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Terry McAuliffe’s Pyrrhack Victory

Posted on | November 9, 2016 | 2 Comments

by Smitty

The 9th of November, 2016 has a special flavor for those who live in the shadow of George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate. The homo bureaucratus infestation is so bad here that Her Majesty beat Trump at the polling station I support by roughly 3:1.

Elections here are a genteel affair. There is no voter suppression. Everyone is educated and friendly. You know who’s here, how the vote is going to go down (at least in our immediate vicinity), so there is no need do anything other than focus on running a clean election.

You also know that Greasy Terry McAuliffe is the governor. You know that His Lubricant was all-on for Her Majesty, granting by fiat the vote to 60k felons, who, presumably, know who their momma is come election time.

You further know that,

Campaign finance records show Mr. McAuliffe’s political-action committee donated $467,500 to the 2015 state Senate campaign of Dr. Jill McCabe, who is married to Andrew McCabe, now the deputy director of the FBI.

And you certainly haven’t forgotten that the proposed new, $2.5B FBI headquarters is a short walk to the West of the polling station. Oh, and, by the way, the decision that was supposed to happen this December just got bumped to next March, when Barbara Mikulski’s Senate seniority won’t be such an obstruction to giving Maryland the shiv. I, for one, think that locating the facility near riot-torn Baltimore would have the effect of putting the FBI closer to its “customer” base.

Having said all that, I sure hope that The Oily One down there in Richmond understands that honorable Virginians are jeering at him like the disgusting little bottom swab he is. We can’t wait until next year, when we can replace him with somebody honorable like Ed Gillespie.

 

Category: Democrats, Virginia

TRUMP WINS!

Posted on | November 9, 2016 | 1 Comment

1:02 a.m. ET WEDNESDAY: It’s over.

Incredible. Donald Trump is winning Pennsylvania — Pennsylvania! A state no Republican has won since 1992.

UPDATE 1:15 a.m.: Keep in mind, I said a month ago, Trump was doomed. And I was wrong. Like almost everybody else, I underestimated the intensity of anger driving this Trump vote, and even underestimated how much America hates Hillary Clinton. Nevertheless, my wife and I voted, and then we came home to watch the results. Actually, I was lying on the sofa reading a book, and only half paying attention to what was on TV, until about 9:30 p.m., when the results out of Virginia, Florida and North Carolina showed much better results than anyone had expected. Clinton narrowly won Virginia, but the numbers kept coming in and Trump kept leading in Florida, and I was like, “Hmmm.”

UPDATE 1:25 a.m.: Meanwhile, the ultimate battleground state, Ohio — Trump won huge in Ohio, with a margin of more than 450,000 votes. OK, so Hillary could lose Ohio and still win the election, but could she lose Ohio and Florida and still win? For about an hour we were watching CNN, where John King kept doing calculations on the county-by-county map of Florida: What percent of the precincts were reporting in Broward, Dade and Palm Beach counties?

And then Michigan — whoa! Michigan? Trump could seriously win Michigan? The mind begins to boggle at such a prospect. Surely, this was a delusion, an impossible dream for a Republican. But it was real.

UPDATE 1:40 a.m.: As of this hour, Michigan is still “too close to call,” with Trump leading by about 70,000 votes and 82% of precincts reporting, but he’s got a 90,000-vote lead in Wisconsin with 89% reporting, and I’m calling that a win for Trump. And for crying out loud — Pennsylvania! Still officially “too close to call,” but he’s up by 70,000 voters with 97% of precincts reporting, and if he adds Pennsylvania to Wisconsin, it’s over. Trump wins, no matter what happens in Michigan.

UPDATE 1:55 a.m.: Liberals are losing it:

Around 10 p.m., Hollywood stars began to panic. Hillary Clinton wasn’t as far ahead as they had expected her to be. In fact, the race was far from a landslide. Reflecting the anxiety of the Tinsel Town set, actress Mia Farrow re-tweeted a NYT poll showing that, as of 9:40 pm, Trump had a 55-percent chance of winning the election. As a comment on the tweet, she simply posted: “Xanax.”
Several celebrities indicated suffering physical symptoms. Funny or Die comedian and actor Billy Eichner posted: “Still feeling confident but about to throw up.” After tweeting “And Trump has closed a wide gap in North Carolina. Another shot, please,” Dan Savage commented “I’m going to puke.” Later in the evening, he intimated that death would come as sweet relief in the event of a Trump presidency. “Colorado approves assisted suicide,” he noted about an article from a local Colorado news outlet. “That’s going to come in handy.”
Model Emily Ratajkowski tweeted “Ok I’m getting really nervous,” while Khloe Kardashian expressed her view that “it shouldn’t be this close.”

You know who’s crying tonight? Feminists.

 

Category: Election

In The Mailbox: Election Day 2016

Posted on | November 8, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


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OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Stronger Together – Hillary Zedong With Fascist Fashion-Inspired Lady Gaga
Michelle Malkin: Standing In A Long Line? NYT Thinks You’re A Victim Of Racism!
Twitchy: The Latest Predictions From FiveThirtyEight
Louder With Crowder: Democrats Caught Cheating At The Polls, Authorities Do Squat


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Taking My Medicine
American Power: Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball Picks Hillary
American Thinker: The Smell Test For A Rigged Election
Animal Magnetism: Hunting Season Totty II
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Moral Defense by Marcia Clark
Da Tech Guy: Pennsylvania Dreamin’
Don Surber: Proof Hillary Hurts The Democrats
Dustbury: And Lo, The Daylight Was Saved
Jammie Wearing Fools: Deranged Topless Women Arrested At Trump’s Precinct
Joe For America: Texas Police Find Election Judge Dead At Home
JustOneMinute: Watching The Detectives!
Pamela Geller: Trump Rape Accuser Sees Tables Turned – “Not Telling The Truth”
Power Line: This Year’s Election In One Cartoon
Shark Tank: Hispanics Driving The 2016 General Election
Shot In The Dark: Money Changes Everything
STUMP: Election Day Pensions (And Finance) – Ballot Initiatives
The Jawa Report: Scoundrel 2016, also, Feelgood Video Of The Day From Cleveland
The Political Hat: Words To Remember While Voting
This Ain’t Hell: Hippies Deface WW2 Memorial
Weasel Zippers: Philly GOP Reports Widespread Issues, Illegal Activities At Voting Places, also, The Government Prosecuted Every Violator Of Secrecy Laws – Until Hillary
Mark Steyn: Election Day 2016


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Category: Linkagery

It’s Not Illegal Yet

Posted on | November 8, 2016 | 1 Comment

 

Yes, that’s my wife and I with our “I voted” stickers at the polling place. It is still legal for white heterosexual Christians to vote in America, although I’m not sure how much longer this will remain true.

 

Category: Election

Hate, Lies and ‘Social Justice’

Posted on | November 8, 2016 | 1 Comment

 

Dishonesty, selfishness and cruelty are the basic principles of the Democrat Party in 2016, although “social justice” is what Democrats call their perverse ideology. As the American people go to the polls today, Hillary Clinton’s supporters are expressing their dangerous beliefs:

“What about diversity of opinion?” That question has been a common response to our real fear for our and others’ safety from the hate- and fear-mongering of Trump’s campaign. Those who ask often define inclusion as requiring all people and views to be included?– regardless of how they promote excluding others. We find this definition offensive and reject it.
Trump is uniquely harmful, because his actions are beyond political speech — he actively promotes and festers hate and violence.

In other words, disagreeing with Democrats is not “diversity of opinion.” Disagreeing with Democrats promotes “hate and violence,” and therefore it is wrong, bad and evil to disagree with Democrats. This totalitarian certainty, the belief that no one has a right to oppose “social justice,” is a preemptive justification for the suppression of dissent.

A similar argument was made by Sarah Lerner, a young California Democrat who believes it is wrong for anyone to suggest that people who vote for Donald Trump are deserving of empathy or compassion:

If you vote Republican, you’re a hateful, racist, sexist ignoramus, Sarah Lerner says, and certainly every Democrat shares her opinion. You may be sure that Hillary Clinton has only contempt for you, Republican voters.
According to the final Real Clear Politics average of national polls, Clinton has 45.5% support to 42.2% for the GOP nominee Donald Trump. Four years ago, about 125 million Americans voted in the presidential election. If this year’s turnout matches the 2012 total, that means about 53 million people will vote for Trump — 53 million hateful, racist, sexist ignoramuses, per Ms. Lerner.
If you are one of these 53 million, Ms. Lerner says, you deserve no empathy. She informs us that “racism and xenophobia” are the “driving force” of your support for Trump. Also, your “hateful attitudes toward women.” . . .

You can read the rest at Medium.com.

Never doubt that Democrats hate you. Hillary Clinton believes you deserve to be hated, and everyone in the liberal media agrees with her.



 

Category: Election, Hillary Clinton

$3,000,000: Federal Jury Punishes Rolling Stone for UVA Rape Hoax Story

Posted on | November 8, 2016 | 1 Comment

Journalistic malpractice with “actual malice”:

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A federal jury on Monday ordered Rolling Stone and one of its writers to pay $3 million in damages to a University of Virginia administrator over a discredited article two years ago about a supposed gang rape at the university.
The jury in Charlottesville, Va., had already decided on Friday, after a two-week trial, that Rolling Stone; Wenner Media, its parent company; and Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the author of the article, were all liable for defamation in a case that centered on faulty reporting and a failure to apply basic fail-safes in editing.
After deliberating for less than two hours on Monday, the jury of eight women and two men decided that Ms. Erdely was liable for $2 million of the total, and Rolling Stone and Wenner Media for $1 million. In her suit, filed in May 2015, the administrator, Nicole P. Eramo, had asked for $7.5 million in damages.
The jury found that assertions made in the story, as well as public statements made after publication by Ms. Erdely and Rolling Stone, were made with “actual malice,” the legal standard for libel against public figures. . . .
Scott Sexton, a lawyer for Rolling Stone, said on Monday that according to its agreement with Ms. Erdely, the company was obligated to cover “all liability arising out of the article.” . . .
The article, “A Rape on Campus,” was published in November 2014 and intensified national attention on sexual assault of college students. But the article was soon called into question for its reliance on a single source, identified only as Jackie, in describing a brutal gang rape at a fraternity party . . .

Her name is Jackie Coakley, and the fact that the New York Times and other news organizations won’t name her, when her vicious lies led to this $3 million catastrophe for Rolling Stone, is remarkable. It cannot be stated often enough: Jackie Coakley lied about rape. She deliberately defamed the innocent members of a UVA fraternity. Jackie Coakley’s gang-rape hoax — a LIE, a FALSEHOOD, a complete FABRICATION — was cited in testimony before a 2014 U.S. Senate committee by her fellow UVA student Emily Renda (see “A Coven of Liars: Sabrina Rubin Erdley, Emily Renda and Catherine Lhamon,” April 9, 2015). While it is good that Erdely and Rolling Stone are being punished for reprinting Jackie Coakley’s lie, it is wrong — a continuation of the same pattern of journalistic malpractice — for other news organizations to be complicit in protecting the liar who originally perpetrated this evil hoax:

Rolling Stone fact-checker Elisabeth Garber-Paul testified that she, Erdely, and editor Sean Woods trusted Coakley so completely that they didn’t even bother trying to speak to several friends whom Coakley claimed were present the night she was raped.
Garber-Paul indicated that her trust in Coakley was rooted in the “great detail” of her story, and her apparent lack of any ulterior motive. Beyond that, though, Garber-Paul also suggested she just had a “sense” Coakley was being honest.
“I had a sense she was reliving the worst moment of her life,” she said, according to local WVIR-TV.
Unfortunately for Rolling Stone, that “sense” proved to be disastrously wrong. Had the magazine bothered to reach out to Coakley’s friends, it would have quickly learned that she was known for spinning fantastic lies.
In addition to Garber-Paul, [Oct. 25] trial proceedings also included a taped deposition by Kathryn Hendley, a former friend of Coakley who was called “Cindy” in Rolling Stone’s article. Despite knowing Hendley’s identity, Rolling Stone never attempted to contact her prior to the article’s publication . . .
In her deposition, Hendley disputed several quotes attributed to her in the article, and characterized Coakley as a serial liar who created stories out of whole cloth.
“Jackie had a tendency to fabricate things and it was shocking to see it in a large scale news magazine like this,” she said. She pointed to the example of Haven Monahan, a boy Coakley claimed to have met at a swimming pool she worked at. While Coakley produced photos of Monahan and shared his phone number with friends, Hendley eventually realized that he didn’t actually exist. Instead, Monahan appears to have been concocted by Coakley in a strange scheme to win the affections of Ryan Duffin, another UVA student.
In her deposition, Hendley said that she eventually stopped being friends with Coakley in 2013 because she was making up rumors and then spreading them. Earlier in the trial, it was revealed that one of those false rumors was that Hendley had contracted syphilis.

That’s from Blake Neff at Daily Caller, one of the few publications that has had the courage to publish Jackie Coakley’s full name. Why are other journalists still protecting that wicked lying monster?



 

Category: Crime, Education, Journalism, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 11.07.16

Posted on | November 7, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.07.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
First Street Journal: It Doesn’t Matter Who Wins! I’m Staying!
EBL: Janet Reno, Dead At 78
Twitchy: Trump Supporter Gets Revenge On Lawn Sign Vandal
Louder With Crowder: Election Expert Nate Silver – Hillary One State Away From Losing To Trump



RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The U.S. Election – Silver And Lead
American Power: In The Sunset Of The Boomer Generation, Election Reopens An Old Divide
American Thinker: At Risk Is Nothing Less Than The Right To Ever Resist Again
Animal Magnetism: Blue Monday Hunting Season Totty I
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Clinton Pay For Play By Brett R. Smith
Da Tech Guy: Three People Bearing The Gift Of Pre-Election Perspective, also, Baldilocks – Their Gang
Don Surber: I’ll Support A Free Press When We Get One
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Nobody Told You To Shut Up
Jammie Wearing Fools: Wonderful! Clinton Had Her Maid Handling And Printing Top Secret Documents
Joe For America: FBI Agent Suspected In Hillary E-Mail Leaks Found Dead
JustOneMinute: A Guide For The Undecided
Pamela Geller: Undercover Journalist In Full Burka Votes As Huma Abedin
Power Line: Democratic National Committee, Research Arm Of The Washington Post
Shark Tank: Trump’s National Surge Is Unmistakable
Shot In The Dark: Why I’m Voting For Hillary Clinton
STUMP: More Predictions For Maximum Hilarity
The Jawa Report: Anonymous Speech Is Free Speech, also, Vote, Dammit
The Lonely Conservative:
The Political Hat: 2016 Election Predictions
This Ain’t Hell: Rick Nolan – Phony Reservist In Congress, also, Christopher Owens, Surgeon At Vets Center, Jailed
Weasel Zippers: FBI Agents Say Comey Stood In The Way Of Clinton E-Mail Investigation, also, Boston Graffiti Urges People To “Kill Your Local Trump Supporter”
Megan McArdle: Two Words To End All Consideration Of Voting For Trump
Mark Steyn: Sanctity and Disposession


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Transgender Children: Toxic Moms and Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy

Posted on | November 7, 2016 | 2 Comments

Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy is a pattern in which a parent “fabricates, exaggerates, or induces mental or physical health problems” in their child “usually to gain attention or sympathy from others.”

Now, read this report from Julian Vigo at Feminist Current:

[On Oct. 21], The Guardian reported that “a seven-year-old boy who was “living life entirely as a girl” has been removed from his mother’s care after a ruling by a high court judge. At first read, it was unclear who the actors in this case were aside from, obviously, the mother (M), the father (F), and child (J). The judgment of this case, which includes a critique of the section 37 report prepared by Social Services, which Justice Hayden describes as “very disturbing reading,” though, begins to clarify things.
Justice Hayden writes that J’s mother caused “significant emotional harm” to her child and critiques the local authority social services staff responsible for the youngster’s welfare.
He goes on to detail the acts of a controlling mother towards her child, M’s personal diagnosis of J’s alleged gender dysphoria, and a system which failed this child. Together, these various failures demonstrate a pattern of abuse and a mother who, Hayden writes, “deprived [her son] of his fundamental right to exercise his autonomy in its most basic way.”
What the judgment shows is that reports made by the Local Authority’s Housing Department, J’s school, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), and Social Services gave M’s behaviour towards her child (including her approach to J’s “gender presentation”) a pass simply because she was receiving support from Mermaids, a UK-based charity that claims to support parents of children who identify as transgender. Observations like these show major conflicts of interest between Mermaids and the government agencies named in the judgement.
Susie Green, the CEO of Mermaids, began her trajectory into the transgender debate through personal investment. She took matters into her own hands regarding her son’s gender dysphoria, leaving the country for the USA, then Thailand, when the National Health Service (NHS) would not undertake the treatment she thought her child needed. Mermaids is entirely comprised of parents like Green, who have either a child who self-identifies as having gender dysphoria or have started seeking professional help for their child. . . .

You can read the whole thing. The transgender movement has gotten a lot of free publicity from the liberal news media which considers it a “progressive” cause, when in fact it is a dangerous cult. Toxic moms like Suzie Green have decided that having a Special Snowflake Rainbow Unicorn Child™ is a way “to gain attention or sympathy from others.” All it takes is to grab hold of some therapeutic jargon (“gender dysphoria”) and claim your kid is a victim of prejudice and — abracadabra! — you’ve changed your situation from (a) being the parent of a pathetic loser to (b) being the leader of a progressive social movement.

Here’s a book: You’re Not Crazy — It’s Your Mother! Just sayin’ . . .

 

Category: Sex Trouble
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