The Other McCain

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

Serial Inseminator Update

Posted on | March 17, 2022 | Comments Off on Serial Inseminator Update

Surely our readers have not forgotten Desmond Hatchett, In 2012, the prolific Knoxville baby-daddy achieved national notoriety:

Desmond Hatchett is pleading with the state of Tennessee to help him pay for child support.
With 30 kids, who could afford to pay child support?
Yes, 30 children by 11 different “baby mamas.”
Desmond explained how it all happened, well you know what we mean, “I had four kids in the same year. Twice.”
The children range in age from toddlers to 14 years old.
He was last in court in 2009, at which time he had 21 children.
That means he’s had at least 9 more children in the last 3 years.
Hatchett only has a minimum wage job, which means some of the moms receive as little as… $1.49 a month.

When last we checked in on him in September 2021, the East Tennessee Sperm King was behind bars:

The Knoxville Police Departments Community Engagement Response Team captured wanted felon Desmond Hatchett, 42, of Knoxville on Sunday around 6:15 p.m., KPD said.
Hatchett was wanted for seven outstanding warrants out of Knox County. These warrants include aggravated burglary, aggravated domestic assault, violation of an order of protection and failure to appear on charges of: rape, robbery, aggravated burglary, KPD said.
Officers spotted a red Ford Taurus known to be occupied by Hatchett and attempted to initiate a traffic stop with him. Hatchett fled from officers at a high rate of speed, according to KPD.
Officers initiated their emergency equipment while on N. Mary Street near Magnolia Avenue, but Hatchett continued to flee from officers for several minutes until he came to a stop in a driveway in the 4100 block of Skyline Drive and fled on foot, KPD said.
After a brief foot pursuit, officers took Hatchett into custody without further incident, according to KPD.
Along with the outstanding warrants previously listed, Hatchett was also charged with evading arrest among several additional minor charges, KPD said.

Now a grand jury has more charges for the Impetuous Impregnator:

A man with over 100 previous charges has been indicted on five more, according to court documents obtained by WVLT News.
This time, Desmond Hatchett, 42, has been indicted on charges of evading arrest, violation of driver’s license law, reckless driving, failure to provide evidence of financial responsibility and violation of window tint law.
Hatchett has previously faced over 100 charges. He has also previously been unable to pay child support for his children, of which he has 21.

Well, that’s 21 that we know of. There’s no telling how many other offspring Hatchett may have sired more recently. Every would-be baby-mama in East Tennessee awaits his release from custody.




 

What Is Joe Trying to Tell Us?

Posted on | March 17, 2022 | Comments Off on What Is Joe Trying to Tell Us?

Everybody on Twitter yesterday was mocking Joe Biden for his bizarre comment at one of his rare public appearances, the official transcript of which reads as follows:

So we established a new civil rights — a new civil rights cause of action for those whose intimate images were shared on the public screen. How many times have you heard — I’ll bet everybody knows somebody somewhere along the line that in an intimate relationship, what happened was the guy takes a revealing picture of his naked friend, or whatever, in a compromising position, and then literally, in a sense, blackmails or mortifies that person — sends it out, put it online. We’re giving survivors real resources against abuse now. Ex-partners and stalkers who seek to humiliate and hurt them.

The occasion was reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, and these comments were about new federal measures against so-called “revenge porn,” but is it true that “everybody knows somebody” who has had their “compromising” images published online?

So far as I’m aware, this hasn’t happened to anyone I know — at least not directly. However, I do know somebody who is acquainted with Kim Kardashian, although some have claimed that it was Kim herself who leaked her infamous “sex tape” with Ray J, but I digress . . .

Everybody immediately connected this to the Laptop From Hell, and the various scandals of Hunter Biden, who among other thing sired a bastard child with a stripper from Arkansas and had to be forced by a court to acknowledge paternity. What’s unclear to me is whether Biden’s “everybody knows somebody” comment was in the prepared text of his remarks, or was something he spontaneously ad-libbed.

Just how common is the kind of “send nudes” behavior which leads to the “revenge porn” blackmail scenario the president described? My stance on the matter has always been clear:

Advice to women: No naked pictures, period. You think your boyfriend can be trusted to keep your naked selfies strictly private? You’re stupid.

No matter how desperately a guy begs, no nudes, ever. Yet it seems that my advice has not been heeded, which is why we now have federal legislation making it a “civil rights” violation to share somebody’s nudes without authorization, a provision which I’m sure will end up being abused by selective enforcement. One of the problems with turning everything into a federal crime is that the enforcement of such laws is often so inconsistent that those prosecuted feel like they’re being singled out unfairly for doing something lots of other people get away with.

BTW, yesterday Ace of Spades shared this image:

I spent a little time trying to verify the authenticity of this tweet, which went viral last summer, but the account from which it originated has since been deleted. Whether the story is authentic or not, let me pass along this helpful advice: No, never, don’t do it.

People who knew me during my wild youth might be surprised that I have become a tireless proponent of bourgeois respectability. But you see, back in the day, I was single, footloose and carefree, whereas for the past three decades I have been a married father, and the responsibilities of this role put me squarely at odds with the values of my disreputable youth.

Also — and this is the really important point — there is no digital record of my scandalous adolescence. Perhaps someone might say I did this or that awful thing back in the day, but they can’t prove it and, on the advice of Bert the Samoan Lawyer, I invoke my right to remain silent.

By contrast, if any of my kids tried to get away with that crazy stuff (which, however, I do not confirm ever doing), there would almost certainly be incriminating video, text messages, etc.

Sorry, kids — fun time is over. Bourgeois respectability is now the only way to live. The Internet has ruined everything.




 

In The Mailbox: 03.16.22

Posted on | March 16, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.16.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.
OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1658
EBL: The French Dispatch & Lea Seydoux
Twitchy: Human Trafficking Sting In Polk County FL Nabs Four Disney Employees, also, Jussie Smollett’s Attacker Released On Bail
Louder With Crowder: NY Gov Gets Booed Out Of Arena During Cheap Pre-Hockey Game Publicity Stunt
Vox Popoli: High Verbal, Low Math, Why Trump Failed, and The Least Of The Charges
Stoic Observations: Some Trump Jokes

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: This Is The Alternative
American Conservative: Assert Civilian Control Over The Bureaucracy
American Greatness: BLM Activist & Husband Face Federal Fraud Charges After Using Donations On Lavish Lifestyle, also, The Architects Of Our Present Disaster
American Thinker: Why Russia Invaded Ukraine, also, Social Media – The Left’s Intimidation & Enforcement Arm
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Communist Cuba Will Continue Socialist Policies Even As Russo-Ukrainian War Worsens Food Shortages, also, Surprise! NYT Casts Negative Light On Cuban Exiles In S. Florida
BattleSwarm: Another Day, Another #BLM Leader Indicted For Fraud
Behind The Black: Pushback – Professor Sues U. Of Illinois For Suspending Him For Doing His Job, Overview Of Ukraine War’s Impact On Its Space Industry, and RIP Solar Scientist Eugene Parker
Cafe Hayek: It Was Two Years Ago Today
CDR Salamander: Battle Of Odessa Starting?
Da Tech Guy: Five Unpleasant Truths Under The Fedora, The Last Democrat, and Today I Got An Actual Vaccine
Don Surber: Zelensky – “I Have A Dream…” That You Bomb Russia, also, Economic Sanctions Backfire
First Street Journal: Six West Point Cadets OD On Cocaine & Fentanyl While On Spring Break
Gates Of Vienna: Those Who Express Forbidden Opinions Are Terrorists, The Fifth Balkan War? and Saves A Thousand Words
The Geller Report: Biological Male Named “Woman Of The Year” By “America’s Newspaper”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, A Chaotic Dwarf, and Forget It, Jake. It’s…Um…Chicago
Hollywood In Toto: How X Captures The Best Of 70s Horror, also, Jane Campion Steps Into A Woke Trap Of Her Own Making
The Lid: Holocaust Echoes Are In Ukraine Conspiracy Theory
Legal Insurrection: Parents Outraged After Texas Elementary School Performs Racial Segregation Experiment, Salon Blames Hillsdale College For Driving The “War Against Public Schools”, and Yale Law Students Disrupt, Try To Intimidate Conservative Speaker
Michelle Malkin: Denver Covers Up Lee Keltner’s Assassination
Nebraska Energy Observer: Ten Kings 
Outkick: ESPN Finally Gets It Right With Joe Buck & Troy Aikman, Unvaxed Novak Djokovic Cleared To Play At French Open, and Sports Media Hall Monitors Won’t Cover Bomani Jones’ Sinking Ratings Like They Did Bill Simmons’
Power Line: Today In Wokery – Whiteboards & “Whiteness” In Physics, The Madness Of Slow Joe, Iran Edition (8), and What Does Victor Read?
Shark Tank: State Senator Book Calls 2022 Session “Worst In History”
Shot In The Dark: In Retrospect, also, War Apparently Cures Everything – Canada Edition
The Political Hat: Criminalizing Child Mutilation In Idaho, also, Modern Education – Cat Anus & Vaseline
This Ain’t Hell: Former VFW Commander Sarah Cavanaugh Accused Of Faking Military Service & Arrested, How Stolen Valor Was Discovered, and Top Texas Guard General Sacked Amid Border Mission Troubles
Transterrestrial Musings: Let The Hate Flow, also, The American Left
Victory Girls: Zelensky Talks To Congress, Asks For More Aid
Watts Up With That: No Amount Of Incremental Wind & Solar Can Provide Energy Independence, also, Climate Models Don’t
Weasel Zippers: Kamala Harris Dodges On Gas Price Blame, also, Biden Talks About Porn – It’s As Bad As You Think
The Federalist: “Faith With Feet & Hands”, Liberals (Like Bill Maher, Bari Weiss, & Andrew Sullivan) Should Apologize For Whitewashing Biden’s Corruption & Incompetence, and Democrats Don’t Want You To Know How Much Fossil Fuel It Takes To Power Electric Cars
Mark Steyn: The Makings Of A Deal? also, In The Driving Seat?

Amazon Warehouse Deals




Ukraine: Yet Another Russian General Killed as Invasion Week Three Concludes

Posted on | March 16, 2022 | Comments Off on Ukraine: Yet Another Russian General Killed as Invasion Week Three Concludes

When last we checked in on Russia’s invasion, one of their tank columns was getting smashed east of Kyiv, killing a colonel, adding him to the stack of high-ranking Russians killed in Ukraine. That was Thursday and on Saturday, the Ukrainians announced they had killed Russian Maj. Gen. Andrei Kolesnikov in Mariupol, adding him to the previous Russian casualty total that included Maj. Gen. Vitaly Gerasimov and Maj. Gen. Andrei Sukhovetsky. So that made three major generals killed in less than three weeks, and now the total has reached four:

Ukraine has killed another Russian general in a further “serious blow to the morale” of the invading forces, a government adviser said Wednesday.
Maj. Gen. Oleg Mityaev died Tuesday during the storming of Ukraine’s most devastated city, Mariupol, according to Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko — who later posted a photo of the body.
Mityaev would be at least the fourth general killed during the invasion, which Kremlin officials are reportedly calling a complete “clusterf–k.”
Mityaev, 46, commanded the 150th Motorized Rifle Division and had fought in Syria, Gerashchenko said, saying his body was found with “the shoulder straps of a major general.”
He was “one of the most promising and iconic Russian military leaders,” claimed Gerashchenko as he celebrated “the liquidation of the general.”

This is a stunning death toll among Russian generals — four killed since the invasion began — and almost unheard of in modern warfare. While the Russians aren’t reporting their casualty totals, the Ukraine Defense Ministry claims they’ve killed nearly 14,000 Russian troops so far, although various Western analysts estimate that the true number is perhaps around half that high. Still, getting 7,000 troops killed — to say nothing of those wounded or taken prisoner, who must be added to Russia’s total losses in the Ukraine invasion — in just three weeks is a helluva high price to pay. How bad is it? Take a look at this drone video:

According to the Ukraine Defense Ministry, this shows the headquarters of Russia’s 35th Army near Kyiv being hit by Ukrainian artillery. The first question that comes to mind is, how the heck did the Russians allow enemy artillery within range of their headquarters? The second questions is, what kind of piss-poor opsec is it when you’re allowing enemy surveillance drones over your HQ? The shelling doesn’t appear to have been particularly devastating — no secondary explosions to show the Ukrainians had hit an ammo dump or anything — but the mere fact that they were able to get artillery within range of a Russian army headquarters speaks volumes for how badly it’s going for Russia.

More video evidence of Russian losses:

Of course, Russia has a lot of tanks and a lot of troops still capable of fighting in Ukraine, but the reported (or claimed, or estimated) level of losses is clearly high enough that Russia’s military commanders — those who aren’t dead yet, anyway — must be getting quite angry that Putin ordered this invasion, which has rapidly turned into a complete disaster.

(Hat-tip: Ed Morrissey at Hot Air.)

PREVIOUSLY:




 

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | March 16, 2022 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

Say hello to 30-year-old Gerald Brevard III, a suspected serial killer who was arrested Tuesday, accused of murdering two homeless men and wounding three others in a series of shootings in D.C. and New York.

Longtime readers will not be surprised by this part of the story:

The suspect’s father, Gerald Brevard Jr., told The Daily Beast on Tuesday he was “crushed” to hear the news about his son’s arrest. He said they spoke on Monday, and Brevard “did not say anything out of the ordinary.”
“It was a normal conversation,” the father, who lives in Las Vegas, said. “But he was dealing with mental illness for the longest time. He has been in and out of mental hospitals.”
The father added that his son had never made disparaging comments about the homeless community, and now the family was “shocked, feeling so many different emotions” as they tried to understand what was going through the 30-year-old’s mind the last few weeks.
“This has all come as a surprise. I never thought he would be violent,” Brevard Jr. added. “He was always mild-mannered.” In a separate statement issued to reporters, Brevard Jr. also stressed that despite many encounters with the justice system, his son’s mental illness was never really addressed — which he said showed “how the system has failed regarding the treatment of so many.” . . .
While family expressed shock at his allegedly carrying out targeted—and lethal—attacks, Brevard has a long criminal history.
That history includes allegations of violent crimes, such as in July 2018, when Brevard was charged with assault after allegedly brandishing a knife and attempting to stab another individual during a dispute. In 2019, records show that Brevard was found mentally incompetent after a court-ordered exam and was temporarily committed to a city-operated psychiatric hospital.
In December 2020, Brevard was charged with assaulting a woman in Virginia. A month prior, police said, Brevard pushed a woman against a hotel hallway and assaulted her. When the woman, who suffered minor injuries, yelled for help, Brevard allegedly ran away.

Crazy People Are Dangerous.




 

In The Mailbox: 03.15.22

Posted on | March 16, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.15.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

It’s all in the coding.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Real Possibility Of A Russian Nuclear Exchange
EBL: Ides of March, also, From 15 Days To Two Years
Twitchy: President Biden Announces “The First Lady’s Husband” Has The Coof
Louder With Crowder: Finally, Senate Unanimously Passes Bill to Make DST Permanent
Vox Popoli: Foreign Fighters In Ukraine, You’re The Insurgent Now, and The Coming False Flag
Granite Grok: From Divine To Disgusting

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: A Few Good Men
American Conservative: Fed Goes Green As Oil &  Inflation Spike
American Greatness: Military Doctor Testifies Under Oath Superior Ordered Her Not To Discuss Data Showing Massive Post-Jab Spikes In Illness
American Power: Putin’s War Is Fortifying The Democratic Alliance
American Thinker: Chernobyl & The Lies Of COVID
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Shellacking News
Babalu Blog: Another Cuban Defector From State-Run Media, also, Cuba Reports Worst Shortfall EVER In Food Production For 2021 
BattleSwarm: The Problem With That “Russia Sought Military Aid From Red China” Story, also, Why Russia Can’t Achieve Air Superiority
Behind The Black: Entire Russian Comsat Industry Threatened By Ukraine Invasion, Today’s Blacklisted American, and Launching A Rocket Using Atomic Explosions
Cafe Hayek: Remember, Much Government Debt Is Monetized, also, Would You Invest In A Company Run In This Manner?
CDR Salamander: Good Staffs Matter
Da Tech Guy: The Sad Decline Of Ballet, It Only Took Two Months Of Tom Being Home…, and Report From Louisiana – Dispatches From The Facebook Hoosegow
Don Surber: Xi Is An Actual Hitler Noone Calls Out, “Ukraine Is A Done Deal – It’s Flattened & They Lost”, and 60% Of Blacks Want To Eliminate Race On Government Forms
First Street Journal: The Patricians Are Just Different From Us!
Gates Of Vienna: “We Need Not Celebrate Our Own Disintegration”, Soros Issues Blueprint Of Globalist WW3 Propaganda, and ISIS Mujahidette Returns To Germany
The Geller Report: Israel Reportedly Decimated Iranian Drone Fleet In February, also, Virginia Pediatric Office Has Message For Student Athletes About The Jab
Hogewash: I Was Told There Would Be No Math, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, and The Usual Suspects
Hollywood In Toto: Bill Maher – How “Woke” Became An “Eyeroll”, also, Blistering Documentary Whose Children Are They? Takes On Teachers Unions
The Lid: Philadelphia Child Shot, Media Silent For Specific Reason
Legal Insurrection: Did The Denver Shooter Of A Right-Wing Protester Just Get Away With Murder?, University Of Oklahoma Devotes A Week To DIE, and Amazon Relocates 1800 Workers Due To Violent Crime Surge In Seattle
Nebraska Energy Observer: What If? also, Conspiracy Theory My ***
Outkick: Skip Bayless Says Wife Fears Charles Barkley Will Kill HimDid Rachel Maddow Veto Keith Olberman As Her Replacement?, and LeBron Melting Down As Lakers Continue Losing
Power Line: Rescue Me, Today’s Satire Is Tomorrow’s Woke Dogma, and Quotations From Chairman Kamala
Shark Tank: DeSantis Eliminates FSA Testing In Florida Public Schools
Shot In The Dark: Color Me Shocked, also, Modern Journalism – Not Just Dead, But Rotting So Hard It’s Bubbling
The Political Hat: The Ides Of March
This Ain’t Hell: Day of The Soldado Sentenced, VA Fraud – It’s A Family Affair, and “First!”
Transterrestrial Musings: Ethanol, also, Kamala Harris Quotes
Victory Girls: Roundup Time – Behold The Beclowning
Volokh Conspiracy: Rhode Island Stun Gun Ban Struck Down
Watts Up With That: Aussie Kids’ Climate Change Suit Rejected, also, Study Claims Climate Change Boosted Plant Growth Is Bad
Weasel Zippers: Bad Orange Woman Now Says Nobody Thought Russia Sanctions Would Be “100% Effective”, also, Lara Logan’s Brains Turn To Scrambled Eggs On Live TV
The Federalist: Justice Thomas Wants A Section 230 Reckoning, Here’s What The GOP Needs To Do To Truly Take On Big Tech, and Missouri Sues School Board Association For Hiding Details About Biden’s War On Parents
Mark Steyn: The Mark Steyn Show – Live Tuesday To Thursday, also, Steyn In Ukraine

Amazon Warehouse Deals




Probably Not a Trump Supporter

Posted on | March 15, 2022 | Comments Off on Probably Not a Trump Supporter

Say hello to 42-year-old Tammel Esco, who is accused of a hate crime in New York, and my hunch is, he’s not the MAGA type:

A New York woman was punched more than 125 times in the head and face and stomped on seven times by a man who had allegedly called her an “Asian b*tch,” the Yonkers Police Department said in a news release Monday.
The victim, a 67-year-old Asian woman, was returning home Friday evening when she saw the suspect, whom police identified as Tammel Esco, 42, in front of her building. Esco allegedly used the racial slur as she passed him, police said in the release. . . .
In the Friday incident, the victim ignored Esco and entered the vestibule of her apartment building, according to the police. But as she attempted to open the second door to enter the lobby, Esco allegedly approached her from behind and punched her in the head, knocking her to the floor, the release said.
The department provided surveillance a video of the assault.
In it, a man is seen punching a woman in both the head and face more than 125 times and then stomping her with his foot seven times. Police said he then spat on her.
The woman suffered multiple contusions and lacerations to her head and face, facial bone fractures, and bleeding on the brain, according to the news release. She was taken to a trauma center and is listed in stable condition, according to police.
Police responded to the scene at around 6:11 p.m. Friday, found Esco outside the apartment building and placed him into custody without incident, according to the release.

You won’t be surprised by this information about the attacker:

Yonkers Police Commissioner says Esco has 14 prior arrests, including pushing a woman through a window in Yonkers last February.

She forgot the sarcasm tag.




 

Climate Change ‘Science’ = Propaganda

Posted on | March 15, 2022 | Comments Off on Climate Change ‘Science’ = Propaganda

Considering how certain neocons are treating Ukraine skeptics, I’ll imitate them: “If you’re anti-fracking, that’s treason!”

For years, world leaders have accused Russia of funding environmental groups in Europe to steer nations away from energy independence and strengthen Russia’s iron grip over the continent. As nations across the globe begin shunning Russian oil in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine, U.S. leaders are also questioning how deep Russia’s ties go in the environmental community.
“The Russians actually fund some of the most rabid environmental groups in Europe because they sic them on the energy projects that aren’t Russian,” James Carafano, vice president of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital in a recent phone interview.
Back in June 2014, just months after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine, European leaders sounded off that Russia was using disinformation operations with environmental groups to steer countries away from fracking in favor of Russian oil.
“I have met allies who can report that Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so-called non-governmental organisations – environmental organisations working against shale gas – to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas,” Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former prime minister of Denmark and then-secretary-general of NATO, said, according to the Guardian. . . .
By 2016, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Scotland and Bulgaria had all banned fracking, either temporarily or permanently. Russia’s power over European energy grew large by 2022, providing roughly 40% of the continent’s natural gas supply. Lithuania, for example, gets 83% of its oil imports from Russia, Poland gets 58% and Finland 80%, The Hill reported.
“You’re not really an independent nation if you depend on foreign countries so heavily for your energy supplies,” Michael Shellenberger, the best-selling author of “Apocalypse Never,” told Fox News earlier this month.
Shellenberger said that 15 years ago, “Europe produced more natural gas than Russia,” but that all changed as “Russia increased its natural gas production and Europe reduced it.”
“Europe decided not to frack in large part in response to climate activists,” Shellenberger told Fox News. “We now think there is strong evidence suggesting [the climate activists] were supported directly through financing from Russia.”

If Mitt Romney can accuse Tulsi Gabbard of treason (!!!) because she believes the U.S. was operating bioweapons labs in Ukraine, then why can’t I accuse every climate change activist of treason? Aren’t they promoting Putin’s propaganda? Isn’t it all “disinformation”?

And if anyone is Putin’s puppet here, how about Joe Biden?

President Joe Biden reassured donors Monday that he would use his executive powers to act on climate change, even as energy prices are at record highs.
“The climate crisis is the existential threat. That’s not hyperbole; it’s a fact,” Biden said after taking the podium at a Democratic National Committee Fundraiser in Washington, DC.
Biden promised to take “aggressive” executive actions on climate regulations even if the Supreme Court overruled him. He acknowledged that progress on the issue of climate change was difficult to achieve in Congress, hinting that donors could help him pressure lawmakers.
“There’s a long way to go, but we’re running into some obstacles that I’m going to need your help on in terms of individuals, as well as circumstances,” he said.

Got that? Biden is going to ram the pro-Putin “climate” agenda down your throat, and you’re just an “obstacle” if you don’t like it.




 

« go backkeep looking »