anti-constitutional acts of racist vandalism against the American republic in my adult lifetime. Those who keep talking as if there are two sides to this, when there are not, are as much a part of the vandalism as Ted Cruz.”

Evidently, having finished his investigation of the Alaskan Republican uterus scandal, now Dr. Sullivan has decided to explore new frontiers in the emerging field of Texas Republican racial psychiatry.

 


Category: Andrew Sullivan, Ann Althouse, Budget

Obama Makes Token Gesture, Because He’s Losing the Shutdown P.R. War

Posted on | October 2, 2013 | 71 Comments

He’s trying to look reasonable:

President Barack Obama invited congressional leaders from both parties to the White House on Wednesday to discuss the partial government shutdown and looming debt-limit crisis, a White House official said.

There has been a tremendous backfire from Tuesday’s attempt — ordered by Obama administration officials for propaganda purposes — to block veterans from visiting the World War II Memorial in Washington. If you’ve been to that Memorial (which I visited with my family last summer), you know it’s an open-air site. No staff is required to make it possible for visitors to see the Memorial, and it took more manpower to put barricades around it than it would have to leave it open, from which anyone with common sense can see that the attempt to “close” the Memorial was purely as a publicity stunt.

Democrats are publicly explaining their shutdown strategy in terms of political “leverage.” While the mainstream media keep parroting the Democrats’ message (the partisanship at CNN these days is as shamelessly one-sided as MSNBC), ultimately the Big Lie will fail.

Read more at Power Line, The Right Scoop, Twitchy, National Review, Instapundit, Conservatives4Palin, PJ Tatler and Legal Insurrection.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Budget
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