Tip: Pentagon Covering Up Fact That Female Officers Nearly Sank Navy Ship

Posted on | June 17, 2018 | 13 Comments

The USS Fitzgerald after a deadly collision with a freighter in June 2017.

An anonymous email came in over the transom this morning:

Hi, Stacy.
During the early weeks after the USS Fitzgerald was speared by a lumbering Philippine container ship, it was noteworthy that the captain and a couple of admirals were publically named, but not the actual officer in charge, the officer of the deck. (OOD) The other person who should have kept the Fitz out of trouble is the person in charge of the combat information center, the Tactical Action Officer. That individual is supposed to be monitoring the combat radar, which can detect a swimmer at a distance of two miles.
Not until a year later, when the final reports are made public and the guilty parties have been court-martialed, does the truth come out. The OOD was named Sarah, and the Tactical Action Officer was named Natalie, and they weren’t speaking to each other!!! The Tactical Action Officer would normally be in near constant communication with the OOD, but there is no record of any communication between them that entire shift!
Another fun fact: In the Navy that won WWII, the damage control officers were usually some of the biggest and strongest men aboard, able to close hatches, shore up damaged areas with timbers, etc. The Fitz’s damage control officer was also a woman, and she never left the bridge. She handled the aftermath of the accident remotely, without lifting a finger herself!
Look it up: The OOD was Sarah Coppock, Tactical Action Officer was Natalie Combs. . . .
When I noticed last year that they were doing all they could to keep the OOD’s name out of the headlines, I speculated to my son that it was a she. Turns out all the key people (except one officer in the CIC) were female!

Indeed, I did some searching, and Lt. Coppock pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty. Lt. Combs faced a hearing last month:

In an 11-hour hearing, prosecutors painted a picture of Lt. Irian Woodley, the ship’s surface warfare coordinator, and Lt. Natalie Combs, the tactical action officer, as failing at their jobs, not using the tools at their disposal properly and not communicating adequately. They became complacent with faulty equipment and did not seek to get it fixed, and they failed to communicate with the bridge, the prosecution argued. Had they done those things, the government contended, they would have been able to avert the collision.

That two of the officers — Coppock and Combs — involved in this fatal incident were female suggests that discipline and training standards have been lowered for the sake of “gender integration,” which was a major policy push at the Pentagon during the Obama administration. It could be that senior officers, knowing their promotions may hinge on enthusiastic support for “gender integration,” are reluctant to enforce standards for the women under their command.

This was the story of Kara Hultgreen, the Navy pilot who died in a 1994 F-14 crash. Investigation showed that Hultgreen had been allowed to proceed in her training after errors that would have meant a washout for any male pilot. But the Clinton administration was pushing for female fighter pilots, which resulted in a competition between the Navy and Air Force to put women into these combat roles. It is not necessary to believe that (a) women shouldn’t be fighter pilots, in order to believe (b) lowering standards for the sake of quotas is a bad idea. Of course, you may believe both (a) and (b), but it is (b) that gets people killed.

It seems obvious that the Pentagon (and the liberal media) sought to suppress full knowledge of what happened to the Fitzgerald in the immediate aftermath of the June 2017 incident that killed seven sailors, in the same way the details of Kara Hultgreen’s death were suppressed. It took investigative reporters like Rowan Scarborough of the Washington Times a lot of hard work to find out what actually happened to Hultgreen. Let’s hope other reporters will dig into what’s happening in our military with the “gender intergration” agenda at the Pentagon now.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

Category: Media Bias, Military, Sex Trouble

FMJRA 2.0: Rubycon

Posted on | June 16, 2018 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Late Night With Rule 5 Monday: Eunice Gayson, RIP
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Another Reason to Avoid Massachusetts
Ordinary Citizen
The Political Hat
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Lost In America
The Pirate’s Cove
357 Magnum
EBL

Progressive Perversion: Poet’s Daughters Describe ‘Brothel Without Payment’
Ordinary Citizen
EBL

Late Night With In The Mailbox: 06.11.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Trump Wins, and the Left Complains
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

‘Operation Broken Heart’: Feds Bust More Than 2,300 Online Sexual Predators
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.12.18
Proof Positive
EBL

Report: Brett Kimberlin and DNC Staffer Helped Push ‘Russiagate’ to Feds
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 06.13.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Tyler O’Neil Strives To Paint Corey Stewart As A White *YAWN* Supremacist
EBL

Yes, CNN Hates America
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.14.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.15.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Fire Bogus Idiots
Fomenting Blatant, Irredeemable,
Flagrant Betrayals–Immediately!
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved: White Self-Hatred as ‘Social Justice’

Posted on | June 16, 2018 | 1 Comment

The University of Pennsylvania is a member of the prestigious Ivy League and, of course, employs only degenerates like Professor Ali Michael:

A white Ivy League professor has taken to the pages of the Huffington Post to condemn her own race, declaring that she chose never to reproduce because her children would simply inherit white privilege. . . .
“There was a time in my 20s when everything I learned about the history of racism made me hate myself, my Whiteness, my ancestors… and my descendants. I remember deciding that I couldn’t have biological children because I didn’t want to propagate my privilege biologically.”

That was in June 2015, and if you want to know why Donald Trump is president, this is as good an example as any. Our “progressive” elite — in academia, in media, in politics — have become hopelessly decadent, corrupted by the “social justice” ideology of the Democrat Party. Given a chance to fight back against these depraved intellectual perverts, the American people rejected Hillary and elected Trump — an electoral middle finger brandished in the faces of people like Professor Michael.

Did I mention she’s a professor of education? That’s right — taxpayers in Pennsylvania employ Professor Michael to teach the teachers who will teach their children this deranged belief system. The day after the 2016 election, Professor Michael published another column:

What Do We Tell The Children?
“What should I say to my students after the election if Trump wins?” a principal asked me recently. Good question. What should we tell our children?
Tell them, first, that we will protect them. Tell them that we have democratic processes in the U.S. that make it impossible for one mean person to do too much damage. Tell them that we will protect those democratic processes ? and we will use them ? so that Trump is unable to act on many of the false promises he made during his campaign.
Tell them, second, that you will honor the outcome of the election, but that you will fight bigotry. Tell them bigotry is not a democratic value, and that it will not be tolerated at your school. Tell them you stand by your Muslim families. Your same-sex parent families. Your gay students. Your Black families. Your female students. Your Mexican families. Your disabled students. Your immigrant families. Your trans students. Your Native students. Tell them you won’t let anyone hurt them or deport them or threaten them without having to contend with you first. Say that you will stand united as a school community, and that you will protect one another.

In other words, according to Professor Michael, the public education system must indoctrinate children with political propaganda, teaching young people to hate Republicans, including their own parents.

The Other Podcast returns this evening at 7 pm ET. Join Stacy McCain and me as we discuss life, the Universe, and SJWs.https://t.co/kER37is5ic @PatriarchTree

— (((WJJ Hoge))) (@wjjhoge) June 16, 2018

Tonight at 7 p.m. ET, I’m sure this will be among the topics that John Hoge and I will discuss on The Other Podcast. And while we’re at it, we might even discuss how beautiful California girls used to be. Beau Albrecht called attention to this in a post Friday at Return of Kings, showing the lovely girls at a 1977 concert in Oakland.

Y’all might want to hit the tip jar.

Category: The Ivy League Is Depraved and Decadent, The Other Podcast

The Freedom to Hate

Posted on | June 16, 2018 | 1 Comment

Phil Donahue debated Jared Taylor on MSNBC in 2003.

Jared Taylor won a court victory Thursday in California, when Judge Harold Kahn rejected Twitter’s motion to dismiss Taylor’s lawsuit claiming the social media giant acted illegally in banning the American Renaissance publisher, along with other “white nationalist” accounts:

Taylor claims Twitter permanently suspended accounts belonging to him and hundreds of other far-right users in December based solely on their political views and affiliations.
The judge described Taylor’s case as a “classic public interest lawsuit” and said it “goes to the heart of free speech principles that long precede our constitution,” according to a transcript of the hearing.
“Now, it may be speech that you and I don’t wish to enjoy, but that’s not germane to the determination of whether it’s public interest. Public interest doesn’t have a flavor of ideology to it; public interest is whether it benefits the public,” Kahn said. . . .
Taylor is a Yale-educated, self-described “race realist” who founded an Oakton, Virginia-based, tax-exempt nonprofit called the New Century Foundation. He operates American Renaissance, an online magazine that touts a philosophy that it’s “entirely normal” for whites to want to be a majority race.
Taylor’s lawyers argue access to Twitter is “essential for meaningful participation in modern-day American democracy.”
“At all times, Mr. Taylor has expressed his views with respect and civility,” they wrote in a court filing. “At no time did Mr. Taylor or American Renaissance engage in insults, threats, or harassment, nor did they ever encourage anyone else to engage in such activity.”

Permit me to vouch for Jared Taylor’s “respect and civility,” as I have known him for 20 years. He is remarkably well-mannered, which made an impression on me the first time I met him. He is fluent in multiple languages, having grown up in Japan, where his parents were Christian missionaries, and he engaged in postgraduate studies at the Sorbonne. He speaks with a noticeable formality, which at first struck me as stilted or artificial, but which I eventually realized was simply a matter of lifelong habit. As to Taylor’s “race realist” identification, he is not a David Duke-type personality. Taylor is not a conspiracy theorist or a hate-monger, but is instead devoted to calling attention to facts about race relations in America (and elsewhere) that the liberal media ignore.

Before there was Twitter or Facebook, before there was a blogosphere, before there was Breitbart or InfoWars or any other online venue for reporting facts about immigration and crime that the liberal media wanted to suppress, there was American Renaissance (AR), a small monthly magazine that was usually just 16 to 24 pages, but wow! AR was covering the problems related to immigration in Europe 15 years ago, before most Americans imagined how bad the situation had become. Indeed, it may be said, liberals might not have been so dumbfounded by the rise of Donald Trump and the so-called “alt-right” is they had paid attention to what Jared Taylor was publishing 15 or 20 years ago.

As I’ve told Taylor more than once, I disagree with some of his opinions and ideas about policy, but his mastery of facts is beyond dispute. Liberals are so eager to suppress Taylor by smearing him as a proponent of “hate” because they cannot stand the truth. One of his legendary exploits was in 2003, when Taylor was invited onto Phil Donahue’s MSNBC program and absolutely ran circles around Donahue. It was the biggest blowout since Georgia Tech crushed Cumberland 222-0. Taylor had spent more than a decade accumulating facts, and was thoroughly prepared to rebut Donahue’s arguments. This clearly flustered the liberal host, which caused Donahue to invite Taylor back for a rematch, and again Donahue suffered an embarrassing defeat.

What are the consequences of ignoring unpleasant facts, and basing public policy on wishful thinking? If some facts are deemed “racist,” and therefore excluded from discussions about issues like immigration, welfare, crime, education, etc., what will be the result? What problems will be caused by policies based on childish make-believe?

You can disagree with Jared Taylor’s opinions about race and public policy, but it is foolish to ignore the facts to which he calls attention.

“Truth is great, and will prevail if left to herself . . . [Truth] is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.”
— Thomas Jefferson

There is no one with whom I agree 100% about everything. There are regular commenters here whom I consider friends and allies — people who’ve hit my tip jar to keep me going — who disagree strongly with me about all kinds of subjects. I have Catholic friends, but I’m against Catholicism, and I have gay friends, but I’m against homosexuality. Believe it or not, I even have friends who are Democrats!

Long before I ever imagined my career as a journalist, my teachers taught me that journalism is about facts — who, what, when, where, why and how. It was in defense of an unpopular cause — British soldiers accused of murdering innocent civilians in Boston — that John Adams famously said: “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” As I argued in the case of Tommy Robinson (“Why Freedom of Speech Matters (And Why ‘Hate Speech’ Is Protected, Too),” May 31), the dangers of suppressing free speech are certainly not limited to issues of race:

What has happened . . . is that our institutions of higher education have been taken over by soi-disant “progressives” who have taught a generation of young Americans to believe that certain facts are “hate speech.” This problem has concerned me ever since I began researching radical feminism four years ago, and discovered how far academia has gone to enshrine Third Wave feminist “gender theory” as an Official Truth which no one on campus is permitted to criticize. . . .
The suppression of disagreement and criticism as “hate speech” on university campuses has had consequences far beyond academia.

The fact that radical feminist Julie Bindel was writing more than a decade ago about the same issues that got Tommy Robinson arrested, and that Bindel is banned from British university campuses because she is a critic of “gender theory,” should make intelligent people pause to think. What results from suppressing unpopular facts as “hate speech” is that the people who make the rules (on university campuses, on Twitter or Facebook, in newspaper offices or TV news studios) thereby create a bubble of unreality, an echo chamber of ideological conformity that excludes dissent and thereby gives rise to a cult mentality.

Once you stop drinking the liberal Kool-Aid, there is a danger that you might become a “far-right” extremist, and I’ve seen a few sad cases of people who got sucked into the gravitational vortex of the lunatic fringe. What I have tried to do is to protect the right flank, so to speak, of the larger conservative movement. There is an unfortunate “urge to purge” tendency on the Right, where respectable conservative intellectuals begin to care more about their respectability than they do about actually conserving anything. William F. Buckley Jr.’s purge of the John Birch Society in the 1960s has become an inspiration for some of Buckley’s would-be heirs (looking at you, Bill Kristol) who seem to believe that a successful political coalition can be built by a process of subtraction.

Welcome to the Trump Age, my friends. Say what you will about our President, he doesn’t care about “respectability.” He’s about winning.

My friend John Hoge has the transcript of the Taylor v. Twitter hearing, and I’m sure we’ll discuss this tonight on The Other Podcast.

Category: Neutral Objective Journalism, Racism

Fire Bogus Idiots
Fomenting Blatant, Irredeemable,
Flagrant Betrayals–Immediately!

Posted on | June 15, 2018 | Comments Off on Fire Bogus Idiots
Fomenting Blatant, Irredeemable,
Flagrant Betrayals–Immediately!

by Smitty

Have we had enough rectal sunsine yet? Mollie Hemingway offers a relatively calm depiction of the kidney-load down the back that the Deep State would have us believe is merely a summer drizzle.

Oh, did I say “Deep State”? We’ve still got those who are incapable of seeing the forest for the trees:

There is no coup. There is no sinister deep state. There is no dark conspiratorial force. It’s incompetence, idiocy, bureaucratic self-aggrandizement, and partisan hackery all the way down.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) June 15, 2018

Erickson summarizes precisely the sort of obedient gaze-averting that the IG desires. Andrew McCarthy helpfully breaks this down for us:

In every criminal trial, the defense lawyer tries to sow reasonable doubt by depicting every allegation, every factual transaction, as if it stood alone. In a drug case, if the defendant was photographed delivering a brown paper bag on Wednesday, the lawyer argues, “Well, we don’t have X-ray vision, how do we really know there was heroin in the bag?” The jurors are urged that when they consider what happened Wednesday, there is only Wednesday; they must put out of their minds that text from Tuesday, when the defendant told his girlfriend, “I always deliver the ‘product’ in paper bags.”

Fortunately, the judge ends up explaining to the jury that, down here on Planet Earth, common sense applies. In our everyday lives, we don’t look at related events in isolation; we view them in conjunction because they read on each other.

We are to adjured to conspire with Michael Horowitz that 568 pages of sentences detailing deep-seated bias against Trump did not amount to a conspiracy against Trump. In much the same way we, back at Faber College, pounded beer all night without ever getting legally drunk.Didn’t we? I mean, if we were drunk, such news would be as shocking as the discovery that Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin got married in July, 2010.

Andrew Klavan summarizes the FBI response well:

Current Director Christopher Wray responded to the IG’s report at a press conference and promised there’d be consequences for bad behavior. But he also said, “nothing in this report impugns the integrity of our workforce as a whole or the FBI as an institution.” Like hell it doesn’t. What the report describes is a morally bankrupt clown show, and the fact that Wray won’t admit that means the show goes on.

I’m ready for a full purge of all of these senior FBI, DOJ, CIA, IRS, TLA, AFU, KMA, ETC pencil necks who think themselves some sort of petty arisocratic clique that calls the shots in this country (i.e. the Deep State whose shoes Erickson apparently prefers to shine).

This is not even about Trump, other than his incidental proximity in exposing this cancerous. This is about “Democracy Dies in Deep State Darkness”. This is Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy pointing Checkov’s Gun at our heads. I certainly hope all of these malevolent Clinton boot-lickers repent, but such a change of heart is irrelevant to the point that they cannot ever be wielding U.S. Government power again, ever, if we care about our liberties.

Category: Uncategorized

In The Mailbox: 06.15.18

Posted on | June 15, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.15.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: In China, It’s Raining Octopus & Shrimp! Has Anyone Told Kurt Eichenwald?
Twitchy: Wil Wheaton Under Fire After Asking for Time To Process Sexual Abuse Allegations Against His Friend Chris Hardwick
Louder With Crowder: CNN Celebrates Father’s Day By Spotlighting Self-Absorbed Trans Douche
According To Hoyt: Being Human
Monster Hunter Nation: Gritty Cop Show Test Game Episode #3 – NY Confidential
Vox Popoli: Delusion Creates Illusion

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: California Judge Finds For Jared Taylor & American Renaissance, also, Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Charged With Wire Fraud
American Thinker: Taste The Despair – Democrats Losing It Over Trump
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Fleecing The Rubes Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For June 15
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Curse? What Curse?
Don Surber: Trump Ends EPA Harassment Of Farmers
Dustbury: Greece Is The Way We Are Feeling
First Street Journal: Historically Speaking…
Fred On Everything: Trump Tells Europoodles “Roll Over. Bark. Beg. Crawl.” With A Korean Preface
The Geller Report: Sharia UK – Non-Muslim Police Officers Take Part In 18-Hour Ramadan Fast, also, Merkel’s Government Facing Collapse Over Her Immigration Stance
Hogewash: Blogsmoke, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
JustOneMinute: Something For Everyone From The IG
Legal Insurrection: Mueller To Provide Manafort With Free Room & Board Until September, also, WH Official Now Says Trump Will Support Moderate Immigration Bill
Power Line: About That Salute, also, Trump Stands Tall Against Bad Amnesty Legislation (Update: He Changed His Mind)
Shark Tank: Unemployment Rate Drops In Florida
Shot In The Dark: Yes, In Your Back Yard
The Jawa Report: Interview With Former Jihadi Jason Walter, also, Mullah Fazlullah Is Dead, Jim
The Political Hat: Outlawing Politically Correct Speech In South Africa
This Ain’t Hell: Howard Clewell Resigns Due To His Stolen Valor, also, Germans Foil Ricin Attack
Victory Girls: Rene Boucher Gets 30 Days For Crippling Rand Paul
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit – A Roundup Of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Weasel Zippers: New Study – No Evidence Of Systemic Racism In Police Use Of Deadly Force, also, Internet Responds To Hillary’s Three Word Fit At Comey
Mark Steyn: Strictly By The Book

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Category: Linkagery

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | June 15, 2018 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty

They walked down the path toward her favorite spot.

Roger could not understand why, the closer they got, the slower dad walked, the more heavy his sighs became, the more freely his tears flowed. Somehow he felt guilty.
“I’m so sorry, daddy.”
Daddy was sobbing by the time they got to the tree where she awaited them, marked by the simple cross that bore her name: Janet Green 1987-2011.
“Oh Roger, you must never blame yourself. You’re the least *sob* guilty person of all.”
Daddy was on his knees. Instinctively Roger hugged him fiercly.
“I’m just glad you survived the crash.”