The Other McCain

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

California: The Crazy State

Posted on | March 15, 2018 | 2 Comments

 

Junkies and crackheads get high on the streets of San Francisco, urinating and defecating in public, and the liberal Democrats who control the city seem to believe this situation is perfectly acceptable. Meanwhile, Southern California “finds itself in the midst of a homelessness emergency”:

You cannot walk more than few blocks through [downtown San Diego] without encountering people living in tents or cars, even sleeping curled up in the middle of the sidewalk.

The insanity produced by decades of liberal policies has caused an exodus of the state’s middle-class population. So many people are moving out of (and so few Americans are moving into) the Bay Area that it now costs $2,000 to get a U-Haul trailer in San Francisco. Americans don’t want to live in California, but foreign criminals do:

California has its first illegal alien in state office, after Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) appointed Lizbeth Mateo to the California Student Opportunity and Access Program Project Grant Advisory Committee.
Mateo, an attorney, was born in Mexico and came to the U.S. illegally at the age of 14 with her parents, who are also illegal aliens, according to the Sacramento Bee.

 

Of course, California is home to Hollywood, a corrupt sewer of decadent immorality crawling with predatory perverts, and the state voted for Hillary Clinton (personal friend of Harvey Weinstein) by a nearly 2-to-1 margin in 2016. California’s legislature (which has its own sex scandal) granted “sanctuary” status to illegal aliens, in effect declaring U.S. immigration law null and void within its borders. When this provoked criticism from President Trump, California U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris responded on Twitter: “California represents the future, and it’s no surprise we’re leading the fight against Trump’s radical agenda.”

It’s a “radical agenda” to enforce the law, according to California Democrats, and “California represents the future,” by which we may suppose Sen. Harris means that homeless crackheads will soon be defecating on streets everywhere, from coast to coast.

A suggestion for Republicans: Given that California is a Democrat stronghold, and that the few vulnerable GOP-held House seats in the state are home to middle-class people who don’t want crackheads on their streets, make the midterm campaign a referendum on California.

Do Americans want California’s Nancy Pelosi and her Democrat colleagues to take over Congress? Do they want California’s Maxine Waters to take over the House Financial Services Committee? Do they want to impose California’s liberal insanity on the entire nation?

My guess is that if Republicans make this the central question of the fall congressional campaign, the hyped-up prospect of a Democrat “blue wave” in November will turn out to be barely a ripple.

 

Category: California, Democrats, Nancy Pelosi

Your Tax Dollars at Work: $9 Million Pedestrian Bridge Collapses at University

Posted on | March 15, 2018 | Comments Off on Your Tax Dollars at Work: $9 Million Pedestrian Bridge Collapses at University

“I’m from the federal government, and I’m here to help you!”

A pedestrian bridge under construction collapsed Thursday, just days after crews dropped an elevated 950-ton span in place in a project that was intended to give Florida International University students a safe route across the busy roadway.
The bridge crashed across six lanes of heavily traveled Tamiami Trail, crushing a still undetermined number of car and killing a still unclear number of people. Police on the scene said at least six people could be dead. . . .
The collapse was clearly a major failure of a project not expected to be completed until early 2019. . . .
Touted as an “instant bridge,” the 950-ton pedestrian walkway was installed in a single morning at Southwest 109th Avenue on Saturday, intended eventually to link Florida International University’s Modesto A. Maidique Campus directly to the small suburban city of Sweetwater, where the university estimates 4,000 of its students live.
Before Saturday’s installation, FIU said the method of overall installation would significantly reduce the risk to workers, walkers, drivers and minimized traffic disruptions for construction.
Designed as a cable-supported bridge, the pedestrian walkway is the product of a collaboration between MCM Construction and FIGG Bridge Design, the firm responsible for the iconic Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay.
The $9 million bridge was funded through a 2013 U.S. Department of Transportation grant.

So, the Obama administration took your money to build this “instant bridge” that killed at least six people. Heckuva job there, guys.

 

Category: Florida

Muslim Murdered in Houston, and Guess Why Media Are Ignoring This Crime?

Posted on | March 15, 2018 | Comments Off on Muslim Murdered in Houston, and Guess Why Media Are Ignoring This Crime?

Houston murder victim Rahman Rupani.

Rahman Rupani, 30, was one of seven siblings in a Pakistani family that operated DJ’s Food Mart, a convenience store in Houston, Texas. A father of two children, a 2-year-old and 6 months old, Rupani regularly attended a Houston mosque. On a Friday night in January, however, an argument in the parking lot of DJ’s Food Mart suddenly escalated into violence. A man was shot, and when Rupani came to the aid of the wounded man, he was shot and killed:

“As he was going outside he saw the injured guy, so he took his phone out to call an ambulance so somebody could come and get him to make sure he was fine,” Rupani’s sister Muniza Kabani said. . . .
“He died a hero, protecting people he has no duty to protect,” Rupani’s younger brother Karim Rupani said.

This wasn’t a “hate crime,” but you might think the national media would be interested in the story of a Muslim man who “died a hero.” What a remarkable human-interest story — a Pakistani-American family operating a small business in Texas! Yet CNN and the major networks are ignoring the murder of Rahman Rupani for some reason:

The man wanted for murdering a father who came to the aid of a shooting victim is a “Dreamer” with violent felons for a father and brother.
Judas Deluna, 21, is on the run, and accused of killing a father and husband as he just tried to help. De Luna is charged with felony murder in the shooting death of Rahman Rupani, 30. . . .
Eyewitness News has learned Deluna is in the United States under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. He is undocumented, a so-called Dreamer. . . .
Nearing deportation, again, is where Deluna’s father, Manuel Deluna, is. He is on “hold’ status with Immigration and Customs Enforcement since his release from prison last October.
According to Robert Hurst with Texas Department of Criminal Justice, he served four months of a two-year sentence stemming from a SWAT standoff in November 2016. He barricaded himself after assaulting his wife and daughter.
Five years earlier, Manuel Deluna’s other son, Eric Deluna, planned an ambush on an 18-wheeler full of drugs. It was part of a notorious federal sting that went bad aimed at the Los Zetas cartel. A federal informant died in a shootout that also left a Harris county sheriff’s deputy wounded.
Eric Deluna is serving a 30-year sentence.

Murder suspect Judas Deluna is a fugitive.

Rupani was murdered by Judas Deluna, a DACA beneficiary whose father is a violent felon, and whose brother is serving 30 years in prison. But wait — there’s even more to this outrageous story:

Deluna may have obtained the DACA protection despite a prior history of felony arrests and convictions.
Court records obtained by Breitbart Texas from Harris County District Clerk Chris Daniel’s office show that Deluna received a felony conviction for a terroristic threat made in 2015. The judge of the 176th Criminal District Court sentenced the man to 60 days in county jail. He had also been charged with Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon. That charge was dismissed as part of a plea agreement.
Earlier that year, prosecutors charged Deluna with a felony charge of evading arrest with a motor vehicle. The same judge placed the man on four years of probation and deferred adjudication. Following the new murder charge, prosecutors filed a motion to adjudicate this charge.

As a journalist, wouldn’t this be a fascinating story to report? It highlights two important national issues — crime and immigration — and at the center of the story is the heroic Muslim, Rahman Rupani, slain while going to the aid of a gunshot victim. Yet because the major media are committed to defending Obama’s DACA policy from critical scrutiny, you’re never going to see this story on CNN or NBC or CBS or ABC.

 

Category: Crime, Immigration, Media Bias, Texas

Palm Beach Jihad: Teen Converts to Islam, Stabs Three People — Media Ignore It!

Posted on | March 14, 2018 | 1 Comment

Corey Johnson is a teenage terrorist, according to police reports.

Obviously, Florida needs common-sense knife-control laws:

A Jupiter teenager said his Muslim faith led him to fatally stab a boy on his 13th birthday and injure two others at a sleepover Sunday night in BallenIsles Country Club, Palm Beach Gardens police said during a 2 p.m. news conference.
Corey Johnson, 17, was arrested Monday after he reportedly confessed to stabbing the three people while he spent the night at a friend’s home in the gated community off PGA Boulevard.
He faces one murder and two attempted-murder charges in the stabbings. The FBI also is investigating the attacks. . . .
Johnson, who police said recently withdrew from William T. Dwyer High School in Palm Beach Gardens, told authorities he woke up at about 4 a.m. Monday at his friend Kyle Bancroft’s home. He decided to kill Kyle’s mother, Elaine Simon; Kyle’s brother, Dane, 13; and Dane’s friend, Jovanni Sierra, 13, while they slept, he said. . . .
Johnson and Kyle watched violent jihadist videos Sunday night, they said. Johnson stabbed Jovanni Sierra and slit his throat with a knife he had brought with him to the house.
Johnson said he read the Quran before going to the house. He turned to the Muslim holy book “to give him courage to carry out his intentions,” according to an arrest report.

This Islamic terrorist attack took place about 45 miles north of Parkland, scene of last month’s high-school massacre. There’s a weird parallel because, as Dana Loesch points out, just as with the Parkland shooter, law enforcement knew about Johnson long before he committed murder:

A week before Corey Johnson confessed to stabbing three people — one of them fatally — in a Palm Beach Gardens home, authorities were discussing pending federal criminal charges against the 17-year-old, according to a Jupiter police report. . . .
[E]ven as early as middle school, Johnson had been on the radar of law enforcement, the report said.
In January 2017, several local law-enforcement agencies and the FBI came together with the staff at William T. Dwyer High School in Palm Beach Gardens, where he was a student at the time. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office received information that Johnson supported the terrorist organization ISIS and had reached out to the group online, expressing his desire to join them.
A sheriff’s detective interviewed Johnson for a mental-health assessment and said the teen sympathized with terrorist organizations, the report said.
Palm Beach County School District Police said that during middle school, Johnson made anti-Semitic and anti-homosexual statements. He also said he had similar beliefs to the KKK. School police said they received information that Johnson “has violent tendencies,” “has spoken about inappropriate places to bomb” and “is a White Supremacist.” . . .
When Johnson’s mother and grandparents were interviewed by law enforcement, they said Johnson was fascinated with dictators such as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Kim Jong-un. They said he had “recently began discovering religion” and had been studying the Quran.
After the meeting, the FBI told Jupiter police that a counter-intelligence agency in Europe investigated Johnson’s connection to several threats made on Instagram to McAuley Catholic High School in Doncaster, England. . . .

You can read the whole thing, which makes clear that there was abundant evidence that Johnson was dangerous, but apparently it’s no longer possible to lock up teenage psychopaths in the mental ward. So, despite law-enforcement concerns, this dangerous kook was free to commit jihad and, as Kristine Marsh reports at Newsbusters, the major network news broadcasts — ABC, NBC and CBS — have completely ignored this story. (Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.) And here’s the smart take from Ace:

Could it be that Obama’s “Promise Program” — which instructed local schools not to report dangerous students to police, to keep their records clean (and, consequently, to keep them eligible to buy guns) — is responsible for further murders?
Yes, I know he used a knife, not a gun. But had he been arrested after making threats to the Catholic school, perhaps he might have been put in jail after subsequently restarting his Islamist social media habits, and an innocent boy would still be alive.

Gosh, maybe Crazy People Are Dangerous or something . . .



 

Category: Crime, Florida, Islam, Terrorism

Violence Against Women Update

Posted on | March 14, 2018 | 1 Comment

Denis Cruz Lemus is an illegal alien, and also a violent criminal.

For some reason, feminists are ignoring this story:

A drunken teenager living in the U.S. illegally is accused of kicking his pregnant girlfriend in the stomach and slamming her head against a wall in an attempt to cause a miscarriage.
Denis Cruz Lemus, 19, of Aspen Hill [Maryland], is charged with first-degree assault, second-degree assault and false imprisonment.
According to the criminal statement of charges on file in Montgomery County Circuit Court, Lemus was “drinking heavily” at a party on November 23. The level of booze in Lemus’ system triggered a verbal argument with his pregnant girlfriend, who ended up spending the night at her mother’s home.
The following morning, Lemus’ girlfriend returned to the single-family home the couple shared along Aspen Hill Road. Within minutes, a quarrel re-ignited. This time, however, Lemus allegedly hit his girlfriend, tossed her to the ground and repeatedly kicked her in the stomach. Police explain Lemus made remarks about wanting to end the three-month pregnancy during the physical encounter.
While trying to flee, Lemus allegedly grabbed hold of his girlfriend’s head and slammed it against the corner of a solid wall. That impact caused the woman to sustain a cut to her head. When officers arrived, they noted a “substantial amount of blood” on the wall, carpet, and all over the woman’s clothing and body. Lemus was nowhere to be found, but was arrested a few days later. . . .
According to the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Lemus is a native of Honduras living in the United States illegally. ICE has lodged a detainer against the 19-year-old who remains in Montgomery County custody.

Why are feminists ignoring this? “Intersectionality,” which means only crimes committed by white males count as “violence against women.”

If you’re an illegal immigrant, you could murder a woman in broad daylight and no feminist would even bother to mention it.

 

Category: Violence Against Women

In The Mailbox: Pi Day 2018

Posted on | March 14, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: Pi Day 2018

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Stephen Hawking RIP
Twitchy: Federal Judge Has More Bad News For Family Of Ahmed “Clock Boy” Mohamed
Louder With Crowder: Twitter Suspends Steven Crowder For Violating “Hateful Conduct” Terms
Reason: Girl Scouts Are Writing Anti-Smoking Legislation In Colorado (h/t NeoWayland)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Greasy Pole Podcast #2 – Red Bow Ties For Gun Control Episode
American Power: Lauren Southern Banned From UK, also, Democrat Conor Lamb Apparent Winner In PA-18
American Thinker: James Clapper, Deep State Point Man
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: SecS Rex Exed
CDR Salamander: USCG’s Quiet Upgrade
Da Tech Guy: Voices Of CPAC 2018 – Kurt Schlichter, also, 30 Tips To Stay Married For 30 – Live Modestly
Don Surber: “Why Are We Still Talking About The Campaign?”
Dustbury: Surplus Population
Fausta: Argentine Navy Rescues U.S. Scientists
The Geller Report: Stephen Hawking, Who Relied On Israeli Technology While Denouncing Israel, Is Dead, also, Muslim Serving 25 Years For Terror Plot Slits Warden’s Throat
Hogewash: Qapla’! also, Qapla’ Again! also, Another First Amendment Lawsuit
Joe For America: How Low Will The Left Go? Using Kids To Promote Their Agenda
JustOneMinute: On To Pennsylvania!
Legal Insurrection: Democrats & Former Aides Not Pleased With Hillary’s Recent Comments, also, Joy Behar Issues Public Apology Over Public Insult To Christians
Michelle Malkin: Look Homeward, “Change Agents”
Power Line: Democrats Double Down On Fake, also, The Sad Case Of Larry Tribe
Shark Tank: DeSantis Comments On Russian “Collusion”
Shot In The Dark: They Warned Us…
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Entropy Still Acting On Stephen Hawking, also, Mega Space Force!
The Political Hat: The New Social Justice Woke Term, -Misia, also, Happy Pi Day!
This Ain’t Hell: Cherokee Genealogist Says No Available Data Supports Fauxcahontas’ Claim, also, “Teacher Accidentally Fires Gun, Injures Student During Safety Lesson”
Victory Girls: Fly The Unfriendly Skies Of United
Weasel Zippers: GOP Chair Says Coerced Student Walkout In Chicago is Political Indoctrination, also, Schiff Wants 30 More Witnesses Called For Russian Collusion Investigation
Mark Steyn: Life In The Rear-View Mirror, also, Running Towards Gunfire


The Jaguars Are Back – M.C.A. Hogarth’s Business For The Right-Brained
Pies For Pi Day
Amazon Warehouse Deals

Category: Linkagery

In The Mailbox: 03.13.18

Posted on | March 14, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.13.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The Ninety Miles Mystery Box, Episode #194
EBL: Lauren Southern
Twitchy: Blue Check Abortion Doctor’s Depraved Level Of Pride In Her Work Will Make You Gag
Louder With Crowder: UT Arlington Lecturer Attacks Crowder Ahead Of SMU Event
Earther: Can We Make Sure Geoengineering Doesn’t Backfire?


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Some Vintage White Nile Whitewater
American Power: Trump Fires Tillerson, also, Kate Upton For Yamanay
American Thinker: The Ongoing Plight Of Christians
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Big Cougar News
BattleSwarm: On The Dustup Between President Trump And Maxine Waters – A Modest Proposal
BLACKFIVE: Kimmery Martin, The Queen Of Hearts
CDR Salamander: Slovene Psychoanalytic Philosophy Vs. The Chinese Porcupine’s Quills
Da Tech Guy: The Corruption of College Sports, also, National Geographic Signals Virtue
Don Surber: U.S. Press Completely Missed Trump’s Middle East Peace Process
Dustbury: I Live With Dust On My Fan
The Geller Report: Canadian Government Issues Womens’ Day Image of Hijabi, also, Lauren Southern Banned From UK For Poster Critical Of Islam
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, School Shooter Control
Joe For America: School Walkout Over “Gun Violence” Managed By Racist, Sexist Hate Group
JustOneMinute: The Desolation of Smug
Legal Insurrection: Gallup Poll Shows Americans’ Support For Israel At All-time High, also, 5th Circuit Reinstates Texas’ Anti-Sanctuary City Law
Power Line: Hating Whitey At Stanford, also, How The Democrats Will Respond To Pompeo & Haspel Nominations
Shark Tank: Hillary Blames Loss On “Pressure” From Men
Shot In The Dark: Orwell Was A Pollyanna
STUMP: Mornings With Meep, also, Taxing Tueday
The Jawa Report: Caption This – Hillary Spreads Edition
The Political Hat: What Have You Ever Conserved?
This Ain’t Hell: An Illegal Immigrant With An AR-15, also, AAFES Brings Back Magazine Sales
Victory Girls: Nikki Haley Lays Down Syria Marker At UN
Weasel Zippers: Revealed – Obama Campaign Hired GPS Fusion To Investigate Romney, also, College Student Kicked Out Of Class For Telling Professor There’s Only Two Genders
Megan McArdle: Toys R Us Still Sells A Lot Of Toys. Here’s Why It’s Going Under
Mark Steyn: Speakers Cornered, also, Degrees Of Unpresidentiality


Featured Digital Deals
Amazon Warehouse Deals
Amazon Outlet Deals

Category: Linkagery

Transgender Totalitarianism

Posted on | March 13, 2018 | 4 Comments

 

In England, no one is permitted to disapprove of castrating children:

Police in England interrogated a stay-at-home mom for tweeting her disapproval of sex reassignment surgery for a minor, a move some say indicates alarming governmental censorship of free speech, especially speech related to transgenderism.
Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, a self-described feminist and mother of four, was contacted by police in early February because Susie Green, CEO of Mermaids, a U.K.-based charity that supports transgender persons, had reported her to them in July. Twitter supplied Keen-Minshull’s details to the police and the officer told her she was a “test case” in a new “human rights” fight they were undertaking.
This “test case” came as a result of comments Keen-Minshull made on social media. Specifically at issue were tweets critical of transgenderism, postings where she referenced how Green had taken her son to Thailand to have his genitals removed when he was 16. He was reportedly the youngest person in the world to undergo sex reassignment surgery. Green’s son is said to have been prescribed puberty blockers by a doctor in Boston at age 12, and Jackie Green — who was born Jack — told the Daily Mail in 2012 that he has always been and never doubted he was a girl.
“It’s just that my body didn’t match because, as far as I’m concerned, I had a birth defect,” he said. . . .
Keen-Minshull was summarily forwarded a disclosure containing eight of her tweets spanning from October 2016 to August 2017, six of which mentioned the Mermaids charity. Susie Green’s major complaint was that Keen-Mishull had referred to “castration” in tweets about her son, something that occurs in sex reassignment surgery.

There you have it, ladies and gentlemen — it is now a “human rights” violation to call things by their right names. Facts are “hate.”

Also, Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

ADDENDUM: Here is an interesting discussion:

Type 1 Propaganda is the “Big Lie” of the Soviet Union or Orwell’s 1984. The nature of the “Big Lie” is that the lie should be so big and so obvious that no sane person could believe it. . . .
As a loyalty test, the “Big Lie” is meant to distinguish those who will lie from those who will not lie for the authorities. As a form of propaganda, the loyalties of the targets are already known: they are enemies. Instead, the lie is a form of psychological torture meant to degrade and demean members of the opposition.

(Hat-tip: @est1608 on Twitter.) We have to think about motives when we encounter propaganda in service of totalitarian ideologies. What purpose is served? What is the long-term goal? Who benefits? It doesn’t necessarily matter how you answer such questions. Much of this is mysterious and confusing, and honest people can disagree. What is important is a skeptical posture toward these allegedly unquestionable truths. The very fact that the cultural elite is intent on forcing you to accept certain beliefs should be sufficient to inspire you to question whatever it is they wish to make you believe. People who employ such dishonest propaganda tactics, and who resort to terroristic methods to silence their critics, are never to be trusted.



 

PREVIOUSLY:

 

Category: The Transgender Cult
« go back — keep looking »