The Other McCain

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

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | December 7, 2018 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty

“Oh no! Bill, its optical sensors are active.”
“OK. We’re already frozen in place, Mike. It’s 200 clicks to base. Comms are down. What do we do?”
“Do? That EMP was supposed to halt all the droids. How much ammo do you have left?”
“None. You?”
“Same.”
“Bollocks.”
“You remember that machete you were making fun of?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, it’s that and the empty pistol. You think you can take this thing with a butt stroke?”
“That’s a very intimate question, don’t you think?”
“Dude! Here it comes”
The thing emitted a very natural grow and came at them.
“It’s real!”
—
via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

MUELLER BOMBSHELL?

Posted on | December 7, 2018 | Comments Off on MUELLER BOMBSHELL?

Here’s the headline stack from the top of the Drudge Report:

 

President Goes Off On Special Counsel Hours Before New Bombshells...
MUELLER: COHEN HELPFUL... MEMO...
SDNY: LOCK HIM UP... 40-PAGE FILING...
'MOTIVATED BY GREED, LIVED DOUBLE LIFE'...
Paid More Than $4,000,000 by Promising Access...
Claims in touch with Russian seeking 'political synergy'...
MANAFORT ACCUSED OF 'DISCERNIBLE LIES'... MEMO...
Contacts with admin while under investigation...
Details Remain Under Seal...
TRUMP TWEETS: Totally clears the President. Thank you!
John Kelly questioned in obstruction probe... 

 

What does it all mean? Give me some time to go through this Friday document dump, and I’ll try to figure it out.

UPDATE: Kemberlee Kaye at Legal Insurrection reports:

Friday afternoon, federal prosecutors issued a sentencing memorandum recommending “a substantial term of imprisonment” for former Trump attorney, Michael Cohen.
“As set forth herein, consideration of the factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) weighs heavily in favor of a substantial term of imprisonment. In particular, the nature and seriousness of the offenses and the need to promote respect for the law and afford adequate deterrence are especially weighty considerations,” says the memo.
Cohen pleaded guilty to charges of tax evasion, fraud, and lying to Congress.

UPDATE II: One America News Network:

U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort lied to federal investigators about a payment and contacts with Trump administration officials, the U.S. special counsel investigating whether Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia said in a court filing on Friday.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office submitted the filing to a U.S. District Court judge in Washington who had asked for more details on Mueller’s allegations last month that Manafort had breached a plea agreement by lying.
“In his interviews with the Special Counsel’s Office and the FBI, Manafort told multiple discernible lies — these were not instances of mere memory lapses,” Mueller’s office said in the filing.
According to the filing, Manafort lied about his interactions with Russian-Ukranian political consultant Konstantin Kilimnik, Kilimnik’s efforts to tamper with witnesses, the circumstances surrounding a $125,000 payment to a firm working for Manafort, and Manafort’s contacts with officials in the Trump administration.
Manafort also provided investigators with shifting accounts about information relevant to another Department of Justice investigation.
The filing also said that Manafort, who maintains he has been truthful to Mueller, appeared before a grand jury twice.

UPDATE III: Fox News:

The White House responded to the filing by distancing itself from Manafort.
“The government’s filing in Mr. Manafort’s case says absolutely nothing about the president,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said. “It says even less about collusion and is devoted almost entirely to lobbying-related issues. Once again the media is trying to create a story where there isn’t one.”
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani told Fox News the memos show prosecutors “have nothing” on the president and “we are very happy about it.”

That’s the bottom line, really. For the past couple of days, the liberal media have been hyping up anticipation that finally, Mueller had found “Russian collusion,” but he hasn’t found it and, after nearly two years of looking, it doesn’t seem likely he ever will. Just now on Fox News, Anthony Scaramucci said it was as “very good day for the president,” because it doesn’t appear that Mueller has gotten anything from either Cohen or Mueller that hurts Trump.



 

Category: MuellerGate

Transgender Totalitarianism: Virginia High School Teacher Fired Over Pronouns

Posted on | December 7, 2018 | Comments Off on Transgender Totalitarianism: Virginia High School Teacher Fired Over Pronouns

The insanity of adults encouraging confused teenagers to “transition” has reached rural King William County, Virginia:

The West Point School Board has fired a high school French teacher following an ongoing transgender controversy issue at the school.
Peter Vlaming, a teacher within the school system for seven years, was fired from his position Thursday night after a five-and-a-half hour public hearing with the school board.
Vlaming’s attorney fought the Superintendent’s recommendation to dismiss the teacher based on claims of insubordination and repeated refusal to comply with directives made by WPPS administrators. . . .
“Tolerance is a two-way street,” said Shawn Voyles, Vlaming’s attorney. “My client respects this student’s rights; he is simply asking that his rights be respected as well… The student is absolutely free to identify as the student pleases. The school board adopted one viewpoint and required Mr. Vlaming, at the cost of his job, to repeat that ideology, repeat that viewpoint. That’s where it’s compelled speech. That’s where it violates his First Amendment right he still retains as a public employee.”
This issue came to a crux during a virtual reality exercise back in October, where Vlaming said he called out “don’t let her walk into the wall” as the transgender student walked in that direction.
Vlaming claimed it was a slip of the tongue.
“I’m totally happy to use the new name,” Vlaming said. “I’m happy to avoid female pronouns not to offend because I’m not here to provoke… but I can’t refer to a female as a male, and a male as a female in good conscience and faith.”
“That was in fact discriminatory because all the other students were being used pronouns, but this student was not being used pronouns,” Superintendent Laura Abel testified.
On Oct. 31, Vlaming was placed on paid administrative leave after West Point High School Principal Jon Hochman said Vlaming did not obey his directive to use the proper identity pronouns for the student (“he”, “him” etc.). . . .
Voyles said his client was sent a letter Nov. 6 by {Superintendent Laura] Abel stating: “My expectation is that you will treat [the student] the same as other male students, including using his preferred name and using male pronouns to refer to him. If you refuse to comply with this directive or if you have any further instances of using female pronouns or of avoiding the use of male pronouns to refer to [the student], it will be considered insubordination and will result in termination of your employment.” . . .
“The policy speaks not one word about pronoun usage,” Voyles said. “There is absolutely nothing in the policy, as the witnesses admitted from the school division, that speaks to that issue. Which makes that policy so problematic that it leaves it up to the individual for interpretation.” . . .
“This is a new issue in this country,” Voyles said. “These administrators had just two words, ‘gender identity’, that were added to their policies and they decided on their own what it means to discriminate against gender identity.”

Here’s an idea: If your child is delusional — in this case, a girl who believes she’s a boy — maybe don’t send them to school. Maybe you should put them in a lunatic asylum. But instead, what is being done in the name of “inclusion” is requiring everyone to participate in the psychotic teenager’s “gender” delusions. You can be fired from your job for refusing to cooperate with this coercive insanity.



 

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