The Other McCain

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

‘Naked Democratic Congresswoman’

Posted on | October 21, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘Naked Democratic Congresswoman’

Well, there’s three words you don’t often see in a headline:

An explicit photograph sheds light on California Democratic Rep. Katie Hill’s three-way relationship with her husband and a staffer, which lasted over a year before she broke off the arrangement early this year.
Unknown to the staffer or Hill’s husband, the congresswoman had allegedly been having an affair with another staffer, her legislative director Graham Kelly, for about a year when she broke off the throuple, according to texts and photos received by RedState.
The staffer involved in the three-way relationship is a young woman who joined Hill’s campaign for Congress in 2017 right after graduating college. The romance began shortly after the staffer, then 22 years old, joined the campaign. Hill’s side-affair with Kelly began sometime in 2018 when Kelly was her finance director. Hill’s husband filed for divorce after discovering the California representative’s relationship with Kelly.
Pictures and texts provided to RedState confirm Hill’s relationship with her female staffer, which was previously unknown before the outlet broke the news on Friday.
During the throuple’s relationship, the staffer began joining the married couple on vacations, including one to Alaska. Several photos of Hill and the staffer taken during that vacation have leaked, with the staffer’s face blurred.

But who are we to judge? Let he who has never been in a three-way with a House Democrat staffer throw the first stone!

 


 

Emily (a/k/a ‘Ross’) McFarland ‘Harbored Animosity’ Toward Victim, Police Say

Posted on | October 21, 2019 | Comments Off on Emily (a/k/a ‘Ross’) McFarland ‘Harbored Animosity’ Toward Victim, Police Say

 

Sunday, we reported on the murder of Martha White, 66, in Auburn, Alabama. A news account stated that the suspect in that case, named as Ross Jonathan McFarland, 16, was “publicly known to identify as male” and yet was “being held at the Lee County Detention Facility as a female.” The latest news clarifies the circumstances of the case:

An affidavit filed in Lee County court details the murder of an Auburn woman shot last Thursday and claims she was killed by her previous soon-to-be teenage step-son.
Ross Jonathan McFarland, formerly known as Emily Ruth McFarland, 16, is charged with the murder of Martha “Marti” Jones White, 66.
White was engaged to McFarland’s father, according to the affidavit obtained by the Opelika-Auburn News on Monday afternoon.
Auburn police responded to a subdivision in the 700 block of Burke Place at about 7 p.m. Thursday after receiving a call reporting an unresponsive female.
When officers arrived they located White, who was lying on the floor suffering from an apparent gunshot wound to the face. She was pronounced deceased at the scene.
McFarland was developed as a suspect during the investigation.
Police discovered that there was a missing Smith & Wesson .40-caliber handgun missing from the residence while interviewing an unidentified individual, the affidavit said.
Police later located a witness who was a close friend with McFarland. The witness stated that she and McFarland were in the residence earlier and she saw McFarland shoot White as she turned her head to look away from him, said the affidavit.
McFarland then picked up the shell casing and the two left the residence, the witness stated to police.
“The witness also stated that McFarland harbored animosity towards White for being engaged to his father in such a short time after his mother’s death,” the affidavit reads.

The suspect is the daughter of Dr. John H. McFarland, 68, and his late wife Donna, who died last November at age 45. So, the doctor’s wife dies and his daughter now identifies as his “son,” who shot his fiancée to death. It’s a latter-day Peyton Place down in East Alabama, ain’t it?


 

‘You’re White, You Know’

Posted on | October 21, 2019 | 1 Comment

One of my former co-defendant John Hoge‘s favorite stories about our lengthy legal entanglement with Brett Kimberlin is a moment in the 2014 Maryland trial when I was on the witness stand being questioned by Kimberlin, who was acting as his own attorney, pro se. Kimberlin kept trying to bring up my alleged “racism,” a legend largely manufactured by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and our attorney Patrick Ostronic would respond: “Objection, your honor — irrelevant.”

The judge in the case was black, as was the foreman and several members of the jury, and the fact that Ali Akbar was among the co-defendants with whom Kimberlin alleged I had conspired against him was rather an obvious rebuttal of any accusation of racism on my part.

We could tell that the judge was irritated by Kimberlin’s repeated attempts to bring up this “racism” angle, as it was obvious he merely meant to smear my reputation, to prejudice the jury against me.

Having prayed hard prior to my appearance on the witness stand, I think I acquitted myself rather well. At one point, in fact, Kimberlin tried to cut off my testimony by making an objection and the judge responded to the effect, Hey, you asked the question and he’s answering. Overruled.

Being the defendant in a lawsuit is not fun, and it is an experience I’d encourage others to avoid. Even when you are dealing with a nuisance suit you know you’re bound to win, the legal hassle is a drain on your time and energy. Nevertheless, I have to admit my time on the witness stand was rather enjoyable, and after Kimberlin finished his questioning, I leaned into the microphone and said, “You’re white, you know.”

This is one of my pet peeves about modern “social justice” rhetoric. Five or six decades ago, when you had Klansmen burning crosses or lynching black people, everybody knew what actual racism was, and even among people who might disagree about civil rights as a matter of policy, there was widespread consensus in condemnation of terroristic violence and overt expressions of racial prejudice. What has happened more recently is that liberals have attempted to hijack “civil rights” as an all-purpose political weapon to wield against anyone who might oppose them — or even against their own allies, as witness the attempt of Democratic presidential candidates to throw Joe Biden under the bus for his long-ago statements in opposition to court-imposed school busing.

What we so often see nowadays is one white person pointing the accusing finger at another white person: “RAAAAACIST!”

Do white liberals think black people haven’t caught onto this game by now? Do you really think the SPLC’s crooked hustle is not obvious?

Last week, I noticed that there has been a mysterious surge of traffic to my “About” page. My online biography, which had averaged 10 clicks a day for the past two years, was suddenly getting hundreds of visitors daily, amounting to about 4,000 visits in two weeks. What has happened, I wondered, that could have created such interest in me?

The answer, it turns out, is Ginger Gorman.

Longtime readers may recognize Gorman’s name. She is the Australian journalist who in 2010 did a feature about a gay couple who had adopted a little boy with the headline: “Two Dads Are Better Than One.”

 

Three years later, there was another headline:

Two Gay Men Used Russian Surrogate
Mother to Create Boy for Sex Abuse Ring

That headline appeared on my July 1, 2013, post about the sentencing of the two men, Mark Newton and Peter Truong, who had been convicted of heinous crimes as part of an international child-pornography scheme known as the “Boy Lovers Network.” It seemed to me obvious at that time — and many people agreed — that Ginger Gorman had been guilty of journalistic incompetence in failing to adequately investigate the two men she depicted in 2010 as “a loving family and a loving household.”

Well, it turns out, Ginger Gorman turned that incident into a book deal, and she has lately been promoting her book, Troll Hunting. Believe it or not, Gorman now claims she was the real victim in all this:

Within 72 hours of Mark Newton being sentenced, I started to get scores of hateful tweets, mostly from people in the United States calling themselves conservatives. They were responding to the article I’d written two years earlier, which was still online.
My trolls insisted I should have known what was going on behind closed doors. They wanted me shamed. . . .
My husband Don and I quickly realised that location services were turned on for my Twitter feed and you could just about pinpoint our house on Google Maps. That night we both lay awake in bed wondering if our children were in danger.
Six days after Newton was sentenced in 2013 came the second frightening moment. Don found a photo of our family on the fascist social network Iron March. The now-defunct website carried the slogan “Gas the kikes” on its homepage.

According to Gorman, the real issue here is not her own incompetence as a reporter; rather, it’s that people on the Internet said mean things about her. And guess what? She blames . . . me.

In her book she devotes hundreds of words to portraying me as a “white supremacist” who “helped to create a tsunami of hate” against her. And I suppose that in media appearances promoting her book, she invokes my name, thus inspiring people to look me up. And just as her depiction of Mark Newton and Peter Truong as a “loving family” was a blunder inspired by her own bias, so likewise her defamatory portrayal of me is a function of her refusal to take responsibility for her own errors.

It reminds me very much of Brett Kimberlin, a convicted bomber-turned-“progressive-activist, suing me because I told the truth about him. It is not enough for such people to defend themselves with lies. They feel a need to destroy the reputations of those who speak the truth.


 

Rule 5 Sunday: Roll Tide!

Posted on | October 20, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Quick and dirty since I have to pack up and drive to Carson City tonight so the State Bureau of Disability Adjudication can’t lose my paperwork again. Give it up for the 2019 Alabama Dance Team.

Roll Tide.

90 Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #776, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Fusion Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: June Allyson, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Emma Corrin, Jessica Ellerby, Sarah Stiles, From Tulsi With Love, Blondie, Mathilde Olivier, and Bikini Kill.

A View From The Beach: Sylvie MeisThe Young of the Year Numbers for Striped Bass Are InFish Pic Friday – Sara SaltBalloons Banned in Boston?Tattoo Thursday,  Another Wet Shirt Wednesday“Me and Bobby McGee”They Can Kiss My A$$, and Hanoi Jane Arrested in D.C. Climate Protest

Proof Positive: Ingrid Bergman

Nitzakhon: Women At The Table

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!


Amazon Warehouse Deals
Visit Amazon’s Intimate Apparel Shop
Shop Sex & Sensuality Gifts




Transgender Teen Charged With Murdering Father’s Fiancée in Alabama

Posted on | October 20, 2019 | Comments Off on Transgender Teen Charged With Murdering Father’s Fiancée in Alabama

 

Pay close attention or you could miss the transgender angle:

A Lee County Judge has ordered an Auburn teen charged with Murder be held without bond due to public safety concerns on behalf of the Lee Co. District Attorney’s Office.
16-year-old Ross McFarland is charged in Thursday’s shooting death of 66-year-old Martha White. White was the fiancé of McFarland’s father, a prominent east Alabama physician.
“I requested an extraordinary bond in this case as a result of evidence obtained during the investigation. I presented this information to the court in support of my public safety concerns and the judge ordered the defendant to be held without bond,” shared Lee Co. District Attorney Brandon Hughes.
Prosecutors declined to comment specifically on why McFarland’s release would cause them to be concerned for the safety of the public.
Ross McFarland, who is publicly known to identify as male, is being held at the Lee County Detention Facility as a female according to detention facility records.
Coroner Bill Harris says White appears to have been killed by a single gunshot based on a preliminary exam.
Auburn police arrested the 16-year-old early Friday morning on Murder charges after the Thursday night homicide along Burke Place.
“On Oct. 18, 2019, at approximately 6:30 a.m., Auburn Police along with the assistance of members of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force and Tallapoosa County Drug Task Force arrested Ross Jonathan McFarland, 16, of Auburn, on a warrant for Murder,” said Auburn Police Captain Lorenzo Dorsey.
Investigators say analysis of the scene resulted in McFarland, who resides at the residence on Burke Place, being developed as a suspect in the death.
“McFarland, a truck missing from the residence and what is believed to be the weapon used in the homicide, was located in the 10,000 block of Highway 50 near Dadeville and taken into custody,” said Dorsey.
McFarland has been charged with Murder, transported to the Lee County jail and was held under a $150,000 bond until a no bond was issued in a Friday afternoon hearing. This means McFarland will be held until a possible trial unless a new bond is set in the case.

My brother Kirby called my attention to this case, but when I did a Google search, none of the other news stories I found made any mention of “Ross” being, in fact, a girl who “identifies” as a boy. This account from WRBL-TV turns out to be the only article that mentions it. My guess is that “Ross” has undergone a legal name change and had been on testosterone prior to the murder. But unless journalists start asking questions — and reporting the answers — we’re not going to know all the facts. Also, if a transgender teenager had been the victim of homicide, you’d see it all over the national media, but because this case involves a suspected transgender perpetrator, it’s just “local news.”

UPDATE: OK, it appears the case may be opposite of what I’d presumed. Ross McFarland may actually be a male who “identifies” as female. Ross’s father is Dr. John H. McFarland, age 68. Ross’s mother, Donna, who was the doctor’s second wife, died last year at age 45. The couple married in 1996 and Ross was the youngest of their three children. Dr. McFarland apparently had two children by his previous marriage. So the question is why Ross is identified as female on jail records. We must wait for further reporting to clarify this issue.


 

Roll Tide!

Posted on | October 20, 2019 | Comments Off on Roll Tide!

 

After the conclusion of The Other Podcast Saturday night, my colleague John Hoge and I went to dinner with my brother Kirby who, thanks to generous support from the tip-jar hitters is now recuperating here. After dinner, Hoge dropped Kirby and I off at my son Jim’s house, where we watched the Alabama Crimson Tide defeat Tennessee, 35-13. The game was actually closer than the final score would imply. In the fourth quarter, Tennessee drove down to the Alabama 1-yard-line where their quarterback ran a keeper and fumbled while trying to extend the ball over the goal line. The loose ball was scooped up by Tide cornerback Trevon Diggs. As Diggs streaked down the sideline in the opposite direction, Kirby said, “Ain’t gonna catch him. He’s the fastest man on the field.”

It was this 100-yard fumble return that put the victory away, but despite their undefeated season so far, Alabama is a team with problems. There are true freshmen starting in the Tide defense which, as Coach Nick Saban said in a post-game interview, is “a work in progress.” Meanwhile, Alabama’s quarterback Tua Tagovailoa left the game with an ankle injury that will keep him out of the lineup at least until the Nov. 9 meeting with undefeated LSU, currently ranked No. 3 nationally.

Perhaps the best news to come out of Saturday’s game, however, was something Kirby called to my attention in the second half.

“A black punter — you don’t see that much,” he said.

This is one of those facts that you’re never supposed to mention. All behavioral patterns involving race are taboo in our society, so that anyone who merely points out an observable pattern automatically becomes suspected of racism. And I must confess that this was a question that never occurred to me: Why are the punters and kickers in football always white? In a sport where black players excel at every other other position, you simply take it for granted that the kickers are always white. Yet here was a black punter coming into the game for Alabama, a fact that turns out to be newsworthy for other reasons:

Ty Perine is a punting sensation.
The walk-on freshman from Prattville High School entered the second half of Alabama’s game against Tennessee and instantly became a fan favorite.
Alabama fans have been dealing with kicking woes for years and the Crimson Tide have ranked near the bottom of college football in punting average this season.
So it’s no surprise that the crowd at Bryant-Denny Stadium cheered wildly for Perine who started his career with two successful punts for a 46.5 yard average. . . .
“He’s a guy that’s a walk-on that’s gotten better throughout the course of the year and we thought it was time for him to get an opportunity based on some of the struggles we’ve had at that position,” head coach Nick Saban said after the game. “And I thought he responded really well.” . . .
Perine entered in place of freshman Will Reichard, who played his first game in a month after suffering a hip flexor but left the game late in the second quarter with another apparent injury. Reichard had a 33-yard punt in his only attempt Saturday before leaving after apparently re-injuring the hip flexor injury that cost him two the past two games. . . .
At Prattville, Perine had quite the successful career, helping the Lions reach the playoffs his senior year and an extremely high average hang time on his punts. He was also on the soccer team.
In Week 10 of last year’s high school football season, he had a 57-yard punt downed on 1-yard line against Smiths Station with 4 minutes remaining in a 23-18 win that coach Caleb Ross called the play of the game. . . .
He was the Montgomery Advertiser’s All-Metro punter in 2017 when he averaged 42 yards per punt and had nine punts landed inside the 20. He was the news organization’s All-Metro placekicker in 2018 when he was 8-of-13 on field goals with a long of 35, including a last-minute, game-winning 28-yarder at Stanhope Elmore. He also averaged 38.2 yards on 40 punts with seven downed inside the 20 last year.

The question here is why this kid had to walk on at Alabama. Shouldn’t this high-school standout have been recruited for a scholarship? And you have to wonder if some subtle racism explains this. Because nearly all kickers and punters are white, perhaps this has become an expectation that would cause college coaches to overlook a talented black kicker, in the same way white running backs and receivers are often overlooked.

Also, notice that Perine played soccer in high school. Soccer is one area of U.S. athletics where African-Americans are severely underrepresented, in the same way (and perhaps for the same reasons) that blacks were underrepresented in golf (before Tiger Woods) and gymnastics (before Dominique Dawes) — these are sports where economic privilege matters, where private lessons and other expenses limit opportunities for poor kids. Whereas in the rest of the world, soccer is a sport of the masses, in the United States it’s a game of the suburban middle class, and parents have to pay for their kids to participate in youth leagues. Also uniquely to the United States, football attracts top athletes who might, in other countries, be playing soccer. In the South, at least, high-school soccer is played in the spring, and most high-school football coaches don’t want their players participating in soccer, mostly because of the risk of leg injuries. If you’re a high-school football star, you coach would rather you play baseball or run track in the spring. Anyway . . .

Alabama may have finally solved their punting problem, and now if the defense can get its act together, we’ll have a shot at the title.


 

FMJRA 2.0: Dance, Dance, Dance To The Radio

Posted on | October 19, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

Biden Accuses Americans of Ignorance, Warns of Anti-Gay ‘Terrorist Groups’
Dark Brightness
EBL

Illegal Alien Who Admitted Transgender Shooting Turned Loose by Dallas Judge
First Street Journal
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Before The Stampede Arrives
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

Leading #NeverTrump ‘Expert’ Has Just Now Noticed the Democrats Are Crazy
EBL

Her Royal Majesty the Queen Declares Brexit Parliament’s Top Priority
EBL

‘There Are These People in This Country’
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.14.19
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

The Annual Admiral Of The Ocean Sea Appreciation Post
EBL

The Worst Week in Media History: O’Keefe Exposes Bias of CNN’s Zucker
EBL
Proof Positive

Infamous Pedophile Murdered in Prison
Bacon Time
Locomotive Breath
EBL

Things Go Badly After Ivy League Author Lectures About ‘White Privilege’
Pushing Rubber Downhill
357 Magnum
EBL

What Causes Misogyny?
Pushing Rubber Downhill
Dark Brightness
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.15.19
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Beto Beaten by Buttigieg in Debate
EBL

Proving @RationalMale Right Again
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

More Pedophiles Going to Prison in ‘Sickening’ Child Pornography Case
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.16.19
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Democrat Impeachment Leader Dies
A View From The Beach
EBL

The Loser Derby
EBL

Crazy Meth-Head Mexican Whore Found Dead in Desert Near Las Vegas
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.17.19
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

‘Team Woman’ and Their Victims
EBL

Why Are the Feds Monitoring Me?
Dark Brightness
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.18.19
EBL
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending October 18:

  1.  EBL (21)
  2.  A View From The Beach (8)
  3.  Proof Positive (7)

Thanks to everyone for all the linkagery!

Amazon Warehouse Deals

Try Amazon Music Unlimited Free Trial
Kindle Unlimited Membership Plans
Amazon Halloween Store




In The Mailbox: 10.18.19

Posted on | October 18, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: HOAs Are Just Evil
Locomotive Breath: Stanley Cup Champion St. Louis Blues Visit The White House
EBL: Red China Cancels Release Of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Over Bruce Lee Scene
Twitchy: Tulsi Gabbard Responds To Hillary’s “Russian Asset” Accusation, And It’s AMAZING
Louder With Crowder: Hate Crime Case Opened After Male Photographer Refuses To Have Sex With Penis-Having Tranny
According To Hoyt: The Crystal Ball of Hong Kong
Monster Hunter Nation: October Update Post
Vox Popoli: The Democrats Back Down, also, Spying On U.S. Conservatives In Ukraine

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – Muh White Privilege Edition
American Greatness: All Nine GOP Members Of House Intel Committee Blast Schiff For Withholding Docs, also, Trump Campaign Threatens To Sue CNN
American Thinker: Beto Would Risk Another Waco
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Fusion Friday
Babalu Blog: Alicia Alonso – Reflections On A Cuban Diva Who Sold Her Soul To The Devil
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For October 18
Cafe Hayek: Lies, Damned Lies, And…
CDR Salamander: Ford And The Wages Of Transformationalism
Da Tech Guy: The Two Real Stories In This Piece About Biologists & Life
Don Surber: Highlights Of The News
First Street Journal: The Diocese Of Lexington Ignores The Rules, And Something Bad Happens
The Geller Report: CAIR’s Sharia Thugs Demand Maine Sports Official be Fired For Facebook Posts, also, Islamic Schools For Girls More Like “Finishing Schools For Child Brides”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Democrats Can’t Meme
Hollywood In Toto: The Left Threatens Violence, Shuts Down Art (Again)
Legal Insurrection: Data Suggests Less “Climate Crisis” Than Activists Would Have You Believe, also, Iran Economy To Shrink 9.5% As U.S. Sanctions Bite Deeper
The PanAm Post: Hermann Tertsch – “Without A Credible Threat, Maduro Will Never Give Up Power”
Power Line: Is Hillary Drunk-Podcasting? also, Thoughts From The Ammo Line
Shark Tank: GOP Pulls Away From Democrats In 2020 Fundraising
Shot In The Dark: You Have To Be Breathtakingly Depraved To Join Our Elite
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – The Republican Party & Mr. Nixon
This Ain’t Hell: Marines Expand Training, also, The Continuing Story of Turkey
Victory Girls: Chicago Teachers Strike Should Be A Warning
Volokh Conspiracy: Is The CFPB Unconstitutional? We’ll Soon Find Out, also, Go Walgreens!
Weasel Zippers: State Department Finishes Clinton E-Mail Review, Finds Over 600 Security Violations, also, Tulsi Gabbard Wrecks Hillary For Calling Her A Russian Asset
Megan McArdle: Hey, Democrats, Why Not Talk About Healthcare Delivery, Not Just Costs?
Mark Steyn: Brother From Another Mammy, also, The Banana Vote Song – Tallying Time

Amazon Warehouse Deals




« go backkeep looking »