The Other McCain

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Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | January 10, 2020 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty

Offstage, the director nods. I step into light.
“None of this madness,” a sweeping gesture captures the previous action, “has made sense.

Your mind cycles through the events and characters, connecting dots in a vain attempt to draw order from chaos.
Relax.
The good news: there *is* a point to all of this.
The bad news: the fulness of that point is too much for this medium; as with a mountain on a map, all you get are some topological line hints.
Again: relax. Spread joy, not sorrow, and await the moment the final understanding grips you.”

Return to darkness.
—
via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

In The Mailbox: 01.10.20 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | January 10, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho

After experimenting with it in this morning’s post, I’m going to hold off on adding any links people send me until this evening’s post, since I can’t access Gmail here and manually copying HTML links from my phone is a major pain. As always, contributions to the Hate Chicken & Diet Coke fund are appreciated.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Paul Krugman Tries To Explain How CP Got Downloaded On His IP
Twitchy: John Kerry & Samantha Power Lament “Trump Destroyed What We Built”
Louder With Crowder: Jillian Michaels Asks “Why Do We Celebrate Lizzo Being Fat?”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Big Companies Hate Innovation But Love Regulation
American Conservative: A Trump Voter’s Lament
American Greatness: New Lawsuit Claims Rod Rosenstein Led Task Force That Spied On Sharyl Attkisson’s Computers
American Power: After Leaving 60 Minutes, Lara Logan Makes Comeback On Fox Nation
American Thinker: Progressive Eco-Group Admits Renewable Energy Is A Hoax
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Colorado News
Babalu Blog: Elite Cuban “Black Berets” Caught On Video Beating Civilians In Villa Clara
BattleSwarm: Iran’s Retaliation – A Big Nothingburger
Cafe Hayek: Open Letter To Sam Hammond
Camp Of The Saints: The Spirit Of 1969 Unleashed
Da Tech Guy: Quaint Things Under The Fedora, also, Climate Change Isn’t Responsible For The Australian Bushfire Crisis
Don Surber: Investigate Obama Stopping Operation Cassandra
First Street Journal: Another Idea To Fight #ClimateChange That The Left Won’t Like
The Geller Report: Bill Clinton Seen In New Photos On Epstein’s Plane With Sex Slave, also, Watch Ilhan Omar Laugh While Discussing U.S. Casualties In Iraq
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, A 3D View Of The Crab Nebula
Hollywood In Toto: How Little Women Soft-Pedals Modern Feminism
JustOneMinute: Compounding Iran’s Worries
Legal Insurrection: Buttigieg Suggests Trump to Blame For Iranians Shooting Down Ukrainian Airliner, also, MSM Freaks Out Over Trump Blaming Obama For Funding Iranian Aggression
Megan McArdle: Trump Does The NATO Two-Step
The PanAm Post: Why Chavismo Is Winning In Venezuela
Power Line: Ilhan Omar – The PTSD Of A Clown, also, Trump Wins In Court On Border Wall
Shark Tank: Brian Mast – Many U.S. Military Deaths Paid For By Obama
Shot In The Dark: Saint Paul – Good News & Bad News
The Political Hat: How Cultural Marxism Destroyed Education, also, Euthanasia In Killer Canada – Killing Without Consent, Alzheimer’s Society Against Those With Alzheimer’s, and From Hospice To Execution
This Ain’t Hell: Who’s The FBI’s Most Wanted American Terrorist? also, Sailor’s Wife & His “Boat Boo” Brawl At Navy Christmas Party
Victory Girls: Sanders & Warren Choose Iran Over America
Volokh Conspiracy: Above The Law Post Not Libelous Or “Unlawful Discrimination” Notwithstanding Its Supposed “Homophobic” Insults
Weasel Zippers: To Fact Check Trump, MSNBC Turns To…Known Liar Susan Rice, also, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Compares Soleimani’s Death To Elvis, Princess Di
Mark Steyn: Ayatollahs & Undertakers

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Category: Linkagery

In The Mailbox: 01.10.20 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | January 10, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Teen Home Invaders Are Still Home Invaders
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #859
EBL: Dracula – A Review
Twitchy: “Why Are You Siding With Terrorists?” Protester Interrupts Liz Warren’s Town Hall
Louder With Crowder: Gizmodo Claims Climate Change Caused Australian Wildfires, Just Ignore All The Arsonists Arrested

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Forgotten Realist Soldier Who Warned About Forever War
Amrican Greatness: Tone-Deaf Democrats Risk Handing Western Pennsylvania To Trump
American Power: Salma Hayek Slays The Golden Globes
American Thinker: Another Expensive Solar Scheme Bites The Dust
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: The NYT Loved Fidel More Than Former NFL Coach Sam Wyche
BattleSwarm: Iran Strikes Concrete, Downs Airliner, Steps Up Cyberwar, Channels Curly
Cafe Hayek: A Dollar Dump? Not Likely
CDR Salamander: So, Who Wants To Cut Staff Numbers?
Da Tech Guy: Hunter Biden May Hold The Fate Of The Democratic Party In His Hands
Don Surber: Why The Media Got Iran Wrong
First Street Journal: Jennifer Rubin Is More Concerned About Iranian Cultural Sites Than American Soldiers’ Lives
Fred On Everything: Random Thoughts From The Heart Of Darkness
The Geller Report: Nick Sandmann Gets Settlement From CNN After $275 Million Lawsuit, also, Muslim Arsonist Accused Of Setting Aussie Grass Fires Laughs As He Leaves Court
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, A New Look At The Galactic Center
Hollywood In Toto: Read The Trump Derangement Behind Party Of Five 2.0
JustOneMinute: Deliberately Underwhelming
Legal Insurrection: CNN Settles Nick Sandmann Lawsuit, also, CNN Fighting With Babylon Bee Over Whose News Is More Fake
Megan McArdle: Ricky Gervais Teaches Hollywood What Speaking Truth To Power Really Means
Michelle Malkin: Who Decides Who Gets In?
The PanAm Post: Despite Chavista Coup, Opposition Deputies Ratify Guaido As President Of National Assembly, also, Colombia Can’t Forget FARC Concentration Camps
Power Line: Leila Adan – Ilhan Omar Doesn’t Speak For Us, also, Treasonous Or Just Stupid?
Shark Tank: Rep. Al Lawson Says Democrats’ Egos Bruised Over Soleimani Killing
Shot In The Dark: Intended Consequences
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Happy New Tax Year!
The Political Hat: American Public Schools – Guardians Of Sharia
This Ain’t Hell: Wednesday FGS, also, McConnell Has The Votes To Start Impeachment Trial Without Witness Agreement
Victory Girls: Democrats Forget Our History With Iran – Again
Volokh Conspiracy: May An Individual Claim Minority Status Based On DNA Test Showing Small Amount Of African Ancestry?
Weasel Zippers: Pelosi Gets Call About Attack From Pence, Blows It Off, also, Video Montage – MSM Mourns Loss Of Iranian Terror Leader
Mark Steyn: The Ghosts Of Charlie Hebdo, also, Make Beards Great Again

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Category: Linkagery

A ‘Hate Crime’ CNN Won’t Mention

Posted on | January 10, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

“Intersectionality” in action:

Jasmine Renee Campbell is the Oregon woman facing hate crime charges after investigators said she tried to strangle a woman using the victim’s hijab.
The confrontation happened at the TriMet MAX train station in Portland on November 12, 2019. The Multnomah County District Attorney’s office announced the charges on January 3, 2020.
The victim did not suffer serious physical injuries. But District Attorney Rod Underhill explained in a news release that the victim told the police that she “no longer feels safe wearing a hijab in public.” . . .
According to the Portland Police Bureau, which is the department that led the investigation, Jasmine Renee Campbell allegedly approached the victim from behind on November 12, 2019, at a train station. Officials say that Campbell is accused of grabbing the hijab and using it to try to choke the victim.
The victim managed to push Campbell away. But, according to the Multnomah County District Attorney’s office, Campbell continued the assault. The victim said Campbell forcibly ripped the hijab from the victim’s head. Campbell then allegedly rubbed the garment “across multiple exposed sexually intimate parts” of her own body.  . . .
The Multnomah County District Attorney’s office says the two women were strangers to each other. The victim was not identified by name.
But investigators described her as a 24-year-old student at Portland State University. She is a foreign exchange student from Saudi Arabia. . . .
As of this writing on January 5, Jasmine Renee Campbell was not in custody. Court records with the Oregon Judicial Department show that there is an active warrant for her arrest. . . .
The District Attorney’s Office says that the arrest warrant remains active because Campbell failed to show up for a scheduled court hearing. Campbell had been ordered to appear at the Multnomah County Circuit Court at 9 a.m. on January 3, 2020.

So, not only did Campbell attack a Muslim immigrant, but she is now at large, a fugitive from justice, free to attack others. If such an Islamophobic hate crime against an immigrant had been committed by a white male right-wing Trump supporter, CNN would be giving us hourly updates on the manhunt for this dangerous fugitive. As it is, however, this crime is strictly “local news” for some reason . . .

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)



 

Category: Crime, Islam, Oregon, Racism

Iran Shot Down Plane Full of Canadians

Posted on | January 10, 2020 | 1 Comment

After attacking U.S. forces in Iraq Tuesday night, it appears, Iran was on such high alert they shot down a plane full of Canadians by mistake:

The Ukrainian flight that crashed just outside the Iranian capital of Tehran was struck by an anti-aircraft missile system, a Pentagon official, a senior U.S. intelligence official and an Iraqi intelligence official told Newsweek. None of the officials was authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, a Boeing 737–800 en route from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airpot to Kyiv’s Boryspil International Airport, stopped transmitting data Tuesday just minutes after takeoff and not long after Iran launched missiles at military bases housing U.S. and allied forces in neighboring Iraq. The aircraft is believed to have been struck by a Russia-built Tor-M1 surface-to-air missile system, known to NATO as Gauntlet, the three officials told Newsweek.
One Pentagon and one U.S. senior intelligence official told Newsweek that the Pentagon’s assessment is that the incident was accidental. Iran’s anti-aircraft systems were likely active following the country’s missile attack, which came in response to the U.S. killing last week of Revolutionary Guard Quds Force commander Major General Qassem Soleimani, sources said.

Question: Why were so many Canadians on that flight out of Tehran?

Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashed shortly after taking off from the Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday, killing all 176 passengers and crew members on board.
The plane was bound for Kiev and many on board had a connecting flight to Toronto, Canada’s largest city and a transit hub.
Of those passengers, 63 were Canadians citizens. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that, all told, 138 people on that flight were en route to Canada. . . .
Canada is home to a large Iranian diaspora, with some 210,000 citizens of Iranian descent, according to the latest federal census.
The country is also a popular destination for Iranian graduate and postdoxtoral students to study and conduct research abroad, which is why many students were on the flight, returning to university following the winter break.
There is also no direct flight between Canada and Iran, and the Ukraine International Airlines flight from Tehran to Kiev and then to Toronto is popular because it is one of the most affordable options for the journey.

The media, trying to find some way to blame this on Trump, has seized upon the word “crossfire” as the mechanism of blame-shifting.



 

Category: Canada, Iran

Ayatollahs and Democrats

Posted on | January 9, 2020 | Comments Off on Ayatollahs and Democrats

The “We Hate America” Party strikes again:

On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a War Powers Resolution supposedly directing President Donald Trump to stop any hostilities against Iran. This resolution — which Republicans have rightly condemned as “toothless” — does not have any binding authority and merely tells Trump the House disapproves of his strike to kill Quds Force leader Qasem Soleimani.
The House approved the resolution, 224-194, with almost no Republican support, the Associated Press reported.
“The killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, as well as Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Iraqi bases, risks significant escalation in hostilities between the United States and Iran,” the resolution states. . . .
After the strike killed Soleimani, the Pentagon reported that intelligence linked the Quds Force leader to the siege on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and with a forthcoming attack on U.S. troops in the region. . . .
This piece of virtue-signaling seems particularly ill fated after Trump’s statement calling for deescalation on Wednesday.
Democrats are trying to condemn as a violation of Congress’s war powers a strike that killed a man responsible for much terrorism and the deaths of hundreds of U.S. troops in the region and that did not result in a war.

Nancy Pelosi is objectively pro-terrorism.



 

Category: Democrats

The Babylon Bee Is The Future Of Comedy, Not Dave Chappelle

Posted on | January 9, 2020 | Comments Off on The Babylon Bee Is The Future Of Comedy, Not Dave Chappelle

by Smitty

Stipulate that humans have dimensions of body, mind, and soul.

Nobody dissents on the first; most concur on the first two; all non-fools accept the trifecta.

Sandra Fluke explains
That humor, struck down, becomes
Far more powerful

If life can be said to have an “operating system”, then humor is the test cases that pretty much everybody writes. Except feminists.
It’s just that comedians have figured out how to get paid for humor. A career in humor, I’d venture, is ridiculously hard to pull off.

Thus, I’d fall well well short of disagreeing with a new holiday: “Dave Chappelle Crushes It on the First Amendment and Ends With a Big Announcement on ‘Dave Chappelle Day.’ Is This Comedy’s Great Hope?”

But the thing with Chappelle and most secular humor is that his material is 80% body, 20% mind, and that’s it. It’s one thing for our comedy test cases to probe reality and crash it all over the place.

But the third dimension, the soul, is where the Bee shines. A little hint of spiritual joy, and not just carnal pleasure and mental cleverness, gets at the real power of humor to renew the soul. To say “sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof” and shake that noise right off.

Chappelle and Gervais can match the secular world crude-for-crude, but they are ultimately of that world. As we continue to make America Great Again, the sustained laughter and true, enduring improvement shall have come from the Bee not just putting pin to gasbags in high places, but also having shown taste in the poking.

The trick is to mock the behavior, while leaving the subject intact. Hopefully, the butt of the joke decides to slim down, and not be such a honking big target of derision in the future.

Category: Uncategorized

The Biden Legacy

Posted on | January 9, 2020 | Comments Off on The Biden Legacy

 

When he wasn’t working tirelessly for the Ukrainian natural gas industry, Joe Biden’s son kept busy with cocaine and strippers:

Hunter Biden, the son of presidential candidate Joe Biden, is the “biological and legal father” of a child he fathered with an ex-stripper, an Arkansas judge ruled Tuesday, contradicting the younger Biden’s previous denials that he had any role in the pregnancy.
In an order establishing paternity, Independence County, Ark., Circuit Judge Holly Meyer noted that the results of DNA tests indicated Biden was the father “with near scientific certainty,” and instructed the Arkansas Department of Health to issue a birth certificate listing Biden as the father of 29-year-old Lunden Alexis Roberts‘ child.
Roberts, who The New York Post reported was a stripper at a Washington, D.C., club that Biden patronized, received “primary physical and legal custody” of the child. In previous filings, Roberts told the court that Hunter Biden “had no involvement in the child’s life since the child’s birth, never interacted with the child, never parented the child,” and “could not identify the child out of a photo lineup.”

Never name your daughter “Alexis.” Or “Crystal.” There are certain names that almost 100% guarantee a girl will end up as a stripper. But let’s get a little more background on Hunter’s baby mama:

The woman suing Hunter Biden for paternity was a stripper at a Washington, DC, club he frequented around the time he was dating his brother’s widow, sources told The Post.
Biden was repeatedly seen at the Mpire Club in the capital’s historic Dupont Circle neighborhood — where Lunden Alexis Roberts, the mother of his alleged love child, worked under the stage name “Dallas,” the sources said. . . .
Roberts worked there around the time she got pregnant — and when Hunter broke up with former sister-in-law Hallie Biden, the widow of his brother, the late Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, sources said. . . .

(You may have forgotten that Hunter banged his dead brother’s widow, but I think it’s important to remind you. The Iowa caucus is Feb. 3.)

The Mpire Club is about three blocks north of another DC strip joint, Archibald’s Gentlemen’s Club, where The Post previously revealed that workers suspected Hunter, who has a history of alcoholism and addiction, of smoking crack in a VIP room in late 2018.

(Smoking crack in a strip club — classy.)

In a New Yorker profile published on July 1, Hunter claimed he hadn’t been to a strip club in years before Page Six exclusively revealed his relationship with Hallie and details of a divorce filing against him by then-wife Kathleen Biden.
After the expose was published on March 1, 2017, Hunter said, “I went directly to a strip club. I said, ‘F–k them,’” according to the New Yorker.
That incident at Archibald’s — which came after Hunter’s most-recent admitted drug use, a crack binge during the fall of 2016 — occurred while he sat on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas-company Burisma. . . .
Robert’s former co-workers had only good things to say about the single mom, who’s a native of rural Batesville, Arkansas.
“She was really sweet,” the bartender said. . . .
Roberts graduated from Arkansas State University in 2014 and enrolled at George Washington University in DC to pursue a certificate program in Forensic Investigation.
She attended classes during the summer and fall semesters of 2015 but did not graduate, a university spokesman said.
Her mom, Kimberly Joan Roberts, was apparently unaware that her daughter had dropped out. On March 5, 2017, the mom told a friend on Facebook that her daughter “is in DC getting her masters in FBI CSI working for the FBI and CSI also.”

Getting her master’s and working for the FBI? No, ma’am, she’s shaking her money-maker naked on stage and getting knocked up by a crackhead. But there are worse crackheads in D.C. she could have gotten knocked up by, so the folks back in Batesville (population 10,268) might agree that she has done better than we’d expect of a girl named “Alexis.”



 

Category: Joe Biden, Scandal
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