The Other McCain

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

The Worst President in History

Posted on | January 19, 2017 | 3 Comments

Barack Obama has made Bradley Manning the symbol of his disgraceful legacy.

“Look at the way Obama treats America’s friends and compare it to the way he treats America’s enemies, and it’s obvious that Obama’s interests and America’s only rarely coincide.”
— Stephen Green, Jan. 18, 2017

Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan’s book The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama should be required reading in America’s schools. The media are never going to admit the scope of failure — and beyond failure, deliberate destruction — that has characterized the eight-year reign of error that comes to an end tomorrow. Obama inflicted more damage on the nation this week by pardoning a Puerto Rican terrorist, Oscar Lopez Rivera, and commuting the sentence of the traitor Bradley “Chelsea” Manning. The extent of Manning’s damage to America’s interests is beyond calculation. Manning “knowingly and intentionally placed lives in danger by indiscriminately placing our nation’s secrets in the public domain,” as David French writes at National Review:

It’s not that long ago that actions like Manning’s would merit execution, and he should be grateful that he merely received a 35-year sentence. Instead, however, both the [New York] Times and the Obama administration treat him more like a messed-up kid than a soldier who betrayed his nation.

Every soldier in the Army has sworn an oath to follow orders. Military discipline cannot be maintained otherwise. The authority that the sergeant exercises over the privates in his squad, and the colonel’s authority over the soldiers in his regiment, is derived from that duty of obedience which extends all the way up to the Commander-in-Chief who, like every soldier, is sworn to an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. Every soldier in the ranks is volunteer, a servant of the nation willing to die for his country, and our troops deserve a Commander-in-Chief who appreciates their service because he loves their country the way the soldier loves his country.

Bradley Manning disobeyed orders. He deliberately violated his oath. Every day, soldiers are punished for such violations. A failure to obey orders can be punished in many ways. Squads of soldiers are “smoked” — put through punitive physical training, made to run and do push-ups until they’re soaked in sweat and panting from exhaustion — because they have failed as a unit to meet their sergeant’s expectations. The good soldiers must sweat along with the bad soldiers, because combat troops must function as a unit, responding to orders, or else they will suffer defeat as a result of the failure to instill unit cohesion through proper discipline.

 

Bradley Manning did more than merely fail. He betrayed his country. The very fact that someone like Bradley Manning was deployed to Iraq, as a member of a military intelligence unit, speaks volumes about the Obama administration’s disregard for America’s national security.

In his Bible Belt hometown that he once mockingly wrote in an e-mail had “more pews than people,” Private Manning refused to recite the parts of the Pledge of Allegiance that referred to God or do homework assignments that involved the Scriptures. And if a teacher challenged his views, former classmates said, he was quick to push back.
“He would get upset, slam books on the desk if people wouldn’t listen to him or understand his point of view,” said Chera Moore, who attended elementary and junior high school with him. “He would get really mad, and the teacher would say, ‘O.K., Bradley, get out.’ ” . . .
He enlisted in the Army in 2007, to try to give his life some direction and to help to pay for college, friends said. . . .
He was granted a security clearance and trained as an intelligence analyst at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., before being assigned to the Second Brigade 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, N.Y.
Before being deployed to Iraq, Private Manning met Tyler Watkins, who described himself on his blog as a classical musician, singer and drag queen. A friend said the two had little in common, but Private Manning fell head over heels. Mr. Watkins, who did not respond to interview requests for this article, was a student at Brandeis University. On trips to visit him here in Cambridge, Private Manning got to know many in Mr. Watkins’ wide network of friends, including some who were part of this university town’s tight-knit hacker community.

Read the rest of that 2010 profile of Bradley Manning and ask yourself, “Who was responsible for putting this guy in an Army intelligence unit?”

The apprehension of Bradley Manning should have prompted a massive investigation at the Pentagon to ascertain what kind of lapses in training — and laxity in personnel policy — had resulted in the failure to drum that worthless cowardly son of a bitch out of the Army long before he could have had a chance to betray his country. One of the obvious sources of the problem was that, as a result of the long war in Iraq, the military lowered its standards and by 2007 was accepting recruits who should have been rejected for service. Another source of the problem could be traced back to the Clinton administration’s misguided 1993 decision to abrogate the Uniform Code of Military Justice, resulting in the so-called “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Democrats hate the American military, and whenever a Democrat is in the White House, our troops are subjected to absurd social-engineering experiments that undermine unit discipline and morale, so that when Republican presidents take office, they must try to undo the damage done by their predecessors. Because 9/11 happened so shortly after George W. Bush became president, however, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were fought without having fixed the problems created by the eight years of Bill Clinton’s anti-military policy.

Now, President Trump will take over as Commander-in-Chief of a military that has been under the perfidious command of anti-American Democrat presidents for 16 of the past 24 years. Our new president’s promise to “Make America Great Again” will first require him to fix the problems at the Pentagon which allowed Bradley Manning to wear an Army uniform long enough to betray his country by violating his oath:

President Obama defended his decision to commute the remainder of Chelsea Manning’s sentence during his final press conference as President on Wednesday, arguing that she’d done enough time already.
“Given she went to trial, that due process was carried out, that she took responsibility for her crime, that the sentence that she received was very disproportionate relative to what other leakers had received, and that she had served a significant amount of time, that it made sense to commute, and not pardon, her sentence,” he said of the woman who as a private leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks. “I feel very comfortable that justice has been served and a message has still been sent.”

No, sir, a firing squad would have been the proper “message” for Manning, and by commuting the sentence of this traitor, Barack Obama has permanently secured his legacy as The Worst President in History.



 

Category: Barack Obama, Military

Florida Man Who Threatened Trump Is Well-Connected Democrat Donor

Posted on | January 18, 2017 | 1 Comment

Dominic Puopolo Jr. (left); Bill Clinton with Puopolo’s sister and mother (right).

Earlier today, I treated this as a joke — a guy in Florida used Twitter to post a video threatening to kill Donald Trump — but that was before I learned the details about Dominic Puopolo Jr.:

The man arrested by Miami Beach police Tuesday for allegedly threatening President-elect Donald Trump online is a member of a prominent northeast family close to Bill and Hillary Clinton.
He once gave $20,000 to the Democratic National Committee, DailyMail.com has learned.
Suspect Dominic Puopolo Jr., 51, sat near Hillary Clinton when she delivered the eulogy at the funeral of Puopolo’s mother, Sonia, who died in one of the jets that flew into the World Trade Center on 9-11.
During that eulogy on Oct. 6, 2001 in Boston, the former presidential candidate referred to ‘Dom Jr.’s latest computer wizardry.’
The ‘wizard’ is now being held in a Miami-Dade County jail after using Twitter to threaten Trump’s life. . . .
On various social media platforms, where he posts as JesusChrist1701, the computer consultant claims to have testified in terror cases as an expert witness in a German federal court in Hamburg from 2003 to 2008. . . .
Puopolo has published a number of pictures of outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry, whom he calls a friend. . . .
According to news archives his mother, Sonia Mercedes Morales Puopolo was married to the wealthy Nantucket businessman Dominic J. Puopolo Sr.
She was once a professional ballet dancer and became a major philanthropist and political donor.
However, Sonia was among 92 people on American Airlines Flight 11 on Sept. 11, 2001, when it crashed into the World Trade Center’s north tower in New York City. . . .
The family is also known in political circles for its generosity toward Democratic organizations and candidates.
The threat suspect, according to federal elections records, gave $20,000 to the Democratic National Committee in 1996. He also contributed to Kerry and deceased Sen. Ted Kennedy in the mid-1990s. His name popped up again in contributions in 2006 when he gave $4,000 to Florida Sen. Bill Nelson’s campaign.
His sister Sonia gave $4,000 to Hillary Clinton’s various campaigns.
In Miami, meanwhile, Dom Puopolo was arrested four times for petty crimes since 2006, twice for petty theft and once for defrauding an innkeeper. . . .
There’s also evidence he was the target of mental health court proceedings in 2016 although the details are not public.
When he was arrested in March, the judge ordered Puopolo to be represented by a tax-funded public defender after declaring him ‘indigent.’
Property records, however, indicate Puopolo sold a family home in Dover, Mass. in 2013 for $4 million. And in 2004, he sold a condo in downtown Miami for $3.3 million.
He currently lives in a run-down $60,000, one-bedroom flat in Miami Beach.

This is evidently a case of a guy who has gone downhill badly in the past decade or so, whose wealth has been dissipated, and for whom the defeat of Hillary Clinton was a shattering emotional blow.

 

Category: Crime

Metaphor Alert: All In All It Was All Just Bricks In The Wall

Posted on | January 18, 2017 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

Guess who’s getting a wall to keep the mob of his creation at bay?


May he die old, full of years, unable to deny both the wrongheadedness of his ideas, and the correctness of Americans for holding his record in contempt.

Category: Uncategorized

@ScottAdamsSays You Can’t Debate The Importance Of Bait

Posted on | January 18, 2017 | 2 Comments

by Smitty


Category: Uncategorized

Blame @CNN: Liberals Becoming Unhinged as Trump Inauguration Nears

Posted on | January 18, 2017 | 1 Comment

Let’s face it: The typical liberal’s grasp on reality is always a tenuous matter, but subjected to 24/7 anti-Trump propaganda by CNN and other liberal media organizations, some Democrat voters have completely lost their grip as the President-elect’s inauguration approaches:

A protester set himself on fire outside Trump International Hotel in Washington DC on Tuesday.
The 45-year-old man, who has not yet been identified, said the act was in protest of the President-elect’s looming inauguration.
Witnesses described how he yelled ‘Trump’ several times as ‘flames ran up his back’ before lying down in the street.
He suffered non-life-threatening burns and was taken to hospital shortly after the incident at around 9.30pm. . . .
‘(I’m protesting) the fact that we’ve elected somebody who is completely incapable of respecting the Constitution of the United States.’
The man, who said he was from California, suffered third-degree burns on 10 percent of his body, according to the Washington Post.
He had used a lighter and accelerant to start the fire.

Typical Democrat voter — a pathetic loser who can’t even succeed at burning himself to death. Meanwhile, in Miami:

A South Florida man has been charged with threatening to kill President-elect Donald Trump in a video posted online.
A Miami Beach police report released Wednesday identified the suspect as 51-year-old Dominic Puopolo. Jail records show Puopolo is being held without bail on state charges of threatening harm against a public servant. Court records do not list a lawyer for him.
The police report says Puopolo on Monday posted a video on his Twitter account stating that he would “be at the review/inauguration and I will kill President Trump, President-elect Trump” while in Washington.
The report says he was arrested a short time later at a Miami Beach Subway restaurant and admitted to officers he had posted the threatening video. Police say Puopolo told them he is homeless.

He’s homeless, so he’s got plenty of time to record anti-Trump videos and post them to Twitter. Are police sure this guy’s name isn’t Jim Acosta?

 

Category: Democrats, Media Bias

In the Mailbox: 01.18.17

Posted on | January 18, 2017 | Comments Off on In the Mailbox: 01.18.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Stay Classy! Bitter Elizabeth Warren Shows Her Lack of Manners
Michelle Malkin: Sponsors Of Anarchy
Twitchy: Bernie Sanders Tries To School Tom Price With “Access” Comparison, Steps On Rake Instead
Louder With Crowder: Debunking The Top Liberal Crusades Myths


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Russians Are Coming
American Power: Protester Sets Himself On Fire Outside Washington D.C. Trump Hotel
American Thinker: Black History (a/k/a Demonize White America) Month
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Bring The HEAT: World Of Warships – Friendly Death Match, And A New-Formed Clan
Da Tech Guy: James O’Keefe Is Producing Real News On Inaugural Violence Plans While The MSM Yawns
Don Surber: Dear Press Corps – We Don’t Believe You
Dustbury: Bolts For Dolts
Hogewash: Blue Blobs – M81 And M82
Jammie Wearing Fools: Good News! Running Over Protesters On Highways Could Soon Be Legal In North Dakota
Joe For America: Obama Pardons 64 More Criminals, Commutes Sentences For 209
JustOneMinute: Send In The Clowns
Power Line: Freeing A Terrorist Mastermind
Shark Tank: Rubio Tears Into Obama’s Pardon Of U.S. Traitor
Shot In The Dark: In The Footsteps Of Stalin, The Shadow Hecklers Stagger Through The Winter
STUMP: Never Forget – Thoughts On How To Build A Castle, by Vladimir Bukovsky
The Geller Report: Hamas/CAIR Demands Trump Remove Franklin Graham From Inaugural Lineup
The Jawa Report: Obama 48 Hours!
The Political Hat: Salon, The Alt-Right, And Conservatism
This Ain’t Hell: Is Obamacare Being Scammed?
War Is Boring: The United States And Turkey Can’t Agree On Iraq & Syria
Weasel Zippers: Trump Eyes 10% Spending Cuts, 20% Slash Of Federal Workers, also, Michael Moore And Hollywood Celebs Drape Themselves In American Flag For Magazine Cover While Dragging It On The Ground
Megan McArdle: The Once And Future Obamacare Death Spiral
Mark Steyn: Pallies On The Potomac


Today’s Digital Deals
Try Amazon Music Unlimited 30-Day Free Trial
Join Amazon Kindle Unlimited 30-Day Free Trial

Category: Linkagery

Why Lindsay Lohan Is a Muslim Now: Understanding 21st-Century ‘Oikophobia’

Posted on | January 18, 2017 | Comments Off on Why Lindsay Lohan Is a Muslim Now: Understanding 21st-Century ‘Oikophobia’

Lindsay Lohan in 2010 DUI mugshot (left) and in Turkey, October 2016 (right).

Lindsay Lohan has made many bad decisions in her life, but her apparent conversion to Islam may be her worst ever, Robert Spencer explains:

Lindsay Lohan has sparked widespread speculation that she has converted to Islam by deleting everything on her Instagram account except for the Arabic greeting “Alaikum salam” . . . .
Lohan has fueled this kind of speculation in the past, saying in 2015: “My very close friends, who have been there for me a lot, in London are Saudi and they gave me the Qur’an and I brought it to New York because I was learning. It opened doors for me to experience spiritually, to find another true meaning. This is who I am.”
She didn’t say what “true meaning” she found in Qur’anic injunctions sanctioning wife-beating (Qur’an 4:34), devaluing of women’s testimony (Qur’an 2:282) and inheritance rights (Qur’an 4:11), allowance for polygamy (Qur’an 4:3), or mandate of warfare against and subjugation of unbelievers (Qur’an 9:29), but that’s just the beginning of the absurdity.
Is Lindsay Lohan prepared to venture out in public with everything covered except her face and hands, as per Muhammad’s injunction (Abu Dawud 4092)? Is she willing not to go out at all unless accompanied by a male guardian, as per Islamic law? Is she happy with being judged deficient in intelligence and religious commitment, as Muhammad said of women (Bukhari 304)?
Lindsay Lohan likely doesn’t know that any of this is in Islamic teaching. She probably knows about Islam only the things she has been told by her friends in Saudi Arabia and Dubai, who are no doubt anxious to add her to the list of celebrity converts to Islam.

Lindsay Lohan is a drug-addled celebrity dimwit from a broken home who was pushed into show business as a child. Like so many other former child stars produced by the Disney movie/cable-TV fame factory — including Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus — Lohan’s young adulthood seemed to be a constant trainwreck of public shame, played out in tabloid headlines.

Lots of teenagers who aren’t rich, famous and beautiful struggle with similar problems — drugs, alcohol, sexual promiscuity, mental illness — but we never read headlines about those troubled youth unless and until they commit some horrible crime. Ordinary adolescent trauma cases don’t fascinate us the way the Troubled Starlet does, because the celebrity trainwreck is so ostentatiously blessed with everything our popular culture values — youth, wealth, beauty and fame.

 

Here was Lindsay Lohan, who had captured America’s hearts as a wholesome freckle-faced girl in Disney’s 1998 remake of The Parent Trap and who, at age 18, became one of the most promising young actresses in Hollywood when she starred in the hit comedy Mean Girls. She had everything in the world going for her, it seemed, but by the time she was 21, her career and personal life were in disarray. She broke up with her boyfriend, That ’70s Show star Wilmer Valderrama, her movies flopped, and her substance-abuse problems escalated to the point that directors were no longer willing to work with her. Eventually, as it became obvious that she would probably never work again as an actress, the tabloids lost interest in Lindsay Lohan, and her brief stint in a “reality TV” show on Oprah’s network fizzled out in 2014, inspiring me to comment:

It’s wrong to say that Lindsay Lohan ever had a drug and alcohol problem. No, Lindsay Lohan had a Lindsay Lohan problem.

And so, in 2015, somebody gave her a Koran and she moved to Dubai and now, evidently, Lindsay Lohan is an adherent of Islam. Why? That is to say, why Islam, and not some other belief system? Why didn’t Lindsay Lohan move to Lynchburg, Va., and become a Southern Baptist? Or why didn’t she move to Dublin and return to her Irish-Catholic roots?

Oikophobia — a term that Roger Scruton has popularized to describe “the repudiation of inheritance and home”:

He argued that it is “a stage through which the adolescent mind normally passes,” but that it is a feature of some, typically leftist, political impulses and ideologies which espouse xenophilia, i.e. preference for alien cultures.
Scruton uses the term as the antithesis of xenophobia. . . . Mark Dooley describes oikophobia as centered within the Western academic establishment on “both the common culture of the West, and the old educational curriculum that sought to transmit its humane values.” This disposition has grown out of, for example, the writings of Jacques Derrida and of Michel Foucault’s “assault on ‘bourgeois’ society result[ing] in an ‘anti-culture’ that took direct aim at holy and sacred things, condemning and repudiating them as oppressive and power-ridden.”

This rejection of our own cultural inheritance has become widespread among the decadent elite in Western societies, where affluence fosters an alienation from the simple values of ordinary people. Oikophobia expresses itself in an attitude which, for example, considers the vile traitor Bradley “Chelsea” Manning deserving of presidential favor, but which disparages the loyal soldier who courageously does his duty.

 

The same liberal media that celebrates the cowardly traitor Manning, despises the genuine war hero Chris Kyle. Liberals hate real heroes because liberals hate America — this is oikophobia.

Likewise, after Lindsay Lohan destroyed her own show-business career, we could not expect that she would seek recovery by returning to any form of Christianity, especially not the traditional Catholicism of her Irish-American ancestors. Why not? Because to do so would be for Lindsay to admit that she was the source of her own problems.

Oikophobia is highly correlated to what Christopher Lasch called The Culture of Narcissism, a phenomenon I discussed in 2014:

What the narcissistic personality lacks more than anything else is an objectivity about the relationship between the Self and others. The narcissist is unrealistic about himself because he cannot step outside himself and view his own flaws and failures as they actually are. The gap between who he thinks he is and who he really is, and perhaps more importantly, the gap between how others see him and how he sees himself, creates an existential crisis which he attempts to evade through various rationalizations and psychological defense mechanisms. . . .
The narcissist’s devotion to self-image — what he thinks of himself, and what he wishes others to think of him — blinds him to his own faults and errors, so that he must always find scapegoats to blame for his failures. . . .
Feelings of entitlement and unrealistic expectations based on an inflated sense of superiority — this is classic narcissism. And when narcissists fail, their reaction is always predictably to engage in evasive blame-shifting and scapegoating.

The celebrity like Lindsay Lohan who wrecks her career through substance abuse has failed not only by the standards of show business, but she has also failed in terms of basic moral values. To return to Catholicism would require Lindsay Lohan to admit that she is the problem — “Mea culpa” — and because the narcissist is psychologically incapable of such an admission, instead she must turn to another belief system. Under the influence of oikophobia, the belief system she chooses must be exotic and foreign. Madonna turned to the Kabbalah, and some people turn to Buddhism, but Lindsay Lohan (who never seems to do anything in a moderate way) turns to Islam. If she continues down this path according to her usual immoderate habits, we may expect Lindsay Lohan to become a Islamic extremist. Comparing her to Bradley “Chelsea” Manning may be apt in another sense, i.e., the destruction of one’s own identity.

Because they are obsessed with their own self-image, narcissists tend to react badly when their self-image — their sense of identity — becomes associated in their own minds with failure. The narcissist’s typical grandiosity, a belief that he is an extraordinary personality, leads to cognitive dissonance when the negative feedback from reality does not match the narcissist’s overblown self-image of superiority. Transgenderism can be seen as the ultimate attempt to resolve this cognitive dissonance by destroying one’s own original identity. For example, after a rich white boy named John Walker Flynt drops out of college and squanders a small fortune in a failed business venture, he decides to destroy his identity and become “Brianna Wu.” (With typical narcissistic hubris, John/“Brianna” is now running for Congress.)

John Walker Flynt as a failed male (left) and after becoming ‘Brianna Wu’ (right).

One reason people like John Flynt/“Brianna Wu” become so enraged when their original identity is referenced is because they do not want anyone to discover any of the wrongdoing or failures of their past. By declaring themselves to be a new person of the opposite sex, transgender people claim that the person they once were never really existed. “Brianna Wu” claims to be an entirely different person, who cannot be held responsible for anything done by John Walker Flynt.

Not coincidentally, Westerners who convert to Islam also usually change their names: “Esteban Santiago, who opened fire in the baggage claim area of the Fort Lauderdale Airport on January 6, murdering five people, was a convert to Islam who took the name Aashiq Hammad.”

Narcissism, oikophobia, self-destruction, transgenderism — all of these are symptomatic of pervasive decadence in 21st-century America.



 

 

Category: Celebrities, Islam

Late Night With In The Mailbox: 01.17.17

Posted on | January 18, 2017 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Harry Reid’s Legacy
EBL: Making Decimation Great Again
Twitchy: Protest Group Scales Back Plans To Block DC Traffic After Project Veritas Releases Undercover Videos
Louder With Crowder: CNN Tries To Force MLK III To Disavow Trump – He Refuses


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Obama Commutes Sentences of Bradley Manning and Puerto Rican Terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera
American Thinker: The Left Is Thoroughly Bamboozled
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily News
BLACKFIVE: Small Admissions by Amy Poeppel
Bring The HEAT: Desert Storm
Da Tech Guy: Baldilocks – Marc Lamont Hill Shows Us His Wits
Don Surber: Bill Gates Made No One Poor
Dustbury: Why There Will Be No TrumpCare
Hogewash: I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Jammie Wearing Fools: RIP Gene Cernan, Last Man On The Moon
Joe For America: Bikers For Trump To Build “Wall of Meat” To Block Anti-Trump Rioters
Power Line: Return Of The Leftover Left
Shark Tank: Republicans Expedite Obamacare Repeal, Democrats Plan Protests
Shot In The Dark: Fake Economic News
STUMP: Kentucky – A Flurry Of Anti-Union Legislation As Republicans Take Control
The Geller Report: Left Wing Paying People Huge Amounts To Protest Trump
The Lonely Conservative: Gravity, Black Holes, And Washington DC
The Political Hat: Abortion Wrongthink Verboten
This Ain’t Hell: About Jonn
War Is Boring: Russian Paratroopers Could Totally Mess Up The Baltic States
Weasel Zippers: Guns Found Stashed At Several Locations Along Potomac In DC, also, Maxine Waters Struggles To Explain Why Trump Should Be Impeached
Megan McArdle: The Myth Of The Medical Bankruptcy
Mark Steyn: Tribulations, But No Trials


Today’s Digital Deals
Shop Amazon Warehouse Deals – Deep Discounts on Open-box and Used Products

Category: Linkagery
« go back — keep looking »

    About

    This is an area on your website where you can add text. This will serve as an informative location on your website, where you can talk about your site.

    Subscribe to our feed

    Search

    Admin