The Other McCain

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

Well, What Is the Rate?

Posted on | June 12, 2013 | 39 Comments

The usual suspects are doing their abortion-rape war dance:

Another Republican congressman ventured into the realm of rape and pregnancy Wednesday, saying at a committee hearing that incidences of pregnancy from rape are “very low.”
Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), whose measure banning abortions after 20 weeks was being considered in the House Judiciary Committee, argued against a Democratic amendment to make exceptions for rape and incest by suggesting that pregnancy from rape is rare.
“Before, when my friends on the left side of the aisle here tried to make rape and incest the subject — because, you know, the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low,” Franks said.
Franks continued: “But when you make that exception, there’s usually a requirement to report the rape within 48 hours. And in this case that’s impossible because this is in the sixth month of gestation. And that’s what completely negates and vitiates the purpose for such an amendment.”

Attack!

“I just find it astonishing to hear a phrase repeated that the incidence of pregnancy from rape is low,” [California Democrat Rep. Zoe] Lofgren said. “There’s no scientific basis for that. And the idea that the Republican men on this committee can tell the women of America that they have to carry to term the product of a rape is outrageous.”

This is not what Franks said, but what he did say indicates — as I pointed out at the time of the Todd Akin fiasco — that there really needs to be a seminar where pro-life Republican politicians are taught to talk sense about this. The point to be debated is not about how many pregnancies result from rape, rather the point is, what percentage of abortions are a consequence of rape?

If you outlawed abortion and made a loophole for rape victims, you would have banned more than 95% of abortions, which are performed simply as after-the-fact contraception. And you would also have created a powerful incentive for women who accidentally got pregnant to claim they had been raped.

There is a reason why, after all, hard-core pro-lifers are opposed to abortion without exception, simply because the history — during that period of the 1960s and early ’70s when a few states created loopholes in heir abortion laws (for what were called “therapeutic” reasons) — demonstrated that women seeking abortions would say whatever they had to say in order to get what they wanted.

After all, once you decide, “I want to kill my baby,” what’s a few lies in the grand scheme of wickedness? And there were plenty of doctors who would sign off on claims that, for example, the stress of pregnancy would impair the patient’s mental health, and therefore   a “therapeutic” abortion was medically required.

People who are in favor of killing babies are not scrupulous about such things as honesty. Zoe Lofgren is such a fanatic for abortion, I’m sure she would have gladly volunteered at Kermit Gosnell’s clinic to “snip” babies’ spines as a weekend hobby.

Suppose you passed a ban on abortion that included every exception usually demanded: Rape, incest, life or health of the mother. If effectively enforced, this would reduce the number of abortions from more than 1 million a year to less than 100,000.

It would also devastate the abortion industry, which currently has revenues of hundreds of millions of dollars a year, and which also reliably supports the Democrat Party. Baby-killers are a core constituency of Zoe Lofgren’s party, and she is committed to doing whatever is necessary to defend this grisly practice.

Zoe Lofgren would deny this, of course, because she is a Democrat and therefore a liar. And it is the lying baby-killers whom we should criticize, rather than criticizing Republicans like Trent Franks.

 

Category: Abortion

Naked 19-Year-Old News Update

Posted on | June 12, 2013 | 63 Comments


Officials have halted search operations for Maureen Kelly, who has been missing since Sunday in a remote Washington State forest. Kelly, a 19-year-old from Vancouver, disappeared in what can only be described as a search for the answer to the eternal question: “How stupid do you have to be to try something like this?”

Deputies are searching for a naked Vancouver woman, 19, who left her campground in west Skamania County on Sunday afternoon.
Maureen Kelly reportedly left the Canyon Creek Campground in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest just after 5 p.m. Sunday on a “spiritual quest,” wearing only a fanny pack that contained a compass and a knife. The woman was supposed to return that night, but didn’t. A friend reported her missing around midnight.

Local wildlife include wolves, mountain lions and bears. Never mind the problems of hypothermia and other dangers.

Skamania County Sheriff Dave Brown said Tuesday evening that two days of searching have failed to find 19-year-old Maureen Kelly. He says the search is being suspended until the end of the week.

Going out into the woods naked was no sudden impulse:

“She had talked about doing this spiritual quest for evidently quite some time,” he said. “The folks that she was with, they felt that this was something she needed to do.”

If you’re hanging around people who think this is something you need to do, you’re hanging around the wrong people. And are we surprised to learn she had a history of substance abuse?

Clark County court records indicate Kelly was in district court last Friday after failing a drug test required as part of pleading guilty last yer to being a minor in possession of alcohol.
At the hearing, a judge reordered Kelly to comply with all conditions, which included a fine of more than $500, according to court records.
Two days later, Kelly apparently went on her “quest.” . . .
Kelly is active on social media; she described herself in her Facebook profile as employed as a “guru” at “Spreading the Love.” On June 6 she posted a picture with the caption “There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path.”
On her YouTube page, Kelly posted videos of herself playing ukulele and beatboxing, a form of making percussion sounds with one’s voice and mouth.

These are interesting skills, but not much help when it comes to surviving naked in a remote forest. Probably a public school graduate.

There is no path to stupidity. Stupidity is the path.

UPDATE: Did another species of predator get her?

If she made it to the road and then her trail disappeared — authorities brought in search dogs to track her — has she been kidnapped?

 

Category: Culture, Education, Washington State

Republican Senators Sell Out, Vote for Cloture on ‘Gang of Eight’ Amnesty Bill

Posted on | June 12, 2013 | 34 Comments

Well, we expected this, didn’t we? Thirty Republican senators, led by Mitch McConnell, voted to debate this dishonest monstrosity.

In order to disprove a Democrat lie — that Republicans are “anti-immigrant” and hate Latinos — McConnell will trample underfoot the rule of law and surrender U.S. sovereignty by supporting an amnesty that he and his gutless colleagues will insist is not actually an amnesty.

We need to deport these criminals. Republican senators, I mean.

 

Category: Immigration

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.12.13

Posted on | June 12, 2013 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Google Chief Legal Officer Pushes Back On NSA Spy Program

h/t Punk Rock Libertarians on FB

h/t Punk Rock Libertarians on FB

Asks Feds for permission to make FISA documents public
Related: The real story in the NSA scandal is the collapse of journalism
Also: Government Reviews Security Damage In Wake Of Snowden Disclosures

Greek State Broadcaster Refuses To Close
Journalist protest splits government




POLITICS
Senate Immigration Bill Clears First Hurdles

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell

GOP still pushing for tighter border security; McConnell: “This bill has serious flaws”

Democrats Speier And Gillibrand Say “Military Sex Assault Culture” Needs To Change

Opening Arguments To Begin In Whitey Bulger Trial

State Department Accused Of Covering Up Sex, Prostitution Scandals


Bloomberg Proposes $20 Billion Plan To Protect NYC From Climate Change

States Looking To Tax Hybrid, Electric Car Owners To Recoup Lost Gas Tax Revenue

Justice Says Roe v. Wade Ruling May Have Been Mistake; Gave Pro-Life Groups Target

House Asks IRS About Purported Seizure Of Millions Of Medical Records

Sarah Michelle Gellar Making Child Vaccination A Priority



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Falls As US Inventories Climb: NYMEX $94.62, Brent $102.36
Behind The Rout In Emerging Market Stocks
Volatile Stocks Tumble In Global Sell-Off
US Government Forced To Pay Real Rates On Debt
Sales of Orwell’s 1984 Soar On Amazon After NSA Surveillance Reports
Stocks End Down 1%, Dow Drops 100 In Choppy Session
Microsoft And Sony In Videogame Faceoff
E3: Nintendo Brings Back Mario, Donkey Kong, And Pokemon
Pandora Buys SD Radio Station To Get Lower Rates On Music
Lenovo Rebranding All Iomega Storage, Social Media Products
Apple Dumps Big Cat OS Nicknames, Zips Lips On Price, Release Date



SPORTS
Spurs Shut Down LeBron, Beat Heat 113-77

Spurs guards Neal and Green exchange a hug at halftime

Spurs guards Neal and Green exchange a hug at halftime

With Game Three win, San Antonio leads Miami 2-1; Game 3 winner has gone on to win in 12 of 13 finals when first two games are split


Six Ejected After Dodgers-Snakes Brawl

Tebow Signs Two-Year Deal With Patriots

After Mets Demote Davis, Alderson Says More Changes To Come

Jason Kidd Emerges As Nyets’ Top Candidate

Harang Goes The Distance, Shuts Out Astros


Markakis Makes The Difference For O’s In 3-2 Win Against Angels

Pirates’ Cole Has Debut To Remember With 8-2 Thrashing Of Giants

5-2 Defeat Of Rangers Stops Tribe’s Eight-Game Skid

A’s Pound Sabathia, Hold Off Yanks For 6-4 Win

Reds Skin Cubs 12-2 At Wrigley

Haren Unravels In Fifth As Nats Fall To Rockies



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Salma Hayek Wears Leather To Please Her French Husband

Still going strapless at 47

Still going strapless at 47, because she still can

“I don’t think my first priority in life has ever been beauty.”

Lauren Conrad: Golden Girl

Kate Upton Dating Maksim Chmerkovskiy?

“Man Of Steel” Sequel Underway With Zack Snyder, David Goyer

Jiah Khan’s Boyfriend Arrested After Bollywood Star Commits Suicide

Michael Bay To Develop Ubisoft’s “Ghost Recon” Film At Warner Brothers


Jon M. Chu Re-Enlisting To Film “G.I. Joe 3”

“Dumb And Dumber” Sequel Dropped

Heidi Klum Gets Into Public Fight With Bodyguard Boyfriend

Jennifer Aniston Has Chicken Coop Built At Bel Air Mansion



FOREIGNERS
Erdogan To Convene Public Meeting On Protests After Night Of Renewed Clashes

World’s Oldest Man Dies In Japan, 116

Syrian Rebels Attack Shiite Village, Killing Dozens Of Loyalist Fighters

Austrians Begin Withdrawal Of Peacekeepers From Golan

Norks Call Off Proposed Talks

Riot Police Storm Soho G8 Protest Squat

Pope Laments “Gay Lobby” At Work In Vatican

Russian Duma Passes Law Banning “Gay Propaganda”

JD(U)-BJP Split Certain, Decision Within A Week



BLOGS & STUFF
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: The High Cost Of Free Money
Michelle Malkin: Amnesty? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Legal Insurection: Lasciviousness In The Defense Of Liberty Is A Vice (h/t Little Miss Attila on FB)
Allahpundit: FBI Requests For Records Under Patriot Act Up 1000% In Four Years
Gateway Pundit: ACLU Sues Administration Over Phone Record Collection
AmSpecBlog: Lawsuits Abound For NSA
Weasel Zippers: Steny Hoyer Claims No Comparison Between Bush, Obama On Domestic Spying
Patterico: Experts Say Snowden’s Claims Absurd
Power Line: Miss Me Yet? Yup.
Althouse: Drudge At His Best – “Wanna Come To Russia?”
Volokh Conspiracy: Did James Clapper Lie To Congress?
Sen. Ron Wyden: Response To Director Clapper


Category: Live at Five

Online Evidence Shows Kaitlyn Hunt Contacted Victim After Sex Arrest

Posted on | June 11, 2013 | 63 Comments

At least twice in May, accused sex offender Kaitlyn Ashley Hunt used her Twitter account to “favorite” messages by the girl she has admitted having sex with when the younger girl was only 14.

The “favorites,” which occurred just days before Hunt’s family launched a high-profile “Free Kate” campaign to persuade Florida authorities to end the prosecution of felony charges against the 18-year-old, could violate customary legal requirements that forbid criminal suspects released on bond from contacting their victims.

On Sunday, May 12, Kaitlyn Hunt clicked “favorite” on two messages by the younger girl, who turned 15 in April, more than two months after Hunt was arrested and charged with two felony counts under Florida law that establishes the legal age of consent at 16. While a Twitter “favorite” is visible to the person who sent the original message, it does not show up on the timeline of the person who “favorites” the message, so that the younger girl could see Kaitlyn’s “favorite,” but no one monitoring Kaitlyn’s account would have noticed it. Therefore, these “favorites” — shortly before 7 p.m. May 12 — may have been attempts by Hunt to send a signal to the younger girl. Click on any of the images to see them larger:


Here is a close-up of Hunt’s “favorite” on the second message, enlarged to show it was sent from Hunt’s account (click on image to see larger):

Hunt’s Twitter account (@katebbbyy) was deleted after her attorney hired a public-relations firm. Critics of the “Free Kate” campaign,  had called attention to content on the accused teenager’s Twitter account that contradicted the claims of her defenders that Hunt was a “model citizen” prior to her arrest on charges of lewd and lascivious battery on a child. The Hunt family have claimed their daughter is a victim of “hate and bigotry” of the younger girl’s parents who objected to a “mutual consenting relationship” between the girls. In a May 17 Facebook message that started the “Free Kate” campaign, Kaitlyn’s mother Kelley Hunt Smith named the younger girl’s parents nine times, saying they were “trying to ruin my daughters life” because they are “bigoted, religious zealots.”

In an online petition, also published May 17, Hunt’s father claimed that sex between his daughter and the younger girl occurred when Kaitlyn was 17 and her victim was 15. In fact, Kaitlyn turned 18 before she ever met the younger girl, who was 14 throughout their sexual involvement, which began in December when they had sex in a restroom toilet stall at Sebastian River High School, where Hunt was a senior and the 14-year-old was a freshman.

In the online petition, which garnered more than 300,00 signatures, Steve Hunt described his daughter’s involvement with the 14-year-old as an innocent “high school romance,” and did not mention an incident in January where the younger girl ran away from home to have sex with his Kaitlyn. The parents of the 14-year-old told a local TV station that they feared their daughter had been abducted, but later learned she had been picked up by Kaitlyn and taken to the Hunt family’s home for a night of sex. The younger girl’s parents said they twice asked Kaitlyn to leave their daughter alone, and only in February reported the case to authorities.

When more facts about the case became public — the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office released the arrest affidavit on May 20 — some of Hunt’s original supporters repudiated the “Free Kate” campaign. On May 23, Joan McCarter of the progressive Daily Kos site said that “the initial dishonesty of Hunt’s parents” made the story “problematic,” and deactivated a Daily Kos petition on Hunt’s behalf.

However, corrections of facts in the case came too late to spare the younger girl and her parents from harassment by Hunt’s online supporters, who “doxed” the victim’s family May 19-20 — publicizing their home and workplace addresses and phone numbers — after denouncing them as a “f–king bunch of bible-thumpers.”

Evidence that Kaitlyn Hunt was using the Twitter “favorite” tool to communicate online with the younger girl would appear to violate the usual terms under which accused criminals are released on bond. Records at the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office show Hunt was released on $2,500 bond the day she was arrested, Feb. 16. Violation of terms of release can result in revocation of bond.

On May 24, Hunt rejected a plea bargain offer by prosecutors that would have permitted her to avoid prison. Her attorney has asked for a postponement of court trial in the case.

 

Category: Kaitlyn Hunt

Senator @TedCruz Demolishes Gang Of 8 Immigration Bill

Posted on | June 11, 2013 | 26 Comments

by Smitty

Nice Deb over at Breitbart posts a 23:10 shot to the dome for Rubio’s Folly:

Spread this far and wide. And let the GOP be on notice that the immigration bill is not the place to fail.

Hang on until after 15:00 for the exposure of the mechanics of the vote buying scheme. At 18:00, Cruz talks about the coming crash & burn of the immigration bill in the House as a deliberate ploy, presumably to be a cause célèbre for 2014. Bravo, Senator. You rock, I don’t care what Doug Mataconis says about your sanity. And to the Senate RINO herd that just can’t seem to get enough of that sweet, sweet tool grease: fall off the planet, you sad little Commies.

Category: Immigration, Republicans

‘It’s for the Children!’

Posted on | June 11, 2013 | 12 Comments

Next time you hear a Democrat make that kind of argument, please keep in mind this headline from Ace of Spades HQ:

Ambassador Who Ran off to Have Sex
With Minor Children ID’d as Major Obama Bundler
& Political Appointee; Hillary’s Lawyer Cheryl Mills
Once Again Stepped In to “Fix” Matters

Or how about this for a book title?

“It Takes a Village to Rape a Child.”

Because, after all, it was Hillary Clinton’s State Department — indeed, her personal fixer — that tried to cover this up:

A [diplomatic security] agent was called off a case against US Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman over claims that he solicited prostitutes, including minors.
“The agent began his investigation and had determined that the ambassador routinely ditched his protective security detail in order to solicit sexual favors from both prostitutes and minor children,” says the memo.
“The ambassador’s protective detail and the embassy’s surveillance detection team . . . were well aware of the behavior.”

For the record, Gutman denies it:

“I am angered and saddened by the baseless allegations that have appeared in the press . . . at no point have I ever engaged in any improper activity.”

Translation: “You can’t prove it, hahaha!”

Exit Question: What Obama administration scandal is this Obama administration scandal supposed to distract our attention from?

 

Category: Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Scandal, Sex

Hollywood Script: Hipster Geek With Hot Girlfriend Fights ‘Omniscient’ Government

Posted on | June 11, 2013 | 65 Comments

Edward Snowden’s ex-girlfriend: He left her for a trip to federal prison.

“[Snowden] rails against ‘the dangerous truth behind the U.S. policies that seek to develop secret, irresistible powers and concentrate them in the hands of an unaccountable few.’
“He declares that ‘At this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing but policy documents.'”
— Marc Thiessen, American Enterprise Institute

Over-imaginative narcissists living out hero fantasies inspired by pop culture are not an unfamiliar phenomenon . . . says the former newspaper editor who quit his job, started a blog, and went out on the 2012 campaign trail like Hunter S. Thompson had done 40 years before. But my role model for that bizarre gonzo adventure was a real human being, a working professional journalist, not the protagonist of a spy thriller, and I broke no laws — well, OK, I violated the speed limit in 14 states, but what the hell? — in the process of Living the Dream.

Edward Snowden? Not so much:

Talk of Snowden as a “hero” was rejected by former military intelligence officer Ralph Peters. Appearing on Fox News, Peters criticized the celebration of the NSA leaker. “Now you’ve got this 29-year-old high school dropout … making foreign policy for our country, our security policy,” said Peters, a retired Army lieutenant colonel. “And this guy, I think it’s sad … we’ve made treason cool. Betraying your country’s kind of a fashion statment. [Snowden] wants to be the national security Kim Kardashian. He cites Bradley Manning as a hero.” Manning is an Army private who is being court-martialed for his 2010 leaks of classified information. For both Manning and Snowden, Peters said, “We need to get very, very serious about treason … bring back the death penalty.”

Drawing the line between reality and fantasy, and between heroism and criminality, seems to be increasingly difficult for young people, and some not-so-young people have also spent too much time consuming science fiction and spy novels that tell us that we have more to fear from government computers than we do from Muslim radicals who want to kill us all. People who think life is like a Matt Damon movie need to stop watching so many Matt Damon movies.

This is how I managed to keep my sanity during all the craziness of the Brett Kimberlin episode: As weird as that was — and trust me, it was plenty weird at times — I avoided the flattering thought that I was the protagonist of the story, even when Kimberlin’s people were trying to destroy me. “No, damn it, I’m just the storyteller.”

My resistance to the heroic view of Edward Snowden has an awful lot to do with the way his Courageous Truth-Teller Narrative looks like it was inspired by an ambition to get a book contract and a Hollywood movie deal — Code Name: Verax — “Based on a True Story.”

Unfortunately for Snowden, federal law forbids convicted criminals from profiting from the story of their crimes, which means that Snowden’s “friends” — including Glenn Greenwald and Barton Gellman — have played him for a chump. Snowden’s going to end up in Leavenworth, while his “friends” will be cashing in on his story.

“The Kook Who Knew Too Much” — yeah, I’ve seen this story before. Barrett Brown boasted he had a “six-figure” book deal to tell the inside story of the Anonymous hacker conspiracy, but if you’re inside the conspiracy, aren’t you also a criminal? And once the feds started tightening the screws on Barrett, the punk couldn’t handle the pressure, so he flipped out, went paranoid, and had the most memorable YouTube meltdown in the history of YouTube meltdowns. And federal inmates can’t collect book royalties.

Oops.

Pro Tip: If you want to live out a fantasy, pick a fantasy that doesn’t involve a trip to federal prison.

For decades, America has been plagued by these grandiose Walter Mitty types who can’t be satisfied doing regular jobs and living regular lives, and instead feel the need to Make a Difference — to see their name in headlines and, they hope, make their mark in history — and they never seem to notice that, in real life, these stories seldom end “happily ever after.” But let’s round up today’s headlines:

NSA leak is treason, says Feinstein
— The Hill

U.S. explores criminal charges against Snowden
— USA Today

Transcript: Exclusive Interview
With House Speaker John Boehner on NSA Leak
— ABC News

U.S. Preparing Charges Against Leaker of Data
— New York Times

Edward Snowden: Russia offers
to consider asylum request
— Guardian

“We’ve made treason cool”
Lt. Col. Ralph Peters on NSA leaker: We need
to bring back the death penalty for treason
— The Right Scoop

Booz Allen: We fired NSA leaker on Monday
— Yahoo News

 And — as I expected all along — Edward Snowden’s story doesn’t add up. When are people going to wise up to these bullshit artists?

Is there such a shortage of common sense that people no longer have any ordinary kind of skepticism? A high-school dropout flies to Hong Kong, claims he was paid $200,000 a year and the people who hired him say he exaggerated that by $80,000, and yet you’re telling me that everything else Snowden said was true?

Liars lie, and braggarts brag, and kooks are crazy for Cuckoo Puffs.

This computer geek had a six-figure salary and a hot girlfriend — if you like the skinny long-legged blonde ballerina acrobat type — and yet, his life in Hawaii wasn’t exciting enough for him, so he decides to become an international fugitive from justice.

Way to go, World Famous Douchebag.

Andy Warhol just called to say your 15 minutes are over.

If you want to see your name in headlines, there are lots of ways to do it. Me, I’m  just the guy who’s telling the story:

The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee condemned as traitorous the unauthorized release of top-secret information about National Security Agency (NSA) data-mining operations. Even while thousands of Americans signed a petition urging President Obama to pardon the contractor who leaked classified documents about the program — and Republican Sen. Rand Paul slammed the NSA’s surveillance as unconstitutional — Sen. Dianne Feinstein joined other lawmakers urging the prosecution of Edward Snowden.
“I don’t look at this as being a whistle-blower, I think it’s an act of treason,” the California Democrat told reporters on Capitol Hill. “He took an oath — that oath is important. He violated the oath, he violated the law. It’s an act of treason in my view.”
Debate swirled over the constitutionality of the NSA program Snowden exposed, but Feinstein’s condemnations of the leaker were echoed by Republicans, including South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham: “I hope we follow Mr. Snowden to the ends of the earth to bring him to justice.” And in an interview with ABC News, House Speaker John Boehner called Snowden a “traitor,” adding: “The disclosure of this information puts Americans at risk. It shows our adversaries what our capabilities are. And it’s a giant violation of the law.” . . .

Read the whole thing at ViralRead. While I don’t want to make you paranoid, you should wonder why so many people on social media are trying to convince you Edward Snowden is a  hero.

Our enemies have Internet access, too. And all the “progressive” friends of our enemies are really into this Snowden guy, aren’t they?

Think about that. And stop watching Matt Damon movies, you kooks.

 

 

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