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I Blame Nick Saban

Posted on | November 26, 2010 | 6 Comments

Out-coached. That is all.

Category: Alabama, Football

Criminal Pervert TSA Agent Update

Posted on | November 26, 2010 | 3 Comments

Last week, we told you about the TSA agent arrested for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. This week, it’s a TSA agent who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a woman.

And guess what? He’s got a prior record of stalking and harassment.

Come to think of it, “stalking and harassment” is pretty much the job description at TSA, isn’t it?

Category: Crime, Terrorism

Who Speaks for America?

Posted on | November 26, 2010 | 7 Comments

A Harvard-educated, AIDS-infected, Internet-cruising, marijuana-using gay British expatriate presumes to speak for Americans who reject Sarah Palin because of “a meanness, a disrespect, a vicious partisanship.”

We await a response from Sarah Palin’s uterus. Meanwhile, let me suggest to Sarah Palin a campaign promise that will unite the GOP coalition: The first thing you do, after completing the oath of office on January 20, 2013, sign an executive order for Andrew Sullivan’s deportation.

“Forget about the Mexican drug cartels — save us from the AIDS-Infected British Dope Menace!”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Sept. 11, 2009

Category: Andrew Sullivan

Outrageous: MSNBC Broadcast Causes Left-Wing Woman to Make Fake School-Shooting Threat Blamed on Tea Party

Posted on | November 26, 2010 | 6 Comments

On Nov. 9, South Florida talk-radio host Joyce Kaufman was named as chief of staff for newly-elected Republican congressman Allen West. That night, Rachel Maddow aired a video of Kaufman giving a fiery speech at a Tea Party. A shooting threat Nov. 10 led to the shutdown of Broward schools, and Kaufman’s resignation was announced Nov. 11. 

Two weeks later, the truth emerged: The shooting threat came from Ellisa Martinez, a left-wing Green Party activist:

The FBI says that after Martinez saw a tape on MSNBC of Kaufman at a July 3 Tea Party rally, she fired off a threatening email that led to a lockdown at all Broward County schools.

(Hat-tip: Weasel Zippers.) Martinez was arrested Tuesday after fleeing to California. She was arraigned Wednesday in Los Angeles and will be extradited back to Florida. All along, West’s supporters suspected this was a hoax. MSM headline you’ll never see:

MSNBC Inspires Left-Wing Hate Hoax

Why does this remind me of “Send the Body to Glenn Beck“?

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! My guess is that Professor Reynolds linked me because he knows how depressed I am about . . . I don’t want to say it. Anyway, I blame Nick Saban.

Also thanks to the Rhetorican for the link. Meanwhile, if you think you can handle it, Jennifer Aniston in a bikini.

Category: Allen West, Crime, Florida, MSNBC, Talk Radio, Tea Party

Muslim Men Led U.K. Girl-Rape Gang

Posted on | November 26, 2010 | 6 Comments

The most horrifying story you’ll read today:

At home, Abid Saddique and Mohammed Liaqat, both of whom were married with young children, were considered clean, upstanding family men as well as devout Muslims.
But once they left their front door and their wives behind, they turned into vodka-swilling, cocaine-binging paedophiles who spent every available moment randomly targeting young girls on the street, befriending them, and then horrifically abusing them.
The 28-year-olds were at the head of a 13-strong gang who would film the assaults on their mobile telephones. . . .
The victims, aged between 12-18 . . . were predominantly girls with a troubled background.
They would pick their victims up night and day and from anywhere — at train stations, on estates, in the city centre, walking home from school. . . .
In one incident, Saddique, who was convicted of 14 of the 29 charges he faced, was accused of engaging in sexual activity with a 12-year-old in Derby’s picturesque Darley Park, while his accomplice Liaqat, who was convicted of 10 crimes of the 18 charges he faced, had sex with a 14-year-old in the BMW.
Another time, a 14-year-old girl was filmed having sex with three of the gang in a hotel room as cheers ring out.
The group faced 75 charges between them relating to twenty six girls, but police believe there are many more victims who have not come forward. . . .

Read the rest. Is this a triumph of multiculturalism? The Daily Mail has mug shots of the gang members and, although most of them have names like Faisal and Mohammed, one of their members was Graham Blackham (pictured). The gang also had diverse victims, the Daily Mail reports:

Up to 100 ‘vulnerable’ girls may have been groomed, abused or supplied cocaine . . .
[Derbyshire Police Detective Sean Dawson] said that although all of the victims were white except for three mixed-race girls and two Asians, the men were ‘out for whatever sex they could get’ and did not care what race their victims were. The oldest victim was 18 but most were aged between 14 and 16. . . .
Many attacks were filmed on mobile phones as ‘trophies’.

Read the rest of that.

UPDATE: Another angle from the Telegraph:

A SCHOOLGIRL, who was in the care of the city council when she fell victim to a gang of Derby perverts, had been groomed and sexually abused by another man only months earlier, the Telegraph can reveal.
The youngster was placed in a children’s home by Derby City Council for her own protection after police arrested Ansar Hussain, who targeted her when she was just 13.
But despite being under the supervision of social workers, she fell into the clutches of evil Abid Mohammed Saddique and Mohammed Romaan Liaqat – the ringleaders of a gang who raped and abused 27 girls.

Read the rest.

UPDATE II: Just now discovered that Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs had this story yesterday, viewing it as an example of “Islamic supremacism.” Pamela also highlights points I had omitted: The two 28-year-old gang leaders were “both British-born and of Pakistani origin with an arranged marriage.”

UPDATE III: Most of the victims were from broken homes. One victim explains what that meant to the predators: “[T]hey knew the difference between a girl that goes home to her family at the end of the night and a girl that doesn’t. I didn’t have anyone to protect me or look after me and thought they were going to look after and care for me.”

UPDATE IV: Watch this news video from ITN/Telegraph:

Doesn’t the social-worker woman talking about “therapeutic intervention” seem . . . off-target?

Let’s hypothetically transpose this situation: Suppose that a bunch of British men had been accused of gang-raping girls in Pakistan. Would the TV news in Islamabad be interviewing social workers talking about “therapeutic intervention”? No, they’d be interviewing imams talking about “death to the infidels.”

Category: Crime, Great Britain, Sex

LATE AT EIGHT — 11.26.10

Posted on | November 26, 2010 | 6 Comments

Apologies to readers for the non-appearance of “Live at Five,” as Wombat found himself spending the holidays at the home of relatives in Luray, Va., who don’t have WiFi. Also, Wombat is suffering from a cold, if you want to send him get-well wishes.

I’ll be aggregating headlines here in the meantime. — RSM

TOP NEWS
South Korea Names New Defense Minister after North Korea’s Artillery Attack
Retired Gen. Kim Kwan-jin replaces Kim Tae-young, who resigned Thursday, following criticism of a slow response to Tuesday’s deadly North Korean attack.

Europeans Clash on Bailout
EU Commission proposes doubling size of €440 billion ($588 billion) bailout fund; Germany balks.

A Head Start on Black Friday
Some shoppers started on Thanksgiving Day.

Three Boys Feared Lost Are Found
Adrift in the Pacific Ocean for 50 days.

POLITICS
A Thanksgiving Message to All 57 States
Sarah Palin has a sense of humor? Who knew?

Navy Veteran, 78, Arrested After Telling Nurse He Was Thinking About Killing President Obama
Secret Service takes every threat seriously. Also, you know how kooky those Navy guys are.

Will Sarah Palin Run for President?
Book-signings in Iowa. Hint, hint.

Getting It Wrong About TSA
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. admits his error.

The Year of the Pro-Life Woman
Buerkle’s win marks 38th victory for SBA List in 2010.

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Euro Zone Debt Crisis Escalates
Investors eye Spain as the next weak spot.

Debt Crisis Threatens Germany?
‘Germany cannot keep paying for bail-outs without going bankrupt itself.’

Asian Markets Spooked by Korean Hostilities
Asia-Pacific index drops 2.1 per cent to 248.43, its worst weekly performance in more than three months.

Oil Prices Fall as Dollar Gains
‘Uncertain economic conditions continue to dominate the markets.’

SPORTS
The Only Game That Matters
Tuscaloosa. Bryant-Denny Stadium. Today. 2:30 p.m. ET.

Alabama’s Mark Ingram: ‘All the Pressure Is On Them’
Didn’t I tell you it’s the only game that matters?

Saints Come Back, Beat Cowboys
30-27. Not that it matters.

Jets 26, Bengals 10
Another game that means nothing compared to the world-historic struggle today at Bryant-Denny Stadium.

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Halle Berry Getting Desperate for Baby
Biological clock ticking down for 44-year-old star.

Lindsay Lohan Gets Thanksgiving Pass
Leaves Betty Ford Clinic to celebrate holiday with her father.

Christina Aguilera Makes Movie Debut in ‘Burlesque’
‘So bad it could almost be Showgirls.’

‘Ugly Betty’ Actor Michael Brea Explains Why He Killed His Mother
Two words: ‘Nucking futz.’

BLOGS & STUFF
Byron York: Poll Numbers Point to Obama’s Defeat in 2012

Pundit & Pundette: Too Much Sarah

News Alert: GM Say, ‘Thanks for the Bailout!’

Noel Sheppard: Roger Ebert Thankful for Tom Delay’s Conviction

Cubachi: Weird Taiwanese Animation About Sarah Palin

New York Post: Why Does ABC Keep Sending Diane Sawyer to the Wrong Continent?

Dan Collins: Pass the Schadenfreude

Category: Europe, Football, Live at Five, Sarah Palin

VIDEO: Happy Thanksgiving!

Posted on | November 25, 2010 | 12 Comments

All six of our children, plus our recently added son-in-law, gathered for the annual family feast.

See if you can figure out which one is Robert Stacy McCain, Jr.

A little story about our big family: When Kennedy (now 21 and married) was just a baby, it was near Christmas time and we were so broke, we didn’t have two nickels to rub together. However, I had a Macy’s credit card, so we went shopping with that. We just about maxed out the limit, but Macy’s had a little snack bar and we stopped in to have some cheesecake and coffee.

We were sitting there eating and talking, with our 6-month-old baby, trying to make the best of the holidy despite our dismal financial situation, when a little old lady approached us. She apologized for disturbing us, but said she just wanted to tell us something: “You’ve got so much love!”

Indeed. Five more children were added and despite everything — including the deer that wiped out our car — we’ve still got so much love.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Category: Family

Thankful for the Man in the Fedora

Posted on | November 25, 2010 | 4 Comments

You probably don’t recognize that guy, but if you’re a regular reader, you owe him a big “Thank you.”

Many months ago — it was September 26 2009 — I had just spent two weeks fighting a very memorable flame war, which need not be reiterated here. Burnt-out and weary, I was trying to recover my equilibrium by enjoying the Alabama-Arkansas game (Roll, Tide!), when someone alerted me to a particularly idiotic Andrew Sullivan post about the death of a Census worker in Kentucky.

Well, by God, send me to Kentucky!

Big Creek, Ky., is a 500-mile drive from here. I could easily drive it in eight hours. I had plans to attend an event Sunday in Virginia, and had expected to go to D.C. this coming week to follow up on the latest IG-Gate developments.
However, if my readers would prefer me to teach Andrew Sullivan a lesson in journalism, feel free to hit the tip jar. . . .

And in short order, that man in the hat hit the tip-jar and said, “Go!” Less than 48 hours later, I arrived in Manchester, Ky., and by Tuesday morning had filed a column for The American Spectator:

The FBI and Kentucky State Police, who are leading the Sparkman investigation, refuse to discuss possible motives for his murder. Asked about the theories being discussed on the Internet, KSP spokesman Don Trosper said, “It’s just speculation and rumors. . . . We concern ourselves with facts.”

I subsequently visited the scene of the crime, and also interviewed a local whose flippant remark to a reporter had been misinterpreted as indicative of the “anti-government sentiment” that supposedly pervaded Clay County, Ky. Read more

Category: Shoe Leather Fund
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