The Other McCain

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

Lawyers, Guns & Cover

Posted on | June 7, 2017 | Comments Off on Lawyers, Guns & Cover

by Smitty

(further apologies to Zevon.)

I tinkled with the server
The way I always do
How was I to know
It was with the Russians, too?

I was gambling in Benghazi,
I took a little risk
Send lawyers, guns & Comey
Jim, get me out of this, hiyah!

An innocent bystander
Somehow I got stuck
between Iraq & a hard place
And I’m down on my luck
Yes, I’m down on my luck
Well, I’m down on my luck

I’m hiding in Honduras
I’m desperate, man
Send lawyers, guns & Zelaya
The Wiener’s hit the fan

Send lawyers, guns & Maddow
Send lawyers, guns & Pelley
Send lawyers, guns & Tapper, hiyah!
Send lawyers, guns & Blitzer, ow

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In The Mailbox: 06.06.17

Posted on | June 6, 2017 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Ceremony Marks 73rd anniversary of D-Day Landings (h/t American Power)


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Sandernista/Anderson Cooper Fan Reality Winner Caught Leaking Classified Documents To Press
Twitchy: Move Over, Mad Dog Mattis! Jenna Jameson Has Brutal Suggestion To Crush Terrorism
Louder With Crowder: New Canadian Law Requires Parents Respect Child’s Gender Preference – Or Else


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Weak Professors Translate To Weak Degrees
American Power: James Holland, The War In The West
American Thinker: After The Paris Accord – Doesn’t The Ruling Class Have Something Better To Do?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Air Traffic News
BattleSwarm: China – Ghost Cities And Ghost Collateral
BLACKFIVE: Joseph Kanon, Defectors
Bring The HEAT: And Again, London
Da Tech Guy: Christopher Harper – Chinese Clickbait – Pandas, An Ancient Buddha, And Serious Szechuan Food
Don Surber: High Wages & Low Unemployment Bother Globalists
Dustbury: Not In Scranton, Pennsylvania
The Geller Report: Facebook Removes Video By Jewish Leader Linking Jihad Terror To Islam
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign
Jammie Wearing Fools: Lib Leaker Reality Winner Pledged Support To Iran – “We Stand With You”
Joe For America: Allah’s Children Ticked Over Billboard Advertising “Perfect Man”
JustOneMinute: For Any Willin’ Geeks Out There…
Power Line: 80 Charts That Show Global Warming Hysteria Is A Fraud, also, Ammo Grrrll On Kathy Griffin
Shark Tank: Bondi Says She Supports Childhood Friend Moody As Successor
Shot In The Dark: “Protect” Minnesota – The Truth Oozes Out
STUMP: Here Goes Hartford And Connecticut – AETNA HQ To Leave, State Trying To Avoid Bankruptcy
The Jawa Report: London Attackers Appeared In Channel 4 Documentary, also, Sandcrawler PSA – Islamic State Of Losers Final Loss Imminent
The Political Hat: The Decolonization of South Africa
This Ain’t Hell: Monifa Sterling’s Appeal Rejected By USSC, also, Shulkin Says VA Will Adopt DOD Medical Records System
Weasel Zippers: Oops, NBC News Does It Again, also, Rep. Nunes Says Subpoenas Just Beginning, “Probable Cause” For Obama Admin Abuse Of Power
Mark Steyn: Big Mac En Rose, also, Dean On Screen


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Anti-American Democrats: What the NSA Leaker Has Revealed About the Left

Posted on | June 6, 2017 | Comments Off on Anti-American Democrats: What the NSA Leaker Has Revealed About the Left

If you love America, never doubt that Democrats hate you. During the past half-century, dating back at least to the 1968 election, Democrats have become the anti-American party, fanatically devoted to the destruction of capitalism, Christianity and the Constitution. This historic shift has made Democrats, in effect, opponents of patriotism. “They always blame America first,” as Jeanne Kirkpatrick famously said.

This is what we learn from the NSA leaker:

The 25-year-old woman who stole “Top Secret” documents from the National Security Agency and leaked them to The Intercept appears to be a supporter of Bernie Sanders and other progressive icons, such as Bill Maher and Michael Moore.
Reality Leigh Winner’s apparent social media footprint also shows that she is a supporter of other liberal causes, including the Women’s March and the Islamic Society of North America, the Muslim civil rights group.
She also recently referred to President Trump as a “piece of shit” because of his position on the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protests.
Winner was indicted in federal court on Monday after she allegedly stole classified documents from her employer, Pluribus International, a defense contractor that does work for the NSA from its offices in Augusta, Ga. . . .
On Feb. 14, a day after Winner took her Top Secret job at Pluribus, Winner posted a photo outside of the Atlanta offices of Georgia Sen. David Perdue.
Winner wrote that she had a 30-minute private meeting with the Republican lawmaker.
She said they discussed “my concerns regarding climate change and what the state of Georgia is doing to reduce dependency on fossil fuels.”
“Meanwhile, my plea that our senators not be afraid to directly state when our president or his cabinet tell outright lies was well heard. I was able to draw the parallel between the 2011 interview of President Bashar al Assad claiming utter ignorance of the human rights violations> his citizens were protesting to Trump’s statement last week that the White House hadn’t received any calls about the DAPL, nor were there any protests before last week. They got the message,” she wrote.
Winner was heavily critical of Trump just after he took office. She used the hashtag “NeverMyPresident” and “Resist” in a Facebook post about his position on DAPL.

You see that she is an across-the-board “progressive” and, as such, is an enemy of everything America is about. She is opposed to American petroleum production — because “climate change” — and is a feminist, but yet is pro-Muslim, despite the pervasive misogyny of Islamic culture.

This kind of reflexive, unthinking, knee-jerk leftism is full of contradictions. It reflects a profound alienation from the mainstream of American life. They lash out at Republicans as symbolic scapegoats who represent, in the leftist mind, everything they hate about our country.

 

Category: Democrats

In The Mailbox: 06.05.17

Posted on | June 5, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.05.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Democrat Jon Ossoff Chickens Out Of Debate With Karen Handel
Twitchy: Dana Loesch Embarrasses Sally Kohn In Exchange Over Constitution
Louder With Crowder: CNN Caught Staging “Muslim Protest” On-Camera


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Feminization of Our Workplaces
American Power: After Britain Attack, Trump Feuds With London Mayor
American Thinker: Drawing Back The Curtain On The World’s Political Classes
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Jihad/NotJihad In The Philippines
BLACKFIVE: Peter Kirsanow, Target Omega
Bring The HEAT: Midway – 75 Years Ago Today
Da Tech Guy: Apparently There Are At Least Some In England Who Remember June 1940
Don Surber: 929,000 News Stories About Covfefe
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Tragedy Of The Condiments
The Geller Report: Hamtramck, Michigan – America’s First Muslim City Council “Erupts In Screaming, Swearing, And Little Else”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Corbyn – “Those Who Support ISIS Are Expressing A Political Point Of View”
Joe For America: Parents Horrified After NYC Elementary School PTA President Performs Surprise Erotic Drag At Talent Show
JustOneMinute: Origin Stories
Power Line: Jay Comeau, RIP, also, WaPo Covers Up Left-Wing Violence In Portland
Shark Tank: DeSantis Inches Closer To Run For Governor
Shot In The Dark: The Dayton Doctrine – Ghost of Tax Day Future
STUMP: Illinois Steps To The Edge, also, 80% Fundedness – An Excellent Example And The Usual Disappointments
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Hate For Trump To Bring Steep Drop In Carbon Emissions, also, One of London Attackers Radicalized On JihadTube
The Political Hat: We Could Use A Man Like Sam Hayakawa Again
This Ain’t Hell: Pentagon Delays Action On Transgender Ban, also, Will VA Chief Be Voice Of Reason On Climate Change And Medical Marijuana In Trump Administration?
Weasel Zippers: Paris Accord Results – U.S. Paid $1 Billion To Climate Fund, Top Polluters $0, also, London Sikhs Open Doors To Those Seeking Refuge From London Terror Attacks
Megan McArdle: How Prickly Partisans Battle Toward The Truth
Mark Steyn: The New Mancunians, also, A Lot More Than London Bridge Is Falling Down


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Rule 5 Sunday: Bomber Girl

Posted on | June 4, 2017 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Having missed the opportunity to do pinup girls last weekend for Memorial Day, this weekend I’ll pick an appetizer from the rich legacy of WW2 combat aircraft nose art: in this case, the legendary B-17 Memphis Belle of the Eighth Air Force, immortalized in a 1990 movie. Pinup aficionados will no doubt recognize the Memphis Belle as a George Petty girl, from the April 1941 Esquire.
As usual, many of the following links are to pics generally considered NSFW. The management is not responsible for any ill effects stemming from your failure to click said links at an appropriate time and place.

They don’t make them like they used to.

We take off with Ninety Miles From Tyranny, who delivers Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns, followed by Goodstuff and a triple helping of Wonder Woman wonderment, and Animal Magnetism with Rule Five Free Speech Friday along with the Saturday Gingermageddon.

This week, EBL deploys Amber Heard, Gal Gadot, various Leo DiCaprio groupies, Joanna Krupa, Kathy Griffin (skip to the palate cleansers at the bottom, for your own good), PETA Girls Wearing Lettuce, and Neve Campbell.

A View From The Beach has some fishy links: Designated Rule 5 Survivor – Maggie Q, Fish Pic Friday – Red Drum, More Thursday Tanlines, Blue Catfish Escape Blame in Shad and Herring Declines, Cuties Confront Lionfish Menace and RIP: Gregg Allman.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Alexandra Daddario, his Vintage Babe is Virginia Dale, and Sex in Advertising is covered (literally) by Body Paint. At Dustbury, it’s Ali McGraw and Priyanka Chopra.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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Islamic Terrorists Kill 7 in London Attack

Posted on | June 4, 2017 | Comments Off on Islamic Terrorists Kill 7 in London Attack

CNN reports:

At least seven people have been killed and 48 injured in a terror attack in central London, with police shooting three suspected assailants dead.
The attack began late Saturday night, when a white van stuck pedestrians on London Bridge, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said in a statement.
The suspects then left the vehicle and “a number of people were stabbed, including an on-duty British Transport Police officer who was responding to the incident at London Bridge,” said Rowley. The officer received serious but not life-threatening injuries.
“Armed officers responded very quickly and bravely, confronting three male suspects who were shot and killed in Borough Market,” said Rowley. “The suspects had been confronted and shot by the police within eight minutes of the first call. The suspects were wearing what looked like explosive vests but these were later established to be hoaxes.”
Eyewitnesses reported panic as the incidents unfolded in the vicinity of a major transport hub and in an area packed with restaurants and bars. The London Ambulance Service said at least 48 people were taken to five hospitals, with many more treated at the scene.
The attacks came days before a general election and two weeks after 22 people were killed when a suicide bomber targeted an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. It was the third terrorist attack to strike the United Kingdom this year, after a man drove a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in March.

Notice something missing? The word “Islam” does not appear in CNN’s story about this murderous attack, leaving the reader to wonder if perhaps radical Mormons or Lutheran extremists were responsible.

 

Category: Great Britain, Islam, Terrorism

FMJRA 2.0: Meanwhile, Back In The Desert…

Posted on | June 3, 2017 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Monday: O Girls!
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

New Name, Same Game: ACORN Revived as Soros-Funded ‘Democracy’ Network
Living In Anglo-America
A View From The Beach
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Baltimore Edition
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 05.30.17
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

Feminists Blame ‘Male Violence’ in Mississippi and Manchester
EBL

In The Mailbox: 05.31.17
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Feminist Insanity at Taxpayer Expense: ‘Intersectional Quantum Physics’
The Pirate’s Cove
Granite Grok
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.01.17
Proof Positive
EBL

Covfefe Mystery Solved! You’re Welcome
EBL

‘Male Feminist’ Aleksandr Kolpakov Now Charged With First-Degree Murder
EBL

Florida: The Crazy State
EBL

The Chicken Little Democrats
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.02.17
Proof Positive
EBL

Werewolves of Chappaqua
Darkness Over The Land
EBL

Top linkers this week:

  1. EBL (11)
  2. Proof Positive (6)
  3. A View From The Beach (5)

Thanks for all the links!

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Self-Hatred and Transgender Suicide

Posted on | June 3, 2017 | 1 Comment

Jane Georgia, a/k/a “Jay Griffin.”

Not long ago, my friend Cynthia Yockey and I were discussing the transgender cult when she rather casually said something that struck me as profound: Transgenderism is a sort of suicide, involving the destruction of a hated self. She just threw that idea out in the midst of our phone conversation, but after the call was over, the truth of what she had said stuck with me. After all, what is more basic to our sense of self than being either male or female? And somewhere in the bizarre psychology of transgenderism there must be a profound alienation from the patient’s authentic self. Life is tough, and anyone might become discouraged by a sense of failure, but it takes an extreme kind of discouragement to feel you are so hopelessly doomed as a male that you could improve your life by discarding yourself, so to speak, and becoming an artificial simulacrum of a female (or vice-versa). Indeed, this is a sort of suicide, and yet one of the arguments most often heard from transgender activists is to blame the high suicide rate among transgender people on their opponents. This idea — that transgender “treatment” is the only alternative to suicide — is quite frequently used to promote “acceptance” of transgenderism among children. This is simply emotional blackmail.

Anyway, what Cynthia said about transgenderism-as-suicide came to mind today when I read this genuinely tragic story from Alabama:

Just over a year after Jane Marie Georgia’s Christian parents allowed her to start living life as a boy named Jay Griffin, the troubled 13-year-old girl who was in therapy for depression, anxiety and identity issues killed herself inside her home in Trussville, Alabama, last Thursday.
Griffin’s parents, Matt and Erin Georgia, both of whom served in the U.S. Marine Corps, are grieving and now believe in hindsight that allowing their daughter to live as a transgender boy, was just too much for their oldest child who had lived most of her life as a girl until the middle of the sixth grade.
“Jay was not ready to come out to the world in the sixth grade. Jay wasn’t really ready at the end,” Erin admitted in an interview with AL.com. “It’s a very personal process, but the schools have always been very attentive.”
Erin’s husband Matt said it was a difficult process for their daughter who wanted to take things slow with how she engaged the public with her transgenderism.
“I had talked to Jay about that, asked him, ‘Who do you want to know?’ He always told me that he would tell the people he wanted to know when it came to that,” Matt explained in the interview.
They felt like they were doing all the right things in supporting their daughter and tried their best to ensure she found “safe spaces” in which to be herself.
“We were under the care of a psychologist from day one,” Erin said.
She explained that her daughter also attended group therapy, and met with a psychologist and a psychiatrist. Two months before her death, Erin’s daughter also started taking medication.
“We would have highs and lows. Who knows if that contributed? I’m not going to run that over in my head,” Erin said. “It definitely seemed to be an imbalance problem. We were still tweaking the medication, but it takes time.”
She argues, however, that Jay was never pressured about her transgenderism.
“That was a personal thing I never bugged him about. I was concerned about loving and accepting and trying [to] understand his perspective,” she told AL.com. “We’ve always just loved and accepted our children for whoever they are. I’m a very outspoken, tattooed Christian, very strong in my faith. We were just encouraging Jay. I would notice things as a mother and was like, ‘Hey, anything you want to talk to me about, I’m here.”’
Erin, who explained that she had prayed to have a boy all her life, said she also saw her daughter’s transgenderism as a gift from God. So when she and her husband found their Jay dead in her bedroom at 5 a.m. on May 25, they were genuinely shocked.
“Don’t get me wrong, I mourned the loss of a daughter but then I realized that I’d been praying for a son my whole life,” she explained. “God answered that prayer, in just a different way.”
She argued, however, that her troubled daughter . . . did not feel validated despite the support she received from their community.
“He didn’t feel validated or accepted in our community,” Erin said. “You really need a safe space of allies and advocates and people that are like you. That’s where they hear their true voices. There are no local community safe spaces that I know of, and we’ve looked. That was part of Jay’s struggle.”
She added: “As Jay was going through this journey, he would go to church with us. The church was welcoming, but there was no safe space and that is my biggest point. Me and Jay would go to different churches to find places that were safe for us. I say us because I often feel like an outsider because I just love everybody, and that’s kind of hard in a Christian Bible Belt state.”

No one would wish to see such a tragedy exploited for the sake of political arguments, but the basic problem here should be obvious. Jane/Jay suffered from mental illness, which manifested itself as a symptom in her/“his” identity crisis. Her parents put her/“him” in therapy — “We were under the care of a psychologist from day one” — but this actually compounded the problem. In fact, the antidepressants (probably SSRIs) may have been directly responsible for Jane/Jay’s suicide. The SSRI/suicide connection has been the subject of much research, which is inconclusive because it’s difficult to distinguish between the effects of the medication and the underlying problem of depression. In the same way, it’s difficult to separate general problems of mental health (mood disorders or personality disorders) from identity/sexuality problems.

Jane/Jay was a chubby tomboy. Lots of chubby tomboys manage to make it through adolescence without killing themselves. However, at the urging of transgender activists, the psychiatric community claims to “help” kids by giving them a diagnosis of gender dysphoria and encouraging kids (and their parents) to make this the basis of the child’s identity.

Isn’t it time that we stand up against this bovine excrement? Is the proper “treatment” of mental illness to indulge the patient’s delusions? Are we to suppose that whatever escapist fantasy a sixth-grader can imagine is automatically deserving of acceptance, so that telling Jane she can’t be a boy named Jay is condemned as “hate”? And do we really expect Christians to baptize this bizarre ideology, so to speak?

Permit me to suggest that parents and other adults concerned about the social contagion of transgenderism take a long, hard look at the history of so-called “sexology.” Radical feminists like Sheila Jeffreys have pointed out how proponents of the “scientific” approach to sex (e.g., Richard von Krafft-Ebing) asserted claims to expertise which look ludicrous in retrospect. Many years ago, Judith Reisman showed how the self-declared sex expert Alfred Kinsey sought to normalize pedophilia. Liberals dismissed Reisman as a right-wing fanatic, but subsequent events have vindicated her, as we see where the Kinseyite approach to sexuality has led us in the 21st century. See my article “Orgasm-Seeking Behavior” on this subject, and I will repeat here what I have said before:

Once you separate sexual behavior from its procreative function, so that “sex” is no longer about men and women forming permanent pair-bonds for the purposes of raising families, everything goes haywire. If “sex” is merely about hedonism, and if we can only discuss “sexuality” and “gender” as amorphous intellectual abstract concepts based on our emotional moods, then we can expect endless confusion and misery to follow.

People need to wake up to what’s happening in our culture. Parents especially must be aware of the kind of dangers that threaten their children. If you are a 35-year-old parent raising a 10-year-old child, you must realize that the world in which your child will become a teenager is not the same world in which you were a teenager 20 years ago. Whatever problems you had in 1997, you didn’t have Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, Instagram or any other online social media to deal with. Over and over again, we find that troubled kids are turning to dubious “friends” on the Internet to tell them how to live their lives, and the social contagion of transgenderism is only one of many disturbing aspects of this trend.

Well, I could go on for another thousand words about these issues, but I am encouraged to see that more and more people are beginning to ask serious questions about the Third Wave “gender” narrative. When radical feminists are willing to reach out to the conservative Heritage Foundation, we may be close to a genuine turning point.



 

 

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