The Other McCain

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Can I Get a ‘Roll Tide,’ Please?

Posted on | January 12, 2021 | 1 Comment

It’s only their 18th National Championship:

Alabama defeated Ohio State, 52-24, for its third national championship in the College Football Playoff era.
In a season significantly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, the Crimson Tide were able to come away with the first championship of 2021 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla and finish their season undefeated.
The victory makes it 14 consecutive wins for Alabama. The Crimson Tide haven’t lost since Nov. 30, 2019.
The first half of the game was all about Crimson Tide wide receiver Devonta Smith.
Smith had 12 catches for 215 yards with three touchdowns. . . .
Mac Jones put together a game for the ages as well.
Jones was 36-for-45 with 464 passing yards and five touchdown passes. He surpassed Joe Burrow’s national championship performance from last season. Burrow had 463 passing yards with five touchdown passes.
On the ground, Najee Harris had 79 rushing yards and two rushing touchdowns. He also had seven catches for 79 yards and a touchdown. . . .
Nick Saban’s legendary college football legacy only grows after the win. It’s Saban’s seventh national championship and sixth as Alabama head coach. He won one during the 2003 season with LSU and won his first with Alabama in 2009 after he returned to college football after a stint with the Miami Dolphins.
Alabama won its first national title during the College Football Playoff era during the 2015 season, beating Clemson, 45-40. The team defeated Georgia in the only overtime game in the final, 26-23. It’s their 18th title in school history.

As you might expect, Monday night was quite festive here at the McCain home, as I watched the game with my brother, two of my sons, two grandsons and my slightly less festive wife. Her family in Ohio are big Buckeyes fans, so this game wasn’t quite as fun for her. Fortunately, games between the Crimson Tide and Ohio State are rare; Monday’s game was only the fifth time they’ve ever played each other. Alabama has won all but one of those, a 2015 playoff semifinal.

So even though Democrats stole the election, I’ve still got something to be happy about. Now, I just need to find some source of happiness to carry me over until the next football season kicks off. Roll Tide!




 

Category: Alabama, Football

In The Mailbox: 01.11.21

Posted on | January 12, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.11.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Some changes to the list of blogs.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

I, for one, reject our new Silicon Valley wannabee overlords.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Are 80 Million Americans Truly Powerless Against Our New Twitter God?
Bacon Time: My Counter-Purge Continues
357 Magnum: Affordable Bail Victim #37
EBL: Kathy Shaidle, RIP, also, Caesar Crosses The Rubicon
Twitchy: Elon Musk Fact-Drops Morons Cheering “West Coast Big Tech” For Censoring Parler, also, Gab Unveils “Liberal Hate Machine” Project
Louder With Crowder: Marco Rubio – They’re Coming After Everyone On The Right
Vox Popoli: A Good Republican, also, They Will Not Tolerate You
Stoic Observations: The Missing Man On Gilligan’s Island
Edge Of The Frontier: The Siege Of The Capitol

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Called It…Again
American Conservative: How Do You Solve A Problem Like QAnon? also, The Lincoln Project’s Predator
American Greatness: The “Virtue” Of The New Totalitarians, also, Big Tech’s War On Free Speech
American Power: Jason Whitlock Decries The Elites’ Sellout Of The American People
American Thinker: Conceding Defeat To Fraud Isn’t Patriotic, also, What Is The GOP’s Problem?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s Socialist Revolution Gives Everyone Rights, They Just Can’t Exercise Any Of Them, also, Plug In Your Old Fax Machine
Baldilocks: Still Here
BattleSwarm: Alternatives To Twitter, also, The Great Purge Begins 
Behind The Black: NASA Moves Up Static Fire Test Of SLS Core Stage
Cafe Hayek: On Last Wednesday’s Capitol Hill Events
CDR Salamander: The Navy’s Problems & A Plan To Fix Them
Da Tech Guy: Bad Violence, also, Where Did The Capitol Protest Anger Come From, And What Do We Do About It?
Don Surber: They Plan To Impeach Trump After His Term Ends, also, The Traitors Who Fooled Us
First Street Journal: The KY General Assembly Is Set To Restrict Governor’s Emergency Powers, also, Twitter Hates Freedom Of Speech
The Geller Report: Pelosi Gives Pence 24 Hours To Invoke 25th Amendment Or Else, also, Delta Airlines Boots Two Women For Private Conversation About Trump
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Parler Vs. AWS
Hollywood In Toto: LA Times Whines That Cobra Kai Is Too White, also, Inquisitions & Heroes, Then & Now
The Lid: If Social Media Truthfully Cared About Inciting Violence & Spewing Hatred…
Legal Insurrection: Mexican President Slams Social Media Censorship Of President Trump, also, House Democrats Charge Trump With “Incitement To Insurrection” In Impeachment Resolution
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations
Power Line: The Deep State Is Rattled, also, Who’s Reeling?
Shark Tank: Deutch Calls For Accountability After Capitol Storming
Shot In The Dark: Planet Of The Humans, Part 0
The Political Hat: Red China Openly Celebrates Genocidal Eugenics
This Ain’t Hell: Space Force Counts Coup, also, Marine Corps Threatens To Cut Off Town’s Water Supply
Transterrestrial Musings: Two Thirds Of The Way, also, Europa Clipper
Victory Girls: Social Media Becomes 21st Century Pravda, also, Media Hysteria & The Insurrection That Wasn’t
Volokh Conspiracy: Gaslighting Last Summer’s Riots & The Law Enforcement Response
Weasel Zippers: Glenn Greenwald Dismantles Big Tech For Going After Parler, also, Pelosi & Democrats Seek To Expel Republicans For Wrongthink
The Federalist: Corporations Use Capitol Riots To Push Chicom-Style Social Credit System On America, also, After Calling Trump Unhinged, Pelosi Snaps At AOC In 60 Minutes Interview
Mark Steyn: Kathy’s World, also, Lawyering Down

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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Sunday: Rep. Lauren Boebert

Posted on | January 11, 2021 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

One of the good things about the freshman class of Republican Congressmen is that a lot of them are not only conservative, they’re good looking ladies as well. And one of the better looking ladies in the pack is the pistol-packing representative from Colorado’s Third District, Lauren Boebert, previously best known for being the owner of Shooters Grill in Rifle, where all the waitresses are packing. Not sure if this pic from The Journal shows Rep. Boebert with some of her waitresses; they’re identified as “two other armed women”. Will she be this year’s version of Sarah Palin? I guess we’ll see.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Strapped.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1225, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Immortality Friday, and the Saturday Brunettenarok.

EBL: Vikings, Andriana Lecouvreur, Unknown, La Donna Del Lago, The Pearl Divers, I Puritani, Cavalleria Rusticani & Pagliacci, Maria Stuarda, Julie London, Il Trovatore, and Defiant MAGA Saturday.

A View From The Beach: Chiara Bransi, Fish Pic Friday – Georgia Bucel, MD Angler Sets Flathead Catfish Record, Tattoo Thursday, “One-Sided Misunderstanding”, Chesapeake Bay Gets Its Annual D+, Wednesday Wetness, RIP: Tanya Roberts, “Halloween”, Brazilian Artist Has World’s Biggest C*nt, Your Monday Morning Stimulus, Anthony Warner Died to Save Us From the Lizard People, Palm Sunday.

Bacon Time: Rule Five Sexy Pole Dancers.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Broken Whiskey Glass

Posted on | January 11, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Broken Whiskey Glass

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Mayor Groot beats out Mindy Robinson? A daily linkagery post gets five links? Jesus, take the wheel!
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Stupid City, Stupid Mayor: Homicide Increases 55% in Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago
The Pirate’s Cove
Bacon Time
First Street Journal
Dark Brightness
357 Magnum
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Mindy Robinson
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 01.06.21
Harsh Brutus
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

‘Mi Casa en Beacon Hill’
A View From The Beach
EBL

 
The Other Podcast: Lizard People!
A View From The Beach
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Shotgun Blues
A View From The Beach
EBL

How Bad Is Philly? Worse Than Chicago
First Street Journal
357 Magnum
EBL

‘The Road Leads Back to You’
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

‘Stolen Land’ and Fake Numbers: How SJWs Invented a ‘Genocide’ Myth
Animal Magnetism
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.05.21 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Georgia: Republicans Perdue, Loeffler Lead, But Democrats Still Cheating
Daily Pundit
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.05.21 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Georgia: Mail-In Vote-Harvesting Election Theft Succeeds Again for Democrats
Bacon Time
A View From The Beach
EBL

WTF Just Happened in D.C.?
A View From The Beach
EBL

Real Life Is Not Twitter or a Video Game
EBL

 
In The Mailbox: 01.08.21 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive
 
Top linkers for the week ending January  8:
  1.  EBL (18)
  2.  A View From The Beach (12)
  3.  357 Magnum (9)
  4. Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for their links!

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Category: FMJRA Award

Far Be It From Me to Repeat Salacious Gossip About RINO Backstabbers, But …

Posted on | January 10, 2021 | Comments Off on Far Be It From Me to Repeat Salacious Gossip About RINO Backstabbers, But …

Did you hear the one about the twink-chasing Never Trumper?

My RedState colleague Brad Slager reported Saturday on how Forbes Magazine was joining the Enemies List brigade by proclaiming to “the business world” that “Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie” and will respond accordingly if any of those businesses hire any former “Trump fabulists” like the ones they had listed in their article (Kayleigh McEnany, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kellyanne Conway, and others).
Not to be outdone, Stuart Stevens, who is listed on the Never Trump group Lincoln Project’s website as an advisor, predictably jumped on the bandwagon and posted this tweet noting what the LP’s plans were on that front to cancel former Trump administration officials from public life . . .
Political writer/book author Ryan Girdusky saw Stevens’ tweet, and in response alleged that a founding member of the Lincoln Project “groomed young men” and “offered jobs” to them “in exchange for sex” . . .
The “founding member of the Lincoln Project” Girdusky is referring to is John Weaver.
After Girdusky’s tweets – and Donald Trump Jr’s retweeting of some of them, it was like the floodgates opened as young men stepped forward to talk about their (alleged) creepy experiences with Weaver . . .
Investigative journalist Scott Stedman wrote about his alleged disturbing experiences with Weaver as well in this lengthy Twitter thread, where he included some screengrabs of DMs and pointed out that his alleged experiences with Weaver “paled in comparison” to others . . .

You can read the whole sordid thing. I must add that these are merely allegations, except of course, there are screen-caps of the DMs, and so far I’ve seen nothing from Weaver or any of his Lincoln Project buddies denying that he’s a creepy closet-case twink-chaser.

Twitchy is also on the story about these allegations.




 

Category: Uncategorized

Blondes (Still) Have More Fun

Posted on | January 10, 2021 | Comments Off on Blondes (Still) Have More Fun

Is it a matter of opinion?
Or just a contradiction?
But from where I come from,
All the blondes have more fun.
Well, just watch them sisters on a Saturday night,
Peroxide causin’ all the fights.

Oh, the memories of those days, when my glorious golden mane made the girls stop and stare! Walking around with shoulder-length rock star hair as a skinny teenage boy in the Deep South was slightly dangerous, but the benefits — well, Rod Stewart knew what he was talking about.

Amid this grim season of post-election gloom, I found something to smile about this morning when I saw Alana Stewart — Rod’s first ex-wife, and also the ex-wife of movie star George Hamilton — tearing it up on her Twitter. Now a 75-year-old grandma, Alana is on Team #MAGA.

Screen-capped for posterity, because it’s probably just a matter of time before she’s banned like everybody else who’s not a Democrat.

She’s a Texas girl, you know. Texans love a good fight.




 

Category: Celebrities

Night Of The Digital Long Knives

Posted on | January 10, 2021 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

(laughs in right wing death squad)

I don’t think anyone except the Silicon Valley oligarchs, who no doubt had this planned well in advance, and Vox Day, who had expected this for some time – expected the whole sale purging of conservative & populist accounts from social media that’s taken place this week. President Trump, Lin Wood, Sidney Powell, and General Flynn, to say nothing of such badthinkers as the #WalkAway group on Facebook, have all found their Twitter and Facebook accounts shut down. Not content with that, Apple and Google both dropped the Parler app from their app stores, and to make sure you proles get the message, Amazon Web Services is terminating Parler’s contract as of Sunday, which means they’ll be offline for at least a week while they try to find alternative hosting. I’d be willing to bet that even if they do succeed in finding/building infrastructure to replace what they had on AWS, they’re going to get the same treatment Gab got – people trying to support them with their credit and debit cards will be blocked, hosting services that agree to host them will be pressured to drop them, and every means short of actual physical violence will be used to drive them out of business. For that matter, after the Antifa/BLM riots of this past summer, it wouldn’t surprise me at all to see Cuban-style “divine mobs” used to destroy server farms belonging to companies hosting websites deemed guilty of “sedition”, “incitement”, or whatever excuse people like Maxine Waters want to use.

Daniel Greenfield lays out the obvious part of the problem rather clearly. Control of the Internet, which used to be a flexible network designed to automatically route information around blockages, has now fallen into the grasp of a handful of companies, all of them seemingly eager to institute a Red Chinese social credit system. Conservatives and populists have relied for too long on Section 230 to protect us from exactly the kind of hamfisted behavior that Jack Dorsey, Sundar Pichai, Jeff Bezos, and Tim Cook are engaging in right now. We have a very limited amount of time to find and use alternatives like blogs, e-mail lists, Telegram, Signal, and Gab; we must also build alternative financing structures so the wokerati running Mastercard and Visa can’t cut off the flow of funds. People used to accuse Vox Day of being paranoid when he said these things a few years ago. What’s keeping me awake nights is that Vox might not have been paranoid enough.

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Category: Culture, How This Here Internet Thingy Works

Email From Our ‘Friends’ at the SPLC

Posted on | January 9, 2021 | 1 Comment

A few years ago, some fiendish troll decided to put me on the mailing list for the Southern Poverty Law Center, which of course, already had me on their other list, IYKWIMAITYD. But as with Joseph being sold into Egyptian slavery by his brothers, while my enemy meant this prank for evil, God meant it for good. Periodic SPLC emails provide me with an interesting glimpse into the kind of messages the Left is sending out to their deranged “base.” Just this morning, they sent out this screed:

One of the powerful lessons we must take away from this week’s coup attempt by President Trump and his supporters is that 2021 is not a time for half measures in the fight against hate and extremism.
Yes, Wednesday began with hope. The results of the Senate runoff elections in Georgia offered proof that the South can help lead the way into a new political era. But the events at the U.S. Capitol reminded us of the racist violence that continues to threaten our country. This violence is bolstered by the infrastructure of white nationalist movements that the Southern Poverty Law Center has been tracking and fighting for decades.
The images from Wednesday’s coup attempt will be seared into people’s memories. Extremists stormed Capitol Hill and incited a riot that resulted in five deaths, including the killing of a Capitol Police officer who physically engaged with rioters as he attempted to secure the building. The mob of Trump’s supporters endangered the lives of thousands as they flew the Confederate flag — a symbol of racism and violence that did not even enter the halls of Congress during the Civil War. This attempted coup on our democracy comes as no surprise since white nationalist groups have been energized by Trump since he was a presidential candidate.
The weeks of planning that went into this attack underscore why organizations like the SPLC, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, remain critical in the fight against hate and extremism. We will remain vigilant in 2021, ensuring that the necessary actions are taken to put an end to this siege that Trump has both unveiled and advanced.
There is simply no way to overstate the gravity of what took place in the Capitol this week. While these extremists failed in their mission to prevent the counting of Electoral College votes, this attack can — and will — become a recruitment tool for white nationalist movements across the country and around the world.
This nationally coordinated coup attempt revealed highly organized networks of white supremacist organizations, extending beyond the Capitol and into statehouses around the U.S. that have been the target of protests. Unsurprisingly, statehouses in the South — a region with high populations of communities of color — have been particularly targeted.
These hate groups, emboldened by the president, pose a direct threat to the lives of millions of Black and Indigenous people, as well as other people of color around the country. They will not go away after President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
In the face of hate, we must transform
We also must realize that the violence in Washington was predictable and preventable. In 2019, the number of white nationalist groups identified by the SPLC rose for the second straight year, a 55% increase since 2017. Given the severity of the issue, in 2020, the SPLC published recommendations for confronting hate and threats to our democracy. There are a number of steps the federal government can take to combat white nationalism and its threat to our political systems, transform institutions that reflect dangerous ideologies and rebuild trust in our democracy.
Sincerely,
Margaret Huang
SPLC President & CEO

The remarkable thing about this email is how utterly counterfactual it is. The mob that stormed the Capitol was not part of an “attack” that had been “planned” for weeks. Rather, it appears to have been a spontaneous impulse on the part of a comparatively small number of Trump supporters — most of them Alex Jones fans, it seems — who were but a single-digit percentage of the 200,000 in town for the “Stop the Steal” rally. And so far as I’m aware, there is zero evidence that “white nationalist networks” had anything to do with this incident, which appeared to be no more “coordinated” than it was “planned.”

The assertion that Wednesday was an “attempted coup on our democracy” is just a repetition of what Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) have been saying since Election Day. Merely repeating a phrase, however, does not make it any more true now than it ever was. Yet what would the SPLC tell their supporters, if they were forced to tell the truth? “Hey, this is just another scare-mongering email about ‘white nationalist’ bogeyman intended to inspire you to give us more money, despite the fact that we’ve got hundreds of millions of dollars already piled up in our offshore bank accounts in the Cayman Islands.”

As long as gullible liberals keep sending money, the SPLC will continue telling them the same stale bullshit they’ve been recycling for years, about how every Republican voter in America — all 74 million who voted to re-elect President Trump — represents a “white supremacist” menace, a “threat to our democracy.” Lying is a pretty lucrative racket, so Margaret Huang will keep sending out emails signed “Sincerely,” but if she sincerely believes what she’s writing, she needs psychiatric treatment.




 

Category: Liberals
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